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The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose.
It was developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland, in the years 1935 to 1939. When Meilland foresaw the German invasion of France, he sent cuttings to his friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany and the United States to protect the new rose. It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion, where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Co. during the war.
As Meilland had sent out his cuttings just before the war, communication between the cultivators was not possible, which is why the rose received different names.
The adoption of the trade name "Peace" was publicly announced in the United States on 29 April 1945 by the introducers, Conard Pyle Co. This was the very day that Berlin fell, a day considered a turning point in the Second World War in Europe. Later that year Peace roses were given to each of the delegations at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco, each with a note that reads:
"We hope the 'Peace' rose will influence men’s thoughts for everlasting world peace".
from Wikipedia
バラ、”ピース”の苗木は、第二次世界大戦の戦禍を
くぐりぬけ、世界の平和を願って名づけられたそうです。
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ياليـــت أرجع كــذا ( طفلـــه ) ولا أفكـــر بشــي ٍ صــــار
ولا أعرف من الدنيـــا سوى : لعبي و فساتيــني
أروح المدرســـه وأرسم مع ( مريـــم ) وبنت الجــــار
أشخبـــط في دفاتــــرهم .. وتســــرق ( هيـــا ) تلاويـني
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Thx For The SMSs, Presents, Comments .. etc
I totally thought they'd forget, we're not really birthday people =P
P.S : I have to admit 24 really does feel different =)
“This is Surveyor III as seen by Apollo 12 astronauts launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969. Surveyor III, launched from Cape Kennedy on April 17, 1967 made a soft landing on the Moon’s Ocean of Storms on April 19, 1967. Details of the crater’s western wall are obscured by the brilliant rays of the rising sun. Portions of the Surveyor were removed by Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean and returned to Earth for study.”
In this photograph, taken by Alan Bean, Surveyor III's no. 2 footpad, upon which the the soil clod was deposited by the sampler arm, is facing toward Bean. In fact, the clod can be seen as the darkened area atop the right side of the footpad, along with evidence of the trenches dug by the sampler, also seen as the darkened/shadowed regolith to the right of the footpad.
Some pictures taken by the late Michael Cleary. In or about August 1980. When some SMSs were drafted in to substitute for MBAs.
Some pictures taken by the late Michael Cleary. In or around July 1979.
SMSs were never scheduled on the 241. This is the Kier Hardie Estate terminus. No cars!
Today's story and sketch by me, # 1253 Aunt B, who you see on the left, is a Pattosian Voodoo Princess, she just arrived on Our Tropical Volcanic Planet Budahunga, piloting a "SMSS" Senior Mobility Space Scooter. B who's actual name is Unpronounceable, A close translation of it would be Bigaboottiiwitcy. Not knowing how Aunt B will react when she is informed where her long journey has ended, my best guess is she was lost in a space time travel nightmare for at least a week. After an executive discussion between myself, JB, Cosmo and Rescue Randy, it was decided that we would send a Lady Pattosian named Bussini, who has been on Budahunga for a month, and Is surly a distant relative of Aunt B's, All Pattosian's are closely related, like second cousins. Anyway, a very in depth discussion of Pattosian Genealogy, and details of her Horrific Travels Through Many Dimensions, and Galaxies will have to be a story for another time, until then TaTa the Rod Blog.
SMSS J031300.36−670839.3
The apparently anonymous magnitude 15.4 star at the center of this field, from DESI LS DR10, is UCAC4 115-002803 in Hydrus, otherwise known as SMSS J031300.36−670839.3.
Nothing special if it had not been identified as a peculiar star with low metallicity. Indeed, it is the one with the lowest metallicity known so far (Jinmi Yoon et al 2016 ApJ 833 20) with a [Fe/H] ratio <−7.8!
For comparison, in other low metallicity stars, this ratio is on average 3. For just about ten it is between 4 and 5.
This star is therefore very ancient and has an age of 13.6 billion years, that is, it lit up when the Universe was just 200 million years old.
Despite its very low metallicity, it does not belong to the elusive Population III, i.e. the very first stars that formed directly from primordial matter and are responsible for the cosmic dawn.
For those who want to know more:
iopscience.iop.org/art.../10.3847/0004-637X/833/1/20
The information and annotations in the image are of scientific utility because they identify the subject and place it in a specific moment. They also indicate the subject of interest. The absence of such information makes the images useless.
Engineers and technicians manually deployed the secondary mirror support structure (SMSS) of the James Webb Space Telescope's Pathfinder backplane test model, outside of a giant space simulation chamber called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This historic test chamber was previously used in manned spaceflight missions and is being readied for a cryogenic test of a Webb telescope component.
In the weightless environment of space, the SMSS is deployed by electric motors. On the ground, specially trained operators use a hand crank and a collection of mechanical ground support equipment to overcome the force of gravity.
"This structure needs to be in the deployed configuration during the cryogenic test to see how the structure will operate in the frigid temperatures of space," said Will Rowland, senior mechanical test engineer for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, California. "The test also demonstrates that the system works and can be successfully deployed."
After the deployment was completed, Chamber A's circular door was opened and the rails (seen in the background of the photo) were installed so that the Pathfinder unit could be lifted, installed and rolled into the chamber on a cart. The team completed a fit check for the Pathfinder. Afterwards they readied the chamber for the cryogenic test, which will simulate the frigid temperatures the Webb telescope will encounter in space.
“The team has been doing a great job keeping everything on schedule to getting our first optical test results, " said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Image credit: NASA/Desiree Stover
Text credit: Laura Betz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
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Friday 5th January 1973. The route went OMO using SMSs the next day. Two are seen together at Yeading. Looks like passengers are being transferred from the first bus to the second. A 'mechanical' or a curtailment? There's going to be a long gap in the service to Hayes!
This was Friday 5th January 1973, the day before the route went OMO using SMSs. One journey in each peak was extended from Uxbridge to Ruislip. This was the afternoon one standing at Hounslow West. The route normally terminated at Houmslow Bus Station. Perhaps this had been turned here to ensure it was on time. Curtailments were commonplace in those days.
Hiiz 4 all of ma friends n ma cute contacts ,, also u viewers ,,
as u know this day is very spesial 2 me ,, ( her birthday =pP)
i wanna thank every 1 who make this day wonderful and who share 2 make me happy
ThnX :
* 4 all CNA-Q student { ma friendaas,,~
*4 all friendas outside Doha 4 sendin' lovely e-mailz + smss ,,
*4 ma siss n all ma relative 4 cute callz and shoots .
last thing ,,
4 ma friendas who i was lil bit harder with them ,, i want 2 say dat i'm sorry ,,
( Unable to express but ,,)
Hope you like my words and my pic ,,
αℓℓ ву: ιмρσššιвℓє ℓσνє
Arnos Grove Underground station is where we find RF352, a 1952 AEC Regal IV/MCCW. I see from "Ian's Bus Stop" that this bus was operating the local RF route (227 from Bromley Garage) when I was born, but I caught up with it some 20+ years later. This bus was an early Central Area convert to one-man operation, in 1965. The 227 didn't gain RFs with doors until much later (if at all). I can't remember that it was omo before the switch to SMSs.
Thank you all, flickr family and friends, facebook friends, twitter friends, ichat family and Afool I count you from my family I do , msn friends and for all the smss.
Wado, Susuwa, Afool, Noonz, shekoking
Just having you around me on my birthday, makes me feel so happy
You Make Me Feel So Good Inside, thanks for everything literally.
HUGS AND KISSES
xoxo
Coleridge Crescent, about as far west as SMSs venured. i can only imagine the bus must have back up to that close to the truck. Unusually conscientious.
Delivered new in august 1980 as type trainer to replace all 40 SMSs and 15DMSs covering all routes at Ew except the 251
“Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second Apollo 12 extravehicular activity. The Lunar Module is in the background. This picture was taken by Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module, with Conrad and Bean aboard, touched down in the Moon’s Ocean of Storms only 600 feet from Surveyor III. The television camera and several other pieces were taken from Surveyor II and brought back to Earth for scientific examination. Surveyor III soft-landed on the Moon on April 19, 1967. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean descended in the LM to explore the Moon.”
While one of the better official NASA descriptions, it’s incorrect. The photograph is of Alan Bean. Additionally, it’s a rather rarely seen/published/reproduced photograph, possibly as a result of the following:
Per the ALSJ:
“Al lent the camera to Pete, who took two "tourist" pictures of Al before returning the camera to him.”
With the following description:
“Pete's "tourist" picture of Al at the Surveyor III spacecraft with the LM in the background.”
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/AS12-48-7135HR.jpg
Also at:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS12/48/71...
Credit: LPI website
It’s sort of understandable that, at the time, general consensus was that surely the guy in this iconic, oft-published photo had to be one-in-the-same. Which was indeed of Conrad…jiggling the Surveyor spacecraft:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/AS12-48-7134HR.jpg
I think the misidentification caused by these photos was impetus for the Commander to have red stripes on his suit on subsequent missions.
Finally, neither here nor there, however, note the density of fiducials in the photograph. If I recall correctly from subsequent missions, that’s due to a telephoto lens being used.
From SE visiting EW to ferry home 3 drivers that had just delivered 3 ex Clapham store SMSs to EW from SE
SMS678 here as a caravan with long term owner Dick Turpin and SMS369 owned by me seen outside Don Allmey´s Ruislip workshop.Outside of Malta and the Hants and Sussex fleet area,it was extremely difficult to photograph 2 ex London Transport SMSs together post 1982 once 90% built had been scrapped
Don Allmey saved this SMS as the best example of the 25 left at AEC Southall late 1981,and kept it long enough to exhaust possibilities in preservation.I was 6 months too late coming along interested to buy one,by which time no sound unmolested SMSs remained for sale. I tried to buy this from Hearn´s Coaches who ran it like this with transfers crudely painted out however it was not for sale........
Ryan Aeronautical Company artist's concept depicting a close-up view of Surveyor 3 resting in the Ocean of Storms on the lunar nearside. Two Apollo 12 astronauts are seen approaching in the background. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM) is in the left background. The Earth is in the right background. The inspection of Surveyor 3, which has been resting on the moon since April 1967, is an important objective of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. Selected pieces of Surveyor 3 will be brought back to Earth for scientific examination. Ryan landing radar has guided both Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft to soft landings on the moon.
In color:
www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/photo/html/as12/10075359.htm
Credit: APOLLO EXPLORER website
And at:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo12/html/...
Engineers and technicians manually deployed the secondary mirror support structure (SMSS) of the James Webb Space Telescope's Pathfinder backplane test model, outside of a giant space simulation chamber called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This historic test chamber was previously used in manned spaceflight missions and is being readied for a cryogenic test of a Webb telescope component.
In the weightless environment of space, the SMSS is deployed by electric motors. On the ground, specially trained operators use a hand crank and a collection of mechanical ground support equipment to overcome the force of gravity.
"This structure needs to be in the deployed configuration during the cryogenic test to see how the structure will operate in the frigid temperatures of space," said Will Rowland, senior mechanical test engineer for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, California. "The test also demonstrates that the system works and can be successfully deployed."
After the deployment was completed, Chamber A's circular door was opened and the rails (seen in the background of the photo) were installed so that the Pathfinder unit could be lifted, installed and rolled into the chamber on a cart. The team completed a fit check for the Pathfinder. Afterwards they readied the chamber for the cryogenic test, which will simulate the frigid temperatures the Webb telescope will encounter in space.
“The team has been doing a great job keeping everything on schedule to getting our first optical test results, " said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Image credit: NASA/Desiree Stover
Text credit: Laura Betz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
A New Kind of Enemy Needs a New Response.
Hawks are hovering over my country!
My country has been slighted.
A slight it could have done little to protect itself from. For ten years, no country in the world has escaped the ignominy of seeing its hapless citizens being mowed down.
A slight it finds itself at a loss on how to deal with. No country in the world has found an appropriate response to such a slight in the last ten years.
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A mood of anger and retribution!
The people are seething with anger! Just about coming to terms with India's new power in the world order built on the two decades of economic growth and half a century of Democracy, they are demanding India flex that power.
We have seen the US in hot pursuit.
Peace has not returned to the world but its soldiers are dying in an almost Vietnam kind of situation.
Its president had to admit his unpreparedness to tackle the enemy of this scale and this invisibility.
And of course he has the distinction of being the most ridiculed Presidents of the USA ever.
In the meanwhile this hot pursuit has pushed some more gullible young men with dreams of martyrdom against the big bad enemy of their religion, into the waiting clutches of the Generals of this hidden enemy.
But the people demand a hot pursuit nevertheless. Even if we know that that only helps swell the ranks of the enemy!
To fight the Satan, we do his bidding!
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The Enemy Beckons us to Strike at him and Increase his Numbers!
The world today is like a rat infested home. A housewife knows that you do not get rid of the rats by spraying bullets. Rats will just wait in their lairs and then strike when the lights are off and everyone is asleep. In the meanwhile they would be swelling their ranks by procreating.
This rat like enemy today is using these strikes to evoke a righteous and forceful reaction from us.
This reaction alienates its kind from the world and swells its armies, but it does not kill him!
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The Enemy is Taking from us Our Morale!
The fact that we are now worried that he can strike anywhere. In trains. In temples. In office buildings. In nightclubs. In parliaments. In markets. In five star hotels. Seems like it is by design. A sample of all kinds of locations that cover all strata of the society.
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The Enemy Makes us Headless and Directionless!
Till yesterday, the guerilla aimed at decapacitating its massively larger enemy by assassinating its leaders.
Ask Indian Peace Keeping Force that operated against the LTTE in Sri Lanka. The LTTE snipers would take out the leader of our troops and then run down the confused troops. This kept happenig till our troops learnt to protect their leaders by making them wear uniforms similar to theirs and by keeping them in the midst of the formation rather than at the head of it.
Today's enemy is far savvier! He kills our leadership not our leaders.
Can you see the pattern?
The democratically elected President of the most powerful nation in the world, today looking like a shadow of his former self. A country that elected him less than four years ago, laughing and jeering at him.
Aren't our leaders facing the same fate today?
This enemy's snipers are not its riflemen but its propagandists!
I wonder how many derogatory SMSs, blogs and emails floating around today, seen as public sentiment by our television, are generated by the propaganda modules of the enemy!
The pattern is clear. The motive is very clear. We know who gains when leaders get eliminated. Do we still doubt who the culprit is?
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May be the enemy won't succeed. May be we can get better leaders?
Most dangerously, SMS, blogs and emails are now asking for the Army to move in and take over the country. Such fine soldiers, who have this image of impeccable honesty, should be able to protect our country and govern it better.
The messages are not only inviting or wishing for military rule but also provoking the men in uniform.
Look, how the politicians insult the soldiers! Look they can't even treat the mothers, a powerful word in India, of the slain soldiers properly! The TV channels then promptly get mothers of martyrs on television and speak against the politician.
The news channels show with glee the shameful incident of the father of a slain army officer throwing out the chief minister of his state from his house. The chief minister had come to offer condolences. One can pardon the act of the aggrieved father, but one can not extol this as a virtue of behavior. His son was a role model, not this act of the father.
Our TV channels go on regardless. They represent people's mood. People want change? Or do they? Or does someone else stoke the flames and guides the fire in a direction of their choice? Are the TV channels unwittingly playing in the hands of the enemy's information machine?
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The Enemy Brings us Down from the High Ground!
Physical higher ground in conventional warfare gives disproportionate advantage to its occupant. We have had that moral higher ground due to our resilient democracy and human rights.
How much would be enough for some power-hungry or emotional (or both) General to roll his tanks and take over the country?
Our neighbors envy our democracy. They lose faith of their biggest ally, the US, because we have it, they don't.
There is a concept of force-equaliser in warfare. Do their propaganda modules aim for that? Would any enemy not?
Citizens of my country; media of my country; leaders of my country; security forces of my country - beware of this new enemy. Beware of his new warfare. A warfare with same objecives - kill leaders, bring down morale, equalise numbers, equalise ground - the weapons are different - the way of 'Kautilya' - disinformation.
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So what do we do now?
First of all what we do not do.
Let us not counter this warfare with missiles and tanks.
Let us not fall for the timer bombs of disinformation, aimed at 'assassinating' our leaders.
Let us not divide ourselves. Politicians versus citizens. Army vs police. Agencies blaming each other for lapses. Communities of people suspecting each other. The enemy has struck all of us - but in a way that divides us.
Let us not do what the enemy wants us to do!
Let us not let the hawks take over our skies!
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(Watch out for "What we Should Do Other than Pray")
SMS726 was one of the 12/300 MCW bodied SMSs selected for an aldenham repaint into yellow doors & roundels livery ,
This photo has been edited and uploaded with permission from Darren Sentence ´´ the Sweeney´´ who has the original slide shown on his photo stream.
Old PSV news sheets shows that 11 SMSs (all April 1977 initial sales to Wombwells) were identifiable at Meynells in May 1977 - 55,56,98,182,228,313,623,633,674,712,738 (and a 12th incorrectly identified as SMS748) + we have an April flickr photo showing SMS169 in front of and to the right of 633 + 738 which makes 13. Plus 3 more SMS217,287 and 344 which are listed as being in unknown neighbouring yard i.e. note 3 of which are over a 1 metre high metal fence.
There are 16 buses visible in this photo, the fact that SMS169 was unidentifiable when PSV circle reporter got inside means that as he didnt find and record chassis numbers. The 3rd bare bones Swift could be one of the March 1977 MCW bodied buses sold with SMS169 or either SMS623 or 712 which are both here in this photo!
UPDATE - the 16th bus would seem to be SMS248 incorrectly recorded as SMS748
Arriva South London ADL11 [V611LGC] Dennis Dart SLF/Alexander The East Surrey Water Co's pumping station (now the site of Tesco) had a disused fountain in its grounds in the '60s when I lived in these parts. I have no recollection of it ever having been in public, but if it was, I expect the one-way scheme made necessary to handle the Purley Way (Croydon A23 bypass) traffic did away with it sometime after Purley Way was opened in the '30s. However, this stage (where the old trams reversed in the road) was always called "Purley Fountain" so that is what I still call it.
When the 166 was converted to SMS operation there was a huge outcry amongst the genteel folk of Coulsdon and Purley to bring back RTs because the on-board ticket machines never worked (that is literally true, I never saw one bus fully operational) and there weren't enough seats. We called them "cattle trucks". We did get more seats, but the machines remained as the SMSs quickly gave way to DMSs. It took MUCH longer for LT to realize on-board ticket machines were NOT A GOOD IDEA.
Yet here we are in the 21st century back with single-deck standee buses. When will the experts learn we want to sit down on a bus, not dangle on straps?
This bus went to Arriva Scotland, a company since sold to McGill's.
My ref: 100_0010
A digital original,