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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.
Took a long planned-for trip to Iceland in June 2024. Intention was to start in Blue Lagoon and head clockwise up the ring-road to Húsavik/Myvatn - birding and sight-seeing as we went.
However, volcanic activity meant that access to the Blue Lagoon was not possible and high-wind warnings (and resultant SMSs from our campervan hire company that we weren't insured in those winds) saw us hunkered down not far north of Reykjavik for 4 days.
When the winds abated we then decided to go to Myvatn directly as the road was officially open all the way there. However, crossing the high ground after Akureyri saw us run into a blizzard, a virtual whiteout, which we somehow managed to get safely through. Up until then I had a theoretical grasp of the concept of snow poles I'd seen along roads in the Alps and Pyrenees etc. This trip however firmly elevated that conceptual grasp into something a lot more real.
The ring-road was opened again after a couple of days and rather than head for Húsavik, or linger in Myvatn, it was decided to go back down to the relative sanity of Ólafsvik. I did however, stop at the Laxa river and grabbed a quick shot of this pair of Harlequin - a lifer for me at the time. Overall, I reckon we lost 7 out of our 14 days due to adverse weather. Not great :(
To cap it all the hard drive I used to download phots to before sorting through and processing, failed beyond recovery when I got back home. This photo, and one of a Ptarmigan, were 2 jpgs that I emailed initially and could recover. The other couple of thousand were lost!
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!
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. Spring 1981. The 639 ran for just six months in 1981. It employed one bus M-F peaks and linked Kings Cross with the Vale Royal area off York Road. For the first 3 months it was a 'Red Arrow' SMS from Victoria garage, then it changed to LS after the SMSs were withdrawn. The SMS acquired a proper blind after a while, replacing the home made one seen here!
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.
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.
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
From SE visiting EW to ferry home 3 drivers that had just delivered 3 ex Clapham store SMSs to EW from SE
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