Safire photos on Flickr

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This moth (medium adult thumb size) is in the Adelaide Hills in the middle of the Cherry Gardens Fire burned area.

It flew out from between a couple of rocks that I dislodged when walking .. the ground around it is almost bare, but for the ashes.

Winnie-the-Pooh in 1979. And Where Winnie Came From. by pepandtim

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The Postcard

A postally unused Post Office Picture Card Series. On the divided back of the card is printed:

'Children (United Nations Year

of the Child).

(Winnie-the-Pooh).

Reproduced from a stamp designed

by Edward Hughes ARCA FSIAD

and issued by the Post Office on the

18th. July 1979.

Postcard Price 8p.'

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by the English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.

The first collection of stories about the character was in the book 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926), and this was followed by 'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928).

Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book 'When We Were Very Young' (1924), with many more in 'Now We Are Six' (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958. In 1960, it became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.

In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights of Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne and the licensing agent Stephen Slesinger, Inc. Disney adapted the Pooh stories, using the unhyphenated name 'Winnie the Pooh', into a series of features that would eventually become one of its most successful franchises.

In popular film adaptations, Pooh has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English, and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.

Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based.

The rest of Christopher Milne's toys – Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger - were incorporated into Milne's stories. Two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, were created in Milne's imagination, while Gopher was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in NYC.

Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear that he often saw at London Zoo, and Pooh, after a swan that they had encountered while on holiday. Pooh the swan first appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.

The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for C$20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, while en route to England during the Great War. He named the bear Winnie after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnie was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much-loved attraction there.

In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation as to why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply 'Pooh':

"But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight

in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly

came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off.

And I think - but I am not sure - that that is why he

is always called Pooh."

American writer William Safire surmised that the Milnes' invention of the name 'Winnie-the-Pooh' may have also been influenced by the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' (1885).

Ashdown Forest: the Setting for the Stories

The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. The forest is an area of tranquil open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald situated 30 miles (50 km) south-east of London.

In 1925 Milne, a Londoner, bought a country home a mile to the north of the forest at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. According to Christopher Milne, while his father continued to live in London:

"The the four of us - he, his wife, his son

and his son's nanny - would pile into a large

blue, chauffeur-driven Fiat and travel down

every Saturday morning and back again

every Monday afternoon.

And we would spend a whole glorious

month there in the spring, and two months

in the summer."

From the front lawn the family had a view across a meadow to a line of alders that fringed the River Medway, beyond which the ground rose through more trees until finally:

"Above them, in the faraway distance, crowning

the view, was a bare hilltop. In the centre of this

hilltop was a clump of pines."

Most of his father's visits to the forest at that time were, he noted, family expeditions on foot:

"To make yet another attempt to count

the pine trees on Gill's Lap or to search

for the marsh gentian".

Christopher added that, inspired by Ashdown Forest:

"My father made it the setting for two of

his books, finishing the second a little

over three years after his arrival".

Many locations in the stories can be associated with real places in and around the forest. As Christopher Milne wrote in his autobiography:

"Pooh’s forest and Ashdown Forest are identical.

For example, the fictional Hundred Acre Wood

was in reality Five Hundred Acre Wood; Galleon's

Leap was inspired by the prominent hilltop of Gill's

Lap, while a clump of trees just north of Gill's Lap

became Christopher Robin's The Enchanted Place,

because no-one had ever been able to count

whether there were 63 or 64 trees in the circle."

The landscapes depicted in E. H. Shepard's illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books were directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch, punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees.

Many of Shepard's illustrations can be matched to actual views, allowing for a degree of artistic licence. Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The game of Poohsticks was originally played by Christopher Milne on the wooden footbridge which crossed the Millbrook. It is now a tourist attraction, and it has become traditional to play the game there using sticks gathered in the nearby woodland.

When the footbridge had to be replaced in 1999, the architect used as a main source drawings by Shepard in the books, which differ a little from the original structure.

Winnie-the-Pooh's First Publication

Christopher Robin's teddy bear made his character début, under the name Edward, in A. A. Milne's poem, 'Teddy Bear', in the 13th. February 1924 edition of Punch. The same poem was published in Milne's book of children's verse When We Were Very Young (6th. November 1924).

Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on the 24th. December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper the Evening News. It was illustrated by J. H. Dowd.

The first collection of Pooh stories appeared in the book Winnie-the-Pooh, with the Evening News Christmas story re-appearing as the first chapter of the book. At the beginning, it explained that Pooh was in fact Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had been renamed by the boy. The book was published in October 1926 by the publisher of Milne's earlier children's work, Methuen.

Winnie-the-Pooh's Character

In the Milne books, Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he is "A bear of very little brain", Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a clever idea, usually driven by common sense.

Pooh's ideas include riding in Christopher Robin's umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood, discovering 'The North Pole' by picking it up to help fish Roo out of the river, inventing the game of Poohsticks, and getting Eeyore out of the river by dropping a large rock on one side of him to wash him towards the bank.

Pooh is also a talented poet, and the stories are frequently punctuated by his poems and 'hums'. Although he is humble about his slow-wittedness, he is comfortable with his creative gifts. When Owl's house blows down in a windstorm, trapping Pooh, Piglet and Owl inside, Pooh encourages Piglet (the only one small enough to do so) to escape and rescue them all by promising that 'A respectful Pooh song' will be written about Piglet's feat. Later, Pooh muses about the creative process as he composes the song.

Pooh is very fond of food, particularly 'hunny', but also condensed milk and other items. When he visits friends, his desire to be offered a snack is in conflict with the impoliteness of asking too directly.

Though intent on giving Eeyore a pot of honey for his birthday, Pooh could not resist eating it on his way to deliver the present, and so instead gives Eeyore "A useful pot to put things in".

When he and Piglet are lost in the forest during Rabbit's attempt to 'unbounce' Tigger, Pooh finds his way home by following the 'call' of the honeypots from his house. Pooh makes it a habit to have 'a little something' around 11:00 in the morning. As the clock in his house 'stopped at five minutes to eleven some weeks ago', any time can be Pooh's snack time.

Pooh is very social. After Christopher Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend his time with one or both of them. But he also habitually visits the other animals, often looking for a snack or an audience for his poetry as much as for companionship. His kind-heartedness means he goes out of his way to be friendly to Eeyore, visiting him and bringing him a birthday present and building him a house, despite receiving mostly disdain from Eeyore in return.

Sequels

An authorised sequel 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood' was published on the 5th. October 2009. The author, David Benedictus, developed, but did not change, Milne's characterisations. The illustrations, by Mark Burgess, are in the style of Shepard.

Another authorised sequel, 'Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World', was published by Egmont in 2016. The sequel consists of four short stories by four leading children's authors, Kate Saunders, Brian Sibley, Paul Bright, and Jeanne Willis. The Illustrations are again by Mark Burgess.

The Best Bear in All The World sees the introduction of a new character, Penguin, which was inspired by a long-lost photograph of Milne and his son Christopher with a toy penguin.

A further special story, 'Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen', was published in 2016 to mark the 90th. anniversary of Milne's creation, and the 90th. birthday of Elizabeth II. It sees Winnie the Pooh meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Stephen Slesinger

On the 6th. January 1930, Stephen Slesinger purchased the US and Canadian merchandising, television, recording, and other trade rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works from Milne for a $1,000 advance and 66% of Slesinger's income, thereby creating the modern licensing industry.

By November 1931, Pooh was a $50 million-a-year business. Slesinger marketed Pooh and his friends for more than 30 years, creating the first Pooh doll, record, board game, puzzle, US radio broadcast, animation, and motion picture.

Red Shirt Pooh

The first time Pooh and his friends appeared in colour was 1932, when he was drawn by Slesinger in his now-familiar red shirt and featured on an RCA Victor picture record.

Parker Brothers introduced A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Game in 1933, again with Pooh in his red shirt. In the 1940's, Agnes Brush created the first plush dolls with Pooh in his red shirt.

Shepard had drawn Pooh with a shirt as early as the first book Winnie-the-Pooh, which was subsequently coloured red in later coloured editions.

Disney Ownership (1966 - Present)

After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. In 1961, she licensed the rights to Walt Disney Productions in exchange for royalties. The same year, A. A. Milne's widow, Daphne Milne, also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to Disney.

Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated productions which star the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh and related characters, starting with the theatrical featurette 'Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree'.

This was followed by 'Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day' (1968), and 'Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too' (1974).

These three featurettes were combined into a feature-length movie, 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', in 1977.

A fourth featurette, 'Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore', was released in 1983.

A new series of Winnie the Pooh theatrical feature-length films was launched in the 2000's, with 'The Tigger Movie' (2000), 'Piglet's Big Movie' (2003), 'Pooh's Heffalump Movie' (2005), and 'Winnie the Pooh' (2011).

Disney has also produced television series based on the franchise, including 'Welcome to Pooh Corner' (Disney Channel, 1983–1986), 'The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' (ABC, 1988–1991), 'The Book of Pooh' (Playhouse Disney, 2001–2003), and 'My Friends Tigger & Pooh' (Playhouse Disney, 2007–2010).

Merchandising Revenue Dispute

Pooh videos, soft toys, and other merchandise generate substantial annual revenues for Disney. The size of Pooh stuffed toys ranges from Beanie and miniature to human-sized. In addition to the stylised Disney Pooh, Disney markets Classic Pooh merchandise which more closely resembles E. H. Shepard's illustrations.

In 1991, Stephen Slesinger, Inc., filed a lawsuit against Disney which alleged that Disney had breached their 1983 agreement by failing to accurately report revenue from Winnie the Pooh sales. Under this agreement, Disney was to retain approximately 98% of gross worldwide revenues, while the remaining 2% was to be paid to Slesinger.

In addition, the suit alleged that Disney had failed to pay required royalties on all commercial exploitation of the product name. Though the Disney corporation was sanctioned by a judge for destroying forty boxes of evidentiary documents, the suit was later terminated by another judge when it was discovered that Slesinger's investigator had rummaged through Disney's garbage to retrieve the discarded evidence.

Slesinger appealed the termination but, on the 26th. September 2007, a three-judge panel upheld the lawsuit dismissal.

After the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, Clare Milne, Christopher Robin Milne's daughter, attempted to terminate any future US copyrights for Stephen Slesinger, Inc.

After a series of legal hearings, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the US District Court in California found in favour of Stephen Slesinger, Inc., as did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

On the 26th. June 2006, the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case, sustaining the ruling and thereby ensuring the defeat of the suit.

On the 19th. February 2007, Disney lost a court case in Los Angeles which ruled their "misguided claims" to dispute the licensing agreements with Slesinger, Inc., were unjustified, but a federal ruling of the 28th. September 2009, again from Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, determined that the Slesinger family had granted all trademarks and copyrights to Disney, although Disney must pay royalties for all future use of the characters. Both parties have expressed satisfaction with the outcome.

hbf2016-015.jpg by Henri Block

Olympus digital camera

safire by NEON LIFE. SOLITAIRE . maxine

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HDMS Thetis War Frigate - Aberdeen Harbour Scotland - 14th April 2019 by DanoAberdeen

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Today Sunday 14th April 2019 I decided Torry Docks overlooking Aberdeen Harbour Scotland was the place for me to be, various ships entering and leaving the harbour though I knew that four war frigates had arrived a day or so ago with whispers of today as their departure day, camera loaded, I decided to dedicate my afternoon down at Aberdeen Harbour Scotland, waiting on these beauty's to leave.

Tonight at 20pm I was rewarded , I post a few of the shots I captured of HDMS Thetis F357 leaving followed by the minesweepers behind her.

Meeting fellow photographers and enthusiasts who also arrived to see these beauty's head out to the North Sea made the evening a bit of an event, I had a great experience , loved it .

HDMS Thetis is a Thetis-class ocean patrol vessel belonging to the Royal Danish Navy.

In mid-1990s the ship served as a platform for seismic operations in the waters near Greenland. In 2002 she took over the role from her sister ship Hvidbjørnen as a platform for Commander Danish Task Group.

The role was handed over to Absalon in September 2007. From February - April 2008 Thetis served as a protection vessel for the World Food Programme chartered ships, carrying food aid, off the Horn of Africa. In 2009 the ship served as staff ship for the NATO Mine Countermeasure Group 1.

Kingdom of Denmark

Name:Thetis

Laid down:10 October 1988

Launched:14 July 1989

In service:1 July 1991

Identification:

IMO number: 3993600

MMSI number: 219522000

Callsign: OUEU

Status:in active service

General characteristics

Class and type:Thetis-class patrol frigate

Type:Off Shore Patrol Frigates

Displacement:3,500 tons full load

Length:112.3 m (368 ft 5 in)

Beam:14.4 m (47 ft 3 in)

Height:37.0 m (121 ft 5 in)

Draft:6.0 m (19 ft 8 in)

Installed power:

3 Detroit Diesel GM 16V 7163-7305 à 460

1 Detroit Diesel 6L-71N 1063-7005 à 120 Kw (EMG)

Propulsion:

3 × MAN B&W Diesel 12v28/32A-D à 2940 kW (3990 hk), single shaft

1 Brunvoll azimuth thruster (800 kW)

1 electrical Brunvoll bow thruster (600 kW)

Speed:>21.8 knots (40.4 km/h; 25.1 mph)

Range:8.700 nautical miles (16.112 km; 10.012 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Endurance:60 days

Boats & landing

craft carried:2 7m RHIBs

Complement:52 + aircrew and transients (accommodation for up to 101 in total)

Sensors and

processing systems:

1 Terma Scanter Mil 009 navigational radar

1 Furuno FR-1505 DA surface search radar

1 Plessey AWS-6 air search radar

1 SaabTech Vectronics 9LV 200 Mk 3 fire control system

1 SaabTech CTS-36 hull-mounted sonar

Thales TMS 2640 Salmon variable depth sonar

FLIR Systems AN/AAQ-22 SAFIRE thermal imager

Electronic warfare

& decoys:

1 Thales Defense Ltd Cutlass radar warning receiver

1 Thales Defense Scorpion radar jammer

2 Sea Gnat launchers (for chaff and flares)

Armament:

1 76-mm 62-cal. OTO Melara Super Rapid DP

7 12.7 mm heavy machine guns

4 7.62 mm light machine guns

1 depth charge rack and MU90 Advanced Lightweight Torpedo for anti-submarine warfare

Aircraft carried:1 Westland Lynx Mk.90B helicopter.From approx. 2016: MH-60R

Aviation facilities:Aft helicopter deck and hangar

Four Thetis class frigates for the Royal Danish Navy have been built by the Svendborg Shipyard with headquarters on the island of Funen in Svendborg, Denmark. The Thetis (F357) and Triton (F358) were commissioned in 1991, and Vaedderen (F359) and Hvidbjornen (F360) in 1992.

The Thetis Class are multi-role frigates for fishery protection, surveillance, air-sea rescue, anti-pollution and ice reconnaissance.

THETIS DESIGN

The frigates have a double-skinned hull divided by ten bulkheads into watertight compartments. The basic hull shape corresponds to that of a high-speed trawler. There are no bilge keels, but stabilisation is achieved by a combination of fin stabilisers from Blohm and Voss and a controlled passive tank system supplied by Intering.

The frigates are ice-strengthened and are able to proceed through 80cm of solid ice. The hull has an icebreaking bow and stem lines suitable for operations in ice with only one propeller. To minimise ice formation on the superstructure, all winches, capstans, etc. are placed under deck. The allowed amount of icing is 375t.

Maximum continuous speed is 20kt in 4m seas. The ships can stand wind gusts of 150kt during light ice conditions and operate in all sea conditions at speeds of 4kt to 5kt. The ships have an endurance of 8,300nm at varying speeds with a 10% fuel reserve.

COMMAND AND CONTROL

Infocom Electronics, based in Sonderborg, Denmark produced the frigate’s integrated information system, which is based on a digital fibre-optic switch with digital multipurpose subscriber stations.

The system handles all internal and external communications, including data link and message handling for the ship’s Command, Control and Communications (C3) system, supplied by Terma Elektronik of Lystrup, Denmark.

WEAPONS

The armament consists of one Oto Melara 76mm Super Rapid main gun, one or two 20mm guns from Oerlikon and depth charge throwers. The Super Rapid gun has a rate of fire of 120 rounds a minute and range of 16km. The fire control system is the Saab Systems 9LV 200 mk3. A FLIR Systems Inc AN/AAQ-22 SAFIRE thermal imaging system is used for surveillance.

HELICOPTER

The frigate has a landing deck with a landing spot for a single helicopter. Helicopter support arrangements include a Glide Path Indicator (GPI) and a flight refuelling system. The hangar is equipped for helicopter maintenance and has capacity to hold a Lynx helicopter without having to fold the helicopter tail.

SENSORS

The frigates are fitted with a BAE Systems AWS-6 air and surface search radar operating at G band, a Terma Scanter Mil surface search radar operating at I band, a Furuno FR-1505 DA navigation radar operating at I band and a Saab Systems 9LV mk3 fire control radar operating at I and J bands.

Sonar equipment consists of a Saab Systems hull-mounted type CTS 36 RDN and a Thales Underwater Systems (formerly Thomson Marconi) TMS 2640 Salmon Variable Depth Sonar (VDS).

COUNTERMEASURES

“The Thetis Class frigates are ice-strengthened and are able to proceed through 80cm of solid ice.”

The countermeasures suite includes the Thales Defence Ltd Cutlass radar warning receiver, a Thales Defence Scorpion radar jammer and two Sea Gnat launchers for chaff and infrared flares.

PROPULSION

The propulsion machinery consists of three MAN B&W V28/32 diesel engines with combined power of 9,000kW. The fitted bow thruster is able to hold the bow against an athwartship wind of 28kt. A retractable azimuth thruster is capable of propelling the ship at 10kt.

The bow and azimuth thruster are produced by Brunvoll A/S. There is also a shaft generator of 1,500kW, supplied by Volund Motorteknik A/S, and three GM diesel motors with Volund Teknik generators, each with an output of 480kW.

The machinery is controlled by an integrated ship control and surveillance system (SCSS) designed by Soren T. Lyngso. The system allows the vessel to sail with unmanned engine rooms, the entire installation being controlled, and visually supervised from the bridge or from other locations in the ship.

Namesake: Thetis is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus..

Newspaper Article On 2019s War Exercise In Scotland.

E River Clyde is set to play host to the largest military exercise in Europe.

The Faslane Naval Base will be at the heart of the biggest 'tactically-focused' training operation - called Exercise Joint Warrior - from 16 to 26 April.

The multi-national event is conducted in the spring and autumn of each year, with the base hosting key Royal Navy and RAF personnel involved in it.

They will be joined by another 150 personnel, many of them reservists, with a joint warfare operations centre set up at the base to co-ordinate and manage the massive exercise.

A total of 32 separate naval units from eight different countries are taking part, as well as a considerable military air presence and multiple land forces.

Faslane will berth many of the vessels during the exercise, with the ships using the base for quick and easy access to some of the maritime training areas off the west coast.

The UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark and Canada are all contributing and Royal Navy Flagship, HMS Bulwark, will be hosting the Commander United Kingdom Task Group and Commander Standing NATO Maritime Group 1.

Meanwhile the UK's joint force HQ will deploy to practice its command function both afloat on the high-readiness helicopter and commando carrier, HMS Illustrious, and ashore. The aim of the exercise is to provide the highest quality training for all three armed services and the numerous visiting forces from allied nations.

To achieve this, Joint Warrior features a wide-ranging exercise scenario which brings into play every possible situation experienced in complex, modern conflicts. It involves three sovereign nations, some disputed territory, drug smuggling, piracy, state-sponsored terrorism and counter insurgency. The scenario develops over the two-weeks of the exercise, beginning with a period of military and political tension and evolving into simulated war fighting and potential state-on-state hostilities.

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Safire Dream by Claudia Othero Martins Ferreira

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Safire Night by *Kristene

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OK- Girls theme week love- dress up, was inspired by catklein - bracelet shot!

When I was a little girl my mom would let me try it on and I always said that it was my favorite out of all her jewelry! She said some day, if I could prove I was responsible enough to take care of it- she just might let me keep it! Well, on my 21 birthday ,(that wasn't going so well considering, I had surgery scheduled in a few days and wasn't allowed to drink, low blood) she let me "try it on" for the last time- My whole life had just been turned upside down and my mom was there for me big time! This ring was a kind of symbol for me- like she was telling me, you're still my little girl but I respect you as a woman now. I only wear it on special occasions or when I'm really dressing up! I wish she lived closer, I miss her so much!

Day 117-

check out all the sevens- I started on 7/7/07, this is day 117, in 17 days I'll be 27! Crazy hu!

..:: Safire Dream (Jade) ~ com topcoat ::.. by *♥* Bel V.F. *♥*

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2x Safire Dream, Jade

1x Extrabrilho, Impala

Azul super lindo, que conta com um shimmer verde, o que dá um diferencial a ele. E, claro, os brilhinhos mais esverdeados dele não apareceram nas fotos =/

Mesmo estando fosco, ele brilha demais. Quem tem essa coleção, pode notar que ele possui pontos brilhantes que, mesmo com o acabamento fosco, não deixa de brilhar em nada, é a coisa mais linda e inexplicável. Só quem tem mesmo para saber do que eu estou falando.

A pigmentação dele é boa, mas não cobre com uma camada. Precisa de duas e aí sim fecha tranquilamente. A secagem é super rápida e ele fica lisinho nas unhas. Parece que fica áspero, mas não fica.

A cor dele é um pouco mais fechada que nas fotos. Bem, vocês sabem como é complicado fotografar esses tons de azul.

Ao aplicar uma camada de extrabrilho, ai, gente, ele acende ainda mais nas unhas, os brilhos parecem que estão dançando em nossas unhas. Ele hipnotiza a gente, não tem como não ficar olhando para as unhas. Ele é sensacional!

JADEEE, POR FAVOR, FAÇA OUTRAS CORES COM ESSE ACABAMENTOOOO!

Safire Wildfire 2017 by Gary Cooper

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at wildfire festival

hbf2016-013.jpg by Henri Block

Olympus digital camera

Dassault Falcon 20G SAFIRE F-GBTM - MSN 397 by Laurent ERRERA

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Photo prise à l'aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac (LFBO) en France.

Picture take at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (LFBO) in France.

Temple of Poi Fire Dancing Expo in San Francisco's Union Square by Greg Goodman

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The Temple of Poi, a fire dancing school in San Francisco, invited amazing fire dancers from all over the world to participate in the 5th Annual Temple of Poi Fire Dancing Expo in the middle of San Francisco's Union Square. The event was extremely well-attended and featured some of the most amazing fire dancing I have ever seen, including a guy dancing with flaming swords!

For more fire dancing photos from around the globe, check out the abstract photos section of Adventures of a GoodMan: World Travel Stories and Photography.

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Participants of the Fire Dancing Expo included:

* MCP (Edinburgh, Scotland) - dragon staff solo - due to volcanic ash, MCP can not appear this year!

* Redox (Temple of Poi) - poi solo

* Aileen Lawlor (Oakland, CA) - wand and contact staff

* Memory Elena & Corey White (Bay Area) - fans

* Alien Jon (Currently residing somewhere on planet Earth) - poi solo

* Dyami & Wryly (Santa Cruz, Ca) - single poi duet

* Bradley Allbee (West Los Angeles, CA) - poi solo

* Sarah Starlight (Temple of Poi) - hoop solo

* Ian Boyd, Anthony 'Broadway' Rutland, Ayala Kalisher, Russ Megowan, Dyami Kaplan

& Sara Huntley are Kinetica! (Santa Cruz, CA) - fans, staff, double staff

* Corey Just (Oakland, CA) - fan solo

* Erin Shredder of Shredder Hoops (San Francisco, CA) - hoop solo

* Celsius Maximus (Monterey, CA) - fans, swords

* Vin DeLuca & Solenne Alexa (San Francisco, CA) - staff poi duet

* Vatra (San Francisco) - poi solo

* Russ Megowan & Jake Yoshioka are Hybridz R Us (Santa Cruz, CA) - poi duet

* Zan & Aurora Moore of Instruments of the Now (Portland, OR) - poi duet

* GlitterGirl & Kahunahula (San Francisco, CA) - poi hoop duet

* Colleen Sullivan, Krista Borst, Emily Port, Don Keenan & Michael Henninger of Firish (Bay Area, CA) - hoop, fan, staff, poi

* Erik Aylen, Shaina Dyani Johnson, Bridget Harrison, Alysia Hook and Oliver Pavick are Copper Lantern Fire Theater (Oakland, CA) - wand, fan, poi, hoop and staff

* Matt McCorkle & Brian Thompson are Circus Conspiracy (Oakland, CA) - clubs

* Miss Rosie (San Francisco, CA) - hoop solo

* Rob Horner of PYRODYNAMICS Fire Dance Productions (Cairns, Australia) - 7 staves solo

* Adam Herscheid of Flames Of the Phoenix (Cairns, Australia) - double staff solo

* Adam Herscheid & Rob Horner are Flames of the Phoenix & Pyrodynamics (Cairns, Australia) - double staff duet

* Luis Chavez, Gatamala, Juicy Jess and Luna Del Fuego of Fire Euphoria (Santa Cruz, CA)

* The Amazing Baz & Drex are Ouroboros (Boston & Washington DC) - poi duet

* Kyle Ford of Pyrotechniq (Iowa City, IA) - umbrella, torches, poi

* Yuta (Tokyo, Japan) - poi solo

* Chryseph of Obsidian Moon (Seattle, WA) - rope dart, staff solo

* Madelaine "Wolf" Bukiet & Lauren "Madamn Burnz" Picheney of Las Piratas Del Fuego (Brooklyn, New York) - contact

* D. "Mac" Kaul, Dave "O.D." Kaul, Dave King (founder of Controlled Burn), Carlyn "Wrangler" Perona, Angel "Fire Angel" Schultz, Barbara "Dr. Soos" Slaughter, Brenda Ashworth, Evonne "Shelly" George, Katrina "Glitter Bee" Whitten, Kelin Whitten, Kurt "Titwi" George, Mark "Lucky" Ashworth, Roger "Rogeman" Stimson, Sage "Safire" Ashworth, Shane "Saul Goode" Peterson, Tom "Moon Penguin" Fougner & Bill "Dammit Bill" Schultz from Controlled Burn (Reno, NV) - poi, fan, staff

* Banyan (Chicago, IL) - s staves

*Jaden Rose of Solar Flare (San Francisco, CA) - double hoop

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J Foster Dulles / Burt Lance / Harold Ickes by David

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Former home of:

John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State under Eisenhower)

Bert Lance (Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Carter)

Harold Ickes (White House Deputy Chief of Staff under Clinton)

3107 Dumbarton Ave. NW

---Republican John Foster Dulles travelled so much by plane that people said he took to the air to avoid being a sitting duck for Congressional Democrats

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John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.

Born in Washington D.C., he was the son of a Presbyterian minister and attended public schools in Watertown, NY. After attending Princeton University and The George Washington University he joined the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he specialized in international law. He tried to join the United States Army during World War I but was rejected because of poor eyesight. Instead, Dulles got an Army commission as captain in the War Industries Board.

Both his grandfather John W. Foster and his uncle Robert Lansing served as Secretary of State. He was also the older brother of Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence under Eisenhower. His son Avery Robert Dulles converted to Catholicism and became the first American priest to be directly appointed to Cardinal, although his advanced age prohibited him from voting in the College of Cardinals in 2005 following the death of Pope John Paul II.

Political career

In 1918 Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State. Dulles made an early impression as a junior diplomat by clearly and forcefully arguing against imposing crushing reparations on Germany. Afterwards he served as a member of the War Reparations Committee at the request of President Wilson. Dulles, a deeply religious man, attended numerous international conferences of churchmen during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1924, he was the defense counsel in the church trial of Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, resigned his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church, which he had never joined. Dulles also became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. In the 1930's, according to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book "Overthrow", Dulles was an active supporter and collaborator with the Nazis.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey who became the presidential candidate of the United States Republican Party in the U.S. presidential election, 1944. During the election Dulles served as Dewey's foreign policy adviser.

In 1945 Dulles participated in the San Francisco Conference and worked as adviser to Arthur H. Vandenberg and helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter. He subsequently attended the United Nations General Assembly as a United States delegate in 1946, 1947 and 1950. Dulles was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican from New York on July 7, 1949, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Democrat Robert F. Wagner. Dulles served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a successor, Herbert Lehman, was elected, having beaten Dulles in a special election to fill the senate vacancy.

In 1950, Dulles published War or Peace, a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which at the time was favored by many of the foreign policy elites in Washington. Dulles criticized the foreign policy of Harry S. Truman. He argued that containment should be replaced by a policy of "liberation". However, he still carried out Truman's policy in neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951. When Dwight Eisenhower became President in January, 1953, he appointed Dulles as his Secretary of State.

Secretary of State

Dulles with president Eisenhower in 1956As Secretary of State Dulles spent considerable time building up NATO as part of his strategy of controlling Soviet expansion by threatening massive retaliation in event of a war. In 1950 he helped instigate the ANZUS Treaty for mutual protection with Australia and New Zealand. One of his first major policy shifts towards a more aggressive posture against communism, Dulles directed the CIA in March of 1953 to draft plans to overthrow the Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran [1]. This led directly to the Coup d'état via Operation Ajax which installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the Shah of Iran.

Dulles was also the architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) that was created in 1954. The treaty, signed by representatives of the United States, Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, provided for collective action against aggression.

Dulles was one of the pioneers of Mutually Assured Destruction and brinkmanship. In an article written for Life Magazine Dulles defined his policy of brinkmanship: "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art." His critics blamed him for damaging relations with Communist states and contributing to the Cold War.

Dulles upset the leaders of several non-aligned countries when on June 9, 1955, he argued in one speech that "neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."

Dulles provided some consternation and amusement to the British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand ambassadors by his repeated attempts to tell substantially different versions of events to them. Apparently unbeknownst to Dulles the men had all in attended Cambridge together and followed up meetings with Dulles by comparing notes and reporting the discrepancies to their home countries.

In 1956 Dulles strongly opposed the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal, Egypt (October-November 1956). However, by 1958 he was an outspoken opponent of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and stopped him from receiving weapons from the United States. This policy seemingly backfired, enabling the Soviet Union to gain influence in the Middle East.

Dulles also served as the former Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (succeeded by the National Council of Churches), Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a former Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Death and legacy

Suffering from cancer, Dulles was forced by his declining health to resign from office in April 1959. He died in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1959, at the age of 71, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1959.

The Washington Dulles International Airport (located in Dulles, Virginia) and John Foster Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas) were both named in honor of Dulles.

Carol Burnett first rose to prominence in the 1950s singing a novelty song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles"; more recently, Gil Scott Heron commented "John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now" in the song "B-Movie".

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Thomas Bertram Lance, known as Bert Lance, (Born June 3, 1931 in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American politician and businessman.

Lance was a close adviser and friend to candidate for President Jimmy Carter, during Carter's successful 1976 campaign. After Carter's victory, Lance was named director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB). Within six months of Lance's assuming this position, questions were raised by the press and Congress about mismanagement and corruption when Lance was Chairman of the Board of Calhoun National Bank of Calhoun, Georgia. He became an embarrassment to Carter's administration, especially given the reputation that Carter had tried to build of uncorruptablity in the wake of the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration earlier in the 1970s. Lance resigned as OMB director on September 21, 1977. In the very public trial that followed, Mr. Lance was subsequently acquitted of all charges.

In 1981, Lance returned to the Calhoun National Bank, again as Chairman. He left in 1986.

Press reports have suggested that Lance was involved in the BCCI scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Popular references

Shortly after Lance's resignation as OMB Director, on the Saturday Night Live television show, John Belushi (playing Lance) and Dan Aykroyd (playing Jimmy Carter) performed an advertising parody. The skit was a commercial for the "National Express" credit card, a parody of then-current American Express commercials.

One famouse press article that contributed greatly to the groundswell against Bert Lance in 1976 was an article by William Safire, called Carter's Broken Lance, for which Safire earned a Pulitzer Prize.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Harold McEwen Ickes (born September 4, 1939) was deputy White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton. He is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ickes chaired Clinton's presidential campaign in New York in 1992. Before that, he was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election in 1989. In 2000, he was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. He now heads the Media Fund, a 527 committee. . He was also an initial contender against Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

As a member of the DNC's Rules committee he was a proponent of adding other states besides Iowa and New Hampshire early on in the Presidential nominating calendar. He was unsucessful in his promotion of Alabama as the second primary state, behind New Hampshire, which lost to South Carolina.

Since 2005 Ickes has been associated with a George Soros funded Democratic data collection and voter file organization called "Data Warehouse".

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