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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. John Lynch, a 22-year-old Brookfield, Conn., native and motor transport operator with 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, posts security during an air interdiction force mission here, Dec. 7. The AIF mission was conducted in support of an Afghan Border Police led clearing operation in Khan-Neshin. During the mission, Marines and sailors from Charlie Company, 1/25, and 2nd Bn., 11th Marines, circled above, searching for suspicious vehicles or personnel. The AIF plays a unique role with Regimental Combat Team 5's counter-insurgency operations in southern Helmand.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez)
With MariBeth Ashdene. More of my pictures of MariBeth, some with me, some without me. Part of the Set The Present is a Present
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A member of the Coast Guard’s Maritime Security Response Team looks out over Boston Harbor during a training exercise Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. The team joined local law enforcement and other authorities to exercise skills, cooperation, and strategies to keep mariners safe and the port secure. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Barresi)
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A clone captain communicating with command while his squad begins to prepare the perimeter.
This build started out as an empty frame to give myself an “empty canvas”. I like that approach a lot and I think it’s fun to see what you can squeeze into a small space to tell a story. Then I built the terrain and experimented for a few days on where to go from there. I decided on the water way eventually and it all snowballed from there.
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Cockburn, South Australia, is a small settlement immediately adjacent to the border with New South Wales near Broken Hill. It was established because the New South Wales government refused to allow locomotives of the South Australian Railways to operate in its jurisdiction, requiring locomotives to be changed at the town for 84 years until 1970, when the route was converted from 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) to 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.
Huge ore deposits were discovered in Silverton, which in 1884 prompted the government of South Australia to offer to the Government of New South Wales the building of a narrow gauge railway line from the limit of its jurisdiction at the border to Silverton, since horse-drawn drays over rough tracks could not meet the transport task for the journey to Port Pirie. This offer was rejected by the New South Wales government. In response, investors formed the Silverton Tramway Company in 1885 to build the railway line from Silverton to the border; as the railway was privately owned, it could not legally be referred to as such, hence the use of the term tramway.
The town of Cockburn, named after South Australian Premier Sir John Alexander Cockburn, came into existence in 1886 on the South Australia side of the border as a place for trains to exchange locomotives and crews. On the New South Wales side of the border, the Silverton Tramway Company built the Burns station and transfer sidings.
For 84 years, until 1970, Cockburn exemplified a busy South Australian Railways interchange station. Locomotives were serviced here and concentrate trains brought from Broken Hill on the Silverton Tramway were marshalled for their 350-kilometre (220-mile) journey to Port Pirie.
Pressure for the expansion of Cockburn was increased with mineral discoveries at Thackaringa and Umberumberka from 1883 onwards. The silver-lead-zinc discovery at Broken Hill led to the railway line being extended from Silverton to Broken Hill in 1887. The route was extremely important, as it provided balanced trading for locomotives with a momentum grade 'up' from Broken Hill to Cockburn and a rising grade 'down' from Cockburn to Broken Hill. This was the main advantage of the route to and from Cockburn.
By 1892, the town of Cockburn had become sizeable, with a population of 2000. Cockburn boasted two hotels, two general stores, three boarding houses, schools, and churches. It included within its business sector a blacksmith, butcher, baker, produce merchant and carrier. Stationed at Cockburn were two engineers, a stationmaster, customs officer, locomotive superintendent, and a miner. A locomotive shed and related work facilities were recorded as existing in 1892. Seven trains regularly ran between Petersburg (now Peterborough), Cockburn, and Broken Hill, and included passenger trains. 83 194 passengers travelled through Cockburn in 1892.
Cockburn also has a role in industrial relations history in Broken Hill. Tom Mann, a political "disruptionist", was barred from speaking publicly in New South Wales. In 1908, 3000 passengers came from Broken Hill to Cockburn to hear him speak. From the front of the hall, next to the Cockburn Hotel, he addressed the crowd. This was the beginning of a dispute known as the 1909 lockout. Broken Hill mining unionists were locked out of the company gates for rejecting pay cuts which would have been below the minimum wage.
The standard gauge railway line, officially opened in 1970, is south of the surveyed town limits of Cockburn. A new station and a passing loop were built but the station is now disused. In the early 1990s, the South Australian government proposed to close down the small communities along the Barrier Highway, leading to a strong and unified resistance from the local communities. The 2016 census recorded a population of 56 in the immediate vicinity of the town.
Nothing remains of the infrastructure of the railway yard other than an elevated locomotive water tank, repurposed as a bushfire emergency asset. The last buildings, six railway employee houses, were demolished or removed in 2009.
There is no Local Government Area (LGA) for the communities of Nackara, Yunta, Manna Hill, Olary, and Cockburn.
Sir John Alexander Cockburn:
Sir John Alexander Cockburn (1850 - 1929), premier, Federationist, and medical practitioner, was born on the 23rd of August 1850 at Corsbie, Berwickshire, Scotland, second son of Thomas Cockburn, farmer, and his wife Isabella, née Wright. His father died in France in 1855, and his mother migrated to South Australia in 1867 with three of the four children. John, educated at Cholmeley (now Highgate) School, remained behind to study medicine at King's College, University of London (M.R.C.S., M.B., 1871; M.D. and gold medal, 1874), although he briefly visited his family in 1871.
Believing the medical profession to be overcrowded in England, Cockburn settled in South Australia in 1875, and set up a lucrative practice in Jamestown. He was elected its first mayor in 1878 and held the office for three and a half years. In 1881 he was appointed a commissioner of the North Midland Road Board. He was also vice-president of the Rifle Volunteer Force and captain of the Jamestown company as well as a lay reader of the Anglican Church.
Cockburn's ambitions did not lie in medicine and in 1884 he won the House of Assembly seat of Burra. He immediately made his mark in parliament as a picturesque and eloquent speaker. As minister of education in Sir John Downer's ministry in 1885 - 1887, he was mainly responsible for the inauguration of arbor day. He also established an inquiry to report on the best means of developing technical education. Although he lost his seat at the 1887 election, he won Mount Barker, which he represented until his retirement.
In 1888 Cockburn was appointed chairman of the council of the new School of Mines and Industries but he resigned when it opened in June 1889. In the same month the Thomas Playford government was defeated and Cockburn formed a ministry as chief secretary. In August next year Playford successfully moved a motion of no-confidence, Cockburn was again chief secretary in F. W. Holder's ministry, June-October 1892. He was one of three former premiers in the cabinet of Charles Kingston, formed in June 1893, and he remained as minister of education and agriculture until he resigned in April 1898 to become agent-general in London.
An advanced liberal, Cockburn was held by his critics to be an impractical visionary, easily swayed by the writings of reformers such as Henry George and Edward Bellamy. His intellectual eclecticism was paralleled in practical politics by frequent changes of mind; he was not a strong leader in an era of faction politics. Nevertheless Cockburn initiated a number of notable pieces of reform legislation. He was active in the struggle to secure payment for members of parliament, and he helped to change Kingston's mind on adult suffrage. He also introduced unsuccessfully a bill for a progressive land tax.
Cockburn was an ardent Federationist, representing South Australia at the 1890 conference, and the 1891 and 1897 - 1898 conventions. He was also the only notable South Australian to attend the unofficial People's Federal Convention at Bathurst in 1896. At these conferences he supported moves for a more democratic constitution. At the same time he wanted a strong Senate, basing his case on 'State rights'—his decentralist sentiments were declared at Sydney in 1891: 'Government at a central and distant point can never be government by the people'. He and Kingston were the only two delegates in 1891 to support Sir George Grey's proposal that the governor-general and the State governors should be elected by the people. Cockburn argued the governor-general would be a dummy and the office useless; many other delegates believed that an elective governor-general would have pretensions to real authority. A collection of his articles and speeches was published in Australian Federation (London, 1901), dedicated to his close friend, Sir J. Langdon Bonython.
Fears were expressed when Cockburn was appointed agent-general in 1898. The conservative Register wrote that "the Doctor of Fanciful Notions would be more congenially employed in a library studying mystical lore and in resurrecting impracticable political schemes from 'Plutarch's Lives' than in directing the commercial and financial operations of the government in London. The outgoing incumbent of the office, Thomas Playford, in a letter to the under-treasurer Thomas Gill, pointed out Cockburn's lack of knowledge of finance but felt that 'if he holds his tongue and refrains from gassing upon socialistic fads he may do well." As it turned out, Cockburn was a successful agent-general until 1901; he never missed an opportunity of advertising the State and its products.
He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1900. Patrick McMahon Glynn noted with disbelief in his diary that "Mr. Cockburn, the political mystic and interpreter of the democratic spirit as understood by himself, the paper-disciple of Rousseau, the chief South Australian exponent of philosophic equality and scientific methods of social progress—has been made a Knight". In 1901 Cockburn was appointed knight of grace of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. That year he hoped to enter Federal politics, but his friends failed to nominate him in time. Shortly afterwards he was placed in an embarrassing position by the government of J. G. Jenkins, which wished to downgrade the agent-generalship to that of a State agent, at a reduced salary. Cockburn's term of office was not extended, as had previously been the case, and his retirement reflected rather poorly on his former political colleagues. The Critic commented sourly that electors "would hardly recognise their old friend with the ultra-radical views … [who] dressed 'carelessly', wore his hair long like the typical anarchist of the papers illustrated, [but is] now immaculately frocked and has somewhat changed his views".
Cockburn remained in England for the rest of his life as a sort of unofficial ambassador for South Australia, many of whose citizens he entertained at Dean's Hill, Harrietsham, Kent. He made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the House of Commons at a by-election for West Monmouthshire in November 1904, standing as an Independent Tariff Reformer supported by Joseph Chamberlain and the local Conservatives; however, he had nothing else in common with them. He held directorships of the English, Scottish & Australian Bank, the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd, the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and the Central Insurance Co. He also became chairman of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce in London, the Nature Study Association and the Swanley Horticultural College, and was vice-chairman of the court of governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Cockburn was president of the Entente Cordiale Society, the National Association of Manual Training Teachers, the London branch of the Child-Study Society, the Men's International Alliance for Woman Suffrage, and the International Philological Society, and a vice-president of the Royal Colonial Institute. He was also a member of the council of King's College, University of London, from 1900. In addition, he did prominent work for the London County Council on elementary education, and was a prolific writer on Australian, Imperial and educational topics. Greatly interested in freemasonry, he had been deputy grand master in South Australia, and in England he became president of both the International Masonic Club and the Society for Masonic Study, and wrote extensively on the symbolism of freemasonry.
Cockburn was a short and handsome man. His obituary in The Times described him as "stamped with the zeal and courtesy of a past generation'. He was proud of his extensive library, and bookbinding was one of his hobbies. He died in London, at King's College Hospital, on the 26th of November 1929, survived by his wife Sarah Holdway (d. 1931), née Brown, whom he had married in 1875, and by a son and a daughter. His estate was valued for probate at £20 442. A bust in bronze by Alfred Drury is in the possession of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Because of occult-based killings of Albinos Burundi authorities had to resettle 60 albinos in secure locations.
Ten men implicated in the trade in albino body parts for use as talismans are currently in the town’s central prison awaiting trial.
On October 15 one of those camps grew by one when a health boy was born.
The Burundi Red Cross (BRC) Ruyigi branch played a lead role in coordinating the spontaneous local humanitarian response by providing food, mosquito nets, clothes, building materials for toilets and moral support to the people living in the shelters.
The picture shows Napoleon Ahishakiye, an albino baby born on Thursday 15 October 2009 and as far as anyone knows the first albino birth in a shelter, with his 18-year-old mother, Emelyne Banteyineza.
Photo: Alex Wynter/IFRC (p-BDI003)
More information: www.ifrc.org/Docs/News/09/09102801/index.asp
Sep 21 2017 - Is it worth it? The owner had to walk off with the front wheel and his bike seat leaving an expensive big ass lock wrapped around a street lamp
Besides being a place well know for its surfing culture, Onjuku is still also part functioning fishing port. Some of the boats were pulled up out of the water in a state of continual painting and repair.
Belgian postcard by Mobistar no. 131. Photo: Lucasfilm LTD., 2000. Poster for Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980).
In Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), the adventure continues that started in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). It is the fifth, but second made, instalment in the Star Wars series. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.
Three years have passed since Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). In Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) are now officially members of the Rebels, holed up on the ice planet Hoth. However, Han is wanted en masse by bounty hunters because of his debt to Jabba the Hutt. Moreover, the Galactic Empire is bent on revenge after the destruction of the Death Star and has launched a massive search for the rebels. On Hoth, Luke is attacked by a wampa. The latter takes the unconscious Luke to an ice cave, where Luke (having woken up again) cuts off the wampa's arm with his lightsaber and flees outside. At the Rebel Alliance on the same planet, Han notices that Luke is not coming back, and goes looking for him. While Han is on a quest, Luke sees the ghost of his old teacher Obi-Wan Kenobi. The latter tells him to go to the planet Dagobah to look for Yoda, the last surviving Jedi master. He can train Luke further. Then Obi-Wan's ghost disappears and Han arrives. Luke and Han are rescued by a snow speeder, which takes them back to the Rebel Alliance. The Rebels face an attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers and they are brutally overpowered by the Empire. While Han Solo, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) escape in the damaged Millennium Falcon. Luke Skywalker travels with R2-D2 (Kenny baker) to Dagobah in search of Yoda (voice of Frank Oz). Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader. Luke begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader (David Prowse and the voice of James Earl Jones) and bounty hunter Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch).
George Lucas had originally planned to only executive produce and finance Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), leaving the directorial duties in the hands of Irvin Kershner and day-to-day producing duties to Gary Kurtz. Directing Star Wars (1977) had left Lucas exhausted and sick, and he had intended to take time off to start to focus on the expansion of the Lucasfilm company and spending more time with his then-wife Marcia Lucas so that they could start a family and finish construction on Skywalker Ranch. In order to avoid sharing creative rights, George Lucas decided to avoid using a major studio to finance Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980). Instead, he bankrolled the $18 million production himself, using a combination of his profits from Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) and a bank loan. Although the move was risky, it would later pay off several times over. However, when production on The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ran over budget and behind schedule, Lucas had to step in and take a more hands-on role, going on location to oversee filming and even directing portions of the film. A disastrous rough cut of the film proved to be incoherent during screenings, and facing the possibility of financial ruin, Lucas then re-edited the film himself with even worse results. Extensive re-shoots and further post-production effects work put enormous strain on his health, his marriage, and his relationships with Kershner and Kurtz. To preserve the dramatic opening of the Star Wars films, George Lucas insisted on moving all the credits to the end of the film. However, although the Writers' Guild and Directors' Guild had begrudgingly allowed this on Star Wars (1977) because that film wasn't expected to be very successful, they resented the trend being continued on the sequel. First, they tried to pull the film from release but were unsuccessful. They then fined Lucas heavily and tried to fine Irvin Kershner, but Lucas paid all of the fines himself (nearly $250,000). Lucas then bitterly dropped his membership in the Writers' Guild, Directors' Guild, and the Motion Picture Association of America, a move that has hindered his hiring choices for later films.
A new character was Yoda, originally designed by British make-up artist Stuart Freeborn and voiced by Frank Oz. In the original Star Wars trilogy, he is realised as a puppet, controlled by Oz. The Dagobah set needed to be elevated to give Frank Oz and three other puppeteers room to control the Yoda puppet from below. For proper interaction, Mark Hamill was given an earpiece so he could hear Oz doing Yoda's voice. On numerous occasions, director Irvin Kershner would give a direction to Yoda by mistake, and Oz would have to remind him who to speak to. Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to die at the end of this second film, and he did not want to play the character again. When Star Wars (1977) was made, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were signed for a three-movie deal, but Ford refused since the character had played his part already in the second film. Instead of killing off the character, George Lucas had a different idea. He opted for Han to be frozen in carbonite, in case Ford had a change of heart and agreed to return in the third film, the character would be revived. And yes, Han Solo still had a heroic part to play in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983). Lucas recovered his investment within three months of the release of Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). After the various increases in budget, the film became one of the most expensive of its day and after the bank threatened to pull his loan, George Lucas was forced to approach Twentieth Century Fox. Lucas made a deal with the studio to secure the loan in exchange for paying the studio more money but without the loss of his sequel and merchandising rights. After the film's box-office success, unhappiness at the studio over the deal's generosity to Lucas caused studio president Alan Ladd, Jr. to quit. Lucas, however, showed gratitude far beyond the Hollywood norm by sharing the profits with his employees (nearly $5 million in bonuses). Though the film proved to be an enormous commercial and critical success, George Lucas would never work with Gary Kurtz again, and his marriage with Marcia Lucas dissolved a couple of years later.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Secure Airparks ADL Enviro200 MMC YX25NYN is seen here heading out of Edinburgh Airport working a car park shuttle.
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Christian Yelich at bat, in the early stages of a hitting streak, facing Stephen Strasburg on Jackie Robinson Day at Marlins Park. The Marlins defeated Strasburg and the Washington Nationals 11-2 behind strong pitching from Tom Kohler, a 3-Run Home Run by Giancarlo Stanton, and a Nationals Team that seemingly imploded.
There was even a near-brawl on the field as one of Kohler's pitches sailed high and inside (kinda) on Ian Desmond and Desmond took exception to it. There was a pitch just a bit earlier that was even closer on Jason Werth, so I can understand Desmond's concern somewhat. No punches were thrown even though both bullpens emptied...everyone went back to baseball and we enjoyed a great game at a great ballpark.
** A footnote about Ian Desmond: He is a class act. Before the game, he was working out between second base and first base and saw a young boy wearing an Ian Desmond jersey patiently watching near the wall behind first base. After a while, the boy turned to walk back through the tunnel to his seat and Ian called over to the field security guard and asked him to call the boy back. When the boy returned to the wall, Ian was waiting for him with an outstretched hand, and a hearty, "Hi! I'm Ian. What's your name?" The two talked for a few minutes and then concluded with Ian's signature on the boy's jersey and another handshake bidding each other farewell. I wouldn't make such a big deal out of this if not for the fact that I don't see it very often at the major league level during the regular season...and I've seen something similar out of Ian twice now (the other time being prior to a Nationals-Mets game at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, last summer). Yep - Ian Desmond is good people.
as we head off to spend a couple of days with friends in new york city, i thought i'd be a good little whore and leave you with something sufficiently pornographic, texturally speaking of course. (c'mon, get all up in it. you know you want to. hell, it's free, and it's not like it's gonna hurt anybody.)
i'll be back soon. in the meantime, for me, do this one thing:
go jump in a puddle. (or throw a snowball, weather depending.)
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
~Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
Location: Grid Square K20, Polis Massa
Names: Finn Crux, Vice Admiral Crait, Spy, Scout, Blaster, Hunter, Heavy and Mechanic (the whole clan)
Species: Human/Near Human
Faction: Mando'ade
After Finn and his team departed from The Eclipse, the transports landed in an abandoned landing pad. It was said that it had been an old Republic base, an Imperial Research base and more recently, an unknown operations hub. Finn supposed that was where the yellow stripes came from...
When they first landed, everything was quiet. Too quiet.
Finn Crux: "What is this place?" he spoke to the hologram of Vice Admiral Crait.
Vice Admiral Crait: "This is where it will begin. Scout the surface of this area, and if you deem it to be safe, we will send more transports down with supplies and find a space to dock the cruiser. If it isn't safe, feel free to exterminate any hazards along the way. We will then arrange support. If you require immediate assistance, just tap the comms link." The hologram blinked out.
Participants during the session "Envisioning a Food-Secure Future" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 18, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
{Picture: IU troops settle into a pre-fab coast mounted Anti-Aircraft bunker)
IU troops bunker down along the Indonesian coasts, waiting for the Turkish Federation and New Libyan Empire to send troops to their death. IU "Pegasus" Aerial Drones root out pockets of TF Navy Seals who are currently capturing and holding various areas of shoreline.
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For the LMG.
RIAT has a fondness for themes, this was "securing the skies" then and now. The Spitfire obviously from WWII and the Typhoon currently the UK QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) aircraft. Also showing how slowly the Typhoon can fly, massive angle of attack and computer fly by wire.
Listed as Synchro 75 which I don't recall being explained.
Typhoon FGR4 from RAF from No29(R) Squadron Coningsby and a Supermarine Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The Typhoon carries WWII paint camouflage scheme.