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One of UK Specialist Ambulance Serivce's lovely Renault Trafic Secure Transfer Vehicles is seen here at their base in Rainham. My thanks go to the company for allowing a visit for photos and for moving and lighting the vehicles up. Plates blanked on request of the company.
20th May 2015
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Julia has made several comments about being nervous about her upcoming ballet, jazz and tap recital -- which is in April. Despite the reassurances and the extra lessons to catch her up with her classmates who have been dancing together since they were 3 or 4, she has continued to express worry over remembering the routine... the steps... the turns...
Today, the class invited the parents in to watch the jazz routine. Julia was so focused on her routine that she seemed to barely notice all the adults in the room. The girls did great but I don't think any were as excited while simultaneously being relieved as Julia was.
She looked as if she had been dancing with these girls all along. The look of satisfaction in her face lets me know that she is secure in at least one of the dance routines coming up in April. We have plenty of time to practice and learn the others.
Securely Decaying - The entrance of an old home in south-central Phoenix is still secure but… Grant Park neighborhood.
In the course of its expansion to the East, the Teutonic Order secured the conquered territories by building castles. While the Order achieved military successes in Eastern Europe, it suffered setbacks in the Holy Land. In 1291 Acre, the last stronghold of the Crusaders in the Holy Land fell. The Order moved its headquarters to Venice, but it was clear that a reconquest of Palestine was out of the question. Prussia offered itself as an alternative field of activity.
In 1308 the Order took over Gdansk and in 1309 Grand Master Siegfried von Feuchtwangen moved his seat from Venice to Marienburg. The fortress was expanded into a very spacious castle. Today complex is the largest brick building in Europe
After the defeat of the Order in the Battle of Grunwald (Schlacht bei Tanneberg) against Poland-Lithuania, the first siege of Marienburg took place in 1410. Heinrich von Plauen managed to hold the fortress.
In 1454, during the Thirteen Years' Prussian City War, Ludwig von Erlichshausen successfully defended the castle against the Polish King Casimir IV. Jagiello. However, as the Grand Master fell behind with the payment of the salaries, he had to pawn the castle to his rebelling mercenaries in 1455. They sold the fortress to the Polish king without further ado.
After WWII about 60 per cent of the castle was destroyed or damaged. It got reconstructed and by now is one of the hot spots of tourism in Poland.
"But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort that seemed really akin to physical pain, and she avoided them--ties of family or of affection, ties of habit or of thought--with all the strenuousness of which she was capable."
(From "The Merry-Go-Round" by W. Somerset Maugham)
This lady was among a few other ladies at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi (Benaras) where they were drying several sarees washed in the Ganges.
She was probably coming from far with a group of people in order to worship in the holy city and therefore she had to take care of the laundry.
She accepted my camera with ease so I tried to make her smile although she kept expressions of a strenuous life…
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Airman 1st Class Nicholas Zimmer secures the perimeter around a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2012. When an aircraft lands at locations with little to no security on the landing strip, fly-away security teams come along to provide additional protection for the aircraft and crew. Zimmer's hometown is Havelock, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)
The gantry arms close around the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to secure the rocket, as seen in this long exposure photograph taken on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at launch pad 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Expedition 47 crew is scheduled for 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, March 18. via NASA ift.tt/1SYozdh
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft rolls out from the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 2022. The spacecraft will make the trip to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station where it will be secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Things are moving on with the opposition to Prince Charles and the Duchy of Cornwall proposed "New Village Development" South of Faversham. I have secured a face to face meeting with the D.O.C Development Manager, Project Manager, Ecologist and Landscaper and with me, just waiting for the RSPB and KWT to set times available to them and a reporter from the Sunday Times. The sites species list, after just disapearing into thin air has been rewriten and ready to be published. There is no need for more 3-4 and 5 bedroom houses in Faversham, it just brings in people from affar who are sold the rural idyll and with the loss of so much wildlife habitat holding immense biodiversity we need to fight the blight....
Hard to beat that!
Post storm report:
We got our share of rain overnight but the gusty winds to at least 45 mph was the star of the show scattering anything that wasn`t secured.
Avalon Waterways Impression is secured to the Danube
River, the Captain has lowered the gangplank and the Passau City tour is about to begin.
Passau was once the Celtic settlement of Bojodurum, and it later became the site of a Roman camp, Castra Batava. It was made an episcopal see in 739 and in 1217, the bishops became princes of the Holy Roman Empire. In spite of revolts by its citizens for municipal freedom, the prince-bishops managed to rule Passau until 1803. A devastating fire in 1662 caused severe damage to the city. Italian Baroque masters were brought in to rebuild the town, giving Passau a distinctly Baroque character.
From 1892 until 1894, Adolf Hitler and his family lived in Passau. The city archives mention Hitler being in Passau on four different occasions in the 1920s for speeches. On November 3, 1902 Heinrich Himmler and his family arrived from Munich. They lived at Theresienstraße 394 (currently Theresienstraße 22) until September 2, 1904. Himmler maintained contact with locals until May 1945.
During World War II, the town housed three sub-camps of the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp: Passau I (Oberilzmühle), Passau II (Waldwerke Passau-Ilzstadt) and Passau III (Jandelsbrunn).
On May 3, 1945, a message from Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart’s 261st Infantry Regiment stated at 3:15 am: "AMG Officer has unconditional surrender of PASSAU signed by Burgermeister, Chief of Police and Lt. Col of Med Corps there. All troops are to turn themselves in this morning."
It was the site of a post World War II American sector displaced persons camp.
A HH-60G Pave Hawk lands as a special operator provides cover during a combat search and rescue exercise at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., May 31, 2013. The HH-60 Pave Hawk is assigned to the 129th Rescue Wing, Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Robert Scott)
Stormy managed to secure a small space in the garage at the base to work on his new project. It was a real team effort, Barabara did anything that required any mechanical knowledge and Stormy looked after refreshments. Just as well Barbara was around as Stormy quickly realised he did not know one end of a spanner from the other. They discovered that there was quite a bit of work required on the engines so it may be some time before the fixer upper gets it's maiden voyage.
Rusted and Secure - Another view of the back of apartments in an alley of the Roosevelt Row Arts District. Early morning sun is bright and intense in the July heat. Great pattern, texture and shadow play here.
Mercury and Venus
Photo Shoot: Roman Bath house ATP Paradise SIm
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While I was shooting photographs at the racetrack yesterday, one car stood out from the pack. It was a pink Bandolero with peace signs, hearts and "Love" stickered all over it. "Girls Rule" was painted across the rear spoiler. The driver had no fear. Bandolero cars reach speeds of 90MPH and as the tire marks on the side of the pink 03 car testify, they can get quite close together.
I spotted Erin in the pits. At the time, she was raising dust cutting donuts on her 4 wheeler. Her father and grandfather were dialing in the two Late Model cars they were racing that day. I asked them if I could speak to Erin. They were enthusiastic about it, even inviting me to take in some of the air conditioning inside the huge trailer/shop they traveled with from Houston Texas. Erin's grandfather called for her, and the dust settled as she shut down her four wheeler.
Erin had been knocked around quite a bit in her last race. She had been spun out twice, each time while attempting to pass the leader. Bandolero cars are kept very much the same. They use sealed engines and have little room in the regulations for tweaking the vehicles for more speed. They use an entire complement of racing safety gear from the helmet and firesuit to the HANS device. The idea is to keep the machines equal so young drivers develop skills.
I asked Erin about her last race. She told me the back turn was kind of choppy. I had noticed her shooting sparks from underneath her car as she hit the high spots of the slightly uneven pavement. Banoleros travel less than an inch off the pavement. Drivers are allowed to adjust their tire pressure to compensate for this, but there is an optimum tire pressure that varies from track to track, between different areas of the same track, and even with the ambient temperature.
I asked Erin about being the only girl on the track, if she thought it made her a target. She agreed that no boy wants to be passed by the girl in the pink peace car. Not surprisingly, Erin told me her hero is Danica Patrick. We talked some more, and while she never verbalized it, one could detect that Erin was bothered by being spun out twice and not winning her last race. During the day's qualifying runs, she had secured pole position and wasn't using it effectively. She ended our conversation by telling me to be sure and watch the featured race later in the evening, and then she was off to a compulsory driver's meeting.
Erin had lost her coveted pole position in the featured Bandolero race. As the cars entered the first turn after the green flag, Erin attempted to pass the leader from inside. He tried to knock her into the grass. As a result he was flung headfirst into the concrete barrier at 70-80 MPH. Erin was stopped with the remaining racers on the back turn as paramedics made certain the driver was uninjured. His car was hauled off the track by the wrecker, while the driver rode off in a golf cart waving to the cheers of the crowd. While the wreckage was being cleared Erin's father ran out on the track to check on Erin, his own firesuit tied around his waist. After making certain his daughter was OK, Erin's father pulled her rear bumper out and quickly resecured the bodywork on the back of her car as best he could. As he exited the track, he passed me and I asked him about Erin. "She's shaken, but she's OK," he smiled.
Once the track was cleared, the pace car got the drivers started again. I watched with trepidation as Erin's rear bodywork seemed to become more insecure with every lap. Finally, on her last lap Erin's rear bumper became unfastened, spraying sparks behind her as it contacted the concrete at speed. Erin finished the race, placing third with a message. Girls Rule.
Erin Kelley is the 168th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Secure the lines....
WILSON DUSAVIK (IMO 9390147, MMSI 314621000) is a General Cargo Ship built in 2009 (15 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Barbados. Her length overall (LOA) is 87.83 meters and her width is 12.91 meters.
The sunrise shot I keep making things out of. With the texture, it reminds me of an old ceramic tile. I've always wanted to paint on tiles, maybe someday I will.
Have a great Thursday!
"Porcelain Texture": © Mir Yahya Mousavi
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"There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn." Psalm 46:4-5
It's only the world's systems that are shaky. The Kingdom of God is solid and immovable. If we live there, we can be safe and secure.
