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ACN4169/ ACN4152 on 7762 empty Karara iron ore approaching Tardun on 3 September 2022. Photo: Phil Melling.
Thundering through the Middle Division is an eastbound led by Penn Central 2262. The train is rolling through the cut at Union Furnace, PA.
PC 2262. Union Furnace, PA.
September 12, 1970. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
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Tomaso Buzzi (born September 30, 1900, Sondrio, Italy–died February 16, 1981, Rapallo, Italy) was an Italian designer, architect, and interior decorator. Tomaso Buzzi graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1923. Before graduating, he became associated with the Studio di Sant’Orsola group, which included Gio Ponti, Michele Marelli, and Emilio Lancia.
In 1927, along with Paolo Venini, Gio Ponti, Emilio Lancia, and Pietro Chiesa, he created the association named “Il Labirinto,” a design house dedicated to promoting modern decorative arts with innovative design and high quality. He produced glass, ceramic, and porcelain objects, as well as mirrors and handcrafted wood furniture.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Tomaso Buzzi became a renowned designer and one of the favorite architects of the Milanese bourgeoisie. Although Buzzi and Gio Ponti had a long-lasting professional collaboration, they parted ways by the early 1930s, and Buzzi took on more industrial design projects. During this time, Buzzi designed cutlery and metal flatware for Sambonet in Milan and Christofle in France, glasswork for Fontana Arte in collaboration with Pietro Chiesa, and fabrics for Ravasi in collaboration with Mariano Fortuny.
Between 1932 and 1934, Tomaso Buzzi became the artistic director at Venini & Company, for which he designed a series of vases with classical forms and manufactured through traditional techniques. During this time, he and Gio Ponti organized several national and international artistic events, including the Triennale di Milano and the National Sports Exhibition. From the late 1930s until the end of the war, Buzzi isolated himself to avoid collaborating with the Fascist regime. He even declined to collaborate with Gio Ponti for the VI Triennale di Milano in 1940.
After World War II, he was appointed representative of the National Liberation Front, and he focused his work on creating luxury furniture for the upper classes. His furniture pieces mixed pre-modern styles with a soft sense of modernity until the late 1960s.
In 1956, Tomaso Buzzi bought La Scarzuola, a 13th-century Franciscan convent in Umbria, Italy, and transformed it into his residence. There, he created a fantastic architectural complex with structures of strong esoteric value, which he named with eloquent titles, such as the Boat of Souls, the Stone Whale, the Tower of Desperation, the Staircase of Life, the Temple of Eros, the Well of Meditation, the Theater of the Bees, and the Termite.
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi - Milan, September 29, 1571- Porto Ercole, July 18, 1610) - Concert (also known as The Musicians) (1597) - oil on canvas size 87.9×115.9 cm - on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Carrara Academy Bergamo
Il dipinto fu eseguito per il cardinale Francesco Maria Del Monte, che accolse il giovane Caravaggio in casa sua a Roma nella primavera del 1597. L’illustre prelato era un raffinato cultore di musica e la tela del Merisi nasce nell’ambito degli intrattenimenti musicali ospitati dal suo illustre mecenate nella residenza di Palazzo Madama. Nel dipinto sono raffigurati tre giovani vestiti all’antica che si accingono all’esecuzione di un brano musicale, recentemente identificato in un madrigale a sei voci del napoletano Pompeo Stabile, un musicista legato alla cerchia del cardinale Del Monte. I versi, opera di Jacopo Sannazzaro, celebrano il fatale destino di Icaro: «Ben può di sua ruina esser contento; / s’al ciel volando a guisa di colomba, / per troppo ardir fu / esanimato e spento: / ed or del nome suo tutto rimbomba / un mar sì spazïoso, un elemento: / chi ebbe al mondo mai sì larga tomba?».
Caravaggio adotta uno schema iconografico diffuso tra Venezia e Lombardia e che conosceva grazie al suo maestro, Simone Peterzano, autore di quadri di soggetto musicale. Come in questi modelli, il dio d’Amore, Cupido, riconoscibile dalle ali, si aggiunge ai musicisti, tra i quali si deve riconoscere lo stesso Caravaggio, ritrattosi nel giovane in secondo piano che suona il cornetto.
The painting was made for Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, who took the young Caravaggio into his home in Rome in the spring of 1597. The eminent prelate was a refined music lover and, when the artist painted the work, he was inspired by the musical entertainment that his illustrious patron put on in his residence in Palazzo Madama. The painting shows three youths, dressed in the old-fashioned style, who are preparing to perform a piece of music that has recently been identified as a six-voice madrigal by Pompeo Stabile, a Neapolitan composer who was close to the circle of Cardinal Del Monte. The verses, by Jacopo Sannazzaro, celebrate the ultimate destiny of Icarus: “Well may he be happy with such ruin; / If soaring like a dove / through o’erweening valour / he was quenched and died: / And now his name re-echoes far and wide / Across the sea, thro’ a vast element / Who else has ever had so wide a tomb?”
Caravaggio adopts an iconographic scheme commonly used in Venice and Lombardy, which he learnt from his master, Simone Peterzano, a painter of musical subjects. As in Peterzano’s works, the musicians are joined by Cupid, the god of Love, who is identified by his wings. One of the players is Caravaggio himself, who portrays himself in the background as the young man playing the cornett.
September 2011: I had the chance to visit (one more time) the Pyongyang Film Studio (that Kim Jong Il visited more than 600 times said my guides), and saw a local movie shooting with hundreds of actors. They use a big old 35 mm east german camera, and let me take pictures. Not sure i would have the same reactions on an Hollywood set!
I read a lot of articles saying that there was no more movies in this place, so i can say it is wrong.
Unless the film offer is quite poor, people of North Korea are very fond of cinema. And so is their charismatic cheerleader. General Kim Jong-Il pays a special respect to this medium, allegedly the “most powerful for educating the masses”. For that matter, the Guide wrote an essay called Theory of Cinematic Art where he says “it is cinema's duty to turn people into true communists” and sees it as “a means of eradicating capitalist elements”. It is actually an efficient means of diffusion of propaganda, especially towards the youth. That is why there exists a Studio in Pyongyang that is dedicated only to make films for Youngsters
Moreover he is said to have thousands of films in his personal library and to have had 7 cinemas built only for him in Pyongyang. Besides, the principal Studio (Korean Film Studio) is State-run. 93 km2-studios have been built in the periphery of the capital. Kim Jong-il realized a movie about founder of North Korea and father Kim Il-Sung and proclaimed himself a “Genius of cinema”! He even had famous South Korean director Shin Sang-Ok and his wife kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean secret service. Then he ordered the famous director from South Korea to make movies for him, providing him with all the money he needed to achieve it. He directed more than 20 movies, many of them being propaganda. The director was then jailed for having tried to escape. They managed to escape no sooner than 1986. One year later the Pyongyang Film Festival of Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries kicked off. Facing the lack of participating countries, it opened later on to “aligned countries” like France, Germany and Great Britain.
Besides Famous actors are depicted on murals around the city and even on official currency. The entrance hall to the Korean Feature Film Studio contains a mural of current "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-il supervising the production of this film. North Korean films tend to portray communist and/or revolutionary themes. Among them, martyrdom for the Nation and sacrifice are notions that are very recurrent, patriots and heroes fighting real enemies such as Japanese people or monsters. The myth of a powerful nation lacking the leadership of an outstanding man to guide the masses through the darkness and build a strong Nation is a must.
© Eric Lafforgue
De brug heeft de bouwplek verlaten op weg naar zijn plek over het kanaal.
The bridge has left the construction side on its way to the place over the canal.
The comet has passed the perihelion, 1.01 AU from Sun and the closest location to Earth, 0.39 on September 10, 2018. It is going far away from Sun and Earth on the orbit of period 6.6 years. It will come nearer to Earth on September 18, 2058.
The comet was drifting fast toward south southeast in Gemini near the border to Monoceros at the night. White coma was spotty sharp, and greenish coma was round and big. Yellowish dust tail was still long toward west northwest and curving toward north. Ion tail was not so clear as before. North is up, and east is to the left.
Earth distance 0.416 AU
Sun distance 1.029 AU
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, F3 reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS 5Dmk3-sp4, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z BL, autoguided at the center of the condensation of the coma with William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Blue Edition, Stalightxpress Lodestar X2, and PHD2 Guiding
Autoguiding was not as intended on the longest frames. The mount was following a star neaby due to my mistake.
exposure: 3 times x 840 seconds, 3 x 240 sec, 5 x 60 sec, and 3 x 15 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0
The first exposure started at 18:18:14 September 22, 2018UTC just after moonset.
site: 1,001m above sea level at lat. 37 21 05 North and long. 140 42 53 East in the parking near Mt. Otakine Takatsuka in Fukushima 福島県高塚高原大滝根山
My first trip abroad, in the Dolomites, in north Italy, in September 2016, It was moonlit and mostly cloudy. And those six cold nights it was difficult to photograph the beautiful landscapes with our galaxy and its constellations. However, one of those nights, I made a little effort in one of these landscapes, since the sky seemed to be a little clear before the moonrise. So in Misurina lake, even with light pollution and if I remember correctly, at moonrise, I attempted to take a astrophotography and somehow, I vindicated by the result you see in the photo. The galaxy appeared a little over the peaks (whose name I still could not find) :/ and for my good luck, its reflection on the lake, made the image a little more interesting!
I hope you like it!
September 25th 2010 was the 32nd consecutive month of peaceful global protests against the scientology cult's criminality and human rights abuses. This month was particularly LULZY as the cult was trying to make a big deal out of raising a 15+ foot tall scientology double cross on top of the still largely gutted and eternally unfinished "Mecca" (aka- Super Power) building, one of their big cash cows. To date it's been under construction off and on for 17 years and has accrued fines of $250/day from the city approaching $400,000 for the eternal construction eyesore. Clearwater Anons went with Operation: Double-Cross for obvious reasons.
Scientology consider's Clearwater their "mecca", but they can't stop peaceful protesters from exercising their protected rights under the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution nor can they stop the general public from showing their support. As usual a tremendous amount of locals in their vehicles bypassing downtown cult-town honked their support, gave thumbs up, waved and yelled encouragement.
But this wasn’t just a single day protest in Clearwater as most other months are. Starting off the weekend of LULZ was the telling radio interview of Larry Brennan by Tom Smith of The Edge, both ex-scientologists on Sept 24th. The interview dealt largely with Larry's new, free ebook "The Miscavige Legal Statements: A Study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection."
You can download the ebook from scibd here: www.scribd.com/doc/22925188/The-Collected-Works-of-L-H-Br...
Or MegaUpload here: www.megaupload.com/?d=PHV9UIM0
And you can download the MP3 of this interview here: www.megaupload.com/?d=SY1GUG6G
And listen to the most recent interview on The Edge here: www.theedgewithtomsmith.com/pgms/indexpg.html
After that an unannounced “flash raid” took place on the 24th from noon until well after dark.
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-Ou-y_Uv0&feature=player_em...
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBazzO-YpUs
Coming up next week are two big nationwide exposes on Scientology.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp’s “Scientology: The Ex Files” debuts on Monday Sept 27th
www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/xfiles/
Followed by the BBC’s latest scientology expose’ “The Secrets of Scientology” on Tues Sept 28th :
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v1ykr
All faces of those unmasked are blurred to protect them from the cult's "Fair Game" policy of harassing it's critics. These are brave people of all ages and walks of life, standing shoulder to shoulder with ex-Scientologists to bring the truth TO YOU.
But don't take my word for it, educate yourself about what TIME Magazine called "The Cult of Greed and Power":
A quick family portrait (without Fyero, who declined the journey to Mer Bleue) this afternoon.
Not the best of the three of us; but it's rare we take a family photo so it's getting posted anyway.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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La Seyne-sur-Mer (FR), 26 september 2013
L: Polygala myrtifolia
De Polygala Myrtifolia wordt ook wel de Vleugeltjesbloem genoemd komt van oorsprong uit Zuid-Afrika.
De paarse bloemen sluiten 's avonds en openen zich weer bij de eerste zonnestralen.
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My Flickr stream photos best to see on Portfolio | Fluidr
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Last September when I attended the Astronomy Photographer of the year awards ceremony I found out this image won me the 'Skyscapes' category. I still can't really believe I won and it was a great experience for me, I was quite happy just being shortlisted let alone being one of the winners.
Available in print at www.ainsleybennettphotography.co.uk
A Valentine's Series postcard which was posted in Manchester on the 13th. September 1906 to:
Miss Windsor,
7 Brazil Street,
Holderness Road,
Hull
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Claudia,
I hope Ida is better.
I am enjoying myself
very much.
Love from Marnie."
The Manchester Arena Bombing
On the 22nd. May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a large shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.
Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and 1,017 were injured, many of them children. Several hundred more suffered psychological trauma.
The bomber was Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old local man of Libyan ancestry. After initial suspicions of a terrorist network, police later said that they believed Abedi had largely acted alone, but that others had been aware of his plans.
In March 2020, the bomber's brother, Hashem Abedi, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder and attempting to murder 1,017 others, and was sentenced to life in prison.
The incident was the deadliest terrorist attack and the first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom since the 7th. July 2005 London bombings.
-- The Bombing
On the 22nd. May 2017 at 22:15 a member of the public reported Abedi, wearing black clothes and a large rucksack to Showsec security. A security guard observed Abedi, but said that he did not intervene in case his concerns about Abedi were wrong, and out of fear of being considered a racist.
The security guard tried to use his radio to alert the security control room, but was unable to get through.
Police officers on duty that night were subsequently criticised for their behaviour in the hours leading up to the atrocity - including a two-hour dinner break and a 10-mile round trip to buy a kebab.
At one point, when Abedi took his final trip through the station to his hiding place in the foyer, there were no BTP officers on duty in the area.
At 22:31 the suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device, packed with nuts and bolts to act as shrapnel, in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena.
The attack took place after a concert by American pop star Ariana Grande that was part of her Dangerous Woman Tour. 14,200 people had attended the concert.
Many exiting concert-goers and waiting parents were in the foyer at the time of the explosion. According to evidence presented at the coroner's inquest, the bomb was strong enough to kill people up to 20 metres (66 ft) away.
A report by inquiry chair John Saunders blamed “failings by individuals” for “missed opportunities” to detect and stop bomber Salman Abedi.
Saunders outlined a “litany” of failures by venue operators SMG, security firm Showsec and British Transport Police (BTP) - failures that include taking unauthorised two-hour meal breaks and ignoring members of the public who tried to raise the alarm:
-- Reconnaissance Oversights
Abedi went to the arena several times to carry out hostile reconnaissance in the run-up to the bombing, visiting on the 18th. and 21st. May, and also the afternoon on the day of the attack.
Although arena operator SMG and security firm Showsec “had experience of identifying and responding to potential hostile reconnaissance effectively”, the system for passing on information about suspicious behaviour was “insufficiently robust”.
If the Showsec staff on duty at the time, Kyle Lawler and Mohammed Agha - then aged 18 and 19 respectively - had been aware of previous reports of suspicious activity, “it would have increased the possibility” of Abedi being spotted.
Inquiry chair Saunders also notes that SMG could have extended the permitted security perimeter from the entrance doors of the arena to the City Room, the foyer where the bomb detonated. “Had permission to push out the perimeter been granted, an attack in the City Room would have been much less likely,” the report says.
-- Absence of Officers
Despite five officers being assigned to the arena on the night of the attack, “there was a complete absence of any BTP officer in the City Room” in the half hour before Abedi detonated the bomb. And no officers were policing the public areas of the venue between 8.58pm and 9.36pm.
The report found that BTP officers “took breaks substantially and unjustifiably” longer than their authorised one hour. Instructions to stagger breaks between 7.30pm and 9pm - when younger children could be leaving the venue - were also ignored.
The public inquiry into the attack had previously heard how two officers on duty at the concert, PC Jessica Bullough and PCSO Mark Renshaw, had taken a “two-hour-and-nine-minute dinner break to get a kebab five miles from the arena”. The Telegraph reported:
"Bullough has since admitted that were
she present on her shift as she should
have been, she would have likely stopped
Abedi and asked him what was in his bag”.
-- The CCTV Blindspot
Saunders' report says Abedi chose an “obvious hiding place” in a CCTV blindspot of the arena City Room foyer, having no doubt identified this area during his hostile reconnaissance:
“Had the area been covered by CCTV so that
there was no blind spot, it is likely this
behaviour by Abedi would have been identified
as suspicious by anyone monitoring the CCTV."
Giving evidence to the inquiry, Showsec security guard Agha said that he had noticed Abedi in the City Room, but only because he “liked the look” of Abedi's trainers.
-- Inadequate Patrols
The inquiry report says that:
"A further missed opportunity to spot Abedi
in the half hour before the bomb detonated
arose from the absence of an adequate
security patrol by Showsec at any stage
during this time”.
The supervisor charged with carrying out “pre-egress” checks, Jordan Beak, did so “only very briefly”, patrolling for about ten minutes, during which he just “looked towards the staircases up to the mezzanine area”, where Abedi was sitting:
The report notes:
“He did not consider them a very important
part of the check because it was not an
egress route. Mr Beak did not go up on to the
mezzanine area and so he did not see Abedi.
This was a significant missed opportunity.”
-- Concerns ‘Fobbed Off’
Saunders wrote that:
"The most striking missed opportunity, and the
one that is likely to have made a significant
difference, was an attempt by a member of the
public to raise concerns about Abedi after
becoming suspicious about the bomber's large
and obviously heavy backpack".
Christopher Wild told the inquiry how he had spotted Abedi while waiting for his 14-year-old daughter to leave the concert.
According to the BBC, Wild recalled how he approached Abedi and said:
“It doesn't look very good you know, what you
see with bombs and such, you with a rucksack
in a place like this, what are you doing?”
Abedi reportedly told Wild that he was “waiting for somebody, mate”, before asking what time it was.
Wild alerted security guard Agha about his suspicions around fifteen minutes before the blast. But according to the inquiry report:
"Agha did not take Christopher Wild’s
concerns as seriously as he should have”.
Wild felt that he had been “fobbed off” by the guard, who claimed to already be aware of Abedi. Agha is said to have made “inadequate” efforts to flag down his supervisor or pass on the message via his colleague Lawler, who had a radio.
Although Agha did share Wild’s concerns with Lawler, the latter “felt conflicted about what to do” and “stated he was fearful of being branded a racist and would be in trouble if he got it wrong”.
Lawler ultimately made an attempt to contact a senior supervisor through the radio, but couldn’t get through, and made no further efforts to communicate what he had been told to anyone else. Saunders wrote:
“The inadequacy of Mr Lawler’s response
was a product of his failure to take Mr Wild’s
concern and his own observations sufficiently
seriously. Mr Wild’s behaviour was very
responsible. He stated that he formed the
view that Abedi might let a bomb off.
That was sadly all too prescient, and makes
all the more distressing the fact that no effective
steps were taken as a result of his efforts.”
-- Aftermath of the Explosion
Three hours after the bombing, police conducted a controlled explosion on a suspicious item of clothing in Cathedral Gardens. This was later confirmed to have been abandoned clothing and not dangerous.
Residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation via Twitter to those left stranded at the concert. Parents were separated from their children attending the concert in the aftermath of the explosion.
A nearby hotel served as a shelter for people displaced by the bombing, with officials directing separated parents and children there. Manchester's Sikh temples along with local homeowners, hotels and venues offered shelter to survivors of the attack.
Manchester Victoria railway station, which is partly underneath the arena, was evacuated and closed, and services were cancelled. The explosion caused structural damage to the station, which remained closed until the damage had been assessed and repaired, resulting in disruption to train and tram services.
Victoria Station reopened eight days later, following the completion of police investigation work and repairs to the fabric of the building.
On the 23rd. May, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK's terror threat level had been raised to "critical", its highest level.
In the aftermath of the attack, Operation Temperer was activated for the first time, allowing up to 5,000 soldiers to reinforce armed police in protecting parts of the country.
Tours of the Houses of Parliament and the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace were cancelled on 24 May, and troops were deployed to guard government buildings in London.
On the 23rd. May, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, via the Nashir Telegram channel, said the attack was carried out by "a soldier of the Khilafah". The message called the attack:
"An endeavor to terrorise the mushrikin,
and in response to their transgressions
against the lands of the Muslims."
Abedi's sister said that he was motivated by revenge for Muslim children killed by American airstrikes in Syria.
The Manchester Arena remained closed until September 2017, with scheduled concerts either cancelled or moved to other venues. It reopened on the 9th. September 2017, with a benefit concert featuring Noel Gallagher and other acts associated with North West England.
Later that month, Chris Parker, a homeless man who stole from victims of the attack whilst assisting them, was jailed for 4 years and three months.
-- Casualties of the Attack
The explosion killed the attacker and 22 concert-goers and parents who were in the entrance waiting to pick up their children following the show. 119 people were initially reported as injured. This number was revised by police to 250 on the 22nd. June, with the addition of severe psychological trauma and minor injuries.
During the public inquiry into the bombing, it was updated in December 2020 to 1,017 people sustaining injuries.
The dead included ten people aged under 20; the youngest victim was an eight-year-old girl, and the oldest was a 51-year-old woman. Of the 22 victims, twenty were Britons and two were British-based Polish nationals.
North West Ambulance Service reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, carried 59 people to local hospitals, and treated walking wounded on site. Of those hospitalised, 12 were children under the age of 16.
The first doctor thought to have been on scene was an off-duty consultant anaesthetist, Michael Daley. In recognition of his bravery for the role he played in the immediate medical response to the incident, Daley's name was entered into the BMA's Book of Valour in June 2017.
-- The Attacker
The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British Muslim of Libyan ancestry. He was born in Manchester to a Salafi family of Libyan-born refugees who had settled in Manchester after fleeing to the UK to escape the government of Muammar Gaddafi.
He had two brothers and a sister. He grew up in Whalley Range and lived in Fallowfield. Neighbours described the Abedis as a very traditional and "super religious" family who attended Didsbury Mosque.
Abedi attended Wellacre Technology College, Burnage Academy for Boys and The Manchester College. A former tutor remarked that:
"Abedi was a very slow, uneducated
and passive person".
He was among a group of students at his high school who accused a teacher of Islamophobia for asking them what they thought of suicide bombers. He also reportedly said to his friends that being a suicide bomber "was OK" and fellow college students raised concerns about his behaviour.
Abedi's father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a Salafi jihadist organisation proscribed by the United Nations, and father and son fought for the group in Libya in 2011 as part of the movement to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
Abedi's parents, both born in Tripoli, remained in Libya in 2011, while 17-year-old Abedi returned to live in the United Kingdom. He took a gap year in 2014, where he returned with his brother Hashem to Libya to live with his parents. Abedi was injured in Ajdabiya that year while fighting for an Islamist group.
The brothers were rescued from Tripoli by the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise in August 2014 as part of a group of 110 British citizens as the Libyan civil war erupted, taken to Malta and flown back to the UK.
According to a retired European intelligence officer, Abedi met with members of the ISIS Battar brigade in Libya, and continued to be in contact with the group upon his return to the UK.
An imam at Didsbury mosque recalled that Abedi looked at him "with hate" after he preached against ISIS and Ansar al-Sharia in 2015.
Abedi's sister said her brother was motivated by the injustice of Muslim children dying in bombings stemming from the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War.
A family friend of the Abedi's also remarked that Salman had vowed revenge at the funeral of Abdul Wahab Hafidah, who was run over and stabbed to death by a Manchester gang in 2016 and was a friend of Salman and his younger brother Hashem. Hashem later co-ordinated the Manchester bombing with his brother.
According to an acquaintance in the UK, Abedi was "outgoing" and consumed alcohol, while another said that Abedi was a "regular kid who went out and drank" until about 2016. Abedi was also known to have used cannabis.
He enrolled at the University of Salford in September 2014, where he studied business administration, before dropping out to work in a bakery. Manchester police believe Abedi used student loans to finance the plot, including travel overseas to learn bomb-making.
The Guardian reported that despite dropping out from further education, he was still receiving student loan funding in April 2017. Abedi returned to Manchester on the 18th. May after a trip to Libya and bought bomb-making material, apparently constructing the acetone peroxide-based bomb by himself. Many members of the IS Battar brigade trained people in bomb-making in Libya.
He was known to British security services and police but was not regarded as a high risk, having been linked to petty crime but never flagged up for radical views.
A community worker told the BBC he had called a hotline five years before the bombing to warn police about Abedi's views and members of Britain's Libyan diaspora said they had "warned authorities for years" about Manchester's Islamist radicalisation.
Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities for his extremism by five community leaders and family members, and had been banned from a mosque; the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, however, said Abedi was not known to the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme.
On the 29th. May 2017, MI5 launched an internal inquiry into its handling of the warnings it had received about Abedi and a second, "more in depth" inquiry, into how it missed the danger.
On the 22nd. November 2018, a Parliamentary report said that MI5 had acted "too slowly" in its dealings with Abedi. The committee's report noted:
"What we can say is that there were a number
of failings in the handling of Salman Abedi's case.
While it is impossible to say whether these would
have prevented the devastating attack on the
22nd. May, we have concluded that as a result of
the failings, potential opportunities to prevent it
were missed."
-- Investigation Into the Bombing
The property in Fallowfield where Abedi lived was raided on the 23rd. May. Armed police breached the house with a controlled explosion and searched it. Abedi's 23-year-old brother was arrested in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in south Manchester in relation to the attack.
Police carried out raids in two other areas of south Manchester and another address in the Whalley Range area. Three other men were arrested, and police initially spoke of a network supporting the bomber; however they later announced that Abedi had sourced all the bomb components himself, and that they now believed he had largely acted alone. On the 6th. July, police said that they believed others had been aware of Abedi's plans.
According to German police sources, Abedi transited through Düsseldorf Airport on his way home to Manchester from Istanbul four days before the bombing. French interior minister Gérard Collomb said that Abedi may have been to Syria, and had "proven" links with IS.
Abedi's younger brother and father were arrested by Libyan security forces on the 23rd. and 24th. May respectively. The brother was suspected of planning an attack in Libya, and was said to be in regular touch with Salman, and was aware of the plan to bomb the Manchester Arena, but not the date.
According to a Libyan official, the brothers spoke on the phone about 15 minutes before the attack was carried out. On the 1st. November 2017, the UK requested Libya to extradite the bomber's younger brother, Hashem Abedi to the UK in order to face trial for complicity in the murder of the 22 people killed in the explosion.
Photographs of the remains of the IED published by The New York Times indicated that it had comprised an explosive charge inside a lightweight metal container which was carried within a black vest or a blue Karrimor backpack.
Most of the fatalities occurred in a ring around the bomber. His torso was propelled by the blast through the doors to the arena, indicating that the explosive charge was held in the backpack and blew him forward on detonation. A small device thought to have possibly been a hand-held detonator was also found.
The bomb contained the explosive TATP, which had been used in previous bombings. According to Manchester police, the explosive device used by Abedi was the design of a skilled bomb-maker and had a back-up means of detonation. Police also said that Salman Abedi bought most of the bomb components himself, and that he was alone during much of the time before carrying out the Manchester bombing.
On the 28th. May, police released images showing Abedi on the night of the bombing, taken from CCTV footage. Further images showed Abedi walking around Manchester with a blue suitcase.
According to US intelligence sources, Abedi was identified by the bank card that he had with him and the identification was confirmed using facial recognition technology.
A public inquiry into the attack was launched in September 2020. The first of three reports to be produced was a 200-page report published on the 17th. June 2021. It found that:
"There were a number of missed opportunities
to alter the course of what happened that night,
and more should have been done by police and
private security guards to prevent the bombing."
-- News Leaks
Within hours of the attack, Abedi's name and other information that had been given confidentially to security services in the United States and France was leaked to the news media. This led to condemnation from Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
Following the publication of crime scene photographs of the backpack bomb used in the attack in the 24th. May edition of The New York Times, UK counterterrorism police chiefs said the release of the material was detrimental to the investigation.
On the 25th. May, Greater Manchester Police said that it had stopped sharing information on the attack with the US intelligence services. Theresa May said she would make clear to President Trump that:
"Intelligence that has been
shared must be made secure."
Donald Trump described the leaks to the news media as "deeply troubling", and pledged to carry out a full investigation.
New York Times editor Dean Baquet declined to apologise for publishing the backpack bomb photographs, saying:
"We live in different press worlds.
The material was not classified at
the highest level."
On the 26th. May, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States government accepted responsibility for the leaks.
-- Links with the Muslim Brotherhood
According to a secret recording unveiled by the BBC, Mostafa Graf, the imam of the Didsbury Mosque where Salman Abedi and his family were regulars, made a call for armed jihad ten days before Abedi bought his concert ticket.
Following these revelations, the Manchester Police opened an investigation into the mosque and its imam, who also fought with a Libyan Islamist militia. Mostafa Graf is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, an organisation founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Al-Qaradawi is known for having claimed:
"Suicide bombings are a duty".
Haras Rafiq, head of the Quilliam think tank, told The Guardian that the Muslim Brotherhood runs the Didsbury Mosque.
The Didsbury Mosque is controlled by The Islamic Centre (Manchester), an English association headed by Dr. Haytham al-Khaffaf, who is also a director of the Human Relief Foundation, a Muslim Brotherhood organisation blacklisted for terrorism by Israel. Between 2015 and 2016, al-Khaffaf's Human Relief Foundation received over £1.5 million from the Qatar Charity, which is also subject to US counterterrorism surveillance.
-- Trial and Sentencing of Hashem Abedi
On the 17th. July 2019, Salman Abedi's brother Hashem was charged with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. He had been arrested in Libya and extradited to the UK.
His trial began on the 5th. February 2020. On the 17th. March, Hashem Abedi was found guilty on 22 charges of murder, on the grounds that he had helped his brother to source the materials used in the bombing, and had assisted with the manufacture of the explosives which were used in the attack.
On the 20th. August, Hashem Abedi was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 55 years. The judge, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, said that sentencing rules prevented him from imposing a whole life order as Abedi had been 20 years old at the time of the offence. The minimum age for a whole life order is 21 years old. Abedi's 55-year minimum term is the longest minimum term ever imposed by a British court.
-- Ismail Abedi
In October 2021 it was reported that Salman Abedi's older brother Ismail had left the UK despite being summonsed by Sir John Saunders to testify before the public inquiry into the bombing. Saunders had refused Ismail Abedi's request for immunity from prosecution while testifying.
-- Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande posted on Twitter:
"Broken. from the bottom of my
heart, i am so so sorry. i don't
have words."
The tweet briefly became the most-liked tweet in history. Grande suspended her tour and flew back to her mother's home in Florida.
On the 9th. July 2017, a performance to benefit the Manchester bombing victims was held in New York City's The Cutting Room, called "Break Free: United for Manchester", with Broadway theatre and television performers interpreting Ariana Grande songs.
On the 4th. June, Ariana Grande hosted a benefit concert in Manchester, entitled "One Love Manchester" at Old Trafford Cricket Ground that was broadcast live on television, radio and social media.
At the concert, Grande performed along with several other high-profile artists. Free tickets were offered to those who had attended the show on the 22nd. May. The benefit concert and associated Red Cross fund raised £10 million for victims of the attack, and £17 million by August. New York's Vulture section ranked the event as the No. 1 concert of 2017.
-- The Kerslake Report
On the 27th. March 2018, a report by Bob Kerslake named the "Kerslake Report" was published. The report was an independent review into the preparedness for, and emergency response to, the Manchester Arena attack on the 22nd. May 2017.
In the report, Kerslake "largely praised" the Greater Manchester Police and British Transport Police, and noted that it was "fortuitous" that the North West Ambulance Service was unaware of the declaration of Operation Plato, a protocol under which all responders should have withdrawn from the arena in case of an active killer on the premises.
However, it found that the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service was "brought to a point of paralysis" as their response was delayed for two hours due to poor communication between the firefighters' liaison officer and the police force.
The report was critical of Vodafone for the "catastrophic failure" of an emergency helpline hosted on a platform provided by Content Guru, saying that delays in getting information caused "significant stress and upset" to families.
It also expressed criticism of some news media, saying:
"To have experienced such intrusive and
overbearing behaviour at a time of such
enormous vulnerability seemed to us to
be completely and utterly unacceptable".
However, it was also noted that:
"We recognise that this was some, but by
no means all of the media, and that the
media also have a positive and important
role to play."
-- Memorial to the Bombing
The victims of the bombing are commemorated by The Glade of Light, a garden memorial located in Manchester city centre near Manchester Cathedral. The memorial opened to the public in January 2022.
The memorial was vandalised on the 9th. February 2022, causing £10,000 of damage. A 24-year-old man admitted to the offence in April and will be sentenced at a later date.
-- The 2018 Manchester Terror Attack
The Manchester Arena is next to Victoria Station, and in fact partly above it. Victoria Station witnessed a subsequent terror attack on the 31st. December 2018 at 20.52.
Mahdi Mohamud, a 25 year old man from Somalia stabbed three people in a knife attack at the station. He appears to have acted alone.
Mohamud shouted "Allah!" and "Long live the Caliphate!" during the attack, and "Allahu Akbar" after being arrested. A witness alleged that during the attack he also shouted a slogan criticising Western governments. BBC producer Sam Clack reported that he heard Mohamud saying:
"As long as you keep bombing other
countries this sort of s--- is going to
keep happening,"
Mohamud had lived in England for about 10 years, and resided in Manchester's Cheetham neighbourhood with his parents and siblings.
Two of the three victims, a couple in their 50's who had come into town to celebrate the New Year, were hospitalised with serious injuries. The third victim was a British Transport Police officer who received a stab wound to his shoulder.
Despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Mohamud was convicted of a terror offence and the attempted murder of three people, due to his possession of significant amounts of extremist material and the attack's extensive planning. He pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder and a terror offence.
The perpetrator, who was initially detained under the Mental Health Act, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a high-security psychiatric hospital.
Aerial view of the North Sands shipyard, Sunderland, November 1975 (TWAM ref. CN8832A).
'Belic' an SD 14 launched from Bartram's, 4th September 1975 is at Palmershill Quay. 'Mersey Bridge', launched from the Deptford yard on 25th October 1975, is at the Manor Quay. 'Nikitas Roussos' is under construction at the North Sands shipyard. Many thanks to Anthony Renton for identifying the vessels.
This set celebrates the achievements of the famous Sunderland shipbuilding firm Joseph L. Thompson & Sons. The company’s origins date back to 1846 when the firm was known as Robert Thompson & Sons. Robert Thompson senior died in 1860, leaving his second son Joseph Lowes Thompson in control. In 1870 the shipyard completed its last wooden vessel and was then adapted for iron shipbuilding.
By 1880 the firm had expanded its operations over much of North Sands and in 1884 completed the construction of Manor Quay, which served as fitting out and repair facilities. For many years in the late nineteenth century the yard was the most productive in Sunderland and in 1894 had the fourth largest output of any shipyard in the world.
The Depression affected the firm severely in the early 1930s and no vessels were launched from 1931 to 1934. However, during those years the company developed a hull design giving greater efficiency and economy in service. During the Second World War the prototype developed by Joseph L. Thompson & Sons proved so popular that it was used by the US Government as the basis of over 2,700 Liberty ships built at American shipyards between 1942 and 1945.
After the War the North Sands shipyard went on to build many fine cargo ships, oil tankers and bulk carriers. Sadly the shipyard closed in 1979, although it briefly reopened in 1986 to construct the crane barge ITM Challenger.
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New York, NY, September 18, 2001 -- The Woolworth Building rises behind the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center.
Photo by Michael Rieger/ FEMA News Photo
Dopravní podnik měst Mostu a Litvínova EVO2 320 bij de halte Citadela in Litvínov. Nog even en dan is het vertrek als lijn 4 naar Most (Dopravní podnik); 6 september 2020.
September 21, 1947 Stephen Edwin King is born in Maine General Hospital in Portland, son of Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Phillsbury. He's got a brother, David, who had been adopted by the Kings two years before. At the time of his birth, the Kings lived in Scarborough, in Cumberland county, in south-eastern Maine.
1949 Donald King abandons his family. It is now up to Nellie Ruth, who is forced to move more than once: at first to Fort Wayne (Indiana), then to Stratford (Connecticut), then finally back to Maine (in Durham, in his Mother's fathers house) in 1958.
1954 He writes his first short story.
1959 In his aunt's attic, Stephen finds the books that had belonged to his father, who was fond of Poe, Lovecraft and Matheson.
1962 He begins to attend Lisbon High School in Lisbon Falls near Durham.
1965 "Comic Review" magazine publishes I was a teenage grave robber. It is the first time Stephen King gets paid for something he has written.
1966 He graduates and begins attending the Maine University in Orono. But above all this is the year of the first drafting of Getting it on, that will be later called Rage.
1970 This year is marked by King's degree in English Literature, his meeting with Tabitha Jane Spruce and also by the beginning of the Dark Tower project. He starts to work at first in a filling station, then in a laundry.
On January 2, 1971 he marries Tabitha.
After experiencing several humble jobs, he starts teaching English at Hampden Academy.
1972 Naomi Rachel, their first daughter, is born.
The Kings move to Hermon, near Bangor.
Stephen starts working on The Running Man.
1973 The Kings' second son, Joseph Hill, is born.
They move to southern Maine because Nellie, Stephen's mother, is ill. She dies of a cancer at 59 in the same period.
Stephen starts the drafting of Salem's Lot and Roadwork.
And finally, the first request for a novel, Carrie , for which Stephen gets a payment of 2,500 US Dollars from Doubleday. A successive payment of 200,000 $ for the paperback copyright allows Stephen to quit teaching to dedicate himself completely to writing.
The situation grows ever worst, King sees his works refused and starts drinking. Lost his heart, Stephen decides to destroy the manuscript of Carrie. Tabitha will luckily save it and send it to Doubleday publishing house.
Carrie is published in the Spring of 1974, achieving a great success and taking King from the abyss of self destruction towards an unbelievable series of successful events.
In 1977 King decides to make up a second identity, the writer Richard Bachman. As Bachman he succeeds in publishing five of his youth novels. Bachman seemed to be promising a great career when, in 1985, a careful fan discovers King's double literary identity.
But now King is running at full speed. He publishes about two books every year writing at least for four hours every day, 362 days a-year, resting only on the 4th of July, Christmas Day and his birthday.
By now he lives in a Victorian style house in Bangor (Maine) with his wife Tabitha and their three sons and daughters: Naomi Rachel, Joseph Hillstrom and Owen Phillip.
Tomaso Buzzi (born September 30, 1900, Sondrio, Italy–died February 16, 1981, Rapallo, Italy) was an Italian designer, architect, and interior decorator. Tomaso Buzzi graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1923. Before graduating, he became associated with the Studio di Sant’Orsola group, which included Gio Ponti, Michele Marelli, and Emilio Lancia.
In 1927, along with Paolo Venini, Gio Ponti, Emilio Lancia, and Pietro Chiesa, he created the association named “Il Labirinto,” a design house dedicated to promoting modern decorative arts with innovative design and high quality. He produced glass, ceramic, and porcelain objects, as well as mirrors and handcrafted wood furniture.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Tomaso Buzzi became a renowned designer and one of the favorite architects of the Milanese bourgeoisie. Although Buzzi and Gio Ponti had a long-lasting professional collaboration, they parted ways by the early 1930s, and Buzzi took on more industrial design projects. During this time, Buzzi designed cutlery and metal flatware for Sambonet in Milan and Christofle in France, glasswork for Fontana Arte in collaboration with Pietro Chiesa, and fabrics for Ravasi in collaboration with Mariano Fortuny.
Between 1932 and 1934, Tomaso Buzzi became the artistic director at Venini & Company, for which he designed a series of vases with classical forms and manufactured through traditional techniques. During this time, he and Gio Ponti organized several national and international artistic events, including the Triennale di Milano and the National Sports Exhibition. From the late 1930s until the end of the war, Buzzi isolated himself to avoid collaborating with the Fascist regime. He even declined to collaborate with Gio Ponti for the VI Triennale di Milano in 1940.
After World War II, he was appointed representative of the National Liberation Front, and he focused his work on creating luxury furniture for the upper classes. His furniture pieces mixed pre-modern styles with a soft sense of modernity until the late 1960s.
In 1956, Tomaso Buzzi bought La Scarzuola, a 13th-century Franciscan convent in Umbria, Italy, and transformed it into his residence. There, he created a fantastic architectural complex with structures of strong esoteric value, which he named with eloquent titles, such as the Boat of Souls, the Stone Whale, the Tower of Desperation, the Staircase of Life, the Temple of Eros, the Well of Meditation, the Theater of the Bees, and the Termite.
In het kader van het 'DB-Dampf Nostalgieprogramm 1990' werd op 15 september 1990 onder de naam 'Der Eiserne Rhein' een extra rit georganiseerd van Düsseldorf naar Antwerpen en terug; heen via Roermond, het eigenlijke tracée van de IJzeren Rijn, terug via de Montzenroute. Loc 8232 van de NMBS rangeert in Antwerpen Centraal met het materieel voor deze trein ten behoeve van de terugrit.
Im Ramen des 'DB-Dampf Nostalgieprogramm 1990' wurde am 15. September 1990 unter den Namen 'Der Eiserne Rhein' eine Sonderfahrt absolviert von Düsseldorf nach Antwerpen und zurück. Die Hinfahrt ging über Roermond, die eigentliche Strecke des Eisernen Rheins. Die Rückfahrt erging über die Montzenstrecke. Lok 8232 der NMBS rangiert im Bahnhof Antwerpen Centraal mit dem Wagenzug dieses Zuges für die Rückfahrt.
A large bristly fly that can be brown or black with orange that can often be found in woodland margins and meadows and can be seen on the wing from May to September. These flies will lay their eggs on or near their host which is normally a moth and when the eggs hatch the larvae will then penetrate into the host in which to feed. Common over much of Britain and Ireland.
The September/October exhibition @ Nitroglobus Hall.
Opening party; Sunday 11 September 2016
Time: 12 pm SLT
Music by DJ Khaz
art work by Natalia Seranade
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/25...
Today, September 18th, this @suppaduppa666 project becomes 5 years old. I bought two hasbro Marvel Universe iron men to make them pose for my drawings. I started shooting photos on them to have a little archive of extreme poses. Then I realized I had a lot of pics, and as I had seen before around in internet, I could put a caption and try to be funny or something. Now it's been 5 years since then and still a lot of figs to collect and a lot of pics to shoot! A little book, a few interviews, two exhibitions and a lot of friends helping me with this, and of course my wife... How can she be sooooo patient with all this crazy stuff?!?!? I'd like to organize a little draw this days the prize will be one of the pictures that were in the last exhibition this summer. But I still don't know how to do it, in the following days there'll be more info. Thank you guys for following Suppaduppa Adventures!
Fox squirrels (and a chipmunk or two) enjoying a warm late summer day - Wednesday September 11th, 2019. Many squirrel pancakes out there today. Taken in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Decided to bring the Canon 6D Mark II with the Sigma 100-400 lens. I am going to play with this combo this week on campus.
The September 27, 2020 cruise at Baker's Restaurant in Milford, Michigan, billed as America's largest weekly cruise-in. Milford is the home of the General Motors Proving Grounds.
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Tot 17 september telt de Leidsestraat 4 "halve" tramlijnen: lijn 2 en 12 stadinwaarts en 13 en 17 richting staduit.
De 2068 van lijn 13 ontmoet de 2138 van lijn 26...eeh, lijn 12. De rechterwagen hoort vanwege zijn beplakking over de Piet Heintunnel eigenlijk in IJburg thuis, maar was blijkbaar voor onderhoud of een defect naar de remise Lekstraat geweest en nu dus hier terecht gekomen. Let ook op het informatiescherm: daarop wordt vermeld dat deze halte vervallen is voor lijn 2 en 12- wat dus nou nét in die richting NIET het geval is- maar hier wreekt zich het feit dat men meestal alleen in de drukste richting zo'n scherm heeft geplaatst. De linker halte moet het doen met een veel kleiner schermpje, waarop alleen standaard dienstregeling te zien is.
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