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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
by Winston Churchill
by Nikon F3@Ma On Shan,Hong Kong
Agfa CT100
Stormie reports back on our washing machine.
Family note:
We believe we have at last found our elusive water leak in our kitchen. The connection between the washing machine hose and the water main had an intermittent leak. Turning off the mains tap for the machine each time after use meant the connection was always dry by the time the leak was obvious and the leak was investigated.
Hopefully, success after two weeks of checking!
Black and white photo except for selective colour on Stormie's helmet.
L'inquadratura e il momento dello scatto non sono casuali,era mia precisa intenzione avere lo sguardo del Cristo in croce rivolto verso l'obiettivo.
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The BMW 507 is one of the most beautiful and coveted BMW models.
The car is rare, a mere 252 built - increasing its desirability today, but the cause of financial losses during its 1956 - 1959 production run, that brought BMW to the brink of bankruptcy.
The plan was sound - build a 2-door roadster using the mechanicals of a standard BMW 503 saloon. Export the model to the US (and follow the success of the similar Mercedes-Benz 300 SL), reap the rewards, and capitalise on the goodwill, to build a market State-side.
Unfortunately, the projected price increased significantly during development, causing the US price to rise to a level which constrained sales. Originally, BMW planned to sell 5,000 units per year. The timing was partly to blame - US makers were in a phase of significant power increases, with the fitment of ever larger V8 engines. The 507 had a V8, but only a mere 3.2 litres and 150 bhp. The Mercedes had arrived to the market a couple of years earlier, an was much more powerful in the (later) 300 SL Roadster model.
The losses were so significant that BMW was brought to the brink of bankruptcy, and would take a decade to recover from.
Today, the 507 is highly regarded for its stylistic beauty - the styling was reworked in 1999 for the BMW Z8 luxury sports roadster model, again, a model focused on the US market, were, again the price limited sales.
Negli ultimi tempi ho avuto modo di leggere molte storie di anziani che vivono in uno stato di disinteresse generale, emarginati dal tessuto sociale e abbandonati al proprio destino.
In merito, credo sia dovuta una riflessione, su chi sono gli anziani. A che età si diventa, cosa può pretendere un anziano dalla società e cosa un uomo può ancora dare alla collettività, a chi e in che modo? I temi sono molti e per fortuna i sessantenni, quelli che fino a pochi anni fa erano considerati anziani, oggi non lo sono più, proprio perché grazie al benessere generale, vivono nel pieno delle loro forze, spesso ben inseriti nella realtà quotidiana, del lavoro e della famiglia, tanto che la loro esperienza è di fondamentale sostegno allo sviluppo del paese.
Dunque il problema si è spostato negli anni, in quanto la vita media si è allungata ed i cittadini che hanno superato i 70, se non gli 80 sono sempre più numerosi e si trovano ad affrontare da soli le molteplici carenze assistenziali, economiche, previdenziali, ed affettive, che la nostra arida società non ha saputo affrontare. Carenze quindi generate dall’evoluzione della società sempre più attenta a chi produce ricchezza e sempre meno disponibile a sostenere il prossimo che non può produrre e che ha poco, in tutti i termini, per consumare.
Fino a pochi decenni fa gli anziani vivevano nell’ambiente famigliare per tutto l’arco della vita mentre oggi molti, i più fortunati, vengono accolti in case di riposo: un eufemistico “modo di dire” per intendere più in sintesi solitudini poste l’una accanto altra mentre per i più disagiati, e sono la maggioranza, non vi è né il calore della famiglia né il sollievo di essere custoditi in una collettività.
Questo radicale mutamento è il frutto dei tempi, di una società, che vinta dal ritmo del successo e dal superamento dei valori passati, trascura quelli più tradizionali. Gli uomini, pertanto, hanno dimenticato il concetto di sacrificio, inteso nel suo più nobile significato, facendosi loro stessi portavoce di un’etica e di una cultura edonistica, che mira in particolar modo a premiare il consumismo e l’incommensurabile ricerca del piacere materiale.
Cari amici, alcuni impegni professionali, di natura solidale, non mi consentono di commentare con continuità, le vostre immagini. Ringrazio coloro che, passando, lasceranno traccia.
Cordialmente simansi :-))
Ricordo al team e ai discenti che la strada del commento via e-mail, è sempre aperta, così da poter consentire anche esplicazioni riservate.
Nelle mie immagini, in molte circostanze, sono presenti persone riconoscibili. Se non ti è gradito, contattami e la rimuoverò.
Si prega di non utilizzare le mie immagini su siti web, blog o altri mezzi senza il mio permesso!
Please don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my permission!
Por favor, no use mis imágenes en los sitios web, blogs u otros medios de comunicación sin mi permiso!
SI CONSIGLIA LA VISIONE GRANDE E SU SFONDO NERO
This photo was taken on July 9, 2010 using a panasonic dmc-gf1 using a canon fd 50mm f3.5 macro lens via an adapter. Macro is something I do when I feel uninspired. It really gets me through photographic slumps. The gf1 has really impressed me with its picture quality. It is nowhere near my nikon d700 but for a take everywhere camera it is awesome. This shot was taken in insadong and is a little bit of a good luck charm for me. The chinese characters mean success and that is what I am hoping for to get into a masters program.
Spare driver came while I was at school and collected it YAY! I think it may have been truck #10 (MkIII/MkIV) that came to collect it due to the dusty grabber markings in the side and they wrap around the bin to much to be raptors and to thick to GenV's.
Today's blog post is about success, and why it must be redefined. Do you struggle with success or its side effects? #linkinprofile
'' One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes ''
mashallah <3
Designer: Zhu Xueda
1962, June
Reporting success to [Chairman Mao]
[Mao zhu-]xi baoxi (毛主席报喜)
Call nr.: BG E16/48 (IISH collection)
This poster is in a bad shape, with discoloration and missing corners.
More? See: chineseposters.net
My, my, what a week! Evan and I successfully ran a Lego Building camp for the first time! The whole week went fantastic and we couldn't have asked for a better 5 days. This photo was taken on the last day where we had three special visitors who showed and explained their Lego models to the kids. You might recognize two of them ;)
Chassis n° SL0330B
Coachwork by Bertone
Societá Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori (Siata) was founded by Giorgio Ambrosini in 1926, and initially, it specialized in performance modifications for Fiats, but in 1939, it released the first car of its own design, the Amica.
Post-war, Siata produced a very successful auxiliary bicycle motor, as well as performance accessories, and released a string of new car models. Ernie McAfee was Siata's West Coast distributor in the USA, and the American enthusiast press praised all Siata models for their excellent handling, handsome styling, and starting performance. Competition success was strong at such storied events as the Mille Miglia and Coppa della Toscana.
The elegant yet sporting Daina, in open gran sport and coupé form, with bodies by Stabilimenti Farina, Bertone, and others, exemplified Siata. The Daina's effectiveness was confirmed at the inaugural 12 Hours of Sebring in 1952, where Dick Irish and Bob Fergus piloted a Daina to 1st in class and 3rd overall, lapping a Ferrari 166 and Jaguar XK120 in the process !
The car presented here is the very last one of the total range range of 230 Daina's produced. It was one of only 2 cars equipped with the 92 hp engine from new to participate in the <1500 cc class races in 1952 that unfortunately (for Siata) was changed that same year to <2000 cc. Moreover it is one of only 6 coupés styled by Bertone. This Daina Sport has participated in 3 concours already receiving a Best in Class at Schloss Bensberg in 2014, Best in Class 'Masterpieces & Style' in 2015 and Best in Class at Paleis het Loo this year.
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2016
Knokke - Belgium
Oktober 2016
Recipe for Success founders, Gracie & Bob Cavnar hosted its second annual Delicious Alchemy: The Banquet at Becca and John Thrash's home for 100 lucky guests. Diners feasted on ten exquisite courses prepared by ten of the charity’s partnering chefs to raise money for the national charity’s work to combat childhood obesity. www.recipe4success.org
Quatre vues successives du Mont Blanc depuis Cordon, de haut en bas :
coucher de soleil,
lever de lune,
clair de lune,
lever de soleil
prises sur un intervalle de 15 heures (de 17h 45 à 8h 45 le lendemain)
I wasn't expecting this. I really should know better by now: people love their Lego, and Lego adaptations of [insert pop culture icon here] are like geek catnip. It happened last year when I did the Mass Effect Citadel, and whenever I manage to finish the Ringworld (still in progress! not abandoned!) it's likely to happen again.
But damn.
So far GLaDOS has been picked up by Brothers Brick, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, G4TV, Joystiq, Machinima, and an absolutely astonishing number of other places. And earlier I learned that the Kotaku article had actually been syndicated on the Portal 2 news feed that displays in the Steam sidebar when you're looking at the Games Library entry for Portal 2. It's scrolled off now, but I think at this point my life may actually be complete.
I average between one to two thousand total page views on my photostream per day, about half that when I haven't posted anything in a while. Yesterday I had 71,510. As of this writing it is currently 8:53 PM by Flickr time (GMT), and there have been 122,761 total page views across my photostream today. This is a simply astonishing amount of traffic, so I feel obliged to redirect some of it to my friends.
If you are coming here from elsewhere because you love seeing Portal in Lego, you should definitely check out Legohaulic's ATLAS and P-Body and LDM's Turrets. I haven't tried building either subject matter because they've already done it perfectly.
Arkov is a huge Valve fan and has been building Lego based on Valve games for a long time, including an amazing Dog that you may have seen before.
I'm pretty sure all of those creations have been featured on The Brothers Brick at some point, which is arguably the first place you should go if you want to start your morning by looking at awesome Lego builds.
Finally, those of you who've been doing backflips over the WIP Portal Gun (excuse me, ASHPD) that I'm working on should know that it's a modification based around parts of several accessories from BrickArms, a supplier of high-quality aftermarket minifig-compatible weapon accessories designed by Will Chapman.
I will be keeping the GLaDOS model intact, and she will be on display at Brickcon 2011 in Seattle this October.
Thank you to everyone who has linked to, commented on, faved, or otherwise shown your appreciation for my work. And thank you, of course, to Valve--who created GLaDOS and these excellent games--and to their concept artist Jeremy Bennet, on whose work the Portal 2 version of her was based.
British postcard. Photo: Warner Bros. Publicity still for The Letter (William Wyler, 1940).
American film star Bette Davis (1908-1989) was one of the greatest actors in world cinema history. She dared to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies. Her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.
After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930. Her early films for Universal were unsuccessful or she only had a small role, such as in James Whale's Waterloo Bridge (1931). Davis was preparing to return to New York when actor George Arliss chose Davis for the female lead in the Warner Brothers picture The Man Who Played God (John G. Adolfi, 1932), which would be her 'break' in Hollywood. Warner Bros. signed her a five-year contract. The role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers inOf Human Bondage (John Cromwell, 1934) earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. She established her career with several other critically acclaimed performances. For her role as a troubled actress in Dangerous (Alfred E. Green, 1935), she won her first Oscar. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. In Marked Woman (Lloyd Bacon, 1937), she played a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano. For her role she was awarded the Volpi Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival. Her next picture was Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director William Wyler. The film was a success, and Davis' performance as a spoiled Southern belle earned her a second Academy Award. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939) became one of the highest grossing films of the year, and the role of Judith Traherne brought her an Academy Award nomination. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz, 1939) with Errol Flynn, was her first colour film. To play the elderly Elizabeth I of England, Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. Davis was now Warner Bros.' most profitable star, and she was given the most important of their female leading roles. Her image was considered with care; she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.
Until the late 1940s, Bette Davis was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and confrontations with studio executives, film directors and co-stars were often reported. After The Letter (William Wyler, 1940), William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1941), but they clashed over the character of Regina Giddens. Taking a role originally played on stage by Tallulah Bankhead, Davis felt Bankhead's original interpretation was appropriate and followed Hellman's intent, but Wyler wanted her to soften the character. Davis refused to compromise. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. In 1941, she became the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a year later, she was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen. Her best films include the women's picture Now Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942) and Watch on the Rhine (Herman Shumlin, 1943). In 1947, at the age of 39, Davis gave birth to a daughter, Barbara Davis Sherry (known as B.D.) At the end of the 1940s, her box office appeal had noticeably dropped and she was labelled 'Box Office Poison'. Then producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950). During production, she had a romantic relationship with her leading man, Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. Her career went through several of such periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Later successes include the Grand Guignol horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) with Joan Crawford, and the follow-up Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964) with Olivia de Havilland. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theatre roles to her credit. She was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and in 1977, she was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. One of her last films was Lindsay Anderson's film The Whales of August (1987), in which she played the blind sister of Lillian Gish.
Source: Wikipedia.
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Nubdeb/Westf., no. 600. Photo: Warner Bros. Clark Gable in Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
With his natural charm and knowing smile, Clark Gable (1901-1959) was 'The King of Hollywood' during the 1930s. He often portrayed down-to-earth, bravado characters with a carefree attitude, and was seen as the epitome of masculinity. Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934), and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his best-known role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).
William Clark Gable was born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. At 16, he quit high school, went to work in an Akron, Ohio, tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise. He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. His acting coach Josephine Dillon, 15 years his senior, paid for him to have his teeth repaired and his hair styled. She also trained him to lower his voice and attain better body posture, attributes that that were instrumental in contributing to his later success and eventual iconic status. In 1924, with Dillon's financing, they went to Hollywood, where she became Gable's manager and first wife. He appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. However, he was not offered any major film roles, so he returned to the stage. While Gable acted on stage, he became a lifelong friend of Lionel Barrymore. He moved to New York City, where Dillon sought work for him on Broadway. He received good reviews in Machinal (1928). He gave an impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile. In 1930, Gable and Dillon divorced and a year later, he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable), also about 17 years older than him. After several failed screen tests, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He made his talking film debut as an archetypal villain named Brett in the Western The Painted Desert (Howard Higgin, 1931), starring William Boyd. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932) made him MGM's most important star. His acting career then flourished. At one point, he refused an assignment, and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) opposite Claudette Colbert. He won an Academy Award for his performance. The next year saw a starring role in Call of the Wild (William A. Wellman, 1935) with Loretta Young, with whom he had an affair (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Judy Lewis). He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) and Rhett Butler in the Oscar-winning epic Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939).
After divorcing Maria Langham, Clark Gable married Carole Lombard in 1939, but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. A grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the box office. He starred in such films as The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and Homecoming (Mervyn LeRoy, 1948) with Lana Turner. He married Sylvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III. In 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis, his daughter with Loretta Young, gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (John Huston, 1961) with Marilyn Monroe, when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn Cemetery. In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy, whom she named John Clark Gable after his father.
Sources Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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He paws his prey to the shallows and nabs it out of the water. Not so sure the fish will go for that.
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