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A California High School Wrestling Tournament. The 2020 North Coast Section Boys Wrestling Championships. Hosted by James Logan HS in Union City, CA USA. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
Phil Marceau of Team Cycle Technique. Les Mardis Cyclistes de Lachine présenté par Jean Coutu, Montreal. August 12th, 2014.
© yohanes.budiyanto, 2014
Review coming soon..
PERSONAL RATING:
1. Room: 95
2. Bathroom: 95
3. Bed: 100
4. Service: 75
5. In-room Tech: 85
6. In-room Amenities: 95
7. Architecture & Design: 100
8. Food: 85
9. View: 95
10. Pool: NA
11. Wellness: 65
12. Location: 85
13. Value: 90
Overall: 88.75
Compare with other Milan hotels during the trip:
My #1 ALL TIME FAVORITE HOTEL
LANDMARK MANDARIN ORIENTAL, HONG KONG: 95.38
AMAN CANAL GRANDE
Palazzo Papadopoli
Calle Tiepolo 1364
Sestiere San Polo
Venezia 30125
General Manager: Olivia Richli
Architect (circa 1550): Gian Giacomo de Grigi
Architect (Renovation 1865): Girolamo Levi
Interior Decorator of Piano Nobile (Renovation 1865): Michelangelo Guggenheim
Architect (Restoration 2011): Jean Michel Gathy of Denniston Architects
Interior Designer : Jean Michel Gathy of Denniston Architects
Hotel Opening Date: 1 June 2013
Notable owners: Coccina Family (1550), Tiepolo Family (1718), Papadopoli Family (1864), and Count Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
Total Rooms & Suites: 24, including 5 Palazzo Bedroom (49-77m2) and Palazzo Chamber (49-59m2)
Total Suites: 12, including 7 Palazzo Stanza (60-89m2)
Signature Suites: 5, including (Madalena (62m2), Papadopoli (73m2) and Sansovino (75m2)
Top Suites: Alcova Tiepolo (103m2) and Canal Grande Suite (97m2)
Bathroom Amenities: Aman Canal Grande
Restaurants: Red and Yellow Dining Rooms; Naoki (Japanese French inspired Kaiseki cuisine)
Bars and Lounges: The Bar, located on the Piano Nobile floor with Grand Canal view
Meeting & Banquets: Salon, Stanza del Tiepolo and Stanza del Guarana Meeting Room on the 4th floor exclusively for guests and private events & concerts
Health & Leisure: The Spa on the third floor with 3 single treatment rooms; and a small gym
www.amanresorts.com/amancanalgrandevenice
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3rd Places Matches at the Doc Buchanan Invitational Wrestling Tournament. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
Game 1 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament in Raleigh featured the Butler Bulldogs and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The Bulldogs came out on top by a score of 71-61 to advance to the Round of 32
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104, NGC 4594 and others) is an unbarred spiral galaxy located approximately 28 million light-years away in Virgo.
Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2
360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours
Imaged over five nights in February and March, 2016 from Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.
See my refractor image here – www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/12840913325/sizes/l/.
by Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Rojek
Defense Media Activity
5/4/2012 - FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. -- Walking almost 90 miles, 36 Airmen completed the Air Advisor Memorial Ruck March from New York City to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 26-27.
The march, which started at One World Trade Center and ended at the Air Advisor Academy, was in remembrance of the deaths of nine U.S. air advisors in Afghanistan.
On the morning of April 27, 2011, an Afghan Air Force lieutenant colonel walked into the Afghan Air Command and Control Center at the Kabul Air Command Headquarters and, without warning or provocation, opened fire, killing eight active-duty U.S. Airmen and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. Those nine service members came from various bases and specialties, but were working together for a common mission: advising the Afghan military.
"It was a unique situation," said Lt. Col. J.D. Scott II, the march coordinator and chief of core knowledge at the Air Advisor Academy. "It didn't happen for a particular base. It didn't happen for a particular squadron or base or even for a particular (Air Force Specialty Code).
"Because of that, remembering their sacrifice may not have been captured as a whole," Scott continued. "The individual would have been honored at their base, but the mission of the entire of the team would not have been recognized."
Since all of the nine went through the Air Advisor Academy, Col. John Holm, the academy's commandant, decided that would be the place to honor their sacrifice as a team, Scott said. Holm made plans to create a physical memorial, but a plethora of obstacles made it impossible to complete the memorial by the one year anniversary of the tragic event. One of the obstacles was funding.
Holm and his team came up with idea of a ruck march to both honor the fallen air advisors and act as a fundraiser to help build the physical memorial. Scott was put in charge of organizing the march and, in just two weeks, succeeded in gathering people from Dover AFB, Del., to Eielson AFB, Alaska, for the march. Each marcher knew at least one of the nine fallen air advisors in some way.
"Master Sgt. Tara Brown and Maj. Phil Ambard both lived three and four doors down from me in the dorms," said Tech. Sgt. Brian Christiansen, a photographer with the 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte, N.C., who was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan at the same time as the air advisors. "Both were incredibly friendly people. And I met several of them (the morning of the shooting) as I walked into my building and opened the door and they walked out."
Those personal connections to the fallen service members and their families drew the 36 marchers together, Scott said.
"They were coming in from all over," he said. "That's kind of representative of the nine that we lost. They came from all over the Air Force to serve a single mission as an air advisor. So the marchers that were honoring them came from all over the Air Force to remember them."
Each paid their own way to New York City to honor their fallen friends and show their families that they haven't forgotten their loved one's sacrifice. The event also drew in another 14 volunteers to help with everything from transportation to food to health and care coverage.
The marchers were broken up into four teams, each set to march three legs of 7.3 miles. During their leg, each marcher carried a ruck sack with a paver stone inside, each stone engraved with the name of a fallen air advisor and to be laid at the memorial on JB MDL.
Holm and his nine-person team kicked off the march at 9:11 a.m. April 26. However, rather than just start off near ground zero, the colonel wanted to do something more for his fallen comrades.
"We wanted to honor them by doing something significant, and to me starting at the top of the World Trade Center was it," Holm said. "We had those ruck sacks on the entire tour. It was all symbolic and important to us in our own personal, different ways. For me, it was probably the biggest single gesture we could do short of opening up (the academy's) memorial ourselves."
The significance of the march touched a lot of people along the way, starting with the One World Trade Center steel workers, who gave the Airmen a standing ovation as they marched through the structure. Other people along their route also showed their appreciation by stopping to give hugs, encouragement, thanks and even money toward the memorial.
As they traveled by foot from New York to New Jersey, state and local police departments provided escort, each district calling the next to inform them of what the Airmen were doing, Holm said. The marchers were even given a chance to rest and eat at the fire departments in both Elizabeth, N.J., and Jersey City, N.J. It was a sign of support of both the Airmen marching and the fallen air advisors, he said.
When the fourth team finished their last leg, the marchers were 1.1 miles from the construction site of the Air Advisor Memorial on JB MDL. All 36 marchers gathered together in formation and made their way through the base gate. What met them there was surprise to all.
"Security forces closed down the road and gave us police escort in," Scott said. "There were numerous amounts of people from the front gate to the memorial lining the street on both sides, just cheering us on in.
"The fact that the base community just embraces us and cheered us in on those final steps, it's very inspiring," he added.
It was an emotional moment for Christiansen as well. He was present at the base when the air advisors were killed and attended their dignified transfer ceremony. However, each person was laid to rest in different locations around the U.S., so he never got to have closure.
Christiansen said the real impact came when he saw the road signs leading to the installation. "That's when it really started to hit in not that we're all going to do this, but this is for real. We've done this for the families, we've done this for our fallen brothers and sister. It was pretty easy to get caught up in the emotion there.
"The ceremony of laying the bricks down was really powerful," he added. "It brought some serious closure."
For Chaplain Maj. Eric Boyer, who said the opening prayer for the stone laying ceremony, it was a bittersweet chance to pay tribute to two of the officers that he had a connection to.
"It makes me proud to know that their sacrifice will be honored and will be remembered," he said. "Every Air Advisor who comes through the academy here is going to recognize the price that has been paid by their predecessors."
Prior to entering military service, Boyer knew Lt. Col. Frank Bryant from their hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., where he served as Bryant's wrestling coach.
Boyer also served as squadron chaplain for Maj. Jeffery Ausborn while at Joint Base San Antonio in 2011, but had already changed duty station's to JB MDL when he got the word about Ausborn's death. His biggest regret was not being able to preside over his funeral service.
"It meant a lot to me to be able to say something to honor his memory here, since I wasn't able to speak at his memorial ceremony back at his home station," he said.
While the ruck march and stone-laying ceremony brought some closure for Christiansen and others, the construction of the memorial itself is still ongoing. However, between the pledges for the marchers, donations received during the march as well as T-shirt and brick sales, Holm estimated that the team has raised almost $10,000 toward the memorial just through this one event.
"We have that feeling that we did the right thing just by honoring our comrades, regardless of what money we raised," Holm said. "That was a tremendous feeling."
The Air Advisor Memorial is scheduled to be unveiled July 27. For more information on the memorial, visit www.airadvisormemorial.org
A California High School Wrestling Tournament. The 2020 North Coast Section Boys Wrestling Championships. Hosted by James Logan HS in Union City, CA USA. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
Bagmane tech park(Bangalore, India)
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Student Enterprise Team members at work at the Advanced Technology Development Complex ATDC Michigan Tech
September 22, 2014; San Francisco, CA, USA; Special Olympics Northern California 2014 High Tech Challenge at Olympic Club. Photo Credit: Kelley L Cox-KLC fotos
The Texas Tech Red Raider Cheerleaders entertaining at the PNC Arena during the 2016 NCAA Basketball tournament
Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Keechant Sewell will make a public safety announcement introducing new technology during a press conference in Times Square on Tuesday April 11, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Yassine Serhane, Cloud Technology Solutions Professional, Microsoft Corp., USA speaking during the Session "Tech against Corruption" at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Midnight Matador, Texas Tech University’s longest-serving horse, died Tuesday (Feb. 3) due to complications from colic surgery. He was the 13th horse to ride for Texas Tech’s Masked Rider program and served for 11 seasons. The only Masked Rider horse to come close in length of service is Happy IV-II, who served an eight-year term from 1980-1987.
The Texas Tech University (Lubbock) mascot, The Masked Rider, traditionally rides a coal-black horse, and makes appearances at football games and other events.
My son attended Texas Tech from 2007-2012, graduating with a computer science degree. I had the honor to see Midnight Matador close up at Parent Weekend and at several football games.