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Pub, former townhall / Pulheim / Rhein-Erft-Kreis / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
Album of Germany (the west): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157713209...
got asked to leave the shop not long after this because I didn't have a permit to shoot. Oh well live and learn (more sneaky next time lol)
it's lunch time, you've been on the phone all morning, you're tired and hungry, you put your hat and shades on and bout two steps away from stepping out for a long needed break and a bite to eat, then the phone rings, it's your boss...what do you do?
I took a selfie and sat back down...
This photo shows a number of chess pawns lined accprding to their size. It is a free and easy allegory (or maybe a harsh truth) referring to some professional career. And what is your opinion? Feel free to express it in the comment section under this photo. And don't forget to give it a little star.
Speaking of career over, after 31 years in the same job I finally hung up the broom and duster.
I no longer will have the 1 hour 100 klm round travel trip to do my small part time cleaning job, that in itself is such a relief. My car will not know itself, now I will be afraid of flat batteries from lack of use.
The whole situation is such a relief, as my boss said, "you have been beating yourself up for a while about your job" and he was spot on.
Cant stop smiling, yeah!!!
Located between village Liepa and the primeval valley of River Gauja.
Lode clay deposit was discovered in 1953 by the geologist J.Slienis. Ten years later industrial extraction of clay for brick-making was started. The clay-pit became world famous when the geologist V.Kuršs in 1970 first time in the history of the world discovered well preserved fossils of Upper Devonian armoured fish and Strunius kurshi fish. Still nowhere else fish fossils in such good condition have been discovered; part of the fossils can be viewed in the expositions and funds of Latvian Museum of Natural History. Nowadays clay is extracted by the company „Lode“ which produces finishing, oven-chimney, and construction bricks, as well as other clay items. The Lode armoured fish deposit is a protected nature monument.
Information taken from www.entergauja.com/
Over 50 years ago as a young farm teenager, baling hay, milking cows and cleaning out hog sheds by hand guided my career decisions more than almost anything. In this photo, the past and the present of farming lie side by side. Round bales replaced the back breaking work of loading and unloading bales on a hay trailer. Few windmills in Minnesota still pump water and the old graineries have been largely replaced by newer methods of drying crops.
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Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio. These Ford Crown Victoria's are training cars and have been worn from years of sitting outside.
Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio. These Ford Crown Victoria's are training cars and have been worn from years of sitting outside.
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It isn't the best shot I've ever taken, but I had to stop on this ledge and look down at the forest below. It's not often we get a view like this - in and above the canopy.
c/n 212002.
Built 1969.
XW175 spent her entire career as a test aircraft and was fundamental in the development of Vectored thrust Aircraft Advanced Control, or ‘VAAC’ for short.
Retired in 2010, she is believed to eventually be destined for the RAF Museum, although she currently remains safely stored with the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE).
Seen on static display at the 2018 Cosford Airshow.
RAF Cosford, Shropshire, UK.
10th June 2018
The following extensive history for XW175 is from the fascinating Bedford Aeronautical Heritage Group website:-
“Harrier XW175 was unique as a military aircraft as it spent all of its working life at RAE Bedford and Boscombe Down in support of innovative STOVL research programmes.
A two-seat second development batch T2 aircraft, XW175 first flew in 1969. It was delivered to RAE Bedford from BAe in February 1975. The aircraft extended the VTOL legacy at RAE Bedford following the Bedstead and the Short's SC1, and operated in research and development tasks for future STOVL concepts.
In the early 1970’s RAE was tasked by MoD to enable Sea Harriers to recover to a vertical landing on a ship at night in poor visibility. XW175 was allocated as the trials aircraft and thus began its illustrious 38 year research career at RAE Bedford and then post 1996 at Boscombe Down.
During 1977/78 two sea trials were completed with HMS Hermes. The research programmes included recovery to the ship using MADGE guidance, Head Up Display symbology, ski-jump launch, auto-stabiliser and autopilot development, pilot work-load measurements using heart rate measurements and later Forward Looking Infra Red vision demonstrations.
In the early 1980’s, studies into future advanced STOVL aircraft concepts, as a planned replacement for the Harrier, indicated that flight control at low speed and hover would be more complex than the Harrier. This situation started a research programme into novel pilot control methods to address ASTOVL control and was led by XW175. The basic idea was that the pilot's control of the aircraft was to be as similar as possible to conventional aircraft thus significantly reducing type conversion time for pilots and the training costs.
To test the design principles the aircraft had to be converted to a fly-by-wire aircraft such that digital techniques could be implemented. The aircraft modifications were made at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, The installations provided a full authority fly-by-wire system with links to the aerodynamic surface actuators and the engine thrust and thrust vector control actuation. It retained the basic mechanical control system to provide flight safety and meet airworthiness requirements. This approach allowed software to be introduced without having to address the rigour required to meet the full flight safety standards of fly-by-wire aircraft. The aircraft was also fitted with the MODAS recording system and a telemetry system for trials monitoring. The aircraft became known as the Vectored thrust Aircraft Advanced Control (VAAC).
Over the period 1986-2004, several different control and safety concepts were developed with UK Universities and Industry. Simulation played a major role in concept testing and the Bedford Advanced Flight Simulator with its large motion capability was critical for this task. Concept designs were assessed against a range of flight specific tasks prior to flight trials. The most important task was the ability to land vertically on a rolling, pitching and heaving ship deck which was where the Bedford Advanced Flight Simulator with its visual and motion systems provided a risk free and realistic testing environment. This method also provided the confidence to proceed to flight trials and ultimately the first ever deck landing with what became known as the 'Unified' control technique.
The implementation allowed an untrained Harrier pilot to fly the aircraft like a conventional aircraft with the addition that there were no restrictions due to the conventional wing stall speed. Thus it made possible the continued control of the aircraft down to zero airspeed with the wing lift blending from aerodynamic control seamlessly to direct lift control from the engine without any additional effort required from the pilot, unlike the conventional Harrier. Initially the technique was not well received by the majority of experienced Harrier pilots.
Many further assessments were to slowly change the mind set with much discussion in two pilot camps as to the pros and cons of the technique. Between the mid 1980's and mid 1990's RAE collaborated with NASA Ames research centre into the application of advanced digital control techniques to support ASTOVL aircraft concepts. This joint platform provided not only an excellent exchange of ideas between UK and US pilots and scientists but also promoted pilot debate on the merits of such advanced control methods. Pilot acceptability remained unresolved up to the early part of the Joint Strike Fighter programme. Then the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) contribution to the programme through the JSF Program Office (JPO) became significant through a joint targeted programme in support of the JSF STOVL variant (Lockheed Martin F-35B).
In 2002 the Bedford Unified control concept was selected for the JSF STOVL variant. XW175 was also part of the Empire Test Pilots School's training syllabus for a few years at this time.
The JPO continued to support further STOVL developments with several ship trials with XW175 and HMS Illustrious, HMS Invincible and the French carrier Charles de Gaulle. These trials introduced guidance techniques for automatic recovery along side a ship with an automatic vertical landing capability, some 30 years after the original HMS Hermes trials with XW175 in 1977 and some 35 years after the certification of Civil automatic landing systems back in the BLEU days. Technology advancements had bridged this time period and the gradual acceptance of the new control concepts.
With the established STOVL flight control standard, XW175 in its new livery continued to support JSF recovery requirements to ships with a 60 knot airspeed approach and landing method referred to as 'Ship Rolling Vertical Landing' (SRVL). This approach speed provided JSF with ship recovery flexibility as a percentage of wing lift at this airspeed would offset engine direct lift and enhance safety margins.
In conjunction with this programme ship deck lighting was developed for poor visibility and night recovery to ships. This programme produced the new 'Bedford Array' of deck lights to provide an unambiguous touch down point irrespective of the ship deck motion. The 'Bedford Array' with SRVL provided an effective and alternative solution to ship recovery at night in poor visibility and hence operational flexibility.
Having conducted its last research trial in support of JSF development at Boscombe Down on 18 November 2008, XW175’s final resting place remains to be resolved. BAHG has expressed strong interest in bringing the aircraft back to Bedford, its spiritual home. It is to be hoped that an appropriate resting place can be found for this illustrious aircraft of the Harrier fleet, but which became so unique providing the MOD with many products over its lifetime due to the combined efforts of all the pilots, scientific staff and engineers who had the great privilege to work with her.”
Airport phones: then & now
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In this new building a new room for exams is located - it's still not in use. To put the students at their ease, a quiet, red color has been chosen. To symbolise their careers a ladder has been placed in the corridor.
Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio. These Ford Crown Victoria's are training cars and have been worn from years of sitting outside.
Career: Singer/Musician
Salary: An Estimated $800,000+ per year, depending on album/ticket/merchandise sales
Place: Fianna now resides in Los Angeles, Calfornia.
What Success Means To Fianna:
FIANNA: "To me, success is when you try your absolute hardest and really give it your all, even if the odds are stacked against you. It's when you give 150% and dedicate yourself to whatever challenge comes your way. Even if you don't necessarily win the real challenge, you showed everybody, and yourself, all that you can do, and what makes you a true superstar. That, to me, is real success. Even if I don't win Mizz Bratz Universe, I can still feel successful, knowing that I gave it my absolute best everytime, and even improved on some points! The key to success is confidence in yourself, and all of your abilities, which believe me, I know I have! I'm confident in my entries for all of the challenges, and quite honestly, I think I can win this!"
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 1176/1, 1927-1928. Photo: First National Pictures
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
Norma Talmadge was the daughter of one of the most famous "mothers of artists" in film history: Peg Talmadge. Norma, her mother, and her sisters Natalie and Constance were abandoned by their alcoholic and jobless father Fred right on Christmas Day. Thus, the three teenagers had to start earning money as vaudeville models and actresses. In 1909, Norma began working in the cinema thanks to her discoverer, Vitagraph editor Breta Breuill. She acted in numerous Vitagraph shorts, a.o. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stuart Blackton, 1910), Love of Chrysanthemum (Van Dyke Brooke, 1910), and A Tale of Two Cities (William Humphrey, 1911). Helped by Vitagraph leading actor Maurice Costello, her career blossomed. By 1913, she was the major star of Vitagraph Studios and had played in hundreds of shorts there. Her co-actors from the Vitagraph 'stable' were a.o. Maurice Costello, Van Dyke Brooke, Lilian Walker, Hughie Mack, Leo Delaney, and Clara Kimball Young.
In 1915 Norma Talmadge had a breakthrough when acting in Vitagraph's anti-German propaganda-film, the feature The Battlecry for Peace, but mother Talmadge was unsatisfied with Vitagraph and arranged a two-year contract at National Pictures. Yet, when Norma's first film there flopped, and the company went bankrupt, she called on director D.W. Griffith and was able to act in seven features at Triangle. In 1916 she met Joseph Schenck, a wealthy exhibitor who wanted to make films himself. Smitten by her, Schenk proposed marriage and a studio. They founded the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation. In Schenk's New York-based studio, Norma would act in her dramas on the ground floor, while her sister Constance would do comedies on the first floor, and the comic unit with Fatty Arbuckle played on the top floor, while sister Natalie Talmadge worked as a secretary and occasionally had small parts as well. Arbuckle brought along Buster Keaton and Al St. John. When Arbuckle was lent to Paramount to do features, Keaton took over the comic unit and married Natalie.
NormaTalmadge's first film at the studio, Panthea (Allan Dwan, 1917) was a straight hit. Between 1917 and 1921 Norma made four to six films per year, under Schenk's supervision. After her greatest success, the drama Smilin' Through (Sydney Franklin, 1922), Schenk closed the New York studio. The family continued in Hollywood, where Norma's films became bigger and glossier. She worked with top directors, cinematographers, and costume designers and by 1923 she was the best-paid film actress in Hollywood, earning 10.000 a week. In 1924 under Frank Borzage's direction, she did her best film (artistically and at the box office) Secrets. While Schenk became head of United Artists in 1924, Norma was still tied to distributor First National by contract and continued to make films for them in the mid-1920s, including Camille (Fred Niblo 1926). During the filming of Camille, she fell in love with her co-actor Gilbert Roland and asked Schenk for a divorce. He refused but saw they were a winning couple and matched them in several films. After that, she made films with UA, but the first two were flops and marked the end of her silent film career.
Norma Talmadge took voice lessons for a year, and despite expectations, produced a perfectly non-dialectical voice, but her first two sound films simply weren't good films, so she called it a day and left the film world. As she was very rich by now, she could permit herself to do so. Divorced from Schenck in 1934, she married her second husband, George Jessel, who eagerly brought her on his ailing radio shows, but both his shows and the marriage ended in failure. Norma married for the third time in 1946, with Carvel James, and died relatively young, on Christmas Eve 1957, at age 64, because of pneumonia. It is said that we owe to Norma Talmadge the tradition of stamping the handprints of the stars in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theater, when in 1927, accidentally, she left her own when falling on wet cement in the same place.
Sources: Wikipedia (English, Dutch, and Spanish), and IMDb.
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BCOL 4607, my first leading BCOL C40-8M, leads a southbound sand train over Spaulding on the CN Leithon Sub. This guy was getting held for every train under the sun, so we took a risk and bagged him here instead of at JB, which was getting shadowed to no end by this time. Right when we arrived, he got the light over the diamond, and all was well.
Career in your crosshairs
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3673/1, 1928-1929. Photo: United Artists. Lido Manetti (Arnold Kent) in The Woman Disputed (Henry King, Sam Taylor, 1928).
Lido Manetti aka Arnold Kent (1899-1928) was an Italian actor who first had a prolific career in Italian silent cinema. Brought to America as a young leading man, he died before living up to his promise.
Born Lido Manetti, he studied civil engineering in his native Italy, but entered the theatre and then films subsequent to his schooling. His first Italian film was probably La principessa (1917) starring Leda Gys. From then on Manetti would be the male love interest in many diva-like films such as Il processo Clemenceau (Alfredo De Antoni, 1917) and Malia (Alfredo De Antoni, 1917) both with Francesca Bertini, La passagera (Gero Zambuto, 1917) with Pina Menichelli, Addio giovinezza (Augusto Genina, 1918) with Maria Jacobini and Helena Makowska, Femmina (Augusto Genina, 1918) with Italia Almirante Manzini, L’onestà del peccato (Augusto Genina, 1918) with Jacobini, Una donna funesta (Camillo De Riso, 1919) with Tilde Kassay, Il bacio di Dorina (Giulio Antamoro, 1919) with Lina Millefleurs, La signora delle rose (Diana Karenne, 1919) with Karenne, La fiamma e il cenere (Giulio Antamoro, 1919) with again Karenne, etc.
Memorable titles with Lido Manetti from the early 1920s were Amore rosso (Gennaro Righelli, ) with Maria Jacobini and Amleto Novelli, La preda (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1921) with again Jacobini and Novelli, La statua di carne (Mario Almirante, 1921) with Almirante Manzini, Il richiamo (Gennaro Righelli, 1921) with Jacobini, La madre folle (Carmine Gallone, 1923) with Soava Gallone, La leggenda delle Dolomiti (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1920) with Linda Pini, and Povere bimbe (Giovanni Pastrone, 1924) with again Pini. The plot of La statua di carne looks a bit like Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its literary predecessor Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach. Well-to-do Paul has an affair with simple, innocent flowershop girl Mary until she dies of a weak heart. He meets Noemi, an eccentric femme fatale who is the spitting image of Mary, and who agrees to pose for him every day as Mary. Noemi falls in love with Paul, but cannot stand that he doesn’t love herself but only the defunct Mary. In contrast to Rodenbach, here the man doesn’t kill the lookalike, but he duels for her with her ex-lover. In the end he wins the duel but also admits his love for Noemi.
Lido Manetti also performed in strong man films such as Saetta, principe per un giorno (Mario Camerini, 1924) starring Domenico Gambino alias Saetta, and Maciste contro lo sceicco (Mario Camerini, 1926), one his last Italian films. While he had a small part as Roman Guard in the epic Quo vadis? (Gabriellino d’Annunzio, Georg Jacoby, 1924) starring Emil Jannings as Nero, Manetti had major parts in films such as Il focolare spento (Augusto Genina, 1925) with Carmen Boni and La bocca chiusa (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1925) starring Maria Jacobini. In La bocca chiusa Manetti plays a British duke who seduces a poor country girl (Jacobini). Her stepfather (Augusto Poggioli) sells her child to the duke, making her believe the child died. With the money he embellishes his house, but when the girl finds out, she goes mad, burns down the house and becomes a wanderer. Twenty years after, her son (Manetti again) lovingly takes her into his service, not knowing who she is. She recognizes a picture, though, and not wanting to destroy his happiness, she silently goes away.
Around 1925-26, Lido Manetti was noticed by a Universal studio talent scout and brought to Hollywood. After a brief stay at Universal, where he was renamed Arnold Kent and played smaller parts, he signed a contract with Paramount. There he got male leads or major supporting roles in films like The World at Her Feet (Luther Reed. 1927) with Florence Vidor, The Woman on Trial (Mauritz Stiller, 1927) with Pola Negri, and the part-talkie The Woman Disputed (Henry King, Sam Taylor, 1928) with Norma Talmadge. Manetti alias Kent was playing a prominent role in The Four Feathers (Meryan Cooper, Lothar Mendes, 1929), when one evening a film extra killed him in a car accident on a Hollywood street. Manetti was replaced in the film and his scenes reshot. According to various sources, he was only 28 when he died, but I recently viewed La statua di carne (1921) with Manetti. He definitely doesn’t look like a man of 22 there, more like 32…
Sources: Vittorio Martinelli (Il cinema muto italiano), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. N 131.
American model and actress Suzy Parker (1932–2003) was known in the 1950s as the most photographed woman in the world and is now considered as the very first Supermodel. The red-headed beauty defined glamour in the 1950s and in 1956, at the height of her modelling career, became the first model to earn $100,000 per year. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Parker also became the glamorous star of several Hollywood productions.
In 1932, Suzy Parker was born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker in Long Island City, New York, to George and Elizabeth Parker. George disliked the name Cecilia and called her Susie, a name which Parker would retain throughout her life. A French Vogue photographer later changed the spelling to Suzy. Parker's family moved to Highland Park, New Jersey, and then to Florida. When Parker was 15, sister Dorian (Leigh Parker), herself one of the top models of the era, introduced her to Eileen Ford. In the period just after World War II, models were becoming celebrities and Suzy would become even more famous than Dorian. A photo of the 15-year-old appeared that year in Life magazine and one of her first magazine advertisements was for DeRosa Jewelry. While still in high school in Jacksonville, Fla., she modeled in the summers for Ford Models, and after graduation went to work full time for the agency. Although she still lived with her parents in Florida, she stayed in New York City with Dorian when she had modeling assignments there. Dorian introduced Parker to her fashion-photographer friends, Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, John Rawlings, and a young Richard Avedon. Parker became Avedon's muse and the so-called signature face of the Coco Chanel brand. Along with other models like Dovima and Lisa Fonssagrives, Parker signified a postwar world of stylish promise for all. She was the first model to earn $200 per hour and $100,000 per year (ca. 900,000 today). Vogue declared her one of the faces of the confident, post-war American woman. She worked also non-stop for Vogue, Revlon, Hertz, Westinghouse, Max Factor, Bliss, DuPont, Simplicity, Smirnoff, and Ronson shavers. Parker also was on the covers of about 70 magazines around the world, including Vogue, Elle, Life, Look, and Paris Match. In the mid-1950s she abandoned being a cover girl for a few years to be a photographer herself, apprenticing with Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and working for the French edition of Vogue.
Suzy Parker's next step was a Hollywood career. Photographer Richard Avedon recommended her for a fashionable cameo in Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957), starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Douglas Martin in the New York Times: "Parker's trademark in photographs and later on the movie screen was icy sophistication, often likened to that of Grace Kelly, but in person she exuded a girl-next-door prettiness and a sort of wacky loquaciousness. Audrey Hepburn's role in Funny Face, as a fast-talking beatnik who somewhat unwillingly becomes a world-famous model, was inspired by her". Suzy herself was on screen for just two minutes in a musical number described as 'Think Pink number'. But director Stanley Donen then gave her a leading role in his comedy Kiss Them for Me (Stanley Donen, 1957), opposite Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield. However, the film was a disappointment and Parker's acting got negative reviews. Parker got better reviews for her next appearances in the dramas Ten North Frederick (Philip Dunne, 1958) with Gary Cooper, and The Best of Everything (Jean Negulesco, 1959). During the shooting of the British war film A Circle of Deception (Jack Lee, 1960), she met future husband Bradford Dillman. Her later films include Flight from Ashiya (Michael Anderson, 1964) with Yul Brynner, and Chamber of Horrors (Hy Averback, 1966). She also played dramatic roles in TV shows such as Burke's Law (1963) plus appearances as herself on a number of quiz shows such as I've Got a Secret. Her most famous television appearance was in a 1963 episode of Twilight Zone in which she played six different parts. Parker's last role was in a 1970 episode of Night Gallery. She did, in a way, make one other film 'appearance' in The Beatles' documentary film Let It Be (1970), in which the band performed their song Suzy Parker. The song, one of the few credited as written by all four Beatles, was part of their Academy Award-winning score for the original songs they performed in the film. Suzy Parker was married three times. In 1950, she married her high-school sweetheart, Ronald Staton, and divorced him in 1953. In 1955, Parker married French journalist Pierre de la Salle with whom she had a daughter, Georgia. They divorced in 1961. In 1963 she became Suzy Parker Dillman. After a car accident in 1964, Parker mostly retired from modeling and focused on her family. She had three more children with Bradford: daughter Dinah (born 1965) and sons Charlie (1967) and Christopher (1969). The family lived in Bel Air, Los Angeles, until Dinah was bitten by a rattlesnake in the yard and almost died.They then moved to Montecito in the Santa Barbara area, where Suzy Parker remained until her death in 2003. She was 69.
Sources: Douglas Martin (New York Times), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Back then, they expected people to be able to work simple maths out without complaining.
My favourite one was actually 'pay 25% of your cash on hand' when the numbers can rather easily become indivisible by the denominations available. The solution was to 'work it roughly out and be reasonable, it's only a game'.
I think we could do with bringing some of that back, sometimes.
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