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The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is dedicated to the memory and music of Frank Sinatra and benefits the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children. The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational enjoys a rich history as one of the marquee golf and fundraising events in the Palm Springs, California desert. Each year, celebrities, amateur contestants, loyal sponsors and enthusiastic spectators from all over the country look forward to returning to this unique "celebrity friendly" event.
Known as "Frank's little party in the desert," Barbara and Frank Sinatra founded the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational in 1988 to raise funds for the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children at Eisenhower Medical Center, which opened in 1986. Through their efforts, and those of supporters throughout the world, the Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is now one of the most successful events of it's kind.
The mission of the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children is to provide counseling for victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and to focus on prevention, community education and breaking the generational cycle of abuse. Barbara Sinatra is quick to thank supporters of the "Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational, and she is proud to say "The children who come to us for help continue to receive the therapy they need and deserve; no child is turned away due to a family's inability to pay."
The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is a five (5) player team gross and net scramble golf tournament held at Eagle Falls Golf Course in Indio, California. The Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, also in Indio, is the tournament's hotel and venue for three nights of parties and a spectacular luncheon and fashion show.
One (1) celebrity and four (4) contestants are a team. The team of four (4) amateur players remains together for two (2) consecutive days. The celebrity contestant changes teams for the second day. Current USGA handicaps are verified and applied to all contestants.
The Performing for the Camera project, dedicated to the students of the art academies of Florence (Italian and international), comes from the idea of using the Marina Abramović exhibition. The Cleaner (21 September 2018-20 January 2019) as a research ground on the relationship between photography and performance, offering students the opportunity to try their hand at producing new works of art and publishing a publication.
The activity, which will have a three-month development, will allow students to approach the close link between performance and photography by analyzing the relationships and specificities of the two artistic languages. Among the events at Palazzo Strozzi are also scheduled two talks with the artists Francesca Banchelli and Caterina Pecchioli to encourage a direct confrontation with two professionals whose practice is related to the subject matter.
The theme will offer students an overview of photography used as a tool for performance documentation, or practiced as a performative act in itself, to be interpreted and applied in the field of artistic research. In the second phase of the project the works created by the students will become the material for the realization of a publication edited by the students themselves.
The project is carried out in collaboration with:
LABA – Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (prof. Massimo Agus e Maurizio Di Lella)
Lorenzo de’ Medici (prof. Gianluca Maver)
Syracuse University (prof.ssa Stefania Talini)
SACI College of Art and Design (prof. Jacopo Santini e Romeo Di Loreto)
SRISA International School of Art (prof.ssa Gloria Marco Munera).
The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013
A Giulia, neo laureata, da ieri mattina finalmente dottoressa...fantastico ascoltare l'esposizione della tua tesi in lingua, una forte emozione. Complimenti Giulietta!
Dedicated to my Friends in CHILE who are suffering and struggling after the Earthquake.
Le sommet de Bellecôte (3417m) et le Glacier de la Chiaupe (3250m)
Prise alors que je remontais le long de la piste, lors de mon entraînement en Raquettes.
Taken while snowshoeing up along the slope.
La Plagne, Savoie, France.
Wesleyan dedicated the Daltry Piano Nov. 6 in Memorial Chapel. The Daltry Piano is a gift from Marjorie R. Daltry Rosenbaum, in memory of Joseph Samuel Daltry. Joseph Daltry was Wesleyan’s first professor of music, founder of the Music Department, university organist, and the inaugural John Spencer Camp Professor of Music. (Photo by Nam Anh Ta '12)
This is dedicated to our daughter Kaileigh, who once thought she was "too stupid" to get into college. She has a learning disability that was not detected by teachers (in spite of my best efforts and pleading!) until she was in the 2nd half of her 5th grade year. By then she had taught herself to compensate and "scored too high" (1point above the qualifying magic #) to get assistance. She went on to achieve honors throughout high school purely through her own diligent work. the only downfall was her inability to score high enough points on her SAT's to get her into the college of her choice. She was devastated and was very depressed. we decided to set her up in a Condo we were in the process of buying as an investment and she went to the local community college, making Deans List 3 out of 4 semesters and graduating with an AA degree. She was accepted into John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, but an engagement and upcoming marriage caused her to change her mind and attend a small private college, where she is now graduating with her BA in Psychology and a minor in Business...with a semester GPA of 3.61 and cummulative GPA of 3.5!!!
KAILEIGH we are SO VERY PROUD OF YOU!!! you have shown the world that with spunk and determination, you CAN do anything!
To Kerekes Egyszeriember (Zoltán), who is the greatest friend of the light.
www.flickr.com/photos/egyszeriember2/
A fény legnagyobb barátjának, Zoltánnak.
Canada is too cold, and yet they still have a foot of snow.. Eat your heart out.
Top.. Cherry blossom, next, fawn lily, willow flower and last, red current.
Stele dedicated by Huy from Deir el-Medina. Depicts the Egyptian god Min (left) and Qadesh - a Syrian goddess mounted on a lion (centre) and the Canaan god Reshep (right).
Ramesside Period, Dynasty XIX.
Musee du Louvre. C86
Pics Dedicated to my friend Cecil Rajendra.
Penang Heritage Trust Site Visit
The "High Chaparral" village ( Kampong Buah Pala, oldest cattle farm in Penang) celebrated its Ponggal Festival (Harvest Thanksgiving) from 14-18 January.
"High Chaparral" originally an Indian cattle rearing community who were the biggest suppliers of fresh milk in Penang last century - narrowly escaped demolition by developers last year. This year's Ponggal was therefore doubly meaningful for the villagers.
The Ponggal is a 4-day harvest thanksgiving festival : a tradition occasion for giving thanks to nature for its bounty of food especially rice and milk. The 4-day festival culminated with traditional festivities on Sunday (18 Jan).
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thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/1/19/nation/3060...
It was a test of manhood for young men at the 100th annual Ponggal festival at the “High Chaparral” of Penang.
In honour of the Harvest Festival, the Tamil community gathered to give thanks for the year’s prosperity and prove their worth through a series of daring competitions.
Groups of youths faced off with bulls, weighing over 400kg, in an effort to yank off garlands from their horns.
Each garland contained RM100 to be shared among the successful group of bull chasers.
Dedicated to Danny who often says, "That would make a great desktop background." I must say, this is my best desktop background so far. If you use it, lemme now. I am.
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We had perfect weather to work with over 65 dedicated volunteers at Bear Creek Park and Stream as they removed trash and debris from the stream and the adjacent park. This included 180 bags of trash, an office chair, 3 bicycles, a minibike, the roll cage from a go-cart, much more! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer’s dedication of working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is without equal! Thank to everyone who volunteered with us today.
We would also like to thank the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Day to Serve, National Public Lands Day and Trash Free Maryland for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. We could like to thank Chick fila Eastpoint for their incredible donation of chicken sandwiches, iced tea and cookies, Pap Johns Dundalk for donating pizza, Squires for donating pizza, Robert Jones for cooking and donating pulled pork and rolls. We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic and Walmart for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies! We would also like to thank CCBC, Towson University, the U. S Navy, Saint Timothy’s School, General John Stricker and the community for all the incredible volunteers they supplied! Thank you also to Baltimore County Highways for supplying us with a dumpster for our cleanup.
Photos taken by and appear courtesy of photographer George Fischer.
Earth Day Bear Creek Cleanup 4/22/17: Despite a chilly and very rainy day over 160 dedicated volunteers arrived at Bear Creek Park and nearly filled a 40 yard dumpster with trash and debris they removed from Bear Creek Park and the shoreline of this historic stream as well as from Bear Creek Elementary School, General John Stricker Middle School, Charlesmont Elementary School and Charlesmont Park totaling over 4 tons!!! This included 355 bags of trash, 5 broken fishing rods, 4 plastic totes, 3 traffic cones, 2 huge Styrofoam blocks (parts from a floating pier), 2 broke baseball bats, a flattened fluorescent traffic barrel, a tire, a cooler, a plastic 55 gallon drum, 2 huger and more, Thank you everyone so very much for all your hard work on such a beautiful day! Our volunteer’s dedication to working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is wonderful sight to behold!!!! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer dedication to working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment cannot be topped! Thank you so much!!!
We would also like to thank the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and American Rivers for all their assistance and support on this cleanup and to thank Chick-Fil-A Eastpoint, Pat's Pizzeria Dundalk MD, Papa John’s and Chesapeake Traders Food Warehouse for their generous donations of food to feed all our hungry and hardworking volunteers!!! Thank you so much Giant Food Pharmacy, Tradepoint Atlantic for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies! We would also like to thank Faculty and Families of Bear Creek Elementary School, faculty and families of General John Stricker Middle School, faculty and families of Charlesmont Elementary School, CityFam, Strictly Business Auto Family, X-press Contracting, Girl Scout Troop 3802, the U.S. Air Force, Neighborspace Baltimore County, Port of Baltimore, and AmeriCorps NCC for all the incredible volunteers they supplied!
Thank you so very much for helping us mage a huge difference! See all the photos through the links below!
The cornerstone for this granite obelisk was dedicated on July 4, 1848 in honor of the three Signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton. Both Walton and Hall were reinterred from their original places of burial and placed here under the monument. Gwinnett is believed to have been buried in Savannah near where he died in a duel with General Lachlan McIntosh. The monument was completed by 1854 when former President Millard Fillmore visited the city and mentioned it in his speech.
This is the "film d'essai" (test film) of my newly-arrived Rollei 35 (year 1973), Lyon, France, March 2, 2023,
After blank mechanical tests and a detailed inspection the day before, the Rollei 35 camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Fomapan Creative 200 film exposed for 200 ISO. Fomapan 200 is a regular panchromatic film sensitized in the red to 690 nm, a bit more than the common panchromatic films as Kodak Tri-X or Ilford HP5 with a cutoff around 650 nm. The 35mm perforated Foma film is coated on a regular cellulose acetate base tinted in grey-blue to avoid halation. Technical Foma data indicate that the nominal sensitivity is more around 160 than 200 ISO.
Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. Typically, 1/500s, to 1/125s, were used at f/8 to f/16. Most of the view were taken with a 24mm screwed Rollei filter "Gelb-Mittel" (medium yellow) fitted on the Tessar 1:35 f=40mm lens (Made by Rollei under a Carl Zeiss licence o ft the original Tessar lens for the Rollei 35). The coefficient "+1,5" of the medium yellow filter is equivalent to 0.5 stop.
March 2, 2023
69004 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (=Agfa Rodinal R09) developer at dilution 1+50, 20°C for 10 min.
The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
About the camera and the lens:
This original Rollei 35 is equipped of the collapsible 40mm Tessar lens "Made by Rollei" under Carl Zeiss licence who designed the first 1:3.5 f=40mm Tessar lens for the Rollei 35. Original Rollei 35 were manufactured by Rollei Franke & Heideke company originally in Germany starting year 1966 then later in Singapore until 1981. Originally, the build-in CdS cell was design by Gossen and the central shutter by Compur. Diaphragm and shutter are operated mechanically by two wheels on the front of the camera. The CdS cell is coupled to both. The Rollei 35 was a miniature 35 mm camera weighting around 320g, about 100g more than the Rollei 35 LED for instance with less mechanical parts. Overall more than 2 millions of Rollei 35 camera were produced over 15 years under different versions. According the serial number (3 410 XXX) of this chrome-plated camera was produced by Rollei Singapore between 01/1971 and 06/1973 and likely after 04/1973 due to the Tessar lens "Made by Rollei" instead of formally Carl Zeiss Tessar (ref : rollei35.eu/rollei35numbers.php#r35ge). It came with its original leather pouch, the wrist strap, a Rollei soft collapsible shade hood, Rollei 24mm screw-on UV and medium yellow filters, and the original user manual.
For his dedication to promoting sports in our town and especially in the community of Yeguada. We grant him his name on this basketball court so that his name will be immortalized in our town of Camuy.
Dedicated to Liverpool. Birthplace of me.
The Liver building centenary light show by Macula. If you're interested I've uploaded the complete 10 minute show to youtube youtu.be/QqCnq6-ioN4
Daisy Eure Odell, age 88 of Eden,NC a dedicated mom, grandma and great grandma ,passed away on Monday November 7, 2011 at The Brian Center. Funeral services will be held 2 pm Thursday at Spray Baptist Church with burial to follow in Overlook Cemetery. Daisy was born October 9, 1923 in Spray to the late Spencer Lee and Mollie Davis Eure. Daisy retired from Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. after a long career in sewing. She often was the community seamstress and when needed was the neighborhood nurse. Daisy took care of those around her and started attending church when her father would take her with him. She was a lifelong member of Spray Baptist Church and remained forever active in her faith. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Willie Franklin Odell and numerous brothers and sisters. Surviving are five children; Jerry Odell and wife Peggy of Stoneville, Johnny Odell and wife Bonnie of Eden, Janice Hagood and husband Gene of Eden, Jo Wilson and husband Wayne of Wentworth and Jimmy Odell and wife Jan of Stoneville, sister Frances Eure Wade of Salem, Va., grandchildren; G.H. Odell, Kim Farrell, Pete Poteat, Brad Odell, Jessi Hagood, Morgan Yeung, Amy Lee, Kyle Rakes Odell, Spencer Odell, Wyatt Wilson, and Brett Wilson, 7 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Many thanks to the staff at the Brian Nursing Center and a very special thanks to Temeeka McKenzie. Family will receive friends at Fair Funeral Home from 7 - 9 pm Wednesday evening and other times at home of her daugher Janice, 114 North Oakland Ave. Eden, NC. In lieu of flowers please send contributions to Spray Baptist Church in memory of Daisy, a lifelong member of the congregation. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.fairfuneralhome.com
This is wall dedicated to the exhumed body of Saint Pio. His body was exhumed mid of 2008 after 40 years of burial.
Dedicated to Lorcan Otway and his wife, Genie Gilmore-Otway.
An ardently idealistic participant in a 2004 anti-war demonstration protesting the anniversary of the Iraq War and invasion, she's showing three 'outward signs' of her beliefs. First there's the wonderful work of protest art, the cardboard sign with the gorgeous face and bullseye; then there's the t-shirt showing her support for the presidential campaign of the pacifist vegetarian candidate Dennis Kucinich; finally there's the yellow "End War" tag hanging from her pouch bag, featuring the graphic of a rifle broken in two, the logo of the New York-based War Resister's League. She is truly, as we say in English, wearing her heart on her sleeve...
Sixth Ave.; New York City
Jack Northrop was fascinated by the idea of flying wings, and undertook a large number of projects dedicated to the idea. Though none of them panned out--he was decades ahead of his time--Northrop, throughout World War II, continued to work on the design. Project MX-334 was a USAAF requirement to develop a small, rocket powered interceptor, and Northrop had been awarded the contract. To test the idea, Northrop first built the MX-334 as a glider, and it was flown successfully as such in November 1943. The first rocket flight was conducted in July 1944, but by that time, the USAAF had other ideas for the MX-334.
The USAAF was aware of the existence of the V-1 cruise missile for some time, and after the Germans began launching them at London, a crash program was begun to develop the US' own cruise missile. Northrop was awarded this contract as well under Project MX-543, using MX-334 as the basis. The MX-334 was expanded and once more tested as a manned glider to check its aerodynamics in August 1944. By that point, it had been named the JB-1 Bat. The Bat flew well, so the project went forward.
That was when the Bat ran into issues: the propulsion was supposed to be two small turbojets, but when the JB-1 was first tested in December 1944, one engine promptly failed and the JB-1 crashed. The engines continually had issues, the JB-1 was found to be overweight, and Northrop was finding that it was too complex for what it was intended to do. The turbojets were dropped in favor of the Ford PJ31 pulsejet--a copy of the V-1's pulsejet propulsion. The JB-1 was falling behind the Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon, which itself was a slightly improved V-1.
Testing of the reengined JB-1 began in April 1945, but it continued to run into issues: only two out of ten flights were remotely successful. With the war ending and the JB-1 now eight times more expensive than the JB-2, the project was finally cancelled in 1946.
The only remaining relic of the JB-1 program was the manned glider, and in 1950, it was donated to the Northrop Aeronautical Institute. It remained there until 1984, when the JB-1 was donated to the Southern California Historical Aviation Foundation, and eventually to the Western Museum of Flight, when it was restored to its 1944 appearance.
This was an unexpected find at the WMOF, and an aircraft that I had no idea existed. The museum did an excellent job of restoration. I visited in June 2023.