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To what extent can media companies employ predictive analytics and other data driven approaches to improve content performance? This event, organized by NYC Media Lab and hosted by Bloomberg on February 25, fused short 5 minute presentations and discussion from startups, media companies and university researchers advancing the state of the art in a variety show intended to provoke discussion and debate on opportunities in this fast-moving field of interest.
Speakers included Brian Eoff, Lead Data Scientist, bitly; Ky Harlin, Director, Data Science, BuzzFeed; Mor Naaman, Associate Professor, Cornell Tech and Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Seen.co; Simon Smith, Senior Vice President, Platforms, News Corp; Joshua Schwartz, Lead Data Scientist, Chartbeat.com; and Lisa Strausfeld, Global Head of Data Visualization, Bloomberg LP.
Photos by Yang Jiang.
Learn more about NYC Media Lab at www.nycmedialab.org.
Theresa Irene Wolowski waving hello from The General Lee a 1969 Muscle car from the Chrysler Corporation driven by cousins Bo and Luke Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard which is on display at the Ben “Cooter” Jones, Cooter’s Place Dukes of Hazzard Museum and shop in the city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of America.
Tennessee known as the Volunteer State, has many symbols.
The tulip poplar was designated as the official state tree of Tennessee
Tennessee has two state flowers. The Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is the state's wildflower and the iris is the state's cultivated flower.
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country music, and rockabilly.
Tennessee has nine official state songs
1. My Homeland, Tennessee, by Nell Grayson Taylor (words) and Roy Lamont Smith (music)
2. When It's Iris Time in Tennessee, by Willa Waid Newman
3. My Tennessee, by Frances Hannah Tranum, is the state's official public school song
4. Tennessee Waltz, by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King
5. Rocky Top, by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
6. Tennessee, by Vivian Rorie
7. The Pride of Tennessee, by Fred Congdon, Thomas Vaughn and Carol Elliot
8. Smoky Mountain Rain, a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan that became a hit for Ronnie Milsap, was added to the list of state songs
9. Tennessee, written by John R. Bean of Knoxville
For more information about visiting Tennessee
Tennessee trip:
After breakfast, we will travel into the state of Tennessee to take a ride on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In the evening, we will travel to Pigeon Forge, TN to the famous dinner show, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, where we will enjoy some real southern cuisine.
Great Smoky Mountains, TN
Great Smoky Mountains Park This 520,000-acre park on the eastern border of Tennessee is a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage. It is the most-visited national park in the United States, and is renown for the beauty of its landscapes.
Ober Gatlinburg Aerial Tramway The Tramway takes 120 passengers 2.1 miles up the Great Smoky Mountains. Large windows offer magnificent views of the area. At night, passengers can see the lighted visages of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge as well as the nearby parkway.
Pigeon Forge, TN
Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede This Wild-West-Revue-type performance features animals such as pigs, horses, and chickens and is punctuated by a riding competition. The show starts an hour before dinner, with a musical act on the "Carriage Room" before guests are escorted into the arena.
In the morning, we will make our way to Chattanooga, TN and Lookout Mountain to see the Ruby Falls and Rock City. We will also take the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway.
Chattanooga, TN
Ruby Falls The Ruby Falls are a naturally-occurring underground waterfall in the appropriately-named Ruby Falls Caverns not far from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They are located underneath Lookout Mountain and are adjacent to the Lookout Mountain Caverns, although not connected.
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway The Incline Railway traces its history to 1895, when the a railway called "The Incline" opened to cart passengers to and from the peak of Lookout Mountain. It bills itself as one of the steepest railways worldwide.
Lookout Mountain This historic hilltop on the southern border of Tennessee has a colorful history as a place of importance during wartime. Most notably, it was the centerpiece of the Battle of Lookout Mountain during the American Civil War.
4-Day Tennessee, Smoky Mountain Tour from New York/New Jersey Tour Code: 272-227
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Pennsylvania - Welcome Center visit
Maryland - drive through with tour guide
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Tennessee, United States of America, North America
June 13th 2014
To say that I have driven along the St Olaves to Beccles road a thousand times is probably an exaggeration, but not by much. And yet I have never been tempted to explore the signs to the Waveney River Centre. But a friend here in Dover remarked on the unusual tower at Burgh St. Peter, but more of that later. As on the way there, I suddenly found All Saints beside a crossroads, and with the welcoming signs, I reversed up and parked.
The light rain had begun to fall as I left Bungay, and was set in for the day, as my Dad would have said. So after getting out of the car and grabbing the camera, just time to snap a shot of the church, before I rushed to the porch to try the door.
And as advertised, it was unlocked, and delightful. Even the apparently Victorian screen was several hundred years older than its appearances suggested, and then there is that unusual Chancel Arch, but Simon will explain that.
Best of all, for me, was the wonderful selection of prayer kneelers, several showing recognisable British Butterfly species, including the local rarity, the Swallowtail.
A church to return to on a sunny day.
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This quiet little spot in the middle of the marshland peninsula has a church which is far more interesting than at first it might appear. The compact graveyard is pretty full, a testimony to how busy this area was in the 18th and 19th century. The tower is a chequerboard of flint and brick, typical of the Tudors, and relatively unusual in Norfolk, although the same thing seems to have been begun at neighbouring Burgh. Burgh was never finished, but this one was, probably on the very eve of the Reformation. However, not everything planned here reached completion, as we shall see inside.
At first sight, the interior is entirely Victorianised, but this is not at all the case. For a start, although the colouring on the font has been renewed, it appears to match what is on the shaft.
And the whole piece is not vandalised at all. This may simply be because, judging from its style, it was produced almost immediately before the Reformation. It has the little heads familiar from other fonts in this area, nearby Aldeby for example, but here they have become angels, and the panels are heraldic in style - it takes a second glance to see that one of the panels depicts the Instruments of the Passion, and another a Holy Trinity symbol facing the wall. The font has certainly been moved by the Victorians, so perhaps the instruments were previously less visible.
The screen appears Victorian, but if you look closely you can see that the lace-like tracery is late 15th century. And then, look up. There is a vast chancel arch, but it is partly filled, and beneath it is a small arch into the current chancel, and an even smaller one into the north chancel aisle. what happened here? It appears that the nave was widened by moving the north wall outwards, and the great arch built in preparation for refashioning the chancel and aisle into a new, wider chancel. The south chancel aisle had already been demolished - witness the filled in arcade on the south wall of the chancel. But the new chancel never happened; the Reformation intervened.
Between the chancel and the aisle is a simple little tombchest, probably designed to act as an Easter Sepulchre. It is anonymous, but the Holy Trinity symbol held by an angel matches the one on the font which I believe to be contemporary with the tower, so what we have here may well be the tomb of the donor of the new church. Intriguingly, as DD pointed out, an angel on the other side holds a blank shield - was a set of Instruments of the Passion intended for it?
The survival of the font imagery might be explained by the brass to John London, who died in 1620 a strong Laudian, if his inscription is anything to go by. Unusually in this area, the Londons supported the Crown in the Civil War.
I loved the art nouveau font cover, a tree carved intricately in wood, rather like that in the window of St John the Baptist at nearby Haddiscoe. There is more of this carving up in the chancel, and it is extraordinary. Worth a visit on its own.
Simon Knott, February 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm
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WHETACRE.
Ralph Lord Bainard, for his services, was rewarded with this town, by the Conqueror, on the expulsion of Toret, a thane of King Edward, and was held by Geffrey under the Lord Baynard; it contained, on the Conqueror's grant, 2 carucates of land, 6 villians, 12 borderers with 2 servi, 2 carucates in demean, and 2 among the tenants, &c. 30 acres of meadow, 2 runci, and 11 cows, &c. 160 sheep, &c. and 6 freemen belonging to the lord's fold, and under his protection, held in King Edward's time 18 acres of land, a carucate and a half, with one acre of meadow; and there were 2 churches endowed with 60 acres, and valued at 5s. and the manor was valued at 30s. but at the survey at 50s. it was one leuca long, and half a leuca broad, and paid 16d. gelt. (fn. 1)
Jeffrey, who held it under the Lord Baynard, was a near relation of the Lord Bainard, who held it in capite. Juga, widow of that lord possessed it, and was succeeded by her son Jeffrey. William, his son, taking part with Elias Earl of Maine, in France, and other conspirators against King Henry I. was deprived of his barony of Bainard castle in London, which was granted to Robert, a younger son of Richard Fitz-Gilbert, whose son Walter Fitz-Robert succeeded, and the descendants of Jeffrey abovementioned held it of him; Thomas, son of Robert Bainard, holding it in the reign of Richard I. Robert Baynard had a charter Ao. 12, Edward II. for two fairs and two mercates here.
By an inquisition taken at Norwich, on the death of Robert Baynard, (fn. 2) of Whetacre, on April 16, Ao. 4 Edward III. the jurors find that he died seized of a capital messuage of no value, besides the repairs, a pigeon-house valued at 12d. per ann. 180 acres of arable land valued at 4l. 10s. 6d. per acre, 100 acres of salt marsh at 100s. per ann. 20 of gross wood, without underwood, valued at 2d. per acre, a windmill at 20s. per ann. rents of assize payable at Lady-day, Midsummer, and Michaelmas, 6l. 6s. 4d. copyholders days works between Michaelmas and St. Peter ad vincula 10s. and between that feast and Michaelmas 20s. pleas and perquisites of court 10s. per ann. held of the Lord FitzWalter, and Thomas was his son and heir, aged 26.
This Thomas Bainard sold this lordship, in the 10th of the said King, to Sir Thomas Rosceline, from whom it came (as may be seen at large in Edgfield) to John Lord Willoughby of Eresby, and from them to Richard Bertue, by the heiress, whose son Peregrine, was Lord Willoughby in his mother's right, and presented to the church in 1602.
John Wentworth, Esq. was lord of both manors, and patron of the two churches, September 21, Ao. 16 James I. and Sir John Wentworth was his son and heir.
Matthew Bluck, Esq. one of the six clerks in Chancery, was lord in 1675, and in this family it remained, till conveyed to William Grimston, Esq.
The Lord Bainard had also the grant of another lordship in this town, of which a freeman of Herold the King was deprived, and consisted of 2 carucates of land, 10 villains, 5 borderers, 4 servi 2 carucates in demean, and 2 among the tenants, &c. with 30 acres of meadow; Robert, son of Corbution, (or Corbun,) claimed it, and had livery. Here was pasture for 200 sheep, 2 runci, 7 cows, &c. 6 bee skeps, 7 freemen under commendation belonged to the lord's fold, with 18 acres of land, 2 carucates and an acre of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 45s.; this came to the Lord Bainard, by an exchange, and Frankus held it of him. (fn. 3)
The ancient family of De Edisfeld or Edgfield, was soon after the Conquest enfeoffed of this lordship, and held it in the reign of Henry II. from whom it came by an heiress, to Sir William de Rosceline, and was held of the Lord Fitz Walter, as in Chatgrave, Edgfield, &c. Sir Thomas Rosceline dying sine prole, it came to the Lords Willoughby, &c. as above.
The tenths were 3l. 10s.— Deducted 10s.—Temporalities of Norwich priory 13s. 4d.
The temporalities of Langley abbey 3l. 5s. 5d. a manor is said to belong to Whetacre.
Here were two churches; one dedicated to St. Peter, a rectory valued at 11 marks, the rector had a manse with 3 acres of land, Peter-pence were, 16d. carvage 4d. ob. This is called Whetacre Burgh.
Rectors.
In 1301, John Baynard, instituted rector, presented by Lady Joan, relict of Sir Robert Baynard.
1304, Thomas Baynard, by ditto.
1316, John Baynard, by Sir Robert Baynard. (fn. 4)
1325, Gerard de Horstede, by ditto; he is called Esquire of the Laby Roscelyne, went in a lay-coloured habit (veste stragulata) and had not the clerical tonsure.
1334 John de La Grene, by Sir Thomas Roscelyn.
1355, Mr. William Graa, by Sir William Synthwait, in right of his wife Joan, late relict of John Lord Willoughby.
1365, William Malebys, by ditto.
1376, Sim. de Kilpesham, by Sir Robert de Willoughby, Lord Eresby.
1379, Mr. Robert de Weston, by William Ufford Earl of Suffolk, Sir Roger Scales, Sir Robert Howard, &c.
1382, John Sayer, by Robert Lord Willughby.
1398, Henry Wodestoke, by ditto.
1398, Robert Coucliff, by ditto.
1401, William Linchewyk, by ditto.
1403, John Burges, by ditto.
1414, Richard Facon, by Robert Lord Willoughby.
1434, William Themilby, by ditto, in right of the manor of Whetacre.
1436, William Castell, by Sir William Tireshit, Richard Yardesburgh, and John Wyles, Esq. feoffees of Robert Lord Willoughby.
1444, Henry Bramerton, by Robert Lord Willoughby.
1465, John Mareys, by Richard de Wells Lord Willughby.
1480, Robert Monger, by Richard Hastings Lord Welles.
1500, William Ward, by ditto.
1501, William Hantensale, by Sir Richard Hastings.
1508, George Washingham, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1536, Richard Hill, by Mary Lady Willoughby, widow.
1545, Andrew Hawes, by Catharine Dutchess of Suffolk, daughter of William Lord Willughby,
1553, Henry Bacon, by Richard Bertier, Esq. of Ormsthorp in Lincolnshire, in right of his wife Catharine.
1555, Robert Ullothornes, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1556, Henry Hill, by the assignees of William Heronden, a trustee of Richard Bertie, Esq. &c.
1602, Edward Stanhawe, by the assignees of Peregrine Lord Willoughby.
1618, Christopher Milne, by Euseb. Paget, clerk.
1659, Henry Watts, by Ann Melling.
Daniel Benton, rector.
1669, Phil. Prime, by Thomas Garneys, Esq.
1713, Thomas Page, by William Grimstone. Esq.
1764, Mr. Samuel Boycot.
The present valor is 7l. 6s. 8d. and is discharged.
The other church is dedicated to All-Saints. John de Bumstede is said to have had an interest in the patronage, but in the beginning of Edward II. the family of Baynard; the rector had then a beautiful manse, and it was valued at 5l. Peter-pence 12d. carvage 4d. ob.
Rectors.
1316, Sim. de Berningham, presented by Sir Robert Baynard.
Sim. Croppe, rector.
1357, William de Merse, by Sir William Synthweit.
1360, John Hoppe, by William Ufford Earl of Suffolk.
1404, John Draper, by William Lord Willougby.
1405, John Goldspring, by ditto.
1409, John Tenalby, by ditto.
1409, Nicholas Tydd, by ditto.
1412, Richard Newman, by Robert Lord Willoughby.
1437, Andrew Dean, by ditto.
1445, John Annotson, by ditto.
1450, William Gilbert, by ditto.
1476, John Mareys, by Rich. Hastings Lord Welles and Willoughby.
1494, John Hoker, by ditto.
1497, Robert Proveyt, L.L. B. by ditto.
1510, John Shilton, by William Lord Willoughby.
1510, Edward Lamson, by ditto.
Nicholas Chamberlin.
1522, Thomas Bingley, by ditto.
1538, John Thuxton.
1539, Nicholas Dade, by ditto.
1440, Roger Gavell, by Charles Duke of Suffolk, and Catharine his Dutchess.
1555, Mr. William Botiler, by the Bishop, a lapse,
1556, Thomas Robinson, by William Herenden, Esq.
1557, Henry Hill, by ditto.
¶1572, Roger Gavel, by Richard Bertie, Esq. in right of Catherine his wife.
1602, Euseb. Paget, by the assigns of Peregrine Bertie; he returned 68 communicants in 1603.
1650, Henry Watts.
1658, John Morris, by Lady Anne Wentworth.
1673, Thomas Lunn.
1675, Phil. Prime, by Matthew Bluck, Esq.
1713, Thomas Page, by William Grimston, Esq.
1715, John Guavas, by ditto.
1758, Mr. Christopher Smear, presented by Lynn Smear, clerk.
The presented valor, is 6l. 6s. 4d. and is discharged.
On a stone, with a brass plate, by the font,
Rob'tus London, arcâ, cum conjuge, sacra; Hac fatum subiens, consepilitur humo. Ambo fælices, numerosâ prole beati, Complent hospitio, pacificiq; dies Illa obt. Junij 1620. Ille Oct. 1627,
There was an ancient family of the Whitacres, who had an interest in a lordship. (fn. 5)
William de Whitacre was found to hold one fee of the barony of Baynard, in this town, in the begining of King Henry the Third's reign.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8...
I am in a very small Facebook group for people that have been through something terrible in their past whether it be rape, molestation, they were beaten, etc. A question was asked to us yesterday... IF you could say something to your abuser what would it be?
I thought about it all night and I would say this.
First thing that came to mind was FUCK YOU. Anger and rage. wanting to tell him off. But then I thought more about it and I have way more to say to him than just negative anger that will get me nowhere. So this is what I would say..
Dear Abuser,
You may have broken me in the past but you will NEVER break me forever. You have taught me a LOT and made me the person I am today. So, thank you for making me be the loving, kind, understanding, helpful, driven, motivated, successful person I am today. Thank you for making me want to push as hard as I can to be the best person I can be. To work hard to be a good, kind, motivated person. For pushing me to want to be super successful. Thank you because my mom found the amazing, loving, kind, helpful, super hard working, super motivated, patient, understanding man that she oh so deserved that has shown her what true love is. Thank you because my mom has finally found true love and learned to actually love again. Thank you because my mom has everything she deserves and more and is loving her life today, thank you because that same man my mom found is now my brother and sisters father that we so deserved, thank you because I push extra hard to raise my boys to respect women and treat them with the MOST respect and love they know how, thank you for making me the very positive person I am today, thank you because I am who I am today because of what you put me through.
So no, I will not remain angry and call you every name in the book for what you did to us. Instead I will thank you because my family and I are living our lives today like we deserve and have learned to have a different outlook on life because of what we went through. I probably wouldn't be as understanding as I am if it wasn't for what we went through. So thank you.
I may have had a scary, terrifying past but because of you I now have the most amazing present and future.
sincerely, someone who did NOT allow you to break me......
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Seen at Southampton Docks. Driven by Graham Thomas and Enrico Bruni This left-hand drive Giulia Sprint Speciale well known to the team at Bonhams - was built in 1964 and raced in period. It was subsequently restored and race-prepared in the 1980s for Stefano d'Amico, President of the Registro Italiano Alfa Romeo, by well-known Roman specialist Franco Angellini. Modifications from original specification include stiffening the chassis, fitting a Colotti limited-slip differential and close-ratio gearbox, tubular exhaust, oil cooler and blueprinting the engine, which develops around 160bhp. In this form the car won two Italian historic championships, took part in the Coppa d'Italia, Nurburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix and other events. Bought at auction circa 1989 by Lord Brocket, it subsequently passed into the ownership of Michael Campbell-Bowing, who raced it successfully in HSCC events.
In June 1997 the car was sold at Brooks' Goodwood Festival of Speed sale, racing subsequently in the HSCC championship, Gentleman Drivers Series, Grand Prix Historique de Pau, Trofeo Alberto Ascari, Spa Ferrari days and at Goodwood in 2002. In addition, it was selected as one of the display cars outside the London Science Museum exhibition: 'Stealing Beauty' and has featured in Auto Italia and Autocar magazines as well as appearing many times in the Giulietta Letta. In June 2004 the car changed hands again, finding a new owner at Bonhams' Goodwood Festival of Speed sale (Lot 792). At that time the car was said to have had in excess of £45,000 invested to date.
The current owner purchased the Alfa at Bonhams' Goodwood Festival of Speed sale in July 2010 (Lot 391). Sine acquisition the car has competed in one race the GTSCC/IHCC event at the Silverstone Classic in 2011 and is offered fresh from a full engine rebuild undertaken by marque specialists RMR Restorations at a cost in excess of £10,000 (bills on file). The engine has only been run on the dynamometer since the rebuild.
Probably the best known and certainly one of the fastest Sprint Speciales in Europe, 'EBY 258B' has been maintained to full racing standard and is offered with FIA/HSCC papers and Swansea V5 registration document. Eligible for the Masters, GTSCC, HSCC, Goodwood, etc, this beautiful little Alfa represents an affordable invitation to all the best historic events.
The Trump Administration is the Continuation of the 2nd American Revolution, which began with the Tea Party grass roots movement.
President Trump may become the most consequential president since Abraham Lincoln.......
America has been driven into a state of Drastic Division by the Leftist Movement's steam rolling over and capturing virtually every governmental and cultural institution in America during the past few decades.
There was never a national vote for Americans to weigh in on regarding whether their children should be subjected to Leftist Movement Propaganda in their grade schools and throughout their education, as just ONE example.
Thus, the Leftist Movement constructed their own 'Iron Curtain', manned by deadly Leftist Ideologues in the Watch Towers of the federal bureaucracies, the Media, Hollywood, the education system, etc., locking out the American People from having a say in what their and their children's future would look like.
Woe to any American citizen who tried to cross the firing zone of this Leftist ideological Iron Curtain, and challenge the smugness of the Leftist Narrative. Children in schools dare not question their Leftist Orthodox teachers, as one example.
Look at the recent revelations at Google, where employees must toe the Leftist Idiotology line, or be put on an industry wide Blacklist, and be fired from Google.
Over the past decades, the Leftist Movement DIVIDED the country into two camps. Those who succumbed to and accepted wholeheartedly the Leftist Orthodoxy, and those Americans who continue to revere the time tested heritage of 'Americanism', i.e. self reliance, self motivation, earning your way, building a company or a career, the rule of law, and the freedom to speak our own minds, and challenge Leftist orthodoxy.
The phrase uttered by Leftists such as Obama and Hillary Clinton, "You didn't build that" perfectly epitomizes the magnetic repelling of these two, polar opposite ideologies, Leftism and Americanism.
The Left says, "You Didn't Build that !", and most Americans say, "The Hell We Didn't !".
In other words, the American People would NOT be so drastically divided had it NOT been for the Tidal Wave of the Leftist Propaganda Onslaught in all of our lives from every governmental and cultural institution we touch in our daily lives.
The American People have NOT been so drastically divided since prior to the Civil War, 170 years ago, over the issue of slavery.
And this leads to another observation.....
What kind of a toothless Republican party have we had over these past decades which simply sat on it’s thumbs as the Leftist Movement captured the Democrat party, and turned virtually every institution, every government agency, Hollywood and the whole cultural panoply, and the education system into hard Left organizations bent on ‘Transforming” America into another Leftist state heading toward failure?
Donald Trump has been the first national leader to effectively wield a HUGE counter blow to this Leftist Movement, and their allies, the RINOs / Never Trumpers.
If the Trump presidency, with the whole hearted backing of enough of the American People, can succeed with the America First Agenda, president Trump may break the back of the Leftist Movement and all of it's Idiotology Agenda for 'Transforming' America into another failed leftist state.
And, in so doing, the American People will kick the Leftist Movement to the curb, and disregard it as little more than a rump party. In this manner, the American People will be RESTORED to harmony, and the traditional American Values will have triumphed over the alien ideology of Leftism....but, there is a LOT of work to be done by the American People to achieve this glorious goal. President Trump is the spark....the American People must be the FIRE!
This will be an accomplishment similar to what the Civil War accomplished, in creating a unified nation with a unified philosophy, a return to traditional American shared values across the many groups which make up our nations citizenry.
Although, from our vantage point, today, it seems an almost impossibility that the Leftist Hegemony which dominates our institutions and cultural CAN actually be beaten back, and largely consigned to irrelevancy. One has to acknowledge that a very significant part of the American population very clearly sees the inanity, and dire danger that Leftist Idiotology (Green New Deal...if this isn't Idiotology, what is?) poses to the American People and Nation. It was this growing clarity among the American People which catapulted Donald Trump into the presidency.
There is a generation of work to do to UNDO the Leftist stranglehold upon our institutions and culture....but, we may just be witnessing the beginnings of this undoing.
Thus, president Trump, the first national leader to point to the Leftist Movement, which has become our Emperor, and loudly state the obvious, that the Emperor has NO Clothes, may become the most consequential president since Abraham Lincoln, by jump starting the American People's rejection of the Idiotology of the Leftist Movement, and restoring the goodwill of the American People, and their overwhelmingly shared resolve to keep the American Experiment going well and strong into another hundred years or more.
Monster Jam Triple Threat Series presented by AMSOIL @ Verizon Center, Washington, DC on January 28, 2017
Featuring:
Grave Digger driven by Krysten Anderson,
El Toro Loco driven by Armando Castro,
Pirate's Curse driven by Camden Murphy,
Megalodon driven by Justin Sipes,
Alien Invasion driven by Bernard Lyght,
Zombie driven by Ami Houde, Monster Mutt Rottweiler driven by JR Seasock,
Blue Thunder driven by Matt Cody,
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Promise Fulfilled, Accomplishment Achieved at WSSU Commencement on May 14
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- For Jeanette Valentine, earning her bachelor’s degree in business administration will be fulfilling on many levels.
Valentine, 50, is one of the approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are expected to participate in WSSU’s Spring Commencement exercises on May 14 at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Stephen A. Smith, noted journalist, media personality and motivational speaker, will be the keynote speaker.
Commencement will mark a special satisfaction not just because Valentine, a travel audit officer in WSSU’s accounting department, will be graduating with her 24-year-old son William R. Valentine. It’s because of a long-time promise fulfilled. Valentine made the promise to her mother back in 1978. Her mother and father never graduated from high school. When Valentine’s mother, who was battling cancer, asked her to promise she would graduate college, Valentine did. Valentine’s mother died two weeks before she graduated high school. Valentine was devastated over losing her mother.
“I started school at WSSU that year, but it lasted only one semester. I didn’t have the drive. I was still too distressed and overcome by my mother’s death. I couldn’t focus on school,” Valentine said.
Instead, Valentine got married, had two children and eventually went to work at a few jobs before coming to work at WSSU in 2006. In 2007, she decided to return to school since her children were adults. At the same time, her son who graduated high school in 2004 was thinking about returning to college after quitting previously. By fall 2007, both with full-time jobs returned to school at WSSU. He was an exercise science major and she was in the School of Business and Economics.
“He was so career focused on his job and he was doing well. But I kept pushing him and telling him he had to get a degree. I was thrilled he came back to school and that we were in school at the same time. It was exciting,” said Valentine.
Eventually Valentine saw her son was distracted by work. They talked and it was he who asked they agree to push each other so they could graduate at the same time.
That time is now. Valentine is thrilled they are graduating together. She says it feels like she has kept the promise made to her mother times two.
“In addition to the accomplishment, it may be quite an emotional day,” Valentine said.
Valentine is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for collegiate schools of business as well as Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for Adult Learners in Continuing Higher Education. She plans to pursue her master’s degree at Liberty University.
Extraordinary Journey
It will be a festive ending to an extraordinary journey for Jerrica Scott, 24, of Winston-Salem. For Scott, commencement will symbolize the end of a passage marked by limitations, fear and uncertainty. It will be a celebration of a personal renaissance, driven by a theme that anything is possible with faith, passion and purpose.
“No matter how bad things may look, you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of others if you work really hard and know things can change. Soon things may look different, then not so bad, better, even good.”
Scott’s journey is verification of her belief. She entered WSSU to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in elementary education six years ago as a single teen-aged mom. During that time as a full-time student, living on her own with her young daughter, she worked full-time, changed majors multiple times, quit school, got married, had another child, returned to school, made up a semester of credits lost when she quit and found her way back to the major that gave her the purpose.
“Just before I started my freshman year, I could hear people saying now that I had a baby as a teenager, my life was over or I wouldn’t get very far,” noted Scott. “Because I got pregnant in high school and had a baby in my first year of college, it didn’t mean I would be a failure. I did not want to be the stereotype of a young single mom who would work only at fast food restaurants or be on welfare the rest of her life.”
Although Scott was determined, she became distracted during her second year.
“I was failing classes miserably. I was living on my own and I was 18 years old. I felt lost and beaten, so I quit school,” Scott said who worked as a waitress. “Then one day, my manager told me the biggest thing he regretted was not finishing school. So if you don’t want to be waiting tables for the rest of your life, you need to go back to school. “
That was the turning point for Scott. She also thought about her mother, a cosmetologist, who always stressed the importance of education and often expressed interest in wanting her children to be greater than she. Scott soon quit her job and returned to school. Her best friend and others helped her find her way back to the major that aligned with where her talents and passions had always been -- elementary education.
“My best friend told me this is what I suppose to be doing. She told me we are going over there right now and you are going to get enrolled back into school. I just thank her,” said Scott.
Then she met a good man who cared about her and her daughter. It was like an unattainable dream. They soon married. Her second daughter was born in 2010. Now in school and completely focused on her education, Scott delivered the baby on a Friday and returned class on Monday.
Scott is currently working as a substitute teacher and searching for a fulltime permanent teaching job. She is also going to be the “first in my family to graduate college.”
Multiple Job Offers Early in Her Senior Year
Information technology major Kristen Dunlap, 21, of Charlotte, has accomplished a standout achievement, even before she completed her last year of college. In this challenging economy, she had two job offers from Fortune 500 companies one before her senior year, the other early in her senior year. She selected one position which she will begin this summer.
Dunlap attributes her success to internships, which she began participating in back in her freshman year. That first one was a summer research experience for undergraduate WSSU computer science students at WSSU, funded by NASA. She used, GIS visualization tools to visualize North Carolina weather patterns. The goal of the summer program was to expose students to researching skills and help to develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills.
For her second year, Dunlap interned at the NASA Langley, Va., facility where she worked as a liaison between the technology and client teams for the database tracking system used to manage NASA’s contractual projects.
For summer 2010, she was an intern at Altria Client Services in Richmond ,Va., where she worked on data archiving to consolidate previous and current information to migrate to a new system.
“You can never underestimate the value of internships. I started utilizing the WSSU Career Services office in my second year. My parents always told me to be aggressive at seeking job opportunities. I didn’t want to be a person to work hard for four years and have no job in the end,” Dunlap said.
She will start her new job at Altria Client Services as an IT assistant analyst.
The Entertainment Mogul
Erikka Rainey, 22, of Philadelphia wants to be a female Sean “P-Diddy” Combs. In fact, she has wanted to be an entertainment mogul from a very young age. As a child, she dabbled in music and even took classes, but by age 14, she knew wholeheartedly that she wanted to be on the business side of the music industry.
“When I first learned about P-Diddy, I knew that was where I wanted my future to be,” said Rainey. “I look up to P- Diddy because I’m working to be the first female to start a record label, then restaurants, clothing lines and television shows.”
When she sees a famous entertainer, she wonders what sort of things they did in their career to get famous. If not famous, she wonders what it would take to make them famous. While at WSSU she jumped at every opportunity to market and promote musical artists and events. She worked with Hidden Beach Recordings to promote events for a new CD. She passed out flyers and did social media and internet marketing for jazz artist Monette Sudler of Philadelphia this past summer.
“If there’s one thing I live by, it’s take advantage of all opportunities. Don’t close yourself off to anything. You never know what you will learn that can be the key to your future,” Rainey said.
An honor student, Rainey will be attending New York University’s (NYU) music business program in the fall. She plans to maintain at least one home in New York City after graduate school when her career kicks off.
The Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York – This unique sea-dwelling rabbit, which is actually a close relative of the sea lion, was officially discovered and investigated by Henry Hudson when he first visited this land to colonize the area by order of the Dutch government. It was named New Amsterdam -- today’s New York City. This island was named after he saw the beach covered with strange swimming wild rabbits. The word “Coney Island” means “wild rabbit island” in Dutch (originally Conyne Eylandt, or Konijneneiland in modern Dutch spelling). Sea rabbits were also referred mermaid rabbit, merrabbit, rabbit fish or seal rabbit in the natural history documents in the 17th century. The current conservation status, or risk of extinction, of the sea rabbit is Extinct in the Wild.
This website features two species of sea rabbits, which have been taken care of by Dr. Takeshi Yamada (山田武司) at the Coney Island Sea Rabbit Repopulation Center, which is a part of the Marine biology department of the Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. They are – Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) called “Seara” and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus) called “Stripes”.
The photographs and videos featured in this website chronicle adventures of the Coney Island sea rabbits and the world as seen by them. This article also documented efforts of Dr. Takeshi Yamada for bringing back the nearly extinct sea rabbits to Coney Island in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada produced a series of public lectures, workshops, original public live interactive fine art performances and fine art exhibitions about sea rabbits at a variety of occasions and institutions in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada is an internationally active educator, book author, wildlife conservationist and high profile artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sea Rabbit
Other Common Names: Coney Island Sea Rabbit, Beach Rabbit, Seal Rabbit, mer-rabbit, merrabbit, Atlantic Sea Rabbit.
Latin Name: Monafluffchus americanus
Origin: Atlantic coast of the United States
Description of the specimen: In the early 17th century’s European fur craze drove the fleet of Dutch ships to the eastern costal area of America. Then Holland was the center of the world just like the Italy was in the previous century. New York City was once called New Amsterdam when Dutch merchants landed and established colonies. Among them, Henry Hudson is probably the most recognized individual in the history of New York City today. “This small island is inhabited by two major creatures which we do not have in our homeland. The one creature is a large arthropod made of three body segments: the frontal segment resembles a horseshoe, the middle segment resembles a spiny crab and its tail resembles a sharp sword. Although they gather beaches here in great numbers, they are not edible due to their extremely offensive odor. Another creature which is abundant here, has the head of wild rabbit. This animal of great swimming ability has frontal legs resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The bottom half of the body resembles that of a seal. This docile rabbit of the sea is easy to catch as it does not fear people. The larger male sea rabbits control harems of 20 to 25 females. The meat of the sea rabbit is very tender and tasty.” This is what Hadson wrote in his personal journal in 1609 about the horseshoe crab and the sea rabbit in today’s Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York. Sadly, just like the Dodo bird and the Thylacine, the sea rabbit was driven to extinction by the European settlers’ greed. When Dutch merchants and traders arrived here, sea rabbits were one of the first animals they hunted down to bring their furs to homeland to satisfy the fur craze of the time. To increase the shipment volume of furs of sea rabbit and beavers from New Amsterdam, Dutch merchants also started using wampum (beads made of special clam shells) as the first official currency of this country.
At the North Eastern shores of the United States, two species of sea rabbits were commonly found. They are Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus). Sadly, due to their over harvesting in the previous centuries, their conservation status became “Extinct in the Wild” (ET) in the Red List Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently, these sea rabbits are only found at breeding centers at selected zoos and universities such as Coney Island Aquarium and Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The one shown in this photograph was named "Seara" and has been cared by Dr. Takeshi Yamada at Coney Island University.
The sea rabbit is one of the families of the Pinniped order. Pinnipeds (from Latin penna = flat and pes/pedis = foot) are sea-mammals: they are homeothermic (i.e having high and regulated inner temperature), lung-breathing (i.e dependant on atmospheric oxygen) animals having come back to semi aquatic life. As soon as they arrive ashore, females are caught by the nearest adult male. Males can maintain harems of about 20 females on average. Several hours to several days after arriving ashore, pregnant females give birth to eight to ten pups with a dark brown fur. As soon as birth occurs, the mother’s special smell and calls help her pups bond specifically to her. The mother stays ashore with her pup for about one week during which the pup gains weight. During the first week spent with her newborn, the mother becomes receptive. She will be impregnated by the bull, which control the harem. Implantation of the embryo will occur 3 months later, in March-April. During the reproductive period, the best males copulate with several tens females. To do so, males have to stay ashore without feeding in order to keep their territory and their harem. In mid-January, when the last females have been fecundated, males leave at sea to feed. Some of them will come back later in March-April for the moult. The other ones will stay at sea and will come back on Coney Island only in next November. After fecundation, the mother goes at sea for her first meal. At sea, mothers feed on clams, crabs, shrimps, fish (herring, anchovy, Pollock, capelin etc.) and squids. When she is back, the mother recovers her pups at the beach she left them. Suckling occurs after auditive and olfactory recognition had occured. In March-April, the dark brown fur is totally replaced by an adult-like light brownish grey fur during the moult that lasts 1-2 months. This new fur is composed by 2 layers. Externally, the guard fur is composed by flat hairs that recover themselves when wet. By doing so, they make a water-proof barrier for the under fur. The underfur retains air when the seal is dry. Because of isolating properties of the air, the underfur is the insulating system of the fur. In March-April, the fur of adults is partially replaced. First reproduction occurs at 1-yr old in females. Males are physiologically matures at 1 year old but socially matures at +2 years old.
NOTE: The name of Coney Island is commonly thought to be derived from the Dutch Konijn Eylandt or Rabbit Island as apparently the 17th century European settlers noted many rabbits running amuck on the island.
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Ford Shelby Mustang GT350 driven by Paul Chase-Gardner and David Allen during the 2012 Spa Six Hours.
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A Photo A Day For A Year
Day 15 / 365
I almost died the other day. For once, there is actually no hyperbole in that statement. I really did come that close. Allow me to explain.
Thanks to you guys, I was able to take that long, treacherous journey from southeast Iowa to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to pick the girl up. And oh my god if that drive wasn't the most perilous and difficult one that I have ever made. I've been through the Rocky Mountains at the tail end of winter. I've driven the twenty-six hours to New Orleans and back in a single go, and just about every crevice of interstate in between and never have I experienced what I did on the drive here. I type this from Pittsburgh, actually, two days after my intended date of departure. I'm kind of scared to leave to be honest with you.
I made it through Illinois without much to write about. It was a little blustery, a little windy, but the drive was pretty standard fare. In fact, I was quite elated to get through the entire state without seeing even a single police officer. That was a first. But then I hit Indiana and the snow really started to fall.
This was a huge problem because my windshield wipers are pretty much inoperative. They don't do their job well without the aid of wiper fluid and my nozzle has been completely frozen solid since winter began. Even when I poured hot water over the thing at my first gasoline stop, it refroze within minutes. The wind chill outside was a staggering -27 degrees Fahrenheit and I realized pretty quickly that the effort to keep the port open was a fool's errand. Semi-trucks kept kicking up dirty slush and rendered my windshield obscured to the point where it was very hard to see through it. And it kept happening over and over and over again. By the time I hit the Ohio border (nine hours into what is usually a ten hour drive in total), I was exhausted.
And then the heavy snow turned whiteout.
I arrived in Columbus, Ohio at about ten-thirty and was greeted by a six lane interstate that was 100% unplowed. The roads were slick and the cars on either side of me didn't seem to mind that fact much. They were flying by at speeds that I couldn't even dare climb to even if I wanted to reach them. I kept my speedometer needle hovering at around 60 MPH (what I deemed to be a safe speed given the circumstances) and tried to inch my way through the city. I still couldn't see much through that obscured windshield and it was ten times worse now that there was so much snow involved. I thought back to the morning when my brother Dakota scolded me for even considering the drive in such conditions.
"The roads are straight shit, dude." He told me.
"Nah, they aren't so bad." I replied, then promptly left.
I took the exit to Wheeling, West Virginia and hit a patch of black ice as I was coming off of it. This is normal even in Iowa and I'm well aware of how to correct such an event, so I turned in the direction of my spin and, upon correcting myself, immediately hit another patch of black ice. My car spun out, then kept spinning through all six lanes of traffic, and landed less than eight inches from the embankment on the left side. Somehow, something that I can't rationalize or explain, I didn't hit a single car. I didn't hit the edge of the embankment. Instead, I was momentarily stuck on the edge of the road with a body so full of adrenaline that I was still shaking when I finally did arrive to Pennsylvania some five hours later.
Now, I'm not a believer in miracles or divine intervention or anything like that. In fact, I'm pretty damn skeptical of anything even remotely resembling supernatural activity. I used to go ghost hunting with my buddy Joel, an avid believer in the supernatural, and I would crack wise-ass jokes and upset him greatly in the middle of the night at various cemeteries or basements. To me, when you die, you simply become worm food. There is no more you. You are extinguished, you are a dead light-bulb, you are a decaying corpse that no longer exists in any capacity beyond the cadaver. I've long maintained that position and I still do believe that. So, when I'd ghost hunt with Joel, the whole thing just reeked of silliness to me. I couldn't take it seriously.
But god damn if I don't have a hard time rationalizing the piling coincidence of this. How did I spin through so much traffic and avoid hitting a single car? How did I land so conveniently close to an embankment and not slam into it? How was I able to simply put my car in a different gear to get myself unstuck? The whole thing really put my head for a loop and even now, even right here in Pennsylvania retelling the event, I can't get over just how lucky I was in that moment. In all, the whole thing happened in probably six seconds. It wasn't the kind of thing where time slowed down and I was able to make sense of it before it ended. Everything happened so fast and then it was over. Cars continued to fly by me at rapid pace. The world kept spinning. The snow kept falling. My windshield was still madly obscured.
I'm a little nervous to get back on the road tomorrow morning, though I have so much work to get through that it makes me a little nauseous to think about. I know I need to get back. I know I gotta get back to the grind, start the videos again, etc; etc. I have to do this. But it scares me.
So I apologize for the last couple days with no output on these custom Patreon posts, but I haven't had access to a computer and I didn't particularly want to create posts that didn't have much graphical content. But I felt like I owed you guys an explanation as to my whereabouts and this story was too much to not share.
I will update you again (this time with photos) tomorrow evening when I arrive back to my house in Iowa. Wish us luck. I'll see you guys on the other side. Love you.
The scissor lift did not provide enough torque. Time for plan B a wheel driven brick post. Hopefully this provide a lot more torque!
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N°82930
The race list of Talbot-Lago T150 C number 82930 is a comprehensive list of racing. Evocative names, famous circuits and colorful owners make up ist thoroughbred history. This car participated in 28 Grand Prix and it competed at Le Mans no fewer than four times. It has covered the dangerous, gruelling yet scenic 1,000 mile journey of the Mille Miglia on five separately occasions. It has been driven by some of the greatest drivers the sport has produced : Cadot, Chiron, Chinetti, Bradley, Levegh. It has fought for victory on the world's most famous circuits. Names that are as famous now as they were 50 years ago. Names such as the Nürburgring, Silverstone, Donington and Le Mans.
Chassis number 82930 was built to be driven by works driver Jimmy Bradley, the son of the respected Autocar journalist William Bradley. In the event the factory were persuaded to sell the car to the wealthy financier Francisque Cadot. The car was delivered in time for him to campain it in the AFC Grand Prix. The factory later decided to take the car back and display it on the Talbot-Lago stand at the Salon de l'Auto in October 1936. After the show the car regained its liberty. Chinetti, the crew chief of Francisque Cadot, set up a racing team. He later went on to become the first official Ferrari importer into the United States. While still independent, Chinetti's team retained strong links with the factory's works team. This "Team B" raced both 82930 and its sister car 82932. The factory asked Chinetti to represent him at the 1937 Mille Miglia. At this time the car had the chassis number 82933. Customs paperwork was required for the race, and 82933 was not an official works car. The factory therefore, renumbered 82933 as 82930 the chassis number the car still wears today.
The car was campained superbly until the breakout of war, taking part at Le Mans in 1937. It was driven by the great French driver Chiron, a man who's stature is unparalleled in Grand Prix racing and is highly regarded even today. Not content with racing just once at Le Mans, the car went on to compete again in 1938 and in 1939. It was raced at the Spa 24 Hours, and participated in the gruelling Liege-Rome-Liege rally in 1938.
From the end of 1938 though the end of the 1946 season, the car was raced almost exclusively by Levegh. The real name of this extraordinary driver was Pierre Bouillon.
International racing was stopped during the war. In 1945, 82930's second and equally illustrious career began. With its modified body, factory allocated chassis number and brilliant drivers. 82930 helped disquise the harsh reality, and demonstrated the promise of a strong future.
In 1949 the car participated in the first Le Mans 24 Hours since the end of the war and campained successfully in a series of French Grand Prix. By 1950, 82930 was allowed to recuperate. During this time the car went through the hands of a few French owners. Among them was the colourful Raymond Reynier. He was given the ironically nickname Picasso. It was stemmed from the dedication and respect with which he personally applied the racing numbers to 82930.
In 1983 the car was sold to its first English owner Charles Howard who later sold the car on to Dan Margulies. These enthusiastic owners brought the car back to racing all over Europe.
The car now is in a ready to race condition and has a lovely patina from an older restoration but was always maintained carefully.
Estimation 1 200 000 - 1 600 000 €
Vendu 1,461,792 €
1969 Chevron B16 driven by Ralph Manaker during Sprint Race #1 for Group 6 on Saturday at the 2015 Jefferson 500.
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Ford Chip Ganassi Racing
Ford GT driven by Richard Westbrook, Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon to the GTLM class win.
Monster Jam Triple Threat Series presented by AMSOIL @ Verizon Center, Washington, DC on January 28, 2017
Featuring:
Grave Digger driven by Krysten Anderson,
El Toro Loco driven by Armando Castro,
Pirate's Curse driven by Camden Murphy,
Megalodon driven by Justin Sipes,
Alien Invasion driven by Bernard Lyght,
Zombie driven by Ami Houde, Monster Mutt Rottweiler driven by JR Seasock,
Blue Thunder driven by Matt Cody,
Reading Buses at Brooklands during the London Bus Museum's Spring Gathering. 809 the University Bus with and upstairs unlike any other service bus around and 525 an ex Arriva DW driven to the show by RB Chief Executive, Martijn Gilbert.
I have driven past Winchester on the M3 five times this year, on the sixth passing, I tried to find a place to park so I could visit the cathedral.
It costs £8.50 to go in, but you can take as many pictures as you like, which is fine by me.
The Nave and Chancel are huge, and long. All surfaces are apparently covered with memorials, with other spaces filled with chapels and shrines to past Bishops, as well as the relics of St Swithun.
It did rain after I left. Not a good sign.
But inside it is a delight, even the smallest details, like the tiles, just wonderful.
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Winchester Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of England in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.[3]
Dedicated to the Holy Trinity,[1] Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and before the Reformation, Saint Swithun,[4] it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
The cathedral was founded in 642 on a site immediately to the north of the present one. This building became known as the Old Minster. It became part of a monastic settlement in 971.
Saint Swithun was buried near the Old Minster and then in it, before being moved to the new Norman cathedral. So-called mortuary chests said to contain the remains of Saxon kings such as King Eadwig of England, first buried in the Old Minster, and his wife Ælfgifu, are in the present cathedral.[5] The Old Minster was demolished in 1093, immediately after the consecration of its successor.
In 1079, Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, began work on a completely new cathedral.[6] Much of the limestone used to build the structure was brought across from quarries around Binstead, Isle of Wight. Nearby Quarr Abbey draws its name from these workings, as do several nearby places such as Stonelands and Stonepitts. The remains of the Roman trackway used to transport the blocks are still evident across the fairways of the Ryde Golf Club, where the stone was hauled from the quarries to the hythe at the mouth of Binstead Creek, and thence by barge across the Solent and up to Winchester.[citation needed][No sign of any Binstead Creek on the map]
The building was consecrated in 1093. On 8 April of that year, according to the Annals of Winchester, "in the presence of almost all the bishops and abbots of England, the monks came with the highest exultation and glory from the old minster to the new one: on the Feast of S. Swithun they went in procession from the new minster to the old one and brought thence S. Swithun's shrine and placed it with honour in the new buildings, and on the following day Walkelin's men first began to pull down the old minster."[6]
A substantial amount of the fabric of Walkelin's building, including crypt, transepts and the basic structure of the nave, survives.[7] The original crossing tower, however, collapsed in 1107, an accident blamed by the cathedral's medieval chroniclers on the burial of the dissolute William Rufus beneath it in 1100.[6] Its replacement, which survives today, is still in the Norman style, with round-headed windows. It is a squat, square structure, 50 feet (15 m) wide, but rising only 35 feet (11 m) above the ridge of the transept roof.[8] The Tower is 150 feet (46 m) tall.
After the consecration of Godfrey de Luci as bishop in 1189, a retrochoir was added in the Early English style. The next major phase of rebuilding was not until the mid-14th century, under bishops Edington and Wykeham.[10] Edingdon (1346–1366)[11] removed the two westernmost bays of the nave, built a new west front and began the remodelling of the nave.[12]
Under William of Wykeham (1367–1404) the Romanesque nave was transformed[clarification needed], recased in Caen stone and remodelled in the Perpendicular style,[13] with its internal elevation divided into two, rather than the previous three, storeys.[14] The wooden ceilings were replaced with stone vaults.[13]
Wykeham's successor, Henry of Beaufort (1405–1447) carried out fewer alterations, adding only a chantry on the south side of the retrochoir, although work on the nave may have continued through his episcopy.[15] His successor, William of Waynflete (1447–1486), built another chantry in a corresponding position on the north side. Under Peter Courtenay (Bishop 1486–1492) and Thomas Langton (1493–1500), there was more work. De Luci's Lady chapel was lengthened, and the Norman side aisles of the presbytery replaced. In 1525, Richard Foxe (Bishop 1500–1528) added the side screens of the presbytery, which he also gave a wooden vault.[10] With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 110 feet (34 m) beyond that of Walkelin's building
King Henry VIII seized control of the Catholic Church in England and declared himself head of the Church of England. The Benedictine foundation, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved. The priory surrendered to the king in 1539. The next year a new chapter was formed, and the last prior, William Basyng, was appointed dean.[17] The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.[18][19]
North Transept
The Norman choir screen, having fallen into a state of decay, was replaced in 1637–40 by a new one, designed by Inigo Jones. It was in a classical style, with bronze figures by Hubert le Sueur of James I and Charles I in niches. It was removed in 1820, by when its style was felt inappropriate in an otherwise medieval building. The central bay, with its archway, is now in the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge;[20] it was replaced by a Gothic screen by Edward Garbett, its design based on the west doorway of the nave.[21]
This stone structure was itself removed in the 1870s to make way for a wooden one designed by George Gilbert Scott,[22] who modelled it on the canopies of the choir stalls of the monks (dating from around 1308).[23] Scott's west-facing screen has been much criticised, although the carving is of superlative workmanship and virtually replicates the earlier, albeit finer, carving of the early 14th century east-facing return stalls on to which it backs. The displaced bronze statues of the Stuart kings were moved to the west end of the Cathedral, standing in niches on each side of the central door. Scott's work was otherwise conservative. He moved the lectern to the north side of the quire beside the pulpit, facing west, where it remained for a century before returning to its present central position, now facing east.
The first Qualifying lap over 200 MPH for the Indianapolis 500 Race was in 1977 Driven by Tom Sneva in a McLaren M24, chassis 004 with Cosworth power.
The next year, in 1978, Tom Sneva drove this car, a Penske PC-6 / Cosworth to a new Record Qualifying lap of 203.626 mph. Tom had been a School Teacher.
It sits next to what is likely the "slowest" vehicle on display in the "Tom Malloy Collection", an early "Soapbox" Racer [which is a handmade & gravity-powered - no engine - project event for young children & families. In the recent past, some may have said "Father/Son" project, but that is likely not "allowed" these days].
[TM 2019 DSC_0741].
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Americanum Provisions is an ingredient-driven and food-community focused grocer. It’s a celebration of urban farmers. The shop features American-made, utilitarian kitchen consignments and food products, most of which are sourced within 10 miles of The Source. This produce-forward market sells fruit and vegetables from Produce Denver, The GrowHaus, and The Squeaky Bean’s Bean Acre Farm, among many others.
And damn, the iPhone can take a sweet photo.
What would my ride be if I had to live with my in-laws and driven around by my mother-in-law?
Doesn't sound very appealing - though we do get on quite well. She kinda has a cool car too. Last year buying Ford's then-newest North American Hybrid, the Ford C-Max.
She has the standard Hybrid, which is powered by the 2-litre, four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine mated to an electric motor and a 1.4 kWh lithium-ion battery for total power output of 188 hp (140 kW). The top speed in all-electric mode of 62 mph (100 km/h) and the car's top speed in hybrid mode is 115 mph (185 km/h)
I do not think she drives her C-Max around at 185 km/h, making this all very academic.
So why would she have a little red electric wagon?
It all came about because my father-in-law wanted to be able to drive to work without the petrol (gas) engine turning on. There was some discussion regarding $30K+ Focus full-electric models. Or walking.
The middle position was the C-Max Hybrid. A nice high seating position for old-lady legs. Lots of 2nd row room for grandchildren (not mine, as yet), and lots of fancy Ford-tech like Sync and stuff.
Of interesting not is how similar this is to my own ride IRL, the Ford Kuga/Escape/ Both models are built off Ford's C1+ platform, derived from the Ford Focus MkIII. In looking very carefully to design each model, I think that there are quite a lot of identical body parts (or only slightly changed), like doors, roof, fenders, bonnet (hood), and tailgate. I would put money on the seats being identical too. I know that my diesel Kuga has a different engine (Ford/PSA DW10) and transmission (6-spd Dual clutch), vs the Ford/Mazda Duratec/MZR engine running an Atkinson cycle and Ford proprietary Hybrid-drive epicyclic transmission. However the same 1.6 litre turbo 4-cylinder petrol engines, 6-speed manual and 6-speed torque converter transmissions can be found in both models .
SO what is the purpose of this Lego model?
The theme for Flickr LUGNuts' 82nd Build Challenge, - 'LUGNuts in Real Life'. The cars that LUGNutters use day-to-day (as opposed to the Lamborghinis that Lego-builders would use on the weekends only).
For those of you who are tech-slang savvy, this would be shortened to LUGNuts IRL. Just so you know!
Built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1934.
Robert the Bruce was a paddle driven ferry operating between North and South Queensferry from the 1930s to 1964.
This was one of four ferries which operated the route. The ferry crossing became redundant with the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964.
From the Dan McDonald collection.
Specification details available from clydebuilt database at www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=11567
Records of William Denny & Brothers held by multiple organisations, see NRA entry for details www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?...