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My first HDR!
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Federer lost the Australian Open against Rafael Nadal. 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2
He has to wait the next grand slam to equalize Pete Sampras record who won 14 grand slam in his career.
PS: i don't know how a player like Federer makes huge numbers of unforced errors in a final game like this.
Maybe it's the pressure, the age, the great talent of Nadal or all of them.
You can see My sport set or my Interesting 50
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New Haven Railroad heavyweight Pullman parlor car Warwick Light, plan 3916 B, is seen in a yard, ca 1940's. This car has an air conditioning duct mounted on the roof. This car most likely has an electro-mechanical air conditioning system, since no ice storage bunkers are seen on either side of the under-body. The trucks used on this car are an older style six wheel bolt on pedestal style drop equalized truck.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W image that was on the Internet.
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This piece of American history, "the Equalizer," is a Colt model 1873, Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, the gun that you see in all the old western movies, and the gun that, along with the Winchester '73 repeating rifle, is generally referred to as one of the guns that won the west. You saw it in "Showdown at the O.K. Coral," and in real life, it was adopted as the standard U.S. military service revolver in 1892 and was favored by lawmen, cowboys and desperadoes alike. Often one would be armed with a Colt SAA and a Winchester '73, both chambered for the .44-40, a pretty meek cartridge by today's standards, but it got the job done and had the very real advantage of providing one round that fit both the rifle and the revolver.
I bought this one, chambered for the .44 special, 25 years ago, and had I really wanted to maximize the "Classic" value of it, I would probably have been better off buying one in the more traditional .45 Colt chambering; but this has the advantage that I can use the same dies for reloading the .44 special as I can for my .44 magnum, and with the cost of ammunition being what it is today, loading your own ammunition is a must, unless you're a lot wealthier than I am (I've been hand loading all my ammunition since I was 17}. I haven't shot it all that much (haven't done any shooting in the past couple of years), and when I have shot it, I've tended to baby it, using only light loads and staying far away from the near .44 magnum loads loads that Elmer Keith favored before he and Smith & Wesson developed the real .44 magnum by stretching the .44 special cartridge case a small fraction of an inch. It's a crying shame to leave it locked away in a dark closet, and I've really gotta take it to the range, which is only three miles from my house, and give it some exercise.
ODT, "Blast from the Past," "Arms," "Classic," "Historic."
Italian postcard by Bromophoto, Milano, no. 1283. Photo: Rank Film. Publicity still for Dangerous Exile (1958).
British film actress Anne Heywood (1931) started her career as Miss Great Britain in 1950. In the mid-1950s, she began to play supporting roles as the ‘nice girl’ for Rank. Gradually she evolved into a leading lady, best known for her dramatic roles in the pioneer lesbian drama The Fox (1967) and La monaca di Monza/The Nun of Monza (1969).
Anne Heywood was born as Violet Joan Pretty in Handsworth (now Birmingham), England in 1932. She was one of the seven children. Her father, Harold Pretty, was a former orchestral violinist, turned factory worker. Her mother died when Violet was just 13. She had to leave school at fourteen to look after the younger members of her family. This frustrated her wish to go to art school. Instead, she joined in 1947 the Highbury Little Theatre in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham and stayed there for two years gaining stage experience. At only 17, the knockout brunette won the National Bathing Beauty Contest in 1950, later renamed as the Miss Great Britain contest. Her prizes were £1000 and a silver rose bowl. The following year she made her film debut as a beauty contestant in the comedy Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951, Frank Launder) with Dennis Price. That year she also became the personal assistant of Carroll Levis, a talent spotter on a radio show, which toured along the main theatres of Great Britain. She stayed at the show for four years and even appeared three times with the show on television. Heywood attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While playing the principal boy in Aladdin at the Chelsea Palace, she was spotted by a talent scout for the Rank Organization. In 1956, she signed a seven-year contract and her name was changed to Anne Heywood. According to Glamour Girls at the Silver Screen, she later recalled: “I always hated my name. It sounded unreal.” For Rank, she appeared in supporting roles as the 'nice girl'. Her films included the comedy Doctor at Large (1957, Ralph Thomas) starring Dirk Bogarde, the crime drama Violent Playground (1958, Basil Dearden) opposite Stanley Baxter, and the adventure Dangerous Exile (1958, Brian Desmond Hurst) starring Louis Jourdan. Gradually Heywood evolved into a leading lady.
Anne Heywood met in 1959 producer Raymond Stross at the set of A Terrible Beauty/The Night Fighters (1960, Tay Garnett) starring Robert Mitchum. A year later they married in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 16 years her senior. Stross started to reshape her image with such sexy, offbeat dramas as The Very Edge (1963, Cyril Frankel) with Richard Todd, and 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965, Jiri Weiss). At the Berlin Film Festival, the latter won the International Critics' Prize. Her breakthrough role was Ellen March in The Fox (1967, Mark Rydell), co-starring Sandy Dennis. This film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel caused controversy at the time due to its lesbian theme. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb on Heywood and Dennis: “the two were quite believable as an unhappy, isolated couple whose relationship is irreparably shattered by the appearance of a handsome stranger (Keir Dullea). At the height of the movie's publicity, Playboy magazine revealed a ‘pictorial essay’ just prior to its 1967 release with Anne in a nude and auto-erotic spread.” Heywood was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The Fox, a Canadian film, did win the ‘Best Foreign Film Golden Globe. Heywood did not. The Fox is now respected as a pioneer, ground-breaking lesbian film. Heywood’s next film was La monaca di Monza/The Nun of Monza (1969, Eriprando Visconti) with Hardy Krüger. This controversial drama tells the tale of how a 17th-century Italian nun's long-repressed sexual passion is awakened when a handsome nobleman rapes and impregnates her. Later she is captured and captured and given a horrible life sentence. This ‘true story’ of Sister Virginia, the nun of Monza, was shot in a fifteenth-century castle 27 miles north of Rome and in medieval churches in Lombardy, where the original story took place. The nasty exploitative drama grossed more than $1,000,000 in its initial run in Italy and paid back its negative cost in three weeks. The box office success lead to an Italian subgenre of ‘nunsploitation’ films in the 1970s.
Anne Heywood and Raymond Stross moved from Switzerland to the US. Despite the Golden Globe nomination and the Playboy spread, Heywood never endeared herself to American filmgoers. Such Hollywood productions as the caper Midas Run (1969, Alf Kjellin) with Fred Astaire, and the action drama The Chairman (1969, J. Lee Thompson) with Gregory Peck were no successes. She seemed drawn toward highly troubled, flawed characters, like in I Want What I Want (1972, John Dexter) and Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979, Marvin J. Chomsky). In the 1970s, she also appeared in several Italian films, including the Giallo L'assassino... è al telefono/The Killer Is on the Phone (1972, Alberto De Martino) with Telly Savalas and Willeke van Ammelrooy, the nunsploitation Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo/The Nun & The Devil (1973, Domenico Paolella) with Ornella Muti, and the romantic drama La prima volta sull'erba/Love Under the Elms (1975, Gianluigi Calderone). Her career declined in the 1980s. Her final feature was What Waits Below (1985, Don Sharp. Hal Erickson at IMDb: “a goofy fantasy filmed on the cheap by the ever-canny Don Sharp. The story involves a team of anthropologists and military men who busy themselves exploring a serpentine system of subterranean caves. They discover of a lost race of Albinos, which wreaks havoc upon the surface-dwelling humans. The British actor Robert Powell and Timothy Bottoms star. According to some sources, Sharp and co. approached the production with extreme carelessness; thanks to an unfortunate accident, a large percentage of the cast and crew were almost fatally poisoned by carbon monoxide in the caves where the movie was filmed.” Her penultimate role was as Manon Brevard Marcel on the American TV series The Equalizer (1988), starring Edward Woodward. In 1988 her husband Raymond Stross died. The following year she appeared in a final television movie, Memories of Manon (1989, Tony Wharmby) based on the character from The Equalizer. After this role, she retired. She remarried to George Danzig Druke, a former New York Assistant Attorney General. Anne Heywood Druke resides with her husband in Beverly Hills, USA. She has one son, Mark (1963), with Raymond Stross.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Poor Red's Bar-B-Q in El Dorado, CA., listed as permanently closed on Google, with old reviews online such as "Great small town dive bar!" and "excellent barbecue restaurant!" is re-opening. The building and sign has been refurbished, the red building next to it demolished and rebuilt. Old red's raided: www.mtdemocrat.com/news/board-of-equalization-chp-raid-po...
Old Red's pics: www.galenfrysinger.com/california_placerville.htm
Old Red's new ownership website: poorreds.com/
Owners arrested, employees left high and dry: www.mtdemocrat.com/news/no-7-poor-reds-owners-arrested-ic...
This place was definitely a favorite and was home to a unique mixed drink - a lot of people don't know it, but mixed drinks and cocktails were an art celebrated across the United States 100 years ago, a scene as big and vibrant as micro-brewery beer today: blogs.sacbee.com/dining/archives/2011/10/golden-cadillac....
New owner's demolition and reconstruction web site with q&a: poorreds.com/uncategorized/democonstruction-has-begun/
Yesterday I attended TIFF to see the Premier of The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. During the show, the fire alarm went off and we all had to evacuate the building. Luckily the fire dept. gave us clearance to re-enter and see the end of the show. It was a violent, but very good show.
Thanks for visiting and stay blessed:)
My entry for Light Painting Competitions and Themes- December 2011 - Household Objects
Quite a frustrating shoot, first the switch on my digital light wand falls to bits and then my el wire breaks. Grrrrr. It could also really do with a slight exposure, contrast and white balance tweak, but the competition has a SOOC rule (although not everyone seems to obey it!)
Title and idea inspired by a comment made by Sprogz
New Haven Railroad Pullman heavyweight parlor car Noank, Pullman plan 3917, is seen in a yard, ca 1940's. This car is has an ice activated air conditioning system, with three ice storage bunkers mounted to the under-body. The trucks used on this car are of the more modern design six wheel straight equalized integral cast design with the pedestals included.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W image that was on the Internet.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Yes My Dear Visitor .. You might wonder about my point … Well I will explain it for you, Sit somewhere in an open area I prefer the beach usually it makes me think a lot.
Then Start thinking about the universe we live in, think about every single creature in this world animals, birds, plants, humans .. Etc.
There is no one strong in it, yes NO ONE, the Lion can be hunt by human or by another lion, A big huge elephant you know how big they are but it can be killed if a small little mice goes in its ears, Human can be killed by animals or from their own kind.
NO one stays the hero Forever and no one stays the bravest or strongest in this world forever.
Countries they were leading the world one day and now its vice versa and they are controlled by the countries the were controlling earlier.
Read the news papers watch the news .. no one stays as they are.
God Made the universe in a very nice and perfect system that no one stays with their power so that they wont reach to the level of deception and destroy every and not to let people believe in their power.
Yes this is the amazing life we live one day you are the boss and control everything and one day you will be controlled by someone else.
But over all we are all controlled by only one person in this huge universe By GOD yes Some people under estimates the power of GOD and they don’t know what GOD can do in life, he can make you rich in a second or make you poor in another.
What made me write all of the above is when I was driving that day and the sun kept really bothering me with those sharp rays Since my sunglasses wasn’t with me and after a while the sun rays it was gone at that moment I saw the clouds covering the sun it even made me See the sun as its moon or a piece of candy.
Anyway myself I don’t have much time to write more so enjoy the shot.
A "tea equalizer" at the Chá Porto Formoso museum factory. Founded in the 1920, the factory operated until the 1980s, serving both the national market and exporting internationally. The operations ceased due to the small production, limited by Sao Miguel's characteristics, and in 1998 the facilities were restored to operate at small volumes, compensated for by the side operation as a museum. It is very interesting to go through the factory and see each stage of the tea production process. Porto Formoso, together with the nearby Gorreana Tea Factory, are the only facilities in Europe to process the leaves of "Camellia sinensis" for tea production. Some scholars argue that this plant, the source of green tea and black tea, was introduced in the Azores in 1750 by the ships returning from the East.
CLAHE stands for Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization, implemented as plugin module for ImageJ.
Suggested by Bushman.K it was found to be not quite compatible with the solar images, but works well on the Moon :)
The lunar image of 04.07.2015, around 23:30 MSK, taken with TIS DMK23 via 2x Barlow on Meade series 6000 80 mm f/6 triplet refractor.
Panoramic image of six panels, 20% of 1000 (ok, 200) frames stacked, stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved (AstraImage Richardson-Lucy, Cauchy, 0,3-9), wavelet-sharpened (1-10-15-5-1), CLAHEd in ImageJ (127-255-2), wavelet again (1-5-10-5-1) and some contrast added in PS.
Note: the white square is the histogram trap for deconvolution to correctly normalise the processed image. I was finally able to save Aristarchus from becoming saturated.
A Model 2 coilgun, heavily customized by an unknown interplanetary gang. Has a cut-down stock, a different, much more compact barrel assembly made from an ''Ultracompact'' kit. Has a customized Mk.3 bayonet found on an M2c MIR, but it can come without it as well. The gun itself is fairly rare, as the gang didn't last long before disappearing.
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I got bored and did this. Hope you like it I guess.
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Credit goes to caiobrazil (a fella from dA), for the inspiration.
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May Day Eve - Sony A77 II with Hoya Cross Screen Filter on Sony DT 18-70 mm 1:3.5-5.6 Zoom - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Student activists from CT Students for a Dream (C4D) and supporters rally to demand justice in higher education for undocumented students with legislation that equalizes access to student-generated funds: State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, Thursday, April 13, 2017.
"In Connecticut, public colleges and universities set aside a proportion of tuition revenue to be used as ‘institutional aid’ to assist students with a demonstrated financial need. However, immigrant students who have grown up in CT and have graduated high school here are not eligible for this student-generated aid. All Connecticut students, including undocumented students, pay tuition and therefore contribute towards this institutional aid pool of funds. Yet Connecticut does not allow immigrant students access to institutional aid themselves. This aid is student funded, we believe all students who pay tuition should be be eligible to receive it.”
The Equalizer / El protector
--¿Qué ve cuando me mira?--¿Qué ve usted cuando me mira a mí?..
--"What do you see when you look at me?"-- "What do you see when you look at me?"...
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www.comolahice.com/2012/04/ecualizador/
Publicada en ALTFoto, el 16/04/2012:
the great equalizer.
Water is in short supply in the deserts of Namibia. All kinds of animals gather in these small collections of water called waterholes. They drink together peacefully till some of the big cats show up.
A little girl splashing her mother with brightly colored powder celebrates the Indian Hindu festival of Holi in Foster City, California. The look of joy on her face is worth a million dollars. The ancient tradition "Holi", also known as the "Festival of Colors" dates back to as early as the fourth century and commemorates the beginning of spring, the harvest and the triumph of good versus evil. Rooted in Indian mythology, the festival also celebrates equality. The colors that people throw at each other during the festival serve as a symbolic equalizer in the contest of India's caste system (it means that the caste doesn't matter anymore).