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"A frigid winter is expected across Alberta, especially during January and February. While a few periods of milder weather are expected, we have a heightened risk for extended periods of severe cold, as well as for blizzard conditions as Arctic air plunges south across the region. A snowy winter is expected across the southern half of the province, including Calgary. Near normal snowfall is expected elsewhere, including Edmonton." I have just read the Weather Network's forecast for Alberta. Almost wish I hadn't, ha.
Another five photos from my archives this evening. I am adding the description that I wrote under a different image taken on the same outing.
After endless emails and phone calls, the work on my car is finally about to start, four and a half weeks after I dropped it off at the dealership. It has now been decided that both the slight hail damage and the peeling paint repair will be done at one location, not two different ones. The hail damage repair should be starting straight away. It could still be maybe two or two and a half weeks (or more) before all the work is completed. Will it be done before Christmas? Later: hail damage repair has been completed. Now I have to wait for an empty booth so that the peeling paint damage can be fixed and basically the whole car will have to be repainted.
Update on car situation, 9 December 2021. Just heard that the repainting of my whole car might be finished somewhere around 21 December. However, the whole car then has to be put back together - and, guess what, the person who would be doing this is going to be away over Christmas, meaning that I won't be getting it back till AFTER Christmas!!! Wish I had never pointed out the 3"x 1" patch of peeling paint in the first place, when I took my car for a routine service. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined all that is going on. Sigh.
"Saturday, July 10th 2021, 12:21 pm: 30-degree temperatures have surged back onto the Prairies, prompting heat warnings and setting the stage for potentially severe weather this weekend. In Alberta, the potential for severe weather will remain north of Calgary, but the city could see some non-severe storms. The main threats will be heavy rainfall, strong wind gusts and large hail." From the weather Network. The word 'hail' makes me nervous, as workmen started installing new siding on my home yesterday! Various neighbours suffered holes in their siding and broken windows during the recent severe storm, on 2 July 2021.
There were two special buildings that I wanted to go and see again, so yesterday, 9 July 2021, I did a fairly long drive (343 km total) NW of Calgary. This old barn is one of my favourites and was my first destination. I happened to notice that one of the owners was outside near his van, so I pulled my car around and asked if it would be all right if I took a few photos of his old barn. he told me I could walk anywhere in the field, but I was fine to just take photos from the road. What a delightful man he is! We had a lovely long chat and he told me that he was an Englishman, who had been living in the house for 33 years. He and his wife have a huge garden and grow all their vegetables. I couldn't help but think he reminded me of our late Naturalist, Gus Yaki, full of energy despite his years, hard-working and he sounded a fun guy. I asked if he had ever heard of Gus Yaki and he said, yes, he had, and had been on one of his nature tours further into the mountains. I did enjoy our chat.
My drive took me northwards, where I enjoyed seeing and photographing a few kinds of wildflowers and butterflies. The bright blue Damselflies were there in the hundreds, many of them mating. Not easy trying to get the camera lens to focus on these slender bodies, but I will post a few photos later on.
After spending some time there, including just a very short walk in burning heat, I drove a short way west and then started driving south, taking a route that I was very familiar with, but hadn't done for a long time. Very little to see bird-wise, in fact all day, but there were a few lovely old barns to see and photograph.
My last destination took me a little further west, to see the fairly recently rebuilt McDougall Memorial United Church, with the eastern edge of the Rockies for a backdrop. The original little church had been burnt to the ground by an arsonist, but eventually, enough funds were raised to recently rebuild this historic church, that I have loved for years. A few special T-shirts, toys and flowers had been placed on the fence and ground, to show support for Every Child Matters. This is in honour of the hundreds (thousands) of children who had been removed from their families and made to reside in Residential Schools run by the Catholic Church many years ago. These children suffered and died from various kinds of abuse and were buried in unmarked graves. This is all coming to light right now and, very slowly, these children's remains can be returned to their families.
"The historic church at the end of this pathway was constructed in 1875. At that time, native people were still hunting bison on the prairies. The young nation of Canada was only eight years old; the Canadian Pacific Railway still nine years in the future. And this church would become the heart of a thriving community, Morleyville, and for a time the largest settlement in what would be southern Alberta.
The story of this church is really the story of Rev. George McDougall who moved to western Canada with his family in 1862 to minister to the fur traders and native people. In 1873, the McDougalls established the first mission in the region and built this church. In doing so, they wrote an important chapter of Alberta's settlement history".
After George McDougall's tragic death in a snowstorm, his body was brought back to the church at Morleyville and laid to rest.
www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8788
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley,_Alberta"
After wandering around outside the church and photographing some of the wildflowers growing there, I climbed into my car and continued my long drive home. A drive like this makes my day - and totally knocks me out for a few hours."
"All my opponents can expect nothing but a prickly panoply of pain!"
Oh, it's a Chojin.
...pages rustling...
It's Sabbotine man.
"Sabotenman!! I represent the power of... THE CACTUS!"
What does Sobbintunman mean?
"Sabotenman!! It means Cactus!!"
Ah, got it.
What kind of powers do cactuses possess?
"Cacti! You uneducated Cretins! As for me, I can go without hydration for half a month!"
...
How does that help you in combat in the ring??
"You fool! Combat is highly energetic! While my opponents sweat away their precious energy, I remain vital!"
Aren't most Chojin conditioned to do that? To sweat a lot and keep their energy?
I mean, maybe if the fight went on for half a month, you'd develop some sort of advantage.
"Imbeciles! That is only one of my abilities. I am also certified a gardener of the highest merits due to my ability to maintain the living cactus atop my head."
That... what does that mean?
It means he's an idiot.
How does that help you in any way in Chojin combat??
Growing a plant on your head! Which is just weird anyway.
It's not as bad as the guy who had the bird perched on his head.*
That's true!
"Morons! I can use the needles to inflict much pain on my opponents!"
Are you a specialist in acupuncture?
"No!"
Then, really, you can basically just not sweat and poke people with little cactus needles?
"Oafish brutes! Did you not hear when-"
How many matches have you had?
"One."
Did you win?
"I came very, very close to winning."
So you lost. You've never won a match.
Who was your match against?
"... benkiman..."
BENKIMAN!?
He's like the most pathetic Chojin and the worst loser of all time!
Except, obviously, for YOU!
You lost to Benkiman!! Oh, you need to just leave.
💪M💪U💪S💪C💪L💪E💪
A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
M.U.S.C.L.E. No. 120, "Sabotenman" "Cactus Man"
Painted by CM, thus losing all collectible value forever.
* They are referring to The Hawkman, seen in BP 2021 Day 341!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51732017014/
** Benkiman is much maligned for obvious reasons. As seen in BP 2019 Day 148!
I have taken a shot of this freeway intersection before but from a lower angle. Shown here: www.flickr.com/photos/tobyharriman/7051775661/
Its amazing how different they look. But what do you expect when there is that many freeways mashed together. This one was taken from the top of Bernal Heights Park. I know I have said this before, but if you haven't been to the top your missing out. Looking this way towards Daly City, you see this. Turn around and you get Twin Peaks, (Sutro Tower) a little bit of the Golden Gate Bridge and the the entire skyline of San Francisco with the Bay Bridge leading into Oakland. If you are looking for spots up and around this are, check out my guide on ShutterGuides: www.shutterguides.com/guide/66/san-francisco-spots/.
Thanks Tim Gupta for joining me up there. After the sun went down and got what we wanted from up top, we drove down and parked below. Then we crossed the freeway on foot and ventured right into the middle of this. It wasn't easy finding the shot, I had in mind at least. But definitely was fun to explore deeper in this mess!
Those two fit so good together!
Training my daughter and the horse is going far better than expected!
At the end of what had been a fine winter's day, the clouds rolled in from the west and the light faded to flat.
At the end of another long dead end lane, St Nicholas sits overlooking the valley below, looking squat and unhappy under a leaden sky.
We parked some distance from the church and walked up, I expected it to be locked, it looked so unfriendly, but the door opened easily and we went inside.
It was pleasant enough inside, even if I could not find the lights to illuminate the gloom. It features the largest aumbry I have seen, as well as a nice war memorial in a blocked up north doorway. But best of all is some ancient glass on the south side, showing images of two saints.
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A large sturdy tower overlooks the valley dividing Kent and Sussex some distance from its village. It dates, as does much of the church, from the fourteenth century. The arcades are of dumpy octagonal pillars which have lancet clerestory windows set into the walls above. There are some notable fragments of medieval glass in the south aisle, together with an excellent twentieth century etched glass window. The tower is flanked by the aisles (see also Wickhambreux). The north aisle displays the original entrance to the rood loft staircase. At the west end is a nice octagonal sandstone font with a series of decorated window designs enlivening its panelled sides.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Sandhurst
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IS the next parish eastward from Hawkhurst. The manor of Aldington claims over some part of this parish, as does the manor of Acrise over another part of it.
THIS PARISH lies on the southern edge of this county, adjoining to Suffex, from which it is separated by the stream called the Kennet, or more usually Kent Dyke, which rises near Tysehurst, in that county, and just below that place falls into the river Rother. It is near four miles from east to west, and near three from north to south. The soil of it in the north-east and southern parts of this parish is a stiff and heavy tillage land, which has underneath plenty of marle, in which parts there is much iron ore; the western part being more hilly, is a light and gravelly soil. The church stands nearly in the centre of the parish, on the knoll of a hill, and the parsonage-house at no great distance northward from it. Between the parsonage and the church is a large forstal, containing the principal part of the estate mentioned below, called Twisden borough. It was formerly a playstool, or common play-ground for the parishioners, and a fair was kept on it; but the Turners, lords of the manor, laid claim to it, and it has been for some time accounted their property, and now accordingly belongs to Mr. Blackburn. The great high road from the western parts of this county, through Newenden, to Hastings and the county of Suffex, leads through this parish south-eastward, on it are situated three greens, Field green, Cowbeach-green, and Ringlecrouch-green; on the former is a house and estate, which has been for many years the residence of the Wardes, who bore for their arms, In chief, a lion, rampant; in base, a cross story, a crescent for difference; the last of them, Mr. John Warde, died in 1778, leaving three sons and a daughter Elizabeth, married to Mr. John Collins, by whom she had a son Mr. Edward Collins, who has since taken the name of Warde, to whom his grandfather by will, disinheriting his three sons, gave the whole of his estates, among which were this at Field-green, and the manor of Riseden, in this parish, which formerly belonged to John, earl of Ewe, (who died in 1171); for it appears by the register of Horton priory, that he by his charter, without date, gave all his land of Rysdenne, in Sandhurst, which Goldwin held of him, to that priory; and by another charter, Adelize his wife confirmed the same; and by another, Canon, then prior of that house, and the convent of it, quit-claimed to Alexander de Spondenne, the property of a certain drosdenne, in the denne of Risedene, in this parish; Mr. Edward Collins Warde is the present owner of them. The farm of Ringlecrouch, near the green of that name, was the property of Thomas Blackmore, esq. of Hertfordshire, who died in 1789, and his heirs now possess it. On this green there is a meeting-house for baptists, the congregation of which is very large; and a little further eastward is a capital messuage called Frenchurst, and formerly Frinchinburst, to which formerly belonged the mill called Hope mill here, and it appears by the escheatroll anno 4 Henry VII. that Thomas Pulter then died possessed of a capital messuage, called Frechinghurst, and one water-mill, called Hope-mill, in Sandhurst, held of the prior of Christ-church, in Canterbury; the former of them belongs now to Mr. John Collins, and the latter to the earl of Thanet. And farther on the same road is Hernden manor, belonging to John Peckham, esq. of Salehurst.
In this parish is an estate, called Silverden, belongin to the Rev. Mr. Hudson; and in the south-east part of it two farms, called Upper and Lower Boxhurst, the former belonging to Mr. Joseph Fowle, the latter to Mr. Thomas Burt, both of Sandhurst; and in the western part of it next to Hawkhurst, is a seat, called Downgate, which belonged to the Turner estate, and afterwards to Mr. Blackburn.
A fair is annually held here on May 25, for cattle and pedlary wares. It was till within these few years held on Dec. 6, St. Nicholas's day, the patron saint of the church.
THE MANOR OF SANDHURST was given by Offaking of Mercia, in the year 791, to Christ Church in Canterbury, and was, soon after the time of the conqueror, held of the archbishop by knight's service, by the family of Criol; of them it was, in the reign of king Edward II. held again by Hugo de Combe, whose successor in it was John de Betherinden, whence it came to be called the manor of Sandhurst, alias Betherinden, and in the east window of the north chancel here were formerly the essigies and arms of one of this family, and in Downe church, was once a memorial for John Bederenden, once citizen, woollen-draper, and chamberlain of London, who died in 1445. By a female heir of this name it came into the family of Fitzherbert, alias Finch, in which it continued till the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth, when Herbert, son of Vincent Finch, who lies buried in this church, (fn. 1) sold it, with the antient mansion of Sandhurst-place, now usually called OLDPLACE, (at present only a farm-house) to Pelham, from which name it was alienated to Fowle, who bore for his arms, Argent, a chevron gules, on a chief of the second, three mullets pierced of the first. In which one of them, Sir John Fowle, of Sandhurst, in his will, proved 1637, mentions certain lands which he had here, called the Coomes, which were his grandfather's, whereon was a house, since his death built, which were held of the king by knight's service, (fn. 2) and in his family it remained till it was passed away to Turner, whose descendant Robert Turner, esq. in 1784, passed it away by sale to John Blackburn, of London, esq. the present owner, of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
ALDRINDEN. which lies at the north west part of this parish was once accounted a manor of some note here, being held of the manor of Acrise, and had owners of the same firname, in which it continued till Roger de Aldrinden, as appears by the private deeds of it, leaving and only daughter and heir Christian Aldrinden, she passed it away by sale, in the 22d year of king Edward III. to John Selbrittenden, who not long after alienated it to Thomas atte Bourne, and he held it, as appeared by an old court-roll in the 1st year of Richard II. and from him it descended down to John Bourne, who dying in the 4th year of king Edward IV. settled it by will on Joane his female heir, married to Thomas Allard. They had one son, Henry, whose son John Allard, alienated his right in it by sale, in the 30th year of Henry VIII. to John Twysenden, or Twisden, gent. as the name soon afterwards was spelt, whose ancestors resided at TWISDEN BOROUGH, upon the denne of Twisden, in this parish, a place noted for having been, in very early times, the inheritance of this family, who resided here at the time they were stiled in Latin deeds, according to the quaint language of those times, de Denna Fracta, and from them this place obtained their name, by which it is called to this day.
His descendant Mr. William Twisden, about the beginning of king James I.'s reign, sold it to Thomas Downton, esq. who died possessed of it in 1623, and was buried in this church, and his descendant Richard Downton, esq. owned it at the restoration of king Charles II. and bore for his arms, Argent, on a chief indented, sable, three goats heads, erased. After which it passed into the family of Dunk, and from thence to Richards, whence by Anne, only daughter of William Richards, esq. it went in marriage to George Dunk, earl of Halifax, who soon afterwards sold it to Collier, and his daughter marrying Mr. Henry Jackson, of Hastings, in Sussex, he is, in her right, the present possessor of it.
Charities.
SIR JOHN FOWLE, of this parish, in 1632, gave by deed to the poor of it a piece of ground, with a malt-house on it, since burnt down, and now called the Malt-house Platt, containing three quarters of an acre upon Ringlecrouch-green, on which it has a right of common. It is now let at 34s. per annum, and is vested in trustees, the produce of which is distributed by the directions of the donor, once in two or three years in cloaths, chiefly in gowns, to poor widows of this parish.
Thomas Downton, Esq. of Sandhurst, devised by will to the poor of this parish 10l. to be lent to them by the direction of four of the sufficientest men of it, giving security for the paying of it again, at such time as they should appoint, so to continue to the parish for ever.
THERE IS AN ALMS-HOUSE, consisting of three or four dwellings, by whom given is not known, but supposed by one of the family of Fowle.
The poor constantly relieved are about one hundred and sixty, casually fifty.
SANDHURST is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Charing.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is built of sand stone. It consists of two isles and two chancels, with a square tower, in which are five bells. It was part of the antient possessions of the see of Canterbury, and continues so at this time, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of it.
It is a rectory, and valued in the king's books at twenty pounds, and the yearly tenths at two pounds.
In 1578 here were communicants two hundred and eighteen, in 1640, two hundred and eighty. When it was valued at 110l.
¶There are about ten acres of glebe land. The parsonage-house has lately been handsomely repaired, and sitted up by the present rector Mr. Hussey.
Expect the unexpected.... Here, 2507 Pauses at Lisboa Oriente with IR840 08.55 Covilha to Lisboa Santa Apolonia on Thursday 7th May 2004. These electrics had been freight only since March 1999 after sectorisation took hold in Portugal.
Don't expect to get that classic shot of Skogafoss with only one person in the foreground unless you plan on arriving before 6.00am at this time of the year. In the northern summer you would have to be up much earlier.
I spent a day at Griffith Park's Observatory, and took a loop of the area along Hollywood, Sunset, Santa Monica Blvds. Visited Koreatown and Chinatown before a nightly departure. LA is huge and the traffic is terrible!
LA's Chinatown. Not what I expected.
I painted this one for the good people at Procreate to celebrate my favorite holiday, halloween. The mandate was to re-invent the "Jack-o-Lantern" - which by a not so surprising turn of events is the name of my studio, "Jako Lanterne Studio". After submitting several ideas to the guys at Procreate they chose a pregnant zombie idea and I ran with it- gotta run when faced with zombies don't ya know!
This is Killy, named that way because my 3 year old niece can't say kitty with a "t." She's a very pregnant cat and will soon have kittens. I can't wait to see what they'll look like. She is so fluffy and cute. :D
There's another photo in the comments. You can see how big she's really gotten.
Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection. The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children.
Photo : E. Tuyay / ILO
Date : 2011/11
Country : Philippines
I expect you've all seen John Betjeman Goes By Train, a 1950s telly discourse on the charms of the branch line (since closed) along the Norfolk coast. During the film the great man avers that Hunstanton should be pronounced "Hunston" and Snettisham as "Snetchum". I'm a bit doubtful about this and, domiciled not far away for some nine years now, have never heard either place pronounced like this. Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett-Green, mentioned once that she suffered embarassment in later years because her father taught her as a girl that a well-known Bristol Channel resort was pronounced "Weston-super-Marry.
Anyway, on my few visits to Hunstanton I've never known the weather to be other than vile. Towards the end of the winter, on what seemed, in our back garden, quite a balmy day, we took our dog with us. The poor pooch, swaddled in his doggy overcoat, stood on the pebbles shivering in any icy blast straight from the fjords. On the occasion illustrated, in mid-June, rain slanted unrelentingly down from a sky like a clammy sheet. We took refuge in one of those pubs with a built-out glass structure wherein old-age pensioners tuck into their £6.50 three-course lunches and request glasses of "medium dry white wine" as an accompaniment.
So rather a joyless outing. I took the above during what promised to be a cessation of the rain, but soon proved a mere pause. A few dunlin sheltered in the lee of a groyne. Once we had ventured far from shelter the rain resumed with new tenacity. Having suffered some recent focus malfunctions with my autofocus Fuji GA645Zi ...I'll have to adapt my technique... I once more took up the same maker's GW690 II and used its smallest aperture, f32, to ensure front-to-back sharpness.
Well, what did you expect ;-)
Filmed by Andy - Sony Handycam HDR-CX730E + Raynox HD2025PRO 2x extender edited in Sony Vegas
The Music is courtesy of Tony Haven www.tonyhaven.com/
I don't expect too many aphids in the near future!
At the moment their body is just 1mmm long. Some predator is going to have a feast here....
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Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection. The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children.
Photo : E. Tuyay / ILO
Date : 2011/11
Country : Philippines
So I recently got this pattern and thought I'd try the pink dress. I knew from the bulkiness of the envelope and the feel of pins--that some were cut out and at least one pattern was probably still attached to the fabric....but I didn't expect this.
So yeah wasn't expecting to be told this had pitched up in Pevensey near Eastbourne!, and this ex West Yorkshire Road Car Buses vehicle has recently been abandoned in a layby on Wartling Road behind Pevensey Services, near to the A259 Road at Pevensey near Eastbourne in East Sussex, and this vehicle which from what I could see through the windows, appears to retain most of its seating, had previously lived on a farm near Hailsham for about 9 years according to Harry Powell, to whom Thanks are due for the tip off about this vehicle (and all the other things I seem to find in Sussex).
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”You did rather well against Cain. Better than I expected.”
”Try not to sound too sarcastic.”
”I’m not. You genuinely did better than I expected.”
”Oh?”
”I thought Cain would have killed you.”
”Well he wasn’t exactly friendly. The stab wound on my back would agree to that.”
”It’s a lesson. You’ll know never to allow your opponent to dictate the position of your body again.”
”AHHHH! Watch it will ya?”
”I can leave it to get infected if you really want.”
”No it’s just…”
”Sore? I’d hope so. Last thing I want is for Cain to be going easy on you.”
”Your concern is greatly apprecia…….ah Christ!”
”Stop being such a cry baby. Face the consequences of your actions.”
”I am!”
”I don’t just mean this wound. You also must confront what your actions caused that night in Crime alley.”
”I do. Every single day I open my eyes.”
”You dream about the life you might have had had you simply managed to sit through the show. The life you’ve always wanted. With them….”
”Leave them out of this.”
”It’s unavoidable. They’re part of you, and thus they can never be left in the past. No matter how desperately you attempt to bury their memory.”
”Stop talking about them.”
”Your inability to discuss them freely confirms my suspicions. Like most, you fear the consequences of your actions and rather than confront them, you choose to deny them.”
”I’m warning you Talia. Stop mentioning them.”
”Or what? You’ll lash out at me in anger? Run as you’ve always done? Or will you be a man and confront the consequences of your actions. Take responsibility for all that you have done.”
”There was nothing I could do.”
”There’s always something that can be done Bruce. You simply need the will to act.”
Despite my attempts to purge the memories of that night in Crime alley, it’s inescapable. Then again, the truth often is….
“Thomas are you sure we should be walking out the back door of the theatre? Surely we could just walk out the front door.”
“Yeah we could do Martha but it’ll take us five minutes to get to Alfred through the sea of press. This way he can pick us up at the end of the alley without being hounded by the press and we can get Bruce back to bed. He does have school tomorrow after all.”
“Well I don't like the look of this place. Stay close to me Bruce.”
“Alright Mom. But I think we’ll be all right. Father tends to know best after all.”
“Well I wouldn’t go that far, but he does know Gotham better than most people so I’m sure he knows what he’s doing. Come along.”
“Well, well. Looks like we’ve got the whole Wayne brigade out tonight!”
The figure remains hidden in the shadows but raises his right hand to reveal a gun. Mother panics and grabs hold of me. Father pulls out his wallet from his inside suit pocket and reaches into it before pulling out all the money he has.
“Pffft you think I can be bought off just like that? Sorry Wayne, but it’s not money I’m after. It’s vengeance.”
“Vengeance? What have I done to you? What has my family ever done to you?”
<“You’ve done a lot to me, even if you don’t want to admit it. Tommy.”
“Tommy?”
“Here’s a hint.”
Instinctively, I race forward and grab the robber’s hand before he has a chance to pull the trigger.
“Bruce!”
In the distance I hear Mother calling out to me but I’m transfixed on ensuring that I don’t let go of this guy’s hand. Almost immediately, my Father comes to my aid and punches our attacker in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. Before the robber has a chance to make another move, I bite his hand causing him to drop the gun.
“AHHH! YOU LITTLE BASTARD!”
Immediately, he takes a swing towards me only to be greeted by my Father’s fist. Evidently it was a hell of a blow as the assailant collapses to the ground.
”Martha. Take Bruce. Get Alfred.”
“But Thomas…”
”JUST DO IT!”
Without another word, Mother follows Father’s instructions and grabs hold of my hand to lead me out of the alley way as Father picks up the gun.
Deep down, I dream of that scenario every night. Or at least, I tell myself that I do. What might have happened had I been willing to act. Would they have still died? Or would my life have changed for the better? Sadly, there’s no way that I’ll ever know. All I can do now is look forward and accept that I can’t change the past. But I can change the future. My future.
”If it wasn’t for me. They’d still be here.”
”It’s possible.”
”I know that they would be.”
”It’s a big world Bruce. You can’t stop it from taking lives.”
”No, but I could have stopped it had I not been born.”
”…You shouldn’t things like that?”
”Why? It’s true. The world would be a better place were it not for me. My father probably would have transformed Gotham into the perfect utopia he envision, my Mother would have eliminated poverty in Gotham and Alfred would probably be more than happy not having to raise an ungrateful little brat.”
”You really think the world would be better without you?”
”I don’t think it would be. I know it would be. I have nothing worth living for without them, at least if I’d died they would have had each. ”
Talia pauses for a moment, clearly uncertain about what she’s just unearthed within me. After a good few seconds though, she responds by lifting her blade from the nearby table and presenting the hilt to me.
”What are you doing?”
”If you really have nothing to live for. Why draw things out any longer?”
To say her response caught me by surprise would be an understatement. Talia had hardly been the living embodiment of friendship, but her willingness to allow me to take my own life caught me off guard. This wasn’t the first time I’d considered suicide. Hell I almost jumped off the roof of Wayne Manor hours after my parents were gunned down. But to see someone willing to indulge my desire threw everything in perspective.
As I grabbed the hilt of her blade and took a moment to inspect it, my mind was racing whilst trying to decide what action to take. Am I brave enough to take my own life? Is it that simple? Can I do it?.....Is it what I want?
My hesitation on performing the act says it all to Talia though, and she proceeds to slowly walk up to me and gently take the blade from me. Unable to move due to my indecision, I simply stand still and watch as she returns the blade to its spot on the table.
What comes next though is what shocks me the most.
Talia walks up to me, I fear she’s about to punish me for considering the coward’s way out.
Instead, she simply grabs hold my hands and looks straight into my eyes.
”We all have something to live for Bruce. For good or bad. Whether you want to admit it or not, there are people who would miss you if you were gone.”
With that, she kisses me on my left cheek.
Miraculous. I’d seen Talia gut men before my very eyes and be more than dismissive about my chances of survival under her father’s tuition, and yet in those few moments. I saw something beautiful. I saw the real Talia Al-Ghul.
”You’ll always matter here. Don’t ever forget that.”
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Happy Batman day everyone!
President: Ukraine expects to receive long-term assistance from partner states.
Ukraine expects to receive long-term assistance from partner countries, which will be used for covering budgetary expenses and military support for our country. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the end-of-year press conference in Kyiv.
"This is long-term assistance, and it serves various purposes: some for humanitarian aid, some for economic support, and social payments. But a significant portion of this aid from these countries is military assistance to Ukraine. I have confidence in our partners, and I believe that we have done nearly everything," said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
According to him, such support will help offset certain risks.
"What is certain today is that Belgium, Denmark, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Germany, Sweden, and Japan are helping. This indicates a strong foundation. If we face any risks, we will count on the respective amounts," noted the President.
A number of recent foreign visits by the Head of State resulted in agreements on additional supplies of air defense equipment, artillery, and ammunition to Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that substantial work with partners is currently underway to allocate financial assistance to Ukraine.
"I am confident that the United States will not let us down and that what we have agreed upon with the United States will be fully implemented," the Head of State said.
The President also expressed confidence that the European Union will pass a decision to provide €50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
"Now it's a matter of timing. The first 1.5 billion, I think, will come this week. As for the 50 billion, I'm confident that a decision will be made in the very near future when they convene. It has been arranged in a way that even if there's support for a package of 50 billion minus one, there are other mechanisms in place to ensure that Ukraine receives these 50 billion," noted Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
At the same time, he emphasized that assistance from our partners is needed right now, as the situation at the front remains difficult, and our troops need weapons and ammunition.
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Some background:
In the early days of World War II, Royal Navy fighter requirements had been based on cumbersome two-seat designs, such as the fighter/dive-bomber Blackburn Skua (and its turreted derivative the Blackburn Roc) and the fighter/reconnaissance Fairey Fulmar, since it was expected that they would encounter only long-range bombers or flying boats and that navigation over featureless seas required the assistance of a radio operator/navigator. The Royal Navy hurriedly adopted higher-performance single-seat aircraft such as the Hawker Sea Hurricane and the less robust Supermarine Seafire alongside, but neither aircraft had sufficient range to operate at a distance from a carrier task force. The American Vought F4U Corsair was welcomed as a more robust and versatile alternative.
In November 1943, the Royal Navy received its first batch of 95 "birdcage" Vought F4U-1s, which were given the designation "Corsair [Mark] I". The first squadrons were assembled and trained on the U.S. East Coast and then shipped across the Atlantic. The Royal Navy put the Corsair into carrier operations immediately. They found its landing characteristics dangerous, suffering a number of fatal crashes, but considered the Corsair to be the best option they had.
The Royal Navy cleared the F4U for carrier operations well before the U.S. Navy and showed that the Corsair Mk II could be operated with reasonable success even from escort carriers. It was not without problems, though: one was excessive wear of the arrester wires, due both to the weight of the Corsair and the understandable tendency of the pilots to stay well above the stalling speed, and because of the limited hangar deck height in several classes of British carrier, many Corsairs had their outer wings "clipped" by 8 in (200 mm) to clear the deckhead. However, the change in span brought about the added benefit of improving the sink rate, reducing the F4U's propensity to "float" in the final stages of landing. The Royal Navy developed further modifications to the Corsair that made carrier landings more practical. Among these were a bulged canopy (similar to the P-51 B/C’s Malcolm Hood), raising the pilot's seat 7 in (180 mm), and wiring shut the cowl flaps across the top of the engine compartment, diverting frequent oil and hydraulic fluid spray around the sides of the fuselage so that the windscreen remained clear.
The Corsair Mk I was followed by 510 "blown-canopy" F4U-1A/-1Ds, which were designated Corsair Mk II (the final 150 equivalent to the F4U-1D, but not separately designated in British use). 430 Brewster Corsairs (334 F3A-1 and 96 F3A-1D), more than half of Brewster's total production, were delivered to Britain as the Corsair Mk III. 857 Goodyear Corsairs (400 FG-1/-1A and 457 FG-1D) were delivered and designated Corsair Mk IV. A total of 2,012 Corsairs were supplied to the United Kingdom during WWII, and British Corsairs served both in Europe and in the Pacific. Despite the large number of aircraft, the Mk IIs and IVs were the only versions to be actually used in combat.
The first, and also most important, European FAA Corsair operations were the series of attacks in April, July, and August 1944 on the German battleship Tirpitz (Operation Tungsten), for which Corsairs from HMS Victorious and HMS Formidable provided fighter cover. From April 1944, Corsairs from the British Pacific Fleet took part in several major air raids in South-East Asia beginning with Operation Cockpit, an attack on Japanese targets at Sabang island, in the Dutch East Indies. In July and August 1945, RN Corsairs took part in a series of strikes on the Japanese mainland, near Tokyo, operating from Victorious and Formidable. It was during this late phase of the war that the Admiralty was expecting new and more powerful indigenous naval fighters to become available, primarily Griffon-powered Seafires and the Hawker Sea Fury, a navalized derivative of the Hawker Tempest fighter powered by the new Centaurus radial engine. Both types, however, faced development problems, so that the Royal Navy approached Vought and requested a new variant of the proven Corsair, powered by the British Centaurus engine and further tailored to the Royal Navy’s special needs. This became the Corsair Mark V.
The Corsair V was based on the newest American variant, the F4U-4, but it differed in many aspects, so much that it effectively was a totally different aircraft. The F4U-4 was the last American Corsair variant that would be introduced during WWII, but it only saw action during the final weeks of the conflict. It had a 2,100 hp (1,600 kW) dual-stage-supercharged -18W engine, and when the cylinders were injected with the water/alcohol mixture, power was boosted to 2,450 hp (1,830 kW). To better cope with the additional power, the propeller was changed to a four-blade type. Maximum speed was increased to 448 miles per hour (721 km/h) and climb rate to over 4,500 feet per minute (1,400 m/min) as opposed to the 2,900 feet per minute (880 m/min) of the F4U-1A. The unarmored wing fuel tanks of 62 US gal (230 L) capacities were removed for better maneuverability at the expense of maximum range. Other detail improvements were introduced with the F4U-4, too: The windscreen was now flat bullet-resistant glass to avoid optical distortion, a change from the curved Plexiglas windscreens with an internal armor glass plate of the earlier variants. The canopy was furthermore without bracing and slightly bulged – an improvement adopted from the Royal Navy Corsairs.
The original "4-Hog" retained the original armament of six 0.5” machine guns and had all the external load (i.e., drop tanks, bombs, HVARs) capabilities of the F4U-1D. A major sub-type, the F4U-4B, was the same but featured an alternate gun armament of four 20 millimeters (0.79 in) AN/M3 cannon, and the F4U-4P was a rare photo reconnaissance variant with an additional camera compartment in the rear fuselage, but fully combat-capable.
The Royal Navy agreed to adopt the new F4U-4 but insisted on the British Centaurus as powerplant and demanded British equipment and armament, too. The latter included four Hispano 20 mm cannon in the outer wings, adapted wirings for British unguided rockets under the outer wings and a four-channel VHF radio system, a radio altimeter and a G2F compass. Vought reluctantly agreed, even though the different engine meant that a totally different mount had to be developed in short time, and the many alterations to the F4U-4’s original airframe would require a separate, new production line. Since this would block valuable resources for the running standard F4U production for the USN, the Corsair V was outsourced to the newly established Kaiser-Fleetwing company (a ship builder with only limited aircraft experience so far) and designated FK-1 in American circles.
As expected, the development of the FK-1 alone took more time than expected – not only from a technical point of view, but also due to logistic problems. The Centaurus engines and most vital equipment pieces had to be transported across the Atlantic, a hazardous business. The first precious Centaurus engines for the development of the modified engine mount were actually transferred to the USA through the air, hanging in the bomb bays of American B-24 bombers that were used as transporters to supply Great Britain with vital materials.
Because Kaiser-Fleetwings had to establish a proper production line for the FK-1 and supplies for raw F4U-4 airframes had to be diverted and transported to the company’s factory at Bristol, Pennsylvania, delays started to pile up and pushed the Corsair Mk. V development back. The first Centaurus-powered Corsair flew in January 1945 and immediately revealed massive stability problems caused by the engine’s high torque. Enlarged tail surfaces were tested and eventually solved the problem, but this measure changed the F4U-4s standard airframe even more. It was furthermore soon discovered that the early Centaurus engine suffered frequent crankshaft failure due to a poorly designed lubrication system, which led to incidents of the engine seizing while in mid-flight. The problem was resolved when Bristol's improved Centaurus XVIII engine replaced the earlier variant. Tests and adaptations of British equipment to the airframe continued until May 1945, when the Corsair V was eventually cleared for production. But when the first of 100 ordered machines started to roll off the production lines the war was already over.
At that time many of the Fleet Air Arm's carrier fighters were Seafires and Lend-Lease Corsairs. The Seafire had considerable drawbacks as a naval aircraft, notably the narrow undercarriage, while the Corsairs had to be returned or purchased. As the UK did not have the means to pay for them, the Royal Navy Corsairs were mostly pushed overboard into the sea in Moreton Bay off Brisbane, Australia.
Since the Corsair V had not been part of the Lend Lease agreement with the United States, the Royal Navy was not able to easily retreat from the production contract and had to accept the aircraft. Because the Royal Navy’s intended new standard shipborne fighter, the Hawker Sea Fury, was delayed and almost cancelled during this period of re-organizations and cutbacks, the Admiralty bit the bullet, used the inevitable opportunity and procured the Corsair V as a stopgap solution, even though the original production order from May 1945 was not extended and effectively only 95 Corsair Vs were ever produced in the USA and transferred as knocked-down kits via ship to Great Britain.
The first re-assembled Corsair Vs entered Royal Navy service in August 1946, but their frontline service with 802 and 805 NAS, both based at Eglington (Northern Ireland), was only brief. Following the successful completion of weapons trials at the A&AEE Boscombe Down, the Sea Fury was eventually cleared for operational use on 31 July 1947 and quickly entered service. The Corsair Vs were gradually replaced with them until late 1948; 805 NAS was the first unit to abandon the type when 805 Squadron was reformed as a Royal Australian Navy FAA squadron operating Hawker Sea Fury Mk II aircraft. In 1950, 802 NAS was assigned to HMS Ocean and equipped with the Hawker Sea Fury, too, and sent to Korea.
Most Corsair Vs were then relegated to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) in August 1951, where they replaced Supermarine Seafires and took over their role as classic fighter aircraft, despite the Corsair V’s strike/attack potential with bombs and unguided missiles. Most of the time the Corsairs were used for lang range navigation training. RNVR units that operated the Corsair V included Nos. 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836 Squadrons. No. 1832, based at RAF Benson, was the last RNVR squadron to relinquish the type in August 1955 for the jet-powered Supermarine Attacker, and this ended the Corsair V’s short career.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 34 ft (10.37 m)
Wingspan: 40 ft 8 in (12.10 m)
Height: 15 ft 4 in (4.68 m)
Wing area: 314 sq ft (29.17 m²)
Empty weight: 9,205 lb (4,238 kg)
Gross weight: 14,670 lb (6,654 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 14,533 lb (6,592 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Bristol Centaurus XVIII 18-cylinder air-cooled radial engine with
2,470 hp (1,840 kW) take-off power, driving a 4-bladed
Rotol constant-speed propeller with 14 ft (4.3 m) diameter
Performance:
Maximum speed: 453 mph (730 km/h, 397 kn) at sea level
Cruise speed: 215 mph (346 km/h, 187 kn) at sea level
Stall speed: 89 mph (143 km/h, 77 kn)
Range with internal fuel, clean: 1,005 mi (1,617 km, 873 nmi)
Combat range with max. ordnance: 328 mi (528 km, 285 nmi)
Service ceiling: 41,500 ft (12,600 m)
Rate of climb: 4,360 ft/min (22.1 m/s)
Armament:
4× 20 mm (0.787 in) Hispano Mk II cannon in the outer wings, 250 RPG
A total of 11 hardpoints under the wings and the fuselage for a total ordnance of
4,000 pounds (1.800 kg), including drop tanks, up to 16× 60 lb unguided aircraft rockets on twin
launch rails and/or bombs of up to 1.000 lb (454 kg) caliber
The kit and its assembly:
My first submission to the 2023 “Re-engine” group build at whatifmodellers.com, and a British Corsair with a Centaurus instead of the original R-2800 is almost a no-brainer. But taking the idea to hardware turned out to be a bit trickier than expected. I based my fictional conversion on an Italeri F4U-4, which would have been the appropriate late-WWII basis for a real-life conversion. The kit has good ex- and internal detail with fine engraved panels and offers the late Corsairs’ all-metal wings, too.
The engine replacement is a massive resin piece from OzMods, part of a conversion twin set for a Bristol Brigand; I assume it’s intended for the Valom kit? The set includes resin four-blade props with deep blades which I rather wanted to use than the Sea Fury’s typical five-blade prop.
The Italeri Corsair was basically built OOB, but beyond the different engine, which caused some trouble in itself (see below), I incorporated several mods to change the aircraft’s appearance. The streamlined Centaurus was insofar a problem because it has s slightly smaller diameter than the original R-2800 cowling. Not much, but enough to make a simple exchange impossible or at least look awkward. While the upper cowling section and its curvature blended well into the Corsair fuselage, the difference became more obvious and complicated underneath: late Corsairs have a “flattened” bottom, and from below the Centaurus appears somewhat undersized. To smooth the intersection out I grinded much of the cooling flaps away, and to even out the profile I added a shallow air scoop from an Italeri F4U-7 under the engine, which required some PSR. A good compromise, though. The resin propeller was mounted onto a metal axis and fitted into a hole/channel that was drilled through the Centaurus’ massive resin block.
As an FAA Corsair the wing tips were clipped, which was easy to realize thanks to the massive parts in this area. The Corsair’s original oil coolers in the wing roots were retained, but the four guns in the wings (separate parts in the Italeri kit with quite large holes) were replaced with faired Hispano cannon for/from an early Hawker Tempest, aftermarket brass parts from Master Models.
To change the model’s look further I modified the tail surfaces, too; the rounded fin was replaced with a rather square and slightly bigger donor, a stabilizer from a Novo Supermarine Attacker. The original stabilizers were replaced, too, with trapezoidal alternatives from a Matchbox Meteor night fighter, which offer slightly more area. Since the tail surfaces were all graft-ons now I implanted a vertical styrene tube behind the rear cockpit bulkhead as a display holder adapter for later flight scene pictures. Together with the clipped/squared-off wingtips the new tail creates a consistent look, and with the propeller and its dominant spinner in place the Corsair V reminds a lot of a late Bristol Firebrand mark or even of an Unlimited Class Reno Racer? It looks fast and purposeful now!
Even though unguided missiles and/or bombs could have been a valid ordnance option I decided to leave the Corsair V relatively clean as a pure gun fighter; I just used the OOB drop tank on the centerline station.
Painting and markings:
Very dry and using real 1948 Royal Navy aircraft as benchmark, the Corsair V ended up with a rather simple and dull Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky (Humbrol 123 and 90, respectively) with a low waterline, and still with wartime Type C roundels with “Identification red (dull)”, even though the RAF officially had reverted to bright identification colors in 1947 and started to use the high-viz Type D roundel as standard marking. To add a British flavor the cockpit interior was painted in very dark grey (Revell 06, Tar Black) while the interior of the landing gear wells was painted in a pale cream yellow (Humbrol 74, Linen) to mimic zinc chromate primer. The only highlight is a red spinner, a contemporary unit marking of 805 NAS.
The kit received a light black ink washing and post-shading to emphasize and/or add surface structures, and this nicely breaks up the otherwise uniform surfaces. Decals/markings came from Xtradecal Hawker Sea Fury und late WWII FAA/RN aircraft sheets, and some decals were mixed to create a fictional serial number for the Corsair V (TF 632 was never allocated, but the code fits into the model’s era). Some light oil and exhaust stains were also added, but not as severely as if the aircraft had been operated under wartime conditions. Finally, the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
While a classic F4U with a British Centaurus engine sounds simple, and actually is, getting there was not as easy as it sounds – the ventral air scoop came to the rescue. With some more small mods like the new tail surfaces the aircraft got a subtly different look from its American ancestor(s). The Corsair V IMHO has now a very Blackburn-ish look, thanks to the big spinner and the square fin! And I wonder what I will do with the other Centaurus from the conversion set?
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Not bright colours-it's not for me;) Have taken it near my bookcase just because the light was so wonderful! However it's not so on the processed one I think;(
I decided to put SOOC here so you can compare both pictures.
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I think one of the best things about this machine is the beautiful line quality. As you would expect from a nice pen. This is a 0.1mm Uni Pin. Could do with being blacker, but a very black pigmented pen seems a rare thing.