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Okay, I'll admit, I'm not trying to be something I'm clearly not, and that is a portrait photographer.
I have a very hard time shooting people. I'm great at meeting people, talking to people and mingling, but I'm not good at working with people who want their photos taken.
Luckily, this is my wife and the pressure was off....somewhat!
I was hoping to marry my passion for landscape photography, something I know, with taking a photo of a person, something I don't know and get a respectable outcome.
I have to admit I'm pretty happy with these for my experience. I left the pose up to her as she knew what she wanted.
Expectativas cumplidas. Todos querían ver bellotos del sur, lo que se cumplió. Sin embargo, no es que aquí haya tantos ejemplares, sólo algunos entre plántas pequeñas y uno que otro más desarrollado.
Gee, thanks Tips!
Steeles Avenue on the northern border of Toronto is being resurfaced this summer. A stretch of my commute that normally takes 5 minutes suddenly takes 25 minutes. Fortunately there are alternatives.
I love the addition to the sign "O Snap, What of my dentist" :)
The annual Chennai Book Fair organised by the Book Sellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI), is back, with the dates of the event being announced. According to sources, the 38th edition of the exhibition is scheduled to be held from 9 January to 21 January at the YMCA Physical Education College Ground in Nandanam.
The applications to the book stalls, which are expected to be over 500, are yet to be issued. Sources say that the 2015`s event would consist of fewer stalls as compared to previous years, as the width of the walkway is to be increased, and that there would be one less row of book booths.
The 12-day long exhibition is regarded as the second largest book fair in the country with books of various authors and publishing houses on offer. Over the years, the event has been widely praised for its visitor-friendly arrangements which include adequate first-aid options, sanitary and parking facilities and refreshment counters.
STORY OF CHENNAI BOOK FAIR :
Chennai Book Fair
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chennai Book Fair
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The Book Fair Entrance
StatusActive
VenueY. M. C. A Ground
Location(s)Nandanam, Chennai
CountryIndia
InauguratedDecember 14, 1977
Attendance600,000 in 2007
Website
bapasi.com
Chennai Book Fair or Madras Book Fair is an annual book fair organized in the Chennai, India by the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI). This is the largest exhibition for publishers to showcase their books. The fair typically lasts for about 10 days during the New Year-Pongal season. The fair is usually held between the last week of December and the third week of January.[1]
The Chennai Book Fair is one of the biggest book fairs in the country with almost all major publishers of India participating in it. All major Tamil publishing houses participate in this fair including Kizhakku Pathippagam, South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society Ltd., Tamil Puthgalayam, Paari Nilayam, Vanathi Pathippagam, Thirumagal Nialayam, Ainthinai Pathippagam, The Alliance, Prema Pirasuram, Narmadha Pathippagam, Nakkeran Pathippagam, Viva books, Sura Books, Tiger Books(Ideal Guides), Kavitha Pathippagam, Uma Pathippagam, Vikatan Publications, Sri Indu Publications, Poongodi Pathippagam, Kaalachuvadu, Bharathi Puthkalayam, Kannadasan Pathippagam, Arunodhayam, Palaniappa Publication, Sree Shenbaga Pathippagam, Periyar Self Respect, Sri Ramakrishna Matt, ISCKON, Thamarai Noolagam, Universal Publisher participate in this exhibition. Multinational participants include Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pustak Mahal, Higginbotham's, Orient Longman, Macmillan Publishers, Tata McGraw-Hill, S. Chand and Co., India Book House, British Council, The Hindu and Asian Educational Services. The 2009 fair had over 600 stalls representing most major publishing companies in India and was held between January 8 and January 18, 2009.
The Chennai Book Fair is considered to be one of the events in the Chennai cultural calendar along with the Chennai music season.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Recent editions
2.1 32nd Chennai Book Fair, 2009
3 34th Book Fair
4 Features
5 36th Book Fair
6 Notes
7 External links
History[edit]
The First Madras Book Fair was organized in Madras between December 14 and December 24, 1977, by The Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India(BAPASI), an association with major publishing companies of Tamil Nadu, especially Madras, & South India.[2][3][4] The first Madras Book Fair had 22 stalls and was held at the Madrasa-I-Azam school.[4] The first six book fairs were successful mainly due to the efforts of K. V. Mathew of BI Publications, who was responsible for the growth of the book fair in its early years.[4] Mr. Mathew has also organized an annual book fair for students.[4] The Student Book Fair, however, hasn't been as successful as the Chennai Book Fair.[4]
The first four editions of the book fair were held in the Madrasa-I-Azam school. In 1981, the book fair moved to the YMCA grounds in Royapettah, Chennai. The 1982 edition was organized at the Drive-In restaurant. The book fairs gradually rose in popularity. At the 12th Madras Book Fair held between December 22, 1989, and January 1, 1990, Tamil translations of WHO publications were put on sale.[5] The success of the Chennai Book Fair prompted BAPASI to start similar book fairs at Udagamandalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Pondicherry and Tiruchirapalli.
The early editions were held in the last weeks of December and ended in the first week of January in order to coincide with the Christmas-New Year holidays. However, in the late nineties, the fair was moved to mid-January to coincide with the Pongal festive season.
Recent editions[edit]
The 24th Chennai Book Fair experienced a spurt in the number of Tamil language publishers the majar role played by the then President Chandrasekar Higginbothams, Secretary Alliance Sreenivasan and the then committee members. Of the 180 publication houses who participated in the book fair, 80 were Tamil publication houses, a remarkable increase since the 23rd fair in which there was only one stall devoted to Tamil publications.[6] The book fair celebrated its silver jubilee in 2002 coinciding with the 50th anniversary celebrations of BAPASI. The fair was held for 15 days instead of the usual 11-day affair.[7] The 26th book fair was held between January 9 and January 19, 2003 and had a total of about 272 stalls.[8] 300,000 people visited the 26th book fair.[9] The revenue was estimated to over Rs. 6 crores.[9] The 27th book fair, inaugurated by the then Tamil Nadu Education Minister N. Semmalai and held between January 9 and January 19, 2004, had over 310 stalls, including 10 stalls allotted for state government departments, with over 200 publishers from all over India participating in it.[9] The 28th book fair was inaugurated by Chennai mayor S. P. Thiagarajan on January 7, 2005.[10][11] The 29th book fair was inaugurated on January 6, 2006 by K. Kalimthu, Speaker of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and was made of 375 stalls. The fair lasted till the 16th of January.[12] In 2007, due to traffic congestion and the need for more space for the stalls,[13] the venue for the annual book fair was changed from Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College to St. George' School in Kilpauk.[14] The 2007 book fair had a total of 474 stalls.[13] and for the first time, featured works of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, on an extensive scale.[15] Over 600,000 people visited the 30th book fair.
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YearEditionVenueAreaNumber of stallsParticipantsVisitorsDays heldRevenue
19761Madrasa-I-Azam school22
200124Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College18011 days
200225Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College15 days
200326Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College272300,0009–19 January (11 days)INR 60 million
200427Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College310200540,0009–19 January (11 days)
200528Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College700,0007–17 January (11 days)
INR 60 million
200629Quaid-e-Milleth Women's College3756–16 January (11 days)
200730St George's Anglo-Indian School, Kilpauk474600,000
200831St George's Anglo-Indian School, Kilpauk700,000
200932St George's Anglo-Indian School, KilpaukOver 600Over 1,000,0008–17 January (10 days)INR 70 million
201134St George's Anglo-Indian School, Kilpauk150,000 sq ft646
201235St George's Anglo-Indian School, Kilpauk100,000 sq ft6875–17 January (13 days)
201336YMCA Physical Education College Ground, Nandanam180,000 sq ft746450900,00011–23 January (13 days)INR 120 million[16]
201437YMCA Physical Education College Ground, Nandanam200,000 sq ft77710–22 January (13 days)
32nd Chennai Book Fair, 2009[edit]
35th Chennai Book Fair, 2012
The 32nd Chennai Book Fair was inaugurated at St George's Anglo-Indian School, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai, by former President of India Abdul Kalam on January 8, 2009.[3][17] and lasted ten days.[18] The 2009 edition had over 600 stalls[19] and was attended by over one million people,[18] amongst whom were Chennai historian S. Muthiah, businessman Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty and Gnani.[19] Second-hand pavement shops outside the fair also did a good business.[20] Book publishers made a cumulative sale of approximately INR 70 million.[18]
34th Book Fair[edit]
The 14-day fair was held at St. George's Anglo Indian School on Poonamallee High Road. The fair included 646 stalls, spread over 1.5 lakh sq.ft. Over 1 million titles were on sale. Book publishers from New Delhi, Agra, Hyderabad, Bangalore and various parts of Tamil Nadu participated in the fair.
Features[edit]
The Chennai Book Fair is considered to be one of the biggest events in the Chennai cultural calendar along with the Chennai music season.[21] In addition to book stalls, there are food and refreshment stalls to serve the needs of hungry visitors. Regular debates, contests and speeches are held at the venue. In recent times, movie clippings of films of international renown are filmed at the venue of the fair. Annual awards to the best writer and the best publisher are given at the fair.[22]
36th Book Fair[edit]
36th Chennai Book Fair was held between January 11 and 23, 2013, at YMCA Physical Education College Ground, Nandanam due to the construction of CMRL (Chennai Metro Rail) at E.V.R Periyar Salai. It had 747 stalls in a 180,000-square-foot area, with 450 participants and 1 million titles.[23][24]
Every month we have something special going on in the world, something that connects us no matter where we are. In the month of the February 2015, this is what we are all expecting:
1 – Valentines Day
14 of February is one of most wordily recognized days, symbol of love, romance and...
As expected, this ice lake rewards ice fishermen for all the efforts they have made under the freezing temperature of northern China. Fish from this ice lake is sold all around China at more expensive prices and makes them earn almost half of their annual income.
Wayne Rooney expecting third child with Coleen: Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen are expecting their third child. That made the couple Wednesday evening known via Twitter.
“Overjoyed that I and @ColeenRoo our third child on the way,” wrote the English footballer. His wife tweeted: &...
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Expect to see more moose cow uploads here. I worked on a number of them last night. This lovely lady got close enough to the shore for me to get some really nice portrait shots of her as she grazed for the aquatic plants beneath the water of Fishercap Lake. She never appeared nervous or distressed that we were lining one side of the lakeshore. She appeared to feel comfortable in the water. She might even be used to seeing so many humans out there, all eyes on her. Who knows. I just feel privileged and lucky to have seen and photographed her for 3 days in a row during my Glacier Park stay.
All of the moose shots (except for any landscape-type images I might post here), were captured with the Canon 1DX and Canon 100-400mm mk II lens.
Copyright Rebecca L. Latson, all rights reserved.
I truly expected my newest foster to be Mini Moo. Instead, I am pleasantly surprised by the vim and vigor possessed by that gorgeous little furball. Mini Moo has people asking about him, so I expect he will go to a forever home soon. Besides, the family who has them in their house is quite attached to the little guy and don't have any issues with keeping him until he is adopted.
So, how did I end up with Curiosity in my basement bathroom for now? Curiosity and Mini Moo are the last of the dumped kittens to need homes. Curiosity, in truth, is beyond the adorable kitten stage that people desire. Furthermore, he needs some vet care. While the abscess we drained has healed nicely, he still needs to see a vet for his URI as well as presumed parasites and ear mites.
Curiosity has a gentle nature and is convinced he belongs inside the house (he must have been an inside kitten before he was dumped). A while back, during a church bonfire, Curiosity planted himself on the lap of a young man in a wheelchair. Curiosity stayed on his lap as long as the boy remained at the bonfire.
Then, what perhaps won me over, was yesterday afternoon. We had a meal at the farm with visiting missionaries. At some point, some child left the front door open. Well, in wandered Curiosity. He came straight over to the table and looked for a lap to hop up on. Unfortunately, he had to be taken back outside at that point, but he tugged at my heartstrings. . . then he tugged even harder after we gathered in the living room. I leaned over to pet Mini Moo in the bay window and locked eyes with a pleading Curiosity. He so much wanted to be inside with us. . .
Cooler weather has arrived, and Curiosity's health could easily get worse without care. The Convenia shot didn't work for him. I want to do twice daily oral medicine. It just makes sense to have Curiosity stay at our place until we can find him a forever home. We'll nurture him to health, and his natural charm should win someone over. . .
Curiosity not only enjoys people, he also enjoys the company of other cats. It looks like, until we get him treated by the vet, he will make do with his own reflection for a while.
13 Nov 1954, Cairo, Egypt --- Wearing the traditional Burnoose, but carrying Western clothes, Sheikh Ezzat Gaafar, Chief of the Cabinet of the Emir of Kuwait, arrives in Cairo from Rome. Gaafar is expected to marry ex-Queen Narriman of Egypt after she obtains a divorce from her present husband, Dr. Adham El Nakeeb. Narriman's first husband was ex-King Farouk. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
And he did not marry her
The most adorable girl mimicking her pregnant mom. Update: when I took the photo I didn't know the tile 'Expecting a brother' would be the right one. The little girl did get the brother she expected. :)
2017 World Championship Group Stage at Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium in Wuhan, Hubei, China on 5 October 2017.
This picture I made it in the garden of a friend of Böblingen.
Tree is cherry.
The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit (drupe) that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherries. The subgenus, Cerasus, is distinguished by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having a smooth fruit with only a weak groove or none along one side. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. The word "cherry" comes from the French word "cerise", which comes in turn from the Latin words cerasum and Cerasus.
The cherry is generally understood to have been brought to Rome from northeastern Anatolia, historically known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC. The city of Giresun in present-day Turkey was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or Pharnacia, and later as Kerasous or Cerasus, < Kerason < Kerasounta < Kerasus "horn" (for peninsula) in Greek + ounta (Greek toponomical suffix). The name later mutated into Kerasunt (sometimes written Kérasounde or Kerassunde).
The English word cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, and Southern Italian dialect cerasa (standard Italian ciliegia) all come from the Classical Greek κέρασος "cherry," which has been identified with Cerasus. The cherry was first exported to Europe from Cerasus in Roman times. By the Middle Ages, cherries had disappeared in England. They were reestablished at Tyneham, near Sittingbourne in Kent by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
Besides the fruit, cherries also have attractive flowers, and they are commonly planted for their flower display in spring; several of the Asian cherries are particularly noted for their flower displays. The Japanese sakura in particular are a national symbol celebrated in the yearly Hanami festival. Many flowering cherry cultivars (known as 'ornamental cherries') have the stamens and pistils replaced by additional petals ("double" flowers), so are sterile and do not bear fruit. They are grown purely for their flowers and decorative value. The most common of these sterile cherries is the cultivar 'Kanzan'.
These are my personal notes taken during a geology presentation. I give them here because they may be of some interest. Do not expect the notes to always be in complete sentences, etc.
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A Look at Biotic Events at High Southern Latitudes at the End of the Cretaceous
Presented by: William Zinsmeister (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) (www.eaps.purdue.edu/people/faculty-pages/zinsmeister.html)
19 November 1998
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The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction is the smallest of the big 5 extinctions. 11% of all families go extinct at the K-T boundary. But, the K-T extinction is a favourite of many people, mainly because it included the extinction of the dinosaurs. There have been many theories proposed about why the dinosaurs went extinct, including mammals eating their eggs, the evolution of angiosperms interfering with their digestive systems, and other ideas.
But, all these dinosaurs extinction hypotheses are flawed because they only deal with dinosaurs. Many terrestrial and marine groups (plant and animal) went extinct at the same time.
Then, the impact hypothesis came along in the early 1980s, proposed by Alvarez. This idea explained the K-T extinction in both the terrestrial and marine realm - basically, the global food chain collapsed. Also, the impact theory caught people’s imaginations, and was immediately accepted as fact by the media and the general public. There is much debate among scientists, though.
Now, there is much compelling evidence for an impact. Lots of computer modelling has been done to see what an impact would do the the Earth. One idea is that debris would be thrown up high into the atmosphere and would fall back down as an enormous meteor shower, which would heat the atmosphere to 800˚ and everything on the surface was cooked. Other scary ideas: rainshowers of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, nuclear winter scenario, and global forest fires.
Problem: If things were so bad, how did anything survive? Where are the burned/charred dinosaur bones and trees if all this happened?
There are a few diehards who still say an impact didn’t happen.
Other than that, there are 2 hypothese: 1) Bad Day Hypothesis; 2) Impending Doom Hypothesis.
The Impending Doom Hypothesis says that the Earth’s biosphere had been under a long period of stress up to the time of the impact. The impact was the capstone to the extinction. This seems like a logical idea.
Seymour Island - located near the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The geology on Seymour Island is mostly a homoclinal succession of rocks - Cretaceous to upper Paleocene. (www.geologicallocations.com/antarctica/seymour-island.htm)
Post-impact scenarios - it has been difficult to assess post-impact scenarios because there are few areas in the world with Danian-age rocks (= earliest Tertiary). Danian rocks occur in northwestern Europe, a few other places, and on Seymour Island. The north part of Seymour Island is Tertiary in age.
There are about 70 square kilometers of outcrop to look at on Seymour Island (upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary). The island has a desert-like topography similar to southwestern USA. These are good exposures, and they are packed with fossils with a high diversity and good preservation. About 800 species of fossils have been described from Seymour Island. Lots of ammonites are just lying on the surface. The ammonites are aragonitic. There are also good gastropods and bivalves (all fresh looking). There are also fossil echinoids (including 1 form with 5 brood pouches - the juveniles live in the parent up to a certain point). There are also plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. Ammonites are common.
A spectacular specimen of Diplomoceras was found last year - a specimen that was 1.5 meters long (but curved; uncurved, it would be 14 feet long). The animal itself was ~6 feet long (a 6 feet long living chamber). Smaller pieces of this fossil are relatively common, but this specimen was unusually preserved. It is the nicest, most remarkable specimen known. (www.geologicallocations.com/assets/photos/antarctica/Seym...)
Seymour Island is very muddy to work on - it is always above freezing during the field seasons.
An iridium anomaly does occur here on Seymour Island. It occurs in a unit referred to as the K-T glauconite, which is a greenish, glauconitic sandstone that occurs at the boundary. The glauconitic sandstone is easily correlatable across the island. (www.geologicallocations.com/assets/photos/antarctica/Seym...)
There are no stratigraphic or sedimentological signatures at the K-T boundary within the glauconitic sandstone interval. There is no boundary clay, as classically seen at Gubbio, Italy.
Antarctica is ~8000 miles away from the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, which is a significant point as far as considering the after-effects expected to be seen in Antarctica. (www.theyucatantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Chicxu...)
Rudist record - there is a gradual increase in the diversity of rudist bivalves in the Cretaceous. (www.paleotax.de/rudists/intro-Dateien/image002.jpg) Most rudists went extinct at 67.5 to 68 million years ago (~early-late Maastrichtian boundary). This pattern mirrors other groups’ diversity patterns as well - all mostly go extinct before the K-T boundary.
Seymour Island ammonites crash at the end of the Campanian. Seymour Island inoceramid bivalves are gone near the end of the Campanian. (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/19921135882) Seymour Island belemnites virtually disappear at the end of the Campanian. Seymour Island ammonites are quite diverse in the Campanian (35-36 species), but their diversity crashes to 10 species in the Maastrichtian (= latest Cretaceous), and they are gone at the K-T boundary. Several Campanian cosmopolitan ammonite families disappear in the Campanian in the Seymour Island area, but they extend to the K-T boundary in lower latitudes. So, their disappearance in the Seymour Island area indicates a general temperature decline (cooling).
A regression occurred at the mid-Maastrichtian.
Superimposed on the Maastrichtian temperature decline are several rapid warming spikes. 50,000 years before the K-T boundary event was a warming event, documented from some ODP sites.
Note the restricted occurrence to 1 horizon on Seymour Island of the ammonite Zealandites varuna in the Maastrichtian Lopez de Bertodano Formation. Its presence probably represents a warming spike.
The faunal transition across the K-T boundary on Seymour Island - no single extinction event seen - a gradual decline is seen instead. There is no marked extinction horizon.
Then, someone suggested that this pattern is due to the Signor/Lipps Effect, a phenomenon produced by collection/preservation biases. One can get a gradual extinction pattern purely due to collecting and preservation biases. So, Zinsmeister and others recollected the fossils on Seymour Island, and collected fossils spatially, doing detailed mapping.
The K-T glauconite (~5 meters thick) is actually 3 units - a lower glauconite, a middle fish bed/horizon, and an upper glauconite. The fish debris bed could represent a victim bed from the K-T impact.
Renewed fossil collecting has resulted in a new diversity record - the extinction is less gradual now - it is more abrupt, but all groups are dying out just before the iridium anomaly. The K-T extinction is now more abrupt is high southern latitudes than previously thought.
Fish horizon - interpreted to be the effect of extreme ocean disruption; fish kills are not due to ocean poisoning (strangelove ocean), but by pulses of nutrients into the oceans. This is the only fish horizon in 1600 meters of section. It could be an interval of slow deposition, but this is not likely because fish degrade relatively quickly, and one needs special conditions to preserve fish. The fish debris bed represents conditions after the K-T event - lots of fish kills occurred.
The biosphere is far more robust than we give it credit for. Organisms have been able to survive truly catastrophic events in geologic history.
Example: the Millbrig Bentonite (Middle Ordovician, eastern USA and Scandinavia). This large volcanic eruption resulted in no extinctions. Therefore, Earth’s biosphere is very robust. But, if the biosphere is already stressed, then a big event can push the biosphere into a mass extinction.
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The photo I had to laugh. Can not smile without looking at it as a huge dog finds the members of his flock of children. Balian accompanies them everywhere:)
5175. It looks ordered, but the tensions here must have been enormous. Bitter foes coming face-to-face, neither side knowing how the other will react, the Japanese half-expecting a massacre.
Thus, within moments, in a symbolic act of Japanese submission, the keys of the huge Yokosuka naval base near Yokohama, are handed to Captain Herbert James Buchanan, RAN, from Melbourne - the CO of destroyer HMAS NAPIER and Commander of the British Pacific Fleet's 7th Destroyer Flotilla - by Commander Yuzo Tanno, the officer in charge of stores at the base.
In some ways this is an awkward photograph historically, and one that does not appear in US records.
It is some short time later, before US Rear Admiral Robert B. Carney the U.S. Third Fleet Chief of Staff and Rear Admiral Roger C. Badger arrived on board the cruiser USS SAN DIEGO to formally receive the surrender of the base on behalf of the U.S. Navy from Vice Admiral Michitoro Totsuka, the base Commander. It should be stressed that US marines had landed elsewhere on the Azuma Peninsula first, and in fact the first probing advance parties of Carney's forces had been landing at defence points around Toyko Bay, and taking over Japanese batteries, for two days hence, since August 28.
Nonetheless, the seizure of Yokosuka was a critical part of the first major landings, and somehow Buchanan - typically of this aggressive and highly decorated destroyer captain - had got to Yokosuka first, striding ashore at the head of a force of some 80 Australian and New Zealand sailors mainly drawn from HMAS NAPIER and her sister ship HMAS NIZAM.
Buchanan's group appears to have been accompanied by at least one an official war correspondent John Pacini, but Pacini's report [below]] suggests others also - and there are several pages of photographs of these first scenes ashore in the Australian War Memorial. They can be found here:
www.awm.gov.au/search/collections/?conflict=second+world+...
An interesting account of the Buchanan group's arrrival at Yokosuka by correspondent Pacini is also published online by the Naval Historical Society of Australia.
Some edited extracts - which tie in with the AWM photographs - follow, but the full piece is here:
www.navyhistory.org.au/surrender-of-yokosuka-naval-base/
Pacini writes:
"....About 9.45 a.m.[US] marines landed at Azuma Peninsula, and at 10.40 the New Zealanders and Australians landed on the Japanese mainland at the Yokosuka base. Correspondents landed with Captain Buchanan. We left the APD [assault ...destroyer] in the usual type of landing craft, and after a few minutes travel, entered a small basin.
At the end of it, and waiting under a verandah, which was joined to the roof of a storehouse, stood three Japanese. As the landing craft sidled up to the small jetty, Captain Buchanan jumped ashore [making him the first Australian to land in Japan], and, with a guard behind him, went straight to where the three nervous Japanese were standing. They saluted Buchanan, who returned the compliment.
"Then a Japanese standing in the centre of the group bowed low, and handed over a large ring of keys, which opened every door in the area. This Japanese was a Naval Commander, who had been in charge of the stores depots of the base. The men on each side of him were interpreters. A guard of Australian sailors quickly formed up beside the Japanese...[describes dress of landing party] ....
"A table was erected quickly, and on it were placed the plans of the area which Buchanan studied in conjunction with the Japanese. The interpreters were good, and information was gathered quickly.
Although the landing was British, it might well have been Australian, judging from the scene around the table. The guard was Australian, and the whole of Captain Buchanan’s headquarters was composed of Australian naval officers, who had been taken from the destroyers NAPIER and NIZAM. Having made a thorough inspection of the maps, Captain Buchanan and his party began a tour of the area. Large files which the Japanese Commander had brought with him for perusal were handed over to an American Navy interpreter for translation..."
Further on, during a tour of base facilities, Pacini writes of the Japanese apprehension during this first encounter. He says: " Throughout the tour of the area almost all Japanese we saw were perceptibly shaken; and I don’t think any of them would have been surprised had we suddenly shot or bayoneted them...
"....When the Japanese commander realised that no harm was going to come to him, so long as no harm came to us, he began to smile more often. He became even more open with his information, and for a few minutes I was able to speak to him through an interpreter. He told me that the navy desired to attack Australia straight after the fall of Singapore, but the army preferred to move to Australia through New Guinea. The Army won..."
Photo, Australian War Memorial, image ID NO. 019422, listed copyright expired, public domain, it appears on the Wikipedia entry on the surrender of Yokosuka, and appeared in John Pacini's book 'With the RAN to Tokio' [Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne 1946], p. 35.
With the new year of course comes a new line of Transformers. For 2020, these come in the forms of Earthrise and Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures. As I get older and hoard more stuff, I find my interest in the main line stuff is starting to wane, mostly because I expect more from my toys, even if I have to pay more. But, there's always a few figures here and there that tickle my fancy, and that is the subject of todays write up, the Transformers Earthrise: Cliffjumper figure, a Deluxe class release with an MSRP of $29.99 CAD.
Earthrise is a continuation of the "storyline" set out in Siege: War for Cybertron. The battle between the Autobots and Decepticons has reached Earth, and the various characters have adopted Earth based alt modes.. which is a nice of way of saying instead of loving homages to G1 modes, they're probably going to use the actual G1 modes. Now, normally this would be something that tickles my interest, but with the existence of the MP line, I feel that getting to attached to this line could cause trouble down the line should they release a character in that form. The good news, however, is that if I do decided to buy something, the ones I get at my local Walmart are the same as what would be sold in Japan, and probably cost much less too so... #winning.
Cliffjumper was one of the original G1 minibots, and was one I commonly referred to as "Red Bumblebee" as in both toy and show, the two shared many characteristics, and there may even have been some red Beetle toys to further confuse the issue. OG Cliffjumper makes his return to the Transformers lineup in the Earthrise lineup, complete with his alt mode of a red sports car. As stated, he is in fact a Deluxe sized toy, even if he is one tiny mother of a toy.. I mean, look at him next to Nat. Remember that Nat is only about 5.5 inches tall, which places Cliffjumper somewhere around 4 inches in robot mode.
As far as I can tell, there's no gimmick with this line like there was with Siege, though I suspect there will be a theme from a transformation perspective.
Cliffjumper comes with the figure and his weapon, a bazooka that can separate into multiple smaller weapons/parts for the vehicle mode. That was expected from the previews. What I DIDN'T expect was that Cliffjumper has a removable backpack that doubles as an "accessory", but look so stupid I didn't even bother to photograph it. Other than serving as a dumb looking weapons/armour, it also allows the design team to cheat in the design of these toys. I'm kind of mixed when it comes to how I feel about this. On the one hand, the final figure looks pretty good, so what do I care about how they achieve it, but on the other hand, it feels almost like a step backwards with regards to design ingenuity. Now, I don't know if the backpack thing is a feature across all the figures - I do think I read something about it in the the upcoming Arcee figure, and thus I suspect it may be a feature across the entire Deluxe size class, if not the sizes above.
The Deluxe class has always been a great combination of size (usually) and articulation, no matter what line you're looking at. Earthrise is no different, with Cliffjumper possessing ankles, knees, hips, waist, shoulders, bicep swivel, elbows, wrist swivel, and head on a ball joint. With all that at your disposal, you're gonna be able to get Cliffjumper into at least one or two decent poses, though posing with the combined bazooka may be a bit challenging due to the size of the weapon.
From a paint perspective, it's now the second year we've had these elevated prices, but at least it can be said that paint application quality is generally not bad. though the actual amount of paint on the figure is relatively limited. I think the only red parts that are painted are the canopy, and the only black parts painted are the stripes along the front and the rear of the vehicle mode. All the silver is painted, including the bazooka. Overall, there are some minor hiccups here and there, but the resulting product itself isn't bad at all. There are none of those "battle damage" paint apps on the figures that most people hated on Siege figures, which results in cleaner figures and less cost for Hasbro/Takaratomy. There's only one decal, the Autobot sigil on the vehicle hood, and the quality and application of this was acceptable.
Build quality is another area that the increased price point seems to have helped overall. The joints are nice and tight, holding poses as intended. The plastic itself.. again I don't have the technical terms for it.. feels like whatever they use for 3D printing, which is rigid enough to support finer detailing, but does not feel brittle at all. Along with a more ambitious transformation scheme, I've also found that the tolerances are better, with parts fitting together nicely with fewer gaps, as well as more actual tabs themselves for mounting parts and guiding transformations. Backpack cheat aside, the transformation itself is a decent challenge and does allow Cliffjumper to remain a tiny little thing even in vehicle mode without having bot mode part sticking out like a sore thumb.
In conclusion, it can be stated that as a Transformer collector, I've come to grasp with the reality of the new pricing scheme and it's nice to see at least that Hasbro/Takaratomy is making some effort to improve the product. Everything looking great, is very crisp and clean, and I can't even complain about the size because, well, Cliffjumper is tiny. While I guess they could have made a Legends scale figure out of him, from an articulation perspective I'm glad they didn't. I feel whether or not you feel this is a good Transformer or a letdown will all depend on how you feel about the backpack.
I don't have any plans to get anything between now and Arcee, but with random 20% off sales that show up from Toys R Us, there's a good chance I'd pick up something else from this Wave One as to verify my backpack theory.
Back to the grind!