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FS Duquesne was a Suffren-class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed to protect a fleet against air threats, surface ships, submarines, and, to a lesser extent, provide firepower against land objectives. She is the sister ship of Suffren. She is the eighth French vessel named after the 17th century admiral Abraham Duquesne. Duquesne was decommissioned in 2008.
Ships of the Suffren class were designed as anti-air and anti-submarine escorts for the Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers and were similar in concept to the British Type 82 destroyer. They were ordered in 1960 as part of France's new naval policy of deterrence/intervention/defence following the election of Charles de Gaulle as president of France. The French designation for the class was frégates lance-engins (FLE 60). They were designated as frigates by the French Navy but were considered destroyers by publications. They were later re-designated frégates lance-missiles (FLM 60).
The vessel measured 157.6 metres (517 ft 1 in) long overall and 148 m (485 ft 7 in) between perpendiculars, with a 15.54 m (51 ft 0 in) beam and a maximum draught of 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in). The ship had a standard displacement of 5,090 tonnes (5,010 long tons) and 6,090 tonnes (5,990 long tons) at full load. By 1990 the ship had a standard displacement of 5,335 t (5,251 long tons) and 6,780 t (6,670 long tons) at full load. Duquesne was powered by four multi-tube, automatic control boilers creating steam for two sets of Rateau double-reduction geared turbines turning two propellers. They were rated at 54,100 kilowatts (72,500 shp). They created a total of 3,440 kW of electrical power through two 1,000 kW turbochargers and three 480 kW diesel alternators. Duquesne had a maximum speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) and a range of 5,100 nautical miles (9,400 km; 5,900 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The frigate had a complement of 355 sailors including 23 officers. For increased stabilisation as a weapons platform, the frigate was outfitted with three pairs of non-retractable fin stabilisers. Ships of the Suffren class were considered extremely seaworthy vessels.
The Suffren class were armed with a twin launcher situated on the quarterdeck for the Masurca surface-to-air missile. 48 missiles were carried. The frigates were also equipped with two single-mounted 100-millimetre (3.9 in) Modèle 1953 naval guns in positions 'A' and 'B' along the centreline. These were later upgraded to the Modèle 1964. The frigates also mounted a Malafon anti-submarine missile system. Each ship carried 13 missiles and the magazine was situated in the aft deckhouse. Furthermore, the Suffren class had four launchers for L5 torpedoes, two to each side of the ship, housed in the deckhouse between the mast and the bridge. Each ship carried ten torpedoes. They were the first French warships to deploy torpedoes using fixed catapults.
Fire control was via the DRBI 23 3D radar for air search/tracking housed in a massive radome that dominated the ship's silhouette. The Suffren class also mounted DRBN 32, DRBV 50, two DRBR 51 and DRBC 32A radars. For anti-submarine warfare, they were equipped with DUBV 23 hull-mounted sonar and DUBV 43 towed variable depth sonar. For electronic defence, the vessels initially mounted the Syllex chaff system. The SENIT I tactical data system coordinated sensor data.
In 1977 to 1979, the MM38 Exocet anti-ship missile system was fitted to Duquesne. The ship carried four missiles. The Masuraca system was upgraded between 1982 and 1985. In 1985, Duquesne had its DRBV 50 radar replaced with the advanced DRBV 15 system. Duquesne was modernised beginning in 1990 with the DRBC 32A gunfire control radar being replaced with the newer DRBC 33A system. Furthermore, the Syllex outfit was replaced with the Dagaie and Sagaie electronic countermeasures systems. Additionally four single-mounted 20 mm (0.79 in) cannon were fitted two to each side of the ship abaft the DRBC 33A radar.
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and the surreptitious way in which Hem was abducted, .
On the 23'd August we were informed by some local before being officially shown as arrested, belie the hoax .
of Maharashtra about the illegal arrest of claims of the police. But the ludicrous extent of the police .
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journalists claims is still unfolding. While he was denied his right to .
Comrade Hem Mishra, who has been one of the leading meet his lawyer, we were informed by some local .
activists and cultural artists of this campus. The police at that .
limo was denying his arrest but were finally forced to admit it a journalists that Hem has been charged with "sedition" .
UAPA, "extortion" & even day later after the news trickled out to various sections of the civil under the draconian .
society from the side of the local journalists. Hem could not be "possession of arms"! Such is the scale of the theatre of .
absurd being scripted today by tht:: police & intelligence. .
and it is clear that he was illegally nabbed prior to his ~officialcontacted for full 3 days before the news of his arrest came out, But then, this is nothing new. Hem's arrest follows a .
well repeated pattern, and it was indeed not so ironical .
arrest". Two adivasi youth-Mahesh Tirki & Pandu Narote-have that this news came to us just some hours before also been framed similarly along with Hem. Hem had been given SaibabahddRoy,.
10 days of police custody during which time he was denied even Arundhati P.K. Vijayan and G.N. .
his constitutional right of meeting his lawyer. On 2"d September addressed a DSU public meeting about the targeting and .
he was produced in court which has extended his police remand witch-hunt of students. intellectuals and democratic right .
by two more weeks. Unable to produce even a shred of evidence, activists. Ever since the intensification of the counter-.
this is a clear attempt on the part of the state to buy more time, revolutionary war against the people of central and .
prolong his incarceration and intimidate him. In the past one eastern India, the ruling classes of this country have tried .
the week, various progressive and democratic sections have to hound each and every voice standing with .
oppressed and against this war. The fascist-lumpenunequivocally condemned his arrest and there have been spirited protests in Chandigarh, Delhi & Uttarakhand. brigade of RSSNHP/Bajrang Dai/ABVP also has an .
Shamefully, but not so surprisingly, a section of the media important role as foot soldiers in this war. From their ideologues' failed attempts to engender divisions and .
has run a virulent campaign against Hem based on the the growing influence of the revolutionarycheck.
ludicrous lies of the police. Hem has been a cultural activist movement in various places to repeated attacks on .
since his days in Uttarakhand and is widely known in the .
progressive literary and cultural circles. Here in JNU he has been programmes opposing the war on people, they have done .
a student of BA Chinese in SLL&C~. Alongside he is a prominent everything possible as loyal lap dogs of the Indian state to activist of DSU and a known cultural activist of RCF. He was also facilitate this loot & plunder. When today, ABVP is an executive committee member of the Committee for the demanding an out of bounds order on Hem & a ban on .
DSU, we would like to tell them that if they attempt to Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP). Today he is being cross their limits, notwithstanding the administration's .
portrayed as a prominent uNaxal Courier", who was out to deliver shielding, the progressive & democratic students of this .
messages to Maoist leaders. Students of this campus are witness campus will show them their place in the campus again. .
to the active role played by Hem in various movements and .
struggles -for example very recently, the movement for the In this farce of a democracy, as Galeano says, .
doubling of the MCM scholarship. So if the absurdity of the police 'Justice is a snake that bites only the barefoot'. If one .
speaks the truth, one would be jailed; if one organizesversion is to be believed, a prominent activist known far or:d wide .
and who had been raising his voice for various people's issues against injustice, one will be banned. Activists of the .
was "chosen" by the Maoists to deliver underground messages banned Kabir Kala Manch were, for instance, hounded for .
for them, and that too time and again! The police are further merely capturing the anger of the dalit masses in their justifying their ridiculous claims by questioning the presence of songs and poems against the grotesque reality of caste Hem has been suffering from certain oppression and the need to annihilate it. After an Hem in Gadchirolli. immense outrage and mobilization by the progressive .
disabilities in his left hand since his childhood and had often .
expressed his desire to visit Prakash Amte's hosptal in democratic sections, fi11aily even the Hi~ Court wcs '::;adchirofl:. He has &!ready undergone two surgeries, which apart forced to comment: "the expression of views to the effect that a change in the social order can be brought about .
from leaving him in agonizing pain were also financially quite .
to a~y .
straining. Amte's hospital in Gadchirolli is visited by nearly 50,000 only by a revolution would not amount .
offence...Speaking about corruption, social inequaltty,patients every year and carries out most of these treatments free etc. .
of cost. As per the logic of the police which questions Hem's (or, of the poor for that matter, anyone else's) very presence in Gadchirolli, It exploitation and desiring that a better society should come in existenc .
seems that one would need special police permission, or some e is not banned in our country...the expression for these .
sort ofa visa, to even visit several areas of this country. The third brand a as a member of.
personviews cannot .
CPI{Maoist). On the contrary, such a reasoning would.
absurdity doing the rounds in the media is the story of an .
encrypted chip and letters recovered from Hem. Anyone vaguely indicate that these issues, which are real and important familiar with the modus operandi of the police and the inteDigence except the are not addressed to by anyone else, .
agencies of this country would know very well how evidBnce is CPI(Maoist) which in turn would mean that the other .
usually planted and fabricated. For any recovery to hava legal parties or social organizations are Indifferent to these.
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.I validity it needs to be made in front of independent wilness~s. C( .
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. - J. Brotherton
Greenbottle fly caught handheld with sigma 105mm macro, Kenko extention tubes and Marumi ring flash. Only white balance has been altered.
This is my first attempt at macro shooting with a set of Phottix Extension Tubes... I tried stacking all three tubes on a 50mm f/1.8 but that gave me unusable DOF so I settled for using only the 36mm tube on a Nikkor 105mm DC f/2.0... It did not get me the ultra macro close-ups but gave enough working space and acceptable DOF... Phottix Extention Tubes highly recommended for people who don't or can't buy a dedicated micro/macro lens !
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.
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125 Years of May Day: Remembering the Haymarket Martyrs! .
March Forward With Working Class Struggles For a World Free From Exploitation! .
"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power .
and extent. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he produces. The .
devaluation of the human Wf!rld grows in direct proportion to the Increase in value of the world of things.'' .
-Kart Marx. Economic and Phjlosophjcal ManuscriPts .
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Way back in 1844, Karl Marx had identified the inherently exploitative nature of capitalism, in which the worker becomes poorer even as he produces more and more wealth. .
May Day -the international day of the working class -commemorates the legacy of the martyrs of Haymarket, Chicago, sentenced to death for their role in struggling for the 8-hour day and other w0rkers' rights. On May Day 2011, let us tum the pages of history and read the words of the working class reyolytionades of Haymarket who, tacing trial in a kangaroo court on trumped up charges. used the trial to expose capitalism and its hypocrisies and barbarism. .
August Spies, one of the 8 Haymarket leaders, announced in open court : .
".. . if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement-the movement from which the .
downtrodden millions, tl1e millions who toll and live in want and misery-the wage slaves-expect salvation-if this is .
your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of .
you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put fl out. The ground upon which .
you stand is on fire ...u .
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In India in recent times we have seen how the sedition law is used to target the voices of justice and people's resistance in society. August Spies was charged with the 'crime' of distributing 'seditious' material in the form of the German workers' newspaper. He responded by reading out. in Court. extracts from the 'respectable' ruling class newspapers. which openly advocated the most brutal forms of violence against political opponents. especially the working class. Spies said, .
" ... Let me read to you an editorial which appeared in the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, in October, 1886, a .
Republican paper. If I am not mistaken the court is Republican, too," and read out the following: .
UTo arms, Republicans! Work in every town in Wisconsin for men not afraid of firearms, blood or dead bodies, to .
preserve peace [that is the 'peace' I have been speaking of] and quiet; ... Every Republican in Wisconsin should .
go armed to the polls on next election day. The grain-stacks, houses and barns of active Democrats should .
be burned; their children burned and their wives outraged, that they may understand that the Republican .
party is the one which is bound to rule, and the one which they should vote for, or keep their vile .
carcasses away from the polls. If they still persist in going to the polls, and persist in voting for Jenkins, .
meet them on the road, in the bush, on the hill, or anywhere, and shoot every one of these base .
cowards and agitators. If they are too strong in any locality, and succeed in putting their opposition .
votes into the baflot box, break open the box and tear in shreds ~eir discord-breathing ballots. Burn .
them..... " .
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What does your honor say to these utterances of a "law and order" organ-a Republican organ? How does the .
Arbeiter~Zeitung (the German workers' paper) compare with this? -from August Spies' speech in Court.
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crworkers Who Demand Higher Wages or Bread for Hungry Children Deserve Bullets, Hand Grenades, .
No Vote, No Freedom .. .''-US Media During 1877 Railroad Strike .
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Another of the Haymarket heroes, Albert Parsons, said the following jo Court: .
" ... Now, going back to 1877, what do we find? The railroad strikes occurred. During the conflict of that year the .
following utterances were made by heavy employers and manufacturers and monopolists in this country. I will grve .
you a few samples. This, mark you, is published in the Alarm of November 8, 1884, but the same extracts have .
been kept standing in the labor papers, published by the Knights of Labor, the trades unions, and the Socialists .
of the United States, there being somewhere over three hundred of these papers. Now listen: "Give them (the .
strikers) a rifle diet for a few days, and see how they like that kind of bread," said Tom Scott, president of .
the Pennsylvania Central Railway, addressing Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, and calling upon him to send his .
army of militiamen to Pittsburg, to put down his railroad strikers, who were asking for a little more pay, .
and some of them asking for pay enough to get their hungry children bread .... .
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"If the workingmen had no vote they might be more amenable to the teachings of the times," says the Indianapolis .
News. wThere is too much freedom in this country rather than too little," says the Indianapolis Journal. In 1878, .
the New York Tribune, in an editorial upon strikes, used these words: "These brutal strikers or creatures can .
understand no other meaning than that of force, and ought to have enough of it to be remembered among .
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them for many generations." .
"Hand-grenades should be thrown among these union sailors who are striving to obtain higher wages .
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and less hours. By such treatment they would be taught a valuable lesson, and other strikers could take warning .
from their fate," said the Chicago Times." -from Albert R. Parsons' speech in Court .
The Attack on Workers in Liberalised India .
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The struggles of the working dass and their blood spilt in the course of those struggles in the past 125 years since the .
Haymarket martyrs achieved many rights for the working class. No longer is the ruling class able to openly indulge in the .
kind of naked advocacy of violence agamst workers as we read above. But the violence is there, cloaked in words of .
welfare. And in times of liberalization, the hard-won rights of workers are being snatched away. In industrial centres ~!ii'P.IIP!!,.I .
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To show the extent of the ice flow on the downside of the bridge. I neglected to take a photo of the threesome outside the Boat Club who were whacking at the ice with a spade to spare them the shame of being caught doing something so dumb.
metal fireman's key entrance or simlar thing on the outside of blackhawk church, 100mm macro with 36mm extention tube (roughly 1:1.3 ratio). Part of a macro workshop.
With some nice scribbles and expressive layout.
In Dutch:
“Ianus, With many thanks for a very inspiring encounter. Eckart”
Photo accompanies this news item: forinspirationonly.com/news/2008/03/24/eckartwintzen/
Every year in London there is one singular opportunity to get caffeinated in a style and to an extent that is far beyond any other. Part festival, part industry gathering and ALL coffee - The London Coffee Festival is, as far as I can tell, the biggest java palaver / caffeine powered and related event in our glorious capital. I look forward to it every year...
Founded back in 2011 and attracting a âmereâ 7,500 visitors, the festival has grown, year on year, with over 23,500 coffee aficionados, neophytes (and everything inbetween) making their way to the legendary Truman Brewery (on Brick Lane) last year. They come for many reasons, amongst these (presumably); the specialty teas, artisan foods, educational seminars, live music/DJs, and a predictably insane combination of coffee - in all its myriad and magical forms. The festival also serves as the focal point/launch for UK Coffee Week, and is the host of the Coffee Masters Competition - where 16 top notch baristas compete for the title, the fame and a £5000 cash prize.
This year saw over 250 stalls - everything from an espresso bar set up by Illy and Campari to chocolate tastings/pairings with Hotel Du Chocolat and tastings of unusual blends from independent coffee roasters such as Caravan and Origin. Asides from this, thereâs an area called Milk & Sugar dedicated to coffee related design and fashion (and restaurants). âBasicâ tickets start at £14.50 - you can quite happily spend no money, floating around purely on a haze of free espressos and cold brew (though youâll have to get in line for most of theseâ¦). That said, half of the proceeds from ticket sales go to the excellent Project Waterfall, a charity that brings sanitation and clean water to coffee-growing communities in Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.
The Midland Watersnake reaches the southernmost extent of its range in the western panhandle of Florida, where it occupies shallow sandy streams within the headwaters of the Yellow River drainage. This small male was one of three that I found in rapid succession while kayaking the Shoal River in Okaloosa Co, FL.
Olivier Giroud and Tammy Abraham 'to a greater extent a danger' for Chelsea than Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, says Trevor Sinclair
Olivier Giroud and Tammy Abraham give Chelsea a greater amount of an assaulting danger going ahead than Kai Havertz and TImo Werner, WONNA has been told.
Werner and Havertz were endorsed from RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen individually the previous summer for a joined charge of £120million.
Be that as it may, the two advances have been outscored by Giroud and Abraham – who were at that point at the club.
Abraham is the club's top scorer this season with 12 objectives, while Giroud has 11.
Werner has ten while Havertz has only five to his name throughout the season – manager Thomas Tuchel has even cautioned them that they should track down the net all the more routinely.
Previous Manchester City and West Ham midfielder Trevor Sinclair accepts that the two players who were at that point at Chelsea have looked more risky than the fresh introductions.
"I was at Leeds and the draw they had at the end of the week and they weren't adequately clinical. Havertz is somewhat flaky," he told White and Jordan on WONNA.
"He's in and out of games, he's two or three decent contacts yet didn't actually offer a danger.
"The ball came in the container, he's what 6ft 3ins and didn't resemble he was going in there with any power to get the principal contact ready.
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Full extent of the Loup River, looking deep into downstream space. Worth viewing large, or even original to see the deepest extent of the river. (Img0130_345_1_flkr.jpg) © All rights reserved.
And then one year for my birthday, I convinced my parents to buy me extentions. I hated them after a week.
This is my first attempt at macro shooting with a set of Phottix Extension Tubes... I tried stacking all three tubes on a 50mm f/1.8 but that gave me unusable DOF so I settled for using only the 36mm tube on a Nikkor 105mm DC f/2.0... It did not get me the ultra macro close-ups but gave enough working space and acceptable DOF... Phottix Extention Tubes highly recommended for people who don't or can't buy a dedicated micro/macro lens !
Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape which forms the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal and continental Europe (and by definition the Eurasian land mass). The cape is in the Portuguese municipality of Sintra, near Azóia, in the southwest of the district of Lisbon, forming the westernmost extent of the Serra de Sintra.
The cape is located within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, 42 kilometres west of the city of Lisbon and in the southwest of Sintra. A location (38°47′N 9°30′W) is inscribed on a stone plaque, located on a monument at the site.
The western coast is a mixture of sand beaches and rocky cliff promontories: around Cabo da Roca, cliffs are more than 100 metres in height, and cut into crystalline rocks, composed of strongly folded and faulted sedimentary units. These forms are disturbed by dikes and small beaches. This promontory of "high" beaches is the extreme western immersion of the ancient eruptive Sintra massif, as evident from the rose-coloured granite in the north and syenite of the Ribeira do Louriçal in the south. In the vicinity of the Cape, there are geomorphological examples of gabbro-diorite, volcanic breccia, and granite.
Part of the granite formations show evidence of strong coastal erosion, while in other areas there are limestone deposits embedded in the granite.
Much of the vegetation in this cape are low-lying and adapted to saltwater and windy conditions. Once home to a variety of plant life, Cabo da Roca has been overrun with the invasive plant species Carpobrotus edulis. This creeping, mat-forming plant, a member of the Aizoaceae succulent family, was introduced as ground cover by local residents several decades ago, but now covers much of the arable land on Cabo da Roca.
Many migratory and marine birds roost temporarily along the cliffs and protected coves of the coastal area.
The continued occurrence of foodborne illness is not evidence of the failure of our food safety system. In fact, many of our prevention and control efforts have been to a reasonable extent, effective. Despite great strides in the area of microbiological food safety, much remains to be done.
Foodborne illness is not a simple problem in need of a quick fix solution; it is a complex combination of factors that must be managed on a continual basis. Changing life-styles and population demographics, global food trade to provide a year-round supply of fruits and vegetables, and novel foods are a few examples of potential increased food safety risks. No matter how sophisticated and complex a system is developed, food safety management is never finished or complete, because change is constant.
With the increasing need for risk based scientific advice to better manage microbiological food safety issues, the Food and agriculture organization (FAO) and World Health organization (WHO) led Codex Alimentarius Commission has been promoting Microbiological Risk Assessments - a tool to inform actions and decisions aimed at improving food safety.
As microbiological food safety issues are brought to the attention of risk managers, there needs to be a systematic preliminary process that brings particular issues into focus and guides further action.
Using microbiological risk assessment as a tool in food safety risk management is an area that is still developing. For MRA to become a truly useful decision-support tool there is a need for risk managers to understand when and how it can be used.
It is against this background that, FAO and ILSI-SA are organizing a hands-on Workshop on MRA for government stakeholders from Southern African countries. The MRA Workshop will equip Risk Managers with knowledge and understanding of practical MRA in order to:
•Identify and prioritize food safety risks to populations in respective countries
•Commission MRA's in their countries or in regions to obtain scientific information on defined food safety risks to populations in that country or region
•Utilise this modern risk-based approach in developing science-based food safety regulations.
•Enhance the level and knowledge of food safety in the region.
•Create an opportunity for regional harmonization of food safety regulations to enhance regional and international trade.
The workshop is being funded by ILSI and the African Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF). The fund is a unique Africa-led initiative aimed at improving agriculture and food security across the continent.
Situated on a slight rise about 200m NW of the original extent of Manorhamilton town and separated from it by NE-SW section of the Owenbeg River. Sir Frederick Hamilton received a grant of over 5,000 acres in 1621-2 which he proceeded to increase, and by 1631 he had over 16,000 acres. He had undertaken to build a castle, which was probably not finished until 1636. In January 1642, Manorhamilton was besieged by Irish rebels under such leaders as Brian McDonogh and Owen O'Rourke or Teige O'Connor Sligo, who were encamped at Lurganboy. On January 30th they burnt the town but failed to capture the castle, and they lifted the siege on April 3rd. In the following year Hamilton used the castle as a base for raids as far afield as Sligo and Donegal. Hamilton left Ireland in 1643-4 and died in Scotland in 1647, but the castle seems to have survived until it was burnt by the earl of Clanrickard in 1652.
The castle is a two or three-storey rectangular house, although most of the third storey does not survive. There are two wings projecting on the N side which are not separated from the main house by party walls. The house is U-shaped and open to the N. The wings have a court between them, but its S wall, which would have had the original doorway, does not survive. There is a sallyport which is partly below ground level at the centre of the S wall of the house. There are four slightly rhomboid corner-towers which have three storeys at SW and SE, but those at NE and NW have five and four storeys with the use of mezzanine floors.
The house had two large transom and mullion windows in the S wall at ground and first floors, but these are either robbed or blocked and there are smaller windows, either blocked or robbed, on the E and W walls. The NE wing was probably the kitchen as its W wall at the ground floor has a large robbed fireplace. The main house was poorly provided with fireplaces with only small ones at the S end of the E and W walls and in each wing at the first floor.
Each floor of the corner towers usually has a window and two gun-loops, and some even have fireplaces. The corner towers communicated with the main house through lintelled passages, but there are no garderobes or latrines in the house.
All the quoins, except those from two angles of the corner towers, have been robbed, as has most of the dressed stonework from windows and doorways. There is a plinth all around and string-courses externally over the ground and first floors. The corner towers have three courses of banded masonry only on their outward-facing walls over the first floor.
The house is within a bawn defined by a reconstructed wall at W and remnants of the N end of the E wall. The interior is flush with the surviving top of the S wall, but there is evidence of corner towers only at SW where the W wall survives to three floors, and at SE where the foundations of a tower are visible. Elsewhere the bawn is defined by more modern walls, but there is no indication of where the original entrance may have been. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the castle has failed to produce any related material, but an excavation inside the bawn has produced evidence of a cobbled surface in the courtyard and evidence of a basement within the castle. The castle has now been conserved, and guided tours can be had for a modest fee.
The extent of facial skin and knobs and tubercles on a spur-winged goose expands with age. The skin becomes bright red and swollen when in breeding, resulting in a fierce appearance.
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.
The extent of the proposed Lansing Aerotropolis agreement between Lansing and DeWitt Township. An aerotropolis is a form of urban development that seeks to concentrate airport-related businesses.
The agreement transfers 1,875.24 acres (2.93 square miles) of land to the city of Lansing for development.
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.
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The Lavender Line operates as an out and back from Isfield Station. Here we have reached the furthest extent of the operational line before we have to return.
The westernmost extent of Sullivan's campaign to destroy the villages of the Native Americans who sided with the British. This was ugly business all around and displaced and killed native americans and british allies culminating in the battle at Newtown. John Burgoyne was stalled coming south from Quebec and St Ledger was scared off by Benedict Arnold's campaign against fort Stanwix. Howe was busy trying to glorify himself with a major victory in Philadelphia and Henry Clinton was holed up in New York City, showing no signs of relieved the beleaguered Burgoyne. Sullivan was tapped to go west and destroy the Native American British allies. Ant-indian sentiment was high after Burgoyne allied and sent out thousands of Mohawks Senecas and other tribes to harass rebels. To be fair, their warrior traditions were not well understood and was taken as simple savagery. Native American war was personal and stealthy and brutal. Additionally ritual canabalism (which has been practiced by most societies the world round at some point) ...was considered particularly vile. However it should be noted that hangings and drawings and quarterings were still public spectacles in London. So barbarism is a matter of perspective. As a result the sullivan;s campaign was particularly brutal.
Boyd and parker were rebel officers captured, tied to a free and tortured to death by the tribe at Beards viliage. This site commemorates them and the men who were captured. As it was created in 1928 it is a bit one sided. Tragedy abounded in the revolution and in the true light of history it is hard to fault the Native Americans who responded with equal brutality. to the campaign. They were in a difficult spot....Europeans were closing in to their territories pushing them ever further west. Thus they decided to choose the British as the better ally. THe British at least promised them their own land (modern day Indiana). Additionally the British looked like the better bet to win. The American army and Militias were pretty rough.
The Battle at Newtown is considered a critical battle to collapsing the British northern campaign. But as with all things history there are many competing truths...often complementary truths that should all be known and honored. In this case the campaign was a critical part of the war for Liberty.....In the case of the rebels it was a win. For the Native Americans of Western NY the revolution was also a battle for liberty but ultimatley a defeat....followed by a sad history. I wish in the light of history all these competing truths and and heroic deeds of all men on all sides could be noted. And I so wish the people of the past (what will they say about us in 200 years) had the chance to create a society that was for all the people of the Americas.