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Focke-Wulf FW-190 A-9 Würger chases the Republic P-47G Thunderbolt "Spirit of Atlantic City" at the 2016 Planes of Fame Airshow held in Chino, California April 29-May 1, 2016.
First of all, thank you all so very very much for your good wishes, positive vibes and kind words.
In the meantime we've been to the clinic, where it was confirmed that he has indeed torn his cruciate ligament.
For a dog of his size the only solution is surgery. Which (of course) costs a fortune and is not without risk, with all his issues, big and little problems and the fact that he's 14 years already.
But as you can see in above picture, he's still full of life (and a real goofball sometimes :-)), and so we have decided to go through with it. He'll undergo surgery in two weeks.
Please keep the good thoughts and positive energy coming, he certainly can use it.
US Navy's fighter jets of the 20th century, Grumman A-6E Intruder and F-14A Tomcat (made famous in the movie Top Gun). Taken at Boeing's Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA USA
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AKA The Foo Fighters.
No wonder Kurt blew his brains out if he had to hang out with Dave Grohl. If I had to hang out with such a retard I would probably do the same....
Funny how on their revamped website their causes page no longer carries a link to the HIV denialist group alive and well (AKA Dead and Buried)
However there is still online a version of their old causes page here:
www.foofighters.com/community_cause.html
So not so easy to erase this public display of continued denialism...
As for the rest the following article makes for interesting reading (it may be old but The Truth Fighters are still continuing to support Maggiore, and much more on her later...):
Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers
www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/02/foo.html
Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl wants you to forget what you think you know about AIDS.
News: A platinum-selling alt-rock group may be endangering their fans by promoting a dangerous myth.
By Silja J.A. Talvi
February 25, 2000
Some rock stars want to free Tibet. Others want to save Mumia. The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, want their fans to ignore accepted medical wisdom about AIDS.
The multimillion-album-selling alternative rock outfit has thrown its weight behind Alive and Well, an "alternative AIDS information group" that denies any link between HIV and AIDS. In January, Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel helped organize a sold-out concert in Hollywood to benefit the group. Foo fans were treated to a speech by Alive and Well founder Christine Maggiore, who believes AIDS may be caused by HIV-related medications, anal sex, stress, and drug use, and implies that people should not get tested for HIV nor take medications to counter the virus. Free copies of Maggiore's self-published book, "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?," in which she declares "there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS," were also passed out to the concert-goers.
HIV experts are alarmed by the possible impact of the Foo Fighters' embrace of Maggiore's theories on their potentially gullible young fans.
"Clearly, more research is needed on the factors that contribute to HIV infection and the development of AIDS," says Dorcus Crumbley of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. "However, the conclusions of more than two decades of epidemiologic, virologic, and medical research are that HIV infection is transmissible through sexual contact, injecting drug use, perinatally, and from receiving blood or blood products ... (and) the scientific evidence is overwhelming that HIV is the cause of AIDS."
Adds Crumbley: "The myth that HIV is not the primary cause of AIDS ... could cause (HIV-positive people) to reject treatment critical for their own health and for preventing transmission to others."
"When it comes to such a complex health topic, it behooves the band to have really researched what they are endorsing," says Diane Tanaka, an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, where she works with a large population of high-risk and HIV-infected low-income youth. "(The Foo Fighters) have a big responsibility in terms of (their) public role and the impact that they can have on young people. Is this band willing to take responsibility for a young person engaging in risky, unprotected sex because of information they've gotten from the (Foo Fighters) or from Alive and Well?"
Alive and Well is one of several fringe groups that deny a link between HIV and AIDS. Similar theories have been put forth over the years by various far-right groups and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, and other so-called "HIV-refuseniks."
"Your risk of being hit by lightning is greater than that of contracting HIV through a one-time random sexual contact with someone you don't know here in America," says Maggiore, an HIV-positive Southern California resident with no formal training in medicine or the sciences. "And if (a young person) were to get a positive diagnosis, that does not mean they've been infected with HIV." The HIV-AIDS connection, maintains Maggiore, has been promoted by greedy drug companies.
Mendel says he was won over by Maggiore's book, and passed it around to the rest of the band, which includes former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Mendel says that he would steer anyone considering an HIV antibody test toward Maggiore's group.
"If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.
With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
The most recent numbers from the Joint United Nations' HIV/AIDS Program estimate that 16.3 million people worldwide have died of AIDS-related causes since 1981. Medical research in the United States indicates that as many as 25 percent of the nation's estimated 40,000 annual HIV infections occur among 13- to 21-year-olds. Maggiore, however, maintains that worldwide HIV infections and AIDS deaths are exaggerated by the CDC and the World Health Organization, even in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of the world's HIV-infected people live.
Maggiore's message has apparently penetrated the minds of at least some Foo aficionados. She says she has heard from many Foo fans since the show -- one of whom, she says, now works at the Alive and Well office.
"AIDS is a toxic disease caused by either long-term recreational drug abuse or short-term anti-HIV medications," writes a 22-year-old member of the Alive and Well-affiliated Students Reappraising AIDS on the Foo Fighters' Web-based message board. "HIV is not spread sexually, nor is it the cause of any disease."
Other fans are less impressed. Damian Purdy, a 21-year-old Winnipeg, Canada resident and devoted Foo Fighters fan, is outraged by the band's position. "By supporting this, the Foo Fighters have entered an arena that they have no business being in. The truth is that a rock concert is not the appropriate platform for these views to be expressed. I think the Foo Fighters have more influence than they realize," he says.
For his part, Mendel remains convinced that the media and the medical establishment are keeping the truth about HIV and AIDS from the public. The Foo Fighters, he insists, will continue to use their celebrity to bring "light to the issue."
Is he worried that the group might be endangering the lives of some of its listeners?
"I'm absolutely confident that I'm doing the right thing," Mendel answers. "No, I wouldn't feel responsible for possibly harming somebody. I (feel) I'm doing the opposite."
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The Fighter Collection Curtiss fighters practice display for Flying Legends.
Found flying two moons from Senu, a star fighter called Rigzo Z1, its origin is unknown and not seen in common airspace.
Canadair NF-5B Freedom Fighter K-4030 of 315 Sqn Royal Netherlands Air Force at the Mildenhall Air Fete in May 1982.
From a transparency.
I came up with this tie-fighter technique which only uses 2 pieces, along with a small base for it. All in all, the entire MOC only uses 20 pieces. Hope you like it!
To God be the glory!
Once again, I don't feel like coming up with a back story. This is a remake of one of my earlier MOCs, which you can see here.
Strobist:
-580 EX II coming from the left and the right at 1/64 power at 14mm zoom setting. Gelled green at about (-115) tint. Did this to make the light coming from the CameraBright!™ X1-ER (http://www.camerabright.com/product.htm) a pink/magenta color.
Lightpainting procedure:
- Had Laura pose with a punch. When the strobes popped (first curtain sync), I had Laura pull back into the arc you see now.
Lightroom 2.0:
- Temp upped to 6k, tint corrected to +115
- Blacks up to 15 to clip the background
- Decreased yellow, orange and red saturations by -10
- Noise Reduction 25%
- Darkened an area below the index finger to remove the camerabright
Photoshop CS3:
- Cloned the light trail to hide the camerabright
- Changed the iris to a magenta color
- Increased the contrast of the hands by adjusting levels
Setup shot can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/luisx_net/2596271248/
Regrets: I think I could have used snoots for a better effect, but adjusting the blacks was not a huge deal anyways...
In case you don't know what to build, build a starfighter. Somehow, the build has some nnenn spirit in it, even though it was almost completed last weekend...
Foo Fighters' single - My Hero, taken from their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape.
Sydney, Australia (Monday 2 July 2018)
Former US Navy Night-Fighter Bomber Grumman F7F-3N Tigercat BuAerNo. 80382 on display at the Planes of Fame, Chino, California
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
A fighter celebrates his victory much to the dismay of the opposing gamblers at a late night fight event in rural Isaan. Virtually all Thais who frequent Muay Thai do so to gamble.
First red TIE Interceptor, now yellow TIE Fighter!
I am usually not too fond of "yet another TIE variant" but how could I resist a yellow one? Such a beautiful color to go with black and grey! This just screams "utalitarian design" and so fits the mining guild theme perfectly!
It is a relatively simple build, but it already contains some fixes I intend for the v2.0 TF, most notably better shape of the solar panel. Change is minimal but noticeable enough! And I am very slightly... quite proud of the stripe solution ^^