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CNN feature still airing
Random: If you haven't yet seen the Sebastio Salgado documentary "The Salt of the Earth", I highly recommend checking it out.
Awful what happened today. Queensday/ orangeday finished dramatically ..
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/30/netherlands.queen...
"But what minutes!
Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
~Benjamin Disraeli
What will you do with your extra second?!
Sorry, old news (again) ...
I took this photo at Ron's house back in April this year, shortly before sending this rabbit together with 2 others in different poses to Uyen Nguyen in New York. Not sure about Ron but I was over the moon when Uyen asked if she could include this photo in the publicity materials (including promotional video) for the Surface to Structure exhibition.
Posting here for record keeping, now that the photo has made its rounds through cyberspace and the dust has settled, so to speak ... :-)
Rabbit designed by Ronald Koh, interpreted and folded by me, cavemanboon. Wet folded from Elephant Hide paper, 42x42cm, 110 gsm.
Was trying to include the link to the promotional video but realized that the video is no longer available online. Anyway, here are some of the press coverage :
After about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has concluded!
#NASAMarshall manages the development for seven of the 10 CLPS payloads aboard the lunar. Here is a breakdown of the science and technology they performed during the mission:
️ LISTER is now the deepest robotic planetary subsurface thermal probe, drilling up to 3 feet and providing a first-of-its kind demonstration of robotic thermal measurements at varying depths.
️ RadPC successfully operated in transit through Earth’s Van Allen belts, as well as on the lunar surface into the lunar night, verifying solutions to mitigate radiation effects on computers that could make future missions safer for equipment and more cost effective.
LMS successfully deployed five sensors to study the Moon’s interior by measuring electric and magnetic fields. The instrument allows scientists to characterize the interior of the Moon to depths up to 700 miles, or more than half the distance to the Moon's center.
⛅ LEXI captured a series of X-ray images to study the interaction of the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, providing insights into how space weather and other cosmic forces surrounding Earth affect the planet.
📏 NGLR successfully reflected and returned laser light from two Lunar Laser Ranging Observatories, returning measurements allowing scientists to precisely measure the Moon’s shape and distance from Earth, expanding our understanding of the Moon’s inner structure.
💨 Lunar PlanetVac was deployed on the lander’s surface access arm and successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil using pressurized nitrogen gas, demonstrating a low-cost, low-mass solution for future robotic sample collection.
🚀 RAC instrument examined how lunar regolith sticks to a range of materials exposed to the Moon’s environment, which can help test, improve, and protect spacecraft, spacesuits, and habitats from abrasive lunar dust or regolith.
Credit: Video courtesy Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander #BlueGhost
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
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After about a month in transit to the Moon, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully completed a four-minute lunar orbit insertion burn Thursday – the longest and most challenging burn conducted to date by the lander’s main engine and reaction control system thrusters.
Now that the lander is in lunar trajectory, over the next 16 days, additional maneuvers will take the lander from an elliptical orbit to a circular orbit around the Moon. Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeted to land Sunday, March 2, at 3:45 a.m. EST. During the lunar orbit insertion burn, Blue Ghost captured a picture of the Moon’s South Pole.
Here, Blue Ghost captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole on the far left through its cameras on the top deck, as it travels to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis a campaign.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
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After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions.
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Mare Crisium basin on the near side of the Moon. During the mission, Blue Ghost captured several images and videos, including imaging a total solar eclipse and a sunset from the surface of the Moon. The mission lasted for about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, and multiple hours into the lunar night before coming to an end.
In this image, after delivering ten NASA science and technology payloads to the near side of the Moon, the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the lunar surface.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander #BlueGhost
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Koninginnedag 2009 / Queens Day 2009
Deze dag zullen we niet gauw vergeten. Het werd allesbehalve feestelijk, na een mooi begin.
Vanwege één gek werd deze dag een drama...... we leven allemaal mee met de slachtoffers!
Queensday ended dramatically:
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Today is Jo Ann’s birthday. Please drop by her stream:
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Jo Ann, listen:
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For those concerned about my safety, the storm that hit Atlanta last night was quite far south of where I live. It is still undetermined whether it was a tornado or “just” strong straight-line winds, but there was severe damage to downtown Atlanta and neighborhoods to the south and east.
Here’s one article about it.
EDIT, Saturday--It was indeed a Force 2 tornado.
More severe weather is heading this way, so I'll likely be shutting down and unplugging shortly.
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After a successful Trans Lunar Injection burn on Saturday, Feb. 8, Firefly’s spacecraft carrying NASA science and tech to the Moon has departed Earth’s orbit and begun its four-day transit to the Moon’s orbit. Blue Ghost will then spend approximately 16 days in lunar orbit before beginning its descent operations. Since launching more than three weeks ago, Blue Ghost has performed dozens of health tests generating 13 gigabytes of data. All 10 NASA payloads onboard are currently healthy and ready for surface operations on the Moon.
NASA’s Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC), developed by Montana State University, successfully operated while passing through the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, providing insight on how to mitigate the effects of radiation on computers. This helps improve our understanding of the radiation environment that future astronauts may experience on Artemis missions.
During an on-orbit health check, NASA’s Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS), developed by the Southwest Research Institute, accurately detected a change in magnetic fields. This is a positive sign that LMS will be able to measure the Moon’s magnetic and electrical fields, shedding light on the Moon’s interior temperature and composition on the lunar surface.
Here, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured an Earth selfie that looks down the side of the lander and shows the top of Blue Ghost’s thrusters with Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) probes on both sides.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 science operations have begun!
Shortly after landing on the Moon on March 2, Firefly Aerospace and NASA teams kicked off surface operations for the instruments on the company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander.
That included deploying the Lunar PlanetVac (LPV), which was developed to efficiently collect and transfer lunar soil from the Moon to other science instruments or sample return containers without relying on gravity.
The innovative approach to sample collection and in situ testing could prove to be a game-changer, said Dennis Harris, who manages the LPV payload for the CLPS initiative at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
In this video, the lunar “vacuum cleaner” can be seen spreading lunar soil and rocks flying across the lunar surface as a burst of air from the pneumatic, compressed gas-powered sample acquisition and delivery system initiates.
Check out our Artemis blog for more updates on #BGM1!
Video Credit: Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
Read more about NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)
What's inside the Moon? 🤔
NASA's Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) instrument, one of 10 NASA payloads aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander, has commenced lunar operations to shed light on the differentiation and thermal history of the Moon.
At the beginning of this video, the LMS instrument ejects one of its cable-trailing electrodes onto the lunar surface, reaching a distance up to 60 feet. The instrument will measure voltages across opposite pairs of electrodes, much like the probes of a conventional voltmeter. The video also shows the moment the magnetometer is deployed via an extendable mast. The magnetotelluric method reveals a vertical profile of the electrical conductivity, providing insight into the temperature and composition of the penetrated materials in the lunar interior.
These instruments will allow NASA and its partners to study the deep interior of the Moon to depths of up to 700 miles, two-thirds of the way to the lunar center.
Credit: Video courtesy Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander #BlueGhost
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
Read more about NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)
Do you know the temperature of the Moon? ??? NASA's LISTER is ready to drill into the mystery!
After landing on the Moon on March 2, Firefly Aerospace and NASA teams kicked off surface operations for the instruments on the company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander - which included LISTER, one of the seven payloads managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
This video shows LISTER drilling 3-m into the Moon’s rock and dust surface (the lunar regolith) in order to determine the heat flow from the interior of the Moon.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
#NASAMarshall #NASA #NASA #moon #CLPS #CommercialLunarPayloadServices #Lander #LunarLander
Read more about irefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1
Read more about NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)
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Bo Diddley passed away.
A man of music and a great talent. The Originator
Bo Diddley died Monday, surrounded by family and loved ones at his home in Archer, Florida.
Using too much Picasa2, I tribute to Saint Patrick and his marvelous work on the Emerald Isle. It resulted some claim in later saving Western Civilization as barbarians took control from the Romans of much of what we now call Europe. Ahhh, the lessons History has!
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Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius[2], Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary, working in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he actually worked and no link can be made with Patrick and any church. By the eighth century he had become the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish monastery system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and the other early missionaries had tried to establish.
The available body of evidence does not allow the dates of Patrick's life to be fixed with certainty, but it appears that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century. Two letters from him survive, along with later hagiographies from the seventh century onwards. Many of these works cannot be taken as authentic traditions. Uncritical acceptance of the Annals of Ulster (see below) would imply that he lived from 378 to 493, and ministered in modern day northern Ireland from 433 onwards.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick
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Have you discerned who is an alien? It is not always UFO invaders without travel permits from the Men In Black (MIB).
Of course, the answer changes in each nation over time. History reminds that
many tribes of Indians shared the North American Continent until the immigrants came.
How much prejudice and bias rings through to you on hearing or reading: "They are aliens, different by skin, culture, language, and/or nationality from me."
Is it like calling the kettle black, just because you or your ancestors got here before the next wave of immigrants crossing the border? Are we all not descendants of Adam and Eve? Are we all not the children of one God, by whatever name you call HIM?
How many citizens of the U.S.A. have any IRISH blood in their veins, as too many more wannabes claim to be for at least St. Patrick's Day. Aliens, we are each one of them when viewed from a perspective abnormal.
Martin Luther King and many civil rights revolutionaries fought violence with non-violence in the U.S.A. during the decade of the 1960s and thereafter. Aided by the nation's federal court judges and a reluctant U.S. Congress, laws were changed and even enforced sometimes. A woman became legally able to marry a man regardless of the color of his skin. She could and did, even if it resulted in her being shunned by many and sometimes killed for BREAKING THE COLOR LINE. Man, woman, and child became able to legally sleep, eat, live, work, and travel any where they wanted, even in the DEEP SOUTH and segregated NORTHERN cities. Even before those changes in laws, the U.S.A. was called the great LAND OF THE FREE. Of course, that was just dreamy words for many U.S. citizens due to race, prejudice, ethnicity, and poverty.
While the U.S.A. continues to export freedom by dollars, corporations, and its military, pray true freedom can blossom and continue back inside the U.S.A. for all.
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I was blessed this morning by this e-mail from my best friend,
The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.
Philippians 4:13 --- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Consider passing this on to the ten people whom you most want to see blessed. (I did!)
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With little time to keep up with THE NEWS, register to get “FREE” headlines from below.
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boston.com has a good story to aid learning of
the background of 2/3 of final presidential 2008 candidates.
If interested, check out:
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/16/in_memoirs...
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Texas’ Austin American Statesman newspaper intrigues me from
newsletters@letters.statesman.com explaining that about some workings at WPP Group, PLC, which has about 100,000 employees who work in 2,000 offices in 106 countries, according to its Web site, won a three-year, $4.5 billion Dell Inc. advertising and marketing account late in 2007. Check out:
www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/t...
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cnn.com/entertainment
Stop Kissing And Showing on Film lead to warrant to arrest but
court withdrew that warrant for Richard Gere. Learn more at:
www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/03/14/gere.kiss.ap/index.html
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cnsnews@mail.mediaresearch.org teaches that death leads to being Cremated or Buried, right? No, for Human remains found in dumpster of Abortion Clinic. Learn the rest of the story at:
www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200...
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latimes.com has an important story to aid additional loss of personal privacy from payment by cell phone which includes “We know where you are at all times”.
If interested in learning more, read:
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus16mar16,0,6520317.c...
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latimes.com calculates “Price Tag of Terrors War”, will take years to pay off.
If interested in learning more, read:
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-bilmes16mar16,0,389827...
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Star Wars fans await Lucas’ next episodes: cartoons at the movies and 100 hours on TV. More at:
www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/14/film.starwars.ap/in...
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Your prayers are seriously needed for prompt miracle on and full recovery of our friend INDEE. Learn more on identical injury from latimes.com that educates well on the pain and slow recovery, if any, after ACL (not ACLU) injury,
For why injured turn to local doctor (or also to our Heavenly Physician Finest), read:
www.latimes.com/news/la-me-knee15mar15,0,1715099.story?tr...
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Benedict XVI to Youth: Don't Sell Your Soul
Hears Confessions of Young People Preparing for Sydney
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI told youth to be on guard against the possibility of selling or losing their own humanity, and encouraged them instead to stay open to the Holy Spirit.
The Pope spoke with youth Thursday when he presided over a penitential liturgy with young people from Rome in preparation for the 23rd World Youth Day, to be held in Australia this summer. He joined with hundreds of other priests to hear the confessions of the youth.
"At the roots of being Christian," the Holy Father told the young people, "is an encounter with an event, with a Person. This opens a new horizon and, with it, a decisive sense of direction." In order "to favor this encounter, you are preparing to open your hearts to God, confessing your sins and -- by the action of the Holy Spirit and through the ministry of the Church -- receiving forgiveness and peace."
"Thus," he added, "we make room in ourselves for the presence of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Blessed Trinity which is the 'soul' and the 'vital breath' of Christian life. The Spirit helps us to grow 'in an understanding of Jesus that becomes ever deeper and more joyful and, at the same time, to put the Gospel into practice.'"
Hiding an empty life
On this subject, the Pontiff recalled one of his own Pentecost meditations when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising, inspired by the film "Seelenwanderung," in which one of the characters sells his soul in exchange for worldly success: "From the moment he freed himself of his soul, he no longer had any scruples or humanity, providing striking evidence of how the facade of success often hides an empty life.
"A human being cannot throw away his own soul, because it is the soul that makes him human. [...] Yet he does have the frightening possibility of being inhuman, of remaining a person but at the same time selling or losing his own humanity.
"The distance between the human person and the inhuman being is immense, yet it cannot be demonstrated; it is what is truly important, yet it is apparently without importance."
Likewise, Benedict XVI continued, the Holy Spirit "cannot be seen with the eyes. Whether it enters into a person or not, it cannot be seen or demonstrated; but it changes and renews all the perspectives of human life. The Holy Spirit does not change the exterior situations of life, but the interior."
"Let us then," he said, "prepare ourselves, with a sincere examination of conscience, to present ourselves before the people to whom Christ entrusted the ministry of reconciliation. [...] Thus will we experience true joy, the joy that derives from the mercy of God, flows into our hearts and reconciles us to him. [...] Be bearers of this joy, which comes from welcoming the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and witness its fruits in your own lives.
"Always remember that you are 'temples of the Spirit.' Allow him to dwell in you and humbly obey his commands, in order to make your own contribution to the building of the Church and to discern the type of vocation to which the Lord calls you. [...] Be generous, allow yourselves to be helped by using the sacrament of confession and by the practice of spiritual guidance."
A Vatican welcome
Benedict XVI concluded his remarks by recalling how 25 years ago, Pope John Paul II inaugurated the San Lorenzo Youth Center near the Vatican "to facilitate the welcome of young people, the sharing of experiences and the witness of faith and, above all, the prayer that helps us to discover the love of God."
On that March 13, 1983, John Paul II said: "Where can we go in this world, with sin and guilt, without the cross? The cross takes upon itself all the misery of the world, which is born of sin. It is the sign of grace. [...] It encourages us to sacrifice ourselves for others."
"May this experience be renewed for you today," Benedict XVI said. "Look to the cross now, and let us accept God's love which is given to us by the cross, by the Holy Spirit which comes from the pierced side of the Lord and, as John Paul II said: 'Yourselves become redeemers of the young people of the world.'"
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بس بغيت اخبركم عن الاهبل الي يبا يحرق الـ قران والله ضحكنني ! يبا يحرق الـ قران في تاريخ 11- 9 :P
اخليكم مع الفيديو :
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This photo was featured on CNN.com for the article on lighthouses . Here is the link :
www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/02/04/lighthouse.preservation/ind... Lighthouse:
The Armenistis Lighthouse is ideally located in Cape Armenistis neighborhood of Mykonos. This old lighthouse stands like a sentinel over the Armenistis neighborhood and stands as a mute testimony to Mykonos’s rich maritime past. At present, this legendary lighthouse is managed by the Hellenic Navy’s Hydrographic Office. The lighthouse is all of 19 meters in height.
The best part about this lighthouse which is conspicuous by its octagonal tower is that it is still in operation. In order to visit the Armenistis lighthouse, one has to take the road from Agios Stephanos village.
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My wife treated me today to an early 40th birthday present, a flight aboard this DC3 Dakota!
On the 15th July 2008, Air Atlantique’s DC3's are being retired from passenger service, as they cannot be modified to meet new European aviation safety rules. So they have commenced a 'farewell' tour of the UK.
It was an awesome experience, my first and almost certainly last of a piston engined aircraft. I was amazed at how smooth it was, although it was rather noisy. But tremendous fun!
G-AMPY's history is as follows:
G-AMPY is also of 1944 vintage. She saw wartime service with the RAF in Burma, becoming a passenger carrier on demob. G-AMPY has been left unlined inside, and the static line and jump lights for paratroopers are still in place. This gives flying in her a more military feel, though the 36 seats are distinctly more comfortable than those used by her paratrooper passengers!
Douglas C-47B-15-DK Dakota 3 c/n 15124/26569 (c/n given in CofA documents as KK116)
Built at Oklahoma 1943 for USAAF with serial 43-49308 and taken on charge.11.44.
To RAF 24.11.44 with serial KK116 at Nassau.
Served with ACSEA from 12.12.44. India 1946.
To 12 MU Kirkbride 22.9.47. Regd 8.3.52 (CofR No: R.3587/1) as G-AMPY to Jerome Anthony Wilson, Speke.
CofA (No.A3587) issued 3.8.54 and renewed 5.8.55, 3.8.56 and 15.8.57. Operated by Starways Ltd.
Cld 13.12.57 on sale in Jordan as JY-ABE (initially misapplied as JY-AAE).
Re-Regd 12.5.58 (CofR No: R.3587/2) to Starways Ltd, Speke and CofA renewed on 28.8.58, 8.10.58, 6.11.59, 4.11.60 and 4.11.61.
Cld 31.12.63 as sold in Iceland. Re-Regd 3.1.64 (CofR No: R.3587/3)
to Aviation Overhauls Ltd., Speke and CofA renewed 30.6.64.
Cld same day on sale in Iceland as TF-FIO.
Re-Regd 3.8.65 (CofR No: R.3587/4) to Aviation Overhauls Ltd., Speke.
Leased to Irefly 2.66 to 11.66.
Cld 1.8.68 on sale in USA (Notified 5.9.68) as N15751 to Aviation Enterprises Inc, Cedarburg, WI but not delivered.
Re-Regd 5.11.70 (CofR No: R3587/5) to The New Guarantee Trust of Jersey Ltd., Jersey.
Operated by Intra airways. Operated by Jersey European/Express Air Service 11.79.
Cld 23.1.80 (CofR No: G-AMPY/R6) on charter to Field Aviation Ltd., Heathrow & East Midlands.
Leased to Jersey European 10.80.
Proposed sale during 1981 in Ireland as EI-BKJ with Clydeen Airways not proceeded with.
Cld & Re-Regd 15.2.82 (CofR No: G-AMPY/R7) to Air Atlantique Ltd., Jersey.
Re-Regd .89 to Dak Holdings Ltd., Coventry and used for Pollution Control duties and detached elsewhere from time to time (eg inverness).
Re-Regd 15.3.00 to Atlantic Air Transport Ltd., Coventry.
Repainted in RAF Transport Command scheme as KK116 Cofk expires 4.7.08
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White House photo by Eric Draper taken at Father Joe's Mercy Centre orphanage/school/AIDS hospice.
AIDS-infected, orphaned and full of confidence. Look at his eyes, not the least bit intimidated by the so-called "most powerful man in the free world."
This is how kids grow up when they are shown love and care.
"Motivate a child, open the door for them even a little bit," Father Joe says frequently, "and they WILL motivate themselves."
Two minutes into a six-minute CNN report on Bangkok's Father Joe Maier and President Bush's visit last week to his orphanage/school/AIDS hospice, etc., Fr. Joe does something very uncharacteristic. He blatantly advertises my book; might as well have tattooed The Gospel of Father Joe on his forehead. Anyone who has read even a little bit of the book understands. It has nothing to do with money or profits. Anyhow, check it out on www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/06/rivers.thai.ai..., if you can spare a few minutes.
Also, Fr. Joe and I spoke the morning after Bush's visit and I filed the following story for Gannett's wire. In case you're curious about how things went with Fr. Joe and Dubya, here 'tis (unedited):
HEADLINE: Limo, Secret Service, snipers, police, Bush descend on a Thai charity
BYLINE: Greg Barrett
COPY: President Bush arrived in Bangkok's largest slum yesterday morning seven minutes early and in a black armored stretch Cadillac. Protected by a 40-car motorcade, some 200 Thai police, the Secret Service and its rooftop military snipers, the presidential limo parked in a closed-off white tent pitched near the end of a slum street.
A single flap opened onto the grounds of the Rev. Joseph H. Maier's Mercy Centre charity, a perennial slum oasis blooming with hundreds of happy orphans and HIV-infected kids.
"He walked up and said 'Howdy' or something like that," recalled the 69-year-old American Catholic priest known in Thailand as Father Joe. "He was very gracious, very pleasant, very, uhm, how do you say … country. More of a rough diamond than, say, a British diplomat."
British diplomats and Thai royalty have often visited the charity famous for its 30 slum preschools, orphanages, adult and children AIDS hospices and the irreverent Father Joe, a native of Longview, Washington who has lived for thirty-five years among the poorest of the poor in Bangkok's squalid slums.
Bush and Eric G. John, the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, toured the Mercy with Father Joe and Mercy's director Usanee Janngeon, a Thai woman and London-trained nurse. Janngeon is as pleasant as Father Joe can be blunt, and she had flown back early from the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City for Bush's visit.
Together they toured Mercy's art and graphics classes, its orphanages and schools, where Bush was entertained by Mercy's award-winning Thai dancers and schoolchildren songs. In the adult AIDS ward, where emaciated victims lay in adult-sized diapers, Bush waved off the latex gloves and surgical masks that the White House had preordered. Instead, he leaned in unprotected to shake hands and hug Mercy's frail patients.
"That was totally cool," Father Joe said. "I might not agree with all of his politics, but that was way cool."
Afterward, Bush asked Janngeon, "How much does it cost to run this place? How much (money) do you need?"
Janngeon answered $3.4 million each year. "And to be completely honest with you," she continued, "we don't have enough money."
Father Joe said Bush talked to them about the $48 million global AIDS relief package that he'd signed into law one week earlier, then asked, "So how can we help?"
When Janngeon hesitated, Bush jumped in. "This is your chance," he told her. "You better tell me now."
As Father Joe recounted this conversation during a phone interview Thursday evening from Thailand, he groaned. A scrawl on the local TV news had reported that President Bush offered the Mercy Centre, also known as the Human Development Foundation, 114 million Thai baht, the equivalent of $3.4 million.
Later, after Father Joe had corrected the erroneous report, he explained. "President Bush only offered to look into helping us. No money, nothing - nothing - was promised."
In the past the Mercy Centre has received grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
During his 45-minute visit Bush told Father Joe he respected the work of "faith-based" charities, such as Mercy. Father Joe explained that while Mercy's founders, he and Macau-born Sister Maria Chantavarodom, were Christians, Mercy was ecumenical in its faith. Most of its students, patients, staff and its director, Janngeon, are like 95 percent of Thailand's residents. They are Theravada Buddhists.
However, Janngeon politely explained to Bush, she, too, is faith-based.
"I believe in the children. I believe in the power of goodness. I believe in tomorrow."
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Greg Barrett is the author of a 2008 nonfiction book about Father Joe Maier named The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok. More about Father Joe and the Mercy Centre can be found at www.thegospeloffatherjoe.com and the Mercy Centre's website.
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