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The HVDC Cross-Channel (French: Interconnexion France Angleterre) is the name given to two different high voltage direct current (HVDC) connections that operate or have operated under the English Channel between the continental European and British electricity grids.
The first Cross-Channel link was a 160 MW link completed in 1961 and decommissioned in 1984, while the second was a 2000 MW link completed in 1986.
The HVDC Building taken from Makepeace Hide, looking across Burrowes Pit, at RSPB Dungeness.
The current 2000 MW link, like the original link, is bi-directional and France and Britain can import/export depending upon individual needs.
160MW system (1961)
The first HVDC Cross-Channel scheme was built by ASEA and went into service in 1961 between converter stations at Lydd in England (next to Dungeness Nuclear Power Station) and Echinghen, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in France. This scheme was equipped with Mercury arc valves, each having four anodes in parallel.
In order to keep the disturbances of the magnetic compasses of passing ships as small as possible, a bipolar cable was used. The cable had a length of 65 kilometres (40 mi) and was operated symmetrically at a voltage of ±100 kV and a maximum current of 800 amperes. The maximum transmission power of this cable was 160 megawatts (MW). The cable was built by ABB Group. Given that the cable was laid on the surface of the seabed it was prone to being fouled by fishing nets, causing damage. Whilst repairs were undertaken there was considerable down time on the circuit resulting in a loss of trading. Indeed by 1984 the circuit was disconnected from the Main Transmission System.
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09/11/07.....I feel this deserves reposting today as a tribute to all who lost their lives...and to those who are courageous and determined to carry on.
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“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”
- William Makepeace Thackeray
special thanks to FF John Morabito for allowing my children and I to see greatness and pure grace and heroism in the truest sense of the word...
This tattered flag was pulled from the destruction and debris of the World Trade Center. It currently hangs over FF Calvanese and FF Morabito's lockers inside Engine and Ladder Company TenHouse as a symbol of enduring freedom.
Greco café, founded year 1760, frequented by Casanova, Stendhal, Fenimore Cooper, Schopenhauer, Gregorovius, Gogol, Turgenev, Melville, Makepeace Thackeray, Taine, Sienkiewicz, Carducci, D'Annunzio, Bjornson, France, Twain, Joyce, Moravia, Pasolini, Pascarella, Palazzeschi, Carlo Levi, Ennio Flaiano, Apollinaire, Berlioz, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wagner, Liszt, Humperdinck - Via Condotti in Rome
For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
ZK356 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 of BAE Systems at the Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford 8/7/16
Overgate, Dundee
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Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the now-defunct Scottish comic magazine The Dandy and became its mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937, The character was created by Dudley D. Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but evolved into a more sympathetic type, using his strength to help the underdog.
He is apparently the world’s strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. The pillow of his (reinforced) bed is filled with building rubble and his beard is so tough he shaves with a blowtorch.
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Desperate Dan’s Dawg is a character that appeared alongside Dan in The Dandy comics. Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the now-defunct Scottish comic magazine The Dandy and became its mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937. Desperate Dan is immortalized in Dundee, his place of ‘birth’, with an 8-ft tall bronze statue in the city center alongside his ‘Dawg’.
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Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace, is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953. She was created as a female counterpart for Dennis the Menace.
She is known as “The World’s Wildest Tomboy” and causes trouble by doing what she calls “minxing” to others.
Spotted yesterday afternoon at RSPB Dungeness from the Makepeace hide during the heavy rain. Quite distant but least you can see the yellow legs!!
For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
" A good laugh is sunshine in a house." William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Boston
Estes and Lauriat
Seen at the antique mall in Klipsan Beach, Washington
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,[1] British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.[2] His father was a grandson of Thomas Thackeray (1693–1760), headmaster of Harrow School.[3]
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.
Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse,[4] and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse".
Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed]
Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.[5]
Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up.
On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.[citation needed]
Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816–1894), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837–1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840–1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher.
Thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times.[6] He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".[7] Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854.[8]
Tragedy struck in Thackeray's personal life as his wife, Isabella, succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child, in 1840. Finding that he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away until September 1840, when he realised how grave his wife's condition was.
Struck by guilt, he set out with his wife to Ireland. During the crossing she threw herself from a water-closet into the sea, but she was pulled from the waters. They fled back home after a four-week battle with her mother. From November 1840 to February 1842 Isabella was in and out of professional care, as her condition waxed and waned.[3]
She eventually deteriorated into a permanent state of detachment from reality. Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up in two different asylums in or near Paris until 1845, after which Thackeray took her back to England, where he installed her with a Mrs Bakewell at Camberwell.
Isabella outlived her husband by 30 years, in the end being cared for by a family named Thompson in Leigh-on-Sea at Southend until her death in 1894.[9] After his wife's illness Thackeray became a de facto widower, never establishing another permanent relationship. He did pursue other women, however, in particular Mrs Jane Brookfield and Sally Baxter. In 1851 Mr Brookfield barred Thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with Jane. Baxter, an American twenty years Thackeray's junior whom he met during a lecture tour in New York City in 1852, married another man in 1855.[citation needed]
In the early 1840s Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book, the latter marked by its hostility towards Irish Catholics. However, as the book appealed to anti-Irish sentiment in Britain at the time,
Thackeray was given the job of being Punch's Irish expert, often under the pseudonym Hibernis Hibernior ("more Irish than the Irish").[8] Thackeray became responsible for creating Punch's notoriously hostile and negative depictions of the Irish during the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1851.[8]
Thackeray achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers (serialised 1846/7, published in book form in 1848), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Charles Dickens.[10]
Portrait of Thackeray in his study, c.1860
He remained "at the top of the tree", as he put it, for the rest of his life, during which he produced several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near-fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis. He twice visited the United States on lecture tours during this period. Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. The latter series was published in book form as The Four Georges.[3]
In July 1857 Thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for the city of Oxford in Parliament.[3] Although not the most fiery agitator, Thackeray was always a decided liberal in his politics, and he promised to vote for the ballot in extension of the suffrage, and was ready to accept triennial parliaments.[3] He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell, who received 1,070 votes, as against 1,005 for Thackeray.[3]
In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine,[11] but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "Roundabout Papers".[citation needed]
Thackeray's health worsened during the 1850s and he was plagued by a recurring stricture of the urethra that laid him up for days at a time. He also felt that he had lost much of his creative impetus.
He worsened matters by excessive eating and drinking, and avoiding exercise, though he enjoyed riding (he kept a horse).
He has been described as "the greatest literary glutton who ever lived". His main activity apart from writing was "gutting and gorging".[12] He could not break his addiction to spicy peppers, further ruining his digestion.
A granite, horizontal gravestone fenced by metal railings, among other graves in a cemetery
Thackeray's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, photographed in 2014
On 23 December 1863, after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, he suffered a stroke. He was found dead in his bed the following morning.
His death at the age of fifty-two was entirely unexpected, and shocked his family, his friends and the reading public. An estimated 7,000 people attended his funeral at Kensington Gardens. He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.[3]
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Klipsan Beach, Washington.
We spent Sunday afternoon at the surf club in Noosa. It was packed as the TV Today Show was in town and the hosts were expected there.
Later the TV team arrived and started mingling, chatting with the locals. As they passed our table Lisa, Sylvia and Karl were happy to have their photos taken. Larger view in comments.
Sylvia, an Australian journalist, born in Queensland, is the Today news presenter.
Reporting for the Monday morning show in Noosa, she had the opportunity to tour Makepeace Island resort with its owner, Richard Branson, for the second time.
This is the 50th portrait in my 100 Strangers project.
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Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/ 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
2018 "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #28" "Portrait(s)" "Shoot Anything Saturday"
Another shot from the folk music festival in Sisters, Oregon, last September. This band played late Saturday evening during the weekend event. You know what THAT means. =)
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Homer
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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Call Number: LC-B2- 4958-3
The latest pic of me on the left against one of the original fetish maid pics on the right. I hope I've gotten better, although I appreciate that my waistline has filled out a bit.
I have spent some time on I.D of this bird if Buntings and pipits dont have crests that leaves me with larks, the only lark that I can find that looks a little like this is a skylark .trouble is skylarks seem to be brown ..Oh well .!!! Dungeness RSPB ( by the water from makepeace hide)
For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace, is a British comic strip and comic strip character published in the comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger. Quoted from Wikipedia.