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The end of 2023 saw one of the more surprising news that Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines agreeing to merge together, the latter carrier having struggled financially since COVID-19 with rumours surrounding an acquisition with Alaska Airlines being the most plausible.
Unlike many mergers and acquisitions, Alaska Airlines acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines was mutually agreed upon as both carriers released press releases detailing the benefits of a potential merger. Hawaiian Airlines would be absorbed into Alaska Air Group, and unlike Alaska Airlines acquisition of Virgin America whereby the latter airline ceased to exist as its own entity, Hawaiian Airlines would continue as a separate brand within the group.
Shareholders approved the merger, meaning government approval was required from both the Department of Justice and Department of Transportation. Under the Biden administration, airline consolidation had been seen negatively especially as JetBlue faced hurdles with their acquisition of Spirit Airlines and the Northeast Alliance with American Airlines.
Department of Justice did not file any objections to the merger after the antitrust review period has lapsed in late-August 2024, meaning it was left to the Department of Transportation to make their decision. On 18th September 2024, the merger was completed after Department of Transportation approved the deal with conditions which included maintaining key existing services, protecting the value of the joined up loyalty programme, and to maintain competitive access to Honolulu.
The merger sees Honolulu becoming the second largest hub within the Alaska Air Group, with Seattle-Tacoma being the largest... The group will once again inherit Airbus A321neos after withdrawn the type in late-2023, as well as acquiring Airbus A330-200/300s, Boeing 717s and Boeing 787-9s. Hawaiian Airlines will become part of Oneworld and whilst the merger is complete, there is now the task of integrating both airlines into a single air operating certificate which is usually the last step to a merger being officially completed.
Wishing both Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines the best of luck with this merger.
Currently, Alaska Airlines operates 240 Boeing 737s, which includes 11 Boeing 737-700s, 3 Boeing 737-700BDSFs, 59 Boeing 737-800s, 2 Boeing 737-800BCFs, 10 Boeing 737-900s, 79 Boeing 737-900ERs, 5 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 71 Boeing 737 MAX 9s. Alaska Airlines have 15 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, 9 Boeing 737 MAX 9s and 103 Boeing 737 MAX 10s on-order.
November Nine Four Three Alpha Kilo is one of 71 Boeing 737 MAX 9s operated by Alaska Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on 22nd August 2022 and she is powered by 2 CFM International LEAP-1B28 engines.
Boeing 737-9 MAX N943AK taxis from Runway 24L at Los Angeles (LAX), California after working AS1292 from Seattle-Tacoma (SEA), Washington.
Digital Composite By:
Cody Wolpert
Langara College
Professional Photography Program
Class of 2016
Original Photograph By:
Major James Skitt Matthews
CVA: 371-2116
North side of the intersection of Pender Street and Carrall Street
1910
The tollbooth plaza for the 25 de Abril bridge, as seen from the top of southern tower of the bridge.
My wife's grandmother died to day. My wife had to work, but the rest of her family had gathered at the the hospital, so I cycled over to meet them.
I took a quiet route home. There was a merge in Camden with a couple of other cyclists, where I pulled up next to them at the light and though I'd go single file ahead of or behind them, as they seemed to be together. The woman pulled ahead, but the man stayed next to me, until I slowed down a lot to let him go ahead. It was not a brilliant merge, but there was barely any traffic around aside form a single cab behind me that was delayed getting to the next stop light by about 20 seconds. He chose to extend this to 30 seconds by pulling up next to me and yelling at me. I didn't quite take in what he said and I stared ahead, not reacting. I wait for cabs that are in my way all the time, surely one of them can wait for me once in a while. Cyclists have the right to take the lane if they want to and while I'd been slightly inconvenient for him, I'd done nothing wrong.
I got to the next light and there was a cab stopped there. I wasn't entirely sure it was the same guy, but I thought it might be and I wondered if he worked for a company. I took a picture, with the idea that later, I could maybe write a letter. I probably would have forgotten about it by the time I got home, if he hadn't got out of his cab and come around to yell at me more.
He repeated about 20 times what exactly he yelled at me, but I've still forgotten it. Something about taking a poor trajectory. It ended with 'you silly boy.' Surely I could not have any right to complain about his helpfully shouted advice, so therefore, I should delete my photo and then hand over my phone so he could verify I deleted it. I refused. He said that he would call the police, as my taking a picture of his number plate violates the data protection act. I said that his number plate is not protected data. He said he was calling the police. I said he was free to do so if he wanted.
He kept yelling and I just got bored of it. I told him I was coming home from the hospital, where a family member had just died. I was having a shitty day and I'm sorry I offended him, but I was just going to home. But, of course, he kept yelling. When you're on the street, vulnerability is a big neon sign pinned to your back. He wouldn't have yelled at me in the first place unless I'd been vulnerable. It was only because I was having a bad day and seemed defeated already that he wanted to fight.
I started wheeling my bicycle down the pavement and pushed the button for the walk light. He demanded to know where I was going. I said he could call the police, but he had no right to detain me and no right to my phone. I quit paying attention him. Maybe he yelled something as he drove off. Maybe he didn't. Anyway, here is his number plate.
If you know how to make a complaint, leave a comment.
28 Feb 2017 / 21:36 GMT
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I finally replaced the kit lens the police broke during the G20 protests. This was my first night with the new one and snapped this shot at the Gardiner Expressway on ramp at Jarvis and Lakeshore.
The Enthusiast was engrossed in window-shopping for his hobby so I was able to capture four images of him before he moved in to the shop. I then took a final shot through the window of the items he was viewing. The resulting image is a merged photo of the two shots, which make it look as if the shot was captured through the shop window from outside.
Mural in Magdalenenstraße 20, Vienna.
In the late 1940’s, Hitler ordered a series of flak towers to be constructed in Germany and Austria to defend against air attacks and serve as shelters. With walls up to 3.5m thick, the structures were made so indestructible they still remain today. Many see these towers as an eye sore but others see them as a reminder of a dark past never to be repeated.
Many of the towers still remain empty, however a few have been redesigned to give them a new life. In 1957, the flak tower located only a few blocks from the mural was repurposed to be an aquarium. The former bunker is now a place dedicated to preserving a diversity of (animal) life and the imparting of knowledge. The mural tells the story of how the neighborhood of Mariahilf not only rose from all the challenges history subjected it to, but also how it turned the horrors of its past into a bright, positive and multifaceted future.
Elio Mercado is a widely recognized Dominican-born figurative painter, street artist, designer and activist who is motivated by the agenda to merge art and humanity into a single creation. Working under an artistic pseudonym of Evoca1, this Miami-based artist brings vivid imagery to urban spaces that often speaks about the experiences of his youth in the Dominican Republic. Self-taught in a wide range of media (muralism being a forte), Evoca1 brings a deep and distinctive sensibility to the walls he works on around the world – this distinctive sensibility is the result of the intensely empathic quality of his work and Mercado’s efforts of combining art with the acts of social conscience.
Vienna, 2017
I finally learned how to eliminate the "blind spot" by simply adjusting the mirrors! I mean eliminate COMPLETELY! This is after driving for many years. After barely avoiding collision while changing lane for who knows how many times (and, yes, I usually remember to look over my shoulder). If it is so simple to get rid of the "blind spot" altogether, why it is not in every car manual...or not taught in every drivers ed class? Just to keep life more exiting?
Playing at merging images in Lightroom using the Perfect Layers Plugin. Idea is for new video in T189 as we switch to use lightroom
Taken using a tripod and timer on camera then imported to lightroom, the opened in Perfect Layers to merge them.
Lightroom - Adobe
Perfect Layers - onOne Software
This is the colour version of the preceding photo "Fusion" in black & white. I find it interesting that it is not just the intensity of the light but also the colour hue of the part of the tree hugging the rock that is so similar to the colour of the rock. If I go back to the park, I'll take a few steps back (while being careful not to fall over the edge of the cliff) and try to get a better framing of the tree/rock spectacle, decades in the making.
model: my daugther
photo & manipulation: me
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Some people want to merge in crowds and some people choose to stand out.
Clicked at the Delhi Marathon.
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I had seen shots of wildflowers from the Fawkham area, and in the churchyard of St Mary.
So a visit was quickly planned.
Fawkham sits in a triangle bordered by the M25, A2 and M26, an area we haven't really visited before. So we discover that Fawkham, Longfield and Hartley have all merged into one large commuter town.
St Mary is in the old part of Fawkham, sits on the edge of what looks like a playing field, with no wall separating the grassed area from the graves.
Indeed the churchyard was full of snowdrops, daffodils, crocus and a few winter aconites, but it was the unusual whitewashed church that interested me, very much out of place in Kent.
But it was locked.
But then, it was early.
So, I take shots of the flowers, the churchyard, and go back one last time to try the door, when there was a voice behind me: "can I help you".
I explained, and he opened the church, leaving me to take shots to my heart's content.
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A picturesque ensemble if ever there was one, and one which would scream `Victorian` to you if you did not realise that its core is of the 13th century. This is a most interesting building built, no doubt, by people who farmed sheep in this narrow valley, and who used their wealth to create a small simple church with a narrow north aisle. In the north window of the chancel is a very rare survival of early Victorian glass by an unknown artist whose work would rival the best designers of 50 years later. It shows the fishermen with a lovely surreal sea with huges fishes and a newt! One wishes that its history was better recorded. Also in the chancel is the highly decorated piscina, only discovered in 1999, and which is made from a Norman capital - it sits between a sedile and another piscina and creates a strange grouping. A treasure indeed. One window, depicting the Resurrection, is signed by the Maile studio of Canterbury and another has fragments of fifteenth century glass – a reminder that this church was once relatively wealthy.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Longfield
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LONGFIELD.
THE next parish southward is Longfield, called in old writings Langefeld, and in Domesday Langafel.
Longfield is a small parish, long and narrow; there is no coppice wood in it, excepting shaves round the fields; the land in it is but poor, being very hilly; the surface is mostly chalk, and much covered with flint stones. It is an obscure place, the road from Green-street-green to Trosley-hill goes through it, along the valley. At the west end of it, close to the road, is the church, and above it the court lodge. At the east end of it is Longfield-green, where there are some houses, which, with a few others stragling about, are the only ones in the parish.
There was in this parish an antient dwelling called Longfield-house, which was the property and residence of the Burrow family as early as queen Elizabeth's reign, ancestors of those of Holwood-hill, and Sterborough-castle. It has been pulled down about fifty years since.
This place was given, whilst Ælsstane was bishop of Rochester, who came to the see in 945, and died in 984, by Ælfswithe, wife of Birtrick, of Meopham, who confirmed it by his last testament, to the priory of St. Andrew, in Rochester, as two plough lands; (fn. 1) and being wrested from that church in the troublesome times which soon after followed, by reason of the Danish wars, it was recovered again at the solemn assembly, held at Pinenden, in 1076, and was immediately restored by Lansranc, archbishop of Canterbury, to bishop Gundulph and the church of St. Andrew; which was confirmed by archbishop Anselm, in 1101, as it was afterwards by several of his successors. (fn. 2)
GERARDE, the herbalist, found the Clenopodium vulgare, common basil, growing in great plenty at Longfield downs. (fn. 3)
LONGFIELD seems to have been appropriated to the archdeaconry of Rochester, immediately on its being restored to that church. At the time of the taking the survey of Domesday, anno 1080, it was in the possession of Anschitill, then archdeacon there. Accordingly it is entered as follows, under the general title of the lands of the bishop of Rochester in that record:
The same bishop (of Rochester) bolds Langafel and Anschitill the priest of him. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is . . . . . . In demesne there is one carucate and nine villeins, with seven borderers, baving two carucates. It was worth 70 shillings, and now 100 shillings.
The temporalities of the archdeacon of Rochester, in Longfield, in the 15th year of king Edward I. were valued at 3l. (fn. 4) After which the manor and court lodge of Longfield, with the lands belonging to it, continued part of the estate belonging to the archdeaconry; and Dr. Manning Griffith, who succeeded to this preferment in 1533, and became afterwards bishop of Rochester, seems to have been the first archdeacon who demised this manor, which he did for eighty years, and before that term was ended, a concurrent lease was granted for sixty years more; and it afterwards continued to be leased out, from time to time, but archdeacon Spratt, who succeeded to this dignity in 1704, suffered the lease of it to expire, for the benefit of his successors, since which it has been held under leases for twenty-one years, at the old accustomed rent, renewable in like manner as other ecclesiastical estates. The Rev. Mr. Samuel Denne, of Wilmington, is the present lessee of it.
The court lodge stands almost adjoining to the church-yard. It is a strong antient building, with arched doors and windows of hewn stone, and was once probably made use of by the archdeacons, as a house of retirement.
Charity.
DR. PLUME gave by his will, in 1704, the sum of 5l. 8s. yearly to the repairs of his tombstone and the rails in the church yard, the overplus of which is always given among the poor of this parish, vested in the trustees of his will, and of the above annual product.
LONGFIELD is in the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese and deanry of Rochester.
¶The church, which is a small mean building, is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen. It consists of one isle and a chancel, having a low pointed steeple at the west end, in which hangs one bell. In it, among other monuments and inscriptions, in the north chancel are several memorials for the Burrows of Hartley; and, adjoining to the south wall of the church, on the outside, is an altar tomb, inclosed with wooden rails, for archdeacon Plume, who died Nov. 20, 1704, æt. 74, as has been already mentioned, as well as his charities, under the description of Stone near Dartford. (fn. 5) This church is of the ancient patronage of the bishopric of Rochester, part of the possessions of which it continues at this time. This rectory is now a discharged living in the king's books, of the clear yearly value, as certified, of 30l. the yearly tenths being 11s. 9d. (fn. 6)
By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value of church livings, in 1650, issuing out of chancery, it was returned, that Longfield was a parsonage, having neither house nor barn; that it had six acres of glebe land, and was worth 30l. per annum, master Thomas Stansall enjoying it, and preaching there. (fn. 7)
This rectory has been twice augmented; the first time by the governors of queen Anne's bounty, by which a small farm in Hoo, consisting of twenty-four acres, was purchased. The second augmentation was from Mrs. Ursula Taylor's legacy, paid by Sir Philip Boteler, to be applied for the augmenting of such small livings as should be named by himself, of which this was one; with the money a few acres of land were purchased in this parish.