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AEP Ohio lineworker repairs lines on a power pole from his bucket truck while a single ray of light shines down on his efforts to restore hope and power to those impacted by Hurricane Michael
Ray Wiley Hubbard played an amazing show at Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston. Wow! What an incredible musician, song writer, and entertainer!
As I was headed home last night, I saw these beautiful rays coming from behind the clouds over the Village at Sandhill shopping area. I pulled into Walgreens and snapped the shot. Unfortunately, I couldn't get all of the rays in without including the street lamps and building tops.
This was taken at the Scenic Caves, west of Collingwood, located at the highest part of the Niagara Escarpment above Georgian Bay at Blue Mountain. Although it was a very hot day, the caves were cool and full of mist. When I turned around I saw this beautiful light shining through.
Like the recently passed Gerry Anderson Ray Cusick is one of the blessed legion of designers, writers, musicians etc who filled our childhoods with wonder and in Ray's case terror.
Of course it's hard to say nowadays why the Daleks scarred us so, in a world of Alien vs Predator and endless zombies, Daleks are almost a risible foe. But with their cold logic, short tempers and unstoppable hatred they WERE really scary. Nothing came close to that moment when a dalek turned to face the camera and the screen flashed to and fro into negative while it screamed Exterminate!
We knew then that even the weak jokes about flights of stairs wouldn't protect you if the Dalekss actually ever burst out of our telly and got through your hastely constructed sofa barricade to find us cowering in joyful terror.
Of course next day at school you too could be dalek anorak pulled tight round your face one fist thrust forward robotic voice.
So here's my tribute to to Ray (did I mention he designed James Burke's Connections too)
I know this is a strange shot...but, I liked the abstract quality of it...the light blue strip...the glisten on the blurred petals...I have other recognizable flower shots to post later...=)
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An ad explaining the benefits of x-ray shoe fitting offered at the Rochester Sample Shoe Store. It appeared in the Post-Standard ad on April 4, 1946.
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A baby ray climbs the side of its glass walled pen at Brighton Sealife Centre. It was difficult trying to photograph in low lighting conditions as flash could upset the wildlife. The problems that I encountered were shake and noise from high iso's.
French postcard, no. 800. Photo: Paramount.
British actor and director Ray Milland (1905-1986) had a screen career that ran from 1929 to 1985. He appeared in many Hollywood movies as the archetypal, unflappable British gentleman. Milland is best remembered for his gut-wrenching, Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), for the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
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Sean Rodriguez, Carlos Pena, and Jason Bartlett all hover anxiously under a popup. Pena ended up fielding it.
An international, multidisciplinary team is using X-rays from SLAC to reveal the hidden text of a medical manuscript by the ancient Greek doctor Galen that was written on parchment in the 6th century and scraped off and overwritten with religious text in the 11th century. This is a sample page scanned with X-rays showing the never-before-seen under text (green), especially visible in the left margin.
Credit: University of Manchester/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
From my Autograph Book, end of Grade 7, spring/summer 1976. Some from classmates and some grownups--college students and/or my mom's friends. My mom was the House Mother at (and we lived in) Kalmar Hall, a small dorm (house) with 10 or 15 guys.
Ray: Kalmar guy, now famous www.trollart.com
Lisa: classmate
Aarfbark: our family's puppy (named after the Kalmar Aardvarks)
Vintage postcard.
Aldo Ray (1926-1991) was an American actor whose athletic build, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough guys. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat en Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in Michael Curtiz's We're No Angels (1955). His career began to decline in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991).
Aldo Ray was born Aldo DaRe in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1926. He had five with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister, Gina. His parents were Italian immigrants, and he did not speak English until he entered grade school. His family moved to the small town of Crockett, California, when Aldo was four years old. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team and also coached swimming. At age 18, during World War II in 1944, he served as a US Navy frogman, seeing action on Iwo Jima. After the war, he studied political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as the local sheriff in his hometown of Crockett, California. When he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Saturday's Hero (1951), director David Miller was more interested in Ray than in his brother because of his voice. He later recalled, "They... said, 'What's wrong with your voice, kid? Are you sick? If you're sick, you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it." Ray signed a contract to Columbia and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. Miller gave him a small role as a cynical football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough, sexy roles. He had his break in George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) with Judy Holliday. Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat en Mike (George Cukor, 1952), starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Although he did not win, his career was launched. He starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (Curtis Bernhardt, 1953) and played an escaped convict in We're No Angels (Michael Curtiz, 1955) with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov. Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear as a tough soldier in Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh, 1955). The film was a box-office hit, and Raoul Walsh would become one of Ray's favourite directors. Another favourite director was Anthony Mann, with whom he made Men in War (1957) and God's Little Acre (1958), both starring Robert Ryan. He also starred in The Naked and the Dead (Raoul Walsh, 1958), an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel. Producer Paul Gregory said, "Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, 'Let's get him in the morning 'cause in the afternoon it's over.'"
Producers were scared of casting Aldo Ray in projects because of his drinking. He decided to leave Hollywood and made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (John Guillermin, 1960) in the UK and Johnny Nobody (Nigel Patrick, 1961) in Ireland. During the 1960s, Ray returned to Hollywood, where he acted in such diverse films as What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Blake Edwards, 1966) and John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968). He also made several guest appearances on television. His career went downhill in the 1970s with a string of low-budget exploitation films. Ray was typically cast as a gruff and gravelly redneck. He made three B-movies with cult director Fred Olen Ray. In his last interview, Aldo Ray said: "Yeah, I did a few films for him . . . Angel Unchained (1970), Biohazard (1985). I'm not sure about all of the titles for a guy named Fred Olen Ray. He'd give me $1,000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work. Somebody once showed me one of his cassettes . . . starring Aldo Ray and asked for my autograph. But it was just a one-day job . . . I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah . . . but I was ripe for it." He also appeared in two films for Iranian-born filmmaker Amir Shervan, better known for his cult classic Samurai Cop. By 1976, Ray was broke. He even appeared in a non-sex role in a hardcore porn film, Sweet Savage (Ann Perry, Charles Samples, 1979). For his bit role, Ray was awarded Best Actor from the Adult Film Association's third Erotica Awards. In 1981, Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control". Occasionally, he acted in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, 1982) and The Sicilian (Michael Cimino, 1987), starring Christopher Lambert as Salvatore Giuliano. In 1986, Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (Mark Freed, 1991) with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. Ray was married three times. He married his first wife, Shirley Green, in 1947. They had a daughter, Claire, born in 1951 and divorced in 1953. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell (1954-1956). His third wife was casting director Johanna Ray (1960-1966). They had three children, including actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer in 1991.
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