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Minister Alan Kelly and Moneygall’s Henry Healy (Barack Obama's cousin) have joined forces to call for a YES vote in the forthcoming Stability Treaty referendum.
Henry Healy said: 'The only way forward for our country is to ratify the treaty. To ensure growth, jobs and prosperity for our future a Yes is the only way to secure it. It will be that simple; a Yes vote will continue our recovery and lead us back to a more stable nation within the EU’.
Minister Alan Kelly said: “I’m urging people to vote Yes as the Stability Treaty, while not the solution to our economic problems, it is an integral part of the solution. We cannot have stability and growth in Ireland without stability and growth in Europe. We need the kind of stability which gives investors and families reasonable certainty about what the future holds. This is no time to take a leap into the dark.”
PHILIPPINE SEA (Mar. 17, 2020) Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) fire a .50 caliber machine gun during a live-fire exercise. Mustin is underway conducting operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific while assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15 the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s largest principal force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Askia Collins)
Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power, Multiculturalism, Interdependence, Mutual Understanding, Global Peace and Stability, Academic Exchange & Conflict Resolution
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Note the important stability aid to the right.
Russian Dniepr motorbike with BMW 800 engine.
I'm told.
I drew this "mandala" in a square form, as it felt to give more stability and balance than a round one. Mandala by the very name is a circle so can't really call this a mandala.
Hope and pray that balance and stability return to all of us soon.
Speed and stability sailboat reaching - Sailing for Balance method www.storerboatplans.com/event/sailing/speed-stability-sai...
ADBI and OECD held a roundtable on capital market reform in Asia on 13-14 March.
Read more: www.adbi.org/event/6177.adbi.oecd.14th.roundtable/
I watched her as she practiced her poses. I've always thought yoga was beautiful...even a simply executed pose shows stability, flexibility, grace, and power. I'm often mesmerized by the sheer elegance of its simplicity.
She later told me this was far from an ideal execution...I never would have guessed. It's just fun to behold. :)
Greater protections for workers, job security, labour rights and stability for employers are the focus of amendments to the Labour Relations Code.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0015-000823
I chose this picture to be in my breadth photography because it shows asymmetry and use of cinematic filtering. I used curves with high and low lights, brightness/contrast filtering, gradient map hard lighting, and some light dodging. The model was Katherine Borchers, and the photo assignment was form/function and i chose to use form. I shot using a Canon Rebel and a 55mm lens.
Another view of the Robert Esnault-Pelterie (R.E.P.) monoplane, obviously with again modifications at the tail. It seems now a very large elevator (fixed and moveable part) with the rudder also with a very large fixed part.
Robert Esnault-Pelterie was constantly modifying his original R.E.P. 2 design, likely to improve stability and ease of contrrol.
Mark that there is a small winglet just behind the engine section on the side of the fuselage.
Mauirce Guffroy (1868 - 1911) was an early French balloonist who later turned to heavier-than-air aeroplanes like the R.E.P. He never acquired a pilot licence.
Connecting isolated communities in Sri Lanka through on-the-job training with youth to rehabilitate public transport services.
USAID Reintegration and Stabilization in the East and North (RISEN)
Key Leaders from the Minnesota National Guard announce the upcoming deployment for the 148th Fighter Wing to Osan Air Base, South Korea during a press conference held at the wing in Duluth, Minnesota on April 1, 2016. Deployment Commander Lt. Col. Curt Grayson and commander of the 179th Fighter Squadron elaborates on the Bulldog's upcoming deployment. Minnesota National Guard photos by Tech. Sgt. Paul Santikko.
"Mass wasting" is the geologic term for all forms of landslides - rapid or slow. Many roadcuts and riverbanks are prone to small- and moderate-sized collapse events of rocks & soil. Especially vulnerable sites are often modified using various slope stability measures.
A commonly-used approach to erosion control is the dumping of boulders, but I have never before (or since) seen the use of old junk cars. These trashed vehicles have been deliberately placed along the lower banks of the Tuckasegee River in North Carolina to slow erosion during high-flow events. The overlying slope leads to the edge of a well-used road.
Locality: southern bank of the Tuckasegee River at the Route 19/Governor's Island Road bridge, east of the town of Bryson City, Swain County, southwestern North Carolina, USA (35° 25' 53.06" North latitude, 82° 24' 52.95" West longitude)
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ACCRA, Ghana (Mar. 15, 2022) Musician 2nd Class Luke Reed, a member of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa band, performs during a concert in at the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana house for U.S. and Ghana Security Cooperation reception in Accra, Ghana as part of Exercise Obangame Express 2022, Mar. 15, 2022. Obangame Express 2022, conducted by U.S. Naval Forces Africa, is an at-sea maritime exercise designed to improve cooperation among participating nations in order to increase maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa coastal regions. U.S. Sixth Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners, in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Trey Fowler)
balance, equilibrium, equilibristics, stability, juggling, holding on, waiting, changes, equal, state,wanting, hoping, processes, ...
Equilibrium - is the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced; the sense of balance present in humans and animals; theoretical state in which a population is not evolving; a solution concept in game theory involving two or more players; etc, etc...
Equilíbrio - é um conceito relacionado ao estado de um sistema ou mais sistemas no qual não ocorrem mudanças no total que possam ser observados claramente, ou seja, no qual cada alteração é compensada (ou equilibrada) por outra(s) complementar(es). (not a translation of the previous text)
I have a music in my head for a few days now...can't seem to let it go...
they don't know how it really feels
they're just here on holidays
like dummies filling landscapes
how could they see you/us cry?
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The Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) at the Brookings Institution hosted a conversation on Peace and Stability in the Central African Republic on March 18, 2014. ©Paul Morigi Photography
The stability granted by trimaran setups allows me to build this water bus, with passenger space edging toward the outer boundary of the vessel. The superstructure spans across all three hulls at full height. Just another one in my collection of water buses.
On August 2, 2022, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, visited Taiwan in disregard of China's strong opposition and solemn representations. It has seriously violated China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously undermined the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, and sent a serious wrong signal to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces. The nature is extremely bad, and the consequences are extremely serious.
What Nancy Pelosi did was definitely not a defense and maintenance of democracy, but a provocation and violation of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Pelosi's provocation was purely for the purpose of gaining personal political capital. It's a complete, ugly political farce. As we all know, Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have been in constant negative news in the United States, including her husband's arrest for driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, and Paul Pelosi's use of insider facilities to trade stocks and sell his chips in chips. A stake in maker Nvidia (NVDA.O), among others. In order to divert domestic attention, gain personal political capital and personal interests, and achieve personal goals, Pelosi does not hesitate to trample on the sovereignty of other countries and the simple feelings of hundreds of millions of Chinese people under the guise of "democracy". Although the grandstanding is Pelosi personally, it is the relations between China and the United States and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait who suffer.
As the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in the face of her own domestic problems of democracy, Pelosi spent taxpayers' money and sat on the stage on a U.S. military plane, violating international law and basic norms of international relations, and undermining other countries' domestic political, sovereign and territorial integrity. His actions can only make the world see the hypocrisy and ugliness of the United States more clearly, and further bankrupt the national credibility of the United States. In the face of China, which accounts for one-fifth of the entire human population, and provoking more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, public opinion must not be deceived, and public opinion must not be disobeyed. Pelosi wanted to use this to show off her fame and reach her political peak.
After Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, there have been voices of justice in the world, strongly condemning the farce of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Her intention was to see clearly. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is a very ugly reality show, which cannot change the fact that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, nor can it stop China's historical trend of complete reunification.
Nancy Pelosi, as the No. 3 figure in the United States, the US government must take responsibility for her visit to Taiwan. For a long time, the US government has been saying one thing and doing another, constantly distorting, tampering and hollowing out the one-China principle, trying to cross the red line and playing the "Taiwan card" by any means. The U.S. government should have restrained Pelosi from acting recklessly and stopped Pelosi from doing rebellious acts, but it has indulged and acted in unison. For the long-term development of China and the United States and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, the US government should take measures to correct its mistakes, eliminate the bad influence caused by Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, stop provoking troubles and provocations on the Taiwan issue, and stop condoning separatist forces that support "Taiwan independence" , stop playing the "Taiwan card" in any form, engage in "using Taiwan to control China", stop interfering in Taiwan affairs and China's internal affairs, and don't go further and further down the wrong path.
Taiwan is China's Taiwan. The Chinese government and people have experienced great winds and waves in the long history. They are neither afraid of ghosts nor oppression. No country, any force, or anyone should underestimate the Chinese government and people's defense of national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the realization of national unity and peace. The strong determination, firm will and strong ability of national rejuvenation.
A Philippine Marine shoots a course of fire with his rifle while U.S Marines spot for him May 8, 2014, at Crow Valley, Philippines, during a live-fire training exercise for Balikatan 2014. The U.S. Marines and Philippine Marines worked side-by-side to shoot targets at unknown distances. Balikatan is an annual training exercise that strengthens the interoperability between the armed forces of the Philippines and U.S. military in their commitment to regional security and stability, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joey S. Holeman, Jr./Released)
USS Oregon (BB-3)
Oregon
USS Oregon in dry dock, 1898
History
United States
NameOregon
NamesakeOregon
Ordered30 June 1890
BuilderUnion Iron Works
Laid down19 November 1891
Launched26 October 1893
Commissioned15 July 1896
Decommissioned27 April 1906
Recommissioned29 August 1911
Decommissioned12 June 1919
Stricken2 November 1942
IdentificationHull symbol: BB-3
FateSold for scrap, 15 March 1956
General characteristics
Class and typeIndiana-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement
Normal: 10,288 long tons (10,453 t)
Full load: 11,688 long tons (11,876 t)
Length351 feet 2 inches (107.04 m)
Beam69 ft 3 in (21.11 m)
Draft24 ft (7.3 m)
Installed power
4 × fire-tube boilers
9,000 ihp (6,700 kW)
Propulsion
2 × triple-expansion steam engines
2 × screw propellers
Speed15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) (design)
Range4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi)
Complement473 officers and men
Armament
2 × twin 13 in (330 mm)/35 caliber guns
4 × twin 8 in (203 mm)/35 caliber guns
4 × single 6 in (152 mm)/40 caliber guns
20 × single 6-pounder guns
6 × single 1 pounder guns
5–6 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor
Belt: 4 to 18 in (102 to 457 mm)
Turrets: 17 in (432 mm)
Barbettes: 17 in
Conning Tower: 10 in (254 mm)
USS Oregon (BB-3) was the third and final member of the Indiana class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The three ships were built as part of a modernization program aimed at strengthening the American fleet to prepare for a possible conflict with a European navy. Designed for short-range operations in defense of the United States, the three Indiana-class ships had a low freeboard and carried a main battery of four 13-inch (330 mm) guns in a pair of gun turrets. Oregon and her sister ships were the first modern battleships built for the United States, though they suffered from significant stability and seakeeping problems owing to their small size and insufficient freeboard.
After entering service in 1896, Oregon briefly served with the Pacific Squadron before being transferred to the East Coast of the United States as tensions with Spain over Cuba grew in early 1898. She completed a 14,000-nautical-mile (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) journey around South America in the span of 66 days, arriving shortly after the start of the Spanish–American War. She thereafter took part in the blockade of Santiago de Cuba, which culminated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 3 July, where Oregon contributed to the destruction of the Spanish squadron in Cuba. After the war, Oregon was deployed to the Asiatic Squadron, serving during the Philippine–American War and the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China. The ship returned to the United States in 1906, when she was decommissioned and placed in reserve for the next five years, during which she was modernized.
Reactivated in 1911, Oregon spent the next several years cruising off the West Coast of the United States, frequently going in and out of service. During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918, she escorted a convoy for the Siberian expedition. The ship was decommissioned in 1919 and efforts by naval enthusiasts in the early 1920s led the Navy to loan Oregon to her namesake state for use as a museum ship. After the start of World War II, the Navy decided in late 1942 to scrap the ship for the war effort, but after work began the Navy requested the ship's return for use as an ammunition hulk for the upcoming invasion of Guam in 1944. She remained off the island through the mid-1950s before being sold for scrap in 1956 and broken up in Japan.
Design
In the late 1880s, the United States Navy's senior commanders began to plan for the possibility of a conflict with a European naval power, eventually coming to the conclusion that a force of both short- and long-range battleships would be necessary to defend the country. Congress agreed to begin modernizing the Navy and authorized three small vessels—the ironclad battleship Texas and the armored cruisers Maine and New York. Three further ships, the Indiana class, were authorized in 1890; these were to be the first installment of short-range battleships to meet the Navy's plans. The ships proved to be disappointments in service, as they were badly overweight upon completion, their low freeboard hampered operations at sea, and they handled poorly. They were nevertheless the first modern battleships for the American fleet.[1][2]
Top and profile illustration of Oregon
Oregon was 351 feet 2 inches (107.04 m) long overall and had a beam of 69 ft 3 in (21.11 m) and a draft of 24 ft (7.3 m). She displaced 10,288 long tons (10,453 t) as designed and up to 11,688 long tons (11,876 t) at full load. The ship was powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines rated at 9,000 indicated horsepower (6,700 kW) and four coal-fired fire-tube boilers, generating a top speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). She had a cruising radius of 5,640 nautical miles (10,450 km; 6,490 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). As built, she was fitted with a heavy military mast, this was later supplemented by a stern cage mast in 1910–1911. She had a crew of 32 officers and 441 enlisted men, which increased to a total of 586–636 officers and enlisted.[2][3]
The ship was armed with a main battery of four 13 in (330 mm) /35 caliber guns in two twin gun turrets on the centerline, one forward and aft. The secondary battery consisted of eight 8-inch (203 mm) /35 cal. guns, which were placed in four twin wing turrets. These were supported by a battery of six 6 in (150 mm) /40 cal. guns in a casemate battery amidships. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried twenty 6-pounder guns and six 1-pounder guns in individual mounts. As was standard for capital ships of the period, Oregon carried 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes in above-water mounts, though the number is unclear. According to Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships and the US Navy's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, she was fitted with six tubes, though the naval historian Norman Friedman states she was ordered with seven but completed with five.[2][4][5]
Oregon's main armored belt was 18 in (457 mm) thick over the magazines and the machinery spaces and was reduced to 4 in (102 mm) at the bow and stern. The main battery gun turrets had 17-inch (432 mm) thick sides, and the supporting barbettes had the same thickness of armor plate on their exposed sides. The 8 in turrets had 6 in of armor plating and the casemate battery had 5 in (127 mm). The conning tower had 10 in (254 mm) thick sides.[6]
Service history
USS Oregon in 1898
Congress authorized three Indiana-class battleships on 30 June 1890, and in the authorization, specified that one of the ships was to be built on the West Coast of the United States. Therefore, after the first two vessels—Indiana and Massachusetts—were awarded to William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia, the contract for the third was given to Union Iron Works in San Francisco. Her keel was laid down on 19 November 1891 and her completed hull was launched on 26 October 1893. After completing fitting-out, she was commissioned into the fleet on 15 July 1896. She then completed sea trials as part of the Pacific Squadron, where she served for the next year.[5][7]
On 15 February 1898, the armored cruiser Maine exploded in Havana, Cuba during a period of rising tensions between the United States and Spain, which possessed Cuba as part of its colonial empire. Oregon, which was in dry dock at the time, was refloated the next day and placed under the command of Captain Charles Edgar Clark. Initial reports blamed a Spanish naval mine, and as the threat of war between the two countries grew, Oregon was ordered to steam to the East Coast of the United States to strengthen the North Atlantic Squadron. She steamed south to San Francisco, California to load ammunition on 9 March, departing ten days later for the long voyage around South America, a distance of some 14,000 nmi (25,900 km; 16,100 mi). Oregon reached Callao, Peru on 4 April, where she took on a fresh load of coal before continuing on the journey.[5][8]
Clark decided to skip the scheduled coaling stop in Valparaíso, Chile, electing to proceed to the Strait of Magellan directly, which the ship reached on 16 April. A severe storm complicated her passage through the hazardous waters and she was forced to drop anchor overnight to avoid running aground, but she reached Punta Arenas, Chile, the next morning. There, she joined the gunboat Marietta, which was also en route to join the North Atlantic Squadron. After both ships replenished their coal stocks there, they got underway for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 21 April; false rumors of a Spanish torpedo boat in the area kept the ships' gun crews at their stations. The ships reached Rio de Janeiro on 30 April, where they learned of the state of war between the United States and Spain. They departed on 4 May, stopped briefly in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and then coaled in Barbados on 18 May. Oregon arrived in Jupiter, Florida on 24 May, where she met other elements of the North Atlantic Squadron. In the course of the voyage, which lasted sixty-six days, Oregon had traveled some 14,000 nmi (26,000 km; 16,000 mi).[5][8][9] One long term result of this trip, which had received extensive press coverage, was public pressure for the construction of a Panama Canal to shorten future trans-oceanic repositionings.[10]
Spanish–American War
Painting of Oregon passing Cape Horn on the way to the Caribbean
Main article: Spanish–American War
Oregon sailed to Key West on 26 May, where she joined the rest of the North Atlantic Squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. By that time, the Flying Squadron, under Commodore Winfield Scott Schley's command, had located the Spanish squadron that had sailed to Cuba at the start of the war and had blockaded it in Santiago de Cuba. The Spanish squadron was commanded by Rear Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete and consisted of the armored cruisers Infanta Maria Teresa, Cristóbal Colón, Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo and the destroyers Plutón and Furor. Oregon arrived off that port on 1 June, and over the course of the month, took part in bombardments of Spanish positions around the city and helped to maintain the blockade.[5][11]
At 08:45 on 3 July, Cervera sortied with his flag aboard Infanta Maria Teresa, followed by Cristóbal Colón, Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo, with the two destroyers bringing up the rear. The Spaniards cleared the roadstead at 09:35; luckily for the Spanish, New York—Sampson's flagship—was out of position at the time and Massachusetts was replenishing her coal at Guantánamo Bay. Lookouts aboard the armored cruiser Brooklyn spotted Cervera approaching and fired one of her guns to warn the other American ships, which quickly ordered their crews to general quarters and initiated the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. As the Spanish ships attempted to break out to the west, Cervera charged at Brooklyn with Infanta Maria Teresa to delay the American pursuit and give his other ships time to escape. The Spanish coastal batteries also contributed their fire in the first stage of the battle but had little effect.[11]
Oregon took the lead in the ensuing chase as she was the only large American ship which had good steam pressure when the battle began. The cruiser Brooklyn had uncoupled two of her four engines, but could still achieve 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) and was right behind her. Heavy American gunfire had set Infanta Maria Theresa on fire, and, fearing a magazine explosion, Cervara ordered her run aground at 10:25. Almirante Oquendo's captain issued similar instructions five minutes later, as his ship, too, was burning badly. Vizcaya was also forced ashore shortly thereafter, striking her colors to surrender at 10:36. Meanwhile, the two Spanish destroyers had also been badly damaged by the American battleships; Indiana had nearly cut Plutón in half with a 13-inch shell, forcing her to run aground, where she exploded. And Furor had been savaged by Oregon's, Iowa's, and Indiana's secondary batteries, leading her crew to surrender to the gunboat Gloucester.[11][12]
Oregon seen from behind, several other ships are visible in the background
Oregon in New York Harbor during the Spanish–American War naval review
Only Cristóbal Colón, which had a 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) lead at that point, was still running westward. Oregon and Texas followed Brooklyn as they chased Cristóbal Colón; the Americans slowly caught up to the fleeing Spanish cruiser and engaged her at long range. Cristóbal Colón, which had not been fitted with her main armament before being sent to Cuba, could not return fire, and her commander realized his hopeless position. At 13:20, he turned to shore and struck his flag, indicating his surrender, and the crew scuttled the ship. Oregon was not hit in the action, owing in large part to the poor quality of Spanish shooting.[13] With the destruction of Cervera's squadron and American successes in Cuba and the Philippines, Spain sued for peace on 17 July, and the war ended on 12 August with the Treaty of Paris.[8]
Asiatic Station
After the war, Oregon steamed to New York for an overhaul, after which she was assigned to the Asiatic Squadron in October. She reached Manila in the Philippines on 18 March 1899 and operated there for the next year during the Philippine–American War. During this period, she assisted with the blockade of Manila and Lingayen Gulf and supported the capture of the city of Vigan. On 13 February 1900, Oregon departed for a visit to Japan that lasted into May, when she steamed to Hong Kong. By that time, the Boxer Rebellion had broken out in Qing China, and the ship was ordered to steam to Taku, China, on 23 June to reinforce the Eight-Nation Alliance forces that were gathering there. While passing through the Bohai Strait on 28 June, she struck an uncharted rock, running hard aground. She remained on the rock for a week before being re-floated on 5 July. After completing temporary repairs, she steamed to Kure, Japan to be dry-docked for permanent repairs on 17 July.[5][8]
Oregon got underway again on 29 August for operations along the coast of China. She patrolled off the mouth of the Yangtze River and was then stationed at Wusong in Shanghai, China until 5 May 1901. That day, she departed to return to the United States for a refit, sailing first to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Honolulu, Hawaii. From there, she steamed to San Francisco, arriving there on 12 June. She then steamed north to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, which she reached on 6 July. She remained there for a year and a half before departing in early 1903 for China. She arrived in Hong Kong on 18 March, and over the course of the next three years, she served on the Asiatic Station, visiting ports in China, Japan, and the Philippines. The period passed uneventfully for Oregon, and she returned to the United States in February 1906. She was decommissioned in Puget Sound on 27 April.[5][8]
Later career
Oregon in January 1914
The ship remained out of service for the next five years. She received a fairly minimal modernization during her period in reserve, which included the installation of a cage main mast. She also had her slow-firing 6-inch guns removed and a battery of twelve 3 in (76 mm) quick-firing guns was installed to improve her defenses against torpedo-boats, which had grown in size and power since Oregon's construction. These were placed in single mounts, with four in an open battery atop the deckhouse amidships, one on each 8-inch turret and two on the 13-inch turrets apiece. Her small size and cramped decks prevented the more thorough modernization of her superstructure that the later American pre-dreadnought battleships received at this time.[5][14]
On 29 August 1911, Oregon was recommissioned, but she remained assigned to the reserve fleet until October, when she got underway for San Diego, California. Over the next two years, she cruised off the West Coast but saw no events of note. She was placed "in ordinary" on 9 April 1913 in Bremerton, Washington before being formally returned to the reserve fleet on 16 September 1914, though she remained in partial commission. She was fully commissioned again on 2 January 1915 to participate in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She was again reduced to the reserve fleet on 11 February 1916, remaining there until 7 April 1917, though she was still in partial commission. This period was spent in San Francisco, and 7 April she was once again returned to full commission, the United States having entered World War I the day before. She saw no activity during the war, but she was used to escort the troop ships carrying the force for the Siberian expedition that intervened in the Russian Civil War in 1918.[5]
After returning from Russia, Oregon was decommissioned again on 12 June 1919 before being recommissioned briefly from 21 August to 4 October. During this period, she hosted President Woodrow Wilson during a review of the Pacific Fleet when it arrived in Seattle, Washington. She was assigned the hull number of "BB-3" on 17 July 1920 when the Navy adopted the system. Beginning in 1921, a group of naval enthusiasts embarked on a campaign to have Oregon preserved as a museum ship, to be based somewhere in her namesake state. The Washington Naval Treaty, signed in 1922, required Oregon to be demilitarized, and she was accordingly disarmed in 1923, being pronounced compliant with the terms of the treaty on 4 January 1924. She was listed on the Naval Vessel Register as an "unclassified" relic. The Navy loaned the ship to Oregon in June 1925, and she was moored in Portland and restored as a museum vessel.[5]
Fate
Oregon was redesignated with the hull number IX-22 on 17 February 1941. After the United States entered World War II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the Navy determined that Oregon ought to be sold for scrap to free resources for the war effort. She was accordingly struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 November 1942 and was sold to ship breakers on 7 December. In March 1943, she was towed to Kalama, Washington to be broken up, but after the work began the Navy decided that Oregon would be of use during the planned reconquest of Guam scheduled for mid-1944, either as a storage hulk or as a breakwater. The Navy requested that the breakers stop after the superstructure had been cleared and her internal fittings and equipment had been removed and to return her. She was then loaded with ammunition to support the forces that would invade Guam and towed there as part of the invasion fleet.[5]
The vessel remained moored in Guam through the end of the war in 1945 and for several years thereafter. During this period, on the night of 14–15 November 1948, Oregon broke free from her moorings during Typhoon Agnes and drifted away. After an extensive search, aircraft located the vessel adrift some 500 nmi (930 km; 580 mi) southeast of Guam. The ship was towed back to Guam, and she remained there until 1956, when on 15 March she was sold to Massey Supply Corporation, which in turn resold her to Iwai Sanggo Company of Kawasaki, Japan. She was then towed there and broken up.[5]
Several parts of the ship remain in Portland; her military foremast was erected in 1956 at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park and her wheel is held in the collection of the Oregon Historical Society. Both of her funnels also survive, but are not on public display.[15]
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CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – Lt. Col. Marcel Schneider, 15th Brigade Sustainment Transition Team, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, presents a plaque to Staff Brig. Gen. Abdulla Amir, 15th Brigade, 12th Iraqi Army Division, during a farewell ceremony at the 15th Bde. headquarters in Kirkuk province, Iraq, April 4, 2011. Schneider presented the plaque as a token of appreciation for the relationship Amir and his soldiers shared with Soldiers of 1st AATF recently.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)
Andrea Enria, Chairman, European Banking Authority, London is captured during the Forum Debate 'Global Financial Stability' at the congress centre during the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.
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Public Meeting on the EU Stablity Treaty in Scoil Áine Naofe, Lucan, Co. Dublin - © David Novak Photography
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A LEGO® model of the Roman Villa in Heitersheim
A cooperation between Public BRICKstory and the Museum “Villa urbana” in Heitersheim
April 2017 to October 2018
Model of the Villa
A model of the villa will be built using LEGO® with the intent of depicting the villa’s main building along with the pavilion and bath house. The interior of the villa shall also be decorated and visible. The model will be accessible to visitors and designed in a way as to be playable for children. The model will cover a total area of 1.60 by 1.60m.
Exhibition and workshops
The model will be exhibited in the preserved cellar of the Museum of the “Villa urbana” in Heitersheim, starting in April 2017. The model will be accompanied by an exhibition documenting our work process, explaining the individual parts of the model and presenting the functions of a Roman villa by means of a childfriendly text.
In addition, we shall offer workshops to various themes surrounding the Villa Heitersheim, the dates of which are yet to be determined.
Who are we?
We are Public BRICKstory.
We, Kevin Walter and Oliver Isensee, are Masters students of History at the University of Freiburg. We have dedicated ourselves to the question how history is conveyed to the public and why toys play such a minor role in this regard. With this in mind we founded the project Public BRICKstory.
What is the aim of Public BRICKstory?
To render history tangible – in both a literal as
well as metaphorical sense.
To most people, history is never more than a theoretical object learnt in school. By the use of LEGO® for the design of historic settings and environments we intend to make this object lifelike and tangible.
Why LEGO®?
Everybody knows LEGO®.
LEGO® connects generations. Children play with it, and parents and grandparents play with their children and grandchildren. LEGO®’s great variety of building blocks allows for a very flexible implementation and realisation of ideas. LEGO® also enhances as well as demands finesse and creativity amongst all who build with it.
What do we offer?
Interactive History.
We build models in historical settings. Furthermore, we offer an interpretation of the model in its historic representation by means of an accompanying exhibition as well as workshops for anyone between 5 and 99 years of age.
Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power, Multiculturalism, Interdependence, Mutual Understanding, Global Peace and Stability, Academic Exchange & Conflict Resolution
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) www.culturaldiplomacy.org
Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies (CCDS) www.ccds-berlin.de
Though the Wright Brothers had successfully flown the world's first heavier-than-air aircraft, both the initial Flyer and Flyer II suffered stability problems; in the case of the Flyer II, it led to a number of crashes. The Flyer III was to improve on the Flyer basic design by enlarging the size of the rudders and elevators, as well as add a larger fuel tank and radiators for longer endurance flights; finally, it was also designed to carry a single passenger. The Wrights successfully tested the Flyer III between 1905 and 1908, and found it to be a much better aircraft that the earlier Flyers.
Not long after completing their 1908 test flights, the Wrights wrote to then-Secretary of War William H. Taft, offering to not only sell the US government Flyer IIIs, but to place it in production. The US Army was indeed interested, and accepted the Military Flyer in 1908. A crash that severely injured Orville Wright and killed Thomas Selfridge led to changes in the second Military Flyer, accepted in 1909 and referred to by the US Army as the Model A. The Model A was a technology demonstrator and differed from the Flyer III in that the wings were shorter for better speed.
The Model A achieved a number of firsts: besides carrying the first passenger into the air in 1905, it was also the first aircraft to go into production and the first to be license-built: the Wrights only produced seven Model As, but other companies built as many as 60 more. Such was the quick progression of aviation that the Model A was obsolete by 1911.
The Model B used the same wing design as the Model A, but was more of a conventional aircraft in that the elevator was moved to the rear rather than carried in front of the pilot. Unlike the Model A, which was modified ad hoc to carry passengers, the B was meant from the beginning to carry two people. This made the Model B the first truly purpose built training aircraft, and six were purchased by the US military for service--three by the Army and three by the Navy. The Model B would also have the distinction of being the first aircraft to be turned into a warplane, when a machine gun was fired from a Model B in June 1912.
By this time, demand for Wright aircraft was such that the brothers could not keep up with orders, so the Wrights sold a license to Starling Burgess, a yacht builder who had also designed and built a few airplanes of his own. Burgess built the Model B as the Model F, and about 100 were produced--marking the first production run of an aircraft in the United States, and the first time an aircraft was license-produced.
Three original Model As and two Model Bs are known to exist, along with about a dozen replicas, flyable and display only. This replica is meant to represent a Burgess-built Model F, and is on display at the Hill Aerospace Museum in Utah.
A whole gamut of aerospace history can be seen in the background: the top of a B-17G Flying Fortress, a JN-4 Jenny, and a F-86.