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This started as an exercise for my Kim Klassen class. The subject was supposed to be "vintage".
So I dragged out the old family bible, and my Grandpa's rosary beads. . . and then, what can I say? It evolved . .
People often ask me (mainly my dad) why Muslims get so upset over a cartoon. My answer is, because we respect other religions (at least, the majority do-those that don't are idiots and murderers). We believe in Christianity, we believe in Judaism. It seems to many Muslims right now, that there are very few out there who even respect our beliefs enough to be informed about them.
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The East Side Gallery is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall and serves as a support for an exhibition of paintings. This is the longest section of the wall still standing.
Painting : Tolerance [Mary Mackey]
taken in the venezuelan andes 3200 mts about sea level you can heard the beautifull noise of the andes is like a wisper.
tomada en los andes venezolanos a unos 3200 mts de altura se puede oir el sonido de los andes parece un susurro
Our elementary school uses the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP). The IB program believes that it is important to foster in students positive attitudes towards people, the environment, and learning. IB calls this an "international attitude".
As you enter the school, mosaic benches display the 12 international attitudes. What a beautiful way to learn.
Tolerance - feeling sensitivity towards differences and diversity in the world and being responsive to the needs of others
"I practice TOLERANCE. I try really hard to understand others’ differences."
"tu eres agua
yo soy agua
nosotros somos todos agua en distintos recipientes
por eso no estan facil conocernos
algun dia nos evaporaremos juntos(..)"
adoro a mis chicas ♥
A small detail of the wall I painted in collaboration with Btoy for
Supas Festival.Supas Festival..
The girl is practising a sprititual practice wildly persecuted in China.
The written word means tolerance.
As my grandma use to say: Vive,y deja vivir.
Cats are independent but at the same time tolerant. They don't care if their human master looses his head sometimes :-)
Photo taken in fantastic Efesos, one of the places to go if you like to know about European - Asia Minor if you prefer - high culture. Europe is on decline today; time it seems for Asia to come back into the spotlight once again...
Me at the new Memory & Tolerance Museum at Mexico City. An amazing new cultural place downtown, wich may be named as Jewish Museum actually, because of its collections... But the place is gorgeous!
By the way, those little glass balls are suposed to be tears... or so I understood...
Para algumas pessoas, abrir os braços é muito difícil...
Todavia, acolher o que não é trivial pode nos fazer crescer...
Dê chances ao novo, ao desconhecido!!
For some people, open your arms is very difficult ...
However, the host is not trivial can make us grow ...
Give chance to the new, the unknown!
Arraial D'Ajuda - Bahia
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Origins of Easter traditions:
First, the holiday's name itself may have been derived from that of a Teutonic or Northern European goddess named "Eostre," a fertility goddess, who was often depicted as being accompanied by a rabbit.
Others believe the word Easter may have come from a German misinterpretation. According to the website Religious Tolerance (www.religioustolerance.org), the Latin name given to the Catholic Church's celebration of Jesus' resurrection included the word "alba" or "white." But "alba" has a second meaning, "sunrise," so that when the holiday's name was translated into German, the word sunrise, which is "ostern" in German, was used.
According to the website history.com, the exact origins of the Easter bunny are unknown, but some think that, because hares and rabbits are so prolific, they became symbols of fertility and new life, often celebrated during or around the Spring Equinox in some pre-Christian, pagan traditions.
The website holidays.net says that the first known association of the bunny with Easter occurred in Germany, where writings from the 1500s connect the two.
It was German settlers in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s who introduced the Easter bunny or "Oschter Haws" to America, and yes, this mythical German bunny did lay eggs — in "nests" fashioned from children's caps and bonnets, which eventually morphed into baskets filled not only with eggs but candy and other treats.
The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany in the early 1880s but were not made of chocolate; they were pastry confections.
The Easter egg itself, it seems, also has pre-Christian origins. Like the rabbit, the egg is an ancient symbol of new life and has long been associated with Spring, according to history.com. Ancient Greeks and Romans used eggs in festivals for resurrected gods and the egg is part the Jewish observance of Passover.
In Christianity, the Easter egg is said to represent Jesus' resurrection.
The painting or decorating of eggs for Easter dates back to the 1200s, according to history.com. One reason for this, some scholars suggest, is, since the egg was once a forbidden food during Lent, the 40-day period of fasting and penance leading up to the Christian celebration of the resurrection, people would decorate eggs as a sign that Lent was ending and then the eggs would be eaten on Easter Sunday.
The more recent and, as some might argue, the more frivolous Easter traditions are the Easter bonnet and Easter candy.
The Easter bonnet and Easter parade first occurred in New York City in the mid-1800s, when well-to-do ladies would attend church, then stroll along Fifth Avenue, showing off their new spring outfits and elaborately decorated hats, which were all the rage back then. It eventually turned into an Easter parade, which is still held in New York City today and in various other cities across America.
Finally, the Easter candy that fills most children's' Easter baskets has its origins in 19th Century Europe when chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies were made and were given to children as edible symbols of Easter (and for some, another delicious way to end Lent).
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The DAP “Bunyip” fighter was an indigenous development as a successor for the successful CA-12 “Boomerang” fighter, which had been designed in late 1941. The main challenge to this ambition was the fact that fighter aircraft had never been manufactured before in Australia, and that the country’s aircraft industry was relatively young and only had acquired experience through license production.
The CA-12 proved to be successful, even though it had several weak spots. While the CA-12 was lively at low level, its performance fell away rapidly above altitudes of 15,000 ft (4,600 m), and its maximum speed of 265 knots (490 km/h) was not sufficient to make it an effective counter to Japanese fighters like the Zero and the Japanese Army's Nakajima Ki 43 ("Oscar"). Similarly, the best European fighters were reaching almost 350 knots (650 km/h), and even relatively sluggish contemporary fighters – like the Grumman F4F Wildcat and the Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk I – were substantially faster than the Boomerang.
As a consequence, CAC already commenced work upon a new variant which featured performance improvements in terms of speed, climb and ceiling during the CA-12’s flight testing phase. Designated CA-14, this aircraft was designed around an order for 145 U.S.-built, 1,700 hp (1,268 kW) Wright Cyclone R-2600 engines or, alternatively, by the even more powerful 1,850 hp (1,380 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-2800. In parallel, a design team around the Australian Department of Aircraft Production (DAP)’s chief engineer Robert Harford at Melbourne was also ordered to produce an independent, competitive design for a potential CA-12 successor with better overall performance characteristics, but using a different engine.
This was an unusual move, since DAP was an Aircraft Construction Branch of the Department of Supply and Development, an entity that had so far been primarily tasked with the license production of the Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber, but it was per se not a design or engineering center.
However, the DAP team accepted the challenge and produced the DAP “Bunyip” in record time. This aircraft was a compact single seat fighter aircraft, powered by the British Hercules engine, which was already in RAAF use through the Bristol Beaufighter – a lucky move, since CAC’s proposal for their upgraded CA-12 turned out to be a dud: the intended R-2800 was not available for export from the USA when serial production would have started, since any R-2800 production was allocated to US companies. Even though the Australian government favored CAC’s proposal, the Bunyip was ushered into production after a mere year of development and testing.
The Bunyip was an all-metal construction with a low wing and a fully retractable landing gear. While it roughly shared the CA-12’s outline, it was a completely new construction and aerodynamically much more refined than the Boomerang. The widespread use of light metal alloys instead of wood resulted in a lighter and stiffer structure, and, together with a much higher surface quality and the more powerful engine, many small innovations resulted in a significant improvement in speed and climb. Standard armament consisted of six 0.5” machine guns in the outer wings, firing outside of the propeller arc, and two underwing hardpoints allowed bombs of up to 250 lb (113 kg) caliber to be carried.
The first production variant, the Bunyip Mk. I, was introduced into service in summer 1943. RAAF 79 squadron began combat trials of the new type in late 1943 in support of the unit’s first sweep over Japanese-held territory from Gasmata on New Britain, together with Spitfires and Boomerangs as benchmarks. During this time, the new fighters made 102 individual sorties and claimed 15 aerial victories while losing only four aircraft in combat – a very successful start, even though these initial hot operations revealed several flaws. Another problem was the type’s similarity to the Japanese Nakajima Ki-44 fighter – in order to distinguish the RAAF Bunyips, practically all machines soon received prominent, ID markings in the form of white wing leading edges and tails.
Four Bunyips of this initial batch were lost to non-combat causes, mostly related to engine problems: Initially, the Hercules had the tendency to overheat in the hot and humid climate, this problem was traced back to an undersized oil cooler. The carburetor intakes in the wing roots caused reliability problems, too, due to dust ingestion, and there were problems with the stabilizers that tended to flutter at high speed, too.
After only forty Mk. I aircraft, production quickly changed to the Bunyip Mk. II, which incorporated several detail improvements like an enlarged oil cooler (which had, due to its size, to be re-located under the cockpit), dust filters, a stiffened landing gear and a reinforced tail structure. This variant also introduced an alternative armament of four 20mm Hispano cannon in the outer wings (called Mk. IIB, while the IIA retained the original machine gun armament) as well as the option to carry up to four unguided 60 lb missiles under its wings instead of bombs, what made the Bunyip a formidable ground attack aircraft. This role eventually became the type’s primary role, since, by the time of the Bunyip Mk. II’s introduction, the Spitfire had successfully filled the interceptor role and CAC was on the verge of commencing the manufacture of Mustangs under license to meet the sought bomber escort and air superiority roles. There was also an order for 250 of the new P-51H fighters for the RAAF, which was soon changed into a license production agreement at CAC as the Commonwealth CA-21 Mustang Mk. 24.
The DAP Bunyip’s active career was short and intense, and the aircraft was exclusively operated by the RAAF. In service, the operating units worked closely together with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, undertaking reconnaissance, artillery observation, ground attack, and aerial resupply missions in support of Australian ground troops fighting against the Japanese on Bougainville, New Britain and New Guinea. Until August 1945 a total of 351 Bunyips were produced at DAP’s Melbourne factory. After the end of WWII, the type was quickly phased out, though. Only a handful remained in RAAF service as advanced trainers and as ground instruction airframes until 1949.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in)
Height: 2.54 m (8 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 17.59 m2 (189.3 sq ft)
Empty weight: 2,638 kg (5,816 lb)
Gross weight: 3,315 kg (7,308 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Hercules XVII 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled radial, delivering 1,735 hp (1,294 kW),
driving a 3-bladed Hamilton Standard, 11 ft 7 in (3.53 m) diameter constant-speed fully-feathering propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 632 km/h (392 mph)
Cruise speed: 400 km/h (249 mph; 216 kn) at 4,000 m (13,123 ft)
Stall speed: 150 km/h (93 mph; 81 kn)
Range: 765 km (475 miles)
Service ceiling: 11,000 m (36,089 ft)
Rate of climb: 16.7 m/s (3,280 ft/min)
Time to altitude: 5.3 minutes to 5,000 meters (16,404 ft)
Armament:
4× 20 mm (0.787 in) Hispano or CAC cannons with 200 RPG
Two underwing hardpoints for a total ordnance of 500 lb (227 kg),
or four launch rails for unguided 60 lb missiles
The kit and its assembly:
This is my submission to the 2019 “One Week Group Build” at whatifmodelers.com, and it’s actually a personal interpretation of a fantasy profile drawing created by fellow user PantherG who combined a La-5FN with an all-green RAAF livery. The result looked very convincing, and since the GB was coming up, I decided to turn the drawing into model hardware.
However, my build just stuck loosely to the drawing – the kit basis is an Eduard La-7, and I also wanted to get more away from the aircraft’s Soviet (and very characteristic) origins, primarily through a different, Western engine. A search in the spares box revealed the cowling from a Matchbox Bristol Beaufighter: an appropriate choice, since the engine was actually in RAAF use, and the cowling’s diameter fits well onto the La-7 fuselage. A suitable engine dummy had to be found, too, and I decided to add a spinner-less propeller for an even more different look. The latter was improvised from a B-24 propeller hub (Quickboost) and the La-7’s OOB propeller blades. It was mounted on a metal axis and a styrene tube was added behind the engine block as an adapter.
As a gimmick and a reminder of the CA-12’s characteristic “porcupine” exhaust, I added a similar installation to the engine, even though the flame damper had to be shortened considerably. IIRC, the exhaust stub also comes from a Matchbox Beaufighter.
Other changes concern the armament; all guns were moved into the outer wings, using a set of resin 20mm Hispano cannon (Pavla) for a Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC. Additionally, I mounted four 60 lb missiles and their respective launch rails under the outer wings – also resin aftermarket parts (Pavla again).
Painting and markings:
PantherG’s original profile drawing showed an all-green La-5FN with Australian markings and characteristic white quick ID markings. Since I already had an RAAF Hurricane in my collection with such a livery, I rather went for a different paint scheme and went for another RAAF “classic”: upper surfaces in foliage green and earth brown, paired with sky blue undersides – plus the white markings.
PantherG was so kind to draw up a matching profile, based on my plans, and I stuck to it as good as possible. The real challenge became the colors, though. RAAF tones, esp. foliage green, are under heavy debate among modelers, and it is hard to find good evidence. Moreover, the RAAF seems to have been very pragmatic when it came to (re-)painting the flying equipment, there must have been a lot of variance and tolerance concerning the paints’ tones.
The most frequent recommendation for foliage green is FS 34092, but while this bluish green tone goes into the right direction, I find it (after having seen trustworthy WWII pictures of RAAF aircraft) to be much too light, lacking chroma. Furthermore, the recommendation of simply using RAF Dark Earth for the RAAF’s Earth Brown appears fishy to me, too. Again, the RAAF tone appears to be much deeper and richer, and less reddish.
As a consequence I decided to mix my own colors and eventually settled on a 3:1 mix of IJN Green (Modelmaster 2116) plus Humbrol 30 (Dark Green) and a 3:1 mix of Humbrol 10 (Brown) with Modelmaster 2108 (French Earth Brown) – both became relatively dark tones, but this would only make the white ID markings and the grey tactical codes better stand out. The Sky Blue underneath was also a light but rich tone and I found in Modelmaster 2131 (Medium Su-27 Blue) a suitable approximation.
The white tail was painted with a mix of Humbrol 34 and some 147 (White and Light Grey FS 36495), while the wings’ white leading edges were created with white water slide decal sheet material (TL Modellbau) and some touch-ups with white enamel paint. A convenient but somewhat tricky solution that saved time and masking hazards – I guess that painting would have been the more hazardous alternative.
The kit received a standard black ink wash and panels were post-shaded with lightened basic tones, visually adding surface structures that are actually not there.
The interior of cockpit and landing gear were painted with RAF Interior Green (Humbrol 78) – I checked several sources and pictures of museum pics, and this seems to have been the typical tone for RAAF aircraft (or at least those that had been built in Australia).
The decals were puzzled together from various sources. The roundels belong to an RAAF Spitfire (from a Carpena sheet), and this aircraft’s serial number was cut into pieces and re-arranged for the Bunyip. The tactical codes were created with single RAF font letters in medium sea grey from Xtradecal.
Some soot stains around the exhaust and the cannon nozzles was added with grinded graphite, and some signs of wear added on the leading edges and around the cockpit as well as the engine with dry-brushed light grey and silver. Finally, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri), and some oils stains (Tamiya Smoke) as well as small details (wire antenna, position lights) were added. Voilà.
Not a complex build, but the time frame of just nine days made this one, also due to the engine surgery, a tough build. Nevertheless, I am quite happy with the result – the La-7/RAAF combo just looks right, like a natural successor to the stubby CAC Boomerang.
my poor sister ... she endured for a morning, but i need to test this lens ;)
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One of 5 figures collectively known as Tolerance - made up of letters form every alphabet. Speaking in tongues, maybe?....