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"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package.
I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances.
To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment."
—Joan Didion, UC Riverside commencement address, 1975
Happy birthday, La Pêche Fraîche!
This blog is five (count them, five) years old. I don't quite know how, but it has survived through my last years of high school and all the way through college.
I will take LPF with me out into the real world now, I suppose. Daunting, but comforting, in some ways, to always find a steady refuge in my own creative space.
Blogging has been occasionally sporadic, but always a constant presence in my mind and being.
I don't know what shape it will take in the future, but I hope it will retain its shape and I will retain my drive, inspiration, and desire.
The blogiversary run-down:
Four years.
Three years.
Two years.
One year (oof).
I didn't predict or envision my fifth blogiversary coming the day before my last final as a student of the University of Chicago; by tomorrow at 10:20am, I will be irreversibly set on the path of becoming an alumnae.
I have to spend all day today studying—but I also want to fit in the new Sherlock episode, because duh!
This quarter went by so quickly; it's strange to think that I've been taking this class for ten weeks. I already had my last class ever. Craziness.
The five years of writing this blog—half a decade!—have also gone by quickly. I started writing this blog when I was 16. I had recently gotten my driver's license. Now, I'm 21 and about to graduate university and move to NYC.
Lots of milestones have been celebrated on this blog.
I want to share some places, people, and things that help me retain my inspiration for baking/photographing/learning/creating.
Nicole Franzen is a photographer I follow on ig; she's in Míkonos right now and has been in Italy and every time she posts, I am filled with longing and wanderlust.
Courtney's cookie study. Because I deeply respect this is the kind of dedication to the improvement of the finest thing humanity has arguably ever produced (chocolate chip cookies, duh).
Siddhartha Mukherjee (author of Emperor of All Maladies), wrote a fascinating piece on epigenetics in the New Yorker last year that I only recently discovered. Worth the read if you're at all scientifically or medically inclined or interested.
"You are not the work you do; you are the person you are." Toni Morrison doles out wisdom from her father in her most recent piece for the New Yorker (if you're going to read the above piece, might as well give this one a peek too—it's short).
This vanilla rhubarb pound cake from the Herriott Grace blog (Nikole Herriott adapted a Tartine recipe) is the single most beautiful rhubarb cake I have ever seen. Seriously.
Deb's strawberry graham icebox cake has me dreaming of summery treats, and plotting what other types of thin, many layered cakes I can create, because they sound amazing.
This is a celebration cake, make no mistake, but it is very simple and not intimidating at all. It is 100% doable in an afternoon, or as a last-minute offering the night before a birthday.
The cake itself is my perfected chocolate cake recipe. It bakes up flat (no leveling needed), moist, and not-too-sweet. It's not overly fudgy—it has a relatively delicate crumb, and it saves like a dream.
It's covered in a classic American buttercream tinted the palest pink and given an extra dose of salt to balance the buttery sweetness.
A generous drizzle of white chocolate and a smattering of marshmallows and sprinkles gives it the happiest of vibes.
I topped it off with candles, but a cake topper or some extra piping would also look great!
"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Fifth Blogiversary (Simple Chocolate Cake)
for the cake:
330 grams (1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons) sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons cornstarch
180 grams (1 1/2 cups) AP flour
65 grams (1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon) extra dark cocoa powder
2 tablespoons instant coffee or espresso
120 grams (1/2 cup) boiling water
85 grams (1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons) vegetable/canola oil
2 eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
160 grams (2/3 cup) buttermilk OR 145 grams (2/3 cup less 1 tablespoon) milk plus 15 grams (1 tablespoon) apple cider vinegar
for the frosting:
225 grams (1 cup, 2 sticks) butter
3/4 teaspoon salt
460 grams (4 cups) powdered sugar
45-90 grams (3-6 tablespoons) cream, as needed
1 drop pink food coloring
to assemble:
lucky charms, if desired
60 grams (2 ounces) white chocolate, chopped
60 grams (1/4 cup) heavy cream
white food coloring, if desired
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour 3 6×2 inch pans.
Place sugar in a large bowl, followed by salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cornstarch; whisk together briefly.
Add the flour on top of the mixture, then the cocoa powder, then the instant espresso on top of that.
Slowly stream the boiling water over the cocoa powder; once it's all added, whisk vigorously while you add in the oil.
Add in both of the eggs and the vanilla extract, then stream in the buttermilk while whisking.
Scrape the bowl to ensure homogeneity, then portion evenly into the three pans.
Bake for 18-22 minutes, until a tester comes out with a few crumbs and the tops are springy.
Allow to cool completely before frosting.
To make the frosting, beat the softened butter for 3 minutes, until light, fluffy, and doubled in volume.
Add in the salt and sugar and mix on low speed until combined; add cream slowly (spoonful by spoonful, mixing after each one) if the frosting is too thick.
Tint to your desired color; here, I used only the tiniest drop to create an extremely pale pink frosting.
To decorate the cake, place one layer on a cake stand and top with 1/2 cup frosting.
Repeat until all 3 layers are stacked.
Crumb coat the cake and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Top with the remaining frosting and smooth with a large, warmed spatula.
Once smooth, place in the fridge to chill.
Melt the white chocolate and cream very gently in the microwave (about 45 seconds to 1 minute on medium power); pour or pipe over the edges of the chilled cake.
Finish the cake with lucky charms marshmallows (crush a few for powder), sprinkles, and candles, if desired.


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At Long Last: Vindication
Rights Watch
Jeff Leardini's tortuous journey to regain his good name.
In some ways, this is yet another episode of a great teacher brought down by baseless allegations of physical contact with students. But this one has an unusually happy ending.
In an interview with NEA Today, Leardini described his ordeal. It began on April 27, 2006, when, as a sixth-grade language arts teacher employed by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), Leardini was called into his principal's office. He was met there by Kay Cunningham, a CMS employment relations specialist.
Without disclosing the names of his accusers or the details of their allegations, Cunningham told Leardini that several students claimed he had "touched" them—not in a sexual way—just "touched" them. And, according to Cunningham, CMS had a "no- touch" policy.
She then used various misleading statements to manipulate him to resign. "I was completely naïve," recalled Leardini, a member of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) and NEA. "I thought she was on my side, there to help me. She said that, if I resigned, 'the matter would be closed,' and I'd be able to apply for other teaching jobs. The school district would help. If not, I would be terminated, and my name would be 'Mudd.' " Little did he know.
So he signed the resignation letter. Ten minutes later, he ran into his NCAE building representative, who told him to rescind the letter. He returned immediately to Cunningham but was rebuffed. CMS also rejected subsequent efforts to rescind the letter.
The local district attorney charged him with misdemeanor assault. A judge acquitted him of two charges in August 2006, and a jury acquitted him of the other two charges in July 2007.
Despite the not guilty verdicts, Leardini's teaching career was over. In the next few years, he sent out more than 100 applications but was never hired. Even though as a fourth-grade teacher his students had led the state in writing scores four years in a row, no one would hire him to teach.
So Leardini filed a federal lawsuit against CMS for violation of his due process rights: Cunningham's false statements coerced him into "resigning" under duress and without a hearing. He also sued Cunningham.
Last February, the case went to trial. Leardini testified about what it was like to be homebound for six years for fear of running into students or their parents, and what it was like to be recognized by a UPS driver as "that teacher." After a four-day trial, an eight-person jury ruled in Leardini's favor and ordered CMS to pay him $1,121,560 for the loss of his career. Cunningham was ordered to pay an additional $52,156. In May, a federal judge denied the school district's motion to have the verdict thrown out. Leardini's lawyers recently filed a petition seeking more than $200,000 in attorneys' fees from CMS.
The case is now on appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, so settlement discussions are likely.
Leardini and his wife moved to San Diego, where he works in the headquarters of a major corporation. "I'm really happy with my job," Leardini said. "I'm treated with value now, not the way I was treated by CMS."
—Michael D. Simpson, NEA Office of General Counsel
It's been a great ride, and I have a few final thoughts.
I'm a very lucky dog. Confucius once said: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." That perfectly describes my tenure at NEA. I've always loved learning, and I learned something new every day I came to work.
But there's another reason why my work here has been so fulfilling: I come from a family of teachers. My mother was a teacher, as were both my aunts. My grandmother was a teacher and so was her sister. And if you ever find yourself in Statesboro, Georgia, stop by the Sallie Zetterower Elementary School. It's named for my great aunt Sallie. My mother was always so proud that I worked for NEA, a pride I share.
And when you feel discouraged or stressed about your job, try to remember these wonderful words penned by educator Forest E. Witcraft: "A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the type of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

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Good progression of profitability and returns in 2010, and recovery of organic growth confirmed quarter after quarter:
- Consolidated revenue: 2.5% growth to €34,787M (+1.3% at constant scope and exchange rates) with an improvement in organic growth all throughout the year: -3.3% in Q1, +0.9% in Q2, +2.7% in Q3, +4.7% in Q4.
- Adjusted operating cash flow improvement: +4.0% growth to €3,654M (+0.9% at constant exchange rates) and adjusted operating cash flow margin improvement from 10.3% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2010.
- Adjusted operating income growth of 8.5% to €2,056M (+5.3% at constant exchange rates) and adjusted operating income margin improvement from 5.6% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2010.
€265M in cost reductions.
- Increase in adjusted net income of 11.6% to €579M. Net income was €581M, stable versus 2009.
- ROCE after tax(*) increased from 7.6% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2010.
Positive free cash flow after payment of dividend of €409M
- Net financial debt(*) of €15,218M versus €15,127M including a negative impact of €465M related to unfavorable exchange rate effects.
- Divestments completed in 2010: €1,241M, more than €2.5 billion in two years.
- Improvement in credit ratios
Finalization of the combination of Veolia Transport and Transdev on March 3, 2011: Transportation activities will be consolidated by proportional integration
Proposal to the Annual General Shareholders Meeting on May 17, 2011 to pay a dividend of €1.21 per share in cash or in shares
2011 Objectives: growing results
- Improvement in adjusted operating income in the range of 4% to 8% (2)
- Net income improvement
- Minimum cost savings of €250M
- Increased divestment program to at least €1.3 billion
- Positive free cash flow(*) after payment of dividend(1)


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Product Description
Halloween by Jack C. Gregory. Poster measures 24x18 and is a giclee print. These are being printed by Static Medium. The plan is for Jack to visit Static Medium to sign and number all prints before they ship.
This is a run of 75 pieces. Printed on Moab Entrada 290gsm Cotton Rag.
Shipping for multiple pieces will likely be overcharged so I'll refund overages as I print labels. International shipping is almost guaranteed to be messed up so I'll refund overage on that as well or invoice if it's short. If you get more than one, I'll refund the overage in shipping if the price is off.
Please note that I'll print labels in advance of having these in hand to make the shipping process go faster so this won't ship the same day as the printing. I'll notify the group when these are actually shipping. I hope to get these out the door the first week of October.


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Banknote Security | New Development Features Film-Based Currency
- Published: October 04, 2016, By International Hologram Mfrs. Assn.
New £5 banknote is made from durable flexible polymer.
The advent of the new plastic £5 banknote is as an "exciting opportunity" that showcases leading edge development in security devices for currency applications, says the trade body for the global hologram industry. The International Hologram Manufacturers Assn. (IHMA) was welcoming the new £5 note, which will be made from a hardwearing and durable polymer and enters circulation this September after a period of public consultation.
The IHMA is also looking forward to the new £10 and £20 notes that will follow as the old cotton fibre and linen rag banknotes are removed from circulation and destroyed.
The polymer editions are made from a thin, transparent, and flexible film made of polypropylene that's coated with a lacquer layer to enable them to carry the printed design features of the banknote. This will allow the inclusion of windows or clear portions in the design, used to provide enhanced protection and featuring holograms for verification and anti-counterfeiting purposes.
The IHMA says that other countries, including Canada, New Zealand, Romania, and Vietnam, have been using polymer banknotes featuring holograms for years. So, as the UK adopts banknotes featuring the same technology, then the move has to be seen as another example of how holography continues to evolve as the leading security feature for notes.
Holograms have featured successfully on banknotes since 1987 and have progressed since from simple patches to complex stripes as integral design and print features on notes. Today, the annual global volume of banknotes produced is in excess of 125 billion*, so the reward for hologram producers capable of providing the technology to overcome the technical challenges is potentially highly lucrative.
Dr. Mark Deakes, general secretary of the IHMA, says the new £5 opens an exciting new chapter for security holograms. He said, "Holography is an effective weapon in the battle to thwart banknote counterfeiters, continually evolving as an effective first line of defense feature for modern banknotes.
"The new £5 note is a great example of this evolution and illustrates some of the best and most technically innovative holograms on banknotes, which combine with other features to deliver value added solutions.
"Polymer substrates, like their paper counterparts, are now benefitting from this type of technology. The Bank of England is now among those leading the way with banknotes that combine improved durability and the best in modern hologram technology."
The success of holograms for both polymer and paper banknotes has been down to their role as a level one security feature that's instantly recognizable — the technology remains to the fore as part of an array of overt features. These make it easy for not only the general public but also cashiers and those operating cash tills in stores, to recognize whether or not a banknote is bonafide.
Increasing adoption of holography on banknotes reinforces the hologram's position as a pre-eminent security feature in the global anti-counterfeiting fight.
The use of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features means that the banknotes are more secure because they include a larger area for holograms to be featured – New Zealand was among the countries that reported a fall in counterfeiting after it introduced new hologram banknotes.
The IHMA is made up of 100 of the world's leading hologram companies. IHMA members are the leading producers and converters of holograms for banknote security, anti-counterfeiting, brand protection, packaging, graphics, and other commercial applications around the world. IHMA member companies actively cooperate to maintain the highest professional, security and quality standards.
* The Holo-pack·Holo-print Industry Study


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The next post will be on or before Wednesday 7th November
Anyone who has watched enough TV documentaries or sultry atmospheric movies set in the US Deep South will be aware of the kind of intense devotional fervour witnessed in Black American Pentecostal churches, the kind of place where the (usually male) preacher is right there with the congregation in the thick of it, not at a polite rhetorical distance as witnessed in White Anglican C of E where the dog collar alone is enough to mark our the long established demarcations. Because the gospel singing in these places is regularly of a high artistic order, normally cynical secular liberals will often give these devotees the benefit of the doubt, and generously refrain from autopilot derision. What characterises those black churches is that the worship is one of often feverish adoration, involving staccato and sustained repetition of key phrases like Praise The Lord, Say No To The Devil, I Full of Holy Ghost Power and so on. To put things in a comprehensive spiritual context, a similar tradition of intoxicating repetitive chant in Classical Hinduism is called Bhakti or Devotion and has an honourable history going back to the great Bengali Vaishnavite prophet Chaitanya (1486-1534). The same thing was observable more entertainingly (for some) at its peak in the 1970s, in the joyous dancing and mantra repetition of the Hare Krishna devotees (white British as a rule and originally called perhaps Derek or Deirdre) outside of sundry Central London Tube stations.
At the start of the 1997 The Apostle, directed by and starring celebrity actor Robert Duvall (born 1931) as charismatic preacher Sonny, there is a flashback to 1939 when as a little white boy of about 4, he is brought into a Black Pentecostal church somewhere in rural Texas, his hand clutched by his stout old family servant. The sumptuously dressed black preacher has a gorgeous (and rather unlikely in 1939) perfectly tailored white suit. He is in the thick of his congregation and is dancing on the spot in his spiritual excitement as he roars out his devotion to the Lord in the form of saying the same brief imperative or assertion over and over again until he reaches a crescendo. Cue then many of the women worshippers falling into something close to a deep hypnotic trance as they repeat all he said, ever louder and ever more exultant. Convincingly then, by the age of 12, the boy Sonny (full name, and this is important, Euliss F Dewey) has already felt himself to be saved for Jesus and he becomes a roaring boy preacher whose very youth and innocence make him all the more charismatic and adorable to the surrounding congregation, most of them black, even in segregated 1940s Texas…
We now switch to the present day, the mid 90s, where Sonny aged about 60 is in something of a crisis. His wife Jessie, also a deeply religious woman is played by the late great Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) a gifted actress who here has an unconvincing and disappointing part for she patently is obliged to underact and has no significant speeches nor offers any focused dramatic power of note. What makes this film a flawed masterpiece is that essentially it is a one-man film, for it is the director Duvall who we are watching from start to finish, and it is almost as if he has forgotten to ensure the rest of the cast give all they have got. Meanwhile Jessie has successfully agitated within their church to have her husband removed from the governing committee on account of his bullying if genial tyranny and volatile character. For the same reason she has started an adulterous affair with a younger and very religious man called Horace (played by Todd Allen) though she assures angry Sonny there will be no problem with access to their young children. At one point, Sonny tries to intimidate her into reconciliation with an ugly feigned violence which he then disowns with his always charming chuckles. Very obviously this devout Pentecostal is capable of being a very unpleasant man. One minute he is tenderly hugging his children and jovially testing them with the sequence of the books in the Old Testament (1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job!) the next minute he turns up in his car at the Little League baseball game where they are playing, having taken a sly slug from a bottle of bourbon. He is in an evil mood and grabs both Jessie and the kids and tries to drag them who knows where. The spectators try to stop it and Horace his rival comes and gently dissuades him, whereupon the man of God grabs a baseball bat and swipes him viciously across the skull. To everyone's horror Horace collapses into a coma from which he never surfaces. Seemingly unrepentant Sonny flees the scene to inform a buddy called Joe (country singer Billy Joe Shaver, born 1939) of what he has done and adds that he gave him what he was due. Joe who Sonny had converted and rescued from the gutter, vows to keep him informed of what happens with Horace and the police, whereupon Sonny drives off in the pouring rain as a resolute fugitive.
Soon he is inspired to ditch the car in a deep river and thereafter he stumbles into a nearby wood where like something out of the Southern gothic of Flannery O' Connor he bumps into an old one-legged black man who staggers about on crutches and is currently fishing for catfish using a hickory stick as a rod. The old man accepts Sonny's edited tale that he is obliged under the Lord's guidance to seek out a new life, and lets him stay in his grandkids' playtent outside his tumbling shack that is in the middle of the woods. Sonny then grills him as to whether he knows of a famous black preacher called Brother Blackwell, and sure enough the angler directs him to a small town in Louisiana. After rebaptising himself as a new man, EF, in the river where the old man fishes, Sonny eventually arrives at Blackwell's town by bus. There like the remarkably adaptable opportunist he is, he soon befriends a shy white mechanic called Sam (played by Walton Goggins, born 1971, best known for the TV series Justified) as he helps him to sort out a car engine that has Sam flummoxed. Part of Sonny's magnetic charisma is that he is one of those men who can never be defeated, for he can turn his hand to anything, and from a window above, the manager of a Gospel radio station who also owns the garage shouts down and offers him work as a mechanic. Sam likewise offers the impressive stranger free lodgings in a spacious homestead left him by rich relatives. It is then time to seek out Brother Blackwell, played very ably by John Beasley (born 1943) familiar from the CSI TV series. Blackwell has retired from preaching and when Sonny asks him can he therefore take over his spiritual role and his vacated church, though friendly, the older man challenges him sharply:
"And why should I trust you? Coming out of nowhere like you are? Tell me that? Now I am going to be watching you for a while… and God is going to be watching you too."
Sonny grins and fearlessly proves his mettle by taking on an extra job to fund the renovation of Blackwell's old shack of a church, stuck out in the remote countryside. He begins evening shifts in a burger bar as well as being a mechanic during the day, and in his spare time and boundlessly energetic, he has Sam, Blackwell and numerous small children helping with the refurbishment (the kids hilariously do all the inside repainting in a holy white). Soon the church is ready and tireless Sonny even acquires and mends an old red bus which he uses to pick up the worshippers from distant farms. All the small congregation bar Sam are black countryfolk and include an overweight lady in her Sunday best, and her 2 little boys in natty suits both carrying miniature guitars which they cannot play. Once ensconced in his new church Sonny stomps into frenetic preaching in the form of repeating ever louder:
Holy Ghost Power, Holy Ghost Power, WE GOT HOLY GHOST POWER!
After ten minutes of which he has the women at the front going into rapturous trances, and Brother Blackwell suddenly looking at him with a proprietorial admiration. All would seem to be going to plan but the trouble with being a charismatic Pentecostal preacher, is that you can also forfeit commonsense and believe yourself to be invulnerable. Sonny then makes a serious error by deciding to broadcast on the Gospel radio station above the garage where he works. The portly bespectacled station manager is infinitely sympathetic, but shrewdly asks for money up front as air time has to be paid for, is not free. That means Sonny has to work all the harder to afford both the church and the radio access, and as a third and you might say more intelligibly human factor, all of a sudden potential romance steps into his fugitive existence when the beautiful radio station secretary, Tootsie, played by UK actress Miranda Richardson (born 1958) enters his life. There is a problem though, which she is separated not divorced from her husband, so that when Sonny wines and dines her on a Louisiana riverboat and later attempts to get her into bed, she gently refuses him. As a man of God, he ought to accept this patient restraint of course, but Sonny is human all too human, and again oddly unrepentant about his flaws and failures whether they be that of would be fornicator or first-degree murderer. The real import of the radio broadcasts though, in terms of cinematic power, is Duvall's astonishing acting when he goes into full Pentecostal frenzy on air, so much so that the manager confides to him that all the listeners out there, unless they know otherwise, assume he must be black, he cannot possibly be a white preacher.
A strange and unsatisfactory set piece happens next, when a disgruntled young white man in a baseball cap enters one of Sonny's services and demands to know who EF is and what this service is all about. The stranger is played by the hugely talented Coen Bros regular Billy Bob Thornton (born 1955) who here like Farrah Fawcett is not being pushed to his considerable limits. This nuisance rudely interrupts the service and after his interrogation, then refusing to join in the worship, he adds as a calm aside:
"I ain't going to be in here among a load of niggers."
When this disturbing pest refuses to go away, ever versatile Sonny takes off his jacket, rolls up his sleeves, and beats him up very effectively outside the church. The troublemaker then slopes off threatening appropriate vengeance, and when Sonny next hosts a church tea party to raise necessary funds, Billy Bob Thornton turns up with a bulldozer and threatens to demolish the church. Sonny, who let us not forget is an unrepentant murderer, urges him to desist, and then is inspired to lay an open Bible across his path. This stops the crazy man in his tracks, and when he gets down to remove the Bible, he suddenly goes into spiritual crisis, and lo and behold is on the spot converted by the man he hates, and who will not explain himself, namely EF. The trouble with this set piece is that there is nil background explanation as to why Billy Bob is as he is, and indeed he is listed in the credits merely as Troublemaker. Once again and as with Farrah Fawcett and even Miranda Richardson, Duvall is underusing these considerable talents while making massive demands on himself as the central unarguably towering character.
Nemesis comes when Jessie at home with her children in Texas picks up on her radio a stray Gospel station and hears the startling initials EF (as in Euliss F Dewey) and an appalling and all too familiar voice preaching at full throttle the indestructible Word. She alerts the Texas police and they notify their Louisiana colleagues, and soon a lone sheriff walks into the chapel shack and patiently waits for it to end before arresting EF for first degree murder. Sonny takes a good half hour to complete unfinished business including movingly bringing timid, weeping, white mechanic bachelor Sam to the Lord. He then with a spring in his step goes out and accepts the handcuffs and true to form guys and jokes with the sheriffs who humbly address him as sir. The end of the film has him leading a Texas chain gang in devotional chants and there is Sonny still smiling, perennially victorious, and also of course still infantilised and arguably half mad.


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Spicy Shallot, Sesame, and Shiitake Soup
Jamie Miller, an insurance agent from Napa, Calif., came up with this hearty soup for an Asian-themed dinner party. She suggests adding a dollop of sour cream if you want to tone down the spiciness.
- 4Servings
- 3 oz. dried shiitake mushrooms
- 3 tsp. sesame oil, divided
- 4 large shallots, thinly sliced (11/4 cups)
- 2 Tbs. low-sodium soy sauce
- 2 Tbs. hoisin sauce
- 2 tsp. sriracha chile sauce
- 6 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
1. Pour 4 cups boiling water over mushrooms in large bowl. Soak 30 minutes, and drain. Discard liquid, or reserve for another use.
2. Heat 1 tsp. sesame oil in large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and shallots, and sauté 7 minutes, or until edges of mushrooms and shallots begin to brown.
3. Whisk together remaining 2 tsp. sesame oil with soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and sriracha in small bowl. Pour over mushrooms and shallots, mixing completely. Add broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, and simmer 15 minutes.
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 176
- Carbohydrate Content: 34 g
- Cholesterol Content: 0.5 mg
- Fat Content: 4 g
- Fiber Content: 4 g
- Protein Content: 4 g
- Saturated Fat Content: 0.5 g
- Sodium Content: 665 mg
- Sugar Content: 8 g


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"This small piece took me such a long time. I really enjoy carving ivory as it is great material to capture fine detail. I wanted to give this drummer a magical feeling as he danced with the Northern Lights. I decided to have him represented as a shaman in transformation. The hard part was to make the wing appear natural. I did not want it to appear stiff but to be more realistic with flexible flight wing feathers. The feathers all flair out and bend as he beats his drum. The only way that I could think of to create this affect was to carve each baleen feather individually and set them at different angles in the whalebone wing. This proved very difficult as I had to carve each baleen feather so thin and then I had to heat each feather carefully, without scorching it, to be able to bend it to the required position. I carved 17 feathers of different lengths and then each feather was inlaid to overlap the feather next to it.
"I carved all the other feathers on the arm whalebone wing with a human thumb to hold the beater where it fits in. The beater is made from the tip of a muskox horn and I carved the string around the top of the beater as if it was securing the leather covering the end of the stick. The drum has a Labradorite stone skin but I decided to string real caribou sinew around the edge like on a real drum.
"These Labradorite pieces are from Tabor Island. I selected them very carefully choosing pieces of rarer quality that reflect the full colour spectrum of blue, green and gold. The hard part is carving the stone so thin because the stone naturally has so many natural fractures that it has a tendency to break. The Labradorite has to be cut at the exact right angle so that it catches overhead lighting and can reflect the full colours within each piece. This is all time consuming and difficult to do, especially when inlaying into the drum and Northern Lights. I always enjoy carving antler so thin but the challenge is to make sure it does not break especially when inserting the inlays."
Happy Valley - Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Billy was born on July 7, 1978, in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. In his early years he travelled eastern Canada residing and schooling in Ottawa, Yarmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia, then at the age of thirteen returned to live in Goose Bay. He now lives in North West River in Labrador and enjoys fishing and hunting on the land with his family.
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Shampoo has a bad rep in the natural hair world. There's a huge no-poo / curly girl following, who skip this step of their routine. While I don't think shampoo is the essential ingredient for moisturized, healthy hair, I do think it's a necessary and beneficial product. I typically use rhassoul clay as a cleanser and conditioner. However, I have a full plate and often don't have time to mix up my batch of rhassoul clay every week. To make my life a little easier, I shampoo when I'm low on time. For my low-porosity hair, this is a less moisturizing, yet still nice alternative to my rhassoul treatment. It opens up my cuticles and helps my hair absorb the moisturizing conditioner that follows. It's taken me a lot of trial and error to figure out what works best when shampooing my hair, but I thought I'd share my Lo-Po Shampoo Dos:
- Shampoo your hair from root to tip. I used to always think I could just shampoo my scalp and then suds would trickle down and remove any grime. I used the scalp technique for years and never understood why I battled build-up. Low porosity hair is very susceptible to build-up and needs a good cleaning to remove product and grime. I've noticed by applying shampoo all over, my clean hair is ready to absorb moisture after. You don't have to apply a ton of shampoo a little goes a long way.
- Creamy, rich, moisturizing. When I use shampoo, I try to find one that is conditioning. I do try to avoid sulfates, when possible, but a cream based conditioner usually doesn't leave my hair feeling stripped and dry.
- Do not detangle your hair with shampoo in it and do not tangle it too much in the process of shampooing, be gentle.
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New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste… Source: Wikipedia
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Are you a fan of the opera? How long has it been since you last went to an opera production? If you are a fan and it has been a very long time since you last attended one then you will be ecstatic to hear about the upcoming Turandot opera production. Considering the fact that it is considered to be a tale which holds tremendous amounts of dramatic potential, the upcoming version of this historical production is expected to be one of its finest performances to date
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Opera is a particularly popular form of entertainment for people living around the United States as well as other parts of the world. It is a live performance which involves singers and musicians who, through the use of music and carefully designed lyrics, perform in front of thousands of people in a theatrical setting. It is indeed one of the most unique forms of live entertainment present throughout the world today but there is no denying of the fact that nothing can come close to its beauty and charm. Opera productions are most commonly held at opera houses and they are also accompanied with an orchestra which includes some of the finest musicians you will ever get a chance to listen to. If you have never had the chance to attend an opera production and that you are interested in going to one soon then look no further because you can now attend the upcoming Turandot production. The best bit about this upcoming production is that you will not need to attend it alone but you can also take your family or friends along with you as well to become a part of this wonderful experience. All you have to do to purchase Turandot tickets.
Turandot is an opera production which comprises of three acts. It was written by Giacomo Puccini but because of the fact that he died before he could finish his masterpiece in 1924, it was finished by Franco Alfano two years later. The story of the production takes place in China and revolves around a girl who is a cold-hearted princess and a prince who falls in love with her. The prince's love for the princess in so strong that when he approaches her in order to ask for her hand in marriage, she instead gives him three riddles to solve. In the case where he is successful in solving all three riddles, he would win her hand in marriage. However, if he fails to answer any of the riddles correctly then the wrong answer will result in his death. Despite of the fact that the prince answers all the riddles correctly, he still fails to win over the princess. Considering the tough spot that he finds himself in, he offers the princess a chance to guess his real name and if she does not answer correctly, she would have no choice but to marry him. However, in the case where she answers correctly, the prince will end up taking his own life.
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
With expected 83 Tejas MK1A orders, ARDC shapes India's upgraded fighter
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Sunday, August 2, 2020
Tarmak Talking with Air Marshal B Suresh who donned the military uniform at the age of 12
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Saturday, July 4, 2020
Tarmak Talking: Ex-MiG pilot Aditya needs your help to fly out of Covid clouds
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
Tarmak Talent Track: Listen to Aryan Joshi, a young 'gun-maker' from Kishangarh
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Saturday, June 27, 2020
Tarmak Talking | Gp Capt Ravi (Retd) on the challenges of operating on the Indo-China border
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Trailer: Young Aryan Joshi is ready to fire!
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Monday, June 22, 2020
Sky Story trailer: Tarmak Talking with Gp Capt T R Ravi (Retd)
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Saturday, June 20, 2020
Listen to the pilot who undertook IAF's first flight to North Pole on IL-76
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How an IAF aviator & his team did first flight to North Pole on IL-76
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Desi Delight | BrahMos becomes first Indian missile to receive fleet release clearance (FRC)
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Labels: BrahMos, BrahMos ALCM, CEMILAC, Fleet Release Clearance (FRC), IAF
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Tejas Titans: Tarmak Talking with superheroes of HAL's LCA Division
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Labels: HAL, IAF, LCA, LCA Division, SP21, Tarmak Talking, Tejas
Thursday, February 27, 2020
CAS INTERVIEW | We will expand operational utility of Tejas: Air Chief Marshal Bhadauria
By Anantha Krishnan M
These are interesting times for the IAF. The very nature of warfare is changing rapidly, and we now have to be simultaneously effective across multiple domains and levels of warfare extending from conventional to countering sub conventional threats. We have to not only embrace emerging fifth generation technologies/ capabilities but master the emergent technologies in cyber, networking and big data to be always ahead of our adversaries in capability and thought process. The Tejas has very good capabilities and as we gain experience we will continue to expand its operational utility in IAF plans. -- Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria in an interview to Onmanorama.
Full interview, here: https://bit.ly/2T1jBTa
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Monday, January 6, 2020
Thanjavur set to host South India's first Sukhoi Squadron
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Monday, December 30, 2019
Naval LCA at striking distance for deck operations from INS Vikramaditya
A combo of photos merged digitally show how it would look like when NLCA takes off from the deck of INS Vikramaditya.
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Bengaluru: The naval variant of home-grown Light Combat Aircraft (NLCA) is at a striking distance from undertaking the much-awaited, maiden carrier landing and taking off on board INS Vikramaditya. The Indian Navy is currently studying all the data before giving the go-ahead to the team to undertake deck landing on the mighty aircraft carrier.
Two pilots from the Test team have flown close to 30-plus approaches to INS Vikramaditya during the recent campaign. The pilots flew very close over the ship deck. The approaches were to understand the characteristics and controllability of the aircraft.
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Labels: ADA, Carrier Landing, HAL, INS Vikramaditya, Naval LCA, Naval Prototype-1 (NP-1), NFTC, NLCA, NP-2
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Tejas SP-21, first from FOC block taking shape at HAL
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Friday, September 13, 2019
First arrested-landing of Naval LCA successful
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
G Santha Teacher Memorial Journalism Award for Vijay Karnataka's Nanjundaswamy
Bengaluru, Sept 5: M Nanjundaswamy (27), a stringer with the Mysuru Bureau of popular Kannada daily Vijay Karnataka, has been selected for the 4th G Santha Teacher Memorial Journalism Award 2019. The award is instituted by Inspired Indian Foundation (IIF), a band of unassuming go-getters who find still greater fulfilment in celebrating the unsung heroes in our midst.
The award will be presented on October 19, 2019 in Bengaluru, during the 4th Guru Kalam Memorial Lecture being organised by IIF in association with Abdul Kalam International Foundation (AKIF), Rameswaram.
The award carries a hand-crafted memento, a certificate of appreciation and a Rs 21,000 cash component. This year onwards, IIF will support the awardee in undertaking special assignments that would further the cause of unsung heroes. The awardee will also be a special invitee to various initiatives of the Foundation for the next year.
Rekha Satheesh, a Senior Chief Sub-Editor with The New Indian Express, Kochi, was the first recipient of the award in 2016, while Rajeev Kumar Mishra, a Chief Sub-Editor with the Bengaluru edition of Rajasthan Patrika, won the honour in 2017. The award went to Jugal Purohit, a Senior Broadcast Journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) India, in 2018.
This year, the jury included top aerospace and defence scientists, besides writers and teachers, in addition to the trustees of IIF. Nanjundaswamy was chosen from a list of four shortlisted journalists from across India who have been writing on a whole host of issues.
The award has been instituted in the memory of G Shantha, an English teacher hailing from Thalavadi in Kerala's Alappuzha district. Born in 1942, she dedicated her career to instilling in her young wards an unshakeable belief to chase their dreams wherever she taught, including at Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, and Devasvom Board College, Thalayolaparambu, Kerala, and Mahatma High School for Girls, Chennithala, Kerala. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 65. In addition to her services as a teacher, she worked selflessly to promote the English language among rural kids. She also found time to write short stories and poetry, without ever craving for the limelight.
Humble beginnings: Nanjundaswamy was left with a deformed left hand owing to the misfortune of delayed childbirth. However, this did not deter him from pursuing his dream to become a journalist. Born to farmer couple Madashetty and Bhagyamma in Belathur, a remote village in Chamarajanagar near the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, Nanjundaswamy has been working as a stringer with Vijay Karnataka for the last two and a half years.
Having completed his primary and pre-university education from the Mahadeshwara Math institutes in Male Mahadeshwara Hills in Chamarajanagar, Nanjundaswamy and his family shifted to Mysuru in order to ensure he had access to quality education. While his father took up masonry work in Mysuru, his mother used to work as a house help to make ends meet. His elder brother Umesh works as a crop surveyor.
After the family moved lock, stock and barrel to Mysuru, Nanjundaswamy enrolled at Maharajas College to pursue his BA in Journalism. Stirred by the decisive role the media plays, Nanjundaswamy enrolled at the University of Mysore for his Masters in Communication and Journalism. After completing his masters, he joined Vijay Karnataka.
Nanjundaswamy has been reporting on civic issues, art and culture, science and technology, besides shining a light on the achievements of people with special needs.
A vigilant journalist: Editors at Vijay Karnataka laud Nanjundaswamy as a hardworking journalist with an unwavering focus on the larger interests of society and an unflinching commitment to the core journalistic values.
"We are aware of his humble background. Being a quick learner, he has filed many good stories in a short period since joining us. He is always around to pick up any assignments," says one of his Editors.
His series of reports on the crisis caused due to the dumping of garbage at Old Kesare area, on the outskirts of Mysuru, was well-received.
"The series made an impact, forcing the government officials to look at alternatives to address the issue. His enthusiasm to get new stories and learn new things makes him a different boy from others," says another Editor.
They say Nanjundaswamy never sought any concessions on account of his physical limitations and is always ready to pick up assignments in far-flung areas, often proceeding on foot to remote locations without a second thought.
Clear winner: Dr Kota Harinarayana, top aerospace scientist and Mentor of IIF, says Nanjundaswamy's grit and determination despite the many adversities in his life is worth emulating.
"I can relate to his struggle after studying his background and the career growth of this boy. This year, we wanted to look at promising, young journalists whose choice could inspire generations of budding writers. Glad we homed in on the right choice in Nanjundaswamy finally," says Dr Kota.
IIF began the process of shortlisting the nominees in November last year and, once the final list of candidates was drawn up, a confidential report from their respective Editors was sought, to rate them according to various performance parameters.
"Journalism is a very demanding profession and rarely do we find success stories of those with special needs from the news room. This recognition to Nanjundaswamy, a stringer with Vijay Karnataka, should encourage many others. We were keen that with every award we would want to open doors that were never looked at," says Sindhu A, Founder Trustee of IIF.
Rural pulse: Reacting to his selection for the award, Nanjundaswamy said that reporting about the success stories of people belonging to economically weaker sections and the differently-abled gave him immense satisfaction.
"I write about such individuals as I wish to encourage them to scale greater heights. This honour has come very early in my career and probably is a reminder to me about the responsibilities I have as a journalist," says Nanjundaswamy.
The young journalist has set out the goal of doing more stories from rural areas and villages. "They are neglected and mired in problems and I wish to write about their issues often. I know their pulse as I am one among them," he adds.
Nanjundaswamy's interests range from numismatics to philately and theatre and he has featured in stage performances with the Nirantara troupe. His musical inclinations have seen him join Carnatic classes as well.
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Thursday, August 15, 2019
Future technologies must be propelled by power of today's youth: DRDO
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Labels: AMCA, Dr G Satheesh Reddy, DRDO, Future warfare, Katre memorial Lecture
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Tejas fuel tank falls in a field near Coimbatore
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Labels: Flying Daggers, HAL, IAF, LCA, No 45 Squadron, Tejas
Monday, June 24, 2019
Kargil @20: Great sight watching LGB hitting enemy posts over Tiger Hill, says Air Marshal Nambiar
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
DRDO pins hopes on target drone Abhyas
Read: https://bit.ly/2Y11htE
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Labels: Abhyas target drone, ADE, DRDO, PTA
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Tarmak Talking: HEAT Abhyas
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M. (AK) at 9:24:00 PM Links to this post
Labels: Abhyas, Abhyas target drone, ADE, DRDO, HEAT, Tarmak Talking
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Homegrown BEL system to ring death knell for rogue drones
Rogue unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could find its nemesis in homegrown Drone Guard System (DGS) being developed by Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL). The DGS was first unveiled during the DefExpo held in Chennai in 2018 and later during Aero India held in Bengaluru 2019. Speaking to Onmanorama on Saturday, on the sidelines of the Annual BEL press conference here, Mahesh V, Director (Research and Development) said any intruding drones could be brought down with the help of DGS. ( Full report, here: https://bit.ly/311a0Oj )
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 9:58:00 AM Links to this post
Labels: Akash NG, BEL, Drone Guard System
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Successful BrahMos test gives IAF big strategic boost in Indian Ocean Region
By Anantha Krishnan M
Bengaluru: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday successfully test-fired the BrahMos air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) from its frontline striker Sukhoi (Su-30 MKI).
This was the second test-firing of the BrahMos ALCM from Sukhoi, the first being held on November 22, 2017 against a sea target. The AIF thereby became the first air force in the world to have successfully fired an air-launched 2.8 Mach surface attack missile of this category on a sea target.
Full report: bit.ly/2X06oK3
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Labels: BrahMos, BrahMos Air Version, BrahMos ALCM, IAF
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Boost to desi missions as Air Marshal Bhadauria takes charge as Vice Chief
By Anantha Krishnan M
India's new Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria took command at Air Headquarters on May 1.
Fondly known as 'Chottu Sir' among aviators and friends, Air Marshal Bhadauria is the man who played a significant role during the development and induction phases of Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas.
In fact, the No 45 Squadron Flying Daggers, operating the Tejas would not have found its permanent home at Air Force Station Sulur as per the script, but for the push given by the VCAS, while he was heading Southern Air Command at Thiruvananthapuram.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) top brass is said to have been convinced by the logic put forth by Air Marshal Bhadauria to push the Flying Daggers from Bengaluru to Sulur ahead of the schedule.
Full report here: https://bit.ly/2VFo0NI
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M. (AK) at 8:32:00 PM Links to this post
Monday, April 29, 2019
Tarmak Talking with Nirbhay Missile Team | Part-1
Dear Tarmak folks!
Greetings! Here's the 7th edition of #TarmakTalking and we bring to you Team Nirbhay in a 2-part series. In this first part, we have two top scientists part of India's subsonic cruise missile development programme taking our questions. For the first time, we have incorporated questions from Tarmak followers in the final script. #TarmakTalking is brought to you by Inspired Indian Foundation®. (www.inspiredindianfoudation.org) and it is produced with the help of a few well-wishers who support India's Aerospace and Defence programme. Please do leave your feedback after watching this high-quality production. You could also write to firstname.lastname@example.com or ak@billionbeats.
Greetings! Here's the 7th edition of #TarmakTalking and we bring to you Team Nirbhay in a 2-part series. In this first part, we have two top scientists part of India's subsonic cruise missile development programme taking our questions. For the first time, we have incorporated questions from Tarmak followers in the final script. #TarmakTalking is brought to you by Inspired Indian Foundation®. (www.inspiredindianfoudation.org) and it is produced with the help of a few well-wishers who support India's Aerospace and Defence programme. Please do leave your feedback after watching this high-quality production. You could also write to firstname.lastname@example.com or ak@billionbeats.
Sit back and enjoy #TarmakTalking! Thank You for being part of our inspiring missions. Part-2 will be released soon.
Jai Hind!
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The story, so far...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019
Teaser of Tarmak Talking with Team Nirbhay
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Nirbhay missile cruises at 5-m altitude for nearly 10 min
By Anantha Krishnan M
Bengaluru: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) continued with its successful run of missions this year, when it conducted a 'text-book precision' launch of home-grown subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, today. DRDO confirmed that the missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha at 11:39 am. This was the sixth launch of Nirbhay (NGL-06) and was aimed at testing the reliability of 'boost phase' and 'cruise phase' using way point navigation at very low altitudes.
The Bengaluru-bred missile took off vertically, then turned horizontally into the desired direction separating its booster, following which the wings were deployed enabling it an engine start and cruise towards its intended way points. "It was an excellent launch. This is the first time ever an indigenously-developed missile cruised at 5-metere altitude," an official confirmed to Onmanorama. During today's mission, the missile covered way points as low as 5 meter to maximum of 2.5 kilometres.
Full report, here: https://bit.ly/2KH38la
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 11:10:00 AM Links to this post
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Under wraps for 31 months, DRDO's top secret A-SAT mission codenamed 'Project XSV-1'
India's anti-satellite (A-SAT) mission was a top secret one, kept under wraps for nearly 31 months to be precise. Only a handful of scientists knew about it, which was codenamed 'Project XSV-1.' For the rest of team, it was another BMD (Ballistic Missile Defence) campaign, with some upgrades. None knew that a space strike or a 'kinetic kill' was in the offing! The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials were told to maintain 'top secrecy' about the project soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the go-ahead sometime in 2016. There were only six core members who knew what 'Project XSV-1' was all about. (The 'SV' apparently meant Shakti Vehicle and '1' stood for the first mission.)
Read the story, here: https://bit.ly/2U48Ph0
(Posted by Team Billion Beats)
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 12:40:00 PM Links to this post
Labels: ASAT, DRDO, ISRO, Project XSV-1, XSV-1
Mission Shakti: DRDO's A-SAT missile hit Microsat-R in 168 secs!
Read the story, here: https://bit.ly/2OtGAT6
(Posted by Team Billion Beats)
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 12:36:00 PM Links to this post
Labels: Anti-Satellite, ASAT, DRDO, ISRO, Mission Shakti
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Tejas flies on L&T wings as HAL completes production of last IOC fighter
By Anantha Krishnan M
The last Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Mk1 fighter from the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) block has flown out of the hangars of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
And most significantly, it (SP-16; SP stands for Series Production) flew on the wings made by Larson & Tourbo (L&T). This is a major step in HAL's efforts to outsource Tejas parts to the private industries, in line with the Make in India mandate.
The Flying Daggers are expected to have the full quota of 16 IOC Tejas Mk1 fighters within a month.
The front fuselage of SP-21 is in the advance stages with the mid-air refuelling probe requirement installed on it. The central fuselage too is in an advance stage and all the three fuselages are expected to be ready by end of April this year.
HAL now says SP-21 will roll out by the end of this year. The entire 16 FOC fighters will be delivered to IAF during 2019-2021 – which again accounts for eight aircraft per year.
Read full report, here: https://bit.ly/2Wn57vG
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Labels: avgeeks, Final Operational Clearance (FOC), Flying Daggers, HAL, IAF, IOC, LCA, LIMA, No 45 Squadron, Tejas
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Next-gen desi anti-radiation missile set for trials with passive seeker
By Anantha Krishnan M
Bengaluru: India's maiden attempt to develop a New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile (NGARM) has finally picked up momentum. The scientists with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are warming up to undertake the pending trials of this state-of-the-art missile without further delays. Its user -- the Indian Air Force (IAF) -- feels that the DRDO must fast-track the project.
The missile will now be heading for a series of carriage and release flight trials. The carriage flight trials will be conducted to evaluate the performance of seekers against a wide range of targets. Subsequently, release flight missions will be planned to demonstrate the mid-course guidance and terminal guidance using seekers.
Scientists tracking NGARM flightpath confirm that the next flight will be a 'seeker performance evaluation' one. A desi passive seeker will be onboard the missile during the next trial, while the test after that will have an active seeker as well.
Trials of NGARM with both seekers together should be in July or August this year.
Plans are also afoot to develop future variants of NGARM. It would mean upgrades with higher versions of software with the capability to handle larger variety of targets under various operational scenarios.
Full report, here: https://bit.ly/2Ok12ph
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 5:19:00 PM Links to this post
Labels: DRDO, IAF, Missiles, NGARM, Passive Seeker
Monday, March 18, 2019
Encounters with Manohar Parrikar who chose to remain as a human being
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Labels: Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Tarmak Talking with FDD Team of Aero India 2019
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Labels: Aero India 2019, Tarmak Talking, team FDD
Meet IAF top guns who choreographed aerial ballet
By Anantha Krishnan M
(Pix: Ishan Gore)
(Pix: Ishan Gore)
The American F-16 Fighting Falcons were the last planes to fly out of Air Force Station Yelahanka on February 28, exactly four days after the curtains were drawn on an unforgettable Plane Carnival in India's Aviation Capital, Bengaluru.
In fact, when the border skirmishes between India and Pakistan reached a crescendo with Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman downing an intruding Pakistani F-16, back at AFS Yelahanka the US fighters probably from a different block, were ready to bid goodbye to Indian soil, sans any attention. The Rafales, A400M and C-17 too were among the flying machines that had late check-outs from the base.
Onmanorma was cleared to interact with a bunch of highly-skilled pilots and Test Pilots of Indian Air Force (IAF), who were hand-picked to 'police the planes' during the sky ballet at the show. Far away from the media glare and any spotlight whatsoever, the Flight Display Director's (FDD) team, was among the many unsung teams which toiled hard behind the show.
Group Captain Badhrish N Athreya, nicknamed Bads, was the Flight Display Director for Aero India 2019. A Chief Test Pilot with Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE), this Bangalorean is a fighter pilot from the MiG-29 Fulcrums, a Pilot Attack Instructor (PAI), a Qualified Flying Instructor (QFI) and of course an Experimental Test Pilot (ETP). He has flown more than 3,200 hours on 25 different types of aircraft. His team members were:
* Wing Commander B S Reddy (Reddy Garu), a Sukhoi pilot, a Fighter Combat Leader (FCL) and a Test Pilot with more than 2,500 hours of flying on 20+ types of aircraft.
* Squadron Leader P K Thakur (PKT) a Himachali, and Sqn Ldr A Subramanian (Subbu) a Bangalorean — both Sukhoi pilots and QFIs — with 2,000+ hours of flying on 20+ types of aircraft, each.
* Wing Commander Tripathi (Trips), a Qualified Navigation Instructor from ASTE who has flown more than 5,000 hours was the administrative coordinator of the FDD.
* Group Captain Ramji Yadov (Ramjet), another Fulcrum pilot belonging to Chennai and an ex-Surya Kiran pilot himself, was the HQ Training Command representative.
Assisting the FDD team with enthralling commentary were Wg Cdr Paramjeet Singh (PJ), a navigator with 8,000+ hours of flying. He was assisted by Squadron Leaders Arpita Mukherjee, Sonia and Zuffila all women officers of the IAF, well experienced in doing commentary at various air shows of the IAF.
And, PJ could take off at very short notice, if you were on his strike zone, with a request to sing a Hindi song!
Read the full story, here: bit.ly/2Hgntv9
Watch #TarmakTalking, here: https://bit.ly/2HoagiY
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Finally, FOC for Tejas
Report here: https://bit.ly/2Vb8eq5
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M. (AK) at 12:53:00 AM Links to this post
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
AMCA, India's stealth fighter picks up momentum
By Anantha Krishnan M
Bengaluru: The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project of India has gone deep into the detail design phase now. Along with Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), hundreds of scientists spread across at least 20 Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) labs are now engrossed in critical work to find solutions to a number of gen-next technologies that need to be proven.
With the Project Definition Phase (PDP) getting over in 2017, Onmanorama can confirm that scientists have already walked some distance designing the AMCA, India's stealth fighter.
ADA, the designers of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), is spearheading the AMCA mission.
The AMCA will be propelled by a GE-414 engine with a thrust of 90 kN and this will be an interim step by the makers till a higher thrust engine of 110 kN is finalised. The GE-414, set to power Tejas Mk-II, will power AMCA as well, till India develops a 110 kN engine possibly in collaboration with a foreign partner.
The current plan is to fly AMCA with GE-414 engine for the first six-seven years, what the designers now term as an 'interim engine' for India's 5th generation stealth platform.
While the design phase has already been sanctioned to commence activities, the final approval for AMCA from the government (Cabinet Committee of Security) is in process.
The plan is to build four prototypes and fly the first one before 2025, which is seven years from now.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is said to be working out the exact numbers for this future fighter, while the AMCA Directorate at ADA is ensuring a robust foundation for this big ticket desi project.
Full report, here: https://bit.ly/2GR8Fly
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
LCH packs a punch with induction at striking distance
By Anantha Krishnan M
Bengaluru: The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) is at striking distance from being inducted into the Services. The designers and test crew at the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (LTD) vouch for the chopper's might with four prototypes having completed the pre-induction trials as mandated by the users – the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Army.
During a recent visit to the Rotary Wing Research and Design Centre (RWRDC) of HAL, Onmanorama was briefed by the officials about the future flightpath of the combat chopper programme.
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) had cleared the proposal to induct initial batch of 15 LCHs. Notwithstanding the final orders to formally come, HAL had gone ahead and began the process of manufacturing the limited series production (LSP) platforms.
Of the 15 LSPs, 10 are for the IAF and the remaining five for the Indian Army. There's an additional projection of 65 LCHs for the IAF and 97 for the Indian Army. The LSP of LCHs was launched in August 2017 by Arun Jaitley, when he was holding the additional portfolio of Defence.
Post completion of all trials, HAL officials now say that they are confident of LCH becoming one of the most resourceful and potent chopper for high-altitude missions. The programme has already got the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC).
The officials said that during firing trials, the chopper performed excellently meeting accuracy requirements.
"This is the first attack helicopter with us which has aerial combat capabilities. A moving UAV can be taken on easily with an air-to-air missile or with the front gun. This was a capability gap the Services had and LCH will fill it now," an official said.
Seven LSP platforms are at various stages of manufacturing at the assembly hangars of HAL now.
Full report, here: https://bit.ly/2SQqHL9
Posted by Anantha Krishnan M at 10:12:00 AM Links to this post
Labels: Aero India, HAL, IAF, LCH, RWRDC
Monday, February 11, 2019
Mirage 2000 crash | IAF misses josh box Abby & problem-solver Sidd
Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager, the legendary Experimental Test Pilot (ETP or TP) and the first man ever to break the sound barrier, once said about the risks and aftermath of military flying.
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done," he had said.
May be the two young TPs of Indian Air Force (IAF) -- Sqn Ldr Samir Abrol and Sqn Ldr Siddhartha Negi – martyred in the Feb 1 Mirage 200o I/TI crash in Bengaluru, too were hardcore devotees of Chuck Yeager, now 95.
And, they probably knew that they will have to risk their lives and may be hailed as martyrs, if they fell for their motherland during the call of duty.
Onmanorama dives into the lives of Sqn Ldr Abrol, fondly called as Abby and Sqn Ldr Negi, who is Sid to his friends, to find out more about them as investigators carefully stitch together the evidence to find out the reasons behind the crash.
Full report, here: https://bit.ly/2WUMzEk
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Labels: ASTE, HAL, IAF, Mirage 2000 crash, Sqn Ldr Samir Abrol, Sqn Ldr Siddhartha Negi, Test Pilots
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Plane Carnival promises to be bigger and better this time
By Anantha Krishnan M
It is that time of the year in the Garden City when the traffic over the skies normally beats the one beneath. That season when winter hands over the baton to its summer sibling. And, it's the time when the scent of ATF engulfs the city, reminding one of its deep history of 'things with wings.'
Preparations for Aero India 2019 have reached the last lap at Air Force Station Yelahanka, which is around 16 km from the heart of Bengaluru City.
The 12th edition of 'Plane Carnival' is set to take off on February 20, painting the skyline over Bengaluru with snazzy machines of different shapes, sizes and capabilities.
This year's show is key to the NDA government, for it will give it a platform to submit its report card on Make in India in Defence ahead of the 2019 elections.
For Indian Air Force (IAF), it is yet another opportunity to showcase its ability to host a show of such magnitude sans any skirmishes.
For Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), now caught up in financial instabilities, the show is a golden opportunity to remind the aviation fraternity that they cannot be written off any time in the near future. For the Karnataka government, the show will be a testimony to the fact that the city is tailor-made for Aero India, offering everything that such a massive event demands.
For AFS Yelahanka, yet again an occasion to showcase its might probably as the only plug-and-play base in India, with specific infrastructure in place, built exclusively for the air show over the years. And, for the plane devotees, it's carnival time once again, something they look forward to once every other February. Read full report, here: https://bit.ly/2Beezt8
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Labels: #AeroIndia, #AeroIndia2019, #AFSYelahanka, #PlaneCarnival
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
George Fernandes, the defence minister who knew the pulse of jawans
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John Robert Beardsley
Producer, Writer, Director, Actor, Fight Coordinator and Sword Master
These are multi-million dollar, non-stop action productions. The highly entertaining combination of danger and humor with historical reality saw the excited audiences constantly on their feet.
Final Mission (Japan)
Final Mission
J.R. Beardsley, Writer/Director/Stunt Coordinator
Produced by Rick Harbor of See Productions, Las Vegas, Tawaka Sawada, Channel 2 Tokyo. Produced at Space World Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
The Park averaged annual attendance in the 2.1 million range and officials said that, within days of opening, Final Mission was pushing the gate count. Surveys showed that 44% of the daily gate came to the show. Because of its large scope, the show received a great deal of national press in Japan. There were many broadcasts from the set (reporters and entertainers wanted to dress up and be part of the show). It received tremendous word-of-mouth promotion. The Final Mission story line centers around an Avenger-like male/female team of special agents assigned the task of recovering a Doomsday Weapon from a group of terrorists.
Universal Studios, Hollywood
The Adventures of Conan:
a Sword and Sorcery Spectacular
Adventures of Conan, behind the scenes
Direction, casting and fight direction/sword training
by J.R. Beardsley
Conan: The Sword and Sorcery Spectacular
was a popular Universal Studios/Hollywood state-of-the-art action show that ran for nine years, rating in top two shows during its entire existence. This production entertained over 5 million people annually with seven revolving casts performing up to seven shows daily. Behind the scenes, accidents were cut by 95% within the first month of Beardsley taking over the action.
MGM Grand, Las Vegas
The Dueling Pirates
Live Action Stunt Show
Direction, Fight Choreography and Sword Training
by J.R. Beardsley.
The Dueling Pirates was cartoon-style swashbuckler production, full of danger, romance and comedy. Dancing, high falls, sword fights and EFX made this a memorable entertainment event for the entire family. It was a successful crowd pleaser which played daily at MGM Grand for 6 years as well as in Australia. It offered twenty lively minutes of fast-moving, fun-loving, explosive entertainment.
Universal Studios, Florida
Introducing Universal Escape Theme Park
Directed by J.R. Beardsley.
Presented at the Target Center, Minneapolis, this was a star-studded, live extravaganza which introduced the new character, Spiderman and featured Bill Cosby, Cheyenne and Blues Brothers. It was the annual Target Convention and a promo for the Universal Escape opening. The production blended action, stunts, ice skating, music and famous cartoon characters.
Beardsley additionally consulted on Sinbad at Universal Escape.
Universal Studios, Hollywood
The Duelist
Direction, Sword Training and Choreography by J.R. Beardsley.
This was a live-action show based on a famous historical duel that occurred in France. It was staged in the French Quarter at Universal Studios, Hollywood, with period costumes and weapons.
Taos, New Mexico
Feature character Harlan, Killer Clown
Stunt Coordination
The Earthship trailer was filmed in the summer of 2009 outside Taos, New Mexico. The house, Phoenix House, is in a real location known as Earthship Biotecture, one of the largest sustainable earthships ever built.
Two bereft children are left by their just-widowed father, gone to borrow a wagon. His three hour trip extends into the night when a raging blizzard descends upon the homesteader's tiny shack, occupied by the now-thoroughly-frightened children. The blizzard prevents his return for 2 nights, leaving the children to face several difficult situations that call upon their personal resources and integrity to overcome: an injured cowboy, an enraged parent looking for the cowboy, dwindling food supplies and the loss of the fire in the stove combine to make this true story vividly unforgettable.
Fight Director
Fork in the Tale, an interactive video, features the voice of comedian Rob Schneider whose character finds himself in the land of Eseveron. The player must watch numerous video sequences and click on certain icons at specific times to proceed, all in an effort to figure out what is happening and how to escape. The game draws heavily from Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair games.
Director, Fight Choreography, Sword Training
Directed Action Design/Fight choreography JR Beardsley
A Channel 2, Oslo, TV action/comedy teaser about Vikings, shot on location at Viking Land in Oslo, Norway.
Indiegogo Fund Raising Campaign "Rain Shadow"
Touche' International Films Producer/ JR Beardsley pitch
Touché International Films LLC. New Mexico
Touche International Films LLC. New Mexico JR Beardsley spot for an Indiegogo campaign for a screenplay Rainshadow written by DJ Travis. We were to co-produce this with her but unfortunately the goal was not met…
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