#Douglas McKay

[politicaldilfs]

Oregon Governor DILFs

Victor Atiyeh, John Kitzhaber, Douglas McKay, Ted Kulongoski, Robert W. Straub, Paul L. Patterson, Earl Snell, Robert D. Holmes, Tom McCall, Mark Hatfield, Neil Goldschmidt

[agriedle]

Tom Mckay at the BAFTA Games Awards 2025 red carpet with Jane Douglas and Lucy James

Tom presenting the Beyond Entertainment Award

[marcovaleyeah]

18.07.24

#Mira-Marathon | MCU

Film Name: Ant-Man (2015); Production Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Gary Sanchez Productions; Director by: Peyton Reed; Screenwriter: Adam McKay, Paul Rudd, Joe Cornish, Edgar Wright; Starring: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Comedy; Running Time: 1 hour 57 minutes;

Ant-Man is a superhero action movie where Scott Lang, a thief with a unique suit that can shrink him to the size of an ant, teams up with Dr. Hank Pym to stop a criminal threat. Pros: Light and fun tone, Interesting and unpredictable plot, Inventive fight scenes, Impressive visual effects, Charismatic performance by Paul Rudd. Cons: Lack of significant impact on the MCU, Lack of development of some characters, Dragging ending. Overall, Ant-Man is an entertaining superhero movie with a light tone, interesting plot and impressive visuals, although it has its flaws in character development and overall impact MCU.

My rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

[hoursofreading]

The notion that students can master a range of literary competencies is further diluting the already deluded approach to English class. To put the National Council of Teachers of English guidelines in action, teachers are substituting intertextuality and experiential learning for engaging with the actual text. What might have been a full read of “The Great Gatsby” is replaced by students reading the first three chapters, then listening to a TED Talk on the American dream, reading a Claude McKay poem, dressing up like flappers and then writing and delivering a PowerPoint presentation on the Prohibition. They’ll experience Chapters 4 through 8 only through plot summaries and return to their texts for the final chapter. Going mostly by summary and assumption, students get thumbnail versions of things. They see the Cartesian grid, the lines on a map that chart the ocean, but they “don’t see the waves,” as the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff recently said about the reality in which many seem to be living in now. They see “the metrics that can be measured rather than the reality that those metrics are simply trying to approximate.” He is not an alarmist, but he is alarmed about losing the “in-between, this connective reality.” Of all the things I could do in this world, I’m fortunate to peddle stories from faraway lands to young minds and see whether I can rouse their synapses. Sometimes, I’ll admit, I’d rather be watching sports or “Saturday Night Live” clips or sleeping, even. And it’s not easy for students to crack open a book, to decipher language written in a way they don’t speak and to codify multisyllabic names. (It’s also not easy for them to wake up at 5:30 for hockey practice, but they’re really good at this.) The juniors and seniors I taught last fall had little knowledge of environmental activism or animal welfare when I handed them Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment,” about a precocious 9-year-old who is consumed with saving endangered species as his grieving father struggles to protect him. But the vicarious safety of fiction gave students an invitation to discuss planetary ethics and the power and limits of parental love. This pathos they raised will be a part of their forming identities. Had they merely read the summary, they would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part. When a semester begins, I often give my students a wicked little essay by Virginia Woolf, “How Should One Read a Book?” She advises, “Begin not by sitting on the bench among the judges, but by standing in the dock with the criminal. Be his fellow worker, become his accomplice.” Like this, a classroom allows students to travel along with dockworkers and tycoons, tyrants and liberators. And when they have turned the last page, Woolf invites the reader to “leave the dock and mount the bench. He must cease to be the friend; he must become the judge.”

Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. - The New York Times

[mariacallous]

A now-deleted list containing hundreds of US government properties that the General Services Administration (GSA) plans to sell includes most of a sprawling, highly sensitive federal complex in Springfield, Virginia, that also houses a secretive Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) facility, WIRED has learned.

The GSA’s effort to sell hundreds of US government properties is part of a blunt reshaping of the federal government and its workforce led by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Staffed in part by young engineers with no prior experience in government, DOGE’s efforts have resulted in mass reductions in force, the effective shuttering of entirely independent agencies, and a flurry of lawsuits that seek to mitigate DOGE’s razing of the government over the past six weeks.

The GSA published the list on Tuesday and pulled it down the next day. Before the full list of 443 properties was removed, more than 120 properties had already been quietly scrubbed, including 14 buildings that did not appear to be listed in the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties, a comprehensive public database of GSA holdings.

Most of these properties, aside from one identified only as “Building A, 6810,” were labeled as either “Butler” or “Franconia.” According to public records, all of them are part of a large federal facility known as the Parr-Franconia Warehouse Complex, or the GSA Warehouse, which sits, fenced in by chain-link topped with barbed wire, at 6810 Loisdale Road in Springfield.

Most of the buildings in the complex, which dates back to the early 1950s and is dominated by a 1,005,602-square-foot warehouse long used as a government supply depot, are believed to be used by various government agencies for mundane purposes. Right in the middle of the complex, though, next to the warehouse and catty-corner to what’s listed as Transportation Security Administration headquarters, is a U-shaped building long notorious for its alleged ties to the CIA.

“Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property,” says Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and a longtime advocate of redeveloping the complex, which is near a Metro station and sits in a prosperous area. “Normally a site like this wouldn’t be outed, so to speak, but everyone knows it’s here except, apparently, the people who put this list together.”

The CIA’s use of the building located at 6801 Springfield Center Drive, not all of which can necessarily be observed from street level, was first reported in 2012 by the Washington Business Journal, which in an article around the same time called the CIA’s presence in the area “perhaps the worst-kept secret in Springfield.” The most specific description of its purpose, as the publication noted, can be found in the 2011 spy-agency-focused nonfiction book Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking, by Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz, who write, while describing a clandestine operation: “There were two pick-and-lock specialists from the agency’s secret facility in Springfield, Virginia. In a warehouse-like building there, the CIA trains a cadre of technical officers to bug offices, break into houses, and penetrate computer systems.” (Whether it is currently used for these purposes is unknown.)

According to the Journal’s reporting, Fairfax County leaders like McKay were frustrated, because plans to redevelop the complex ran up against the existence of this facility.

“The entire challenge with redevelopment has been this entity,” McKay tells WIRED. “This idea that you can sell everything around it and it will be OK runs counter to all the intelligence information we’ve been given over the past couple of decades. Without divulging the specific details of the activities, the government has been very clear about the sensitivity of the property.”

Even a widely supported plan to relocate FBI headquarters to Springfield foundered due in part to the CIA presence. While the FBI would not have raised security concerns, its relocation to the site would have raised logistical ones. Some government agencies, says McKay, said redevelopment was impossible; others said the secret facility would have to be relocated at the expense of the incoming tenant, making it far more expensive than other potential sites.

Since Tuesday, GSA sources have been wondering about the possible inclusion of CIA buildings on the list that was posted and then deleted. One source with knowledge of CIA operations, when asked about concerns that the GSA may have listed at least one of the agency’s facilities as being for sale, immediately acknowledged “the Springfield building.” (The building itself, which in past reporting has been described as being held by a private owner, does not appear to have been listed for sale, but due to its sensitivity, selling the buildings around it would raise much the same concerns.)

“There have been rumors swirling that some of the buildings identified house classified CIA space,” says one source at GSA, adding, “the release of ‘non-core properties’ was especially surprising, as this nebulous language has not been historically used” at the GSA.

As the Washington Business Journal reported in 2012, a real estate appraisal in the late 1990s listed the CIA as one of the complex’s tenants, indicating its presence there extends back at least three decades. It is nonetheless possible that the GSA does not know, at least officially, that the CIA has operated within the Springfield warehouse complex, a source at the GSA tells WIRED. “In general, we have agencies that perform many critical law enforcement and national security functions,” they say. “We are not always aware of what type of operations are being conducted within tenant spaces. We build out operations to their specs and ensure their spaces are up to code. In my own personal experience, there are spaces in our buildings that not everyone knows about. Not necessarily CIA specifically.”

“I think it just shows you how completely unorganized this bird-shot of a list is,” says McKay.

The CIA declined to comment. The GSA did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. On Wednesday, the GSA issued a statement acknowledging the feedback the agency had received and asserting that inclusion on the originally published list did not mean a building would be up for sale immediately. “We anticipate the list will be republished in the near future after we evaluate this initial input,” the statement read, “and determine how we can make it easier for stakeholders to understand the nuances of the assets listed.”

“I am not saying it’s CIA or not,” a former intelligence analyst who worked at Langley for more than a decade tells WIRED. “But it’s reckless that this information is out there at all. It speaks to the fact that these guys have no interest in even understanding government operations.”

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🎀 Holiday Books Released in 2024

❓ Are you reading any holiday/seasonal books this December?

🎁 A Corpse in Christmas Close - Michelle Salter 🎁 Christmas Sweater Weather - Jaqueline Snowe 🎁 A Very Irish Christmas - Debbie Johnson 🎁 Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop - Otto Penzler 🎁 Take Me Home for Christmas - Miranda Liasson 🎁 Tis the Season for Secrets - Kate Callaghan 🎁 Unromance - Erin Connor 🎁 A Jingle Bell Mingle - Julie Murphy 🎁 A Home for the Holidays - Taylor Hahn

❄ The Wood at Midwinter - Susanna Clarke ❄ Brightly Shining - Ingvild H. Rishøi ❄ A Winter Wish - Emily Stone ❄ Blue Christmas Bones - Carolyn Haines ❄ Love You a Latke - Amanda Elliot ❄ Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge - Kjersti Herland Johnsen ❄ The Most Wonderful Time - Jayne Allen ❄ All the Jingle Ladies - Beth Garrod ❄ Death at a Scottish Christmas - Lucy Connelly

🎄 Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 🎄 The Merriest Misters - Timothy Janovsky 🎄 The Merry Matchmaker - Sheila Roberts 🎄 The Wedding Witch - Erin Sterling 🎄 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark 🎄 Rockin' Around the Chickadee - Donna Andrews 🎄 The Mistletoe Mystery - Nita Prose 🎄 One Big Happy Family - Susan Mallery 🎄 The Christmas Catch - Toni Shiloh

💜 Eight Nights to Win Her Heart - Miri White 💜 Christmas in Aspen - Anita Hughes 💜 The Holiday Honeymoon Switch - Julia McKay 💜 Christmas Ever After - Jaimie Admans 💜 Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands - Bella Osborne 💜 Snow is Falling - Sarah Bennett 💜 I'll Be Gone for Christmas -Georgia K. Boone 💜 Make My Wish Come True - Rachael Lippincott 💜 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June

❄ Some Like It Cold - Elle McNicoll ❄ Snowed In - Catherine Walsh ❄ The Christmas Cookie Wars - Eliza Evans ❄ You Better Watch Out - James S. Murray ❄ Spectacular - Stephanie Garber ❄ A Merry Little Murder Plot - Jenn McKinlay ❄ Madrigals and Mayhem - Elizabeth Penney ❄ Holiday Wedding - Melissa Dymond ❄ Puppy Love at Mistletoe Junction - Shannon Richard

🎄 The Christmas Crush - Noelle Douglas 🎄 A Novel Christmas - Charity Shane 🎄 Christmas in Chestnut Ridge - Nancy Naigle 🎄 Kiss Me at Christmas - Jenny Bayliss 🎄 Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - Benjamin Stevenson 🎄 I'll Get Back to You - Becca Grischow 🎄 The Knife Before Christmas - Kate Carlisle 🎄 The Nightmare Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch 🎄 Christmas with the Queen - Hazel Gaynor

❄ The Christmas Countdown - Holly Cassidy ❄ Christmas in Spite of You - K.C. Mills ❄ Christmas at Spruce Hill Farm - Kathryn Springer ❄ Christmas Is All Around - Martha Waters ❄ The Christmas Inn - Pamela M. Kelley ❄ All I Want Is You - Falon Ballard ❄ The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year - Ally Carter ❄ A Christmas Duet - Debbie Macomber ❄ The Christmas Tree Farm - Laurie Gilmore

[twunny20fission]

Books of 2024

Here are the books I read in 2024, with some thoughts on each

“The World We Make” by N.K. Jemison. A sequel to a book I was looking forward to, but found a bit disappointing. This one was fine. It really made the first book shine by comparison. The series was supposed to be a trilogy, but the author didn’t want to do it anymore. So this one felt rushed.

“Sweet Tooth, Book One” by Jeff Lemire. Visually great and well-written. Didn’t blow me away, but felt worthwhile. I’d like to read the next in the series, but it’s harder to find.

“Pageboy” by Elliot Page. This is one of those memoirs where you think, “well, they definitely didn’t hire a ghost writer.” Page is not a skilled writer. The stories he lived through were enough to be good nonetheless.

“Moon Knight, Vol. 1: The Midnight Mission” by Jed McKay, et al. Pretty tame for such an interesting character.

“Moon Knight, Vol. 2: Too Tough to Die” by Jed McKay, et al. Meandering, with a rushed ending. Meh.

“Safe & Sound” by Mercury Stardust. How to take care of a lot of stuff around your house. It was inspiring and affirming. Not a lot of it was necessarily useful to me presently. But it was still good.

“Usagi Yojimbo, Vol 6: Circles” by Stan Sakai. I love everything about Usagi. This is a strong volume.

“Evvie Drake Starts Over” by Linda Holmes. A great time. I took a swing on a type of book I don’t normally pick up, and I’m extremely happy I did. It’s a romance novel, but not AT ALL a bodice-ripper. A modern, thoughtful, realistic novel about an adult woman falling in love. Super good.

“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” by Mark Manson. Nowhere near as good as I wanted it to be. Very bro-ey, and not particularly resonant.

“Ms. Marvel Vol 5: Super Famous” by G. Willow Wilson, et al. A very middle-of-the-road entry in Wilson’s Marvel volumes.

“Making It So: A Memoir” by Patrick Stewart. Outstanding. Exceeded every expectation, and my expectations were high. Even the less-than-flattering elements of his life were handled well.

“Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant” by Iman Vellani, et al. This book really hung its hat on “Iman Vellani got to write this one.” Which is great, but it wasn’t a spectacular book.

“An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us” by Ed Yong. Very disappointing. It could have been very cool, but it was not.

“poyums” by Len Pennie. I dislike 95% of all poetry I've ever experienced. This book is in the other 5%. Even when I didn’t understand it (either because it was in Scots, because it was poetry, or both) it was great.

“Ms. Marvel Vol 6: Civil War II” by G. Willow Wilson, et al. Good art, mediocre plots, pretty decent dialogue.

“Camp Damascus” by Chuck Tingle. I listened to the audiobook, but I’m counting it. This was engaging start to finish. The creepy parts were good, and the sense of fun that the author brings to things was apparent throughout.

“Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett” by Mae Catt, et al. None of these Origins books were great standalone stories. This one was *pretty* good.

“Sourcery” by Terry Pratchett. Another great entry in what might at this point be my favorite book series. Like ever. After I reckoned with the fact that I’d never read another Douglas Adams book, I figured that part of my brain would go fallow. Thank goodness for Sir Terry, and thank goodness he was so prolific. This one was exciting and emotional.

“Three Novels,” by Samuel Beckett. I don’t get what he was trying to do here. Beckett’s plays work for me. Whatever this was did NOT. I tortured myself into finishing it, after a months-long break.

“Star Trek: Lower Decks #1” by Ryan North, et al. Really enjoyable. You have to come into the book with a knowledge of how Lower Decks works. Which I have, and it was great. Ryan North has never missed.

“Survival Street” by James Asmus, et al. As with any good satire, this was hard to “enjoy.” It was too sharp an implement, but it was very well-executed. The idea is that the S*same St*eet m*ppets are real, living, immigrant people. And when the tyrannical government takes over and de-funds PBS and basically all non-propaganda children’s TV, they go HAM.

“Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros. Very glad I picked this one up. I get caught in the “do I really have bandwidth for a long book, or to start another series right now” of it all. But this one was worth it. But I wish it had been a little less infatuation-obsessed. The romance makes sense, and is even relevant to the plot. But the “oh, how could I ever have denied myself the exquisite pleasure of having this person’s skin under my fingertips” is just…blegh.

“The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game” by the McElroys, et al. The comics are not as good as the podcast. Part of that opinion might be nostalgia for the golden age of “about 10 years ago.” But it’s how I feel. This one fits in nicely with the others, which is to say it’s competently written and arted. There are one or two great bits per book, but overall it’s fine.

“Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett. I look back on every Discworld novel with a sense of it being the best one and not as good as at least one other one. My favorite is constantly in flux. This one stands out for its treatment of the magic of theater (and greater magick of headology) and its deeper insights into the witches.

“A Wizard of Earthsea” by Ursula Le Guin. I should have read this sooner. It pretty much holds up, though the style is clearly of a type that no one really uses anymore.

“Priestdaddy” by Patricia Lockwood. Bit of a disappointment. It was like reading a clever blog of an autobiography. I didn’t really hold together well. A lot of it was entertaining, but it wasn’t Great.

“Legends and Lattes” by Travis Baldree. Right up my alley. A very cozy, thoughtful story in a kind of hand-wavy fantasy world. Really enjoyed it.

“The Theory of Everything Else” by Dan Schreiber. Wasn’t exactly a narrative, wasn’t exactly just a list of facts & curiosities. It was okay. I feel like Schreiber is at his best in the audio format, in the company of other weirdos.

“Pyramids” by Terry Pratchett. Very cool expansion of Discworld. I’m hoping it is a foundation to something ahead, as I liked the characters and the new elements of the plane.

"Iron Flame" by Rebecca Yarros. A stellar second entry in the series. It was infuriating how engrossed I was for the last 150 or so pages especially. The spicy scenes still seem to be...too much. They stick out as an insanely different experience than the rest of the narrative. Look, I liked the book a lot. I had a hard time telling certain characters apart sometimes, and some of the narrative bits were too confusing until they weren't. This series is A Lot.

Metrics!

Total books: 31 Total (non-graphic novels and other picture-heavy books) pages: 6450 Total pages: 8403 Highest-rated: Making It So Lowest-rated: Three Novels Very Glad I Read It Award: poyums Honorable Mention: Evvie Drake Starts Over Glad It's Over Award: The World We Make Most disappointing: Three Novels

[brian-in-finance]

Douglas Henshall as Taran MacQuarrie (Outlander/Starz) and Jimmy Perez (Shetland/BBC)

Bill Paterson as Ned Gowan (Outlander/Starz) and James Perez (Shetland/BBC)

Grant O’Rourke as Rupert MacKenzie (Outlander/Starz) and Jamie Narey (Shetland/BBC)

3 of 52 and counting…

Overheard (via text) in November:

Bill Paterson (Ned Gowan in Outlander) makes an appearance in Shetland. Sorry if this is old news. — GreyMatterMaelstrom

Love Shetland and was gutted when Douglas Henshall announced he was leaving. As far as actors go, the more episodes you watch, the more Outlanders you'll see. I used to keep a list, but stopped updating it for no good reason. — Brian-in-Finance

Decided to update the list. You might need a magnifying glass to read it. 🔍 Appreciate notification of errors and omissions.

Actors in both Outlander and Shetland

Remember when Brian Fraser married Flora MacDonald in Shetland Season 6? Remember when Anne Kidd played Grannie Wilson the purported corpse in Outlander and Dr Cora McLean the pathologist in Shetland? Remember when Torin the blacksmith’s “It’ll cost ye” sounded just like Connor McKay the Health and Safety inspector’s “But it might take some time?”

This one’s for you @greymattermaelstrom 😂

[rewritethisstxry]

Hello and welcome to my mixed mosh little corner of tumblr. Here I write for a variety of fandoms and characters. Primarily will be featuring drabbles with the occasional longer piece. Headcanons will feature from time to time.

At the time I do NOT consent for my work to be translated or posted anywhere else.

Below you will find some more information on who and what I write.

MINORS DNI. Due to the nature of potential content, only 18 and older are allowed.

Characters || Rules || Masterlist || Slasher/horror writing blog : @slxsherwriter

What I will write:

Angst

Fluff

Smut

Platonic relationships

Alpha/Omega dynamics

What I won’t write:

Snuff

Rape, rape play, non con

Underage

Inc*st

Real person fic

Marvel: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Alexei Shostakov, Peter Parker, Victor Creed, Deacon Frost, Peter Quinn, Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Bruce Banner, Brock Rumlow, Nathan Summers, Eddie Brock, Cletus Kasady, Otto Octavius

DC Universe: Bruce Wayne, Harvey Bullock, Jim Gordon, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Jonathan Crane, Clark Kent, Arthur Curry

Stranger Things: James Hopper, Steve Harrington, Jonathan Byers

Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronan Dex, Carson Beckett

Sons of Anarchy: Jackson “Jax” Teller, Harry “Opie” Winston, Filip “Chibs” Telford, Juan Carlos “Juice” Ortiz, Lincoln Potter, Galen O'Shay

The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes, Shane Walsh, Negan Smith

What We Do in the Shadows: Nandor the Relentless, Guillermo de la Cruz, Laszlo Cravensworth

Resident Evil: Karl Heisenberg, Albert Wesker, Chris Redfield

Ted Lasso: Ted Lasso, Coach Beard, Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent

Good Omens: Gabriel, Aziraphale, Crowley

Video Games: Connor RK800, CaptainJonathan Price, Simon Ghost Riley, Sniper

Movies: Finn Brody (Godzilla), Raleigh Becket (Pacific Rim), Terry Malone (Black and Blue), Abe Guevara (Point Blank), Bobby O’Neill (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard), Guy Clifton (The Crash), Roy Pulver (Boss Level), Sloan (Into the Ashes) Braxton Wolff (The Accountant), Ethan Sawyer (Those Who Wish Me Dead), Bradley James (Grudge Match), Sam Rossi (Sweet Virginia), Mr. McCarthy (Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl), Grady Travis (Fury), Griff (Baby Driver), Adam Frawley (The Town), Buddy (Baby Driver), Clyde Brenek (The Posession), Patrick Sullivan (The Accidental Husband), Harvey Russell (Rampage), Jude Fisher (Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding), Luke Vaughn (Heist), Franklin Clay (The Losers), Max (The Resident), Nicomund the Red/Santa Claus (Violent Night), Doug Dennison (Sleepless), Frank Masters (The Equalizer), Hellboy (2019), Alex Baldr (Max Payne), Matt Graver (Sicario), Douglas Hunsiker (The Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Steve Emmett (Boa vs Python), Joe Braven (Braven), Lee Christmas (The Expendables), Deckard Shaw (Fast & Furious)

Musicals: Jack Kelly (Newsies), Dewey Finn (School of Rock), Hades (Hadestown)

Tv shows: Ike Evans (Magic City), Jason Crouse (The Good Wife), John Winchester (Supernatural), Mason Baldwin (Elementary), Colton Fisk (The Equalizer), Kevin Tidwell (Life), Declan Murphy (Law & Order: SVU), Eugene McGillicutty (Royal Pains), Chuck Martin (ER), Dickie Flood (Th Practice), Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)

Tolkien: Boromir, Faramir, Eomer

[lonestarflight]

"In the center foreground of this 1953 hangar photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator research. It arrived on November 28, 1949, and departed on April 21, 1954. Beside it is the third D-558-1 aircraft (NACA 142/Navy 37972). This aircraft was used for a total of 78 transonic research flights from April 1949 to June 1954. It replaced the second D-558-1, lost in the crash which killed Howard Lilly. Just visible on the left edge is the nose of the first D-558-2 (NACA 143/Navy 37973). Douglas turned the aircraft over to NACA on August 31, 1951, after the contractor had completed its initial test flights. NACA only made a single flight with the aircraft, on September 17, 1956, before the program was cancelled. In the center of the photo is the B-47A (NACA 150/Air Force 49-1900). The B-47 jet bomber, with its thin, swept-back wings, and six podded engines, represented the state of the art in aircraft design in the early 1950s. The aircraft undertook a number of research activities between May 1953 and its 78th and final research flight on November 22, 1957. The tests showed that the aircraft had a buffeting problem at speeds above Mach 0.8. Among the pilots who flew the B-47 were later X-15 pilots Joe Walker, A. Scott Crossfield, John B. McKay, and Neil A. Armstrong.

On the right side of the B-47 is NACA's X-1 (Air Force 46-063). The second XS-1 aircraft built, it was fitted with a thicker wing than that on the first aircraft, which had exceeded Mach 1 on October 14, 1947. Flight research by NACA pilots indicated that this thicker wing produced 30 percent more drag at transonic speeds compared to the thinner wing on the first X-1. After a final flight on October 23, 1951, the aircraft was grounded due to the possibility of fatigue failure of the nitrogen spheres used to pressurize the fuel tanks. At the time of this photo, in 1953, the aircraft was in storage. In 1955, the aircraft was extensively modified, becoming the X-1E."

Date: April 27, 1953

NASA ID: E-960

[ljones41]

Top Favorite Car Racing Movies

Due to the upcoming release of "GRAN TURISMO", I had decided to list my current favorite movies about car racing:

TOP FAVORITE CAR RACING MOVIES

"Speed Racer" (2008) - The Wachowskis wrote and directed this exciting and very original adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida's late 1960s Manga animated series about a young American race car driver. Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox starred.

2. "The Love Bug" (1968) - Robert Stevenson directed this funny and first-rate adaptation of "Car, Boy, Girl", Gordon Buford's novel about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and his relationship with his driver, Jim Douglas. Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett and David Tomlinson starred.

3. "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies aka Monte Carlo or Bust" (1969) - Ken Annakin directed and co-wrote this all-star comedy about the European car rally , the Monte Carlo Rally. Tony Curtis, Susan Hampshire and Terry-Thomas starred.

4. "Rush" (2013) - Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl starred in this biopic about the rivalry between two drivers, the Briton James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda, during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season. Ron Howard directed.

5. "Ford v Ferrari" (2019) - James Mangold directed this biopic about automobile designer Carroll Shelby and racer Ken Miles, who were hired by the Ford Motor Company to lead a team to build a race car that would defeat the perennially dominant Italian racing team Scuderia Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. Matt Damon and Christian Bale.

6. "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (2006) - Adam McKay wrote and directed this sports comedy about an immature yet successful NASCAR driver. Will Farrell starred.

7. "The Great Race" (1965) - Blake Edwards directed and co-wrote this comedic and fictionalized account of the 1908 New York to Paris Race. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood starred.

8. "Grand Prix" (1966) - John Frankenheimer directed this story about the fate of four Formula One drivers through a fictionalized version of the 1966 Formula One season. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Yves Montand starred.

9. "Viva Las Vegas" (1964) - Elvis Presley and Ann-Margaret starred in this musical comedy about a romance between a race car driver competing in Las Vegas' first annual Grand Prix race and a hotel swimming instructor. George Sidney directed.

10. "Cars" (2006) - John Lasseter directed and co-wrote this Disney animated film about a hotshot rookie race car named Lightning McQueen who gets stranded in Radiator Springs, a rundown town that is past its glory days. Owen Wilson starred.

[unplace]

for the sake of my own categorization / keeping tags straight, a list:

# * gothic / eleanor lockwood / agnes bell / the house / * binary star / * siren song / mallaidh blair / monday delacroix

# * 🫀👻 / vivian / fel / lilah / cam

# * crossroads / harlow wray / jackie castillo / leo agosti / urban fantasy / judith hayashi / latitudeless place / nell shelley / # * astral / aspen douglas / tesla mendez

# * seance / penny absolutely / grace note / misc / tillie hill

d&d / alte crane / zohar delane [+ / zohar ii] / talya lee / magpie waltz / honey dunn / # * saint new / saint new / misc /marble / friday hawkins

blaseball / haunt wednesday / jaylen hidaka / finn james / fallen hero / antigone lovelace / helene mckay / joan beccera / hera vasilyeva / isobel morgan

# * hill house / nell / theo / archives / anais valentine / misc / vee / agnes

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James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He moved to NYC as a young man. One of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form called jazz poetry, he is known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”, which was paraphrased as “when Harlem was in vogue.”

He became a prolific writer at an early age. He graduated from high school in Cleveland and soon began his studies at Columbia University. He gained notice from New York publishers, first in The Crisis magazine, and book publishers, and became known in the creative community in Harlem. He graduated from Lincoln University. He wrote plays and short stories. He published several non-fiction works. As the civil rights movement was gaining traction, he wrote an in-depth weekly column (1942-62) in The Chicago Defender.

First published in The Crisis in 1921, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which became his signature poem, was collected in his first book of poetry The Weary Blues (1926). His first and last published poems appeared in The Crisis; more of his poems were published in The Crisis than in any other journal. His life and work were influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, alongside those of his contemporaries, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Aaron Douglas.

They criticized the men known as the midwives of the Harlem Renaissance: W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Alain LeRoy Locke, as being accommodating and assimilating Eurocentric values and culture to achieve social equality.

He and his fellows tried to depict the “low-life” in their art: that is, the real lives of African Americans in the lower socioeconomic strata. They criticized the divisions and prejudices based on skin color within the African American community. He wrote what would be considered their manifesto, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” published in The Nation in 1926: #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi

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Birthdays 9.26

Beer Birthdays

Johnny Appleseed (1774)

Phillip Best (1814)

John Bechtel (1815)

William Hamm (1857)

Jonathan Goldsmith (1938)

Glen Falconer (1961)

Michael Altman (1966)

Jay Goodwin (1986)

Five Favorite Birthdays

T.S. Eliot; poet, writer (1888)

George Gershwin; composer (1898)

Edmund Gwen; actor (1877)

Martin Heidegger; German philosopher (1889)

Julie London; jazz singer (1926)

Famous Birthdays

Lynn Anderson; country singer (1947)

Melissa Sue Anderson; actor (1962)

Carlene Carter; singer (1955)

James Caviezel; actor (1968)

John Chapman; "Johnny Appleseed" (1774)

Jane Darling; adult actress (1980)

J. Frank Dobie; folklorist, writer (1888)

Donna Douglas; actor (1933)

Andrea Dworkin; feminist (1946)

Bryan Ferry; singer (1945)

Francis of Assisi; Umbrian saint (1181)

Linda Hamilton; actor (1956)

Mary Beth Hurt; actor (1948)

Jack LaLanne; exercise guru (1914)

Winnie Mandela; political activist (1936)

Kent McCord; actor (1942)

Windsor McKay; animator, cartoonist (1867)

Olivia Newton-John; pop singer, actor (1948)

Patrick O'Neil; actor (1927)

Ivan Pavlov; experimental psychologist (1849)

George Raft; actor (1895)

Marty Robbins; country singer (1925)

Tony Sales; rock bassist (1951)

Jane Smiley; writer (1949)

Tracey Thorn; singer (1962)

Ted Weems; orchestra leader (1901)

Serena Williams; tennis player (1981)

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"LONG SENTENCE IN PENITENTIARY IS GIVEN GUNMAN," Hamilton Spectator. October 12, 1933. Page 7. --- Ratigliano Involved in Attempted Hold-up ---- Will Serve Five Years in Portsmouth Prison --- Alcohol Cases Are Adjourned a Week ---- After he had pleaded not guilty in police court yesterday morning to a charge of theft of a wallet containing $50 from the person of Frank Boronif, Tony Ratigliano, aged 19 years, no address, amended his plea to one of guilty in police court before Deputy Magistrate James McKay this morning. Yesterday he was remanded for eight days on this charge and also on one of attempted robbery while armed and another of carrying a revolver.

To-day he came up for sentence on the two latter charges. On the charge of attempted robbery while armed, Ratigliano was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary: on the possession of a revolver count, the term imposed was two years in the penitentiary and on the theft charge, two years in the penitentiary. All sentences will run concurrently.

Must Pay Fine Convicted of theft of a quart of milk, William Cook, 1258 Cannon street east, was fined $20 and $5 costs or one month in jail. Edwin Blackmore, complainant in the case, testified that milk supplied by the Purity Dairy had disappear- ed for several days. On the morning of September 28, he and several others had kept watch and had seen the accused, who is employed by the Acme Farmers Dairy, remove a quart of milk from outside the door. He had denied knowing anything of the loss of three quarts of milk previously.

It was testified that the Blackmore family had been customers of the Acme dairy for some time and were trying the Purity dairy product. The accused stated that he had taken the one bottle of milk to find out who owned the bottle and to make a report to the manager of his firm.

Court was adjourned for half an hour this morning as Deputy Magistrate McKay had received a subpoena to appear as a witness in a case in county court. Court Clerk Harry Burville and Douglas Ewing, court stenographer, were also subpoenaed in the same case.

Charges Adjourned At the request of Constable Bailey, of the Royal Canadian Mounted police, charges of possession of alcohol of illicit manufacture against George Alaska and John Godava, both of Delhi, were laid over for eight days, Bail was set at $500 each. The constable told the court that the two men were arrested on Cheever street yesterday and three gallons of what is believed to be illicit alcohol was found in the back of their car.

In the absence of Magistrate Burbidge, who is confined to his home with a bad cold, several cases upon which the magistrate is to pass sentence, were laid over until his return. Thomas McDonald, St. Catharines, who is charged with theft of $900 from his employers, was remanded for sentence until next Wednesday as Was Fred Drage, Toronto, who is charged with theft of $300.

Ernest Pike, who is awaiting sentence on a charge of false pretences, was also remanded until Wednesday. On charges of breach of recognizances, George Bristol, London, was also remanded for sentence until Wednesday.

A further remand until Tuesday was granted in the case of Ernest Denyes, alias Edward Burns, who faces charges of housebreaking with intent to commit and indictable offense and burglary.

Given Warning A warning was given electrical contractors to-day that permits must be taken out in advance of the commencement of work on wiring contracts, when the Hunter-Strome company was fined $50 for an infraction of this rule. [Ratigliano was 19, single, born in Naples but came to Canada as an infant, had a tattoo of claspsed hands, a serpent and dagger in several places, a pierced heart, a girls head, the name doris, an American eagler, and a United States Navy anchor with a serpent and dagger. He was a shoe-maker by trade, and had been in the Guelph Reformatory. He was convict #3196 at Kingston Penitentiary, and worked in the shoe shop. He was reported six times for disobedience. He was transferred to Collin's Bay Penitentiary June 1935, becoming inmate #867, and was released April 1937.]