BOSTON — Crew members and cadets from each of the visiting Sail Boston ships paraded through Boston Monday. Many wore their uniforms and some played music or carried the flags from their home nations as they marched into downtown on Seaport Boulevard and High and Summer Streets. More than 50 sailing vessels from 14 nations are docked in Boston Harbor this week for the Sail Boston festival. Boston is the only stop for the 7,000-mile, trans-Atlantic Rendez-vous 2017 Regatta… keep reading
The tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry passes westward through the Cape Cod Canal on its way home after participating in Sail Boston.
Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, the Finca Vigia, circa 1947. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Mackinac Bridge (at Lake Huron) via spiffingsailorLake Boats No Longer With Us – The Irving S. Olds on a Winter Run, Upper Lake Huron, January 2, 1976 Photograph by Rus HurtSunrise at Boston Harbor via SeasSailsShips (cyj70)Katsushika Hokusai: Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanj?rokkei), ca. 1830-32 – “Discovering Japanese Art: American Collectors and the Met” at the Metropolitan Museum
Arguably the most famous image in all of Japanese art, this iconic woodblock print depicts a huge, frothing wave as it crests over a distant Mount Fuji. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) in 1760, the influential artist and printmaker led a life that was both intensely productive and undeniably eccentric.
The Western Interior Seaway is gone, but not forgotten
Some 100 million years ago, much of what is now North America was underwater. The body of water scientists call the Western Interior Seaway covered a swath of land that stretched over the entire Midwest. But its secrets have been preserved in countless fossils—and now, over 100,000 of these fossils are being digitized. keep reading on Smithsonian
Jacques Cousteau; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.
Sukhbaatar III; the only vessel in the Mongolian Navy – tomcarrollphotography.com (more)
Pictured above is the Sukhbaatar III, a tugboat (here’s another angle.) It is the flagship of the Mongolian Navy — a title it has earned in no small part because it is the full complement of the nation’s armada. The tug is operated by a seven-person crew which constitutes the entire navy. That’s right, the Mongolian Navy has seven sailors and a tugboat. That’s it. Did I forget to mention that Mongolia is landlocked?
Destination Gobi is a 1953 Technicolor war film starring Richard Widmark and the first color feature film directed by Robert Wise. Set during World War II, US Navy chief Sam McHale (Widmark) takes command of a unit of weather observers stranded behind Japanese lines in Inner Mongolia. McHale must lead his men across the treacherous Gobi Desert to the freedom of the seacoast. Rescued from the Japanese by a Mongolian chief (Murvyn Vye), the men are compelled to repay their rescuer by securing enough saddles for his sixty horses. A flummoxed Pentagon okays the requisition, and the chieftain leads Widmark’s band to Okinawa. more
Destination Gobi trailer on You Tube
McGinty is tired of being in the Navy and wants out, a passing seagull shows him a vision of what his life would be like as a civilian. McGinty then wonders if civilian life is all it’s cracked up to be. (1949 USA) imdb
U.S. Shipping Board Marine Engineers being instructed in reduction gear design and operation. Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographsFord on the wharf at the Pennsylvania Nautical School in Philadelphia during October 1926. The training ship Annapolis is in the background. Posted by Steve Given to the Museum of Found Photos
In an effort to meet the nation’s demand for trained seamen, the United States Congress passed an Act on June 20, 1874 giving the Secretary of the Navy the authority to provide a naval vessel and instructors for a nautical school to be established at each or any of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and San Francisco. The Pennsylvania Nautical School (PNS) was established in 1889 by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for 58 years trained young men for careers in the maritime trades and professions. Approximately 2000 cadets graduated from the school before it closed in 1947. More on wikipedia
USS Annapolis (PG-10) (School ship, 1920–1940) was a gunboat in the United States Navy; laid down 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey; launched on 23 December 1896, and commissioned at New York on 20 July 1897. more on wikipedia
Ark Encounter is a Christian evangelical and fundamentalist theme park that opened in Grant County, Kentucky on July 7, 2016. The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of Noah’s Ark from the Genesis flood narrative in the Bible which is 510 feet (155 m) long, 85 feet (26 m) wide, and 51 feet (16 m) high.
Ark Encounter is operated by Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Young Earth creationism group that operates the Creation Museum 45 miles (70 km) away in Petersburg, Kentucky.
A dispute over AiG’s hiring practices was adjudicated in U.S. federal court, which found in 2016 that the organization could require Ark Encounter employees to sign a statement of faith as a condition of their employment, prompting criticism of the park’s discriminatory hiring practices. more
I think I figured out Dunkin' Donuts scheme. they're not in the coffee business, there in the I got to take a shit business.
And how do I know that. Well after walking on the beach yesterday afternoon I decided to stop for Dunkin' Donuts and get a cuppa coffee and a bagel.
where I sat down at the table, I had a view of the whole store, now it was very interesting to note
Out of 21 people that walked in to Dunkin' Donuts 17 use the bathroom
Out of that 17 used the bathroom only one stopped and got a cuppa coffee to go the other 16 turned around and left never even bothered to buy anything.in other words come in for a free shit
So I've come to the conclusion. now I know why Dunkin' Donuts has high prices for their coffee and donuts they're not in it for the food, there in it for the public effluent Service?
We all know that having a cuppa coffee retails for about $2.12 .
the actual cost of the coffee that Dunkin' Donuts Produces These are all based on estimates,
Cup $0.03 Lid $0.01 Straw $0.005 Coffee $0.15 Sweetner $0.003 for sugar or $0.01 for splenda Creamer $0.03 Ice $0.20 (depreciation and utilities) Labor expense 30-35% of price of drink +other overhead including rent, utilities, franchise fees, etc
Comes out of the inflated price of their product so I could brew one cup of coffee is only about $.15
So why does it cost two dollars and $.15 for the average cup of coffee When you run a store or any Business there's a lot of things that are free napkins condiments refills on drinks parking beautification cleanup regular maintenance staff help using the toilet facilities
All those things have to come out of the bottom line that the Proprietor has to pay for for the convenience of having customers.
the other day I got my water bill and I divided it into Thousand gallons increments comes out to about $80 .
if that's all you're paying. that's really not bad but in the city or in an area where you have City septic, you have to add another $95 to that bill for the privilege of having that shit pumped to the main shit treatment plant
So technically that bill comes out to $175 now you also have to add in a service charge of $35 a month so your bill is actually $210
Now if you have the average toilet let's just round it off to 1 gallon per flush
Now in the 45 minutes that I sat there with my coffee and bagel
The 21 people just flushed 41 gallons of water down the drain
I'm not going to get my calculator out but In that 24 hour cycle that's a shit load of water that the proprietor has to pay for. And that's not even taking in the calculation of 7 feet of toilet paper that women use. good Lord forbid if you get any on your fingernails
Or for the 207 feet of toilet paper that you need to line the seat with.
Now us males we use a whole lot less toilet paper. but we do have this philosophy. even if we spray it on the walls seat,, we're cool,, we're marking our territory and we leave.. it's like signing your name in the snow thing
OK sorry where was I going with this
So I think a discount is in order.
Yes I think a discount is in order,,,
try this
the next time You go in to Dunkin' Donuts,, and order a cuppa coffee, and maybe a donut?
An you really don't need to go to the bathroom I think You need to see if they'll give you a discount for NOT using the restroom. And let's call it what it really is, It's really a poop and pee room
And while I'm at it,,, why do they call it a restroom,,, you don't go in there and sleep you try to do your business and get out there's no resting involved
And it's not a bathroom damm you certainly don't care to take a bath in there
Now if you're a woman you would call it a powder room. And take 12 of your best friend even if only ones got to Pee
When was the last time you had your wife or your girlfriend tell you she's got to go take a Pee and drag along 12 of her best friends to watch
Now us guys,, were different. It has a lot to do with LGBT thing even so we won't admit it
Sorry but we don't need ANY of our buddy's there,,
Just off River Street, behind the New Heritage Diner, it looms like something out of the Battle of Midway: the U.S.S. Ling, a World War II-era submarine, squatting in a shallow stretch in the upper reaches of the Hackensack River.
This 312-foot hulk of gray steel has been berthed along the river’s shoreline since the early 1970s, when the Navy offered it to a group of local veterans. They were looking to use it as the theme of a new naval museum with the help of the owners of The Record of Bergen County, whose headquarters long stood on this riverside property.
But the Ling has become a 2,500-ton problem, on course to be torpedoed by a luxury development project…
USS Ling (SS-297), wearing camouflage paint scheme in July 1945, during sea trials
USS Ling (SS/AGSS/IXSS-297) is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy; laid down 2 November 1942 by Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia; launched 15 August 1943, commissioned on 8 June 1945; based at Naval Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut.
In March 1960, Ling was towed to Brooklyn, New York, where she was converted into a training ship at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Redesignated “Miscellaneous Unclassified Submarine” (IXSS-297), and struck from the Naval Register on 1 December, 1971. She arrived at her present home in New Jersey in January 1973, where she was restored to near-mint condition—scrubbed, painted, and polished for public tours—through the efforts of the Submarine Memorial Association; dedicated “…to perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while serving their country”.
In the American-produced Russian language film Katya shot in 2010, the Ling was used for a set to depict the Soviet K-129 diesel-electric powered submarine which sank on 8 March 1968 northwest of Oahu. more on wikipedia
Cadets douse the sales aboard the USCGC Eagle, during the Grand Parade of Sail in Boston. The USCGC Eagle, “America’s Tall Ship, ” led the vessels parade in flotillas from Broad Sound into the main channel of Boston Harbor (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) see TALL SHIPS BOSTON 2017 on Boston Globe“In the early part of the 20th century,” writes Steph Aromdee, “Japan’s increasingly prosperous middle class was taking to the high seas for travel. One company, the Japan Mail Steamship, advertised heavily, hoping to attract would-be tourists to their luxury ships. What were likely at the time regarded as simple advertisements and brochures that simply showed departures and destinations, have today become viewed as stunning works of art.” —Vintage 1930s Japanese Posters Artistically Market the Wonders of TravelA forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to pass
Atlas Obscura – It was around 1830, soon after the end of the devastating Napoleonic Wars, and the Swedish Crown sent out a delegation to search for ideal spots to plant for future ship production. Three of those emissaries came to a small croft on Visingsö, a narrow island in the middle of Vättern (Sweden’s second largest lake). Here they spied three magnificent oaks just outside of an old woman’s farmhouse. They took one with them back to Stockholm, and it didn’t take much to convince the Royal Navy that Visingsö had nearly perfect conditions for lumber production. Over the next ten years, 300 000 oak trees were planted.
In the evening on June 5, 1983, the cruise ship “Alexander Suvorov” at full speed went under the non-navigable flight of the Ulyanovsk bridge across the Volga River
5 Terrible Accidents in the USSR Which the Soviet Leadership Tried Their Best to Suppress:
The Aleksandr Suvorov is a former Soviet/now Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The catastrophe led to 177 deaths yet the ship stayed afloat, was restored and still navigates. Aleksandr Suvorov (ship) on wikipedia
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1729 or 1730 – May 1800) was a Russian military leader and is considered a national hero.Knyaz Suvorov was a Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship built (Baltic Works) for the Imperial Russian Navy but not completed until after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904; sunk during the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905. More – Image via Steel Navy; The Ship Modeling SiteThe award-winning pollution art project has gained viral attention in Taiwan—a look at the group’s Facebook page shows exhibitions in museums and interviews with national news. – My Modern Met
Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui, and Cheng Yu-ti, three students at the National Taiwan University of Arts, collected sewage water from all over Taiwan and and turned them into 1:1 poly models all wrapped in beautiful packaging, assigning each one with a number and “flavor” named after the source where the waste was collected. The team has made 100 popsicles in total. They recently put their collection on display at an art exhibition in Taipei.
At first glance, the visually pleasing treats seem to imitate the aesthetic of recent craft and artisanal food trends. However, on closer inspection you can identify the trash contained within each mold—bits of plastic, bottle caps, and wrappers lying within the popsicles’ murky waters. thisiscolossal.com
Peder Balke, “Northern Lights” (1870s), oil on wood
Like his mentor Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) and John Constable, Balke believed that the sky was as important as the subject below, perhaps more so, given how it takes up more space than the sea or land in his (and most other) works.
In “Northern Lights” (1870s), a series of vertical scraped areas (from lines to bands) stretch across much of the sky to evoke the Aurora Borealis. In the world below, horizontal striations embody a calm, waveless sea.
Nella Dan was a legend among polar ships. Her track record of 85 trips and half a million nautical miles in Antarctica – or 24 times around the Earth – made her, among other things, the ship in Australian service with the most miles and the longest period beset in the ice.
Throughout history, many ships have been lost in the early attempts to explore polar regions or in risky attempts to come to the aid of other expeditions. In modern history, too, pack and pressure ice have so impeded passage that crews had to be abandoned on the ice.
In the vast nothingness of ice, from a distance the scene may look almost serene, but for those on board, the experience of the ice closing in around the hull, causing it to shriek and creak, can be nerve-racking and unbearable. Like a fingernail on a blackboard.
Revenant star Tom Hardy tipped to play polar explorer Ernest Shackleton for Antarctic biopic – Daily Mail
And Here’s One for the Laaaaaaadies….
Tom Hardy has been tipped to play polar explorer Ernest Shackleton for an upcoming Antarctic biopic. Peter Straughan – known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Our Brand Is Crisis – is said to be writing the as-yet untitled polar-themed film. It’s not known when filming for the Antarctic biopic will start and no release date has been set. keep reading
(left) English actor Tom Hardy (born 15 September 1977) – Is it warm in here?
Ernest Shackleton is one of the great explorers of the world, a giant of the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” and leader of three epic expeditions to the Antarctic. His final attempt – the Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition – proved the most grueling and is one of the greatest tales of human endurance, bravery and adventure.
While we think Tom Hardy will be an excellent Shackleton, there are other hugely important roles that need to be filled, specifically the five members of the incredible voyage of the James Caird. We’ve put together our dream cast of who could do justice to these legendary heroes…
Tom Hiddleston as Henry ‘Chippy’ McNeish
The ship’s carpenter and master shipwright. He was an animal lover and brought along a cat called Mrs Chippy as a companion. The cat was extremely affectionate followed McNeish where ever he went. Mcneish was headstrong and often clashed with Shackleton challenging him on his decisions. keep reading on Coast Monkey; the best of the beautiful Irish coast
The Night Manager’s Tom Hiddleston as Chippy? OH HELLYEAH. Here kitty, kitty, kitty!
Britain’s Rights Maintained, a political cartoon by Boitard, was printed in the early days of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War. Neptune himself points to a map of British North America, his finger resting on the border between New York and Quebec; an overly optimistic piece boasting about British victory well before it was assured.
NEW YORK 1911 – This documentary travelogue of New York City was made by a team of cameramen with the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern, who were sent around the world to make pictures of well-known places. Produced only three years before the outbreak of World War I, the everyday life of the city recorded here—street traffic, people going about their business—has a casual, almost pastoral quality. MoMA’s restoration of New York 1911 is derived from the original nitrate print of the film. via Simon EgletonMrs. Margaret Brown, the “Unsinkable Molly Brown,” and one of the first heroic feminists, presents Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia with a silver and gold cup for his help in saving lives on the RMS Titanic.
One aspect of the tragedy doesn’t get as much attention as it perhaps should: its particular and enduring effect on the emerging suffrage movement and first-wave feminism in Europe and the US. The disaster’s occurrence in 1912 hit smack-bang at the high point of suffrage and anti-suffrage movements on both sides of the Atlantic. The most famous is the “unsinkable” Molly Brown, immortalized both in the (1997) Titanic film and in one of her own; Brown ran for office in the US Senate years before the voyage and would use her fame afterward to discuss women’s rights on an international platform.
Several other important feminist figures were also aboard. Journalist Helen Churchill Candee, who had authored the working woman’s rallying cry How Women May Earn A Living in 1900, was in the same lifeboat as Brown and would man the oars with her. (She was also an explorer and a nurse who would treat Ernest Hemingway in World War I) Her survival made the world a more interesting place… keep reading on Cruising the Past
When the tone of Japanese life got militaristic in the 1930s, so did the tone of Japanese ads. The 1937 poster just above proclaims “Defense for Country, Tobacco for Society,” a message brought to you by the South Kyoto Tobacco Sellers’ Union. Below, the kind of Japanese maiden prewar graphic design always rendered so well appears in a different, more outwardly patriotic, and much more naval form.
