#Darren Pickering

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n o r t h e r n e x p o s u r e created by joshua brand, john falsey Balls [s6ep19]

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a children's novel, written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Donald Chaffin, although different editions have also featured artwork by Jill Bennett, Tony Ross, and Quentin Blake. The story follows Mr. Fox, who is, of course, a fox.

Mr.Fox has been stealing food from nearby farmers for some time. However, when he's identified as a thief, the farmers join forces to ambush him. As a result, he is trapped, and must come up with a plot to save himself, his family, and the other local animals. With the help of his four children, his friend Badger, and his sharp wit, it is, of course, only a matter of time before he succeeds.

In 2009, a stop-motion movie adaptation was released. The film was directed by Wes Anderson and co-written by him and Noah Baumbach. It features a cast of stars (including George Clooney as the mastermind fox himself, Meryl Streep as his wife, and Bill Murray as his friend, Badger) a soundtrack with a mix of original songs composed by Alexandre Desplate and a few pop songs by the likes of The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Burl Ives, and others.

The movie remains mostly faithful to the story, with a few differences, such as Mr. Fox's secrecy and their having, instead of four children, one child and a nephew. It also focuses much more on his relationship with his wife and slightly alters the ending. The movie was praised for its animation, quirkiness, and wit, and was nominated for several awards.

Some that it won were the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production (2010), two NYFCC awards for Best Animated Film and Best Actor (2009), and two awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from SDFCS and SFBAFCC (2009).

Less furry-centric, but relevant, content under the readmore.

In 1998, a three-act opera form of the story appeared on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as well. It was originally composed by Tobias Picker, with the help of Donald Sturrock's writing. In 2010, an abridged version was released with reduced orchestration, and in 2011, a full-length version with the same was released.

A performance of it was recorded and released on Albany Records in 2019, earning the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. It was commissioned by the Roald Dahl Foundation, and seems to follow the original story fairly loyally.

In 2016, a stage musical was also premiered at the Nuffield Theater in Southampton. Adapted by Sam Holcroft, with music written by Arthur Davill and lyrics written by those two with the help of Darren Clark and Al Muriel, the musical seemingly is still touring, with tickets available for a 2024 showing. Once again, the show seems faithful to the original tale.

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Detective Comics (vol. 1) #396: The Brain Pickers/The Orchid-Crusher

Read Date: January 02, 2023 Cover Date: February 1970 ● Writer: Frank Robbins ● Penciler: Gil Kane ● Inker: Murphy Anderson ◦ Gil Kane ● Colorist: {uncredited} ● Letterer: John Costanza ● Editor: Julius Schwartz ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: (first story) ● I'm not really sure what's going on, but meh ● following along with some kid named Rory, who is apparently a stock market whiz, and some crooks trying to take advantage ● Rory is about to sell Wayne Enterprises stock. The broker (his girlfriend) contacts Bruce Wayne ● sure enough, W.E. stock price plummets ● ah, Rory's stock codes are giving directions to help him, as he's being tailed and semi-controlled by the crooks ● interesting that it's Bruce Wayne so far who is doing everything, not Batman ● ope, there's Batman ● Batman gets ahead of them and waits at a gas station. Works with attendant to get Rory inside away from the goons ● the cover was quite misleading as to what happened in the story (panel)

(second story) ● ha, the villain is going to be brought down by using a weird item as a bookmark and returning it with the book to the library. As a librarian, this amuses me. ● Babs trying to track down the killer using the dating service (panel) ● ha! He asks for a kiss and gets a judo throw. Why do I have the feeling he's not the killer? ● damn cliffhanger!

Synopsis: A series of murders involving timid red-heads are being committed by a serial killer the press is dubbing the Orchid Killer. One day while going through books at her library, Barbara Gordon stumbles upon a computer card belonging to one of the victims being used as a book mark. Finding the book was borrowed by Darren Tomkins and the computer card being for a dating service, she tries to track down Tomkins who has skipped out on his apartment. Asking the dating service for aid as Batgirl proves to be a dead end as well as the service keeps their members privacy.

Deciding the best way to catch the killer is to present herself as a helpless victim, she sets up an account for Barbara Gordon and making her seem enticing to the killer. In order to fulfill this plan she has to blow off a date with Jason Bard.

Later on a date with a man named Max Tournov, whom she thinks is the killer when he pins an orchid on her and asks for a kiss good night. Max freaks out saying she doesn't deserve the orchid and storms off. To be certain that Max isn't the killer, Barbara changes into Batgirl and follows him, but when she loses her trail, and just when she's about to give up hands reach out from the dark alley behind her and grab her mouth…. This story is continued next issue….

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_396)

Fan Art: Batgirl of Burnside by dCTb

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 09

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To be fair, they did hate on Will a lot when he first appeared on the scene. The tweet you posted a screenshot of the other day from the user "chillwithwillinhell" was just the tip of the iceberg of all the disgusting things they said about and to Will. Now though I think it's a combination of misogyny but also that Darren is the focus of their obsession and not Chris. Chris is a guest star to Darren's lead so Will gets off lightly whilst Mia is the main villain.

That is a good point.  Will gets demoted to the poop picker upper but he avoids the outward hate that Mia gets.  I think they forget about Chris when he isn’t on social media.   

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Footage

Home Soil, TNG, 1988

Ties Of Blood And Water, DS9, 1997

Star Trek, 2009

Measure Of A Man, TNG, 1989

Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013

The Devil In The Dark, TOS, 1967

A Time To Stand, DS9, 1997

In A Mirror darkly, ENT, 2005

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Trailer Footage

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Blaze Of Glory, DS9, 1997

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991

Projections, VOY, 1995

Rohingya Muslim Refugees Flee Ethnic Cleansing In Myanmar, NBC News, published Oct. 8, 2017, accessed in 2018 via: https://bit.ly/2CY5mHg

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, TOS, 1969

Balance Of Terror, TOS, 1966

Stigma, ENT, 2003

The Ensigns Of Command, TNG, 1989

Prototype, VOY, 1996

The Butcher’s Knife cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry, DIS, 2017

I, Mudd, TOS 1967

The Offspring, TNG, 1990

Encounter At Farpoint, TNG, 1987

Datalore, TNG, 1988

Birthright part 1, TNG, 1993

Best Of Both Worlds Part 2, TNG, 1990

Where No One Has Gone Before, TNG, 1987

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Evolution, TNG, 1989

Who Watches The Watchers, TNG, 1989

The Quality Of Life, TNG, 1992

Emergence, TNG, 1994

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979

Message In A Bottle, VOY, 1998

Ship In A Bottle, TNG, 1993

Doctor Bashir, I Presume, DS9, 1997

Life Line, VOY, 2000

Eye Of The Needle, VOY, 1995

Caretaker, VOY, 1995

Latent Image, VOY, 1999

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, VOY, 1999

Virtuoso, VOY, 2000

Author, Author, VOY, 2001

Flesh And Blood, VOY, 2000

Nightingale, VOY, 2000

Images

The Cotton Planter And His Pickers, H. Tees, West Point, Mississippi

The Discovery Of The Mississippi by William Henry Powell, 1853, uploaded by Davepape, 2007

James Hopkinson’s Plantation Slaves Planting Sweet Potatoes, by Henry P. Moore, 1862-63, uploaded by Hohum, 2013

Cotton Field In Mississippi, Popular Science Monthly, Volume 54, 1898

The Nazi Hierarchy, US National Archives And Records Administration, 1933 or 1934, uploaded by Alonso de Mendoza, 2017

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait Full Body, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Sandstein, 2011

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Crisco 1492, 2015

Am I Not A Man Emblem, Josiah Wedgwood, William Hackwood et Henry Webber, 1787, uploaded by Logan, 2011

Hanging, Burning, & Clubbing Of Indians By Spanish Soldiers, by Joos van Winghe & Theodor de Bry, 1664, via the Peace Palace Library, uploaded by Hansmuller, 2014

Polish Jews Captured By Germans During The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, possibly taken by Franz Conrad, 1943, uploaded by Durova, 2008

Skulls From The Nyamata Memorial Site in Rhwanda, taken by Fanny Schertzer, 2007, uploaded by Inisheer, 2007

Arrest Of Rosa Parks, by Associated Press, 1956, uploaded by Adam Cuerden, 2016

Music

Walk Break 1 by Gavin Luke

Intriguing Developments 4 by Gavin Luke

Seeking Justice 4 by Peter Sandberg

Italian Winter Rain 2 by Peter Sandberg

Pause For Concern 1 by Gavin Luke

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Meet Allie Bennet

► Allie Bennet was created for the Polyvore group In Love With A Celebrity. As the name suggests, she was made to be the fictional love interest of a real life celebrity (Who wants to guess who I picked for the celeb? ;) ). This set was created for her personal information which is listed below the cut. At the very end I am including the requirements that I needed to follow while creating the set. 

Enjoy!! ♥

| FULL NAME;

☾Allison “Allie” Bennet

| NICKNAMES;

☾Allie – basically everyone calls her that

☾ Allison – if the full name comes out, then she did something wrong

☾ Al – Byron is really the only person who can get away with calling her this

☾ Picks – a random nickname given to Allie by her friends due to her being a Picker

| GENDER;

☾ Cis Female

| FACECLAIM;

☾ Emma Watson

| DATE OF BIRTH;

☾ 5 / March / 1989

| AGE;

☾ 29

| NATIONALITY;

☾ American, British – She was born in America, but she and her family have dual citizenship.

| ORIGIN;

☾ Before Allie was born, her parents moved from England to America for her mom's job. While both her parents grew up in England, her father's side of the family has Greek traces and her mother's side has French traces. When she was growing up, she gained their accents and never really lost it.

| HOMETOWN;

☾ Portland, Oregon

| EDUCATION;

☾ Allie double-majored when she went to college. By the time she graduated, she had a bachelors degree for both History and Business.

| OCCUPATION;

☾ Allie is a picker and she co-owns a small shop with her brother. They drive around the country, stopping at places that have 'junk' on the property and buy some of that 'junk' to restore/sell in their shop. While both will go out to find items to buy and sell, she mainly stays behind and runs the shop since someone needs to be there and she has the business background.

| SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

☾ Demisexual Heterosexual

| FAMILY;

☾ Marylin Bennet – Mother – Marisa Tomei – 52

☾ Paul Bennet – Father – Nathan Fillian – 49

☾ Byron (Moore) Bennet – adopted brother – Tyler Hoechlin - 28

| FRIENDS;

☾ Byron (Moore) Bennet – brother/best friend/roommate/business partner – Tyler Hoechlin – 28

☾ Larissa “Lacy” Hanlin – childhood friend/roommate – Rose Leslie – 27

☾ Carrie “CC” Clark – college friend/roommate – Paulina Singer – 25

☾ Robert “Robbie” Martin – friend/part-time employee – Darren Criss – 26

| HOBBIES & INTERESTS;

☾ reading, traveling, collecting Breyer horses, restoring vintage items, baking, cooking, clothes/fashion, collecting salt & pepper shakers,

| LIKES;

☾ getting a good deal, seeing others get excited about history, cats, “Say Yes to the Dress”, traveling, donuts, meeting new people, “American Pickers”, people who are just pure little cinnamon rolls, french fries/chips, books and reading, “Expedition Unknown”, Breyer horses, restoring old items, shopping, England, road trips, those ridiculous tourist traps, “Mysteries at the Museum”,

| DISLIKES;

☾ when people make Pride & Prejudice references because of her name, customers who don't know how to listen, spiders, making a bad call on a pick, the song 'What's New Pussycat?' by Tom Jones, geese, flying, mushrooms, clowns, thunderstorms, people who take advantage of others,

| BIO;

☾  Allison Bennet was born March 5th, 1989, in Portland, Oregon to Marylin and Paul Bennet. It was a difficult pregnancy for Marylin, one that resulted in a hysterectomy, but she and her husband were blessed with a beautiful and healthy little girl. With being born in America and having a majority of her family living in England, Allie's parents worked to get dual citizenship to go between the two countries. It was no surprise then when she ended up with more of an English accent (that never actually faded). When she was 6, her parents took her to her first flea market. She fell in love with the place, begging her parents to bring her (and, eventually, her friend as well) to the markets as often as possible. The items were so cool to look at and the sellers were just as awesome to listen to.

Despite not having any siblings, Allie found a brother, and best friend, in the neighbor boy. Also an only child, Byron Moore attached himself to Allie and they became like two peas in a pod. Even though Byron was one year older, the two pretty much ignored each others classmates. They played with each other, protected each other, and helped each other out over the years. When she was eight, tragedy struck. While the Moore family was heading back one night from a trip to Seattle, their car was struck by a drunk driver. Byron was the only survivor, leaving the wreckage with several scrapes and bruises, a concussion, and permanent damage to his ears. Since he had no other family that could take him in (his grandmother was in a nursing home), the Bennet family brought him into their family and eventually officially adopted him. Allie and Byron became even closer as she helped him deal with the aftermath of the accident, spending hours learning ASL for when he didn't want to wear his hearing aids.

When Allie was 12, she gained a new friend. Allie had just entered the school with Byron when they were pulled into office and placed face-to-face with a small red-haired girl. From that second on, 12 year old Larissa Hanlin, former resident of Scotland, turned the dynamic duo into a troublesome trio. Even though it wasn't the same, it was comforting to Allie to hear Lacy's accent. It was also wonderful to have another female she could talk to. Byron was great, but there were some topics that were just plain weird to discuss with him. With Lacy, Allie discovered a love of fashion and makeup, as well as some cute boys as school.

At the age of 15, the trio was snooping around at the local flea market when Allie met the person who would forever change her life. The lady was a Picker – someone who travels around the countryside looking for places with a lot of junk - “rusty-gold” is what she called it – outside. With the landowner's permission, they then dig through the items and buy old pieces to then resell, and sometimes restore, to prospective clients. Road trips? Antiques? Meeting new people? It was the best thing that Allie had ever heard of! She immediately started making plans to have this future. She could picture it then, having long days of picking before heading back to a cute little shop to display her finds.

A few years later, with Byron having gone off to study mechanics a year prior, new graduates Allie and Lacy both became roommates for their college experience. As Lacy started acting classes, Allie decided to dual major in History and Business. If she wanted to have her dream of picking and owning a business, this is what she had to focus on. Her first year passed without a hitch and in her second year she met a guy who they've come to call D.B.. Attractive and charming, they had English together and D.B. wasted no time with his flirtatious comments. Allie, having no previous dating experience, was beyond flattered. After a few dates they came out with an official label on their relationship, but, since this was all new to her, she wanted to take it slow so she could get comfortable with the concept of dating. The first month was pure bliss for their budding relationship, but after that D.B. grew a little prickly towards her. It was another month before he finally admitted that he was irritated that their relationship hadn't advanced beyond a certain point. Allie was hurt. She didn't understand why he was so upset. They had agreed on the pace at the start of their relationship, yet, here he was, seemingly on the verge of dumping her. Sure she hadn't exactly told him the 'L' word yet, but Allie did care a lot for him. Since she didn't want to lose him, she thought 'why not?'. Weeeeeell, D.B dumped her two days later. Actually, dumped isn't really the right thing to call it. After two days of silence on his end, she more of saw him flirting and hitting on another girl on the campus quad. While Lacy consoled her with comfort food and Byron threatened to beat the guy to a pulp, Allie decided to swear off relationships for the time-being.

It was in her third year, while she was working at the local library, that Allie met Carrie Clark – a first year history whiz with big plans for teaching the newest generations. The two quickly hit it off with their love of history and soon Carrie joined their little squad. It was Carrie that introduced Allie to the second biggest revelation in her life. C.C. had been going on and on for days about this awesome new website she found called Tumblr. When Allie and Lacy couldn't stand her rambling anymore, they each made their own account. A few weeks later, an intriguing post popped up on Allie's dashboard late one night. It was about different sexual orientations and gender identities. Once section in particular caught her attention and the more research she did, the more Allie realized that she was Demisexual. Suddenly, the idea of dating wasn't so daunting anymore.

When graduation loomed on the horizon, the question of 'What to do after this?' came up more and more. For Allie it was easy – buy a roomy vehicle and hit the backroads of America. The only problem was where she was going to live. That was decided over pizza. Since none of the girls wanted to be separated and with Lacy searching for acting jobs, Los Angeles was perfect. They could find a house to rent together and it would offer each of them a chance for jobs.

It seemed like seconds had passed from the time Allie and Lacy had moved to when C.C. join them down in L.A. two years later. Allie had bought and sold enough items to be able to keep up with the picking lifestyle. Although, she hadn't gotten her storefront yet. An online store, yeah, but not her physical shop. Though that changed after three years in the bustling city. Allie mainly focused on non-machine antiques; things like toys, furniture, signs, and the like, but occasionally a vehicle caught her eye. That's when Byron would be called. When she was in the middle of Kansas, she found and bought an old, decrepit Harley-Davidson, Byron was summoned down to L.A. from Portland to see about it's restoration. Three days of talk ended with him quitting his mechanic job in Portland, moving into the group's little house, and becoming Allie's business partner. Together they bought a small storefront using the money they got from selling the old motorcycle (among other items) and set about stocking it with their finds. Allie, with her business degree, took over the shop and dealt with clients and customers while Byron took on the picking aspect and the mechanical restorations. Bennet-Moore Antiques officially opened for business when Allie was 25.

When she was 26, Robert Martin joined their merry troupe. Robbie, a local L.A. mechanic, had come into the shop to look at a bike they had for sale. After chatting with the siblings about their business, Robbie ended up becoming a part-time employee and full-time friend. When he wasn't working his own job, he helped Byron with restorations and learned the art of picking, a skill that Lacy and C.C. helped him develop as well.

Now 28, with a thriving store, a dream career, and great friends, Allie honestly doesn't know how her life could be any better.

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Promote defence contract that might deliver new Ararat jobs

Promote defence contract that could provide brand-new Ararat jobs

AME Systems managing director Nick Carthew and BAE Systems deputy campaign director Adam Watson with an AMV35 armoured lorry. Photo: PETER PICKERING Ripon MP Louise Staley and AME Systems handling director Nick Carthew in the turret of a BAE Systems AMV35 armoured automobile. BAE will pick AME Systems for a major electrical wiring agreement if it wins an army car bid. Picture: PETER PICKERING Ararat AME Systems'whole Staff with Ripon MP Louise Staley and AME Systems handling director Nick Carthew

in the turret of a BAE Systems AMV35 armoured automobile. BAE will choose AME Systems for a significant electrical wiring contract if it wins an army vehicle quote. Picture: PETER PICKERING Ararat Rural City board's Joel Hastings, Paul Hooper. BAE Systems' Adam Watson, AME Systems' Nick Carthew, Ripon MP Louise Staley and Regional Development Victoria's Anthony Shink. Picture: PETER PICKERING. Ararat AME Systems' Darren Bahl, Camera McAdie, Dean Pinniger, Nick Carthew, Adam Burger and David Baird. Image: PETER PICKERING BAE's new-generation armoured vehicle, the AMV35. Picture: Tony Moore

Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, in the turret of a BAE Systems Australia Patria AMV35 at Puckapunyal Variety, Victoria. Image: ADF A BAE Systems Australia Patria AMV35 (centre) fires its cannon throughout a firepower presentation at

Puckapunyal Range, Victoria. Picture: ADF

Jacob Watkins following a firepower presentation at Puckapunyal Range, Victoria. Trooper Watkins fired the cannon of a Rheinmetall Boxer CRV throughout the presentation, while Cannon fodder Redley fired the cannon of a BAE Systems Australia Patria AMV35. Image: ADF"title =" Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, speaks with Australian Army Troopers Chris Redley (left) and Jacob Watkins following a firepower presentation at Puckapunyal Variety, Victoria. Trooper Watkins fired the cannon of a Rheinmetall Boxer CRV during the demonstration, while Trooper Redley fired the cannon of a BAE Systems Australia Patria AMV35. Photo: ADF"width = 3600 height = 2032 itemprop = image > Minister for Defence Market, Christopher Pyne, speaks with Australian Army Troopers Chris Redley (left) and Jacob Watkins following a firepower presentation at Puckapunyal Range, Victoria.

Trooper Watkins fired the cannon of a Rheinmetall Boxer CRV throughout the presentation, while Cannon fodder Redley fired the cannon of a BAE Systems Australia Patria AMV35. Picture: ADF BAE Systems Australia AMV35 armoured car check outs Ararat AME Systems The state federal government has restored its project for Victoria to win a major defence agreement that would produce 15 to 20 brand-new tasks in Ararat.The federal government

is assessing bids for the$5 billion phase 2 of the Land 400 program to supply new armoured lorries to the Australian Defence Force.Victoria-based bidder BAE Systems Australia plans, if its AMV35 car is picked, to contract Ararat manufacturer AME Systems to provide approximately $30 million in electrical wiring.Victoria's federal MPs have actually also reportedly contacted Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne in assistance of the state's bid versus Queensland's Rheinmetall.State Acting Minister for Trade and Investment Ben Carroll stated Victoria had "the abilities and proven performance history" for the project.AME Systems handling director

Nick Carthew invited the assistance."The push from the federal level

too to move Australia into defence and aerospace exports is a really wise relocation,"he stated."There's someplace between$20 and$30 million worth of organisation in the electrical sector that's up for grabs for this specific task. For us, we're estimating in between 15 to 20 brand-new jobs." Mr Carthew stated Victoria had the abilities, labor force and innovation to be"

perfectly lined up "for Land 400, The federal government is due to announce the Land 400 contract winner in about

three months.Mr Carthew stated the next step Land 400 might provide another 15-20 brand-new jobs on top of gains from the present stage.

[inneractivema]

Always in search of new knowledge and motivation not only in Martial arts and fitness but in all aspects of life. Watching a business Webinar with Darren Hardy this morning. . . . #darrenhardy #darrendaily #business #webinar #businesslife #life #focus #discipline #selfdiscipline #takingnotes #learning #knowledge #canada #ontario #toronto #pickering #durham

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Missing cockle picker: Air and sea search resumes for Darren Rees Search under way in Llanelli for missing cockle picker Source link

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❤️🎂🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARREN! 🎉🎂❤️ #happy #birthday #boy 🎊 What the hell has come out of my mouth more times than I can count when it comes to this man, the love of my life! 🥰 He is seriously funny as 💩, witty as a devil 😈, and is always willing to put on a show to make me laugh! 👹 ☄️ I’m on this rock with you, flying through the universe. A human just living their lifespan with you. Hitting all the milestones together! ☄️ 🎈 I can only try to put into words how much you mean to me! My firecracker 💥, my sun☀️ and stars ✨, my best friend 👩‍❤️‍👨, I just want to celebrate you 🎉 on your special day. ✨ ❤️ Love you and I hope you have one hell of a birthday! @_joafy_ ❤️ #mylchee #happybirthday #darren #joafy #birthdayboy #love #happiness #life #lifeisgood #adventure #celebrate #birthdays #goals #enjoy #sunshine #anotheryeararoundthesun #milestones #pickering #canada (at Love) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEswuKPBGNx/?igshid=yk7m9c3mpgst

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Rocket Lab gets NASA certification for official smallsat launches

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has received Category 1 certification from NASA, meaning it is authorized for use on more important missions, opening up a whole new revenue stream for the growing launch provider.

The certification was largely based on the success of “This One’s for Pickering” in late 2018, the company’s fourth commercial launch, which took a batch of NASA cubesats into orbit as part of the ELaNa-19 mission. This experimental mission was undertaken as part of NASA’s Venture Class Launch Services initiative to test out newer and smaller launch vehicles using non-critical payloads.

Watch Rocket Lab launch 10 cubesats into orbit tonight for NASA

“We have a strong partnership with NASA that was established through the ELaNa-19 launch and continues today with the upcoming CAPSTONE mission that will see our Electron launch vehicle and Photon spacecraft deliver a NASA satellite to lunar orbit next year,” said Rocket Lab CEO and founder Peter Beck in a news release.

Certification categories go from 1-3, from “high risk” to “low risk,” based largely on successful launches, which as you might imagine is something of a catch-22: You need the launches to get the certification, but you need the certification to get the launches. Fortunately one can break the cycle with non-essential missions like small experimental satellites — which is sort of the purpose of the VCLS program.

NASA also conducts careful inspections of facilities, manufacturing, and all that. NASA’s Darren Bedell, risk manager for the agency’s Launch Services group, noted that “Rocket Lab’s management team are deliberate in ensuring processes are controlled, repeatable, and measurable to ensure mission success.”

Category 2 certification is in process, but is of course even more stringent and requires six consecutive successful missions with the same rocket configuration. Rocket Lab has 10 in a row at present, but there’s likely a lot of paperwork involved as well.

The company’s next launch is for NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the University of New South Wales — window opens on March 27 (local New Zealand time).

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999.

Early life

Waller was the youngest of 11 children (five of whom survived childhood) born to Adeline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller in New York City. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to playing the organ at his father's church four years later. His mother instructed him when he was a youth. At the age of 14 he was playing the organ at the Lincoln Theater, in Harlem, and within 12 months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922, when he was 18 years old.

He was the prize pupil and later the friend and colleague of the stride pianist James P. Johnson.

Career

Against the opposition of his father, a clergyman, Waller became a professional pianist at the age of 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.

Waller became one of the most popular performers of his era, finding critical and commercial success in the United States and Europe. He was also a prolific songwriter, and many songs he wrote or co-wrote are still popular, such as "Honeysuckle Rose", "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Squeeze Me". Fellow pianist and composer Oscar Levant dubbed Waller "the black Horowitz". Waller is believed to have composed many novelty tunes in the 1920s and 1930s and sold them for small sums, attributed to another composer and lyricist.

Standards attributed to Waller, sometimes controversially, include "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby". Biographer Barry Singer conjectured that this jazz classic was written by Waller and lyricist Andy Razaf and provided a description of the sale given by Waller to the New York Post in 1929—he sold the song for $500 to a white songwriter, ultimately for use in a financially successful show (consistent with Jimmy McHugh's contributions to Harry Delmar’s Revels, 1927, and then to Blackbirds of 1928). He further supports the conjecture, noting that early handwritten manuscripts in the Dana Library Institute of Jazz Studies of "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" (Jimmy McHugh ©1935) are in Waller's hand. Jazz historian P.S. Machlin comments that the Singer conjecture has "considerable [historical] justification". Waller's son Maurice wrote in his 1977 biography of his father that Waller had once complained on hearing the song, and came from upstairs to admonish him never to play it in his hearing because he had had to sell it when he needed money. Maurice Waller's biography similarly notes his father's objections to hearing "On the Sunny Side of the Street" playing on the radio. Waller recorded "I Can't Give You…" in 1938, playing the tune but making fun of the lyrics; the recording was with Adelaide Hall who had introduced the song to the world at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in 1928.

The anonymous sleeve notes on the 1960 RCA Victor album Handful of Keys state that Waller copyrighted over 400 songs, many of them co-written with his closest collaborator, Andy Razaf. Razaf described his partner as "the soul of melody... a man who made the piano sing... both big in body and in mind... known for his generosity... a bubbling bundle of joy". Gene Sedric, a clarinetist who played with Waller on some of his 1930s recordings, is quoted in these sleeve notes recalling Waller's recording technique with considerable admiration: "Fats was the most relaxed man I ever saw in a studio, and so he made everybody else relaxed. After a balance had been taken, we'd just need one take to make a side, unless it was a kind of difficult number."

Waller played with many performers, from Nathaniel Shilkret (on Victor 21298-A) and Gene Austin to Erskine Tate, Fletcher Henderson, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Adelaide Hall, but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, "Fats Waller and his Rhythm".

On one occasion his playing seemed to have put him at risk of injury. Waller was kidnapped in Chicago leaving a performance in 1926. Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by Al Capone. Waller was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. Gun to his back, he was pushed towards a piano, and told to play. A terrified Waller realized he was the "surprise guest" at Capone's birthday party, and took comfort that the gangsters did not intend to kill him. It is rumored that Waller stayed at the Hawthorne Inn for three days and left very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.

In 1926, Waller began his recording association with the Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA Victor, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos "St. Louis Blues" and his own composition, "Lenox Avenue Blues". Although he recorded with various groups, including Morris's Hot Babes (1927), Fats Waller's Buddies (1929) (one of the earliest multiracial groups to record), and McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929), his most important contribution to the Harlem stride piano tradition was a series of solo recordings of his own compositions: "Handful of Keys", "Smashing Thirds", "Numb Fumblin'", and "Valentine Stomp" (1929). After sessions with Ted Lewis (1931), Jack Teagarden (1931) and Billy Banks' Rhythmakers (1932), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm. This six-piece group usually included Herman Autrey (sometimes replaced by Bill Coleman or John "Bugs" Hamilton), Gene Sedric or Rudy Powell, and Al Casey.

Waller wrote "Squeeze Me" (1919), "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now", "Ain't Misbehavin'" (1929), "Blue Turning Grey Over You", "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" (1929), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1929) and "Jitterbug Waltz" (1942). He composed stride piano display pieces such as "Handful of Keys", "Valentine Stomp" and "Viper's Drag".

He enjoyed success touring the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1930s. He appeared in one of the first BBC television broadcasts. While in Britain, Waller also recorded a number of songs for EMI on their Compton Theatre organ located in their Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood. He appeared in several feature films and short subject films, most notably Stormy Weather in 1943, which was released July 21, just months before his death. For the hit Broadway show Hot Chocolates, he and Razaf wrote "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" (1929), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.

Waller performed Bach organ pieces for small groups on occasion. Waller influenced many pre-bebop jazz pianists; Count Basie and Erroll Garner have both reanimated his hit songs. In addition to his playing, Waller was known for his many quips during his performances.

Between 1926 and the end of 1927, Waller recorded a series of pipe organ solo records. These represent the first time syncopated jazz compositions were performed on a full-sized church organ.

Death

Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross-country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri, on December 15, 1943. His final recording session was with an interracial group in Detroit, Michigan, that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman. Waller was returning to New York City from Los Angeles, after the smash success of Stormy Weather, and after a successful engagement at the Zanzibar Room, in Santa Monica California, during which he had fallen ill. More than 4,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem, which prompted Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who delivered the eulogy, to say that Fats Waller "always played to a packed house." Afterwards he was cremated and his ashes were scattered, from an airplane piloted by an unidentified World War I black aviator, over Harlem. One of his surviving relatives is former Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket and current Baltimore Ravens tight end Darren Waller, who is Fats' paternal great-grandson.

Revival and awards

A Broadway musical revue showcasing Waller tunes entitled Ain't Misbehavin' was produced in 1978. (The show and a star of the show, Nell Carter, won Tony Awards.) The show opened at the Longacre Theatre and ran for more than 1600 performances. It was revived on Broadway in 1988. Performed by five African-American actors, the show included such songs as "Honeysuckle Rose", "This Joint Is Jumpin'", and "Ain't Misbehavin'".

Recordings of Fats Waller were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame which is a special Grammy Award established in 1973 to honour recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".

Probably the most talented pianist to keep the music of "Fats" Waller alive in the years after his death was Ralph Sutton, who focused his career on playing stride piano. Sutton was a great admirer of Waller, saying "I've never heard a piano man swing any better than Fats – or swing a band better than he could. I never get tired of him. Fats has been with me from the first, and he'll be with me as long as I live."

Actor and band leader Conrad Janis also did a lot to keep the stride piano music of "Fats" Waller and James P. Johnson alive. In 1949, as an 18-year-old, Janis put together a band of aging jazz greats, consisting of James P. Johnson (piano), Henry Goodwin (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Pops Foster (bass) and Baby Dodds (drums), with Janis on trombone.

In popular culture

Waller is the subject of the Irish poet Michael Longley's "Elegy for Fats Waller".

Robert Pinsky's poem, "History of My Heart," opens with Waller walking into the 34th St. Macy's at Christmastime

He was caricatured in several Warner Brothers animated shorts, most notably Tin Pan Alley Cats.

In the 2008 film Be Kind Rewind, Waller was a major theme and influence for the storyline.

Italian comics book artist Igort published a comic book about Waller entitled Fats Waller on Coconino Press in 2009.

His song "Inside This Heart of Mine", is used in the queuing areas of the ride The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Some of Waller's music ("Jitterbug Waltz") is used in the video game series BioShock.

Waller's version of "Louisiana Fairytale" was used for many years as the theme song to the American television series This Old House.

Waller's church organ music featured prominently in David Lynch's breakthrough film Eraserhead in 1977.

Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, wrote the song "Fats" in their album Renegade. It is inspired in the figure of Waller.

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