#Toronto corvettes

[knittylittlesecret]

Dad has five grandchildren and one grandcar.

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march 18, 2023

[rabbitcruiser]

National Sports Day

October is a prime time for National Sports Day. That’s why on October 16th, the fans, families, and athletes of all the sports converging on the month come together to celebrate their favorite athletic events. All disciplines of a sport take the field, from the youngest to the seasoned professional.

While golfers hit the links to get at least nine more holes before the snow flies, hoopsters gear up for the season ahead. The puck hits center ice early in October, while baseball aims for the bleachers and clears the bases.

Football is heating up with tackles, kicks, and offsides. Don’t forget, volleyball digs midseason, too. Runners in most of the country love October. Events like 5k, half, and full marathons throughout the nation feature opportunities to enjoy the fall weather and beautifully changing landscapes. In the Western Hemisphere, families gather to watch soccer’s final kickoff. The intensity builds, and every game ends with memories of wicked kicks or the goalie’s best save.

From a young age, family road trips took many to cheer on siblings in a variety of sports. We hauled our gear from place to place, and the team knew the season was drawing to a close when the duffle bags began to smell.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Gather your friends to enjoy watching your favorite team. Get out and play, too. No matter your skill level, relishing the challenge and physical activity will be worth it. Besides, getting together with friends and family to celebrate a favored pastime is one of the best ways to Celebrate Every Day®.

NATIONAL SPORTS DAY HISTORY

Wale Rocks (pronounced Wally) in partnership with National Day Calendar founded National Sports Day in 2019 to celebrate the athletes, families, and fans of all sports. National Sports Day is about the benefits of sporting competition. When our youth have an opportunity to play competitively, they advance their skills and build great habits to take with them into adulthood. Family members who support them create a bond that brings them together, improving the family unit and communities throughout the nation.

Children excel at a sport when given a chance to practice under the pressure of competition in the game brain. And with soccer becoming a National Sport for all ages, Wale Rocks chose it as their first sport to spotlight.

With all sports, practice is vital. However, time touching the ball under the pressure of competition makes players excel. With the support of great coaches working their magic, these young novices mature into confident players. How exciting to watch their confidence grow.

Wale Rocks is also creating a special event to mark the National Sports Day launch.

The Registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed National Sports Day in 2019 to be observed on October 16th, annually.

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Sturdy Men Train for Fierce Sea Battles in Canada’s Fighting Navy,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 28, 1942. Page 10. ---- From left to right, top row down:

In larger centres across Canada, both inland and on the seaboard young naval recruits are learning how to fight the axis at Volunteer Reserve Units. Here the “colors” are raised at “HMCS York,” Toronto naval barracks. Final training will be given at some coastal point.  Simulated battleship lends atmosphere.

End of the first day in the navy brings up the trick of turning in Hammocks are pretty difficult for the uninitiated. Turning in often means falling out. but before long they will find the hammock is best in a rolling pitching vessel. In the danger areas at sea. they will sleep fully clad, ready for action. 

On their ability to snatch from the air the brief messages allowed in wartime may depend the fate of ships and men. These wireless students are given a stiff course. They must also learn the new technical devices of modern warfare allied to wireless.

Near a British Columbia training barracks these hardy men are learning how to beat off a possible attack by the enemy on Islands off the West Coast. They must become as familiar with rifles and machine-guns as their brothers in army and air force.

This blunt weapon may end the life of a U-boat. On a ship off the East Coast these men are learning how to load a depth charge and adjust the pressure detonator.

To operate a high-angle antiaircraft gun under a hail of machine-gun fire from a marauding dive-bomber, sailors in Canada’s navy must learn to load and fire with a speed and precision that becomes automatic. This scene is at an Eastern dockyard. 

Future destroyer officers examine torpedo tubes at a West Coast barracks. Torpedoes are the chief weapon of destroyers against enemy ships. They are designed to go to any depth and to hold their chosen course. One good hit may sink a battleship! 

“Night and day in fair weather and in foul....” Standing at the stern of a corvette a duffle-coated sailor of Canada's navy is ready to let go the depth charges beside him when the order comes. The corvette is the particular target of the U-Boats and vigilant eyes must keep on the alert in the zone of enemy operations. In the fog, a cable’s length away, a sister corvette helps guard the convoy with its vital supplies. 

Official R.C.N. Photography

[sassyfrassboss]

I went to an all girls Catholic school in Toronto. At one point private, but not longer which was also taught by nuns. Some wore their habit and also the veil, and others didn't and only had to dress modestly with the veil. Seems to me that she's mixing up the terms--habit/veil/coif/etc.

I used to go to Catholic church and many of the nuns just wore the habit for church service. One of the priests we had drove a corvette. People really didn't like him much.

I think she is trying to say that the BRF wanted her to look a certain way that fit in with their image.

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Some of the more wild and unique vehicles of CIAS, from an armoured truck to an F1 car! @autoshowca ______________________________________ #cias #cias2023 #canadianinternationalautoshow #autoshow50 #mclaren #alfaromeo #formula1 #corvette #buickwildcat #hyundai #subaru #lexus #mobilityreimagined #blakejphoto (at Metro Toronto Convention Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co6Xgk3uJfy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mangoshorthand]

i remember there were also speculations back then if dolore's might return as a human since the actress made a story about flying back to toronto during the time they were also filming. but it wasn't confirmed if it was for the show or if it was just for vacation and she returns home since she lives in toronto.

and i don't see it working either. dolores is not real, even if his visual imagination of her lives in the new timeline (for however they make it logically work since she is basically just a mannequin and as far as i remember, only reggie and allison will get what they desire), she would be still her own persona and also much younger than him.

i also remember you talking about reggie inventing a human dolores for him like he did with grace and it would be horrible imo since it would feel like a sort of fake relationshipo to cope with his trauma (again). apart from how it would work anyway since he hates reggie and sees through his bullshit.

five broke up with delores and still treasures her like he should, and the scene in s3 was sweet to see how five is capable of loving deeply and it was a cute gag how jamie is making fun of him, but i really don't think it would make him any good and he would just move back in his personal progress.

but yeah, fingers crossed our boy lives! seriously give him mr. pennycrumb and his 1975 corvette stingray instead and let him live the happy life he deserves.

Just answering to say I agree. I don't think a renewed relationship with Dolores in any way would be ultimately what the character needs.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.26 (before 1950)

783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. 1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. 1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. 1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. 1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. 1852 – An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies. 1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years. 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile. 1914 – HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness. 1917 – The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France. 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams. 1918 – The Montenegrin Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Red Army launches a surprise attack against the Makhnovshchina. 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. 1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.) 1924 – The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy. 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later. 1941 – World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii. 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. 1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City. 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in New Cross, London, killing 168 people. 1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. 1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

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138: Various Artists // Experiments in Destiny

Experiments in Destiny Various Artists 1980, BOMP!

BOMP! is a venerable Los Angeles-based indie label, founded in 1974 and would you believe still going to this day. Experiments in Destiny samples 28 bands either signed to or distributed by the label, and it’s a who’s who of “Who?” with a few starrier names scattered in. They specialized in New Wave, homages to ‘50s and ’60s rock, and springy power pop. I wrote this intro after deciding to do a track-by-track recap below, so uh, let’s get to it because there are too many words as it is.

Side One

Stiv Bators: First time hearing the solo work from the Dead Boys’ Stiv Bators, and it turns out he’s… Tom Petty-ish?

The Real Kids: Pitching this here with no real forethought, but you can divide power pop bands by whether or not their singers sound like their throat is dry. Boston’s The Real Kids are great, great dry-throated power pop, and probably one of the better-known acts here thanks to “All Kindsa Girls” showing up on a lot of compilations. They’d already broken up by 1980, so we get an unreleased demo that probably wasn’t easy to find elsewhere at the time.

The Dadistics: Somewhere between the Slits and Rough Trade, a little Pat Benatar in the vox—puts me in the mind of the similarly cool and obscure Mo-Dettes. The first third of the song is a no wavey fakeout, then it goes into a kinda Feeliesy riff. Extremely cool! And vocalist Audrey Stanzler went on to be part of the original lineup of… Ministry?!

Blake Xolton & The Martians: Tasting notes: Maybe Magazine at their most electronically disassociated? Blake Xolton was a producer with a very sparse discography, who may also have been part of the phony International Society of Poets who set up the controversial Poetry.com, a “poetry shearing site” per Wikipedia.

Jimmy Lewis & The Checkers: Pubby cover of the Aretha Franklin chestnut “Think.” Probably a little too close to Huey Lewis & the News for my taste.

The Nuns: Blondie-esque New Wave, with some very cool guitar and backing vocal effects that make it sound like the action is taking place in a futuristic resurrection chamber.

Gary Charlson: A smooth Kansas City pop rocker—his vocals strongly remind me of some minor prince of '70s classic rock radio, but all I'm coming up with is the guy from .38 Special, and I know that's not it. His sole EP covers a number of the titans of power pop (e.g. the expected Raspberries, Byrds, and Badfinger, the at the time obscure Big Star, the eternally head’s only Crabby Appleton and Vance or Towers), but he somehow never ended up cutting an LP despite a very radio-ready sound. Self-produced wonder? Nice bit o' Middle American flavour to it.

Side Two

Rodney & The Brunettes: Cutesy one-off cover of the surf rock classic by LA DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who gives a respectable effort.

The "B" Girls: Toronto girl group who might've been able to get some of that Go-Go's money with a little polishing. Good harmonies, lead singer had a nice voice on her.

The MnM's: Excellent shake and pop, written by Paul Collins of the Nerves and the (American) Beat, and featuring the latter band's Steve Huff on bass. Vocalist Marci Marks is the kind of diminutive punk girl I’d probably have been crazy for at the time.

Paul Collins: Speaking of Collins, this is a second reminder in a row that I really need to get around to listening to his post-Nerves material, because this is a great sub-two minute blast of punkified Merseybeat.

Nikki & the Corvettes: Three-piece girl group from Detroit that sound strikingly like Tweens, a 2010s pop punk fav of mine. I'm addicted to this particular kind of snotty/bratty femme vocal, love how much room the single guitar gives to hear the bassist noodling around. Somehow I think this is the first time I’m hearing these guys.

Kathy & the Lawnmowers: After five straight '60s revival songs, we take an abrupt detour into Devo world. Kathy & the Lawnmowers were produced by the notorious Kim Fowley, who provides a blurb in the liners explaining that the mysterious bandmembers arrived at a session wearing masks having never met before, cut some tracks, then removed their masks, didn't like the looks of one-another and split for good. That's obviously baloney, but I prefer it to the version where Fowley did something terrible to them, which would not be uncharacteristic. They’re also credited as Jukebox Rebel Queens on the back cover? Anyway, fun trash sci-fi ramble about green children.

Side Three

The Sonics: "Up (to) the Junction"—sadly not a Squeeze cover, but pretty fetching stuff from the legends nonetheless. The bluesy rocking side of the Sonics (as opposed to the frothing proto-punk side), nice biting guitar tone.

The Weirdos: Per the liners, allegedly LA's first punk band, a claim I can't dispute because I continue to not know much of anything about LA punk, this is fun rockabilly style fair, like a less stylish Cramps. Good stomping beat.

The Zantees: A Gene Vincent cover in a Stray Cats vein, with a guitar player who can really go in that zippy old school Scotty Moore style.

Jon & the Nightriders: A surf rock instrumental cover—I wondered if "Super Jet Rumble" might've been by the Jet-Tones (of "Jet Tone Boogie" 'fame'), but no, seems to be a tune by The Breakers. Anyway, this sounds like every surf rock song, which is to say it rules but not in a way you'll necessarily remember.

The Lipstick Killers: High energy Australian garage rock that the band apparently called "straight edge music"; presumably Ian MacKaye had to go down to the Yabba and win a few rounds of the game from Wake in Fright to win the rights to that term. While we're at it, the song's called "Hindu Gods (of Love)"—Warren Zevon and R.E.M., you've got some explaining to do! Presumably on the B-side of the original single they also coined the term 'hyphy' and invented Lou Barlow.

The Hypstrz: A Minneapolis band with a legendary live reputation, but I can't really fuck with bands whose main gimmick is garaged up versions of old R&B sides. They probably absolutely crushed it live, but this version of "In the Midnight Hour" just kinda exists for me.

The Last: Clearly a last-minute (not a pun, fuck you) addition as it's not listed on the back of the sleeve or in the liners, the Last's "She Don't Know Why I'm Here" is a slashing piece of Anglophile psych-pop and one of the best things on this entire comp. It stuffs a remarkable number of twists and turns, false finishes, and secondary riffs into its three-and-a-half-minute runtime. The Last have a small cult following for their run of singles and debut LP LA Explosion! My only regret is that they didn't include the original single version of this one, as it elevates a groovy jam into a thrashing raveup.

The Dead Boys: Stiv Bators' second appearance on the comp; the Dead Boys were an almighty force in their day, but there's something kinda funny to me about ol' sloppy Stiv being the centrepiece of any label's roster. A good-enough take on "3rd Generation Nation" from their live LP Night of the Living Dead Boys—RateYourMusic reviewer mofoking shares some interesting backstory on how that LP came to be distributed by Bomp! and why nearly all of Stiv's vocals had to be overdubbed.

Side Four

The Crawdaddys: Perfectly competent Velvets cover, though the vox sneer their way past Lou into a Dylan impression.

The Martians: Previously appearing on this comp backing up "Blake Xolton" on a weirdo New Wave Christmas song, their own sound is traditional Merseybeat stuff. This isn't a classic, but it's a damned fine pastiche. Apparently they were a pair of record producers who joined together for this project, sharing lead vocal duties and playing all of the instruments themselves. No wonder it sounds great.

Pete Holly & the Looks: Heavy New Wave from Boise, Idaho, sporting a hilarious watery vocal filter and waka-waka guitar riffing. The chorus conceit is goofy ("Look out! Below!") but the Boiseans acquit themselves well. Somebody had to hold down the fort between Paul Revere & the Raiders and Built to Spill, so my thanks to Pete Holly.

The Wombats: Not the ’60s Wombats from Illinois or the ‘90s Wombats from also Illinois or the ‘00s Wombats from Liverpool, but rather a fourth Wombats from Cleveland, presumably the marsupial capital of the Lower Midwest. This (“Utter Frustration”) is sloppy and great and went by very quickly while I was trying to research whether Ohio's indeed part of the Lower Midwest, so I had to listen to it again.

Rainbow Red Oxidizer: A former sideman for the Seeds' Sky Saxton (presumably around the time he was fucking around with the Source Family), Rainbow Neal is accompanied by members of Focus, Spirit, Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, and even Mars Bonfire from Steppenwolf. I've got like six tabs open trying to figure out what this guy's deal is--love when a compilation sends me down a research hole like this. I'm sampling the Oxidizer LP now, and despite its New Wave window dressing, it's viciously sarcastic garage rock with the occasional jangly gem—if anything Rainbow's voice reminds me of Wire's Colin Newman. What a great song "When You Walk in the Room" is!

Cheek: Okay, these guys are Australian, covering an old Easybeats song, and are even produced by Vanda & Young, who give them something like a vintage AC/DC production sound, though these guys are considerably poppier than Angus and company. Vocalist does have a faint Bon Scott keen to his voice at times though.

The Romantics: Detroiters best known for "What I Like About You" (one of those songs I have heard ten thousand songs and never questioned the provenance of) turn in a rarity in "Running Away," a slab of pristine midwestern power pop that was apparently intended to be issued as a single with BOMP! but ended up seeing its first release here. They'd lose the Romantics to the Atlantic-distributed Nemperor Records right before they blew the fuck up, which has gotta be a label owner's nightmare.

Well, that took goddamn forever. If you’re still around, the tracks I most recommend fishing out are the Real Kids, Dadistics, “B” Girls, MnMs, Paul Collins, Nikki & the Corvettes, Last, Martians, Wombats, and Rainbow Red Oxidizer tunes. Not a bad haul!

138/365

[beckermanblog]

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[albinounicornz]

The bumper doesn't line up with fender on a corvette being shown at the Toronto Auto Show Boston Car Service

[screamingforyears]

IN A MINUTE:

A_NEW_MUSICAL_EXPRESSS… // “CLARA’S MOUTH” is a choice cut from @bedridden___’s freshly released EP titled ‘Amateur Heartthrob’ (@juliaswarrecs) & it finds the Brooklyn-based trio of Jack, Nick & Sean bringing a gauzy bout of NuGaze chockfull of swirling six-strings, driving low-ends & aesthetically slacked vox. “MASSIF CENTRAL” is the official lead single from @bodywashmtl's forthcoming LP titled ‘I Held The Shape While I Could’ (4/14 @lightorgan) & it finds the MTL-based duo of Chris Steward & Rosie Long Decter reflecting “on their separate/shared experiences of losing a sense of place” over a melacholic rush of gazey DreamPop. @carol.worldwide is here w/ “YOUR EYES SAY,” the latest single from her forthcoming LP titled ‘More Than A Goodbye’ (2/24 @disposableamerica) & it finds the NY-based singer-songwriter Carolyn Flaherty, rounded out here by Ruben Radlauer (drums), Emma Stacher (bass) & Jack Wetmore (guitar) bringing an Americana-tinged slice of IndieFolk. “VENOM” is a choice cut from the DRIN’s brand new LP titled ‘Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom’ (@feelitrecordshop) & it finds the Cincy-based sextet of Cole Gilfilen, Dakota Carlyle, Dylan McCartney, Luke Corvette, Ryan Sennett & Eric Dietrich bringing their anxiously agitated & morosely mood-driven post_punk. @jonnygmusic is here w/ “MIND ZONE,” the second single from his forthcoming debut LP titled ‘Life of Jonny’ (2/23 @budtapes) & it finds the Seattle-based artist living that “Very tight very cool very cute” mantra across 4 mins of psych-tinged & chilled_the_fuck_out FolkPop. “LOST” is the lead single/title-track from @lifeinvacuum forthcoming LP (4/14 @bornlosersrecords) & it finds the Toronto-based unit detailing the struggle “to find yourself & your place in a big city" across 3+ mins of sneeringly swaggered pub_rawk meets post_punking_hardcore.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Brand NWT never opened box R/C corvette 1:14 scale app driver camera 5 ways play.

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"HAMILTON MAN IN SEA ADVENTURE - Survivors of a ship which was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic in blinding snowstorm, these Royal Canadian Air Force officers were photographed as they arrived in Britain with the clothes they are wearing, and nothing else. The ship was sunk in the evening, and the men spent several hours in a lifeboat before a British corvette picked them up. Their clothes were soaked in salt water, but otherwise the group suffered no serious effects from the experience. The persons in this picture, all from Ontario, are: Rear row, Pilot Officer J. S. Dewar, Hepworth: Pilot Officer W. G. Rennie, 113 Burnsdale street, Lansing; Pilot Officer W. D. Hopkinson, 290 Wexford avenue south, Hamilton. Front row, Pilot Officer O. J. Cox, 607 Dufferin street, Toronto; Pilot Officer W. E. McLean, Waverly road, Toronto, and Pilot Officer Robert Essery, 844 Davenport road, Toronto. - R.CA.F. Photo," - from the Hamilton Spectator. May 21, 1943. Page 7.

[overheadexotics]

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