Lewis Hamilton brought McLaren their first victory of the season after a surprise result in Hungary on Sunday afternoon, his dominant success also marking Martin Whitmarsh’s first as team principal and the first for a KERS-equipped car. Kimi Raikkonen was second for Ferrari, containing a challenge from Mark Webber’s Red Bull. 

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From 15 to 18 June 2009, the Panzerlehrbrigade 9, in cooperation with the Training Center Munster presented the abilities of the German army in high intensive operations.

From here.

The Tverskaya Girl by enikOne
Original here 

Posting out of frustration: WHAT IS WRONG WITH GLOBAL WARMING?! Where is it, already? Gimme!

Took this picture today, while on the walk. *frustrated*

  xkcd

At the 'Deyata Kirula' or 'Crown for the Nation' exhibition the public file past under water vessel in the shape and appearance of a shark manufactured by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and captured by the Sri Lankan military when they overran a camp at Mullaitivu 384 kms north east of Colombo
07 February 2009 

Crowd watch as building that housed soon-to-be-opened Mandarin Oriental hotel burns after it caught on fire in Beijing 

Happy New Year, my dear friends! It's already 2009 here)



Government soldier walks through the looted village of Kayna after a day of fighting in eastern Congo. November 19, 2008 (Reuters) 

A firefighting helicopter flies through a smoke-filled sky over the Pacific Ocean at sunset as firefighters try to gain control of the Tea Fire on November 14, 2008 in Montecito, California. Thirteen people were injured and more than 100 homes destroyed in the first few hours as evening Sundowner Winds reached 70 mph, pushing the wildfire into multi-million dollar ocean-view homes last night. (Photo: David McNew) 

Here is a video of what the people of Edmonton, Alberta are calling a meteor. It ripped through the skies at roughly 530pm Thursday November 20th 2008.

The 'Flatmobile' designed by Perry Watkins is admired at a preview for the Essen Motor Show 2008 in Essen, Germany, 18 November 2008. The lowest street car will be seen at the Essen Motor Show from 29 November to 07 December 2008 

The crew for the final flight of the U.S. Air Force C-131 known as the Total-In-Flight Simulator pose with the aircraft Nov. 7 near a restoration hangar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The unusual aircraft flew some 2,500 research flights and contributed to the advancement of many of the flight technologies integral to today's fleet. Prior to its retirement, the TIFS, a 1955 Convair, was the oldest operating aircraft in the Air Force inventory. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ben Strasser)



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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft from the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deploys flares during a flight over Afghanistan Nov. 12, 2008. The squadron is deployed to Bagram Air Base. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force/Released)

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Интроспективно рефлексируя внутренние ощущения осознал, что они сравнимы с состоянием после четвертьфинала с Голландией. Радость, душевный подъём и гордость за страну, граничащая с эйфорией. Всех порвём, одни останемся.

И нет, я не собираюсь "охлаждать горячие головы", "беспристрастно констатировать горькую правду" и подстилать соломку в форме предсказаний неизбежного будущего слива. Ничего подобного. Всё-таки, чувство гордости за свою страну - это прекрасно. А ведь думал, что отвык, за все эти годы.

Скажу только одно. Если продолжать футбольную аналогию, то это был даже не четвертьфинал, а что-то вроде 1/64. И даже в этой стадии мы были аутсайдерами ("довели страну, демократы хреновы" (С)). И тем не менее, выиграли. Понравились ощущения?

А теперь представьте, что мы победили в финале!

К чему это я... А вот к чему.
Дорогой Дмитрий Анатольевич! Нашим футболистам проигрышь в полуфинале простителен. Вам - нет. Удачи!






З.Ы. В связи с переменой места работы и постоянными командировками, пока что не имею возможности наладить нормальный инет. Как только найду момент и организую всё как надо, фотоспам пойдёт с прежней силой. Я предупредил!
Администация приносит извинения за доставленные неудобства))
Всем френдам - спасибо за терпение.

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“...A vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tore through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam leaped towards the steamer. Big iron upperworks rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected and spat a smoking blast shot with fire. It was the torpedo ram, ”Thunder Child“, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping. The ”Thunder Child“ fired no gun, but simply drove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. Martians did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.
Suddenly the foremost Martian lowered his tube and discharged a canister of the black gas at the ironclad. It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.
Another Martian raised the camera-like generator of the Heat-Ray. He held it pointing obliquely downward, and a bank of steam sprang from the water at its touch. It must have driven through the iron of the ship’s side like a white-hot iron rod through paper.
A flicker of flame went up through the rising steam, and then the Martian reeled and staggered. In another moment he was cut down, and a great body of water and steam shot high in the air. The guns of the ”Thunder Child“ sounded through the reek, going off one after the other....”

H.G Wells (1898)

Why, oh why did they give us hope?!

Now I’m in despair.

Раз уж я оказался в Москве, и, похоже, выходные у меня будут относительно свободны, то может кто-нибудь подскажет, какой книжный магазин (или магазины) лучше всего тут посетить? Интересен большой выбор и цены в пределах разумного. Есть идеи?

А следующие картинки только после 11-го, да.

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080509-N-2735T-337PERSIAN GULF (May 9, 2008) Members of the helicopter visit, board, search, and seizure team of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln’s (CVN 72) perform a helicopter rope suspension maneuver out of an MH-60 Seahawk helicopter over the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA 4) during a training exercise while transiting the Persian Gulf. Both Nassau and Lincoln are deployed supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Coleman Thompson (Released)