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thekitmanuk · 7 months
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Newcastle Jets 2023-24 Kits Unveiled
Football kit news from Australia as the Newcastle Jets 2023-24 kits made by Legend Sportswear have been unveiled. Newcastle Jets 2023-24 Home Jersey The new 2023-24 Newcastle Jets home shirt is predominantly gold with a tonal pinstripe pattern on the lower half of the front. Both the collar and cuffs are navy with a thin red centre stripe with the side panels coloured solid navy. A navy…
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aus-wnt · 4 months
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newcastlejetsfc | 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒈𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅! Matildas star joins the Jets on a four-game guest stint.
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newschurn · 2 years
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Newcastle Jets vs Western United prediction, preview, team news and more
Newcastle Jets vs Western United prediction, preview, team news and more
The A-League is back in action with another round of matches this week as Newcastle Jets take on Western United on Wednesday. The two teams have experienced contrasting fortunes this season and will want to win this game. Western United are in third place in the A-League standings and have been fairly impressive this season. The away side suffered a 1-0 defeat against Central Coast Mariners last…
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I thought that this home in Newcastle, Oklahoma looked kind of Mediterranean, but was I surprised when I saw the interior. Listed for $3.9M.
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Unique door shows the illuminated ceiling inside the house, through a transom. I hate that b/c the door is asymmetrical, they placed the mat off-center.
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The illuminated ceiling reflecting thru the door.
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Hello, ultra modern. Interesting fireplace and unique black columns.
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There is a bar in the living room, next to the dining area.
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Check out the kitchen. I see a round glass block “thing” fitted beside the counter. Then, there’s an island w/a sink & more stove tops, while overhead is a deep tray ceiling. All the cabinetry is white, but off to the side is an open area, with blue cabinets. Big blue canopy over the exhaust hood looks transparent. Weird design.
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I thought that the open area was a pantry, but it’s not. This is the pantry.
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This dining area looks so tight. I don’t think anyone could fit around the side of it. It looks like you can see the floor above. 
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Home office.
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It looks like the family room fireplace has some sort of family crests in marble, on the front.
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A large round bar separates the family room from the home gym. 
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A lone seating area out here. 
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And, the main bdm. has a round platform, but it fits a square bed. 
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Terrace outside of the main bdm.
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View from the 2nd fl. Is that a heart-shaped tub?
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This looks like a white indoor pool, but it’s actually either a lap pool or a big jetted tub.
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Down here is another bar, a very colorful one.
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It’s a part of this, the 2nd of 3 bdms. 
https://www.remax.com/ok/newcastle/home-details/3900-n-grant-dr-newcastle-ok-73065/13129738437931525422/M00000519/1028533
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Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of Universe
The echoes of light from jets launched from black holes offers a new way to pin down the distance to these exotic objects and to study a largely unobserved population in the centre of the Galaxy. It could also even help determine the rate of expansion of the Universe. The technique, developed by a team at the University of Newcastle and tested on the archetype black hole Cygnus X-1, was presented by postgraduate researcher and team member Patrick O’Neill at the National Astronomy Meeting in Cardiff.
Most black holes are the compact remnants of stars that ended their lives in supernova explosions. They have such a strong gravitational field that not even light can escape their grasp, hence the description of them as black. Despite that, the influence on their surroundings can be very obvious, as material orbiting a black hole is concentrated into a disc, and can become very hot. This means they are strong sources of X-rays, and many also have associated jets spewing gas and dust out over huge distances.
The calculated distance to most black holes is based on their X-ray brightness and associated measurements of their mass, which can be deduced by how fast material swirls around them. O’Neill and the other team members take a different approach.
Light from the black hole jet is emitted in all directions, so this reaches the disc. Just like a mirror, the disc then reflects some part of the incoming light. Starting from the innermost part of the disc, the reflected light will ripple outwards as the light emitted in the jet takes longer to reach the outer parts of the disc. This ‘reverberation’ of light is akin to a sound echo.
This effectively means we see the light originating from the jet in two ways: the light that travels directly to us, and the light that is reflected by the disc. By simultaneously monitoring the brightness of the light that travels directly to us and the light that is reflected, it becomes possible to deduce how far the jet is above the disc. It also tells astronomers how close the inner boundary of the disc is to the black hole itself. Closer in the gravitational field of the black hole disrupts the shape of the disc.
Monitoring the light emitted from the black hole jet and its surrounding disc together enables the team to calculate the size of the disc, and the fraction of the light it reflects. That gives an absolute measurement of the brightness of the disc, and hence the distance to the black hole-disc system.
Dense clouds of gas and dust typically block infrared, visible and ultraviolet light emitted from the centres of galaxies (including our own), restricting our view. In contrast, X-rays can cross these regions unimpeded, so it should be possible to measure the distance to supermassive black holes. If that can be done, it will be a new way of determining how fast the universe is expanding, something still not settled 94 years after the discovery of the expansion itself.
It is also a powerful tool for probing the population of black holes in the centre of the Galaxy. Up to now astronomers tended to observe black holes that were relatively light, and away from the plane of the Galaxy where most stars are found (our Galaxy has spiral arms in a flat disc winding out from a central bar).
Sometimes a black hole and a massive star orbit each other in a binary system. If the massive star explodes as a supernova, the black hole can be thrown out of the plane of the galaxy. The heavier the black hole, the smaller the acceleration, so heavier mass black holes will be found closer to the galactic plane and in the galactic centre.
O’Neill says: “Often we are limited to observations of distant galaxies to make inferences about the Milky Way. This cutting-edge technique offers a method of probing the previously concealed galactic centre, offering a new insights into the evolution of our own Galaxy and how black holes accrete material . It’s also exciting to think that we could help to establish the rate at which the Universe is expanding – and get a better understanding of its future.”
The team now want to build up a picture of the population of black holes in the centre of the Galaxy. This could help find objects like intermediate mass black holes, objects thought to result from the mergers of black holes from single stars, and a step on the way to forming the monster-sized supermassive black holes found in the centre of most galaxies.
IMAGE....Schematic of the reflection process in the black hole Cygnus X-1. The light emitted from the jet is shown in blue, which we say originates from a point source some distance above the black hole. The X-rays following path a) are observed directly by our telescopes. The light that follows paths (labelled b & c), reflect off the disc and follow the green trajectories to reach us. Light travelling along a) follows the shortest path to reach us, whereas the light travelling along path c) takes the longest path, and therefore takes the longest time to reach us.
Patrick O’Neill. Background image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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elmaestrostan · 2 months
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Emi Buendia says he has felt part of Aston Villa's season despite being unable to play alongside his teammates after suffering a devastating injury blow on the eve of the 2023/24 Premier League campaign.
The midfielder ruptured his ACL towards the end of a training session at Bodymoor Heath back in August as Unai Emery's squad were gearing up for their season opener against Newcastle United at St. James' Park. Buendia was arguably Villa's most impressive player during pre-season and he also featured in all 41 matches Villa played in all competitions last term.
Tyrone Mings then also suffered a similar injury, during Villa's defeat at Newcastle, to compound a disastrous first week of the season for Villa. The centre-back jetted out to the USA for the first part of his recovery but Buendia preferred to remain in the UK for his rehabilitation.
"Being close to my teammates was the reason I decided to have surgery in England and recover at the club," Buendia told Relevo. "I go to all the team's home games and I try to be in the locker room before and after the games.
"I tried not to lose that routine. From the first moment the boys have been very on top of me and I have not felt displaced.
“When the extent of the injury became known, Emery called me. He told me to be calm, that it was time for me to recover in the best possible way and to enjoy the family. That if I needed anything. Almost every day he asks about my progress, how I feel and how I am psychologically."
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robbielewis · 1 year
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Global defence company Leonardo bringing 200 jobs to Newcastle
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The maker of military helicopters and other technologies is opening a base at the Newcastle Helix site
By Tom Keighley Chronicle Live
International defence company Leonardo is recruiting for 200 roles in Newcastle after opening an office in the city centre to take advantage of local talent.
The Rome-based firm already employs about 8,000 people in the UK and has a range of contracts supplying the Ministry of Defence, including military helicopters and components for RAF aircraft. Its newest base, within Newcastle Helix's The Spark building will be home to research and development for its advanced military technology.
The firm has been supported by inward investment body Invest Newcastle, part of Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, which said Leonardo will benefit from closeness to Newcastle University, the UK National Innovation Centre for Data and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratories (Dstl).
Clive Higgins, chair and CEO of Leonardo UK, said: "The UK’s defence and aerospace industry is an engine for economic growth, prosperity and security, representing world-class research and technology and many thousands of well-paid jobs and amazing career opportunities for young people entering the workforce. Leonardo already employs over 8,000 people in the UK and our new site in Newcastle will allow us to expand even further, drawing on science and engineering skills from the North East region in order to develop the next generation of digitally-led technologies.
"With a track record in providing hundreds of quality early careers scheme places around the country each year, Leonardo’s new site in Newcastle will generate a wealth of opportunities for young people in the area. The skilled, well paid, high technology jobs that will be created by Leonardo in the North East are the kind of employment that will help address regional inequality, ensuring that the whole of Britain can enjoy a prosperous future."
Leonardo is involved in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), an initiative from the UK, Italy and Japan to produce a sixth generation fighter jet that will go into service in 2035. The firm has estimated it can generated £185m of economic benefit for the region over the next 10 years.
Jennifer Hartley, director of Invest Newcastle, said: "This significant investment from Leonardo represents a major boost for the city’s burgeoning defence and aerospace sector that will add millions of pounds to the local economy. This investment is testament to the strength of our eco-system, research strengths and ability to attract and retain the best talent.
Clive Higgins, Chair and CEO of Leonardo UK, and The Catalyst, part of the Helix site (Image: Newsquest)
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"Between the 200 jobs being created by Leonardo and the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) becoming operational on Newcastle Helix, we now have a nationally significant defence cluster that will drive further investment, innovation, and good jobs at all levels for our region’s residents. We look forward to continuing our work and support with Leonardo over the coming months to maximise the impact of this investment for local communities."
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irishgolfadventure · 11 months
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A Royal County Day
Today was our first day of golf and what a day it was! RCD lived up to all expectations. The course was very challenging and everything you would expect from a links course of it’s reputation. Some things I found particularly surprised by was how fast and rolling the greens were and how some of the tougher holes had domed shaped greens that gave you very little landing area for your approach shots. The front nine of RCD has had endless articles written about it as being the best nine holes of golf ever designed. I’m not a golf expert but from my point of view it was a beautifully difficult test of golf!!
We had outstanding caddies, Patrick and Lenny. They knew the course well and one was a story teller and the other offered the inside gossip of the club. The course itself had huge heathered mounds that were flowering with a bright yellow type of gorse which made the scenery even the more dynamic. The deep blue sea running alone side the course, the mountains of Mourne forming a striking background and the variety of greens of the golf course itself sprinkled with the brown sand traps and the mounds of bright yellow gorse. Truly picturesque.
On the tenth hole, I thought our golf trip was going to come to a quick end as I scaled the side of huge green side mound or should a say almost a cliff, which was only suitable territory for a mountain goat, to attempt to deliver a spectacularly executed flop shot from a ball buried knee deep in the heather. I know, brilliant idea! After a swing and advancing the ball three feet further down the side of the mound. I made a second attempt and that was one attempt too many as I temporarily lost my balance and started to go over backwards but being the finely tuned athlete I am...not... I managed to catch myself and gingerly scaled down the mound of my hands, knees and feet!! That was Kim’s first I told you so moment of the trip! I hate when she’s right!!!
One of the interesting bits of info we found out during the round was that Eli and Peyton Manning had bought the five star hotel located a block or two away from the course. We were unable to get a room there because it was going through a major renovation which the Mannings are, of course, funding. 
Some stats from the first round. I will being keeping a running total throughout the trip: (Kim prefers keeping hers to herself:-)
    Score 97
    Yardage Played - 6297
    Lost Balls - 2
    No. of Pars, Birdies, Eagles - 3 pars (I wouldn’t dare share the number of bogeys, double bogeys and worse:-) Remember I’m an 18 hdcp!
    Steps - 14,389
    Miles Walked - 6.2
    Green Fee - $375
    Caddie Fee - 60 pounds plus tax (These last two stats are a little tacky but I        know you’re curious on what it’s going to cost you when you take your Irish        Golf Vacation!!)
After the round, Kim and I headed to Quinn’s, a well known pub in Newcastle for a pint or two of Guinness and bar food! The atmosphere was what you would expect from a weathered old Irish pub. - Great vibe, good food and the friendliest people you’ll find anywhere! 
Then back to The Briers for our last night stay before moving on to Portstewart. I think we’re close to shaking the jet lag which means tomorrow we’ll probably go low at the next course we play, Ardglass Golf Club. BTW Low means lower than the 97 I shot today!
Stay tuned!!
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PS - The pictures posted just don’t capture how rolling and massive some of the mounds are but they still give you an idea of the experience.
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thekitmanuk · 2 years
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Newcastle Jets 2022-23 Australia Cup Kit Unveiled
Newcastle Jets 2022-23 Australia Cup Kit Unveiled
Football kit news from Australia as the Newcastle Jets 2022-23 Australia Cup kit made by Legend Sportswear has been unveiled. Newcastle Jets 2022-23 Australia Cup Kit The 2022-23 Newcastle Jets Australia Cup jersey is white with the top of the shirt coloured green. Three brown horizontal stripes run across the chest. The sleeves are white with green cuffs whilst the collar is brown. A white…
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angryskarloey · 2 years
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This post is very long, very interesting and about steam locomotives - read with caution.
Today, 30 July, is the anniversary of the birth of John G Robinson in 1856. He was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son of Matthew Robinson, a locomotive engineer, and his wife Jane. In 1872 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works. In 1878 he became assistant to his father at Bristol, and in 1884 joined the Waterford and Limerick Railway as their locomotive, carriage and wagon assistant superintendent. He was promoted to superintendent the following year.
Robinson joined the Great Central Railway as locomotive and marine superintendent in 1900, and in 1902 was appointed chief mechanical engineer. He remained in that post until 1922. Robinson was awarded a CBE in 1920.
During Robinson's time at the GCR the famous class 8K 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotives were introduced in 1911 and many more were built for the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers during the first world war. At the end of the war the GWR acquired more than 100 of these locomotves by purchase or loan. The best of them were overhauled and fitted with copper fireboxes in place of the steel ones they were built with, and they became known as ‘RODs’.
This photograph of ROD No 3040, by Ben Brooksbank, was taken at Oxford engine shed on 22 February 1953. The locomotive had been built in 1918 and became GWR No 3040 in 1925, working until withdrawn in June 1956.
Thanks to Ted Abear when a fireman at Southall shed, we have this description of a journey from Southall to Oxford on ROD No 3028:
2.15pm SOUTHALL TO WASHWOOD HEATH
In the Spare Goods and Goods Link at Southall, besides the booked work you had the odd day when you would be booked spare. It was a timed spare turn and the roster clerk could move you two hours either side of that time. I was shown to be 2.00 pm spare one Saturday afternoon and I was rostered to book on at 12.30 pm, prepare the loco to work the 2.15 pm Southall West Junction to Washwood Heath via Oxford. This was a train of coal empties (Pools). The driver I was booked with was Joe King (known to the firemen as ‘Boilerbuster’!). He was a decent old boy in himself, but he had this fetish for water. Some said he couldn’t pass a water column without taking water.
We had booked to us a rare beast, ROD 2-8-0 No 3028. This class was introduced in 1911, of Great Central Railway design. They were a large boilered engine with only a steam brake and no vacuum. This one was an Oxley engine which had wandered into the London area and was being worked home. I already had experience of the RODs on trains to Acton. Considering the size of these locos and with them only having a steam brake, (the boiler pressure was only 185lbs psi) I had never seen or got one to ‘blow off’ on the safety valve.
Joe and I prepared the loco, I had filled up the firebox (and it was a big box) to get as we used to say a ‘Royal Start’. I washed down and cleaned the boiler front and stacked the coal on the tender. Joe said: “Bring her up to the water column and you can go and make the tea in the cabin while I watch the tank.” When I came back, Joe had made sure we had plenty of water. He had filled up the boiler: using the expression ‘to the whistles’ would be true. We couldn’t blow the whistle when we went to move; it just blew a jet of water up in the air.
So, we started off shed and, all the way to Southall West Junction down yard, moved very slowly, water coming out of every hole it could find, chimney, cylinder cocks and whistles. The boiler was solid! There was no fear of the engine making enough steam to blow off. We only had 100 lbs pressure on the clock as we trundled through the yard to West Junction leaving a wet shower behind us.
Our guard, Mickey Walker, a small man, gave us the load after we had managed to back on – 60 coal empties (Pools). I thought that at least it’s a train of empties. “Give us a chance to get on the van when you pull out,” said Mickey.
I said: “I think you will have time to walk back to the van before it starts moving with this old crate on the job.” Joe blew up for the road with a mixture of steam and water, and after the 2.00 pm Paddington to Swindon passed on the down main line we got the road for the ‘down main’.
Joe opens up and we started to move slowly as we spewed water and steam everywhere. Joe said: “She seems a bit sloppy but she will soon clear herself.” Approaching Hayes, I had started the old ‘poke and blow’ routine as we samba-ed along swinging side to side. It was one of the features of this class of loco as once they were on the move they rocked from side to side. There was just 100 lbs pressure on the clock. I then noticed the water bob on the top of the gauge glass and thought to myself this will be a bit more room to get some steam if possible. We went down the main line through Slough, sashaying along, with the signalman hanging out of the Middle Box window waving his dusters telling us to get a move on. Eventually we were crossed over to the relief line at Maidenhead East Junction to run on the down relief line to Reading. The old girl was still holding steady at 100 lbs on the clock and I was managing to keep the water level at three quarters of a glass, with our speed at about 30 mph.
Passing Twyford I looked at the fire and decided to give it a good pull round, so I got the long fire-iron (pricker) down off the tender and gave the fire a good root up. I certainly had got a box full. As we approached Reading under all clear signals on the down relief line and still swinging from side-to-side, Joe said to me: “What’s that noise?” When we both looked over the side, we could hear the old girl blowing off at the safety valve!
This raised quite a cheer from the Reading men on the Pilots as we stopped at the water column to fill up the tender. I had been maintaining half a glass of water up to now, so I had both feeds on filling the boiler to have a ‘Royal Start’. When I looked up at the pressure gauge it was showing 100 lbs pressure, so I climbed up on the seat to give it a bang with my fist and it shot round to 185 lbs pressure. It looked as if the Bowden cable in the steam gauge had stuck.
Between Reading and Didcot things were certainly different as she was steaming well and having a little blow off now and again. Running round the back road at Didcot (the ‘Gulley’), Joe had a big smile on his face and the water was up out of sight in the gauge glass. We were relieved by Oxford men at Oxford station on the middle road, arriving with the old girl blowing off and the boiler full. After taking more water, away they went for Honeybourne on the Worcester road.
To end this saga, I met the Oxford fireman later in the following week at Oxford. He said that she went like a good ‘un to Honeybourne. As he passed Kingham, he started to let the fire down to give it a bit of a clean. When he got to Honeybourne he found that the brick arch had collapsed and the bricks had all but burnt away. So, we agreed on one thing, that if you want an ROD to steam, get rid of the brick arch! I then thought maybe I had done that when giving her a good pull round at Twyford.
Happy Days.
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natromanxoff · 2 years
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Why the young roll in to see rock’s pied pipers
By JAMES GREEN
THEY are the phenomenon of our time. There is nothing within traditional showbusiness that can match the Pied Piper lure of open-air rock and pop concerts.
For a whole new young generation they are the look and sound of 'eighties entertainment, and any reservations were shattered exactly one year ago today by Bob Geldof's global Live Aid spectacular at Wembley Stadium.
And the bandwagon rolls on.
On Friday, and again last night, rock showman Freddie Mercury and Queen, with Status Quo on the bill, drew 72,000 ecstatic fans both evenings to a stadium more noted forthe magic of Kenny Dalglish or Gary Lineker.
COLOUR
A week ago, 41-year-old Rod Stewart and The Faces played for 62,000 on the same turf, and in June 72,000 (the crowd limit) attended an emotional farewell gig for Wham!
I found the age range interesting. The kids turned out for Wham! Rod Stewart's following was in the 20 to 30 bracket, and Queen appealed from the kids to wrinklies.
If you have never seen a big arena rock show, it is a revelation to emerge on the Wembley terracing and look down on the carnival antics of the mass of humanity occupying the pitch.
It is a blaze of colour. There are T-shirts, golf umbrellas, shorts, anything goes fashions, long and mini skirts, scarves, the odd shirtless wonder, and the yellow jackets of stewards. You could be a health risk in suit and tie.
Some jig and dance. Others punch the sky in response to the thudding beat. And still more are singing. They all seemto know the words.
That, coupled with the sound spewing from enormous speakers — like a jet taking off from nearby Heathrow — makes a football crowd roar a mere whisper.
But while Wembley maybe the prime venue, there are many more, and bigger, around the country. When Queen are at Knebworth Park on August 9, around 120,000 are expected.
There were 60,000 recently for rock at Ibrox Park, and 150.000 when Bob Dylan sang at Blackbushe.
The Queen concerts, like most others, sold out almost overnight. There were 500,000 applications for Wembley; the ticket queue at Newcastle was longer than when the "Magpies" were in the Cup Final; and Manchester experienced a similar rush.
Tickets cost one price of £14.50 or £15 and there are no reserved seats. You can stand out front with the majority or find a seat under cover.
So what has produced the phenomenon?
I put that question to two leading British promoters Harvey Goldsmith, 40, who presented Queen and Derek Block, who had the Rod Stewart show.
“First,” said Harvey Goldsmith, “the artists (…) are always a worldwide attraction.
“We have a generation that wants to be involved and be part of ‘the event’. There is a sense of camaraderie and (…) having a day out.
“The fans are there to (…) themselves and they behave very well. They want to see the star band, have a good time and circulate among thousands of others, and share in a special occasion.
“The real magic comes as the sun and light go and the arena darkens. Then you can feel the atmosphere.”
Derek Block says: “These concerts have become possible because of the new technology. They are an event and the public walk around afterwards wearing a T-shirt announcing that they were there.
"In Britain it started 20 years ago with the Bob Dylan Isle of Wight festival. It was unsophisticated and there were no large TV screens.
“It was a time of flower power and anti Vietnam war feelings, and what we had was a young generation expressing themselves. They didn't want to have chicken in a basket and watch cabaret like their parents.
"I remember in the early days discussing with Harvey whether there was a hippie feel in Britain. Would they sit in a field or puddles when they couldn't hear much and the star was a tiny distant dot?
CRUSH
"Thanks to technology and giant TV screens that has changed. But we take a chance with the weather."
Today mounting such a show is a mind boggling operation. This is Andy Zwek, production manager for the Queen and Stewart concerts:
"For six days this week, I had 100 men working on day and night shifts preparing the stage and all the other things. There were 15 trailer loads of steel for the scaffolding.
"The stage measures 120 ft, that's on the ‘D’ behind one goal, there are 120 speakers, a 30ft by 20ft starvision screen has a huge water reservoir to counter balance the weight, and the grass is covered by foam rubber, then 2,000 sheets of plyboard, and on top of that is a plastic surface.
"There are over eight miles of cable, and without doing my sums, the equipment has got to cost over £1 million.
"A lot of fans like to crush together in front of the stage, and with the closeness and excitement they get dehydrated.
“In America they cool them down with a hose but we've given that up. We've taken a tip from Mexico and we've had thousands of bags of water prepared.
DEMAND
"They are handed out by our team with paper cups and take some of the emotion out. It's nice that in seven years behaviour has been great. I haven't seen a sign of blood or a fight."
What about costs?
“We have nearly 700 general and backstage security men on duty," says Goldsmith. "Simply producing the two Wembley concerts, leaving aside artists' fees, the bill is £750,000.
“Do your sums right and it can be profitable. But being one per cent out in your calculations is an expensive mistake. Planning starts seven months ahead and we know almost immediately if we have a sell-out and a financial success.”
Block adds: “There are two reasons we go into the open air — the demand for tickets based on drawing power, and the basic costs. If we went into the largest indoor centres then ticket prices would have to be higher.
"Rod's production cost, including band fees, was around £700.000. Bruce Springsteen did three shows at the stadium last year, not for my company, and he would have been left looking at 800,000 to 1 million dollars for each performance.
"What we are doing is putting on a more costly show than a big West End musical, and there are few British promoters capable of handling the deal.
"It's a bit like putting on England v Scotland at Wembley.”
There are only some 20 stars or bands who can justify the operation. Goldsmith names some… " Dylan, Bowie, The Stones, Queen, Police, Madonna, Neil Diamond, Dire Straits, and Michael Jackson."
Barbra Streisand? "If she would do it, she could be the biggest of the lot."
Leaving Derek Block with the last word. "We've got to get bigger and better. People will become more discerning and must not leave disappointed.
HEROES
“Pop music goes in cycle of about eight years, with the fan starting at the age of (…) and going on to 19. It is (…) generation which is (…) reflected.
“In a year to 18 months (…) shall reach the end of (…) present cycle and the (…) batch of teenagers will (…) today’s stars as old hat (…) one like Paul Young (…) become the new Rod Stewart (…).
“So it carries on. (…) generation make (…) heroes with some (…) acts like Dylan (…) Springsteen lasting forever (…).”
[Photo caption: The mercurial talent of Queen, left, and, above, the crowd laps up the beat.]
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usafphantom2 · 2 years
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Anlifts off the Williamtown tarmac
Up to 28 fast jets from Amberley, Williamtown and Tindal have taken to the skies for the East Coast Air Defence Exercise (ECADEX 09). The exercise began on Monday 16 November and will run until Friday 4 December.
ECADEX 09 is a vital training exercise for Air Force personnel to maintain operational capability and to practice key air defence skills. The exercise also provides an opportunity for Air Force personnel to practice their skills at maintaining the integrity of Australian air space and protecting vital infrastructure, such as a shipping port or an airfield.
The majority of the aircraft assets and personnel are operating out of their home bases at RAAF Williamtown (NSW) and RAAF Amberley (QLD) for the duration of the exercise. Exercise flying will be conducted over water from Newcastle to Evans Head.
The exercise scenario is designed to test both passive and active air defence capabilities where a ‘Blue’ or friendly force will protect the integrity of Australian air space and vital infrastructure against attack from a ‘Red’ or opposing force.
Red Forces include RAAF Amberley's F-111 strike aircraft and RAAF Williamtown's MK-127 Hawks, whilst Blue Forces located at RAAF Williamtown include F/A-18 Hornets.
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kappararu · 3 hours
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29.03.24 15:30 Bristol City - Leicester City Not to lose and Total Over(1.5) - Leicester City : Yes 1.52 29.03.24 16:00 Millwall - West Bromwich 2T to score Yes 1.37 29.03.24 18:00 Hull - Stoke City 1T Handicap(0) 1.42 29.03.24 18:00 Southampton - Middlesbrough Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Southampton : Yes 1.49 29.03.24 18:00 Cardiff City - Sunderland 1T Handicap(0) 1.77 29.03.24 18:00 Huddersfield - Coventry City X2 1.37 29.03.24 18:00 Norwich City - Plymouth Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Norwich City : Yes 1.41 29.03.24 18:00 Preston - Rotherham Utd Not to lose and Total Over(1.5) - Preston : Yes 1.49 29.03.24 18:00 QPR - Birmingham 1T Handicap(0) 1.46 29.03.24 18:00 Sheffield Wednesday - Swansea City Total Over(2) 1.38 29.03.24 20:30 Blackburn - Ipswich Town 1T Handicap(+1.5) 1.31 29.03.24 23:00 Watford - Leeds Not to lose and Total Over(1.5) - Leeds : Yes 1.38 29.03.24 14:00 Karpaty - Victoria Sumy 1 1.55 29.03.24 18:30 Gil Vicente - Famalicao 1X 1.33 29.03.24 18:30 Cerro Largo - Racing Montevideo 1X 1.38 29.03.24 19:30 Yellow cards Dynamo Moscow - Yellow cards FC Rostov Total Over(3.5) 1.6 29.03.24 19:30 Dynamo Moscow - FC Rostov 1T Handicap(0) 1.39 29.03.24 21:00 Benfica - Desportivo Chaves Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Benfica : Yes 1.42 29.03.24 21:30 Xamax - Schaffhausen Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Xamax : Yes 1.39 29.03.24 21:30 Stade Nyonnais - Sion Not to lose and Total Over(1.5) - Sion : Yes 1.45 29.03.24 22:00 Telstar - FC Utrecht (res) Total Over(2) 1.31 29.03.24 22:00 Emmen - Ajax (res) Total Over(2.5) 1.42 29.03.24 22:00 De Graafschap - AZ Alkmaar (res) Total Over(2.5) 1.49 29.03.24 22:00 NAC Breda - MVV Maastricht Correct score at 60:00 min Total Over(1.5) 1.49 29.03.24 22:00 VVV-Venlo - FC Oss 2T Handicap(+1.5) 1.45 29.03.24 22:00 Helmond Sport - Willem II Helmond Sport 1T Individual Total Under(1.5) 1.37 29.03.24 22:00 FC Den Bosch - Dordrecht 2T Handicap(0) 1.49 29.03.24 22:00 Den Haag - FC Groningen Both teams to score: Yes 1.62 29.03.24 22:00 Penarol - Nacional Montevideo 1T Handicap(0) 1.52 29.03.24 22:15 Bellinzona - Aarau Total Over(2) 1.43 29.03.24 23:00 Lille - Lens Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Lille : Yes 1.44 29.03.24 23:30 Estrela Amadora - Sporting Lisbon Sporting Lisbon 2T Individual Total Over(1.5) 1.35 29.03.24 11:45 Adelaide Utd - Western Utd 2T Handicap(+1.5) 1.36 29.03.24 15:30 FK Qabala - Neftchi Baku Total Over(1.5) 1.31 29.03.24 17:00 Egnatia - Kukesi 1T Handicap(0) 1.34 29.03.24 18:00 FC Kapaz - Qarabakh 1T Handicap(+2.5) 1.37 29.03.24 18:00 Dila Gori - Iberia 1999 2T Handicap(+1.5) 1.33 29.03.24 20:00 Dynamo Batumi - Torpedo Kutaisi Total Over(2) 1.33 29.03.24 20:10 St. Polten - SKU Amstetten Not to lose and Total Over(1.5) - St. Polten : Yes 1.42 29.03.24 20:10 Leoben - Kapfenberg Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Leoben : Yes 1.31 29.03.24 21:00 Tirana - Teuta Durres 2T Handicap(+1) 1.44 29.03.24 21:30 Austria Wien - Blau Weiss Linz Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Austria Wien : Yes 1.34 29.03.24 22:00 Sint-Truiden U21 - Liege FC U21 1T Handicap(0) 1.4 29.03.24 22:30 SV Josko Fenster Ried - Grazer AK Both teams to score: Yes 1.66 29.03.24 22:30 Burgos - Espanyol 2T to score Yes 1.49 29.03.24 22:45 Gent - Standard Correct score at 60:00 min Total Over(1.5) 1.81 29.03.24 23:00 Cadiz - Granada CF Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Cadiz : Yes 1.35 30.03.24 09:30 Melbourne City - Newcastle Jets Not to lose and Total Under(4.5) - Melbourne City : Yes 1.55 Stats of this predictions here : : https://t.me/KapparaLive/1720 My channel : https://t.me/KapparaVip Bookmaker top30 : http://hubu.ru/sportwager Watsapp group : +380684476012 My tips here : http://kappara.online Site http://kappara.ru  link exgange , paid articles , partners program write to watsapp
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Hidden supermassive black holes reveal their secrets through radio signals
Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced in extremely bright galaxies. The findings are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The team of international astronomers, led by Newcastle University and Durham University, UK, used new data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is conducting a five year survey of large scale structure in the universe that will include optical spectra for ~3 million quasars; extremely bright galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. They found that quasars that contained more dust, and therefore appeared redder, were more likely to have stronger radio emission compared to the quasars that had very little-to-no dust, appearing very blue.
Almost every known galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which are black holes with a mass millions to billions that of our Sun, at its centre, including our own Milky Way. In some galaxies there is lots of material in the centre, feeding and growing this supermassive black hole, making it very energetic and “active”. The most powerful type of these active galaxies are called “quasars”, which are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Most quasars appear very blue, due to the bright disc of matter that orbits and feeds the central supermassive black hole which is very bright in optical and ultraviolet wavelengths. However, astronomers have found that a significant fraction of these quasars appear very red, although the nature of these objects is still not well understood.
In order to understand the physics of these red quasars, “spectroscopic” measurements are required, which can be used to analyse the quasar light at different wavelengths. The “shape” of the quasar’s spectrum can indicate the amount of dust present surrounding the central region. Observing the radio emission from quasars can also tell you about the energetics of the central supermassive black hole; whether it is launching powerful “winds” or “jets” that might shape the surrounding galaxy.
This new study, led by Dr Victoria Fawcett of Newcastle University, and previously Durham University, uses spectroscopic observations from DESI to measure the amount of dust (reddening) in a sample of ~35,000 quasars and link this to the observed radio emission. They find that DESI is capable of observing much more extreme red (dusty) quasars compared to similar/previous spectroscopic surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). They also find that redder quasars are much more likely to have strong radio emission compared to typical blue quasars (see link to movie at the end of the article). 
Dr Fawcett says: “It was really exciting to see the amazing quality of the DESI data and to discover thousands of these, previously rare, red quasars. I feel like this study puts lots of the puzzle pieces together in our understanding of red quasars and definitively links the dust in a quasar to its radio emission. I think this is the strongest evidence so far that red quasars are a key element in how galaxies evolve.” This reddening-radio connection is likely due to powerful outflows of gas driven away from the supermassive black hole, which slam into the surrounding dust, causing shocks and radio emission. These outflows will eventually blow away all the dust and gas in the central region of the galaxy, revealing a blue quasar and resulting in weaker radio emission. This is consistent with the emerging picture that red quasars are a younger, “blow-out” phase in the evolution of galaxies. Red quasars may therefore be extremely important for understanding how galaxies evolve over time.
Dr Fawcett continues “There are still many unanswered questions surrounding red quasars, such as whether black hole winds or radio jets are ultimately responsible for this enhanced radio emission. However, with the sample of DESI red quasars continuing to grow over the next few years of the survey, I am confident that we are on the brink of fully understanding the nature of these red quasars.”
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