World Trade Center lives on through the USS New York LPD-21 - Fleet Week - Port Everglades 2019
USS New York (LPD-21) San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock at Fleet Week (April 29 to May 6, 2019) at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
General Information:
Name: USS New York
Namesake: The state of New York
Awarded: November 25, 2003
Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down: September 10, 2004
Launched: December 19, 2007
Christened: March 1, 2008
Acquired: August 21, 2009
Commissioned: November 7, 2009
Homeport: Naval Station Mayport
Identification: MMSI number: 369970522
Callsign: NNYK
Motto: Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget.
Status: in active service
Class and type: San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement: 24,900 tons full
Length: 208.5 m (684 ft) overall, 201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam: 31.9 m (105 ft) extreme, 29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft: 7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion: Four 10,400 hp sequentially turbocharged marine Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 41,600 shp (30 MW), driving Rolls-Royce controllable-pitch propellers
Speed: In excess of 22 knots (25 mph; 41 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried:
2 LCACs or 1 LCU;14 AAVs
Capacity: Embarked Landing Force: 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted) surge capacity to 800.
Complement: 28 officers, 332 enlisted
Armament:
2 Bushmaster II 30 mm Close in Guns, fore and aft
2 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft.
Aircraft carried:
Launch or land
2 CH-53E Super Stallion
2 MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft
4 CH-46 Sea Knight
4 AH-1 SeaCobra or
4 UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.
Naming:
Shortly after September 11, 2001, NY Governor George Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name New York on a surface warship involved in the Global War on Terrorism in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks. In his letter, the Governor said he understood state names were reserved for submarines but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved on 28 August 2002.
Sister ships:
On 9 September 2004 Gordon R. England, then the Deputy Secretary of Defense, announced that two of New York's sister ships would be named Arlington and Somerset in commemoration of the places where two of the other planes used in the attack came down: Arlington County, Virginia, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Construction:
A symbolic amount of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks was used in her construction.
The ship is the 1st to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to support all of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities—Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey.
The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2003. New York was under construction in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
7.5 short tons (6.8 t) of the steel used in the ship's construction came from the rubble of the World Trade Center; this represents less than one thousandth of the total weight of the ship. The steel was melted down at Amite Foundry and Machine in Amite, Louisiana, to cast the ship's bow section. It was poured into the molds on 9 September 2003, with 7 short tons (6.4 t) cast to form the ship's stem bar—part of the ship's bow. The foundry workers reportedly treated it with reverence usually accorded to religious relics, gently touching it as they walked by. One worker delayed his retirement after 40 years of working to be part of the project.
The ship was delivered to the Navy on 21 August 2009 at New Orleans. On 2 November 2009 the ship passed the World Trade Center site for the first time and gave the site a 21-gun salute.
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Canada, second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America.
Despite Canada’s great size, it is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries. This fact, coupled with the grandeur of the landscape, has been central to the sense of Canadian national identity, as expressed by the Dublin-born writer Anna Brownell Jameson, who explored central Ontario in 1837 and remarked exultantly on “the seemingly interminable line of trees before you; the boundless wilderness around you; the mysterious depths amid the multitudinous foliage, where foot of man hath never penetrated…the solitude in which we proceeded mile after mile, no human being, no human dwelling within sight.
” Although Canadians are comparatively few in number, however, they have crafted what many observers consider to be a model multicultural society, welcoming immigrant populations from every other continent. In addition, Canada harbours and exports a wealth of natural resources and intellectual capital equaled by few other countries.
Canada is officially bilingual in English and French, reflecting the country’s history as ground once contested by two of Europe’s great powers. The word Canada is derived from the Huron-Iroquois kanata, meaning a village or settlement. In the 16th century, French explorer Jacques Cartier used the name Canada to refer to the area around the settlement that is now Quebec city. Later, Canada was used as a synonym for New France, which, from 1534 to 1763, included all the French possessions along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
After the British conquest of New France, the name Quebec was sometimes used instead of Canada. The name Canada was fully restored after 1791, when Britain divided old Quebec into the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada (renamed in 1841 Canada West and Canada East, respectively, and collectively called Canada). In 1867 the British North America Act created a confederation from three colonies (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada) called the Dominion of Canada.
The act also divided the old colony of Canada into the separate provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Dominion status allowed Canada a large measure of self-rule, but matters pertaining to international diplomacy and military alliances were reserved to the British crown. Canada became entirely self-governing within the British Empire in 1931, though full legislative independence was not achieved until 1982, when Canada obtained the right to amend its own constitution.
Canada shares a 5,525-mile- (8,890-km-) long border with the United States (including Alaska)—the longest border in the world not patrolled by military forces—and the overwhelming majority of its population lives within 185 miles (300 km) of the international boundary.
Although Canada shares many similarities with its southern neighbour—and, indeed, its popular culture and that of the United States are in many regards indistinguishable—the differences between the two countries, both temperamental and material, are profound.
“The central fact of Canadian history,” observed the 20th-century literary critic Northrop Frye, is “the rejection of the American Revolution.” Contemporary Canadians are inclined to favour orderly central government and a sense of community over individualism; in international affairs, they are more likely to serve the role of peacemaker instead of warrior, and, whether at home or abroad, they are likely to have a pluralistic way of viewing the world.
More than that, Canadians live in a society that in most legal and official matters resembles Britain—at least in the English-speaking portion of the country.
Quebec, in particular, exhibits French adaptations: more than three-fourths of its population speaks French as their primary language. The French character in Quebec is also reflected in differences in religion, architecture, and schooling. Elsewhere in Canada, French influence is less apparent, confined largely to the dual use of French and English for place names, product labels, and road signs.
The French and British influences are supplemented by the cultures of the country’s native Indian peoples (in Canada often collectively called the First Nations) and the Inuit peoples, the former being far greater in number and the latter enjoying semiautonomous status in Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.
(The Inuit prefer that term rather than Eskimo, and it is commonly used in Canada.) In addition, the growing number of immigrants from other European countries, Southeast Asia, and Latin America has made Canada even more broadly multicultural.
USNS LEROY GRUMMAN T- AO -195 Entering Portsmouth Harbour UK Friday 27 April 2012
USNS Leroy Grumman T-AO-195 entering Portsmouth Harbour on a short visit,the shot was taken from the round tower.
USNS Leroy Grumman,the nineth ship of the Henry J Kaiser class,was laid down at Avondale Shipyard Inc.,New Orleans,Louisiana on 6th July 1987 and launched 3rd December 1988.She entered non- commissioned US Navy service under the control of Military Sealift Command with primarily a civilian crew on 3rd August 1989.
WISE & WPTA 11pm News, October 24, 2012
Weeknight newscast that was simulcast on then-NBC (now CW) affiliate WISE and ABC affiliate WPTA in Fort Wayne, IN. Commercials were edited. The recording of this broadcast was divided between the two stations.
The simulcast between WISE and WPTA would end in 2013, when separate newscasts were produced for WISE.
WPTA would assume the NBC affiliation on their 21.2 sub channel (branded as Fort Wayne's NBC) in 2016, and continues to produce separate newscasts for the channel. WISE then became an affiliate of the CW, with no local news programming.
More information can be found at the WISE-TV and WPTA Wikipedia pages.
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Sube a bordo del tren más escénico de Colorado en un viaje a través del espectacular Royal Gorge. Desde 1879.
Uno de los trenes turisticos más bonitos y agradables que existen, influenciado por un entorno único para los amantes de los deportes.
La Región de Royal Gorge de Colorado es el hogar del famoso tren Gorge Railroad, Royal Gorge Bridge, ideal para hacer Rafting, visitar la Bodega en Holy Cross Abbey, en el centro histórico, y realizar escalada y ciclismo de montaña. La Región de Royal Gorge de Colorado y Canon City están situadas a sólo 2 horas al sur de Denver ya 45 minutos al sur de Colorado Springs.
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Train by the Colorado Canyon. Welcome to the Royal Gorge.
Hop aboard the Colorado Scenic train on a journey through the spectacular Royal Gorge. Since 1879.
One of the most beautiful tourist trains and nice there, influenced by a unique environment for sports lovers.
The Royal Gorge Region of Colorado is home to the famous train Gorge Railroad, Royal Gorge Bridge, ideal for rafting, visit the Winery at Holy Cross Abbey, in the historic center, and perform climbing and mountain biking. The Royal Gorge Region and Canon City Colorado are located just 2 hours south of Denver and 45 minutes south of Colorado Springs.
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Llangelynnin Church is an old Welsh church that stands high above the Conwy Valley, North Wales. With its sister church a few miles away, Llanrhychwyn Church, it is one of Wales' oldest churches, dating from the 12th century, and was probably pre-dated by an earlier church of timber, or wattle and daub construction.
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