Popular winner in the Helly Hansen – Global Ocean Race Photographic Award

The Helly Hansen – Global Ocean Race Photographic Award competition took place during the double-handed Class40 Normandy Channel Race in brutal conditions that made any attempts at video or stills photography an extra challenge. Despite the constant upwind sailing in strong breeze, many of the teams sent images into the race office with a panel of judges choosing a shot by Axel Strauss and Nicolas Boidevézi of Class40 Defi GDE – Tzu Hang as overall winner.

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As with previous Kydd tales, this new book includes a technology item and the reader will learn the part ‘camels’ can play in raiding an enemy camp. The storm at sea will also introduce many readers to a type of storm peculiar to the Indian Ocean. There are the important highs and lows as the story unfolds and it seems that Renzi may at last be closing in on marriage and a new career as a novelist.

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This is a fully revised edition of a book published originally in 1987 by Conway Maritime Press.

The author has a well-established reputation for the standard of his research and his presentation of those facts. The publisher has an equally well-established reputation for the very high standard of its historical naval publications. The joining of author and publisher therefore provides high expectations and these are not disappointed. The production of the book is first class and the standard of the lavish illustration is excellent.

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What child doesn’t enjoy a bedtime story? Being swept up in tales of fun and laughter are some of the most magical moments you can share with a child and a new storytelling session at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth hopes to capture some of that magic.

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Because of the absence of gravity, fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do on Earth. In this image, a 3-millimeter diameter droplet of heptane fuel burns in microgravity, producing soot. When a bright, uniform backlight is placed behind the droplet and flame and recorded by a video camera, the soot appears as a dark cloud. Image processing techniques can then quantify the soot concentration at each point in the image. On the International Space Station, the Flame Extinguishing Experiment examines the combustion of such liquid fuel droplets. This colorized gray-scale image is a composite of the individual video frames of the backlit fuel droplet. The bright yellow structure in the middle is the path of the droplet, which becomes smaller as it burns. Initial soot structures (in green) tend to form near the liquid fuel. These come together into larger and larger particles which ultimately spiral out of the flame zone in long, twisting streamers. Image Credit: NASA

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June, 2011

[Olla-Podrida: an affectionate 18th C. term for a colourful medley of items]

Starting this month our newsletter has a new name – and we’ve many interesting features planned for the coming months. As well as “Jottings from Julian” (where the man himself has carte blanche to write about anything he’d like to share his thoughts on) “Editor’s Choice” brings recommendations for books, DVDs and documentaries across the broader historical scene – and there’s lots more besides. Do get in touch with any thoughts/suggestions.

1 OYEZ! OZEZ!
2 CONTESTS
3 HMS VICTORY
4 JOTTINGS FROM JULIAN
5 MALCOLM and MINERVA
6 EDITOR’S CHOICE
7 AT THE GEORGIAN TABLE

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WASHINGTON — You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists, and, yes, artists, too, have helped further the mission of the space agency.

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Take note of the following sessions in and around BEA involving Ingram staff:
IBPA 27th Annual Publishing University
IDPF Digital Book 2011
Publishers Launch BEA
IDPF Digital Book Zone

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The International 420 Class Association is pleased to announce the launch of a free online Training Video to provide coaching and training tips for both the beginner and experienced 420 sailors. Sailors are always looking for ways to improve their sailing techniques, improve manoeuvres and get the most out of the time spent on the water and this online resource is set to provide a significant step towards this objective.

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The new Firetrench eBookshop has opened to public access today. This is part of the 2011 portals upgrade programme for the FIRE Project on-line information resources.

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