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Last batch of photos of this event.
The weather was terrible the whole weekend, so I had to delete most of the photos I took. Too bad.
20 km de Lausanne 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nikon EF 17-50mm f/ 2.8 zoom lens
Exposure 1/80 sec @ f/4.5 ISO 100
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Hatch is gone...
my boy, Hatch crossed the rainbow bridge gently smiling on 04:30 July 27, 2012.
the boss of Yamato Park.
brave, wise, gentle boy.
after 3 years of dating and feeding at the park, in late December 2009,
dad found him in the baddest condition.
he was the AIDS carrier .
I knew his life was not so long but diceded to bring him home.
so Hatch became our family member.
about a year, he spend all day in his favorite bed.
and last year, I found his condition was getting better and better.
it turned this spring.
we went to the hospital every week.
in the fine Friday morning, finally he decided to liberate himself.
Hatch, we miss you...
but we want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH.
you are the special.
I still feel your strong energy in my heart.
I'm so so so happy to be your dad.
はっちが逝きました。
微笑んでいるかのような表情でした。
「余生は我が家で」と連れ帰ってから、２年半もがんばってくれました。
どうしようもない喪失感にさいなまれていますが、
「男のなかの男」はっちにバカにされそうなので、
ただただ「ありがとう」と言い続けることにします。
Simple shot but I liked it and added some artistic touchs. View On Black
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An afternoon eastbound scoot, shoved by an F7A, has just cleared the Hicks Road crossing in Palatine. Note the Datsun dealership on Northwest Highway! This building is a heating and air conditioning company now. Winter of 1974-75. Keith Rieger photo, collection of Mark Ratzer.
Sun dog formed by the difffraction of light by tiny ice crystals high in the atmosphere, commonly related to cirrus or strato-cirrus clouds, as seen here. Such clouds, at least around where I live, most often precede a weather front. Although Lake Huron looks calm here, later that evening it turned rough with a wind shift and rain following the next day.
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"The art of painting buses". By Tom Freeney.
A celebration of the work carried out for generations by well known family 'Freeney coach painters'
“NUMBER TWO COMING IN - - The second flight version of the Saturn V second stage (S-II) is unloaded from the barge “Pearle River” upon its arrival at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Mississippi Test Facility. Weighing 86,000 pounds, the 81 1/2 foot long, 33 feet in diameter stage is shown being towed into the Stage Storage and Servicing Building for checkout and preparations for installation in an S-II stand prior to static firing in March. This is the second flight stage of the S-II to be static fired at MTF. The first S-II test at MTF arrived at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla. last week.”
S-II-2 history:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-8.htm
More significantly, from the immensely readable & informative article by Andrew LePage:
“The second stage of the Saturn V was designated the S-II stage with North American Aviation as its prime contractor (which merged with Rockwell in March 1967 and subsequently with Boeing 29 years later). Unlike the S-IC and most earlier rockets, the S-II burned the high-energy combination of liquid hydrogen and LOX which yields about half again as much thrust as a like mass of more conventional propellants. With the same ten meter diameter as the S-IC stage, this stage was 24.8 meters long and carried 429 metric tons of cryogenic propellant. Its five Rocketdyne J-2 engines generated a total of about 4,450 kilonewtons of thrust in its initial versions. With a nominal burn time of 367 seconds, the S-II provided most of the energy to drive the rocket and its payload towards Earth orbit during an Apollo lunar mission with burnout occurring at a typical altitude of 185 kilometers and a speed of 6.8 kilometers per second…
…At this point, the delivery of the first two S-II stages from North American was running months behind schedule due to problems encountered during final assembly and testing. In order to keep the processing of the first pair of Saturn V rockets on track, it had been decided that the initial stacking of AS-501 would instead use a substitute – a S-II simulator designated H7-17 which had been originally constructed for handling training and test facility fit checks. The H7-17 test article basically consisted of a small diameter, load-bearing center column with S-II interfaces at either end giving the article a distinct spool-like shape. Modifications would make it suitable for use in the initial stacking and ground testing of the Saturn V…
…After being removed from AS-501 on February 13, 1967, the S-II spacer was added atop of S-IC-2 on March 29 so that stacking of AS-502 could be completed and initial testing of the second Saturn V could proceed. The S-II-2 stage finally arrived at Cape Canaveral on May 24 and, after completing an inspection of its liquid hydrogen tank for cracks on July 6, it was added to the launch vehicle on July 13 to begin the next round of preflight testing during the next six weeks. CSM-020 attached to its SLA with LTA-2R tucked inside was finally added to the stack on December 10…
…After casting off its spent first stage, the five J-2 engines of the S-II stage ignited 149.8 seconds after launch as Apollo 6 continued to accelerate towards orbit. At 184.8 seconds after launch, the LES separated since it was no longer needed to support abort options for the rest of the mission. All was going well until the 319-second mark when the fuel flow rate on engine J-2044 in the #2 position on the S-II stage suddenly increased at the same time its thrust decreased. Following a spike in the engine bay temperature, engine #2 shut down after running for 263.8 seconds out of a planned 368.8-second burn. Although it was showing no signs of trouble, engine J-2508 in the #3 position also shutdown 1.3 seconds later. After the loss of two J-2 engines, the Saturn V guidance system did its best to cope with the situation. While never configured to deal with the loss of two J-2 engines, Apollo 6 continued its ascent. Finally, the remaining three engines of S-II-2 shutdown nine minutes and 36.3 seconds after lift off. With the three remaining engines burning for 58.8 seconds longer than planned, Apollo 6 was travelling 102.3 meters per second slower than expected due to the lower acceleration while being 436.8 kilometer farther downrange and 6.4 kilometers higher because of how the guidance system tried to cope with the unexpected situation.”
The entire article at:
www.drewexmachina.com/2018/04/04/apollo-6-the-saturn-v-th...
Credit: Drew ExMachina/Andrew LePage
ALTERNATE ENDINGS
There are times when they gather at the edge of your life,
Shadows slipping over the far hills, daffodils
blooming too early, the dark matter of the universe
that threads its way through the few thousand blackbirds
that have invaded the trees out back. Every ending
sloughs off our dreams like snakeskin. This is the kind of
black ice the mind skids across. The candlelight burning down
into the sand. The night leaving its ashes in our eyes.
There are times when your voice turns over in my sleep.
It is no longer blind. The sky is no longer deaf.
There are times when it seems the stars practice
all night just to become fireflies, when it seems there is
no end to what our hearts scribble on corridor walls.
Only when we look at each other do we cease to be ourselves.
Only at a certain height does the smoke blend into air.
There are times when your words seem welded to that sky.
There are times when love is so complicated it circles
like chimney swifts unable to decide where to land.
There are endings so sad their shadows scuff the dirt.
Their sky is as inconsolable as the two year old, Zahra,
torn from her mother and beaten to death in the Sudan.
There are endings so sad I want the morning light
to scourge the fields. Endings that are only what the river
dreams when it dries up. Endings that are constant echoes.
There are times when I think we are satellites collecting
dust from one of the earlier births of the universe Don't give up.
Each ending is an hourglass filled with doors. There are times
when I feel you might be searching for me, when I can read
what is written on the far sides of stars. I'm nearly out of time.
My heart is a dragonfly. I'll have to settle for this, standing under
a waterfall of words you never said. There are times like this
when no ending appears, times when I am so inconsolably happy.
- Richard Jackson
I did eventually let him out on open water, since he promised me he would bring the boat back in. I also let him know if he didnt stay nearby I would leave without him. Its a big big world for a small pup, I dont think he liked the idea of being stranded out there, even if he would never admitt that.
Yet another one from Tuesday morning, I should really break these up with some other shots but we've had terrible weather since Tuesday evening with no break coming up according to the Met Office.
This was taken in the Peterley Manor Farm shops land, I never appreciated how lovely it was until I did some minor trespassing at 7:30am. If you take a look at their website you can see the old barn that houses the shop with acres of land around it dedicated to pick your own fruit and the growing Christmas trees and vegetables to sell in the farm shop, how very country boy of me to enjoy such things.
I'm seeing Harry Potter tonight. I. CANNOT. WAIT. Even at the age of 22 I get excited like I did when I read the first book 11 years ago. Damn how has it been 11 years. I'm getting old...