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Thank you !
Can you believe it has been 50 years since the formation of Led Zeppelin.
Hats off to you gentlemen who took the world by storm and gave to us the very best Rock'n & Blues music ever created.
A triumph for those of you who are fans as we at anytime are able to listen or view Led Zeppelin's monumental conquest.
The photo above was taken in 1968 just as the band transformed from The New Yardbirds to Led Zeppelin.
Lower left is John Paul Jones Keyboard and bass guitar virtuoso.
Going right is Robert Plant vocals and harmonica...the very best there is.
Next is The One THE ONLY John Bonham drummer elite.
Then far right is Jimmy Page guitar extraordinaire and also producer of Led Zeppelin.
John Bonham sadly to say left us in 1980...we all miss you John so very much !
More Thanks goes out to manager of Led Zeppelin Peter Grant and to tour manager Richard Cole.
I also would like to say that i was extremely lucky to see Led Zeppelin at the Montreal Forum on February 6th 1975.
I have so many great vivid memories of this concert.
My favorite delight of the night is when they did No Quarter which was truly an amazing experience.
Thank you !
I got a new pump for my dump truck today along with new LED lights. It was quite expensive but I'm so happy with it. The dump is so much faster now too. :D
NASA's Johnson Space Center’s "Chamber A" in Houston is an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber and now appears to be opening it's "mouth" to take in NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for testing.
The telescope and the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) are two of the three major elements that comprise the Webb telescope Observatory flight system and are being lifted into the chamber in this photo. The other is the Spacecraft Element (spacecraft bus and sunshield), which is currently under construction at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) in Redondo Beach, California.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.
For more information about the Webb telescope visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov or www.nasa.gov/webb
To view the feature story about "Chamber A" visit: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-apollo-era-test-c...
Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn / Text credit: NASA/Rob Gutro
Image Description: The Webb telescope enters the giant Chamber A thermal vacuum chamber at NASA Johnson. At this point, Webb consists of mirrors and instruments but has not yet been mated with the sunshield or spacecraft bus. Webb is on its back, golden hexagonal mirrors face up. The secondary mirror support structure is extended like a tripod above the primary mirrors. The telescope lies on black and silver support equipment. It is approaching the giant mouth of the cavernous test chamber. The chamber is filled with test equipment and people in cleanroom suits. One of them stands on top of a red lift at left.
Sep 2 2017 - La Grande Roue all lit up.. changing colours and moving around the circle. It was quitre entertaining to watch as it continually evolved
Tilted Plane
Jim Campbell, 2011
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Whitney Museum of American Art
According to my friend who works for Disney, Disney will be switching to LED lights so that the entire display will require the amount of electricity it takes to power two refrigerators.
History provided by wikipedia.com
Jennings Osborne, along with his wife Mitzi, founded a medical research facility in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1968. The business' success allowed he and his wife to eventually purchase a large estate outside of town in 1976. In 1980, after five miscarriages, the Osbornes welcomed little Breezy into the world.
In 1986, Breezy made a very simple request of her parents for Christmas ... to decorate their home in lights. Jennings gladly complied, stringing 1000 lights around their home. "Each year after that, it got bigger and bigger," Osborne would later recall. So big, in fact, that Osborne purchased the two properties adjacent to his own and expanded the display into them.
By 1993, the display had over three million lights. Some of the more prominent features included:
an illuminated globe, with Little Rock and Bethlehem marked, mounted in the back yard;
two rotating carousels of lights, placed on each end of the estate's circular driveway;
a 70-foot-tall Christmas tree of lights with 80,000 lights in three colored layers, mounted atop the home's kitchen; and
a canopy of 30,000 red lights over a section of the driveway.[2]
The lights were a wildly popular attraction, both in Arkansas and around the world, as news crews often visited to film the display.
The display was, however, not as popular with the Osborne's neighbors. They claimed that the display created massive traffic jams near their homes, and filed suit in 1994 to have the display turned off. Ultimately, Osborne agreed to several conditions on the display, such as a set schedule for when the lights would be turned on and hiring off-duty police officers to help the neighbors enter and exit their properties.
Much as generosity spurred the creation of the display, another act of generosity may have spelled its doom in Arkansas. After a family arrived just after the display had been turned off for the night, Jennings agreed to switch the lights on for them, in violation of the court order and netting him a $10,000 fine. The neighbors returned to court, which sided with them and ordered the display turned off permanently. Osborne appealed to both the Arkansas Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, where Justice Clarence Thomas refused to hear the case.
The Disney connection
The story of the light display's court case brought national attention, including offers from several cities to host the display. Walt Disney World project director John Phelan contacted Osborne's attorney about moving the display to the Orlando resort, and eventually discussed the potential move with Osborne himself.
Osborne was intrigued by the offer, but initially understood that Disney wanted to put the display on another residential street in Orlando. What Phelan actually offered was to install the display on "Residential Street," a backlot section at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park. Being a fan of the resort himself, and realizing where the display would go, Osborne accepted Disney's offer. In 1995, the display was set up on Residential Street as "The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights," becoming an immediate success.
The Disney-MGM Studios display
At the Disney-MGM Studios, Residential Street was visited using the backlot tour's tram vehicles. When the light display was in place, however, the tram tours would stop before sunset, allowing guests to walk amongst the displays. Initially the display was purely the original lights from the Osborne estate, but in subsequent years the display was augmented to its current size of over five million lights. The display's Disney caretakers have also added a number of hidden Mickeys into the lights. The 2007 edition of the display features over 40 of the icons.
The display is made up of over 10 miles (16 kilometers) of rope lighting connected by another 30 miles (48 kilometers) of extension cords. The extension cords and lights are held together using two million ties. It takes 20,000 man-hours to install the display each holiday season, starting in September. The lights are turned on at dusk each night, starting in mid-November and running into the first week of January, and require 800,000 watts of electricity.
In 2004, the Disney-MGM Studios began construction on a new arena for its upcoming Lights! Motors! Action! Extreme Stunt Show, set to open in 2005. Part of the construction included the demolition of Residential Street, thus necessitating another move of the display. The solution was to move it to another part of the park, the New York Street set (now known as the Streets of America). As part of the move, the Studios added an artificial snow effect to the display, made up of 33 snow machines that use 100 gallons of fluid per evening.
In 2005, Sylvania became the presenting sponsor of the lights, as part of parent company Siemens' long-term sponsorship deal with the Walt Disney Company's theme parks, which also included the Spaceship Earth and IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth attractions at Epcot.
For the 2006 edition, the park added over 1500 dimmer relay circuits and control switches to the display to enable the lights to switch on and off electronically. The switches were choreographed to a musical score, and the display was given its current name. In this variation, a musical selection is played, during which the lights "dance" to the music. After each performance, the lights remain steady for about ten minutes before "dancing" again to another selection; other holiday selections play during the intermissions. The dancing segments cycle roughly every 30-40 minutes. For 2007, the "dance music" selections include:
"Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12-24)," by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Jingle Bells," by Barbara Streisand
"A Mad Russian's Christmas," by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Feliz Navidad," by José Feliciano
References
^ www.jenningsosbornefamily.com/mainframe.html
^ Disney-MGM Studios audio spiel, 2007 edition
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osborne_Family_Spectacle_of_Dancing_Lights"
From Wikipedia:
A light-emitting diode, usually called an LED (/ɛl.iː.ˈdiː/)[1], is a semiconductor diode that emits incoherent narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction, as in the common LED circuit. This effect is a form of electroluminescence.
An LED is usually a small area light source, often with extra optics added to the chip that shapes its radiation pattern.[2][3] LEDs are often used as small indicator lights on electronic devices and increasingly in higher power applications such as flashlights and area lighting. The color of the emitted light depends on the composition and condition of the semiconducting material used, and can be infrared, visible, or ultraviolet. LEDs can also be used as a regular household light source. One of the most important applications for society is the sterilization of water and disinfection of devices
Led by bicentennial unit 8604, four 86 class electrics power another coal train from the West through Clyde Yard on an overcast day in late 1990.
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