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The atmospheric entry probe part of a representative model of the twin Vega (Вега) spacecraft, part of the Soviet space programme. Vega 1 and 2 were launched on Proton rockets from Baikonur on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively, heading for Venus, where they arrived on 11 and 15 June 1985, respectively.
Both Vega 1 and 2 deployed probes with designs similar to those of the Venera (Венера) series: both contained a surface lander and a balloon, contained within a spherical container (seen here). After a high speed atmospheric entry at 125km, parachutes were used to slow the probes down, with accelerations reaching hundreds of g. Release of the cap section at 64km altitude revealed the balloon package, after which the balloon was filled an operated at 54km altitude.
The bottom half of the shell was released and then the main chute, leaving the probe to fall on its own from an altitude of 47km for an hour to the surface, slowed purely by aerodynamic braking in the dense Venusian atmosphere. The Vega 1 probe operated for 20 minutes under surface conditions of 467˚C and 95 atmospheres: some of its surface experiments had been prematurely initiated at an altitude of about 18km by a very hard shock in the atmosphere. Vega 2's lander returned data for 56 minutes under conditions of 463˚C and 91 atmospheres.
The two carrier spacecraft then continued on to conduct flybys of Comet 1P/Halley on 6 and 9 March 1986, coming within 8890km and 8030km of the nucleus, respectively. They thus obtained images prior to the flyby of ESA's Giotto on 13 March, helping the latter to target its approach at 596km.
As seen in the NPO Lavochkin museum near Moscow.
Thanks to Don P. Mitchell (mentallandscape.com) for many of these details.
For the June Monthly build of Imperial Conquest.
This probe was used for spying on hostile planets. If any Rebel suspects were found they would be monitored for a few days and if necessary, would be silenced.
Construction on a new microscopy building at the Center for Nanoscale Materials has been completed and the center should be ready for occupancy by the end of fall 2009. Read more »
Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
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The first generation Probe was produced between 1989 and 1992 and Ford hoped the sports coupe would appeal to the British Capri buyer. An attempt was made to market the Probe in the UK as a Capri replacement. In reality it was nothing like the beloved Capri and was more like the Mazda on which it was based. The second generation Probe appeared in 1993 and became a slightly more familiar sight on British roads. The car had a short production life ending in 1997, and Probes are now few and far between.
date: March 25th, 2012
model: Amanda
vehicle: Ford Probe aero art car
vehicle courtesy of: Tyler Linner
location: Detroit, MI
a culture of denial prevails within the Queensland Police Force.
the thug and bullying tactics of the Queensland Police Force as they protect their own in the face of a death on Palm Island.
Gorvan, a member of the alien force, could do no worse as the Queensland Police Commissioner than the current holder of that positon.
In dishonour we serve
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In mid-January 2022, British tabloid the Daily Mail published a long story about U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Jr, in which it was alleged that he’d been involved in a number of shady businesses, some of them targets of Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and enforcement actions. The piece was subsequently picked up by the NY Post and several Republican political organs. We’ll take a look to see if there’s any fire to go along with all the smoke.
Paul Pelosi Jr is the only son of Nancy and Paul Pelosi; their other four children are daughters. (One of them, Alexandra, memorably said of her mother on CNN: “She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding.”) Like his siblings, Paul isn’t a kid; he’s 52 and has worked as an attorney and environmentalist since he was in his 20s. He graduated from Georgetown University and has been a member of the California Bar since 1996 and a California real estate broker since 2002. He’s been fairly low-profile in his business and personal life. His sisters Christine and Alexandra are better-known.
At LinkedIn, Paul lists Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Start-ups, Corporate Development, Venture Capital, New Business Development, Investment Banking, and more as “skills” he possesses, and at which he presumably excels. Early in his career, he worked for Bank of America, but more recently, he’s been associated with smaller enterprises, some of them startups. As everyone who follows the OTC market knows, that choice can present its own dangers.
The Mail says that Paul “was involved in five companies probed by federal agencies—but has never been charged himself,” adding that “[a] shocking paper trail shows Paul Pelosi Jr.’s connections to a host of fraudsters, rule-breakers and convicted criminals.”
InfoUSA
In 2007, Paul had a full-time job working as a home loan officer at Countrywide Home Loans in San Mateo. He was nonetheless hired by data collection company InfoUSA as a senior vice president earning $180,000 annually, presumably in addition to his salary from Countrywide. InfoUSA was the creation of Vin Gupta, an Indian immigrant who’d become an enormous success in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Originally called American Business Information (ABI), by 1994, the company traded on the Nasdaq. In 1997, Gupta stepped down as CEO, saying he believed more experienced management was needed.
Nonetheless, he took over once again the next year and renamed the company InfoUSA. In 2008, the name was changed a third time to InfoGROUP. In 2010, Gupta sold the company for $680 million. By then, Gupta had acquired more than 45 companies to combine with InfoGROUP and had expanded operations worldwide.
But not all was sunny at the company. For years, Gupta had treated it as his own private property, arranging for very large amounts of money to be paid to him personally. On March 15, 2010, the SEC sued Gupta, a board member, and two company employees: Vasant H. Raval, former chairman of the audit committee, and Rajnish K. Das and Stormy L. Dean, each of whom had served as CFO of InfoGROUP at different times. How did the SEC become interested? Some shareholders became aware of Gupta’s “perks” and sued him in Chancery Court in Delaware, where InfoUSA/InfoGROUP was incorporated. The SEC learned of the action and opened its own investigation.
The SEC alleged that between 2003 and 2007, the company gave Gupta approximately $9.5 million in unauthorized and undisclosed perquisites. The cost was either billed directly to InfoGROUP or through Annapurna Corporation or Aspen Leasing Services, two entities controlled by him. According to the relative complaint:
Gupta’s expenses that were reimbursed by Info as business expenses included, among many others, costs related to private jet travel to Italy, the Virgin Islands, Cancun, Miami, and Las Vegas; travel and accommodations in South Africa; computers for his sons; 28 club memberships; over 20 automobiles; certain costs associated with a home in Aspen, Colorado and a winery in Napa Valley, California; and personal life insurance policy premiums.
Gupta agreed to pay disgorgement of $4,045,000, prejudgment interest of $1,145,400, and a penalty of $2,240,700 and consented to an order barring him from serving as an officer or director of a public company. Raval also settled with the SEC. At the time the complaints were filed, the case against Das and Dean was ongoing.
So then. What does all this have to do with Paul Pelosi, Jr? Nothing, really. Gupta’s been supportive of Democratic politicians for decades; he and Bill Clinton used to play golf together. He contributed to both Clintons’ political campaigns and hired Bill as a “consultant” once he’d left office. But the Mail cites an earlier investigation; one opened by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller in 2005. It examined telemarketers who defrauded the vulnerable elderly. Two of the companies Miller considered of interest were InfoUSA and its subsidiary Walter Karl Inc. In 2007, running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Hillary Clinton was evidently aware of the investigation and made a point of warning older voters: “We’ve got to send out the alarm: Seniors should be extremely careful in buying anything that someone tries to sell you over the telephone.”
InfoUSA offered its own explanation:
“In response to the Iowa investigation, Walter Karl exited this business and the one sales representative involved in this area left the company,” the infoUSA statement reads. “While infoUSA can not manage what a client does with the publicly available information infoUSA provides, the company has a strict policy about not selling data to companies who act illegally.”
Ultimately, the company was not charged.
Again, all that has nothing to do with Paul Pelosi. He didn’t work for InfoUSA until after the investigation was closed. Probably Gupta admires Nancy Pelosi and was happy to have Paul come on board. But there’s no indication they were friends. According to the Mail, a Newsmax reporter asked Pelosi in 2007 whether Gupta had hired him to get access to his mother. Pelosi replied:
I don’t think that’s really what happens. I don’t see it that way, but I could see why you’d ask the question… I guess you always wonder why somebody hires you, right?
We wonder why he was talking to someone from Newsmax. And—flash forward—why did he spend New Year’s Eve 2018 at Mar-a-Lago, chatting with Ivanka Trump?
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Walk from Keyhaven Quay and car park to Lymington, Bath road park area, this walk is about 5 miles in total and was done in September 2016. It was very windy this day and a chill in the air, although sunny spells did manage to break through in parts of the walk. If you do it on a sunny day make sure to take water for drinking with you.
Leave the Keyhaven amenity car park and follow the Solent Way along the harbour wall heading east. Turn right through a large wooden kissing gate beyond the car park. Remain on the well made shingle path close to the foreshore, then along the sea wall, taking in the fine views across the Solent to Tennyson Down and Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Inland views take in the wildlife on Keyhaven Marshes.
Ignore all paths that take you inland, your sea wall path passing Oxey Marsh, with distant views of Lymington Marina, before heading west beside a channel to an old sluice gate. Shortly, cross the stile on your right and head towards a house on a narrow path beside the creek. The two brick buildings you can see across the creek are old salt boiling houses. Shallow draught lighters brought coal up the creek, known as Moses Dock, for the furnaces and returned loaded with salt from the old site here.
Just before another stile, bear left and continue to a lane. Turn right here to visit the Chequers Inn. The Chequers' existence is closely linked with the salt industry. As well as being well placed to serve the the salt workers on their way home, it was where the outgoing salt was checked for tax purposes, hence its name. Keeping along the coastal path will eventually bring you into Lymington through the yacht marina. Finally into Lymington itself.
Passing by The Lymington Open Air Sea Water Baths (or historic Roman Seawater Baths) is a life guarded open air lido in Lymington, Hampshire. Built in 1833 it is the oldest lido in the UK, and at 110 metres long by 50 metres wide it is also one of the largest in size and in volume with 1.7 million gallons of water. The baths reopened in 2010 following a campaign by local people who also completed the baths' refurbishment. The current sea water baths date back to 1833 when the Lymington Bath and Improvement Company was set up. The bath house was built shortly afterwards and is now the club house for the Lymington Town Sailing Club. As time went on the baths struggled to compete with others in the area, particularly at Bournemouth. In 1855 they were sold to George Inman who owned a boat building company further up the river. In 1886 the Lymington Sea Baths Company leased the baths from Inman. The baths continued under several different owners until 1929 when they were taken over the by the Lymington Corporation.The 1930s were something of a golden period for outdoors baths and lidos with people flocking to bathe on bank holidays in the summer. Today the baths are owned by Lymington and Pennington Town Council.
Between Hurst Spit at the western end of the Solent and the ancient town of Lymington lies a huge expanse of salt and freshwater marshes and mud flats, a breezy, watery landscape that's more reminiscent perhaps of East Anglia than Hampshire. The area is a bird watcher's paradise, the marshes, lagoons and ponds attracting rare and interesting species, especially in the winter. So take your binoculars with you on this walk. From your vantage point on the sea wall you can scan the saltings and pools and see a wide range of waders and wildfowl. Guaranteed sightings will include a heron loping lazily across a lagoon, the curlew probing the mud with its long, down-curved bill, shelduck dabbling in the shallows, and soaring skylarks singing high above the reed beds. Walk this way in winter and you should see huge flocks of black-necked Brent geese feeding on the eel-grass, long-tailed ducks, green shanks and, out on the Solent, golden eye and common scoter. The elegant common and sandwich terns, which breed on Hurst Spit, can be seen overhead during the summer months and, if you're lucky, you may spot one of the rarer passage migrants, perhaps ruff, curlew sandpiper or little stint.
The area has not always been a refuge for wildlife. Between the 12th and 19th centuries salt extraction was a flourishing industry along this stretch of coastline. At one time there were 13 salt works on Keyhaven and Pennington marshes. Sea water was impounded in shallow tidal ponds, or salterns, each about 20ft ( 6 mtr ) square, and left to evaporate. Once it had formed a strong brine, it was pumped by wind pump into boiling houses with coal-fired furnaces, where the water was boiled until salt crystals were left. Lymington salt was highly regarded and by the 18th century supplied much of southern England and was even exported to America. In 1800 4,000 tons were produced but when new railways brought in cheaper rock salt from Cheshire the industry declined. You can still see the remains of the old salt pans, square enclosures with low mud walls, from the sea wall.
Where to eat and drink
The 16th-century Chequers Inn, formerly the local salt exchange, in Pennington has a pleasant, sheltered terrace and garden, and offers a good snack menu and many great food dishes. The Gun Inn in Keyhaven road, Keyhaven is ideally placed for post walk food and drink.
date: March 25th, 2012
model: Amanda
vehicle: Ford Probe aero art car
vehicle courtesy of: Tyler Linner
location: Detroit, MI
Registration P355NOV
Make FORD
Model PROBE
Description 24V V6
Date of Liability 01 05 2011
Date of First Registration 24 10 1996
Year of Manufacture 1996
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2497CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour GREEN
date: March 25th, 2012
model: Amanda
vehicle: Ford Probe aero art car
vehicle courtesy of: Tyler Linner
location: Detroit, MI
date: March 25th, 2012
model: Amanda
vehicle: Ford Probe aero art car
vehicle courtesy of: Tyler Linner
location: Detroit, MI
More untended garden. I probe around in the very early morning in the mysteries of this unloved area.
date: March 25th, 2012
model: Amanda
vehicle: Ford Probe aero art car
vehicle courtesy of: Tyler Linner
location: Detroit, MI