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Inspired by the work of Carol Simmons and her students, this my first attempt at a complex cane. I've started the reduction and on the whole it's going well but it isn't quite even.
This 20-foot-tall roadrunner stands over I-10 west of Las Cruces, NM, and is made of old shoes, cell phones, bike parts, and other recycled materials.
If you've made it this far then congrats, you're two weeks away from exiting this incredibly trying year. I'm ending it in both a typical and atypical way - typical in that I'll be stuck with the fam, atypical in that I just started a new job. I'll be around home much more often now, but the flip side is that my toy hunting capabilities have been significantly reduced.
Still, as always, I stay tuned to my surroundings and occasionally you land something like this.
Figma 205: Honda Futayo from Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere, which I was able to find locally for $30 CAD.
Again, the surprise of nobody, this was purchased mainly because the design of the figure looks awesome, coupled with the usual criteria of being well priced and me being able to actually get to it. The series itself seems to be one of those Sci Fi X Sorcery type deals and seems to be fondly remembered by many people. Honda-san herself is the daughter of a high ranking general serving the leader of Far East, part of the world they live in.
Being Figma 205, this figure was one of the earlier releases after Figma had moved into the 2.0 body (better proportions and so on). Strangely, she still operates using the old style hands with the pegs attached to them, which is unfortunate as it limits what she can do with them. From a curves perspective, Futayo is definitely packing in both the bust and thigh department, which is canon according to all the data I've gathered. This figure is quite possibly the most curvy Figma that I own.
The set comes with the figure (include two ridiculously easy to lose hair ornaments), three total faces (neutral, shouting, slight smile), nine additional hands including one dedicated to holding the spear (thought specifically what it does I'm not sure as I didn't open the bag), a sword and sheath, a spear that can covert into a super long polearm, energy effect for the spear tip, additional hair for attaching a spell glyph, a knee pad with an attachment for her warping glyph (total of three such glyphs), three additional holders for displaying glphys in her wake, and of course the Figma stand.
Points of articulation are pretty typical for females using the 2.0 body. You get ankles, single jointed knees, hips with thigh twist, mid torso joint, shoulders with slight later movement and bicep swivel, single jointed elbows with forearm pivot, the wonky wrists as described above and head. In addition, her ponytail has one point of articulation, as do each of the left and right flaps of her outfit - sadly the middle flap at the back does not move.
Range of motion is, as expected, not as robust as with a Figuart, mostly due to the single jointed knees, non-dislocating hips, and the sacrificing of a waist joint in order to maintain curves of the figure. Upper body is generally able to keep up with Figuarts stuff, and has better posing for the arms themselves, even if there is no true Butterfly joint. All-in-all, you'll do alright for posing except for really deep lunges, aided by the fact she actually comes with a stand.
Paint wise, overall decent product. Work on the body itself features a mix of glossy and matte paint. The white, flesh colours and grey of her upper body appear to be matte. As with most other glossy paint applications, there is some paint bleed present and the finish isn't as smooth as with matte paints. Noticable over the entire figure, not nothing that would be a deal breaker. This slightly messy finish is not limited to the body, but any finishes on the weapons have the same issue. There are also slight masking issues on the hands where the fingers are not enclosed in the glove.
Decals however, remain as sharp as ever and are applied sharply and properly aligned.
Finally, from a Build Quality perspective, all is well. Parts fit together nicely, with no issues regarding misalignment of limb, poor joint strength, flimsy materials, and so on. Finishes on the parts are great, smooth surfaces overall. I'm especially happy with the fact they made those long bangs of hers out of a more pliable material so that when she faces forward the hair can lay closer to her bust line.
A solid figure, to say the least, though to be fair it's only rarely that Figma are made with questionable design choices. It's really the range of motion that is limiting. Otherwise, she's a gorgeous looking figure that I'm sure would look right at home on any anime or video game figure shelf.
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AM I PAYING TO BE PROMOTED?
No. You are paying for the seminars, and while I strongly encourage everyone to be present for the seminars, it is not required. You may show up for the second half only. But, again, I strongly encourage everyone to be present for the seminars. It helps us with organization, expresses to the instructors that you are interested in learning, and fosters a team oriented environment.
WHAT ARE THE STANDARDS FOR BEING PROMOTED?
Under the Capital flag you must demonstrate the 3 Ts: time on the mat, toughness and technique. Visualize a triangle, where technique is on top. On the bottom are time and toughness. Those who are very tough might have the time requirement reduced (but not below the minimum). Those with a great deal of time might have the toughness requirement reduced. Also, other variables may be taken into consideration. For example, one of our newest members is beginning his Jiu-Jitsu journey at 70 years young! Modifications will be made to ensure his journey is both challenge and rewarding!
WHAT ARE THE TIME REQUIREMENTS?
A blue belt takes an average of 1.5 years. A purple belt takes an average of 5 years. A brown belt takes an average of 7 years. A black belt takes an average of 10+ years. Most of the practitioners who tested for black belt had between 12 and 17 years of experience, and the pass rate was about 50%.
WHO MAKES THE DECISION FOR ADVANCEMENT?
Three instructors, including at least one black belt, must approve any promotion.
WHY DOES THE FORMAT KEEP CHANGING?
It’s been consistent for the last two years. However, we do expect that slight changes will be made as time goes on. We always seek feedback from students, peers and our instructors to make things better. The current format is: seminars (optional), sparring, promotions, gauntlet (optional), and group picture.
ETIQUETTE
At promotions events every practitioner should wear a laundered Capital branded white training kimono. This is the equivalent of wearing formal attire for a special occasion, like a wedding. Also, it is extremely impolite to ask an instructor about being promoted.
WHAT DOES THE NAVY BLUE BAR MEAN?
Royce Gracie and the Valente Brothers wanted to honor Helio Gracie’s life and legacy by wearing the navy blue belt that Helio wore. Going forward they are asking representatives to wear the navy bar (excluding white belts and new black belts). For more information about Grandmaster Helio Gracie’s decision to wear the navy belt visit: graciekentucky.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-did-grandmaster-h...
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I BELIEVE YOU MADE AN ERROR REGARDING MEMBER X, BY PROMOTING/NOT PROMOTING HIM….
Think about a Jiu-Jitsu competition. Is it possible, from time to time, for the referee to make an error? Of course! It is also possible for the decision makers at our semiannual gatherings to make errors. However, as practitioners progress, more scrutiny is applied to their rank, and ultimately 40 - 60 black belts will test them. At that time practitioners must demonstrate the complete stand-up self-defense curriculum, striking, clinching, grappling and philosophy (the 753 Code).
I caution those who dwell on the rank progress of others, especially as it compares to their own. Instead I encourage you to apply your vigilance to your own journey in the gentile art.
DO I NEED TO BE AT THE PROMOTIONS EVENT?
To be promoted to the next color belt, yes. Technically, to be promoted with stripes on the purple and brown belt, also yes. However, we needed to honor time constraints at Saturday's event, and stripes for deserving practitioners will be awarded this week and in January.
IS THE GAUNTLET HAZING?
What is the difference between a healthy ritual and hazing? What in fact is hazing? According to Wikipedia: "Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.” Does the gauntlet qualify?
Couldn’t we define the gauntlet as a rite of passage? Google defines a rite of passage as, "a ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone's life, especially birth, puberty, marriage, and death.” While I don’t know of any peer reviewed research articles, the overwhelming consensus is that there are tremendous psychological benefits to being included in a rite of passage.
There’s also acknowledging that our ritual is far less dangerous than the activities which led to it. Whether it’s the rigorous exercise, intense sparring rounds, competitions or the black belt test. In fact, Professor Pedro Valente noted that we are training to be effective in a proven fighting system. To take a hit is not only to be initiated, it's an essential component of our training.
I am not familiar with many of the reasons why people haze, and personally, I have never been involved in a hazing ritual. The gauntlet is our rite of passage; a tradition handed down to us by our elders. I am opposed to taking away or intensifying the gauntlet tradition. Our tradition is about the student, and I don’t believe that practitioners at Capital MMA experience some perverse pleasure in seeing people suffer. Rather, we are celebrating with the newly inducted.
I believe that the gauntlet tradition should only be carried on in the presence of the black belt instructors, exclusively at our semiannual promotions events. Also, it is our charge as black belts to educate junior members of our tradition, and how we conduct ourselves during the rite of passage. Injury, abuse and humiliation are never our objectives.
Finally, this tradition is, and always will be, optional. However, our requirements for being promoted are not. The rigor, intensity, and sacrifice experienced by senior practitioners is significant.
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Nestled into Cincinnati's central business district, Lytle Park features a panorama of floral displays changing from tulips, magnolia and crabapple in the spring to annuals and perennials in the summer and to annuals mixed with chrysanthemums in the fall.
The 2.31 acre park, bounded by Fourth and Lawrence Streets, is the original site of the Lytle family homestead, built in 1809 by General William Henry Lytle. The Park also features an 11-foot tall heroic bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Basics of reduced functionality:
Infinite zooming windows fill all available bandwidth. I used to browse 5 peoples' favorites all at once - i always open the favorites of anyone who favorites any of my photos. If you do that now, each window takes up 10X more bandwidth, because they are a bunch of hi-res pics instead of thumbnails.
Previously i could click the next 2 pages of someone's favorites (next 6 if it's page 1), and have it preloaded in another tab. Basically, I had an unending, uninterrupted stream of images to my eyes. Which is THE POINT of a photo site.
If something was interesting, I would click on it.
Now? Nope, no preview. You have to load the full size of everything. And if you want to preload the next page, you have to go to the bottom of the page to click that. Except you can't, because ajax requests will fill the page up with new full-size-bandwidth-sucking images.
Nevermind that when you finally get to the bottom of page 1, it always says you are on page 2.
The net result is - by the time i cycle through to a tab, maybe 5 or 10 more images have loaded.
More intensive means harder. Doesn't matter if someone is 56kbps or 100Mbps. Using more bandwidth than you want to use is always a bad thing. My bandwidth is often tight due to use patterns here.
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That's just one of many examples.
How about the crowded page? If I'm in another application, and click back to chrome (because I left a favorites page in mid-load, becuase it takes forever), I need to scroll. Previously I could click on the whitespace to change my focus. Now I need to be extra careful and only click on the scrollbar, or on the TINY TINy whitespace between pictures. Smaller click targets are harder by definition.
And the penalty for missing? You have to re-load the HUGE UNENDING PAGE again. And if you were near the bottom? It might take 5 minutes to load the pictures to get back to where you were. Back button is no longer sufficient like in the past.
Same thing if you accidentally close a tab. You can re-open it ("undo tab close") ... But your connection will be servered, and you generally won't be able to scroll down any further. So if you want to pick up where you've left off, you have to reload all the huge, full-size, neverending pictures up to the point where you were. Which will always, always take more time and bandwidth than with the old flickr.
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I have meaningful titles and captions written for all my photos. When you went to my page, you would see them. That was part of what I was building every day for 8 years.
Now? You don't see them. The curative info I worked hard to create is now buried past a click.
Same thing with privacy settings. Previously you could see which pictures were public/private by the color next to it. But they removed those summaries. If I want to go change the status, I first have to get to the picture on the neverending hi-res large-bandwidth page (which itself can be a problem if it's 300 down), and click into it... Just to find out something I could find out before.
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Same thing with views. I would look at my first few pages and see the view counts. Now I can't do that. Unless I click into every damn image.
Do I need to explain the concept that having more user interactions to get to user information is a bad thing? I'm a web developer myself, and even with my 10 years experience, I know better.
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Same thing with when a photo was uploaded. When going through someone's photostream, I often only want to go back to see their most recent (say, 2 months) images. So I would browse back until I saw a date of 2 months ago. Except now that date is buried. There's no way to know. Yay for hiding photo information from a photo view on a photo viewing website!
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They took away browser zoom when viewing individual photos. Previously I would use browser zoom to zoom into the picture. Sometimes I want it 50% larger than my screen to look at a detail. This applies to preview resolution AND full resolution.
Now they override that, removing a basic browser functionality, and making it harder to control the size of the image I'm viewing. On an image viewing website. Genius.
Ironically, they still allow browser zoom during the neverending-highres vomit view... And that's the one place you DON'T want it, because you're suddenly resizing 400 images at once, throwing yourself onto a totally different part of the page. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOW IT SHOULD BE ON BOTH COUNTS!
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Now I'm going to grab some popcorn a wait for the inevitable No True Scotsman and Ad Hominem responses.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Illinois State Police (ISP) joined Illinois State Representative Jay Hoffman today at the site of an active construction project on Interstate 255 to provide an update on a work zone pilot program geared to help eliminate traffic related deaths on Illinois roadways.
Last year, IDOT worked with Representative Hoffman to use speed indicator boards on 13 metro east and southern Illinois interstate construction projects to display the speed of approaching vehicles in work zones. The speed indicator boards are now being used on all interstate projects with lane closures, after seeing a significant reduction in work zone speeds in areas where the boards were used.
“We saw an increase in work zone fatalities last year, and we want to do everything we can to reduce severe injury and fatal crashes on Illinois roadways,” said Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann L. Schneider. “We appreciate the support from Representative Hoffman and Illinois State Police to help us with this initiative to get travelers to slow down and eliminate distractions to improve the safety of everyone on the road, including our workers.”
The radar technology captures the speed of drivers and displays it on the speed indicator board. If motorists are exceeding the pre-set speed limit, the sign flashes the real time speed of oncoming vehicles.
With an active construction season under way in Illinois, motorists can expect significant maintenance and construction activity statewide. Speed and inattentiveness are major contributing factors to work zone crashes. Conditions such as narrow or reduced lanes, edge drop offs, equipment next to moving lanes of traffic, and lane closures require reductions in speed to safely travel through work zones.
“The speed indicator board program has been extraordinarily successful in improving road safety in the Metro East by serving as a constant reminder to drivers to slow down and be more aware of their surroundings,” said Rep. Jay Hoffman. “Expanding this program statewide will ensure safe construction zones for both motorists and workers.”
Under regulations that took effect in 2004, work zone speed fines are $375 for first-time offenders and $1,000 for second-time offenders, and if a worker is present, the loss of their driver’s license for 90 days. If a motorist hits a worker, they face a $10,000 fine and up to 14 years in prison. Photo speed enforcement vans operated by Illinois State Police Troopers will be out in force again this year during construction season. The work zone fines apply to photo speed enforcement. Signs announcing the vans’ potential presence are posted prior to motorists entering the zone and the speed indicator board gives the driver one last chance to slow down.
On average, there are over 7,000 work zone motor vehicle crashes in Illinois every year. In 2013, provisional data shows there were 28 work zone related fatalities in Illinois, including one worker. In 2012, there were 19 fatal work zone crashes, involving fatalities to 13 drivers, three passengers, and three pedestrians. Two of the pedestrians were workers.
In an effort to reduce fatalities on roadways, Illinois has adopted an overall zero fatality goal as part of the Illinois Strategic Highway Plan. The agency’s goal is to have zero worker fatalities and reduce work zone crashes by five percent annually. To help achieve this goal, the agency recommends slowing down, obeying posted speed limits, putting down the cell phone and avoiding distraction in a work zone.
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Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken, the northernmost Danish province. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in the year 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in the king's honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. The city functioned as the capital of Norway during the 1814–1905 union between Sweden and Norway. From 1877, the city's name was spelled Kristiania in government usage, a spelling that was adopted by the municipal authorities only in 1897. In 1925 the city, after incorporating the village retaining its former name, was renamed Oslo. In 1948 Oslo merged with Aker, a municipality which surrounded the capital and which was 27 times larger, thus creating the modern, vastly enlarged Oslo municipality.
Oslo is the economic and governmental centre of Norway. The city is also a hub of Norwegian trade, banking, industry and shipping. It is an important centre for maritime industries and maritime trade in Europe. The city is home to many companies within the maritime sector, some of which are among the world's largest shipping companies, shipbrokers and maritime insurance brokers. Oslo is a pilot city of the Council of Europe and the European Commission intercultural cities programme.
Oslo is considered a global city and was ranked "Beta World City" in studies carried out by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network in 2008. It was ranked number one in terms of quality of life among European large cities in the European Cities of the Future 2012 report by fDi magazine. A survey conducted by ECA International in 2011 placed Oslo as the second most expensive city in the world for living expenses after Tokyo. In 2013 Oslo tied with the Australian city of Melbourne as the fourth most expensive city in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Worldwide Cost of Living study. Oslo was ranked as the 24th most liveable city in the world by Monocle magazine.
As of 27 February 2020, the municipality of Oslo had a population of 693,491, while the population of the city's urban area of 4 November 2019 was 1,019,513. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1.71 million. The population was increasing at record rates during the early 2000s, making it the fastest growing major city in Europe at the time. This growth stems for the most part from international immigration and related high birth rates, but also from intra-national migration. The immigrant population in the city is growing somewhat faster than the Norwegian population, and in the city proper this is now more than 25% of the total population if immigrant parents are included.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aker_Brygge
Aker Brygge is a neighbourhood in central Oslo, Norway. Since the 1980s and 1990s it has been a popular area for shopping, dining, and entertainment, as well as a high-end residential area. It was previously an industrial area.
Source: www.akerbrygge.no/english/
Find all you desire at Aker Brygge, Oslo’s go-to place for shopping, dining and entertainment
Aker Brygge is a melting pot where people meet, mingle and visit. Oslo´s residents come to shop, eat and drink, perhaps hop on a boat to one of the islands, or just enjoy fresh seafood from the boats by the dock. The area is a popular tourist destination and gives you a brief historical overview of Norwegian shipbuilding, naval- and oil industry. You will probably meet both business people on the move, musicians, artists as well as celebrities on a stroll at Aker Brygge.
During a year, Aker Brygge is home to several exciting activities and festivals. Add quality shopping, a wide variety of delicious food and drinks, art galleries and our unique location by the sea, and you have a whole day of exploring ahead of you. We are proud to say that more than 12 million visitors find their way to Aker Brygge every year – to discover more.
Aker Brygge is not your mainstream shopping mall. We like to see ourselves as a city within the city, with our own unique and exciting personality. Here you can enjoy shopping from over 60 stores, restaurants and service providers. Above all, our main goal is to give you the best service possible and the ultimate Oslo experience. Simply because, we would love to see your again.
In 2015, Aker Brygge will re-open with a new and modernized interior, in addition to a wider seaside promenade and a pier, which gives you direct access to the Oslo Fjord. On our way to the new Aker Brygge, there will be some construction work. Nevertheless, we hope it will not keep you from having a good time while visiting. We wish you a pleasant stay, and hope to see you again soon!
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The Pelle group (Norwegian: Pelle-gruppen) was a Norwegian resistance group that conducted acts of sabotage against the German occupation of Norway in Østlandet during the autumn of 1944.
Aftenposten called the group's 23 November 1944 ship sabotage "the largest Norwegian sabotage attack during World War Two", which included the blowing up of 6 ships and one crane at two ship yards. The attack possibly significantly decreased the number of soldiers from the retreating Lapland Army who were made available at the Battle of the Ardennes, according to Lars Borgersrud.
16 operations have been attributed to the group. 7 of its members were executed in 1945.
The leader was Ragnar "Pelle" Sollie, the only one in the group who was a member of Communist Party of Norway.
A 2015 Klassekampen article said that the group—alongside the Osvald Group—were "not «communist» but they were led by" the communists Ragnar Sollie and [in the case of the Osvald Group,] Asbjørn «Osvald» Sunde".
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Grade II Listed Building
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29-JUL-1966 CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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Church. 1847-50. By J. Clarke. Seriously damaged by fire and rebuilt in much reduced form by the Buttress Fuller Geoffrey Alsop Partnership in 1988. The only parts of the building to remain substantially intact were the embattled west front and west tower, the aisle walls and the arcades. The walls are of sandstone rubble and the roof slate. The 4-stage tower has a polygonal stair turret finishing above the eaves with grotesques and battlements, diagonal buttresses with flint and brick panels, bands at all levels; arched doorway on south side in square headed surround with hoodmould, at 2nd and 3rd stages rectangular lancets with tracery and hoodmoulds, and transomed 3-light belfry louvres with tracery in the heads. West end has doorway with 2 orders, spandrels with carvings of lamb and bird, square-topped surround and hoodmould; 6-light west window with Perpendicular tracery; west end of north aisle has transomed 3-light window. The nave and aisles have been rebuilt to a square 4-bay plan with the tower occupying the south west corner.
INTERIOR. Some of the grotesques and other carvings (said to be by a Mr Egglesmere who was deaf and dumb) were salvaged from the fire and now act as corbels inside the church. The reredos, designed by Walter Tapper in 1922, was acquired from Christ Church, Cotmanhay, in Derbyshire, after the fire.
The church's tower and west front still form an immensely impressive group at the top of the steep path leading to the west door.
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...beyond it the river and the black and white building, a pub called the Green Dragon, closed for years now, was once the tallest building apart from the church and behind that the Cathedral up on the hill.
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Lots of Snow in the Whitehorse area over a few days made even this derelict van look cool with its white hat.
Experimented with this one a little, playing with it in Xara Designer Pro X9 to reduce the background saturation and isolate the bright colours of the van.
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Single 60s exposure of a patch of sky just south of SAO 25664.
Annotated to show various sensors overlaid on the image.
Taken with Celestron Edge HD 14" and 0.7x reducer.
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I'm not really a big fan of Las Vegas - the extreme artificiality of the whole enterprise, with the reduced scale, faked versions of real things from the rest of the world; or the brazenness of the giant money-machine primed to suck up your money in the enormous casinos. It's not a place I would go just to enjoy but I've been there twice recently to play in volleyball tournaments.
That's why I was pleasantly surprised to discover how enjoyable the fountain show was at the Bellagio Hotel. There's a giant several acre lake (which really seems wrong in the middle of the Mojave Desert) and every 20 minutes or so music comes on and a massive choreographed spectacle erupts, quite literally, before a crowd of many hundreds. The variety of the shapes and their timing and interpretation of the music (pop or classical - I saw 3 different shows) is really well done. And now and then, the really huge jets will pump out ( with practically a crashing roar) enormous walls of water shooting over 100 ft in the air.
I left with a pleasant admiration for a well-executed spectacle.