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This is the first of several star trails I took while camped in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Unfortunately work has been getting in the way of my processing/flickring time and posting images has been slow going this week! The Lake (more like a pond) is North summit Lake and was directly behind my campsite.
The foreground was taken right around sunset and I began shooting the exposures for the trails shortly thereafter. This image proved to be a fair degree more difficult to assemble then my other startrails as it required substantial judicious use of masking in photoshop.
35 exposures at 3 minutes each for the trails. ISO 500
Today I'm off to see Avengers for the second time, I absolutly loved the movie, and will love it the second time.
go watch it!!
With volunteers carefully watching from multiple angles, WW&F #9 slowly backs her load to the waiting idler flat. Because the load was overhanging the end of Flat 126, the clearance was critical.....but it fit like a glove.
JSM workers assembling the gantry so that they can lift a compressor onto a wagon and take down the line as no access to motor vehicles.Then they can lift the wagon from the flat bed wagon to where they are going to sandblast the Sanderstead and access the fault on dinorwic High voltage cables.
Name: Felica
Title: “The Bubbly Chronicler”
Gender: Female
Species: Dragon
Race: “Who knows?”
Occupation: Chronicler/Librarian
Prevailing Element: Water
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Powers: Flight, Water Manipulation, Basic Mind Reading
Typical Tool(s): Sterling Trident
MOC Status: Assembled.
Felicia is one of many humanoid dragons from her home planet. She was always known to be a keen observer, always curious about the world around her. She was born with basic mind-reading powers, able to detect a general thought or phrase that someone is thinking. However, she is not the greatest at retaining her knowledge, always going back to previous locals and persons to try, and repeat the same situations. Often with failure. She has no fear when it comes to her curiosity, known to only see the tree from the forest around her.
Upon being sent to a new world without her knowing, she was disgustingly thrilled. So many new species that she could study and observe. However, despite her new setting, she still repeats all her previous mistakes. Always realizing it, shrugging her shoulders, and moving on. She too management over a local library to not only learn more about this new world, but also have a place for quick access to this knowledge lest she forget it again.
She became friends with a fellow lover of knowledge, Namaste, and often suggest books to each other. Many who stop in know not to spend too much time with her if you are in a rush or have something else on your mind because she will jump into a discussion of asking about your biology. Get what you need from the library and get out.
Assembling items that come in boxes is not one of my favorite things to do. When our kids were old enough, I had them do that kind of work, as they enjoyed it!
Fortunately, this worker was assembling something simple: bubble wands to sell to children!
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"Last year I posted a recipe for cucumber and vegetable rolls. I was happy with the recipe but nevertheless thought it could use some refining. Since the weather is finally warm again I decided to give these cucumber rolls an overhaul. These rolls include poached shrimp, marinated carrots, creamy avocado, and fresh cilantro all wrapped inside sliced cucumber. The sauces are sesame vinaigrette and cilantro oil. This unique appetizer is essentially a salad and a fun way to start any summer meal. Here’s a recipe for 8 servings:
SHRIMP AND CUCUMBER ROLLS WITH SESAME VINAIGRETTE AND CILANTRO OIL
Cilantro Oil:
* 1 bunches cilantro
* Salt and sugar to taste
* 1 cup vegetable oil
* 1 Tb. toasted coriander seeds
* 1 tsp. lemon zest
Bring a pot over water to a rapid boil. Season the boiling water with salt and sugar. It should taste salty like the sea and sweet like cola. Season and ice bath similarly. Rinse the cilantro and cut away the large heavy stems at the bottom. Blanch the cilantro for 30 seconds and shock in the ice bath. Gather the blanched cilantro and squeeze to remove as much water as possible. Place the cilantro in a blender with the vegetable oil, coriander seed, and lemon zest. Blend on high for 3 minutes. Pour the oil into a strainer lined with cheesecloth, a grease filter, or a coffee filter and allow to drip for several hours. Discard the solids left behind.
Sesame Vinaigrette:
* 2 tsp chinese spicy mustard
* 2 tsp. pickled ginger
* 2 Tb. mirin
* 2 Tb. soy sauce
* 2 Tb. rice wine vinegar
* 1/2 c. vegetable oil
* 1/4 c. sesame oil
Place the mustard, ginger, mirin, soy sauce, and rice wine vinegar in a blender. Blend on high while slowly adding vegetable oil. After the vegetable oil, drizzle in the sesame oil. If the oil is not emulsified add a bit more mustard or some mayonnaise and blend once more.
Poached Shrimp:
* 1 lb. 16/20 shrimp, raw, shell on
* 1 quart water
* 1 celery stalk, sliced
* 1/2 onion, sliced
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 2 slices fresh ginger
* 2 Tb. rice wine vinegar
* 1 lemon
* Salt to taste
* Cilantro oil, to taste
* Chili paste, to taste
Peel and devein the shrimp, reserving the shells. In a medium saucepan combine the shrimp shells with the water, celery, onion, garlic, ginger, vinegar, and zest and juice of the lemon. Bring to a simmer and season heavily with salt. Add the shrimp and drop the heat to low. Poach for 7 minutes and cool the shrimp in the poaching liquid.
When the shrimp cool, drain them well and cut into large pieces. Toss with cilantro oil and chili paste to taste.
To Assemble:
* 2 English cucumbers
* kosher salt
* 2 large carrots, fine julienne
* 1 Tb. mirin
* 1 tsp. soy sauce
* 1 avocado
* Poached shrimp
* Cilantro oil
* Sesame vinaigrette
* Cilantro and black sesame seeds for garnish
Cut the ends from each cucumber and wash well. Cut each cucumber in half and, using a mandolin, slice 1/16′’ thick planks from the cucumber, stopping when you reach the seedy middle. Repeat on the other side of the cucumber. Lay the slices out of a piece of paper towel and salt lightly.
Toss the julienne carrot with the mirin and soy sauce and slice the avocado into long pieces. Lay a piece of plastic wrap on a flat work surface and lay 4-5 cucumber slices on top, overlapping slightly. Place some carrots, a few pieces of avocado, and a few pieces of shrimp at the end of the sheet of cucumber. Carefully roll the cucumber around the filling using the plastic wrap. Wrap the roll tightly in the plastic wrap and twist the ends. Using a sharp knife cut each roll into 3 or 4 pieces and carefully remove the plastic wrap. Pour some sesame vinaigrette on a plate, place the rolls on top, and drizzle with cilantro oil. Garnish with cilantro and black sesame seeds."
Assembled using near-infrared (CB2/MT2) filtered images of Saturn's North Pole taken by the Cassini spacecraft on March 7 2017.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
West window by Hugh Easton 1955, representing Christ in Glory seated upon the globe and surrounded by significant figures from ecclesiastical history. Perhap's Easton's finest work, the overall effect is very much a mid 20th century version of a Last Judgement, which aptly is reflected by the recently uncovered medieval interpretation of the subject in the mural painted at the opposite end of the nave.
Holy Trinity would have been the star attraction in any other town or city, it is a majestic cruciform 15th century Perpendicular church with a tapering central tower and spire, the second of Coventry's famous 'Three Spires'. However it has always been overshadowed by larger neighbours, having been encircled by no less than three separate cathedrals through it's history, a unique distinction! Holy Trinity was founded by the monks of the adjoining priory to act as a parish church for it's lay tenants, thus it is ironic that it has long outlived the parent building.
The earliest part is the north porch, which dates from the 13th century, but the majority of the building dates from a more ambitious phase in 15th century Perpendicular style. The 15th century rebuilding has given us the present cruciform arrangement with small transepts and extra chapels on the north side giving an overall roughly rectangular footprint. These chapels were some of many in the church that served the city's separate guilds in medieval times.
The church has gone through much restoration, most notably the rebuilding of it's spire after it was blown down in a storm in 1665. The east end of the chancel was extended in 1786 (in sympathetic style) and much of the exterior was refaced in the early 19th century in then fashionable Bath stone (which clashes with the original red sandstone).
The church luckily escaped major damage during the Coventry Blitz in 1940, largely thanks to the vigilance of Canon Clitheroe and his team of firewatchers who spent a perilous night on the roof tackling incendaries. The main loss was the Victorian stained glass in the east and west windows, which were replaced with much more fetching glass in the postwar restoration.
The most recent restoration involved the uncovering of the 15th century Doom painting over the chancel arch in 2004. Hidden under blackened varnish since it's rediscovery in the early Victorian period, it has now been revealed to be one of the most complete and important medieval Last Judgement murals in the country. There is further painting contemporary with this on the exquisite nave ceiling, painted a beautiful dusty blue with large kneeling angels flanking passion shields on every rafter.
There are only a handful of monuments and most of the furnishings date from G.G.Scott's 1850s restoration (as does the magnificent vaulted ceiling high above the crossing) but there are some notable medieval survivals in the rare stone pulpit and the brass eagle lectern, both 15th century, along with a fine set of misericords originating from the former Whitefriars monastery church. Just a few fragments of medieval glass survive in the north west chapel.
The church is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors every day.
For more detail on this church see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches website below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/coventry---holy-trinity.html
These two guys were rocking it in the battlefield of pillows. They would stand back to back and duke it out with the crowd around them. it was quite impressive.
FYI sneezing while having feathers in your body isn't a good feeling. I somehow sneezed a feather out my nose...
Thanks Chris!
Rebello's or Rabello's are the PORTO Boats that were used for Centuries to ship barrels of Wine to be made into PORT Wine, from the vineyards in The Douro Valley, down the Douro River, to be aged in Casks in GAIA (opposite bank of The Douro/ PORTO)
This great piece of Sculpture is crafted from scrap bit's of repaired Rabello Boats.
They sculpture was designed by "others" who then commissioned craftsman to fabricate and assemble this
piece, the very craftsman who work
in a Boatyard across the street from this amazingly well-crafted new Hotel in V.N. de Gaia.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.
A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen.
McCain.
Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.
I congratulate him; I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.
Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the new White House.
And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.
To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.
And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.
To my chief strategist David Axelrod who's been a partner with me every step of the way.
To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
This is your victory.
And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.
You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.
This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.
It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.
Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.
As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
To those -- to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.
Yes we can.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
- Barack Obama - President Elect
Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White House Tuesday night. The following is an exact transcript of his speech. (Source CNN)
. . . at the foot of El Castillo to hear what the distinguished lecturer has to say about what it all means!
The finished hanger ready for installation. The Campagnolo adjuster was a bit of a sloppy fit with a Shimano cable end ferrule so I machined a stainless piece to alleviate this issue.
Here the two tiny pieces of cover cardboard are glued onto the cover paper, and the center spine piece is reinforced and two tiny pieces of string are glued on to reinforce the top and bottom of the spine when the cover paper is folded over.
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so, spidey is going to be an avenger someday soon. he needs to practice the assemble style too you know. but then spidey is always be a spidey
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Castillo - a Firework-Castle!
Coheteros/ Firework castle makers are assembling a 40 foot high "castle" in the atrium of Ajijic's Paroquia. It will be ignited/lit at 11pm.... a wheel spinning, fire spewing firecracker monster called "el Castillo".
Rocketeers-Firework-Castle maker is an important, difficult and dangerous profession here in Mexico. These "Coheteros" assemble, right on location, custom designed "firework castles", the highlight of any village's fiesta.
The Castillo is a construction of individual large bamboo wheels, tied together and connected to a tall pole. It is assembled lying on the ground and erected once it has been wired up with firecrackers. When ignited "the castle” becomes an explosion of noise and color - a spinning and whistling fire shooting “castle”. Boys, holding cardboards over their heads for protection, will run through the rain of fire sparks..... and only crazy individuals like me will stand underneath to photograph it (((;