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Another Space Song · Failure
As we were heading home from Carrizo I saw the bright red/pink/ orange flames of a SpaceX rocket launch and told my son to pull over so the four of us could watch. Luckily we were in a wide open agricultural area and the night was crystal clear. It's always fun to go out in the darkness and watch from home too.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shortly after launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
It was carrying another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. You can see the first stage, nearly center of the photo after it separated, which comes back to Earth for a vertical touchdown about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. That landing occurs on the deck of the drone ship OCISLY "Of Course I Still Love You", which is stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The first stage will then be reused for future launches. Those two smaller bright spots behind the second stage are the fairings.
As I type this - March 28, 2024 - there will be a launch tonight (3/28/2024) which will be the 30th Falcon 9 flight of 2024, and the 20th dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation. To date, SpaceX has lofted 6,077 Starlink satellites, 5,610 of which are currently operational, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.
Those already-staggering numbers will continue to grow far into the future. SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink craft in LEO and has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that.
Week 4/52: Water
I took this one the day after election day, 2020, so posting it the morning before the inauguration makes some sense to me. Hard to know where we'll go, but it's definitely somewhere.
On an editing note, I wanted to try to make this one look more like a painting. My first go at it!
Currently @ C88
The Corrie bathroom collection features a modern pedestal sink and a tub finished in a luxe marble stone, complimented with rich wood tones. (Toilet and paper holder not shown).
Some of my current work-in-progress models, I really should get around to finishing some of these...
From left to right (oldest to newest):
CIWL dining car, intended to expand my NBDS mailtrain consist. The digital model is basically done, I just need to get around to ordering the parts and building it. I started on this one all the way back in 2022.
NS/SBB TEE trainset. I built a model of this train before, but decided the model needed an upgrade. What started as a few minor changes turned into a complete rebuilt that I'm still working on. The shaping of the engine unit is done, and all the internal structure for the nose section is ready too. The rest of the internal structure is still missing, and the coaches still need some work on the exterior too. This one was started late 2023/early 2024.
DB V200. This model is basically just a shell at this point, but all the major shapes are in place and I'm supper happy with how it's looking so far. None of the internal structure is there yet, and it's still missing details on the roof and on the bogies. I started working on it about a year ago.
NS 1700. This latest model is heavily inspired by the awesome work of raised (www.flickr.com/photos/raised), Ervvin (www.flickr.com/photos/epjl) & many others involved in the original Nez Casse project. Particularly the nose section is basically a 1:1 copy of their original model. This model is also just a shell at the moment, with nothing on the inside to hold it together yet. It also has no wheels, and it's still missing some stuff on the roof. This is a fairly recent project, I only started playing around with it in October of this year.
The current City Hall for the city of St. Louis, having housed city government since 1898, is a landmark by appearance, reputation and city designation (since 1971). Efforts to build what would become the current City Hall (seen above) got underway in May 1888 when the City Hall Commission was formed. On April 4, 1889, an ordinance was passed to authorize the Commission to advertise for bids for the building. The original cost was not to exceed one million dollars. The commission chose the design of George Richard Mann, of the firm Eckel & Mann of St. Joseph, from the 37 national entries. His design was titled "St. Louis 1892", obviously expecting it to be completed by 1892. A French-style plan, inspired by the Hotel de Ville or City Hall of Paris, with ornamental dormer windows and former towers, it also recalled architectural elements of the Chateau de Chambord on the Loire River in France.
The construction of City Hall started July 19, 1890, with Mayor Edward Noonan's daughter Zoe, breaking ground. The cornerstone was laid on June 6, 1891. No bond issue was passed to finance construction of the new City Hall, explaining the 14 years required to finish the building. Funds came from general revenue and the sale of city property. Every year or two, the Council, would authorize an average of $110, 000 to continue construction. An ordinance was passed on Sept, 10, 1893 to limit the total cost at two million dollars. Though the building was not completed, it was finally occupied on April 11, 1898 when Mayor Henry Ziegenhein headed a ceremonial parade of city officials from the old building to their offices in the new City Hall. In 1904, the final portions of the building were completed, the Rotunda, the Tucker Boulevard vestibule and the grand staircase, using the design by the St. Louis architectural firm of Weber & Groves. The building was officially completed on Nov. 5, 1904 when Mayor Rolla Wells held an open house for the residents of St. Louis. The final cost of the building was $1,787,159.16. However, the exterior of City Hall was never quite finished. All sides of the building have ornamental dormers called belvederes, each having bare spaces of limestone. These were meant to have carved decorations, yet remained untouched probably due to lack of funds. Despite its incomplete state, City Hall was praised for its "splendid architectural composition," and called "an impressive period piece of craftsmanship". Unfortunately, a poorly executed acid cleaning and years of exposure to coal smoke has left the original pink and orange exterior tarnished.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/about/history-of-city-hall.cfm
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Windlight: ColeMarie's Windlight Set: Cloudy Day (sunset)
i made a youtube video comparing PBR items in Alchemy Beta (PBR capable viewer) and Firestorm (currently nonPBR viewer) just to see the differences.
my youtube video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTG5L51WH9M
If you make it over there, let me know what you think.
Firestorm is working on adding PBR. If you want to join their beta testing group to test their pbr viewer, go to their website and click the link to join their beta group in SL.
Alchemy beta does not have all the whistles and bells of Firestorm. For example, no area search which as a hunter, I really like. However, it does have some other advantages. PBR is one. That's very cool. Frame rate is faster. and you can do alt shift C for cinema mode for pictures and videos and the UI and huds disappear. Nice!
However, I know where things are in Firestorm so I'm very comfy with it.
The coolest thing about PBR: realtime reflections so you can have mirrors.
Just north of Butler, U702 rounds the curve at the north end of the siding at Onieda on the former B&LE.
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Been at this Pulitzer Prize winner for a few weeks, and it's incredibly rewarding. Long, detailed, and packed in a tiny font, but very rewarding. A lot of it (so far, 20-25% in) is focused on the compromises and processes of amendments - - reminding us that the Founding Fathers were not a monolithic group, and that they represented only a subset of the American population (no women, no slaves, no Native Americans, and only property holders). Here and there Lepore reminds us of the absences of these voices and the efforts to limit amendments, even as delegates to state constitution conventions may have sought to make it easier for future generations to amend. But again, I'm not very far in.
UPDATE, one third in. I'm now up to about 1861, and it seems like this book isn't about the Constitution itself but about the intersection of the history of the United States and the Constitution... that is, its scope is broader than I expected and more than I wanted. I really wanted greater focus on all the com[promises etc that got us to the original constitution and how it got us to the point where California and Wyonimg have the same number of Senators and how nothing can be done about it. I'm looking at my body clock and doubting I have time for all of the rest of this book, as good as I'm sure it is.
BTR-82A (picked up the virus being passed around on Flickr:p) and a Russian BT-7 I'm working on for a friendly challenge with Bristoli!
Tell me what you think and have a great Memorial Day!
I'm currently listening to Side 2 of Aerial by Kate Bush which is one of my favourite pieces of music. The title seemed very apt.
We went up to the top of the highest hill
And stopped
Still
It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful
This is where the shadows come to play
'Twixt the day
And night
Dancing and skipping
Along a chink of light
Somewhere in between
The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between
What the song and silence say
Somewhere in between
The ticking and the tocking clock
Somewhere in a dream between
Sleep and waking up
Somewhere in between
Breathing out and breathing in
Like twilight is neither night nor morning
Not one of us would dare to break
The silence
Oh how we have longed
For something that would
Make us feel soâ?¦
Somewhere…
well, the snow is almost all gone (we have icy rain instead), and the winds are down a bit but still racing across the landscape and whipping up mini-waterspouts on the fjord (so George is still unhappy) — still a bunch of storm to get through
Lumsdale Falls, Matlock
Several shoots of unculled and unprocessed images have been dormant on my hard drive since our Japan holiday so I thought I'd spend the day tidying up my directories and give you all a break from my recent offerings, although I've not finished with Japan yet.
A day out at Lumsdale Falls late October with fellow togs Eddie and Pat in search of flowing water and a chance to have a paddle in our wellies. If you've seen the recent humiliation I've suffered at the hands of Eddie... this is payback time. All puns gratefully received
This is very good. Ressa is a journalist who was born in the Philippines, raised in the US, and returned to the Philippines to start a news outlet which soon became the target of the leading politicians. She and her outlet fought back and endured, and this endurance and the actions she took are the heart of the story. But it's also about the Internet and social networking, and how FB -- which helped her outlet succeed -- was eventually turned against her. I highly recommend this one.
On tour of the Lower Antelope Canyon. In the Navajo Nation Reservation area in LeChee, Arizona, United States.
Plaza de las Tres Culturas is the location of Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, The college was associated with the Tempo de Santiago Tlatelolco.
Colegio de Santa Cruz was the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas.
The current orange nondescript structure is a museum. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the museum was closed.
The Colegio was built by the Franciscan order on the site of an Aztec school, for the sons of nobles (in Nahuatl: Calmecac).
The Spanish college inaugurated 06 January, 1536, however, it had been a functioning school since 08, August, 1533.
Currently, we are unsure if this is a hybrid or "nature's freak" as this specimen was caught by our civil service officer after it caused havoc in one of the busiest highways in Kuala Lumpur.
Note:
Hybrid here means it's from the exotic pet circle @ runaway pet.
Nature's freak-in general this species' natural coloration is either dark brown or light black but the present snake is light orange.
Distribution: China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malay Peninsula, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Nepal, and Thailand.
Reproduction: This is an oviparous species. Females normally lay 16 to 33 eggs per clutch whereby incubation periods range from 55 to 73 days. Egg-laying takes place from January through March when it's slightly warmer. The females usually stay with her eggs for awhile. There have been reports of interbreeding between Indian cobra (Naja naja) x Monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)
Description: The dorsal surface may be yellow, brown, gray, or blackish, with or without ragged or clearly defined cross bands. The O-shape marking can be olivaceous, brownish to black above with or without a yellow or orange-colored. In general , it has a black spot on the lower/inner surface of the hood on either side (surprisingly this specimen did not exhibit this trait), and one or two black cross-bars on the belly behind it
Length: Adults can reach a maximum of 2.3 m (7.5 ft) in length. Many larger specimens have been recorded, but this size are rare.
My Friend, in the stars...he was the most beautiful Horse I ever saw in my entire life, the Black horse called Nightmare ......star chasers dream ! Thank you for stopping by, my Flickr friends , thank you for all your support through out the past year , Best wishes Tim....see you soon.
Girasoles La Toba, Guadalajara / Spain
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Currently in first, although there is a Calico a bock over that is posting impressive cute points. The Champ though is showing fine form, perfect balance, absolutely perfect stillness during "annoying human with camera" stage. A winning performance!
The Airbnb phenomenon is currently the subject of fierce controversy in Italy, criticized for a “Disneyfication” effect on Italian cities such as Florence and Venice. Locals have complained about being pushed out and say the souls of historic centres are being threatened.
But people in Matera beg to differ.
The Sassi still lacks basic amenities, such as a supermarket, so there is little demand from locals to live there, and the holiday lets have helped plug a shortage in hotel beds, especially during the low season. Matera now draws in some 600,000 visitors a year, it hasn’t yet suffered the same stampede inflicted on the more traditional Italian hotspots. Matera doesn’t want to be like Venice and Florence. They want to keep the number of tourists sustainable, but good quality.
James was great, and I strongly recommend it, but not drop everything to read it great. This? It’s a follow up to the very good book referenced on the cover.
Pip had to take a new approach for the letter Q.
There are a grand total of 29 cities in the United States that begin with the letter Q. So he decided to go with a fun sounding name and located Quartzsite, Arizona with a population of 2400.
Quartzsite's current location was the site of a waterhole from 1863 to the 1880s and was later a stage station, called Tyson's Wells, along the La Paz - Wikenburg Road on Tyson Wash, in what was then Yuma County, in the newly created Arizona Territory. It was about 20 miles from the Colorado River steamboat landing of La Paz and 25 miles from the landing of Erhenburg from 1866. The next stop was 25 miles to the east at Desert Station.
On the flipside of Internation Falls being the Icebox of the Nation, Quartzsite is one of the hottest places in the United States and has recorded temperatures as high as 122 °F or 50.0 °C on July 28, 1995. Rainfall is under 5 inches per year!
Quartzsite is a popular recreational vehicle camping area for winter visitors. The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, an annual gathering of vandwellers, takes place in January. Gem and mineral shows, swap meet shows are very popular tourist attractions, attracting about 1.5 million people annually.
Joanne's Gum Gallery in Quartzsite is a quirky and unique museum dedicated to gum wrappers collected since the 1940s. The collection, started by Joanne Brunet, features over 4,000 packs of gum displayed in 100 cases inside a small pink building behind her home. The museum operates by appointment only, so visitors should call ahead to ensure access.
English:
The aforementioned series was originally intended for pulling light freight trains. Now it is only used for shifting, if there is a shortage of other locomotives, it is also used to pull a lighter freight train. Quite often, however, it is used to pull a work train..We can meet it at almost all major railway stations. At first glance, it differs from its younger and of course also more powerful sister (series 643) mainly by a thinner yellow line horizontally across the entire locomotive (except over the cabin)
In 2019, they began remotorizing the locomotives. Those whose engines were replaced were repainted blue. Currently, this has been done on 642-190, 642-197 and 642-199.
German:
Die vorgenannte Baureihe war zunächst auch zum Ziehen leichter Güterzüge vorgesehen. Sie wird heute nur noch zum Fahren eingesetzt und wenn ein Mangel an anderen Lokomotiven besteht, wird sie immer noch zum Ziehen eines leichteren Güterzuges verwendet. Es wird häufig zum Ziehen eines Arbeitszuges verwendet. Es ist an fast allen größeren Bahnhöfen zu finden. Auf den ersten Blick unterscheidet sie sich von ihrer jüngeren und natürlich auch leistungsstärkeren Schwester (Baureihe 643) vor allem durch die dünnere gelbe Linie, die horizontal über die gesamte Lokomotive (außer über dem Führerstand) verläuft.
Im Jahr 2019 begann man mit der Remotorisierung der Lokomotiven. Diejenigen, deren Motoren ausgetauscht wurden, wurden blau neu lackiert. Derzeit wurde dies für 642-190, 642-197 und 642-199 implementiert.
An old CSX C40-9W and an SD70MAC power through Southern Georgia as they head north toward Waycross on an autorack train.
now:
new down tube
1x11 (SRAM red crankset)
XD rear driver (10-42 cassette)
TRP spyre SLC brakes
Compass Randonneur Handlebars
This seemingly thin book is heavy on wisdom. If you think of the chain that goes
data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom,
a lot of books don't spend much time on the wisdom, and if you want wisdom you'll do well here. He has basically 20 short essays on aspects of dealing and resisting; a typical essay will start with an expression of the principle involved, follow with historical examples of how is was handled in the past, and conclude with concrete actions you can take which follow the principle.
It's good and I think you'd do well with it. After you've read it, leave it on the bathroom window sill for your guests.
Current weather conditions - Happy Easter Weekend! Yes I'm still alive after a long recovery from my open heart surgery
It is currently one of the biggest tourist attractions in Rome and on July 7, 2007 was elected one of the (Seven Wonders of the Modern World). In addition, the Colosseum still has links to the church, with the Pope leading the procession from the Via Crucis to the Colosseum every Good Fridays.
The Colosseum, originally known as the Flavio Amphitheater, is the most important monument of ancient Rome still standing. Its construction was started by Vespasian in 72 AD and was inaugurated by Titus in 80 AD. It was able to house up to 50,000 people.
This is my current reading! As a matter of fact, I've almost finished it. It's a delightful little book on the basic and necessary elements for landscape photography. Author Michael Frye, an excellent landscape photographer himself, makes, all the time, interesting and instructive comparisons to the methods and ideas of great masters like Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston, including the well-known Zone System. A real bargain for what it actually delivers.