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I used to live in Arizona, and there I had a best friend. One day walking home from school we found a CD on the ground. We started kicking it, and before long we had made up this sort of game. Once you start to kick the CD, you cannot pick it up. If you wish to keep the CD, you MUST kick it all the way to your destination regardless of how far or how difficult it may be.
I brought that game to the east coast and shared it with my sister. We were in Newark and found a CD about 2 miles from our place. We looked at each other and decided to kick it home. She was wearing 2 inch high sandals from hot topic, I was wearing converse. My one sock had a hole in it to begin with. To cut a long story short, she couldn't kick it well in the heels so I gave her one of my shoes and we kicked it all the way home. In the dark. With people looking at us like we were crazy. But we did it. Still have the CD. I have the CD from Arizona as well, will put a photo up. :) Oh! But once we got home, my dog was flipping out and didn't want her to wake everyone up, so we let her out and took a picture with our feet and the CD. She got in there too. The CD is under her lol.
I watched one of those shows last night, where the kindly, patient, all-knowing physicist explains the mysteries of the universe, with animations and artist's renderings of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang and so on.. I find it interesting that in explaining such things, they are simultaneously dispelling and confirming the explanation given in the Bible..
One particular phrase caught my ear when they tried to explain where "everything" was before the Big Bang.. The official scientific explanation is that everything everywhere - all the mass in the universe - all the uncountable stars, the planets, the galaxies, and the space that makes up the universe was inside an "infinitely, inconceivably tiny point, smaller than an atom, called "The Singularity""... Thanks for clearing that up.. And, that's more plausible than what it says in the Bible... how, exactly? And what exactly was "outside" that point? And where exactly WAS that point, if all space was inside? I guess it wasn't anywhere, since there was nowhere for it to "be"...
Suddenly the notion of pulling an infinite number of fishes and loaves out of a basket to feed the multitude doesn't seem quite so impossible, does it? To quote the physicist - "At a certain point - the laws of physics as we know them, don't apply anymore."...
The most quoted, most respected, and greatest "outside the box" thinker of our generation, Steven Hawkins has recently said that he now thinks the universe came into being "spontaneously" - that is - that there was no outside force that brought about "The Big Bang" - that it just "happened".. Of course, if it were simply the will of a truly omnipotent being - it would look a lot like that, wouldn't it?
Jon Magnuson, Executive Director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette Michigan th
906-2285494
magnusonx2@charter.net
EarthKeepers II (EK II) Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explains creating 30 interfaith community gardens (2013-2014) across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that include vegetables and native species plants that encourage and help pollinators like bees and butterflies.
The video was shot on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, MI during a meeting of EK II representatives.
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes such as Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
10 faiths: Roman Catholic" "Episcopal" "Jewish" "Lutheran" "Presbyterian" "United Methodist" "Bahá'í" "Unitarian Universalist" "American Friends" "Quaker" "Zen Buddhist" "
EK II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
Chicago, IL
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681
Pastor Albert Valentine II
Manistique, MI
Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer
Gould City Community Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of Mackinac
Rev. Christine Bergquist
Bark River United Methodist Church
First UMC of Hermansville
United Methodist Church Marquette District
Rev. Elisabeth Zant
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
Munising, MI
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod
Heidi Gould
Marquette, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. Pete Andersen
Marquette, MI
ELCA
Helen Grossman
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Rev. Stephen Gauger
Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, MI
ELCA
Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Eastern Region 9
EK II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
Milwaukee, WI
USFS
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening
Pollinator photos by Nancy Parker Hill
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
Messiah Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
NMU EK II Student Team
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
EK II social sites
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist Temple
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg
906 226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Dr. Michael Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
906-475-4009 (hm)
906-475-4127 (wk)
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/tikkun
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/aboutus
Wild Rice: 8 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/wild-rice-m...
Birch – 2 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/paper-birch...
Photos (click on each name or topic to see the respective photo galleries):
www.learningfromtheearth.org/photo-gallery
www.picasaweb.google.com/Yoopernewsman/JonReport?authuser...
www.picasaweb.google.com/100329402090002004302/JonReport?...
“Albert Einstein speculated once that if bees disappeared off the surface of the earth, then humans would have only four years of life left.”
the late Todd Warner, KBIC Natural Resource Director
Links:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-pr...
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagki...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
www.webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSectio...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
www.mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
www.zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
Zaagkii on Blogger:
www.zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagkii-pr...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/08/15...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/09/03...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/A...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
Zaagkii on Blogger:
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
charismathics exhibits at IBM Pulse 2011, Las Vegas - 27Feb - 2Mar 2011
Get rid of your standard authentication media, your smart card, your USB token, your reader and be free to move around with your inseparable companions only, your smart phone and your laptop. With them alone you can fully benefit of strong authentication mechanisms thanks to iEnigma® by charismathics®. The latest cutting edge technology delivered with a completely new user experience. Stop waiting for the IT administrator to set some weird architecture for you, do it independently yourself with some few clicks from your smart phone.
Organizations have enforced smart card authentication in recent years; however this technology is perceived as cryptic and cumbersome by many. iEnigma by charismathics simplifies strong authentication by using smart phones instead. The software is compatible with most PKI applications on computers and smart phones, maintaining the exact security standards. With iEnigma the user can log into his system, sign emails and documents, encrypt communications just as before, saving on buying other hardware and opening new ranges of use cases.
iEnigma is a mobile PKI security solution, absolutely unique and thus patented. Comparable products are either OTP or password based. Companies did not invest in architectures securing the communication between smart phone and laptop or mirroring the strong authentication and digital signature functionalities like a smart card does. With iEnigma, charismathics has translated standard APIs into Bluetooth language, reproducing the exact PKI authentication environment. Providing full TMS compatibility, enabling secure PIN entry and secure channel messaging by default, the software is immediately available for Windows Mobile. iEnigma will soon run on Android, RIM and Apple, also supporting NFC enabled units.
iEnigma simplifies strong authentication opening it to wider range of user groups. Already using smart cards, iEnigma enhances IT security by design, maintaining compatibility to investments made before. Introducing strong authentication, it extensively saves on hardware and is more flexible to use. Organizations save on constantly lost or damaged hardware.
iEnigma bridges user credentials from phones into computers, encrypting the communication channel, allowing PIN entry on the smart phone itself, thus enhancing the security compared to standard smart cards. By supporting applications on the phone, it works remotely as well. The full PKI compatibility allows for unchanged internal processes.
iEnigma re-invents the smart card and is the first strong authentication product that incorporates the expected permutation of corporate IT systems. Supporting common smart phone platforms, it supports applications both on the computer and the smart phone, putting all credentials together in a secure data container on the phone, whether it is the key chain, flash memory, SIM card or additional secure microSD cards such as the Secure Element for NFC operations. All current products are proprietary or represent a niche - no one offers an iEnigma-like 2-in-1 solution and with side benefits such as: full PKI compatibility; significant reductions in hardware cost by replacing tokens and readers using the phone instead; allowing encrypted communication; secure PIN entry; flexible credentials manageable by the user. iEnigma makes full use of the advantages of smart phones and is still fully compatible with all standard processes, APIs, cryptography algorithms and identity management systems. There is no other product opening the range of contactless authentication applications for PKI, such as in hospitals or transportation or payment schemes. The simple user interface opens up strong authentication to small organizations and the single user, reducing identity thefts and phishing attacks within day-to-day use.
It's Day 11 of our 12-day trip -- the trip's very last day!* -- and we started it in Huntsville, Alabama, where they park space shuttles by the freeway.
* -- You might take this sentence as an example of me failing to understand how numbers work, but I'll explain that in Wednesday's posts, I think.
That isn't a real space shuttle, of course. All the real space shuttles are someplace else. This is a full-scale mock-up called Pathfinder, which NASA keeps outside the US Space & Rocket Center, where they host their famous Space Camp for kids. NASA built this mock-up in a more bare-bones version in 1977 to use as a dummy shuttle they could haul around Cape Canaveral to make sure the real thing would fit every place they wanted it to go. It was generally the same size, weight, and shape as a real space shuttle, but mostly made of wood on steel supports. In 1983, a Japanese company bought it, refurbished it up to look more like an actual shuttle, attached the Pathfinder name to it, and displayed it for a couple of years at Tokyo's Great Shuttle Exposition. NASA bought it back and put it here in Huntsville in 1988. Huntsville's been happy with it, figuring a fake space shuttle is better than no space shuttle at all.
This gives me an unexpected opportunity to go into another example of how the current leadership of this country is really dumb, though, as not everybody associated with the space program is as easily satisfied as Huntsville.
The space shuttle program was hard on space ships, but three actual space shuttles (Discovery, Atlantis, and Endevour) and one sort-of shuttle (Enterprise) survived long enough to be retired. Once the program shut down, there was a rush among museums and government institutions to display the surviving ships. Enterprise -- the prototype that never went to space and was built solely for atmospheric testing -- wound up parked on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Hudson River. NASA kept the Atlantis for their museum at Cape Canaveral. Endevour went to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, which is where I saw it in 2013. NASA gave Discovery to the Smithsonian Institute, and the Smithsonian has had it on display at an annex out at Dulles Airport since 2012.
I didn't pay attention to the political reasoning at the time so I don't know the negotiations that went into these allotments. I do know that the guys down at the Johnson Space Center in Houston weren't happy about it, though, and they've been grumbling about it ever since. Houston's where NASA kept Mission Control, after all, with its control room full of big screens. Surely, they deserved a shuttle more than anybody else. But nope. NASA gave a shuttle to California, but Texas got squat.
But now it's 13 years later, and Trump's just getting started on his second chance to wreck the Presidency and destroy the economy while Republicans run Congress into ground by somehow simultaneously defunding everything useful and running up the deficit to all-time highs. They came up with this massive tax-cut-and-spend bill with a stupid name from a Trump fever dream that's full of the dumbest crap they could imagine, and one of the dumbest pieces of crap was a rider inserted by the two US senators from Texas requiring NASA to yank Discovery from its parking place outside Washington and haul it down to Houston to be displayed at the Johnson Space Center. The deficit hawks allocated $85 million to do this very stupid thing.
Now, the problem isn't so much that they mean to take a space shuttle from the Smithsonian Institute and send it to Texas. I mean, that's a dumb and pointless way to spend $85 million, but that's not what makes the scheme insane. What makes it insane is that there's no actual way to do it. I mean, at this moment, it's physically impossible, and any attempt to pull this off is far more likely to destroy Discovery and send it to a scrap yard than actually get it to Texas.
As you might imagine, a space shuttle is a large, heavy object, and moving it even when the shuttle program was going strong was an enormous and expensive task. A shuttle can't just fly from place to place on its own. It's engines were solely for orbital maneuvers. It was a glider inside the atmosphere, and it dropped like a brick. If you wanted to move a shuttle from, say, Edwards Air Force Base in California to Cape Canaveral in Florida, you had to get a bunch of cranes to lift it on top of one of two modified Boeing 747 airliners built specifically to haul a space shuttle around. When the space shuttle program ended, both 747s were retired and dismantled for parts, and now they only exist as shells displayed in museums in California and Texas. They can't be rebuilt to haul Discovery.
But there aren't any other practical ways to move Discovery, either. It's too big and heavy to move by truck or train. You could load it on a barge and haul it to Houston by sea -- that's how they got Enterprise to its aircraft carrier -- but you'd have to get it from Dulles to the sea. The only way to move it is to build an all-new plane for it, and that alone will probably cost the entire $85 million allocated to the project. And then you've got to get Discovery back into flight condition and move it onto the plane and get the plane to Houston and ... and ... and ...
There's a lot of back-and-forth on the internet about what it cost in 2012 to move the Endevour to Los Angeles, though various sources say just getting it the 12 miles from LAX to the California Science Center cost between 10 and 20 million dollars. Wikipedia hints (with a source behind a pay wall) that the entire project had a budget of $200 million, and that was the cost using existing equipment. NASA suggests moving Discovery now will cost something over $300 million, but while NASA has famously never had cost overruns (/sarcasm), I think that's wildly optimistic.
So, you want my tl;dr take on this? I don't care what John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are smoking and don't know where that $85 million is going to go, they're not going to move the space shuttle Discovery. Houston will just have to go without.
A list of materials needed for a small shop from Printing Explained by Herbert Simon and Harry Carter, Leicester, The Dryad Press, 1931.
In explaining to students and teachers how it is possible to create chroma key pictures it is useful to provide an example of a green screen used. This is not the one I used to make the Velociraptor image.
It has taken some time to see inside of this church. Repeated attempts at either Open House or whenever up in the City, and always the same story, the doors are locked, or people entering walk right by you.
Last year I was in St Andrew Undercroft and explained how frustrated I was, and other in the GWUK group were, and was told, just ring up and access will be allowed.
I had to wait, until Christmas had passed, and so I asked among the group who were interested, and a few other like-minded souls joined my, and so this afternoon we gathered outside hopefully to be let in.
In the end, no worries, we were allowed in, and we spent a good hour inside photographing it.
St Peter now comes under the umbrella of St Helen's Bishopsgate, and so there is a mix of the traditional and modern. The church itself is used for private study, and a kitchen, apparently.
The fabric of the church is unaltered pretty much, with just the pews having been replaced with tables and chairs
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St Peter upon Cornhill is an Anglican church on the corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street in the City of London of medieval origin. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It is now a satellite church in the parish of St Helen's Bishopsgate and is used for staff training, bible studies and a youth club. The St Helen's church office controls access to St Peter's.[1]
The church was used by the Tank Regiment after the Second World War, subsumed under St Helen's Bishopsgate.
The church of St Peter upon Cornhill stands on the highest point of the City of London. A tradition grew up that the church was of very ancient origin and was the seat of an archbishop until coming of the Saxons in the 5th century, after which London was abandoned and Canterbury became the seat for the 6th-century Gregorian mission to the Kingdom of Kent.[2]
The London historian John Stow, writing at the end of the 16th century, reported "there remaineth in this church a table whereon is written, I know not by what authority, but of a late hand, that King Lucius founded the same church to be an archbishop's see metropolitan, and chief church of his kingdom, and that it so endured for four hundred years".[3] The "table" (tablet) seen by Stow was destroyed when the medieval church was burnt in the Great Fire,[4] but before this time a number of writers had recorded what it said. The text of the original tablet as printed by John Weever in 1631 began:
Be hit known to al men, that the yeerys of our Lord God an clxxix [AD 179]. Lucius the fyrst christen kyng of this lond, then callyd Brytayne, fowndyd the fyrst chyrch in London, that is to sey, the Chyrch of Sent Peter apon Cornhyl, and he fowndyd ther an Archbishoppys See, and made that Chirch the Metropolitant, and cheef Chirch of this kingdom...[5]
A replacement, in the form of an inscribed brass plate, was set up after the Great Fire[4] and still hangs in the church vestry today. The text of the brass plate has been printed several times, for example by George Godwin in 1839,[6] and an engraving of it was included in Robert Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata (1819–25).[7]
In 1444 a "horsemill" was given to St Peter's. The bells of St Peter are mentioned in 1552, when a bell foundry in Aldgate was asked to cast a new bell.
The church was badly damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The parish tried to patch it up, but between 1677 and 1684 it was rebuilt to a design by Christopher Wren at a cost of £5,647.[citation needed] The new church was 10 feet (3.0 m) shorter than its predecessor, the eastern end of the site having been given up to widen Gracechurch Street.[8]
St Peter's was described by Ian Nairn as having "three personalities inextricably sewn into the City".[9] The eastern frontage to Gracechurch Street is a grand stone-faced composition, with five arched windows between Ionic pilasters above a high stylobate. The pilasters support an entablature; above that is a blank attic storey, then a gable with one arched window flanked by two round ones. The north and south sides are stuccoed and much simpler in style. Unusually, shallow 19th-century shops have survived towards Cornhill, squeezed between the church and the pavement. The tower is of brick, its leaded cupola topped with a small spire, which is in turn surmounted by a weather vane in the shape of St. Peter’s key.[6][10]
The interior is aisled, with square arcade piers[11] resting on the medieval pier foundations. The nave is barrel vaulted, while the aisles have transverse barrel vaults.[10] Unusually for a Wren church, there is a screen marking the division between nave and chancel. This was installed at the insistence of the rector at the time of rebuilding, William Beveridge.[12]
Charles Dickens mentions the churchyard in "Our Mutual Friend". A theatre group called The Players of St Peter were formed at the church in 1946 and performed there until 1987.[13] They are now based at St Clement Eastcheap where its members perform medieval mystery plays each November.
The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.
Perhaps this explains what has been mashing down my daffodils? Hmmm? :-)
It's not even Spring yet, and my daffys are almost finished!
The man who talked to us when we were shooting. Sometimes people who is interested in a camera or a photograph talk to when we take pictures outside. He started talking about from a camera to a wartime story and he told us how he survived during the war.
When he was 15 years old, he worked to put the dead bodies in order to identify or buried them in the hole and that job made 10,000 yen in the daily wages. While there were many people returning as they see the bodies, he worked hard and started an electric shop after the war. He said with a smile " The postwar electric shop made money next to a thief."
撮影をしている時に話しかけて来たおじさん。
外で写真を撮っているとよくカメラや写真に興味のある人が話しかけて来ます。おじさんはカメラの話から戦時中の話になり、戦時中をどう生き抜いて来たかを教えてくれました。
15歳のころ死体を片付けたり身元の確認や穴に埋める作業をして日給１万円。死体を見て帰って行く人も多い中、おじさんはこつこつ働き、戦後電気屋を開業、「戦後の電気屋なんつったら泥棒の次に儲かったよ～」と笑って教えてくれました。
Muscle building is actually the process of creating muscle tissues by performing exercises as well as framing ones diet regime to achieve extra muscular mass. People may undergo this procedure for the purpose of their own improvement, entertainment or even competing in sports. There are lots of...
Chewie wasn’t sure about my shirt when he saw Darth Vader on it, but he seemed to be OK with it after I pointed out Luke, Leia, and her Chewbacca doll.
Los Angeles Firefighters compassionately assist a motorist injured when her car collided with a parked van in Valley Village on April 3, 2011. © Photo by Mike Meadows
Written and explained to me and my friend by our waiter Ben, whilst dining at Mosob, West London.
The three most important things are to Live, to Love and to make the most of our Time in the world.
Live : L I V E
Life - Enjoy it and live it to its fullest.
Information - Absorb it and gain knowledge
Volume - Expand the volume which we fit into life.
Energy - Live your life with positive energy and let it radiate to others.
Love: L O V E
Learn - We must learn to love ourselves before we can love others.
Organise - Organise your life and world, and you will love it more.
Value - Learn the value of our loved ones.
Exercise - Exercise the body and mind to be happy with yourself.
Time: T I M E
Tension: Internal - Live healthy and don't live a life of stress to release the tension and extend your time.
Motion: External - Travel, See the world, and expand your horizons.
Attitude +/-
A: The 1st letter of the alphabet.
T: The 20th letter of the alphabet.
T: The 20th letter of the alphabet.
I: The 9th letter of the alphabet.
T: The 20th letter of the alphabet.
U: The 21st letter of the alphabet.
D: The 4th letter of the alphabet.
E: The 5th letter of the alphabet.
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100.
100% of your attitude - it can be positive or negative.
You decide.
Picture taken at “ARCHITECTS OF DESIGN THINKING” Prof. David Kelley and Prof. Hasso Plattner, a conversation
A handy reference to the sayings
I love Asian art history and have taken Chinese and calligraphy. Running across a book of pithy Chinese sayings having to do with futility I translated them from regular Chinese (kaishu) to the ancient ‘seal script’ (zhuanshu) which I manipulated freely to help convey the message. These sayings are rendered as etchings in black ink, combined with impressions of actual collectors’ seals in red. The center of the page is empty as it often is in Asian art. Some actual seals can be seen at Chinese Seals. All prints were done in 2002.
I put notes on these lids to explain.
You wont be able to cut them off without Opening her and taking her eyemech out.
Ignore my totally dry hands lol
If you are afraid to do it and dont mind footing the bill on shipping back and fourth Ill do it for you ;)
The mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau, Cathars, Priory of Sion, Knights Templar, Neolithic standing stones, Holy Grail etc all explained in this easy to understand diagram.
explains her vote during session. The NYS Senate met today and passed a large number of bills.
NYS Capitol, Albany
Photo courtesy of NYS Senate media services
I was taking a picture of uneaten blackberries left on a plate. I set the shutter speed long enough to move away from the plate during the exposure.
Small things amuse small minds, you know.
An officer explains the operation to a shopper.
Police arrested two people during a multi-agency raid on Conran Street Market, Harpurhey as part of Project Cove on Tuesday 14 June 2011.
An estimated £22,000 worth of goods were seized, including 2,000 DVDs and CDs along with clothes, jewellery, tobacco and cigarettes.
The operation included up to 70 officers from a multitude of agencies including police, fire service, the UKBA, Trading Standards and HM Revenue and Customs.
Seventeen vehicles were checked by traffic police officers, six were issued with immediate summons for mechanical defects and one person was issued with a fixed penalty notice for having no MOT.
Inspector Gareth Parkin who led on the raid for Project Cove said: “This was a fantastic result for such a large scale multi-agency operation. For those who are happy to buy counterfeit goods the raid may have been an inconvenience, but this kind of activity is for the law-abiding members of our community who see criminality taking place in front of them and want it to stop.
“Project Cove is about everyone working together to remove crime and antisocial behaviour from this area and these results send a strong message that we mean business. Expect more activity like this in the future.”
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Zachry Construction Project Manager Sean Perkins speaks to the Statesville Chamber of Commerce about the I-40/77 interchange project.