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This was the meeting that made RelMeAuth real.
After Jeff Lindsay and I tweeted about it (1(t), 2, 3(t)) the previous evening, and discussed the basics over dinner with fellow microformatters, Jeff and Paul Tarjan went off and coded a working RelMeAuth library and prototype client in Python. Less than 36 hours from concept to proof-of-concept. A couple of months later I wrote up the RelMeAuth details on the microformats.org wiki.
And now we have a working PHP library and prototype as well: tantek.com/relmeauth/ (thanks to Matt Harris and yours truly).
There is no denying that the Space Shed looks pretty amazing all lit up for Robin Fallback's set under the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank!
WIP - PBR and Fallbacks - Soon to be released on MP
All lighting done in SL :
- EEP - Ambient Grey
- 5 Basic light projectors 100% white placed around the example objects
- 1 Reflection probe around the white box.
Rocket stage beginning fallback to Earth.
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Photo-a-Day: Year 7, Day 8 – Total Days: 2,199
Canon 6D | ISO 1600 | 20mm | f/3.2 | 1/1000 sec
Here's another easy photo-a-day fallback shot when you're not sure what to do and it's getting late: take a photo of the inside of your spiffy Ikea floor lamp! It provides its own light source and has interesting texture and patterns.
After two developer previews, Android 8.1 Oreo is ready for the masses. Google announced that the new OS is rolling out now and is posting system images for the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, the Pixel 1 and 1 XL, the Pixel C tablet, and the Nexus 6P and 5X. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code drop should be happening now, too. Android 8.1 Oreo is a minor maintenance release after the major update of Android 8.0. The biggest feature in 8.1 is a new "Neural Networks API" (NNAPI), which is designed for running machine-learning operations on mobile devices. Phones with specialized machine-learning hardware can hardware accelerate this API, while older devices can use a CPU fallback mode. The API provides a base layer, higher-level, machine-learning framework to plug into, like Google's TensorFlow Lite.
Tealeaf Treasures - Tiered Chain Necklace
◆ Rigged for: Anatomy, Legacy Male, Jake, Reborn+V-Tech
◆ 6 metal colors in PBR&Fallback
◆ Individual texture&visibility toggle for each chain
◆ Versions for under&over clothing
◆ Copy/Modify/No Transfer
Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tealeaf-Treasures-Tiered-Cha...
Inworld: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ruined%20Mine/138/172/822
Boredom struck on a Friday night and it led me to my fallback; macro photography. As I searched for subjects I ran into this little guy and I can't stress little enough. I had to use a reverse-mounting technique in order to capture his detail.
Nikon D3 - Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (reverse mounted) - Promaster FL190
Ricoh 4420L Fax Machine
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Features
Type - Desktop Facsimile
Recording Method - Laser
Recording Method - Group 3 (V.34); ECM
Modem Speed - 33.6 kbps with auto fallback
Modem Speed - 2 seconds per page
Data Compression - MH/MR/MMR/JBIG
Scan Speed (Letter Standard resolution) - 1.3 seconds B/W
Dual Access - Standard
Document Memory (Standard) - 7 MB (560 pages)
Document Memory (Optional) - 40MB (2,200 pages)
Autodialer - 90 Quick Dials; 200 Speed Dials; 9 Groups
User Function Keys - 10 (dedicated keys)
Document Memory Backup - 12 hours with Standard Memory; infinite with 40MB Memory Card
Automatic Document Feeder Capacity - 70 sheets
Document Width/Scan Width/Length (Max.) - 8.6"/8.48"/23.7"
Scan Resolution - Standard: 200 x 100 dpi Detail: 200 x 200 dpi Super Fine: 400 x 400 dpi Extra Super Fine: 600 x 600 dpi Halftone: 64 levels with ARGONA
Print Speed (Max.) - 15 pages per minute
Print Resolution (Max.) - 600 dpi (fax and printer)
Resolution Enhancement - Super Smoothing HQTM
Recording Width/Paper Size (Max.) - 8.26"/8.5" x 14"
Paper Capacity (Standard) - 250 sheet letter-size cassette + 500 sheet letter-/legal-size cassette (750 sheets)
Paper Capacity (Optional) - 500 sheet letter-/legal-size cassette + 100 sheet Bypass Tray
Paper Capacity/Sources - 1,350 sheets/4
Multi-Copy Capacity - Up to 99 (with duplexing)
LCD Display Size - 2 lines (22 characters each line)
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Power Requirements - 120V, 60Hz
Environment - 59 to 77º F, 30 to 70% RH
Dimensions (WxDxH) - 17.6" x 21.7" x 21.6"
Weight - 61.7 lbs.
Consumable Yields - Toner Cartridge: 5,000 pages
Photoconductor Unit - 45,000 pages
Internet Fax / IP-Fax / Scan to Email (NIC FAX Unit option)
Network/Connection - LAN, 100/10Base-T Ethernet, RJ-45
Transmission Speed - 100/10 Mbps
Document Size - 8.5" x 11", 8.5" x 14"
Compatibility - Internet Fax: ITU-T Rec. T.37 IP-Fax: ITU-T Rec. T.38
Scan Resolution for Internet Fax - Standard: 200 x 100 dpi Detail: 200 x 200 dpi
Scan Resolution IP-Fax - Standard: 200 x 100 dpi Detail: 200 x 200 dpi Super Fine: 400 x 400 dpi Extra Super Fine: 600 x 600 dpi
Scan Resolution for Scanner - Std. B&W: 200 x 100 dpi Std. Color: 100 x 100 dpi Detail: 200 x 200 dpi 300 dpi: 300 x 300 dpi Super Fine: 400 x 400 dpi Extra Super Fine: 600 x 600 dpi
Internet Protocols - Email Trans.: SMTP, TCP/IP Email Rec.: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, TCP/IP IP-Fax: T.38 Annex B, TCP, UDP/IP Scanner: FTP, TCP/IP
Email Format - Email Trans.: SMTP, TCP/IP Email Rec.: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, TCP/IP IP-Fax: T.38 Annex B, TCP, UDP/IP Scanner: FTP, TCP/IP
Attached File Format - TIFF-F(MH Compression), DCX, JPEG, PDF
Security - POP before SMTP, SMTP Authentication, APOP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) - Standard
Web Status Monitor - Standard
Printer Features (optional)
Print Speed (Letter) - 15-ppm
Printer Resolution (Max.) - 600 x 600 dpi
Interface - Ethernet 100-TX/10-T, IEEE1284 Parallel
Printer Memory (Std/Max.) - 16MB/144MB
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A couple of weeks ago my camera was...well, I guess "lost" would be an appropriate enough word. Souvenir Foto began its second session the following week. Thinking to myself, "such is my luck," I declined the invitation to participate because I "didn't have a camera."
The first assignment was posted, along with a little background info saying that the basis for this session came from the inspiration of Deb McLean's iPhone Photography—the point being that amazing images can happen despite whatever excuses we allow ourselves. Well, I do have an iPhone and I couldn't really pass up the challenge, which was actually delivered at a perfect time, considering my camera circumstances. (I was a bit too late for the group though, and missed out on being partnered so I'm following along on my own.)
The photos may not be that great but what is, is that I'm not sitting in a puddle of tears over my Nikon. Clearly the phone has limitations, but I'm trying to think of them as 'parameters' instead. Without any bells and whistles, I don't have any fallback tricks, like macro or DOF, so I'll just be experimenting with simplicity. And oddly, somehow having such constraints is almost a little liberating.
Taken with my iPhone, processed with CameraBag Colorcross filter.
So I started this the other day. My thought was a winding mountain path with water flowing down through it. I didn't quite get it how I was thinking it would turn out, but I think its getting there. I built it up with stone, then tried to go back through and carve it out how I wanted and then decorate it. I think its okay, but I don't understand how to make trees. I still need to get the outside less...vertical.
I still haven't finished the fire kingdom circular base thing, nor the mountain island I started (I honestly don't remember where that one is...), and I haven't finished replacing the main castle walls with a more diverse palette. I need to work on my map wall, but I want to wait until the official 1.13 update incase there are unloaded ocean chunks (relatively) nearby.
I did get a few things worked on. I've been fixing up the main pathway in the castle, I built a massive aquarium (working on filling it), and I've been getting rid of random chests around the base and making the grass less...grass. I added a bunch of other green blocks to break it up a bit, as well as sea lanterns under leaf blocks so I can get rid of the torches everywhere.
Non minecraft-wise, I've been making significant progress with my bionicles. I've purchased a few new masks, and I've been sorting by piece and rebuilding old sets, and its all going pretty good - other than the near weekly parties that I've been hosting at my apartment that require me to clean up while I'm in the middle of sorting...That's always fun.
5 weeks (?) until graduation, then I have to adult. Until then, I'll continue playing minecraft, watching cartoons, and sorting legos!
Also, I haven't been able to get out to the shop due to ridiculous weather, but I am a good weekend in the shop away from being able to mass-produce wooden mugs, so that's a fallback I guess? Now off to start a new minecraft project while I wait for people to come over for one of those mentioned parties.
Denny-Blaine, 2022
After a long, long winterspring where much of the first 20 days of June didn't seem much different than February or March other than a few degrees warmer and longer daylight hours, today – the official start of summer – broke clear and warm. It's suppose to get to 75˚F today.
After an expected short fallback tomorrow to rain and low 60's, the extended forecast calls for sun and temps in the mid-70s to 80s.
Finally....
#summerlight #morninglight
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I didn't know, when I started this project, that it would develop into a two year commitment--one to take the photographs, and a second to try to explain them.
The building's the local Masonic temple, which is a rather ugly structure wrapped in tin siding. It sits on the edge of Mulliken's downtown park and presents park visitors with a large and forbidding wall, broken only by a door, a single window, and this fire escape.
I'd decided months before that the escape would be the last 366 Snaps photo subject. So a year ago I headed downtown to find a couple dozen photos from a variety of angles.
Please take note of the ice....
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A Photo a Day: advice
* Set some simple rules. Just getting out there to take a photograph is hard, some days. Adding a layer of complexity is unwise.
* Take photos early in the day. You may well take/post a better photograph later in the day, but at least you'll have something to work with if the day heads south.
* Budget time. Between taking the photographs and processing them I usually spent 45 to 90 minutes each day on 366 Snaps. Some days were quicker, of course; some were slow.
* Create sub-projects. These give you fallbacks for the dull days.
* Scout out locations. Every day. These give you fallbacks for the dull days.
* Experiment. Be creative. This goes without saying. But it means different things to different photographers.
* Boredom is the enemy. Shoot anyway.
* Busy-ness is the enemy. Shoot anyway.
* If you miss a day, keep shooting anyway. This isn't a test, it's a project.
* The last month is hard. Everyone I've followed during a daily shoot project reports this. I'm confirming it.
* Some days you won't be happy with your daily photo. Those days you need to just go with what you've got. And learn from the mistake.
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Would I do it again? Yeah. With even fewer rules.
But not starting tomorrow. I've got some non-photographic projects I've been neglecting.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.
Number of project photos taken: 24
Title of "roll:" Fire Escape
Other photos taken on 12/31/2012: I spent much of the day playing with a lens adapter--attaching various Minolta lenses to my Nikon D300. The results were interesting, but in the end I concluded it wasn't a gain as my Minolta lens kit's much like my Nikon lens kit.
As part of the project, all of the library account functionality that was previously only available in the OPAC has been implemented in a new "MyLibrary" site. The site uses the responsive Twitter Bootstrap framework with the Spacelab theme. Most interactions occur using Ajax (with a suitable fallback for non-JS browsers).
Here is the iPhone style view.
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Image shows placement of a single front loaded primary transmit coil running across a 50MHz DDS (Direct-Digital-Synthesiser). The DDS includes full Freq-Phase modulation control for both power and data transfer. On-board circuitry also includes real time phase and magnitude monitoring of primary coil voltage and current waveforms allowing full monitoring of resulting transformer impedance and power coupling.
A single coil driver was included as a fallback option after requirements changes mandating direct wire galvanic coupling of signals into the eye via a percutaneous plug.
Advanced eye-tracking coil driver functions were subsequently removed from future designs with eye tracking then reverting to the use of mirrors and FPGA driven image segmentation ;-(
Fall Back, 1 hour, Sunday Nov 6, 2011 (Daylight Savings). Taken of a Japanese Maple in our backyard.
Saturday night I went to see my good friends in The Writing Season perform with a bunch of locals. The show was pretty fun, now I quit photography 2 years ago. A day before the show I just thought to myself “Why not shoot the show and probably won’t ever do it again.” It was weird picking up my camera it didn’t feel the same as it used to be. Don’t get me wrong it was cool taking photos but idk it’s not the same as it was. I didn’t feel any passion or excited to photograph. While at the show I had mix feelings I kept thinking “This was a really bad idea, I should just put my camera back in the car and just enjoy the show.” I just had these mixing feelings about photographing the show. As I was looking through the the photos most of them came out pretty shitty (my opinion). I don’t know what I’m going to do next, a lot of my friends think I should get back to photography since they all think I’m good at it. Personally I don’t think I was ever good, so I’m going to continue it but probably not for long so here’s a preview on what I got from Saturday night at Fallback Records show with The Writing Season. Please check out my friends band really talented guys, You can buy their two ep’s on iTunes.
www.facebook.com/thewritingseason
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A standing-room-only crowd recently attended a Writers Read event, celebrating the College’s 50-year anniversary with featured authors, activists and former COD students Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein reading and discussing their work.
(Press Photography Network/ Special to College of DuPage)
Today did not go well in many ways.
There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.
Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.
When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.
Thing-a-Day Day 2. Today I started making a photo-mosaic calendar using appropriate photos form Flickr. I don’t intend to post this every day, although I will keep it up to date. The intention is for it to provide a quick fallback for Thing-a-Day contribution on days when something more original is difficult (like maybe tomorrow when I’ll be at the hospital a lot of the day).
1. feb11, 2. Number 1, 3. Two Fingers
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
Today did not go well in many ways.
There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.
Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.
When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.
10 second exposure coupled with a couple of manual flashes on a pine tree in the foreground for some light painting. I suppose since I used the flash this can qualify for the "flash" theme. Took this over the summer (July) and used it as a fallback for this week when my water droplet/splash captures weren't working out (or at least were no where near the quality Ekki and Howard are producing--they set a high bar).
A standing-room-only crowd recently attended a Writers Read event, celebrating the College’s 50-year anniversary with featured authors, activists and former COD students Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein reading and discussing their work.
(Press Photography Network/ Special to College of DuPage)
IE8 with the zoom:1 and html5.js applied. Apart from providing fallbacks for rgba colours (or trying one of the rgba js fixes) and opacity, it's almost there!
Date built:
1886-7
Architect:
Tappin, Gilbert & Dennehy
Builder:
A.J. Muller
First owner:
Joseph Clarke
Description:
Three four storey houses of red brick with sandstone dressings built in the Queen Anne Revival style. Elaborate facade details (for further, see Australian Heritage Place Inventory, website below).
History:
The land on which Queen Bess Row was built was bought in the original land sales of 1853 by WJT Clarke. In 1895 his son, Joseph Clarke (brother of Sir William Clarke, bart. of Cliveden), is listed as the owner. He died the same year and the property was held by the Clarke Trustees.
However the Notice of Intention to Build gave the name of the owner as a Miss Cornwall. It was for three four storey houses, although it seems the building was not intended to function in this way and the plan was merely a fallback position. The party walls between the houses were designed with archways between them to allow for easy opening up or closing off. The caption to an illustration in The Building & Engineering Journal, 21 July 1888, describes the building as the East Melbourne Coffee Palace, and this name is also written below the central gable of the building. However it appears that while a coffee palace was the intended usage it was never the reality. The building, under the management of Miss Henrietta Rebecca Macartney, initially became The East Melbourne Trained Nurses' Home, and by 1890 was also a private hospital. The Argus carried the following advertisement:
'MISS MACARTNEY begs to intimate to the members of the medical profession that she has made all the necessary arrangements for carrying out the HYDROPATHIC TREATMENT of disease. Including steam, hot air, and douche baths at her private hospital, Rubra, Hotham-street, East Melbourne, and has engaged the services of an experienced masseur, who will carry out the doctor’s instructions.'
Advertisements for both the Nurses' Home and the hospital ran until 1894. On 15 October, 1895 The Argus ran an extensive advertisement for the sale of contents of Rubra, including domestic furniture and hospital equipment. In 1894 Miss Macartney had been sued for negligence. Damages awarded against her were 25 pounds; this plus the bad publicity may have been enough to cause the hospital's closure. It was also the same year that Joseph Clarke, the building's owner, died. However the house was not immediately sold after Macartney's departure, and was advertised To Let. The inventory amongst Clarke's probate papers describes the building as 'a Brick and Stone building used as a Private Hospital' and valued at 6,000 pounds. Miss Macartney owed rent of 143 pounds and 16s. 8d.
The archways were blocked up in 1896, and the building was converted to apartments with one apartment on each floor of each house. Although not built as apartments the building is regarded as possibly Melbourne's first apartment block.
By the the late 1920s the buildings were known as Rubra Flats (72), Angus McArthur's boarding house (74), and Cregh Flats (76). By 1936 No. 74 was known as Tudor Guest House.
In 1989 the building ceased operating as a 50-room boarding house, home to low-income tenants. Following prolonged feuding between the Ministry of Housing and the Melbourne City Council, and amid much opposition from tenants, would-be tenants and their defendants, the building remained empty for a year. In 1990, it was finally subdivided into three separate houses and sold to individual purchasers.
Owners and occupiers:
1886-1895: Joseph Clark, brother of Sir William John Clarke of Cliveden and Rupertswood.
Miss Cornwall: It has been established that Miss Cornwall was Miss Alice Cornwell, daughter of George Cornwell, contractor and builder of Melbourne Grammar. At the time Queen Bess Row was being built she had acquired international fame as the founder of the Midas Gold Mine from which had been extracted one of the largest nuggets ever found, the Lady Loch, weighing around 17.49kg. She quickly became known as Madam Midas and Fergus Hume wrote a book of that name which was inspired by her story. [For more on Alice Cornwell and her connection to Queen Bess Row see EMHS Newsletter March 2013, link below.]
It appears, although this is yet to be confirmed, that Miss Cornwell bought the land from Clarke on a long settlement giving her the right to call herself the owner and the right to develop the land. The plan no doubt was to build the houses, establish a company which would buy them from her enabling her to pay the balance of the money owing to Clarke. However the company did not eventuate, settlement was never completed and Clarke retained ownership of the land, now improved with three very large houses.
1889-1895: Henrietta Rebecca Macartney (c.1837-1919). Miss Macartney was the eldest daughter of The Very Reverend Hussey Burgh Macartney, first dean of Melbourne. She was born in Ireland and arrived in Melbourne with her family in 1848. She died at her home, Rubra, 22 Derby Street, Kew.
Sources:
Australian Heritage Place Inventory: www.heritage.gov.au/ahpi/index.html
Lewis, Miles, Suburban Backlash, Bloomings Books, Hawthorn, Vic., 1999
Rushen, Liz. A short untitled MS on the history of the houses written as a caption for an exhibition of photos: EMHS emvf244
The Argus, 2 Nov 1889, p.8, col.1; 9 May 1890 p.10, col.1; 24 Dec 1894, p.1, Births; 7 Mar 1894, p.8; 30 May 1895, p.3; 15 Oct 1895, p.2; 26 Sept 1919, p.1, Deaths.
Inventory in the Will of Joseph Clarke, 57/792. PROV: VPRS28;P0002;407
Catalogue reference:
emhs.org.au/catalogue/emdf0010
#1 of 30 April Photo a Day Challenge. Getting ready for a trip so there goes the first fallback photo!
A standing-room-only crowd recently attended a Writers Read event, celebrating the College’s 50-year anniversary with featured authors, activists and former COD students Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein reading and discussing their work.
(Press Photography Network/ Special to College of DuPage)
November 1st already! October lasted like 5 minutes…the only proof that it was here are all these leaves! My name is Tim and I’m live in Raleigh with my wife @sababean and my son Asher. I have the day off today and Asher and I will be carrying the baton around the Triangle. We may get off to a slow start but we’ll be going strong after nap time! #fallback #cityofoaks #tonka picture by @ttbarnard / on Instagram instagram.com/p/gLCzg9jhzO/
As part of the project, all of the library account functionality that was previously only available in the OPAC has been implemented in a new "MyLibrary" site. The site uses the responsive Twitter Bootstrap framework with the Spacelab theme. Most interactions occur using Ajax (with a suitable fallback for non-JS browsers).
J Troplong "Jay" Ward was born September 20, 1920 in Berkeley, California. His first name was just the initial "J" with no period after it. He died of kidney cancer in Hollywood, California on October 12, 1989.
Jay Ward's star is located at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. It was paid for as part of the publicity for the live-action and animation film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle on June 21, 2000.
He was the creator and producer of TV cartoons. Some of his series included Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, Super Chicken, and the animated Fractured Flickers. His company, Jay Ward Productions, also designed the trademark characters for Cap'n Crunch, Quisp and Quake breakfast cereals and made commercials for those products, among others. Ward produced the non-animated Fractured Flickers series that featured comedy redubbing of silent films.
Crusader Rabbit was the first cartoon made for TV.
He had an MBA from Harvard University. Even when his animation company was at the height of its success, he continued to own his own real estate firm as a "fallback" business.
In a running joke tribute to Jay Ward, many of his cartoon characters had the middle initial "J", presumably standing for "J" (his first name, although this was never stated explicitly). One person wrote to Jay Ward in 1961 and asked him what the J stood for in Rocket J Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose. Ward wrote back that the J stood for George. Cartoonist Matt Groening later gave the middle initial "J" to many of his characters as a tribute to Jay Ward: Bartholomew J. Simpson (Bart), Homer J. Simpson, and Abraham J. Simpson (Grandpa). I have the middle initial "J" too.
Rocket J "Rocky" Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose were from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota. They were endlessly pursued by "no-goodnik" spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, always under orders to "keel moose and squirrel."
Ward fought many heated battles over content with the network and sponsor, but had little fear of censorship or lawsuits. In fact, he begged organizations to sue him, quipping, "We need the publicity."
An eccentric and proud of it, Ward was known for pulling an unusual publicity stunt that happened to coincide with a major national crisis. Jay Ward bought an island in Minnesota near his home and dubbed it "Moosylvania," based upon the home of his most famous TV character Bullwinkle. He and publicist Howard Brandy crossed the country in a van, gathering signatures on a petition for statehood for Moosylvania. They then visited Washington, D.C. and attempted to gain an audience with President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, they arrived at the White House just at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and were escorted off the grounds at gunpoint.
In 1962 he created a 33⅓ RPM record (that was the size of a 45 RPM record) called Moosylvania Jazz Festival to compliment his "Moosylvania for Statehood" campaign.
Frostbite Falls is based on a real place, International Falls, Minnesota.
Jay Ward and Alex Anderson knew a man with the last name of Bullwinkel (not a typo). He owned a Ford dealership down the road from where they animated Crusader Rabbit. The man had a big nose and a funny personality. After Ward and Anderson talked for a while, they thought 'Bullwinkle' would be the perfect name for their dimwitted moose.
Boris Badenov's name was really a pun from Mussorgsky's opera titled Boris Godenov. The Russian last name sounds like "bad enough," yet another pun.
Before the Lucky the Leprechaun came along, Boris and Natasha were the spokesmen for Lucky Charms breakfast cereal (from 1959 to 1964).
Peabody (Mr. Peabody character) was the name of Bill Scott's dog.
Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E., the accredited executive producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, doesn't exist. When the series first became famous, many reporters contacted the studio and asked for the staff's biographies. Rather that tell them about their normal suburban lives, they often sent out the bio for Ponsonby Britt O.B.E. It was embellished with a life filled with adventure and excitement (think Forest Gump). O.B.E. was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. The scam worked perfectly as they saw the biography of a fake person grace the media. It was an inside joke that the cast remembers fondly.
In the Missouri Mish Mash story line, everyone is searching for The Kirward Derby. This is a hat that supposedly make the wearer extremely smart, but is later reveled to make you stunningly stupid. The name Kirward Derby is really a pun of Durward Kirby, the co-host of Candid Camera from 1961-1966. Mr. Kirby tried to sued Jay Ward Inc. for the parody of his name. In reply Ward said, " Please sue us, we love the publicity."
Boris and Natasha were based on the Addams Family comic strip characters Gomez and Morticia.
Boris and Natasha are Pottsylvanian, not Russian.
Bramwell Smith Jr., the guy that played thet rumpet in the Dudley Do-Right theme song, played in the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band.
The Bullwinkle Studios website has biographies of Ward's characters like this one for Mr. Peabody:
The brilliant and slightly egotistical beagle known as Mr. Peabody has long been recognized as the world's most intelligent dog-despite his penchant for making the worst puns in the history of wordplay. During his youth, Mr. Peabody was sent to the Canine Academy for the ARFS (Affection, Retrieval, Frolicking, and Sitting), where he was quickly recognized as a puppy prodigy when he recited Fredrich Nietzche's "Beyond Good and Evil" by memory in Latin, Russian, and his native tongue, Dog.
Tired of living alone in his lavish penthouse apartment, Mr. Peabody decided to adopt his own boy. A young orphan named Sherman became his faithful companion following a lengthy custody battle-which Mr. Peabody won because of his unfathomable legal knowledge. In order to exercise Sherman and keep him off his furniture, Mr. Peabody built the WABAC machine, which holds the distinction of being the world's first working time travel device invented by a dog.
When not correcting the course of history on his trips through time in the WABAC, Mr. Peabody practices both yoga and judo, writes sonnets in Sanskrit, and composes twelve-tone duets for swinette and glockenspiel.
Jay Ward is buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. (photos)
Links
• Bullwinkle Studios (official site)
• Jay Ward page at IMDB
• Hokey Smoke (fan site)
• Frostbite Falls Page (fan site)
• Jay Ward Studios Ephemera (catalog and advertisement)
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
In early 1968, the Soviet Ministry of Defense decided to develop a specialized shturmovik armored assault aircraft in order to provide close air support for the Soviet Ground Forces. The idea of creating a ground-support aircraft came about after analyzing the experience of shturmovaya (ground attack) aviation during World War II, and in local wars during the 1950s and 1960s. The Soviet fighter-bombers in service or under development at this time (Su-7, Su-17, MiG-21 and MiG-23) did not meet the requirements for close air support of the army. They lacked essential armor plating to protect the pilot and vital equipment from ground fire and missile hits, and their high flight speeds made it difficult for the pilot to maintain visual contact with a target. Ordnance load and loiter time were also insufficient.
In March 1969, a competition was announced by the Soviet Air Force that called for designs for a new battlefield close-support aircraft. Participants in the competition were the Design Bureaus of Sukhoi, Yakovlev, Ilyushin and Mikoyan.
Mikoyan OKB proposed two directions: First option were designs which were based upon proven technology of the MiG-21 and -23, with an eye on short development time – e. g. the LSSh and 27Sh concepts. The other approach was a more experimental type, designed from scratch, but this concept focused more radically on survivability and excellent low altitude agility, at the expense of speed and a short development time.
All MiG OKB designs were eventually rejected by the MoD, and effectively only Ilyushin’s Il-42 (later renamed into Il-102) and Sukhoi’s T-8 (the later Su-25) remained in the official competition. But Mikoyan’s second design showed potential and was considered as a basis for an advanced jet trainer. This aircraft was approved to be developed further, but not with high priority and outside of the official shturmovik competition. Anyway, it was a fallback option, should both main contenders fail.
The project received the internal development code ‘Izdeliye 1.43’, but the forthcoming aircraft was better known under its project handle MiG-SPB (Samolet Polya Boya – ‘armored combat aircraft’) or its nickname, ла́сточка (Lastochka = Swallow). Some sources claim that the type was also designated MiG-43, but it never received an official code, despite its front line test service (see below).
The MiG-SPB’s main design objective was superior maneuverability at low speeds and altitude. It offered the pilot excellent view and a high resilience to frontline combat situations. The aircraft’s most prominent trademark was its engine location: in overall layout, the MiG-SPB resembled Sukhoi’s T-8, with straight wings and two jet engines placed in nacelles at the fuselage flanks. But in order to protect the engines from gunfire and shield the hot exhaust gases from view (e .g. from IR seeker heads, esp. from MANPADS), the nacelles were placed above the mid-set wings, with the air intakes at wing leading edge level.
Despite carrying armor around the cockpit and the central fuselage, the aircraft was surprisingly slender and elegant – so slim that the rigid landing gear, which would allow operation from field air strips, retracted into fairings which also housed the internal gun on starboard and avionics on port. As a side benefit of this complex layout, the CoG was kept very centralized, so that agility was further improved. The tail was conventional, even though the vertical stabilizer was rather high and slender.
For its low altitude duties, a large wing area, high wing aspect ratio, and large ailerons were incorporated. The high aspect ratio wing also allowed for short takeoffs and landings, permitting operations from primitive forward airfields near front lines. It was planned that the type would typically fly at a relatively slow speed of 300 knots (350 mph; 560 km/h), loiter for extended periods and operate under 1.000 ft (300 m) ceiling with 1.5 mi (2.4 km) visibility. This would have made it a much better platform for the ground-attack role than contemporary fast fighter-bombers, which often gave difficulty targeting small and slow-moving targets, or finding them again for a second attack.
Originally, the MiG-SPB was powered by two Ivchenko AI-25 turbofan with 14.7 kN (3,300 lbf) each, basically the same engine that drove the Yak-40 regional jet airliner. In early 1981 these were replaced by two much more powerful Klimov RD-33M turbofans: non-afterburning versions of the engines that powered the Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter (under development at MiG OKB at that time) and which were also introduced in the production Su-25.
Armament comprised a fixed gun in the starboard fairing and 3.500kg (7.700 lb.) of external ordnance, carried on eight wing hardpoints plus a centerline pylon under the fuselage.
Originally, a two-barreled Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23L 23 mm cannon with 350 rounds was fitted, but that soon gave way to a more powerful 30mm GSh-30-1 cannon which could fire armor-piercing shells at 1.800 rpm. The gun's maximum effective range was 1.200 to 1.800 m (3.900 to 5.900 ft.) and, in combination with the Klen-PS laser rangefinder/targeting system in the aircraft’s nose, it was extremely accurate as well as powerful, capable of destroying a target with as few as three to five rounds.
At least one pre-production aircraft was even fitted with a single-barreled 45mm cannon.
Further avionics included a DISS-7 Doppler navigation radar, coupled with a navigation system that permitted flight in day and night conditions, both in VMC and IMC (even though the aircraft did not feature an all-weather/attack capability), and providing flight data for the weapons-control system and flight instruments. Radios for air-to-ground and air-to-air communications were fitted, as well as a weapons-control system and a full self-defense suite, incorporating infra-red, flare and chaff dispensers capable of launching about 250 flares and dipole chaff. An SRO radar warning receiver that would alert the pilot of incoming attacks on the aircraft, as well as an SPO-15 radar homing & warning system (RHAWS) and an SO-69 identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder were incorporated.
With no official support the MiG-SPB’s development went on slowly, but due to several delays and specification changes in the official shturmovik competition it kept up pace and was more or less ready just in time for direct comparison. The MiG-SPB prototype first flew on 14 February 1978 and began State acceptance trials on 12 October 1979. Since the secondary use as a trainer was still on the agenda, all prototypes and pre-production machines were two-seaters, even though the plane was still primarily intended for the ground attack role and accordingly equipped.
An order for a first batch of twenty pre-production machines was placed in November 1979, and five of these had been completed by the spring of 1980 and were undergoing pre-flight tests when the Soviet MoD decided to try the type under real conditions. Together with an initial batch of Su-25s a total of five MiG-SPBs with support crews and maintenance equipment were sent to Afghanistan.
On 19 July 1981 and with the new RD-33M engines already fitted, these aircraft arrived at Shindand Airbase in western Afghanistan and were assigned to the 201st Independent Shturmovaya Air Squadron, flying together with the first Su-25 unit deployed to that country. Their main task was to conduct air strikes against mountain military positions and structures controlled by the Afghan rebels. The MiG-SPB proved to be easy to handle, esp. under “hot and high” conditions.
Flight characteristics were closely comparable to the Su-25 and the aircraft gained a good reputation among the flight crews. But field maintenance was more complicated and the electronic systems proved not to be as reliable and sturdy as the Su-25’s, though. Another drawback was the lower ordnance load of 3.500kg (the Su-25 could theoretically carry 4.500kg), which suffered further in the thin air of the Afghan summer. Usually, only 1.000 kg were carried, unguided missiles or iron bombs being the most frequent weapons.
The MiG-SPB found its niche, though: the second seat made the MiG-SPB a formidable reconnaissance and observation aircraft. The MiG-SPBs were frequently used as forward air control aircraft which would locate and mark targets, guide other fighter bombers to them and later control/assess the attack success (BDA missions).
In the late months of employment, the rear seat was also taken up by a weapon officer who would steer guided weapons, when several smart bombs and missiles as well as their respective sensor and guidance packages were tried out under field conditions.
Over the course of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, five more MiG-SPB were transferred to Afghanistan in order to keep a minimum of four machines active at all times. The aircraft performed a total of roundabout 2.500 combat sorties, ~250 per aircraft (less than the Su-25, which clocked 340 and more). Between the first deployment in 1981 and the end of the tests in April 1983, one aircraft was lost in combat operations, another one crashed in a landing accident. When NATO became aware of the type in late 1982, the MiG-SPB received the code name ‘Flintstone’.
In the end, the MiG-SPB had no future. After a long development process for the new shturmovik, the Su-25 surpassed its main competitor in the Soviet Air Force competition, the Ilyushin Il-102, as well as the MiG-SPB, and series production of Sukhoi’s type was announced by the Ministry of Defense. Since the trainer option did not show any future potential (meanwhile, the smaller and much less costly L-39 Albatros had been chosen as jet trainer), further development of the MiG-SPB was stopped – even though the experience with the type would later be incorporated into the MiG-AT trainer aircraft.
General characteristics (as flown)
Crew: Two (one pilot, one observer/WO)
Length: 15.19 m (50 ft 5½ in) incl. pitot
Wingspan: 14.79 m (49 ft 1½ in)
Height: 4.26 m (14 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 37.19 m² (400.3 ft²)
Empty weight: 9.890 kg (21.784 lb)
Loaded weight: 14.150 kg (31.186 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 17.200 kg (37.885 lb)
Powerplant:
2 × Klimov RD-33M turbofans, 44.18 kN (9,480 lbf) each
Performance:
Maximum speed: 890 km/h (553 mph)
Combat radius: 400 km (250 mi)
Ferry range: 2,500 km (1,553 mi)
Service ceiling: 7,500 m (25,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 58 m/s (11,400 ft/min)
Wing loading: 490 kg/m² (100 lb/ft²)
Thrust/weight: 0.52
Armament:
1× GSh-30-1 30mm cannon with 300 rounds
9 hardpoints for up to 3.500 kg (7.700 lb) of disposable external ordnance, including rails for 2 × R-60 (AA-8 'Aphid') or other air-to-air missiles for self-defense and a wide variety of general-purpose bombs, cluster bombs, gun pods, rocket pods, laser- or TV-guided bombs, and air-to-surface missiles.
The centerline pylon was usually only used for sensor or reconnaissance pods.
The four inner wing hardpoints were ‘wet’ for 800l drop tanks.
The kit and its assembly:
I think it’s the first time that I convert a helicopter into an aircraft. But ESCI’s fictional Ka-34 ‘Hokum’ (probably only based on satellite pictures from above and vague sketches of the real thing, the Ka-50) is so sleek and aircraft-like – why not give it a try?
My idea behind this purely fictional whif was to build a contender to the Su-25 and its real introduction story, with the long development phase since the late 60ies, the competition with the Il-102 and the Afghanistan trials. Even the submissions of Mikoyan OKB are real (yet rejected…), but my SPB was an additional design outside of the “proven technology” sandbox.
So, the Ka-34 fuselage and the ground attack role were clear and defined further design elements.
Looking for suitable straight wings I came at first across Revell’s 1:100 SnapFit A-10 as a donation kit for the wings, but these turned out to be too small. When I rummaged for alternative parts I finally found an ancient (25 years? Its white polystyrene was thoroughly yellowed…), half-built Airfix A-1 – a horrible kit which now found its final and good use! So, effectively, my MiG-SPB is a kit-bashing of two kits with some extra donations.
The Ka-34’s fuselage was more modified than initially intended: the main rotor mount was faired over and the tail fin cut away, because it looked too small/slender/modern for the massive and straight A-1 wings.
I kept the Ka-34’s original nose, but flattened its top for a better field of view and added a window in the nose for a laser range finder with fixed glazing (much like the Su-25). Some antennae, an OoA sensor and pitots were added, too. Cockpit and landing gear were taken OOB, but I added new seats and pilot figures as well as bigger wheels (from an A-7).
Other external changes include bigger engine nacelles, from a Hobby Boss Me 262. They are mounted backwards, though, and their interior outfitted with new parts from the scrap box. I left them in their helicopter-like high position above the wings, but had to raise their position due to thick A-1 wings.
Ultimately, all tail stabilizers come from the A-1 kit, since they’d fit well in size and shape. The wings were modified in so far that I filled the A-1’s landing gear wells (covers were gone, used 2C putty) and tried to hide the folding wing lines. Weapon hardpoints come from A-7 and F-16 kits, the ordnance of two B-13L and two B-8M rocket pods comes from an ICM Soviet air-to-ground weapon sets – the choice reflects the FAC duty of the type in the hot-and-high Afghanistan environment, so only unguided rockets for target marking and against small, soft targets are carried, plus two R-60 for self-defense.
Painting and markings:
Normally I keep whifs rather subtle, but this time I gave the MiG-SPB a rather weird camouflage scheme. The MiG-SPB’s stylish three-tone clover pattern has actually been applied to Soviet Mi-24 helicopters, and a similar wrap-around scheme (in olive green, though) can be found on some Ukrainian Su-25. I found this scheme very attractive, and since it looks IMHO very Russian the MiG-SPB was a nice occasion to try it out – the colors even matching the dusty/mountainous Afghanistan theatre where the model would have been used, according to its fictional story.
Basic upper colors are Humbrol 168 and ‘clover leafs’ in 84 and 98 (Hemp, Mid-Stone and Chocolate, in these “levels” above each other), later ‘tamed down’ trough dry painting with shades of light beige and grey, for a worn and bleached look.
This pattern is utterly effective in order to break up contours: Even when the thing just sat on the work bench it was hard to tell where its front or rear end would be, or how the fuselage and wing intersection would look like in detail. And it even looks flashy…
Lower side was painted in Humbrol 65 – pretty bright, but such tones are typical for Soviet/Russian aircraft.
Additionally, the whole thing received a light wash with black ink in order to emphasize panel line and details and the leading edges were lightly dry-brushed with silver.
Most markings come from the scrap box, insignia, tactical code and some emblems like the MiG OKB badge come from an Authentic Decals 1:72 MiG-29 aftermarket sheet, most stencils from the vast X-20M missile decal sheet from ICM.
All in all a nice project which was based on a spontaneous idea. But it came out better than expected, concerning both the aircraft itself but also the weird cammo scheme, which will certainly pop up under other circumstances (mecha?)!
The canvas element is invisible to the MSAA. Event the nested fallback image does not appear anymore.
Dream of Ladakh.
Due to heavy snowfall on the other nights and road block, we had to fallback from our venture of Ladakh and get back from this place calls Keylong. Wonderful small town, surrounded by snow topped mountains.
Lots of fog early, but it lead to a beautiful day with temps in the mid-70'sF.
Life back to "normal", it was breakfast/brunch at Jackson Street Tavern. The weekly special wasn;t too appealing to me so I got my fallback, the Louisianna Omelet, loaded with crab meat. Eric got the Chicken Fried Steak special.
The rest of the day...nice and laid back. Monday is supposed to be equally beautiful, before temps fall mid-week. Western Nebraska may see snow, but here, just rain.
B-32 Dominator 42-108543 of the 312th Bomb Group refuelling Yontan airfield Okinawa.
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (Consolidated Model 34) was a heavy bomber made for United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and had the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to be engaged in combat during World War II. It was developed in parallel with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as a fallback design should the Superfortress prove unsuccessful. It only reached units in the Pacific during mid-1945, and subsequently only saw limited combat operations against Japanese targets before the end of the war. Most of the extant orders of the B-32 were cancelled shortly thereafter and only 118 B-32s of all types were built.
For round 42 of the Get Pushed! group, my push partner Safar challenged me to do a portrait where a shadow pattern is visible on the subject.
The typical portrait usually includes the use of mini-blinds to create a striped shadow effect. I knew I could use that as a fallback if necessary, but the blinds in our house are bigger and would not have as pleasing of a look.
Fortunately for me I found a grid at work that goes under a bank of fluorescent lights that had broken and was going to be discarded. It was just the right size to fit in front of my 2x2 softbox. In order to get the grid shadow, I had to play around with not only the distance from the softbox, but even removing the front cover of the softbox to get a stronger light source to better define the shadow.
I knew I wanted half of her face in shadow, but how dark to have it be? Option 1 was to use a black cloth opposite the light and grid so as to reduce the amount of light reflected. The other option was to use a reflector to bounce the light back on her face to give it better lighting. Obviously I chose the second setup for this picture.
Finally, in shooting raw you get your choice of color or black and white. It just seemed that the B&W versions were a bit more classic and timeless. (converted to B&W using the green filter setup). This image is my favorite of the set. My wife's favorite is the previous one.
Thanks to my wife for agreeing to sit for the portrait session (and let me try some portrait tricks learned from free photography classes on CreativeLive.com) And thanks Saf for the push - the shadow pattern portion definitely kicked up the challenge a notch or two, and helped me learn more about lighting and shadow use and definition. Hope you approve!
As always, thanks for your views, comments and faves!