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Donated by Rick von Holdt of the Foolproof Press for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
the day i posted my last photo from rio i went to a brazilian bar to watch brazil play chile. i took my camera hoping to get some fan shots, however my camera had other ideas and promptly stopped working. i tried to google a fix, but all the methods seemed too complicated, so instead i started googling for new cameras. as my d60 was over 6 years old all of the results were hugely superior and i started to get excited at the prospect of an upgrade. i won enough money at the last world cup to buy a new camera, so i thought there would be a romantic symmetry of doing the same after a south american world cup. the good news was that after the final i had won £805. the bad news was that i had also lost £797. those of you who are quick with maths will work out that left me with an overall profit of £8... and you can't get many cameras for £8. i spent a couple of weeks annoyed that my seemingly foolproof plan of winning a new camera had failed. and then i had a revelation: it wasn't just a new camera that i got before my travels 4 years ago... i also got a credit card. and as of yesterday i now have a brand new toy.
here's one of the originals
Wali Khan Babar laid to rest in the presence of hundreds of mourners.
By Rafiullah Mandokhail.
ZHOB:
Slain Journalist Wali Khan Babar laid to rest, who was shot dead by snipers in Karachi on Jan 13th.
According to detail, the funeral prayer was offered last night in his ancestral village Garda Babar at 6:00 PM last night. He was laid to rest in the presence of hundreds of mourned, relatives, politicians and friends. Deputy Commissioner Hamid Al-Karim, Assistant Commissioner Suhail Hashmi, DPO Raz Muhammad Tareen, DSP Sheikh Zia Mandokhail, renowned politicians including Secretary Information Pk-MAP Raza Muhammad Raza, Central Leader ANP Sheikh Muhammad Yar Khan Mandokhail, JUI Nazaryati Leader Hafiz Hazrat Gul, JUI (F) Leader Molvi Shams u Din and elites participated in his last rites. It was very emotional scene and people were weeping.
It is to be mentioned that Journalists, Pk-MAP and ANP activists staged a protest demonstration against the brutal killing of Wali Khan Babar. Journalists raised black flag on press club building, while they wore black arm bands to condemn Wali Khan Babar’s killing.
The protesters marched on various roads of the city caring banners and placards, they chanted slogans against the government and MQM. Addressing the protesters Raza Muhammad Raza, Sheikh Muhammad Yar Khan Mandokhail, Abdul Qayum Advocate, Dr. Aurangzeb Ehsas and Muhammad Rafiq Mandokhail condemned the cold-blooded murder of the young and promising journalist Wali Babar. They said “The government is shielding the professional killers in Karachi and awarding them a licence to kill anyone in the city”, adding that the government was patronizing the MQM, they accused. The protesters further said that the Karachi-based political party was resorting to “ethic cleansing of Pashtoons, Sindhis, Baloch and the Punjabis”, adding that none of the perpetrators of such blatant targeted killings had ever been arrested or punished.
They demanded of the government to investigate the incident and award exemplary punishment to the killers and provide foolproof security to media persons.
Now this is a real camera. You dictate what it does, everything is dependant on you, and to an extent on luck. Can do stuff on this which a digital won't. Even if you get ten zilion pixels into a digital, it is an inferior machine. Basically, a digital is a foolproof toy. And whatever anybody says, scanning from a print taken with a film will be beter than taking direct with the best digital in the world and downloading the result to the computer.
It's Friday, the sun is shining and the art is free. Come on down! We have prepared a whole load of stuff which is hopefully already in the clutches of our good man My Dog Sighs for his upcoming Free Art Friday event in Southsea this Sunday. As far as i'm aware he has hundreds of pieces from a wide variety of artists and all you have to do to snag one is head to Southsea and grab one for yourself. It's a foolproof plan! We've provided a variety of pieces (mainly on cardboard) and all come complete with the 'id-iom certified' stamp that guarantees authenticity. My main concern is whether i'll be able to get down in order to snag something for myself...
Cheers
id-iom
Illustrious leaders planning corporate omnipotence by tweeting each other while standing next to each other on a beach with no mobile signal.
A high wax content material that delivers crisp details and a smooth surface finish, along with the clean burnout that delivers foolproof casting with standard investments.
EC3000
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As a continuation of my prior work I built these:
When the armory experts at Section 31 got a hold of the attachments for the Bullpup SF PHASER rifle family they immediately set out to create unique weapons for their own uses, the first two products of this project were these stand alone revolving multiple grenade launcher & Plasma Burst Shotgun Each of these can be easily handled by even the least experienced of users with a minimum of training thanks in large part due to the advanced nearly foolproof sights, & the grenade launcher has almost every amenity of the 21st century MK.33 MGL, with the addition of ultra-lightweight composite and tritanimum construction materials, so in conclusion when empty the grenade launcher weighs in at 4 Kilograms, and only 6 Kilograms loaded. The Plasma Burst Shotgun though a little odd in appearance and purpose to contemporary forces is a good portable area clearance weapon with the ability to be discharged 100 times at a semi-automatic rate of fire, has an integrated foregrip to avoid snagging and maintain compactness, is equipped with a set of BUIS, and has a maximum lethal range of 75 meters.
Special thanks to Decado2010 for his(her) underslung masterkey's shell, mag receiver, & repurposed charging handle.
A high wax content material that delivers crisp details and a smooth surface finish, along with the clean burnout that delivers foolproof casting with standard investments.
EC3000
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When Kelsey vows revenge, she gets more than she bargains for!
Tangling with perfection is a dangerous game!
Making an enemy of Taffy Foster, Pom-Pom Queen and golden-haired wonder of Balboa High, is Kelsey's first mistake. Vowing revenge after Taffy humiliates her in front of gorgeous senior Cal Lindsey is her second. She's positive her plot is foolproof, but she couldn't be more wrong!
Then Kelsey discovers Magic Male Grabbers - everything she needs to know to win boys and popularity. Finally she's on her way to a dazzling social life - and headed straight for trouble!
Six Apps That Help You Lose Weight
Rachel Grumman Bender
Nov 9, 2011
www.youbeauty.com/body-fitness/six-apps-that-help-you-los...
Anyone who has ever struggled to get off the couch and hit the gym knows it’s much harder to pull a no-show when someone—a friend, a trainer—is waiting to meet you there. It’s called accountability and for some people who are looking to shed excess pounds or shape up, it can give them the edge they need to reach their goal.
Studies show that using tools to hold yourself accountable, such as keeping a food journal or working out with a buddy, help people successfully stick to a weight loss plan or exercise routine. And the Internet has only made it easier to stay on track. A 2010 study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research looked at a web-based weight maintenance intervention program and found that the more frequently people logged onto weight loss sites, the more pounds they shed. In the study, users who went online and recorded their weight at least once a month for 24 months maintained the highest amount of weight loss—an average of nine pounds—compared to those who went online at least once a month for 14 months and kept off five pounds on average. Those who logged on less often maintained an average weight loss of a mere three pounds.
But not all experts agree that accountability is the best way to meet a weight-loss goal. “The problem with accountability is that in order to turn your goal into something that you can hold yourself accountable for, you almost always have to focus on an outcome rather than a process,” notes Art Markman, Ph.D., YouBeauty Psychology Advisor “Successful weight loss means both losing weight and also maintaining that weight. In order to do that successfully, you have to make significant and sustainable changes to your lifestyle. You have to eat differently in a way that you can continue even after you reach your target weight. And you have to add regular exercise into the routine.”
Adds Markman, “you're better off focusing on creating healthy habits that are sustainable. The focus should always be on process rather than outcome.”
Although Edward Abramson, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of "It's Not Just Baby Fat: 10 Steps to Help Your Child" to a Healthy Weight, agrees that accountability isn’t a foolproof weight loss tool, he says it can help you stay motivated by providing social support to get you through the rough patches, such as when that pint of ice cream is calling your name. “Motivation is really the key, given that weight loss is effortful and that you don’t always see immediate benefits,” says Dr. Abramson. “Often social support is a great motivator—someone who will be supportive and encouraging—and can be very useful in maintaining healthy eating habits and exercise.”
If you’re looking to lose five pounds or run for longer than five minutes without getting winded, check out these high tech ways to help you reach your weight-loss and fitness goals:
* The Eatery. This new app (available on iTunes) lets you take a photo of your food, rate it and share the information with other people also using the app or your friends on Facebook to get their feedback (they can rate your meals from “fit” to “fat”). The point? Sharing what you’re eating may make you more likely to think twice before diving into that mac ‘n’ cheese over a healthy salad. What’s more, you’ll be able to track your food trends, such as you’re more likely to reach for a donut at 3p.m. every day (try taking a walk instead), and become more aware of what you are eating so that you can change your behavior and choose healthier foods.
* The Withings Wifi Body Scale. The scale measures your weight, BMI, lean and fat mass and transfers the information to your smartphone or computer so you can keep track of your progress (or if you’re falling into old, bad habits). To raise the accountability stakes, the scale even lets you Tweet your weight so you can share it with anyone following you on Twitter, if you feel so bold. Talk about accountability!
* The BodyMedia Fit system. The BodyMedia Fit system includes an armband that’s worn day and night, which automatically clocks the calories you burn during daily activities—from running on the treadmill to running errands—and monitors your quality of sleep, which is another key factor in successful weight loss. Although wearing an armband 24 hours a day may not be the most convenient thing, this may make it all worth it: The BodyMedia Fit system boasts that users can lose up to three times the amount of weight compared to people trying to shed excess pounds on their own.
* Lose It! The free app (available on iTunes and the Lose It! website) is your virtual food and exercise journal, helping you monitor what you eat and how often you break a sweat. Based on your personal information, Lose It! calculates how many calories you should be eating daily. As you log in your food intake, it deducts calories from your total daily “budget.” The app lets you share how many pounds you’ve lost as well as your weight loss and fitness goals with friends to help you stay motivated. It will even remind you when you forget to log your meals. The result? The average Lose It! user drops more than 12 pounds.
* iMapMyFitness+. Whether you’re into biking or running, you can easily set goals and measure your progress with this fitness tracking app. Thanks to its GPS technology, iMapMyFitness+ easily tracks your time, distance, speed and pace on an interactive map when running or cycling. You can also email or Tweet your workout data to fitness buddies, friends and family.
* SocialGym. This straight-forward app helps you track your cardio and strength training workouts (from walking on the treadmill to biceps curls), chart your progress and share your workouts with your friends on Facebook to garner positive feedback to keep you going.
Recipe Link: asmallbite.com/plain-dosa-recipe-dosa-batter-in-mixie/
If you are a die hard fan of crispy, golden coloured, ghee drizzling dosa but don’t want to grind in wet grinder? or don’t have it?, then just hop into this post, dosa batter in mixie as the whole grinding process will be finished within 10 minutes. There is no need of lifting the grinder stone in between, or cleaning the stone is really a laborious task, you can grind it frequently in a breeze and use fresh batter also. I have already shared another post, soft idli recipe which can be used for preparing both idli and dosa but this plain dosa recipe is completely different from that. Please read the recipe till the end, as I have shared lots of tricks and tips and this is a foolproof recipe, if you follow the proportions correctly. It tastes heavenly with hotel style tiffin sambar and urad dal chutney.
I have been eyeing up these tasty treats on many, many cooking blogs and decided to have a bash at making them myself. They were wonderful, crispy, chewy and creamy, what more can you ask of a sugar laden treat
Adapted from here
The downside to concrete block foundation walls is the fact that they are porous. International building code laws require that the outside of foundation walls be covered with a water repellent tar-like material. That is a good step to try to waterproof your block foundation wall, but it is not foolproof. It is simply the first step of many you will end up taking to keep your basement dry. Keep your dream home design simple yet very effective, this helps you every way in getting the project done in time.
Mex cooked Delia's Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding - she said it's foolproof
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/english/choc...
With chocolate from Paul a Young and day old sour dough bread
I still had this piece of pork fillet (250g) in my freezer. Today I vacuum packed it (still frozen) with a lump of butter, some salt and pepper and a small toffee-like-wrapped bundle of cling foil with a few sprigs of thyme, a few needles of rosemary and half a clove or garlic.
Cooked it for 90 minutes at 65°C in warm water. (Check my blog to see my alternative for a Roner) Then quickly pan fried it just to give it a bit of color. Resting not needed. Add the juices from the vacuum pack to the pan for a little bit of sauce/jus.
This cut of pork can be very dry. (it's not pork tenderloin, I'm not sure how it's called in english) Today I think it was still a bit on the dry side, but maybe that's because it had been in the freezer for months. I will try this again soon with some nice, fresh pork. This sous-vide cooking is really dead-easy and foolproof.
Donated by Rick von Holdt of the Foolproof Press for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
This was the worlds first communication satellite, it worked as a passive radio reflector for the brief time it was visible to both the sender and receiver
To me it is almost a work of art.
Two of these connected by a tether would make a sublime art project in orbit. Spinning around as they cross the sky, they would be an awe inspiring sight. They would not go in a straight line.
Sometimes they would even appear to change direction and go backwards. If you did not know beforehand what this was it would freak you out.
This would be cheap and effective. Perfect for crowdfunding.
Just think of the pictures that you could take of this! Even a fairly short tether would provide an object visibly spanning several degrees from the ground. I remember seeing these in the 1960's as they crossed the sky. They were as bright as Venus sometimes. Two of them connected is the important part, that way it just won't be a star moving across the sky. It will be something almost alive. Friction with atmosphere will keep it spinning and probably get it going pretty fast. What is shown above is the smaller of the two Echo satellites and it is 135 feet in diameter. They are practically foolproof and inflate themselves due to the residual air in the balloon. This is just begging to be done.
There are even valid scientific reasons to do this....
A - zero gee structural studies
This is the best way to build large living spaces quickly. Blow one of these up and spray a quick dry foam over the inside surfaces. I think the later Echo satellite actually had something like this on the interior to help it retain shape.
B - tether dynamics
We need to know how to control something like this, it could be of great use down the line as a way to send raw material back from distant asteroids. Let's say you have a target with a fair amount of metal that you mine and refine with robotic devices. Put your goodies in a bag and spin up the bag and the asteroids rotation. At the proper moment you cut the tether. Instant free dV!
C - orbital debris removal
There will be nothing better than something like this filled completely with a energy absorbing foam material to suck up all that nasty space debris in low earth orbit. Just maneuver it into the proper orbit and let the laws of physics do the rest.
Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA’s Project Mercury, was the first American manned space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–61; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.
A member of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army’s Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle; but to human-rate it, the structure and systems were modified to improve safety and reliability.
The four subsequent Mercury human spaceflights used the more powerful Atlas booster to enter low Earth orbit.
•General Specifications:
oFunction: Human-Rated Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle
oManufacturer: Chrysler Corporation
oCountry of Origin: United States
•Size:
oHeight: 25.41 m (83.38 ft)
oDiameter: 1.78 m (5.83 ft)
oMass: 30,000 kg (66,000 lb)
oStages: 1
•Capacity:
oPayload to Sub-Orbital Trajectory: 1,800 kg (4,000 lb)
•Launch History:
oStatus: Retired
oLaunch Sites: Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral, Florida
oTotal Launches: 6
oSuccesses: 5
oFailures: 1
oFirst Flight: November 21, 1960
oLast Flight: July 21, 1961
oNotable Payloads: Mercury Spacecraft
•Single Stage:
oEngines: 1 Rocketdyne A-7
oThrust: 350 kN (78,000 lbf)
oSpecific Impulse: 215 sec
oBurn Time: 143.5 seconds
oFuel: LOX/ethyl alcohol
Modifications from the Redstone Missile
NASA chose the U.S. Army’s Redstone liquid-fueled ballistic missile for its suborbital flights as it was the oldest one in the US fleet, having been active since 1953 and had many successful test flights.
The standard military Redstone lacked sufficient thrust to lift a Mercury capsule into the ballistic suborbital trajectory needed for the project; however, the first stage of the Jupiter-C, which was a modified Redstone with lengthened tanks, could carry enough propellant to reach the desired trajectory. Therefore, this Jupiter-C first stage was used as the starting point for the Mercury-Redstone design. The Jupiter-C’s engine, however, was being phased out by the Army, so to avoid potential complications such as parts shortages or design revisions, the Mercury-Redstone designers chose the Rocketdyne A-7 engine used on the latest military Redstones. Hans Paul and William Davidson, propulsion engineers at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), were assigned the task of modifying the A-7 to be safe and reliable for manned flights.
During 1959, most of ABMA were preoccupied with the Saturn project, but those engineers who could find enough free time in their schedule were invited to work on man-rating the Jupiter-C. As a starting point, the most obvious step was getting rid of its staging capability as the Mercury-Redstone would not utilize upper stages. Many of the more advanced Jupiter-C components were also removed for reliability reasons or because they were not necessary for Project Mercury.
The standard Redstone was fueled with a 75 percent ethyl alcohol 25 percent water solution, essentially the same propellants as the V-2, but the Jupiter-C first stage had used hydyne fuel, a blend of 60 percent unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and 40 percent diethylenetriamine (DETA). This was a more powerful fuel than ethyl alcohol, but it was also more toxic, which could be hazardous for an astronaut in a launch pad emergency. Furthermore, hydyne had never been used with the new A-7 engine. The Mercury-Redstone designers rejected hydyne and returned to the standard ethyl alcohol fuel. The lengthened propellant tanks were thus also necessary in lieu of using less powerful fuel.
Use of alcohol created a problem with the Mercury-Redstone in that the graphite thrust vector vanes could be eroded due to the significantly longer burn time, hence NASA put out a requirement that the launch vehicles needed high quality vanes.
Because Mercury-Redstone had larger propellant tanks than the Redstone missile, an additional nitrogen bottle was added for tank pressurization, and an extra hydrogen peroxide tank for powering the turbopump due to the longer burn time.
The most important change in making the Mercury-Redstone a suitable vehicle for an astronaut was the addition of an automatic in-flight abort sensing system. In an emergency where the rocket was about to suffer a catastrophic failure, an abort would activate the launch escape system attached to the Mercury capsule, which would rapidly eject it from the booster. Either the astronaut or the ground controllers could initiate an abort manually, but some potential failures during flight might lead to disaster before an abort could be manually triggered.
The Mercury-Redstone’s automatic in-flight abort sensing system solved this problem by monitoring the rocket’s performance during flight. If it detected an anomaly which might threaten the astronaut, such as loss of flight control, engine thrust, or electrical power, it would automatically abort, shutting down the engine and activating the capsule’s escape system. The abort system could not shut off the engine until at least 30 seconds after liftoff in order to prevent a malfunctioning launch vehicle from coming down on or near the pad; during the initial 30 seconds, only the Range Safety Officer could terminate the flight. Review of flight data from the more than 60 Redstone and Jupiter C launches since 1953 was used to analyze the most likely failure modes of this launch vehicle family. In the interest of simplicity, the abort sensing system had to be kept as simple as possible and only monitor parameters that were vital to booster operation. An automatic abort could be triggered by any of the following conditions, all of which could be indicative of a catastrophic launch vehicle malfunction:
•Pitch, yaw, or roll angle deviating too far from the programmed flight profile,
•Pitch or yaw angle changing too rapidly,
•Pressure in the engine’s combustion chamber falling below a critical level,
•Loss of electrical power for the flight control system, or
•Loss of general electrical power (including power for the abort sensing system itself), which could indicate a catastrophic failure.
Instant abort capability was important because certain failure modes such as loss of thrust upon liftoff (for example the third Redstone test flight in May 1954) could result in an immediate catastrophic situation. Other failure modes such as deviation from the proper flight path or a drop in engine chamber pressure during ascent did not necessarily present an immediate risk to the astronaut’s safety and he could either initial a manual abort by pulling a lever in the capsule to activate the Launch Escape System or ground control could send a command to activate it.
The range safety system was modified slightly in that a three-second delay would take place between engine cutoff and missile destruct so as to give the escape tower enough time to pull the capsule away.
Schematic View
The most visible difference between the Jupiter-C first stage and the Mercury-Redstone was in the section just below the Mercury capsule and above the propellant tanks. This section was known as the aft section, a term which was inherited from the military Redstone. (The actual rear end of the rocket was called the tail section.) The aft section held most of the Mercury-Redstone’s electronics and instrumentation, including the guidance system, as well as the adapter for the Mercury capsule. In the military Redstone and the Jupiter-C first stage, when the rocket had burned out, its lower portion, containing the rocket engine and propellant tanks, would separate from the aft section and be discarded, and the aft section, with its guidance system, would direct the top half of the rocket during its unpowered ballistic flight. However, in the Mercury-Redstone, the aft section was permanently attached to the lower portion of the rocket. When the rocket had shut down, the Mercury capsule would separate from the aft section and would rely on its own guidance.
Other changes were made to improve the Mercury-Redstone’s reliability. The standard Redstone’s ST-80 inertial guidance system was replaced in the Mercury-Redstone with the simpler LEV-3 autopilot. The LEV-3, whose design dated back to the German V-2 missile, was not as sophisticated or as precise as the ST-80, but it was accurate enough for the Mercury mission and its simplicity made it more reliable. A special instrument compartment was built in the “aft section” to hold the most important instrumentation and electronics, including the guidance system, the abort and destruct systems, the telemetry instrumentation, and the electrical power supplies. To reduce the chance of failure in this equipment, this compartment was cooled before launch and kept pressurized during flight.
The fuel prevalves were deleted from the Mercury-Redstone in the interest of improved reliability, since if they closed during a launch, an abort condition could be triggered. On the three unmanned flights, it was discovered that the Mercury-Redstone exhibited a roll transient of 8° per second versus 4° for the Redstone missile. Although this was below the 12° per second roll transient required to trigger an abort, the roll rate sensor was removed from the two manned flights to reduce the chances of an accidental abort (the booster still retained the roll attitude angle sensor which would be triggered at 10°).
Mercury-Redstone 1A and Mercury-Redstone 2 both experienced overacceleration in flight, the former due to a problem with an accelerometer, the latter due to a problem with the LOX regulator which oversupplied the engine with oxidizer and caused thrust termination to occur 1.2 seconds early. The ASIS system activated and the escape tower yanked the capsule away, subjecting its chimpanzee passenger to high G loads. The third flight, Mercury-Redstone BD, was designed as an engineering test to correct these problems before the booster could be considered man-rated.
The space between the pressurized instrument compartment and the capsule was originally intended to hold a parachute recovery system for the rocket, but it had been left empty after this system was abandoned. The three unmanned Mercury-Redstone flights exhibited high vibration levels and structural bending in the adapter area, so Alan Shepard’s flight included 340 pounds of lead-infused plastic in the adapter section along with additional bracing and stiffeners. After Shepard still reported noticeable vibration during launch, Gus Grissom’s booster included even more ballast. The Atlas booster used for orbital Mercury flights had also experienced this issue, but with more catastrophic results as Mercury-Atlas 1 was destroyed in-flight due to structural failure caused by excessive flexing at the point where the booster mated with the capsule adapter.
In total, some 800 modifications were made to the Redstone design in the process of adapting it for the Mercury program. The process of man-rating Redstone was so extensive that NASA quickly found themselves not using an off-the-shelf rocket, but what was in effect a completely new one and thus negating all of the hardware and flight test data from previous Redstone and Jupiter-C launches. This created a series of disputes between Von Braun’s team at ABMA and NASA, as the former preferred simply making the abort system as foolproof as possible so as to guarantee that the astronaut would be bailed out of a malfunctioning launch vehicle, while the latter favored maximum booster reliability to minimize the chance of aborts happening at all.
Proposed Parachute Recovery System
The Mercury-Redstone designers originally planned for the rocket to be recovered by parachute after its separation from the Mercury capsule. This was the first significant effort to develop a recoverable launch vehicle and the first to reach the testing phase.
The recovery system, at the top of the rocket, would have used two stages of parachutes. In the first stage, a single parachute, 17 feet (5.2 m) in diameter, would stabilize the rocket’s fall and slow its descent. This parachute would then draw out a set of three main parachutes, each 67 feet (20 m) across. The rocket would come down in the Atlantic Ocean, to be recovered by ship.
To determine the feasibility of this system, several tests were performed on full-sized Redstones, including water impact and flotation tests, and an exercise at sea in which a floating Redstone was picked up by a Navy recovery ship. All these tests showed recovery of the rocket to be workable. Further development was halted, however, due to lack of funding, so the parachute system was not tested.
Flights
Mercury-Redstone flights were designated with the prefix “MR-”. Confusingly, the Mercury-Redstone boosters used for these flights were designated in the same way, usually with different numbers. (In photographs, this designation can sometimes be seen on the rocket’s tail end.) Two rockets, MR-4 and MR-6, were never flown. Although there had been rumors that NASA in the very beginning of Project Mercury had intended to launch each astronaut on a suborbital mission before beginning orbital Atlas flights, they only purchased eight Mercury-Redstone boosters, one of which was damaged in the unsuccessful MR-1 launch and not reused, and another used for the MR-BD flight (the original schedule was for one unmanned Mercury-Redstone flight, one chimpanzee flight, and six manned flights). Since Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom’s flights were successful and since the Soviet Union had flown two orbital manned space flights by the late summer of 1961, there was no need to continue with Redstone missions.
•MR-1
oRocket Designation: MR-1
oLaunch Date: November 21, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule; launch abort; rocket shut down at liftoff due to electrical fault.
•MR-1A
oRocket Designation: MR-3
oLaunch Date: December 19, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule.
•MR-2
oRocket Designation: MR-2
oLaunch Date: January 31, 1961
oComments: Carried chimpanzee Ham.
•MR-BD
oRocket Designation: MR-5
oLaunch Date: March 24, 1961
oComments: Empty nonfunctional “boilerplate” capsule.
•MR-3
oRocket Designation: MR-7
oLaunch Date: May 5, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Alan Shepard.
•MR-4
oRocket Designation: MR-8
oLaunch Date: July 21, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Gus Grissom.
A panorama of 4 images stitched in photoshop. Taken with a Minolta MC Rokkor PG 50mm 1:1.4 manual focus lens on a Sony NEX7. Trying out some heritage glass on my NEX and quite pleased with the results. Focus peaking helps but is not foolproof .
"Every photograph is a self portrait"
Shot at the zoological institute in the city of Leuven (louvain) belgium.
Now let me tell you something : "When I was 12 years old, and did my holy communion, my grandmother gave me a agfamatic camera.A metal silver small pocketcamera, I still have the thing, that was completely foolproof.
At 15 or 16 my mother finally bought me a real single reflex camera (forgot what brand ) from a friend of the family who sold of all his gear so he could pay back his drinking debts. The seeds where planted to get me hooked on photography.
I photographed motorcycles with my agfamatic.
I was a curious youth and for some reason allways hit my head against a brick wall.When I was seventeen I got hooked on drugs. After 20 odd years I got off drugs.
While I was in a state of dismay, a mere slave I atempted to go to art school ; 2 or 3 times. It worked for a month or 2 months but no more. Everything I started I gave up after a while.
It's a curious thing, somehow this photography thing keeps popping up.I'm in art school now (4 years already, 3 more to go ) doing, yes, photography.
I have photos of me as a baby, portraits my parents had made of me by a local studio photographer and on one of those portraits I'm holding an empty box of agfa isopan film ( the photographer must have given it to me or my parents to keep me focused )
Maybe I am predestined to take photographs ? Who knows.
The thing is, I feel I have found my "Thing" ; that what drives me.Maybe 30 years to late but as they say...never to old to learn and change your live around.
Never to late ?
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The machine gun typically required a six to eight-man team to operate: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the rest helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and spare parts. It was in service from before the First World War until the 1960s, with air-cooled versions of it on many Allied World War I fighter aircraft.
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without a failure. "It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one."Machine gun post
-wikipedia
SCISSOR CLAMP STUDIO.
Using ceiling mounted scissor clamps, 3 vivitar285HV's, a couple of Honl grids and 4 pocket wizards. I have the ultimate corporate headshot setup. This system sets up in about 5 minutes and is nearly foolproof. If you do this regularly just mark the clamp locations and the strobe power settings and you are ready. Once I am powered up a single flash meter reading and I am good to go!
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Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA’s Project Mercury, was the first American manned space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–61; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.
A member of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army’s Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle; but to human-rate it, the structure and systems were modified to improve safety and reliability.
The four subsequent Mercury human spaceflights used the more powerful Atlas booster to enter low Earth orbit.
•General Specifications:
oFunction: Human-Rated Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle
oManufacturer: Chrysler Corporation
oCountry of Origin: United States
•Size:
oHeight: 25.41 m (83.38 ft)
oDiameter: 1.78 m (5.83 ft)
oMass: 30,000 kg (66,000 lb)
oStages: 1
•Capacity:
oPayload to Sub-Orbital Trajectory: 1,800 kg (4,000 lb)
•Launch History:
oStatus: Retired
oLaunch Sites: Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral, Florida
oTotal Launches: 6
oSuccesses: 5
oFailures: 1
oFirst Flight: November 21, 1960
oLast Flight: July 21, 1961
oNotable Payloads: Mercury Spacecraft
•Single Stage:
oEngines: 1 Rocketdyne A-7
oThrust: 350 kN (78,000 lbf)
oSpecific Impulse: 215 sec
oBurn Time: 143.5 seconds
oFuel: LOX/ethyl alcohol
Modifications from the Redstone Missile
NASA chose the U.S. Army’s Redstone liquid-fueled ballistic missile for its suborbital flights as it was the oldest one in the US fleet, having been active since 1953 and had many successful test flights.
The standard military Redstone lacked sufficient thrust to lift a Mercury capsule into the ballistic suborbital trajectory needed for the project; however, the first stage of the Jupiter-C, which was a modified Redstone with lengthened tanks, could carry enough propellant to reach the desired trajectory. Therefore, this Jupiter-C first stage was used as the starting point for the Mercury-Redstone design. The Jupiter-C’s engine, however, was being phased out by the Army, so to avoid potential complications such as parts shortages or design revisions, the Mercury-Redstone designers chose the Rocketdyne A-7 engine used on the latest military Redstones. Hans Paul and William Davidson, propulsion engineers at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), were assigned the task of modifying the A-7 to be safe and reliable for manned flights.
During 1959, most of ABMA were preoccupied with the Saturn project, but those engineers who could find enough free time in their schedule were invited to work on man-rating the Jupiter-C. As a starting point, the most obvious step was getting rid of its staging capability as the Mercury-Redstone would not utilize upper stages. Many of the more advanced Jupiter-C components were also removed for reliability reasons or because they were not necessary for Project Mercury.
The standard Redstone was fueled with a 75 percent ethyl alcohol 25 percent water solution, essentially the same propellants as the V-2, but the Jupiter-C first stage had used hydyne fuel, a blend of 60 percent unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and 40 percent diethylenetriamine (DETA). This was a more powerful fuel than ethyl alcohol, but it was also more toxic, which could be hazardous for an astronaut in a launch pad emergency. Furthermore, hydyne had never been used with the new A-7 engine. The Mercury-Redstone designers rejected hydyne and returned to the standard ethyl alcohol fuel. The lengthened propellant tanks were thus also necessary in lieu of using less powerful fuel.
Use of alcohol created a problem with the Mercury-Redstone in that the graphite thrust vector vanes could be eroded due to the significantly longer burn time, hence NASA put out a requirement that the launch vehicles needed high quality vanes.
Because Mercury-Redstone had larger propellant tanks than the Redstone missile, an additional nitrogen bottle was added for tank pressurization, and an extra hydrogen peroxide tank for powering the turbopump due to the longer burn time.
The most important change in making the Mercury-Redstone a suitable vehicle for an astronaut was the addition of an automatic in-flight abort sensing system. In an emergency where the rocket was about to suffer a catastrophic failure, an abort would activate the launch escape system attached to the Mercury capsule, which would rapidly eject it from the booster. Either the astronaut or the ground controllers could initiate an abort manually, but some potential failures during flight might lead to disaster before an abort could be manually triggered.
The Mercury-Redstone’s automatic in-flight abort sensing system solved this problem by monitoring the rocket’s performance during flight. If it detected an anomaly which might threaten the astronaut, such as loss of flight control, engine thrust, or electrical power, it would automatically abort, shutting down the engine and activating the capsule’s escape system. The abort system could not shut off the engine until at least 30 seconds after liftoff in order to prevent a malfunctioning launch vehicle from coming down on or near the pad; during the initial 30 seconds, only the Range Safety Officer could terminate the flight. Review of flight data from the more than 60 Redstone and Jupiter C launches since 1953 was used to analyze the most likely failure modes of this launch vehicle family. In the interest of simplicity, the abort sensing system had to be kept as simple as possible and only monitor parameters that were vital to booster operation. An automatic abort could be triggered by any of the following conditions, all of which could be indicative of a catastrophic launch vehicle malfunction:
•Pitch, yaw, or roll angle deviating too far from the programmed flight profile,
•Pitch or yaw angle changing too rapidly,
•Pressure in the engine’s combustion chamber falling below a critical level,
•Loss of electrical power for the flight control system, or
•Loss of general electrical power (including power for the abort sensing system itself), which could indicate a catastrophic failure.
Instant abort capability was important because certain failure modes such as loss of thrust upon liftoff (for example the third Redstone test flight in May 1954) could result in an immediate catastrophic situation. Other failure modes such as deviation from the proper flight path or a drop in engine chamber pressure during ascent did not necessarily present an immediate risk to the astronaut’s safety and he could either initial a manual abort by pulling a lever in the capsule to activate the Launch Escape System or ground control could send a command to activate it.
The range safety system was modified slightly in that a three-second delay would take place between engine cutoff and missile destruct so as to give the escape tower enough time to pull the capsule away.
Schematic View
The most visible difference between the Jupiter-C first stage and the Mercury-Redstone was in the section just below the Mercury capsule and above the propellant tanks. This section was known as the aft section, a term which was inherited from the military Redstone. (The actual rear end of the rocket was called the tail section.) The aft section held most of the Mercury-Redstone’s electronics and instrumentation, including the guidance system, as well as the adapter for the Mercury capsule. In the military Redstone and the Jupiter-C first stage, when the rocket had burned out, its lower portion, containing the rocket engine and propellant tanks, would separate from the aft section and be discarded, and the aft section, with its guidance system, would direct the top half of the rocket during its unpowered ballistic flight. However, in the Mercury-Redstone, the aft section was permanently attached to the lower portion of the rocket. When the rocket had shut down, the Mercury capsule would separate from the aft section and would rely on its own guidance.
Other changes were made to improve the Mercury-Redstone’s reliability. The standard Redstone’s ST-80 inertial guidance system was replaced in the Mercury-Redstone with the simpler LEV-3 autopilot. The LEV-3, whose design dated back to the German V-2 missile, was not as sophisticated or as precise as the ST-80, but it was accurate enough for the Mercury mission and its simplicity made it more reliable. A special instrument compartment was built in the “aft section” to hold the most important instrumentation and electronics, including the guidance system, the abort and destruct systems, the telemetry instrumentation, and the electrical power supplies. To reduce the chance of failure in this equipment, this compartment was cooled before launch and kept pressurized during flight.
The fuel prevalves were deleted from the Mercury-Redstone in the interest of improved reliability, since if they closed during a launch, an abort condition could be triggered. On the three unmanned flights, it was discovered that the Mercury-Redstone exhibited a roll transient of 8° per second versus 4° for the Redstone missile. Although this was below the 12° per second roll transient required to trigger an abort, the roll rate sensor was removed from the two manned flights to reduce the chances of an accidental abort (the booster still retained the roll attitude angle sensor which would be triggered at 10°).
Mercury-Redstone 1A and Mercury-Redstone 2 both experienced overacceleration in flight, the former due to a problem with an accelerometer, the latter due to a problem with the LOX regulator which oversupplied the engine with oxidizer and caused thrust termination to occur 1.2 seconds early. The ASIS system activated and the escape tower yanked the capsule away, subjecting its chimpanzee passenger to high G loads. The third flight, Mercury-Redstone BD, was designed as an engineering test to correct these problems before the booster could be considered man-rated.
The space between the pressurized instrument compartment and the capsule was originally intended to hold a parachute recovery system for the rocket, but it had been left empty after this system was abandoned. The three unmanned Mercury-Redstone flights exhibited high vibration levels and structural bending in the adapter area, so Alan Shepard’s flight included 340 pounds of lead-infused plastic in the adapter section along with additional bracing and stiffeners. After Shepard still reported noticeable vibration during launch, Gus Grissom’s booster included even more ballast. The Atlas booster used for orbital Mercury flights had also experienced this issue, but with more catastrophic results as Mercury-Atlas 1 was destroyed in-flight due to structural failure caused by excessive flexing at the point where the booster mated with the capsule adapter.
In total, some 800 modifications were made to the Redstone design in the process of adapting it for the Mercury program. The process of man-rating Redstone was so extensive that NASA quickly found themselves not using an off-the-shelf rocket, but what was in effect a completely new one and thus negating all of the hardware and flight test data from previous Redstone and Jupiter-C launches. This created a series of disputes between Von Braun’s team at ABMA and NASA, as the former preferred simply making the abort system as foolproof as possible so as to guarantee that the astronaut would be bailed out of a malfunctioning launch vehicle, while the latter favored maximum booster reliability to minimize the chance of aborts happening at all.
Proposed Parachute Recovery System
The Mercury-Redstone designers originally planned for the rocket to be recovered by parachute after its separation from the Mercury capsule. This was the first significant effort to develop a recoverable launch vehicle and the first to reach the testing phase.
The recovery system, at the top of the rocket, would have used two stages of parachutes. In the first stage, a single parachute, 17 feet (5.2 m) in diameter, would stabilize the rocket’s fall and slow its descent. This parachute would then draw out a set of three main parachutes, each 67 feet (20 m) across. The rocket would come down in the Atlantic Ocean, to be recovered by ship.
To determine the feasibility of this system, several tests were performed on full-sized Redstones, including water impact and flotation tests, and an exercise at sea in which a floating Redstone was picked up by a Navy recovery ship. All these tests showed recovery of the rocket to be workable. Further development was halted, however, due to lack of funding, so the parachute system was not tested.
Flights
Mercury-Redstone flights were designated with the prefix “MR-”. Confusingly, the Mercury-Redstone boosters used for these flights were designated in the same way, usually with different numbers. (In photographs, this designation can sometimes be seen on the rocket’s tail end.) Two rockets, MR-4 and MR-6, were never flown. Although there had been rumors that NASA in the very beginning of Project Mercury had intended to launch each astronaut on a suborbital mission before beginning orbital Atlas flights, they only purchased eight Mercury-Redstone boosters, one of which was damaged in the unsuccessful MR-1 launch and not reused, and another used for the MR-BD flight (the original schedule was for one unmanned Mercury-Redstone flight, one chimpanzee flight, and six manned flights). Since Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom’s flights were successful and since the Soviet Union had flown two orbital manned space flights by the late summer of 1961, there was no need to continue with Redstone missions.
•MR-1
oRocket Designation: MR-1
oLaunch Date: November 21, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule; launch abort; rocket shut down at liftoff due to electrical fault.
•MR-1A
oRocket Designation: MR-3
oLaunch Date: December 19, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule.
•MR-2
oRocket Designation: MR-2
oLaunch Date: January 31, 1961
oComments: Carried chimpanzee Ham.
•MR-BD
oRocket Designation: MR-5
oLaunch Date: March 24, 1961
oComments: Empty nonfunctional “boilerplate” capsule.
•MR-3
oRocket Designation: MR-7
oLaunch Date: May 5, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Alan Shepard.
•MR-4
oRocket Designation: MR-8
oLaunch Date: July 21, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Gus Grissom.
This species is a regular visitor... likely the most numerous species up here. It likely wants to bathe or feed, and is checking out the surroundings before proceeding lower. These birds are usually spotted in large flocks; they swarm over my thistle feeder in a tumbling mass, and usually perch close enough to permit great photo ops. They are plentiful during high summer and typically ignore my presence. Sexes are determinable... but it's not foolproof. I believe this one to be female.
IMG_4877; Pine Siskin
This Sabudana Kheer Recipe is indeed the most basic and simple payasam that is prepared on all occasions may be a pooja, festival or with full meals too. The method I have shared here is a quick version, as it does not require any soaking time, and even beginners in kitchen can try this sago kheer as it's a foolproof recipe. In Tamilnadu cuisine, a full meals is served with rice, drumstick sambar, rasam, potato curry, carrot beans stir fry, drumstick leaves poriyal, medhu vadai, appalam, pickle and ended with this Javvarisi payasam.
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
Minolta Dynax 7 & Konica Minolta Dynax 7D
(Aka Maxxum or Alpha 7 and 7D)
Two very remarkable camera models, one is a late analog SLR from 2000, the other one is supposed to be its digital version and was introduced in 2004. Both have innovative features which consolidated Minoltas position at the cutting edge.
I won't trouble you with the detailed specifications, the instruction manual of the 7 alone has more than 200 pages.
So I start with just the specialities of the 7:
* The camera meters the exposure with 14 segments in a honeycomb layout, which can be used very versatilely. You can select the segment in the center for spot metering. You can add the weighted segments around for center weighted metering. The segments can be coupled to the AF: the camera can automatically choose one of 9 AF-points and then the segments near to that point are used for metering. And the camera sports the incredible "Brightness Distribution Display": on the big display on the back the entire honeycomb pattern is shown, each segment with exposure value, from -3 to +3, higher or lower values are indicated with + and -. That is foolproof for landscape photography, greetings from Mr. Adams.
* The camera can store the exposure data for each frame like in an exif-file for the last 7 films. Values are shutter speed, aperture, focal length, exposure mode, date and time and some more. The ISO value is stored only once for a roll of film. In addition, a "data number" is stored, that number is also imprinted by the data back on the tip of the film, so that you can find the correct film for a set of data. You can recall the data analog via the display on the back. Unfortunately the camera has no USB socket to transfer the data into your computer (but I wouldn't have been surprised, if), for that you need a very special accessory, the "data saver DS-100". It is mounted like a lens on the bayonet mount and can save the data on a Smart Media card.
* The camera can display the depth-of-field (front and rear) in meter and feet in a small sketch, if a D-lens is used.
* The camera can take soft focus images of still subjects with the "Smooth Trans Focus" mode (STF). For this it makes a 7x multi exposure with different distance settings.
* You can't open the camera back if the film is not rewound. In case of emergency you can switch on the camera while pressing the ISO and the AE-lock button. In case of a real emergency (no batteries) you can remove the small panel next to the unlock lever by removing the screw.
* You can rewind the film to any frame you like. This makes it possible to do "Multiple Exposure Bracketing".
* Sony A-mount lenses with built-in AF-drive can be used.
The Dynax 7D has at least one highlight, but it was a true milestone:
* The 7D was the first camera which moves its sensor to prevent blur from camera shake.
Konica Minolta entered the mass market for DSLRs comparatively late, as far I know it was the last one of the great manufacturers, though they made a somewhat unique DSLR already in 1995, the RD-175. Only two DSLRs were made, the 7D and the lower specified 5D, then the photo domain of Konica Minolta was sold to Sony, which continued the line with the A-100.
Lenses with the designation "DT" are especially made for DSLRs with A-mount and APS-C sized sensor.
for 7DoS: I'm going for the healthy eating one on this - dark chocolate being good for you :)
I should probably consider not buying anymore chocolate as a resolution though, as I think I still have enough to last me most of 2016!
Here are some fun tips for you to help with those resolutions: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/30/12-foolproof...
It's Friday, the sun is shining and the art is free. Come on down! We have prepared a whole load of stuff which is hopefully already in the clutches of our good man My Dog Sighs for his upcoming Free Art Friday event in Southsea this Sunday. As far as i'm aware he has hundreds of pieces from a wide variety of artists and all you have to do to snag one is head to Southsea and grab one for yourself. It's a foolproof plan! We've provided a variety of pieces (mainly on cardboard) and all come complete with the 'id-iom certified' stamp that guarantees authenticity. My main concern is whether i'll be able to get down in order to snag something for myself...
Cheers
id-iom
Day Fourteen~ Frequent Flyer
Because of Anna’s neurological issues, she does not wake in the middle of the night or in the middle of a nap when nature strikes. Consequently, I have to wash her sheets more frequently than the rest of us. I’ve invested in the best medical-grade overnight products (eSpecialNeeds is a great website) and the best mattress protectors and pads available but nothing is foolproof. I like white sheets, they are easy to bleach, and feel so crisp when you slide into bed. This is a task that I do quite often and since I’m trying to capture more of our every day life, I thought it might make for a good picture. I set up the tripod and used a slower shutter speed to capture the movement in the sheets.
As a side note, I haven’t done a self-portrait in a long time. Since my thyroidectomy and hysterectomy, my health has slowly been getting better and my stamina is returning. I’m back up to 45-60 minutes on the elliptical about 5 times a week, and I’m eating better. But… I’ve gained another 15 pounds, within a very short time frame. I’m so discouraged. Add that to the 5 pounds I gained when selling our old house and when Jenny got married, and the 10 pounds I gained when we moved and got settled in our new house… you can imagine that I’m extremely embarrassed and self-conscious to post anything. I found out today that my thyroid levels nearly doubled in the last 2 months and I cannot tell you how relieved I am. Normal thyroid ranges are anywhere from 0.4-4.2, and my doc wants me in the 1.5 range. It was normal before surgery, at an 88 after, then down to 7, now up to 16. So up we go again on my levothryoxine dosage. I pray this helps this weight come back off. I’m pretty freaked out to be creeping up the scale after getting soooo close to goal 2 years ago.
ETA 4/18/18: Visualizing Your Identity
"I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.
I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it.
I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became
operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January
1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song.
If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.....
"DAISY...DAISY..."
Donated by Rick von Holdt of the Foolproof Press for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.