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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Corinne Henneberry were on hand for the at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards held at the Avalon in Hollywood.

This year’s Realty TV Awards received over 1.1 million votes for nominees in 21 Categories online and honored Heidi and Spencer Pratt “Speidi” by inducting them into the inaugural Reality TV Hall Of Fame.

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Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve in Stafford County, Virginia by Chesapeake Bay Program

A Christmas tree fern grows along a trail at Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve in Stafford County, Va., on Nov. 18, 2014. Crow's Nest contains 2,872 acres on a high, narrow peninsula rising above the Potomac and Accokeek Creeks. It supports 750 acres of wetlands and 2,200 acres of mature hardwood forest. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Toys for Learning by gever

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My notes from final presentations of "Toys for Learning." I coached one of 12 teams in Terry Winograd and Bill Verplank's CS 247 HCI class at the d.school at Stanford. Full disclosure, my team produced the Doodle Tunes toy.

How do you measure learning? Can play be educational? What makes a toy captivating? What's the design challenges and opportunities with tangible interfaces? In the class "Interaction Design Studio" we set out 12 student teams with the mission to create "Toys for learning" with tangible interfaces.

DIY: spdif switching COAX to COAX (testing up/down/up conversion) by linux-works

a home-made SPDIF (digital audio) switch.

it supports 3 optical inputs and 1 coax input. for outputs, it has dual coax/opto (concurrent, same output).

it does not decode any data, it simply switched data at TTL levels and outputs the analog pulse train. just a simple physical repeater (not even really a bridge).

selection is via a 2-bit binary TTL 'address' placed on a molex connector. select 00, 01, 10, or 11 to pick inputs 1 thru 4.

total cost is under $20 in parts (well under that).

in this photo, coax in and coax out is being auditioned on my 'popcorn hour'.

I can hear sound coming from the other end. I guess it works ;)

1977 RNZAF B170s NZ5910, 11 & 12 with Andover NZ7621 at Tengah, Singapore on its delivery flight to NZ, 14 May 1977. by Gary Danvers Collection

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In late 1975, the RNZAF began looking for a replacement for it's, soon to be retired, Bristol Freighters and Douglas C-47s, and in January 1976 a small team of RNZAF officers, led by Group Captain I. M. Gillard, travelled to Britain to inspect the stored Andovers at Kemble.

In June 1976, the NZ Government approved the purchase of 10 ex RAF Andovers from Britain for the price of $13 million.

XS600 was chosen as one of the aircraft to be part of the deal and, following an overhaul, it was handed over to the RNZAF at RAF Brize Norton on 27 April 1977.

XS600 arrived at RNZAF Base Whenuapai following it's delivery flight from the UK on 24 May 1977 and was brought on charge with the RNZAF's No. 1 Squadron at Whenuapai as NZ7621 on the same day.

NZ7621 was the ninth of 10 Andovers that the RNZAF acquired.

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No. 41 Squadron RNZAF, Singapore in 1977, April 1977

'You call, we haul’ is motto

Wing Commander G. A. Parkinson, commander of No. 41 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F., claims with pride that the squadron has served overseas longer than any other New Zealand unit.

The squadron has been based continuously at Singapore since 1955 — a total of 22 years next month. Before that, the squadron helped to fly New Zealand prisoners of war home from Japan; it took part in the Berlin Air Lift in 1949, and it supported British forces operating against terrorists in the Malayan jungle. Today, the squadron is equipped with four Iroquois helicopters and three Bristol freighters. It divides its time between transport, tasks for the New Zealand Government and diplomatic posts, support for other New Zealand forces in South-East Asia, and support and training for Singapore and Malaysia as part of New Zealand’s military assistance programme.

Its aircraft have flown to Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, South Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia, often carrying aid or disaster relief. The motto of the squadron, “Korero, Ka Oti,” is translated officially as “Speak, and it shall be done.” But the unofficial translation — “You call, we haul” — is a fair description of the squadron’s work.

Nearly half the flying time of the Bristol freighters is spent on missions for Malaysians, Australians, and Singaporeans. About a quarter of the helicopters’ flying time is spent the same way. As part of the Five Power Defence Agreement, No. 41 Squadron shares Tengah Air Base in Singapore with Australian and Singaporean squadrons. Many of the 115 men in the squadron also share accommodation with Australians or their Singaporean hosts; houses for married airmen are scattered among Singaporean housing, and the squadron is proud of its close formal and informal ties with the host country.

Houses for the married staff, built 20 years ago by the British, stand in tree-lined streets with names like Spitfire Road and Sycamore Crescent. About 60 children from New Zealand and Australian families attend the New Zealand primary school near Tengah. The squadron’s pre-school also caters for Singaporean children.

But the squadron sometimes feels isolated from the main New Zealand force in Singapore, 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, and from force headquarters, both of which are based about 10 miles away.

From the housing at Tengah to the nearest shopping centre is about eight miles; during the day the area round the airport is a noisy place with almost continuous landings and take-offs by high performance fighters from the R.A.A.F. and the Singapore Armed Forces.

The squadron claims its men are trained when they come from New Zealand for their two-year tour in Singapore. But the squadron also welcomes the opportunity to train in an environment quite unlike that found in New Zealand. Most aircrew carry out survival exercises alone in the jungle once a year. The helicopters use a flat, marshy area in eastern Malaysia for special exercises; and the squadron practices deploying to other parts of South-East Asia.

But a question mark hangs over No. 41 Squadron. Its faithful Bristol freighters — clumsy, even ugly in appearance — have served the squadron, and New Zealand and its allies, well for 20 years. They are still reliable, but they are wearing out and they are due to be phased out of operations by the end of this year.

They will have to be replaced, for as long as New Zealand has a significant presence in South-East Asia it will need "work ‘ horse” supply aircraft, even though Malaysia and Singapore are expanding their air transport capabilities. Officially the squadron does not know what aircraft it may have a year from now. Unofficially, aircrew hope that some of the Andover transports which New Zealand has just acquired will be sent to Tengah.

One Andover visited Tengah earlier this year on a proving flight. Three or four would be needed to maintain New Zealand's air transport capability the area. There is no certainty that so many could be spared from duty in New Zealand. No 41 Squadron believes it will remain in the area for some time. But its 115 men — and its 24 air crew especially — would like to know what aircraft they will be flying in 12 months time.

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'The Press' dated the 14th of April 1977 has a feature on No. 41 Squadron in Singapore.

A jungle airdrop, and then back for morning tea.

By NAYLOR HILLARY, who recently visited New Zealand forces based in Singapore.

Bristol Freighter NZ5911, of No. 41 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F., with 1000lb of supplies to be dropped by parachute, took off from Singapore at 9.30 a.m. “We get you overseas in five minutes,” said the pilot, as the aircraft crossed the narrow strip of water dividing Singapore and Malaysia. The flight was bound for a drop zone which, according to the pre-flight briefing, was a clearing near a river junction in the Malaysian jungle 60 miles north. The letter “A” picked out in marker panels' and a yellow smoke flare would mark the spot.

From 500 feet up, travelling at 120 miles an hour, the jungle flashes past in a confusing blur of green. Thick forest conceals the contours of the hills; streams vanish and reappear; each clearing — greyish red with tailings from old tin mines — looks the same as every other clearing.

“It’s a big drop zone — 100 yards square,” said the navigator, Flight-Lieutenant J. H. Seward. “We’ve had to drop on a zone 30 yards square with trees 150 feet high all round it.” Up in the cockpit the crew — Flight-Lieutenant A. R. Marbeck and Flight-Lieutenant M. McGeorge — found the zone without difficulty. One circuit for a quick look, and the aircraft came down to 250 feet. The pilot positioned the aircraft for the run over the zone and then left it to the navigator, lying prone in the forward nose compartment, to give the order to drop to the Army despatch party waiting by the open door of the aircraft. Five runs, with about 200lb of rations hurled out on each run — the weight limited to what the launchers could manhandle. On the final circuit the five parachutes could be seen, collapsed in a neat line in the clearing, and tiny figures in jungle green were trotting towards them.

The supply drop was not merely being turned on for the benefit of visiting journalists on board the Bristol. The supplies were for the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, who were acting as ‘'enemy” in Exercise Merbuk last month, deep in the jungle. The weather was fine with a distant heat haze. But conditions are not always so good. Cloud forms quickly over the rolling jungle hills; haze can cut visibility to less than two miles. In real operations accurate timing is essential for a ground recovery party does not like to linger near a clearing.

The Bristols fly low to stay out of the busy commercial air corridors round Singapore, so low that on the return to Tengah the chimney of the new Senoko oil-fired power station, 660 feet high, towered over the Bristol as it crossed the north coast of Singapore Island. Flying time from Singapore, back to Singapore, was a little over an hour. The crew and passengers, after their overseas trip, were back in time for morning tea.

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Photo: Brian Coulter

GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.038FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

Hello is that IT support? I'm having cat related systems issues again by Emily Summers

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Seriously the number of times a cat has walked across my laptop, changed my settings, sent a ggobbledygook message or even managed to switch the thing off is amazing.

They know exactly what they are doing and they are a right pain in the arse.

ALEXANDER - IT SUPPORT by Goodgame Studios

Alexander ist großer Iron Maiden Fan, was unschwer an den Cover-Figuren zu erkennen ist. Glückwünsche der Kollegen zum 3-jährigen Mitarbeiter-Jubiläum sind am Bildschirm verewigt und eine kleine Kabelwüste zieht sich über Tisch. Technische Utensilien zählen einfach zu dem täglichen Werkzeug unserer IT-Jungs.

Alexander is a big Iron Maiden fan, which you can't miss when you look at his figurines straight from their album covers. He's affixed the congratulations from his colleagues on his three year anniversary to his screen, while some small cable snakes slither across his desk. Of course these technological tools are an essential part of our IT guy's workday!

Practicing by Jocelyn Kinghorn

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On our day trip to the Great Barrier Reef on our holiday in Australia, July 25, 2014 Queensland, Australia.

It would have been wonderful to have been able to gone snorkelling but I am claustrophobic so couldn't. We did go in the submarine they have that goes under water to look at the corals and fish which was great but the glass was all scratched up so the photos didn't turn out too well.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland.

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985.

The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over $3 billion per year.

The Great Barrier Reef supports a diversity of life, including many vulnerable or endangered species, some of which may be endemic to the reef system.It is one of the seven wonders of the natural world. It is larger than the Great Wall of China and the only living thing on earth visible from space.

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The Ayurvedic Diet by The Yoga Man Lab

At the point when we hear "diet," we frequently consider a passing prevailing fashion, a popular examination in disposing of general nutritional categories for a momentary objective like weight reduction. "Diet" suggests limitations, restrictions, and a one-size-fits-all mindset that Ayurveda just isn't about.

Ayurveda moves toward the idea of eating fewer carbs another way: by training us to be more careful about choosing and planning food varieties that will best serve every one of us on our special processes toward better wellbeing and health.

In this aide, we'll cover the nuts and bolts of the Ayurvedic diet and how to start cooking Ayurvedically consistently to help your wellbeing.

While milk and dairy products are common, they are often not of the same quality enjoyed centuries ago. Yet, like so much of the wisdom and tools of Ayurveda that have withstood the test of time, the benefits of high-quality, organic milk still have much to offer.

What Is an Ayurvedic Diet?

An Ayurvedic diet isn't a "diet" in the cutting edge feeling of the word, which will in general zero in exclusively on the food sources devoured. All things considered, Ayurveda offers a lot more extensive methodology that envelops what we eat, yet additionally when and how we eat — including our own perspective — with a definitive expectation to best help an energetic condition of wellbeing.

Adopting into thought how we strategy our dinners, from our own energy and outlook to the hours of day we plunk down to eat, makes the Ayurvedic diet sound in a really comprehensive manner. It takes eating past the counting and parsing of calories and individual supplements, past an inclination that eating is practically mechanical, exclusively to refuel the body. In following an Ayurvedic diet, we are likewise approached to bring our hearts and our presence each time we plunk down to eat.

To comprehend this all encompassing methodology, we want to dig into a few vital ideas of Ayurveda, beginning with the job of the stomach related fire.

Stoking the Fire Within

Most discussions in Ayurveda start with absorption, explicitly the stomach related fire, or agni, and this is particularly obvious while investigating an Ayurvedic diet. Agni is Sanskrit for "fire" and is seen as the wellspring of mindfulness, nourishment, and insight — even the actual wellspring of life. Agni administers countless physiological cycles, including the processing, ingestion, and digestion of food.

At last, agni goes about as a guardian: our wellbeing is established in the strength of agni, from the sustenance of our tissue layers to the strength of our safe framework — each lopsidedness and sickness begins with debilitated agni.

In light of this, it is no big surprise that the pith of an Ayurvedic diet spins around keeping your stomach related areas of strength for fire!

As the foundation to what compels an Ayurvedic diet work, you will find that every one of the proposals inside this guide straightforwardly support agni — from finding how your doshas can be your aide, to rehearsing Ayurvedic food joining, everything returns to sustaining and safeguarding your inward fire.

Establishing Consistency in Mealtimes

Maybe the most straightforward proposal, Ayurveda trains us to eat feasts at steady times every day, with lunch as the biggest dinner, and to try not to nibble between feasts.

Ayurveda is tied in with making a solid day to day everyday practice, and the consistency that emerges from this is shockingly great for agni. Schedules can diminish pressure and make a feeling of routineness, which gets ready agni to get food at reliable times.

At the point when our feasts are properly dispersed, with no in the middle between, we can completely process prior to presenting more food. This additionally assists us with developing normal craving. As a basic rule, agni needs a few hours between feasts to completely process and cycle, ordinarily 3-6 hours. To this end Ayurveda recommends we abstain from eating — adding more fuel to the fire before it has completely processed the past dinner at last debilitates agni.

It tends to be useful to picture agni as a pit fire — when you toss a lot of wood on the fire it covers and debilitates the fire. Similarly, when you go excessively lengthy without tending the fire or adding any fuel whatsoever, the fire debilitates and diminishes. Very much like cautiously tending an open air fire to keep areas of strength for a, burst alive, Ayurveda trains us to tend our agni with a perfect proportion of fuel — not excessively little and not to an extreme.

Exploring the Doshas and Your Ayurvedic Diet Type

One of the numerous exceptional insights of Ayurveda is the affirmation that we are novel. This is totally evident while finding out about an Ayurvedic diet and how it affects every one of us.

The job and significance of agni is general to all of us — we can all track down priceless help by fostering a familiarity with our agni, laying out steady eating times, and consolidating essential Ayurvedic cooking standards (which we'll examine in a moment).

In any case, with regards to the genuine food sources themselves, Ayurveda requests that we calibrate our feasts to respect our singular necessities.

This at last boils down to the doshas of vata, pitta, and kapha. Similarly as these doshas consolidate in changing extents to represent our special Ayurvedic body types, the doshas are a piece of every manifest peculiarity and all that exists in nature — including the food we eat.

The initial step is to find your Ayurvedic body type, which will provide you with an obvious sign of your Ayurvedic diet type. Initially, there are three fundamental classifications:

a) The Ayurvedic diet for vata dosha carries equilibrium to vata by inclining toward warm, establishing, hydrating food sources with a delicate and smooth surface. It consolidates various flavors and accentuates proteins and fats.

b) The Ayurvedic diet for pitta dosha carries equilibrium to pitta by consolidating food varieties that are cooling, stimulating, to some degree dry, and high in starches. It empowers eating new, entire food sources both cooked and crude to diminish inner intensity.

c) The Ayurvedic diet for kapha dosha carries equilibrium to kapha by including simple to-process entire food varieties that are light, dry, warming, and all around flavored. The best dinners for kapha are by and large newly cooked and served warm or hot.

What's more, for all diet types, contingent upon which dosha you're adjusting, a steady natural recipe like Vata Review, Kapha Summary, or Pitta Overview can likewise help your stomach related fire as it adapts to new kinds of food and changes them into supplements.

Finding What Works for You

As you integrate specific food varieties into your eating routine and diminish others, you could have a go at keeping a food diary and checking how you feel in the wake of eating. On the off chance that you start to keep thinking about whether your Ayurvedic diet is working, make sure to show restraint toward the interaction. The Ayurvedic diet is an act of perception and reaction, a discussion among you and your body as you figure out which food varieties will best sustain and fuel you, and you can calibrate your methodology as you go.

For the person with a dairy allergy, a lactose sensitivity, or for those who find animal milks congesting, plant-based milks can be a better option.

All things considered, the worth is put on finding what works for your specific framework, and what doesn't. Frequently, instead of limiting a food totally, Ayurveda advances figuring out how and when to eat that food so it is pretty much as strong as could be expected, while truly hurting as could really be expected.

You might have questions spring up as you go — for example, is the Ayurvedic diet vegan? Are eggs and espresso permitted in an Ayurvedic diet? For the solution to these (and comparable) questions — it relies upon you and your doshas!

For example, while many Ayurvedic recipes are vegetarian, it is not necessary to be vegetarian in order to follow an Ayurvedic diet, and in some instances, Ayurveda actually recommends eating meat.

Essentially, whether to remember eggs for your eating regimen relies upon your singular constitution. While eggs might be very gainful for certain individuals, they can be irritating for other people. The Ayurvedic viewpoint on espresso and whether you need to integrate it into your eating regimen likewise descends to your doshas.

While thinking about what to permit and what to limit, the rules for each diet type are a magnificent spot to start. Yet, above all, focus on what works for your novel body and what doesn't. You might find that a few food sources simply don't feel ideal for yourself and choose to express farewell for good. Others — like liberal chocolate treats — ought not be taken consistently yet might be partaken in from time to time, particularly assuming your absorption is solid.

Follow Ayurvedic Food Combining Guidelines

How about we start with picking what food varieties to consolidate into your dinner. In Ayurveda, food consolidating is the possibility that specific food varieties can challenge processing when matched with food things that are contradictory for some explanation.

For instance, beans and nuts are weighty, rich proteins that are more moving for the body to separate, so Ayurveda for the most part doesn't suggest joining them in a similar feast. Melons, then again, are light and overview rapidly, which is the reason Ayurveda suggests eating them alone, or letting them be, as eating melons with different food varieties can bring about distress, gas, and swelling.

Include the Six Tastes

Ayurveda puts a lot of significance on the rasa, or taste, of food sources. Rasa likewise has different implications, including "experience," "energy," and "pith." It assumes a critical part during the time spent completely processing (and encountering) our nourishment for most extreme nutritive advantages.

In Ayurveda, there are six preferences: sweet, sharp, pungent, unpleasant, impactful, and astringent. Every one of these preferences has a novel activity in the body, a liking for various tissue layers and organs, and can be either adjusting or disturbing to the doshas. This implies that you can utilize taste to assist with guaranteeing your feasts are adjusting for your Ayurvedic body type.

Doshas and Tastes

Dosha Tastes to FavorTastes to Minimize

Vata

Sweet

Sour

Salty

Bitter

Pungent

Astringent

Pitta

Sweet

Bitter

Astringent

Salty

Sour

Pungent

Kapha

Bitter

Astringent

Pungent

Sweet

Sour

Salty

Knowing how these preferences influence the doshas, you can incline toward those preferences that are more adjusting to your physiology. It's likewise essential to take note of that everybody needs each of the six desires for ideal equilibrium. Whenever the situation allows, Ayurveda suggests cooking with however many preferences as you can.

Discover the Power of Spices

Ayurveda perceives that flavors can bestow zing, flavor, and tactile delight to our feasts, while additionally supporting our general stomach related process. Each flavor has a novel arrangement of properties they bring to the body, which influence processing in various ways. An assistance to light a low stomach related fire, an assistance to cool an overactive agni, some bring dampness, some dissipate gas, etc.

You can keep your spice rack as simple or elaborate as you wish. Here are just a few of the most well-known Ayurvedic spices to inspire your taste buds and get you started:

Turmeric is a beloved, bright golden spice found in many traditional Ayurvedic meals. It offers a broad range of beneficial properties, such as bolstering the immune system, strengthening digestion, purifying the blood, and promoting clear, radiant skin.

Ginger, with its zesty, warming flavor that adds life to both sweet and savory meals alike, is known as “the universal medicine.” It’s an excellent spice for enkindling agni, eliminating toxins, promoting healthy circulation, and supporting the health of the lungs.

Cinnamon brings a sweet and lively taste that is hard not to love. A warming spice, it supports a strong digestive fire, clears natural toxins from the GI tract, and promotes warmth in the extremities of the body.

Cardamom is another well-known favorite spice that is excellent for digestive health. This sweet, aromatic spice awakens a healthy appetite, helps to maintain balanced stomach acid levels, and even freshens the breath!

Cooking with spices can be a fun, delicious way to incorporate the six tastes into your meals, while unlocking a whole world of flavor, aroma, and healing benefits. The ways we can turn to spices to support our digestive health are as varied as the spices themselves!

Find Foods Rich in Prana

The term prana has become more conspicuous thanks to the ascent of yoga's fame over the most recent couple of many years. Professionals of yoga will frequently talk about prana as breath, motivation, and breath.

In Sanskrit, prana likewise implies essentialness and life force. At the point when you devour food varieties that are high in prana, you're eating that imperativeness. Pranic food varieties have a normally satisfying taste that breathes life into the body, brain, and soul with a feeling of profound, satisfying sustenance.

The nearer your food is to collect, the more prana it will have. For instance, a carrot newly pulled from the earth will be a lot higher in prana than a jar of hacked carrots on a supermarket rack.

Prepare and Eat Meals with Love

Finally, how you cook and eat is shockingly essential to a solid Ayurvedic way of life.

Moving toward dinner readiness with the fitting mindset is essential. Ayurveda instructs that the outlook and energy of the cook is mixed into the feast, so cooking while furious, annoyed, focused, or diverted implies the food will be permeated with that energy.

Likewise, eating while at the same time feeling those feelings will adversely influence your capacity to process your food, prompting the production of ama.

Then again, cooking while completely present, mindful, and sincerely grounded will guarantee the nature of the food and the capacity to process it appropriately, making a considerably more useful and compensating experience!

Remembering all of this, we urge you to move toward your dinner prep and utilization with an outlook of cherishing benevolence, appreciation, and enjoyment. Instead of attempting to do it all impeccably, pay attention to your body and advance as you go. Permit the most common way of arranging, cooking, and partaking in your feasts to be an encounter that is profoundly fulfilling and supporting to your general existence — body, heart, and soul!

Found Another One by Jocelyn Kinghorn

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On a walk around the city to see what I may find March 24, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand..A beautiful Autumn day.

One hundred giant eggs were hidden in secret locations throughout Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch overnight to kickstart an Easter egg hunt.

Dozens of volunteers helped to hide the eggs - which have been decorated by people including Dick Frizzell, Dame Trelise Cooper and Colin Mathura-Jeffree - for the Whittaker's Big Egg Hunt that runs until April 22.

It supports the Starship Foundation, a charity supporting the national children's hospital.

Each egg has a unique code on it that can be texted in to win the overall prize, a 340g 18ct Whittaker's Gold Slab made by Partridge Jewellers.

The giant eggs will be auctioned off for the Starship, 80 on Trade Me and the rest at a gala event on April 16.

Whittaker's will also give at least $150,000 to the Starship from sales of its Peanut Slabs and other chocolate during the hunt.

Starship Foundation chief executive Brad Clark said extraordinary creativity had gone into the eggs - "from realism to abstract, to dinosaurs hatching, stainless-steel sculpture, a bunny biplane and so much more".

www.thebigegghunt.co.nz/eggs-and-artists/

All about our Earthquakes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

Knight Library Center for Media and Educational Technologies by Greg_Careaga

Grumman A-6E Intruder by Benjamin Donnelly

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The A-6 Intruder was designed to serve two roles: one, to replace the aging A-1 Skyraider and supplement the A-4 Skyhawk in the carrier-based strike role, and two, to give the US Navy a genuine all-weather strike aircraft. The requirement was issued in 1957, and Grumman’s A2F-1 design selected, with the first flight in 1960. In 1962, just before fleet entry in 1963, the Intruder was redesignated A-6A.

The A-6 was designed to hit targets with pinpoint accuracy in adverse weather, day or night, similar to what the USAF would later require for the F-111 Aardvark. For this reason, it was built around the Digital Integrated Attack/Navigation Equipment (DIANE), which used three radar systems to constantly update the INS and provide attack data to the bombardier/navigator sitting in the right seat. The system proved very complicated and it would be some years before it was perfected. Since the weather and night would be the Intruder’s primary defense, no defensive armament was put on the aircraft, though it could carry an impressive 18,000 pound warload of air-to-ground weaponry.

The Intruder was committed early to the Vietnam War, which showed up the flaws in the DIANE system and a more lethal one in the bomb delivery system, which had a tendency to set off the bombs prematurely, destroying the aircraft. Gradually improvements were made, and despite the loss of 84 Intruders over Vietnam, it proved to be extremely effective: until the bugs were ironed out of the F-111A in 1971, the A-6 remained the only American aircraft that could attack during the monsoon season. Specialized A-6Bs were also produced specifically for Iron Hand defense suppression missions, and A-6Cs for anti-truck operations on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

All three variants were replaced by the A-6E beginning in 1971: this replaced DIANE with a more advanced solid-state computer and the three radars with a single AN/APQ-148 multimode radar. In 1979, the A-6E was further modified with the installation of Target Recognition Attack Multisensor (TRAM), consisting of a turret in the nose containing FLIR linked to the radar and a new bomb computer. Besides making the already accurate A-6 even more deadly, it also allowed the Intruder to drop laser-guided bombs, hit moving targets with bombs, and also use passive radar to attack a target.

A-6s would find themselves once more heavily employed during the First Gulf War, flying 4700 sorties for the loss of four aircraft; its final roles would find it supporting Marines in Somalia in 1991 and UN forces in Bosnia in 1995. By that time, surviving A-6Es had been partially upgraded to allow them to fire all newer guided weapons in the inventory (namely the AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-65 Maverick, and AGM-88 HARM), while most of the fleet also received composite wings. Grumman further proposed an updated version designated A-6F, with new avionics and engines, but the US Navy rejected this in favor of replacing the Intruder with the F/A-18C/D Hornet. The last A-6E left US Navy service by Feburary 1997; the US Marine Corps had retired theirs in 1993.

In addition to the attack versions of the Intruder, Grumman also built the dedicated KA-6D tanker version, which replaced the attack systems with an internal hose/reel refuelling system. These too were retired in 1997 and replaced by the S-3B Viking.

Bureau Number 154171 would be one of the highest-timed A-6s ever built: it would serve with no less than 12 squadrons during its three-war career! (For interest of brevity and sanity, this history will only list seven of those units, as 154171 was shuttled between squadrons seemingly once a year.) It was built as an A-6A, and was assigned to VA-65 ("Fighting Tigers") aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in 1968. It would remain with that squadron until 1970, when it was transferred to VA-115 ("Eagles") aboard USS Midway (CVA-41), where it saw combat during Operation Linebacker over North Vietnam.

After Vietnam, 154171 was sent to the Marines and VMA(AW)-242 ("Bats") at MCAS El Toro, California, serving there from 1972 to 1974, then back to the Navy with VA-176 ("Thunderbolts") aboard USS America (CV-66). It returned ashore in 1978, when it was upgraded to an A-6E and flew as a testbed aircraft at NAS China Lake until 1983. 154171 went back to the Marines as a training aircraft with VMAT(AW)-202 ("Double Eagles") until 1985, and would then serve off and on with VA-165 ("Boomers") from then until retirement in 1996. During that time, it flew during Operation Earnest Will, the escorting of tankers through the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, and during Operation Southern Watch in the aftermath of the First Gulf War, mostly aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and USS Constellation (CV-64). (Estrella claims that 154171 saw combat over Libya and in Desert Storm, which is possible, as the aircraft was detached to other squadrons during that time period.)

In 1996, 154171 was donated to the Estrella Warbirds Museum and flown there from NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. Surprisingly, it went on display with the engines still in the aircraft, and left in the markings of VA-165, its last squadron. It's looking a little worn, but still in good shape when we visited in June 2023.

Flight Deck Exterior by Hermeus

This is the Flight Deck. It is where pilots will remotely fly Quarterhorse, Hermeus' first aircraft. The Flight Deck has been designed from the ground up to support off-grid stand-alone operations in austere environments. It supports a pilot, payload operator, four operational analysts, and multiple jump-seats for observers. The dedicated high-performance computing center, HPCC, has an isolated climate control zone to insure all flight-critical equipment is protected.

iEnigma turns your smart phone into a smart card by charismathics

charismathics exhibits at Infosecurity Europe, London, UK - 19-21 April 2011

www.charismathics.com/products/software/ienigma/

Get rid of your standard authentication media, your smart card, your USB token, your reader and be free to move around with your inseparable companions only, your smart phone and your laptop. With them alone you can fully benefit of strong authentication mechanisms thanks to iEnigma® by charismathics®. The latest cutting edge technology delivered with a completely new user experience. Stop waiting for the IT administrator to set some weird architecture for you, do it independently yourself with some few clicks from your smart phone.

Organizations have enforced smart card authentication in recent years; however this technology is perceived as cryptic and cumbersome by many. iEnigma by charismathics simplifies strong authentication by using smart phones instead. The software is compatible with most PKI applications on computers and smart phones, maintaining the exact security standards. With iEnigma the user can log into his system, sign emails and documents, encrypt communications just as before, saving on buying other hardware and opening new ranges of use cases.

iEnigma is a mobile PKI security solution, absolutely unique and thus patented. Comparable products are either OTP or password based. Companies did not invest in architectures securing the communication between smart phone and laptop or mirroring the strong authentication and digital signature functionalities like a smart card does. With iEnigma, charismathics has translated standard APIs into Bluetooth language, reproducing the exact PKI authentication environment. Providing full TMS compatibility, enabling secure PIN entry and secure channel messaging by default, the software is immediately available for Windows Mobile. iEnigma will soon run on Android, RIM and Apple, also supporting NFC enabled units.

iEnigma simplifies strong authentication opening it to wider range of user groups. Already using smart cards, iEnigma enhances IT security by design, maintaining compatibility to investments made before. Introducing strong authentication, it extensively saves on hardware and is more flexible to use. Organizations save on constantly lost or damaged hardware.

iEnigma bridges user credentials from phones into computers, encrypting the communication channel, allowing PIN entry on the smart phone itself, thus enhancing the security compared to standard smart cards. By supporting applications on the phone, it works remotely as well. The full PKI compatibility allows for unchanged internal processes.

iEnigma re-invents the smart card and is the first strong authentication product that incorporates the expected permutation of corporate IT systems. Supporting common smart phone platforms, it supports applications both on the computer and the smart phone, putting all credentials together in a secure data container on the phone, whether it is the key chain, flash memory, SIM card or additional secure microSD cards such as the Secure Element for NFC operations. All current products are proprietary or represent a niche - no one offers an iEnigma-like 2-in-1 solution and with side benefits such as: full PKI compatibility; significant reductions in hardware cost by replacing tokens and readers using the phone instead; allowing encrypted communication; secure PIN entry; flexible credentials manageable by the user. iEnigma makes full use of the advantages of smart phones and is still fully compatible with all standard processes, APIs, cryptography algorithms and identity management systems. There is no other product opening the range of contactless authentication applications for PKI, such as in hospitals or transportation or payment schemes. The simple user interface opens up strong authentication to small organizations and the single user, reducing identity thefts and phishing attacks within day-to-day use.

GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.175FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.015FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

Ailsa Craig Gannet by Chas Moonie

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Ailsa Craig lies nine miles offshore, rising to 1,109 feet. The dramatic seacliffs are home to the third largest gannetry in the UK - comprising 36,000 pairs - with a supporting cast of guillemots, razorbills, black guillemots and increasing numbers of puffins.

It is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Protection Area because it supports 73,000 breeding seabirds. It dominates the outer Clyde; often referred to as Paddy's milestone, it lies halfway between Glasgow and Belfast.

Taken from the Sub by Jocelyn Kinghorn

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On our day trip to the Great Barrier Reef on our holiday in Australia, July 25, 2014 Queensland, Australia.

It would have been wonderful to have been able to gone snorkelling but I am claustrophobic so couldn't. We did go in the submarine they have that goes under water to look at the corals and fish which was great but the glass was all scratched up so the photos didn't turn out too well.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland.

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985.

The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over $3 billion per year.

The Great Barrier Reef supports a diversity of life, including many vulnerable or endangered species, some of which may be endemic to the reef system.It is one of the seven wonders of the natural world. It is larger than the Great Wall of China and the only living thing on earth visible from space.

For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef

Mahasu Devta temple at Hanol (20) by Don't just "click" pictures; Shoot Stories!

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Architecturally Mahasu Devta Temple at Hanol is one of the rarest examples of perfect and harmonious blend of stone and wooden structure to form one composite grand edifice. The sanctum proper is a pure stone shikhara in classical naga style. The whole wooden structure is covered with a high pitched slated pent roof surmounted by a two-tiered conical canopy over it on which a gracefully tapered kalash pinnacle stands. The roof ends and the projection of balcony are ornamented with dangling fringes a pendent corner bells which sway with the slightest movement of breeze.

Plan of Mahasu Devta Temple, Hanol

The stone built classical sanctum sanctorum enshrines many mohras and one bronze image. Those in front row from left to right are Chalda Mahasu (the Mahasu who keeps on moving), Devladli Devi (mother of Mahasu Devta), Kapala Bir (one of the four birs (attendants) of Mahasu Devta), and Shedkuliya (the attendant who emits the whistling sound). Behind them in the preceding order are Pavasi Devta, Kailu (a bir), Natari (polyandrous wife of four Mahasu brothers). All the face images are seated in a middle a small bronze image which is regarded as Botha Mahasu.

Entry to sanctum is restricted strictly for others except the pujari. Even he is required to undergo ritual ablution every time he enters the celestial realms; the tradition pujari of temple is a Brahmin. He is not supposed to eat meat, only eat food once a day, avoid proximity with other persons during the term of his deity as pujari.

Mahasu devta temple

In front of sanctum is a large room which functions as an extension to the sanctum where sacramental objects are stored. This room is called Bhandar. Entry to this room is restricted to Brahmins only. The gilded door of the bhandar is very interesting. It surface is profusely embossed with human and animal figures in a very bold manner depicting the episodes associated with the birth of Mahasu Devta. The door frame is intensively covered with coins nailed over one another through years but non of them are numismatic interest and range from recent past. The lion head is fitted with a gold brass ring that serves as a handle. Such ornamental door are common in temple near east of satluj. In front of the vestibule is a sabha mandap followed by an open frontal portico. All the four apartments of this temple are roofed separately. Vestibule and bhandar have a combined three-tiered pent roof with pyramid canopy. The frontal porch has a gable roof over it supported by two wooden pillars with an intermediate ornamental arch.

Amy Paffrath at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards Red Carpet - DSC_0483 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Corinne Henneberry were on hand for the at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards held at the Avalon in Hollywood.

This year’s Realty TV Awards received over 1.1 million votes for nominees in 21 Categories online and honored Heidi and Spencer Pratt “Speidi” by inducting them into the inaugural Reality TV Hall Of Fame.

Giving Good: 10 % of the proceeds from this event will benefit the Wodnsky Heart Foundation - for more info visit www.wodynskiheartfoundation.org.

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Buller's Mollymawk Albatross Thalassarche bulleri Forty-Fours Chatham Archipelago New Zealand by In Memoriam Ngaire Hart

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Great Barrier Reef by Euclid vanderKroew

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What might be mistaken for dinosaur bones being unearthed at a paleontological dig are some of the individual reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest tropical coral reef system. The reef stretches more than 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) along the coast of Queensland, Australia. It supports astoundingly complex and diverse communities of marine life and is the largest structure on the planet built by living organisms.

Image date: 8 August 1999

Source: Landsat 7

Part of the US Geological Survey's "Earth as Art 3" collection of images taken by the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites.

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected from space information about Earth’s continents and coastal areas, enabling scientists to study many aspects of the planet and to evaluate changes caused by both natural processes and human practices. This image was created by visualizing both visible-light and infrared data in colors visible to the human eye; band combinations and colors were chosen to optimize their dramatic appearance.

Credit: Geological Survey [source has higher resolution version]

The Sun is Setting by Jocelyn Kinghorn

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What I found on a walk around the city, March 21, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand..

I found out when I got home what is was all about..it is Giant Easter egg hunt will help Starship hospital.

One hundred giant eggs were hidden in secret locations throughout Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch overnight to kickstart an Easter egg hunt.

Dozens of volunteers helped to hide the eggs - which have been decorated by people including Dick Frizzell, Dame Trelise Cooper and Colin Mathura-Jeffree - for the Whittaker's Big Egg Hunt that runs until April 22.

It supports the Starship Foundation, a charity supporting the national children's hospital.

Each egg has a unique code on it that can be texted in to win the overall prize, a 340g 18ct Whittaker's Gold Slab made by Partridge Jewellers.

The giant eggs will be auctioned off for the Starship, 80 on Trade Me and the rest at a gala event on April 16.

Whittaker's will also give at least $150,000 to the Starship from sales of its Peanut Slabs and other chocolate during the hunt.

Starship Foundation chief executive Brad Clark said extraordinary creativity had gone into the eggs - "from realism to abstract, to dinosaurs hatching, stainless-steel sculpture, a bunny biplane and so much more".

For More Info: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

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The Forty-Fours are a group of islands in the Chatham Archipelago, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the main Chatham Island. They are called Motchuhar in Moriori and Motuhara in Māori. The group includes New Zealand's easternmost point, whose South Island is located about 800 kilometres (500 mi) to the west.

It is one of only two breeding sites for the Chatham Fulmar Prion. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports breeding colonies of Buller's and Northern Royal Albatrosses.

Laura Olais, Employee Winner, Gila District Office (Arizona) by Bureau of Land Management

Laura administers the field office volunteer program and is a member of the BLM National Volunteer Program Adjunct Team. In this capacity, she has assisted the national office in revamping training materials, revising official Volunteer Program forms, and improving processes. At the local and state level, she developed the first BLM-Arizona comprehensive volunteer program instructions, the Tucson Field Office’s risk management worksheets and position descriptions for volunteers. In 2017, Laura successfully managed the Tucson Field Office Volunteer Program per the Statewide Volunteer Audit. She teaches Basic Volunteer Program Administration at the Field Office and educates other offices on approved processes as well. Laura works with Tucson Field Office Outdoor Recreation Planners to clarify aspects of volunteer agreement templates and other documents.

Laura has continued to expand the program she developed with San Miguel High School, a low-income minority high school. This partnership provides underrepresented groups broad exposure to BLM programs. Students from this high school work alongside BLM professionals one day a week in a 45-week program, and some continue to work through the summer. Laura has arranged field trips during which students visit BLM-managed areas to gain familiarity with public lands. Laura has also arranged for the students to assist specialists in their fieldwork so they can learn about how it supports the BLM’s mission. Under Laura’s mentorship, the students have assisted with fisheries studies, prairie dog monitoring, National Public Lands Day events, and partner-led events. It is estimated that Laura’s work has resulted in over $500,000 in enhancements to the public lands and their resources.

Learn more about volunteering with the Bureau of Land Management here: blm.gov/get-involved/volunteers

8GB N82 Smart phone by Mycell Bay

This phone adopts Windows CE 6.1 operating system and 1GB NAND Flash + 1GB SDRAM, making its operations smooth and fast. It supports keyboard and is equipped with an optical mouse so that you can navigate among your applications quickly and efficiently. It is GSM tri-band 900/1800/1900, and you can use it almost anywhere around the world. Enjoy seamless surfing of the internet with its high speed IEEE802.11b/g 54M or GPRS CLASS 12 connections or work on your reports with its powerful MS Office applications.

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The Wrecks of the Arkendale H and Wastdale H by Martyn Jones

The Disaster

On the evening of 25th October 1960 a number of barges were making their way up river from Avonmouth to Sharpness. Amongst them were two vessels operated by John Harker Ltd. of Knottingley, Yorkshire. The WASTDALE H had been built locally at Sharpness Shipyard in 1951. She was a tanker barge and was carrying a load of petroleum. The ARKENDALE H had been built by Richards Ironworks of Lowestoft in 1937 as a dumb (unpowered) tanker barge. She had been converted to a motor barge in 1948 and was later lengthened. Her cargo was Britoleum black oil, a heavy oil which required her to be fitted with heating coils in her tanks to keep the oil liquid.

The barges hit thick fog near Berkeley Power Station and the strong incoming tide was running at 5 knots making it difficult to manoeuvre the vessels for their approach to the lock at Sharpness. Both barges were swept past the lock entrance and the found themselves by the old, disused dock entrance further upstream. The two barges came abreast and the skippers found it impossible to separate them. Whilst they struggled to break them apart they drifted yet further upstream until the port bow of the WASTDALE H hit pier 17 of the bridge. The bridge shook with the impact and the WASTDALE H turned onto her port side and began to sink. As pier 17 gave way under the pressure the two spans it supported fell onto the barges causing the WASTDALE H’s petroleum cargo to ignite and explode. The ARKENDALE H’s cargo of black oil was also ruptured and with the help of the petroleum it too ignited leaving the entire expanse of the river blazing. The two barges drifted on up river before grounding on the Ridge Sandbank. Skipper George Thompson of the ARKENDALE H managed to make it ashore. His engineer Jack Cooper also survived but not before he received a severe back injury sustained by an encounter with the still-rotating propeller of the sinking ARKENDALE H. Skipper James Dew of the WASTDALE H was the only other survivor. The other five crew members were missing.

The next morning the smouldering wrecks of the two barges were left high and dry on the sand with the WASTDALE H standing on her port side. On the following tide she settled back to en even keel. Attempts were made to pump out and search both vessels for the missing crew members but their inaccessible position made the job difficult. All five bodies were later found at various locations along the Severn. On 30th October 1960 the Army blew holes in the bow and stern of both barges to prevent them refloating. They remain there to this day, submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.

On the night of the disaster the Fairfields workers engaged on the strengthening of the bridge decided to take an early meal break in order to listen to the Henry Cooper v Karl Muller boxing match on the wireless at Severn Bridge Station. Had they not done so the death toll would have been considerably worse as the span they were working on was one of the two that fell.

Within a month of the disaster the Western Region of British Railways had prepared an outline plan to repair the bridge. Pier 16 would be repaired and a new concrete pier would be constructed to replace pier 17. A single, welded mild steel span would then be placed across the top, supported in the middle by the new pier. The projected cost for this was £85,000.

It was found that pier 16 was significantly damaged and was leaning towards the Sharpness bank. It was therefore decided to erect a timber trestle beneath span 15-16 and the contract to do this was awarded to Peter Lind & Co. Ltd.

The bridge suffered further mishap on 17th February 1961 when the tanker barge BP EXPLORER capsized and struck pier 20 causing a further £12,740 worth of damage.

Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. hired the twin floating crane TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE to assist with the erection of the trestle. On the 14th April 1961 the TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE broke away from its moorings on a flood tide and drifted into the bridge damaging the dolphins on pier 20. The crane jib also struck the underside of the bridge. This time the damage was estimated at £6,000."

Mahasu Devta temple at Hanol (18) by Don't just "click" pictures; Shoot Stories!

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Architecturally Mahasu Devta Temple at Hanol is one of the rarest examples of perfect and harmonious blend of stone and wooden structure to form one composite grand edifice. The sanctum proper is a pure stone shikhara in classical naga style. The whole wooden structure is covered with a high pitched slated pent roof surmounted by a two-tiered conical canopy over it on which a gracefully tapered kalash pinnacle stands. The roof ends and the projection of balcony are ornamented with dangling fringes a pendent corner bells which sway with the slightest movement of breeze.

Plan of Mahasu Devta Temple, Hanol

The stone built classical sanctum sanctorum enshrines many mohras and one bronze image. Those in front row from left to right are Chalda Mahasu (the Mahasu who keeps on moving), Devladli Devi (mother of Mahasu Devta), Kapala Bir (one of the four birs (attendants) of Mahasu Devta), and Shedkuliya (the attendant who emits the whistling sound). Behind them in the preceding order are Pavasi Devta, Kailu (a bir), Natari (polyandrous wife of four Mahasu brothers). All the face images are seated in a middle a small bronze image which is regarded as Botha Mahasu.

Entry to sanctum is restricted strictly for others except the pujari. Even he is required to undergo ritual ablution every time he enters the celestial realms; the tradition pujari of temple is a Brahmin. He is not supposed to eat meat, only eat food once a day, avoid proximity with other persons during the term of his deity as pujari.

Mahasu devta temple

In front of sanctum is a large room which functions as an extension to the sanctum where sacramental objects are stored. This room is called Bhandar. Entry to this room is restricted to Brahmins only. The gilded door of the bhandar is very interesting. It surface is profusely embossed with human and animal figures in a very bold manner depicting the episodes associated with the birth of Mahasu Devta. The door frame is intensively covered with coins nailed over one another through years but non of them are numismatic interest and range from recent past. The lion head is fitted with a gold brass ring that serves as a handle. Such ornamental door are common in temple near east of satluj. In front of the vestibule is a sabha mandap followed by an open frontal portico. All the four apartments of this temple are roofed separately. Vestibule and bhandar have a combined three-tiered pent roof with pyramid canopy. The frontal porch has a gable roof over it supported by two wooden pillars with an intermediate ornamental arch.

The Mighty Oak by Mary Fletcher

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The ruling majesty, the wise old English oak holds a special place in our culture, history, and hearts. It supports more life than any other native tree species in the UK; even its fallen leaves support biodiversity.

Church Green, Redditch - fountain and statue by Elliott Brown

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In Church Green, Redditch.

Fountain with statue in Church Green.

Grade II listed.

Fountain About 80 Yards North of the Church of St Stephen, Redditch

REDDITCH B CHURCH GREEN

SP 0467 NW

Town Centre

12/28 Fountain about 80 yards

north of the Church of

St Stephen

GV II

Fountain. 1883. Painted cast iron. Octagonal shallow plinth. Circular

moulded stem with foliated relief work decorating the narrower central section.

Upon this is situated an octagonal pier with gadrooned base and bull-rush

relief work. It supports four large cranes that face outwards from it and

have large leaves entwined around their feet. Above the pier the fountain

has a vase-like profile opening out into a shallow dish-like shape upon

which stands the figure of a woman (about three feet high) surrounded by

bull-rushes and pouring water from a vase. The fountain is about 12 feet

high in total. This large fountain with its unusual and naturalistic detail

forms a focal point at the north end of Church Green, and is of particular

importance when approaching the town centre from Prospect Hill. (BoE, p 248).

Listing NGR: SP0414167748

GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.056FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

Sunny Rainbow flower by Jean and Fred Hort

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Drosera subhirtella

One of the climbing Drosera plants. It supports itself on surrounding plants.

It is a carnivorous plant that catches insects on its sticky leaves and removes the nutrients from the insects.

Photo: Fred

NYC - Central Park: Inscope Arch by Wally Gobetz

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Inscope Arch, built in 1873 by Calvert Vaux, is actually one of the "newer" bridges in Central Park. Built in response the bottleneck of pedestrians that irritated horseback riders and carriage drivers on East Drive near the Pond, the overpass was recommended by Olmsted and Vaux, after they were no longer officially connected with the park, along with the original Gapstow Bridge and Outset Arch; it is the only original one of the three that still stands.

Beautiful ornamental pink granite surrounds the gray granite that borders the half-oval opening of the archway, 13 feet 7 inches across at the base and 12 feet high in the middle. The archway is Tuscan--the top of the voussoirs makes an ogival pattern and the bottom a round one. Encompassing the whole above is a cornice in a segmental arc. Inscope's underpass is 34 feet in length. It has a 100-foot-long railing on top.

Sitted on swamp land, IOlmsted estimated the cost of Inscope Arch at $50,000--considerably higher than similar construction during the Civil War days. Although water had been drained off to form the Pond, quicksand lay below. Piles were required, and a subflooring of timber was needed to strengthen the rubble schist foundation. It supported a common-brick barrel vault, originally lined with wood sheathing.

Under the 1973 Central Park Master Plan for restoration of the southeast area of the park, masonry pointing, stone cleaning, painting the brick-vault archway a reflective white, and repair of lights inside the archway were completed. Restoring the wood sheathing to the bricklined walls was deemed too impractical in view of prevalent vandalism.

Central Park was designated a scenic landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1974.

National Historic Register #66000538

Plaster by Alyssa Frazier

This is kind of what I wanted my salt block to look like, except I decided to connect the two spirals at the top. I originally pictured it being more symmetrical, but I had problems with it supporting its own weight while I was putting the plaster on it, so it is a little off. However, I think the asymmetry is nice because you can see different shapes from different angles.

20200323_COVID19ITSSLaptopLoan_JH_012 by California State University, Chico

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Student Lucia Anda logs into a laptop that was recently reimaged to be loaned as IT Support Services provide comprehensive technology support, including laptop loans and virtual technology assistance as the campus community adjust to suspension of in-person instruction due to impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Monday, March 23, 2020 in Chico, Calif.

(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)

GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.008FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

Danse du Feu de la Tribu Baining, PAPOUASIE NOUVELLE GUINEE by HELO Magazine

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By Eric Lafforgue. The Baining fire dance is the most impressive performance i've seen in my photographer life!

The dance is very complicated to see, as the clans do not want to perform at any time. The dance is only performed at night time, the women MUST NOT touch the masks.

A big fire is set in the middle of the village, and then 40 dancers will wear the giant mask to jump on the fire, and also dance on it, supported by 20 musicians. The main thing is aslo to give a kick in the fire, as you can see on the picture, and the main job for me was to avoid the projections!

The dance can last for a night.

During the dance, the dancers take some kids with them and go into the fire: it is the best way to cure them!

Painstakingly built from entirely natural rainforest material, the masks worn by the dancers are said to represent the spirits of plants and animals. Of varying sizes and styles, the masks are painted using colours created from special bush materials and plants.

Galim village, East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea.

Romeo LaCoste at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards Red Carpet - DSC_0407 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Corinne Henneberry were on hand for the at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards held at the Avalon in Hollywood.

This year’s Realty TV Awards received over 1.1 million votes for nominees in 21 Categories online and honored Heidi and Spencer Pratt “Speidi” by inducting them into the inaugural Reality TV Hall Of Fame.

Giving Good: 10 % of the proceeds from this event will benefit the Wodnsky Heart Foundation - for more info visit www.wodynskiheartfoundation.org.

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GLOBE MitzpeRamon No.143FL by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Paul Rohrlich, the Science Attache at the Embassy and several Embassy staff members visited two schools, at the invitation of Mr. Farid Hamdan, National Coordinator for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program in Israel. The schools, Al-Biader elementary School, in Hure Village, and Ramon Elementary School, in Mitzpe Ramon were chosen due to their continued excellence in providing consistent meteorological, ecological data to the GLOBE program. The official guests received a warm welcome by the mayors of both towns, the principals, teachers and students. They were then shown how the GLOBE program impacts the schools and the communities as a whole.

The GLOBE program is a worldwide hands-on school science and education program sponsored by the U.S. Government in partnership with NASA and the National Science Foundation. It supports student, teacher, and scientist collaborative "Earth System Science Projects" that study and record geophysical indicators in their country. The students’ results are uploaded into a NASA-operated database available to the global science research community.

In support of the program, the Embassy recently provided a small grant for schools to acquire data-collecting equipment. Upon visiting, both schools had the forward vision of making environmental stewardship a multi-disciplinary, affective objective. The visit left Embassy staff optimistic that future generations will make the necessary lifestyle changes to keep our planet healthy.

zara sandals by Guru NewYork

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I drew you coffee creatures on a cup of coffee by Brandon Ortwein

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These little guys were inspired by the great illustrative style of artist Tang Yau Hoong.

I hope you like it.

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Shrewsbury-Windle House by Indiana Landmarks

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301 West First Street, Madison

Indiana architect Francis Costigan designed and built Madison’s Shrewsbury-Windle House in 1848 for riverboat captain and merchant Charles Shrewsbury. The house is a magnificent example of Greek Revival architecture, with 12 rooms, 13 fireplaces, and soaring 13-foot floor-to-ceiling windows. But the centerpiece of the house is the exquisite 53-step spiral staircase ascending through the center of the home. Built out of cherry and pine, it supports its own weight and helps cool the house by allowing hot air to flow up and out through attic windows. The house is now a museum owned by Historic Madison, Inc.

Francis Costigan designed many more residences and buildings around Madison before moving to Indianapolis to work there. All of his Indianapolis work has since been razed, and his only other remaining Madison works include the Costigan House and St. Michael’s Catholic Church.

For more information, visit www.historicmadisoninc.com/index.html

Photo by Marsh Davis

Grumman EA-6A Intruder by Benjamin Donnelly

The A-6 Intruder was designed to serve two roles: one, to replace the aging A-1 Skyraider and supplement the A-4 Skyhawk in the carrier-based strike role, and two, to give the US Navy a genuine all-weather strike aircraft. The requirement was issued in 1957, and Grumman’s A2F-1 design selected, with the first flight in 1960. In 1962, just before fleet entry in 1963, the Intruder was redesignated A-6A.

The A-6 was designed to hit targets with pinpoint accuracy in adverse weather, day or night, similar to what the USAF would later require for the F-111 Aardvark. For this reason, it was built around the Digital Integrated Attack/Navigation Equipment (DIANE), which used three radar systems to constantly update the INS and provide attack data to the bombardier/navigator sitting in the right seat. The system proved very complicated and it would be some years before it was perfected. Since the weather and night would be the Intruder’s primary defense, no internal armament equipped the aircraft, though it could carry an impressive 18,000 pound warload.

The Intruder was committed early to the Vietnam War, which showed up the flaws in the DIANE system and a more lethal one in the bomb delivery system, which had a tendency to set off the bombs prematurely, destroying the aircraft. Gradually improvements were made, and despite the loss of 84 Intruders over Vietnam, it proved to be extremely effective: until the bugs were ironed out of the F-111A in 1971, the A-6 remained the only American aircraft that could attack during the monsoon season.

Specialized A-6Bs were also produced specifically for Iron Hand defense suppression missions, and A-6Cs for anti-truck operations on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. All three variants were replaced by the A-6E beginning in 1971: this replaced DIANE with a more advanced solid-state computer and the three radars with a single AN/APQ-148 multimode radar.

A-6s would find themselves once more heavily employed during the First Gulf War, flying 4700 sorties for the loss of four aircraft; its final roles would find it supporting Marines in Somalia in 1991 and UN forces in Bosnia in 1995. By that time, surviving A-6Es had been partially upgraded to allow them to fire all newer guided weapons in the inventory (namely the AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-65 Maverick, and AGM-88 HARM), while most of the fleet also received composite wings.

Grumman further proposed an updated version designated A-6F, with new avionics and engines, but the US Navy rejected this in favor of replacing the Intruder with first the cancelled stealthy A-12A Avenger II, then the F/A-18C/D Hornet. The last A-6E left US Navy service by Feburary 1997; the US Marine Corps had retired theirs in 1993. Older, non-modified aircraft were sunk as an artificial reef off Florida; others remain at AMARC for scrapping.

As the Navy's carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft began to age, namely the EA-1F Skyraider and the EKA-3B Skywarrior, a replacement needed to be found. Initially, the ALQ-99 electronics suite was installed in a standard A-6 Intruder airframe as the EA-6A, but the aircraft was somewhat limited and workload was heavier for a two-man crew, especially in combat. EA-6As did see combat in Vietnam with the US Marine Corps, but something better was clearly needed. The result was the lengthened EA-6B Prowler, which upgraded the electronics suite considerably and also added two more crewmembers to reduce workload and increase effectiveness. The EA-6B first flew in May 1968, and entered US Navy and Marine service in 1971. This relegated the EA-6As to mostly Reserve units until it was retired in 1993. Only 28 A models were built, and at least four are known to survive in museums.

Bureau Number 156984 was a purpose-built EA-6A rather than a conversion, and joined the Navy in 1969. Details about its service are sparse, other than it served for a time in the 1970s with VAQ-209 ("Star Warriors") at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, was the first EA-6A to be upgraded to near EA-6B standard in the mid-1980s, and retired with VAQ-33 ("Firebirds") at NAS Key West, Florida in 1992. Apparently there was some consideration of expending it as a range target, but instead it was saved for preservation, and by 2002 it had been donated to the Mid-America Museum of Aviation and Transportation at Sioux City, Iowa.

156984 could use some restoration, as the markings have faded and rust has broken out on the airframe. It is positioned at the entrance of the Mid-America Museum. When my friend and I visited in June 2020, the museum was closed due to coronavirus, but we were able to photograph through the fence. My friend's picture is better than mine, so he allowed me to use his...

Interior, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney by John Cowper

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The Pitt Street Congregation, founded on a nearby site in 1833, became the mother church of Congregationalism in New South Wales. In 1846, the congregation moved to the present building which was expanded in size and design in 1867. In these early times, the church was involved in debates on a number of social issues, especially education. It supported initiatives such as the establishment of the Sussex Street Mission, the Boys' Brigade and the YMCA. Plaques of early Pitt Street members such as David Jones and John Fairfax, founding leaders of this country, adorn our church walls

In the early decades of the 20th Century, the church was filled with people and activity. In 1928 Church House (now Pilgrim House) was erected, its tenants being both church and community organisations.

In the 1960's there was a proposal to demolish the building. Jack Mundey and the Builders Labourers Federation responded to a plea by the congregation members and declared a Green Ban on the project, thus saving the building.

By the mid 1970's, the congregation, although few in numbers, devoted itself to renewing the life of the parish and began restoring the church and Pilgrim House. In 1977 it became part of the Uniting Church.

Source: www.pittstreetuniting.org.au/history.html

Meital at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards Red Carpet - IMG_0482 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Corinne Henneberry were on hand for the at the 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards held at the Avalon in Hollywood.

This year’s Realty TV Awards received over 1.1 million votes for nominees in 21 Categories online and honored Heidi and Spencer Pratt “Speidi” by inducting them into the inaugural Reality TV Hall Of Fame.

Giving Good: 10 % of the proceeds from this event will benefit the Wodnsky Heart Foundation - for more info visit www.wodynskiheartfoundation.org.

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The 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards is the industry's leading reality awards show event embracing the spirit of fun and camaraderie as it supports, examines and redefines the art of reality in media by rewarding excellence and encourage experimentation. For more info, please visiit www.RealityTelevisionAwards.com

@RealityAwardsTV (Twitter/Instagram) #RTVAs

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