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A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the word “stay” in the movie is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
Astronaut Ed Edward Lu opened with a story of how they would sit on the shuttle roof flying upside down and backwards — a glass-bottom boat screaming across the panoply of thunderstorms crackling like muted fireworks below, while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and waxing philosophic about the fate of the Earth.
The Interstellar movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the Trial by Fire promo for the Orion capsule and the B612 Impact Video on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space.
Sentinel Mission will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
This is one of a recently introduced batch of 6 all electric buses, the first of their type in Edinburgh.
Having just watched The Theory of Everything, I must say it is a fantastic film.
And I think Eddie Redmayne deserves the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking. After Hawking introduces the movie, Redmayne makes a few comments about Hawking's zero-g flight with Peter Diamandis. And after the movie, he takes questions from the audience.
U.S. Army Pfc. Anthony Aul, left, South Carolina National Guard Task Force 59 is inprocessed by April Ayers, right, and Suzanne Richardson, center, both South Carolina National Guard Medical Command Medical medical case management contractors, before proceeding to a prescreening briefing as he prepares to be injected with the first in a series of two COVID-19 Moderna vaccinations at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, Dec. 23, 2020. The South Carolina National Guard is a Moderna Department of Defense (DoD) vaccine pilot program state and is provided a limited DoD allocation for South Carolina National Guard Soldiers and Airmen to have the opportunity to voluntarily take the vaccine. The South Carolina National Guard remains ready to support the counties, local and state agencies and first responders with requested resources for as long as needed in support of COVID-19 response efforts in the state. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, South Carolina National Guard)
A team of Delaware National Guard Airmen and Soldiers lead by the medical staff from Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Christiana Care, and St. Francis Healthcare formed a new 38 bed field hospital recently created at A.I. DuPont Hospital, Wilmington, Del., April 7, 2020 in efforts to set-up the first alternative acute care site in Delaware as part of the nationwide federal and state efforts in preparation for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The team’s mission, in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency is to provide prescreened adult non-COVID-19 patients with care. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Laura Michael.)
I just saw a pre-screening of Waiting for Superman with Bill Gates and director David Guggenheim and a bunch of amazing people.
It is an incredible film, perhaps the most important film on U.S. education ever made. And it is engaging, and moving, and provoking (especially to the unions), and will hopefully inspire you to action... at a critical juncture where change is possible, in Colorado, D.C., and perhaps nationwide.
Movie site, with most recent teaser and opportunities to engage, or HD trailer
I will be working on some screenings in the Bay Area. I will post updates as the movie comes out. If you watch the trailer and want to post a comment here, you will see the news as it comes out.
New to Tayside as 432 in September 2015, then with Xplore Dundee. Acquired by McGills Xplore Dundee where it became 0405. Transferred and reliveried as McGill's Midland Bluebird and now transferred to McGill's Eastern Scottish.
A team of Delaware National Guard Airmen and Soldiers lead by the medical staff from Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Christiana Care, and St. Francis Healthcare formed a new 38 bed field hospital recently created at A.I. DuPont Hospital, Wilmington, Del., April 7, 2020 in efforts to set-up the first alternative acute care site in Delaware as part of the nationwide federal and state efforts in preparation for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The team’s mission, in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency is to provide prescreened adult non-COVID-19 patients with care. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Laura Michael.)
French postcard for the two-part film Les Trois mousquetaires (Le Film d'Art, 1913, directed by Henry Pouctal) and based on Alexandre Dumas père's' famous novel. The film starred Émile Dehelly as D'Artagnan and Nelly Cormon as Milady. Most of the cards follow the order of the novel, with some hesitations about the cards on Milady's past. The cards were not numbered.
After a short made by Georges Méliès in 1903 (Les Trois mousquetaires et le collier de la reine), the first feature-length cinematic adaptation of Dumas's classic novel would be that of Henri Pouctal and André Calmettes, which already for the early 1910s had the extreme length of 4000 metres (feature-length films were just starting then), and was released in two parts, La Haine de Richelieu (Richelieu's Hate) and Le Triomphe d'Artagnan (D'Artagnan's Triumph). While several sources list the film as being made in 1912, actually, it was released in Paris and elsewhere in Europe in the Fall of 1913 and in the US in 1914. Pouctal wrote the script too, while cinematography was by Louis Chaix. Sets were by Émile Bertin. In addition to leading actors Dehelly as D'Artagnan and Cormon as Milady, the other actors were Marcel Vibert (Athos), Adolphe Candé (Porthos), Stellio (Aramis), Philippe Garnier (Cardinal Richelieu), Jean Peyrière (Count Buckingham), Guizelle (Constance Bonacieux), Henri Legrand (Planchet), Marcel Marquet (Louis XIII), Aimée Raynal (Queen Anne), Edouard Hardoux (Bonacieux), Jacques Volnys (Count De Rochefort), Vaslin (Mr. de Tréville), Clément (the Henchman), while bit parts were for Jean Duval, Rolla Norman, Edouard de Max, and Marsa Renhardt. In his thorough study on 1910s French silent film, The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896-1914 (1994), Richard Abel writes that the film was distributed by AGC, the biggest distributor after Pathé and Gaumont around 1913. From April to October 1913, AGC led a huge campaign to promote Les trois mousquetaires as the highlight of the season. As part of a new distribution strategy, it was prescreened in the Fall of 1913 at the Paris' cinema Majestic. Abel states that Pouctal was the sole director of the film, while the Cinémathèque française, IMDB and Wikipedia list André Calmettes too. According to Abel, Les trois mousquetaires is a lost film, but these postcards give a nice impression.
After the version of Pouctal and Calmettes, many later versions would follow, such as the 1921 and 1933 versions by Henri Diamant-Berger.
Sources: Richard Abel, The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896-1914 (1994), Ciné-Ressources, French Wikipedia, IMDB.
NASA held a panel discussion including agency scientists and engineers, along with actors from the 20th Century Fox Entertainment film, "The Martian," and a prescreening of the movie at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. At far right, US News Correspondent John Zarrella moderates the panel discussion, featuring "The Martian" actors Mackenzie Davis and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Nicole Stott, retired NASA astronaut. While NASA is developing the technology for a journey to Mars, “The Martian” takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-176
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: Status of GAO Recommendations on TSA's Security-Related Technology Acquisitions
Vancouver, Canada - United States, Customs and Border Protection CBP) and Vancouver, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) work together for border crossing efficiency. United States and Canada Customs work together in the Vancouver International Airport NEXUS office processing passengers. The NEXUS program allows low risk pre-screened travelers expedited processing when entering the United States and Canada.
CBP Photographer: Donna Burton
101614: CHI-ORD - A U.S.C.G. Corpsman and CBP Supervisor Sam Ko conduct prescreening measures on a passenger arriving from Sierra Leone at the at O’Hare International Airport's Terminal 5.
New to Tayside as 432 in September 2015, then with Xplore Dundee. Acquired by McGills Xplore Dundee where it became 0405. Transferred and reliveried as McGill's Midland Bluebird and now transferred to McGill's Eastern Scottish.
101614: CHI-ORD - A U.S.C.G. Corpsman and CBP Supervisor Sam Ko conduct prescreening measures on a passenger arriving from Sierra Leone at the at O’Hare International Airport's Terminal 5.