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French postcard by Editions P.I., no. 225. Photo: M.G.M.
American film actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942) was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She was particularly noted for her energetic, ditzy and often off-beat roles in screwball comedies of the 1930s.
Carole Lombard was born as Jane Alice Peters into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1908. In 1916 the family decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. She attended Virgil Junior High School. Described by her biographer Wes Gehring as 'a free-spirited tomboy', the young Lombard was passionately involved in sports and enjoyed watching films. While playing baseball in the street with the neighbourhood boys, she was spotted by film director Allan Dwan. This led to her screen debut at 12, a small role in Dwan's A Perfect Crime (1921), playing the sister of Monte Blue. Although she tried for other acting jobs, she would not be seen onscreen again for four years. She returned to a normal life, going to school and participating in athletics, excelling in track and field. In 1924 or 1925 (the sources differ, she passed a screen test and was signed to a contract with Fox Films. Her first role as a Fox player was Hearts and Spurs (W.S. Van Dyke, 1925), in which she had the female lead opposite Buck Jones. She got her first break the following year in another leading role opposite Edmund Lowe in the successful drama Marriage in Transit (Roy William Neill, 1925). She was credited now as 'Carol Lombard'. After a car accident in 1926 that left a scar on the left side of her face , she was dropped by Fox. The 17-year-old had an early plastic surgery procedure to make it less visible. For the remainder of her career, Lombard learned to hide the mark with make-up and careful lighting. After a year without work, Lombard obtained a screen test for the 'King of Comedy' Mack Sennett. He offered her a contract, and although she initially had reservations about performing in slapstick comedies, the actress joined his company as one of the 'Bathing Beauties'. Lombard appeared in 15 short Sennett productions between September 1927 and March 1929. When sound film was introduced, her light, breezy, sexy voice perfectly suited the talkies. Her first sound film was High Voltage (Howard Higgin, 1929), soon followed by another crime film The Racketeer (Howard Higgin, 1929). After a successful one-off appearance opposite Warner Baxter in Fox's The Arizona Kid (Alfred Santell, 1930), she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures who cast her in the Buddy Rogers comedy Safety in Numbers (Victor Schertzinger, 1930). For her second assignment, the romantic comedy Fast and Loose (Fred C. Newmeyer, 1930) with Miriam Hopkins, Paramount mistakenly credited the actress as 'Carole Lombard'. She decided she liked this spelling and it became her permanent screen name.
Carole Lombard began appearing in comedies with William Powell such as Man of the World (Richard Wallace, 1931) and Ladies Man (Lothar Mendes, 1931), and married him in June 1931. The marriage to Powell, Paramount's top male star, increased Lombard's fame. Although they divorced in 1933, the two would continue to occasionally star together throughout the 1930s. Lombard starred for the first and only time alongside Clark Gable (they married in 1939) in the romantic drama No Man of Her Own (Wesley Ruggles, 1932). For Bolero (Wesley Ruggles, 1934), The successful screwball comedy Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) with John Barrymore, showed her true comedic talents and proved to the world what a fine actress she really was. It was followed by the hit comedies Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen, 1935) with Fred MacMurray, The Princess Comes Across (William K. Howard, 1936), My Man Godfrey (Gregory LaCava, 1936), which won her an Academy Award nomination opposite Powell, Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen, 1937), and Nothing Sacred (William Wellman, 1937). By then Lombard had become the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and one of its most popular stars. Eager to win an Oscar, by the end of the decade she began to move away from comedies towards more serious roles, appearing opposite James Stewart in the drama Made for Each Other (John Cromwell, 1939) and alongside Cary Grant in the romance In Name Only (John Cromwell, 1939). Her role as a nurse in Vigil in the Night (George Stevens, 1940) was her most notable attempt to win an Oscar but didn't receive a nomination. Lombard returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 1941. Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an aircraft crash. On January 16, 1942, Carole, her mother, and 20 other people were flying back to California when the plane went down outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. All aboard perished. Her final film, Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), a satire about Nazism and the war, was in post-production at the time of her death. Wikipedia: "Today she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and ranks among the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time."
Sources: Wikipdia and IMDb.
Procedure:
1. Use a hole-punch to put a round hole in one side of a cereal box.
2. Aim the hole at the sun during an eclipse
3. Shift until an image appears on the opposite side of the box.
4. Hold it as steady as possible to take a photograph of the inside of the box.
Avoid looking directly at the sun.
My dear friend, Don Briggs, is going in for a medical procedure tomorrow, and my thoughts and prayers have been with him. Don has been more helpful to me than most anyone I've ever known, and has greatly influenced my time here on Flickr. When I looked for a pic to choose to post today, this was the one, because it made me think about how we influence others, and what long "shadows" we cast as we do it!
Some folks give out of a leftover mentality. When Don gives, he makes sure it's the best, not just something he knows is mediocre. He makes his friends feel cherished, because by embracing life the way he does, he makes us all feel like we have more value than we often feel like we do.
I will probably never be the kind of photographer Don has been, in spite of the fantastic DSLR he's given me, but I don't know when I've ever FELT that i was worthy of having the best kind of stuff before! Don has seen value in what I do, even though it's not up to his level of expertise, and he's gone out of his way to make things easier for me. Life can be hard sometimes, but a friend like this man can almost make you forget it.
Thank you, Don, for being a wonderful Flickr contact, a mentor, and a dear friend. I love you dearly and hope that all of the good you've done comes back to you tomorrow, and you will have many more comfortable years to photograph waterfalls, bridges, sculptures and tulip fields, and continue putting the rest of us to shame in the process! All the best and we'll look forward to seeing you post again soon!
iss061e033522 (Nov. 11, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Jessica Meir reviews robotics procedures in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module. She will operate the Canadarm2 robotic arm to support a series of spacewalks by astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan to repair the International Space Station's cosmic particle detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).
Isn't this Wonderful!!
Robotic Cardiac Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus - Photo by Ofer Golan
For the first time in Israel, bypass cardiac surgery has been performed on a patient – by a three-armed robot.
Last week at Rambam, the ‘da Vinci’ robot conducted this procedure on Moshe Breyer (53) from Yokneam Illit. Up until now, da Vinci has been primarily used in urological and gynecological procedures. Two of the robot’s three arms replace the surgeons’ hands, while the third serves as a camera, which during surgery, provides 3D videos of inside the patient’s chest.
“The robot enables doctors to enter the heart without damaging the ribs, and does not require a wide opening in the chest,” says Prof. Gil Bolotin, Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery. “This is a great advantage to the patient. The small cut reduces post-surgical pain, recovery time, and chance of infection,” he adds.
During the operation, the surgeon operates the robot from a console and a three-dimensional screen enlarges the area of surgery.
“This technology enables the bypass operation without opening the chest bone, moving the heart or connecting the patient to a heart-lung machine,” says Prof. Bolotin. “This prevents major possible complications that usually occur in open heart surgery.”
Prof. Bolotin said that he and his team were very excited before the first operation. “We went through a long learning process until we were ready to use the robot in open heart surgery.”
Breyer had suffered a massive heart attack, had compromised day-to-day function and was on daily medication. When Prof. Bolotin explained to him that the operation represented a solution with only minimal damage to the chest, the patient said he’d do what was necessary.
Breyer’s wife Ofra, remains staunchly loyal to the human team, which included Prof. Bolotin, Dr. Zvi Peled, both cardiac surgeons, Dr. Avishai Ziser (anesthesiologist) and Dr. Carey Titin, a Finnish cardiac surgeon who came to Rambam to teach the procedure. “Maybe the robot did the operation,” said Ofra Breyer, “but it was really the doctors who saved my husband’s life.”
iss059e103111 (June 13, 2019) --- NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch practice an emergency simulation inside the International Space Station's Zvezda service module. The duo, along with cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (out of frame), practiced emergency procedures for quickly entering their Soyuz lifeboat, undocking from the station and descending to Earth. Credit: Roscosmos
... during the 1930s a lot of these took place in the factories, in the fields as well as on the docks. When 1939 came and we began to be magnetized toward the war in Europe, jobs became plentiful and the union power began to slip. After December 7, 1941, everyone including the unions joined together to do a job of survival. Before the war was completely over, but close enough all of us knew it was a matter of time, the unions began to rally again for better, pay, better hours and better benefits. There was a period there when it looked like the unions would become more powerful than the corporations, but it never happened. With the advent of the cold war against the evil communism, the unions again became the step-children of society and it was only by negotiation and good business procedure they maintained their control. All things in moderation and all power in moderation.
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In this figure of a reclining man, the liver gave people information about their medical conditions and cures that were contrary to the accepted medical procedures of his day. Today some of these have become more commonplace in holistic medicine and today are among commonly used naturopathic practices. He has been therefore called the father of holistic medicine. A man before his time for certain. Some called Edgar, a man out of time for he seems to have reinvigorated albeit through the unconscious trance state, the practices of ancient physicians once again. In addition to his medical readings, he also gave life readings upon request. In most of those readings people were astonished to find that they had lived before. While most were found to be average people, in a handful of cases individuals were reported to have been persons of historic significance. In even a few cases these souls had lived lives during the time that Jesus walked the earth and it is these few upon which this picture is focused. Their roles in Jesus life were varied. There were teachers, acquaintances, friends and personal relationships. In addition, a good number of these people were part of the Essene community, which he knew about prior to the surprise discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls which occurred after his death and which then introduced them to the world at large after being translated painstakingly for years. The sculpture of Rouen spoke of these people on the shores of the Dead Sea and northern Palestine, today's Israel,
The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many spiritual and mythological traditions around the world. In various cultures it is known as the Cosmic Tree, the World Tree and the Holy Tree. The Tree of Life symbolizes many things, including wisdom, protection, strength, bounty, beauty, and redemption. This wise and holy Tree is like the Creator as it sustains creation with its abundant fruit, protection and generativity. The Tree is also like human beings, as we develop roots, strengthen our trunk and branch out to a wider vision of life as we grow.
Trees provide many analogies to human development. They are amazing microcosms of exchange and flow of water, nutrients and gases. With sustenance from the earth, cooling water, refreshing air and the light of the sun, they grow in stature and strength and eventually blossom into full flower and fruit. They are earth-bound and yet reach up toward the heavens, trying to touch back to the source. Their three main systems of roots, trunk and branches parallel human development of body, psyche and spirit.
The following are some examples of how the Great Tree is understood around the world. These examples demonstrate why so many cultures use the Tree of Life to describe the Divine and our journey back to the Divine.
Kabbalah – In Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition underlying Judaism and Christianity, two different Tree of Life symbols are used: one is upside-down and the other right-side-up. The original Tree of Life emanates out of the divine world of unity and is depicted as upside-down, with its roots flowing from the divine place of unity and infinite light. The trunk and branches reach down towards us, penetrating the worlds of spirit, psyche, and physical existence. This is said to be the Tree of Emanation, which flows downward from the source. The other Tree of Life symbol flows upward, back towards the source, with roots in the ground and branches growing up to the sky. This is the Tree that the initiate climbs to return to the source and is the Tree of evolution or initiation. It is the initiate’s responsibility to evolve and awaken, climbing the Tree and penetrating the worlds of psyche, spirit and divine unity, reconnecting with the divine source.
Depth Psychology – From a depth psychology perspective, the tree is seen as a powerful symbol of growth, as the tree is the only living thing that continues to grow throughout its lifetime. The tree is also a symbol for the true self and serves as a positive, healthy model for the unfolding development of both psyche and spirit. As we grow and develop, a larger and more mature personality emerges and begins to flower and fruit, providing its gifts and bounties to the wider world.
Christianity – In Christian art, Jesus is often depicted as standing in the branches of the Tree of Life, presented as the living fruit of the Tree. In this capacity he is the bridge between the Divine and humanity and between heaven and earth. He is a vision of enlightened humanity and our potential to bloom and bring forth abundant fruit. The image of Christ on the cross is another depiction of the World Savior on the Tree of Life, redeeming humanity through his death and subsequent rebirth.
Buddhism – It was beneath the great Bodhi tree, the great Tree of Enlightenment, that Buddha was said to redeem the whole universe under its protective branches. Under this World Tree, the Buddha transformed all negative temptations and energies and achieved perfect enlightenment. In this story, as in the Christ story, we have the archetypal World Savior and the World Tree themes together.
Nordic – In Nordic mythology, Odin is the god who rules all magic and guards the great well of wisdom and knowledge at the root of the World Tree Yggdrasill, whose strength supports the entire universe. Here, under the branches of Yggdrasill, Odin becomes an initiate magician and discovers a Shamanic vocation, obtaining inner sight and healing capacities.
Shamanic – In many Shamanic cosmologies, the Cosmic Tree is said to connect the Underworld, Middle world and Above world. During initiation, the Shaman learns to travel comfortably in all three realms. In some traditions the Underworld contains power animals and helper guides for healing. The Above world consists of ancestors, spirit guides and spirits of plants and diseases to whom the Shaman can speak and engage their help in healing others. During initiation, Shamans are often instructed to make and climb a ladder to symbolize their ability to access the three zones of the Cosmic Tree.
Minoan – From the ancient Minoan culture of Crete, the Tree of Life is connected to the Mysteries of the Labyrinth. The Tree of Life is said to occupy the very center of the labyrinth. The goal of initiation is to claim your own self by winding into the center of the labyrinth, climb the Tree of Life and connect with your own divinity as well as the divine source.
Alkahest is a term used in Renaissance alchemy for the theorized "universal solvent", which was supposed to be capable of dissolving any other substance, including gold, without altering or destroying its fundamental components.[1] Among its philosophical and spiritual preoccupations, Hermeticism was more anciently concerned with the Panacea, but (in the context of reformed understandings of human physiology) the emergent Latin alchemy associated with European humanism was itself transmuted into a new medical and pharmaceutical philosophy. The Swiss physician and alchemist Philippus Paracelsus (1493-1541), who gave his name to the early modern school of medical theory known as Paracelcism, first made mention of the Alkahest as a chemical which could fortify the liver, and (in instances where the liver failed) could act as a substitute for its functions (see De Viribus Membrorum Spiritualium, Cap. VI, "De Cura Epatis", at p. 10). By reducing or dissolving substances into their fundamental virtues and properties, it was hoped to gain control of those invaluable medical healing properties (see also Azoth), and for this reason the Alkahest (also known as the ignis gehennae[2]) was earnestly sought for, and the reality (or otherwise) of its existence was debated among the alchemists and philosophers.
Contents
1History
2Etymology
2.1Other names
3Structure and mechanism
4Uses
5Recipe
5.1Paracelsus
5.2Jan Baptist van Helmont
5.3Seventeenth century alchemists
6Issues with the concept
7References
History
Alkahest became very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries through J.B. van Helmont, after which it was taken less seriously over time. Its prevalence in the 17th and 18th centuries, despite its otherwise absurd and extreme qualities, was likely due to the popularity of alchemy at the time and the lack of an adequate alternative theory of chemistry.[3] Those who followed and trained under Paracelsus did not think of the alkahest as van Helmont did, but slowly built upon the ideas posed by their teacher.[3] Tobias Ludwig Kohlhans (1624-1705) suggested in his dissertation of the spleen, that alkahest could be found in the lymphatic vessels of animals.[2] This was then contested and doubted by Helmont, Henry Oldenburg (later in 1661), and Goddard, who raised questions about the lymph's "sweetly acidic" quality, the necessity of a hypothetical universal solvent to explain the acidity in empty animal lymphatic vessels, its ability to be generated within the body, and how it differed from that of the other fluids or humours in the body.[2] The German alchemist Johann Kunckel (1630-1703) and others in time began to see the alkahest as merely fantasy and wishful thinking.[4] Ladislaus Reti, a 20th-century historian of science, investigated alchemical recipes involving alkahest and found that no chemical was sufficient in breaking down the wide variety of materials Helmont supposed. Reti points out that in such recipes, an alcohol solution of potassium hydroxide could have been used instead.[4]
Etymology
There is no consensus on the origin and etymology of the word alkahest, as Paracelsus left no trace or history of the word. George Starkey argued it came from the german word al-gehest (all spirit).[4] Johann Rudolph Glauber posed that it could have come from the words alhali est, the german word al gar heis, or Al zu hees, meaning "very hot".[4] Cleidophorus Mystagogus in England[5] argued for its root being of Belgian or High Dutch.[4] Paracelsus believed that alkahest was, in fact, the philosopher's stone, whereas Henry Oldenburg in 1661 made experimental connections between the legendary alkahest, and the liquid discovered in the lymphatic vessels of animals introduced by Kohlhans.[2] Boerhaave in his textbook Elementa Chymiae (1732), did not think Alkahest was the philosopher's stone but that it was in fact of greater importance and value than the stone.[2]
Other names
Helmont considered the alkahest to have never-ending reusability, calling it an "immortal".[2] He also used the term "maccabean fire" because of its similarities to the "thick water" in the deuterocanonical Book of Maccabees in the Old Testament.[2] Another name for the Alkahest termed by Helmont was ignis gehennae.[2] Other names include Latex (or "clear water reduced to its minutest atoms"), and primum Ens Salum (or "salt exalted to its highest degree").[2]
Structure and mechanism
The theory of alkahest was conceived in terms of alchemy, Helmontian theories, and the physical theory of corpuscularianism.[3][6] According to Helmont and Robert Boyle, the alkahest had a "microstructure", meaning it was composed of extremely small, homogeneous corpuscles.[3][7] This structure allowed the alkahest's corpuscles to move between the corpuscles of all other materials and mechanically separate them without altering their base materials or itself, conforming with the idea that it was infinitely reuseable.[3][7] It was these qualities which made the alkahest distinct from ordinary corrosives, which are altered by the substances they act upon and thus are not infinitely reusable.[7]
Uses
George Starkey and his mentor Helmont (by their report) used mercuric sulphide to dissolve gold, and informed Boyle about it in a series of letters. The alkahest, according to Starkey, was able to remove sulphur from the natural mercury leaving a quicksilver resistant to corrosion.[7] Moreover, because of the credited power of alkahest to break down substances into their occult qualities, it was sought after for its potential to cure incurable diseases at the time.[7] For example, the breaking down of Ludus could provide a cure for urinary calculi.[2]
Recipe
The recipe for the theorized alkahest was often kept secret, as many alchemical recipes were.[4] There were many alchemists attempting to obtain the universal solvent, and thus many recipes, some later rejected by their creators, have been found.[7]
Paracelsus
Paracelsus's own recipe for alkahest was made of caustic lime, alcohol, and carbonate of potash; however, his recipe was not intended to be a "universal solvent".[3][8]
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Following Paracelsus, it was the chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont who expanded on the alkahest, believing it was a universal solvent.[3] Helmont claimed that knowledge of the recipe was granted by God and was therefore known by few, and he had many dreams during which he believed he had been gifted the recipe, only to find them inadequate.[3][4] Given the difficulty of obtaining alkahest, Helmont suggested the use of other, inferior substances that they believed were capable of similar tasks.[7] Volatile salt of tartar, also known as pyrotartaric acid or glutaric acid, was considered both a substitute for alkahest and a component of alkahest.[7][1] Helmont's writings also referred to a fourteenth century alchemical manuscript which discussed sal alkali, which may have been caustic potash or lye, that was capable of dissolving many substances and may have been an ingredient for Helmont's alkahest.[3][8][9]
Seventeenth century alchemists
During the seventeenth century, many alchemists were working on obtaining the alkahest, some being Johann Rudolf Glauber, George Starkey, Frederick Clod, Thomas Vaughan, Thomas Henshaw, Johann Brun, Robert Hamilton, Hugh Piatt, and Robert Child.[3] Glauber believed that the alkahest was a class of substances, rather than one, particular substance.[3] Glauber believed he had discovered alkahest after discovering that volatile niter (nitric acid) and fixed niter (potassium carbonate) were able to dissolve many substances.[7] Starkey described alkahest as a circulated salt that is neither acid nor alkali.[3][10] Moreover, Starkey believed that, because acid saline liquors are destroyed by alkalies and urinous spirits, they cannot be ingredients of the immortal alkahest.[7] He believed instead that non-acidic substances could be ingredients of the alkahest, some of these suspected substances being urinous spirits, spirit of alkalies, and sulphureous vegetable spirits.[7] In particular, Starkey believed that alkahest's secret ingredient laid within urine.[3][7] Clodius believed that mercury could convert salts into "ponderous liquor", which he believed was needed to make the alkahest.[7]
Issues with the concept
A potential problem involving alkahest is that, if it dissolves everything, then it cannot be placed into a container because it would dissolve the container. This problem was first posed by German alchemist Johann Kunckel.[4] However, the alchemist Philalethes specified that alkahest dissolved only composed materials into their constituent, elemental parts;[10] hence, a hypothetical container made of a pure element (say, lead) would not be dissolved by alkahest. The old remark "spit is the universal solvent" satirizes the idea, suggesting that instead of a solvent that would easily dissolve anything, the only "real" solvent to anything is a great deal of hard work. In modern times, water is sometimes called the universal solvent, because it can dissolve a large variety of substances, due to its chemical polarity and amphoterism.
The tree of life is a diagram used in various mystical traditions.[1] It usually consists of 10 nodes symbolizing different archetypes and 22 lines connecting the nodes.[2] The nodes are often arranged into three columns to represent that they belong to a common category.[2]
The nodes are usually represented as spheres and the lines are usually represented as paths.[2] The nodes usually represent encompassing aspects of existence, God, or the human psyche.[2][3][4] The lines usually represent the relationship between the concepts ascribed to the spheres or a symbolic description of the requirements to go from one sphere to another.[2][4] The nodes are also associated to deities, angels, celestial bodies, values, single colors or combinations of them, and specific numbers.[3][5] The columns are usually symbolized as pillars.[2] These pillars usually represent different kinds of values, electric charges, or types of ceremonial magic.[2][5] It is usually referred to as the Kabbalistic tree of life in order to distinguish it from other concepts with the same name.[1][6] In the Jewish Kabbalah, the nodes are called sephiroth.[2] The diagram is also used by Christian Cabbala, Hermetic Qabalah and Theosophy.[5][6][7] The diagram is believed to be derivable from the flower of life.[3]
Scholars believe that the concept of a tree of life with different spheres encompassing aspects of reality traces its origins back to Assyria in the 9th century BC.[1][6] The Assyrians also assigned values and specific numbers to their deities similar to those used by the later Jewish Kabbalah.[1][6] The beginnings of the Jewish Kabbalah are traced back by scholars to the Medieval Age, originating in the Book of Bahir and the Book of Zohar.[5][6] However, the first historical instance of the modern diagram appeared centuries later in the cover of the Latin translation of Gates of Light in the year 1516.[5] Scholars have traced the origin of the art in the Porta Lucis cover to Johann Reuchlin.[8]
Contents
1Evolution
2Interpretations
2.1Chassidist
3See also
4References
5External links
Evolution
A version of the Kabbalistic tree of life
The first historical instance of the modern tree of life was designed by Johann Reuchlin.[8] Paolo Riccio's son, Hyeronomius, had actively exchanged letters and shared his father's work with Reuchlin before publication.[9] Thus, in the year 1516, Reuchlin's diagram came to appear on the cover of the Paolo Riccio's Latin translation of Joseph Gikatilla's Gates of Light. The diagram only had 17 paths and, at the time, the concepts of 10 spheres and 22 letters were still distinct in the literature.[10] In 1573, a version sketched by Franciscus Zillettus appeared in Cesare Evoli, De divinis attributis.[11] This version introduced several innovations that would reappear in later versions: all the spheres were of the same size, the lines became wide paths, the spheres were aligned into 3 distinct columns, Malkuth was connected to three spheres, and astrological symbols for the known celestial bodies were used in conjunction with the Hebrew names to label the spheres. However, it also had only 17 paths, albeit distributed differently. Reuchlin's version was reprinted in Johann Pistorius' compilation of 1587. Finally, several versions from unknown artists introducing 21 and 22 paths appeared in the posthumous print editions of Moses Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim between 1592 and 1609.[12] However, the diagrams with 22 paths lacked consistency with each other and none of them had the 22 letters.[13] Between 1652 and 1654, Athanasius Kircher published his own version of the tree in Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Kircher might have designed his diagram in a syncretic attempt to reconcile several distinct ideas. This heavily annotated version, self-termed Sephirotic System, introduced more innovations: abstract concepts, divine names, the 22 Hebrew letters for each path, and new astrological symbols.[14] Between 1677 and 1684, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published Kabbala Denudat. He designed several new versions of the tree of life, introduced the first version with 11 spheres, placed Daath between Kether and Tiphareth, and attempted to derive the tree of life from elemental geometry.[15][16][17]
Consequently, to modern day, two versions are widely circulated: one where Malkuth has 1 path, owing to Reuchlin's original; and another where Malkuth has three paths, owing to several later versions; both having 22 paths in total, corresponding each to a Hebrew letter, owing to Kircher's syncretism.[18] With the resurgence of occultism in the 19th century, many new versions appeared, but without major innovations.[19] In the 20th century, Aleister Crowley might have resurfaced the idea of Daath as an 11th hidden sphere between Kether and Tiphareth in his book Liber 777, syncretizing the concept with Kircher's symbols and von Rosenroth's diagrams.[20][21] With the discovery of new planets, people might have tried to introduce more astrological symbols to their own versions of the diagram. As a result, there is no general agreement about the position of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.[22][23] However, in particular, it has been noted that Pluto bears resemblance with Daath: Pluto is a former planet, the last traditional celestial body to be discovered, and Daath is a hidden sphere, the last to be introduced.[24] In the 21st century, enthusiasts might have rushed to attribute these collaborative works spanning centuries and involving several people through complex interactions to single authors. Thus, sometimes, the version where Malkuth has 3 paths is termed the Tree of Emanation, and the version where Malkuth has 1 path is termed the Tree of Return.[5]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkahest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah)
Same procedure as every year (yay!) - this weekend I had the joyful honor to attend the Cologne fashion doll collectors' convention : )!
It was a fantastic day, I met with old and dear friends and got to know a whole bunch of lovely new people. My funniest moment was when a very kind french lady and her daughter came to my table and my french skills left me within a second. I could only excuse myself (in french at least!) with a laughing "I DO speak french, but not at this moment" - obviously *rotf* ; )
Ah, it was great! My photos surely aren't the best, they're usually taken in a hurry and only at the beginning of the day, since I'm becoming very busy afterwards, but at least I really did take some :).
To all of you who are going to attend the IT convention soon - I'm wishing you tons of fun, have many, many great moments, meet old and new friends and enjoy every minute. In my heart I'll be with you *hugs*!
Nina*
Same procedure as every year (yay!) - this weekend I had the joyful honor to attend the Cologne fashion doll collectors' convention : )!
It was a fantastic day, I met with old and dear friends and got to know a whole bunch of lovely new people. My funniest moment was when a very kind french lady and her daughter came to my table and my french skills left me within a second. I could only excuse myself (in french at least!) with a laughing "I DO speak french, but not at this moment" - obviously *rotf* ; )
Ah, it was great! My photos surely aren't the best, they're usually taken in a hurry and only at the beginning of the day, since I'm becoming very busy afterwards, but at least I really did take some :).
To all of you who are going to attend the IT convention soon - I'm wishing you tons of fun, have many, many great moments, meet old and new friends and enjoy every minute. In my heart I'll be with you *hugs*!
Nina*
Sick and tired of all this "diplomatic procedure", Yursuff the used camel dealer has decided to take some action. After purchasing a shovel and a map (which really hasn't done him much good so far), he decided that he would be the one to defeat those rotten Lenfels and show them who's really the toughest, bravest Loreesi!!!!
As best as he can figure, he should be coming up in a great Lenfel castle soon, were he'll single handedly defeat all who come at him! Maybe he should have brought some sort of weapon...
Looking at his map, he thought smugly to himself.
“Yes, the name of Yursuff the Used Camel Dealer will go down in history as, ‘the Mighty Killer of Lenfels’! Or, ‘the Digger of Death’, or ‘the Loreesi Champion above all Champions!
“Haha, and Mark of Falworth thinks he’s such a big shot! Well! I’ll show him!”
With a devious smile, Yursuff kept digging. Little did he know that his digging would soon intersect with someone elses…;)
My disenchantment with modern medicine continues.
Went into Harborview Hospital for what I thought would be a "needle aspiration biopsy", a procedure by which a doctor roots around in your "mass" in an effort to pack into a hollow needle enough cells to examine and tell you how screwed you are.
"Will hurt like bee-sting," said the heavily accent Czech pathologist. Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Where I ended up was the Otolaryngology Clinic, a specialty practice of which I was heretofore ignorant. In the language of plain speaking proletarians like me that means "neck doctor".
Despite having a golfball-sized lump growing out of the side of my neck, the doctor insisted on introducing me to the dubious pleasures of the laryngascope. So, since it's a teaching hospital, the doc and half a dozen med students and my soon to be ex-wife (who begins med school next year) gathered around the screen and were treated to guided tour of the inner workings of my throat. Everyone found it fascinating and congratulated me on a healthy epiglottis. Perhaps if I hadn't had a fiberoptic camera stuffed up my nose and tickling my vocal chords I would have been more pleased.
After this bonding experience everyone got to feel the lump on my neck and, after a group huddle, they all nodded their heads sagely and informed me that they were going to perform a procedure called a "needle aspiration biopsy". The head doctor actually made the quote gesture with his fingers when he told me. Fan-fucking-tastic, it's only what I came in for after all. I told him to, "bring it on," or words to that effect.
Next I got to meet the pathology team, led by a female Czech doctor who sounded like Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Her assistant was a rangy blond wearing a low cut top. Things were clearly looking up.
"Will hurt like bee-sting." Yeah. Once the needle was in she begins rooting it around with a look of utter concentration on her face, the two assistants hovering over her shoulder. The insistent urgency of her movements and the concentration on her face absurdly reminded me of Magnum PI trying to pick a lock. All I could think of was, "work the lock, don't look at the dogs."
"Like bee-sting, yes?"
Sure if by bee-sting you mean it feels like your had a slim-jim in my neck trying unsuccessfully to pop the lock on a late model Toyota, then yeah, sure.
Since the microscope in my exam room was busted, all three left with bloody slides of my neck-material in search of operational equipment.
A few minutes later the pathology doc returns with the kind of terminally sad look that can only be perfected by Eastern Europeans. She tells me the procedure was a failure, just blood, no cells were extracted. Furthermore, since my "mass" is squatting right on top of my carotid artery, she doesn't want to go in any deeper for fear I'll spring a leak. I have to come back so they can stick me again, but this time use an ultrasound to watch where the needle goes. Yay, more warm goo. I hope the cleavage assistant is available that day.
Mostly I'm pissed off and frustrated and the fear is still gibbering away inside me. My throat is sore from my own special presentation to the med students of ,"The Espophagus and You," and my neck is now throbbing from the Roto-Rooter job. My thought was, "this is fucked up", so I came back and took this photo.
Now, however, I feel childish, immature and humbled. For, once again, out of an un-looked-for corner of my life, unintentional wisdom was dispensed by lost in translatn. This morning, before I wrote this, perspective hit me with a sledgehammer blow, in the form of 18 pages of prose that she had no idea I would read.
I was reminded that, my fears aside, this could all be much ado about nothing. I was reminded that even if the worst is to come, what a waste it is to throw away those days and hours before the next test on fear, depression and anger. That is time I will never recoup. Better to live a full and passionate life than grumble, bemoan and await the Reaper.
So, even though this photo is ill-tempered, I'm dedicating it, my words and my belated insights to lost in translatn. Thank you.
On Saturday 21 January 2023, hundreds of protesters marched from Downing Street to Hyde Park to demand real equality for trans people, an end to transphobic violence and an immediate reversal of the UK government's decision to block Scotland's progressive Gender Recognition Reform Bill which simplifies the procedure for a trans person to obtain a gender recognition certificate, which until now has been highly "intrusive, medicalised and bureaucratic."
www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/statement-uk-governmen...
The LGBTQ oranisation Stonewall commented -
"This is a piece of legislation that simply seeks to make the process for legally recognising a trans man or trans women's gender more respectful and straightforward. Scotland's Bill aligns it with leading international practice endorsed by the United Nations and adopted by 30 countries, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irealand and most of the United States of America."
www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/statement-uk-governmen...
The bill had received cross-party support in the Scottish parliament and was supported by 88 members - the overwhelming majority of Scottish MSPs - only 33 voted against and just 4 abstained. The legislation was also clearly within the scope of what the Scottish parliament can legislate according to its devolved powers. However, for the first time ever, the British government used section 35 of the Scotland Act to unilaterally veto the reforms.
Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel before and after photo of a ffs surgery procedure. www.drspiegel.com/ffs-surgery-photos/
I will state for the record that I have no opinion or judgement about circumcision.
I have heard many things said in the defense of circumcision/ uncircumcision for boys. Here are a few:
"If I can't get my sons to clean their rooms, what makes you think I could get them to wash under their foreskins."
"I want him to be American"
"Why on earth would you do THAT?" - spoken by a couple from England who was appalled that I even asked them if they were interested in circumcision.
"I want him to look like his dad."
"I don't want him to get teased." -though this doesn't fly so much anymore b/c larger numbers of boys are not being circumcised.
I'm very glad I had my son 10 years ago, when I didn't work in OB. And I'm glad I never had another son, so I didn't have to make the choice twice. It is not barbaric- really, they do very well. I'm just not sure how I feel about it, now that I've working in the setting for 8 years. I'd likely do it again, but then I'd be thinking about it the whole time... ignorance really is sometimes bliss.
The bandage comes off tomorrow, yayyy, the stitches come out in two weeks. The surgeon wouldn't let me take photo's of the procedure : (
S99-04197 (1992) --- (Artist's concept of possible exploration programs.) Lunar pioneers will encounter hazards and crises requiring new emergency procedures. Here, an antenna installer fell over a 90-foot escarpment and fractured his right femur. Responding to this situation on a "medivac" hopper, two other lunar base crew members employ a portable CAT-scan device, a holographic display, and helmet-mounted heads-up displays to determine the severity of the injury. After an inflatable Thompson splint is placed on his leg, the semiconscious technician is transported back to the base strapped onto the side of the hopper. This image produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings, (SAIC). Technical concepts for NASA's Exploration Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC).
After the dunking. It then shook itself out like a wet dog and preened. Then it repeated the procedure three times!!!!
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Patient tolerated procedure well, no complication noted for this wisdom tooth surgery. We will follow her up in one week.
Her prescriptions:
Decadron 4mg x2 tabbles right away in office
Amoxil 250mg one three times a day x 30
Vicodin ES one every 6 hours as needed for pain x 30
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SAN DIEGO (Nov. 2, 2020) Lt. Youngmi Kim, an internal medicine resident assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), dons personal protective equipment before a procedure in the hospital's ICU Nov. 2. NMCSD's ICU specializes in treatment given to patients who are acutely unwell and require critical, medical care. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way many facets of healthcare are conducted, and NMCSD's ICU has adapted some of their techniques and practices to keep both staff and patients safe while delivering the high-quality healthcare they’ve come to expect. NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians, and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Luke Cunningham)
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli (right), ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen (middle), and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (left) train for emergency scenarios at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility on Nov. 9, 2022. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford
Deperming, or degaussing, is a procedure for erasing the permanent magnetism from ships and submarines to camouflage them against magnetic detection vessels and enemy marine mines.
A sea-going metal-hulled ship or submarine, by its very nature, develops a magnetic signature as it travels due to a magneto-mechanical interaction with the Earth's magnetic field. This signature can be exploited by magnetic mines, or facilitate the detection of a submarine by ships or aircraft with magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment. Navies use the deperming procedure, in conjunction with degaussing, as a countermeasure against this.
Specialized deperming facilities, such as the United States Navy's Lambert's Point Deperming Station are used to perform the procedure. Heavy gauge copper cables are wrapped around the hull and superstructure of the vessel, and very high electrical currents (as high as 4000 amps) are pulsed through the cables. This has the effect of "resetting" the ship's magnetic signature. It is also possible to assign a specific signature that is best suited to the particular area of the world in which the ship will operate. Over time the deperm will begin to degrade and the procedure must be redone periodically to maintain the desired effect.
During World War II the United States Navy commissioned a specialized class of degaussing ships that were capable of performing this function. One of them, USS Deperm (ADG-10), was named after the procedure.
Researcher Jacques Vallée describes a procedure on board the USS Engstrom (DE-50), which was docked alongside the Eldridge in 1943. The operation involved the generation of a powerful electromagnetic field on board the ship in order to deperm or degauss it, with the goal of rendering the ship undetectable or "invisible" to magnetically-fused undersea mines and torpedoes. This system was invented by a Canadian, and the Royal Navy and other navies used it widely during WWII. British ships of the era often included such degaussing systems built into the upper decks (the conduits are still visible on the deck of HMS Belfast (C35) in London, for example). Degaussing is still used today. However, it has absolutely no effect on visible light or radar. Vallée speculates that accounts of the USS Engstrom’s degaussing might have been garbled and confabulated in subsequent retellings, and that these accounts may have influenced the story of the so-called "Philadelphia Experiment".
According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.Use of that channel was kept quiet: German submarines had ravaged shipping along the East Coast during Operation Drumbeat, and thus military ships unable to protect themselves were secretly moved via canals to avoid the threat. It should be noted that this same veteran claims to be the man that Allende witnessed “disappearing” at a bar. He claims that when the fight broke out, friendly barmaids whisked him out the back door of the bar before the police arrived, because he was under age for drinking. They then covered for him by claiming that he had disappeared.
The USS Eldridge was not commissioned until August 27, 1943, and it remained in port in New York City until September 1943. The October experiment allegedly took place while the ship was on its first shakedown cruise in the Bahamas, although proponents of the story claim that the ship's logs might have been falsified, or else still be classified.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) stated in September 1996 that "ONR has never conducted investigations on radar invisibility, either in 1943 or at any other time". Pointing out that the ONR was not established until 1946
The claims of the Philadelphia experiment contradict the known laws of physics. Magnetic fields cannot bend light waves according to Maxwell's equations. While Einstein's theory of general relativity shows that light waves can be bent near the surface of an extremely massive object such as the sun or a black hole, current human technology cannot manipulate the astronomical amounts of matter needed to do this.
No Unified Field Theory currently exists, although it is still a subject of ongoing research. William Moore's book on the "Philadelphia Experiment" claims that Albert Einstein completed, and subsequently destroyed, a theory before his death. Moore bases this on Carl Allen's letter to Jessup in which Allen refers to a conversation between Einstein and Bertrand Russell acknowledging that the theory had been solved, but that man was not ready for it.
Also, shortly before his death in 1943, Nikola Tesla supposedly claimed to have completed some kind of a "Unified Field Theory". It was never published.
These claims are completely at odds with modern physics. While it is true that Einstein attempted to unify gravity with electromagnetism based on classical physics, his geometric approaches called classical unified field theories ignored the modern developments of quantum theory and the discovery of the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. Most physicists consider his overall approach to be unsuccessful. Attempts by recent scientists focus on the development of a quantum theory that includes gravitation. It should be noted however that even if a unified field theory were discovered, it still would not present a practical engineering method to bend light waves around a large object like a battleship.
While very limited "invisibility cloaks" have recently been developed using metamaterial, these are unrelated to theories linking electromagnetism with gravity.
Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature. Metamaterials usually gain their properties from structure rather than composition, using small inhomogeneities to create effective macroscopic behavior
The story begins in June of 1943, with the Destroyer Escort, U.S.S. Eldridge, DE-173, being fitted with tons of experimental electronic equipment. This included, according to one source, two massive generators of 75 KVA each, mounted where the forward gun turret would have been, distributing their power through four magnetic coils mounted on the deck. Three RF transmitters (2 megawatt CW each, mounted on the deck), three thousand “6L6” power amplifier tubes (used to drive the field coils of the two generators), special synchronizing and modulation circuits, and a host of other specialized hardware were employed to generate massive electromagnetic fields which, when properly configured, would be able to bend light and radio waves around the ship, thus making it invisible to enemy observers.
At 0900 hours, on July 22nd, 1943, the power to the generators was turned on, and the massive electromagnetic fields started to build up. A greenish fog was seen to slowly envelop the ship, concealing it from view. Then the fog itself is said to have disappeared, taking the U.S.S. Eldridge with it, leaving only undisturbed water where the ship had been anchored only moments before.
The elite officers of the U.S. Navy and scientists involved gazed in awe at their greatest achievement: the ship and crew were not only radar invisible but invisible to the eye as well! Everything worked as planned, and about fifteen minutes later they ordered the men to shut down the generators. The greenish fog slowly reappeared, and the U.S.S. Eldridge began to re-materialize as the fog subsided, but it was evident to all that something had gone wrong.
When boarded by personnel from shore, the crewmembers above decks were disoriented and nauseous. The U.S. Navy removed the crew from that original experiment, and shortly afterward, obtained another crew for a second experiment. In the end, the U.S. Navy decided that they only wanted to achieve radar invisibility, and the equipment was altered.
On the 28th of October in 1943, at 17:15, the final test on the U.S.S. Eldridge was performed. The electromagnetic field generators were turned on again, and the U.S.S. Eldridge became nearly invisible. Only a faint outline of the hull remained visible in the water. Everything was fine for the first few seconds, and then, in a blinding blue flash, the ship completely vanished. Within seconds it reappeared hundreds of miles away, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was seen for several minutes. The U.S.S. Eldridge then disappeared from Norfolk as mysteriously as it had arrived, and reappeared back in Philadelphia Naval Yard. This time most of the sailors were violently sick. Some of the crew were simply “missing” never to return. Some of the crew went crazy. The strangest result of all of this experiment was that five men were found fused to the metal within the ship’s structure.
The men that survived were never the same again. Those that lived were discharged as “mentally unfit” for duty, regardless of their true condition.
Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model No. 1 from behind in the German car museum at Langenburg Castle, Langenburg, Franconia (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Some background information:
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model No. 1, built in 1886, is widely regarded as the first automobile, that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by an internal combustion engine. It was developed by Carl Benz, a German developer of stationary engines and their associated parts, who had already developed the first gasoline-powered two-stroke piston engine in 1873.
The vehicle was awarded the German patent number 37435, for which Karl Benz applied on 29th January, 1886. Following official procedures, the date of the application became the patent date for the invention once the patent was granted, which occurred in November of the same year.
Although Benz's wife Bertha financed the development process, and would hold patent rights under modern law, she was not allowed to apply for the patent as a married woman. Benz officially unveiled his invention to the public on 3rd July, 1886, in the city of Mannheim. During the first drive Benz’s son Eugen was running alongside the vehicle with a bottle of petrol to refill when the petrol was running out.
The original price of the vehicle was 3,000 Mark (equivalent to 23,468 € resp. 26,248 $ in 2015). Between 1886 and 1893 about 25 Patent-Motorwagens were built.
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model No. 1 was a three-wheeled automobile with a rear-mounted engine. The vehicle contained many new inventions. It was constructed of steel tubing with woodwork panels. The steel-spoked wheels with their solid rubber tires were Benz's own design. Steering was by way of a toothed rack that pivoted the unsprung front wheel. Fully elliptic springs were used at the back along with a live axle and chain drive on both sides. A simple belt system served as a single-speed transmission, varying torque between an open disc and drive disc.
The first Motorwagen used the Benz 954 cc single-cylinder four-stroke engine with trembler coil ignition. This new engine produced 2⁄3 horsepower (0.50 kW) at 250 rpm, even though later tests by the University of Mannheim showed it to be capable of 0.9 hp (0.67 kW) at 400 rpm. Although its open crankcase and drip oiling system would be alien to a modern mechanic, its use of a pushrod-operated poppet valve for exhaust would be quite familiar. A large horizontal flywheel stabilized the single-cylinder engine's power output. An evaporative carburettor was controlled by a sleeve valve to regulate power and engine speed. The first model of the Motorwagen had not been built with a carburetor, rather a basin of fuel soaked fibers that supplied fuel to the cylinder by evaporation. Benz later made more models of the Motorwagen, model number 2 boasting 1.5 hp (1.1 kW), and model number 3 with 2 hp (1.5 kW), allowing the vehicle to reach a maximum speed of approximately 16 km/h (10 mph). The chassis was improved in 1887 with the introduction of wooden-spoke wheels, a fuel tank, and a manual leather shoe brake on the rear wheels.
Bertha Benz chose to publicize the Patent-Motorwagen in a unique manner: She took the Patent-Motorwagen No. 3, supposedly without her husband's knowledge, and drove it on the first long-distance automobile road trip to demonstrate its feasibility as a means to travel long distances. That trip occurred in early August 1888, as the entrepreneurial lady took her sons Eugen and Richard, fifteen and fourteen years old, respectively, on a ride from Mannheim through Heidelberg and Wiesloch (where she took on ligroin as a fuel at the city pharmacy, making it the first filling station in history), to her maternal hometown of Pforzheim.
The Benz Motorwagen Model No. 1 on my photo is a replica. The only remaining original is in possession of the Deutsches Museum (in English: German Museum) in Munich. On the centenary of the Daimler-Benz AG in 1986 the company recreated another 20 roadworthy exemplars, one of whom this one is.
The German car museum is located at the historic stables of Langenburg Castle. It was founded by Prince Kraft von Hohenlohe-Langenburg and the motorsports journalist and race driver Richard von Frankenberg. The opening took place on 20th March, 1970. Since then the museum has been gradually enhanced. The purpose of the exhibition is to show different kinds of motorised vehicles which are important and interesting from an evolutionary point of view, and thereby show the historical development of vehicles until today’s design. But lately the museum has been given a second purpose which is to tell stories about the vehicles and their former owners.
A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle assigned to the 53rd Wing out of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., takes off in support of Northern Edge 21 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 12, 2021. Approximately 15,000 U.S. service members participate in a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces May 3-14, 2021, on and above the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, the Gulf of Alaska, and temporary maritime activities area. NE21 is one in a series of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercises designed to sharpen the joint forces' skills, practice tactics, techniques, and procedures, improve command, control, and communication relationships develop cooperative plans and programs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)
The procedure:
1. Stop at the entrance booth to get weighed.
2. When the attendant gives you the signal,. pull into the open bay and back up to the pit.
3. Open your car doors, remove the junk you brought, and toss it into the pit.
4. Sweep up any debris you left on the floor and push it into the pit.
5. Return to the entrance booth and get weighed again to determine the weight of your trash (charged by weight).
6. Go home lighter.
The pit is a hole in the floor exposing to view an open-top semi-trailer that is parked on the basement level. In the photo, the pit is the dark area behind the car---perspective makes the width of nine feet seem much narrower. The yellow machine is used to break up and compact bulky things in the trailer.
The largest image reveals a fix to my car: elastic cords holding the driver-side headlight shield in place. A tab on the shield broke off, necessitating the repair.
Chapter Business Procedure
Gold medalist high school team from Gloucester County Institute of Technology (N.J). Front row from L to R: team members Lauren Minore, Allison Eisenhart and Payton Neeley. Back row L to R: Kate Young, Shannon Ferguson and Victoria Yorio
Photographic Exercise (Photex) of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS as she heads for Lisbon, Portugal. Picture: PO(Phot) Ray Jones
HMS ILLUSTRIOUS this morning sailed into Lisbon, Portugal. for a brief operational stand down. Having just spent the last few weeks at sea on Exercise Deep Blue this foreign run ashore is most welcome to the ships company. These images were taken from a seaking helicopter from 771 Naval Air squadron. The ships company were formed up on the upper deck in Procedure Alpha, with Merlin helicopters from the MCAG ranged on deck.