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Deron put an 8 Track tape in and it worked fine! Circa 1968 to 72. What a blast from the past! LOL! [What's even funnier is that we actually HAD an 8 Track tape to try it with--boxes of them in fact!!!] Oh boy!!! I'll have to start photographing even more of this old junk we have laying around!!
Put this wild eagle up to let others see some of the fantastic feather detail these birds have in the wild.
Wave 'em like you just don't care!
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We had clouds and rain both before and after totality, but conditions were nearly perfect in the middle.
'Put off that mask of burning gold
With emerald eyes.'
'O no, my dear, you make so bold
To find if hearts be wild and wise,
And yet not cold.'
'I would but find what's there to find,
Love or deceit.'
'It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what's behind.'
'But lest you are my enemy,
I must enquire.'
'O no, my dear, let all that be;
What matter, so there is but fire
In you, in me?'
William Butler Yeats
Just developed the roll of film I took of Howie's first day. These are some of them... more to come later.
Please DO NOT post my photos on tumblr or similar websites. NO exceptions, unless you receive my consent. Photos easily get stolen that way. I wish it didn't have to be that way but I'm tired of others using my images.
I just put the path in. 300+ lbs of stone, plus plants. Plants are: creeping Veronica, Corsican mint, miniature pennyroyal, and a couple of varieties of miniature thyme.
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GECX ES44AC No. 2005 leads a pair of BNSF C44-9W units on the test track near the GE locomotive assembly plant in Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania. (Scanned from a slide)
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Grandma Kate Spafford and Nana Francis Patchett at Skegness Seaside Resort 1962. This Album was put together by Jean Spafford nee Patchett aka Bunty for her Mother Francis Patchett
I put a little bit of lemon juice in the food processor when I make my apricot slurry. This helps to retain the apricot color in storage.
I put plastic wrap on the bottoms of my pans and spread the apricot slurry about 1/4" thick or less and let it dry. I place the pans in a room that is not used so dust doesn't settle on them.
The fruit roll ups will be dry in a couple of days, or a few hours less if I put this out in our desert sun.
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Dad Goose is guarding while Mom Goose is nesting (you can see the nest on the right hand side, about 1/3 of the way down.) Goslings are due around May 1st.
The loss of Francis Gary Powers’ U-2A on 1 May 1960 underscored the fact that the U-2 was not as invulnerable to interception as originally hoped. If altitude was no longer a defense against Soviet air defenses, speed would be. Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, who had designed the U-2, was put to work with his legendary “Skunk Works” section of Lockheed to develop a very high-speed reconnaissance aircraft to supplement the U-2, named first the A-12—like the U-2’s use of the innocuous “utility” designation, the A-12 would use the outdated “attack” designation, though it carried no weapons. This designation was later changed as the design evolved, to the RS-71; this in turn was reversed to SR-71 by General Curtis LeMay, for strategic reconnaissance.
Work on the A-12/SR-71 was done in the strictest secrecy, although its existence was revealed in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. Virtually everything about the aircraft had to be invented on the spot, and even the tools used in its production had to be specially built first. The SR-71 was built of mostly light titanium, and design specifications were such that normal tools would damage the airframe. Emphasis was made on stealth and especially high speed: the SR-71’s intended normal operating speed was in excess of Mach 3, which at that time had only been achieved with the rocket-powered X-15. To reach this speed, the aircraft would use J58 ramjets: once at altitude, the SR-71 would be accelerated to the point that the airflow over its shock-cone intakes would be forced into the engines at above the speed of sound. At speed above Mach 3, the SR-71 was more or less pulling itself through the air by brute force, with the engines only providing thirty percent of the thrust.
At these speeds, heat was a real problem, as the fuselage would rapidly heat up. Titanium sheds heat better than most metals, and the SR-71 was designed with corrugated “skin” that would easily expand and contract with changing airspeed, heat, and altitude. Panels in the aircraft were deliberately designed to be loose on the ground and contract at altitude; fuel leaks on SR-71s were so commonplace that they were not remarked upon. Even the fuel and black paint scheme (actually a very dark blue) were placed and applied to diffuse heat away from leading edges.
The A-12, and the short-lived YF-12 interceptor, lacked the extended chines of the SR-71; these were used to enhance the aircraft’s stealth techniques to reflect away radar. While in practice this did not work—Soviet radars could easily track the SR-71 through its heat plume—it actually made the aircraft more controllable and gave it increased lift. The SR-71 was not an easy aircraft to fly, but it was considerably easier than the U-2, and was generally reliable unless it lost an engine: the high speeds of the aircraft occasionally caused engine disintegration, which would usually destroy the SR-71. It was also very unstable in bad weather, should it run into any after takeoff or on approach. Because of its high speed, the approach “pattern” for SR-71s to land at their home base of Beale AFB, California, had to begin at St. Louis, Missouri. The navigation system was adapted from that of the Skybolt air-launched nuclear missile, while cameras and side-looking radar was carried in the nose or the chines; these could be swapped out as the mission required. Extensive electronic countermeasures were also carried.
The SR-71 first flew in December 1964 and entered service in 1966—only six years after being ordered, an impressive achievement given its highly advanced nature. It was immediately committed to service over Vietnam under Operation Giant Scale, where its operations were meant to be “secret,” though everyone, including the North Vietnamese, were aware of its presence. Soviet attempts to intercept the SR-71 were not successful: MiG-25 Foxbat interceptors could reach Mach 3, but Foxbat pilot Viktor Belenko later related the “ridiculous ease” that SR-71s could leave behind even the speedy MiG-25. Even later variants of SAMs and increasingly more sophisticated Soviet aircraft still could not intercept the SR-71, which quickly acquired the nickname Blackbird for its paint scheme; its snakelike chines earned it the nickname (and later callsign) Habu from Okinawans around Kadena airbase, where SR-71s often operated from, after the habu pit viper.
One thing that the Blackbird could not outrace was the cost of operation: it required special JP-7 fuel, which in turn required specialized KC-135Q tankers to refuel them. The tooling for the aircraft had been destroyed on the order of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967, which meant the 32 operational SR-71s had to be maintained by cannibalizing either the retired A-12 fleet or other Blackbirds to stay operational. It survived several attempts at forced retirement in the 1980s until the breakup of the Communist Bloc finally brought an end to SR-71 operations in 1989, though developments were underway to equip the Blackbird with synthetic-aperture radar and even more advanced engine designs that could propel it up to Mach 6.
This retirement proved to be short-lived: during the First Gulf War, the USAF keenly felt the loss of the SR-71, which could provide better coverage of Iraq than satellites and was not as vulnerable as other reconnaissance platforms. Over heavy opposition from the USAF (which wanted to channel increasingly lower budget money towards the B-2 Spirit and development of the RQ-4 Global Hawk), three SR-71s were returned to service in 1993. After annual fights between the USAF, Congress, and President Bill Clinton over keeping the Blackbird in service, it was finally retired for good in 1998, except for two aircraft to be handed over to NASA for flight testing. NASA’s two aircraft only lasted a few years longer, with the end finally coming in 1999.
Of the 32 SR-71s produced (including SR-71A operational aircraft, SR-71B conversion trainers, and the single SR-71C “hybrid” trainer, converted from an A-12), 12 were lost in accidents. The remaining 20 aircraft have all been preserved in museums around the world.
This is SR-71A 61-7973, which entered service in 1964, initially flying from Edwards AFB, California to test SR-71 systems; one of the pilots on its first flight was Darryl Greenamyer, who was to later become a famous air racer. It joined the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, California in 1968, and took part in both Operation Glowing Heat sorties over North Vietnam (forward deployed to Kadena, Okinawa) and Senior Crown missions on the periphery of the USSR (forward deployed to RAF Mildenhall, UK). In July 1987, 61-7973 was flying in an airshow at Mildenhall when the crew accidentally overstressed the airframe. The decision was made to withdraw 61-7973 from service and it was flown back to Edwards. It was repaired and placed in storage, but when the SR-71 went through its first retirement in 1990, 61-7973 made one last flight: it captured the transcontinental flight record from New York to Edwards in 68 minutes. It was then retired to the Blackbird Airpark at the entrance to the Skunk Works' Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Because the Blackbird Airpark was closed by the time we got to Palmdale in May 2021, I had to shoot over the fence, which means this isn't the best picture of 61-7973. It is probably the first time I was able to get a full side-on shot of a SR-71, however, along with one of the J58 turbojets alongside. 61-7973 is painted as it would have been during Glowing Heat missions, with only the tail number in red and no USAF markings.
EDIT (June 2023): A slightly better shot of this aircraft, taken in 2023, without the fence in the way.
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Blegh. Not too proud of the editing on this one. Today has been very lazy. All I want to do is sleep.
eerie mist on the ballona wetlands.....
lincoln blvd and playa vista in the background.....
Playa Vista Quicksand
A rare court ruling against the developer puts the kibosh — for now — on a vast Phase Two
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
IF YOU LISTEN TO THE DEEP-POCKETED executives behind massive Playa Vista — a controversial minicity plopped by City Hall planners onto the Ballona Wetlands near Playa del Rey that has swamped Lincoln Boulevard and helped gridlock many Westside intersections — a stunning appeals-court ruling last week halting construction is merely an irritating hiccup.
But in 20 years of legal battles over the biggest residential construction project in city history, whose cheek-by-jowl, $3,000-per-month apartments have ushered in East Coast densities and tiny patches dubbed green space, last week’s decision by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal could wreak havoc on the extensive Phase Two. It couldn’t come at a more uncertain time for developers, or at a better time for Westsiders who hate the hulking, multistory community, as Southern California confronts an iffy housing market — and as some Angelenos begin to decry a crush of overbuilding citywide.
“The modifications are relatively minor,” sniffs Steve Soboroff, president of Playa Capital, pledging unequivocally that Playa Vista “will continue to completion.”
In fact, the 114-page brief written by the three judges on the Court of Appeal is anything but minor. The jurists didn’t just snatch away the keys for the bulldozers, handing the project’s opponents their biggest courtroom victory in roughly two decades. The three judges also ordered the city of Los Angeles to “vacate” long-standing approvals by the Los Angeles City Council for the second and final phase — and to decertify Playa Capital’s massive, multimillion-dollar environmental-impact report.
The court says that the EIR — years in the writing, and which contains hundreds of paragraphs that set off word-by-word fights between federal and local agencies, environmental organizations and politicians — must now “revise” analysis of land-use impacts, “discuss” better preservation at the site, and “identify” and “analyze” the disposal and environmental impacts of wastewater.
In other words, developer Playa Capital, for now, is screwed.
“The court stopped the development cold,” says Doug Carstens, an environmental attorney with the Santa Monica–based law firm Chatten-Brown & Carstens. “It’s a sweeping decision.”
Carstens worked as co-counsel at the trial that culminated in last week’s appellate ruling. At the trial last year, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger found that the city and Playa Capital followed proper approval procedures and that the environmental-impact report was valid. But the appellate court overturned Highberger’s decision last Thursday.
“People have been through a long, hard struggle,” says Carstens, “and they’ve been vindicated by the [state appeals] court.” Sabrina Venskus, who with Brian Acree was lead attorney for the appeal case, adds that from a land-use and planning perspective, “This is an important decision from the court of appeals not just for this particular project, but for development projects all over California.”
From the start, developers, environmentalists and journalists have described Playa Vista as one of the most expensive, highly studied and fought-over mixed-use projects in Los Angeles — with a price tag between $4 billion and $7 billion. After years of negotiations and studies, the 3,246-unit first phase of imposing condos, pricey apartments and $1.9 million homes with postage-stamp yards is nearly complete. The final phase — 111 acres of proposed housing, retail and office space dubbed “The Village at Playa Vista” — now sits at the red-hot center of the dispute.
BY NOW, THE TWO WARRING SIDES are sick of each other. Playa Capital Co. and the city are the defendants in the current lawsuit; the Ballona Wetlands Land Trust, Surfrider Foundation, city of Santa Monica, Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council of San Gabriel and Ballona Ecosystem Education Project are the plaintiffs. Playa Capital has won most of the 19 or so lawsuits over the past 20 years. It wasn’t until 2005 that things stopped consistently going Playa Capital’s way. That year, environmentalists won a comparatively minor appellate-court decision forcing the city to someday fix a methane-gas removal system installed beneath the housing, which sits atop an ancient riverbed and pockets of potentially explosive gas.
Soboroff describes the environmentalists as a “small group of people” who are “extremists.” Rex Frankel, director of Ballona Ecosystem Education Project, counters that Soboroff is a “desperate man” who heads a project that’s “one of the biggest examples of corporate welfare in the history of Los Angeles.”
So when last week’s ruling was handed down, both sides grabbed for their glory. Playa Capital released a press statement touting the appellate court as having sided with “the city and Playa Capital on the vast majority of issues raised,” with Soboroff sniping, “Despite the professional project opponents, we remain confident that the Playa Vista vision will ultimately be realized.”
Frankel sent out a three-page missive the same day, declaring that “the court’s landmark ruling is a major victory for the citizens of Los Angeles, the environment, civil rights of Native Americans, and overall quality of life.” Frankel throws his own verbal jab, saying, “The court didn’t accept the developer’s masquerade about benefits to the public that didn’t actually exist.”
Indeed, the state appeals court was very specific in the three areas that went against Playa Capital and City Hall. Wrote the judges, “The misleading analysis of land use impacts, failure to discuss preservation in place of historical archeological resources, and failure to properly analyze wastewater impacts rendered the EIR as a whole deficient.” Those problems “collectively are not severable from the project as a whole. The City can achieve full compliance with CEQA [the California Environmental Quality Act] only by vacating the project approvals that were based on the certified EIR and revising the EIR to remedy these deficiencies. Only then can the City . . . grant the project approvals.”
“It’s a very thorough, well-supported opinion,” says Frank P. Angel, a highly regarded Santa Monica–based environmental lawyer, who is not involved in the case. “It requires definite measures that need to be followed up.”
Angel believes construction will be delayed several months, at a minimum, to fix the environmental-impact report and then guide it through a City Hall approval process that includes a public-comment period, planning-department hearings and council meetings — all potentially contentious and heavily lobbied. “A rush job on this EIR won’t do,” says Angel. “It’s not a matter of one or two months.”
Steve Soboroff, though, sounds like a man who doesn’t plan to satisfy the appellate court. “The idea of now going back and changing that plan is not good public policy,” he says, “and it’s not going to happen.” He ridiculed the appellate court as having merely “found some flint” — small issues in the EIR upon which to base their ruling.
Playa Capital, according to Soboroff, is looking at legal options that might release the project from construction limbo and push it forward. The developer is uncertain if he’ll seek an appeal with the California Supreme Court or request a rehearing with the appeals court. The city, according to City Attorney’s Office spokesman Nick Velasquez, is “still reviewing its options.”
Frank Angel and Doug Carstens, however, note that the state Supreme Court considers only 5 percent of the appeal requests it receives. And since the appellate court’s ruling was “not published,” meaning it doesn’t set any precedent for other cases, the Supreme Court will probably be even less interested in Playa Capital’s appeal. “It’s highly unlikely,” says Angel.
In the meantime, Soboroff says, Playa Vista workers will face job cutbacks, and Westside renters and buyers will have to wait longer for the Village’s new housing, slated to rise between the 405 freeway and what remains of the wetlands.
“[The Village] is for working people,” Soboroff says excitedly during a phone interview. “It’s work-force housing!” When Rex Frankel hears these things, he can only laugh. “For Soboroff to claim he’s for the workingman is ridiculous,” he says with a chuckle. “It’s a super-rich man’s community.”
It’s still unclear if the appellate court’s ruling means the end of development at Playa Vista. Frankel, of course, hopes so. Soboroff says no. Eric Sussman, a real estate expert and award-winning lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, also thinks not, citing pressure for housing on the Westside and Playa Capital’s tenacity.
“There hasn’t been a roadblock they haven’t encountered,” says Sussman. “I doubt it would kill the project entirely. I would be very surprised.”
Then again, the environmentalists haven’t gone away either, and now they’ve had their first big victory in the court of appeals, following their more modest victory over methane control. Frankel, who’s been fighting the Ballona Wetlands battle for 22 years, calls it “karmic payback.” The momentum, so long on the side of Playa Capital, may be shifting.
I put my pen lines down first then watercolours. I stared in the shadow area first which is new to me. I find if I paint the shadows first then do pen lines I get very lost and lose the shape of the drawing.
For my It's Friday Put your Feet up group - being a home school teacher is hard work. I enjoyed this moment - too much!!!
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Improv Everywhere is back to the beach with the 5th Annual Black Tie Beach for 2014. The premise is simple, put on your formal wear and head the water. This is my third year shooting Black Tie Beach and it is hands down my favorite Improv Everywhere event. It’s true when they say no one ever looks bad in a formal wear and when you add the beach you are stunning. We took further down the beach from Brighton this time, putting out blankets down in front of the Wonder Wheel. The bigger crowd made for even more fun and confusion. Also this year, the Improv Everywhere family grew a little bit, with a new Agent In Training. Charlie and Cody brought their ten week old son Charles on his very first mission. You MIGHT see a few photos of him out there, since every still photographer and videographer gave them the Red Carpet photo op treatment!
Aaron puts a golden jar with manna into the Ark of the Covenant, as a reminder of the Israelites' wanderings in the desert,(Exodus 16,32).
Verdun altarpiece at Klosterneuburg Monastery near Vienna
The Verdun Altar was made in c.1181 and it is named after the artist & craftsman Nicholas of Verdun. The altarpiece is divided into one central panel and 2 wings and comprises 51 copper squares. It is split into 3 rows due to biblical reference. The middle row shows the life and passion of Jesus, while the adjacent rows above and below illustrate the life of Abraham, Moses, Noah or Samson and other topics fitting to the elaborate program of "parallel" scenes. The Medium used for this work is called champlevé enamel work where a metal base with compartments is filled with enamel.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Verdun
or in German, but with the scheme of the elaborate program:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verduner_Altar
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T-Tot came over to chill finally. He's gotten a little bigger, and his hair's grown a little longer. He says he's growing it for cancer kids. Good for him! :)
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On a walk around the city to catch up on events September 8, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
Dance-O-Mat is a dance floor with coin-operated lighting and sound courtesy of a converted washing machine; a creative mashing of a dance studio or club with a laundromat.
Dance-O-Mat has been created in response to the loss of many of the dance studios and performance spaces around the city.
For More Info: www.gapfiller.org.nz/