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Akaka Falls, a 442 ft. tall waterfall. Akaka is the Hawaiian name for this feature, suppossedly one of the highest falls in the world.
Location:11 miles north from Hilo, Hawaii.
Technote: 4 exposures digital blending (DRI) manually in order to spread the light seamlessly. It was bit challenging to capture the head-to-tail of the falls as you know 442 ft. is lot...however I got a good spot to place my tripod...LOL :-)
Note: If you want to buy the largest size photo, please do send mail to my flickr account. Unauthorized copy/reproduction is prohibited.
Another shot from Brighton.
I'm now back from a fabulous trip, albeit too short, trip to London, England. I'll probably keep dipping into the trip shots for my next few posts... ah, the memories.
TechNote: This is a combo HDR shot.
fresh from the magical glass workshop kiln of my partner Heidi Roizen. I am soooo happy with how it turned out (I'll add build shots in the comments below).
I cut all of the glass to a 15" circle, and went for an oxidizing blue under strip with mixed-translucency blue over-strips. At the crosspoints, the under strips stay blue because they are shielded from air by the over melt. I used the red dichroic glass sparingly. And as a bonus, they look like yummy strips of bacon! Thanks Heidi and co. for showing us how it's done.
Here are some technical details on this supercooled fluid in a translucent trance.
it has been a long time since I have posted here. Been mostly on instagram....but here I am. back with a PRO :D
We drove to Holland on the Lake Michigan shoreline last night to catch the sunset which was not terribly interesting. But as we about to leave, this freighter pulls out of the shipyard there and back onto the lake. It's a coal hauler for the power plants.
Technotes: HDR of course using PhotoMatix, 24mm on a full frame Canon 6d.
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Of this photo, the American Astronomical Society Meeting writes:
"Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime [from] 75 feet away.
[ It represents ] ...the typical distribution of galaxies in space, because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in all directions.
[ The view shows ] ...at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution."
hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/01/
Two parts of this statement play into the arguement for the 'basketball' shape of the universe. *
( No doubt, the Hubble was pointed to a space between the galaxies which are 'close' to us, in order to get this dense shot of objects which are far beyond them. What puzzles me is how can the Hubble get a steady photo when it is moving at 17,000 miles per hour around the earth? )
Several pages of diagrams and details will follow later.
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- The first helpful part in the statement is: .... "the visible horizon of the universe." this is useful because it refers to the fact that we cannot see all the way out.
- In the nerf ball model, we are seeing most of the universe.
- In the basketball model, we are seeing a tiny fraction. Not seeing everything is an important element of the basketball description: we may be too far inside the skin to be able to see the hollow.
- The second helpful part is: .... " the universe....looks largely the same in all directions." This conforms to the idea that we are in a uniform portion of the cosmos; not near an edge of the skin or any other unusual feature.
[ don- note the change in how the idea is presented: i used to lead with text and follow with diagrams; now i lead with pictures, then text, then diagrams. ]
Yashica Mat 124G. Japanese 6x6 TLR.
This camera had the problem that the Shutter Release Button was unable to trigger the Copal shutter when focussed at infinity.
First step in opening the front is removing the Collar of the Release Button (see green arrow).
I read (too late) in one of Rick Olesons Technotes that's best to first lock the Release Button by turning the Locking Lever to the red L position (see red arrow).
There are 2 pinholes in the Collar so you need a special pinfaced spanner for that. I used an adapted circlip spanner. Be sure that you use a well fitting tool otherwise it will slip and degrace the Collars face. Turn ccw.
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This is an existing example of the hollow core idea. The eleven shells around the exploding star are due to the fact that the star did not eject its mass continuously, but in separate pulses. Each pulse creates a shell of mass that appears here as a ring, followed by nothing until the next pulse, 1,500 years later.
In the Basketball model of the cosmos, we get only one pulse- the instantaneous Big Bang- followed by nothing. We live somewhere in the single skin of the hollow basketball universe.
Nasa source page:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_211.html
I didn't get this from Nasa. Thanks to Flickr member, 'lakerae', who found it for us:
Boys, you will never look at this Indy Torso the same way ever again. Ever...
Tans. Browns. Fashion spreads...
Some different lighting for you all to enjoy and ponder.
Flash bounced off a white surface 500mm to the left of frame. Spot focus on minifig, though the dino/croc statue was in the same focus plane (dunno if I like it or not...)
EXIF:
Focal Length: 15mm
F-Number: F/4
ISO-64
Metering: Center Weighted Average
Shutter Priority
EV -2 step
Minifig is standing on the corner steps of a long term Civilian Modular project.
We drove to Holland on the Lake Michigan shoreline last night to catch the sunset which was not terribly interesting. But as we about to leave, this freighter pulls out of the shipyard there and back onto the lake. It's a coal hauler for the power plants. The lighthouse is one of my favorites. It's nickname is Big Red although it is seriously small compared to the behemoth!
Technotes: HDR of course using PhotoMatix, 24mm on a full frame Canon 6d.
On our last day in Zimbabwe, we took a short safari in a neighbouring game reserve. As we finished our visit, the owner guided us to a 25 meter high rock outcrop where we watched the sun set. Spectacular sight and only one of the great paradoxes of Zimbabwe - absolute beauty amidst absolute chaos.
TechNote :: This is an HDR image created using Photomatix Pro. I also masked in the trees using one of the original exposures. This image was created with seven photos shot at different exposures.
The dots are Platinum atoms. I think we are looking at a chrystal matrix.
Quantum Physics tell us that there is no « stuff » in the Universe; no matter; only energy pulsing at different rates.
This image serves- at least metaphorically- to help us see this idea.:
We see a ring pattern like ripples on a pond.
But the pattern would not show if the atoms were not found where the rings cross each other.
You could say that the rings make each other visible, or that the atoms make the intersecting ring pattern.
And you could say that the rings are not really there.
[ i have accidentally erased (twice.!) the rest of this text.
It is about how energy is ‘squishier’ than matter, which may make sense of how all of the stuff in the Big Bang could bang out of a tiny space. That it was not stuff that blew out of there; it was energy which ‘unsquished’ out of there.]
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New pages on this that start with an Ambasssdor’s tie.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/49033632943/in/datetake...
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In the YouTube video, Les Paul asked Paul McCartney if he influenced the Beatles. *
His influence reached as high as that, but made alot of geeky kids happy, too.
Here, we see some of Les Paul's recording equipment, which inspired me to get a Wilcox-Gay tape recorder in 1952. Eventually, the setup included a second W/G recorder * and an amp from Dad, which I think he made. He also made my 4 track sound mixer. ( You see the mixer on the table, behind the script I’m reading. )
The insert shows Les Paul and Mary Ford in their garage studio.
In the main photo, I'm recording narration for "Electronics in Music"- a taped radio program as a science project that covered the new techniques used in music, which were mostly invented by Les Paul.
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"Electronics in Music" won the Boston Science Fair and tied for first in the Massachusetts Science Fair in 1954 or 55. This was senior year of high school. Probably on that basis, I was accepted at Boston University for science but chose art instead and went to the Museum School. I loved working in recording and sound effects- which I had done with George Bowley even in grade school in California. But the pull of picture making was too great. George Bowley and Les Paul met, via ham radio, and had a regular correspondence, starting when George B. was in the eighth grade. We were both living with our parents in Guadalcanal Village on Mare Island, across from the mainland and Vallejo, California.
After Europe, in San Francisco, I went back to special effects and, over the course of 8 months of night work, made 20 minutes of the sound track of a feature film.
The job was often to create a sound track for silent AP film footage of the Vietnam War. An example of the work i did was to bring sound to silent war footage of American troops, walking in shallow water. To create this effect, I waded through the reeds of a pond, carrying a Nagra tape recorder, and then staggered and multiplied the recording, so that one person became several.
The film is "Sons and Daughters", directed by Jerry Stoll. (1967 or 68.)
Music by Jon Hendricks and the Grateful Dead.
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* - having a second recorder is key:
- with two recorders, you can mix a pre-recorded sequence with a live sequence.
- using the above photo, of me working, as an example, i might be reading copy into the second recorder, while the first one adds music or sound effects into the mix.
- once i have THEM together on one tape, they could be mixed with a third track ( such as the ME 109 attack on the house, which interrupted the reading a few seconds after this photo was taken. haha ).
New Links.:
Recording background music off the TV.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/31907524355/in/photolis...
Biting celery to make the sound of a tree falling.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/3824387477/in/album-164...
Les Paul.;
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/3818400299/in/album-164...
- the Beatles had a state-of-the-art recording system. It is now considered primitive: an Ampex 4 track recorder.
- Beatles producer, George Martin, was doing what could be done with two recorders, but doubled. he could add as many tracks as he wanted, using the method described with 2 recorders, but sound quality was lost with each transfer ( each dub ), because analog tape has a powdered iron coating that is vulnerable to mechanical wear. also, electronic noise was added with each transfer.
- the loss is bad with 2 recorders; half as bad with 4, and gets better and better as the number of available tracks goes up.
- loss of quality was the nemesis of analog recording.
- nowadays, 'digital' recording is, literally, a matter of recording numbers.
- so, if you make a recording of '84482262', it comes out '84482262', with little or no loss of quality. sweet.
- on the other hand, my son George Cochrane, who is a professional recordist, loves (analog) vinyl records and he often releases his own music on vinyl:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/49057681/in/set-1036916/
- go figure.
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July 2, 2014.
- [ George (George Cochrane) wants to use this photo on Facebook. haven't found the original 8x10 yet.
- have to remember that i wanted the Les Paul inset to show up strong, so i faded me from the waist up. ( It was made to look like there is fog in the room, to allow the Les Paul / Mary Ford photo to dominate the image. Note the difference in the brightness of my forehead and Mary’s. )
- just started to try to fill in the insert with Photoshop but the plaid wallpaper is too much to work up in perspective on the side wall.
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* - Paul with Les.:
Mr. Holstein isn't a MacOS or iOS developer. He comes to WWDC at the invitation of his niece, Clarus. She works for Apple and has been a major figure in their developer community for years and years.
The two have a pretty close bond. Back in the 80's it was a pretty big taboo for a cow to date a dog, so when Mr. H's brother started dating Mabel, it didn't matter that she was a Dalmatian and could almost even "pass"...it caused a bit of a rift. Mr. H was the only one among his siblings who truly welcomed Clarus' mom into the family.
Which isn't to say that he himself didn't have some doubts, early on. Still, he came out for a "meet the family" dinner at Applebees. It was immediately clear to him right then and there that the two were in love. Yes, the couple would face many challenges from a narrow-minded Society, but in the end, love is all that really matters. Mr. H enjoys joking that Mabel is "obviously one of those exotic 'show' breeds of cow."
Mr. H's sisters could never get past their prejudices, and have mostly cut Clarus and her parents off. Oh, well. It's their loss. What a shame, to never know such a fine young woman as Clarus the Dogcow.
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This is not a cutaway view. It is an effort to show the whole sphere from the outside.
In this view of the universe we see a place that is darker in the center. The edge-on view of the thick skin of the sphere is the densest and brightest part. ** The idea is that there are no stars inside the sphere because the Big Bang is long over.***
The thick skin is the matter that was blasted out- very briefly- at the Beginning. The matter and space expands out from its point of origin, followed by nothing in the middle, where it all started.
It may be apparant already that this description suggests that the universe is much bigger than the standard model.
The detailed text for this idea goes back to early 1998. it will be added here later, along with several cross-section diagrams.
This idea started, seeing an artillary shell hit the ground in World War One footage.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/49636981213/in/datetake...
August 31, 2007. NEWS FLASH:
The NPR program, "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, covers this subject today:
"Finally, a look at an unusual part of space. Scientists studying several maps of space have found a space nearly a billion light-years across that contains nothing -- no stars, gas, or galaxies, and not even any of the mysterious dark matter that astronomers believe makes up much of the universe. We'll talk to two of the astronomers who performed the study about their work and what it might mean to find nothing."
Truth is, I missed the broadcast and it will be a couple of days before the podcast is available, but does THAT stop me? ha !
Only problem, is the hole sounds too small- only a billion light years across. Even so...
Here is the link:
www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Aug/hour1_083107.html
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* A basketball is used to illustrate this shape for its hollow interior and thick skin.
The skin is shown even thicker here for graphic clarity.
** The illustration shows the complete sphere, though it may appear to be sliced through.
We can see the skin of stars as it curves out toward us. It becomes transparent toward the center as the stars become less and less dense.
The next page shows a real image with many rings that also appear to be sliced through.
*** Another way to put it is that the pulse of the Big Bang was instantaneous and ended almost before it began. Scientists call the event a 'singularity'- a calming word for anything that makes little or no sense to us. The intuitive question is, 'how could all that stuff be in such a small space in the first place?', and, 'how can all that stuff burst out of there in virtually no time at all?'
There may be an answer in quantum physics: there is really no ' stuff ' in the universe at all; only energy, vibrating at different rates. So, if it is only energy- not stuff- maybe you can squeeze it all into a tiny space and maybe it can all burst out in no time at all.
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A recent science program on YouTuibe...
« The Cosmic Scale ».
In the one minute segment at counter 18:25, we see something like this idea- that the universe is spread around the outside if the expanding sphere of the universe.
That there is nothing in the middle.
And that the center of the sphere is the locus of the Big Bang.
That all fits.
Next, i have to find if this is accepted nowadays, or just this guy’s idea.
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Here we see an old pole-mounted fire department call box (retrofitted with call buttons for both the fire department and the police) accompanied by two different types of lights indicating that a call box is nearby.
The older, presumably nonfunctioning, light is mounted on a scrolled bracket that would have once supported an old street lamp. The newer light is the orange-pink cylinder — the thing shaped like a can of tennis balls — on top of the modern street lamp.
(To ward off potential confusion for anyone who starts inspecting street lamps more closely, I should note that you can find on just about every street lamp a shorter cylindrical thing, often colored orange, that resembles a laundry detergent cap. These have nothing to do with call boxes; they're photocells that turn the lamps on and off depending on the amount of daylight. In fact, if you look closely at the newer call box light above — or the one pictured more clearly here — you'll see that it has an orange photocell perched right on top of it.)
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FRIEND OF LES PAUL-
1950.
The kid on the right in the picnic picture is George Bowley, who met Les Paul, via ham radio when he was about 13. The correspondence continued through George's adult years. He viisited Les and Mary now and then.
George and I were living on Mare Island, in Guadalcanal Village. ( that’s Ross Holland in the middle. )
George had a wire recorder...
www.ebay.com/itm/326564879973?chn=ps&norover=1&mk...
... which included a broadcast oscillator. This meant that he could record and have a local radio station as well ! So we made science fiction programs, usually based on the movies of the time. Then, he would broadcast them. *
Later, George was an officer in the Navy- a chip off the old block. i assume that- like my Dad- he specialized in electronics in the Navy. We lost touch during the early 60s, around the time we left for Europe. **
Photo by Mom.
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HOORAY !
Dec. 6- George Bowley contacted me and we're back in touch ! After the Navy he is associated with this company:
Looks like he is still involved with guitars and recording gear and there is a picture of Les Paul at the bottom of the home page. The text refers to, ..." a 55 year relationship with guitarist Les Paul whose friendship and example have encouraged our interests in earlier multiple recording and current multitrack recording efforts."...
This word, 'multiple' used to refer to a small thing- adding one track at a time. By the time of the Beatles, there was such a huge thing as a four track recorder. That is now thought of as 'small' by present day standards.
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CELERY FOR WOOD-
1954.
This is about one of the audio techniques: speed change, which is being demonstated in "Electronics in Music" with the sound of a tree falling:
The felling of a tree falls into four typical segments of audio:
1) CHOP, CHOP, CHOP
2) "TIM-BERRRR"
3) KERR-UNCH, and then
4) CRASH.
In the audio demonstration on the tape, the 'crunch' sound of the fibers of the tree starting to break as the tree starts to lean away, was really the sound of biting into celery, but slowed way down. The altered celery segment was smoothly cut into the sequence and no one noticed.
Other examples of this are the Cornell University bird recordings- particularly, the song of the Thrush, slowed down to reveal incredible complexity. Those were made in the early 50s.
More recently, recordings of the songs of the Humpback Whale have been speeded up. They sound like bird calls.
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The celery photo was part of the table display at the science fairs, which included diagrams to illustrate the ideas in the taped program, which was playing all the time.
Mom's pencilled notes on the back of the picnic photo:
"Don 13 yrs, Ross, & George- Picnic near OLd Mill. St. Helens, Calif. Jan, 1950."
Ross- in the middle- is a familiar face from that time, but I don't remember his last name. [ Dec. 2010- contacted by George. He says Ross's last name is Holland. ]
I do remember that Ross and I put playing cards in the spokes of our bikes with two other guys and we rode in formation, making a holy racket. It felt like we were in airplanes.
Another friend was Jim McDermott, but I'm not sure where we were at that time.
I've had no luck trying to find out if the Congressman was a Navy kid. Anyone know? He looks right and is the right age. (and I hope so, because i like his politics.)
* - when George Bowley moved back to Provincetown, Massachusetts he continued to broadcast and knocked out the reception of NBC in the area. He could have been in trouble, but when NBC found out it was a kid, they asked him to stop- or change the frequency- and let it go.
** - when Les Paul died and i started on these pages, i tried to google George with no luck.
- info for search options: his family home was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, U.S.Navy, i tried to guess what his rank might be: i tried Captain, but there is also Ensign and Lieutenant and Commodore and Admiral. wish i could find him. he would get a kick out of this. [ see above. we're back in touch. ]
Dec. 14, 2010- George and i are emailing back and forth, now. he explained, today, that he finally located me- not through my own name, but through Les Paul's name. He says, [ i searched ], ..." "George Bowley Les Paul" and got back some different and interesting links. I clicked on the third one down and nearly fell off my chair. There was a picture of you, me & Ross "...
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Later, George Bowley sent me photos that showed that he was a jet pilot for the Navy. geez. I'm guessing it was the F-80. No, that's much too early. I wish it was the Panther jet. Love that plane with the special tail, but probably something later.
New quanset photo by Stefani Peltier.
George commented on the quonset hut that it ..."was great at night- it really kept out dust and grunge and while it unfortunately didn't keep out heat during the day, it did retain it nicely at night which helped with the cold."
Sept. 8, 2007- see page 7 and 8 about new crew circle houses called 'Hexayurts'.
I'll add a couple of ideas to the pot on insulation and comfort:
Multi-skin-
- like the double-skin tent, the Land Rover has a double roof: it has little metal pegs that hold a sheet of metal a half inch above the actual body of the car. The purpose is to cast a shadow on the roof and cut the heat in the car.
- a way to save money to apply this idea to the quanset would be to orient the building so that a minimal part of the roof would have to get the double wall. seperating the walls might be done with light insulation sheeting. there would be no actual air space between the walls but the heat of the sun would be slowed down abit. bubble wrap sheeting might allow some air flow. there may now be anopenwork sheeting that is stiff across its thickiness. If so, the outer canvas would not squash it flat. that would allow actual air flow. but the main thing is to get a shadow cast on the inner layer.
- another saving on roof materials for the quanset might be to simply use 'polythene' sheeting as the inner layer on the part of the roof that the sun touches. that stuff is so cheap that you would have essentially the same square footage of the cloth roof material as you did on this one: the shady part of the roof would remain in one layer (see diagram), using the existing cloth both in that area and as the top layer (of three) in the sunny part.
Insulating from the outside-
- the above is regular insulation. another approach would be to work on heat and cold from the outside of the building before it gets in.* by hanging the kind of camoflage netting- used to hide tanks- above the roof. this would cast a shadow on the roof, cooling the quonset, but if you walked too far away from it you would never find it again. the simplest example of outsulation would be a cover with a single layer that has 'hairs' that stick up all around. the hairs would cast some percentage of shadow on the surface. the hairs could be thick enough and rubbery enough that they would 'want to' stick up.
Sept. 10, 2007- how about use the frame of a quonset or a dome to separate the two layers of cloth? that is, hang the inner layer on the inside of the frame, maybe in sections.
Sioux tipi-
- an entirely different solution would be to make a very large tipi called a meeting lodge. as George knows very well, the tipi is not a tent; it is a very sophisticated and comfortable dwelling in both hot and cold weather. this is an ideal structure for Burning Man but the first year (the year you built it) would be a big job. the poles for the dog era tipi are about 15 feet long; for the horse era tipi, about 21 feet long; for a meeting lodge, about 35 feet long. (See next photos.)
- when people walk into that round shape it blows their minds; if anyone brings a good tipi to BM you'll see alot more the following year.
- later, there will be some detail on tipis in a set call "Good Stuff", which will also cover the Chinese sail and pot belly stoves. So there.
Go underground-
- and for the ultimate outsulation, see this:
- see also the underground drawing on page 4 of this group.
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* regarding the idea of insulating from the outside: there is a term for that, which i thought i made up. just heard that the term goes way back and is copyrighted. woops. i've found it in two places on this page and removed it. i'll keep looking.
Truth is Beauty will be the second product of what is now called, "Bliss Dance Studio" on Treasure Island.
TB is going to get its own Flickr icon, which will resemble the one used for the six Bliss Dance sets:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/3948570395/in/set-72157...
What you see highlighted is the beginning of the removal of the background (in Photoshop) to isolate the figure. The lower section of the legs will 'stand' on the playa next to the same group of people- though they won't come so high on the legs as they did, because the new one is on its tip toes.
Here is the product of this work:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/5435155462/in/set-72157...
As for the shots of Lloyd, he's on our minds.
Photo of Truth is Beauty has been converted to black and white to match the poster icon.
Photo by Sidney Erthal.
Thanks to Sidney for permission to use his photos.
Source page, presently on Marco's site:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150140748321788&set...
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- the figure was scaled an inch to a foot, so that i could see how big people would be next to the legs. the photo was cropped from the toes to a little above the high point of the hands ( to compensate for perspective ). then the trimmed image was made 55 inches wide to get a grid for scaling the people. in this image, the people are scaled at just above 5 1/2 inches, next to the big figure.
- the image was placed horizontally for the purpose.
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don- when you figure out where this photo goes, put this at the end of the text of the previous page:
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These vault lights used to be colorless when they were installed at the tum of the twentieth century. The glass used for this purpose contained manganese as a decolorizer. Ironically, over time the manganese reacted with the UV rays of the sun, turning a lovely amethyst color. See also here: www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/technotes/ptn47/intro.htm
and here: www.glassian.org/Prism/Vault/index.html
Page 1 of 3 in the Good Stuff set.
Les Paul- June 9, 1915 to August 13, 2009.
He inspired me and a friend, from the eighth grade, on. The friend got to know him.
For those who don't know the sound of the inventor of the famous solid Gibson guitar and the inventor of overdubbing, go to iTunes and play:
"How High the Moon" ( The singer is Mary Ford. )
and
"The World is Waitiig for the Sunrise".
Thanks to Wikipedia contributor, "didi46" for the free use of the photo.
Les is already on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/maurymccown/1262153705/
And check this out:
www.flickr.com/photos/backstagegallery/sets/7215762190742...
See Les and Paul:
www.flickr.com/photos/25477219@N06/3818860639/
Gibson guitar lover:
www.flickr.com/photos/13379117@N04/2142628837/
Mark Forry sent this NYT page. Scroll down to a 15 minute video:
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&am... paul&st=cse
YouTube, 10 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP7qI5RVtxw&NR=1&feature=...
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Shout out to George Bowley if you're out there !
Les was one of our heros around 1950. We did science fiction radio shows, using alot of his techniques: speed change, overdubbing, reverb. But he never made a rocket blast with a vacuum cleaner !
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[ hello, didi46- i have cropped the bottom off the photo to make it more squar-ish. Flickr shows square images larger than vertical rectangles.
- also i brought up the light on Les and brought it down on the spot.
Page 2 of 4 in the Lately set.
After the visit, Geo brought the little standup Mac from 1984 or 85 back to his house to play with. There is a song on it that I wrote for Kaylah when she was little.
He's going to get it off of the- 20 MEGABYTE- hard disk so that I can give it to her again. It came to her originally on a cassette tape that is probably long lost.
He writes in a Tweet:
Blast from the past! My first mac- twitpic.com/52lyd
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A little history-
The big computer before the Mac was the "Commodore 64". Yes that means it had 64K of RAM, not 64 megs: 64 kilobytes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
So, the Mac came out in 1984 with twice as much RAM- 128K.
And it had pictures on the screen and had an affordable printer that printed text and pictures, called the ImageWriter.
The second or third issue of Macworld magazine hailed the second stand-up Mac with no picture on the cover- just " 512 K! " in big letters.
The original Mac, introduced the 3 1/2 inch disk in a hard case- the predecessor of the CD. It was the old standby for years. The original Mac also introduced the mouse.
It also introduced the elegant graphic interface, designed by Susan Kare- one of my heros.
The Mac was a quantum leap.
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The Mac shown here is the Macintosh Plus- the third model in the series. It introduced RAM expansion from 1 to 4 megs.
This was my second or third, 'stand-up' Mac.
I created the first, scanned, image software for the original Mac, called "Clip 1".
It was maybe the fiftieth or the seventy-fifth piece of software that came out for the Mac, shipping in June of 1984.
This was a time when Apple was clamoring for software. It was not credited in the First-Hundred list because the distributor slipped up. This irked my ego. I wanted this credit.
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/3534536732/in/set-1132426/
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There is nothing wrong with this picture. This is a normal part of reentry.
A Nasa video of a shuttle reentry at night, shows the craft streaking over Houston like a huge shooting star. *
There is also footage, like this picture, from inside the cockpit during the critical point when the shuttle encounters heavy air and the tiles come into use.
I couldn't find a still photo, so i used a regular landing shot to create an impression** of what the pilots see- and don't see- out the windshield at this point.
They can't see through this flare at all and radio communication is blocked by it.
All they see is wavering orange plasma from the shuttle's passage. At this point, the shuttle is descending like Superman- twenty times faster than a speeding bullet.
Mar. 25, 2008-
Found a cockpit view like this on YouTube, added in August, last year. At first, they are looking out the back at the plasma, arcing out behind them. The view to the front starts at the 1 minute point of the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOieURpnbm0&feature=related
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* Here is a photo of the shuttle over Texas by a masters student in the physics department at UT Austin: www.flickr.com/photos/pjsmith/137889743/
I have seen shuttle reentry twice here in Santa Cruz, right above us, but it was daytime, when the shuttle made landings southeast of us at Edwards. And the sonic boom of the shuttle rattled the living room windows on a third occasion.
** The Nasa photo i worked from was taken just before landing, and has normal light out the windshield. The plasma light illusion was done in Photoshop in a two-layer treatment: the windows in the photo were erased and rendered transparant, not opaque white.
Then the photo was laid over a large prepared layer of streaked orange. So, in Photoshop, the windows became real windows again; you really look through them to the orange. Neat.
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If you are seeing this in the "Photographs" set, it is here for beauty, seperate from subject matter; something about the way that linear perspective works upon a symmetrical shape.
Copyright 1984 by Don Cochrane.
The boat is a standard old 'Super' model Folbot but with a modified Chinese junk sail. It has a Chinese style, enlarged, rudder with a pressure hole. It has Danish style leeboards, flat-foil shaped for added lift to windward. (I saw later that the hulls of some Hobey Cats have this feature as well.)
The design of the simplified sail came from Doug Martin. I wrote to him after he had a cover article in WoodenBoat Magazine. (#48, 1982). He wrote back enthusiastically with alot of ideas and information. He also told me about H. G. Hasler, the British sailor who was in alot of cross-Atlantic races with a successful modified Chinese design on his famous boat, "Jester".*
Just as a venetian blind can be raised, this sail can be lowered quickly. I needed this feature for safety in an emergency because i had to be able to control the sail with lines from the rear seat of the boat.
But i think the photo is gorgeous. The odd color- which I left alone- is caused by the fact that the roll of film sat for many years before it was developed.
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* I also heard of Hasler from sailor, author and friend, Hal Painter ("The Captain Nemo Cookbook Papers"). I learned of the rudder and lee board ideas from Hal as well. Friend, Jeff Bickner bought the hardware; friend, Dan Landry helped me with knots for the rig and glassed my leeboards with System III epoxy.
Tag search Hal Painter, Jeff Bickner, Dan Landry for photos.
This is the Cessna 150/150.*
The one she flies is fitted with floats** for landing on lakes. I asked her about landing on choppy water. She said there's a limit but also talked about the design of the float, which has a step up where it touches the water, half way along. This introduces air into the equation and helps the landing. The step is just under the water in this picture. More on this later.
By the way, the early private planes were plug ugly, but that glorious wing design that we see here and the other Cessnas, changed all that.
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* One of those 150's refers to higher horsepower. The usual is about a hundred.
These are horses that can fly and swim, of course.
** What Michelle calls a "float" I always called a pontoon. Maybe that is out of date, but I like the word.
In the movie with Harrison Ford and Anne Heche, it is pontoons that they are dragging in the water. They ain't draggin' no floats.
Photo source: Norcal Aviation:
images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.norcalaviation...
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A guy named Vinay Gupta * has been working on efficient housing for disaster relief. Last year and this, he applied it to shady and cool housing for Burning Man. In fact, the first dwelling came from the playa. The key word is 'hexayurt'. Start at YouTube to look into it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcuhF2urFo&mode=related&...
( Hexayurts are not square, of course. These drawings are simplified for graphic clarity. )
George and I were talking about this and thought that hexayurts were not big enough for Burning Man, except to have a cool place to get away from the dome. But I started thinking that having many small buildings would afford the privacy that is at a premium on the playa.
What you see in the drawings is a square village, a hexagon village and an octagon village.
The square has three houses, the hexagon has five houses and the octagon has seven houses. One space in the circle is left open for an entrance.
The hexayurts are tied down with a combination of tape and tension lines. See 'tape anchors' on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rJslCVtUqM&mode=related&...
The crew circles all have courtyards. I imagine them with a double-layered sun shade overhead.
These drawings show the shade cloths attached to the peaks of the houses, using the same tape anchor system as for the houses. If the high winds of the playa make this impractical, there is another way:
There are unobtrusive places to put poles to attach the shade cloths. See next page.
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*
- Vinay Gupta is a man of East Indian lineage with a mild Scottish accent. ( you cain't hardly git them no more. )
- just saw a video where Vinay says, ..."The first hexayurt came from the playa."
hexayurt.com/ yay !
LINK STATION:
- two photos of Vinay's hexayurt show it pegged down with tension lines:
flickr.com/photos/cpan/1348797731/
and
flickr.com/photos/tonx/1332624694/
- this one is not lashed down yet but it is a clear shot and includes another important disaster relief resource:
www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- the balloon shape by the hexayurt is an inflated T1 satellite antenna that can be carried on a plane and set up anywhere.
At first, i thought it was a balloon that was going
to go up high and lift an antenna with it. But it looked too heavy for that.
Then it flashed on me that the satellite antenna is the
lower half of the the balloon: the top half is
'transparent' to the signal. The top half is only
there to shape the bottom half by inflation. Go here for details:
- here is a very clear picture...
reachback.org/tides/101007/SSL22115.JPG
... at an event on quick set-up in disaster situations.
- this event also focused on the hexayurt and drew considerable interest from the U.S. Army:
reachback.org/tides/101007/SSL22119.JPG
2012 note- the Army used hexayurts in the disaster in Haiti:
vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/kew-bridge-ecovillage-...
- photo shows a hexayurt and a satellite ball:
hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
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- i once wrote a paper on the Gupta period of Indian sculpture.
- the Museum in Boston, where i went to school, has some good, Mathuran, Gupta pieces. they often reflect the influence of Greek sculpture because of the passage of Alexander through the area. in this example, note the flow lines of the cloth:
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George in his red hat and life vest. This is 1984, so he is about nine.
I had alot of help on this design. Dan Landry suggested the addition of telltales, made of yarn, which we see here. They are like wind arrows in the weather report. They tell you how your sail is doing.
From photo by Jeff Bickner.
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Tech notes-
The long, tan shape below Geo is the port leeboard, with the flat, lee, * side facing us. It is not painted yet, so it shows the color of the fiberglass coating and the System III epoxy that Dan Landry helped me with.
Some of the upper portion of the board has wood cut out, which was replaced with foam, to make the board lighter. Marco helped me with that. The low edge of the board has a plug of lead to make it bottom-heavy. ( Same for the rudder. )
The board is flat on the lee side and foil-shaped on the weather * side. This is an advantage that you cannot have with a center board or keel, which must be symmetrical. + There are two lee boards, one on each side of the boat. The leeboard system allows you to give the boards opposing shapes: On starboard tack, you lift the board on the right and drop the "lee board", which- in this case- is on the left. On port tack, you lift the board on the left and drop the one on the right side. This affords some level of "lift" to windward, which you could not get with a keel.
The shaping of the lee boards was a big deal on the weather side of the board, which had to be foil-shaped, like an airplane wing.
It helped alot to be shaping plywood, because the layers of the plywood laminate created a sort of 'topographical tell':
If you were not consistently sanding down the shape, the layer lines would tell you with wandering curves: you knew you had it right if the layer lines were all straight.
( If the user cannot picture this, let me know in the Comment window, below, and I'll put up a page on it. )
The idea to use leeboards on the Fu Sang came from author, Hal Painter- an old friend and a blue water sailor. He referred to Dutch river boats:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeboard
A new page on this shows the hulls of the Hobie Cat which are flat-foil shaped:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/6777687812/in/set-72057...
The name of the boat- Fu Sang- comes from a Chinese legend: in ancient times, a junk in a vast storm, was blown across the Pacific to an unknown land, which is now considered to have been California.
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* - the lee side is the downwind side of the boat; the weather side is the upwind side.
- for example, if- on land- you are caught outdoors in a high wind, you might look for a wall or a building for shelter. it is the lee side that you choose to get out of the wind.
- port and starboard-
- the port side is the left side of the boat. where the terms come from:
- Viking ships did not have a rudder: they used a "steer board", which was a large oar on the right side of the ship. you would never dock the boat on that side because it would damage the steer board.
- so you docked against the other side of the boat- the left side, which became known as the "port" side of the ship.
- my Dad told me that a way to remember that the port side is the left side is to use this phrase: " We left the port. "
+ - years ago, you could watch the America's Cup on ESPN. i was thinking that keels could adopt the flat-foil advantage by filling part of the keel with oil or water, which could be shifted from side to side with a hand pump according to the tack, in order to give lift to windward.
- i meant to write Dennis Conners about it… one of those things i never did.
Error "Some problems occurred during installation", "Component install failed", or "Shared components failed to install" (Adobe Creative Suite 3)
Tried these but failed (a-friggin-gain):
Possible reasons for these errors include, but are not limited to:
o You may have insufficient disk space on the hard disk that you are installing to, or on the hard disk Windows is installed on
o Your virus protection or firewall software might have invalidated the installation.
o You previously installed a beta or pre-release version of an Adobe Creative Suite 3 application.
o You have left over files from a previous installation.
o Google Desktop is installed on your computer.
o Previous versions of Flash Player were not correctly uninstalled.
Solution
To determine the cause of an installation problem, there are two tools referred to in this document that you need to understand. The Suite installer creates installer log files which can be viewed to narrow down the cause of the installation failure. Some of the solutions below refer to these installer logs. Explanation of the installer log files is at the bottom of this document in the section, Understanding and Analyzing the Creative Suite 3 installer log file.
The Event Viewer is a Microsoft utiltiy that collects data about errors that occur as you run Windows. You can use it to diagnose issues with the Windows instatller.
To open the Event Viewer:
* In Windows XP: Click Start > Run and type in eventvwr then click OK.
* In Windows Vista: Click Start > type eventvwr into the search window and press Enter.
Select Application. Look for yellow warnings and red errors in the Type column, that also contain MsiInstaller in the Source column. This data might point you to an application or service that is conflicting with the installer and causing the installer failure. This is data that you might need to send to technical support.
Windows Event Viewer also displays errors that can direct you to the correct solution. Several of the solutions below and in other Knowledgebase documents are based on specific error numbers found in the Event viewer. Open the Event Viewer, find the error data in the list below, and then go to the specified solution or Knowledgbase document.
Error and Solution list:
* For error 1406 or 1402, see Solution 1
* For error 1603, see Solution 5.
* For error 1401, error indicates Adobe Illustrator failed to install, please see Knowledgebase document kb402035.
* For error 1714, please follow the steps in Knowledgebase document 320310.
* For error 1321, please follow the steps in Knowledgebase document 333331.
* For errors 1704 or 1500, please follow the steps in Knowledgebase document 332507.
* For error 1335, 1311, or 2350, please follow the steps in document kb400806. Although this document is written for Premiere Elements, the steps are valid for other programs.
* For error 1310, see Solution 8.
* If all the CS3 applications install except Acrobat, more than one problem might be the cause. If you had beta or pre-release software installed, follow the steps in Knowledgebase document #kb401574 to remove any pre-release Adobe software on your computer. If you did not have any pre-release software on your computer, check the Event View for all of the above listed error numbers, and work through the appropriate solutions and/or documents for each error number that you find.
Solution 1: Check the Event Viewer for error numbers.
If the component listed in the error message is Adobe Acrobat, please use the steps above to open the Event Viewer. Look for error numbers 1406 or 1402. If you find one of them in the Event viewer, follow the steps inTechnote 329137, until you are able to reinstall Acrobat.
Solution 2: Disable your virus-protection software and all firewall applications before you install Creative Suite 3, or any of its point products.
Virus-protection software exists to stop errant applications from installing on your system. If your virus-protection software believes your Adobe application is a virus, it will affect the installation, and the product will not be installed correctly. If you haven't turned your virus-protection software off before you installed, uninstall your Adobe product, disable your virus-protection software and firewall, and reinstall.
The Version Cue installer installs a service called Bonjour, which searches the network for other Bonjour-enabled machines. If your firewall is unaware of this protocol and blocks it, installation can fail. Turning off your firewall while installing prevents this from occurring.
Solution 3: Verify that you have sufficient disk space and if not, clear disk space on the target drive or install to a drive with sufficient disk space.
Refer to the System Requirements information for the Creative Suite you are installing. Make sure you are installing to a volume the that meets the minimum requirements. System requirement information is listed on the Adobe.com product pages www.adobe.com/products.
Solution 4: Remove pre-release Adobe software.
Follow the steps in Knowledgebase document #kb401574 to remove any pre-release Adobe software on your computer.
Solution 5: Uninstall Google Desktop
If error 1603 displays, uninstall Google Desktop, then install Creative Suite or the Adobe product.
Solution 6: Check the installation media.
Creative Suite 3 installer may fail if the Creative Suite 3 disk is bad or damaged or if the computer drive is defective.
To check the installation media:
1. Check the DVD for dust or damage. Clean the DVD with a soft, lint-free cloth. Check the back of the DVD for warping, smudges, scratches, or discoloration. If you find any of these, proceed to step 2 in this Solution.
2. Copy the contents of the DVD to your hard disk. If you get errors during the copying, contact Adobe Customer Services at 1-800-833-6687 for replacement media. If you do not get errors, proceed to step 3.
3. Try installing on a different computer. If the installation fails, then contact Adobe Customer Services at 1-800-833-6687 for replacement media. If it is successful, then the issue could be with the filesystem or disk drive on your original computer. You can run disk utilies, such as Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools) to clean up and organize your hard disk. If you think you might have a damaged hard disk, you can run the chkdsk/f command, but make sure you back up all your files first. and contact Microsoft support for more information about using this utility.
4. Attempt a desktop installation. For more information on doing a desktop install with Creative Suite 3 see Adobe Technote kb400609.
5. If the software was purchased via ESD, re-download the software. A file damaged during the download process will cause errors during installation.
Solution 7: Remove previous versions of Flash Player.
If your error in the installer log includes the following, you need to remove previous versions of the Flash Player:
1: 0 2: Install Flash Player 8 Plugin.msi 3: {91057632-CA70-413C-B628-2D3CDBBB906B} 4: {91057632-CA70-413C-B628-2D3CDBBB906B}; 5: 0 6: 1 7: 1 8: 0
Error 1714.The older version of Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group.
To remove Flash Player:
1. Remove any log files in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers folder. These files will contain or end in "log" or "gz." You can delete them unless you are currently using them to locate error messages, in which case, move them out of this folder, into a new folder on the desktop, so they are still accessible.
2. Download and install the Microsoft Cleanup Utility from support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
3. Choose Start > Run and type the following: T {91057632-CA70-413C-B628-2D3CDBBB906B}. You should see a command window flash briefly on screen.
Note: The product id {91057632-CA70-413C-B628-2D3CDBBB906B} varies, depending which version is blocking the install. Use the product ID from the installer log entry.
For example, your command should might look something like this "C:\Program Files\Windows Installer Cleanup\MsiZap.exe" T {91057632-CA70-413C-B628-2D3CDBBB906B}
4. Repair or Install Creative Suite 3.
Solution 8: Update the user privileges to files.
If your error in the installer log or the Event Viewer includes the error message, "Windows Installer Error 1321 "The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify the file C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust\AcrobatConnect.cfg," update the user privileges to the specific folders. Here's what this error might look like in your installer log file or Event Viewer:
Action 11:21:48: InstallValidate. Validating install
Action start 11:21:48: InstallValidate.
Error 1321.The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify the file C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust\AcrobatConnect.cfg.
Action ended 11:21:48: InstallValidate. Return value 3.
Although this error might indicate another path and file, most likely the Macromed folder will be the folder that needs its privildges changed.
Windows XP Professional:
1. Choose Start > My Computer.
2. Chose Tools > Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab.
4. Uncheck the "Use simple file sharing..." option at the bottom of the Advanced Settings section.
5. Click OK.
6. Choose Start > Run.
7. Type %SYSTEMROOT%\system32.
8. Right-click the Macromed folder and select Properties.
9. Select the Security tab.
10. Make certain that Administrators and SYSTEM is listed and permissions for security is set to full control.
11. Click Advanced.
12. Check "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects".
13. Click the Owner tab.
14. Select "Administrators".
15. Check on "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects".
16. Click OK.
17. Click OK on the warning that displays.
18. Right click on the Macromed folder and chose Delete.
19. Reinstall Creative Suite.
Windows XP Home:
1. Reboot into safe mode.
2. Restart Windows.
1. Press F8 before Windows starts, when you see a message such as "For Advanced Startup Options . . . .
2. Select Safe Mode from the list of startup options.
3. "Safe Mode" should appear in each corner of the desktop.
* If "Safe Mode" doesn't appear in each corner of the desktop, then repeat steps a-c.
* If "Safe Mode" does appear in each corner of the desktop, then log in as administrator of the local machine.
4. If a dialog box indicates that Windows is running in Safe Mode, then click OK.
3. Choose Start > My Computer.
4. Chose Tools > Folder Options.
5. Click the View tab.
6. Uncheck the "Use simple file sharing..." option at the bottom of the Advanced Settings section.
7. Click OK.
8. Choose Start > Run.
9. Type %SYSTEMROOT%\system32.
10. Right-click the Macromed folder and select Properties.
11. Select the Security tab.
12. Make certain that Administrators and SYSTEM is listed and permissions for security is set to full control.
13. Click Advanced.
14. Check "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects".
15. Click the Owner tab.
16. Select "Administrators".
17. Check on "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects".
18. Click OK.
19. Click OK on the warning that displays.
20. Right click on the Macromed folder and chose Delete.
21. Reinstall Creative Suite.
Windows Vista:
1. Choose Start > Run.
2. Type %SYSTEMROOT%\system32
3. Right click on the Macromed folder and select Properties.
4. Select the Security tab.
5. Make certain that Administrators and SYSTEM is listed and permissions for security is set to full control.
6. If Administrators and SYSTEM are not set to full control click "Edit", then click through the UAC elevation prompt and make the necessary changes.
7. Click Advanced.
8. Click Edit... and click through the UAC elevation prompt
9. Check "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects".
10. Click OK
11. Click the "Owner" tab
12. Click Edit... and then click through the UAC elevation prompt.
13. Select "Administrators".
14. Check on "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects".
15. Click OK.
16. Click OK on the warning that displays.
17. Right click on the Macromed folder and chose Delete.
18. Click Continue, and then click though the UAC elevation prompt.
19. Reinstall Creative Suite.
Command line (you can use this method instead of the above methods for all versions of Windows):
1. Choose Start > Run, and then type cmd in the Open box. Click OK.
2. Use the following commands; include quotation marks and press Return at the end of each line (also make sure to enter spaces between /T, /E, /C and /G in the third line):
Note: To complete this operation on Windows Vista you need to be using an elevated command line. To do this chose Start > Accessories > Right click on Command Line and chose "Run as administrator".
c:
cd "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32"
cacls "Macromed" /T /E /C /G Administrators:F
cacls "Macromed" /T /E /C /G SYSTEM:F
exit
Solution 9: Update the registry keys noted in the error log.
If you receive a Windows Installer Error 1402 or 1406, and the error message: "Could not write value to key" or "Could not read value to key" displays during install, then update the registry keys noted in the error log or the Windows Event Viewer .
This is an example of the error that displays in the installer log and in the Windows Event Viewer:
[ 6240] Fri Apr 27 18:02:12 2007 INFO Error 1406.Could not write value to key \Software\Classes\CLSID\{1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.
[ 6240] Fri Apr 27 18:02:12 2007 INFO Action ended 18:02:12: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
[ 6321] Mon May 01 13:04:06 2007 INFO Error 1402.Could not read value to key \Software\Classes\CLSID\{1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.
[ 6321] Fri May 01 13:04:06 2007 INFO Action ended 18:02:12: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Note: Perform the steps in this solution after you complete the Adobe Creative Suite 3 installation.
The Administrators group listed below is the default local administrative group for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Disclaimer: This procedure involves editing the Windows registry. Adobe doesn't provide support for editing the registry, which contains critical system and application information. Make sure to back up the registry before editing it. For more information about the registry, see the Windows documentation or contact Microsoft.
There are two tasks you can perform before you do these steps to back up your current system and registry:
* Create a restore point on your computer by choosing Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.
* Back up your registry immediately after you enter the Registry Editor by choosing File > Export, and exporting a back up copy of your registry with a name you'll remember to a location you'll remember.
Dec.16, 2006- NEW INFO-
Regarding the HDTV changeover:
Recently learned of a way to save big bucks on a new TV: don't buy a TV; buy a monitor.
If you have cable, you don't need a TV at all; just get a good monitor.
Dan Landry suggested this one, presently on sale for $129.00: the Hanns·G 19" 8ms DVI:
www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.as...
Feb. 11, 2006-
I had this HDTV set for a few days and took it back. i'm leaving this page in for awhile. It contains information on the national changeover from analog to digital TV. ]
The FCC says the changeover is in 2009: "Television stations serving all markets in the United States are airing digital television programming, although they can continue providing analog programming until February 17, 2009. At that point, broadcasting on the current (analog) channels will end and most of that spectrum will be put to other uses."
FCC website:
www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html
There was contradictory info from KQED (PBS in San Francisco) that gave Jan. 1, 2007 as the cut-off date with the caveat that there may be an extension.
06feb13- just now saw something that sounds pretty firm:
"Arlington, VA, February 8, 2006 – The following statement was issued today by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in response to President George Bush signing into law legislation setting February 17, 2009 as the date U.S. broadcasters must end transmitting analog television signals. This act establishes a hard date for the final step in the nation’s transition to digital television (DTV)."
Here is the address of the site:
vnboards.ign.com/cohcov_community_forum/b22731/94956314/p1/
The set * I had is pretty: note the rectangle flares abit at the sides.
I found problems with the picture. If it is too bright and you turn it down, only the dark and medium toned shots get darker and the picture pops too bright every time a lighter shot comes on. Also, the blue screen between channels is too bright. The old Emerson set takes all of this in stride.
In 2009:
1- the sets will be cheaper.
2- flat screen picture problems will be worked out.
3- if you have cable or a dish, you don't actually need a television set at all; a monitor will do just fine.
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* Maxent 26" LCD, flat screen, "HD ready" TV.
MX-26X3.
#TV, #digitaltv, #HDTV,
This infographic shows the details of the first 20 technotes columns I have written for the Journal, the regional morning paper for the North East.
This is the A4 spot colour version, i'm also going to produce a longer version to include some keywords.
Page 9 of 10-
The camera looks straight up at the ceiling in this photo and reveals how the balustrade was painted.
If the posts had not been elongated as we see here, they would have looked wrong from across the room. In that view, the long posts appear to shorten, due to the optical effect of linear perspective. Then, the illusion works. *
See the previous photo for comparrison.
This is the accurate color of the painting in daylight. Many of the other photos were taken with the lights on.
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* - just found a parallel to this sort of 'forced perspective' **
www.flickr.com/photos/bramhall/383962815/sizes/o/in/set-7...
- note the main doorway of the beautiful building. on either side are false alcoves with a doorway and a lion. false, because there is no alcove. if you stand in front of the doorway, you get the effect, as intended; if walk up on the bridge and look back at the 'alcove' on the left, the illusion is lost.
- here, incidentally, is a picture of Ann, standing in front of the lion on the left:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/2496978055/
- this is probably the day we brought Marco home from the hospital ( which is the 'beautiful building'. )
** - i'm playing with the term, 'forced perspective', here- mindful of the fact that the term is normally reserved for special effects in movies:
- Daryl Hannah was big in 'The Fifty Foot Woman' because she was positioned closer to the camera than the people who were supposed to be right next to her. in fact, the people were far from the camera.
- line it all up just right with a wide focal range and you get normally sized people and a big woman.
- this is also how they did alot of, 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'.
The Series 1 Land Rover (1948-1958) was designed for use in Africa.
It had a double-skinned "Safari Roof" made of steel, raised on hundreds of half-inch pins.
A lion could lie on it. The purpose was to leave the actual roof of the cab in shade.
There are many pictures of lions on Land Rover roofs. Go three photos down here for an old one.:
www.formidablemag.com/land-rover/
and
www.tripadvisor.com.ph/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g1918623-d...
The drawing below shows Luigi's double domes.
He likes the idea of leaving every-other panel open and staggering them from the top to the lower dome. So, where a panel is present in the top dome, it is missing in the lower one, and visa-versa. So it would still have (dappled) shade, but with more ventilation.
Then I told him about the idea to seperate the domes by two or three feet and have an oculus at the center of the upper dome to encourage a convection currant.
I think he liked that idea ( but maybe just because I was pronouncing the word, 'oculus' as it would be said in Italian. haha. )
Even so, I was trying to draw his idea with the blue triangles in the drawing above.
( I only made the lower one smaller because it looked cool. )
I haven't been able to find any geodesic domes that are shallow like this: only rib domes. But rib domes weigh alot more. Luigi thinks there are shallow g-domes, and g-domes are famous for using the least material to do the job.
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Pools not protected:
There is some babble about the design of the Fukushima plant- the GE Mark 1. This design is deployed in 23 plants in the United States as well.
But there is one thing:
Whereas the reactors are protected with double containment, the spent fuel pools are not protected at all. That decision would make sense if spent fuel did not pose a danger, but it does:
When the fuel rods get older they are moved out of the reactor to a point just above it, in pools of water. Spent fuel rods are too old to serve in the reactor but that does not mean they are weak. Also, there are usually many more of them in the pool than there are in the reactor. They should be treated with more respect but they sit there with nothing but a tin roof above them.
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The uranium pellets are lined up in long tubes of zirconium. When some of the water boiled off in these pools, the pellets heated up and caused the zirconium tubes to oxidize. They become brittle and cannot hold the pellets, allowing them to fall to the bottom of the pool.
In this process, the oxygen was sucked out of the surrounding water, leaving the hydrogen, which exploded in units 1 and 3, in the first days of the crisis. This blew the top off of those reactor buildings (top photo). It was known that zirconium would react this way to extreme heating, but the pools were given this cheaper, unprotected design in the Mark 1 reactors in Japan and America.
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The lower photo shows the damage in reactors 3 and 4.
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It should be noted that none of the danger described here involves a nuclear explosion. The danger is more in the area of a 'dirty bomb'- a traditional explosion that scatters nuclear material.
The fuel pools are shown in this video at counter 7:48:
www.realfarmacy.com/the-urgent-fukushima-video-everyone-n...
The photo of the building and the high location of the fuel pools is shown at counter 8:00.
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Nuclear advocates don't like comparisons of the Mark 1 design in Japan and the Mark 1 in America.
They say that our plants are updated and improved...
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h9mJ-ZQI1jwvG...
… but I have not found anything specific about the unprotected pools.
If the American advocates had a point, i think they would be specific about the pools.
It was much cheaper to build the pools without containment. It would be hugely expensive to give the pools this protection in a retrofit.
Photo sources:
Top- Reuters photo source:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthquake...
Bottom- Reuters photo source:
www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110316&t=2&...
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Thanks to Stacey for help with this.
Title- no title.
Description- bold black lines, floating in color- sort of a totem image.
File name- best scan is "PT 90dec3 300.jpg".
Completion date- . Dec. 3, 1990 (identifier).
Medium- alkyd resin on prepared panel with India ink.
Dimensions- 11 1/8" x 8 1/16"; 28.4 x 20.5+ CM.
City- Santa Cruz, California.
Copyright 1990 by Donald Cochrane.
WHERE- here.
This painting was professionally framed by friend, George Leys. It is framed with a matte and the whole image is visible, even though the frame used was of the usual, overlapping, type.
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- in my book, this painting is correctly framed, because all of the edges of the image are seen.
- and i always mean, positively, to SHOW the edges: how the canvas and the paint 'arrive' at the edge. this is a natural border that is a pleasure to see.
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Flickr note-
- if you want to see alot of my finished work, in the whole Flickr site, type "don art".
- you have to use the quotation marks. otherwise, you get unrelated stuff.
This lodge was about twenty feet across; it slept about 16 people around the ledge and at the fire level. It is the ultimate "'insulated from the outside" dwelling: warm in winter with a four inch fire; cool inside on hot days. The cover is four inches of earth and that's saying alot. If you dig the pit correctly the earth from the hole is the amount that you need on top.
From the outside, you see a small hillock- the kind they build in playgrounds for kids to sit on. When we were gone we hid the entrances. Once a guy drove up onto it on a motorcycle and stopped on top. He never knew.
This drawing is in my earth lodge website at:
web.archive.org/web/20041128195757/californiaearthlodge.t...
Go there and click the Dutch Flat button.
Here is a top view of the rafter system:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/5183763892/in/set-72157...
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Tech note-
Those of you who were in at the beginning of the Mac, will recognize a printout from the first 'end user' printer that did pictures: the Apple Imagewriter dot matrix printer. The pixel size is 72 dpi.
I was an Apple developer back then (in 1984) and did the first scanned image disc for the Mac, called "Clip 1".
I was inspired by the FISH image that was in the Clipboard of the first, standup, Macs. Up to then, all i had seen on computer screens was green letters on a black background. The fish was scanned in by Bill Atkinson, the developer of MacPaint. All graphics programs since, stand on the shoulders of that one.
When George was about eight, he and I met Bill Atkinson at a computer convention. He taught George how to use MacPaint.
[ don- put in the shot of young George using the Mac at the dinner table. ]
After all the Afghan footage on TV in 2001, I became intrigued with the distinctive Afghan hat and made a very bad copy for myself. I know it is bad because now I have a real one. Frank is wearing his hat upside-down to compensate and comes off much better.
Frank is the founder of the chant group, which will be highlighted in the "People" set later. Here are two examples of his work:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/50145975/in/set-917035/
and:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/100886387/in/set-1331782/
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More on 'humans are artists':
There is another, more recent, example: the special features for the movie, "Finding Neverland", about the author of Peter Pan, shows both Dustin Hoffman and Johnny Depp in interviews, saying, essentially: ...."be an adult, be mature, but never grow up".
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[ don- don't remember why i put poster notes here. maybe temp. storage.
Midsummer's Night
Digger Poster announcing a free "Be-In" event for the summer solstice in San Francisco.
- 1968.*
- Design- Don Cochrane.
- Poem- Lenore Kandel. The poem is hidden. It appears around the edge of the trees and is the source of much of the imagery. There is a lot of hidden stuff in the foliage as well. (Can you find the scales?)
- Dragons mating figures in it, so they are blended into the intertwined tree trunks. I don't remember why. (Note- Nov. 2, 2005- Don't see it in the text of the poem but Lenore spoke of it to me in the initial discussion for the poster design.)
- the grass under the feet of the centaurs is the word, "yes", handwritten over and over. yesyesyesyes
- This is hard to see because the poster was reduced a bit from the master, which still exists. If this poster were to be printed in a new edition, I would print it larger, the size of the master. That way, the poem and the yesses would be easier to read.
- There are a few originals left.
- The printing of the first edition was funded by Alfonso Pardinas (tilde over the n), owner of Byzantine Mosaics in San Francisco. I had some money coming for design work but I think he would have paid for it anyway.
- This poster is seen briefly in the film, "Nowsreel" by Digger and playwright, Peter Berg.
Peter is now doing environmental work. His website is: www.planetdrum.org/
The film segment was shot on the day of publication of the poster. When Peter was filming, the posters were being passed out and he got someone rolling up their copy.
- At the time, the posters were in people’s houses and in shop windows.
The first formal exhibition of the poster was thirty-five years later in October of 2003 at (westside) Coffeetopia in Santa Cruz, California.
- Lenore Kandel still lives in San Francisco.
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* The date on the poster doesn't give the year; it only says "June 21 Fri".
The year, 1968, was verified by checking the '67 and '68 calendars: June 21 fell on a friday.
A simple full colour infographic showing the first 20 technotes columns by david coxon published in journal the north east's morning paper.
Page 40.
Jesse and Zac, Pete and Marco.
These modern helmets have batteries, by the way.
There is a light sensor that instantly darkens the window in the helmet when the flash starts. This allows the window to function, otherwise, as dark sunglasses, so you can see to set up the weld, quite well, with the helmet down.
In the old days, you saw nothing if you dropped the helmet over your eyes. You had to get ready with the helmet up.
Pete is encouraging the kids to draw. No surprise, there.
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- Lloyd did a shout out for help for this occasion: "Weekend Warriors needed for welding and partying. Join us in the studio 11-7 Sat & Sun. "
This is a Sioux tipi from the 'dog era' before the horse arrived, hence the smaller size- about 13 foot in the long diameter.
With me sitting in the doorway it looks smaller than it is. The interior photo gives a better idea. That is George and Jeff Bickner inside.
Photo on the left by Jeff Bickner.
October, 1991, in our back yard.
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(The tipi is well pitched, but without a liner. I'll eventually detail the refined engineering behind a tipi with a liner: this is high living. No 'tent'- even with a shade cover- can touch a real tipi.)
See notes on the liner here:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/6698386603/in/set-1223240/
The set of the smoke flaps is just right for a wind from the west (the back). This detail is what movies usually get wrong.
The Sioux smoke flaps have a detail added by Cheyenne women- the extension at the bottom of the flaps which allows the rain to drop on the cover, a few inches below the bottom of the smoke hole. Otherwise, the rain can fall just inside the doorway.
Written recently, another way about the Cheyenne flaps.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/6802911477/in/album-721...
The flap additions are easier to see on that page.
[ don- both photos were from Jeff's film camera, so i don't have the neg for either of them.]
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(This is a newspaper photo, reworked on an original, 1984, Mac.) Here is a follow-up on the wooden sword: www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/8649562420/in/set-72157...
George had an extensive career as a child actor, starting in school and moving on to The Actor's Theater and the youth troupe of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. They were known as , “ The Little Eyases “, after the troope of child actors who appeared in “Hamlet”.
He was almost in a movie as well. The director and staff were briefly planning to re-write a part to fit him. Then they came to their senses, realizing that they had no schedule or money left to do that.
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The youth troupe of Shakespeare Santa Cruz is known as The Little Eyases. (See Hamlet.) George and the troupe were doing "The Taming of the Shrew" on the round stage at the Performing Arts Theatre on the UCSC campus.
In the middle of the play, there was word of a bomb scare. The theater was evacuated. It turned out that the alarm had been tripped by a baby in a back pack.
Twenty minutes later everyone was back in place and the kids started where they left off as if nothing had happened.
Attending this performance was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Paul Whitworth, with his friend, actor Patrick Stewart.
Stewart was said to have been very impressed with the cool of the young troupe.
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The previous page shows heavy rods, jutting through holes that are cut in the upper plate. Marco gave me one of the 'holes' from the plate- 3/4 inch thick, cut with a water jet.
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Ben said- in order to get a 90 degree cut in the plate- the cutter has to be pitched out, away from the plate, as it goes around. This 'hole' in my hand is noticeably beveled by this process, the steel, sacrificed for the purpose.
The exaggerated bevel is needed because the jet still cuts away at the top of the slot as it heads toward the bottom. Therefore, the cut is always wider at the top and, gradually narrows toward the bottom.
If that is not clear, let me know and I'll add a page with a drawing.
Thanks to Ben Babayco for this detail.
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Test re-writing of these notes:
The water jet does not make a cut with the same width, or kerf, from top to bottom. The jet keeps abrading- effectively cutting- the slot above, as it goes down. So its effective cutting area is conical.
The water jet does not cut a 'straight' cut; it does not make a cut that is the same width from top to bottom. This is because, once the cut is started and the jet starts down the slot it is cutting, it continues to abrade the opening it made at the top.
In this case they are cutting a hole in the plate, so they pitch the jet toward the center of the circle. If it was the hockey puck in my hand was the product they were making, they would pitch the jet away from the center of the circle.
they were making from the plate stock,
Dad's boat returns to California for an overhaul during the war.
Pete asked me how long it is. I didn't know, so I guessed 150 feet. We were both whistling at that. (That would put it from Western Drive, down the driveway and across to Frank's front door.)
Just checked, though: it is: "Length 308 feet". * See next page.
See this photo of Dad visiting Mom in San Francisco, which must be from the same occasion: www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/123513689/in/set-1643998/
12.8.05- Michelle saw this photo today. Her first thought was, ...."the stuff on that deck is producing alot of drag." I said, yes: the speed above water is 21 knots; submerged, is 9 knots. She said water is about 600 times denser than air. (Yes. I would think the difference would be 21 knots and 2 knots.)
Michelle can land a float plane on water, so she has had to think about that.
( Click "all sizes", above the photo, to see a larger size. )
U.S. Navy Photograph from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
Tech note- There is a brilliant design element visible in this photo, especially in the larger view:
If you look at the hull just below the gun you can see right through the boat to the other side. That is bacause that part of the boat- the part that looks like a boat with a shaped bow- fills with water when the boat is submerged. It is only there to afford a deck surface and to part the waves. The part that keeps the water out is a pressure tube which is visible on the lower sides of the boat. (Not in this photo. Go the the Skipjack website for that: www.navsource.org/archives/08/08184b.htm ) This site shows the sea trials of the Skipjack out of New London, Connecticutt, where I was born.
See also this unusual photo from a site in Argentina: it shows the sharp bow of a sub, meeting the bulge of the pressure tube at the bottom:
www.flickr.com/photos/10008049@N07/969880081/in/pool-subm...
Dad was the radioman on the boat and the radar man ( I don't know if they also used radar when on the surface. It may be that they only used sonar ). He was taken off the boat before the war ended and was sent to Washington D.C. I wonder if this was because of radar. I don't know what he did in Washington, but he _did_ teach radar and transistors at Treasure Island in about 1951. (See next page.)
Submarine service was some of the most dangerous work in the Navy. It seems possible that the Navy cycled experienced, technical people off of the boats to train other men.**
U.S. Navy Photograph, # NH 99193 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
More: comparing tactics for fighter pilots and technical people in submarines:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/27801890392/in/datepost...
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* The Skipjack is a diesel and looks very different from a nuclear sub. Even so, it looks very modern to me. But it was approved for construction in 1934 and commissioned in 1938.
What people did without computers !
** I heard recently on the History Channel that the Japanese made a strategic error that cost them their best fliers before the war ended: they kept their pilots in the air until they died. The American policy was to pull experienced pilots back to train new ones.
[ don- put the photo of the Skipjack entering Havana harbor in here and send it to the Skipjack site. they don't have anything like that.
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The playa soil is very hard: one must make a hole with an auger for the pegs.
The exaggerated model for this idea is that you don't necessarily _drive_ the tent stake at all. You could even _drop_ it in a prepared hole.*
The idea came from a discussion with George, who said the hard part of dealing with tent stakes on the playa was not driving them, but getting them out. **
The hole could be the same thickness as the stake, or slightly wider or even abit narrower. But the playa soil is very hard: you need a hole.
A pre-drilled hole that was half the width of the peg might be enough to relieve the over-pressure*** that causes the problem.
Another part of the solution would be to make stakes from smooth rod stock, not re-bar. The highly textured surface of re-bar ensures that the driven peg is sort of glued into the ground. Re-bar is only cheaper than smooth stock if you don't count in the resulting chiropractor bills.
Government photos of different auger digging tools:
soils.usda.gov/technical/manual/images/fig4-10_large.jpg
A 5/8 inch auger costs about thirty bucks:
www.goodmart.com/products/85414.htm
A cool knot that sets variable and precise tension on ropes is the tautline hitch:
www.iland.net/~jbritton/tautlinehitch.htm
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* - to some extent, I am joking to make a point. the rope could pull the stake out of a loose hole. but I suggest that a pre-drilled- and loose- hole could serve the purpose if the rope met the stake at 90 degrees or less.
** - when i suggested to George that they could bend over the top of the re-bar to give a handle to twist the stake out later, they had already tried it. he said that when the top is bent over, it makes it harder to drive because it tends to spin under the hammer.
*** - 'over-pressure' refers to the fact that a peg does not have to be hard to remove, in order to fulfill its purpose.