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Fairly faint and hardly visually spectacular, Messier 71 is one of the nearest globular clusters to us at 13000 LY and is relatively young at about 10 billion years old.
Admiral Smyth described it in 1844 as… “of a very feeble light”.
It lies fairly close to the edge of the Milky Way so the stellar background is quite crowded which reduces contrast.
For many years, astronomers thought it looked more like an small open cluster than a globular until high resolution spectroscopy confirmed it was a globular.
This was my first image since March with my Esprit 120 scope. I had a lot of trouble with it out of the box back then with a faulty mechanical focuser and pinched optics from an overtightened lens unit - it took me most of last season to sort that out.
Given a 68% waning Moon, scudding cloud, a gusty wind and Saharan sand in the atmosphere (!), I thought I should go for something straightforward and its always nice to bag another Messier object!
I'd planned to get 30 x 2 minute subs over an hour but strong gusts of wind and scudding cloud left me with 25 x subs over 2 hours.
I'm just happy that my stars are round instead of hexagonal and the focuser was flawless.
Technical Card
840/120mm f/7 SkyWatcher Esprit 120ED triplet refractor.
SkyWatcher 1.0 x FF with 2 inch IDAS LPS P3 filter
ZWO ASI2600MC; 25 x 120 second subs, Gain 100, Offset 25, Temp = -10c.
EQ6 pro mount with Rowan belt drives. EQMOD control. Pegasus Astro Focus Cube electronic focuser.
Session control; SharpCap 4.0 on laptop with WiFi link to IPad.
Automated plate solving GOTO via ASTAP (4 secs exp at Gain 350)
FWHM multistar focusing - the best FWHM reading I could get was 4.3 - I didn't know it but next morning, the media had lots of pictures of dusty sunsets all over the UK - Saharan sand suspended in the atmosphere.
40 dark frames
60 flat frames (electroluminescent panel, 3000ms exposure at Gain 0).
Post processed in PixInsight 1.8.9.2.
Light Pollution and Weather:
Gusts of wind and scudding cloud. About half of all subs were discarded.
SQM (L) not measured due to waning Moon.
Polar Alignment:
PoleMaster alignment
Error measured by PHD2= 3.1 arc minute.
RA drift + 3.85 arcsec/min
Dec drift + 0.78 arcsec/min
Guiding:
PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/Primalucelab
240/60mm guider.
RA RMS error 0.77 arcsec
Dec RMS error 0.74 arcsec
This deteriorated later in the evening as it got windier.
I'm thinking of changing to a 320mm f4 guide scope - I understand guide FL should be about 1/3 of scope FL.
Astrometry:
Focal distance: 862.40 mm
Pixel size: 3.76 um
Resolution: 0.9 arcsec/pxl.
Field of view:55' 34.6" x 34' 45.5"
Image centre: RA: 19 53 44.124 Dec: +18 46 01.89
Venus Transits, though not really visually impressive, are extremely rare astronomical events and not to be missed by any astronomy hobbyists. The transits normally occur every 100+ years, in pairs separated by 8 years.
The last two transits were in June 2004 and June 2012 and I witnessed both. Out of the pair, I took the 2012 one more seriously since it would be the last chance in my lifetime. Apart from me, 5 other Malaysian hobbyists took it equally seriously. We travelled all the way down southern to the state of Northern Territory in Australia for best weather, though the event was perfectly visible from Peninsula Malaysia.
The weather god was very kind to us five crazy buggers. We were blessed with crystal clear sky throughout the 6-hour-long transit. We documented the entire show in both white light and H-alpha, stills and time lapses. The H-alpha image posted here is my collaborative work with @William Chin. The sun was a little bit more active compared to June 2004, with some decent sunspots and prominences showing up.
To be honest, watching the transit gets kind of boring after the 1st and 2nd contacts finish. You basically sits there under harsh sunlight for hours, simply waiting for the last contacts. However, you do get some fun if you prepare a big piece of solar film and cover your entire face. By doing this, you see nothing but the sun, dotted with the tiny silhouette of Venus, in your view. You get a feeling you are floating in empty space, and you really can get a sense of how far away the two objects are and how orbital positioning plays a part in such celestial alignments.
Don't forget to mention this trick to your grandchildren, so that they won't get too bored watching the next Venus Transit in 2117 : )
"The visually exposed Empire house from 1818 includes older structures, the stone cellars are probably medieval.
A terraced one-storey house with a basement in a corner position stands on the main square in the centre of the historic centre of the city. It has a rectangular ground plan, a mansard roof with small dormers, two roof ridges run perpendicular to the facade – a hipped roof adjoins the neighbouring house. The roofs are covered with eternit on the outside, and with burnt grooved tiles on the inside. The southern facade to TG Masaryk Square has 5 window axes on the first floor, on the ground floor on the left a window, a glazed entrance to the pharmacy, a window, a passage gate and a glazed display window with an entrance to the shop. The entrance to the passage is vaulted with a compressed arch, flanked by a profiled cornice with a vault and emphasised by half-columns carrying straight entablatures. The other openings on the ground floor are rectangular, flanked by cornices. The ground floor is divided by a bossage, separated from the first floor by a cordon cornice. The floor is divided by fluted pilasters with volute capitals between each window. Under the crown cornice with dentil is a strip with plastic decor, around the windows there are profiled chambranes with ears, window and window sill cornices and plastic decor in the parapet fillings and suprafenestras (festoons, floral curtains, ribbons). The side facade to Pernštýnské Square is designed similarly to the front facade with a bossage on the ground floor and pilasters on the floor, 3 windows on the left side of the facade have a semicircular raised window cornice, 4 windows on the right are distinguished by pilasters on each side of the window (i.e. there are two pilasters between the windows). On the ground floor there is a window on the left and a rectangular entrance to the house, from it to the right there are 4 window axes, windows without chambranes. The narrow courtyard facade is smooth, on the ground floor there is a passage opening vaulted with a compressed arch and a window, on the first floor there are 2 semicircular arched windows. The passage is vaulted with Czech flats into the waists. There are vaults in both shops - mainly barrel vaults, then barrel vaults with sectors, barrel segmental vaults, barrel vaults into traverses and a Prussian vault. A straight staircase vaulted with a compressed barrel vault leads from the passage to the first floor. On the first floor there are flat-ceilinged rooms, some with fabions, the layout has been subsequently modified. The cellars are dissected, barrel vaulted, made of stone, others of brick masonry. The roof is traditional wooden, with hambálky and a standing stool, under the wooden floor of the attic there is a mezzanine that used to be used for storage.
The visually exposed Empire house from 1818 includes older structures, the stone cellars are probably medieval. Apart from the cellars, the most valuable parts are the facade and the vaults on the ground floor." - info from the National Heritage Institute.
"Prostějov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈproscɛjof]; German: Proßnitz, Yiddish: פראסטיץ Prostitz) is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 44,000 inhabitants. Today the city is known for its fashion industry and AČR special forces unit 601. skss based there. The centre of the town is historically significant and is protected by law as urban monument zone.
The first historical mention of the village Prostějovice is from 1141. By the middle of the 13th century, it had developed into an important market village. At that time, German settlers were invited here, who established a new settlement on the site of today's TG Masaryk Square, to which the rights of the original settlement were transferred. On March 27, 1390, Prostějov was granted the right of the annual market thanks to the lords of Kravaře, which in fact became a town. In the Hussite period, the promising development slowed down as the city suffered delays on both sides; the insufficiently fortified Prostějov became easy prey for the troops of Margrave Albrecht and was burned down in 1431. The prosperity of the city was brought about by the establishment of the Jewish city and especially after a year 1490 more than a century-old government of the Pernštejn families, whose property became the town. In 1495, the city began the construction of stone walls with four gates with bastions. Between 1521 and 1538, the townspeople built a Renaissance town hall.
At the end of the 16th century, the city became the property of the Liechtensteins, which resulted in the stagnation of the city's development. In Prostejov the year 1527 printer Kaspar Aorga printed the first book on Moravia. During the Thirty Years' War, the town was devastated and in 1697 a fire broke out, killing the town hall, the school and the church. Then the city began to acquire a Baroque character. Around the middle of the 17th century, mainly thanks to local Jews, the food, textile and clothing industries developed rapidly, and in 1858 the first Czech ready-to-wear clothing industry was founded in Prostějov - the factory of the Mandla brothers, which attracted new inhabitants. In the 1960s, Prostějov was connected by rail with Brno and Olomouc. The 19th and 20th centuries changed the face of the city in the style of historicism and Art Nouveau. Since the 20s and especially 30s, dominating the construction becoming in Prostejov functionalism.
Moravia (Czech: Morava [ˈmorava]; German: Mähren) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806, a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867, and a part of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia founded in 1918. In 1928 it was merged with Czech Silesia, and then dissolved in 1948 during the abolition of the land system following the communist coup d'état.
Its area of 22,623.41 km2 is home to about 3.2 million of the Czech Republic's 10.8 million inhabitants. The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs, the other group being called Bohemians. The land takes its name from the Morava river, which runs from its north to south, being its principal watercourse. Moravia's largest city and historical capital is Brno. Before being sacked by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War, Olomouc served as the Moravian capital, and it is still the seat of the Archdiocese of Olomouc. Until the expulsions after 1945, significant parts of Moravia were German speaking." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Visually, a bona fide steel boot kick in the ass. I love great geometry in architecture, nature, photography and especially in design. 32 inches wide x 18 inches dep x 30 inches tall.
Best Large-A visually stunning sight as night begins to fall is the Canadian tower overlooking the misting Niagara Falls. The tower itself has an eerie outline to it and the colors of sunset add to the dramatics, here in a textured background.
Standing on the Precipice (JHWatkins)
Standing on the precipice-
balanced at junctions,
space and time-
there are no excuses here
no explanations or rhymes.
Locked in lavish rhythm
far beyond the brink-
hid from help or rescue-
on jagged edge distinct.
Weighty voices-
tomorrows bearing-
form forces by the day...
Wound tight
in folds of failure-
by faltering historic foray.
Naked standing truth-
whirl winded and filleted-
open now -
body bleeding-
clean by choice-
ruthless rights parlayed.
Ring round the
restless righteous-
tormented tongues
twisted and advanced.
Weapons trained-
fitting filled-
hopelessness entranced.
New toys
for large little boys-
clicking clocks
in finest fashion.
Positioned perspective-
poisoned possessive power-
from places unimagined.
Whining women-
worn-out white wheezers-
talking days on end-
endless hours
of wasted words-
useless air-
precious spent.
Children torn
apart at seams-
families drugged
and drenched...
Callous toned
nightmares
running wild-
seeds scattered
in the wind.
Lost by generation's
darkened doubt-
aflame
the fearless world-
tossed aside by
hellish schemes-
now rampant-
flags unfurled.
Gone the green
and yearning years-
foundations
fairly laid-
of priceless pearl
in wisdom grown,
crown jewelry
on parade.
But new
the turning earth begins-
choice
once again delayed.
Come cold and calm
courageous men-
run boldly
to your fate.
And stand in
earnest errand bare,
an era
at the end-
now bind yourselves
betrothed and braced-
to finish
without fear. (James watkins 2004)
Tactile paving enables blind and visually impaired people who are white cane users to travel around independently. There are 2 main types of tactile-paving patterns. First, there are the domes (or bumps). The purpose of these is to warn and notify. Here, the domes ran along the edge of the sidewalk, warning me that the sidewalk ends here and the crossing across the road begins. Then, there are the lines. The purpose of these is to lead and show the way. By feeling the lines with my white cane I was able to safely find the spot where the bumps in the ground marked the spot with an audio-signal equipped traffic light on it and I could safely cross the road using a zebra crossing.
Description of the photo:
The black-and-white photo shows the tactile paving on the ground. The tactile paving seen on the photo has bumps and a part of it has lines. The two other patterns are the zebra crossing at the top of the photo and the paving in the lower left corner of the photo.
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The Peacock chair was inspired by a traditional Windsor chair. Wegner exaggerated the arched back, creating a high backed, yet airy chair. The back spindles are flattened in the approximate area of a person's shoulder blades, the visual result of which evokes a birds tail plumage
Visually similar to London Country's ill starred RC class was my personal favourite in the Pooles Coachways fleet, DRF 133E. Unlike the RC's in mechanical specification, it was powered by AEC's 590 cu in engine with six speed manual gearbox and rode on leaf leaf springs rather than air bags. Bought new in 1967, the bus survived to the end of operations with the Poole family and passed to the Mc Cready group who acquired the business. Withdrawal came shortly afterwards and after a degree of procrastination I narrowly missed buying it, finding it to have been scrapped the week before I tentatively inquired. The Willowbrook (Duple Midland) bodied Reliance was to be Poole's last new AEC. It's seen here on a winter Saturday afternoon outside their Alsagers Bank premises.
The most visually striking item on the menu this past Saturday was veggie kebabs. My girlfriend Leslie Anne said she was fixing salmon and green beans for the grill, so I decided not to repeat the asparagus from the weekend before. Eggplant and tomatoes for the grill was an option, but I decided to experiment with veggie kebabs.
My new HEB Grocery store had pre-packaged kebabs with three skewers of mushroom, red and green bell peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, and red onion. With the cutting already done, all I had to do was add olive oil and Montreal Steak Seasoning. Although they grilled just fine, the problem was geometry. Getting enough oil and spices on all the veggies of three skewers was a problem as was cooking them in this colorful manner.
Next time I'll pull out the skewers before dumping the veggies into the plastic bag with oil and spices. That will save me a lot of oil and spices that went to waste. The veggies also cook at different rates. Onion and bell peppers take the most time and should be skewered together. Squash takes an intermediate amount of time on the grill. Mushrooms cook very quickly and should go on last along with some tomato slices that weren't included in the assortment shown here.
I've eaten grilled veggie kebabs before cooked by others, but this was my first attempt. You can also see cornbread, grilled salmon, and grilled green beans. The grilled salmon always works out fine, but the grilled green beans were the best ever. More about those items and my new dress later..
Marilyn Rushton, a well-known Burnaby citizen, is awarded with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship.
Rushton is honoured for her for inspirational life of service to the visually impaired community, her contributions to families with blind and visually impaired children, and her energetic support for the musical community.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0025-001407
Among the most visually impactful projects that a city/regional planner gets to take part in is a facade rehabilitation program. This is a 9-image composite [that took way too long to Photoshop together] of the north side of the 300-block of East Main Street in downtown Ottumwa.
Approximately $1 million of private and public funds went into transforming an entire city block from a blighted, unsafe eyesore into a place where people will actually want to be. The visual results are immediate and the economic results undoubtedly will follow.
The full album of before & after pictures is available on my "other" Flickr account:
www.flickr.com/photos/the_urbanvironmentalist/sets/721576...
*This is a much compressed image so that it is manageable for viewing on the web. The full-size composite file pushes 57MB and is 29,831 pixels wide by 3,367; which at 72 DPI equates to approximately 414.3" x 46.8".
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WHEN I WENT TO DC-8 SCHOOL at the ABX Training facility in Wilmington, Ohio, the DC-8 pilot-trainer there showed us, on a visually open version of the DC-8 ground spoiler mechanism—the new in-flight prevention device retrofitted into the ground spoiler mechanism.
Far too late to save Flight 621.
But finally, there it was—and it looked to be such a simple mod.
People had to die because DC-8s lacked this until 1973?
A $500 retrofit from Douglas Aircraft or rather, after the 1968 merger, McDonnell-Douglas DC-8s? Really?
The ground spoiler problem was known for years before the 621 air disaster—this couldn’t have been fixed before?
So, finally, in 1973, another catastrophic crash of a “Stretch” DC-8-61 (Loftleidor - Icelandic airline) occurred at JFK, and the NTSB (National Transport and Safety Board ) hammer came down.
The DC-8 ground spoiler mechanism would finally be changed in two ways.
First, a protective assembly was required that would NOT allow the ground spoilers to extend, accidentally during flight. Second, the system had to stop the ground spoilers from being deployed manually during flight, by an overriding decision of the flight crew.
Sadly, again, too late to save Flight 621.
There were other factors in the crash. Erroneous FAA approved Douglas DC-8 Operation Manuals and just as erroneous Air Canada DC-8 Flying Manuals - all DC-8 types for starters.
The manuals stated the ground spoilers couldn’t be deployed in flight. Soon every DC-8 pilot flying, and the whole aviation industry knew they could. That was as unbelievable, as it was unsafe. There were several documented instances (various airlines) where the ground spoilers had done just that—extended. Accidentally, or by manual deployment of the flight crew. Either way, it was just bad, bad, design. And in the case of Flight 621 — lethal.
These DC-8 pilots and co-pilots were just trying to deal with an unsafe and unpredictable ground spoiler system. Spoilers do just that, they spoil the ability of an airplane to stay in the air. And they are the only thing that keeps an airplane on the ground during landing. Because, as former TCA pilot Harry Bell (deceased) told me, “an airplane loves to fly.”
Pilots everywhere were afraid of the DC-8’s ground spoilers.
Once armed, these spoilers could proceed to the next stage, extension, and do so unexpectedly. An electrical surge or even a pilot thinking he had only armed the spoilers sometimes discovered he had, in fact, extended the spoilers in flight! Usually, at about 2000 feet, roughly around the same time one had dropped the 8’s landing gear, so no harm done. Still, it shouldn’t have happened. or been possible. That was unnerving.
DC-8 pilots, worldwide, had come up with work-around solutions to remove the danger the spoiler system posed to their flying machines.
Captain Peter Hamilton and Captain Don Rowland had their own different work-arounds. Who was flying as captain for that flight got to use his “system” and the other, the sitting co-pilot (first officer), would co-operate.
On Flight 621 that’s where their competing systems got into trouble. After laughing off an argument, Hamilton and Rowland went with Rowland’s spoiler deployment system, even though he was the co-pilot on the 621 flight. At 60 feet above the ground, Rowland went to arm the spoilers, but instead skipped that step…and pulled the spoiler aft, extending the DC-8’s spoilers immediately. Flight 621 hit the runway with incredible force.
One thing, here, why did Don extend the spoilers, instead of just arming the spoilers?
Douglas Aircraft redesigned the ground spoiler lever on the new “Stretch” DC-8s. The older smaller DC-8s had a spoiler lever that resisted movement. One "wrestled" it into the armed position, so to speak. A movement in the moment one isn't likely to forget.
On the new, bigger DC-8s, it took very little effort to arm or deploy the spoilers. I’m guessing, but I think it just slipped Don’s mind (the process execution), as he was likely still distracted from his "soft spoiler argument" with Peter Hamilton who was “tired of fighting it”. Don was attending to other details during the very regimented, and labour intensive, DC-8 landing sequence.
Since the Air Canada DC-8 fleet comprised roughly 50/50 new, bigger…with 50% older, smaller DC-8s, and each group's airplane with different spoiler lever tension. Switching from one type of DC-8 to another might pose a transference problem for some in a crisis, or worse…in a moment of habitual repetition. Folks, we’ll never know.
Had Flight 621 crashed right at the airport because of the now famous spoiler error, the pilot and co-pilot might have been mostly at fault for the crash.
But, when the Air Canada DC-8-63 hit the runway, it lost an engine as it tore away from the starboard wing. Critical electrical and fuel lines were severed…which immediately resulted in a wing fire! Add to that, there was now a ten foot gaggle of loose sparking and arcing wiring hanging from the DC-8’s damaged wing. Now—with all these problems in tow, Flight 621 was airborne again.
Folks, the wing fire NEVER should have happened.
Never, never, never…
DC-8 engines were designed with exploding separation bolts!
In the event of unexpected engine stress, or if a DC-8 engine snagged something immovable, like, let’s say a runway—exploding engine bolts would ensure the engine would shear off cleanly—and not take volatile fuel lines and sparking wiring along with the departing engine. No harm, no foul.
But, clearly these exploding separation bolts failed on Flight 621's DC-8 and a deadly wing fire DID result.
Another faulty Douglas Aircraft design error. I repeat, the separation bolts failed to do what they were actually designed to do.
This ghastly wing fire meant the DC-8 was now on borrowed time.
From the Flight 621 air disaster timeline, we learned that “borrowed” time was roughly about three minutes, and distance-wise 8 miles or 14 kms of flight time. The time and distance Flight 621 travelled from Toronto airport (YYZ) to where it crashed in Castlemore, ON.
It’s hard to believe, but on top of all this—Douglas had yet another design flaw built into the DC-8 that led to Flight 621’s crash!
I'm not kidding. I'm not exaggerating. Analog gauges in the cockpit!
That’s why the flight crew—Captain Peter Hamilton, First Officer Don Rowland, and Second Officer Peter Hill had a hard time getting a grasp on what was ACTUALLY happening to their DC-8! When power is cut to analog gauges, they “freeze”. So your airplane could be bleeding fuel…but since the fuel gauge has no power now, (wing tear and damaging engine separation) the cockpit gauge IS still registering "FULL". Same with oil gauges, hydraulic gauges, etc.
Remember, people…these guys have only three minutes, three lousy minutes, to pilot their large, and now compromised DC-8 to safety.
They won’t make it.
Partly because gads of time was just eaten up—trying to figure what the hell was going on with their DC-8…all along being fed "false positives" by misleading cockpit gauges.
Soon enough the wing fire will eat through the right wing. The second engine will fall off, the wing will split with one portion falling on the Wilbur Duncan* property, and the second portion falling on the Parr Farm acreage across the road. The struggling DC-8 will finally crash past the Parr property, and near to the Burgsma residence in Castlemore.
But in spite of all these converging Douglas Aircraft design flaws, and spoiler deployment errors by the air crew, Flight 621, could have been saved.
And we can turn to a more recent crash, the Concorde crash, to understand the failure that was the final undoing for Flight 621.
The 1970 Inquiry Report gave a “pass” to one group who featured prominently in the crash.
The Tower. Or ATC (Air Traffic Control) in modern parlance.
And in many folk’s opinions, their actions or lack there of, sealed the fate of Flight 621.
On page 29, we have this ridiculous Inquiry quote,
“In sum, there was nothing Mr. ——— (The Tower) could have done which would have assisted the air crew in ANY WAY in accomplishing remedial action after the initial touch down of this aircraft on Runway 32.”
And then again, on page 105 of the Inquiry,
(xxxii) “There was nothing that any personnel in the airport control tower (ATC) at Toronto International Airport did which caused this catastrophic result, nor is there anything that any of them could have done either before or after the initial touchdown of this aircraft to have avoided it.”
Nope. Wrong.
I strongly disagree with the Inquiry pandering to, and its’ excusing of air traffic control (The Tower) .
I can only think that somewhere in the background equation there was some sort of vested interest happening, an attempt to deflect from someone incurring a bigger portion of the liability pie? But, who knows for sure?
However, as soon as I read the page 29 quote, coming so early in the report, and before any real information about the crash had been relayed, alarm bells immediately went off in my head.
So, to get to the truth of the Flight 621 crash, let’s look at the 2003 Concorde crash…to learn what should be known about the 621 crash, shall we?
Like Flight 621’s DC-8, when Air France’s Flight 4590 Concorde departed the runway at Rossy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on take-off…its wing was on fire.
Watch what happens next.
De Gaulle Airport Air Traffic Control then warned the Air France Concorde pilot, Christian Marty, with this ominous observational statement:
“CONCORDE ZERO 4590, you have flames … STRONG FLAMES… you have flames behind you.”
Did Air France Captain Marty ignore this new input of information?
No. Captain Marty rapidly changed the course of his Concorde, aiming to immediately land at nearby Le Bourget Airport. He did not just ignore the fire and continue on to New York.
Unfortunately, we all know his Concorde also didn’t make it – the initial wound to the Concorde being far more lethal than the initial wound to Flight 621’s DC-8.
The Concorde only travelled a couple miles before crashing…while Flight 621’s DC-8 got eight miles away from the airport, with a full three minutes of flight time under its belt. Plenty of time to re-land.
The Tower should have just told Flight 621 that their DC-8 was billowing black smoke!
Why would you withhold such critical information that clearly was well beyond normal, EXPECTED, flying perimeters?! Tell the pilot what you were seeing (billowing smoke). That’s all it would have taken to save Flight 621.
The Air Canada Viscount (Flight 254) immediately following Flight 621 certainly mentioned the fire to air traffic control!
He told the tower, right away, directly!
I repeat why did “The Tower” hold back this critical information?
They did tell Captain Peter Hamilton he couldn’t re-land on Runway 32 because of debris on the runway!
The runway Peter just left. The failed to tell Peter that NEW runway debris was from his Air Canada DC-8!
Yes, the Tower was that remiss!
The Tower THEN gave Peter the option of swinging over to Runway 5. But Hamilton had no need to because he trustingly stated, “I think we’re alright." He only thought his DC-8 was alright because he didn’t know his wing was on fire! Something ATC could see quite clearly.
I talked to several DC-8 pilots who stated they could have landed the ailing Air Canada DC-8 within the seven mile, and three minute parameters. One pilot said he could have landed Flight 621’s DC-8 within a five mile flight route! All pilots believed they would have had plenty of time to save Flight 621 completely.
If ATC hadn’t been remiss, if Captain Peter Hamilton had been updated—as to the ailing status of his airplane—it was on fire—Flight 621 never would have crashed.
Observation of incoming/outgoing aircraft and status reporting to pilots—is the responsibility of air traffic control. That’s why controllers are high up, in a tower. A building with 360 degree windows all around its’ structure! So designed in order to see everything happening in the air and on the runways at the airport.
Had the Tower not been remiss on that ill-fated Sunday morning of July 5, 1970 and like De Gaulle Airport Air Traffic Control…had just done their duty and told the pilot his wing was on fire, this likely would have been Captain Hamilton’s response,
“Roger, understood! Pan-pan! Pan-pan! Pan-pan! All stations! All stations! All stations! Air Canada 6-2-1 swinging around immediately for an emergency landing on 05R. WING FIRE! Roll all emergency response vehicles! We will try to bring everyone in safely!”
And Air Canada Flight 621 would have landed with minimal loss, PROBABLY NOT any.
So sad—that with this accident, and so many other things in life—there are no do-overs ~
ADDENDUM
“Maybe, Peter Hamilton would have still flown the long 27 mile go-around circuit anyway, even if he knew his DC-8 wing was on fire?
No, he wouldn’t.
Peter Hamilton was WWII Halifax bomber pilot who got shot down over Germany. He bailed out from his bomber because it was on fire, and out of control. He knew how little time one had, when one’s airplane was on fire. Since one can’t “bail out” from a DC-8, the only other option is to land. And quickly. Peter would have swung around to Runway 5R which would have been the fastest way to land.
“But everyone seems to blame the pilots for the crash.”
Ignorance. And because of First Officer Don Rowland’s famous grief quotation,
“Sorry, oh sorry, Pete” was a sorrowful apology for extending the ground spoilers, accidentally, at 60 feet above the runway.
This oft quoted remark that forces one to commiserate with his plight, and that of those who perished on Flight 621 clouds the sombre fact, that actually, the crash wasn’t really his fault! Ground spoilers NEVER should have been able to have been deployed in flight! Show me a Boeing, a De Havilland Canada, or Airbus aircraft that allowed you to instantly crash a plane by deploying its ground spoilers ACCIDENTALLY, or MANUALLY while in flight. You can’t—because those other aircraft manufacturers had mastered the basics.
The DC-8 had serious design flaws, each one activated on its own could have led to a catastrophic accident. The fact that ALL of these design flaws came into play on Flight 621 and contributed to the crash, at varying degrees, can only leave one speechless.
“Maybe the Tower didn’t see what was happening to Flight 621?”
Sorry, I know the “official” Inquiry alluded to that, but I don’t buy it. When I had my Flight 621 crash site up, hosted at Apple Computer 2004/5/6 I had a retired air traffic controller residing in Australia see my site and contact me. He stated he was there in the Tower, that day. He was quietly reading the Globe and Mail when Flight 621 flew by—billowing black smoke that continued right out to the plane crash in Castlemore.
Unsure, if this guy was just finishing, just starting, or on break, but he was in the Tower and he saw the ailing DC-8.
Air Canada Flight 254 called the Tower to inform them, from their vantage point, due in to land right after 621 (flying 2.5 miles right behind 621) that Flight 621’s DC-8 wing was on fire.
You mean to suggest to me that the controller actually assigned to guide/watch Flight 621 during landing…didn’t see all this—and even more?! Get outta’ here.
“Can you give us a brief summary of the causes of the Flight 621 crash?”
Failure prone McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 spoiler deployment system. This system allowed the ground spoilers to be extended in flight manually, or even unexpectedly, from the armed position.
Erroneous McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 manuals misled airline operators about spoiler operation and inherent safety.
Air Canada in-house DC-8 manuals deviated from the manufacturer's guidelines.
Engine shear separation bolts failed to separate cleanly as per safety design which caused a right wing tear, and immediate wing fire upon engine separation.
Analog flight gauges.
Air Traffic Control failed to inform the pilots that their aircraft had caught fire after Flight 621’s failed attempt to land. Accident was entirely recoverable had pilots been informed of the status of their aircraft, immediately, on the overshoot.
Co-pilot made attempt to arm spoilers—but accidentally pulled the lever back extending the spoilers in flight. This initial action carried little weight in comparison to previously mentioned contributing and compounding factors.
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PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS for the passengers and crew of Flight 621:
Adams, Celine Fradette
Adams, Pierre J
Beaudin, Gaetan
Belanger, Mrs.
Belanger, Jacques
Belanger, Jean
Belanger, Roland
Belanger, Rosanne
Benson, Helen
Benson, Leonard
Benson, Mary
Benson, Richard
Bertrand, Ginette
Boosamra, Lynn
Boulanger, Guy
Bradshaw, Dollie
Cedilot, Robert J
Chapdeleine, Jeannine
Chapdeleine, Joanne
Chapdeleine, Mario
Charent, Jean Maurice
Clarke, Devona Olivia
Cote, Francine
Daoust, Yolande
Desmarais, Brigitte
Desmarais, G
Dicaire, Alice (Marie)
Dicaire, Gilles
Dicaire, Linda
Dicaire, Luke
Dicaire, Mark
Dion, Suzanne
Dore, Jacqueline
Earle, Lewella
Earle, Linda
Filippone, Francesco
Filippone, Linda
Filippone, Marie
Gee, Bernard
Goulet, Denise M
Grenier, Madeleine
Growse, Diana Cicely
Growse, Jane
Growse, Roger
Hamilton, Karen E
Hamilton, Peter Cameron
Herrmann, Ronald Alvin
Hill, Harry Gordon
Holiday, Claude
Houston, Irene Margaret
Houston, Wesley
Jakobsen, Vagn Aage
Labonte, Gilles
Leclaire, Marie Rose
Leclaire, Oscar
Leduc, Henri W
Lepage, Claudette
Mailhiot, Claire Gagnon
Mailhiot, Gerald Bernard
Maitz, Gustave
Maitz, Karoline
McKettrick, Winnifred
McTague, John
Medizza, Carla
Mohammed, Dolly
Molino, Antonio
Molino, Michael (Michel)
Moore, Frederick T
Partridge, Andrea
Partridge, Carnie (Carnis) Ann
Partridge, Cyril Wayne
Phillips, Kenneth William
Poirier, Rita
Raymond, Gilles
Raymond, Martial
Robert, Aline
Robert, Georges E
Robidoux, Lionel
Rowland, Donald
Silverberg, Marci
Silverberg, Merle
Silverberg, Steven
Simon, Istvan
Simon, Mark
Smith, Dwight Lee
St. Laurent, Blanche
Stepping, Glenn Thomas
Sultan, Celia
Sultan, Jerald. M
Sultan, Robert. L
Szpakowicz, Borys
Szpakowicz, Serge
Tielens, Carmen
Tielens, Frederick
Tournovits, George
Tournovits, Soula (Athanasia)
Weinberg, Carla
Weinberg, Rita
Weinberg, Wendy
Whittingham, Jennifer
Whittingham, John
Whittingham, Reginald
Whybro, Mary Baker
Wieczorek, Hildegund
Witmer, Edgar
Wong, Ngar-Quon
Wong, Suzie
Wong, Wong (Mansing)
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* The former Wilbur Duncan property became part of the Flight 621 crash arena…when part of the Air Canada's DC-8's wing separated from the aircraft…and crashed into the house and backyard of the Duncan residence.
Sadly, on August 11, 2020, a 72 year-old man drowned in Castlemore (Brampton) in the backyard pond at the former Duncan residence, just a few feet away from the resting spot of the shorn DC-8 wing.
In the CP24 aerial video, the spot where the Air Canada DC-8 wing came to rest can be seen, and was the grassy area between the pond and the larger part of the house.
SEE:https://www.cp24.com/news/man-dead-following-reported-drowning-at-pond-in-brampton-paramedics-1.5059935
In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, a worker visually examines and manually sifts maize seed on a conveyor belt, picking out material such as damaged or spoiled seed or pieces of cob. After initial cleaning and sorting, all seed that goes through the plant passes through quality control. If a sample from a batch is found to more have more than 2% impurities, they are either separated out by hand like this or using a gravity table. The batch is then resampled to ensure a clean bill of health to continue processing.
Bidasem is a small seed company based in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces approximately 10,000 bags of maize seed a year, each holding 22.5kg, as well as producing wheat and oat seed and marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in improving farmers’ livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need,” says director general María Esther Rivas.
“Without CIMMYT, we couldn’t exist,” says Rivas. She sells four different maize hybrids, all formed from freely-available CIMMYT parent lines. “Really the most important thing is to produce your own hybrids, and for us it wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have the germplasm from CIMMYT. What we’re currently producing is 100% CIMMYT.” The relationship between Bidasem and CIMMYT is now deepening through participation in the MasAgro initiative, which includes training courses for seed companies and collaborative trials to evaluate the best seed.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....
Budgets - Personal Finance Manager to track your spending money visually
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As well, it’s beautiful.
£10.95 at Notcutts Dukeries Garden Centre, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Small piece of fish in a fish shape, about 12 chips and the smallest pot of peas I've ever had. Good job I only wanted a light lunch.
Very poor value. Ive had better at almost half that price.
22/365
proberbly not the most visually exciting today but yet again, it was pouring down for most of it.
sooo, when i'm stuck inside and have the day to myself, i use it to learn. be it PS, photography or lighting, i tend to zone out and get very engrossed in some training or other. in fact, lili just had to turn on the light for me cause i'd been sat here in the dark for the last half an hour or so... proberbly best get something to eat.
anyway, one of the things i've been doing today, as i've been sat inside, is practicing making textures. its something i find fascinating but am not great at... yet! practice makes perfect as they say, so expect many not so great textures coming your way ;-)
Feel free to use this for any of your own creations.
Please credit me and link back to this page or my photostream if you do.
You can use my texture commercially but please don't redistribute it or alter it to create
your own stock
Show me what you've done with it by putting a thumbnail or link on this page it'd be great
to see what you've done with it!
ODC- inside (there is an actual shot underneath all of the processing... i promise!)
Museum Tower, at 560 feet tall and 42 stories costing $200 million dollars, is under construction with completion expected in late 2012. The rendering of Museum Tower in this photo shows what an incredible addition the tower will make on the Downtown Dallas cityscape. Museum Tower has been described as a "shaft of light".
Museum Tower, from this particular view, is visually located to the north of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cathedral, JP Morgan Chase Tower, 2100 Ross Avenue Tower, and the Trammell Crow Center with One Arts Plaza to the east. The explosive growth of dozens of skyscrapers and highrises in Downtown Dallas' Uptown District are immediately to the north of Museum Tower and are not seen in this image.
As seen in the rendering, Museum Tower is literally surrounded by the 68-acre, 19 contiguous block world class Dallas Arts District with its numerous cultural facilities in the heart of Downtown Dallas. The Dallas Arts District is now perceived as the finest in the country, surpassing the Kennedy and Lincoln Centers in New York City: www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5128988435/in/set-7215...
The 5.2 acre Woodall Rodgers Urban Park is under construction; the park's construction is not seen in this image. The Woodall Rodgers Urban park is creating a "Central Park" like setting amidst the skyscrapers of Downtown Dallas and will be the "front lawn" to Museum Tower.
The Woodall Rodgers Urban Park is costing $110 million dollars and completion is expected in 2012. The Park will seamlessly connect the traditional Downtown Dallas Financial District to the skyscrapers and highrises in its Uptown District just immediately to the north into one continuous whole.
Woodall Rodgers Freeway is becoming the new 21st century "Main Street" of Downtown Dallas with the intense development that has occurred fronting Woodall Rodgers Freeway from both the south (the traditional Dallas Financial District) and the north (Downtown Dallas' Uptown District) sides of the freeway.
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Here is a fantastic video of Downtown Dallas from 07-24-10 driving along I-35 on the west side of Downtown that shows the wonderful density that has developed in the Downtown core with its Uptown District from 2006 to 2010. Select 720p HD and full screen. If you pause at 13 seconds into the video, right in the middle of the image between Hunt Oil and One Arts Plaza Towers, will be where the under construction $200 million dollar Museum Tower in the traditional Downtown Financial District will make its presence known. The construction crane seen center left at a 13 second pause is for the 17 story $185 million dollar Perot Museum of Nature and Science that is also currently under construction on the north side of Woodall Rodgers, a couple blocks away from Museum Tower's location on the side side of Woodall. Woodall Rodgers is the new 21st century "Main Street" of Downtown Dallas. Museum Tower's almost 600 foot tall 42 story presence once completed in late 2012 is going to make a huge impact on the Downtown Dallas cityscape as it will stretch the Financial District so far north that it will completely meld into Uptown and vice versa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4gZRTDMyM&NR=1
This is another fantastic video shot from a helicopter circling Downtown Dallas on 07-09-10. Select 720p HD and full screen. The video generally focuses on the traditional Downtown Dallas Financial District, but if you look on the left hand side middle screen while the video is playing you will again see the incredible dense development that has literally sprung up almost overnight in Downtown's Uptown District (between 2006 and 2010). From between 5 and 13 seconds at the beginning of the video you can see how impressive the Uptown skyscrapers are from just seeing the edge of Uptown that is directly facing the Financial District across Woodall Rodgers. Also from around 35 to 40 seconds into the video is when you can see the dense Uptown development from a bit broader perspective. Woodall Rodgers is the new 21st century "Main Street" of Downtown Dallas. Also, Museum Tower's almost 600 foot tall 42 story presence once completed in late 2012 is going to make a huge impact on the Downtown Dallas cityscape as it will stretch the Financial District so far north that it will completely meld into Uptown and vice versa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIks-YVYlj8
This is another great aerial video that literally offers a birdseye, multi-thousand foot view of Downtown Dallas shot on 10-24-10, in a jet flying over Downtown on its landing approach to DFW International Airport. Select 720p HD and full screen. For purposes of this discussion, freeze the video anywhere from 1 second to 10 seconds. The large mass of buildings in the very center of the video is Downtown Dallas, which includes all of the skyscrapers and highrises in Uptown as well as those in the more traditional Financial District which today forms the largest urban core in the nation outside of NYC, LA and Chicago with over 50,300,000 square feet of office space. The explosive growth of dense urban development in Uptown has vigorously extended Downtown Dallas northward. Downtown Dallas is now a long rectangle, anchored on its northern border by the CityPlace East (42 story) and Azure (31 story) skyscrapers with the mass of buildings stretching from the northern border southward through the traditional Financial District to just past I-30 to include the dense cluster of new developments in The Cedars District (the new City of Dallas Police Headquarters, the new Beat Condominium Tower, South Side on Lamar, and the just announced coup for Downtown Dallas of the NYLO Hotel South Side, etc.) . The W Hotel (31 stories) and The House Condominiums (29 stories) along with the Hyatt Regency Hotel (30 stories), Reunion Tower (50 stories) and the new half billion dollar Omni Convention Hotel (27 stories) clearly anchor the western side of Downtown running along Stemmons Freeway. One Arts Plaza (24 stories) and the dense Downtown Dallas Arts District along with the Sheraton Hotel's twin towers (42 stories and 31 stories) and the Comerica Bank Headquarters Tower (60 stories) run along Central Expressway anchoring the eastern side of Downtown, and which then extends just a little further eastward to include the massive Baylor Medical District complex (seen in the video as the large mass of white highrises farthest east of the Financial District). Like a beautiful necklace extending just immediately north of Uptown/Downtown in the video, one can see the long chain of highrise apartment and condominium towers in the Turtle Creek area of Dallas tracking the large swath of greenbelt just immediately north of the CityPlace East and Azure skyscrapers. As a pre-cursor for continued vibrant Downtown Dallas growth, a major keystone development that heralds future massive and dense urban development for Downtown can be seen in the video in the form of the instantly iconic new Calatrava Bridge spanning the Trinity River, which will bring billions in new development by extending Downtown Dallas' golden corridor, Woodall Rodgers Expressway, to the west side of the Trinity River. Woodall Rodgers has become the new 21st century "Main Street" for Downtown Dallas as it sets right in the middle of the bustling skyscrapers located on both the north and south sides of it. In the next ten to twenty years Turtle Creek, Uptown, Victory, Baylor, Deep Ellum, the Design District, the Financial District, The Cedars, and the newest urban frontier of West Dallas will seamlessly meld together to form a super dense core of the most dynamic and largest urban center in the nation outside of New York City and Los Angeles, and rivaling Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPosFieMg8&feature=related
This cool video from 08-30-10 further reinforces the explosive growth of around 13,000,000 square feet in new Class A and Class AA office space that Downtown Dallas has seen in the last few years in its Uptown and Victory Districts from 2006 to 2010. Select 1080p HD and full screen. The video is shot from the same exact spot throughout but shifts its main focal point from the Financial District to Uptown at 14 seconds. From 0 to 13 seconds the focus of the video is the northern edge of the traditional Financial District with the bustling heavy traffic of Woodall Rodgers Freeway. During this segment one can imagine the imposing and impressive addition to the cityscape that the almost 600 foot tall 42 story Museum Tower will make as it will literally be positioned right behind Hunt Oil Tower, which is unmistakably dressed in its state-of-the-art LED lighting (blue at the time of the video). Still filmed from the exact same spot, from 14 seconds to the end, the focus of the video shifts slightly north looking across Woodall Rodgers Freeway to reveal just a small slice of the significant density of skyscrapers and highrises erected in Uptown mostly since around 2006. Woodall Rodgers is the new 21st century "Main Street" of Downtown Dallas. The construction crane that is clearly visible in this portion of the video is for the 17 story $185 million dollar Perot Museum of Nature and Science that is currently under construction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP47TYaB7nQ&feature=related
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Downtown Dallas is experiencing a renaissance from more than $14 billion in new development that is currently underway in and near the Downtown core. As a result, Downtown Dallas is on the verge of a renewed greatness because of the billions in investment it has made in its Downtown core in general but also in its newest premier district, the Downtown Dallas Arts District.
An article published in the October 2010 "D Magazine" discusses how the relocation of corporate headquarters and businesses into Downtown Dallas is at an all time high. The level of interest in doing so (from out of state, in state and in town corporations) has also reached the highest level ever:
www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_CEO/2010/October/The_Rejuvenatio...
Dallas will surpass Chicago as the 3rd largest metro in the nation by 2030 or sooner, published 03-15-10 in The Dallas Morning News:
www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/columnists/chall...
And another significant recognition and accolade from Forbes Magazine, published 09-02-09, naming Dallas as a "World Capital of the Future" that highlights Dallas' worldwide reach and influence and its growing significance on the world stage:
www.forbes.com/2009/09/02/world-capitals-cities-century-o...
One of the visually stunning things a coral reef has to offer are the diverse patterns on corals and other invertebrates.
Check out my really funny blog blog about underwater photography & life and my book about marine life, diving and all things Pacific.
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...Tea for thee.
This isn't a technically proficient photo, nor is it even visually interesting, but it shows off a little bit of my very limited culinary skills. And it gives you a little peek into a ritual that I've performed for Mrs SmileMoon now for twenty-plus years. It's gotten to the point that I can make her tea for her better than she can now (or so she says). Practice makes perfect, I guess. That and maybe just a little bit of spit. (Shhh - our secret, okay?)
In this week's challenge for the Get Pushed!! group, I was paired with the talented and entertaining Amanda Jaeger . You've got to check out her photos, because she's got a great sense of humor and the fun shows in her pictures. Also, you should totally make a contribution to her grocery fund! Yay, Amanda!
Anyway, Amanda wrote to me: "I've come up with a challenge to you that was inspired by the photo of your wife's foot (with your handwriting). I loved two major things about it. 1) The play on words (sole-soul) and 2) It shows a bit of an intimate part of your lives together. So here's my challenge to you:
I want you to create another photo that shows intimacy. It doesn't have to be embarrassing or show anything that you're not willing to. But, I'd like for it to show something about you and your life that I wouldn't know about looking at your other photos.
I hope Amanda will agree that we now all know a little bit more (than we really wanted to know) about me and Mrs SmileMoon. Anybody else want some tea? :-D
Also seen in 111 pictures in 2011 as my selection for "hot".
5. spicy
9. puddles
10. favourite season
12. sad
15. Holiday/vacation
17. new
18. street
32. steps/stairs
38. big
39. earth
40. wind
42. glass
44. sand
48. spooky
49. lock/key(s)
52. sugar & spice
56. distance
61. body
62. books
66. hobby
76. clothing
77. childrens toy
78. vehicle
81. household appliance
84. straight line
92. celebration
94. seat/bench
98. stranger
99. family
103. in the workplace
105. hot
106. favourite photographic topic/style
110. on the road
Visually, the finished look is one of pure line with few design elements. The atmosphere is one of pure tranquillity during the day; the reflection of sky in the water and very little to distract the eye. At night the lighting scheme creates a magical pathway fading into the distance, and always there is the gentle sound of running water.
Part of a larger scheme, these clients wanted an ultra-simple, minimalist waterfeature on two levels. The main material used was a pale cream Travertine detailed with a dark slate-grey.
At the lower level, a canal runs across the garden. The main steps are accessed by stepping stones across the water.
The upper level features two rills. Water flows away from the house and cascades via two stainless steel waterfalls onto the lower level beyond, aerating and purifying. The paving features LED flush lighting to highlight the edge of the scheme and the steps and all three bodies of water are floodlit discreetly below the water surface.
The only plant material is six ball-shaped box trees, providing a simple, sculptural look to this otherwise angular scheme.
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The cam belt needs to be visually inspected every 30,000 miles on my car, a Seat Mii. Inspecting the cam belt is super easy. Remove the cover and the chamer the cam belt runs is can be seen. I put the car in to gear and pull it along until the cam belt has done one circuit allowing it to be inspected ocer its entire length. The whole task is easy and quick.
This car has done 109,000 miles and has only needed servicing. Nothing looks like it will break any time soon. The design, engineering and build of this car is top quality. It does 61 to 71 mpg, it is petrol engined only, no hybrid. This car is simple, light and aerodynamic.
The majority of research on the effect of mirrors find that looking in a mirror is NOT the same as being looked at by others, or being aware of the gaze of others at all. (Brockner, Hjelle, & Plant, 1985; C. S. Carver, 1975; Charles S. Carver, 1977; Charles S. Carver & Scheier, 1981, 2001; Davies, 1982; Dijksterhuis & Knippenberg, 2000; W. J. Froming, Walker, & Lopyan, 1982; William J. Froming & Carver, 1981; F. X. Gibbons, 1978; Frederick X. Gibbons, Carver, Scheier, & Hormuth, 1979; Frederick X. Gibbons & Gaeddert, 1984; Goukens, Dewitte, & Warlop, 2007; Hormuth, 1982; Macrae, Bodenhausen, & Milne, 1998; Porterfield et al., 1988; M. F. Scheier & Carver, 1980; M. F. Scheier, Carver, & Gibbons, 1979; Michael F. Scheier, 1976; Michael F. Scheier, Carver, & Gibbons, 1981; Spengler, Brass, Kühn, & Schutz-Bosbach, 2010)
Indeed some research shows that looking at oneself in a mirror produces exactly the opposite effect as being looked at by others. Being looked at by others encourages people to conform to other's expectations. Looking at a mirror generally encourages people to conform to their own internal standards.
There is some research however, that has shown mirrors to increase private self awareness, and at least one paper that has argued that mirrors increase conformance.
So bearing in mind that Japanese are largely unaffected by mirrors (Heine et al, 2008), what does this suggest?
1) That as in the minority of experiments that show mirror's increase public self awareness, and increasing conformance (Diener & Srull, 1979; Govern & Marsch, 1997; Plant & Ryan, 2006; Wheeler, Morrison, DeMarree, & Petty, 2008; Wiekens & Stapel, 2008; Zanna, 1990) the mirror that they are mentally simulating is "the eyes of the world" (seken no me 世間の目）. This is quite likely, and I predict in part true. Mirrors are found to increase both public AND private self awareness, so it seems likely that the mental mirror of the Japanese has both of these effects. The "Interdependent self" (Markus and Kitayama, 1991) of the Japanese is not an absense of self but a self that is both aware of itself, and aware of the impact of others upon itself. The dual influence of the Japanese mental mirror would explain the two aspects of the Japanese self.
2) Even if it were the case that the mental mirror of the Japanese is increase private self awareness there is research to suggest that Private self awareness is not a unitary phenomenon (Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002; Mittal & Balasubramanian, 1987; Trapnell & Campbell, 1999) but instead
2.1) motivated in different ways by curiosity (leading to self reflection) and a automatic, morbid desire to see the self (rumination)(Trapnell & Campbell, 1999).
2.2) It is also argued that Private self awareness has a motivational and cognitive aspect: on the one hand is an awareness of internal self states and attitudes, and on the other it is the desire to reflect upon the self(Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002).
It may be that the Japanese are high in the second ruminatory, motivational element of private self-awareness which is not coupled by an increase in self-cognition, as Ma-Kellams recent research tends to suggest.
3) The Japanese have a different type of independent self, that sees itself from the positition of a super-addressee, Other or God (known in Japan as Amaterasu the sungoddess) visually, with an aesthetic rather than logical impartiality.
Whatever way you cut it however, seeing oneself in a mirror is different from being seen by an audience. In order to unpack this distinction, I claim it will be necessary to reject the argument that the Japanese are "collectivists" in the sense of being socially dependent, since the mirror that the Japanese carry with them also provides a impartial, objective, viewpoint because it is a "riken no ken," a view of self not from that of others, but from a self away from self.
The excellent, for my purposes, image is original artwork by Ms. Miho Fujimura, a former student, commissioned by myself.
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Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain, and is the most visited stone circle in Cumbria. Every year thousands of people visit it to look, photograph, draw and wonder why and when and by whom it was built. The stone circle is on the level top of a low hill with nice views to the towns in the valleys. There are 38 stones in a circle approximately 30 metres in diameter. Within the ring is a rectangle of a further 10 standing stones. The tallest stone is 2.3 metres high. It was probably built around 3000 BC - the beginning of the later Neolithic Period - and is one of the earliest stone circles in Britain. It is important in terms of megalithic astronomy and geometry, as the construction contains significant astronomical alignments. Although its origins are unknown it is believed that it was used for ceremonial or religious purposes.
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Cercul de pietre de la Castlerigg este unul dintre cele mai imporante monumente preistorice şi cel mai vizitat de acest fel din Cumbria. In fiecare an, mii de persoane vin sǎ priveascǎ, sǎ fotografieze, sǎ deseneze şi sǎ se întrebe când, de ce şi cine construit bizarul ansamblu. Cercul de pietre se aflǎ pe o platformǎ situatǎ pe vârful unui deal de micǎ înǎlţime, cu privelişti frumoase cǎtre oraşele din vale. Ansamblul este format din 38 de pietre aşezate într-un cerc cu diametrul de cca. 30 metri. In interiorul cercului se aflǎ un dreptunghi alcǎtuit din 10 pietre. Cea mai înaltǎ piatrǎ are 2.3 metri. Ansamblul a fost construit probabil la începutul perioadei neolitice (în jurul anului 3000 î.Ch.) şi este unul dintre cele mai vechi cercuri de piatrǎ din Marea Britanie. Este un monument important din punct de vedere al astronomiei şi geometriei megalitice, întrucât construcţia conţine unele similitudini astronomice semnificative. Deşi originea ansamblului nu este cunoscutǎ, se presupune cǎ a fost folosit în scopuri ceremoniale şi religioase.
This visually stunning Art Deco enamel badge, promotes the famous tyre brand, Avon Tyres. It bears the company's early 1908, registered trademark which is a stylised Trilithon (Stonehenge) structure, made up of two large vertical stone posts supporting a third stone that lies horizontally across the top. On this badge, the horizontal stone announces the company name, Avon. From 1908, through to the 1930s, the Trilithon was either used as a focal point within advertisements, or as a refined logo within a corner of an advertisement. Beneath the Trilithon trademark the phrase 'Symbols of Endurance' appeared.
Within the early advertisements, before and just after the 1920s, a car and driver, with Avon tyres, would be portrayed passing through a mighty Trilithon. The adoption of this Trilithon trademark was explained by the company as follows: ".......this noble and historical trademark was decided upon in full consciousness of the high standard of excellence which such an emblem implied … because Avon products, in addition to other noble characteristics, possessed in a remarkable degree the two skills of strength and durability."
Of course, another reason for adopting the Trilithon device was linked to the company's location in Wiltshire, the home of Stonehenge. The badge uses the company's distinctive, somewhat spikey, upper case font, and this was first used in the late 1920s through to the 1960s. By the 1970s the signature logotype 'Avon' was changed to a modernist sans serif design with the letter 'o' rendered in solid red.
Avon started making rubber based products as far back as 1885 and by 1890 the business operated entirely from Melksham. At this point the Avon India Rubber Company Ltd was formed and in 1906 Avon car tyres were advertised for the first time along with their already established line in cycle tyres. Throughout WW1, Avon Tyres were used on forces bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, aeroplanes and ambulances. Other Avon rubber products such as tubing and hoses were used to extract water from waterlogged trenches.
By the late 1920s, Avon had a number of tyre distribution centres across Britain and their product range diversified to include carriage and pram tyres, rubber soles and heels for footwear, household bath mats and rubber carpets. In 1933 the Avon 'cooled duo-tread tyre' was chosen by Rolls Royce as a standard feature on their cars. Avon's racing pedigree gained momentum in the 1920s and continued through to the mid-century period, building up strong relationships with international riders and drivers.
Avon maintained a high profile in the rubber based product market and the post WW11 period witnessed rapid growth through a number of acquisitions and further product diversification. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (Ohio, USA), purchased Avon Tyres in 1997 in an agreement that allowed the company to focus on its core automotive components, technical products and protective equipment. The Avon brand remains within the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company portfolio and the Melksham, Wiltshire plant remains active today.
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Marilyn Rushton, a well-known Burnaby citizen, is awarded with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship.
Rushton is honoured for her for inspirational life of service to the visually impaired community, her contributions to families with blind and visually impaired children, and her energetic support for the musical community.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0025-001407
Visually Impaired - Color Blind
Using LomoChrome film to raise awareness of the visually impaired. RZ67 - turquoise
A visually-impared individual and his guide while waiting for a bus along EDSA during the recently concluded APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting held in Manila.
Visually dominated by a type of infrastructure that was installed over the Blue Mountains primarily for an expected upsurge in coal traffic in the 1950s, three AC-traction 93 class power over a short rise at Werrington with a long rake of empty coal wagons the like of which in terms of train length and tonnage capacity were unthinkable at the time of Western line electrification six decades ago this year (2017).
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The rather visually challenged Greenwood Corvette was I believe made by the same named company who specialise in automotive performance tuning and racing specifically for....Corvettes! ;-p
Hot Wheels, ever eager to sniff out every last Corvette variation first released this casting a few years back and proved very popular with U.S. collectors. Its back yet again for 2020 and can be seen here in its very latest Case G colour scheme. Found recently at B&M Bargains. Mint and boxed.
• Telspleem: An omnivore of neutral disposition that can be found on Virslagly as a common and archetypical form of wildlife. It dwells in most regions across the planet but prefers environments that are somewhat less barren than the average Virslagly climate. The Telspleem is a squishy, typically slouched creature that one might easily mistake to be slow and dumb based on its appearance, but which is in actuality craftier than most and rather inexplicably fleet–footed. Their fully–grown specimens ranging between three and five feet tall, Telspleems have stout, squarish torsos, two standard arms, four (deceptively) short and thick legs with feet to match, and very long necks that jut horizontally from the front–tops of their bodies and arc upwards so that the head ends up being positioned at a fairly typical angle regardless. Their eyes are very outwardly complex, visually consisting of rows of "stripes", and their mouths are composed of several "flaps" that rather messily slurp and suck up food material. Telspleems also have singular horn–like structures atop their skulls which are actually neural accessory organs similar to those of the local humanoids, the Hexpultis. Compared to the "horns" of a Hexpultis, the Telspleem's cranial protrusion serves a lesser function, semi–superfluously enhancing existing senses rather than being essential for key mental abilities.
The most obvious candidate for this creature's most defining physical trait, however, is not any of the above, but instead its immensely long, winding, slender tail which generally totals 15–20 feet in length and is usually held up in a networked "knot" behind the Telspleem's main body. This tail has a weighted, buzz–producing noisemaker at its end and is very maneuverable and powerful, being able to act as both a striking "whip" and as a constrictive weapon.
Telspleem durability values range from 500–800.
• Phiortrask: An avian of small–to–medium size native to Namyufefe. Phiortrasks stand upright at about three feet and have durability values of 400–600. They are omnivores, more specifically describable as equal–opportunity eaters with tendencies of resourceful scavenging, whose main populations are naturally situated on and around mesas and prairies, two types of terrain that can be found in adjacency at many locations across Namyufefe's planetary landscape. The Phiortrask has an appearance that can semi–paradoxically be described as both "scruffy" and "majestic". Its body is largely covered in feathers of various, but predominantly "hot", colors and frizzy, uneven orientation. It has a moderate wingspan, with its pair of wings occupying the entire shoulder space in terms of their origin points; as a result, the Phiortrask's arms originate midway down the length of its body as opposed to just below the head. While such a limb arrangement would likely disorient most other beings, the Phiortrask has naturally adapted to it and is able to make ample use of its arms.
As for the wings, while the Phiortrask can indeed fly, its ability to do so is limited. It requires rest after a relatively short period of aviation, and has a seemingly irrational aversion to extreme heights, meaning that it is generally unwilling to ascend too high into the air; the bird's self–imposed "limit" on elevation appears to be somewhere near 500 feet. The mating, egg–birthing and childrearing methods and patterns of this creature are comparable to those of most other avians.
The simple Hernolalls occasionally eat (or try to eat) Phiortrasks and seldom otherwise interact with them, while the much more advanced Yunstoxars, who dominate Namyufefe, are much more appreciative of the rugged birds and have domesticated many of them, keeping some as pets while training and utilizing others as short–distance delivery carriers. The likeness of the Phiortrask has become a common, general–purpose symbol seen throughout Yunstoxar society and culture (to a greater extent than any other animal–based symbol), and through that race's presence in many colonies throughout the Prime Galaxy, the creature's image has come to be recognized by numerous members of other races.
• Gaiggoot: A brutish, bulky and cold–blooded creature from Olsuclund, most commonly found dwelling in moderately–elevated settings and existing more or less consistently across all regions of the planet's geographical map. Gaiggoots are slow tripodal beasts with strong and muscular but rather short arms, bladed shoulders and heads that are almost seamless with the upper–fronts of their bodies, for they have no necks of any description. While having only a single large eyeball, they have multiple pupils, giving them a wide range of vision both spatially and in terms of the light spectrum. The Gaiggoot is herbivorous, but is highly prone to (often irrationally) violent outbursts toward other beings that it perceives as threats, whether or not they actually pose any; it is highly territorial and, in a way, "paranoid" of creatures besides its own kind. Commencement of hostility is usually "announced" by a warning gesture consisting of the creature slamming its hands/fists together several times. Conversely, Gaiggoots get along very well with each other most of the time, and despite solitude being their "default" mode of living, it is far from unheard of to find small packs of them living together.
A Gaiggoot's most notable uncommon ability lies in its feet and their immense gripping power which allows the animal to climb up very steep inclines and across jagged series of rocks with relative safety and stability. Even if it does fall, it will usually manage to literally land on its feet and be cushioned by their strength, though landing on any other part of its body after a significant drop is more often than not fatal.
The nearly–consistent durability value of the Gaiggoot is 1,200, and it stands between five and six feet tall on average. It can live for up to eight decades, giving it the longest lifespan of any creature native to Olsuclund due to the short one of the planet's humanoid race, the Favredians.
• Bethraether: A now–"lost" animal of great caliber and majesty that could be found on Ultavnah and presumably (and hopefully) still dwells on that planet which is cut off from contact with all others for what will probably amount to eternity. Like the Drajelaos and the other inhabitants and general features of Ultavnah, the Bethraether is a very large and powerful creature, though even it pales in comparison to the aforementioned Drajelaos, which were created with the specific intent that they be the most powerful of all mortals, humanoid and otherwise. As of the only scientific census of Ultavnah's properties ever taken, Bethraethers are/were similar in population to Drajelaos, numbering near but under one million as a total estimate and being on neutral terms with the giant humanoids. The Bethraether is classified as a mammal, though it was noted when categorizing it that the creature only barely met the qualifications for being able to be called such and was considered quite nonstandard in form and appearance for a mortal beast.
Measuring approximately twenty feet tall, the animal walks on four short legs attached to a "base" that is similar in shape and size to what constitutes the main overall bodies of many lesser quadrupeds and, in the Bethraether's case, supports a tall, lean midsection. On the back of the upper dorsal is a hump of muscle sporting a small number of large and thick quills, and atop the whole midsection is a neckless, almost perfectly dome–shaped head. The Bethraether's facial area is yellowish–to–reddish in pigment, and sports three eyes, the middle of which is distinctly different from the ones to either of its sides, being smaller and simpler. The reason for this strange optical arrangement is unknown, for the methods that would otherwise have allowed this peculiarity and the function, if any, behind it were not developed until long after Ultavnah was rendered inaccessible. The Bethraether's most "signature" feature of all, and one whose purpose is knowable, is entailed by its arms, or rather their "sub–appendages". Attached by carbonic rods to either of the creature's forearms (which themselves have an unusually decorative, gauntlet–like appearance for belonging to a mortal creature) are long, bladed poles of likewise carbonic composition. These natural accessories, which are not present in newborn Bethraethers but develop very quickly following birth, are used not only as weapons but also as more general tools for tasks such as reaching.
The typical Bethraether's durability value was estimated at 3,500. As an inhabitant of Ultavnah, this being's entire body has a moderately strong resistance to heat and burning.
• Honbonky: A vicious predatory mammal living on Barserinv that is the closest thing to a truly threatening natural foe that the Kierraplip race has to deal with. The Honbonky is fairly large, and the ratio of its size to that of other creatures of comparable nature is similar to that of a Kierraplip's size to the average humanoid's. It has a very unique body structure; its four long legs are attached to the corners of its very large head, from the bottom of which hangs a small and simple torso with a small and simple pair of arms that are used mainly for trivial manual tasks, the monster's mouth and large feet being its main utilities when attacking. Honbonkies are very fast and can chase their intended victims for miles on end with great stamina and tenacity. They are capable of lunging significant distances, though performing such a leap seems to take a lot of energy out of the Honbonky in question, the post–landing recovery time lasting several seconds; thus, while giving chase, the creatures will generally only attempt to lunge at their prey if confident that they will successfully catch them then and there by doing so. Other unusual features of the Honbonky include a large, protruding snout with a pair of long, tube–like parts that serve as "nostrils" dangling from it as well as an extra, extra–sharp tooth jutting from the bottom of said nose and overlaying the creature's main mouth. The level of threat posed by these beasts to the Kierraplips and other more peaceful animals on Barserinv is mitigated by several factors: their low population, their severe lack of cooperation with other specimens when they are present, their sub–par intelligence and their moderate lack of motivational direction when unable to find prey (in contrast to their tenacity when it is in sight).
The Honbonky's mean durability value is 900. Overall, it is comparable in many ways to the Krinchu of Terramos, also located in the Alpha Octant, though it is considered marginally less "evil" than that creature and, unlike the Krinchu, has never needed to be "quelled" or "purged" due to its aforementioned "shortcomings" as a threat.
• Zelrofience: An angel found in both Neo–Skyhold and Paradise and created by EldaChusii, being constructed specifically and exclusively by the face of "The Guardian". It is the most powerful type of being spawned from any aspect of the Heavenly Lord of Tolerance. The Zelrofience is a highly unique creature with many unusual attributes, and it is widely placed among the higher tiers in unofficial hierarchical rankings of Heavenly beings. It has two distinct components or "bodies", one extra–corporeal and the other extra–extra–corporeal, that together comprise an overall entity similar in perceivable nature to that of a mortal person piloting a vehicular machine, though the Zelrofience's existence predates all humanoid–made forms of such technology within the Nava–Verse. What could easily, and quasi–erroneously, be considered the angel's "main" or "true" body consists centrally of a massive eyeball–like sphere, two meters in diameter almost exactly, and peripherally of various tentacle–like appendages, including a pair that function essentially as the creature's "arms" and a bundle of five on which it may shamble about on the ground, them being its "legs". The Zelrofience's "other body" consists of a unique frame–like apparatus, sometimes called an "Overcarriage" (unofficial name), that connects to and securely fastens the eyeball–esque body via both physical grips and anchors and magical bonds. The name "Overcarriage" is considered a derivative of "Oversoul", the official name of a similar "sub–body" belonging to Bestamiak and to which the Zelrofience's "vehicle" has been likened. The angel's nature has also been compared to that of yet another Heavenly Lord, Vaynmizs, and his power source, Qual.
The two components that comprise the Zelrofience are intrinsically linked and drawn to one another, and if separated, they will actively and intelligently seek to reunite, for they are next–to–powerless without each other compared to what they can do together while the angel is in its complete state; truly, the "total" form of this being is far greater than the sum of its parts. When in its complete state, the Zelrofience boasts a greater number of distinct abilities than any other non–Archangel. The "eyeball" body's main power is telekinesis of a strength equal to roughly 1/3 that of Junt'Vubis (the single most powerful telekinetic being in the Nava–Verse), while the "Overcarriage" possesses a level of Rainbow Energy–based firepower that no non–magical machine with its physical form could possibly match. When both are together, not only are the base abilities of either amplified significantly in raw strength, but the complete Zelrofience gains access to multiple combinational techniques utilizing the powers of both its components in direct conjunction. On the whole, it is essentially a flying, psychic tank that only the most advanced and recently–created of humanoid–made war machines could even hope to match.
Zelrofiences have additional potential roles outside of combat, and additional abilities to facilitate these duties, such as absorbing, storing and transferring additional Rainbow Energy into and out of themselves and mending damaged structures with a special repair beam that is emitted from the "pupil" of the "eyeball". They are fully sentient and fluent in all common languages, and speak telepathically in a voice that is calm and soothing at all times, and would never be raised even if one of the angels were to make a furious death threat (which would obviously never happen, given its particularly wise and stoic nature even by angelic standards).
The durability value of a Zelrofience whose components are fully synchronized is nearly 4,000. The durability of either body when separated from the other is closer to 1,000.
• Movalorrt: A rare and particularly insidious demon, often considered to be one of the most despicable varieties of all due to the prolonged suffering that many of its victims are subjected to and to which most would consider death preferable. The Movalorrt is a truly rogue being, lacking allegiance to or association with Satan, Meth Stoph, Genome, Lord Reson or any other higher demonic power, and its general place of origin within the Underworld, assuming there even is a specific spatial plane designated as its place of spawning, is unknown. It is, however, known that this demon is able to travel to and from (as well as throughout) the mortal realm far more freely than almost any other known Hellish entity… though exactly how it does this is also unknown. Movalorrts are sentient and capable of speech, though their overall intellect level seems to be below that of a majority of mortal humanoids and they seldom have anything to say beyond wicked cackling. They are average in size compared to mortal humanoids – between four and five feet – but have comparatively immense strength and resilience almost on par with that of humanoid Archfiends, the demon's durability value being estimated at around 3,000.
The Movalorrt is a wholly corporeal and mostly organic demon. Its form is that of a hideous, grinning, many–armed humanoid with necrotic flesh and legs that are permanently, bloodily stitched together and dangle with unsettling stillness as the monster hovers from place to place. The two pairs of arms oriented near the front of its body are standard in form and hand structure, while the other pair of pairs, growing from the fiend's upper dorsal area, have appendages that are far more ghastly in both appearance and function: massive, blood–red scissors/clippers and oversized syringes filled with glowing green liquid, respectively. These instruments, the syringes in particular, serve as the Movalorrt's tools for inflicting harm, and are also the only non–organic parts of its body. While the "clippers" are generally used in a fairly standard manner and have no "special" properties beyond simply being powerful instruments of cutting, the syringes constitute a far more complex and disturbing weapon, as elaborated upon below.
Movalorrt attacks, like the demons themselves, are rare, with the average number reported annually rounding down to nine. When one of these monsters attacks a person, its intention is not necessarily to kill the victim. Rather, its very specific goal is to inject that specific person with one or both of their syringes. The scissor–like weapons are rarely implemented during such attacks, and when they are, it is usually against others who attempt to stop the demon from injecting its target rather than the actual target. They are never deliberately used on the main target with the specific intention of killing them, and conversely, "interfering" parties besides the target are never deliberately injected. There have been several separate eyewitness reports of attacking Movalorrts uttering intelligible words and phrases, usually of "Out of the way!" or "Resistance is futile!"–type sentiments. Once it has successfully administered its "shot", the Movalorrt will flee the scene, dashing away for a short distance before disappearing, presumably back to the Underworld or outer space, in a flashing burst of Infernal Energy and usually cackling as it does so. Once the demon has resolved to attack someone and initiated its assault on them, it will not relent nor flee until it has either succeeded in its goal or been killed. While it is uncertain, it is more likely than not that Movalorrts' victims are chosen on a random whim.
The effects of what has been termed "Movalorrt Toxin" are various and variable, seemingly randomly so, and cannot be stopped from taking effect once it has been injected into a person. The following have all been verifiably witnessed in multiple victims:
• Near–instant and seemingly painless death with no visible physical atrophy.
• A much slower and agonizing death caused by extreme inflammation and swelling throughout all parts of the body.
• A coma that lasts no less than one year and no more than a decade; if cared for and kept safe for its duration, the victim may eventually make a full recovery.
• Varying degrees of general brain damage.
• A permanent semi–vegetative state, similar to the effects of a lobotomy.
• An extended bout of extreme pain, more severe than what seems to be felt during the fatal "swelling" effect, which has no visible physical symptoms and eventually goes away after anywhere from a few hours to a few days. This is actually considered one of the least horrible results of Movalorrt Toxin injection due to its short–term nature.
• Rapid, progressive necrotic decay of one or more limbs, starting at and spreading upwards from the extremities. If the affected areas are not amputated, the decay will eventually consume the whole body, resulting in the most painful death that any effect of Movalorrt Toxin can bring about.
• Permanent, inexplicable chronic depression, often leading to eventual suicide.
• A complete wiping of all memories, including much of the basic knowledge learned in early life, basically resetting the victim's mind to what it was during their infancy.
• General insanity, turning the victim into a demented lunatic.
• Horrific hallucinations catering to the victim's particular fears; usually has an end result similar to the previous effect.
• Perpetual severe illness (with typical symptoms such as fever, vomiting, etc.) that can be treated indefinitely but will never cease causing various complications.
• A short coma, followed by the victim awakening as a murderous, rabid lunatic that will attack almost anyone and everyone they see, as if their mind has been replaced with that of a vicious animal.
…Among other possibilities, some of which have only ever been observed once. Needless to say, the effects of Movalorrt Toxin are invariably malign, with some of them entailing fates far worse than the average death. On related notes, the back ends of the Movalorrt's syringes seem to exist in pocket dimensions from which the vials may be replenished with an endless supply of toxin, and which spot on one's body any injection is made into does not seem to affect what the toxin's effects will be, even if the spot pierced does not lead into the bloodstream at all. The amount of toxin doesn't seem to matter, either; among known cases where both syringes and their contents were used, the ratio of "lesser" symptoms to more extreme effects has been similar to that among known cases in which the victim received only one "dose" or Movalorrt Toxin. Once a Movalorrt has gotten its needle into its target, the injection process takes less than two seconds; it is unknown what would happen if someone was injected with less than one vial's worth of the demon's toxin.
The Movalorrt is considered similar to the dream–invading Sybruchar in the sense that both demons seemingly wander the universe in search of people to attack and often leave their surviving victims with permanent mental or spiritual damage. Despite being somewhat more mundane in its methods (compared to the Sybruchar), the Movalorrt has managed to remain just as elusive and mysterious a beast as its unofficial "counterpart". While several of them have been killed, no Movalorrt has ever been captured alive or otherwise questioned, and all specimens that have been killed were slain in battle before they could poison their targets; in every single case where a Movalorrt has successfully made an injection, it has subsequently been just as successful in making its escape. The exact nature of the demon's apparent ability to travel throughout the Nava–Verse and between its realms with relative ease is unclear, unlike with the Sybruchar, as sightings of it in the Underworld are few and fleeting while sightings in outer space are nonexistent. Sightings of more than one specimen together are just as rare as the former; it is highly unlikely that the total number of Movalorrts exceeds three digits… and thank goodness for that!
There are three Ashfords, really. The modern newtown, Swindonesque newbuilds stretching into the countryside; the Victorian railway town, all neat rows of brick buit houses and the station, and then there is the old town, timber-framed houses along narrow lanes, with St Mary standing towering above all but the modern office blocks.
The west end church was given over to a Christmas Fayre, but is also used now as a concert venue, while under the tower westwards is still in use as a church, with many of its ancient features left alone by the Victorians.
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A stately church in a good position set away from the hustle and bustle of this cosmopolitan town. The very narrow tower of 1475 is not visually satisfactory when viewed from a distance but its odd proportions are hardly noticed when standing at its base. The church is very much the product of the families who have been associated with it over the centuries and who are commemorated by monuments within. They include the Fogges and the Smythes. The former is supposed to have wanted to create a college of priests here, but by the late fifteenth century such foundations were going out of fashion and the remodelling of the church undertaken by Sir John Fogge may have just been a philanthropic cause. Unusually, when the church was restored in 1860 the architect Ewan Christian kept the galleries (he usually swept them away), but Christ Church had yet to be built and the population of this growing town would have needed all the accommodation it could get. Even in 1851 1000 people had attended the church in a single sitting. The pulpit, designed by Pearson, was made in 1897.
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THE TOWN AND PARISH OF ASHFORD
LIES the next adjoining to Hothfield eastward. It is called in Domesday both Estefort and Essetesford, and in other antient records, Eshetisford, taking its name from the river, which runs close to it, which, Lambarde says, ought not to be called the Stour, till it has passed this town, but Eshe or Eschet, a name which has been for a great length of time wholly forgotten; this river being known, even from its first rise at Lenham hither, by the name of the Stour only.
A small part only of this parish, on the east, south and west sides of it, containing the borough of Henwood, alias Hewit, lying on the eastern or further side of the river from the town, part of which extends into the parish of Wilsborough, and the whole of it within the liberty of the manor of Wye, and the borough of Rudlow, which adjoins to Kingsnoth and Great Chart, are in this hundred of Chart and Longbridge; such part of the borough of Rudlow as lies adjoining to Kingsnoth, is said to lie in in jugo de Beavor, or the yoke of Beavor, and is divided from the town and liberty by the river, near a place called Pollbay; in which yoke there is both a hamlet and a green or common, of the name of Beavor; the remainder of the parish having been long separated from it, and made a distinct liberty, or jurisdiction of itself, having a constable of its own, and distinguished by the name of the liberty of the town of Ashford.
ASHFORD, at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, was part of the possessions of Hugo de Montfort, who had accompanied the Conqueror hither, and was afterwards rewarded with this estate, among many others in different counties; in which record it is thus entered, under the general title of his lands:
¶Maigno holds of Hugo (de Montfort) Estefort. Turgisus held it of earl Godwin, and it is taxed at one suling. The arable land is half a carucate. There is nevertheless in demesne one carucate, and two villeins having one carucate. There are two servants, and eight acres of meadow. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth twenty five shillings; when he received it, twenty shillings; now thirty shilling.
The same Hugo holds Essela. Three tenants held it of king Edward, and could go whither they would with their lands. It was taxed at three yokes. The arable land is one carucate and an half. There are now four villeins, with two borderers having one carucate, and six acres of meadow. The whole, in the reign of king Edward the Confessor, was worth twenty shillings, and afterwards fifteen shillings, now twenty shillings.
Maigno held another Essetisford of the same Hugo. Wirelm held it of king Edward. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is four carucates. In demesne there are two, and two villeins, with fifteen borderers having three carucates. There is a church, and a priest, and three servants, and two mills of ten shillings and two pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth seventy shillings, and afterwards sixty shillings, now one hundred shillings.
Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugh abovementioned, favouring the title of Robert Curthose, in opposition to king Henry I. to avoid being called in question upon that account, obtained leave to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, leaving his possessions to the king; by which means this manor came into the hands of the crown. Soon after which it seems to have come into the possession of a family, who took their name from it. William de Asshetesford appears by the register of Horton priory to have been lord of it, and to have been succeeded by another of the same name. After which the family of Criol became owners of it, by whom it was held by knight's service of the king, in capite, by ward to Dover castle, and the repair of a tower in that castle, called the Ashford tower. (fn. 1) Simon de Criol, in the 27th and 28th year of Henry III. obtained a charter of free warren for this manor, whose son William de Criol passed it away to Roger de Leyborne, for Stocton, in Huntingdonshire, and Rumford, in Essex. William de Leyborne his son, in the 7th year of king Edward I. claimed and was allowed the privilege of a market here, before the justices itinerant. He died possessed of this manor in the 3d year of Edward II. leaving his grand-daughter Juliana, daughter of Thomas de Leyborne, who died in his father's life-time, heir both to her grandfather and father's possessions, from the greatness of which she was stiled the Infanta of Kent, (fn. 2) though thrice married, yet she died s. p. by either of her husbands, all of whom she survived, and died in the 41st year of Edward III. Upon which this manor, among the rest of her estates, escheated to the crown, and continued there till king Richard II. vested it, among others, in feoffees, for the performance of certain religious bequests by the will of king Edward III. then lately deceased; and they, in compliance with it, soon afterwards, with the king's licence, purchased this manor, with those of Wall, and Esture, of the crown, towards the endowment of St. Stephen's chapel, in the king's palace of Westminster, all which was confirmed by king Henry IV. and VI. and by king Edward IV. in their first years; the latter of whom, in his 7th year, granted to them a fair in this town yearly, on the feast of St. John Port Latin, together with all liberties, and to have a steward to hold the court of it, &c. In which situation they continued till the 1st year of Edward VI. when this collegiate chapel was, with all its possessions, surrendered into the king's hands, where these manors did not continue long; for that king, in his 3d year, granted the manor of Esshetford, with that of Wall, and the manor of Esture, to Sir Anthony Aucher, of Otterden, to hold in capite; and he, in the 2d and 3d of Philip and Mary, sold them to Sir Andrew Judde, of London, whose daughter and at length heir Alice, afterwards carried them in marriage to Thomas Smith, esq. of Westenhanger, commonly called the Customer, who died possessed of them in 1591, and lies buried in the south cross of this church, having had several sons and daughters, of, whom Sir John Smythe, of Ostenhanger, the eldest, succeeded him here, and was sheriff anno 42 Elizabeth. Sir Thomas Smith, the second son, was of Bidborough and Sutton at Hone, and ambassador to Russia, of whom and his descendants, notice has been taken in the former volumes of this history; (fn. 3) and Henry, the third son, was of Corsham, in Wiltshire, whence this family originally descended, and Sir Richard Smith, the fourth, was of Leeds castle. Sir John Smythe, above-mentioned, died in 1609, and lies buried in the same vault as his father in this church, leaving one son Sir Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger, K. B. who was in 1628 created Viscount Strangford, of Ireland, whose grandson Philip, viscount Strangford, dying about 1709, Henry Roper, lord Teynham, who had married Catherine his eldest daughter, by his will, became possessed of the manors of Ashford, Wall, and Esture. By her, who died in 1711, he had two sons, Philip and Henry, successively lords Teynham; notwithstanding which, having the uncontrolled power in these manors vested in him, he, on his marriage with Anne, second daughter and coheir of Thomas Lennard, earl of Sussex, and widow of Richard Barrett Lennard, esq. afterwards baroness Dacre, settled them on her and her issue by him in tail male. He died in 1623, and left her surviving, and possessed of these manors for her life. She afterwards married the hon. Robert Moore, and died in 1755. She had by lord Teynham two sons, Charles and Richard-Henry, (fn. 4) Charles Roper, the eldest son, died in 1754 intestate, leaving two sons, Trevor-Charles and Henry, who on their mother's death became entitled to these manors, as coheirs in gavelkind, a recovery having been suffered of them, limiting them after her death to Charles Roper their father, in tail male; but being infants, and there being many incumbrances on these estates, a bill was exhibited in chancery, and an act procured anno 29 George II. for the sale of them; and accordingly these manors were sold, under the direction of that court, in 1765, to the Rev. Francis Hender Foote, of Bishopsborne, who in 1768 parted with the manor of Wall, alias Court at Wall, to John Toke, esq. of Great Chart, whose son Nicholas Roundell Toke, is the present possessor of it; but he died possessed of the manors of Ashford and Esture in 1773, and was succeeded in them by his eldest son John Foote, esq. now of Bishopsborne, the present owner of them. There are several copyhold lands held of the manor of Ashford. A court leet and court baron is regularly held for it.
THE TOWN OF ASHFORD stands most pleasant and healthy, on the knoll of a hill, of a gentle ascent on every side, the high road from Hythe to Maidstone passing through it, from which, in the middle of the town, the high road branches off through a pleasant country towards Canterbury. The houses are mostly modern and well-built, and the high-street, which has been lately new paved, is of considerable width. The markethouse stands in the centre of it, and the church and school on the south side of it, the beautiful tower of the former being a conspicuous object to the adjoining country. It is a small, but neat and chearful town, and many of the inhabitants of a genteel rank in life. Near the market place, is the house of the late Dr. Isaac Rutton, a physician of long and extensive practice in these parts, being the eldest son of Matthias Rutton, gent of this town, by Sarah his wife, daughter of Sir N. Toke, of Godinton. He died in 1792, bearing for his arms, Parted per fess, azure, and or, three unicorns heads, couped at the neck, counterchanged; since which, his eldest son, Isaac Rutton, esq. now of Ospringeplace, has sold this house to Mr. John Basil Duckworth, in whom it is now vested. In the midst of it is a large handsome house, built in 1759, by John Mascall, gent. who resided in it, and died possessed of it in 1769, and was buried in Boughton Aluph church, bearing for his arms, Barry of two, or, and azure, three inescutcheons, ermine; and his only son, Robert Mascall, esq. now of Ashford, who married the daughter of Jeremiah Curteis, esq. is the present owner, and resides in it. At the east end of the town is a seat, called Brooke-place, formerly possessed by the family of Woodward, who were always stiled, in antient deeds, gentlemen, and bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron, sable, between three grasshoppers, or; the last of them, Mr. John Woodward, gent. rebuilt this seat, and died possessed of it in 1757; of whose heirs it was purchased by Martha, widow of Moyle Breton, esq. of Kennington, whose two sons, the Rev. Moyle Breton, and Mr. Whitfield Breton, gent. alienated it to Josias Pattenson, esq. the second son of Mr. Josias Pattenson, of Biddenden, by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Felix Kadwell, esq. of Rolvenden; he married Mary, daughter of Mr. Henry Dering, gent. of this parish, and widow of Mr. John Mascall above-mentioned, by whom he has no issue, and he is the present owner of this seat, and resides in it. There have been barracks erected lately here, which at present contain 4000 soldiers. The market is held on a Saturday weekly, for the sale of corn, which is now but little used; and a market for the sale of all sorts of fat and lean stock on the first and third Tuesday in every month, which has been of great use to prevent monopolies. Two fairs are annually held now, by the alteration of the stile, on May 17, and Sept. 9, and another on Oct. 24; besides which, there is an annual fair for wool on August 2, not many years since instituted and encouraged by the principal gentry and landholders, which promises to prove of the greatest utility and benefit to the fair sale of it. That branch of the river Stour which rises at Lenham, runs along the southern part of this parish, and having turned a corn mill belonging to the lord of this manor, continues its course close at the east end of the town, where there is a stone bridge of four arches, repaired at the expence of the county, and so on northwards towards Wye and Canterbury. On the south side of the river in this parish, next to Kingsnoth, within the borough of Rudlow, is the yoke of Beavor, with the hamlet and farm of that name, possessed in very early times, as appears by the register of Horton priory, by a family of that name, one of whom, John Beavor, was possessed of it in the reign of Henry II. and was descended from one of the same furname, who attended the Conqueror in his expedition hither. The parish contains about 2000 acres of land, and three hundred and twenty houses, the whole rental of it being 4000l. per annum; the inhabitants are 2000, of which about one hundred are diffenters. The highways throughout it, which not many years ago were exceeding bad, have been by the unanimity of the inhabitants, which has shewn itself remarkable in all their public improvements, a rare instance in parochial undertakings, and by the great attention to the repairs of them, especially in such parts as were near their own houses, are now excellent. The lands round it are much upon a gravelly soil, though towards the east and south there are some rich fertile pastures, intermixed with arable land, and several plantations of hops; but toward the west, the soil is in general sand, having much quarrystone mixed with it, where there is a great deal of coppice wood, quite to Potter's corner, at the boundary of this parish.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a large handsome building, consisting of three isles, with a transept, and three chancels, with the tower in the middle, which is losty and well proportioned, having four pinnacles at the top of it. There are eight bells in it, a set of chimes, and a clock. In the high chancel, on the north side, is the college John Fogge, the founder of the college here, who died in 1490, and his two wives, the brasses of their figures gone; but part of the inscription remains. And formerly, in Weever's time, there hung up in this chancel six atchievements, of those of this family whose burials had been attended by the heralds at arms, and with other ceremonies suitable to their degrees. Underneath the chancel is a large vault, full of the remains of the family. On the pavement in the middle, is a very antient curious gravestone, having on it the figure in brass of a woman, holding in her left hand a banner, with the arms of Ferrers, Six masctes, three and three, in pale; which, with a small part of the inscription round the edge, is all that is remaining; but there was formerly in brass, in her right hand, another banner, with the arms of Valoyns; over her head those of France and England quarterly; and under her feet a shield, being a cross, impaling three chevronels, the whole within a bordure, guttee de sang, and round the edge this inscription, Ici gift Elizabeth Comite D' athels la file sign de Ferrers . . . dieu asoil, qe morust le 22 jour d'octob. can de grace MCCCLXXV. Weever says, she was wife to David de Strabolgie, the fourth of that name, earl of Athol, in Scotland, and daughter of Henry, lord Ferrers, of Groby; and being secondly married to John Malmayns, of this county, died here in this town. Though by a pedigree of the family of Brograve, she is said to marry T. Fogge, esq. of Ashford; if so, he might perhaps have been her third husband. Near her is a memorial for William Whitfield, gent. obt. 1739. The north chancel belonged to Repton manor. In the vault underneath lay three of the family of Tuston, sometime since removed to Rainham, and it has been granted to the Husseys; Thomas Hussey, esq. of this town, died in 1779, and was buried in it. In the south chancel are memorials for the Pattensons, Whitfields, and Apsleys, of this place; and one for Henry Dering, gent. of Shelve, obt. 1752, and Hester his wife; arms, A saltier, a crescent for difference, impaling, on a chevron, between three persons, three crosses, formee; and another memorial for Thomasine, wife of John Handfield, obt. 1704. In the north cross are several antient stones, their brasses all gone, excepting a shield, with the arms of Fogge on one. At the end is a monument for John Norwood, gent. and Mary his wife, of this town, who lie with their children in the vault underneath. The south cross is parted off lengthways, for the family of Smith, lords of Ashford manor, who lie in a vault underneath. In it are three superb monuments, which, not many years since, were beautified and restored to their original state, by the late chief baron Smythe, a descendant of this family. One is for Thomas Smith, esq. of Westenhanger, in 1591; the second for Sir John Smythe, of Ostenhanger, his son, and Elizabeth his wife; and the third for Sir Richard Smyth, of Leeds castle, in 1628: all which have been already mentioned before. Their figures, at full length and proportion, are lying on, each of them, with their several coats of arms and quarterings blazoned. In the other part of this cross, is a memorial for Baptist Pigott, A. M. son of Baptist Pigott, of Dartford, and schoolmaster here, obt. 1657, and at the end of it, is the archbishop's consistory court. In the south isle is a memorial for Thomas Curteis, gent. obt. 1718, and Elizabeth his wife; arms, Curteis impaling Carter. Under the tower is one for Samuel Warren, vicar here forty-eight years, obt. 1720. The three isles were new pewed and handsomely paved in 1745. There are five galleries, and an handsome branch for candles in the middled isle; the whole kept in an excellent state of repair and neatness. There was formerly much curtious painted glass in the windows, particularly the figures of one of the family of Valoyns, his two wives and children, with their arms. In the south window of the cross isle, and in other windows, the figures, kneeling, of king Edward III. the black prince, Richard, duke of Gloucester, the lord Hastings. Sir William Haute, the lord Scales, Richard, earl Rivers, and the dutchess of Bedford his wife, Sir John Fogge, Sir John Peche, Richard Horne, Roger Manstone, and—Guildford, most of which were in the great west window, each habited in their surcoats of arms, not the least traces of which, or of any other coloured glass, are remaining throughout this church. Sir John Goldstone, parson of Ivechurch, as appears by his will in 1503, was buried in the choir of this church, and gave several costly ornaments and vestments for the use of it.
Visually, NGC 6891 seems fairly simple. I can only see some very small knots of H-alpha. One of them is easy to spot. It's a very small, red dot near the left edge of the outer halo of material. I almost cleaned it up, thinking it was a cosmic ray.
Red: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci
Blue: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci
North is NOT up.
Visually, there's not much I can think of to say about this. If you want, you could read about it, though. And then you could say, "Ah, so that is what a super-metal-rich planetary nebula looks like."
Again, two sets of data were three years apart, so if you are a very keen observer you may notice slight color fringing.
Red: hst_08594_03_wfpc2_f656n_pc_sci + hst_06119_94_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci
Green: hst_06119_94_wfpc2_f555w_pc_02_sci
Blue: hst_08594_03_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci
North is NOT up.
Chuck E. Cheese's #938 (10,320 square feet)
2345 Valley Loop Road, Springfield, OH
Opened in July 1990; originally Showbiz Pizza Place (opened January 12th, 1983)
This portrait of Chuck E. at the entrance is a clear indicator that this Springfield location has gone almost entirely untouched since the mid 1990s! Sure, the games are newer and there are a few cosmetic differences here and there, but for the most part the aesthetics of the building are well preserved from the Phase 3 days, most notably the lower lighting and SHOWROOM WALLS! This was one of the best locations I've ever visited just for the outdated aspects alone, as it harkens back to the days when CEC were more visually pleasing and interesting inside.
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