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At Fiesta Asia 2011, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.
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Asian dragon or alien or something on Journey to the Center of the Earth. We nicknamed him "Imagunna Icha"
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Image from page 146 of “Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints” (1902)
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Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D’Anvers, N., d. 1933
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Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
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legend of St. Catherine ashis leading motive in the beautiful window in ChristchurchCathedral, Oxford, in memory of Edith Liddell, who died fivedays after her betrothal. The martyred maiden wearing hercrown occupies the central light, having on one side an angel,wit;h a flaming wheel at her feet, typical of suffering patientlyborne, and on the other, an angel typical of Divine deliverancefrom pain, crushing the wheel and extinguishing the flames;In the lower lights are represented the Dispute with thePhilosophers, the Dream in which the Blessed Virgin leadsthe maiden into the presence of Christ, and the Burial of themartyr by angels. In the choir of the same church is aquaint figure of very early date of St. Catherine, holding theremains of a sword in one hand, and a piece of a wheel in theother; and in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral is afine modern statue of the martyr treading on a dragon, andholding her sword and wheel. In England the f^te-day of St. Catherine, November 25,
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ST. EUPHEMIA 97 was long kept as a public holiday, and passages from her Acts used to be read in all Roman Catholic churches. Thereare, perhaps, more churches and chapels dedicated to her in theBritish Isles than to any other Saint, and her name has beengiven to many features of natural scenery, especially in theSouth of England. Near to Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight,alone are St. Catherines Point, St. Catherines Beacon, andSt. Catherines Downs; and a mile from Christchurch, Hants,is St. Catherines Hill. The Catherine Wheel was long afavourite sign with inn-keepers, although after the Reforma-tion, an attempt was made by Protestants to change it intothe Cat and Wheel. In fact, the romantic story of the moreor less apocryphal maiden has taken a remarkably stronghold on the popular imagination, and even in some EngHshchurches dedicated to St. Catherine, a banner bearing hereffigy leaning on her wheel is carried round in procession onthe great feast-days, although her example was scarcel
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The CRS8 Falcon9 returns to Cape Canaveral
Image by Michael Seeley
As of 11pm on Monday night (April 11), no one knew for sure when the #SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” carrying the #CRS8 #Falcon9 would arrive in port. Forums, Twitter, the SpaceX reddit page and Facebook were all full of theories that predicted arrivals as early as midnight and as late as mid-day Tuesday (April 12).
I arrived at Jetty Park at around 11:45pm and found a small group of people already assembled, including ever-talented (and always entertaining) colleagues Julian Leek, Jeff Seibert and Lane Hermann. It was a lovely night, so I set up a camera looking east down the channel and started shooting star trails. Someone had a marine band radio and at around 12:15am we heard the news we were all eagerly awaiting: the captain of the tugboat Elsbeth III told the port pilot boat that they expected to be at “the dogleg” at around 1:30am, after some personnel loading and unloading – this detail started the rumor that Elon Musk himself was being ferried out to the drone ship to inspect the rocket. (As best I know, Elon was not present.)
The tugboat captain also declared via radio that it was “the prettiest night in the history of the world”. While perhaps not the prettiest ever (in the history of the world), it was most certainly a great night to be standing under the stars, waiting for the first stage of a Falcon9 rocket to come home.
About this image: I started the time lapse at 1:02am and let it run until 1:49am. My settings through most of the lapse were ISO400, f4 with an exposure time of 30 seconds. The whole thing is shot through an EF17-40L lens, set to 17mm.
At this point I should also explain that there was one report on Reddit that the Falcon9 was lit, but we weren’t really sure if that was in fact true. (Everything you read on the interwebs, on Reddit in particular, that’s of course all true, right?) As we waited, Julian tested a flash that was so bright Jeff insisted Julian needed to shout “clear” before firing it. We also lined up our cars so they were facing the water so that if the rocket weren’t lit, we’d all turn on our headlights and hope that we could light the rocket.
So imagine our delight when, behind the buildings to the right of the frame (and east of us, toward the pier), we began to just make out the top of the rocket, creeping closer…and it was lit.
As the “OCISLY” carrying the Falcon9 entered the channel, I adjusted the settings to ISO1000 and an exposure of 6 seconds for the last frames in order to bring out just a bit of detail in the rocket – that’s the staggered white line curving around the entrance to the channel. I included one more frame, taken 2 minutes after I stopped the lapse (at 1:47am), to show the lit Falcon9 separate from the streak it created as it moved into the channel. The purple lights are from the tugboat Elsbeth III, and the green and white lines are from the pilot’s boat leaving the channel and there was at least one more tugboat that exited the channel before the rocket entered the port.
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Graffiti translation:Dragon in a cave
Taken on:18.10.2010
Place:
City:Postojna
Country:SLOVENIA
Comment:This is a nicely drawn graffiti of a dragon in a cave (assuming it is a Postojna cave). A book was written about a dragon who lived in a Postojna cave. Every local person knows these facts and the dragon is a sort of a simbol to them. Nowdays he lives in a form of a "human" fish who only lives in underground waters in Kras.
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* Recommended Read on USA Today’s Happy Ever After blog. * The Fault in Our Stars “Extraordinary Love” Reading List selection * The Best of Me “Southern Love” Reading List selection Falling in love changes everything… Three bad things I learned this year:-People you trust lie, even parents.
-That hot guy, the one who’s totally into you, he might not be the one.
-Things are not always how they appear.
Three good things I learned this year:
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Moto Q9h
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Company phone it seems… chaining me to my Outlook email. At least I’m allowed to make personal calls! And, maybe even flickr from the phone 🙂
First impressions in the box are good. It looks quite ok despite having a large ugly keyboard. It is definitely a Motorola. It comes with a charging dock with a spare charging slot for a second battery. Is that a hint to it’s short standby time, so typical of WM devices? Still, it reminded me of my first mobile phone, a Motorola MicroTAC I-888 that we got for from Crazy John, who sadly passed away yesterday.
I turn it on to be greeted by Windows Mobile 6, and it’s all downhill from there!
Then I read Gizmodo’s mini Moto Q9m review…
I just got my hands on the first Moto Q9m, and after a couple of hours, I’m ready to send it right back. Seriously, if you buy this phone, you are dumb.
… and I agree. Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Edition sucks! At least I get a 512MB microSD with it. Full specs below.
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– Moto Q9h in box
– Moto Q9h
– Holmesglen Station – taken with Moto Q9h
Moto Q9h specifications:
Motorola Q 9h
Full Specifications
See what’s waiting for you inside your MOTO Q 9h.
All the features you need for mobile freedom and productivity packed into an ultra-thin smartphone.
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Fun Features
* Integrated 2.0 megapixel camera
* Windows Media® Player Mobile
* Video capture with sound and playback
* Dual stereo-quality speakers
* Supports most popular audio and video formats
* Removable microSD™ cards for extendable storage of documents, photos, music and video
* 256MB of built in memory7
* Send photos, video clips, text and sound1
* Browse the web with HSDPA 3.6 Mbps and Opera (HTML)1
* 30 fps Video playback
Call Management Features
* Call contacts or open applications with advanced speech recognition
* Built in hands free speakerphone
* Time and Date Stamp
* Photo-caller ID1
* Virtually unlimited address book (dependent on available memory)
Messaging Features1
* View or Edit (Microsoft Word™, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft® Excel™ files) [feature depends on operator and configuration]*
* View .PDF files*
* Unzip zip archives and email attachments*
* Manage personal information with Outlook Mobile (Inbox, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks)
* Supports multiple email (inboxes): POP3/IMAP4 and Microsoft Exchange
* SMS
* Multimedia Messaging (MMS)*
* Group SMS*
* IM*
* Network and software dependent features may not be available into markets/carriers.
Lifestyle Features
* Windows Media Player Mobile
* Photo-caller ID
* 2-Mega pixel camera with digital zoom
* Calculator
* Alarm Clock
* Outlook Mobile
* Ambient light sensors to adjust backlight automatically
Performance Features
* Bands: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; UMTS 2100
* Standard Battery: 1100 mAh Lithium Ion
* Bluetooth: wireless technology supports Bluetooth Headset/Hands-free and Stereo Profiles8
* Synchronization: ActiveSync® with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack2, and Windows Mobile Device Center
* Motorola MicroUSB connector
Data Features
* GPRS/EDGE Class 12
* HSDPA 3.6Mbps
* Memory (FLASH/RAM): 256MB / 96MB7
* Removable Memory: Micro SD up to 4GB
Technical Specifications
* Weight : 132g
* Volume : 85 cc
* Dimensions (H x W x D) : 118×66.7×11.8mm
* Display : 2.4" 320×240 65K TFT
* Colour : Black
* Form Factor : Tablet
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2 All talk and standby times are quoted in Digital Mode, and are approximate. Battery performance depends on network configuration, signal strength, operating temperature, features selected, and voice, data and other application usage patterns.
3 The use of wireless phones and/or headphones while engaged in activities requiring concentration may cause distraction or otherwise impair your ability to safely participate in such activities. Always use technology safely.
4 Operates in many major cities and countries where GSM network coverage and roaming agreements are present.
6 Data transmission speed is approximate and depends on the traffic on the network. Actual speeds will vary, and are often less than the maximum possible.
7 Available user memory varies due to the configuration of the phone, which varies by service provider.
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Not along for the ride.
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It has been an uncharacteristically busy and social week. It seems that numerous lessons have been somewhat internalized.
I think I have been willing to go along for the ride more than has been in my best interest. I am beginning to think that maybe sometimes it is better to get where I want to go by walking my own path. It takes longer sometimes. I get to meet the most amazing and interesting people along the trail. And most importantly I get the art made. Art is a funny thing (for lack of better terminology). I don’t know if I am able to discern the difference between my art and my life any more .. or if I ever could?
Some friends were over this evening. We had iced tea and dessert. The iced tea was a mixture of regular Good Host regular iced tea, brewed decaffeinated green tea, a bit of refined sugar and satsuma and navel orange slices served in tall glasses with colourful animal swizzle sticks. The thing that seems to fascinate my guests are the orange slices! It is so simple.
1. Buy orange.
2. Wash orange.
3. Peel and/or slice orange.
4. Place orange in jug of so-strong-it-could-peel-paint iced tea.
5. Serve over ice with a smile.
It makes my guests feel important! I like that.
So yeah .. I decided to be a bit more choosey as to who is doing my driving. I feel a lot more relaxed, can stand being in my head and I make a lot more art. I’m enjoying the journey more! 🙂 Hopefully I will get to meet and learn from you along the way.
Something cool happened the other day. An opportunity arose that I could have been a righteous ass to someone that hasn’t always been very kind to me but I decided that I would rather be kind. Not in a “I’m kind to you because I am better than you” kind of way but in a “I can see that I have the opportunity to make a life better and prevent or take away pain from someone and that makes me happy” sort of kind. Also, I finally figured out that I could be either “right”eous or I could be happy. I dunno ‘bout you but happy always has the ability to last a heck of a lot longer than being right! 😉
Short gratitude list:
1. I am thankful for the people and lessons I have interacted with this week.
2. I am thankful for making healthy choices this week.
3. I am thankful for choosing to Make Art this week (11 pages yesterday!)
4. I am thankful for being surrounded by beautiful flowers. I adore flowers. I have seen a few different kinds of Scabiosa this week.
5. I am thankful for Steven Pressfield’s book, The War of Art.
6. I am thankful for the gift of friendship.
7. I am thankful for getting better at giving good and great gifts. I am thankful that I am working on and improving at receiving gifts. 🙂
8. I am thankful for being gifted a book called, The Elegance of the Hedgehog this evening! (is gifted used correctly in that case?) I am going to be increasing and refining my vocabulary a lot with this book I am certain! I am really thankful for text to speech software because it helps me read more comprehensively! 🙂
9. I am thankful for being more aware of the yapping that goes on in my head! Namely that if my head is off on a diatribe about how irritated I think I am with someone else’s actions it is a loud and irritating indication that I need to check my own door step first and make some changes. Telling myself to check my own door step first sure shuts the voice in my head up real quick! 🙂 The art gets made. The shipping gets shipped! 🙂
10. I am thankful that I have so much to be thankful for .. like my health! 🙂
Breeze within Breeze
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This is what happens when you hit "Preview" while screen-sharing in Breeze. Yes, that’s right, screen-sharing on the Mac, finally!
Also, take control of another screen (Mac or Win), or just videochat/present/whiteboard. And text chat. And run applications. And… whatever. It’s FLASH.
They upgraded my meeting room to Breeze 5.0 this weekend. The office just got a facelift!
Daegonlot: a floating island separated from the mainland of Darkenfel, and home to the last of the dragonriders. They have settled in the city of Goldenspine and allowed the rest of the world to forget them.
At 16 years old, Daxon knew he was too old to be chosen to be a dragonrider. On his way home one night he was surprised when a wild dragon’s egg was left in his care by the largest dragon he had ever seen. Agreeing to raise and protect the as yet unhatched egg, his hopes to b
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August 30, 2014: Flight 4 (Group B)
Parabolic Flight Week (2 weeks combined), August 15-30, 2014
Platform: C-9B
Location: JSC/Ellington Field
Photographer: NASA/Geeseman
Technologies tested during this August 2014 parabolic flight campaign:
T0029-P Physics of Regolith Impacts in Microgravity Experiment PI: Josh Colwell, University Of Central Florida
T0047-P Boston University Student Proposal for Deployable Solar and Antenna Array Microgravity Testing PI: Theodore Fritz, Boston University
T0096-P Testing the deployment and rollout of the DragEN electrodynamic tether for CubeSats PI: Jason Held, Saber Astronautics Australia Pty. Ltd.
T0105-P DYMAFLEX: DYnamic MAnipulation FLight EXperiment PI: David Akin, University of Maryland
T0129-P Testing of a Microgravity Rock Coring Drill Using Microspines PI: Aaron Parness, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0130-P Reinventing the wheel: parabolic flight validation of reaction spheres
PI: Alvin Yew, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Emory Stagmer (Co-I), Northrop Grumman
T0132-P Effects of Microgravity on Intracranial Pressure PI: Benjamin Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Douglas Hamilton (Co-I), Wyle Laboratories, Inc.
T0133-P Payload Separation Performance of a New 6U CubeSat Canisterized Satellite Dispenser PI: Hans-Peter Dumm, Air Force Research Lab / Space Vehicles
T0134-P Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Microgravity, Phase II (Arterial Stiffness) PI: Gregory Kovacs, Stanford University
T0136-P Dragon V2 PMD Microgravity Testing PI: Robin Titus, Space Exploration Technologies
T0138-P Reduced Gravity Flight Demonstration of SPHERES INSPECT PI: Alvar Saenz Otero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
T0140-P Lunar Plant Habitat PI: Chris McKay, NASA/Ames Research Center
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Little Mekong Night Market. St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Capt. Dan Davison, the assistant operations officer for 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division and Capt. Ryne Klauer, the 1st BCT, 1st CD aviation officer pose for a photo at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, June 15. Davison, Klauer and several other Soldiers from the 1st BCT had the opportunity to tour Berlin after completing the Oderlander Marsch. The Oderlander Marsch is an annual partnered march from Kuestrin, Poland to Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany between the German, Czech and Polish armies. Represented by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, this is the first year that the American Army has participated in the event. The march is one of the many multi-national events utilized to build partnerships and maintain relationships within NATO.
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Brig. Gen. Walter Piatt, commander of the Joint Multi-National Training Command, presents an award to CPT Micah Chapman, the assistant brigade operations officer for 1st Brigade Combat Team at a small award ceremony on Hohenfels Training area during Combined Resolve II (U.S. Army photo by Capt. John Farmer, 1st BCT, 1st CD Public Affairs).
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Take me to Mars
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Seen at SpaceX headquarters this afternoon: a huge image of Mars adorns the wall to Elon and Gwynne’s offices. Keeping an eye on the prize.
A special delivery arrived in the back room – the Dragon spacecraft sits in a glass box clean room with scientists all around performing post-flight analysis. It looks like an alien craft in the secret lair of Area 51, evoking gasps from even the SpaceX executives when they first set eyes upon it. (I had a similar reaction)
Update: a short SpaceX video on the path to Mars
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Stockholm, Sweden 066 – Storkyrkan (eastern facade)
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Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Saint Nicolaus Church), most commonly known as Storkyrkan (The Great Church) is the oldest church in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is an important example of Swedish Brick Gothic. Situated next to the Royal Palace, it forms the western end of Slottsbacken, the major approach to the Royal Palace, while the streets Storkyrkobrinken, Högvaktsterrassen, and Trångsund passes north and west of it respectively. South of the church is the Stockholm Stock Exchange Building facing the Stortorget square and containing the Swedish Academy, Nobel Library, and Nobel Museum.
Storkyrkan was first mentioned in a written source dated 1279, and became a Lutheran Protestant church in 1527. The parish church since the Middle Ages of the Nikolai parish, covering the whole island on which the Old Town stands, it has also been the cathedral of Stockholm since the Diocese of Stockholm was broken out from the Archdiocese of Uppsala and the Diocese of Strängnäs in 1942. The last Swedish king to be crowned here was Oscar II in 1873.
The single-tower church is built of brick, covered in plaster and painted yellow with white details. It originates as a 13th century Gothic structure, but the exterior was substantially remodelled in Baroque style ca 1740 by the architect Johan Eberhard Carlberg.
The most famous of its treasures is the dramatic wooden statue of Saint George and the Dragon attributed to Bernt Notke (1489). The statue, commissioned to commemorate the Battle of Brunkeberg (1471), also serves as a reliquary, containing relics supposedly of Saint George and two other saints. A copy from the early 20th century is found on Österlånggatan just south of the church.
The church also contains a copy of the oldest known image of Stockholm, the painting Vädersolstavlan ("The Sun Dog Painting"), a 1632 copy of a lost original from 1535. The painting was commissioned by the scholar and reformer Olaus Petri, a 19th century statue of whom is found on the eastern side of the church. It depicts a halo display, e.g. sun dogs, which gives the painting its name and in the 16th century was interpreted as a presage.
La Catedral de Estocolmo, conocida en Suecia como Storkyrkan (literalmente Gran Iglesia) o Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Iglesia de San Nicolás), es la iglesia más antigua de Estocolmo y la sede de la diócesis de Estocolmo. Situada cerca del Palacio Real, conforma el extremo oeste de Slottsbacken, mientras las calles Storkyrkobrinken, Högvaktsterrassen, y Trångsund pasan al norte y oeste de ella respectivamente. Al sur de la iglesia está el edificio dela Bolsa de Estocolmo, que enfrenta a la plaza Stortorget y contiene a la Academia Sueca, la Biblioteca y el Museo Nobel.
La iglesia figura por primera vez en una fuente escrita en 1279. Tras la reforma protestante, se convirtió en una iglesia luterana en 1527. Se convirtió en catedral cuando se creó la diócesis de Estocolmo en 1942 a partir de las diócesis de Uppsala y de Strängnäs. El último Rey de Suecia en ser coronado allí, fue Oscar II en 1873.
La iglesia, de una sola torre, está construida de ladrillo repellado y pintados sus muros de amarillo con detalles en blanco. Su estilo original corresponde al gótico del siglo XIII, pero el exterior fue remodelado de manera importante en estilo barroco cerca de 1740 por el arquitecto Johan Eberhard Carlberg.
El más famoso de sus tesoros es la dramática imagen en madera de San Jorge y el dragón, presumiblemente del siglo XV y atribuida a Berndt Notke.La estatua fue encargada para conmemorar la batalla de Brunkeberg (1471), sirve de relicario, pues contiene unas supuestas reliquias de San Jorge y otros dos santos. Una copia de principios del siglo 20 está en Österlånggatan al lado sur de la iglesia.
Asimismo, la iglesia contiene una copia de la más antigua imagen conocida de Estocolmo, la Vädersolstavlan ("Pintura del Parhelio"), una copia de 1632 del original de 1535 que se perdió. La pintura fue encargada a Olaus Petri, de quién se halla una estatua del siglo 19 en el lado este de la iglesia La pintura muestra un halo solar, o parhelio, que le dá a la pintura su nombre y en el siglo 16 fue interpretada como un presagio.
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Three strangely conflicting facts that may help to confirm a thesis expressed in "The Wealth of Nations," that nations have somethings that they are better at than others, and perhaps the main cultural theory of Timothy Takemoto (me).
Much computer hardware is made in Japan or by Japanese companies in Asia, or at least by Asians. In many areas of hardware, the Japanese take the lead. Toyota will soon put Ford and General Motors out of business even in the United States. General Motors sells hardly any cars in Japan, other than the occasional opel, to my wife.
On the other hand, generally, Japanese software is poor. There is no Japanese operating system, no popular Japanese spread sheet software, and the only well known Japanese word processing software "Ichi Taro" is loosing fast to Word. Even the Kanji input software Atok is fighting to survive against Microsoft’s "IME."
There is one area of software where the Japanese lead the world: video games. North Americans use the phrase "do nintendo," to describe the act of playing with a video game whether the software was created by that Japanese company or not.
Why are the Japanese good at making computers, cars, and video games, but bad at other forms of software (and banking)? I claim it is because they are good at things that they can see, whereas Westerners are good at things that can be said.
Chao-William, waiter, Ian, Deep
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