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Monday, April 13, 2015
Southern California Spotlight: The Magic Mushroom - I'm Gone/Cry Baby
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When I interviewed Chris Gaylord and Mike Allen back in the '80s they were a bit vague about whether they actually played on this record. Since then I've figured out that they most likely didn't join the Magic Mushroom until after this single had been recorded and released as the Sons. The Sons made two previous singles as the California Sons and members included Gary Williams, Rocky Lucia (now a famous radio personality as Ray Lucia), and John Buell. Gary recalls that the harmonica on "I'm Gone" was played by a member of the Seeds — could it have been Sky? I think more likely a Seeds associate. I will have to unravel the whole Sons/Magic Mushroom saga for a future issue of Ugly Things.ReplyDeleteReplies
Good info Mike. Was that UT #3? That was a watershed issue for all. Sadly my copy got lent out to never return. I may have to go to the UT webstore to fix this gap.Delete
I kinda wondered if Gaylord was actually on this based on his comment in another interview that he had never heard of The Sons. Vague memories at best.
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2014 at 6:44 AM
Phenomenal. Both sides are just phenomenal. And thanks for the downloadReplyDelete
Pure greatness. Cry Baby has a distinct surf sound to it and the refrain reminds me of a Beach Boys song. Perhaps the refrain to Fun Fun Fun.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hadn't really thought of Cry Baby as a surf song, but you are right. The drums are vintage Wipe Out. The chorus very lush and, while I personally don't hear Fun, Fun, Fun, have a tight connection to that very California sound of surf.Delete
What a killer disc.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was lucky enough to pick this record up in a store in San Diego back in the 80s. Probably had to shell out a whole $2 for the mint copy.Delete
I've got a copy. Anyone interested?ReplyDelete
I've got this as a 45 marked "PROMOTION NOT FOR SALE". Anyone interested?ReplyDelete


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The second Face-to-Face meeting of the GEO Task Force was held on Monday and Tuesday 3-4 March 2003, in Cam bridge, Massachusetts, at the W3C Technical Plenary.
See also the pages for agenda and meeting logistics.
We have had 3 more people apply for WG membership. Richard will process this on his return to the UK.
We reviewed http://www.w3.org/International/geo/framework/ and raised the questions listed below for any areas where there was disagreement or need for more discussion.
There then followed a discussion about the questions...
Decision: Replace the use of the term 'database' with 'repository'.
Agreed: We should plan to move the framework document to the TR space as a working draft as soon as possible after the FTF.
We should add information about how our approach and reader needs are different from those of WCAG - ie. less checking, no legal constraints, variety of possible solutions, etc.
Agreed: People we are writing for are content authors, ie. implementors of HTML.
Agreed: We will focus on traditional user agents (browsers) for now, but not rule out the possibility of addressing PDAs and other devices for a later date.
Agreed: We will not include another technology for now, as we have plenty of work to do with HTML and CSS.
Agreed: Benefits statements to support techniques could be helpful.
Agreed: We should document the way things are (given user agent limitations) and the way they should be, but we must signal clearly where things do not currently work on browser implementations.
The group was concerned about users removing important information inadvertently through filtering.
Agreed: We will complete a full version first, without filters. Nor will we create new templates the reflect only partial information - such as for people who only want to implement pages in Arabic. We will however consider the possibility of using additional columns beside directives in the outline view to convey information about what scripts that directive is relevant to, as long as there is space.
Suggestion: To represent browser-specific information, use columns to the left of directives in the outline view. As we expand the number of browsers for which we have information, we could allow the user to select which columns are visible.
Suggestion: It may be a good idea to include Prereading. (e.g. "To understand this passage fully, please read the following:")
Suggestion: We could go to a W3C NOTE for stable documents, rather than follow the REC track.
Agreement: We should release an official updated version every 6 months.
Suggestion: We could add information about things you have to do, vs things that are good to do if you can, vs. things that are nice to do (eg. if you have an intern available).
Suggestion: In reference to item #10 in the Audience and Scope section of the Framework document, we may want to have different versions to serve the different needs of the localization industry.
Suggestion: Needs for localizability should be listed in the document.
Agreed: A collapsed view like that at http://www.w3.org/International/geo/upload/2003/02/html-authoring-ch.html showing only directives would be useful. We should call this an 'outline view', rather than a checklist view. It would also be useful to add additional information alongside each directive referring to applicability of particular browser versions. We could also allow the user to specify that they would like to see additional information such as cross-references and/or browser-specific notes. The user should also be able to also link to the the full document to see descriptions or resources related to a particular topic. The outline view would be for expert users.
Agreement: Authoring Site Techniques should not be a checklist because people may think that this is all that needs to be done.
Suggestion: Provide a simple, outlined format for expert users.
Suggestion: Include clickable entities that show how to accomplish a task in a particular technology.
Agreement: Default should be how to do things that will work in both browsers, but we will also include how to do things that will only work in particular browsers/os (e.g. vertical text).
Agreement: Task is the most important thing for us to focus on (i.e. what users are trying to do). The point is how best to help the user.
Agreement: Assume no knowledge of I18N.
Agreement: Assume knowledge of basic HTML.
Note: We should not use the word scripts to refer to languages, as it may be confusing for programmers.
QA (Quality Assurance) committee is working to improve W3C specifications by designing a family of guidelines that improve practices and reduce cost of development.
Success stories: DOM, SOAP, SVG, UAAG
The QA group has developed a QA Matrix (i.e. a view of all W3C projects from a QA perspective).
Suggestion: Each working group in the W3C should designate a QA liaison.
Advice: Provide small tidbits of information through e-mails and news so that people keep the group and its outreach methods in mind.
Advice: Make guidelines and recommendations easy to use
Advice: Classify data in types and targets.
Advice: Focus on target audience – clarify scope.
Advice: Explain to the user - Why should this be read? Who should read it? How do you know that you have implemented it correctly?
Advice: Describe test suite and give it to others to incorporate into their test suites.
WAI question: What is a better term for non-native (sic.) languages? This question will be revisited offline.
WAI offer: The I18N GEO group may insert I18N concerns into the WAI guidelines.
Proposal: Establish a horizontal coordination group between WAI and I18N GEO with the possibility of scheduling a group meeting by phone or face-to-face.
Question: Are things easy to find? Is it comprehensive?
Suggestion: Include what to look for in choosing an editor – we could provide a link to this information, as it is not in our charter.
Suggestion: Include advice on how to make sure the user did not get encoding wrong.
Note: Missing direct reference to using NCR's. This could go in the index.
Question: If you have search engine do you need an index?
Agreement: Yes, an index would be helpful.
Suggestion: Link elements can be used for pointing to alternative views of a page.
Note: Ask WCAG about correct terminology - document or page?
Answer: WCAG uses the term 'content', in order to include dynamic entities.
Suggestion: In item #3, we should add a section on including non-Latin characters in an internationalized page.
Question: What is the best way to incorporate background information?
Suggestion: Russ brought up a concern about item #8, Tables – decided to return to this later.
Suggestion: Regarding item #16, when talking about data for different locales, make sure that we mention both display and recognition of input data.
Question: Where should we address frames used for navigation?
Agreement: Use of frames for navigation could fall under item #1.3, International Layout Considerations.
Suggestion: In some cases we may recommend or discourage certain technologies.
Suggestion: Tex and Russ proposed that the group keep a "to do" list separate from the final presentation.
Question: Should file management/organization be added to the TOC?
Suggestion: We may want to provide a document that presents a suggested sequence for users, but not yet.
Agreement: In regard to content generation, group members provide content to editors, who process it for publication.
1 Document structure & metadata 1.1 Internationalizing the page header 1.2 International layout considerations talk about frames 1.3 Document structure 1.4 Sentence fragmentation and re-use 1.5 Ordering text 1.6 Separating semantics from presentation 2 Character sets, character encodings and entities 2.1 Choosing a page encoding 2.2 Specifying the page encoding 2.3 Referring to specific characters 2.4 Specifying the encoding of a link destination 3 Fonts 3.1 Choosing & specifying fonts 3.2 Dealing with undisplayable characters 3.3 Installing multilingual fonts 3.4 Pages containing multiple languages 4 Specifying the language of content 4.1 Identifying the primary language 4.2 Identifying language change 4.3 Specifying the language of a link destination 4.4 Specifying language codes 5 Handling bidirectional text 5.1 Setting directionality for an entire document 5.2 Changing directional properties for a part of the text 5.3 Overriding the Unicode bidirectional algorithm 5.4 Handling parentheses & other mirrored characters 5.5 Enabling mirroring of layout 6 Supporting vertical text 7 Text formatting 7.1 Emphasis 7.2 Acronyms & abbreviations 7.3 Quotations 7.4 Ruby 8 Lists 8.1 Implementing language-specific list markers 9 Tables 9.1 Mirroring tables in bidirectional text 9.2 Specifying table dimensions 9.3 Alignment issues 9.4 (Other stuff) 10 Links 10.1 Keyboard access to links 10.2 Using non-ASCII characters in link targets 10.3 Including encoding and language information in links 10.4 Linking in a multilingual site 11 Objects 11.1 Determining the runtime locale for an object 11.2 Dealing with embedded objects with different encodings 12 Images 12.1 Creating culturally appropriate graphics 12.2 Using text in graphics 12.3 Using image maps 12.4 Using color 12.5 Dealing with directional bias in graphics 12.6 Creating localisable graphics 13 Handling data that varies by locale 13.1 Date & time 13.2 Numbers 13.3 Currency, measurements, addresses, telephone numbers, personal names, paper sizes... 14 Forms 14.1 Dealing with character sets & encodings 14.2 Keyboard access to forms 14.3 Creating culturally appropriate forms 14.4 Creating buttons 15 Keyboard shortcuts 16 Writing source text 16.1 Writing clear, understandable text 16.2 Using metaphors, examples and humour 16.3 Using abbreviations & acronyms 17 Text formatting 17.1 Emphasis 17.2 Acronyms & abbreviations 17.3 Quotations 17.4 Ruby 17.5 Use of pre text 17.6 Visual style conventions 18 Navigation 18.1 Navigating to the preferred localised web site 18.2 Implementing international contact pages 19 File management 20 Supplying data for localisation
Note: we still need to review the topics relating specifically to CSS and add these.
Suggestion: Guideline might consist of multiple steps.
Suggestion: There could be a rationale section in addition to a "just do it" section.
Suggestion: Arabic examples should be used in addition to Hebrew to show impartiality.
Suggestion: Text that is visually ordered should be converted to logically ordered.
Suggestion: Steps should be clear and annotated.
Action: Tex agreed to write bullet items to outline 5.1 for Richard.
Action: Tex and Martin decided to work together to resolve CSS issues in item #5.2.
Agreed: We should add a guidelines section about how to display non-ASCII examples
Suggestion: Add section on how to handle printing issues.
Agreed: We will provide upper and lower case Latin examples to show Arabic and Hebrew directionality in addition to Arabic and/or Hebrew examples.
Agreed: We will link to a .pdf version to show examples of non-ASCII for those who have display problems.
Agreed: Content submitters should not expect what they submit to be reproduced without change in the finished document. Editors will take the ideas from the submitted content and write the final text. Submitters should send in ideas: principally, rules, points to go in the descriptions, and resource pointers. It is not necessary to use the HTML template supplied earlier, but you can if you want to.
Note that at a later stage contributors may markup up versions of the actual document to suggest edits.
Suggestion: We could include an item that says to not rely on char set, as it may not work for return of character encoding.
Recommendation: Use xforms although this does not always work. Because it is unreliable, it would be a good idea to get confirmation from the user.
WCAG strives for guidelines that are:
Checklist is provided with checkpoints that are objective, testable, and technology agnostic.
Goal: Someone developing a page should not have to look in separate places for guidelines.
IBM representative question 1: What is the correct way of handling different encore?
IBM representative question 2: Are there guidelines on the degree of difficulty in providing translated versions of different languages?
WCAG Plans: Develop a resource page on how to annotate markup to reduce ambiguities –will cc this to us.
Terminology Question: WCAG uses the word content instead of page or document. User agent is used instead of browser.
Suggestion: I18N review of WCAG material - WCAG review of I18N material.
Suggestion: Take two documents and get them to satisfy both WCAG and I18N guidelines in a joint effort - proposed by Tex.
Agreement: We will keep PF in the loop.
Commitment: Identify points of convergence between the work of I18N GEO and WCAG, and engage in active joint exploration.
The chair of the Internationalization Working Group is Richard Ishida (W3C). The chair of the Web Services Task Force is Addison Phillips (webMethods, Inc.). The staff contact of the Internationalization Working Group and the Web Services Task Force is Martin Dürst (email@example.com). The chair and staff contact of the the GEO Task Force is Richard Ishida (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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A quality fleet management company or system will help lower the risks a company assumes, increase security and safety, while improving efficiency and productivity. Monitoring the fleet is another important aspect of fleet management that is extremely important, as is vehicle profiling and trip efficiency. This is often done via GPS fleet tracking.
Any company that owns a fleet of vehicles will need to find a way to secure a full cycle fleet management system, whether they handle it in-house or outsource it. Doing so is very important. Smart vehicle acquisition with considerations being made to cost and fuel is crucial. Taking care of a fleet of vehicles by taking preventative measures, creating driver safety programs and then monitoring them is all very important. Tracking vehicles and then later disposing of them, are also important aspects of proper fleet management.
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The 152-page book includes more than 200 rich colour images of Eichhorn's curious cat collages, which feature felines balancing plants (and sometimes shells or minerals) on their furry heads. There are Calicos and cactuses, Siamese and succulents, and so much more. As part of the release of the book, the publication is also offering limited edition prints(100 only) that you can purchase by the artist called 'House Plant Print'.
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Philips and I: a few snapshots
I was working at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam when I was introduced to the people who built computers at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. It was a type of people I did not know, I found them very strange and they did not inspire confidence at all. Later I learned that I had been introduced to electronic engineers.
In Eindhoven they built the "Peter" and the "Pascal", and then Philips started its computer industry in Apeldoorn, where —if I remember the numbers correctly— the P1000 and the P1400 were developed in the 60s. I went to the festive inauguration of one of those machines; their demonstration was the algorithm for the shortest path, which I had used about a decade earlier for the inauguration of the ARMAC. I remember finding those guys a little lacking in originality; I was not given any credit.
At the Technological University Eindhoven, where I had gone in 1962, I had to build up a group in Computing Science. By the end of the decade we had the world's leading centre in operating system design, but Philips Apeldoorn hired none of my pupils, and a few years later Philips had to fold up its mainframe business. I remember the shock of seeing my potential domestic market being wiped out and the (difficult) conclusion that as a professor I would work for export only.
While I combined the functions of Burroughs Research Fellow and of Professor Extraordinarius at the T.U. Eindhoven, I had the misfortune of inventing a possibly patentable solution under circumstances that made it totally unclear whether the patent would belong to Burroughs or to Philips. In an effort to sort out that mess, I drove with Ir. P.J.P.G. Simons to Köln where we would meet a few relevant Burroughs officials; Ir. Simons was Adjunct Director of "Octrooien & Merken" (= Patents & Trademarks) at Philips. He was a nice, interesting and knowledgeable man, we had never met before but turned out to have a number of common acquaintenances, and an animated conversation evolved effortlessly. At a given moment he asked in a tone of some disbelief "Did I understand correctly that you never lived in the United States?". I confirmed that impression, upon which he asked in utter amazement
"But how could you then become an expert in your area?" ["Maar hoe hebt U dan een expert op Uw gebied kunnen worden?"] When I told this story to Ria, she immediately guessed my answer, viz. "By creating the area myself.".
Please remind yourself of Simons's question, each time you hear people complaining about "the cultural imperialism" of the USA: if there is such a thing, the USA seems to be the last country to blame for it.
Nuenen, 21 December 2001
Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188
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Sri MGR Year 97, 9th October, Thursday
Vendhar TV is going to telecast a new program titled "Thadam Pathithavargal". The program is an effort to present the stories of men and women who had achieved the pinnacle of success, their raise from ordinary to the extraordinary. The first episode will be our Puratchi Thalaivar MGR story.
Thadam Pathithavargal will be telecasted every Sunday the duration of the program is half hour, 1 pm to 1.30 pm. Please watch the program. The news was forwarded by MGR's bodyguard K.P.Ramakrishnan's son Govindaraj.
According to Vendhar media site the program is scheduled to be aired on 12 pm.


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A Musical
By Michael Tester
Hailed by The New York Times as "A Masterful Mix of Fact & Fantasy", Hollywood Exposed! is a small scale musical spoof, in the tradition of Forbidden Broadway and Nunsense.
Bijou Bette The Usherette, leads the audience in a film trivia and look-a-like contest, before hosting the evening's "sneak previews" of original songs and sketches saluting the motion picture industry; from the scream queens of Screamgirls, to the dancing Sopranos of Don Lake - film references fly, as a cavalcade of Hollywood icons come to life!
"A masterful mix of fact and fantasy" … The New York Times
Hollywood Exposed! has received numerous professional productions, including an open Equity run at the Actor's Playhouse, South Florida's leading theatre, and launching venue for the Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors.
Bijou Bette's Trivia Quiz
Submit your answers to email@example.com to be eligible for a cheesy Hollywood prize!
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The New York Times
October 4, 1992
Hollywood Is Spoofed In Musical
By Leah D. Frank
A few years ago, Hollywood Exposed! had it premiere at the small Second Stage Theater of Theater Three in Port Jefferson. Since then, its composer, lyricist and director, Michael Tester, has been writing and rewriting to hone the rough spots. The result is an utterly charming new version of Hollywood Exposed!.
The film industry has recently been exploring the effects of mingling cartoon characters with human characters to create an unusual blend of fiction and fantasy. In Hollywood Exposed! Mr. Tester is able to add more dimensions to those effects, because he is dealing with live actors.
There are actors who mingle with the audience, the theater usher who turns out to be a character in the play and film characters who are played by the cast. There is throughout Hollywood Exposed! a masterly mix of fiction, fantasy and reality.
The show opens, as most shows do, when the lights go down. Before that, however, the woman who turns out to be the star of Hollywood Exposed! banters with the audience in the theater lobby, gives general information like where the restrooms and exits are and is the chief usher.
She also leads an audience warm-up of questions and answers on movie trivia. It is not until the show begins, in fact, that the audience is aware that this warm, funny woman is not only a splendid usher, but that she is also Susan Jeffares, who plays Bijou Bette, the central character in Hollywood Exposed!
As Bijou Bette, with her red-sequined pillbox hat, her bright red jacket with gold braids and huge movie-memorabilia buttons, Ms. Jeffares is a quintessential fan. She is plain and dumpy with her frizzy red hair and her blue cotton housedress. But when she dons her sparkling hat and red jacket to lead people to their seats in the theater, which is decorated as a movie house, she becomes the someone special who is part of the glitter and glamour of Hollywood.
Here, she is a flashlight-twirling monarch, and her subjects had better think twice about talking during the film or, heaven forbid, smoking in the nonsmoking section.
Bijou Bette blusters, bullies and shouts, but it is obvious that her life' passion is the movies. Ms. Jeffares radiates pleasure from every sequin as she leads the audience and the talented energetic cast through a wacky memory lane of Mr. Tester's skewed film world.
The show is a series of small musical skits like Friday the 13th - the Ballet, in which an actor points a gun and says, "Go ahead, make my plié." This is also the number in which the enthusiastic cast gathers in excitement about the fact that slasher films are being made. "Come on, kids!" one shouts. "Let's put on a show. The machetes are in the barn!"
Then there is the Pocahontas Polka, in which Elmer Fudd dances with wolves in Singin' in the Wayne. Maria Von Trapp does a commercial for Valium, in which she holds up a pill bottle and trills, "These are a few of my favorite things."
Ms. Jefares, who steals the show with her commanding presence, delightful smile and enormous talent, is backed by five multitalented actors who take on a variety of roles.
Although Mr. Tester needs to do a small amount of additional work before he can call Hollywood Exposed! finished, this production is as good as can be imagined.
The set, designed by Len Borovay and Daniel R. Lowis, incorporates giant film reels, life-size photos of John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean and a decoupage of film-magazine photographs, posters, popcorn boxes and shining stars made of foil. Mr. Tester's direction is smooth and effective, and the musicians are good enough to put on a show of their own.
Hollywood Exposed! is one of the first shows produced by the Victory Theater. What it lacks in money, it makes up for with imagination and theatrical daring. Starmites, a production early this year, indicated that the group was one to watch, and Hollywood Exposed! only adds to the initial favorable impression.
Miami Sun-Sentinel
February 9, 1991
Satirical comedy exposes 'pun' with Hollywood
By Bill Von Maurer
There's a punny Valentine awaiting crisis-weary theatergoers at the Actors' Playhouse in Kendall.
Hollywood Exposed! has opened - no, that's not quite right - has burst forth at the movie house turned theater.
You have heard of theater of the absurd. Now enjoy theater of the outrageous. Hollywood Exposed! is surely that. It's loaded right up to the laugh line with puns, spoofs, satire, songs and takeoffs, with Hollywood movies as its target. Its cast is young, talented, rakish and self-parodying. It's simply great at a time when heavy, meaningful fare is all over the small theater menu in South Florida.
Hollywood Exposed! in its original version premiered in New York almost three years ago. Now it is here, freshened up by its creator Michael Tester and served up anew for the delectation of South Florida audiences.
Tester - author, composer and director - clearly has a genius for this kind of high-flying entertainment. His wit is mercurial and his rhymes mirthful.
The Actors' Playhouse staff makes a joyful noise unto hilarity. They are: Donna Kimball, Paul Louis, Laurie Miller, Ariane Nicole, Francisco Padura and Fermin Rojas. All of them are with-it performers, each one giving an outstanding segment sometime during the evening. It would be unfair to single any one of them out. This is ensemble comedy at its zaniest.
Tester has directed at top speed. The blackouts are so fast they have you blinking just to keep up.
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Engineering a product is a risky and complicated process and the cost of building it wrong has never been higher. The number of new features users and customers expect with each new release continues to increase at a frantic pace, along with expectations for improved ease of use, higher reliability and greater safety features. With much more embedded software in these products, design errors can go undetected until after the products have been shipped and sold. These problems are largely a result of the complexity associated with product design. To address today's manufacturing challenges, companies are adopting the practice of continuous engineering.
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- sewing knit fabrics on a standard sewing machine
- using an overlocker
- how to sew princess seams
- how to sew a panelled bodice
- inserting a flat sleeve
- inserting a set-in sleeve
- how to sew a zip into jersey
- how to hem knit fabrics perfectly
We also go into detail with fitting with our easy-to-use guides:
- how to make a full bust adjustment and small bust adjustment in a princess-seamed bodice
- how to grade between two sizes to get the perfect fit
- how to shorten or lengthen a bodice to suit your body
What is included?
The Intro to Sewing with Knit Fabrics online class includes:
- the Emma Dress and Alice Top PDF patterns (in both tiled and copyshop formats)
- step-by-step video tutorials taught by Lisa Comfort
- written instruction booklets to accompany the videos
- a series of written PDF guides on fitting and adjustments for your body
- size charts, layplans, supplies list
Sizing & Fabric Requirements
Both the Emma Dress and Alice Top come in UK sizes 8-20. See the sizing charts for details of fabric suggestions and requirements.
As well as fabric for both projects, you will also need:
- a 22″ inch invisible zip
- ballpoint sewing machine needles
- stay tape or clear elastic


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Andrea Cochran, ASLA, a preeminent landscape architect, said landscape architects often don't get appreciated for their subtle work because if a "landscape is designed well it looks like nothing has been done. It's hard to sell nothing." As a result, Cochran joked she now shows "before images" in all her presentations. At the National Building Museum, Cochran outlined the many artists who have influenced her work and explained some of her projects that have, in turn, influenced many landscape architects.
Her interest in both art and science drew her to landscape architecture. She wanted to study art but her parents wanted her do something more practical. When she discovered landscape architecture, she believed she found a good fit. Within the field, Cochran has had many careers. She worked with the National Park Service in New England, designed landscapes for U.S. embassies in the Middle East, and spent time with a design-build firm before starting her own practice, which now has 12 people.
Since starting her own firm, she has created her own distinct, contempory style influenced by artists Robert Irwin and Fred Sandback, and landscape architect Dan Kiley. Robert Irwin (see earlier post), a contemporary artist, creates "diminishing views. Some of Irwin's museum pieces require you to move." Like a landscape, "you can only experience them by moving through them."
The relationship between humans and nature intrigues her. She's been inspired by a well-known Japanese rock garden, which she said "is not about the rocks; it's about the space in between the rocks." In the same way, the Lightning Fields in New Mexico "isn't about the lightning but the grid formation of 20 feet stainless steel poles. They create a spatial reference. It's about the scale of nature against the scale of humans."
Some of her projects involve working with artists. Bruce Nauman, a well-known contemporary artist, created a quarter-mile long staircase within a private northern Californian outdoor museum. The stairs' "height changes choreograph your movement through the space." To provide access to the buildings in this site, she didn't want to compete with Nauman but created her own variation made out of CORE-TEN steel and gravel. These are "permeable, quiet, recessive." She likes CORE-TEN because it's a material "upon which the changes in nature can be played out."
For the Curran House, an affordable housing project in San Francisco's rough Tenderloin neighborhood, Cochran created a contemplative garden residents can visit to decompress (see image at top). While she says her work is usually "hard-edged," in this case she used found tree logs to create soft, comfortable custom benches. A water fountain also helps create a meditative space. Bamboo functions as a green wall, hiding views of the gritty building walls.
In a new commission she just won to revitalize the Allegheny Public Square across from the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Cochran will turn an area that "previously felt unsafe" because the central seating area was depressed and hidden from the exterior of the square into a vibrant new public park. After many presentations to the community, Cochran discovered that what they wanted didn't synch up at all with her winning design so she revised so the new park more subtly tells the story of sustainability. With public projects she said it's important to "teach sustainability by using the design." However, instead of "solar collectors made in the shape of dragons," there's now a native meadow and bioswales that teach but "more quietly." An art installation made of metal rods will feature a cloud made from mist. "It will be permeable, glowing."
Cochran's other educational work includes Nueva School, which sewed the "landscape and architecture together in a seamless way." The project, which was done with a very limited budget, incorporates leaves in the pavements to teach students about the nearby trees. The story of the runnel is "also very important" because it demonstrates how stormwater moves onsite.
At the residential scale, one of her major projects in northern california, Stone Edge Farm created a simple yet elegant landscape to manage water. In some areas, leaf litter was left as the landscape in order to protect the Oak trees on site, which "don't like summer water." To deal with water, stormwater was diverted to a dry streambed now filled with succulents. Drought-tolerant meadows mean no water needs to be pumped in. In addition, Cochran salvaged 100-year old olive trees that were about to be cut down, installing them to create a "space that has volume." She also loves the texture of the old trees.
Digging up the site unearthed lots of stones, she asked her client if she could reuse the boulders to create a 100-foot tall pyramid. "He looked at me like I was crazy and then said yes." The pyramid itself is an angled plane of stones. As an object, its "receptive to the changing nature." The added benefit of the pyramid: It hides views of the Llama farm next door.
She said she has received criticism that her work doesn't look like an "ecological landscape." In other words, its "too beautiful so it can't be sustainable." Cochran shows that landscapes can be both sustainable and beautiful and certainly aren't nothing.
Read an interview with Cochran and check out a book on her work.
Image credits: (1) ASLA 2007 Professional Honor Award. Curran House / Marion Brenner, (2) Allegheny Public Square Revitalization / Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, (3) ASLA 2009 Professional Honor Award. Stone Edge Farm / Marion Brenner.


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In Italian bike racing, Angelo Zomegnan is an important, powerful and sometimes sensitive person. The former Gazzetta dello Sport writer is now race director for the Giro d' Italia, Milan-San Remo, Tirreno Adriatico and the Giro di Lombardia, all owned and organized by RCS Sport. You will recall that, having been notified that Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team would not be attending the Giro, choosing the Tour of California instead, Zomegnan chose not to invite the Shack to Tirreno Adriatico either.
Apparently, there was a subsequent agreement, made after Armstrong called Zomegnan directly, to allow Radio Shack to ride in the Giro di Lombardia. In fact, according to the Shack, a contract of some sort was signed guaranteeing them an invitation. Then, Zomegnan decided not to invite the American team after all, and now they have filed a suit in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) seeking to be admitted to the last big Italian race of the season.
It has been alleged that Zomegnan's pique with the Shack began when Armstrong did not appear for Milan-San Remo, as expected. Then, when Armstrong's team opted out of the Giro, the Italian director wrote the squad off entirely. Whether or not this is the case, and remember that Vuelta a España director Javier Guillén also chose not to invite RadioShack to his race this year, is only conjecture, until Zomegnan steps forward and confirms it.
Shack rider Janez Brajkovic finished second at Lombardia in 2008, so RadioShack believes it deserves to be at the race start. Armstrong himself never planned to be at Lombardia, but Levi Leipheimer had the race on his schedule, so two riders with legitimate chances for the overall win suggests the team was taking it seriously.
This week's Group Ride asks the question: What should have happened here? Should Zomegnan have invited the Shacks? Or has RadioShack peed in the proverbial pool? Has their decision not to race the Giro given European race organizers the reason they needed to cross the team off their lists? Is it about Armstrong personally? Or is it about the way the team has conducted themselves?
Image: John Pierce, Photosport International
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Rod Diaz
It appears that the shack was invited, after all. I ignore what was behind the scenes here.
It's just an example of how a 'new world' cycling team has to interact with race organizers with an 'old world' mentality.
Shack thought that explaining that their sponsors didn't much have an interest in paying for a 'B' team to ride the Giro. Classic Late-20th century corporate rationality.
RCS obviously took offense. Probably because they see an INVITATION to their race as an HONOR. They're throwing a party and Shack had to stay home and wash their hair.
Shack should have sucked it up, sent a 'B' team and said: 'We are very excited to be invited to the Giro, we may be unable to contend for the overall, but will ride with an eye for stage wins and breakaway opportunities. It is a beautiful race.'
Both entities acted predictably. But when you're working across borders and languages, honor/respect is important.
I agree with JZA here. RS should have just sucked it up and rode the Giro. Just bad form to refuse an invitation to one of the three Grand Tours, and for the Tour of California no less! RS got their butt smacked as they should and maybe now they understand that respect goes a long way.
Does anyone really believe that the invitation just got lost in the mail? Really? And RS appealed to CAS before calling RCS? I don't buy it for a second. More like Zomegnan tried to stiff them, and then had to back track to avoid fiscal liability issues.
Am I reading this wrong?
I think 'jza' is on the money here and I think this entire situation is a microcosm of where cycling is 'at' during the last couple of years.
Remember the 'ProTour'? Wasn't it supposed to guarantee starting places for the 'ProTour' Teams? And didn't the UCI very quickly find out that it did not have the muscle to enforce it's own rules!
Road Cycling is at a junction. There are no traffic lights, traffic circles (we call them 'round-a-bouts' here in Australia, in case you are wondering what the heck they are saying in a couple of weeks) or lane markings. The Sport either goes 100% Commercial, with a properly organised and committed 'Pro Tour' or it stays the same as forever and we have the annual 'Gunfights at the OK Corral'
To comment on this individual situation, I think there is as much animosity toward Bruyneel as there is Armstrong. The guy has an ego the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Both of them seem not to have realised that their combined pulling power is not what it used to be. And I have to admit a certain sense of satisfaction in Zomegnan's actions and in RS not getting the Vuelta invite. It's childish I know, but don't you like it when the schoolyard bully gets 'schooled' by the High School kids?
Maybe I´m wrong but I feel a deja vu thing. Actually to me it´s like this has been happening in cycling since forever. Trade teams, national teams, individuals; riders, teams and races snubbed by big, small or petty reasons from both and all sides…
It´s all there in the books that tell the history of cycling. Henry Desgrange was battling the Pelissier brothers all over newspapers and for whatever reason, even seemingly irrational or personal ones. What´s new? I feel like it´s just more of the same. Every year we see (sometimes we don´t ´cos it stays off the radar) problems like these happening.
The ProTour issue is good point……some teams are supposedly obligated/guaranteed entry into the biggest races, yet each of these races still seems to want to be able to work their old boys network and hash out some old grudges when it comes time to send invites.
And no robot, nobody believes Shack was invited for any other reason than to avoid litigation. But by the looks of things, race entry to ProTour events could be determined by the first teams to file lawsuits.


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Bombs kill at least 12 across Iraq
At least 12 Iraqis were killed Sunday in a spate of attacks, many of them in provinces where much-lauded Iraqi-led security operations had taken place recently.
The deadliest attack was in the town of Khalis in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. Five civilians were killed and 10 were wounded when a bomb was detonated in the path of a car carrying the district's top two political and military officials, according to a provincial security official.
The two officials, Uday al-Khadran, the district commissioner, and Lt. Col. Nihad al-Saadi, were wounded in the attack, the sixth attempt on al-Khadran's life since 2004.
Al-Khadran is a prominent leader in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a major Shiite political party. In Diyala, where the majority of the population is Sunni.
The attack in Khalis took place where security had been relaxed after a major Iraqi-led security operation across Diyala in July. A roadside bomb killed one person in Baqouba, the provincial security official said.
Saja Qadouri, of the Diyala council, blamed laxity and infiltration of local security forces for the attack.


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Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
By Elyse Karlin and Yvonne Markowitz
"A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous forms, dramatic imagery and vivid symbolism. Many of the designers associated with the movement sought their inspiration not in traditional jewelry, but in the work of the pre-Raphaelites and Impressionists and in the arts of Japan. Rejecting the rigid naturalism typical of European decorative arts, designers such as Rene Lalique and Henry van de Velde, and the artists of the German Jugenstil and Austrian Wiener Secession movements, created ornaments that expressed the spirit and freedom of the era. These artists and designers adopted a free-flowing line and asymmetrical format that invigorated their work and set it apart, while their use of natural motifs and of the female form imbued their creations with energy, sensuality and dreamy mysticism. But underlying the undeniable exuberance of these works was a fin-de-sicle edginess that endows this period with inexhaustible fascination.
With nearly 120 ornaments from a single private collection--the finest of its type in America--Imperishable Beauty features all of the major designers and jewelers from this groundbreaking era. Paintings, prints, posters and textiles fill out the presentation, making this book as rich and intoxicating as the aesthetic it portrays.
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'I've filmed in Iraq and Syria but I felt more threatened in Islington'
Level of violence is increasing, says cameraman after robbery by two men claiming to be armed
08 June, 2018 — By Emily Finch
Jimmy Cannon: 'I love Islington but the level of violence seems to be increasing. Every day there seems to be more and more phone snatching'
AN Australian cameraman who has filmed in Iraq and the Syrian border has said his recent brush with violence in the borough was the "most threatened" he's ever felt.
Jimmy Cannon, 30, was shooting a segment with his reporter for Seven Network Australia in Exmouth Market on Monday night when he was approached by two men wearing ski masks.
Mr Cannon, who has lived in Canonbury for two years, said he thought filming in the street at around 10.30pm was "reasonably safe compared to other places".
He told the Tribune: "We are so careful when filming. I looked out of the corner of my eyes and could see two reasonably well-built males on bikes.
"I saw one of them get something out of his pants and put it in his jacket while hiding between two phone boxes.
Reporter Laurel Irving on screen
"He came over to me saying 'Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi – I've got a gun in my jacket'. He told me to unclip my camera and give it to him."
Mr Cannon added: "I've filmed in Iraq and the Syrian border, in places with conflict and terror, but this is the most threatened I've felt personally."
He described how his reporter Laurel Irving tried to grab the camera as she couldn't clearly see what was happening while blinded by camera lights. He said: "She thought it might be a drunk person who came over. I told her, 'He's got a gun, let it go'."
Mr Cannon called the police who arrived just minutes after the attack which was captured on his car's dashcam.
The two cyclists filmed on the car's dashcam
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A Met spokeswoman said: "Police in Islington are investigating a robbery in Exmouth Market, EC1, on Monday, June 4. It is believed at approximately 22.30hrs two males approached a man and a woman who were filming in the area.The suspects demanded they surrendered their camera whilst making threats that they were armed with a firearm. They took the camera and made off on pedal cycles.
"No arrests have been made. Enquiries continue. Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 quoting CAD 8421/4 June."


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Learning Outcome(s) At the conclusion of this program, the learner will be able to take action when there is immediate concern for a person who is at risk of suicide. Accreditation Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This educational activity carries 4 contact hours. Suicide Prevention And Intervention Training For Health Care Providers: Recognizing Individuals At Risk, Connecting With Them And Connecting Them To Help Healthcare providers play a critical role in suicide prevention through the early detection and treatment of mental illness, substance use disorders and other risk factors which can lead to suicide. Given the unique relationship between the healthcare provider and the patient, there is an excellent opportunity for suicide prevention and intervention if utilized effectively. 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Things That Fly Through the Sky
well, not really the "sky" -- but it was a fun title
Comets and Meteors and a little more on Asteroids
Definitions: Most people mix up what the differences are among asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites.
First of all, if it lands, no matter what it started out to be, it is a METEORITE. Look at the "it" in the last part of the word and think "IT lands!" The larger ones will leave craters if they hit the land. The largest ones have left craters even in the oceans.
A METEOR, no matter what its origin, is something we often call a 'falling star.' It is a bit of something coming through our atmosphere and burning up as it goes. If a part of it makes it through the atmosphere and lands, that's a meteorite.
An ASTEROID is a large rocky body in orbit around the sun. Some of the largest are called dwarf planets, such as Ceres. Asteroids are associated with the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter or having originated there. This would include the Trojans, which travel in Jupiter's orbit and the Apollos and Amor groups and the Aten group. These are discussed in the section on the Asteroid Belt.
A much smaller particle in orbit around the sun is called a METEOROID.
A COMET is an object which originates in the outer solar system which swings around the sun and then back out again. They are known by their 'tails' and the comas around their main bodies. Those that come within our line of vision are quite impressive.
Because most meteorites are either iron, stony-iron, or stone, it appears they come from the same material that makes up the asteroids. There are times in the Earth's history when large amounts of impacts have happened in a very short time. When an asteroid actually hits the Earth (becoming a large meteorite), it often brings with it a cloud of debris which hits as well, leaving associated craters. This large an impact is a rare occurrence. The largest of these events are associated, geologically, with several occasions of mass extinctions. For more information regarding these events, please see the "The Geological Significance of CRE Ages" in "A Brief Stellar History."
As the above illustrations indicates, there is a good reason to suspect that there used to be a planet and its moon between Mars and Jupiter which was shattered, giving rise to the Asteroid Belt and many of the meteorites we find on Earth. (Note: in the above illustration, the Pallasite type is the stony-iron type).
Many astronomers believe that fragments of comets have also made it through our atmosphere and impacted as meteorites. In his article, "Meteorites from Comets? Recent Observational Developments," Humberto Campins states
We mostly associate meteors which what we call "falling stars" -- the bright streaks across the sky which appear and disappear very quickly. Normally, meteors are actually just pieces of dust or tiny pea-sizes objects that burn up going through our atmosphere. Something as large as the one which exploded over Russia in 2013 is rare. What we see when we look up at that streak of light is the small object as it burns up.
We see meteors in two ways: sporadic and showers. Sporadic meteors occur all the time but not in dramatic bunches. They appear singly at any time of year. Meteor showers, on the other hand, are predictable because they occur specific times in our orbit as we pass through a debris cloud left by a comet. The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs on or about August 12. The debris which causes that meteor shower is from the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Leonids occur around mid-November, and are the debris associated with comet Tempel-Tuttle. Interestingly, the Leonid Shower may deposit 12 or 13 tons of particles on Earth's surface each time we go through this cloud of particles -- something like dust drifting down from the sky. There are other, more minor meteor showers during the year, but the Perseids and the Leonids are the most dramatic. Of the two, it is the Leonids which have provided the most incredible displays in some years. For instance, in 1833, over 100,000 meteors per hour were viewed for about nine hours. Below is one of the illustrations of what people saw that night:
What can be seen in the above photograph is the direction from which the meteors are coming as the Earth spins on its axis. They all appear to come from the direction of the constellation of Leo, which is why they are called Leonids. Actually, however, they are not coming from any distant stars or star group. They simply appear that way because of the time of year we are in when we pass through this debris belt. The best time to see any meteor shower is about one in the morning (early morning!) due to the rotation of the Earth on its axis. In the early morning we are actually running into the meteors. Earlier in the evening they are trying to 'catch up' with us.
These dramatic heavenly sights are not nearly as common as meteors. That is because they originate from the outer solar system, come swinging toward the sun, orbit around it, and then go swinging back out again. This means that the time for one orbit of one comet can be in the hundreds or even thousands of years.
They are much larger than the bits and pieces they leave behind, some of which become the meteors we see in the showers. Comets range in diameter from about half a mile to about ten miles across -- that is the solid chunk in the center. That central piece is called the nucleus. What we see when they approach close enough to be seen, however, is not the nucleus. We see the shining coma (the Greek word for "hair," and the word from which "comet" is derived). The coma is made up of gases and dust which have come from the solid body of the comet itself. The coma dwarfs the tiny nucleus, and may be 50,000 miles across or more. The nucleus and the coma together are referred to as the "head" of the comet. We also see the "tail," a trail of gas and dust it leaves behind. Comet tails are divided, and we can often see that. The dust tail and the gas tail are different. The gas tail is a plasma tail, comprised of ionized gases, usually appearing bluish. The dust tail often appears white. The sun's radition pressure and the solar wind accelerate materials away from the comet's head at differing velocities, according to the size and mass of the materials. Relatively massive dust tails are accelerated slowly and so tend to be curved, following the orbit of the head itself. the ion tail is much less massive, and is accelerated so greatly that it appears as a nearly straight line extending away from the comet, and opposite the sun. These two tails can occasionally converge or appear quite spread apart, depending on the angle of our view. Both the plasma and dust tails may stretch out 50 million miles or more behind the comet head.
What we don't see, but which was picked up by spacecraft is a hydrogen 'envelope which surrounds the head of the comet. It is the material in these jets, forced back by the pressure of the sunlight and the solar wind, which forms the tails.
When the Pioneer Venus spacecraft was directed to examine Halley's Comet in 1986, it found that the hydrogen cloud surrounding it had grown as large as 12.5million miles wide. At fifteen times larger than the sun, this made it the largest structure in the solar system at that time.
In the last thirty years, something else was seen: there were jets of gas and dust coming from the nucleus, quite apart from from tail.
Another surprise was awaiting astronomers. As they watched, pieces appeared to come off some of the comets, in an event referred to as comet splitting. Some photographs have been able to show this in motion. The possible causes are discussed in "Explanations and Interpretations."
Originally, comets were considered to be "dirty snowballs" or "dusty icebergs." However, recent data from spacecraft calls into question some of this.
Observation #1: Comets are X-ray emitters. No one expected comet Hyakutake to be a powerful source of x-rays. "Astronomers using ROSAT (the European Space Agency's Roentgen satellite) decided to look at Hyakutake and they were shocked by what they saw. ROSAT images revealed a crescent-shaped region of X-ray emission around the comet 1000 times more intense than anyone had predicted." Dr. Michael J. Mumma wrote, "We had no clear expectation that comets [would] shine in X-rays." The X-rays were as intense as those ROSAT usually picks up from bright X-ray stars and they flickeed like a fluorescent tube on a time scale of hours.
Observation #2: A comet's ion tail is 4 AU long even when distant from the sun. In May of 1996, the Ulysses spacecraft, which is studying the sun, surprised scientists when it went through the ion tail of Comet Hyakutake. The comet was then out past Jupiter, and our spacecraft was 360 million miles beyond that. They did not expect the tail of Hyakutake to be there.
Observation #3: Speaking of Comet Hyakutke...it contained quite a surprise when astronomers were checking for various gases associated with it. They found a gas they did not expect at all -- ethane. Ethane is a complex hydrocarbon and not expected to be associated with comets. But it was there is much higher amounts than the expected gases. This had led astronomers to conclude there are different types of comets.
Observation #4: Comets show complex terrain and exceptionally dark surfaces. They are not simply dirty ice balls. Astronomers feel that the pictures of the 10 km (6 mile) wide core of Comet Borrelly wiill revolutionize our understanding of comets. The spacecraft DS1 (Deep Space 1)passed within 1200 miles of thecomet's core in September of 2001. Here is what it saw:
Borelly shows rugged terrain, smooth rolling plains, deep fractures,and some very dark material.
Halley's Comet showed the same sort of surprises. It's nucleus is about 10 x 5 x 5 miles large. Contrary to prior expectations,Halley's nucleus is very dark -- darker than coal or black velvet. This makes it one of the darkest objects inthe solar system. Its very low density means it is probably porous. Cameras almost missed Halley's nucleus because of its unexpected darkness. Astronomers expected the comet's nucleus to be made of bright, reflective ices. The bright spot they saw, however, was a bright geyser of escaping material.
Observation #5: Comets exhibit odd orbital behavior not associated with gravitational forces. Comets were expected to follow a smooth curve in their orbits, a curve mathematically predicted by gravitational forces. However, what was seen, were some erratic deviations from that curve. Some of those deviations could be explained by the action of the jets from the nucleus pushing the comet around. Some of the deviations do not seem to be explainable that way, however. Shown below are pictures of the first jets we saw from a comet nucleus. In March of 1986 this series of pictures was taken of Comet Halley which could certainly help explain some of the erratic motions of comets in their orbits:
Observation #6: Jets on comets are not due to heating. First of all, remember that jets from the nuclei were a surprise. When they were first spotted on Halley's Comet, it was found they were made up of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Because of the composition of these ices, the conclusion was reached that the interior of Halley's must be about 35 degrees above absolute zero. That's -397 F. What astronomers expected was that as the comet neared the sun, the ices would be sublimated and turn directly to gas due to the sun's heat. The problem was that in 1991, Comet Halley flared up between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus -- much too far from the sun for heat to cause that reaction. The nucleus had ejected a cloud of gas and dust that stretched for more than 190,000 miles behind it. The comet itself was still effectively in "deep freeze."
In a similar way, Comet Hale_Bopp violated the dirty snowball model by displaying seven jets when it was too far from the sun (beyond Jupiter) for ice to melt.
Observatioin #7: The comet's coma is a plasma. In 1986, the Pioneer Venus spacecraft, while orbiting Venus, was turned to examine Halley's hydrogen cloud for the first time. This hydrogen cloud forms when the water vapor molecules are freed from the comet's ices and dissociate into hydrogen and a hydroxyl radical (one oxygen and one hydrogen combined). This hydroxyl is a negatively charged ion and, combined in the coma with the positive nuclei of both hydrogen and oxygen, form a plasma.
Observation #8: Comet Wild 2
This comet was discovered on January 6, 1978, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild (pronounced "vilt"). Although it probably originally had a very long and elliptical orbit taking about 43 years for a round trip, in 1974 it had passed within about 625,000 miles of Jupiter. That seems pretty far to us, but it was close enough for Jupiter's gravitational pull to cause Wild 2 to change its orbit. It is now part of the inner solar system and considered one of the Jupiter family comets, with an orbital period of only six years. It's perihelion is currently about 1.6 AU. This has given us a remarkable chance to study it. NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by it on January 2, 2004 and we got some good photographs of the nucleus.
In the article "NASA Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Anatomy Of A Comet,"
Composite photographs allow scientists to trace the jets back to their likely points of origin on the surface of the comet. Many of the jets were found to emanate from "pit-halo" regions on the nucleus of the comet that the science team named "Mayo" and "Walker." None of the jets emerged frm the flat-floored"Left Foot" and "Right Foot" features close to Wild 2's sunlit pole where maximm heating would be expected. It was assumed that the coma had a particle density that increased uniformly toward the nucleus, but Starust encountered quite a different pattern. It raninto three "sheets" of coma material. Its dust counter recorded peaks in particle density in the middle of the sheets that were a thousand times higher than the density of particles between these peaks.
Observation # 9: Comet Tempel
Like Wild 2, Comet Tempel 1 (there is a smaller Tempel 2) is a Jupiter family comet with an orbit period of 5.5 years. It is about 4.7 by 3 miles big.
This is a composite image taken by the Deep Impact Probe
Tempel 1 would not be considered anything much in the way of comets -- except for the fact that it was the one NASA chose to hit. A July 4, 2005 article, "Bullseye: Deep Impact Slams Into Comet," gives a very good account of what happened.
What surprised scientists who watched this impact was the fact that there were two flashes. NASA investigator Peter Schultz described it this way, "What you see is something really surprising. First, there is a small flash, then there's a delay, then there's a big flash and the whole thing breaks loose."
Every scientist associated with the project was stunned by the scale of the energetic outburst. These scientists understood the kinetics of impact physics, and they all agreed that the explosion would be the equivalent to about 4.8 tons of TNT. That's a good-sized bomb, but not even close to what occurred. The impact between the 'coffee table size' impactor and the 'city size' comet resulted in a release of energy at least four times brighter than what was expected. Images released just before the impact and fifteen hours after the impact showed the appearance of new jets coming from the nucleus.
Because comets were considered to be 'dirty ice balls,' it was expected that the heat of the impact would melt the ice and produce a large quantity of water. But, to quote SWAS principal investigator Gary Melnick of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicis, "It's pretty clear that this event did not produce a gusher....The more optimistic predictions for water output from the impact haven't materialized."
What has also puzzled scientists about Tempel 1 is its "strangely layered," terrain, which gives the appearance of sediments. But there are no rivers or bodies of water on comets, so they don't know what causes this feature. There are also apparent landslides. "Deep Impact saw an enormous flow of smooth, powdery material," completely covering close to a mile of underlying terrain. Both the layered terrain and apparent landslides are considered anomalous and mysterious.
Observation #10 -- Minerals in comets and meteorites.
Material collected from both Tempel 1 and Wild 2 surprised the scientists. Far from being 'dirty snowballs,' what they saw was the presence of minerals that can only be formed at high temperatures. Mineral inclusions ranged from anorthite, which is made up of calcium, sodium, and aluminum silicates, to diopside, made of calcium and magnesium silicates. The formation of such silicate minerals requires high temperatures or planetary interiors. NASA curator Michael Zolensky stated, "It was kind of a shock to not just find one but several of these, which implies they are pretty common in the comet." The implication here is that there may have been a planet in the Kuiper belt which shattered, and some of whose pieces ended up as the comets we see today.
Meteorites have given us the same information. The article "Widmanstatten figures in meteorites" says:


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Happy 4th of July! What better way to celebrate than to put some red, white, and blue on your nails? I decided to create this mix & match patriotic mani to wear for the occasion. (I am so proud of myself for actually doing a holiday manicure in time for the holiday, haha)
I wanted to add a fun twist to the usual stars and stripes mani, so I did two accent nails with the Star Swirl Nail Vinyls from Snail Vinyls and (surprise, surprise) Starrily "Ultima" on my index and ring fingers. I think the result is a really fun and cute 4th of July design!
I used Color Club "Cadillac Red", Salon Perfect "Sugar Cube", and Salon Perfect "Indigo-go" for this mani, and added Starrily "Ultima" for the silver glitter stars, as I mentioned above.
I also used some straight nail vinyls from Snail Vinyls to create the red and white stripes on my pinky, and the star stencils on my middle nail.
I love all of the vinyls that I used for this mani! Snail Vinyls always has such awesome vinyls that work really well. If you have been following me for a while, you know how much I love to use their vinyls in my designs!
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And here's a macro of one of the silver glitter star nails (I love how this turned out!):
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