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HomeMilitary AviationLast U.S. Air Force Phantoms make rare appearance flying through the Star Wars Canyon!
Last U.S. Air Force Phantoms make rare appearance flying through the Star Wars Canyon!
October 28, 2016 Military Aviation
Awesome video and photographs of the last USAF Phantoms thundering through the famous Jedi Transition.
On Tuesday, Oct. 25 two USAF McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II's made passes through "Star Wars Canyon" (Jedi Transition) in Death Valley, CA. The lead Phantom (gray and orange) was piloted by Lt. Col. Ron "Elvis" King and the second jet (green camo) was piloted by Lt. Col. (Ret) Jim "WAM" Harkins.
It was a very rare treat to see the QF-4s pass through the canyon. The Phantoms were in transit from NAS Point Mugu, CA to Hill AFB, UT and made the two passes at about 350 knots. Aviation enthusiasts are used to seeing modern and nimble aircraft such as F/A-18E/Fs and F-16s pass through the canyon and the QF-4Es did well, maneuvering aggressively in the canyon confines.
Actually even a C-17 made a series of cool passes lately…
Though bearing the markings of the Tyndall AFB based 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron (ATRS) the QF-4Es hail from Detachment 1, 82nd ATRS, based at Holloman AFB. The 82nd ATRS at Tyndall AFB has fully converted to the QF-16. The QF-4Es captured are two of seven remaining QF-4s capable of manned flight (an additional handful of remaining aircraft are capable of "unmanned" flight only).
The F-4 entered service with the US Navy in 1961, followed by the USMC and the USAF. The aircraft remained in service with the USAF through 1996 when it was retired. Subsequently many Phantoms were converted to service as manned and unmanned targets for weapons training with various USAF and DoD programs, including the White Sands Missile Range. The F-4 is one of the most successful multi-role fighter aircraft ever produced. Over 5,000 F-4s of various models were built and served in combat and keeping the peace with a variety of Air Forces around the world.
The days of manned QF-4 flight are short and the aircraft have been making a "pharewell tour" throughout the US, appearing at several air shows and bases. The aircraft's last manned flight is planned for December 21 at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. It is anticipated a four ship will take to the skies with roaring 'burners, break the speed of sound, make several crowd pleasing passes – and then back to earth.
Contact the Public Affairs Officer at 49th Wing, Holloman AFB for more information on this "last phlight" media event.
Image and video credit: Johnson Yang
Johnson Yang is a photojournalist who lives and works out of S. California. Johnson previously served in the Taiwanese Airborne and is a regular contributor to Asia Pacific Defense Magazine.
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Pacemaker4 says:
not many like the F-4…
15 world records for in-flight performance, including an absolute speed record, and an absolute altitude record.
Παλιουρας says:
Well now that our "allied" neighbour, Turkey will be receiving the new F-35's, my country, Greece, will be the last one operating the "Phantom".
I wish those old planes could do something special for the last time, as now, after years of financial extermination, our beloved allies of US and Turkey will bomb the hell out of us, so that we dont stand in their way no more, as it has been their goal for years…
Keep Turkey (and Islam) safe and sound!!
leroy says:
Nonsense! If Turkey invaded Greece NATO would step in with troops. As for Greece's financial problems, here's what you do. Make the retirement age for all civil and private employees 68, and go after everyone who doesn't pay their taxes. That, and start making something. Look I have nothing whatsoever against Greeks, I like Greeks, but why can't you make even so much as a car to sell worldwide? Gaze across the Ionian Sea and look at the Italians. Beautiful cars, airplanes, great clothes and fashion accessories. Mamma mia, what in the world happened to Greece?
Greece will be the last country hosting Phantoms, as there is no money to replace them…
Hard to believe that this amazing aircraft was on the drawing board only 10 years after WW-II (first flight in 1958). If given the choice between an F-4 with J-79-10A (smokeless combustor) and cannon or the MiG-21, I'd choose the F-4 in a heartbeat. Russian fighters for the most part are just plain junk! Especially their inferior engines, weapons and electronics. Factor in superior American pilot training and you have an unbeatable combination.
b2 says:
Love them Phantoms! F-16's as drones now, Whodathunk?
"Stars War canyon" to me was in some 50 mile long Wadi over in Oman. It looked exactly like the 1977 movie. Airwing bubbas from carriers got to run it in the 1980s. Hair-raising fun, outlawed today I'll bet. Builds character-LOL!


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Q: iOS and Android Emulators for Visual Studio Code I've installed the React Native Tools extension for Visual Studio Code. I thought this included the iOS and Android emulators for me to test my React Native app but when I run
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Do I install these emulators separately?

A: iOS Simulator is distributed with Xcode. You can download it on developer.apple.com (accessible with a free AppleID) or from the Mac App Store.
It is only available on macOS, with Xcode 8+ requiring macOS El Capitan or newer.

A: If you want to get IOS Simulator in VS Code, install Xcode and open it, then go to Preference > Location and there you will see Command Line Tool. Just click the drop-down button and save something like Xcode 11(Version) and save it. Also, I recommend getting IOS and Andriod Simulator in VS Code.

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Nicholas Mark Davies (born 30 April 1975) is a former English cricketer.  Davies was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.  He was born at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

Davies made his debut for Herefordshire in the 1994 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire.  From 1994 to 2005, he represented the county in 21 Championship matches, the last of which came against Shropshire.  His MCCA Knockout Trophy debut for the county came against Wales Minor Counties in 2001.  From 2001 to 2002, he represented the county in 5 Trophy matches, the last of which came against the Worcestershire Cricket Board.

He also represented Herefordshire in List A cricket.  His debut List A match came against the Gloucestershire Cricket Board in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.  From 2001 to 2004, he represented the county in 8 List A matches, the last of which came against Worcestershire in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.  In his 8 matches, he scored 77 runs at a batting average of 15.40, with a high score of 39*.  In the field he took a single catch.  With the ball he took 8 wickets at a bowling average of 31.12, with best figures of 4/72.

References

External links
Nicholas Davies at Cricinfo
Nicholas Davies at CricketArchive

1975 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bromsgrove
English cricketers
Herefordshire cricketers

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Florentino Buey Portillo, más conocido como Floro, (Ablaña, 5 de julio de 1913 - 8 de enero de 1997) fue un futbolista español que jugó de portero. Durante su carrera jugó en el Granada Club de Fútbol, con el que jugó en Primera División y en la Unión Deportiva Salamanca.

Carrera deportiva

Floro debutó en Segunda División como profesional en 1939, y lo hizo de la mano del Granada.

El Granada lo trajo como a otros jugadores, como Modesto Maside, de la ciudad de Madrid, con el objetivo de hacer un equipo competitivo para la primera campaña en Primera División del Granada, la 1941-42. Con el Granada se mantuvo cuatro temporadas en Primera División, siendo el portero titular del conjunto rojiblanco durante esas temporadas.

En la temporada 1944-45 el Granada desciende a Segunda División. Sin embargo, Floro, sigue formando parte de la plantilla del Granada hasta la temporada 1947-48 cuando deja el club, siguiendo este en la Segunda División.

En la temporada 1949-50 juega en la Unión Deportiva Salamanca de la Segunda División.

Clubes

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Futbolistas del Granada Club de Fútbol en los años 1930
Futbolistas del Granada Club de Fútbol en los años 1940
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Salamanca en los años 1940
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Salamanca en los años 1950


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Good Reads: The Season of Migration
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In December 1878, Vincent van Gogh arrives in the coal-mining village of Petit Wasmes in the Borinage region of Belgium, a blasted and hopeless landscape of hovels and slag heaps and mining machinery. Not yet the artist he is destined to become, Vincent arrives as an ersatz preacher, barely sanctioned by church authorities but ordained in his own mind and heart by a desperate and mistaken spiritual vocation. But what Vincent experiences in the Borinage will change him. Coming to preach a useless gospel he thought he knew and believed, he learns about love, suffering, and beauty, ultimately coming to see the world anew and finding the divine not in religion but in our fallen human world.
In startlingly beautiful and powerful language, Hermann transforms our understanding of Van Gogh and the redemptive power of art.-amazon.com

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Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles
Posted by Linda M. on April 24, 2019 at 5:50pm in Tuneful Musings
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The "Lucy" who inspired this song was Lucy O'Donnell (later Lucy Vodden), who was a classmate of John's son Julian Lennon when he was enrolled at the private Heath House School, in Weybridge, Surrey. It was in a 1975 interview that Lennon said, "Julian came in one day with a picture about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
The identity of the real Lucy was confirmed by Julian in 2009 when she died of complications from Lupus. Lennon re-connected with her after she appeared on a BBC broadcast where she stated: "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."
Confusion over who was the real Lucy was fueled by a June 15, 2005 Daily Mail article that claimed the "Lucy" was Lucy Richardson, who grew up to become a successful movie art director on films such as 2000's Chocolat and 2004's The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers. Richardson died in June 2005 at the age of 47 of breast cancer.
Many people thought this was about drugs, since the letters "LSD" are prominent in the title, and John Lennon, who wrote it, was known to drop acid. In 1971 Lennon told Rolling Stone that he swore that he had no idea that the song's initials spelt L.S.D. He added: "I didn't even see it on the label. I didn't look at the initials. I don't look - I mean I never play things backwards. I listened to it as I made it. It's like there will be things on this one, if you fiddle about with it. I don't know what they are. Every time after that though I would look at the titles to see what it said, and usually they never said anything."
Lennon affirmed this on the Dick Cavett Show, telling the host, "My son came home with a drawing of a strange-looking woman flying around. He said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.' I thought, 'That's beautiful.' I immediately wrote the song about it."
It's not just fans that didn't believe him: Paul McCartney said it was "pretty obvious" that this song was inspired by LSD.
In our interview with Donovan, who was good friends with John Lennon and joined The Beatles on their 1968 retreat to India, he made the point that Lennon often thought in terms of artwork, and like Donovan did on this song "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," Lennon painted images in his head that became the lyrics for this song. "When we put the painter's brush down and we picked up the guitar, a lot of the songwriters started 'painting' songs," he said. "You'd just have to think of John's 'Picture yourself on a boat on a river' - you're actually in a movie or you're in a painting. 'Tangerine trees and marmalade skies' - he's painting.
The images Lennon used in the song were inspired by the imagery in the book Alice In Wonderland.
George Harrison played a tambura on this track. It's an Indian instrument similar to a sitar that makes a droning noise. He had been studying with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, who is the father of Norah Jones.
This was banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) for what they thought were drug references.
Elton John released a cover version of this song in 1974 that hit #1 in the US the first week of 1975. Elton is the only artist to top the tally with a Beatles cover, although Peter & Gordon took "A World Without Love," which was written by Lennon and McCartney, to #1 in 1964.
John Lennon sang and played guitar on Elton's "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," but reportedly forgot some of the chords and needed Davey Johnston, Elton John's guitarist, to help him out. Lennon made a surprise appearance in Elton's Thanksgiving concert in New York and performed three songs, which proved to be his last public performance.
Actor William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, covered this in his dramatic, spoken-word style. In at least one poll, this version was voted the worst Beatles cover of all time.
In 1974, Johanson and Gray named the 3 million-year-old Australopithecus fossil skeleton they discovered (the oldest ever found) Lucy, after this song because it was playing on the radio when Johanson and his team were celebrating the discovery back at camp. >>
Lennon said "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes" turned out to be Yoko.
During the media controversy over this song in June of 1967, Paul McCartney admitted to a reporter that the band did experiment with LSD. >>
In 2004, McCartney addressed the issue of drugs in an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper: "'Day Tripper,' that's one about acid. 'Lucy In The Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There are others that make subtle hints about drugs, but it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on The Beatles' music. Just about everyone was doing drugs in one form or another, and we were no different, but the writing was too important for us to mess it up by getting off our heads all the time."
A group called John Fred and his Playboy Band had a #1 hit in 1968 with "Judy In Disguise (with Glasses)," a song that is a parody of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."
In the Anthology one of the Beatles referred to being on LSD as like seeing through a kaleidoscope. Although Lennon denied this is about drugs, it does refer to "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes." >>
This song is very distinctive musically: It's in three different keys and uses two different beats. >>
Lennon admitted to British journalist Ray Connolly in an interview around the time of the break-up of the Beatles that he didn't think he sang this song very well. "I was so nervous I couldn't sing," he said, "but I like the lyrics."
In 2004 the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers gave the star the catchier name of "Lucy" from this song.
The Flaming Lips covered this as part of their track-for-track tribute to the Sgt. Pepper album, With a Little Help from My Fwends. Their version of this song features Miley Cyrus. Frontman Wayne Coyne told NME: "On my birthday, Miley Cyrus tweeted me 'Happy Birthday.' I texted back 'Let's do something together.' So we swapped numbers and soon found ourselves in the same studio. I've been around people in the same position to her and they are not fun. She's badass, and she does things with enthusiasm and love."
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Lennon may have felt insecure about his immortal vocal take, but in their wisdom George Martin and Sir Paul knew how the wild embrace of John's vision was communicated perfectly in the performance we hear. His voice is pitched way up at the higher part of his register, yet the take is all focus, no strain. 'Twas a wrap.
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New Requirements for Same Sex and Unmarried Couples in Australia
New Australian legislation will make it easier for committed unmarried couples to benefit from the legal entitlement currently reserved for married couples.
In a move that will include de facto and same sex relationships, the New South Wales Government intends to create a 'Relationships Register' to help unmarried couples in long-term relations to apply for migrant visas for Australia and other legal paperwork.
The current situation often means that unmarried couples in de facto or same sex relationships are required to enter a very difficult, drawn out application process that includes all manner of ways to confirm they are in a long-term relationship.
The 'Relationships Register' will allow committed de facto or same sex couples to access government services, entitlements and records in the same manner as married couples, which will have a major impact on relationships ending either because of death or separation.
By listing their relationship on the 'Relationships Register', the couples will be signing up to the legal agreement for equal share of assets is they end their relationship or one partner dies, in the same way as a marriage. This is largely because Australia does not recognise same-sex civil partnerships.
The 'Relationships Register' brings New South Wales in line with similar introductions in other areas of Australasia.
The criteria for registration include both parties being over 18, at least one partner being resident in New South Wales, neither partner being in another registerable relationship or marriage and both partners agreed that they're in a committed, exclusive relationship.
Attorney General John Hatzistergos commented, "Couples who choose to register their relationship will be provided with one document that helps prove their relationship and will be spared the frustration of constantly having to supply agencies with copious amounts of paperwork."
The Register will be managed by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and aims to simplify administrative and visa application processes for unmarried couples.


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In molecular biology, the F-actin capping protein is a protein complex which binds in a calcium-independent manner to the fast-growing ends of actin filaments (barbed end), thereby blocking the exchange of subunits at these ends. Unlike gelsolin and severin this protein does not sever actin filaments. The F-actin capping protein is a heterodimer composed of two unrelated subunits: alpha and beta. Neither of the subunits shows sequence similarity to other filament-capping proteins. The alpha subunit is a protein of about 268 to 286 amino acid residues and the beta subunit is approximately 280 amino acids, their sequences are well conserved in eukaryotic species.

The actin filament system, a prominent part of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells, is both a static structure and a dynamic network that can undergo rearrangements: it is thought to be involved in processes such as cell movement and phagocytosis, as well as muscle contraction.

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Sally Beamish obituary
Howard Hull
Wed 20 Jun 2018 12.11 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Jun 2018 12.13 EDT
Sally Beamish made it her life's work to rescue John Ruskin's overgrown estate, which she thought was as important to him as his writing and painting. Photograph: Howard Hull
My colleague Sally Beamish, who has died of a brain tumour aged 54, was head gardener and estate manager of Brantwood, John Ruskin's former home in the Lake District. Sally was a visionary gardener who recognised and restored the hidden treasure that is Brantwood's gardens and estate, revealing the extent of Ruskin's contribution to the practice and understanding of people's relationship to nature.
Sally joined Brantwood at the age of 24 and made it her life's work. She found an overgrown estate of 250 acres ripe for rescue, and could see that beneath its surface were clues to a former existence that was as important to Ruskin as his writing and painting.
With determination and infectious enthusiasm, she motivated a young team which set-to to tackle the huge task of reclaiming historic features, restoring Ruskin's landscaping and his cousin Joan Severn's gardens, and returning the woodlands and grazing of the estate to healthy management. Almost all this work required problem solving on an epic scale.
The daughter of Patricia and William Beamish, Sally grew up in Plymouth. Her father, a former naval officer, was employed in the civil service with the Ministry of Defence.
She studied horticulture at Askham Bryan College near York, then taught sailing back in Plymouth before getting a job with Cumbria county council managing tree-planting teams. On discovering Brantwood she became a volunteer, and in 1988 an employee.
Sally Beamish recreated Ruskin's 'Zig Zaggy path' through Purgatory, based on Dante. Photograph: Howard Hull
Sally quickly became a native Cumbrian, effortlessly absorbing local wisdom on all matters pertaining to the land. This respect for local tradition deepened in her over the years and Brantwood became an exemplar of traditional rural skills in practice. With Ruskinian instinct, she fused the practical and scientific with the philosophical and spiritual, evolving a richly holistic management style which quickly became a central principle of the gardens.
Like Ruskin before her, Sally was not content to rest on a conventional reading of nature, and it was a natural step for her to explore more radical horticultural alternatives. She devised a number of experimental projects to look at different management regimes – a project that yielded seven years of meticulously gathered data and a wild flower meadow of infinite beauty and diversity.
Perceptive and thoughtful to the end, Sally leaves behind an astonishing legacy in the Brantwood gardens, one of the jewels of the Lake District. Her work has been recognised in a book, The Gardens at Brantwood: Evolution of John Ruskin's Lakeland Paradise (2014) by David Ingram, former keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and in an award for loyal service by the Professional Gardeners Guild and the lifetime achievement award of Cumbria Women of the Year.
Sally is survived by her brother, Harry.


Ever since Kenny was born, whenever I'm having a rough day (or a rough ten minutes), I imagine how I would get through it if I were in Little House on the Prairie. Not the TV show – that was fun to watch as a kid, but it veered off too much from the books for me. I have had a minor obsession with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books since I was a preteen. I have read most of them 20 or more times, and even re-read the series when I first had Kenny in those lonely midnight nursing hours. I might seem weird, but it's really facinating to think about.
Let's say I'm having trouble thinking of something to make for dinner. Well, poor Ma was stuck with potatoes and salt pork all winter, waiting for spring when the garden started to grow and Pa started hunting again. And then it wasn't like she could log into Safeway.com (what would I do without you, Safeway??) and order some chicken breasts and ground round… no, she had to butcher whatever Pa came home with and make it last.
Kids driving you nuts? There were no DVD players on the prarie. Kids won't pick up their toys? At least they have them! Ma had to entertain preschoolers with wooden spoons and metal pots all day. But of course, there was always, "Who wants a turn milking the cow?" and "How many eggs did the hen lay today??" And what did she do with a three-year-old with a bottomless stomach? I tell Kenny to go make himself an Eggo, or grab a yogurt out of the fridge. Did they even have snacks?
And Ma didn't have a sleek double jogging stroller to pop the kids in when she needed to get out of the house. She was stuck until they could all walk on their own. And what did she do to free her brain at the end of a trying day? Here I am complaining about a slow internet connection, and Ma was sitting there by the light of a candle darning socks and underwear.
Days when I'm on my fourth load of laundry, I envy Ma for the fact that they only had a few dresses each, and they could get away with wearing them for days at a stretch. Then again, when the kids had a growth spurt, she couldn't head out to Old Navy or cash in her Gymbucks – she had to send Pa to The Store for fabric and make the new clothes by hand. Of course, Ma only had a one (and later two) room house to clean, so she had a lot more time on her hands.
That is too funny!! I think about stuff like that a lot, too. I imagine what it would have been like to live in a village back in cave man days. In some ways, I think it might have been easier. You know, one mom watches the kids, one mom makes dinner, one cleans up- just sharing everything.
I love "Little House" and I love this confession… kind of puts it all in perspective and made me chuckle. Thanks!
I sometimes think about things like this, how it was in different eras.
😀 That's a great post! I love your blog, by the way. I've been a reader for a few years now. And I'm soooo relieved to see that I'm not the only SAHM with a Little House habit! I too read all the books several times & even adored the TV show…imagine my delight when I saw the whole series in boxed DVD sets at Costco not too long ago. I'll have to grab that! 😉 By the way, I'm sure you know this but Hallmark channel re-runs the shows every day. =) Cheers!
Yeah !! I am not the ONLY one who has a Little House On The Prairie crutch ! When I am having a rough day or feeling sorry for myself because of the things that I don't have,etc…I think about Little House On The Prairie and remind myself that I am SO LUCKY to have the things that I do ! I have been doing that since I was in my early twenties. It completely changes my outlook. I am incredibly relieved that I may not be as insane as I thought.


The debate as to whether or not 1972's Exile on Main St. is the Rolling Stones' greatest album will continue to rage on, but there are few who would disagree that it's the Stones at their most raw and raucous. Timed for release at the same time the band's long-awaited remastered version of Exile hits the streets, the hour-long Stones in Exile examines the creation and legend of the album that finds Keith, Mick and company at what is arguably the height of their creative powers.
Much, much more is examined here—the L.A. sessions, Robert Frank's freak-filled album jacket, the ins and outs of a mobile production, the subsequent 1972 tour and, of course, the music. Pieces of nearly all 18 tracks from the album appear in one form or another here, with extended sequences focusing on the recording of such numbers as "Ventilator Blues," "Sweet Virginia," "Shine a Light,' "Loving Cup" and others.
Incorporated into all of this is footage from Frank's notoriously unreleased documentary Cocksucker Blues, which follows the Stones on their subsequent world tour. CS Blues is a Holy Grail of sorts and its inclusion here would be reason enough for Stones fans to salivate, but in this case it's only one part of an outstanding package.