Saturday, September 29, 2012

Seeing Is Believing . . . Sometimes


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Tucson Weather Today


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NEWS FROM  NASA

NASA managers, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) officials and international partner representatives Thursday announced Sunday, Oct. 7, as the target launch date for the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.

The launch of the Dragon spacecraft will be the first of 12 contracted flights by SpaceX to resupply the space station and marks the second trip by a Dragon to the station, following a successful demonstration mission in May. SpaceX services under the CRS contract will restore an American capability to deliver and return significant amounts of cargo, including science experiments, to the orbiting laboratory -- a feat not achievable since the retirement of the space shuttle.


SpaceX, NASA Target Oct. 7 Launch
For Supply Mission To Space Station

Dragon is scheduled to return in late October for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California.


Read more . . .


ALSO . . .


NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) clasp hands Sept. 21, 2012
in front of a Soyuz vehicle mock-up as they wrap up two days of final qualification exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.


The trio is scheduled to launch Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.


End of NASA News

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While house-sitting in the desert last week, I took a few pictures from the pool deck.

Below are two of them.

This is Eva

September 2012


Looking off into the distance I was struck by what seemed to me to be a sharp contrast between the vibrant colors of the  growing plants with the hard stark reality of the still and silent mountainside -- and then even more contrast of each with the pale white drifting clouds and pastel blue of the desert sky.


Desert Flora With Mountains
Just East Of Tucson, Arizona

But then, of course, as had become apparent to me long ago -- I do not always see the same things within a scene that others see.

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WORD FOR TODAY


taupe [tohp]
noun
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.

Taupe is a vague, unscientific color term which may be used to refer to almost any grayish-brown, brownish-gray, or warm gray color. It often overlaps with tan and even people who use color professionally (such as designers and artists) frequently disagree as to what "taupe" means. Taupe itself, however, is not directly correlated with such colors as purple or pink. There is no single, generally recognized authority for such terms, but the addition of such colors can create a wider variety of shades which can benefit either art.


This is "taupe" or "dark taupe"


 BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY



Gene Autry


Born Sept 29, 1907
Died: Oct. 2, 1998.

Orvon Grover Autry, better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.

From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, brave, and true—and profoundly touched the lives of millions of Americans. Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers. His singing cowboy movies were the first vehicle to carry country music to a national audience. In addition to his signature song, "Back in the Saddle Again", Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus", which he wrote, "Frosty the Snowman", and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".



Madeline Kahn


Born Sept 29, 1942
Died: Dec 3, 1999.

Madeline Kahn was an American actress and singer. Kahn was known primarily for her comic roles in films such as Paper Moon, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, What's Up, Doc?, and Clue.



Jerry Lee Lewis


Born Sept 29, 1935
Age: 76 years old.

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. He is known by the nickname "The Killer". An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis had hits in the late 1950s with songs such as "Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", "Breathless" and "High School Confidential".



Anita Ekberg


Born Sept 29, 1931
Age: 80 years old.

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg is a Swedish-American actress, model, and cult sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the 1960 Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita, which features the legendary scene of her cavorting in Trevi Fountain alongside Marcello Mastroianni.


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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein


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