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🔮📚💬 Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul: …the Tarot cannot reliably tell us when something will end or how something will turn out. It doesn’t consistently fix, heal, or tell us precisely what will happen or when it will happen. But it...
Having arrived in Britain on 1 December 1965 for TV appearances only, including performing on BBC’s Top of the Pops, ITV’s Ready Steady Go and TWW’s Discs as Gogo, US soul singer Fontella Bass returned to Britain in the first week of...
"... all publicly available IRT-generated experimental ice shapes with complete and verifiable conditions have now been compiled into one electronically-searchable database" NASA Report E-16236 1. Public Domain image from NASA Report...
"Use of these relationships allows the direct determination of ice shapes adjusted for any given icing and flight condition as well as for size and sweep of the airfoil" 1 Experimental ice shapes compared to a LEWICE analysis. Summary...
"The resulting analysis showed that LEWICE compared well to the available experimental data." 1 An example of a good comparison between analysis and experiment. Introduction The IceVal database 2, and its predecessors, were originally...
"This demonstrates that the automated process cannot (yet) be substituted for good engineering judgment." From the LEWICE manual. 1 A case where two methods detected similar upper surface ice horns. Introduction Reviewing 6000+ ice shape...
"It is possible for any (or all!) ... parameters to be incorrectly output." A case with identified horn locations that are debatable. Introduction Assessments of LEWICE ice shapes compared to experiment have been published twice. The...
"No data is clean, but most is useful." attributed to Dean Abbott. Ice shape tracing points that are mis-ordered and mis-aligned with the airfoil. Introduction The IceVal database is a significant achievement that is still yielding...
"As with any scientific endeavor, the foundation of icing research ... is the data acquired during experimental testing." NASA Report E-16236 1. 4132 ice shapes for the NACA0012 airfoil. [Yes, that is how it is spelled.] The IceVal...
Pedro is vast, but he is also hidden and mysterious, tucked behind locked doors and a colloquy of priests and doctors.
If you love pre-Code as much as I do, you’ll tune into TCM on Friday, May 15th for one of the best satiny line-ups I’ve seen since Heck was a pup! I’ve written about each of these features here at Shadows and Satin — I’m listing the...
I was on the bus on my way to an important business meeting about the exponential growth of my MRR, when suddenly I noticed some troublemakers were hassling an old lady. Their caps were on backwards, their clothes were baggy, and...
Here is a sonnet for Ascension Day, the glorious finale of the Easter Season. In the mystery of the Ascension we reflect on the way in which, one sense Christ ‘leaves’ us and is taken away into Heaven, but in another sense he … Continue...
What things have been in my earholes and eyeballs since the last time I did one of these? • Front 242. Another band with difficult licensing, some of their good albums are on streaming, some are not. Those missing albums I added manually...