![]() Military organizations were particularly interested and boosted their development. The invention of lasers in the 1960s revolutionized free-space optics. ![]() Carl Zeiss, Jena developed the Lichtsprechgerät 80/80 (literal translation: optical speaking device) that the German army used in their World War II anti-aircraft defense units, or in bunkers at the Atlantic Wall. Ī major technological step was to replace the Morse code by modulating optical waves in speech transmission. In addition, special blinkgeräts were used for communication with airplanes, balloons, and tanks, with varying success. Optical telephone communications were tested at the end of the war, but not introduced at troop level. German colonial troops used heliograph telegraphy transmitters during the Herero and Namaqua genocide starting in 1904, in German South-West Africa (today's Namibia) as did British, French, US or Ottoman signals.ĭuring the trench warfare of World War I when wire communications were often cut, German signals used three types of optical Morse transmitters called Blinkgerät, the intermediate type for distances of up to 4 km (2.5 miles) at daylight and of up to 8 km (5 miles) at night, using red filters for undetected communications. Its first practical use came in military communication systems many decades later, first for optical telegraphy. ![]() On June 3, 1880, Bell conducted the world's first wireless telephone transmission between two buildings, some 213 meters (700 feet) apart. The device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light. Bell considered it his most important invention. ![]() In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the photophone, at Bell's newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC. In the modern era, semaphores and wireless solar telegraphs called heliographs were developed, using coded signals to communicate with their recipients. The ancient Greeks used a coded alphabetic system of signalling with torches developed by Cleoxenus, Democleitus and Polybius. Optical communications, in various forms, have been used for thousands of years. A photophone receiver and headset, one half of Bell and Tainter's optical telecommunication system of 1880 ![]()
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![]() Monday night will likely bring showers, mainly before 1 a.m., with mostly cloudy skies and a low of around 39 degrees. The chance of precipitation is 90 percent. On Monday, rain showers are expected mainly after 7 a.m., with a high near 63 degrees and breezy conditions. There will be a 50 percent chance of precipitation. The rainy start to next week begins Sunday night into Monday morning, with a chance of rain after 1 a.m., mostly cloudy skies and a low of around 38 degrees. Sunday will be partly sunny, with a high near 55 degrees. Saturday night will be mostly cloudy, with a low of around 32 degrees. Saturday will be partly sunny, with a high near 47 degrees and an east wind of around 6 miles per hour in the afternoon. There will be an east wind of around 6 miles per hour, with a chance of precipitation at 20 percent, but no expected accumulation, the NWS said.Ĭolumbus weather: How is warmer-than-normal temperatures affecting your lawn and garden? ![]() Friday night may bring a slight chance of snow flurries after 1 a.m., with mostly cloudy skies and a low of around 27 degrees. On Friday, there will be mostly sunny skies, but the high will struggle to get near 40 degrees amid a north wind of 8 to 11 miles per hour. Winds will be 14 to 18 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 28 miles per hour. 24, the weather will be quite the opposite.Ī cold front moving in from the northwest Thursday night is going to send temperatures plummeting to a low of around 30 degrees. 23, which was 72 degrees set in 2017.Īccording to the NWS, Thursday's high got within five degrees of the warmest February day ever in Columbus, which was 78 degrees set on Feb. That surpassed the previous record high temperature for Columbus for Feb. The afternoon high at John Glenn Columbus International Airport on Thursday reached 73 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington. 23, as this month continues to break records for warm temperatures generally not seen here until May. ![]() Columbus set a record high temperature Thursday for Feb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() runway runwaymodel plussize plussizemodel model curvy thick. Of her famous dad's absence from the audience, Hayley, who's been acting and modeling since she was a kid, said, "I'm not bothered either way. Another runway walk this time for shophouseoffleek at runway7fashion runway. 5 Shelf Life: Sarah Ruhl Paloma Elsesser and Jill Kortleve Make History as Fendi's First Plus-Size Runway Models By Nerisha Penrose Victor BoykoGetty Images Fashion talks a. ![]() Hayley, whose height is listed as 5-foot-6 on IMDb, says she's a size 12 to 14-and the average British woman's size is 14 to 16 (the same as 10 to 12 in the U.S.). Inclusive and diverse are words continuously. I just hope one day will get the same respect." Deep into the continued push for diversity in fashion, we’re still rarely seeing a range of plus-size bodies on the runway. Fendi's fall 2020 runway show also marked a first for fellow model Jill Kortleve, who has walked for Michael Kors, Kate Spade, Rag & Bone, Mugler and more. "Calling it 'plus-size' doesn't do it justice," the 21-year-old said. "It's about women with curves and women of all shapes and sizes. If you don’t meet these requirements, you may want to try a different modeling type, or look for. The show is not an official part of London Fashion Week, which also kicked off today, though Hayley told reporters afterward that she hopes plus-size models will be considered part of the high-fashion mainstream one day. Male runway models are usually 6’ to 6’5, wear a size 4042 top, and have a 32-inch waist. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s emancipating knowing that not only should I not try to write hits, but I absolutely couldn’t if I had to. 54-year-old guys should not be trying to compete with 19-year-olds for the attention of other 19-year-olds. For me to be trying to write a hit that will compete with the music of 19-year-olds, the level of sadness and compromise and disingenuousness, even if I tried to do it, I couldn’t do it. One is when I had hits, it didn’t necessarily create any sustainable happiness for me. There are a bunch of things that have helped me shed that need. Do you not feel the need to write a hit anymore? In “Then It All Fell Apart,” you said the need to write hit songs came from a desire to maintain your celebrity. The Einstein quote that everyone loves: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” There isn’t nobility around my philanthropy. If someone is worth $100 million dollars and they have three planes and five houses and they’re miserable, having four planes and six houses is not going to make you happier. I see people who have a lot and are not very happy try to get more. The idea that I would have the right portfolio of perfection and that would give me unspeakable bliss and a sense of belonging until the day I die. My idea of happiness when I was growing up was, in a way, divorced from the human condition, as I think a lot of people’s conception of happiness is. It led me to think, ‘Being a materialist doesn’t make me happy, what are the alternatives?’ To me, the alternative was to live a relatively simple life, and enjoy the work that you make, and if you can, use your platform and money to help organizations who are trying to fix problems. ![]() I wasn’t good at it, and it made me miserable. I was bending over backwards, trying to be a big public figure. ![]() There was an empirical aspect to it, which was: the more time and money and energy I spent trying to impress people, trying to have great stuff and to live in Jay Gatsby-esque homes, the less happy I was. I moved into some unnecessarily over-the-top apartments and houses and I had an assistant whose job was throwing parties. But in the early 2000s, I went to the other extreme of trying to be a really good materialistic rock star. It partially comes from being raised by hippies who were not very materialistic, and then getting involved in punk rock when I was in high school, which is also either not materialistic or ashamed of the profit motive. What brought on your sense of philanthropy? ![]() For the last 10 years, you’ve been giving away profits, not just from your music, but many of your other ventures as well. Moby spoke to Variety by phone ahead of the album’s release. “All Visible Objects” taps into both ends of the ’90s spectrum: euphoric rave-y tracks of the early part of the decade and the emotive ambient ones that came towards the turn of the millenium (plus a spooky cover of Roxy Music’s “My Only Love”) creating a musical Venn diagram all his own. The astronomical success of his 1998 release “Play” cemented the artist’s place in the annals of modern music history.
![]() And once the rocket gets beyond the atmosphere, there will no longer be air resistance, because there won’t be any air. That’s because moving farther from the center of the Earth means that the strength of the gravitational force pulling on the ship decreases. Air resistance is caused by the collisions between the rocket and the air.Īs the spacecraft leaves the ground, both of these forces will eventually become insignificantly small. The other two forces on the spacecraft are the downward-pulling gravitational force due to its interaction with the Earth, and an air resistance force pushing in the opposite direction as the ship. (The nice thing about rocket engines is that they work both in Earth's atmosphere and in space, where there is no air.) All forces come in pairs, so when the exhaust is ejected from the engine, it pushes the rocket in the opposite direction. A conventional chemical engine combusts propellants to create exhaust gasses. ![]() First, there's the thrust from the engines. In the case of Buzz's rocket, there are essentially three force interactions during this part of the motion. The engine will keep pushing the spaceship to overcome that pull and keep it moving at a constant speed, so it won’t fall back to Earth. ![]() But that’s not a problem, because you don’t need to worry about escape velocity if you have a rocket. Remember, we calculated that it’s moving at 192 meters per second. That apple will escape.īuzz Lightyear’s rocket is fast-but not that fast. Then it will get high enough such that the gravitational force won’t be strong enough to stop it. Eventually, thanks to the pull of gravity, it will stop and then start falling back toward Earth.īut let’s say the apple is moving super fast, at 11.186 kilometers per second. (That’s fairly fast for an apple.) As that apple moves upward, it’s going to slow down. Suppose you take an apple and toss it up in the air with a velocity of 10 meters per second. Let me give a brief overview of escape velocity. That means I can get both x and y positions as a function of time from the video. Since the video changes frames at regular intervals, 24 frames per second, each new frame is 1/24 of a second after the previous one. Then, after advancing to the next frame, I can find the object’s new position. If I know the size of an object in the scene, I can scale the video to get an actual position of the object, or its x and y values. The main idea behind video analysis is to look at the position of an object in each frame of a video. This makes it a perfect case for video analysis. Since the "camera" view is far away, you can see a good bit of the rocket’s motion. ![]() (OK, I don't even know what's real anymore.)īut I do know that in the trailer for the movie, which is going to be released next summer, they show Buzz launching in his spacecraft, presumably from Earth. This is about the real Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on. This is an animated film about Buzz Lightyear. I know it's just a movie, and not even a live-action one-but the trailer for Lightyear compels me to analyze it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be ready then and at the location we ask you to be at. Pickups begin 1/2 hour prior to tour time. Ok if you have bridge or scared of heights phobiasįree pickup and dropoff service from just about all hotels on the Strip, as well as the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. Up to almost 5000 feet elevation in the mountains Scootercars are not handicap or elderly friendly International driver's license is acceptable, but not a necessity Maximum combined weight of passengers is 450 lbs. Maximum height is 6'4", while riding with a passenger (email with questions as there is some wiggle room depending on weight of driver and passenger) Must be 21 with valid driver's license to drive 4.5 hours of concierge service from our tour guides from pickup until dropoff Shuttle back to Strip and downtown hotelsĪpprox. Total driving distance in the scootercars is 35 miles roundtrip, with at least 3 stops in Red Rock Canyon Travel back to our starting location near Red Rock Casino Plenty of time for pictures and mild hiking Scoot City pays for admission into Red Rock CanyonĪt least 2 other stops in Red Rock Canyon with one more bathroom stop Guided drive out to Red Rock Canyon as a convoy Safety instructions and scooter operation info Pickup from Strip hotels and Golden Nugget downtown from one of our guides (shuttle driver is also tour guide) $349.98 per scootercar whether single or double occupancy. September and October 8am and 1pm Tours Daily We are closed on Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. In addition, we provide a coolers of ice water at no additional charge. Scoot City pays for your admission into Red Rock Canyon. Your tour guide will also serve as your personal concierge to take pictures of you as well as offer you recommendations for dinner, shows, etc. Both driver and passenger can alternate driving with no additional charge.Īt least one personal tour guide will lead you throughout the tour, however, you are free to go off on your own at each stop for a set period of time. ![]() Each stop has a unique view with amazing backdrops for photos. Total driving distance in the scootercars is 35 miles with at least 3 stops to allow for mild hiking and picture taking. Actual time spent in the scootercars is about 3.5 hours, which includes driving time and stops. Total tour time is approximately 4.5 to 5 hours and that includes pick up and drop off time. After each stop, the driver and the passenger can switch, so both people in the scootercar have a chance to drive. ![]() All we ask is that you please be respectful of everyone's time, and meet back at the scootercars to head up to our next location. However, when we stop, you're free to go off on your own and do your own thing. In essence, we all travel as one big convoy from place to place. On most days, we'll also have a second tour guide that will follow the group. What do we mean by that? You'll have at least one of our tour guides lead in his/her scootercar, and then our customers (typically 2 people per scootercar) will follow in his/her own scootercar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most industries are represented but creatives rank high amongst its diverse residents. The average age in HP is 28 so the area reads young. 4Bed/3Bath $959,000 (Photo courtesy of ) 318 Shanely 3Bed / 2Bath $819,000 (Photo courtesy of ) 800 Chestnut Ave 2Bed / 3 Bath $835,000 (Photo courtesy of ) 6316 Crescent St. Prices for done homes range from the low $500s to $2 million. The style of homes in HP range from the more established historical Craftsmans and Spanish bungalows to newly built modern architectural. And coming soon to Fig street, as the locals refer, in the landmark Frank’s Camera building will be a new restaurant / bar, and Pacific Union Realty. Opening soon on York is Pine and Crane’s second location after much success from ![]() Old-school-noteworthy points of interest are the Police Museum and Galco’s Soda Pop Shop on York and The Chicken-Boy statue and The Highland Theatre, once the center of HP, on Figueroa. On York Avenue there is Doughnut Friend (reason enough to drive to Highland Park), Pop-Hop Books and Print offering a beautifully curated selection of art, small press zines and adult and children’s books, Cafe De Leche Coffee, Planta Nursery and Highland Park Cafe – which serves the best Hamburger in the City. The center of Highland Park’s shopping, dining, and nightlife area is divided amongst the two main arteries Figueroa from 50th to 60th Avenues with the remodeled Highland Park Bowl along with Civil Coffee serving as anchors. The Metro Gold Line stops at 57th close to Figueroa greeting passengers with a charming Farmer’s Market on Tuesdays. Highland Park sits just west of South Pasadena, just south of Eagle Rock and can be accessed by its two main arteries York – running East to West and Figueroa running North to South. ![]() Highland Park, which has been on the scene for a while, persists to be the front and center of what urban-cool gentrification can aspire to. NELA’s (North East of Los Angeles) emerging neighborhoods continue to explode as young singles and families who can now no longer afford more established areas, such as Silverlake, move in. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way to request your money back is through chat. If you prefer to request your refund via email, phone, or in person, you’re out of luck. ![]() The agent decides whether you can get a refund or not.Answer seven questions, and you will be transferred to an actual support agent.In the new window select New refund request.Choose Request a refund and then Refund Chatbot.The name of the item you want a refund for.Before you start the process, prepare the information that the chatbot will ask for: ![]() In the past, you had to fill out refund forms for PlayStation items, but that changed in 2019, and now for all refund requests, you first need to have a chat with their chatbot. How to Request a Refund on PlayStation Manually? If you want to avoid charges when the free trial windows end, you can subscribe to these services with DoNotPay’s virtual credit card. 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To prevent possible issues with game refunds, make sure to turn off Automatic Downloads on your PS4 console.Ī similar rule applies to PlayStation Video titles. You should be extra careful about this rule when it comes to season passes and in-game consumables as they can be purchased through games and get downloaded or used right away. There is one little trick, though-you are not eligible for getting your money back if you downloaded or used any digital content unless that content is faulty. If you’re interested in how to get a refund for PS4 games, you should know that you have 14 days to cancel your purchase and receive a refund. You will have to use a browser on your computer or your smart device. The first thing to remember is that you cannot initiate a refund request on your console. With so many products available on the PlayStation Network, things can get confusing. Buying or renting a bad movie over PlayStation Video might motivate you to check what your options for getting your money back are. PlayStation Network Refund PolicyĮven if you have never regretted purchasing a game for your PlayStation console, you may be in a situation to rethink that PlayStation Plus or Now subscription. PlayStation Vue was the company’s Internet television service, which stopped operating in January 2020. Those interested in paid cloud gaming services might want to check out PlayStation Now. Movie streaming, purchases, and rentals are available through PlayStation Video, while you can stream music through PlayStation Music, powered by Spotify. If you’re into online gaming and want more of a social gaming experience, you can sign up for PlayStation Plus for a monthly fee. With 103 million monthly users, it is a giant in the world of gaming.īesides shopping for digital games, PlayStation Store offers a variety of other entertainment services. 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IEditorial Note: These blog posts represent the opinion of DoNotPay’s Writers, but each person’s situation and circumstances vary greatly. ![]() ![]() Up to 1. ![]() Today, Red River operates on over 3,000 feet of track and 22,000 square feet of custom blending and bagging facilities. Low-temperature piping and components -40 degrees. West Yard:Red River Supply got their transloading start at the West Yard in the early 1980’s with the drilling mud business. Nearly a million shipments of hazardous materials move throughout the U.S. Chemical Transloading & Custom Blending Safe Transportation of Energy Products Overview.Palletized, Breakbulk and Bulk dry goods.Products Handled (others available, call for details): ![]() Dry Bulk and Pressure Differential Hopper Cars.offers a wide array of services to facilitate the transloading of frac sand. 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Low-temperature piping and components -40 degrees. ![]() Let PRT, the only energy transloading facility in eastern Utah. The expansion will allow the facility to load up to 110 cars in one day, or 75,000 barrels of oil per day. Oil Production in the US is soaring and the oil fields of the Uinta Basin in Eastern. the oil return pipe of the steering mechanism and the oil return pipe of the. ![]() Oil prices plunged 20 percent in one day on fears the latest COVID-19 variant will weaken demand, and by extension, volumes of crude and refined products for shipment. Separation By Design provides custom transloading systems for organizations that need to transfer diesel, biodiesel, ethanol, crude oil, and/or DEF to and. Box, flat, gondola, Container, Trailer, BNSF Premiere Transloader. Portable truck and railcar transloaders are built for extreme accuracy and safety and. Specializing in Railcar transloading Services. 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