Wednesday, December 28, 2011

9/11 Memorial Christmas Day 2011

We spent Christmas afternoon at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City
Although the museum is under construction, this is a "must see" if in New York.
Tickets are free / available at www.911memorial.org but plan ahead as there is a significant wait.



Walking into the Memorial site the largest image is that of the new One WTC going up - Freedom Tower

but the 9/11 Memorial is centered on the footprints of the old World Trade Center North and South Towers - you are constantly reminded this is a construction site

 below is the new museum - it is between the old tower footprints
 each tower footprint is surrounded by a low wall engraved with the names of the fallen

south tower footprint - each footprint is a pool constantly replenished by a waterfall


museum is itself still a construction site


 museum and south tower footprint

north tower footprint - note names of the dead are backlit and visible by day or night


museum and new Freedom Tower

north tower pool and museum

site at sunset

as we walk away from the site we see Freedom Tower with coloured lights - Merry Christmas to all 

Friday, November 25, 2011

Magazines I subscribe to and their RSS status

Revised Mar 2104 Magazines I subscribe to/read - rss==in my reader
cIDs authoritative source (drop/add realtime) - this copy less often:
EE Times http://www.eetimes.com/ rss
EE Times Embedded Archive link 


ESD Embedded Systems Design http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/esd1211/ 
EDN Electronic Design News http://www.edn.com/ rss 
Electronic Design http://electronicdesign RSS
Design News http://www.designnews.com/ Sherlock Ohms & Designed By Monkeys - rss
Design News (UBM) http://designnews.canonresourcecenter.com/resource_center - rss
Electronic Products http://www.electronicproducts.com - rss
T&MW Test and Measurement World http://www.tmworld.com/ - rss
VSD Vision Systems Design http://www.vision-systems.com/index.html - rss Boards/Fact Auto
Assembly http://www.assemblymag.com/ get paper copy - rss
MH&L Material Handling & Logistics News http://mhlnews.com - rss
HPAC Engineering http://hpac.com NOrss
Control Engineering http://www.controleng.com LP;NOrss
Plant Engineering http://www.PlantEngineering.com NOrss
IMPO Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operation http://impomag.com NOrss KillList
TMCnet http://www.tmcnet.com/ rss http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/
ECN Electronic Component News http://www.ecnmag.com/ - rss
DE Desktop Engineering http://www.deskeng.com/ - rss
EEandT Energy Efficiency and Technology http://www.eetweb.com/ - rss
NASA Tech Briefs http://www.techbriefs.com/ - rss
Military and Aerospace Electronics http://militaryaerospace.com NOrss follow channels
Avionics Intelligence Newsletter http://www.avionics-intelligence.com/index.html - email
Defense Systems http://defensesystems.com - rss
Lightwave http://www.lightwaveonline.com/ NOrss
Wireless Design and Development http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ NOrss
CED Broadband focus http://www.CEDmagazine.com rss
IW Industry Week http://www.industryweek.com/ - rss
Business Solutions http://bsminfo.com - NOrss
LFW Laser Focus World http://LaserFocusWorld.com - rss
BioOptics World http://www.bioopticsworld.com - rss
R&D Magazine http://www.rdmag.com - rss
Chemical Processing http://chemicalprocessing.com - rss
BioPharm http://biopharminternational.com - rss
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing http://pharmamanufacturing.com - rss
Drug Discovery and Development http://dddmag.com - NOrss
Medical Design Technology http://www.mdtmag.com/ - rss 
Medical Design Briefs http://medicaldesignbriefs.com - NOrss (was but cannot find now) sister pub of NASA tech briefs
Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry http://mddionline.com - rss
Suppliers to Medical Industry http://www.qmed.com/ rss (in gReader; MPMN&blog articles good)
InfoTech Spotlight tmcnet.com content at http://it.tmcnet.com/magazine/Default.aspx rss
TN TechNet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ rss (for security notices)
Baseline Mag http://www.baselinemag.com/ get paper copy - rss
InformationWeek http://informationweek.com/ rss
BtoBonline.com rss
MCM http://multichannelmerchant.com rss
SCMR http://scmr.com/ Supply Chain Management Review


Time.com/time rss
PC World http://www.pcworld.com/ rss
PC Mag digital edition Zinio on iPad/PC http://www.pcmag.com/ rss





Monday, November 14, 2011

2011 River Trip Day 16 10/9 exit via Diamond Creek, lavacados photos/story

2011 River Trip Day 16 exit via Diamond Creek, lavacados photos/story


06:28 sunrise
 06:28 last breakfast

07:39 small scorpion in camp
 07:46 Teddy
 07:59 heading downriver


 10:06 takeout ahead
 10:07 pull in and unload gear
 10:27 gear unloaded - next we will derig boats - we all helped


 14:08 route 66 stop for ice cream



 19:40 dinner




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2011 River Trip Day 15 10/8 Mile 215 Camp Indian Canyon Bundy jars, Pumpkin Spring jump

2011 River Trip Day 15 10/8 Mile 215 Camp Indian Canyon Bundy jars, Pumpkin Spring jump


breakfast french toast syrup bacon left over spice cake
lunch tortillas celery, onions, jalapenos
dinner green chili 


06:20 wakeup in Whitmore Camp
 07:44 Jackie Little
 07:44 Michael and Chris
 07:44 Tabitha and Sarol Gay
 07:45 Capn Jack and Jody
 07:45 Dennis Smoldt
 07:45 Teddy with Holly and Kati in background
 07:45 Gary Stock
 07:45 James Rayment at right



 08:44 we are heading downriver - we have miles to cover today
 12:07 we stop for lunch and a hike at Indian Canyon
 12:12 lunch table and prep work
 12:20 Gary Stock, James Rayment and Bill went exploring - 
 12:21 James, Gary and I above camp


12:21 Gary below (note the bare feat he is climbing with on HOT rocks)
 12:22 Bill
 12:24 James Rayment
 12:25 Gary and James
 12:35 part of our lunch or a weird ailment
 13:05 after lunch to do a brief hike up Indian Canyon to see the Bundy jars
 13:09 part of a flint arrowhead
 13:13 on Indian Canyon hike
 14:32 we head downriver - here we are approaching Pumpkin Springs here we get off the boats and hike over Tapeats boulders
 14:45 here is a pothole - formed by water swirling a small rock against the boulder
 14:46 Bill standing in a shallow pot hole
 14:47 much deeper pothole
 14:50 climbing over large Tapeats boulders
 15:02 we reach Pumpkin Spring and enjoy the scenery
 15:13 James jumping off edge at Pumpkin Spring
 15:14 Bill jumping (thanks to James for the photo)
 15:19 we are heading downriver again
15:46 Teddy looking ahead towards our mile 215 camp
 16:14 we stop and setup camp - my campsite below
 16:14 groover approach
 16:15 groover
 16:15 groover view
 16:30 large tarantula that shared camp with us
 16:36 camp view
 16:41 cicada

 18:05 sunset of our last night in Grand Canyon

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