102:44:54 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
102:45:02 Duke: 60 seconds (of fuel left before the 'Bingo' call).
[The accompanying 16-mm film clip (4.0Mb) by Gerald Megason covers the last forty seconds of the descent. The camera was mounted in Buzz's window and, when the clip starts, East Crater is visible at the bottom of the window.]
102:45:25 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet, down a half.
102:45:31 Duke: 30 seconds (until the 'Bingo' call).
102:45:32 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good. (Garbled) (Pause)
102:45:40 Aldrin: Contact Light.
102:45:43 Armstrong (on-board): Shutdown
102:45:44 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
102:45:45 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
102:45:46 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
[Armstrong, from a 1996 letter - "The Attitude Control Assembly [ACA] was the control stick. It had potentiometers or transducers or something similar to provide an output proportional to stick position. Output went to the LGC (LM Guidance Computer) to command the RCS jets to fire. 'Out of Detent' simply means the stick was moved away from its centered position. It was spring/detent centered like the turn signal control on your car."]
102:45:47 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
102:45:57 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
102:45:58 Armstrong (on-board): Engine arm is off. (Pause) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
102:46:06 Duke: (Momentarily tongue-tied) Roger, Twan...(correcting himself) Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
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It is the nation's favourite Chinese dish adored by millions and a staple feature on the menus of restaurants and takeaways the length and breadth of Britain. But Peking Duck could now be forced into extinction by an EU ban on the ovens traditionally used to prepare it.
Council inspectors have been busily visiting restaurants that use the ovens and sealing them closed with tape because they do not carry a CE (Conformité Européenne) mark certifying that the equipment meets safety standards on carbon-monoxide emissions laid down by Brussels. Ten restaurants in London including some in the famous Chinatown district have so far been affected and scores more in the capital will be hit in coming weeks. Other councils around Britain are also being urged to take similar action.
The clampdown comes despite an admission by council officials that there have been no reported health problems linked to the ovens, which are made in China and are also used to cook Cantonese Duck and suckling pig.
The ovens have been shut down by Westminster Council. The crackdown was launched after an official noticed the ovens were not CE marked during a routine inspection of Chinese restaurants in May. Westminster has now contacted other councils in areas with large Chinese populations to raise the issue.
A council spokesman said: 'If the restaurants want to continue cooking ducks in the traditional manner they will need to get new ovens which will comply with EU standards by having CE marking.
'We are absolutely not picking on the Chinese community. This is an issue with any kind of ethnic type of food where they may well be using catering equipment imported from outside the EU.
'We are not aware of a single injury or accident involving these duck ovens but now we are aware of this issue we want to prevent any accidents happening.'
In 2006, Westminster confiscated burners used on tables at Korean restaurants because they did not meet European safety standards.
Posted by: Basil F ||
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Try Duck Soup instead. "Remember, we're fighting for this woman's Honor, which is probably more than She ever did".
The EU is seriously devolving into a Dictatorship.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
07/20/2008 9:52 Comments ||
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It's true to form, Deacon: the Euros invented statism, and they've always been more comfortable with that kind of goverance. The democratic anarchy of the United States gives them the heebie-jeebies.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/20/2008 10:12 Comments ||
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They should change the name to Holy Roman European Union, except they reject Christianity and have a rotating presidency.
#5
. "Remember, we're fighting for this woman's Honor, which is probably more than She ever did".
Um..... ^^^^^^^^^that, and you'll damn well be pleased with it.
#7
If any form of pleasure is exhibited,
Report to me and it will be prohibited!
The last man nearly ruined this place he didn't know what to do with it.
If you think this country's bad off now, just wait till I get through with it!
The country's taxes must be fixed, and I know what to do with it.
If you think you're paying too much now, just wait till I get through with it!
"Gentlemen, the European Union regulators here may talk like idiots, and look like idiots, but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots."
Posted by: Mike ||
07/20/2008 12:36 Comments ||
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It's the same old EU bureaufascism. Those idiots think that if they are poached rather than fried in statist totalitarianism, it's all golden.
Life continues to return to normal in Iraq. Will Obama notice?
BAGHDAD, July 19 (VOI) Baghdad operations command Rusafa sector (eastern Baghdad) will re-open al-Aima Bridge that links the two neighborhoods of Adhamiya (Sunni) and Kadhimiya (Shiite) during the coming few days, after being blocked for three years, Rusafa operations commander said. "The upcoming days will witness the reopening of al-Aima Bridge which was closed by the Iraqi government three years ago," Major General Monther Nesayef told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
He stressed the social importance of this issue, "and the relations between the two neighborhoods and re-practicing trade activities between them and other Baghdadi neighborhoods."
"Security services are currently preparing for the bridge's reopening," he added.
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The American Civil Liberties Union says the ordinance targets young men of color.
Well as long as they're on a work site doing plumbing or carpentry, I doubt they'll be classified as saggy pants 'in public'. There's a lot of crack on display around those locations.
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I find this whole "Gangsta" dress very confusing. On one hand they WANT to dress, talk, and act like criminals, but they don't want to be treated LIKE criminals. Pull your pants up, get a job, and start being productive memebr of society. In about 20 years you wil see pictures of yourself and think "Oh god why didn't somebody stop me." Doubt me? Think leisure suits.
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A substantial subset of teenaged boys out here in the suburbs affect gangsta clothing, behaviour and accents. The trailing daughters rather scorn them, I'm afraid.
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tw, I wouldn't be afraid of having the trailing daughters scorn the gangstas. I would be much more afraid it they thought they were cool.
Posted by: Rambler in California ||
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He says leaders should instead spend money on making the area look nicer. I thought that was the purpose of the new ordinance -- to make things look better.
#6
That whole "saggy-pants" thing originated in prison. It was originally an advertisement that the wearer of the saggy pants was...available for hire. So to speak.
Typically the saggy pants wearer even had their boxers on backwards and were pre-lubed. I wonder if these young men of color realize that.
Target them now, or target them later.
Posted by: Ho Chi Flaiper4630 ||
07/20/2008 22:17 Comments ||
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Yeah, it's annoying. But in the late 80's parents and teachers were moaning about our pants being too tight, and us not tying our shoelaces on our hightop Reeboks. Same shit, different generation. Maybe I'm not old enough to be an old stick in the mud yet, but I really couldn't care less what they wear.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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