When the Moon is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the Montes Caucasus as seen from the lunar surface. The lunar mountain range casts the magnificent, spire-like shadows in this telescopic view from planet Earth, looking along the lunar terminator or the boundary between lunar night and day. Named for Earth’s own Caucasus Mountains, the rugged lunar Montes Caucasus peaks, up to 6 kilometers high, are located between the smooth Mare Imbrium to the west and Mare Serenitatis to the east. Still mostly in shadow in this first quarter lunarscape, at the left (west) impact craters reflect the light of the rising Sun along their outer, eastern crater walls. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/3Y3fFlO
Jupiter, the Solar System’s ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night skyscape. The scene was constructed by selecting the 40 exposures containing meteors from about 500 exposures made on the nights of December 13 and 14, near peak activity for this year’s annual Geminid meteor shower. With each selected exposure registered in the night sky above Alentejo, Portugal, planet Earth, it does look like the meteors are streaming away from Jupiter. But the apparent radiant of the Geminid meteors is actually closer to bright star Castor, in the shower’s eponymous constellation Gemini. In this frame that’s just a little above and left of the Solar System’s most massive planet. Still, the parent body of Geminid meteors is known to be rocky, near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon. And the orbit of Phaethon itself is influenced by the gravitational attraction exerted by massive Jupiter, in concert with planets of the inner Solar System. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/4917Baf
https://www.youtube.com/watch/7bAk40DKntk Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Stuns Washington with Explosive Vanity Fair Comments: A Closer Look
Seth takes a closer look at the White House doing damage control after Trump’s current chief of staff said nasty things about the Trump administration in an explosive Vanity Fair article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/LO4HdG3RkcU Michael Clarke Ukraine war Q&A | Could Ukraine war actually end?
Michael Clarke is here this afternoon to rattle through questions you’ve been sending in.
There is, as ever, plenty to talk about, but if you need some inspiration, here’s what’s been on the agenda this week:
🔴 European leaders claim “significant progress” has been made in the bid for peace after talks in Berlin with Ukraine and US envoys;
🔴 While Donald Trump says we’re “closer now than we have been ever” to peace;
🔴 Elsewhere, the head of Britain’s armed forces says there is a growing risk that Russia could attack the UK.
‘Breathless’ was the second single taken from the band’s 13th album ‘Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus (Double A Side with ‘There She Goes My Beautiful World’)
Originally released in November 2004, the single featured the Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Warren Ellis, Martyn P Casey,
Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and James Johnston.
It’s up in the morning and on the downs
Little white clouds like gambolling lambs
And I am breathless over you
And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His throat it trembles when he sings
For he is helpless before you
The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all a-down
Heavied by the early morning dew
At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up to take a look
For they are breathless over you
Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your mind
Still your soul
For still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you
The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is breathless without you
The fox chases the rabbit round
The rabbit hides beneath the ground
For he is defenceless without you
The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you
I listen to my juddering bones
The blood in my veins and the wind in my lungs
And I am breathless without you
Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you
https://www.youtube.com/watch/LoAXA_Rm25A Conan the Barbarian – Original Soundtrack (Expanded Edition)
Basil Poledouris – Conan the Barbarian Album: Conan the Barbarian – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Label: Intrada – MAF 7123 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2012 Genre: Classical, Stage & Screen Style: Modern Classical, Score
The Complete Score
0:00:00 Basil Poledouris – Prologue / Anvil Of Crom
0:03:40 Basil Poledouris – Riddle Of Steel / Riders Of Doom
0:09:20 Basil Poledouris – Gift Of Fury
0:13:13 Basil Poledouris – Column Of Sadness / Wheel Of Pain
0:17:25 Basil Poledouris – Pit Fights
0:20:06 Basil Poledouris – The Discipline Of Steel / Freedom Council
0:21:38 Basil Poledouris – Atlantean Sword
0:25:41 Basil Poledouris – Warm Welcome
0:27:47 Basil Poledouris – Wolf Witch
0:30:57 Basil Poledouris – Theology / Civilization
0:34:13 Basil Poledouris – Street Of Deviants
0:34:43 Basil Poledouris – Hopefuls At The Tower Of Set
0:37:06 Basil Poledouris – The Tower Of Set
0:42:45 Basil Poledouris – The Snake / Infidels
0:44:46 Basil Poledouris – The Tavern
0:46:00 Basil Poledouris – Wifeing (Theme Of Love From Conan The Barbarian)
0:48:11 Basil Poledouris – Indulgence / Mettle
0:49:27 Basil Poledouris – The Hall Of King Osric
0:50:50 Basil Poledouris – The Leaving / The Search
0:56:51 Basil Poledouris – The Mountain Of Power Procession
1:00:16 Basil Poledouris – Capture
1:01:10 Basil Poledouris – Tree Of Woe / Recovery
1:06:57 Basil Poledouris – Warpaint
1:07:58 Basil Poledouris – The Kitchen / The Orgy
1:14:28 Basil Poledouris – The Defilers
1:19:46 Basil Poledouris – Funeral Pyre
1:24:20 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds Part I
1:29:12 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds Part II
1:31:30 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds Part III (Revised) / Night Of Doom
1:37:06 Basil Poledouris – Head Chop
1:38:05 Basil Poledouris – Orphans Of Doom / The Awakening
1:43:38 Basil Poledouris – Conan The King / End Title
The Extras
1:48:51 Basil Poledouris – Prologue (First Version)
1:49:39 Basil Poledouris – Anvil Of Crom (First Version)
1:52:10 Basil Poledouris – The Tower Of Set Part 1 (First Version)
1:55:57 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds Part II
1:58:15 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds Part III
2:01:20 Basil Poledouris – Orphans Of Doom (Orchestra And Solo Voice)
2:02:44 Basil Poledouris – Orphans Of Doom (Chorus And Harp) / The Awakening (First Version)
2:09:31 Basil Poledouris – “Las Cantigas De Santa Maria” (The Snake)
The Original 1982 MCA Soundtrack Album
2:15:39 Basil Poledouris – Anvil Of Crom
2:18:15 Basil Poledouris – Riddle Of Steel / Riders Of Doom
2:23:54 Basil Poledouris – Gift Of Fury
2:27:46 Basil Poledouris – Wheel Of Pain
2:31:57 Basil Poledouris – Atlantean Sword
2:35:49 Basil Poledouris – Theology / Civilization
2:39:04 Basil Poledouris – Wifeing (Theme Of Love From Conan The Barbarian)
2:41:16 Basil Poledouris – The Search
2:44:26 Basil Poledouris – The Orgy
2:48:43 Basil Poledouris – Funeral Pyre
2:53:13 Basil Poledouris – Battle Of The Mounds
2:58:08 Basil Poledouris – Orphans Of Doom / The Awakening
https://www.youtube.com/watch/Cku10B_nURI Trump, loyalty, and the limits of accountability | ask ian
In this “ask ian,” Ian Bremmer examines two seemingly separate stories that reveal the same underlying truth about Donald Trump: power, loyalty, and accountability.
Reacting to Trump’s response to the killing of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, Ian argues that the president’s remarks weren’t a slip but a feature. “I think it actually reflects who Trump is,” he says, adding that supporters should wrestle and “understand the totality of the man.”
Ian then turns to the Vanity Fair interview series with Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, calling it “the most remarkably honest coverage” of Trump’s second term from inside the administration. Her candor on tariffs, USAID, and Trump’s “vindictive” instincts, Ian notes, offers a rare glimpse of internal dissent that isn’t disloyalty.
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#trump #susiewiles #robreiner #loyalty #askian #maga
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cku10B_nURI ORIGIN
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, whom Greek mythology credits as the vain wife of a King who long ago ruled lands surrounding the upper Nile river. Also known as Westerhout 5 (W5), the Soul Nebula houses several open clusters of stars, ridges and pillars darkened by cosmic dust, and huge evacuated bubbles formed by the winds of young massive stars. Located about 6,500 light years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years and is usually imaged next to its celestial neighbor the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). The featured image, taken from near Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is a composite of 234 hours of exposures made in different colors: red as emitted by hydrogen gas, yellow as emitted by sulfur, and blue as emitted by oxygen. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/44x2xcc
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