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Whole Grain Flour Heart Waffles
Ingredients 70 g butter 20 to 30 g sugar, or half and half sugar / artificial sweetener. Adjust the sweetener level to your preference. A good pinch of salt 2 eggs juice of 1/2 lemon 3 tablespoon rum 90 ml milk 125 g whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powderPreparationLet the butter be soft, i.e, microwave for a few seconds or remove it from the fridge in time early enough. Mix butter and sugar well.Slowly, each time adding only a bit of liquid, add the 2 eggs, lemon juice, rum, and milk.Finally, mix the baking powder into the flour, add...
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Adding last year's SPIE papers
A bit overdue, and I should also post the papers to archive.org at some point, but here are the 2022 SPIE Papers I presented at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 meeting in Montreal. One paper talks about observatory maintenance during the COVID pandemic when everything shut down, and the other paper talks about how to use telemetry and data metrics to monitor and then allocate resources to observatory operations. How we completed major maintenance and new installationsat Las Cumbres Observatory during the COVID-19 Pandemic Informing Observatory Operations with Accessible Telemetry and Performance Metrics)
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Rose hip Soup
A staple dish in our family is rose hip soup, which we usually serve only once a year for Christmas. It is a flavorful, spiced, andsweetened soup that works well during the Holidays, but every year I wonder why we are not having it more often. It can be served as anappetizer for a meal, but in recent years we just made a big pot of it and simply ate soup for dinner.Ingredients 250 g rose hips, seedless 2 liters water Gluehweingewuerz Cinnamon peel of one lemon 2 tablespoon replacement sugar (we use half Splenda / Monkfruit) 2 tablespoon sugar...
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Oil Film Offshore Santa Barbara
Back in August I was flying out of Santa Barbara Airport, and right after take-off the plane usually takes a wide turn over the ocean - it is a wonderful view of the Channel Islands.Interestingly, there was a lot of oil film on the water, better visible to the naked eye than on the picture below that I took with the camera of my cell phone. I was surprised by the extend of oil on the water.A search for natural oil seeps will point to some web pages explaining the origin of the oil film (seemingly a natural occurrence, not...
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VisualFitsBrowser Version 1.5 Released
I have released a new version (1.5) of the VisualFitsBrowser. It has a few improvement that should be useful: Some documentation in the GitHub wiki page Support to send multi-extension FITS files to ds9 as mosaic image iraf. Support to send several images to ds9. Just select several images in the table view and select File -> send all to ds9. All images will load, with frame, cmap etc locked between the frames. If there is no ds9 running already, double-click on the greyed out ds9 icon in the menu bar (right side). A new ds9 (if found) will be...