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[fornadablog.blogspot.com], Space shuttle Endeavour temporarily delayed as it navigates tight squeeze - Los Angeles Times
Endeavour took just under five minutes to move from Manchester Boulevard onto Crenshaw Drive, the wheels of its computerized transporters turning perpendicular to Crenshaw as it navigated the turn.
Moments earlier, police ushered a crowd back 50 feet. "The shuttle cannot make the turn!" An officer warned via loudspeaker.
But the shuttle did, and proceeded to crawl up Crenshaw past several apartment complexes before it was forced to stop just in front of 84th Place. A tree trunk stood in the way. Because of the curve of the road, the left wing of the shuttle couldn't clear the trunk.
FULL COVERAGE: Endeavour's move through L.A.
Crews began inching the wheels of the transporter back and fourth, and the rear wheels of the rear transporter moved over driveways. As workers continued to try to maneuver around the problem tree, they began trimming low-hanging branches from a second tree nearby.
On Crenshaw, hundreds of spectators gathered on side streets and rooftops to watch the spectacle.
After a 20-minute delay, the shuttle was rolling again.
PHOTOS: Endeavour rolls through the streets of L.A.
As the shuttle started moving again, officers urged spectators on elevated greenspace to "back all the way up. Or you're going to get hit by the wingtip."
 At the intersection of 84th and Crenshaw, Ron Liston, 42, stood on his second-story balcony with his nieces and nephews. When the shuttle passes Liston’s apartment, he will be at eye level with the windows of the orbiter.
He wasn't worried about the corner of his building or the tree that jutted over the street at the start of a slight uphill curve on the road -- he rents the place, he joked.
TIMELINE: Endeavour's journey through L.A.
"They've been out here all week," he said. "I'm sure they took proper measurements."
He was a little annoyed about a power outage prompted by the move, along with the traffic and crowds, but said his vantage point was "awe-inspiring" to wake up to.
He's lived here for 10 years and has "never" seen anything like this.
"Not even close," he said.
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Question by Josh: What does the awesome expression "blood is thicker than water" actually mean? I really want to start using it in my everyday conversation. Best answer for What does the awesome expression "blood is thicker than water" actually mean?:
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The general interpretation is that "family" is the most important connection.
screw your friends before family
It means that the people you are related to are the ones that you are going to stand by, and the ones that are going to stand by you, before someone who is not family. For instance: If a woman is in a fight with her husband, and he were to go to someone in her family to talk about it. The person who is related to her would be more than likely to take the woman's side because they are related to her, even if they feel close with her husband. I hope this makes sense. It is hard to explain it, really.
It means that a relative will usually stick by a relative as to where you are not related you take your chances
Family Is First!!!!!!!! Stranger Is Very Very LAST!!!!!
Family ties are closer than other relationships.
To try and put in simple terms. your brother would be more important than your friend because he is blood and it's innate of the bonding you have between yourselves. Your friend would always be second when it really counted.
The basic MEANING of this expression -- has been given, more or less, by several answers. But no one has yet suggested an EXPLANATION of the 'blood VS water' notion. I hope to help a little bit with that. Yes, it means something like "family loyalties are greater than other loyalties". But note that it may be used to comment on situations in which someone's obligations to another --even very SERIOUS obligations-- are 'trumped' by what his family WANTS... even when the latter is NOT an obligation. In other words, it is not always a positive statement, as some seem to think. In fact, if I'm correct about its origins, it may have BEGUN as a cynical statement. You can find a nearly identical summary of early English uses of this phrase, or relatives to it, and the cataloging of it in various phrase collections from the past several centuries. A typical version (perhaps the original) of this is found in an answer in "The Phrase Finder" forum. http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/40/messages/121.html This is virtually repeated (with a few additions and corrections) in the wikipedia article on this expression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water One thing to highlight that some may have missed -- the BLOOD ties being spoken of, at least originally, are NOT just those of immediate family but, as the entry says, "of common ANCESTRY". That is, we're often looking at the EXTENDED family, or CLAN. (Think, perhaps, of a mafia "family".. though that's not entirely fair, it may express the sort of loyalty in mind.) But looking through these entries, included the reference books they cite, I don't see much real explanation of where the phrase came from, ESPECIALLY "why thicker than WATER?" For example, the earliest cataloging, the 1670 listing by John Lydgate seems to be nothing *more* than a listing, without ANY explanation of the meaning much less the origin of the expression. Check out this listing from page 231 of an early edition of his book. http://books.google.com/books?vid=0AMcstdiFmeBwq1KeQ&id=gOVcCh0AwxkC&pg=RA1-PR14&lpg=RA1-PR14&dq=J.+Ray+Collection+of+English+proverbs+1670#PRA1-PA231,M1 Also, the 'related' expressions from John Lydgate's *Troy Book* is helpful for expressing the general idea of the power of BLOOD ties, but not the comparison with 'water'. The lines given describe Hector's response to Ajax, whom he is fighting, when he recognizes him as kin (For naturelly blod will ay of knde/ Draw unto blod, wher he may it fynd.' - Book 3, line 2070-71) http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/troy3frm.htm For what's going on (since the Middle English is hard to make out!) compare Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida which drew on Lydgate's interpretation of the story... and in which Hector stops the fight when he recognizes Ajax as a relative. http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xTroilus.html (Actually, though I can't demonstrate it here, I think Lydgate's reference to "blood" is a good example of the "broader" use, referring to the 'clan'. He seems to be referring to the fact that Ajax is of "royal blood".) The general idea of the expression is also rather clear in in its use in 1815 in Scott's *Guy Mannering* (see the quote in context at http://www.bartleby.com/304/38.html ) But again, what's with the WATER?? ------------------- What I find most interesting, and promising, is the translation offered for the 12th century version of "Reinhard Fuchs" (Reynard the Fox). 'Kin-blood is not spoiled by water.' Unfortunately, I can not lay hands on this specific version in translation or the original German, to check out what was going on in context. (Other, later versions are easier to find, in part becaus Heinrich der Glichezare's version has only survived in fragmented form.) I want to look into this further, but I think we may hazard a reasonable guess. Note that this use refers to blood (and 'kin-blood' clarifies that it IS speaking about blood/family ties) not being "spoiled" by water. That is, water cannot "impair the value or quality of" or perhaps even "destroy". But one wonders, how MIGHT 'water' threaten to damage the strength of family ties? I THINK the answer is a "ritual" or religious one. Water is used in various religious rituals, but particularly in ones of ritual 'cleansing' and dedication (e.g., "holy water"), and perhaps above all in the Western world for the ritual of BAPTISM, which is understood to create a new identity, new relationships and obligations for Christians as the people and children of God, and so of the same "spiritual family" as other believers. If I could find the Glichezare text I might be able to find whether this sort of contrast is in view in the 'kin-blood' statement. But from a quick look at a summary* of his story as well as other versions being written around that time you can see that satirizing** society and its leaders, including the church, was an important element of the stories. So it would not be surprising if the use of this expression had some reference to church practice. * http://www.german.leeds.ac.uk/mhglit/sumfuchs.htm ** http://www.pentodepress.com/reinhart/reinhart.html, http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Reynard_The_Fox Here is one writer who interprets the "water" this way and suggests that the expression refers (or ORIGINALLY referred) to the tendency of "natural" ties to be stronger than spiritual ones... and in a negative way (not keeping solemn obligations because a relative opposes it). http://www.4thpres.org/uploads/4th_Quarterly_Fall_2006.pdf p.16 Now I cannot substantiate this right now, but I believe this expression has SOMETIMES been used to speak of when a person's loyalty to his BIRTH family (BLOOD) trumps his loyalty and obligations to his SPOUSE (who is NOT a blood relative, but is tied to him by 'ritual', which could included sprinkling with [holy/consecrating] water).
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