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The Athlone 10KM and 5KM road races were held in Clonown Village, Co. Roscommon, Ireland on Sunday 28th of April 2013 at 14:30 and 15:00. Clonown is a small townland on the west bank of the River Shannon and is situated about 3 miles south of the town of Athlone. Whilst the townland is almost completely rural it is accessed easily from major routes and towns by the M6 motorway.
This race completely defied the fact that it is only the second year of it's existence. Every aspect of the organisation was professional: from stewarting, registration, start of races exactly on time, car-parking, and post race refreshments. The 10KM route followed an anti-clockwise loop. The race started on the L2035 Togher Road (about 100m from Clonown Centre) and heads towards the old Ballinasloe Rd and back via Creggan with the finish at the Clonown Community Centre. The 5KM run was added this year to provide a managable challenge for people who are following programmes such as Operation Transformation. The 5KM race route follows a meandering around the townland. The race starts at the church in Clonown and head clockwise around the Ballinaculla townland which offers lovely views of the River Shannon. The route then goes to the Drumlosh road and runs for 1.5 km before the roundabout which is the 3km mark. The race then turns around and returns back to the village and finish at Clonown Community Centre. Both races share some of the race route for the Flatline Athlone Half held in September (www.athlonehalfmarathon.com/) which makes the race routes very fast and flat.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: Approximately 400 people took part in both events with runners, joggers, walkers, and families involved.
Weather: This was a wonderfully bright dry afternoon but a very strong wind made difficult running conditions in places.
Course: Very flat accurately measured course on rural roads and bog roadway. There were waterstops provided at various points and by locals along the route. Very well stewarded.
Refreshments: There were lots of refreshments served in the community center aftwards.
Location Map: This is the start/finish area on Google StreetView [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Some Useful Links
The Clonown area on Google Streetview [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Facebook Page for the Athlone 10KM Race 2013 www.facebook.com/Athlone10krun?fref=ts
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All of the photographs here on this Flickr set have a visible watermark embedded in them. All of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available, free, at no cost, at full resolution WITHOUT watermark. We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not know of any other photographers who operate such a policy. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, Google Orkut etc or (2) other websites, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us. This also means the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a wall post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember - all we ask is for you to link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc.
I ran the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set!
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
If you want to contribute something for these images?
We do not charge for these images. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the image(s) you request are good enough that you would ordinarily pay for their purchase we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
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Sarnath is the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where the Buddhist Sangha came into existence through the enlightenment of Kondanna. Sarnath is located 13 kilometres north-east of Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The Buddha went from Bodhgaya to Sarnath about 5 weeks after his enlightenment. Before Gautama (the Buddha-to-be) attained enlightenment, he gave up his austere penances and his friends, the Pañcavaggiya monks, left him and went to Isipatana.
Isipatana is the name used in the Pali Canon, and means the place where holy men (Pali: isi, Sanskrit: rishi) landed.
After attaining Enlightenment the Buddha, leaving Uruvela, travelled to the Isipatana to join and teach them. He went to them because, using his spiritual powers, he had seen that his five former companions would be able to understand Dharma quickly. While travelling to Sarnath, Gautama Buddha had to cross the Ganges. Having no money with which to pay the ferryman, he crossed the Ganges through the air. When King Bimbisāra heard of this, he abolished the toll for ascetics. When Gautama Buddha found his five former companions, he taught them, they understood and as a result they also became enlightened. At that time the Sangha, the community of the enlightened ones, was founded. The sermon Buddha gave to the five monks was his first sermon, called the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. It was given on the full-moon day of Asalha Puja. Buddha subsequently also spent his first rainy season at Sarnath at the Mulagandhakuti. The Sangha had grown to 60 in number (after Yasa and his friends had become monks), and Buddha sent them out in all directions to travel alone and teach the Dharma. All 60 monks were Arahants.
Several other incidents connected with the Buddha, besides the preaching of the first sermon, are mentioned as having taken place in Isipatana. Here it was that one day at dawn Yasa came to the Buddha and became an Arahant. It was at Isipatana, too, that the rule was passed prohibiting the use of sandals made of talipot leaves. On another occasion when the Buddha was staying at Isipatana, having gone there from Rājagaha, he instituted rules forbidding the use of certain kinds of flesh, including human flesh. Twice, while the Buddha was at Isipatana, Māra visited him but had to go away discomfited.
A stone pillar marks the spot where the Buddha preached his first sermon. Nearby was another stupa on the site where the Pañcavaggiyas spent their time in meditation before the Buddha's arrival, and another where five hundred Pacceka Buddhas entered Nibbāna. Close to it was another building where the future Buddha Metteyya received assurance of his becoming a Buddha.
Buddhism flourished in Sarnath in part because of kings and wealthy merchants based in Varanasi. By the third century Sarnath had become an important center for the arts, which reached its zenith during the Gupta period (4th to 6th centuries CE). In the 7th century by the time Xuan Zang visited from China, he found 30 monasteries and 3000 monks living at Sarnath.
Sarnath became a major centre of the Sammatiya school of Buddhism, one of the early Buddhist schools. However, the presence of images of Heruka and Tara indicate that Vajrayana Buddhism was (at a later time) also practiced here. Also images of Brahminist gods as Shiva and Brahma were found at the site, and there is still a Jain temple (at Chandrapuri) located very close to the Dhamekh Stupa.
At the end of the 12th century Sarnath was sacked by Turkish Muslims, and the site was subsequently plundered for building materials.
Sarnath has been developed as a place of pilgrimage, both for Buddhists from India and abroad. A number of countries in which Buddhism is a major (or the dominant) religion, among them Thailand, Japan, Tibet, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, have established temples and monasteries in Sarnath in the style that is typical for the respective country. Thus, pilgrims and visitors have the opportunity to experience an overview of Buddhist architecture from various cultures.
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Punk Liberation Vol.9 Special (An existence claim!!!!) at Kakamigahara city Unuma BaBaBar 2011.04.09
Darge
The Hips
Crime&The Vacation
Bloody Smile
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The Athlone 10KM and 5KM road races were held in Clonown Village, Co. Roscommon, Ireland on Sunday 28th of April 2013 at 14:30 and 15:00. Clonown is a small townland on the west bank of the River Shannon and is situated about 3 miles south of the town of Athlone. Whilst the townland is almost completely rural it is accessed easily from major routes and towns by the M6 motorway.
This race completely defied the fact that it is only the second year of it's existence. Every aspect of the organisation was professional: from stewarting, registration, start of races exactly on time, car-parking, and post race refreshments. The 10KM route followed an anti-clockwise loop. The race started on the L2035 Togher Road (about 100m from Clonown Centre) and heads towards the old Ballinasloe Rd and back via Creggan with the finish at the Clonown Community Centre. The 5KM run was added this year to provide a managable challenge for people who are following programmes such as Operation Transformation. The 5KM race route follows a meandering around the townland. The race starts at the church in Clonown and head clockwise around the Ballinaculla townland which offers lovely views of the River Shannon. The route then goes to the Drumlosh road and runs for 1.5 km before the roundabout which is the 3km mark. The race then turns around and returns back to the village and finish at Clonown Community Centre. Both races share some of the race route for the Flatline Athlone Half held in September (www.athlonehalfmarathon.com/) which makes the race routes very fast and flat.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: Approximately 400 people took part in both events with runners, joggers, walkers, and families involved.
Weather: This was a wonderfully bright dry afternoon but a very strong wind made difficult running conditions in places.
Course: Very flat accurately measured course on rural roads and bog roadway. There were waterstops provided at various points and by locals along the route. Very well stewarded.
Refreshments: There were lots of refreshments served in the community center aftwards.
Location Map: This is the start/finish area on Google StreetView [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Some Useful Links
The Clonown area on Google Streetview [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Facebook Page for the Athlone 10KM Race 2013 www.facebook.com/Athlone10krun?fref=ts
How can I get a full resolution copy of these photographs?
All of the photographs here on this Flickr set have a visible watermark embedded in them. All of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available, free, at no cost, at full resolution WITHOUT watermark. We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not know of any other photographers who operate such a policy. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, Google Orkut etc or (2) other websites, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us. This also means the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a wall post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember - all we ask is for you to link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc.
I ran the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set!
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
If you want to contribute something for these images?
We do not charge for these images. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the image(s) you request are good enough that you would ordinarily pay for their purchase we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
Don't like your photograph here?
That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible.
On the east side of the bridge.
The Bridge Z-6 is the only bobtail swing bridge in existence. It was constructed in 1899 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad over the North Branch of the Chicago River at about 1800 North. It is 245 feet in length with a 175-foot span. It was taken over by the Milwaukee Road and is still operational.
Developer Sterling Bay announced a series of public projects last month, including a new bridge over the Chicago River and the Bloomingdale (606) Trail extension at the site of Bridge Z-6. N. Dominick Street will be extended by nearly one mile south from W. Webster Avenue to W. North Avenue. The Dominick Street Bridge will allow drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to cross the Chicago River. The bridge, 80 feet in width, will include two 10-foot pedestrian sidewalks, two 12-foot driving lanes and one 10-foot bike path. The Bloomingdale Trail, part of the 606 park system which currently ends at Walsh Park in Bucktown, will extend eastward underneath the Kennedy Expressway before curving in a northeast direction until it crosses the Chicago River and enters the Lincoln Yards development.
NOTE: The 2.7 miles trail has its eastern trailhead park at 1806 N. Ashland Ave., where a new extension will begin in the second half of 2023, crossing under the Kennedy Expressway and Metra tracks to the east. Utilizing land mostly owned by the Chicago Department of Transportation and the city as well as some by Union Pacific Corporation. It includes the addition of a bridge crossing over N. Ashland Avenue, replacing the old railway bridge demolished during the original trail’s construction. The roughly 800-foot extension will bring the trail N. Elston Avenue, creating a new terminus at the edge of Lincoln Yards. It will eventually cross the North Branch of the Chicago River on Bridge Z-6.
God & Man
I guess in the end I don’t really want or need a boyfriend/girlfriend.
All I want is someone I can be intimate with. Someone I can share things with. Someone who wants to share themselves with me.
Someone I can exchange favorite music with as the blue sky melts into a warm orange...
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When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
A castle belonging to the fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.
Already in the middle of the s. X there is evidence of the existence of a fortification in the place, which is delivered by the king of the Franks to a certain Oliba, lord of Porqueres and owner of the castle of Sant Aniol de Finestres.
In 1221 it is known that both castles, that of Finestres and that of Santa Pau, are in the possession of a certain Agnes. In 1251, a son of the latter, Don Ramón Ademar, sold the castle of Finestres to the abbot of Banyoles. In 1285 there is evidence that he stayed in the same Pedro III of Aragon, upon returning from a battle. At this time the family takes the surname Santapau, already appearing as barons of Santapau. At the end of this century, Ponç III obtained the right to the weekly market for Santa Pau and in 1300 the title of town.
In the first half of the s. XV belongs to Huguet de Santa Pau, lord also of the castles of Finestres, Castellfollit. Although in the middle of the century it passed into the hands of the Oms family, who bought it, together with the title of barons of Santa Pau. A few years later there were peasant revolts to the point that in 1486 the castle fell into their hands and the lord was taken prisoner. Ferdinand the Catholic will intervene and the castle will return to the hands of Guillermo de Oms. The current castle dates from this period, although it was deeply reformed and expanded in the s. XVII. In the oldest part, a mullioned window in the Romanesque style and two others in the Gothic style are preserved
In 1694 it was briefly conquered by French troops, returning to Spanish hands, who played a part in the conquest. This means that Don Antoni de Oms has to rebuild it. Due to debts, the castle passed into the hands of the Marquis of Moià de la Torre in the s. XVIII.
Until the end of the 1960s it was used as a school for the Dominican sisters, falling into disuse from 1968.
It is currently privately owned, belonging to the Marquises of Argençola. A few years ago an agreement was signed between the family and the City Council through which the castle will be ceded to the town hall for 50 years. The idea is to restore it and open it to the public, installing a territory interpretation center and a small auditorium on it. Curiously, the title of Baroness of Santa Pau belongs to the designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.
The medieval town of Santa Pau is located in the southeast of the llano de Olot, in the heart of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, between the mountains of Sant Julià del Mont and Santa Maria de Finestres. Pop approx 1500
The municipality of Santa Pau, the richest and most varied in volcanic phenomena in the entire Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, has points of special interest such as the Santa Margarida volcano, the Croscat volcano or the Hayedo de Jordá, the beauty of which it offers new nuances in any time or circumstance.
The town preserves the very interesting precincts of the old town, with a very marked medieval physiognomy and characteristics. The Plaza Mayor or Fair of the Bulls stands out: a porticoed square with an irregular profile and uneven arches, which has an undeniable personality and which is located around the castle, a large, compact and robust building that rises at the highest point of the town.
The sober church of Santa Maria and the entire group of narrow streets, with sudden angles and steep descents, that lead to the Portal del Mar are also noteworthy.
The Portal del Mar offers a perspective of the beautiful and tempting valleys of the surroundings which, as often happens in La Garrotxa, are the setting for some interesting Romanesque church. Highlights include Our Lady of the Arcs, Sant Vicenç del Sallent, Sant Martí Vell and, in an idyllic corner, Sant Miquel Sacot
From Sant Julià del Mont, where you arrive after a walk of medium difficulty, the perspective of the valleys and volcanoes is fascinating.
To improve accessibility in the old town, two new ramps and a new section of railing have been installed in the alleyways around the castle and the porticoed square, in order to facilitate pedestrian access with reduced mobility.
Son meilleur ami est la star locale ( 'the tricks' et 'the excellent band' presque ci contre ).
Il le suit comme son ombre et le sert du mieux qu'il peut.
Je n’oublierai pas le désappointement qu'il a eu de passer à son tour devant l'objectif en présence de son idole. Finalement cette photo avait peu de chance d'exister et je ne suis pas vraiment bluffé par la mise en scène
© 2012 Brad Wetli
Another composition found while exploring Steamboat Rock State Park in Washington State.