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This is a photograph from the finish of the 36th Michael Manning Memorial "Dunshaughlin 10KM" Road Race and Fun Run which took place in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, Ireland on Saturday 20th June 2015 at 19:30. This race is widely acknowledged within the Irish running community as one of the best races in Ireland. While being very well attended and competitive it is also one of the oldest 10KM races in Ireland. The numbers for this race have exceeded expectations year on year for the past number of years. In 2008 a record field of 306 took to the start line but by 2012 this number had more than doubled with 647 runners taking part. The starting numbers in 2013 topped this again at 668. Last year, 2014, the numbers rocketed to a new record of 883. This year 862 finished the race showing that the race continues to attract very substantial crowds. This year, as in previous years, the race attracted runners from not just all of Leinster but from the four corners of Ireland. Who knows but this race could reach 1,000 entrants next year? The work of the organising committee must be commended on making this event possible. The Dunshaughlin 10KM has earned it's place at the top of the pedestal of Irish running through the sheer hard work of Dunshaughlin AC over the years. Road race events do not survive on their own. There must be dedication, hard work and a development vision amongst the committee and the host club. Well done to all.
We have an extensive set of photographs from the race tonight taken at the 9KM mark and at 400M to go. The full set is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157654823417232
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2748 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
Some useful links
Our Photographs from 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645329098733/
2015 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2748
2014 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2037
2013 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1320
2012 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=891
History of the Dunshaughlin 10KM www.dunshaughlinac.com/
Dunshaughlin AC on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dunshaughlin.athleticclub?fref=ts
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
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 feel that 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!
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The mist was heavier yet when I got out upon the marshes,
so that instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me.
This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
Ch Dickens
Great practical advise re SLA's and expectations of cloud from Mike Webb of SmartValue at the Scaling New Heights Accounting and Training Conference. For additional photos from the event see: Scaling Flickr photo set June 2012.
Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
Photo (cc). If using photo, please credit: Photo courtesy Grant Wickes.
In picture: Samir Khosla (Intuit), Bob Lewis (Concur), Mike Webb (SmartVault), Bob Babcock (Uni-Data and Communications)
Photo taken with iPhone 4 with 8x Photojojo lens attached
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So here it is. My ninth and last day in Gansu province started early in Zhangye. My flight out of Lanzhou was around six o’clock this evening, so I had a leisurely day with no expectations to shoot – especially having tried in Lanzhou before and learning my lesson.
I was just looking forward to the three hour bullet train ride from Zhangye southeast to Lanzhou. Though both are in Gansu province, this train route passes through Xining, the capital of the much bigger Qinghai province to the south. (I don’t consider Qinghai as a province that I’ve visited, as I didn’t get off the train, though I am publishing a few pictures of Xining here.)
This train ride had some of the most stunning scenery you could hope to find – if you are lucky enough to have the correct seat. Heading towards Lanzhou, you should definitely ask for a window seat on the right side of the train. If you are so fortunate, you’ll be treated to a view of the Qilianshan Mountains as you race parallel to them at about 300 kph (about 185-190 mph). The ever-constant, snow-capped mountains in the background are accompanied by landscape of changing color in the foreground: lush green, yellow, brown. (Perhaps I was also lucky in being here this time of year; it was May, and the colors may not have been so rich later in the year.)
In addition to the panoramic landscape, I was surprised (and delighted) to catch views of cemeteries. In a nation as populous as this, you do not often see cemeteries. Most are cremated (and, it may even be a law, certainly among the megalopolises), so a cemetery is definitely an oddity.
After an hour or so, the train turns south, cutting through the mountains through tunnels, and eventually emerges on the other side, continuing south to Xining. Xining struck me as a bit of a boom town. Construction cranes and high rises crowding in on each other with some mountains as a backdrop.
I also saw another of the modern Chinese phenomena: a “ghost town.” These aren’t like the old west ghost towns in the United States that saw rapid population booms (with a gold or silver rush) followed by an exodus just as rapid when the resources dried up. Rather, they are China’s version of planning for the 21st century. They tend to build, very rapidly, all of the apartments and condos necessary for living, then add stores, movie theaters, everything else, and eventually “force” people into moving into these areas. (Chinese also don’t really have retirement plans or a good government system for caring for the elderly, so real estate speculation – buying and selling condos/apartments – serves as a retirement plan in a way. Buy it young, sell it later. Sometimes, they may never even live in these condos.) This is a very, very rudimentary and simplified description of modern China and how society functions. I’ve read a few interesting books on the subject that explain it much better than I am here. But, I digress. My purpose here is only to give a glimpse of how China is developing, not to give a sociology or socioeconomic lesson on a very complex country.
The train ride was much, much more interesting than any other I’d ever been on. (If you’re curious, the view out the left window of the train as we raced through central Gansu province was nothing but monotonous, flat desert that was brown and, in my opinion, entirely unappealing. As I said…try to get a seat on the right side if you’re ever heading this direction.)
My train set out from Zhangye around 9:00 in the morning and was scheduled to pull into Lanzhou West around 12:15, but was a little late (a first on a bullet train for me). After arriving at Lanzhou West (area still under construction), I had to fight to get a taxi and share it with another woman to get dropped off downtown at a gouged rate. I went straight to the airport shuttle bus office, but a ticket on the first available bus, then took the 70 km, 1 hour ride out to the airport where I spent my last five hours in Lanzhou, enjoying a strawberry Fanta (which, as I mentioned in the Lanzhou post earlier this week, was the best part of Lanzhou for me).
The attached pictures were all taken while seated on a train speeding along. Some have had saturation to bring out the colors. If the colors seem really rich, they are. They’re augmented for effect, but not so distorted as to take away from the beauty of what’s really there.
I hope you’ve enjoyed these and the other Gansu pictures from the last nine days. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them. Next up…Guangxi province (or Guangxi Autonomous Region, one of China’s areas with a really high concentration of minorities).
Sony HX400V---What you expect in a civilized society, is that people won't dump their garbage in a wildlife or wetland preserve. For a couple of years, a group of yet-to-be-identified persons have been using this area as their personal dumping ground. The city sends in a crew occasionally to haul it away and I sometimes put some of it in a bag for re-cycling. But there's always more a few days later.
There are some places where this would be considered as an ordinary and expected thing. But in this area, it has not been normal until recent times and so it causes more reactions like mine. I hope that I never become accustomed to it and tolerant of it.
Quite often, the junk contains children's clothing, broken toys and play equipment. I hope those kids aren't looking to their parents for good examples regarding personal responsibility.
I was shooting for a video of the band's rehearsal and decided to go for a quick band photo after it. The light was pretty bad, but it turned out to be a quite good photo. Awesome band, by the way, make sure to check them! www.facebook.com/onlywhenshared
Ecovolis (Albanian for "Ecobike"), the system launched March 23 with four stations with 10 bikes each. They've already sold 2,000 subscriptions and have rented bikes out to many more customers on a per-trip basis.
The public enthusiasm has exceeded the best expectations of the group behind the scheme: the Social Alternatives Incentive Programme (PASS). It's also stirred interest among potential corporate donors, who had earlier raised their eyebrows at the idea. “Before starting the project, it was very difficult for us to persuade companies to sponsor the project,” said PASS's director Ened Mato “Now the companies are interested and trying to negotiate with us to sponsor the project.”
The response has been so promising, PASS already plans to open an additional two stations in Tirana and even hopes to expand Ecovolis to neighbouring communities.
Although the system is admittedly small for a city of 600,000 people, Ecovolis has been a feat of ingenuity and perseverance given the circumstances. In terms of infrastructure, Tirana has only a few recreational paths on the margins of city green areas, and also a few experimental shared bus/bike lanes. There is simply no culture of transport cycling in the city, and the modal share -- if it were to be measured -- is assumed to be well under 1 percent.
In a sense, introducing bike sharing to Tirana is tantamount to introducing cycling to Tirana. Full stop. Organisers had to be realistic about the start-up budget, while at the same time, make a big splash and stimulate interest in a novel transport concept. And because PASS's core mission is creating opportunities for needy citizens, they wanted the programme to have a strong social element.
So PASS rolled out Ecovolis as one element of a broader programme called Tirana Community Bicycle. Part of its activities are giving away bicycles to children of needy families and part is offering necessary staff positions to marginalised citizens. The programme also includes Sunday cycling lessons and various cycling activities for youth.
In regard to the bike-sharing scheme, it had to be low-tech. A swipe-card activated system of the type operating in London, Paris, Barcelona (and soon in Budapest) would have been far too expensive for Tirana. And aside from the cost, swipe cards just aren't used much in Albania.
But this was fine. PASS fashioned Ecovolis as a social business: Each docking station is staffed by two attendants at all times. The necessary staffing not only creates jobs (two shifts per day = four jobs per station), it also puts a human face on the service. The attendants can explain and promote bike sharing while raising awareness of utility cycling in a brand-new market.
Key to getting the project off the ground was the support of Tirana City Hall and a cash donation of USD 24,000 from the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation Albania (OSFA). Even more significant was a donation of 450 used bikes from the US-based Pedal for Progress organisation.
One difficulty has been the higher than expected maintenance needs. Although this is a typical challenge for bike-sharing systems, it may be hitting Ecovolis especially hard due to the inexperience of users and the somewhat delicate quality of the standard-issue bicycles. During the initial weeks of the project, 30 of the scheme’s 40 bicycles required repairs on any given day. PASS hopes to address this by purchasing sturdier, new bikes as the system is expanded. It was also hoped that as the scheme’s customers get used to the system, they'll learn to use the bikes without causing damages.
Despite teething problems, Ecovolis is moving ahead. Plans include creating a database of users and members to get a better handle on Ecovolis's market (half of subscribers are women) and to start giving service discounts to Ecovolis customers. Meanwhile, according to Mato, PASS is in talks with the mayors of Durres, Pogradec and Vlora for possible franchises.
My eldest daughter on the way back. Image taken right before, before she began her long journey back.
Expectations are pre-meditated resentments
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BC is adopting the National Dairy Code of Practice (Dairy Code) to improve the welfare of dairy cows in this province.
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Carol Brown Goldberg
Acrylic on canvas with crystalline
48 x 36 inches
2007
The National Arts Club
Marquis and Trask Galleries
New York, New York
January 3 - 15, 2008
Joined by Department of Correction officials and Connections Community Support Programs staff, Governor Markell visited New Expectations, a residential sober living facility in Newark for pregnant offenders who are struggling with addiction, to talk with program participants about Delaware’s expanded use of community-based treatment and supervision as an alternative to incarceration.
Closing Session of Safeguard’s Emerging Technologies Workshop held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 29 January 2020
Artist: Stephanie Murphy / Scriberia
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
A lovely Peacock Pansy (Junonia almana javana) in Tampines Eco Green. Go green with me in my blog: Tampines Eco Green
*Note: More pics of Butterflies and Moths in my Butterflies and Moths Album.
in development year one
Aberdeen Arts Centre
as part of the
Aberdeen International Youth Festival
devised and directed by Gerry Flanagan
music by Annemarie Lewis-Thomas
Choreography by Sheena Kelly
Diwan-i-Khas (hall of private audience), Fatehpur Sikri, India.
Fatehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The historical city was constructed by Mughal emperor Akbar beginning in 1570 and served as the empire's capital from 1571 until 1585. Though the court took 15 years to build, it was abandoned after only 14 years (soon after Akbar's death) because the water supply was unable to sustain the growing population. The surviving palace and mosque are a tourist attraction and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site itself is a ghost town.
St James, Cooling, Kent
These children's anthropomorphic gravestones provided Charles Dickens with the inspiration for Pip's poor dead brothers in his novel Great Expectations. In fact, they are to members of the wealthy Comport family, some of whom lived at Cooling Castle, today home of the television personality Jools Holland. The opening scene of Great Expectations, when Pip meets the convict Abel Magwitch, takes place in Cooling churchyard.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861
Detail from the back of my gorgeous wedding dress (I know I've laced it wrong, I have NO idea how it should have been done!) for HPAD, the Precious Things challenge and Great Expectations for the Scavenger Hunt!
05.04.09