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The Bolton community have been thanked for their generosity after a single mum's Christmas was ruined by arsonists.
Mum of three, Emma Almond, 27 from Bolton received a call from her family in the early hours of Thursday 21 December to tell her the news that her home at Rawsthorne Street in Bolton had been set alight on Wednesday 20 December. She had been visiting family in York at the time.
Arsonists had broken into the house, stolen presents from under the tree before moving a sofa to barricade the door and setting it alight.
Moved by their situation the Bolton East Neighbourhood Policing Team took to their Facebook page, which is liked by more than 1,000 people to appeal to the Bolton community to bring back Christmas for the family.
Sergeant Martin Lally said: “To have been victim of such a horrible situation is terrible at any time of the year but it’s particularly terrible at Christmas time which is why it is fantastic to see the family so happy as a result of what the people of Bolton have done for them.
“We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the support of the local businesses and the people who have made Christmas for this family.”
Gifts that have been donated include a Paddington Bear, flat screen TV, Playstation 3, Moses basket, a new cot and stockings filled with gifts.
Emma said: “I was devastated to hear what had happened. I had only been away for one night to see family and to hear that someone could do this is heartbreaking.
“I had only moved the girls and my baby into the house in November and it was going to be my first home with the girls. This was going to be our first Christmas together in the house and I am just so grateful that we weren’t there it is just such a devastating thing to happen.
“When I heard what the community had done I couldn't stop crying I was so overwhelmed. My family have been around me and have been crying as well.
“I would just like to say to everyone the police, business's and people thank you and thank you for making Christmas for my girls.”
Anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101 or call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
The European Union should respond to the current refugee crisis with "generosity, solidarity and responsibility", said Felipe VI of Spain when addressing the plenary on Wednesday at noon."I would like that in the coming years, Spain continues contributing with its passion and ideas to Europe's success", said Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, at his welcome statement.
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www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151007...
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Generously donated by the Deming Fire Department. The unit will be first out on all EMS calls for service.
Or she may be called "The Fat Lady", I've no idea.
From the Sculpture Park beside the Cascade in Yerevan, Armenia.
this is Fiddlers Ferry power station near the coast ,the shot was taken 23 miles away from the pennines in lancashire
I'm calling this a macro because the lens brought it closer , and I used macro mode on the Lumix , a very generous 18x zoom and I'm hoping for generous comments Happy macromonday
Generously helping: Voluptuous Nude by J Cave for Ultimate gratification of senses without conscience
Alesha out on the Town Old Street Shoreditch London Street Sign: Butter Like Love Best when spread generously. The Department of Dairy Scrumptious Affairs
The campaign, jointly funded by AHDB Dairy and Dairy UK, created a spoof government agency – the Department of Dairy Related Scrumptious Affairs – and focused on digital marketing, a move away from the more traditional approach seen in previous industry campaigns
Alesha out on the Town Old Street Shoreditch London Street Sign: Butter Like Love Best when spread generously. The Department of Dairy Scrumptious Affairs
The campaign, jointly funded by AHDB Dairy and Dairy UK, created a spoof government agency – the Department of Dairy Related Scrumptious Affairs – and focused on digital marketing, a move away from the more traditional approach seen in previous industry campaigns
The European Union should respond to the current refugee crisis with "generosity, solidarity and responsibility", said Felipe VI of Spain when addressing the plenary on Wednesday at noon."I would like that in the coming years, Spain continues contributing with its passion and ideas to Europe's success", said Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, at his welcome statement.
Read our whole article here:
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151007...
This photo is free to use under Creative Commons licenses and must be credited: "© European Union 2015 - European Parliament".
(Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CreativeCommons licenses creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu
This second CreativeMornings/Bogotá event was generously hosted by Mai Lirol Darlin.
Julio Rodríguez Bernal was our speaker.
The event was sponsored by Brot bakery and café and SocialColectivo.
Photos by Camilo Giraldo Cera.
The video, soon on Vimeo, was filmed by Juan David Cortés (vimeo.com/lesmoustaches).
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HM Government Emergency Food Package. I am in the Sheltered group in respect of COVID-19 Coronavirus. Consequently, I was eligible for assistance to stay fully isolated. I am suitable impressed by the kindness shown by these food packages. It is beyond my expectations. I am humbled by the state generosity and feel sorry for those less privileged.
Generous layer of white snow covering a tall pine tree in a cold winter day. It is captured against an incredibly clear blue sky.
Poor mary.... she has been in a car accident now. Luckily she's alright but she has broken both her legs and smashed her knee bone. It was terrible.... right before xmas!
I am willing to share. I have a couple of tiny chocolate chip cookies I will share with you.
Photo taken for Macro Mondays. Each week we post a cople of photos that follow our depiction of the theme.
This week's theme is 'Generosity.'
This image, from her music video 'Generous' (2017), shows the then 20-year-old blonde American actress and singer Olivia Holt in a most flattering hotel chambermaid costume. She is wearing a short, frilly white apron over a black, short-sleeve minidress with white collar and cuffs. She is also wearing black, stiletto-heel shoes. This outfit shows off her lovely legs to great effect! In this image, she has taken off her frilly white cap and let her beautiful, long, blonde hair down. She is seated on a shelf in an alcove. The video can be watched at, for example:
Andy of Westie Bears have me darling Ping as a birthday present! I was amazed at such a generous gift. Thank you so very much.
of our firm that the coffee cups are so big! Me in the bus depot Altstätten, Switzerland, Sep 6, 2007. (Photo by Charlie with my camera)
2021 Appreciation Event – Where Generous Hearts Gather
Photography by: Jaymie Perry, Little Ways Photography
"Generous" designer is butthurt in the sales/promo patterns thread. This post was deleted but her butthurt lives on.
Generosity comes in all shapes and sizes. On 30 July 2016, six of us from Calgary had the honour of meeting a 92-year-old gentleman who has lived most of his long life on a huge area (380 hectares, 939 acres) of beautiful land near Hanna, Alberta. Though Gottlob Schmidt (known as Schmitty) has now moved into town (Hanna), he is not far from his beloved land and still loves to spend a lot of time there. My friends and I understand why. This untouched land is not only beautiful to the eye, with its undulating hills with small, scattered pockets of Aspen woodland, but it also hides all sorts of natural treasures, including the wildlife that enjoys this native grassland. There are so few areas of native grassland left in Alberta, so each one is very precious. Schmitty told us that he has never seen his land looking so green! Perhaps not too surprising, as we have had so much rain recently, usually accompanied by thunderstorms. In fact, the rain started on our return journey to Calgary and I was driving from our meeting place in Calgary back to my house in torrential rain. I found a good scattering of small hailstones covering my lawn, too.
This is where the word 'generosity' comes in. Two years ago, Schmitty donated all his land to Alberta Parks, along with certain strict regulations (listed on a link below) on how the land was to be used, such as no hunting, no camping, no motorized vehicles. He was very warmly recognized for his extreme generosity. The Park is known as Antelope Hill Provincial Park and, when Schmitty is no longer able to visit and enjoy his old, family homestead, the Park will be opened to the public. For now, it remains his own, private property.
The highlight for us was meeting Schmitty himself. I can only hope that I might be lucky enough to be in half his shape if I ever reached that age! It was an absolute delight to spend a little time with this man with the big heart, when we first arrived and again later in the day, when it was time for us to head back to Calgary. We also got to meet Schmitty's good neighbours, Donna and Ken.
www.albertaparks.ca/media/5788002/antelope-hill-pp-fact-s...
calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/you-can-thank-this-man-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVVBdkoUVY&feature=youtu.be
My friends (specialists in mosses, lichens and liverworts and other things) and I, were given permission to spend the day there, to list all our findings. Our time was spent climbing one main hill and walking part way around it, calling in at several of the small areas of Aspen woodland. This is where we found a number of wonderful mushrooms - Amanita muscaria / Fly agaric. These were the other highlight for me! It is quite rare that we come across one of these Amanita muscaria mushrooms, and it is so exciting and such a treat when we do! Of course, it's just a "fungi nut" talking, ha. They are so attractive, especially at the earlier stage when the cap is like a round ball, covered in white flecks, but also poisonous.
"A large conspicuous mushroom, Amanita muscaria is generally common and numerous where it grows, and is often found in groups with basidiocarps in all stages of development. Fly agaric fruiting bodies emerge from the soil looking like a white egg, covered in the white warty material of the universal veil... Amanita muscaria poisoning occurs in either young children or people ingesting it to have a hallucinogenic experience... A fatal dose has been calculated at an amount of 15 caps. Deaths from this fungus A. muscaria have been reported in historical journal articles and newspaper reports. However, with modern medical treatment a fatal outcome because of the poison of this mushroom would be extremely rare."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
Various plants were good to see, too, including about four Prairie Crocuses that were still in bloom. I hadn't seen Skeletonweed for a long time, but there were quite a few small clusters of it. A new plant to me was a tall one with white flowers - White Evening Primrose (seen in this photo). The occasional gorgeous Gaillardia flower and wild Rose made a bright splash of colour, too, as did the Thistles.
Of course, for me, any visit to a ranch would not be complete without wandering by any old barn/shed/cabin. Another find was a beautiful, old, glass doorknob on one of the sheds.
On our return walk back to the cars, I suddenly spotted a huge, green caterpillar on the trail. A Tomato hornworm. It had been years since I saw any kind of huge, green larva and, though not my favourite things, I was glad to get a photo of it.
After a few hours of exploration, the only things that we were so happy and relieved to leave behind were the mosquitoes! Never had I seen so many of them - the air was filled with these tiny, blood-sucking insects that followed us every step of the way! Thankfully, they are not the noxious Canada (Creeping) Thistle.
Thanks so much, Heide, for driving Sandy and myself all the way out there - about a two and three-quarter hour drive. Much of the distance was on the same roads that I had driven last week with my daughter, but this was the first time I had ever been as far as Hanna and just beyond. Hanna now has a Tim Horton's, opened around three months ago : ) Thanks, Heide, too, for trying to find the old railway roundhouse - unfortunate that there was too much construction in the area, so one can't get to the roundhouse. And thank you so much, Peter, for arranging and organizing this wonderful trip! Most importantly of all, our thanks to Schmitty, who so kindly allowed us to share the special land that he has called home for so many decades. Our thanks for allowing us to spend the day there and, even more importantly, thank you for your great gift to all Albertans, with your incredibly generous donation of Antelope Hill Provincial Park.
This is a famous carrot-cake recipe generously given to me by Gary's girlfriend (and only very slightly adjusted by me). And good lord, let me tell you: he wasn't kidding about how good it is.... I made a double-batch because the original seemed like too little for all the people to whom I thought I was going to be feeding it (turned out that Bruno, Otto, and Henni were not at our Easter Brunch, but oh, well, it'll freeze).
This is one of those incredibly rich carrot cakes that say, "Actually, I'm just as deliciously bad for you as a triple-chocolate fudge cake. But I'm a carrot cake."
Ingredients for Cake:
16 oz/ 400 g soft brown sugar
12 fl oz / 340 ml vegetable oil
4 eggs
8 oz / 200 g flour
2 t baking soda (I used the equiv. of baking powder)
cinnamon, cloves, and ginger
4 oz / 100 g chopped walnuts
10 oz / 250 g grated carrots (about three large ones)
Ingredients for Frosting:
4 oz / 100 g unsalted butter
12 oz / 300 g cream cheese
16 oz / 400 g powdered sugar
vanilla essence
zest of an orange or zest and juice of a lemon
Grease a cake tin and preheat the oven to 350 F/180 C. Cream sugar and oil in a large bowl, adding eggs one at a time. Separately, whisk flour, spices, and rising agent together. Stir dry ingredients into wet and then add carrots and nuts. Bake for about an hour and set out to cool.
Make the frosting by beating cream cheese and butter together, adding sugar until it's the right texture, and finishing with a little juice or zest (being careful not to let it get runny). Ice the cake with a crumb layer and allow to set before adding the rest of the icing and decorating.
I split the cake into two layers with a thread and put a layer of icing in between as well as the two sides and top and there was still more than a third of the icing left to go in the freezer for the next cake. Now I know why Gary's always so cheerful--it's pure sugar high.
I closed the rats into their cage while I was icing the cake (everyong will be glad to know), but I let them taste a little frosting, and they enjoyed that very much and became bouncing insane rats.
Thank you to all participants of and generous donors at the ESCP Europe Bicentenary Fundraising Gala. A fabulous €200,000 was raised in the 200th year of ESCP Europe, contributing to the School's Scholarship Programme.
100 guests gathered this year at the Four Seasons Park Lane for a wonderful evening sponsored by 17Capital and Accuracy. A cocktail reception with champagne premier cru Frerejean Freres was followed by an absolutely delicious dinner.
Adrian Biddell hosted the live auction of impressive lots, kindly donated by Pierre Guénant (Class of 72), Erwan Faiveley (Class of 03), Cartier, Claudie Haignere and W. Salamoon & Sons.
After an address by Christian Mouillon, President of the ESCP Europe Foundation, and testimonials from two Bachelor in Management (BSc) scholarship students, Julia Fladrich and Maya Caroti, around 20 alumni pledged their support to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme for close to €100k.
On behalf of the scholarship students and all the ESCP Europe community, THANK YOU!
Cam Ranh Base / Nha Trang 1971
The sign on the Aerial Port Building on the West Side ramp at Cam Ranh. Welcome to the 483rd Tactical Airlift Wing! During 1971, the 483rd was reorganized and renamed the 483rd Composite Wing. Photo generously donated by Bob Munn.
Because of this gentleman I am able to enjoy a beautiful part of the countryside and gain a far deeper knowledge of its history. If only all land owners were so welcoming!
This was taken with the new Canon 35mm f2.8 macro lens. If you get hold one of these lenses please feel free to join this new group and share your images: flic.kr/g/wsXxb
This young lady generously posed with her own body art in Grafitti Alley. I'm really a very shy person, and I near peed my pants when I asked. You gotta remember that we are in a back alley in downtown Toronto and she was accompanied by her boyfriend or significant other. I just love the way she tilted her head in this image.
From a day of shooting in Toronto with Lisa Stokes.
At first sight the church of All Saints at Wilden, just to the north east of Stourport on Severn, may not appear to be anything out of the ordinary, a humble Victorian brick church with a bellcote, consisting solely of single aisle nave and chancel with little structural division. But within lies one of the most beautiful sets of windows in the Midlands, a complete scheme by Morris & Co from designs of Edward Burne Jones, dating from 1902-14.
The church itself was built in 1880 by the architect W.J.Hopkins and funded by Alfred Baldwin, whose family church this became; they lived nearby and were major industrialists, owning the nearby ironworks. Baldwin was married to Louisa MacDonald, whose three sisters also had notable marriages, to John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard), the artist Edward Poynter and, most significant of all here, Sir Edward Burne Jones. This collaboration of dynasties resulted in the superb windows at Wilden church, though all were installed after the death of Burne Jones himself.
A detail of the east window appears to show the Archangel Raphael with the young Tobias from the Old Testament story, though the boy is reputedly a likeness of Alfred Baldwin's son and Burne Jones's nephew, the future Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
The windows are exceptionally beautiful and richly reward a visit to this unassuming building. Most are designs reused from the great stock of Burne Jones's drawings held by Morris & Co, and which appear in many other windows across the country. A particularly notable two-light window has his familiar figure of Joshua in armour, balanced by a charming panel of pure foliage (apparently arising from a problem with indecision on the part of the donors as to who should be portrayed here, but a very happy accident I think).
The church is generally kept locked except for the first saturday of each month (and school holiday wednesdays), otherwise an appointment will be necessary to gain entry.
My friend Jason Ramias is a good man who has been exceptionally generous to me. He also loves dancing every bit as much as I do, if not more, and he apparently is in a better position than I am to afford private lessons at the studio. I know the Tenth Commandment says we aren't supposed to covet, but in regard to this matter, I covet anyway.
This informal portrait of Jason with his current instructor, Vicki, was taken in a hallway of the Marriott hotel in Mesa, Arizona, which was the venue for this year's edition of Desert Dance Challenge. He requested the portrait, and Vicki was happy to oblige him. I wondered afterward if I should have used a wider-angle lens, but this turned out well enough as it was, and I hope they both like it.
For my part, this portrait also represents an effort at personal redemption. Several months ago, Jason and Miss Gergana performed in the January showcase, and Jason asked me to get a good picture of the two of them in action. Through no fault of any of the participants in that event, it turned out to be the most disappointing dance shoot I have ever done, only because I made the unfortunate mistake of using my new 35mm f/1.8 Nikkor lens, which proved to be ill-suited to low-light action photography. The lens does have other virtues, and I do not regret purchasing it, but among other things, it produces an unacceptable level of chromatic aberration in low light and when the aperture is wide open. Only a few of the 396 exposures I took that day ended up here on Flickr, and none of them ranks among my favorites. The best photo of Jason and Miss Gergana that I was able to produce in that day's effort was this one. They gave me a splendid moment, but I was unable to capture it the way I wanted to.
Ever since then, I have been haunted by the thought that, however unintentionally, I had let my friend down, notwithstanding the effort and preparation I had put into that shoot. Over a two-week period just prior to the showcase, I had observed and photographed several of their rehearsals for that two-minute performance, knowing that in order to capture the moment as Jason wished, my timing would have to be very precise. But then I made the fateful decision to use that untested lens.
With all of that in mind, I hope this image at least partially atones for my previous failure. I should have at least one more picture of this couple to add to my stream sometime in the next several days. And Jason, if you happen to see this and still want a print of the picture of you holding Gery above your head, I can get that for you, as I have not discarded the image. Perhaps Mpix can work wonders with that photograph and make it look much better than it does now!
Los Angeles residents showed their generosity when teams of uniformed off- and on-duty Los Angeles Firefighters were joined by Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) staff and volunteers at 20 locations citywide for the annual Fill The Boot campaign to raise money for MDA research and services. © Photo by Mike Meadows
1705-1759 Thomas Spencer of London, merchant, who by his industry, candour and integrity acquired an affluent fortune with unblemished reputation. Happy in the acquisition but more happy in rendering it conducive to the happiness of others . By exercise of the dictates of his generous beneficent heart n the laudable virtues of friendship and humanity"
monument signed by "Gyl Tyler ..sculpt"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyler_(architect)
the memorial implies he left much to charity, but he willed his fortune to his family and friends.
Will of Thomas Spencer of St Mary, Bothaw, City of London. Merchant.
He left the bulk of his Estate to his sister, Esther Spencer, spinster: he left her all his possessions in the Manor of Weston in Holderness, Yorkshire, including Court Leet, Court baron, farms, etc. Also, £8,000.
He wishes his friends, James Norman, and John Cornwall, of London, merchants, and George Clifford his co-partner in trade – to be the Executors of his Will, but they declined in favour of the Testator’s sister, Esther when the time came.
His other property, situated in the County of York, and in the counties of Durham, Essex, Kent, and ‘elsewhere’ he left in trust to his 3 named Executors to whom £100 would be paid each, the arrangement being that his brother Richard Spencer & his heirs would enjoy these Estates.
To his niece, Dorothy Askew (late Boulby) now wife of Henry Askew - £5,000. (Dorothy & Henry were later to erect an expensive monument by Flaxman to his brother Richard Spencer 1784 at Hornchurch Essex www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5365Z9 )
Brother-in-Law, John Jefferson - £3,000.
Brother-in-Law, Adam Boulby Father of his niece, Dorothy Askew) - £200.
Uncle, Ralph Ward, Esq. - £200.
Cousin, William Gansell, Esq. - £200.
Cousins, Ralph, Thomas, and Rebecca Ward - £200 each.
Cousin, George Jackson - £200. And to his brother, Ralph Jackson, and three sisters, Esther, Hannah, and Dorothy - £100 each.
Cousin, Francis Fox - £500, and to his brother John Fox, and his sister, Mary Saunders - £100 each.
Cousin, William Manley, and his sister Rebecca - £100 each.
--- Cooper, spinster, residing in my house with my family/with my sister Esther Spencer - £1,000. Christian Poppe, my book-keeper (if in my service at the time of my decease) - £100.
To each clerk over 12 months in his service at the time of death - £50.
To the Poor of the Parish of Guisborough, Yorks., “where I was born” - £50
To Edward Dans, formerly of Riga, merchant, but now of Shottesbrook, Berks. One annuity of £50.
Will dated 7th October, 1758.
(Also he left all his Estates at Hornchurch, Essex, to his 3 named Executors ).
Outskirts of Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq
Mohammed has been living in this informal refugee camp for almost two months. His wife is sick and cannot access any medical care. Like everyone else in the camp, Mohammed and his wife rely mainly on food donations from the local Kurdish community. But while this demonstrates the generosity within the host community, Mohammed’s wife cannot eat the rice and chicken provided because of her illness. With no access to work or income, there is little chance that Mohammed’s family will be able to afford food, medicine and healthcare without outside help. Christian Aid partner REACH will be providing their family, and others in the camp, with much needed food supplies such as rice, oil, beans, lentils and salt.
Panginoon, turuan Mo ako maging bukas-palad
Turuan Mo akong maglingkod sa Iyo
Na magbigay nang ayon sa nararapat
Na walang hinihintay mula sa 'Yo
Nang makibakang di inaalintana
Mga hirap na dinaranas
Sa tuwina'y magsumikap na hindi humahanap
Ng kapalit na kaginhawaan
Na 'di naghihintay kundi ang aking mabatid
Na ang loob Mo'y siyang sinusundan
Amen
Dearest Lord,
Teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.
Amen
The Expo is generously hosted by the State of Qatar and co-organized by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation and the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab States. The main objective of the Expo is to serve as a platform for matching capacities of the solution providers with the needs of the solution seekers, which will potentially lead to practical exchanges of South-South solutions and experiences in the region. It is an opportunity for countries in the Arab States region to share achievements and replicate successes in the context of the production, marketing and transfer of solutions in response to shared development challenges. The three thematic focus areas of the Expo are youth and women’s employment, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and water and food security.
The garden is good to us this summer. It's easy to understand how the roots of many religions were linked to the harvest.
Every time I visit my ceramist friend Jasmine she gives me something wonderful. When I happened to mention how much I liked this vase among the many others in her kitchen, she pulled it off the shelf and gifted it. The beautiful roses are from the climbing bush in the yard of the empty student rental next door. The owner said I could clip/transplant anything I want and I have taken him at his word.
You can see more of Jasmine's work here:
These small acts of generosity make me and my house happy.
I think I may have been over generous with the sizable proportions of bread, and seed I laid out yesterday :D. But this is one happy camper in the woods. I even made a nice table setting with a view. Now HOW MUCH MORE GENEROUS CAN ONE BE? He's in heaven with a serious case of gluttony!
HMM & have a great week!
Macro Monday's submission: Generosity