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This is Spearfish Creek, near Spearfish Falls.
Spearfish Canyon is located at the northern edge of the Black Hills, extending south from Spearfish, South Dakota along the line carved by Spearfish Creek.
The drive along the scenic byway, one of the best in the Black Hills, is gorgeous and I wish we had had a better day - the sky was flat and gray so not much for photography, but the canyon walls themselves certainly provided enough interest. The byway follows the creek along the canyon floor so you are surrounded by sheer faces as you drive along. It wasn't barren as I had expected it to be, but rather lush with pine trees and lots of vegetation.
Poklonnaya Gora is, at 171.5 m, one of the highest natural spots in Moscow. Its two summits were separated by the Setun River until one of the summits was razed in 1987. Since 1936, the area has been part of Moscow, and it now contains the Victory Park, with many tanks and other vehicles that were used during World War II on display.
Historically, the hill had great strategic importance, as it commanded the best view of the capital of Russia. Its name is derived from the Russian for "to bow down" since everyone approaching the capital from the west was expected to do homage here. During the French invasion of Russia in 1812, it was the spot in which Napoleon in vain expected the keys to the Kremlin to be brought to him by Russians.
In the 1960s, the Soviet authorities decided to put the area to use as an open-air museum dedicated to the Russian victory over Napoleon. The New Triumphal Arch, erected in wood in 1814 and in marble in 1827 to a design by Osip Bove, was relocated and reconstructed here in 1968. A loghouse in which Mikhail Kutuzov presided over the Fili Conference, which decided to abandon Moscow, to the enemy, was designated a national monument. The huge panorama "Battle of Borodino" by Franz Roubaud (1910–1912) was installed here in 1962.
The Victory Park and the Square of Victors are important parts of the outdoor museum. In 1987, the hill was levelled to the ground, and in the 1990s an obelisk was added with a statue of Nike, and a monument of Saint George slaying the dragon, both of which were designed by Zurab Tsereteli. The obelisk's height is exactly 141.8 metres (465 ft), which is 10 centimetres (3.9 in) for every day of the war. A golden-domed Orthodox church was erected on the hilltop in 1993-1995, followed by a memorial mosque and the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue.
In 2004 the Monument to Warriors-Internationalists was opened. The Monument was created with the support of the Moscow government, with donations from organizations of veterans of the Afghan war, with personal contributions from internationalist soldiers.
At the 60th V-Day celebrations in 2005, Russia President Vladimir Putin inaugurated 15 extravagant bronze columns, symbolizing the main fronts and navies of the Red Army during World War II.
Since the 1980s, the hill also includes the monumental museum to the Soviet victory during the Great Patriotic War. The main building of the museum was constructed between 1983 and 1995. The Hall of Glory holds reliefs of the 12 Soviet Hero Cities, and on its marmor walls are inscribed the names of several thousand Heroes of the Soviet Union that were awarded during the war. The Hall of Remembrance downstairs contains books of remembrance with the names of more than 26 million Soviet war dead.
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet or 1,800 meters). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.
Grand Canyon National Park is the United States' 15th oldest national park. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the park is located in Arizona. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The park covers 1,217,262 acres (1,902 sq mi; 4,926 km2) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties.
The North Rim is a smaller, more remote area with less tourist activity. It is accessed by Arizona State Route 67.
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Courtney is currently in her senior year at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) where she is working on her Bachelors of Science in Nuclear Engineering. She is also pursuing a double minor in Political Science and Math. During the summer of 2010, Courtney interned at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). While at the NRC, her projects included assisting project managers with various tasks, creating a database of important papers related to her division and writing a paper over prototype plants. As a student ambassador, Courtney can’t wait to share her experiences and draw attention to the diverse government agencies. She hopes to educate her peers the many great benefits of working for the federal government!
This is a photograph from the East of Ireland Marathon Series Marathon which was held in Longwood Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Saturday 25th January 2014 at 09:00. There were 75 participants in the marathon which completed 8 loops of a 5KM route (and a additional 2KM) with Longwood GAA club acting as Race Headquarters, Start, Finish, and refreshments area. The weather turned particularly nasty for about an hour and the participants were lashed with gale-force winds, severe hailstones, and then rain. However this didn't stop everyone enjoying the day. Thanks to the folks at Longwood GAA who provided excellent hospitality and facilities for all participants. There was a great atmosphere at the race and everyone enjoyed another trip to the countryside for an EOIM.
Despite the weather there were a few PBs and fast inidividual times. The course is a nice fast flat 5KM loop. It is used every year as the Longwood GAA 5KM Road Race (see links below). The marathon loop followed the reverse of the race route for safety reasons as the roads were fully opened for the EOIM event. There is a total elevation gain of 20ft and an elevation loss of 23ft. The sources of elevation gain are only very small rises on the road and aren't really noticeable. Part of the route includes a kilometer on a boreen which is nicely sheltered and with good road surface. The road surface is excellent for the entire route. There were some puddles and mud on the boreen section of the route due to agricultural traffic.
Thanks must be extended to the Longwood GAA club and committee for the use of their fine facilities which allowed participants to have some refreshments afterwards and hot showers and changing rooms were also available.
This is the second East of Ireland Marathon Series race which has been held outside Dublin. The previous race which was held outside Dublin was held in Stapelstown, Co. Kildare in September 2013. (See links to pictures on Flickr from that race). Whilst Longwood is a rural venue it is easily accessible from all parts of Ireland due to it's close proximity to the N4 and the M4 Motorways.
We have an extensive set of photographs from today's event on the following Flickr Photoset Page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157640099311556/
Tell me more about the East of Ireland Marathon Series
This race event was part of the East of Ireland Marathon Series. The East Of Ireland Marathon Series aims to make marathons affordable and convienient for the runners of Ireland. The series organisers aim to promote marathon running and to make the process as stress free and enjoyable as possible. All courses are measured to full AAI standards and have a minimum of 10 Entrants. The marathons are self sufficent to a degree although there are limited supplies of water available on the day of the race. There will be no extra frills like chip timing and finish gantrys. However all finishing times are accurately and officially recorded and each marathon counts as an official marathon. Overall, this approach to marathon organisation helps to keep the price down and allows these races to be run in as an economically affordable manner as possible. The East of Ireland Marathon series is all inclusive and welcomes runners who are new to marathon running as well as experienced veterans. So if you are thinking of your 1st marathon, your 10th marathon, or your 100th the East of Ireland Marathon Series will provide a very friendly and low-cost environment for to become part of Ireland's marathon running community.
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Some useful Internet links
East of Ireland Marathons Facebook Group Page: www.facebook.com/groups/130592073780072/ (you will need a Facebook account to view this)
East of Ireland Marathons Website: www.eastofirelandmarathons.com/
Race Website with Route Description: www.peterm7.com/longwood/
Garmin GPS Trace of the Marathon Route (main loop) connect.garmin.com/activity/401171615
East of Ireland Marathon Series - Stapelstown, Co. Kildare - September 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635665725976/
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We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Creative Commons aims to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. 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+, etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us.
This also extends the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
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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 when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances 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.
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!
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.
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This is a photograph from the fourth annual running of the "Mullingar 10" - a 10 mile road race and fun run which was held in Dalystown, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Sunday July 17th 2017 at 11:00. The race was organised by Mullingar Harriers who promoted the event. There was almost 280 participants in the event. The race follows a simple 'figure of 8' route. The race starts from Dalystown National School and heads north briefly to Dalystown cross-roads where there is a left turn which brings runners along the L1122 road. The only real cross-over of the route is at the 2.5 and 7.5 mile mark. The race completes a loop between 2.5 and the 7.5 mile mark which brings runners into the locality of Ballinagore. The final 2.5 miles of the race brings runners back through Cloneheigue and the final 1.5 miles of the race is along straight road heading north back to Dalystown and the finish outside of Wallace's Pub which is just off the N52 road.
The course was a mixture of long straight level sections of road with some short rolling hills which made for a challenging but an overall fair course. The race took place is warm temperatures with a strong southerly breeze in the face of runners for stretches along the route. However some beautiful mature hedgerows along the mostly rural roads provided shade and shelter from the sun for runners. This race has actually had excellent weather for its first four years with some runners saying that temperatures may have even been a bit too high for distance running.
This was the fourth year of the event it has become an annual fixture on the calendar. The running calendar today shows a marked shortage of races at the 10 mile distance and this was one of the original reasons this distance was chosen for this race. Clubs from all over the North Leinster region and beyond were represented today. Refreshments were provided outside Wallace's Pub at the Finish line. Well done to Mullingar Harriers and all the many volunteers who helped make today's race a wonderful success.
Our full set of photographs from the start and finish of this year's race is available here on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157686310944525
Dalystown is very much a picture of the classic rural Irish parish and is situated about 7 miles south of Mullingar just off the N52 road to Tullamore Co. Offaly. The lands of Dalystown is situated at the south east corner of Lough Ennell which is the dominant geographical feature around this part of Co. Westmeath.
Electronic Timing and Event Management was provided by MyRunResults and their website is www.myrunresults.com
Race Headquarters at Dalystown National School: www.google.ie/maps/@53.4351401,-7.3851583,3a,75y,270h,90t...
Photographs from the 1st Mullingar 10 Mile in 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645912529346
Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?
Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.
BUT..... Wait there a minute....
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.
This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
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I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.
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 when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances 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.
Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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!
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.
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. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
If Wikipedia is to be believed the Nippon Foundation is "a private charity organization . . . founded by the late businessman Ryoichi Sasakawa who was indicted for Class A war crimes but later released. He is a self proclaimed fascist and has been linked to organized crime through his acquaintance to Yoshio Kodama. Despite its funding of many public health and welfare programs, the foundation has been criticized as an organization with right-wing, nationalist motives." They go on to point out that the foundation is currently headed by the founder's son who continues the same policies. The foundation was started with gambling money and the current chairman tried to buy a casino in New Jersey recently! I see their cars and vans everywhere in Tono where they support old people.
Merry Christmas Everyone. I will be gone for few days... Finally I'll have some rest in the holidays......
Wishing for a Happy New Year.........
Long Valley Caldera is a depression in eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. The valley is one of the earth's largest calderas, measuring about 20 mi (32 km) long (east-west) and 11 mi (18 km) wide (north-south). The elevation of the floor of the caldera is 6,500 ft (2,000 m) in the east and 8,500 ft (2,600 m) in the west. The elevation of the caldera walls reach 9,800–11,500 ft (3,000–3,500 m), except in the east, where the wall rises only 500 ft (150 m) to an elevation of 7,550 ft (2,300 m).
Long Valley was formed 760,000 years ago when a huge volcanic eruption released very hot ash that later cooled to form the Bishop tuff that is common to the area. The eruption was so colossal that the magma chamber under the now destroyed volcano was emptied to the point of collapse. The collapse itself caused an even larger secondary eruption of pyroclastic ash that burned and buried thousands of square miles. Ash from this eruption blanketed much of the western part of what is now the United States.
Near the center of the caldera there is a mound called the "resurgent dome" that was formed by magmatic uplift. Though the area is still volcanically active, the caldera itself is extinct: seismic mapping has shown the magma body deep underground is mostly crystallized and not molten anymore. There is a hydrothermal power plant near the resurgent dome. The Bishop tuff is the oldest normally magnetized tuff (that is, it was formed when the Earth's magnetic north was near the north pole – as it is today). In the geologic past, water gathered in the Long Valley caldera and overtopped its rim, forming the Owens River Gorge.
Mammoth Mountain (11,050 ft (3,370 m)), is a composite volcano made up of about 12 rhyodacite and quartz latite domes extruded along the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera from 200,000 to 50,000 years ago. Mammoth Mountain is one of the eruptive centers that developed late in the evolutionary cycle of the Long Valley Caldera complex.
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The second weekend in September is both Heritage weekend and the charity event, Ride and Stride, both means that many churches that are mostly locked or hard to get into, will be open, or have a good chance of being open.
This means planning, how best to use the day, and this year rather than visiting new churches, it was visiting ones that I had photographed just the once at the start of the project, like Alkham, or had not been able to see inside at all.
Alkham is between Dover and Folkestone, sits in a valley named after the village, and an alternative route between the two towns passes through it, as does the winterbourne, the Drellinggore. But that has not run for a few years now, and is overgrown and dry, making a mockery of the deep water warning signs.
St Anthony sits high above the village and the once village pub, now a gastropub with Michelin stars, and is a steep climb through narrow lanes of cottages to the churchyard then up to the porch.
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Picturesquely situated on a quiet bluff high above the main road, the simple flint exterior of Alkham church hides a remarkable surprise. From the south the building looks little different to many others in the region, but inside it immediately presents its trump card - a north aisle/chapel built in the thirteenth century which contains the finest blank wall arcading in any Kent church. This should be compared with the contemporary chancel arcading at Cooling and Woodchurch - in each designed to emphasise the importance of the (recently rebuilt) chancel. Here it served an altogether different purpose, competing with the nearby commandery of the Knights Hospitallers at Swingfield. At the west end of the nave, filling the tower arch, is a rather heavy but fine, wooden nineteenth century screen. The east window contains some fine nineteenth century glass. West tower, nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch
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ALKHAM
LIES the next parish south-eastward from Liddon. THIS PARISH is situated about three miles westward from Dover, and about two miles from the high London road on the right hand. It lies very much unknown and unfrequented, among the hills, which are in this part of Kent very high and bold, consisting mostly of open and uninclosed grounds, which, as well as the deep vales between them, are without trees or hedge-rows, clumps of coppice woods being interspersed at distances here and there on them, the whole affording a most wild and romantic scene; but these deep vales and high mountains are much pleasanter to view at a distance, than to travel over, the roads being intolerably bad. The village of Alkham, with the church in it, is situated on a small knoll in the bottom of the valley, nearly in the middle of the parish. There are numbers of spreading elms growing throughout the village, which make a pleasing contrast to the open exposed country round it. At about half a mile's distance is the small hamlet, called, from its situation, South Alkham, which was once accounted a manor, having had owners which took their name from it. About half a mile northward from the village is Woolverton; and further on, Chilton, both which belonged for many years to the Wollet's, of Eastry; the latter was in 1683 the property of Simon Yorke, of Dover, merchant, who died that year, and was the father of the lord chancellor Hardwick; and of an elder son, Henry, to whom he gave Chilton, and it now belongs to his descendant Philip York, esq. of Denbighshire. At the south west boundary of the parish is Evering, with a small street of the same name; and at the south-east is the hamlet of Drelingore, where the spring of the Nailbourn rises, which occasionally flows northward as far as that head of the river Dour which rises in this parish, at Chilton, about a mile and an half from it, and runs thence till it meets the other branch of that river, a little below Castney court, in River. The soil throughout the parish is in general chalk, and the lands exceedingly poor and barren.
THE LORDSHIP of the barony of Folkestone claims paramount over this parish, as being within the hundred of Folkestone, subordinate to which is THE MANOR OF ALKHAM, alias MALMAINES ALKHAM, which was part of those lands which made up the barony of Averenches, of which it was held as one knight's fee, as of the castle of Dover, by the performance of ward to it, by the family of Malmaines, whose principal seat was at Waldershare; the last of which name, who was possessed of it about the reign of king Edward II. was Lora, widow of John de Malmains; she afterwards remarried Roger de Tilmanstone, who held this manor in her right. After which it passed into a family who took their name from their residence in this parish; one of whom, John Alkham, descended from Peter de Alkham, who possessed lands here as early as the reign of king Henry III, was possessed of it in the beginning of king Henry IV.'s reign, in the 4th year of which he was charged for it towards the subsidy for the marriage of Blanch, the king's daughter; from which payment several parcels of land in this county were afterwards called by the name of Blanch lands. In this family of Alkham the manor of Malmains continued till the beginning of king Henry VII.'s reign, when Peter Alkham passed it away to John Warren, gent. from which name it was alienated, about the latter end of the next reign of king Henry VIII. to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, whose descendant, of the same name, sold it, at the very latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, to Lushington, who conveyed it to Broome, and in the 22d year of James I. Robert Broome, S. T. B. of Ringwold, alienated it to John Browne, of Alkham, whose descendant in 1656 passed it away to Alban Spencer, esq. of Walmer castle, and his descendant of the same name left three daughters his coheirs; Sarah, married to Richard Halford, gent. of Canterbury; Susannah, to Mr. Robert Buck, of Covent-garden, mercer; and Mary, to the Rev. Robert Gunsley Ayerst, clerk, and they jointly succeeded to this estate. Mr. Halford died possessed of his third part in 1766, and left it to his only son Richard, who sold his third part of it, to Mr. Smith, of Alkham, the present possessor of it. Mr. Buck died s. p. and by will devised his third part to his niece Jane Ayerst, daughter of the Rev. Robert G. Ayerst, by Mary his wife above-mentioned, who is now entitled to it; and the Rev. Mr. Ayerst, in right of his wife, is the present possessor of the remaining third part of it. A court baron is held for this manor, which is held of the manor of Folkestone, by knight's service, and ought to have inclosed fifteen perches of Folkestone park. It pays a rent to the ward of Dover castle.
There is an estate in this parish, probably once part of the above-mentioned manor, and still called Malmains farm, which was for many years, and till lately, the property of the Graydon's, of Fordwich.
ALKHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Dover.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Anthony the Martyr, is a handsome building, consisting of three isles and two chancels, having a tower steeple, with a low pointed turret on it, in which hang three bells. The north isle is shut out by boarding from the rest of the church, and made no use of at present, to which the school now kept in the chancel might be removed, and have no kind of communication with that part of the church appropriated for divine service, which would prevent that unseemly and indecent resort which it is at present subject to. In the chancel are several memorials for the Slaters, lessees of the parsonage; and on the south side, against the wall, is an antient tomb of Bethersden marble.
¶The church of Alkham, with the chapel of Mauregge, or Capell as it is now called, belonging to it, was given by Hamon de Crevequer to the abbot and convent of St. Radigund, together with the advowson of it, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms. It was appropriated to that abbey about the 43d year of king Henry III. anno 1258, and was afterwards, anno 8 Richard II. valued among the temporalities of the abbey at fourteen pounds. In which state this church and advowson remained till the dissolution of the abbey, which happened in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when it was suppressed by the act of that year, as being under the clear yearly value of two hundred pounds, and their lands and possessions given to the king, who granted the scite of it, with the whole of its possessions, that year, to archbishop Cranmer, in exchange for other lands, who in the same year exchanged them back again with the king, being enabled so to do by an act then specially passed for that purpose; but in the deed of exchange, among other exceptions, was that of all churches and advowsons of vicarages; by virtue of which, the appropriation of the church of Alkham, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, as they do at this time, his grace the archbishop of Canterbury being now entitled to them.
The vicarage of Alkham, with the chapel of Ferne, alias Capell, annexed to it, is valued in the king's books at eleven pounds, and the yearly tenths at Il.2s. per annum. (fn. 4) It is now of the clear yearly certified value of 53l. 9s. 6d. In 1588 here were communicants eighty; in 1640 it was valued at sixty pounds. The vicar of it is inducted into the vicarage of Alkham, with the chapel of Capell le Ferne, alias St.Mary le Merge, annexed to it. There are three acres of glebe land belonging to the vicarage.
The great tithes of Evering ward, in this parish and Swingfield ward, part of the parsonage of Alkham, are held of the archbishop for three lives, at the yearly rent of 1l. 6s. 8d. and the parsonage for twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of twelve pounds.
I might be uploading the color version of this shot later, because it's driving me crazy. The trees in the background are where I took my last uploaded shot and the car is a dark blue, so the colors are beautiful, but I really like this shot, too. I can be really indecisive. A lot.
Vignette was not added, if you're wondering.
This is a beautiful full relief stein where the top half of the stein is in the shape of an exceptionally detailed Bavarian crown and the bottom half of the stein is complimented with four panels depicting famous landmarks of Bavaria, surrounded by raised-relief gold rope& tassel borders. The left rear panel features the famous Herrenchiemsee Castle which is Bavarian King Ludwig IIs largest castle. The left front panel features the Linderhof Castle, built by Ludwig II deep in the forest which the royal hunters of the House of Bavaria reserved for their own use. The right front panel features the Koenigreich Bavaria Crest with the Bavarian shield, crown and lions. The rear right panel depicts the Neuschwanstein Castle, Ludwig II's creation and the most famous Bavarian castle in the world. On top of the crown rests a gold-plated orb with blue crystals and cross. The thumblift is a pewter Bavarian lion with shield. A concealed pewter lid is underneath the top of the crown. The Westerwald Team authentic "Made in Germany" seal appears underneath the handle showing that this piece is made entirely in Germany. bestbeersteins.com
Laie Hawaii Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located on the northeast shore of the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. The temple sits on a small hill, a half-mile from the Pacific Ocean, in the town of Lāʻie, 35 miles (56 km) from Honolulu. Along with Brigham Young University–Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center, the Laie Hawaii Temple plays an important role in the town of Lā'ie, with the Visitors' Center attracting more than 100,000 people annually.
The Laie Hawaii Temple was the first temple built by the LDS Church outside of the continental United States. The temple is also the oldest to operate outside of Utah, and the fifth-oldest LDS temple still in operation. In addition to initial building and construction, the temple has been dedicated for use by several presidents of the LDS Church. This includes the site of the temple being dedicated by Joseph F. Smith on June 1, 1915, the completed structure being dedicated by Heber J. Grant on November 27, 1919, being rededicated after significant expansion on June 13, 1978 by Spencer W. Kimball and then rededicated on November 21, 2010 by Thomas S. Monson following seismic upgrades and remodeling. The Laie Hawaii Temple was formerly known as the Hawaiian Temple or the Hawaii Temple until a standard naming convention for LDS temples was announced in 1999.
The exterior of the temple exhibits four large friezes planned by American sculptor J. Leo Fairbanks and built with the help of his brother Avard Fairbanks. Modeled four-fifths lifesize and cast in concrete, the bas-relief friezes depict God’s dealings with Man. The north frieze depicts the story of the Book of Mormon. The west frieze shows the people of the Old Testament. The New Testament and the Apostasy are depicted on the southern frieze of the temple, and the restoration of the Church through Joseph Smith is shown on the east frieze. On the grounds of the temple are statues also designed by the Fairbanks brothers, including Joseph being blessed by his father and one of the Prophet Lehi in a scene from the Second Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon.
As visitors approach the temple and pass a number of reflecting pools, a maternity fountain sits in front of the uppermost pool. Designed by the Fairbanks brothers, this bold relief honors Hawaiian Motherhood and depicts a Hawaiian mother holding a giant clam shell while pouring water over her children. The act is supposed to symbolize mothers pouring their love, hope and care onto their children.
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This is the yellow satin lining for the evening bag. I am embroidering a message to the recipient upside down inside the top so she can read it when she opens the bag.
I printed it out in Helvetica and measured to see if it filled the space properly. This is the printout hand kerned and pinned to the fabric. Then I traced it on Sulky Printable Water-Soluble Fabri-Solvy, folded it in half and creased it, peeled off the backing and pasted the crease on to the center seam.
Running stitch down the middle of the letters. Then trim away extra Solvy carefully, and dunk fabric in cold water 15 minutes to dissolve embroidery template.
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Muay Thai (Thai boxing) is Thailand’s national sport. Thai boxing isn’t just about fighting, it’s also about ritual, ceremony and respect.
It’s widely believed that the modern form of Muay Thai traces its roots back to a form of unarmed combat performed by Siamese soldiers.
Much of the tradition from ancient times still remains intact, particularly in the pre-fight ceremonies and the adornments each fighter wears when entering the ring.
The modern day Muay Thai fighter enters the ring cotton armbands known as prajiad around the biceps and a sacred cotton headband, known as mongkhon.
At a traditional Muay Thai fight, each match is preceded by a ceremonial dance known as the Wai Kru Ram Muay (typically shortened as Wai Kru) which is a homage to one’s teacher, parents and/or the King.
In Thai boxing, any part of the body, except for the head, can be used to attack an opponent. The target area is any part of the body, except for the groin. Fighters wear boxing gloves, but it is often kicks or elbows to the head which result in knock-outs. Bouts normally consist of 5 rounds. Each round lasts 3 minutes with a 2 minute rest between each round.
Muay Thai can be seen at Rajadamnern Stadium, Lumpinee Stadium, Channel 7 Stadium or outside the MBK shopping centre.
Channel 7 Stadium in Bangkok is the third most important venue for MuayThai fights in the Kingdom of Thailand. It is only surpassed by the famed Rajadamnern and Lumpinee stadiums.
The stadium itself is actually a TV studio, with a boxing ring in the middle. The Sunday afternoon events air on Thai national TV.
Muay Thai at the Channel 7 Stadium is free to spectators
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Here is a new photo for my 100 strangers project - 2010. As I haven't updated it since the beginning of the year, I thought it is a better idea to start it again, with new confidence and better structure, aiming at completing it in a shorter period of time - six months].
Place: Leigh, Lancashire
Strangers: Hannah, Michael & William
Encounter: I was just on my way to a store while saw them skateboarding near the car park. Instinctively, I knew I had to take a few photos of them (amazing background, nice group, dynamics). I think they were a bit surprised at first but I explained why I want to photograph them, also gave them cards with my e-mail address and flickr link, encouraging them to write me, so that I'll send the photos for their parents to see them as well. I showed them the photos on the camera and they seemed to enjoy it. I really loved their attitude and their serious approach to skateboarding.The photos in action are even better than this one (this is actually one of the last photos) - and I'll upload them as soon as possible.
This represents photo #1 for the 100 strangers project. Find out more at www.100strangers.com
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Each time I photograph people on the streets I feel connected to them in a way or another. That is why they become my friends even if I don't know them.
This is a capture taken about an hour after a very light and wet morning snow storm. The snow in the valley quickly melted away giving way to this breath taking scene. The weather in this national park is very dynamic and can turn on a dime.
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#25 Elegant Red aka 52 Red
It is fitting that I hit the homestretch in my fifty before 50 with the magic lipstick. Although - I would argue whether it is truly the lipstick that is magical or all of you.
Thank you to Uta for ever selecting to begin with, Pam for calling it out, Sonja and Kerstin for the searching, Joy for the mailing, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU who supported the women who have ever worn it and helped it make the journey to my mirror.
I love you my sisters!
Kykkos Monastery history is long and rich. The monastery was built at the end of the 11th century. The emperor of Byzantium Alexios Komninos, who ruled from 1081AD until 1118AD, was the founder of the monastery.
The Monastery has played a very important role in the preservation of Orthodoxy and Hellenism in Cyprus. Even today its contribution to the religious, national, social, and economic life of Cyprus is enormous.
During its centuries-long life, the monastery burned down and rebuilt several times. Unfortunately, because of these fires, many ancient icons, frescoes, and manuscripts were destroyed. Today nothing remains of the original structure, which was wooden. The current buildings were built of stone after the latest fires of 1751 and 1813.
In Greek, the full name of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos is Ιερά, Βασιλική, και Σταυροπηγιακή Μονή Κύκκου. The translation in English is the Holy, Royal, and Stauropigiac Monastery of Kykkos.
Royal means that it was built with the contribution of a royal person, in this case, the Emperor of Byzantium Alexios Komninos. Stauropigiac means that when it was built a Cross was buried under its foundations. Ecclesiastically this means that the monastery was and still is self-ruled, within the general rules of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus of course.
SOPHIE is an adorable BROWN MACKEREL PATCHED TABBY (coloration) or TORBIE MAINE COON. She just turned 1 years old, is spayed and has her claws. She is also polydactyl and has 1 extra toe on each feet. Sophie and her half-siblings Oliver and Maddie were originally purchased from a breeder but their owner fell on financial hard times and needed to find them new homes. Sophie is everything a Maine Coon should be. She is HUGE! She is furry! She has tail longer than the state of Maine (ok, that might be an exaggeration). Since she is only 1, she has some growing left to do and while only currently 10 pounds, is expected to become larger over the next year. Sophie is funny, curious and affectionate. She is a bit cautious at the beginning, but once she is comfortable in her surroundings, then she is rambunctious and silly. She will need regular grooming due to the length and density of her coat, but she loves being combed. Sophie is accepting of cat-friendly dogs, other cats with a proper introduction and great with kids that treat her with respect. Sophie adores her half-siblings and must go home with either Oliver or Maddie. She seeks them out for snuggles and is always trying to hang out with one of them. ADOPTION FEE $650 with either Oliver or Maddie, $950 for all three. FOSTERED IN OAK PARK, IL.
Lucifer mythical character is by far metal most mentioned and revered of all villain. Heaven's outcast and dirty scoundrel, the mighty ruler of all that is below and a materialist bastard par excellence. Artist Devil fascination and representation is overwhelming and is depicted ad nauseam making Eliphas Levi goat more popular than any other deity.
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This is my humble contribution to one of Nasa's Juno's Perijove 7 phase RGB raw images. I processed the original Juno's raw images and enhanced the images to create this new image. I also added an animation comparing the size of Jupiter's red spot to Earth.
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… Lucky 7 years down, many more to come Insha Allah …
Happy Anniversary my love Mahmuda Dewan. Alhumdulillah for everything.
[Getting inspirited from Russian photographer “Murad Osmann”… I, Md. Rahat Khan Amit from Bangladesh as an amateur photographer have started this project of capturing the beautiful sceneries around the world by hand in hand together with my wife. Here, in all the photos I've shown the back of my wife Dr. Mahmuda Dewan while she was holding my hand and lead me to the wonderful locations around the world. I've started my project while I was in a short vacation with my family in Singapore, Langkawi, Kualalampur, Pattaya and Bangkok from 27th November, 2015 to 6th December, 2015. And now in this album I've traveled Bhutan from 15th September’2016 to 22nd September’2016.
Hopefully this project will be continued inside Bangladesh and across the world.
The theme of this project is, "Love leads to the road of beauty".
Md. Rahat Khan Amit©
This is the temple complex of Abu Simbel, located on the shores of Lake Nasser in the far south of Egypt. The temple complex was originally carved into stone cliffs on the banks of the Nile River in what was then known as Nubia, and were carved out of solid rock between 1264 and 1244 BC to honor the famous Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Ramses II and his favorite wife Nefertari. The complex consisted of the two temples with their carved stone facades representing Ramses II and Nefertari, as well as the gods Amun, Ra-Horakhty, Ptah, and Hathor. In addition to the temples, many areas of the cliffs have hieroglyphic carvings in them. The larger of the two temples was dedicated to Ramses II, and features four colossal statues of his likeness in a seated position on the facade, representing him at various times in his life. The inside of the temple contains many chambers with ornate reliefs and hieroglyphs, as well as a large central Hall with statues attached to the columns. The innermost part of the temple has three statues of Ancient Egyptian deities: Amun, Ra-Horahkty, and Ptah, and a statue of Ramses II. During the sunrises at the Fall and Spring Equinoxes, three of the statues are illuminated, with the Ptah Statue, representing the underworld, remaining dark. The smaller temple is dedicated to Nefertari and Hathor, and features two likenesses of Nefertari on the exterior, intermingled with four of male figures. The inside of the temple is smaller than the other one, but features a likeness of Nefertari on the columns, and features an interior that, while smaller, is no less elaborate than the interior of the larger temple. The temples were located along the Nile River for nearly 3700 years, but were buried in sand and forgotten until the 19th Century. The site was threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, leading to UNESCO heading an effort to relocate the temples and the surrounding cliff faces and structures to higher ground near the original location between 1964 and 1968.
Andalusia (/ˌændəˈluːsiə, -ziə, -ʒə/; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a]) is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla).
Andalusia is in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in south-western Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Andalusia is the only European region with both Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir.
The name "Andalusia" is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس) The toponym al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia. These coins, called dinars, were inscribed in both Latin and Arabic. The etymology of the name "al-Andalus" has traditionally been derived from the name of the Vandals; however, a number of proposals since the 1980s have challenged this contention. Halm in 1989 derived the name from a Gothic term, *landahlauts, and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate. The region's history and culture have been influenced by the native Iberians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, Byzantines, Jews, Romani, Muslim Moors and the Castilian and other Christian North Iberian nationalities who reconquered and settled the area in the latter phases of the Reconquista.
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Catharsis is the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. This is usually done through art forms such as tragedy, drama, dance, and music.
The AIDS Epidemic started in the Late 70’s and 80’s spreading through the United states leaving a trail of death, confusion, and fear while communities watched it all happen on the news. There were many public figures, activists, artists, and allies whose stories were never told and have been forgotten. When we remain silent on issues that have had significant impact on our society, it creates a fear or stigma that keeps us from understanding each other and moving forward. Through Dance and multi-media, The Catharsis Project retells these stories to fight the stigma that silence creates.
This screening will also be a WORLD PREMIER of a new piece of work entitled "Affinity"; which is the start of a tribute to ACT UP and all the work they did for people living with HIV & AIDS, when the government was doing nothing.
Clayton Hospital is named after Thomas Clayton, a mayor of Wakefield and was founded in 1854. It was an amalgamation of Wakefield General Dispensary, founded in 1787, and the Wakefield House of Recovery, founded in 1826. Wakefield General Dispensary was for out-patients and the Wakefield House of Recovery was for poor in-patients suffering from infectious diseases.
In 1852 the Wakefield Union Workhouse was completed and its hospital wards accommodated pauper invalids and fever cases, so that the House of Recovery was closed in 1854. In 1863 Mayor Clayton financed an expansion and the institution was re-named 'The Clayton Hospital and Wakefield General Dispensary'. The site moved from Dispensary Yard to the present site in 1876 and the new building was opened in 1879.By 1948 the name was changed to Clayton Hospital and it had a capacity of 200 beds.
It closed early 2013 for good. No other use is proposed for it so far, only rumours of the adjoining schools near it are said to buy it for school use.
Skelita is the newest member of my home. Now, we all love the Monster High Fashionistas, but, let’s be honest. They can be a bit La-De-Dah when it comes to new pretty girls moving in. So, all of them, even Frankie and Drac, have given Skelita the cold shoulder.
Mythica, Dragon girl and Dragon Master of Dragonious, has been very kind to her, but dragons are solitary beings. So, Skelita has been left by herself. One night, I heard her wailing inside her coffin bed. It broke my heart. I went to her and held her bones in my arms.
I then decided to surprise her. So, I made her a companion doll that looks like her; okay, her doll is a bit more surreal looking. When I gave her little Skellie Skelita, she was thrilled, to say the least. Now, all the other monsters want a little skellies that looks like they do.
Now Skelita and little Skellie Skelita spend hours together having fun and all the other monsters are green with envy, which is really bugging Mythica because SHE is green…naturally. Sigh…
Teenagers! Monsters! Oh, my!
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This is Kings Norton Station. I decided to try out the Cross-City Line and went to Lichfield.
The modern station building dates to around 1978 when the line was opened.
Platform 1 for trains to Birmingham New Street and Lichfield City. Platform 4 for trains to Redditch.
Platform's 2 and 3 are derelict and are not currently in use (hope they get restored in the future and bring the Camp Hill Line back into use one day).
From my bench, the derelict platforms 2 and 3.
is tied down for the weekend on the former Youngstown & Austintown RR portion of the OHCR's Youngstown Belt at Austintown, OH.
Built in 1956 as NH GP9 1227 to PC 7557 to CR 7557 to MBTA 7557 to IC 7557, rebuilt in 1979 at Paducah as IC GP11 8712, to ICG 8712 to OHCR 8712 (2005).
It was originally on the 'to be scrapped list as part of the mandated EPA settlement, but it was removed in 2023 & received needed repairs/upgrades to avoid the scrappers for a little bit longer.
Acadia National Park is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast. Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the oldest National Park east of the Mississippi River, it was renamed Acadia in 1929.
The park includes mountains, an ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes. In addition to Mount Desert Island, the park comprises much of the Isle au Haut, parts of Baker Island, and a portion of the Schoodic Peninsula on the mainland.
In total, Acadia National Park consists of more than 47,000 acres (19,000 ha), including 30,300 acres (12,300 ha) on Mount Desert Island, 2,728 acres (1,104 ha) on Isle au Haut and 2,366 acres (957 ha) on the Schoodic Peninsula. The permanent park boundary, as established by act of Congress in 1986, includes a number of private in-holdings that the park is attempting to acquire.
Cadillac Mountain, named after the French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, is on the eastern side of the island. Its green, lichen-covered, pink granite summit is, because of a combination of its eastern location and height, one of the first places in the United States to see the sunrise. Miles of carriage roads were originally built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The mountains of Acadia National Park offer hikers and bicycle riders views of the ocean, island lakes, and pine forests.
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What is now line M1 of the Budapest Metro is one of the oldest underground lines in the world dating back to 1896. It is now known as the Millennium Subway, at least to tourists.
I understand it is usually called the Kisföldalatti locally. This means "small subway". Its dimensions were driven by pre-existing sewers and deeper marshy subsoil.
As a consequence it has always had specialised rolling stock, based on tram technology, resulting in the fleet only being replaced once in the early 1970s. The trains/trams are very low in height with passenger accommodation between the bogies over which equipment and the driver's cabs are placed.
The current rolling stock on the line consists of three section articulated sets built by Ganz in the early 1970s. They share some parts of their design with the Budapest Ganz trams built around the same time.
25 is in the reversing sidings at Vörösmarty tér terminus.
This is the story of Misty our neighbours cat.
NEWS FLASH!!!!
I am thinking about getting a female kitten for Shogi!!!!!!!
Shogi is an indoor cat and has an outdoor pen.
Due to Shogi's history he's never had much human contact or seen another cat.
Our neighbours bought Misty and has taken to visiting Shogi while in his pen.
A few weeks ago I noticed that Shogi's mood seemed to lift and his temperament had improved.
Great! We're making progress!!!
Then I find out why,
Shogi was making friends with Misty through the pen.
I couldn't believe it!!
Since then Misty sits at my door step every morning.
I can see her through the glass as Shogi sits the other side looking at me pleading to see her.
I have let Misty in our home to see how Shogi reacts and he's great.
They play wonderfully together but Misty goes a bit over the top and growls a lot
The other day it was heavy rain here and Misty didn't come.
Shogi sulked upstairs all day and didn't eat until 11pm.
Hence we're thinking about another cat.
Misty has certainly brought him out of himself.
I would normally go for a rescue cat but due to Shogi's history, I've been advised from friends, Maria, and my vet, to go for a kitten, a female and a similar breed.
They informed me that Shogi will realise that a kitten is younger than him and less of a threat, even better being a female.
Ragdolls are very placid and a similar breed to Shogi, (plus I've always wanted one) so Shogi should be fine if we go for a Ragdoll.
I'm still in the early stages of this idea for Shogi's benifit, but we're going on a 4hr drive to visit a lovely breeder called Maria to have a look at her Ragdolls.
Maria loved her 1st Ragdoll so much that she decided to breed Ragdoll cats.
Like myself Maria is not a big fan of some breeders.
Maria is one of the few who is very kind to her cats and has nothing but love for them.
In fact if she didn't like me or unsure, she wouldn't let me have one!
Maria lives in the country in the the South of England near Kent.
She has a few queens and studs and does not push with breeding..
In other words her queens are not breeding machines and she refuses to sell her kittens to breeders for the same reason.
Selling to breeders, she found very upsetting as she didn't agree with how her cats were being used.
Maria says and I quote " Some people don't love cats as much as they should be loved. I think I can only do this for one more year and then enjoy all the cats I've got"
Maria has 20 Ragdolls and 5 kittens at the moment. One of them is a Bi-colour which is my favourite and she's a female!
Maria does this for the love of Ragdolls and refuses to let her cats go to people she is unsure will not love them or look after them properly.
She also rescues ragdolls from people who have changed their mind about being a cat owner or are moving home or abroard.
Maria loves all her cats and her premises are very spacious and spotlessly clean.
The kittens have their own room and she has many pens including part of her house opens up into a pen from her outside doors so when it's warm they can come and go as they please.
Here's Maria's website-
sonnifacio-ragdolls.com/about us.htm
I will let you know how I get on.
Thank you to Brenda Star for the lovely texture
www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/4504682296/
I also used this texture called Misty Yellow by texture Jungle
This is exactly the way these two ran in the newspaper. Overlapping. I wanted to create the feeling that the girls were looking up at the fireworks. Modern day digital cameras are so sensative to low light, I probably could have actually shot this using available light. This was back in the film age. I actually attached a remotely triggered flash with a magenta gel over it to the top of a tripod. I had someone hold the flash high up in the air and asked the kids to stare up at the flash.
Okay, this is part of the story of rebuilding society so, here goes nothing...
"Alright, you've probably at least heard about a type of rouge "Chicken Walker" by now. The good news is, if you can see this, it means you are still alive. The bad news is, well, pretty much everything else. If you have been feeling depressed lately, it is highly advised that you do not continue watching the program. Alright, so you probably have been wondering where the he** this beast came from. Stay tuned to find out. Just kidding, here you go. Several companies had been experimenting with self-controlled mechanical walkers. They were pretty much built the same way as human controlled, except these were controlled by an extremely high tech artificial "brain" that was designed to assess risks and act accordingly. During a test, the "brain" assessed that its creators were risks to it, and killed them all. Then it escaped. It was actually a police officer Dan Higgins that first came across it. He radioed in when he saw it moving towards him. As it moved closer, he pulled out a 9mm pistol on it, but stayed on the radio. The "brain" immediately assessed "risk" and blew him to bits with one of its six “smart" (automatically controlled, also called Fire and Forget) missiles. The radio was still on, but the officer was surely dead. The local police station immediately new it had a huge problem on their hand, one that they were by no means capable dealing with and immediately requested military assistance. Two Humvee jeeps were immediately dispatched, but both were quickly eliminated with its 37.64x12mm cannon. From there on, the "brain" considered all humans as a risk, and now kills everybody on sight. This concludes our, very solemn newscast for tonight. Our thought and prayers to everybody out there with dead our injured loved ones.
Walker View
Wilson County is named for James C. Wilson, an Englishman who immigrated to the Republic of Texas in 1837. After the United States annexed Texas, Mexico, who never recognized Texas’ impendence in 1836 or the annexation in 1845, began making raids into San Antonio. In response, Sam Houston ordered General Alexander Somerville to lead 700 volunteers into northern Mexico as a sign of force. James Wilson joined the Somervelle Expedition where he was captured but later escaped, possibly saving him from joining the ill-fated Mier Expedition. He later became a legislator in the Texas House of Representatives.
In the early 1800’s, Don Francisco Flores de Abrego immigrated to this area from the Canary Islands. The town that grew around his home and ranch would eventually become known as Floresville.
In the 1870’s Judge Andrew G. Pickett began growing peanuts in Floresville and the crop would spread throughout the area. Floresville is now known as the “Peanut Capitol of Texas”.
The Italianate style courthouse was built in 1882. The original brick was covered with plaster in 1936.
For Bodhi: Your Song is my rainbow:
(Bodhi) lives life's fervor
(Bodhi) prays for truth
(Bodhi) says our friendship
Is a hundred-proof
The vulture that circles Rio
Hangs in this L.A. sky
The blankets they give the Indians
Only make them die
But sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
Like light into the rainbow
We know the dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like light into the rainbow
(Bodhi) loves the desert
(Bodhi) prays for rain
(Bodhi) knows that pleasure
Is the child of pain
And lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
(Bodhi's) samba led me
To the Amazon
We sing the song
Forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
Like light into the rainbow
We know the dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like light into the rainbow.
~ Michael Franks, modified (without permission), "Antonio's (Bodhi's) Song," ex the unforgettable album "Sleeping Gypsy"
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This is a photograph from the finish of the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2015 which was held in Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland at 20:00 on Friday 26th June 2015. This superb road race is now firmly established again as one of the fastest and best organised road races of it's kind in Leinster. The race follows a left handed course around a well known local walking route around Laragh and in the closing kilometer runs parallel to the Royal Canal into the finish at the railway station. The members of St. Coca's AC and the many volunteers from the local community must be given great praise for organising another fantastic night of racing for runners, joggers, and walkers. The 5KM course is very flat with the exception of short incline up a motorway overpass and makes its way along narrow country lanes sheltered on either side by hedgerows. The beautiful summer's evening made for an enjoyable night for everyone with a large crowd gathering at the finish to cheer on participants. The race also attracted one of it's largest number of participants in recent years with over 380 finishers in the race. Refreshments and prize awards were held in the primary school near the race start and close to the St. Coca's running track. This race is yet another fantastic club organised road race in the midlands/North Leinster region where an athletics club organises their annual event to the highest standard. Without doubt the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race will continue to grow.
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. The results are available here www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2755. A GPS Trace of the 5KM Course (the course hasn't changed in a few years) is available here connect.garmin.com/activity/194011978
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In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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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!
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.
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Geophagy is the scientific name for the practice of eating earth and earth-like substances such as clay and chalk. Eating earth is an ancient practice and is an integral part of many cultures across the world. The Museum of Edible Earth is a cross-disciplinary project with a core collection of earth samples which are eaten for various reasons by different people across the globe. It invites the audience to physically question our relationship to the environment and the Earth and to review our knowledge about food and cultural traditions using creative thinking. The Museum of Edible Earth addresses the following questions: What stands behind earth-eating traditions? Where does the edible earth come from? What are the possible benefits and dangers of eating earth? What engagement are we as humans establishing with our environment and non-humans? The Museum of Edible Earth has more than 400 edible earth samples, mostly clay, such as kaolin and bentonite as well as chalk, limestone, volcanic rock, diatomaceous earth, and topsoil.
Photo: Ars Electronica - Martin Hieslmair
Today is of course Remembrance Day in the UK, and I had a photo of my poppy in the can as shot of the day.
However - it's such an unusual occurrence to stumble upon a serious house fire as it's actually happening that it seemed like a better one to use.
The fire is on a terraced house in a side street off Kensington, and two appliances from Merseyside Fire and Rescue had just arrived and were assessing the scene before the firefighters got to work.
It looked like the fire was upstairs, so hopefully if there way anyone inside they would have been able to make a rapid and safe exit. Here's hoping.
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Agriculture is the main stay of Uganda’s economy, however, the share of agriculture in the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been declining steadily. In fiscal year 2009/10, agriculture contributed only 14.6% to the national GDP of which 1.3% was attributed to the livestock sub-sector. The dairy industry is estimated to contribute more than 50% of the total output from the livestock sub-sector. The dairy industry employs many people who are engaged in various economic activities along the dairy value chain, particularly in milk production, collection, bulking and transportation, processing, distribution and marketing as well as provision of inputs and support services.
Antes! All the Antes. Heaven help me if they ever come out with her in another size.
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A Doll A Day
April 2016
#3 A is for ...
This is a photograph from the 7th Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 31st August 2019 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 11:00. The race is organised and promoted by Tullamore Harriers AC. The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter Tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course. 2013 seen the first year of the event as the club commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs. One of the features of the weather at the race today was the monsoon like downpour which lasted for about 15 minutes as the winner crossed the line. One of the famous features of the race is the legendary spread of refreshments provided after the race in the Harrier's facilities.
The event sold out again this year with over 800 finishers.
We have a set of (rain interrupted) photographs from the start and the finish of today's race on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157710627974753
The race was chip timed by MyRunResults - their website is www.myrunresults.com/
... this is Dada concept to start my mind to wandering down the pathway called "Who Are We and Why Are We Here."
...but first, let me give credit to the brilliant photography of TungTong. Here's his link where I believe you'll find this lovely dancer:
flickr.com/photos/tungtong/sets/72157603278744678/
When I was going to wellness therapy group sessions with my friend, Edith, who is a psychotherapist, she once told me something that opened my eyes. She said all people in the arts are probably a little bit dyslectic. Their choices give them away..... I quit listening and started remembering all the things I did to avoid math classes. I took a course called something like "Practical Mathematics" instead of algebra. When I went to college I finally was forced to take algebra and passed it (in order to get a degree in art (absolutely no other reason). A young mathematics teacher tutored me many, many nights through that semester and I finally finished it with a D or a C. I can't remember which. For some reason, plane geometry wasn't that much of a problem, but I realized Edith had nailed me good and proper.
Because of this and some other experiences, I find that I think more creatively when I'm responding to images. So I usually prepare an image to lead me into a realm of thought. This is such an image.
On this image, I love what the software has done to the girl and to my face. It actually has defined the essence of young and old, neither of which is good or bad, they are just what they are.
Actually I've played the part of God in front of an audience. My wife, Sherry, is a United Methodist pastor and at one of her churches, she preached a sermon on the creation. I dressed up in a white robe and while she was relating the seven days and the activities of those days, I was using a large paper pad, an eisel and colored chalk to put all of that to paper. It was well accepted and right afterward people started wanting to buy the results. One of them went for $100 (all church donations) if you can believe that.
Christianity tells us that God role played as a human being when he appeared on earth as the baby of Mary and Joseph and lived his life as the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The legend of creation tells us that God looked at the creation and saw that it was good, so I have no problem with looking at all of God's creations and seeing that they are good. Now the question is, "Who or what is this God?"
At one time I had it worked down to where God was a concentration of pure energy, so pure we have no sense or instruments to let us examine it. Science tells chemistry and physics become one at some point when you reduce life to its lowest common denominator. At another time I thought DNA would eventually lead us to a definition of God.
I've always belived that God is based in science and not in religion as we know it. Science has a thing called the theory of the conservation of matter, which says all matter remains in existence, merely changes its nature from time to time. Another theory of science is the conservation of energy. All energy remains in existence, it merely changes form.
If those theories have meit, the to believe in eternal life is scientifically rational. Religion says the soul lives on. Science says the life force lives on. Scientists might believe that electricity like substance we call life lives on, but question if memory and consciousness lives on. Religonists are positive that consciousness DOES live on and most religions are based on that concept.
So, in our minds, when we get to that point where we have every thing moving around rapidly in perfect order, we have God. He is it and we are all connected to him, or her. Then I read another book.
I sit here, as I said before and ask, "Who am I and why am I here?" The author of this book suggests we contemplate nothingness. Ask any question about nothingness and anyone who gives you an answer does not understand the definition of nothing.
In your imagination, let nothingness sit around for fifteen gazillion years...ok? Exactly in the center of all this nothingness, there is a slight stir and a thought appears. The thought is, "What am I and why am I here?" Now at long last you have God. Think about it. Maybe the whole secret of existence is conciousness.
But if we begin with God all of a sudden realizing he exists and then begins slowly to exert effort and imagination to create the world as we know it. Who created that consciousness? Or, who created God?
And, wasn't the question they fought over at the Council of Nicea in 325 CE? You know what? We're going in circles, again.
Going in circles is pure Dada, right?
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