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Filed by VBC Correspondent Alfred Lennard
VBC Security Contributor William Parker and I were recently granted access to visit and embed with units from the 5 (Armoured Infantry) Brigade deployed as part of the Multinational Assistance Force. We traveled with Victorian troops in the third month of their deployment in the region including the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
We have arrived at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Spade in Southwest Asia, where we were embedded with soldiers from India Company, Royal Victorian Infantry.
Before we could go out on operation with the troops, we needed to stay at the forward operating base for a few days as the medical personnel at the FOB told us that we would need to acclimatize to the heat. While we are at the FOB, the soldiers gave us a tour of the base and we had the opportunity to speak with them.
“Are you happy to be here?” asked Parker.
“[Laughs] Apart from a few situations where I’m kid of regretting it a wee bit,” said Private Seth. “Overall I’m glad I’ve done it. I mean, you’ll never do anything like this in your life.”
“What do you think about the enemy? Do you think they are good; they are bad?” asked Parker.
“Gotta respect them, definitely,” said Sergeant Vincent. “They really know what they’re doing. And they are not scared. And they are smart too, they tend to target the Coalition forces since they are the weaker target. But they are definitely not afraid to take us on. From time to time, they will fire an RPG at our convoy and get into a firefight with us.”
“How about the Coalition forces, are they effective at all?” asked Parker.
“They are definitely brave fighters,” said Captain Landon, the platoon commander. “But they lack the sophisticate equipment and logistic knowhow. So, we help them out with that. Their numbers are also getting thin due to attrition. So those who are still fighting are experience fighters. When the bullet starts flying, they are fierce warriors.”
Captain Landon also took us around the perimeter of the FOB and to one of the observation towers overlooking the Great Desert, previously one of the major weapons smuggling routes. FOB Spade was previously combat outpost (COP) Spade, where a major battle was thought against insurgents two years ago.
VBC will continue to bring you our stories.
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Filed by VBC Correspondent Alfred Lennard
VBC Security Contributor William Parker and I were recently granted access to visit and embed with units from the 5 (Armoured Infantry) Brigade deployed as part of the Multinational Assistance Force. We traveled with Victorian troops in the third month of their deployment in the region including the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
We have arrived at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Spade in Southwest Asia, where we were embedded with soldiers from India Company, Royal Victorian Infantry.
Before we could go out on operation with the troops, we needed to stay at the forward operating base for a few days as the medical personnel at the FOB told us that we would need to acclimatize to the heat. While we are at the FOB, the soldiers gave us a tour of the base and we had the opportunity to speak with them.
“Are you happy to be here?” asked Parker.
“[Laughs] Apart from a few situations where I’m kid of regretting it a wee bit,” said Private Seth. “Overall I’m glad I’ve done it. I mean, you’ll never do anything like this in your life.”
“What do you think about the enemy? Do you think they are good; they are bad?” asked Parker.
“Gotta respect them, definitely,” said Sergeant Vincent. “They really know what they’re doing. And they are not scared. And they are smart too, they tend to target the Coalition forces since they are the weaker target. But they are definitely not afraid to take us on. From time to time, they will fire an RPG at our convoy and get into a firefight with us.”
“How about the Coalition forces, are they effective at all?” asked Parker.
“They are definitely brave fighters,” said Captain Landon, the platoon commander. “But they lack the sophisticate equipment and logistic knowhow. So, we help them out with that. Their numbers are also getting thin due to attrition. So those who are still fighting are experience fighters. When the bullet starts flying, they are fierce warriors.”
Captain Landon also took us around the perimeter of the FOB and to one of the observation towers overlooking the Great Desert, previously one of the major weapons smuggling routes. FOB Spade was previously combat outpost (COP) Spade, where a major battle was thought against insurgents two years ago.
VBC will continue to bring you our stories.
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
An asset belonging to an intelligence officer from Victoria (codename Grayhawk) indicated that he was aware of the location of a Russian nuclear scientist (codename Pale Horse). The asset revealed that a Russian was seen being held captive in a market near Jannatabad, an insurgency stronghold.
Grayhawk hand selected six men from the combined task force, to conduct a covert “snatch” mission. The team changed in local apparels and drove into the market in two vehicles. The 6-man team scattered around the market to conduct covert reconnaissance and located a building guarded by insurgents. The team positioned themselves opposite of the target building and setup an observation post. After several hours of surveillance, the team positively identified Pale Horse in the building.
The team hastily devised a plan to capture Pale Horse. Just after nightfall, the team quickly advanced to the house, silently neutralized the guards, and captured Pale Horse. Without alerting the insurgents in the area, the team drove out of Jannatabad back to Coalition control area. The team was then extracted by helicopter and returned back to the main base.
Upon interrogation, Pale Horse revealed to the TF that he was held captive by a radical sect of Al-Asad. The new sect, named Al-Qatala, has broken off from Al-Asad and is aiming to pursue attacks against both Coalition and Russian force with violent and extreme means including the use of WMD. However, Pale Horse confirmed with the TF that the new sect does not have the technical knowhow in manufacturing WMD devices even if they were able to obtain those material. Intelligence agencies among allied nations assessed that this new sect is emerging as a new threat against both Coalition and Russian force in the region.
To be continued…
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Despite the old adage to not judge a book by its cover, the cover of a book (even a digital book) can be an important part of its story. After some clearly focused time at the drawing board, in the studio, at the computer, and behind and in front of the camera, Tracy and I took a step away from our latest project, and I made a little 'here's what we've got so far' visual just to see how things were coming together. We thought this diptic looked a bit like a book cover, but maybe that's because the thing we've been working on most is a new book. Pleased to officially share our big project news with you, here's that cover, uncovered...
BLURRED LINES: BLENDED PATTERNS IN POLYMER CLAY
by Dan Cormier + Tracy Holmes
I've been blurring the lines between patterns and blends for a few years now, and I'd often thought my Blurred Lines techniques would make a good little tutorial. Last summer, we started to work on something, but the deeper we delved (we like delving) and the more we focused in (we like focusing in), the clearer it became to us, blurs and all, it was going to take more than a tutorial to cover the full spectrum of possibilities spanning out from this one original idea. It's not just about making the decorative patterns themselves, but also mastering the design, construction, and finishing methods that best feature them.
Like our debut digital book 'Relief Beyond Belief,' 'Blurred Lines' will cover-to-cover everything, as only the limitless format of a digital book can: the not-at-all-blurry back story; good-to-know KnowHows; the right tools and how to use them; elegant and accessible techniques, newly defined and clearly explained in words and pictures; foundational basics, with tangent variations and design options showcased along the way; and lots of eye candy to explain, instill, and inspire. The next volume in our MasterClass Library for polymer clay, it's coming soon to the book aisle of The Cutting Edge Store.
We are very excited about it. Hope you are too.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photograph
I got a question for ya ... what does this city know about luxury? ... huh?
What does a town that's been to hell and back know about the finer things in life? ... well I'll tell ya ... more than most.
Ya see, it's the hottest fires that make the hardest steel ...
Add hard work and conviction and the knowhow that runs generations deep in every last one of us ... THAT'S who we are ... that's our story.
Now it's probably not the one you've been reading in papers, the one being written by folks who've never even been here and don't know what we're capable of.
'Cuz when it comes to luxury, it's as much about where it's from as who it's for.
Now we're from America, but this isn't New York City or the Windy City or Sin City and we're certainly no one's Emerald City ...
This is the MOTOR CITY ... and THIS is what we do ...
... "Imported from Detroit"
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Know-how / Savoir-faire
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An asset belonging to an intelligence officer from Victoria (codename Grayhawk) indicated that he was aware of the location of a Russian nuclear scientist (codename Pale Horse). The asset revealed that a Russian was seen being held captive in a market near Jannatabad, an insurgency stronghold.
Grayhawk hand selected six men from the combined task force, to conduct a covert “snatch” mission. The team changed in local apparels and drove into the market in two vehicles. The 6-man team scattered around the market to conduct covert reconnaissance and located a building guarded by insurgents. The team positioned themselves opposite of the target building and setup an observation post. After several hours of surveillance, the team positively identified Pale Horse in the building.
The team hastily devised a plan to capture Pale Horse. Just after nightfall, the team quickly advanced to the house, silently neutralized the guards, and captured Pale Horse. Without alerting the insurgents in the area, the team drove out of Jannatabad back to Coalition control area. The team was then extracted by helicopter and returned back to the main base.
Upon interrogation, Pale Horse revealed to the TF that he was held captive by a radical sect of Al-Asad. The new sect, named Al-Qatala, has broken off from Al-Asad and is aiming to pursue attacks against both Coalition and Russian force with violent and extreme means including the use of WMD. However, Pale Horse confirmed with the TF that the new sect does not have the technical knowhow in manufacturing WMD devices even if they were able to obtain those material. Intelligence agencies among allied nations assessed that this new sect is emerging as a new threat against both Coalition and Russian force in the region.
To be continued…
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Captured March 2016 Canon VI-L rangefinder + Canon LTM 50mm/2.8 lens.FOMAPAN 100 B&W film rated EI=64 developed in a prototype pyrogallol/4-aminophenol developer (16-3-PYRO) Saint Mary Street Open-Air Market,Cardiff.
An asset belonging to an intelligence officer from Victoria (codename Grayhawk) indicated that he was aware of the location of a Russian nuclear scientist (codename Pale Horse). The asset revealed that a Russian was seen being held captive in a market near Jannatabad, an insurgency stronghold.
Grayhawk hand selected six men from the combined task force, to conduct a covert “snatch” mission. The team changed in local apparels and drove into the market in two vehicles. The 6-man team scattered around the market to conduct covert reconnaissance and located a building guarded by insurgents. The team positioned themselves opposite of the target building and setup an observation post. After several hours of surveillance, the team positively identified Pale Horse in the building.
The team hastily devised a plan to capture Pale Horse. Just after nightfall, the team quickly advanced to the house, silently neutralized the guards, and captured Pale Horse. Without alerting the insurgents in the area, the team drove out of Jannatabad back to Coalition control area. The team was then extracted by helicopter and returned back to the main base.
Upon interrogation, Pale Horse revealed to the TF that he was held captive by a radical sect of Al-Asad. The new sect, named Al-Qatala, has broken off from Al-Asad and is aiming to pursue attacks against both Coalition and Russian force with violent and extreme means including the use of WMD. However, Pale Horse confirmed with the TF that the new sect does not have the technical knowhow in manufacturing WMD devices even if they were able to obtain those material. Intelligence agencies among allied nations assessed that this new sect is emerging as a new threat against both Coalition and Russian force in the region.
To be continued…
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
From the five space agencies that build and maintain the International Space Station to the mission control centres on Earth and the European, Japanese, American and Russian astronauts who fly to the space laboratory, international cooperation and knowhow is critical for a successful mission.
Here, ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst and Samantha Cristoforetti pose with their suited Russian colleagues Anton Shkaplerov and Maksim Surayev.
All four will leave Earth for the International Space Station this year. Alexander and Maxim are first up, on 28 May, while Samantha and Anton have their departure planned for 24 November. They will stay on the orbital outpost for around six months.
Credit: ESA
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
From a tuktuk ride a while ago tonight. I really like the mood and tone the grain sets in this shot - sometimes it can work so well.
Check out the whole set - Amazing Thailand.
Bangkok, Thailand
2006
I know it isn't the best of photos, for which I apologise - unfortunately, light is at a bit of a minimum on Newark Road at 5.30am - but this morning I finally photographed one of the most interesting services operated by Stagecoach locally in recent times.
In operation since about November, the working, open only to those employed by Knowhow (I think - although it's possible it may be a recruitment agency too, to be fair...), sees two return trips between Lincoln and the Knowhow Distribution Centre in Newark, situated between the A1, A17 and A46. I have virtually no details on the service at all - I don't know where it actually starts from in Lincoln, nor do I know the exact times it runs at - everything I've figured out has been through observation when driving to and from my own work!
When the service originally began, it was using one of the two Enviro400-bodied Scanias still operated by Lincoln, as these both have calibrated digital tachograph units. After a week or so, the service moved on to using one of the fleet of coaches which live in the city, usually employed on rail replacement.
This mornings choice of vehicle was 53033, seen here at Otters Cottages on Newark Road, picking up a passenger ahead of a busy day at work. I'm not sure how much longer the service has to run, hence my efforts to photograph it, and the acceptance that this photo, whilst not great, will do to illustrate the rarely seen working!
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Herd of Sheffield, 2016.
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, have descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen.
No 39 - Bugsy (detail).
Location : Weston Park.
Artist : Liz Hall.
Sponsor : Knowhow.
With her elephant, Bugsy, artist Liz Hall celebrates the smallest, and sometimes hidden, wildlife found around our great, green city. The creatures featured on Bugsy can be found in gardens, woods, hedgerows and parks in and around beautiful Sheffield. By magnifying them for all to see on her sculpture, Liz hopes that Bugsy can inspire others to look more closely at this wonderful miniature world that is all around us.
Photographed March 2016 Canon VI-L with Canon LTM 50mm/2.8 lens.FOMAPAN 100 rated EI=50/64 and developed in a prototype pyrogallol/4-aminophenol developer (16-3-PYRO).
well, my neighbor was supposed to come over and help me, but he didn't show up until I was about halfway finished. i had The Red Ball done and The Yellow Cube hoisted but not detached from the cord and snapped on to its holder. but it was nice to have Joe there to help me finish. i realized after he left that i still have to combine the power cords and pull them up out the way into the tree, so they don't get i the way of the mighty juggler. but that can wait until tomorrow.
my grandfather (a man whom i never met, sadly) was a civil engineer. i probably have about a tenth of his innate good-old-fashioned knowhow, but it was enough for this job. i would wake up in the mornings (i mean this literally) with a new idea about how i was going to accomplish this task: getting those heavy objects up into that tree and securing them. fortunately, my neighbor Deborah allowed me the use of her long ladder---i couldn't have managed this from the ground without going to a lot more trouble. that limb is about fourteen feet off the ground, and there were times when i was ten feet up on the ladder. that concrete looked awful hard.
you'll probably think this is silly, but I feel like I've crossed the Rubicon. I've been thinking about The Blue Juggler for at least two years now. i was going to make him last year, but the moment wasn't right. i'm glad i waited. you're probably thinking "well, he's not going to be finished by Christmas." no, I'm not. it would be nice if i could be done by New Years, but if I'm finished by January 20, that'll be good enough. if the city comes by and tells me I have to take The Juggler down, i'll tell them they have to get a court order. that'll tie em up for a few days. all I want to do is get him finished. he only has to exist for an instant.
Alea iacta est.
Photographed December 2015 Canon VT deluxe rangefinder + Canon LTM 50mm/1.8 lens.FOMAPAN 100 B&W film rated EI=100 developed in a prototype 4-aminophenol / pyrogallol developer : Queen Street Cardiff.
If I had the money and the knowhow, I would buy this old truck and restore it. He just has a great face.
In the Early 1970's the renown 7 1/4" gauge locomotive engineer 'Roger Marsh' of Minimum Gauge Railways designed a basic 0-4-0 steam locomotive known as 'Romulus'.
The intention was for anyone with a workshop, a Myford ML7 lathe and a modicum of engineering knowhow could build the basic locomotive and finish it with individual differences. The concept proved successful as there are numerous variants built and some have spread all over the world.
My father fitted the profile and purchased the first kit of parts publicly available from A.J. Reeves of Marston Green in Birmingham. The locomotive slowly took shape to basic completion but a problem with the paint finish saw the progress die, fading into a collection of rusting parts that sat in the corner of the garage.
Dad sadly passed away, so I thought it would be a nice tribute for my mother to see the locomotive completed and named in her honour. We commenced completing the locomotive back in 2016 employing the services of several contractors only for the project again to grind to a halt due to poor workmanship and a legal case over a defective boiler.
Every time the locomotive was returned it had a little bit more work done, some things good some things not so good and always a few bits of the original build missing.
The final engineer has made a superb job of re-assembling the parts, rectifying many of the previous wrongs, adding new components and finishing it to a very high standard, but sadly completion came to late for my mother to see.
I hope they both would be happy with the finished result.
Following a test steaming and proving run this was the first time I had got to fire the locomotive and give it a run around the City of Oxford Society of Model Engineers delightful track, the Cutteslowe Park Miniature Railway, Oxford.
This is the start of a new adventure for the locomotive and me, where next?
© Anthony Haynes - All rights reserved, please do not use this image without my explicit permission.
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T.P. Niven's fleet no. 147 - "Galloway Cadet", a May 2012 registered Renault Premium 460 pictured on 26th November 2015 at Aldclune heading southwards on the A9 hauling a curtainsided semi-trailer of DSG Retail Limited - (Currys, PC World, Knowhow group of companies).
In view of an impending snowstorm, I am reposting this photo in anticipation of spring!!
This is a revision, originally uploaded about 10 months ago. Many of my early photos were processed on a laptop that was too blue and undersaturated, problems that were not fixed with callibration. Hence, those photos had a yellow cast because of my compensating for the blue and I unwittingly oversaturated them. Better software, more knowhow and, especially, a monitor made for photo editing, courtesy of a good friend and fellow Flickrite, thank you Peeblespair ! has inspired me to reprocess some of my older photos.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.