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Taken at Palolem beach. Palolem is in south goa and hence it is less visited by people. it was strongly suggested to me by Anoop and I cant thank him enough for it.
I spent one day at calangut and one day at palolem. Palolem somehow felt much more fun to me. may be because this time of the year its not the peak season in Goa and Calangut is lot less happening that it is in December. Palolem is quite a shallow beach. in fact there is no clear boundary of when does the sea ends and when the beach starts. so we could walk quite far into the sea.
This photo is taken from palolem beach resort. it is an awesome place. We can just sit there, order drinks and seafood (they make absolutely lovely seafood) and whenever feel like, step down into the sea. I wish I had a home nearby, I can just settle here.
The older version of this pic that i uploaded was too noisy, so deleted it. got this new one with lot less noise.
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Soldiers from Task Force Alpha, California Army National Guard, remove a burnt tree stump to extinguish a fire Aug. 9 near the mountains of Wildcat Butte, Humboldt County, California, during the Humboldt Lightning Fire. In less than two weeks, the Humboldt Lightning Fire scorched 4,700 acres. (U.S. Army National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. Eddie Siguenza)
Pigweed flea beetles are pretty, but somewhat less than desirable, since they kind of eat leaves, and my flowers kind of need leaves. I didn't try to kill them, though; they didn't do really significant damage, and I won't use insecticides because if it'll kill undesirable insects, it's probably not great for desirable ones. The Backyard Bug Bistro was created specifically for my little friends; I don't want to cause them any harm.
Der Gesundheitstag 2017 der PLUS stand unter dem Motto "less-stress@work".
In der NaWi konnten sich die Besucherinnen und Besucher über ihre Gesundheit, interne Kraftquellen, Stressbewältigung und ihren persönlichen Fitnessstand informieren.
Daneben waren der Nordic Walking Aktiv Treff, das Schaukochen und die Vorträge gut besuchte Programmpunkte.
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Dundalk overwhelm Bangor in All Ireland Final
by Roger Corbett
Bangor’s amazing run in the All Ireland Junior Cup came to an abrupt end when they were comprehensively beaten by Dundalk, eventually losing by 55-5.
Where do you start when trying to relate and absorb the events of Saturday’s final at Chambers Park? Firstly, congratulations to worthy winners Dundalk who nullified the Bangor attack, then went on to produce some stunning plays which racked up no less than 8 tries, each by a different player. For Bangor’s part, they were unable to respond to the intensity of Dundalk’s game, and lacked the cutting edge which their opponents used to great effect.
The day started full of promise, as the strong support from North Down made their way to Chambers Park in Portadown, knowing Bangor would be fielding their best team. Once again, the pundits had Bangor as the underdogs – just as they had done so in the previous three rounds! In confounding the experts earlier, Bangor produced some awesome performances against top quality opposition to get to the final. Dundalk had produced some convincing wins in the early rounds of the competition, but had struggled to get past CIYMS in the semi-final, just managing to squeeze ahead at the second time of asking. However, with a number of key players returning to the side in time for this game, they were now back at full strength and would be a formidable force to contend with.
Having won the toss, captain Jamie Clegg elected to play into the stiff wind in the first half. For the first 5 minutes, Bangor doggedly retained possession and tried to play their way into Dundalk’s half through a series of determined forward moves. However, little ground was made and, when possession was finally lost, the Dundalk back line produced a burst that simply cut through the Bangor defence resulting in an easy touch down under Bangor’s posts for a 7-0 lead.
Bangor stuck to their plan and slowly, but patiently, got their attack moving forward, eventually winning a penalty to the left of Dundalk’s posts, but Mark Widdowson’s kick into the wind drifted just wide of the mark.
The contrast in play between the two teams was becoming clear, with Bangor trying to keep the ball close while Dundalk were throwing it wide. The latter strategy was proving to be the more effective as, with 20 minutes gone, a quick back line move with players looping around resulted in an overlap on the right wing which gave a clear run in to again, score under the posts. A further 9 minutes later, they did it again and, although the Bangor defence had sensed the danger and moved across to cover it, their tackling let them down allowing Dundalk to get over in the right hand corner, taking their lead to 19-0.
By now, Bangor were trying to hang on until half time when they could regroup and come out with the wind at their backs. Dundalk, on the other hand were anxious to press home their advantage and give them a more comfortable lead. To Bangor’s credit, although camped on their own line for lengthy spells, they dug in and managed to hold on until the referee’s half time whistle.
As the teams reappeared from the dressing rooms, it was obvious Bangor were ringing the changes, particularly in the backs. With the wind advantage having lessened considerably, Bangor got the second half underway. It was now Dundalk’s turn to adopt the slow, steady approach, just as Bangor had done earlier. However, their more confident off-loading and support play was, once again, taking play deep into Bangor’s territory. Frustration at not being able to gain possession and take play out of their danger area eventually resulted in a yellow card for Clegg after a succession of penalties. Dundalk kicked the penalty to touch, won their lineout and drove for the line. Although initially held up by the Bangor defence, Dundalk’s repeated drives were eventually rewarded with another converted score, extending their lead to 26-0.
From the touchline, the Bangor faithful had felt that if their players had managed to score first in the second half, they may have been able to mount a fight-back and close the gap to their opponents. As it was, this Dundalk score simply bolstered their confidence and pushed Bangor deeper into trouble. With Bangor still a man down, Dundalk added to the score with a penalty and then another score in the corner. Everything was now working for the Leinster men, as even the difficult touchline conversion into the biting wind successfully split the posts, bringing the score to 36-0.
As the game entered the final quarter, and with Dundalk all but holding the cup, Bangor were now on the ropes. By contrast, the Dundalk players were in almost total control, and were not going to slow down now. In a 10 minute spell, they ran in a further 3 tries, making the scoreline 55-0. By now, any sense of dejection the Bangor supporters may have been feeling was now moved to feelings of sympathy for their players. However, pride was at stake and once again Bangor rallied as the game entered its final minutes. At last, the forwards got within striking distance of the Dundalk line and, although their repeated attacks were repelled, they finally managed to do what their opponents had done so effectively, and quickly passed the ball wide to Davy Charles. Even though they were 55 points ahead, the Dundalk defence made Charles work hard to drive through the tackles and score Bangor’s consolation try, bringing the final score to 55-5.
From Bangor’s point of view, the final score doesn’t tell the whole story of this competition. While the final may have resulted in a sad anti-climax for Bangor, the remarkable journey to get there will be remembered for some time. On the day, Dundalk were by far the better side, and Bangor would have to concede that their game was not up to the usual standard. However, there is no doubt the experience of competing at this level is something to relish and the goal now will be to secure a top four place in the league and try again next year.
Everybody at the club has nothing but the highest respect and praise for what has been achieved this year by not just the 1sts, but all the senior teams, and one poor result isn’t going to change that – the welcome at Upritchard Park for the returning players is testament to that. With that in mind, the players now need to put this disappointment behind them and provide the best possible response against a struggling Portadown side at home in the league next Saturday.
Bangor side: J Leary, A Jackson, P Whyte, F Black, G Irvine, R Latimer, J Clegg, C Stewart, R Armstrong, K Rosson, D Charles, M Aspley, M Weir, M Widdowson, C Morgan
Subs: S Irvine, O McIlmurray, D Kelly, M Rodgers, C Harper, D Fusco, M Thompson
Bangor scores: D Charles (1T)
Dundalk Storm To Title Dundalk 55 v Bangor 5 from KnockOn.ie
Dundalk Scorers: Christopher Scully, Owen McNally, Jonathan Williams, John Smyth, Ultan Murphy, Tiernan Gonnelly, James McConnon and Stephen Murphy 1 try each. Ultan Murphy 6 cons, 1 pen.
Bangor Scorers: David Charles 1 try.
In front of a big crowd at Chambers Park on Saturday afternoon Dundalk delivered a stunning and ruthless display to see off the challenge of Bangor and capture the All Ireland Junior Cup title for the very first time.
Three first half tries had them firmly in control at 19-0 ahead having played with the elements at the Portadown venue during the first half and while the wind dropped somewhat after half time the Dundalk intensity most certainly didn’t as they cut loose scoring five more tries.
Dundalk returned to a heroes welcome at their Mill Road clubhouse on Saturday night after a display of pure brilliance throughout the afternoon.
Precision, pace and skill from the Louth men from start to finish left Bangor playing second fiddle for long periods.
Less than 90 minutes to fully cook a 16lb bird- #spatchcock
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VWS3016 Copyright © VW Selburn 2015: No need for a huge waterfall to appreciate the setting. Taken at Cadnant Gardens in Wales.
Lessing House is a historic office building in the Neustadt district. Built from 1908-09 for Carl Ebert. The architects were Albert Lindhorst for the core building and Emil Schaudt for the facade. The bay window has decorative brickwork and side windows with decorative figures. Limestone relief.
On the ground floor were stores, the upper floors were reserved for Mietkontore. The largely free allocatable floor areas were designed according to the wishes of the tenant. However, the narrow twisty layout meant technical difficulties. The technical equipment corresponded to the contemporary state with a lift and modern sanitary facilities.
I have been working on HDRs and Panoramas for the last couple of days and thought to myself that even though software and heavy processing techniques are great to play with sometimes very simple images makes your feel so good. This picture of a duck here in a frozen park is one such picture. There is some calmness in this picture that I enjoyed very much and thats why I wanted to upload it. Sometimes very less processing is actually more.
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We recently had a week’s holiday to take – Jayne’s job dictates my holidays – we went through the usual process of leaving it late and then desperately selecting a shortlist of cities where we thought the weather might be ok, after a reasonably short flight and we can fly from the north of England. Budapest was the chosen destination.
Budapest is touted as possibly the most beautiful city in Europe and we had a stream of people tell us that it was fantastic. It is. I was looking forward to getting there, no agenda other than walking, photographing the sights and trying to get off the beaten track. We certainly walked – over 70 miles – I photographed it ( I’m a bit embarrassed to say how many shots but it was a lot ) but I’m not sure we got off the beaten track as much as I wanted to.
We flew over Eastern England (and home actually – a first for us) and out over Europe. It was a late afternoon flight on a stunning day, one of the more interesting flights I’ve had. I was glued to the window watching the world go by, wondering about all of lives being played out beneath us. It was dark when we arrived. We were staying on the Buda or Castle Hill side of the city. What we didn’t know was, we were staying in one of the most prominent hotels in the city, sat on the hilltop overlooking Budapest. The Hilton sits on an historic sight and features in every photo taken of the Castle District from Pest. We had time to get out before bedtime and photograph the Matthias Church next door – floodlit – like all of the major buildings in Budapest.
Unfortunately after leaving the best weather of the year in the UK, Budapest was forecast to be a bit dull and cool – not what we wanted. There was occasional sun over the first two days but it was generally grey. Now I have to admit, I let the dullness get me down, I took photos because I wasn’t sure how the week would unfold but I was fairly sure that I was wasting my time. The photos would be disappointing and if it was sunny later we would have to revisit all of the famous landmarks again to get something that I was happy with. This is essentially what happened. The next four days were gorgeous and we did revisit, more than once all of the places that we walked to in the first two days. This meant that we didn’t have the time to go “off piste” or venture further afield as much later in the week.
The sun was rising before seven and we were staying in the best location for watching it rise. By day three I was getting up at 6.00 (5.00 our time) and getting out there with my gear. By day four I was using filters and tripod, not something I usually bother with despite always having this gear with me, and dragging it miles in my backpack. One morning I was joined by a large and noisy party of Japanese photographers, they appeared to have a model with them who danced around the walls of the Fisherman’s Bastion being photographed. Once the orange circle started to appear above the city they started clicking at the horizon like machine guns. We all got on well though and said goodbye as we headed off for breakfast – still only 7.15am.
By 8.00am everyday we were out on foot wandering along the top of Castle Hill wondering where to go that day. We tend to discover the sights as we walk on a city break, frequently discovering things as we head for a distant park or building and research it afterwards with a glass of wine. It works for us. We walked out to Heroes’ Square and beyond, returning by less well known streets. We walked along the Danube to Rákóczi Bridge a couple of times then back into Pest using a different route. Having been under the thumb of Russia for so long and considering its turbulent past there are lots of large Russian style monuments, tributes to great struggles, or the working man – very socialist and very much like Prague in a lot of respects. The Railway stations were also very similar to Prague, you could walk across the tracks and no one bothered. In the main station, now famed for the migrant crisis a few weeks previously, there was a mixture of very new and very old rolling stock from the surrounding countries, all very interesting. Considering that this station is the first thing some visitors to the city will see it is an appalling state. One side of the exterior is shored up and fenced off. This contrasts with the expensive renovation work that has been well executed in the city centre. It really is like stepping into the past when you enter the station building. It all seems to work efficiently though, unlike the UK.
Transport in Budapest is fascinating. Trams everywhere, trolley buses, ancient and new, bendybuses, again, very old and very new, the underground metro, yellow taxis in enormous numbers and of course the river and boats. This never ending eclectic mix seems to operate like clockwork with people moved around in vast numbers seamlessly. The trams looked packed at any time of day. Anyone dealing with tourists seemed to speak very good English, which is just as well as we didn’t have any grasp of Hungarian. Cost wise it was a very economical week for us in a capital city.
Once the weather (or light, to be precise) improved, I cheered up and really enjoyed Budapest. A common comment after visiting is that , although you’ve “done Budapest” you wouldn’t hesitate to go back, which isn’t always the case after a city visit. As ever, I now have a lot of work to do to produce a competent album of work. I think I will end up discarding a lot of the early days material – but then again, I’m not renowned for my discarding skills.
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Der Gesundheitstag 2017 der PLUS stand unter dem Motto "less-stress@work".
In der NaWi konnten sich die Besucherinnen und Besucher über ihre Gesundheit, interne Kraftquellen, Stressbewältigung und ihren persönlichen Fitnessstand informieren.
Daneben waren der Nordic Walking Aktiv Treff, das Schaukochen und die Vorträge gut besuchte Programmpunkte.
Bilder: Hans-Christian Gruber.
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Shame on me for not uploading for, it feels like, 2 years. I´ve been out of shots and motivation due to my thesis-work-start. Well, still don´t have any new shots, but I found this one here:
When I lived in Hong Kong for my study year I moved to a single-room in my second semester. It was the one with this lovely sea-view. As the title already says: Priceless! How happy I was to live alone, without having a Hong Kong Chinese room mate, who goes to bed at 4 a.m. at the earliest.
You can´t imagine how excited I felt....and I did not even know what to do first:
- Stay all day long in that 6 m2 room enjoying my 4 walls, enjoying the view, enjoy sleeping.....
- or go to University and study, without spending time with my new room
- or go outside, do some sports, shopping and sightseeing?
Well, hard decision.....hehehehe
Everytime I see this shot, the nice feeling of independence flows back into my heart. Ahhhhh, how nice it was. My room, myself and I. ;-)
Former site of Angelus Furniture Store, closed in 1980's. Located on Olympic in East Los Angeles. The site was redevoped into a shopping center that includes: Food 4 Less Supermarket (left side) and CVS (former Sav-on Drug Store).
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First time making an Apple Crisp, and it won't be the last. This was delicious. I'm not really a fan of apple pie because I had so much of it growing up, but I liked this because this seemed like it's less sweet cousin--the crisp. I know I've been posting A LOT of food photos lately, but it's now the halfway point in the year and my goal is to either set up a food website by the years end, or create a cookbook for my friends and family. I'm really trying to step outside the box of the things I'm familiar with and cook things I've never made because that feeling of the unknown definitely excites me in the cooking realm. Also, just found out the group challenge for one of my groups this month is food photography. It's like a sign! I'm excited about that because cuh-leer-lee I like to cook! I will freely admit most of my food shots wouldn't win any awards because mainly I'm really hungry when I take them and have on a little amount of patience to get the shots I need before I devour the dishes (this one was particularly hard because the whole house smelled like cinnamon and apples!).
My cooking background is this. My mother always said she would never have kids who didn't know how to cook, or clean, or do basic survival things on their own, so early on, probably around 11 or 12 she taught both my brother and myself how to cook. Nothing fancy, just a couple of dishes that we could prepare without cutting ourselves or burning down the house. My brother and I sort of took to it like water---my brother moreso. He was soon preparing gourmet dishes at like 14. He had a mind that allowed him to go beyond recipes to the land of creation. That creation stage didn't hit me until I was 18 and in college and SICK of eating dorm food. It was all the same greasy crap that was making me fat (Junior year, went on a major diet/exericse plan, lost 45 pounds---stupid cafe!).
I began to cook more for myself when I was visiting my parents and began to cook new things that I hadn't grown up eating and experimenting with fresh ingredients. The first time I used fresh basil and fresh cilantro in a recipe were earth shattering. The first time I made Focacia bread, there was a rip in the time space continuum.
After college I really did entertain the idea of becoming a chef but I was practically a vegetarian in those days and didn't know how I'd make it through any courses dealing with meat, and now due to the health thing, I can't eat a lot of things, so I am content with being able to create as I please, not have to worry about having to eat red meat (I now eat all meat but red), and just relax and have fun with it.
The other day I was having a conversation with my mother and we were talking about my brother's fiance who does not know how to cook, and I said, she's lucky she found my brother because he loves to cook and is a total foodie but I couldn't marry someone who doesn't know how to cook---its one of the deepest pleasures in life that I hold dear. Probably all of us have had that worst day on earth where everything went wrong but then come home to find a delicious plate of food. That terrible day somehow seemed to vanish beneath the smells of something simmering or wafting from the oven, or the sight of a freshly frosted cake---I can't imagine being denied someone giving me that pleasure or me giving them that pleasure. Food is a connection for me--to things past and present and to one another. In short, I love cooking.