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Arriva Kent & Surrey 3952 (GK53 AOT) heads up The Chase with a diverted 17 to Fairlands.
With the road through the university campus closed at Yorkie's Bridge for a week, services were diverting via The Chase and double running the uni as far as Austin Pearce.
3952 here had passed the Enviro in front, which itself had taken normal route, got stuck and had to turn around.
The Chase, Guildford, Surrey.
This is beyond perfect. At least, for me and the boys.
You imagine my surprise when I saw Jay and Ming.
You’re probably wondering where the other boys are. Well, I told them to stay behind and hunt other Type Ones while I took Brian, Matt, Chris, and Buck with me to find Jay.
This wasn’t about a paycheck anymore, it was about winning. Jay thought she won when she left me in the warehouse rubble. Boy, she was wrong.
Now you’re probably wondering how I got out. After Jay ran for it, some of my boys found me and pulled me out. We searched the whole grounds of the warehouse, Jay and Dale were gone.
Even Ares had disappeared. Ares was the boy who fought Jay and Dale. Ares wasn’t his real name, but the one TechOne had given him.
I only know these things because Ares tended to steal my business, and I mean literally sometimes. I hated him.
Anyway, after that me and the boys went from town to town keeping an ear out for any sign of Jay.
We had caught word of her after she and Ming did some shopping and were caught on some cameras Brian hacked into. So we headed there to the mall. Then… well… you know what happened next.
Now we’re heading to her house. She keeps saying that we’re almost there, but I don’t think she knows what almost there means.
After a long while we come across a log cabin. Jay gasps. I can see why.
Windows are shattered, the door barely hangs off the hinge, and we can see things scattered inside.
Jay races inside, “Dad? Dad!” she shouts. I look around, once inside, and see things scattered everywhere. Signs of struggle are evident.
Jay goes room to room, not that there’s that many, looking for her dad. She makes her way to us, and with a panicked look in her eyes says,
“I can’t find him anywhere. It looks like they, whoever they are, searched everything and everywhere.”
“Who do you think would do this? Do you have any enemies?” I ask her calmly. “I don’t know! We don’t have neighbors and we don’t talk to the people in town.” she stutters.
“Hmmm…” I hear Brian mutter, “Considering the fact that Ares come after you…”
“Who?” Jay interrupts. “The boy who attacked you,” I answer, she nods back.
“Anyway, if TechOne sent Ares after you, what if, TechOne did this too?” Brian finished.
Everyone pondered this for a minute. “I wouldn’t put it past them,” I hear Buck say.
Jay nods slowly. “Why don’t we grab what we think we’ll need, and head out,” I suggest.
Again Jay nods, I think she’s in shock. Together we collect food, water bottles, toiletries, and some extra clothes. I notice that Jay grabs, what looks like a notebook.
We set off back into the woods, Jay looks back every now and then, I guess to see if she can still see her house.
All around us birds chirp, twigs crack beneath our feet, and squirrels scurried up trees. All I can smell is pine needles.
That’s Michigan for you. Peaceful and quiet. I could never leave it.
Yes, it was full of bad memories, but it was home.
Anyway as we walked everyone was silent. No one dared to speak a word. I think that we all felt the tension and knew that if someone spoke the air would fill with accusations and yelling.
So, of course, Ming opened up her big mouth.
“Sooo… what have you guys been up too?”
“Probably burning down buildings,” Jay retorts.
“Actually the building had faulty wiring, so it would’ve burned down anyway. So, technically we just hurried the process.” Brian interjects.
Suddenly the unexpected happens. Ming, of all people, whips around and smacks Brian across the face.
“SHUT UP. That warehouse was my home, jerk. You destroyed it, probably killing all the kids, and my parents!” she says, tears streaming down her face.
Jay wraps her arm around Ming’s shoulders and leads her away to calm down. As they walk away Jay makes sure to give Brian a super dirty look.
I find a rock to sit on, while we wait. Brian rubs his cheek.
“Dude, seriously, you’re lucky she didn’t kill you.” I scold him.
He gives me a pointed look then says, “I was just setting her straight, ok? Listen, it was going to come up now or later, better we speak our minds now rather than later.”
I nodded knowing he was right. So, as soon as the girls came back I asked them if they had anything they didn't have to get off their chests.
Jay squeezed her lips together and then started to rant.
“About what? The fact that you’re a clod wad? Or the fact that you killed people. INNOCENT people, just so you could get paid. In fact you should have been the one to die that night, you and your boys.”
With that she grabs her bag, and walks away. Ming quickly followers her not wanting to be alone with us. We soon follow.
Once again, we’re silent. The tension has thickened, instead of fading. It seems sharing our feelings didn’t help.
I adjust my bag, and sigh.
After a long day of walking, we decided to make camp.
I start a fire while the others set up a few tents. One for me and Brian, one for Buck, Chris, and Matt, and one for the girls.
The girls made sure to set theirs up close enough to the fire to stay warm but far enough to be away from us.
The tensions so thick, not even a sword could break it.
We cooked some hot dogs, and granola bars for supper.
After supper, Buck takes first watch. The rest of us sit go to our tents.
I’m sure were all thinking the same thing: ‘This is going to be a long trip.’
The Duck Sculpture, part of the Duck Pond Interpretation Maze, is an award winning sculpture created entirely from recycled sandstone, gravel, steel and timbers.
The sculpture was designed by Jane Cavanough of Artlandish.
The Duck Pond fence was created in 1995, and was the brain-child of the then Parklands’ Landscape Architect, Gillian Smart. Her vision was to create a railing that enhanced the natural environment and retained the water views, rather than just being a barrier.
This ornamental fence has a timeless design that captures movement, rhythm and a sense of fun. The animal caricatures within the fence break out of the confines of the railing. You can see ducks, dragonflies, frogs, tortoises and eels in the design – depicting some of the flora and fauna found in the pond.
The curved lines of the railing signify the ripples of the water beyond, while the post tops are abstract water lilies based on to traditional Egyptian designs.
Centennial Park is a large public, urban park that occupies 189 hectares in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Centennial Park is located 4 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick. The Park forms part of the larger Centennial Parklands.
The government began plans for a celebratory park in 1887 and passed an Act of Parliament in the following year. Centennial Park was dedicated by Sir Henry Parkes in January 1888 to celebrate the first 100 years of European settlement in Australia and described by him as 'emphatically the people's park'. The Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun dedicated the park 'to the people of New South Wales forever'.
Centennial Park has a wide variety of wildlife that makes its home in the park or uses it frequently. The range includes pelicans, black swans, mallard ducks, Australian white ibis, cockatoo, white ducks, purple swamphens, common moorhens, geese, turtles and eels, plus European carp that were introduced into the park's ponds and are now regarded as a pest.
Newmarket races, end of race, a determined lady heads for the bookmakers, can only assume to collect her winnings, she certainly moved faster than the four horses I backed!
Stumbled onto a bicycle race in Geneva on a late Sunday afternoon in July. Very challenging to shoot. Most of my shots did not turn out
This is my winning entry in the 2013 City of Reno "Living in Reno" themed photo contest. I think this was a three-shot HDR set at ISO100 and f/8, with the longest exposure at 30 seconds to smooth out the flow of the river. Cropped from a full-frame, (nearly) circular fisheye image.
8mm f/3.5 Rokinon fisheye lens on full frame Nikon D600. Lens hood "shaved" for better coverage on full frame.
Here is the city web site with details:
Here is the Pinterest page where the entrants' works were shown.
Spotted this inside a Chuck E. Cheese. There's something about this poster that just seems... "off" to me.
Fiat 127CL (2nd Gen) (1977-81) Engine 1049cc S4 OHC 127 A.000
Registration Number CDC 240 T (Middlesborough)
The Fiat 127 is a supermini car produced by Fiat 1971-83 in three series.
Originally launched in April 1971 as a two door Saloon, with the Hatchback version following the next year, which ulimately prove the more popular option. This was Fiat's first supermini-sized hatchback, along with a state-of-the-art transverse-engine/front-wheel-drive layout, with the transmission mounted on the end of the engine, both design ideas had been fully trialled since 1964, by Fiat's Autobianchi subsidiary with the Autobianchi Primula and 1969 Autobianchi A112 and A111 The car was one of the first of the modern superminis, and won praise for its utilisation of space (80 percent of the floor space was available for passengers and luggage) as well as its road-holding. It was launched a year before the comparable Renault 5, and before the end of the 1970s most mass market European manufacturers were producing similar cars, The 127 was also one of the more popular imported cars on the UK market, peaking at more than 20,000 sales in 1978. It was also the first car fitted with an all-polypropylene bumper on steel support. The 127 was an instant success, winning the European Car of the Year award for 1972, and quickly became one of the best-selling cars in Europe for several years. It was the third Fiat in six years to receive this accolade.
The Series 2 version of the 127 debuted in May 1977, featuring a restyled front and rear, a new dashboard, larger rear side windows and the option of the base 903cc engine and a 1049cc OHC engine. The tailgate was extended and now reached nearly to the rear bumper, addressing complaints about the high lip over which luggage had to be lifted for loading into the earlier 127 hatchbacks. There was also a "high-cube" panel van version, known as the Fiorino which was based on the Series 2 bodyshell, and this remained in production until 1984, when a new Uno-based Fiorino debuted.
Late in the 127 lifespan a Series 3 version was launched in January 1982 It is distinguishable from the Series 2 by a more assertively plastic grille. with the addition of a coressponding panel at the rear, simular to the newly introduced Ritmo/Strada range. The car received a completely new dashboard design and interior, again in line with the Ritmo. The 1301 cc Fiat SOHC engine was also introduced as an option for the Series 3.
The 127 was replaced as Fiat's high volume product in this sector by the Fiat Uno in January 1983
Many thanks for a fantabulous 35,254,200 views
3hot at Seighford Airfield Car Show, near Stafford 10:05:2015 Ref 106-7
The 'Ragged Victorians - The Great Unwashed' are an award winning living history group, re-enacting the lower classes of Victorian England, c1851.
The Ragged Victorians were at the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove on April 3rd 2022 for a photo day.
Read more about lives of some of the ragged.
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An award winning beer, a strong, satisfying ale, wonderfully warming and full of complex flavours, which create an intriguing beer of great character.
This dark beer with a reddish tinge, derived from the use of coloured malts, perfectly balanced with specially formulated brewing sugars and English aromatic hops.
First introduced in 1990 as a winter warmer, Jennings Sneck Lifter has become a firm favourite in the portfolio.
In northern dialect sneck means door latch and a sneck lifter was a man’s last sixpence which enabled him to lift the latch of a pub door and buy himself a pint, hoping to meet friends there who might treat him to one or two more.
Sneck Lifter has won Bronze award in the International Cask Ale competition at the Brewing Industry International Awards 2011. It was in the class 4 for cask ale 4.9% - 6.9% ABV Receiving a Bronze at the 2005 Brewing Industry International Awards held in Munich. A gold award was received in 2009 and a bronze award in this years International Beer Challenge.
A trip back in photo library time again today. I've been looking for some photo to delete from the library to try and get my 100GB of shots down a little so that I can more easily back them up.
I noticed that I had a massive number of shots taken on various poker night with the lads, most of them are of winning hands or just drunken shot of chips stacks.
So I have trimmed them down from around 900 shots to 10.
If I remember correctly this shot is not one of my winning hands but someone else. I was probably sitting on the side lines pondering why I went all in with craps cards.
Perry painted this pumpkin and then put on these sticky face pieces. He picked out the hat and I stitched his name.
His school has a pumpkin patch. Anyone can participate and the classes get to stroll the patch of pumpkins. They also have a family night. Students eventually vote on their favorites and several are chosen as school favorites. Perry won! Even more he got the perfect prize for him... a slice of Guido's pizza!
Scott Burnworth is a former factory rider who has stayed with the bikes of his National-winning era well after "retirement." This is from a vintage MX event in SoCal in May 2014, where he won a couple of classes.
Strobist: one bare Quantum Qflash on stand camera left, triggered by PW Mini/Flex.
A last minute thing, I went to Paddy's in Ventura last night, and proceeded to win the 1st prize for best costume!
Another NER Type 2 box, Winning Signal Box protects a level crossing and junction, and controls traffic to and from Cambois, Ashington and Bedlington. Nowadays this is mainly composed of Alcan traffic, and coal traffic to Battleship Wharf, but previously it also included trains serving Blyth Power Station.
Again there is a 16 level McKenzie & Holland frame.
The tournament’s number two seed and eventual champion Angelique Kerber of Germany hits autographed tennis balls into the stands following her win in the opening round of the 2016 US Open against unseeded Polona Hercog of Slovenia in Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Corona neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.
Kerber won in two sets 6-0, 1-0 to advance to the second round following Hercog’s retirement due to illness.
Photo by Bruce Adler
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The winner, Jerry Bath and his team race in the 100 mile at the American Dog Derby held in Ashton, Idaho since 1917.
All of the winning French team posing for shots after most everybody left the velodrome. Seen here are Quentin Lafargue, Francois Pervis, Bryan Coquard, Morgan Kneisky, Gregory Bauge, Kevin Sireau & Michael d'Almeida. Day 5, 2015 World Track Cycling Championships. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
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To celebrate its 550th anniversary Magdalen College, Oxford has commissioned the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger to create his first-ever dedicated permanent artwork.
Two years in development, the sculpture Y was unveiled on St Mary Magdalen Day 2008. William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester founded Magdalen College in 1458. It is one of the best-known colleges in the University of Oxford and is known internationally for its high academic standing.
The College has many fine buildings. The Cloisters, Chapel, Founder’s Tower and Hall were built in the Gothic style in the later part of the 15th century. The Great Tower, a pictorial symbol of Oxford, is famous for the May Day event when the College choir sings an ancient hymn at dawn. The Georgian New Buildings, which blend into the College Gardens and grounds, were completed in 1733. The buildings sit amid a hundred acres of lawns, woodlands and riverside walks, which are publicly accessible, and there is a deer herd that has been in existence for over 300 years.
Addison’s Walk, named after the great essayist of the 18th century and father of English journalism, is about a mile in length and goes by the River Cherwell around a great water meadow. Beyond the end of Addison’s Walk is a tranquil field known as Bat Willow Meadow, which is where the new commission is sited. Maps of the grounds of Magdalen College are available from the Porters’ Lodge or they can be downloaded from the Magdalen website.
Over the past twenty years Mark Wallinger has established an international reputation with major solo exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Val-de-Marne, Frankfurt, Aarau, Basel, Milan, New York and Chicago.
His work encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation, and it takes art history, mythology, religion, politics, national identity and popular culture as its subject matter. Wallinger studied at Chelsea School of Art in 2001, and in Goldsmiths' College. He exhibited in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Collection in 1993 and at the Royal Academy of Art's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
His Time and relative dimensions in space derived from a residency and was shown at Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 2001 and in the same year he represented Britain in the 49th Venice Biennale. The artist is best known for Ecce Homo, a life-size sculpture of Jesus Christ which inaugurated the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, and State Britain, his 2007 re-creation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He was a Turner Prize nominee in 1995 and won the award in 2007, and he is one of five internationally acclaimed artists who have been commissioned to produce proposals for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project, which will be one of the biggest artworks in the United Kingdom.
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An old alley lost in time. Hopefully this place will bring you peace and relaxation in your busy life. Hodgepodge of Vintage, Grunge, and Geeky references.
www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/
To celebrate its 550th anniversary Magdalen College, Oxford has commissioned the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger to create his first-ever dedicated permanent artwork.
Two years in development, the sculpture Y was unveiled on St Mary Magdalen Day 2008. William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester founded Magdalen College in 1458. It is one of the best-known colleges in the University of Oxford and is known internationally for its high academic standing.
The College has many fine buildings. The Cloisters, Chapel, Founder’s Tower and Hall were built in the Gothic style in the later part of the 15th century. The Great Tower, a pictorial symbol of Oxford, is famous for the May Day event when the College choir sings an ancient hymn at dawn. The Georgian New Buildings, which blend into the College Gardens and grounds, were completed in 1733. The buildings sit amid a hundred acres of lawns, woodlands and riverside walks, which are publicly accessible, and there is a deer herd that has been in existence for over 300 years.
Addison’s Walk, named after the great essayist of the 18th century and father of English journalism, is about a mile in length and goes by the River Cherwell around a great water meadow. Beyond the end of Addison’s Walk is a tranquil field known as Bat Willow Meadow, which is where the new commission is sited. Maps of the grounds of Magdalen College are available from the Porters’ Lodge or they can be downloaded from the Magdalen website.
Over the past twenty years Mark Wallinger has established an international reputation with major solo exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Val-de-Marne, Frankfurt, Aarau, Basel, Milan, New York and Chicago.
His work encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation, and it takes art history, mythology, religion, politics, national identity and popular culture as its subject matter. Wallinger studied at Chelsea School of Art in 2001, and in Goldsmiths' College. He exhibited in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Collection in 1993 and at the Royal Academy of Art's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
His Time and relative dimensions in space derived from a residency and was shown at Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 2001 and in the same year he represented Britain in the 49th Venice Biennale. The artist is best known for Ecce Homo, a life-size sculpture of Jesus Christ which inaugurated the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, and State Britain, his 2007 re-creation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He was a Turner Prize nominee in 1995 and won the award in 2007, and he is one of five internationally acclaimed artists who have been commissioned to produce proposals for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project, which will be one of the biggest artworks in the United Kingdom.
My winning shot that got me 3rd prize in the canon photomarathon 2007. Considering that it was my first time, i'm guessing it's more of beginner's luck. Thanks to my pal, Junhao for modeling his hand and camera.
The theme was Playtime
Winning the final four matches of the dual and seven in total, the Fresno State Wrestling team defeated Oregon State, 27-13 on Thursday 31st Jan 19 at the Save Mart Center.
174: Colt Doyle (OSU) maj. dec. Dominic Kincaid (FS), 9-1
Fresno State (27) vs. Oregon State (13) Results
165: Isaiah Hokit (FS) maj. dec. Aaron Olmos (OSU), 11-3
174: Colt Doyle (OSU) maj. dec. Dominic Kincaid (FS), 9-1
184: Jackson Hemauer (FS) tech. fall Bob Coleman (OSU), 15-0
197: Josh Hokit (FS) dec. Jamarcus Grant (OSU), 12-6
285: Amar Dhesi (OSU) dec. AJ Nevills (FS), 10-4
125: Ronnie Bresser (OSU) won by fall over Robert Garcia IV (FS), 0:14
133: Gary Joint (FS) dec. Kegan Calkins (OSU), 10-3
141: Chris Deloza (FS) dec. Grant Willits (OSU), 10-7
149: Khristian Olivas (FS) dec. Josh Reyes (OSU), 8-3
157: Jacob Wright (FS) won by injury default over Hunter Willits (OSU)