Bull Elk near Yellowstone National Park

This is a photograph from the start third annual running of the Renault Mullingar Half Marathon which was held on Friday 17th March 2017 St. Patrick's Day Lá Fhéile Pádraig 2017 in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland at 10:30. Following on from the incredible success of the first two years of the race this year the total numbers participating rose from just under 600 in 2015, 900 in 2016 to over 1200 in this year 2017. As was the case last year the nominated charity was Childline. The roots of the successs of the event last year was the perfect running weather, excellent organisation and a very flat and fast route. All of these characteristics were repeated this year.

Last year's weather was not repeated. Indeed the race could be described as a race of two halves in terms of weather. The first half participants had the strong, fresh westerly wind on their backs. However, turning for home along the Royal Canal this became a very strong headwind for 3 - 4 miles. Participants travelled from all over Ireland with a very large participation from runners around Mullingar and the midlands. The race has an AAI permit. The race's early start time was to facilitate the annual St. Patrick's Day parade which brings a large number of local visitors to the town on an annual basis. Parking is free in Mullingar town for the entire day. A small change to the course configuration seen the race cross the M4 Motorway at The Downs via a winding pedestrian footbridge.

The race began on Pearse Street/Austin Friar's Street in the town and proceeds North East out of the town to the N52 Delvin/Dundalk road towards Lough Sheever. The course then follows beautiful rural country roads out to The Downs at the M4. The only significant hill or rise on the course occurs here at about 7 miles when runners cross a pedestrian footbridge over the M4 near Junction 14 Thomas Flynn and Sons The Downs. The race then joins the now local access route of the old N4 road and then joins the Royal Canal at Great Down. The remainder of the race follows the Royal Canal back westward to Mullingar town. The towpath on the Canal is perfectly flat and in excellent condition. Runners will notice how the level of the canal changes dramatically along the route - at points the canal is level with the towpath. In other places the canal is at least 3 meters lower than the canal path. However the path is perfectly flat and firm the whole way. The course then leaves the Royal Canal at the Ardmore Road/Millmount area of the town and finishes in the Mullingar Town Park on Austin Friar's Street beside the Annebrook Hotel which is the Race Headquarters. The park provides a very nice setting for the finish of the race and runners and their families can mix and congregate around the finish area and the hotel.

Timing and event management was provided by http://www.myrunresults.com/. Their website is here [www.myrunresults.com/] and will contain the results to today's race.

Our Full Set of photographs from today's race is at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157679566202191

FIELD TESTER：Mr.KINUGAWA(フィールドテスター衣川氏)

ROD：PLAISIR ANSWER PA-B80SOPMOD(プレジールアンサーソップモッド)

REEL：RYOGA SHRAPNEL（改）(リョウガ シュラプネル)

LINE：PE4号＋leader40lb（PE4号＋リーダー40ポンド）

LURE：CD9/Rapala（カウントダウン9）

One young man had answered a riddle asked by the sphinx in an old Egyptian legend; therefore all Egyptians and travelers were saved from the sphinx’s magic.

This was also known by the pharaoh however, many Egyptians still very afraid of the sphinx who could no longer use it’s magic.

As the pharaoh’s will, his body shall be placed inside a pyramid after death so to live eternally ever after. To secure the pharaoh’s tomb, a giant sphinx was built to scare away thieves and evils.

This origami art work of mine is a desert with the sphinx and a pyramid, plus a little sarcophagus inside the pyramid

Created by Saga Chan

Folded by Saga Chan

Folded with one 70 x 70 cm Sandwich paper

Do you want both in Paris? (Putin asked journalists during pogroms in Paris.)

Yes. Да (Russian)

Question and answer pamphlet for prospective new buyers.

I asked Link if he was hungry and he came running.

About two dozen McMinnville High School engineering students toured the South Yamhill River Bridge Replacement Project in McMinnville this spring for a real-life look at some of the things they’d learned in class.

This project replaces the 1951 South Yamhill River Bridge on a busy route into and out of McMinnville. The new bridge will be 48 feet wide, compared to the old bridge at 35 feet, and it will better accommodate large trucks, bicycles and pedestrians.

Construction began in 2021, and we expect to finish the project by the end of 2024

The front panel is now unscrewed and the loudspeaker removed from it to completely free the panel

Even at the peak of performing, us sporting types have to sometimes answer the call of nature. This is one time when you've really got to watch out for midges...

These family photographs were taken by Nicholson Museum curator William J Woodhouse in Australia, primarily in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Can you help us catalogue the Woodhouse photographic archive? Contribute by adding tags and answering the following questions in the comments below:

•What do you see? Write a brief description for this image.

•Where was this photograph taken?

•Can you find the geo co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) of this exact place? Let us know by linking to the google maps or add the co-ordinates in your comment.

•Do you know what year this photograph was taken?

About the archive:

The Nicholson Museum holds over 1800 glass-plate negatives taken by Woodhouse while in Greece in 1890s and early 1900s. A small portion of the archive also includes photographs of his family in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The collection documents important archaeological sites, significant landscapes of the Greek mainland, contemporary buildings and the people he met along the way. His archive is a rich resource capturing many sites pre-archaeological excavation and before modern industrial development. Some of the photographs were published by Woodhouse in his book 'Aetolia: its geography, topography, and antiquities' published in 1897. His desire to capture Greece on 'film', was simply put in his introduction: "History only attains its full value by borrowing actuality from geography and topography". The archive shows his love not only for the sites but also for the people and spirit of Greece.

About the project:

We are asking you to contribute to our documentation of this collection and assist us with the identification of the hundreds of different monuments and places in Greece. The title of each photograph will include the museum registration number (NM2007.##.##) and may already include a place name where museum staff or Woodhouse himself have titled the image.

All of our flikr contributors will be acknowledged when the collection is published through our online collections at the completion of the project.

Thank YOU Heavenly Father

for all the blessings

Maraming Salamat

Sa inyong lahat

Who prayed for me

To GOD be the Glory!

First light in a little lane, Mendocino, California

Lesson Seventy-Three

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed.

A brave and calm man will always preserve life.

Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

Some things are not favored by heaven. Who knows why?

Even the sage is unsure of this.

The Tao of heaven does not strive, and yet it overcomes.

It does not speak, and yet is answered.

It does not ask, yet is supplied with all its needs.

It seems at ease, and yet it follows a plan.

Heaven's net casts wide.

Though its meshes are coarse, nothing slips through.

The Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tse

6th C, B.C.E.

Hanuman returned to Rama and delivered the good news, along with Sita's ring. Rama wanted to go to Lanka immediately, and soon he went to the shore of the ocean along with the whole monkey army. Upon reaching the ocean they came across the problem of how to cross it to Lanka. Rama meditated on the shore and prayed to the ocean god for help. Finally he got an answer. The army were to build a bridge to Lanka made from rocks, but instead of sinking to the bottom they would float on the surface, as long as Rama's name was written on each rock. Thus the monkey army built the bridge of floating rocks and crossed the sea to Lanka.

The other day somebody was asking me how I deal with bears in my job, and what type of gun I carry in the bush. Since I'm packing this morning for another months worth of fun in NE BC, I thought I'd answer with a photo. I do not carry a gun while I am working. Not only do I think it's a bad idea, it's also simply too much to carry, and on many jobs, we are prohibited from having firearms anyway. When there are bears and guns in the same area, bears end up getting shot. I can think of too many times when if I had been carrying a gun, I would have shot a bear during a negative encounter that ended up with both parties walking away without any real physical contact. Because of the nature of our work, I often have to break the first rule of working in bear country, which is, "Let the bear know you are there". Bear bells, yelling, singing, clapping hands etc, are the best ways for people to avoid negative run ins with bears. I often don't have that luxury because I am supposed to be observing other wildlife, and this requires stealth. Thus, bird biologists tend to have far more negative encounters with bears than most folks who work in the bush, because we tend to bump into them at close quarters far more often. So, you have to be ready to deal with them, and the photo above shows what I carry to do that. From the left;

Banger Pen and various cartridges: Basically it's a piece of metal the size of a felt pen with a spring inside, a sliding "trigger" on the side, and threads on the end where a cartridge can be screwed on or off. The cartridges either just explode like a very loud firecracker, or shoot up to 100 meters away before exploding. Some whistle very loud as they fly. Others are just extremely bright flares. We carry these loaded and ready to go, and we use them fairly frequently. I will often carry many more cartridges than what is shown here. There are areas in the NW part of BC where I have had to fire these over 30 times in a single season. Bears generally disappear after the first shot, but I have seen bears that completely ignore them. Once a black bear that was exhibiting predatory behavior followed us for several kms, and when we stopped he began circling us, and ended up charging us six times. Each time it charged, we fired another banger and it would back off a meter or two. On the last charge two bangers went off in it's face, and it left. Again, had I been carrying a gun.......

I also carry two cans of bear spray. Why two? Well, it's the policy of the company I work for, and I have heard stories of somebody really needing one of these in a pinch, and one can being unpressurized for some reason. That would, to put it mildly, suck. I have never had to deploy this stuff on bears, but it's been close a time or two. I did have to spray a pack of half wild dogs on a reserve one time. It works really well, and completely incapacitates anything that gets it in their face, without doing any permanent damage.

The last line of defense is the big knife. Again, I've never had to use it, but it's there in case. I have heard quite a few stories where an enraged charging bear got a quick poke on the nose from a knife, hiking pole, or rock hammer, and it ran off the other way bawling. This is the hope anyway. This particular knife also comes in handy for clearing heli-pads of willows and alders, and that seems to be it's main function most of the time.

Affiliate Program Questions And Answers

The night viper leader and his men want answers! Soon they will know everything there is to know about Zartan. But this high security system is not easy to crack another ten minutes and they will have what they came for!

A little reminder. One inlet and one exhaust valve from RPE 504 X, aka "Rupert", the 1981/2 BMW 323i mk1 that I owned for about a year. Foolishly bought from a shady trader in London who lied to me about all sorts of stuff. I drove it home from London safely enough, went out from home for a play with my new toy later on, and the first time I went over 4500rpm the cambelt snapped, as a result of having been soaked in engine oil from from a leaking seal for ages... valves argued with pistons, etc...

So I kept one bent inlet and one bent exhaust valve, and mounted them on a small piece of oak, and had a small brass plaque engraved...

Don't just look - THINK!

A lesson I will not readily forget.

“Good transit plans include buses and a mix of above- and below-ground rail,” says Olivia. (Photo by Dean Goodwin)

The pinch roller plate is removed by undoing the 2 shouldered screws. These go into nylon-locked nuts fixed to the main chassis, and have to be adjusted when the machine is reassembled to allow the plate to slide freely

ROD: PLAISIR ANSWER PA-B80SOPMOD

REEL: SALTIGA BJ 200SHL

LINE: PE#4+Shockleader40lb

LURE: LUCKY13

LURE: A.C.minniw　

LURE: SHINE GLIDER

This is the cassette deck used to record incoming message. It is actually much the same mechanism as was used in Fergusson tape recorders of the same period -- not surprising as both brands were owned by Thorn (TCE).

The PCB on top of this deck is the bias/erase oscillator.

Also visible are the top side of the motor housing (above the PCB), the heads, tape drive components and the main volume control (above the operating keys).

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Ticket gate pass

Rs.100

26th Ju;y 2016

Conception de Tuem

More details here

joegoauk-tiatr.blogspot.in/2016/07/tiatr-answer-by-concep...

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It is a simple question. I got the answer I was expecting.

The drive belt is slipped off and the take up drive pulley lifted off its bearing

Leica M2

Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II

Ferrania P30

Adox Silvermax Developer (1+29)

11 min 20°C

Scan from negative film

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:10 King James Version

role.bandcamp.com/album/el-v-vett

So I removed the PCB from the chassis and took the heatsink off.

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What is it? (Keep reading!)

After a year and a half has gone by ... I realized I never gave the answer. Life happened (I had brain aneurysm surgery!). The suspense is now over.

It's a metal band that is wrapped around a telephone pole.

This photograph was taken by Nicholson Museum curator William J Woodhouse in Greece between 1890 and 1935.

Can you help us catalogue the Woodhouse photographic archive? Contribute by adding tags and answering the following questions in the comments below:

•What do you see? Write a brief description for this image.

•Where was this photograph taken?

•Can you find the geo co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) of this exact place? Let us know by linking to the google maps or add the co-ordinates in your comment.

•Do you know what year this photograph was taken?

About the archive:

The Nicholson Museum holds over 1800 glass-plate negatives taken by Woodhouse while in Greece in 1890s and early 1900s. A small portion of the archive also includes photographs of his family in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The collection documents important archaeological sites, significant landscapes of the Greek mainland, contemporary buildings and the people he met along the way. His archive is a rich resource capturing many sites pre-archaeological excavation and before modern industrial development. Some of the photographs were published by Woodhouse in his book 'Aetolia: its geography, topography, and antiquities' published in 1897. His desire to capture Greece on 'film', was simply put in his introduction: "History only attains its full value by borrowing actuality from geography and topography". The archive shows his love not only for the sites but also for the people and spirit of Greece.

About the project:

We are asking you to contribute to our documentation of this collection and assist us with the identification of the hundreds of different monuments and places in Greece. The title of each photograph will include the museum registration number (NM2007.##.##) and may already include a place name where museum staff or Woodhouse himself have titled the image.

All of our flikr contributors will be acknowledged when the collection is published through our online collections at the completion of the project.

Photo courtesy of: 2009 Jay Madden, www.paranoidnervosa.com

Both head plates were then removed from the chassis for cleaning

What happens when a very talented designer answers the phone? A very pleasant and helpful conversation of course.