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Adoooooooooooooooooooooooooro!! =oD
Acho que nasci na época errada... rs
foto tirada na lanchonete Rocket's
The pesky coot was asked politely to leave. There's always trouble down on the ponds at this time of year with the birds pairing up and there's favourite nesting spots that are fought over. The Great Crested Grebes seem to be the top dogs, then the Coots and last but not least, the Moorhen.Today in the winter sunshine it was calm out on the water and the Coot didn't put up a fight but I saw him sneaking back later when the grebe had his back turned..little tinker!
Hi all! Back and busy putting together brother's wedding album. Also doing some catchup with the yardwork. Be checking in on your photostreams soon as I can!
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
Last day of the tour and I have some catching up to do. We went on the road this weekend and this is what happened. One chubby Golding full of chain "plied on the fly" Wensleydale. One equally chubby yet much tinier Golding full of laceweight silk/seasilk blend. One Kundert with a burgeoning cop of textured alpaca/silk/angora/polwarth blend.
Mattel FARBS guys are awesome! Manufactured in 1971 by Mattel, made in Hong Kong. I just love them!
When I was a kid back in the days my friend had Hot Rodney and I had an Aurora MBT-70 tank plastic kit built up and we agreed to swap my tank to his Hot Rodney but his mother said no to the deal. I haven’t seen it since then until now. I am so glad to get one after all those years! Although mine came without the goggles – so as the Red Catchup but I will make those lost goggles later soon as I find a suitable material.
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
30370 Spring Graduation Award Ceremonies for the 2020 and 2021 cohorts. Ceremony 2 Faculty of Engineering & Design - Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. School of Management. Chancellor HRH The Earl of Wessex. Prince Edward. Honorary Graduate: Ms Juliet Davenport Orator: Marcelle McManus. Client: Gemma Noyce - Marketing and Events
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
MailArt photo catchup:
Top left - TPP: St.Patrick's Day HM PC
Top right - AMA: ST Patrick's Day MA
Bottom - TPS: Mail Art Feb.2016
I have a ton to catchup on. There are a couple of shots each of many different deer. Sooo fun to see and watch. I want to archive these Mule Deer shots...Please don't feel compelled to comment...Have been traveling and working so...I really appreciate your visits and comments!
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uploading 8 to catchup to 365. from my shoot with jessica on 6/13/2011
canon 5d mark ii
canon 50mm f1.4
The Bay Tree Café this morning, where I had a lovely cuppa and catch up with Bee and Colleen. Because Costa is closed for two weeks - how very dare it?
Info: Canon S95, 6.0mm, f/2.2, 1/30, ISO 80
In order of appearance Terry Crimston, Patty Peppin, Vince Ariotti, Peter White, Ian McGeachin, and Tom O'Mara,.
Missing:- Peter Dunn (the camerman) and Mike Hanran (left earlier)
Scanning catchup finally completed. Negatives have been gathering dust! North Yorkshire as seen by my Soviet 1950's Moskva 2 folding medium format camera monstrosity. Negs are 6x9cm scanned using xsane software in Linux. Involved DIY kitchen sink witchcraft developing shenanigans. Used Czech Fomapan B&W 100 film developed in exhausted chemicals! These are unedited scans as from 2480 Epson Scanner. Not bad for a beat up 1950's worn out camera. Will get them off my doorstop computer asap to a mobile android device for some proper editing as snapseed is for me really the only proper photo editor of any use nowadays. Everything else is so complicated!
In order of appearance Patty Peppin, Vince Ariotti, Peter White, Ian McGeachin, Tom O'Mara, Terry Crimston.
Missing:- Peter Dunn (the camerman) and Mike Hanran (left earlier)
According to this excellent Democracy Now video below, the U.S.-Africa Summit was originally scheduled for October, right after a UN meeting. But the administration pushed it back to December and held a summit with the Pacific Islands instead. That shows the U.S. priority, or lack thereof, puts on Africa. ☹️
The Chinese have been meeting with Africa every 3 years.
Even the Pacific Islands summit was an afterthought. We closed our embassy on the Solomon Islands a long time ago until they signed a security agreement with China. Our leaders have no foresight, always playing catchup.
The Democracy Now interview;
A shorter version youtube.com/shorts/IP8LrZqGZ1Q?feature=share
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281792.shtml
US should heed Africa’s needs to make strategy work
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281677.shtml
Africa needs a partner not a boss
www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142310042/africa-leaders-summit-b...
... this is only the second such summit the U.S. is hosting in the last eight years.
www.reuters.com/world/africa/how-us-plans-commit-55-billi...
How the U.S. plans to commit $55 billion to Africa over three years
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-casts-long-shadow-over...
China casts long shadow over US-Africa Leaders Summit
WASHINGTON (AP) — With dozens of African leaders descending on Washington this week, the Biden administration is offering a not-so-subtle pitch in its economic competition with China on the continent: The U.S. offers a better option to African partners.
Ahead of Tuesday’s start of the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves acknowledged that the U.S. has fallen behind as China has surged past American foreign direct investment in Africa but argued that the U.S. remains the “partner of choice” in Africa.
“We took our eye off the ball so to speak, and U.S. investors and companies are having to play catch up,” Graves said at an event hosted by the news outlet Semafor. He added, “We’re bringing the best technologies and innovations, the highest standards.... The U.S. helps to build capacity in our partner countries as opposed to exploiting those countries.”
Heads of states from 49 African nations and the African Union have been invited to take part in the summit that has been billed as an opportunity for President Joe Biden’s administration to re-engage the continent’s leaders.
The continent, whose leaders often feel they've been given short shrift by leading economies, remains crucial to global powers because of its rapidly growing population, significant natural resources, and a sizable voting bloc in the United Nations. Africa remains of great strategic importance as the U.S. recalibrates its foreign policy with greater focus on China — what the Biden administration sees as the United States' most significant economic and military adversary.
Even before the summit officially began, the White House announced Biden's support for the African Union becoming a permanent member of the Group of 20 nations and that it had appointed Johnnie Carson, a well-regarded veteran diplomat, to serve as point person for implementing initiatives that come out of the summit.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday also said that the administration would commit to spending $55 billion in Africa over the the next three years on “a wide range of sectors to tackle the core challenges of our time.”
“If you compare what the United States is committing over the next three years to what any other country is committing, I think we stack up extremely favorably,” Sullivan said.
And while the administration has tried to minimize concerns about China’s deepening presence on the continent as a driving force at this week's talks, Beijing’s shadow over the biggest international gathering in Washington since the start of the pandemic nearly three years ago looms large.
Without direct mention of China, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo on Monday sounded the alarm about petering private investment in middle- and low-income countries, particularly in Africa. The infrastructure finance gap, or money needed for essential projects like lighting homes and businesses, responding to the COVID pandemic and to making communities resilient against extreme weather, sits at $68 billion to $108 billion per year, Adeyemo said.
At the same time, Adeyemo lamented that huge amounts of private capital among the wealthy nations around the globe remains untapped.
“There is a clear disconnect between the large amount of available private sector capital and the urgent need to fund critical infrastructure projects in Africa and elsewhere. The question for us is: how do we connect this massive supply of savings with high-quality infrastructure projects in Africa?” Adeyemo said at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
Trade between the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa was $44.9 billion last year, a 22% increase from 2019. But foreign direct investment into the region fell by 5.3% to $30.31 billion in 2021. Trade between Africa and China last year surged to $254 billion last year, up about 35% as Chinese exports increased on the continent.
The Biden administration, as it addresses criticism that Africa has remained an afterthought in U.S. foreign policy, has taken veiled jabs at China.
During his visit to Nigeria last year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “too often, international infrastructure deals are opaque, coercive” and “burden countries with unmanageable debt." The language — while tough — may have been more restrained than the Trump administration's rhetoric; Vice President Mike Pence at the time accused Beijing of “debt diplomacy” in Africa and elsewhere.
China's ambassador to the U.S., Qin Gang, pushed back on Monday against the Chinese debt trap notion and made the case that China has long been "sincere" in approaching Africa as the vibrant emerging market of the future.
“We are not interested in the views of any other countries on China’s role in Africa,” Qin said at the Semafor forum.
Asked whether Biden administration officials would directly approach U.S. concerns about Chinese involvement in Africa during this week's meetings, officials bristled.
“It’s not going to be about China,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added. "It’s going to be about Africa.”
But the Pentagon has acknowledged that China’s increasing efforts to set up military bases in Africa and forge stronger economic ties across the continent fuel U.S. security concerns that will limit how much the America's military can work with countries that have growing ties to Beijing.
Officials said in the run-up to the meetings that while America can’t and won’t tell African countries to turn away from China, the administration is making it clear that allowing Chinese bases on their soil and using Chinese telecom systems could hurt U.S. military relations with them.
“We have a particular type of security and military and defense relationship ... with African partners, and that could be jeopardized if they were to have Chinese basing in their region just because of the type of exercises, the type of work, the type of collaboration and training that we do with them,” Chidi Blyden, the deputy assistant defense secretary for African affairs, told reporters last week.
Speaking at a defense forum put on by George Washington University’s Project for Media and National Security, Blyden said the use of China’s Huawei communications network “makes it hard for us to be able to work with African partners.” She said it impacts the ability of the U.S. to communicate on a “clear and secure channel.”
The comments underscore longstanding concerns among military commanders that the U.S. must not only keep pace militarily with China in the Indo-Pacific, but in other regions of the world also. Those include Africa, South America and the Middle East, where China is eyeing military and economic expansion.
U.S. officials have also expressed concerns that China is looking to establish a military base on the western coast of Africa.
“China’s Huawei network, which is very robust across the continent, makes it hard for us to be able to work with African partners who may adopt some of these systems,” she said.
Mattel FARBS guys are awesome! Manufactured in 1971 by Mattel, made in Hong Kong.
When I was a kid back in the days my friend had Hot Rodney and I had an Aurora MBT-70 tank plastic kit built up and we agreed to swap my tank to his Hot Rodney but his mother said no to the deal. I haven’t seen it since then until now. I am so glad to get one after all those years! Although mine came without the goggles – so as the Red Catchup but I will make those lost goggles later soon as I find a suitable material.