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Spouse's tour with Mrs. Linda Odierno, wife of CSA General Raymond Odierno and Mrs. Jeanne Chandler, wife of SMA Ray Chandler tour sites on and off Fort Sam Houston with Mrs. Margie Ferriter, wife of LTG Mike Ferriter, commander of U.S. Army Installation Management Command. Sites included Morgan's Wonderland, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Fort Sam Houston Housing, Cole High School and Survivor Outreach Services (photo by Robert Dozier, U.S. Army Installation Management Command)
East Broad Top 16 crests the grade at McMullins Summit and starts the downgrade journey to Colgate Grove.
Roland just turned 100 days old.
"Baek-il is celebrated on the 100th day after a child’s birth. Long ago in Korea, childhood diseases were common and the survival rate for children was very low. To protect their children, parents refrained from taking the baby outdoors until the 100th day after his or her birth.
It is not until baek-il that the baby was introduced to neighbors, friends and relatives. One of the baek-il’s special events is the parents providing rice cakes, called baekseolgi, to at least 100 people. They believe this event helps to protect the child’s life. They also pray for the child’s continued good health."
Continuing in the "two-people portrait" line, this is Sebastian and Pascal at the wedding reception. This also marks the return of Simon Lebon to my stream! ;)
The tour continues.
Each day now has the same structure: Get up at about seven, breakfast at half eight, meet at the vans at half nine for the drive to the first site, stay there two hours, drive to next site, have lunch before another two hours searching, and on the drive back to the hotel, one last stop of an hour or so, go to the square for a beer, debrief at seven fifteen before going for dinner at eight.
Rinse and repeat.
Monday was the same as above. Each day the sites and butterflies are different, of course, and we never know if we will see what we hope to see at each site.
Breakfast is simple: a roll or two, yogurt, coffee, then back to the room to prepare to leave.
Unlike the previous tour, we try to rotate which bus we sit in each day, so not to create cliques, I sit in Dave's bus, though Gillian in the front seat talks all say, all day about nothing really, just to fill the silence, and is certain she is right about everything.
Again through the mountains, poor villages, and bright green lush fields before we turn down a track through a forest to come to a wide grass area, which had a small bog at the bottom, too muddy for much exploring, and anyway these early season butterflies don't frequent the bog. Our target was the Spring Ringlet.
We wander off, and despite it being warmer than the day previous, butterflies were slow to wake up, so it was an hour really before we saw any. Two tattered Iberian Scare Swallowtails delighted us all, as they fed on fresh Blackthorn blossom, and the usual suspects of Orange Tips, Provence Orange Tips, Queen of Spains all flew through.
Up on the wooded slope, news came that the Ringlets had been found, so we go off to explore, with only a couple of folks getting shots. We did find the first orchid of the trip, a tiny Early Purple growing in the shelter of a hollow.
Back down to the vans for a short drive to the lunch site, near a waterfall.
It was already very warm, so I sat on the tailgate while the others went off, however I would be rewarded with fine views of a newly emerged European Swallowtail, an Iberian Sooty Copper and a Green Underside Blue.
Which was all nice.
On the road again to the final site, a narrow country lane leading to a ravine, where in an abandoned field, we had hoped to see the rarest of the lot, a Sooty Orange Tip.
In fact the site was rich in butterflies, with many Blues, and the other Two Orange Tips, a Provencal Fritillary.
A shout went out, and news that a Sooty Orange Tip had been seen, and indeed it had. The flighty butterfly was speeding round the field with half the group in pursuit, it likes only Hoary Mustard to feed on, and it did pause twice, but I wasn't fast enough to get shots. It flew off and was last seen disappearing into the afternoon haze.
FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Members of the original 281st Assault Helicopter Company "Intruders," stand with their namesakes; G Company, 2nd Assault Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade "Intruders." When G Co. was formed, leaders looked to the past to find an appropriate name for the new company, and discovered the 281st performed a very similar mission during the Vietnam War. These Vietnam veterans were invited to 2-10's organizational day, giving the Intruders, both young and old, a chance to meet.
On Feb 6, 2019, Continuing Education instructors and staff got together for a day of learning and development.
101019-N-1531D-082 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
The little Contax Tix continues to surprise and delight. Let's be honest, APS film was a terrible idea. However, the Carl Zeiss lens on this camera (Sonnar 2.8/28 T*) was the best ever put onto an APS camera.
This camera is really useful for travel photography and candid snaps - particularly when you're travelling light; and you know what? Often, that type of photography is cool too.
I have a stash of APS film in my freezer:
Kodak Advantix 200 (EI100)
Fuji Nexia A200 (EI125)
Agfa APS Star 200 (EI100)
Agfa APS Star 400 (EI100)
I get all my films developed and scanned in Gunn's Cameras, 16 Wexford St., Dublin 2 for €9.50 each - a bargain.
Superb service; expert staff.
I use Aperture on my Mac to tweak the scans; extra definition, saturation and vibrancy, extra shadow brightening and a little cropping of highlights/contrast where necessary.
Yes, APS is a terrible format, but my goodness is it convenient, and I don't mind the time spent in post.
101022-N-4153W-092, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 22 2010) US Navy and United States Public Health Service Doctors visit with locals in Skeldon, Guyana, October 22, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)
Continued painting this over winter break, this shows it with light coming from behind it so the transparent bits allow you to see through it. Some more tweaking and developing and I will be ready to call it finished.
November 27, 2012-Rochester-Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Continues Statewide Economic Development Council Progress Tour in Finger Lakes. Governor tours sites to see progress of Finger Lakes Region Projects.
As we head out of Tracy Arm Fjord the water is almost like glass. The views of the clouds and mountains are amazing and cant be adequately described in pictures or words. Once out of the fjord we will continue to Juneau, arriving in a few hours. Tracy Arm Fjord was probably my favorite destination on this whole trip.
81 kW Photovoltaic system, 25% of building electricity, carbon reduction = 90 tons/year. Photo credit: Rachel Stone
Here, Brandon comes along for the ride, if you catch my meaning. Steve, meanwhile, is dressed like some bizarre hybrid of Richard Simmons and Joey Buttafuoco.
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The people refuse to succumb, and continue their struuulel.
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value' but also because of unofficial state-censorship which is preventing the media from depleting the brutal realities ofYesterday, the joint para-military operation in Lalgarh has completed a month. The news .
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no longer flashes in national media much, not just because the corporate media thinks this news has lost its 'market .
f India the para-military operation as well as the bold fight back by the people who simply refuse to succumb even to this Here is .
ha~ging on old people, wo~en and children, ransacking their houses, urinating and onaliry However, the atrocious state repression is going on unbridled: The para-military Is 'cleansing' area after area. .
extreme terror. Such is the nature of 'democracy' as defined and designed by the Buddhas and the Chidambarams. .
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Burning down houses,. bru~ally them to rell~f camps~ F?rcmg peopl; to shift mto 'relief' camps is an old model of state adding excreta and po1son 1n the1r dnnking water. They have stnpped around 70-80 women na!<ed in the pretext of check norbid.
. have burnt ?o~n people:s pou~tries and crops an~ are arresting people randomly. They are .
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gone back to VIllages. Many of them took refuge 1n the camps run by the People's Committee Against police Atrocitiesrepression. Destroy the1r livelihoods, and g1ve them relief'---Haven t we seen that already in Kashmir, Chhattisgarh the .
(PCPA) and other organisations. One pregnant woman, Parvati Kishku refused to take help from the government even .
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inc1dents of be~tlng people up 1n the relief camps.were also reported. Many people have emptied the relief camps and klcss.
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after the BOO himself intervened. She preferred to give birth to her child in the relief camp of PCPA. But still hund(eds of .
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people are also kept forcefully in the government relief camps in pathetic conditions. They run short of food space and .
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n! As the people refuse to co-o~erate wi.th ~he state to h~nd over the Maoists, the state is taking help of .
The state is .\lking help of American and Israeli intelligence agencies to obtain satellite pictures of the area medical facilities and the people holed up there live with utmost difficulty. .
he bigger war-experts US and Israel to help them w1th satellite 1ma9es! Such 1s the desperation of the Indian state. The self-orld .
!herunder oper... fk Schools have been closed down to turn them into army camps: Replicating the Chhattisgarh model, 14 Schools of 10proclaimed 'anti-US/Israel' pseudo-Left CPM has no problems at all with this military aid from these agencies. 10 .
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Midnapore, Lalgarh, Jhargram, Shalboni, Goaltore areas have been closed down and they have been turned into army .
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camps. More than 15,000 students are being affected by this. Even hostels have been vacated to make space for the .
conversion of their school building into a makeshift police camp. They were beaten up mercilessly with lathis and rifle llU police and para-military. One week back, the students of Binpur high 3chool staged a protest in front of the school against on the other hand have given a week's time to the police to clear their schools, failing which they will resist more 'h .
vibrantly this forceful occupation of school building. The health center of Katapahari which was completely dysfunctional butts. The police decla1ed unambiguously that these students will be arrested if they dared to protest again. The students .
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Ground zero is a no-entry zone for civil bodies: Not only media, but nobody is allowed to go inside the Lalgarh and .f before but was run by the PCPA successfully in the last eight months has been turned into a police camp as well. .
adjacent areas. The first team of Calcutta-based intellectuals and human rights activists went inside Lalgarh. They met .
but they were not stopped. After coming back once they became vocal about state atrocities, they were implicated with the people and even spoke to Chhatradhar Mahato the leader of PCPA. Their cars were repeatedly checked by the police .
the Midnapore town itself which is out of the area under Section-144 and were stopped from going inside. And the same .
charge of breaking section 144 was put on them. A third team consisting of Medha Patekar, Anuradha Talwar, Sujato the charge of breaking Section-144. After that an all India seven member team of civil right activists were restricted in .
Bhadra and others were stopped once again on the highway. The state was less tolerant this time and one of the team .
members, reputed film maker Gopal Menon was beaten up mercilessly with rifle buts. He had to be hospitalized with .
fractures and Internal injuries. Some journalists, espedally photographers were beaten up on the same day. Later a team of Amnesty International was stopped as well from gong inside ·Lalgarh. The operation must take place In silence. In isolation. without the knowledge of common people, These restrictions however are not applicable for the CPM goons who came from outside in a big numbers to hold motorcycle rallies right inside Shalboni and Goaltore. On being pressed by the media, the Home secretary of West Bengal shamelessly prodaimed that is 'outside the 144 zone' and so there was .
The people however are refusing to give up: The army is 'recapturing and sanitising' village after village but with no no question of taking action against them! The state indeed decides the boursdaries of law! .
braving police attacks. In a number of occasions the CRPF has open fired on such processions but yet the strugglet!'as .
people in it. The activities of the committee have not reduced in the mean time. They have heJd processions, meetings .
Jyly and to the surprise of the state it was completely successful. All government and private offices, schools, colleges, not stopped. The PCPA had called for a strike jo the three distrh.:ts of West Medinipur. Bankura and Pudia on the 8 of .
communication etc were stopped. They have declared another strike for 72 hours from the 19 July in the three .
this, state is refusing to see the justness ofthe peoples' movement of Lalgarh. And recognize the power of the people... .
districts. The state said people are terrorized by the Maoists and therefore they were forced to go on strike. By doing .
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We continue our way down US 65 with the sun now high enough in the sky to start enjoying and photographing the local rural scenery.
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As we continued our exploration of the Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas, we crossed from the Solarium into the outer lobby area of the Vitality at Sea spa. Located on Deck 11, several peacock relief panels by Kevin Fazackerley adorned the areas between the forward elevator/stairwell lobby and the spa's outer lobbies on either side of the ship. I thought these tied in nicely with the elephant-themed Solarium, continuing the exotic, India-inspired vibe.
A few details from the informational placard accompanying these panels:
Design for Relief Panels
Kevin Fazackerley
Manufactured by Novidis Architectural Moldings
Reproduced in warm terracotta stone, these stylized peacock forms act as architectural decoration. The variety of textures creates a space that the panels invite the viewer to touch.
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Staff Sergeant Cedric Woodyard, Infantryman, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discusses future employment opportunities with Sgt. 1st Class Cindy Kirksey, Army Reserve Career Counselor, Army Reserve Careers Division, and Staff Sgt. Derek Hood, Army Reserve Recruiter, Army Recruiting Station 6436, during a Job Fair at the Elkhorn Conference Center on Fort Carson, March 13, 2012.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Andrew Ingram, 4th Inf. Div. PAO)
The mystery continues about who made these images. There are three prevalent themes, humans, turtles, and flowers. This image appears to be a human figure on the back of something, possible a turtle.
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Vanna White is a sweet 2-year-old Pit Bull mix. She was transferred to Lollypop Farm from another shelter. Vanna can be very shy at first, but once she gets to know you she loves to snuggle and give kisses. Our Behavior Department worked with her to help build her confidence with new people. She is going to need a family who is committed to continuing her training using positive reinforcement techniques. She would do best in an active home where she can have lots of room to run and get in her daily training sessions. We have no history of Vanna living with another dog, but preferred to avoid our helper dogs here in the shelter. Vanna would do best in a home without young children. If you are looking for a sweet, chocolate beauty that will shower you with lots of kisses, come meet Vanna, she may be just the girl you're looking for.
A new dawn for Task Force ODIN.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Lieutenant Colonel Jon Tussing, commander, Task Force ODIN VI, calls on the new task force Soldiers to continue where their outgoing counterparts of Task Force ODIN V left off, during a Transfer of Authority ceremony at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, June 14, 2011. The Soldiers of Task Force ODIN provide intelligence and reconnaissance assistance to Soldiers of U.S. Division – North, with a focus on neutralizing the threat of improvised explosive devices.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)
continuing 1st Cycle Iceland Gull 20140209 American Veterans Memorial Pier Brooklyn
101022-N-4153W-107, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 22 2010) US Navy and United States Public Health Service Doctors visit with locals in Skeldon, Guyana, October 22, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)