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Here are my contributions to the collection of photos taken from Homer Watson Park this fall. I arrived a few minutes before sunrise on Monday. The sky was clear but there wasn't as much mist as I had hoped, but it was a beautiful morning in spite of it. Not surprisingly I ran into several GRIPS members there as well :-)
Jaya Bachchan was presented with the “Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to Cinema spanning over three decades at the 12th London Asian Film Festival.
Friday 5th March – Park Lane Sheraton Hotel, Piccadilly Circus
[20:00] Gala Dinner
Zamindar Family of Teota
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Zamindar Family of Teota' was one of the large landholders based in Teota of manikganj district. Founded by one Panchanan Chaudhuri, born (c. 1740) into the Dasgupta family of Shaitghar-Teota in western Manikganj, the 'Sankars' (the family middle name) were a relatively progressive, enlightened and unostentatious zamindar family. A number of its members made notable contributions to public life at all Bengal level.
The Teota zamindari comprised a number of estates spread out in the districts of Dhaka, Faridpur and Pabna, and Dinajpur along with some small properties in Rangpur and Burdwan. In 1914, the Dinajpur properties alone were valued at over Rs 11 lakhs. The estate paid over Rs. 60,000 in annual government revenue, and was managed by educated and trained officials. It would also appear that this estate was comparatively generous towards its employees ' among other things, it paid a 'dearness allowance', and took care of the medical expenses and 'living costs' of its staff. The head office/ manager's office was at Teota, and the estate was broadly divided into a few circles, each having a number of kachharis under it. The Teota zamindari remained undivided for almost a hundred and fifty years. By 1920, however, it had been amicably partitioned into the eight anna Teota Joy Sankar Estate, and other smaller shares. The zamindari ended with the abolition of zamindari system, and the acquisition of the estates by the government, under the provisions of the EAST BENGAL STATE ACQUISITION AND TENANCY ACT of 1950.
Panchanan Chaudhuri, the founder of the family, began his 'career' away from home, in Dinajpur. His earliest investments, it seems, had been in the tobacco trade, in which he flourished. With the profits earned from his lucrative business, he soon started to invest in land when a land market was created under the operation of the Permanent Settlement. He acquired his earliest properties in the Dinajpur region. Some time later, he returned to his ancestral village, and established himself as the first zamindar of Teota. A devout vaisnab, it was also during his time that 'Sridhar' came to be the 'family-god', Panchanan being the first 'sebaiyat'. He lived till ninety-three, and saw in his own lifetime the zamindari maturing into one of the largest in Eastern Bengal.
Very little is known about Panchanan Chaudhuri's only son, Kali Sankar, who died very young, in his early thirties, but left behind two sons ' Joy Sankar and Tarini Sankar (born, 1800s-1810s). Both of them were brought up to be 'traditional' aristocrats (of the 'Nawabi Bengal' mould), the younger Tarini Sankar having even been sent to Murshidabad for his education. However, he did not have a long life, and died in his thirties, and was survived by Shyama Sankar (later RAJA SHYAMA SANKAR RAY BAHADUR of Teota) and Pran Sankar.
Joy Sankar considerably augmented the inherited properties. He undertook such welfare activities as the digging of ponds and the construction of roads, besides generously maintaining the 'atithi-sala' (guest house) at Teota set up by his grandfather. He, however, decided to renounce his family and his worldly possessions, and left for Puri ' one of the best destinations for a practising vaisnab ' leaving his two minor sons (Parbati Sankar and Hara Sankar) under the care of their mother and grandmother. It was there that he died shortly afterwards (c 1860). His sons later built a 'dharamsala' in his memory at Gaya (in Bihar), and also made the necessary initial arrangements for a 'math' to be founded at the site of his cremation in Puri.
The next generation of the family saw a marked shift towards the metropolis. Although the (first) Calcutta residence of the family had been built at 50, Darmahutta Street (now Maharshi Debendra Road) in the Pathuriaghata area in the 1820s, it was only from the sixties that male members of the family began to live in the city for extended periods. The ladies of the family left the village much later, in the 1880s or 1890s, when a new, more sprawling residence was built at 44, European Asylum Lane. That apart, the family also had a number of residential houses elsewhere. The Teota rajbari in Benaras (there were two, in fact) have been immortalised by BIBHUTIBHUSHAN BANDYOPADHYAY's novel, and subsequently by the SATYAJIT RAY film, 'Aparajita'.
The eldest among the four cousins of this generation, Shyama Sankar Roy, was a noted philanthropist, an enterprising landlord who made numerous attempts at improvements and innovations in agriculture, and a Theosophist. He was conferred the personal title of 'Raja' in the 1877s. RAI PARBATI SANKAR CHAUDHURI was also an 'imaginative' zamindar. Among other things, he introduced the system of co-operative grain banks (dharmagola) within the zamindari, and was one of the founders of the INDIAN INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. Hara Sankar Ray, who was a Presidency College graduate and had a degree in law, was an honourary magistrate (of Teota). The next generation saw yet another shift, with many of the cousins being sent to British universities for their first degrees and legal training at the Inns of Court, although only one of them, Dr Kumar Sankar Ray, turned out to be a 'professional' in later life. KS Ray, a non-practising barrister and a philanthropist, was prominently involved in Congress electoral politics and represented Bengal (along with a few others) at the Council of States in New Delhi in the 1930s and 40s. The best-known names in the generation were however: the politician, KIRON SANKAR ROY, and KUMUD SANKAR RAY (Dr KS Ray), the medical luminary and Swarajya-Congress leader.
The family seat was at Teota ' an expansive complex, close to the bank of Jamuna, comprising a maze of courtyards and buildings, the earliest ones dating from the early nineteenth century, and the most recent from the early 1900s. The remarkable Navaratna adjoining the rajbati, built in honour of the family god and used during the 'Dol' festival, is among the tallest and most elegant ones of its kind. The 'High/ Entrance School' in the village, called Teota Academy, founded by the Teota Zamindar Family in the 1880s was ' apart from the town school ' for a long time the only one in Manikganj sub-division, now a district. The school also had a 'boarding' for resident scholars, and its students used to stay at the 'Bahir-bari' of the Calcutta residence of the Sankars when appearing for the University matriculation and other examinations. Besides this, there was a 'pathsala' and a charitable dispensary maintained by the estate. Also, Teota was one of the very few places in the district having a sitting honorary magistrate and a 'bench'.
The big structures of the zamindar family still survive though abandoned and left uncared since 1957. These are now occupied by squatters. Structurally, the magnificent Teota buildings carry the spirit and technique of the blends of Mughal and European architecture. [R Roy]'
Contribution to Instruction #4 for the Street Photography Now Project: "Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture" - Michael Wolf
Taken in Ottawa, 25 October 2010.
My first contribution to Stop, Collaborate and Listen, a group where someone posts an image and members submit a creative crop and edit.
The original image is here
I chose to crop tight, pull the subjects out into two edit layers, and extricate the background. I used a watercolor paint tool in Photoshop (not the native one - one I found on the internet somewhere) on the background. I then used Nik Color Efex 3.0 to pull up the contrast and punch up the saturation on the background water and grass. This eliminated the water color smudgy look.
Next, I selected the first of the extracted images with the human subjects, and created a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. I pulled down the Saturation about 1/8th and increased the Lightness about 1/8th. I then selected the top copy layer and chose "Dissolve". I then pulled down the opacity about 1/3 and selected all three of the edits on the human subjects and joined them with Ctrl-E. I then copied that with Ctrl-J, and applied a Soft Focus filter and pulled down the opacity about 1/3, and joined the layers.
The eyes were harder. There were no catchlights, and they started out a bit dark in the original and got worse as I edited. After I was done playing with the foreground and background coloration and contrast, I added catchlights to the eyes, softened them with the blur tool at 1%. I then used Nik Viveza to increase the brightness and saturation of each eye individually.
I added a Blur Vignette and touched up a couple of areas that I wasn't happy with.
The whole thing took about 45 minutes, and was interrupted a few times by kids and commitments. There are a few more things I would have done, but I ran out of time.
Comments and critiques are most welcome. I am open to suggestions and hints for improving my editing skills.
Tom
My contribution to the bibi-gump meme, rediculing Bibi Netanyahu's photo-op from the welcome ceremony for the released Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit.
This one is paying homage to a classic Israeli childrens book called "Va'yehi Erev" (ויהי ערב).
More of this meme here:
& you can join by using the PNG I made:
From the official program;
Veterans Day is an opportunity to publicly commemorate the contributions of living veterans. Armistice Day officially received its name in America in 1926 through a congressional resolution. It became a national holiday 12 years later by similar congressional action.
If W.W.II had been "the war to end all wars" Nov. 11 might still be called Armistice Day. Realizing that peace was equally preserved by veterans of W.W.II and Korea, Congress decided to make the day an occasion to honor all those who have served America. In 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming Nov. 11 as Veterans Day.
A law passed in 1968 changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that Nov. 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observation to its traditional date.
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This is a photograph from the SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon which was held in Dublin City, Ireland on Monday October 27th 2014 at 09:00. This is the 35th year of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, which is run through the historic Georgian streets of Dublin, Ireland's largest and capital city. This photograph was taken in Dublin City Center opposite the Four Courts. This was at approximately the 3 mile point.
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Contributions by Rotary Club of Pataskala, Rotary Club of Whitehall Bexley, Rotary Club of Grove City, Rotary Club of Delaware - ALL FROM DISTRICT 6690, Rotary Club of Nagpur from District 3030, The Rotary Foundation and Magan Sanghralaya, Wardha
Contributions by Rotary Club of Pataskala, Rotary Club of Whitehall Bexley, Rotary Club of Grove City, Rotary Club of Delaware - ALL FROM DISTRICT 6690, Rotary Club of Nagpur from District 3030, The Rotary Foundation and Magan Sanghralaya, Wardha
1954 or should this be 1964?
Any contributions to the Bapco Photographic and Film Archive will be gratefully accepted, please contact the Public Relations Department on pr_department@bapco.net so we can safely archive any old Bahrain film or images.
1re contribution au marabout avec Nolwenn Glevarec
www.flickr.com/photos/glevarecnolwenn/sets/72157622781315...
Ambassador Betty King participated in a panel sponsored by the UN in Geneva to discuss the recently released papers “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” and “How Relevant is the Development UN?” Both papers were authored by the Future of the United Nations Development System (FUNDS) project of the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York. The paper “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” presents a comprehensive outline of how the UN development system will need to change and adapt to new realities, particularly in the context of structural and financing reforms. The paper suggests that all stakeholders in the UN development system will need to seek new ways of thinking that will lead to new paradigms or models in both areas. In her comments at the event, Ambassador King highlighted that the UN is both “indispensable” and “imperfect.” At its best, the UN can help prevent conflict, care for the needy, prevent deadly diseases, smooth the channels of global commerce, and promote values that we hold dear. She commended the authors of the study for their neat and concise divisions of the challenges the UN faces: 1) decentralization and rivalry, 2) ineffectiveness and irrelevance and 3) vested interests and lack of political will. She said that the world had evolved since the creation of the UN, yet despite our multi-polar world and a fast moving information age, much of the UN, especially the nuts and bolts of running it, is stuck around 1950.
U.S. Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers
This is my contribution to Giant Robot's Biennale 3 held at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Sept 22, 2012. Artists were given a Giant Robot vinyl toy along with a Kaiju Uglydoll to customize in any fashion. Drawing upon my affinity for Japanese super robot toys, I decided to pay homage to the characters that I grew up loving so much.
Made with epoxy, polymer clay, metal, plastic, foam and found materials.
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Outstanding Contribution to Victim Services Group Award recipients: Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force
Over 1,300 personnel from all three armed services, veterans and cadets made the 2019 National Armed Forces Day parade in Salisbury the largest one to date. Originally conceived as Veterans Day, the name of the event was changed in 2009 to National Armed Forces Day to celebrate the contributions of both past and present members of the British Armed Forces. Taking place on the last Saturday of June, the parade is one aspect of a whole weekend where the national lead event is hosted by a different town or city each year around the UK.
The national event was held from 28 to 30 June 2019 in Salisbury and hosted by Wiltshire Council and its council leader Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE.
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne reviewed the parade on 29 June 2019 of more than 1,300 service personnel, cadets and veterans and took the salute on the dais in front of the Guildhall, accompanied by the Mayor of the City of Salisbury John Walsh, as the procession went by. The parade was preceded by a fly past by the Red Arrows at 10 am. The parade was led by a detachment from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, followed by bands and marching contingents from the three armed services, veterans and cadets and finished with the British Army units which hold the Freedom of the City of Salisbury.
The order of the procession was as follows:
Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Royal Navy drawn from ships across the Fleet
Corps of Royal Marines
King’s Royal Hussars
Royal Tank Regiment
Coyote Tactical Support Vehicle
22 Engineer Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers
Front loader vehicle
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, with troops from Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
Army Air Corps
Royal Logistics Corps
Heavy haulage tractor unit
Royal Army Medical Corps
Army ambulance
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Towing truck
Adjutant General’s Corps
1st Military Working Dog Regiment, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Intelligence Corps
Royal Army Physical Training Corps
Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment
Queen’s Colour Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment
Royal Air Force drawn from squadrons across the UK
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioners
Royal British Legion Standard Bearers
Veterans
War Widows’ Association
Sea Cadet Corps and Royal Marines Cadets
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles, Bugles and Drums
Air Training Corps
Community Police Cadets
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire engine
Regiments having the Freedom of the City of Salisbury:
Band of the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Military Police, Adjutant General’s Corps
Military Police car
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Band and Bugles of the Rifles
5th Battalion, The Rifles
Warrior tracked armoured vehicle
Paramedic
Police car
Royal Air Force Police
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, senior military officers and civic dignitaries also watched the parade.
Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt said: “On Armed Forces Day we celebrate the exceptional contribution service personnel, regular or reservist, veterans and their families make to our security and prosperity. The Armed Forces protect us and defend us around the world and serve communities throughout our country. With more than 300 events taking place across the UK, it’s incredible to see people coming together to show their support for the Armed Forces.”
The national event provided an opportunity to welcome the troops returning from Germany to Wiltshire, as one-quarter of the British regular army will be based in the county by 2020.
The Armed Forces and Salisbury have a close and historic relationship and the national event gave the people of Salisbury the chance to thank the Armed Forces for their tireless support towards the city’s recovery following the Novichok poison attacks in 2018.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE, leader of Wiltshire Council, said: “Wiltshire is the beating heart of the Armed Forces and we are extremely proud of our long association with the military. The Armed Forces Day National Event is a unique opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the specialist military teams, the emergency services and the other organisations that managed the incident and the subsequent clean-up that has helped south Wiltshire to return to normal.”
Untitled by Sean Conway 09
Sean’s contribution to the dialogue is a mainly purple diptych. Sean wrote: ‘Jean’s work of her travel/photos around India inspired me to echo my long journey as an artist. My work takes me back to the early 60’s, when I first began to see work by artists like Klee, Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delauney, Modrian, Ben Nicholson, Godfrey Miller…when these and many other artist/adventurers first began to teach me things about colour, movement and composition. This Diptych talks about some of that. There is always so much more to see, appreciate, learn from and express.’
Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Baker-Polito Administration cabinet officials recognize outstanding contributions made by Commonwealth employees at the Human Resources Division’s annual Performance Recognition Awards at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on March 30, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor's Press Office]
This Flickr is now a past contribution. I don't have the heart to delete it so I will now refer to it as before I was twenty two, because it's true, these were all done prior to my age now. Enjoy.
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
STI Contribution to Policy Making on Natural Disaster Resilience: Better STI, Better Resilience, Better Competiveness
Chile is proposing an initiative to foster a policy partnership ecosystem in APEC economies that aims to put STI-based evidence at the heart of policy and practice to improve the resilience on disaster of natural origin.
Government policy is a major factor in driving preparedness and resilience to better cope with disasters of natural origin in order to mitigate the impacts vis-à-vis domestic innovation and economic development. Governments’ policies also play a vital role in creating the conditions for a functioning ecosystem in which collaboration between science and businesses may flourish. In this project, Policy makers and stakeholders from APEC economies will identify their major challenges regarding the contribution that STI can make to the policy making process on natural disaster resilience.
This initiative is intended to contribute to the development of more resilient economies by means of supporting new research and innovation capabilities vis-à-vis the response and preparation of the people to better face the effects of the hazards of natural origin. It will analyze what policies governments have developed to support the decision-making process for natural disasters resilience based upon scientific evidence. This action will explore how to fully engage stakeholders and researchers in domestic policy-making process facing natural disasters preparedness, management and resilience.
As a contribution to the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the presidency of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Europeana wanted to highlight the relevance of digital cultural heritage to the aims of the European Union during the next multiannual framework. During this two day event in Varna on May 28-29, 62 participants from 21 countries explored this together with experts and representatives of ministries of culture across Europe and draft a vision that expresses this contribution in concrete terms. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0
Multi-Center NASA Social: Preview Orion’s First Flight Test Launch
For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event on Dec. 3 and previewed the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory & NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Pasadena, Calif.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in partnership with the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center hosted up to 40 social media followers to JPL to learn about the Southern California centers' contributions to Orion and NASA's Journey to Mars.
The program included a behind-the-scenes tour of JPL, with stops at the Mars Yard, where engineering models of our Curiosity rover are tested in a sandy Mars-like environment; and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where hardware for upcoming projects is under construction.
Guests interacted with those who design, build, test and operate the robots that precede human explorers, as well as those developing new technology, like the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), a system that will help land humans safely on Mars.
Experts from NASA Armstrong will discussed their role in testing Orion’s Launch Abort System, designed to propel the Crew Module safely from a launch pad or in-flight emergency. An Armstrong pilot gave a briefing on NASA’s Ikhana unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which served as a chase aircraft feeding live video of the Orion capsule as it made its way to splashdown on Dec. 4.
UK geomorphologists have made, and continue to make, substantial contributions to the measurement, understanding and modelling of: the forces and stresses applied to earth surface materials by gravity, moving water, air and ice; the resulting transport of those Earth surface materials; and the real time interactions between processes, sediment transport and changing morphology.
Image: Flow mixing where the sediment laden River Bermejo enters the relatively clear River Paraguay in South America. The Bermejo River which originates in the high Andes supplies over 80% of the suspended sediment to the entire La Plata basin. Where the two rivers combine there is a complex interaction - a result of differences in depths, velocities and densities.
Source: © Daniel Parsons and Jim Best
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Ceremony
Visit UCAC 8th Juneteenth Festival 2011 at
www.africanamericancontributions.com/juneteenth2011.html
Elvert Barnes Photography
Ambassador Betty King participated in a panel sponsored by the UN in Geneva to discuss the recently released papers “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” and “How Relevant is the Development UN?” Both papers were authored by the Future of the United Nations Development System (FUNDS) project of the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York. The paper “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” presents a comprehensive outline of how the UN development system will need to change and adapt to new realities, particularly in the context of structural and financing reforms. The paper suggests that all stakeholders in the UN development system will need to seek new ways of thinking that will lead to new paradigms or models in both areas. In her comments at the event, Ambassador King highlighted that the UN is both “indispensable” and “imperfect.” At its best, the UN can help prevent conflict, care for the needy, prevent deadly diseases, smooth the channels of global commerce, and promote values that we hold dear. She commended the authors of the study for their neat and concise divisions of the challenges the UN faces: 1) decentralization and rivalry, 2) ineffectiveness and irrelevance and 3) vested interests and lack of political will. She said that the world had evolved since the creation of the UN, yet despite our multi-polar world and a fast moving information age, much of the UN, especially the nuts and bolts of running it, is stuck around 1950.
U.S. Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Ceremony
Visit UCAC 8th Juneteenth Festival 2011 at
www.africanamericancontributions.com/juneteenth2011.html
Elvert Barnes Photography
Over 1,300 personnel from all three armed services, veterans and cadets made the 2019 National Armed Forces Day parade in Salisbury the largest one to date. Originally conceived as Veterans Day, the name of the event was changed in 2009 to National Armed Forces Day to celebrate the contributions of both past and present members of the British Armed Forces. Taking place on the last Saturday of June, the parade is one aspect of a whole weekend where the national lead event is hosted by a different town or city each year around the UK.
The national event was held from 28 to 30 June 2019 in Salisbury and hosted by Wiltshire Council and its council leader Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE.
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne reviewed the parade on 29 June 2019 of more than 1,300 service personnel, cadets and veterans and took the salute on the dais in front of the Guildhall, accompanied by the Mayor of the City of Salisbury John Walsh, as the procession went by. The parade was preceded by a fly past by the Red Arrows at 10 am. The parade was led by a detachment from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, followed by bands and marching contingents from the three armed services, veterans and cadets and finished with the British Army units which hold the Freedom of the City of Salisbury.
The order of the procession was as follows:
Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Royal Navy drawn from ships across the Fleet
Corps of Royal Marines
King’s Royal Hussars
Royal Tank Regiment
Coyote Tactical Support Vehicle
22 Engineer Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers
Front loader vehicle
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, with troops from Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
Army Air Corps
Royal Logistics Corps
Heavy haulage tractor unit
Royal Army Medical Corps
Army ambulance
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Towing truck
Adjutant General’s Corps
1st Military Working Dog Regiment, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Intelligence Corps
Royal Army Physical Training Corps
Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment
Queen’s Colour Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment
Royal Air Force drawn from squadrons across the UK
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioners
Royal British Legion Standard Bearers
Veterans
War Widows’ Association
Sea Cadet Corps and Royal Marines Cadets
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles, Bugles and Drums
Air Training Corps
Community Police Cadets
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire engine
Regiments having the Freedom of the City of Salisbury:
Band of the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Military Police, Adjutant General’s Corps
Military Police car
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Band and Bugles of the Rifles
5th Battalion, The Rifles
Warrior tracked armoured vehicle
Paramedic
Police car
Royal Air Force Police
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, senior military officers and civic dignitaries also watched the parade.
Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt said: “On Armed Forces Day we celebrate the exceptional contribution service personnel, regular or reservist, veterans and their families make to our security and prosperity. The Armed Forces protect us and defend us around the world and serve communities throughout our country. With more than 300 events taking place across the UK, it’s incredible to see people coming together to show their support for the Armed Forces.”
The national event provided an opportunity to welcome the troops returning from Germany to Wiltshire, as one-quarter of the British regular army will be based in the county by 2020.
The Armed Forces and Salisbury have a close and historic relationship and the national event gave the people of Salisbury the chance to thank the Armed Forces for their tireless support towards the city’s recovery following the Novichok poison attacks in 2018.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE, leader of Wiltshire Council, said: “Wiltshire is the beating heart of the Armed Forces and we are extremely proud of our long association with the military. The Armed Forces Day National Event is a unique opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the specialist military teams, the emergency services and the other organisations that managed the incident and the subsequent clean-up that has helped south Wiltshire to return to normal.”
Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 08/07/13 - National Moth Night contribution
David, Roger and myself made another effort to trap at Gadesprings again, for my contribution to National Moth Night (as I wouldn't be running a trap in my garden until Sunday night)
The weather was perfect, cloudy and mild with just a hint of breeze. Luckily we had almost finished packing up at about 2am before the rain started.
We set up 2 traps from the mains and a further 3 traps about 200 metres along the canal/watercress beds. Two of the traps were placed right next to large outcrops of Butterbur, in the vain attempt to see whether we could get a Butterbur Moth....that never happened! Although we did get a few interesting species at the end of the night.
Olive was a good record. My only records are below
Hatfield Broad Oak 21/07/2008
Hatfield Broad Oak 22/07/2008
Canvey Wick SSSI 08/07/2010
Interestingly all my previous records are from Essex, so this is my first Hertfordshire specimen.
Other moths of note were a Dioryctria, possbly abietella due to its plainess and size (I have set the specimen for further identification), Ypsolopha sequella which I haven't seen for awhile now, and a possible Elachista gleichenella, which to my knowledge is extinct in Herts now. I unfortunately let it go after a few photos which I am kicking myself for doing. It does look spot on for this species and has many more markings than atricomella, alpinella and the rest of the confusion species.
Numbers below are approximate
08/07/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 22w Actinic + 26w Blacklight Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.00pm until 1.30am
124 Species in total
63 Macro Moths & 61 Micro Moths
Macro Moths
1x Beautiful Hook-tip
1x Bright-line Brown-eye
2x Brimstone Moth
5x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Clay
2x Cloaked Minor
3x Common Carpet
1x Common Emerald
2x Common Footman
4x Common Rustic
1x Common Wave
1x Common Wainscot
1x Copper Underwing
1x Coronet
10x Dark Arches
15x Dingy Footman
10x Double Lobed
1x Double Square-spot
10x Dun-bar
1x Fern
5x Flame Shoulder
1x Heart & Dart
2x July Highflyer
1x Knot Grass
3x Large Yellow Underwing
8x Least Yellow Underwing
15x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
5x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1x Lunar-spotted Pinion
3x Maple Pug
1x Nut-tree Tussock
1x Olive
4x Orange Swift
1x Pale Mottled Willow
2x Pale Prominent
1x Poplar Hawk-moth
2x Red Twin-spot Carpet
4x Riband Wave
1x Rosy Rustic
12x Ruby Tiger
1x Sallow Kitten
1x Scorched Carpet
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
5x Silver-Y
1x Single-dotted Wave
2x Small Fan-footed Wave
2x Small Phoenix
1x Small Rivulet
1x Smoky Wainscot
5x Snout
1x Southern Wainscot
1x Square-spot Rustic
2x Straw Dot
1x Tawny Speckled Pug
1x Toadflax Pug
4x Tree-lichen Beauty
2x Uncertain
2x V-pug
5x White-spotted Pug
5x Willow Beauty
2x Wormwood Pug
8x Yellow Shell
1x Yellow-barred Brindle
Micro Moths
2x Acentria ephemerella
1x Acleris emargana
2x Acleris forsskaleana
1x Acleris variegana
2x Agapeta hamana
10x Agriphila straminella
5x Agriphila tristella
2x Aleimma loeflingiana
2x Apotomis lineana
2x Argyresthia bonnetella
1x Bactra lancealana
1x Batia unitella
2x Blastobasis adustella
1x Brachmia blandella
1x Calamotropha paludella
1x Caloptilia alchimiella
2x Cameraria ohridella
4x Carcina quercana
2x Cataclysta lemnata
2x Celypha lacunana
1x Chrysoteuchia culmella
4x Clepsis spectrana
1x Cnephasia sp
2x Coleophora sp
2x Dipleurina lacustrata
1x Dioryctria abietella (pending)
5x Elachista canapennella
1x Elachista gleichenella (pending)
5x Elachista maculicerusella
1x Emmelina monodactyla
1x Epiblema uddmanniana
5x Epinotia nisella
1x Epinotia ramella
1x Eucosma cana
2x Eudemis profundana
1x Eudonia mercurella
1x Eudonia pallida
2x Euzophera pinguis
1x Gypsonoma dealbana
1x Hedya salicella
2x Helcystogramma rufescens
4x Limnaecia phragmitella
2x Mompha epilobiella
1x Monochroa palustrella
1x Orthopygia glaucinalis
2x Pandemis cerasana
1x Pandemis corylana
5x Pandemis heparana
1x Parornix sp
2x Phycita roborella
50+ Pleuroptya ruralis
3x Plutella xylostella
1x Prays ruficeps
2x Pterophorus pentadactyla
1x Pyrausta aurata
1x Rhopobota naevana
2x Spilonota ocellana
4x Trachycera advenella
1x Udea prunalis
2x Yponomeuta evonymella
1x Ypsolopha sequella
To honor the contribution and dedication of the late Dr Robert Carsky, who served as Agronomist at the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) until his tragic death in 2004 in Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire, an annual award in his memory has been set up by the Center. The Award function was held at the end of the Board meeting of the Africa Rice Center in March 2010. Mrs Rebecca Khelseau-Carsky handed over the Award for 2009 to Mr Justin Belemkoabga from Côte d’Ivoire for GSS. (Photo credit : R.Raman, AfricaRice)