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Picking coconuts near Thap Sakae. Many Thai farm laborers completely cover themselves to protect from insects and the very intense tropical sun.
An Anna's Hummingbird at our feeding station. Caught the light right for a change which brought out the iridescence to come through.
Seen in North Morro Bay, ca.
After missing the first two days of Texans training camp before agreeing to a five-year, $14 million contract Saturday, outside linebacker Brian Cushing is eager to get on the practice field today with his new teammates.
Cushing, the first-round draft choice from Southern California, is getting $10.435 million in guaranteed money to become the starter on the strong side and help improve a defense that ranked 22nd last season, including 23rd against the run.
“I’m just relieved and excited to have this done,” Cushing said. “I’m ready to play football and help the team win.”
Cushing (6-3, 262) was in Los Angeles when agent Tom Condon reached the agreement with general manager Rick Smith and director of football administration Chris Olsen.
Cushing’s contract could be worth a maximum of $18 million over five years.
In the fifth year of his deal, there’s a clause that could earn him an additional $4 million in an escalator bonus.
Odds are that Cushing’s contract will be extended before he enters the fifth season in 2013.
Smith and Olsen will have all eight of their draft choices under contract when the Texans take the field for the third day of two-a-day drills at their Methodist Training Center.
“It’s very important to have him signed,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “Rick and Chris were up at 3 in the morning trying to get it done. They’ve done a good job.
“Brian’s two days behind now, but he didn’t miss anything we did in the offseason program, so that’s a good thing. He wanted to be here while we were working on the contract, but he couldn’t.”
Rookies who have signed with the Texans report a week early for conditioning and meetings before practicing for the first time with the veterans. Cushing wanted to report with the rookies.
He was working out at Reliant Stadium last week when the Texans had to explain league rules that forced him to leave.
Cushing took what turned out to be a quick trip back to Los Angeles. He returned to Houston on Saturday afternoon.
Texans coaches are excited to get him on the practice field.
“We’re going to put the pads on (Sunday morning), and I know he’s chomping at the bit to get out there,” Kubiak said.
After the Texans used the 15th pick in the first round on Cushing, they inserted him into the starting lineup. He impressed his coaches in the organized team activities and minicamp.
“We like his presence on the ball,” Kubiak said, meaning Cushing has a knack for finding the ball and making plays. “He’s playing over the tight end, and we’re going to ask him to do a great deal. We think he can handle it.
“Brian’s very athletic. He’s physical against the run. He can rush the passer. He can drop into coverage. We brought him here for a reason, and we’re going to put him to work real fast.”
Frank Bush, who is in his first season as defensive coordinator, has to make calls that maximize Cushing’s strengths. The faster Cushing learns, the quicker Bush plans to utilize all his talent.
“We’re going to try to take advantage of all his talent,” Bush said. “Because he’s such a talented kid, there are a lot of things we can do with him.”
The coaches say they think Cushing has everything it takes to become a star at his position.
“Brian can turn and run with the tight end,” Bush said. “He’s big and strong enough to strike them at the line of scrimmage and nullify some of their speed down the field, so we’re comfortable with him in coverage.
“His ability also gives us a chance to be aggressive toward the quarterback. He’s a big guy who’s shown he can get there.”
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The Designer
Matthew Dent, a professional graphic designer, had seen the competition advertised in one of the national newspapers and he threw himself wholeheartedly into the project. As an artist his inspiration comes from many sources and he explored a number of options before finally developing his ideas for an heraldic set. The result is a set of coins firmly rooted in the heraldic traditions of the British coinage yet beautifully contemporary.
In seeking to spread a single design across six denominations, Matthew Dent conceived an idea that has never been realised before on the British coinage. To have the £1 as the unifying coin only emerged towards the end of the design process. Matthew Dent has commented that 'the addition of the £1 coin design to the set was as a way of defining the whole series. A key coin uniting the designs'. Against all the odds, a young artist has won a public competition and devised a stunningly original series that stands as an imaginative and clever solution.
'I felt that the solution to the Royal Mint's brief lay in a united design - united in terms of theme, execution and coverage over the surface of the coins. I wondered about a theme of birds or plants, but also considered buildings and coastal scenery. The issue with this for me lay in their distribution; how to represent the whole of the United Kingdom over six coins. The idea of a landscape appealed to me; perhaps using well-known landscapes from different areas around the United Kingdom which could stretch off the edge of one coin onto another. This seemed like a good solution but I also wanted to look at other options and themes.
I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal Arms, where individually the coins could focus on specific elements and when placed together they reveal the complete Royal Arms.
I found the idea that members of the public could interact with the coins the most exciting aspect of this concept. It's easy to imagine the coins pushed around a school classroom table or fumbled around with on a bar - being pieced together as a jigsaw and just having fun with them.'
The recent partial lunar eclipse over Monticello, NY taken with a Canon 7D MKII dslr camera on a fixed tripod using a Canon 400mm f/5.6 lens.
I strangely have very little coverage along the 15 mile stretch of CSXT's ex Boston and Albany main between Palmer and Springfield, so finally decided to try out a few new (for me) spots on this gray Friday.
CSXT West Springfield based local L038 is a Mon-Fri local on duty at 1030 that handles work on the mainline as well as the Athol Industrial Track and other chores in the Springfield area. I'd never made the effort to photograph it before despite spending time hunting down nearly every other local freight job CSXT operates in New England. After running east with a healthy train, they dropped their cars on Main 1 and then made a 'big runaround' west via Main 2 between CP 92 and CP96 on the Berkshire Sub. Having pulled and spotted the Sulco Warehouse to the east they have now moved west on Main 1 and dropped their train and cut away to head into the other Sulco Warehouse just east of the Roosevelt Ave. overpass at about MP 95.1 from where this was captured.
The pair of 6200 series GP40-2s of Chessie System heritage are the standard power on all New England locals these days, but in my youth these jobs that prowled industries, yards, and branchlines were exclusively the domain of Conrail blue B23-7s.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Friday March 15, 2024
Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending it in the company of Giles McGarry and Julien Carcano and we hit the coast of Suffolk. Giles was very kind to put up with us for the weekend and drive us from location to location... thanks Giles. His wife was even kinder to cook dinner for us each night... thank you Kirsty, the food was wonderful.
The trip had been planned for a while and we kept a watchful eye on the weather the week leading up to it and it didn't look promising... clear blue skies.
We were lucky on the Saturday as we had some cloud coverage, but the Sunday was almost impossible. We decided to finish the day off at Dovercourt and the conditions for me couldn't have been better. From previous (failed) attempts I knew what I wanted, I set up and probably spent the best part of 90 minutes in the same spot shooting frame after frame to get the right light.
This shot is 3 shots stitched and obviously made in to a triptych, the pressure was on this week to get this processed, printed and to the framers in time to get it ready for my upcoming exhibition. When I picked this up tonight, I was a little nervous that there would be something in the printing that I wouldn't like, purely because I rushed it, but I am pleased to say that it looked fantastic.
If you are interested in seeing this is print, then please feel free to come along to my exhibition, the details can be found on my Facebook page (scroll down).
As for the title, I have a 2:1 and possibly a 1:1 to come.
Aperture: f/8
Exposure: 80 seconds
ISO: 200
Camera: Canon 5D MKIII
Lens: 70-200 @ 110mm
Filters: Hi-Tech 6 stop
Processing: CS6 & Silver Efex Pro
in 1966, at independence, botswana was the second poorest country in the world. perhaps that is why it was not fought over by the colonial powers. since independence, the discovery of diamonds changed the economics of the country. the government actually used diamond revenues to invest in health and education. every citizen has health care coverage, private insurances compete with the national service.
tomorrow, june 25, a major rally will be held in washington dc, by the national physician's alliance (a group that emerged out of a student organization so that physicians for whom patient advocacy was a core value, could have a voice). the us struggles to provide health coverage to all. the american medical association has once again shown its venal nature by opposing any national health plan as an option on the table.
Animal overpopulation in the East End is a major problem, slowly but surely we are getting support from the media in addressing the importance of Spay/Neuter.
The trouble with getting coverage every day for 5 weeks straight is that you end up with quite a backlog of photos to edit. I've slowly started getting around to editing my shots of Japan & this one had been in the back of my mind since I landed back in Australia.
On the Chichibu Railway, a DeKi 500 locomotive is seen crawling across the famous Arakawa River bridge working empty limestone train #7305 from the Taiheiyo Cement plant in Kumagaya to the mine in Kagemori.
After spending 3 weeks solo in Taiwan & Korea it was a welcome change to be joined by two good friends from back home (also railfans), in the process I somehow doubled up as a tour guide & a translator despite only knowing about 4 sentences in Japanese.
I didn't have much of a plan this time around, the main thing I came back for was the EF64s on the Hakubi line, anything else that was seen would be considered a bonus. Safe to say our trip got off to a very rough start. After convening in Narita we drove up to Chichibu to shoot some limestone trains, everything was looking promising with 2 spotless days forecast. Only problem was, the trains weren't running. After spending the morning hoping one would turn up we went to a few stations to ask the staff if they knew anything about the limestone trains running. Sadly they had been suspended for the weekend.
We made our way to Fuji the next day & got our EF210 fix. Next on the hitlist was the Sangi Railway, surely that would be running right? No. We spent the afternoon sat at Nyugawa waiting for something to turn up. Having seen nothing, we went to the station & the guys asked the station master if any cement trains were running. He made a few phone calls & told us that nothing was running for the next few days. Safe to say things were looking bleak.
From the next day onwards we finally started seeing results, the Hakubi line certainly didn't disappoint & when we went back to Chichibu for the second time we were pleased to find the limestone trains were running.
It was certainly a rollercoaster of a trip. With about 4000km of driving, god knows how many litres of Sake & Strong Zero's consumed, it was a fantastic time. I look forward to coming back to Japan again in the near future.
Wednesday the 26th of November 2025.
20251126 DeKI 500 7305 Arakawa River