Defibrillator

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A modern use for the Traditional British Phone Box.

Waddington Village, Lancashire, UK.

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Some of you might recall my photo of the out of order defibrillator at the end of my lane that I uploaded back in June (photo in the first comment box or click here

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Well guess what - it got fixed! I walked past the other day & did a double take. Things don't generally get fixed very quickly in Ireland. So I felt obliged to upload a new photo & slid it a little for Sliders Sunday HSS & HGGT!

New in Northampton but I guess these might become more common on our high streets. Some old geezer with a camera seems to have got in the way of my picture…

A novel use for an old telephone box in the village of Aust, near the original Severn Bridge.

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Yay! That's my second 365 completed, and I'm happy it's over, wondering why I did it (again) and swearing to myself I'm never doing that again!

I do remember the "why", actually: I wanted to try to give my moribund photography life a defibrillator jolt and get myself out of the funk I found myself in. Did it work? To an extent, yes. I do want to take photos again, but just not what I've been shooting to date. I need to find something new, And I think it will be predominately film-based. I feel that the ease of phones, and digital generally, is both a blessing and a curse. I want to stress this is ME talking and I'm not saying this is the case for everyone, but to me, it (phone/digital) makes things just too easy, too much of a siren song leading you to wreck and sink in a sea of lazy habits, and repetitive photography. Shit, there were days I didn't even get out if the car to shoot something, I got so lazy! I recently bought a 4 x 5 camera; let's see me shoot that sucker out of the car window!!

I'm taking a break now (and starting a new job tomorrow that won't leave me as much freedom to shoot), but I'll be back when I feel I have something more to say. Thanks to all who checked in, I appreciate it greatly and I'm sorry that I didn't get to look around at other fickr friends photography as I'd have liked.

Today's story and sketch "by me", this afternoon I am at the Playa Beautimus Retirement Resort visiting JB and Rescue Randy. This weekend Randy the most interesting living tissue crash test dummy in the Cosmos, is the guest first responder celebrity speaker, and will be giving CPR demonstrations at the Playa Beautimus Recreation Center for senior citizens, Randy is an expert at "Ventricular Fibrillation" having his own heart countershocked to revive him hundreds of times before the Martian Reanimation Doctors at "UCSB" installed a Two Hundred Fifty Volt internal unit next to Randy's twenty four pound heart. Randy's Martian heart, sorry to say will have to be a story for another time. Randy will be demonstrating the correct use of the defibrillators that are standard equipment in every retirement unit sold to senior residents at Playa Beautimus, which there are many seniors, some of the Beaked Beings from the Aves Constellation are very senior, some are over three hundred years old, but are very active, like Gweedo a Beaked Puffler from the Planet Helliki you see who bought a helicopter from JB's used chopper sales of Havasu City just minutes ago, and was just landing on his roof to impress his wife Drogena, who thought he had gone to play a few games of shuffleboard. And as you can see the landing was a bit rough, and tonight's conversation during dinner should be interesting, until next time taa ta the Rod Blog.

Grade II listed historic telephone kiosk designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Now has a defibrillator as written on the top.

"Barnwell (formerly Barnwell All Saints and Barnwell St Andrew) is a village in the district of East Northamptonshire in England, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Oundle, 78 miles (126 km) north of London (via the A1 road) and 14 miles (22.5 km) south-west of Peterborough. The River Nene runs north of the village separating it from Oundle." - info from Wikipedia.

Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.

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For when you have trouble deep sea diving !

I can see how one might be needed in there.

Balboa Park, San Diego, California.

This iconic red telephone box has a defibrillator and it also had a fair selection of second hand books. My Sister in law managed to find a book she was looking for.

There is no telephone inside as you would expect.

Travis's memory comes back in flashes creating lucid moments which cut into his generally hilarious childlike behavior like knives. His memory is selective, sporadic and sometimes overwhelming. His progress is remarkable and even baffling. No more tubes. He's only on fluids and monitors tonight for surgery tomorrow morning. They are putting in a defibrillator. He totally doesn't understand.

With the advent of mobile phones the humble telephone box has all but ceased to be used for its original purpose, however given a policy of non removal many of these boxes have now becoming a feature in their locality and have found an alternative use. I passed one the other day that housed a defibrillator and like the one here there are now a good number that are used as rural book exchanges. This particular one is sited in a local village at East Hardwick.

The earliest telephone boxes appeared in Britain in 1921 as the K1 design. Development moved on at pace and by 1925 the iconic K6 design, as seen here had been introduced.

For a while I did think about acquiring one of these boxes but the originals are pricey and weigh in at three quarters of a ton so they are particularly awkward to handle. That plan has now been discarded and attention has moved to the idea of acquiring a small post box.

DÉFIBRILATEUR CARDIAQUE INSTALLÉ EN PLEINE RUE SUR UN TROTTOIR DISPONIBLE POUR CHAQUE CITOYEN EN CAS D'URGENCE.

Ce dispositif est en place depuis de nombreux mois, contrôlé régulièrement par des professionnels de la santé et respecté par tous les passants.

A HEART DEFIBRILLATOR INSTALLED IN THE STREET ON A PAVEMENT IS AVAILABLE TO EVERY CITIZEN IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.

This device has been in place for many months, regularly checked by health professionals and respected by all passers-by.

Defibrillator, Potter Street, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.

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Ripponden

I have never seen this area so quiet, normally on a sunny day like today the pub would be packed with people sat both inside and out, but Covid 19 has put a halt to normal life. The tables are all stacked up, the water in the dog bowl which is put out fresh every day remains untouched, the menu on the wall unread and the car park deserted.

The inn has stood on this site and has been in constant use as such since 1307. The Packhorse Bridge, which used to be called Waterloo Bridge, was a later addition built in the 1700’s, it spans the River Ryburn. Prior to that there was a ford which crossed the river, it was part of the main trade route between York and Chester. In the background is St. Bartholomew’s Church, which has been rebuilt 4 times since the first construction in the 1400’s. Next to the stainless steel dog bowl you can also see the village stocks, no longer in use, but there are times we all wish they were.

There have been a few modern additions to the pub, a burglar alarm, a defibrillator just out of site on the exterior wall by the tables, electricity etc etc, but the interior is very much still in keeping with its past. When it is open it is also home to the Pork Pie Appreciation Society.

Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

New Street ~ Birmingham

... a Jacques Mayol, che nuota tra i delfini …

dédiée à Jacques Mayol … nager avec les dauphins ...

Le Grand Bleu è un film del 1988 diretto da Luc Besson.

È stato il film di apertura del Festival di Cannes 1988 ed ha avuto un grande successo di pubblico in Francia. In Italia invece la pellicola è uscita solo nel 2002, presentata prima all'Europa Cinema festival e poi distribuita nelle sale dal 27 settembre 2002; la circolazione italiana del film è rimasta bloccata per quattordici anni in seguito a una causa intentata da Enzo Maiorca riconosciutosi nel personaggio dell'apneista italiano Enzo Molinari, interpretato da Jean Reno.

La storia è articolata in tre periodi scanditi dal cambio di numerose ambientazioni.

Dapprima siamo in Grecia, dove il francese Jacques Mayol e l'italiano Enzo Molinari, giovanissimi apneisti, si affrontano in una gara in cui occorre recuperare una moneta dal fondo del mare; presto il padre del giovane Mayol muore durante una battuta di pesca e di lui resta solo il richiamo controvento del figlio che rimane inascoltato.

L'azione si sposta in Sicilia dove Enzo, dopo aver salvato un disperso in mare, dichiara di voler sfidare Jacques ai campionati mondiali di apnea di Taormina. Questi si trova invece in Perù, presso il Lago del diavolo, alle prese con delle esercitazioni di resistenza sotto i ghiacci; qui incontra Johanna Baker, americana di New York, inviata sul posto dalla sua assicurazione. Johanna rimane subito affascinata da Jacques che, prima di partire, le regala un piccolo delfino. Tornata a New York, Johanna non riesce a distogliere i suoi pensieri da Jacques. Viene quindi a sapere che si trova a Taormina e, con una scusa, riesce a raggiungerlo. Nel frattempo Jacques ha accettato l'invito di Enzo in Italia per i mondiali di apnea: in tre giorni il record mondiale viene battuto per tre volte: prima da un apneista di Tahiti, poi da Enzo e infine da Jacques. Durante queste giornate, Jacques e Johanna iniziano una relazione che porta la ragazza a seguire il francese in Costa Azzurra. A suo modo, piano piano, Jacques lascia che la donna entri nel suo mondo, un pianeta popolato di delfini e silenzio, di movimenti lenti e misurati, di pazienza e devozione, di rispetto per le acque.

Enzo e Jacques si ritrovano in Grecia per una nuova gara: questa volta la sfida è molto rischiosa, i giudici intuiscono il pericolo e consigliano ai partecipanti, ridottisi ai soli Mayol e Molinari, di rinunciare a immergersi, ma Enzo sceglie di farlo comunque. La prestazione è da record ma Enzo ha un problema e Jacques si tuffa per salvare l'amico;

Jacques riesce a raggiungere Enzo, che, strappato a forza dalle acque, chiede all’amico di lasciarlo colare a picco ... muore nell’elemento che ama. Quella notte Mayol sogna di annegare, la sua stanza è piena di delfini e tra questi incrocia Enzo, quindi si sveglia e s'immerge realmente in mare per ritrovare il proprio compagno. Johanna lo segue, preoccupata e gli rivela di essere incinta: lui le porge la mano per poi scompare nel blu profondo … accolto dai delfini.

Le Grand Bleu is a 1988 English-language film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. The film is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed to "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).

The film, which covers their childhood in 1960s Greece to their deaths in a 1980s Sicilian diving competition, is a cult-classic in the diving fraternity, and became one of France's most commercially successful films (although an adaptation for US release was a commercial failure in that country). President of France, Jacques Chirac, referred to the film in describing Mayol, after his death in 2001, as having been an enduring symbol for the "Big Blue" generation.

The story was heavily adapted for cinema — in real life Mayol lived from 1927 to 2001 and Maiorca retired from diving to politics in the 1980s. Both set no-limits category deep diving records below 100 metres, and Mayol was indeed involved in scientific research into human aquatic potential, but neither reached 400 feet (122 metres) as portrayed in the film, and they were not direct competitors. Mayol himself was a screenwriter for the film, and Mayol's search for love, family, "wholeness" and the meaning of life and death, and the conflict and tension between his yearning for the deep, and his relationship with his girlfriend, also form part of the backdrop for the latter part of the film.

Two children, Jacques Mayol (Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Molinari (Jean Reno), have grown up on the Greek island of Amorgos in the 1960s. They challenge each other to collect a coin on the sea floor and Jacques loses. Later Jacques' father — who harvests shellfish from the seabed using a pump-supplied air hose and helmet — goes diving for shellfish. His breathing apparatus and rope gets caught and punctured by rocks on the reef and weighed down by water, he drowns. Jacques and Enzo can do nothing but watch in horror as he is killed.

By the 1980s, both are well known freedivers, swimmers who can remain underwater for great times and at great depths. Enzo is on Sicily now, where he rescues a trapped diver from a shipwreck. He is a world champion freediver with a brash and strong personality, and now wishes to find Mayol and persuade him to return to no limits freediving in order to prove he is still the better of the two, in a friendly sports rivalry. Mayol himself works extensively with scientific research as a human research subject, and with dolphins, and is temporarily participating in research into human physiology in the iced-over lakes of the Peruvian Andes, where his remarkable and dolphin-like bodily responses to cold water immersion are being recorded.Insurance broker Johana Baker (Rosanna Arquette) visits the station for work purposes and is introduced to Jacques. She secretly falls in love with him. When she hears that Jacques will be at the World Diving Championships in Taormina, Sicily, she fabricates an insurance problem that requires her presence there, in order to meet him again. She and Jacques fall in love. However none of them realize the extent of Jaques' allurement with the depths. Jacques beats Enzo by 3 feet (1 meter) at this, their first competition and Enzo offers them a glass dolphin as a gift, and a tape measure to show the small difference between Jacques' and Enzo’s records. Johana goes back home to New York but is fired after her deception is discovered; she leaves New York and begins to live with Jacques. She hears the story that if one truly loves the deep sea, then amermaid will appear at the depths of the sea, and will lead a diver to an enchanted place.

At the next World Diving Championships, Enzo beats Jacques' record. The depths at which the divers are competing enter new territory and the dive doctor suggests they should cease competing, but the divers decide to continue. Jacques is asked to look at a local dolphinarium where a new dolphin has been placed, and where the dolphins are no longer performing; surmising that the new dolphin is homesick, the three of them break in at night to liberate the dolphin and transport her to the sea again. Back at the competition, other divers attempt to break Enzo’s new record but all fail. Jacques then attempts his next dive and reaches 400 ft (122m) breaking Enzo's world record. Angered by this, Enzo prepares to break Jacques' new world record. The doctor supervising the dive warns that the competitors must not go deeper - based upon Jacques' bodily reactions, at around 400 ft, conditions, and in particular the pressure, will become lethal and divers will be killed if they persist in attempting such depths. Enzo dismisses the advice and attempts the dive anyway, but is unable to make his way back to the surface. Jacques dives down to rescue him. Enzo, dying, tells Jacques that the doctor was right and also that it is better down there, and begs Jacques to help him back down to the depths, where he belongs. Jacques is grief-stricken and refuses, but after Enzo dies in his arms, finally honors his dying wish and takes Enzo's body back down to 400feet, leaving him to drift to the ocean floor. Jacques - himself suffering from cardiac arrest after the dive - is rescued and brought back to the surface by supervising scuba divers and requires his heart to be restarted with a defibrillator before being placed in medical quarters to recover.

Jacques appears to be recovering from the diving accident, but later experiences a strange hallucinatory dream in which the ceiling collapses and the room fills with water, and he finds himself in the ocean depths surrounded by dolphins. Johana, who has just discovered she is pregnant, returns to check up on Jacques in the middle of the night, but finds him lying awake yet unresponsive in his bed with bloody ears and a bloody nose. Johana attempts to help him, but Jacques begins to get up and walk to the empty diving boat and gets suited up for one final dive. Desperately, Johana begs Jacques not to go, saying she is alive but whatever has happened at the depths is not, but he says he has to. She tells Jacques that she is pregnant, and sorrowfully begs him to stay, but finally understands he feels he must go. The two embrace and Johana breaks down crying. Jacques then places the release cord for the dive ballast in her hand, and - still sobbing - she pulls it, sending him down to the depths he loves. Jacques descends to around 400 ft and floats there for a brief moment staring into the darkness. A dolphin then appears and - dreamlike - Jacques lets go of his harness and swims away with it into the darkness.

Santorini, Oia

Gorleston, Norfolk, UK

A K6 Telephone Kiosk, now painted blue and housing a defibrillator in Mortimer, Berkshire.

RTW: Einsatz bei akuten Notfällen, da er eine notfallmedizinische Erstversorgung und einen Transport in eine spezialisierte Klinik ermöglicht.

Personal:

In der Regel mit einem Notfallsanitäter besetzt, der die höchste Qualifikation im Rettungsdienst hat.

portsoy defibrillator

An old BT (British Telecom) Red Telephone Box has literally been given a new lease of life. Since their demise, many now have defibrillators installed as with this one in Little Longstone, Derbyshire.

(Map Location is approximate. Little Longstone merges into Great Longstone)

bloomsbury, london

The village of Colpy has become a bit of a marker for me over the years. When I pass the road end I always feel I am back in Aberdeen. I knew this phone box was here but I had not realised it has been refurbished to a life saving unit. The post box beside has a regular collection and this will be about 30/35 miles from Aberdeen.

Crescent Beach, BC

Gorse and an old telephone box turned defibrillator and postbox

My cousin and his youngest son.

This photo is quite special as a few weeks earlier my cousin had a massive heart attack. His heart stopped beating. He was extremely lucky that there were people around him who were first aid trained, and that the building he was in had an AED (automated external defibrillator). His heart was restarted and he was flown by emergency helicopter to hospital where he had bypass surgery.

Our family is very thankful to those first aiders who did CPR and administered the AED, but also to the fundraising which has seen AED's installed throughout our community, and funds our communities emergency helicopter.

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Anacortes, Washington

The Island Explorer 5 is the most state-of-the-art vessel on the entire west coast, boasting impressive speed and high-tech electronics.

The height above the water gives you a much better vantage point. (The legal viewing distance applies the same to all vessels — lower profile boats cannot get you any closer, so they just can’t see as well as you will from the Island Explorer.) A state-of-the-art audio/visual system allows our naturalist to turn the boat into a floating class room. The Island Explorer is safe (it exceeds all US Coast Guard requirements for the area), fast (capable of speeds of 25+ knots, which gives us the range to guarantee whales), and comfortable for all of our guests.

Vessel Features:

Front Row Viewing: Outside rail viewing space on one side of the boat for all guests

Indoor heated seating for all passengers

Three viewing decks for the best possible vantage point over the water

Best galley menu of any tour boat in the area – fresh and changing with the seasons

High-speed catamaran with speeds capable of 25+ knots

AED defibrillator onboard with highly trained and qualified staff/crew

Reference: island-adventures.com/our-vessels/island-explorer-5

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Thank-you for your visit, and any comments or faves are always very much appreciated! ~Sonja.

The small village lies along the little Marlbrook in the gently rolling countryside of the Oxfordshire Plain that stretches from the Chilterns towards Oxford.

The church has a Norman tower. The village telephone box converted to a defibrillator.

On top of a Victorian pillar box at Pier Gardens Gorleston-on-Sea

In ABCs and 123s: D is for defibrillator

My red box project is about finding slightly unusual red boxes associated with the General Post Office post and phone services. These days it is increasingly likely that the post boxes may have a new neighbour in the form of a defibrillator box or that the phone service has been discontinued and repurposed to house a defribrillator.

Here at the White Horse, Hascombe, Surrey the red box has a yellow box neighbour.

Marked with VR this is an original Victoria wall box, to be found constructed within the walls of the White Horse Public House in Hascombe, Surrey. Great food to be had within.

What a trip, a big thank you to Jon Peake from the Jersey National Trust and Heather the BSBI Chanel Island Recorder for your friendship and help with the orchid meadow visits. A trip of wild orchids, long beautiful walks, fabulous food and new friends. And a big thank you to Border Control for the experience of having a full strip search even though I told them about my implanted defibrillator, but thats another story.......

Public telephone box use has fallen dramatically over recent times. Many are being pressed into a new role in the community - as Defibrillator enclosures.

This one has been recently converted. To gain access to the Defibrillator you dial 999.

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This is my 28th photo to make Explore!

Defibrillator. Possibly a better option than praying.

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This red telephone box houses a community defibrillator. Inside it has instructions and also links to a website on how to use it in an emergency. It is good to see these famous old boxes getting used for something modern. I should also say the map behind was a very useful also.

Now housing the village Defibrillator

1970 Tower Bridge... (EXPLORED)

This photograph was captured by my dad in 1970, the very year our family left England emigrating to Canada, it features the iconic Tower Bridge. The decision to leave the telephone box in its traditional red color was deliberate, serving as a symbolic representation of the significant transformation taking place in my life during that time. It's interesting to note that in England today, these once-ubiquitous phone boxes largely exist as nostalgic reminders, as modern cell phone technology has largely replaced their original function.

while phone boxes are still used in England for public calls, their numbers have greatly declined, with a significant number of traditional red phone boxes being repurposed into mini libraries, Defibrillator stations, coffee shops, or tourist attractions. A third of working phone boxes are never used, the remaining ones are still a lifeline for those without mobile phones or in areas with poor signal.

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Newark Street. Bath. March 2019

1935 model K6 Telephone Kiosk in Broughton, Milton Keynes 15Apr21. Grade II listed.

Sadly not so many of these about these days with most people carrying mobile phones.

This one is now fitted with a defibrillator.

The following is from Historic England.

Name: K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK

Designation Type: Listing

Grade: II

List UID: 1277068

Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.

Classic Rikstelefon photo booth from back in the day. Today a hjärtstartare. Or an Automated external defibrillator. In the Old Town in Stockholm next to the Great Church, Storkyrkan. All thanks to local politician Dennis Wedin.

One Tudor and two St Edwards Crowns.

Art Box, Public Telephone, Defibrillator.

Third up is the United States Assault Kit from Battlefield 4!

As I have mentioned previously, I had to take a step out of my comfort zone with painting camouflage and gluing very small things like TinyTactical onto figures, both need much more practice to get the hang of.

Starting with the legs, I painted on a base layer of "Default' camouflage. On top of that are various details such as the boots, brown knee outline, TT CP Knee pads, and straps on the upper portion of the legs. He has a dark tan belt with a grey clip-buckle and 3 small tan (attempted) pouches.

Moving onto the torso, he has a dark tan B10 Tactical vest. The vest features a camouflage patch in the center, black ammo pouch buckles, brown vest straps with light grey buckles, and a painted black radio on the back. His arms are just the basic tan with dark tan TT shoulder pockets glued on.

His head is a breacher head from eclipseGRAFX painted brown with dark tan straps. Also, he is wearing a MC JS-1 headset and a tan BK1X with painted dark tan details.

The weapons I have for this Kit are the TT DFC, which I am using to portray the M416 with a holographic sight. I also specially made a pair of defibrillators, just to top off the figure since the assault kit is otherwise known as a medic. The defibrillators have been made with 2x T-Bars and a flag piece which were cut up, painted dark grey, and the buttons were added later.

Please, in the comments below, leave your feedback, it really means a lot to me!

one more thing I'd like to point out is today I finally 5,000 subscribers on YouTube, so I'd like to thank you all for that as well!

Thanks guys!

If you favorite, I'd like to hear your feedback in the comments as well! :)

This figure has been entered into NewYorkLegoboy's contest