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Here I am, futilely explaining to Nate the 'rules' before heading out to dinner while at the beach. Miss Amy, the babysitter and owner of a day care facility, said that Liam and Nate were a "challenge" and that she had to use time-out for the first time ever in her babysitting career. Ever.
We tipped Miss Amy very, very well.
~Jill
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care
And, I miss You.
______________________________
Expect lots of selfportraits =)
Lately i've been thinking a lot and i see things differently in some way.
I just sometimes wish people that left my side would be here with me.
I miss them.
D3000 was withdrawn by BR in 1972 and then used by NCB at various pits in South Wales, ending up at NCB Maerdy in 1986 when it was sold off for preservation.
At first they moved to Brighton where it is seen here c.1988
with a placard explaining its history.
Girls at the Mae Rim Juvenile Detention Facility listen as Daeng Dechaboon of Team Radical Grace illustrates the unseen spread of HIV.
Radical Grace provides regular training for the prison about the biology of HIV, its spread and the kinds of relationships that might help to prevent it.
Photo credit: Geoff Dexter Sherborne Publications
UB40 members Brian Travers and Jimmy Brown joined a Birmingham Against the Cuts press conference on Wednesday to protest about unemployment and to publicise the TUC demo on Saturday. They were joined by trade unionists and councillors.
There are now 1 in 10 on the dole in the West Midlands.
Brian Travers drew attention to a number of damning figures:
* There are currently 265,000 people unemployed in the West Midlands, that is 9.9%
* This was an increase of 27,000 over the previous 3 months
* Birmingham Ladywood male unemployment is 15.5%, 6,059 men
* 6 Birmingham constituencies have unemployment over 10%
* Birmingham City Council intend to sack 7,000 as a result of their recent budget
The speakers from the Trade Unions were Caroline Johnson, assistant secretary of Birmingham UNISON. She announced they are now on their 18th coach for Saturday. Birmingham UNISON is preparing to ballot its members for industrial action against the proposed cuts.
Tony Conway from the PCS described the effect that the cuts are having on civil servants, with hundreds facing the dole in Birmingham.
Mary Pearson from the NUT drew attention to government policy on Academies and ‘Free’ schools, and the effect that cuts will have on education.
Birmingham Council Labour Group leaders Albert Bore explained that Birmingham’s Council leaders have ‘front loaded’ the cuts in Birmingham – bringing forward the cuts far sooner than would be necessary.
Labour Councillor Mick Finnegan also spoke. He pointed out that at the recent Budget meeting Birmingham’s ConDem majority voted against putting money back into public services, preferring to make cuts.
Jimmy Brown from UB40 wound up the press conference saying that a massive injustice is taking place – that working people didn’t create the crisis, but we will be expected to pay for it.
There are now over 40 coaches heading to London on Saturday, with more being added daily.
The mayor of Montreal, Gerald Tremblay answers questions from the press after the official launch of the bicycle rental, BIXI (Bike Taxi) project, September 22, 2008!
The project has since enjoyed enormous success is now being exported to other cities around the world!
It seemed fitting to have the official launch on the very day the city makes an attempt to being more green by banning cars in the core downtown area!
I have always thought it would seem more genuine to prohibit cars for the whole day rather than the 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM idea, which seems conveniently timed to allow morning rush hour in and out of the city core, thus defeating the spirit of the day!
La journée en ville sans ma voiture! 2008 Montreal Car Free Day
Executive Chef Gene Briggs, of Blue Restaurant in Charlotte, demonstrates succotash-making at Matthews Farmers Market.
Manual lens at probably something like f/4 or f/5.6.
Digital; compare film at flic.kr/p/xV2ove
Webb may have found evidence for the long-theorized first generation of stars — as well as the most distant active supermassive black hole to date. GN-z11, a galaxy that existed 430 million years after the big bang, is giving up its secrets.
This extremely bright galaxy was discovered by @NASAHubble and is one of the earliest distant galaxies ever observed. Webb found the first clear evidence explaining why it is so luminous: a 2-million-solar-mass central supermassive black hole rapidly gobbling up matter.
Observers using Webb also discovered a pocket of pristine gas in the galaxy’s halo. Theory and models both suggest that clumps of helium like these may collapse to form Population III stars, the first generation of stars in the early universe. These stars have never been observed. They’d be made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium (unlike modern stars, which contain heavier elements) and be massive, bright, and hot. Finding them is one of the most important goals of modern astrophysics.
Learn more: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-unlocks-secrets-of-on...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
This image: This two-part graphic shows evidence of a gaseous clump of helium in the halo surrounding galaxy GN-z11. In the top portion, at the far right, a small box identifies GN-z11 in a field of galaxies. The middle box shows a zoomed-in image of the galaxy. The box at the far left displays a map of the helium gas in the halo of GN-z11, including a clump that does not appear in the infrared colors shown in the middle panel. In the lower half of the graphic, a spectrum shows the distinct “fingerprint” of helium in the halo. The full spectrum shows no evidence of other elements and so suggests that the helium clump must be fairly pristine, made of hydrogen and helium gas left over from the big bang, without much contamination from heavier elements produced by stars. Theory and simulations in the vicinity of particularly massive galaxies from these epochs predict that there should be pockets of pristine gas surviving in the halo, and these may collapse and form Population III star clusters.
Image description: A graphic labeled “Galaxy GN-z11, Pristine Gas Clump Near GN-z11.” The graphic is divided into two sections. The top half of the graphic features a rectangular image of a field of galaxies. At lower right, a small region is highlighted with a white box. A white arrow extends leftward to a larger box showing an enlarged view of the highlighted area. The box is labeled “GN-z11” and features a fuzzy yellow dot at lower right. A second arrow extends left to a white box labeled “Helium Two Detected.” It shows a pixelated image with a dark purple background. Two yellow-green blobs with red contours are at lower right and upper left. The bottom half of the graphic shows a single line graph with a white jagged line of data plotting the relative brightness of the second clump in the helium two image at different wavelengths of light. A red shaded area at about 1.90 microns marks the position of a helium 2 emission line.
This was found in a Finland catalog but it explains why an early Swedish version of the Esso Station only had room for 4 (instead of 5) macaroni bricks.
This is a photograph from the start of the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 26th August 2017 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 11:00. This is the fifth year of the event. The race is organised and promoted by Tullamore Harriers AC. The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter Tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course. 2013 seen the first year of the event as the club commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs.
We have a large set of photographs from the start and the finish of today's race on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157685695893933
The race was chip timed by MyRunResults - their website is www.myrunresults.com
The race was perfectly organised. The weather was good for racing but there was warm summer weather for the entire race which made for warmer than usual running conditions There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event. There was also a relay option where teams of two can run approximately 10.5km each.
As mentioned above this race half marathon started in 2013 and celebrated the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joining routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The half marathon today firmly brings competitive national road racing back to "The Harriers". The Quinlan Cup which will be awarded to the winning club team. For more than 40 years the Harriers Quinlan Cup was the most prestigious event on the road racing calendar. Having started as a cross-country race back in 1957, it became a road race in 1967 and remained so until 2000 when the race was last held. During its reign as a blue-ribband event the Quinlan Cup was won by the likes of John Treacy and Eamonn Coughlan.
Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
Our photographs from the 2016 Half Marathon on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157669860212434
Our photographs from the 2015 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157655560294853
Our photographs from the 2014 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646587496250/
Our photographs from the 2013 Half Marathon on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
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►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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The Columbus Monument; Spanish: Monumento a Colón or Mirador de Colón) is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument to Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain.
It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) and is located at the site where Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas. The monument serves as a reminder that Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand V in Barcelona.
At the very top of the monument stands a 7.2 m (24 ft) tall bronze statue atop a 40 m (131 ft) tall Corinthian column.
The statue was sculpted by Rafael Atché and is said to depict Columbus pointing towards the New World with his right hand, while holding a scroll in the left. It is a commonly held belief that instead of pointing to the west towards the New World, the statue points east towards Columbus's supposed home city of Genoa.
This, however, is not true, as the statue points south-southeast (a more southerly direction than the adjacent Rambla Del Mar and almost a perfect extension of the direction of La Rambla, Barcelona) and in effect is pointing at a point somewhere near the city of Constantine, Algeria. To point at Genoa in northern Italy the statue would have to face east-northeast and point up the coastline.
It is more likely that the statue is situated in the current way simply to have Columbus point out to sea underscoring his achievements in naval exploration. The statue is atop a socle, on which the word "Tierra" (land) is inscribed.
The column, hung with a device bearing an anchor, stands on an octagonal pedestal from which four bronze winged victories or Phemes take flight towards the four corners of the world, above paired griffins. Four buttresses against the octagonal pedestal bear portrait medallions that depict persons related to Columbus:
1.Martín Alonzo Pinzón
2.Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
3.Ferdinand II of Aragon
4.Isabella I of Castile
5.Father Juan Pérez
6.Father Antonio de Marchena
7.Andrés de Cabrera, Marqués de Moya
8.Beatriz Fernández de Bobadilla, Marquessa de Moya
Seated against the buttresses are four figures that represent the four realms of Spain: the Principality of Catalonia, and the kingdoms of León, Aragon, and Castile.
Against the base of the pedestal between the buttresses are four additional statues:
1.Jaume Ferrer de Blanes, a Catalan cartographer
2.Luis de Santángel Bessant
3.Captain Pedro Bertran i de Margarit, next to a kneeling Indian
4.Father Bernat de Boïl, preaching to a kneeling Indian
The canted octagonal plinth is inset with eight bronze bas-relief panels that depict important scenes in Columbus's first voyage to the Americas:
1.Columbus and his son asking for food at the La Rabida Monastery
2.Columbus explaining his plans to the monks of the La Rabida Monastery
3.Columbus meeting King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in Córdoba
4.Columbus appearing at the council gathering in the Monastery of San Esteban in Salamanca
5.Columbus meeting the King and Queen in Santa Fe
6.Columbus leaving port from Palos de la Frontera on 3 August 1492
7.Columbus's arrival in the New World
8.Columbus greeting the King and Queen after his return in Barcelona
Alternating with the bas-reliefs are eight coats-of-arms representing locations that Columbus visited:
1.Huelva
2.Córdoba
3.Salamanca
4.Santa Fe
5.Palos de la Frontera
6.Puerto Rico
7.Cuba
8.Barcelona
The base of the monument is a 20 m (66 ft) wide circle, with four staircases. Each staircase is flanked by two lions.
St Andrew, Great Finborough, Suffolk
Anyone who has travelled in the hills to the south of Stowmarket will be familiar with the exotic tower of Great Finborough church.
The buttresses are a clue to the architect, since they might remind you of his tower at St Mary in nearby Woolpit. He was Richard Phipson, who did a lot of lighthearted and enthusiastic work in Suffolk. This is one of his three Suffolk spires, although neither this, nor Woolpit, are anything like his more determinedly masculine St Mary le Tower, Ipswich.
Phipson's tower had been nagging me for years. Wherever I went in the hills to the south of Stowmarket, it appear on the horizon like a warning finger.
This was because, in my first tour around the churches of Suffolk, I had not been terribly kind about this church. Apart from the 15th century porch, the church had been entirely rebuilt by Phipson, and I imagined him bemoaning the fact that these exotic buildings which he had fitted up for shadowy, incense-led, High Church ceremony did not lend themselves quite so fittingly to modern Anglican worship. Coming to Great Finborough on a dull day, I had found the interior depressing, and the dusty clutter inside the building only made things worse, and I said so. In my defence, it did not feel like a loved church, and the graveyard was in a similarly poor state.
And then, over the next couple of years, things changed. I received e-mails telling me that Great Finborough church had been transformed, and was being looked after and loved. I must come back and see it again! But I was busy with Norfolk, and it was not until the start of 2008, more than seven years after I had last been there, that I returned to Great Finborough. It was a bright sunny day, and I started off by seeing the tower at its most splendid, from the Buxhall road. Here, it rises up dramatically above the rolling fields, and it is not surprising that some people wonder if it is a great gothic monument of some kind, and not a church at all.
Phipson was at work here in the middle years of the 1870s. Many anecdotal stories attach themselves to churches, and every county has a church where, supposedly, the local squire demanded a striking spire so that he could find his way home when out hunting. This church is Suffolk's. The family in the Big House here were the Wollastons, who became Pettiwards, and this must once have felt very much the Hall church. The last of the Pettiwards was killed in the Second World War. After some years as the headquarters of Eastern Electricity, the Hall became a school in the 1970s. But most likely, it was the Rector who wanted the tower built this way, and allowed Phipson a full run at his Tractarian principles. The banding is reminiscent of All Saints Margaret Street in London, which had been built a decade earlier.
Inside, the most significant feature is the north transept, which Phipson intended to hold the Wollaston and Pettiward memorials which had lined the walls of the old church. The kind lady who was at work inside the church recognised me, but had the grace not to hit me about the head, and even made me a cup of tea. She explained the history of the Wollaston family, and knew a great deal about the memorials themselves.
On the south side of the nave is a sequence of windows by Clayton & Bell,depicting scenes leading up to the Crucifixion beneath quatrefoils of Faith, Hope and Charity. In the best of these, Mary Magdalene kneels at Christ's feet in Bethany while Martha and Lazarus look on.
There is a stunning Annunciation scene up in the chancel - is this also by Clayton & Bell? - and overall there is a sense of a typical 19th century rural High Church atmosphere, still today as Phipson must have imagined it. And today, the dust and the mess have gone, and Great Finborough church is obviously loved. I decided I liked it a lot after all.
I said goodbye to the nice lady, and stepped outside into the winter sunshine. I wandered around to the west side of the tower, and looked out across the valley to Buxhall. There are number of 19th century gravestones here, and one modern one. This is to the radio presenter John Peel, who lived in Great Finborough, and died of a heart attack while on holiday in Peru in 2004. For someone of my generation, a teenager at the end of the 1970s, Peel assumed almost a Messiah status. He was like a touchstone for the emerging alternative culture, at a time when it was simply very difficult to hear any music which was not part of the bland mainstream.
Listening to his late night show on Radio One, we heard the exciting punk and new wave bands for the first time, and were introduced to the reggae, folk and electronic music that would otherwise have passed us by. But more than that, we made a connection, and were rescued because of it. To listen to Peel playing music was to hear him discovering it for himself; a clever trick perhaps, but it meant something to a fifteen year old. He was the still point of a turning world which would have been quite different without him. He was a catalyst.
Part of the rock culture of the late seventies was the enthusiasm with which young people, although often unable to play a note, would form bands and try to release records. By the early 1980s, his role as the mediator for the left field of popular music was being taken on by others away at Radio One and elsewhere, but still he was the first port of call for these undiscovered bands. I remember talking to him once at a show he did in Sheffield, when I was working for the student newspaper. We chatted about the emerging scene in the city. He showed me a box which was full of cassette tapes. "See these?" he said. "These are just the ones I've been given since I got to Sheffield this morning."
I can't honestly say I listened to him much after about 1990, and I only ever heard his Radio 4 programme once or twice (what was it called?) but by then his work was done. No doubt the tapes and CDs kept coming.
His grave now is a mound of flowers, some of them recent. I bent down to read a few of the messages, and saw that, among them, some hopeful band had left him a home-produced CD. Even in death, he can't escape. This made me smile.
After I moved to Suffolk, I met him a couple of times at parties. We had friends in common. I found him difficult to talk to. He didn't suffer fools gladly, and perhaps he thought I was one, for he presented me with a rather cynical, jaded face. But thirty years ago, his voice spoke to me as no other did, or has since.
As I opened my laptop to do some work at Scoop Ice Cream / Coffee Shop in Payson, the store owner pulled a string and offered me a place to plug in.
Chris designed this system, a ceiling mounted retractable extension cord, bound with electrical tape to two scoops for a weight.
The simplicity of the idea won me over.
Kim: Hey! Those are only rumours!! You can't believe everything you read!!
Diyani (barely under her breath) Or apparently everything you see!!
Everyone (in unison): Mmmhmmm.........
Anthony explains the artist that inspired the pieces of art his piece was inspired by...
Photo by Chris
Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. Shot with a Canon F1 with Canon FD 50mm 1.2L lens, on Kodak Trix 400 at f1.2 1/60. Developed with D76 and scanned using a Minolta Dimage Multi II.
Found in Old Car City, USA. Located in White, Georgia on the 411 Highway. A massive junkyard in state of arranged decay where the cars are slowly being taken back into the earth.
Residents of Matam, Conakry listen to UNICEF explain the current outbreak of Ebola and the ways to stop the spread
And so to the third of the City Churches I visited for the first time over Open House weekend.
St Helen's has control over two other churches, St Andrew Undercroft and St Peter Upon Cornhill, the second of those is hardly ever open, I've never found it open anways.
I explained to a nice Lady insode St Andrew's that the wonderful Friends of the City Churches do such a great job in ensuring many churches are open at least one day a week, it is a shame that the same could not be done for St Peter. Unbeknown to me, she was from St Helen's who listened to what I said, and maybe, it will be open more often. Once would be nice of course.
We walked from St Katherine Cree to St Helen's, and saw that the door was open, and once inside it was a hive of activity, full of visitors and life. Someone was making use of the state of the art audio system to describe the church, and its differences from traditional Anglican churches.
It's size, and width, are breathtaking. A double naved church, with side chapels and gallery, almost too much to take in.
I mixed in with the guided tours, took shots and soaked in the church.
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St Helen's Bishopsgate is a large conservative evangelical Anglican church located off Bishopsgate in London.
It is the largest surviving parish church in the City of London and it contains more monuments than any other church in Greater London except Westminster Abbey, hence it is sometimes referred to as the "Westminster Abbey of the City".
It was the parish church of William Shakespeare when he lived in the area in the 1590s.[1][2] In 1608, Sir Alberico Gentili, the founder of the science of international law, was buried in the church.
The church of St Helen dates from the 12th century and a priory of Benedictine nuns was founded there[clarification needed] in 1210.[3] It is unusual in that it was designed with two parallel naves, giving it a wide interior.[4] Until the dissolution of the priory in 1538, the church was divided in two by a partition running from east to west, the northern half serving the nuns and the southern the parishioners.[3] It is the only building from a nunnery to survive in the City of London.
The priory had extensive monastic buildings; its hall was later used by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers until its demolition in 1799. A crypt extended north from the church, under the hall.[3]
In the 17th century two Classical doorcases were added to the otherwise Gothic church.[3][5] In 1874 the parish was united with that of St Martin Outwich when the latter's church was demolished, and the first incumbent of the new parish was John Bathurst Deane. St Helen's church was heavily restored by John Loughborough Pearson in 1891–3, and reopened on St John the Baptist's Day in 1893 by the Bishop of London, Frederick Temple.
Interior of St Helen's Bishopsgate
St Helen's was one of only a few City of London churches to survive both the Great Fire of London of 1666 and the Blitz during World War II.[6] In 1992 and 1993, however, the church was badly damaged by two IRA bombs that were set off nearby.[7] The roof of the building was lifted and one of the City's largest medieval stained glass windows was shattered. The church has since been fully restored although many of the older monuments within it were entirely destroyed. The architect Quinlan Terry, an enthusiast of Georgian architecture, designed the restoration along Reformation lines.
Owing to parish consolidation over the years, the parish is now named "St Helen's Bishopsgate with St Andrew Undershaft and St Ethelburga Bishopsgate and St Martin Outwich and St Mary Axe". The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors are the patrons of the benefice.[8]
The church was designated a Grade I-listed building on 4 January 1950.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Bishopsgate
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Here we are amidst the Dubai-ification of Bishopsgate, and yet the west frontage of St Helen is rather pleasing in its little courtyard beneath the Aviva building. It is a different story to south and east, however, for although the Gherkin has created a focus for St Mary Axe, the peripherals of the space are messy and ill-considered, and beside St Helen the car park entrance has all the charm of the neglected bit of a provincial shopping centre. However, all this will go for the construction of the City's tallest tower, the Undershaft building, and the two lower storeys being left open will give St Helen and its near neighbour St Andrew Undershaft the chance to talk to each other for the first time in centuries.
Uniquely in the City, St Helen has a double nave, and this is because it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery, established here in the early 13th Century. There was already a parish church on the site, and a new nave for the sisters was built to the north of the parish nave. There was a major restoration in the early 17th Century which gave the exterior much of its current character, and the church was far enough north to survive the Great Fire. The Blitz also did little damage here, and St Helen might have continued being a pleasant if rather sleepy medieval survival among the office towers were it not for two significant events.
The first was the Baltic Exchange bombing on the night of 10th April 1992. A one tonne semtex and fertiliser bomb was exploded by the IRA immediately to the south-east of the church, its intention to cause as much damage to property as possible. In this it succeeded, for the £800 million repair bill to the City was almost twice as much as the entire repair bill for all the other damage caused by IRA bombs in the British Isles since the current spate of Troubles began in 1969. The south wall of the church was demolished, the interior blown out by blast damage. Repairs were already underway when the second event to shape the current church occured. On the morning of 24th April 1993, a Saturday, the IRA exploded another one tonne bomb, this time of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, on Bishopsgate, to the north-west of the church. Thus, the little church found itself exactly between the two largest terrorist bombs ever exploded on the British mainland. This time the west front was demolished, and blast damage took out all the windows and furnishings again.
The building's rebirth was very much a reflection of the character of its congregation. Unusually for the City, St Helen is very much in the staunch evangelical protestant tradition. The pre-1992 church had been full of the clutter of those resacramentalising Victorians, but controversially the architect Quinlan Terry was commissioned to design an interior more fitting for the style of worship at St Helen. Anti-modernist, anti-gothicist, anti-conservationist, Terry is an architect so far out of kilter with the mainstream of British design that it sometimes seems as if he is working in an entirely different discipline, running in parallel with the rest of the architectural world. Previously, his most significant church design was for Brentwood Catholic Cathedral, which has been described as having all the style, grace and charm of a shopping centre food court. It was never going to end happily, either for the conservation bodies or the City traditionalists.
Terry's reinvented St Helen is a preaching box for protestant worship. Memorials have been relegated to the south transept, and the rood screen moved across it to separate it from the body of the church. The two naves have been united in a cool, square, white space, the focus of the church turned to face the north wall. It is as if the Oxford Movement had never happened. And yet it is all done well, with that infuriating veneer of seemliness that so much of Terry's work conveys.
Well, you wouldn't want all medieval churches to be like this, but churches are constantly changing to suit the style of worship of the day, and so it seems fitting that St Helen should have been reinvented this way. Much of the outcry at the time must have been because the Bishopsgate bomb vaporised St Ethelburga, St Helen's near neighbour, a small surviving medieval church, and it was felt rather willful that another medieval church was being gutted by those who might have been thought responsible for saving it. Me, I'm not so sure. Church communities should have their head to design their churches to suit their current worship, otherwise we would not have the extraordnanry accretion of historical artefacts that the great majority of England's 16,000-odd medieval churches now contain. St Helen is a good example of what can be done by people with passion and enthusiasm in the face of apocalyptic destruction. This was true after 1945, and it was true after 1993. Mind you, I'm not sure we'd have the confidence to do the same thing now.
Simon Knott, December 2015
I'm not quite sure how I like this, but I figured it explained how I feel & what's going on with me right now.
I have a bladder infection. It came today while I was with my kids, getting them ready for nap time. I went pee & it began to burn. This is now my third UTI since October.
I ended up going to the doctor, getting pills, & since then I've been in a reasonably comfortable state. You really don't want to see what kind of position I'm in right now to type this, haha.
Anyways, I hope the pain goes completely away before tomorrow or at least tonight. I'd like to get some sleep. Plus, I can't be having pain down there while I've got kids running around at my feet during work. That's just not good.
I hope everyone had a great memorial day. I did, I went to the mountains! :)
This is a photograph is from a set of photographs from the Castlepollard 5KM Road Race and Fun Run 2017, also known as the Tullynally Challenge, which was held in Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 16th August 2017 at 20:00. The race is hosted by North Westmeath Athletic Club. The weather was reasonably good for road racing. The participants had a very stiff breeze in their faces on the outward stretch and all the way to the 2KM mark within Tullynally. This then became a helpful tailwail for the final KM of the race.
Starting off many years ago the race was very much a local affair drawing runners from the sounding areas of Mullingar, North East Meath, Cavan, and Longford. However, the race has grown in stature and popularity over the years and is now one of the most well attended road races in the midlands and sees participants from all over Ireland. The race offers prizes in all categories. The Castlepollard 5KM Road Race attempts to support young runners and walkers by organising a range of underage races around the town square before the adult race at 20:00. Profits from the race go towards grassroots athletics in the region - North Westmeath Athletics, Schools Cross Country, and local community games. As summer moves into autumn the Castlepollard 5KM can be considered as the unofficial ending of summer evening road racing in the midlands as with the fading light of the late summer evenings comes less opportunities to hold races in the evening time. Castlepollard is a small town located in North County Westmeath amongst the lakes of Lough Lene and Lough Derravagh. One of the show pieces of the race landscape is Tullynally Castle which provides almost 2.5KM of the race route. The name Tullynally is an adaption of 'Tulaigh an Eallaigh' – the Hill of the Swan. The hill overlooks the mythical Lough Derravaragh. Irish folklore legend names the lake as where the Children of Lir, who were turned into swans, were destined to live for 300 years. Tullynally Castle is still a family home to this day.
One of the enduring symbols of the Castlepollard 5KM is the tireless work of Andy MacEoin of North Westmeath AC who has been a visitor to almost every road race in the Midlands and beyond over the past number of months to publicize the event. Many of the participants tonight will have seen Andy's strategically placed advertising signs around other road race routes. Certainly this work, and that of many other members of North Westmeath AC, has paid off well.
The race begins near the center of the town square and proceeds directly out the R395 towards Coole and Edgeworthstown. The first KM is flat and quick allowing the field to spread out. The race then enters the Tullynally Castle estate and proceeds up the tree-lined avenue. The gardens, like the castle are on a grand scale, taking in nearly 12 acres. This allows the race to make a big loop of the gardens with a quick downhill stretch followed by a sharp climb before the race rejoins it's outgoing path for the final 1.5KM of the race. The final 1100M from the gate of the Castle grounds to the finish is as the first - fast and flat and allows for a great finish passing the GAA grounds with finish line just outside the local Fire Station.
This year almost 400 took part in the race. It goes without saying that the Castlepollard 5KM has become one of the "must do" road race events in the midlands. Everything that is good about club road racing in Ireland can be found here.
Electronic Timing and Event Management are provided by MyRunResults and their website is www.myrunresults.com.
We have a full set of photographs from tonight's race which is available on our Flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157684179507162
We have photographs from six of the previous Castlepollard 5KM road races - 2012 was missed. They are available here on Flickr:
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157672157788196
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157656750245820
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646408272725
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635070120285
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627404031092
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157624655001130
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157622023529006
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BUT..... Wait there a minute....
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In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
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Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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I was partly right . . .
The pyramidal objects at the edge of the bottom stairs depicted Zoroastrian fire temples!
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As seen at the SF Pride parade last weekend.
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Full set here, other SF events here.
Also see: Carnaval SF 2011, Bay to Breakers 2011, and the How Weird Street Faire 2011.
4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." They do this by learning through service. A 4-H group known as the O.W.L.S., Outdoor Wildlife Leadership Service, visited Brandon Spring Group Center at Land Between The Lakes in May 2016. O.W.L.S. educates kids on a variety of outdoor, survival, and identification skills. These include wildlife tracking, studying avian populations, Dutch oven cooking, and ice cream making. These 4-H’ers planted a butterfly garden, weeded flowerbeds, and helped with trail work and maintenance projects. Photo by Brian Truskey
Looking like an ugly mermaid in the water. The rear flippers usually point forwards, which explains why this one looks rather unusual.
SESAME’s Technical Director Erhard Huttel explains the process on how pre-accelerated electrons beams are injected into the synchrotron. Synchrotrons are sources of electromagnetic radiation generated by electrons moving almost with the speed of light. The precise beams of light produced include microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray light. SESAME International Research Centre. Allan Area, Salt City, Jordan. April 2017
The SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Centre, is a “third-generation” synchrotron light source in Allan, Jordan, near Amman. The synchrotron facility is the Middle East’s first major international research centre for science applications. It is set for inauguration on 16 May 2017.
The Centre will focus on fostering innovative scientific and technological research in subjects ranging from biology, archaeology and medical sciences through basic properties of materials science, physics, chemistry, and life sciences.
The IAEA provides significant support to the Sesame project in training and sharing expertise, as well as facilitating the networking of SESAME staff with other global research facilities, thus enabling possibilities for scientific exchanges.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA