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This is a photograph from the BHAA K-Club 10KM Road Race and Fun Run 2014 was held at the K-Club Golf and Hotel Resort, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Saturday 12th of April 2013 at 11:00. The race, an annual event, has become famous for it's very fast and flat course which starts and finishes within the grounds of the K-Club. While the weather was dry there was a tough breeze in places which made running conditions a little harder than expected. The road race has gained fame through it's PB potential but the spread of refreshments and catering afterwards are now legendary and are of the highest standard imaginable. Race director Gerry Byrne and a very large team of volunteers, K-Club staff, and local Gardai must be given the highest of compliments for the staging of the event. Well done everyone.
We have an extensive set of photographs on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157643843402565/
Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.
All profits from the event are donated to charity with the chosen charity for the race being the Parkinsons Association of Ireland. With stiff competition from a number of Parkruns and other races in the North Leinster area the K-Club 10KM stood out for it's flawless organisation, large field, and epic spread of refreshments afterwards.
Who are the BHAA? The BHAA (Business Houses Athletic Association) is a work place athletic organisation who's aim is to facilitate colleagues to run together in a series of races. They organise a series of properly managed cross country, trail and road races over the year. To learn more about membership, fixtures, etc you can visit their website bhaa.ie/. You do not need to be a member of a company or BHAA organisation to take part in any of their races.
Some useful Internet links
A Garmin GPS Route Trace of the 10KM Route: connect.garmin.com/activity/170211546
Boards.ie Athletics Forum - Thread for the K-Club 10KM 2014 starts here [www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057127743&p...]
BHAA Webpage of the K-Club 10KM 2014: bhaa.ie/events/k-club-2014/
The official website of the K-Club Resort: www.kclub.ie/
The K-Club on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Club
Google Satellite Maps View of Start Finish area and parking at the Palmer Smurfitt Course: maps.google.ie/?ll=53.304845,-6.618029&spn=0.005578,0...
Our set of photographs on Flickr from the BHAA 10KM K-Club 2013 race: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633288746810/
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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
►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!
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28/10/2021. Ladies European Tour 2021. Dubai Moonlight Classic presented by EGA, Emireats Golf Club, Faldo Course, Dubai, UAE. October 27-29 2021. Eleanor Givens of England during the second round. Credit: Tristan Jones/LET
I was given this excellent looking Super 8 movie camera a while ago, and when I put batteries in it everything seemingly worked. It even had a film in it, but I stupidly threw it out as at that point I had no idea expired film could still sometimes be usable. It just sits around the place as my unimaginative mind can't think of anything interesting enough to film that would justify the expense, but someday I'll use it.
Big Boy was the name given to the Union Pacific Railroad's twenty-five 4000 class 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built between 1941 and 1944 by Alco. No. 4012 is on display at the Steamtown National Historic Site at Scranton, PA.
A világ legnagyobb gőzmozdonya a Union Pacific vasúttársaság Big Boy artikulált (csuklós) 4-8-8-4 tengelyelrendezésű mozdonya. A 4012-es sorozatszámú egyik túlélő mozdony a pennsylvaniai Scranton vasúttörténeti emlékhelyén van kiállítva, távolról sem tökéletes állapotban - nekem viszont óriási élmény volt a monstrum megérintése, alapos megszemlélése, miután annyi mindent olvastam róla különböző könyvekben.
The Big Boys were the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, combining two sets of eight driving wheels with both a four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox.
The Big Boys were specifically designed to pull a 3,600 short ton (3,300 t) freight train over the long 1.14% grade of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. Before their arrival, helpers were needed. Adding and removing helpers from a train slowed them down. For such locomotives to be worthwhile, they had to be faster and more powerful than slow mountain luggers tried after World War I. To avoid locomotive changes, the new class would need to pull long trains at sustained speed—60 miles per hour (100 km/h)—once past the mountain grades. Towards the end of the 4000's career (in the late 1950s) it was found that they could still pull more than their rated tonnage - they regularly pulled 4,450 short tons (4,040 t) up the Wasatch grade, unassisted.
They were designed for stability at 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). They were built with a heavy margin of reliability and safety, as they normally operated well below that speed in freight service. Optimal horsepower was achieved at about 35 mph (56 km/h); optimal tractive effort, at about 10 mph (16 km/h).
25 Big Boys were built, all were coal burning, with large grates to burn low quality Wyoming coal from mines owned by the railroad. Postwar increases in the price of both coal and labor and the efficiency of diesel-electric motive power foretold a limited life for the Big Boys, but they were among the last steam locomotives taken out of service. The last revenue train hauled by a Big Boy ended its run early in the morning on July 21, 1959. Four of them remained in operational condition at Green River, Wyoming until 1962. Their duties were assumed by diesels and turbines.
Given that two years ago we underwent a major revamp of our living quarters and did a massive declutter, it may seem odd that I've filled up a tiny space of our tiny home with a canvas. The reason for this is that when I was given a voucher for a canvas of Rhossili for our Charity Dinner Auction earlier in the month, I was also given an extra voucher to use at the same place. It also feels very self indulgent to put a photo I took myself onto the wall, but my OH insisted although I got to choose which one. I rarely if ever put full photos of our home on Flickr either unlike many but I've made an exception because it puts it into context.
Original pic in comments.
LOS ANGELES – A 14-year-old teen who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and was given life-saving emergency medical treatment will re-unite at a Venice fire station with the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Firefighter/Paramedics who saved him.
The survivor, 14-year-old Jacob Perez, experienced this dire medical emergency while on a baseball field in Venice on March 13. An LAFD Firefighter/Paramedic dispatcher provided initial bystander CPR instructions over the phone to the 911 caller and quickly dispatched EMS resources to the incident. Upon their arrival, LAFD Firefighter/Paramedics implemented advanced life support measures and Jacob eventually regained consciousness and was transported to a local hospital. After a short stay, he made a full recovery.
Jacob and his family met and thanked his LAFD rescuers at Fire Station 63 in Venice, California at a press conference on Saturday, April 17, 2021.
Photo Use Permitted via Creative Commons - Credit: LAFD Photo | Kevin Johnson
LAFD Incident: 031121-0713
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GT60 MTT is a Setra S416GT-HD C53Ft coach in the fleet of Mott, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It was new to Buzzlines, Hythe, Kent as BF60 OFZ in December 2010. It passed to Mott in May 2014 and was given its current mark the following month.
Kikyo is a powerful Priestess who is given the task of guarding the Shikon Jewel.She falls in love with InuYasha and considers using the jewel to turn him from a half-demon into a full human; this would cause the Shikon Jewel to vanish, allowing her to live as an ordinary woman by his side. However, Naraku disguises himself as InuYasha to attack her village, mortally wounding her. With her last strength, Kikyo shoots a charmed arrow into the real InuYasha to seal him to a sacred tree, then orders the Shikon Jewel to be burned with her on her funeral pyre. The jewel disappears and is apparently destroyed, but is reborn 500 years later in the body of Kagome Higurashi, her spiritual reincarnation.After Kagome travels back through time and reappears fifty years after Kikyo's death, an ogress tries to pull her reincarnated soul into a clay body made with Kikyo's bones and ashes. Kagome appears to suffer no permanent harm, but a small part of her soul detaches and reanimates the new body with Kikyo's memories, personality, and human appearance. Although Kikyo retains some of her old powers in this form, she remains technically "dead" and must absorb the souls of dead women in order to move. At first, she wants to vengefully drag InuYasha to hell and kill Kagome to recover the rest of her soul. However, Kikyo gradually returns to her former compassionate nature and learns the real circumstances of her death. She protects Kohaku, saving his life, and finally dies in InuYasha's arms after being attacked by Naraku.
Ah, Ukraine! When I first visited Rusfurrence in 2013, and was given a tour of Moscow by my excellent hosts, I thought I’d fallen in love with Russian cuisine – only to discover that nearly everything I’d devoured was in fact Ukrainian. Therefore, I knew I would one day have no choice but to visit the source, and boy howdy, was it worth it.
Our hosts and dear friends took such excellent care of us, with ‘us’ including a surprising number of foreigners, most of whom had never been to Ukraine before. My boyfriend Rush joined me, as did our friend Bostitch, and we met up with Oatcake and Fox Amoore and far, far too many other friends to mention.
The convention itself was fantastic, marked by the lively, can-do spirit the Ukrainians are known for, though I regrettably saw far too little of it. We’d wanted to take a quick look at Kiev while we were in the country but it wound up taking us three hours to get back, and it also didn’t help that I’d caught a bug that left me too tired to partake of many of the events – including a party bus!
Still, there was plenty of fun to be had in the evenings. The Tiger Bar set up in the corridor of the fourth floor, the Stone Soup bar in the suite and balcony of room 107, and of course the traditional picnic and barbecue in the woods, which I was told was how WUFF had originally started. It started raining rather fiercely immediately after the campfire got started, but the Ukrainians proved themselves indomitable, putting together a shovel team to dig emergency trenches and build dams around the fire, which never went out!
Words can’t describe the warmth and fun of the con. We’ll certainly be back.
For more WUFF ’16 photos, check out the gallery here: www.flickr.com/photos/alexfvance/albums/72157668089241926
As always, share and enjoy.
- Alex "Khaki” Vance
If you want to say hi, you can find me on Twitter @khakidoggy, or drop me an email at khakidoggy@me.com
[ If you appear in any of the photos you're free to use them; if you know anyone in a photo, please do share it with them! ]
For even more con photography: www.flickr.com/photos/alexfvance/albums/
SmartEdu Computer Education - First Year Anniversary - Best Performance Award to Ms.Kavitha (Senior Faculty), Given by Mr.Jai Shankar
YORK, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 06: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on October 6th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
given in Memory of the Borstall and Sutcliffe families of this parish by John Sutcliffe Borstall of Melbourne, Australia, 1885 by Clayton and Bell.
Walauwa or walawwa is the name given to a feudal/colonial manor house in Sri Lanka of a native headmen. It is also refers to the feudal social systems that existed during the colonial era.
The term walauwa is derived from the Tamil word valavu, which denotes a compound or garden, and by implication, a large house with aristocratic connotations. The pinnacle of walauwas in the Sinhala social stratum is the wasala walauwa. Wasala is derived from the Tamil vaasal, which means an entrance. In the Sinhalese social hierarchy, a wasala walawa would typically be the ancestral residence of a mudaliyar.
Walauwas vary in style, elegance and uniqueness depending upon the financial resources of the individual families and in the village or area's social structure. Most walauwas tend to incorporate aspects of traditional pre-colonial Ceylonese architecture, as well as Dutch and later colonial influences. A walauwa usually consisted of a cluster of buildings linked by verandahs, with an internal courtyard (medamidula), which separated the private life of the family from the headman's public duties.
The walauwa were traditionally associated with the homes of the courtiers (radala), members of the royal court in Kandy. It was displaced by their colonial equivalents following the dissolution of the Kingdom of Kandy by the British.
Given that walls down at Leake Street last for just about long enough to grab a photo before someone throws up another piece or they're relentlessly tagged we thought we'd make the most of the ceiling space we had to do a little tagger baiting. If you're good enough and can get up to the ceiling to throw your tag up then you’re in, it’s as simple as that! We don’t mess about. This is ironclad!
As a side note I'm not entirely sure why we thought it would be at all easy to put lettering on a curved ceiling. But at least we managed to get there in the end. It's pretty tricky to get a decent photo though...
Cheers
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A combination of sunshine emerging through a light misty rain has given this kereru's feathers a special sparkling quality.
Picyured feeding on tree lucern, mid winter, Zealandia wildlife sanctuary.
Kereru, the New Zealand Pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) is a bird endemic to New Zealand. Māori call it Kererū in most of the country but kūkupa and kūkū in some parts of the North Island, particularly in Northland. New Zealand pigeons are commonly called wood pigeons but are not the same as the Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) which is a member of a different genus.
The kererū belongs to the family Columbidae, and the subfamily Treroninae, which is found throughout Southeast Asia, Malaya, Africa and New Zealand. The members of this subfamily feed largely on fruits, mainly drupes. New Zealand Pigeons are members of the pigeon genus Hemiphaga (Bonaparte, 1854), which is endemic to the New Zealand archipelago and Norfolk Island. However recently a Hemiphaga bone was found on Raoul Island. The Parea or Chatham Island Pigeon (Hemiphaga chathamensis) is traditionally considered a subspecies of the Kererū, but is here treated as a separate species.
The New Zealand Pigeon is a large (550 to 850 g) arboreal fruit-pigeon found in forests from Northland to Stewart Island/Rakiura, ranging in habitats from coastal to montane. The general morphology is that of a typical pigeon, in that it has a relatively small head, a straight soft-based bill and loosely attached feathers. It also displays typical pigeon behaviour, which includes drinking by suction, a wing-threat display, hitting with the wing when threatened, a diving display flight, a ‘bowing’ display, ritualised preening and ‘billing’ during courtship. New Zealand Pigeons build flimsy, shallow, twiggy nests and feed crop milk to hatchlings.
The New Zealand Pigeon grows to some 51 cm (20 inches) in length and 650 g in weight. The head, throat and wings are generally a shiny green-purple colour, but with a bronze tinge to the feathers. The breast is typically white and the bill red with an orange-ish tip. The feet and eyes are red. Juveniles have a similar colouration but are generally paler with dull colours for the beak, eyes and feet and a shorter tail.
The New Zealand Pigeons make occasional soft coo sounds (hence the onomatopoeic names), and their wings make a very distinctive "whooshing" sound as they fly. The bird's flight is also very distinctive. Birds will often ascend slowly before making impressively steep parabolic dives; it is thought that this behaviour is often associated with nesting, or nest failure
The New Zealand Pigeons are commonly regarded as frugivorous, primarily eating fruits from native trees. They play an important ecological role, as they are the only birds capable of eating the largest native fruits and drupes (those with smallest diameter greater than 1 cm), such as those of the taraire, and thus spreading the seeds intact. While fruit comprises the major part of their diets, the New Zealand Pigeon also browses on leaves and buds, especially nitrogen rich foliage during breeding. One of their favorite leaves to eat is from an introduced plant, the common plum tree. The diet changes seasonally as the availability of fruit changes, and leaves can comprise the major part of the diet at certain times of the year, such as when there is little fruit around.
Breeding generally depends on the occurrence of ripe fruit, which varies seasonally, annually (good years and bad years), and by location. New Zealand Pigeons, like other frugivorous pigeons, feed on many species with tropical affinities, including the Lauraceae and Arecaceae but live in the temperate forest of New Zealand and also feed on podocarp species, thought to be elements of Gondwana, such as miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea) and Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides).[10][11][13][12] The more tropical tree species are restricted to the warmer northern half of the North Island, and in these regions pigeons can nest all year round, except when moulting between March and May, provided enough fruit is available. Further south many tropical tree species are missing and in these areas breeding usually occurs between October (early spring) and April (late summer/early autumn), again depending on fruit availability.
New Zealand Pigeons nest in trees, laying a single egg, in a flimsy nest constructed of a few twigs thrown together. The egg is incubated for 28 days. The young bird then takes another 36 days to fledge. In seasons of plentiful fruit the pigeons can successfully nest up to four times.
The population of the New Zealand Pigeon declined considerably after the arrival of humans in New Zealand, and this trend continues, especially in the North Island, but is still relatively common in the west of the South Island and in coastal Otago. They are commonly found in native forests (lowlands in particular), scrub, rural and city gardens and parks.
The introduced Australian common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) and introduced species of rats — mainly the ship or black rat (Rattus rattus) but also the kiore or Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) and brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) — have significantly reduced the amount of fruit available for pigeons and other native birds and also prey on eggs and nestlings.
Pigeon populations are under also threat from hunting, habitat degradation and poor reproductive success. Pigeons were very numerous until about the 1860s and large flocks used to congregate in fruiting trees to feed. Restrictions on the shooting of pigeons were enacted as early as 1864, with total protection since 1921, although the enforcement against hunting was not consistent. Some Māori protested, claiming a traditional right to hunt the pigeon.
Not normally given to HDR images I suspect this is terribly cliched, It was more an exercise in extreme perspective correction,
it's been through Luminance HDR, Lightroom, photoshop and back to lightroom
using Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
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Margie Givens was a dau. of Martin and Letitia Givens who lived on 5th Ave. North behind the Church of Christ.
Que Sera Sera was the name given to this R4D-5L (Douglas DC-3) that made the first landing at the South Pole on 31 October 1956. It was named after a popular song of the time. The aircraft's crew of seven were the first Americans to set foot on the pole and the first humans since CAPT Robert F. Scott of the Royal Navy reached it in 1912.
The success of the DC-3 in the commercial market spurred interest in the aircraft from the U.S. military. Of the 10,000 DC-3s ordered by the Army Air Forces, the Navy received 568, designating them R4D Skytrains. Many served in the Naval Air Transport Service created during World War II. Other roles included carrying Marine Corps paratroopers, dropping flares in support of close air support missions in Korea, and supporting expeditions to the Antarctic.
Equipped with skis for operating from the ice cap, the latter birds achieved their first fame in January 1947, when Commander William Hawkes (with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd aboard) led a flight of six R4Ds off the deck of the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea (CV-47) as part of Operation Highjump. This marked the first carrier take-off for the R4D. These planes operated along with six PBM flying boats for 24 days, logging 650 hours of flight time on photographic mapping flights covering 1,500,000 square miles of the interior and 5,500 miles of coastline of the continent of Antarctica.
This was followed by Operation Deep Freeze, and the 31 October 1956, flight of the R4D-5L nicknamed Que Sera Sera (Bureau Number 12418) now on display in the Museum. Piloted by Lieutenant Commander Gus Shinn and under the command of Rear Admiral George Dufek, it made the first landing on the ice at the South Pole, carrying the first Americans to set foot on the spot and the first expedition to reach it since 1912.
Though the polar landing was a bit rough, which was not unusual for the terrain, take-off from the pole proved a challenge. The high altitude of the ice cap—about 10,000 feet at the pole—starved engines of oxygen and robbed wings of their lift. That, along with the plane's 28,000-pound weight, required a jet assisted take off, the JATO bottles normally triggered after the plane hit 30 knots. However, Que Sera Sera remained stuck with the engines at full power—"We just sat on the ice like an old mud hen," Shinn said. To break loose, Shinn fired four JATO bottles. That did the trick, but he was worried about having enough JATO left to get airborne. They barely made it, only to be enveloped in ice and snow, relying on instruments to keep flying.
The JATO racks and landing gear skis remain on the aircraft as a reminder of its special place in aviation history.
www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits...
Given to competitors finishing in the top eight, as it was akin to making a final, even if you only had to compete once like I did.
Given the amount of this I've done over the past few days I thought it only appropriate.
Taken on Humphrey Park Train Station, 1/4/10.
Author Dennis Lehane will be our guest speaker at our Foundation Fundraiser on September 23rd, 2014. Tickets are on sale at the Palace Theatre Box office.
Given the dramatic treatment: 9 bracketed frames handheld run thru Photomatix to get the HDR then processed using Topaz Adjust to give the contrasty punch the sky needed.
SFIFF52- BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID...There has never been such excitement at any festival such as there was at tonights SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 52 awards ceremony for the PETER J. OWENS AWARD given this year to ROBERT REDFORD!
ROBERT REDFORD arrived with his family. (His lovely grandchildren looked identical to him! ). The red carpet was out and he was kind to stop for two autographs and photos.
One of his ex-employees was behind ADDA and she gave me a lovely mini-interview. Yes, ROBERT REDFORD is relaxed and sweet in real life also. She was walking by the Castro theatre and saw the marquee, so she stopped to see if she could wave a HELLO. When ADDA chatted with her and found out this sweet titbit, he snuck her in the press line next to me.
ROBERT REDFORD lit up like an angel when he saw his friend. They did quick hellos...and ADDA took some photos of ROBERT REDFORD!
Then ADDA put down his camera and put out his hand to say "CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU for SUNDANCE & your ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM !" He smiled and gracefully said THANK YOU! Then ROBERT REDFORD did a quick little few seconds interview and stepped through the doors of the CASTRO THEATRE.
ADDA's FESTIVAL PRESS contact has been ASHLEY who has been so sweet and kind. She gave ADDA a PRESS TICKET for the SHOW!
There were opening remarks by the SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GRAHAM LEGGAT. (HIs comments are always entertainly and charming. Hopefully, the festival will consider GRAHAM as next year's interviewer!)
The PETER J. OWENS AWARD is to honor an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence, and integrity. ROBERT REDFORD definately fits those classifications and more in his film screen career as well as private life. He was gentley interviewed by handsome San Francisco CRONICLE Publisher PHIL BRONSTEIN.
There were films clips from his long list of movies. The audience clapped for their favorites. Then the big moment came and ROBERT REDFORD came on stage. The whole theatre of 1,300 appreciative audience members jumped to their feet to applaud.
There were several questions about his social activism but mainly ROBERT REDFORD wanted to stick to the films. He recounted numerous antedotes about his career and cleared up some misgivings about some perceptions that have been written about him. (Things which mainly were taken from his 'charaters' in his films, than himself!!!!)
ROBERT REDFORD lovingly talked about his friend and co-star PAUL NEWMAN. One could feel that he misses his good friend. There was a movie project in the works to reunite the two friends before PAUL NEWMAN passed away.
ROBERT REDFORD was very gracious and never got uncomfortable about any uncomfortable questions or situations that arose during the interview. The audience hung on to his every word.
Afterwards there was a screening of BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID which was well attended.
When ADDA was leaving the theatre with his FESTIVAL FRIEND CHRISTINE, we came upon ROBERT REDFORD's GRANDCHILDREN. ADDA stopped in his tracks and politely asked if he could take their photos. They were very well mannered and said yes. ADDA then said how proud they must be of their GRANDDAD, and ADDA thanked 'him' for his supporting the arts & his enviromental activism. We had a quick interview/chat. They both will carry on the family torch of working at SUNDANCE though they are still not sure in what capacity. ADDA thanked them and shook their hands and wished them the best of luck. Their first interview was with ADDA who left out the obvious statement, THEY BOTH COULD FOLLOW GRANDFATHER'S MOVIE STAR CAREER! They both looked absolutely beautiful and were exceedingly polite & intelligent.
It truely was a memorable night...for many....expecially ME...!
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 22: during a Friendly match between i2i Albion and Dunnington at Haxby Road on September 22nd 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
IMAGE: Lincolnshire employers from Autism Care UK Ltd, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS trust and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service, proudly show their SaBRE awards given to them by The Lord-Lieutenant for Lincolnshire, Mr Tony Worth.
Awarding Lincolnshire employers
Seven Lincolnshire-based employers from both the public and private
sector are being awarded for supporting Defence personnel.
Reporters and photographers are invited to attend the awards
presentation at The White Hart Hotel, Bailgate, Lincoln LN1 3AR from
12.15pm prompt on Wednesday 3 December 2014.
The businesses from Lincoln, Grantham and Gainsborough are receiving a
Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Silver award for
demonstrating their support to Reservist employees.
The awards will be presented by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for
Lincolnshire, Tony Worth.
Reservists are men and women who give up their free time to train
alongside our regular (full-time) military forces and may be called on to
serve the country in times of need at home or aboard.
John Wilson, Regional SaBRE (Supporting Britain’s Reservists and
Employers) Campaign Director for the East Midlands, said: “Each of the
employers being awarded has shown a commitment to support Reservist
employees. They understand that the military training undertaken by
Reservists provides them with qualities that employer’s value and respect
including professionalism, adaptability, physical courage, management
skills and problem-solving ability.
“I am delighted that seven employers from Lincolnshire are being
recognised by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The MOD received over 500
nominations for Silver awards across the UK and 85 are being presented to
employers based in the East Midlands.”
Linda Houtby, Principal at Grantham College, has been invited to the
awards event. She said: “The College currently employs two Army
Reservists and we have been delighted with the variety of transferable
skills they bring back into the civilian workplace. Skills such as leadership,
problem-solving, decision making, communication and team building enhanced through Armed Forces training programmes, we believe are an excellent asset to our organisation. We are delighted to be receiving a Silver award from the MOD.”
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Media enquiries Please contact Becky Derbyshire at East Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association on 0115 924 8628 / em-comms@rfca.mod.uk
Note to editors Reporters and photographers are invited to attend the awards presentation at The White Hart Hotel, Bailgate, Lincoln LN1 3AR from 12.15pm prompt. Please contact Becky Derbyshire (using the above contact details) if you would like to attend.
The organisations being awarded in Lincolnshire are as follows:
? Autism Care UK Ltd, Lincoln
? Cathodic Protection Co Ltd, Grantham
? Ping Europe Limited, Gainsborough
? Grantham College, Grantham
? Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service, Lincoln
? South Kesteven District Council, Grantham
? United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lincoln
About the Employer Recognition Scheme
As part of Defence’s commitment to recognise and reward those employers who commit to supporting Defence personnel, a new Employer Recognition Scheme has recently been launched by the Prime Minister. The scheme recognises support given to Defence personnel including Reservists, veterans, families and cadets. The scheme has three levels of award.
•Bronze. Employers who wish to demonstrate a positive attitude towards employees who are Reservists, Armed Forces veterans or Cadet Force adult volunteers, are able to sign up online for a Bronze award: go to www.sabre.mod.uk and click on the ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ banner.
•The Silver award recognises employers who actively demonstrate support to Defence personnel. Employers have to be nominated for their
commitment to support Defence personnel; this is an annual process and, for 2014, 80 East Midlands’ employers are receiving Silver awards.
•The Gold award recognises those who have become advocates for the support of Defence personnel. The Gold award is an annual process and, for 2014, ten inaugural Gold award recipients were hosted at a Reception by the Prime minister at Downing Street in July. Gold awards for 2015 will be considered in the New Year.
To learn more about the Employer Recognition Scheme visit ers.sabre.mod.uk/
Photographer: Corporal Luisa Scott RLC
NOTE TO DESKS:
MoD release authorised handout images.
All images remain crown copyright.
Photo credit to read - Corporal Luisa Scott RLC (Phot)
Given that there is now only a few days until we pick the keys up to our house we decided that it may be an appropriate time to start packing. This is something that hasn’t taken place since we last moved up, and nothing reminds you quite how terrible a task it is like having boxes everywhere.
That and going up into the loft...
Given to me by a friendly man at the local railway museum in Oswestry. My ancestors came from Oswestry pre 1850 so I'm pleased to own this.
YORK, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: during the Friendly match between i2i Albion and i2i Blue at Haxby Road on September 29th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
Given the low clip-on handlebars and forward-set foot pegs, the steed on the right is more suited to a rider of simian rather than homo sapien tendencies.
This toy holds bad memories for me. It was given to my daughter by a person no longer in my life. She was bipolar, untreated, and had some serious issues. She went from sweet to horrid in seconds. I couldn't hang.
But it's a cool toy.
New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England. ( In 1303, Thomas de Chaucombe was given permission to hold a weekly market on Tuesdays at Milton, as well as an annual fair on the feast day of Mary Magdalene. ) The town has a high street and holds a market every Wednesday. Situated on the edge of the New Forest, the town is about six miles ( 10 km ) west of Lymington town centre and 12 miles ( 19 km ) east of Bournemouth town centre. New Milton dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, and encompasses Old Milton, Barton on Sea, Ashley, Bashley, and Wootton. It is recorded as having a population of around 23,000 in 2001. The traditional village centre of Milton was just south of the church. Up to the 1960's, moated earthworks were still visible next to the road known as Moat Lane. Excavations of these earthworks in 1956 revealed a series of peasant enclosures and hut remains dating from the 9th to the 12th century, but no evidence of a manorial farmstead was found.
The parish church of Milton is dedicated to Mary Magdalene and consists of a chancel with vestry, a nave and a western tower. The medieval church was pulled down and replaced around 1830, although the tower is of an earlier 17th century date. In 1835 a Church of England National School was founded on an island of land near the village green, where children were taught until just after World War I. In 1881, the population of the entire Milton parish was only 1489 people, and Milton was still a small village. The location of the village on the main Christchurch to Lymington road ( now the A 337 ) meant that there were two coaching inns - The Wheatsheaf and The George.
In March 1888 New Milton railway station was opened, which is still in operation today. A new town developed, which expanded rapidly with the coming of the railway and the name New Milton was used for the first time and can originally be traced back to the Post Office that stood opposite the railway station. In 1895, the owner of the Post Office, Emma Newhook, commissioned a sign, which read - New Milton Sub Post Office to differentiate it from the post office in Old Milton. This was officially accepted in 1896, and so the name New Milton caught on. Much of the local farmland has been developed, first in the 1960's for commuter housing and again in the 1970's for small industrial / trade units. There is a mix of housing from cottages on the outskirts to more modern, urban housing in the central area.
Milton village subsequently became known as Old Milton, and lies between New Milton and Barton on Sea. There are a few notable architectural points of interest in the local area. However, a distinctive row of Coast Guard Cottages are to be found in Barton Lane, Barton on Sea, which were built at the end of the 19th century by the Government of the day to house armed guards to try to stop the smuggling that was rife at the time. The Barton on Sea and Mudeford coastline was renowned for smuggling with many of the offshore seaways and routes to shore being named after well known local smuggling families. It was in this context that Frederick Marryat, author of The Children of the New Forest, was sent on patrol here as a young naval lieutenant in 1821, to watch over the Christchurch Bay area. Britain's first reinforced concrete bridge was built in 1901 just outside New Milton at Chewton. There was an earlier experiment in building with this material in its un reinforced form at Sway ( Sway Tower ).
New Milton water tower. Built in 1900 was the Tudor style water tower, which can be found adjacent to the car park in Osborne Road. It has a staircase and is constructed with a turret, slit windows and battlements. It is a striking orange - red colour, was built from locally manufactured bricks. The German Luftwaffe carried out bombing raids on New Milton on the 23rd August 1940, the 8th August 1942 and on January 22nd 1943. The town's water tower was suggested as the target. During the Second World War, New Milton homed evacuees and was a transit station for soldiers going to the battlefields. It also had an army hospital. It was a favourite for the airmen who were based at the nearby airfields at Lymington and Holmsley. The Memorial Centre in Whitefield Road commemorates those who died in the raids, as well as towns people who have died more recently. Bricks can be purchased for inscription and insertion into the wall of the Memorial Room, which stands to the left of the front door and contains mementos saved from the original building, which was destroyed by fire in the 1970's.
Ballard Lake that borders Fernhill Lane and Lake Grove Road, in New Milton is a picturesque area of New Milton that you could spend a hot summers day feeding the many ducks, mallards, geese that live around this lake. A few walks branch out from this lake to stroll along. Seats have been sited from donations from residents who have passed away and serve as a reminder to long lost friends or family. The stream from this lake meanders for many miles in many cases forming picturesque walks further along New Milton.
Various prototypes for Wireboy bounty given to backers of the project via Kickstarter (film and soundtrack in different formats).
UK version: Lilymeat
US version: Wireboy
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It's been over a decade since the release of MP-8, otherwise known to you and me as Masterpiece Grimlock. For whatever reason, Grimlock remains the only Dinobot to have been given a glorious Masterpiece form. While you can argue about how well the toy has held up, this was pretty much the only good G1 style Grimlock for the longest time.
No.. the Titans Return one was terrible, as was that.. thing that came out of the Energon series.
As part of the Studio Series line (which I guess is Hasbro/Takara's "whatever I feel like" line), a subline known as "Studio Series '86" was created, with what looks like sole purpose of creating figures from the 1986 movie. I mean, some of the characters have received new interpretations since 1986, but the modern engineering is a welcome touch.
I personally eagerly await a proper Galvatron, but for now, there's been no announcement. But, there's been a few interesting gems, one of which is Grimlock, who comes packed with Wheelie, everyone's favourite character in the movie.
The Studio Series Grimlock marks a return to form for the character. Chunky, loveable robot to chunky, lovable T-Rex, then back. No filler or anything exotic.
It's hard to say if this toy is a watered down MP like with some of the other recent figures,. After all, it's been a decade. However, I can definitely see the influences, as well as appreciate the improvements made.
So the figure retails for $69.99 CAD, or I believe $49.99 USD. Contents are... kind of sparse. You of course get Grimlock himself. Accessory wise, you get his twin barreled gun, a semi fixed pose Wheelie and a cardboard backdrop. His sword doesn't make an appearance here, sadly., let alone all the other fun weapons the 80s toy had.
While I recognize that Wheelie and Grimlock were effectively an item in the movie... screw Wheelie.
I would have preferred Grimlock to be properly armed.
Might as well get Wheelie out of the way. He comes basically ready to either sit, get down Gangnam style, or back his ass up. He's goa slingshot in one hand and his other hand in an accusatory point. He's got five points of six points of articulation - shoulders, hips, waist, and head. So yeah.. he's basically there.
Lets talk about the king himself, Grimlock.
The robot mode for Grimlock is about the height of MP 44, so just under 10 inches standing. Proportionally, Grimlock looks like a bruiser,, with broad shoulders (inherited from his MP form) and stocky feet (new to the formula). Overall, I'd say this is the MP proportions if they widened his feet and shortened his upper legs. Whether or not this floats your boat is preference, but from a show accuracy perspective nobody really wins, though fortunately they did include the multi coloured shins. Gold chest is as prominent and blocky as ever, and the sculpt is.. well, it's not exactly a hard sculpt to get right. Eyes are blue because, well that's what was in the animation model.
Articulation wise, the figure is pretty typical for a mainline Leader figure. Posing wise, tou get ankle side tilts, single jointed knees, thigh twist, standard hips, waist, standard shoulders, bicep swivel, single jointed elbows, wrist, and ball jointed head. An nice improvement to the MP I've see is that Grimlock's "wings" are connected to the body via a double joint, which not only improves durability, but also allows for more posing options when it comes to this part of the body.
While we're on the subject of bot mode, those who get upset at hollowness of the figure should be relatively content, as the only hollow spot I can see is the cavity where the fists rotate into.
Transformations into T-Rex us pretty straight forward, as was the MP version if I'm being honest. If you've ever handled a G1 Grimlock, this is pretty much the same thing with a few small twists thrown in, One example would be how the tail is now concealed within the back of the leg (from the MP again).
T-Rex itself is pretty good. Simplified, colour wise, just like the show model. The dino arms could have used an extra joint or two, especially wrists, but the introduction of the ball jointed shoulders is nice. Like the MP, this T-Rex has the rocket pack moulded into the back. No tail articulation is present, and due to the way the bicep snap out of the shoulders to form the knees of the T-Rex, holding some poses in dino mode may prove to be troublesome. On the plus side, his dino head has been beautifully created, and given an opening mouth and a turning neck.
Paint wise, the set actually isn't bad. As usual, there isn't much actual paint - on Grimlock you've got the golds, the multi coloured shins, the blues of the eyes and a red stripe on the outside of the wings. Wheelie, strangely, has much more paint cover, with basically anything that isn't black, matte grey, or that slingshot being covered in paint. Actual paint apps themselves aren't going to win any awards, but they are clean and crisp. I am especially happy with how smooth the gold paint applications on Grimlock are. Tampos (limited to the Autobot sigils) are sharply printed and applied.
While Grimlock doesn't look hollow, he certainly feels it. In a way it helps as this probably allows for easier posing. Wheelie, on the other hand, feels very solid. Still, Grimlock gets the job done, and it isn't like he feels fragile or can't take play testing. It's probably the same stuff everything else is made from these days, and is stiff enough to allow for some nice mechanical detailing. Joints are solid and will get the job done. There are no rough finishes on the parts nor did I encounter anything that I would call a QC issue, though there are instances where the thinness of the parts makes holding things in place a bit challenging. All-in-all what you'd expect from something you can get at your local big box store.
It's nice to see that the Studio Series continues to exhibit the generally good production values of the mainline , and it's especially nice to finally get a competent G1 Grimlock that can be played with, albeit under armed. Hopefully Hasbro/Takara will finish the line off and give us all five Dinobots and wash the terrible aftertaste of the combiner out of my mouth.