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Photo given to me by bride. She made me do a profile of a dulha (groom) and dulhan (bride) in the middle of each hand. In retrospect, I shouldn't have drawn the faces...
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:
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Pupils were given the option of choosing from the children's toy brief or the garden ornament option instead.
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...
(I have previously posted a picture of this artefact, although this is my own photograph of the object).
A miniature whistle pendant in the form of a pistol, chased with scrolling foliage and containing cosmetic tools within the barrel. According to tradition, this little gift was Henry VIII’s first gift to Anne Boleyn. Such little trinkets were often sewn onto the king’s masque costumes. They could be given away as gifts, easily lost or even stolen. For example in September 1510 the goldsmith was paid £266 to make new trinkets including small hearts and roses in gold because so many former charms had been stolen or ‘given away at his [Henry’s] pleasure’
Given the day when I took these, I couldn't resist... Composite of three other images (check my Photostream for those)
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)
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.
IMAGE: Lincolnshire employers from Grantham college and South Kesteven District Council, 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)
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.
Womenswold, Wymynswold, Wimlingswold or Wyiningswould (as I saw on a memorial yesterda!) is a church I have sruggled to get into over the years. There are two keyholders, but last time, neither answered their doors. Yesterday, however, one did, and I was given a simple modern key to unlock the inner door, and finally see inside.
St Margaret's has just been renovated, thanks to a grant from the Lottery Heritage fund, the most obvious change, for returning visitors, is the reloaction of the font. It does look spanking inside, I have to say, and this ancient church, which is covered with memorials is worth half an hour of anyones time.
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Coming into Womenswold is almost like visiting a miniature village. Houses hem in the church and the view from the approach road is completely filled by flint wall. The church is mostly thirteenth century - full of lancets - but remodelled in the late medieval period and again by the Victorians. The nave north wall has no windows and displays three impressive memorials including one by Sir Robert Taylor. In the chancel are two tomb recesses - the north one still has its original thirteenth century coffin lid with Lombardic script whilst the southern one was messed about with in the nineteenth century when its coffin lid was moved a few feet to the west and hidden under the choir stalls. It has recently been uncovered again. Behind the altar is a lovely tin inscription plate whilst below it is some nineteenth century stencilling that would have looked good through the legs of the altar. The sedilia and piscina have all been recut by the Victorians. The pulpit hangs over its stone bases almost like the prow of a ship whilst the font has a row of very lively encaustic tiles around its base. All in all a lovely and well cared for church.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Womenswold
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LOCATION: On a raised roughly triangular shaped site (churchyard) at c. 320 feet above O.D. The church is in the N.W. part of the parish surrounded by a group of c. 18 cent. houses; Woolage is the larger population area in the S.E. part of the parish.
DESCRIPTION: The nave and chancel form one continuous long rectangle, with an added tower to the west. The coursed flintwork and western quoins of the nave suggest that this is a 12th century structure, which had an enlarged chancel added in the late 13th century. The tower is also probably late 13th century, while the small north transept (? a chapel) is a little later (? c. 1300) with its wider lancet. The chancel has eastern buttresses, and three lancets on each side as well as an eastern triplet. (There is a bishop's head sculpture - ? corbel - set in the east gable). There is a small 13th century doorway in the S. chancel wall with a hoodmould, and a restored buttress in the middle of the S. wall marks the nave/chancel boundary. A small brick porch was added on the S.W. (dated 1729 on keystone), in Flemish bond with some blue headers.
A sunken boiler house has been added on the northside of the tower (with steps down from the west), and surprisingly the N. wall of the nave has no windows in it. It seems to have been completely refaced (or totally rebuilt?) in c. 1300 when the north transept was built. The latter now contains the organ, so that the interior is obscured. It used to house the Old Nethersole pew.
Internally the chancel, of the late 13th century is the best surviving part of the medieval building. It has a continuous string course and tomb recesses on either side as well as a triple trefoil-headed sedilia, and a trefoil-headed piscina on the south-east. There are good mouldings to the rere-arches. Hasted (op cit., 265) mentions 'old French capitals, nearly obliterated' over one tomb-recess. The new chancel may have been built c. 1286 when, Wingham College was set up.
The south side of the nave has two two-light early 16th century windows with depressed heads. These windows perhaps replace early 14th century windows, as shown by the pointed knapped-flint relieving arches over them.
There is a 1749 Bell inscribed: THO I AM BUT SMALL I WILL BE HEARD AMONG YOU ALL.
Unfortunately the major restoration of 1869 was a heavy one with much new work, both masonry repairs and the new roofs, and the church was not visited by Sir Stephen Glynne, until the following year.
BUILDING MATERIALS: (Incl. old plaster, paintings, glass, tiles etc.): The principal imported stone is Caen for the quoins, lancet jambs, etc. There are also a few reused the Roman bricks and a little Reigate stone (eg. N. side of tower), and the c. 1869 restoration seems to be in Bath stone (eg. restored E. buttresses, W. doorway and W. nave quoins).
15/06/2023. Ladies European Tour 2023. Amundi German Masters, Golf & Country Club Seddiner See, Berlin, Germany . 15-18 June. Ellie Givens of England during the first round. Credit: Tristan Jones/ LET
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.
A disappointing headline given the story... a sleepwalking builder had somnambulated out of his own first-floor french window, into thin air, where his as-yet-unbuilt balcony is planned to be.
I presume he must have been dreaming about the finished job!
"W'foot sleepwalker's house plunge ordeal" would have hade much more comedic value.
Do these people not know how to sell newspapers?
;o)
Dubai was incredible. Literally breath taking! I got given a lovely 4 star hotel near the airport by emirates with my ticket, which was great, and although the rooms were standard, it had awesome facilities including a bar in the middle of a swimming pool! After dropping my stuff off here I headed off to Old Dubai!
Culture is what interests me, so the older and more Arabic areas of Dubai were what I wanted to see. So I headed off to the gold Souq in al ras. Unfortunately it appeared to be a holy day, so not all of the gold stalls were open, but the amount of gold and goods on display was astounding anyway. Walking along around here I stumbled onto some awesome mosques as well. The atmosphere was lively, and different from what I am used to. I spent quite allot of time in this area searching for the spice souq aswell, although it was not until later that I found it. This area did seem a bit more westernised than I had hoped however, so I headed to the waterfront to catch an abra across the river. After walking up and down waterfront a couple of times trying to find somewhere to get on an abra, I gave up! I couldn't find it anywhere- it's probably just because I don't read Arabic! So instead I took the metro across, and found what I would consider my faviroute area in Dubai.
Although the views from the other side of the river was great, from this side it was fantastic. The crystal blue water, seagulls, old dusty background with colourful wooden boats floating along. Truly magnificent! The walk along the waterfront and around this area just took you back 20 years. Arabs wearing Classic Arabic light flowy clothing, head scarfs and skull caps. Children playing with birds, street stalls selling freshly squeezed orange juice, coconuts, and all manner of Arabic attire, spices and foods. Going further away from the waterfront were tiny lanes, just wide enough for one man, yet they had stores along either side, giving you am awe-inspiring claustrophobic shopping experience. I loved it.
Here I found the oldest fort in Dubai, which had been transformed into the Dubai heritage museum with all sorts of old artifacts. The building was ancient stone and sand, and just looked like a giant sand castle. So cool! It looked smaller than it was aswell, due to the rather large mosque built next door.
Walking further and further along the waterfront, with this ancient style Arabic life all around me, I decided I loved the Arabic life. The sound calling out for prayer, was incredible. I didn't think they did that in Dubai, but they do, and I loved it. The people always happy, the streets- dirty, small and sandy, but a world away from my own, and the sights, beautiful and majestic despite the general lack of colour. It was great. Not only this but the smells! The spices and herbs odour all around, gave you a real treat just to walk near. But the food- was even better. The Dubai street food was an explosion of flavours and herbs. It wasn't spicy, but very fragrant, and I loved it! I spent far longer here than I anticipated! But it was too great to leave..
20-12-13
Given its founders, Tomball, Texas is a little bit German. Tomball, just 28 miles northwest of downtown Houston, is Texan for Fun!
This is a photograph from a set of photographs taken at the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2017 which was held in Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland at 20:00 on Friday 30th June 2017. This superb road race is now firmly established again as one of the fastest and best organised road races of its kind in Leinster. The race follows a left handed course around a well known local walking route around Laragh and in the closing kilometer runs parallel to the Royal Canal into the finish at the railway station in the town having started at the primary school close to the St. Coca's running track. In fact for several hundred meters after the 4KM marker towards the finish the course runs parallel with the railway, canal and the R148 between Kilcock and Maynooth. This geographic feature is one of only a small number towns with this parallel configuration in all of Europe.
The members of St. Coca's AC and the many volunteers from the local community must be given great praise for organising another fantastic night of racing for runners, joggers, and walkers. The 5KM course is very flat with the exception of short incline up a motorway overpass and makes its way along narrow country lanes sheltered on either side by hedgerows. These roads offer a great contrast from the urban population of Kilcock which has grown as a satellite town of the greater Dublin area. The nice summer evening made for an enjoyable night for everyone with a large crowd gathering at the finish to cheer on participants. Refreshments and prize awards were held in the Gaelscoil near to both the race start and close to the St. Coca's running track. Running clubs and groups from all over Leinster and beyond were represented in the race tonight.
Electronic timing and event management was provided by Irish company MyRunResults.com (Website: www.myrunresults.com/)
This photograph is part of a larger set of photographs from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2017 which can be found in the following Flickr Photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157682901644263
GPS Trace of the 5KM Course (the route of the course has not changed in a few years) connect.garmin.com/activity/194011978
Photographs from previous St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Races on our Flickr photostream:
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157670088473266
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157655117810205
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645423471903
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157634382263872
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157630347296616
Our photographs on Flickr from the St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627042558602
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Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?
Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.
BUT..... Wait there a minute....
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.
This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
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I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
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.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
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.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
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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This photograph was taken by Mr Barry Howard who has kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to his collection and allowed us to publish the images.
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For Christmas I was given Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, where I found this recipe. You don't knead it or do much shaping, and is baked in a covered pot in the oven. Excellent work-to-tastiness ratio. Highly recommended.
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Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery
Time: About 1½ hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising
3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
¼ teaspoon instant yeast
1¼ teaspoons salt
Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed.
1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
3. Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
4. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is browned. Cool on a rack.
Bavaria is the name given to a monumental, bronze sand-cast 19th-century statue in Munich, southern Germany. It is a female personification of the Bavarian homeland, and by extension its strength and glory.
The statue is part of an ensemble which also includes a hall of fame and a stairway. It was commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria, with the specific design being chosen by competition. It was cast at the Munich foundry of J.B. Stiglmair between 1844 and 1850 and is the first colossal statue since Classical Antiquity to consist entirely of cast bronze. It was and is up to the present day considered a technological masterpiece. Because of its size it had to be produced in several parts: it is 18.52 metres high and weighs about 87.36 tons. It rests on a stone base which is 8.92 metres high.
An internal circular staircase leads up to a platform in the head, where four openings in the helmet provide a view of the Theresienwiese and downtown Munich.
2014 Mattel USA Fall Catalog. This was a catalog given to store managers, a vendor catalog, with manufacturing numbers so store managers could order items to then sell in their stores. All items in this catalog should have a packaging date of 2013, the date on the Barbie box or fashion pack should be 2013. The photographs in this catalog are similar to production, press or prototype information so the actual dolls and fashions sold in store might be slightly different have different colors, etc. This is especially true for the cheaper items and playsets. special editions and store exclusives may not be listed here. I no longer share catalogs without the website name on them because people posted my images on Facebook and Pinterest without giving me credit. You are welcome to download and repost catalog pages with the BarbieReference.com watermark on them. A link back to my website is also appreciated. If you found this useful please stop by BarbieReference.com and click an ad to support the site. More pages from this catalog are only available on BarbieReference.com
This checklist would have given step by step instructions to the Apollo 13 astronauts as they prepared to explore the lunar surface. However, plans for a Moon landing were abandoned after an explosion in the service module. Had the mission gone as planned, this checklist would have bene discarded on the Moon. Instead it was signed by all three crewmembers and given to Scott Millicon, the author of the checklist as a "thank you" for his support.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.