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I was given three rolls of 35mm Kodak Technical Pan (expired 2002). I hunted around for a development scheme and finally settled on this. Mostly because I had Rodinal. I'm only posting in case some of you still have some in the fridge.
16 EI
Rodinal 1+150 for thirteen minutes
Agitate with 30 seconds initial inversions, then 3 inversions at 10 minutes,7 minutes,4 minutes, and 1minute counting down. (every 3 minutes)
Regular stop, fix and hypo.
I used 5ml of Rodinal in 750ml of H2O. That gives less than the recommended 10ml of Rodinal but the negatives really look great (full tone scale).
I had to figure out a curve profile as I felt (and still do) that the midtones were not right. Technical Pan is also a dust magnet; lots of healing tool. Even with Rodinal there is virtually no grain.
With this last roll I used a Yellow filter which made life easy to post process.
Given that my last photo was colorful and a macro, I figure all I had left to do for my Flickr duties was upload some cat photos. ;-) This is my cousin Jay's cat, while I was showing him (Jay, not the cat) the fun you can have with old lenses.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Above Texas Bar - Liefdefjorden.
Texas Bar - the name given to this hut in 1927 by the trapper Hilmar Nøis who constructed several huts around Woodfjorden and Liefdefjorden. He had once visited Texas and maybe the bars had left a homely impression.
A short distance behind the camera is another Ben Nevis, though I did not know this at the time. The real Ben Nevis is 1700 miles to the SSW.
First ascent probably 1899 by Dr William Speirs Bruce during the Prince Albert I of Monaco Expedition in 1899. Bruce had been the second superintendent of the Scottish Ben Nevis Metereology Observatory after Robert Traill Ormond. Bruce went on to accompany Prince Albert 1st of Monaco on his ship based explorations of Svalbard.
This was before Bruce led the Scotia Expedition (supported financially by Prince Albert) to Antarctica with notable scientific success, however earning the considerable and nearly overwhelming prejudice of the Royal Society, the Royal Geographic Society and The Admiralty who concluded it was a diversion and distraction from the first Scott expedition 1901-4.
As an outcome of his atrocious treatment by the RGS and Admiralty, he was unable to find a publisher for his scientific and exploratory findings on the remarkably successful Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902-4 aboard the Scotia. His material was only posthumously published in its original form and layout in 1992 by the Edinburgh University Press entitled "The Log of the Scotia". It did not help his cause that English establishment regarded him as a dangerous Scottish separatist.
Bruce overwintered in Antarctic in a prepared anchorage, without sustaining damage or being entrapped. Scott had to be rescued and the Discovery dynamited out of the ice by a Dundee whale ship captain McKay, sent down to the Antarctic to achieve this.
Bruce also formed a company to explore the geological minerals around Isfjord before that location was named after the American industrialist Longyear.
William Speirs Bruce also became an early President of the Scottish Ski Club.
Yet he remains little known even in his own country.
Seton Gordon the well known Scottish conservation author published 'Amid Snowy Wastes' in 1922, a description of wildlife around Svalbard. I have a first edition amongst 11 of his books, and a biography, and an anthology of his best writing.
Given Object Still Life - College
They say never work with children and animals...
Given your interest in foreign ablutionary methods, Ma, I thought I'd show you a traditional Japanese toilet (rather than one of the famously computerised modern ones). One faces to the right, incidentally,
which is opposite of what I would have guessed.
The CPMR’s Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) has given its full backing to key plans for a territorial alliance aimed at developing a long-term strategy to build a sustainable future for all citizens in the Mediterranean.
The ‘Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance Joint Declaration’ was signed by political representatives from 5 Mediterranean organisations - including the IMC, the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée (EPM), MedCities, Latin Arc, and the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion - at a major international seminar on ‘The Future of the Mediterranean Region after 2020’, held in Barcelona on 4 February being co-organized by the Catalan Government, the EPM and the IMC and attended by more than 200 participants.
This event and signature were performed in the broader framework of the “Mediterranean Catalonia Forum,” that focused on reinforcing the importance of the Mediterranean worldwide and the crucial role of regional cooperation in the EU and Euro-Mediterranean agenda and policies.
It was held back-to-back with the renewal of the Presidency of the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée, from the Government of Catalonia to the Balearic Islands, and the organisation of the CPMR Intermediterranean Commission Political Bureau.
The signature of the “Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance” was attended in particular by politicians of all the involved networks and will remain open for other key actors to endorse it in the future.
Its priorities, among others, are as follows:
• The demands that governing institutions – considering the post-2020 horizon and the two next programming periods – work harder towards the implementation and integration of emerging sea basin, macro-regional strategies and other connected initiatives and cooperation instruments, so as to build a common, more cohesive sustainable and co-owned Mediterranean macro-region involving all the territorial actors;
• Structuring a strong and operational multi-level and multi-stakeholder network, in order to work – together with EU and Euro-Mediterranean Institutions - in a more integrated way in the long run, to design and develop common projects and to support policies based on capitalization of results (e.g. from the Interreg MED Thematic Communities);
• Offering firm support to cooperation at political and technical levels between regional and local stakeholders in the EU, the IPA countries and non-European Mediterranean partner countries, as well as among all the components of the four helix: public and private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations/civil society.
Non violence is one the five vratas given to us by Lord Mahavira. But, do we understand it fully in essence of the term? Do you want to know more about what did the Lord intend to tell us about Ahimsa? Check out the following video to get a better understanding about non-violence. Also, read onto the following links for more details.
In English- www.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science/n...
In Gujarati- www.dadabhagwan.in/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science/no...
In Hindi- hindi.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science...
Easter eggs are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime.
The egg is a symbol of the rebirth of the Earth in celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus.
The oldest tradition is to use dyed or painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jelly beans. These eggs are often hidden, allegedly by the Easter Bunny, for children to find on Easter morning. Otherwise, they are generally put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.
Hope more of you can join Zoya & Naeem's Nest! (Zoya's Collection / MallRoad247.com)!
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Early 1990s Glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlaces MUST BE BANNED AND SHUT DOWN AND HAVE ALL OF THEIR MONEY SIEZED BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND ALL OF THEIR MONEY GIVEN TO NELVANA safety updated McDonald's PlayPlaces built since the late 1990s MUST BE KEPT FOREVER because Sky tubes from the early 1990s MUST BE BANNED and never ever get reinvented in the future because the high sky tubes from the early 1990s are flammable which can cause fire which does kill people which is an extremely bad thing and Betty Quan the author of the Corduroy (Nelvana TV series) episode Cute as a Button was having lunch at an early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlace and having Super-Size and playing I Wanna Be Like You which is the racist song from Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book on her radio and watching 1992's Tom and Jerry the movie with a pear-shaped wrecking ball destroying a beautiful old fashioned living house resembling the Blue's Clues house on her VCR or DVD player while she was writing the Corduroy (Nelvana TV series) episode Cute as a Button is why the Corduroy (Nelvana TV series) episode Cute as a Button does have an upsetting ending when Corduroy's button falls in a storm drain and Corduroy's button rolling down the water pipe right before it fell in a storm drain is a huge reference to the high dangerous sky tubes in early 1990s glass walled McDonald's PlayPlaces and forgot to show how they got Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy the Bear does have Two Buttons on his green Corduroy overalls forever and Corduroy's button falling in the storm drain at the end of Cute as a Button is another controversial aspect of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book aliging with King Louie who is seen as a racist 1940s referring to the racist 1940s cartoon Scrub Me Mamma with a Bogie Beat because of Betty Quan was listening to I Wanna Be Like You on her radio while she was writing Cute as a Button so this another reason why Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book does have an advisory that reads "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.". But good thing McDonald's is now making safety improvements and cleaness improvements to their PlayPlaces seen at www.softplay.com/work/mcdonalds-playplace-solutions/. And good thing I am reviving Corduroy (Nelvana TV series) with an entirely new season and new episode called Two Buttons again and Forever which is the sequel to Cute as a Button fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake and undoing the bad influences McDonald's Super-Size caused by showing that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever. So I hereby all of the last remaining early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlaces with high dangerous crawl tubes to be SHUT DOWN AND SIEZED BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND ALL OF THEIR MONEY SENT TO NELVANA AND COVNERTED INTO NELVANA STUDIOS AND OFFICES AND SCHOOLS WITH GREEN CHALKBOARDS AND ELECTRIC MECHANICAL WALL BELLS AND CORBEIL SCHOOL BUSES AND OTHER SCHOOL BUSES WITH ELECTRIC STOP ARMS and only kind spirited stuff like Disney Snow White and Pinocchio stuff, Corduroy the Bear with two buttons on his green corduroy overalls, Steve Notebooks, Little Golden Books, Raggedy Ann and Andy etc and no mean spirited stuff. Especially at an Early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlace with high dangerous crawl tubes there were Drive-Thru employees yelling IT'S A GOD DAMN BELL SHUT-UP over the drive-thru speaker when little kids especially ones with autism like me get offended by Bogen Multicom 2000 bell tones. Whereas safety updated McDonald's PlayPlaces built since the late 1990s MUST BE KEPT FOREVER because Safety updated McDonald's PlayPlace play equipments used since 1996 when McDonald's started their new modern yellow eyebrow exteriors with the yellow and orange Striped Awnings MUST BE KEPT FOREVER because they are entirely safe low and safe surface and have much safer steps and slides like a daycare playground and an indoor Play Equipment at daycare centers and especially my Daycare Center Future Generation does have a safe indoor Play structure with a safe low surface and a safer step and slide. And I am also adding Green Chalkboards and jumbo chalks as part of the safety improvements to McDonald's PlayPlaces. Future Generation Daycare which is in my DeVry/Chamerlain University North Brunswick, NJ Campus was the daycare center I attended at when I was 2 years old in the earliest McEyebrows from 1997 to 1998. All of the last remaining McDonald's restaurants that still have early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlaces with high dangerous crawl tubes all MUST SHUT DOWN and seized by the Canadian government and converted into Nelvana studios and Licensing centers because I am dead furious with McDonald's that some of their remodels kept the early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlaces with high dangerous crawl tubes instead of updating them with safety updated play structures with low safe steps and slides that are easily to keep clean and last year I found a modern Simpsons clip where Bart Simpson was using a dry erase board in an early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlace with high dangerous crawl tubes and a Bogen Multicom 2000 and that mean scary looking grumpy face with the freaky spikey eyelashes and triangular eyes and razor blade forehead wrinkles they used to have on Gordon in the old live action model version of Thomas and Friends and this is why modern Simpsons (seasons 19 to 30) MUST END IMMEDIATELLY and all broadcasts of The Simpsons MUST BE BY LAW MANDATED to be ONLY reruns of classic Simpsons (first 18 seasons only) and we need to help Nelvana grow even more strong and successful. I hereby we will NOT let negative trends and rumors take over we MUST STAY with positive Nostalgic timeless stuff like Nelvana in all times in the future and stick with our future plans forever. And as for McDonald's it MUST BE A LAW for all McDonald's restaurants to relocate in new modern pavilion shopping centers like Nassau Park Pavilion in Princeton, NJ and all with the new modern yellow eyebrow exteriors with the yellow and orange striped awnings and better safe updated indoor PlayPlaces with low and safe steps and slides that are easily to keep clean except for futuristic 2 story McDonald's restaurants like the Epic McDonald's in Orlando. Especially I am going to revive Nelvana's version of Corduroy the Bear with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever and all new episodes in the original style. Especially Nelvana Enterprises has a full-service merchandising division managing global consumer products programs. We have a dedicated team focused on strategic brand management, merchandise licensing, and consumer and retail marketing, in addition to extensive relationships with licensees and retail partners. We are also a leading Canadian licensing agency representing premiere brands from around the world and Nelvana is a world leading international distributor of kids content. With a catalogue of more than 5,000 half-hours, Nelvana oversees all linear and non-linear distribution for our own content and select third party content and the early 1990s glass walled McDonald's PlayPlaces with high dangerous crawl tubes has been reported as a safety concern since the late 1990s as of when McDonald's started their new modern yellow eyebrow exteriors with the yellow and orange striped awnings and now replacing these bad PlayPlaces with better and safe updated PlayPlaces with low safe steps and slides that are easy to keep clean and brick walls www.softplay.com/work/mcdonalds-playplace-solutions/. Another reason why all of the last remaining early 1990s glass-walled McDonald's PlayPlaces with high dangerous crawl tubes will all be converted into Nelvana studios and licensing centers is because the high dangerous crawl tubes have no easy restroom access leading kids to pee and poop in the crawl tubes.
Given its month-long journey from the UK, I had to add to the "unboxing" photos of this fantastic book.
The CPMR’s Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) has given its full backing to key plans for a territorial alliance aimed at developing a long-term strategy to build a sustainable future for all citizens in the Mediterranean.
The ‘Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance Joint Declaration’ was signed by political representatives from 5 Mediterranean organisations - including the IMC, the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée (EPM), MedCities, Latin Arc, and the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion - at a major international seminar on ‘The Future of the Mediterranean Region after 2020’, held in Barcelona on 4 February being co-organized by the Catalan Government, the EPM and the IMC and attended by more than 200 participants.
This event and signature were performed in the broader framework of the “Mediterranean Catalonia Forum,” that focused on reinforcing the importance of the Mediterranean worldwide and the crucial role of regional cooperation in the EU and Euro-Mediterranean agenda and policies.
It was held back-to-back with the renewal of the Presidency of the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée, from the Government of Catalonia to the Balearic Islands, and the organisation of the CPMR Intermediterranean Commission Political Bureau.
The signature of the “Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance” was attended in particular by politicians of all the involved networks and will remain open for other key actors to endorse it in the future.
Its priorities, among others, are as follows:
• The demands that governing institutions – considering the post-2020 horizon and the two next programming periods – work harder towards the implementation and integration of emerging sea basin, macro-regional strategies and other connected initiatives and cooperation instruments, so as to build a common, more cohesive sustainable and co-owned Mediterranean macro-region involving all the territorial actors;
• Structuring a strong and operational multi-level and multi-stakeholder network, in order to work – together with EU and Euro-Mediterranean Institutions - in a more integrated way in the long run, to design and develop common projects and to support policies based on capitalization of results (e.g. from the Interreg MED Thematic Communities);
• Offering firm support to cooperation at political and technical levels between regional and local stakeholders in the EU, the IPA countries and non-European Mediterranean partner countries, as well as among all the components of the four helix: public and private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations/civil society.
given how much shaker table residue there is, I'm surprised there isn't more grappa commonly found in the Far West. Clear Creek makes a selection of different grappas from all the grapes commonly fermented in Oregon and Southern Washington.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Two hundred and forty one metres at 15.08pm on Tuesday May 7th 2014 off South Street in Rhayader, Mid-Wales from the Low level professional photography hide at Gigrin Farm feeding station.
The Red Kite (Milvus Milvus) is a medium sized bird of prey (Raptor) in the Accipitridae family, and was saved from national extinction by a long running protection programme. It has now been successfully re-introduced into England and Scotland, and Wales, and they are listed under schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside act, currently with a green status.
They can reach 66cms in length with up to a 195cms wingspan, and there around 4,600 breeding pairs in the UK in 2024.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Hand held Focal length: 460mm Shutter speed: 1/2000s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/9.0 Auto iso280 Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed Focus mode: AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled AF-Focus area: 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Centre weighted metering Active D-Lighting: Normal White balance on: Natural light auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.
LATITUDE: N 52d 17m 49.60s
LONGITUDE: W 3d 29m 42.00s
ALTITUDE: 241.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 92.0MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 32.90MB
PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Given the height of this wall I cannot believe that this can be other than the Great Enclosure, however the curvature doesn't look correct.
09/09/2016 Ladies European Tour 2016: ISPS HANDA Ladies European Masters, Golf Club Hubbelrath, Dusseldorf 8-11 September. Eleanor Givens of England during the second round. Credit: Tristan Jones
Given the detrimental effects of insufficient nutrition on child well-being, learning ability, academic performance, and future productivity, promoting healthy diets and improved nutrition should be a high priority on school development agendas. To this end, FAO organized a regional workshop to present and discuss school food and nutrition approaches in Europe and Central Asia on 11–13 December in Minsk.
The event is part of an FAO project on strengthening food security and nutrition in selected countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia, funded by the Russian Federation.
Read more: www.fao.org/europe/news/detail-news/en/c/1255023/
Photo: FAO/Sergei Gapon
Was given a 7D MarkII by Canon for review and have been experimenting many shots. This is trying the burst mode with 10fps and I am pretty please with the camera. Read the complete review here www.facebook.com/notes/sandeep-mall/reviewing-the-canon-7...
Opened 18 Oct 1863 as Chinkford Church of England on land given by Mr Byerlee & Mr Frost, consecrated Oct 1864, local stone & buttresses, extensions (chancel & porch), re-opened 25 Apr 1905, closed 1990s, used by school as hall. One window transferred to Riverton parish hall. First settlement known as Chinkford 1853, Manoora laid out 1867 nearer railway station.
“On Sunday, the 18th instant, the new church at Chinkford, head of the Gilbert, was opened by the venerable Archdeacon Woodcock.” [Register 2 Nov 1863]
“Substantial alterations, embracing extension of building, by construction of chancel, 14 feet by 13 feet, of punch stone, and new ceiling to main portion of edifice, are in the course of completion. A Gothic arch has been artistically constructed in what was the rear wall of the church, on to which the chancel has been built.” [Kapunda Herald 24 Feb 1905]
“Great improvements and additions having recently been made to the Immanuel Church: A new chancel has been added, a diagonal ceiling put into the nave, memorial windows have replaced the old plain glass ones, and the exterior has been thoroughly renovated. The Manoora branch of the Girls' Friendly Society contributed £10 towards the purchase of the new organ; they also presented the brass communion rails, altar desk, and brass flower vases. Mrs. W T. Mortlock, of Martindale Hall, presented a handsome frontal for the altar, and the members of the Riverton church gave two beautiful chairs.” [Advertiser 1 May 1905]
“three memorial windows have been placed in position, two of these in memory of two founders.” [Kapunda Herald 28 Apr 1905]
“It is very curious how the township adjoining the railway station is divided. One says it is Chinkford, another Burton, and a third Manoora. However, as the last is the original name, most persons think it ought to be called Manoora.” [Register 9 Mar 1871]
“It seems strange that the railway station should retain the name of Manoora, when it is patent to all observers that the leading and most thriving township is Burton, which is only separated from the station by the length of a chain. . . Chinkford, Manoora, and Burton will do well apparently to stop their sparring, and adopt one name, whatever it may be, that will cover the three places. They are sufficiently near to be considered by outsiders as one township, and the adoption of such a plan would save endless confusion to travellers and business people.” [Register 18 Mar 1871]
1. Silver, 2. Lochaber Blue, 3. Oak tree October sunset, 4. Thistle study II, 5. 6 Trees September, 6. Givens, 7. Clearences, 8. Sunset Song II,
9. Evening Breeze, 10. Stones, 11. View to the Black Isle, 12. Shine on Ben Wyvis...Green, 13. The light toward the North, 14. At the Edge, 15. Moray Firth Sunset, 16. Quiet Roads,
17. Ardesier II, 18. Gutting Stations, 19. The Emigrants, 20. Cal, 21. Peat Red Run Deep, 22. Calendars, 23. The journey to work, 24. Careful use of colour,
25. ripe, 26. apologies to the new puritans, 27. rush, 28. Further work from Rhuie, 29. Tarbet Ness and the War against Photoshop, 30. Ridges b+w, 31. Rhuie Lighthouse, 32. Rain from the West,
33. red warnings!, 34. Watchers, 35. The Warmest Room, 36. Camanachd, 37. House over the Hill, 38. Blowing Dancing Optimism, 39. Over the footbridge and up the wee path, 40. Wild & Long,
41. Looking to the sky, 42. House of Leaves, 43. Hufupukar, 44. 6 trees and Pinpoint, 45. Leaden, 46. Protection, 47. Windy Days, 48. Shadow of the photographer,
49. Ascending II, 50. Hungry Fundamentalism and Lessons from History, 51. Aerial, 52. Shine, 53. She's Got a New Spell, 54. Summer Kitchen Ballad, 55. Ballahulish Slate Shed, 56. Slates,
57. Longman Drive & New Century House, 58. Saltire, 59. Lighting the Flame, 60. Dignity of Labour., 61. Carumba!, 62. The Most Photographed Tree in Scotland, 63. Black Sun, 64. Yellow Edge II,
65. Port Righ, 66. Obligation Met, 67. Carnarc Point Green, 68. Etive Veil 2, 69. Silver Glamour 1, 70. Duntelchaig, 71. Road to Camalt Muir, 72. The Arc over the Clyde,
73. Greig St Bridge B+W, 74. Experiments with Time, 75. Tomnacross, 76. Colour Time Space. 2
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West of Scotland attack the Peebles try line at The Gytes during the early stages of a Second Division fixture in Scottish rugby union's BT National League. Peebles secured a 38-34 victory thanks largely to three converted tries in the opening 11 minutes of the second half. That purple patch transformed a 17-12 interval deficit into a 33-17 advantage. Milngavie-based West would have drawn the match had their kicker been able to convert their last two tries. In the event, the visitors earned two points, one for losing by fewer than seven and one for scoring four tries. The try count finished 6-5 to Peebles.
Match statistics:
Admission: £5. Programme: 36 pages (w/a). Attendance: 185. Scoring sequence: 0-7 (12mins); 7-7 (18mins); 7-14 (25mins); 12-14 (30mins); 12-17 (40+2mins); 19-17 (44mins); 26-17 (48mins); 33-17 (51mins); 33-24 (55mins); 33-29 (59mins); 38-29 (65mins); 38-34 (79mins). Referee: Michael Milner (Edinburgh).
no editor given.
Vancouver, Vancouver Poetry Centre, 1 february 1979.
11-1/4 x 16-3/4, single sheet grey newsprint folded to 4 pp leaflet & again to tabloid, all printed black offset.
cover photograph by [Allan Rosen].
5 contributors ID'd:
Bill Bissett, John Burton, Chris Glynn, Allan Rosen, Warren Tallman.
includes:
i) bissett plans to negotiate a new assistance program with The Canada Council, by Warren Tallman (prose in 6 parts. bpNichol referenced in part
–2. BEMUSEMENTS IN THE NIGHT (with reference to "bp Nichol, who was being published by blewointmentpress even before his considerable reputation as a sound/concrete poet had been established..." & passing reference in a quote from
––a. Gertrude Laing, "May 2, 1978 defense of the art"))
ii) "Hurry up please, it's almost time" (fullpage orderform for tickets to the Writing In Our Time festival, Nichol listed in reading 1)
iii) But Colleen Thibaudeau & James Reaney Probably can..., by [George Woodcock?] (announcement of readers, with reference to Reaney's being "...among the first to recognize the importance in Canada of bp Nichol's poetry.")
iv) SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE Selected Books By Authors Taking Part in the "Writing in Our Tmes" Benefit Readings, compled by Chris Glynn (in 8 parts, Nichol listed in parts
–1. Reading One (includes "Martyrology 1, 2, 3, 4 & Journal)
–8. Anthologies (includes Imago 20, Nichol listed in selected contributors list))
The CPMR’s Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) has given its full backing to key plans for a territorial alliance aimed at developing a long-term strategy to build a sustainable future for all citizens in the Mediterranean.
The ‘Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance Joint Declaration’ was signed by political representatives from 5 Mediterranean organisations - including the IMC, the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée (EPM), MedCities, Latin Arc, and the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion - at a major international seminar on ‘The Future of the Mediterranean Region after 2020’, held in Barcelona on 4 February being co-organized by the Catalan Government, the EPM and the IMC and attended by more than 200 participants.
This event and signature were performed in the broader framework of the “Mediterranean Catalonia Forum,” that focused on reinforcing the importance of the Mediterranean worldwide and the crucial role of regional cooperation in the EU and Euro-Mediterranean agenda and policies.
It was held back-to-back with the renewal of the Presidency of the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée, from the Government of Catalonia to the Balearic Islands, and the organisation of the CPMR Intermediterranean Commission Political Bureau.
The signature of the “Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance” was attended in particular by politicians of all the involved networks and will remain open for other key actors to endorse it in the future.
Its priorities, among others, are as follows:
• The demands that governing institutions – considering the post-2020 horizon and the two next programming periods – work harder towards the implementation and integration of emerging sea basin, macro-regional strategies and other connected initiatives and cooperation instruments, so as to build a common, more cohesive sustainable and co-owned Mediterranean macro-region involving all the territorial actors;
• Structuring a strong and operational multi-level and multi-stakeholder network, in order to work – together with EU and Euro-Mediterranean Institutions - in a more integrated way in the long run, to design and develop common projects and to support policies based on capitalization of results (e.g. from the Interreg MED Thematic Communities);
• Offering firm support to cooperation at political and technical levels between regional and local stakeholders in the EU, the IPA countries and non-European Mediterranean partner countries, as well as among all the components of the four helix: public and private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations/civil society.
My morning routine: Eye whomever is within seeing distance suspiciously until I've had my cup of coffee. Then on to contacts.
we were given this chair a very long time ago. it's got good bones, but was tres tres out-of-style, to the point of having to take up space in our basement. it was long overdue for a makeover.
YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 09: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on January 9th 2023 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
We were given the opportunity to hear Martin Boyce talk us through No Reflections and dicuss the re-positioning of the exhibition from the Venice Biennale 2010 to the DCA
Photograph by Ross_McLean
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Two metres at 12:51pm on Saturday 20th May 2023 off Towner Road and Towner Park Road, along the pathway through the forest, leading to Towner Bay in North Saanich Inlet, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 17mm Shutter speed: 1/80s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 ISO500 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4 Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5050k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening A+1.00/Clarity A+1.00)
Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4G IF ED VR. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.
LATITUDE: N 48d 39m 51.2s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 28m 12.6s
ALTITUDE: 2.0m
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Given the vigour with which the tower was destroyed, it is almost unbelievable that, amongst the controlled turmoil of T2 construction at Heathrow, the places of worship still stand and are accessed by walking routes. [The route between the green railings is 'work-side' and not for the public]. This view shows the back of St. George's Chapel (centre) and, beyond that, the multi-faith prayer room. You can also discern the cross which has featured in several of my compositions.
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I was given another opportunity to take photos at Scotland's National Stadium Hampden. This time it was a Euro Qualifier with the national side playing Lithuania. I have to say it's a really tough gig. It wasn't a great night weather wise either. But I enjoyed the experience nonetheless. I fell I'm getting there, but there's still a long way to go to get those shots that the pros get. I take my hat off to them. Scotland won 1-0 scoring.
This bobble-head Jesus was given to me sort of as a gag. A friend of mine was given this by another person. When I saw it in the room I thought it was kinda funny. My friend explained to me that he really didn't want a bobble-head Jesus but since he received it as a gift what could he do. The discussion that followed was how does one properly get rid of a Christ figure like this???
Long story short. When my friend moved he left B.H.Jesus at my front door. I've had him ever since.
My friend ended up moving back into the neighborhood that I was living in and after catching up again he continued the joke by buying me a Jesus night-light and a black Jesus figurine. Bobble-head is still my favorite.
Some of the digital transparencies used to make the etching plates.
Jane Grossenbacher, photographer and printmaker, was recently given a Sturges etching press by artist Phyllis Taplitz. In October '07 John and Sam Sullivan, Keith Bjorkman and Jane very carefully moved the 1300 pound press from San Rafael to Logos Graphics, at Project Artaud in San Francisco. Last weekend, to celebrate the new press, Jane invited a few dozen friends to come make prints, under the watchful eyes of Jane, John Sullivan, and the other folks from Logos Graphics.
They had a wonderful new etching process that used non-toxic materials, and they showed us how to make photo etchings as well as intaglio prints. A good time was had by all, with the possible exception of the little dog who kept getting stepped on.
I was taking photos as well as making prints and lost track of who was who . . . plus, my grasp of the process was tenous at best. So I hope that some of the other participants can help fill out/correct the captions, by using the comments feature here.
I was given a whole lot of men's ties (and a big tin hat box)
I already had a bag of ties - some Alan's some op shop from previous up cycling Ties projects ...
This time I roughly grouped the colours and made skirts - will keep 2, a shortish red one I gifted to Steph ... will try to sell the rest ...
I'm keeping this blue one