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Did a birding trip with Rodrigo Reyes of Birdwatching Chile. From pelagic to the mountain environment in the Andes, we got great views of a large number of interesting birds, including many endemics. Great trip, and I strongly recommend Rodrigo.
A gray whale mother-calf pair migrating along the central California coast from the wintering grounds in Mexico to the summer feeding grounds in the Arctic.
Grays Coach Hire Armagh Volvo B12BT Van Hool Acron Reg CSZ 6557 Is seen parked at belfast City Hall
this might have be last with Classic Coaches Annalong Co Down
British autograph card.
Glamorous English film actress Sally Gray (1915-2006) appeared in many musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The hazel-eyed blonde Gray was seen as ‘a British rival to Ginger Rogers.’ After a break from performing, she emerged in the mid-1940s as a sultry beauty who starred in a series of moody dramas and suspenseful thrillers. Later she became Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne.
Sally Gray was born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, in 1915. Gray was the daughter of Charles Stevens, who drove a motor cab, and his wife, Gertrude Grace. Her mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother a "principal boy" in the 1870s. Her father died when Gray was young. As a child, she trained at Fay Compton's School of Dramatic Art, and began acting on stage at the age of 10. Gray made her professional stage debut at the age of twelve in All God's Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing an African boy. When she was 14, Gray appeared in a minstrel show at the Gate Theatre in London. She made her film debut under the name of Constance Stevens with a bit part in the comedy School for Scandal (Thorold Dickinson, Maurice Elvey, 1930) starring Basil Gill and Madeleine Carroll. The now considered as lost film is the only feature-length film shot using the unsuccessful Raycol colour process. Sally then went back to school for two years, training at Fay Compton’s School of Dramatic Art, during which time she performed in cabarets. She appeared in The Gay Divorce (1933) on stage with Fred Astaire. Astaire gave her private dance lessons. The agent John Gliddon, who had discovered Vivien Leigh, saw the 18 years- old Gray in the musical Jill Darling (1934) and signed her. Gray returned to films in 1935, with a small part in the historical drama The Dictator (Victor Saville, 1935), starring Clive Brook. She could also be seen in the comedy Cross Currents (Adrian Brunel, 1935), the musical Radio Pirates (Ivar Campbell, 1935), the comedy Lucky Days (Reginald Denham, 1935) with Chili Bouchier, and the crime film Checkmate (George Pearson, 1935). She returned on stage and was spotted by multi-talented actor-producer Stanley Lupino, who fell in love with her. Lupino was part of a theatrical dynasty that went back to 1634, and he was the father of the actress Ida Lupino. Gray had the female lead in his comedy Cheer Up (Leo Mittler, 1936) with Stanley Lupino. She also had leads in the musical drama Calling the Tune (Reginald Denham, Thorold Dickinson, 1936), the thriller Cafe Colette (Paul L. Stein, 1937) with Paul Cavanagh, and the musical Saturday Night Revue (Norman Lee, 1937) with Billy Milton. In 1936 she was earning an impressive £150 a week. Gray had support roles in the thriller Lightning Conductor (Maurice Elvey, 1937), the musical Over She Goes (Graham Cutts, 1937) with Lupino. The Edgar Wallace thriller Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (Norman Lee, 1937), and the musical Hold My Hand (Thornton Freeland, 1938) with Lupino. Gray was the female lead in the drama Sword of Honour (Maurice Elvey, 1938), the RKO production The Saint in London (John Paddy Carstairs, 1939) with George Sanders as Simon Templar, the musical comedy The Lambeth Walk (Albert de Courville, 1939) with Lupino Lane, Stanley Lupino’s nephew.
During the war years, Sally Gray continued her career smoothly. She played a non-musical role in the thriller A Window in London (1940), starring Michael Redgrave. According to Tom Vallance in The Independent “she was convincing in her offbeat role as an illusionist's wife in a neatly constructed thriller”. Then she played Miss America in the comedy Olympic Honeymoon (Alfred J. Goulding, 1940) with Claude Hulbert, and had the female lead in another British RKO production, The Saint's Vacation (Leslie Fenton, 1941) this time with Hugh Sinclair as Simon Templar. She had a sensitive role in the romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1941). Tom Vallance: “Particularly remembered for its theme music, Richard Addinsell's "The Warsaw Concerto", the story of a Polish pianist (Anton Walbrook) who joins an air squadron against the wishes of his girlfriend (Gray), loses his memory after being wounded in the Battle of Britain, but regains it (and is reunited with his sweetheart) when he starts playing the concerto, had great appeal for wartime audiences.” The same year she appeared in Lady Behave, London's first major musical since the Second World War began. Stanley Lupino, who had cancer, had written the musical and co-starred. The show had to close after a month because of Lupino's illness. Gray returned to the stage to star in My Sister Eileen (1942) with Coral Browne. Lupino died, leaving Gray £10,000. Gray had a nervous breakdown, resulting in her retirement for a number of years. Lupino had been not only her lover, but her mentor and friend. She returned to the screen in 1946 and made her strongest bid for stardom in a series of melodramas. Tom Vallance again in The Independent: “Her husky voice was particularly attractive, and distinctively different from other stars of the time.” She appeared in the hospital thriller Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, 1946) with Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, the drama Carnival (Stanley Haynes 1946) with Michael Wilding and Stanley Holloway, the stylish, brutal Film Noir They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947) with Trevor Howard, and the drama The Mark of Cain (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1947), starring Eric Portman. Grey then made the thriller Silent Dust (Lance Comfort, 1948) and the Film Noir Obsession (Edward Dmytryk 1949). Ronald Bergan in The Guardian: “Arguably Gray's best and meatiest role came in the McCarthyist exile Edward Dmytryk's Obsession (1949), as the cheating wife of psychiatrist Robert Newton, who plans a slow death for her latest lover.” Her final film was the spy thriller Escape Route (Seymour Friedman, Peter Graham Scott, 1952) with ageing American tough guy George Raft as an FBI agent in England. RKO executives, impressed with Gray, authorised producer William Sistrom to offer her a long-term contract if she would move to the United States. However, she declined the offer and instead retired in 1952 after getting married. In 1951, Gray had married The 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, an Anglo-Irish peer. They lived in a castle in County Mayo, Ireland. The couple kept the marriage secret until the 1953 coronation, at which she appeared with her husband. The final phase of Gray's life found her very much in the upper class, and she led a comfortable life, preferring not to talk about her acting career. In the early 1960s they returned to England and settled in a flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London. She tended assiduously to her gardening in later years. After 51 years of marriage, her husband died in 2002 at the age of 100. The couple had no children. Sally Gray died in 2006 in London, England. She was 91.
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
his gorgeous necklace combines soothing shades of gray with just the right amount of silver sparkle.
The cabochon is a lovely gray agate. It is mounted on felt, bezelled with bead embroidery and surrounded with sparkly triangle and round seed beads. Dangling from the bottom is a beadwoven russian leaf with 3 sprigs of seed beads cascading down.
The neckchain is woven from triangular seed beads with a few round ones sprinkled in. The triangles fit together when woven like pieces of a pie- to create the most wonderful effect! It has a beautiful drape and the sparkle is lovely.
Carlie Gray; 9/27/2013; Dover, Fla.; University of Tampa hosts cross country pre-regional meet at Dover Trails. Florida Southern women.
Warren, Connecticut. We have a gray fox adult who comes through our yard from time to time, probably lives on the hill behind our house. He or she is a spectacularly beautiful animal. Two weeks ago this "kit" appeared under one of our bird feeders by the kitchen and stayed for a few days.
This kit was born last spring so is about 4-5 months old and is no doubt venturing out into the world to figure things out. It had no problem with me moving around inside the kitchen window and even looked up at me a few times. Maybe a bit too comfortable with humans but no doubt time and learning will iron that out. It spent the majority of the day in one of our firewood piles and was only under the feeder, looking for voles and mice in the morning and at dusk.
I so much wanted to have a longer lens and to have not shot through a dirty window but alas, this is what I got.
We have many red foxes around and they're quite common here, but this little kit and its parent are the first gray foxes we've seen.
Spectacular animals.
Great Gray Owl in early morning sunlight. Just a bit of ice and snow on it's beak after a morning hunt.
I love to see women who have the confidence to rock their gray hair, in opposition to the American notion that women should always try to look young, therefore hide their gray. My wife and i were on a walk and I complimented the lady on the right, before her friend also came out with their ice cream. I do this with my wife at my side, or without, with women's husbands at their side, or not. Almost universally, I get sincere surprise and thanks, with moments of discussion about how long it has been gray, when they may have decided to stop coloring. I've met some nice people, and lifted some spirits ..... gonna keep on doin' it too!
Gray (Haute-Saône, France) is a small town of approximately 5500 inhabitants that has had a rich and glorious past in the 19th century as its sophisticated architecture can show. Today, on a short Saturday afternoon walk in the town centre I saw dozens of closed shops that are the signs of the current economic situation of small businesses that are unable to survive. This depressing scenery has inspired me this very dark and contrasty series of pictures.
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The success of the original F-16A/B Falcon design led to the next stage of development, the F-16C/D. The new model incorporated all improvements in the F-16A, with substantial additions: a redesigned and more “pilot-friendly” cockpit with wide-angle HUD and relocated radar scope, improved avionics and flight computer, a more powerful Hughes APG-68 radar, and AGM-65 Maverick and AIM-120 AMRAAM capability, though the latter would not enter service until eight years after the F-16C made its debut in June 1984.
The most visible difference between the A and C models, however, was the enlarged base of the tail and a small blade antenna where the tail joined the fuselage; this was for an internal ECM suite that was never fitted, but nonetheless all F-16C/Ds retain the antenna.
The majority of early F-16Cs were standard Block 30/32 variants, but lacking a true night-capable strike aircraft aside from the F-111 Aardvark, a significant number of Block 40/42 “Night Falcons” were also produced. These aircraft had provision for LANTIRN all-weather navigation and target designation pods on the intake, which necessitated a slight redesign of the forward landing gear. Block 30/32 aircraft were modified with a “big mouth” intake to accept either the standard Pratt and Whitney F100 turbofan, or the more powerful General Electric F110.
Following the First Gulf War and the gradual retirement of the F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel anti-SAM aircraft, Lockheed Martin also began production of the AGM-88 HARM and GPS capable Block 50/52 F-16C/D series. Designated F-16CG/DG in USAF service (non-HARM capable Falcons are designated F-16CJ/DJ), these are the main Wild Weasel aircraft in service today. Since the Second Gulf War began in 2003, the F-16 fleet worldwide has been modified to one extent or another, most receiving helmet-mounted sights; the USAF and NATO F-16s are capable of dropping JDAM, JSOW, and other newer precision-guided weapons and bombs.
Still in production, the F-16C/D series is the most prolific Western fighter and is rivaled only by the Russian MiG-29. It is operated by twelve countries and license-produced in Turkey and South Korea. (This is in addition to 13 other nations which operate F-16A/Bs or F-16E/Fs; some nations, namely Egypt and Israel, operate a mix of A/B and C/D models.)
Another of Dad's "Desert Horizons" models featuring characters from his novel, he used the Hasegawa 1/48 scale F-16C to build an aggressor aircraft of the 64th Aggressor Squadron of the 57th Wing assigned to Nellis AFB, NV. This particular aircraft, 86-0251 is a real aircraft and is painted in MiG-29 style camouflage of overall light gray and Russian gray-green. The character, Christine "Chris" Beleos is fictional. It is equipped for a Red Flag mission over the Nevada ranges, with a dummy AIM-9 Sidewinder and a DACT instrumentation pod.
Scientific name: Canis lupus
Status: Endangered Non-Essential Experimental Population and delisted
Photo credit: USFWS
Gray wolf health examination
Playlist Song : Gray eyed bird - Slow Machete
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Done at the Mannheim fun fair at ISO400, F2.8, 1/1000sec
This little guy and his siblings are wild foxes that live at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas. The last few summers have been enhanced by the juvenile foxes I encounter that are born on property. They have 180 acres in which to run and play and I get immense pleasure when I catch a glimpse of them peeking at me from behind a rock or some shrubs. They are pretty fast so I have to have a fast focus finger to get them in focus before they are gone from sight.