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Julia's long-awaited Nexus One finally arrived, via Hongkong :)
Very slick. The capacitive touchscreen is as good as any other, eg. iPhone, HTC HD2. The Assisted GPS was amazingly fast, as was the "wireless" only mode using cellular and WiFi triangulation.
The screen sucks in sunlight though, further compounded by the screen protector.
It managed to open music from our NAS over WiFi with no problems. PDFs were a bit slower, but manageable. My attempt to play a 300MB AVI over WiFi from the NAS resulted in failure :)
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Nov. 19, 2013. No one is sure when this floating structure landed on the beach above Nick's Lagoon. Locals say it's been there at least since the 1980s. Toxic creosote is still evident in the timbers. It measures about 40x12x5. Puget SoundCorps crews will cut it into manageable sections to be removed by barge. Nick's Lagoon County Park in Seabeck. Kitsap County
Photo: Toni Droscher / DNR
We attempted to get to Wells Creek Falls this last weekend but this is as close as we could get. You do have to cross the creek at least once if not twice to get closer. I was about half way out in it but changed my mind. The water was raging and just too deep. We'll head back in about a month. Once the snow pack is gone it will be more manageable. She looks like a little beauty.
Happy Waterfall Wednesday!
Wells Creek
Mt. Baker area
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
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The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
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The divorce process is challenging at the best of times, so when things turn sour, it can be even harder. Keeping an element of civility is easier said than done, but there are a few things you can do to help that become a reality. In our latest video, KMJ family lawyers present some divorce advice to help the process go as smoothly as possible. Follow our four tips to keep your stress at a manageable level. For more divorce advice from the family solicitors in Fitzrovia, visit www.kmjsolicitors.com.
2023's SHIPtember build is (I think) complete!
A chunkier and generally bigger build than last year's cruiser Aegirocassis, this is my first ever minifig-scale SHIP and a departure from previous build strategies on a number of fronts:
- For the first time I tumbled to the idea of building the vessel in sections and snapping the sections together afterwards, so the crew section, spinal midsection and engine block were all built separately. I've heard of other people doing this before, but it's always gone against all my childhood instincts to build it in one piece and build it strong.
I tell you, though: it was a lot more manageable only having to manipulate a piece of the whole to put it together. From now on, unless there are other considerations, this is how I build SHIPs.
- As stated earlier, it's minifig scale, and by far the largest minifig-scale space construction I have yet built. There's a lot of fun to be had building a really large minifig-scale ship, but I'd always felt unable to produce a sufficiently interesting interior and if you're building at 'fig scale you really have to. This didn't need or get a really spectacular interior compartment, but baby steps.
- It's a civilian vessel. The "LCS" in the name I eventually settled on stands for "Light Container Ship"; I envisage this as being a spacegoing equivalent to a long-haul big rig as opposed to a giant commercial freighter; something that can haul 1-2 standard shipping containers (not included) held in magnetic clamps beneath the central spine. Previous SHIPs have all been decidedly military or at least explorer-type vessels, as well as being microscale they've been loaded with at least a few notable gun emplacements; this one is completely unarmed. It still follows my typical naming conventions, though, because I've named it after an animal, a stellar object or a mythological creature. Two of those at once, in fact.
- It didn't even use all of my blue, light bley and trans yellow, though it did come close. I'm contemplating building a little spacegoing Trans Am to go along with the spacegoing truck, for a real Smokey and the Bandit flavour....
Clocking in at 103 studs and thus beating out last year's submission by a single stud, the build is done.
Various angles to show off some of the features as well as the classic side view poster shot. Enjoy.
Code your robot puppy to help Nancy Drew solve the mystery!
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A long planned visit to Leeds to record the church.
Leeds is just off the M20, and nearby to Leeds Castle, which means the roads are often busy. St Nicholas is on the main road leading up the down, but before the road gets narrow as it winds between the timber framed houses. Thankfully there is good parking next door, so we were able to get off the main road and out of the traffic, as unbeknown to us, there was a classical music show on that night, and most of Kent were going and in the process of arriving.
St Nicholas is a grand church, the chancel and two side chapels are partially hidden behind a very fine Rood Screen, which at first didn't look original, but actually is.
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One of the largest twelfth-century towers in Kent. The arch between tower and nave is of three very plain orders with no hint of the usual zigzag moulding of the period, and is so large that a meeting room has recently been built into it. The nave has three bay aisles and short chapels to north and south of the chancel. The outstanding rood screen was partially reconstructed in 1892, and runs the full width of nave and aisles - with the staircase doorways in the south aisle. That the chancel was rebuilt in the sixteenth century may be seen by the plain sedilia through which is cut one of two hagioscopes from chapels to chancel. The north chapel contains some good seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tablets and monuments. The stained glass shows some excellent examples of the work of Heaton, Butler and Bayne (south aisle) whilst there is an uncharacteristically poor example of the work of C.E. Kempe & Co. Ltd. in the north aisle. The church has recently been reordered to provide a spacious, light and manageable interior with excellent lighting and a welcoming atmosphere without damaging the character of the building.
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LEEDS
IS the next parish southward from Hollingborne. Kilburne says, that one Ledian, a chief counsellor to king Ethelbert II. who began his reign in 978, raised a fortress here, which was called in Latin, from him, Ledani Castrum, and in process of time in English, LEEDS. This castle was afterwards demolished by the Danes, and continued in that situation till the time of the Norman conquest.
THE PRESENT CASTLE is situated at the southeast boundary of this parish, adjoining to Bromfield, which includes a part of the castle itself. It is situated in the midst of the park, an ample description of it the reader will find hereafter. The Lenham rivulet takes its course through the park, and having supplied the moat, in which the castle stands, and the several waters in the grounds there, and having received into it the several small streamlets from Hollingborne, and one from the opposite side, which comes from Leeds abbey, it flows on, and at a small distance from Caring street, in this parish, adjoining to Bersted, the principal estate of which name there belongs to the Drapers company, it turns a mill, and then goes on to Maidstone, where it joins the river Medway. The high road from Ashford and Lenham runs close by the outside of the pales of Leeds park, at the northern boundary of the parish next to Hollingborne, and thence goes on towards Bersted and Maidstone, from which the park is distant a little more than five miles; here the soil is a deep sand, but near the river it changes to a black moorish earth. Southward from the castle the ground rises, at about three quarters of a mile south-west from it is Leeds abbey, the front of which is a handsome well-looking building, of the time of queen Elizabeth. It is not unpleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, and is well watered by a small stream which rises just above it, and here turns a mill. It is well cloathed with wood at the back part of it, to which the ground still keeps rising; adjoining to the abbey grounds westward is Leeds-street, a long straggling row of houses, near a mile in length, having the church at the south end of it; here the soil becomes a red unfertile earth much mixed with slints, which continues till it joins to Langley and Otham.
LEEDS was part of those possessions given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, bishop of Baieux; accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of that prelate's lands, in the survey of Domesday, taken in the year 1080.
Adelold holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Esiedes. It was taxed at three sulings. The arable land is twelve carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and twenty-eight villeins, with eight borderers, having seven carucates. There is a church, and eighteen servants. There are two arpends of vineyard, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of twenty bogs, and five mills of the villeins. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth sixteen pounds, the like when be received it, now twenty pounds, and yet it pays twentyfive pounds. Earl Leuuin held it.
Of this manor the abbot of St. Augustine has half a suling, which is worth ten shillings, in exchange of the park of the bishop of Baieux. The earl of Ewe has four denns of this manor, which are worth twenty shillings.
The mention of the two arpends of vineyard in the above survey, is another instance of there having been such in this county in early times, some further observations of which the reader will find in the description of the parish of Chart Sutton, not far distant, and he will likewise observe, that at the above time the bishop of Baieux had a park here, which he acquired by exchange with the abbot of St. Augustine, who must therefore have had possessions here before that time.
On the bishop of Baieux's disgrace, about four years after the taking of the above-mentioned survey, this estate, among the rest of his possessions, became consiscated to the crown.
After which it was granted by king William to the eminent family of Crevequer, called in antient charters Creveceur, and in Latin, De Crepito Corde, who at first made Chatham in this county their seat, or caput baroniæ, i. e. the principal manor of their barony, for some time, until they removed hither, being before frequently written Domini de Cetham.
Robert, son of Hamon de Crevequer, who had probably a grant of Leeds from the Conqueror, appears to have held it of the king, as of his castle of Dover, in capite by barony, their barony, which consisted of five knight's sees, being stiled Baronia de Crevequer . (fn. 1) He erected the castle here, to which he asterwards removed the capital seat of his barony. This castle being environed with water, was frequently mentioned in antient writings by the name of Le Mote. In the north-west part of it he built a chapel, in which he placed three canons, which on his foundation of the priory of Leeds, in the 19th year of king Henry I. he removed thither.
His descendant, Hamon de Crevequer, lived in the reign of king Henry III. in the 19th year of which, he was joined with Walterand Teutonicus, or Teys, in the wardenship of the five ports, and the next year had possession granted to him of the lands of William de Albrincis or Averenches, whose daughter and heir Maud he had married. He died in the 47th year of king Henry III. possessed of the manor of Ledes, held of the king in capite, as belonging to his barony of Chatham; upon which Robert, his grandson, viz. son of Hamon his son, who died in his life-time, succeeded him as his heir, and in the 52d year of that reign, exchanged the manor of Ledes, with its appurtenances, together with a moiety of all his fees, with Roger de Leyburne, for the manors of Trottesclyve and Flete. He lest William de Leyburne, his son and heir, who in the 2d year of king Edward I. had possession granted to him of the manor of Ledes, as well as of the rest of his inheritance, of which Eleanor, countess of Winchester, his father's widow, was not endowed. (fn. 2)
His son, William de Leyborne, observing that the king looked on the strength of this fortress with a jealous eye, in the beginning of king Edward Ist.'s reign reinstated the crown in the possession of both the manor and castle; and the king having, in his 27th year married Margaret, sister of Philip, king of France, he settled them, being then of the clear yearly value of 21l. 6s. 8d. among other premises, as part of her dower. She survived the king her husband, who died in 1307, and in the 5th year of the next reign of king Edward II. by the king's recommendation, appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, a nobleman of great power and eminence, and much in that prince's favor, governor of this castle. (fn. 3) She died possessed of them in the 10th year of that reign; on which they came once more into the hands of the crown, and in the beginning of the next year the king appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, above-mentioned, governor of this castle, as well as of that of Bristol. In the 11th year of that reign, the king granted to him in see, this manor and castle, and the advowson of the priory of Ledes, in exchange for the manor of Addresley, in Shropshire. Being possessed of great possessions, especially in this county, he was usually stiled, the rich lord Badlesmere of Ledes. Being pussed up through ambition and his great wealth, he forgot his allegiance, and associated himself with the earl of Lancaster, and the discontented barons; which the king being well informed of, resolved, if possible, to gain possession of this strong fortress of Ledes: to effect which, under pretence of the queen's going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, she set forward for that city with a large train of attendants, and, with a secret intention of surprising this castle, sent her marshal with others of her servants, to prepare lodging for her and her suit in it. The lord Badlesmere's family, that is, his wife, son, and four daughters, were at that time in it, together with all his treasure, deposited there for safety, under the care of Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, who refused the queen's servants admittance, and on her coming up, peremptorily persisted in denying her or any one entrance, without letters from his lord. The queen, upon this, made some attempt to gain admittance by force, and a skirmish ensued, in which one or more of her attendants were slain, but being repulsed, she was obliged to relinquish her design, and to retire for a lodging elsewhere.
The king, chagrined at the failure of his scheme, and highly resenting the indignity offered to the queen, sent a force under the earls of Pembroke and Richmond, to besiege the castle; (fn. 4) and those within it finding no hopes of relief, for though the lord Badlesmere had induced the barons to endeavours to raise the siege, yet they never advanced nearer than Kingston, yielded it up. Upon which, the lady Badlesmere and her children were sent prisoners to the tower of London, Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, was hung up, and the king took possession of the castle, as well as of all the lord Badlesmere's goods and treasures in it. But by others, Thomas de Aldone is said to have been castellan at this time, and that the castle being taken, he, with the lord Badlesmere's wife, his only son Giles, his daughters, Sir Bartholomew de Burgershe, and his wife, were sent to the tower of London by the king's order; and that afterwards, he caused Walter Colepeper, bailiff of the Seven Hundreds, to be drawn in a pitiable manner at the tails of horses, and to be hung just by this castle; on which Thomas Colepeper, and others, who were with him in Tunbridge castle, hearing of the king's approach, sled to the barons.
After which the lord Badlesmere, being taken prisoner in Yorkshire, was sent to Canterbury, and there drawn and hanged at the gallows of Blean, and his head being cut off, was set on a pole on Burgate, in that city. Upon which the manor and castle of Leeds, became part of the royal revenue and the castle remained in a most ruinous condition till the year 1359, anno 34 Edward III. in which year that munisicent prelate, William of Wickham, was constituted by the king, chief warden and surveyor of his castle of Ledes, among others, (fn. 5) having power to appoint all workmen, to provide materials, and to order every thing with regard to building and repairs; and in those manors to hold leets and other courts of trespass and misdemeanors, and to enquire of the king's liberties and rights; and from his attention to the re-edisying and rebuilding the rest of them, there is little doubt but he restored this of Leeds to a very superior state to whatever it had been before, insomuch, that it induced king Richard to visit it several times, particularly in his 19th year, in which several of his instruments were dated at his castle of Ledes; and it appears to have been at that time accounted a fortress of some strength, for in the beginning of the next reign, that unfortunate prince was, by order of king Henry IV. sent prisoner to this castle; and that king himself resided here part of the month of April in his 2d year.
After which, archbishop Arundel, whose mind was by no means inferior to his high birth, procured a grant of this castle, where he frequently resided and kept his court, whilst the process against the lord Cobham was carrying forward, and some of his instruments were dated from his castle of Ledes in the year 1413, being the year in which he died. On his death it reverted again to the crown, and became accounted as one of the king's houses, many of the principal gentry of the county being instrusted with the custody of it:
In the 7th year of king Henry V. Joane of Navarre, the second queen of the late king Henry IV. being accused of conspiring against the life of the king, her son-in-law, was committed to Leeds-castle, there to remain during the king's pleasure; and being afterwards ordered into Sir John Pelham's custody, he removed her to the castle of Pevensey, in Sussex.
In the 18th year of king Henry VI. archbishop Chichele sat at the king's castle of Leeds, in the process against Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester, for forcery and witchcrast.
King Edward IV. in his 11th year, made Ralph St. Leger, esq. of Ulcomb, who had served the office of sheriff of this county three years before, constable of this castle for life, and annexed one of the parks as a farther emolument to that office. He died that year, and was buried with his ancestors at Ulcomb.
Sir Thomas Bourchier resided at Leeds castle in the 1st year of king Richard III. in which year he had commission, among others of the principal gentry of this county, to receive the oaths of allegiance to king Richard, of the inhabitants of the several parts of Kent therein mentioned; in which year, the king confirmed the liberties of Leeds priory, in recompence of twentyfour acres of land in Bromfield, granted for the enlargement of his park of Ledes.
In the 4th year of king Henry VIII. Henry Guildford, esq. had a grant of the office of constable of Leeds castle, and of the parkership of it; and in the 12th year of that reign, he had a grant of the custody of the manor of Leeds, with sundry perquisities, for forty years. He died in the 23d year of that reign, having re-edisied great part of the castle, at the king's no small charge.
But the fee simple of the manor and castle of Leeds remained in the hands of the crown, till Edward VI. in his 6th year, granted them, with their appurtenances in the parishes of Leeds, Langley, and Sutton, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy of Ireland, to hold in capite by knight's service.
His son, Sir Warham St. Leger, succeeded him in this manor and castle, and was afterwards chief governor of Munster, in Ireland, in which province he was unfortunately slain in 1599, (fn. 6) but before his death he alienated this manor and castle to Sir Richard Smyth, fourth son of Thomas Smyth, esq. of Westenhanger, commonly called Customer Smyth.
Sir Richard Smyth resided at Leeds castle, of which he died possessed in 1628, and was buried in Ashford church, where there is a costly monument erected to his memory.
Sir John Smith, his only son, succeeded his father, and resided at Leeds castle, and dying s. p. in 1632, was buried in this church; upon which his two sisters, Alice, wife of Sir Timothy Thornhill, and Mary, of Maurice Barrow, esq. became his coheirs, and entitled their respective husbands to the property of this manor and castle, which they afterwards joined in the sale of to Sir T. Culpeper, of Hollingborne, who settled this estate, after his purchase of it, on his eldest son Cheney Culpeper, remainder to his two other sons, Francis and Thomas. Cheney Culpeper, esq. resided at Leedscastle for some time, till at length persuading his brother Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, (then his only surviving brother, Francis being dead. s. p.) to cut off the entail of this estate, he alienated it to his cousin Sir John Colepeper, lord Colepeper, only son of Sir John Culpeper, of Wigsell, in Sussex, whose younger brother Francis was of Greenway-court, in Hollingborne, and was father of Sir Thomas Culpeper, the purchaser of this estate as before-mentioned.
Sir John Colepeper represented this county in parliament in the 16th year of king Charles I. and being a person, who by his abilities had raised himself much in the king's favor, was made of his privy council, and chancellor of the exchequer, afterwards master of the rolls, and governor of the Isle of Wight. During the troubles of that monarch, he continued stedfast to the royal cause, and as a reward for his services, was in 1644 created lord Colepeper, baron of Thoresway, in Lincolnshire.
After the king's death he continued abroad with king Charles II. in his exile. During his absence, Leeds-castle seems to have been in the possession of the usurping powers, and to have been made use of by them, for the assembling of their committee men and sequestrators, and for a receptacle to imprison the ejected ministers, for in 1652, all his estates had been declared by parliament forfeited, for treason against the state. He died in 1660, a few weeks only after the restoration, and was buried at Hollingborne. He bore for his arms, Argent, a bend ingrailed gules, the antient bearing of this family; he left by his second wife Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, several children, of whom Thomas was his successor in title and estates, and died without male issue as will be mentioned hereafter, John succeeded his brother in the title, and died in 1719 s. p. and Cheney succeeded his brother in the title, and died at his residence of Hoston St. John, in 1725, s. p. likewise, by which the title became extinct; they all, with the rest of the branch of the family, lie buried at Hollingborne. Thomas, lord Colepeper, the eldest son, succeeded his father in title, and in this manor and castle, where he resided, and having married Margaret, daughter of Signior Jean de Hesse, of a noble family in Germany, he left by her a sole daughter and heir Catherine, who intitled her husband Thomas, lord Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, to this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood.
The family of Fairfax appear by old evidences in the hands of the family to have been in possession of lands in Yorkshire near six hundred years ago. Richard Fairfax was possessed of lands in that county in the reign of king John, whose grandson William Fairfax in the time of king Henry III. purchased the manor of Walton, in the West Riding, where he and his successors resided for many generations afterwards, and from whom descended the Fairfax's, of Walton and Gilling, in Yorkshire; of whom, Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Gilling, was created viscount Fairfax, of the kingdom of Ireland, which title became extinct in 1772; and from a younger branch of them descended Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, who lived in queen Elizabeth's reign, and changed the original field of his coat armour from argent to or, bearing for his arms, Or, 3 bars gemelles, gules, surmounted of a lion rampant, sable, crown'd, of the first, and was father of Sir. T. Fairfax, who was, for his services to James and Charles I. created in 1627 lord Fairfax, baron of Cameron, in Scotland. He died in 1640, having had ten sons and two daughters; of whom, Ferdinando was his successor; Henry was rector of Bolton Percy, and had two sons, Henry, who became lord Fairfax, and Bryan, who was ancestor of Bryan Fairfax, late commissioner of the customs; and colonel Charles Fairfax, of Menston, was the noted antiquary, whose issue settled there.
Ferdinando, the second lord Fairfax, in the civil wars of king Charles I. was made general of the parliamentary forces, and died at York in 1646. His son, Sir Thomas Fairfax, succeeded him as lord Fairfax, and in all his posts under the parliament, and was that famous general so noted in English history during the civil wars, being made commander in chief of all the parliamentary forces; but at last he grew so weary of the distress and confusion which his former actions had brought upon his unhappy country, that he heartily concurred in the restoration of king Charles II. After which he retired to his seat at Bilborough, in Yorkshire, where he died in 1671, and was buried there, leaving by Anne, daughter and coheir of Horatio, lord Vere of Tilbury, a truly loyal and virtuous lady, an only daughter; upon which the title devolved to Henry Fairfax, esq. of Oglesthorpe, in Yorkshire, his first cousin, eldest son of Henry, rector of Bolton Percy, the second son of Thomas, the first lord Fairfax. Henry, lord Fairfax, died in 1680, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, fifth lord Fairfax, who was bred to a military life, and rose to the rank of a brigadier-general. He represented Yorkshire in several parliaments and marrying Catherine, daughter and heir of Thomas, lord Colepeper, possessed, in her right this manor and castle, and other large possessions, as before-mentioned. (fn. 7)
He died possessed of them in 1710, leaving three sons and four daughters, Thomas, who succeeded him as lord Fairfax; Henry Culpeper, who died unmarried, in 1734; and Robert, of whom hereafter. Of the daughters, Margaret married David Wilkins, D. D. and prebendary of Canterbury, and Francis married Denny Martin, esq. Thomas, lord Fairfax, the son, resided at Leeds-castle till his quitting England, to reside on his great possessions in Virginia, where he continued to the time of his death. On his departure from England, he gave up the possession of this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood, to his only surviving brother, the hon. Robert Fairfax, who afterwards resided at Leeds-castle, and on his brother's death unmarried, in 1782, succeeded to the title of lord Fairfax. He was at first bred to a military life, but becoming possessed of Leeds castle, he retired there, and afterwards twice served in parliament for the town of Maidstoue, as he did afterwards in two successive parliaments for this county. He was twice married; first to Marsha, daughter and coheir of Anthony Collins, esq. of Baddow, in Essex, by whom he had one son, who died an instant; and, secondly, to one of the daughters of Thomas Best, esq. of Chatham, who died s. p. in 1750. Lord Fairfax dying s. p. in 1793, this castle and manor, with the rest of his estates in this county, came to his nephew the Rev. Denny Martin, the eldest son of his sister Frances, by Denny Martin, esq. of Loose, who had before his uncle's death been created D. D. and had, with the royal licence, assumed the name and arms of Fairfax. Dr. Fairfax is the present possessor of this manor and castle, and resides here, being at present unmarried.
A court leet and court baron is held for the manor of Leeds, at which three borsholders are appointed. It is divided into six divisions, or yokes as they are called, viz. Church-yoke, Ferinland-yoke, Mill-yoke, Russerken-yoke, Stockwell-yoke, and Lees-yoke.
It's so pretty outside, and we got a manageable amount of snow. However, the temperatures are horrible. Right now, it's 11F and very windy, so the wind chill is below 0F. 10 minutes outside to clear off my truck, and my face feels frozen.
Sentinel Dome is on the south wall of Yosemite Valley. The top of the granite dome offers a 360 degree view of Yosemite Valley and surroundings. Hiking to the top is by far Yosemite's easiest way to experience miles and miles of views in whatever direction you care to turn. Hiking the mile-long trail to the base of Sentinel Dome is relatively easy. Traversing the granite slope to the summit, on the other hand, is a bit more challenging but still manageable.
C2012
Still very well specified, it will probably never be fully replaced by me !
Light and very manageable size, great for gripping firmly
Leica 24x lens
12.1 Megapixels
JPEG+RAW simultaneously
(stills results are clearly superior to my other cameras eg later model FZ82)
1080/50p HD video (superb)
V.useful viewfinder
Useful flip/rotate screen (eg handy for framing holding camera above your head, unlike 'selfie' screens which won't display forward with you behind the camera....)
No GPS (boo)
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St. Mellion Golf Club's 2014 Mens & Ladies Club Championships started on the hottest day of the year so far, temperatures were well into the the thirties for the Saturday medal round on the Kernow Course. Mike Bush had set out some of the toughest pins ever seen on a course that was firm and bouncing. The temperatures were a little cooler for the second medal round on the legendary Nicklaus Course making the course much more manageable, although being the Nicklaus it was never going be easy! The presentation of prizes was hosted on the Nicklaus 18th green afterwards by Club Captain Robin Hancock and Lady Captain Sue Poole. A great weekend of Golf.
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An old couch the former owner abandoned in the staircase lobby.
It inspired me to attempt my first HDR image (under Linux, BTW). It's made from JPG's and I used 11 shots, without a tripod. Since it's my first I'll add some more details.
I used a Canon S5 IS which is not supposed to be able to shoot RAW but I cheated with CHDK. I converted the hacked raws to DNG using DNG4PS2 (running under Wine). I loaded the DNG's in RawTherapee, exported JPG's and converted those to a smaller more manageable size (could've gone with raws directly for the HDR but aligning takes a while with big images).
So I loaded the smaller versions into Qtpfsgui, which also does alignment (use hugin_alignment_stack, works way better than bitmap midtone alignment even though it takes longer). Software alignment was useful, since I hadn't used a tripod. I followed the wizard around to obtain a HDR. Then I tonemapped it (also in Qtpfsgui) with the Fattal algorithm (settings are below). I did the final cropping and vignetting in GIMP.
# put this in a TXT and load in the
# qtpfsgui's tonemapping dialog
TMOSETTINGSVERSION=0.4
TMO=Fattal02
ALPHA=0.001
BETA=0.8
COLOR=1
NOISE=0
OLDFATTAL=NO
PREGAMMA=1
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These flags deliniate the area of the surf that is considered a safe and manageable area to allow people to body surf under supervision of trained lifegaurds.
Australian beaches within close proximity to an established community surf club are usually patrolled by qualified lifesavers who may volunteer on a roster to do patrols at the busy times of the week, usually on weekends in the country areas, but sometimes during the week in larger towns and cities and during school holidays.
These lifesavers undergo regular retraining and maintain high levels of fitness so that they are able to adequately respond to any lifesaving emergency. The clubs are also equipped with many lifesaving devices and rubber ducky boats which allow fast access to people in trouble.
Many beaches however are distant from a surf club and are not patrolled so there are no flags to guide surfers to safe areas of the beach. Many more drownings occur in Australia on these unpatrolled beaches, especially among overseas visitors who may not be experienced in surf swimming.
On some beaches local councils pay lifeguards to maintain supervision especially at times when volunteer supervision is difficult to maintain or when the numbers of people using the beach is high.
Surfboard riding is strictly forbidden within the flagged area with a buffer zone area maintained.
It is worth noting that many rescues are made by surfboard riders in the area at times when strong rips and shifting sand banks suddenly place people in danger.
My first thoughts were to crop the little girl out, her father was just behind her out of photo as she walked into my shot. I decided to leave her in as it adds something maybe to the image. ???
A long planned visit to Leeds to record the church.
Leeds is just off the M20, and nearby to Leeds Castle, which means the roads are often busy. St Nicholas is on the main road leading up the down, but before the road gets narrow as it winds between the timber framed houses. Thankfully there is good parking next door, so we were able to get off the main road and out of the traffic, as unbeknown to us, there was a classical music show on that night, and most of Kent were going and in the process of arriving.
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One of the largest twelfth-century towers in Kent. The arch between tower and nave is of three very plain orders with no hint of the usual zigzag moulding of the period, and is so large that a meeting room has recently been built into it. The nave has three bay aisles and short chapels to north and south of the chancel. The outstanding rood screen was partially reconstructed in 1892, and runs the full width of nave and aisles - with the staircase doorways in the south aisle. That the chancel was rebuilt in the sixteenth century may be seen by the plain sedilia through which is cut one of two hagioscopes from chapels to chancel. The north chapel contains some good seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tablets and monuments. The stained glass shows some excellent examples of the work of Heaton, Butler and Bayne (south aisle) whilst there is an uncharacteristically poor example of the work of C.E. Kempe & Co. Ltd. in the north aisle. The church has recently been reordered to provide a spacious, light and manageable interior with excellent lighting and a welcoming atmosphere without damaging the character of the building.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Leeds
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LEEDS
IS the next parish southward from Hollingborne. Kilburne says, that one Ledian, a chief counsellor to king Ethelbert II. who began his reign in 978, raised a fortress here, which was called in Latin, from him, Ledani Castrum, and in process of time in English, LEEDS. This castle was afterwards demolished by the Danes, and continued in that situation till the time of the Norman conquest.
THE PRESENT CASTLE is situated at the southeast boundary of this parish, adjoining to Bromfield, which includes a part of the castle itself. It is situated in the midst of the park, an ample description of it the reader will find hereafter. The Lenham rivulet takes its course through the park, and having supplied the moat, in which the castle stands, and the several waters in the grounds there, and having received into it the several small streamlets from Hollingborne, and one from the opposite side, which comes from Leeds abbey, it flows on, and at a small distance from Caring street, in this parish, adjoining to Bersted, the principal estate of which name there belongs to the Drapers company, it turns a mill, and then goes on to Maidstone, where it joins the river Medway. The high road from Ashford and Lenham runs close by the outside of the pales of Leeds park, at the northern boundary of the parish next to Hollingborne, and thence goes on towards Bersted and Maidstone, from which the park is distant a little more than five miles; here the soil is a deep sand, but near the river it changes to a black moorish earth. Southward from the castle the ground rises, at about three quarters of a mile south-west from it is Leeds abbey, the front of which is a handsome well-looking building, of the time of queen Elizabeth. It is not unpleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, and is well watered by a small stream which rises just above it, and here turns a mill. It is well cloathed with wood at the back part of it, to which the ground still keeps rising; adjoining to the abbey grounds westward is Leeds-street, a long straggling row of houses, near a mile in length, having the church at the south end of it; here the soil becomes a red unfertile earth much mixed with slints, which continues till it joins to Langley and Otham.
LEEDS was part of those possessions given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, bishop of Baieux; accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of that prelate's lands, in the survey of Domesday, taken in the year 1080.
Adelold holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Esiedes. It was taxed at three sulings. The arable land is twelve carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and twenty-eight villeins, with eight borderers, having seven carucates. There is a church, and eighteen servants. There are two arpends of vineyard, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of twenty bogs, and five mills of the villeins. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth sixteen pounds, the like when be received it, now twenty pounds, and yet it pays twentyfive pounds. Earl Leuuin held it.
Of this manor the abbot of St. Augustine has half a suling, which is worth ten shillings, in exchange of the park of the bishop of Baieux. The earl of Ewe has four denns of this manor, which are worth twenty shillings.
The mention of the two arpends of vineyard in the above survey, is another instance of there having been such in this county in early times, some further observations of which the reader will find in the description of the parish of Chart Sutton, not far distant, and he will likewise observe, that at the above time the bishop of Baieux had a park here, which he acquired by exchange with the abbot of St. Augustine, who must therefore have had possessions here before that time.
On the bishop of Baieux's disgrace, about four years after the taking of the above-mentioned survey, this estate, among the rest of his possessions, became consiscated to the crown.
After which it was granted by king William to the eminent family of Crevequer, called in antient charters Creveceur, and in Latin, De Crepito Corde, who at first made Chatham in this county their seat, or caput baroniæ, i. e. the principal manor of their barony, for some time, until they removed hither, being before frequently written Domini de Cetham.
Robert, son of Hamon de Crevequer, who had probably a grant of Leeds from the Conqueror, appears to have held it of the king, as of his castle of Dover, in capite by barony, their barony, which consisted of five knight's sees, being stiled Baronia de Crevequer . (fn. 1) He erected the castle here, to which he asterwards removed the capital seat of his barony. This castle being environed with water, was frequently mentioned in antient writings by the name of Le Mote. In the north-west part of it he built a chapel, in which he placed three canons, which on his foundation of the priory of Leeds, in the 19th year of king Henry I. he removed thither.
His descendant, Hamon de Crevequer, lived in the reign of king Henry III. in the 19th year of which, he was joined with Walterand Teutonicus, or Teys, in the wardenship of the five ports, and the next year had possession granted to him of the lands of William de Albrincis or Averenches, whose daughter and heir Maud he had married. He died in the 47th year of king Henry III. possessed of the manor of Ledes, held of the king in capite, as belonging to his barony of Chatham; upon which Robert, his grandson, viz. son of Hamon his son, who died in his life-time, succeeded him as his heir, and in the 52d year of that reign, exchanged the manor of Ledes, with its appurtenances, together with a moiety of all his fees, with Roger de Leyburne, for the manors of Trottesclyve and Flete. He lest William de Leyburne, his son and heir, who in the 2d year of king Edward I. had possession granted to him of the manor of Ledes, as well as of the rest of his inheritance, of which Eleanor, countess of Winchester, his father's widow, was not endowed. (fn. 2)
His son, William de Leyborne, observing that the king looked on the strength of this fortress with a jealous eye, in the beginning of king Edward Ist.'s reign reinstated the crown in the possession of both the manor and castle; and the king having, in his 27th year married Margaret, sister of Philip, king of France, he settled them, being then of the clear yearly value of 21l. 6s. 8d. among other premises, as part of her dower. She survived the king her husband, who died in 1307, and in the 5th year of the next reign of king Edward II. by the king's recommendation, appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, a nobleman of great power and eminence, and much in that prince's favor, governor of this castle. (fn. 3) She died possessed of them in the 10th year of that reign; on which they came once more into the hands of the crown, and in the beginning of the next year the king appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, above-mentioned, governor of this castle, as well as of that of Bristol. In the 11th year of that reign, the king granted to him in see, this manor and castle, and the advowson of the priory of Ledes, in exchange for the manor of Addresley, in Shropshire. Being possessed of great possessions, especially in this county, he was usually stiled, the rich lord Badlesmere of Ledes. Being pussed up through ambition and his great wealth, he forgot his allegiance, and associated himself with the earl of Lancaster, and the discontented barons; which the king being well informed of, resolved, if possible, to gain possession of this strong fortress of Ledes: to effect which, under pretence of the queen's going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, she set forward for that city with a large train of attendants, and, with a secret intention of surprising this castle, sent her marshal with others of her servants, to prepare lodging for her and her suit in it. The lord Badlesmere's family, that is, his wife, son, and four daughters, were at that time in it, together with all his treasure, deposited there for safety, under the care of Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, who refused the queen's servants admittance, and on her coming up, peremptorily persisted in denying her or any one entrance, without letters from his lord. The queen, upon this, made some attempt to gain admittance by force, and a skirmish ensued, in which one or more of her attendants were slain, but being repulsed, she was obliged to relinquish her design, and to retire for a lodging elsewhere.
The king, chagrined at the failure of his scheme, and highly resenting the indignity offered to the queen, sent a force under the earls of Pembroke and Richmond, to besiege the castle; (fn. 4) and those within it finding no hopes of relief, for though the lord Badlesmere had induced the barons to endeavours to raise the siege, yet they never advanced nearer than Kingston, yielded it up. Upon which, the lady Badlesmere and her children were sent prisoners to the tower of London, Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, was hung up, and the king took possession of the castle, as well as of all the lord Badlesmere's goods and treasures in it. But by others, Thomas de Aldone is said to have been castellan at this time, and that the castle being taken, he, with the lord Badlesmere's wife, his only son Giles, his daughters, Sir Bartholomew de Burgershe, and his wife, were sent to the tower of London by the king's order; and that afterwards, he caused Walter Colepeper, bailiff of the Seven Hundreds, to be drawn in a pitiable manner at the tails of horses, and to be hung just by this castle; on which Thomas Colepeper, and others, who were with him in Tunbridge castle, hearing of the king's approach, sled to the barons.
After which the lord Badlesmere, being taken prisoner in Yorkshire, was sent to Canterbury, and there drawn and hanged at the gallows of Blean, and his head being cut off, was set on a pole on Burgate, in that city. Upon which the manor and castle of Leeds, became part of the royal revenue and the castle remained in a most ruinous condition till the year 1359, anno 34 Edward III. in which year that munisicent prelate, William of Wickham, was constituted by the king, chief warden and surveyor of his castle of Ledes, among others, (fn. 5) having power to appoint all workmen, to provide materials, and to order every thing with regard to building and repairs; and in those manors to hold leets and other courts of trespass and misdemeanors, and to enquire of the king's liberties and rights; and from his attention to the re-edisying and rebuilding the rest of them, there is little doubt but he restored this of Leeds to a very superior state to whatever it had been before, insomuch, that it induced king Richard to visit it several times, particularly in his 19th year, in which several of his instruments were dated at his castle of Ledes; and it appears to have been at that time accounted a fortress of some strength, for in the beginning of the next reign, that unfortunate prince was, by order of king Henry IV. sent prisoner to this castle; and that king himself resided here part of the month of April in his 2d year.
After which, archbishop Arundel, whose mind was by no means inferior to his high birth, procured a grant of this castle, where he frequently resided and kept his court, whilst the process against the lord Cobham was carrying forward, and some of his instruments were dated from his castle of Ledes in the year 1413, being the year in which he died. On his death it reverted again to the crown, and became accounted as one of the king's houses, many of the principal gentry of the county being instrusted with the custody of it:
In the 7th year of king Henry V. Joane of Navarre, the second queen of the late king Henry IV. being accused of conspiring against the life of the king, her son-in-law, was committed to Leeds-castle, there to remain during the king's pleasure; and being afterwards ordered into Sir John Pelham's custody, he removed her to the castle of Pevensey, in Sussex.
In the 18th year of king Henry VI. archbishop Chichele sat at the king's castle of Leeds, in the process against Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester, for forcery and witchcrast.
King Edward IV. in his 11th year, made Ralph St. Leger, esq. of Ulcomb, who had served the office of sheriff of this county three years before, constable of this castle for life, and annexed one of the parks as a farther emolument to that office. He died that year, and was buried with his ancestors at Ulcomb.
Sir Thomas Bourchier resided at Leeds castle in the 1st year of king Richard III. in which year he had commission, among others of the principal gentry of this county, to receive the oaths of allegiance to king Richard, of the inhabitants of the several parts of Kent therein mentioned; in which year, the king confirmed the liberties of Leeds priory, in recompence of twentyfour acres of land in Bromfield, granted for the enlargement of his park of Ledes.
In the 4th year of king Henry VIII. Henry Guildford, esq. had a grant of the office of constable of Leeds castle, and of the parkership of it; and in the 12th year of that reign, he had a grant of the custody of the manor of Leeds, with sundry perquisities, for forty years. He died in the 23d year of that reign, having re-edisied great part of the castle, at the king's no small charge.
But the fee simple of the manor and castle of Leeds remained in the hands of the crown, till Edward VI. in his 6th year, granted them, with their appurtenances in the parishes of Leeds, Langley, and Sutton, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy of Ireland, to hold in capite by knight's service.
His son, Sir Warham St. Leger, succeeded him in this manor and castle, and was afterwards chief governor of Munster, in Ireland, in which province he was unfortunately slain in 1599, (fn. 6) but before his death he alienated this manor and castle to Sir Richard Smyth, fourth son of Thomas Smyth, esq. of Westenhanger, commonly called Customer Smyth.
Sir Richard Smyth resided at Leeds castle, of which he died possessed in 1628, and was buried in Ashford church, where there is a costly monument erected to his memory.
Sir John Smith, his only son, succeeded his father, and resided at Leeds castle, and dying s. p. in 1632, was buried in this church; upon which his two sisters, Alice, wife of Sir Timothy Thornhill, and Mary, of Maurice Barrow, esq. became his coheirs, and entitled their respective husbands to the property of this manor and castle, which they afterwards joined in the sale of to Sir T. Culpeper, of Hollingborne, who settled this estate, after his purchase of it, on his eldest son Cheney Culpeper, remainder to his two other sons, Francis and Thomas. Cheney Culpeper, esq. resided at Leedscastle for some time, till at length persuading his brother Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, (then his only surviving brother, Francis being dead. s. p.) to cut off the entail of this estate, he alienated it to his cousin Sir John Colepeper, lord Colepeper, only son of Sir John Culpeper, of Wigsell, in Sussex, whose younger brother Francis was of Greenway-court, in Hollingborne, and was father of Sir Thomas Culpeper, the purchaser of this estate as before-mentioned.
Sir John Colepeper represented this county in parliament in the 16th year of king Charles I. and being a person, who by his abilities had raised himself much in the king's favor, was made of his privy council, and chancellor of the exchequer, afterwards master of the rolls, and governor of the Isle of Wight. During the troubles of that monarch, he continued stedfast to the royal cause, and as a reward for his services, was in 1644 created lord Colepeper, baron of Thoresway, in Lincolnshire.
After the king's death he continued abroad with king Charles II. in his exile. During his absence, Leeds-castle seems to have been in the possession of the usurping powers, and to have been made use of by them, for the assembling of their committee men and sequestrators, and for a receptacle to imprison the ejected ministers, for in 1652, all his estates had been declared by parliament forfeited, for treason against the state. He died in 1660, a few weeks only after the restoration, and was buried at Hollingborne. He bore for his arms, Argent, a bend ingrailed gules, the antient bearing of this family; he left by his second wife Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, several children, of whom Thomas was his successor in title and estates, and died without male issue as will be mentioned hereafter, John succeeded his brother in the title, and died in 1719 s. p. and Cheney succeeded his brother in the title, and died at his residence of Hoston St. John, in 1725, s. p. likewise, by which the title became extinct; they all, with the rest of the branch of the family, lie buried at Hollingborne. Thomas, lord Colepeper, the eldest son, succeeded his father in title, and in this manor and castle, where he resided, and having married Margaret, daughter of Signior Jean de Hesse, of a noble family in Germany, he left by her a sole daughter and heir Catherine, who intitled her husband Thomas, lord Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, to this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood.
The family of Fairfax appear by old evidences in the hands of the family to have been in possession of lands in Yorkshire near six hundred years ago. Richard Fairfax was possessed of lands in that county in the reign of king John, whose grandson William Fairfax in the time of king Henry III. purchased the manor of Walton, in the West Riding, where he and his successors resided for many generations afterwards, and from whom descended the Fairfax's, of Walton and Gilling, in Yorkshire; of whom, Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Gilling, was created viscount Fairfax, of the kingdom of Ireland, which title became extinct in 1772; and from a younger branch of them descended Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, who lived in queen Elizabeth's reign, and changed the original field of his coat armour from argent to or, bearing for his arms, Or, 3 bars gemelles, gules, surmounted of a lion rampant, sable, crown'd, of the first, and was father of Sir. T. Fairfax, who was, for his services to James and Charles I. created in 1627 lord Fairfax, baron of Cameron, in Scotland. He died in 1640, having had ten sons and two daughters; of whom, Ferdinando was his successor; Henry was rector of Bolton Percy, and had two sons, Henry, who became lord Fairfax, and Bryan, who was ancestor of Bryan Fairfax, late commissioner of the customs; and colonel Charles Fairfax, of Menston, was the noted antiquary, whose issue settled there.
Ferdinando, the second lord Fairfax, in the civil wars of king Charles I. was made general of the parliamentary forces, and died at York in 1646. His son, Sir Thomas Fairfax, succeeded him as lord Fairfax, and in all his posts under the parliament, and was that famous general so noted in English history during the civil wars, being made commander in chief of all the parliamentary forces; but at last he grew so weary of the distress and confusion which his former actions had brought upon his unhappy country, that he heartily concurred in the restoration of king Charles II. After which he retired to his seat at Bilborough, in Yorkshire, where he died in 1671, and was buried there, leaving by Anne, daughter and coheir of Horatio, lord Vere of Tilbury, a truly loyal and virtuous lady, an only daughter; upon which the title devolved to Henry Fairfax, esq. of Oglesthorpe, in Yorkshire, his first cousin, eldest son of Henry, rector of Bolton Percy, the second son of Thomas, the first lord Fairfax. Henry, lord Fairfax, died in 1680, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, fifth lord Fairfax, who was bred to a military life, and rose to the rank of a brigadier-general. He represented Yorkshire in several parliaments and marrying Catherine, daughter and heir of Thomas, lord Colepeper, possessed, in her right this manor and castle, and other large possessions, as before-mentioned. (fn. 7)
He died possessed of them in 1710, leaving three sons and four daughters, Thomas, who succeeded him as lord Fairfax; Henry Culpeper, who died unmarried, in 1734; and Robert, of whom hereafter. Of the daughters, Margaret married David Wilkins, D. D. and prebendary of Canterbury, and Francis married Denny Martin, esq. Thomas, lord Fairfax, the son, resided at Leeds-castle till his quitting England, to reside on his great possessions in Virginia, where he continued to the time of his death. On his departure from England, he gave up the possession of this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood, to his only surviving brother, the hon. Robert Fairfax, who afterwards resided at Leeds-castle, and on his brother's death unmarried, in 1782, succeeded to the title of lord Fairfax. He was at first bred to a military life, but becoming possessed of Leeds castle, he retired there, and afterwards twice served in parliament for the town of Maidstoue, as he did afterwards in two successive parliaments for this county. He was twice married; first to Marsha, daughter and coheir of Anthony Collins, esq. of Baddow, in Essex, by whom he had one son, who died an instant; and, secondly, to one of the daughters of Thomas Best, esq. of Chatham, who died s. p. in 1750. Lord Fairfax dying s. p. in 1793, this castle and manor, with the rest of his estates in this county, came to his nephew the Rev. Denny Martin, the eldest son of his sister Frances, by Denny Martin, esq. of Loose, who had before his uncle's death been created D. D. and had, with the royal licence, assumed the name and arms of Fairfax. Dr. Fairfax is the present possessor of this manor and castle, and resides here, being at present unmarried.
A court leet and court baron is held for the manor of Leeds, at which three borsholders are appointed. It is divided into six divisions, or yokes as they are called, viz. Church-yoke, Ferinland-yoke, Mill-yoke, Russerken-yoke, Stockwell-yoke, and Lees-yoke.
Short is hot. Yes! The short hairstyles for girls are yet again invading the hairstyles of the season. The simple reason is that a short trendy hairstyle is easily manageable, looks sexy and is in. Do not be afraid to cut short your long tresses.
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After a great breakfast at a small cafe we took the Scenic Drive into Capitol Reef National Park. It's mostly a paved road until the very end but still manageable. We spent a few hours exploring the area. When we left Capitol Reef we decided to look for something new. I read about the Notom Road, east of the park, so we decided to check it out. Good decision. We went in about 12 miles before the road got rougher. Great scenery - it is the back side of the Waterpocket Fold - another area we need to check out. We then drove through some really desolate landscape before coming to the Hite Overlook. Great view of the Colorado River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area. After this we were going to visit some Indian ruins but took a wrong turn somewhere so we just headed to Cortez, CO for the evening. Good day.
I took these photos in April 2018 in south eastern Utah.
Back in 2015, somebody gave me a go in their F56 Mini One courtesy car. I’ve liked the new-fangled Mini since they came out in 2001, but this was the first time I’d driven one without cursing the uncomfortable seats. As the mileage on my E92 BMW was getting a bit high, I thought I might have a look at leasing a brand new Mini; the residuals are quite good so I presumed the monthly payments would be manageable. I booked an appointment for a test drive at my local Mini dealer, and in the run up, played with the configurator on the Mini website to try and configure my perfect car.
I’d arranged for test drives in petrol and diesel Coopers, and when I got there, the petrol one they’d provided was almost exactly as I’d cobbled together on the Mini website the previous week, only differing in spec by having LED headlights instead of a sunroof. When the salesman suggested they might be able to do a deal on that actual car, all rational thought went out of the window, and I ended up buying it.
It’s a really great bit of kit. The turbocharged 1.5 triple is eager and really suits its playful character. It’s not a quick car, but it’s loads of fun, and it quickly endears itself to you. Even so, it’s easy on the juice and quiet and refined on a long run. I can see why they’re so popular.
Alas, there is a downside. The seats are great, but you can’t really stretch your legs out when you’re driving, and after an hour or two on the motorway, I was getting pain in my legs. Fine if you’re only doing that kind of journey every now and again, but I was doing it at least a couple of times a week.
After about 18 months, I gave in, and part-exchanged it against something sensible. It’s a shame, because a year later, I changed jobs, so I don’t have to pound the motorways anymore. Still, I’m probably a bit old for a bright orange Mini, so maybe it’s right that I got rid of it when I did.
I’m not one hundred percent convinced about the drain pipe in this picture. I’ve downloaded a trial version of Photoshop CC 2018 to see if I can make it disappear. Initial attempts have been disappointing, so I’ll upload this as it is for now, and see what I can do before the trial runs out in a few days.
I’m really rusty on Photoshop. My copy of Photoshop CS2 stopped working a couple of years ago, and I’ve tried using GIMP, but I just can’t get on with that. However, I’ve not long taken delivery of a new computer and organised all my photos, so I’m wondering whether to splash out on an Adobe subscription. It seems like a lot of money, somehow, despite being the same price as a couple of pints a month. Maybe I’ll just push the button and worry about it later.
* The One That Is Orangely Out Of Its Head is from Ken Nordine’s “Orange” www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH8Ir1djOAs which Super Furry Animals sampled and used at the end of live renditions of “Mountain People” back in the late 1990s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeeDWa-xlU4 It still haunts me, now.
DRE @ 12 Weeks Old
HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER
Mankind has enjoyed the faithfulness of the dog by the side for countries. Few dogs desire to please their human masters as mush as the staffordshire bull terrier. Dogs in general have accommodated man and his every whim for generations anything to please the master. Today's Staffordshire Bull Terrier, in mind and body, echoes that sentiment with night and determination.
A SPECIALIST IN BODY AND MIND
before the days of dog shows and the purebred mating of champions, human recognised the merit in dogs that specialise in performing a specific job or task. We bred dogs that could hunt, herd, haul, guard, run, track and perform countless other tasks geared towards making humans lives more comfortable, enjoyable, and manageable. Each dog's anatomy reflected the task tha men set before him. The hunting dog had an insulated coat, a super sensitive nose, a short coupled body, a deep chest and straight, strong legs. The coursing dog had longer legs, a tucked-up abdomen (for speed), a deep chest (for lung capacity), keen eyesight, and a narrow, long muzzle (to slice the wind). The guard dogs were true heavyweights: massive and solidly boned with punishing jaws and nerves of steel.
Understand the Staffordshire Bull Terrier as a pet
required knowledge of the dog's history as a baiting and
fighting dog. No dog matches this breeds devotion to
it's master, in mind and body
The physical characteristics that set apart the staffordshire bull terrier are its impressive musculature, its strongly undershot strong jaws and large teeth, very pronounced cheek muscles, loose shoulders, roach black, low-slung body and long legs that bend in the forequarters. These are the characteristics of a fighting or baiting dog that enable it to perform the tasks that breed indeed all the bull and terrier dogs, were created to tackle. The decree'Go Low, pin and hold!' was in sooth a battle cry! This imposing physique was needed for the dogs to fight one another, as well as dodge and grab an ornery bull with their powerful gripping jaws and hold on to it without being tossed aside!
Baiting a bull, an animal twenty or more times the size of a dog, placed some obvious demands on the dog, its anatomy and temperament. The desired temperament of a bull and terrier dog for baiting was not a vicious, risk-taking daredevil. Instead, the baiting dog required an even-keeled, level-headed, obedient temperament, peppered with patience, indomitable courage and tenacity. The bulldog excelled in the pinning and holding of the bull, but lacked the flexibility required in the dog pit. thus, the smaller bull and terrier dogs were designed to take on this challenge and each other.
The characteristics of a fighting dog still distin
guish the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, including the
pronounced cheek muscles, long legs and loose
shoulders
Image the heart of the dog that willingly undertake such a task for the sake of pleasing his master! Baiting and fighting dogs were not the only kinds of dogs that risked their lives for their human counterparts. Indeed, harding and droving dogs, hunting dogs, and even the smaller terrier risked their lives for the sake of accomplishing their task. Nonetheless, the bloody endeavour of slaying bull overshadows almost any other taskset before dog.
The original fighting types were large, mastiff dogs with heavy, low-slung bodies and powerfully developed heads. Some accounts also descibed the deep, frightening voice of the mastiffs. In appearance, the mastiffs were appalling and frightful. Mastiff dogs yielded not only fighting dogs but also flock guards, scent hounds and other powerful hunters. Consider the size and fearlessness of such modern-day mastiff as Great Pyrenees, Kuvasz, Dogo Argention and Spanish Mastiff. Consider the size and features of the bloodhound, Great Dane,Newfoundland and Polish Hound. All these dogs derive from crosses to these powerful mastiffs of yesteryear.
ORIGINAL PURPOSES OF THE GREAT MASTIFFS
Historians have recorded many impressive duties amongst the purposes of these original mastiffs. Dogs used for war armoured,spiked, and collared became valuable weapons for human strying to defend themselves from t heir enemies. These dogs were not only brave but aggressive and resource full. As early as 2100B.C. dogs were employed for warring purposed. Many famous kings and tribes used dogs to claim their victories. The dogs were trained in combat and were uniformed with impenetrable metal shields and spiked collars to protect them from their foes who carried spears and other primitive weapons.
The American Staffordshire Terrier, shown here,
derived from the Staffordshire Bull Terrier from
crosses to other terriers in the U.S
Spanning the millennia, Hammurabi, Kambyses, Varius and henry VII were among the monarchs that valued dogs in their militia. These dogs were necessarily vicious and trusted no one exept their one master. Appropriately these war dogs were labelled Canis bellicosus.
The great mastiff also assisted man by hunting large, ferocious game. These dog commonly hunted in packs, maintained by the royals, and were used to pursue bison and aurochs in the wild forests. Dogs were also used to track the stag, considered a noble game,as well as the wild boar, the most dangerous of wild game, revered for its ruthless, nasty disposition. The mastiffs worked in conjunction with lighter, swifter dogs that tired the boar before the mighty mastiffs were releases to slay it, many men, dogs and horses were killed by the wild boars fighting for their lives. There are accounts of boar dogs being kept in kennel 6000 dog strong. Today, mastiffs are rarely used for these purposes, but there are still boar hunts in the U.S., Germany and the Czech Republic.
Bear hunting, even more popular today than boar hunting,was also a noble pursuit of the dogs of antiquity. The dogs were required to track the bear, cornerit and keep it occupied until the hunter arrived with their firearms. The bear is highly intelligent creature that could weight much as 350 kgs and could easily outmatch a dog. Mastiffs in India produce the most coloful tale of hunting, including the pursuit of buffalo, leopards, panthers and elephants! Regardless of the actual truth of many of these accounts, the stories underscore the fearless tenacity of these mastiff dogs that the ancestors of our Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Was surprised to get these super dark flowers from the other yellow blend of seed mix. These are a very manageable 5' tall.
Larry did this hike solo, as Ben had a soar knee from our last cross-country ski outing. In order to get to Mt Loder, you cross Doorjamb Mountain summit en route. The wind was up today, as it often is on this route. Thankfully it was just manageable, and Larry completed this double summit scramble in under 4 hours roundtrip.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Ginny Weasley, she's really cute and accurate too, though her head is a little loose for some reason, also her hair is not perfect like Hermione's but it's manageable, is she on a Stacie body?
It's a mobile shot tonight which I'm attempting to upload from the phone as we've got no wifi working in our flop house. Tomorrow is the big airshow at RAF Waddington, and we're overnighting locally near Lincoln for a manageable day tomorrow.
Travelodges are, in our experience, variable at best. We've experienced everything from the Good (Heathrow), the bad (Keswick) and the downright ugly (Southend). We normally try to stay at the Premier Inn which is altogether safer, but when I was booking the room in December this was all I could get.
As it goes it wasn't too bad. The water was iffy so my shower was either scalding or freezing but at least we got a room. When we turned up the receptionist basically said "Well...we're fully booked tonight and we're one room down with a blocked toilet, so someone is sleeping in the car park. But it's not you."
Phew.
Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4 EX DG
This lens is one that I was looking forward to testing as I have owned its predecessor for some 18 month now The exercise proves beyond doubt that Sigma are taking their programme of change to digitally enhanced models seriously and not just changing the coating and packaging! They have taken the opportunity for a major overhaul and grasped it with both hands. Here we look not just at the new lens, but also at the changes that make it a different lens!
Specifications
Focal length 17-35mm
Angle of view 103.7-63.4º
Max Aperture f/2.8Filter size 77mm
Construction 16 elements in 13 groups
Focus type Internal HSM (Sigma, Canon & Nikon)
Closest focus 27cm/1ft 1in
Size 83.5x88.7mm
Weight 0.56kg
Mount Sigma, Canon, Nikon, Minolta D, Pentax.
Tripod Bush No
Price £430
Build and handling
This lens was awarded the TIPA 2004 ‘best consumer lens in Europe’ prize on it’s announcement and on opening the box you immediately start to realise why Packed in Sigma’s sturdy soft case with a zipped top and Velcro fastened safety flap, the lens is a total re-work of the old model. Gone is the huge 82mm front, down to a much more manageable 77mm and mid way along the barrel, between the zoom ring and the focus ring, is a neat distance window replacing the etchings of the old lens. The window is marked with a useful depth-of-field scale that eliminates the guesswork.
The lens is also more barrel shaped than its cone shaped predecessor, enhancing the solid look and making both the zoom and focus rings the same diameter. The ribbed grip on both rings is a practical pattern that is varied by coarseness, the zoom being the larger pattern than the focus, which is the front of the two. I always feel that this is a useful tactile difference. The zoom ring is marked at 17, 20, 24, 28 and 35mm.
The only control on the lens, other than these rings, is the auto/manual switch for the focussing, and even this is omitted on the Nikon mount version.
The finish is Sigma’s smooth matt surface, which I have found to be hard wearing as well as smart. The supplied, shallow, petal-shaped hood has the same finish and the bayonet fitting has been improved by the inclusion of a click stop to keep it in position. Though shallow, this hood still proved to be practical and worthwhile.
The inclusion of an HSM (HyperSonic Motor) focussing engine, which was included in the old model but seems quicker and quieter in the new, and the short distance it needs to travel in this type of lens, makes focussing virtually instant. The wide aperture helps here, allowing plenty of light in to get a very fast focus ‘fix’!
All in all, a well put together lens that felt right and was nice to use.
Optical Quality
The older lens was a nice lens, although it did gain a reputation for being a little soft at times. The new one has improved considerably. Let us not forget that this lens is classified as a DG lens and can still be used on full frame 35mm cameras despite having been optimised for digital. Like all lenses, the performance wide open is not as good as when the lens is stopped down an aperture or two and this one is no different. Once you are through the f/5.6 mark though, the sharpness cannot be faulted.
As this is a wide-angle zoom, it is good to see that the optimum performance is attained at the 17mm short end whereas most zooms are optimised for the middle of their range.
Colours are well reproduced and chromatic aberrations well controlled once the lens is closed down a stop. I found no evidence of ghosting or flare.
Verdict
Sigma have taken their upgrade program to digitally enhanced lenses seriously and used the opportunity well. This lens is a shining example in which they have addressed the criticisms of the older model and put them all right without putting the price through the ceiling. With crop factors on digital SLR’s averaging at 1.6x, this lens come out at a 27-56mm equivalent and makes a useful wide to standard walk-around zoom that retains the ability to do some good quality landscape work.
In summary the main positive points of the Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4 EX DG are:
Quick, quiet autofocus.
Good build quality
Useable filter size
Value for money
Best at wide end
Negative points are:
Performance with wide open aperture could be better
www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-17-35mm-f-2-8-4-ex-dg-in...
This guy hasn't received decals yet, so while printing the J15's I printed hers and the Jinty's. The buffer beam decals are tricky to keep on but manageable.
Title: With the snip of a red ribbon, the St. Thomas Municipal Airport was officially opened in June 1972. Federal transport minister Don Jamieson, with scissors, performed the honours along with St. Thomas Mayor Eber Rice, left. Also taking part were St. Thomas Alderman Roger Cyr, airport committee chairman, second from left; Elgin MP Harold Stafford, centre; and St. Thomas Alderman Don Hitch, chairman of the St. Thomas Industrial Development Corporation, right. The airport was turned over to the city by the department of transport after more than $100,000 in capital works was spent on the Highway 3 facility. St. Thomas city council is getting ready to hear staff recommendations on the future of the aviation hub after a complete case study was presented in December 2016. The document identifies several growth opportunities for the city-owned institution. City staff are sifting through the mounds of data to come up with a manageable list of priorities to improve the airport in the years to come.
Creator(s): St. Thomas Times-Journal
Bygone Days Publication Date: March 23, 2017
Original Publication Date: June 29, 1972
Reference No.: C8 Sh4 B3 F4 21
Credit: Elgin County Archives, St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
The magic that made Concorde work (together with the Olympus 593). Low drag at supersonic speeds, could still make lift at high angles of attack to enable a manageable landing speed. Genius, and made before computational fluid dynamics could be much help.
The railway bridge that spanned Whaley Lane that was situated next to Whaley Bridge station, was replaced with a new structure over the weekend of the 7/8th November.
Here a section of the old bridge is cautiously by remote control inched down Canal Street, to Canal Wharf car park to be cut up into more manageable pieces.
7th November 2020
The post-dark age mad purchase rush has finally settled down. I spent the first half of the year panic-buying LEGO sets, and now I'm experiencing a bad, bad case of buyer's remorse.
I never really expected to go back to collecting and playing with LEGO. I don't know, it's like a brick (ha. ha.) hit me out of nowhere and the next thing I know, I'm picking up boxes and boxes of LEGO at the toy store as if they were cheap candy. I strayed away from my core interest themes and bought a lot of sets out of curiosity and just for the heck of it (6193 Castle Building Set, anyone?).
While updating my inventory last week, I realized that by recklessly buying lots of small- and mid-sized sets over the past six months, I've missed out on the big ones (e.g. Cafe Corner) that I really wanted but have always dismissed as too expensive.
So now I trimmed down my to-acquire list for the rest of the year to a semi-manageable three big sets. I'm planning to sell some of my other old and new sets as well. Not an easy thing to do, really. I'm still having a hard time stopping myself from going to the LEGO section every time I pass by a toy store.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
When the Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel, and its tributary gold mines were initially drilled, they were backbreakingly done so with a hand drill and hammer and black powder was used for blasting. Soon, pneumatic drills were developed. Compressed air was fed into the drill, which operated a piston that hammered the bit into the rock as it rotated in the chuck. Once the hole was deep enough, explosives were placed inside to break the ore into more manageable pieces. water was not used in conjunction with this particular drill to lubricate the bit so a huge amount of dust was created. The drill earned the nickname “widowmaker” because many of the men who operated the drill died from illnesses related to inhaling too much dust. Sometime later the drills were modified with a hole in the center of the drill steel and bit to allow pressurized water to turn the dust into a slurry. Dynamite became available and the tunnel was getting deeper and deeper. When electricity finally came to Idaho Springs, the tunnel had lights and the mules that had been used to pull the ore cars were replaced with electric locomotives.
The Argo Gold Mine and Mill, at 2350 Riverside Dr, is a former mine and gold that opened on April 1, 1913 at the entrance of the 4.6-mile Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel. The Tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch, Quartz Hill, Nevadaville, and Central City. The mill, one of the largest and most modern in Colorado, was built by R.E. Shimer to strip the valuable metals like gold, silver, copper and lead from the ore extracted from the tunnel. Following a flooding accident in 1943 that left four miners dead, the tunnel was closed, and Argo Mill ceased operations.
The five-story mill sat abandoned until 1976 when it was purchased by James N. Maxwell, who renovated it and opened it to the public as a museum. The bottom level of the mill serves as a museum displaying mining and milling artifacts, old payroll records, milling receipts, and old photographs. After touring the Dougle Eagle mine, and the Argo Mill, visitors can pan for gold and gems.
National Register #78000836 (1978)
I followed the recipe in the River Cottage Meat book but I just found the recipe listed here: www.rivercottage.net/recipes/gills-chinese-ribs
• 1 lb Spare ribs of pork
• 2 Pig’s trotters
• 2tbsp Sunflower Oil
• 50g Light brown sugar
• 6-8 Large garlic cloves, crushed
• 5cm piece of fresh ginger root, freshly chopped
• 100ml Cider vinegar or brown rice vinegar
• 150ml Apple juice (or pineapple juice)
• 50ml Dark soy sauce
• 100ml Light soy sauce
Step 1 First you need to cut the spare ribs / trotters into manageable sections.
Step 2 Chop through the chine bone with the cleaver. Repeat for each section until you have several pieces of meat. Then split each piece into halves, again using the cleaver. Continue chopping up the ribs into halves until you have bite-size, chewable pieces.
Step 3 If you don’t have a cleaver, your butcher will happily chop the ribs up for you.
Step 4 Clean up the trotters using a knife. You can singe off hair with a Chef's blowtorch or over a gas flame. Using the cleaver, chop each trotter into 6 pieces. First cut the trotter in half lengthways (this may take a few goes!) and then chop each half into thirds.
Step 5 Heat up the sunflower oil in the frying pan. When the oil is hot, place the rib pieces and trotters in the pan. When they are lightly browned, turn them over. The rib pieces will be uneven, so keep moving them around to ensure they colour all over.
Step 6 When all the meat is lightly browned, take each piece out of the pan and place it in the large pot.
Step 7 Now it’s time to add the sweet and sour ingredients. Add the sugar, garlic, ginger, ginger syrup, cider vinegar, apple juice and soy sauce to the pot. As the dish cooks down all these flavours will mellow into a sticky, rich sauce.
Step 8 Top up the pot with water so that the pieces of meat are just covered. Add a couple of dried red chillies for heat.
Step 9 Cover the pot and cook for 2-2½ hours until the meat is tender. Then pour into a serving dish and serve.
First test roll on the M6. Metering seems optimistic by a stop, which is manageable. Otherwise, turned out alright.
Leica M6 + 50mm Summicron + Kodak T-max 100
I'm not active on Flickr anymore. My best photos can be found at: alexnichol.com
This quilt measures approximately 29"x29". 100% cotton.
I used fabric from Amy Butler's Love line. The fabric is a quilting weight, so it offers plenty of durability. The size makes it perfect for snuggling your baby, and it is a very manageable size to accompany your little bambino in the carseat.
Pretty slow progress as I try to gain ground on numerous fronts. I thought the next step would be the orangey colors near the bottom (and sorted on the cardboard sheets), but there are so many pieces. I found some smaller areas - the tan area to the right and the grey-green to the left - that were more manageable. Most recently focusing on any pieces that have lines on them. Everything is topsy-turvy.
The cut itself continues to be a challenge and I am frequently having to remove pieces which fit perfectly, but aren't correct.
Built circa 1790. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Channelled rustication at ground; cill course at 1st floor; simple moulded architraves; cornices at 1st floor. Pilastered doorpiece and panelled door; stylised capitals, fluted friezes with rosettes; 4-arched-pane fanlight. Timber sash and case windows.
From a plaque by the entrance: “Sir James Young Simpson lived here 1845 - 1870 and in 1847 discovered the anaesthetic power of chloroform.”
Sir James Young Simpson entered Edinburgh University in 1825, to graduate MD (1832) and proceed rapidly to the chair of midwifery (1839). Excited by the new use of sulphuric ether as an anaesthetic agent, but concerned to find a substance more manageable and effective, he self-experimented with other volatile fluids before settling on chloroform (1847). Despite its rapid popularity, his advocacy for its use in natural childbirth as well as surgical intervention led to intense criticism from moralists and theologians until Queen Victoria's delighted approbation after the delivery of her ninth child (1853). A baronetcy was bestowed in 1866. He lived here at 52 Queen Street.
The Mk. 8 was an attempt to miniaturize Coilgun technology. The battery holds a charge much longer than previous designs, and is encased within the weapon, requiring a breakdown of the weapon to be swapped out.
The weapon itself is considered the first compact weapon Luprecal has ever made, despite still being somewhat bulky.
Notes:
"It's alright. Gets the job done without a hassle. M seems convinced that its some pinnacle of design or something, but she's a moron about these things."
"Uses the same magazines as most of the other models."
"The internal battery is a welcome change. The old models had it exposed, and as a result it could get bashed up real easily, ruining the damn thing and forcing you to get another."
"Not the smallest model, but a nice manageable size that doesn't weigh you down too badly."
Made in PMG.
Una and I have been fascinated with fascinators ... along with the rest of the blogosphere, apparently.
Una's Fascinator of choice this summer has been her beachcomber option (i.e., found on the beach, claws to comb hair ... get it? Groan!)
And this is the first shot of her new hair since her balding disease. In retrospect, I think a mohair or alpaca fiber would be more manageable. We used a heat proof synthetic to match her original hair. It has a lovely drape but is almost too silky and fine for my horrible styling skills. I am very happy with the colour: like her original but less orange and more brown ... gingery. It still needs a trim but I am horrible at cutting hair.
P.S. - I have been trying out the manual setting on my camera. Let me know what you think.
Beautiful dress by Shallala
A view from the subway portal into the tunnel where work is going on.
CTA crews replaced running rail in the Kimball Subway (Blue Line, O'Hare Branch) over the weekend, as a part of important regular track maintenance.
On Saturday, February 22, around 1,300 feet of new rail was installed, replacing old rail showing signs of wear on the Forest Park-bound track. One of the rails was replaced from the subway portal at the Kennedy Expressway (I90/94) down to the Belmont station. The new rail installed weighed nearly 50,000 lbs. (about 25 tons).
Workers cut the old rail into manageable segments, removed them, swapped in new pieces of new rail and joined the 1500-lb pieces together. Crews also made adjustments to the third rail, swapping out old third rail chairs with new ones.
Reusable parts of the rail that was removed was used to replace sections of worn rail on the O'Hare-bound side, Sunday (we reuse what we can).
This maintenance work is just a taste of what's to come with an upcoming project to improve this line! Later this year, larger, more widespread work will occur to improve tracks, stations and infrastructure on the Blue Line in areas between O'Hare and through downtown as part of the Your New Blue project, a $492 million investment in the Blue Line. Learn more at transitchicago.com/yournewblue
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Dolls in photo (from left to right):
-Girl of the Year 2016 Lea Clark
-My American Girl #41 "Maya"
I was beyond excited to design earrings to go with Lea's Hiking Outfit. But when I had all my bead kits sprawled out, I was a little bummed out that I didn't have any butterflies that would match the one on her shirt. I try not to buy beads too often, because it's easier for me to come up with ideas with a smaller collection. And of course it's more manageable to store, and I like to get a lot of use out of the stuff I do buy. But all my butterfly charms get used quickly (that and flowers). The few I had left just would have looked plain tacky with this getup. I didn't want the earrings to be too feminine either, since this ensemble is a sporty one. I spotted these oddly colored yellow, white, and dark pink beads in one of my kits. I got them in a small baggie at Wal-Mart for $1. I was always tempted to buy the entire strands of these beads for $3/$4, but they aren't versatile enough for me to require so many. It might seem like an odd choice, but to me these beads look like they were painted with watercolors. And the butterfly printed on the shirt of Lea's Hiking Outfit also has the same watercolor effect. I tied the green color of her shorts into the earrings by using green cube beads. I also got these at Wal-Mart years and years ago (they were some of the first ones I ever bought when I started making jewelry).
Maya is modeling the World Traveler Dress, which is a "purchase with purchase" item. Just like with Jess and Lea's Hiking Outfit, truth be told, I purchased the World Traveler Dress just for Grace. I knew it would be a breeze to make earrings for since I have loads and loads of pink and black beads to choose from. I perused over my several bead kits when I saw these marbled black and white balls. For some reason, they reminded me of the grey/black print on the dress, and they looked classy. I also paired them with these light pink balls, which came from a deconstructed necklace that belonged to my grandmother. I've used these same pink beads time and time again for my American Girls--it's a good thing there were so many on that necklace, or they'd be all gone by now! And to top it all off, I finished the earrings with some basic silver beads and pink crystals. I love how cute but sophisticated these earrings turned out to be (believe me, I could have taken a much tackier approach to this pair since I have a plethora of black and pink beads)! I would have loved it if I had some sort of traveling themed charms, like little Eiffel Towers or suitcases, but regardless, I'm still happy with the outcome of this pair.
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Counting the years as they whiz past seems less fun than it did at twenty. And, whizzing past they are. It's a pity that life speeds by so quickly as you get close to whatever is at the end. It feels as if I've had the pedal to the metal since I was thirteen and now I'm running flat-out in the fog at night with my hair on fire. The thought, "Pretty soon I'll be dead." intrudes daily into my otherwise manageable world.
Well, there is no sense in crying over milk that has yet to be spilt. It's not that death frightens me. I made peace with death a long time ago. Accepting The Big Sleep as something that is as natural as life itself, indeed, defining life, has removed the heebie-jeebie factor from the death equation for me. There's some kind of Big Plan. My death is simply a part of that. I've been inches or seconds from death so many times that I've lost count. I've lost interest in counting. Death is the biggest tease of all. How close can you get?
No, I'm not going to off myself. I'm having way too much fun for that. I've been sitting here listening to Pink Floyd for about three hours now. That's enough to make anybody ponder darkly the meaning of life.
Today I'm feeding you a stew of images that don't fit anywhere else. Butter up some bread and have a seat:
That was Wongat Island which just flew past and is left in the wake of Mike Cassell's boat, Felmara, on our way up to Blueblood on Christmas Day. It has a very nice beach and is the only place that I know of where you can pick up magnificent specimens of weathered blue coral. I'll have to do a post on it someday.
This is a much prettier island image. I think that it is Sinub Island, the outline looks right. I wasn't really paying much attention to navigation, since I wasn't driving: The sun lit it up nicely and a polarising filter over the lens darkened up the sky just as it is supposed to do. The big Cumulonimbus cloud is casting a lovely shadow on the sea.
Here is an example of how to blow out your whites. The little sensor in my Canon G9 simply can't handle the dynamic range of brightness levels in this shot: The rest of the image was recoverable, except for the blocked blacks which I can live with in this image. However the bright area in the centre was blown out to pure white. I couldn't get any detail out of it. This is where a US$5,000 camera comes in handy, if you have the moolah for it. I had to fake something in there, so Photoshop saved the day with the Selective Colour tool set on Absolute. Choosing Whites as the colour, I tweaked up the Yellow slider and added just a touch of Red. It looks a little fakey, but hey, what do you expect for a tenth of the price?
This shot fits my mood today like a glove. It's raining and cold outside today; Eunie would say that it's 'winter' today in Madang. The Finnisterre Mountains are glowering in the distance as rain tumbles down from the gravid clouds: Mind, when we say 'cold' were talking maybe 24°C (75°F). I never sweat any more. My body has fallen deeply in love with tropical weather. In Indiana, at this time of year, I'd be dead in a month - I'm sure of it!
I gave you a frame of this series of sunrise over Astrolabe Bay in another post. I like this one better: The canoe man is more clearly visible here. I also used a different mood for the colours. You can compare them, if you like.
Since I seem to be wallowing in the ephemeral nature of life today, here is a perfect image with which to illustrate the principle:
When I named this image Ephemeral Mushrooms, I thought that I was being very cute and trippy. Then I Googled the phrase and got 731 hits. So much for originality. Among other scholarly titles was, The Predictability of Ephemeral Mushrooms and Implications for Mycophagous Fly Communities. That will give you the gist of the subject. I didn't even know that mycophagus flies had communities. I thought they were like wandering hunter-gatherers.
Okay, okay, I'll wrap up this orgy of self-pity and random fluctuations with a Guest Shot by our fine friend and enthusiastic fellow photographer, Ron Barrons of Hamilton, Ontario. Ron, like myself, is a waterfalls buff. Here is his latest shot of Princess Falls.
I call the image above Princess Falls Mugged. That's because it's my interpretation of the image that Ron sent to me. As I do, Ron struggles with 'flat light'. He emailed the image to me with the remark that the lighting that day was very flat. My addition of a blue sky at the top seems to contradict this, but it's fake. Punching up the contrast and increasing the γ of the image did wonders for it. Lightening only the shadows and changing the water in the pool from sickly green to deep blue put on the finishing touches. Actually, I liked the shot the way Ron sent it to me.
By the way, Ron said that Princess Falls only works when it rains. Otherwise it is dry. A dry waterfall. Hmmm . . . Is it a waterfall, when it's dry? Anyway, Ron said that he was going out to try again, but it will have to wait until all the ice is gone. Thank heavens I don't have to deal with that!
I simply couldn't resist "improving" it.
Ron is a forgiving guy.
For many years Alexcars ran service A1 between Tetbury and Cirencester, linking both towns to the delightful railway station at Kemble. The route number was from the old Gloucestershire CC series which allocated an appropriate letter prefix to independent operators’ services. As the number of operators gradually reduced to manageable levels, so the alpha-numeric route numbers were replaced by a simple numeric series.
ACH 69A (formerly PVL 159W)
Former Delaine Bedford YMT / Plaxton
Tetbury
23rd September 1992
January 3, 2023: Today’s prompt from @rachelastorauthor’s @dailyom program, WRITING TO UNCOVER THE AUTHENTIC SELF, asks: “Can you reframe the most pressing #obstacle as a to-do list? In other words, in order to overcome this, what do you need to learn? What tasks do you need to perform? Who do you need to convince?”
I believe I can reframe each of the 4 obstacles I explored over the past few days into more manageable #tasks. But at the same time I know I need to be very consistent at doing this.
For example, I was up past 3am today completing a few loads of #laundry (this included putting the #clothes away after taking them out of the #dryer), a load of #dishes, & also filling up half a #blue #recycling cart from @thecityofsurrey with #recycling from Mum’s garage.
But I still woke to criticism, as my dog looked for the right spot to leap off my bed at the guest room of my Mum’s to head outside at just after 9am. “Your room is a filthy disgrace,” are the words my Mum barked at me today. “And you live like you like it!” It’s odd how her words echo the ones my monkey mind is already so gifted at hurling towards myself.
When we argue & she says things like this, I snap back, “I don’t need you telling me how useless I am because I’m well aware of it already!” As such, both my Mum & my monkey mind are the ones I need to #convince that I am capable of up this mess I’ve created.
I finished my night around 4am taking this selfie inspired by a chapter in @mattzhaig’s book, NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET. Specifically, he says: “So this is the attitude to #sleep: something to be suspicious of because it is a time when we are not plugged in, consuming, paying. And this is also our attitude to time: something that mustn’t be wasted simply by resting, being, sleeping. We are ruled by the clock. By the light bulb. By the glowing smartphone. By the insatiable feeling we are encouraged to have. The feeling of this is never enough. Our happiness is just around the corner. A single purchase, or interaction, or click, away. Waiting, glowing, like the light at the end of a tunnel we can never quite reach…. Something has to give.”
This is day 3/365 in my #subverted #selfie #project.
This photo was also posted on Instagram.
May 2008
Kemp Lake was a manageable walk from our house, and it was a sanctuary during the two years we spent in Sooke, BC, for me, our two dogs, sometimes our son, and occasionally, a gaggle of geese.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
Instant Study Area areas are primitive and natural areas formally identified by the BLM. Instant Study Areas are a specific category of WSAs. The units are less than 1,500 acres and generally not adjacent to other WSAs or a designated wilderness. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act -- FLPMA -- required an accelerated wilderness review of these Wilderness Study Areas. In Oregon there are five Instant Study Areas comprising 9,560 acres.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...