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This is a photograph from the start second annual running of the Renault Mullingar Half Marathon which was held on Thursday 17th March 2016 St. Patrick's Day Lá Fhéile Pádraig in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland at 10:30. This photograph was taken at the Green Bridge in Mullingar town. Following on from the incredible success of the inaugural year of the race this year the total numbers participating rose from just under 600 in 2015 to over 900 this year. As was the case last year the nominated charity was Childline. The roots of the success of the event last year was the perfect running weather, excellent organisation and a very flat and fast route. All of these characteristics were repeated this year. Incredibly the weather was almost a carbon copy of last year - cool, clear, still fresh Spring weather presenting runners with little or no wind. Participants traveled from all over Ireland with a very large participation from runners around Mullingar and the midlands. The race has an AAI permit. The race's early start time was to facilitate the annual St. Patrick's Day parade which brings a large number of local visitors to the town on an annual basis. Parking is free in Mullingar town for the entire day.
The race began on Pearse Street/Austin Friar's Street in the town and proceeds North East out of the town to the N52 Delvin/Dundalk road towards Lough Sheever. The course then follows beautiful rural country roads out to The Downs at the M4. The only hill or rise on the course occurs here at about 7 miles when runners cross the M4 at Junction 14 Thomas Flynn and Sons. The race then joins the now local access route of the old N4 road and then joins the Royal Canal at Great Down. The remainder of the race follows the Royal Canal back westward to Mullingar town. The towpath on the Canal is perfectly flat and in excellent condition. Runners will notice how the level of the canal changes dramatically along the route - at points the canal is level with the towpath. In other places the canal is at least 3 meters lower than the canal path. However the path is perfectly flat and firm the whole way. The course then leaves the Royal Canal at the Ardmore Road/Millmount area of the town and finishes in the Mullingar Town Park on Austin Friar's Street beside the Annebrook Hotel which is the Race Headquarters. The park provides a very nice setting for the finish of the race and runners and their families can mix and congregate around the finish area and the hotel.
Timing and event organisation was provided by Irish company MyRunResults. You can find all of the results of the race on their website at www.myrunresults.com
Useful Links:
Our Flickr Photo Album from the 2015 Mullingar Half Marathon www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157651394365962
The Annebrook House Hotel (Race HQ) www.annebrook.ie/
iRadio the official media partner www.iradio.ie/
Offical Race Facebook Page www.facebook.com/mullingarhalfmarathon/
Google Maps Location of the Start/Finish www.google.ie/maps/@53.5253133,-7.3369538,18z
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Day 4 of the 5-day Black and White Challenge: Hat tip to Glenn Steiner for nominating me! (Yes, I skipped yesterday, because, well, it was one of those Mondays!) This image was captured a few years back in Florence, Italy. The old storefronts in Florence are some of my favorite subjects. I invite Dave Matthews (not the musician) to share in the 5 day challenge! Dave, will you join in? ift.tt/1wmny4C
nominated in the 2012 selection with a lot of international street artist: really glad to be part of that
★★Low Introductory Price★★ ★Nominated for the 2010 DBW Publishing Innovation Awards (Children's Category) www.digitalbookworld.com ★From the illustrations and original story, to the sound effects and built in activities, this app is a winner from start to finish. -The iPhone Mom ★Clearly produced and filled with Hollywood-quality animation, voice talent and multimedia features, this retro-futurist app is out of this world in many ways. -Kirkus Reviews ★This is what an e-book for kids should look like! -Cindy Downes, iPhoneLife Magazine Experience an interactive storybook that is out of this world! Join Cozmo in his adventure across the stars, and enjoy games and activities along the way. ★Audio Narration ★Over 100 Unique Audio and Animated Interactions ★Customize Narration with Your Own Voice ★Have Fun Using the Voice Pitch Control ★Games and Activities
Nominated by: Mattydev, Omair, Alvin, Mitch, Mike
RANDY! For those of you who don't know already - Randy and I are cousins and he's pretty much how I found out about Threadless since his mom/my aunt always sent me Threadless shirts to me and my brothers and sister for Christmas presents. Randy is more like a brother to me though - we're so alike, it's scary... it's like we're the same person sometimes...O_O Anyways, Randy is the best - he takes awesome photographs, owns every Threadless shirt possible, and is just an OVERALL BRO and good friend. Who doesn't love Randy? Also, his moustache grows really weirdly. Like a pedo. Pedostache.
I was nominated this year at the Latin Grammys and we assisted to Las Vegas to the event, I had 2 personal nominations as Best Album and Best Record of the year, also Andres Cepeda Album that I mixed was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and we won! (yeah!) so we have another Latin Grammy.
The experience was just wonderful, emotive, filled with emotions and great moments next to many friends and colleagues. We where very happy that we assisted, Being nominated was already great treat, but i cant lie that it feels nice to have won one :-)
Photo Stuff: I took my new (to me) Canon G15 compact, as at all these events, big cameras are a big No No, I have to say this little camera is a big surprise, not only practical, light and compact to carry, much nicer results than expected, Not my Full Frame Nikon D600 by any stretch, but got the job done, mostly shot RAW, developed in LR4
The nominated property includes a 160-foot long steel Parker through truss highway bridge, built in 1901, and a low concrete-capped rock and earth-filled gravity dam that both span the Maple
River, and also the site of the 1865 Kellogg Bros. & Johnson Grist Mill that stood on the south river bank near the mill from its construction in 1865 until it burned in 1969. The mill site retains
rubble masonry riverside retaining wall and stone and poured concrete foundation and race channel wall remnants.
The Grist Mill Bridge, Dam, and Mill Site meet national register criteria A and C. The dam and
associated mill site meet criterion A at the local level for marking the location of saw and then
grist milling activities, powered by the present and a previous dam at the same site, and a feed
and grain and bean elevator operation. The sawmill, built at this location about 1845, only a few
years after the first white settlement in this area, was the first in this part of Clinton County and
operated until 1865, when it was replaced by the grist mill whose dam and foundation wall and flume remnants survive at the site. The grist mill building at this site fulfilled important
agriculture-related industrial and commercial roles in Duplain Township and the Elsie area in which agriculture was and remains the economic driving force, serving its original purpose until 1950 and then as a feed and grain store and bean elevator from 1953 until the building burned in 1969. The 1901 Grist Mill Bridge, spanning a Maple River adjacent to the dam and mill site, meets national register criterion C at the statewide level of significance as one of only three surviving metal Parker through truss highway bridges in Michigan, as the only known surviving metal truss highway bridge in Michigan built by the Detroit Bridge & Iron Works, the most
important nineteenth and early twentieth-century bridge-building firm based in Michigan, and for its partly intact wood block pavement, the only known surviving Michigan example on a metal
truss bridge.
The Grist Mill Bridge, Dam, and Mill Site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 2015.
STRETCHING
Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) (Kvinand / Bucephala clangula clangula).
Numedalslågen between Myntbrua and Gamlebrua (Kongsberg, Norway)
("brua" = "bridge")
Canon 550D, Sigma 150-500mm.
The photo is part of a Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) set.
For female birds, see my Female Common Goldeneye album.
Description
The Common Blackbird of the nominate subspecies T. m. merula is 23.5 to 29 centimetres (9.25 to 11.4 in) in length, has a long tail, and weighs 80–125 grammes (2.8 to 4.4 oz). The adult male has glossy black plumage, blackish-brown legs, a yellow eye-ring and an orange-yellow bill. The bill darkens somewhat in winter The adult female is sooty-brown with a dull yellowish-brownish bill, a brownish-white throat and some weak mottling on the breast. The juvenile is similar to the female, but has pale spots on the upperparts, and the very young juvenile also has a speckled breast. Young birds vary in the shade of brown, with darker birds presumably males The first year male resembles the adult male, but has a dark bill and weaker eye ring, and its folded wing is brown, rather than black like the body plumage
Distribution and habitat
The Common Blackbird breeds in temperate Eurasia, North Africa, the Canary Islands, and South Asia. It has been introduced to Australia and New Zealand.[6] Populations are sedentary in the south and west of the range, although northern birds migrate south as far as northern Africa and tropical Asia in winter Urban males are more likely to overwinter in cooler climes than rural males, an adaptation made feasible by the warmer microclimate and relatively abundant food that allow the birds to establish territories and start reproducing earlier in the year.[24]
Common over most of its range in woodland, the Common Blackbird has a preference for deciduous trees with dense undergrowth. However, gardens provide the best breeding habitat with up to 7.3 pairs per hectare (nearly three pairs per acre), with woodland typically holding about a tenth of that density, and open and very built-up habitats even less.[25] They are often replaced by the related Ring Ouzel in areas of higher altitude.[26]
The Common Blackbird occurs up to 1000 metres (3300 ft) in Europe, 2300 metres (7590 ft) in North Africa, and at 900–1820 metres (3000–6000 ft) in peninsular India and Sri Lanka, but the large Himalayan subspecies range much higher, with T. m. maximus breeding at 3200–4800 metres (10560–16000 ft) and remaining above 2100 metres (6930 ft) even in winter.[6]
This widespread species has occurred as a vagrant in many locations in Eurasia outside its normal range, but records from North America are normally considered to involve escapees, including, for example, the 1971 bird in Quebec.[27] However, a 1994 record from Bonavista, Newfoundland has been accepted as a genuine wild bird,[6] and the species is therefore on the North American list
Behaviour
Eggs in a nest
Two chicks in a nest
The male Common Blackbird defends its breeding territory, chasing away other males or utilising a "bow and run" threat display. This consists of a short run, the head first being raised and then bowed with the tail dipped simultaneously. If a fight between male Blackbirds does occur, it is usually short and the intruder is soon chased away. The female Blackbird is also aggressive in the spring when it competes with other females for a good nesting territory, and although fights are less frequent, they tend to be more violent
The bill’s appearance is important in the interactions of the Common Blackbird. The territory-holding male responds more aggressively towards models with orange bills than to those with yellow bills, and reacts least to the brown bill colour typical of the first-year male. The female is, however, relatively indifferent to bill colour, but responds instead to shinier bills
As long as winter food is available, both the male and female will remain in the territory throughout the year, although occupying different areas. Migrants are more gregarious, travelling in small flocks and feeding in loose groups in the wintering grounds. The flight of migrating birds comprises bursts of rapid wing beats interspersed with level or diving movement, and differs from both the normal fast agile flight of this species and the more dipping action of larger thrushes.[14]
[edit] Breeding
The male Common Blackbird attracts the female with a courtship display which consists of oblique runs combined with head-bowing movements, an open beak, and a "strangled" low song. The female remains motionless until she raises her head and tail to permit copulation This species is monogamous, and the established pair will usually stay together as long as they both survive Pair separation rates of up to 20% have been noted following poor breeding Although socially monogamous, there have been studies showing as much as 17% extra pair paternity.[36]
Nominate T. merula may commence breeding in March, but eastern and Indian races are a month or more later, and the introduced New Zealand birds start nesting in August.[6][26] The breeding pair prospect for a suitable nest site in a creeper or bush, favouring evergreen or thorny species such as ivy, holly, hawthorn, honeysuckle or pyracantha Sometimes the birds will nest in sheds or outbuildings where a ledge or cavity is used. The cup-shaped nest is made with grasses, leaves and other vegetation, bound together with mud. It is built by the female alone. She lays three to five (usually four) bluish-green eggs marked with reddish-brown blotches,[25] heaviest at the larger end the eggs of nominate T. merula are 2.9 x 2.1 centimetres (1.14 x 0.93 in) in size and weigh 7.2 grammes (0.25 oz), of which 6% is shell Eggs of birds of the southern Indian races are paler than those from the northern subcontinent and Europe.[6] The female incubates for 12–14 days before the altricial chicks are hatched naked and blind. Fledging takes another 10–19 (average 13.6) days, with both parents feeding the young and removing faecal sacs.[14] The nest is often ill-concealed compared with those of other species, and many breeding attempts fail due to predation. The young are fed by the parents for up to three weeks after leaving the nest, and will follow the adults begging for food. If the female starts another nest, the male alone will feed the fledged young.[25] Up to four broods may be raised in favourable conditions, with the female usually building a new nest for each brood.
Montane subspecies, such as T. merula maximus have a shorter breeding season, smaller clutches (2–4 eggs, averaging 2.86), but larger eggs than nominate merula. They produce just one brood per year, and have a slightly shorter incubation period of 12–13 days, but a longer nestling period (16–18 days).[39]
A Common Blackbird has an average life expectancy of 2.4 years,[40] and, based on data from bird ringing, the oldest recorded age is 21 years and 10 months.[41]
Songs and calls
A male singing
The first-year male Common Blackbird of the nominate race may start singing as early as late January in fine weather to establish a territory. It is joined in late March by older males. The familiar song is a varied and melodious fluted warble delivered from trees, rooftops or other elevated perches, and is heard until June, and sometimes even July, in its European range. The delivery is slow-paced with long gaps between phrases. At its best it is one of the most beautiful songs of any garden species, however, the quality varies greatly between birds and some hardly sing at all. Individual males often have favourite song phrases which they use throughout their lives. This enables the observant listener to identify them in successive breeding seasons. The Blackbird also has a number of calls, including an aggressive seee, a pook-pook-pook alarm for terrestrial predators like cats, and various chink and chook, chook vocalisations. The territorial male invariably gives chink-chink calls in the evening in an (usually unsuccessful) attempt to deter other Blackbirds from roosting in its territory overnight.[25] Like other passerine birds, it has a thin high seee alarm call for threats from birds of prey since the sound is rapidly attenuated in vegetation, making the source difficult to locate
At least two subspecies, T. m. merula and T. m. nigropileus, will mimic other species of birds, cats, humans or alarms, but this is usually quiet and hard to detect. The large mountain races, especially T. m. maximus, have comparatively poor songs, with a limited repertoire compared with the western, peninsular Indian and Sri Lankan taxa.[6]
Feeding
The Common Blackbird is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms, seeds and berries. It feeds mainly on the ground, running and hopping with a start-stop-start progress. It pulls earthworms from the soil, usually finding them by sight, but sometimes by hearing, and roots through leaf litter for other invertebrates. Small vertebrates such as frogs, tadpoles and lizards are occasionally hunted. This species will also perch in bushes to take berries and collect caterpillars and other active insects Animal prey predominates, and is particularly important during the breeding season, with windfall apples and berries taken more in the autumn and winter. The nature of the fruit taken depends on what is locally available, and frequently includes exotics in gardens. In northern India, banyan and mulberry fruits are frequently eaten, with Erythrina and Trema species featuring further south
Natural threats
Near human habitation the main predator of the Common Blackbird is the domestic cat, with newly-fledged young especially vulnerable. Foxes and predatory birds, such as the Sparrowhawk and other accipiters, also take this species when the opportunity arises.[29][43] However, there is little direct evidence to show that either predation of the adult Blackbirds or loss of the eggs and chicks to corvids, such as the European Magpie or Eurasian Jay, have an impact on population numbers
This species is occasionally a host of parasitic cuckoos, such as the Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), but this is minimal because the Common Blackbird recognizes the adult of the parasitic species and its non-mimetic eggs.[44] The introduced merula Blackbird in New Zealand, where the cuckoo does not occur, has, over the past 130 years, lost the ability to recognize the adult Common Cuckoo but still rejects non-mimetic eggs.[45]
As with other passerine birds, parasites are common. 88% of Common Blackbirds were found to have intestinal parasites, most frequently Isospora and Capillaria species.[46] and more than 80% had haematozoan parasites (Leucocytozoon, Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Trypanosoma species)
Common Blackbirds spend much of their time looking for food on the ground where they can become infested with ticks, which are external parasites that most commonly attach to the head of a Blackbird In France, 74% of rural Blackbirds were found to be infested with Ixodes ticks, whereas, only 2% of Blackbirds living in urban habitats were infested.[48] This is partly because it is more difficult for ticks to find another host on lawns and gardens in urban areas than in uncultivated rural areas, and partly because ticks are likely to be commoner in rural areas, where a variety of tick hosts, such as foxes, deer and boar, are more numerous.[48] Although, ixodid ticks can transmit pathogenic viruses and bacteria, and are known to transmit Borrelia bacteria to birds,there is no evidence that this affects the fitness of Blackbirds except when they are exhausted and run down after migration
The Common Blackbird is one of a number of species which has unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. One hemisphere of the brain is effectively asleep, while a low-voltage EEG, characteristic of wakefulness, is present in the other. The benefit of this is that the bird can rest in areas of high predation or during long migratory flights, but still retain a degree of alertness.[50]
In culture
The Common Blackbird was seen as a sacred though destructive bird in Classical Greek folklore, and was said to die if it consumed pomegranate.[51] Like many other small birds, it has in the past been trapped in rural areas at its night roosts as an easily available addition to the diet,[52] and in medieval times the conceit of placing live birds under a pie crust just before serving may have been the origin of the familiar nursery rhyme:[52]
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king
Recently nominated to the list of LA’s People To Watch in 2009 (via LA Weekly), Shira Lazar is a force to be reckoned with. Shira is known for for her media work on KTLA, NBC, CBS and the Reelz Channel. She saw the rise of the web early on, she embraced new media and has become “the human manifestation of the convergence of tech and entertainment” (Alexia Tsotsis). Shira, who just *happens* to be the stepsister of American Apparel’s Dov Charney, is causing quite commotion in Los Angeles with her avante garde reporting style. Best of all, she rocks Macy’s 2028 Jewelry with just about everything she wears - on camera and off.
Grammy-nominated artists Daya and D.R.A.M. performed at Kirby Sports Center for the annual Spring Concert on April 22, 2017
Photos by Kevin Vogrin
Nominating Committee Chairman Robert Kyte introduces associate secretaries elected Sunday at the world conference of Seventh-day Adventists at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]
Nominate subspecies macao.
With Southern Mealy Amazons, Blue-headed Parrots & Orange-cheeked Parrots.
Tambopata Research Center [220m], Madre de Dios, Peru
Nominated for the Wall of Fame for their work with the Washington State Public Transportation Roadeo steering committee.
nominated for the Austrian Hairdressing Award 2011
hairstyle by Kerstin Wulz ( www.kuss-friseure.at )
model > Tanja Steinthaler
styling by the “crew” Tanja, Kerstin, Gero, Tine
make-up by Tanja Steinthaler
photography by martin steinthaler | www.tinefoto.com