Last time I visited some twenty months ago, most of All Saints was shrouded in scaffolding and thick plastic, as the tower needed to be shored up.

You must come back when the work is complete the warden told me.

I went back.

And the same warden greeted me, though she didn't remember me.

Large and airy now, showing off the fine Victorian tiles in the Chancel, though the lighting gave my pictures a strong cast. Liked the 1950s windows with over 50 saint's symbols.

Open between 14:00 and 156:00 every summer Saturday afternoon.

You'll get a warm welcome. Worth seeking out.

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In an awkward position, cut off from its village by the railway and bypass and somewhat compromised by the adjoining paper mill. The present church has been extended from its thirteenth century origins, most noticeably by the addition of a tall tower in the fifteenth century. There is a rood loft staircase in the south wall and on a pillar nearby can still be seen an unusual fourteenth-century Crucifixion painted on the stonework within an incised outline. The church was over-restored by Blomfield in 1870 and suffered damage in the Second World War when the medieval glass was destroyed. Fragments that survived have been assembled where possible. New windows were installed, including the thirty-six symbols of the saints in the east window by Hugh Easton (1953), and the Becket Pilgrim window by Moira Forsyth (1966). A large memorial in the south aisle commemorates Thomas Waghorn (d. 1850), who pioneered the overland route to India.

www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Snodland

NORTHWARD from Ditton, on the western side of the Medway, a small part of Aylesford at New Hyth intervening, is Snodland, called in Domesday, ESNOILAND, and in the Textus Roffensis, SNODDINGLAND and SNODILAND.

SNODLAND lies on the western bank of the river, which is its eastern boundary opposite to Burham. The high road from Stroud to Larkfield goes through the village, which is situated about half a mile, and the church about midway from the river. It lies low, and being near the salt marshes, is not either very pleasant or very wholesome. In the southern part of the parish the stream which flows from Birling turns a pa per mill here, and thence flows into the Medway, not far from which is Snodland and New-Hyth common. In the northern part of the parish next to Lower Halling, is the hamlet of Holborough, usually called Hoborow, no doubt for Old Borough, a name implying the antiquity of this place. Many are inclined to believe, that the usual passage across the river in the time of the Romans, was from hence to Scarborough on the opposite shore. However that may be, Holborow was certainly known to them, for in queen Elizabeth's reign, an urn filled with ashes was discovered in digging for chalk on the hill above this place, a sure token of the Romans having frequented it. (fn. 1) In this hamlet Mr. John May resides in a handsome new-built house, near it there rises a small brook, which flows from hence into the Medway, at about half a mile distance. From this low and flat country, on the bank of the river, the ground rises westward up to the range of high chalk hills, where the land becomes poor and much covered with flints. Upon these hills among the woods is an estate, corruptly called Punish, for it takes its name from the family of Pouenesse, or Pevenashe, written by contraction Poneshe, who were possessed of it as high as king Henry the IIId's. reign, in queen Elizabeth's reign it was called Poynyshe, and was then in possession of the name of Brown, who held it of the bishop of Rochester as of his manor of Halling. (fn. 2) About a mile eastward from the above is a farm called Lads, which in king Edward I's. reign, and some generations afterwards, was in the possession of a family of that name, written in deeds of those times, Lad, and Le Lad.

This parish ought antiently to have contributed to the repair of the ninth pier of Rochester bridge.

Sir John Marsham, bart. and Sir Charles Bickerstaff, had a design of supplying the towns of Stroud, Rochester, and Chatham, with fresh water, by bringing it from the spring rising at the foot of Holborough hill, and others thereabouts, by a cut or channel through Halling and Cuxton thither, four miles of which was through Sir John Marsham's own lands, but after they had proceeded two miles, finding some obstructions, which could not be removed, but by an act, one was procured for the purpose in the 1st year of James II. but nothing further was afterwards done in it, for what reason does not appear.

In the year 838, king Egbert, with the consent of his son king Æthelwulf, gave to Beormod, bishop of Rochester, four plough lands at Snoddinglond and Holanbeorge, with the privilege of leaving them to whomever he pleased; and he granted that the lands should be free from all service, to which he added one mill on the stream, named Holanbeorges bourne, and on the hill belonging to the king fifty loads of wood, and likewife four denberies in the Weald. And in the year 841, Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, with the advice of his bishops and great men, gave to the bishop two ploughlands at Holanbeorges, in perpetual inheritance, with the like privilege, and that they should be free from all regal service.

Whilst Ælfstane was bishop of Rochester, who came to the see in 945, and died in 984, one Birtrick, a rich man, who lived at Meopham, with the consent of Elfswithe, his wife, made his testament, and gave, after their deaths, his lands at Snodland to St. Andrew's church at Rochester. (fn. 3)

The bishop of Rochester continued in the possession of this place at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, about the 15th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno 1080, in which record it is thus entered, under the general title of that bishop's lands:

The same bishop (of Rochester) holds Esnoiland. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was taxed at six sulings, and now at three. The arable land is six carucates. In demesne there are two carucates and ten villeins, with six borderers, having six carucates. There is a church and five servants, and three mills of forty shillings, and thirty acres of meadow, wood for the pannage of four hogs. In the time of king Edward and afterwards, it was worth six pounds, and now nine pounds.

When bishop Gundulph, soon after this, following archbishop Lanfranc's example, separated his revenue from that of his priory, this manor, together with Holborough, continued part of the bishop's possessions, and was confirmed to the church of Rochester by archbishops Anselm and Boniface.

On a taxation of the bishop's manors next year, it appeared that Holeberge was a member of the manor of Halling, and had in it one hundred and ninety-seven acres of arable land, valued at four-pence per acre at the most, as there was no marle there. That there were here fourteen acres of meadow, six acres of pasture, which were salt, and three lately made fresh, each acre at eight-pence, and the mill at twenty shillings per annum.

Hamo, bishop of Rochester, in the year 1323, new built the mill at Holbergh, with timber from Perstede, at the expence of ten pounds. (fn. 4) At which time the bishop seems to have had a park here.

The estate of Snodland with Holborow, still continue part of the possessions of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester. William Dalyson, esq. of West Peckham, is the present lessee of the bishop's estate in this parish.

THE FAMILY of Palmer, who bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron between three palmers scrips, sable, tasselled and buckled, or resided for some time in this parish, at a seat they possessed in it, called The courtlodge. Several of them lie buried in the church of Snodland, particularly Thomas Palmer, who married the daughter of Fitzsimond, and died anno 1407. Weaver recites his epitaph thus, now obliterated:

Palmers al our faders were

I, a Palmer, livyd here

And travylled till worne wythe age

I endyd this worlds pylgramage

On the blyst Assention day

In the cherful month of May

A thowsand wyth fowre hundryd seven

And took my jorney hense to Heuen

From him descended the Palmers, of Tottington, in Aylesford, and of Howlets, in Bekesborne, now extinct.

The Palmers were succeeded here by the Leeds's, one of whom, William Leeds, lay interred in this church, whose arms, A fess between three eagles, were engraved in brass on his tomb, but they are now torn away; to whom, in the reign of king Charles I. succeeded the Whitfields, of Canterbury. It afterwards passed into the name of Crow, and from thence to the Mays, and it is now the estate of Mr. John May, of Holborough.

VELES, alias SNODLAND, is a manor in this parish, which in the reign of king Edward I. was held as half a knight's fee, of the bishop of Rochester, by John de Pevenashe, John Harange, and Walter Lad, as coparceners, and in the 20th year of king Edward III. Richard Pevenashe, John de Melford, John Lade, and Richard le Veel, paid aid for it.

This manor seems afterwards to have been wholly vested in the family of Veel, called in deeds likewise Le Vitele, and in Latin Vitulus. After they were extinct here, it passed into the name of Blunt, and from that to Turvye, of whose heirs it was held in the latter end of the reign of king Henry VIII. by Richard Harvey. (fn. 5) It passed, after some intermediate owners, by sale to Crow, and from thence in like manner to Mr. John May, whose two sons, Mr. John and William May, of this parish, afterwards possessed it. The latter died in 1777, on which the entire fee of it became vested in his brother Mr. John May, of Holborough, the present possessor of it.

HOLLOWAY COURT is a seat in this parish, which gave name to a family that resided at it. Henry de Holeweye paid aid for it in the beginning of the reign of king Henry III. (fn. 6) His descendant, William de Holeweye possessed it in the 30th year of king Edward I. from which name it passed into that of Tilghman, who were owners of it in the reign of king Edward III. Many of whom lie buried in this church, bearing for their arms, Per fess sable and argent, a lion rampant regardant, doubled queved counterchanged, crowned, as they were painted in very old glass in the windows of this house. Their pedigree is in Vistn. co. of Kent, anno 1619.

Richard Tilghman possessed it in the reign of king Henry IV. and in his descendants it continued down to Edward Tilghman, esq. who was of Snodland, and was twice married; by his first wife he had a son, Francis, and by his second, two sons, the eldest of whom, Whetenhall Tilghman, had part of his father's lands in this parish, which continued in his descendants till about the year 1680, when they were alienated to Sir John Marsham, bart. whose descendant, the right honorable Charles, lord Romney, is the present possessor of them.

¶Francis Tilghman, only son of Edward, by his first wife, was of Snodland, and possessed Holoway-court, where he resided in the reign of king James I. but died without surviving issue. He passed away this estate by sale to Clotworthy, descended from those of that name in Devonshire, and he by will gave it to his sister's son, Mr. Thomas Williams, who alienated it to Richard Manley, esq. who resided here, and dying in 1684, was buried in this church, leaving by Martha, daughter of John Baynard, of Shorne, widow of Bonham Faunce, of St. Margaret's, Rochester one son, Charles, and a daughter, Frances, married to Dr. Robert Conny, hereafter-mentioned. He sold Holloway court to Mr. John Conny, of Rochester, surgeon, son of Robert Conny, gent. of Godmanchester, in Huntingdonshire, and bore for his arms, Sable, a fess argent, cotized or, between three conies of the second. On whose decease his eldest son, Robert Conny, of Rochester, M. D. succeeded to it, and he sold it to Thomas Pearce, esq. a commissioner of the navy, whose three sons and coheirs, Thomas, Best, and Vincent Pearce, conveyed it by sale to Mr. John May, and his eldest son, Mr John May, of Holborough, in this parish, now possesses it.

The church is dedicated to All Saints. It is a small mean building with a low pointed steeple.

The church of Snodland has ever been appendant to the manor. It has never been appropriated, but con tinues a rectory in the patronage of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester.

¶Much dispute having arisen between the rector of this parish, and the rector of Woldham, on the opposite side of the river Medway, concerning the tithe of fish caught within the bounds of the parish of Woldham by the parishioners of Snodland, the same was settled, with the consent of both parties, by the bishop of Rochester, 1402, as may be seen more at large in the account of the rectory of Woldham. (fn. 7)

This rectory is valued in the king's books at twenty pounds, and the yearly tenths at two pounds.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol4/pp463-470

The Muswell Villebillies (Kinks tribute band) - Ace of Cups - Columbus, OH

Cattle Egrets flutter up and shift positions in the treetops ~ Florida Wetlands

Position of this shot is the causeway on top of the embankment about 2 km south of the Iffezheim Lock, a river lock on the Rhine near Iffezheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The view is south.

On the left, behind the plain, there are the mountains of the northern black forest.

On the right there is the French bank of River Rhine.

fred free + fred one litch collaboration / 2011

Red Arrows - 2nd September 2017

Positioning into Dublin Airport 14th March 2025 from Marseille, to pick up Irish Rugby supporters and bring them to Rome for the Italy V Ireland 6 Nations game, which was played a day later, which Ireland won 22-17.

1/32 scale die cast

A nice set of color position light signals – including one "fully loaded" signal – guards the interlocking at Carroll in Baltimore, Maryland.

The color position light signal was first devised and prototyped near here in 1921, the first installation being between Camden Station and Mount Royal.

As CSX continues to replace the venerable B&O classics over time, it's likely the color position lights in Baltimore will be among the last survivors of this type of signal on the system – perhaps this is fitting.

With the dark nights of the fall, I get interest to work with remote flash again. Last fall, I read through "Lighting 101" and started "Lighting 102" by Strobist, but I did not have functioning gear yet to start experimenting with off-camera flash. Now I have (some of the) gear, and the same desire as a year ago to learn to use additional light in some of the photography work.

So, I will start going through the excercises of Lighting 102. This is a result of making the first exercise. The only thing that changed was the angle of the flash to the subject, everything else remained constant. The flash was at the table about at the same level with the subject. I went around the subject, taking a photo roughly every 30 degrees.

Strobist info: Canon 430 EX II flash triggered with PW MiniTT1, FlexTT5, AC3. Distance to subject about 30 cm, 1/32 power, camera-to-subject about 1.5 m.

Original assignment:

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Strobist info: Bare Flash settings ( 1/128 ; 85mm-zoom- , @ 2 feet away from subject ) with a snoot to restrict the light tilted down @ about 30°.

Camera : was 1/250s , f/9 ; ISO: 200.canon 300D, 28-105mm f/3.5 4.5

Sunny morning along the coast. Active @ Brancaster getting boats out for winter so did not stop. !st time I have seen a Great white egret in Thornham harbour, then had a long spell with another one @ the pool. A few skeins of Pinkfoot geese flew in off the sea.

Video of the GWE trying to find the fish & moving position

ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Westafrikanischer Schimpanse***West African Chimpanzee***Pan troglodytes verus

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Der Name „Schimpanse“ stammt aus der Bantu-Sprache Tschiluba. Der Ausdruck „kivili-chimpenze“ ist der lokale Name des Tiers und lässt sich mit „Schein-Mensch“ oder einfach „Affe“ übersetzen.

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The name "Chimpanzee" originates from the Bantu language of Tshiluba. The term "kivili-chimpenze" is the local name of the animal and can be translated with "not real person" or simply "monkey".

Pole Position - Arcade

Another picture of the cute Lailek in his funny and typical position!

Café Landtmann

(further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)

Café Landtmann at the Palais Lieben-Auspitz, left the University Ring

The Café Landtmann, photographed from the roof of the Burgtheater

Winter garden and summer beer garden, behind the Town Hall

Great Hall at Café Landtmann

Schanigarten

(Wikipedia: Schanigarten is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places. Unlike normal beer gardens (Gastgärten), the customers actually sit on public property. Originally, Schanigärten (pl.) referred only to Viennese coffee houses, but now the expression is used in other parts of Austria and for other types of establishments like restaurants and taverns)

Projection on the façade

Winter Garden, looking towards Universitätsring

The Zuckerkandl room in Landtmann's Bel-Etage

The Café Landtmann in Vienna is a typical Viennese coffee house in the Ringstrasse style. It is located in the first District at the University Ring 4, corner Löwelstraße 22, and is known throughout the city.

Location

The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Palais Lieben-Auspitz called Mietwohnhauses (apartment building), in the immediate vicinity of the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna and the party headquarters of the Social Democrats and close to the Vienna City Hall with the City Hall Park, the Federal Chancellery and three ministries. The café is therefore frequented by, among other actors, politicians, civil servants and journalists and is the venue for press conferences.

History

The coffee was on 1 October 1873 of the Cafétier (café owner) Landtmann as "Vienna 's most elegant and largest café-localities" in a prominent, 1872 built corner house at the at the time also new Franzensring (so to 1919 the address of this part of Vienna's Ringstrasse) opened. The ring road was indeed opened by emperor Franz Joseph I in 1865, but still long not completed in the area of the coffee house: The city hall was under construction since 1872, but was only opened in 1883. The university main building was built 1877-1884, the Burgtheater from 1874 to 1888. The coffee was thus in his early years surrounded mainly by large construction sites.

1881 sold Landtmann his coffeehouse to the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Kerrl who continued it under the name Landtmann and extended it in the direction of Oppolzergasse. Rudolf soon retired from active business life, Wilhelm Kerrl led on the café alone until 1916 and then sold it, worn down by the economy of scarcity of the First World War, to Karl Anton Kraus, previously a butcher and innkeeper. He led the coffee for only five years, because in 1921 it was operated by a Hokare Ges.mbH (unlimited company) (the name stands for hotel, coffee and restoration companies). This company had to be liquidated 1925/1926.

The Café Landtmann was now bought in the fall of 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and Angela Zauner. The new owners had it in 1929 after a design by Ernst Meller, experienced in the establishment of coffee houses, fully restored: with the preserved to this day interior which is under preservation order. Particularly striking are four wooden pillars at the entrance, which were created by Hans Scheibner and their decoration representing premiere scenes of the Burgtheater. With this elaborate interior design Landtmann consolidated its position as the most elegant café in town. In 1949, Konrad Zauner's son Erwin took the management of the café and led it on with great success.

In 1974 the company received the National Award and since then it is allowed to use the Federal coat of arms in commercial transactions. In 1976, the present owner family took the local and renovated it in 1980 again.

In the café was Robert Böck, on duty only called Mr. Robert, working for 28 years, many years as head waiter in a tuxedo, and he knew all the important guests personally. On his last working day, on 23 December 2003, many celebrities came to his departure from the cafe. Mayor Michael Häupl served Mr. Robert, who had so often served him a "little brown". To this end, he handed him the "Golden Rathausmann" "for the most famous, most discreet and most accommodating waiter of Vienna".

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldener_Rathausmann_(Wien)

Details

Small stage

In the basement below the coffee was after Czeike already 1936-1938 the Cabaret 'Merry Landtmann" for the dancer Cilli Wang set up by her husband. 1953 in the basement the small stage "The Tribune" was established (since 2002: "The new stand", directed by Karl Heinz Wukow). It is one of the numerous small Viennese theaters that operate with modest public support and which offer authors, actors and directors fields of application.

Winter Garden

2007 was built a conservatory on the facade towards the castle theater, designed by Manfred Wehdorn by 1.5 million euros (Bernd Querfeld). With 87 square meters and 29 tables, the conservatory is almost as spacious as the great hall of the café; thus the capacity of the premises has been extended by a quarter.

Landtmann's Bel-Etage

2012 were opened above the café three function rooms, which are referred to as "Landtmann's Bel-Etage". One of the rooms is named after Berta Zuckerkandl, which in the house (entrance Oppolzergasse 6) from 1917 to 1938 run her famous salon, meeting place of artists, scientists and politicians.

Price of water

2013 got the coffee into media because guests who instead of ordering other beverages only want drink tap water this service no longer receive free. The scheme has been criticized partly violently. The glass of water for ordered coffee, as it corresponds to the Viennese coffee house tradition, still is served free.

Miscellaneous

In the Café Landtmann are according to indications of the owner family on average held 2.8 press conferences per day.

Since 2003, the café is every summer venue of the coffee house theater ink & coffee.

In March 2009, was opened in Tokyo in the central district of Minato-ku, in fact, in the district Kitaaoyama in the Aoyama Street, a "Café Landtmann" called local opened.

Guests

The coffee house was according to Czeike visited, among others, by the artists Attila Hörbiger, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Moser, Max Reinhardt, Oskar Werner and Paula Wessely. Among the politicians he names Julius German, Robert Dannenberg and Karl Seitz, who were part of the "Red Vienna", and in the postwar period the then very popular Chancellor Julius Raab. Gustav Mahler was encountering here with Karl Goldmark, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were among the "by-trotting" guests, the authors Jura Soyfer, Felix Salten, Thomas Mann and John Boynton Priestley also frequented the Landtmann. The owners themselves mention over and above Peter Altenberg, Sigmund Freud, Emmerich Kálmán, Curd Jürgens, Otto Preminger and Romy Schneider as regulars.

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Deboxing the Cinderella and Prince Charming Doll Set. The acrylic cover has been removed. The dolls are attached to the built in doll stands and the cardboard backing.

The Cinderella and Prince Charming Doll Set, the third release in the 2014 Disney Fairytale Designer Collection. I got Cinderella today (Tuesday Oct 7, 2014) at my local Disney Store. There were 15 people entered for 16 dolls. She is #4755 of 6000. Her curly hair is in more of an updo than the curly pony tale of the stock image. But that may be just how it was packaged, and may drop down into a ponytail when I debox her. She has exactly the same head position as the artwork and deboxed stock photo, so no Exorcist head here. Here are some preliminary photos of the set boxed, and then with the covers removed. I will be fully deboxing her in the next day or two.

See it on www.wildcast.net

Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief about the directions of breast feeding

One bare SB-24 on a light stand at 1/16 (zoomed at 85mm). Fired with a eBay trigger. From a frontal almost "on camera" shot at center, exploring the changes in the face produced by turning around the light. A simple go up from camera gives some volume to the face for a more flattering image as you can se in the middle top one.

47714 in position by the signal box at Leeming bar before starring in a well organised photo shoot at the Wensleydale Railway 25/01/2025.

A big thanks to Tom Robson and very one else involved.

Harlington (Beds) Station

My method for positioning levers

Gran Turismo 6

Highest Explore Position #494 ~ On October 28th 2008.

Smooth-coated Otter - Rare Species Conservation Centre, Kent, England - Sunday October 12th 2008.

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Yup...me an Mr Otter here are Miffed that the Mighty Hammers were robbed by inept refereeing at the footie game today...as much as I don't like Carlton Cole...twas NEVER!!! a SENDING OFF!!!...And..the Gooners first goal was a lucky own goal....GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Still...I now watching the first NFL league match to be played in London (At Wembley Stadium) for 10 years at the mo...and guess what...the team I am supporting San Diego...are loosing...It's not a good sporting weekend for me..:O((

Plus I have noooooooooo idea what's going in the game...apparently...if you have a great "Tight End" that's a good thing...lol..:O)))

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ The Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a species of otter, the only extant representative of the genus Lutrogale. The species is found from India east to Southeast Asia, and there is a disjunct population in Iraq. As its name indicates, the fur of this species is smoother and shorter than that of other otters.

Distribution and Habitat ~ Smooth-coated otters occur throughout much of southern Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone, from India eastward. There is also an isolated population of the species found in the marshes of Iraq. Smooth-coated otters are found in areas where water is plentiful- peat swamp forests, freshwater wetlands, large forested rivers, lakes, and rice paddies. Smooth-coated otters have adapted to life in an aqueous biome, but are nonetheless comfortable on land, and may travel long distances overland in search of suitable habitat. Their holts are within shallow burrows, rock heaps or driftwood piles. Some may construct permanent holts near water, in a layout similar to the of a beaver dam, with an underwater entrance and a tunnel that leads to a nest above the water.

Conservation Status ~ The Smooth-coated Otter is listed as a vulnerable species. The range and population of smooth-coated otters is shrinking due to loss of wetland habitat, poaching, and contamination of waterways by pesticides. Smooth-coated otters are protected in India under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and are listed as endangered.

Description ~ Smooth-coated otters are the largest otters in southeast Asia, from 7-11 kg in weight and up to 1.3 m in length as adults. Smooth-coated otters may be distinguished from other species of otter by a more rounded head and a hairless nose in the shape of a distorted diamond. The tail is flattened, in contrast to the more rounded tails of other species, and may be up to 60 percent of the total body length. Like other otters, smooth-coated otters have webbed toes and strong paws with sharp claws.

The coat of smooth-coated otters is shorter and smoother than that of other otters species. The fur is light to dark brown along the back, while the underside is light brown to almost gray in color.

Behavior ~ Smooth-coated otters, like many carnivorous mammals, use scent to communicate both within the otter species, and with other animals. Each otter possesses a pair of scent glands at the base of the tail which are uses to mark land or objects, such as rocks or vegetation, near feeding areas in a behavior called sprainting.

Diet ~ Smooth-coated otters eat insects, earthworms, crustaceans, frogs, water rats, turtles, birds, and fish. Fish comprise between 75 to 100% of the otter's diet.[citation needed] Smooth-coated otters frequently hunt in groups, herding schools of fish together for easier feeding.[citation needed] A group of otters can have a feeding range of 7 to 12 square kilometers. A single adult consumes about 1 kg of food per day in captivity.

Reproduction ~ Smooth-coated otters form strong monogamous pairs. The specific mating times of the smooth-coated otter are unknown, but when otters are dependent on monsoons for precipitation, breeding occurs between August and December. Once mating has occurred, the gestation period is 61-65 days. Smooth-coated otters give birth to and raise their young in a burrow near water, which they may construct themselves or may assume an abandoned one. Two to five cubs are produced per litter. At birth, the cubs are blind and helpless, but after thirty days their eyes open, and after sixty days, the cubs can swim. They are weaned at about 130 days, and leave their parents at about 1 year of age. Sexual maturity is reached at two years of age.

Highest Position: 170

Many thanks everyone.

So I'm out walking Henry the dog over the fields; taking pictures with the Canon G9 I just got.

We are approaching a piece of waste ground we always go to (Henry likes to have a poo there) , when we spot a guy in full camo gear reaching into his car and pulling out a big black bag. I didn't much like the look of him so decided to move swiftly along.

As I walked up the hill, away from the waste ground, I turned back to see this guy, now carrying something black and long, walking quickly in the same direction we are. So I pick up the pace. As you do. (At this point I'm starting to think I'll revist the waste ground and have a poo myself)

Anyway, we out-walk this guy and 2 minutes later, I turn around and he's gone. Disappeared into the bushes or something.

I keep moving but Henry spots a rabbit running across the field we just left and decides to give chase. I call him back but he's now blind (and deaf) to the chase and ignores me. (If The Dog Whisperer is reading this - you really haven't covered this one!)

Henry vanishes into a clump of bushes after the rabbit and then, two seconds later comes out running at me like a dog possessed. By the time he gets to me, he's whimpering and literally cowering under my legs. Very odd as normally he's far too stupid to be afraid of anything. So I go to the bushes to see what put the fear in him. Half way there, the camo wearing guy comes walking out of the same bushes - he's now got a balaclava on too, and is walking right at me.

I look in his hands and the long black metal thing is coming too. Great!

Still, no-one scares my dog (At this point, I'm practically Mufasa) so I keep walking. As I get closer, it becomes clear that the black metal thing is in fact a crossbow! A fecking crossbow.

Still, I'm too close to retreat now and need to know what he did to turn Henry the fearless labrador into Henrietta the big girls blouse.

"Excuse me!" I shout, "Can I have a word?"

"Keep your f'ing dog away from me," came the gruff reply.

"He can go where he wants thanks. What did you just do to him?" (At this point Mufasa has nothing on me at all. I could take on Godzilla in a fist fight and win)

"I didn't touch your dog and actually he can't go anywhere he wants as you're trespassing"

Now, as John Rambo's angry big brother stands in front, and considerably over me, I turn back into normal mode. I can feel every strain of bravado leave my body. A giant Mufasa appears in the clouds overhead and he's pointing at me, laughing.

Turns out this is the farmer who's land I trespass on every night (oops!). He's out shooting rabbits with his crossbow and I'm a big idiot.

Anyway, the picture above was taken after all this happened and considering the extent of the fear still within me and the resulting shaky hands, I can only conclude the IS mode of the G9 works pretty damn well.

My method for positioning levers

My method for positioning levers

What you can’t see is that Rusty has a ball tucked under there.

“Curled up in a tight ball, dogs in the donut pose have their limbs tucked close to their bodies, their nose near the tail.”

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I do not know why Cobra Stinger missiles are so red

Sex positions shot glass

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Bus 42. Crazy Megan.

hold the corners facing you slightly underneath each knee...

As seen at New Freedom, PA. While the trackage is used by the NCRR. The signal has long been abandoned. It was made by the Union Switch and Signal Co. US&S was founded in 1881 by George Westinghouse and operated independently until 1917, then becoming a part of Westinghouse Brake Co.

Update: Turns out that it is actually a Safetran signal. The position lights were replaced by Conrail. This specific signal was later refurbished by an amtrak employee for use with the North Central Dinner Train. It was battery powered at that time. It apparently sits unused, currently.

Kings of Persia, time of Darius I to Xerxes I. Daric circa 500-485, AV 8.25 g.

Description Persian king or hero in kneeling-running position r., holding spear in r. hand and bow in l.; quiver over shoulder. Rev. Rectangular incuse punch. References

BMC 67 (siglos)

Robinson NC 1958, cf. pl. 15, 8-9 (siglos)

Carradice Type IIIa, cf. pl. XI, 15 (siglos) Condition

In exceptional condition for the issue, one of the finest darics to appear on the market in the last twenty years. Exceptionally well struck and neat. Extremely fine Provenance

Leu sale 91, 2004, 189

Tradart sale 14 December 2014, 191

This magnificent gold daric was struck during from early in the reign of Darius I to about the accession of Xerxes I, that is, during the first fifteen or so years of the fifth century B.C., the period encompassing the Ionian Revolt. The Hellenic communities of Asia Minor during the late sixth and early fifth centuries B.C. were much like any other Greek polis of the mainland, internally having competing political factions agitating for various concessions, and externally being at odds with their neighbours. What led the Ionian Greeks into revolt in 498 B.C. was, first and foremost, the debacle of the failed attempt to conquer Naxos the year before by Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, using support from the Persian satrap at Sardis, Artaphernes. However, widespread dissatisfaction with the Persian policy of ruling by proxy their Greek domains through the use of native tyrants was also a contributing factor, and was also the argument that Aristagoras, who having turned traitor to his Persian masters after his recent failure, used to goad the Greeks into open rebellion. The rebellion lasted five years, until 493 B.C., and was utterly quashed by the mighty Persian Empire, but not before first drawing into the conflict mainland Greeks from Eretria and Athens. Thus the Ionian Revolt set the stage for subsequent relations between Greece and Persia, and had the direct consequence of Darius’ first invasion of Greece in 492 B.C. The obverse of this coin depicts the great king in royal garb, wearing the royal tiara or kidaris, and holding a spear and bow, while the reverse is lacking any design and is simply the impression left by rectangular punch, its purpose being to force the metal of the heated planchet into the obverse die. The spear and bow are symbols, and represent the king as both a military leader of divine invincibility, and the foremost skilled hunter. Kraay mentions that the bow had additional significance, that it alluded to ”the name of the ‘archers’ with which the king supported his political aims in the Greek world” (ACGC p. 32). The kidaris, a stiff leather headdress of Scythian vintage and similar to the kyrbasia and tiara, is depicted in various ways in classical and Persian art, but when worn upwards as here is a sign of royalty. (Interestingly, on some Greek ceramics from the period c. 510-450, certain symposiasts are shown wearing the kidaris. However, the underlying meaning is far from clear, and we should not necessarily accept its face-value meaning, that it represents a foreigner, either Scythian or Persian). The two small pellets behind the beard of the king differentiate Carradice’s type IIIa from the later coins, his types IIIb A/B and IIIb C, which have the same design but were struck into the reign of Artaxerxes II, until about 375 B.C. The pelleted issues are also of slightly lower weight (that is, c. 8.20 g vs. 8.35 g for the darics, and c. 5.35 g vs 5.55 g for the sigloi). At the time that Carradice’s seminal study of the royal Achaemenid coinage was published in Coinage and Administration of the Athenian and Persian Empires, he knew of no gold darics of type IIIa, only silver sigloi which are all quite rare. An interesting truth about Achaemenid coinage was that it was purposefully made – probably at Sardis – for use in the west amongst the Hellenic poleis of coastal Asia Minor, the area where the first true coinage began and where it was already well established. Its purpose was probably twofold: to pay for state expenses, such as hiring mercenaries and other military needs, and to provide an easily portable form of collected revenues. The peoples in the interior of the Persian Empire apparently had not yet developed a need for coinage in order to transact business; they still relied on barter as a means for exchanging goods and services.

NAC96, 1130

Strobist;

Cámara: Olympus E-3

Objetivo : Zuiko 12-60

Flash: Metz 58 AF; Manual a 1/8

f/11 - 1/250 - ISO 100

Cactus sin modificaciones

Ejercicio LIGHTING 102 / POSITION/ ANGLE

El flash se ha ido colocando a niveld ela mdoelo, pero canbiando 45º de una toma a otra.

Ali, hill town in the province of Messina, is about 30 km from the capital. Nestled on Peloritans, lies at the foot of the hill 450 meters above sea level in St. Helena Overlooking the sun, has been called "a porch roof on the Ionian sea," for its splendid position that makes enjoying the magnificent views of the Ionian Sea and the entire eastern coast of Sicily; especially at night, is to admire the enchanting spectacle of the Calabrian coast and the Straits of Messina. The whole scene is dominated by the imposing bulk of Mount Etna. And 'prized for architectural heritage, for its mild climate, the pure air and the clear, cold water of the natural springs. Ali has about 1000 inhabitants. Its economy, once supported by a thriving agriculture today is based primarily on the service sector. It is the home, as well, an important plant of mineral waters, the source of which belong to the municipality. The name of Ali, for certain, has Greek origins, from Elim, in reference to the Greek colony of Elis, whence would come the founders of the country. For others, it has Muslim origins and it would be a tribute to the Caliph Ali, son of Muhammad. The town, founded in 638 BC on the plateau Mollerino, by the settlers of Elis, fell within the territory of Zancle Messana, but the first inhabitants, tormented by pirates, they moved much higher up on Mount Scuderi.To the west of the village overlooking the foothills of the first Peloritans, whose green, a deep green that does not let the eye, gently ascends the slopes, up panorama to achieve the highest ridges. Towards the sea, dominates the liquid expanse of the Ionian Sea, a beautiful landscape, in which the Heads of Ali and of St. Alexis, overlooking the white spots of the agglomeration, scattered among the beautiful green of the coast. clearly see the extreme edge of the Calabrian shore, calm immense velvet sea. Few to Ali Superior noise: some trill of bird, some cackling of hens, some dog barking in the distance. Removed these noises, to Ali reigns supreme silence and when you hear the sound of a few cars, or the sound of some turntable is stupid because Ali has managed to retain its traditional vocation to life rusticana. The country still retains, in galleries and in the tunnels of the old streets, its ancient medieval appearance and almost one would expect to see emerge from some secluded corner, some mustachioed soldier with helmet and armor of a few centuries ago, to disturb, with its militaristic past, the beautiful peace of the place.

Alì, centro collinare della provincia di Messina, dista dal capoluogo circa 30 km. Adagiato sui monti Peloritani, sorge alle pendici del colle S. Elena a 450 metri s.l.m. Affacciato al sole, è stato definito “una veranda pensile sullo Jonio”, per la sua felice posizione panoramica, che fa godere la magnifica vista del Mare Jonio e di tutta la riviera orientale della Sicilia; specie di sera, fa ammirare lo spettacolo incantevole delle coste calabresi e dello Stretto di Messina. Tutto il panorama è dominato dalla possente mole dell’Etna. E’ apprezzato per il patrimonio architettonico, per il suo clima mite, per l’aria purissima e per l’acqua limpida e fresca delle sorgenti naturali. Alì conta circa 1000 abitanti. La sua economia, un tempo sostenuta da una fiorente agricoltura, oggi prevalentemente si regge sul terziario.Vi ha sede, pure, un importante stabilimento di acque oligominerali, la cui sorgente ricade nel territorio comunale.Il nome Alì, per taluni, ha origine greca, da Elim, in riferimento alla colonia greca Elide, da dove sarebbero venuti i fondatori del paese. Per altri, ha origini musulmane e sarebbe un omaggio al Califfo Alì, genero di Maometto.Il paese, fondato nel 638 a.c. sul pianoro Mollerino, dai coloni dell’Elide, ricadeva nel territorio di Zancle Messana, ma i primi abitanti, tormentati dalle incursioni dei pirati, si trasferirono molto più in alto, sul Monte Scuderi, Ad ovest l'abitato si affaccia ai primi contrafforti dei Peloritani, il cui verde, un verde fitto che non da tregua all'occhio, sale dolcemente per i pendii, finopanorama a raggiungere i più alti crinali. Verso la marina, si domina la liquida distesa dello Ionio, un bel paesaggio, in cui i capi di Alì e di Sant'Alessio, sovrastano le bianche macchie degli agglomerati, disseminati tra il bel verde della costa. ben visibile l'estremo lembo del litorale calabro, riposante sull'immenso velluto del mare. Pochi ad Alì Superiore i rumori: qualche trillo di uccello, qualche coccodè di gallina, qualche latrato di cane in lontananza. Tolti questi rumori, ad Alì domina sovrano il silenzio e quando si sente il rombo di qualche macchina, o il suono di qualche giradischi si rimane stupidi poiché Alì ha saputo conservare la sua tradizionale vocazione alla vita rusticana. Il Paese conserva ancora, nei ballatoi e nei cunicoli dei vecchi vicoli, la sua antica fisionomia medievale e quasi ci si attenderebbe di vedere sbucare, da qualche angolo appartato, qualche baffuto soldato con elmo ed armatura di alcuni secoli fa, a turbare, col suo passato militaresco, la bella pace del luogo.

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Notevole esempio di architettura tardo-rinascimentale vede l’inizio dei lavori dalla fine del Cinquecento fino al 1723, anno che è stata consacrata. La chiesa è sormontata da una cupola posta su un tamburo ottagonale, la facciata, al cui culmine si trova una cimasa con nicchia, si estende su due ordini ed è scandita da tre portali. Il portale centrale è caratterizzato da un timpano aperto dentro cui è racchiusa una nicchia, mentre i portali laterali sono sormontati da frontoni e timpani chiusi ricurvi. La costruzione mostra una scansione ritmica di quattordici archi, con sette finestre per fiancata, realizzati in pietra viva di colore grigio. L’interno è suddiviso in tre navate da colonne monolitiche che sorreggono archi a tutto sesto.Costituisce un bell'esempio di architettura tardo-rinascimentale. Interamente in pietra locale, il prospetto principale comprende tre porte d'ingresso con una grande finestra al secondo ordine in asse col portale principale; tutta la composizione triangolare con la scansione delle aperture denuncia in maniera evidente la diretta derivazione dal Duomo di Messina che ebbe notevole influenza nelle scelte stilistiche degli architetti che costruirono le Cattedrali in diversi centri della provincia di Messina. L'interno è diviso in tre navate da 14 archi a tutto sesto su colonne monolitiche di breccia. Interessanti e non molto frequenti sono gli elaborati capitelli con triglifi emblematici di un tardo rinascimento strettamente legato ad esemplari brunelleschiani che sicuramente ispirarono, dopo averli visti, l'architetto Giovanni Maffei che li utilizzò, cambiando il capitello dorico con quello corinzio, nella secentesca chiesa di S. Andrea e S. Biagio di S. Piero Patti. Nell'altare del SS. Sacramento, nell'abside sinistra, si trova un bellissimo tabernacolo in legno intagliato e dorato con colonnette, fregi, ornati e rilievi di ordine corinzio.

Remember that Wasp Spider I posted a few weeks ago? I visited him again days later.

He grew in size, assumed the perfect position and colors and light were better than the previous time!

Location: Ciconio Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italy

Canon EOS 60D with Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro, single shot

The size, color, skin texture, mantle location, position of the breathing pore, presence or absence of a keel, and the color of the mucus are important characteristics for slug identification. The spotted garden slug is from 13 to 18 cm (5 to 7 in.) long when fully grown. Check out the NYS IPM fact sheet Spotted Garden Slug (Limax maximus L.), in eCommons, Cornell University at ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/42387. Photo by D. R. Specker. More information is on nysipm.cornell.edu/agriculture/fruits and Cornell Fruit Resources fruit.cornell.edu.

The regular Sunday eve loco move from Toton - Doncaster is lightly loaded on this occasion with just two locos , 66085 and 67007 making the trip.

This working , the 0E66 1750 Toton - Belmont Yard can often be seen with 5 locos and runs generally to time.

The floodlights of Rotherham Uniteds former ground , Millmoor can be seen in the background.

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Highest position in Explore: #396 on Thursday, November 19, 2009

Taking HDR sequences from a moving car following a moving aircraft is difficult to say the least. Thank goodness for Photoshop's auto align function.

We were riding in Mike's car who works at LAX in operations and were following this Singapore Airlines cargo plane. The tail was nearly overlapping the hood of the car. I have photos of it but being that my head doesn't tilt that far back, I had to extend my arms forward and just guess where it was when framing the shot. I guess I should try creating a vertorama.

Being this close to such a large moving aircraft is amazing. You hear and feel it adjusting it's flight controls and throttles. When it turned in front of us the car rocked a little from the exhaust.

Thanks to Kevin and Mike for an amazing day!

Different Position – Sir you are now a women 9

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Mon portrait!

voilà, j'ai décidé d'apprendre à mieux contrôler ma lumière. J'ai donc entrepris des démarches personnel dans le but de m'amélioré.

Alors voici la première d'une série.

Ce qui est volontaire:

lumière dur et la direction de celle-ci.

Correction dans photoshop:

quelques reflet distraillant (je n'arrivais pas à réduire suffisament la lumière ambiante)

Me!

So I've decided to learn to better control the lighting aspect of my photos. So here is the first of serie.

What I wanted to achieve: get a good light angle and a hard light

What has been photoshoped: distracting reflection from the background ( I couldn't get rid of enough ambient light with out affecting the overall image)

Some technical details (Quelques détails technique):

ISO 200

105mm

f/11

1/250th sec

(photoshop erase this info... I wonder why)