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Jerimiah O'Brien Cruise, SF Bay, 9-9-2017
The Jerimiah O'Brien is a WW2 Liberty Ship that has been restored and is operated by a volunteer crew in San Francisco. It has been steaming for quite a few years now, and participated in the D-Day 50 year commemoration in 1994, one of the few ships that was there in June 1944 to come back 50 years later. It is one of 3 Liberty Ships still operational.
I'd long wanted to visit the ship and when I saw a wine tasting cruise advertised for 9 September, it turned out to be easy to talk Anne into a trip to San Francisco.
We took an F line PCC to Fishermen's Wharf, and boarded the J O'Brien well before the scheduled noon departure. We found seats at a table on the cover of the #2 hold toward the bow of the ship.
A good variety of wines was available at tables set up by different wineries. Box lunches were catered by a local bakery and a chocolate company was also handing out its very popular wares.
As departure time approached, a tug arrived to pull us away from the dock and the pilot boat brought a pilot (no a pirate) to guide the ship around the bay. The captain was in uniform, while the rest of the crew generally wore clothes identifying themselves.
At noon, the whistle blew and we pulled away from the pier with the help of the tug. We steamed north of Alcatraz en route to the Golden Gate. A crewmember narrated points of interest along the way and the history of the bay and the various forts that have been built over the years to defend it. None ever fired a shot in anger.
We cruised under the Golden Gate Bridge, then turned around and sailed along the San Francisco waterfront to somewhere a bit south of the Giants stadium, where we turned again and headed back to the pier. The cruise took 4 hours.
A museum and gift shop are set up in the forward hold, featuring displays about D-Day, convoys, and the construction and fate of the over 2000 Liberty Ships built during WW2. The Merchant Marine had a higher mortality rate of any the military services. The convoy system helped against submarine attacks, but a lot of ships and crews were lost during the war.
The 3" gun at the bow of the ship can be moved and people were on it throughout much of the cruise raising and lowering the barrel and turning it to point at various targets.
Most of the ship was open for viewing and I went up to the bridge and flying bridge. The ship was being steered from the flying bridge, above the bridge, which could be used in case of bad weather or attack. Volunteers were stationed around the ship to answer questions. The various crew bedrooms, chart room, radio and room and the like were roped off, but the doors were open for people to see inside.
The engine room was hot and fascinating. The 3 cylinder triple expansion engine reminds me of what a Shay locomotive expanded to Babe the Blue Ox size would have. It is about 3 stories tall, and has Stephenson link valve motion controlling the valves, with the cams on the crankshaft providing a counterpoint to the massive connecting rods.
At 4 hours, the O'Brien cruise took about twice as long as the Blue and Gold and Red and White bay cruise boats take for the same run, but I was ready for a longer trip when we returned to Pier 45.
Dinner was nearby at Scoma's, a place that has been at the Wharf since 1965, getting bigger and more upscale over the years. Great seafood.
We caught another PCC back to the ferry building and were walking back to the hotel when we stopped to hear Mr. Ron Bass sing a Motown song. We stuck around as he did another, and another and then a few more tunes before he called it a night. Skateboarders jumped their boards in the plaza and a couple of people danced to Mr. Bass' music. He has a great voice and plays 6 string bass, so if you are around the ferry building look for him and give him a few bucks if you agree with us that his talent should be rewarded.
one of three Central European Pyrochroidae species; two of them I found on the same day in the same Biotope in Mainz (Germany)
Nearly there. I had in mind the exact same shot and reason as me old 366 buddy [inFocus] which is also a similar shot as another one of my main inspirations for doing one of these bloody projects ubiquitous_images... So decided to change the wording and go the same for mine too.
Same photo but with texture and colour added.
Thanks again to the lovely and talented artists who inspire me daily to both dig deeper inside myself and to learn new techniques! They include: Rosie Hardy, Kori E., Love Loren, Bradi, Imogen, etc... (find them in my contacts :)
Texture by: redeemer-of-light.deviantart.com/
Yup, my new old used 300mm IS sharp ;)
5/8 sec. @ f16 ISO200 D70s & Tokyo Koki Tele-Tokina 1:5,5 f = 300mm.
It's a manual focus, pre-select aperture lens from the mid sixties, so I have to do all by myself without any help from my Nikon D70s. Considering I paid 52:- SEK = US$7.50 for it only it is very sharp ;) well + shipping & handling of course (so that doubled the price).
Still, an equal old Nikkor lens would have cost me at least 10x that price.
And then we went to Paignton where they had a Bikers gathering (always feel uneasy what with me being a scooter boy) but like the Pirates it was all leather and long beards and a strange smell,the guy at the bottom was quite scary but the ear ring shot was a have to do.The candy stipe BMW was a Cafe Racer type at £14000. i would have loved it (Harleys on the top left do nada for me) but as it was my Wifes weekend it was a no go.Did have a test ride on the New LAMBRETTA 200 but it's plastic and a twist and go...booo.
St. Paul, Minnesota
May 13, 2013
Thousands of people gathered at the Minnesota state capitol building during the Minnesota Senate debate on a same sex marriage bill. The bill passed the Minnesota House of Representatives on May 9 by a vote of 75 to 59. The Minnesota Senate passed the bill this day by a vote of 37 to 30. The law delineates the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry.
2013-05-13 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
This is a photograph from the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 29th August 2015 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 12:00. This is the third year of the event. The race is organised and promoted by Tullamore Harriers AC. The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter Tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course. 2013 seen the first year of the event as the club commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs.
The race was perfectly organised. The weather was good for racing but there was a very strong headwind for the first 6 miles of the race which made the conditions difficult. The weather was dry and warm except for the torrential downpour at around 1:45pm which cleared the whole finish area of spectators and runners. There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event. There was also a relay option where teams of two can run approximately 10.5km each. In total almost 700 participants took part. This was higher than the 568 participants who completed the race which is almost 150 more than the 2013 event.
We have a large set of photographs from today's race at the start and the finish until the 2-00 finish time. They are available on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157655560294853
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2855
Our photographs from the 2014 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646587496250/
Our photographs from the 2013 Half Marathon on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/
Half Marathon Route on MapMyRun: www.mapmyrun.com/ie/tullamore-l/half-marathon-tullamore-r...
2014 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2136
2013 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1448
Tullamore Harriers on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tullamore.harriers?fref=ts
As mentioned above this race half marathon started in 2013 and celebrated the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joining routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The half marathon today firmly brings competitive national road racing back to "The Harriers". The Quinlan Cup which will be awarded to the winning club team. For more than 40 years the Harriers Quinlan Cup was the most prestigious event on the road racing calendar. Having started as a cross-country race back in 1957, it became a road race in 1967 and remained so until 2000 when the race was last held. During its reign as a blue-ribband event the Quinlan Cup was won by the likes of John Treacy and Eamonn Coughlan.
Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
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The pursuit of sustainability in business goes beyond the academic discussions in classrooms, beyond the campus events that promote awareness of issues relating to environmentalism and social well-being. Sustainability in business actually tackles those issues, in enterprises and organizations in our cities, in our communities, and all around us every day. The academic ideas are being put into practice by those who truly believe in making a difference, not only for their business, but in the lives of all those who come into contact with it.
It is for this reason that the Sustainable Business Day exists. To bring these difference-makers together who have taken different paths toward the same goal. The idea behind “Green Pathways” is that it is an opportunity for future business leaders to learn from sustainable business frontrunners about the paths that lead to incorporating sustainable business initiatives to achieve a positive economic, social and environmental impact on their business. It is putting the ideas to work.
'Knife 75' returning to the pad after a refuel down the other end of the airfield. Yet again it's 11-0060, it may be the newest but it would be nice if they would fly a different one occasionally!
iPhone 11 Pro & HDR shots of Wapping Road First School & Swimming Pool & next door (on the same site) Wapping Road Boarding School, Wapping Road, Bradford.
Wapping First School was the country's first school with a swimming pool & the pool is (argued to be) the first swimming pool to be built in the country (if this is not the case, it’s certainly one of the first 5). Wapping Road School opened in 1877. The historic pool, which can still be seen fully intact today, although in the basement of an extremely derelict site, measures 14 metres x 5 metres, shallow end 2ft 6 & deep end 3ft 6- so not very long & incredibly shallow, (as can be seen in my photos) & was used by children from schools across the Bradford district who were bussed into Wapping to learn to swim. Wapping School aimed to cater for the educational needs of a close-knit but poor neighbourhood and went on to receive commendation from HM Inspector of Schools.
The school created national & international headlines with the help of education campaigner Margaret McMillan & her partner (LGBTQ+ friendly here!) & her push to improve the life of children in the education & state system. (I believe she was also the person who helped to begin free school meals, as well as kickstart the kind of scholarships that are available for students from families with smaller incomes, to enable them to attend a grammar/ boarding/ elitist school/ college/ university, without having to pay their massive fees).
The Grade II listed building closed as a school in August 2000 & was badly hit by vandalism including a series of fires, with the roof being damaged & most of the interior features destroyed over the years. Many floors are completely destroyed, the roof is non- existent over most of the building & much of the building is now a shell, where there were once multiple floors (basement/ pool, teaching areas & (depending on which building) dorms (for boarding) or storage areas, all the floors are fully exposed, ie, stand at the exterior looking in, you can look down through the ground level to the basement & look up to the sky with nothing but interior walls (some places not even that) between. Much of the main timber support beams have fallen & the interior brickwork warped at terrible (& dangerous angles), existing floors are either support beam only, concrete or just have a few warped floorboards only. It seems only the external stone still exists in much of the building, but to my (non expert) opinion, this is now heavily at risk. Sadly there has been much drug use in the area & especially the area around the exterior & interior of the pool are littered by used needles. (Being disabled I am always very careful, as well as dressing bright clothing, park directly outside & go in there in daylight & never alone, like to prove I am not adding to any antisocial activity in the property, nor do I want to come across any antisocial behaviour myself, especially not at night) I felt unsafe to enter most of this building. Now although I could’ve gone into to the swimming pool area, which being in the basement seemed intact floor wise (concrete & the tiles remained, for what I could see) unfortunately there were so many needles I don’t want to risk it, with it being so dark. There is also the upper floor caving into the pool badly & 1 massive wooden support beam that’s already fallen into the pool area- I don’t want to be in a building collapse! It looks like it would’ve been a terrifying place to learn to swim, with it being in the basement, so dark, narrow, shallow, no doubt freezing in winter & no doubt very echoey, as well as possibly being able to hear the active school day going on above your head! I just hope it was well lit!.
In 2004 plans to convert the building into apartments were approved, but work never began, being Grade II listed but then so badly damaged, most want to demolish & rebuild on the site. I’m led to believe it’s now owned by the neighbouring Life Centre (formerly known as the Abundant Life Church) who would love to make it into teaching areas & accommodation for their ever- growing college education centre, for pastoral studies.
The school building is a big part of Bradford’s Victorian heritage, it was also one of the earliest Board Schools after the 1870 Act. So I do hope they at least managed to save the exterior & the pool areas, there aren’t many pools now that are in basements (or with anything built overhead), but this could work for apartment or a halls of residence type building & the basement location & it’s small size would be more relative to a pool for this purpose & not get overcrowded. I drive by this location twice daily, 6 days per week, (taking Andy to work & bringing him home) so any changes & I can keep you all updated!
I see Spaz,Chew, Doubt and Red. Can anyone out there identify any of the other artists? Fifty Four just added the tags Same,Tan, Regs, Lewy, BTM, KH1 and 357.Thanks.
Photo taken April, 2011
We are no longer the same women as we were last year. We have changed in 1 year, or even made 10 yearsâ worth of improvement!â says Ghuncha Gul. âIf there was no greenhouse we would not have achieved this change.â
In their village in Injil district, Ghuncha Gul and her fellow women are bringing change to their village and contributing to economic development in Afghanistan.
âIt may be just a small greenhouse, but our ingenuity and dreams have no limit," she adds.
To diversify livelihoods and improve womenâs economic freedom, UNDP has implemented several other projects in Herat districts. These include: 6 raisin houses, 10 greenhouses, 1 apiary, and kitchen gardens for 30 women.
UNDPâs Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), is a five-year project, made possible by the Global Environment Facility Least Developed Countries Fund. Over the next three years, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNDP will implement more than 100 livelihoods projects, including building more greenhouses and training farmers on food processing and food storage, as well as protecting 800 hectares of land from flooding, irrigate 4,000 hectares of agricultural land and repairing 30 canals.
Other UNDP environment projects are helping people adapt and find jobs in the face of climate change, bringing clean power to rural areas, preparing for natural disasters, establishing and protecting national parks, and conserving biodiversity for future generations
© UNDP Afghanistan / S. Omer Sadaat / 2017
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 14: Selena Gomez Visits "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" at Rockefeller Center on October 14, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon")
I haven't edited in the smoke from their cigs yet.
Yes, they smoke.
I dunno, i think it plays well with the whole "bad boy" thing.
Same owl in all three photos. Poor quality images, but I am posting them for the record in case I don't see another Snowy Owl this winter.
Posting another five photos from 23 January.
A short drive SE of the city on 23 January 2025 produced two Snowy Owls and a Coyote. Other than those, all I saw were several Black-billed Magpies. Luckily, it was an overcast day, so I wasn't bothered by harsh sun glare.
Driving along one of my regular roads, I spotted a car far in the distance and it looked like it had pulled over. Wondering if it was perhaps a birder/photographer, I slowed right down, stopped, and then very cautiously pulled forward, not wanting to flush an owl if it was being photographed. When I got close enough to the car, I could see a raised camera. When it was lowered, I inched my way forward and I told the driver that I had wondered if he had found an owl and that I didn't want to flush it for him. He said yes, he had found an owl and asked if I hadn't noticed it. Turning my head, sure enough, a beautiful male Snowy was sitting on a distant hill.
From there, I drove a few other back roads to check a spot where I had seen a Snowy Owl some previous years, Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a white 'blob' perched exactly where I had hoped one would be. Again, too far away for decent photos, but wonderful to see.
Driving a few back roads on my way home, I again saw a car pulled over (turned out to be the same photographer). Sure enough, I saw a very distant owl (male) perched high up on a power pole. Given the location, it could easily have been the same individual that I first photographed, so I'm not counting it as a third Snowy.
Breakfast with the Chief
By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES — Society of American Military Engineers posts from Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire held their 26th annual joint breakfast meeting Jan. 13. The keynote speaker currently serves as the Acting Chief of Engineers and Commanding General for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Los Angeles District Commander Col. Mark Toy introduced Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple to more than 100 SAME members. He mentioned that, among the general's many accomplishments, he holds the distinction of being the only individual to ever hold all four general officer billets at USACE headquarters. Once a permanent Chief is named, Temple will retire with 37 years-of-service.
For his remarks, Temple took the opportunity to discuss where the Corps and the Army find themselves today and where they are headed.
“As fiscal year 2011 came to an end, the Corps was wrapping up an unprecedented period of construction and project execution,” said Temple. “For example, over the past five years, we provided $12 billion in BRAC-related (Base Realignment and Closure) construction; $7 billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) work in both military and civil works programs; and about $14 billion of Gulf Coast recovery work!”
And, 2011 brought roughly three times the disaster declarations of a normal year.
“USACE responded to devastating tornadoes and severe spring storms, as well as hurricanes and tropical storms, under the National Response Framework in support of FEMA,” said Temple. “We are working now with the $1.7 billion appropriated supplement to the Corps’ budget in disaster relief to make emergency repairs before the 2012 flood season is upon us.”
For the future the general discussed the continuing fiscal challenges the Nation faces.
“We are operating in a more complex, less certain, resource-constrained environment which requires a more focused, systems-based approach and more collaboration to develop and deliver safe, quality engineering solutions on time, at or below cost, to our customers, stakeholders and partners.”
Even with fiscal challenges, locally, the District will benefit from Obama administration programs like America’s Great Outdoors and the new Urban Waters Federal Partnership which selected the Los Angeles River Watershed as one of seven pilot locations to enhance existing work like the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan.
“The Los Angeles District is a strong supporter of revitalizing the river, with several on-going studies and potential projects that aim to restore riverside habitat, increase public access to the river and promote recreational opportunities,” said Temple.
Military construction projects also hold great promise for the region.
“South Pacific Division’s FY 12 budget is about $1.2 billion, which is about $200 million more than last year, with two significant MILCON projects at Fort Irwin accounting for most of that increase," said Temple. "Another highlight is that Los Angeles District estimates that they will award more than $200 million to small businesses in FY 12.”