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As well as being a village of the same name, 'Cabo de Gata' also refers to Andalucia's largest coastal protected area, a wild and isolated landscape with some of Europe's most original geological features. It is the only region in Europe with a Warm Desert climate. The region also includes 'Las Salinas de Cabo de Gata', the salt flats near the headland which are home to a variety of birds including thousands of greater flamingos. It truly is an area of outstanding natural beauty and of great interest to walkers, hikers and nature enthusiasts alike. For much more detailed information about 'Cabo de Gata', take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_de_Gata-N%C3%ADjar_Natural_Park. There are plenty more photos of Cabo de Gata and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
S.A.M.E., an acronym for Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici, is a Italian agricultural machinery manufacturer. ... The company was founded in 1942 in Treviglio (Bergamo), Italy, by the brothers Francesco and Eugenio Cassani. SAME main products are tractors and front loaders.
Same reptile as before but recent shot taken with my Tamron 90mm macro, handheld through glass/perspex.
Designer: Jana Shweiki
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communication breakdown,
Its always the same,
Im having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane!
(Led Zeppelin)
This is a photograph from the finish of the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 27th August 2016 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 11:00. This is the fourth 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.
We have a large set of photographs from the start and the finish of today's race on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157669860212434
The race was perfectly organised. The weather was good for racing but there was warm summer weather for the entire race which made for warmer than usual running conditions 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.
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.
Our photographs from the 2015 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157655560294853
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/
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BUT..... Wait there a minute....
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In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
same keyboard, white spot removed, +3 to contrast while i was at it.
did not want to replace the old as to break links
done this because i am trying out Imagekind.
and the white dot was a little annoying (could never work out what it was)
Sameer Khan Movie E KAISAN VIDAAI Pramotional party with actor manoj singh tiger .
Guests Were
Manoj Singh Tiger
Rajkapoor Shahi
Anjani Singh Udhari Babu,
Abstract combination of a couple coloured textures in a custom pattern (using the custom mask tool in the Pattern Artist app).
Tall plain tower arch and large beams to the ringing floor. - Tower walls of exposed stone, the rest are plastered. Tower floor is an attractive chequer pattern of red, black and cream tiles.
Norman red sandstone font - circular stem and bowl with frieze of palmette decoration very like the one at Cornworthy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8951p8c45Z
Plain C19 pine benches. West end of south aisle screened off by a partition made up from pieces of C17 panelling, enriched with guilloche, strapwork, cherubs, leafy scrolls, etc: these fragments are probably from the C17 gallery (dismantled in 1885) as are the panelled sections of the gallery frontal with similar ornament set in the tower and now used to commemorate those parishioners who died in both World Wars.
- Church of St. Petrox, Dartmouth
Our friend Samer when he was in Vienna on a visit. He is now back in Palestine where things are not going so good, as everyone surely knows.
Some background:
The JGSF’s Type 01 “Shin-Hei” military Labor was a derivative of the highly successful civil HL-98 “Hercules 21” construction labor manufactured by Hishii Heavy Industries, which itself was a thorough development of the HL-97 “Bulldog”. Following an accident with a "Bulldog'' in 1998 the new model adopted an electronically controlled suspension, auto speed control, and a canopy system that eliminated the vibration, noise, and poor riding comfort that were the weaknesses of early two-legged Labors. Another novelty was the HL-98’s completely sealed cockpit with VR view of the surroundings for the pilot which offered highly improved crew protection and comfort and also allowed operations in potentially hazardous environment.
With these upgrades the HL-98 became the industrial standard for 2nd generation Labors, being one of the company's best-selling products. This machine was furthermore a priority product into which all of Hishii's state-of-the-art technology was poured into, and “Hercules” became a household name for construction Labors in the late Nineties. There was plenty of consideration for the user in all aspects, such as the reshaped cockpit with an innovative virtual reality interface that made cabin windows obsolete, what also improved driver protection. In addition to the electrification of the actuators, which was a typical feature of the same generation Labors, the battery used a nickel-metal hydride system, which was later followed by the third-generation lithium-ion system. Of course, the reliability and price/performance ratio that Hishii fans always insisted on were excellent, and even today, some say that it is "The best in terms of ease of use at the field level.''
Hishii's typical simplicity and robustness, with attention to safety and security, was what made the HL-98 machine a hit on the civil Labor market, and its versatility quickly drew attention of the Japanese Self Defense Ground Forces. At that time the JGSDF was looking for a light to medium multi-purpose Labor that could be used for both construction and logistics (primarily for engineer/pioneering units) as well as for armed frontline use, in a secondary role. In service it would partly replace the 1st generation AL-97 Atlas and AL-97B-var Hannibal Labors, being lighter, easier to transport and more economical to operate and maintain.
With its robust design and relatively compact dimensions the HL-98 offered a very good basis for further developments and within only two years Hishii Heavy Industries presented the so-called “JGSDF Type 01”, baptized “Shin-Hei” (“First/glorious warrior”). The Shin-Hei strongly resembled the commercial HL-98, sharing its framework and many actuators, but the mechanical systems were upgraded to military spec to allow generally high performance and endurance. Most obvious changes included more complex, hand-like manipulators, so that the Shin-Hei could operate tools and hand-held weapons. A multi-sensor boom (visual, audio, radiation, and atmospheric analysis) was added on the left shoulder as well as a LIDAR projector/receiver on the “forehead”, which offered a wide range of tactical uses and added full all-weather operation ability. The system allowed navigation even in total darkness, exact range measurement and three-dimensional analysis of surrounding details. A further use was motion detection (for extended watch duties), and the LIDAR’s laser beam could furthermore be concentrated to illuminate targets at up to 4.000 m range, either for laser-guided missiles which the Shin-Hei could carry and deploy (see below), or for ordnance that had been launched from 3rd parties like guided artillery shells or laser-guided bombs and missiles dropped from airborne platforms.
Although it had, due to being designed as a multi-purpose Labor, inferior firepower to its predecessor, the Atlas series, the Type 01 was fully capable of dealing with armored vehicles and infantry-level forces. On the right shoulder the Shin-Hei featured a fully stabilized articulated hardpoint that covered a conical area of +/- 45° in both horizontal and vertical planes in front of the torso, which could be rotated by 360°. This actuated pylon could accept several external weapons or tools. This included a sextuple launcher for laser-guided LMAT anti-tank missiles, a smoke grenade mortar with eighteen rounds, a belt-fed 25 mm rapid fire cannon with an external drum magazine against soft but also hardened targets, or a 40 mm grenade launcher, also outfitted with a drum magazine. Instead of weapons the hardpoint could also hold a powerful white/IR searchlight, an IR smoke screen generator, or a grapple cannon with an attached carbon-fiber cable.
Handheld weapons from the JGSDF’s Labor weapon arsenal could be deployed by the Type 01, too, ranging from a long-barreled 40mm rapid-fire machine gun over a heavy anti-labor bazooka to a short combat knife. For riot control the Shin-Hei could furthermore use a machine pistol-type portable firearm, which looked like a submachine gun, capable of firing standard rounds but also non-lethal rubber frag bullets or flechette ammunition against soft targets.
Less visible upgrades included water-, heat- and ABC-insulation for the cockpit in front torso (together with an air supply for 48 hours of operation) and the Labor’s fiber-reinforced plastic and aluminum shell was beefed-up for military operations with composite armor against machine cannon fire of up to 30mm caliber, and optional reactive armor tiles that protected against even larger caliber shells.
Three prototypes were built and the Japanese government ordered 99 production models, which entered service with the JGSDF Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade in 2001 but was also adopted by three JGSDF’s pioneer units.
Technical Data:
Code name: Type-01 "Shin-Hei"
Unit type: Military labor
Manufacturer: Hishii Heavy Industries
Operator: Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces (JGSDF)
Number built: 102
Accommodation: pilot only, in heat-, water and ABC-insulated cockpit in front torso
Dimensions:
Height overall (w. sensor boom): 9.42 meters
Height (hull only): 7.45 meters
Width (at shoulders): 5.12 meters
Minimum revolving radius: 5.5 meters
Weight:
7.89 tons (dry/empty)
9.22 tons (fully equipped/armed)
Armor materials:
Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) and aluminum hull;
Additional composite armor against small-caliber weapons
Optional reactive armor tiles against armor-piercing weapons
Powerplant:
unknown
Maximum weight lifting capacity:
2.9 tons
Equipment and design features:
Flexible boom with visual and acoustic sensors, range unknown
Heat-, water- and ABC-protected cockpit with 48h air supply
Articulated manipulator hands with opposed thumbs
Full VR pilot interface
Armaments:
No internal weapons installed, but an articulated and stabilized hardpoint on the right shoulder
could accept several weapons, including a 25 mm machine cannon with 150 rounds in a drum
magazine or a launcher with 6x LMAT anti-tank missiles.
Additionally, handheld close and ranged combat weapons could be deployed, as well as a wide
range of pioneering tools
The kit and its assembly:
Some time ago I got my hands on a “reasonably priced” Patlabor IP kit set from Good Smile Company/Moderoid. The company created molds/kits for a wide range of Labors that appear in the original TV series and the movies, thankfully in the old Bandai kits’ rather esoteric 1:60 scale. This range also included a lot of civil Labors, which were formerly only available as dubious vinyl kits. The kit set I got was the HL-98 “Hercules” and ASV 99 “Boxer” combo, two civil construction Labors that shortly appear in supporting roles in the early Nineties movies. I did not have concrete plans for the kits upon purchase, but one of them would certainly become/remain a commercial/civil vehicle – and that will be the Boxer, due to its glazed cockpit. The Hercules Labor looked rather aggressive (at least to me, a little like a small brother of the menacing Phantom robot), and I rather thought that it would be better suited as a police or even military vehicle.
I eventually went for the latter concept; my build/conversion would more or less fall into the timeframe of the rather realistic and politically-heavy Patlabor 2 movie, around 2002, when Labors had, after teething troubles, become a more common sight and fully integrated into public services. Therefore, the HL-98 would become a “classic” JGSDF vehicle, not an exotic prototype anymore, reflected in its equipment/mods and the livery.
A word about the kit…. After initial enthusiasm I was a bit disappointed by the HL-98 kit, though. While it looks flashy and crisp in the box, molded in a peach orange tone with some dark grey details on alternative sprues (that are shared with the Boxer, beware not to throw them away!), the kit revealed the designers’ niggardliness. First of all the kit had been designed to be a rather simple snap-fit model. This is per se not a bad thing, many recent Bandai mecha kits are designed this way to appeal to newbie modelers who can put the model together, put stickers on it, and have a functional action figure within 15 minutes. However, Bandai’s designers still have the advanced modeler in mind and typically offer an alternative water slide decal sheet, and the kit is designed to be built in segments that can be built and painted separately, to be assembled in a final step, e. g. thanks to vinyl caps and clever detail solutions that might require one or two parts more, but that pays out elsewhere.
The Good Smile Company kit(s) lacks this thought altogether, and the number of parts has been reduced to a point that some parts, which would normally require 2 halves, have been molded and cast with “holes”. This might not be an issue, if this would remain invisible – but it isn’t and that’s really disappointing for such a “modern” kit! For instance, the undersides of the feet or of the hips are just “hollow”. Additionally, where a Bandai kit would offer a small, flexible vinyl cap in a joint, half of that joint is in the HL-98’s case completely molded in an ABS-esque material that is quite soft and poorly accepts any paint – the toy aspect seemed to have priority during the molds’ design process! Sure, you can work with this basis, but I feel painfully reminded of the early IP robot kits from the Eighties which did not offer any vinyl caps at all and a very cumbersome, not well thought-through matryoshka layout for arms, legs and torso, so that building separate modules and assembling them as a final step was impossible or required thorough mods.
Beyond these fundamental issues the kit went together quite well. The IP material is solid and thick, but many openings had to be painted before assembly to hide the material’s orange base color. Fit is also not too god, at least for such a modern mold – while the designers tried to hide part seams in natural panel lines, those seams that remain visible are very prominent and require PSR.
Most of my mods went onto the upper torso, including a sensor boom from a Patlabor Brocken on the left shoulder, the prominent LIDAR fairing (from a Bandai Patlabor Ingram Unit 3’s head) or the shoulder gun (from the scrap box, from a ruined 1:144 Run-Valam mecha, plus a drum magazine scratched from leftover Patlabor Brocken parts).
The “mitten”-style hands were also procured from a Bandai Brocken kit, replacing the HL-98’s original pincer-like three- and four-finger manipulators. To emphasize the military aspect, I added reactive armor tiles to the front and the shoulders, cut from 1mm styrene sheet. They beef up the look and add a military touch to the Labor/mecha.
Painting and markings:
A very dry and truthful replication of the typical JGSDF tank/vehicle livery in Dark Green/Dark Earth, and for this purpose I procured the respective authentic tones/paints from Tamiya, namely YF-72 and -73. However, these appear rather pale for what they are supposed to depict? IMHO, the tones rather remind of early WWII RAF Dark Earth and Dark Green (or even British Army Bronze Green) than those Tamiya suggests? Esp. the green is very greyish and close to the German RAL 7009 (Grüngrau), while the brown is very similar to FS 30118 (from the USAF SEA scheme). Dubious, maybe Tamiya’s engineers tried to integrate scale effects?
However, I gave the Tamiya paints a try and eventually stuck to them, even though the contrast between the green and the brown is surprisingly low. I considered adding black contrast stripes here and there (as applied to JGSDF AH-1Fs) but refrained from that when the Labor looked quite good in the basic two-tone camouflage. The pattern was improvised, an attempt to recreate the typical wide-striped JGSDF vehicle camouflage on a humanoid shape.
Once the basic colors had been applied, I gave the model an overall washing with thinned dark brown acrylic artist paint, to emphasize surface details and somewhat darken the rather pale tones, and some post-shading with slightly lighter basic tones (Revell 67 and 87) for weathering and a less uniform look. Decals/markings came next and were improvised with material from 1:72 JGSDF tanks and a Hobby Boss AH-1. After that the whole model was dry-brushed with khaki drab and light grey (Humbrol 72 and 64, respectively) to emphasize details and edges.
An overall coat with matt acrylic varnish followed. The lights around the hull were created with chromatic PET foil, the LIDAR on the forehead was painted glossy black to simulate a translucent fairing for the laser emitter. As a final step the model received a thorough weathering/dusting with watercolors and mineral pigments, esp. around the lower regions of the model but also on the upper surfaces, simulating accumulated dust and mud.
A conversion project that took a while to materialize, due to the inherent problems caused by the kit’s design as a highly simplified snap-fit kit. However, the “militarization” of the HL-98 worked well, and with relatively simple means – it looks quite purposeful now. I just wonder about the Tamiya paints, which are supposed to depict authentic JGSDF tones (I cross-checked that with Tamiya’s JGSDF tank kits like the Type 10 – the instructions recommend FY 72 and 73, too, or their rattle can alternatives). But esp. the green looks very pale and faded, I am not sold on it, even though I eventually stuck with them, and the Labor does not look bad with the low-contrast camouflage.