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The Inglewood and Glendale based troops from the California Army National Guard's 1-160th Infantry, HHC and B Co. units, prepared for the worst during training classes prior to their assault on their Operation Red Snow objective Feb. 14, 2012. While at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center they practiced coming to the aid of an injured comrade and learned how to strap the casualty into a SKED (think Skid and Sled) litter and transport them down from high elevation to safety. (Army National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Paul Wade)
Saving a bunch of photos from our local Car & Motorcycle Show to albums, no need to comment. About 250 cars. Sorry for so many. It was canceled last year due to Covid so we were happy they could have it again this year.
This photo was taken in the computer server room at our local police station. The equipment in this room stores important files as well as operates the 911 system for our community. They wanted me to take some jazzy pictures of technology and this is about all I could come up with.
This may look like a standard shot of what probably is a really good book, but today's Daily Bookshot is an important one. It's not so much the book that's the focus (although I did buy it to see how the 'flash fiction' of David Gaffney compares to that of Etgar Keret - more on that another time), but rather its publisher - Salt Publishing.
Like a lot of small independent publishers, Salt Publishing is in a bad way right now. So bad in fact that Salt Director Chris Hamilton-Emery has felt compelled to put out a plea to the reading community at large to help save them. I won't go into all of the ins and outs of that (you can go and read the plea for yourself), but the upshot is that Salt Publishing have launched the 'Just One Book' campaign, and participation couldn't be simpler.
All Salt want readers to do is to go and buy one of their titles, just one, and they don't care where exactly you buy it from (although secretly they'd probably prefer if you bought it from them direct). They hope that if enough people buy their books en masse at this time, then they may be able to pull themselves out of abyss they see themselves falling into, and I can see the logic in that thinking. That's why I did the right thing (for me) and picked up this copy of Sawn-off Tales by David Gaffney
Now that's all I'm going to say about it. It's not my business to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't buy, but I felt it important enough just to make you aware of it.
On a final note though, I do want to give credit to Rob over at The Fiction Desk, who first drew my attention to Salt's 'Just One Book' campaign. He's been a bit beaver-like getting the word out around the Twitterverse, and I salute him for his noble efforts. Rob's a great guy and I suggest if Twitter's your thing, then you go follow him.
We lack ant recycling services where I live (except for the aluminum cans, saved for the Payson Humane Society). I collect all my glass (cardboard box, tins and plastic (middle can) and make a trip as needed to Mesa, AZ, where the library has public recycle bins (110 miles away). This keeps a lot os stuff out of the trash.
A few weeks ago I saved this little girl's life.
I was on my way home from work (headed east-bound) driving on a newly built 4-lane highway. Right in the middle of the west-bound lanes sitting on one of those white-dotted lines was this little black furry thing.
I thought whatever it was, it was dead....until I passed her and saw the slightest movement. Immediately I thought "hit by a car, fatally wounded but still alive".
I drove on for a little bit debating whether I wanted to go see the damage or not and finally turned around, pulled over, ran out into the middle of the lane and picked her up.
It turned out to be this little kitten that you see here...no more than 4-6 weeks old at the time. Completely uninjured.......not so much as even a scratch.
I have NEVER seen a cat SO terrified in my life. Her eyes were HUGE with fright and I have absolutely no idea how she survived without getting run over. If she had moved an inch either way off that line, she would of been dead.....18-wheelers and other vehicles do NOT drive slow in the area where I found her and it was also on the down-side of a hill.
Anyway, I wanted everyone to meet this miraculously lucky kitten that most likely used up 8 of her 9 lives all in one day.
The load is carried by the cable which goes through a pulley at the top of the boom and connects to a 'drum' which rolls either clockwise or anti clockwise to lift or let it down.
Newtons 2nd law of rotational motion about a fixed axis.. =)
Photo shows University of Wollongong students L to R, Nick Roach and Leo Stevens with their new Life Saving Drone.
Beans, they are so easy to grow and so nice to eat. At the end of the growing you can save some seed for next year. You get all this then for nothing!
It is all a bit silly really as we have enough beans here to plant a field of them next year, but there is something about popping beans out of their pods that "once you pop you cannot stop" as the TV ad keeps telling me. T&J certainly enjoyed it all. We have here a mixture of runner beans and french beans. The smaller black ones are sweet peas, as you can see not all of them were fully ready as they are green and far from dried. These have gone into the airing cupboard for a while.
The beans are now in paper envelopes in a dry dark place in the garage, away from any mice and ready for next year.
After moving this baby robin from the grass, the lawn mowing service started working the lawn 15 minutes later!
Home energy saving kits are now available to borrow at all Dublin City Public Libraries.
The Home Energy Saving Kits have been developed by Dublin's energy agency Codema and contain six practical tools to help the public save energy at home. The items in the toolkits address three key areas of energy use in the home - space heating, hot water and electricity consumption - and can help identify common problems such as lack of insulation, poor ventilation and the appliances in the home that might be driving up electricity bills.
Collecting small fish and salamanders and any other small stream life to be transferred to new stream on October 21, 2009. This channel is eventually filled in.
"Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever."
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. April 15, 2019.
Attribution: Flickr user Alan Cleaver
Attribution source: www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/2638883650/
George, Evelyn and Brigid saving the Turf (aka Peat) at a bog in south Tipperary.
The turf is seldom hand-cut nowadays; cut by a small machine instead.
Thanks to the three of you for the enjoyable conversation! Thanks also to the nearby Cuckoo who kept calling, the first I heard for a few years, but George had been listening to three of them nearby earlier in the day, and one flew apast him!
(This image at it's best when viewed A3 size)
Saving Abel's Jared Weeks (R) and Blake Dixon (L) Pose with U. S. Air Force Captain Raymond Paterson as part of a eight-day USO tour to the Persian Gulf Feb. 22, 2010. This is the band's first USO tour. USO photo by Mike Clifton
Troops stationed in Qatar smile in excitement as one of their favorite rock band's, Saving Abel, performs a USO concert for them at Al Udeid Air Base on Feb. 22, 2010. Known for their radio-ready sound, memorable melodies and hard hitting tracks, the band will visit three countries in the span of eight and extend America's gratitude. USO photo by Mike Clifton
Rock band Saving Abel performed to a soldout crowd in the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 15, 2009. (Photo by Darren Whitely/Northwest Missouri State)