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January 22, 2017 - Bottlenose Dolphins Selection – Taiji, Japan
Day Three; the nightmare hasn’t ended.
The day started early again as the first of the skiffs arrived at 06:51am, followed by the others, full of trainers, by 07:00am. The boats drove straight through the pod; a scene that would foreshadow the rest of the day.
By 07:35, during the first of the group selections, a young dolphin thrashed itself so hard against the side of the skiff that it bled. 3 days without food, left in the freezing cold and shallow water, these dolphins were frightened and exhausted.
We noted the first 2 skiffs leaving with 2 dolphins each at 09:21am. They were slung up onto the sides of the boats and dragged through their family, away to their morbid new “home,” alone, hungry and scared. The skiffs continued to plough straight over the families as they were frantically thrashing.
At 11:19am, 3 very small baby dolphins were put into slings and dragged past their frantic mothers, taking the abduction count up to 41 over the past 2 days of selection. There was horrific sights of trainers separating a mother and baby as the mother dove head-first toward the skiff in order to be by her child. The laughing and talking from the trainers rang out through the cove as we watched a complete decimation of a family unravel before our eyes. We were watching a mother’s worst nightmare. We were watching a helpless being have her only friend and companion torn from her.
The hunters took a moment for lunch before resuming, stealing another 6 small bodies for slave labour at around 1pm. At 1:46pm, the last of the babies were stolen for the day, taking the total count up to 53; that was 30 yesterday and another 23 today.
The process of assessing, marking, terrorising and torturing continued until we noticed the tarps start to be withdrawn at around 2:30pm
Another 7 gruelling, nightmarish hours saw the end to the third day. Unfortunately, we are sad to announce that the process isn’t over. The - once - super pod of 200 dolphins will spend yet another night netted into the cove, awaiting scrutiny and invasion of their sacred bodies and that of their children’s, before either being rejected as “not beautiful enough,” or abducted for their profitability potential.
This is all done in the name of marine park revenue. Aquariums, zoos and marine parks alike who keep once wild animals, all play a part in the horrific, six-monthly dolphin hunt that occurs here in Taiji. The captive industry is responsible for the heartache of mothers having their babies dragged away in front of their own eyes. The captive industry is responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths of innocent animals. The captive industry is responsible for the decimation of the ocean’s diverse and rich ecology. Say no to marine park tickets. Animals behind glass didn’t wilfully give up their free lives.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
Climate-KIC start-ups Cohere, ViriCiti and Crystal Shower have picked up prizes at a pitching event in San Francisco on 9 September 2014.
The event saw some of Europe’s brightest cleantech entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a judging panel of local innovation experts at an evening hosted by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco’s financial district.
Judges Shana Rappaport, Doug Davenport and Lafe Vittitoe – representing the VERGE Greenbiz Group, Prospect Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley Bank respectively – awarded prizes to smart vehicle charging start-up Cohere, and to ViriCiti, which has developed an optimisation system for electric city buses.
Start-up Cystal Shower wooed the crowd on the 31st floor of One Montgomery Tower and picked up the Audience Award with a pitch about its self-recycling shower – which drastically cuts costs while delivering three times more water than a traditional shower.
The start-ups that participated in the event are touring the USA until 18 September as part of Climate-KIC’s US Start-up Tour 2014 and have all developed and commercialised technologies that help consumers, businesses and governments mitigate and adapt to the consequences of climate change.
www.climate-kic.org/news/3-climate-kic-start-ups-win-priz...
The first running of the Sligo Marathon and Half Marathon 2012 took place on Saturday September 15th 2012 at 09:00 and 09:45 respectively. The Start/Finish arena, race check-in area, and other facilities were hosted in the Sligo Institute of Technology, Knocknarea Sports Arena. The organisers of the race purposely kept the field size in this race to a minimum as they wanted to estimate the size of the task of organising a marathon in the city. All told the race was well organised and a very good showing for a first attempt at organising a marathon. The race routes were around Lough Gill, with views of the Lake Isle of Innisfree, for the Full Marathon. The Half Marathon follows the Full Marathon until Parkes Castle, then heads up "Hill of the Squirrel" and loops back to the grounds of Sligo IT. All in all the routes were challenging with some steep hills in the full marathon and 'The Squirrel' in the Half. We have got a very nice set of photographs of the event here on this Flickr set.
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Some useful links
Sligo Marathon Homepage warriorofthesea.wix.com/sligocitymarathon#!home/mainPage
Discussion thread about the race on Boards.ie www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056593921
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Starting out for our 2 hour trek along the shore of Loch Morar to the bunkhouse at Tarbet Loch Nevis for my nephew's stag celebration. 14 Young men, and two old, used to the outdoors, sailing and trekking in Scotland, carrying the essentials for a party including two guitars.
Sometimes you misunderstand instructions. I could have sworn the challenge was to "Take a photo of yourself with a handwritten note reading, 'Start'..."
I was wrong.
Nachdem der Reiher einen Frosch verspeist hatte flog er weiter.
After the heron a frog had fed flew on it.
I went to the Fujimi-kogen skiing area in Nagano prefecture last week. This skiing area changes to the lily field in the summer and they give us the early morning photo sessions in this season and I participated the session. It started from 5:45am...
先週長野県富士見高原スキー場に行って来ました。夏は一面ゆり畑になり、この時期ゆりの早朝撮影会が行われます。朝５：４５集合で〜す。
Cold and windy that day; we decided to revisit Padre Canyon both as a known winner of a hike and a good place to hide from the wind. We put on extra layers knowing we'd only be taking them off as soon as we got going, that didn't happen. As soon as we crossed the saddle and started down the north side we were back in the wind, before we got back to the car we'd even been snowed on. Not what one would expect in Southern Utah and it was almost Spring!
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Spring Break 2019: St George / Las Vegas
March 13: Return to Padre Canyon
IN-10M-34' ORCA Dept of Public Safety
Ocean Reef started looking for a unique multi mission Patrol/SAR/Fire boat that could serve the community in many ways and for many years. They were aware of our successful fireboat line the Firestorm but didn't know that like Firestorm we had again broken the mold for high performance patrol boats and had the engineering to put them all into one boat. Let us know about your specific needs and we will design around them.
Sophie started coming to Karate with me in March this year. Her passion for it was evident from the start and we have been going three times a week. On Saturday June 26th the Orkney Karate club held it's annual competition. Sophie has yet to take her first grading but wanted to enter the competition and did so even though she was the only ungraded student. Sophie went through many rounds in both the kata and kumite events for the under 16 years 10th-7th Kyu category. I can say that among the proudest moments of my life was watching my 8 year old Sophie win 1st place in the kumite event and take 2nd place in the kata event. This is not the best quality picture but one that fills me with pride. Also in the picture is Sensei Drew Kennedy (3rd Dan black belt) who was one of the judges on the day and an inspirational teacher.
The day started early with de-icing and progressed with a runway closure, a flight check aircraft, helicopter training flights and military aircraft.... on top of a very low staffing day. One of the longest days I can remember in the recent past. Get to do it all over again in the morning! Woo Hoo! That third beer is going taste good tomorrow afternoon... since I won't even taste the first two :-D
Roanoke,Va December 2012
Ok folks due to the spinning and firstly moving towards me some shots are a out of focus and given most would love to see if not have them here they are..
June 28th 2022
"Glen Coats Pals of the Privies Start of Summer Funfair 2022"
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Quite a poor selfie effort but it was all a bit tense at the front 😂. I decided I wanted to go for a PB time so needed to get through the start line early on. There were a lot of ‘proper’ runners and a lot of jostling. I love the blue skies and the skyline in the background. Perfect running weather. My strategy paid off and I was happy with my time 🏃♀️🙌
Beginnings
Fellow Flickr friend Trev and I have decided to challenge each other with a weekly theme to shoot and post.
Yes a very trite image...I hope I get into a good groove before too long :)
Chicago Bulls vs. Dallas MavericksPreseason at the United Center
Chicago Bulls play Dallas Mavericks, lost in OT but played a great game.
This image was also taken in the fairground in vienna, called "Prater". They get up with the space shot with 95 km/h to the tune of 62 meters. Look, they enjoy it. This is an attempt of blurring the movement. Date of recording 22|08|07.
Recorded with a Nikon D50, Sigma 18-200/3,5-6,3 DC.