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Band: The Acacia Strain
Where: Ellen Melville Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
When: 06/12/08
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Band: The Acacia Strain
Where: Ellen Melville Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
When: 06/12/08
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Face Down Tuesday, October theme - Puns
So, I had this idea, was late leaving work and sunset in Sheringham this evening was at 18:20. This was taken at 19:06, almost completely dark, nothing to focus on and the only light was the dull glimmer of the strip I'm lying in which comes from the corner of the old lifeboat house. Opened up the aperture, cranked the ISO and EV, gave it a second of exposure, and although I hate posting a shot that's not in focus (I mean, really hate) I am quite startled how well my old D90 can see in near darkness and it was more about the idea of the pun I suppose. Was hoping to be here a lot earlier, but as the old saying goes, the best laid plans of mice and face-downers often go awry.
Thanks to Sam for letting me use her best colander.
Happy Face Down Tuesday everybody!
Thanks, don't mind if I do.
225g fresh, ripe cherries
600ml boiling water
1 lime
50g Sugar
Sparkling water, to dilute
Wash the cherries and remove all stalks. Chop each one in half and remove the stones. Put the fruit in a big bowl and bruise it slightly with the back of a metal spoon to get the juices flowing. Pour the hot water over the cherries and stir. Using a potato peeler remove a couple of chunky strips of peel from the lime and add it to the cherries, along with the juice of one quarter of the lime.
Add the sugar and stir until it is dissolved. Cover and leave for two hours. Strain. Add cold sparkling water to dilute to your own taste
Enjoy!
Southern 4501 (Baldwin 1911) during a photo runby near Centralia, Il. (770106)*
Ektachrome by Jim Strain (June 1977)
This animal lives at Old Hall Farm at Woodton in Norfolk.
Riggit Galloway cattle are a well documented archaic strain of Galloways, principally the White Galloways. They are easily identifiable by the white stripe, running down their spine. The term ‘riggit’ is a Scottish vernacular reference to this stripe, and seems to be Scandinavian in origin. The main body colour can be black, blue/black, red, brown or dun. The white colouration may include a widening of the stripe to cover much of the back, particularly on the hind quarters, white under the keel of the animal, and white flashes amongst the solid colour. Other breed points would largely correspond with more common Galloway types, including their being naturally polled, of medium frame, with beef confirmation, a thick ‘dual’ coat, and ability to thrive on poor pasture.
Crepuscular Rays (Angels Fingers) Taken near First Coast Gruinard Bay, North West Scotland. I think the Mountain centre is Cul Mor in Coigach 849mtrs.
The mountain to the right is probably Sail Mhòr near Dundonnell 767m.
A832 On the North Coast 500 Route
The dark strip of land left is Gruinard Island where during the second World War they spread Anthrax as an experiment. Though I believe it is reported to be cleaned up now! Not a place I'd be visiting.
This from Wikapedia.
In 1942, during the Second World War, a biological warfare test was carried out on Gruinard by British military scientists from the Biology Department of Porton Down. The British government was investigating the feasibility of a bioweapons attack using anthrax. It was recognised that tests would cause long-lasting contamination of the immediate area by anthrax spores, so a remote and uninhabited island was required. Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable, and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.Porton Down meteorologist Sir Oliver Graham Sutton was put in charge of a fifty-man team to conduct the trial, with David Henderson in charge of the germ bomb. Biology Department head Paul Fildes made frequent visits.
The anthrax strain chosen was a highly virulent type called "Vollum 14578", named after R. L. Vollum, Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Oxford, who supplied it. Eighty sheep were taken to the island and bombs filled with anthrax spores were exploded close to where selected groups were tethered. The sheep became infected with anthrax and began to die within days of exposure.
Some of the experiments were recorded on 16 mm colour movie film, which was declassified in 1997. One sequence shows the detonation of an anthrax bomb fixed at the end of a tall pole supported with guy ropes. After the bomb explodes, a brownish aerosol cloud drifts away towards the target animals. A later sequence shows anthrax-infected sheep carcasses being burned in incinerators at the end of the experiment.
After the tests were completed, scientists concluded that a large release of anthrax spores would thoroughly pollute German cities, rendering them uninhabitable for decades afterwards. Those conclusions were supported by the inability to decontaminate the island after the experiment—the spores were sufficiently durable to resist any efforts at decontamination.
In 1945, when the island's owner sought its return, the Ministry of Supply recognised that the island was contaminated, and so could not be de-requisitioned until it was deemed safe. In 1946, the government agreed to acquire the island and to take responsibility for it. The owner or her heirs would be able to repurchase the island for £500 when it was declared "fit for habitation by man and beast".
For many years, it was judged too hazardous and expensive to decontaminate the island sufficiently to allow public access, and Gruinard Island was quarantined indefinitely. Visits to the island were prohibited, except for periodic checks by Porton Down personnel to determine the level of contamination.
Operation Dark Harvest
In 1981 newspapers began receiving messages with the heading "Operation Dark Harvest" which demanded that the government decontaminate the island, and reported that a "team of microbiologists from two universities" had landed on the island with the aid of local people and collected 300 lb (140 kg) of soil.
The group threatened to leave samples of the soil "at appropriate points that will ensure the rapid loss of indifference of the government and the equally rapid education of the general public". The same day a sealed package of soil was left outside the military research facility at Porton Down; tests revealed that it contained anthrax bacilli. A few days later another sealed package of soil was left in Blackpool, where the ruling Conservative Party was holding its annual conference. The soil did not contain anthrax, but officials said that the soil was similar to that found on the island.
Decontamination
Starting in 1986 a determined effort was made to decontaminate the island: 280 tonnes of formaldehyde solution diluted in sea water was sprayed over all 196 hectares of the island and the worst-contaminated topsoil around the dispersal site was removed. A flock of sheep was then placed on the island and remained healthy.
On 24 April 1990, after 48 years of quarantine and four years after the solution was applied, junior defence minister Michael Neubert visited the island and announced its safety by removing the warning signs. On 1 May 1990, the island was repurchased by the heirs of the original owner for the original sale price of £500.
Unless you actually see a sighthound full tilt its hard to imagine just how fast and nimble they really are. Here's Mick on a mission !!
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Regards Clive
J. 67
by Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory
As he defeated – dying –
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
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* Created for the Our Daily Challenge topic:
PURPLE
Fourth visit to photograph this groyne which has been twisted by the sea. On the previous three occasions the tide has never been in the right place. As about 90% of my photos are taken whilst out on family walks I've never hung around to get what I wanted.
A pair of inbound PCCs pass Kuhlmans 11 & 12 @ Shaker Square in Shaker Heights, Oh. The Kuhlmans are there to tow a disabled crane back to the shop. (700107)*
Ektachrome by Jim Strain
Number 2 in the series folks. As you can see he is still straining to lift the fish up and his body is leaning to the left for more leverage, but again to no avail. Your heart goes out to him and you want to try to help but of course you cannot, and as he struggles you know that he will figure it out, and when he does the drama then continues.
Have a great day everyone, sorry for the long story, as my friend Larry would say Bill it is a little windy, thanks for stopping by.
I know this image looks redundant folks but it is a part of the story, but the look did change, but apologize anyway, the story get better.
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San Francisco - 2013
I have spent the better part of July and August straining my neck to look to the sky and capture the lines and shapes of the city. Its been very enlightening and I have learned a great deal. This is the first of my efforts that I am sharing, its of the Embarcadero center buildings in the heart of the financial district of San Francisco. I will probably share a few more of these structures as I seem to be drawn in by them. Typically I find them to be drab, almost war department like buildings, yet they are far more photogenic then they appear at first glance. Imposing in design, yet not really. Regardless they make a great study.