SCI Photo Competition (Repost)
EX_OWM
days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of this :)
One question we didn't settle was whether photos could be used from before
the date the comp was announced or whether only new ones could be submitted;
no one has given any opinions and whilst I'd prefer current ones, I'm easy
either way so post whatever you like as long as it's a photo you took
yourself (normal rules of decency applying <bg> )
Original Announcement & Instructions
============================
Believe it or not, it's almost 4 years since we had our last one
photo competition - Jan 2006 - and I think we are well overdue
another one to help shed the wintertime blues and give ourselves something
better than the sheer junk that is flooding SCI these days.
I thought it might be good to theme the competition as "Winter 2009-2010".
It will run much as the last time, people can upload photos into various
categories, we will vote by giving each photo a mark out of 10, there will
be a winner in each category and an overall winter. The main difference to
the last time is that we will run it over a longer period - some people
thought we cut it off too quickly the last time - so I'm proposing 1st March
as the closing date for uploading photos and allow about 6 weeks for voting
which will take us up to the week after Easter. I'm flexible on all that, if
people think something different would be better then they should post it
here.
The place for uploading the photos is the same as before -
http://public.fotki.com/scistuff/ - the login name is scistuff and the
password is sci123. That gives you admin access but if you want to change
something in the way the account is set up please don't just do it yourself,
ask here and if it seems reasonable or popular then I will do it. I've taken
the risk of leaving his open to everyone to login, I did it that way the
last time and there were no problems; if anyone does muck about with the
account, I will have to set up something more secure which will inevitably
be more cumbersome.
The photos from the last competition are still in there under January 2006
except for the Babies album which is in the Private section so that it can
only be viewed when logged in.
I have set up initial albums for categories Christmas, Snow, Landscapes,
Sunrise/Sunset, People, Animals/Birds/Fish, General and Babies.
These can be modified or added to if there is any demand but again I have to
emphasise that people should not modify albums themselves - please ask here
and I will do it in order to ensure things are done in a controlled way.
So get snapping and uploading, the main thing to remember is that although
it's called a competition, it's mainly meant as bit of SCI fun :)
F�achad�ir
<allthesp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>There are some very good Winter-themed pictures appearing these last few
>days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of this :)
For what it's worth., I've posted some images to the blog taken in
Gleann Cholm Cille on Christmas Day.
--
'Donegal: Up Here It's Different'
� F�achad�ir
kateh
> "EX_OWM" wrote:
>>There are some very good Winter-themed pictures appearing these last few
>>days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of this :)
Thanks for that. I've put up a couple of Dec '09 shots up.....and one from
last winter. :)
> For what it's worth., I've posted some images to the blog taken in
> Gleann Cholm Cille on Christmas Day.
> http://faduda.ie/?p=2008
Very nice, Ger. Looks like you all have had about as much snow as we have
had, this year. Hope the Irish have enjoyed it. I've been wondering when
they're going to retire the snow songs from Christmas here. Seems whenever
you mention snow, these days, all anyone does is moan and groan. I can't
see any of my friends actually "dreaming of a white Christmas" or any other
calendar day. Kinda sad that what once was an occasion for fun outdoors and
an excellent excuse to be guiltlessly-lazy indoors is now ......an
inconvenience, at best.
Kate(our snow is gone)H
Caít()
It's turning out (the snow and ice, and prolonged cold snap - there
ought to be a better expression than cold snap for the last 3 weeks,
and the next week at least which Met Eireann promises us - to be a
little more than an inconvenience. Ireland is totally unequipped to
deal with sub zero temps and their consequences. In my Pyreneean
youth, we used to change all our tires to snow tires in early Nov,
till March or so. Roads were systematically cleared with snowploughs
if required, or at least gritted/salted, because this was a regular
occurrence. Here, it's once every 20 years, so there is nothing short
of pandemonium, with most schools closed - i.e. have not returned from
xmas hols. This has become a national obsession, and gritting or the
lack of it, growing shortages of salt and grit, deadly slippy
pavements and the consequent multiplied admission in Dublin's already
overcrowded A&E's have taken up at least 3/4 of tonight's 9 pm tv
news.
It's -7 degree centigrade outside my door right now. We're doing ok-
ish in Kildare, we're lucky that we do not have slippy hills to
contend with, so commuting takes a lot more time, but can be done
reasonably safely at very slow speed. I love the snow, but at this
stage, I wish we could get back to more clement temps.
Caít()
Paul Carr
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>
> "Paul Carr" <paulca...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:29cb6bde-8182-41f7...@r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>> "Sophistry Made Simple" <din...@yourplace.com>
>> ??????:O0r1n.160$I8....@news.indigo.ie...
>>>
>>> "Howard" <Howar...@home.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1jbyr0a.1vohd3b1ek9fvwN%Howar...@home.com...
>>>> Paul Carr <paulca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Howard wrote:
>>>>> > Paul Carr wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> "Howard" <Howar...@home.com>
>>>>> >> ??????:1jbybun.1autxjk1hf7p5gN%Howar...@home.com...
>>>>> >>> Paul Carr <worldp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>>> It's caused by underfunding and the ridiculous timing of funding
>>>>> >>>>> when it
>>>>> >>>>> does arrive. Schools are given what they need to provide the
>>>>> >>>>> basics, all
>>>>> >>>>> the rest has to be raised by what is essentially begging.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> It's a discussion that Howard and EX_OWM do not have. It's a
>>>>> >>>> scandal.. Schools in poor parts of the country (some of those
>>>>> >>>> working class estates in
>>>>> >>>> Dublin perhaps?) will have more difficulty raising extra cash than
>>>>> >>>> schools
>>>>> >>>> in wealthier middle-class parts of the country (they probably
>>>>> >>>> wouldn't even
>>>>> >>>> need to fund-raise to raise any cash - they just go to the local
>>>>> >>>> big-wig or
>>>>> >>>> cash-cow).
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> This is nonsense and illogical. People on low income are very often
>>>>> >>> the most committed and the funds being raised are very small
>>>>> >>> compared with local resources. This is just another excuse for the
>>>>> >>> nanny state.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> What do you mean by local resources? You mean the government's
>>>>> >> contribution?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Since when is the Gov a local resource ?
>>>>> > Local resources means people and organisations in the local area.
>>>>>
>>>>> The local resources in a poor catchment area are going to be less than
>>>>> the local resources in a rich catchment area.
>>>>
>>>> There are no areas in this country that do not include some comfortably
>>>> well off people. What it usually comes down to is pure laziness on
>>>> behalf of the school and parents of the children or total lack of
>>>> imagination.
>>>
>>> Clever - give the children the schools that their parents deserve.
>>>
>>> That way the children of the good people get the good schools and the
>>> children of the bad people, well, who cares, eh? They get what they
>>> deserve, and then their children get it too, and so on and so on.
>>
>> Howard is what we call in Ireland "a Liberal".
>
> Oh I know what he is.
My point is he's not really a Liberal. He's actually a hard-right
conservative. But, in Ireland, he qualifies as a Liberal, in my
humble opinion.
Paul Carr
- 7?!!! Wow, that is VERY cold for Ireland.
kateh
> Seems whenever
> you mention snow, these days, all anyone does is moan and groan. I can't
> see any of my friends actually "dreaming of a white Christmas" or any
> other
> calendar day. Kinda sad that what once was an occasion for fun outdoors
> and
> an excellent excuse to be guiltlessly-lazy indoors is now ......an
> inconvenience, at best.
> Kate(our snow is gone)H
>It's turning out (the snow and ice, and prolonged cold snap - there
ought to be a better expression than cold snap for the last 3 weeks,
and the next week at least which Met Eireann promises us - to be a
little more than an inconvenience.
I did say....at best! :)
>Ireland is totally unequipped to
deal with sub zero temps and their consequences. In my Pyreneean
youth, we used to change all our tires to snow tires in early Nov,
till March or so.
We never change our all season radial tires, don't use studded snow tires
and we drive through snow and ice, off & on - from Nov till March. Might be
a thought next time you buy tires.
>Roads were systematically cleared with snowploughs
if required, or at least gritted/salted, because this was a regular
occurrence. Here, it's once every 20 years, so there is nothing short
of pandemonium, with most schools closed - i.e. have not returned from
xmas hols. This has become a national obsession, and gritting or the
lack of it, growing shortages of salt and grit, deadly slippy
pavements and the consequent multiplied admission in Dublin's already
overcrowded A&E's have taken up at least 3/4 of tonight's 9 pm tv
news.
I'm not surprised. Dublin got snow? Wow! Don't be angry, Cat(h). I was
making a general statement and haven't looked at your weather report or road
conditions update, lately. Like say, maybe not since summer 2007. :)
>It's -7 degree centigrade outside my door right now.
Hmmmn, that's 19F. Yep, that's damned cold....for where you are. Anything
around 20 is fine by me.....I hate it when it gets down around zero. I bet
Doc could beat both of us......somewhere in the mid west it hit -50F last
night (-45C). Be glad you're not a Florida farmer tonight. They're crying
in their orange juice down there......citrus crop is probably lost and so
are the strawberries.
A friend just sent me a "winter poem" it went like this :
WINTER
Shit it's cold!
(the end)
>We're doing ok-
ish in Kildare, we're lucky that we do not have slippy hills to
contend with, so commuting takes a lot more time, but can be done
reasonably safely at very slow speed. I love the snow, but at this
stage, I wish we could get back to more clement temps.
Glad to hear you're coping. Shop when the roads are clear, between storms.
Always leave a shovel and a blanket in the car. Go slow, plan on taking
twice as long to get anywhere.......stay well away from Dublin's craziness.
Call in sick if you have to! Everyone needs a mental health day, now and
then!
And stay safe! It could all be gone soon and who knows if /when it'll snow
there again!
Kate(go outside and play!)H :)
EX_OWM
> "F�achad�ir" wrote ...
>> "EX_OWM" wrote:
>>> There are some very good Winter-themed pictures appearing these
>>> last few days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of
>>> this :)
>
> Thanks for that. I've put up a couple of Dec '09 shots up.....and
> one from last winter. :)
WOW, we're up and running, thanks Kate.
P.S. Can you add your moniker to them?
Caít()
> "Caít()" wrote ...
Sorry if I came across as angry, I'm not! Was just rushing to type up
my post. Sorry if I came across a bit too abruptly...
>
> >It's -7 degree centigrade outside my door right now.
And it was -12 when I took off this morning around 8.30 am.
>
> Hmmmn, that's 19F. Yep, that's damned cold....for where you are. Anything
> around 20 is fine by me.....I hate it when it gets down around zero. I bet
> Doc could beat both of us......somewhere in the mid west it hit -50F last
> night (-45C). Be glad you're not a Florida farmer tonight. They're crying
> in their orange juice down there......citrus crop is probably lost and so
> are the strawberries.
Indeed. Spud and veg farmers are up the creek here too, and with the
length of this cold stretch, some of the livestock guys will be in
trouble soon too.
>
> A friend just sent me a "winter poem" it went like this :
> WINTER
> Shit it's cold!
> (the end)
>
:-)
> >We're doing ok-
>
> ish in Kildare, we're lucky that we do not have slippy hills to
> contend with, so commuting takes a lot more time, but can be done
> reasonably safely at very slow speed. I love the snow, but at this
> stage, I wish we could get back to more clement temps.
>
> Glad to hear you're coping. Shop when the roads are clear, between storms.
> Always leave a shovel and a blanket in the car. Go slow, plan on taking
> twice as long to get anywhere.......stay well away from Dublin's craziness.
> Call in sick if you have to! Everyone needs a mental health day, now and
> then!
> And stay safe! It could all be gone soon and who knows if /when it'll snow
> there again!
> Kate(go outside and play!)H :)
Oh, we've no complaints. Mostly the last few days, the sun is
splitting the rocks between a few snow showers, great opportunities
for cool photos, etc. So far, we have been relatively able to commute
to work without too much bother, and on the one day we couldn't I
worked from home. Plan for the week end is to stock up on food and
fuel for open fire, and batten down the hatches, as forecast for
Sunday is for quite a bit more snow and lots more frost.
Caít()
kateh
"kateh" wrote:
*Sorry if I came across as angry, I'm not! Was just rushing to type up
my post. Sorry if I came across a bit too abruptly...
No worries, wouldn't blame you if you were. It's folks from places like
Kildare and Dublin (and Atlanta) that have every reason to complain.
Unsanded roads and the wrong tires are a scary and dangerous combo! I've
been watching the weather like a hawk today.....there's a big storm coming
in tonight w/sleet&freezing rain.....and a bluegrass jam in the next town
over. We'll go, but I'm relieved to see that the worst of it is coming in
tomorrow morning-ish......when I'll be safely off the road. :)
Mostly we're watching the creeks on either side of town...both are high and
look like choc milk.
(snip)
> >It's -7 degree centigrade outside my door right now.
*And it was -12 when I took off this morning around 8.30 am.
I really do hate it when it gets that cold. It's cold here today, and
sort've damp/raw.... but not *that* cold. Before the ice and snow come
tonight, I've got work to do outside.
> Hmmmn, that's 19F. Yep, that's damned cold....for where you are. Anything
> around 20 is fine by me.....I hate it when it gets down around zero. I bet
> Doc could beat both of us......somewhere in the mid west it hit -50F last
> night (-45C). Be glad you're not a Florida farmer tonight. They're crying
> in their orange juice down there......citrus crop is probably lost and so
> are the strawberries.
* Indeed. Spud and veg farmers are up the creek here too, and with the
length of this cold stretch, some of the livestock guys will be in
trouble soon too.
It's a nerve wracking time for farmers, that's for sure.
(snip)
(snip)
*Oh, we've no complaints. Mostly the last few days, the sun is
splitting the rocks between a few snow showers, great opportunities
for cool photos, etc. So far, we have been relatively able to commute
to work without too much bother, and on the one day we couldn't I
worked from home. Plan for the week end is to stock up on food and
fuel for open fire, and batten down the hatches, as forecast for
Sunday is for quite a bit more snow and lots more frost.
Ca�t()
Well stay safe! I'd better get those lights down or I'll have the last
place in town that's still lit up like Christmas.
I call it winter-light-therapy, but it makes the Fish Dr crazy.......
KateH :)
kateh
> kateh wrote:
>> Thanks for that. I've put up a couple of Dec '09 shots up.....and
>> one from last winter. :)
>
> WOW, we're up and running, thanks Kate.
> P.S. Can you add your moniker to them?
Sure......sorry 'bout that!
KateH
DeclanWorld
news:7qh5h9...@mid.individual.net...
> There are some very good Winter-themed pictures appearing these last few
> days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of this :)
I've uploaded a few.
Declan
EX_OWM
Maith An Fear
Where did you take that shot of the Swilly?
DeclanWorld
> Where did you take that shot of the Swilly?
On the road up to Swan Park, Buncrana.
Declan
DeclanWorld
> DeclanWorld wrote:
> Where did you take that shot of the Swilly?
On the road up to Swan Park, Buncrana.
Declan
Caít()
> There are some very good Winter-themed pictures appearing these last few
> days, I thought it would do no harm to remind people of this :)
>
> One question we didn't settle was whether photos could be used from before
> the date the comp was announced or whether only new ones could be submitted;
> no one has given any opinions and whilst I'd prefer current ones, I'm easy
> either way so post whatever you like as long as it's a photo you took
> yourself (normal rules of decency applying <bg> )
>
> Original Announcement & Instructions
> ============================
> Believe it or not, it's almost 4 years since we had our last one
> photo competition - Jan 2006 - and I think we are well overdue
> another one to help shed the wintertime blues and give ourselves something
> better than the sheer junk that is flooding SCI these days.
>
> I thought it might be good to theme the competition as "Winter 2009-2010".
> It will run much as the last time, people can upload photos into various
> categories, we will vote by giving each photo a mark out of 10, there will
> be a winner in each category and an overall winter. The main difference to
> the last time is that we will run it over a longer period - some people
> thought we cut it off too quickly the last time - so I'm proposing 1st March
> as the closing date for uploading photos and allow about 6 weeks for voting
> which will take us up to the week after Easter. I'm flexible on all that, if
> people think something different would be better then they should post it
> here.
>
> password is sci123. That gives you admin access but if you want to change
> something in the way the account is set up please don't just do it yourself,
> ask here and if it seems reasonable or popular then I will do it. I've taken
> the risk of leaving his open to everyone to login, I did it that way the
> last time and there were no problems; if anyone does muck about with the
> account, I will have to set up something more secure which will inevitably
> be more cumbersome.
>
> The photos from the last competition are still in there under January 2006
> except for the Babies album which is in the Private section so that it can
> only be viewed when logged in.
>
> I have set up initial albums for categories Christmas, Snow, Landscapes,
> Sunrise/Sunset, People, Animals/Birds/Fish, General and Babies.
>
> These can be modified or added to if there is any demand but again I have to
> emphasise that people should not modify albums themselves - please ask here
> and I will do it in order to ensure things are done in a controlled way.
>
> So get snapping and uploading, the main thing to remember is that although
> it's called a competition, it's mainly meant as bit of SCI fun :)
A few more photos uploaded - by Declan, Kate H and yours truly.
Keep them coming!
Caít()
kateh
"EX_OWM" wrote:
> The place for uploading the photos is the same as
> before -http://public.fotki.com/scistuff/- the login name is scistuff and
> the
> password is sci123. That gives you admin access but if you want to change
> something in the way the account is set up please don't just do it
> yourself,
> ask here and if it seems reasonable or popular then I will do it. I've
> taken
> the risk of leaving his open to everyone to login, I did it that way the
> last time and there were no problems; if anyone does muck about with the
> account, I will have to set up something more secure which will inevitably
> be more cumbersome.
>
>A few more photos uploaded - by Declan, Kate H and yours truly.
Keep them coming!
Ca�t()
Very nice! :) Loved the snowy street pic,Cait ...and Declan the shovel
picture is very dear! :)
I'm feelin' all warm & fuzzy 'cause the kids chose to use my "burn day"
photo.... in their new CD. :)
KateH