#Calder Valley

[liverpoollomo]

Hebden Bridge. Nikon F65. Rollei RPX 25.

Back in October I took a drive over the Pennines and into West Yorkshire with the sole intention of visiting Hebden Bridge. I was not disappointed.

It is an absolutely beautiful town and I was glad my Nikon was loaded with black and white film as that seemed to suit the surroundings. I was also glad for some bright weather as the roll in question was Rollei RPX 25.

#liverpool #liverpoollomo #lomo #lomography #analogue photography #nikon f65 #nikon slr #film slr #rollei rpx 25 #25 iso #slow film #black and white film #35mm flim #hebden bridge #west yorkshire #calder valley #calderdale #north of england #film is not dead #don't think just shoot

[andyqby19]

The Piece Hall, Halifax

This is a piece written by the BBC about the Piece Hall, Halifax, a beautiful and amazing place that’s right on my doorstep and somewhere I’ve been many times. Piece Hall: Is this hidden architectural gem UK’s best gig venue? Published10 hours ago Share Image caption,James frontman Tim Booth said playing the Piece Hall in Halifax was like performing in an Italian piazza By Rebecca Woods BBC…

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#amazing #beauty #Calder Valley #Calderdale #Halifax #Piece Hall #West Yorkshire

[aquitainequeen]

In an effort to combat flooding, a Yorkshire woman realized that thousands of wasted Christmas trees every year could be used as natural flood protection, and started a unique business to do just that.

The Rooted Christmas tree rental delivers a potted Christmas fir, pine, or spruce to a family for the festive season. When the lights are taken down, the company then collects their rentals and replants them to enjoy another growing season.

When the trees get too tall, they are placed on the slopes of the nearby Calder Valley as natural floodwater breaks.

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#rooted christmas #trees #conservation #calder valley #genius

[senorboombastic]

This One Song… The Short Causeway on Tripping Down The Stairs

This One Song… The Short Causeway on Tripping Down The Stairs

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

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#A Certain Ratio #Birthday cake for breakfast #Calder Valley #Claudie Nicholson #Hebden Bridge #Jez Kerr #The Lounge Society #The Short Causeway #The Trades Club #Tripping Down The Stairs

[gaydraisaitl]

CONGRATS TO THE COACHELLA VALLEY FIREBIRDS ON YOUR INAUGURAL SEASON WIN OF THE CALDER CUP!

#ahl #calder cup #calder cup playoffs #coachella valley firebirds #seattle kraken

[thatskrakenhockeybaby]

Firebirds WIN! 4-0 (all coming in the 2nd period), 2nd straight shutout for Joey Daccs who also recorded an assist. 2 wins away from a championship in their first season. Great stuff!

#nhl #seattle #seattle kraken #hockey #seattle sports #that’s kraken hockey baby #nhl western conference #stanley cup playoffs #nhl stats #hockey goalies #joey daccord #AHL #coachella valley firebirds #firebirds #calder cup playoffs

[squidsquadlove]

who's going to game 6 and 7 (if necessary) of the Calder Cup Finals? THIS SQUID!!!!

#palm springs here I come!! #calder cup finals 2023 #coachella valley firebirds #are you going?? dm me if you're going!!

[chirpingpigeons]

#AHL #calder cup #hershey bears #coachella valley firebirds #hockey #Youtube

[hepdenerose]

Wood Top Heritage

A patchily sunny mid-February Sunday, we walked through the park beginning to bloom with almonds and cherries, up to Wood Top, in search of new lambs. On the ascent, recent research enabled us to place the long-gone Victoria Mill and the station warehouse and further up, to speculate on the origin of the farmhouse. Date stamped 1657, tall arched doors either side signified it started out as a…

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#Airbnb #almond blossom #arch #archaeology #barn #Blackpit Lock #blossom #Brexit #Calder Bank #Calder Holmes Park #Calder Valley #Calderdale #canal #canal overflow #celandine #cherry #chickens #civic hall #Crown Inn #daffodils #dilapidation #dogs #dye works #Edwards Mill #England #ewes #gates #Hebden Bridge #heritage #history

[andyqby19]

The diary of an inconsequential person – 37

Thursday, 27 July 2023 I suppose today was a day I should have stayed at home, rested, and done some uni work. I didn’t though. I knew today would be my last chance to get a recce in of the Crow Hill Reverse fell race, tomorrow I need to go to the club and catch up with friends and at the weekend I don’t really go anywhere so it was today or never. I parked halfway up the route on Heights Road…

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#Calder Valley #daily life #fell runner #fell runng #life experiences #resting

[mysticmikalla]

Stardew Valley Last Name Headcanons

Bachelors

Sebastian Hara - listen I think he’s half Japanese on his dad’s side and kept his dad’s last name (for convince reasons)

Sam Calder bc I think it suits Jodi, Vincent and Kent as well

Shane Miller?????? I have no idea nothing suits him dude

Elliot Calloway has a certain musicality to it that just works for me

Alex Fletcher because I knew an Alex in middle school with that last name

Harvey Prescott cause Dr Prescott sounds so fine dude

Bachelorettes

Haley+Emily Evans???? Williams?? Maybe Williams because I feel like Haley would’ve hated the Paramore references in high school lol

Abigail Hayes? just works for me

Maru Davis - Demetrius and Robin also share this last name

Penny Walsh because ? it suits Pam as well ?

Leah Fitzpatrick cause you can’t tell me she doesn’t have some Irish in her

#stardew valley #stardew valley headcanons #sdv headcanons #sdv sebastian #sdv sam #sdv shane #sdv elliot #sdv alex #sdv harvey #sdv haley #sdv emily #sdv abby

[stereax]

is there a reason why Carolina is losing all their affiliates???

Other than being assholes to Erik Haula?

Okay, but in all seriousness, there's a short answer and a long one.

The short answer is two words long: Pyotr Kochetkov.

The long answer? Meet me under the cut.

Alright, hi there. So to answer this question fully, we need to talk about the AHL in depth. The AHL, or American Hockey League, is the second-highest league of North American pro hockey, under the NHL. Most people tend to believe it's just "where prospects play before they hit the NHL". This is... only a part of the story.

There are 32 teams in the AHL to match 32 NHL teams. The idea there is that every NHL team would have an AHL affiliate - the most recent expansion, for example, the Coachella Valley Firebirds, is the AHL affiliate for the newest NHL team, the Seattle Kraken. Many of these teams are owned by the same group as owns the NHL team - Harris Blitzer, for example, owns both the New Jersey Devils and the Utica Comets. Others don't - the AHL's Charlotte Checkers, for instance, are owned by Michael Kahn, whereas their NHL affiliate, the Florida Panthers, is owned by Sunrise Sports (aka Vincent Viola).

Why is this important? Well, if you're an NHL team that owns your AHL team, you can let that AHL team leak money. You're turning a good profit on the NHL team, so you don't have to make your AHL team economically viable on its own - you just put it in as a massive tax write-off and go on with your day. Thus, you can put all of your AHL team's resources into developing your AHL players to get ready to play at the NHL level. Of course you sign some vets and such of your own, maybe get a few undrafted guys for the AHL team too, but generally, an NHL-owned AHL team's sole purpose is to develop NHL players. Winning the Calder Cup (the AHL equivalent to the Stanley Cup, not to be confused with the Calder Memorial Trophy given to the best NHL rookie) is just gravy on top.

Contrast this to independently-owned AHL teams, where this is not the case. For these teams, making money is paramount. How do you make money? When you win. Fun fact - the Chicago Wolves, incidentally, used to be televised on main channels partially as a fuck you to Bill Wirtz, who didn't let the Chicago Blackhawks' home games be televised, presumably to drive ticket sales. The Wolves saw that and pounced on the opportunity to make some cash. So if nothing else, love them for sticking it to the Hawks. You can still watch Wolves games on My50, it seems, if you've got that channel, as well as AHL streaming options.

But back to independently-owned AHL teams before I go on my daily anti-Hawks crusade. You want to make money. You do that when you win. When you make the postseason. When you win in the postseason. Independently-owned AHL teams want to win, not necessarily develop for the NHL. So when your NHL team keeps taking your best player away for weeks and then giving him back... you get annoyed.

Let's now talk about the ECHL and the Norfolk Admirals. Thankfully, this is going to be a lot simpler. The ECHL, unlike the AHL, has only 28 teams. This means 4 NHL teams don't have an ECHL team. In addition, very few, if any, ECHL teams are owned by their NHL affiliates. This further incentivizes them to play for profit (winning the Kelly Cup, the ECHL version of the Stanley Cup) instead of development. On top of this, relatively few ECHL players actually make it to the NHL. ECHL affiliates change fairly frequently, especially due to many of the teams folding because of financial issues (most recently the Brampton Beast, Manchester Monarchs, and Quad City Mallards). So if an ECHL team decides to drop its NHL affiliate, or vice versa, there are four other suitors, all of whom would probably want to pay the ECHL team decent money to be their associate. For the Admirals, it's easy - they see the Canes lose their AHL affiliate and decide they'd rather take the Jets' offer instead, whether it be for the money (Carolina's supposedly notoriously stingy) or for the security. It's just really fucking funny that it happens at the same time Carolina loses their AHL team. Get fucked lol.

Now let's play Chicago Wolves Simulator. You are Don Levin and Buddy Meyers, the Wolves' owners. Your goal is to win the Calder Cup or at least come pretty damn close so you can pay the bills. You have a good team - hell, you won the Calder last year! - but your best asset is this star goaltender named Pyotr Kochetkov. When Koochie's in net, you usually win because he bails out your team. When he isn't there to help you win, you kind of don't. Now, Carolina's going through its own issues in net, so they keep calling Koochie up and down. And, as previously mentioned, you kind of suck without Koochie. To be fair, you're not all that great with him, but you suck without him. And you have no control over when he goes up to Carolina, even just to sit on the bench.

You miss the playoffs by one point. One. And your three-year contract with the Canes is up. What do you do?

Waddell Young, GM of the Wolves, says their philosophy and the Canes' fundamentally differed. The Wolves develop and win. Winning develops, to them. The Canes wanted the Wolves to focus solely on development. Not winning. So, when their deal with the Canes was up, the Wolves said "no thanks, we're not going to continue this, we're going independent". This decision makes them the first non-NHL affiliated team in almost 30 years. Now, this isn't to say all independently-owned AHL teams are doomed to fail in partnerships because of divergent philosophies. Look at the Hershey Bears and the Washington Capitals for a prime example of that - the Bears are one of the best teams in the AHL and have won four Calder Cups with the Caps as their affiliates since their affiliation began in 2005. But the Wolves were quite unhappy with the Canes, and so the two split. Also notable is that the Canes have also poisoned the waters with who should be their local AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, to the point where the Checkers affiliated with the Panthers instead. So... there's that.

So what can the Canes now do with non-roster players? They can affiliate with another AHL team (co-affiliation); one instance of this was when the Seattle Kraken affiliated with the Charlotte Checkers in 21-22 because the Coachella Valley Firebirds weren't yet ready. Supposedly the plan is to get an affiliate for 24-25. But what do they do this year? Especially if they can't find an affiliate to share, which seems more and more likely as the summer drags on? Well, you can't sign players to two-way deals with the Wolves anymore, so you can't really keep veterans around in the AHL to call up if needed. So you... sign nine defensemen to NHL contracts and carry them on the roster at all times. Yep. Don Waddell, Canes GM, has basically stated outright that his roster is probably going to have to carry 22 or 23 players at all times to be sure to have replacements in case of injury. And your prospects? They either go to Europe, where they're basically inaccessible for the whole year, or you loan them to other AHL clubs. Waddell has said plans are in place with several teams to send 2 or 3 players each to several different AHL clubs. For your youngest, they go back to major junior in the CHL and related leagues. Same for your veterans - if you want to keep them, you'll have to sign them one-way (I believe) and then loan them down to scattered AHL teams across the league. Prospects who you could have signed to play in the AHL and develop? You're probably going to have to let them go to free agency (see: Kevin Wall, leading player for Penn State and Carolina draft pick, who just inked a deal with the Milwaukee Admirals, AHL affiliate of the Nashville Predators). And then you can send your worse prospects to your ECHL tea- wait. Oops. They just lost that too. Can't do that either. Well, shit.

And remember, one of the Canes' biggest assets is their system of play (with strong defense) that they execute well. The Wolves needed to teach their players the Canes' system and prepare them so the jump from AHL to NHL wouldn't be that tough. The Canes put their coaches on the Wolves for that purpose (the Wolves have since cleaned house and instated their own). Loaning your players to another AHL team? Why would that team be incentivized to teach your player(s) the system? So now even when you're calling up someone to play for the Canes, you have no idea how well they know the system and no idea how well they can play in it.

This now begs the other question - how will the Wolves fill their roster? Well, they've got options. Generally, an AHL team takes the prospects of its NHL affiliate and then fills the rest of the roster with AHL veteran free agents that the AHL team signs to AHL-only deals. But without an NHL team, it's a smidge more complicated, or perhaps easier. Firstly, other NHL teams can loan their prospects to the Wolves instead of their own AHL teams if they consider the Wolves better at developing them, for instance. The Wolves can now also sign whatever free agent players they find roaming around that could be a good fit for their team - undrafted college players, good ECHL players that can't seem to get called up enough, AHL veterans, players on European teams (especially Russians who might want the chance to get the fuck out of Russia) and so on. These free agent players could see the Wolves as a stable AHL team that can pay solid money (the AHL doesn't have a cap) with a strong chance at contending for the Calder as well as a possible stepping stone to an NHL contract. The Wolves also don't have to worry about these free agents taking ice time away from the Canes' prospects, who would need to be prioritized under an affiliation, which would also be a strong incentive for AHL free agent veterans to sign with them - they'd be able to get a truly fair chance, unlike under an affiliate system where prospects are the priority and free agents are generally playing fewer (and worse) minutes.

And remember - Chicago just drafted Bedard. The city's getting back into hockey and Hawks tickets are expensive. Want to watch some quality hockey on the cheap? Why not come to Wolves games! They're only 18 miles away from the Hawks, too!

TL;DR stan the Wolves for rejecting the system. Canes Suck.

#stereanswers #stereanalysis #stereducation #carolina hurricanes #chicago wolves #norfolk admirals #ahl #echl

[thatskrakenhockeybaby]

ICYMI - The Coachella Valley Firebirds forced a Game 7, at home, last night, beating the Hersey Bears 5-2 in Game 6 of the Calder Cup (AHL) finals. Wednesday will decide if the Bird Boys capture a championship in their first season - or if Hersey takes their 12 title

#nhl #seattle #seattle kraken #hockey #seattle sports #that’s kraken hockey baby #nhl western conference #stanley cup playoffs #nhl stats #hockey goalies #kole lind #AHL #calder cup playoffs #coachella valley firebirds #firebirds #joey daccord #hershey bears #playoff hockey #game 7

[kookaburra1701]

1, 5, and 18 for Calder :3

From the asks here! Calder the housecarl will be answering for himself. :)

1. Which areas of Skyrim do they find most beautiful and most dangerous?

"Most beautiful is easy--the Aalto! The mineral springs come in every shade of green and blue, and there are very few farms so the wildflowers never get plowed under. Not that people haven't tried to grow crops there, but other than jazbay grapes, nothing else takes hold. It's easy to see why the valley is where Kyne's sacred forest is: the caves that shelter the Eldergleam tree are there, and game is everywhere.

"Now that I'm a housecarl with the court of Windhelm, I'm permitted to take game from Kyne's forest. My favorite pastime is hunting in the morning, and having a soak in the hot springs afterwards before heading home.

"Most dangerous...there's a lot to choose from in a place like Skyrim! I was going to say the 7000 steps, because so much of the time you're climbing with a sheer cliff on one side and an ice wall on the other, and one wrong step could send you over the edge! Then there's the caves and tombs, and ruins...those are filled with all sorts of nasty traps and other things that will have you dead before you hit the ground if you don't keep your wits about you. "But I suppose the place I'm most on edge...is the College of Winterhold. Thane Khemor would hate to hear me say it, but the place is awful. There are students flinging spells at each other--I almost caught a fireball to the face once when I was coming around a corner--the bridge is only passable if you've got a way to melt the ice and ward away the wind, so if you're not a mage you'd better hope you can convince one to let you ride their robes across."

5. Would they be able to live off the land if they were lost in the wilds of Skyrim? How skilled are they at foraging and hunting?

"I suppose I could keep from dying, depending on where and what time of year it was. I know the game and wild forage decently well in Eastmarch, where I grew up. In the Stormcloaks I learned a lot about reckoning my location, how to set up a camp so that it is well hidden, that sort of thing. But I always had my fellow soldiers around to share duties. I suppose Falkreath or Riften in the Summer would be easiest to live in the wilds, but if I was stranded alone in the ice fields between Winterhold and Dawnstar I'd be a meal for a frost troll before too long.

18. What is their stance on taking a life? Do they kill without a second thought, in the name of a god or daedra, or do they adhere to pacifism?

"To tell the truth, it depends...the first time I killed a man it was in a skirmish with an Imperial patrol. If I'd had anything in my stomach I would have been sick. But he was about to stick a spear in me, and all those hours of drilling with the commander came in useful. I didn't even think about it until later when I realized I needed to clean the brains and hair off my axe. But I don't think I could ever be a headsman, or anything like that. Just...killing someone helpless and begging for their lives, even if they deserve it, would be more than I could take. Even though that Corrium man killed so many women, I had nightmares about his execution for weeks after.

"Now that I'm a housecarl, there's much less call for me to actually go killing people...usually just standing behind my thane and scowling is enough to get anyone giving us difficulty to back down. But Gregor and I still train every day. We have to be ready to fight to defend our thane and his family at any moment."

#kbs asks #calder of windhelm #skyrim npcs #skyrim fanfiction