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Male Model John Joseph Quinlan.
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The City of Boston is buzzing with energy and excitement with the 2014 Boston Marathon coming up tomorrow. Welcome to Boston! #bostonstrong #bostonmarathon
April 15 marks ten years since the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Mrs. Mallard always has the children dressed appropriately for important local days, so to mark this important date, and the Marathon on Monday, she the little ones are dressed appropriately.
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There are some beautify Christmas decorations at Qunicy Marketplace in Boston.
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"Faneuil Hall Marketplace is actually four great places in one location - Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, North Market and South Market, all set around a cobblestone promenade where jugglers, magicians and musicians entertain the passers-by. So by all means, stroll, shop, eat, laugh, wander, wonder and explore it all.
In 1742 Peter Faneuil, Boston's wealthiest merchant, built Faneuil Hall as a gift to the city.
The edifice was home to merchants, fishermen, and meat and produce sellers, and provided a platform for the country's most famous orators. It is where colonists first protested the Sugar Act in 1764 and established the doctrine of "no taxation without representation."
Firebrand Samuel Adams rallied the citizens of Boston to the cause of independence from Great Britain in the hallowed Hall, and George Washington toasted the nation there on its first birthday.
Through the years, Faneuil Hall has played host to many impassioned speakers, from Oliver Wendall Holmes and Susan B. Anthony to Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, always living up to its nickname, "The Cradle of Liberty."
To better accommodate the merchants and shoppers, Faneuil Hall was expanded in 1826 to include Quincy Market, which was designed in the then-popular Greek Revival style and later dubbed for Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy.
The market remained a vital business hub throughout the 1800's; but by the mid-1900's, the buildings had fallen into disrepair and many stood empty.
The once-thriving marketplace was tagged for demolition until a committed group of Bostonians sought to preserve it in the early 1970's.
Through the vision of Jim Rouse, architect Benjamin Thompson and Mayor Kevin White, the dilapidated structures were revitalized, thoroughly changing the face of downtown Boston.
The 1976 renovation was the first urban renewal project of its kind, one that spawned imitations in this country and abroad.
Today, what is known as Faneuil Hall Marketplace is still Boston's central meeting place, offering visitors and residents alike an unparalleled urban marketplace. The unique and burgeoning array of shops, restaurants and outdoor entertainment have made it a premiere urban destination that attracts more than 18 million visitors annually."
Daffodils were a sign of hope and rebirth at the 2014 Boston Marathon. The symbolic flowers were planted and placed along the entire 26.2 mile course from Hopkinton to Boylston Street. Running a marathon is an emotional as well as a physical challenge. While running the 2014 Boston, there were times I felt energized, invincible, foolish, strong, weak, determined, victorious, and thankful. Through it all, the Marathon Daffodils were a reminder the day was about way more than me.
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Ledo Lost Gods Book Two Promo Poster by Laverne Thompson ~ Cover Model John Quinlan
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KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 20 OCT 2020
"JetBlue 2532" climbing out from RWY 25R en route to Salt Lake City International Airport (KSLC).
Production Site: Toulouse (TLS)
Test Registration: F-WWDO
Rollout: JAN 2005
First Flight: 17 JAN 2005
Delivery to jetBlue Airways: 10 FEB 2005 as N605JB
Aircraft Name: Blue Yorker (FEB 2005 - FEB 2012)
Hex Code: A7DA9C
Fleet Number: 605
Configuration: Y150
Engines: 2x IAE V2527-A5
Painted in "Boston Red Sox" special colors in FEB 2012
Aircraft Name: Boston Strong (APR 2015)
Re-configured "Y162" in JUL 2019
Stored at MZJ 13 APR - 12 JUL 2020
~ John Quinlan in Tommy Hilfiger
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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
Nancy Pochis Bank & Tracee Badway, 2013, Copley Square, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture. Photo 2 of 3.
I finally got a chance to see the memorial in Boston for the Boston Marathon attacks. It was very moving and brought me back to when I saw the different memorials setup for 9/11. People have left messages, hats, t-shirts and stuffed animals throughout the area. What really got me was the runners who left their own marathon medals as part of the memorial. The most moving part was easily the hundreds of sneakers that have been left throughout the entire area. If you are in the Boston area, I highly suggest stopping by while it is still setup, I plan on going back one more time to see it again in the next week.
I am going to the Boston Strong concert tonight at the Garden. I am looking forward to a night of great music and surprise guests. The show is being headlined by local bands such as Aerosmith, Dropkick Murphys, J Geils Band and more. I am sure it will be a fun night but also have its moments that will make us all remember the events of last month.
'A Sense of Purpose: Fighting For Our Lives' Movie Teaser Trailer ~ John Joseph Quinlan as US Army Captain Jake Nixon. A Jillian Bullock Film. Philadelphia Film Screening Summer 2017. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyLz0tkHUc
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In front of Boston FD Ladder 15's Boylston Street station they share with Engine 33. This house lost 2 members in a 9 alarm fire in April. Ladder 15 is a E-One ladder. The police transport unit is on a Ford F-250 Chassis.
This photo was taken a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Book Cover Models Wanted Author Created Promo Poster ~ John Joseph Quinlan.
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Worst running conditions ever (not so great for spectating or photographing either), but they still came out and ran. Inspiring.
Nancy Pochis Bank & Tracee Badway, 2013, Copley Square, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture. Photo 3 of 3.
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Once upon a time, I had serious intentions of running the New York marathon. It was back in 1979, and the whole thing was much less formal than it is now. Indeed, it was sufficiently informal that Rosie Ruiz was accidentally given a “finished time” of 2:56:29 for the New York event that year, which qualified her for the 1980 Boston marathon. It was later discovered that she had not run the entire NYC course (nor did she do so up in Boston on April 21, 1980), and her time was ultimately rescinded in both races. Had her times stayed in the record books, her Boston time of 2:31:56 would have been the fastest female time ever in the Boston marathon and the third-fastest female time ever recorded in any marathon...
Informal as the New York marathon was in those ancient days, you still couldn’t just show up at the starting line and expect to be welcomed. On the other hand, all that was necessary to get an official invitation was going down to the main branch of the U.S. Post Office on 34th Street at midnight on some long-forgotten summer night,and waiting in line with a bunch of equally crazy people. I got my entry ticket (or letter, or certificate, or whatever it was) a few days later, and began following a fairly serious training regimen, working my way up to a modest 10-mile race … until a business trip took me to Sydney, Australia for most of the month of August, 1979. Between business and social events, and the cold, wet weather of Sydney’s winter season, I didn’t do any running at all for that whole month … and with my training regimen broken, I wisely decided not to run the marathon at all.
But since then, I’ve always had a fondness for the NYC marathon — especially considering how much it has grown, and what a city-wide celebration it has become. I missed the event in 2013 and 2012, so it has been three years since I watched on the sidelines in 2011. With the promise of cold-but-sunny weather this year, I decided to return once again — and, as in 2011, I positioned myself at roughly the 24.5-mile point, at the beginning of a downhill run at roughly 78th Street, at the side of the Central Park “inner roadway.”
The runners pass by all afternoon, and well into the evening; but it’s a little more difficult to anticipate when the lead runners will reach any particular point. There are now so many participants in the marathon (about 50,000) that the runners are released in “waves,” beginning with those on hand-operated wheelchair/bicycles, and the “elite” women, the elite men, and three or four waves of mere mortals. There was an additional delay this year, because the headwinds were so strong that the initial wave had great difficulty propelling their wheeled vehicles up over the “hump” of the Tappan Zee bridge. So if you’re standing somewhere along the route, at the 10-mile mark, or the 20-mile mark, or (as I was) the 24.5 mile mark, you can only guess at the moment when the lead runners — or a friend or family member whom you want to cheer onward to the finish line — might be coming near you.
On the other hand, there are some clues. Helicopters hover above the lead runners, low enough that you can hear the roar of their blades; and there are two or three waves of police cars and motorcycles zooming ahead of the runners, pushing people back to the sidelines, and ensuring that there are no disruptions or obstacles to slow them down. Then — and it’s always an adrenaline rush! — you see the official race car, driving just a few feet ahead of the lead runners, with a huge race clock mounted on its roof, showing those fast-moving runners the exact number of hours, minutes, and seconds since they started their journey back at the edge of Staten Island.
The lead runners, of whom there are often two or three or four even up to the last mile, are often several minutes ahead of the next ones; but those who are in positions three, four, five or ten, and who will get no recognition at all from the press, the media, or the crowd when they finish … well, they still run as if their lives depend on it. And the crowd cheers them on, clapping and calling out their names and urging them onward.
One of the differences I noticed this year was the widespread use of bicycle horns and cow-bells that the onlookers used to create a cacophony of merry noise; I don’t know if the runners took it as a sign of encouragement, but it sure sounded that way to me …
I stayed longer than I had intended, and took several hundred more photos that I had planned … but they’re all just bits on the camera’s digital memory card, so it doesn’t really matter. One might argue that I should have stayed for eight or ten hours, until the last runner had straggled by. And perhaps I should have photographed each of the 50,000 runners, for I’m sure they each had their own story to tell. But after a while, it gets overwhelming — and the faces and bodies and brightly colored shirts and tights and shoes begin to blur…
I think I got a representative collection of photos; and the video clips will give you a sense of the noise and the motion of what seemed like an endless stream of humanity racing past … but to really understand it, you need to be there in person. Barring a crippling storm (like Hurricane Sandy, which forced the cancellation of the 2012 marathon), you’ll find another crowd of 50,000 runners racing through Central Park at the end of next year’s marathon, on the first Sunday in November. And with any luck, I’ll be there with my camera …
Who knows: maybe even Rosie Ruiz will be there, too. It turns out that she was arrested in 1982 for embezzling $60,000 from a real estate company where she worked; after a week in jail and a sentence of five years’ probation, she moved back to south Florida, where she was arrested in 1983 for her involvement in a cocaine deal. But as of the year 2000, she still insisted that she had run the entire 1980 Boston marathon. C’est la vie...
Running shoes left at the memorial for the Boston Marathon bombings, on the morning after Boston was locked down. April 20, 2013. (For the first time ever, I added something to a memorial. I was the one who left the small copy of the constitution.)
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John Joseph Quinlan ~ Post Workout September 2016
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> commemorates the longest home run ever hit at Fenway Park (hit by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946)
> distance: 502 feet
>Seat location: Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21
"Boston Strong" is a slogan that was created as part of the reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013. It is a variation on the term Livestrong, which was created in 2004. It has been placed on various kinds of merchandise after the phrase became popular, as well as gained criticism from various entities. The use of the term in Boston has led to similar phrases entering public discourse, such as America Strong.
In the hours after the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013, the slogan "Boston Strong" appeared as a highly popular hashtag on Twitter and rapidly spread around the world. An expression of Boston's unity after the bombings, the slogan showed up on T-shirts and other products, and was emblazoned on the "Green Monster" wall at Boston's Fenway Park. The Boston Bruins displayed the slogan on their helmets at their game two days after the bombings, and at the first baseball game in Fenway Park after the bombings, the stadium announcer told the crowd: "We are one. We are strong. We are Boston. We are Boston strong."
On April 17, two days after the bombings, a T-shirt vendor and another private individual submitted separate trademark registration applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, seeking to obtain ownership of the "Boston Strong" slogan for use on commercial products. One of the applicants said he wanted the trademark in order to prevent people from outside the Boston area from benefiting from it. A trademark attorney was quoted in the Huffington Post as predicting that the government office would deny the registration on the grounds that the slogan was already in the public domain and could not be linked to any specific entity.
The roots of Boston Strong can be traced back to the Livestrong bracelets marketed by the Livestrong Foundation in 2003. The phrase can also be traced back to the United States Army's Army Strong motto, as well as Jersey Strong, which became popular in New Jersey following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. The domain bostonstrong.com was invented 11/29/2012 by an unemployed job eliminated lifelong news photojournalist affiliating over 200 health awareness websites that end in strong. newjerseystrong.com, princetonstrong.com, vtstrong, newyorkcitystrong.com are all affiliated.
(Source: wikipedia.org)