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May 11, 2014
Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil
Leimert Park
Los Angeles, CA
Drum Circle Dancing
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The aftermath of the tornado that touched down in Hugo, MN on May 25th, 2008.
Thoughts and prayers are with the families.
Please see www.startribune.com for information on helping those hardest hit.
Stanley, Idaho - July 1, 2019: Vending machine for the Idaho Statesman newspaper is abandoned and empty, showing how periodicals are outdated due to advancing internet technology
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com
Archival-quality giclée prints of individual years are available at blprnt.etsy.com
For more information, and source code to access the NYTimes API, visit my blog: blog.blprnt.com
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With the oncoming anniversary of the tragedy that happened in Sandy Hook you should consider reading my great friend Rebecca Hinkley's story of trials, tribulation, tragedy and most of all overcoming the emotional hardships of such a massive loss. Available in both hardcover and convenient digital download through Amazon.com.
Kindle: goo.gl/lguB1s
Hardcover: goo.gl/2mFMe1
92YTribeca presents The News Distillery, America's premiere live news-comedy game show. Hosted by Faith Salie, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and star of Planet Green's Treehugger TV, News Distillery panelists include MTV and Comedy Central writer-producer Gideon Evans, New York Times "The Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen and comedians Brian Donovan (NBC and VH1 writer/performer), Dean Obeidallah (The View and Comedy Central's Axis of Evil) and Chuck Nice (The Today Show, TruTV). They'll face off in a no-holds barred competition to be the funniest, fastest, best-informed and possibly prettiest news junkie in New York. Plus there's air conditioning (free) and beer (nominal charge).
Portrait of America, from David Datuna’s “Viewpoint of Billions” series, is a 12-foot multimedia American flag covered in hundreds of eyeglass lenses. Try on Google Glass and explore historical and contemporary figures from American culture embedded in the artwork.
This was a meetup organized by #GlassDC
See: npg.si.edu/event/currentevents.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Dev...
Photos I took around Westminster on 11 May, 2010. The afternoon of the day that David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
92YTribeca presents The News Distillery, America's premiere live news-comedy game show. Hosted by Faith Salie, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and star of Planet Green's Treehugger TV, News Distillery panelists include MTV and Comedy Central writer-producer Gideon Evans, New York Times "The Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen and comedians Brian Donovan (NBC and VH1 writer/performer), Dean Obeidallah (The View and Comedy Central's Axis of Evil) and Chuck Nice (The Today Show, TruTV). They'll face off in a no-holds barred competition to be the funniest, fastest, best-informed and possibly prettiest news junkie in New York. Plus there's air conditioning (free) and beer (nominal charge).
a few days later there was an article in the news abt a woman that was found half naked in a cardboard box in the city dump. she doesn't know what happened to her & doesn't speak english. the article started off w a joke about "what a way to get dumped."
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Two skeletons swing in the empty windows of the Sunbury Savings Bank in Sunbury, Iowa.
Were these the bank president and VP?
rally for justice in foley square on the 5th anniversary of ramarley graham's murder by richard haste of the nypd.
Photos I took around Westminster on 11 May, 2010. The afternoon of the day that David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Louisiana State University Professor Ed Overton leaned out of a fishing boat and dunked a small jar just beneath the surface. “God what a mess,” he said under his breath.
On the 20th of April an explosion erupted on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, killing 11 people and injuring 17. The real damage was yet to come as gallons of oil started pouring out of the well. Since then, estimates of over 200, 000 gallons of oil are leaking every day. The oil slick is now the size of Delaware and Maryland combined. On shorelines the damage stretches 241 km, from Dauphin Island, Alabama to Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is now affecting the marshland that stretches along the coastland.
These marshlands or wetlands are home to about 34, 000 Brown pelicans and seagulls, which are right now, trying to dive through the oil-soaked ocean to get to their food supply. Thousands of migratory birds travelling from South America making their way north, traditionally stop off at the Gulf Coast for two to three weeks are now in danger. Sea turtles, manatees and dolphins are attempting to come up for air through the slick.
There are three species that have been highlighted as most endangered by the slick, the Brown pelican who recently was just taken off the endangered list, the Bluefin tuna and the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. The explosion could not have happened at a worse time as all these species are now returning to the Gulf area for breeding, expecting their home to be the way it was when they left it.
Read More: southafricanbiodiversity.co.za/features/231-gulf-oil-spill
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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Louisiana State University Professor Ed Overton leaned out of a fishing boat and dunked a small jar just beneath the surface. “God what a mess,” he said under his breath.
On the 20th of April an explosion erupted on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, killing 11 people and injuring 17. The real damage was yet to come as gallons of oil started pouring out of the well. Since then, estimates of over 200, 000 gallons of oil are leaking every day. The oil slick is now the size of Delaware and Maryland combined. On shorelines the damage stretches 241 km, from Dauphin Island, Alabama to Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is now affecting the marshland that stretches along the coastland.
These marshlands or wetlands are home to about 34, 000 Brown pelicans and seagulls, which are right now, trying to dive through the oil-soaked ocean to get to their food supply. Thousands of migratory birds travelling from South America making their way north, traditionally stop off at the Gulf Coast for two to three weeks are now in danger. Sea turtles, manatees and dolphins are attempting to come up for air through the slick.
There are three species that have been highlighted as most endangered by the slick, the Brown pelican who recently was just taken off the endangered list, the Bluefin tuna and the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. The explosion could not have happened at a worse time as all these species are now returning to the Gulf area for breeding, expecting their home to be the way it was when they left it.
Read More: southafricanbiodiversity.co.za/features/231-gulf-oil-spill
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Ottawa's installation artist, Maks takes aim here at PM Stephen Harper with another winning piece of satirical installation art highlighting several topics taken from local current events. More outdoor Maks-ter-pieces here: www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=14813074@N00&q=mak...
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On June 14th 2010, a political rally took place in New York City's Union Square, as part of the events of this year's Gay Pride. In 2010, the subject was the defense of the LGBT Homeless Youth, a collective in the community that suffers many discriminations and not enough help and support.
Imagine how tough it may be, for kids between 13 and 24, who for the mere fact of being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, act like it, talk about it or come out as one, they're kicked out of their homes to the streets, when not abused or brutalized by their families or friends. If growing up as a young person with a different sexual identity is already stressful and painful, doing it without a support system or a roof over your head is pure tragedy. And yet, there are thousands of these kids on our streets. It is believed that nearly 60% of homeless minors are LGBT. And people need to start hearing about this sad reality, and government needs to start treating it as the human rights issue that it is, and acting more strongly to help those kids.
For now, only non-profit initiatives like the great Ali Forney Center (AFC) or Sylvia's Place are really fighting the good fight, with a bunch of allies and supporters, like artist Sandra Bernhard, NYC Council Member Lewis Fidler (a hero, being himself a straight married man with 3 kids, who fight ferociously for our rights) or one of America's true LGBT current heroes, shown in this picture: Lt. Dan Choi, an American officer that has fought for his country and yet has suffered prosecution and been condemned for simply revealing himself as a gay man in love, a violation of the hideous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that rules the US military position on gays and lesbians in the army. For those of you who may not know, gay and lesbian soldiers can only be part of the US Army as long as they totally hide their identities in the deepest closet. No one can ask them about it, but if they tell anyone or show it, they will face military trial and be expelled from their jobs. This is a prehistoric and ridiculous law that hopefully will be banned soon (it's in the works!).
Anyway... Lt. Choi gave a wonderful speech at the rally about the need of not remaining silent or let others tell us how to hide, how to not be who we are, love how we love, dress and talk and live life like we do.
And at the end of the rally, this priest approached him, congratulated him and expressed his pride on the Lieutenant and his work. I was luckily right there to capture such a meaningful moment. Two institutions in theory so opposed to gay rights as the Church and the Military, for once becoming symbols of co-existence and freedom for everyone's right to love and dignity.
Today, more than ever, I felt proud too.
But there is a lot of work ahead. Let's get to it...
If you want and you can, please check initiatives like AFC, to help in anyway you can (contributions, volunteer work, etc.). A small step for you can mean a huge one for them.
Thank you all very much.
Union Square,
New York City.
June 14th 2010
Taken with a 3Gs iPhone using VintB&W app
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