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Starring Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli, Patty Duke, Guy Raymond, and Chic James. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr..
James Congdon plays While a bit obscure, 4D Man (4D for short) is more of a low A-grade movie than a B-movie. For one thing, it's shot in color. It has some A-grade actors, and some cleanly done optical special effects. As in many sci-fi films, the technology isn't the star, but a plot device to propel a larger human drama. In this case, it gives the main character a special power. How he handles (or mishandles) that power is the meat of the tale.
Synopsis
Tony Nelson is talented scientist who is obsessed with his research, to the point of having a hard time keeping a job. He is trying repeat an earlier fluke success at getting one material to pass through another. (a pencil through steel) He travels to see his brother, Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing). Scott heads up a research lab trying to make a metal stronger than steel -- Cargonite. Scott convinces Tony to accept a job at his lab, but this only complicates the social scene. Scott was about to propose to co-worker-scientist Linda. Instead, Linda falls in love with Tony. Frustrated at all this, Scott goes to the lab late one night and gets into Tony's secret apparatus. He manages to get it to work. His hand passes through the steel. Meanwhile, another lab scientist, Roy, has stolen Tony's notes and is trying to sell the facility's director on the idea, so he can be a chief scientist himself. When Scott and Tony re-try the experiment in the lab, it works, even though the equipment wasn't working. Scott has "the power" all by himself. He tells Tony that he doesn't want anyone to know just yet. A newspaper headline tells of a bank robbery. The next morning, Scott sees that he's aged noticeably. Passing through matter ages him. He rushes to a friend's apartment for help, but when he touches the friend on the shoulder, the friend drops dead, his body aging to a gray shriveled corpse. Scott, however, was young again. His special power also saps life from others. He hides the amplifier so no one else can share his power. Things quickly unravel. Scott confronts his credit-stealing boss and saps him. Scott tries to find solace in a bar, with a floosie, but kills her with a kiss. The police know there's a killer on the loose. Tony tells the police all about it. The police cannot stop Scott, however. He shifts through walls, touches (and kills) policemen, and even a hail of bullets cannot stop him. He just shifts himself and the bullets pass through him. Scott finds out that Tony is trying to build another amplifier, so returns to the lab. Tony, Linda and the police try to kill Scott by turning on the reactor while he's inside it. (this is where Scott hid the amplifier) This fails because he is invincible when shifted. Everyone but Linda flees. Scott tries to talk her into running away with him. While in an embrace, she shoots him with the gun the detective left behind. Unshifted Scott is mortally wounded, but defiantly shouts his invincibility. To prove it, he throws himself into the Carbonite reactor, slowly disappearing into it's walls. The End (?)
The premise and human-interest angle are interesting and well done. The A-level actors do a good job making their characters believable. Robert Lansing does an excellent job with Dr. Scott Nelson -- both his frustrated awkward "before" self and the tormented-yet-maniacal "after" self. Given how many later movies (or TV shows) would take up the idea of people being able to pass through walls, etc., it's fun to see an early version.
This movie isn't an allegory of the Cold War. There is an oblique connection to the dangers-of-science sub-genre. A background element of the Cold War years, is the research lab working on improved materials for the military. Nelson's work isn't with any nuclear weaponry, but how it goes dreadfully is still an understated cautionary tale about how even innocent research can create a killer.
The quasi-science behind the premise, is that Scott can (at will) shift the "time" of his body relative to objects, permitting him to pass through them. The more he does this, the faster it ages him. While fanciful, this has a plausibility. The portrayal of "time" as a life force which he can then absorb from others has no plausibility, but it makes for a good plot device.
An interesting plot device is how Scott Nelson must drain the life from people in order reverse his own rapid aging. He does this by simply "touching" (merging) with them. The trope of the living sacrificed to prolong another's life, is not unique. It got (and gets) used in low-B movies like She Demons ('58) in which a mad scientist extracts hormones from young women (turning them into ugly demons) in order to keep his sick wife alive. In 4D, however, the "monster" drains life from them by a mere touch. This is a fascinating preview of the Wraith in the Stargate TV series (2005) -- race of beings who must "feed" on living humans in order to survive. The idea still has legs.
Another plot aspect which is not unique to 4D is how the man who acquires some amazing power can't handle it. For the sci-fi world, this appeared in H.G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man." His special feature tempted him into tyranny. Once a man feels immune to the hand of justice, he commits crimes with impunity. Scott Nelson is no different in 4D. We see his morality drop away and his total human selfishness take control. He gets professional revenge on his credit-stealing boss. He robs a bank and tries to induce LInda to run away with him. At the end, he shouts, "I'm invincible! Nothing can hurt me!" with a well acted mixture of defiance, denial (he'd just been shot) and pleading. An interesting little human psych study of how man might behave if he no longer fears punishment.
An intriguing little twist amid the plot was how Scott's power was not totally under his control. By force of will, he could "turn on" his time-shift to pass through walls, but when he stopped willing it, objects were solid to him. At one point, he's trying to grab the door knob to a bar, but keeps passing his hand through it. At that moment, he wanted to be "normal" but his power was not so completely under his control. A little while later, when he wanted some companionship and kissed the B-girl, she screams in pain and turns into an old woman, then dies. Scott was becoming a sort of King Midas who ruins everything he touches. This adds a degree of pity to the character. With the "cool" power, he could never be normal again.
4D's producer, Jack Harris, and director, Irvin Yeaworth brought us The Blob in late 1958. 4D has some family resemblance. Color, big-name stars, and brassy jazz score. 4D and The Blob may have been shot together in '57. Young Patty Duke plays a bit part of a landlady's daughter, but she looks maybe ten years old -- noticeably younger than she was in 1959. Universal may have intended to release The Blob and 4D Man together, but opted to spread out the releases for better revenue.
The score in 4D is heavy-handed brass jazz band fodder. Such jazz was pretty typical stuff of 50s movies which held the Rat Pack and Las Vegas show scene as the pinnacle of cool. The score of 4D seems like a cross between a 007-wanabe movie and the Pink Panther -- but without any of Mancini's style. Given the rather dark story line, the loudly perky jazz seems out of place. Instead of enhancing the story, it intrudes, like someone talking loudly in the theater while you try to watch the flick. Unless the viewer is a fan of such brassy nightclub jazz, it's more likely to be annoying than admired.
Bottom line? 4D is worth the time. It's a modern Midas tale reasonably well done. The science is weak or a tough stretch, but the story can be enjoyed anyway.
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
I was invited to spend two days at Europe’s most comprehensive IoT Event. This leading forum focused on case studies that show today’s Industry and Enterprises leveraging IoT technologies to transform their business through creating value and efficiencies.
The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters,[16] automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.[18] Legal scholars suggest to look at "Things" as an "inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service". These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include home automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air purifiers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
Schematic of Advanced Photon Source canted insertion device configuration. Credit Argonne National Laboratory.
The military comes up with the most high tech of devices that we civilians dont see on a daily basis.... here is one of them.
hope you all like it!!!
I believe this was the thing used for lowering a baker into the river to nearly drown him for baking loaves that were too small. For shame.
Woodcut printer's device of Johann Setzer of Haguenau.
Established heading: Setzer, Johann, -1532
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 M4804 523a 1526
The census demonstrates how information architecture has shaped the development of nations. Information architecture is behind the census' design, data collection, and even the devices used to aggregate census data.
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Gewusst von schlafauto in der Guess Where Berlin-Gruppe
This is a photograph from the finish of the first running of the St. Colman's National School 5KM Road Race and Fun Run/Walk which was held at Mullingar Shamrocks GAA Club, Delvin Road, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Sunday 14th June 2015 at 13:30. The GAA club facilitated a safe start and finish area for the race while the National School was the venue for registration and the refreshments after the race. The race was run in very warm sunny conditions with a temperature of around 20C making it very warm for road racing. Over 400 runners, joggers, walkers and children took part in the event which by any measure makes this first attempt at road race organisation a fantastic success. The refreshments and prize giving was held on the lawns of the national school with participants and their families able to enjoy the beautiful sunny weather.
This is a set of photographs from the start and end of the race until about the 30 minute finish time. The full set is available at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157654492095486
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AT&T Store Credit Card Swipe Scanner Device Machine, 1/2015, by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
Photo taken Nov 5th, 2015 on the 101st anniversary of the arrival of Shigetaka's present honoring the Alamo heroes. Notes about the gift-bearer, widely-respected Japanese author and traveler Shiga Shigetaka follow.
Just two days before Christmas 2015, Japanese Emperor Akihito turned 82 years old and he used the occasion to urge his countrymen to consider Japan's role in WW II.
“With each passing year, we will have more and more Japanese who have never experienced war, but I believe having thorough knowledge about the last war and reflecting deeply on it is most important for the future of Japan,” he said.
I applaud the Emperor's efforts to keep the lessons of war on the minds of a younger generation. There is a natural tendency to shun the subject or treat it superficially and move on to something else. The trick is how to approach the subject in such a way that will help us move forward. This is why it is especially important to consider not only the micro-aggressions that led to the war - the baby steps that many found perfectly acceptable - but also the things that Japan got right - the enlightened leaders who had the right vision but whose lessons were drowned out by the drumbeat to war.
The fact is Japan and the world at large - despite the good intentions of many - have failed to come to grips with the disastrous turn-of-events resulting in the Axis powers. We must acknowledge those leaders whose wisdom was cast aside in the Axis power's mistaken march to war and genocide. In doing so we hope to create an effective partnership built on a solid foundation. One such enlightened Japanese writer and statesman was Shiga Shigetaka. He was a professor at Waseda University who once studied at Hokkaido Agricultural College, a forerunner of Sapporo University. A former Union colonel under Abraham Lincoln, William Smith Clark was one Shiga's teachers there. Clark helped raise a New England style barn, and in addition to his regular classes, he volunteered to teach military drills and Bible study.
One of Shiga's lifelong friends and fellow HAC student Kanzo Uchimura became a Christian and this fact stirred Shiga but not to the point of becoming a Christian. Shiga was critical of all religion though Shiga's thoughts may have returned from time to time to the question of the role of the spirit if for no other reason than for the fact he was born on Christmas Day, 1863.
Shiga was impressed by the scientific developments coming from England in the person of Charles Darwin. Shiga was so energized by Darwin's ideas he joined the Japanese Navy and sailed on The Beagle - a Japanese vessel named in honor of Darwin's voyage. If the Japanese wished to avoid the fate of the Asian tribes that faced marginalization, he argued that Japan must welcome and encourage continuous change and improvements. Shigetaka's championing of Darwin's ideas paired seamlessly with Japan's own inclination towards refinement and set the tone for Japan's commitment to continuous improvement (renzoku kaizen) through research and implementation.
He was a frequent guest speaker to Japanese communities abroad and awarded the title of "honorary correspondent" by the Royal Geographical Society. November 5th of this year marked the 101st anniversary of Shiga's gift of a stone monument to the Alamo. Shiga made three stones bearing a poem he wrote uniting and celebrating the spirit of heroism of both East and West.
I celebrated the occasion by visiting the monument and buying a round of drinks at a local Japanese restaurant nearest to the Shrine of Texas Liberty. The Japanese customers asked what motivated me to buy them drinks. They were surprised when I told them the story. They knew of William Clark's stay in Japan (for about eight months); a bronze statue of him can be found in Sapporo bearing his famous parting words, "Boys be ambitious!" But they had never heard of Shiga Shigetaka despite the fame he enjoyed in his lifetime as a prolific writer, traveler, commentator, and magazine editor.
Shiga's first job out of college was not with the Japanese Navy. He was a junior high teacher dreaming of the right opportunity to come along. He was at a party of government workers which was unusually sober. It seems the Prefecture Governor was in attendance and everyone was on pins and needles to the point nobody was even talking. Shiga got up and offered the governor a drink. The story goes that the governor was so offended by being approached by a nobody that Shiga was immediately fired, fortuitously paving the way for his next assignment aboard The Beagle.
I am a tad skeptical of this great story for the reason that Shiga wasn't exactly a nobody - he was the son of a samurai. But then again at this point in history the role of the samurai was in serious question. When Shiga was precisely five years old (in fact it was the day after his fifth birthday) an important event happened that would have a great impact on his family and Japan: A samurai who aspired to topple the Meiji government was beheaded. His name was Kumoi Tatsuo. As with many samurai who died young, he left a death poem which Shiga would famously critique.
Shiga carved out a decidedly different life for himself than the death-embracing Kumoi. And his advice to a young writer is almost autobiographical in describing the kind of life which he led and held up as an example for others, "(A)bove all, you must aim to be a great man in maturity and, without becoming content with temporary honor, work hard from this moment, striving to leave a name imperishable for a thousand years in the history of English literature. Tatsuo (Kumoi) has left nothing for the history of Japan, let alone for the history of the world. It is merely that because his poems are inept (particularly through the Chinese way of thinking)."
Where Kumoi and others resigned themselves to an early Death, Shiga aspired to Life. Sadly his health failed him and he passed away at 65. At this time Hitler rose to power by appealing to church leaders that his plan for Jews was a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Reason gave way to scapegoating. Emotionalism trumped logic. With Shiga's gift in honor of the Alamo heroes he set Japan on a course he wished East and West would follow: the path of mutual respect, admiration, and friendship.
If Shiga had lived to see his 82nd birthday, the emperor's current age, he would have seen Japan through 1945, the same year WW II ended. Yet it is conceivable Shiga would never have witnessed Japan's alliance with Nazi Germany in WW II. For Shiga's legacy suggests he and his generation of enlightened intellectuals would never have approved it. This is all the more reason to celebrate Akihito's birthday pronouncement and on Christmas, to also remember Shigetaka Shiga! Through a long life we help the next generation remember those things which were passed on to us. With this is mind, I offer a toast to Emperor Akihito on his birthday and wish him the very best in health and circumstances!
There are those who may wonder how I could toast the son of the man whose father was at the epicenter of militarist Japan or how I could compare a "conservative nationalist" like Shiga Shigetaka to Christ? To answer the former, I would argue that the sins of the father should not get passed to the son. As to the latter question I would point to an excellent biography of Shiga Shigetaka by Masako Gavin. Gavin noted that while Shigetaka would often cop a conservative stance (as a journalistic device in an editorial face-off between two opinion-makers) his stand-alone criticism of religious conservatism made him an "reformed enlightener" who made prodigious efforts to keep Japan not only out of conflict with the United States and England but as firm partners.
In his gifted stone to the Alamo, the poem he wrote on it on it is in Chinese and of the two Asian legends he interwines with the names of Alamo defenders one is Chinese and the other Japanese. Shiga was among Japan's three most gifted Chinese literati. His next stop after the Alamo was Chihuahua, Mexico having already visited Washington D.C. Whichever country he visited his message was one of peaceful coexistence and mutual respect while his speeches to his brethren living abroad were encouraging, frank, and heartfelt: Faced with difficulties such as alcoholism and prostitution in Japanese Hawaiian communities he supported education and noted that if the Portuguese could succeed in Hawaii, there was no reason they couldn't either.
Alert: This is nothing short of an astonishing development. The four letters linked below between Noguchi and Tagore dramatically illustrate the very moment at which Shigetaka's vision of Japanese international engagement by way of mutual respect and admiration came to a crushing end. The Japanese student whom Shigetaka implored to aspire to greater heights than samurai/poet Kumoi Tatsuo was none other than Yone Noguchi.
Noguchi spent many years abroad and when he returned he struggled with justifying his country's increased militarism as Japan's foray into China in the 1930s brought more tragedies to light than successes. Noguchi lacked not only the charisma of Shigetaka but also his wisdom, something even his English skills could not make up for. Shigetaka spent a lifetime encouraging Japanese emigration and mentoring Japanese expats to help them assimilate to their host country's language and increase sensitivity to their host country's cultural heroes.
The gift to the Alamo was not only a present to the citizens of San Antonio but to the poor Japanese sugar cane harvesters in Hawaii or Brazil; it was a gift to citizens of the world that they should have a means to adapt and change and survive without resorting to the sword and instilling fear and distrust when in foreign lands. Shigetaka's advice was practical, moral, he held a high regard for the missionaries who sacrificed their own health to work with lepers. In contrast Noguchi's overseas experience was esoteric, far less scientific or pragmatic and this made him more susceptible to the appeal of propaganda.
Missing the guiding hand of his intellectual mentor Shigetaka who had died years earlier, Noguchi sought out advice and support for Japan's war in China from the Bengali Rabindranath Tagore with whom he had a personal friendship and in whom the Japanese bestowed a considerable degree of respect. Tagore's blunt criticism of Japan in China and her alliance with Italy and Germany stunned Noguchi.
The psychological blow to him was as devastating as if he had been hit by a bullet train. Instead of causing him to rethink his position Noguchi clung ever more tightly to his vision of a Japanese militarism that would bring peace for 500 years using the sword of war. It is clear the death of Shigetaka had left a huge vacuum in Japanese politics from which it was unable to recover.
Shigetaka was spoken of as "the son of a samurai" during his lifetime. It is clear somewhere along the way the son of a samurai had become the wise father of a nation. Yone Noguchi's appeal to Tagore was in many ways Japan's reaching out for her missing father - Shigetaka. It wasn't until Tagore's harsh response that Noguchi must have understood Japan was too far enmeshed to change course and he completely and willingly succumbed to Japan's alliance with Germany putting the nail in the coffin to Shigetaka's vision of diplomacy.
Seduced by Nationalism: Yone Noguchi's 'Terrible Mistake'. Debating the China-Japan War With Tagore
Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
This is a photograph from the 45th running of the Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race and Fun Run in Dunboyne Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 30th of March at 15:00. The event is sponsored by EirGrid. The "Dunboyne 4" lays rightful claim to being one of Ireland's longest and best established road races. It is now a landmark event in the Irish road racing calendar. Henry James once said "It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition". Well the tradition of the 4 Mile Road Race is very safe as witness again today with over 1,000 participants taking part. Today's event yet again showed that it is one of heartbeats of Irish road racing.
We have an extensive set of photographs on our Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157643169446555/
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
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The "Dunboyne 4" offers a racing opportunity for everyone from elite international runners, to club runners, to joggers, first-time runners, and walkers. The atmosphere as the race returns to the village at the 2.5 mile mark is one of the best atmosphere's in local Irish athletics as it seems the whole village and associated supporters have come out to encourage the participants.
This is a brilliantly organised race with every detail taken care of to the highest standard. This is to the credit of all of the volunteers from Dunboyne AC, Meath Athletics, and the local community of Dunboyne and surrounding areas. It is a race by which others can measure themselves.
Dunboyne AC also shows it's committment to growing the next generation of athletes and runners in Ireland by hosting a set of Juvenile Races before the senior event. Based on the final mile of the course there are runs for Ages 9, 12, and 15 year old boys and girls.
The race starts at Dunboyne Business Park on the Navan Road (Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/RaS62) and proceeds south into the Village and straight ahead onto the Maynooth Road. The race passed Dunboyne Castle Hotel to the left. The one mile mark is reached at the roundabout where the race turns right and heads across the Village by-pass and towards the Dunboyne Summerhill Road. The two mile mark is just at the next roundabout where the race turns right towards the village again. One of the best parts of the race is the atmosphere as the race passes through the village with the crowds adding to the spectacle. The race must now complete one mile where the runners go along Station road, turn left at Mill Farm Road (near Race HQ) and join back to the race start with a downhill finished into the village (Google StreetView goo.gl/maps/GfK0T).
Garmin Connect GPS Trace: Dunboyne 4 Miles Route: connect.garmin.com/activity/161599136
Dunboyne AC Facebook Homepage www.facebook.com/DunboyneAC (Requires Facebook Logon)
Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race 2014 Facebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/1407025122895071/?ref=22 (Requires Facebook Logon)
Dunboyne Athletic Club Internet Homepage: www.dunboyneac.com/
4 Mile Route Map: www.dunboyneac.com/images/course_map.pdf (PDF)
Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race 2013 - Our Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633073639903/
Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race 2012 - Our Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157629300252072/
Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race 2011 - Our Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157626364784640/
Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race 2010 - Our Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157623595905403/
Boards.ie Athletics Forum Discussion on the 2014 Race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057175978
Boards.ie Athletics Forum Discussion on the 2013 Race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056906545
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We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us.
This also extends the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?
You can download the photographic image here direct to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. However - look for a symbol with three dots 'ooo' or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.
I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
Don't like your photograph here?
That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
Connected devices in the modern cloud. Data is shared everywhere.
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Ground Zero of the Opytnoye Pole (Experimental Field). A Crater is visible (but it is later than 1949, many Nuclear Devices have ben detonated here).
On the Horizon to the Left, the Two Railway Bridges, 500 and 1 000 meter from Ground Zero, can be discerned. The 1 000 meter Railway Bridge was built for the 29 08 1949 Nuclear Detonation.
Setup near the cheese museum. It is part of the medieval fair that occured the weekend before I arrived.
A Re-Pe-To prescription book from the 1930s. The idea is that each incoming prescription is pasted onto a blank page of the book, simultaneously removing it from circulation and keeping a hard copy record of the transaction. It doesn't get much more modern than that.
Now to see what kind of drugs people's great grandparents used...
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
Microchip's OS81118 is the first MOST150 Intelligent Network Interface Controller (INIC) with a USB 2.0 high-speed device port and an integrated coax transceiver.
The MOST150 technology was successfully deployed in the first car models in 2012. Now, Microchip is proud to announce the latest member of its MOST150 INIC family, to continue the success story of MOST® in the future.
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I shot the Mumbai Serial Bomb Blasts at Dadar in the rains ..and documented the destruction chaos and tears on the Soul of Amchi Mumbai.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2011 Mumbai bombings (often referred to as 13 July or 13/7) were a series of three coordinated bomb explosions at different locations in Mumbai, India, on 13 July 2011 between 18:54 and 19:06 IST.[5] The blasts occurred at the Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar, and Dadar West localities,[6] leaving 26 killed, and 130 injured.[2][3][4]
The first device was planted on a motorcycle at Khau Gali in south Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar and exploded at 18:54 local time. The second device, planted in a tiffin box[7] at the Opera House near Charni Road, exploded at 18:55. The third device was placed on an electric pole at a Kabutar Khana bus stand in Dadar area and exploded at 19:06.[8][9]
Following the blasts, phone lines were jammed and communications ceased or were available intermittently for at least a few hours. Other metropolitan cities like Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore were also put on high alert.[10] Immediately after the blasts, the Mumbai Police sent an SMS to a few mobile phone users in Mumbai reading "Bomb blasts reported at Zaveri Bazaar, Dadar. Please be careful. Stay indoors. Watch news channels".[11] Most of the injured were rushed to various hospitals in Mumbai, such as J.J. Hospital, St. George's Hospital, Harikishandas Hospital and G.T. Hospital.[12]
Mumbai has been hit by terrorist incidents at least half a dozen times since the early 1990s, with over 600 people dying in these attacks. In an editorial, the Times of India described the city as having become a "hot hunting ground for terror."[13][14
Casualties and compensation
A Maruti Esteem car shattered by the blast in Dadar
The blasts claimed 26 lives and injured an additional 130 others.[3][4][15][16]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Indian National Congress leader Sonia Gandhi visited Mumbai the next day and met with those injured in blasts at Saifee Hospital.[17] Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a compensation of 2,00,000 to the kin of each of those killed and 1,00,000 to the seriously injured. Meanwhile, the Maharashta Government also announced 5,00,000 in compensation to the families of each of those killed and about[vague] 50,000 to the injured.[18]
[edit]Investigations
[edit]Speculations
There was speculation that the pattern of the blasts suggested involvement of Indian Mujahideen. According to the Special cell of the Delhi Police, Indian Mujahideen has been conducting blasts on the 13 or 26 of the month. [nb 1][19] Speculation was also rife that the Mumbai underworld could be behind these blasts, in the light of the killing of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, as well as the attempted assassination of Dawood Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar on 3 May. 13 July is also observed as Kashmir Martyr's day, and there could be a possibility that the attacks were carried out by Kashmiri groups.[20] There is also a view that the attacks could have been plotted by those trying to derail the Indo-Pakistani peace process.[21]
The slain MiD DAY crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey had previously reported that a huge cache of 35 detonators, gelatin sticks and large quantity of ammonium nitrate explosives had been seized on 20 May 2011 from Umarkui and Sayli village in Silvassa. Ammonium nitrate, gelatin and detonators have been used in several bomb blasts in Mumbai previously. The report also mentioned that this cache had gone missing soon after local police took custody.[22] The journalist had also speculated that the cache might be used to trigger terror attacks in the city.[22] There were calls for further investigations into this link to the Mumbai blasts by his employer MiD DAY.[23]
[edit]Timeline of investigations
The Home Ministry classified the bomb blasts as a terrorist act and dispatched a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team to the bomb site.[24] The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan said that the bombs used could have been fuel filled, much like molotov cocktails.[25] Preliminary investigations suggested the use of multiple IED explosives in the blasts with ammonium nitrate-based explosives mixed with fuel oil.[26] The explosives indicate some level of sophistication. It is also believed that remote detonators may have been used, with two of the three blasts being high-intensity.[27][28] The Home Minister also announced that his office would be updating the people through the media every two hours.[11]
The Maharashtra ATS was reported to have sought a list of passengers traveling from Kolkata to Mumbai and Kolkata to Kanpur from the Kolkata police. The suspicions were a result of a Kolkata man with Indian Mujahideen link having gone missing in the previous few days.[29] A NIA team visited Ahmedabad on 15 July to meet an Indian Mujahideen suspect who was arrested by the Crime Branch in connection with the Ahemdabad blast in 2008.[30] On 16 July, Maharashtra ATS Chief Rakesh Maria said that, based on forensic opinion and visit to the various sites, the possibility of a suicide bomber was being ruled out. However, a sketch of a possible suspect based on CCTV footage from one of the blast sites was being prepared. He added that in light of the sensitive nature of the investigation, the entire detail of the probe could not be revealed at that particular stage.[31][32]
On 4 August, Home Minister PC Chidambaram suggested indications of involvement of a home-grown terror module in the blasts.[33][34]
On 9 August, the Maharashtra ATS arrested one person it claimed had stolen a bike used in the Zaveri Bazaar explosion. The bike had been stolen from one Amit Singh a few hours before the blasts.[35] CCTV footage showed one person with long hair riding a stolen red colour Honda Activa, entering the crowded lane, taking two left turns, placing the scooter at the spot of the explosion and walking off.[36]
On 23 January 2012, the Mumbai Police claimed that it had solved the Mumbai Blasts case with the arrests of two suspects – Naqi Ahmed Wasi Ahmed Sheikh (22) and Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaq Sheikh (23) – hailing from Darbhanga district of Bihar.[37] The Mumbai Police's ATS claimed that the two had stolen two scooters used in the blasts according to a scheme whose logistics were managed by Yasin Bhatkal, the mastermind of the blast.[38] However, this televised announcement baffled the other intelligence agencies. It was later revealed that Naqi Ahmed was assisting the Delhi Police and other central intelligence agencies in tracking down two other perpetrators of the blast.[37] Further investigations revealed that the two Pakistani bombers; named Waqqas and Tabrez staying in Byculla used as many as 18 SIM cards and six handsets. The duo received sim cards from the co-accused Naqi Ahmed, who was arrested by the ATS in January 2012 for possessing SIM cards obtained with fake documents, following which Naqi admitted his role in the blasts and also admitted working with Indian Mujahideen's founder member Yasin Bhatkal in arranging accommodations for the bombers.[39]
On 25 May 2012, Maharashtra ATS filed a chargesheet against Naqee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik (all are under arrest). Additionally, the chargesheet named six others including Indian Mujahideen mastermind Yasin Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal, Waqas Ibrahim Sad, Danish alias Tarbez, Dubai based Muzaffar Kolah and Tehseen Akhtar as wanted accused on the run.[40][41]
[edit]Allegations of police brutality
The Mumbai Police detained several men for questioning. One of those detained—Faiz Usmani—died while in police custody on 17 July,[42] sparking allegations of police brutality. Usmani was the brother of one of the accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad bombings case. It was alleged by his family members that Faiz Usmani was healthy when the police picked him up and that he was subjected to torture in police custody. The police dismissed these charges and countered that Usmani was suffering from hypertension and complained of giddiness after walking himself into a police station. He was admitted to the Lokmanya Tilak hospital, Sion, Mumbai, following which he died quickly due to blood clots in brain and a heart attack.[43] A CID probe has been ordered into Usmani's death.[44]
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
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150625-G-LB229-036-- Chief Petty Officer William Porter, maritime enforcement specialist and lead dog handler assigned to Maritime Safety and Security Team 91101 in Seattle and his partner Crema, a yellow Labrador explosives detection canine, get ready for their first Raven’s Challenge training exercise in Elma, Wash., June 25, 2015. Raven’s Challenge training exercises are designed to give military explosive ordnance disposal technicians and public safety bomb technicians the opportunity to merge their resources and perform counter improvised explosive device operations in a realistic training environment. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross)