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I didn't build it, it's bullshit, I didn't built it, I did naaaaaat...
The Disaster Artist is a new movie based on the book of the same name. It recounts the making of Tommy Wiseau's cinematic disasterpiece The Room. If you've never witnessed The Room, I highly recommend it. It's epically terrible!
There was a disaster at my Lego City Police Station today. I used the police station for a different photo and as I was returning it to the shelf I shifted my weight slightly and the police station broke in half and fell. It only fell a couple of feet to the table but it was a big emergency for the police officers that were inside.
Medical personnel were brought in and the injured officers were taken to Lego City Hospital, conveniently located on a nearby shelf :-) I repaired the police station ASAP and it's now fully functional again.
Fortunately no one appears to be seriously injured but I think they are still annoyed at me.
I was highly amused by her tank-top. If only people really did come with warning labels in real-life.
I take photos to change the world.
If there’s a natural disaster — fire, flood, earthquake, or hurricane — that needs to be documented, maybe I’m the guy you need. (Alas, I’m not sufficiently brave, fearless, or suicidal to take photos in a combat zone — so if you’re looking for a war correspondent, don’t call me.)
But if there’s a human disaster that’s been overlooked — sadness, loneliness, death, homelessness, or a thousand other quiet tragedies, in your neighborhood, or in your own home — maybe I should bring my camera, and capture the scene in a way that brings dignity and respect to everyone. I photograph happy moments, too: the little smile, the grasp of a child’s hand, all those little moments of life that often get overlooked.
I won’t accept any payment for the photographs I take. I won’t even let you pay my travel expenses. I won’t use the photos for any commercial purpose. All I want to do is change the world.
Alas, I can’t take on very many of these projects, because I do still have to work my “day job” to pay the rent and put food on the table. If you have such a project you’d like me to consider, please email me at ed@yourdon.com with “CHANGE THE WORLD” in the subject line.
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Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Feb 18, 2015.
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I'm spending the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL (if I have Internet access, it doesn't matter too much where I'm physically located).
I'm trying to get up about an hour before sunrise every morning, and be out on the beach for a morning walk just as the sun peeks up above the horizon. I typically take 20-30 shots of birds and sand, water and sunrise ... but since many of them are very similar (if not identical), I'll try to restrict myself to uploading only one such photo a day ... Sometimes, though, I just can't figure out which one is best -- so I may upload a bunch of them, and let my Flickr friends decide which ones they like the best.
Note: most of these photos were taken with either my iPhone or my little Canon G7X pocket camera, so they aren't quite up to the level of quality that I would normally expect. I've managed to set the Canon so that it's shooting at 1/250th of a second and f/8 aperture, but it's not quite as crisp and sharp as I would like ... well, maybe the images will get better as time goes on and I figure out these little details...
This is the memorial to not one but two mining disasters at Auchengeich. In 1931 six miners were killed by an explosion - a number of their comrades tried to go back to save them, but were overcome by fumes and had to be rescued themselves.
The second disaster was in 1959, when 47 men were trapped by a blaze, a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth. So severe was the fire and smoke (most were overcome by the smoke, it is thought) that the rescue attempts could not get close, and eventually they were left with no choice but to flood the put to dowse the flames.
47 men gone just like that, dozens of families shattered. My mother was a wee girl when it happened, but she remembered some of the children whose family members were in the pit being taken out of school, wailing and screaming their grief. The history books like to talk about the Great Events - the Industrial Revolution, exploration, empire and all of that, but often neglects that everything was built on the broad backs of men who laboured in such dangerous conditions for little reward.
Pakistan floods 2010.
Asif, photographed on the flooded main street of the submerged town of Khanpur Nathan Shah.
"I was sleeping. Then the flood came. We waited for two or three days. We had nothing left to eat or drink. And then we escaped. The boat picked us up. We didn't have to pay them, they took us free of charge".
In Late July 2010 heavy monsoon rains led to massive flooding across large parts of Pakistan, affecting up to 20 million people.
ActionAid responded to the disaster immediately, working with local partners and communities to provide food, temporary shelter and items such as blankets and cooking utensils. Our long term response (continuing until end 2012) focuses on supporting people to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, and to become less vulnerable to future disasters.
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Nunca había tenido el pelo así de largo.
Never had my hair this long!
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Using the Guardian as a shield,
to cover my thighs against the rain,
I didn't mind about my hair.
Your jacket may be waterproof,
but knowing the moment you get home
you're gonna get your trousers changed.
Failure is always the best way to learn,
retracing your steps 'til you know,
have no fear your wounds will heal.
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A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard (a hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment) that negatively affects society or environment.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability are not considered a disaster, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater (as a percentage of GDP) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.
A disaster can be defined as any tragic event that may involve at least one victim of circumstance, such as an accident, fire, or explosion.
The last of the Chardonnay. and my favourite wine glass...Both gone!
For the November MSH - Disaster
i got really shocked by the photo of the 'Yomiuri' newspaper i read on the airplane back to japan.
a 4 year old girl who lost her parents and sister have written a letter to her mother.
'dear mama. i hope you are alive. are you fine?'
she spent an hour to write this letter and fell asleep.
i felt really sad....
in Kyoto , many people took pictures of maiko(geisya) having a box for donation in 1minute walk from my apartment. the only thing i can do now is just donation, but i think every people not only in japan but also in the world are thinking about victims and are cheering you.
be strong!!
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Bohemian National Cemetery
"SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship capsized while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
Another tale of incompetence and greed. Notice a theme?
//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
KUCHING, Malaysia (March 28, 2019) Pacific Partnership 2019 personnel stand at parade rest as the Military Sealift Command expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4) arrives at the Port of Kuching. Pacific Partnership, now in its 14th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Each year the mission team works collectively with host and partner nations to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security and stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nicholas Burgains)
The conductor of Freeport-McMoRan’s Clifton job prepares to dismount and line the runaway track switch for his train. The steep grades between here and the mines in Morenci will put a runaway rail car or out-of-control train at lethal speeds, potentially in mere seconds. Like many of the runaway truck ramps found on highways and freeways, this spur protects the many town residents below it from a potential disaster.
Look upon the field of snow
To find the desert sea
Under the ice the springs will flow to release
Fecundities like a natural disaster .
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Time expired Leyland Nationals await the scrapman's cutting touch at Barnsley in February 2000.
TPE151S had started life as Alder Valley 274 in August 1977. Here's a link to a picture of the bus when still in service: andyharris.fotopic.net/p28576948.html
Environmental Disaster.
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I took this photo after almost 9 months of natural disaster which was claimed to be responsible for almost 5700 death. a cloud burst flood occurred on june, 17 2013 at Kedarnath valley and some other of northern uttarakhand. This Institute is located almost 120 kilometers away from the kedarnath and as visible has been half submerged in sand flooded through river alaknanda (which is called Ganga after meet with another stream of Bhagirthi at Devprayag, Uttarakhand) at Srinagar. This institute was already atleast 15 meters above the river level. This was really unfortunate day for the uttarakhand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods
Vintage - FDNY - March 1973
Location: Staten Island, NYC, NY
Smoke billows from the top of the containment tank at the Texas Eastern LNG facility in Staten Island. Workmen inside the tank were refurbishing the tank walls when a worker using a torch set off a massive explosion. The explosion caused the containment roof to collaspe killing all 40 workers inside.
Scanned from the original Kodak High Speed Ektachrome (ASA 160) slide.