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Great show by The Social Disaster at Grandma's Sports Garden, part of the Duluth Homegrown Music Fesitval 2016.
I love seeing and photographing shows by this band - great energy and music. Definitely check them out if they come to your town!
Great show by The Social Disaster at Grandma's Sports Garden, part of the Duluth Homegrown Music Fesitval 2016.
I love seeing and photographing shows by this band - great energy and music. Definitely check them out if they come to your town!
The 1911 mine fire, which started in Pancoast Mine's wooden engine house, killed 72 miners, mostly Polish, Slovak and Hungarian immigrants. Here is a compilation of contemporary reports from a Scranton newspaper. Police had to be called in to control undertakers, who were eager to claim unclaimed bodies, because the mining company would pay good money for their services.
The next day, April 8th, 1911, an explosion at the Banner Mine near Birmingham, Alabama killed 128 workers.
Iv'e been having crazy mood swings - stay away from me.
all the photos are of me when i was a youngin, for realss
this isn't even that nice aha.....
The entrance to a bumblebee nest. The bumblebees return to the nest with leg bags full of pollen. But it is pointless, the wax moth, (Aphomia sociella) catarpillars have hatched and have ravaged the nest eating all the bee larvae. The bees still enter their nest oblivious to the parasitic invasion. Unfortunately it is game over for the bees and the nest. Photo here flic.kr/p/2maPeeG Larger format video flic.kr/p/2mb13BJ
On October 29, 2022, on Halloween Day, a disaster occurred in Itaewon.
Many people died or were injured.
In South Korea, there is still no punishment for those responsible for this disaster.
Most Koreans are still dissatisfied with the government.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
365.2.236 - 8 October
I just married a man with more than 50 handkerchiefs. That is some serious ironing that my OCD won't let me ignore.
The worst railway disaster ever in British history occurred at a place called Quintinshill, near Gretna Green in Scotland on 22 May 1915.
More than 200 people lost their lives when a packed troop train taking Soldiers of the Royal Scots Regiment from Leith, near Edinburgh, to the war collided with a stationery train at high speed. The crushed wooden coaches caught fire and to compound the tragedy an express train going the other way was unable to stop in time and ploughed into the survivors and debris. Many died trapped in the coaches unable to escape the fire.
214 of the 226 who died were soldiers and their remains were taken back to Edinburgh where they were buried in a mass grave at Rosebank Cemetery. A large memorial was erected at that point within the cemetery and my picture shows that location.
For many years the disaster was mostly forgotten but interest was rekindled on the 100th anniversary of the event.
However only a few Edinburgh citizens are aware of this memorial. Despite that, every year a remembrance service takes place here attended by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and members of the Royal Scots association.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) and South Carolina Department of Education (SCDOE) responded to severe flooding in South Carolina, by using of the National School Lunch Program, at the Richland County Schools - District One - Central Kitchen Facility, Columbia, SC, to provide disaster congregate feeding, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.
In times of emergency, FNS coordinates with state and federal partners, as well as local volunteer organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, to provide USDA Foods to shelters and other mass feeding sites and, in limited cases, distribute food packages directly to households in need. USDA Foods are 100% domestically produced, processed and procured agricultural commodities that are made available to schools, tribes, and low-income individuals through FNS Nutrition Assistance Programs. Once retail food stores reopen, if survivors still need nutrition assistance and the area has received a ‘Presidential Disaster Declaration with Individual Assistance,’ State agencies may request to operate D-SNAP. People who may not normally qualify for nutrition assistance benefits may be eligible for D-SNAP if they had disaster-related expenses, such as loss of income, damage to property, relocation expenses, and, in some cases, loss of food due to power outages. Those already participating in the SNAP may be eligible for supplemental benefits under D-SNAP. For more information please visit this web site: www.fns.usda.gov/disaster.
Central Kitchen Facility is the only central kitchen in South Carolina. They provide meals to 32 schools. Operations start at 4-5AM. The meals are comprised of 10-11,000 lunches, 6,000 breakfasts, 3,100 snacks, 3,100 supplemental meals, district-wide catering and more. To accomplish this there are 38 employed here and a total of 150 across the entire operation of satellite kitchens and other facilities. 14 truck move food and commodities from here to where they are needed. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Loch Ness on a day of disasters!
It was cold last night, with a good bit of snow... so much so that our chicken enclosure collapsed under the weight build up (it is now propped up with a set of step ladders!). Then I discovered that one of my back tyres was a little deflated, the air line at the garage did nothing but their compressor in the workshop got it up to pressure for a trip to Inverness for a bit of an image change on my behalf and then a business meeting which turned out to succomb to the weather and is being rescheduled.
Home now and getting used to the new look ;-) It is a very, very severe change!!! And also buying a full set of tyres on 6 month interest free because it's almost a grand for a new set of boots!
Yes... I could have just changed the one rear, but the two fronts are half worn and terrible in bad weather anyway and only yesterday I was saying it needs something better... so a full set of Michelin Cross Climates it is, booked in for Monday and tomorrows job rescheduled to next week.
Amazingly, this TWA Boeing 707-131B on it's departure roll at Newark, was involved in an incident with another aircraft over upstate New York, and made an emergency landing at JFK in 1965, some fifteen years before I took this photo.
This disaster aid truck was in the neighborhood in Vero Beach, Florida helping those in need. Damage from the storms in Indian River County is currently estimated to be $59 million, 91 homes in the county sustained significant damage and 51 were completely destroyed.
What started out as a cupcake disaster (the cake shrunk from the sides of the paper) turned into a whole new "cup"cake. I sliced the still amazingly delicious triple vanilla brown butter cakes, and layered with spiced cider apple filling and topped it with my cider buttercream. It was amazingly good. And technically it's still in a cup! You can get the recipes on my blog
The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
May 2021
Photo by Asher Heimermann/Incident Response
this shot was taken while i was taking a walk on the beach near my place...i still have no idea what set the crows off :S
On November 19, 1335, in the most important diplomatic event in Central Europe of the 14th century, Casmir III of Poland and John I of Bohemia came to the royal court of Charles of Hungary in Visegrád to form an alliance against the rising power of the Habsburgs in the region.
Characterized by decline and decay, the 14th century opened an era of unparalleled crisis in Europe as disaster after disaster struck every aspect of European life, bringing centuries of European prosperity, growth and stability to a halt. It notably brought with it a sharp decline in population growth, largely due to a series of famines and plagues, along with its fair share of political instabilities and religious upheavals.
14th century diplomacy in Central Europe
Faced with increasing frictions and social unrest, the three Central European kingdoms of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary were not spared by the crises. In Hungary and Bohemia, the historic Árpád and Přemyslid dynasties died out almost simultaneously at the beginning of the century, while Poland was still recovering from a long period of feudal fragmentation after being reunified by the Piast ruler Władysław I Łokietek.
Added to this were rising diplomatic tensions, as the new Polish king was embroiled in territorial disputes with the Teutonic Order and with the recently crowned king of Bohemia, John I of the House of Luxembourg, who laid claim to the Polish throne through his claim on Silesia. But after the death of Władysław in 1333, his son Casimir ascended to the throne, which created a new dynamic in the relations of the three kingdoms. Once in power, Casimir III launched himself into the task of sorting out matters left to him by his father.
With a new king on the Polish throne, John of Bohemia also took an interest in normalising diplomatic relations, for he was in search of an ally against the rising power of his long-time enemies, the Austrian Counts of the House of Habsburg. In 1334, to settle the dispute over Polish territories, the parties involved chose arbiters and the young Polish king appointed his brother-in-law and ally, King Charles of Hungary.
Married to Casimir’s sister, the Hungarian king accepted the task with great zeal and mediated between the young Polish ruler and the old Bohemian king during the two-year diplomatic process between Bohemia and Poland on the one hand, and Poland and the Teutonic Order on the other. And in September 1335, a Bohemian delegation went to the Hungarian royal court in Visegrád to conclude an alliance with Charles of Hungary on the Bohemian king’s behalf.
By November 1335, the time was finally ripe for the meeting of the three kings and Charles of Hungary invited Casimir III of Poland and John of Bohemia, along with his 19-year-old son Charles, later to be Emperor Charles IV, to Visegrád, where they were joined by many Polish, Silesian and German principals as part of their delegations, as well as the rep--resentatives of the Teutonic Order, for a period of over four weeks.
(kafkadesk.org/2021/11/19/on-this-day-in-1335-the-kings-of...)
Crushing fact 1 is the age of some of the victims, crushing fact 2 is how many of the victims came from the same family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Colliery_disaster
Darwen Corporation CTC986 No17 was taking munition workers to the factory when it hit overhanging trees in Livesey Branch Road
Feniscowles between Darwen and Blackburn ripping the roof and most of the nearside upper deck off.
Some of the unfortunate passengers were thrown out and fell onto the cobbles below.Five were seriously injured and many were taken to hospital with cuts and bruises.It is amazing that nobody was killed..The bus new in 1937 was a Leyland Titan TD5c with Burlingham H26/26R body,it was repaired and lasted in service until 1949.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Centralia, PA
This is one of the roads affected by the ongoing underground coal fires in Centralia, PA. These happless victims from the Philadelphia photobloggers group have succumbed to the fumes. They hammed it up. Check out the guy on the upper left with his head in the crack.
People have been stranded in their cars for 8+ hours all around the city! Unable to get home from work. Kids have been stranded in school buses! They may have to spend the night! Finally the governor and the mayor are trying to apply resources to bring relief and hopefully some organization. It won't get above freezing all day tomorrow! This catastrophe is far from over.