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KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA
After a few years of inaction, I installed a new Li-ion NP-400 battery in my 2005 Konica Minolta DSLR Dynax 5D to replace the dead original one, and I did a small series of pictures with the two KM zoom lenses to re-evaluate the small Sony 6 MP CCD (still not a CMOS) sensor and optics.
The KM Dynax 5D was the latest DSLR body released by Konica Minolta before to be sold to SONY Corp.
Processing of the native RAW files using Lightroom/Luminar 2018.
Fezin, Rhône, Vallée de la Chimie
George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco George C Scott like discipline that begets love pencil toppers
George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco George C Scott like discipline that begets love pencil toppers
A protest called by Uni Students For Climate Justice in Melbourne, forming part of a COP26 Global Day of Action against climate inaction.
George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco George C Scott like discipline that begets love pencil toppers
"Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction."
~ Harry Truman
plum blossoms... a memory from nearby my car park
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I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
The fire at 18 Owens Landing Court was reported at 2:34 a.m. on Sunday, April 1.
Because the condominium was about 55 feet from the Susquehanna River, fire boats were dispatched; officials credited firefighters from the Susquehanna Hose Company and Charlestown Fire Company who battled the blaze from the water with limiting the damage to the three buildings surrounding the one that was engulfed by flames.
"Without their response to this incident, a much [higher] property loss would have been most probable and in turn could have put many more lives at risk," the fire marshal said in a statement.
Read more: patch.com/maryland/havredegrace/perryville-condo-fire-dam...
A protest called by Uni Students For Climate Justice in Melbourne, forming part of a COP26 Global Day of Action against climate inaction.
CHICAGO – December 12, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today was joined by Illinois college students to discuss how inaction on pension reform is threatening Monetary Award Program (MAP) college scholarships and access to higher education in Illinois. One after one, the students made clear how access to higher education changed their lives and prepared them for a job and career. Today’s event is part of the governor’s ongoing effort to educate and activate the people of Illinois to push for pension reform as he continues to work with legislators on the issue. MAP grants are need-based college scholarships that provide students with merit who are in need across Illinois with the opportunity to attend a higher education institution. These grants help cover tuition and fee costs at approved universities and colleges in Illinois, and do not need to be repaid by the student. 18,000 students lost their MAP grant scholarships this year because of budget reductions to education. Currently, only half of eligible MAP grant applicants are able to receive the aid they need to attend college.
From The Science of Compliance
"... This is pretty interesting but I'm not sure about your example of Kitty Genovese. ... but I think it's one of "boy who cried wolf" more than "herd mentality"
From experience I say this is good example of compliance. The message in group situations like this is don't get involved!, I'm panicking, I'm scared, what can I do? - resulting in inaction instead of action. By the time they react it's too late.
Humans can be unreliable in terrible situations requiring some kind of measured response when confronted with emergency situations. They do one of three things - fight, flight or freeze. Most reacting to their base level of training - that is, freeze. I've seen it first hand - they either freeze or move away, eyes averted. It still haunts me today. You can see the people who are trained. They are the ones reacting and running forward towards the trouble.
Reaction, doing something requires you to cast aside compliance and do what needs to be done regardless of the consequences, social or otherwise cf: "Stockdale Paradox"
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May 10th, 2014
...I got up and grabbed my camera...
Rocket and Deb in inaction...
Four-shot, handheld, stitched photograph...
WHO:
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA- 12)
Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (CA-34)
Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Joe Crowley (NY-14)
Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn (SC-06)
Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD-05)
Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 10pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Part performance, part dance party, the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery transformed into a night club in this event choreographed by artist Brendan Fernandes.
Photos by Richard Marinelli.
War memorial details -
Francis Allport born 1884, killed inaction July 1917
Charles Clewer born 1891, killed in action April 1918
Charles Alfred Finch, born 1883, killed in action April 1917
Henry Charles Finch, born 1876, killed in action August 1916
John Mason, born 1889, killed in action January 1917
Miz Smith,born 1885, killed in action July 1917
Ernest George Wright,born 1898, killed in action April 1917
- church of St Nicholas, Earls Croome, Worcestershire
Jimmy The Idiot Boy nephew of George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco discipline that begets love pencil toppers
Amin's dream for Africa
His address to the OAU Summit in 1973 was hailed as one in which 'a Real
Nationalist had pinpointed Africa’s most important problems and how they
might be solved.' Bamuturaki Musinguzi selects excerpts from Idi Amin's 1973
book, Contributions
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS after he was ousted, and three years after his death,
the life and times of Idi Amin continue to capture the imagination of many
Ugandans.
Countless books and articles have been written about the dictator who ruled
Uganda from January 25, 1971 to April 11, 1979, when he was ousted by a
coalition of Ugandan exiles with the help of Tanzanian troops.
One of the most interesting of these is Amin's own version of the coup in
which he ousted Milton Obote and his recipe for the liberation of Africa as
recounted in his book, Contributions, published by the Uganda Printing &
Publishing Corporation in 1973.
According to the book, one-and-a-half years into office, Amin arrived in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, for the 10th Organisation of African Unity full of pan-African
zeal, liberation, economic emancipation, nationalism and anti-racism.
The flamboyant and towering Amin was received at the Addis Ababa airport by
Emperor Haile Selassie I and the OAU Secretary General Nzo Ekangaki on May
23, 1973.
Being his first attendance of the OAU summit, Amin attracted a lot of
attention for his bold and controversial moves, including the expulsion of
Indians from Uganda.
According to Contributions, there was an indescribable state of commotion
among local and international photographers with each trying to get a snap of
the Ugandan leader at the summit.
"Nothing like it during that session had been experienced at the Africa Hall.
Nothing like it was experienced thereafter. It was an occasion of its own. One
needed to be there to witness it," says the book.
The climax of the people’s expectations only came the following day (May 25),
when the chairman of the summit and president of Nigeria, General Yakubu
Gowon, declared, "I have the honour to give the floor to my colleague and
brother, His Excellency the President of Uganda, General Idi Amin."
Amin walked to the rostrum amid cheers from inside and outside the Africa
Hall. Unlike his colleagues, Amin chose to address the summit ex tempore, the
103 page book reveals.
Amin begins thus, "If I am moved to address you in a rather strong language,
you will bear with me for I speak of matters with which my heart overflows
and for the same reason, I propose, rather that I deliver a written statement,
to address you ex tempore."
And before he delved into matters of common concern, Amin first dispelled
persistent propaganda against his government in the international press by
narrating to the summit the events that swept President Milton Obote out of
office in 1971.
Amin alleged that shortly after Obote left for the Commonwealth Prime
Minister’s Conference in Singapore in January 1971, it was established beyond
all reasonable doubt in Uganda that Obote had left behind a plan by which
some of his supporters in the army and secret service would carry out a coup
d’etat. They would also abrogate the constitution, eliminate all his critics, and
then hand power to him on his return.
It was after the discovery of these facts that the majority of loyal and patriotic
troops gathered forces and overwhelmed the Obote traitors in a counter-coup.
"I was then forced, contrary to my will, by the officers and men of Uganda
Army and Air Force, to assume control of the government," Amin says.
HE ADDS, "THIS WAS indeed against my will as on May 23, 1966, I had
declined the offer by Obote to establish and head a military government in
Uganda after he clashed violently with the Kabaka (King) of Buganda. But I
had to accept leading the country this time after the officers and men had
imprisoned me for eight hours."
Amin labours to justify the coup by saying that, "I recount, this history briefly
to dismantle the lie that my assumption of Uganda leadership was a result of
a premeditated coup against Obote. The mandate entrusted to me by the
Uganda armed forces, embodied in 18 points that led to Obote’s overthrow,
was to restore the confidence of our masses in an honest and vigorous
leadership that I have since endeavoured to provide."
He then turned to his favourite topic, "The liberation of the remainder of our
mother Africa." He told the assembly that Uganda was fully committed to this
cause and had oversubscribed its quota to the liberation struggle by over
$72,000.
The cogent and persistent question Africa must ask, Amin said, was, Have we
done all that is necessary? All that we must do to liberate Africa? Mr
Chairman, distinguished brothers, as the truth must be told, the answer is
"No".
He, therefore, proposed that Africa should harness all its military and other
resources in a similar manner to what Eastern Europe had done in forming
the Warsaw Pact or the Western powers in creating Nato.
These regional defence pacts, to which several member states subscribe, are
highly exemplary to us, Amin argued. Like us, each of their member states is
independent and a mutual defence organisation cannot possibly detract our
countries from their individual sovereignty, he added.
"And yet, by so coming together, we would harness our military and other
material resources to unhinge and overthrow the minority racist regimes in
Southern Africa, Guinea Bissau, Angola and the Arab occupied lands in the
Middle East," he said.
Amin expressed disappointment that the then 41 independent nations of
nearly 400 million people, consisting nearly one-third of the UN, were not only
kept at bay, but were effectively frustrated by tiny Mozambique and South
Africa.
"In Guinea Bissau," he said, "there are only 250,000 Whites. Weigh this against
the nearly 400 million Africans, then you realise the overwhelming magnitude
of our inaction.
He went ahead to suggest a liberation force for Africa in which each country
would put part of its army, according to capacity, at the disposal of the OAU
in joint exercises of liberation. And each state would be responsible for all the
expenses of equipping, transporting and paying its military contingent. "This is
our challenge and it must be accepted as inescapable".
On the issue of expelling non-citizen Asians from Uganda, giving them notice
of as many as 90 days within which to leave the country, Amin told the
summit, "Let me state that this expulsion was not motivated by racism as
alleged by imperialists. Since the country’s independence in 1962, the
government offered these ‘alien Asians’ citizenship, after coming in as
destitutes and making great fortunes.
"They refused; not only did they reject our hospitality thus, but they were not
even prepared to return to their motherland, the Indian sub-continent. They
were in truth British, in spirit and aspiration."
AMIN QUOTES A RETIRED Indian government finance minister who said that
these Asians had been sending about £300 million ($525 million at current
rates) annually to the UK from the East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and
Uganda.
"It was an intolerable state of affairs that our economy should be so milked
dry by an alien minority, who blatantly rejected identifying themselves with
us. It is significant that out of their free choice these people did not go to Asia
but preferred the UK, principally, of course, because their fortune was safely
banked there," he said.
"The justice of my action is evidenced by the fact that our relations with India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, are very friendly and mutually beneficial, for I am
convinced of the value of Afro-Asian solidarity."
Taken circa 1980 Nikon F2 film plusX.
Esta igreja fica(va?) nos arredores de Passa Tres (RJ) não muito longe da antiga estrada para Angra dos Reis. Ela estava abandonada já naquela época. Procurei recentemente no site do IPHAN, mas não encontrei nenhuma referência a ela. Temo que ela já tenha vindo abaixo.
Jimmy The Idiot Boy nephew of George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco discipline that begets love pencil toppers
Jimmy The Idiot Boy nephew of George Liquor - American - cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi from the The Ren and Stimpy Show animation from the city of Decentville USA plastic action figure inaction toy toys comic book Spumco discipline that begets love pencil toppers
The fire at 18 Owens Landing Court was reported at 2:34 a.m. on Sunday, April 1.
Because the condominium was about 55 feet from the Susquehanna River, fire boats were dispatched; officials credited firefighters from the Susquehanna Hose Company and Charlestown Fire Company who battled the blaze from the water with limiting the damage to the three buildings surrounding the one that was engulfed by flames.
"Without their response to this incident, a much [higher] property loss would have been most probable and in turn could have put many more lives at risk," the fire marshal said in a statement.
Read more: patch.com/maryland/havredegrace/perryville-condo-fire-dam...