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In case you haven't heard, Polaroid will stop production of instant film. Here is a link
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION FOR FUJI TO FILL THE VOID LEFT BY POLAROID
And a new website: SAVE POLAROID FILM
UPDATE:
Fuji said no to producing Polaroid compatible film but they do provide an alternative, Instax, which is excellent.
A new effort to produce instant integral film for use in Polaroid cameras is the underway. It's called THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT and needs your support: "We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."
After work I went to hang out on the set of the latest Cotume Drama being filmed in Oxford, Testament of Youth. Well, not actually on set but thanks to my 70-200mm f2.8 it felt like it.
Here's the star, Alicia Vikander, in a quiet moment. You may not have heard of her yet but with roles in Alex Garland’s 'Ex Machina' and Guy Ritchie’s 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' just completed it sounds she's destined for big things.
From the Press Release (thanks Carole for pointing that out) : 'The film shoots in various locations around the UK including Yorkshire, Oxford and London. Award-winning writer Juliette Towhidi adapted the screenplay from Brittain's searing story of love and war, which was first published in 1933.
In Towhidi’s script Vera, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s brilliant friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse and sets off for France.'
More info here : www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/testament-of-yo...
Stockton, Ca
As promised, here is a night neon shot of the Golden Star Cafe sign that I took last night.
I should have changed to a prime lens but since multiple gun shots were audible in the neighborhood I had to make it quick. I didn't want to be out flashing all over the place to attract more attention. The restaurant people were very nice, though.
The CHOP-SUEY part is almost going out; purple in color. This is pretty close to what I was seeing with my naked eyes.
California Chrome wins again at the Preakness Stakes! See you in June at the Fremont for a chance of triple-crown win.
www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/05/17/california-chrome-wins-...
Just having some fun with the Series 9 Chicken Suit Guy and the absolutely fantastic Rancor!
Inspired by something I witnessed several years ago back in Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry. The ultimate fate of all those cute baby chicks? Surprisingly horrible!
From girl group 'The Saturdays' ; she hosted "The Very Big Catwalk" event during the world record breaking fashion show on Liverpool's waterfront on Saturday 4th July 2015.
Currently co-presenting with husband Marvin Humes, the BBC TV music quiz 'Playlisters'.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/playlisters
www.royalliverbuildingvenue.co.uk/the-very-big-catwalk/
www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/event/the-very-big-catwalk/
A random shot for a random moment in time.
The LHC.. for the non initiates that stands for "Large Hadron Collider"...is allegedly being sabotaged from the Future as per the latest news stories breaking out of Europe.
news.google.co.in/news?q=hadron+collider&oe=utf-8&...
Bizzare as it may sound it is a plausible thought atleast from the realm of science fiction ,warp zones , time elasticity and all that.
So Boson is being searched
Here random particles of light energy collide in an open air experiment to study the origin of light painting..err origin of light
Oh I forgot - happy Diwali !
Camera: Nikon D70
Exposure: 30
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
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F/V Neptune which happens to be a side trawler located in Stonington, CT. Below is an article about the history of the vessel...
STONINGTON — Neptune lumbers into port a bit late, her hold not quite as full of fish as some other days, her winches and outriggers a bit arthritic with rust. But cut her a break: she’s the oldest boat in the Stonington fleet.
“She was built in 1967 by Luther Blount of Blount Marine,” says her captain, Alan Chaplaski.
To the seasoned mariner, the name Blount summons the same nods of respect that “Ford” or “Chevy” once did among car owners back in the post-World War II days, when Luther Blount founded his shipyard in Warren, R.I. Even greenhorned landlubbers whose most ambitious nautical excursions have been catching a ferry to Block Island or from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty have likely done so on the steel decks of a Blount vessel, a popular choice for commuter and excursion ferry companies for decades.
Blount designed and built America’s first commercial stern trawler, the Narragansett, in 1962. The steel-hulled Neptune, at close to 80 feet, is of the same vintage and class, though she’s what’s known as a side trawler because her nets are cast over her starboard rail.
“What you do is you stop with the wind on the starboard side,” explained Chaplaski. “You then put the net in the water and the wind blows the boat away from the net. It doesn’t always work, but that’s the way they’ve done it since they started towing with nets going back to the early 1900s.”
Chaplaski is a man who is used to the vagaries of the sea. Born in 1950 on Fishers Island, he has been around boats since he was just “a couple of days old,” as he put it. He began lobstering in high school, went off to college, but couldn’t quite wring the salt water from his veins and has been fishing nearly all of his life.
“Not yet,” he jokes, crediting that standard, Yankee one-liner to his cryptic Down East brethren in Maine.
Neptune was built for the Bucolo commercial seafood company in Newport, then later moved to New Bedford, Mass., which is where Chaplaski bought her in the early 1990s. With a crew of three or four on board and powered by a 400 hp diesel Caterpillar engine, she chugs out to sea every week on trips lasting three to four days.
Her normal fishing grounds are about 100 miles off Montauk, an area known as Hudson’s Canyon, at 270 miles long and more 3,600 feet deep one of the largest known ocean canyons in the world. The trawler’s catch is not only determined by fate, but by seasonal regulations. Fluke and squid season just ended; now she drags her voluminous nets for whiting, monkfish, and royal red shrimp (locally known as Stonington red shrimp, though this is a misnomer). Never an easy profession, commercial fishing is as tough these days as it ever was, says Chaplaski. Draconian regulations, the price of fuel, the tooth-pulling exercise of getting fish buyers to cut a check for your catch — these and other challenges often conspire against the average working fisherman.
“We have to get in a trip a week, just to pay the bills,” Chaplaski says, with good-natured resignation.
Then there have been the challenges of keeping an older boat updated with the latest technologies.
This has meant installing computer navigation systems, replacing the asbestos decking (which held up better than modern material, Chaplaski observed), swapping out the old oil stove in the galley for an electric model, and refitting some of the ship’s exposed mechanics with stainless steel after the original steel’s time had come.
“You get an eye for how long it can go. I mean there’s rust, and then there’s rust,” he said, smiling.
But even in the face of rust, and regulations, and the admitted insanity of one man trying to coax a living from the sea, Neptune is a vessel whose integrity remains intact.
“Luther Blount designed a good hull,” said Chaplaski. “She may throw you around a bit at times, but she’s a strong boat and will always get you home.”
Could any skipper ask for more?
www.thewesterlysun.com/news/latestnews/4801754-129/stonin...
A lesson at the Royal Palace about how trumpets and drums have been used by the military since ancient times, when they were used for coordination on the battlefield and to inspire courage among the men.
Royal military music has ancient roots. Historically, drums and trumpets were used on the battlefield.
Today, the Swedish music corps are the Armed Forces Music Corps, the Life Guards' Dragoon Music Corps and the Navy's Music Corps. The three corps alternate for state ceremonial duties at the Royal Palace of Stockholm. The Armed Forces Music Corps is the largest, with around 50 permanent musicians. As well as royal activities, they also take part in over one hundred parades and concerts each year, both in Sweden and abroad.
www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/latestnews/2013/...
LACoFD, Redondo Beach Fire, Redondo Beach Police and United States Coast Guard, responded to a water rescue call on 12/12/10 at 12:30 pm about 1/2 mile off of Torrance Beach. In total four rescue boats were on scene and one USCG helicopter. www.dailybreeze.com/latestnews/ci_16846518
13-14c Church of St Andrew, Ufford Northamptonshire (also claimed to be in Cambridgeshire & Lincolnshire !) stands on high ground at the edge of the village - The nave lacking a clerestory is at a lower pitch than the late 13c chancel, 15c South Porch and west tower which has a cast iron bell frame containing 4 bells, 2 of which date from the first half of the 15c.
Inside is a large monument to Lady Bridget Carr "who served the late Queen Elizabeth of most famous memory, being one of the gentlewomen of her Majesty’s Privy Chamber for the space of five and twenty years, and afterwards served the most renowned Queen Anne, wife to our most gracious sovereign, King James, for the space of 14 years" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/TwJku3
In July 2015 it was reopened to the public following 9 months and half a million pounds worth of repairs to preserve its historic fabric for the future.
The church has been in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust since October 2014 who have restored it including the re-roofing of the distinctive Collyweston stone roof, repairs to masonry and glazing and conservation of its monuments.
www.visitchurches.org.uk/latestnews/2015-07-07/St-Andrews...
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Michael Ball on location filming in Liverpool for Victoria Wood's TV musical drama "Tubby & Enid" -- Title later changed to "That Day We Sang".
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F/V Neptune which happens to be a side trawler located in Stonington, CT. Below is an article about the history of the vessel...
STONINGTON — Neptune lumbers into port a bit late, her hold not quite as full of fish as some other days, her winches and outriggers a bit arthritic with rust. But cut her a break: she’s the oldest boat in the Stonington fleet.
“She was built in 1967 by Luther Blount of Blount Marine,” says her captain, Alan Chaplaski.
To the seasoned mariner, the name Blount summons the same nods of respect that “Ford” or “Chevy” once did among car owners back in the post-World War II days, when Luther Blount founded his shipyard in Warren, R.I. Even greenhorned landlubbers whose most ambitious nautical excursions have been catching a ferry to Block Island or from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty have likely done so on the steel decks of a Blount vessel, a popular choice for commuter and excursion ferry companies for decades.
Blount designed and built America’s first commercial stern trawler, the Narragansett, in 1962. The steel-hulled Neptune, at close to 80 feet, is of the same vintage and class, though she’s what’s known as a side trawler because her nets are cast over her starboard rail.
“What you do is you stop with the wind on the starboard side,” explained Chaplaski. “You then put the net in the water and the wind blows the boat away from the net. It doesn’t always work, but that’s the way they’ve done it since they started towing with nets going back to the early 1900s.”
Chaplaski is a man who is used to the vagaries of the sea. Born in 1950 on Fishers Island, he has been around boats since he was just “a couple of days old,” as he put it. He began lobstering in high school, went off to college, but couldn’t quite wring the salt water from his veins and has been fishing nearly all of his life.
“Not yet,” he jokes, crediting that standard, Yankee one-liner to his cryptic Down East brethren in Maine.
Neptune was built for the Bucolo commercial seafood company in Newport, then later moved to New Bedford, Mass., which is where Chaplaski bought her in the early 1990s. With a crew of three or four on board and powered by a 400 hp diesel Caterpillar engine, she chugs out to sea every week on trips lasting three to four days.
Her normal fishing grounds are about 100 miles off Montauk, an area known as Hudson’s Canyon, at 270 miles long and more 3,600 feet deep one of the largest known ocean canyons in the world. The trawler’s catch is not only determined by fate, but by seasonal regulations. Fluke and squid season just ended; now she drags her voluminous nets for whiting, monkfish, and royal red shrimp (locally known as Stonington red shrimp, though this is a misnomer). Never an easy profession, commercial fishing is as tough these days as it ever was, says Chaplaski. Draconian regulations, the price of fuel, the tooth-pulling exercise of getting fish buyers to cut a check for your catch — these and other challenges often conspire against the average working fisherman.
“We have to get in a trip a week, just to pay the bills,” Chaplaski says, with good-natured resignation.
Then there have been the challenges of keeping an older boat updated with the latest technologies.
This has meant installing computer navigation systems, replacing the asbestos decking (which held up better than modern material, Chaplaski observed), swapping out the old oil stove in the galley for an electric model, and refitting some of the ship’s exposed mechanics with stainless steel after the original steel’s time had come.
“You get an eye for how long it can go. I mean there’s rust, and then there’s rust,” he said, smiling.
But even in the face of rust, and regulations, and the admitted insanity of one man trying to coax a living from the sea, Neptune is a vessel whose integrity remains intact.
“Luther Blount designed a good hull,” said Chaplaski. “She may throw you around a bit at times, but she’s a strong boat and will always get you home.”
Could any skipper ask for more?
www.thewesterlysun.com/news/latestnews/4801754-129/stonin...
Bokator, or more formally, Labokkatao is a Cambodian martial art that includes close hand-to-hand combat, ground techniques and weapons. Possibly the oldest existing fighting system in Cambodia, oral tradition indicates that bokator or an early form thereof was the close quarter combat system used by the armies of Angkor 1000 years ago. (Wikipedia)
Photo courtesy of Paul Levrier.
See more photos of Bokator – Cambodia’s Martial Arts here or visit www.visions-of-indochina.com
The ever helpful roburka Mankini had no problem pulling the cork out of the bottle thus enabling the party to continue
F/V Neptune which happens to be a side trawler located in Stonington, CT. Below is an article about the history of the vessel...
STONINGTON — Neptune lumbers into port a bit late, her hold not quite as full of fish as some other days, her winches and outriggers a bit arthritic with rust. But cut her a break: she’s the oldest boat in the Stonington fleet.
“She was built in 1967 by Luther Blount of Blount Marine,” says her captain, Alan Chaplaski.
To the seasoned mariner, the name Blount summons the same nods of respect that “Ford” or “Chevy” once did among car owners back in the post-World War II days, when Luther Blount founded his shipyard in Warren, R.I. Even greenhorned landlubbers whose most ambitious nautical excursions have been catching a ferry to Block Island or from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty have likely done so on the steel decks of a Blount vessel, a popular choice for commuter and excursion ferry companies for decades.
Blount designed and built America’s first commercial stern trawler, the Narragansett, in 1962. The steel-hulled Neptune, at close to 80 feet, is of the same vintage and class, though she’s what’s known as a side trawler because her nets are cast over her starboard rail.
“What you do is you stop with the wind on the starboard side,” explained Chaplaski. “You then put the net in the water and the wind blows the boat away from the net. It doesn’t always work, but that’s the way they’ve done it since they started towing with nets going back to the early 1900s.”
Chaplaski is a man who is used to the vagaries of the sea. Born in 1950 on Fishers Island, he has been around boats since he was just “a couple of days old,” as he put it. He began lobstering in high school, went off to college, but couldn’t quite wring the salt water from his veins and has been fishing nearly all of his life.
“Not yet,” he jokes, crediting that standard, Yankee one-liner to his cryptic Down East brethren in Maine.
Neptune was built for the Bucolo commercial seafood company in Newport, then later moved to New Bedford, Mass., which is where Chaplaski bought her in the early 1990s. With a crew of three or four on board and powered by a 400 hp diesel Caterpillar engine, she chugs out to sea every week on trips lasting three to four days.
Her normal fishing grounds are about 100 miles off Montauk, an area known as Hudson’s Canyon, at 270 miles long and more 3,600 feet deep one of the largest known ocean canyons in the world. The trawler’s catch is not only determined by fate, but by seasonal regulations. Fluke and squid season just ended; now she drags her voluminous nets for whiting, monkfish, and royal red shrimp (locally known as Stonington red shrimp, though this is a misnomer). Never an easy profession, commercial fishing is as tough these days as it ever was, says Chaplaski. Draconian regulations, the price of fuel, the tooth-pulling exercise of getting fish buyers to cut a check for your catch — these and other challenges often conspire against the average working fisherman.
“We have to get in a trip a week, just to pay the bills,” Chaplaski says, with good-natured resignation.
Then there have been the challenges of keeping an older boat updated with the latest technologies.
This has meant installing computer navigation systems, replacing the asbestos decking (which held up better than modern material, Chaplaski observed), swapping out the old oil stove in the galley for an electric model, and refitting some of the ship’s exposed mechanics with stainless steel after the original steel’s time had come.
“You get an eye for how long it can go. I mean there’s rust, and then there’s rust,” he said, smiling.
But even in the face of rust, and regulations, and the admitted insanity of one man trying to coax a living from the sea, Neptune is a vessel whose integrity remains intact.
“Luther Blount designed a good hull,” said Chaplaski. “She may throw you around a bit at times, but she’s a strong boat and will always get you home.”
Could any skipper ask for more?
www.thewesterlysun.com/news/latestnews/4801754-129/stonin...
Remember the brill bunch of young Liverpool Media Academy students and their ab-fab performances on BBC TV's recent 'Pitch Battle' series?
Well, here they are performing on the William Brown Street outdoor stage on Liverpool Pride day.
And, guess what ? They were GREAT!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/pitch-battle
www.radiotimes.com.edgesuite.net/news/2017-06-17/pitch-ba...
(I used to express myself in music and words much more than pictures. I'm trying to reawaken that part of myself before it withers and dies. .....I'm pretty rusty.)
This will be the second time in three years that my hometown is wiped off the map. Before Oregon, Illinois, New Zealand, Colorado, I lived in Louisiana.
I was born in New Orleans.
It probably explains a lot about me, actually.
There's a part of me that's breaking now, seeing that the city is once more at the mercy of the gods.....and in the three years since Katrina, the Bush administration has refused to do anything to save New Orleans from another catastrophe. The levees are just as weak. The mistakes of the past are looming large and real.
People didn't have to die three years ago. A little planning and realism would have saved many lives. We could accept the past and learn from Katrina.....but we disrespect their memories so thoroughly that we forget they have died.
So here it is, ravaged by the weather again.....and I don't think it can bounce back again.
.....New Orleans is special. It has a culture of its own. ....What we're witnessing on some level is the death of a civilization.
And no one seems to care.
I'm so fucking angry at our government right now.
If you have anything to give right now, please help Red Cross prepare for the relief.
F/V Neptune which happens to be a side trawler located in Stonington, CT. Below is an article about the history of the vessel...
STONINGTON — Neptune lumbers into port a bit late, her hold not quite as full of fish as some other days, her winches and outriggers a bit arthritic with rust. But cut her a break: she’s the oldest boat in the Stonington fleet.
“She was built in 1967 by Luther Blount of Blount Marine,” says her captain, Alan Chaplaski.
To the seasoned mariner, the name Blount summons the same nods of respect that “Ford” or “Chevy” once did among car owners back in the post-World War II days, when Luther Blount founded his shipyard in Warren, R.I. Even greenhorned landlubbers whose most ambitious nautical excursions have been catching a ferry to Block Island or from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty have likely done so on the steel decks of a Blount vessel, a popular choice for commuter and excursion ferry companies for decades.
Blount designed and built America’s first commercial stern trawler, the Narragansett, in 1962. The steel-hulled Neptune, at close to 80 feet, is of the same vintage and class, though she’s what’s known as a side trawler because her nets are cast over her starboard rail.
“What you do is you stop with the wind on the starboard side,” explained Chaplaski. “You then put the net in the water and the wind blows the boat away from the net. It doesn’t always work, but that’s the way they’ve done it since they started towing with nets going back to the early 1900s.”
Chaplaski is a man who is used to the vagaries of the sea. Born in 1950 on Fishers Island, he has been around boats since he was just “a couple of days old,” as he put it. He began lobstering in high school, went off to college, but couldn’t quite wring the salt water from his veins and has been fishing nearly all of his life.
“Not yet,” he jokes, crediting that standard, Yankee one-liner to his cryptic Down East brethren in Maine.
Neptune was built for the Bucolo commercial seafood company in Newport, then later moved to New Bedford, Mass., which is where Chaplaski bought her in the early 1990s. With a crew of three or four on board and powered by a 400 hp diesel Caterpillar engine, she chugs out to sea every week on trips lasting three to four days.
Her normal fishing grounds are about 100 miles off Montauk, an area known as Hudson’s Canyon, at 270 miles long and more 3,600 feet deep one of the largest known ocean canyons in the world. The trawler’s catch is not only determined by fate, but by seasonal regulations. Fluke and squid season just ended; now she drags her voluminous nets for whiting, monkfish, and royal red shrimp (locally known as Stonington red shrimp, though this is a misnomer). Never an easy profession, commercial fishing is as tough these days as it ever was, says Chaplaski. Draconian regulations, the price of fuel, the tooth-pulling exercise of getting fish buyers to cut a check for your catch — these and other challenges often conspire against the average working fisherman.
“We have to get in a trip a week, just to pay the bills,” Chaplaski says, with good-natured resignation.
Then there have been the challenges of keeping an older boat updated with the latest technologies.
This has meant installing computer navigation systems, replacing the asbestos decking (which held up better than modern material, Chaplaski observed), swapping out the old oil stove in the galley for an electric model, and refitting some of the ship’s exposed mechanics with stainless steel after the original steel’s time had come.
“You get an eye for how long it can go. I mean there’s rust, and then there’s rust,” he said, smiling.
But even in the face of rust, and regulations, and the admitted insanity of one man trying to coax a living from the sea, Neptune is a vessel whose integrity remains intact.
“Luther Blount designed a good hull,” said Chaplaski. “She may throw you around a bit at times, but she’s a strong boat and will always get you home.”
Could any skipper ask for more?
www.thewesterlysun.com/news/latestnews/4801754-129/stonin...
İki onar yılı geçen sürenin peşinde EA ve Nike ikilisi, oyun müdavimlerine heybetli bir nostalji yaşatıyor.
1994 yılından beri geçen takriben 22 yılda Electronic Arts, bize yeni spor oyun deneyimleri yaşattı. EA’nin projelerinde, doğal olarak stratejik ortağı Nike’ın materyalleri kullanılmıştı. İ...
www.habermaniam.com/son-dakika/nike-ve-ea-1994u-geri-geti...
Vanmorgen betrokken bij ernstig ongeluk n36 bij Arriën (Ommen) Helaas tegenpartij overleden ,chauffeur ongedeerd. Zie:http://www.kilroynews.net/latestnews.htm
Preparations being made for the filming of a movie version of Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth"-more news and shots from the location tomorrow
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/testament-of-yo...
Filming for Victoria Wood's musical "That Day We Sang"
Filming "That Day We Sang" a few years ago on location in Liverpool's Exchange Street West, alongside the city's Town Hall.
A 'lost in files ' and not previously uploaded 'on location 'street candid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ball_(singer)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04w7sp3
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/tubby-and-enid....
Portrait of young brunette hair businessman sitting in a coffee shop reading a newspaper looking concentrated, handsome business man holding open newspaper sitting in cafe
Read more at
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I took my first photographic trip to Kilbogget Park in Cabinteely. Like Cabinteely Park, which I have extensively photographed, Kilbogget Park is a public park owned and maintained by the public authority Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council;
One of the major attractions is this temporary Fish out of Water Sculpture, which is on display in the Park for six months.
The sculpture has been created from recycled agricultural machinery belonging to the Parks Department of Dun Laoghaire County Council.
The Fish out of Water sculpture was created by Dun Laoghaire artist Jackie Ball, who was awarded a sculpture residency by the council in 2011.
Pictures taken during the folding bike race at the 2011 Smithfield Nocturne, this year won by David Rees riding a Brompton.
Ομοφυλοφιλία - Hardcore S01E01P01 (VIDEO)
Γεννιέται ή γίνεται κάποιος ομοφυλόφιλος;
Τηλεοπτικός σταθμός: Εγνατία TV
Εκπομπή: Hardcore
Παρουσίαση: Εύη Λαζάρου, Νίκη Κοφίδου
Συμμετοχή: Ευάγγελος Κατσιούλης
Ημερομηνία: 19/12/2015
Τοποθεσία: Θεσσαλονίκη
Γλώσσα: Ελληνική
Εξωτερικός σύνδεσμος video: Ομοφυλοφιλία – Hardcore S01E01P01
www.katsioulis.com/homosexuality-hardcore-s01e01p01/ #psychology
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अभी तो पोल खुलनी शुरू हूई है, आगे आगे दखो होता है क्या...
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Tomorrow is the Operation Jack Marathon & Half. From zero to 26.2 in about 8 weeks, this is the first race I've ever organized & this photo about sums it up. I've poured my heart into the race, and I want it to be a huge success for Sam. It will be his 61st & final marathon of the year. Hope you can all be a part of it in some way. If you're near Manhattan Beach there's still time to register for the run, or come & support the runners. I'm matching the first of each donation-- drive me to the poorhouse! Around the country, you can join 200+ others in the 6.1 mile satellite runs. If it all seems that improbable, it's not; see the story in the local newspaper.
Read Sam's heartbreaking explanation of why he started Operation Jack.
Photo by calanan.
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With the City Council awarding the tender contracts that start in September, The Big Lemon have won service 52. Seen in the yard this afternoon posing for a photo for a press realease on the companys website (www.thebiglemon.com/community/latestNews/default.asp?wdgt...) is P229 EJW. This will not be one of the vehicles used on the new contract as it specifies that all vehicles must be DDA compliant (wheelchair friendly)
The council tendered routes last for 4 years.
Managing Director Tom is seen in the hot seat.
The bronze relief ('Scandal') and the accompanying fire basket (both 1930) were commissioned by Henry Mond (later the second Lord Melchett) and his second wife Gwen, and formed part of the fashionable Art Deco decoration in their London home (Mulberry House in Smith Square). The design refers to their ménage à trois with the writer Gilbert Cannan. The parrots in the fire basket suggest society gossip.
The marble sculpture on the left is The Bather (1915) by Albert Toft (1862-1949).
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This is the view of the hospital as it was when we were there in 2007. We were looking south from Hospital Footbridge in Diepkloof, Soweto in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. The bridge spans the Chris Hani Road (formerly the Potchefstroom Road) at the north of the hospital. The coordinates are 26°15'35.5"S 27°56'37.4"E. The hospital's entrance gates are located close to Bara Square near the centre of this map. Potchefstroom is a town lying about 110 km southwest of Soweto.
As can be seen from this Street View, the construction referred to in the yellow notice on the photo has been completed and the entrance is open again. The StreetView also shows that bridge itself has been covered over since we were there in 2007 when it looked more like Grazyna Dobrzanska-Redrup's photograph.
As at 2020, with 3200 beds and 6760 staff members occupying 173 acres, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is reputedly the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. Certainly it's the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a teaching hospital for the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, along with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Helen Joseph Hospital and the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. There's an aerial view of the site on the the PJ Johannesburg website.
The hospital was built next to the site of a hostel founded by John Albert Baragwanath (1842-1928), a Cornishman who had emigrated to South Africa in the 1890's. He was born in Falmouth, but the family's roots were in Towednack near St Ives. There are still Baragwanaths in South Africa. Read about them here and here. It was opened by the then Prime Minister, Jan Smuts on 23 September 1942. It was the middle of WWII and six years were to pass before the seeds of apartheid were to be planted by Smuts' successor, Daniel Malan. Although, during the opening ceremony, Smuts said that after the war the Imperial Military Hospital, Baragwanath, as it was then called, would be used for the Black population of the Witwatersrand, in the meantime, the hospital would be used to treat war casualties. At first they were mainly from the Middle East command but, towards the end of the war, the hospital began to specialise in tuberculosis patients, both from the Middle East Command and from the Far East Command.
In 1948 Smuts' United Party was defeated by the National Party led by Malan. A few years later, South Africa left the British Commonwealth. This made ''Imperial'' an inappropriate description so the establishment was renamed Baragwanath Hospital. Read more about the history of the hospital here and about how it is in the present day here. In 1997, the hospital, already by then one of the largest in the world, was renamed the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in his memory. Nowadays it admits more than two thousand patients daily. In 2007, about half of them are HIV positive.
It's said that, in his time, Chris Hani was the most popular member of the leadership of the ANC after Nelson Mandela – particularly among the poorest communities. He was born as Martin Thembisile Hani, the fifth of six children, on June 28, 1942 in Cofimvaba in the Transkei (now the Eastern Cape). That region was the birthplace of many other leaders of South Africa's protest movements – names such as Nelson Mandela himself, Walter Sisulu, Bathandwa Ndondo, Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela, Steve Biko and Matthew Goniwe were all born in and around the Eastern Cape.
Chris Hani attended Lovedale school and went on to study literature at the University of Fort Hare. When 15 he joined the ANC Youth League and took part in protests against the Bantu Education Act. After graduating, he joined Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1963 he was exiled to Lesotho where he was the target of assassination attempts. He received military training in the Soviet Union and, after serving in the Rhodesian Bush War in what is now Zimbabwe, he moved to the ANC's headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia becoming head of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
In February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk announced the lifting of the bans on the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and thirty-one other organizations which, unitl then, had been declared to be illegal by the apartheid regime. Soon after, Chris Hani returned to South Africa and took over from Joe Slovo § as head of the SACP in 1991. He supported the suspension of the ANC's armed struggle in favour of negotiations.
On 10 April 1993, Chris Hani was assassinated by a Polish far-right immigrant named Janusz Waluś, who shot him in the head as he stepped out of his car. Waluś fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards after Hani's neighbour, a white woman, called the police. Clive Derby-Lewis, a senior South African Conservative Party M.P., who had lent Waluś his pistol, was also arrested for complicity in Hani's murder. Derby-Lewis was tried and sentenced to death for his role in the assassination but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when capital punishment was outlawed in 1995.
In June 2010 Derby-Lewis applied for parole on the grounds that he was over 70, and was entitled to parole in terms of South African law for having served in excess of 15 years in prison. In November 2010, Derby-Lewis' lawyer reported that Derby-Lewis was receiving treatment for skin cancer and prostate cancer, hypertension, and for a gangrenous spot in his leg. The Correctional Services department reported that a decision on his parole could be announced in early December. in spite of further requests for parole he remained in prison until his death in November 2016.
The Diepkloof district of Soweto has associations with Alan Paton, the author of the inspirational book Cry, the Beloved Country
that was written in 1946 while the author was touring Europe and America. Smuts was still Prime Minister of South Africa while the book was being written but by 1948, when the book was published, the National Party had won power and the seeds of Apartheid were being sown. There is a mention of the hospital in the book.
Paton was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg capital of what was then Natal and is now KwaZulu-Natal. He was the Principal of the nearby Diepkloof Reformatory from July 1935 to June 1948. In Diepkloof – Reflections of Diepkloof Reformatory, Clyde Broster, senior English master at Rondebosch Boys' High School, Cape Town, has selected some extracts from Paton's works that were inspired by his time at the Reformatory. First in the collection is To a Small Boy Who Died at Diepkloof Reformatotory – a poem in memory of a 6-year-old pupil of the Reformatory. I trust that such a boy, should he have offended nowadays, would be more humanely treated. Also in the book is a poignant short story about a boy called Ha'penny spent time in the Reformatory in the early 1940s. It can be read in full here. It's only a couple of pages long – but it's well worth reading. Alan Paton died in 1988 – just before the ANC Government took power. He had constantly opposed the apartheid regime and many of his stated beliefs are now enshrined in Self Africa's Bill of Rights.
A few days before first writing this in January 2009 I had heard the news of the death of Helen Suzman, a great South African dissident with Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. Suzman was born in Germiston in the Witwatersrand in 1917 and first entered the South African Parliament in 1953 as a member of the fast-declining United Party. She later switched to the Progressive Party which eventually became the Progressive Reform Party. At one stage Suzman was the only woman – and the only member opposing apartheid – in the South African Parliament. Suzman often asked questions in parliament about abuses of civil rights. On one such occasion, a cabinet minister yelled at her "You put these questions just to embarrass South Africa overseas." She replied "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers". Her Progressive Reform Party was one of those which merged to become the present-day Democratic Alliance (South_Africa), now (November 2020) the official opposition party in the South African Parliament. Helen Suzman stood beside Nelson Mandela, the country's first black president, when he signed the new constitution in 1996.
Joe Slovo (1926-1995) was another great South African dissident with Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His family emigrated to South Africa in 1934 when he was eight. He joined the SACP in 1942 and in the early 1960's was instrumental in forming an alliance between the Communists and the ANC. In 1963 he was exiled and lived in Britain for a while. In was elected general secretary of the SACP in1984 and returned to South Africa in 1990. He died of cancer in 1995. A settlement east of Cape Town has been named after him.
On 5 December 2013, four years after the death of his friend and supporter, Helen Suzman, Nelson Mandela himself died at the age of 95.
Prime Ministers and Presidents of South Africa
Louis Botha (1862-1919) – 1910-1919
Jan Smuts (1870-1950) – 1919-1924
Barry Hertzog (1866-1942) –1924-1939
Jan Smuts (1870-1950) – 1939-1948
Daniel Malan (1874-1959) – 1948-1954
Johannes Strijdom (1893-1958) – 1954-1958
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-1966) – 1958-1966 (assassinated)
John Vorster (1915-1983) – 1966-1978
PW Botha (1916-2006) – 1978-1989 (PM then President)
FW de Klerk (1936‑2021 ) – 1989-1994
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) – 1994-1999
Thabo Mbeki (1942‑ ) – 1999-2008 (resigned)
Kgalema Motlanthe (1949‑ ) – 2008-2008 (acting)
Jacob Zuma (1942‑ ) – 2009‑2018
Cyril Ramaphosa (1952- ) – 2018-
In case you're wondering, the Motorola Motorizr Z3 was a mobile phone that had been launched a year before the photograph was taken.
Photos of some of the people referred to in this description can be seen in my comment below. Others can be seen by clicking on the appropriate links that follow. Some of the links contain additional information:
Nelson Mandela and Helen Suzman (from MailOnline, 5 January 2009)
Robert Cutts, bob@winton.me.uk
This description was first incorporated in June 2008 and has been revised and expanded several times since. The current version dates from November 2020.
Photo uploaded: June 2008