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Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
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DxO Optics Pro, Aperture (levels, highlights/shadows)
1/100sec @ f/16, iso250, 16mm (24mm)
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On my way back from Socializr, I noticed the huge CNET Networks building. Hmm, that could hold a sizeable free lunch. ;-)
Keystone fixing was done in DxO Optics Pro, hence the missing chunk at the bottom.
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I'm going to lay off the figure shots for a while unless I get something really cool. I just couldn't pass up on these. I went to the store for something else and left with these. Typical. I am so sad. Ha, Ha.
The Overture Center for the Arts laid off two more staffers -- their VP of marketing and their publicity coordinator -- in addition to the 15 positions cut in December.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas.
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
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hey man, it is kinda easy to save money if you dont have to burn through it on bills. fortunatley i know how to save and that is the only way that i am staying afloat right now. after getting layed off 2 months ago i am depending on my savings to keep my head above water. well for starters, take your lunch and snacks to work with you. get you a good sized lunch bag and pack you a luch. instead of getting the coca cola brand or pepsi brand drinks get store brand drinks get a big variety pack of tater chips. make you a sandwich or something and take it all with you. when i was working i figured it up and when i started doing this i saved my self about 100 dollars a month. now the key is to set a goal for your self. everyone needs atleast 3 months of savings. that covers all your bills. figure up how much you need to survive for 3 months. rent, electic, water, insurance what ever. and you also need an entertainment fund. figure out how much you need to survive (not have a blast) survive from week to week. take what you have left and put 75 percent into your savings and the other 25 perent in your entertainment fund. the trick is to only use what is in the entertainment fund for entertainment. dont dip into the emergency fund to have fun off of. just make a goal and stick to the goal. oh yea, before you start putting away for your emergency fun gather all your bills, ones that are not like electric rent, gather any out standing medical bills, car payment, what every and take what you would put into your emergency fun and knock out these bills. you knock out those bills and then start saving. if you do this (and lord forbid you loose your job) all these little bills will be payed off and you will have 3 months of savings that you can depend on and still have a little in your entertainment fund if you need it. man i know that i rambled on and on but trust me right now now one can afford to throw away money (well some can) save every penny that you can put it away for your future. right now i am living off my savings and it is running to a quick end and i hope that i have a job before then but if i didnt have these savings i probably would not still have a roof over my head or food on the table for my family. good luck with your savings. It is never easy to save money, for one, you have to be smart and try not to spend more then you earn, so with that being said, it is not an easy thing to do, to control your spending before earning the cash and as soon as it comes in you have to save it and keep saving it and not buy expensive things every day of your life
I was about to say a happy hello to my friend Bill (Pixellie) and ask him why he was visiting my woods without telling me beforehand, when I realized it wasn't a frog at all, but a toad. I'm glad I didn't embarrass myself.
Taken in Sioux Passage Park in St. Louis, MO on 8/12/11
Sneaking in another one from the August sunset. I must have gotten half a dozen distinct sets of photos from all the ways the clouds were shifting and colors were changing. And the good news is, the county parks slated for closure are going to stay open!
The bad news is, they're punishing us for our love of the parks by laying off a bunch of county workers instead. Booooooooo.
Coal miners working the Wolfpit Mine near Wolfpit, Kentucky, in 1925.
McKinney Steel broke ground on the Wolfpit Mine, located near the confluence of Marrowbone Creek and the Left Fork of Wolfpit Branch, in September 1917. In 1918, it built 60 houses there for its employees, which became the community of Wolfpit, Kentucky.
The company paid the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its road 3.5 miles (5.6 km) up Greasy Creek to allow coal to be transported from the mine.
The company eventually built 185 company-owned homesat Wolfpit, as well as a company-built and -operated elementary school.
In time, the Wolfpit had two mine shafts running. At its height in 1922, the Wolfpit Mine was producing 40,000 short tons (36,000 t) of coal a month.
By the summer of 1926, the lower vein of coal at the mine had been exhausted. In September 1928, the company permanently closed the Wolfpit Mine, laying off 1,000 men.
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Hello, Epson? Um... would that not be Epson Scan already launched and running, behind your error box?
Meanwhile, here is a totally random link.
So, Veruca had such a great time in Florida that it was hard for her to leave. As the day we were to leave grew nearer, I decided to lay off taking pictures of her because I noticed she was getting a little quiet at times. Sad or mad? I wasn't sure.
We went to Disney's Magic Kingdom, Epcot, went to see the movie Amazing Spiderman, went to Downtown Disney, Miami's South Beach, and Islands of Adventure (Veruca wanted to go on the Harry Potter ride so she decided to put up with the lines and crowds of people. Lol, because of the height requirement though, I had to sneak her in. She LOVED it!)
Anyway, I promised we'd be back but she didn't want to listen to me. She spent the whole 20hr train trip back whispering with Monsieur Domo. I think Domo was trying to be neutral but she didn't want to hear none of it from him either.
The saddest part was when she walked around my parent's house taking pictures of every room with her little camera the day we left. My mom even gave her her phone number and told her to call whenever she wanted to say hi.
I know Veruca can be a grump and bossy and a pain sometimes but I rather have her be that than sad. So, when we got back home to NJ, I thought a trip to IKEA would cheer her up. So to IKEA we went.
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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
Manifesto for JNUSU Elections ZOlZ .
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Friends, .
The forthcoming JNUSU elections are being held in the context of far-reach1ng political developments the world over as well as in India.. The informed choice of the student community will play a s1gn1f1cant role 1n ensunng that the JNU Students' Un1on remains a progressive instrument of struggle that will fight for the rights of the students and various oppressed sections in campus while .
linking itself up with the broader struggles outs1de. .
Capitalism in Crisis .
Today capitalism is in the throes of the biggest economic cris1s since the Great Depression. Being a direct outcome of the neoliberal capitalist trajectory driven by international finance capital, the crisis only points to the unsustainability of finance .
cap1tal-driven global1sation. The global crisis of capitalism has inflicted untold misery on the poor and the toiling masses in different parts of the world. Contradictions have Intensified in the advanced capitalist economies, the recent manifestations of which include forcibly imposed austerity measures, large public ba1louts for banks and finance corporations which played a big role 1n tnggenng the global crisis, massive lay-offs, rampant unemployment and widening of the gap between the rich and the poor. The social and economic distress in the developing world also demonstrates the tendency of imperialism to shift the burden of adjustment that accompanies the global economic crisis on to the poor and working masses of the Third World. H1gh food prices lead1ng to a renewed global food crisis and intensifying hunger in As1a and Afnca, huge tracts of agricultural land being grabbed by global MNCs, agrarian distress and internal displacement of the peasantry a':lo other petty producers through such lano grabs, and the contmuous pressure to do away with national regulations on trade and financial movements and to reduce public welfare .
expenditure are some examples of economic processes and policies that continually reinforce imperialist hegemony. Imperialism, led by US imperialism. while trying to shift the buroen of the crisis on to the developing countries, has been intensifying military interventions through the NATO 1n West Asia, North Africa and other reg1ons including in neighbouring.
Afghanistan and Pakistan. .
However, the assault by the ruling classes on the lives and .
livelihoods of the people has not gone unchallenged. Resistance .
movements challenging the hegemony of finance capital like the .
Occupy Wall Street movement and anti-austerity movements in .
several European countries have gathered strength. Greece .
which has been the epicenter of the eurozone crisis, has seen .
continuous protests and general strikes in the last two years. .
There have been mass protests, mostly by the youth in Spain, .
and general strikes by workers 1n Portugal, Italy, France, Britain .
and other countries. Students and youth are in the forefront of .
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protests against public spending cuts in education and hikes in tuition fees. Several Latin American countries like Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia along with socialist Cuba have been putting up stiff resistance to US imperialism. The people of Palestine have been bravely resisting the machinations of the Zionist Israel as well as the imperialist forces Movements for democracy like the Arab Spring also reflect the intensifying anger among the people in various countries against the curbing of political and economic rights. .
Resisting imperialist hegemony and building progressive alternatives to the neoliberal order constitute a historic challenge and responsibility for the Left and progressive forces worldwide. .
Assaults by the Ruling Classes on the People of India .
In our own country, the neoliberal policy regime 1n place for more than two decades has resulted in intensified exploitation for the working class, the peasantry, the poor and all sections of toiling masses. More than a quarter million peasants have committed suicide in the last decade and a half. In other words, 1t means one suicide every half an hour. The sheer scale and nature of this human tragedy is unprecedented and unheard of in history. While the forcible suppression of workers' rights (examples abound from Honda to Maruti) has become commonplace in urban India, the last two decades have also witnessed increasing d1splace~ent of peasants and agricultural workers through 1nd1scnmmate land acquisitions for corporate-led industrialization. A large majority in the country has been facing under-nutrition, extreme poverty and livelihood crises. Such processes have vigorously reinforced the class-caste inequalities that already .
exist in the society. .
On the one hand, the ruling classes. mainly represented by the two large bourgeois parties. the Congress and the BJP, have increasingly gravitated towards global elite interests. The Indo-US Nuclear Deal. defense cooperation with the US, and repeated attempts to allow FDI in retail and to facilitate corporate entry in lnd1an agnculture bear testimony to the growing anti-people posturing of the ruling classes. On the other hand, movements against anti-people policies and destruction of livelihoods are continuously building up amongst workers, peasants and various other sections of oppressed masses. From the struggle against Reliance's Maha Mumba1 SEZ and the struggle by the Maruti workers in Manesar to nurses' struggles, unprecedented united actions by trade umons and agitations by students in various parts of the country against naked profiteering in the education sector. tidal waves of popular struggles have begun to rise up to defend people's rights and livelihoods. Movements led by the organised Left for ensuring food security in the country, farmers' movements in Rajasthan for nghts to water and the struggle for house-sites for the displaced and homeless people in Andhra Pradesh have been some of the Significant struggles that .
challenged the neoliberal assault on the working people. The .
historic judgement, wherein 21 5 government officials were .
convicted for brutalising Aoivasis (17 of the officials held for rape) .
in Vachathi, Tamil Nadu, was the tnumph of a prolonged and .
courageous fight by the people, led by the CPI(M) and mass .
organisations like Tamil Nadu Tnbal Association and AIDWA The .
organised Left is in the forefront of movements against khap .
panchayats in Haryana, the two-tumbler system in Andhra .
Pradesh and "apartheid walls" in Tamil Nadu. SFJ has been a part .
of all these struggles, both in solidarity and 1n terms of .
participation. .
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The brazen, naked manner in which the UPA-11 government has reduced the Indian State to nothing more than an instrument of primitive accumulation for the ruling classes is unprecedented in the history of independent India. From the 2G Scam, S-Band/Devas-Antrix scam, CWG Scam and the KG basin scam to the latest "Coal-gate" scam, the sheer number of corruption scandals that have hit the Indian firmament during this period is mind-boggling. Enormous financial concessions to the corporate sector are the order of the day, even as public expenditure on .
food distribution, education and health are being squeezed to benefit big private players. Human rights violations and atrocities continue to be perpetuated on the people in Kashmir and in the North-East by the Indian State, in the name of "national security" and backed by draconian laws like AFSPA. .
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Marion, AL (Perry County)
The Marion Courthouse Square Historic District clearly reflects the evolution and development of the city of Marion, the downtown commercial district, Marion Female Seminary, and the Centreville Street residential neighborhood. The courthouse square has, since its creation, been the heart of business and commercial life in Marion . Too, since its founding in the early 19th century, Marion has been recognized for it's citizens' commitment to education and religious institutions. The district contains the Marion Female Seminary (NRHP, 10/4/73) and three historic religious structures.
Founded on March 4, 1822, the city of Marion was originally known as Muckle's Ridge. By 1817, Michael Muckle had cleared an acre of land from a dense forest and constructed a cabin on the present site of the Perry County Jail (structure #79). Muckle later sold his improvements to Anderson West, then sheriff of Perry County. At the suggestion of Joseph Evans, a South Carolinian, the county commissioners, charged with finding a suitable location for the county seat of Perry County, changed the name of the town from Muckle's Ridge to Marion, honoring General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" of Revolutionary War fame. After laying off the courthouse square and the surveying of streets, on May 22,1822, lots were sold at public auction but due to heavy rains, prices for prime lots remained quite low. The early sale of lots included those adjacent to the courthouse square.
Zion United Methodist Church (c. 1880) 306 Pickens Street One story frame Victorian religious structure, brick veneer exterior wall material, front gable roof, side hipped roof over bay window near chancel area, Gothic arched pointed windows, projecting vestibule with gable roof capped by small steeple, central double leaf entrance and circular vent. (NC) (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/96000111.pdf
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
This just might be the sole surviving photograph of my 1972 Honda 750 motorcycle. It seemed old at the time but it would be a genuine classic today. It was the best motorcycle I ever owned. My wife's dad hated motorcycles and I agreed to sell it in 1983. Bummer. But honestly, I couldn't lay off the throttle. I was either going to get killed or get arrested on it; I barely missed both outcomes. It was certainly fun to ride. I bought it for a bargain price from my brother in law, who could not afford the license or insurance or service. I had a friend of my dad's tune it up at Totem Lake Honda in Kirkland, Washington because it barely ran. It was probably the only time I ever got honest service from a cycle shop. The tech spent all day on it and showed me what was wrong (bad coil, oil on the points, engine oil looked like mud, etc.) It ran like a top until the day I sold it. I saw it one more time after I sold it. I was bicycling to work and the guy who bought the Honda passed me and turned onto the freeway. 24 years ago. Wow. I call things like that my dinosaurs, lumbering through my memory like some stegosaurus.
Restored from a 35mm Kodachrome slide taken in spring 1981.
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BA 2.12 COVID-19 variant: Doctors warn of new sub omicron variant wave | abc13.com
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Some doctors are warning of a summer surge of COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Peter Hotez, the Dean at Baylor College National School of Tropical Science, says new sub omicron variants are identified. He says the BA 2.12 variant is considered the most infectious variant yet.
"Looks to me like we're heading towards a full-blown wave that could be almost as significant as omicron in terms of the number of new cases," Hotez said during an interview from home after recently testing positive for COVID. "BA 2.12 is the mother of all variants in terms of transmissibility. It's getting up there with measles. Have respect for it because it can come and get you."
He says the COVID databases nationally may not be getting the full scope of the increase in cases we're experiencing.
"Many people, like myself, are doing home antigen tests and reporting it to their physician. But it's not necessarily being counted by state and federal agencies. So we've always had undercounting of the number of cases, probably by a factor of four. I worry now it's more like a factor of 10 or 20," said Hotez.
Chief of Infectious Diseases at UT Health Houston, Dr. Luis Ostrosky, said they're concerned about this case surge.
"Two sub omicron variants that are considered to be more infectious than omicron itself. However, with this one, we do know there's cross protection immunity wise with omicron," said Ostrosky. "We're done with COVID, but COVID is not done with us. It's there. It's real. It's infecting and killing people actively."
Ostrosky says he's expecting an immunity cliff.
"Where we all of a sudden we lose immunity and we have this variant in circulation, and we can get re-infected," said Ostrosky.
While that's of concern, so are the potential long-term effects of the virus, including on children who are currently testing positive for hepatitis.
"Some new hypothesis being created out there that previous COVID infections prime your immune system. And then, co-infection with a new virus creates these antigens that are common with liver antigens as well. And you get this kind of this autoimmune hepatitis related to the past COVID infection," said Ostrosky.
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"A third of US should be considering masks, officials say | AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States — and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.
Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, officials said.
“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.
For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.
However, officials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants.
Last week, White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha warned in an interview with The Associated Press the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments.
Jha warned that without additional funding from Congress for the virus would cause “unnecessary loss of life” in the fall and winter, when the U.S. runs out of treatments.
He added the U.S. was already falling behind other nations in securing supplies of the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines and said that the domestic manufacturing base of at-home tests is already drying up as demand drops off.
Jha said domestic test manufactures have started shuttering lines and laying off workers, and in the coming weeks will begin to sell off equipment and prepare to exit the business of producing tests entirely unless the U.S. government has money to purchase more tests, like the hundreds of millions it has sent out for free to requesting households this year.
That would leave the U.S. reliant on other countries for testing supplies, risking shortages during a surge, Jha warned. About 8.5 million households placed orders for the latest tranche of 8 free tests since ordering opened on Monday, Jha added.
The pandemic is now 2 1/2 years old. And the U.S. has seen — depending how you count them — five waves of COVID-19 during that time, with the later surges driven by mutated versions of the coronavirus. A fifth wave occurred mainly in December and January, caused by the omicron variant.
The omicron variant spread much more easily than earlier versions.
Some experts are worried the country now is seeing signs of a sixth wave, driven by an omicron subvariant. On Wednesday, Walensky noted a steady increase in COVID-19 cases in the past five weeks, including a 26% increase nationally in the last week.
Hospitalizations also are rising, up 19% in the past week, though they remain much lower than during the omicron wave, she said.
In late February, as that wave was ebbing, the CDC released a new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 was easing its grip, with less of a focus on positive test results and more on what’s happening at hospitals.
Walensky said more than 32% of the country currently live in an area with medium or high COVID-19 community levels, including more than 9% in the highest level, where CDC recommends that masks and other mitigation efforts be used.
In the last week, an additional 8% of Americans were living in a county in medium or high COVID-19 community levels.
Officials said they are concerned that waning immunity and relaxed mitigation measures across the country may contribute to a continued rise in infections and illnesses across the country. They encouraged people — particularly older adults — to get boosters.
Some health experts say the government should be taking clearer and bolder steps.
The CDC community level guidelines are confusing to the public, and don’t give a clear picture of how much virus transmission is occurring in a community, said Dr. Lakshmi Ganapathi, an infectious diseases specialist at Harvard University.
When the government officials make recommendations but do not set rules, “it ultimately rests on every single individual picking and choosing the public health that works for them. But that’s not what is effective. If you’re talking about stemming hospitalizations and even deaths, all of these interventions work better when people do it collectively,” she said.
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
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Mikayela… from relationships Australia just phoned while I was editing this photo to see if I needed some counselling and I complained about the Trumpian woman who came in with a broom to fire and sack and lay off key important Staff.
So I don’t need a counselling session with them…
I have Kate, ACE, Lucy, Anne, Joan etc etc and the SAO….
Now that I've lost my job, I'm refreshing my skills....
Ericsson is laying off 150 of 180 engineers in Boulder. The jobs are going to low cost countries.
This is my opportunity to do something different and to rekindle passions once so strong.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
After being laid-off for renovations and later not re-hired, workers from Unite Here Local 75 "show up for work" and deliver their official grievance. A rally was held later that day.
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DMS1638, 1616, 1622, 693, 349. DMS351 can just be seen behind sans headlight. DMS349 again demonstates the rear blind shortage at Barking - I think it was the first vehicle there to fall foul of the problem after it returned from its long lay-off.
Possibly RT3374 KLB593 next to DMS351
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Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
I decided that, after a three month lay-off, it was time to start carrying the macro lens again. I found this Dung Fly on a gate at Steart Point.
(October 15th, 2009) Thousands of protestors flooded the streets in the largest public gathering in Puerto Rican history. The massive strike was in response to the republican governor Luis Fortuño's decision to lay off 16,720 public workers. ~ San Juan, Puerto Rico ~ Photo © 2009 Ricardo Figueroa
Shin-Sama: Good thing Hahaoya-Sama didn't have her usuall 3 and a half hours of homework like she has had all week, or else this would be late again. Seriously, would it kill the teachers to lay off the homework just a tad because, I dunno, maybe kids have lives too?!? This is why I dropped out of Junior High. -_-;;;
Claire is fitting in well. I like her, and Michi likes her, too. But her whole "BE NICE TO EVERYONE! TEEHEEHEEHEE!!!" way of life makes me sick. But, meh, she's a good shot. ^w^
Kisa: (She's referring to guns, BTW)
Shin-Sama: The Kaz fund is coming along, for anyone who actually has any true interest. Should be fun when he gets here, he's so cute. ^w^
Oh, I met this guy named Damien yesterday. He's wierd. He keeps calling me a "cute kid". This guy's asking for it, I swear.
Kisa: (^^;;;)
Jacks looks over at Suri, and rolls her eyes, as she watches Suri take another sip of soda. She turns the key in the car's ignition from on to off. Grasps tightly the wheel of the car trying to not show how annoyed she is. "Suri...what did I tell you about laying off of the soda?" Suri pauses mid gulp, her eyes flick towards Jacks, she blanched, and swallowed hard. Her eyes tearing up from the freshly carbonated soda. "I swear...this is the last restroom break." Jacks gives Suri a LOOK, thinking to herself she has heard this statement before. Jacks opens the car door slides out and walks into the small convenience store attached to the gas station. Suri hurries in behind her doing the "I have to go to the bathroom dance" all the way. A few minutes pass. Suri walks out of the convenience store, a square soft package slams into her chest, she fumbles but it falls to the ground. Suri leans over to pick up the object and sees the word Depends emblazoned on it. Grits her teeth and stuffs it under her arm, her eyes flit left to right hoping no one can see it. Jackie smiles at the look of dismay on Suri's face, yanks on the driver's side door of the old buick, the door groans loudly in response. Suri shuffles over visibly embarrassed and pulls on the handle of the Buicks rusty passenger door. Jacks puts her key in the ignition, and Suri sticks her tongue out at Jacks when she is sure she is not looking. Suri slides into the passenger seat, clutching her Depends and looking longingly at the soda machine attached to the side of the convenience store. The engine revs, Jacks turns towards Suri. "We've got 400 miles to go, no more Nummies." A small tear rolls down Suri's face, she rips open her Depends package and gently wipes it away, looking off into the distance.
Impromptu photo with my Miss Jackie, erm as you can see I could have taken a little more time and not had jewelry askew. Hopefully this one be the last picture of the two of us and I can redeem myself. Where is Mr. Jay when you need him.
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas.
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Addie had a rough weekend. Unfortunately, she had a bad run-in with another dog when my mom took her running on Saturday.
They were running on the shoulder of a fairly busy road and passed by a couple of houses. Out of one of them two dogs came barreling toward Addie, growling and snarling. My mom hardly had time to react, but was able to pick Addie up and shield her from the other dogs until a little boy came out of the house and grabbed the dogs.
Thankfully, neither my mom nor the boy were bitten, but Addie ended up with a few punctures and scrapes on her hind leg where one of the dogs grabbed her before my mom picked her up. However, Addie had seemed fine immediately after and my mom couldn't find any wounds, so she had continued her run. It wasn't until later that evening that Addie started limping and my mom found a puncture.
So, we went off to the e-vet to get the wound shaved and cleaned and to get antibiotics, an anti-inflammatory, and painkillers. Today, miss Addie is feeling much better, thankfully, and has been bouncing and running around the house and wanting to play. She'll still lay off the running for a few more days though.
I'm so glad she's okay, but it's a very frustrating experience. Since the incident we've talked to the owner and the police, and I think it will turn out just fine. It's too bad this had to happen however.
I may just have to put Addie into a historically correct Continental after all to hide that silly shave ; )
I took on a 30 day challenge with my son, mine was to lay off alcoholic beverages, and this was the night before the 30 days began and I was emptying the last beer from my fridge. Note I wasted a drop on my chin. :)
52 Week Self Portrait Project - Week 19 - “Dead Ends” The worst part about them is they leave you feeling lost. You’ve been driving, listening to your favorite Ipod playlist, following your GPS’s directions, when suddenly you’re out in the middle of no-where looking at a dead end. So what do you do? FREAK OUT?! LOOSE CONTROL?! No. The only thing that’s going to accomplish is making you feel more anxious. Stop, evaluate your surroundings, turn around, and head in another direction.
Now, apply this to a situation you may be facing. Is the “dead end” you ran into purposeful? Is there some way you could have avoided it? Were you paying attention? Is it worth taking a second to stop and make sure your “maps” are up to date? Can you learn from it?
Whatever you do, be actionable. Sitting stand-still at a dead end will only waste your time and make you late for wherever you were going.
You have no idea where you were going? Well that’s your fault. There are all sorts of maps and directions available to you, why weren’t you using them? Were you just out, driving around aimlessly, wasting gas, and going no-where?
Most dead ends have warnings before you reach them. Were you paying attention to the road, or fiddling with your Ipod?
Ok, I’ll lay off the metaphors for a second.. Most self-portraits I shoot have a purpose. This one probably being the most purposeful of them all. “Dead ends” are my metaphor for negative situations you may be facing that seem like they came out of no-where. I experienced one late last year, and feel like I’ve only recently pulled back out on the highway and began to drive again. If truth were told, I probably sat at my dead end for way too long before turning around and driving in the other direction. Life is life though, and there’s no changing the past, just the future. One important thing you can learn from dead ends is to make better decisions and always try to stay one step ahead of your immediate destination. Plan forward. If it looks like you may be driving down the wrong road, check your maps again. Look for warning signs. Pay attention.
Dead ends will inevitably happen, no matter how much you try and avoid them. The thought to leave with here is, once you run into one, your vehicle only stops as long as you let it.
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Funding dirty coal? Not with our money.
Activists hung a banner on Bank of America's Charlotte, NC headquarters to tell the bank: "Not with our money!" People are fed up with Bank of America putting profits before people and planet. The bank is the largest funder of the US coal industry and the leading foreclosure on Americans' homes. Meanwhile, BoA is laying off 30,000 workers and hiking fees left and right. Enough is enough.
You too can tell Bank of America, "Not with our money!"
Photo Credit: John Duffy
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.