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Pablo Jenkins, Founder and President, Ideas en Acción, Costa Rica at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Riviera Maya, Mexico 2015. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
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Taken on today's walk with Brith (a friend's dog). There is a path that doesn't actually go anywhere, it just stops at the edge of the local golf course.
Pau-de-leite
Himatanthus obovatus, Apocynaceae
- Hábito: Árvore;
- Habitat: Cerradão, cerrado, savanas amazônicas;
- Distribuição: PA, TO, RO, MA, PI, BA, SE, MT, GO, DF, MS, MG, SP
- Local da foto: Parque das Sucupiras, Brasília, Brasil
(Pesquisa por imagem)
Fonte: Guia de Campo Vegetação do Cerrado 500 Espécies, Ministério do Meio Ambiente; 2011
"Bush flowers - that are born spontaneously, without any care or cultivation. Flowers in nature.
Flores que nascem naturalmente, sem cultivo ou qualquer cuidado. Flores na natureza."
Brasília, Brasil
Art Week Gallery Group
Flowers and Bouquets - 26/02/2021
Local handicrafts made from indigenous bamboo grown in the forests around Luang Prabang, Laos.
(By Stanislas Fradelizi)
Local Boquerones
Yeasted-sesame pancake, crème fraîche. ($8)
State Bird Provisions
San Francisco, California
(July 30, 2012)
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Sapa
Sapa (also written as Sa Pa) is a district-level town of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam. As of 2018, the town had a population of 61,498. The town covers an area of 677 km2. The town capital lies at Sapa. It is one of the main market towns in the area, where several ethnic minority groups such as Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Xa Pho, and Tay live.
Sa Pa was a frontier township and capital of former Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in north-west Vietnam. It was first inhabited by people about whom nothing is known. They left in the entire valley hundreds of petroglyphs, mostly composed of lines, which experts think date from the 15th century and represent local cadastres. Then came the highland minorities of the Hmong and Yao.
Sa Pa District is in Lào Cai Province, northwest Vietnam, close to the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Son range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam's highest mountain, Fan Si Pan, at a height of 3143 m above sea level. The town of Sapa lies at an elevation of about 1500 meters elevation.
Sapa is home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples. The population consists mostly of minority groups. Besides the Kinh (Viet) people (15 percent) there are mainly five ethnic groups in Sapa: Hmong 52 percent, Dao 25 percent, Tay five percent, Giay two percent, and a small number of Xa Pho.
Most of the ethnic minority people work their land on sloping terraces since the vast majority of the land is mountainous. Their staple foods are rice and corn.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_Pa)
Local Accession Number: 06_11_002412
Title: Bare trees and fence
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Trees; Fences
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Unidentified
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Bangor RFC v Donaghadee restart catch
Crushing win against the Dee
by Roger Corbett
In a keenly anticipated local derby, Donaghadee briefly took the lead by 3-8, until Bangor produced what is becoming something of a trademark in turning the game around, and responded with a further 53 unanswered points to win convincingly by 56-8.
The sun certainly shone on Upritchard Park on Saturday – our final corporate lunch of the season, glorious playing conditions, the earlier loss to Donaghadee avenged with style, and the 6 Nations secured in Paris. Also among the large crowd of spectators who lined the touchlines were Ulster stars Craig Gilroy and Mike McComish. With the pitch in perfect condition, and the weather conditions glorious, the scene was set for a great afternoon’s sport.
Like Bangor the week before, Donaghadee were catching up with their fixtures, and this marked their third game in 8 days. However, nobody would have thought it as they took the game to Bangor straight from the kick-off. Within a couple of minutes, they had forced a penalty in front of Bangor’s posts, which was successfully converted. However, this was soon cancelled out when the Dee conceded a penalty which Mark Thompson kicked to level the scores at 3-3 after just 6 minutes.
Worryingly for Bangor, the Dee back line were working well together and finding gaps through the centre of play. With 16 minutes gone, the Dee continued to press forward having once again broken through the Bangor line. Some slick passing from right to left found the Dee winger who ran in to score the first try of the day in the left hand corner and, with the conversion missed, re-take the lead by 3-8.
Having let the earlier game at Donaldson Park get too far away from them, Bangor knew that a quick response was needed. Most of the following play was in the Donaghadee twenty two, with Bangor patiently building their attacking platform. Although several waves were repelled by a stubborn Dee defence, persistence finally paid off when Andrew Jackson was driven over the line to score and level the scores once again.
Another successful penalty, this time by Neil Cuthbertson, put Bangor narrowly in front by 11-8 as the first half drew to a close.
One often wonders what magic words (or otherwise) are conjured up in the team huddle at half time. It may sound simple, but when play resumes Bangor appear to have identified the problems of the first half, and put together a plan to correct these in the second. As the Dee re-started the game, it is unlikely that their half time talk prepared them for what was to come.
Having immediately raised the tempo, an early Bangor attack was halted by the Dee centre killing the ball, and earning a yellow card as a result. From the penalty and subsequent line-out that followed, the well-proven ‘catch and drive’ was put to good effect, with Jamie Clegg getting the ball down in the right hand corner. The kick was missed, making the score 16-8.
At this early stage in the second half, the game was still wide open. Donaghadee’s big forwards worked hard in both the set pieces and rucks, but the positional kicking was not always as effective. On one such occasion, the high ball was safely taken in the Bangor twenty two by Richard Corbett who brought play infield before passing to Jason Morgan in the centre. Having then split the Dee back line with a great injection of pace, Morgan passed to full back Josh Devitt who had the simplest of runs to score under the posts. With Cuthbertson adding the extras, Bangor’s lead had stretched to 23-8.
It took just another 3 minutes to add a fourth try, and with it the bonus point. Once again, the move started deep in Bangor territory, with Mark Widdowson jinking his way towards the 10 metre line. Although well tackled, he managed to off-load to Morgan who advanced the move towards the Dee twenty two. Although Morgan’s path to the line was blocked, he made a well-timed pass outside to Curtis Stewart who came steaming up the left wing to score. The conversion was missed, but in the space of 10 minutes, Bangor had secured the bonus point and taken complete control as their lead was now 28-8.
As some Dee heads started to drop, and with a quarter of the game remaining, Bangor now went for the jugular. Another good combination of ball-handling and support play saw Morgan rewarded for his hard work, gathering a pop pass by Mike Weir to score under the posts. Jackson recorded his second try of the day 5 minutes later, rounding off a great move started by Ricky Armstrong, and then powerfully taken on by James Henly, before rounding the last defender to score. A further 5 minutes elapsed before Morgan got his second try, courtesy of an excellent run down the left wing by prop Phil Whyte. The rout was completed by Devitt who intercepted a loose Dee pass in his own twenty two before running the length of the pitch to top off a sparkling performance. With Cuthbertson converting all these tries, the final score had leapt to a comprehensive 56-8 victory.
This was another great Bangor performance that completely justified the final result. For the Dee, this may just have been a game too far in such a short period. However, on current form, Bangor have shown themselves to be a force to contend with, and with just 2 more league games remaining, will want to maintain this form and finish hard on Portadown’s heels. For Donaghadee’s part, their recent run of good results has placed them safely in the middle of the table, and their focus now will be on a testing Towns Cup semi-final at Ballynahinch. It would be fair to say that despite our close rivalry, we at Bangor wish them every success.
Bangor side: P Whyte, A Jackson, J Harrison, C Stewart (F Black), R Corbett, R Latimer, J Henly (P Dornan), J Clegg (c), R Armstrong, M Thompson, M Widdowson, J Morgan, M Weir, N Cuthbertson, J Devitt
Subs: F Black, P Dornan
Bangor scores: A Jackson (2T), J Clegg (1T), J Devitt (2T), C Stewart (1T), J Morgan (2T), N Cuthbertson (1P, 5C), M Thompson (1P)
Local IPMS club project.
CVN-65 USS Enterprise 1/350 Tamiya
My assignment is construction of the Island
with Photo Etched details.
Our local police officer came out to talk to the 2015 graduating class about safety and what could potentially happen if they are not minding their P's and Q's.
SM42 2238 is depicted here about to leave Janikowo yard with a local trip to the nearby chemical works on 23 September, 2013.
The Old Peculiar, Handsacre, Stafordshire
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Situated in the village of Handsacre, the old peculiar is a free house and takes its name from the landlords favourite tipple. Theakstons, Old Peculiar.
Shot on a tour of local pubs. April 2011 Ref 71-138
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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox with support from Gunhild Carling at the Colston Hall in Bristol on Monday 20th March 2017
The meat packers. A series of portraits featuring a group of man working the graveyard shift at the local slaughter house and the market. These photos were taken between 5 and 8 in the morning, while the loads and loafs of flesh were lugged from their bloody meat wagons onto the stalls.
LONDON, ON - SEPTEMBER 17: Round One of the Mackenzie PGA Tour Canada Freedom 55 Financial at Highland Country Club on September 17, 2015 in London, Ontario, Canada. Photo: (Claus Andersen/Mackenzie PGA Tour Canada) *** Local Caption ***
As the bridal shower proceedings go on, on the stage (behind me as I photograph this), a local village church choir has in the meantime got all dressed up in their traditional colours and ready to sing at the bridal shower. My son and I are here in the tiny village of Pharung in the North East Indian state of Manipur to attend a wedding, and this is the bridal shower on the day prior to the wedding. The orange- black colour of the shawls these ladies are wearing represents one particular tribe. Other tribes in the neighbourhood have different colour codes like green and black, yellow and black etc. This uniform colour of all the ladies here is indication enough that all of them belong to the same tribe. Almost everyone in Pharung village is related to everyone else, so the whole village is in effect one big family. So there is a sense of belonging and a family spirit at occasions like this. (Pharung Village near Ukhrul, Manipur, NE India, Jan. 2020)
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I walked by this police station every day on my way to the office, and not once, did I see a single police officer inside! In fact, I rarely ever saw a police officer in uniform period.
Photo memories Vietnam holiday 2008
Arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) as start of the tour.
Visited the famous Cho Binh Tay market, The old post office,
some war museums in the city center including a walk around the reunification Palace.
Sidetrip from the city is a daytrip to the Cao Dai Temple and the
Cu Chi Tunnel complex
Next part of the tour is heading south to the Mekong Delta and Can-Tho, including a visit to the floating market.
From the Mekong delta the tour is heading north again, visiting coastal places Phan-Thiet, Nha-Trang and qiu-Nhon.
Hoi-an and Hue are both Unesco World Heritage sites and well worth to visit.
Passing the DMZ-zone, the scenery changes quickly.
The Phong-Nha and Tan-Coc caves are amazing.
Almost at the end of the tour, we bumped into the crazy Hanoi traffic in the old city center.
The citytour included a visit to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum,
the Army museum and best of all ice coffee at 'Highlands Coffee'
Last part included Unesco World Heritage at Halong Bay
Stop-over in Hong-Kong on the way Home !
Hundreds of guests and local officials turned out for the official announcement of the 2020 Frida Kahlo Exhibition coming to the Cleve Carney Gallery at the College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center. The 26-piece collection, on loan from the Museo Dolores Olmedo, is the largest private collection of Kahlo’s works.
In Chicago, there always seem to be police cars at protests, if nothing more than to just block the traffic.
So I kind of find it's a dirty trick to include cops and their cars in the protest pictures. I guess it adds drama when there is no drama.
With that said, I thought the police SUV framed this shot nicely, so I included it.
SEIU Local 1 members marched from the Chicago Board of Trade to the Willis Tower Thursday, March 8 2012 to celebrate International Women's Day and to call on corporations to give them fair pay.
With an annual wage that is $20,000 below the cost of living for a family, women janitors in Chicago are struggling to provide for their families.
At the same time, the corporations whose offices these janitors clean are making record profits- the Chicago Board of Trade alone profited $1.8 billion in 2011.