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Yeah that silly grin sez it all..... I'm happy anytime I'm around any vintage piece of machinery.
I believe my daughters call this, pathetic! OOH WELL, whatever floats your boat I always say.
Now how do I get this thing in my garage is the question?
One final picture from our search last weekend. Actually its a panoramic made up of six pictures that shows the starting point of our search. I think I have made better panoramics then this one however I like this one because you can see some of the friends of the missing man on the cliffs watching the searchers below.
The sun was just out of the frame to the top right which made matching the lighting in the six pictures very difficult.
Urban art exhibition
Artwork by: Sakristan, Sosaku Miyazaki, Chet Purtilar, MWM, Albert Bertolin, Diva, Jon Burgerman ,Meomi, 310k, Evgeny Kiselev, Tofer, Cristiano Trindade, Jinyoung Shin, Zosen, Sergei Sviatchenko.
Another shot from our recent visit to the Lake District, in particluar Derwent Water at Keswick.
It's the same jetty as my previous upload, just a slightly different perspective and processed as a mono image to add to the moody atmosphere that the dull and grey weather provided!
Looks like he is entering his escaping period , caught him climbing and sniffing a few times and when he sees i notice he nonchalantly gets back down and walks back into his house.
Looking Out...
I finally learned the importance of always having your camera with you. I was on my way out to run an errand when I noticed this huge buck along the side of our pond. I didn't have my camera with me! I cafefully yet quickly turned my car around and went inside to grab my camera. I was thrilled when I drove back by that it was still just laying there! I took a few shots looking out my car window and left for my errands.
At first I thought that I was "Looking Out" at him, but after looking at my shots, I think he was "Looking Out" at me!
Tantivy Leyland Swift No.8 sits among Libertybus vehicles at the bus operators St Helier depot 30/09/21
This is the first photo of the "Grunged Out" series. It is located in an abandoned building not far from where I am living, The broken shutters and window posed as a perfect backdrop for my first photo. Model: Christine
Strobist: 1 Metz 45cl camera left, 1 Nikon SB24 camera right and low, with the sun casting a nice rim light.
© Picture It Media 2008
As I wait to photograph a northbound train, Zac keeps a look out for anything coming from the Edinburgh direction.
Taken at Seton on the 2nd February 2018
So I just got back from Johor Bahru :) My exams are over but now I have to face the results and I can say that their gonna be bad. This is what we call 'ayam penyet' here which mean flat chicken? Lol. They just flatten the chicken to bring out the flavors apparently. This was a good night.
And I've reached 500 views so thanks everyone! :)
I was surprised to find a Moxie Teenz girl at a thrift store. She came with this LIV wig and the clothing. I added the necklace and the earrings.
Patsy Evans holes ot.
For A Better World Play Golf On The Moon
Playing Golf on the Moon (with David Bowie) Hole 2
Tim Wright and Paul Conneally Feb 2007
The green is in Mile End Arts Pavillion and forms part of Paul Conneally's installation 'For A Better World - Play Golf On The Moon'. The piece come out of a 'ren' a linking with Tim Wright's work 'Play Golf On The Moon (with David Bowie)' and is the second hole of that project. Tim has talked about how works between artists can link in a way that's a bit like playing tag, Paul sees the process as part of his ongoing renga practise - pieces not just linking but also shifting - mirroring the 'link and shift' that is at the heart of the renga process. The passing back and forth the linking and shifting between works and the assertion that the works together are in fact part of a whole forming some kind of gestalt when viewed in this way whilst also work as concepts as pieces in their own right. 'For A Better World - Play Golf On The Moon' links directly with 'Playing Golf On The Moon (with David Bowie)' and shifts by bringing in an environmental element. The artist asks us to think about how environmentally friendly golf courses and their management are. On the surface golf courses look green and pleasant but are they environmentally friendly? In this piece the Conneally urges 'For A Better world Play Golf On the Moon'
'Play Golf On The Moon' also links directly with 'The Renewabilty Haiku Hike' a piece undertaken by Conneally with artist Tomomi Iguchi - the image on the wall to the left is a simulation of Tim Wright playing 'Golf on The Moon' on a section of The Greenway that formed part of the Renewabilty Haiku Hike across the London Olympic Development Site. Ideas now emerging after Conneally, Wright and Gordon Joly played Hole 2 from Arnold Circus to Mile End Arts Pavillion include that as golf has been called by some 'a good walk spoiled' the participants of 'Golf on the Moon' tee off then pick up their golfballs and pocket them alowing them to walk through and engage with the surroundings share stories and memories take photographs etc on their way to the green where they then take out the golfballs place them on the green and hole out. This process could be used to collect materials, build narratives and engage with the areas walked through in new ways and might produce works that amongst other things might inform the future planning and community concerns of the areas walked through.
Another from the water skiing session, you have to try this as it really is fun, just keep a tight hold on the camera! The D3 is an awesome bit of kit.
Chicago and Cook County are not the only city and county in the country giving money out with no question asked. More and more "blue" regions are doing that. With welfare payments and EBT cards, the recipients are restricted to use the money to buy daily necessities. But these new programs have no restrictions whatsoever. So the recipients can use the cash to buy guns, drugs and/or alcohol! ☹️
The program is not based on needs either. Here's the link to the application. The only criterium is being a resident of Chicago.
cloud.citynews.chicago.gov/cash_pilot_updates_2
Which best describes your interest in the pilot?
▫️I applied to enter the lottery
▫️I’m a member of the media
▫️I am a guaranteed income researcher, advocate, policymaker, or implementor
▫️I’m a curious member of the public
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$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income
CHICAGO — Christopher Ellington’s South Side photography studio crashed in 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. By March 2021, he was scraping by on a tax preparation and financial advice business when gunshots rang out one day as he was leaving work. Two bullets from a drive-by shooter pierced his head and left him permanently blind.
The creditors were closing in, the rent notices piling up. And then a helping hand came late last summer from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration: the first of a year’s worth of monthly $500 checks, with no strings attached and almost no questions asked.
“Talk about shock,” said Ellington, 32. “It was ‘Hey, the government is doing this? Wait a minute. I don’t have to, you know, report this and report that, and you don’t have to go through all of my business and I don’t have to watch what I say?’ I was like, ‘This is how it should be.’”
Chicago and the surrounding suburbs of Cook County are conducting the largest experiment of its kind in the nation, an effort to supply thousands of residents with a basic level of subsistence, not in the form of food, housing or child care — just cash. Lightfoot’s $31.5 million Resilient Communities Pilot selected 5,000 city residents in August to receive a guaranteed cash income for a year. The first $500 checks from a separate program, a $42 million county pilot, went out in December to 3,250 residents concentrated in the near-in Chicago suburbs.
On Monday at its conference in Washington, which started over the weekend and runs through Tuesday, the National Association of Counties will announce a network of county-level basic income programs to match the mayoral initiatives that have sprouted to 50 cities.
Both Chicago and Cook County are tapping money sent to local governments through the 2021 pandemic relief law known as the American Rescue Plan. Both programs are administered by a group, GiveDirectly, that had been better known for helping poor people in developing nations. The city and county efforts are being assessed by social scientists at the University of Chicago.
“This was a once-in-a-lifetime moment for us to be bold and innovative,” said Brandie Knazze, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services.
For Democrats, the concept is a wager on big government at a time when faith in democratic governance is at a low ebb. For Republicans, it’s a return to discredited welfare handouts that waste money and foster dependency.
Whatever the outcome, the spread of basic income programs is a reminder of the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans, urban voters and rural conservatives, those who want more government in people’s lives and those who want less.
“There’s no indication that I see that the American public thinks what we really need is more aid to people who choose not to work,” said Robert Rector, a conservative public assistance expert at the Heritage Foundation who helped shape the welfare changes of the 1990s.
But in Democratic cities, in states deep blue and bright red, such as Columbia, South Carolina, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Birmingham, Alabama, political leaders are moving in the opposite direction. Lightfoot may be in the throes of a difficult campaign for reelection, but none of her eight rivals for the Democratic mayoral nomination before the first round of voting Feb. 28 have made an issue of her guaranteed income effort.
Instead, Lightfoot is picking a fight with the national Republican Party.
“These are the same people that didn’t want to expand health care, and look at the number of people in their communities, these ruby-red communities, that are suffering,” Lightfoot said. “These are the same people, frankly, that are attacking the very core of our democracy, demonizing being different, being the other, based upon your religion, your creed, who you love, your gender identity.”
She added: “I’m the mayor of the city of Chicago. I know what our people need.”
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Applications for Lottery to Determine Who Gets $500 Per Month For 2 Years to Open Oct. 6, Preckwinkle Announces
September 14, 2022 11:44 am
Cook County residents suffering from the economic catastrophe unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic can apply starting Oct. 6 to enter a lottery to get $500 per month for two years, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle announced Wednesday.
The program, which is expected to include 3,250 households, will launch a test of a basic-income program with $41.5 million from the federal COVID-19 relief package signed into law by President Joe Biden in March 2021, Preckwinkle said. It is the largest program in the nation.
Preckwinkle has said she is confident that making cash assistance payments directly to people struggling to make ends meet can help reduce poverty in Cook County and should be made permanent.
The deadline to apply is Oct. 21, officials said. More information is available online.
Those selected to participate in the program will get the first $500 payment in December, officials announced.
“Cook County is proud to be leading the way for government in the American guaranteed income movement,” said Preckwinkle, who is running for re-election in November. “With this historic investment, we aim to show the nation what guaranteed income at scale can achieve.”
A separate program for Chicago residents drew approximately 176,000 applications before it closed on May 13. The city’s $31.5 million program will send 5,000 Chicago families $500 per month for 12 months, officials said.
In 2021, Cook County officials used $8 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to send $600 cash assistance payments to 14,000 residents hit hard by the economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic.
To be eligible for the cash assistance program, participants must live in Cook County, be older than 18, and live in a household that earns no more than 250% of the federal poverty level, or $69,375 for a family of four, officials announced.
That would make approximately 36% of all Cook County residents eligible to apply for the pilot.
Participants already selected for the Chicago basic-income pilot program or the Evanston program cannot be selected to the Cook County program, officials said.
Cook County selected GiveDirectly, a firm operating in Africa and the United States, and Denver-based AidKit to administer the program, county officials announced. Those firms are also administering Chicago’s program.
The University of Chicago’s Inclusive Economy Lab and the university’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Inclusive Economy Lab will complete a study on the impacts of the pilot and residents’ experiences to help officials understand how the cash assistance program worked and how to determine how to make the program permanent.
More than 70% of the participants in the city’s program are women, and more than 68% are Black, according to data released by the mayor’s office on Tuesday. Most live on the city’s South and West sides, officials said.
Participants have a median annual income is $14,000, according to city data.
Contact Heather Cherone: @HeatherCherone | (773) 569-1863 | hcherone@wttw.com
July 10th, 1971
Michael Coates is "banged out" after completing apprenticeship.
Left to right
Ronnie Mills, Jim Bradley(?), George Holroyd, Richard Banks
Colin Smith, Michael, Chris Dent and Arnold Farrar who is banging the metal bucket with a clump
All images in this collection have been donated by former Courier staff
Links: Hot Metal days / Hx Courier pics / Collections
we stood in your room and laughed out loud. suddenly the laughter died and we were caught in an eye to eye. we sat on the floor and did we sit close. i could smell your thoughts and thought. do you want to touch a lot like me? too scared to say a thing. i left your house and kicked myself. i put those feelings on a shelf to die. i guess i'm not a gambling type but think of what the two of us had lost. i needed some time to think it out. 7-eleven parking lot. a toothless woman turned and stopped. i gave her a dime and a chesterfield. she leaned down and kissed my cheek. i was scared but it felt sweet. felt so sweet. she asked me if i had a name. i told her i was glued up on some chick. we sat and smoked against the wall. drank a beer felt the chill of fall. i took my car and drove it down the hill by your house. i drove so fast. the wind it couldn't cool me down, so i turned it around and came back up. you were waiting on your step, steam showing off your breath and water in your eyes. we pulled each other into one, parkas clinging on the lawn and kissed right there. said all my chicks they smoke these things and handed you a chesterfield king. held your hand and watched tv and traced the little lines along your palm.
This tiger was chilled out in comforting sleep. Tourists are able to sit nearby and take photo with the apperance of the trainer.
While I prefered taking photos and my office freind enjoyed so much be a model. He took shots with every kinds of fierce animals there including feeding to young tiger and checking hand with a big bear. While I enjoyed taking shots
The green light touched there was caused by the green plastic light filter to protect the strong sunlight there and it was a bit dark in that corner.
This was included in the seminar of my office. Its great that we could join outdoor trip togeter in hundreds.
Crocodile Farm, Pattaya
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