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Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Tourism, Ministry of Tourism of Egypt speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
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Created by Phillipsburg High School, Phillipsburg, KS
Artists: Emily, Julius, Sara
Title: From Coast to Coast, Derrick Rose, Life Story
Teacher: Julie Peterson-Shea
Theme: Overcoming Adversity
Materials: Acrylic paint, colored pencil, marker
About: When immigrants first started to settle in the midwest there were no roads and it was a difficult life. In order to survive these people had to adapt and be creative. For example since there was little wood available people build dugouts and sod houses. For heat they burnt buffalo droppings. Those hardy people made the towns around where I live and the roads connecting them possible.
Emily
Derrick Rose, in his first four years of his NBA career. Derrick was the rookie of the year, three-time all-star, he even won an MVP award, the youngest person to ever do it. In the 2012 first-round playoffs, Derrick was doing a hop-step and tore his ACL. After that, Derrick was out for the entire next season and returned in the 2013-14 season, Derrick then consecutively consistently got injured, he tore his right meniscus twice. After being traded to the Knicks, then the Cavaliers, then eventually landed on the Minnesota Timberwolves. After being traded so many times, the entire media, interviewers, sports commentators, doubted him, saying his career was over, saying he should retire. Derrick went to rehab, working on his comeback for years, doing leg workouts, with medicine balls, jump rope, balancing himself, doing cardio on the treadmill. Derrick didn’t let all of the comments, all of the hate he received, faze him. In 2018-19, Derrick had a breakout season. On Halloween, against the Utah Jazz, Derrick dropped 50 points, his now career high. Later in the season, against the Los Angeles Lakers, Derrick made 7 three-pointers, a career-high. Now, in the 2019-20 season, Derrick is having a near all-star season, averaging 20 points per game, and 6 assists per game.
Julius
My brother had a dream of working with sound and lights as a job in Branson, MO but those jobs do not exhist in the small town where we live so he had to find a way to learn how to do sound and lights. To learn about how to work with sound and lights he volunteered at our church where he ran the sound board and lights for services and programs. He also had a job and saved money so that he could move to Brandon and work at his dream job. After he had saved up enough money he applied for sound and lighting jobs online in Branson, MO and he was hired! My brother had to find ways to make his dream come true.
Sara
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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
- Helen Keller
A cowgirl works through the pole bending course in the rain -- while I work around wranglers and dads. It never changes. Overcoming obstacles is just part of the charm of rodeo.
From the Georgia High School Rodeo Association event in Madison, Georgia.
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©Don Brown 2019
I was in the area of the Clairton Coke Works and decided to take some pictures of this incredibly polluting facility. I was nearly overcome by the horrendous smell downwind of the plant. PennFuture has announced their intention to sue for violations relating to clean air (and possibly other violations). Here's an article with that announcement: www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2016/01/29/PennFuture-in... . Note: It is my understanding that the large puffy white plumes are made of water. That said, the smell downwind of the facility was so unbelievably horrible-smelling that I can't even imagine what else besides water is coming out of that facility. My naked eye observed a multitude of small smokey emissions coming from all around the facility.
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SO much to do within the next two weeks before the end of school. Just thinking about it has me overly stressed....BUT I am going to a dubstep paint party tonight!!!:] It's gonna be great! I'll try and snap some pictures before I get too messy. lol
Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Tourism, Ministry of Tourism of Egypt speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Small abandoned building lurking out from the overgrowth. Taken in Crandon in Forest County, Wisconsin.
"It’s a wonderful feeling to expand beyond your national boundary" and "it’s easier to find solutions when we come together," Nandita Das says. Having faith in one’s own conviction is what is needed to overcome challenges she adds.
Hear, see and read more:
Nandita Das on politics of identity - At The First Regional Conference of SAWM (South Asian Women in Media) ~ Oct 10, 2009
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American film actress and former top model Kim Basinger (1953) won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in L.A. Confidential (1997). Her other films include Never Say Never Again (1983), Nine ½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989), and 8 Mile (2002). She was married to actor Alec Baldwin from 1993 to 2001.
Kimila Ann Basinger was born in 1953, in Athens, Georgia. She comes from an entertainment background. Her father was a musician, who played big-band jazz and her mother was a dancer, who had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. As a schoolgirl, she was very shy. To help her overcome this, her parents had Kim study ballet from an early age. At 16, Basinger branched out into beauty pageants. She won the title of Junior Miss Georgia and competed at the national Junior Miss event in New York City. While in New York, Basinger caught the eye of a modelling agent at the Ford Modeling Agency. She soon landed a contract and first gained fame as a model for Breck Shampoo. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model commanding $1,000 a day. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads. In the mid-1970s, Basinger moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She landed several small parts at first, making guest appearances on such shows as Charlie's Angels. In 1978, Basinger starred in the TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold. She portrayed Lorene Rogers in the miniseries From Here to Eternity (1979) and its short-lived spin-off series the following year. In 1980, she married make-up artist Ron Snyder (they divorced in 1989). Basinger made her film debut in the Western drama Hard Country (David Greene, 1981) with Jan-Michael Vincent. Two years later, her career started to skyrocket with the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (Irvin Kershner, 1983) starring Sean Connery and Basinger as the 'Bond girl'. More major film projects soon followed, including The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984) with Robert Redford, and the steamy romance 9 1/2 Weeks (Adrian Lyne, 1986) with Mickey Rourke. She played a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (Robert Benton, 1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) with Michael Keaton. Kim was a last-minute replacement for Sean Young. This took her to a career-high. Financial success also came along with her newfound fame. But Basinger became known for her unusual business decisions. In 1989, she and some other investors bought the town of Braselton, in her native Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger sought to make the community near Atlanta a tourist destination, but she ended up selling it five years later as she faced personal bankruptcy.
While making The Marrying Man (Jerry Rees, 1991), Kim Basinger fell for her co-star Alec Baldwin. The pair wed in 1993, becoming one of Hollywood's most attractive yet volatile couples. Basinger and Baldwin welcomed their only child together in 1995. They named their daughter Ireland. Kim took some time off to stay at home with her child. Basinger's career had floundered a bit. In 1993, she found herself in an intense legal battle after breaking a verbal agreement to appear in Jennifer Lynch's Boxing Helena (1993). The court sided with the film's producers, ordering the actress to pay millions for breach of contract. The case was later overturned on appeal. In 1997, Basinger gave one of her greatest performances in L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) opposite Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe. She starred as a high-end prostitute with an intentional resemblance to actress Veronica Lake in this 1950s crime drama. She won an Academy Award for her work on the film. Despite this acclaim, Basinger soon appeared in more headlines than film roles. She filed for divorce from her husband Alec Baldwin in 2001 and spent years locked in a bitter custody dispute over their daughter. After her divorce, Kim Basinger took on a few acting roles. She reteamed with L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson for the rap drama 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002) in which she played the mother of Eminem. Two years later, she co-starred with Jeff Bridges in The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams, 2004) and with Chris Evans and Jason Statham in the thriller Cellular (David R. Ellis, 2004). Basinger's later films include Charlie St. Cloud (Burr Steers, 2010) with Zac Efron and Grudge Match (Peter Segal, 2013) with Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone. She has also made a return to modelling, signing with IMG Models in 2013. Kim Basinger is a strict vegetarian, who devoted energy to animal rights issues and posed for anti-fur advertisements of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Recently, she appeared in the film The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016) with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS
The SATOR Square
In this Magic Square the words read the same backwards and forwards, horizontally and vertically. It was used for protection and for overcoming danger and difficulties.
The words are Latin, and the earliest examples are from 1st century Pompeii. It was often scratched on the walls of houses, or written out on paper as a charm by cuning folk for their clients.
The exact meaning of the words is uncertain, but is probably something like. "The Creator, to whom I appeal for help, controls all our endeavours and all the changes of fortune that befall us."
An ambulance by Lloyd’s Bank on Glyndwr Road/Gwent Square. Perhaps some out of town shopper was overcome by the opulence of Cwmbran Centre!
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY. MAXIMIZING POTENTIAL.
On July 29, DAV hosted inaugural Day of Inspiration in Tampa, Florida, ahead of the 2021 DAV and Auxiliary National Convention. Veterans and active military members in the Tampa area and beyond were invited to participate in a free, one-day event to hear from nationally recognized speakers who delivered powerful stories throughout the day.
Photo by Steve Poisall/The Gallery Studios
Sheet music for “We Shall Overcome”, adapted by Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger. This song was the unofficial anthem for the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s-1970s. Part of the Civil Rights Collection at Nashville Public Library.
A Photojournalistic Documentation of how Covid-19 has affected the North, and how the North has adapted to overcome these difficulties.
Whilst the Highlands has always been popular with national and international tourists, there has been a massive rise of Scots enjoying a staycation, with camper vans and tents being the popular choice for accommodation as opposed to the hotels and hostels dotted around the North. Also on the rise are those travelling in their own cars, motorbikes, cycling and even 2 former hearses, who camp in tents at the roadside.
With the rise of staycationers, shops and restaurants have been extra vigilant to keep to the governments guidelines by measuring distancing on shop floors, having signs in shop windows to remind visitors to wear a face coverings, some shops limiting the amount of customers in at a time, offering hand sanitiser at the entrance, and many even having artwork of some form thanking the NHS for its hard work.
Not everything is fully open however, but those who can open have had to change how they operate. Tourist destinations that are able to open have had to limit the amount of customers to keep everyone safe, so for many tourists and staycationers they are opting to avoid tourist hotspots and are mostly interacting with activities they can do by themselves, so instead of visiting castles, museums and activity centres, tourists drive to beauty spots, go for walks, and are interacting with the natural landscape more. Instead of tourist hotspots like Eilean Donan Castle being queued out the door, tourists only go as far as the car park, get some photos of the castle, then leave to visit something else.
So has Highland tourism been affected by Covid-19? Yes, where folk are more cautious, shops and restaurants have signage in place requesting patrons wear face coverings, where town centres are quieter than usual, where public toilets have signage, where campsites won’t allow motorhomes unless they have on-board toilets, where almost every lay-by in the evening has someone camping overnight. So whilst it has affected the tourist season it hasn’t stopped tourism, if anything the Highlands are busier than normal due to a massive rise in staycationers, it’s made tourist and locals alike be more careful, where local community councils are making sure there are toilet facilities available or trowels left in camping locations to bury human waste, where hand sanitiser is available at popular tourist destinations, shops and public toilets, where many shops have upgraded their payment options where previously they only accepted cash, many have modernised and installed card payments.
So yes, it’s been affected, but the most notable negative impact is that businesses are losing trade as less folk are spending money in restaurants, shops and tourist hotspots, so whilst there is an increase in visitors to the Highlands, there is a decrease in money being spent.
All in all, the North has been doing a fantastic job with its Covid-19 precautions, they’re taking it seriously and making sure visitors are safe.
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The Elliott School of International Affairs and the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs at George Washington University hosted a panel featuring three International Women of Courage (IWOC) honorees and Ambassador Reuben Brigety, Dean of the Elliott School. The IWOC award recognizes women around the globe who have demonstrated exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality, and women’s empowerment, often at great personal risk and sacrifice.
Today I finished a big essay which has been stressing me for a few weeks now (along with other deadlines as well!). Had a few ideas for photos along the way to express how I felt. Took the opportunity to snap a few before returning books to the library.
Tenuous Link: well
Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Members of the Class of 2025 complete the First Year Orientation Program obstacle course at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, on September 17, 2021.
The obstacle course is an annual tradition at RMC to mark the entry of the first-year class in to Cadet Wing. It requires the newest officer cadets of the college to work as teams to overcome 12 challenges over a two-hour, 2.5-kilometre course across the historic peninsula on the shores of Lake Ontario. It is a course designed to test them physically and mentally, and prove their individual leadership qualities, and their cohesion as a team.
Images photographed at RMC, CFB Kingston.
Image by: Master Corporal Rod Doucet, CASC, CFB Kingston
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Mom and I are TERRIFIED of spiders. So while at the museum we decided to overcome our fears and hold the two tarantulas they had out for people to handle. They were actually very soft feeling and light as a feather. My only regret is that no one was around to take my picture as proof. These are my mom's hands.
A blind Asian elephant uses it's powerful trunk to overcome her disability to feed herself. Chiang Mai, Thailand
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan speaking during the Session: Overcoming Fault Lines at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo