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A group of Sodexo chefs, along with volunteers from Toyota, Coca-Cola, Nabisco and General Mills built a life size gingerbread house and delivered it to the kids at Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. Check out these wonderful images of the construction and delivery of the gingerbread house which took 100 lbs. of icing, 150 lbs. of candy and 230 lbs. of ginger bread to build – oh and along with 350 total volunteer hours. Hats off to you. Read the story behind the gingerbread house at bit.ly/1bbFX3Q
A URL is apparently a sphere with a bunch of curved lines and dots hovering above it.
Perhaps one of the most useless diagrams I have ever seen in a piece of documentation. This is from the Nintendo DS Browser (Opera) manual. The text at the bottom is fine, but they should have just left out that diagram all together. It is worse than useless.
This was the scene here at 6:30 this morning. We were under a tornando watch and it was storming like mad. We were called out on a stand-by to a possible house fire caused by lightening.
When we arrived this is what the sky looked like. The thunder clouds were trying to break up and the blue sky was trying to peak through.
More storms and warning today. I swear, I'm going to start building an ark just as a precaution.
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As this of Juliet and her Romeo.
-- Act V, Scene III
I had a shot similar to this, but I thought this one emphasizes the kiss and lovers embrace better.
Again, this effect was done with heavy RAW editing.
I don't know what this is, but he was playing all around me while I was shooting.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of bird this is?
A young Yukon Porcupine in a mad rush to escape from a photographer's encroaching foot ..... Photo by Toshie.
Catching up with A + M over video... because weekends are all about catching up with loved ones, culture, make some art, dancing, loving, cooking + eating good food :)
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“Illiam Dhone: A Manx Historical Drama which won the Chruinnaght Gold Medal, 1924”
by J. J. Keen
Published by Yn Chruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh, as “Publication No. 1”, in 1926
Printed by S. K. Broadgate & Co. Ltd., Douglas
A seven-scene play on the life, death and aftermath of William Christian (“Illiam Dhone”).The play is a masterful handling of the contentious question of the traitor/nationalist status of Illiam Dhone in handing the island over to the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War. Kneen manages to leave the question still open in the play, despite making Dhone a very strong and heroic character.
That J. J. Kneen (1873 - 1938) was perhaps the leading Manx linguist as well as scholar and nationalist of his day would not come as a surprise after reading this play. He had a great many articles and translations to him name, although his most famous work is probably the translation the Manx National Anthem into Manx.
Kneen was a keen playwright also, writing many plays on Manx topics and themes. This play of ‘Illiam Dhone’ is a curious instance in that Kneen deals with Dhone and the complex issues surrounding him masterfully while giving the play a very strange format - effectively splitting it into three parts:
(1) the Manx “rebellion” (in which Dhone does not appear throughout the first scene, when the Derby Monarchist rule is overthrown),
(2) the arrest, trial and execution of Dhone, eleven years later,
(3) the story of Dhone son’s overcoming a rival to marry the daughter of one of Dhone’s accusers.
It should be clear what a daring opening act it is to leap straight into the rebellion, but also what a curious final act Kneen gives the play. It almost feels as if the play would be better titled, ‘Illiam Dhone and the Curse of the Clan Christian’.
Some of the characterisation is wonderful, particularly the interplay of Lady Molineux and Bishop Rutter in Scene I, where Rutter’s almost camp reactions to her outspoken attacks of the Roundheads is brilliant when set against the raucous songs that are left to us by the historical Samuel Rutter (Bishop 1660-1662/3). But this is nothing to the brilliant handling of Dhone himself, who is heroic, clearly drawn and yet vague at the same time. This is perhaps shown in one of the key lines in the play when Dhone is refusing to try to escape from the troops out to arrest him:
Christian:
Were it a crime to be a patriot, then am I a criminal indeed. I ever placed my country before aught else.
[...]
‘Twould be as well for a mouse to struggle against a lion, as for our puny little Isle to attempt to dictate to the armed forces if the English State.
[Scene III., p. 11]
A detailed biography (and bibliography) of J. J. Keen can be found here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/antiqarn/jjkneen.htm
Samuel Rutter’s biography & the drinking song that they sing in Scene I can be found here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxnb/v08p159.htm
Illiam Dhone’s Wikipedia page is here:
Avec le vent, l'oiseau avait la plume froufroutante, mais ça ne paraissait pas la contrarier plus que ça.
Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), graduate from the Regimental Orientation Program (ROP), June 9, 2014, at Summerall Field on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. ROP is a three-week program is designed to train new Soldiers in rifle movements, ceremonial marching and uniform styles unique to The Old Guard.(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Klinton Smith)
Centro Hospitalar para a Pandemia de Covid-19 – Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI/Fiocruz) – Rio de Janeiro Brasil -
Em continuidade às ações de enfrentamento à pandemia do novo coronavírus, a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) construiu em menos de dois meses uma unidade hospitalar destinada a pacientes graves contaminados pela doença. Localizado em Manguinhos, sede da Fundação no Rio de Janeiro, o Centro Hospitalar para a Pandemia de Covid-19 – Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI/Fiocruz) contém 200 leitos: 120 destinados ao tratamento intensivo e 80 ao tratamento semi-intensivo.
Construído em regime emergencial para unir esforços no fortalecimento da rede de saúde, o hospital possui características específicas. Todos os leitos contam com um sistema de isolamento com pressão negativa do ar, específico para infecções por aerossóis. No interior dos quartos, que são individuais, uma tubulação é responsável por sugar o ar contaminado que passa por um sistema de filtragem antes de ser eliminado por chaminés instaladas na parte externa da construção. Há, ainda, uma central de tratamento de esgoto própria, concebida para tratar resíduos com o novo coronavírus e garantir destino seguro do efluente gerado.
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