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Remember the "floaters" I shot and posted in winter? I thought they were coneflowers, but I was mistaken. THIS is the flower that becomes the empty floater! Just look at the flower head where the petals aren't covering it and compare it to the winter shot posted below. Looks like the same flower head to me.
Thanks to Laura/rowrlm for the ID!!
This morning Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk presented his priorities for the six-month presidency of the EU Council of Ministers.
Poland's overall aim is to get the EU back on track towards faster economic growth and an enhanced political community.
The Council presidency will focus on three priorities: European integration as the source of growth, Secure Europe and Europe benefiting from openness.
According to Tusk, "the answer to the crisis is more Europe".
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With short notice, today provided a short and unexpected window of opportunity where the chance elements of weather, my work schedule, my parenting schedule, and aircraft availability all magically lined up.
At the last minute, I texted a friend, who had the day off who had expressed interest in flying with me. She's new to Oregon, and didn't know if she'd seen the Columbia Gorge before.
And what a treat. Large areas that still fall under the shadow of the cascades had plenty of snow left.
After a right downwind departure from KTTD, I flew eastward into the Gorge. With the help of air traffic controllers, I avoided no less than three helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft also taking advantage of the temporary break in the weather.
Passing Vista House (aka Crown Point) where the turbulence is usually moderate to extreme, I found the winds calm. Where I'd normally climb to 3,000 ft to get into smoother air, it was just fine at 1,500 ft, which is far better for aerial photography.
Past Cascade Locks, over the town of Hood River and into the draw where the bulk of the town sits, then continuing east to the leeward side of the Cascades, the terrain goes from lush forest to desert as you approach the town of The Dalles.
I had planned to land at The Dalles (an uncontrollled airport) and grab some coffee, and I cut across a bend in the river to overfly the town as I cut the throttle and began a descent.
I self-announced "The Dalles traffic, Skyhawk Two Mike Romeo is 5 miles west, entering the 45 for a left downwind for runway three one. The Dalles."
No answer. Quiet day this far east.
Entering the pattern from 45 degrees into the downwind leg, now parallel to the runway off to my left, it looked like the runway was covered in ice. Hmm.
I keyed the mic, "The Dalles traffic, Skyhawk Two Mike Romeo on left downwind for runway three one. The Dalles." Nobody else on the radio.
I eyed the windsock. Nothing. Automated weather had broadcast winds at 4 knots, straight down the runway. Not remotely a concern, but I'm not liking what still looks like ice.
Abeam the end of approach end of runway 31, I drop down to 1500 RPM, roll back one full wheel of trim, and let my airspeed drop until I can put in 10 degrees of flaps, still eye-balling the runway, now behind my left shoulder.
I descend 200 ft, and make a 90 degree turn to my left, putting in 20 degrees or flaps, and again, self-announce "The Dalles, Two Mike Romeo on left base for three one."
Drop another 300 ft, make another 90 degree turn, and now 500 ft above the runway and nicely lined up, "The Dalles, Two Mike Romeo on final for three one...uhhh... this will be a low approach".
This means I'm not actually going to land. I can't tell if the runway is wet, or if it's a block of ice. I know the temperature is above freezing, but I don't really need that coffee.
I descend until I'm 50 ft above the runway, the fly down the centerline, close the carburetor heat, add power, and slowly raise my flaps until I'm past the runway and have plenty of speed, climbing up and away.
Aside from a few pockets of mild turbulence, we fly at a slow and leisurely 2000 ft all the way back until I'm 10 miles east of KTTD.
I contact air traffic control, and I'm advised to make a straight-in arrival and call them back when I'm 2 miles out.
No pattern this time. I pass Crown Point at 1000 ft, wave to the crowds of tourists that aren't there, and fly my approach down to a nice smooth landing just an hour before the overcast and visibility start to drop.
Not a bad day!
People look at me like I'm crazy when I answer the question of what color my new kitchen is. Turquoise mist with red accents. So, here is one of the two inspiration pieces for the colors. I'll post pictures of the other later.
This one is special to me though. I love old signs. 50's and 60's neon signs are real favorites of mine. I have hundreds of pictures of old signs all over the south. So, of course, I am drawn to other photographers who take pictures of signs. (Birds of a feather..... obsessions of a feather.... something like that.)
This particular sign (in above photo) was in Meridian all of my childhood and well into my adult years. I loved the sign and always meant to photograph it. So one day I had a couple of hours to kill before picking up my daughter and I decided to stop and take pictures of this sign. I got my camera out of the car and started setting up and my phone rang. It was my best friend (I probably never told her this story because it's a little sad) telling me that her daughter was in a pageant that night and the show's planners had failed to get a photographer and would I please come take pictures of her adorable baby girl. I started to take pictures of the sign before going to the pageant but decided that I would just get caught up in shooting and end up being late, so I put my camera away with plans to come back later.
I did come back two days later to take the pictures. And the sign was GONE! It had been dismantled and was laying on the ground on something like large pallets. I never did find out where the sign went to but I like to believe it went to a good home and has been stood back up in all its glory.
The next year I was at Kentuck shortly after Katrina. I was drawn to this photographer Daryl Thetford with great photos of great signs all over the south, including the one pictured above. I bought one of his photos. You'll find it hanging in my bathroom if you visit. It is a photo of a sign from Valdosta Georgia I believe. It says "Nude Dancing Down by the Lake". How could I *NOT* buy that picture? As I paid for my purchase, I told him my story of the Nelva Court sign (pictured above) and how I went back for pictures, and it was gone forever.
I walked away with my purchase but about the time I got to the next booth he caught up with me and gave me a copy of this photo. It really touched me. I'm sure I was in a perpetual overly-emotional state right after Katrina and any act of kindness is forever branded in my mind. But also, having this sign makes me a little less sad that I did not get to photograph it myself. It's not the picture I would have taken. It's framed differently, I'm sure. But it's such a great photo. When I look at it, I remember to do those things I really want to do today because they might not be there tomorrow. (I also get this while driving along the coast remembering all of the signs I missed taking pictures of.) And I knew that he understands why I do so much of what I do. When I take pictures of old signs or barns or bridges, it's an act of documenting an integral part of our culture that is fading, and once it's gone it will be forgotten except by those of us who are slightly obsessed with memorializing it.
So, this is one of the two inspiration pieces for my new kitchen. The other is a wooden sign that says, "I kiss better than I cook." :-)
Of course this just means one more photo in my house not taken by me so my mother can ask why if I am a photographer I don't just hang my own pictures on the wall. Sort of like people ask why, since I am a jewelry artisan, I wear other people's jewelry. I know, I'm impossible.
Now, go check out Daryl Thetford's work. He's a great photographer. And I don't just say that because there is so much overlap in our subjects. (I see the moon winx as well as several others that I have shot.) I really need to order a couple more of his photos.
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President Biden and his mounting dilemmas -- MSNBC interview of Rep. James Clyburn
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Curley: Media finally catching on to Biden’s dysfunctional presidency
Opinion by Grace Curley
The legacy media have finally started publishing palace-intrigue pieces about the flailing Biden White House.
It is about damn time.
After four years of hearing about the supposed chaos that permeated the Trump administration, journalists treated Biden’s transition into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. a little differently.
When the 46th president took over, the slobbering puff pieces were comical.
Last October, The New York Times described Biden as a man “obsessed with getting the details right” who had little patience for advisers who could not “field his many questions.”
Eight months and countless calamities later, even the most fawning Democrat cheerleaders in the press can’t bring themselves to publish that kind of blather.
The idea of Biden as Socratic statesman has gone from questionable to laughable. Now the outlets are pivoting to a topic they have been doing their best to avoid for years: the truth.
This week, NBC News ran a piece titled, “Inside a Biden White House adrift.” It described managerial breakdowns in the administration and infighting rippling through Democrat factions (left, far left and even further left).
In the middle of all the dysfunction wanders a frustrated — and whiny — Joe Biden.
More than two dozen current and former administration officials, lawmakers and Congressional aides spoke to NBC on the usual condition of anonymity.
According to these sources, Biden is “mystified” and “really twisted” about the fact that his approval rating is lower than Trump’s.
He is also “unhappy” that his aides rush out to clean up his blunders and not enough Democrats defend him on television.
Biden is “frustrated” that he can’t catch a break from the non-stop problems (most of which he has created). He is “annoyed” that he “wasn’t alerted sooner about the baby formula shortage.”
If it makes Joe feel any better, I think most Americans are just as disgruntled about his presidency as he is.
On the same day as NBC’s unflattering scoop, Politico detailed the exodus of Black staffers from the White House. According to staffers of color who haven’t fled yet, the driving forces behind the departures is a “work environment with little support from their superiors and fewer chances for promotion.”
Later in the week, CNN ran a piece titled, “Beneath Biden’s struggle to break through is a deeper dysfunction among White House aides.” It described the president’s attempts to address the mushrooming problems plaguing the country while also being the “looser, happier, more sympathetic, lovingly Onion-parody inspiring, aviator-wearing, vanilla chip cone-licking guy — an image that was the core of why he got elected in the first place.”
The fact that the image of an old man licking an ice cream cone and wearing sunglasses was “the core” of why many Americans voted for him — well, I think CNN inadvertently explained why the country is in the current shape it is in. It’s called the Dumbing Down of America.
But people are wising up. Going broke concentrates the mind wonderfully.
The public wants to know what is happening behind the closed doors at Casa de Grampa. If Biden and his staff are this incompetent in front of the cameras, it is hard to fathom how dazed and confused things must be behind the scenes. Which is why Joe’s handlers are hell bent on keeping the inner-workings of this Charlie Foxtrot under wraps.
Take the baby formula shortage.
This week, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell questioned Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about which administration official briefed the president on the shortage. It should have been an easy question for Jean-Pierre.
But Jen Psaki’s successor said, “there are just regular channels that that happen that go to the president.”
O’Donnell said the administration’s refusal to answer the question looked evasive and that reporters were trying to “understand the information flow in this White House.”
Picking up where O’Donnell left off, CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe attempted to get a clear answer about the confusing timeline of the shortage.
O’Keefe asked if Biden was told about the shortage in late April, to which Jean-Pierre replied, “Well, he said — in late April — right? — and this…”
O’Keefe corrected her, “He said in early April.”
A visibly flustered Jean-Pierre stammered, “In — in April. I’m sorry. In April. Okay. He said in April — in early April.”
The administration that promised the “highest standards of transparency” has gone from refusing to release the visitor logs at Biden’s frequently visited Delaware mansion to struggling to answer reporters’ most basic questions.
These liberal outlets are starting to cover the breakdown of the Biden presidency, not because they want to, but because the cone-licker-in-chief’s undeniable failures have left them no choice.
The emperor has no clothes and state-run media’s crack scribes are reporting on it — as they did with Hunter Biden’s laptop, the efficacy of masks and Hillary Clinton’s multiple FBI-enabled Russia hoaxes — two years too late.
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...to the question silently floated by. Like the clouds above, it was there, obvious, and yet, could not be touched.
I don't even know where to begin with this one. Its a t-shirt... for wearing. In public.
I will only say that you would never find anything like this for sale in any country other than America. Not even in seriously Catholic 1980's Ireland.
Front page from the Daily Mail, Saturday 30th June 2007. Later the same day a car stuffed with incendiary materials was deliberately driven at Terminal 1, Glasgow International Airport. Twenty four hours before a friend of ours had her car parked at almost the same spot...
Relevant blog post here.
Ms. Kim is an excellent example of how a supportive administrative staff member can help make life easier for both students and professors alike.
Little Folks pre-school. Jeff doesn't seem too happy, but it was pretty good as far as these kind of places go. I have quite a few memories from this place. I remember this place as being a massive complex with many rooms and levels, but of course thats only because I was so small.
My shoes kept coming untied and the ladies there tied and retied them endlessly. One day a kid said he was going to get his dad's M-16 and "get you" to a teacher. She laughed and said "I don't think you could pick up an M-16."
There was a time called "Snack Time" during which they gave us a beverage that was "never enough." We sang songs like the ABCs and also something in French, which I can't remember now. I didn't like singing the ABCs because I felt that we had done it too many times and it wasn't really a song, just the letters to a tune.
Nearly all the kids were kind except for two assholes who would go around messing up whatever you were working on. I wonder how they turned out as adults.
There were some big wheels to ride on, they were fun. Then there was nap time. I hated nap time. One of my happiest moments came at the beginning of nap time when my mom came and sprang me out of there. It has to be how a prisoner feels when he's sprang from jail. Anyway, we went to Dunkin' Donuts and I was happy to have a half day.
There was one kid who would cry for a few minutes every time he was dropped off. The other kids and I felt bad for him, but also wanted him to shut up. One day we blew on water with straws and made waves and the teacher explained that this is how wind makes waves on the lakes. When a kid got into trouble the other kids would make a specific sound "ooooooooaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" that started with low pitch and moved to high pitch. If a kid was really bad there might be multiple cycles of this sound. I only received this sound of guilt once and that was for not sharing enough. It worked, though, because I shared more after that. There was a playground out back and I remember asking and telling other kids our ages. Kids would give answers like "Four and three quarters" since most kids were 3 or 4 years old. I recall noticing how the ladies that watched us would toss their hair a lot and though that was an odd thing to do. Anyway, I went here from age 3 and 1/2 to 5 and 1/4 by my best recollection.
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CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin holding a sign as she and others circled outside the White House's north fence, advocating against possible U.S. intervention in the Syrian Civil War.
Washington, DC / September 7, 2013
Athan finally gave his excited response to his mother's question. Sadly, I don't know recall the answer was but he was excited to say it.
"The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind"
(Found abandoned in a strong wind - Solomons, Maryland.)
Song of the Day: "Blowing in the Wind" - (Bob Dylan) sung by Joan Baez
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Olivia demonstrates that the GO line in Stouffville cannot be used as promised by John Tory. (Photo by Brian de Rivera Simon)
In celebration of GIS Day, teams of military and civilian UNIFIL peacekeepers participated in a competitive rally event. Teams had to identify locations based on map-related clues and answer a series of UN and GIS-related questions as quickly as possible. Naqoura, 17 November 2021. Photo by Pasqual Gorriz/UN
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
There are 3 PCBs mounted in the main chassis. At the top, the small PCB contains an audio oscillator to produce a warning tone if the announcement tape is not properly loaded.
In the middle (on the slant, next to the announcement solenoid) is a 2-transistor latch circuit to turn on an indicator lamp if the announcement has been played -- that is that the machine has answered a call -- so that it is worth checking for messages on the tape.
At the bottom is the audio output amplifier to drive the speaker. Curiously, the driver stage and the driver transformer are on the main PCB, resulting in a lot of connections between the two.
Olivia answers questions regarding her plans for crime prevention at Ephraim's Place Community Centre. (Photo by Tim Ehlich)