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This was the last day of breast cancer awareness month. Interesting how this pattern may have dried in the parking lot outside my local shopping center.
“I’m from Nigeria. The country held it’s last election a couple of years ago. It was the first time I got an opportunity to vote. My friends and I would talk about it everyday. One party had always held power and everyone knew it was based on corruption. The slogan for the underdog party, which ended up winning, was ‘Change’, and we could all relate to that. It was important to us, having come of age, that we try to make a difference and contribute. We were all motivated, it was an exciting time. The impact to the country was immediate. An anti-corruption campaign started which unfortunately pushed the economy into recession. But people retain hope, and everyone is more politically aware.”
100% of profit from the purchase of this print purchased from imagesbybni.smugmug.com will benefit The National Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Please be aware... I am no coin expert. Posted titles are either what I was told or from a quick Google search. No claim is made of all being accurate, I do make an effort to be as factual as possible when posting. Some duplication of type or variety may occur. I try not to double post items, but my feeble brain may slip on that from time to time. Very little actual value exists in most (if not all) of them. I do not clean or alter coins. Photos of coins are just in the condition I received them.
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
Hakeem Olajuwon
A Lime Mental Health Awareness Image I created in support of www.facebook.com/groups/168384363282873/
Lime-lighters for MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS is an informal group of FB members with a mission to recruit other FB members from alll over the world to promote May Mental Health Awareness Month by creative use of lime green (neon-shade).
Wear a Lime green ribbon in support of Mental Health Awareness
Month in May
A Volkswagen Beetle decked out in a cancer awareness theme.
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RTE’s Mary Kennedy (pictured right) is joined by AMD patient Hilda Barrett to launch AMD Awareness Week 2011, which takes place from Saturday 17th- Sunday 25th September. AMD (age-related macular degeneration) is the most common cause of registered blindness in Ireland and is thought to affect one in ten people over 50. Throughout AMD Awareness Week, free testing will be available to detect the early signs of AMD at a range of opticians, eye doctors, public libraries, golf clubs and other locations nationwide. Further information about AMD and free testing locations throughout the country is available at www.amd.ie. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.
I was wandering around the borders of the Omega Oasis when I stumbled upon a peculiar sight, a wonderous sight, the most interesting of all sights to be seen in the wasteland. I know I must sound like I am exaggerating, stretching this sight far and wide, but it is a rare sight one can witness in this wasteland: a robot, a prewar one, perfectly operational. It's outside was clearly worn with age, riddled with sand and markings, but it was completely functional and speaking. I do believe it was, before the war, a directional service droid, as when I entered it's view, it asked me if I required any aid in getting to a location, a destination in mind. Out of a tempting curiosity in the back of my temple, I replied with "yes" and asked to see a map. Sure enough, to my ponders, it was a prewar map, this barren, wooden waste once a simple outdoor mall, one full of people and stores. Another ponder formed, creeping into my mind and settling: was the machine aware of the war? Was it naive due to it's programming? Was it aware and distracting itself from the horrors that are before it? What will happen if I tell it about the situation? These were wonders I did not inquiry further on. I instead decided it needed some company. Me and a few others needed a camp anyhow.
The story of how the cozy camp near the Omega Oasis was formed!
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Road safety campaigners talked to students from the University of Manchester on Wednesday 6 February, to highlight the dangers posed to cyclists and bikers straying into the blind spots of HGVs and buses.
In the five years 2008/2012 there has been 10 motorcyclists and pedal cyclists killed and 47 seriously injured as a result of accidents with HGVs and buses on the roads of Greater Manchester. In the same period five of those road deaths and six serious injuries occurred where the driver’s vision was affected by the vehicle’s blind spot.
Campaigners say that cyclists, bikers and HGV drivers should take extra care when sharing the road to ensure that they are visible to each other. Drivers should especially watch out for cyclists when turning left.
Cyclists are warned to give HGVs a wide berth and remember that it is safer to be behind a lorry than at the side of it where a driver may not be able to see you clearly, particularly when attempting to turn.
This increased policing focus on road safety is a part of Operation Dice launched at the beginning of 2012 in response to a shocking increase in road deaths in 2011 when 76 people lost their lives on the roads of Greater Manchester. Figures from 2012 demonstrate that 49 people lost their lives, a decrease of 36 per cent on the previous year.
Under Operation Dice Greater Manchester Police is working with other emergency services and partners to increase public awareness of the ‘fatal four’ factors that feature in most road accidents i.e. drink driving, speeding, drivers using mobile phones and drivers and passengers not wearing seatbelts.
It also tackles drivers putting their own lives and that of their passengers and road users at risk through dangerous driving and flouting road safety laws.
Inspector Paul Rowe from GMP’s Roads Policing Unit said; “Stay safe, stay back and be seen is the most important message we can give to cyclists and bikers. They, by the very nature of their mode of transport are especially vulnerable on the roads and should, along with other road users, take extra care when sharing our roads”.
“Visibility is the key factor in many traffic accidents and cyclists and bikers can increase theirs by good road positioning, ensuring they use front and rear lights and wearing high-vis clothing.”
The event will be the start off a police enforcement campaign in which the police aim to educate and advise cyclists. Any offenders issued with a fixed penalty ticket will have the chance to attend a forthcoming educational meeting involving the joint campaigners in which the penalty ticket will be rescinded.
Karen Delaney, from DriveSafe, said “Cyclists do not have the benefits of safety cages, seatbelts or side impact bars, so when a collision occurs it can result in serious injury or worse for the rider.
“A significant number of collisions are down to road users attitude and behaviour. I would imagine that most people know somebody who rides a cycle and we would ask all road users to look out for cyclists and treat them with respect.”
These educational meetings will take place at Withington Fire station from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on Tuesday 19 February 2013, Thursday 28 February 2013 and Thursday 7 March 2013.
Transport for Greater Manchester continues to offer a free cycling refresher course for those wanting to get back on a bike after sometime away. The scheme is specifically aimed at those who want to sharpen their skills in order to cycle to-and-from work and is provided by an expert instructor at flexible times.
There's no need to be worried about getting back on your bike or trying something new with our free cycle training courses for adults.
For more information please visit cycling.tfgm.com/