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For millions of Americans diagnosed with cancer this year, their best course of treatment might be through a clinical trial.
Clinical trials offer patients with difficult-to-treat forms of cancer a chance to receive the most up-to-date and promising care available with the prospects of improved health outcomes and the benefit of advancing medical research. Most patients express a willingness to participate in clinical research, yet only a small fraction ultimately end up enrolling in a trial due to barriers that make participation difficult or even impossible. Consequently, approximately 20 percent of cancer clinical trials fail due to insufficient patient enrollment.
Cancer impacts everyone, but it doesn’t impact everyone equally. We are working to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer.
To learn about clinical trials and what the ACS CAN (American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network) is doing about the barriers to trials, check out:
Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth at the Tate Modern "asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built. In particular, Salcedo is addressing a long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world."
Due to a bunch of people falling into the gash (though IMHO you'd have to be trying quite hard to get anything stuck in there) they've now put up a safety barrier. There's probably a deep sociological point to be made there, about people being prevented from hurting themselves on artistic points about racial schism. But I can't summon it.
Mind the gap.
A shot I got at a dive in the Great Barrier Reef in July 2011.
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Have some problems with the water pipes in my apartement ... I'm already swimming through my bathroom ;) ... cannot concentrate on pics today - so today only an old series I took nearly one year ago (first pics with my cam). The topic was 'Barriers for users of wheelchairs' ... although most people don't believe in my eyes cobblestones are almost so terrible as steps or high curbs ... pieces of broken glass, small doors, sand .............. could be an open end series ;)
Have a great week ahead without any hurdles! And keep dry! :)
Magnetic Island.
The Barrier Reef is the world’s largest with over 900 islands and nearly 3,000 reefs along 2,000 kms of coastline. It is clearly visible from space and it is the world’s largest single structure made up of living organisms, known as coral polyps. It was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981 and is considered to be one of the seven wonders of the natural world. It supports a wide range of life from marine mammals (dugongs and whales) to fish, turtles, crocodiles and birds. Many of the coral cays (small islands) have fringing lagoons. One of the many islands near the reef and just off the coat of Townsville is beautiful Magnetic Island. Horseshoe Bay beach is pictured left.
Just 10 kms across the ocean from Townsville is Magnetic Island. It covers 5,184 hectares and roughly three quarters of the island is a National Park created in 1953. Magnetic Island was named by Captain James Cook in 1770 and so named as he believed the topography of the island made his compass work erratically. In 1876 Harry Butler and his family came to Picnic Bay and became the first permanent white settlers on Magnetic Island. His daughter Nellie was born on the island in the late 1870s hence the bay was called Nelly Bay. In 1886 the coastline of Magnetic Island was surveyed by J. G. O'Connell. He reported that five different parties were settled round the Island and that Picnic Bay was the favourite resort of Townsville holiday makers. Robert Hayles erected a hotel at Picnic Bay in 1899. The first freehold town lots were put up for auction at Picnic Bay in 1887. A regular ferry service to Magnetic Island from Townsville began in 1899. By the 1920s quite a few people lived and farmed on the island which had two schools and several dance pavilions at that time. Horseshoe Bay with the longest beach on the island was first settled by Europeans in 1912. Today Nelly Bay is the main town with shops, school, church and ferry terminal and a population of about 1,000.The other main settlement is Horseshoe Bay with 500 residents. Over 2,200 people live on the island. Julian Assange was born in Townville in 1971 and grew up on Magnetic Island. Nelly Bay has the ferry terminal, supermarket, marina and lots of apartments. Horseshoe Bay is small but with several cafes, a hotel, a store, a beach and a park along the beach. Horseshoe Bay also has the Magnetic Island Museum at 11 Granite street two streets back from the beach and it is located in the heritage listed former schoolroom.
This is Barrier Park - my favourite east London park - only recently built - this is the view from Pontoon Dock DLR station.
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The Thames Barrier is a unique flood control structure on the River Thames at Woolwich Reach in East London. It is 520 meters across and protects London against flooding caused by tidal surges from the North Sea. It took eight years to build the structure, costing £535m (£1300m at 2001 prices) and became fully operational in 1982.
I have used Photomatix to merge 3 exposures. then I have use Photoshop cs3 to apply some textures, clean the river with healing brush, some sharpening and contrast and color correction and here it is. Please do not hesitate to comment.
This chain is a barrier, meant to block the stairs. The sign says "closed in winter - slip danger". The door is the entrance of the University.
No man stands on earth who did not face fear, yet only those who faced it with confidence and challenge stands strong today. Thus its not a barrier between you and success but a barrier differentiating those who did not succeed and those who faced it strong. =)
-Myeha Vc-
Driving home from a week in the outback, we came across these 2 emus by the side of the road on the Barrier Highway.
9/10 Open Prints, October 2022, Goolwa Camera Club
I made these drawings as an illustration for the cover of 'Barriers to the Production of Metadata for Archaeological Datasets' an Historic England Research Report by Claire Tsang.
© Historic England
My little photography part of my brain wanted to edit this more, but another part of me said NOOO! lol
A strange phenomenon has occured, a thunderstorm! With winter staying I completely forgot that they existed. Oh, how I love the sound of thunder. :)
Six shot panorama of Barrier Lake as seen from Hwy 40 in Kananaskis Country. Taken while I was out there on Sept 28, 2014.
2016 photochallenge week 5: B&W – Barrier
Along the levee of the Barker Reservoir -- Katy, TX
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through the window, she sees a bigger world. through the window, i see a smaller world.
toronto, kensington market, probably an artist's studio.
Out on an evening adventure to the South side of the Thames Barrier. I use a six stop ND filter to get a long exposure.
October 2013
Taken from the the shore line at low tide looking North East at sunrise. The Thames Barrier is the world's second-largest movable flood barrier after the Oosterscheldekering in the Netherlands. Its purpose is to prevent London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the sea. It needs to be raised only during high tide; at ebb tide it can be lowered to release the water that backs up behind it. The report of Sir Hermann Bondi on the North Sea flood of 1953 affecting parts of the Thames Estuary and parts of London was instrumental in the building of the barrier.
The concept of the rotating gates was devised by Charles Draper. In the 1950s, from his parents' house in Pellatt Grove, Wood Green, London, he constructed a working model. The novel rotating cylinders were based on a small household appliance — a brass gas tap which could be found in most post-war houses in the UK. The barrier was designed by Rendel, Palmer and Tritton for the Greater London Council and tested at the Hydraulics Research Station, Wallingford.
The site at New Charlton was chosen because of the relative straightness of the banks, and because the underlying river chalk was strong enough to support the barrier. Work began at the barrier site in 1974 and construction, which had been undertaken by a Costain/Hollandsche Beton Maatschappij/Tarmac Construction consortium, was largely complete by 1982. In addition to the barrier, the flood defences for 11 miles down river were raised and strengthened. The barrier was officially opened on 8 May 1984 by Queen Elizabeth II. Total construction cost was around £534 million (£1.3 billion at 2001 prices) with an additional £100 million for river defences.
A barrier was erected to keep vehicles & people off the fresh concrete. I guess we'll be seeing this for the rest of the week as the new patch hardens.
This is an OO gaugeHornby barrier tank wagon straight out of the box which has then been weathered by myself here at The Weathering Works.
Weathering on a wagon such as this is usually at a cost of £5.
The Weathering Works website complete with more info, pictures and weathering service pricing can be found here... www.theweatheringworks.co.uk
The Weathering Works are a custom model railway weathering service. Home to weathered model railway items in all gauges we aim to offer exhibition standard weathering at affordable prices. From steam and diesel locos to wagons and vehicles you can find it all here.
The aim of weathering is to give the models a sense of realism that they simply dont have straight out of the box and remove their plastic often toy like appearance. In reality even within a few days of service locos and wagons become dirtied so why not replicate this in model form. From track dirt to exhaust fumes it can all be replicated by TheWeatheringWorks.
As well as selling weathered stock direct both on my site and via eBay I also offer a weathering service by which you send me whatever you would like weathering and i send it back to you weathered to your desires.
Prices for the weathering service can be found on the Weathering service page of my website. This service varies from a dusting of dirt to reflect stock not long in service to a thoroughly uncared for and dirty piece which has chipped faded paintwork etc. A multitude of colours, techniques and mediums are used to enhance the appearance of your stock.
If you have any questions by all means get in touch and i hope you have enjoyed the picture. Thankyou.