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101023-N-7680E-095 NEW AMSTERDAM, Guyana (Oct. 23, 2010) Marines embarked on board the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) assemble playground equipment during a Continuing Promise 2010 community relations project. USS Iwo Jima is currently anchored off of the coast of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked on board Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary, and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW) Zane Ecklund)
British and international tour operators have been warned that they will face prosecution if they continue to offer "human safaris" to India.
Three Indian tour operators have already been charged in connection with the Observer's investigation into "human safaris" and two men are facing up to seven years in jail if convicted.
But the tour operators have hit back, accusing independent foreign travellers of breaking rules and giving tour firms a bad name.
Last week's Observer investigation of safaris to see the Bonda tribe of Orissa prompted an immediate response from the state's government, with the chief minister ordering an inquiry and sending a senior official to investigate.
Police in the state capital, Bhubaneswar, raided the offices of Dove Tours – named in the Observer report – and registered a case against the company for "selling products in [an] obscene manner in public". In a statement Orissa police said: "We have registered a case against a city-based tour operator after finding its brochures and website containing certain objectionable material." The company denies the allegations.
Tourists were barred from visiting Bonda villages in 1989 after reports that some had been taking photographs of naked members of the tribe. The Observer investigation found that travel agents were getting around the law by taking tourists to view them at the weekly markets they attend. Some promoted the tours with references to the scanty dress of Bonda women. Several tour companies have since removed offending offers from their websites.
Orissa's culture secretary, Ashok Tripathy, said Orissa welcomed "rich and enlightened" tourists who treated the tribe with respect. "Cheap offers mentioning that Bondas roam naked", and the prospect of photographing, them should not be used to lure tourists, he said. He warned tour operators that they would be prosecuted if they continued to use "obnoxious" methods to promote tribal tourism.
However, Gagan Sarangi, director of Dove Tours, defended local operators, putting the blame on independent travellers. He told the Times of India: "There are foreigners visiting the tribal areas independently. Since visits to Bonda areas are permitted up to the weekly markets, many avoid taking the help of tour operators. Such people are unaware of basic rules, end up hurting the sentiments of people and give a bad name to our profession," he said.
Yet in the Andaman Islands – where the Observer first exposed the scandal of human safaris to see the protected Jarawa tribe, and women being forced to dance in return for food – tourists continue to pour through the jungle, despite promises by the Indian government to crack down on tours.
On Thursday two men – Rajesh Kumar Vyas and Sarjeet Singh Guddu – appeared in court in Port Blair charged with organising a trip into the Jarawa reserve which was highlighted in the Observer investigation. They were remanded in custody for two weeks and could face up to seven years in jail.
Police said that taking a foreigner into the Jarawa reserve amounted to "intentionally insulting with the intent to humiliate a vulnerable primitive tribe of these islands".
Professor Anvita Abbi, a linguist, said the Jarawa were in danger of going the same way as the Great Andamanese tribe, who once numbered 5,000 but are now down to 56 people. Two years ago the last speaker of the Bo language – one of 10 spoken by the tribe– died.
Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, which campaigns on behalf of tribal peoples, said: "At a time when evidence of human safaris has prompted global outrage, it's vital the Indian government closes the Andaman Trunk Road." The road cuts through Jarawa territory making it easier for tourists to contact the tribe.
The Association of British Travel Agents has defended tour operators, insisting that most act responsibly and that tourism can bring economic benefits to indigenous people. Spokesman Sean Tipton said: "It is important that any interaction between tourists and indigenous people happens with the prior consent of the indigenous people."
(from 'The Observer')
We continued our night with a celebration on Beale Street. I'd visited before during the day when I lived in Memphis and reported on one of the new jazz lounges for a story. But never at night.
We lasted about 5 minutes, saw feral children wrestling shirtless in the street, unaccompanied, and decided we'd had enough of Beale Street.
Continuing a long streak of finding great food at the West Side Market. This stand was simply marked "CAKE". Delicious.
The fire continued into Saturday (today). I looked west and got this photo. I can expect to wake up tomorrow morning with yet another layer of soot on my car.
Hunger strike protest for amending the referendum law continued at the Legislative Yuan on Sunday. The scene will be somewhat different tomorrow as protesters converge on the area to protest against the arrival of ARATS Chair Chen Yunlin.
May 25, 2011, Utica - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo continues his "People First Campaign" at Mohawk Valley Community College, where he outlines his legislative priorities and tells Oneida County residents that their voices must be heard in order to get Albany to act on these key reforms.
October 05, 2012 - Governor Cuomo continued the statewide Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Progress Tour on Long Island, where he toured priority projects to see, firsthand, their progress and their economic impact in the region.
This is the second visit in the Governor’s REDC Progress Tour that is part of a review of last year’s strategic economic development plans and job-creating projects.
Your weeknight rage session continues on July 25th! Shoop's is your House of Styles and we've got many!
We are mixing it up for you for the rest of the night by alternating hours between 2 of your favorite local dj's! So from 11-3 you'll be thrown around in a plethora of beats to keep you moving & complete that full bodied experience!
Starting the night off & picking up every other hour after:
PLASMATIC (Dubstep | DNB | Filthy Bass)
Kentucky
Brandon Isaac, better known as Plasmatic flew onto the scene 2 years ago, producing his own music and DJ'ing at house parties. He hasn't looked back since. His sets get better every show, this man is on the rise!
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Picking up the other hours in between will be:
THE FLOW THE FLOW (Dubstep | Future Bass | Deep House)
Huntington, WV
The Flow is a local artist who grew up in Huntington and has performed in the surrounding communities. He mixes multiple genres into a soup of cosmic funk & sexy dubs to keep you bouncing throughout the night. This guy will not give you an option to not shake your ass!
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BrainSell Education - Continuing Education - Advanced Clinical Communication Skills for Healthcare Professionals Seminar for Physical Therapists - PTs, Physical Therapy Assistants - PTAs, Occupational Therapists - Occupational Therapy Assistant OTs, OTAs, SLPs, Nurses, RNs, RNAs, LPNs, Social Work Examiners, LCSW, www.brainselleducation.com
Legends of Et cetera, my daughter's band, finish up their last bits—some keys and a couple of vocal tracks. Here, the drummer, Jakob, and the bassist, Graham (my nephew), wait for their turn.
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Staff members of Continuing Education at Penn State at the Fall 2012 Penn State World Campus and Continuing Education Graduation Celebration held on December 21, 2012. (Photo by Bill Wallace)
I Woke Up and Chose Violence is a response to the murders and deaths of BIPOC people inflicted by the hegemonic systems that continue to oppress our communities. This project centers the emotions of rage and anger often felt by non-hegemonic bodies that are constantly forced to navigate personal and institutional loss. As an artist of the Philippine diaspora, Garcia intends to use her Session program to specifically acknowledge and mourn a long history of anti-Asian violence and its proliferation since COVID-19. This project confronts racial, ethnic, and gendered stereotypes and ideologies to explore the possibilities of meeting force with force – to oppose white/colonial violence with tropical dissent.
Garcia’s project is part of a five-year reexamination of the narratives around the Indigenous practice of headhunting in the Philippine Islands. Historically, these practices functioned as a moral rationale for civilizing missions by Western imperial powers. Garcia is interested in symbolically recuperating headhunting’s role as a psycho-spiritual ritual for processing and dissipating profound personal grief, whilst extending this notion of grief to the burdened histories of colonial erasure that persist in our present day. I Woke Up and Chose Violence, therefore, leads with an unconventional ethos and flirts with transgressions in dealing with the subject of violence.
Garcia will segment the Session gallery into two distinct areas. The first to be activated will be an evolving installation made of reimagined weapons based on period and improvised weaponry traditionally used in headhunting expeditions, (such as daggers, swords, axes, spears, etc.) and self-defense training tools. These weapons will undergo a facilitated process of re-rendering through an intersectional feminist and diasporic intervention, decoupling the objects from hyper-masculinized, patriarchal affiliations. This work will involve an interactive design session to create a personalized weapon through a process of sketching and/or making small prototypes with visitors. She will then translate a selection of these designs into 3D-printed objects at the scale desired.
The second area will be fashioned into an arena for Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) training and somatic research. Participants are invited to use this space to explore what it is like to wield training weapons with the aim to activate and physically think through their design strategies or simply to experience striking a punching bag (or two). In addition, the artist has invited her own martial arts instructor to lead self-defense workshops that draw on techniques and concepts from Filipino Martial Arts through an introduction to a practical set of self-preservation tools that can be used for immediate application.
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When the Corningware bowl cracked, its corn chowder contents spilled onto the stove. This picture shows the stove after I had placed the broken bowl in the sink, wiped the top of the stove, and removed two heating elements. Corn chowder is visible in the left front drip pan. That's where I was heating up the chowder. The real work was about to begin.
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101025-N-4153W-002, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 25 2010) NGO's leave the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in Skeldon, Guyana, October 25, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)
33211 was shut down with a traction motor flashover and 33111 continued until Chard Junction until failing after overheating. 50025 eventually rescued the train.
The tour continues.
Each day now has the same structure: Get up at about seven, breakfast at half eight, meet at the vans at half nine for the drive to the first site, stay there two hours, drive to next site, have lunch before another two hours searching, and on the drive back to the hotel, one last stop of an hour or so, go to the square for a beer, debrief at seven fifteen before going for dinner at eight.
Rinse and repeat.
Monday was the same as above. Each day the sites and butterflies are different, of course, and we never know if we will see what we hope to see at each site.
Breakfast is simple: a roll or two, yogurt, coffee, then back to the room to prepare to leave.
Unlike the previous tour, we try to rotate which bus we sit in each day, so not to create cliques, I sit in Dave's bus, though Gillian in the front seat talks all say, all day about nothing really, just to fill the silence, and is certain she is right about everything.
Again through the mountains, poor villages, and bright green lush fields before we turn down a track through a forest to come to a wide grass area, which had a small bog at the bottom, too muddy for much exploring, and anyway these early season butterflies don't frequent the bog. Our target was the Spring Ringlet.
We wander off, and despite it being warmer than the day previous, butterflies were slow to wake up, so it was an hour really before we saw any. Two tattered Iberian Scare Swallowtails delighted us all, as they fed on fresh Blackthorn blossom, and the usual suspects of Orange Tips, Provence Orange Tips, Queen of Spains all flew through.
Up on the wooded slope, news came that the Ringlets had been found, so we go off to explore, with only a couple of folks getting shots. We did find the first orchid of the trip, a tiny Early Purple growing in the shelter of a hollow.
Back down to the vans for a short drive to the lunch site, near a waterfall.
It was already very warm, so I sat on the tailgate while the others went off, however I would be rewarded with fine views of a newly emerged European Swallowtail, an Iberian Sooty Copper and a Green Underside Blue.
Which was all nice.
On the road again to the final site, a narrow country lane leading to a ravine, where in an abandoned field, we had hoped to see the rarest of the lot, a Sooty Orange Tip.
In fact the site was rich in butterflies, with many Blues, and the other Two Orange Tips, a Provencal Fritillary.
A shout went out, and news that a Sooty Orange Tip had been seen, and indeed it had. The flighty butterfly was speeding round the field with half the group in pursuit, it likes only Hoary Mustard to feed on, and it did pause twice, but I wasn't fast enough to get shots. It flew off and was last seen disappearing into the afternoon haze.
We wrote our own stories in the stars.
We found solace in each other's arms.
We penned our own ending, and we wrote our happily ever after.
(Calliope Kharg & Cyrus Felwood's Story).
The Mississippi State University Libraries Emerging Technology Summit continues the work of the MS Library 2.0 Summit, started in 2007 here at Mississippi State University, by focusing on the effects of emerging technologies in a post-2.0 world. Now that academic libraries have adopted social networking, mobile technologies, and social research tools, where do we go from here? What sort of assessment of these programs is available or appropriate? How have these emerging technologies been incorporated into academia, and what are the ramifications of their adoption?
This conference explored these issues with nationally-known emerging technologies expert Jason Griffey as our guide in the keynote session, followed by breakout Steal-this-Idea sessions led by regional experts who spoke to this post-implementation environment.
Here, Sonnet Ireland and Faith Simmons lead their session during the Summit.
For more information on the Summit and on MSU Libraries, please visit blogs.library.msstate.edu/emergingtech/.
Continuing the theme of me running into lots of Hertiage 2 Dash 9s this year, a pair of them are in command of a Laurel-Spokane manifest as it waits for pushers at Livingston. Also like most of these I've shot this year, the paint is still pretty good on duo as well.
101019-N-1531D-026 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) Army Spc. James Wood, of 352nd Combat Support Hospital, from Mountain View, Calif., embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), educates locals about hygiene during a Continuing Promise 2010 medical civic event in Orealla, Guyana. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
Took the picture just to show that I'm actually working ;)
I'm still paring through the parts of my unsorted purchases, divvying up the parts into groups (minifig, two-by bricks/tiles, one-by bricks/tiles, SNOT bricks, etc.). Of course, groups like Technic have sub-groups upon sub-groups that will be a living nightmare to sort.
After all the purchases are sorted, they will be separated further by piece type, and then separated further by color.
I just took some Advil, so I'm good to go.
Continuing with my interest in night photography, here's a 30 second exposure from a few months back. I went to the stone circle for the rise of the full moon which came up right between the stones from where I was standing. In less than an hour it was rising nicely as the sun set behind me and the street lights lit up the stones.
I had an underexposed shot to reduce the intensity of the blown out moon, but I think it looks good as it is. This has to be one of the few times an aircraft trail adds something good to a photo, a rare thing indeed!
CONTINUING THE DREAM 60th MARCH ON WASHINGTON Rally at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool North Lawn on the National Mall, NW, Washington DC on Saturday morning, 26 August 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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And the tale continues at night, the castle all lit against a dark sky. Many wonder if there's a ball going on...
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Sleeping Beauty Castle - completed in 1992, for the park's 12 April opening, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant stands 50 meters (160 ft) tall. The Castle is home to a dragon, which, at 27 meters (89 ft) from head to tail, was the largest Animatronic figure yet built when the park opened in April 1992. The walkthrough attraction consists of a dimly lit cavern with the large dragon sleeping silently. Occasionally it will 'wake up', puffing smoke and growling. The building also contains La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant, a gallery of displays which illustrate the story of Sleeping Beauty in tapestries, stained glass windows and figures. La Boutique du Château, a shop selling Christmas ornaments year-round, and Merlin l'Enchanteur, a shop specialising in handmade glass figures, are located on ground floor.
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Disneyland Paris - formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort near Paris , France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
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with "Boca" and Frank at Boise Schools Dennis Tech Center zoology classes, February 14, 2019. "Boca" is a Colombian boa constrictor (Boa constrictor constrictor). Photo by Liam. .
101019-N-1531D-073 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
101025-N-4153W-003, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 25 2010) NGO's leave the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in Skeldon, Guyana, October 25, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)
SFC Morton, former First Sergeant (1SG) of Delta Co. 1/3 Infantry, received the Meritorious Service Medal and was pinned to the rank of Master Sergeant on JBMHH, March 1, 2017. MSG Morton excelled during his time as 1SG of Delta Company and has always exceeded the standard. Congratulations MSG Morton and continue to excel in all you do!