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I was wondering why my purse was so heavy. But I keep my lipsticks in my bag so I can reapply throughout the day. Not shown: Revlon Lip Butter in Red Velvet, my new go-to red.
#janphotoaday prompt: In your bag
That explains it :)
The Halfords Tour City Centre series came to town last night. Nice way to spend a sunny summers evening.
Oh hang on, that TV camera is pointing straight at me, guess I had better watch it tonight to make sure I wasnt doing anything embarrassing :)
If anybody watches it, I'm the one with the yellow safety vest and a camera in front of my face, that should narrow it down a bit, LOL
Philadelphia is said to have 3,500 outdoor murals. This mural is part of The Mural Mile, organized by the Mural Arts Program. Their website has downloadable podcasts explaining each of the murals.
Forcing Pump mechanism from Common Things Explained by Dionysius Lardner 1856.
A children's book explaining fire, time, clocks, telescopes etc.
Published by Walton & Maberly, London. Brown gilt cloth boards. 215 pages 18.5cm x 12cm.
Long before Election Day, Hurricane Sandy, the presidential debates, Libya, the 47 percent, the conventions or even the Iowa Caucuses, candidates and their strategists toiled away behind the scenes, mapping a path to victory. For some, the long hours and hard work paid off. For others, the efforts came up short. We’ll kick off our series by convening the lead strategists and managers from the Obama and Romney camps, in a freewheeling panel discussion about what went right, what went wrong, and what we learned in the process.
Photo credit: Jamie Manley
This image was inspired by observing the Extinction Symbol on the foreshore of the South Bank (during May 2011) itself becoming extinct.
By repeating and removing parts of the symbol it becomes possible to explain the meaning.
FAO Representative Marc Abdala talks to the press about the rice harvest in Tundin, Nimba County Liberia.
Read more about FAO and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/John Monibah. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Dave Jones explains the benefits of the GOES-R series satellites at the Harris Corporation exhibit at AMS.
The 94th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held February 2–6 in Atlanta. The theme of the 2014 meeting was “Extreme Weather—Climate and the Built Environment: New Perspectives Opportunities, and Tools.”
The AMS meeting also hosted the 10th Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, which highlighted many of the development activities, program science and user-readiness preparations underway in the GOES-R and JPSS programs. Several members of the GOES-R and JPSS teams presented at the conference. GOES-R and JPSS were also prominently featured at the NOAA booth in the main exhibit hall with a variety of multimedia and communications and education materials made available.
Credit: GOES-R program
GOES-R presentations and posters: www.goes-r.gov/users/2014-02-ams.html
Original photo source: www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/events.html
Put up at the 2014 NAS Whidbey Island Open House as the Navy's currently doing an EIS into EA-18G ops - WhidbeyEIS.com. Please opine there in support fellow avgeeks!
Animal Equality released disturbing scenes of animal suffering filmed at a Simmons Farm Raised Catfish slaughterhouse located in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Simmons, which kills 21,000 fish catfish per day (animals who are raised in the company’s intensive confinement ponds), is one of the largest USDA inspected catfish slaughterhouses in the U.S
. The fish slaughtered by the company go to national restaurant chains Cracker Barrel and Captain D’s, as well as grocery stores Kroger, Save A Lot, and Piggly Wiggly.
PROLONGED SUFFERING: The investigation revealed fish kept out of water for prolonged periods—up to an hour—before they were finally beheaded. While fish pass through an electrical stunning device during processing, many regain mobility and begin gasping and moving their fins long before they are finally decapitated. Rejected catfish, mudfish, and turtles were removed from production lines and placed in buckets without water. Later they are placed onto a conveyor and transported to a macerator where they were ground up alive.
ILLEGAL ANIMAL ABUSE: Our investigator filmed disturbing scenes, including serious legal violations. Hidden-camera footage and eyewitness statements reveal:
- Hundreds of catfish regularly left out of water to slowly suffocate while workers went on breaks
- Conscious fish beheaded
- Turtles and rejected bycatch fish placed in buckets to be later ground up alive and, according to one employee, used as feed for Simmons’ still-growing catfish
- A turtle thrown onto a moving conveyor carrying severed catfish heads and then desperately trying to crawl in the opposite direction as they were carried towards the macerator
- Undersized, deformed, and parasite-scarred fish left alive in bins without water on the slaughter floor for hours
WHAT WE’RE SAYING: "Every day at Simmons’ slaughterhouse, thousands of catfish and countless other animals suffer,” said Sharon Núñez, President of Animal Equality. “Our investigation revealed persistent violations of Mississippi state law. Charges must be brought against Simmons to stop the ongoing abuse."
CALLS FOR CHARGES: We submitted evidence to the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Office and County Prosecutor, detailing violations of Mississippi’s animal cruelty laws documented during the month-long investigation, including severe violations of the statutory prohibition on needless mutilations and cruel manners of “carrying” or “conveyance,” such as upon the conveyor equipment.
Mississippi law states that any person who is responsible for the care and handling of “living creatures,” including fish, may not cause those animals to be tortured or tormented, nor deprived of necessary sustenance (such as oxygen), whether by reason of intentional cruelty or mere neglectfulness. In causing hundreds of fish each day to be subjected to such treatment, Animal Equality maintains that Simmons management and owners should be held criminally liable under Mississippi anti-cruelty law.
FALSE ADVERTISING: Contrary to the investigator’s findings, Simmons claimed the fish are processed “within 30 minutes” and in a “swift [and] sterile” manner. Animal Equality filed complaints with state attorneys general in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, alleging that Simmons's false and misleading claims about its products and production practices constitute unfair or deceptive trade practices under those states’ consumer protection laws. In response, Simmons agreed to remove from its website the claim that the fish are processed “within 30 minutes.”
Animal Equality has filed complaints with state attorneys general in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, alleging that Simmons's false and misleading claims about its products and production practices constitute unfair or deceptive trade practices under those states’ consumer protection laws.
After slaughter, the dead catfish are inspected by the USDA and then go on to supply restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies. Although Simmons’ products bear the federal agency’s official seal, there is no federal law mandating the humane slaughter of fish, so USDA inspectors do not monitor for animal cruelty.
FISH FEEL PAIN: Definitive scientific evidence details the ability and scope of fishes’ ability to experience pain and distress and, in particular, the difficulty of rendering them insensible during slaughter. A study published last year on the effects of commercial stunning methods on the brain function of catfish reviewed the ineffectiveness of electrical stunning. The study determined that catfish regain sensibility from a two-second stun within 30 seconds, and recover from a 10-second stun after 1.7 to 4.9 minutes. When catfish, like those at Simmons, are allowed to recover from the stun, they experience avoidable fear, anxiety, pain, suffering, and distress during their deaths.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: In addition to requesting that charges be filed against Simmons for animal cruelty violations, we are also asking for federal legislation that would protect fish under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, as aquatic animals are currently excluded from the Act’s protections. To that end, we have created a petition asking Congress to act. Please, let your voice be heard on behalf of these animals and add your names to those asking our representatives to prevent fish from being killed while still fully conscious. You can also make a difference for fish by sharing this investigation and leaving them off your plate. With your support, we can help these suffering animals and ensure future generations do not have to face the same brutal fate.
SIGN OUR PETITION AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY: animalequality.org/action/simmons-catfish
I'm kidding! Honestly I don't really know what's up with German People but this might be a little helpful if you are looking for some insight.
Saul Griffith explains his personal energy audit, and suggess that creating more energy - even through renewable resources - may not be as effective as reducing our consumption. photography by kris krüg
I can't explain why people collect certain things. Some people collect comics, some stamps, some coins, some collect video games, or art, or cameras (and I must admit, I love my collections of video games and movies and toys and art and cameras and all those other things I obsess over).
One of my favorite movies is "Amelie" by director Jean Pierre Junet. He also directed "Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children", which I love, but when Amelie came out in 2001, it was a love that I can't explain. Every moment of that film I simply have immense love for. I saw it many times in the theater. I brought friends to see it.
For some reason, I became very obsessive with collecting the movie when it came out on DVD. There are certain movies I'll buy on multiple formats when they come out (vhs to Laserdisc to DVD to blu-ray; the common "upgrade"), but the second I discovered there were "deluxe" editions of Amelie released all over the world, I simply had to collect them.
Since 2001 I've slowly collected every deluxe edition of Amelie that has been released; from a European Cookie Tin edition, to a French-Canadian release, to the elusive Japanese tin edition, and, just today, a Chinese blu-ray edition just arrived to add to my collection.
Ultimately, people collect things because it brings them joy. It helps them remember a certain time, or emotion and feeling.
I felt it time to document my collection.
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From left: Eric, Luigi, Sarah, Andre, Phanna, Ryan, Kristin, Dawn, Katie, May, Christina, and Akiko
Which of the three do you like best? I need to choose which one to print really big and hang in the Explainers' Lounge!
explaining why I had to make another account.
please do read it, if you're a contact. thanks. hopefully I'll be able to get in again soon.
Trying to explain the concept of RadioVideo with a sketch :).
While promoting our great idea to translate Swedish price winning radio documentaries in VideoFormat. Try it and download mp4-files free to your phone at sr.se/p1/documentary
Water color, ink & pencil
Photography & Art: Juan Pablo Montalva
Styling: Paulina Irazabal
Make Up & Hair: Mercedes Errazuriz/Macarena Moreno
Models: Martina/Damian/Robinson
WAR IS OVER! & WHIS TREE at Banzai in Barcelona
In this letter I sent to Yoko Ono I explain everything. She put it in her web site imaginepeace.com
imaginepeace.com/archives/16606
and in her facebook page:
Dear Yoko (and John),
Today, your WAR IS OVER message has a very special meaning. In papers and on TV they are saying that this global economic crisis is our III World War, and maybe they are right because there’s a lot of people suffering due to the cuts in the welfare systems, the increasing of unemployment, the debts with the banks… They say that ill people dying without medical care as consequence of the deterioration of public health system, they have to be considered as casualties of war and that our political and economical leaders will be judged for that.
This Xmas I have wanted to joint your WAR IS OVER campaign as a means to end the recession. When a war is over solidarity and collaboration make people go. Today, sharing and giving will make us going through all those deep walls of tears, fears, sorrow, depression, sadness or rage to clean our polluted minds. We have to recover the balance between greed and capacity, anger and energy, sorrow and vulnerability, jealousy and empathy, fear and wisdom.
I have also created your Wish Tree for my daughter and her boyfriend, to give them courage to pursuit their dreams, to don’t give up. They have their business firm in an Industrial Park in Barcelona where many industrial premises and warehouses have closed in the last years. Some people who worked over there that they used to meet in the streets or in the cafes nearby, they have just disappeared. They didn’t even said goodbye before going probably because they were ashamed of themselves and felt they were failures. I can see many people over here with faces like ice, closed in their inner thoughts, probably asking themselves when their turn of closing will be.
So, I thought it was time for me to do something about it, and that’s why I have made my united version of your Wish Tree (an Oleander) and your WAR IS OVER! Campaign, to reawaken hope in the area, and because I want my children working for a world aimed at meeting people’s needs and not just making money profits.
I wish you a merry merry Christmas.
Jorge
PS: More photos here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/13977584@N08/sets/72157628360379417/
My daughter Melissa called BANZAI to her company, because of your song “Joseijoi Banzai”. When she was a child and a young girl I used your work to make her feeling proud of being female and to give her courage (she couldn’t understand why girls were rejected in the football team in her school). We used to talk about the lyrics of your songs, especially those in “Feeling the Space” and “Approximately Infinite Universe” albums, but when the ONOBOX came out, she got hooked on “Joseijoi Banzai”. She said it made her feel good and gave her strength and a special kind of energy to face everything.