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Mount Etna (Aetna in Latin, also known as Muncibeddu in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian, a combination of Latin mons and Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. Its Arabic name was Jebel Utlamat (the Mountain of Fire).Volcanic activity at Etna began about half a million years ago, with eruptions occurring beneath the sea off the coastline of Sicily. 300,000 years ago, volcanism began occurring to the southwest of the present-day summit, before activity moved towards the present centre 170,000 years ago. Eruptions at this time built up the first major volcanic edifice, forming a strato-volcano in alternating explosive and effusive eruptions. The growth of the mountain was occasionally interrupted by major eruptions leading to the collapse of the summit to form calderas.From about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago, Etna experienced some highly explosive eruptions, generating large pyroclastic flows which left extensive ignimbrite deposits. Ash from these eruptions has been found as far away as Rome, 800 km to the north.Sicily's greatest natural attraction is also its highest mountain: Mount Etna, at 10,924 feet, is the most active volcano in Europe and the oldest recorded active volcano in the world.Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing about 3329.6 m (10,924 feet)high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21.6 m (71 ft) lower now than it was in 1865. It is the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km² (460 square miles) with a basal circumference of 140 km.The fertile volcanic soils support extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad Plain of Catania to the south. Due to its history of recent activity and nearby population, Mount Etna has been designated a Decade Volcano by the United Nations.Etna lava stone is a material with unique characteristics: durable, indestructible, resistant to changes in the temperature (it’s a heat conductor), it offers infinite possibilities of uses: flooring, urban furniture, interior design.After the glazing process the product doesn’t get stained, resists to acids and doesn’t require particular maintenance: that’s why lava stone is the ideal material even to make kitchens and bathrooms countertops. The natural stone tends to grey, with the glazing process we can obtain any desired colour. Shapes, sizes and decorations can be customized . The lava stone it is formed by the solidification of cooled magma on the surface of the Etna volcano, in Sicily
L'Etna è un vulcano attivo che si trova sulla costa orientale della Sicilia (Italia), tra Catania e Messina. È il vulcano attivo più alto del continente europeo e uno dei maggiori al mondo. La sua altezza varia nel tempo a causa delle sue eruzioni, ma si aggira attualmente sui 3329.6 m (10,924 feet) s.l.m. Il suo diametro è di circa 45 chilometri.Un tempo era noto anche come Mongibello.In genere le eruzioni dell'Etna pur fortemente distruttive delle cose, non lo sono per le persone se si eccettuano i casi fortuiti o di palese imprudenza come quello dell'improvvisa esplosione di massi del 1979 che uccise nove turisti e ne ferì una decina di altri avventuratisi fino al cratere appena spento. L'Etna è un tipico strato-vulcano che iniziò la sua attività, tra 500 e 700 mila anni fa. La sua lava di tipo basaltico è povera in silice, è molto calda, densa e fluida. Per queste ragioni le eruzioni sono tranquille ed il percorso delle lave prevedibile. La velocità di scorrimento è superiore a quella delle lave acide, più ricche in silice e più viscose e leggere.La lavorazione della pietra lavica, derivante dall’industria estrattiva delle vicine cave dell'Etna, per scopi ornamentali o per materiali da costruzione, diede da vivere a molte famiglie siciliane.I "pirriaturi", anticamente, estraevano lungo i costoni dell'Etna solo strati superficiali di lava perché più porosi e più facilmente lavorabili con arnesi quali la subbia, lo scalpello, la mazzola e il martello. Sul materiale estratto interveniva lo spaccapietre che ricavava lastre di pietra, infine lo scalpellino rifiniva il materiale. Uno degli usi prevalenti cui era destinata la pietra lavica era la pavimentazione delle strade urbane
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A Ukrainian recruit under the supervision of Canadian soldiers from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment practices searching for and identifying booby traps, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
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Sous la supervision de soldats canadiens du 1er Régiment du génie de combat, une recrue ukrainienne s’exerce à chercher et à détecter la présence de pièges au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume-Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
140621-Z-BQ261-031-- Soldiers with the 787th Explosives Ordinance Disposal Company, 3rd EOD Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade, 7th Infantry Div., trained on using bomb-disposal robots with their working partners the 927th Engineer Co.(Sapper), 769th Engineer Battalion, Louisiana National Guard, at FOB Apache, Afghanistan, June 21, 2014. The training gave the engineers a couple different types of scenarios to practice using the Talon and Pack Bot robots. (U.S. Army photo by Staff. Sgt. John Etheridge)
Humpback whales are rorquals (Balaenopteridae, a family that includes the blue, fin, Bryde's, sei, and minke whales). The rorquals are believed to have diverged from the other families of the suborder Mysticeti as long ago as the middle Miocene. The sole member of its genus, the humpback was first identified as baleine de la Nouvelle Angleterre off the coast of New England by Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his Regnum Animale of 1756. The common name is derived from the curving of their backs when diving. The generic name Megaptera comes from the Greek mega-/μεγα- ("giant") and ptera/πτερα ("wing") and refers to their large front flippers.
Genetic research in mid-2014 by the British Antarctic Survey confirmed that the separate populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans are more distinct than previously thought. Some biologists believe that these should be regarded as separate, independently evolving subspecies.
Humpbacks have a stocky body, obvious hump, and black dorsal colouring. The head and lower jaw are covered in tubercles, knobby hair follicles characteristic of the species. Humpbacks have 270-400 dark baleen plates on each side of their mouths. The plates measure from 46 centimetres in the front to almost a metre in the back. About 14-22 wide ventral grooves run from the lower jaw to the umbilicus. The female has a hemispherical lobe about 15 centimetres in diameter in her genital region. Fully grown males average 13-14 metres and females are slightly larger at 15-16 metres; one large recorded specimen was 19 metres long and had pectoral fins measuring 6 metres each. Body mass is typically around 25-30 metric tons, with large specimens weighing over 40 metric tons.
The long black and white tail fin can be up to a third of body length. The varying patterns on the tail flukes distinguish individual animals. During a study using data from 1973 to 1998 on whales in the North Atlantic, a photographic catalogue of all known North Atlantic whales was developed; it's maintained by the College of the Atlantic. Several hypotheses attempt to explain the humpback's pectoral fins, proportionally the longest fins of any cetacean, such as higher maneuverability and increased surface area for temperature control when migrating between warm and cold climates.
Whales produce a three-metre-long, heart-shaped blow through the blowholes. They don't generally sleep at the surface but must continue to breathe: it's possible that only half of their brain sleeps at one time, allowing the other half to manage the surface/blow/dive process.
The lifespan of rorquals ranges from 45 to 100 years. Females reach sexual maturity at age five, achieving full adult size a little later. Males reach sexual maturity around seven years of age. Courtship rituals take place during the winter months, following migration toward the equator from summer feeding grounds closer to the poles. Competition is usually fierce. Unrelated males, or "escorts," frequently trail single cows and cow-calf pairs. Males gather into "competition groups" around a female and fight for the right to mate with her. Groups shrink and grow as unsuccessful males retreat and others arrive. Behaviors include breaching, spy-hopping, lob-tailing, tail-slapping, pectoral fin-slapping, peduncle throws, charging, and parrying.
Both male and female humpback whales vocalize, but only males produce the long, loud, complex song for which the species is famous. Each song consists of several sounds in a low register, varying in amplitude and frequency and typically lasting from 10 to 20 minutes. Individuals may sing continuously for more than 24 hours. Cetaceans have no vocal cords, instead forcing air through their massive nasal cavities (blowholes).
Whales within a large area sing a single song: all North Atlantic humpbacks sing the same song, while those of the North Pacific sing a different song. Each population's song changes slowly over a period of years without repeating. Many of the whales observed to approach a singer are other males, often resulting in conflict: singing may, therefore, be a challenge to other males as well as a way to impress females. Some scientists have hypothesized the song may serve an echolocative function. During the feeding season, humpbacks make unrelated vocalizations to herd fish into their bubble nets and they use other sounds to communicate, such as grunts, groans, "thwops," snorts, and barks.
Females typically breed every two or three years. The gestation period is 11.5 months. The peak months for birth are January, February (northern hemisphere), July, and August (southern hemisphere). Females wait for one to two years before breeding again. Recent research on mitochondrial DNA reveals that groups living in proximity to each other may represent distinct breeding pools.
A newborn calf is roughly the length of its mother's head. At birth, calves measure six metres and two tons. They nurse for about six months, then mix nursing and independent feeding for around six months more. Humpback milk is pink and 50% fat.
Humpbacks have a loosely knit social structure: individuals usually live alone or in small, transient groups that disband after a few hours. Groups may stay together longer in summer to forage and feed cooperatively. Longer-term relationships of months or even years between pairs or small groups have occasionally been observed, and some females might create lifelong bonds through cooperative feeding.
Humpbacks inhabit all major oceans, in a wide band running from the Antarctic ice edge to 77° N latitude. The four distinct tribes are the North Pacific, Atlantic, Southern Ocean, and Indian Ocean populations. Whales were once uncommon in the eastern Mediterranean or the Baltic Sea but have increased their presence in both waters as global populations have recovered. They have also returned to Scotland, Skagerrak, and Kattegat, as well as Scandinavian fjords such as Kvænangen, where they had not been observed for decades. Since November 2015, Hachijo-jima has been recognized as the northernmost breeding ground in the world.
Humpbacks typically migrate up to 25,000 kilometres each year. A 2007 study identified seven individuals wintering off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica as having traveled from the Antarctic—around 8,300 kilometres. Identified by their unique tail patterns, these animals made the longest mammalian migration ever documented.
The humpback's range overlaps with other whale and dolphin species. Humpbacks are friendly and interact with other cetaceans such as bottlenose dolphins and right whales. These behaviors have been recorded in all oceans, and humpback whales regularly appear in mixed groups with other species, such as the blue, fin, minke, gray, and sperm whales. Humpback and southern right whales demonstrating what were interpreted to be mating behaviors have been observed off the Mozambique and Brazilian coasts. A male humpback whale was seen singing to a fin whale at Rarotonga in 2014, and another individual was observed playing with a bottlenose dolphin in Hawaiian waters. Incidents of humpback whales protecting other species of animals such as seals and other whales from killer whales have also been documented.
Humpbacks feed primarily in summer and live off fat reserves during winter, when they feed only rarely and opportunistically. The humpback is an energetic hunter, taking krill and small schooling fish such as herring, salmon, capelin, and American sand lance, as well as Atlantic mackerel, pollock, and haddock in the North Atlantic. Pleated grooves in the whale's mouth allow water to easily drain out, filtering out the prey. The humpback has the most diverse hunting repertoire of all baleen whales, sometimes stunning prey by hitting the water with pectoral fins or flukes. Its most inventive technique is known as bubble net feeding, in which a group of up to a dozen whales swims in a shrinking circle below a school of prey and traps it in a cylinder of bubbles. The ring can start out about 30 metres in diameter. Some whales blow the bubbles, some dive deeper to drive fish toward the surface, and others herd prey into the trap by vocalizing. The whales then all suddenly swim up, swallowing thousands of fish.
The technique of lobtail feeding, observed in the North Atlantic, involves slapping the surface of the ocean with the tail up to four times before creating the bubble net. Based on network-based diffusion analysis, researchers believe that these whales learned the behavior from other whales in the group over a period of 27 years in response to a change in the primary form of prey.
Visible scars indicate that killer whales can prey upon juvenile humpbacks. Mothers and (possibly related) adults escort neonates to deter such predation. It's believed that orcas turned to other prey when humpbacks suffered near-extinction during the whaling era but are now resuming their former practice.
Humpback whales were hunted by humans on a commercial level as early as the 18th century. By the 19th century, many nations (the United States in particular) were hunting the animal heavily in the Atlantic and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The explosive harpoon introduced in the late 19th century, along with the extension of hunting into the Antarctic ocean from 1904, drastically reduced whale populations. During the 20th century, over 200,000 humpbacks were taken, reducing the global population by over 90%. North Atlantic populations dropped to as low as 700 individuals.
In 1946, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was founded: they imposed hunting regulations and seasons. To prevent extinction, IWC banned commercial humpback whaling in 1966, by which time the global population had been reduced to around 5,000 animals (around 90% having been exterminated). The Soviet Union deliberately under-recorded its catches; the Soviets reported catching 2,820 whales between 1947 and 1972, but the true number was over 48,000.
As of 2004, hunting was restricted to a few animals each year off the Caribbean island of Bequia in the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The take is not believed to threaten the local population. Japan's announcement that it planned to kill 50 humpbacks in the 2007/08 season under its JARPA II "research" program sparked global protests and a visit to Tokyo by the IWC chair, and the Japanese whaling fleet agreed to take no humpback whales during the two years it would take to reach a formal agreement. In 2010, the IWC authorized Greenland's native population to hunt a few humpback whales for the following three years.
In Japan, humpback, minkes, sperm, and many other smaller Odontoceti, including critically endangered species such as North Pacific right, western gray, and northern fin whales, have been targets of illegal captures. Humpback meat can be found on the markets. Harpoons are used to hunt dolphins or intentionally drive whales into nets, reporting them as cases of entanglement. Unknown numbers of humpbacks have been illegally hunted in the Exclusive Economic Zones of anti-whaling nations such as off Mexico and South Africa.
Because they're easily approachable, curious, identifiable as individuals, and display many interesting behaviors, they have become the mainstay of whale tourism around the world. Analyses of whale songs in the 1960s led to worldwide media interest and convinced the public that whales were highly intelligent, aiding the anti-whaling advocates. Humpbacks are popular with whale-watchers because of their distinctive surface behaviors: they frequently breach, throwing two-thirds or more of their bodies out of the water and splashing down on their backs. Some humpbacks, referred to as "friendlies," often stay under or near whale-watching boats for many minutes.
While whaling no longer threatens the species, individuals are vulnerable to collisions with ships, entanglement in fishing gear, and noise pollution. Like other cetaceans, humpbacks can be injured by excessive noise. In the 19th century, two humpback whales were found dead near sites of repeated oceanic sub-bottom blasting, with traumatic injuries and fractures in the ears.
The species was listed as vulnerable in 1996 and endangered as recently as 1988. In August 2008, the IUCN changed humpback's status from "vulnerable" to "least concern," although two subpopulations remain endangered. Most monitored stocks have rebounded since the end of commercial whaling and now reach around 80,000 worldwide. Though the North Atlantic stocks are believed to be approaching pre-hunting level, the species is still considered endangered in some countries, including the United States.
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SIDE A
Mungo Jerry–In The Summertime
Edison Lighthouse–Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Stairsteps–O-O-H Child
The Box Tops-Cry Like A Baby
Classic IV–Traces
The Who–I Can See For Miles
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Jaggerz–The Rapper
Tee Set–Ma Belle Amie
Bob Lind–Elusive Butterfly
SIDE B
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Hugh Masekela–Grazing In The Grass
The Cufflinks–Tracy
Tommy James–Ball And Chain
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The Postcard
A Wrench Classical Series postcard that was printed in England. Note the policeman directing traffic and pedestrians, and the man up a ladder attending to a lamp attached to the Bank of England.
The card was posted in South Tottenham on Saturday the 19th. July 1913 to:
Monsieur Fuibert,
49, Rue Boussingault,
Paris XIII.
On the message side of the divided back, a man named Maurice has written a long note to his parents in which he states that he is in perfect health and is residing at:
4, Cunningham Road,
Tottenham,
London.
The Bank of England
The Bank of England (on the left of the photograph) is the central bank of the United Kingdom, and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.
Established on the 27th. July 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank.
It was privately owned by stockholders from its foundation in 1694 until it was nationalised in 1946 by the Attlee ministry.
The bank became an independent public organisation in 1998, wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the government, with a mandate to support the economic policies of the government of the day, but independent in maintaining price stability.
The bank is one of eight banks authorised to issue banknotes in the United Kingdom. It has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, and regulates the issue of banknotes by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Bank of England currently (2023) has reserves equivalent to 101.59 billion US dollars.
The bank's Monetary Policy Committee has devolved responsibility for managing monetary policy. The Treasury has reserve powers to give orders to the committee if they are required in the public interest and by extreme economic circumstances, but Parliament must endorse such orders within 28 days.
In addition, the bank's Financial Policy Committee was set up in 2011 as a macroprudential regulator to oversee the UK's financial sector.
The bank's headquarters have been in London's main financial district, the City of London, on Threadneedle Street, since 1734. It is sometimes known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, a name taken from a satirical cartoon by James Gillray in 1797. The road junction outside is known as Bank Junction.
As a regulator and central bank, the Bank of England has not offered consumer banking services for many years, but it still does manage some public-facing services, such as exchanging superseded bank notes.
Until 2016, the bank provided personal banking services as a privilege for employees.
Suffragette Activity
So what else happened on the day that Maurice posted the card to his parents?
Well, on the 19th. July 1913, letter boxes across Birmingham were filled with a noxious substance, seriously burning a postman when he opened one box.
This was the work of suffragettes, who had initiated a bombing and arson campaign in 1912 which continued until 1914.
On the same day, Edith Rigby planted a pipe bomb at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building. This exploded in the public hall. After she was arrested, Rigby stated that:
"I planted the bomb because
I wanted to show how easy it
is to get explosives and put
them in public places".
Edith Rigby
Edith Rigby (née Rayner) was born on the 18th. October 1872. She was an English suffragette who used arson as a way of furthering the cause of women’s suffrage.
Rigby was the first woman in Preston to own a bicycle.
She founded a night school in Preston called St Peter's School, aimed at educating women and girls.
Later Edith became a prominent activist, and committed several acts of arson. She was incarcerated seven times.
Edith Rigby - The Early Years
Born in Preston, Lancashire, she was one of seven children of Dr Alexander Clement Rayner, and was educated at Penrhos College in North Wales.
Edith married Dr. Charles Rigby and lived with him in Winckley Square in Preston. From an early age she questioned the differences between working-class and middle-class women, and after she was married she worked hard to improve the lives of women and girls working in local mills.
In 1899, she founded St Peter's School, which allowed these women to meet and continue their education which otherwise would have stopped at the age of 11.
At home, she was critical of her neighbours' treatment of their servants. The Rigbys had servants themselves, but allowed them certain unconventional freedoms such as being able to eat in the dining-room and not being required to wear uniforms.
Edith Rigby's Activism
In 1907 Edith formed the Preston branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Rigby became a suffragette recruiter, gathering new members from among the local Independent Labour Party, including Eleanor Higginson, who became a lifelong friend.
Rigby took part in a march to the Houses of Parliament in London in 1908 with Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst. Fifty-seven women, including Rigby, were arrested and sentenced to a month in prison.
During this time (and her six subsequent sentences), Rigby took part in hunger strikes and was subjected to force-feeding.
Edith's activism included planting a bomb in the Liverpool Corn Exchange on the 5th. July 1913, and although it was later stated in court that no great damage had been done by the explosion, Mrs Rigby was found guilty and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Rigby was given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
Edith also claimed to have set fire to the bungalow of Sir William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) on the 7th. July 1913. The property, near Rivington Pike on the West Pennine Moors, contained a number of valuable paintings, and the attack resulted in damage costing £20,000. Afterwards she said:
"I want to ask Sir William Lever whether he
thinks his property on Rivington Pike is more
valuable as one of his superfluous houses
occasionally opened to people, or as a
beacon lighted to King and Country to see
here are some intolerable grievances for
women."
Rigby disagreed with the WSPU's decision not to campaign on suffrage issues during the Great War.
Edith Rigby - The Later Years
During the Great War, Edith bought a cottage near Preston named Marigold Cottage, and used it to produce food for the war effort. With her short hair and men's clothes, she grew fruit and vegetables and kept animals and bees, following the teachings of Rudolf Steiner.
She had a happy marriage with her husband, who lived with her at her cottage. They adopted a son called Sandy. In the 1920's, Rigby was a founding member and the president of the Hutton and Howick Women's Institute. Rigby became a vegetarian.
In 1926 Charles Rigby retired, and the couple built a new house, called Erdmuth, outside Llanrhos, North Wales. Charles died before it was finished, however, and Edith moved there alone at the end of 1926.
She continued to follow Steiner's work, forming an "Anthroposophical Circle" of her own, and visiting one of his schools in New York.
Into old age she enjoyed a healthy lifestyle, bathing in the sea, fell walking and meditating into the early hours of every morning.
Edith eventually suffered from Parkinson's disease and died at home at the age of 77 on the 23rd. July 1950 at Llanrhos, Wales.
I saw a sign saying "Warning: Explosion Hazard, No Fire Allowed", and I wondered what the hell could be so explosive in an inactive power plant.
It turned out to be this bad boy.. Oh gosh, I was dying for a smoke..
500gr Westfalit explosive
Blocks WW2 INERT #500W
500 gr inert charges
Approximate SIZE: 115mm X 48mmX 38mm
Dated 1942
Wax sealed like the original
wood block core construction
Reproduction/Hollywood prop
Made in the USA
INERT DISPLAY ITEM/TRAINING AID
Background: Originally used for mining blasting in coal mines in the 1890's
in Europe. During WWl it was bought by the military for use in trench/mining
warfare. Westfalit as a commercial explosives was based on ammonium
nitrate, some TNT, DNT formula. This explosive was also widely used
during the second world war by Germany.
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Ukrainian recruits under the supervision of Canadian soldiers from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment practice searching for and identifying booby traps, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
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Sous la supervision de soldats canadiens du 1er Régiment du génie de combat, des recrues ukrainiennes s’exercent à chercher et à détecter la présence de pièges au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
Que seu dia seja explosivo e carregado de grandes emoções, que seja doce e cheio de alegria.
Bom domingo a todos.
Forte abraços, milhares de beijos e outros bocados de cheiros.
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Ufa, melhorei já. Estava preocupado, o aniversário batendo na porta, é amanhã!, e eu querendo adoecer, mandei a molesa correr longe!!! Pois é, para quem não sabe, faço 19 aninhos amanhã. Eu sei que tenho cara de velho, mas é verdade, vou fazer 19 anos ainda, tenho muito chão pela frente. (risos)
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Type of Photography: Traditional Digital Photography
Once I took this picture and looked at it on my camera I was happy with the type of shot I was able to get. I liked the emotion of the shot, how I filled the frame, and action that I froze. The editing I did for this photo included adjusting the levels and curves, boosting the saturation, and contrast and using the dodge and burn tool. I also resized the image and used the smart sharpen tool. The emotion portrayed in this image is sadness and frustration because of the position the wrestler is in and frustration with him too.
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A soldier from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment instructs Ukrainian recruits on the detection of booby traps, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Un soldat du 1er Régiment du génie de combat donne de l’instruction à des recrues ukrainiennes sur la détection de pièges au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume-Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
Soldiers on patrol come to a halt after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is found up ahead.
Troops of 2nd Battalion The Rifles (2 Rifles) mounted a 20 hour operation to clear a safe route to Patrol Base (PB) Wishton in Sangin, Afghanistan.
One of the main roads that leads to the PB is well known for having a large number of IEDs. With the aid of the Royal Engineers, 2 Rifles cleared the way and made a new route to the PB that can now be monitored 24 hours a day. This now allows vital supplies to get to the Patrol Base unhindered, whilst it is upgraded to a Forward Operating Base.
Photographer: Cpl Russ Nolan RLC
A Ukrainian recruit observes a lesson on mine prodding, taught by soldiers from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
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Une recrue ukrainienne assiste à un exposé sur les techniques de détection de mines présenté par des soldats du 1er Régiment du génie de combat au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume-Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
FORT GORDON, Ga. November 14, 2015 - Staff Sgt. Casie Hood of the 202nd Explosive Ordnance Dispoal Company instructs Spc. Kemonte Figures of the 870th Engineer Detachment in explosives safety training at Fort Gordon, Citizen Soldiers from the Region 4 Homeland Response Force's were able to get hands on training with several types of explosive charges. Georgia Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Perry / released
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Ukrainian recruits under the supervision of Canadian soldiers from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment practice searching for and identifying booby traps, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
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Sous la supervision de soldats canadiens du 1er Régiment du génie de combat, des recrues ukrainiennes s’exercent à chercher et à détecter la présence de pièges au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
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I shot the Mumbai Serial Bomb Blasts at Dadar in the rains ..and documented the destruction chaos and tears on the Soul of Amchi Mumbai.
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The 2011 Mumbai bombings (often referred to as 13 July or 13/7) were a series of three coordinated bomb explosions at different locations in Mumbai, India, on 13 July 2011 between 18:54 and 19:06 IST.[5] The blasts occurred at the Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar, and Dadar West localities,[6] leaving 26 killed, and 130 injured.[2][3][4]
The first device was planted on a motorcycle at Khau Gali in south Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar and exploded at 18:54 local time. The second device, planted in a tiffin box[7] at the Opera House near Charni Road, exploded at 18:55. The third device was placed on an electric pole at a Kabutar Khana bus stand in Dadar area and exploded at 19:06.[8][9]
Following the blasts, phone lines were jammed and communications ceased or were available intermittently for at least a few hours. Other metropolitan cities like Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore were also put on high alert.[10] Immediately after the blasts, the Mumbai Police sent an SMS to a few mobile phone users in Mumbai reading "Bomb blasts reported at Zaveri Bazaar, Dadar. Please be careful. Stay indoors. Watch news channels".[11] Most of the injured were rushed to various hospitals in Mumbai, such as J.J. Hospital, St. George's Hospital, Harikishandas Hospital and G.T. Hospital.[12]
Mumbai has been hit by terrorist incidents at least half a dozen times since the early 1990s, with over 600 people dying in these attacks. In an editorial, the Times of India described the city as having become a "hot hunting ground for terror."[13][14
Casualties and compensation
A Maruti Esteem car shattered by the blast in Dadar
The blasts claimed 26 lives and injured an additional 130 others.[3][4][15][16]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Indian National Congress leader Sonia Gandhi visited Mumbai the next day and met with those injured in blasts at Saifee Hospital.[17] Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a compensation of 2,00,000 to the kin of each of those killed and 1,00,000 to the seriously injured. Meanwhile, the Maharashta Government also announced 5,00,000 in compensation to the families of each of those killed and about[vague] 50,000 to the injured.[18]
[edit]Investigations
[edit]Speculations
There was speculation that the pattern of the blasts suggested involvement of Indian Mujahideen. According to the Special cell of the Delhi Police, Indian Mujahideen has been conducting blasts on the 13 or 26 of the month. [nb 1][19] Speculation was also rife that the Mumbai underworld could be behind these blasts, in the light of the killing of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, as well as the attempted assassination of Dawood Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar on 3 May. 13 July is also observed as Kashmir Martyr's day, and there could be a possibility that the attacks were carried out by Kashmiri groups.[20] There is also a view that the attacks could have been plotted by those trying to derail the Indo-Pakistani peace process.[21]
The slain MiD DAY crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey had previously reported that a huge cache of 35 detonators, gelatin sticks and large quantity of ammonium nitrate explosives had been seized on 20 May 2011 from Umarkui and Sayli village in Silvassa. Ammonium nitrate, gelatin and detonators have been used in several bomb blasts in Mumbai previously. The report also mentioned that this cache had gone missing soon after local police took custody.[22] The journalist had also speculated that the cache might be used to trigger terror attacks in the city.[22] There were calls for further investigations into this link to the Mumbai blasts by his employer MiD DAY.[23]
[edit]Timeline of investigations
The Home Ministry classified the bomb blasts as a terrorist act and dispatched a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team to the bomb site.[24] The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan said that the bombs used could have been fuel filled, much like molotov cocktails.[25] Preliminary investigations suggested the use of multiple IED explosives in the blasts with ammonium nitrate-based explosives mixed with fuel oil.[26] The explosives indicate some level of sophistication. It is also believed that remote detonators may have been used, with two of the three blasts being high-intensity.[27][28] The Home Minister also announced that his office would be updating the people through the media every two hours.[11]
The Maharashtra ATS was reported to have sought a list of passengers traveling from Kolkata to Mumbai and Kolkata to Kanpur from the Kolkata police. The suspicions were a result of a Kolkata man with Indian Mujahideen link having gone missing in the previous few days.[29] A NIA team visited Ahmedabad on 15 July to meet an Indian Mujahideen suspect who was arrested by the Crime Branch in connection with the Ahemdabad blast in 2008.[30] On 16 July, Maharashtra ATS Chief Rakesh Maria said that, based on forensic opinion and visit to the various sites, the possibility of a suicide bomber was being ruled out. However, a sketch of a possible suspect based on CCTV footage from one of the blast sites was being prepared. He added that in light of the sensitive nature of the investigation, the entire detail of the probe could not be revealed at that particular stage.[31][32]
On 4 August, Home Minister PC Chidambaram suggested indications of involvement of a home-grown terror module in the blasts.[33][34]
On 9 August, the Maharashtra ATS arrested one person it claimed had stolen a bike used in the Zaveri Bazaar explosion. The bike had been stolen from one Amit Singh a few hours before the blasts.[35] CCTV footage showed one person with long hair riding a stolen red colour Honda Activa, entering the crowded lane, taking two left turns, placing the scooter at the spot of the explosion and walking off.[36]
On 23 January 2012, the Mumbai Police claimed that it had solved the Mumbai Blasts case with the arrests of two suspects – Naqi Ahmed Wasi Ahmed Sheikh (22) and Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaq Sheikh (23) – hailing from Darbhanga district of Bihar.[37] The Mumbai Police's ATS claimed that the two had stolen two scooters used in the blasts according to a scheme whose logistics were managed by Yasin Bhatkal, the mastermind of the blast.[38] However, this televised announcement baffled the other intelligence agencies. It was later revealed that Naqi Ahmed was assisting the Delhi Police and other central intelligence agencies in tracking down two other perpetrators of the blast.[37] Further investigations revealed that the two Pakistani bombers; named Waqqas and Tabrez staying in Byculla used as many as 18 SIM cards and six handsets. The duo received sim cards from the co-accused Naqi Ahmed, who was arrested by the ATS in January 2012 for possessing SIM cards obtained with fake documents, following which Naqi admitted his role in the blasts and also admitted working with Indian Mujahideen's founder member Yasin Bhatkal in arranging accommodations for the bombers.[39]
On 25 May 2012, Maharashtra ATS filed a chargesheet against Naqee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik (all are under arrest). Additionally, the chargesheet named six others including Indian Mujahideen mastermind Yasin Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal, Waqas Ibrahim Sad, Danish alias Tarbez, Dubai based Muzaffar Kolah and Tehseen Akhtar as wanted accused on the run.[40][41]
[edit]Allegations of police brutality
The Mumbai Police detained several men for questioning. One of those detained—Faiz Usmani—died while in police custody on 17 July,[42] sparking allegations of police brutality. Usmani was the brother of one of the accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad bombings case. It was alleged by his family members that Faiz Usmani was healthy when the police picked him up and that he was subjected to torture in police custody. The police dismissed these charges and countered that Usmani was suffering from hypertension and complained of giddiness after walking himself into a police station. He was admitted to the Lokmanya Tilak hospital, Sion, Mumbai, following which he died quickly due to blood clots in brain and a heart attack.[43] A CID probe has been ordered into Usmani's death.[44]
Exhibition Jean Tinguely - Machine Spectacle 1 Oct 2016 - 5 Mar 2017 in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Jean Tinguely is famous for his playful, boldly kinetic machines and explosive performances. Everything had to be different, everything had to move. Precisely twenty-five years after his death, the Stedelijk Museum opens a Tinguely retrospective: the largest-ever exhibition of the artist to be mounted in a Dutch museum.
The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) played a key role in the rise of kinetic art in the fifties. With over a hundred machine sculptures, most of which are in working order, paired with films, photos, drawings, and archive materials, the presentation takes the public on a chronological and thematic journey of Tinguely’s artistic development and ideas, from his love of absurd play to his fascination for destruction and ephemerality.
The presentation features his early wire sculptures and reliefs, in which Tinguely imitated and animated the abstract paintings of artists such as Malevich, Miró, and Klee; the interactive drawing machines and wild dancing installations constructed from salvaged metal, waste materials, and discarded clothing; and his streamlined, military-looking black sculptures.
Tinguely’s self-destructive performances are a special feature of the Stedelijk presentation. The enormous installations Tinguely created between 1960–1970 (Homage to New York, Étude pour une fin du monde No. 1, Study for an End of the World No. 2, and La Vittoria) were designed to spectacularly disintegrate in a barrage of sound. The presentation also spotlights the exhibitions Tinguely organized at the Stedelijk, Bewogen Beweging (1961) and Dylaby (1962), and the gigantic sculptures he later produced: HON – en katedral (“SHE – a cathedral,” 1966), Crocrodrome (1977) and the extraordinary Le Cyclop (1969–1994), which is still on display outside Paris. The survey ends with a dramatic grand finale, the remarkable, room-filling installation, Mengele-Totentanz (1986), a disturbing display of light and shadow never previously shown in the Netherlands. Tinguely realized the work after witnessing a devastating fire, reclaiming objects from the ashes to piece together his installation: scorched beams, agricultural machinery (made by the Mengele company), and animal skeletons. The final piece is a gigantic memento mori, yet also an invocation of the Nazi concentration camps. Its juddering movements and piercing sounds evoke a haunting, grisly mood.
Jean Tinguely created his work as a rejection of the static, conventional art world; he sought to emphasize play and experiment. For Tinguely, art was not about standing in a sterile white space, distantly gazing at a silent painting. He produced kinetic sculptures to set art and art history in motion, in works that animated the boundary between art and life. With his do-it-yourself drawing machines, Tinguely critiqued the role of the artist and the elitist position of art in society. He renounced the unicity of “the artist’s hand” by encouraging visitors to produce work themselves. Collaboration was integral to Tinguely’s career. He worked extensively with artists like Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle (also his wife), Yves Klein, and others from the ZERO network, as well as museum directors such as Pontus Hultén, Willem Sandberg, and Paul Wember. Thanks to his charismatic, vibrant personality and the dazzling success with which he presented his work (and himself) in the public sphere, Tinguely was a vital figure within these networks, acting as leader, inspirator, and connector.
Amsterdam has enjoyed a dynamic history with Tinguely. The exhibitions Bewogen Beweging (1961) and Dylaby (1962), for which Tinguely was (co)curator, particularly underline the extraordinarily close relationship that sprang up between the museum and the artist. Not only did he bring his kinetic Méta machines to the Netherlands, he also brought his international, avant-garde network, leaving an enduring impression on museum goers who flocked to see these experimental exhibitions. Close relationships with Willem Sandberg, then director of the Stedelijk Museum, and curator Ad Petersen prompted various retrospectives and acquisitions for the collection: thirteen sculptures, including his famous drawing machine, Méta-Matic No. 10 (1959), Gismo (1960), and the enormous Méta
More steel wool work, so happy my last shot is doing so well, hope you like this just as much. Not quite as dangerous this time
A soldier from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment instructs Ukrainian recruits, during Operation UNIFIER on 28 January 2023 in the United Kingdom.
Please Credit: Corporal Eric Greico, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Un soldat du 1er Régiment du génie de combat donne de l’instruction à des recrues ukrainiennes au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, le 28 janvier 2023, au Royaume-Uni.
Photo : Caporal Eric Greico, Forces armées canadiennes
Advert scanned from the 1958 guide to the Festiniog Railway. The factory at Penrhyndeudraeth was in production from 1872 until the l980s.
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., June 28, 2014 - A Georgia Guardsman from the 202nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 201st Regional Support Group peers through the window of a car looking for explosives during a scenario at Ravens Challenge VIII.
Ravens Challenge is an event hosted by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, focusing on live fire bomb disposal scenarios, cross-training between EOD and Public Safety Bomb Squads with integration of new bomb disposal technologies.
Scenarios will include post blast, VBIED, HME manufacturing, recovery and disposal of stolen commercial explosives, booby traps and render safe of complex devices.
Photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Perry, Georgia Army National Guard / Released
Inspired by my friend sylvar.
Taken on eastbound 50, east of Sacramento.
US DOT definitions for 1.3C:
1.3: Explosives that have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both, but not a mass explosion hazard.
Compatibility group C: Propellant explosive substance or other deflagrating explosive substance or article containing such explosive substance.
The last days of summer!
I won't be on Flickr too much over the next week, as I am going to Palm Springs for a friends birthday! I hope everyone has a great week!
„Extreme stage for extreme people“ has confirmed its full line-up for Exit 2011. During the four festival days, Explosive will play host to influential metal, hard core and punk bands, lead by headliners German Kreator, Russian pagan metal band Arkona, Australian metal core band Parkway Drive and British punks Anti Nowhere League and Discharge. These band are getting serious back-up in the form of numerous important bands from the world over. For the first time in the stage’s history, Explosive will also host no more no less than a DJ!
Stage managers Milan Rakic and Aleksandar Todorovic confirm the wide choice of bands. „We have made up a line-up that includes all directions in underground music, from punk to hard core and metal, but also acts who blend all genres in an interesting way. Explosive Stage is most certainly one of the most highly-visited stages at the festival, and we like to think of all us here as one big family!“
Thursday at Explosive opens with Romanian black metal band Negura Bunget and Italian extreme metal band Mechanical God Creation. Joining them from Bulgaria are hardcore and metal band Last Hope and Vendetta, famous for being recognized by music magazines as the most influential bands of all genres in Southeast Europe. Father from Rijeka will present Croatian metal scene, and domestic hard core, punk and metal support comes in the form of All Except One, Downstroy and Shoplifters.
Friday at Explosive will be more than exciting, because this night brings two headliners, Arkona and Parkway Drive. Stimulans come from Split, playing a blend of heavy metal sub-genres united in a powerful and direct heavy package. Hungary is once again proving to belong to head bangers by giving us Nevergreen, a band that, after almost twenty years existence in Hungary and all over Western Europe, reached a status of a cult. Austrian industrial dark veterans The On/Off Corporation are putting on an audio-visual show, presenting the old-school swag of this sound from the beginning of the ‘90s. From Serbia, already well-known to our audience, we are having All The Arms We Need and Reflections Of Internal Rain, followed by fresh power Dark Dawn and Darkshines.
Saturday is the night reserved for the great in the world of punk, featuring British Discharge and Anti Nowhere League! To introduce you to their gigs, we are presenting melodic hard core punk band from Croatia, Debeli precjednik. Not wanting the head bangers to feel left out Hard Faced from Macedonia are to show why they are one of the most brutal and most powerful metalcore bands from the Balkans, as well as Bosnian Tanker. Tona and Conviction from Novi Sad and Path of Decay from Belgrade will present a blend of punk, metal and rock styles, enough to make Saturday at Explosive incredible.
Finally, Sunday is welcoming the most prominent European thrash metal band, German Kreator. From France we have Onesta, whose version of New York hard core places them on the very top of this scene in Europe. Their lead singer Bogdan, who is originally from Serbia, promised the band will give a performance that is going to stay in the hearts and heads of the audience for a long long time. Czech Edain will give fans a dynamite combination of old thrash school interwoven with new, more progressive death metal influences. Bornholm are coming from Hungary, and are one of the most popular black metal bands in their country, whereas Aperion are our Slovenian guests, who are preparing a mind-blowing performance that will include, apart from guitars, drums and vocals, flutes, violins and cellos as well. Domestic representatives at Explosive for this night are Inquisitia, Impurita, Rapid Force and Kozeljnik.
What is especially interesting when it comes to 2011 at Explosive stage is that this stage’s program will be opened and closed by one of the most popular DJ’s coming from Austria! All those who thought DJ’s are electronic music exclusive have something else coming. DJ Scrag! has been active in the scene for the past 20 years, and is a guru of a kind then it comes to Austrian dark, industrial and experimental scene. He specializes in giving great sets to the extreme underground audience, and he is to give two of these at Explosive Stage, taking the audience through the paths of different music styles.
All in all, fans who have been missing versatile and above all quality heavy entertainment can already start preparing for their time at Explosive 2011, because abundance of excellent performances awaits. Just like Exploited lead singer Wattie Buchan said last year:” Hey man, it's huge and amazingly big mainstream festival...too much people for one old Punk bastard but, Explosive is more like a home, house. Simply, can't leave all this.” And you simply won’t.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 5, 2014) Navy Divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 launch combat rubber raiding crafts preparing to recover the NASA Orion Crew Module onboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Anchorage is currently conducting the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) for the NASA Orion program. EFT-1 is the fifth at-sea testing for the Orion crew module using a Navy welldeck recovery method. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elena Pence/Released)
With its telltale “Z” stripe showing, the aft center section of the Ares I-X first stage booster is hoisted into place. Using a 325-ton capacity crane, the aft center is being lifted so it can be joined to the aft section already in place on mobile launch platform 1.
Last week the aft section was placed on MLP 1 and locked down by four huge bolts – each of which has 750,000 pounds of tension in them when torqued down. The 100 foot horizontal and 90 foot vertical journey from the center transfer aisle of the VAB into VAB high bay 3 takes many hours due to the methodical nature of handling and moving solid rocket motor segments loaded with hundreds of tons of explosive propellant.
Once the aft center section is in place, the forward center section will soon be brought over and finally the forward section will be joined to the other three. Once we have all 4 sections stacked, we will be ready for the first non-rocket motor section called Super Stack 1.
Image credit: NASA
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p.s. You can see all of the Ares photos in the Ares Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/ares/ We'd love to have you as a member!
A dog handler with the Iraqi Police Al Anbar K-9 unit in Ramadi, Iraq, poses with his dog, Sassy, a chocolate Labrador retriever, after she successfully found an explosive sample during training April 16, 2010. While dogs are considered unclean in Iraqi culture, the K-9 unit is increasingly popular with Iraqi police and army for their dogs’ ability to find explosives and people who have handled them. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod, 1/82 AAB, USD-C)
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The bicycle path runs up a hill on the north side of the Maribyrnong River which provides a view across the now closed Department of Defence Explosives Factory
A tank of fuel exploded, leaving only half of it left, now filled with water while the fire department is trying to put out the last flames inside one container.
This is one among several photos that got published in the bigger national medias (as well as Denmark and Germany). I was the first (and only) photographer allowed on board, accompanied by the battalion commander and chief of the fire department to inspect the damages done by the fire.
Scan taken from a very early Cookes hardback book called "Industrial Explosives, intention, development application"
This book was saved from been thrown out by employee Malcolm Jones Tremadog during its closure in the 1990s.
Thanks to Malcolm Jones Tremadog for allowing me to scan the photos in the book.