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Entertainment Fiji style.. After a highly charged game of Boule where a NZ couple beat Ben and I to the Nananu Island Cup (they'd been in extensive training throughout their retirement), the diving instructors set about lighting the bonfire - with petrol.
Fire lit, we suddenly heard a whoosh - and then saw a instructor - arm and leg on fire - running into the sea. After the sacrifices made we felt obliged to enjoy it.
I was driving a company vehicle when I got this message. Before that, the screen displayed "EXPLOSIVE detected."
I forgot my flash drive was named "EXPLOSIVE."
Despite this being a Ford Escape, I have grown attached to it.
The 2012 Sea Picnic was again run at Ansty's Cove. It featured amazing food from Antonia's Kitchen with fish from Ian Perks. The highlight of the event, which raised thousands for the Trinity Sailing Trust through tickets and a charity auction, was a JB 007 style sea and air spectacular involving Sunseeker Yachts, jet skis RIBs and an R44 helicopter dropping bombs on them!
This is an all electric vehicle made by Smith Electric Vehicles in the UK and shipped to he USA.
This vehicle was owned by the United Steel Corporation and was used to transport explosives around the site!
Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA (USA).
Lomo LC-A
Kodak Ektachrome 64T cross processed, expired 08/2009
Parliamentary elections are coming up. Already we've had one bomb in our city related to the election—a very loud IED detonated with no casualties in front of a female candidate's home on the west side of town a few nights ago. As the election approaches, we expect but hope against increasing divisive activity.
My hat's off to the brave national men and women willing to risk their lives to do something for their compatriots.
But is it really a democracy if women are so strongly threatened against voting (not to mention running as a candidate, obviously) that only a tiny percentage of them make it out to the polls, and some of those that do pay the price in their own blood? How do you move a country from a condition of institutional injustice to an even relatively level democratic playing field? It seems clear that democracy (or any form of representative government) can't always be the right choice, because a system which favors the majority voice ...
Well, it favors the majority voice. And those either without a majority (various ethnic groups) or without a voice (women) are effectively either run over or run off. Not to mention the unfortunate effect that Afghanistan's dismal literacy rate has on the voting process. Many people, I would venture 95 percent of people, simply vote along ethnic lines, promoting corruption, nepotism, unmerited officials and, ultimately, lack of real positive change. In Afghanistan's case, democracy may actually prevent progress by handing power into the same wealthy Pashto male hands and blocking access to the means of information and governance to the same impoverished Tajik and Hazara female hands (to generalize), ad infinitum.
This was and in many ways still is the case with the human rights issues facing African-Americans all throughout American history, just for one example. Had the white racists in the South had their vote we would still be in the days of 3/5 or worse. Even today if they had their vote on some of these issues we would probably still see negative budget movements and domestic policy changes regarding black Americans.
In some cases, the government that protects best listens the least to the "voiced" of its people. I feel it's the same here, but I'm not sure what options that leaves the Afghan government which is already plagued with so many internal and external problems.
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Cattle Point, Oak Bay, BC
When the itchies get to be too much, an explosive bath in a fresh-water puddle is just the thing.
I'm one kahRAYzey guy, and hoping to maintain my reputation as such, have taken to stuffing citrus fruit with firecrackers. I let them "self-expose" on bulb-mode. Man, that silly Mentos and Coke thing CAN'T TOUCH THIS.
June 21st, Boyd TX - The Texas Cross Country Racing Association (TCCRA) rolls into Boyd Texas for another action packed Sunday event.
Flyin Ryan (Ryan Griffiths) performs a ramp jump into a massive pyrotechnical display, set off by his wife.
WRIGHT-PATTERSON An EOD bomb robot is used to search for explosives during an active shooter exercise in Bldg. 676 here Oct. 30, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Niki Jahns)
Lychik stands with one of the Husky vehicles he drove while deployed as a combat engineer to Afghanistan, about a month before his injury. Before losing his left leg, Lychik had twice been hit by an IED while driving the Husky. (Photo courtesy of Edward Lychik)
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