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Five Below #201
7000 Arundel Mills Circle, Suite 136, Arundel Mills, Hanover, MD
This location opened on October 4th, 2013 and was originally located here; it was originally Today's Man, which opened in the early 2000s.
07-02-2010 5:34 pm
@ Westbound IB Terminal, Bulua
Cagayan de Oro City
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
We went to our alma mater's football game Saturday. As I was returning to my seat after getting a drink, the team scored. I had my camera ready to catch the crowd, and snapped the picture without realizing that I had caught 2 men celebrating with a high five!
Commemorates the first coroner of the borough John Birt Davies, who held the office for 36 years.
The clocktower in Five Ways is Grade II listed, and is in front of 60 Calthorpe Road.
Late C19. Iron. Square box with Gothic-style blank tracery to each face. On it a column with a 'capital' sweeping out to carry the clocktower, each face of which is beneath a little pediment. Finial at the top.
Morrisons Five Ways (Edgbaston) in the spring.
Sign seen near the car park entrance / exit on Harborne Road.
Hello
The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.
Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.
Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.
This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.
The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.
This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.
Carver Mead one of my heroes is at the center of research into neuromorphic engineering (electronics design using neuro-biological architectures) has been working for years on artificial eyes, with foveated vision and he was influential in the development of the chip set for the camera I use in this work.
Omron Corporation is currently working on sensors that will surmise your gender, age and state of happiness by further exploiting CCD (Charged Coupled Device) based visions systems coupled with software, so in the future, when your ATM has this sensor and changes the colors of the background to accommodate to your emotional state perhaps we will be lucky to have an extra $20. dispensed if we are feeling a bit down.
I can hardly wait for the pheromone sensors around the corner, which may allow our robot dogs and cats and hybrid pets, to know when we need more cuddle time.
By Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.
Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.
Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project.
Viva's five kittens are sleeping and eating their way through their second day -
cats.about.com/cs/kittencare/a/trackdevnewborn.htm
The newborn kitten weighs just ounces, and easily fits into the palm of your hand. Her umbilical cord will fall off within two or three days, but her eyes and ear canals will not be open yet.
Kittens are very helpless at this age, but the mother cat instinctively knows their needs. She feeds them, keeps them close by for warmth, bathes them with her rough tongue, which also stimulates their digestion and helps them urinate and defecate.
Newborns will weigh an average of 3.5 ounces at birth and may double their weight by the end of the first week. They are simply little food processing factories at this point, and their only activities are nursing, sleeping, and passing waste. There is very little social interaction at this age, other than competing for their favorite nipple, where they will suckle while kneading with their tiny paws. The body temperature of a newborn is only 95° Fahrenheit, and their shivering reflex is not yet developed, so it is extremely important to keep them warm during this time.
My testimony to Irish Parliament, 2013
Thank you for inviting me to participate in this profoundly important hearing.
Beginning in 2006, I began conducting comprehensive interviews with medical professionals, Chinese law enforcement personnel, and over 50 refugees from the Laogai System, in order to piece together the story of how mass harvesting from prisoners of conscience evolved in China. Based on my research, here is a short timeline:
In 1994, we have evidence that the first live organ harvests were performed on the execution grounds of Xinjiang.
In 1997, following the “Ghulja massacre,” we have evidence that the first political prisoners, specifically Uyghur activists were harvested on behalf of high-ranking cadres.
In 1999, Chinese State Security launched its largest action of scale since the Cultural Revolution, the eradication of Falun Gong.
By 2001, Chinese military hospitals were unambiguously targeting select Falun Gong prisoners for organ harvesting.
By 2005, overall transplant numbers--and the refugees that I have spoken to--suggest that the number of numbers of Falun Gong who are being harvested had increased dramatically.
In early 2006, the Epoch Times revealed the first charges of organ harvesting of Falun Gong, and this was followed that summer by the distribution of the Kilgour-Matas report.
In 2012, Wang Lijun attempted to defect at the US Consulate in Chengdu. Two weeks later information surfaced that he had overseen thousands of organ transplants. Six weeks later the Chinese State declared an end to organ harvesting of death-row prisoners over a five-year time frame. No mention was made of prisoners of conscience. Any attempt at third-party verification was rejected.
I can’t supply a death-count for House Christians, Uyghurs and Tibetans. But I estimate that 65,000 Falun Gong were murdered for their organs from 2000 to 2008.
What does this have to do with Ireland? China is the organ repository of last resort and Ireland—in spite of its sterling human rights record—is no exception. So my policy recommendation is simple enough.
Down in Australia, the local legislature of New South Wales is currently discussing criminalizing organ tourism—i.e. if you go to China and come back with a new organ you will be incarcerated. Simple as that. And until the Chinese authorities provide a full accounting of this crime against humanity, this is precisely the model that Ireland should follow.
Ethan Gutmann
I saw him working as we walked around exploring the Oasis and thought to myself that he would be a wonderful subject to photograph. I watched him throughout the day, but couldn't get up the courage to ask him. As we were packing up the kids and ready to head off I saw him again sitting 50 yards from our car, but just kept packing. Finally, all the kids were packed and we were leaving and I started to get in the car; but then jumped out and just went for it. I asked him if I could photograph him and he immediately softened and started to giggle. Why was I so scared? He was kind, gentle and was very happy to let me take his picture for my 100 strangers project.
This is Misha. Misha works at a local farm and date plantation. He was enjoying a break in the shade. He is number five in my 100 strangers project. (View more at:(100 Strangers Flickr Group page).
This project is very slow going for me because I find it so hard to ask strangers for a photo. Guys like Misha make it easier.
Thank You to Photo David for his contribution to Danger Arachnid Studies.
A bit of random spider trivia to brighten your day:
Spiders are found world-wide on every continent except for Antarctica!
Best seen in larger size on dark background - just click the photo.
Test shot with Nikon D700 + Carl Zeiss 100mm f/2 Makro Planar T* lens, ZF.2 mount. Shot at f/2.0
One of the coins that came back with me from India. This is a crop from the actual frame below. This was a hand held macro shot at the minimum focusing distance. Under these circumstances, my technique is to not use the focus ring, but to set it maximum magnification, and move the camera (along with my upper body, lol) back and forth to nail down the focus. Of course, it is necessary to stop breathing for a few seconds to accomplish this.
I did not have good lighting here, so I used the worst possible lighting - the built in flash on the camera. So the lighting is harsh and unflattering, but my priority here was to test focusing.
The Zeiss MP 100/2 is a wonderful lens to photograph “things” – anything big or small that is reasonably static, so accurate focusing and creative composition are possible. Its 100mm focal length provides a very nice reach, its fast f/2 allows available light shooting for natural looks, and its macro capability allows getting very close to the subjects.
I don’t think I’ve had so much fun shooting up a wide variety of “things”, including and not limited to such things as Coffee, Cauliflower, Books, Paintings, Clocks, Sculptures, Rocks, Crystal, Shoes, Pens, Fax machines, ChapSticks, Coins, Watches and Thumbtacks.
LOL – feel free to browse through these random shootings.
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Artist Ross Ashton premiers his projection piece entitled "Five Windows" during the Hopkins Center 50th Anniversary celebration. (photo courtesy of Ross Ashton)
The Five Points neighborhood gets its name from a 5-way intersection. The old hotel on the left sits at one of the five corners.
Anderson, SC. May 2023.
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1996 Easter Barbie was a gift to me NIB.
Unknown Barbie.
Happenin' Hair Barbie from 1998 was part of a doll lot I purchased on eBay.
Stars 'n Stripes 1990 Air Force Barbie I found NRFB at an antique mall in the mid 1990s. Her uniform is pictured on a Teresa doll in another photo in this set.
Unidentified Barbie. She has articulated elbows and bendable legs. I can't remember if I got her nude in a doll lot I won on eBay or in a group of dolls I found in a resale shop.