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Given the rain we've had recently I'm amazed not only could they walk on stilts, they did it on wet, muddy, sodden grass
The Beacon of NATCA Award is given to a facility that rises above and handles an emergency or disaster situation with grace. No amount of planning, training or preparation can prevent a disaster event. But when it occurs, whether it is natural or man-made, NATCA members answer the call. Aviation safety professionals are among the first to take direct action in response to a disaster, working with first responders. They attend to the immediate danger and implement longer-term strategies to mitigate damage.
The Beacon of NATCA Award was created to recognize those facilities that go above and beyond to perform the essential and difficult task of disaster response. The recipients of this award are the beacon that guides us home and the heroes that rise above the chaos.
At #NATCACFS2019 Alaskan Region members were honored for their exemplary professionalism displayed during during an earthquake in 2018.
***The next day, Ed was given a hero's reception by the 130 Swansea for Europe supporters who had travelled up to London for the People's Vote march. See our album on the march for more pictures.
Well done Ed! What an amazing feat!
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Swansea for Europe member Ed Sides walked 200 miles from Swansea to London, to join the People’s Vote march, which saw a million people take to the streets of the capital to call for a referendum on the Brexit deal.
His route took him through Cardiff, Newport, Chepstow, south Gloucestershire, Malmesbury, Swindon, Wantage, Didcot, Henley, Maidenhead and Hayes.
He was supported by the local groups of Wales for Europe and by other groups affiliated with the People’s Vote along the English portion of the route.
**Read about Ed’s walk on the BBC****
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47670317
****Follow Ed's day-by-day account of his walk here*****
www.walesforeurope.org/articles
Ed says:
“Leaving the EU would be the biggest decision in a generation, and a lot has changed since the referendum nearly 3 years ago. That’s why we need a People’s Vote.
In my view, there is no deal we can get which is better than the one we have, as EU members. But we should let the people decide, now that we know the real options, not just campaign slogans”
“We cannot let arguments turn into shouting matches. I firmly believe that the vast majority of people in this country are tolerant and reasonable people. I think they are looking for politicians to provide a solution that will allow us all to move on and spend our time addressing important issues such as education, health, social welfare, trade, migration control and economic growth.”
Ed was raising money for Wales for Europe, The Big Issue and the Woodcraft Folk.
Given to Mr. Carlo Zanotta (Gregario of Gastone Nencini) from Aldo Moser, older brother of Francesco. This was in december 84. Bike is nr. 006 with gold / silver palque saying what i just said.
Will be selling the bike on ebay during this december 2011
seller iD
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warlock line is the name given to this new set of picks that I am creating for a good friend, his nickname is j sorcerer.
made from the best steel that I have tested till date and a handle pressed and polished leather.
feature of this tool as well to fit the curves in the fingers acting on it.
warlock line es el nombre que lleva esta nueva serie de ganzuas que estoy creando para un buen amigo , su nick es j brujo.
fabricadas con el mejor de los aceros que tengo probados asta la fecha y un mango de piel prensada y pulida.
destaco de esta herramienta lo bien que se adaptan las curvas en los dedos que actuan sobre ella .
The Pill Awards honor queer filmmakers and talent in the LGBT community.
Awards given in categories such as
Best Short Film , Documentary Film , Activism , Music Video dance alternative electro , editing , art direction, lighting. The show
ADD-TV Attention Deficit TV was created as an alternative, edgy platform for queer filmmakers and talent.
The Pill Awards 2010 Season 6 Arena Event Space Times Square New York City 01-24-2010
Photo by
Ryan Janek Wolowski
Given the chain's uncertain future, I thought I had better capture the Newport branch before it potentially disappears. As a young child, a treat on shopping expeditions to Newport was lunch in the restaurant of BHS on the top floor.
BHS was started by American entrepreneurs seeking to emulate Woolworth's success, opening their first store in 1928 in Brixton. They expanded rapidly and in 1933 the company was floated. Expansion continued after WW2 and by the end of the 1960s they had 94 stores in the country. Business faltered from the 1980s and today the firm is in administration with an uncertain future.
A bench with a view of BHS.
I was given three rolls of 35mm Kodak Technical Pan (expired 2002). I hunted around for a development scheme and finally settled on this. Mostly because I had Rodinal. I'm only posting in case some of you still have some in the fridge.
16 EI
Rodinal 1+150 for thirteen minutes
Agitate with 30 seconds initial inversions, then 3 inversions at 10 minutes,7 minutes,4 minutes, and 1minute counting down. (every 3 minutes)
Regular stop, fix and hypo.
I used 5ml of Rodinal in 750ml of H2O. That gives less than the recommended 10ml of Rodinal but the negatives really look great (full tone scale).
I had to figure out a curve profile as I felt (and still do) that the midtones were not right. Technical Pan is also a dust magnet; lots of healing tool. Even with Rodinal there is virtually no grain.
The Theodosian Walls were situated between the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn and have a length of 6.5 km.
The walls were completed in 413 during the reign of Theodosius II (408–50). The wall was given his name, but was actually built under the supervision of Anthemius of Byzantium, a praefectus praetorio of the Eastern Roman Empire.
From 439 onwards, the sea walls were built along the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara (Propontis), thus walling the entire peninsula on which the city was situated.
The Theodosian Walls consisted of:
- the main inner wall (5 meters thick and 12 meters high); this was separated by a terrace (peribolos) from
- the lower outer wall (2 meters thick and 8.5 meters high).
An outer terrace, the parateichion, extended between the outer wall and the moat. The moat was about 20 m (66 ft) from the outer wall. The moat itself was over 20 m (66 ft) wide and as much as 10 m (33 ft) deep, with a 1.5 m (5 ft) high crenellated wall on the inside, which served as a first line of defense.
Access to the outer wall from the city was provided through the main gates at the base of the towers of the inner wall. The outer wall also had towers, which were placed about halfway between the towers of the inner wall. They were spaced at a distance of 48–78 m (150–250 ft) from each other. Of the towers of the outer wall, 62 have survived.
The walls of Constantinople were notoriously impregnable throughout the Middle Ages. Greek engineers used a much more effective construction technique than others in the Middle Ages. The walls in the Byzantine Empire were usually not solid, but consisted of double walls filled with rubble, which allowed gaps to be quickly repaired. Numerous armies of Bulgarians, Avars, Kipchaks, Russians, Galatians and Arabs failed to penetrate the walls. The first breach of the walls came in 1204, when the Fourth Crusade laid the city to waste. Two centuries later, the city had not yet recovered from the damage of the Crusade, and in 1453, after a relatively short siege, it fell into the hands of the Turkish Ottomans.
Given the long hours I was putting in while out in DC what I mostly saw was the hotel. But my friend Ben rescued me one night, picked me up in his '89 maroon Honda Civic, and took me out to a little french bistro over in Dupont Circle. We split a big bucket of mussles steamed in a curry-cream sauce and drank the house red.
When he was driving me home, we heard a very loud THUNK followed by an ominous rattleratttlerattle . The catalytic converter had fallen off the car and was dragging underneath. Since a catalytic converter is technically not needed for an internal combustion engine to function, Ben decides no tow is needed and that he can still get me home. So his civic goes roaring through the streets and his bright idea to counteract the ungodly racket is to blast Michael Jackson with the windows rolled down. People are pointing and staring, and at one stoplight a bunch of teenagers start dancing along to "Smooth Criminal" being blasted at 80 decibels. As we get back to the hotel, he promises me curbside service and so he guns it and pulls into one of the nicer hotels on the hill with "Billie Jean" at full volume as his car backfires splendidly and the doorman helps me out as I have become a mass of uncontrolled giggling...only to notice one of my bosses looking on in abject horror.
Ben, you gave me a perfect evening.
The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike. In 2001 it was the subject of a historical reenactment. In 1991, South Yorkshire police were forced to pay out half a million pounds to thirty-nine miners who were arrested in the events at the Battle of Orgreave.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) organised a mass picket of Orgreave for June 18, 1984, with the intention of blockading the plant, and ideally forcing its temporary closure. Aware of the plans by means of MI5 infiltration, the police organised counter-measures.
The NUM was represented by 5-6000 pickets from across the UK. The police deployed between 4000 to 8000 officers, and were deployed from ten counties. Of these a small number had been trained in new riot tactics following the Toxteth and Brixton riots, while most had little or no experience in dealing with such events. There were between 40-50 mounted police, and 58 police dogs. There were no women officers and only a handful of female picketers.
Unlike most of the strikes of the time, where picketers were kept well away from their intended positions, the strikers were escorted to a field to the north of the Orgreave plant. The field was flanked by police on all sides except the south, where the Sheffield to Worksop railway line runs. Opinion is divided as to whether this was a deliberate arrangement.
These were given to me by Maxx on my birthday two years ago :) She got them at Aura at the Powerplant Mall in Rockwell. She also got herself a white pair although they were later stolen on the set of taping of a drama series. We both agree that Aura does carry the "strangest stuff!" Btw, they each sold for Php2K+ at the time.
Diane was given the assignment to cover Michael Bolton at The Paramount in Huntington, NY. Click these links to see her photographs and read her review :)
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I was given this bag, which had a torn strap and sloppy customization on the face. Sewed webbing on main strap, painted face pistachio, and now it's a great bag!
I've given up trying to create panoramas that stitch seamlessly together, that can compete with the rest of them. I'm going for a different look now.
Concert given by the Birthright Orginazation featuring a performance by Israili Singer Sarit Hadad.
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Given the way the school has torn down things this year, I'm a little concerned for these chandeliers.
In 2014 Dreyfuss & Blackford Architects was selected to renovate the historic headquarters of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District that we originally designed. These construction photos were given to us from the extensive SMUD archive. The date each was taken is handwritten at bottom of the image.
In 2010 the SMUD Headquarters was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places.
Design began on the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Headquarters building in 1958, by 1961 construction was complete.
The client desired a dramatic, monumental building with careful attention to the environmental issues, including full sun control and an energy efficient air conditioning and heating system; with flexibility for expected immediate and long-term growth. One of the energy efficient features of the project is the use of solar shades on the exterior of the building which move with the sun. The building was designed for, and continues to house central administration and service facilities for SMUD.
The two wings of the 166,000 square foot building are linked by an elevator and service core. The south wing encloses three clear-spanned floors of flexible office space over a lobby, auditorium, and demonstration areas. The basement of the south wing was designed to comprise the building’s cafeteria, mailroom and general storage areas. The north wing includes two floors of flexible office space over three levels of garage parking provided for staff vehicles. Tree-shaded parking is available for visitors and employees. The 15-acre site is densely landscaped featuring granite boulders and a variety of trees. The building has matured successfully over the years and is still used as originally designed. No significant changes have taken place since the original construction. The exterior has been well-maintained, and the interior has had typical upgrades for a 50 year old building.
Water City Mural by Wayne Thiebaud
A major design feature, a glass mosaic by a young Wayne Thiebaud, encircles the first level of the building. He was virtually unknown at the time and this was his first glass mosaic, which is now considered irreplaceable and priceless.
Wayne Thiebaud was a relatively unknown artist teaching at Sacramento City College in 1958 when Dreyfuss & Blackford selected him to do a mosaic mural for the new building’s façade.
Along with SMUD, they decided something bright and beautiful was needed to increase interest in the building when viewed both at a distance, through the trees, and up close as people walked under the surrounding portico.
Thiebaud submitted two sketches to choose from, both of which were to be executed in glass mosaic tiles. One was bold, with large blocks of black, brown, orange and gray on a white background, a solid color abstract. Dreyfuss & Blackford chose instead a delicate design of a city reflected in water, and Thiebaud was then commissioned by the SMUD Board to make full drawings for four panels, each 15 feet high and over 200 feet long.
The artist worked in a large hall at the old State Fair to project each sketch in full size. Color areas were numbered by reference to 58 shades of sample tiles. Predominant colors are variations of orange, red, and blue.
A detailed study was made by Dreyfuss & Blackford to determine how and where such a mosaic could be manufactured. After much review and consideration, a muralist school in Florence, Italy was finally selected to prepare the mural. Theibaud’s drawings, on rolls of butcher paper, were rolled and sent to Italy where the mural was rendered in tessera glass tile, a process involving a great deal of handwork. The completed tiles were then shipped back to San Francisco, trucked to Sacramento, and mortared into place.
Lord, I know that you continually allow me to start over when I bring my past failures to You.
I thank You that You have given me the opportunity to begin fresh with each new day and that through Your grace, I can break old patterns of thoughts and actions.
Help me to offer others that same opportunity and to demonstrate Your love to those around me. Amen.
Diane was given the assignment to cover Motionless In White’s Graveyard Shift Tour with special guests Every Time I Die, Ice Nine Kills & Like Moths To Flames at The Paramount in Huntington, NY. Click these links to see her photographs and read her review
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Acropolis
Acropolis means 'Sacred Rock' and was a term given to the high strong holds of cities in the ancient world
Although many cities have an acropolis, most people associate the term with this most famous one
In this view we can see the Parthenon dominating the view in the center, on the bottom left is the
theather known as the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. The hill in the background is Lykavittos Hill
Above the Odeon on the left is the entrance to the Acropolis known as the Propylaea
On the way up to the entrance, these two stand alone Corinthian columns can be seen
Monuments were erected on these columns to celebrate winners of Drama contests
This is a section of the Propylea, which means simply gate building.
Built around 435 BC it was never completely finished
This is the view from the top down to the Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus
Located on the southern cliff face of the arcopolis, it was the first stone theater ever built
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is also located on the southern slope
Built in 161 AD it was 3 stories high with a wooden roof and could seat 5000 people
The parthenon. One of the greatest buildings in history
Work began in 447 BC and was completed in 431 BC
This picture shows the West facade of the building
A closeup of the west facade
Much of the detail has been lost but some carvings can be seen in the second level
Sonya and John in front of the east side of the Parthenon
A close up of the long south side of the Parthenon
In 1687 the Parthenon was massively damaged by an explosion. In one of history's greatest acts of stupidity the Turks used the Parthenon as an ammunition dump which blew up during a bombardment by the Venetians. Curses on both their houses
This building is called the Erechtheon. It was constructed from 421 BC to 407 BC during the Peace of Nikias between Athens and Sparta during the disastrous Peloponnesian wars
This section is known as the Porch of the Caryatids with the famous six ladies holding up the roof
Another view of the Caryastids. All these are reproductions. "lord" Elgin stole one of the statues to Britain which is now in the British museum. The remaing five have been relocated to the Acropolis museum
A further out view showing the whole building complex.
This is all located on the north side of the Acropolis
A closeup showing some of the fine detail on the columns
This view of the Parthenon is taken from the near by hill of Philopappou
A Brief History of the Castle
After the Norman Conquest, in 1069, the land around Middleham was given to Alan Rufus or Alan The Red, a nephew of William the Conqueror. Rufus built a wooden motte-and-bailey castle, 500 yards to the south-west of where the present castle stands, on a site known as William's Hill. It was built to guard Coverdale and to protect the road from Richmond to Skipton. Alan Rufus was also the builder of nearby Richmond Castle. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 Middleham had been granted to Alan Rufuss brother Ribald. This early castle was abandoned in the 12th century when a new castle was built centered around a massive stone keep . The construction of the present castle began around 1170 by Robert Fitzrandolph (grandson of Ribald) during the reign of Henry II when he built the keep and original bailey. The keep, one of the largest in England, had twelve foot thick walls and three floors; for its time, this would have provided palatial accommodation. It contained a great chamber, large kitchen, chapel, dovecot, cellars and the living rooms of the lord of Middleham.
At each end of the keep's vaulted basement there were two wells (which can still be seen today). The thirteenth century curtain walls formed an enclosure around 250 feet on each side. In the fourteenth and fifteenth century the garrison quarters, stables and stores were housed within these walls.
Original entry was via a gatehouse on the East side of the castle across a wooden bridge (possibly having a drawbridge over a now dry moat). The huge wooden gates and probable portcullis must have presented an awesome first impression! The present day entrance to the castle is through the Northern gatehouse, known as the Neville Gate.
Middleham Castle became home to some of the most powerful lords of the 15th century, including Salisbury, Warwick and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III, he was particularly fond of Middleham. The round tower at the south-west corner of the curtain wall, traditionally known as the Prince's Tower, is said to be where Richard's son Prince Edward was born and died.
After Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 Henry VII became king, and Middleham Castle became his. Under the Tudors the castle was left to fall into disrepair.
In 1604 James I granted the castle to Sir Henry Linley, who made some repairs and lived there until his death in 1610 when his daughter Jane Linley then inherited the castle. In 1613 Jane married Edward, 2nd Viscount Loftus, who occupied it until 1644. During the Civil War it was to be used as a prison.
In 1646 Parliament ordered the east range wall be destroyed along with most of the wall-walks, thus leaving the castle the shell it is today.
In 1662 it was sold to Edward Wood, his family owning the castle until 1889. It was then sold to Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Lord Masham, and was inherited by the second Lord Masham in 1906. In 1925 the Office of Works, later to become English Heritage, acquired the castle and it is now in their keeping and open to the public.
Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary, art and fashion. Two notable shows were Henri Cartier-Bresson - A Retrospective, work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 -2004, a major retrospective of Richard Avedon. In summer 2016 Foam will present a major Helmut Newton retrospective exhibition. Next to large exhibitions by well-known photographers, Foam also shows the work of young and upcoming photographers, in shorter running exhibitions. The museum contains a café, a library, a commercial gallery called FoamEditions and a bookshop.
The museum also publishes a quarterly photography magazine called Foam Magazine.
The building on the Keizersgracht canal in which Foam is located has a history dating back to Carel Joseph Fodor (1801–1860). Fodor first bought Keizersgracht 611, and later also bought the adjacent warehouse and residential house at Keizersgracht 609. Fodor destined the warehouse in his testament as the exhibition space that should receive the name Museum Fodor. Between 1863 and 1994, Museum Fodor was open to the public. Between 1994 and 2001 the Nederlands Vormgevingsinstituut was located in these buildings.
Foam received permission in November 2001 from the city council for the start-up. On December 13, 2001, Foam opened its first exhibition Dutch Delight. More than 7000 people visited the exhibition in which Dutch light played a prominent or self-evident role.
After the opening exhibition the museum closed for renovation. Architects BenthemCrouwel turned three buildings at the Keizersgracht into a modern museum. The first exhibition in the new museum, was called Regie: Paul Huf, Paul Huf together with Eva Besnyö being the originator of the museum. The official opening took place on June 6, 2002. The exhibition was visited by approximately 8000 people.
Every year Foam organises four large exhibitions by particularly notable photographers, usually running for about three months. In conjunction about 16 shorter running exhibitions are organised by the museum, which can be very different in character: either the work of relatively young photographers, or a specific project, work that is currently relevant, small retrospectives or the presentation of new developments within the medium. Emphasis is generally on documentary photography, street photography, portrait and glamour photography, and young and upcoming talents.
Documentary photography exhibitions at Foam have included Avenue Patrice Lumumba by Guy Tillim, The Hyena & Other Men by Pieter Hugo, In the Shadow of Things by Leonie Purchas, and Calais - From Jungle to City by Henk Wildschut. Street photography exhibitions have included Helen Levitt's In the Street, a retrospective by Weegee and Tom Wood’s Photieman. Portrait or glamour exhibitions have included Photographs 1946-2004 by Richard Avedon, Chemises by Malick Sidibé, and People of the 20th Century by August Sander. Under the denominator Foam_3h small shows by young photographers are presented in the Foam library. Recent examples include Control by Emilie Hudig and A Place to Wash the Heart by Monieka Bielskyte.
Since 2007, Foam has been organising the Paul Huf Award, a prize that is awarded to a young, talented photographer under the age of 35. The award was at one time known as the KLM Paul Huf Award (Wikipedia).
Space Needle, Seattle, Washington - 2013
The Space Needle rises out of nowhere, it is away from the downtown district in the Seattle Center, so far from the tall high-rise skyscrapers that dominate the city.
Opened in 1962, it stands 184m tall, and is designed to withstand 200mph winds and a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, way above the required standards in the sixties.
Given the scarcity of baby swings in Moscow, I am very happy that Liliana has graduated to the big kid swings.
Catechesis at the Palacio De Deportes with The Mass given by Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney for English speaking pilgrims.
© Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk
Given the amount of red berries on display, there's an awful lot more rowan trees around the estate than I'd counted previously...
On any given day (ok, every given day) you'll find me like this. Ugly hat, purple shirt, dumb look on my face... You get the idea.
Anyway, this was just me messing around with some strobes and trying to come up with a decent portrait.
Strobist Info
Camera Right - Vivitar 285HV / shoot through umbrella.
Camera Left - LumoPro LP120 / silver foil umbrella.
Background Light - Yongnuo YN460 / Ghetto Snoot.
Given that I didn't have any real repair parts as of yet, the first step was scrubbing almost 3 decades worth of basement grime off the bike. Other than some brake fluid weep on the rims and at the fluid reservoir, no visible leaks of any kind. Cleaned up pretty well.
Dharmapur Block, Valsad, Gujarat, India. 16th May 2012: An expecting mother is given a through medical check up by, ANM (Auxillary Nurse and Midwife) Nainaben at a local anganwadi center on "Mamta Diwas". Dharmapur block in Kaprada is one of the most under-developed areas in the predominantly tribal Valsad district in Southern Gujarat. The UNICEF-supported Mamta Divas (Mothers Day) programme was launched by the Government of India in 2005. One day each month, every state in the country provides essential health services for mothers and children. The women are taught about institutional delivery, colostrum feeding, exclusive breast feeding, and hand-washing. The main objective of this strategy is to reduce infant mortality as well as malnutrition among children through effective delivery of Health &.
Nutrition services on the same day and under the same roof.UNICEF India/2012/Vishwanathan.
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