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140324-M-UY849-083-- Military working dog handlers take turns executing an improvised explosive device lane March 24 at Camp Hansen. The training is part of their preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. While military working dogs are able to identify explosives, it is necessary for the handlers to know how to identify the types of environments where IEDs may be emplaced. The military working dog handlers are with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III MEF. Photo by Pfc. Abbey M. Perria
Rolf Händler *1938
Maler. 1988
Öl auf Leinwand
Museum Barberini
Potsdam
Ausstellung
»Künstler aus der DDR – Moderne Historienmalerei«
2019
Chelsea Handler and ballsy audience member Rianne chat during Chelsea's stand-up show at the Route 66 Casino in Albuquerque, June 28, 2008.
Barbie gained fame not simply as a product but as an icon. Barbie was said to be “the archetypal woman”, a modern Mona Lisa. On television feminists said Barbie was a bimbo and bad for children. Mrs Handler retorted that Barbie offered children choices of what to be when they grew up. Academe bent its mind to the Barbie phenomenon. Students on a sociology course were set the following exercise: “What criticisms have been made of Barbie as a role model? Do you agree with this criticism? In your opinion should the manufacturers be sensitive to this criticism? There are no ‘right' answers to these questions, but you should develop a line of reasoning that reflects your values.”
Ruth Handler was herself a success story in an honoured American tradition. Her parents had arrived in the United States in a steamship, travelling steerage, the cheapest accommodation, and settled in Denver. Her father was a blacksmith who had brought his family from Poland so that he would not be conscripted into the Russian army. Mother never felt very well, exhausted after bearing ten children. But big families have a way of looking after themselves, and Ruth, the youngest, says she was well cared for.
At the age of 19 she headed for Hollywood. She did not make it into the film business. She took a course in industrial design, met a boy on the same course and married him. Mattel was started in a garage, adding to another bit of American industrial lore. Ruth Handler and her husband at first made picture frames, then furniture for dolls' houses, then toys, including a child's guitar that found a market. The firm seems to have done reasonably well and in the 1950s Mrs Handler had a holiday in Europe. In Switzerland she came across a German-made doll about 11in tall called Blonde Lilli, of improbable proportions, dressed in skimpy clothes, and presumably designed to raise the ambitions of young men.
Suppressing her American blushes, Mrs Handler bought three and took them back to America. She said she had been thinking for some time of producing a “grown-up” doll for children, but the men in her firm said there would be no demand for one: what children liked was dolls that looked like babies. Inspired by Lilli, Mrs Handler designed a respectable American doll called Barbie (her daughter's name) with breasts but without nipples and wearing clothes that were pretty but non-provocative. The first dolls were made in Japan and in 1959 “Barbie the teenage model” made its debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. It was the success of the show, selling 350,000 Barbies in the first year. Since then more than a billion Barbies have been sold worldwide.
According to Mattel, an American girl aged up to 11 is likely to own ten Barbie dolls. French children are said to own five. But several million grown-up women are also said to own Barbies. “She is more than a doll to them, whatever their age,” Mrs Handler said. “She has become part of them.” There are Barbie collectors of both sexes: a 1959 Barbie that sold for $3 is now said to be worth $5,000 in good condition. Barbie retains an almost sexless body that can puzzle knowing children who wonder how Barbie was born without a belly button and has no obvious means of reproduction. “Hey, Momma...?”“That's enough, dear, or I'll take Barbie away.”
In defending Barbie against the feminists Mrs Handler said her creation is a career woman and not at all empty headed. But Barbie has had so many careers, and at 43 marriage seems to be a declining prospect. There is a boyfriend called Ken, named after another of Mrs Handler's children. Barbie and Ken have been together for years. What are Ken's intentions? Barbie was born in the innocent 1950s, and may find the mores of these changeable times hard to cope with. Barbie's friends of all ages are concerned.
Source: The Economist 2 May 2002.
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 12: Chelsea Handler (L) and Moon Man onstage at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Vince Bucci/ www.PictureGroup.com )
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Chitwan District, is one of the seventy-five Districts of Nepal.
The district takes its name from the Chitwan Valley, one of Nepal's Inner Terai valleys between the Mahabharat and Siwalik ranges, both considered foothills of the Himalayas.
Chitwan is one of the few remaining undisturbed vestiges of the Terai region, which formerly extended over the foothills of Nepal.
Chitwan has a particularly rich flora and fauna. Nepal's first national park, the Chitwan National Park together with the adjacent Parsa Wildlife Reserve support a species diversity much higher than any other on the Indian subcontinent. Rare species include Bengal tiger, gharial and the world's second largest population of Asian Rhinoceros, but also leopards, Mugger crocodile, Indian rock python and several species of deer.
The Rapti River flows east to south west in the south of Bharatpur and forms the northern border of the Chitwan National Park. The Narayani River flows north to south in the west of Bharatpur. It is the deepest and also one of the biggest rivers of Nepal.
The Streets of Beijing, China
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This is a heavily modified Kibri Kalmar model kitbashed to look similar to machines that CN used during the 80's and 90's. I still need to touch up the paint on the wheels and weather it before hitting it with the dullcoat.
--U.S. Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) Handler Chief Master-At-Arms (EXW) Nick Estrada from Orange, Calif. rewards a Uruguayan police narcotics sniffing dog with a chew toy after correctly tracking a scent and identifying it by scratching, Nov. 9, 2010. Estrada and other expert naval MWD handlers taught various Uruguayan forces dog handlers basic obedience, drug searching and patrol techniques during a three-week training mission coordinated by the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command (MCAST).
MCAST delivers teams of highly skilled Sailors with a wide variety of expertise to partner nations to share their experience and strengthen international relationships as an integral part of the Navy's maritime strategy.
[U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW) Peter D. Lawlor]
Orlando, Fla., native Cpl. Suzette Clemans, a military working dog handler with 1st Law Enforcement Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force, and Denny, her Belgian Malinois patrol explosive detection dog, prepare to search for explosives on the beach aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Oct. 21, 2015. Exposing dog teams to working with different equipment and scenarios enhances their skills across a range of secuirty threats in support of Marine Air Ground Task Force operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Caitlin Bevel)
Red carpet photos from the 17th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Jay Leno.
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Credit: Scott Suchman
Item: 1-438
Title: Banana Handlers, Jamaica
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Publisher: C.H. Graves
Publisher#: 23
Year: 1899
Height: 3.2 in
Width: 6 in
Media: Gelatin Silver stereocard
Color: b/w
Country: Jamaica
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Date: 18 July 1968
Description: This photograph from the Daily Times-Journal collection was taken during the grain handlers strike of 1968. The average wage of a grain handler at the time was $2.30/hr. The union was asking for an increase of $1.25 over 2 years, while they were being offered +$0.42 by employers. With their demands unmet, more than 1300 grain handlers at 28 Lakehead terminals went on strike.
Picket signs read, "LODGE 650 GRAIN HANDLERS ON STRIKE TO BE INCLUDED INTO JUST SOCIETY."
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Accession No.: 984.80.1617 G