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No one enters Explore without being favored, usually at least three times.
For all you my favorites favoring my fotos, blessed be you and yours I pray in appreciation. Give extra smiles out at your house, work, street each day.
People will like it and often smile back, wondering WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT SMILING PERSON. Our secret: nothing is wrong, just so thrilled to breath, I desire to pass on this act of friendship as a random act of kindness (RAK).
Lets fill our lives with RAK to those who are not even our friends yet.
CAN AN ALIEN SEE AND HAVE YOUR SMILE TODAY?
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Pink is from Picasa2 to add pizazz to bleached out 1/2. Picasa2 if a free add on from Google. No classes needed. How unlike PhotoShot's campaign to confuse all for hours.
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My Grandmother’s Plot in the Family Cemetery
She was my grandfather’s second wife. Coming late
to him, she was the same age his first wife
had been when he married her. He made
my grandmother a young widow to no one’s surprise,
and she buried him close beside the one whose sons
clung to her at the funeral tighter than her own
children. But little of that story is told
by this place. The two of them lie beneath one stone.
Mother and Father in cursive carved at the foot
of the grave. My grandmother, as though by her own design
removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot,
with no one near; her married name th only sign
she belongs. And at that, she could be Daughter or pitied
Sister, one of those who never married.
Poem by Claudia Emerson in
“late wife” (Louisiana State University Press 2005; www.lsu.edu/lsupress)
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry”
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Ten Commandments for a Loving, Responsible, Pet Owner...
1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.
4. Don't be angry with me for long and don’t lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainments. But I have only you. Your are the focus of my entire existence.
5. Talk to me. Even if I don’t understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.
6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.
7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I have teeth that could easily crush the bones in your hand, and yet I choose not to bite you.
8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I’m not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long or my heart might be getting old or weak.
9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too will grow old.
10. On the difficult journey, on the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please. Never say you can’t bear to watch. Don’t make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there. Because I love you so.
Take a moment today to thank God for your pets. Enjoy and take good care of them. Life would be a much duller, less joyful thing without God’s critters. Please pass this on to other pet owners.
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EXPLORE # ___ on Wednesday, March 12. 2008.
Have been seeing too many beautiful photos of the Changi Boardwalk on my Singapore Flickr friends' streams (especially sukhoi37 and i359702), so decided to check this place out for myself this evening.
It felt almost like I was visiting a famous landmark in a foreign country, because everything looked so familiar.
Ran into many people sporting mean DSLRs and wondered if they were anyone I know here. Well, if you saw someone snapping away on an improverished point-and-shoot and an iPhone, that was yours truly. :)
Explored Feb 27, 2010, BP #71
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A soldier from Alpha Battery 1st Battalion 7th Field Artillery Regiment, looks through high powered binoculars over a bridge for any suspicious activity during an improverished explosive device sweep during a convoy to a medical clinic in the town of Az Zawiyyah, Iraq on 21 June 04. A Bat 1/7 FA conducts these operations to help deter any injuries or deaths to the Coalition Forces and civilian personnel. A Bat 1/7 FA is in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (US Army Photo by Sgt. April L. Johnson) (Released)
Sky House II -- One of two I.M. Pei buildings at 4th and M Streets SW in Washington, D.C., being gutted. The building to the left is "The View at Waterfront" -- an apartment building.
In the early 1950s, the southwest quadrant of D.C. consisted primarily of residential homes built in the early 1800s. Most of them had fallen into severe decay. Southwest D.C. had become home to a mostly African American population, and segregation and racism left them improverished and uneducated. Few homes had running water, and almost none had sewage hookups. People used latrines, which often were right next to drinking water wells. Most D.C. neighborhoods were built with immense alleys. Once, stables for horses existed in these alleys. In Southwest D.C. by the early 1950s, these stables were now "alley dwellings" -- homes for tens of thousands of black people. Two-, three-, and four-story additions were cobbled together from scrap lumber to add to these alley dwellings, and they were often unsafe and firetraps.
In 1946, the Congress passed the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act, which established the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA) and provided legal authority to clear land and funds to spur redevelopment in the capital. Between 1952 and 1960, almost every single home, church, business, office building, and playground in Southwest D.C. was razed to the ground.
New York City real estate developer William Zeckendorff outbid a wide range of other developers to win the right to redevelop nearly all of Southwest D.C. In 1955, Zeckendorff proposed building a "Waterfront Town Center" on the north side of M Street SW (straddling 4th Street SW). The idea was to create an inward-looking mixed-use development: A one-story, small strip mall would contain a grocery story, retail shops,and a restaurant. 4th Street SW would be blocked off between M and K streets, and a plaza and small park created on the north side of the mall. To the east and west of the mall, 11-story high-rise identical office buildings would provide employment in the area. Scattered around the "town center" would be a series of low-rise and high-rise apartment and condo complexes (Tiber River, Carroll Square, Delaware Avenue, Capitol Towers, etc.) to provide housing for middle-income and wealthy families (e.g., whites). Each would be focused inward around a leafy courtyard (some of them with pools and fountains).
The office buildings (Town Center Plaza Towers) were designed by I.M. Pei, then a young Chinese-American architect just beginning his career. The office buildings were in the Brutalist (raw concrete) style, made of pinkish concrete with repetitive square window frames.
Waterfront Town Center failed miserably. The shopping mall never attracted good tenants, and pretty soon became home to discount stores, off-brand clothing shops, and no-name fast food joints. The closed 4th Street SW created a dead zone throughout southwest D.C. The plaza was sizzling hot in summer, and useless in winter, and contributed to drug dealing and crime in the area. The office buildings never attracted good tenants, either, and nearly all the workers in them came from Maryland or Virgina rather than local people from D.C. Meanwhile, the nearby residential complexes became insular and disconnected from the neighborhoods around them.
In 2007, the city provided redevelopment funds as part of its Anacostia Waterfront Initiative to have the mall demolished and 4th Street restored. Developers built eight-story Modernist office buildings (Waterfront Station) with uneven facades to the east and west of 4th Street. Each building had ground-floor retail (grocery store, drug store, restaurants, coffee shops) catering to upper-middle-class people (whites). An athletic field was created north of the west building, and a new park north of the east building. The entrance to the Waterfront Metro station was also radically redeveloped, with a new park, fountains, canopy, and meadow.
In 2012, the two I.M. Pei-designed office buildings had their facades totally removed and their insides completely gutted. Known as "Sky House I" and "Sky House II", they should be open in 2013.
Sky House I -- One of two I.M. Pei buildings at 4th and M Streets SW in Washington, D.C., being gutted. The building to the left is one of the two office buildings that make up Waterfront Station.
In the early 1950s, the southwest quadrant of D.C. consisted primarily of residential homes built in the early 1800s. Most of them had fallen into severe decay. Southwest D.C. had become home to a mostly African American population, and segregation and racism left them improverished and uneducated. Few homes had running water, and almost none had sewage hookups. People used latrines, which often were right next to drinking water wells. Most D.C. neighborhoods were built with immense alleys. Once, stables for horses existed in these alleys. In Southwest D.C. by the early 1950s, these stables were now "alley dwellings" -- homes for tens of thousands of black people. Two-, three-, and four-story additions were cobbled together from scrap lumber to add to these alley dwellings, and they were often unsafe and firetraps.
In 1946, the Congress passed the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act, which established the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA) and provided legal authority to clear land and funds to spur redevelopment in the capital. Between 1952 and 1960, almost every single home, church, business, office building, and playground in Southwest D.C. was razed to the ground.
New York City real estate developer William Zeckendorff outbid a wide range of other developers to win the right to redevelop nearly all of Southwest D.C. In 1955, Zeckendorff proposed building a "Waterfront Town Center" on the north side of M Street SW (straddling 4th Street SW). The idea was to create an inward-looking mixed-use development: A one-story, small strip mall would contain a grocery story, retail shops,and a restaurant. 4th Street SW would be blocked off between M and K streets, and a plaza and small park created on the north side of the mall. To the east and west of the mall, 11-story high-rise identical office buildings would provide employment in the area. Scattered around the "town center" would be a series of low-rise and high-rise apartment and condo complexes (Tiber River, Carroll Square, Delaware Avenue, Capitol Towers, etc.) to provide housing for middle-income and wealthy families (e.g., whites). Each would be focused inward around a leafy courtyard (some of them with pools and fountains).
The office buildings (Town Center Plaza Towers) were designed by I.M. Pei, then a young Chinese-American architect just beginning his career. The office buildings were in the Brutalist (raw concrete) style, made of pinkish concrete with repetitive square window frames.
Waterfront Town Center failed miserably. The shopping mall never attracted good tenants, and pretty soon became home to discount stores, off-brand clothing shops, and no-name fast food joints. The closed 4th Street SW created a dead zone throughout southwest D.C. The plaza was sizzling hot in summer, and useless in winter, and contributed to drug dealing and crime in the area. The office buildings never attracted good tenants, either, and nearly all the workers in them came from Maryland or Virgina rather than local people from D.C. Meanwhile, the nearby residential complexes became insular and disconnected from the neighborhoods around them.
In 2007, the city provided redevelopment funds as part of its Anacostia Waterfront Initiative to have the mall demolished and 4th Street restored. Developers built eight-story Modernist office buildings (Waterfront Station) with uneven facades to the east and west of 4th Street. Each building had ground-floor retail (grocery store, drug store, restaurants, coffee shops) catering to upper-middle-class people (whites). An athletic field was created north of the west building, and a new park north of the east building. The entrance to the Waterfront Metro station was also radically redeveloped, with a new park, fountains, canopy, and meadow.
In 2012, the two I.M. Pei-designed office buildings had their facades totally removed and their insides completely gutted. Known as "Sky House I" and "Sky House II", they should be open in 2013.
Just to the east of Sky House I, another new development is going in. Currently, a parking lot fronts M Street. North of that is a run-down condo building (Waterfront Tower), and then more parking lots and empty fields to K Street SW. The Bernstein Companies is going to build an 11-story, 142-unit condo building known as South Tower on the M Street parking lot. A narrow, plaza (open to the east and west) will exist between South Tower and Waterfront Condos. On the east side of the middle of this area, a four-story, 19-unit condo structure known as Center Building will be aligned north-south along 3rd Street SW. A small park and minimal parking will exist to its west. Framing this park to the north will be a 128-condo structure known as "North Building" which will be aligned east-west and appear identical to Waterfront Condos. To the north, fronting K Street SW, will be another 190-unit condo building known as North Tower. Between the North Building and North Tower will be a park identical to that between South Tower and Waterfront Condos. A skyway will connect the North Buidling and North Tower. All four infill buildings are being designed by Maurice Walters.
The Latin poem in the book tells us that the reveller in the foreground is a student who prefers the party life with wine and loose women to studying. But this has seriopus consdquences. A procuress in the background with a baby in her arms steps forward. This motif of the student who is at first extravagant, then improverished and expelled from univeristy, but who ultimately sees the error of his ways, can also be found in the literature of the time where it was used for moralising purpoises. Alte Pinakothek, Munich:
Dining chair by Claggett Wilson, on display as part of the "Jazz Age" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
Wilson (1887-1952) gained fame before and after World War I as a Modernist painter. But he was also a costume and set designer, muralist, interior decorator, and decorative arts designer.
This chair was commissioned in 1925 by Adolph Lewisohn (1849-1938). Lewishohn was a German Jew who emigrated to the United States. He joined his father's New York City mercantile business and became somewhat wealthy. He decided to invest in copper after meeting Thomas Edison, and was one of the first co-investors in the massive copper mine at Butte, Montana. The investment made him fabulously wealthy, and he was one of the first "Copper Kings". He immediately retired, becoming a philanthropost and investment banker.
Lewisohn asked Wilson to design a dining room set which would work with his collection of Biedermeier furniture. (The Biedermeier style was common in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848. It reflected the improverished economic circumstances of the European middle class in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, emphasizing clean lines, solid workmanship, and restrained Neoclassical detailing.)
Biedermeier style used burl for a vener. (Burl is a bulbous deformity in wood, usually caused by disease, injury, or fungus. The swirling grain of a burl is highly prized by cabinetmakers.) Wilson chose "bird's eye" sugar maple for the wood. Scientists are still puzzled by what causes the tiny swirls that disrupt the grain in some trees, but it is sought-after by cabinetmakers.
The chair's design is influenced by designs used by the Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop"), a modern design studio in Vienna, Austria.
#CMAJazzAge
Wednesday, 23 December, 2009, a child worker clears dead pupae and silk waste in the confined space behind machinery at a silk reeling factory in Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India.
Children work twelve hours or more a days, six and a half or seven days a week, under conditions of physical and verbal abuse. Starting as young as five, they earn nothing at all to around Rs. 400 (UK Sterling £5.89) a month, some or all of which is deducted against loans ranging from around RS. 1,000 to 10,000 (UK Sterling £15 to £147). This practice is generally known as bonded labour.
Sericin vapors (the animal protein binding silk filaments) from boiling cocoons, smoke , diesel fumes from the machines, and poor ventilation cause respiratory ailments such as chronic bronchitis and asthma. From immersion in scalding water and handling dead worms and handling dead pupae, reelers' hands become raw, blistered, and sometimes infected.
Child workers are usually bound to their employers in exchange for a loan made to their families and are unable to leave while in debt and earn so little they may never be free of it. The Indian government knows about these children and has the mandate to free them. Instead for reasons of apathy, caste bias and corruption, many government officials deny they exist at all.
Millions of children in India toil as virtual slaves, unable to escape the work that will leave them improverished, illiterate, and often with serious health problems by the time they reach adulthood.
Both Indian and international law prohibit the use of bonded child labour and Indian law has regulated and restricted child labour up to age fourteen.
(additional information found at Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org/reports/2003/india/)
Photo: Haydn West
I'm not sure who shot this but it wasn't me. Thanks, guy!
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we improvise #improverished
Such as a improverished Banker perhaps. I ventured out for a rare bout of night time photography this evening. It was cold & the photos of the Xmas decorations I took didn't come out as well as I would have liked. I did enjoy getting this one though.
Colombian singer Shakira (L) and Argentine Gustavo Cerati perform during a charity ALAS concert held in Buenos Aires on May 17, 2008. Shakira's ALAS foundation has gathered 21 other singers to perform in two simultaneous concerts on May 17, one in Mexico and the other in Argentina, in an effort to raise money to help improve the lives of improverished children in Latin America. AFP PHOTO / Juan MABROMATA (Photo credit should read JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)
Keith explains how his wife Claire's charity 'End 68 Hours of Hunger' manages the distribution of food donations through schools to the child in need of weekend food. This warehouse, built from donations and by volunteers, is the centre of operations which now cover 5 states from its New Hampshire base.
There are parallels with UK food-banks in that both the UK and the US are rich countries with an increasing number of improverished families with children.
Born in Ottawa in 1985
2021
Air barrier membrane swen on fabric
Collection of the artist
The Future Left Behind is like a bird's-eye view of a village in the Far North. The patches of colour conjure the small dwellings that proliferate haphazardly without any consideration for urban planning. The work is made from sheets of white air barrier membrane, like those seen tacked onto unfinished reserve housing across the country. The spots of colour are in fact the letters in the words and logos printed on the material. The sheets have been cut vertically into strips, then swen side by side at a 90-degree angle on a large piece of fabric, lending the work its kinetic quality. When viewers walk by this boreal village, the long strips move with the current of air produced by their passing. The gentle motion gives the wall piece and evanescent lightness, but the air barrier membrane, a strong, durable material, symbolizes the resilience of the people who live in such dwellings. The Future Left Behind is a denunciation of the long-standing improverished conditions of Indigenous communities on reserves and the egregious services provided them.
The mission Our Village, Our Children Community Outreach is to address the needs of the underprivileged and under served youths living in the improverished Gardere community subdivision. We will focus on encouraging and improving juvenile literacy by giving them books to read and present oral and written essays on, while under instruction of certified teachers. We will expose them to arts and cultural experiences through enrichment field trips, so that they will have a better appreciation of the world around them. Finally, we will encourage public service by contributing to their community in redevelopment projects, such as planting gardens and flowers for the elderly and clean up projects.
The mission Our Village, Our Children Community Outreach is to address the needs of the underprivileged and under served youths living in the improverished Gardere community subdivision. We will focus on encouraging and improving juvenile literacy by giving them books to read and present oral and written essays on, while under instruction of certified teachers. We will expose them to arts and cultural experiences through enrichment field trips, so that they will have a better appreciation of the world around them. Finally, we will encourage public service by contributing to their community in redevelopment projects, such as planting gardens and flowers for the elderly and clean up projects.
Born in Ottawa in 1985
2021
Air barrier membrane swen on fabric
Collection of the artist
The Future Left Behind is like a bird's-eye view of a village in the Far North. The patches of colour conjure the small dwellings that proliferate haphazardly without any consideration for urban planning. The work is made from sheets of white air barrier membrane, like those seen tacked onto unfinished reserve housing across the country. The spots of colour are in fact the letters in the words and logos printed on the material. The sheets have been cut vertically into strips, then swen side by side at a 90-degree angle on a large piece of fabric, lending the work its kinetic quality. When viewers walk by this boreal village, the long strips move with the current of air produced by their passing. The gentle motion gives the wall piece and evanescent lightness, but the air barrier membrane, a strong, durable material, symbolizes the resilience of the people who live in such dwellings. The Future Left Behind is a denunciation of the long-standing improverished conditions of Indigenous communities on reserves and the egregious services provided them.
The mission Our Village, Our Children Community Outreach is to address the needs of the underprivileged and under served youths living in the improverished Gardere community subdivision. We will focus on encouraging and improving juvenile literacy by giving them books to read and present oral and written essays on, while under instruction of certified teachers. We will expose them to arts and cultural experiences through enrichment field trips, so that they will have a better appreciation of the world around them. Finally, we will encourage public service by contributing to their community in redevelopment projects, such as planting gardens and flowers for the elderly and clean up projects.
The mission Our Village, Our Children Community Outreach is to address the needs of the underprivileged and under served youths living in the improverished Gardere community subdivision. We will focus on encouraging and improving juvenile literacy by giving them books to read and present oral and written essays on, while under instruction of certified teachers. We will expose them to arts and cultural experiences through enrichment field trips, so that they will have a better appreciation of the world around them. Finally, we will encourage public service by contributing to their community in redevelopment projects, such as planting gardens and flowers for the elderly and clean up projects.
The mission Our Village, Our Children Community Outreach is to address the needs of the underprivileged and under served youths living in the improverished Gardere community subdivision. We will focus on encouraging and improving juvenile literacy by giving them books to read and present oral and written essays on, while under instruction of certified teachers. We will expose them to arts and cultural experiences through enrichment field trips, so that they will have a better appreciation of the world around them. Finally, we will encourage public service by contributing to their community in redevelopment projects, such as planting gardens and flowers for the elderly and clean up projects.