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Traditional Frisian Sport.
The sport involves a long pole and a body of water. The pole is between 3 and 5 m long and has a flat round plate at the bottom to prevent it from sinking into the muddy river or canal bottom.
A jump consists of a sprint to the pole (polsstok), jumping and grabbing it, then climbing to the top of the pole while trying to control its forward and lateral movements over a body of water, and finishing by landing on a sand bed opposite to the starting point.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد ٱلْكَبِيْر Jāmiʿ Aš-Šaykh Zāyid Al-Kabīr) is a mosque located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It is the country's largest mosque, and is the key place of worship for daily Islamic prayers. There is a smaller replica of this mosque in Surakarta, a city in Indonesia. The late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan built this mosque to convey historic consequence and to embody the Islamic message of peace, tolerance and diversity.
The Grand Mosque was constructed between 1994 and 2007 and was inaugurated in December 2007. The building complex measures approximately 290 by 420 m (950 by 1,380 ft), covering an area of more than 12 hectares (30 acres), excluding exterior landscaping and vehicle parking. The main axis of the building is rotated about 12° south of true west, aligning it in the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The project was launched by the late president of the U.A.E., Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who wanted to establish a structure that would unite the cultural diversity of the Islamic world with the historical and modern values of architecture and art. In 2004, Sheikh Zayed died and was buried in the courtyard of the mosque.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center (SZGMC) offices are located in the west minarets. SZGMC manages the day-to-day operations and serves as a center of learning and discovery through its educational cultural activities and visitor programs. The library, located in the northeast minaret, serves the community with classic books and publications addressing a range of Islamic subjects: sciences, civilization, calligraphy, the arts, and coins, including some rare publications. The collection comprises material in a broad range of languages, including Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Korean. For two years running, it was voted the world's second favourite landmark by TripAdvisor.
The Grand Mosque has been a significant destination for visiting foreign leaders during official state visits to the UAE. Notable visitors include Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
We present several items from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Glass™ sold under Desna since 1847 brand. This artistic crystalware collection produced by Preciosa Ornela and involves products which follow in the pre-war tradition of the production of unique products by the Jablonec companies of H. Hoffman and C. Schlevogt, as well as by other designers from the post-war era. The entire collection incorporates a wide range of products ranging from small matt crystal figures and articles with a devotional theme through to a group consisting of flacons, jars, vases and ashtrays (several of which are in the popular Art Deco style) and on to figural statues. These products are characterised by the large amount of traditional manual workmanship which goes into their production. As far as the colors are concerned, Czech crystal, uranium yellow, jade, refined blue and green have long been popular.
If you are interested in purchasing any of these items, please come and visit our company shop in Desná, but you can, of course, also come across the items from the collection at a number of other shops which specialise in Czech glass.
Fire involving three storey public house. Two hydraulic platforms in use as water towers, water support unit, 12 BA. Six hose reel's and thermal image in use. Building destroyed by fire, now under going demolition.
CRESCENDO! Wine and Food Tasting Fundraising Party in support of Music Fest 10th Anniversary Vancouver
Presented by ScotiaBank
Hosted by: Chris Gailus, NEWS Hour Anchor - Global BC TV
Decore by Imagine That Events
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery and PacBlue Printing
.CRESCENDO! Wine and Food Tasting Fundraising Party in support of Music Fest 10th Anniversary Vancouver
Presented by ScotiaBank
Hosted by: Chris Gailus, NEWS Hour Anchor - Global BC TV
Decore by Imagine That Events
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery and PacBlue Printing
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Stony Brook, NY; Stony Brook University: Student Activities hosted an involvement fair for all student clubs and organizations to promote their group on the Student Activities Center Plaza.
Penn State Harrisburg held an Involvement Fair to introduce students to the clubs and organizations available for them to join on campus.
Students got a chance to explore some of Lafayette’s organizations, clubs, and programs during the Involvement Fair on the Quad. The College boasts more than 200 opportunities for students to become involved in campus life, including academic honor societies, cultural and social organizations, community outreach, arts programs, sports clubs, and living groups. The fair is sponsored by Student Government and the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement.
Photos by Zachary Hartzell
Sept. 8, 2015
Stony Brook, NY; Stony Brook University: Student Activities hosted an involvement fair for all student clubs and organizations to promote their group on the Student Activities Center Plaza.
Sacred Heart University hosted the annual "Just SHU It" involvement fair on the Quad on September 30, 2019. Photo by Mark F. Conrad
Up front, let me point out that this is private property that involves really big dogs and landowners with guns... soooo, if you don’t have permission don’t go.
I’m adding these photos in support of Chris Oliver’s effort to document this historic area of Rockwood, Tennessee. His photos can be found at: www.flickr.com/photos/78994628@N02/sets/72157639933618356/
The following description was taken from wiki:
"Roane Iron Company
The Roane Iron Company furnace site at the end of Rockwood Street; the small building on the left is all that remains of the once vast iron works
The company mined coal and iron ore along the ridge, which it transported by narrow-gauge rail to the furnace site. The coal was delivered to coking ovens, where it was converted into coke, and the coke was then used to generate the temperatures needed to convert the iron ore into pig iron."
More info can be found in the "set description", or by Googling "Roane Iron Company".
Operation Thunderstorm, from 1 to 31 May 2018 involving 92 countries around the world, resulted in 1,974 seizures and the identification of 1,400 suspects
1.3 tonnes of elephant ivory, 8 tonnes of pangolins scales, 4,000 birds and 27,000 reptiles among the specimens seized.
Photo courtesy of Interpol.
For challenges by Flickr Group Roulette and TOTW respectively, "Six Word Story" & "Cinematic Moments".
A quote from the 1974 John Wayne film, "McQ", from my own experiences it rings very true. Excluding gut instincts, pure emotional responses get in the way of logical problem solving. Tell that to members of my family and they'll respond with complete irrational, emotional outbursts.
Right now I could lament my loss of my pro account till Wednesday when I'll be able to afford to pay up. But right now I choose to make due with the advertisments and the 200 picture maximum till I can pay up for a pro account.
The crew team speaks with prospective new members.
Students got a chance to explore some of Lafayette’s organizations, clubs, and programs during the Involvement Fair on the Quad. The College boasts more than 200 opportunities for students to become involved in campus life, including academic honor societies, cultural and social organizations, community outreach, arts programs, sports clubs, and living groups. The fair is sponsored by Student Government and the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement.
Chuck Zovko/Zovko Photographic LLC
Sept. 3, 2014
Joiner: a woodworker whose work involves making things with joints.
The one who made this door used the wrong joints!
I think I'll keep it in this way: it is too unique...
Uhm... il gioco di parole che ho usato in inglese non può essere tradotto.
Secondo me il falegname che ha fatto questa porta è stato rimandato in Applicazioni Tecniche, nelle medie...
Credo che comunque la terrò così: è troppo unica, nel genere...
The Grunwick dispute was a British industrial dispute involving trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Chapter Road, Dollis Hill in the London suburb of Willesden, that led to a two-year strike between 1976 and 1978.
During a decade of industrial unrest, the Grunwick dispute became a cause célèbre of trade unionism and labour relations law, and "at its height involved thousands of trade unionists and police in confrontations, ... with over 500 arrests on the picket line and frequent police violence". The total of 550 arrests made during the strike was at the time the highest such figure in any industrial dispute since the General Strike of 1926. Left-wing journalist Paul Foot described the dispute as "a central battleground between the classes and between the parties": 1:15 The dispute was reported nightly on the national television news, depicting the often violent clashes between the supporters of the strikers and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group. Grunwick was the first time that this police unit had been deployed in an industrial dispute. The mostly female, immigrant, East African Asian strikers – dubbed "strikers in saris" by the news media – were led by Jayaben Desai, whose membership of the union was later suspended[failed verification] following her hunger strike outside the Trades Union Congress (TUC) headquarters in November 1977. This was also the first dispute where the majority of strikers were from an ethnic minority and still received widespread support from the labour movement – previous disputes involving immigrant workers which had taken place in Leicester and Southall had "remained marginalised" and had even led to "open and ugly racism on the part of white union members and their leaders".
The incumbent Labour government commissioned the Scarman Inquiry, chaired by Lord Scarman, which recommended both union recognition and re-instatement of the workers, but the employer, backed by the right-wing National Association For Freedom (NAFF) and the Conservative Party, rejected the recommendations. The TUC subsequently withdrew their support and the workers' strike committee announced the end of the dispute in June 1978. The repercussions of the strike for British industrial relations were far-reaching, significantly weakening the British trades union movement. The Conservative Party and other members of the right wing saw this as a major political and ideological victory, preparing the ground for Conservative success in the 1979 general election and their subsequent curbing of the unions' power in the 1980s.
We are currently producing Life For Mile, a feature film planned for a theatrical release about the Chinese and Indians (First Nations) involvement in the construction of the transcontinental railway that united Canada as a nation in the 1880s. It was said that for every mile of railroad that was built, one Chinese life has been sacrificed, thus the title of the movie. The Chinese workers’ contribution has been noted many times, but little has been said of the native Indian’s involvement. So while we were in Kamloops BC talking to the local Shuswap Nation, we were also invited to visit the Secwepemc Native Heritage Museum and Park. The indoor museum contains many aboriginal artifacts which dated back to thousands of years and the outdoor native heritage park features ways of how the local tribes have lived with their culture and way of life being well-preserved. For example, canoe making, Double Lodge for summer fishing and trading and ‘Pit House’ for winter living etc. [Photo by Ray Van Eng www.vancouver21.com ]
Movie: Life For Mile Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_195327163836612
Simulation day at #CityCollegeFTL! We conducted a scenario involving a mass casualty situation with five victims, in which students from several programs participated. The results were outstanding! The medical assisting students came to the aide of one victim and called the EMS team to take over. The most severe patient was taken to the operating room for surgery, with the anesthesia and surgical technology students. Amazing work was done by our students.
Mayor Eric Adams, Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, and New York City Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Kevin D. Kim announce a new action plan to expedite investigations into complaints made via 311 about potentially hazardous conditions involving lithium-ion batteries at bike shops and bike repair shops within the five boroughs. Chinatown. Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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Students got a chance to explore some of Lafayette’s organizations, clubs, and programs during the Involvement Fair on the Quad. The College boasts more than 200 opportunities for students to become involved in campus life, including academic honor societies, cultural and social organizations, community outreach, arts programs, sports clubs, and living groups. The fair is sponsored by Student Government and the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement.
Photos by Zachary Hartzell
Sept. 8, 2015
Hi Bill/350 organisers!
Below is some information regarding the Australian Garden, Royal
Botanic Gardens Cranbourne involvement in the 350 event. Congratulations
on an amazing event!
How will the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne participate in the 350
Campaign?
Lyndhurst Secondary College visited the Australian Garden at the Royal
Botanic Gardens Cranbourne on Friday 16 October to learn more about the
important role that fire plays in the Australian environment as part of
the 350 campaign and to also celebrate Fire Awareness Week (11 to 16
October).
As part of the day’s program, Lyndhurst students also helped make the
numbers ‘350’ using RBG fire hoses standing in front of the iconic Red
Sand Garden at the Australian Garden to highlight the climate change
message.
Fire awareness
Fire has long been a factor in the ecology of south-eastern Australia
where the plants and animals have evolved with periodic fire as an
essential ingredient. The Indigenous custodians of this land used fire
as a management tool in shaping their relationship with the bush. For
European settlers through to modern Victorians our relationships with
fire have been fraught and complex.
The climate of south-eastern Australia is predicted to become warmer
and drier in climate change models and there is likely to be an increase
in the number of days with extreme fire weather. This potentially means
a repeat of the conditions experienced on Black Saturday, 7 February
2009, the worst fire weather on record and a new maximum temperature
record for Melbourne.
Solving the Climate Change dilemma and reducing atmospheric carbon
dioxide is the challenge of this age. Lyndhurst students learnt about
how fire effects natural environments, how indigenous people used fire
and how the RBG Cranbourne uses fire as a land management tool to
maintain the biodiversity on site. Students also discussed Climate
Change and its future implications. After the program students
participated in the 350 campaign by forming themselves into a 350with
the aid of fire hoses at the Australian Garden at RBGC.
Matt Jones
Marketing and Tourism Co-ordinator
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne & Australian Garden, Royal Botanic
Gardens Cranbourne
T: + 61 3 9252 2494
F: + 61 3 9252 2476
M: 0417 377 632
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Karagattam ("கரகம் - Karagam" meaning water pot and "ஆட்டம் - Aattam" meaning dance) is an ancient Tamil folk dance involving the balancing of clay or metal pots or other objects on the dancers head. This dance is usually associated with the worship of Amman.
The performers balance the water pot on their head very beautifully.
Traditionally, this dance is performed in two types
- Aatta Karagam is danced with decorated pots on the head and symbolizes joy and happiness and is mainly danced for entertainment
- Sakthi Karagam is performed only in temples as a spiritual offering.
Earlier it was performed only with the accompaniment of the naiyandi melam, but now it also includes songs. In the Karagattam, intricate steps and body/arm movements decides the skill of performer. This dance can be performed individually or in pairs.
Some of the steps that are widely used are similar to the circus acts;
- dancing on a rolling block of wood, up and down a ladder
- threading a needle while bending backwards and many more.
Today, the pots have transformed from mud pots to bronze ware and even stainless steel. The pots are decorated in many ways with the help of attractive flower arrangements, topped by a moving paper parrot. The parrot rotates as the dancer takes swings along these looks beautiful.
When men perform this dance, they balance the pots filled with uncooked rice, surrounded by a tall conical bamboo frame decorated with colourful flowers.
Drums and long pipes form the musical instruments that add vigor to the dance.
Also they dance standing over a plate i.e. rim of the plate, filled with water, without spilling water out of the plate while balancing the karagam on their head.
Most expert artistes are from the regions of Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram, Madurai, Tirunelveli, and Pattukkottai and Salem, Tamil Nadu.
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Road accident involving a van. The van is parked on Hard Ings Road, with Victoria Park off to the right and the former Cox of Keighley garage in the background on the left. The junction near the garage became what is now referred to as the "B&Q roundabout" at the junction of Bradford Road with the Airevalley Road dual carriageway. Photograph taken by a Keighley News photographer on 8th February 1982.
In July 2021, Keighley and District Local History Society acquired an extensive collection of photograph negatives taken by the Keighley News. Groups of negatives were held in small wallets with the date and basic labelling written on the wallet. This image is developed from one of those negatives. The image was processed by Tim Neal in January 2022.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
Source: hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/hoover-dam
85 years after its completion, Hoover dam is still considered an engineering marvel. It is named in honor of President Herbert Hoover, who played a crucial role in its creation.
For many years, residents of the American southwest sought to tame the unpredictable Colorado River. Disastrous floods during the early 1900’s led residents of the area to look to the federal government for aid, and experiments with irrigation on a limited scale had shown that this arid region could be transformed into fertile cropland, if only the river could be controlled. The greatest obstacle to the construction of such a dam was the allocation of water rights among the seven states comprising the Colorado River drainage basin. Meetings were held in 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the states could not reach a consensus.
Herbert Hoover had visited the Lower Colorado region in the years before World War I and was familiar with its problems and the potential for development. Upon becoming Secretary of Commerce in 1921, Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. In addition to flood control and irrigation, it would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and Southern California. The project would be self-supporting, recovering its cost through the sale of hydroelectric power generated by the dam.
In 1921, the state legislatures of the Colorado River basin authorized commissioners to negotiate an interstate agreement. Congress authorized President Harding to appoint a representative for the federal government to serve as chair of the Colorado River Commission and on December 17, 1921, Harding appointed Hoover to that role.
When the commission assembled in Santa Fe in November 1922, the seven states still disagreed over the fair distribution of water. The upstream states feared that the downstream states, with their rapidly developing agricultural and power demands, would quickly preempt rights to the water by the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Hoover suggested a compromise that the water be divided between the upper and lower basins without individual state quotas. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. It split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding amongst themselves how the water would be allocated.
A series of bills calling for Federal funding to build the dam were introduced by Congressman Phil D. Swing and Senator Hiram W. Johnson between 1922 and 1928, all of which were rejected. The last Swing-Johnson bill, titled the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was largely written by Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. Congress finally agreed, and the bill was signed into law on December 21, 1928 by President Coolidge. The dream was about to become reality.
On June 25, 1929, less than four months after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation declaring the Colorado River Compact effective at last. Appropriations were approved and construction began in 1930. The dam was dedicated in 1935 and the hydroelectric generators went online in 1937. In 1947, Congress officially "restored" Hoover's name to the dam, after FDR's Secretary of the Interior tried to remove it. Hoover Dam was built for a cost of $49 million (approximately $1 billion adjusted for inflation). The power plant and generators cost an additional $71 million, more than the cost of the dam itself. The sale of electrical power generated by the dam paid back its construction cost, with interest, by 1987.
Today the Hoover Dam controls the flooding of the Colorado River, irrigates more than 1.5 million acres of land, and provides water to more than 16 million people. Lake Mead supports recreational activities and provides habitats to fish and wildlife. Power generated by the dam provides energy to power over 500,000 homes. The Hoover Compromise still governs how the water is shared.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Nevada) "نيفادا" "内华达州" "नेवादा" "ネバダ" "네바다" "Невада"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Hoover Dam) "سد هوفر" "胡佛水坝" "हूवर बांध" "フーバーダム" "후버 댐" "Гувера" "Presa Hoover"