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Hoy level crossing in 2014 following the addition of the half barriers, the road signals had been replaced with LEDs a few years earlier.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson poses for a photo with (L to R) Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Defense Minister Khalid bin Muhammad al-Atiyah, and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis before the High-Level Opening Session of the Inaugural U.S.-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 30, 2018. [State Department Photo/ Public Domain]
Additional flashing red man signal for pedestrians at Garve level crossing. Located beyond the wig-wags and barriers due to the distance between them and the railway.
Assignment: PCA 35 View from the ground floor
Deadline:August 3, 2008
Image Tag: pca35
From: me and them
Mission:
The ground floor... there's nowhere to go but up! This time around shoot whatever you want, but what's important is where your camera is: ground level. Be it the kitchen floor, an open field or hiding underneath a church pew, your perspective is going to be that of a mouse, a fairy, an ant, or anything else similarly relegated to the world of the small. Try to find a subject that is really complemented by your earthly perspective.
For those engineering types in the group who need precision (including yours truly), you don't need to have your camera exactly in contact with the ground. Let's say no more 3 inches from ground to camera base. Get those elbows dirty!
WIT
I loved this assignment. I'm always looking for unusual angles on scenes and enjoyed getting my knees dirty on this one (or wet, as by the riverbank!). As my photostream reflects, I took a lot of photos and considered long and hard which one to post here. Some resulted in great perspective conundrums (trolley.carriage baskets at the supermarket). Others showed flowers - and weeds from a different pov. Even my other half's booted feet were taken after we'd been fishing. All in all, as I said, I enjoyed the journey.
This shot is on one of my last journeys to the bus station after work! I liked the reds in this shot, also the #8 bus to nowhere. Lucky for some or not? Yellow parallel lines lead us up to the scene - and the tilt (sorry Farkled!) - was really necessary to get the bus and building more in shot. Minimal PP afterwards.
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1 PI, trapped, extricated by Pine Level FD and transported to WakeMed.
Pine Level FD, Selma EMS, Medic1, EMS 104, JCSO, SHP
Black Pete - or "Zwarte Piet" - is St. Nicholas' helper. Actually, St. Nick has a small army of Black Petes, to punish the children who've been bad during the year. If you've been "good" St. Nick will give you candy and presents. If you've been bad, Black Pete will beat your ass with that handful of branches he's holding.
Obviously, this is a different type of holiday experience on several levels. Nowadays, it's no longer fashionable to terrify your kids with some kind of boogie-man, not to mention the appearance of Zwarte Piet...
That nerdy kid with the glasses...yes that's me, and this is a snapshot of my family's friends celebrating a traditional "Dutch Christmas." They had come to Amsterdam from Surinam, then still a Dutch colony of sorts. Their Dad was getting a medical-degree at Amsterdam University before going back home. But while they were in Holland, they were going out of their way to "fit in."
So, here he is, the future Minister of Health in the government of Surinam, dressed up as Black Pete. Of course, he was black already, but not quite black enough, so he had to put on a layer of shoe polish to really look the part.
I never did like Black Pete, but I have always wondered what the experience was like for these parents and their kids. What was the message they were receiving? What kind of childhood trauma did they incur as a result of this wonderful, so very Dutch tradition?
Now, some 55 years later, there's finally an effort to put an end to the Black Pete tradition. As you might expect, it's mostly people of color who are objecting to this type of Black Faced racism. "Real" white Dutch people, for the most part, still don't see what the fuss is all about. What could possibly be wrong with such a wonderful tradition, right? Those "colored people" are just too damn sensitive when it comes to this type of stuff...
Dutch people in general, are also a little defensive on this issue. It was so wonderful to be on the "right side" of history when all those poor Black kids were getting blasted off their feet with fire hoses in Birmingham Alabama, and when those little girls were blown up in that church. Yes, we were more than happy to march against that sort of oppression. But, the notion that we Dutch people might also harbor some racist tendencies deep in our hearts...that's just preposterous, right?
Network Rail Class 37 no. 97304 "John Tiley" runs light through Tamworth en route from Derby to Coleham (0Z96).
9th September 2011
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A study of children aged 3-6 shows executive function and reading readiness skills are more negatively affected by lead exposure in boys than girls.
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Little Folks pre-school. Jeff doesn't seem too happy, but it was pretty good as far as these kind of places go. I have quite a few memories from this place. I remember this place as being a massive complex with many rooms and levels, but of course thats only because I was so small.
My shoes kept coming untied and the ladies there tied and retied them endlessly. One day a kid said he was going to get his dad's M-16 and "get you" to a teacher. She laughed and said "I don't think you could pick up an M-16."
There was a time called "Snack Time" during which they gave us a beverage that was "never enough." We sang songs like the ABCs and also something in French, which I can't remember now. I didn't like singing the ABCs because I felt that we had done it too many times and it wasn't really a song, just the letters to a tune.
Nearly all the kids were kind except for two assholes who would go around messing up whatever you were working on. I wonder how they turned out as adults.
There were some big wheels to ride on, they were fun. Then there was nap time. I hated nap time. One of my happiest moments came at the beginning of nap time when my mom came and sprang me out of there. It has to be how a prisoner feels when he's sprang from jail. Anyway, we went to Dunkin' Donuts and I was happy to have a half day.
There was one kid who would cry for a few minutes every time he was dropped off. The other kids and I felt bad for him, but also wanted him to shut up. One day we blew on water with straws and made waves and the teacher explained that this is how wind makes waves on the lakes. When a kid got into trouble the other kids would make a specific sound "ooooooooaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" that started with low pitch and moved to high pitch. If a kid was really bad there might be multiple cycles of this sound. I only received this sound of guilt once and that was for not sharing enough. It worked, though, because I shared more after that. There was a playground out back and I remember asking and telling other kids our ages. Kids would give answers like "Four and three quarters" since most kids were 3 or 4 years old. I recall noticing how the ladies that watched us would toss their hair a lot and though that was an odd thing to do. Anyway, I went here from age 3 and 1/2 to 5 and 1/4 by my best recollection.
On a thrilling final day that went all the way down to the wire, Pakistan defied the odds at Bangalore and pulled off a magnificent series-levelling victory, taking all ten Indian wickets - the last one falling with just six overs left in the day - and winning by 168 runs. Shahid Afridi was the star performer with the ball for Pakistan, taking three middle-order wickets for 13, but every member of the team played his part in a famous victory.
It was Pakistan's second remarkable fifth-day effort of the series, after the staunch resistance offered by Kamran Akmal and Abdul Razzaq at Mohali, and the 1-1 result was just reward for the fighting qualities displayed by Pakistan all series. It is a result that is likely to have a far-reaching impact on Pakistani cricket.
A draw was still the most likely result when the day began, with Pakistan not appearing to have the ammunition to bowl the entire Indian line-up out in 90 overs. And when India went to lunch at 103 for 1, they were comfortably placed to save the game. But Pakistan struck just after lunch, claiming the wicket of Gautam Gambhir for 52 (108 for 2). And then Arshad Khan, recalled to the team for this series after more than four years out of Test cricket, claimed the most important wicket of his career, having Rahul Dravid snapped up at silly point (118 for 3).
All this while Afridi, who produced an incendiary half-century yesterday to set up the declaration for Pakistan, had been straining at the bit, firing in his mixture of legbreaks, offbreaks and topspinners and from time to time advertising his impatience with these subtleties with a faster ball that made Akmal wince with pain every time it beat the bat.
Now he struck two decisive blows to break open the Indian batting, trapping VVS Laxman in front with a quick skidding delivery (127 for 4), and then comprehensively bowling Sourav Ganguly with a breakback that beat Ganguly's optimistic drive (135 for 5). Ganguly, stunned, hung around the crease for quite a while, as if wishing to turn time back one ball and not play the same stroke this time around.
India's hopes now rested on Sachin Tendulkar, the last man left from the top six, and for a while Tendulkar batted magisterially. Neither Afridi's variations, nor the varied words he let the batsman hear after each ball, seemed to trouble him, and he struck majestic poses in defence, offering a dead bat to virtually everything. But almost on the stroke of tea Mohammad Sami surprised Tendulkar with a short ball that he fended off his face, and the heart of every man on the field was in his mouth as Asim Kamal at short leg reached for the ball, seemed to pouch it in one hand, and then juggled it and spilled the chance.
Pakistan must have gone into tea with a sinking feeling in their hearts, but on resumption their spirits seemed to have flagged not one jot, and Sami quickly struck again by uprooting Dinesh Karthik's offstump with a full inswinger (164 for 6).
But it was in the next over that Pakistan struck the killer blow, Afridi getting one to lift on Tendulkar and loop to short leg off the inside edge. This time Kamal made no mistake (164 for 7).
If India succeeded into taking the game as far into the evening as they did, it was because of some staunch resistance from Anil Kumble, who rounded off a wonderful series with the bat - he was dismissed just once in five innings - by making an unbeaten 37. Kumble managed to play out nine overs with Irfan Pathan and another five overs with Harbhajan Singh, and Pakistan were just beginning to worry again after he saw out another five overs with Lakshmipathy Balaji when Balaji padded up to Danish Kaneria and was adjudged lbw.
When all was over, it seemed remarkable that there was one stage in the morning when Virender Sehwag and Gambhir skipped along at four an over, and Sehwag seemed to be entertaining thoughts of actually going for the target. This remote possibility was shut out when he was run out in a misunderstanding with Gambhir, and after that, as has happened so often this season, the runs dried up completely and Pakistan were able to surround the batsmen with close fielders.
India could be justifiably criticised for going too much on the defensive after lunch and playing into Pakistan's hands, but it has to be granted that runs by this stage had ceased to matter - in fact, this was precisely for this reason that Inzamam-ul-Haq delayed his declaration yesterday and let his batsmen amass such a big lead.
The truth was that Pakistan wanted victory urgently, pushed for it on every day of this Test match, and finally - after five days of sapping, often nervewracking cricket, and with shadows falling on the final day - left the field with their heads held high.
Richard Petty's 1969 Ford Talladega. In 1969 the earth shook when Petty switched to Ford for a year. Now the difference between a NASCAR Ford and any other brand is slight. But that's for an editorial not a caption. This was photographed at the Petty complex in Level Cross, NC in 1991. Displayed in front is a Tucker.
113 pictures in 2013 project, number 101 "inconvenient"...one of the problems with shopping in Poole is the fact that the railway line runs straight throught the High Street!
I'm out and about a little bit, trying to walk a bit more each day
Poole 11.12.2013
Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa of the OECD, at the High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development and Co-operation, Mexico City, 15-16 April 2014.
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