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Here are some of our youth multipliers and scholarship holders who make up the AfroBreak dance group at Hummingbird. They are a pretty energetic group of youngsters who are more than dedicated to what they practice, which is mainly Break dancing.
With Beija-Flor na Comunidade (Hummingbird in the Community), it means we are taking Hummingbird to the community instead of the community coming to us. In other words, Hummingbird is spreading its wings!
The programme is part of a new strategy being developed by our youth mentors to get a preliminary feel in connection with their objectives to implant small Hummingbird nuclei in the more distant parts of our community, thus bringing our activities to the poorest kids who have no means of reaching our main centre.
The first community to be receiving some of Hummingbird’s vibrant activities is the Sitio Joaninha, which is a rough hilly area about 6 kilometres away from us, where many of the families who used to work on the rubbish tip live. The tip was closed down a few years ago and the area covered with topsoil so as to recuperate some of the natural vegetation.
Most of the shanty homes were constructed during the active years of the tip, when entire families found their livelihoods under the most unhealthy and hazardous working conditions. Since its closure there has been very few alternatives in the way of work and habitation, so very few have been able to move to better conditions. To the contrary; the area has rapidly grown to accommodate even more poverty-stricken families who have no other alternative than to grab a small plot of land and try to survive on what little is available in terms of public amenities in such places.
The majority of homes have no running water and depend on the council delivering drinking water by truck each day. Electricity is acquired through a series of illegal connections, which people have hooked-up to the main electricity network through a maze of literally thousands of metres of wiring crossing the landscape in all directions in order to bring power to one’s home.
This is quite common during the rapid growth of favela (shanty) areas and pressures from the inhabitants will eventually cause most councils to come up with a more satisfactory and less risky solution.
Many of the children who live here have a long way to walk to reach school, as there is no public transport. The tendency is therefore not to go, especially during the rainy or colder seasons. Very few have the willpower or even the means of getting to Hummingbird to participate in all the good things we have to offer in our Street Migration Prevention Programme, although there are some who do.
This is the main reason for us to bring Hummingbird to the kids. If we can manage to finance a more permanent solution we will be able to continue with a variety of activities throughout the entire year and not just during the school holiday season, which is our proposal in this phase of the project.
After a long time ... :D
Model: Kari Calhoun
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Note: I know it's not my best, but I just wanted to share with you that I'm alive lol :D
The Canadian Tulip Festival / Festival Canadien des Tulipes in Ottawa the capital city of Canada
The Canadian Tulip Festival began after the Second World War, when Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs as a token of friendship in 1945.
Canada had provided asylum for the Dutch royal family during the war and played a strong role in the Netherlands’ liberation. While the royal family sought refuge in Ottawa, Princess Juliana gave birth to Princess Margriet on January 19th 1943 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The Canadian government temporarily declared the room “Dutch soil,” to ensure that the Princess would remain in line for the throne.
The Netherlands continues to give Ottawa 20,000 tulip bulbs every year.
Ottawa’s first Canadian Tulip Festival took place in May 1953 and opened with an inauguration ceremony at Parliament Hill.
The Canadian Tulip Festival has grown into the largest annual display of tulips in North America.
The Canadian Tulip Festival is also a celebration of the return of spring, with over a million tulips in 50 varieties blooming in public spaces across the National Capital Region.
Images are from:
Tulip Legacy 70th Anniversary 1945 - 2015 / Patrimoine tulipe 70e anniversaire 1945 - 2015
Visiting Commissioners Park at Dow's Lake on the Rideau Canal which is a major tulip viewing area and Parliament Hill / Colline du Parlement
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Ottawa founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as "Ottawa" in 1855
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Canada was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867
Canada became a country when the British colonies of Canada ( Ontario and Québec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were federally united into one Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. July 1st is a federal holiday known as Canada Day / Fête du Canada
Canada is a Commonwealth Realm member of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly the British Commonwealth) that have have Queen Elizabeth II as the reigning constitutional monarch while operating as an independent country from the UK United Kingdom.
Canada has two official languages French and English
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********** About This Trip *********
2-Day Canada Ottawa Tulip Festival Tour from Boston Tour Code: 678-1105
Boston - Ottawa (427 miles)
Guests will be picked up in Boston in the morning. After lunch, we will arrive in Ottawa, ON to see the Canadian Tulip Festival. After, we will head to ByWard Market for food and shopping. We will transfer to the hotel after dinner.
Ottawa, ON Located on the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario, Canada's capital city is also its center of technology and politics. This historic city features many museums, art galleries, and performance centers as well as other attractions like the Rideau Canal.
Canadian Tulip Festival This massive flower festival held annually in Ottawa, Ontario bills itself as the largest tulip festival in the world with more than one million of the flowers on display. It gets more than 500,000 visitors every May.
ByWard Market This massive indoor market is one of Ottawa's biggest tourist attractions. It contains representatives from more than 500 business, at least half of them local artisans and farmers. It sees the most traffic during the summer months.
In the morning we will leave the hotel. On our way back to Boston we will stop at Ottawa's Parliament Hill to see sights such as the Peace Tower. We will arrive back in Boston in the evening. See "Departure and Return Details" for pickup and dropoff information.
Parliament Hill, located on the banks of the Ottawa River Canada's capital city, is home to the Canadian Parliament. The gorgeous location and dramatic architecture make this a huge tourist location-- more than 3 million people come every year.
The Peace Tower is a large clock tower in Ottawa, Ontario that sits at the center of Parliament Hill. This iconic Canadian building appears on both the fifty- and twenty-dollar Canadian bills. It is more than 300 feet tall.
Visit:
Ottawa Capital of Canada
Canadian Tulip Festival
ByWard Market
Parliament Hill
Peace Tower clock tower
Montréal drive though with view of L'oratoire Saint Joseph du Mont Royal / Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
Duty Free / Hors Taxes shopping in Philipsburg Canada
Border crossing from Alexandria Bay, New York USA to Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada
Border crossing from Saint-Armand Philipsburg, Québec, Canada to Highgate Springs, Vermont, USA
For more information on 2-Day Canada Ottawa Tulip Festival Tour from BostonTour Code: 678-1105
www.taketours.com/boston-ma/2-day-canada-ottawa-tulip-fes...
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Host company
Sunshine Travel Boston
12 Tyler St Boston, MA 02111
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I couldn't miss their moods......
Kalighat ‘Sang’- my experience:
On the last day of Bengali month of Choitro (Choitro Sankranti) the followers of Lord Shiva set their age old procession from the Kali Temple. They make-up and mimic the different mythological characters related to Lord Shiva like- Parvati (his wife), and his sons, Kartika and Ganesha, and daughters Lakhsmi and Saraswati. People also make-up of other characters and saints, very famous in the history of Bengal. Since morning, with great enthusiasm, they start to dress-up and then start their procession through the major streets of south Kolkata on foot and sometimes in well decorated horse carriages. They are called ‘Sangs’.
Being a resident of south Kolkata, I had the opportunity this year to go to the make-up room in Kali temple premises and have some photographs, and also to see their processions. Here I would like to share a glimpse of my experiences. Hope you will like them and appreciate the colors and vibrations of Kolkata, the reason why its called the ‘City of Joy’.
Narada :
Narada is a Vedic sage, famous in Hindu traditions as a traveling musician and storyteller, who carries news and enlightening wisdom. He appears in a number of Hindu texts, notably the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, as well as in the mythologies of the Puranas.
Kalighat and Kali Temple:
Kalighat is a locality of south Kolkata, India. Being one of the oldest neighbourhoods in South Kolkata, Kalighat is also densely populated and vibrant—with a rich history of cultural intermingling with the various foreign incursions into the area over time. A famous temple, the Kalighat Kali Temple dedicated to the goddess Kali, is situated in Kalighat. It is believed by some scholars that the name Calcutta was derived from Kalighata. In the early days traders halted at Kalighat to pay patronage to the goddess. The temple was initially on the banks of Hooghly. The river over a period of time has moved away from the temple. The temple is now on the banks of a small canal called Adi Ganga, connecting to Hooghly.
Lord Shiva and Gajan:
Lord Shiva's temple is situated in the north-east to the sanctum sanctorum in the temple area. Gajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is associated with such deities as Shiva. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of the last Bengali month of Choitro, and continuing till the end of the bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja. Participants of this festival is known as Gajan Sannyasi or Bhokta. Persons of any gender can be a participant. The central theme of this festival is deriving satisfaction through pain, devotion and sacrifice.The word gajan is considered a combination of parts of two words - ga is from the word gram meaning village and jan is from the word janasadharan meaning folk. In this sense gajan is a village folk though it is also celebrated in the cities. Kolkata is no exception.
Year 1967 United States under pressure after the Vietnam War. Young couple Judith and Ray travels everywhere on their painted minibus "Volkswagen» (T1 Sumba bus). They are making friends and discovering new cities. The world for them is limitless! Especially because they have their own ... blimp! They deliberately rejected the choice of their fellow students of the Purdue University in Indiana to work for military defense. Instead, they decided to build an airship and go by it, bringing peace to the world. And what should it be? Of course freight! After all, where they can go without their "Volkswagen"? It would be great to control the airship from the bus then the gondola is not necessary. Judith and Ray found many like-minded people, and together airship rose skyward.
This cargo airship can lift Judith, Ray and their minivan.
The balloon has 4 stabilizers and two propellers.
The platform is attached to the four beams that are connected in pairs holding tank with two black wide wire ropes.
And there's an interesting feature: the minivan on the flight becomes cockpit.
Ray made the controls of Volkswagen to be the controls of the airship by the radio waves.
Make a discreet impression, ladies, with this cape and dress costume......Nothing too garish, and people will be saying quietly to themselves, ' What an enviable elegance...' ( Image owned by account holder).
There are 39 minutes between the first and the last capture! I think that it was she who decided (see picture 3 where she puts her hand on his knee) and that his little air of macho at the end was what he believed, lol
Making friends is the slogan on her t-shirt, she did!
Jeg har sikkert vært ved dette stupetårnet tre ganger før, men uten å lykkes med ett eneste godt bilde. Også denne gangen slet jeg voldsomt. I kajakk og med underlag i stadig bevegelse stiller det store tekniske krav. Perspektivet blir lett ensartet, der kun vinkel til motivet kan varieres. Jeg rakk kun en eksponering da måken fløy over, med det holdt. Dette bildet viser viktigheten av ikke å gi opp - om man jobber med scenen kan nye idèer dukke opp eller noe komme inn i bildeflaten som hever uttrykket.
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I had been at the diving tower three times before, but without success with a single good picture. This time I struggled again. In the Kayak and the surface in constant motion the technical requirements is important. The perspective becomes hard. I managed only one exposure when the seagull flew over. This picture shows the importance of not giving up - if you work with the scene something can get into the picture surface that enhances the expression.
The make up she wears means she is ready to be married.The Samburu is closely related to the Maasai.
Like the Maasai, they live in the central Rift Valley area of Kenya, where the climate is semi-arid.
They are seminomadic and belong to the Maa (Nilotic) speaking group of people. They do very little farming. Their livelihood depends upon the cattle, sheep and goats they raise. They use their milk more than meat. They often drink milk mixed with cow's blood. So, like their neighbours, they have to search for water and grazing land which leads them out from their homes during dry seasons. The Samburu live in huts made of branches, mud and cow dung. There is usually one big room that is very low in height. Around it, there is a fence made of thorn bushes, in which the cattle is kept at night. Most Samburu still wear traditional dress. Like the Maasai, women wear colorful beaded necklaces similar to the ones the Rendile women wear. The number of necklaces is a sign of wealth, often given as dowry. They wear bright clothes, usually red and pink. To protect their eyes from the sun, Samburu warriors (like the Rendile) often paste their hair with ochre which creates a visor.
Samburu are very spiritual people, believing and praying daily to the God they call Ngai. Age determines men's social status: each man has to go through various stages before becoming a powerful elder. Circumcision marks the boy’s transition to a young warrior, while girls excision is performed on the day of marriage (usually at 16 years old).
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A Dennis Sabre XL fire appliance from the West Midlands Fire Service racing towards the major fire in Wolverhampton, at Carvers. Becoming the 10 pump engine to arrive on the scene.
A major fire on the Carvers Building Supplies premises in Wolverhampton occurred on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Over 100 fire fighters were need to bring the blaze under control.
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Make-up artists are not just face painters. They are like magicians creating mood, character and emotions with people’s face.
I have heard that many portrait photographers have been working closely with the make-up artists in order to make good portraits of all kinds.
This is one of the make-up artists I met with on the day of Chinese opera make-up demo in Chinatown.
Have a great Thursday!