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The former Tynewydd Junior School in Ogmore Vale.
It was open from 1892-2003.
Like many historic buildings it was deliberately left insecure until it became so badly damaged (in this case a severe fire) that it was declared unsafe and could be knocked down.
Within six months a set of ugly new build houses were in it's place.
Canon EOS 350D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
(Sulukule, Istanbul, Aug. 08)
A photo with a story, and not so optimistic but I'd like to tell it nonetheless : I met Birol’s wife (let’s call her Gönül, a common name for women of that age there) at Sulukule. She did not allow me to take her in photos (forbidden by the men of her family she told me) but wanted me to photography the tatoo on her chest…
She is a woman in her early 30s with hair died in blond and both her forearms have plenty of scars strangely neatly alligned, apparently self-inflicted wounds made the same day like sorts of wierd decorations, this shows a lot of suffering in her life. She has 2 young children, about 4 and 2 years old : could not ask how Birol could possibly have fathered the kids as he is serving a jail sentence far away, in çanakkale, with 5 more years to go…
(Other women too in that neighbourhood have their husbands in jail and some sell souvenirs made in glass beads, something that is done in other areas in Turkish jails as well...)
She is a neighbour of the family who (being evicted like all the others), had chosen to move that day ; she too will have to leave within one year and the whole Roma population will eventually be scattered in various parts of Istanbul (NB : it is interesting to note that this was the first Roma settlement in the world : they had settled there since almost 1000 years during the Byzantine era and before the Turks moved in Constantinople).
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... As I am not disciplined enough to make a proper "travelogue" with photos in neat succession but as I still have a lot to tell about my experience there, I'll type a text telling about my impressions as it could be useful to other travellers :
First, I entered into a small café in poor condition - the place where only tea is served and where only men are spending long hours : all, very friendly and respectful, happy to talk to a foreigner and offering quantities of free teas for the pleasure of the conversation and of being taken in photos ;
Then, I spotted some children and tried to take decent photos of them in the ruins and with the ancient walls in the BG ;
A nearby family was busy with house removal and it was not easy to understand who was related with who, many neighbours, friends, "akrabas" = family were around there too.
But in the same time, when I was taking photos of mostly young children, I was challenged by older ones (not more than 12 or 13 years old, though), 2 of them hit me repeatedly on my back precisely when I was pressing the shutter, to test me, see my reaction (even, collecting stones probably meant to be thrown at me = I sensed that the situation could become dangerous) : first, I laughed but they definitely wanted to upset me, carried on the same way so in the end, and in the presence of a passing man, I said that it was a shame to treat foreign visitors that way, that in Turkey in general everyone was welcoming and that they'd better leave me alone or I'd deal with them and give them some severe "ceza" (correction) - ... well, this was said very loud but not too seriously - I did not think of it any more as the man chased the eldest of the 2 boys...
But about 10 minutes later, in front of the family busy with transporting furniture with whom I was talking, the same man reappeared with one of the screaming offending boy and the way he beated him in public was absolutely disgusting - an adult (and not the father) throwing the child on the ground and hitting him repeatedly with his foot : I succeeded in reasoning him but not before the child was badly beaten and humiliated : that's how young adults grow angry IMO...
Apart from that unpleasant experience, nothing dangerous happened to me ; still, one has to be weary of thieves (leaving the area, I suddenly became aware of a youngster who was following me, moved backward and he was doing the same, then entered in a shop and talked a bit to the shop keeper : he was still waiting for me, so I stayed longer inside another shop and was helped by every one)...
Saw drug trafficking happening in front of me in the open but pretended not to see it (and this, I dared not photographying although the dealers did not seem very threatening to me) ;
Saw also other kinds of misery, - but also, plenty of children enjoying the holidays and other women seeming happy with their lives and ready to joke with me, even sing for me !...
(More infos about that very special place - the oldest Roma settlement ın the world that was almost reachıng 1000 years of age : Sulukule (Wiki) and here too).
Komatiks and snowmobiles still on the ice in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. Travel on the frozen bay was still possible but not for much longer
In the 1950s, optimistic enthusiasm abounded for peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This drawing shows a Ford Nucleon nuclear-powered car, with the radioactive core stored way back in the rear. The black-and-white inset shows the nuclear fuel being changed by a robotic arm, which would be needed only once every 5,000 miles. The engineers didn't quite grasp the amount of lead shielding that would be needed around the reactor. (Drawing on display at Alamogordo, NM.) See also this article from Sept. 2008
Libby, she is so cute, I really love her outfit it's so adorable, I love her hair colour too the light and dark pink it looks like a strawberry ice cream with sauce.
After nearly three decades in government, Bob Tuohy, the chief operating officer emeritus of Advanced Technologies International—a consortium management firm—is bullish on the benefits that the consortium model brings to acquisition.
Photos of Beakerhead 2014 Event - An Optimistic Evening with Mark Stevenson. Mark Stevenson indicating a statistic about limbs.
Photo by: Jeff Cruz
Nadezhda Ivanovna, 79 sounds optimistic and hardly ever complains to the Red Cross workers: “Food is not good - but I do not need it better. Meat? I do not need it at all. It is much worse that I cannot pay for the medicines without which I can hardly breathe. I cannot say my pension is sufficient, but I do have a reasonable way of life, nothing superfluous.” Then she adds after a pause; “I can keep my room clean, all right, but there is nobody to clean my carpets…” The Red Cross nurse, who brought a food parcel from the Moldova Red Cross, promises Nadezhda that she will come with volunteers and help her later that week. he town of Bendery, 40 km from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
In Soviet times the local Red Cross branches all over the country were capable to provide home care for the elderly in Bendery, 40 km away from the capital Chisinau. Today the Moldova Red Cross is struggling to retain its place in the society and sustain the competition with other NGO’s. The Norwegian, Swiss and Swedish Red Cross societies and the International Federation support the Moldova Red Cross work with various programmes. The International Federation emergency food support operation aims to help lonely elderly, single headed families and families with many children through the lean months of spring before the new harvest. 6,700 people will be able to improve their food ratio in the poorest European country.
Photo: Margarita Plotnikova / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
With the weather starting to break on Thursday, I knew I was pushing it to wear shorts and flip-flops to the office.
Walking out of Stortorget along Södergatan, the "Optimistic Orchestra" is one of Malmö's many public works of art. The 'orchestra' was created in 1985 by Yngve Lundell as a tribute to 'two positively disobedient people', Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.
Libby, she is so cute, I really love her outfit it's so adorable, I love her hair colour too the light and dark pink it looks like a strawberry ice cream with sauce.
The R.O.B.O.T (Really Optimistic Buddy On Treads) is the gadget of the future. It is a mechanical buddy who is of only the most sophisticated technology (it runs on oranges). It responds to human speech, and stores information in the computer-brain. It can’t express feelings with eyebrow or mouth movements (it has none), but it can show you how it feels with eye-lights blinking, nods, or gestures of the like. Naturally, no mechanical being can truly think or feel (yet), but in the year 2058, the R.O.B.O.T will be invented. It is created without thoughts or feelings, but as the years go on, it gains them (according to it’s owner).
The R.O.B.O.T can do a variety of things, including many everyday chores that everybody dreads. That’s like ironing, making meals, cleaning the house, etc. The R.O.B.O.T will be a cost of about $2000. It comes with a variety of attachments, including an eggbeater, a vacuum cleaner, and an iron.
Other attachments and accessories (that aren’t included) are sold separately. The R.O.B.O.T will be available in the year 2058. Oranges not included.
The Optimistic Orchestra [Optimistorkestern] is a group of bronze statues created in 1985 by Yngve Lundell (Malmö, Sweden)
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It has been such a difficult time here, however, I have not lost hope. For me strength is all about remaining optimistic, not succumbing to fear and pessimism.
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WINNIPEG, Canada – Dr. Sean Ceaser, a prominent naturopathic doctor based in Winnipeg, Canada, is optimistic about the use of PEMF treatment for many conditions including pain and cancer, including the treatment of breast cancer.
Traditional cancer treatment has improved dramatically in recent years, but still, there is no definitive breakthrough and the use of very invasive forms of treatment for the patient are commonplace and these treatments are riddled with side-effects. Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) is a non-invasive and drug-free therapy that complements other standard therapies and, together with a comprehensive alternative and complementary cancer treatment plan, can aid the process of helping to stop the progression of cancer.
In a recent study, women with locally spread breast cancer, stage III (stage T3, N1 – N3) and no metastases (M0) all had standard therapy in sequence, including (a) preoperative radiation of the breast and adjacent areas, combined with chemotherapy, (b) radical resection the breast, and (c) postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. In the time before the first phase of treatment, that is, before radiation, one group had multiple exposures of medium strength PEMF therapy added, and one group did not. Follow-up was done looking for x-ray changes in the primary tumour and regional lymph nodes, and then later, biopsy changes in the primary tumour tissue. The PEMF-treated women did not have any side effects. X-ray response in the PEMF group was seen in 87% and 82% in those without PEMF. There was less regional cancer spread in the PEMF group than those without, 97% improved versus only 52% without PEMF. In the PEMF group, 42% had total regression of the tumour, and 46% had partial tumour regression. Regression or reduction of regional metastasis was seen in 90%. Even the biopsies after surgery found more tumour destruction in 56% with versus 48% without PEMF therapy. So, the use of PEMFs in stage III breast cancer patients, along with radiation and chemotherapy preoperatively, produced considerably better results.
“Pulsed electromagnetic therapy (PEMF) has great potential in many conditions including musculoskeletal injuries and cancer, including the treatment of breast cancer, a disease that can be of concern for women diagnosed with it or have a strong family history of the disease,” said Dr. Sean Ceaser. “Although traditional treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other estrogen-blocking therapies have helped many women in their battle with cancer, there is much more that can be done to improve outcomes. Chemotherapy, in particular can be very harming and a study in 2018 by Stanford University showed that chemotherapy is completely ineffective for a large portion of women suffering from breast cancer. Is there a better, less harmful way for women who are suffering from intermediate to low risk breast cancer? I believe there is and PEMF treatments along with naturopathic IV therapies, hyperthermia and a complete treatment plan that takes into account the person we are treating and not just the disease can allow for effective non-harmful management and treatment of breast cancer.”
Dr. Sean Ceaser is a licenced naturopathic doctor in the provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia. He has been practicing naturopathic medicine since 1999 and currently helps patients at the Centre for Natural Pain Solutions in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has a particular focus on alternative cancer treatments/therapies and chronic pain. Dr. Ceaser has also worked at the Natural Health Sciences Research Clinic in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he researched natural medicines. He served as Instructor and Director of Curriculum at the Manitoba College of Homeopathic Medicine and is the first Naturopathic Physician to represent Complementary Therapy at the Health Sciences Centre, Mature Women’s Health Program. For more information about Dr. Ceaser and the services he provides, visit his website at drceaser.com.
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