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In the Ramayana, Hanuman changes shape several times. For example, while he searches for the kidnapped Sita in Ravana's palaces on Lanka, he contracts himself to the size of a cat, so that he will not be detected by the enemy. Later on, he takes on the size of a mountain, blazing with radiance, to show his true power to Sita.
The government on Monday morning ended the lockdown restrictions on a block of streets in Jordan, that had been at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak. The area, around Shanghai Street, was sealed off early on Saturday, when health workers were brought in to test all residents for the virus.
(20210125 RTHK News)
大坑書館街
School Street • Tai Hang • Hong Kong
An annual "fire dragon dance" featuring a 67 meter dragon made of joss sticks in Tai Hang will be suspended for the second consecutive year.
The Tai Hang Residents’ Welfare Association said today that the ritual for the Mid-Autumn Festival will be canceled due to the coronavirus epidemic. It was scheduled from September 20 to 22.
The Tai Hang Fire Dragon has its origins in 1880 when residents performed the ritual every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, except during the Japanese Occupation and the 1967 disturbances.
The legendary fire dragon is a majestic beast, 67m long and inserted with over 20,000 incandescent incense sticks. The body consists of a hemp rope spine wrapped with pearl straw, while the 70 kilogram head is made by coiling pearl straw around a rattan frame. Two flashlights form the creature’s eyes while sheets of metal make up its teeth and tongue.
The dragon is led by two orbs of light called “dragon pearls” – two pomelos inserted with many sticks of incense, spun with vigor to create a brilliant display of twirling radiance.
Every year, around 300 people parade the dragon from head to tail, enshrouding the neighborhood in a warm, smoky glow.
(20210914 The Standard)
Video of Tai Hang Fire Dragon :
When I was in 8th grade we moved from Chicago to a rural area. My first year in high school, I got my first job. I had to get my parents and school's permission. I worked in an Ace Hardware that was full service--cutting pipe, glazing putty and nails by the pound, vet supplies, etc. etc. Worked there through high school and first year of college.
Well Guse is just like the store I worked in. You don't find too many like that. Most have been put out of business by the "Big Box" home centers. Bryant Ave for most of its length runs through older residential areas, and of course Guse has maintained a strong customer base since the day of when street cars ran in Minneapolis.
The "Green Grocer" is a piece of brilliant business expertise, IMO. Even the name, usually used prolifically across the Pond, speaks of unique and healthy foodstuffs.
Especially this day and age of "organic consciousness" . . . which is rare enough in some government offices, but a buzz word in the food business.😊
They bought the convenience store next to them when it went belly up. I looked at their website and I tell you, as a former "marketeer", I am really impressed at the aggressive and spot-on marketing this long time community business has develooped.
Good for them . . .and the surrounding community.
The abrupt return of tough anti-pandemic restrictions amid a local Omicron outbreak has been met with shock and dismay by affected industries, with the beleaguered catering sector in particular crying foul, predicting losses of up to HK$8 billion (US$1.03 billion) as a result.
The revival of strict social-distancing rules will see dine-in service in restaurants end at 6pm, reduced caps on the number of patrons eateries can seat and the closure of 15 types of businesses – including fitness centres, beauty parlours, cinemas, theme parks, bars and pubs – for two weeks starting on Friday. (20220106 SCMP)
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#The_Days_We_Wear_Masks 20220109
The structures in the background are part of a series of twelve towers called Prasat Suor Prat. Archaeologist are still not certain what function they served which may be why no one visits them. They are within the walled royal city of Angkor Thom and just south of the magnificent Bayon temple.
Hong Kong slapped a two-week travel ban on people coming to the city from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines on Sunday, hours after officials confirmed a second local Covid-19 case involving a mutated strain of the virus.
Authorities ramped up warnings of a potential surge in infections amid an ongoing investigation into the source of the strain’s introduction into the community.
Meanwhile, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong expressed concern that Hong Kong’s stringent flight suspension rules would trigger a ban on routes from the Philippines and Indonesia, affecting thousands of employers and foreign domestic workers.
About 100 domestic workers arrive in the city every day. Suspending flight routes from the Philippines or Indonesia would not only delay newly hired helpers, but those who had returned to their home country for holidays or family visits might also be stranded, Law added.
(20210418 SCMP)
Sam Tung Uk Village is a Hakka walled village that was built by the Chan clan in 1786. After moving from Guangdong in the mid-18th century, the clan settled in Tsuen Wan, where they reclaimed land along the coast to cultivate. Sam Tung Uk was founded by Chan Yam-shing, a leader of the clan, who constructed three rows of village houses, which were later expanded by his descendants, who built annexes on both sides and at the back of the houses. The ancestral altar was placed in the main hall, which lay on the central axis and faced the main entrance. Four Chinese characters signifying ‘Chan Family Ancestral Hall’ are engraved on the granite lintel above the door frame. The village was restored in 1987 and opened to the public as the Sam Tung Uk Museum.
My brother says his goodbyes to Mum, as she lay dying in her last days.
Part of a photo-documentary series on my mother's death. It's not a subject oft explored, nor talked about - all the more reason, I figured, to cover it - plus it was an outlet to explore my own emotions and grief..... even at the time I clicked. We're all going to die one day. However, we British (generally) do everything we can to avoid talking or thinking about it ... silly, really.
"Exploring The Myth of Shangri-La"
West China : Day 7
Namso, A Tibetan nomad milking the yak, located in nomadic areas about 20 km from Langmusi (4,000 m asl)
When Namso milking yaks, I've prepared with my camera waiting for her look towards to my camera. although the lighting not on her face directly but at least I got her expression when milking. it was our lucky day to see all their activities in the morning. And as always Namso looks busy in that morning with milking for more than 40 yaks, while her husband Shihdur Cap still releasing all the yaks to graze and collecting the yak's dung.
The life of most Tibetans living in mountain villages or nomadic areas is based on raising sheep, cows, and first of all, yaks. The yak provides a lot of products: meat, milk, hair and also dung to be burned in the stove.
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Cuban Taxi (11)
For the vast majority of Cuban immigrants, Miami , Florida was their new home. As of 2012, there were 1.2 million Cubans in Miami. As of that year, about 400,000 had arrived after 1980.
Nearly half of all European businesses in Hong Kong are considering relocating in the next year, according to a new report. Companies cite the local government's extremely strict Covid-19 protocols that mirror those on the mainland. (20220324 CNN Business)
“One CEO of a large private firm applauded our recent moves, and told me they had asked their overseas colleagues to return to Hong Kong,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam was quoted as saying, one week after she announced lifting flight bans on nine countries and shortening the hotel quarantine period for Hong Kong residents returning from abroad.
(20220328 SCMP)
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From Left to Right :
1. Bank of China Tower #中銀大廈
2. Cheung Kong Center #長江集團中心
3. Court of Final Appeal #終審法院
4. Bank Of China Building #中國銀行大廈
5. HSBC Main Building #匯豐總行大廈
6. Standard Chartered Bank Building 渣打銀行大廈
7. Prince’s Building #太子大廈
8. Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong #香港文華東方酒店
The Hong Kong Observatory says Severe Typhoon Mangkhut, which wreaked havoc in the SAR on Sunday, was the most intense storm to hit the city since records began in 1946.
Senior scientific officer Li Ping-wah said Mangkhut had brought considerable damage to Hong Kong and still posed a risk to the public on Monday.
"Mangkhut was very intense, with an initial analysis showing its maximum sustained winds near the centre once reached 250 kilometres per hour ... which is the most intense typhoon requiring issuance of the hurricane signal number 10 since 1946," Li said.
Li noted that the storm was even stronger than Super Typhoon Hope in 1979, which left 12 people dead in Hong Kong.
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Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died late November 25 in Havana, his brother, President Raul Castro, announced on national television. Castro's ashes will be buried in the historic southeastern city of Santiago on December 4 after a four-day procession through the country.
Kathy Toth || Toronto Graffiti Archive || Instagram
The photo is from early 1996 of me painting the Keele wall while it was an open Hall of Fame.
I recently had my extensive photodocumentary project featured on a wonderful site called Tidings of Magpies. They reached out to me and we had a long talk on some interests of mine which never fell off. It's pretty long and it has a stack of photos with it. It's all about my interests and motivations tied up in 29 years of documenting the same (changing) landscape of graffiti. They have a really interesting mix of the arts on their website. This is the good arts/creative content you have been looking for. And yes, I guess I do Infact live in the past.
I'll post bits of it with some old photos. Or you can read the whole thing here: magpiesmagazine.com/2023/03/22/living-in-the-past-an-inte...
What a beautiful sight this was as the vintage warbirds, a Mustang and Corsair took off, and the F-22 swooped in a cozied up between the two and flew in formation.
There's something breathtaking about these noble craft that invoke a sense of pride,and reflection about days gone by and the future of aviation.
Again, the skies that day couldn't have been more perfect.