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Breast cancer reshaped me - physically, emotionally. Looking across the water, toward the mountains, I think of embracing arms, a liquid heart, an expanse I have crossed, Yes, I have been reshaped, remade, hollowed and humbled. Now I turn to the gentle flow of water, the solidity of earth, touch the ground of being, and I go on.
Training golden eagles to hunt is physically and mentally demanding. Young Nurguli needs all her strength and a great deal of focus to call her eagle to come to her from a perch at the top of the hill and to land on her gloved arm. The powerful bird nearly knocks Nurguli over as it comes into land. You need to keep your bare skin well away from raptor beaks and claws: many an eagle hunter – including one of Nurguli’s uncles – bears the scars of eagle handling gone wrong!
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Physically I am in my backyard but mentally I am on the road again. My ideal vacation is to just simply drive on a nice road like this. I love to listen to music while I drive.
I love my car and recently got a new one and felt the need to add it here. Some of my friends recently got the same one as me. I believe that car asset is more than a car picture. I see it as a example of how friendships are eternal.
I used to road to my advantage and put my text along those lines. I used rainbow colors from oil spills as my overlay texture and it catches your eye. Accenting my photo I also put a picture of my burnout. I combined the Oil spill and the burnout picture together as a circle around me.
On a late summer's afternoon I was fortunate to witness some fascinating spider courting behaviour. Some photographers physically capture their subjects or go out very early in the morning before they are active because they are easier to control and photograph, but I don't do that because otherwise, you miss the real genuine animal behaviour. Although photographing animals during their active hours may be more difficult and result in less technically perfect pictures, you can also learn and capture a lot of the natural interaction with each other and their enivironment. You won't get that at 6am, and you don't have to get up early for it either!
This is a male long-jawed orb weaver of the species Metellina segmentata, one of Europe's most common orbweavers. Like many orb weavers, the female makes the web and catches the food, while the male, generally, wanders around looking for females to mate with. Also like most orb weavers, his eyesight is poor, relying on the detection of pheramones to find females. Personally I find it mind-boggling that something tiny and flightless like a spider can even find a female, how on earth do rare species locate each other? And yet somehow, they do. Anyway, being virtually blind, this spider could not see what I could see, and was not aware of the adventure it was about to have, which summed up in a few minutes how dangerous a male spider's life can be. It was fascinating to watch this near-blind male navigate its way around. While M. segmentata is fairly large for a British spider, it is nothing next to the great fat garden spider, Araneus diadematus, which is hugely abundant in autumn.
While I was observing it negotiate a bramble hedge, the first web it came to was of A. diadematus, and I thought immediately it would be in trouble. It carefully avoided the edges of the web and headed down towards one made by a female of its own species. It clearly was aware very quickly to avoid the first web, even though it cannot see. Male orb weavers often pluck strands of the female's web, firstly as a signal to the female that he is a male of her species and to indicate that he is a potential mate, not a potential meal (as she also cannot see), but also presumably to detect for himself whether he's in the web of the correct species or not by detecting her pheramones.
This shot contains a nice clear view of the male's palps, those boxing-glove like appendages he carries around in front of him, that clearly determine that he is male and not female.
The Queen's Baton at the P.A.Y. Centre (Physically Active Youth) in Katutura, in Windhoek, Namibia, on Wednesday 29 January 2014. Namibia is nation 33 of 70 Commonwealth nations and territories to be visited by the Queen's Baton.
The food we eat plays an important role in keeping you physically, mentally and emotionally healthy. That is why, these days, organic food has become very popular and is gaining more and more acceptance. Because organic food is safe, natural, and healthy and it is prepared, prepared, and processed without the use of any chemicals. Everything, including food, is not pure nowadays. Let's check out the top 20 organic food companies in India.
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Food is always our priority and cannot compromise on its quality. Many organic food companies in India offer you 100% organic food products. These foods are fresh and come directly from the fields without any chemical preservatives. Foods that are processed or prepared without the addition of chemicals are known as organic foods. Organic foods are gaining popularity these days as people are being tempted to use chemicals to prepare and heal their bodies.
Organic products have become very popular in recent times and people have come to know that the use of synthetic products is not good for their health and long-term nature. Organic products are made from only natural ingredients and are fresh to use which is why they are beneficial to us.
Top 20 organic food companies in India
Pro Nature
This amazing organic food brand is a great option for those looking for gluten-free foods. It also offers the option to buy your favorite organic food items online. It is one of the popular brands of organic food companies in India.
The National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is one of the newer museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Physically, it's an impressive structure from outside, on the northeast corner of 15th & Madison next to the Washington Monument.
The museum is basically 7 floors. The ground floor with the gift shop & information with a large atrium. The 3 floors below ground predominantly tell history (chronologically) from the slave trade up to current day. The 3 upper floors address different aspects of culture (music, art, dance, theater, sports, and literature among others).
The photo you are looking at here is from my second visit, which happily coincided with Malcolm X's 96th birthday (19 May 2021). Since I'd been before, I didn't stop by information, but from what I recall of my first visit, they suggest starting with the lower floors and finishing with the upper floors. You'll probably want to block a half day, at least, to take this museum in.
Should you follow the suggestion of history before culture, you'll walk behind the information desk and around a back hallway to take an elevator down to the bottom floor (or stairs around the elevator shaft, should you choose). When you come out, you're greeted by darkness and displays regarding the slave trade in general, and in the different regions of the country, including "highlights" of the era, like Bacon's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, etc. There is no specific demarcation to let you know you are moving up from one floor to another, but there are ramps (it's not a trick or anything like that). The farther up you go, the more you approach modern day, passing information about famous historical figures (Douglass, Tubman, DuBois, Booker T. Washington) and historic events (emancipation, sit ins, segregation, Jim Crow laws, black nationalism) until finishing with a few exhibits that highlight specific decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s).
From there, you can take a break and grab lunch in the cafe -- if it ever opens again -- where they have foods that are staples in the black community -- before continuing to the other half of the museum.
I would suggest taking the escalator up to the top floor and working your way down. On the top floor, you'll find the exhibits for art, music, literature, and theater/television. Going down a floor, you'll find sports and special exhibitions. The fourth floor (well...2nd, I guess) is a hands on workshop and genealogy research center.
Realistically, this museum takes multiple visits to really let everything seep in. Even after two visits, I feel like I barely glossed over everything.
Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The house was built in the middle of the 19th century as a family home for John Tollemache, a wealthy Cheshire landowner, estate manager, and Member of Parliament. It was designed by Anthony Salvin in the Gothic style. The Tollemache family continued to live in the house until 1939. During the Second World War it was used as a hostel for physically handicapped children.
The castle was bought in 1988 by Evelyn Graybill, who converted it into a hotel. In 2006 it was purchased by the Naylor family, who expanded its use to include hosting weddings, conferences, and other functions.
A bit of physically-accurate fun painting with light -- trying out the new Thea Render (beta) software... If I had a white cardboard box, a super-bright pen light and a whole bunch of prisms, this is what I would do for real...but I don't, so I have to do it virtually.
By Adam Cassino
Based off of the sound mind, body, and soul concept, Serenity both graphically and physically displays its user’s “balance” throughout the day respectively via an e-ink / OLED combination display and with a unique moving flexible underside.
The device stores and sorts the user’s tasks and activities into the 3 main categories; the mind, body, and soul. The mind section contains any knowledge based activities (e-mail, messages, work schedules, appointments, etc.), the body section contains physical activities (exercise routines, diet plans, meal options etc.), and lastly, the soul section contains any spiritual based activities (entertainment, leisure activities, friends and family time, etc.). As the day progresses and the user completes, creates new, or misses tasks, Serenity represents the overall “balance” of the 3 categories. An all white display represents a perfect balance, whereas a gray to black shaded region represents a deficiency in that particular category, calling attention to it. In addition to the graphic display, Serenity’s unique flexible underside bulges out in desktop mode to create a “teeter-totter” where the device will physically tilt down in the direction of the deficient category.
Serenity is operated via a brilliant innovative circular touch-screen, and offers all of the standard calling, messaging, and mobile features expected from any modern device in addition to its unique balancing element. It also boasts a few surprise features including a massage function which makes use of the flexible moving underside to give an effective acupressure hand massage. Serenity creates a mobile experience designed to establish balance and harmony in its user’s active lifestyle.
The 10th annual Leslie Sparano Summerfest took place at Shenango Lake July 19. The event is held each year in honor Leslie Sparano, a social worker who was killed in a car accident. This year the event hosted more than 800 participants. Mentally and physically challenged members of the community spent the day during a variety of activities including boat and trolley rides, games, crafts, live music, fishing, a catered picnic and more.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District partnered with Colucci-Sparano Memorial Foundation, Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, PA Fish and Boat Commission, and numerous volunteers to provide the event to the community.
Sparano worked at the Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission and left a legacy of dedication and caring. Family, friends and coworkers brought the event together as a way for her clients to have a special way to honor her memory. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by : Janie Egger and John Kolodziejski)
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
Ian Fowler
Hometown Witney
Age 46
Ian's nomination story
Although physically handicapped from an early age, Ian has never let this prevent him from pursuing his ambitions as a long distance runner. In order to compete in all the marathons that he has, he has to continue training even though he knows that he is likely to trip and fall many times. Alongside this, he works hard for his local running club and helps encourage the younger runners in their training as well as marshalling for local and national events. At work he is the epitome of selfless support, willing to help others for the benefit of the business whatever the personal cost - from staying late to making the multi bus journey into work at weekends to help resolve urgent issues. As a keen athlete, I know that Ian would also fully appreciate the honour of being the Olympic torchbearer.
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The National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is one of the newer museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Physically, it's an impressive structure from outside, on the northeast corner of 15th & Madison next to the Washington Monument.
The museum is basically 7 floors. The ground floor with the gift shop & information with a large atrium. The 3 floors below ground predominantly tell history (chronologically) from the slave trade up to current day. The 3 upper floors address different aspects of culture (music, art, dance, theater, sports, and literature among others).
The photo you are looking at here is from my second visit, which happily coincided with Malcolm X's 96th birthday (19 May 2021). Since I'd been before, I didn't stop by information, but from what I recall of my first visit, they suggest starting with the lower floors and finishing with the upper floors. You'll probably want to block a half day, at least, to take this museum in.
Should you follow the suggestion of history before culture, you'll walk behind the information desk and around a back hallway to take an elevator down to the bottom floor (or stairs around the elevator shaft, should you choose). When you come out, you're greeted by darkness and displays regarding the slave trade in general, and in the different regions of the country, including "highlights" of the era, like Bacon's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, etc. There is no specific demarcation to let you know you are moving up from one floor to another, but there are ramps (it's not a trick or anything like that). The farther up you go, the more you approach modern day, passing information about famous historical figures (Douglass, Tubman, DuBois, Booker T. Washington) and historic events (emancipation, sit ins, segregation, Jim Crow laws, black nationalism) until finishing with a few exhibits that highlight specific decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s).
From there, you can take a break and grab lunch in the cafe -- if it ever opens again -- where they have foods that are staples in the black community -- before continuing to the other half of the museum.
I would suggest taking the escalator up to the top floor and working your way down. On the top floor, you'll find the exhibits for art, music, literature, and theater/television. Going down a floor, you'll find sports and special exhibitions. The fourth floor (well...2nd, I guess) is a hands on workshop and genealogy research center.
Realistically, this museum takes multiple visits to really let everything seep in. Even after two visits, I feel like I barely glossed over everything.
Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The house was built in the middle of the 19th century as a family home for John Tollemache, a wealthy Cheshire landowner, estate manager, and Member of Parliament. It was designed by Anthony Salvin in the Gothic style. The Tollemache family continued to live in the house until 1939. During the Second World War it was used as a hostel for physically handicapped children.
The castle was bought in 1988 by Evelyn Graybill, who converted it into a hotel. In 2006 it was purchased by the Naylor family, who expanded its use to include hosting weddings, conferences, and other functions.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
Today was a miserable day. I worked my later shift which is physically exhausting and later went into Amherst to pick up some prints. While trying to park, a woman backed into my car. She never even turned her head to look behind her as she backed up and then got out of her car to yell at me for being in HER way!
There was no real damage (bent my plate) but when I got my prints and came back to my car, I couldn't find my keys. They were in the ignition. Because this is only one of several times I have locked my keys in my car, I have a spare hidden on my car. But it was bitter cold, raining and I was parked on a main road so there was no way I was going to climb under the car. So I was forced to make the "hubby, come rescue me" call as my phone battery was DYING! *sigh*
It all worked out when I met up with a friend and all three of us went to have dinner at the dining commons on Umass campus where my son works. The food was great and Mary and I talked the night away. P1240018
View of (physically) large power resistor within 91 01 44 arc lamp power supply. Value is 1 ohm and the orange and white wires on either side go directly to the I/O connector (lamp interface) so I am figuring it to have something to do with current sensing/regulation...
Being a tad physically challenged and living where the ground easily could be called "cement" in the Summertime, a specie of 'raised planters' makes flowers possible. In our case, the cheapest and easiest version has proved to be half wine barrels all about the place.
This has further enabled snapshot vistas which include various depths of colors as one moves about with a camera among them.
Fun, color, and unexpected results prevail...
From Wikipedia:
Letchworth Village was a residential institution located in Rockland County, New York, built for the physically and mentally disabled of all ages from the newborn to the elderly. Opened in 1911, Letchworth Village at its peak consisted of over 130 buildings spread out over many acres of land.
On February 27, 1950, the first trial case of the polio vaccine in the United States was administered to an 8-year-old patient. After the patient suffered no side effects, the vaccine was administered to 19 more of the institution's children.
In 1972, a New York affiliate of ABC News featured Letchworth Village and its appalling conditions in an episode called Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace which helped lead to reform of similar healthcare institutions throughout the United States. But prior media attention and national focus was not enough to save Letchworth Village, and by the mid-1980s, the institution was no longer being adequately funded nor properly managed and residents, including children, continued to be found unclothed, unbathed, and neglected. In addition to rampant abuse among the institution's residents, staff also suffered abuse at the hands of fellow co-workers which included incidents of rape.
In 1996 the institution was permanently closed down, and many of its abandoned structures have since fallen into serious disrepair.
In 2011, Letchworth was featured on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures cable-television series on Season 5, Episode 6 which originally aired on October 28, 2011.
Photo: Taken Nov. 2012
Note: We were never disrespectful to the grounds, buildings or the past while visiting.
Physically separate from the more famous Berlin Wall, the Inner German border was nearly 1,400km long and divided East and West Germany from 1949, when the Soviets established East Germany, until the border fortifications started to topple down in 1989.
Germany, Schifflersgrund, Feb. 2025
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Title: Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants and a set of anatomical figures, illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory
Creator: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Creator: Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800
Creator: Lofft, Elizabeth Susan, Provenance
Creator: Phillips, Edward England, Provenance
Creator: University of Bristol. Library
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory-Office, Ave-Maria-Lane; and by Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate
Sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
Contributor: University of Bristol
Date: 1794
Language: eng
Description: With a frontispiece and 29 numbered plates
Forms v. 1 of a 2 v. set: the herbal and the medical part
The set is published in 42 numbered parts of which v. 1 includes nos. 1-25 and v. 2 nos. 26-42
Dedication dated: In the year of Masonry 5798
ESTC
This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library
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With this are bound the second part of another edition, and the editor's A key to physic. The volume is bound according to the "Directions to the binder" (on p. 256, at the end of the second part): pt. 1, Appendix (usually forming pt. of Key to physic), pt. 2 and Key to physic
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Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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Gov.Amosun and His Wife during the UpLIFTing of the Physically Challenged program organized by the UpLIFTing Development Foundation of Mrs. Olufunso Amosun
the asshole in the go-kart is a park maintenance worker who tried to cancel the wedding. at one point, he physically tried to intervene.
so my fiance and i were planning on getting married and decided to do a little research to find an appropriate spot that we both liked to get married in. we decided on the conservatory garden in central park. we went online to see if we needed permits. what we found was that in new york you may get married in any public place permit free as long as you have less than 20 people gathered, do not have chairs set up and no tripod photography.
her mom and sister fly out from california, my dad drives down from vermont, other friends come from around the country and our group of 19 meets at 3:58 in the park ready to have a quick, ten minute ceremony, snap a few pictures and then go party at the reception.
thats when this asshole steps in. he is a park maintenance worker who in this shot is telling the officiator and i that we are not having the wedding here. it's not fair to the other people. what other people? there's no one else around. the people who pay for their permits to get married here. i tell him that according to the information i found on the official central park and nyc websites we are within guidelines. no dice, you have to leave-its not my decision. well, it kinda is your decision, there isn't anybody here, can we have ten minutes to do our thing, what could it hurt? not ten minutes, not five minutes-you're leaving now or i'm calling the police!
so we decide to go for it anyway. the ten minute ceremony gets cut down to three and we basically say that love is great, do you love each other, exchange rings, kiss the bride, and you're done. but This asshole comes back and tries to physically intervene. luckily we had some big guys there who blocked him for the necessary three minutes.
he stuck around to harass us, went over to lock the public bathrooms and yes, he did call the police who showed up about twenty minutes later after most of the wedding party had left. it was only the bride and groom, our parents and a friend taking pictures, which of course the cops didn't do anything about.
yes, folks, there are self important assholes out there in the world who will try to stop you from getting married on your wedding day. here is one of them.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, outgoing I Corps command sergeant major, shrugs off torrential rain and swings a 135-lb. chain during physical training Sep. 3. It was his last 'Physically, Mentally, Emotionally (PME) Hard' training session before relinquishing responsibility. Later in the day, Troxell passed on the responsibility of corps command sergeant major to Command Sgt. Maj. James P. Norman. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Leon Cook)
The National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is one of the newer museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Physically, it's an impressive structure from outside, on the northeast corner of 15th & Madison next to the Washington Monument.
The museum is basically 7 floors. The ground floor with the gift shop & information with a large atrium. The 3 floors below ground predominantly tell history (chronologically) from the slave trade up to current day. The 3 upper floors address different aspects of culture (music, art, dance, theater, sports, and literature among others).
The photo you are looking at here is from my second visit, which happily coincided with Malcolm X's 96th birthday (19 May 2021). Since I'd been before, I didn't stop by information, but from what I recall of my first visit, they suggest starting with the lower floors and finishing with the upper floors. You'll probably want to block a half day, at least, to take this museum in.
Should you follow the suggestion of history before culture, you'll walk behind the information desk and around a back hallway to take an elevator down to the bottom floor (or stairs around the elevator shaft, should you choose). When you come out, you're greeted by darkness and displays regarding the slave trade in general, and in the different regions of the country, including "highlights" of the era, like Bacon's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, etc. There is no specific demarcation to let you know you are moving up from one floor to another, but there are ramps (it's not a trick or anything like that). The farther up you go, the more you approach modern day, passing information about famous historical figures (Douglass, Tubman, DuBois, Booker T. Washington) and historic events (emancipation, sit ins, segregation, Jim Crow laws, black nationalism) until finishing with a few exhibits that highlight specific decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s).
From there, you can take a break and grab lunch in the cafe -- if it ever opens again -- where they have foods that are staples in the black community -- before continuing to the other half of the museum.
I would suggest taking the escalator up to the top floor and working your way down. On the top floor, you'll find the exhibits for art, music, literature, and theater/television. Going down a floor, you'll find sports and special exhibitions. The fourth floor (well...2nd, I guess) is a hands on workshop and genealogy research center.
Realistically, this museum takes multiple visits to really let everything seep in. Even after two visits, I feel like I barely glossed over everything.
The National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is one of the newer museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Physically, it's an impressive structure from outside, on the northeast corner of 15th & Madison next to the Washington Monument.
The museum is basically 7 floors. The ground floor with the gift shop & information with a large atrium. The 3 floors below ground predominantly tell history (chronologically) from the slave trade up to current day. The 3 upper floors address different aspects of culture (music, art, dance, theater, sports, and literature among others).
The photo you are looking at here is from my second visit, which happily coincided with Malcolm X's 96th birthday (19 May 2021). Since I'd been before, I didn't stop by information, but from what I recall of my first visit, they suggest starting with the lower floors and finishing with the upper floors. You'll probably want to block a half day, at least, to take this museum in.
Should you follow the suggestion of history before culture, you'll walk behind the information desk and around a back hallway to take an elevator down to the bottom floor (or stairs around the elevator shaft, should you choose). When you come out, you're greeted by darkness and displays regarding the slave trade in general, and in the different regions of the country, including "highlights" of the era, like Bacon's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, etc. There is no specific demarcation to let you know you are moving up from one floor to another, but there are ramps (it's not a trick or anything like that). The farther up you go, the more you approach modern day, passing information about famous historical figures (Douglass, Tubman, DuBois, Booker T. Washington) and historic events (emancipation, sit ins, segregation, Jim Crow laws, black nationalism) until finishing with a few exhibits that highlight specific decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s).
From there, you can take a break and grab lunch in the cafe -- if it ever opens again -- where they have foods that are staples in the black community -- before continuing to the other half of the museum.
I would suggest taking the escalator up to the top floor and working your way down. On the top floor, you'll find the exhibits for art, music, literature, and theater/television. Going down a floor, you'll find sports and special exhibitions. The fourth floor (well...2nd, I guess) is a hands on workshop and genealogy research center.
Realistically, this museum takes multiple visits to really let everything seep in. Even after two visits, I feel like I barely glossed over everything.
Physically and mentally disabled students from programs of the Directorate General for Special Education and Social Welfare create artwork for the new Children’s Room at the Helen Keller Center in Islamabad, a partnership between the U.S. and Pakistan.
A physically-challenged musician entertains and inspires passersby on a street in Centro Guanajuato, Mexico
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Today's post will be all over the place, because that's where my head is. I'm the worlds worst mental multi-tasker. Physically, I'm okay. I can simultaneously pat my head, rub my tummy, hop on one foot, roll my eyes, chew gum and twirl a hula-hoop while singing the national anthem of Papua New Guinea (most of it, anyway). But, I can't think about more than one thing at a time. This makes my workday feel like a picnic in one of the lower levels of Dante's Inferno.
So, since I'm even more scatterbrained than normal today, it would be asking too much to expect any kind of theme today. I'll start with the Mystery Insect. Up at Blueblood, Pascal Michon found this weird thing:
Though it looks very much like a mosquito, it's not. Pascal tells me that it is a fly of some kind because of the shape of the mouth parts (ugh!). I had to take about twenty exposures to get one while it was sticking its tongue, or whatever you call it, out. All the while it was sitting on my hand, presumably deciding whether or not I was edible. Pascal put it in a jar and sent it off somewhere for an ID check. More later on that.
Switching subjects completely, here is a nice shot of a gang of Pickhandle Barracuda (Sphyraena jello) down deep in Magic Passage: It's worth clicking this one to enlarge it.
The polyps of this Gonipora genus coral (I can't identify the species.) remind me of waving wheat:
The metaphor works better if you can see the water currents making it sway back and forth.
The new Canon G11 came into play this morning at about 06:15 to catch the sunrise. This is the fantasy version:
I couldn't resist playing with the colours.
This is what it really looked like: That's a four frame panorama more or less exactly as it came from the camera. So far, so good.
Finally, I'm happy to announce that Bozo the Clown made a guest appearance recently in Madang and I was proud to take him diving. Here he is all google-eyed and frazzled, looking as if he's enjoying a giant licorice all-day sucker. Someone should tell him that you're supposed to lick it, not stick the whole thing in your mouth:
Is it any wonder that I'm the laughingstock of Madang? Hey, everybody is entitled to a job.
The most physically beautiful people I have encountered live in Athens. The land of the Greek gods, legends and myths and the Acropolis, Athens' is a cosmopolitan landscape of bars and shopping. But this landscape bears nothing against its historic landscape of Seven Hills and majestic Parthenon.
SEP 9 – SEP 29, 2014
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Heidi Hibbs (Gas), "Listening", tactile paper. Dale Anderson, (Emporia), Untitled, thrown pottery. Nancy Johnson (Topeka), "Enigma", latch-hook.
This first annual Talking Books traveling art show showcases the artistic talents of the blind, visually impaired, and physically impaired Kansas Talking Books patrons. For information about the artists, call the Sabatini Gallery at 785-580-4515.
Soldiers are mentally and physically put to the test at the Northern Warfare Training Center in Black Rapids, Alaska. They are tested on 49 tasks and must travel several miles through mountainous terrain between checkpoints during the testing phase of the Basic Mountaineering Course. (Army photo by Staff Sgt. Trish McMurphy, USARAK Public Affairs)
From Wikipedia:
Letchworth Village was a residential institution located in Rockland County, New York, built for the physically and mentally disabled of all ages from the newborn to the elderly. Opened in 1911, Letchworth Village at its peak consisted of over 130 buildings spread out over many acres of land.
On February 27, 1950, the first trial case of the polio vaccine in the United States was administered to an 8-year-old patient. After the patient suffered no side effects, the vaccine was administered to 19 more of the institution's children.
In 1972, a New York affiliate of ABC News featured Letchworth Village and its appalling conditions in an episode called Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace which helped lead to reform of similar healthcare institutions throughout the United States. But prior media attention and national focus was not enough to save Letchworth Village, and by the mid-1980s, the institution was no longer being adequately funded nor properly managed and residents, including children, continued to be found unclothed, unbathed, and neglected. In addition to rampant abuse among the institution's residents, staff also suffered abuse at the hands of fellow co-workers which included incidents of rape.
In 1996 the institution was permanently closed down, and many of its abandoned structures have since fallen into serious disrepair.
In 2011, Letchworth was featured on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures cable-television series on Season 5, Episode 6 which originally aired on October 28, 2011.
Photo: Taken Nov. 2012
Rolleiflex 3.5F TMAX400 @ ISO800
Note: We were never disrespectful to the grounds, buildings or the past while visiting.
The National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is one of the newer museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Physically, it's an impressive structure from outside, on the northeast corner of 15th & Madison next to the Washington Monument.
The museum is basically 7 floors. The ground floor with the gift shop & information with a large atrium. The 3 floors below ground predominantly tell history (chronologically) from the slave trade up to current day. The 3 upper floors address different aspects of culture (music, art, dance, theater, sports, and literature among others).
The photo you are looking at here is from my second visit, which happily coincided with Malcolm X's 96th birthday (19 May 2021). Since I'd been before, I didn't stop by information, but from what I recall of my first visit, they suggest starting with the lower floors and finishing with the upper floors. You'll probably want to block a half day, at least, to take this museum in.
Should you follow the suggestion of history before culture, you'll walk behind the information desk and around a back hallway to take an elevator down to the bottom floor (or stairs around the elevator shaft, should you choose). When you come out, you're greeted by darkness and displays regarding the slave trade in general, and in the different regions of the country, including "highlights" of the era, like Bacon's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, etc. There is no specific demarcation to let you know you are moving up from one floor to another, but there are ramps (it's not a trick or anything like that). The farther up you go, the more you approach modern day, passing information about famous historical figures (Douglass, Tubman, DuBois, Booker T. Washington) and historic events (emancipation, sit ins, segregation, Jim Crow laws, black nationalism) until finishing with a few exhibits that highlight specific decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s).
From there, you can take a break and grab lunch in the cafe -- if it ever opens again -- where they have foods that are staples in the black community -- before continuing to the other half of the museum.
I would suggest taking the escalator up to the top floor and working your way down. On the top floor, you'll find the exhibits for art, music, literature, and theater/television. Going down a floor, you'll find sports and special exhibitions. The fourth floor (well...2nd, I guess) is a hands on workshop and genealogy research center.
Realistically, this museum takes multiple visits to really let everything seep in. Even after two visits, I feel like I barely glossed over everything.
SEP 9 – SEP 29, 2014
This first annual Talking Books traveling art show showcases the artistic talents of the blind, visually impaired, and physically impaired Kansas Talking Books patrons. For information about the artists, call the Sabatini Gallery at 785-580-4515.
*Feeling physically present*
Direct cinema filmmakers’ non-interference adage makes them dependent on other people making the action, which is why they have always been very interested in showing encounters between people. This dependence has learned direct cinema to get close to people and observe well. A great example are the observations of Pennebaker (he operates the camera himself) in Don’t Look Back: they are still remarkably fresh looking today.
Pennebaker's camera is in the middle of the action; physically speaking the camera gets very close in this film. We don't see the smooth gliding images that nowadays are made with the help of a Steadycam but the chaos of a handheld camera that tries to push through a crowd into a taxi. Although the observer is supposedly not present in the situations in the film, as direct cinema suggests, there are moments when the presence of the camera can be felt almost physically.
Several sequences show how Pennebaker makes the best of the limitations of unanticipated situations he ends up in. Examples are rough movements (getting into that taxi through a crowd), zooms resulting in out of focus close-ups, or pans that cross non-spaces seemingly forever. If fly-on-the-wall documentary is done in a rough style like this, the filmmaker may be invisible in the image but the viewer can feel the presence of the camera.
This way of using the camera really helps to get across a mood, it makes the viewer feel present in the situation as a person rather than as a fly. Pennebaker says about this:
"Most people look at [Don't look back] and say it's documentary. It's not documentary at all by my standards. It throws away almost all its information and becomes purposely kind of abstract and tries to be musical rather than informational. Many people complained about the movie - it didn't tell about the life-style of the hippies or dope or something like that; that's what most complaints are. Especially the people who were in it. They felt it wasn't informational because it wasn't something that I should tell you about. What I want you to tell about is the mood, I guess, not the information." [Pennebaker in Levin, 1971, p. 243]
The distinction that Pennemaker makes here, between information and mood, ressembles the distinction sometimes made in design research, between information and inspiration. It is hard to agree with Pennebaker though that his film would contain no information and therefore is not a documentary. The film may leave out certain information that others might have expected to find. But it does contain other information, for instance how Dylan deals with journalists, how his manager makes deals and how Dylan works on new songs while he is on the road. Because expectations are not always met, as a filmmaker or researcher, and as a viewer, it is important to keep an open mind on the kind of information you find or you might not recognise it as something of interest.