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Un engañosamente
nimio crujido
nos avisa
del peligro de desplome
colocamos soportes
apuntalamos
intentamos
mantenernos en pie.
Deceptively an insignificant
rustle warns to us
of the collapse danger
we placed supports
we propped up
we tried to stay still on.
Supporting-Local-Business Day / Social Distancing Day 198, 09/27/2020, Williamsburg, NY
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iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8
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Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
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[Stirling, UK. August 30, 2016] Action from Glasgow Warriors vs Canada "A" in pre-season at Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling.
(c) ALASTAIR ROSS | Novantae Photography
Photo Credit: Alastair Ross / Novantae Photography
A. Murray McKay Bridge crosses Halifax Harbor. I thought it curious that a bridge authority would make the effort. There may be more to the story than just a Ukrainian flag. Other parts of Canada have a significant Ukrainian population. Also, when immigrants arrived in Canada they first landed in Halifax.
The interior of an old building showing a supporting structure of beams and columns designed to shore it up and prevent collapse.
I shot this photo to capture the shapes created by the steel work. The interior divided up into new frames and rectangles. I also wished to capture the contrasting textures of the old stone and rusting steel.
I am quite fussy about scale, but with a reason; I like to be able to put different vehicles together. That is fairly easy to pull of on a fairly large scale. At this scale, not so much. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, though.
A sign of the times. No-one is safe ANYWHERE these days. Still, it was re-assuring to see some sort of armed rapid response unit was to hand.
I think the vehicle is an Audi Q7.
Bray Air Show 2016 Day 1 - Co. Wicklow - Ireland.
One from the archives, which I'm trying to rationalise!
Wooden roof supports on the porch of St Peter and St Pauls church in Kilmersdom, Somerset.
I understand this debate has been going on for what feels like the dawn of time, but since I now own bjds myself I'd like to put in my two cents. If anything I really just want to show my support for dolls artists. Whether you are just getting started or from a well known company I appreciate your hard work. It breaks my heart that people don't take into consideration the absolute heart you put into your craft. Over this past year and a half I've been on Instagram I've had the pleasure of seeing some of your dolls come together. From idea sketches to official releases. I truly have a respect for your motivation and patience!
London Ambulance Service | Command Support Vehicle 7908 | Mercedes-Benz Sprinter | LX14 ASO out along The Mall during a royal event, London, UK
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The protesters of the Freedom Trucker convoy want to eliminate all COVID mandates and restrictions including vaccination. They claim that the entire pandemic is a hoax and that the COVID survival rate is as high as 99.97%, no worse than influenza. However, looking at statistics in Canada (September 2021 prior to the OMICRON variant surge), 1.8% of COVID cases were fatal. If the survival rate was as high as 99.97% as they claimed, with the 1.53 million cases that took place in our country there should have been only a few hundred deaths. But in reality, over 35 thousand COVID deaths have occurred in Canada prior to the OMICRON variant that is still underway (third most common cause of death in 2021). Deaths in USA are now approaching 1 million and five and a half million deaths worldwide. More have died from COVID in 2 years than in the past 30 years from Influenza! In addition we don’t know the long- term effects of COVID for those that survived but have ongoing suffering.
We were extremely fortunate to have the mRNA COVID vaccines. The reason why they were created so quickly was because the vaccine had been developed safely back in 2003 for the SARS epidemic. That disease burned out before vaccines became available but research continued allowing for the remarkable achievement of having a vaccine ready for clinical use and safety within a year of the COVID virus being identified.
What is true about the benefits of the mRNA vaccine is this: against the original China Wuhan strain it showed a staggering 95% protection against the infection. Of course with the new OMICRON variant it’s efficacy has waned, but new data proves that when boosters are added it still shows 95% effectiveness against death from COVID-19. Proof in the USA, the vaccine saved more than 1 million lives as of November 2021.
What is fortunate about this virus is the relative lack of severity and death in children. With current evidence the greatest severity is in older people. Infected individuals over age 75 are 20 times more to be hospitalized and 200 times more likely to die from it compared to people 19 to 29 years old. But what if children suffered more? No doubt if similar mortality affected them the effects on society would have been catastrophic and the Freedom Trucker convoy would likely not have taken place. Look back to the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1918-19, Spanish Flu, that notoriously struck down the very young and those in the prime of their lives. Back then as high as 100 million deaths occurred, with peak influenza deaths at age 28 and under age 5. Goods given immunity definitely did not work for them.
Obviously the Freedom Trucker convoy is expressing outright hostility and opposition to the vaccine. It should be noted that in the past where immunization rates have dropped rates of disease and deaths have often increased. For example, in Ireland where they dropped measles immunization in 2000, the disease incidence went from 148 cases when vaccinating in 1999 to 1,200 cases when unvaccinated plus many more deaths of children.
There are lessons to be learned here as the next pandemic may be worse and cause more harm to children. So what do we do? We need to carry on with public health infrastructure in Canada and the world. Unlike the Freedom Trucker convoy protest we must follow anti-virus protocol and scale up, not down, for the next pandemic. We need to invest in novel treatments, vaccine development, pathogen sequencing and outbreak surveillance as we have done up to now. We need to ensure that PPE and masking is maintained and ready to be deployed again when necessary. Plus reinforce our healthcare workforce.
Getting back to the bizarre Freedom Trucker statement that “God Given Immunity Works Best” it's false as historically pandemics kill many, especially children, but vaccination saves many many more!
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The lines from the edge of the pond lead nicely into the structure while the unfinished barn itself looks like something that just does not belong. Almost colorless, in need of support, not of nature, incomplete, it appears out of place. But does't that just describe many things that are somehow, out of place or in need of "support".