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Master Sgt. James Girardo secures a 30-foot trailer to the floor of a C-17 Globemaster III July 26, 2013, at the Coast Guard Air Station Miami, Fla. Girardo is participating in Warrior Exercise 86-13-01/Exercise Global Medic 2013. WAREX provides units an opportunity to rehearse military maneuvers and tactics. Global Medic is an annual joint-field training exercise, held in conjunction with WAREX,designed to replicate all aspects of theater combat medical support. Girardo is assigned to the 67th Aerial Port Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez)
Here's my xp desktop at work - I'm a client servicing executive at an ad agency and handle a number of clients.
I wanted to able to keep my desktop clean, yet have my lists of tasks for each client visible. I created an overlay for wallpapers in Photoshop (download it here - snipurl.com/3u6r5). I then added my wallpaper of choice as the layer beneath that, and voila. Instant GTD goodness!
Post-it notes: Stickies (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/)
I've also set my taskbar to auto-hide, and am using RocketDock with the Stacks docklet to reduce clutter.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 1st Class Jiyhouh Ly, assigned to Commander, Task Group 56.1, EOD Mobile Unit 12, reenlists under water during a training dive with the Jordanian Royal Navy for Exercise Eager Lion 2017. Eager Lion is an annual U.S. Central Command exercise in Jordan designed to strengthen military-to- military relationships between the U.S., Jordan and other international partners. This year's iteration is comprised of about 7,200 military personnel from more than 20 nations that will respond to scenarios involving border security, command and control, cyber defense and battlespace management. (U.S. Navy Combat Camera photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Austin L. Simmons)
"So as we talked about this, the conversation shifted to discussing the mechanics of all relationships, in particular collaboration and crowdsourcing where people work together to accomplish an assigned task. In essence, what makes crowd-sourcing work? Why do people do it? What are the unseen connections between the sea of individuals who do?" - Cult of the Crowd
Read more at - cultofthecrowd.com/post/5386708994/currency
A UH-60 Blackhawk pilot from the North Carolina Army National Guard assigned to Task Force Guardian conducts preflight checks at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov. 4, 2012. Task Force Guardian is assisting with the movement of the National Urban Search and Rescue task force teams from JB MDL to storm damaged areas in New York and New Jersey. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres/Released)
Members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR) conduct an insertion extraction with the Latvian search and rescue helicopter during EXERCISE Summer Shield XII in Adazi, Latvia on March 27, 2015.
Photo: Land Task Element, DND
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Des membres du 3e Bataillon du Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR) pratiquent des techniques d’insertion et d’extraction à l’aide de l’hélicoptère de recherche et sauvetage letton au cours de l’exercice Summer Shield XII, à Adazi, en Lettonie, le 27 mars 2015.
Photo : Élément opérationnel terrestre, MDN
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Too much time playing MW2 and too little time for LEGOs, and this is the result. This guy is from Task force 141. The gun is ACR
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Every spot visit was optimally time-bound in our whole 8-day conducted tour. So I had to take snaps as much as possible to tell you a story of my visit. It was really a laborious task to cover as many elements as possible within that short span of time. This is for the reason I utilized every opportunities I could avail...like majorities of my landscape photographs were taken from our running bus, and I really enjoyed it to do so.
This is a series of photographs representing the rich cultural heritage of native Indians of North America. My whole effort will not go to vane if you really like and appreciate this small effort of mine.
About the Monument
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski. It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
The memorial master plan includes the mountain carving monument, an Indian Museum of North America, and a Native American Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain, on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. The sculpture's final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet wide and 563 feet high. The head of Crazy Horse will be 87 feet high; by comparison, the heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mount Rushmore are each 60 feet high.
The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is far from completion. If completed, it may become the world's largest sculpture.
[ Custer City- is generally considered to be the oldest town established by European Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Gold was found there during the 1874 Black Hills Expedition, conducted by the 7th Cavalry led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, a discovery which initiated the Black Hills Gold Rush.
For thousands of years, the Black Hills had been part of the territory of varying tribes of indigenous peoples. They were within historical territory of the Oglala Sioux at the time of United States encounter, and within the Great Sioux Reservation established by the US Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). Having established dominance in the area by the eighteenth century, the Oglala Sioux had long considered the Black Hills as sacred land]
Who was Crazy Horse?
Crazy Horse was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people. His most famous actions against the U.S. military included the Fetterman Fight (21 December 1866) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25–26 June 1876). He surrendered to U.S. troops under General Crook in May 1877 and was fatally wounded by a military guard, while allegedly resisting imprisonment. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in 1982 with a 13¢ postage stamp that is part of its Great Americans series.
History of the monument
Korczak Ziolkowski and Henry Standing Bear.
Henry Standing Bear ("Mato Naji"), an Oglala Lakota chief, and well-known statesman and elder in the Native American community, recruited and commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to build the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In October 1931, Luther Standing Bear, Henry's older brother, wrote sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who was carving the heads of four American presidents at Mount Rushmore. Luther suggested that it would be "most fitting to have the face of Crazy Horse sculpted there. Crazy Horse is the real patriot of the Sioux tribe and the only one worthy to place by the side of Washington and Lincoln." Borglum never replied. Thereafter, Henry Standing Bear began a campaign to have Borglum carve an image of Crazy Horse on Mt. Rushmore. In summer of 1935, Standing Bear, frustrated over the stalled Crazy Horse project, wrote to James H. Cook, a long time friend of Chief Red Cloud's "I am struggling hopelessly with this because I am without funds, no employment and no assistance from any Indian or White."
On November 7, 1939, Henry Standing Bear wrote to the Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked on Mount Rushmore under Gutzon Borglum. He informed the sculptor, "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes, too." Standing Bear also wrote a letter to Undersecretary Oscar Chapman of the Department of the Interior, offering all his own fertile 900 acres (365 ha) in exchange for the barren mountain for the purpose of paying honor to Crazy Horse. The government responded positively, and the National Forest Service, responsible for the land, agreed to grant a permit for the use of the land, with a commission to oversee the project. Standing Bear chose not to seek government funds and relied instead upon influential Americans interested in the welfare of the American Indian to privately fund the project.
In the spring of 1940, Ziolkowski spent three weeks with Standing Bear at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, discussing land ownership issues and learning about Crazy Horse and the Lakota way of life. According to Ziolkowski, "Standing Bear grew very angry when he spoke of the broken Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). That was the one I'd read about in which the President promised the Black Hills would belong to the Indians forever. I remember how his old eyes flashed out of that dark mahogany face, then he would shake his head and fall silent for a long while."
Memorial foundation
The memorial is a non-profit undertaking, and receives no federal or state funding. The Memorial Foundation charges fees for its visitor centers and earns revenue from its gift shops. Ziolkowski reportedly was offered US$10 million for the project from the federal government on two occasions, but he turned the offers down. He felt the project was more than just a mountain carving, and he feared that his plans for the broader educational and cultural goals of the memorial would be overturned by federal involvement.
After Ziolkowski died in 1982 at age 74, his widow Ruth Ziolkowski, took charge of the sculpture, overseeing work on the project as CEO from the 1980s to the 2010s. Ruth Ziolkowski decided to focus on the completion of Crazy Horse's face first, instead of the horse as her husband had originally planned.[13] She believed that Crazy Horse's face, once completed, would increase the sculpture's draw as a tourist attraction, which would provide additional funding. She also oversaw the staff, which included seven of her children.
Sixteen years later, in 1998, the face of Crazy Horse was completed and dedicated.
Ruth Ziolkowski died 21 May 2014, aged 87. Monique Ziolkowski, Ruth's daughter, became CEO and three of her siblings continue to work on the project, as well as three of Monique's nephews.
Completed vision
The memorial is to be the centerpiece of an educational/cultural center, to include a satellite campus of the University of South Dakota, with a classroom building and residence hall, made possible by a US$2.5 million donation in 2007 from T. Denny Sanford, a philanthropist from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is called the University and Medical Training Center for the North American Indian and the Indian Museum of North America. The current visitor complex will anchor the center. Sanford also donated US$5 million to the memorial, to be paid US$1 million a year for five years as matching donations were raised, specifically to further work on the horse's head.
Controversies
Crazy Horse resisted being photographed and was deliberately buried where his grave would not be found. Ziolkowski envisioned the monument as a metaphoric tribute to the spirit of Crazy Horse and Native Americans. He reportedly said, "My lands are where my dead lie buried." His extended hand on the monument is to symbolize that statement.
Cadet Captain William Goodwin assumes command of the Cadet Basic Training Regiment, 20 July. His first official act as Commander of Task Force Zilinski was New Cadet Visitation Day.
(Photos by: John Pellino/ DPTMS VI)
BALTIMORE - The U.S. Marshals Service and task force partners conducted Operation Bless Baltimore is a large-scale, public safety initiative charged with operationalizing community policing strategies across all levels of government within the area of Baltimore. The U.S. Marshals Service partnered with federal, state, and local officials to support the Feds Feed Families (FFF) food drive and local charities via the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Additionally, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force provided operational support for the public safety partnership. In September 2022, the District of Maryland’s Silver Shield community-oriented policing unit
formed this partnership between the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore County Police Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore Police Department, and Maryland State Police.
“Our nation was founded on the concept that the government receives its power from the people and that the government works for the people,” said Johnny L. Hughes, U.S. Marshal for the District of Maryland.
“We embrace community policing because it aligns with the fundamental principles of our democracy. By taking care of each other, we give everyone hope.”
“The Baltimore Police Department is proud to partner with the U.S. Marshals Service and our state and federal partners in supporting Operation Bless Baltimore,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. “We know that this community policing-led initiative helped in building relationships with law enforcement and our communities, and also enhanced the lives of those
who benefited from these efforts.”
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott and U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron provided the collective support of their offices. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Secret Service provided substantial support for the initiative.
“Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers in Maryland never stop caring, whether they are performing public safety services or gathering food, clothing, and toys for those in need,” said Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III. “Operation Bless Baltimore is a great example of the ongoing commitment of our public safety family to help others.”
Over the course of 90 days, the interagency partnership collected/donated over 10,000 pounds of sustenance, over $8,000 worth of clothing, and more than $7,000 worth of toys to help improve the lives of citizens from underserved communities throughout the area of Baltimore. As part of the joint problem-solving initiative, the interagency-community partnership reviewed public safety concerns facing local citizens. Working in partnership with the Baltimore Police
Department and other local officials, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force launched Operation Ignite the Light to serve as an enforcement component of Operation Bless Baltimore. During the final two weeks of the 90-day operation, the U.S. Marshals Service and law enforcement partners addressed
threats to the community by apprehending 68 violent offenders, recovering three firearms, and seizing dangerous drugs including heroin and cocaine.
“Through coordination and partnership, thousands of pounds of food, clothing, and toys have
been collected for Marylanders in need and 68 violent offenders have been arrested,” said U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron. “Law enforcement will continue to support the community, while we also hold accountable those who commit violent crimes.”
Operation Ignite the Light was conducted in support of Operation Bless Baltimore. Participants of the two-week enforcement initiative include: Annapolis Police Department, Anne Arundel County Police Department, Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore County Police Department, ATF, Carroll
County Sheriff’s Office, Cecil County Sheriff’s Office, FBI, Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, Frederick Police Department, Howard County Police Department, Howard County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Service, Division of Parole & Probation, Maryland State Police, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, and Westminster Police Department.
Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals
To cross high mountain ranges was a very dangerous task in medieval times. It is no surprise that Romanesque churches (or the remains) line the old pass-routes in the Pyrenees as well as in the Alpes. These were places to pray before the final approach and places to thank for having accomplished the task.
Sant Joan de Caselles, erected within the 11th century, is exactly next to the old trail, that today is the main road, running south/north through the "Principality of Andorra". So by now this is a major tourist stop. The architecture reminds on churches in the Vall de Boí (150kms east),
Since medieval times, Andorra is a co-principality with the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell, as co-princes. The original title holders on the French side were the Counts of Foix, later the title was transferred to the French King, so after the Revolution the President inherited it.
If only Hipstamatic had a film with this frame but in color, I'd be such a happy camper.... (Though strictly speaking, this isn't a true B&W film; it just has very, VERY low saturation...you can see a hint of color in Bloodgood's coat though.)
IOIO 2018
Designed by Peter Stein (Germany)
Marcelo Arispe-Guzman (USA)
No time to shape well, so just simply clean folded.
Competitors thermalling on the final Task (5) day out west of Mt Borah. The lift was weak, so the gaggles were tight at times, especially after Task windows opened.
Task Force Red Dragon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, receive end-of-tour awards September 2022, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. The awards recognize task for Soldiers for their accomplishments over their nine-month deployment to the Horn of Africa.
I bundle them by chapter. I put new post-it as chapter name. They will be used for writing PoIC manual.
Chaos to cosmos. This is how to reduce entropy (randomness) of the system.
Main body of Task Force Kitgum moves into Life Support Area Fist
By Spc. Jason Nolte
KITGUM, Uganda – Weeks of hard work have come to a head for the advanced and torch parties for Natural Fire 10 as the main body moved from Entebbe to Kitgum and into the new home on Life Support Area (LSA) Fist on Pajimo Barracks.
The heat of the day was broken by a strong breeze as the first group arrived by CH-47 Chinooks. They quickly carried the baggage to waiting cargo handlers, then loaded onto separate buses for transportation to the reception point.
The joint forces assigned to Task Force Kitgum as part of Combined Joint Task Force Lion were met at the reception point by 1st Sgt. Devika Hull, Task Force S-1 from the 560th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.
“Accountability,” Hull explains the reason everyone had to sign in, “Makes sure everyone is where they’re supposed to be.”
After signing in, the incoming troops were given a brief on the rules of the LSA by Cpt. Ramlakhan, Command, 5th Quartermaster Company, who had previously helped guide the helicopters in. Once oriented, the incoming troops were shown to their new berths in the surrounding tents.
“It went well,” Hull says, “21st TSC (Theater Sustainment Command) had a well laid out plan. Capt. Ramlakhan met them at the flight line and stayed with them the whole time.”
Lt. Col. Michael Cortez, Commander, 21st TSC Special Troops Battalion explains the roll of the 21st TSC, “We were responsible, both in Entebbe with the HRSC-E (Human Resources Sustainment Center – Europe) and here with the 5th Quartermaster, for Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration of hundreds of soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen.”
Later in the evening, after darkness had fallen in rural Uganda, a line of buses rolled up the dirt roads leading to the LSA, bringing the second group of troops in for the day. Filling up the tents and filling up the Task Force in order to complete its mission.
Natural Fire 10 is a routine, scheduled training exercise which offers an opportunity for East African Community Partner Nations and the US military to work together on a humanitarian assistance mission. Working together all parties will learn from each other to increase regional capabilities to respond to complex humanitarian emergencies.
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091015-A-1211N-115 Troops from Task Force Kitgum unload their baggage from a CH-47 Chinook, Kitgum, Uganda, Oct. 15, 2009. (US Army photo by Spc. Jason Nolte)
091015-A-1211N-122 Troops from Task Force Kitgum unload their baggage from a CH-47 Chinook, Kitgum, Uganda, Oct. 15, 2009. (US Army photo by Spc. Jason Nolte)