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Thousands packed into the city centre of Glasgow today for a demonstration in support of Scottish independence and the end of austerity. The festival atmosphere and a forest of Saltires took over George Square as an estimated 8000 people attended the Hope Over Fear rally, the socialist independence campaign.
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Powerful storms swept through the suburbs last night, knocking down trees and leaving people without power.
Huntley was one of the hardest hit areas, where winds reached 70 mph, ABC 7 Chicago is reporting.
ABC 7 reports there are downed trees and branches down in yards and in roads. The high winds also damaged power lines.
Thousands of people are without power near Huntley, Cary and Algonquin, ComEd reports.
Restoration times in those areas are unknown.
About 65,000 ComEd customers were reportedly without power immediately following the storms, according to a ComEd spokesman.
Huntley police are also asking drivers to avoid Route 47 due to a power outage causing traffic signal failures at several intersections, ABC 7 is reporting.
Trees and power lines were reported down in Libertyville, Mundelein and Gurnee, Aurora, Villa Park and Algonquin, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.
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In Toronto, the Ontario Sikhs and Gurdwaras Council (OSGC) organized an annual parade along Lakeshore Blvd. This is the third largest parade in Canada and attracts thousands of participants and spectators each year.
It was the 31st annual Khalsa Day celebration and parade – which celebrates the Sikh New Year, more than 85,000 people took part to downtown Toronto this Sunday, April 24,2016.
The parade began at Exhibition Place and ended at Nathan Phillips Square.
Khalsa Day, also known as Vaisakhi, celebrates the Sikh new year and the founding of the Khalsa order of Sikhism. It is considered one of the largest parades in Canada.
No one went hungry. Hundreds of people lining the route offered free food and drink to all passersby, known as Langar, or free kitchen.
The parade included traditional music and drumming. A sea of bright turbans and clothing were seen.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory also attended the event.
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Mississippi State University opened the 2009 baseball season tonight with an 8-1 victory over Northern Illinois University. This was the first game under new head coach, John Cohen, who replaced baseball icon Ron Polk as head coach of the Diamond Dogs.
This is Senior catcher Scott DeLoach driving one deep late in the game.
I also chose the title since this happens to the the 1,000th photo that I've uploaded to Flickr.
An estimated 1,000 runners and 3,000 guests braved record temperatures Sept. 23 at the College of DuPage Glen Ellyn campus to sample fare from local food truck vendors and raise funds for the COD student scholarships at the 2017 Food Truck Rally and Sunset 5K.
Thousands of alumni came home to Hanover for a fun fall weekend October 6–7, 2017. Highlights included the traditional parade, Dartmouth Night festivities, and bonfire, along with Baker Tower Tours, a panel on Thayer's innovative approach to entrepreneurship, and more.
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Thousands join to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe
Story and photos by Andrew Junker | March 15, 2010 | The Catholic Sun
An unusual sight met passersby in downtown Phoenix Dec. 4.
A seemingly endless line of men, women and children snaked through the city’s streets. They wore colorful clothing; some had masks on or loud metal tappers attached to their shoes.
They danced and sang and honored Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast day they were celebrating. All told, more than 4,000 people from 80 different groups joined in the procession that ended at an altar set up in the street facing St. Mary’s Basilica.
Bishops Thomas J. Olmsted and Eduardo A. Nevares stood before the altar and blessed all those who walked and danced by. It took more than an hour for the procession to end.
“There were some powerful symbols evident,” said Armando Ruiz of this year’s Honor Your Mother event, which culminated with a Mass where Bishop Nevares gave the homily.
Ruiz — who helps plan the celebration — saw a coming together of the whole diocese at the event. St. Mark, a predominantly Hispanic parish, and St. Theresa, which is predominantly Anglo, sponsored this year’s Honor Your Mother, which in itself is a symbol of the power of Our Lady, Ruiz said.
“The whole idea that you had Hispanic and non-Hispanic parishes coming together to celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe as a patroness of the diocese,” he said, “she’s that hope of bringing diverse groups together as she did when she first came 500 years ago.”
Bishop Olmsted said something similar as Mass began.
“We are all children of God today, grateful for the way Mary inspires us to bring the great news of her Son to everyone we meet,” he said.
Ruiz was also pleased with how many people participated in the procession — the event’s largest yet — and by the traditions and practices those marchers celebrated.
“Most of the dances and the costumes were indigenous and Bishop Nevares, when he spoke, talked about that,” Ruiz said. “They remained true to those long-time traditions, and as they’ve come to this country, they shouldn’t abandon those traditions of faith for what can sometimes be materialistic or non-faith promises of this society.”
Bishop Nevares delivered his homily in both Spanish and English. He began with a brief explanation of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
“The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is so powerful because we see Mary, the conqueror of all the Aztec pagan gods. She is the bridge between the Aztec culture and the Catholic faith.”
Likewise, the bishop encouraged the congregation to turn to Mary and leave behind all the distractions that modern society offer: cell phones, the Internet, iPods.
“There are so many distractions that take us away from our life of prayer. We need to get back to praying in our family, to praying individually, to praying the rosary,” Bishop Nevares said.
It’s from this devoted prayer life that men and women can find their vocations, he added, and asked the congregation where they thought priests come from.
“Do they fall down from the sky?” he pointed above his head. “No. They come from your families.”
As Christ told the Apostle John from the cross that Mary was his mother and that John was her son, so too should Catholics live out that familial relationship, the bishop said.
“As the disciple took Mary into his care, each of us is invited to take Mary into our home and into our heart. Let us accept her and love her as our heavenly mother.”
Ruiz said that the homily — like the entire Honor Your Mother celebration — helps prepare local Catholics for a new evangelization.
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Thousands of spectators flock to 17th St in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, to watch costumed drag queens show off their elaborate outfits and race down 17th Street.
The DC Drag Queen Race is one of the Washington, DC area’s more unique Halloween events that has taken place annually since 1986, when a couple of drag queens challenged each other to see who could race from JR's Bar to Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, where they would down a shot, and then race back.
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Yummy thousand island dressing recipe from Dangerously Delishh-- pairs perfectly with homemade Reubens : Thousand Island Dressing with Paprika
Thousands of Kenyans, Somalis and Ethiopians are forced to take long arduous journeys in search of survival, as the Horn of Africa experiences the worst drought in 60 years.
Unfortunately, flickr just doesn't do panoramic photos justice. Go large anyhow.
Last summer, I posted a shot smilar to this one. However, as I was going through my photos. I found that I had shot a panoramic of this. A photo will never compare to standing there. I am anxious for it to stop raining so I can go hiking on something other than lowland hikes. If I could guess, I would say this location is about 30 miles south of the Canadian border. Yet still, if you look closely, you can see Mount Ranier in the upper right corner.
I think you call this outside shell an exoskeleton but I will be corrected if it is wrong. It is common to find the old cicada shells on logs and trees and posts. One photo here was on a tree, the other on a post.
I discovered today that the cicadas in this region I went to are quite large. I found a few dead ones, probably because of a storm, and photographed one, but those photos can be posted next time.
There were many thousands alive making a terrible racket and peeing on me too.
Expensive unit, but rock hard. Can take a charge of Vanguards and stand firm. Love them for it.
More psyker goodness twisting time to suit his needs.
The rather unorthodox colour scheme was a result of me wanting to tie them in with my Iron Warrior army, whilst still keeping the blue and gold colours of the Thousand Sons. Hence this. It's just Chainmail washed with Asurman Blue.
Thousands of university, college and school students – joined by workers – are marching in London and Manchester against Tory cuts to education, fee rises and attacks on jobs and services.
The revolution in Tunisia and uprising in Egypt have clearly inspired the marches. Marchers have chanted, “Egypt, Egypt everywhere.”
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Aisha, an FE student from Camden in north London said, “I’ve been on all the demonstrations, but some of my friends are here who haven’t been out on the protests before.
“I like the slogan ‘This is only the beginning’, because it’s going to be a long fight against this government.”
Theo, a school student from south east London, took part in the Day X walkouts last year. He said, “Lots of people who want to go to university won’t be able to and people will definitely be affected by the cuts to EMA [Education Maintenance Allowance]. The government is making the wrong people pay – the bankers are getting hundreds of thousands in bonuses.”
For workers, the student protests have been an inspiration.
A GMB rep joining the protest in London said, “I’m here to show solidarity with the students. I’ve got a daughter who has just gone through university and there is no way she would have been able to afford £9,000 a year fees.
“I’m also here to say that I don’t believe in these cuts. We’ve got to stick together workers and students. I think that the TUC demo on the 26 March can give people confidence to fight.”
UCU lecturer Vicky Margree works at the University of Brighton. She said, “We face 100 percent cut in arts and humanities funding which will hit universities hard. And the new fees will make university unaffordable for the majority of people.”
Kelly Rogers, a Unison organiser, said, “Unless we show solidarity with younger people we may as well give up. Students have led the way and enthused workers, showing us how to fight.”
Solidarity with the Egyptian uprising
In London the mood was electric as up to a thousand students joined the many hundreds of people already protesting in solidarity with the Egyptian people outside the embassy off Park Lane.
Chants of “Solidarity, solidarity,” “London and Cairo unite and fight” and “Hey ho Mubarak has to go” are ringing through the air.
One man on the original protest said, “I can’t believe that all these young people have come to support us. This makes us feel even stronger. I can’t wait to send the pictures of all you British people who have come to support us to people back home.”
Before reaching the embassy, the protest stopped outside the Tory HQ at Millbank – a focus of student anger and protests last year – as students chanted, “Tory scum, here we come.”
Follow this link for live reports from Egypt with Judith Orr reporting from Cairo www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=23731
Thousand Pillar hall of Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple was built with the oldest Nellaiappar Temple, Tirunelveli as a model. The Aayiram Kaal Mandapam or Thousand Pillar Hall contains 985 (instead of 1000) carved pillars. It is considered culturally important and is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India. The Thousand Pillared Hall was built by Ariyanatha Mudaliar in 1569[3]. He was the Prime Minister and General of Viswanatha Nayak of the first Nayaka of Madurai (1559-1600 A.D.). He was also the founder of Poligar System, the quasi-feudal organization of the country, which was divided into multiple palayams or small provinces and each palayam was ruled by a palayakkarar or a petty chief[4]. At the entrance of the Mandapam, we can still see his statue; the majestic pose of Ariyanatha Mudaliar seated on a beautiful horse-back which flanks one side of the entrance to the temple. The statue is still periodically crowned with garlands by modern worshippers[3]. Each pillar is carved and is a monument of the Dravidian sculpture. There is a Temple Art Museum in the hall where icons, photographs, drawings, and other exhibits of the 1200 years old history are displayed. Just outside this mandapam, towards the west, are the Musical Pillars. Each pillar, when struck, produces a different musical note. The kalyana mandapa, to the south of the pillared hall, is where the marriage of Shiva and Parvati is celebrated every year during the Chithirai Festival in mid-April.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
Labor Day Festival 2012
Thousands take part as Area I says so long to summer
By Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Troth
jefferey.l.troth.mil@mail.mil
CAMP CASEY, South Korea – Warrior Country put work on hold Aug. 31 to celebrate Labor Day with a festival on Camp Casey. Almost 5,000 Soldiers, civilians and family members took part in the annual event.
“The Labor Day Festival is the culmination of summer and to recognize that everyone has been working really hard,” said Chris Bradford, director of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I’s Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.
“We started the festival with a parade,” he said. “It was a chance to get everyone to walk together and have the typical things you see in a parade – clowns, people on stilts and floats.”
The floats were part of a competition between Area I units, who were vying not only for bragging rights but also prize money for their unit funds.
First place went to Battery B, 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment, 210th Fires Brigade, a $300 gain for their unit.
“Their float was pretty cool,” said Bradford. “It was a little, camouflaged, Pinto-type automobile decorated like an MLRS,” or Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Second place went to 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment’s “Keep Up the Fire” float.
The parade led everyone to the Gateway Club, venue for the bulk of the Labor Day Festival.
In the carnival area were food, games and rides for the festival-goers as well as a petting zoo and craft items for sale.
On stage was a varied mix of entertainment – Korean bagpipers and drummers, dancers, singers.
And there were tests of skill: a chili cook-off, a hot dog-eating contest and a talent competition.
“The festival was a blast,” said Helena Ratzlaff Bauer, who attended the festival. “There were a lot of rides and booths and animals, and a lot of people told me they were grateful that their kids could take part in all these activities.”
“We wanted make it something you would see back in the states,” Bradford said. “But, being here in Korea we wanted to be able to give a taste of the local culture, so that is why we had traditional drummers and the dancers.”
“The cultural dancing was great and they need to continue to have things like that at future events,” said Capt. Travis Coates, who was at the festival with his 9-year-old daughter, Trinity.
During the Labor Day Festival, 18 cooks got to show off their cooking talents during the chili cook-off. Each participant had three hours to make chili from scratch.
“There was no canned chili out there,” said Bradford, who like everyone else at the festival was free to sample the chilies.
“The contest brought some real heavy competition and of course something that seems to be a theme with any chili lover is that they want it hot,” he said. “I had the privilege of watching the judges sweat, and burn their taste buds.”
Gabriel Clinton’s chili impressed the judges enough to give him first place in the cook off, while John Smith came in a close second. Marie Shultz’s chili earned her the crowd favorite award.
04.09 -- photo by Longtower Photography --At the 31st annual Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K, thousands of runners, joggers and walkers made their way through the tunnel to New York City and back to help raise more than $170K for Special Olympics New Jersey!
Washington DC, January 20, 2017. Tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States Of America.
02.22 -- Photo by Rudy Milan -- The Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside Heights brought together over 8,000 plungers, thousands of spectators, and hundreds of volunteers who helped raise more than $2.3 million for Special Olympics New Jersey athletes.
© 2012 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
A low cloud cover meant that the sun would really never burst forth on this early morning. But for a brief window of perhaps less than ten minutes, the sun was at a low enough angle to send fire into the clouds, giving me a sky full of color and nuance. Dawn was supressed, but not beauty. I enjoyed the mixed of cool and warm tones that gave this image mood and beauty.
Technical info: Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS, Single RAW image tonemapped in Photomatix Pro and processed through Adobe Lightroom 4.
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An estimated 1,000 runners and 3,000 guests braved record temperatures Sept. 23 at the College of DuPage Glen Ellyn campus to sample fare from local food truck vendors and raise funds for the COD student scholarships at the 2017 Food Truck Rally and Sunset 5K.
Thousands of alumni came home to Hanover for a fun fall weekend October 6–7, 2017. Highlights included the traditional parade, Dartmouth Night festivities, and bonfire, along with Baker Tower Tours, a panel on Thayer's innovative approach to entrepreneurship, and more.
(Photos by Jeff Woodward)
Tens of thousands of people lined the entire parade route for "Pride in London 2015" as it progressed down Oxford St, Regent St. before ending at Trafalgar Square.
This location is named Laufskálavördur. There we can find thousands of cairns made in decades or hundred of years by travellers. It was a sign of luck if you made one, before you crossed the deserted sand named Myrdalssandur in south Iceland. Faschinating place in my mind. This photo was taken in heavy rain and fog two weeks ago.