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A small but lively crowd of activists gathered at the Torch of Friendship this First of May, 2012 years after the birth of the Nazarene Revolutionary. Though small, this is likely the most energy that's been stomped on the brick mosaic of this plaza, one of the few accessible public spaces of our South Floridian metropolis, at least since the 2003 rallies against the technocratic imperialists negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas in November of 2003. On that occasion, our city deemed the event so important that it spent millions of dollars suiting itself up for the occasion, bringing down officers from around the state and suiting them all up in the appropriate S&M attire and instructing them to bash heads. Our radical community, itself a novelty, withdrew into either hush-activism or fashionable apathy. There were some excepceptions of note, but none of them advertised their theoretical stances. Perhaps it had not all been the effect of such theatrical repression as we saw displayed in 2003, perhaps the Bush years threw all this country's radical base into some underground catacomb.
It would be quite some time until black and red flags flew again, atop proud waving arms under the sun of Miami. Coming straight out of a union rally at Jackson Hospital, where a well rehearsed line up of organizers and community leaders walked a tight rope to make grandiloquent promises about our hospital, without ever speaking one agitational word on how this should be done. As far as the crowd was concerned, Saint Obama re elected would resurrect our social services. There were no hand made flags therem but balloons and meal bags and a security perimeter around the stage. The mood here at the Torch was in stark contrast to the air of officialdom that had clung to me at Jackson Hospital.
Sadly, the demands of my comrads, gathered here to celebrate International Workers Day, to protect our social services and respect our working class depend on the type of popular support that the unions are so good at gathering. Yet the unions see our radicals as an ineffectual annoyance, while the latter view the former with such suspicion as to have made a united action an impossibility. Electric as it was, May Day 2012 in Miami, our march would not be flying the banner of a united front.
It was to be, nonetheless, on of the most notable event in our recent history. Socialists and Anarchists, Feminists and Occupiers, Progressives from the Green Party, Marxists from the Socialist Workers Party, Intermediate Level organizers of a wide spectrum of left views, all of whom had at some point or another found good reason to diss and curse their comrads, all of whom were either called or called an ersthwile ally a "splitter" in furious debate, all of who were now showing unprecedented unity in their desire to launch something like the wet dream of a Radical Progressive Rennaissance to overthrow the obscurantism reigining in our tricounty swamp.
Once a Superfund site, Torch Lake's enormous stamp sands have now been "capped" and the area is no longer the threat it once was. Millions of tons of the stuff still lines the bottom of the lake to tens of hundreds of feet though, wrecking any chance of the lake becoming healthy for quite some time.
Photo taken from a camera suspended from a kite - kite aerial photography, or KAP for short.
President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in the London 2012 Torch Relay on Thursday 26 July. Mr. Chernyshenko carried the Olympic Flame in the center of London, starting in the City of Westminster, and finishing on Westbourne Street
16/06/2012 The Olympic torch in Mowbray Park Sunderland. What I like about this shot is it shows people running behind the torch as well.
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Proposal for a restaurant, 2014.
The building is designed as a narrative of constant negotiations between boundaries, between building an identity and living in resonance with the local natural environment. It offers a unique merging with the sea while positioning itself in such a manner that prevents the noise and unwanted views from neighbor objects as well as from the always crowded pedestrian promenade. At the same time, it is imagined as an object in a state of continuous semi-permanence, always ready to be disassembled in order to emerge somewhere else.
Io.Oikonomou, I.Milosevic
Budva, Montenegro, 2014.
Majors Andrew and Lori Richards (Devonport Morice Town) and their daughter Ele get hold of an Olympic Torch as they prepare to serve the public and emergency services on The Hoe at Plymouth
I managed to snap this picture of this former one room schoolhouse as we rode through the town of Torch Lake during the annual Ride Around Torch Lake ride.
Chris Bury's Olympic Torch Relay, representing Kent Scouts and selected for his contribution to the charity.
The cauldron from which the Olympic flame burnt during the 1992 Olympic Games.
The Barcelona Olympic area was originally meant for the 1936 ‘People’s Games’, which were due to held as an alternative to the Berlin Games held by the Nazis that year.
Those games were cancelled when Civil War kicked off, but the games were eventually returned to the city in 1992.
The Olympic are – or Olympic Ring – is made up of the main athletics stadium as well as the swimming pool and the Palau Sant Jordi arena and a huge open plaza in the middle.
We saw this gorgeous exotic plant in the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project.
Facts:
Rhizomatous perennial herb up to 6m tall. Leaves up to 85cm long, flushed purple when young, leathery with a central groove. Collections of flowers (inflorescences) grow at end of stalk, bracts spreading, deep pink with paler margin, floral bracts smaller, pink and fleshy. Fruiting heads measure 10x10cm, with each individual fruit hairy and green-red.
Pollinated mainly by spiderhunter birds. Grown throughout tropical South East Asia for the spectacular flowers and for food. The stems of the flowers are chopped up and added to curries or soups with rice noodles.
This is quite a large, spectacular flower, growing in the Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo.
"Now cultivated throughout the tropics, torch ginger is thought to be native to Indonesia, Malaysia and southern Thailand (via Flora of China), though other sites suggest a native distribution restricted to a few islands in Indonesia. Whatever its origin, widescale planting of Etlingera elatior has made torch ginger the hallmark species of this genus of approximately 70 species. That's a very loose approximation, because researcher Dr. Axel Dalberg Poulsen reports that Borneo alone contains 29 species...." Information taken, with thanks, from the UBC Botany Photo of the Day website for May 31, 2007.
The sun shone as thousands of people turned out to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Knowsley.
The iconic Flame arrived at Knowsley Safari Park to be welcomed by around 6,000 people at a free event for the community.
It was carried in by local teenager Claudia Dowdeswell and passed onto the next Torch bearer, Jane Campbell who completed the circuit of the Park.
The Torch bearers were surrounded by officers from the Metropolitan Police whose duty it is to protect the Flame throughout the national Relay.
Mike Dooling, who’d been a teacher in Knowsley for 40 years, brought the Torch he’d carried a few days before on the Relay in Tatton Park.
Crowds gathered around him to see the Torch and many got the chance to hold it, including Knowsley Mayor and Mayoress Cllr Norman and Wendy Hogg.
Around forty different community groups were also represented with stalls and stands and local people performed at the Park’s Moment to Shine stage.
To cheers and flag waving, the Torch convoy then moved onto Liverpool Road where the Relay began again.
It was carried through Huyton and out into Liverpool, cheered on by crowds, ten deep in places, who’d turned out to be part of the Olympic excitement.
One of the torchbearers was 16 year old Joe Shaw, from Kirkby, who was chosen because of his charity work for the disabled and the wider community.
“This was a great day for Knowsley,” said Cllr Eddie Connor, Knowsley’s cabinet member for Leisure, Community and Culture.
“It was so exciting and great to see so many people turning out to be a part of it. They were all cheering and waving flags. It was really something.
“The Torch Relay has made it possible for the whole of Britain to share in the spirit of the Games.”
To see pictures of the event at Knowsley Safari Park and the Torch Relay through Knowsley go to www.flickr.com/photos/knowsleycouncil
The sun shone as thousands of people turned out to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Knowsley.
The iconic Flame arrived at Knowsley Safari Park to be welcomed by around 6,000 people at a free event for the community.
It was carried in by local teenager Claudia Dowdeswell and passed onto the next Torch bearer, Jane Campbell who completed the circuit of the Park.
The Torch bearers were surrounded by officers from the Metropolitan Police whose duty it is to protect the Flame throughout the national Relay.
Mike Dooling, who’d been a teacher in Knowsley for 40 years, brought the Torch he’d carried a few days before on the Relay in Tatton Park.
Crowds gathered around him to see the Torch and many got the chance to hold it, including Knowsley Mayor and Mayoress Cllr Norman and Wendy Hogg.
Around forty different community groups were also represented with stalls and stands and local people performed at the Park’s Moment to Shine stage.
To cheers and flag waving, the Torch convoy then moved onto Liverpool Road where the Relay began again.
It was carried through Huyton and out into Liverpool, cheered on by crowds, ten deep in places, who’d turned out to be part of the Olympic excitement.
One of the torchbearers was 16 year old Joe Shaw, from Kirkby, who was chosen because of his charity work for the disabled and the wider community.
“This was a great day for Knowsley,” said Cllr Eddie Connor, Knowsley’s cabinet member for Leisure, Community and Culture.
“It was so exciting and great to see so many people turning out to be a part of it. They were all cheering and waving flags. It was really something.
“The Torch Relay has made it possible for the whole of Britain to share in the spirit of the Games.”
To see pictures of the event at Knowsley Safari Park and the Torch Relay through Knowsley go to www.flickr.com/photos/knowsleycouncil