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Theodore Roosevelt Branch Library (Closed). Jackson St. side, north of 25th Ave. Most likely built 1930.
Photo shot and edited using an iPhone 4. Apps used: Snapseed, Noir, Juxtaposer, PS Express.
© Emily Reid
Today 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.
This shocking figure, the loss of 6,500 babies every year, is something the public is not generally aware of. Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
At Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, we feel this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. We have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
“I just want to raise awareness of stillbirth. I had no idea that this could happen to me
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
Interest groups will have an answer. The big picture is mostly an empty frame.
Cities do it. An almanac of festivals — shiny things — is compiled to attract, what? Dollars mostly. Dollars, and by the survey conducted during this event, a whole lot more plastic garbage in Sydney's Harbour. The roughly 90-odd drones that plopped into the water around on the Darling Harbour side didn't help.
This morning I had a choice of heading either up river to Paramatta, or across the Heads to Manly. I'm intrigued by Manly's wormhole. But there'd been a bit of heavy weather, making the prospect of scrambling around the rocks on the ocean side have a reduced appeal. I went the wrong way!
While I was poking about in the murky water of the Paramatta River, there were four adult humpback whales frolicking about Manly Cove. I doubt if the attraction was to survey increased pollution levels, or the increase in light pollution. I wonder if they asked "why?".
The lotus is coming out unspoiled from the mud just like a gentleman who can keep himself unspotted from the world.
Why I love Lotus,It was a great poem in Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Translating to English is followings,
There are too many lovely flowers in the world.
Tao Yuanming in Jin Dynasty loved chrysanthemum only.
People have been interested in peony since Tang Dynasty.
But I do like lotus that is clean even growing in the muddy pond.
It is so pure, delicate and bright.
The lotus is consistent, continuous and coherent deep inside.
It appears to be straight, proper and honest.
It gives a fantastically good smell and people could even sense its excellent smell far away.
It has no unnecessary branches.
It can be only appreciated distantly but not touched.
Why I'm so exceptionally photogenic can be easily seen in this picture. That's why I always need an exceptionally beautiful woman by my side.
17 families, broken hearted,
A cherished baby too soon departed,
17 mothers' hearts are breaking
Whose arms should have a baby - not be aching.
Now we must ask ourselves - why 17?
Too long we have left this suffering unseen.
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Today 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.
This shocking figure, the loss of 6,500 babies every year, is something the public is not generally aware of. Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
At Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, we feel this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. We have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
This is why we are cycling instead of using public transport when it has been snowing....
Please no BIG glossy invites and awards!
Why you looking at me now?
Why you looking at me again?
What if I pulled my teeth?
Cut my hair underneath my chin
Wrap my curls all around the world
Throw my pearls all across the floor
Feel my beat like a sniper girl
('Cause I want it more)
Yours truly with one of my favorite diesel locomotives of all time.
Provo, Utah • Jan. 2, 1994 • Photo by Dave Gayer
Early this morning, I was out shooting backlit crabapple and Rhody pics and saw that my ONE AND ONLY Fritilliaria meleagris, had produced TWO little blooms but they were still not illuminated by the sunshine- so I came in to wait a few minutes. When next I checked, the LEAVES and STEM were in the sun- but NO FLOWERS!!!! It was either a VERY fast rabbit OR a squirrel or chipmunk. I'm betting on either of the latter two! Anyway, when I went out to look- there were the two blooms, face up, partially nibbled - ON THE GROUND!!!! WHY?? If they were hungry, I guess I could understand. This happens EVERY spring! Grrrr!!!
Wyaralong Dam is one of our newer dams and sits between Beaudesert and Boonah in what's known as the Scenic Rim of South East Queensland. It's been very wet up here lately and the filling of our dams is one of the positives from our rainy season. You never know when a bad drought will hit, as it did in the early 2000's when dam levels got to their lowest ebb, matched only by severe water restrictions at their highest ebb!
As you can see from this shot taken today, 16 December Wyaralong is spilling, as is Moogerah Dam up the road in the Fassifern Valley.
BTW....there is a pile of Pelicans sitting on top of the dam. What's the correct name for a pile of them.....well, here are your options -
"A group of pelicans is called a pod, squadron, brief, pouch, or scoop"
Best if viewed large. Photo taken this morning. It was raining and they were soaking wet. Didn't bother them at all.
Why does this Verdin twist itself to select a pistach berry when it would be just as easy to stand upright to get it?
Why are these landscapes so relaxing to look at?
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Pourquoi ces paysages agricoles sont-ils si reposants au regard ?