^ I always thought they were instruction manuals.
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^ I always thought they were instruction manuals.
On top of Europe...
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Mont Blanc? Looks different
Schoolies' week on the Gold Coast!
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I went for a run along the beach after the teens had left to go and get drunk.
I had all my gear with me and the car was parked a bit away so I decided to run with my backpack strapped on tight which I have never done before. Put my phone, camera, e-reader, car keys in the bag and headed off. It was OK running with the bag actually. Back 25 minutes later, jumped in the ocean to cool off then went to get my towel and sitting on the towel is my wallet with $400 cash unattended for half an hour!
You never disappoint Looper... :D
The horizon is crooked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
tough crowd today
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Their attention was diverted by something ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
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Originally Posted by kingwilly
What horizon..?
A game of cricket in the hills. I probably should have stood up and ambled over to the other side of the Members pavilion to take this pic...
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the two sides.
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You've shed a few pounds, Willy
I was sucking in.Quote:
Originally Posted by OckerRocker
Which one are you, the baldy in the back?
Nah, monkey-boy still has his hair.
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by OckerRocker
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I'm gonna delete my photo if youall keep being mean to me!
Some likely looking lads at 8:00at the airport.
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Are you the cool one in the raybans? With socks and sandals.
You got access to parliament CCC ?
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In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy taking food from the same UN plane Carter took to Ayod).
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease, but Carter came under criticism for not helping the girl. “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene,” read one editorial.
Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn't enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn't pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later.
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The Great Depression looms large in the modern imagination — especially in the light of the most recent financial crises. But its scale is hard to fathom now. A crisis equivalent today would be the combination of the 1994 Mexican peso crises, the 1997-98 Asian & Russian crises, the 2000 dot com bubble, the 2007-8 financial crisis, according to the economist Liaquat Ahamed. And all these — a halt in capital flows, a collapse of market confidence, a frenzied bubble, and fall of major financial houses unfurled over a period of four years between 1929 and 1932 taking down 25% of global GDP, 25% of employment, and 40% of global bank credit.
The photo above by Margaret Bourke-White was surrounded by myths too; there are a few things it is not. It was not shot during 1929-32 crisis. It did not depict a breadline of workers laid off by the depression. The oft-repeated belief that this photo prompted Henry Luce — Life magazine’s patriarch and Bourke-White’s employer — to decide that his photographers deserved a byline was probably apocryphal too. But the photo’s absurd slogan “World’s Highest Standard of Living” — absurdly jarring when the white ur-American family with their dog was juxtaposed with the queuing black people below — propelled it to become the Great Depression photo in recent years.
The people depicted were flood victims. Bourke-White took the photo in Louisville, Kentucky during her assignment to over the Ohio River flood of 1937. The floods claimed nearly 400 lives and left roughly one million people homeless across five states in the winter of that terrible year. The flood marked a catastrophic decade in America which began with the Mississippi Floods of 1927, the Great Depression, and the Dust Flood, straining Federal and local resources. A leviathan American state was born to tackle these series of calamities.
It's supposed to be pictures you've taken yourself Kev.
Which was exactly my reply to CCC ^
Never mind! think loopers one that round for his interesting take on amateur gymnastics during schoolies week, good on you looper, you are high quality perv son.