I was up at an overnight party in Vermont for the weekend and on the way home, I took the long way home and went over Hogback Mountain on Rt. 9 and of course I had my trusty camera along.
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Why I watermark my photos: I have no problem with you using my photos for non-commercial use but please do not claim them as your own as some have done.
Yesterday didn't go that good. It was their Choir Sing and admission was free Sunday with a food donation, I have gone in the past and had a good time and took a lot photos but this is the only one that I took yesterday.
Looking out the wheel house on the fire boat "Fire Fighter" that was built in 1938 and retired in 2010.
My back was sore for the last couple of days but I thought that I would be okay walking around around the seaport but I had to climb the steep ladder in to the wheel house was the straw that broke my back. I left after that.
It was also cold. The temperature was right around freezing with a stiff breeze coming across Long Island Sound.
As most of you know I am into photography, so here are some recent photos (All the photos are HDR and some of them are panoramas made up of multiple photos)…
I just got a new laptop and new photo software, I had been using Lightroom but Adobe in their infinite wisdom made all their software subscription. That might be good for professionals photographers but amateurs can’t afford that for something that they may use four or five times a month. So I got a whole suite of programs to replace Lightroom.
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Right now I am heading back home, I left bright and early to be home in time for a one o’clock Zoom meeting with the Governor’s Hate Crime Council so I left the cottage at around 6 AM timed to the opening of the local Dunkin.
I decided that instead of rushing back this morning for the Zoom meeting that I will do it from the cottage and go home tomorrow morning.
Shortly after noon the walkers passed through a stretch of low shrubs and then a belt of sand and suddenly stood upon the edge of a bluff, looking down at the ocean. They were just above the elbow of the Cape, where the eastward-stretching arm bends at a right angle and runs north to make a clenched fist at Provincetown. The ocean side of the forearm is what Thoreau called the Great Beach, stretching unbroken for thirty miles north from Nauset Harbor (plus another twelve miles south). Considering both its length and its quality, it may well be the finest beach in the United States and one of the best in the world.From Henry David Thoreau "Cape Cod"
This Monday morning was beautifully mild and calm, both on land and water, promising us a smooth passage across the Bay, and the fishermen feared that it would not be so good a drying day as the cold and windy one which preceded it. There could hardly have been a greater contrast. This was the first of the Indian summer days, though at a late hour in the morning we found the wells in the sand behind the town still covered with ice, which had formed in the night. What with wind and sun my most prominent feature fairly cast its slough. But I assure you it will take more than two good drying days to cure me of rambling. After making an excursion among the hills in the neighborhood of the Shank-Painter Swamp, and getting a little work done in its line, we took our seat upon the highest sand-hill overlooking the town, in mid-air, on a long plank stretched across between two hillocks of sand, where some boys were endeavoring in vain to fly their kite; and there we remained the rest of that forenoon looking out over the placid harbor, and watching for the first appearance of the steamer from Wellfleet, that we might be in readiness to go on board when we heard the whistle off Long Point.Provincetown has a rich history of writers, artist, painters, and photographers; the Christian Science Monitor had an article about the colony...
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The Harbor of Provincetown—which, as well as the greater part of the Bay, and a wide expanse of ocean, we overlooked from our perch—is deservedly famous. It opens to the south, is free from rocks, and is never frozen over. It is said that the only ice seen in it drifts in sometimes from Barnstable or Plymouth. Dwight remarks that "The storms which prevail on the American coast generally come from the east; and there is no other harbor on a windward shore within two hundred miles." J. D. Graham, who has made a very minute and thorough survey of this harbor and the adjacent waters, states that "its capacity, depth of water, excellent anchorage, and the complete shelter it affords from all winds, combine to render it one of the most valuable ship harbors on our coast." It is the harbor of the Cape and of the fishermen of Massachusetts generally. It was known to navigators several years at least before the settlement of Plymouth. In Captain John Smith's map of New England, dated 1614. it bears the name of Milford Haven, and Massachusetts Bay that of Stuard's Bay. His Highness, Prince Charles, changed the name of Cape Cod to Cape James; but even princes have not always power to change a name for the worse, and as Cotton Mather said, Cape Cod is "a name which I suppose it will never lose till shoals of codfish be seen swimming on its highest hills."
When the bohemians of Greenwich Village began summering here to escape the heat of New York City in the early 20th century, they were drawn to the isolation and freedom they found here. Their presence, and that of those who followed, ensured a place for Provincetown in the history of American culture.
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) staged his first play, a one-act titled "Bound East for Cardiff," on the wharf here in 1916. Major 20th-century artists, such as Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, joined legions of painters who summered here. Tennessee Williams (1911-83) wrote plays while staying with friends. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) produced 30 books during his 60 years visiting Provincetown. He moved here permanently in 1990, and his home is now the site of a writers' colony.
METRO POLICE OFFICERS & FIREFIGHTERS TOOK SECRET PHOTOS OF & SHAMED A TRANSGENDER CITIZENIt happened to me also, I was at an Olive Garden Italian Restaurant with some trans friends waiting to be seated when I heard some giggling and I looked up and there were two high school couples waiting also to be seat and the two boys had their smartphones out taking pictures of us. They continued taking photos all throughout dinner.
Snoop Nashville
By J Steen
October 11, 2018
8 sworn police officers, 2 firefighters, 1 dispatcher, & 1 Metro teacher. That’s how many government employees took part in the public shaming of a transgender citizen of Nashville, after 3 of the police officers and 1 of the firefighters had all taken independent photos of this citizen at different times in the past few weeks, and all came together to post them on social media and engage in a very public ridicule and shaming of this citizen that had no idea anything was going on. (We have blurred the identity in the images below).
Most disturbing, is that these photos were not even from the same day. Once the first one was posted by a Metro Police Sergeant, several others came forward to post their own they had taken in previous days or weeks, without knowing the others had also taken photos of this same person. For these Metro Nashville employees, their first instinct when they saw a transgender person was to take a photo, upload it to social media, and laugh at the person and publicly shame them from their social media accounts – many of which have the Metro jobs prominently displayed, along with photos of them in uniform.
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Nashville Fire Department Director Chief William Swann was shown the photos and comments on Thursday morning, and his immediate response was:
“First and foremost the Nashville Fire Department is dedicated to serving all the people on Davidson County. We do this no matter who they are no matter their gender identity, sexual orientation, race, age, ethnicity or anything else. When I was made aware of these postings I directed my command staff to look into your allegations. Once we complete that process we will act accordingly.”At the end of the day, over 250 people had engaged with the post, via comments, or reactions – a vast number of them metro city employees. There may have been more comments and remarks by more sworn officers, but these were the ones that went by their actual name on social media, and were easily verified via Nashville’s open data portal, and having their job or photo listed in on their social media profile. Diversity Training is already a required course for all Metro Nashville employees.
Transgender software engineer says Nike tolerated harassment, hostile workplace
The Oregonian/OregonLive
By Mike Rogoway
September 26, 2018
A transgender software engineer working as a Nike contractor filed a complaint this week with state labor officials, alleging the company tolerated abuse and harassment by other contractors.
Jazz Lyles identifies as "transmasculine/nonbinary," according to the complaint filed Tuesday with Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries. That describes a person assigned the female gender at birth who identifies with masculinity, but not with either of the binary genders - male or female.
Lyles uses "they" and "them" as singular gender pronouns, just like "he" or "she." Gender neutral pronouns are common in the transgender and nonbinary communities.
According to Tuesday's complaint, first reported by Willamette Week, some of Lyles' colleagues at Nike refused to use gender-neutral pronouns. One, according to the suit, said "I'm really not sure what to call you. I know I'm not supposed to call you 'she-male.'
The supervisor said a "hiring freeze" prevented Nike from hiring Lyles, according to the complaint, which alleges Nike hired other contractors on a permanent basis around the same time. The real reason Lyles wasn't hired, the complaint alleges, was "due to my gender, gender identity, complaints of harassment, and good faith reports of violations of state and federal law."
Inside Nike's purge: More than a #MeToo moment
The Oregonian/OregonLive
By Jeff Manning
Posted July 07, 2018
The threats, she remembers, came via text, email, telephone and face to face.
Paige Azavedo’s job in the digital marketing department at Nike put her in daily contact with Danny Tawiah, a demanding and mercurial boss who she said routinely browbeat employees, sometimes to tears.
“You better get it together or you’re gone,” Azavedo said he told her in a room full of co-workers.
Azavedo finally quit in 2015 after getting a job offer with a Seattle technology company. She didn’t want to leave Portland and uproot her family. “But he’d given me no choice,” she said.
She moved on, and Tawiah moved up. Within two years, he was promoted to vice president.
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But then came 2018, a year like no other in Nike’s history. The company cut ties with Tawiah and 10 other senior managers amid complaints about a “boys' club” culture. Behind one of the world’s biggest brands, behind the beautiful campus and the glamorous athletes, an ugliness was sapping morale and driving talented employees, particularly women, out the door. A survey started circulating that aimed to quantify what some saw as the prevalence of gender bias and sexual harassment.
“If they were really serious, there would be more than 11 (ousted executives),” said one former manager, who did not want to be identified because her current employer does some work for Nike. “With Trevor, they have cut the head off the snake. But there are … other snakes.”
