Ed Casabar @edcasabar@qoto.org
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My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 2 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 1 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
Every year, about 100 of PNG’s tribes gather to compete in dancing, singing, and drumming. I photographed this event a few years ago, and it remains one of the most mind-blowing displays of humanity I’ve ever seen and in the top three of the most remote places I've traveled. Each tribe dances into the festival grounds wearing an incredible variety of costumes made from feathers, fur, shells, their faces often painted in elaborate make up. Each tribe having its own amazing costume
Although the festival has become well-known, I would guess that less than100 tourists were present to witness this incredible event. It’s hard to describe the intensity of the singing and visual impact it has when you first see each tribe enter.
Prior to the start of the festival, I was in a handful of tourists that was taken to view the make-up and costume preparation of the Hagan Tribe, which had some of the most elaborate feathers and even bird wings in their head dresses (see photos 2, 3)
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Our planet desperately cleaner energy.
Per Washington Post, a "major scientific breakthrough" in fusion energy is being announced this Tuesday from the US Department of Energy. I can't wait.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/
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Was just another shot of the 12 apostles.. I think the B&W conversion works well to lift it a bit..
#photo #photography #landscape #Australia #blackandwhite #monochrome
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Speaking of #NewYorkCity #photography obsessions, I was singularly focused on capturing this past summer's #Manhattanhenge from the #TudorCity bridge in view of the #ChryslerBuilding. My first crack at it was a bust since it was chock FULL of people, but repeat visits over subsequent weeks netted me some AMAZING captures, and probably one of my all-time favorite #sunsets.
The #Japanese custom of having special birthday celebrations for kids at the ages of 7-5-3 (shichi-go-san, #七五三) is based on East Asian numerology. The numbers are considered lucky. Kids are dressed in elaborate kimonos and brought to shrines for special blessings.
I took these two photos at Nikko, #Japan ’s famous Toshogu Shrine, a #UNESCO world heritage site.
Two, 3-year old girls and their families happened to be there while I was walking around as a tourist. I particularly like the one in which the little girl’s father has to carry her down a set of stairs as we left the temple, because her father thought she might fall while wearing her tall, red, wooden clogs.
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1/4 I've known Ilya Yashin @IlyaYashin since he was 18. He is probably the first friend I made in politics. Today Yashin got 8,5 years of prison for an anti-war statement on the Internet.
Источник: https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1601190069850628096
Before you decide that #PaulWhelan should have been freed before #BrittneyGriner because he was a Marine - at last look at the Navy's court record in this link below
Whelan was *courtmartialed* for attempted larceny, dereliction of duty, among other things.
To be clear, I am all for getting any American, including Whelan, unjustly jailed out of the ПИЗДЕЦ (Google it) terrorist/Fascist state that# Russia has become. We should be celebrating a small victory in getting at least Griner home.
Now let the Biden Administration continue working to get Whelan and others home, because the Trump Administration did nothing when Whelan was jailed in Russia.
https://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2008/WHELAN,%20P.N.%20200800152%20PCE.pdf
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To all the Nazis, bigots, and #ChristoFascists with their panties in a twist about the Respect for Marriage Act, it's simple.
Just don't get gay or interracially married. Nobody's forcing you.
Unless your "respect for marriage" is just about your white nationalist dream of a Republican Fourth Reich.
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Breaking News: The FDA authorized the updated coronavirus vaccines for children as young as 6 months old. The move broadens access to the reformulated shots. https://nyti.ms/3VKeGEf
Ed Casabar
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Trump freed 5,000 Taliban soldiers and then invited their leaders to Camp David.
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Brittney Griner's release puts a spotlight on Paul Whelan, an American corporate security executive imprisoned in Russia. He was arrested in 2018 and convicted on espionage charges. The Biden administration is continuing to work for his release, it said. https://nyti.ms/3FaUFja
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Viktor Bout has been accused of supplying arms to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and rebels in Rwanda. He was convicted in the U.S. in 2011.
Now, after a prisoner swap involving Brittney Griner, Bout is free, despite serving less than half of his 25-year sentence. https://nyti.ms/3FAw1cY
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I’m grateful Brittney Griner is free
But was the exchange of a notorious arms dealer – and negotiating with a terrorist nation – setting a bad precedent? Or was this the right move?
#BrittneyGriner traded for an arms dealer. I am glad she was released.
#Russia remains a Fascist state.
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Washington DC voted to make its bus system fare-free, starting July 1. This is big...the first major city to make their bus service completely free, and hopefully will serve as an example to other bus services around the nation. This makes the busses available not only to the middle class but also to the very poor who can't afford transit...in other words, greater equity. (Yes, this is me in my transit advocacy mode.) #transit #bus #PublicTransit
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Вітаю Президента Володимира Зеленського! Congratulations President Volodomyr Zelenskyy. Time's Person Of The Year, 2022.
Ukrainians, please feel free to correct my Ukrainian. I'm a beginner at your language.
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/
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