Weekly Photos – Hawaii 1

June 3, 2015

Just got back from an amazing vacation. We were in Seattle for a few days to meet up with my brother and sister in law then Hawaii for a week. The trip included many fantastic adventures and photos. I was hoping to start posting these sooner, but when I got back I started having computer issues, so I’m going to keep my first post quick.

The photo below is one of the Banyan trees that was growing on the Waikiki beach. It just struck me what an interesting tree it was, so I pulled out my wide angle lens to capture the full tree and trunk.

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Date Taken: 05/10/2015 14:51:16
Camera: NIKON D90
Camera NIKON CORPORATION
Exposure: 1/60 s at f/7.1
ISO: 200
Lens: 11.0-16.0 mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 11.0 mm
Flash: Did not fire
Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: Matrix

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China Ship Sinks In Yangtze River, Hundreds Missing

June 2, 2015

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Divers pulled three people alive from inside an overturned cruise ship and searched for other survivors Tuesday, state media said, giving some small hope amid an apparently massive tragedy with well over 400 people still missing on the Yangtze River.

Fifteen people were brought to safety and at least five people were confirmed dead after the Eastern Star capsized in Hubei Province during a severe storm Monday night with 458 people aboard, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The cruise was from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, and many of those aboard were elderly.

“Looks like we are in trouble,” tour guide Zhang Hui, 43, recalled telling a colleague. In an interview with Xinhua from his hospital bed, he said rain pounded the ship, seeping into cabins, and that heavy listing sent bottles rolling off tables before the ship suddenly went all the way over.

Rescue workers stand on the capsized ship, center, on the Yangtze River in central China’s Hubei province Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The small cruise ship sank overnight in China’s Yangtze River during a storm, leaving nearly 450 people missing, state media said Tuesday. (Chinatopix via AP)

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Avocados Aren’t The Only Trendy Food That May Be Endangered Because Of The Drought

June 2, 2015

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When New York Magazine posed the terrifying question, “Have You Eaten Your Last Avocado?” in an article published Wednesday, avocado lovers everywhere panicked. Again. It’s no secret that California’s drought, the worst in 1,200 years, is a serious threat to certain foods.

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No one wants to acknowledge that this precious fruit — yes, avocados are a fruit, because actually they’re a berry — might be a lot more expensive in the coming years. When Chipotle announced last March that its guacamole may be at stake due to climate change, people freaked. More than a year later, however, we’re still enjoying guacamole at Chipotle and elsewhere. Still the threat looms, and a collective hysteria set in again Wednesday.

That’s because, yes, avocados are super trendy. Instagram is reaching peak avocado toast, and one too many Super Bowl fans really just show up at parties for the guacamole. But avocados aren’t the only trendy food that may be affected by the drought. From kale to the almonds that go into everyone’s precious almond milk lattes, other foods-of-the-moment may be more threatened than people realize.

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Death And Neglect At Rikers Women’s Jail

June 2, 2015

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This story originally appeared in The Intercept and was was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, with support from the Puffin Foundation.
After Judy Jean Caquias died in Rikers Island custody last year, her youngest sister received a box from her old apartment with all of her personal belongings. Her whole life distilled into a pile of odds and ends: pictures of family, old papers from school, an iron-on patch of a woman with a rainbow flag flying. Yankees memorabilia, an Obama sticker, a political flier: “Demand housing for the homeless.” A program for a community play she’d been cast in, and on the cover, a picture of her as a sad clown holding an American flag. And photos of herself: a grainy selfie she took in her bedroom wearing a gray tank top and gold chain…

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Menendez Urges House To Keep Malaysia Out Of Obama’s Trade Deal

June 1, 2015

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Citing Malaysia’s abysmal slavery record, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) urged the House on Monday to ensure his provision blocking the country’s membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership makes it into final legislation that would give the president fast-track authority on such agreements.

The bill in question would give President Barack Obama expedited powers to push through Congress trade deals like TPP, which he hopes to seal with 11 Pacific nations.

It’s a change of tune for Menendez, who had worked out a deal with Obama to include modified language in the Senate bill. The newer language, which didn’t make it into the Senate-passed bill, would have allowed Tier 3 nations — the lowest rank that a country engaged in modern-day slavery can receive from the State Department — into Obama’s trade deals.

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