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#burn

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BrunoMcGee

All sorts of #toxic materials are released into the #atmosphere when buildings and their contents #burn. It's why one sees urban #firefighters donning breathing apparatus. #Wildlands adjacent to the Los Angeles basin also contain #mercury and #lead in #soil and litter layers, deposited over many years from #air #pollution generated by vehicles and industries. #Wildfires often emit these heavy metals.

nytimes.com/2025/03/28/well/la

The New York Times · L.A. Firefighters Who Fought Blazes Show Elevated Mercury and Lead LevelsBy Maggie Astor
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ToddZ Ⓥ

"Over 50 years ago, NASA was able to get its Saturn V, a rocket nearly as large as Starship, to fly without ever having a failed launch over its 13-launch, six-year operational lifespan. This was a rocket designed with computers less powerful than a Casio watch, built with far less accurate techniques and materials, with check systems and procedures infinitely less sophisticated than anything today. Yet, engineers were able to ensure it never had a launch failure, even during testing.

"Technologically speaking, the Saturn V was a caveman rocket, yet it was infinitely more useful and reliable than the high-tech Starship."

medium.com/predict/spacex-has-

Predict · SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly EmbarrassingBy Will Lockett
#space#burn
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

USAID Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records

Union representatives demanded that the aid agency follow the #law stated in the Federal Records Act...
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli

"The email, sent by Erica Y. Carr, the acting exec sect, told employees of #USAID to empty out the #classified safes & personnel document files... “Shred as many #documents first, & reserve the #burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break”

Headline: U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records Union representatives demanded that the aid agency follow the law stated in the Federal Records Act. Defense lawyers argued that officials had not destroyed personnel records and would not destroy any more documents without notification.
#Trump#GOP#News
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TJ
مَـنْـبـوذْ (outcast)
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Now, the technical talk. So far, this is probably one of the hardest shots to create in this project, because of combining ambient light (the fire on the match sticks) and flash (to create the shadows). This image undergone a lengthy "doctoring" to be fixed!
The shoot was done with f/1.6 to create a shallow depth of field centered around the bent match while keeping the other burning matches slightly out of focus (slightly because the distance isn't much between the two); it is just something to serve directing the focus onto the bent match. Because of this, and using a slow shutter speed, I had to use the variable ND filter here to control the light in general (ambient and flash). Otherwise, it would have been blown out. I've planned to overlap two images, one with lit matches and one with normal matches, but in the process this proved to be almost useless. However, one of the most serious issues here is the burn in the foam (the background in which the matches are pinned) because I used a little torch to light the matches all at once, and the heat was great that it affected the foam underneath. This burn mark got me some time to fix in editing. I've planned originally to let this be a regular white background like the rest in this series, but the fire here wouldn't allow for this, so I left it as is, but lot of work was done in adjusting and fixing the light levels in the scene, and colors as well.
So, this is it for now. I'll see if I can post another one from this session by next Friday. Meanwhile, I need to find a new idea to shoot! (Original full post in the link in the comments below)

#castaway #outcast #match #matchstick #burn #fire #displaced #project #stilllife #still_life #goodmorning
#goodmorning
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Lundemo

In my younger days in the early 80s I was a warehouse worker. It was pretty unusual for women at the time and upset quite a few of the men. One told me angrily that I was taking a job away from a man who needed to put food on the table. I told him that technically I was taking away the jobs of two men since I did twice as much work. #Burn

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