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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPclassic

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post every week announcing the latest project.

The goal this weekend is to create photos and videos that display a timeless quality. Whether you’re nostalgic for a past era or inspired by traditions that stand the test of time, share what classic means to you:

Look for local scenes that conjure up familiar feelings — like a family picnic, a cozy coffee shop or a commuter dashing through the city.

To make details ageless, be deliberate about what you do (and don’t) show. =

Don’t take any gesture or expression for granted. Instead, pull out the patterns in how people and animals interact.

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPclassic hashtag only to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own visuals to the project. If you include music in your video submissions, please only use music to which you own the rights. Any tagged photo or video taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured next week.

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Even without Weekend Hashtag Project, aspire to capture timeless patterns, emotions, gestures or expressions.

#WHProject #beauty #throughtheeyesofthebeholder #timeless #artforalltime

Adventures are for fun and exhilaration, not devastation. More than 20 years ago, not long after graduating high school and just a year of university under my belt, I grabbed a backpack and bought …

A 4WD rolled on a gravel road in rural Western Australia and we were two good friends inside a devastating car accident. From the wreckage of the accident, only one of us walked away, but we remain…

It was 20 years ago today I went on my first international vacation that would change my life forever and in an instant. The decision to go was an easy one. My high school bestie Lydia moved to Aus…

An eye witness account of a car accident on WA rural road 1996, in which 4WD rolled several times leaving passenger (a friend) quadriplegic. Driver (observer’s wife) only mildly injured.

The Blind Men and the Elephant John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a WALL!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho, what have we here, So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a SPEAR!" The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a SNAKE!" The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he: "'Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a TREE!" The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a FAN!" The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a ROPE!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPreflective

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

The goal this weekend is to make photos and videos of creative and surprising reflections.

Here’s how to get started:

Explore as many types of reflective surfaces as you can find — from pools of water to porcelain plates and even the shiny metallic holiday decorations adorning homes and shop windows this time of year.

Pay special attention to how light can bounce off reflective surfaces and what it looks like at different times of day. Try playing with a particularly reflective element to create interesting spots of light and shadow on the subject of your photo.

Reflections can be crystal clear and create a mirrorlike effect or be more abstract and meld together two scenes. Be sure to look for examples of each to photograph for this weekend’s project.

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPreflective hashtag only to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own visuals to the project. Any tagged photo or video taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured Monday.

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A mighty fine participatory project @instagram #transmedia

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One third of vegetarians eat meat when drunk

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I’m not a vegetarian, but healthy-eater, and after a few sherbets...deep fried items have been past might lips.

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(blog by Teri Thorson)

I’ve never been much of a cook, before injury or after, though my family might disagree with that one. But since my injury I really find it frustrating. Nothing seems quite set up well enough so that the preparation can just flow easily and it doesn’t take FOREVER.

As...

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It's at the intersections of our similarities that we find solutions. Finding the common ground is about opening yourself up to telling the world around you what you need and finding out what you can and want to give. You may not like cooking, but you learn to appreciate good food and health and you find the drive to learn. You find ways to make awesome food. You do this because it matches the way you want to live - and what you want to give your children. Plus, you get sick of eating out of a bag or box. Motivated by appreciation of good tastes, textures and nourishment - you learn. You may find sharpening knives difficult - and in my own experience, I'm shit at it - so the knife shop at the mall or mobile service does it for you. Once in a while a friend/partner may be around and able to share their skill. You ask because they can do this; and you can then cut them a slice of bread for that water you serve up (or cheese with wine | salami with beer). Your neighbour's child may be restless alone so you send your child next door to go play so the two young ball/truck/sand-pit goers can be occupied together, giving you time to workout or do something solo. It's a barter system. Let's all open up to each other and trade what we can for what each other needs. (Break into song, like 'Feed the World' - more than a band - so eighties, nineties ... and yet, so always 'the present'. Be.)

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Too beautiful to be real? 16 surreal landscapes found on Earth

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Real beauty and it's here and now. Protect what we have.

#Spring in #Vancouver starts here & now! (at Stanley Park Harbourfront Seawall)

#spring #vancouver

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(blog by Teri Thorson)

HELLO READERS!

I’m SO excited to get started on a weekly series for WHEELSTRONG SPORTS on “A Week in a Life”. We are starting this blog series for many reasons:

To help new injuries or someone new to being in a chair.

To share tips and tricks.

To shed awareness on...

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The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage

Everyone knows that the United States has long suffered from widespread shortages in its science and engineering workforce, and that if continued these shortages will cause it to fall behind its major economic competitors. Everyone knows that these workforce shortages are due mainly to the myriad weaknesses of American K-12 education in science and mathematics, which international comparisons of student performance rank as average at best.

Such claims are now well established as conventional wisdom. There is almost no debate in the mainstream. They echo from corporate CEO to corporate CEO, from lobbyist to lobbyist, from editorial writer to editorial writer. But what if what everyone knows is wrong? What if this conventional wisdom is just the same claims ricocheting in an echo chamber?

The truth is that there is little credible evidence of the claimed widespread shortages in the U.S. science and engineering workforce. How can the conventional wisdom be so different from the empirical evidence?

Read more. [Image: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.]

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