The Royal Navy-led Carrier Strike sailed from Singapore on 30th June and sailed around 2,000 nautical miles south towards northern Australia. This photo essay covers the activities of the group during this transit. On 6th July, an engineering team, tools, and spares flown out from the UK finally arrived in India to begin the repair| Navy Lookout - Independent Royal Navy news and analysis
“That brief meeting aroused my curiosity to such an extent that now, a year later, I find myself staring into the porcelain bowl of Stalin’s toilet.” – John Wreford| magpiesmagazine.com
Photo Essay: Exhaust Injection Angle| Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting
"My heart is in the making of the work, in every frame shot, in every failed and successful image made over now a long career." An Interview With Neal Rantoul|
Photographer Keith Goldstein shares beautiful photographs and thoughts on lessons learned from pigeons and sparrows.| magpiesmagazine.com
The forest as a seven-course feast | Satarupa Mitra| GOYA | Recipes, Stories & Food
After a visit to Japan that marked deepening UK-Japanese defence cooperation, HMS Prince of Wales and the UK-led Carrier Strike Group have begun the return leg of their global deployment. Departing Tokyo on 2 September, the group has continued to conduct a succession of multinational exercises. Chinese forces conducted so-called “constructive kill” missile simulations against| Navy Lookout - Independent Royal Navy news and analysis
Noodle savant Sanskriti Bist hosts her first pop-up at home | Goya| GOYA | Recipes, Stories & Food
This once-pristine valley near the LoC has been marred by tourism.| | Frontline
You won't find much about the Iranians of Cairo in textbooks. There are no heritage signs, no official archives, no plaques. Our story was something quieter. More intimate. Preserved in the cadence of a lullaby, the rustle of old Persian newspapers forgotten in wooden drawers, the yoghurty dough served with every meal.View Post| Ajam Media Collective
Photo Essay: The Perils of an Unvented Loop Vented loops, also known as anti-siphon valves or siphon-breaks, have served mariners for many years. Their mission is a noble one, prevent a siphon from occurring, which could cause flooding and sinking. The siphon phenomenon is one that is sometimes difficult to visualize (drawing a diagram sometimes […]| Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting
Photo Essay: Fan Belt Shedding Fan belts fulfill a vital role for engines; they transfer energy from the crankshaft pulley to other vital components and accessories, such as coolant circulation and raw water pumps, as well as alternators. If sized properly for the anticipated loads, and replaced […]| Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting
Photo Essay: Lifeline Corrosion While plastic coated wire lifelines are a ubiquitous aspect of small boat safety, they aren’t without their shortcomings. Long ago, while a student aboard a sail training vessel, an experienced crew member gave me advice about lifelines that has stayed with me for 40 years, “The lifeline isn’t there to save […]| Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting
Photo Essay: Plumbing Bonding Technique As I carry out inspections, one of the issues I frequently encounter involves bonding or grounding (there is a difference, but we’ll leave that for another column) of metallic fuel, water, and hydraulic plumbing components. Some of these components have built in fasteners that are designed to accept a […]| Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting
The Watt Munisotaram plans to unveil its $1 million gate in August, at a ceremony including 100 monks from all over the world.| Sahan Journal
Upcoming events include a mall at the Capri Theatre on Saturday and an East African Business Resource Fair at the Brian Coyle Center on Monday.| Sahan Journal
n estimated 75,000 people showed up in downtown Chicago on Saturday, June 15, as part of a national wave of protests called “No Kings”—coinciding with Flag Day, President Donald Trump’s birthday, and a D.C. parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the Army. Families, community groups, activists, and voters showed up to advocate for a variety […]| South Side Weekly
Karachi’s Zoroastrian community draws its visual vocabulary and cultural ancestry from Gujarat, India, and not from Iran, because the community traces its origins through the Parsi migrations of the Qissa-e-Sanjan. But new archaeological evidence suggests Zoroastrian presence in Sindh from far earlier, dating to an imperial Sasanian presence. What would a re-imagining of Zoroastrian community history in relation to these findings look like?View Post| Ajam Media Collective
The billowing clouds of pastel blooms that extend across the photographic archive of modern Afghanistan speak to more than just a redeeming cultural quirk in the face of tragic national history. They are the result of globalization and the colonial encounter and yet, as is often the case with quotidian elements of material culture, they rapidly became fundamentally of the place. View Post| Ajam Media Collective
Richie Haugland has been at the park for the past decade and is responsible for the explosion of color that comes every spring.| Tribeca Citizen
This past weekend, the Densho team was honored to join the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association for the Commemoration of the 83rd Anniversary of the Day of Forced...| Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
Explore these vintage Nowruz postage stamps from Iraq to Tajikistan and how different countries celebrate the arrival of spring!| Ajam Media Collective
Earlier this month, we joined the Puyallup Valley JACL for a Day of Remembrance at the site of the former Puyallup Assembly Center on the Washington State Fairgrounds. This event...| Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
Company XIV, known for its opulent and immersive theatrical experiences, continues to captivate audiences in Bushwick with its bold reimagining of classic| Bushwick Daily
Kassandra Hishida reflects on their first pilgrimage and how it inspired them to dig deeper into their family’s connections to Tule Lake.| Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
by Dennis Schüpf and Regina Ruete On the 14th of January 2023, a large-scale demonstration of around 35,000 people proved that the evicted village of Lützerath (Germany) has reignited the climate movement’s determination. Several organizations converged to express their resentment against lignite mining, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. Lignite is the energy source that has| Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the political
