A panorama of the Milky Way from Mauna Kea, Hawaii. From left, University of Hawaii 2.2 Meter Telescope, Mauna Kea Summit, Kilauea Volcano under cloud cover and Mauna Loa: photo by Joe Marquez / The New York Times, 2 October 2016

Indonesian farmers work on a paddy field in Beraskata village, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 04 October 2016. According to the statistics bureau, Indonesia's annual inflation in September rose by 3.07 percent from last year. EPA/DEDI SINUHAJI

Indonesian farmers work on a paddy field in Beraskata village, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia: photo by Dedi Sinuhaji/EPA, 4 October 2016

Tornano in alto ad ardere le favole.

Cadranno colle foglie al primo vento.

Ma venga un altro soffio,

Ritornerà scintillamente nuovo.

In the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526 is supernova 1994d in the bottom left corner. It is a type IA exploding star, which astronomers use to estimate the speed of the expansion of the universe.: photo byHigh-Z Supernova Search Team/HST/NASA, 2 October 2016

Panoramic view southward toward Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains from Keys View in Little San Bernardino Mountains, Joshua Tree National Park, California (Salton Sea, 230 ft. below sea level, rear left, San Andreas Fault visible on valley floor): photo by Matthew Field, 2008

On high the reluctant fables blaze.

When the first breeze stirs they'll fall with the leaves.

But come another breath on high they'll flare anew.

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1883-1970):Stelle (Stars), 1927, from Sentimento del tempo (Sense of time), 1933; English TC

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy, where a black hole may lurk: photo byNASA/JPL-Caltech, 2 October 2016

Air force attacks the populated neighborhoods in #Douma city with 4 air strikes, killing one civilian, and wounding several others: image via SCD Rif-Dimashq @SCDRif-Dimashq, 3 October 2016

The pulsing inferno of the "red door" -- airstrike in #Douma now: image via abu ammar hawa, 3 October 2016

The moment a child is brought out alive from the rubble by a rescuers of the Civil Defense in Douma #RevolutionSyria: image via SCD Rif-Dimashq @SCDRifDimashq, 3 October 2016

Rescue operationscarried out by theCivil Defense Corpsin the city#Doumaafter thetargeting ofresidential neighborhoodsin the citywith severalair strikes: image via SCD Rif-Dimashq @SCDRif-Dimashq, 3 October 2016

#Urgent | Ten raids have pounded the city today continuing to this very moment #Douma: image via Amar_Alhasan, 3 October 2016

SYRIA - An injured man lies on a bed after receiving treatment at makeshift hospital following reported air strikes in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

SYRIA - A Syrian boy collects items amidst the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

SYRIA - A digger removes the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes in the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

Besieged #Syria town #Douma fears becoming 'like #Aleppo': image via The Peninsula Verified account @PeninsulaQatar, 3 October 2016

Shehab is the only survivor of a family of 7 after the Russian air forces targeted their home in Bustan Al Basha today #HolocaustAleppo: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 3 October 2016

Military aircraft release 3 bombs over the neighborhoods of #Irbin city, a number of civilians received various injuries.: image via SCD Rif-Dimashq @SCDRif-Dimashq, 3 October 2016

Regime Helicopters drop 38 Barrel Bombs on #AlDerkhabia town in #WesternGouta: image via SCD Rif-Dimashq @SCDRif-Dimashq, 3 October 2016

LEBANON - Piles of garbage are pictured in a forest area overlooking the Lebanese town of Bsalim. By @JOSEPHEID1 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

INDIA - A Border Security Force soldier searches for land mines during a patrol at the India-Pakistan border. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

HAITI - Women protect themselves from the rain with plastic in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

HAITI - A fisherman looks at the sea in Caira beach, in the commune of Leogane, to the southwest from Port-au-Prince. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

#Libya: Fighters loyal to Libya's National Accord government help a comrade shot by an IS group sniper in #Sirte by @fabio_buccia: image via Talar Kalajian @TalarKala, 2 October 2016

#Libya #Sirte Fighters of Tripoli-based Government of National Accord look towards #IslamicState positions #AFP Photo by Fabio Bucciarelli: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 28 September 2016

#Libya African migrants have their lunch break in the courtyard of the Karareem detention centre in #Misrata By @fabio_buccia @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 3 October 2016

AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift in Mediterranean Sea some 20 nautical miles north of the coast of Libya. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

AT SEA - #Refugees and #migrants some 20 nautical miles north of #Libya. By @ArisMessinis: image via @ArisMessinis @ArisMessinis, 3 October 2016

A migrant is rescued from the mediteranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO some 20 nautical miles north of Libya on October 3, 2016. Thousands of migrants are "racing against the clock" to make the perilous crossing from Libya to Europe before summer ends, with authorities in the conflict-torn country at a loss to stem the flow. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINISARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images

A migrant is rescued from the Mediterranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO some 20 nautical miles north of Libya: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 4 October 2016

A woman walks past a mural in Toribio, department of Cauca, Colombia. The Colombian government and FARC rebels scrambled Monday to save a peace deal after voters narrowly rejected it in a referendum, throwing the four-year-old peace process into uncertainty.: photo by Luis Robayo/AFP, 4 October 2016

A stag stands in an inversion fog with its antlers visible above the vegetation during the rutting season, when they breed, in Richmond Park, south west London: photo by Matt Dunham/AP, 4 October 2016

A Syrian man reacts as he sits on the rubble of destroyed buildings following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Bustan al-Basha in the northern city of Aleppo: photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP, 5 October 2016

lontano lontano

come un cieco

m'hanno portato per mano

Versa, 15 febbraio 1917

SYRIA - The White Helmets search for victims amid the rubble of buildings following a gov. forces air strike on Aleppo. By @THAER_MOHAMMED: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

from far off far off

as one blinded

they led me by the hand

Versa, 15 February 1917

GIuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Lontano (15 February 1917), from Allegria di naufragi, 1919; English TC

#Syria A volunteer removes the rubble from around a body following a government forces air strike in Karm Homad, #Aleppo #AFP @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 October 2016

SYRIA - A White Helmet holds the body of a child following a government forces air strike on Karm Homad near Aleppo. By @AmeerAlhalbi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

SYRIA - People carry a wounded woman on a stretcher inside the Al Rahma hospital in Qamishli. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

SYRIA - A man reacts as he looks at another man lying on a bench inside the Al Rahma hospital in Qamishli. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

SYRIA - An injured child waits after receiving treatment at a makeshift hospital following reported air strikes in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

#Libya: The body of one of the 28 Europe-bound #migrants found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya by @ArisMessinis #photojournalism: image via Talar Kalajian @TalarKala, 5 October 2016

Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 5 October 2016

AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Death among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Women among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of NGO in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

LIBYA - A migrant of African origin waits at the port in Garabulli after being rescued by the Libyan coast guard. By Mahmud Turkia: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew slams into western Haiti with deadly waves: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 4 October 2016

HAITI - A woman protects herself from the rain with plastic after hurricane Matthew, in Port-au-Prince. By #hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

HAITI - Clouds cover the mountains of Petion Ville as rain falls in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. By #hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

CUBA - People remain at a shelter in Guantanamo city ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Matthew. By Yamil Lage #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Picture taken in neighbourhood of La Puya, in Santo Domingo after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. By @ErikaSantelices: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

HAITI - A man walks down a flooded street, in a neighbourhood of the commune of Cite Soleil, in Port-au-Prince. By @hectorretamal: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

Streets are flooded in Port-au-Prince after Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore early Tuesday with 145 m.p.h. winds: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 4 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew appears to have largely spared Port-au-Prince, the capital, with few signs of the flooding seen elsewhere: photo byCarlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 4 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew appears to have largely spared Port-au-Prince, the capital, with few signs of the flooding seen elsewhere: photo byCarlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 4 October 2016

La ville des Cayes sera privée d'électricité pendant longtemps. #LesCayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

La Ravine du Sud est en crue et la ville des Cayes inondée. #HaitiMatthew via Wawazoneht: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Rue Nicolas Geffard Les Cayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Les cayes Haiti #Matthew #mattiewhaiti: image via [DP] @Duplesplymouth 4 October 2016

Les Cayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Les Cay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Imaj lan pa klè men nou ka remake fèy tòl nan laru an ak anpil dlo. Avenue Cartagena kafou semiramis #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Sa se yon kay ki kraze nan Avn Cartagena okay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

Sa se vernet okay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits, 4 October 2016

The aftermath of Syrian government and Russian airstrikes in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo in July: photo by Muhammed Juneyd/Anadolu Agency, 4 October 2016

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016

Serbia, Serbia migrants, migrants from serbia, hungary, hungary boarders, EU, EU hungary, latest news, latest world news

Serbia, Serbia migrants, migrants from serbia, hungary, hungary boarders, EU, EU hungary, latest news, latest world news

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016

SERBIA - More than 300 migrants march from Belgrade towards Hungary near Batajnica neighborhood aspiring to enter the EU. By #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

VERBATIM: Amnesty slams nations 'shirking' refugees: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 4 October 2016

Hungarian film to confront anti-migrant attitude: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 4 October 2016

SYRIA - Men inspect damage at a wedding hall a day after a suicide attack targeted a Kurdish wedding party in Tall Tawil. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, addressed delegates at the conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Delegates are seen at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on Tuesday: photo by Charlie Bibby/FT, 4 October 2016

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women’s ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris: photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters, 4 October 2016

SOUTH AFRICA - Clashes with police during University of Witwatersrand students demonstration in Johannesburg. By @mlongari #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

#SouthAfrica: Clashes with police during University of Witwatersrand students demonstration in Johannesburg, today. #AFP Photo by@mlongari: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 4 October 2016

COLOMBIA - Two girls walk past houses destroyed by bombs in Toribio. By @LuisRobayo #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

GEORGIA - The 5047 meter-high Kazbek mountain (R) close to Russian-Georgian border in Stepantsminda. By @Kirill Kudrayavtsev #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

MEXICO - Haitian and African migrants seeking asylum in US, sleep on the street near a Migration office, in Tijuana. By Guillermo Arias: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

US - Brazilian artist Kobra's mural is seen on a corner of the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami. By Rhona Wise #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

INDIA - A Border Security Force soldier patrols along a fence at the India-Pakistan border in R.S Pora. By @TauseedMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, September 2016

Afghan students from a religious school look on from a window of their school in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Afghan students from a religious school look on from a window of their school in Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters, 5 October 2016

The Obama administration has condemned the Israeli government for approving plans to create a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank. The Eli settlement (foreground), pictured in 2015, overlooks Palestinian villages in the West Bank.: photo by Tomas Munita for The New York Times, 5 October 2016

A member of Syria's pro-government forces guards a look out point as they advance Aleppo's rebel-held Bustan al-Basha neighbourhood on October 6, 2016. "Syrian regime forces advanced from the city centre north into (rebel-held) Bustan al-Basha, and seized a large athletic complex there," the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. This was the first time the regime had entered the district since 2013 and there had been fierce clashes, they added. This was the first time the regime had entered the district since 2013 and there had been fierce clashes, he added. / AFP PHOTO / GEORGE OURFALIANGEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images

A member of Syria’s pro-government forces guards a look out point as they advance Aleppo’s rebel-held Bustan al-Basha neighbourhood.”Syrian regime forces advanced from the city centre north into (rebel-held) Bustan al-Basha, and seized a large athletic complex there,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. This was the first time the regime had entered the district since 2013 and there had been fierce clashes, they added.: photo by George Ourfalian/AFP, 6 October 2016

An alleged drug user is arrested during a police operation against illegal drugs at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. According to reports, three people were killed by the police during the operation, a couple of days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out in response to EU and US criticism of the anti-drug campaign launched by his government. Since Duterte took office on June 30, more than 3,500 people have been killed in military operations and extrajudicial executions carried out as part of the anti-drug campaign, according to reports.: photo by Mark R.Cristino/EPA, 6 October 2016

An Indian Air Force soldier tosses his rifle as he performs during the full-dress rehearsal for Indian Air Force Day at the Hindon air force station on the outskirts of New Delhi: photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters, 6 October 2016

A Palestinian woman gestures as she inspects the scene of what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike carried out on Wednesday, east of Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters, 6 October 2016

Israeli Occupation attacking the #WomensBoatToGaza Zaytouna today. Piracy of the Mediterranean Sea: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 6 October 2016

by @LatuffCartoons L'occupation terroriste intercepte le #ZaytounaOliva de #FreedomFlotilla qui tentait de briser le #Blocus de #Gaza: image va Opértaion Boycott @opBoycott, 6 October 2016

Abandoned Clown Storage Tanks. Richmond, California.: photo by efo, August 2016

dogsshouldbarkless | by Julia_Matinniemi

dogsshouldbarkless: photo by Julia Matinniemi, 8 September 2014

sometimessnowissoprettyiwanttosleepinit | by Julia_Matinniemi

sometimessnowissoprettyiwanttosleepinit: photo by Julia Matinniemi, 27 June 2016

Il mio #lupodimare: image via Caterina Autiero @Caterina Autiero, 18 August 2016

GIuseppe Ungaretti:Allegria di naufragi

E subito riprende
il viaggio
come
dopo il naufragio
un superstite
lupo di mare.

Versa il 14 febbraio 1917

GIuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Allegria di naufragi (14 February 1917), from Allegria di naufragi, 1919

And immediately resumes the voyage as after the shipwreck a survivor

Migrants and refugees from sub-Saharan Africa are found in the Mediterranean sea twelve miles north of Libya by the rescue boat Astral, part of a wave of more than 11,000 people attempting the perilous crossing to Italy this week: photos by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 5 October 2016

Crossing the Digue River in Petit-Goave, Haiti. A bridge collapsed during the hurricane.: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 6 October 2016

Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.

Florence Margaret "Stevie" Smith (1902-1971): Not Waving but Drowning, 1953, from Not Waving but Drowning (1957)

One of the hundreds who died in the storm: photo byOrlando Barria/European Pressphoto Agency, 7 October 2016

A boy removing mud and water from his house in Les Cayes on Thursday. “Almost everyone is living under the sky now,” one man said.: photo byDieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press, 6 October 2016

A street in the coastal town of Jérémie on Thursday: photo byLogan Abassi/Agence France-Presse, 6 October 2016

Jérémie, Haiti, where 80 percent of buildings were destroyed by the storm: photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 7 October 2016

Flooded and destroyed homes. At least 20,000 homes were damaged across the country.: photo Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 7 October 2016

Flooded and destroyed homes. At least 20,000 homes were damaged across the country.: photo Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 7 October 2016

Homes lay in ruin in Les Cayes, Haiti: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press, 6 October 2016

A group carrying a coffin tries to cross La Digue river on Wednesday: photo Orlando Barria/European Pressphoto Agency, 5 October 2016

Saint Anne church in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes: photo Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press, 7 October 2016

Workers burying two bodies in Jérémie on Thursday: photo Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 7 October 2016

A street vendor Les Cayes sells food on the side of a road after the storm: photoAndres Martinez Casares/Reuters, 7 October 2016

A street vendor in Les Cayes sells food on the side of a road after the storm: photoAndres Martinez Casares/Reuters, 7 October 2016

A woman in Gelée, Haiti, on Friday navigated the rubble after Hurricane Matthew. Some reports put the death toll at 800.: photo by Orlando Barría/European Pressphoto Agency, 7 October 2016

Carrying a coffin on Thursday in Cavaillon. In one part of the country’s southern peninsula, where Cavaillon is situated, nearly 30,000 homes were destroyed and 150 lives lost, officials said.: photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters, 6 October 2016

Cubans pick up the pieces following the damage and havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, 6 October 2016. Matthew has crossed over parts of Haiti and Cuba and is expected to move up the east coast of the United States. EPA/Alejandro Ernesto

Cubans pick up the pieces following the damage and havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa. Matthew has crossed over parts of Haiti and Cuba and is expected to move up the east coast of the United States: photo by Alejandro Ernesto/EPA, 6 October 2016

Residents of Baracia, on Cuba’s east coast, search through debris for their belongings on Friday after the hurricane blew through the city: photo by Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency, 7 October 2016

A woman stands in a field of destroyed trees after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Sous Roche in Les Cayes, in Southwest Haiti, on October 6, 2016. The storm killed at least 108 people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, with the final toll expected to be much higher. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

A woman stands in a field of destroyed trees after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Sous Roche in Les Cayes, in Southwest Haiti: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 7 October 2016

We weren't supposed to drown

Hajoo: photo by soikkoratomo, 10 September 2016

Drown, again [Tampere, Finland]: photo by soikkoratomo, 1 September 2016

We weren't supposed to drown | by soikkoratamo

We weren't supposed to drown [Tampere, Finland]: photo by soikkoratomo, 1 October 2016

We weren't supposed to drown [Tampere, Finland]: photo by soikkoratomo, 1 October 2016

I forgot where I sleep | by Alec C Miller

I forgot where I sleep [Milwaukee]: photo by Alec Miller, 1 October 2016

Home [Milwaukee]: photo by Alec Miller, 1 October 2016

Confide in Corners [Milwaukee]: photo by Alec Miller, 1 October 2016

1016-490 (Dunsmuir,CA]: photo by biosfear, 4 October 2016

1016-491 (Fort Bragg,CA]: photo by biosfear, September 2016

Clowning the Idiocracy

American Clown (Venice, Los Angeles): photo by Thomas Hawk, 15 June 2012

School on alert, students on edge about ‘evil clowns’: Tracey Taylor, Berkeleyside, 7 October 2016

The principal of King Middle School in Berkeley contacted the police Friday after becoming concerned about a threat posted on social media about ‘killer clowns’ coming to the campus, as well as to two other local schools.

Principal Janet Levenson sent an email, labeled ‘important message,’ to the school community around 2:45 p.m. explaining that many students had been “on edge all week for fear that these evil clowns will come to King or kidnap students on their way home.”

Levinson said one of King’s students showed her an Instagram posting that stated they “were going after BHS, Longfellow and King on Friday.”

Levinson said the rumor spread on campus that the clowns would arrive during fifth period. Erring on the side of caution, she contacted BPD.

While the ‘evil clown’ or ‘creepy clown’ phenomenon sounds bizarre, it has become more prevalent in recent years, fueled by social-media campaigns that go viral. Most threats turn out to be hoaxes, but they have prompted safety alerts at schools and other institutions all over the country. Earlier this week, Kron 4 reported that a man in a clown suit attempted to snatch a 1-year-old baby girl at a bus stop in Concord.

The Instagram account referred to by Levinson, which Berkeleyside will not name to avoid giving it more exposure, wrote: “Don’t Run -- Going After Berkeley High, Longfellow middle school, King,” and has posted photographs of Berkeley High and Longfellow. The account only had 51 followers at press time.

Levinson stressed that the school takes all potential danger seriously, that safety officers were alert to keeping the campus safe, and that the school had lockdown procedures for dangerous situations.

There was talk about evil clowns on the King campus Thursday, too. A parent of a King student told Berkeleyside that her daughter reported lots of rumors going around the school. After hearing students discuss the issue, a teacher had advised students not to walk or bike alone in Berkeley.

Sightings and online reports of creepy clowns , some real, many fake, are keeping police departments busy nationwide. Last month extra security was assigned to schools in Gallatin County, Ky., after threatening messages were posted on Facebook by two people who used creepy clown photos as their profile photos.

The concept of the evil clown is related to the irrational fear of clowns, known as coulrophobia, and has been connected to Pennywise The Dancing Clown, the main antagonist of Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel It.

Berkeleyside has requested more information from the Berkeley Police and will update this story if needed.

The Circus Is Coming (Venice, Los Angeles): photo by Thomas Hawk, 15 June 2012

routine clown fit

blood red trauma sun

set into

indigo nimbus evening
out over the water

numbright
arm depending

into deep dark

clown sighting night

the spoiled brats started screaming

at birth

so yesterday's I won't go to school mommy fit

... and then

the news

clowns have taken over

the schools

closed down

mommy mommy I don't wanna!

I won't!!

regret not yet
regret not this

that

everyday
garden variety
idiocratic

the kid's just having a

giant meteoroid

homeland insecurity fit

Novemberhood (Playland-Not-at-the-Beach, San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, California): photo by Thomas Hawk, 21 February 2009

Elf walks by (San Francisco): photo by Thomas Hawk, 28 December 2005

Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, bows his head in prayer during a meeting with pastors and ministers at the International Church of Las Vegas on Wednesday: photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times, 5 October 2016

Idiocracy 2016: image via Shepard Fairey @OBEYGIANT, 7 October 2016

Mrs. Clinton speaking Monday night at her caucus rally in Des Moines. “She has good points, but she just seems like a stereotypical politician,” said Mark Anthony, 23, a graduate student in Ames, Iowa, who said he planned to support Mr. Sanders at the caucus.: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 1 February 2016

Giant Meteor 2016: image via Chris Rock Verified account @chrisrock,13 June 2016

ICYMI: Here's what I posted yesterday...: image via Chris Rock Verified account @chrisrock, 13 September 2016

Glad to know shes ok: image via Chris Rock Verified account @chrisrock, 12 September 2016

Participants celebrate during 'I Love Damascus' marathon at Umayyad Square in Damascus,

Participants celebrate during an ‘I Love Damascus’ marathon in Damascus, Syria. The capital has avoided the worst of the country’s five-year war in which over 400,000 people have been killed.: photo by Omar Sanadiki/Reuters, 7 October 2016

Armed security forces take a part in a drug raid, in Manila, Philippines: photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 7 October 2016

A close up of a Malaysian guard-of-honor during Islamic Republic of Iran President Dr. Hassan Rouhani's (not seen) welcoming ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia, 07 October 2016. Hassan Rouhani is on an official visit to Malaysia from 07 to 08 October 2016. EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL

A close up of a Malaysian guard-of-honour during Islamic Republic of Iran President Dr. Hassan Rouhani’s (not seen) welcoming ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia: photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA, 7 October 2016

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A close up of a Malaysian guard-of-honour during Islamic Republic of Iran President Dr. Hassan Rouhani’s (not seen) welcoming ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia: photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA, 7 October 2016

An artwork featuring the image of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with the letters D U and the number 3, a word play on the President’s surname “DU30″, is seen on a rice paddy in Los Banos city, Laguna province, south of Manila: photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters, 6 October 2016

Reaching Out to No One

Clouds from Hurricane Matthew blanket the sky in Haiti, ahead of the onslaught of the storm: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 4 October 2016

Clouds from Hurricane Matthew blanket the sky in Haiti, ahead of the onslaught the storm: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 4 October 2016

COLOMBIA - March for peace in Medellin just days after voters shot down a historic peace accord between the gov. and FARC. By @RAULARBOLEDA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 October 2016

YEMEN - A hand of a victim amid the destruction following reported airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition air-planes on Sanaa. By Mohammed Huwais: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 October 2016

HAITI - A man bikes past buildings destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie. By @hectorretamal: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 October 2016

US - Commuters make their way through heavy rain in Jacksonville, Florida ahead of hurricane Matthew. By @jewelsamad #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 October 2016

Florida shelters quickly reach capacity, turning some away: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 7 October 2016

A woman and child take a selfie as life-threatening hurricane bears down on Florida: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 7 October 2016

Erin Sutherland and Mark Grafton lookeover downtown Miami as the first outer bands of the hurricane reached the city on Thursday: photo by Max Reed for The New York Times, 6 October 2016

Erin Sutherland and Mark Grafton look over downtown Miami as the first outer bands of the hurricane reach the city on Thursday: photo by Max Reed for The New York Times, 6 October 2016

A Splash of Red

The body of a Syrian child at a morgue on Wednesday in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, after what were reported as airstrikes: photo by Abd Doumany/Agence France-Presse, 5 October 2016

#Syria The body of a child at a morgue on Wednesday in rebel-held #Douma, #Damascus, after regime airstrikes. By @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 7 October 2016

#Greece Pensioners scuffle with riot police during anti #austerity protest against pension cuts in #Athens By @alkiskon @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 7 October 2016

AFGHANISTAN - a vegetable vendor waits for customers along the roadside in Lashkar Gah city. By @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédeerique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 October 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Women and children weave a carpet at their house on the outskirts of Herat. By @Arefkarimi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

US - A motel displays a sign asking Hurricane Matthew to stay away in Kill Devil Hiils. By Nicholas Kamm #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

PHILIPPINES - Relatives mourn the loss of two motorcyclists gunned down on a road in Manila. By @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

TURKEY - Russian warship Grisha class Corvette 617 "Mirazh" passes the bosphorus on its way to Syria in Istanbul. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

Dolor en Medellín por el resultado del plebiscito. Colombia dice NO al #AcuerdoDePaz con el 99.25% por 60mil votos: image via Marta del Vado @mdelvado, 2 October 2016

A general view shows destruction in Aleppo's rebel-held Bustan al-Basha neighbourhood. By Georges Ourfalian #AFP:: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

GREECE - A migrant sits with his son in front of his prefabricated house at the Kara Tepe camp on the island of Lesbos. By @atzortzinis #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

LEBANON - Plastic collectors drive their motorcycles, loaded with salvaged items, on the Naameh highway south of Beirut. By @JOSEPHEID1 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

BELGIUM - Swans swim in a pond covered by duckweed or water lens at the Bois de La Cambre in Brussels. By Emmanuel Dunand #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

#Palestinians sail boats bearing national flag in the port of #Gaza in support of the Gaza-bound flotilla #AFP Photo by #MahmudHams: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 October 2016

The Open Boat

DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN #Refugee and #migrants. Part 5.: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 8 October 2016

MEDITERANEAN SEA - A life boat carrying the bodies of 29 refugees who died on a rubber boat. By @Aris Messinis #AFP #refugeecrisis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

MEDITERANEAN SEA - The bodies of refugees who died on a rubber boat lie on a boat. By Aris Messinis @AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 October 2016

Maersk Edinburgh. Alameda, California: photo by efo, 3 October 2016

Then and Now

Then it was always
for now, later
for later.
And then years of now
passed, and it grew later
and later. Trapped
in the shrinking
chocolate box
the confused sardine
was unhappy. It
leapt, and banged its head
again. And afterward
they said shall we
repeat the experiment.
And it said
later for that.

borrmann steels. burbank, ca. 2016. | by eyetwist

borrmann steels. Burbank, ca. 2016: photo by eyetwist, 28 August 2016

los angeles river. canoga park, ca. 2016. | by eyetwist

los angeles river. canoga park, ca. near the headwaters in the deep valley.: photo by eyetwist, 10 September 2016

Where Concrete Comes From | by lavocado@sbcglobal.net

Where Concrete Comes From [Vernon, California]: photo by Laurie Avocado, 12 April 2009

orange. vernon, ca. 2015: photo by eyetwist, 18 January 2015

China says EU duties on Chinese steel are unfair: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 9 October 2016

Thank you Angie Phillips for inviting me to tour your plant Middletown Tube Works. #Ohio: image via Ivanka Trump @Ivanka Trump, 6 October 2016

Thank you, Ohio! #Ohio: image via Ivanka Trump @Ivanka Trump, 6 October 2016

some assembly required. burbank, ca. 2016. | by eyetwist

some assembly required. burbank, ca. 2016. the new mega ikea rises in south burbank next to the 5 freeway. semi-disposable swedish furniture for miles.: photo by eyetwist, 28 August 2016

PA030006 copy | by lavocado@sbcglobal.net

PA030006 copy. [Spring Street Bridge construction / Downey playground, Los Angeles, California]: photo by Laurie Avocado, 3 October 2016

MEXICO - Scouts take part in the design of a Fleur-de-lis made out of more than one million aluminum cans in Mexico City. By @PPardo1: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

multicity [Warsaw, Poland]: photo by Marcn Kubiak, 27 September 2016

Student groups perform during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Palace in Taipei on October 10, 2016. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on October 10 called for a resumption of talks with China and pledged that "anything" can be on the table for discussion. Relations with Beijing have deteriorated under Taiwan's first female president, whose China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took office in May after a landslide victory over the Kuomintang party (KMT). / AFP PHOTO / SAM YEHSAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images

Student groups perform during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Palace in Taipei: photo by Sam Yehsam Yeh/AFP, 10 October 2016

From left, Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. in the audience: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 9 October 2016

A man begs for money as he displays a placard during the second presidential debate Times Square in New York on October 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCURKENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images

A man begs for money as he displays a placard in Times Square in New York: photo by Kena Betancur/AFP, 10 October 2016

US - A man begs for money as he displays a placard during the second presidential debate Times Square in New York. By Kena Betancur #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

Financial markets continue to price in Clinton win after debate: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 October 2016

Clinton's leaked comments to Wall Street anger Sanders supporters: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 9 October 2016

Before debate, Trump defies calls to quit over vulgar video: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 9 October 2016

I can top that: image via GraceUnderPressure @Gracie6185, 9 October 2016

spotted at the #debate: image via clown sightings @ClownActivities, 9 October 2016

Women at a debate party on Sunday in San Francisco react to Donald J. Trump’s remarks: photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times, 9 October 2016

"cunt on" sounds like a cool catchphrase for an 80s all-women punk band: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 1 February 2016

Sophia Polanco, left, of Queens Village, and Amanda Miller, right, of Ditmas Park, both supporters of Mrs. Clinton, watch the debate at Union Hall, a bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn: photo by Joshua Bright for The New York Times, 9 October 2016

Women cheer during a watch party at a Holiday Inn in San Francisco as Mrs. Clinton is introduced: photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times, 9 October 2016

A young man takes a shower in a shower from a water fountain in Houk, in a rural zone of Les Cayes, an area damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in the Southwest of Haiti, on October 9, 2016. Haiti began three days of mourning Sunday for hundreds killed in Hurricane Matthew as relief officials grappled with the unfolding devastation in the Caribbean country's hard-hit south. Matthew crashed ashore on Haiti's southern coast on October 4 as a monster Category 4 storm, packing 145 mile (230 kilometer) winds. Civil defense officials have put the death toll at 336, although some officials said it topped 400. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

A young man takes a shower in a water fountain in Houk, in a rural zone of Les Cayes, an area damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in the Southwest of Haiti. Haiti began three days of mourning Sunday for hundreds killed in Hurricane Matthew as relief officials grappled with the unfolding devastation in the Caribbean country’s hard-hit south. Matthew crashed ashore on Haiti’s southern coast on October 4 as a monster Category 4 storm, packing 145 mile winds.: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 10 October 2016

#haveaniceday #sunrise #US A couple watch the sunrise in Jacksonville Beach after #HurricaneMatthew #AFP Photo by @jewelsamad: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 10 October 2016

HAITI - A girl walks past debris left by Hurricane Matthew, in Sous Roche, Les Cayes. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

HAITI - View inside a chuch in Lagaudary, southwest of Port-au-Prince following the passage of Hurricane Matthew. By Rodrigo Arangua #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew toll in Haiti rises to 1,000, dead buried in mass graves: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 9 October 2016

Yemen ex-president urges attack on Saudi Arabia after air strike: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 9 October 2016

PHILIPPINES - A child is playing with a toy gun as police officers conduct a "Oplan Tokhang" on illegal drugs in Manila. By @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

SYRIA - Syrian pro-government soldiers patrol the area of Awijah as they advance in Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhoods. By Georges Ourfalian: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

#Putin_Assad are burning homes with incendiary bombs while families are asleep in #Douma and #KhanShihCamp #Syria: image via Revolution Syria @RevolutionSyria, 9 October 2016

Phosphorous / incendiary bomb attacks by #Russia and #Assad regime on #Douma and Khan Shih Camp #Syria: image via Revolution Syria @RevolutionSyria, 9 October 2016

#Syria: the Syrian city of #Douma last night: image via Thomas van Linge @arabthomness, 10 October 2016

More incendiary weapons dropped tonight in #Syria - this time on opposition-held #Douma, 20km from #Assad’s Presidential Palace: image via Charles Lister Verified account @Charles_Lister., 9 October 2016

#Hell caused by russian terrorists airstrikes on #Douma city last night #PutinKiller #Syria: image via Nemesis Arcady @zuzamikulova, 10 October 2016

#Assad air force targeting the city of #Douma in the Eastern part of Ghouta in the suburbs of #Damascus by phosphor bomb after midnight: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhatib, 9 October 2016

Le veto De trop Le veto Sur #Aleppo Les fausses Trêves La Russie Nous achève Pour nous C'est Terminé Nous Sommes Exterminés: image via Marc Beaumont @Marc Beaumont, 10 October 2016

Abou Hassan, Mohammad, Louay: paroles de Casques blancs à Alep, propos recueillis par @KaramAlmasri25 #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 9 October 2016

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth holds a chicken as others perform the Kaparot ritual, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighbourhood ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown on Tuesday: photo by Ronen Zvulun/Reuters, 10 October 2016

Fighters from predominantly Sunni Arab force take part in a training session before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Bashiqa, October 6, 2016. Picture taken October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Fighters from predominantly Sunni Arab force take part in a training session before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Bashiqa: photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters, 7 October 2016

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Fighters from predominantly Sunni Arab force take part in a training session before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Bashiqa: photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters, 7 October 2016

Hindu devotees splash a water buffalo with water from Hanumante River as part of rituals before it is sacrificed on the ninth day of Dashain Hindu Festival in Bhaktapur Nepal: photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP, 10 October 2016

Hindu devotees splash a water buffalo with water from Hanumante River as part of rituals before it is sacrificed on the ninth day of Dashain Hindu Festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal: photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP, 10 October 2016

Nepal - Hindu devotees splash water on a buffalo set to be sacrificed during the Hindu Dashain Festival in Bhaktapur. By @PrakashMathema: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters aim their weapons around the town of Basheqa which remains on the frontline of fighting between Kurdish forces and militants from Islamic State, 150 Km northeast of Erbil, Iraq: photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA, 10 October 2016

Baghdad needs the Kurds to oust Islamic State from Mosul. But are Kurdish forces settling older scores?: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 October 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin returns to his seat after delivering a speech at the World Energy Congress, in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Putin is set to meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as the two push ahead with steps toward normalizing ties that were strained by Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the border with Syria last year. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Russian President Vladimir Putin returns to his seat after delivering a speech at the World Energy Congress, in Istanbul: photo Emrah Gurel/AP, 10 October 2016

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Russian President Vladimir Putin returns to his seat after delivering a speech at the World Energy Congress, in Istanbul: photo Emrah Gurel/AP, 10 October 2016

Hillary Clinton boarding her campaign plane Monday in White Plains for a trip to Michigan: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 10 October 2016

“My dream,” she said, “is a hemispheric common market, with open borders, sometime in the future.”

LeakedSpeech Excerpts Show a Hillary Clinton at Ease With Wall Street: Amy Chozick, Nicholas Confessore and Michael Barbaro, The New York Times, 7 October 2016

In lucrative paid speeches that Hillary Clinton delivered to elite financial firms but refused to disclose to the public, she displayed an easy comfort with titans of business, embraced unfettered international trade and praised a budget-balancing plan that would have required cuts to Social Security, according to documents posted online Friday by WikiLeaks.

The tone and language of the excerpts clash with the fiery liberal approach she used later in her bitter primary battle with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and could have undermined her candidacy had they become public.

Mrs. Clinton comes across less as a firebrand than as a technocrat at home with her powerful audience, willing to be critical of large financial institutions but more inclined to view them as partners in restoring the country’s economic health.

In the excerpts from her paid speeches to financial institutions and corporate audiences, Mrs. Clinton said she dreamed of “open trade and open borders” throughout the Western Hemisphere. Citing the back-room deal-making and arm-twisting used by Abraham Lincoln, she mused on the necessity of having “both a public and a private position” on politically contentious issues. Reflecting in 2014 on the rage against political and economic elites that swept the country after the 2008 financial crash, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that her family’s rising wealth had made her “kind of far removed” from the struggles of the middle class.

The passages were contained in an internal review of Mrs. Clinton’s paid speeches undertaken by her campaign, which was identifying potential land mines should the speeches become public. They offer a glimpse at one of the most sought-after troves of information in the 2016 presidential race — and an explanation, perhaps, for why Mrs. Clinton has steadfastly refused demands by Mr. Sanders and Donald J. Trump, her Republican rival, to release them.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the documents. They were released on Friday night by WikiLeaks, the hacker collective founded by the activist Julian Assange, saying that they had come from the email account of John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman.

In a statement, a Clinton spokesman, Glen Caplin, pointed to the United States government’s findings that Russian officials had used WikiLeaks to hack documents in order to sway the outcome of the presidential election, suggesting that the leak of Mr. Podesta’s emails was also engineered by Russian officials determined to help Mr. Trump. Mr. Caplin noted that a Twitter message from WikiLeaks promoting the documents had incorrectly identified Mr. Podesta as a co-owner of his brother’s lobbying firm.

But Clinton officials did not deny that the email containing the excerpts was real.

The leaked email, dated Jan. 25, does not contain Mrs. Clinton’s full speeches to the financial firms, leaving it unclear what her overall message was to these audiences.

But in the excerpts, Ms. Clinton demonstrates her long and warm ties to some of Wall Street’s most powerful figures. In a discussion in the fall of 2013 with Lloyd Blankfein, a friend who is the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Mrs. Clinton said that the political climate had made it overly difficult for wealthy people to serve in government.

“There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives,” Mrs. Clinton said. The pressure on officials to sell or divest assets in order to serve, she added, had become “very onerous and unnecessary.”

In a separate speech to Goldman Sachs employees the same month, Mrs. Clinton said it was an “oversimplification” to blame the global financial crisis of 2008 on the U.S. banking system.

“It was conventional wisdom,” Mrs. Clinton said of the tendency to blame the banking system. “And I think that there’s a lot that could have been avoided in terms of both misunderstanding and really politicizing what happened.”

And she praised a deficit-reduction proposal from President Obama’s fiscal commission that called for raising the Social Security retirement age, saying that the commission’s leaders “had put forth the right framework.”

Such comments could have proven devastating to Mrs. Clinton during the Democratic primary fight, when Mr. Sanders promoted himself as the enemy of Wall Street and of a rigged economic system.

Several of the most eye-popping passages ultimately express more nuanced explanations of her views. When Mrs. Clinton describes herself as “far removed” from average Americans and their finances, she had just finished describing her growing appreciation for how “anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling that the game is rigged.” And she reminds the audience that her father “loved to complain about big business and big government.”

The Clintons have made more than $120 million in speeches to Wall Street and special interests since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001. Mrs. Clinton typically earned $225,000 for speeches, though she sometimes donated her fees to her family foundation.

“I kind of think if you’re going to be paid $225,000 for a speech, it must be a fantastic speech,” Mr. Sanders said during the primary, “a brilliant speech which you would want to share with the American people.”

As her race against Mr. Sanders — who now campaigns for Mrs. Clinton — grew unexpectedly contentious and close, Mrs. Clinton sought to portray herself as deeply skeptical of Wall Street and eager to punish its wayward leaders.

“I believe strongly that we need to make sure that Wall Street never wrecks Main Street again,” Mrs. Clinton said in January. “No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail.”

As she sought to burnish her image as an advocate of working America, Mrs. Clinton declared her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Mr. Obama’s 12-nation trade pact, and distanced herself from Nafta, which her husband signed into law.

But in a 2013 speech to a Brazilian bank, Mrs. Clinton took a far different approach. “My dream,” she said, “is a hemispheric common market, with open borders, sometime in the future.”

Some of her paid remarks embrace the view that the public can benefit when Wall Street partners with government. When it comes to writing effective financial regulations, Mrs. Clinton said, “The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.”

Foreign hackers — authorized by Russian security agencies, according to national security officials — have successfully penetrated the operations of the Democratic Party and its candidates over the past year. They broke into the email servers of the Democratic National Committee, revealing embarrassing internal messages in which party leaders who were supposed to be neutral expressed their preference for Mrs. Clinton even as she was campaigning against Mr. Sanders. And Mr. Assange is an avowed critic of Mrs. Clinton who has made clear that he wishes to hurt her chances of winning the presidency.

Half of all registered voters said it bothered them “a lot” that Mrs. Clinton had given numerous paid speeches to Wall Street banks, according to a Bloomberg Politics poll in June.

Asked in an interview that month if the practice was self-defeating, given the anger over income inequality, Mrs. Clinton responded that her predecessors as secretary of state had given paid speeches, too.

“I actually think it makes sense,” she said. “Because a lot of people know you have a front-row seat in watching what’s going on in the world.”

John Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, on the campaign plane last month: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 10 October 2016

“Hammed dropped!” they exulted

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Strained to Hone Her Message, Leaked Emails Show: Amy Chozick and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times, 10 October 2016

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary in February, a longtime aide to Bill Clinton was worried. Hillary Clinton was about to go down to defeat in the state, and the former president was despondent.

“He’s losing it bad today,” Mr. Clinton’s chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, wrote to John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, in an email. She added, “If you’re in NH please see if you can talk to him.”

The email was one of thousands released by WikiLeaks on Monday that provided a revealing glimpse into the inner workings of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. They show a candidacy that began expecting a coronation and was thrown badly off course by a misreading of the electorate and a struggle to define what she stood for.

Stretching over nine years, but drawn mainly from the past two years, the correspondence captures in detail the campaign’s extreme caution and difficulty in identifying a core rationale for her candidacy, and the noisy world of advisers, friends and family members trying to exert influence.

At one point, more than a dozen campaign aides corresponded about whether Mrs. Clinton could tell a joke at an Iowa dinner about the hairstyles of two Republicans: Donald J. Trump and Trey Gowdy, the representative from South Carolina who led the inquiry into Mrs. Clinton’s handling of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

“I love the joke, too,” wrote Jake Sullivan, Mrs. Clinton’s policy chief, but he added that Mrs. Clinton should stay “above the committee.”

The exchanges show how Mrs. Clinton’s long-gestating plans to pursue the presidency collided with a newly populist mood in the Democratic electorate (which one of her advisers called the “Red Army”).

And they detail how, even as Mrs. Clinton was brushing off questions early on about her political plans, insisting that a run was not on her mind, she had already enlisted aides to wrestle with how to reposition a career politician as an agent of change and how openly to rely on gender to stoke grass-roots enthusiasm.

Glen Caplin, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, did not dispute the authenticity of the emails, which were believed to have been obtained by hackers who breached Mr. Podesta’s account. But he assailed Mr. Trump’s campaign for praising their release.

“This comes after Donald Trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack even happened at Sunday’s debate,” Mr. Caplin said, alluding to election-related email hacks that have been linked to Russian security forces.

Mrs. Clinton’s voice is mostly absent: The leak includes few emails from the candidate herself. But the exchanges among her aides are sometimes less “House of Cards” than “Veep,” HBO’s scabrous comedy dissecting the vanity and phoniness of Washington.

In one 2014 email exchange with top Clinton aides, Roy Spence, a longtime friend and ad maker for Mrs. Clinton, sent over possible slogans to sum up her candidacy.

“Neither change nor continuity but The different way. The new way,” Mr. Spence wrote. He went on: “She champions with clear vision and grit. We will build not the partisans ships. But rather the Ship of State flying the American Dream flag.”

The emails reveal interminable debate on matters both large (such as Mrs. Clinton’s splashy June 2015 campaign rollout speech on Roosevelt Island in New York City) and small (such as whether she should make a crack about her graying hair).

“More humor, first woman, ass kicker and coloring her hair,” Jennifer Palmieri advised, referring to a line in which Mrs. Clinton says she would not have to worry about her hair going gray in the White House.

Almost all campaigns calibrate stagecraft, speeches and strategy. But the new emails seem to underscore Mrs. Clinton’s public struggles in defining her politics and her reasons for wanting to become president.

The private discussions among her advisers about policy -- on trade, on the Black Lives Matter movement, on Wall Street regulation -- often revolved around the political advantages and pitfalls of different positions, while there was little or no discussion about what Mrs. Clinton actually believed. Mrs. Clinton’s team at times seemed consumed with positioning and optics.

In August 2015, her aides debated how Mrs. Clinton should reveal her long-awaited position on an issue of major concern to the Democratic electorate: the Keystone XL oil pipeline. She had chosen to oppose it, potentially undermining President Obama.

Dan Schwerin, Mrs. Clinton’s speechwriter, wrote to her longtime adviser Cheryl D. Mills, “We are trying to find a good way to leak her opposition to the pipeline without her having to actually say it.” A month later, Brian Fallon, a press aide, suggested leaking her position to the news media by mentioning it during a meeting with labor leaders, rather than with an op-ed article.

“Do we worry that publishing an op-ed that leans this aggressively into our newfound position on Keystone will be greeted cynically and perhaps as part of some manufactured attempt to project sincerity?” Mr. Fallon wrote. The best way to appear consistent, he concluded, was “if her position merely leaked out of the labor meeting.”

In another exchange, in the fall of 2015, Mrs. Clinton’s speechwriter circulated a draft of an op-ed about her plan to reform Wall Street. Her senior advisers agonized over whether she should address calls to reinstate Glass-Steagall, the post-Depression rules separating commercial and investment banking.

One aide, Mandy Grunwald, said that Mrs. Clinton was leaning toward endorsing a return to Glass-Steagall, and that not doing so risked antagonizing Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who had campaigned to reinstate the rule. The campaign feared that Ms. Warren might back Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president.

“I understand that we face phoniness charges if we ‘change’ our position now -- but we face political risks this way too,” Ms. Grunwald wrote. “I worry about Elizabeth deciding to endorse Bernie.”

Mrs. Clinton ultimately did not support Ms. Warren’s proposal, arguing that other policies would better regulate Wall Street risk. Mr. Sanders criticized Mrs. Clinton on the issue throughout the campaign. (Ms. Warren stayed out of the primary battle until June, when Mrs. Clinton had all but secured the nomination.)

The Clinton campaign had plenty of its own ammunition ready to deploy against Mr. Sanders, the emails show. Ms. Grunwald wrote that she had been digging through opposition research and had “a couple new possible negatives to suggest we test in the poll, since most of our attacks haven’t been working.”

In another lengthy exchange, aides debated various ways to repair the damage with gay rights activists angry over Mrs. Clinton’s long-stated -- and dubious -- assertion that the Defense of Marriage Act, signed by her husband in 1996, was necessary to defuse political momentum toward a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

There was little evidence for her claim, the aides agreed, and gay rights advocates were frustrated that she continued to insist on it. Some aides suggested emphasizing her “evolution” on the issue. Another aide recommended a statement in which Mrs. Clinton would admit she was wrong. But Mr. Schwerin said Mrs. Clinton would resist.

“I think everyone agrees we shouldn’t restate her argument,” he wrote. “Question is whether she’s going to agree to explicitly disavow it. And I doubt it.”

A few days later, at a presidential forum, Mrs. Clinton revised her explanation but fell short of admitting a mistake. “Thinking back on it, those were private conversations that people did have” about a potential constitutional amendment, she said. She added, “If I’m wrong about the public debate, I obviously take responsibility for that.”

In another email chain, from March 2015, four aides fine-tuned and sought State Department approval for a Twitter post in which Mrs. Clinton would address for the first time revelations that she had used a private email server during her tenure at the State Department.

By August 2015, when Mrs. Clinton agreed to publicly apologize for exclusively using a private server, her lawyer, David Kendall of Williams & Connolly, vetted Mrs. Clinton’s belabored statement of remorse. “Maybe it’s only me, but ‘hand over’ seems a little pejorative -- how about just ‘turn over’?” Mr. Kendall said, referring to Mrs. Clinton’s explanation that she had provided 30,000 emails.

One misstep, he warned, and people will say, “There they go again -- misleading, devious, non-transparent, tricky, etc.”

Mr. Podesta’s correspondence also provides fresh insight into his rarefied role as the de facto head of a sprawling political and philanthropic operation with dueling fiefs and family members. When an outside group headed by David Brock, a Clinton ally, signaled plans to demand that Mr. Sanders release his health records, drawing Mrs. Clinton into an unwelcome spat, another Clinton adviser, Neera Tanden, wrote to Mr. Podesta to grouse.

“Maybe he actually is a Republican plant,” Ms. Tanden said of Mr. Brock, a self-described former “right-wing hit man.”

Dramas within the campaign aside, Mr. Podesta wrestled with public criticism of the Clinton Foundation and a bitter rift that broke out between Chelsea Clinton and Douglas J. Band, a longtime aide to her father.

“She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do,” Mr. Band wrote to Mr. Podesta in November 2011, after Mrs. Clinton had begun to exert influence at her family’s foundation.

“Doug apparently kept telling my dad I was trying to push him out, take over,” Mrs. Clinton told Mr. Podesta.

The emails showed that the old tensions between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama’s inner circle occasionally surfaced. In a June 2015 email, Huma Abedin celebrated that Mrs. Clinton, who at the time was hoping to shore up her populist credentials, had “smacked down POTUS on trade and kept kicking for a little bit.”

That year, the campaign faced another headache as it heard escalating chatter that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. would mount his own campaign for president. Donors phoned in reports on Mr. Biden’s behind-the-scenes maneuvers to advisers like Ms. Tanden, a longtime policy aide to Mrs. Clinton, who relayed them back to Mr. Podesta.

Steve Elmendorf, a lobbyist and longtime Clinton backer, emailed her campaign manager to warn about one supporter in particular: Linda Lipsen, the head of the American Association for Justice, a trade group for trial lawyers, who was working to make sure members of the group did not back Mr. Biden, but who felt neglected by the Clinton campaign.

“I get multiple freak out calls every morning and I try to talk everyone off the ledge and not bug u all,” Mr. Elmendorf wrote. “But linda is in a different category.”

Meanwhile, elected officials who supported Mr. Sanders over Mrs. Clinton often felt the wrath of the Clinton network. When Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii resigned her position at the Democratic National Committee to endorse Mr. Sanders, two longtime Clinton supporters wrote to Ms. Gabbard to say they would no longer raise money for her. They also forwarded the email to Ms. Abedin and Mr. Podesta.

“Hammed dropped!” they exulted, with a typo, clearly meaning “hammer.”

John D. Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, in Washington last week. The emails released on Monday were believed to have been obtained by hackers who breached his account: photo by Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse, 10 October 2016

The Benghazi attack was certainly preventable. "Anyone but Clinton" #podestaemails #Clinton #Election2016 @wikileaks: image via PK @pkellyshock, 10 October 2016

#podestaemails2: image via PK @pkellyshock, 10 October 2016

Hillary Clinton arriving in Detroit for a campaign event on Monday: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 10 October 2016

LEBANON - A Lebanese Christian believer flashes his religious tattoos as he poses for a picture in Beirut. By @PatrickBaz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

JERUSALEM - An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his family as they perform the Kapparot ceremony. By @menahemkahana #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 October 2016

somewhere around here the confused sardine became roadkill

$headlights, Marin Avenue, Berkeley, February 11, 2011 | by /\/\ichael Patric|{$

Headlights, Marin Avenue, Berkeley, February 11, 2011. Near Ensenada Avenue.: photo by Michael Patrick, 11 February 2011

Mt. Taranaki, NZ. This shot was taken soon after dawn from Mokau, looking SW across the North Taranaki bight to Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont, as it was subsequently named by Captain James Cook.: photo by bobsan88, 20 April 2016

Trying on rings (Alameda, California): photo by efo, 2 October 2016

Happiness

I didn't mean it that way. No blame. I have you to thank for your continuous applicability.

You have been sufficient unto every day. That's an awful lot of days I have you to thank for

but I keep thinking about that confused sardine who said later

as well as our earlier revels

back in the day when it was said you were an actress

that was the day before the access

past reason hated expressway ran straight through here, and the mad possessed traffic,

when it should have been said

a bliss in proof to make the taker mad is well worth the expense of spirit

and I have you to thank for your beauty and for your patience

and you have me to thank for... uh your uh... shame

and I have you to thank for happiness

Conversations with a swan (Alameda, California): photo by efo, 2 October 2016

Ice cream truck (Richmond, California): photo by efo, September 2016

mid-San Francisco Bay | by franciscophile

mid-San Francisco Bay [seen from Berkeley]: photo by franciscophile, 1 January 1980

Northern Bay: San Francisco to Mt.Tamalpias | by wbaiv

Northern Bay: San Francisco to Mt. Tamalpais. Berkeley, University Avenue in foreground.: photo by Bill Abbott, 30 April 2011

LS: photo by jokin lara, 13 September 2016

A flooded building is pictured after Hurricane Matthew passes in Lumberton, North Carolina, U.S., October 11, 2016.

A flooded building is pictured after Hurricane Matthew passes in Lumberton, North Carolina: photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters, 11 October 2016

Heavy rain pours as the body of a man killed by unidentified gunmen riding motorcycles is left in a narrow alley in Manila, Philippines early October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj TEMPLATE OUT

Heavy rain pours as the body of a man killed by unidentified gunmen riding motorcycles is left in a narrow alley in Manila, Philippines: photo Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 11 October 2016

A Malaysian youth jumps while inline skating at a park in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur: photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP, 11 October 2016

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army take part in a battle against the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the northern Syrian village of Yahmoul in the Marj Dabiq area north of the embattled city of Aleppo on October 10, 2016. Syria's main opposition group called Monday for foreign allies to supply rebel forces with ground-to-air weapons to counter deadly air raids in Aleppo. / AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-KhatibNAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army take part in a battle against the Islamic State group jihadists in the northern Syrian village of Yahmoul in the Marj Dabiq area north of the embattled city of Aleppo: photo by Nazeer al-Khatib/AFP, 11 October 2016

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army take part in a battle against the Islamic State (IS) in Yahmoul @Aleppo #AFP Photo by @NazeerAlk: image via AFP Photo Department, 11 October 2016

A student gestures near a burning bus during clashes with riot police following a protest over University tuition fees on October 10, 2016 in Johannesburg. South African student protesters and police clashed in renewed violence in Johannesburg as attempts to re-open Wits University descended into running battles on campus. Protesters throwing rocks were dispersed by riot police using tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades as pressure ratchets up on campuses across the country over tuition fees. / AFP PHOTO / MUJAHID SAFODIENMUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images

A student gestures near a burning bus during clashes with riot police following a protest over University tuition fees in Johannesburg: photo by Mujahid Safodien/AFP, 11 October 2016

A riot policeman points at protesters hiding after FeesMustFall protest spills onto streets in Johannesburg. By @wesselsjohn1 #AFP: image via Sophie Chauveau @s_chauveauAFP, 11 October 2016

A student from Wits University is arrested after clashes with police forces during ongoing protests against the cost of higher education in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ministry of education announced a 8 percent increase of university fees following calls by student demonstrators of a zero percent increase. The violent protests have spread to many of the countries higher education campuses and have been ongoing for several weeks.: photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA, 10 October 2016

he Kumari priest and his wife escort Jibika Bajracharya, the newly appointed child goddess Kumari, through the streets on October 7, 2016 in Bhaktapur, Nepal. The Bhaktapur Kumari is a living child goddess and is an ancient tradition in Kathmandu Valley as devotees worship the newly appointed child goddess in order to receive blessings from ancestors or deities. As the new Kumari of Bhaktapur, Jibika Bajracharya performs her role in public during the 15-day long Dashain festival while spending the rest of the year as a goddess living a normal life with her parents at home until she is replaced at 11 years old. (Photo by Tom Van Cakenberghe/Getty Images)

The Kumari priest and his wife escort Jibika Bajracharya, the newly appointed child goddess Kumari, through the streets in Bhaktapur, Nepal. As the new Kumari of Bhaktapur, she performs her role in public during the 15-day long Dashain festival while spending the rest of the year as a goddess living a normal life with her parents at home until she is replaced at 11 years old.: photo by Tom Van Cakenberghe, 7 October 2016

A priest in traditional attire takes part during of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 7, 2016.

A priest in traditional attire takes part in the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 7 October 2016

An #Afghan man who lost his father in a gunmen #attack weeps at the main gate of the Karte #Sakhi shrine in #Kabul #AFP: image via shahmarai @shahmarai, 11 October 2016

INDIA - Hindu devotees carry an idol of goddess Durga to be immersed near Sangam during Durga Puja festival in Allahabad. By @sanjaykanojia07: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 October 2016

Clinton on October 3 in Toledo, Ohio: photo by Benjamin Lowy for The New York Times, 11 October 2016

Multiple monitors in the press room Sunday at the second presidential debate: photo byTimothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse, 12 October 2016

This guy, at the rally with his wife and three kids, in his "She's A Cunt, Vote For Trump" shirt.: image via Sally Kohn @sallykohn, 10 October 2016

I disagree with Les. We always found good cunt at the Lyceum. Friendly cunt, clean cunt, spare cunt, jeans and knicker stuffed full of nice juicy hairy cunt, handfuls of cunt, palmful grabbing the cunt by the stem, or the root – infantile memories of cunt – backrow slides – slithery oily cunt, the cunt that breathes – the cunt that’s neatly wrapped in cotton, in silk, in nylon, that announces, that speaks or thrusts, that winks that’s squeezed in a triangle of furtive cloth backed by an arse that’s creamy, springy billowy cushiony tight, knicker lined, knicker skinned, circumscribed by flowers and cotton, by views, clinging knicker, juice ridden knicker, hot knicker, wet knicker, swelling vulva knicker, witty cunt, teeth smiling the eyes biting cunt, cultured cunt, culture vulture cunt, finger biting cunt, cunt that pours, cunt that spreads itself over your soft lips, that attacks, cunt that imagines – cunt you dream about, cunt you create as a Melba, a meringue with smooth sides – remembered from school boys’ smelly first cunt, first foreign cunt, amazing cunt – cunt that’s cruel. Cunt that protects itself and makes you want it even more cunt – cunt that smells of the air, of the earth, of bakeries, of old apples, of figs, of sweat of hands of sour yeast of fresh fish cunt. So – are we going Les? We might pick up a bit of crumpet. - Steven Berkoff [1937-]: East (1975), Scene 17

An Iowa house displays a poster of Hillary Clinton behind bars...: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 October 2016

... after displaying this Donald Trump photo in January: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 October 2016

Indian Shia Muslim men flagellate themselves during the mourning procession on the tenth day of Muharram, which marks the day of Ashura, in Chennai: photo by Arun Sankar/AFP, 12 October 2016

IRAQ - Shiites perform during reenactment of Battle of Karbala, as part of a parade in period of Ashura in Baghdad. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 October 2016

NEPAL - Young priests stand near Baramahini Temple during tenth day of Dashain (Durga Puja) in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. By @PrakashMathema: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 October 2016

INDIA - A clay idol of goddess Durga floats in the Mahananda river in Siliguri at the end of the Durga Puja festival. By @DIPTENDUTTA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 October 2016

Indian scavengers look for coins and re-usable items amongst the religious offerings and wooden frames of idols of goddess Durga which are piled up in the Yamuna river in New Delhi: photo by Prakash Singh/AFP, 12 October 2016

A woman grieves as a family member was shot by unknown assianlants on a street on October 10, 2016 in Manila, Philippines. The Duterte administration shifted to the next phase on its war on drugs after the first 100 days of President Rodrigo Duterte as over 3,700 people have been killed while more than 700,000 drug dependents surrendered to authorities. According to reports, Duterte received an "excellent" rating for his war on drugs during a recent opinion, with 84 percent of Filipinos respondents said they are satisfied with the drug crackdown. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images)

A woman grieves after a family member was shot by unknown assailants on a street on in Manila, Philippines: photo by Dondi Tawatao, 12 August 2016

A man walks for a street without light due to a power failure in the wake of Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, Haiti, 11 October 2016. The category 4 hurricane made landfall in the country on 04 October, leaving more than 900 people dead and thousands displaced. According to the United Nations, in the wake of the hurricane a cholera outbreak has spread throughout the population. EPA/ORLANDO BARRIA

A man walks in a street without light due to a power failure in the wake of Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, Haiti: photo by Orlando Barria/EPA, 12 October 2016

Ya know... ya know... [HRC with Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein]: photo by Stephen Chernin/AFP via the Intercept, 7 October 2016

Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches to Goldman Sachs Finally Released: Lee Fang, Zaid Jilani, Aex Emmons and Naomi LaChance, The Intercept, 7 October 2016

Excerpts of Clinton’s remarks during paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and other groups were leaked online Friday afternoon by WikiLeaks. Clinton, who was paid upwards of $225,000 per speech, earned more than $22 million on the paid speaking circuit after resigning as secretary of state.

The excerpts are revealed in an email from Tony Carrk, the research director of the Clinton campaign, to John Podesta, the campaign chairman, and other top campaign officials. Carrk, who did not respond to a request for comment, highlighted in the memo the most politically damaging quotes from each paid speech, under headers including “CLINTON ADMITS SHE IS OUT OF TOUCH,” “CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY,” and “CLINTON REMARKS ARE PRO KEYSTONE AND PRO TRADE.”

The wealth Clinton accumulated was a topic at the paid events.

Discussing middle class economic anxieties, Clinton told a crowd at a Goldman Sachs-sponsored speech that she is now “kind of far removed because the life I’ve lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven’t forgotten it.”

But the discussions were also an opportunity for Clinton to speak candidly about policy, politics, and her approach to governing.

Touching on her view of developing financial regulations, Clinton declared to a crowd of Goldman Sachs bankers that in order to “figure out what works,” the “people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.”

At the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Summit, Clinton responded to a question from chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, who quipped that you “go to Washington” to “make a small fortune.” Clinton agreed with the comment and complained about ethics rules that require officials to divest from certain assets before entering government. “There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives,” Clinton said.

At a speech for Morgan Stanley on April 18, 2013, Clinton praised the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan — which would reduce corporate tax rates while raising the Social Security age. “But Simpson-Bowles — and I know you heard from Erskine earlier today — put forth the right framework. Namely, we have to restrain spending, we have to have adequate revenues, and we have to incentivize growth. It’s a three-part formula,” she said.

Clinton also told a housing trade group in 2013 that on certain issues, she has “a public and a private position.” “If everybody’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least,” said Clinton. “So, you need both a public and a private position.”

The Intercept was the first media outlet to ask Clinton directly if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. When approached at an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Clinton laughed off the question.

The issue was raised again during the Democratic primary debates and in other media events. In February of this year, the New York Times editorial board called for Clinton to release her speech transcripts, declaring that voters “have every right to know what Mrs. Clinton told these groups.”

According to reports, the campaign reviewed the speech transcripts but decided against releasing them out of fear that she would appear too friendly to banks and other donor interest groups.

Audio obtained by The Intercept last week showed Clinton dismissing the concept of free health care during another private event with donors.

"Our" Next President: An Atmosphere You Can Trust

fall day [Park Ridge, Illinois] : photo by Colleeen McMahon, 24 October 2009

The Newberry Library's Encyclopedia of Chicago reports that in 1960 the almost exclusively white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois had a population of 32,659. 32,623 of these citizens were White. Five were "Negro". Thirty years later, in 1990, once again the overwhelming majority of residents of the comfortable little suburb were listed as Whites. By these later, relatively enlightened times, however, "Negroes" had evidently vanished entirely from Park Ridge. No, wait -- now there were, mirabile dictu, a few... yes,"Blacks". A grand total of nine. Along with 35,225 persisting Whites.

This is where the future President of the Hemisphere (At Least) grew up.

Where she learned about life, where her views were formed. Her family, her friends, here.

Could this winning little chap with the cool two-tone low-emission people-powered mini-Oldsmobile convertible have been an early Hillary flame?

'59. Location is south side of Marlowe, Ave., facing east two houses from West Park (Centennial Park) [Park Ridge, Illinois]: photo by Michael Dennis, 2 November 2009

Before going off to to college at the highly privileged all-white women's school Wellesley, and while still a student at the local high school, Hillary Rodham did her first political work as a volunteer for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the run-up to the 1964 presidential election. She has credited her father and her high school history teacher, both fervent anti-communists, along with her Methodist youth minister, with shaping her early political... um... thought, would it be called?

These are photos of the streets on which Hillary Rodham Clinton grew up. She has described her early life as a scene of hardship and struggle. Right. Below are photos of the solid upper middle-class home she grew up in; her Corner, where, perhaps, in autumn, she kicked the leaves falling from the shade trees that lined the pleasant White-only suburban streets (built up, by the way, on land that had not too long before belonged to the Potawatami tribe); as well as a few shots of other, similar homes in the family's safe, clean, no-surprises100% Murican Suburban-Normal neighbourhood.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's childhood home | by Zol87

Hillary Rodham Clinton's family home, 235 N. Wisner Street, Park Ridge, Illinois 60608: photo by Zol87, 4 November 2010

Harrison Ford's Childhood Home | by Zol87

Harrison Ford's family home, 900 N. Washington Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60608: photo by Zol87, 29 October 2010

Rodham Corner, 235 N. Wisner Street, Park Ridge, Illinois: photo by Zol87, 4 November 2010

Just up the block from the leafy quietude of Rodham Corner, this home would make a perfect site for an HRC Museum. 5 beds 5 baths, 4230 square feet, beautifully staged with sweeping grand-style interior staircase straight out of the movies, an absolute steal at $1,190,000! Just drop a check and -- the jointcan be yours tomorrow!

And then like, ya know, Goodnight Moon!!

We are looking for a buyer on 738 N. Wisner #ParkRidge #IL #realestate: image via KW Realty Partners @KWRealtyPartner, 12 October 2016

Okay, butcan all this possibly be real?

This fairytale fabrication of a "presidential" persona -- an endlessly children-caring-for humanitarian,entirely free ofmonetizing greed or personal ambition, bent only on doing stuff for kids, caught up in her own fairy tale...-- and this fairy tale colluded in, perpetrated, promulgated, elaborated, constantly reconstructed and helpfully edited and reiteratedby a fawning, trembling, breathlessly obedient and compliant "press corps" always making sure to "check with the campaign" before publishing even the most innocuous fact, the most harmless quote -- can this really work as, like, a biopic screenplay?

I mean, story conferencing for a moment now... where's the, like... ya know, the tension, in this remarkable construction?

The dark passages in between the excruciating paralyzed fake smiles?The rare interstitial truth-snatch glimpses of don't-bother-me faux-regal RBF apartness? The frozen euphoric get-the-money photo-op mouthbreathing face-en-face with Lloyd Blankfein at $225,000-per-hour?The thronging, shrieking smartphone selfies, the billion yaknows, the forever identitarian facebook strategizing of gender-as-faux-ideology?The total wall-to-wall control??

Dramatic?

Really, Park Ridge could only carry this act so far. It was only, ya know, like, Park Ridge, after all.

It happened that during HRC's comfortable suburban salad years in Chicago, as was so often the case in the larger cities of Murica in those lost-century years, there existed a great concentration of far less fortunate black people, dwelling in the inner city sections.

These citizens didn't (would have been crazy to attempt to) set foot in Park Ridge, of course.

Still they were there.

Evidently at some point young HRC was made aware of this. Right. The practise field upon which her exploration of social justice would be played out. There it was, arrayed before her, as it were -- the black urban experience in America, that is. Empathy, compassion, the deep caring -- for her, it would all have started there.

And the rest is, ya know, history.

“I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton!”

A Black Lives Matter activist identified as Ashley Williams holds a sign referencing a statement Hillary Clinton made during a 1996 speech: YouTube screenshot via he Root, 25 February 2016

BLM Activist Confronts Hillary Clinton During Fundraiser in SC: A Black Lives Matter activist identified as Ashley Williams wanted the Democratic presidential candidate to explain some comments she made in 1996 that Williams believes encouraged mass incarceration: Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 25 February 2016

A Black Lives Matter activist confronted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a fundraiser in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday.

The protester, identified as Ashley Williams, paid $500 to attend the function while holding a sign that read, “We have to bring them to heel,” a reference to a speech Clinton made in 1996 in which she claimed that kids in gangs were “superpredators.”

During the January 1996 speech, which took place in Keene, N.H., Clinton, while discussing the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, noted that the government needed an “organized effort against gangs, just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels. They are not just gangs of kids anymore,” she said.

“They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators.”

She continued: “No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel, and the president has asked the FBI to launch a very concerted effort against gangs everywhere.”

“I’m not a superpredator, Hillary Clinton,” Williams says to her in a video of the incident that was posted on YouTube.

“OK, fine, we’ll talk about it,” a visibly annoyed Clinton says.

“Can you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?” Williams asks.

“Can I talk, and then maybe you can listen to what I say?” Clinton then asks.

Clinton tries to tell the 100 or so donors gathered at the event about the speech she gave in 1996 when Williams shouts, “You called black people superpredators.”

“You want to hear the facts or do you just want to talk?” Clinton asks.

The back-and-forth between the protester and the Democratic presidential hopeful continues until Williams is escorted out of the event.

“Umm, OK, back to the issues that I think are important,” Clinton says while donors applaud.

“We Have To Bring Them To HeeI”

An oblivious Hillary Clinton yaks away to rich honkie donors as Ashley Williams unfurls her $500 protest banner: image by Youtube via Salon, 25 February 2016

“I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary!”: Black Lives Matter protestors confront Clinton at South Carolina fundraiser: Ashley Williams donated $500 to deliver a message directly to Clinton: Sophia Tesfaye, Salon, 25 February 2016

At a private Charleston, South Carolina, residence, surrounded by around 100 supporters, Hillary Clinton was interrupted by a Black Lives Matter activist who unfurled a sign quoting the former first lady on so-called "Superpredators," the widely prevailing 1990s junk-science criminology that the usually African-American juvenile offenders of the time were irredeemable and would undoubtedly grow to terrorize communities.

“I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton,” the young Black Lives Matter activist said Wednesday night, holding a sign that read: “We have to bring them to heel” -- Hillary Clinton. The quote is from a January 25, 1996, speech by Clinton during which she promoted the concept of “community policing” in order to combat the growth of so-called “Superpredators.”

“They are not just gangs of kids anymore,” Clinton said in Keene, New Hampshire. “They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel”.

Clinton, who was in the middle of delivering remarks on the nearby Walter Scott shooting and South Carolina’s early adoption of body cameras for police officers, eventually noticed the activist and turned to read her own quote on the sign. Without indicating if she recognized her words, Clinton read them aloud before insisting that “we’ll talk about it.” Clinton has recently attempted to distance herself from her advocacy of her husband’s tough on crime policies after increased scrutiny and criticism.

“Can you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?” the activist asked Clinton.

“Can I talk and then maybe you can listen to what I say,” Clinton replied, as the mostly white crowd began hissing at the heckler.

Hillary Clinton Goes ‘Full-Bitch’ On Black Lives Matter Activist: image by Youtube via DownTrend, 25 February 2016

Eerie Autumn Along the Line of Control

When Ravan's were burnt in country on #SpecialVijay aDashami, Fidayeen Development Institute (FDI) oops EDI was burnt in #Srinagar #Kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 11 October 2016

Flames and Smoke blowing From #EDI #Pampore building following IED blasts during an ongoing encounter in #Srinagar #Kashmir #KashmirUnrest: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 11 October 2016

On Monday, two-three terrorists stormed the Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Pampore and have been holed in ever since. Army and other security forces are using mortar shells, light machine guns and other weaponry to flush out the terrorists.: photo by Umar Ganie via Rediff News, 12 October 2016

A joint operation by the army, the Special Operations Group of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force have been pounding the building continuously to ensure that the terorists can't escape the building.: photo by Umar Ganie via Rediff News, 12 October 2016

The building has been reduced to its skeletal form after the firing. The seven-storey building is a symbol of development in the Valley, offering the youth vocational training.: photo by Umar Ganie via Rediff News, 12 October 2016

This is not the first time that the EDI building has been targetted. The main building of the institute was attacked in February when militants captured it and launched a major attack on forces. Six persons -- a civilian, three soldiers and two paramilitary troopers -- were killed then before the three militants were shot dead.: photo by S Irfan/PTI via Rediff News, 12 October 2016

The attack on the EDI building comes after India launched surgical strikes on terror launchpads across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on September 28: photo by S Orfan/PTI via Rediff News, 12 October 2016

A #Kashmiri girl protester waving her arms inscribed with the names of #BurhanWani and #Pakistan with Mehndi during a protest. #KashmirUnrest: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 6 October 2016

It's autumn in #Kashmir but I've never known it to be so eerie and forlorn this time of the year. 94 days since it shut down.: image via Sankarshan Thakur @SankarshanT, 10 October 2016

running on fumes

Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump dance at a campaign rally in Ocala, Florida, U.S., October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump dance at a campaign rally in Ocala, Florida, U.S.: photo by Mike Segar/Reuters, 12 October 2016

Civil defense members carry an injured man after an air strike in the rebel-held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Civil defense members carry an injured man after an air strike in the rebel-held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 12 October 2016

n Airbus airplane of Latam airlines crosses the sky over Cordoba, Argentina, on October 11, 2016.

An Airbus airplane of Latam airlines crosses the sky over Cordoba, Argentina: photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP, 12 October 2016

running on fumes. desert center, ca. 2014. | by eyetwist

running on fumes. desert center, ca. 2014: photo by eyetwist, 15 February 2014

Clinton in Fort Pierce, Florida: photo by Benjamin Lowy for The New York Times, 30 September 2016

LIVE: Hillary Clinton addresses supporters in New Hampshire. image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 2 February 2016

Can Hillary Clinton close the deal? #Election2016: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 February 2016

Hillary Clinton took a selfie with an employee as she visited workers at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 18 February 2016

Clinton won't release transcripts of paid speeches until other candidates do: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 20 February 2016

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton projected winner in Nevada caucus: Fox News #NVDemsCaucus: image via Reuters Politics @ReutersPolitics, 20 February 2016

VIDEO: "Thank you, Nevada" -- Clinton: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 20 February 2016

A Hillary Clinton supporter cheered at a rally at the Old South Meeting House in Boston: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 29 February 2016

Hillary Clinton...Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd as she arrives to speak at a "Get Out The Vote" campaign rally in Norfolk, S.C., Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd as she arrives to speak at a “Get Out The Vote” campaign rally in Norfolk, Virginia: photo by Gerald Herbert/AP, 1 March 2016

local actors

A migrant is rescued after the rubber boat he was in sunk some eight nautical miles off Libya's Mediterranean coastline on October 12, 2016. A growing number of people are attempting the treacherous sea journey from Libya or Egypt, after the closure of the Balkan migrant trail route leading from Greece to western Europe. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINISARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images

A migrant is rescued after the rubber boat he was in sunk some eight nautical miles off Libya's Mediterranean coastline: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 13 October 2016

Locals wash clothes in Port Salut southwest of Port-au-Prince, on October 12, 2016, following the passage of Hurricane Matthew. A week after Matthew tore through the country, many remote areas communities were still left to their own devices. Families with destroyed homes and shattered livelihoods waited and prayed for help. / AFP PHOTO / RODRIGO ARANGUARODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images

Locals wash clothes in Port Salut southwest of Port-au-Prince a week after hurricane Matthew tore through the country: photo Rodrigo Arangua/AFP, 13 October 2016

Journalists prepare their equipment prior to a press conference to announce the laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden: photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP, 13 October 2016

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at Civil Rights March on Washington: photographer unknown, 28 August 1963 (U.S. Information Agency)

Local actors dressed as ancient warriors re-enact a scene from the 7th century battle of Kerbala during commemoration in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq: photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters, 13 October 2016

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Local actors dressed as ancient warriors re-enact a scene from the 7th century battle of Kerbala during commemoration in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq: photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters, 13 October 2016

A child peers out of her tent at the Souda municipality-run refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios on October 13, 2016. Greece is accommodating over 60,000 refugees and migrants stuck in the country after a succession of Balkan and EU states shut their borders earlier this year. / AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKILOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images

A child peers out of her tent at the Souda municipality-run refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP, 13 October 2016

A Thai well-wisher weeps as she is comforted by others during a prayer for Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s recovery at the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. According to media reports on Wednesday, the world’s longest reigning monarch, 88-years old Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is in unstable condition after undergoing blood dialysis at Bangkok’s Siriraj hospital. The king’s health has been carefully monitored in the country where the monarch is widely revered.: photo by Runggroj Yongrit/EPA, 13 October 2016

Hillary Clinton: photo by Benjamin Lowy for The New York Times, 11 October 2016

Dans la jungle de #Calais, 1300 mineurs isolés. Des défenseurs des droits des enfants se st rendus sur place #dessin: image via Elisa Perrigueur @ElisaPerrigueur, 13 October 2016

Yvald Saint Joy bathes in his backyard littered with debris caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Sous-Roche, outside Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. With little to no outside help arriving a week after Hurricane Matthew, residents have set to work chopping up and burning debris, and creating makeshift partial roofs from salvaged pieces of mangled sheet metal. Saint Joy said he had done the patchwork roof repair himself on the house he shares with his father and two younger siblings. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell): Image via AP images @AP_images, 13 October 2016

A Syrian mother carries her baby girl in a cooking pot at #Ritsona #refugee camp north of #Athens, Oct. 12, 2016. #APPhotoby @PGiannakouris: Image via AP images @AP_images, 13 October 2016

Haitians struggle after #Hurricane Matthew devastation @CheryHaiti @rblackwell: Image via AP images @AP_images, 13 October 2016

HAITI - A Hurricane Matthew victim sits after receiving food from the UN's World Food Programme in Roche-a-Bateaux. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department@AFPphoto, 13 October 2016

#VUT students hide behind mattresses during clashes with police during #FeesMustFall protests in #SouthAfrica #AFPphoto @SafodienMujahid: image via AFP Photo Department@AFPphoto, 13 October 2016

Scenes of devastation as the siege of Aleppo continues. A still image from video taken October 12, 2016 of a general view of the bomb-damaged Old City area of Aleppo, Syria.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 13 October 2016

Rebel fighters arrive in Idlib following their evacuation from Qudssaya and al-Hamah, neighbourhoods of the Syrian capital, on October 14, 2016. / AFP PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images

Rebel fighters arrive in Idlib following their evacuation from Qudssaya and al-Hamah, neighbourhoods of the Syrian capital: photo by AFP, 14 October 2016

gAn attendee gives the thumbs up while wearing a Donald Trump mask during a campaign event for Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Trump rebuffed political aides' requests to research his past, people familiar with the matter said, a decision that contributed to his campaign being caught unprepared for the past week's barrage of claims he mistreated women. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

An attendee gives the thumbs up while wearing a Donald Trump mask during a campaign event for Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee: photo by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg, 14 October 2016

Labourers lift a sack of potatoes to load onto a supply truck at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

Labourers lift a sack of potatoes to load onto a supply truck at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 14 October 2016

Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at the Colorado State Fair grounds in Pueblo on Wednesday. The candidate is keeping a relatively low profile, content for her rival to remain in the glare of the spotlight.: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 13 October 2016

Protesters chant slogans in front of a barricade during a protest demanding free education, at the Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijlpark South Africa: photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters, 13 October 2016

Shah Marai: When hope is gone

When hope is gone. @shahmarai on the 15 years since US-led intervention in #Afghanistan @AFPblogs: image via AFP Correspondent @AFPblogs, 14 October 2016

Shah Marai: When hope is gone: AFP Correspondent @AFPblogs, 14 October 2016

Kabul -- The time after the American invasion was a time of great hope. The golden years. After the darkness of the Taliban rule, Afghanistan finally seemed to be on the road to a better life. But today, fifteen years later, that hope has vanished and life seems to be even harder than before.

Afghan policemen stand guard at a market destroyed by a powerful truck bomb in Kabul on August 7, 2015.

Aftermath of a truck bomb attack on a market in Kabul, August, 2015: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, August 2015

I began working as a photographer for AFP under the Taliban, in 1998.

Taliban fighters and Kabul residents watch as surgeons cut off a thief's hand at the national stadium in Kabul, under Taliban rule. August, 1998: photo by Stefan Smith / AFP, August 1998

They hated journalists, so I was always very discreet -- I always made sure to put on the traditional shalwar kameez outfit when going outside and I took pictures with a small camera that I hid in a scarf wrapped around my hand. The Taliban restrictions made it extremely difficult to work -- they forbid the photographing of all living things, for example, be they men or animals.

One day I was taking pictures of a line outside a bakery. Life at the time was hard, people were without work, prices were going through the roof. Some Taliban approached me.

“What are you doing?” they demanded.

“Nothing,” I answered. “I’m taking pictures of the bread!”

Luckily this was in the age before digital cameras, so they couldn’t check to make sure I was telling the truth.

An Afghan woman sits by the bread she received from a UN subsidized backery in Kabul 13 June 2001

Afghan woman with bread, Kabul: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, June 2001

I rarely put my name on my photos at the time, I just signed them “stringer,” so as not to draw unwanted attention to myself.

Left alone

AFP didn’t really have a bureau here back then, we had a house in the same neighborhood, Wazir Akbar Khan, that we do today. Special envoys would take turns coming here, and we would regularly go to the frontline on the Shomali Plain, where the Northern Alliance was holding out against the Taliban. Aside from the BBC, only the three agencies, -- AFP, AP and Reuters -- remained in the city. Then in 2000 all of the foreigners were finally chased out and I was left alone to hold down the fort at AFP’s bureau. I would phone in information to the Islamabad bureau with a satellite phone.

I watched the September 11 attacks on the BBC, not thinking for a second that there would be possible repercussions for Afghanistan. It was the Islamabad bureau that warned me some days later: “Rumors are that the Americans are going to attack.”

Taliban figthters Tuesday try to repair their broken military tank in the Afghan capital, Kabul, 02 October 2001.

Taliban fighters try to repair a broken tank in Kabul, in anticipation of a possible US attack: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, 2 October 2001

The bombings began less than a month later, on October 7, targeting the city of Kandahar near the Pakistani border, that the Taliban had made as their capital.

AFP correspondent Shah Marai during the time of Taliban rule, when beards were mandatory for men: photo courtesy of Shah Marai

I was in the middle of phoning in the information to Islamabad when I heard the planes over Kabul. The first bombs were dropped near the airport. I didn’t sleep that night, but I couldn’t go outside.

The following morning I headed to the airport in my car. Not far from it, I came across a group of several dozen Taliban fighters, dressed in black.

One of them approached me. “Listen, I’m nice today so I’m not going to kill you, but get out of here right away.”

I turned around, drove back and left my car at the office. The city was deserted. I came back with my bike, like an ordinary guy, a scarf wrapped around my hand to hide my camera. I took six photos that day, just six. I ended up sending two of them.

Coming out from the shadows

Then one morning, the Taliban were gone, vanishing into thin air. You should have seen it. The streets were filled with people. It was like people were coming out from the shadows into the light of life again.

Afghani women walk in Kabul, 14 November 2001. It was forbidden for women to appear outdoors without close male relatives just a few days ago, before the capture of the city by the Northern Alliance forces 13 November.

Afghani women walk in Kabul on 14 November 2001. Just a few days before, before the Taliban were chased out, they were forbidden to go outside without close male relatives.: photo by Alexander Nemenov / AFP, 14 November 2001

Colleagues began arriving in droves. AFP sent a text reporter and a photographer from Moscow right away and before you knew it, there were a dozen of us. Kabul became Journalistan. The office was never empty.

I helped out everybody, be it to find lodging, a car, a fixer, or a best way to get somewhere. My best friend opened the Sultan Guesthouse, the first one in Kabul and asked me to join him in the venture. I should have, he ended up making a fortune!

Northern Alliance soldiers wave, moving to a front line, 12 November 2001, passing by the town of Baghram, some 25 kms north from Kabul.

Soldiers of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance wave on November 12, 2001, a few days before they triumphantly entered Kabul after the fall of the Taliban: photo by Alexander Nemenov / AFP, 12 November 2001

It was incredible to see all those foreigners after all the years of isolation under the Taliban. They came from everywhere, and groups of children would run ahead of them on the streets. I remember one young man, holding a dollar, repeating over and over: “It’s the first dollar that I’ve ever held!”

A brief time of hope

It was a time of great hope. The golden years. No fighting in the city. The streets were filled with troops from Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Turkey. The soldiers would patrol the city on foot, saying hello, relaxed and smiling. I could photograph them as much as I wanted.

You could travel anywhere, south, east, west. Everywhere was safe.

Local residents shout 'Allah Akbar' 13 November 2001 in Kabul, after Northern Alliance captured the capital.

Kabul residents celebrate on November 13, 2001 after the Taliban were chased from the capital: photo by Alexander Nemenov / AFP, 13 November 2001

And then in 2004, the Taliban came back. First in the Ghazni province in the southeast. Then in 2005 and 2006, they began to spread out, like a virus. Then the attacks started in Kabul, targeting places frequented by foreigners. The party was over.

A relative (C) is comforted as he weeps alongside unseen shoes and other belongings of those who were killed in the twin suicide attack, at a mosque in Kabul on July 24, 2016

Mourning victims of a twin suicide attack at a mosque in Kabul: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, July 2016

Today the Taliban are again everywhere and we are stuck in Kabul most of the time. T-Walls, those concrete blocks designed to protect against booby-trapped cars and trucks, have sprouted all over the city. People are no longer friendly toward someone with a camera. Often they become aggressive. People don’t trust anyone, especially someone working for a foreign news agency -- ‘are you a spy?” they ask.

There is no more hope

Fifteen years after the American intervention, the Afghans find themselves without money, without work, just with the Taliban at their doorstep. With the withdrawal of essential Western troops in 2014, many foreigners have left and have been forgotten, as have the billions of dollars poured into this country.

An Afghan man who lost his father in a gunmen attack weeps at the main gate of the Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 12, 2016.

An Afghan man who lost his father in an attack weeps at the main gate of the Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, October 2016

I long for those years, immediately following the arrival of the Americans. Of course the city has changed a lot since 2001. New buildings have been built, large avenues have replaced tiny streets. The signs of war have all but disappeared -- except for the old Darulaman royal palace, you won’t see a ruin in the city. The stores are full and you can find almost anything.

But there is no more hope. Life seems to be even more difficult than under the Taliban because of the insecurity. I don’t dare to take my children for a walk. I have five and they spend their time cooped up inside the house. Every morning as I go to the office and every evening when I return home, all I think of are cars that can be booby-trapped, or of suicide bombers coming out of a crowd. I can’t take the risk. So we don’t go out. I remember all too well my friend and colleague Sardar, who was killed with his wife and two daughters while on an outing at a hotel, with only his small son somehow surviving the attack.

I have never felt life to have so little prospects and I don’t see a way out. It’s a time of anxiety.

This blog was written with Anne Chaon in Kabul and translated by Yana Dlugy in Paris

Afghan and foreign security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 17, 2015.

Aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul: photo by Shah Marai / AFP, May 2015

"All I want to do..."

Trinidad, Colorado: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

Portales, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

High Plains buffalo wallow, shallow depression in level surface of country underlain by the Oglalla formation, 1897: photo by Willard Drake Johnson, from US Geological Survey, 1920 (USGS)

All I want to do
is to go
back to
Pueblo
and let the wind blow
right through me
in the parking lot
by the Trailways Depot

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1940s Continental Trailways bus depot sign: photo via Forever Trailways Memories

Sacred Passage: photo by Hengki Koentjoro, 7 January 2011

Botanical Garden: photo by Hengki Koentjoro, 7 January 2011

Obispo: photo by Hengki Koentjoro, 21 August 2016

Petite | by Hengki Koentjoro

Petite: photo by Hengki Koentjoro, 12 October 2016

Grey [Hiddensee]: photo by Ronny-1976, 18 July 2016

Memorial (Crockett, California): photo by efo, September 2016

Cloudscape (Acorn Industrial, Oakland, California): photo by efo, September 2016

Mrs. Clinton speaks on Wednesday at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 13 October 2016

EXT. TRAIN - DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN

Suburban Connecticut, outside of New York City, 1973. The
still after a terrible storm. Trees dripping, their branches
torn, the air warming just before the break of a new day. The
train lies dark and motionless, a few flashing yellow
emergency lights up front, as a work crew removes debris from
the track.

INT. TRAIN. PRE-DAWN

Various passengers, huddled uncomfortably, cold, asleep.

On Paul Hood, 15-and-a-half, stoner-preppie look, hunched up
in his seat under the faint emergency exit light. He reads
his Fantastic Four comic book by the pale light of the
emergency exit sign.

Suddenly, the lights begin to flicker on and the hum of the
train's engines returns.

The conductor enters the car, blasting forth in his classic
nasal voice.

CONDUCTOR
	Good morning ladies and gentlemen --

He sounds like a baseball announcer.

			PASSENGERS
		(mumbling, ad lib)
	What ladies?

			CONDUCTOR
	-- this train originating at New
	York's Grand Central Station is
	back in service - next stop will be
	New Canaan, Connecticut. New
	Canaan, Connecticut, next stop!

He moves on to the next car.

The train begins to move.

Paul rubs his elbow against the window and looks out into the
still-dark early morning.

He looks back down at his comic book.

On the comic book: Reed Richards (also known as Stretch) has
zapped his young son with a cosmic ray gun to neutralize the
destructive energy that Annihilus has implanted in him.

The Thing, Medusa, Flame, and Richards' wife Sue Storm look
on, stunned.

 
"THEN YOU'VE TURNED HIM INTO A
	VEGETABLE. YOUR OWN SON.""DON'T
	YOU SEE, SUE? HE WAS TOO
	POWERFUL... IF HIS ENERGY HAD
	CONTINUED TO BUILD, HE WOULD HAVE
	DESTROYED THE WORLD!"

Paul looks up again, thinking.

			PAUL (V.O.)
	In issue number 141 of The
	Fantastic Four, published in
	November 1973, Reed Richards has to
	use his anti-matter weapon on his
	own son, who Annihilus has turned
	into a human atom bomb. His son is
	the result of Richards' coupling
	with the earthling Sue Storm, and
	the problem is that the cosmic rays
	that infused Richards and the rest
	of the Fantastic Four on their
	aborted moon mission have made
	young Franklin a volatile mixture
	of matter and anti-matter.

EXT. TRAIN BRIDGE. PRE-DAWN

The train moves slowly through a suburban, semi-forested
landscape.

			PAUL (V.O.)
	And that's what it is to come from
	a family, if you analyze it
	closely. Each of them is negative
	matter for the other ones. And
	that's what dying is -- dying is
	when your family, which is in fact
	your personal negative matter from
	which you emerge -- it's when the
	family takes you back, thus hurling
	you back into negative space...

INT. TRAIN. CONT'D.

On Paul, as the sun breaks over the horizon. His face glows
warmly in the yellow light. He looks down idly at the comic
book.

			PAUL (V.O.)
	So it's a paradox -- the closer
	you're drawn back in, the further
	into the void you're thrown.

James Schamus: The Ice Storm, revised first draft screenplay (based on the novel by Rick Moody), 5 January 1996: opening scene

Masked students enter a building of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on Monday in a bid to shut down the campus as part of a protest over tuition fees: photo by Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse, 11 October 2016

A bull rider falls to the dirt during a competition at the Deni Ute Muster in Deniliquin, Australia: photo by Jason Reed / Reuters, 14 October 2016

Mrs. Clinton walks off her campaign plane into the sunset in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 12 October 2016

Observing Ashura in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday. The holiday is one of the most solemn on the Shiite calendar and commemorates the death of a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.: photo by Patrick Baz/Agence France-Presse, 13 October 2016

Mrs. Clinton campaigns on Tuesday with former Vice President Al Gore at Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus in Miami: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 12 October 2016

A small makeshift clinic in Rendel, Haiti, is overflowing with cholera patients: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

Some patients at the clinic were too sick to leave its stifling confines: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

Intravenous tubes dangled like translucent vines from the rafters of the clinic: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

Villagers carried Frisnel Louis to the clinic after he showed symptoms of cholera: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

A cholera patient in Rendel, Haiti, is bathed with soap and water mixed with bleach on Wednesday. The small clinic in Rendel is overflowing with cholera patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

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A cholera patient in Rendel, Haiti, is bathed with soap and water mixed with bleach on Wednesday. The small clinic in Rendel is overflowing with cholera patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

Fighters from Libyan forces allied with the U.N.backed government gesture as they advance into the last area controlled by Islamic State, in Sirte, Libya: photo by Ismail Zitouny, 14 October 2016

Fighters from Libyan forces allied with the U.N.backed government gesture as they advance into the last area controlled by Islamic State, in Sirte, Libya: photo by Ismail Zitouny, 14 October

Mrs. Clinton speaks on Monday at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 14 October 2016

Albert Almora Jr. of the Chicago Cubs dives in an unsuccessfulattempt to catch a drive by Conor Gillaspie of the San Francisco Giants in Game 3 of the National League division series: photo by Thearon W. Henderson, 12 October 2016

Ships in Distress in a Raging Storm: Ludolf Backhuysen, c. 1690, oil on tinplate, 150 x 227 cm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Thomas Wyat[t]: Sonnet:My galy charged with forgetfulness

My galy charged wth forgetfulness
..Thorrough sharpe sees in wynter nyghtes doeth pas
..Twene Rock and Rock and eke myne ennemy Alas
..That is my lorde sterith wth cruelnes
And every owre a thought in redines
..As tho that deth were light in suche a case
..An endles wynd doeth tere the sayll apase
..Of forced sighes and trusty ferefulnes
A rayn of teris a clowde of derk disdain
..Hath done the wered cordes great hinderaunce
..Wrethed wth error and eke wth ignoraunce
The starres be hid that led me to this pain
..Drowned is reason that should me confort
..And I remain despering of the port

Thomas Wyat[t] (1503-1542): Sonnet: My galy charged with forgetfulness (transcription from Egerton MS 2711, British Museum)

Watercolor illustration of the Ship from Marot's Visions de Pétrarque, based on Petrarch's Canzone 323: artist unknown, 16th c. Manuscript Phill. 1926 at Berlin Staatsbibliothek. from Bildindex der Kunst und Arkitektur; image by Michael Hurst, 27 November 2011

Frank O'Hara: To the Harbormaster

I wanted to besure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard aleewith my Polish rudder
in my hand and the sun sinking. To
you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage
of my will. The terrible channels where
the wind drives me against the brown lips
of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks, it may well be in answer
to the reasoningof the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you.

Frank O'Hara: To theHarbormaster, 1954, from Meditations in an Emergency, 1957

Illustration of the Ship from Marot's Visions de Pétrarque: artist unknown, c. 1540s; manuscript SMM2 at Univ. of Glasgow;scanned from Les Poetes Francais de la Renaissance et Petrarque; image by Michael Hurst, 20 September 2011

John Berryman: Sonnet 15

What was Ashore, then?... Cargoed with Forget,
My ship runs down a midnight winter storm
Between whirlpool and rock, and my white love's form
Gleams at the wheel, her hair streams. When we met
Seaward, Thought frank & guilty to each oar set
Hands careless of port as of the waters' harm.
Endless a wet wind wears my sail, dark swarm
Endless of sighs and veering hopes, love's fret.

Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn,
No rest accords the fraying shrouds, all thwart
Already with mistakes, foresight so short.
Muffled in capes of waves my clear signs, torn,
Hitherto most clear, -- Loyalty and Art.
And I begin now to despair of port.

.............................................(AFTER PETRARCH & WYATT)

John Berryman: Sonnet 15, from Sonnets for Chris, 1952, published as Berryman's Sonnets, 1967

Watercolor illustration of the Ship from Marot's Visions de Pétrarque, based on Petrarch's Canzone 323: artist unknown, 16th c. Manuscript Phill. 1926 at Berlin Staatsbibliothek. from Bildindex der Kunst und Arkitektur; image by Michael Hurst, 27 November 2011

Petrarch: Rime CLXXXIX (Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio)

Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio

..Per aspro mare, a mezza notte, il verno,

..In fra Scillo e Cariddi; et al governo

..Siede 'l signore, anzi ’l nimico mio.

A ciascun remo un penser pronto e rio,

..Che la tempesta e ’l fin par ch’abbi a scherno:

..La vela rompe un vento umido, eterno

..Di sospir, di speranze, e di desio.

Pioggia di lagrimar, nebbia di sdegni

..Bagna e rallenta le già stanche sarte,

..Che son d’error con ignoranzia attorto.

Celansi i duo miei dolci usati segni;

..Morta fra l’onde è la ragion e l’arte:

..Tal ch’i’ ’ncomincio a desperar del porto.

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 1304-1374: Rime CLXXXIX

illustration of the Ship from Marot's Visions de Pétrarque: artist unknown, c. 1540s; manuscript SMM2 at Univ. of Glasgow;scanned from Les Poetes Francais de la Renaissance et Petrarque; image by Michael Hurst, 20 September 2011

My vessel heavy with oblivion
..Passes through sharp seas, middle of night, winter,
..Between Scylla and Charybdis; and at the rudder
..Sits the lord, [who is] also my enemy.
And every oar [is] a thought ready and evil
..Which seems [to hold] in scorn [both] the tempest and the goal:
..The sail bends with an eternal wet wind
..Of sighing, of hope and of desire.
Rain of tears, clouds of disdain
..Drench and drag at the already wearied shrouds
..That are twisted by ignorance and error.
Shut out, my two sweet familiar signals;
..Dead beneath the wave are reason and art
..So that I begin to despair of reaching port.

Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight:Caspar David Friedrich, 1825-1830, oil on canvas, 77 x 97 cm (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

Destruction Island LIghthouse | by USFWS Pacific

Lighthouse on Destruction Island, WA.: photo by Doug Zimmer (USFWS) / USWS - Pacific Region, 6 October 2011

Destruction Island LIghthouse | by USFWS Pacific

Lighthouse on Destruction Island, WA.: photo by Doug Zimmer (USFWS) / USWS - Pacific Region, 6 October 2011

Wave at Cape Disappointment on the WA coast as the storm rolls in. via @KIRO7Seattle #wawx: image via La Gringuitica @La Gringuitica, 15 October 2016

Mirad la cara de la desesperación. Fue anoche aunque no haya sido titular de ningún diario. 113 salvados sí, pero 17 muertos al fondo #Med: image via PROACTIVA OPEN ARMS @PROACTIVA_SERV, 13 October 2016

Astral rescatando en naufragio ahora mismo, de momento mujer joven 17 años y bebe 3 desaparecidos, seguimos búsqueda: image via Oscar Camps @campsoscar, 12 October 2016

winter storm, Kohoku (Lake Biwa, Shiga prefecture, Japan). Tremendous winter wind this day. I remember thinking more arms would be helpful as I had one hand steadying the tripod, an umbrella under my arm and my free hand wiping down the filter. Oddly, days like that make me feel alive: photo by Stephen Cairns, 9 December 2012

A member of the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, stands amid the rubble of a destroyed building during a rescue operation following reported air strikes in the rebel-held Qatarji neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 17 October 2016

SYRIA - White Helmets search for victims following reported air strikes in the rebel-held Qatarji neighbourhood, Aleppo By @KaramAlmari25: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 October 2016

Named Maarof, all members of his family and ،30 of his neighbors in the building were killed by #Russian war planes #Aleppo: image via Ryad Alhussen #ryadalhussin, 17 October 2016

Stevie Smith: To Carry the Child

To carry the child into adult life
Is good? I say it is not,
To carry the child into adult life
Is to be handicapped.

The child in adult life is defenceless
And if he is grown-up, knows it,
And the grown-up looks at the childish part
And despises it.

The child, too, despises the clever grown-up,
The man-of-the-world, the frozen,
For the child has the tears alive on his cheek
And the man has none of them.

As the child has colours, and the man sees no
Colours or anything,
Being easy only in things of the mind,
The child is easy in feeling.

Easy in feeling, easily excessive
And in excess powerful,
For instance, if you do not speak to the child
He will make trouble.

You would say a man had the upper hand
Of the child, if a child survive,
I say the child has fingers of strength
To strangle the man alive.

Oh it is not happy, it is never happy,
To carry the child into adulthood,
Let children lie down before full growth
And die in their infanthood
And be guilty of no man's blood.

But oh the poor child, the poor child, what can he do,
Trapped in a grown-up carapace,
But peer outside of his prison room
With the eye of an anarchist?

Florence Margaret "Stevie" Smith (1902-1971): To Carry the Child, from The Best Beast, 1969

Children #Aleppo: image via Khalil Hajjar @KhalilHajjar89, 16 October 2016

Civil defenseattempt to save the child after air strike targeted the Alqatri neighborhood #Aleppo: image via AleppoAMC, 16 October 2016

Civil defense attempt to save the child after air strike targeted the Alqatri neighborhood #Aleppo: image via AleppoAMC, 16 October 2016

#Syria White Helmets rescues Maarouf following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Qaterji neighbourhood #Aleppo: image via THAER MOHAMMED @THAER MOHAMMED, 17 October 2016

25 Civilians were killed and many injured as Russian Airstrikes have been targeting civilian areas in Aleppo city since this morning: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 12 October 2016

13 people were killed and 30 injured since morning as Russian Airstrikes have been targeting civilian areas in besieged Eastern Aleppo: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 13 October 2016

My beloved city #Aleppo after 5 years of bombardment by #Assad and now #Russia: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 13 October 2016

Many whole families are trapped under rubble after Qaterji neighborhood in #Aleppo city was bombed with Highly Explosive missiles: tweet via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 16 October 2016

Heavy air strikes on eastern Aleppo since last night and even this morning killing more than 50 civilians 17-10-2016 #HolocaustAleppo: image via Karam Almasri @KaramAlmasri25, 17 October 2016

Dozens still trapped under the rubbleof this building ongoing concernforcivil defense teams #Aleppo: image via Mohammed Al-khatieb @MohAlkhatieb, 16 October 2016

Wounded in aerial bombardment that targeted Alqarri district on Sunday evening, killing 25 martyrs #Aleppo: image via AleppoAMC, 16 October 2016

8martyrsas well asmassive destruction in residential buildings in an air raid on the neighborhood of Sheikh Faris on Sunday evening. #Aleppo: image via AleppoAMC, 16 October 2016

A man playing with waves runs way from a wave at a beach as Typhoon Sarika lands in Wanning, Hainan province, China, October 18, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

A man playing with waves runs away from a wave at a beach as Typhoon Sarika lands in Wanning, Hainan province, China: photo by Reuters, 18 October 2016

University of Cape Town students clash with police as stun grendes are used during protests demanding free tertiary education in Cape Town, South Africa, October 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

University of Cape Town students clash with police as stun grenades are used during protests demanding free tertiary education in Cape Town, South Africa: photo by Mike Hutchings/Reuters, 17 October 2016

SOUTH AFRICA - Riots involving university students protesting over planned hikes in tuition fees in Johannesburg. By @mlongari #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 15 October 2016

SOUTH AFRICA - A police officer runs for cover as a van is on fire in front of popular jazz bar "the Orbit" in Johannesburg. By @mlongari #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 15 October 2016

A shipyard worker walks across the construction hall after attending the keel laying ceremony of the new polar research vessel the Sir David Attenborough, at the Cammell Laird ship yard in Birkenhead, northern England: photo by Phil Noble/Reuters, 17 October 2016

A view of an overcrowded prison cell where inmates take turns to sleep on any available spaces at Quezon City Jail, one of the country’s most congested jails, Quezon City, Philippines. Following the intensified drive of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against criminality, arrested drug suspects are jockeying for space inside the prison cells.: photo by Francis R Malasig/EPA, 17 October 2016

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A view of an overcrowded prison cell where inmates take turns to sleep on any available spaces at Quezon City Jail, one of the country’s most congested jails, Quezon City, Philippines. Following the intensified drive of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against criminality, arrested drug suspects are jockeying for space inside the prison cells.: photo by Francis R Malasig/EPA, 17 October 2016

PHILIPPINES - A woman climbs down a ladder, where people live under a bridge in Manila. By @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 October 2016

Students from St Andrew's University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honour the 'academic family' on October 17, 2016, in St Andrews, Scotland. Every year the 'raisin weekend' which is held in the university's Lower College Lawn, is celebrated and a gift of raisins (now foam) is traditionally given by first year students to their elders as a thank you for their guidance and in exchange they receive a receipt in Latin. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Students from St Andrew’s University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honour the ‘academic family’ in St Andrews, Scotland: photo by Jeff J Mitchell, 17 October 2016

A Muslim woman gets caned 23 strokes after being caught in close proximity with her boyfriend in Banda Aceh on October 17, 2016. Out of seven couples caught spending time together outside marriage, 13 were caned while one girl was spared after it was discovered that she was pregnant. Indonesia's Aceh province has gained international infamy for its strict Islamic laws. / AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [woman] instead of [girl]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require.CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images

A Muslim woman gets caned 23 strokes after being caught in close proximity with her boyfriend in Banda Aceh, Indonesia: photo by Chaideer Mahuddi/AFP, 17 October 2016

Indonesia - A man cycles past graffiti condemning US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on a street in Surabaya. By @junipicture: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard AFP, 17 October 2016

An Afghan girl looks on as a health worker administers polio vaccine drops to others during a vaccination campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Polio, once a worldwide scourge, is endemic in just three countries now – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.: photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP, 17 October 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Children collecting water from a hand pump in Ghazni. By Zakeria Hashimi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 October 2016

SYRIA - Fighters from the Free Syrian Army fight against the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on the outskirts of Dabiq. By @NazeerAlk: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 October 2016

A model presents a creation by designer Tokuko Maeda from her Spring/Summer 2017 collection for her brand TOKUKO 1er VOL during Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo, Japan: photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters, 18 October 2016

People sleep in open air, on a street in Tondo, Manila, Philippines early October 18, 2016. Local residents from the neighbourhood in Manila's slum of Tondo in which several people were killed in drugs related operations, say there are more people sleeping outside their homes since the beginning of the country's war on drugs fearing for their safety. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

People sleep in open air, on a street in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. Local residents from the neighbourhood in Manila’s slum of Tondo in which several people were killed in drugs related operations, say there are more people sleeping outside their homes since the beginning of the country’s war on drugs fearing for their safety.: photo Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 18 October 2016

The Red Arrows aerobatic team of Britain's Royal Air Force flies over the Marina Barrage in Singapore on October 18, 2016. The flypast which had previously been delayed twice due to inclement weather finally made their way fly past over Marina Bay on October 18, in Singapore for 20-minutes. The visit to Singapore is part of the team's visit to the Middle East and Asia, to contribute to a campaign to showcase the best of what Britain has to offer. / AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMANROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images

The Red Arrows aerobatic team of Britain’s Royal Air Force flies over the Marina Barrage in Singapore: photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP, 18 October 2016

English Heritage handout photo of re-enactors arriving at Battle Abbey in Battle, near Hastings, ending their 300-mile cross-country journey in the East Sussex town where the Battle of Hastings was fought 950 years ago. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday October 14, 2016. Their three-week march began in York on September 25 and has taken them south on foot and on horseback in an echo of the journey King Harold made to fight in the battle. See PA story HERITAGE 1066. Photo credit should read: Jim Holden/English Heritage/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Re-enactors arrive at Battle Abbey in Battle, near Hastings, ending their 300-mile cross-country journey in the East Sussex town where the Battle of Hastings was fought 950 years ago: photo by Jim Holden/English Heritage/PA Wire, 14 October 2016

Giant Meteor Come In This Is Earth Calling

raqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shourah, some 45 kms south of Mosul, as they advance towards the city to retake it from the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, on October 17, 2016. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced earlier in the day that the long-awaited operation to recapture Mosul was under way. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYEAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shourah, some 45 kms south of Mosul, as they advance towards the city to retake it from the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced earlier in the day that the long-awaited operation to recapture Mosul was under way.: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 17 October 2016

A peshmerga fighter looks out of the entrance of an underground tunnel built by Islamic State fighters, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The Kurdish forces found the tunnel in the town of Badana that was liberated from the Islamic State group on Monday. The fighters built tunnels under residential areas so they could move without being seen from above to avoid airstrikes. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

A Peshmerga fighter looks out of the entrance of an underground tunnel built by Islamic State fighters. The Kurdish forces found the tunnel in the town of Badana in Iraq which was liberated from the Islamic State group on Monday. The fighters built tunnels under residential areas so they could move without being seen from above to avoid airstrikes.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 18 October 2016

#Iraq Iraqi forces take part in an operation against the IS in the Shaqouli village, about 35 kms east of #Mosul #AFP Photo by @safinhamed: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 October 2016

IRAQ - Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in an operation against IS from the top of Mount Zardak to retake Mosul. By @safinphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

IRAQ - Iraqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shourah as they advance towards Mosul to retake it from IS. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

SYRIA - Displaced Iraqis who fled fighting in Mosul area play volleyball at camp for internally displaced people in al-Ho. By @Delilsoueman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

SYRIA - A young girl smiles at a refugee camp housing Iraqi families who fled fighting in the Mosul area in al-Hol. By @Delilsoueman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

SYRIA - A refugee camp houses Iraqi families who fled fighting in the Mosul area in the northeastern town of al-Hol. By @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 15 October 2016

A woman poses at a refugee camp housing Iraqi families who fled fighting in the Mosul area on October 17, 2016 in the northeastern town of al-Hol in Syria's Hasakeh province. The battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from jihadists could unleash a massive humanitarian crisis, potentially pushing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes as winter sets in. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMANDELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images

A woman poses at a refugee camp housing Iraqi families who fled fighting in the Mosul area in the northeastern town of al-Hol in Syria's Hasakeh province: photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP, 18 October 2016

IRAQ -Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters deploy on top of Mount Zardak near Mosul as they take part in an operation against IS. By @safinphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

Giant Meteor Come In Can You Hear Us

#Israel Muslims and tourists hang out at the resort of Neve Zohar, southern part of the Dead Sea, on Oct 15 #AFP Photo by @KahanaMenahem: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 October 2016

#Palestinians A youth looks at Shuafat refugee camp (R) behind the controversial #Israeli separation wall #AFP Photo by @gharabli_ahmed: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 October 2016

@Hillary Clinton email: #Assad must be toppled to protect #Israel: image via Sputnik Verified account @Sputnikint, 23 March 2016

Il y a bien: 1 bourreau et 1 victime 1 occupant et 1 occupé 1 résistant and 1 terroriste! By @LatuffCartoons #israëlTerrorists #FreePalestine: image via Operation Boycott @opBoycott, 17 October 2016

#refugees and #migrants jump to the sea as a three level wooden boat are floating with is in risk to capsize, off shore #Llbya: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 18 October 2016

MEXICO - A masked clown walks behind the scenes, during the inauguration of the XXI Convention of Clowns in Mexico City. By @estrellaphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

Just End It Already (this deep blankness)

Statuettes depicting the presidential candidates Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton are displayed in a shop in the renown Via San Gregorio Armeno, street of nativity scene craftsmen, in Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. On Nov. 8, Americans will vote for their next president. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA via AP)

Statuettes depicting the presidential candidates Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton are displayed in a shop in the renowned Via San Gregorio Armeno, street of nativity scene craftsmen, in Naples: photo by Cesare Abbate/ANSA/AP, 18 October 2016

[Untitled]: image via Giant Meteor 2016 @Giantmeteor2016, 2 June 2016

#NationalDonutDay #enditall: image via Giant Meteor 2016 @Giantmeteor2016, 3 June 2016

We appreciate all forms of love for meteor! #GIANTMETEOR: image via Giant Meteor 2016 @Giantmeteor2016, 20 May 2016

#enditall #GIANTMETEOR2016: image via Giant Meteor 2016 @Giantmeteor2016, 11 July 2016

Hillary Clinton in Des Moines last month. A study shows that relative wealth makes a difference in how some Democrats think on policies. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street?: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 1 February 2016

April 16, 2016 - Los Angeles, California | by Hillary Clinton

April 16, 2016 -- Los Angeles, California: photo by Adam Schultz for Hillary for America, 16 April 2016

Bom dia, desde a extinta Cidade Maravilhosa!: image via Carlos Latuff @LatuffCartoons, 17 October 2016

Cidade Maravilhosa (apocalypse multicity)

>108b/365 - Misty evening with helicopter on vessel | by ECC Edward

>108b/365 Misty evening with helicopter on vessel 2013/04/18 [Hong Kong]: photo by ECC Edward, 18 April 2013

[Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 21 July 2015

William Empson: Let It Go

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were.

The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

William Empson (1906-1984): Let It Go, from Collected Poems (1940)

Northumberland field: photo by Andrew Murr, 13 October 2016

Dodgers Win! Over @dodgers stadium with @gabe_rovira_002 awhile back. #dodgerstadium #fatherandson #dodgers #forthewin #blackandwhite #sihlouette #losangeles | by RobRovira

Dodgers Win! Over Dodgers Stadium with @gabe_rovira_002 a while back: photo by Ron Rovira, 11 October 2016

[Hong Kong]: photo by ECC Edward, 29 September 2014

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcn Kubiak, 27 September 2016

#ВМФ Yug class vessel Donuzlav seen entering the Bosphorus late afternoon yesterday through the net of the fishing vessel Hacı Nuri Ataman: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 20 October 2016

Thomas Hardy: Channel Firing

That night your great guns, unawares,

Shook all our coffins as we lay,

And broke the chancel window-squares,

We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome

Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,

The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No;

It’s gunnery practice out at sea

Just as before you went below;

The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make

Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters

They do no more for Christés sake

Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour

For some of them’s a blessed thing,

For if it were they’d have to scour

Hell’s floor for so much threatening....

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when

I blow the trumpet (if indeed

I ever do; for you are men,

And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder,

Will the world ever saner be,”

Said one, “than when He sent us under

In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head.

“Instead of preaching forty year,”

My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,

“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour,

Roaring their readiness to avenge,

As far inland as Stourton Tower,

And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Channel Firing, April 1914, from Satires of Circumstance, 1914

“They are deploying all of the northern fleet and much of the Baltic fleet in the largest surface deployment since the end of the cold war. This is not a friendly port call."

HMS Richmond на фоне Кузнецова #ВМФ [HMS Richmond, a British frigate, shadowing the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov photo Royal Navy/EPA]: image via Nikolay Chilikov @NChilikov, 19 October 2016

Royal Navy sends ships to shadow Russian fleet passing Britain: Ministry of Defence says British ships will ‘man-mark’ Russian fleet, which is believed to be travelling to Syria for possible final assault on Aleppo: George Sandemman and agencies, The Guardian, 19 October 2016

A fleet of Russian warships is heading towards the Mediterranean on a route past the British Isles as part of what is believed to be the country’s largest naval deployment since the cold war.

It is not clear if the fleet will pass via the North Sea and the Channel or west of Ireland. It includes the aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov, which is reported to be carrying fighter bombers and is accompanied by several other Russian vessels.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “When these ships near our waters we will man-mark them every step of the way. We will be watching as part of our steadfast commitment to keep Britain safe.”

The convoy was photographed by the Norwegian military as it journeyed through international waters on its way to Syria where it is thought they will participate in a final assault on the besieged city of Aleppo.

The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan sailed from Portsmouth on Tuesday to join HMS Richmond in escorting the group on its voyage south. HMS Dragon, also a destroyer, is due to meet two Russian corvettes that were travelling north towards Britain from the direction of Portugal.

It is understood that shadowing ships is regular business for the Royal Navy, who have been supported by Royal Air Force surveillance aircraft on this occasion.

The Admiral Kuznetsov is Russia’s only aircraft carrier but is capable of hosting more than 50 aircraft and is equipped with Granit anti-ship cruise missiles.
Photos released by the Norwegian navy, taken on Monday off its coast near Andoya Island, show that the aircraft carrier was accompanied by a nuclear-powered battle cruiser, Peter the Great.

Two anti-submarine warships, the Severomorsk and Vice-Admiral Kulakov, were also present, alongside four support vessels. Russia has a naval base in Arkhangelsk, east of Norway’s northernmost point. A Norwegian newspaper, VG, quoted General Morten Haga Lunde, head of Norway’s military intelligence service, as saying the eight ships involved “will probably play a role in the deciding battle for Aleppo”.

Royal Navy ships will continue to escort the Russian task group and provide a visible presence south through the North Sea and Channel as the Russian fleet sails through and carry out their flying operations, the MoD said. The UK is working alongside Nato partners to monitor the warships passing the UK this week.

A senior Nato diplomat said that the Russians were assembling their largest naval deployment in decades with 10 ships already based off the Syrian coast. Citing western intelligence and speaking on the condition of anonymity, he told Reuters: “They are deploying all of the northern fleet and much of the Baltic fleet in the largest surface deployment since the end of the cold war. This is not a friendly port call. In two weeks we will see a crescendo of air attacks on Aleppo as part of Russia’s strategy to declare victory there.”

Vice-Admiral Clive Johnstone, the UK commander of Nato’s Allied Maritime Command, said allied nations routinely monitored “activities of interest” which includes the presence of Russian vessels close to national waters. “This is in the interest of supporting our overall maritime awareness and safety of navigation in sea lanes of communication.”

Tass, Russia’s state news agency, said in July, citing a source, that the Admiral Kuznetsov would take part in the Russian operation in Syria from October to January. It said the vessel would carry 15 Su-33 and Mig-29K jet fighters and 31 helicopters.

Norwegian media also reported that Russia had told Norway that the warships were on their way to the Mediterranean where they have supported the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in his fight against rebel groups.

Russian Navy's Tarantul Cls Guided Missile Corvette Ivanovets 954 northbound on the Bosphorus, transiting at a very early hour. 07.00(+GMT3): image via alper böler @alperboler, 18 October 2016

Tarantul III class guided missile corvette #ВМФ #4Ф Ivanovets transits Bosphorus after 98 days Mediterranean deployment and enters Black Sea: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 18 October 2016

Watching the Watchers: #BosphorusNavalWatch observed by #ВМФ #4Ф BSF TaLST Nikolai Filchenkov crew during its Bosphorus transit @ozannkosee: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 18 October 2016

Sailors, officers, spetsnaz on #ВМФ #4Ф BSF Tapir class LST Nikolai Filchenkov during its 14:45Z #Syria-bound Bosphorus transit @ozannkosee: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 18 October 2016

NATO ships recognition silhouettes on the bridge of ВМФ #4Ф BSF Tapir cl. LST Nikolai Filchenkov during its Bosphorus transit @ozannkosee: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 18 October 2016

Группировка боевых кораблей ВМФ России проследовала мимо берегов Норвегии на пути к Средиземному морюГруппировка боевых кораблей ВМФ России проследовала мимо берегов Норвегии на пути к Средиземному морю [Russian naval ships the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the battle cruiser Peter the Great, photographed in the Baltic Sea by Norwegian military] #ВМФ #АПЛ: image via Defence dot ru @DefenceRu, 18 October 2016

Open season

Turkey kills 160 to 200 Syrian Kurdish militants in airstrikes: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 20 October 2016

A man walks past damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 20 October 2016

Turkish jets strike Kurds in Syria: monitor: Reuters, 20 October 2016

Turkish jets on Wednesday unleashed more than 20 air raids against the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurd-led group of militias north of Aleppo, Kurdish authorities and a war monitor said. The jets targeted positions in the villages of al-Hasiya, Um al-Qura and Um Hosh, which the SDF had captured from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late on Wednesday.

Turkish jets carried out 26 airstrikes on 18 Syrian Kurdish YPG militant targets in northern Syria and killed 160 to 200 militants, the Turkish army said on Thursday.

Turkey, a main backer of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad, entered the Syrian conflict in August, using its armor and air power to help Free Syrian Army rebel groups take territory near the border held by Islamic State.

However, Ankara's intervention also aimed to prevent the SDF from gaining more ground along the frontier and connect three de facto autonomous Kurdish cantons in northern Syria that have emerged during the five-year civil war.

The strongest force in the SDF is the Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey regards as the Syrian wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which it has been fighting within its own frontiers for decades. The YPG and PKK deny having direct links.

The Turkey-backed FSA groups have in recent weeks been pushing southwards from the frontier towards al-Bab, the last big town held by Islamic State in northwest Syria. The villages taken by the SDF from Islamic State also represented an advance towards al-Bab.

'No, you're the puppet'

JUST IN: 52 percent of poll respondents say Clinton won debate; 39 percent say Trump won - CNN/ORC poll: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 19 October 2016

'No, you're the puppet': Trump and Clinton battle over the influence of Putin during #debatenight: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 19 October 2016

Naked Hillary Clinton statue placed downtown: image via NY 24Telegraph @NY_24telegraph 18 October 2016

US - Donald Trump's plane passes Hillary Clinton's campaign plane at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. By @b_smialowski #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

US - People swim in a wave pool at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. By @b_smialowski #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

Super Typhoon Haima barrels across Philippinest: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 19 October 2016

Married women pose for pictures as they perform rituals for the well being of their husbands during the Hindu festival of Karva Chauth in Ahmedabad, India.: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 19 October 2016

LEBANON - A Christian Maronite flashes his tattoos depicting Jesus Christ and Lebanese St Charbel in Beirut. By @Patrick_Baz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

Commuters arrive from Metro North Railroad trains in Grand Central Station in New York October 19, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY

Commuters arrive from Metro North Railroad trains in Grand Central Station in New York: photo by Timothy A Clary/AFP, 19 October 2016

US - Commuters arrive from Metro North Railroad trains in Grand Central Station in New York. By @timothyclary #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

Displaced people, who are fleeing from clashes in Al-hud village, south of Mosul, head to Qayyarah, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq: photo by Reuters, 19 October 2016

This photograph taken on October 18, 2016 shows Afghan youths playing with a kite on the outskirts of Jalalabad.

Afghan children play with a kite on the outskirts of Jalalabad: photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP, 19 October 2016

An #Afghan youth playing with a kite on the outskirts of Jalalabad. By @NoorullahShirz #AFP: image via shahmarai @shahmarai, 19 October 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Afghan youths playing with a kite on the outskirts of Jalalabad. By @NoorullahShirz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying the crew of Shane Kimbrough of the U.S., Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters, 19 October 2016

A woman prepares food near her destroyed house in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in the commune of Roche-a-Bateaux, southwest Haiti. Food, medicine and other essential aid has been slow to reach areas slammed by Hurricane Matthew. Some desperate Haitians have taken to blocking parts of the road crossing the southern peninsula to intercept humanitarian convoys, in some cases looting them. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR

A woman prepares food near her destroyed house in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in the commune of Roche-a-Bateaux, southwest Haiti: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 19 October 2016

HAITI - A man walks back to his house before burning wood and debris set on fire by residents in Labeyi. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

HAITI - A woman walks after receiving a food delivery for the World Food Programme in commune of Maniche, in Les Cayes. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 October 2016

CHINA - A homeless man looks for stuff in a trash bin at a shopping mall area in Zhengzhou. By @NAsfouri #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

The Advance Toward #Mosul: Traps, Smoke Screens and Suicide Bombers by @bdentonphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 19 October 2016

Smoke rises from burning oil wells on October 18, 2016 near the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, during the operation to recapture the city from the Islamic State group. Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces were making gains on the Islamic State group in Mosul in an offensive US President Barack Obama warned would be a "difficult fight". / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

Smoke rises from burning oil wells near the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, Iraq during the operation to recapture the city from the Islamic State group: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 19 October 2016

TURKEY - Protesters hold placards " Israel stands on the trail" as they shout anti-Israeli slogans at Istanbul courthouse. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

The kids next door

Rafferty Law: photo by Alberto Pizzoli/Agence France-Presse via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Sailor Brinkley Cook: photo by Larry Busaccafor Saint Laurent via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Levi Dylan: photo by Larry Busacca for Saint Laurent via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Kaia Gerber: photo by Larry Busacca for Jimmy Choo via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Presley Gerber: photo by Frazer Harrison for MOSCHINO via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Sofia Richie: photo by : photo by Alberto Pizzoli/Agence France-Presse via The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Dylan Jagger Lee: photo by Andy Kropa/Invision via Associated Press /The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis: photo by Pascal Le Segretain /The New York Times, 19 October 2016

Kenya Kinski-Jones: photo by Dimitrios Kambourisfor Michael Kors viaThe New York Times, 19 October 2016

Iris Law: photo by Miu Miu viaThe New York Times, 19 October 2016

From left: Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, Brandon Thomas Lee, Levi Dylan, Luka Sabbat, Peter Brant Jr., Will Peltz, and Kenya Kinski-Jones in the front row at the Dolce and Gabbana men’s spring 2017 fashion show in Milan in June: photo via Dolce and Gabbana / The New York Times, 19 October 2016

North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 18 October 2016

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge's Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street on October 20, 2016 in London, England. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are were unveiled for the first time today and are often the first to do so in London. The 2016 theme is titled 'Shine on' and features Father Christmas in many of the windows. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge’s Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are unveiled for the first time today and are often the first displays in London. The 2016 theme is titled ‘Shine on’ and features Father Christmas in many of the windows.: photo by Chris J Ratcliffe, 20 October 2016

This handout picture taken and released by the Italian Red Cross on October 20, 2016 shows migrants during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea. A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on October 20, boarding them on the Responder vessel. / AFP PHOTO / ITALIAN RED CROSS / Yara Nardi AND Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / YARA NARDI / ITALIAN RED CROSS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSYARA NARDI,HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

Migrants are rescued during an operation in the Mediterranean Sea. A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on Thursday: photo by AFP, 20 October 2016

epa05593700 A handout picture provided by Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Snapper party, Tony Wu, US Winner, underwater category For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty. Noticing that the spawning ran ‘like a chain reaction up and down the mass of fish’, Wu positioned himself so that the action came to him. On this occasion, with perfect anticipation, he managed to capture a dynamic arc of spawning fish amid clouds of eggs in the oblique morning light. EPA/TONY WU / WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Snapper party is the winner of the underwater category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Natural History Museum. For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty.: photo by Tony Wu/EPA, 20 October 2016

Azalea, whose Korean name is "Dallae", a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she doesn‚Äôt inhale. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Azalea, whose Korean name is “Dallae”, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favourite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she does not inhale.: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 19 October 2016

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Azalea, whose Korean name is “Dallae”, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favourite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she does not inhale.: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 19 October 2016

A policeman watches a new street-art collage by Italian artist Maupal showing Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard watches the street near the Vatican in Rome: photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP, 19 October 2016

ITALY - Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard watches the street in Rome. By Tiziana Fabiz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016

TOPSHOT - A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti, on October 19, 2016. The road leading to Randelle and other villages on the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti. The road leading to Randelle and other villages in the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 20 October 2016

A salmon makes its way upstream on the River Tyne in Hexham, as tens of thousands of the fish have been helped by a new fish pass in a once in a lifetime journey to spawn: photo by Owen Humphreys/PA, 19 October 2016

Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, Iraq: photo by Ako Rasheed/Reuters, 21 October 2016

A local miner wades through water as he walks down from a mountain in Benguet a day after Typhoon Haima struck northern Philippines: photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters, 21 October 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pats Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the back as she speaks with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at Waldorf Astoria: photo Brendan Smialowsk/AFP, 21 October 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher from a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, Iraq during an operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the main hub city: photo by Safin Hamed/AFP, 20 October 2016

CHINA - A man protects his poodle from the rain as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong during a typhoon signal number 8 warning. By

@AntAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

IRAQ - An Iraqi man walks as smoke billows in the Qayyarah area during a government forces operation to retake Mosul. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

PHILIPPINES - A farmer leads his water buffalo in a rice field damaged by super typhoon Haima in Penablanca. By Ted Aljibe #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

IRAQ - A member of the Iraqi government forces takes a position on top of a vehicle as smoke rises on outskirts of Qayyarah. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

#Iraqi soldiers look on as smoke rises from the #Qarayyah area south of #Mosul #Iraq @yasinakgul @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @SundayTimesPictures, 20 October 2016

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Ritorno

Trinano le cose un'estesa monotonia di assenze

Ora è un pallido involucro

L'azzurro scuro delle profondità si è franto

Ora è un arido manto

Return

Things weave a vast monotony of absences

Now it is a pallid shell

The dark azure of the deeps shatters

Now it is an arid mantle

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Ritorno (Return), from Allegria di naufragi(Joy of shipwrecks), 1919; English by Allen Mandelbaum, in Life of a Man, 1958

Iraqi soldiers walk on a road as smoke billows from the Qayyarah area, 35 miles south of #Mosul, #Iraq Oct 19, 2016. ©Yasin Akgul @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 20 October 2016

#Haveaniceday #sunset Surveillance cameras overloook a section of the US-Mexico border fence outside of Nogales #AFP by Frederic J. Brown: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 October 2016

#Syria Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province, yesterday. #AFP Photo by @Delilsouleman: image via AFP Photo Department ‏@AFPphoto, 20 October 2016

SYRIA - Daily life of Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016

Afghanistan People displaced by #kunduz fighting with Taliban at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of #Kabul #AFP Photo by @shahmarai: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 October 2016

The anguish and anger on Gaza’s walls: image via Electronic Intifada @intifada, 18 October 2016

GAZA CITY - A girl watches from a windowsill as Islamic Jihad Movement commemorate the anniversary of movement's foundation. By @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

SYRIA - A man carries a severely wounded boy at a make-shift hospital in Douma following reported cluster bomb shelling. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

A woman carries a placard during a protest against evacuating civilians #Aleppo #besieged 20,10, 2016. #REUTERS PH:Abdalrhman Ismail: image via Abdalrhman Ismail @abdalrhmanIsma, 20 October 2016

Child inAleppo steadfast in today's demonstration #besieged Aleppo: image via Hozaifa Dahmaan @hozaifadahmaan, 20 October 2016

SYRIA - The hand of a dead Syrian girl is seen at a make-shift hospital in Douma following reported cluster bomb shelling. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016

The story of a Syrian child from besieged #Douma in #Syria #Putin_Iran_Assad_Crimes #Obama_Complicity: image via Alinaghi Amiry @AlinaghiAmiry, 20 October 2016 Cologne, Germany

Besieged, starved and defenceless. So #Putin sent him some "humanitarian" cluster bombs.#Douma #Syria 20-10-2016: image via Revolution Syria @RevolutionSyria, 20 October 2016

The regime troops fire 5 cluster bombs into civilian area in #Duma city, killing a child and wounding others: image via SCD Rif Dimashq @SCDRifDimashq, 20 October 2016

2 children killed during Heavy artillery bombing and 5 cluster bombs fired into civilian area in #Duma city: image via SCD Rif Dimashq @SCDRifDimashq, 20 October 2016

Airstrike targeted@SriaCivilDef center in Marat Al Noman; 5 injured and one martyr: image via whitehelmets - idlib @whitehelmets_syr, 20 October 2016

Goodbye my brother Humanity Martyr SCDGoodbye my brother Humanity Martyr SCD: image via whitehelmets - idlib@whitehelmets_syr, 20 October 2016

One volunteer was killed and 5 injured as an Airstrike targeted Marat Al Noman center in Idlep this morning: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 20 October 2016

What words are sufficient response to this child's gaze? #Aleppo: image via mo3taz891, 17 October 2016

A man sits on the balcony of his damaged house in #besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of #Aleppo 19,10, 2016. #REUTERS PH: Abdalrhman Ismail: image via Abdalrhman Ismail @abdalrhmanIsma. 20 October 2016

PHILIPPINES - A man collects plastic water bottles among the garbage washed ashore as a result of typhoon Haima at Manila Bay. By @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

Smoke rising from a government-held neighborhood in Aleppo on Thursday. Few civilians have taken advantage of a pause in Russian strikes to leave the area.: photo by George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 21 October 2016

Yemeni artist spraying a graffiti on a wall in protest against the ongoing conflict and the worsening economic situation in the war-affected country, in Sanaâ€™a, Yemen, 20 October 2016. According to reports, since March 2015, ongoing conflict and the Saudi-led airstrike campaign in Yemen have left 21.2 million - 82 percent of Yemenâ€™s population - in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 9.9 million children. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB

A Yemeni artist sprays graffiti on a wall in protest against the ongoing conflict and the worsening economic situation in the war-affected country, in Sanaa, Yemen: photo by Yahya Arhab/ EPA, 21 October 2016

A Microsoft cloud computing center in Quincy, Washington: photo by Richard Duvall / The New York Times, 21 October 2016

Cyber #attack hackers 'weaponised' everyday #devices with malware to mount assault: image via NewsInn @NewsInnOfficial, 21 October 2016

Dyn DNS, a company that essentially acts as a giant internet switchboard, was bombarded with messages that overloaded its circuits: photo by Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times, 22 October 2016

A map of the areas experiencing problems, as of Friday afternoon: image by downdetectordotcom, 21 October 2016

BREAKING NEWS: The attack that crippled many major websites throughout today originated inside the United States: image via TheAnonMessage @TheAnonMessage, 21 October 2016

Reports that #Russia launched largest military deployment since the Cold War in the #Mediterranean #Syria #WWIII: image via Marwa Osman @Osman_Marwa1, 21 October 2016

Cyber attacks disrupt PayPal, Twitter, other sites: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 21 October 2016

Here's what we know about the cyber attack that disrupted websites on the U.S. East Coast: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 21 October 2016

The Internet of ransomware things #IoT #ransomware: image via Gabriel @gabpantoja, 21 October 2016

This Explains It. She Is Completely, Irrevocably Insane.

Clinton far ahead in Electoral College race: Reuters/Ipsos poll: Maurice Tammem, Reuters, 22 October 2016

NEW YORK - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton maintained her commanding lead in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S. presidency, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project results released on Saturday.

In the last week, there has been little movement. Clinton leads Donald Trump in most of the states that Trump would need should he have a chance to win the minimum 270 votes needed to win. According to the project, she has a better than 95 percent chance of winning, if the election was held this week. The mostly likely outcome would be 326 votes for Clinton to 212 for Trump.

Trump came off his best debate performance of the campaign Wednesday evening but the polling consensus still showed Clinton winning the third and final face-off on prime-time TV. Trump disputes those findings.

And some national polls had the race tightening a wee bit this week though others had Clinton maintaining her solid lead. But the project illustrates that the broader picture remains bleak for Trump with 17 days to go until the Nov. 8 election.

Trump did gain ground in South Carolina where his slim lead last week expanded to seven points, moving it into his column from a toss-up. Unfortunately for him, he lost ground in Arizona, which is now too close to call.

Additionally, he is facing a challenge for Utah’s six Electoral College votes from former CIA operative and Utah native Evan McMullin. The independent candidate is siphoning votes away from Trump in a state that is Republican as any in the nation. In some polls, McMullin is even leading. (The States of the Nation is not polling on McMullin.)

Utah, like almost all of the states, is a winner-take-all contest.

Clinton has also maintained a lead in Florida and Pennsylvania, which have a combined 49 Electoral College votes. Ohio remains too close to call.

According to the project, lower voter turnout generally benefits Trump but his best hope for success is if Republican turnout surges and Democratic turnout is low.

SYRIA - A Syrian orphan takes part in a practice session ahead of a theatre performance organized by local council of Douma. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

EGYPT - A ray of light illuminates the statue of Ramses II inside the temple of Abu Simbel, south of Aswan. By Mohamed el Shahed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

INDIA - A tribal girl looks on during the Tawang festival in Tawang, near the Indo-China border. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

INDIA - A tribal man in traditional dress looks on during the inaugural function of the Tawang festival in Tawang. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

INDIA - Skilled workers prepare sandalwood agarbattis - incense sticks - at a small scale industry in Ahmedabad. By Sam Panthaky#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

MYANMAR - The body of three-year-old child, victim of an exorcism ritual, is seen in a funeral van before burial in Twante. By Romeo Gacad: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

More than 200 #refugees and #migrants float in a rubber boat as they try to cross to #europe some 12 miles off shore #libya: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 22 October 2016

A young girl looks on after being rescued as #refugees and #migrants try to cross Mediterranean Sea from #libya to #europe: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 20 October 2016

A man is rescued after falling in the sea as about 1000 #refugees and #migrants float in a three level wooden boat, off shore #libya: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 20 October 2016

GREECE - A Kurdish refugee prepares supper in the Ritsona refugee camp, north of Athens.By @lgouliam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

GREECE - The Ritsona refugee camp, north of Athens hosts some 500 refugees, mostly Syrian and Syrian Kurd families. By @lgouliam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

YEMEN - A Yemeni craftsman works on shutters at his workshop at a market in the old city of the capital Sanaa. By Mohammed Huwais @AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

IRAQ - Members of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi faction are heading to frontline near Tall al-Tibah during operation to retake Mosul from IS. @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

GAZA CITY - Palestinians wave Palestinian flags during a demo. against the division and in support with the national unity. By @MahmudHams: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian farmer weeds a field in Gaza City By @mohmdabed.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

GAZA CITY - A member of Islamic Jihad Movement stands guard during a rally to mark anniversary of the movement's foundation. By @mohmdabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

CHINA - Two crows fly over the Forbidden City in Beijing. By Wang Zhao #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

HAITI - People travel down a flooded street through the rain, during a tropical storm in the commune of Les Cayes. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

Men scoop rice for villagers in hurricane-devastated Pestel, Haiti: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 21 October 2016

Men scoop rice for villagers in hurricane-devastated Pestel, Haiti: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 21 October 2016

The assault on Mosul and what comes after: image via War College @War_College, 21 October 2016

A pesh merga soldier takes time out from war for prayers: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 17 October 2016

The assault on Mosul and what comes after: image via War College @War_College, 21 October 2016

U.S. warship challenges China's claims in South China Sea: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 21 October 2016

Half of Republicans would reject Clinton win in election, nearly 70 percent would blame rigging: Reuters/Ipsos poll: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 21 October 2016

Newly crowned Oba of Benin Kingdom Eheneden Erediauwa is guided through a symbolic bridge by the palace chiefs during his coronation in Benin city, Nigeria: photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters, 21 October 2016

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off Wednesday from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, as well as the American astronaut Shane Kimbrough, to the International Space Station: photo by Vasily Maximov/Agence France-Presse, 20 October 2016

People walk through gale-force winds as Typhoon Haima makes landfall on the South China coast, in Hong Kong, China, 21 October 2016. EPA/ALEX HOFFORD

People walk through gale-force winds as Typhoon Haima makes landfall on the South China coast, in Hong Kong, China: photo by Alex Hofford/EPA, 21 October 2016

A truck is driven on a flooded street in Qionghai, in China’s Hainan Province, on Tuesday after Typhoon Sarika swept through. Another strong storm, Typhoon Haima, struck the Phillipines late Wednesday.: photo by Agence France-Presse, 21 October 2016

The northern lights shine on Unstad, Norway, a surfing destination above the Arctic Circle: photo by Leslye Davis/The New York Times, 21 October 2016

John Ashbery: At North Farm

2016-500. Albany, CA.: photo by biosfear, October 2016

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,

Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,

Give you the thing he has for you?

Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters.
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?

John Ashbery: At North Farm, from A Wave (1984)

2016-499. Berkeley, CA.: photo by biosfear, August 2016

2016-496. Berkeley, CA.: photo by biosfear, October 2016

At Matanaka Farm

This granary, privy and schoolhouse at Matanaka [on the South Island] are New Zealand's oldest surviving farm buildings. These buildings are registered Category I historic places with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The three largest buildings were prefabricated in Sydney, and the granary and stable still have their original "Patented Galvanised Tinned Iron" roofs. The stable has a harness room, stalls for the horses and a gig room. Fodder was stored in the loft and there was a dovecote in the loft at the north end. The storeroom was probably the place where bulk supplies were kept, since there are orders scribbled on the original interior lining. The granary stands, like the stable, on its original site. The privy, which was placed over a large pit, was once nearer the homestead. The school was originally a barn, here in the farmyard, but was shifted nearer to the house in the 19th century for use as a schoolroom. It was shifted back to the farmyard about the beginning of the 20th century. It is divided into a schoolroom and a room for the teacher: photo by Karora, 23 April 2008

This is not a memoir, so that
as we rolled over the small rise
and saw, set on
that bare hill, the plain

wooden farm buildings
painted a uniform
deep red, with faded
and lightly rusted

iron roofs, and tawny
grasses swaying all about
against the two
tone blue of sea and sky,

we knew
no one would remember
we had
seen these things.

Matanaka farm building, Otago, New Zealand: photo by travelling light (Derek Smith and Maclean Barker), 30 August 2004

This stables at Matanaka is one of New Zealand's oldest surviving wooden buildings.These buildings are registered Category I historic places with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.: photo by Karora, 23 April 2008

This storehouse next to the granary at Matanaka is one of New Zealand's oldest surviving wooden buildings. These buildings are registered Category I historic places with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.: photo by Karora, 23 April 2008

Otahuhu, South Auckland: photo by bobsan88, 7 August 2015

Colville, Coromandel Peninsula, NZ | by bobsan88

Colville, Coromandel Peninsula, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 17 August 2016

Penrose, Auckland: photo by bobsan88, 9 October 2016

Huntley, Waikato, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 11 October 2016

Mokau, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 24 June 2016

Motor Camp Cabins. Mokau, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 24 June 2016

Tucumcari, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

Belen, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

Child of an FSA -- R.R. borrower? in front of house, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 or January 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Federal housing project on the outskirts of the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, January 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Movie theatre, Berlin, NewHampshire: photo by CharlesSteinhacker, June 1973 (US National Archives)

Symonds St, Auckland: photo by bobsan88, 9 August 2015

[Untitled, NZ]: photo by bobsan88, 21 August 2015

Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizarraga, October 2016

Land’s End, Foggy Night. San Francisco, 1953.: photo by Fred Lyon (Peter Fetterman Gallery)

Yang Fudong: photo by Augen Tier, 2 October 2016

Yang Fudong: photo by Augen Tier, 2 October 2016

Yang Fudong | by Augen Tier

Yang Fudong: photo by Augen Tier, 2 October 2016

Ruatoria, East Coast, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 14 November 2015

“I am living this kind of depression,” says Younous Chekkouri, a Moroccan former Guantánamo Bay detainee, who fears going outside because he sees faces in crowds as guards. “I’m not normal anymore.” Beatings, sleep deprivation, menacing and other brutal tactics have led to persistent mental health problems among detainees held in secret C.I.A. prisons and at Guantánamo Bay: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 14 October 2016

IRAQ - Iraqi families who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against IS are seen gathering near Qayyarah. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

IRAQ - An operation to retake Mosul from IS takes place as displaced families flee areas of unrest at east of Mosul. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

Displaced families flee areas of unrest during an operation to retake #Mosul #AFP from the IS Photo By Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 23 October 2016

Displaced Iraqis near #Qayyarah, south of #Mosul, #food distribution @afphoto by @Kilicbil: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 24 October 2016

SYRIA - Iraqi refugees who fled Mosul due to government forces offensive arrive in desert area of Rajam al-Saliba. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

#Iraq Displaced families arrive to a refugee camp in #Qarayyah during an operation to retake #Mosul from the IS #AFP Photo By @Kilicbil: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 23 October 2016

#Iraq A displaced boy holds a pigeon at refugee camp in #Qarayyah during an operation to retake #Mosul from the IS #AFP Photo By @Kilicbil: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 23 October 2016

IRAQ - Iraqi forces stand on an infantry fighting vehicle loaded on a truck driving through the Al-Shura area. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

A member of the Iraqi government forces smokes a cigarette as they rest in the village of al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul, after recapturing it from Islamic State (IS) in part of an ongoing operation to tighten the noose around Mosul and reclaim the last major Iraqi city under IS control.: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 24 October 2016

IRAQ - A member of the Iraqi government forces rests in the village of al-Khuwayn after they recapture it from IS. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

SYRIA - The shoes of a victim filled with personal belongings are seen at a make-shift hospital in Douma near Damascus. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

SYRIA - The body of a child is seen at a make-shift morgue following a cluster bomb attack on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

A woman walks past semi-finished clay idols of the Hindu mythological characters ‘Dakinis’ and ‘Yoginis’, who will be worshipped along with the Hindu goddess Kali, at a roadside workshop ahead of the Kali Puja festival in Kolkata, India: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 24 October 2016

An Afghan refugee girl stands on the debris of a demolish house in khazana refugees camp outskirts of Peshawar on October 24, 2016. More than 350,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn homeland from Pakistan this year, UN data show, with the torrent of people crossing the border expected to continue / AFP PHOTO / A MAJEEDA MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images

AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan refugee girl stands on the debris of a demolished house in Khazana refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar: photo by AFP, 24 October 2016

PAKISTAN - An Afghan refugee in khazana refugee camp near peshawar shifts bricks after demolishing his house before returning to his home land. By A Majeed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

AFGHANISTAN - A drug addict rests after smoking opium at a park in Kabul. By @shahmarai #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 October 2016

Pilgrimage

Police officers stand by as migrants lineup to register at a processing centre in the makeshift migrant camp known as “the jungle” near Calais, northern France, on Monday: photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP, 24 October 2016

FRANCE - A migrant looks on at "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais as a major 3 day operation is planned to clear the camp. By Philippe Huguen: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

FRANCE - Migrants queue for transportation by bus to reception centres across France from the "Jungle" camp in Calais. By Philippe Huguen: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

#Migrants around a #bonfire in the #JungleCamp in #Calais today as #evacuation has begun @AFPphoto by Philippe Huguen: image via Isabelle Wirth @Isa_Wirth_Roux, 24 October 2016

#France #migrants walk past a makeshift church in the "Jungle" camp in #Calais on the eve of its demolition #AFP Photo by Francois Lo Presti: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 23 October 2016

#France Building the 'Great Wall of #Calais aimed at preventing #migrants and #refugees from reaching #Britain #AFP Photo by @DenisCharlet: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 October 2016

Migrants waiting to be processed in Calais, France, on Monday, before boarding buses to reception centers around the country: photo by Jack Taylor, 24 October 2016

More than 150 #refugees and #migrants float in a rubber boat as they try to cross to #europe some 12 miles off shore #libya: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis. 23 October 2016

More than 200 #refugees and #migrants float in a rubber boat as they try to cross to #europe some 12 miles off shore #libya: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis. 23 October 2016

Song-sparrow (Melospiza melodia) in a hawthorn (Crataegus), Léon-Provancher marsh, Québec, Canada: photo by Cephas, 2009

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Pellegrinaggio

Valloncello dell'Albero Isolato il 16 agosto 1916

In agguato
in queste budella
di macerie
ore e ore
ho strascicato
la mia carcassa
usata dal fango
come una suola
o come un seme
di spinalba

Ungaretti
uomo di pena
ti basta un'illusione
per farti coraggio

Un riflettore
di là
mette un mare
nella nebbia

Searchlight beams, Malta: photo via Imperial War Museum

Pilgrimage

Valley of the Isolated Tree 16 August 1916

Crouched in ambush 
in these twisted
internal passages

among broken things
hour on hour 
I've dragged
a husk 
through the mud

an old shoe sole or
a seed of spiny whitethorn

Ungaretti man
of pain
an illusion
is enough to give you heart

Out there
in the fog
a searchlight
creates a sea


Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Pellegrinaggio (Pilgrimage) from Allegria di naufragi, 1919; English TC

HAITI - Leolien prepares food next to what remains of her house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie. By @hectorretamal#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 October 2016

#Haiti Damage after #HurricaneMatthew while the rain falls during a tropical storm #AFP Photo by @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 22 October 2016

#Haiti Damage after #HurricaneMatthew while the rain falls during a tropical storm #AFP Photo by @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 22 October 2016

#Haiti Damage after #HurricaneMatthew while the rain falls during a tropical storm #AFP Photo by @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 22 October 2016

#Hongkong during a signal eight warning for #TyphoonHaima #AFP Photo by @AntAFP: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 October 2016

#haveaniceday #sunset over the western city of Saint-Nazaire on October 20 #AFP Photo by @LoicVenance: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 October 2016

Under Gunmetal Gray Skies

Hillary Clinton after her arrival in Cleveland for campaign appearances on Friday: photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters, 21 October 2016

AstroTurfing the Brand

Clinton strategy for front group to astroturf progressive youth into working for Clinton (see "Attachments"): image via WikiLeaks @wikileaks, 23 October 2016

Top staff members of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton discussed in May 2015 how the candidate could possibly avoid press questioning “at message events” throughout the summer of that year, according to staff emails published by WikiLeaks. On Monday, WikiLeaks released a seventeenth collection of emails from the hacked account of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair. One email chain, from May 21, 2015, discussed how Clinton could avoid spontaneous press exchanges at campaign events.: photo by Bryan Snyder via Reuters, 24 October 2016

"Hillary is not running against Bernie, she is running against herself @PodestaEmails #imWithHer #FeeltheBern: image via WikiLeaks @wikileaks, 23 October 2016

YEMEN - A man stands at the site of an air raid on a funeral ceremony that killed 140 people and wounded 525. By Mohammed Huwais #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 October 2016

A kiss on the cheek while she's sticking a knife in the back" -- Clinton advisor Doug Band on Chelsea Clinton: image via WikiLeaks @wikileaks, 22 October 2016

16 days: image via Hillary Clinton @Hillary Clinton, 23 October 2016

Shipspotting (Order of Battle)

Photo on left is from 13 days ago when USS Mount Whitney was going northwards. Photo of right is from today. Spot the difference. :-): image via Bosphorus Naval News @Saturn5, 23 October 2016

I love how the press decries #AdmiralKuznetsov as being unreliable, then forgets just how bad Type 45 serviceability actually is...: image via Tony Osborne @Rotorfocus, 22 October 2016 Edinburgh, Scotland

Uau...! Have SPS Juan de Borbon and HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen joined to Russian fleet, @steffanwatkins @LukeDCoffey @YorukIsik @Saturn5...?: image via Gibraltar Español @decolonize_gib, 22 October 2016

F930 Leopold I, deeluitmakend van Standing Nato Maritime Group 1 volgt met argusogen de doortocht van de Kuznetzov-groep door de Noordzee: image via Belgian Navy @TheBelgianNavy, 20 October 2016

#ForwardDeployed (Closely Watched Straits)

TN Preveze (209/1200) completes her journey thru Bosphorus. Spotted by #alperboler @Saturn5 @YorukIsik @KerimBozkurt: image via Serhat Güvenç @SerhatGuvenc, 23 October 2016

Flagship of @USNavyEurope, Blue Ridge class commandship USS Mount Whitney LCC20 departs the Black Sea and transits Bosphorus #ForwardDeployed: image via Yöruk Isik @YorukIsik, 22 October 2016

US Navy's Blue Ridge class commandship USS Mount Whitney LCC20 transiting southbound on the Bosphorus after 13 days in Black Sea: image via alper böler @alperboler, 22 October 2016

Flagship of USNavyEurope USS Mount Whitney, finished her Black Sea deployment and passed through Istanbul in a grey dull winter morning: image via Bosphorus Naval News @Saturn5, 23 October 2016

#USSMountWhitney enters the #BosphorusStrait Oct. 23: image via Naval Forces Europe @USNavyEurope, 23 October 2016

Flagship of @USNavyEurope, Blue Ridge class commandship USS Mount Whitney LCC20 transited Bosphorus 05:00GMT @USNATO: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 23 October 2016

Flagship of @USNavyEurope, Blue Ridge class commandship USS Mount Whitney LCC20 hoisted US, Turkish Q and maritime pilot on board flags: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 22 October 2016

Blue Ridge class @USNavy commandship USS Mount Whitney LCC20 departed BlackSea after 13 days, transited Bosphorus and entered Marmara: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 22 October 2016

Project861M #ВМФ #ЧФBSF Moma-class AIG intelligence ship Liman has small structures aft for ELINT gear and a NEW radome similar to Kildin's: image via: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 21 October 2016

Project861M #ВМФ #ЧФ BSF Moma-class AIG intelligence ship Liman has small structures aft for ELINT gear and a NEW radome similar to Kildin's: image via: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 21 October 2016

Coming from #Tartus #Syria, Togo flag cargo vessel Lily-Ha transits Bosphorus en route to Varna: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik. 20 October 2016

#ВМФ #4Ф BSF Moma-class AIG intelligence ship Liman #Лиман transits southbound Bosphorus en route to Mediterranean: image via Yöruk Isik @YorukIsik, 21 October 2016

A few more shots of Moma-class AIG intelligence ship Liman on Bosphorus Strait: image via alper böler @alperboler, 21 October 2016

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Carney sets sail in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Carney sets sail in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey: photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters, 24 October 2016

Destroyer #USSCarney belongs @USNavyEurope Destroyer Squadron Sixty, 1 of 3 squadrons permanently based outside the U.S. in @NAVSTA_Rota: image via Yörük Isik @Yorukisik, 24 October 2016

Arleigh Burke-class @USNavyEurope guided missile destroyer USS Carney DDG64 transited Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea 13:40GMT @USNATO: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 24 October 2016

Arleigh Burke-class @USNavyEurope guided missile destroyer USS Carney DDG64 transits towards Black Sea #ForwardDeployed #PresenceMatters: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 24 October 2016

US Navy's Arleigh-Burke Class Destroyer "USS CARNEY" DDG 64 northbound on the İstanbul Strait towards Black Sea (4:00 pm local): image via Leucothea @Leucothea_ra, 24 October 2016

USS Carney is passing through Istanbul on her deployment to the Black Sea: image via Bosphorus Naval News @Saturn5, 24 October 2016

US Navy's Arleigh-Burke Class Destroyer "USS CARNEY" DDG 64 northbound on the İstanbul Strait towards Black Sea (4:00 pm local): image via Leucothea @Leucothea_ra, 24 October 2016

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney DDG64 hoisted US, courtesy Turkish, 'maritime pilot on board" flags during its Bosphorus transit: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 24 October 2016

Engineering, 'Command and Control', Ship Safety and Medical Excellence awards are painted on the starboard side of the destroyer USS Carney: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 24 October 2016

#Bosphorus: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer @USNavyEurope USS Carney DDG64 makes 45°turn in heavy currents at Kandilli Point, Edib Efendi yalı: image via Yörük Isik @YorukIsik, 24 October 2016

US Navy's ArleighBurke Class Destroyer USS Carney 64 northbound on the Bosphorus towards BlackSea: image via alper böler @alperboler, 24 October 2016

USS Carney of @USNavy @USNavyEurope in front of Galata Tower. The Genovese tower built in 1348 #BosphorusNavalWatch: image via alper böler @alperboler, 24 October 2016

Les "chasseurs de navires" du Bosphore à l'affût de la Marine russe par @FulyaOzerkan: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 23 October 2016

A sad love story from my office window in Beyoğlu. They are countries apart, that house is on French soil. Seriously.: image via alper böler @alperboler, 19 October 2016

FRANCE - A woman approaches a swan at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. By @MartinBureau1 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

Delmore Schwartz: To Helen

                  (After Valéry)

O Sea! … ’Tis I, risen from death once more
To hear the waves’ harmonious roar
And see the galleys, sharp, in dawn’s great awe
Raised from the dark by the rising and gold oar.

My fickle hands sufficed to summon kings
Their salt beards amused my fingers, deft and pure.
I wept. They sang of triumphs now obscure:
And the first abyss flooded the hull as if with falling wings.

I hear the profound horns and trumpets of war
Matching the rhythm, swinging of the flying oars:
The galleys’ chant enchains the foam of sound;
And the gods, exalted at the heroic prow,
E’en though the spit of spray insults each smiling brow,
Beckon to me, with arms indulgent, frozen, sculptured,
              and dead long long ago.

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966): To Helen (after Valery), from The New York Times, 1962

#refugees and #migrants try to escape from a sinking boat off shore #Libya. 113 people rescued from this boat,15 missing, one baby 3yo: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 25 October 2016

Rescue operation of a sinking boat as #refugees and #migrants try to cross to Europe, off shore Libya.113 rescued,15 missing and one baby 3yo: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 25 October 2016

FRANCE - Fire to keep migrants warm at night burns as a French officer stands on guard at the #CalaisJungle camp By François Nascimbeni #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian fisherman from Gaza releases his net off the coast of Gaza City. By @mohmdabed#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

YEMEN - 18-year-old woman sits in a wheelchair at the hospital where she is receiving treatment for malnutrition in Hodeida. By @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

FRANCE - Migrants gather around a bonfire in the "Jungle" migrant camp at sunset in Calais. By Francois Lo Presti #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

Iraq: Coalition huddles as forces inch towards Mosul: image via Al Jazeera News @AJE News, 25 October 2016

France begins dismantling Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp as hundreds are evacuated: image via Al Jazeera News @AJE News, 25 October 2016

FRANCE - Partial view of the #CalaisJungle camp taken late during the demolition of the camp in Calais. By François Nascimbeni #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

FRANCE - A migrant walks past a shack set on fire during the demolition of the #CalaisJungle camp in Calais. By Philippe Huguen #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

Una estatua de bronce en homenaje al famoso gato Tombili, en el barrio de Ziverbey de Estambul #AFP @ozannkosee: image via Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol, 25 October 2016

displaced by the battle between Iraqi forces and #IslamicState in #Mosul #Iraq take refuge in #qayyarah @Kilicbil @AFPhoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 25 October 2016

#Iraq Families displaced by the battle between Iraqi forces and IS in #Mosul take refuge in #qayarrah #AFP Photo by #Kilicbil @AFPphoto: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 25 October 2016

La huida de Mosul, en fotos de @Kilicbil (Afp): image via ElMundoInter @ElMundoInter, 25 October 2016

Los civiles sufren la "guerra del humo" del grupo Estado Islámico alrededor de Mosul #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol, 25 October 2016

Syrian government forces walk in the strategic area of the Bazo hilltop, north of Khan Tuman on the southern outskirts of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo as they advance in the ongoing offensive to the seize rebel-held eastern part of the city.: photo by Georges Ourfalian/AFP, 25 October 2016

SYRIA - Syrian government forces walk in the strategic area of the Bazo hilltop, north of Khan Tuman. By George Ourfalian #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

A police officer stands guard after migrants burn down a shelter as authorities move in to clear the Jungle migrant camp on October 25, 2016 in Calais, France. Migrants are leaving the Jungle migrant and refugee camp by coach for a second day as French authorities clear the camp of an estimated 7000 people ahead of its demolition. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

A police officer stands guard after migrants burn down a shelter as authorities move in to clear the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, France. Migrants are leaving the Jungle migrant and refugee camp by coach for a second day as French authorities clear the camp of an estimated 7000 people ahead of its demolition.: photo by Jack Taylor, 25 October 2016

Migrants queue to board buses and leave the notorious "Jungle" camp before authorities demolish the site on October 25, 2016 in Calais, France. Many migrants have left by coach to be reloctated at centres across France as Police and officials in France begin to clear the 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais. Some 7,000 people are estimated to be living in the camp in squalid conditions. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Migrants queue to board buses and leave the notorious “Jungle” camp before authorities demolish the site in Calais, France. Many migrants have left by coach to be relocated at centres across France as Police and officials in France begin to clear the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais. Some 7,000 people are estimated to be living in the camp in squalid conditions.: photo Christopher Furlong, 25 October 2016

hepimiz tombili nin göbeğiyiz ölmekle bitmeyiz. @kadikoybelediye: image via ateshirsizi @atesinhirsizi, 3 October 2016

Tombili: Istanbul cat and worldwide meme honoured with statue: Kadıköy's deputy mayor said in the inauguration ceremony that 17,000 people had demanded a memorial sculpture: Bethan McKernan, The Independent, 4 October 2016

‘Tombili’, a rotund cat beloved by Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighbourhood, has been commemorated by the city authorities after local demand for a tribute to his memory.

Tombili -- a Turkish word often used for chubby pets -- was known by residents of Ziverbey, part of the district of Kadıköy, for his nonchalant demeanour towards people who wanted to play with him. The cat became world famous earlier this year after a photo of him reclining in one of his favourite spots on the pavement was shared thousands of times on social media.

Many users edited the image with jokey captions or Photoshopped glasses of alcohol or other vices in front of him.

The cat found fame late in life, dying in August after a mystery month-long illness, Hurriyet News reported his owners as saying.

Flyers around the neighbourhood mourning his loss reading, “You will live on in our hearts, mascot of our street” appeared before the idea for a more permanent tribute took hold.

A change dot org petition which gathered 17,000 signatures asked for Kadıköy Municipality to officially commemorate Tombili’s contribution to public life, and local sculptor Seval
Şahin agreed to make a bronze sculpture recreating the cat’s famous pose.

The statue was inaugurated on October 4, World Animal Day. Hundreds of people came to pay their respects, leaving candles, cat food and flowers. The event was covered by Turkish TV.

At the ceremony, Kadıköy deputy mayor Başar Necipoğlu thanked the animal lovers of the area for making the memorial possible.

Istanbul’s love affair with cats is well documented: the city is home to hundreds of thousands of strays which are well looked after by locals.

“If you kill a cat, you need to build a mosque to gain God’s forgiveness,” is how one Turkish saying goes. It is thought to originate from a folktale about the Prophet Mohammed’s favourite pet, a cat called Muezza.

Rather than disturb the cat sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe, Mohammed used scissors to cut the sleeve off and leave her undisturbed.

In another version of the story, Muezza saved the prophet from a deadly snake. When he stroked her back in thanks, cats earned their ability to always land on their feet.

Bir Tombili kac yılda yetişiyor farkında mısınız? Teşekkürler @kadikoybelediye si: image via ateshirsizi @atesinhirsizi, 3 October 2016

TURKEY - The silhouettes of Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) and Hagia Sophia at sunset in Istanbul. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

TURKEY - The Suleymaniye Mosque lit up at sunset in Istanbul. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 25 October 2016

Supplies were set out Monday near Qaiyara, south of Mosul, for Iraqis expected to be displaced by the government operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 24 October 2016

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Supplies were set out Monday near Qaiyara, south of Mosul, for Iraqis expected to be displaced by the government operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 24 October 2016

Families who were displaced by the operation to retake Mosul, on Monday near Qayyarah, Iraq: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 24 October 2016

Families who were displaced by the operation to retake Mosul, on Monday near Qayyarah, Iraq: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 24 October 2016

A model presents a creation by K Fashion Project during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A model presents a creation by K Fashion Project during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week in Beijing: photo by Andy Wong/AP, 26 October 2016

A man applies paint on the tomb at the Barangka Cemetery in Marikina, east of Manila on October 26, 2016, days ahead of the traditional All Souls' Day. Millions across the Philippines will visit cemeteries to pay their respects to their dead, in an annual tradition that combines catholic religious rites with the country's penchant for festivity / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELISNOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images

A man applies paint on a tomb at the Barangka Cemetery in Marikina, east of Manila days ahead of the traditional All Souls’ Day. Millions across the Philippines will visit cemeteries to pay their respects to their dead, in an annual tradition that combines catholic religious rites with the country’s penchant for festivity.: photo by Noel Celis/AFP, 26 October 2016

Clouds float above the Castle of Somosko near Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, lOct. 25, 2016. (Peter Komka/MTI via AP)

Clouds float above the Castle of Somosko near Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary: photo by Peter Komka/MTI/AP, 26 October 2016

The installation 'Zeitfeld' by Klaus Rinke in Duesseldorf, Germany, 26 October 2016. The European Summer Time ends on 30 October, when clocks will be set back one hour during the night. EPA/MAJA HITIJ

The installation ‘Zeitfeld’ by Klaus Rinke in Duesseldorf, Germany. The European Summer Time ends on October 30 when clocks will be set back one hour during the night.: photo by Maja Hitij/EPA, 26 October 2016

A view of one of the latest murals near Glasgow cathedral on October 26, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. The murals have been appearing across the city for a since 2008 with new ones appearing on a regular bases rejuvenating bare walls revitalising tired corners of Glasgow. Now a new Mural Trail has been devised with a huge range of them on display within a short walking distance from the city centre. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A view of one of the latest murals near Glasgow cathedral, Scotland. The murals have been appearing across the city for a since 2008 with new ones appearing on a regular bases rejuvenating bare walls revitalising tired corners of Glasgow: photo by Jeff J Mitchell, 26 October 2016

Desplazados iraquíes que huyeron de Mosul reunidos con sus familiares en el campo de Khazer. Fotos de @Kilicbil: image via Isaac J. Martin @isaacjmartin, 26 October 2016

IRAQ - Newly displaced families from Mosul seeing relatives for first time in two years at camp near Kalak. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

Newly displaced Iraqis who fled Mosul, meet their relatives who came 2 years ago to the same refugee camp. Oct. 26, 2016 @Kilicbil @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 26 October 2016

IRAQ - Newly displaced families from Mosul seeing relatives for first time in two years at camp near Kalak. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

IRAQ - Newly #displaced families from #Mosul seeing relatives for first time in two years at camp near Kalak. @AFPphoto by @Kilicbil #Iraq: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad 26 October 2016

Newly displaced Iraq's who fled from the city of Mosul, Iraq's last major Islamic State (IS) group stronghold, cry as they meet their relatives who came two years ago to the refugee camp in the Khazer area, near near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aksi Kalak, some 40 kilometres east of Arbil following their arrival on October 26, 2016. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Stephane Dujarric told reporters that almost 9,000 people are internally displaced as a result of the Mosul military operation in Iraq. Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said the military operations to retake Mosul could spark the largest humanitarian crisis in 2016 as the security situation in the area restrains aid agencies' ability to deliver help. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

Newly displaced people who have fled from the city of Mosul, Iraq’s last major Islamic State group stronghold, cry as they meet their relatives who came two years ago to the refugee camp in the Khazer area, near near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aksi Kalak following their arrival on Wednesday: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 26 October 2016

IRAQ - Newly displaced families from Mosul seeing relatives for first time in two years at camp near Kalak. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

#Iraq Displaced Iraqis arrive at #RefugeeCamp in the town of #Qayyarrah, south of #Mosul By @Kilicbil @AFPphoto #photojournalsm: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 26 October 2016

An Iraqi man walks on a street covered with smoke after an oil field was set ablaze in the Qayyarah area, south of Mosul: photo by AFP, 21 August 2016

Islamic State sets sulfur alight in attempt to foil attack on militant stronghold @washingtonpost: image via Anna Fifield @annafifield, 23 October 2016

@LovedayM reports from Q-West, an airfield outside Mosul that was until recently a base for ISIS militants: image via Post World @PostWorldNews, 26 October 2016

Families fleeing #ISIS into toxic fumes from sulphur and oil fires south of #Mosul: image via Loveday Morris Verified account @LovedayM, 26 October 2016

MAP: #Mosul offensive as of October 26th - @LCarabinier: image via Conflict News @Conflicts, 26 October 2016

MAP: Over 10,500 Iraqi people displaced by military operation in #Mosul, @UN says: image via Conflict News @Conflicts, 26 October 2016

Offensive on #ISIS base #Raqqa will be harder than #Mosul: U.S. general #MosulOperations: image via World News Network Verified account @worldnewsdotcom, 26 October 2016

Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to board her campaign plane at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. With less than two weeks to go until election day, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Florida: photo by Justin Sullivan, 26 October 2016

I am what you want and if you don't think so my little friends

would just like you to know that the trigger is oh so close

and this is called we came you lost every time over and over

and no, you're absolutely NOT permitted to ask questions

ya know

It was that kind of day

Filthy smoke was rising from horizon to horizon
People everywhere could be seen crouched

Beneath crumbling edifices of marble
Scribbling by failing light on ballots
Made of wrinkled skin
as you were saying
these words the wind again
rose, one could smell the acrid smoke
and feel the heat of the flames
touching the other side of the paper

Various masks are on sale at the “maskworld” costume store in Berlin: photo by Tobias Schwartz/AFP, 26 October 2016

SYRIA - Inside a make-shift hospital following reported government shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

TURKEY - A protester reacts as anti-riot police use water cannon during a demo. against detention co-mayors in Diyarbakir. By @pironic2121: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

TURKEY - Arrests during a demonstration against the detention of the Kurdish-majority city's co-mayors in Diyarbakir. By @pironic2121: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

PAKISTAN - A vendor sells bananas in front of shuttered shops at the market during a strike in Quetta. By Banaras Khan #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

A farmer harvests rice on a field in Lalitpur, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 26 October 2016

Floral artists (left-right) Richard Bragg, Harriet Sargent and James Buswell put the finishing touches to a 9x9m rangoli-style flower installation in the fountain at Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London, made with over 6,000 flowers to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Light: photo by Matt Alexander/PA, 26 October 2016

O problema não é o #Admiral Kuznetsov mas sim o que as capitais europeias e os EUA estão dispostos a fazer em Alepo e no norte da Síria: image via Miguel Monjardino @MMonjardino, 27 October 2016

Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, in the English Channel on Friday: photo by Dover-Marina dotcom, 21 October 2016

The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov near Norway last week. Moscow sent the carrier and several other vessels through the English Channel on Friday.: photo by Norwegian Royal Airforce, via NTB Scanpix/Reuters, 26 October 2016

View from the International Space Station of the Admiral Kuznetsov passing France, on its way to cause havoc in the Middle East: image via Peter @Capt_Darling, 23 October 2016

Full steam ahead!! #Admiral Kuznetsov: image via Michael Garrood @Michael Garrood, 24 October 2016

Engineering officers of #Admiral Kuznetsov say everything is running smoothly: image via Sputnik @Sputnik_Not, 22 October 2016

FRANCE - People try to move a caravan as smoke rises from fires at the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. By François Nascimbeni #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

#France Smoke rises over makeshift shelters during the full evacuation of the #CalaisJungle #migrant camp #AFP Photo by Philippe Huguen: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

FRANCE - Migrants queue for transportation by bus to reception centres across France from the #CalaisJungle. By Philippe Huguen#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard, 26 October 2016

The main row of shops in the #CalaisJungle is left burnt to the ground @SWNS: image via Adam Gray @agrayphoto, 26 October 2016

A migrant runs past a burning makeshift shelters in the “Jungle” on the third day of their evacuation and transfer to reception centers in France, as part of the dismantlement of the camp in Calais, France: photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters, 26 October 2016

Heavy machinery moves into the Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant camp to demolish the site: photo by Christopher Furlong, 27 October 2016

City workers cross the River Thames with the City of London financial district seen behind in London, in Britain October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

City workers cross the River Thames with the City of London financial district seen behind in London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 27 October 2016

Filipino anti-riot police stand guard during a protest near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines, 27 October 2016. Hundreds of protesters including Indigenous People, students and militant groups marched towards the US Embassy to protest against the presence of US military troops and condemning the violent dispersal on 19 October which left at least forty people hurt including twenty police officers and three people who were run over by a police van. EPA/MARK R. CRISTINO

Filipino anti-riot police stand guard during a protest near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines. Hundreds of protesters including Indigenous people, students and militant groups marched towards the US Embassy to protest against the presence of US military troops and condemning the violent dispersal on 19 October which left at least forty people hurt including twenty police officers and three people who were run over by a police van.: photo by Mark R.Cristino/EPA, 27 October 2016

South Kolan. Bingera Mill, last night. Western Star Double B loading 40 tonnes of raw sugar. A bit shaky.: photo by Warren, 24 October 2016

The sun rises over the New Forest in Hampshire. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday October 27, 2016. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

The sun rises over the New Forest in Hampshire in England: photo by Andrew Matthews/PA, 27 October 2016

UnionStation waiting room, Chicago: photo by JackDelano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

DISSOLVE TO:

180. EXT. HOBART ARMS - AT FRONT ENTRANCE - NIGHT

as Marlowe comes out, wearing a hat and trench-coat against

the rain which has begun to fall. He gets into his car and

drives off. As he does so, a second car, a dark convertible

seen indistinctly in the shadowy street, swings around the

corner behind him, slows, falters, then picks up speed,

following Marlowe.

181. EXT. LAVERNE TERRACE - NIGHT (RAIN)

as Marlowe drives slowly, cautiously toward Geiger's house.

The street is dark, deserted. Marlowe drives without

lights. He stops in the tree-shadows by the angle of

Geiger's hedge and slides quietly out of the car, keeping

close to the hedge. His gun gleams faintly in his hand.

182. EXT. LAVERNE TERRACE - NIGHT (RAIN)

A section of the road over which Marlowe has just come.

The dark convertible creeps along in the shadows, also

without lights. It is still impossible to see who is

driving.

183. EXT. GEIGER'S PLACE - NIGHT (RAIN)

as Marlowe makes his way like a stalking cat through the

garden, toward the front door. Nothing stirs. There is no

sound but the rain. Marlowe crosses the exposed bridge at

a crouching run.

Nothing happens. He pauses in the shadows by the front door,

then tries the knob. Silently the door swings open. He

waits, then darts swiftly inside.

184. EXT. LAVERNE TERRACE - NIGHT (RAIN)

The dark convertible, still shrouded in the heavy shadows

of the trees, parks quietly behind Marlowe's car across the

road.

185. INT. GEIGER'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM

Marlowe stands beside the door, which he has closed,

listening. He is only a shadow among shadows. The house

is utterly still. Marlowe, still cautious, crosses into

the rear part of the house, then returns.

MARLOWE

(laughing softly)

Okay, Eddie. I get it -- on the

way out.

He draws the heavy curtains quickly across the windows,

turns on the lights and sheds his hat and coat. The

packing box from Geiger's back room stands on the hearth-

rug. Marlowe bends over to look inside.

186. INSERT: THE PACKING BOX

filled with manila filing envelopes, ledgers, etc. On the

top of the stack is a folder labeled "Sternwood". It has

obviously been placed there on purpose.

187. INT. GEIGER'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM

Marlowe picks up the folder -- a KNOCK SOUNDS on the front

door. Marlowe reacts, dropping the folder, and raises his

gun. He moves quickly to turn out the lights, then stands

beside the door, flat against the wall.

MARLOWE

Yeah?

CARMEN'S VOICE

Phil -- let me in.

MARLOWE

(after a pause,

unlocking the door)

Come in fast and shut the door behind

you.

He retains his wary position while Carmen obeys. When he

is sure she's alone, he sighs, relocks the door and turns

on the lights. His face is beaded with sweat, his hand

shaking slightly. Carmen is lightly clad, without hat or

coat. Apparently she has left home in a hurry.

CARMEN

Did I scare you?

MARLOWE

(dryly)

                No -- I was expecting visitors...

from:

"THE BIG SLEEP"

Screenplay

William Faulkner

Leigh Brackett

Jules Furthman

From the novel

Raymond Chandler

1944

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UnionStation waiting room, Chicago: photo by JackDelano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

playing with the lights… #fujifilm: image via FUJIXPROIMAGES - ADS, 10 October 2016

walking into the darkness…… #fujifilm: image via FUJIXPROIMAGES - ADS, 10 October 2016

happy to be normal like you: image via FUJIXPROIMAGES - ADS, 10 October 2016

If in this picture you don't see a human being it's because you're not one Se in questa non vedi un essere umano è perchè tu non lo sei: image via Yara @y_nardi, 25 October 2016

ITALY - A woman with a survival blanket disembarks from the rescue ship Topaz Responder at Brindisi harbour. By @ADS4AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 27 October 2016

FRANCE - Massive operation to clear #CalaisJungle camp where 6,000-8,000 people have been living in dire conditions. By François Nascimbeni: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 27 October 2016

Residents of besieged eastern #Aleppo sell seeds and bake bread in streets: image via Karam Almasri @KaramAlmasri25, 27 October 2016

After one week without Russian and Syrian air strikes, Life is back to streets of eastern #Aleppo: image via Karam Almasri @KaramAlmasri25, 27 October 2016

SYRIA - Syrian men sell fuel produced from plastic in the rebel-held side of the embattled northern city of Aleppo. By @KaramAlmasri25 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

After one week without Russian and Syrian air strikes, Life is back to streets of eastern #Aleppo: image via Karam Almasri @KaramAlmasri25, 27 October 2016

HUNGARY - Prisoners build a new second fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Gara village. By Csaba Segesvari #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

A Kurdish female Peshmerga soldier carries a newly internally displaced boy after she helped him to jump from the truck upon his arrival at Al Khazar camp near Hassan Sham, east of Mosul, east of Mosul, Iraq: photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters, 28 October 2016

IRAQ - Displaced Iraqi families are seen gathering in an area near Qayyarah during #MosulOffensive By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

IRAQ - A member of Iraqi forces smokes a water pipe in an armoured vehicle in Hamdaniya during #MosulOffensive By @safinphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

IRAQ - A member of Iraqi forces flashes a victory sign in an armoured vehicle during #MosulOffensive By @safinphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

IRAQ - Iraqi forces stand next to their vehicles in Umm Mahahir after they recaptured it from IS during #MosulOffensive By Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

Hillary Clinton with Michelle Obama at a campaign stop at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Thursday: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 28 October 2016

Honestly impressed that there are still dick jokes left to make: image via Scott Bixby @scottbix, 28 October 2016

Anthony Weiner at the Democratic National Convention in July: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 28 October 2016

Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton on the Clinton campaign plane on Friday: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 28 October 2016

Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton on the Clinton campaign plane on Friday: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 28 October 2016

A police officer in Manila holds a bag that contains a doll, stained with blood, that was recovered after a fatal drive-by shooting of two girls on Wednesday by a vigilante who claimed one of the girls was a drug dealer: photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 27 October 2016

A migrant shaves on Thursday as smoke from burning tents in the camp wafts his way: photo by Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press, 28 October 2016

A woman walks past a burning structure at the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, northern France, early on October 28, 2016, after a massive operation to clear the settlement where 6,000-8,000 people have been living. Migrants left behind after the demolition of France's notorious "Jungle" faced a day of reckoning on October 28 after spending the night, with official blessing, in a disused part of the camp. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images

A woman walks past a burning structure at the “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais, northern France, early on Friday after a massive operation to clear the settlement where 6,000-8,000 people have been living: photo by Philippe Huguen/AFP, 28 October 2016

FRANCE - Firefighters douse a fire at the demolished "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. By François Nascimbeni #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 28 October 2016

A Donald Trump mural covers a building in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, Florida: photo by Rhona Wise/AFP, 28 October 2016

A man rides a bicycle between trees at foggy autumn weather with temperatures by five degrees near the village Groebenzell near Munich, southern Germany

A man rides a bicycle between trees in foggy autumn weather with frigid temperatures near the village Groebenzell near Munich, southern Germany: photo by Christof Stache/AFP, 28 October 2016

An Airbus A380-861 passenger jet of Singapore Airlines is silhouetted against the Sun as photographed from Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, 28 October 2016. EPA/PETER KOMKA HUNGARY OUT

An Airbus A380-861 passenger jet of Singapore Airlines is silhouetted against the Sun as photographed from Salgotarjan, Hungary: photo by Peter Komka/EPA, 28 October 2016

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An Airbus A380-861 passenger jet of Singapore Airlines is silhouetted against the Sun as photographed from Salgotarjan, Hungary: photo by Peter Komka/EPA, 28 October 2016

UnionStation waiting room, Chicago: photo by JackDelano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Burst firing / Giuseppe Ungaretti: Stelle

Disconnection / Giuseppe Ungaretti: they led me by the hand

Unsafe Passage / GIuseppe Ungaretti: Allegria di naufragi

We weren't supposed to drown / Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning

School on alert, students on edge about ‘evil clowns’: Tracey Taylor, Berkeleyside, 7 October 2016

Industry / Atonement

The confused sardine wriggles sideways towards Happiness

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Strained to Hone Her Message, Leaked Emails Show: Amy Chozick and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times, 10 October 2016

Rites

Exultation, ya know

“I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton!”

“We Have To Bring Them To HeeI”

Back to Pueblo / Shah Marai: When hope is gone

Strangers Together

Wyatt's Galley of Forget

Petrarch: Rime CLXXXIX (Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio)

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 1304-1374: Rime CLXXXIX

My beloved city / Stevie Smith: To Carry the Child

keel laying (Calling Giant Meteor)

Screen and Shadow

Royal Navy sends ships to shadow Russian fleet passing Britain: Ministry of Defence says British ships will ‘man-mark’ Russian fleet, which is believed to be travelling to Syria for possible final assault on Aleppo: George Sandemman and agencies, The Guardian, 19 October 2016

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Ritorno / Return

The Internet of Things Is a Smart Cyclops Putting Out His E-Cigar In His Own Eye / Two Farm Poems

Clinton far ahead in Electoral College race: Reuters/Ipsos poll: Maurice Tammem, Reuters, 22 October 2016

Reverberation / Shipspotting (Order of Battle) / Giuseppe Ungaretti: Pilgrimage (Displacement)

Delmore Schwartz: To Helen (After Valéry)

Tombili: Istanbul cat and worldwide meme honoured with statue: Kadıköy's deputy mayor said in the inauguration ceremony that 17,000 people had demanded a memorial sculpture: Bethan McKernan, The Independent, 4 October 2016

Happiness Trigger

smoke break (walking into the darkness)