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A desigualdade social e a pobreza são problemas sociais que afetam a maioria dos países na atualidade. A pobreza existe em todos os países, pobres ou ricos, mas a desigualdade social é um fenômeno que ocorre principalmente em países não desenvolvidos.
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Social inequality and poverty are social problems that affect most countries today. Poverty exists in all countries, rich or poor, but social inequality is a phenomenon that occurs mainly in undeveloped countries.
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
Chen Shui-bian
Nellie Vin ©Photography.
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Gravity affects everything we do on Earth but we know surprisingly little about how it works and how it affects life. Until recently scientists had no way of experimenting without gravity to understand what life would be like without it.
Research in space or with facilities on Earth that recreate aspects of space bring knowledge, discoveries and improvements to our daily life and further our exploration of the Solar System.
ESA offers many platforms for conducting experiments across the whole spectrum of scientific disciplines. You can run an experiment in a sounding rocket, drop towers, centrifuges, Antarctica and even the International Space Station.
From the moment an experiment is let go at the top of a drop tower until it hits the padded ground beneath, the experiment is free of the influences of gravity. These short bouts of microgravity are open to scientists from all over the world and offer an economical alternative to spaceflight that can be used at any time of the year.
Proposals for experiments are always welcome and can be submitted via the research announcement page
Credits: ESA
Affect
The painterly effect creates a tranquil feeling. An element of visual interest blooms from the smooth textures of the smudged areas contrasting the crisp details of the flowers and leaves in the foreground. It indicates the subtle perspective of the scene. The natural colour scheme enhances a feeling of serenity.
How Music Affects the Brain bebrainfit.com/music-brain/
The Chemistry of Music an the Brain prezi.com/k0jlkpkcqnkt/the-chemistry-of-music-and-the-brain/
Ways that Music Affects your Brain and Mood www.consciouslifestylemag.com/music-and-the-brain-affects...
Knowing Neurons knowingneurons.com/2017/07/12/music/
The Effect of Music on the Production of Neurotransmitters pdf. pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4bfe/35f957b10959f9c9fb063ba0453...
the-impact-of-music-on-neurochemistry www.audiocura.com/the-impact-of-music-on-neurochemistry/
So goes the age old saying: Why on Earth doesn’t a Fashionista Barbie body get the same amount of motion as her Pivotal cousin, Fashion Royalty rivals or even Monster High despite having a similar system of joints? Well, turns out the only reason why this is so is because there’s WAY too much plastic around the joints. This gives a smoother appearance but it definitely affects the play value of the bodies to me.
I’ve been meaning to test this theory for awhile but in between lacking a good carving knife, moving, and having a lack of test bodies I haven’t been able to properly put to the test.
But then I picked up a Fashionista body from Savers today before crashing at my boyfriend’s house, with the intentions of painting it to match my Wicked Witch doll’s head. But I realised with the current Fashionista joints it would chip really badly, so I figured i put my theory of expanding her motion range AND limiting how much joint friction there would be for this test body.
So I asked my bf if he had any sharp knives I could whittle my doll body with and he whipped out this crazy sharp knife cuz he’s into that kind of hunting biz.
I first turned her upper arm elbow socket from a U shaped socket to a completely straight line so her arm could turn inwards at a 90 degree. I then carved a crescent moon shape on her forearm following her elbow joint so the arm could in deeper. I whittled her upper arms to taper to her lower arms to look nicer aesthetically but to also minimise the amount of plastic between the joint so she could get the maximum fold.
I then carved the plastic around her wrist to expose as much of the hand post as I could without exposing her wrist post so she could get at least a 90 degree bend.
I left the arm on (our) left untouched to show how limited the range of movement is in comparison to what I did to her right arm.
“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat”
Molly Haskell (Author and Critic)
[AFFECTATION INSOLITE] l'un des deux Gx 137L de la SETRA en HLP après un trajet sur la ligne 23 précédemment effectué
Appareil photo : Canon 4000D + 18 55mm Objectif
Affectation insolite d'une Citadis 2 sur la ligne B, vu ici à Montagne Verte en direction d'Hoenheim.
Elle présente, au niveau du dos de l'abdomen, un folium (dessin qui affecte la forme d'une feuille ornementale) caractéristique utilisé pour sa diagnose. Ce dessin présente un ensemble de taches blanches formant une croix et une partie médiane brune se terminant en pointe, bordée d'une ligne blanche en dents de scie. Ce dessin est d'ailleurs caractéristique d'un groupe d'épeires (Araneus marmoreus, Araneus pallidus).
Le céphalothorax est très velu tandis que les pattes sont très épineuses.
Les deux sexes de l'espèce ont un aspect assez différent, principalement au niveau de la taille (dimorphisme sexuel). Ainsi, les individus mâles font moins d'un centimètre alors que les femelles peuvent atteindre deux centimètres et ont un abdomen plus volumineux, de forme arrondie. Les mâles mesurent de 4 à 11 mm et les femelles de 10 à 22,5 mm.
Une autre de ses particularités est la création de toiles très grandes par rapport à sa propre taille, puisqu'elles peuvent atteindre exceptionnellement un mètre, avec des fils particulièrement solides qui craquent sèchement (bruit de "perle") lorsqu'ils rompent. La toile est refaite tous les jours : l'épeire ne répare pas sa toile et la recommence tous les matins. La toile pèse cinq dix-millième de gramme. La première toile d'une jeune épeire mesure à peine 3 cm d'envergure.
L'Épeire diadème a une durée de vie d'un an. (Source Wikipédia)
There was a nice shadow affect at sunset, and I simply put my camera on manual, changed the ISO and hiked up some custom settings on there, and wah la.
(Taris system, moments after the events of Chapter 8)
Outside of the Separatist base, Throte, Egile and the last of the Clone Troopers keep up their attacks against the Sith General, Gualo Rotinth. However, their attacks are having no affect against him as he easily deflects their blaster shots back towards them. Already a few have died from his defense and Gualo was making sure to torture the rest of the Republic forces before slaying them all.
In a matter of speaking, Gualo himself was enjoying the intense fight.
So focused on the Republic soldiers, he almost didn't see Kydan and Calena quickly charging at him from each side. They both figured that if the rest of the Republic soldiers could keep Gualo in place for just a few more moments, they could end this battle once and for all.
However, Gualo figured out their plan quickly as he swiftly deactivates his saber and spins to dodge a couple blaster shots. Just passing him, he uses the Force to create a massive pulse, causing everyone to be sent flying backwards. Reactivating his lightsaber, Gualo takes a defensive stance as Kydan and Calena, who had endured the Force Pulse, quickly approach him.
But, to Gualo's surprise, Kydan comes to a complete stop, confused as to what he was doing. Curiously and cautiously, he turns his head around to Calena, only to be met with her blade coming for him. With only a short time to react, he blocks her attack, his saber only inches away from his face.
At the same time, Kydan comes from the other side, his vibroblade raised in the air as he prepares to strike Gualo down. Gualo just smirked at them, realizing what they were trying to accomplish.
Gualo- "Heh, this again?"
Like before, Gualo breaks the blade lock and jumping over Kydan backwards, avoiding his attempted attack.
Gualo- "Using the same moves won't save you, Republic scum!"
As he just lands on his feet, he was suddenly hit by Kydan's Force Push, powerful enough to send him flying backwards, skidding across the platform towards the building
Kydan- "That was never my intention, Gualo..."
Gualo stared wide eyed at Kydan. Did he just use a Force Push on him? The only ones that could possibly use those moves were...
Gualo- "Your...your no mercenary. Your a Jedi!"
Finally getting up to their feet, Throte, Egile and the Clone Troopers were able to hear what Gualo had just said. Underneath Throte's helmet, his expression was in complete shock. Many could even say and tell that he had tons of thoughts crossing through his mind just by the frozen stance he was in.
Egile- *Thoughts* 'Kedone...is a Jedi?'
Kydan narrowed his eyes at Gualo. So much for keeping that part a secret he thought to himself. Truthfully, he was going to tell them all that he was a Jedi after the battle was over, but the situation they were in now...it was too soon. This wasn't how he wanted it to turn out.
Kydan- "...Yes, I am."
After a few moments of silence, Gualo finally spoke up, giving off a devious grin, and then laughing menacingly.
Gualo- "Hahaha! This is just perfect! Another Jedi to kill today! I can definitely say that I will have the unspeakable pleasure of killing two Jedi with one blade! Like your master, you shall fall along with him!"
Kydan- "As long as I live Gualo, you won't be getting that chance again."
Kydan glances towards Calena who was already taking her position.
Kydan- "Ready?"
Calena- *Nods* "Yeah..."
Quickly, Kydan and Calena once again charge directly at Gualo, who was also charging at them as well, with their blades were ready to strike down the other. All at once, their blades collided with each other, locking themselves in.
Gualo- "Hmph...you both seem to have tremendous strength...but that alone will not be enough to defeat me!"
Gualo forcefully breaks the blade lock and uses the Force to create lightning, electrifying both Kydan and Calena. The Force Lightning was so strong that it was able to send them both flying backwards across the platform, causing an after shock through them after they crashed.
Slowly, Gualo approaches them both. He turns his attention towards Kydan as he readies his saber for the final kill.
Gualo- "This ends for you both...Jedi."
But before Gualo could even make a move against Kydan, out of nowhere, Egile tackles Gualo back, just about knocking him off his feet.
Egile- You'll have to go through us to get to them, you monster!
Quickly, as Egile and the soldiers took chase after Gualo, one of the Clone Sergeants and a clone rushes towards the both of them to check their conditions.
772nd Clone Sergeant- "You two okay?"
Kydan- "Yeah, were fine..."
772nd Clone- "Here, let me help you up ma'am."
Calena- "Thanks..."
772nd Clone Sergeant- "We'll draw his attention away for now. Meanwhile, you two get ready to finish him. We'll hold him off until then."
With that, the Clone Sergeant and the other Republic soldiers rush towards Gualo as they keep his attention on them only while Kydan and Calena take a moment to recover.
Approaching him slowly, Calena walks beside him, waiting for him to give them the orders on what to do at this point.
Kydan- "Calena? Do you think you can keep his attention away from me for five seconds?"
Calena stared at him puzzled. She absolutely had no idea what he was now thinking, but she knew that it had to be a last resort plan of some kind. Going with whatever he was planning, she nods.
Calena- "Yeah...I can. But what are you gonna do?
Kydan- "...Something that I won't be proud of doing."
Not wanting to press the matter any further, she nods once more and then rushes towards the others. For a brief moment, he watches the battle from the other side. What he was going to do was one of the many things that he wished he didn't have to do. It's what made him such an outcast to everyone, even to the Jedi Order.
Appearing next to him was Dark, giving him a cautious and serious look in his eyes.
Dark- "Are you sure you wanna do this?"
Kydan- "..."
Dark- "I mean, you know what happened last time...and that alone caused us and everyone else a lot of pain and fear. Even the Order had wanted it banned and forbidden."
Kydan- "I'm not confident about this either, but...it's our last chance. We have to win this battle. I promised Master Turin that I would save them all...and I attend to keep that oath. I can't just watch them all die because of me."
Dark gave him a blank expression. He knew that when Kydan was this serious, it meant that he wasn't going to go back on it. No matter what, Dark was always supportive about these things, and has never doubted his friend's abilities. And he wasn't about to judge him on that now.
Dark- "...Alright then. I'm right beside you."
Rolling up his right sleeve, he takes a deep breath as he focus all his energy into his arm using the Force and another mysterious ability. In a matter of seconds, his arm began to shade into a black color, producing blue and black streams of electricity from his shoulder down to the ends of his finger tips. His arm appeared to have been changed into some type of ancient armor.
Kydan's breaths started getting heavier. He has, in his life, hardly ever used this ability this much. The last time he did something like this...was when his father was still alive, which was nearly eleven years ago.
Kydan- *Groans in pain* "This...have better 'gynero'...bloody work..."
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Fourth Wall: ('Gynero', meaning hopeful)
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Dark- "Just don't over exert yourself this time..."
Groaning, he looks towards Dark and smirks.
Kydan- "I plan not to bud..."
Reaching into his robes, he pulls out his own lightsaber, producing a purple blade from the hilt. Grasping the saber in his left hand tightly, he swiftly charges towards the others with tremendous speed, shades of darkness trailing behind him. His only hope was that this ability will end Gualo once and for all. Otherwise...there would be dire consequences.
At the very same time, Calena continues to hold out against Gualo on her own. Egile, Throte and the others were all knocked out one by one injured, leaving herself and Gualo to fight each other. But fighting Gualo on her own was becoming too much for a single person to do.
Using his last ounce of strength left, Gualo creates one last massive Force Pulse, sending Calena flying backwards, causing her to crash hard on the platform.
Chuckling, Gualo approaches Calena who was trying to get back up, but to no prevail. She was too injured and exhausted to stand at the moment.
Gualo- "Hehehe. This is where your lives come to an end, Republic scum..."
Slowly, Gualo raises his saber at Calena, aiming for her neck to decapitate her. He could sense her fears building...and it felt wonderful to him. The pure fear and hesitance in another life form felt ecstatic.
Gualo- "Farewell, Siruhnian..."
Before his saber could pierce into her neck, out of nowhere, Kydan blocks his attempted assassination, utterly saving Calena's life. This caused Gualo to go into a state of shock and wide eye. Where in the world did he come from?
Gualo- "How did you--?!"
But before Gualo could even finish his own sentence, Kydan used his unknown abilities to send him flying backwards with the sound of a loud thud and groan.
Kydan- "HAAAAA!!!"
Crying out in a loud voice, Kydan swiftly reaches Gualo in nothing but a black fog as he pierces him with a black, electrical blue thrust in the stomach. Gualo suddenly coughed up a bit of blood from his mouth. His breathing was slowly fading, as well as his own life.
Without hesitation, Kydan yaks his arm out of him as Gualo drops to the ground on his knees, his expression filled with shock of the major outcome. His last thought was; how he was beaten so quickly from a low life Jedi Padawan as the boy?
Gualo- "...I...I lost...?"
With his dying words, Gualo slumps to the ground dead, with his surprised expression still left on his face along with his half opened eyelids. The battle was now finally over.
Kydan takes in a sharp deep breath, losing his concentration on his abilities. Slowly, his arm begins to turn back to his normal skin color, the black and blue colors fading away into nothing but a mist.
Not realizing it, Kydan suddenly dropped to his knees, staring directly at Gualo's lifeless, dead body.
Kydan- "I...I did...? Did we win?"
To answer his own question, he suddenly heard a cry of cheering and joy from behind. Turning his head, he saw Calena, Egile and all the soldiers celebrating him.
Egile- "Kydan! You did it! You took down the Sith!"
Calena- "Great work Kydan!"
All at once, he felt happy yet confused as to why he was being cheered.
Kydan- "N-no! Really, I-I didn't really do--"
Clone Trooper 1- "Tremendous work!"
Clone Trooper 2- "You did it sir!"
Clone Trooper 3- "We've recaptured Taris!"
For some reason, Kydan felt hit heart rejoice somehow. He had never had anyone cheer or celebrate him on anything in his life. He figured that this is what it meant to have lots of friends who aren't afraid of you. He could feel himself blushing and flustered from them. He felt...happy for once.
Kydan- "W-well I-"
Throte- WHY?!
Suddenly, everyone stops cheering as they turn their attention to Throte who had walked up to them all with his two troopers trailing behind.
Throte- "Why did you let Higer die!?"
Kydan felt confused. He didn't know what Throte meant by the clone's words.
Kydan- "...Let him die?"
Snapping his head at Kydan, he glares directly at him with anger in his eyes and expression.
Throte- "Of course! We all saw it at the beginning! You knew Gualo's skill techniques that he was using against us! If you would have told us about Gualo's skills back on the Acclamator, he wouldn't have died! What else is shocking is that your a Jedi! You had the power to save him...but yet, you just stood there and let him die in front of us all!"
The soldiers that were listening started to whisper and nodded at Throte's comments. It seemed that he had a lot of points to consider. The only two people that didn't respond to his comments were Calena and Egile.
772nd Clone Sergeant- "Of course he's a Jedi! That's how he knew the Sith's skills in the battle! That's how he was able to beat him so easily! He knew all about it and never attended to tell us at all! There are other Jedi among us, isn't there!? If so, the come fourth and speak up!"
Glancing around, the soldiers try to pinpoint anyone that were a Jedi amongst them all. Calena and Egile were starting to feel a bit concerned at the moment.
At this, Kydan started to worry and be afraid. All of them knowing that he was a Jedi working undercover and hiding among them was bad. Calena and Egile were the only two people that knew that he was a Jedi and had no problem with it. Yet, it was the others that they were all concerned about.
He shut his eyes tightly without anyone seeing, trying to come up with a solution to this problem. Or even hoping that this would all go away. But, sadly, he couldn't think of anything. There was nothing else he could do.
Then, unexpectedly, a vision with him and Master Turin appears in his mind, replaying the last event that had taken place.
Turin- "Kydan...promise...promise me this...that you will protect them...everyone...in this war...as many...as you can...no matter the cause..."
Gaining slightly a bit of confidence, Kydan knew what he had to do. He had to believe what he thought was the right course of action, what was best for him, the Republic and the Jedi Order. Staring at Gualo's dead corpse, he grabs the cloak and armor off him.
Then, for some apparent and sudden reason, Kydan started to laugh. And not like your typical normal laugh.
Kydan's laughter began to become even louder and louder, causing everyone to stare at him, confused as to why he was now suddenly laughing like a maniac. They thought he had suddenly just lost it.
Kydan- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A Jedi?"
He starts to stand up, grasping Gualo's cloak and armor in his hands. His eyes seemed to falter among them, now not visible.
Kydan-" I wish you wouldn't compare me to those insignificant fools. They are all pathetic...and weak."
Throte- "What?"
Slowly, he starts to walk up to Throte and the others, still not showing his eyes to any one of them.
Kydan- Those thousands of Clone Troopers that died were all but cadets, not even worthy yet of the title of soldier. Heck, they didn't even know how to hold their blasters correctly. Not to mention, their aiming when shooting was totally inaccurate. But you. All of you. You are all better than they ever would and could be, even greater than you could even imagine yourselves.
Throte and the other soldier's expression's changed to a pure surprise. They were a bit shocked at what Kydan was just speaking.
Kydan- "But me...I am not like them. I have surpassed all of the Jedi. I have faced more difficult challenges and trials in my entire life then them, and I can assure you, Gualo was the weakest among the many others that I've met and fought. The Jedi ccan only dream of what I have gone through in my years. The reason I knew about his techniques is due to many reasons."
Kydan stops and stands in front of Throte and a few other soldiers, with Calena and Egile on the left side of him. Picking up his head, his eyes were now clear as day. However, they had suddenly changed. They weren't the gentle, kind brown chocolate colored eyes he had just recently. No. They were now the color of a red, piercing rose bud, staring at them all with black pupil eyes. Just the sight of his eyes caused a bit of tension and fear around them.
Kydan- "I know many things that even the Jedi and Sith would say to be...unnatural. I know more than the information brokers and the crime lords across the galaxy could ever learn. I am something that the Force can't even comprehend alone."
Throte- "...Wh-what? That's...that's far worse than any Jedi or Sith! Y-your a beast! A vicious monster!"
At the same time, everyone, except for Calena and Egile who were just glancing around themselves, started to call out different names at Kydan. They called him "freak", "monster", "demon", "rogue", and so many more. Yet, there was one interesting name that caught his attention among them. And it sounded perfect.
Clone Trooper- Your a freak! A dark, fiendish, mercenary freak!
Kydan- "Hmm...the Dark Mercenary...I like the sound of that. Yes, I am Kydan Witress, the Dark Mercenary. I have been trained to acknowledge both the light and dark side of the Force. I do prefer more of the darker techniques, if you asked me."
Glancing down, Kydan stared at the cloak and clothing that he had taken from Gualo's corpse.
Kydan- "So for now on, don't get me mixed up with those Jedi whelps or Sith-spits."
Quickly, he throws the black cloak over him, covering himself up with Sith robes, followed by a hood, now covering his eyes. Throwing Throte and the others a devious grin, he turns around and starts walking towards the landing platform, where he waited for his ship to pick him up. Throte and the others watched him walk away, not trying to take a chance to catch him. His own words were enough to frighten them all already.
As Kydan approaches the platform, where his ship, the Black Shadow had now just landed, he prepares to enter his ship. But before he could even step onto the ship, Calena runs up to him.
Calena- Kydan!
Kydan just stood there, waiting for her to speak. He figured there was no sense of talking at the moment, not with all what just happened back there. He didn't even turn around to face her.
Calena- "Why? Why did you say all that?"
Biting his lip, he knew that he needed to lie.
Kydan- "Because...it's the best thing to do."
Calena- "Kydan..."
Kydan- "...Here's some advise for you."
He finally looks over his shoulder as he begins to speak.
Kydan- "The Force is very strong within you. History states that the Irune clan bloodline were told to hold a strong connection to the Force as it was passed down for many generations in your family. I can assure you that you will become a great Jedi, once you have reached to Knighthood. Remember these words well; whenever someone asks you to join them, or even asks for their help: No matter what you do...lend out your hand and do whatever you can for them. Never turn your back away from those people. Even under the worst of circumstances imaginable."
Calena- "......"
Kydan- *Smirks* "Like all you Jedi say; May the Force be with you...always."
With that, without another word, Kydan walks up the ramp and enters his fighter. The ramp then closes up as the ship begins to hover above the platform, flying towards the atmosphere and into the far reaches of space...
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So I'll try to keep this nice and short; This. Was. A. Looong chapter to write! We had spent perhaps nearly two to three days when we wrote all of this! I'm just glad that we finally completed it at last.
As for this build, I actually thought that it was a bit interesting. We kinda wanted to take the image from KOTOR 1's Taris with its platforms and what not, and this is what we would imagine the platforms would look like these days. But like I said before, I'll let you guys decide if it looks good or not. If you want to see more pics of the chapters, again, go on over to MOC-pages and check them out for yourself!
Anyways, thank you all for your wonderful comments, faves and support so far and please continue to give us some feedback on how the story is going and what we could approve on even. Again, thank you all and, as always, have a fan-tucking-tastic day/night! See ya' in the next one.
- Director K.W.
Following the road to grasp
something, a thing, anything,
brings me to the technique
of comparing.
As soon as I compare
it with the environment,
I can allocate it, so that
this thing, something, anything,
fits into my world which I build up,
my picture, construct,
my idea of life
in which I live,
which I must live within.
So everyone creates
their own puzzle,
whilst strolling
along the alley of time,
and the pieces
one gets to see,
do influence the big picture.
But how to get a nice, friendly
and warm idea of this world?
How to get an episteme,
in which even contentment feels
welcome and starts to settle down?
Let me whisper now:
“The angle it is, which does the trick.”
Not “what”, but “how” you see,
can make the difference.
So now please choose the title of this picture:
“Woman walking in a wood.” or
“Passing two old watchmen
on the wayfare of life.”
Anxiety affects numerous people these days. The fact that there is only one sunrise and sunset a day and each one that is missed is lost in time forever is reason enough to cause it.
For who would want to miss such a view early in the morning ?
And who would be fine with the fact that he missed such a thing when he realises it.
Along the ragged coastline on the southern part of Malta lies a small window which I believe will not last very long. Fissures seeming out of every crevice every passing winter is a season closer to its end. One thing is for sure. Arches will long outlive us.
Located at the base of Petrin Hill on Ujezd Street in Mala Strana is this disturbing series of statues dedicated to the victims of the Communist era between 1948-1989. A original total of seven (two were damaged due to a bomb in 2003) male statues appear to be disintegrating and decaying before our very eyes, the first man whole, the next man missing a limb, ripped open, to the last man who has become virtually nothing. It is to symbolize how political prisoners under Communism were affected, and as a Memorial it is very affective. During the evening, the memorial is lit up providing an even more eerie look. The memorial was unveiled on May 22, 2002, and is the work of Olbram Zoubek, a famous Czech sculptor and architects Jan Kerel and Zdenek Holzel. Notice the bronze strip in the center of the stairs where the statues are located. It tells the estimated number of people impacted by the Communist regime.
Le papillon flambé affection les milieux chauds et secs. Il est présent dans la plupart des régions françaises. Il est particulièrement répandu dans le Sud. En revanche, cette espèce se fait rare en Grande-Bretagne. D’une envergure de 50 à 70 mm, elle est reconnaissable à son motif zébré noir et blanc et à la petite demi-lune bleue coiffée d’orange qui ourle le bord de ses ailes postérieures. Il doit ce nom à la comparaison avec l’étoffe le taffetas flambé se distinguant par ses motifs chinés.
Ce papillon aux ailes découpées est surnommé le Flambé (Iphiclides podalirius). Il est présent dans toute la France est reconnaissable par ses longs vols planés. La chenille qui deviendra ce beau papillon arbore aussi une apparence originale.
Tout de vert vêtue, elle porte sur sa tête deux antennes orangées. Huit semaines après sa naissance, elle se transforme en chrysalide accrochée dans sa plante hôte. Pour l'observer, allez lorgner du côté des prunelliers ou des cerisiers.
Weather will affect people's moods no matter where they live, but Venice truly is dramatically more joyful when the sun is out. Jordan and Ashley were in good spirits, laughing about God knows what as they finished a slice of pizza. I said hello, introduced myself, and told them about the project. They were happy to oblige me with a couple of photos.
These photos are #26 and #27 in my 100 Strangers Project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com
Age-related macular degeneration, is a medical condition that usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in "dry" and "wet" forms. It is a major cause of blindness and visual impairment in older adults (>50 years), afflicting 30-50 million people globally. Macular degeneration can make it difficult or impossible to read or recognise faces, although enough peripheral vision remains to allow other activities of daily life.
Although some macular dystrophies affecting younger individuals are sometimes rarely referred to as macular degeneration, the term generally refers to age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD).
The retina is a network of visual receptors and nerves. It lies on the choroid, a network of blood vessels that supply the retina with blood.
In the dry (nonexudative) form, cellular debris called drusen accumulates between the retina and the choroid, causing atrophy and scarring to the retina. In the wet (exudative) form, which is more severe, blood vessels grow up from the choroid behind the retina which can leak exudate and fluid and also cause hemorrhaging. It can be treated with laser coagulation, and more commonly with medication that stops and sometimes reverses the growth of blood vessels.
AMD is the leading cause of visual impairment in the UK, affecting up to 500,000 people to some degree.
For reasons that are unclear, AMD tends to be more common in women than men. It is also more common in white people and people of Chinese ethnicity than people from other ethnic groups.
As would be expected by its name, age is one of the most important risk factors for AMD. The condition is most common in people over 50 and it's estimated that one in every 10 people over 65 have some degree of AMD.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/Macular-degeneration/Pages/Introduc...
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there…to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out “who you are” or “who you want to become”.
The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you experience can create “who you are”, and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact they are probably the most emotional and important ones.
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of luck. Illness, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test limits of your soul.
Meet our Aapa "SoulTouch..." (Sultana Tabassum Farooqi) An inspiration for many with wonderful experience of life and love, her smile really bring butterflies in the air... Still enjoying the beauties of the daily life and bringing the brighter side of life to many.
Her Love filled Stream: www.flickr.com/photos/aramish/
Taken: Sultana Aapa collecting Pine Cones at URDP Park, Ban, Galyat, Punjab.
Replace Social with Affective. Social exists in the space between teaching and emotional. My suggestion after attending a #congressh session on blended learning and reading the supporting articles.
Based on Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education, 2, 1–19.
Informed by Emotional Presence, Learning, and the Online Learning Environment
Modèle / Model : Renault Premium 320
Affectation / Assignment : Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de l'Oise (SDIS 60) / Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Oise
Caserne / Fire station : Centre de Secours Principal (CSP) de Creil / Main Center of Rescue of Creil
Fonction / Function : Unité de Transport Polyvalente (UTP) / Multi-purpose Unit of Transport
Mise en service / Commissioning : Mai 2009 / May 2009
Équipementier / Maker : Guima Palfinger
Modèle / Model : cellule / cell
Affectation / Assignment : Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de l'Oise (SDIS 60) / Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Oise
Caserne / Fire station : Centre de Secours Principal (CSP) de Creil / Main Center of Rescue of Creil
Fonction / Function : Cellule Émulseur / Emulsifier Cell
Équipementier / Maker : Rocher
Événement / Event : Journée découverte du savoir faire des pompiers de Creil 2018 / Day of discovery of the work of the fire brigades of Creil 2018
Rainbow
An individual raindrop has a different shape and consistency than a glass prism, but it affects light in a similar way. When white sunlight hits a collection of raindrops at a fairly low angle, you can see the component colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet -- a rainbow. For simplicity's sake, we'll only look at red and violet, the colors of light on the ends of the visible light spectrum.
The diagram below shows what happens when the sunlight hits one individual raindrop.
When the white light passes from air into the drop of water, the component colors of light slow down to different speeds depending on their frequency. The violet light bends at a relatively sharp angle when it enters the raindrop. At the right-hand side of the drop, some of the light passes back out into the air, and the rest is reflected backward. Some of the reflected light passes out of the left side of the drop, bending as it moves into the air again.
In this way, each individual raindrop disperses white sunlight into its component colors. So why do we see wide bands of color, as if different rainy areas were dispersing a different single color? Because we only see one color from each raindrop. You can see how this works in the diagram below.
When raindrop A disperses light, only the red light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eyes. The other colored beams exit at a lower angle, so the observer doesn't see them. The sunlight will hit all the surrounding raindrops in the same way, so they will all bounce red light onto the observer.
Raindrop B is much lower in the sky, so it doesn't bounce red light to the observer. At its height, the violet light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eye. All the drops surrounding raindrop B bounce light in the same way. The raindrops in between A and B all bounce different colors of light to the observer, so the observer sees the full color spectrum. If you were up above the rain, you would see the rainbow as a full circle, because the light would bounce back from all around you. On the ground, we see the arc of the rainbow that is visible above the horizon.
Sometimes you see a double rainbow -- a sharp rainbow with a fainter rainbow on top of it. The fainter rainbow is produced in the same way as the sharper rainbow, but instead of the light reflecting once inside the raindrop, it's reflected twice. As a result of this double reflection, the light exits the raindrop at a different angle, so we see it higher up. If you look carefully, you'll see that the colors in the second rainbow are in the reverse order of the primary rainbow.
Source: science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/r...
Was outside shoveling snow yesterday in the late afternoon. Noticed that there was more light in the sky at a point when it would have been completely dark back in December. Seems we've finally turned the corner and are beginning to pull away from the darkest part of the year here in the northern hemisphere. It's a huge psychological boost for me. While I live for the darkness and gloom to capture these photos, at heart I have a summer mentality.
Usually, as kitten grow out, the mother keeps distances to them. Here, the mother (B & W) continued with very nice affective bonding, so they remain together, even the "kitten" are now 6 or 7 years old !
Another amazing trait of the mother, is that she is now very playful (ping pong balls, ...) even as she was found abandonned seven years ago, she diden't know how to play. She learned from her kitten.
Affectation insolite en ce samedi, un MAN Lion’s City A23 CNG 4 porte se promène sur la Lianes 10.
Modèle : MAN Lion’s City A23 CNG
Numéro de parc : 1894
Immatriculation : FJ-245-MJ
Mise en service : août 2019
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Réseau : TBM
Ligne : Lianes 10
Destination : GRADIGNAN Beausoleil
Lieu : BORDEAUX Gare-St-Jean
Infos complémentaires : WMAA23ZZ7KF010402
Drawing of a tattoo design I created. I photographed it with it laying on another picture of a tiger cub I drew for affect and then added HDR filter, Drama filter and saturation to the picture.
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The GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
GLAAD, the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, honored Robert De Niro, Mariah Carey, and the best in film, television, and journalism at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria New York on Saturday May 14th 2016. Jennifer Lawrence, Aziz Ansari, Connie Britton, Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, Tamron Hall, Noah Galvin, Andrew Rannells, Andreja Pejić, and Jason Biggs were among the special guests. Recording artists Alex Newell and Bebe Rexha, as well as the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home performed at the event hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Laverne Cox. The 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented by Delta Air Lines, Hilton, Ketel One Vodka, and Wells Fargo.
GLAAD Media Award recipients announced Saturday in New York. Additional awards were presented in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on April 2.
Excellence in Media Award: Robert De Niro (presented by Jennifer Lawrence)
Ally Award: Mariah Carey (presented by Lee Daniels)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Bruce Jenner: The Interview" 20/20 (ABC) [accepted by: Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, and David Sloan, senior executive producer]
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Interview with Jim Obergefell" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) [accepted by: U.S. Supreme Court plaintiff Jim Obergefell]
· Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: Cosmopolitan [accepted by: Laura Brounstein, special projects director]
· Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)
· Outstanding Individual Episode: "The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution" Vice Reports (Vice.com)
· Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson" by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
· Outstanding Magazine Article: "Behind Brazil's Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence" by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism Article: "This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life" by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES
· Outstanding Daytime Program Episode: "¿El marido de mi padre o yo?" Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: TIE: "Amor que rompe barreras" Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo) and "En cuerpo ajeno" Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Víctimas de abusos" Noticiero Univision (Univision)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Campeones de la igualdad" (Univision.com)
GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media.
Motto - to promote understanding, increase acceptance, and advance equality.
Founded - 1985
Founder
Vito Russo
Jewelle Gomez
Lauren Hinds
GLAAD 2016 President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis
GLAAD
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Affecté à la traverse Sorel-Tracy – Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola, le NM Catherine-Legardeur porte le nom de l'épouse de Pierre de Saurel, premier seigneur de Saurel et capitaine dans le régiment Carignan-Salières. Décédée en 1732 à Sorel, Catherine Legardeur est vue, avec son époux, comme une des personnes fondatrices de la ville.
Mandrill in der Wilhelma Stuttgart - REVIEW - G7 X - Mark II - D+, HTP aka High Tone Priority
Canon Powershot G7 X Mark 2
Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
The effect of HTP is enhanced by Canon's 14-bit A/D converter, which provides finer tonal gradations than the previous 12-bit system.
HTP affects RAW data as well as in-camera JPEGs.
- P&S,
Point & Shoot - Expert Camera, 1" Sensor
Innenaufnahme
Durch die dicke Glasscheibe
HTP*: ermöglicht mehr Informationen in Highlights bei zu behalten
aka 100 mm
HTP, D+ - a Canon EOS DSLR tool - an alternate methode of Image processing
- allows more Information to be reatined in Highlights
- avoids overexposing
- it shoots at ISO 125 but records 250
- HTP exactly equal to underexposing by 1 stop
- it brings back texture and detail
- improves gradiation in bright Areas (Highlights)
- HTP changes the sensor response curve for RAW, not just JPEG.
extending dynamic range means
better color results in the overexposed Areas and
lowering the highlights
* D+ - Highlight Tone Priority (HTP) - mode
Highlight tone priority is a camera mode that internally fiddles with exposure to preserve as much detail as possible in the "highlight range" of tones.
Noise in the shadow areas mat be slightly more than usual.
Hence HTP affects the way the sensor records the image before any processing and hence it affects both RAW and JPEG.
PS
Some DSLR photographers often underexpose by 1 stop because sensors lose information in the highlights much easier than in the shadows.
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Der Mandrill ist eine Primatenart aus der Familie der Meerkatzenverwandten.
Tribus: Pavianartige (Papionini)
In der vom Weltzooverband WAZA geführten Artendatenbank ISIS wurden 2007 insgesamt 493 Mandrills als weltweiter Zoobestand registriert.
Im Disneyfilm Der König der Löwen ist der Charakter Rafiki ein alter, weiser Mandrill.
Er lebt in Regenwäldern Zentralafrikas und ist für seine rot-blau gefärbten Partien im Gesicht und am Gesäß bekannt, die ihn zum farbenprächtigsten aller Säugetiere machen.
Mandrills kommunizieren durch visuelle und akustische Signale, durch Gerüche und Berührungen. Vermutlich hat die leuchtende Färbung der dominanten Männchen eine Signalfunktion beim Führen der Gruppe im düsteren Wald.
Ist ein Tier aufgeregt, verstärkt sich die Gesichtsfärbung.
Daneben sind auch Gesten bekannt: das Präsentieren der Eckzähne ist eine Drohgebärde, ein heftiges Schlagen auf den Boden drückt Ärger aus.
Es sind mehrere Laute bekannt, darunter Grunz- und Kräh-Laute bei der Nahrungsaufnahme, ein Alarmschrei und ein zweiteiliges Grunzen, mit dem das dominante Männchen die Gruppe um sich sammelt. Auch die gegenseitige Fellpflege (Grooming) spielt eine Rolle bei der Kommunikation.
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Bien souvent affectés sur la Lianes 3, les MAN Lion’s City A23 CNG 14xx peuvent néanmoins circuler sur d’autres lignes afin de combler le manque de bus.
Modèle : MAN Lion’s City A 23 CNG €6
Numéro de parc : 1423
Immatriculation : DR-229-AX
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Réseau : Transport Bordeaux Métropole
Ligne : Lianes 2
Destination : BORDEAUX Quinconces
Lieu : BORDEAUX Gambetta.
Infos complémentaires : WMAA23ZZ4FR015044
Homelessness in Germany is a significant social issue, one that is estimated to affect over 300,000 people. However, there are limits to the studies on the topic; reportedly, there are no statistics of homeless youth in Germany, and estimates range from 1,500 to 50,000.
Researchers maintain that the legal definition of homelessness in Germany is quite narrow. Alternatively, researchers maintain there is no nationally accepted definition.
They are known as "tramps", "winos", "hobos", "street people", "bums", or simply homeless. They are the poor within our rich society, unemployed and with no resources, living on the fringes. In official terms they are called "people in social distress" or more commonly "homeless". In the terms of social federal welfare laws they are classified as "people who roam with no secure form of income, singles without a home-address and regular employment capable of being taxed for social security, without a secured mode of existence and often without a sound relationship to either family or other community members.... people whose social problems prevent them from participating in community life."
Officially they do not exist. The numbers of homeless in Germany are not registered in any governmental statistics; the only estimates were made by independent institutions offering social services. One of these institutions is the Bundesarbeitgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe (BAG), a labour organization which aids the homeless. BAG has long demanded official governmental statistics as an indicator of housing required, but to no avail. Estimates, however, indicate that there are approximately 591,000 homeless people in Germany; if you add in the number of homeless immigrants the total adds up to approximately 860,000 people. By way of comparison, that is the size of Cologne, Germany’s fourth-largest city.
Until now the "problem of homelessness" has been left to the community. A cohesive national structure does not exist and in most cases the individual aid-groups are unaware of projects in other states.
With no official statistics or records, who knows how many there are.
A European housing body has warned that homelessness and exclusion from housing has reached crisis point in the majority of countries in the EU.
The UK now ranks 20th out of 28 countries, with “a broken housing market out of reach for poor and middle-class people”. In Germany, 16% of people spend more than 40% of their income on housing (known as housing cost overburden) – a situation second only to Greece. In Romania, 50% of people live in overcrowded conditions and in Greece 95% of poor Greeks are experiencing housing cost overburden.
L'apparition médiumnique
Très affecté par la mort de sa jeune compagne Kathleen Newton due à la tuberculose, en novembre 1882, James Tissot fait appel au médium anglais William Eglinton pour communiquer avec elle dans l'au-delà. Il a reproduit sur toile la séance avec le médium au cours de laquelle il aurait vu apparaître deux formes (des esprits), l'une masculine et l'autre féminine, celle de Kathleen, dont les mains émettaient une lumière vive qui éclairait leurs faces. (extrait de l'ouvrage de John S. Farmer sur la vie et l'oeuvre de W. Eglinton, 1886, cité dans l'exposition).
Oeuvre de James Tissot
1885
Huile sur toile
Ysabel Monnier Collection
Oeuvre présentée dans l'exposition "James Tissot. L'ambigu moderne" au Musée d'Orsay à Paris
m.musee-orsay.fr/fr/expositions/article/james-tissot-4997...
Commissaires
Marine Kisiel, conservatrice au musée d'Orsay
Melissa E. Buron, Director, Art Division at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Paul Perrin, conservateur au musée d'Orsay
Cyrille Sciama, directeur général du musée des impressionnismes Giverny