In honor of one of the most humble and loving creatures on the planet and international world dog day . . . here are some of my favorite quotes about dogs

“A dog wags its tail with its heart" ― Martin Buxbaum

“They love being wherever they are. The reason, and it is a great lesson, is no doubt that they are perfectly content to be who they are, without torturing themselves with alternatives: They love being dogs.” ― Ted Kerasote, Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

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♫ This song about dogs makes me smile huge :)

" Hand in hand they wandered down beside the sleeping river,

Till the city sounds grew distant in their ears,

The moonlight on the water sparkled silver as he kissed her,

And the rumble of the traffic disappeared "

I havent been telling any storys with my photos lately probably because of the current situation but Im really being unfair not alone to all my friends here but to me as well.

People always seemed to enjoy them and I needed to tell them for me too. Writing and storys go way back in my family and there were a few published authors. Im not saying that their stuff would set the World alight or anything as it was all pretty mundane stuff about where they lived in Co Offaly but still its a great thing as way back then so many were illiterate.

Now Ive commited myself I suppose Ill be held to it! Thats nice anyway.

So Ive a few new photos with storys almost completed.

Look after yourselves and keep safe.

Its always a great pleasure!

Pat x.

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As part of the Sao Martinho celebration, we went on a hike in Alentejo, part national trail and the rest was going deep into the forest. I came across this scene of a man and his dog. Not a great pic but I like it. During the hike, we came across escaped farm pigs and their guardian, a female dog, snakes, wild mushrooms, beds of yellow flowers and ruins. Lunch at one of the farms with chestnuts and local wine.

Unedited image.

Nikkor F=300mm 1:4 ED

Alentejo,Portugal

November 2022

Wrestling with a new PC and it's operating system - which does not like my processing software :(( Too old and too IT illiterate for this!

Hope everyone is coping well in these difficult times.

We live with a public that is mostly scientific illiterate. Almost all the members of all 3 branches of Government fall in this category. These same people believe they are qualified to make scientific judgements, thinking they are smart.

Furillen in Spring

credits to SAPA poses

Marabut (tomb) of Sidi Abderrahmane is located on a small rocky island among a densely built-up village.

The legend says that Sidi Abderrahmane came from Baghdad in the 18th century. He was illiterate and could not learn the verses of the Koran. He settled on a rocky island to praise God with his lute. He was a hermit and saint, he had the power to walk on the water. He had the ability to treat diseases, including mental diseases. After his death, he was buried on the island he lived in.

Today, the island resembles a miniature city around the tomb of Sidi Abderrahmane, surrounded by green fabric (the traditional color of Islam).

The island was accessible only during the outflow of the ocean, but in 2013 a stone arch bridge was built and the place lost its unique character.

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Marabut (grobowiec) Sidi Abderrahmane znajduje się na małej skalistej wysepce wśród gęsto zabudowanej wioski.

Legenda mówi, że Sidi Abderrahmane przypłynął z Bagdadu w XVIII wieku. Był analfabetą i nie był w stanie nauczyć się wersetów Koranu. Zamieszkał na skalistej wysepce, by chwalić Boga za pomocą swojej lutni. Był pustelnikiem i świętym, miał moc chodzenia po wodzie. Miał zdolność leczenia chorób, w tym również chorób psychicznych. Po śmierci został pochowany na wyspie, którą zamieszkiwał.

Dziś wyspa przypomina miniaturowe miasto wokół grobowca Sidi Abderrahmane, otoczonego zieloną tkaniną (tradycyjny kolor islamu).

Wyspa była dostępna tylko w czasie odpływu oceanu, ale w roku 2013 wybudowano kamienny most łukowy a miejsce straciło swój wyjątkowy charakter.

Not claiming any artistic merit for this one and I have posted it solely for the colour of the tiles - probably my favourite on the London Underground.

I have heard it suggested that in the early days of the underground, when the majority of people were still illiterate, they would use the colours of the tiles and their patterns to identify the stations. I have my doubts about this as steam trains were used initially and the smoke and grime would surely have discoloured the tiles in a very short space of time...

“For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, does not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.

Alonso Quixano, the protagonist of the novel (though he is not given this name until much later in the book), is a hidalgo (member of the lesser Spanish nobility), nearing 50 years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper, as well as a stable boy who is never heard of again after the first chapter. Although Quixano is usually a rational man, in keeping with the humoral physiology theory of the time, not sleeping adequately—because he was reading—has caused his brain to dry. Quixano's temperament is thus choleric, the hot and dry humor. As a result, he is easily given to anger and believes every word of some of these fictional books of chivalry to be true such were the "complicated conceits"; "what Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come to life again for that special purpose.

Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit. "Panza" in Spanish means "belly".

Sancho is illiterate and proud of it but by influence of his new master, he develops considerable knowledge about some books.

Sancho Panza represents, among other things, the quintessentially Spanish brand of skepticism of the period.".

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Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit. "Panza" in Spanish means "belly".

Sancho is illiterate and proud of it but by influence of his new master, he develops considerable knowledge about some books.

Sancho Panza represents, among other things, the quintessentially Spanish brand of skepticism of the period.

Санчо Панса (ісп. Sancho Panza) — вигаданий персонаж з роману Міґеля де Сервантеса «Хитромудрий гідальго Дон Кіхот з Ламанчі» (1605—1616 рр.). Кастильський селянин, котрого Дон Кіхот вмовив стати його особистим зброєносцем, пообіцявши йому незліченні багатства, які він завоює в боях. Дон Кіхотом разом із Санчо Панса (в іспанській мові слово «панса» означає «черево») — пара пародійних персонажів: худий і довгов'язий Дон Кіхот поряд з низеньким товстуном зброєносцем справляють комічне враження своєю протилежністю. Захоплений та довірливий, але в той же час приземлений, розсудливий і неосвічений, обачливий і недалекий Санчо — типовий селянин, вкорінений в чуттєву стихію народного життя. Відмовмився від поста Губернатора , коли Дон Кіхот запропонував йому його.

Цікаво, що, у міру того як Дон Кихот поступово розчаровується у своїх ідеалах, Санчо Панса все більше переймається утопічною філософією свого хазяїна і ідеями безкорисливого рицарського служіння.

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A totally innocent (cough cough) woman enjoying a quiet evening at home listening to music and checking her intergalactic Facebook is visited by adorable if illiterate aliens roxifiranelli.com/2015/02/22/take-me-to-your-leader/

Just like the mountains, he watches over me. And the best part not another soul around. He placed himself in all my pics... It is definitely all about Rooster. I think he has me trained because we hike everyday rain or shine or he starts to whine incessantly. lol

"Properly trained, a Man can be Dog’s best friend." —Corey Ford

"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t even know we had." —Thomas Jones

"A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his." —John Grogan, Marley and Me

Slowly floating along the canals - a real swan paradise.

The district of the "Little Venice" is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in Colmar. The merchants' houses are of various colours : they symbolize the nature of the inhabitants’ businesses. The blue houses are the fishmongers’, the green ones the market gardeners’, the white ones the bakers’, the yellow ones the cheese makers’ and the pink ones... the fancy ladies’. These colour codes used to help illiterate people find who to go shopping to.

Small hearts cut in the wood can still be seen on some shutters ; it meant that one of the girls living in the house was a lonely heart. When the girl had found her fiancé, the heart was carved to form a lozenge, symbol of fertility. (europeanbestdestinations.com) Colmar, France

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Or: "That war is poisoning our heads, indeed."

Norddeich

Ostfriesland

Niedersachsen

Louis Loan & illiterate - Sea of Silk

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FYI: The following link will lead you to a page that lists all the groups that had photos in EXPLORE for a given day and the number of photos chosen from each group:

Another one of those disappearing down a route you weren't expecting whilst reading stuff on the internet.

For some reason I had it in my head that Barley Mow was a character from a children's TV programme. I initially thought it was either The Magic Roundabout or Trumpton.

This led to a good hour I won't get back reading about them. I now know that The Magic Roundabout was a French programme that was dubbed into English and the script, storylines and characters bore no reflection on the French version. Dougal was called Pollux ( after Castor and Pollux, so presumably must've had a twin sibling in the French version,) and is supposed to be a drop eared Skye Terrier. Dylan, the hippy rabbit was named after Bob Dylan and in the French version was called Flappy. Now I'm not saying the world is a little messed up because of children's TV programmes but it might go some way to explaining one or two things!

Similar journeys happened for Trumpton, Mr Benn and finally Bod, where I realised I wasn't remembering incorrectly and the farmer was called 'Farmer Barleymow.'

Mr Benn was on immediately after Bod and reminded me of a rather drunken night where a friend came up with the line 'Bennliness is next to Bodliness,' which at the time was hysterical.

This led on to why some pubs are called the Barley Mow which led to the history behind popular pub names in the UK.

It dates back to 1393 under the reign of Richard ll when he ordered pubs to have a sign hanging outside them with a picture on it as the population was largely illiterate. This was done so the monarchy could gather more taxes. Many landlords opted for something to do with the trade they were in, hence pubs with names like The Barley Mow and The Three Barrels etc. Others opted for a Royal theme, thus The White Hart was born, after Richard ll's main heraldic symbol and showed the landlord was loyal to the monarch. The Rose and Crown became popular after the end of The War of the Roses.

南鯤鯓代天府正門對聯

「代天府，理陰陽，但願善遷惡改，一道修真消末劫」

「巡狩間，分黑白，非因紙獻錢燒，百般貢媚免災殃」

典故出處: wwww.nkstemple.org.tw/sites/2010/2012_web/2012_web_C_1.htm

When the Five Lords arrived to make their first inspection tour of Jiayi in 1820, the County Magistrate sent men to block the procession’s path. Both sides incensed, neither was willing to give way to the other. It was at this point that Lord Lifu, through the mouth of an illiterate farmer, informed the official that he was obstructing heavenly righteousness and that persistence would only magnify his arrogance. The farmer then proceeded to write in the dirt with a hoe: ‘Heaven’s Terrestrial Inspectors manage the Yin and the Yang. We look to move the good and change the wicked; to augment the true and extinguish ill-fortune.’ The peasant, then demanded the magistrate provide an appropriately literate response – which he, stunned, proved unable to do. The farmer then continued:

’Our inspection tour discerns black from white. Disasters are averted by neither paper offerings nor burning money; not either by ritual sacrifice.’

The magistrate, thus humbled, stepped down from his palanquin and begged forgiveness.

Much later, Lord Lifu’s reprimand to the magistrate was redrafted by Tainan scholar Luo Hsiu-hui as a couplet. The couplet was rendered on stone pillars in characters rendered personally by Yao Pin of Hubei Province. The pillars are now displayed prominently near the temple’s main doors.

The Besht was particularly fond of a talmudic statement, “God desires the heart” (Sanhedrin 106b), which he interpreted as meaning that for God, a pure religious spirit mattered more than knowledge of the Talmud. It is told of the Besht that one *Yom Kippur a poor Jewish boy, an illiterate shepherd, entered the synagogue where he was praying. The boy was deeply moved by the service, but frustrated that he could not read the prayers. He started to whistle, the one thing he knew he could do beautifully; he wanted to offer his whistling as a gift to God. The congregation was horrified at the desecration of their service. Some people yelled at the boy, and others wanted to throw him out. The Ba’al Shem Tov immediately stopped them. “Until now,” he said, “I could feel our prayers being blocked as they tried to reach the heavenly court. This young shepherd’s whistling was so pure, however, that it broke through the blockage and brought all of our prayers straight up to God.”

-Jewish Literacy The Most Important Things to Know

About the Jewish Religion,

Its People, and Its History REVISED EDITION RABBI JOSEPH TELUSHKIN

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The district of the "Little Venice" is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in Colmar. The merchants' houses are of various colours : they symbolize the nature of the inhabitants’ businesses. The blue houses are the fishmongers’, the green ones the market gardeners’, the white ones the bakers’, the yellow ones the cheese makers’ and the pink ones... the fancy ladies’. These colour codes used to help illiterate people find who to go shopping to.

Small hearts cut in the wood can still be seen on some shutters ; it meant that one of the girls living in the house was a lonely heart. When the girl had found her fiancé, the heart was carved to form a lozenge, symbol of fertility. (europeanbestdestinations.com) Colmar, France

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www.peetersooms.com/

King Parrot male (Alisterus scapularis) is still juvenile so his head, neck and shoulders have not turned red. He is also disobedient or illiterate because he's not permitted to park himself there. On the edge of the rainforest at O'Reilly's in the southern Gold Coast hinterland.

Sue: This sheep is my favourite vintage item.

Carrie: She is too vintagey for my taste. This Jumper is much better. All I need now is the rest of the carousel.

Sue: Is that why you're wearing that jumper, to match your jumper?

Carrie: No I'm not. Besides, it's a sweater, not a jumper.

Sue: You know what else isn't a jumper? That. It's a horse on a stick.

Carrie: Ha! That makes you both illiterate and silly. I'll be off, finding the carousel now.

Sue: Let me know when you find it. I'll be home, brushing my sheep.

Carrie: Fine! . . . (Stomping out. Stomping back in again.) Sue? Will you help me look, please? It's no fun alone.

Sue: Phew, I thought you'd never ask! Who want's to brush a sheep?

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I found the sheep at a fancy vintage second-hand market and the jumper (probably not as old) at a garage-sale. I find them both so pleasing.

A delightful walk except for the off-leash dog. Another illiterate owner couldn't read the sign...

San Matteo e l’angelo fu realizzato da Caravaggio in un secondo momento, ma la prima versione del dipinto viene rifiutata per l'eccessivo realismo.

San Matteo è rappresentato con l’aspetto di un popolano quasi analfabeta, al quale l’angelo deve dirigere la mano per aiutarlo a scrivere. Di quest'opera, andata perduta a Berlino durante la seconda guerra mondiale, restano solo copie fotografiche.

Nella seconda versione del dipinto, invece, Matteo è rappresentato sempre nell'atto di comporre il suo Vangelo con l'angelo che fornisce dei suggerimenti.

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St. Matthew and the Angel was painted by Caravaggio at a later time, but the first version of the painting was rejected due to excessive realism.

St. Matthew is represented with the appearance of an almost illiterate commoner, to whom the angel must direct his hand to help him write. Of this work, which was lost in Berlin during the Second World War, only photographic copies remain.

In the second version of the painting, however, Matthew is always represented in the act of composing his Gospel with the angel providing suggestions.

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卡拉瓦乔后来画了《圣马太和天使》，但该画的第一个版本因过于现实主义而被拒绝。

马太的形象是一个几乎不识字的平民，天使必须用手帮助他写字。 这幅作品在第二次世界大战期间在柏林丢失，仅存有照片副本。

然而，在这幅画的第二个版本中，马太总是在天使提供建议的情况下撰写福音书。

In the 1960s, there were many illiterate migrants living in Kwai Chai Hong, the old Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur. This mural shows a Chinese calligrapher helping the residents to write letters home, probably to mainland China.

St. Michael's in Amberley, West Sussex. The original nave was built before the Gothic architectural style became fashionable and the Norman chancel arch still follows the Romanesque convention. The medieval wall paintings date from around 1300 and show the stations of the Cross (Crucifixion) - biblia pauperum, images as the bible of the poor (most people were illiterate and Latin was anyway a foreign language).

Conan and Valeria’s three offspring, this was the last time I saw all three together it was like they had said there fair wells, and were about to make their way into the big wide world and the unknown, the following day two of the cygnets had gone, and it was a day after that, that the third had finally left the lake.

Conan and Valeria wasted no time, and it was less than two weeks and Valeria was building a nest on one of the islands. As the weeks passed everyone was getting excited about the prospect of the new arrivals.

When the time came, all of us had a bit of a shock! Can that be right!! Nobody could quite believe it!, 1,2,3 ,4,….8,9…,10,11 yes, eleven fluffy Cygnets. She managed to keep all of them for about a week, but unfortunately the number went down to nine.

About ten days later both Conan, Valeria and the cygnets all disappeared, nobody knows for sure where they went. It was my view that they went onto the adjacent River Colne and went down stream to a group of larger and safer lakes, fewer people, predators and a better area for a food source for the youngsters.

It seemed very strange not having swans on the lake, then suddenly after a couple of months an adult swan with three large cygnets appeared then another pair of adults with more cygnets arrived again nobody knows exactly where they had come from. During the autumn and into winter the numbers kept rising 16,20,24…. 30, 32 and then finally peaked with 38 swans, these were a mixture of adult, adolescent and last years cygnets, this number would fluctuate daily.

The whole of the winter was not a good time, the dreaded avian flue arrived at the lake and unfortunately a total of eight swans perished over a number of weeks, together with other water foul like Mallards, Coots and Tufted Ducks. You could tell that a number of other swans were ill but they managed to pull through they were lucky as the final tally could have been so much worse. The local authority had cordoned off parts of the lake and put up signage requesting the public not to feed the birds, well there must be one hell of a lot of illiterate people that visited the lake each day, all of them clutching bags of bread. Swans being swans, this caused them all to swarm and mill around together and undoubtedly help spread the virus. The good news now is that the virus has gone.

The total number of swans has decreased by two-thirds, a new pair of swans are nesting, and she is sitting on eggs and in a very handy position to view them.

A new chapter in the ever changing life on Little Britain Lake has started.

but the one who cannot take a photograph :-)

Walter Benjamin

HPPT! Climate Change Matters!

j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

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The Crystal Geyser, located on the banks of the Green River in Utah and not far from the town of the same name, is a rare example of a cold water, carbon dioxide driven geyser. There are only five known cold water geysers in the world.

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A good winter day for a beach walk, except for dogs off leash... So many dog owners are illiterate!

Taken in Joy's garden recently. Stay blessed and happy. Since I am not on FB, I wonder if I am the new illiterate?

Opposite to the mannequin from yesterday, these girls are ready for a tropical adventure...in Dresden, Germany. Typically, this is also where I would like to go for a tropical adventure (hey, at least Angela Merkel actually knows facts about Science as opposed to Trump who is illiterate). I went to Dresden specifically because I love the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and I wanted to photograph the barracks where he was imprisoned after being captured in WWII. In fact, I have a Kurt Vonnegut tattoo from Billy Pilgrim's grave tattood on my left arm. It reads EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURTS, which I suppose is exactly how these mannequins live their lives to be honest. Nothing hurts them either. So it goes.

In any case, while I set out on my literary excursion, I was not planning on having the idea of a safari marketed to me when I arrived. But, that's the thing about mannequins. Sometimes, we need them to help us imagine better days. Right now in the time of Coronavirus with travel restrictions, shelter at home orders, and other quarantine measures, we need that probably more than ever. Who wouldn't want to go visit warm sunny Dresden and hang out with these two? Their dreamy reality doesn't even call for 6ft of social distancing! Just remember to bring your sunglasses and suspend your disbelief.

...and, as I listened more closely while passing by, I think I may have heard that bird call, "“Poo-tee-weet?”

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Founded in 1695, orthodox Sinaia Monastery is located in the Prahova Valley in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and is named after biblical Mt. Sinai in Egypt. It also gives it's name to the nearby resort town of Sinaia, Romania Where King Carol I built his summer residence Peles Castle in the late 19th century. The monastery consists of two courtyards surrounded by low buildings. In the centre of each courtyard there is a small church built in the Byzantine style. One of them—"Biserica Veche" (The Old Church)—dates from 1695, while the more recent "Biserica Mare" (The Great Church) was built in 1846. Orthodox churches are generally painted with vivid frescos of biblical scenes to aide in the teaching of a mostly illiterate population in older times.

Central Station Sydney

The word Eternity was a graffito tag recorded over an approximate 35-year period from 1932 to 1967, written numerous times in chalk in the streets of Sydney, Australia. The word had been written by Arthur Stace, an illiterate former soldier, petty criminal and alcoholic who became a devout Christian in the late 1940s.

For years after his conversion up until his death in 1967, Arthur Stace walked the streets of Sydney at night writing the single word "Eternity" on walls and footpaths in his unmistakable copperplate handwriting. His identity remained unknown until it was finally revealed in a newspaper article in 1956. It is estimated Stace wrote the word over half a million times.

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There must be a lot of tattoos out there which people wish they could erase. Loved ones that you don't know as well as you think you do. Illiterate Tattoo Artists... Tattoo artists that just don't have a degree of the artist part of their job title...Anyway, I like the shot, the colour version I like too if honest, normally i can decide fairly easily which I prefer. I'll process and post it shortly!

Founded in 1695, orthodox Sinaia Monastery is located in the Prahova Valley in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and is named after biblical Mt. Sinai in Egypt. It also gives it's name to the nearby resort town of Sinaia, Romania Where King Carol I built his summer residence Peles Castle in the late 19th century. The monastery consists of two courtyards surrounded by low buildings. In the centre of each courtyard there is a small church built in the Byzantine style. One of them—"Biserica Veche" (The Old Church)—dates from 1695, while the more recent "Biserica Mare" (The Great Church) was built in 1846. Orthodox churches are generally painted with vivid frescos of biblical scenes to aide in the teaching of a mostly illiterate population in older times.

Actually I heard it snap and looked up and it was bouncing from the movement of just opening....had to get an indoor shot. Still very illiterate about lighting!!! I have no clue.

It has been a great theatrical tradition in Sicily for decades, since the early 19th century. It was the theater and TV of the poor and illiterate, even if it wasn't difficult to find some of our intellectuals in the audience. The stories of the Chanson de Roland told the Sicilians about the deeds and fate of those heroes who fought "The Turks", bringing into the great cauldron of history even those who were not Turks at all. The death of the Ferocious Saladin (who was Kurdish) at the hands of Orlando was a riot of ovations and celebrations for the public, a bit like when Palermo scored while playing at home: Everything was recited strictly in dialect...

A magnificent but lonely looking barn left totally alone to deteriorate over the next couple of decades is a faded reminder of someone’s life. The surrounding emptiness that was once filled with cows crowding each other in the feed lot is now a distant recollection.

King Solomon collected and wrote down wise sayings he had observed over his lifetime. Among them was this: “A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well…”. In an age when even the most illiterate and unwise person can have their own platform to spray their foolishness on the internet, we are surrounded by folks who speak little but have a lot more worthwhile thoughts to share.

I had an experience this week underscoring this while I was doing our weekly grocery shopping at Walmart, (something I love doing and have been doing for my wife the last 5 years). An older man was working hard as he stacked refrigerated meat for well-off folks to purchase.

I asked him if he felt like he was working at a mint. It took him a second to catch my drift and a conversation ensued when I remarked my father used to buy feeder calves to raise that cost him less than the $50 piece of meat we were both looking at in the meat section.

Turns out he was a former 70 cow dairy farmer along with his dad for several decades until the bottom dropped out. The experiences he had watching his dad give up farming and not knowing what else to do in his last years held lessons that would profit many younger folks today, lessons that will not be found on TikTok.

(Photographed near Rush City, MN)

Dedicate To Imran khan

i want to say him special thanks Today through my Foto that he makes me Happy and make my Time free too

Before a Illiterate person Ali butt Was behind me always

he always Force me to do his Fotosession and then Editing But Imran khan take him Away from me which is a Good support of him

i really like it infact Love I swear (Khuda ki Kasam)

i was searching way to say him get lost from my model list but he bad shaped person was forcefully made entrance again and again But bcoz of u he went

So Please Take him more more more more more

far away to me bcoz of that Illiterate i cannot do my work and for my Educated MoDels !!!

han but Now i will use him in my Funny Pictures So Soon we all see ali in new stuff

i already made all his pics i was just waiting for that time And i think i will never get this chance again in my life So

just wait Ali and then we will all Watch hehehe

thanks Alot and Remind me in ur prayers

Have a Good weekend !!!!

Newfoundland

O chapéu é a unica proteção contra o sol do deserto. Não há protetor solar e, mesmo que houvesse, a família não teria dinheiro para comprar.

Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’

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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz (Doosra Dashak's Adolescent Girls literacy camp, Rajasthan)

"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)

“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)

According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.

In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).

Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.

According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.

United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.

We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.

India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.

Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India and other Asian countries. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.

The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.

Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.

More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?

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Unite To End Violence Against Women!

Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!

Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!

Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!

Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!

Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!

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www.un.org/womenwatch/

www.un.org/women/endviolence/

www.saynotoviolence.org/

www.unaids.org

www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

"An' uneducated' person in the highlands of Papua New Guinea can recognize seventy species of birds by their songs. An 'illiterate' shama in the Amazon can identify hundreds of medicinal plants. An Aboriginal person from Australia carries in his memory a map of the land encoded in song that extends for a thousand miles. Our minds are evolved to contain vast amounts of information about the world that gave us birth, and to pass this information on easily from one generation to the next. But to know the world, you have to live in the world." - Carol Black

I am hearing reports of people flocking to our provincial parks this summer. Stores are reporting that they can not keep camping gear in stock. Rentals for tents, campers and trailers are way up. So many people want to spend time outdoors and "live in the world" naturally. This can be great. However, too many people are not doing it respectfully. The amount of litter and human waste that is being left in spaces that shouldn't be is appalling. They are not "living in the world". They are trampling it. Please get to know the world and how your actions affect all of us.

An eastbound coal train rolls through the lush farm land of eastern Ohio on the Columbus & Ohio River Rail Road on a beautiful June evening in 2006 near Dennison, OH. This line, once known as the Panhandle on the Pennsylvania Railroad is part of the Ohio Central System, today, G&W. Being rail illiterate to the area at the time, I'm not sure exactly what the deal here is with the loaded coal train with NS power is. Maybe a flikr friend can enlighten me. Even the exact location I am unsure of!

That was the first time I took my camera and gone down town to shoot accompanied with another friend photographer. Its was such an amazing experience aimed to make people familiar with the DSLRs because the city where I live is full of illiterate people whom are afraid of camera because they think that we're going to hurt them by capturing them. Generally, people sometimes they react as if it's alright and sometimes they keep an eye on us to be sure that we're not shooting them.

I hope in the future that people knows that we are only photography artists and we are not terrorists.