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Many language speakers in Alameda County!

But I really do love it when something small and random makes someone think of me, mainly because it never hapoens.

Shot taken with my wife while resting on Myrtle Beach,....a ground level approach literally! We watched the large family come in to our right, some resting like us, some younger ones exploring for anything exciting, a great adventure! And a very young one, even chasing sea gulls to his delight! These two start tossing a ball, and it was a fair moment of enjoyment for them both until one became a ball hog, lol... :))

The young lady was verbally expressing her opinion, with no avail.....so....she drew out the big guns in very strong language!

"Body Language" with an explanation point, lol 😎

 

It was much too amusing and unique to pass up, so I took my shot! Like a camera sniper hidden in the sandy beach, lol

They never knew their great frustration moment was frozen in time ;)

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

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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC

Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz

 

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"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. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.

 

It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. 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.

 

Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.

 

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/

Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246)

Summilux-M 35mm ƒ1.4 ASPH FLE

ND 3 Stop Filter

Street Photography

London, UK

Poster for the Brussels International Exposition which was a world's fair held in Brussels, Belgium, from 23 April to 1 November 1910.

The Language and poetry of flowers :

New York :Geo. A. Leavitt, Publisher,[1867]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60607489

Leica MP

Leica Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 III

Kodak Gold 200

Bellini Foto C-41

Scan from negative film

The Lincoln's Inn in Dublin opposite the National Gallery

How information was found pre-internet. Thanks for taking the time to check out my photo. HFF📷

Hani people is an ethnic minority that speaks a Tibeto-Burman language. They are the builder of rice terraces in and around Yuanyang (元陽) in Yunnan Province of China, which is registered on the list of UNESCO's World Heritage.

Street Signs as Folk Art

John Baeder

Self.

 

Rainy saturdays are always depressing. Going out now to clear my mind.

 

Selfportraits

Have a gloriumptious 2017 as Roald Dahl's language would have it be. This weeeeek I got to see the BFG. I so loved the show. I had to go in to my kid self and look up many things from Roald Dahl's books. Some of the best storys of all time. I so wish that Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl would have made some books together. Can you just think how wildfun that would have been to read and see. I hope this year will be full of great powerful art and music.

 

Mike

 

Father and son collaboration

 

Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.

 

He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.

 

A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.

 

One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.

 

I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.

 

Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.

 

I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.

 

I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.

 

It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.

 

A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.

   

Abstract Art set:

www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...

 

AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM

 

This shows how I do the Camera work:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw

 

AJ'S blog:

www.ajpatnode.com

 

los ojos de Karla

Jennifer Hudson

Chicago Pride 2014

Chicago, IL

Polaroid SX-70 with Impossible Project PX70 Color Protect film

 

Decide upon an emotion you wish to convey, use that as your guide to build your story.

— Ian Teh

 

The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken. This language was most commonly communicated through tussie-mussies (small flower bouquets), an art which has a following today.

- Wikipedia

self confidence

 

reportage about body language in the beach

Meta. 21/April/ 2014

 

www.facebook.com/CiannielloChiara

  

www.vogue.it/photovogue/Portfolio/8497abb1-f645-4d46-b746...

 

Explored..:D

 

21st February, International mother language day.

Central Shoheed Minar, University of Dhaka.

Holding a bucket of popcorn half her size, Savannah, 6, is eager to see the Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Disney Digital 3D movie. She is wearing a Hannah Montana shirt and 3-D glasses for the highly-anticipated occasion.

 

i'm not crazy about this photo, but something about how Savannah's feet are all fidgety yet she has a cool confidence with her hand on her hip is so sweet to me.

 

ahhhh to be a kid again.

 

Auschwitz, Poland

 

CONVERSACIONES EN SILENCIO- TALKING IN SILENCE

SERIES

www.jlopezsaguar.com

Please, do not use this photo without permission

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The language and sentiment of flowers :

London :Frederick Warne and Co. ;1867

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60593867

Detail of Language piece. Polymer and reclaimed wood.

Nelson Street, Liverpool Chinatown.

Still Life - Vase in Japanese pavillon (Montreal's Botanical Garden).

 

Ikebana flower arrangement in a tokonoma (alcove), in front of a kakemono (hanging scroll)

Ikebana (生け花, "living flowers") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as Kadō (華道, "way of flowers").

"Its cute in a way, till you cannot speak

And you leave to have a cigarette, your knees get weak

An escape is just a nod and a casual wave

Obsessed about it, heavy for the next two days

 

It's only just a crush, it'll go away

It's just like all the others it'll go away

Or maybe this is danger and you just don't know

You pray it all away but it continues to grow"

 

She wants revenge - Tear you apart

Shot with Minox 35 GT-E

Minox Color-Minotar 35mm f/2.8 lens

CineStill 800T film

Shot at ISO 500

I thought a beer had finally been named after me, but closer inpsection proved otherwise. (See the one on the right)

 

A "cold snap" has descended on Brisbane, but the Sunday morning here is cloudless so sunny, and as soon as the ice melts it will be a lovely day.

 

Imagine these copper coils as my neck perhaps.

 

Grolsch Brewery is a Dutch brewery founded in 1615.

 

Starts With G Challenge

Containers Theme - Contains Beer

Rocket is under pressure to come off the sofa because the cover is not on. His response is to avoid eye contact and stare off into the corner of the room. Clever clogs!!

Nivetha Thomas - She Is An Indian Actress - Telugu, Malayalam & Tamil Language Films - [ Born - ( November - 02 - 1995 ) - Kannur, India ]

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