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Finally, a lot later, but a tiny bit closer to another life goal. 800 days streak of learning French. How and why did that take so long?
Bedsides my late mother’s Urdu language, my late father’s Punjabi, and English learned as a student in Pakistan, I’ve always hungered to learn more languages. As a pre-teen, I was making some progress learning very basic German from Teach Yourself books in the mid 1970s. I won’t mention here BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, or C++ type programming languages I had also learned!
But then real tough Cambridge school certificate, then Cambridge A’ levels, and later professional electronics engineering degree studies left no time that was taken up being a student political leader in the 1980s. An engineering classmate from Lahore, Amir, did learn French at the Alliance Français and got me hooked on French movies around 1983.
In 1987 (West Germany) became the first country I visited, and fell in love with, followed by France. So, despite my love for Germany and the German people, French became my language learning goal.
Then 30 years of life, and history, flew by. I bought all the books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and even apps, as the technology of language learning evolved. I even got the DuoLingo app when it first came out. But time remained the constraint.
Until the pandemic. When everyone was asking others what Netflix series to binge-watch, I took advantage of the time to get and spend time walking with my two German Shepherd Dogs, took off 32 pounds of weight I had put in 32 years living in USA, started work on my second music album, and more.
But what I am so happy I was able to pull off into a consistent habit was doing at least 10-minutes or more of French learning every day. Every day, at least once, before midnight.
By the grace of God I just hit 800 days of consecutive learning days, and my 75th week streak in the highest Diamond League of DuoLingo’s gamification system (which really incentivizes the competitive spirit in me).
Can I have a real conversation with my French neighbor, CFO of a major FinTech, Julien? … Pas vraiment, mais peut-être un peu…. But, my life’s journey to be a Learn It All continues. Je vous parlerai (en anglais, français, Urdu/hindi, Punjabi) bientôt!
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Mexican postcard by Sello, no. 216. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
On 25 November 2020, Mexican singer and actress Flor Silvestre (1930-2020) passed away. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music and was a star of classic Mexican films. Famous for her melodious voice and unique singing style, she was nicknamed "La Sentimental" (The Sentimental One) and "La Voz Que Acaricia" (The Voice That Caresses). Her more than 70-year career included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics, and rodeo shows.
Flor Silvestre was born Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla in 1930 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. She was the third child and second daughter of Jesús Jiménez Cervantes, a butcher, and María de Jesús Chabolla Peña. Her sisters Enriqueta and María de la Luz also became singers. Guillermina was raised in Salamanca and began singing at an early age. Her parents, who were also fond of singing, encouraged her to sing. She loved the mariachi music of famous Mexican singers Jorge Negrete and Lucha Reyes, and also sang songs that belonged to the pasodoble, tango, and bolero genres, which were popular in Mexico in the late 1930s. Her family moved to Mexico City and there she began her singing career. In 1943, when she was 13 years old, she debuted at the Teatro del Pueblo. Her next performance at the Teatro del Pueblo was in the play 'La soldadera' (The female soldier), directed by López Santillán. She played a girl who comes out of a railway wagon and sings 'La soldadera', a song written for her by José de Jesús Morales. The play was also broadcast by Mexico's national radio station, XEFO, and 'La soldadera' became the first song she performed on radio. XEFO announcer Arturo Blancas chose the title of Dolores del Río's film Flor Silvestre (Emilio Fernández, 1943), as the young singer's new stage name, so Guillermina Jiménez became Flor Silvestre, which means 'wild flower'. In 1945, she was announced as the "Alma de la Canción Ranchera" (Soul of the Ranchera Song), and in 1950, the year in which she emerged as a radio star, she was proclaimed the "Reina de la Canción Mexicana" (Queen of Mexican Song). In February 1950, she was a part of the "numerous, hybrid, but useful cast" of '¡A los toros!', a revue about bullfighting staged at the Teatro Tívoli. It was written and presented by announcer Paco Malgesto, who would become her second husband. In the revue, she sang Mexican musical numbers associated with bullfights. Also in 1950, she signed a contract with Columbia Records and recorded her first hits, which include 'Imposible olvidarte', 'Que Dios te perdone', and 'Pobre corazón'. In 1957, she began recording for Musart Records and became one of the label's exclusive artists with numerous best-selling singles, such as 'Cielo rojo', 'Renunciación', and 'Gracias'. Many of her hits charted on Cashbox Mexico's Best Sellers and Record World Latin American Single Hit Parade. She also participated in her husband Antonio Aguilar's musical rodeo shows.
Flor Silvestre made her film debut in 1949 singing in Te besaré en la boca/I will kiss you on the mouth (Fernando Cortés, 1950). In 1950, Flor signed a five-film contract with Gregorio Walerstein, a leading film producer known as "the Tsar of Mexican films" She made her acting debut in his production Primero soy mexicano/First I am Mexican (1950), co-starring Joaquín Pardavé (who also wrote and directed the film) and Luis Aguilar and featuring Francisco "Charro" Avitia. She was reunited with Luis Aguilar and Francisco Avitia in the film El tigre enmascarado/The masked tiger (Zacarías Gómez Urquiza, 1951). She then appeared as the leading lady of actor Dagoberto Rodríguez in a film trilogy, El lobo solitario/The lonely wolf (Vicente Oroná, 1952), La justicia del lobo/Wolf justice (Vicente Oroná, 1952), and Vuelve el lobo/The wolf returns (Vicente Oroná, 1952). Between 1950 and 1990, she appeared in more than seventy films. Beautiful and statuesque, she became one of the leading stars of the 'golden age' of the Mexican film industry. In 1955, she appeared in her first color film, La doncella de piedra/The stone maiden (Miguel M. Delgado, 1956), one of the first Mexican CinemaScope productions. An adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel 'Sobre la misma tierra', the film features Flor Silvestre in the role of Cantaralia Barroso, the mother of the novel's protagonist, Remota Montiel (played by Elsa Aguirre). Silvestre played opposite famous comedians, such as Cantinflas in the Eastmancolor comedy El bolero de Raquel/Raquel's Shoeshiner (Miguel M. Delgado, 1957). She received for the first time top billing in Pueblo en Armas/People in arms (Miguel Contreras Torres, 1959) and its sequel ¡Viva la soldadera!/Long live the female soldiers!(Miguel Contreras Torres, 1960). Director Ismael Rodríguez gave her important roles in the Mexican Revolution epic La cucaracha/The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (Ismael Rodríguez, 1959) opposite María Félix and Dolores del Río, and Ánimas Trujano/The Important Man (Ismael Rodríguez, 1962) with Toshiro Mifune, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won a Golden Globe. In 1960, she starred opposite the popular comedy duo Viruta and Capulina in Dos locos en escena/Two Crazy Ones on the Scene (Agustín P. Delgado, 1960).
In 1973, Flor Silvestre played one of Pancho Villa's lovers in La muerte de Pancho Villa (Mario Hernández, 1973), and played Felipe Carrillo Puerto's wife, Isabel Palma, in Peregrina (Mario Hernández, 1974). She sang 'La palma' in Simón Blanco (Mario Hernández, 1975) and played the female leads in Don Herculano enamorado/Don Herculano in love (Mario Hernández, 1975), El moro de cumpas/The Moor of Cumpas (Mario Hernández, 1977), and Mi caballo el cantador/My horse the singer (Mario Hernández, 1979). She made her final film, Triste recuerdo/Sad memory (Mario Hernández, 1990). She was also the star of the comic book 'La Llanera Vengadora'. In 2013, the Association of Mexican Cinema Journalists honored her with the Special Silver Goddess Award. In 2015, her documentary 'Flor Silvestre: su destino fue querer' premiered at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. The 24-minute documentary features interviews with Flor Silvestre, who recounts her life and career; her five children, Dalia, Francisco, Marcela, Antonio, and Pepe; and singers Angélica María and Guadalupe Pineda. Flor Silvestre married her first husband, Andrés Nieto, in the 1940s. She gave birth to her first child, singer and dancer Dalia Inés Nieto, when she was 16 years old. Around 1953, Flor Silvestre married radio announcer and bullfighting chronicler Francisco Rubiales Calvo "Paco Malgesto", who would later become a famous presenter and pioneer of Mexican television. They had two children, translator Francisco Rubiales and singer and actress Marcela Rubiales. They lived in a house in Mexico City's Lindavista neighborhood. The couple separated and began divorce proceedings in 1958. Flor Silvestre's third and last husband was singer and actor Antonio Aguilar, who died in 2007. He was the love of her life. Their relationship began when they made the film El rayo de Sinaloa in 1957. They married in 1959 (or 1960, according to some sources) and had two sons who also became singers and actors, Antonio "Toño" Aguilar and José "Pepe" Aguilar. Aguilar built her a spacious home and ranch, El Soyate, northeast of Tayahua, Zacatecas. Flor Silvestre died on 25 November 2020 at her home in Villanueva, Zacatecas. She was 90.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Wer heute - immer noch oder wieder – analog fotografiert, der steht oft vor dem Problem „wie bekomme ich das Foto auf den Computer, um es z.B. hier bei flickr zeigen zu können?“
Die schnellste und einfachste Lösung ist den Film in eine der großen Drogeriefilialen zu bringen und dort entwickeln zu lassen. Mit Foto-CD kostet ein 36er Film ca. 10€. Dieser Preis ist nur deshalb möglich, weil der gesamte Prozess mit modernster Technik vollautomatisch erfolgt.
An dieser Stelle will ich mit meinen Erfahrungen und meiner Lösung aufsetzen.
Der vollautomatische Prozess einer standardisierten C41 Filmentwicklung führt zu Resultaten, die ich mit einem C41 ChemieSet nicht besser und preiswerter hinbekäme. Zu einem anderen Ergebnis komme ich bei der automatischen Ausbelichtung von Negativen. Im besten Fall bekomme ich ein Ergebnis "state of the art" aktueller Scannertechnik.
Solche digitalisierten analogen Fotos sind damit hauptsächlich ein Resultat der eigesetzten Technik, vom "Klick" bis zum fertigen Foto. Ähnlich einem Digicamfoto im Automatikmodus, nur nicht so "gut".
Auch ein "Experte" wird anhand solcher Fotos nicht erkennen, ob mit einer Voigtländer CLR, Rollei 35, OM2 oder Leica fotografiert wurde.
Eine Eigenschaft von Automatiken ist, dass sie einen definierten Standard abdecken aber kaum Raum für Nuancen lassen. Letztere, sowie kleine charmante Fehler, werden nach vorgegebenen Parametern automatisch korrigiert.
Fazit: mein Beitrag zu einem "tollen Foto" ist übersichtlich gering. Er erschöpft sich in der Motivauswahl und einer rudimentären Bedienung der analogen Technik.
Dazu kommt, dass die niedrige Auflösung (ca. 1,5 MB je KB-Kleinbild Foto), kaum Spielraum für Korrekturen der automatischen Parameter, z.B. Tonwert, Farbe, Kontrast etc., bietet.
Absehbarer Frust für einen Sammler, der mit seinen „Schätzchen“ gerne auch mal fotografiert?
Muss nicht sein, wenn man den letzten Schritt des Laborprozesses, das Digitalisieren, selber macht.
Wie das einfach und sehr kostengünstig geht, will ich nachstehend aufzeigen.
Ich benötige also zunächst nur ein Negativ. Die Herstellung überlasse ich einem Großlabor, welches das viel besser und preiswerter kann als ich. Kosten dafür betragen ca. 2,50€, zusätzlich die obligatorischen Papierabzüge (im kleinsten Format). Gesamtkosten ca. 7,50€ je Film. Auf Erstellung einer Foto CD verzichte ich, weil ich ja selber scannen will.
Das Negativ scanne ich mit einem einfachen Photoscanner mit Durchlichteinheit im manuellen Modus mit der höchsten Auflösung (bei meinem scanner sind das 1600 dpi). Der Photoscanner ist dazu mit einem PC verbunden, der den Scanner steuert. Das Scan-Ergebnis bearbeite ich danach mit einer Bildbearbeitungssoftware. Fertig.
Soweit der Blick aus 10.000 Meter Höhe. Nachstehend eine kurze Beschreibung meines Equipment, welches sich aus meiner Vorliebe für Photoshop CS2 ergibt. Wieso das? CS2 ist ein professionelles Werkzeug von Adobe, das nichts mehr kostet aber „alles kann“, wenn man sich ausreichend mit dem Werkzeug beschäftigt.
Die erforderlichen Geräte setzen sich wie folgt zusammen: Ein alter Computer Latitude D520 mit Windows XP und Photoshop CS2, verbunden mit einem ebenso alten „Epson Perfection 1660 Photo“. Das Ergebnis sind scans mit >10 MB 2282x1550 pixel (je KB-Kleinbild Foto). Diese TIF-Dateien bieten ausreichend Potenzial für eine abschließende Bildkorrektur.
Der Arbeitsplatz ist nur beispielhaft. Entscheidend ist ausschließlich, dass alle Komponenten (Rechner, Scanner, Bildbearbeitungs-SW) von einem Betriebssystem unterstützt werden. Bei älterem Equipment ist Windows XP oft eine sehr gute Lösung. Prozessortakt und RAM sind eher nebensächlich.
Auch Photoshop CS2 muss nicht sein. Es gibt genügend andere Freeware, die gute Leistungen bei der Bild-Nachbearbeitung erbringen und einen Scanner ansteuern können.
Ein paar Anmerkungen zum scannen. Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht, dass es für die Bildqualität egal ist, ob beim scannen die Emulsion oder die glatte Schicht des Negativs oben ist. Ggf. muss das Foto bei der Nachbearbeitung noch horizontal gespiegelt werden. Wichtiger ist, dass beim Einschieben in die Negativschablone eine Planlage verbogener oder gewölbter Negative erreicht wird. Ansonsten ergeben sich Unschärfen, die digital nicht korrigiert werden können.
Das scannen übernimmt die Scanner-eigene SW. Ich wähle dazu den manuellen Modus mit automatischer Belichtung, weil ich danach sowieso korrigiere. Ziel des scans ist nicht ein fertiges Bild, sondern eine Datei mit vielen BildInformationen. Deshalb wähle ich die höchste Dpi-Stufe und das Dateiformat TIF.
Abschließend noch ein paar Anmerkungen zur Bildbearbeitung. Die Anpassungen sind erforderlich, weil ich – wie oben beschrieben - die Scanner-Software (Twain) auf "Automatik" eingestellt habe. Damit passen erste wichtige Parameter wie z.B. die Helligkeit zumindest bei meinem Scanner einigermaßen.
Ab jetzt erfolgt der Prozess, den ich keiner Automatik der Welt überlasse und auch keinem kleinen professionellen scan-Service mit tollen Mitarbeitern. Denn "ich will eigene Ergebnisse".
Der erste Schritt ist ein Aufruf der „Gradationskurven“. Bei CS2 werden dort – neben den Kurven – 3 Pipetten gezeigt. Die rechte davon korrigiert das Foto auf Basis „weiß“. Gehen Sie an eine Stelle des Bildes, die eigentlich weiß sein soll, z.B. Sommerwolken. Dort anklicken und – wenn Sie ein Sonntagskind sind – haben Sie mit einem Klick ein wunderbar ausgeglichenes Bild. Ansonsten mehrmals ausprobieren oder den üblichen Feinschliff von Tonwert, Kontrast, Farbe etc. schrittweise durchführen.
Bei CS2 lassen sich die grundlegenden Anpassungen im Menue unter „Bild anpassen“ im oberen Block unter Tonwertkorrektur, Auto-Tonwertkorrekt usw. durchführen.
Das so entstandene digitale Foto trägt somit schon einmal meine "Handschrift". Der Grad einer eigenen "Handschrift" lässt sich unbegrenzt steigern. Grenzen setzten lediglich die eigene Phantasie und die Virtualität mit der man "auf dem Klavier", sorry der Software, spielen kann.
Übrigens, den oben beschriebenen Arbeitsplatz nutze ich nur zum scannen, denn für die digitale Nachbearbeitung ist deutlich mehr Rechnerleistung erforderlich. Die Kosten für die gebrauchten Geräte eines solchen Scan-Arbeitsplatzes sollten 50€ nicht übersteigen.
Gutes Gelingen, Alex
Anyone who takes analog photos today - still or again - is often faced with the problem "how do I get the photo onto the computer so that I can show it here at flickr, for example?
The fastest and easiest solution is to take the film to one of the large drugstore branches and have it developed there. With photo CD a 36 film costs about 10€. This price is only possible because the entire process is fully automated using the latest technology.
This is where I want to start with my experience and my solution.
The fully automatic process of a standardized C41 film development leads to results which I could not achieve better and cheaper with a C41 chemistry set. I come to a different result with the automatic exposure of negatives. In the best case I get a result "state of the art" of current scanner technology.
Such digitised analogue photos are thus mainly the result of the applied technique, from the "click" to the finished photo. Similar to a digicam photo in automatic mode, only not so "good".
Even an "expert" will not be able to tell from such photos whether a Voigtländer CLR, Rollei 35, OM2 or Leica was used.
The character of automatics is that they cover a defined standard but leave hardly any room for nuances. The latter and small charming errors are automatically corrected or ironed out according to predefined parameters. Conclusion: my contribution to a "great photo" is clearly small. It is exhausted in the choice of motifs and a rudimentary handling of the old analog treasures.
In addition, the low resolution (approx. 1.5 MB per KB small picture photo) offers hardly any leeway for corrections of the automatic parameters, e.g. tone value, color, contrast etc.
Predictable frustration for a collector who likes to take pictures with his "sweethearts"?
Not necessarily, if you do the last step of the laboratory process, the digitizing, yourself.
How this can be done simply and very inexpensively is shown below.
So I only need a negative first. I leave the production to the industrial laboratory, who are much better at it than I am. Costs for this are about 2,50€, plus the obligatory paper prints (in the smallest format). I do without the photo CD. Total costs about 7,50€ per film.
I scan the negative with a simple photo scanner with a transparency unit in manual mode with the highest resolution (in my scanner this is 1600 dpi) in manual mode. The photoscanner is connected to a PC, which controls the scanner. I then process the scan result with an image processing software. Done.
So much for the view from a height of 10.000 meters. The following is a short description of my equipment, which results from my preference for Photoshop CS2. Why is that? CS2 is a professional tool from Adobe, which doesn't cost anything more but "can do everything" if you spend enough time with the tool.
The rest of my tool is composed as follows: An old computer Latitude D520 with Windows XP and Photoshop CS2, connected to an equally old "Epson Perfection 1660 Photo". The result are scans with >10 MB 2282x1550 pixel (each KB small picture photo). These TIF files offer enough potential for a final image correction.
The workplace is only exemplary. The only decisive factor is that all components (computer, scanner, image processing software) are supported by an operating system. In case of older equipment, Windows XP is often a very good solution. Processor clock and RAM are rather unimportant.
Also Photoshop CS2 is not necessary. There are enough other freeware that can perform well in image post-processing and can control a scanner.
And a few more remarks about scanning. I made the experience that it doesn't matter for the image quality if the emulsion or the smooth layer of the negative is on top when scanning. You may have to flip the photo horizontally during post-processing. It is more important that a flatness of bent or curved negatives is achieved when inserting them into the negative stencil. Otherwise, blurriness will result which cannot be corrected digitally.
The scanning is done by the scanner's own SW. I choose the manual mode with automatic exposure, because I correct afterwards anyway. The goal of the scan is a file with a lot of image information. Therefore I choose the highest Dpi level and the file format TIF.
Finally a few remarks about image processing. The adjustments are necessary because - as described above - I set the scanner software (Twain) to "automatic". Thus first important parameters like e.g. the brightness fit at least with my scanner to some extent.
From now on, the process, which I don't leave to any automatic system in the world and also to a small professional scan service with great employees, will be done. Because "I want my own results".
My first step is to call up the "gradation curves". In CS2, 3 pipettes are shown there - besides the curves. The one on the right corrects the photo on basis "white". Go to a part of the image that should actually be white, e.g. summer clouds. Click there and - if you are a Sunday child - you will have a wonderfully balanced picture with just one click. Otherwise try it out several times or do the usual fine tuning of tonal value, contrast, colour etc. step by step.
With CS2, the basic adjustments can be made in the menu under "Adjust Image" in the upper block under Tone Value Correction, Auto Tone Correct etc.
The resulting digital photo will therefore already bear my "signature". The degree of your own "handwriting" can be increased indefinitely. The only limits are your own imagination and the virtuality on which you can play "on the piano", sorry software.
By the way, I only use the workplace described above for scanning, as for the digital post-processing significantly more computer power is required. The costs for the used equipment of such a scan workstation should not exceed 50€.
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No matter the language that you speak.
Or the colour of the skin.
Its your choice. This God that you look out and seek.
What really matters is the love the kindness and good that can flow from within.
Hatred is like a Cancer it festers deep inside.
So show the good inside of you Dont get swept away with the tide.
Keep on Clickin.
Ugly ducklings.No way.
Two beautiful Swans in the making.
"examine her for motive
investigate the scene
in the ever present danger
keep the holster at your hip".
(If you were) in my movie,
Suzanne VEGA (99.9F, 1992).
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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
Dead - A Celebration Of Mortality
Artist: Alina and Jeff Bliumis
Title: Language Barrier
Materials: resin, foam, fabric, acrylic, ink, steel, human hair
Saatchi Gallery
London, England, UK
"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
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!!
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A student of Khmer descent learns Kinh language (the official Vietnamese language) at the Lac Hoa Primary School in Soc Trang province. The report "Vietnam High Education For All by 2020" finds that gaps in learning still exist, particularly between groups of different income levels and between Kinh, Chinese and ethnic minorities. Soc Trang province, Vietnam. Photo: Chau Doan / World Bank
A tour guide announces that the French language walking tour was about to depart from the Centennial Flame. In the background the work is still in progress to get the Hill ready for Saturday's Canada 150 celebrations.
The top line reads: Pet Salon. The dog is made of kanji which read "strange doggie" The bottom line reads: Trimming, Pet Hotel. A thing delightfully seen in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
Yes, this is a 2012 presidential election joke. The 2020 version of the title would be Trump VS Biden.
Aren't people funny when they are brought together like this!? Forced to pursue the same objective, seemingly reluctant to accept that they are all in pursuit of the same thing - in this case a bus home after shopping or working.
We're described at 'social animals' but you wouldn't think so to look at this photo in Madrid!
Disney Store Ursula Doll
From her shock of silver hair to the tips of her tentacles, the The Little Mermaid villain comes to life with our Ursula Doll. She wears a devilish grin and the shell that holds Ariel's voice. Her plush tentacles have a sparkly underside.
OMG!! I am seriously tripping! I remember this doll being released by Simba in Europe for the Platinum Edition DVD, and I totally wanted it! Unfortunately, shipping costs are a bitch for most overseas items! I'm so glad that i can get this for so much cheaper here. <3 I'll probably never be able to get the Ursula that Mattel made a while back, so this is the next best thing! lol
Also I know this is a longshot, but i hope they make the other Villains too, namely, The Evil Queen, Maleficent, Gothel..etc...lol
Image is from the Disney Store website. I can't believe she costs $12.50. =O
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
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After the last snowfall, a mysterious message was found along the hillside near the Ollersbach church.
It resembles the ancient script of Sumerian, if I am not mistaken, but I'm not sure what it says.
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This is the cover photo of my set National Language Movement 2011
This Photo was taken on 21th Fab at 01:30 pm , From Jatio Shaheed Minar , Dhaka, BANGLADESH, This Photo was Taken while my Special Photowalk with The flickr Group Frame BANGLADESH
Description :The Bengali Language Movement: and in Bangali Trnslation to ভাষা আন্দোলন
The Bengali Language Movement: Can read In Bangoli here]ভাষা আন্দোলন, also known as the Language Movement (Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন; Bhasha Andolon), was a political effort in Bangladesh (then known as East Pakistan), advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language ofPakistan. Such recognition would allow Bengali to be used in government affairs.When the state of Pakistan was formed in 1947, its two regions, East Pakistan (also called East Bengal) and West Pakistan, were split along cultural, geographical, and linguistic lines. In 1948, the Government of Pakistan ordained Urdu as the sole national language, sparking extensive protests among the Bengali-speaking majority of East Pakistan. Facing rising sectarian tensions and mass discontent with the new law, the government outlawed public meetings and rallies. The students of the University of Dhaka and other political activists defied the law and organised a protest on 21 February 1952. The movement reached its climax when police killed student demonstrators on that day. The deaths provoked widespread civil unrest led by the Awami Muslim League, later renamed the Awami League. After years of conflict, the central government relented and granted official status to the Bengali language in 1956. In 2000,UNESCO declared 21 February International Mother Language Day for the whole world to celebrate[1], in tribute to the Language Movement and the ethno-linguistic rights of people around the world.The Language Movement catalysed the assertion of Bengali national identity in Pakistan, and became a forerunner to Bengali nationalist movements, including the 6-point movement and subsequently the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In Bangladesh, 21 February is observed as Language Movement Day, a national holiday. The Shaheed Minar monument was constructed near Dhaka Medical College in memory of the movement and its victims
Background
The present nations of Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of undivided India during the British colonial rule. From the mid-19th century, the Urdu language had been promoted as thelingua franca of Indian Muslims by political and religious leaders such as Sir Khwaja Salimullah, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk and Maulvi Abdul Haq.[2][3] Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian, Arabic and Turkic influence on apabhramshas (last linguistic stage of the medieval Indian Aryan language Pali-Prakrit)[4] in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire.[5] With its Perso-Arabic script, the language was considered a vital element of the Islamic culture for Indian Muslims; Hindi and the Devanagari script were seen as fundamentals of Hindu culture.[2]While the use of Urdu grew common with Muslims in northern India, the Muslims of Bengal (a province in the eastern part of British Indian sub-continent) primarily used the Bengali language. Bengali is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language that arose from the eastern Middle Indic languages around 1000 CE[6] and developed considerably during the Bengal Renaissance. As early as the late 19th century, social activists such as the Muslim feminist Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were choosing to write in Bengali to reach out to the people and develop it as a modern literary language. Supporters of Bengali opposed Urdu even before the partition of India, when delegates from Bengal rejected the idea of making Urdu the lingua franca of Muslim India in the 1937 Lucknow session of the Muslim League. The Muslim League was a British Indian political party that became the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state separate from British India.[7]
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Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture that is known for its expressive detail and was created by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris from 1865 to 1867.
The subject of this intense marble statue is derived from canto XXXIII of Dante's Inferno, which describes how the Pisan traitor Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons, and his grandsons were imprisoned in 1288 and died of starvation.
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Due to the unusual location of Lehde and some preserved historical Spreewald houses, Lehde, which is completely under monumental protection, is a popular destination for tourists. Lehde can also be reached on foot, by bicycle or by car, however, the beauty and special features of the place can be experienced above all from the water side. (Wikpedia.de)
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Most inhabitants depend on tourism. Many tourists explore the Spreewald in punts. Agriculture, forestry and fishery are other important sources of income. The principal town of the area is Lübbenau. Alder forests on wetlands and pine forests on sandy dry areas are characteristic of the Spreewald region. Grasslands and fields can be found as well. About 18,000 species of flora and fauna have been identified. In 1991, the Spreewald was protected by the UNESCO under its Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme.
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English: Plane trees at Alphons-Silbermann-Weg close to the University of Cologne, Germany
Nederlands: Plataanen aan Alphons-Silbermann-Weg bij de universiteit te Keulen (Duitsland)
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Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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“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/ ).
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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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