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This little mushroom was growing up from a bench at the Arboretum. I took this one while waiting for the Flickrites. I used a 50mm with a wide aperature to get a shallow depth of field.
Overcome fear to arrive at wonder . . . Happy Halloween
A garden spider. Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto, CA
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Dawn breaks above a cloud bank shedding light across Lake Superior and Chequamegon Bay. A simple driftwood cross left on the beach is illuminated in the sunburst. I can only imagine what dawn on that first Easter morning was like as the Light of the World broke the chains of death and won victory over the grave. This scene reminded me of Christ's resurrection and how his light overcomes our darkness with hope for eternity. Happy Easter!
Overcoming a double-digit deficit, the top-seeded University of Wisconsin-Parkside men's basketball squad tallied its first NCAA Division II Tournament victory in program history on Saturday evening, pleasing the home crowd inside DeSimone Gymnasium with a 74-65 win over eighth-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan College.
I think this is the moment I relaized - in Parintins, Brazil at a mini version of their famed Boi-Bumba festival - that I can never go to Carnival or Mardi Gras. Even at this smaller version I was overcome by the music and frantic dancing and had to join in. Similar in intensity and fanatic fervor to Rio's Carnival, the Boi-Bumba, meaning Bull Dance, is a three-day event held annually in Parintins. The festival doubles the population of this usually sleepy town. It is the second-largest annual festival in Brazil; only the Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro draw more participants.
Taken on the East River shoreline in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
Every student at Samuelson Elementary School honored Martin Luther King Jr. day. More than 450 students walked a silent lap and then held hands to listen to Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech over the intercom. They continued to hold hands and sang "We Shall Overcome" before going back to class.
I am trying to clear these photos up. Light pollution is hard to over come even in Adobe Light Room. The light source is from two different sources. The rising waxing gibbous moon and a controlled burn on the other side of the mountain coming from the same side! One thing I am happy for is that they were on the same side and not polar opposites. I am trying to learn this and I am a little frustrated. But I am trying and won't give up until I either get another shot at the Milky Way in pure darkness or I can master Light Room. Either way, I won't give up.
For me, the highlight of the Martin Luther King Day of Unity and Service was when nearly two hundred people joined hands and sang "We Shall Overcome."
Dr. Nova Riyanti Yusuf shares Indonesia's experience with colloquium participants. Each country shared their approach and had the opportunity to learn from others about new ideas for increasing access to immunization through financing mechanisms.
My wife is from the mid-west USA so she must make quilts: it's the law, or an old charter or something. This one was finished today.
Downhillers and mountain bikers can practice their sport on a legal route on the downhill track in Stuttgart. The Woodpecker Trail near Stuttgart-Degerloch overcomes a difference in altitude of 120 meters, has 27 different obstacles and is around one kilometer long. To commute from the bottom of the trail to the top, they can use the "Zacke".
The Zacke is an endearing feature of the state capital: If you take the “Zacke” from Marienplatz to Degerloch, you can get from A to B quickly and comfortably and can enjoy an amazing panoramic view of Stuttgart.
Since 1884, the cog railway has carried tourists and locals alike up and down the hill. The route is more than 2.2 kilometers long, and the “Zacke” has to overcome gradients of up to 17.8 percent in the Degerloch district, which is more than 200 meters higher.
In the past, the "Zacke" was primarily a means of transport for workers from the Filder towns who worked in the commercial establishments in downtown Stuttgart. The cog railway was also used by people to transport goods such as crops, milk or building materials. But that was a long time ago. Today, passengers transport bicycles instead - the "Zacke" has a special trailer for this purpose.
Incidentally, the “zacke” is a true rarity. There are only four rack railways left in Germany: the Zugspitzbahn, the Wendelsteinbahn, the Drachenfelsbahn and the "Zacke". This also makes it the only rack railway in Germany that runs in a city and is integrated into local public transport. According to the Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG (SSB), 2,500 to 3,000 passengers use the Zacke every day.
Photography & retouching by Matthias Dengler
Model: Felix Rieger
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Selim Bin Achour player Qadisiyah club moment overcome defender Salmiya club
In match between Al-Qadsia 2 X Al-Salmiya 0
In Crown Prince Cup 2007 Kuwait
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
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Focal Length: 400 mm
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My back is really hurting. I am trying my best to not worry Montine. I hope that taking it easy this weekend will help.
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to overcome tradi·onal pa·erns of gender inequality and female subordina·on. The economic and social disadvantages of women.
in Indian society reflect a whole gamut of patriarchal norms and prac·ces such as patrilineal inheritance, patrilocal residence, the.
gender division of labour, the gender segrega·on of public spaces, and the discouragement of widow remarriage.".
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In the IWD Centenary year, the ·me is ripe to intensify the women's struggles against land grab, for sharecroppers' rights and.
homestead land, and, as part of the struggle for land reform and redistribu·on of land to the landless, to fight for women's equality.
in access to land..
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Bread.
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The ques·on of bread (`ro·') assumes explosive propor·ons this March, as prices of food break all records..
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According to the Global Hunger Index and the India Hunger Index released by the Interna·onal Food Policy Research Ins·tute.
in October 2008, India's record on hunger is worse than that of nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and all of South Asia,.
except Bangladesh. The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 had ranked India bo!om (134th among 134 countries) in terms of the.
`women's health and survival' index - i.e. Indian women suffer worse hunger, malnutri·on and maternal mortality than women in.
the poorest of the world's countries. According to the Na·onal Family Health Survey 2005-06, more than half of India's women are.
anaemic. What will be the impact of steep (nearly 20%) rise in food prices on women who are already hungry and under-nourished?.
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Is it not the responsibility of the government to ensure subsidized food and other essen·als to the needy, especially women.
and other vulnerable sec·ons? Why, then, is the UPA Government planning a `Right to Food Bill' that plans to push out large num-.
bers of the poor from the BPL lists? Why do Governments turns a blind eye to scams where ra·ons meant for the poor are sold in.
the open market?.
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Peace and Freedom from Violence.
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In Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, women con"nue to be devastated by imperialist wars - while women are at the forefront of.
huge an·-war mobilisa·ons in the US and its allied countries..
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The image of the women of Manipur in 2004 protes"ng in the nude with the slogan `Indian Army Rape Us' is a reminder.
that women are the worst casual·es in the state's war on its people. Be it at Bastar, Shopian (Kashmir), Lalgarh (W Bengal) or the.
North East, women suffer brutali"es, rape and murder at the hands of security forces..
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As Lalgarh and Nayaranpatna have reminded us, `combing opera·ons' for so-called `insurgents' has invariably meant sexual.
abuse of women, usually adivasi women, by security forces..
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In Bastar, Sodi Sambho who received a police bullet in her leg when she witnessed the Gompad massacre (where 7 were killed,.
one old woman's breast chopped off, and a baby's fingers and tongue chopped off) by security forces. She and other witnesses have.
been kept in illegal custody by the Chha"sgarh police and prevented from mee·ng lawyers or even moving freely. This is obviously.
to in·midate her into changing her tes·mony. Women raped by Salwa Judum and SPOs have been in·midated by police - while.
the accused have not been arrested..
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Women are also targeted in communal and casteist assaults. In Gujarat 2002, Muslim women were raped en masse. A young.
college student Ishrat Jehan was killed in cold blood and passed off as a `terrorist' by the Gujarat police. Incidents like Khairlanji.
- where a dalit woman and her daughter were gang raped and brutally killed along with their whole family - are no aberra·on..
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We have witnessed how a middle class girl like Ruchika found herself helpless in the face of the power mobilised against her.
by a police officer Rathore. What, then, is the fate of women from socially and economically more vulnerable sec·ons? Women.
like Sodi and her adivasi sisters, whose accusa"ons against police and security forces in Bastar threaten not just the individual.
pres"ge of a Rathore, but the very legi"macy of an an"-insurgency war waged by none less than the Government of India?.
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The legacy of the slogan of `peace' on Women's Day in India can only mean a call for a halt of these wars on people in the name.
of war on terrorism..
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While the corporate media and conserva"ve state forces try to reduce the significance of Interna"onal Women's Day to.
mere symbolism it is urgent for all progressive forces to uphold the core slogans and concerns that fired the struggle for women's.
rights and dignity a century back and reassert their con"nuing relevance in the face of the combined assaults of imperialism,.
corporate capital, state forces and patriarchy..
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Abhishek Radhika.
Vice-President, AISA, JNU Jt. Secy, AISA, JNU.
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Remember those things I told you? I remember those I didn´t.
I remember when I felt like holding a skull on my shoulders. When I was a walking skeleton. When I felt like I was dead. In the inside. And the outside. Showing all those bones underneath the rotting flesh. Showing all that emptiness, that silence, that endless sweet nothing. I remember when I was crying while the moon was up, howling like the beast you made of me.
But I'm not dead anymore. I've sewed my lips, I've closed my mouth, I only show my tooth to smile. Now my bones are where they have to. My eyeballs are not empty anymore. My skin are almost colored.
I've overcome you, death.
The Art of the Brick Exhibition at the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands by Nathan Sawaya. This piece of artwork using 2,434 pieces of LEGO bricks to create
We're in the All Ireland Junior Cup Final!
by Roger Corbett
Bangor produced an awesome display of power and composure to overcome a strong Clogher Valley side by 9-6 and book their place in this season’s final.
With both sides able to field their full-strength starting fifteens, backed up by an equally proficient seven man bench, this all-Ulster semi-final between two of the top teams within the Qualifying League had caught the attention of many rugby enthusiasts who were anticipating a memorable contest. The playing surface and weather conditions were just about perfect, with what little breeze there was blowing across the pitch and of little advantage to either side.
With hundreds of spectators lining the touchlines, and many more watching from the warmth and comfort of the clubhouse, Bangor’s Jason Morgan got proceedings underway. The home side didn’t want to repeat the early mistakes of last week’s game at CIYMS, and appeared to be focussed from the outset. However, Clogher Valley were obviously mindful of their last visit to Upritchard Park and started with power and purpose. The first couple of set pieces showed why their pack is a force to be reckoned with, pushing Bangor back with worrying ease. Building on this early dominance, Clogher took play into Bangor’s twenty two and mounted several good attacking moves. Bangor’s defence held firm on each occasion, until Clogher decided the only way they were going to come away with some points for these efforts was to take a drop goal, giving them an early lead by 0-3.
Having been under considerable pressure, Bangor started to work their way back into the game and were eventually rewarded with a Mark Widdowson penalty, which levelled the scores at 3-3 after 20 minutes. Further pressure from the home side soon resulted in another Clogher infringement at the breakdown, which resulted in another Widdowson penalty which put Bangor ahead for the first time by 6-3.
Although Clogher still looked dangerous in attack, when Bangor regained possession they quickly turned defence into attack through sensible and accurate positional kicking from Jason Morgan. Having gained good territory, Bangor then fought hard to stay there, even to the point where they managed to charge down two Clogher clearance kicks, although to the visitors’ relief the ball bounced out of play. However, the sustained pressure being exerted through Bangor’s back line eventually led to another penalty, which Widdowson converted to extend the lead to 9-3, which brought the first half to a close.
The first good attacking opportunity of the second half fell to Clogher after just 6 minutes. From a penalty in mid-field, a good kick brought the line-out close to Bangor’s 5 metre line. This is usually the platform from where Clogher are most deadly – their line-out and driving maul is a difficult force to stop. However, Bangor were prepared and not only stopped the drive, but turned the ball over and cleared their lines. Then to drive home the fact, they did it again a few minutes later. Given Clogher’s rightful reputation for their prowess in this area, the defensive response by Bangor’s forwards was truly impressive.
The only worrying time for Bangor came after 14 minutes when captain Jamie Clegg was somewhat harshly yellow-carded for pulling down a maul. From the resulting penalty, Clogher clawed back 3 points, making the score now 9-6.
However, obviously buoyed by their earlier dominance in the forwards, the seven man scrum of Bangor was now pushing the eight man Clogher pack backwards. Psychologically, this was a turning point, as Bangor now assumed control and prevented their opponents from developing any meaningful attacks. This, combined with Morgan’s positional kicking, resulted in Clogher being pinned down for most of the final quarter in their own half. Clogher’s situation became even more difficult when, after 22 minutes, one of their second row forwards was yellow-carded for not rolling away from a tackle.
With both sides finding it hard to break through each other’s defence, Bangor played tactically by simply preventing their opponents to build meaningful attacks through committed and effective defence, and then pushing them back deep into their own territory through long kicks for touch. On at least two occasions, Bangor came close to crossing Clogher’s line through breaks by Curtis Stewart and Davy Charles. They then had an opportunity within the final 5 minutes to extend their lead when Widdowson had another penalty kick from the right of Clogher’s posts. However, a sudden attack of cramp in his run-up resulted in the kick being miss-hit, and the ball drifted wide of the mark. Although disappointed not to have scored, Bangor stuck to their plan, and continued to thwart any chance of a counter attack, finally running down the clock to record a famous victory.
While the final score-line may not suggest it, this was an enthralling game from start to finish, played in good spirit and without any major injuries. For the visitors’ part, they may feel that they didn’t play to their normal high standard. However, they came up against a Bangor side that has proved so far in this competition that it can match and better the best junior sides in Ireland. Bangor’s route to the final has been as difficult as it could be possible – Clonmel (one of the pre-tournament favourites, and Munster champions) in round 1, Enniscorthy (the current cup holders) in the quarter finals, and now Clogher Valley (last year’s beaten finalists, and the current QL1 champions) in the semis. What lies ahead on 31st January 2015 is still unclear, following a 25-25 draw at the other semi-final between CIYMS and Dundalk. What is clear, however, is that Bangor can rightly look forward in confidence to face whoever is to come between them and the title. In the meantime, there are still vital games ahead in the league, resuming with a home fixture against Cooke next weekend.
Bangor side: P Whyte, A Jackson, J Leary, G Irvine, J Henly, R Latimer, J Clegg (c), C Stewart, R Armstrong, J Morgan, M Widdowson, M Aspley, M Weir, D Charles, C Morgan
Subs: O McIlmurry, S Irvine, F Black, D Kelly, D Fusco, M Thompson, A McCusker
Bangor scores: M Widdowson (3P)