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"Ooh la la! Yasmin, Cloe, and Meygan are all decked out in the most simply sweet styles. Peep those pearls, pastels, and fab faux furs! Elements of lace & leather complete their girly glam looks, and now they're ready for another fun day at the mall! ♥"
Did some stylin' on the Black Friday gorlz ^_^ I fixed Yasmin's hair, but I'll probably just leave Cloe and Meygan alone honestly :P I'd just make it worse LOL
tipo mil anoos sem colocar fotos aqui, mais agora comprei uma maquina nova, e ainda não coloquei nenhum foto tirada dela aqui, essa foto ainda é com a minha antiga, juro voltar =DD
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BIG MUSIC TOUR 2015
Official stage photographer
Amphithéâtre 3000, Lyon, France
13/02/2015
by Sandie Besso Photography
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Paris / France
November 21st - Vic Theater - Chicago, IL
Taken with: Canon 7D & a 24mm f/1.4L ll
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The Great spotted woodpecker is the most common of only three species of woodpecker in the UK, the other two being the Lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) and the Green woodpecker (Picus viridus). It is present all year round, apart from in extreme northern parts of Scotland, and is famed for its rapid drumming on the sides of trees. The Great spotted woodpecker is, without a doubt, one of the more striking species of bird in the UK.
Of colourful hue and memorable pattern, the Great spotted woodpecker is a stout bird, with black and white spotted wings and two main red patches (head and underbelly); the scarlet patch on the back of the (male) woodpecker’s head is a distinct and unique feature. A simple confusion can often emerge from the fact a young Great spotted woodpecker displays a scarlet patch on top of its head, which disappears after the first moult; these young birds can be easily identified as Lesser spotted woodpeckers, when in fact they’re not.
LAKE KIVU
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Lake Kivu
Coordinates 2°0′S 29°0′ECoordinates: 2°0′S 29°0′E
Type Rift Valley lakes, Meromictic
Primary outflows Ruzizi River
Catchment area 2,700 km2 (1,000 sq mi)
Basin countries Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Max. length 89 km (55 mi)[1]
Max. width 48 km (30 mi)[1]
Surface area 2,700 km2 (1,040 sq mi)[1]
Average depth 240 m (787 ft)
Max. depth 480 m (1,575 ft)
Water volume 500 km3 (120 cu mi)
Surface elevation 1,460 m (4,790 ft)
Islands Idjwi
Settlements Goma, Congo
Bukavu, Congo
Kibuye, Rwanda
Cyangugu, Rwanda
Lake Kivu with Goma in the background
Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. The name comes from kivu which means "lake" in some Bantu languages, just like the words tanganyika or nyanza.[citation needed]
Contents
1 History
2 Geography
3 Chemistry
3.1 Methane extraction
4 Biology and fisheries
5 See also
6 References
History
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People on the shore at Gisenyi
The first European to visit the lake was German Count Adolf von Götzen in 1894. Since then it has been caught up in the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people in Rwanda, and their allies in DR Congo, which led to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the First and Second Congo Wars. Lake Kivu gained notoriety as a place where many of the victims of the genocide were dumped.
Geography
The lake covers a total surface area of some 2,700 km2 (1,040 sq mi) and stands at a height of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft) above sea level. Some 1 370 km2 or 58% of the lake's waters lie within DRC borders. The lake bed sits upon a rift valley that is slowly being pulled apart, causing volcanic activity in the area, and making it particularly deep: its maximum depth of 480 m (1,575 ft) is ranked eighteenth in the world.
The world's tenth-largest inland island, Idjwi, lies in Lake Kivu, as does the tiny island of Tshegera, which also lies within the boundaries of Virunga National Park; while settlements on its shore include Bukavu, Kabare, Kalehe, Sake, and Goma in Congo, and Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu in Rwanda.
Chemistry
Lake Kivu is a fresh water lake and, along with Cameroonian Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun, is one of three that experience limnic eruptions. Around the lake, geologists found evidence of massive biological extinctions about every thousand years, caused by outgassing events. The trigger for lake overturns in Lake Kivu's case is unknown, but volcanic activity is suspected. The gaseous chemical composition of exploding lakes is unique to each lake; in Lake Kivu's case, methane and carbon dioxide due to lake water interaction with a volcano. The amount of methane is estimated to be 65 cubic kilometers (if burnt over one year, it would give an average power of about 100 gigawatts for the whole period). There is also an estimated 256 cubic kilometers of carbon dioxide. The water temperature is 24°C, and the pH level is about 8.6.[2] The methane is reported to be produced by microbial reduction of the volcanic CO2.[3] The risk from a possible Lake Kivu overturn is catastrophic, dwarfing other documented lake overturns at Lakes Nyos and Monoun, because of the approximately two million people living in the lake basin.
Cores from the Bukavu Bay area of the lake reveal that the bottom has layered deposits of the rare mineral monohydrocalcite interlain with diatoms, on top of sapropelic sediments with high pyrite content. These are found at three different intervals. The sapropelic layers are believed to be related to hydrothermal discharge and the diatoms to a bloom which reduced the carbon dioxide levels low enough to precipitiate monohydrocalcite.[4]
Scientists hypothesize that sufficient volcanic interaction with the lake's bottom water that has high gas concentrations would heat water, force the methane out of the water, spark a methane explosion, and trigger a nearly simultaneous release of carbon dioxide.[5][6] The carbon dioxide would then suffocate large numbers of people in the lake basin as the gases roll off the lake surface. It is also possible that the lake could spawn lake tsunamis as gas explodes out of it.[7][8]
The risk posed by Lake Kivu began to be understood during the analysis of more recent events at Lake Nyos. Lake Kivu's methane was originally thought to be merely a cheap natural resource for export, and for the generation of cheap power. Once the mechanisms that caused lake overturns began to be understood, so did awareness of the risk the lake posed to the local population.
An experimental vent pipe was installed at Lake Nyos in 2001 to remove gas from the deep water, but such a solution for the much larger Lake Kivu would be considerably more expensive. No plan has been initiated to reduce the risk posed by Lake Kivu.[dubious – discuss] The approximately 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the lake is a little under 2 percent of the amount released annually by human fossil fuel burning. Therefore the process of releasing it could potentially have costs beyond building and operating the system.
Methane extraction
Methane extraction platform.
Lake Kivu has recently been found to contain approximately 55 billion cubic metres (1.94 trillion cubic feet) of dissolved biogas at a depth of 300 metres (1,000 ft). Until 2004, extraction of the gas was done on a small scale, with the extracted gas being used to run boilers at a brewery, the Bralirwa brewery in Gisenyi.[9][10] As far as large-scale exploitation of this resource is concerned, the Rwandan government has negotiated with a number of parties to produce methane from the lake.
In 2011 ContourGlobal, a U.S. based energy company focused on emerging markets, secured project financing to initiate a large-scale methane extraction project. The project will be run through a local Rwandan entity called KivuWatt, using an offshore barge platform to extract, separate, and clean the gasses obtained from the lake bed before pumping purified methane via an underwater pipeline to on-shore gas engines. Stage one of the project aims to build and supply three "gensets" along the lake shore, totaling 25MW of electrical capacity. Initial project operations are scheduled to commence in 2012.[11] In addition to managing gas extraction, KivuWatt will also manage the electrical generation plants and on-sell the electrical power to the Rwandan government under the terms of a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This allows KivuWatt to control a vertically integrated energy offering from point of extraction to point of sale into the local grid. Extraction is said to be cost-effective and relatively simple because once the gas-rich water is pumped up, the dissolved gases (primarily carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane) begin to bubble out as the water pressure gets lower. This project is expected to increase Rwanda's energy generation capability by as much as 20 times, and will enable Rwanda to sell electricity to neighboring African countries.[10] The firm was awarded the 2011 Africa Power deal of the year for innovation in the financing arrangements it obtained from various sources for the KivuWatt project. [12] .[13]
A problem associated with the prevalence of methane is that of mazuku.
Biology and fisheries
Fishing boats on Lake Kivu, 2009.
Reflection of the sky on Lake Kivu
The fish fauna in Lake Kivu is relatively poor with 28 species, including four introduced species.[14] The natives are the Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii), four species of Barbus (B. altianalis, B. apleurogramma, B. kerstenii and B. pellegrini), an Amphilius catfish, two Clarias catfish (C. liocephalus and C. gariepinus), Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and 15 endemic Haplochromis cichlids.[14] The introduced species are three cichlids, the longfin tilapia (Oreochromis macrochir), O. leucostictus and redbreast tilapia (Coptodon rendalli), and a clupeid, the Lake Tanganyika sardine, Limnothrissa miodon.[14]
The exploitable stock of the Lake Tanganyika sardine was estimated at 2000–4000 tons per year.[15] It was introduced to Lake Kivu in the late 1959 by a Belgian Engineer A. Collart. At present, Lake Kivu is the sole natural lake in which L. miodon, a sardine originally restricted to Lake Tanganyika, has been introduced initially to fill an empty niche. Prior to the introduction, no planktivorous fish was present in the pelagic waters of Lake Kivu. In the early 1990s, the number of fishers on the lake was 6,563, of which 3,027 were associated with the pelagic fishery and 3,536 with the traditional fishery. Widespread armed conflict in the surrounding region from the mid-1990s resulted in a decline in the fisheries harvest.[16]
Following this introduction, the sardine has gained substantial economic and nutritional importance for the lakeside human population but from an ecosystem standpoint, the introduction of planktivorous fish may result in important modifications of plankton community structure. Recent observations showed the disappearance during the last decades of a large grazer, Daphnia curvirostris, and the dominance of mesozooplankton community by three species of cyclopoid copepod: Thermocyclops consimilis, Mesocyclops aequatorialis and Tropocyclops confinis.[17][18]
The first comprehensive phytoplankton survey was released in 2006.[19] With an annual average chlorophyll a in the mixed layer of 2.2 mg m-3 and low nutrient levels in the euphotic zone, the lake is clearly oligotrophic. Diatoms are the dominant group in the lake, particularly during the dry season episodes of deep mixing. During the rainy season, the stratified water column, with high light and lower nutrient availability, favour dominance of cyanobacteria with high numbers of phototrophic picoplankton.[19][20][21][22] The actual primary production is 0.71 g C m-2 d-1 (~ 260 g C m-2 y-1).[23]
A study of evolutionary genetics showed that the cichlids from lakes in northern Virunga (e.g., Edward, George, Victoria) would have evolved in a "proto-lake Kivu", much older than the intense volcanic activity (20,000-25,000 years ago) which cut the connection.[24] The elevation of the mountains west of the lake (which is currently the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, one of the largest reserves of eastern lowland (or Grauer's) gorillas in the world), combined with the elevation of the eastern rift (located in eastern Rwanda) would be responsible for drainage of water from central Rwanda in the actual Lake Kivu. This concept of "proto-lake Kivu" was challenged by lack of consistent geological evidence,[25] although the cichlid's molecular clock suggests the existence of a lake much older than the commonly cited 15,000 years.
Lake Kivu is the home of four species of freshwater crab, including two non-endemics (Potamonautes lirrangensis and P. mutandensis) and two endemics (P. bourgaultae and P. idjwiensis).[26] Among Rift Valley lakes, Lake Tanganyika is the only other with endemic freshwater crabs.[26]
NEWS RELEASE
BIG GLOBAL LOYALTY PROGRAMME LAUNCHED IN THAILAND
It will be Asia’s largest loyalty card, says Fernandes
BANGKOK, 22 February 2012 – Following its successful rollout in Malaysia and Indonesia in end 2011, the global loyalty programme BIG was today officially launched in Thailand.
A collaboration between the world’s best low-cost airline, AirAsia, and Tune Money, the financial services arm of the Tune Group of companies, BIG is an innovative global loyalty programme that allows members to earn points when travelling and shopping with its partners worldwide in order to redeem the accumulated points for exciting rewards including AirAsia and AirAsia X seats.
In conjunction with the BIG launch in Thailand, new BIG members, also known as BIG Shots, who apply online today until 31 March 2012 will receive 250 free BIG Points. The offer is exclusively for applicants from Thailand. On top of that, BIG Shots can also earn double points at participating stores with this limited time offer. More information is available from www.tune2big.com.
As a global loyalty programme, BIG membership is borderless and open to anyone aged 2 and above anywhere in the world. Each member, nicknamed ‘BIG Shot’, is issued with a BIG card carrying the cardholder’s name and membership identification number, or BIG Shot ID. BIG enables members to earn loyalty points called ‘BIG Points’ when travelling and shopping with programme partners.
Tune Group Co-Founder and Group CEO of AirAsia, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes says, “I’m very excited that the BIG Card is now in Thailand so you’ll be able to fly AirAsia and shop with our partners to get BIG Points and redeem them for free flights on AirAsia and other rewards. I also encourage all merchants to join this programme. This is very important to us and like AirAsia, from our humble beginnings of flying just 200,000 people to now 32 million guests a year, I believe the BIG Card is going to be the largest loyalty card in Asia. Join us now and let the people of Thailand enjoy more free flights.”
Commenting on the BIG launch, Tassapon Bijleveld, CEO of Thai AirAsia says, “As an airline committed to ensuring that “Now Everyone Can Fly”, we have come a long way since we started off 8 years ago. The launch of the BIG card marks another milestone for us as we continue to offer more value and convenience as a token of appreciation and gratitude to our loyal passengers. Now every time someone purchases a plane ticket or add-on service including pre-booked meals or travel insurance with AirAsia Insure, points can be earned and redeemed for a free AirAsia plane ticket.”
Tune Money CEO, Peter Miller says, “BIG is targeted to the ‘young at heart’ who would like to fly for free. Essentially, BIG is a a card for the majority of consumers who are comfortable transacting online such as booking AirAsia and AirAsia X flights and would like the opportunity to earn free flights and more from their online transactions.”
Providing further details on how the BIG loyalty programme works, BIG CEO, Johan Aris Ibrahim says, “Earning points or BIG Points is simple. Just present your BIG card or quote your BIG Shot ID when you shop online and BIG Points will automatically be loaded into your account. For a limited period until 31 March 2012, new BIG applicants will be receiving 250 free BIG Points so apply now at www.tune2big.com.”
Since it was first launched in Malaysia in November 2011, and followed by Indonesia a month later, BIG has received more than 120,000 applications globally, comprising 125 nationalities. Apart from Malaysia and Indonesia, its members are from various other countries like Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and even Australia, the UK and other European countries.
Apart from AirAsia and its related businesses like AirAsiaGo, AirAsiaRedTix, AirAsia Courier and AirAsia Megastore, BIG global partners include Tune Hotels that currently has 17 hotels globally, car rentals services Avis, Budget and Hertz, and Hilton’s loyalty programme Hilton HHonors.
In Thailand, local participating stores and businesses include Dtac, The One Card, Black Canyon, SSP (Restaurants at Suvarnabhumi Airport), KPI, Garmin and Vertec. Local banks including the Bangkok Bank, Kasikorn Bank, Siam Commercial Bank, TMB, Thanachart, KTC as well as Citibank and Diner’s have also become partners of BIG in Thailand. So are magazines and publications in the MEI group.
BIG Shots can collect points from these participating stores in addition to 2,000 more ShopBIG online stores. Redemption for AirAsia flight seats starts from 500 BIG Points with the cash top-up option for those without sufficient points.
For more information on BIG and to sign up as a BIG Shot, visit www.tune2big.com. To stay tuned with BIG’s latest promotions and updates, follow BIG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BIGShotsThailand or via Twitter @myBIGShots.
-ENDS-
About AirAsia and AirAsia X
AirAsia, the leading and largest low-cost carrier in Asia, services the most extensive network with approximately 165 routes. Within 10 years of operations, AirAsia has carried over 100 million guests and grown its fleet from just 2 aircraft to 107. The airline today is proud to be a truly ASEAN airline with established operations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines, servicing a network stretching across all ASEAN countries, China, India, Sri Lanka and Australia. This is further complemented by AirAsia X, its low-cost long-haul affiliate carrier that currently flies to destinations in China, Australia, Taiwan, Iran, India, Korea, UK, Japan, France and New Zealand. AirAsia has been names the World’s Best Low-Cost Airline in the annual World Airline Survey by Skytrax for three consecutive years, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
About Tune Money and BIG
Tune Money is a universal financial services company offering affordable prepaid cards as well as life and general insurance products. Tune Money has been operating in Malaysia since 2007 and together with its sister companies Tune Talk and Tune Hotels, are creating a digital and lifestyle community. Tune Money and AirAsia, who share the same shareholders in Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun, have recently established a 50:50 joint venture, Think Big Digital Sdn. Bhd, to manage BIG loyalty programme.
Photo captions
Photo 1 – Thai AirAsia CEO Tassapon Bijleveld (centre), Tune Money CEO Peter Miller (2nd left) and CEO of BIG, Johan Aris Ibrahim (2nd right) at the official launch of BIG Global Loyalty Programme in Bangkok, Wednesday 22 Feb 2012.
Photo 2 - Thai AirAsia CEO Tassapon Bijleveld, Tune Money CEO Peter Miller and CEO of BIG, Johan Aris Ibrahim with BIG partners and merchants during the official launch of BIG Global Loyalty Programme in Bangkok, Wednesday 22 Feb 2012.
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A snazzy looking light rail train stands at Charlotte's Stonewall station. The stations look nice without being overdesigned.
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I did this simple design at a birthday party in Albuquerque,New Mexico, we had about 250 teens to do henna on! We had a lot of fun!
This card uses images (flora and 'Friend' sentiment) from an Archiver's exclusive Hero Arts set called "Friend". The definition background was masked off and stamped, then the flora image was stamped on top of that and heat embossed with white EP. Black gemstones were added for sparkle. The edges of the card were scored with my Scor-Pal tool. Thanks so much for looking! :)
I made this small butter cake covered with fondant for a Birthday of an Omani lady on 19 September 2017 at Masirah Island in Oman.
Since we kind of live in the woods down here on the Elk River, the dogwood blooms are all about 20 feet or higher off the ground! Makes for a interesting shoot! (This is a detail of the larger shot below.)
i was awaken really early in the morning by her, so I quickly set up a speed light, opened the window and asked her to frame her head and stand against the wall of my living room. soon after, I went back to sleep
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Simple Wave (Scopula junctaria) – Hodges#7164
This poor wave moth was missing a chunk of one hindwing. It could also be a Large Lace-border (BugGuide / MPG), but most Large Lace-borders I've seen are more heavily marked than this individual, and this moth seems to lack some of the discal spots that are characteristic of that species.