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Queen butterfly, butterfly house, brookside gardens, wheaton, maryland
During the last days I went through all the photos I took during the last year and chose a few favourites. Based on these I analysed a bit, what kind of pictures I made and thought about that might change during 2025. Read my blog posts with the data and the pictures: marcelkapfer.photography/blog/2025/01/14/2024-review-anal...
Shot taken with a Hasselblad 503CX and 50mm Distagon on HP5+. Couldn't change position, so I had to get the best out of it. Wanted this shot for my own analysis how to solve this with my given equipment.
FORT GORDON, Ga., March 27, 2017- Guardsmen the South Carolina Army National Guard's 43rd Civil Support Team, test and identify chemicals during a simulated response scenario as part of Vigilant Guard 17. The training exercise involves approximately 9,000 participants from multiple state and government agencies.
Georgia National Guard photo by Spc. Isaiah Matthews / Released
✐THIS PHOTO IS NOT MINE
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The glaring reality that shows man’s economic disparity
heightens every sector’s involvement to educate those
who are unaware on the prevalence of moral decadence
owing to the undignified level of human existence.
I am not talking about the elite sector of the society who
have the means to choose according to their resources.
This writer advances the plight of those who are truly in
need of assistance and deserving of government and
private support.
They are the poor people living in the slum areas.
They are the people who are living below the poverty line.
Who are classified as people living below the poverty line?
These are the people who have nothing to eat, no shelter
from the rain and the sun and no access to education.
Absolutely nothing. They have nothing but human dignity.
Really? “How could one living in such misery have a
dignity?”, asked by one rich man. In a pointblank
manner I replied: “Everyone has self-dignity in spirit,
whether moneyed or penniless.
Poor families are classified as people belonging to
the cut-off point below whose income, if they have,
cannot buy them the needed foods for their daily
nutritional requirements nor can they pay the
minimal cost of medical care.
Poverty is both an economic and a moral problem.
They are intertwined. Lack of money could drive an
individual to do something against his moral values.
It is a situation of choice: the fast or hard way to earn
money. Many of those who lost their patience will
choose the easy way.
Crimes against properties and humanity are
oftentimes a consequence of desperation,
of having no available legal means to acquire
money, hence, resorting to such crimes is the
only way for survival of those in dire need.
Police and military authorities find it hard to contain
crime syndicates owing to this ideology. By providing
legitimate means for the unemployed could lessen
the number of growing criminals out of poverty.
On the other hand, there are still poor people who will
not immerse themselves into something illegal for they
respect their individuality as they hold firmly on their
principles.
Living in poverty is an excruciating experience. The
Philippines was on a spotlight in 2007 owing to the
suicide of Mariannet Amper, an eleven year-old girl
who hanged herself inside their shanty. Reports
alleged that she killed herself owing to their
economic condition in life.
Amper’s family has no running water or electricity.
She oftentimes had to be absent from school for
she had no money for transportation fare and school
projects. Her father had been out of a job for several
months while her mother works part-time at a noodle
factory, earning less than a dollar a day.
While it is not conclusive that poverty was one of the
reasons that pushed Mariannet to commit suicide,
her case has opened the eyes of many people from
all walks of life to understand the plight of the poor
thus making it imperative for all sectors, both in the
government and private, to work together to find
means to assist the indigent in their ordeal.
World leaders must prioritize the need to conquer
food security for the indigent for it means providing
the legitimate direction based on the merits of
governmental policies that will uniquely insulate
the rights and privileges of the underprivileged.
Foremost of which is the preservation of human
dignity.
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR MY ORIGINAL ARTICLE,
Analysis on Poverty and Human Dignity by Bai Maleiha.)
Old notebook containing formulations of various grades and types of steel, and their typical analysis. Found inside one of the longest buildings I've ever walked through.
AL TECH Specialty Steel, Albany NY
Showbus 2015 @ Woburn Abbey.
In the mid-70s Subsidiary Maidstone & District was selected by the National Bus Company to operate 10 double deck vehicles on a trial basis to help determine future purchasing policy. There were 5 MCW Metropolitans and 5 Alexander-bodies Volvo Ailsa's. LKP385P featured here is the only survivor.
Events overtook these trials and the NBC continued to buy Bristol VRTs as well as smaller batches of Leyland Atlanteans, before the next generation of double deckers became available. There never was a NBC standard decker after the VRT ........more standardisation took place with the new private companies that follwed after the NBC was broken-up.
self·-analysis - analysis of one's own personality without the help of another.
That may be true, but I think it might be fun if I have you draw your own conclusions as to what is going on here. But please, do comment and tell me your thoughts. I think it looks better if you view a larger size.
Today is a Flickr milestone for me. It is the 300th day of my 365 Day project!
Day 300 of 365.
On this momentous occasion, I want to again thank you all for your support.
As indian pipes mature, they lose their pipe shape and point straight up. One of our odder wildflowers.
Published on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by The Guardian/UK
Avatar and the Genocides We Will Not See
Cameron's blockbuster half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
by George Monbiot
Avatar, James Cameron's blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It's profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It's profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which a remnant population flees in terror as it is hunted to extinction.
But this is a story no one wants to hear, because of the challenge it presents to the way we choose to see ourselves. Europe was massively enriched by the genocides in the Americas; the American nations were founded on them. This is a history we cannot accept.
In his book American Holocaust, the US scholar David Stannard documents the greatest acts of genocide the world has ever experienced(1). In 1492, some 100m native peoples lived in the Americas. By the end of the 19th Century almost all of them had been exterminated. Many died as a result of disease. But the mass extinction was also engineered.
When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, they described a world which could scarcely have been more different from their own. Europe was ravaged by war, oppression, slavery, fanaticism, disease and starvation. The populations they encountered were healthy, well-nourished and mostly (with exceptions like the Aztecs and Incas) peacable, democratic and egalitarian. Throughout the Americas the earliest explorers, including Columbus, remarked on the natives' extraordinary hospitality. The conquistadores marvelled at the amazing roads, canals, buildings and art they found, which in some cases outstripped anything they had seen at home. None of this stopped them from destroying everything and everyone they encountered.
The butchery began with Columbus. He slaughtered the native people of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) by unimaginably brutal means. His soldiers tore babies from their mothers and dashed their heads against rocks. They fed their dogs on living children. On one occasion they hung 13 Indians in honour of Christ and the 12 disciples, on a gibbet just low enough for their toes to touch the ground, then disembowelled them and burnt them alive. Columbus ordered all the native people to deliver a certain amount of gold every three months; anyone who failed had his hands cut off. By 1535 the native population of Hispaniola had fallen from 8m to zero: partly as a result of disease, partly as a result of murder, overwork and starvation.
The conquistadores spread this civilising mission across central and south America. When they failed to reveal where their mythical treasures were hidden, the indigenous people were flogged, hanged, drowned, dismembered, ripped apart by dogs, buried alive or burnt. The soldiers cut off women's breasts, sent people back to their villages with their severed hands and noses hung round their necks and hunted Indians with their dogs for sport. But most were killed by enslavement and disease. The Spanish discovered that it was cheaper to work Indians to death and replace them than to keep them alive: the life expectancy in their mines and plantations was three to four months. Within a century of their arrival, around 95% of the population of South and Central America had been destroyed.
In California during the 18th Century the Spanish systematised this extermination. A Franciscan missionary called Junipero Serra set up a series of "missions": in reality concentration camps using slave labour. The native people were herded in under force of arms and made to work in the fields on one fifth of the calories fed to African-American slaves in the 19th century. They died from overwork, starvation and disease at astonishing rates, and were continually replaced, wiping out the indigenous populations. Junipero Serra, the Eichmann of California, was beatified by the Vatican in 1988. He now requires one more miracle to be pronounced a saint(2).
While the Spanish were mostly driven by the lust for gold, the British who colonised North America wanted land. In New England they surrounded the villages of the native Americans and murdered them as they slept. As genocide spread westwards, it was endorsed at the highest levels. George Washington ordered the total destruction of the homes and land of the Iroquois. Thomas Jefferson declared that his nation's wars with the Indians should be pursued until each tribe "is exterminated or is driven beyond the Mississippi". During the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, troops in Colorado slaughtered unarmed people gathered under a flag of peace, killing children and babies, mutilating all the corpses and keeping their victims' genitals to use as tobacco pouches or to wear on their hats. Theodore Roosevelt called this event "as rightful and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier."
The butchery hasn't yet ended: last month the Guardian reported that Brazilian ranchers in the western Amazon, having slaughtered all the rest, tried to kill the last surviving member of a forest tribe(3). Yet the greatest acts of genocide in history scarcely ruffle our collective conscience. Perhaps this is what would have happened had the Nazis won the second world war: the Holocaust would have been denied, excused or minimised in the same way, even as it continued. The people of the nations responsible - Spain, Britain, the US and others - will tolerate no comparisons, but the final solutions pursued in the Americas were far more successful. Those who commissioned or endorsed them remain national or religious heroes. Those who seek to prompt our memories are ignored or condemned.
This is why the right hates Avatar. In the neocon Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz complains that the film resembles a "revisionist western" in which "the Indians became the good guys and the Americans the bad guys."(4) He says it asks the audience "to root for the defeat of American soldiers at the hands of an insurgency." Insurgency is an interesting word for an attempt to resist invasion: insurgent, like savage, is what you call someone who has something you want. L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, condemned the film as "just ... an anti-imperialistic, anti-militaristic parable"(5).
But at least the right knows what it is attacking. In the New York Times the liberal critic Adam Cohen praises Avatar for championing the need to see clearly(6). It reveals, he says, "a well-known principle of totalitarianism and genocide - that it is easiest to oppress those we cannot see". But in a marvellous unconscious irony, he bypasses the crashingly obvious metaphor and talks instead about the light it casts on Nazi and Soviet atrocities. We have all become skilled in the art of not seeing.
I agree with its rightwing critics that Avatar is crass, mawkish and cliched. But it speaks of a truth more important - and more dangerous - than those contained in a thousand arthouse movies.
Notes:
1. David E Stannard, 1992. American Holocaust. Oxford University Press. Unless stated otherwise, all the historical events mentioned in this column are sourced to the same book.
2. www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miracle28-2009aug28,0,28...
3. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/amazon-man-in-hole-a...
4. www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/01...
5. www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2802155/Vatican-hits-o...
6. www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26sat4.html
© 2010 Guardian News and Media Limited
George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Visit his website at www.monbiot.com
On June 29, 2011, ICESCAPE chief scientist Kevin Arrigo made the first analysis of chlorophyll pigment of the 2011 campaign. Nutrients supporting a massive phytoplankton bloom at the Chukchi hotspot in 2010 were not evident in 2011 data.
The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is NASA's two-year shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. The bulk of the research takes place in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in summer 2010 and 2011.
Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen
For updates on the five-week ICESCAPE voyage, visit the mission blog at: go.usa.gov/WwU
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
The three-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical.
As they explore caves they encounter caverns, underground lakes and strange microscopic life. They test new technology and conduct science – just as if they were living on the International Space Station.
The six astronauts have to rely on their own skills, teamwork and ground control to achieve their mission goals – the course is designed to foster effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics.
The six cavenauts of this edition of CAVES are ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos’ cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk and Japan’s space agency Takuya Onishi.
Credits: ESA – V. Crobu
OpenStreetMap data for Great Britain were downloaded from Geofabrik on 22 Jan. 2011, uploaded to a PostGIS database using osm2pgsql. Nodes and Ways tagged with amenity=pub were assigned to centroids of 5 km square grid based on the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the number of pubs in each square counted.
The grid was generated, pubs counted, and output generated using Quantum GIS.
3D grid analysis of a trial trenching diagnostic from INRAP (french archaeological institute).
Entirely made with QGIS 2.XX.
Map background = Bing Satelitte
Plugins = Qgis2threejs
Lt. j.g. Curtis Reiss, left, Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Duffy and Lt. Cheryl Zeiss, all assigned to the "Seahawks" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 126, gather radar analysis data inside the fuselage of an E-2C Hawkeye during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Using sophisticated radar monitoring systems, crewmembers are able to expand the range carriers are able monitor contacts during flight operations. Truman and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 are deployed supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ricardo J. Reyes www.navy.com
from my apartment window. it's spring. spring is the beginning and the end in japan, a shower of withering cherry blossoms is the perfect reminder, that all beauty will fade away. one month earlier the fukushima nuclear power plant exploded 250 km from here. an urban nomad relocates, does he know?
This photo was taken on April 10, 2011.
This is a photo of a 12-LED ring-light taken though a cheap diffraction lens. The only post-processing was a mild increase in contrast and a mild decrease in brightness; otherwise this is what the camera saw.
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this little girl needed a bit of extra work on sound analysis (initial.) This activity isn't in my Montessori album, but she seems to love it, and it's giving her the practice she needs. (Match the first sound of the miniature object to the movable alphabet letter.)
SWOT analysis template. CC by-SA 2.0 (free for personal use as long as you cite "Designed by Greg Emmerich" somewhere in the description). Contact me for the free Adobe Illustrator file. Font: j.mp/ZnkxAi
Farnborough Bus Running Day 07/09/2014. School services to and from Farnborough 6th Form College are provided by Stagecoach and many use bus stop 'A' located in Sand Hill. There are 11 routes numbered 411 and 416-425 and all depart the college between 16:25-16:50 (schooldays only). These run to various places including Camberley, Yateley, Chobham, Wokingham, Fleet, Crondall, Odiham, Aldershot, Whitehall, Farnham and Weydon. Here, Kennetbus MAP-branded Alder Valley Leyland National KPA369P passes the busy bus stop.