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Keyvan Ghavami, Co-Founder and President, Act On Your Future, Switzerland speaking at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Walter Duerst
A documentary film by Tod Lending
PBS Airdate: Season 29 of POV (September 12, 2016)
Caption: Krishaun Branch (right) studying with student (left)
Credit: Tod Lending
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This is what the difference looks like between the finished image of the West Side Park and the original image. Unfortunately I forgot I cropped the final image so things don't really match up...
When you wish upon a star.
Makes no difference who you are ...
Fairies In The Fire
By Paul McCann
Round the little fire in the middle of the night,
something strange was happening ,
it was a rare sight to see the fairies playing
harps, fiddles, and pipes .
They danced the night away
with flames for party lights .
The flames leapt from the fire and danced with
all of them ,
jumping up and spinning round and around again .
The glow within the fire began to flicker out ,
the sparks had lost their crackle up the chimney spout .
One by one the fairies jumped into the fireplace,
just like that, they all disappeared without a trace .
The magic light had left but ashes for the day ,
dawn crept through the place where fairies of fire play
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population was 1,831,000 in the 2010 census and the largest town is Maumere. Flores is Portuguese (as well as Spanish) for "flowers".
Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.
On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2,500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.
HOMO FLORESIENSIS
In September 2004, at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered small skeletons that they described as a previously unknown hominin species, Homo floresiensis. These are informally named hobbits and appear to have stood about 1 m tall. The most complete individual (LB1) is dated as 18,000 years old.
HISTORY
Portuguese traders and missionaries came to Flores in the 16th century, mainly to Larantuka and Sikka. Their influence is still discernible in Sikka's language, culture and religion.
The Dominican order was extremely important in this island, as well as in the neighbouring islands of Timor and Solor. When in 1613 the Dutch attacked the Fortress of Solor, the population of this fort, led by the Dominicans, moved to the harbor town of Larantuka, on the eastern coast of Flores. This population was mixed, of Portuguese and local islanders descent and Larantuqueiros, Topasses (people that wear heats) or, as Dutch knew them, the 'Black Portuguese' (Swarte Portugueezen).
The Larantuqueiros or Topasses became the dominant sandalwood trading people of the region for the next 200 years. This group used Portuguese as the language for worship, Malay as the language of trade and a mixed dialect as mother tongue. This was observed by William Dampier, an English privateer visiting the Island in 1699:
These [the Topasses] have no Forts, but depend on their Alliance with the Natives: And indeed they are already so mixt, that it is hard to distinguish whether they are Portuguese or Indians. Their Language is Portuguese; and the religion they have, is Romish. They seem in Words to acknowledge the King of Portugal for their Sovereign; yet they will not accept any Officers sent by him. They speak indifferently the Malayan and their own native Languages, as well as Portuguese.
In 1846, Dutch and Portuguese initiated negotiations towards delimiting the territories but these negotiations led nowhere. In 1851 the new governor of Timor, Solor and Flores, Lima Lopes, faced with an impoverished administration, agreed to sell eastern Flores and the nearby islands to the Dutch in return for a payment of 200,000 Florins. Lima Lopes did so without the consent of Lisbon and was dismissed in disgrace, but his agreement was not rescinded and in 1854 Portugal ceded all its historical claims on Flores. After this, Flores became part of the territory of Dutch East Indies.
During World War II a Japanese invasion force landed at Reo on 14 May 1942 and occupied Flores.
After the war Flores became part of independent Indonesia.
ADMINISTRATION
Flores is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province. The island along with smaller minor islands are split into eight regencies (local government districts); from west to east these are: Manggarai Barat (West Manggarai), Manggarai Tengah (Central Manggarai), Manggarai Timur (East Manggarai), Ngada, Nagekeo, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur (East Flores). Flores has 39.1% of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial population as of 2010, and the most Indonesians of all islands in the province.
It is the island with the 9th most Indonesians. Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, it is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor.
FLORA AND FAUNA
The west coast of Flores is one of the few places, aside from the island of Komodo itself, where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild, and is part of Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kelimutu National Park is the second national park designated on Flores to protect endangered species. The Flores giant rat is also endemic to the island, and Verhoeven's giant tree rat was formerly present. These giant rodents are considered examples of island gigantism.
Flores was also the habitat of several extinct dwarf forms of the proboscidean Stegodon, the most recent (Stegodon florensis insularis) disappearing approximately 12,000 years ago. It is speculated by scientists that limited resources and an absence of advanced predators made the few megafaunal species that reached the island subject to insular dwarfism.
CULTURE
There are many languages spoken on the island of Flores, all of them belonging to the Austronesian family. In the centre of the island in the districts of Ngada, Nagekeo, and Ende there is what is variously called the Central Flores Dialect Chain or the Central Flores Linkage. Within this area there are slight linguistic differences in almost every village. At least six separate languages are identifiable. These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Palu'e, which is spoken on the island with the same name of the north coast of Flores. Locals would probably also add So'a and Bajawa to this list, which anthropologists have labeled dialects of Ngadha.
The peoples of Flores are almost entirely Roman Catholic Christians, whereas most other Indonesians are Muslim. As a consequence, Flores may be regarded as surrounded by a religious border. The prominence of Catholicism on the island results from its colonisation by Portugal. In other parts of Indonesia with significant Christian populations, such as the Maluku Islands and Sulawesi, the geographical divide is less rigid and Muslims and Christians sometimes live side by side. Flores thereby also has less religious violence that has sporadically occurred in other parts of Indonesia. There are several churches on the island.
TOURISM
The most famous tourist attraction in Flores is Kelimutu, a volcano containing three colored lakes, located in the district of Ende close to the town of Moni. These crater lakes are in the caldera of a volcano, and fed by a volcanic gas source, resulting in highly acidic water. The colored lakes change colors on an irregular basis, depending on the oxidation state of the lake from bright red through green and blue.
There are snorkelling and diving locations along the north coast of Flores, most notably Maumere and Riung. However, due to the destructive practice of local fishermen using bombs to fish, and locals selling shells to tourists, combined with the after effects of a devastating tsunami in 1992, the reefs have slowly been destroyed.
Labuan Bajo (on the western tip of Flores) is a town often used by tourists as a base to visit Komodo and Rinca. Labuanbajo also attracts scuba divers, as whale sharks inhabit the waters around Labuanbajo.
The Luba and Bena villages include traditional houses in Flores, Bena is also noted for its Stone Age megaliths.
Larantuka, on the isle's eastern end, is known for its Holy Week festivals.
ECONOMY
In addition to tourism, the main economic activities on Flores are agriculture, fishing and seaweed production. The primary food crops being grown on Flores are rice, maize, sweet potato and cassava, while the main cash crops are coffee, coconut, candle nut and cashew. Flores is one of the newest origins for Indonesian coffee. Previously, most Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) from Flores was blended with other origins. Now, demand is growing for this coffee because of its heavy body and sweet chocolate, floral and woody notes.
WIKIPEDIA
no lie, me and victoria ACTUALLY FOUND a random converse that was traced. lols.
film. more here: seabug.blogspot.com/2010/06/tacky-stuck-on-words.html
----Bangladesh
1. Are there any big differences between your culture and American culture?
Parents are stricter. One of the main differences I think is dating. Over there, it's not really something people do unless they're considering marriage. You just have to like one person and no one else, basically. There also has to be a third party present whenever they "go out." My parents had an arranged marriage, but that's a bit outdated even there now, though it still happens occasionally.
2. What do parents in your culture expect of their children?
They expect respect. More responsibility towards family. Also, the stress is highly put on education. When parents get older, they expect their children to be there to take care of them. No one is sent to a nursing home. Children are also expected to do well in their studies and be successful. We always joke around that all Bengali parents want their children to be doctors and engineers (but that is a bit of a stereotype).
3. In your country do women have all the same opportunities as men?/ Are men and women treated the same?
Men have more opportunities. Men are generally given more preferences.
4. How are gender roles different in your culture than in the US?
People expect domestic work to be done primarily by women. Men are the main "breadwinners" of the family.
5. Do you feel like it was hard to adapt to American culture?
(Had to ask my mom): Not really... Bangladesh is aware of American culture because of American media being aired there. And actually, you will see a lot of American businesses and what not like Pizza Hut and McDonald's over there. My mom grew up in a big city, and a lot of her family was already here by the time she got here, so there wasn't much of a culture shock (she noted that most of the time, there is one, but she isn't the best example).
6. Does your culture expect you to be like everyone else or act as an individual?
Leaning more towards being like everybody else.
Image 1: travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/photos/photo_banglad...
Image 2: www.newspapercountry.com/Bangladesh.png
Combined in Photoshop Elements 4.0
This is a view shows the intricate workings of the backside of the famous Charles Babbage Difference engine. Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented the earliest of computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long. This example was seen in the Computer History Museum in San Jose. More information on this brilliant machine can be found here - www.computerhistory.org/babbage/ - It's certainly worth learning a bit more about!
So I opened a the new clone battle pack...and noticed the eyes on each of the figs was different. I'm not sure if this is just ridiculously poor printing, or if this is meant to give individuality to the clones as they have in the series. How old is this?
Edit: Apparently it doesn't animate, click "All Sizes" to see the differences. Excuse the photography, I just noticed it and wanted to throw up some pics. I'll take better ones later if anyone wants.
Again this was shot for an assignment for school where we had to show the difference in backlighting and regular lighting for a bottle of olive oil. I love the effect of the sunshine in the back on this bottle!
Yay! I finally got to play along with FGR again!
This is for Spot the Difference and Diptychs, for FGR today.
Okay...there are 6 differences (besides the slight tilt of my head - didn't mean to do that).
Can you figure them out? Leave notes! :)
Painting and markings:
As this was to be a very late WWII aircraft, NMF was certain, and I wanted to place the service P-47H into the European conflict theatre, where its speed would IMHO be best used against German jet threats.
I wanted a colorful aircraft, though, and settled for a machine of the 358th FG. This group actually flew Thunderbolts in the 365-367th Sqaudrons, and I found several profiles of these gaudy things.
Common was an orange tail and a dark blue back, while the engine cowling would be decorated with a red front and the air outlets would carry bands in red, white and blue, with lots of tiny stars sprinkled upon. Furthermore, I found specimen with white cowlings behind the red front end, or even yellow cowlings. Pretty cool.
I tried to mimic this look. The model was basically painted with Aluminum Metallizer (Humbrol 27002) overall. The effect is really good, even without rubbing treatment. Some panels were contrasted with Aluminium Plate and Polished Steel Metallizer (Modelmaster), as well as with Aluminum (Humbrol 56, which is rather a metallic grey). The latter was also used on the landing gear. The anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit was painted in Olive Drab (ANA 613 from Modelmaster).
Since there is no air intake opening on the inline engine I decided to paint the spinner in bright red (Humbrol 19), and tried to incorporate the white and blue theme with stars decoration to the rest of the nose. As a convenient coincidence I found decals from an Italeri B-66 in the stash: it features a version with dark blue jet air intake decorations in the right size, colors and style for what I had been looking for. So, instead of painting everything by hand I decided to incorporate this decal option.
The area behind the spinner was painted white and then the B-66 decals applied to the front flanks. The radiator air intake scoop had to be cut out, but the overall size and shape were a very good match. Even the transition into the blue spine and cockpit area worked well!
The tail was painted with Humbrol 18, later some shading with Humbrol 82 was added. The blue spine was done with a mix of Humbrol 104 and 15 (Oxford Blue and Midnight Blue) - not a perfect match for the B-66 decal colors, but after some dirt and weathering these differences would blur.
Cockpit interior was painted in Humbrol 159 (Khaki Drab) and Zinc Chromate Green from Model Master. The landing gear wells received a chrome yellow primer (Humbrol 225 - actually RAF Mid Stone but a perfect match for the task) finish.
For weathering the kit received a rubbing treatment with grinded graphite, which adds a dark, metallic shine and emphasizes the kit’s raised panel lines. Some dry painting with Aluminum was added, too, simulating chipped paint on the leading edges. I also added some oil stains around the engine, and serious soot stains at the exhaust.
Decals were, beyond the B-66 decoration, puzzled together. The aircraft' code 'CH-F[bar]' is another exotic twist, in wto ways. The bar under the letter marks a second use of that code within the squadron, and as a difference from normal code placement (normally exclusively on the fuselage) I put the aircraft's individual code letter on the fin, a practice which had been used on P-51s and a consequence of the relatively large letter decals.
The nose art is again a fictional puzzle, consisting of a(nother) Czech MiG-21 pin-up from the Pardibice '89 meeting, and the "Ohio Express" tag comes from a Tamiya 1:100 F-105 Thunderchief. A neat combination that even matches the overall colors well!
As a final step, a coat of semi matt acrylic varnish was applied, with the exception of the ant glare panel, which became purely matt.
I can't help, but the finished article looks like an Evel Knievel stunt vehicle? The red spinner looks a bit odd, but I'll leave it this way. ;)
Quotes About Winning and Losing
A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won’t get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important. Andrew Shue
Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are...
There are the same cobblestones, near Canal Saint Martin, Paris, and the three photos where made in less then three minutes intervale.
One turning 180° and the other almost against the sun, the third near a trash can a few steps farther.
Just ponder: how different impressions they give, depending on angle, circonstances, and also... what is in our mind.
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Les trois prises à quelques minutes d'intervale sur le même pavé. Le deuxième contre soleil, le premier à 180° distance et la troisième à côté des ordures à quelques pas de là .
Quelle différences, selon l'angle de soleil, la façon qu'on tourne, nos expériences de vie: pensez-y un peu.
Running out of idea's, so spot the difference to the last one (11-05-10)?
Went to town to get a few things for Sue & buy more bird cakes!
(I had to tweak the levels in Flickr editor - due to lack of sunshine.)
Shirt: East? German Army - from Army/navy store in Hanley 20 years ago - second hand - bought for wife but since claimed back by me! - remix
Braces/Suspenders: Topshop - remix
Boots - Dr Martens 14-hole Steelie from Cloggs UK 2007 - remix
Jeans - Levis 901; from E-Bay UK - refashioned/bleached by me - remix.
Jacket - Knox Armoury CWU/45P (part of Alpha Industries) from TKMaxx - 2007 sale £25.00 - remix
a 1969 4 door Morris Minor * (British)
following a 1966 Ford Mustang * (American )
~ Newlands Corner ..
What's the difference between jam and jelly? I can't jelly my dick in your asshole.
handwriting, jam, jelly, joke, writing.
bathroom, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 18, 2016.
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BACKSTORY: We didn't erase the whiteboard between Clint's birthday party and Carolyn's birthday party, so this is a combination of parties.
Major differences are a lower, more pontier front, bigger sized rear wheels/ wheel arches and an additional, small air opening in the lower sills. Right above the original is a redesigned suggestion in factory wheels spec, while the following, higher suggestions are in after market wheel designs for a more differentiating aspect of the redesign. I find the original design's front (including headlights and air openings ) a tad high. I also find the high rear (understandingly necessary for aerodynamic and lift forces needs) overwhelming standard sized wheels as the front; suggesting a De Tomaso Mangusta- like treatment of a bigger rear wheel formula. May not be practical, but in my opinion largely needed. This is not a Hyundai; to me, a Corvette should always have a big wheel/ body ratio design.
I'm now subtracting 8 in the 8th position from the left. This is done in 2 steps: subtract 10, add 2. In this step I add 2.
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) image of a okra plant root system at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina. The right root is a non-inoculated okra root system and the left is a nematode inoculated root system.
NDVI measures the difference between visible and near-infrared (NIR) light reflectance from vegetation to create a snapshot of photosynthetic vigor.
ARS Vegetable Research Geneticist (Plants) Phillip Wadl, Ph.D., specializes in the multi-spectral scanning of infected plants with a spectral imager that reveals signatures that are not visible to the naked eye. The hope is to score plants for their susceptibility to the Meloidogyne enterolobii (the guava root-knot nematode), he works at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 28, 2021.
Research Plant Pathologist-Nematologist William Rutter, Ph.D., is working to develop tools to manage and mitigate the damage caused by the root-knot nematode species.
Nematodes are small microscopic roundworms in the soil.
Meloidogyne enterolobii (the guava root-knot nematode) is an invasive species in the United States southeastern region and causes significant damage to a wide variety of crops worldwide.
These specific nematodes only appeared in the United States within the last 20 years and they've slowly been spreading across the southeastern states causing damage in sweet potato as well as several other crops.
This research will provide resources to develop germplasm that will help breeders develop new crop varieties that are resistant to the nematode as well as management practices that will help farmers directly manage the nematode and stop its spread in the field.
Root-knot nematodes in general and particularly Meloidogyne enterolobii can infect the majority of cultivated plants in the U.S. They're currently causing a lot of damage in sweet potato in the Carolinas, but they also infect other vegetable crops such as pepper, cucumber, watermelon, as well as soybean and cotton. Root-knot nematodes cause billions of dollars of damage each year for the U.S. and farmers globally.
USDA/ARS Photo by Phillip Wadl, PhD.
Related information includes:
Controlling Guava Root-Knot Nematode video
tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/controlling-guava-root-knot-nematode/
Meloidogyne enterolobii Found Infecting Root-Knot Nematode Resistant Sweetpotato in South Carolina, the United States at apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1388-PDN
A Multi-state Effort to Contain and Manage the Invasive Guava Root Knot Nematode (GRKN) in Vegetable Crops.
ars.usda.gov/research/project/?accnNo=437518
Norwegian inlet at sunset.... yes I promised that there might be a few of these. I have tried to produce each shot a little differently through. Still to come are extreme HDR/ Orton effect and one other.. probably!
Not much difference here from Logan's, just minor differences. Gave him a hook weapon instead of another sword. I like to think he would drag in his opponents with the hook and then slice them once close.
Added the red armor on the chest since the red is suppose to symbolize his allegiance to Kulta, and that side of the chest print has more red so it works.
The flames are suppose to represent the mystic-ness of Slicer, since supposedly it was the Skull spider that revived him, but who really knows? Just thought it added a nice dark magic vibe to it.
It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. We are in an unusual sociology class at Brandeis, something Morrie calls "Group Process." Each week we study the ways in which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy, attention. We are human lab rats. More often than not, someone ends up crying. I refer to it as the "touchy-feely" course. Morrie says I should be more open-minded.
On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.
Finally, one student, a thin, quiet, dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wears bulky white fisherman sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes into the pool.
For a moment, I am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and yanks her up harshly.
"Whoa!" several students yell. Some clap. Morrie finally smiles.
"You see," he says to the girl, "you closed your eyes. That was the difference.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
[ Tuesdays With Morrie ]