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Pegasus Bridge was the objective of 6th (Airborne) Division's 'coup de main' force on the night of 5th/6th June 1944. Three gliders dropped within yards of the target, the road bridge across the Caen canal. Inside were men from Oxs and Bucks Light Infantry Airborne, under the command of Major John Howard. In what has been called some of the best flying of the war, the three gliders came down close to the bridge, and the advanced party under Lieutenant Den Brotheridge stormed the defences. Brotheridge was killed on the other side of the bridge, just short of the nearby Gondree Cafe. With this bridge, the bridge across the Orne secured by another party from the Oxs and Bucks, Howard had achieved his objectives in ten minutes and sent the radio message 'Ham and Jam' to indicate both positions had been taken intact.
7th Para then arrived, and the crossroads in Benoueville were held for the rest of the day, despite attacks from elements of 21st Panzer Division. Lord Lovat's commandos arrived along the road from the direction of Ouistreham, and the link up was complete.
The Gondree Cafe had been used as an aid post, and the cafe owner, Monsieur Gondree, dug up his supply of champagne from the garden and gladly shared it with his liberators.
Today the cafe has become the first stop for any visitor to this part of the battlefield; it is still owned by the Gondree family, and still a cafe; but inside is like a living museum. The original Pegasus Bridge was replaced in the 1990s, but is now preserved in the grounds of the nearby Airborne Museum. There are plaques on the site of where the gliders came down and a memorial to John Howard. Overlooking the bridge is the first of the Pegasus Trail orientation tables (see photo above).
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Stop. Jacket off (wet), water change, eat. Accessed Objective B).
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Decision time, GO, NO GO
Completed Objective B). This is a signficant event. It is here I deceide if I procede to objectives C) and D). I have to make a decision, GO, NO GO based on the following information
*are you on/ahead of schedule?
*do you feel tired?
*are you injured?
*do you feel confident you can go down, move along and get out on time?
*do you have the proper kit?
*is the weather favourable?
*are you making the right decision with the available information?
*based on your previous experience how are you prepared?
The only thing you want to do is make the right decision. There is no loss of face not achieving this task. This decision has to be egoless. Difficult to do once your pumped up and moving along. Hence the forced rest, kit re-arrangement, physical marking on the map forcing myself to go through the implications.
All these things seem a bit meladramatic and possibly weird to someone who is not in this place at this time after travelling since 0530. But beleive me if you cannot honestly answer these questions with 100% surity you will have a bad day. Why?
Objective C, D
Objective C to D involves going from around 140 metres (does not sound far) from the current elevation of the road to the creek water line. This is complicated by the fact the terrain is steep (approx 45-60 degree), the terrain is slippery, wet and we are just coming out of winter. Then traversing a downward moving creekline in rocky densly covered bush at the bottom of a wet mountain range.
What does this mean?
Descent
Well the fact the place is so steep and wet, the ground will possilby not be stable. Anything you try to grab will be covered in moss and be wet. So it could be rotten. Also the ground has significant rock cover near the top increasing the likelyhood of slipping. The ground cover can be dry & slippery or wet and slippery.
Traversal
Once at the creekline the chances of going up the slope of 45-60 degrees is very difficult. If you get down you are going to expend a lot of energy trying to get back up - if you can. If the weather is wet, the creekline will be swollen making it more difficult to get around. If the weather is dry it will mean the easier to traverse but with a slight increase in chance of bushfire.
Injury
If you fall & break a leg, sprain an ankle the chances of getting out quickly decrease. Anyone coming in to get you will have a *very difficult* time trying to extract you.
Unknown
There is always the unknown factor you cannot take into account due to inexperience or factors you have not taken into account.
Conclusion
So with these decisons mulled over I decided to continue. I was confident I could pull this off in the time I estimated. I had planned and thought the situation out as carefully as I could. It's a go.
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The office is a combination of different sets of people with varying mind frame, productivity, task efficiency, and work engagement. Every individual works and thinks differently. The main objective of people working in an office is to always work hard and boost the productivity of organization...
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The objective of the rally was to demand that the leadership of the city listens to the voices of the people of Chicago instead of those of the corporate elite. It's time to end the privatization agenda of the one percent that hurts families, neighborhoods and closes school. Elected public officials must stand against corporate raiders and invest in communities and neighborhoods.
Specifically:
Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Companies like McDonald's and Walmart can easily afford to pay a decent wage. They make billions of dollars in profits each year, yet the people on the front line who do the work to make this possible are told to 'find second jobs' or live on public assistance programs.
An elected school board that represents the people, not just bankers and CEOs. In Chicago, the school board is appointed by the mayor.
Reform the Chicago Housing Authority. The CHA must be accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. It has currently stockpiled millions of dollars in federal funding, more than enough to issue over 13,000 housing vouchers. Meanwhile, thousands of Chicagoans will be homeless this winter.
End home foreclosures. Bankers should negotiate with homeowners who are experiencing difficulties meeting their monthly mortgage payments. This is a much better way to go than simply throwing people out into the street.
There are available superior, less than moderate and good 50mm objectives. All cannot be considered appropriate tools for reverse objective close-ups. A poor performer isn't a good one even reversed. (There may, however, be exceptions.)
One essential thing to check is the diameter of of the objective's filter thread. Reversing rings aren't available for exotic sizes. 49, 52 and 55mm are quite good choices when selecting tubes from your drawers.
Naturally not only 50mm objectives can be reversed. Some trial and error testing will soon show you your favorites.
One important thing to remember when purchasing objectives: many objectives with good reputation have been made for exotic cameras with exotic mounts. They are cheap! The mount plays no role in reversing.
Have fun with macro photos!
One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
The objective of the 2015-2017 ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) was to collect data over the West Antarctica to address shortcomings in global climate model simulations over the South Pole. The second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) went on two separate deployments to the West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) and McMurdo Station, resulting in 14 months-worth of sophisticated energy-balance, radiation and aerosol data.
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On 15–16 June, the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission will host the Digital Assembly on the theme of a digital, open and secure Europe.
The objective is for Europe to be at the forefront of technology and develop a competitive digital single market based on a strong focus on cyber security during the Digital Decade. Closing ceremony Speakers:
• Erik Slottner, Swedish Minister for Public Administration
• Roberto Viola, Director-General for DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Carme Artigas Brugal – Secretary of State for Digitisation and Artificial Intelligence,
Spain
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The objective of the 2015-2017 ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) was to collect data over the West Antarctica to address shortcomings in global climate model simulations over the South Pole. The second ARM mobile facility (AMF2) went on two separate deployments to the West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Camp plateau where storms travel inland, and McMurdo Station. Scientists were able to collect an unprecedented 14 months-worth of sophisticated energy-balance, radiation and aerosol data.
Terms of Use: Our images are freely and publicly available for use with the credit line, “Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.”
By any objective standard, the image from the Voigtlander 50mm Apo-Lanthar is excellent. The colors are vibrant, the image is sharp, and the micro contrast is very good from corner to corner (see full resolution image). Seen by itself, it is hard to find any fault with it.
BUT… all that changes when you see the same scene shot with a Hasselblad X2D 100C with an XCD 65mm f/2.8 lens (equivalent to 50mm focal length). There is an X-factor with the Hasselblad image that is hard to describe, but it makes the image more appealing.
It is not a true apples-to-apples comparison, since the two photos were taken a week apart. So there are going to be some tonal differences in the foliage colors between the two photos. But in spite of it, there is still something extra in the X2D image.
This comes from two sources: the 16-bit color in the X2D, and Hasselblad’s proprietary color management firmware. Clearly, both lenses are sharp and there is very little difference in contrast or details. Which speaks very highly of the CV50 Apo lens, which costs only about 900 USD.
24-1129 50Comps-0005 (Leica M11, CV50F2 Apo-Lanthar)
Rehab students doing communication exercises to help them recover their ability to communicate and bring them to present time.
Created for HonestReporting.com on July 28, 2014. Image Credits: akeg/869634757
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It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Yes.. when world leaders like Trump & Erdogan visit our country, we stage protest marches.
One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
The main objective of Rebuilding Together is to provide essential renovations and repair for low-income homeowners who have fallen victim to substantial home damage resulting from the inability to sacrifice funds to maintain the homes they reside in. Regardless of the cause, such damage is both unhealthy and uncomfortable and we hope to remedy the situation by improving living conditions. Our primary concern is to aid the Rebuilding Together Detroit Branch by any means possible, allowing them to provide the essential resources needed for completing project tasks. An example of what we have currently been focusing on is our “Ramp It Up For Detroit” project. We are currently building ramps for those who suffer from mechanical disorders such as, MS and ALS. Patients who are confined to a wheelchair can become prisoners in their own homes if there are no means of safe escape. With something as simple as a ramp installation, the citizen will be able to navigate in and out of the home with ease, positively impacting their current living, psychological, and social health conditions substantially. We strive to provide a comfortable living environment to those who don’t have the means to help themselves.
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I spent 5 minutes taking this cliche, over saturated, over cooked photo instead of jogging today. It cost me the last lap around the track that would have brought me to 2 miles. I like it.
One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
The objective of the rally was to demand that the leadership of the city listens to the voices of the people of Chicago instead of those of the corporate elite. It's time to end the privatization agenda of the one percent that hurts families, neighborhoods and closes school. Elected public officials must stand against corporate raiders and invest in communities and neighborhoods.
Specifically:
Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Companies like McDonald's and Walmart can easily afford to pay a decent wage. They make billions of dollars in profits each year, yet the people on the front line who do the work to make this possible are told to 'find second jobs' or live on public assistance programs.
An elected school board that represents the people, not just bankers and CEOs. In Chicago, the school board is appointed by the mayor.
Reform the Chicago Housing Authority. The CHA must be accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. It has currently stockpiled millions of dollars in federal funding, more than enough to issue over 13,000 housing vouchers. Meanwhile, thousands of Chicagoans will be homeless this winter.
End home foreclosures. Bankers should negotiate with homeowners who are experiencing difficulties meeting their monthly mortgage payments. This is a much better way to go than simply throwing people out into the street.
Cadet Emma Rosa, from the University of North Georgia, gives her suggestion of how to overcome their objective during the planning phase. The Team Development Course is a chance for Basic Camp Cadets to work together to overcome challenging objectives, because no obstacle can be completed alone at Fort Knox, Ky, July 24. | Photo by Matthew Barnes, CST Public Affairs Office.
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It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Yes.. when world leaders like Trump & Erdogan visit our country, we stage protest marches.
One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
FORT MCCLELLAN, Ala. August 16, 1955 - Captain William Salem instructs the men of his command while on field training. Captain Salem commands Company A, 286th Infantry Battalion which is based in Lyons, Ga.
Photo Courtesy of Georgia Guard Historical Archives
The main objective of the project was to improve the quality of education received by students of the Livestock Training Agency (LITA) in Tengeru, Tanzania in the field of veterinary science (parasitology and parasitic diseases). The project was implemented by the foundation "Cultures of the World" and carried out by volunteer Maciej Klockiewicz.
Głównym celem projektu była poprawa jakości kształcenia studentów szkoły rolniczej LITA (Livestock Training Agency) w tanzańskiej miejscowości Tengeru w dziedzinie nauk weterynaryjnych (parazytologii i chorób pasożytniczych). Projekt został przeprowadzony przez fundację "Kultury Świata", a realizującym go wolontariuszem był dr Maciej Klockiewicz.
Caption: Looking at things spatially, areas that were high priority for both SE blueprint and SFLA in Fireshed 5, have high (though not perfect) correlation with focal treatment areas as determined by specialists on the Ocala. Byline: Created by Amy Nathanson
Landscape Level Integration and Shared Stewardship (LLISS) Team – Regional Office
Alone, the ingredients of landscape-level, integration and shared stewardship seem like quite the recipe. But in March of 2020, the Southern Region’s Landscape-Level Integration and Shared Stewardship (LLISS) team officially hit the ground running with an innovative approach to work in the country.
Our main objectives as a region remained unchanged: to increase integration, create transparency and increase performance accountability. These efforts remain critically important to aligning national and regional priorities of Shared Stewardship and accelerating the pace and scale of restoration.
Since that inception, more than 80 Forest Service employees from the across the Region and the Southern Research Station have come together to ensure successful implementation of the Forest Service mission. The LLISS initiative works as interdisciplinary teams, sub teams and short teams to test the concepts of data-driven decision making to support landscape level integrated management and shared stewardship internally and with external partners.
In October of 2020, the LLISS work began in earnest, doing research across the region, even nationally with other regions to share ideas and generate feedback on how best to apply the LLISS framework. This framework exists to best aid decision makers at all levels across the region in recognizing opportunities and evaluating work, workforce and budget priorities.
The LLISS framework utilizes data to consider local condition and priority when determining where regional priorities align with work on the landscape. Throughout Fiscal Year 21, the Southern Region focused on building the data infrastructure and prioritization criteria for these decisions.
LLISS team members are building resources and tools to more efficiently leverage or improve existing data sources to understand forest conditions across the region and overlay diverse work priorities and initiatives such as forest resilience, water quality, recreation, prescribed burning, Great American Outdoors Act improvements and land acquisitions.
More than 18 months of work has led to an integrated data-sharing approach that has crossed boundaries internally and externally, leading to more holistic project development that meets more customer needs, while ensuring we are doing the right work, in the right place, at the right time, with the right partners. The LLISS initiative has created a safe space for learning and innovation to occur beyond traditional work assignments has rewarded and energized participants.
The LLISS team has been creating new work models for building sub teams and short teams to work across traditional work unit boundaries to tackle challenging questions and create innovative solutions. After action reviews and exit interviews have provided regular feedback that staff involved in these teams report that the LLISS work is among the most exciting, empowering and innovative of their career. Staff are taking these models and applying them forward to address other challenges in the workplace.
Looking into 2022, the LLISS initiative aims to continue supporting regional and national priorities such as tackling climate change, improving the work environment, enhancing recreation opportunities and bettering our forests and grasslands.
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Objective 3: Composition Techniques
1. Rule of Thirds: My picture has rule of thirds. The tree branches, which are the main focus point, come from the top right corner and split not at the middle of the top. One branch goes to the right, one goes to the left. This makes your eye focus on both branches and in between the two. The tree branches sit on the upper horizontal rule of third line and the far right vertical line is in between the two branches which helps draw your eye to not one but both branches. When a person looks at a photo their eye is naturally drawn to the rule of third places. By using the rule the person or people looking at the photo are naturally drawn to the main focus.
2. Perspective and depth: The photo shown has a different perspective then we usually see. Instead of looking straight at the tree like most people looking at a tree the photo is taken looking straight up. Doing the makes the photo more interesting and creative. The perspective helps make a person want to look at the photo over other photos because it is not something they see doing their day to day life.
3. Backgrounds: This photo has a background that fits the photo. The background in this photo is not too distracting and doesn’t make you want to look at it instead of the focus. The background not only fits in the photo but it adds to it, without the color on the leaves and the texture they give the photo it would not be as unique or nice to look at. The leaves also tell you a lot about the photo that you wouldn’t know without them. For example the color and just the fact that they are there tells you that it is not fall or winter. They also make you want to look at the photo because of their color and how bright it is.
4. Leading Lines: My photo has a good example of leading lines. The branches of the tree start at the top and lead down the main park of the branches that are the main focus, they even lead all the way to the background. This draws your eye through the whole photo and then back to the focus. This helps our eyes look at the whole photo but still end at the main focus of the picture.
5. Texture: In this photo there is a lot of texture. Do to the fact at the photo was taken looking up some of the branches look closer than others which gives the photo a 3D and textured look. This helps make the photo jump out and not look flat and boring. The 3D look helps people like looking at it and feel like they are in the photo not just looking at a flat screen or piece of paper.
6. Color: The color in this photo blends well together. Since the photo is very green and doesn’t have too many bright colors the person looking at it isn’t drawn to things that they shouldn’t. The color helps keep us looking at the main focus but at the same time not just there we still look at the whole photo.
Objective 4: Lighting (side, back, soft, hard, fill)
The lighting in this photo is soft, back lighting. The soft lighting gives the photo a more gentle and appealing look. The back lighting helps light up the leaves and bring out their color without it the y would have been a dull and plain color the blended in with the branches. The light gives the photo a gentle, appealing and colorful look that people will want to look at.
Objective 6: Critique
Strength: I think that this photo has great color that really makes the photo jump out. The color adds a gentle feel that really completes the photo. I also like the perspective. It is something you do not see every day which gives the photo a unique look that is different than other photos.
Area for growth: I think this photo would have been a stronger photo if I had more of the tree in the photo. This would let the branches come together which would have had a cool affect making the photo have a better rule of thirds because if I had done that the part of the tree where it comes together would have been the main focus. Next time I want to make sure I have all I want in the photo.
Objective 7: Photographic Styles (ex. portrait, landscape, etc.)
Type/style of photography: The photo is a nature photo. In the photo there is a tree and no evidence of people in the photo. This gives the photo no distractions to pull your eye away from the focus.
The camera mode: P
f stop used: f/5.6 this makes it so that only part of the branch is in focus and the background is not too distracting and keeps our eye on the focus.
Shutter speed used: 1/500 this speed let me freeze many movement in the leaves of the tree or the branches. If there was blur the photo wouldn’t be as sharp and it would be less appealing and harder to look at.
ISO used: 1250 this ISO let me get the shutter speed that I needed to freeze the leaves without it the leave would be burred and the photo wouldn’t be as sharp and clear.
Focal length: 55.0 this focal length let me get only what I wanted in the photo and have the branches look as close as they do. This helps get rid of distractions to draw your eye away from the focus.
It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Yes.. when world leaders like Trump & Erdogan visit our country, we stage protest marches.
Bringing over 60 Nineveh Plains actors, community leaders, tribes and minorities representatives to increase social cohesion, expand dialogue between communities and agree on the role and objectives that the future Local peace committee should play - those are the objectives of this three-day training taking place at the University of Mosul.
After organizing the training for the local peace committees from Al Anbar, the UNDP through the Community Reconciliation Project is providing a training to the local peace committees from Nineveh Plains, to build the knowledge of the essential roles they should play to support the reconciliation process in their communities.
UNDP focuses on enhancing civic participation and inclusion in Iraq’s reconciliation efforts led by the Government of Iraq through the coordination of the National Reconciliation Committee (NRC) and supporting the establishment and functioning of Local Peace Committees in liberated areas. LPC members undergo intensive training on peacebuilding and conflict management and receive ongoing support from local UNDP facilitators.
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شارك أكثر من 60 شخص من ممثلي سهل نينوى من قادة المجتمعات المحلية والعشائر والأقليات في دورة تدريبية دامت ثلاثة أيام في مبنى جامعة الموصل، بهدف زيادة اواصر التماسك الاجتماعي وتوسيع الحوار بين المجتمعات والاتفاق على الادوار والأهداف التي يجب أن تلعبها لجنة السلام المحلي المستقبلية.
حيث يقدم برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي من خلال مشروع المصالحة الاجتماعية تدريباً للجان السلام المحلية في سهل نينوى وذلك بعد تنظيمه لتدريب لجان السلام المحلية في محافظة الأنبار، من أجل بناء المعرفة بالأدوار الأساسية التي يجب أن تلعبها هذه اللجان لدعم عملية المصالحة في مجتمعاتهم.
ويركز برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي على تعزيز المشاركة المدنية والاندماج في جهود المصالحة العراقية التي تقودها حكومة العراق من خلال تنسيق لجنة المصالحة الوطنية، ولدعم إنشاء وعمل لجان السلام المحلية في المناطق المحررة. ويتلقى أعضاء هذه اللجان تدريبا مكثفا من اجل بناء السلام وإدارة الصراعات كما يتلقون الدعم المستمر من القائمين المحليين لدى برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي.
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زیاتر له 60 كهسایهتى كاریگهر وسهركرده كاریگهرهكانى كۆمهڵگا وهۆزهكان وكهمایهتیهكان بهشداربوون له خولێكى ڕاهێنان له دهشتى نهینهوا بۆ ماوهى سێ ڕۆژ له زانكۆى موسڵ. به ئامانجى پتهوهكردنى یهكرێزى كۆمهڵایهتى وفراوانكردنى گفتوگۆ له نێو كۆمهڵگادا وڕێكهوتن لهسهر ڕۆڵ وئهو ئامانجانهى كهوا پێویسته لیژنه ناوخۆیهكانى ئاشتى له داهاتوودا به جێى بگهیێنن.
بهرنامهى نهتهوه یهكگرتووهكان بۆ پهرپێدان له رێگاى پڕۆژهى ئاشتهوایى كۆمهڵایهتى ڕاهێنان پێشكهش دهكات بۆ ئهم لیژنانه بۆ ئاشتى له دهشتى نهینهوادا، ئهمهش پاش رێكخستنى ڕاهێنان بۆ لیژنه ناوخۆیهكان بۆ ئاشتى له پارێزگاى ئهنبار، ئەمەش به مهبهستى ناساندنى ڕۆڵه سهرهكیهكان كهوا پێویسته ئهم لیژنانه بیگێڕن له پشتگیركردنى پرۆسهى ئاشتهوایی له كۆمهڵگاكانیان. بهرنامهكهمان جهخت دهكاته سهر پتهوكردنى بهشداربوونى مهدهنى وپشتگیرى لە ههوڵهكان دەکات بۆ ئاشتهوایى نیشتمانى له عێراق كه له لایهن حكومهتى عێراقیهوه ڕابهرایهتى دهكرێت و لهرێگاى ههماههنگى لیژنهكانى ئاشتهوایی نیشتمانى وههروهها پشتگیرى پێشكهش دهكات بۆ كارو ودروستكردنى لیژهنه ناخۆیهكان بۆ ئاشتى له ناوچه ڕزگاركراوهكاندا. ئهم لیژنانه ڕاهێنانێكى باش وهردهگرن بۆ هێنانهدێى ئاشتى وچۆنیهتى بهرێوهبردن له كاتى ڕوودانى ململانێیهكان وهبهشێوهيهكى بهردهوام لهلایهن كارمهندانى ناوخۆیی بهرنامهى نهتهوه یهكگرتووهكان بۆ پهرپێدان پشتگیرى دهكرێن.
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Photos: Karzan Saadon/UNDP Iraq/2018
#Reconciliation
Have you ever got objectives called "A", "B", "C" etc? It is almost possible: at least "S" and "T" are available. After WWII the allied troops moved parts of the Carl Zeiss Company (managers, scientists - workers from the production line weren't appreciated enough) from Jena to Oberkochen. Also he Soviet troops took their part to develop their camera industry. Also a lot of machinery moved to East.
Today the headquarter of the Carl Zeiss AG is located in Oberkochen.
Politics is politics in optical industry, too. The factory in Jena (DDR) continued producing objectives called "Tessar" and "Sonnar" and the Western company claimed that they were their trade marks. Even the Eastern company's name "Carl Zeiss Jena" caused irritation. After heavy international processing the Eastern Zeiss rose its hands: the familiar brand names were changed. Thus you can find products like "S" and "T" from "CZJ" and "Aus Jena". The whole story is too long to reproducted here. The Zeiss company has informative web pages
www.zeiss.de/C12567A100537AB9/Contents-Frame/63125BAC5434...
and less commercial history can be found here:
Another good source for stories is here:
www.company7.com/zeiss/history.html
The Sonnar is an objective design, invented by Ludwig Bertele in 1924 and originally patented by Carl Zeiss company; the objective is notable for its simple design and thus relatively light weight
I have several 3.5/135mm objectives (some f 4.0 and 2.8, too) equiped with Exakta and M42 mount, more or less automatic diaphgram, with more or less numerous blades, electric diaphgram control, with(out) (multi)coating and with other differences. They are called "Sonnars" or "Ss" and the manufacturer is "Carl Zeiss Jena", "CZJ", "Aus Jena" and Pentacon. The basic contruction is the same in all, but the image quality is different. The feeling of contruction quality is absolutely robust. It is evident, that there are different 'quality classes' in lens manufacturing and/or assembly. Maybe the ones made for export are better. Who knows?
For a amateur photographer the mass produced objective is a delight: easy to find at second hand market, nice price - and maybe exellent picture quality.
Interested to see Sonnar photo samples? Some shot by talented photographers can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/groups/1279418@N25/
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Now we're getting somewhere. The difference in quality & detail is shown here. The LOMO lens shines over the standard reversed camera lens.
My 2nd stack and I need to play with the stacking program a bit more I think, need to get rid of the background blotching. Could be the focusing 'slices' (steps) are too far apart?
Sort of rescued this one from a web, well he was dead but caught him just as spidy was gonna munch on him, hence why he looks fresh. Not a lot of physical cleaning or PP (Post Processing) was needed. This is a male.
Lomo (Russian) 3.7x 0.11 Objective
Bellows
Canon 550D
27 photos stacked