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The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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The rope bridge site required squads to construct an improvised bridge to cross a gap while carrying various burdens. The site tests the teams’ ability to solve problems using soldier skills. For example, among the nine-member team, only the first and last were allowed to touch water without risk of penalties. Photo by Mike Strasser, West Point Public Affairs
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Location: Pune, India.
Camera: Canon 700D.
Lens: Canon 18-55mm.
Attachment: Reverse Ring.
The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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Requires no heat! First Aid the old fashioned way.
A lovely old tin with a clean, crisp, 'medical' look has been sawn, filed and set into a custom made copper frame to make this unique brooch. The copper frame has been textured by my own handmade punches...I like to reference the marks and patina that the tin has acquired with age and use. The tin is held in place by teeny tube rivets silver-soldered into the frame. A large faux ruby in a pedestal-claw setting echoes the size and colour of the red-cross symbol and composition of circles, which is complemented nicely by the duck-egg blue and dark blue colour scheme. On the back, a copper pin will affix this declaration of 1st Aid technology to your person. One-of-a-kind.
53mm diameter across (2 inches).
Resembling a war zone, the bike lane (on the left) through Edmonton's refinery row leaves something to be desired. Black smoke and choking gases fill the air as a giant flare stack burns off unwanted petroleum products at midnight. To add insult to injury the formerly-maintained bike lane is now used to store snow and debris.
The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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Wedding at Pocahontas State Park: www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/pocahontas#general_infor...
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LA County residents take Covid-19 test at a kiosk located in front of the USS Iowa in San Pedro, March 13, 2021.
Covid-19 Testing plays an important role in reducing the spread of Covid-19. Free testing is available to all Los Angeles County residents at drive-up and walk-up sites. Appointments are currently not required but recommended to reduce wait times. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
Anaglyph red-cyan glasses required. You do have such glasses, don't you? I didn't, until yesterday. But hey, such glasses are cheap as dirt on Ebay, and there are TONS of amazing anaglyph pictures on the Web (and videos too!), so please do yourself a favour and get a pair if you don't have at least one already. And if you do have one, please dig it out, take a look at this image and leave a comment. Thanks!
This is my first ever test, shot handheld and processed manually with my new £1.15 plastic glasses. I've struggled a bit to mask a couple of nasty ghosts, and I wonder if those occured because of my cheap glasses or my poor technique [edited a couple of days later: huh, silly me, there's quite a lot I need to learn on this. At first it seems simple and obvious, but hell it's not! There's plenty of road ahead, and I'll also have to re-learn a few bits. There's nothing wrong with the glasses]. Being colour-blind doesn't help me a lot either, I suppose.
I broke a few rules with this image, I know. I used quite a wide-angle lens, and a wide stereo base. Since I'm new to this, I'm of course tempted to overdo it a bit, so I prefer hyper-stereoscopy to the plain old ortho-stereoscopy. You can't do this kind of stuff with an expensive consumer stereo camera or beam splitter attachment :)
Lots of people (including myself) can view cross-eyed stereo pairs, but that requires some practice and some effort. Lots of people (excluding myself) can also view wall-eyed (or parallel) stereo pairs, and such images put much less strain on their eyes - but the method requires even more training and is limited to relatively small images. Using anaglyph glasses is much easier I think, thus allowing for a wider audience - but it does severely limit the usable colour range in the images. I can't wait for accessible autostereoscopic displays or at least for cheaper polarizing stereo displays - for easy, full colour stereoscopy. Those are just beyond the corner, so it shouldn't take long.
The Ministry of Reshelving directs young, moldable pupils to the Current Affairs section, fot their school required copy of 1984.
The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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The last five months (May-September 2023) required me to move a lot for a variety of professional and personal reasons. It was the first time in several years that I entered airplanes without carrying my DSLR camera. This resulted in me tinkering and thinking with my mobile phone camera, surpassing my snobbish attitude towards it as means of photographic expression. Visiting an old favourite antique store of mine, I was exposed to wallet-sized black and white pictures, very fashionable in the 1920s-1960s. Phenomenologically, I thought, these little pictures carried significance similar to the one carried by the myriads of photos nowadays stored on mobile phones. I tried to combine the sensory experience of black and white with the ease of mobile phone shooting, itself resembling certain types of pinhole cameras. Themes are the same as in my earlier photography: decayed and rusty patterns of disintegration, emptiness of spaces, outlier figures of the everyday, street signs and letters, nonhuman friends, naturecultures, and psychopolitically haunted scenes. Places include: Canada (Toronto), Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Alonnisos, Aghia, Larissa, Eleftheroupoli, Kavala), Scotland (Edinburgh), England (Manchester), France (Paris), Belgium (Brussels).
[Update] I have continued collecting such images throughout 2024. New places visited: Dublin, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Copenhagen, London, Stirling, Peebles, Amsterdam, Dundee, Madrid.
Metal....rust....old......character. Be a groovy place for a wedding reception. Maybe not. Downtown Springfield, Mo
Customer just slips on the nylon parts that finish the handle, and cover the tube ends for protection.
The NSPCC Childline White Hat Ball held at the Lancaster Hotel, London. With special appearances by Esther Rantzen, Fiona Phillips and Clive Room. Entertainment by Session One, 27th January 2017
Photography by Fergus Burnett
Accreditation required with all use.
The last five months (May-September 2023) required me to move a lot for a variety of professional and personal reasons. It was the first time in several years that I entered airplanes without carrying my DSLR camera. This resulted in me tinkering and thinking with my mobile phone camera, surpassing my snobbish attitude towards it as means of photographic expression. Visiting an old favourite antique store of mine, I was exposed to wallet-sized black and white pictures, very fashionable in the 1920s-1960s. Phenomenologically, I thought, these little pictures carried significance similar to the one carried by the myriads of photos nowadays stored on mobile phones. I tried to combine the sensory experience of black and white with the ease of mobile phone shooting, itself resembling certain types of pinhole cameras. Themes are the same as in my earlier photography: decayed and rusty patterns of disintegration, emptiness of spaces, outlier figures of the everyday, street signs and letters, nonhuman friends, naturecultures, and psychopolitically haunted scenes. Places include: Canada (Toronto), Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Alonnisos, Aghia, Larissa, Eleftheroupoli, Kavala), Scotland (Edinburgh), England (Manchester), France (Paris), Belgium (Brussels).
[Update] I have continued collecting such images throughout 2024. New places visited: Dublin, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Copenhagen, London, Stirling, Peebles, Amsterdam, Dundee, Madrid.
Wedding at Pocahontas State Park: www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/pocahontas#general_infor...
Parks wedding info: www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/weddings#wedpo
Please call the park, (804) 796-4255, for details or to reserve. Reservations may be made up to 11 months in advance
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Whilst visiting the Coach Show in Kortrijk, we stayed in Ostend and outside the main Casino that was having a wedding fair, this was trying to attract customers to used as a wedding car,
Anybody know what it is??
Steve Nash Fitness World, Salvation Army and the cast of "Some Assembly Required" join forces with Toys 'R Us for the annual toy drive for kids.
Anti-trafficking efforts require community level partnerships to tackle child exploitation and County Lines. A collaborative project with children at risk of exploitation engaged them directly in prevention work. Drawing on their lived experiences, children created a large mural using street art, to show pull factors and the reality of the dangers when trapped in exploitation.
This innovative research centres on empowering vulnerable young people, to take direct action at community and wider levels. The young people’s Action Group are presenting their work in schools to support other children at risk, partnering with a charity Escapeline. Participative Action Research enables young people to gain confidence, public engagement skills and inspiration for change, “I want to raise awareness because no one should go through what I did” (Mae). The Action Group have secured a space with senior stakeholders at the Anti-Slavery Partnership Board to promote young people’s voice in anti-trafficking work.
Dr Alinka Gearon
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Partnerships - Research that is working in collaboration with people outside academia including industry, policy-makers and civil society and community-based organisations.
The Cramps
The I Beam
San Francisco, California
7-14 & 7-15 1986
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FRANCE. Paris, the 29th of march 2021. Notre-Dame's cathedral securisation process. Workers and rope climbers before and reinforcing the stones of the broken vaults with a mixture of gypsum and rope. Mathis and Arnaud.
While the spirit is being made, a parallel process occurs with the casks.
Another requirement for being labeled Scotch whisky requires the new make spirit to age for a minimum of seven years in a used Bourbon or Sherry cask.
Bourbon casks are made from American Oak and are used to make American bourbon, which is aged in new casks. These are then sent to Scotland where they are sold to whisky makers across the country.
In addition to Bourbon casks, The Macallan also uses casks that have previously aged Spanish Sherry. Many consider Sherry casks to be the best vehicles for aging Scotch whisky, and The Macallan starts this process by selecting the American Oak trees in the U.S. and the Spanish Oak trees in Spain that are then used to make the casks in Spain.
After the wood is cut and cured, The Macallan has a Spanish barrel maker make new casks in 250 and 500 liter sizes. Each is labeled with its wood source and date of manufacture, and is sent to one of Spain's sherry makers who fill the casks with wine and age it for a minimum of 18 months (usually 36 months). The aged wine—now officially sherry—is then removed from the casks, bottled and sold by its makers.
The empty casks are sent to a cooperage in Scotland, where they are reconditioned and then sent to the distilleries.
The Macallan's casks all arrive at The Clyde Cooperage outside of Edinburgh.
I guess I should have offered to help but I would have had to set my camera down and he seemed to have it under control.
This 3D photo requires red-cyan anaglyph glasses.
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In the areas adjacent to where the actual grounds of the Pebble Concours d'Elegance are held, you will find numerous exhibits of vendors and sponsors.
This image required little work as the vehicle used as a base image (actual registration TLH 891H) carries a pseudo-Yorkshire Rider livery. The Land Rover was widely used as service vehicle by bus companies from its introduction in 1948. The Series III was the most common type, with 440,000 examples built - in short and long wheelbase versions - between 1971 to 1985. It was replaced by the original Land Rover Defender, which remained in production until 2016 (07-Apr-24).
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Public Domain Book: Practical instructions in enamel painting on glass, china, tiles, etc
to which is added full instructions for the manufacture of the vitreous pigments required, with twelve pages of instructions
by Henry James Snell
Published 1874 by Brodie & Middleton, Simpkin, Marshall in London .
Written in English.
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Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?
The omicron wave that assaulted the United States this winter also bolstered its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption to society.
Millions of individual Americans’ immune systems now recognize the virus and are primed to fight it off if they encounter omicron, or even another variant.
About half of eligible Americans have received booster shots, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed infections overall and many more infections have never been reported. One influential model uses those factors and others to estimate that 73% of Americans are, for now, immune to omicron, the dominant variant, and that could rise to 80% by mid-March.
This will prevent or shorten new illnesses in protected people and reduce the amount of virus circulating overall, likely tamping down new waves. Hospitals will get a break from overwhelmed ICUs, experts agree.
“We have changed,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. “We have been exposed to this virus and we know how to deal with it.”
The coronavirus — the current variant or future ones that are sure to pop up — remains a dangerous germ. It is still infecting more than 130,000 Americans and killing more than 2,000 every day. Tens of millions of people remain vulnerable.
And there will be future outbreaks. The notion of a “herd immunity” that could stop the virus has slipped away under the harsh reality of new variants, waning immunity, and the rejection of vaccines by some Americans.
But the coronavirus is no longer new. Two years ago it arrived in a nation where nobody’s immune system had seen it before. The entire population — 330 million people — were immunologically naive, that is, susceptible to infection.
“I am optimistic even if we have a surge in summer, cases will go up, but hospitalizations and deaths will not,” said Mokdad, who works on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model, which calculated the 73% figure for The Associated Press.
With varying degrees of relief and caution, many Americans are starting to return to their pre-pandemic lifestyles.
Sarah Rixen, 41, of Bismarck, North Dakota, started singing again with a civic chorus after taking a year off. Now, with omicron winding down, she said she feels more confident than at any time since the crisis began.
“But I am still a little leery that there could be another variant around the corner,” said Rixen, noting that her family and most of her relatives are fully vaccinated. “I am still going to wear a mask.”
As mask mandates ease, workers return to offices and flights fill up, experts are trying to understand whether this return to normal can last, or if another setback is looming.
To address that, researchers are trying to answer questions about the virus, the vaccine, and how our bodies respond: How fast is booster protection waning against omicron? How long does protection from infection last? How many mild infections were never reported? How many people got infected but had no symptoms?
To find clues, they use health data from other countries such as Britain, Denmark, South Africa and Qatar to project what could be in store.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimate that about three out of four people in the United States will have been infected by omicron by the end of the surge.
“We know it’s a huge proportion of the population,” said Shaun Truelove, an epidemiologist and disease modeler at Johns Hopkins. “This varies a lot by location, and in some areas we expect the number infected to be closer to one in two.”
That means different regions or groups of people have different level of protection — and risk. In Virginia, disease modelers are thinking about their population in terms of groups with different levels of immunity.
They estimate about 45% of Virginians have the highest level of immunity through boosted vaccination or through vaccination plus a recent infection with omicron. Another 47% have immunity that has waned somewhat; and 7% are the most vulnerable because they were never vaccinated and never infected.
In all, the vast majority of Virginians have at least some immunity, said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist who leads University of Virginia’s COVID-19 modeling team.
“That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole,” Lewis said. “If we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.”
Still, while the population is better protected, many individuals are not. Even by the most optimistic estimates for population immunity, 80 million or so Americans are still vulnerable. That’s about the same as the total number of confirmed infections in the U.S. during the pandemic.
“The 26% who could still get omicron right now have to be very careful,” Mokdad said.
Andrew Pekosz, a virus researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is concerned that people — particularly unvaccinated omicron survivors — may have a false sense of security. “In an ideal world, unvaccinated individuals infected with omicron would be lining up for a vaccine shot,” he said.
Also, estimating protection is far from an exact science. It’s a moving target, as immunity wanes and new variants circulate. Protection varies widely from person to person. And it’s impossible to know for sure how many people are protected at all. The IHME model estimates a wide range — from 63% to 81% of Americans.
“We’ve reached a much better position for the coming months, but with waning immunity we shouldn’t take it for granted,” Mokdad said.
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Study looks at COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in France and Italy
Vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in accepting or refusing immunization services despite their availability. It is a complicated and context-dependent phenomenon that varies with time, place, and vaccines. Vaccine hesitancy might compromise herd immunity and have an adverse effect on vaccine campaigns.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been followed by a massive infodemic - a flood of information, some of it correct, some of it not - that has the potential to hinder public health response to a pandemic. In today's world, where information is divided into misinformation and factual information, truthfully provided facts cause challenges in comprehending reality.
Acceptance of the vaccination has been observed to be dynamic, and it is particularly responsive to current facts and emotions around the COVID-19 vaccine. A recent study posted to Research Square* preprint server, and under consideration at the journal Scientific Reports, aimed to learn more about how and to what extent vaccine hesitancy can alter over time at the individual level by considering parameters such as dynamic preferences, news reporting, and gender influence.
The study
In June 2021, the team used a designed poll to interview 1,068 persons in France and Italy about their willingness to adopt the COVID-19 vaccine in three different timeframes: three months, one month, and the same day. The option of not opting for a vaccine was also addressed to understand the volubility of preferences better. As a result, the possible answers were limited to three options: yes, maybe, and no. The questionnaire also evaluated the perceived risk and probability of COVID-19, as well as the perceived risk and expected benefit of the vaccine.
A randomized controlled trial was also performed to determine the effect of everyday stimuli, such as factual vaccine news, on audience acceptance of vaccination. To further understand individual personality features, the DOSPERT psychometric test was employed.
In the main experiment, participants were asked to read two distinct stories regarding vaccine-related thrombosis pulled from two Italian newspapers, one with a more abstract description and language and the other with a more anecdotal abstract and concrete language.
The findings
According to the study, people appeared to be voluble because of their volatile decisions when they were subjected to common stimuli that occur on a regular basis, such as reading a newspaper story. Furthermore, the data suggest that individual vaccination preferences were varied and unstable over time and that personal choices of accepting, refusing, or delaying vaccination might well be influenced by how news is reported.
In Italy, 39.7% of people would reject the vaccine today, 25.6% in a month, and 19.4% in a three-month period. 63.6% of the French refuse vaccination today, 44.2% one month from now, and 35.1% three months from now. Based on previous studies, France has higher vaccine hesitancy than Italy.
Surprisingly, after reading newspaper articles, vaccination hesitancy increased, and vaccine acceptance declined. This pattern seems to be driven by vaccination risk-return individual evaluation in the designed model based on human behavior categories. In addition, the abstract text increased vaccine hesitancy more than the concrete text, which was surprising given that the abstract text used more scientific language, and the concrete text used more anecdotal language.
In Italy, women accept vaccination more than men and are more likely to fall into category 1 – pro-vaxers: 48.2 % of women total sample (TS); 29.8 % of males TS. Anti-vaxers account for 7.1% and 23.4 % in category 7.
In France, women accounted for 21% of TS in category 1, while men accounted for 13.2%. In category 7, women made up 22.8% of the total, while males made up 35.8%.
In contrast, women accept the vaccine less than men in the abstract text group in Italy: category 1 has 23.1% of TS of women and 36.4 % of TS of men. In category 7, 38.5 % of TSs were female, whereas 3.9% were male.
Symmetrically, in the French abstract text group, in category 1, females account for 10.4% and males for 13.2%. Category 7 anti-vaxers were 40.3 percent females and 31.6 percent males. In France, females made up 13.8 percent of the concrete text in category 1, while males made up 7.8 percent. Anti-vaxers were found in 7.9 percent of cats and 32.5 percent of males.
Thus, women were keener to get vaccinated at the start of the study, but after reading the abstract text, a significant percentage of them changed their minds and became anti-vax. On the other hand, men become less willing to get vaccinated after reading the concrete text. This brings into focus gender disparities in reactions to real news.
The findings of this decision-making mechanism show that gender-specific communication could play an essential role in encouraging vaccination decisions and acquiring herd immunity.
*Important notice
Research Square publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.
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Sometimes a dog doesn't even need a stick....a clump of sand is just as good. Shot at North Piha beach, NZ.
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Intricate animal illustration from Indian Zoology (1830-1834) by John Edward Gray (1800-1875), keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum. Gray selected illustrations by both native and English artists in India from the collections of Major-General Hardwicke introducing the fascinating wildlife of the east to an English audience.
The cheer point at Surrey Quays for the British Heart Foundation as they support the runners and supporters who are taking part in the Virgin London Marathon, 23rd April 2017
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Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam
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BUDDHA
In Buddhism, buddhahood (Sanskrit: बुद्धत्व buddhatva; Pali: बुद्धत्त buddhatta or बुद्धभाव buddhabhāva) is the state of perfect enlightenment (Sanskrit: सम्यक्सम्बोधि samyaksambodhi; Pali: सम्मासम्बोधि sammāsambodhi) attained by a buddha.
In Buddhism, the term buddha usually refers to one who has become enlightened (i.e., awakened to the truth, or Dharma). The level to which this manifestation requires abstraction from ordinary life (ascetic practices) varies from none at all to an absolute requirement, dependent on doctrine. In Theravada Buddhist traditions, it is held that the person attains this state on their own, without a teacher to point out the Dharma, in a time when the teachings on the Four Noble Truths or the Eightfold Path do not exist in the world, and teaches it to others. In contrast, certain Mahayana Buddhist traditions (particularly those that consider the teachings of the Lotus Sutra to be paramount, which contains this concept) Buddhahood is considered to be a universal and innate property of absolute wisdom that is revealed in a person's current lifetime through Buddhist practice, without any specific relinquishment of pleasures or "earthly desires". Thus, there is an extremely broad spectrum of opinion on the universality and method of attainment of Buddhahood which is correlated to which of Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings that a school of Buddhism follows.
More broadly, it is occasionally used to refer to all who attain nirvana.[1] In this broader sense it is equivalent to Arahant. According to Theravada Buddhism, all Arahants (or Buddhas in the broader sense) are the same in the most fundamental aspects of Liberation (Nirvana), but differ in their practice of perfections paramis. Mahayana Buddhism, however, considers there is a fundamental difference between Buddhas and ordinary arhants, on the way to becoming a Buddha, a Buddhist proceeds through bodhisattva stages. Buddhists do not consider Siddhartha Gautama to have been the only Buddha. The Pali Canon refers to many previous ones (see List of the 28 Buddhas), while the Mahayana tradition additionally has many Buddhas of celestial, rather than historical, origin (see Amitabha or Vairocana as examples, for lists of many thousands Buddha names see Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō numbers 439–448). A common Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist belief is that the next Buddha will be one named Maitreya (Pali: Metteyya).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhahood
BODHISATTVAS
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (Sanskrit: बोधिसत्त्व bodhisattva; Pali: बोधिसत्त bodhisatta) is either an enlightened (bodhi) existence (sattva) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one (satva) for enlightenment (bodhi)." Another term is "wisdom-being." It is anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.
The bodhisattva is a popular subject in Buddhist art. Usage of the term bodhisattva has evolved over time. In early Indian Buddhism, for example, the term bodhisattva was used generally to refer specifically to the Buddha Shakyamuni in his former lives. The Jatakas, which are the stories of his lives, depict the various attempts of the bodhisattva to embrace qualities like self-sacrifice and morality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boddhisattva
DEITY
A deity[1] is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers, often religiously referred to as a god.
Deities are depicted in a variety of forms, but are also frequently expressed as having human form. Some faiths and traditions consider it blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal, and are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess consciousness, intellects, desires, and emotions similar to those of humans. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other ‘acts of God’, and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of various aspects of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity