my world

my world

 Beauty and the Beast.


I was struck by this image, which shows the simple beauty and snapped together. Seeing dandelion much alive, both located in that place so destructive, just then I thought it was an act of courage.
Take a picture was not so easy, because you had to find a perfect angle, one which saw the light that represents courage and jungle.

MY WORLD

READING OF A PHOTOGRAPHER
Two Girls. Lange Donothea












The photograph made Donothea Lange.
Donothea was born May 25, 1895 San Francisco, California.
 He was an influential American documentary photojournalist, best known for his work the "Great Depression" for the office of Agricultural Safety Administration. Photographs humanists of Lange on the terrible consequences of the Great Depression made it one of the most prominent journalists of photojournalism world.

 This photograph was made in the 50s.
It is made in a California orphanage in the image you can see the two children in pajamas. Also coming from a different ethnic group. Although the image is black and white, you can obserbar skin color of the two children .The girl shows something very special that has freckles scattered this striking brown skin, something very normal, does honor to the picture.

In the picture I see a girl looking at Dorothea ...
The smile she has, proves that you do not feel sad, seems comfortable, although the younger child that she is sleeping peacefully on his shoulder. The image shows tranquility, a scenario quite warm, but also cold.
I have come to many conclusions with this image, but what I believe is that the two children are in an orphanage or the other conclusion is that they are imgrants, who just arrived in a new place.

Easter week

EASTER WEEK

Before I used to spend Easter with my grandparents, next to my small family ...... My grandmother was in charge of making muffins and my grandfather cook them, it was a team work. I instead was the typical girl who watched dwarfed everything they did, with the intention of someday doing the same thing. This holy week I spent at home, reading a book but very, very boring. I guess the time has come for me to grow up, to think about my future and all the bullshit that older people do. If I had to ask for a wish it would be .... to go back to the past, take advantage of everything ... and have the most fun. In Bolivia it is a tradition to bring food to the ceemnterio, to offer it to the dead, to those who are no longer in this world, according to my grandmother.  I think I was the only one in the family who did not do so much to snooze events, for fear that some dead would wake up and go for me.  This Easter has been awful.

Ruby Red Trilogy

Ruby Red Trilogy

Gwyneth Shepherd, a 16-year-old student, feels dizzy for the first time during lunch at her school in London. Not long after, she unintentionally jumps through time while leaving the house. At first, Gwen is doubtful about her jump in time, since her cousin Charlotte Montrose has always been destined to have inherited the time travel gene that is passed down through the females in their family. Charlotte had been prepared for that duty her whole life, and resents Gwyneth for messing up her life plans. Gwen experiences two more uncontrolled jumps through time, during the third of which she witnesses herself, or a doppelgänger of hers, kissing a boy she has never met at a ball in the 1700s. After her third jump, Gwen’s best friend Lesley convinces her to tell her mother, who had apparently counterfeited Gwen’s birth documents to protect her from the Guardians. The Lodge is skeptical of the circumstances, but decide to watch Gwen to confirm that she has in fact inherited the time travel gene. Gwen travels through time once more and is finally acknowledged as the final time traveler, the twelfth, whose symbolic gem is the Ruby. Gwen’s blood is fed to the chronograph, the time travel machine that contains secrets of its own, so that she can use it travel through time smoothly and avoid uncontrolled jumps. The chronograph is also the second one made, the first one having been stolen by Lucy, the daughter of Gwyneth's Uncle Harry, and Paul, Falk de Villiers younger brother. Gwyneth is assigned the arrogant and disapproving Gideon de Villiers to watch her. Soon after this, Gwyneth is scheduled to meet the founder of the lodge, the powerful Count Saint-Germain. For reasons unexplained to Gwen, her mother is strictly against the meeting. Despite this, Gwen travels to meet the Count, hoping she might find some answers. However, Gwen is only left with more questions, and is also suspicious of the Count, who is believed to possess telepathy. After the meeting, the stagecoach of their carriage is instructed by someone unknown to take the two to a park, where they are promptly attacked by three men. Gideon and Gwen ward them off, then travel back to their present time. The next day, Gwen is called back to the lodge, where she is surprised to find that she is needed in order to talk to someone in the past, her great-great grandmother, and the eighth time traveler, Margaret Tilney, in order for her blood to be read in the chronograph, since Gideon had made two attempts to gather Margaret's blood, but both times, she had refused. The two travel back in time where Margaret is expecting them, despite the exact date that was set in the chronograph to travel back in time being kept secret. Lucy and Paul make their appearance, urging Gwyneth to trust them, and to make sure that all twelve time traveler's blood not be read into the chronograph, for fear that the big event that will happen that may cause more destruction than good. Gideon threatens Lucy with a shotgun, and makes her escort him and Gwyneth out the house, and as the two are running away, she tells Gwen to look up The Green Rider. The two make their escape to a nearby church, inside a confessional booth, where Gideon, unexpectedly, kisses Gwen.

 

Manchester designers have invented the world’s most affordable solar light aimed at the world’s poorest.

 This affordable light has been created to meet the needs of families living without mains electricity in Africa.

At just $5, the SM100 solar light is the most affordable in the world helping millions of people in developing countries live in a brighter future.
And it’s been developed by two Manchester designers.
Henry James and Bryn Morgan are the co-founders of inventid, a city centre-based strategic design consultancy, and the brains behind the SM100.
This affordable light has been created to meet the needs of families living without mains electricity in Africa.
It can provide more than eight hours of bright light per day, and can be used on a stand or hung from the wall when in use.

At just $5, the SM100 solar light is the most affordable in the world helping millions of people in developing countries live in a brighter future.
And it’s been developed by two Manchester designers.
Henry James and Bryn Morgan are the co-founders of inventid, a city centre-based strategic design consultancy, and the brains behind the SM100.
This affordable light has been created to meet the needs of families living without mains electricity in Africa.
It can provide more than eight hours of bright light per day, and can be used on a stand or hung from the wall when in use.


Yingli manufactures the SM100, with distribution managed by SolarAid’s SunnyMoney sales teams across Africa, where the charity has been working for more than a decade to improve lives with a range of solar-powered products.
James said: “Children’s education opportunities are improved by enabling extra study time after dark in an environment free from harmful fumes and risk of fire.
“For their parents, working opportunities increase after sunset and the family’s income currently spent on kerosene can be saved for more important things.
“Learning and earning after sunset can put families on the road to a better quality of life and help put a cycle of poverty behind.
“The poorest communities have been overlooked, until now, by solar products that either cost too much or are flimsy and ill-considered for the terrain in which they are used.


“In turn, this has harmed the reputation of solar.
The SM100 focuses on essential functionality, stripping out unnecessary features in favour of a simple, robust and weatherproof design.
“This way, the SM100 builds confidence at the entry level of the renewables market and gives people more control over where their money goes.”
He continues: “The SM100 connects the high-volume, global manufacturing expertise of Yingli and the rich experience of SolarAid, who have a decade of experience selling over one million lights in Africa.
“Extensive field research in four African countries helped us explore wide ranging macro and micro factors that impacted both cost and user experience.
“Our research team looked at container and pallet optimisation in a bid to reduce last mile transport costs and pass savings onto customers. And our designers explored unique human needs that would underpin a strong customer value proposition in a busy market.
“The resulting form is impressively compact and features strap holes that convert it quickly into headtorch mode - a world-first for the solar light category.”
Nine thousand trial units were initially distributed by SunnyMoney to people in three African countries – Malawi, Zambia and Uganda - as part of a large sales trial in autumn 2016.

Since then production has been ramped up after some further fine tuning of component selection by Yingli for the SM100.
Morgan adds: “Conducting research for the SM100 light in conjunction with Yingli Europe and SolarAid meant that we were able to design a product that is both viable and makes sense to people.
“We are incredibly proud that our light has the potential to provide millions of people with a brighter future.
“This level of understanding underpins all of the work that inventid does and enables our team to design products that bring positive change for their end users.”

The SM100 retails for £10 in the UK, providing SolarAid with additional funds to help distribute more SM100 solar lights in Africa.
The SM100 is being used as an exemplar product for the new £83m Design Museum’s Design Ventura education programme.
In March, the SM100 light won silver in the 2017 Design for Society and Design for Sustainability categories at the European Product Design Awards.

Britain's Got Talent final and British Soap Awards moved to make way for Ariana Grande Manchester benefit concert.

 The two big TV events have been moved to avoid clash with the star-studded concert at Emirates Old Trafford on Sunday.

 

Thet Britain’s Got Talen final has been moved from Sunday night so as not to distract from the Ariana Grande benefit concert on Sunday.
The final will now be screened live on Saturday June 3 at 7.30pm.
To make way for the rescheduled BGT final, the British Soap Awards - which are taking place in Salford Quays that night - has moved from Saturday night and will now air on Tuesday June 6th at 8pm.
An ITV spokesperson said: “Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ benefit concert is bringing artists and the public together, and will raise funds for the Red Cross Manchester Emergency Fund.
 “ITV and Britain’s Got Talent have no desire to distract from this important cause, so we have taken the decision to move the Britain’s Got Talent Final from Sunday night.”

Ariana will return to the city following the terror attack at her Manchester Arena concert to perform a star-studded benefit at the Emirates Old Trafford.
The concert, also featuring superstars including Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Coldplay, will be screened on BBC One from 6pm to 9pm.
The British Soap Awards 2017, held at Salford’s Lowry Theatre, was due to be screened live for the first time ever in the awards’ 18-year history.
In previous years the event has taken place on a Saturday night, but not screened on ITV until several days later.

Categories include Best Actress and Actor, Best Villain and the coveted Best Soap gong.
Organisers of the event try to ensure, for balance, that the awards are hosted in Manchester and London in rotation every year.
The last time it was held in Manchester, in May 2015, the awards ceremony was at The Palace Theatre.