Beautiful Eyes Calendar 2013
Beautiful Eyes Calendar 2013
Beautiful Eyes Calendar 2013
Portrait Made Of Thousands Of Fingerprints
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“Fanny/Fingerpainting” represents one of the largest and most masterly executions of a technique Chuck Close developed in the mid-l980s. That technique involved the direct application of pigment to a surface with the artist’s fingertips. By adjusting the amount of pigment and the pressure of his finger on the canvas, Close could achieve a wide range of tonal effects. Typically, he worked from a black and white photograph which he would divide into many smaller units by means of a grid. He then transposed the grid onto a much larger canvas and meticulously reproduced each section of it. The result is a monumental, close-up view that forces an uncomfortable intimacy upon the viewer
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Afghan interpreters can come to UK
Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to help British
Afghan interpreters to get UK visas
Hundreds of Afghan interpreters to get British visa
Afghan interpreters will get UK visas
Afghan interpreters to get British visas
600 Afghan interpreters win right to live in Britain
Afghan interpreters to get UK visas
Afghan interpreters can come to UK
Interpreters hope visa comes before Taliban
UK grants visas for 600 Afghans who served with British forces
Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are to be given the right to live in the UK, government sources have confirmed.The plan marks a climbdown from ministers who had decided they should not get the same UK resettlement rights as interpreters in the Iraq conflict.
Afghan interpreters who worked on the front line for a year or more will initially be offered a five-year visa.
The move covers about half of Afghan interpreters who helped the UK.
A Downing Street source said the proposals would give interpreters a choice – “the opportunity to go on working in Afghanistan, learning new skills and to go on rebuilding their country or to come and make a new start in Britain”.
BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said the coalition previously appeared to be split on the issue.
Liberal Democrats, including former Royal Marine Lord Ashdown, had called for a resettlement package.
We should recognise the service given by those who have regularly put themselves in real danger while working for us”
Others feared a blanket right to come to the UK could be taken as a sign of a lack of faith in Afghanistan’s future after Western forces left, our correspondent added.
Three Afghan interpreters had already issued a High Court claim for a judicial review of the UK government’s previous decision.
The Downing Street source said Prime Minister David Cameron had been “very clear that we should not turn our backs on those who have trod the same path as our soldiers in Helmand, consistently putting their lives at risk to help our troops achieve their mission”.
“We should recognise the service given by those who have regularly put themselves in real danger while working for us,” the source added.
Many of the interpreters who will be helped say they have received serious threats to their lives, while some have already fled to the UK to claim asylum.
Under the plans, which have yet to be signed off by ministers, those allowed into the UK on a five-year visa will then be able to apply for indefinite leave.
The Border Agency will approve how many close family members they are allowed to bring.
These are men who have been on the front line with our troops, risking their lives, involved in frontline battle, so we’re delighted that the government has finally seen sense”
Interpreters who choose to stay in Afghanistan will be allowed to sign up for for fully-funded training and education for five years, or instead be paid at their current rate for a further 18 months.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK should “do everything we can to encourage talented Afghans to stay in their country and contribute to it”.
That should include a “really generous” package of support for interpreters, he told Radio 4′s World at One.
Under the new plan, some other locals who had helped British soldiers in non-front-line roles, such as cooks and security guards, will also be given the choice of training and education, or further payments.
Lawyer Rosa Curling, who is representing three interpreters who launched a legal challenge against the UK government, praised the decision “to recognise their bravery and to make sure that their lives are now kept safe”.
“These are men who have been on the front line with our troops, risking their lives, involved in frontline battle, so we’re delighted that the government has finally seen sense and decided to provide them with the assistance that they provided to the Iraqi interpreters,” she told BBC Radio 5 live.
She said that, for her clients, “the death threats continue, so resettling in Afghanistan does seem to be very difficult – the Taliban are very effective at following them”.
Several other countries who have fought in Afghanistan, including the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, have put schemes in place to offer asylum to at least some of the interpreters they employed.
After the Iraq war, Britain gave Iraqi interpreters either one-off financial assistance or exceptional indefinite leave to remain in the UK with help to relocate, or the opportunity to resettle through the UK’s Gateway programme run in partnership with the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees.
In an answer to a Parliamentary question earlier this year about asylum for interpreters, the government referred to “the previous government’s mass resettlement of over 900 locally employed staff in Iraq”.
Afghan interpreters to get British visas
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Afghan interpreters to get British visas
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LONDON: Around 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government revealed on Wednesday.
Prime Minister David Cameron initially opposed calls to allow interpreters and their families to settle in Britain, but backed down following a campaign.
He is now preparing to offer five-year visas to those who served on the front line for a year or more. The interpreters say they face the threat of being attacked by the Taliban in their homeland because of their work with foreign forces.
"The PM has been very clear that we should not turn our backs on those who have trod the same path as our soldiers in Helmand, consistently putting their lives at risk to help our troops achieve their mission," said a source from Cameron's Downing Street office.
"We should recognise the service given by those who have regularly put themselves in real danger while working for us.
"These proposals give them a choice: the opportunity to go on working in Afghanistan, learning new skills and to go on rebuilding their country or to come and make a new start in Britain."
Those who wish to remain in Afghanistan will receive an improved financial offer under the new plans.
They will be paid their salary for five years if they train or study or be paid for 18 months if not.
Cameron earlier said that Afghan interpreters should only be allowed to stay in Britain "in extremis".
"I do think that when we think of all that we have spent and all the cost in money and human lives we have put into Afghanistan, we should do everything we can to encourage talented Afghans to stay in their country and contribute to it," he added.
Britain is set to withdraw 3,800 of the country's 9,000 troops from Afghanistan this year, as the NATO-led foreign force prepares to withdraw all combat troops by the end of next year.
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How to overcome Suicidal Tendencies
How to overcome Suicidal Tendencies
It is sad thing that nowadays the suicidal tendency is on the increase among the youth in particular and others in general. Almost every day we read in the newspapers such cases of suicides. How foolish it is to think of suicide! Such a precious gift of God – the human body – to be destroyed for petty matters. It is the cowardly and the weak-minded who are afraid to face challenges and difficulties in life take recourse to such foolish acts. A hero who is ready to face challenges with courage and boldness never thinks of committing suicide but always tries to find remedies to solve them.
Life is not so cheap that we can play with it. The body has come into existence not out of an accident but out of the law of Karma. If our sufferings are the result of our past actions, we have full freedom to change them by performing good actions. Most of the people feel frustrated when their desires are not satisfied and try to commit suicide. But they forget the eternal law that we get only what we deserve and not what we desire. Why not increase our power of deserving things by sincere and honest hard work?
Once in a state of depression, Sri Anna Hazare wanted to commit suicide. Just before he attempted it, Swami Vivekananda's small booklet came to his hand. He read thoroughly again and again. The impact was such that his entire thinking underwent drastic change. He realised the worth of the human life after reading some teachings of Swami Vivekananda.: "Blessed are those whose bodies gets destroyed in the service of others." "They alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive." After reading such inspiring messages he changed his plan and decided not to destroy body but to offer it for the service of fellow human beings. He went back to his village and started working for the people there. People look upon him as him as a savior, respect him, and bow down to him because of his great contribution in moulding their lives. The body which he wanted to destroy and offer to crows and vultures by committing suicide is being honoured by thousands.
Those who have faith in God and believe that it is His will that wants us to suffer in order to learn lessons from suffering, only to rise above them in due course, surrender themselves to that Supreme Divine being and never think of committing suicide. God is like a big sponge or shock absorber. Pass on your sufferings to Him, pray to him for help and ask for strength to bear them with a tranquil mind, sufferings will pass away like clouds. How much the boy Prahlada suffered! His own father Hirajnyakasipu tortured him, harassed him but his faith in God was such that the Lord had to protect him.
The ultimate goal of human life is to realise God or Self or Atman eternally present in the depth of human body. If you are depressed because you could not achieve worldly success, take it in a positive way and think that your life is not meant for petty things of this world but God wants you to strive for higher spiritual things which can give you infinite peace and happiness, and thus you can overcome all your miseries like birth, death, desease, old age, etc., once for all. Sufferings are related only to body and the mind but soul within is free from all such bondages. Blessed are those who learn lessons from sufferings, instead of running away from the problems by committing suicide. Try to find permanent solutions for them by striving for spiritual enlightenment.
It is a general belief that the person who cuts short his life by committing suicide becomes a ghost. Since he has taken law of nature in his own hands, he will not get another body till the allotted life-span is over. Till then has to remain in a subtle body; this state is supposed to be a state of terrible suffering. Even after getting another body, he has to suffer for his previous karma more intensely because of his terrible sin of killing his own body. Therefore, it is foolish to destroy one's body by committing suicide. Heroic souls work out their karma by their self-effort and, instead of destroying their bodies, they destroy the root cause of suffering, that is, bad impressions and tendencies through the practice of devotion, scriptural study, meditation and good actions.
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