BBC News – UK failing wounded troops, say Welsh soldier’s parents

tags: Military Occupation Britain Health Afghanistan

U.S. military adopts new role in Iraq

tags: USA Occupation Military Iraq

S.Africa state workers reject new pay offer | Reuters Annotated

tags: southafrica Strikes unions

• COSATU said earlier on Wednesday it was suspending a one-day sympathy strike this week by all its member unions, including private sector workers, to give the state workers more time to consult.
• Suspending the sympathy strike, which could have shut the vital mining sector, removes some of the pressure on President Jacob Zuma’s ruling African National Congress to reach a deal fast.

The Frame: Life in Afghanistan in August

tags: Afghanistan USA Military Imperialism Occupation Photography

Afghanistan, August, 2010 – The Big Picture – Boston.com

tags: Afghanistan USA Military Imperialism Occupation Photography

‭BBC Arabic‬ – ‮العالم‬ – ‮الشرطة تردي مهاجم قناة ديسكوفري وتحرر الرهائن‬ Annotated

tags: Nature Discovery TV Police Terrorism USA

• وهاجم لي القناة احتجاجا على برامجها التي يقول انها لا تفعل شيئا لانقاذ البيئة، وقالت مصادر امنية انه لف عبوات حول جسمه.

Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Pictures, Stock Photos, Photography Tours | Cornforth Images

Nature photography by @CornforthImages

tags: Nature Photography

القيادات العمالية المفصولة تعتصم بمقر الاتحاد العام | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية – مصر

tags: Egypt Workers StateBackedUnions

ZORIAH – A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG: BP Oil Spill – Pictures of the Gulf Coast Disaster

tags: USA BP Environment Photography

Mark Steel: If anyone is fanatic it’s Sarah Palin – Mark Steel, Commentators – The Independent

tags: Palin Islamophobia USA Racism

Chain-smoking Greeks face tough ban – Europe, World – The Independent

tags: Greece Smoking

المثقفون فى الأرض | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر

tags: Saad Eddin Ibrahim Egypt تعريص

BBC News – Possible the world’s oldest champagne is being salvaged

tags: Finland Diving Archeology

اليوم السابع | نقيب الأشراف: الحديث عن الرئاسة فى وجود مبارك “لا يليق”

tags: Egypt أشراف Mubarak تعريص Succession

France24-Monte Carlo Doualiya – العام 2010 الأكثر دموية للجيش الأمريكي بالبلاد Annotated

tags: Afghanistan Occupation USA NATO Resistance Military

• وبوصول حصيلة الجنود الاجانب الذين قتلوا في افغانستان منذ مطلع العام الى 490، بينهم 323 اميركيا، ينذر 2010 بانه سيكون العام الاكثر دموية على الاطلاق للقوات الدولية منذ بدء تدخلها في هذا البلد اواخر 2001، علما ان العام 2009 كان بدوره الاكثر دموية بتسجيله مقتل 521 جنديا اجنبيا بينهم 317 اميركيا.

Egypt, Marsa Alam, Utopia Beach Club – a set on Flickr

Photos by an Italian visitor.

tags: Marsa Alam Egypt Photography Red Sea

Afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours – Telegraph

Good luck to the Taliban.

tags: USA Afghanistan Occupation Imperialism Taliban Military

10 MORE Quick Composition Tips

tags: Photography Tips Composition

How to Photograph Silhouettes in 8 Easy Steps Annotated

tags: Photography Tips Silhouette

• Most modern digital cameras have automatic metering which are pretty good at sensing how to expose a photograph so that everything is well lit. The problem with this is that most cameras are so smart that they will light up your subject instead of underexposing it to get a silhouette so you need to trick it. Most cameras work out the exposure levels in auto mode when you push your shutter half way down (at the same time that they focus). So point your camera at the brightest part of your picture and then press the shutter halfway down (don’t let go). Then move your camera back to frame your shot with the subject where you want it and then finish taking the shot. With most digital cameras this will result in a silhouetted subject. In effect what you’re doing is tricking your camera into thinking that the bright part of the image is the mid tone of it so that anything darker than it will be exposed as a nice dark shadow.
• Some digital cameras also have ’spot’ or ‘centered’ metering modes that you can switch on which helps with the above technique as they will set the metering on the central spot of your frame rather than multiple spots. This means you can accurately tell your camera exactly which bit of the bright background you want it to set the exposure on.
• One last tip on Silhouettes – while a total silhouette with a nice crisp and black subject can be a powerful shot, also consider the partial silhouette where some detail of your subject is left. Sometimes a touch of light on them makes them slightly more three dimensional and ‘real’. This is the beauty of bracketing your shots as it will leave you with total and partial silhouettes to choose form.

Egyptian Chronicles: ElBaradei To Return Back to Egypt tonight

Baradei is hardly in town.

tags: Baradei Egypt

10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

tags: Photography Tips

‭BBC Arabic‬ – ‮الشرق الأوسط‬ – ‮اسرائيل تتوعد بالرد على مقتل الاسرائيليين الاربعة‬

tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

France24-Monte Carlo Doualiya – مقتل أربعة إسرائيليين في هجوم في الضفة الغربية

tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

حماس أعلنت مسؤوليتها..مقتل 4 اسرائيليين في الضفة الغربية عشية المفاوضات

tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

الشرطة : مقتل 4 اسرائيليين بالرصاص في الضفة الغربية | أخبار الشرق الأوسط | Reuters

tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

Practical Tip: Backlight | Online Photo Resource | Photography Tips and Tools

tags: Photography Tips

Flickr: NASA on The Commons’ Photostream

NASA on Flickr.. This is really awesome!

tags: NASA Photography Flickr

Inbox Hero: Gmail Priority Inbox Has Doused My Raging Email Fire — For Now

tags: Gmail

Three digital myths – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition

tags: wikileaks Media Journalism

YouTube – Squalo Longimanus Elphistone Reef Marsa Alam

tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks Longimanus Elphinstone

YouTube – A “very” curious Longimanus shark in Elphistone Reef – Re

tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks Longimanus

YouTube – Südtour von Marsa Alam Rotes Meer / Diving Safari South Red Sea Egypt

tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks

YouTube – Marsa Alam – Dugong Dance / Seekuh

tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Dugong Marsa Alam

YouTube – Ägypten – El Quseir bis Port Ghalib

tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red القصير Dolphins

YouTube – Elphinestone Riff

tags: Diving Elphinstone Sharks Marsa Alam Red Sea Egypt

YouTube – Elphinstone Reef

tags: Diving Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone Egypt Red Sea

YouTube – Great White Shark Accident

tags: Diving Sharks

YouTube – Shark Week 2007 – Hypnotizing a Deadly Shark

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tags: Diving Sharks

YouTube – Whale Shark at Elphinstone Reef, Egypt

tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

YouTube – ELPHINSTONE REEF, EGYPT

tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

YouTube – Tiger Shark at Elphinstone reef (Marsa Alam – Egypt)

tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

YouTube – Oceanic white tip sharks – red sea Egypt

tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks

YouTube – hammerhead sharks Tiran 2009 Egypt with emperor divers

tags: Diving Marsa Alam Red Sea Sharks

YouTube – Sharks in Egypt – Elphinstone reef

tags: Diving Elphinstone Marsa Alam Red Sea Sharks

Advanced Open Water Diver Course from PADI Professional Scuba Divers’ Training Organization

tags: Diving PADI

The Origins of Work’s Control of Industry in Russia

tags: Socialism Russia History Revolution John Reed

‭BBC Arabic‬ – ‮الشرق الأوسط‬ – ‮مصر: أحكام بالبراءة وبالحبس مع وقف التنفيذ في محاكمة العمال عسكريا‬ Annotated

tags: Egypt Workers Media IndustrialSafety Helwan مصنع ٩٩ censorship Military MilitaryTribunals

• لكن الملاحظ أن قضية مصنع 99 الحربي لا تكاد تجد لها ذكرا في وسائل الاعلام المصرية سواء القومية أو المستقلة، وذلك رغم انتشار أخبارها على مواقع منظمات حقوق الانسان وبعض المدونات، بل وبعض وسائل الاعلام غير المصرية.
• وتقول صحفية تعمل بجريدة مستقلة إن هناك حظرا غير رسمي على نشر أخبار تتعلق بالقضية، ورغم إحساسها بأهمية المحاكمة من واقع خبرتها في متابعة القضايا العمالية، فإنها تدرك حساسية الحديث في هذا الشأن لأنه يتعلق بإحدى مؤسسات القوات المسلحة، وهي من المناطق التي تتجنب وسائل الإعلام المصرية الخوض فيها.