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FashionNatic - Luna Top & Short Cosmopolitain : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/No%20Comment/185/24/23

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C'est la vie ! - Val Hair - Salon 52 : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Copper%20River/197/37/38

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Tulssy - Cinnamon Cocaine ORSY by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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[Cinnamon Cocaine] - Billionaire Glasses - ORSY Event

Tulssy - Gold Flower Ballerina Nails - ORSY Event

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Life as Fair Use by Thomas Hawk

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Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it's fair; if it substitutes, it's not - Boing Boing Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing points us to a debate between Tim Wu and NBC's chief general counsel about the need to redefine what constitutes fair use for a new digital world.

"That’s why it is time to recognize a simpler principle for fair use: work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use. In my view that’s a principle already behind the traditional lines: no one (well, nearly no one) would watch Mel Brook’s Spaceballs as a substitute for Star Wars; a book review is no substitute for reading The Naked and the Dead. They are complements to the original work, not substitutes, and that makes all the difference."

Which is all very true and all.

As a photographer, producer and publisher of content I probably, pretty much, technically, in a round about way violate copyright every single day.

I've got a set of images called Starbucky where I publish images of Starbucks (Starbuck's doesn't allow photographers to shoot in their stores by the way). I've also got a set of images up of paintings (go ahead and click through, I've got a great painting of a naked woman by artist Mel Ramos) -- someday there will be over 20,000 photographs in this set alone. Are some of these paintings over 75 years old and in the public domain? Probably. Are others less than 75 years old and under some kind of obscure, tucked away, undermined secret copyright. Probably.

Sometimes the world calls for permission based photography. It's mostly sort of a whim on a case by case basis. Like this woman in New York. I asked her if I could take her portrait and she said yes (just kidding, I didn't really ask her for permission, I ask some people though). Most of the time permission from Coca Cola and Chuck Close and the estate of Andy Warhol and some painter whose image captured your attention a few years ago and whose name you've long since forgotten is unnecessary duplication of effort. Redistribution. Retribution. Reincarnation.

I shoot billboards. I shoot the Coca Cola sign. I shoot mannequins and dogs and squirrels and security guards and angels and iPod ads. I shoot architecture and night scenes and rain and silhouettes. I shoot stamps and album covers and neon signs and car shows and Donald Trump with paint splattered all over his face and the Jack Kerouac On the Road scroll (even when I'm not allowed to). I have a set of images up containing photographs of Santa Claus and Jesus Christ. Sets can be powerful, very powerful.

Sometimes I'll publish a photograph of a copyrighted painting (like this painting by a cat named Pablo) and somebody else will come along and offer their own interpretation. Thank you the marquise de sade, you're the best -- love your shot of Big Pussy.

Sometimes I violate copyright. Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I publish these shots to Flickr and Zooomr and Pownce and my blog -- where I make money selling ads -- and sometimes I don't. There's a photograph on Bloomberg.com this morning of Ben Bernanke. He's rubbing his closed eyes with a look of doom. He could be about to cry. There's a little button next to it that says enlarge/details. Maybe we should blow this image up big and publish it on a billboard on Hollywood Boulevard.

As the waves of light find my eye and find my Canon 5D, I snap. Crackle. Pop. Bamm. Bamm again. Bamm a third time.

Fair use? Who the hell cares. The images need to be captured. And they need to be presented to the world in new and exciting and fun ways. Certainly a culture that gave us a talking Pontiac Firebird named Kitt could understand that. Whatcha selling this week? Ron Paul?

Andy Warhol probably would have thought it was more important to be famous than rich even though he was both. Andy ripped off Campbell's soup -- may he rest in peace. Richard Prince rips off people all the time. God bless the devil that is Richard Prince. Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Art is more important than commerce. Your camera is your friend, not your enemy. Never apologize for your art. Power to the people. The best photographs in the world have yet to be taken.

UC - Badwolf by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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BadWolf- Auja Necklace - Man Cave Event

UC - Nayde Top - Dubai Event

UC - Nayde Skirt - Shiny Shabby

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theshinedrop.blogspot.it/2017/06/style-n997.html

http://theshinedrop.blogspot.it/2017/06/style-n997.html by Gocciolina Navarita

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HWS (November 23rd & 24th) by ♰ ʟɪʟʟɪᴛʜ ♰

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WASABI - Obsidian Hair

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LYRIUM - Jini Animations Set

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DRESS ----------------------------- 90 L$

STOCKINGS --------------------- 90 L$

BOOTS ---------------------------- 88 L$

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Larmor baden by hassan bensliman

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Brittany landscape

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CandyDoll - Fabia by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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CandyDoll - Nova Dress

Fabia - Mesh Hair < Vira> - Fameshed X

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Cloe - Masoom - Fabia - Hoodlem by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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CLOE - Loe Dress - Anthem Event : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Anthem/127/127/1107

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cartier/109/45/1022

[[Masoom]] - Maria Gloves - Kinky : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Liberty%20City/126/125/36

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chillium/83/171/2802

Fabia - Penelope Hair RARE - Epiphany Event

Fabia - Horn & Spider - Epiphany Event : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Epiphany/96/110/2109

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Club%20Greystone/56/162/2502

Hoodlem - Day Of The Dead

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~ Poses by Foxcity - Made Up Bento Pose Set

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~ Backdrop by Synnergy.Tavis - Boho Fall Apartment Backdrop

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Gaia by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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For Her

Gaia - Summer Crop Top | Shorts

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For Him

CHUCK'S - Tank Mebron - Men Only Monthly : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Ambiance%20Island...

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Thunder%20Village/54/147/1502

[LOB] - Tommy Pant - Man Cave Event : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Match/213/134/46

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Possession/62/31/25

[Hipster Style] - Julius Combo

Mainstore : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Ambiance%20Island...

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http://paysagepoetconseiljardin.over-blog.com/2021/06/vol-de-flamants-roses.html by Katy Maupin

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Post 29 ♥ by Janine Wuyts

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Blog ♥ beauytstylesecondlife.blogspot.com/2018/09/post-29.html

Ευαγγελική χορωδία | Στιγμιότυπα Ε: Η ελπίδα χιλιετιών τελικά γίνεται πραγματικότητα by Βλαδίμηρος Ερντογκάν

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Εκκλησιαστικοί ύμνοι

Ο συγκινητικός ύμνος της βασιλείας έχει αντηχήσει, αναγγέλλοντας σε όλο το σύμπαν την άφιξη του Θεού στην ανθρωπότητα! Η βασιλεία του Θεού έχει φτάσει! Όλοι οι άνθρωποι επευφημούν, όλα αγάλλονται! Τα πάντα στους ουρανούς ξεχειλίζουν από χαρά. Τι εντυπωσιακές σκηνές αγαλλίασης είναι αυτές;

Από τους ανθρώπους που ζουν μέσα στην οδύνη και έχουν υπομείνει χιλιάδες χρόνια διαφθοράς του Σατανά, ποιος δεν λαχταρά— δεν ποθεί — την άφιξη του Θεού; Πόσοι πιστοί και ακόλουθοι του Θεού ανά τους αιώνες υπέστησαν, υπό την επιρροή του Σατανά, βάσανα και αντιξοότητες, διώξεις και αποξένωση; Ποιος δεν ελπίζει ότι η βασιλεία του Θεού θα έρθει σύντομα; Αφού γευτεί τις χαρές και τις λύπες της ανθρωπότητας, ποιος άνθρωπος δεν επιθυμεί να πρυτανεύσει η αλήθεια και η δικαιοσύνη στους ανθρώπους;

Όταν έρθει η βασιλεία του Θεού, θα φτάσει επιτέλους η μέρα που περιμένουν απεγνωσμένα όλα τα έθνη και οι λαοί! Tι σκηνές θα εκτυλιχθούν τότε στους ουρανούς και στη γη; Πόσο όμορφη θα είναι η ζωή στη βασιλεία; Με το έργο «Ο ύμνος της βασιλείας: Η βασιλεία κατέρχεται στον κόσμο», οι

προσευχές χιλιετιών θα πραγματοποιηθούν.

Πηγή εικόνας: Εκκλησία του Παντοδύναμου Θεού

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Witer joys... by Assay Rez

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https://theshinedrop.blogspot.com/2024/02/blog-post_19.html by Gocciolina Navarita

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theshinedrop.blogspot.com/2024/02/blog-post_19.html

Χριστιανικά τραγούδια | Γνωρίζεις την αποστολή σου; by Dallas Rilla Griffith

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Εισαγωγή

Εκκλησιαστικοί ύμνοι

Χριστιανικά τραγούδια | Γνωρίζεις την αποστολή σου;

Άραγε, ξέρεις το βάρος,

το καθήκον και την ευθύνη που κουβαλάς;

Της αποστολής σου η ιστορική αντίληψη πού είναι;

Πώς θα γίνεις καλός κύριος την άλλη εποχή;

Έχεις, μήπως, αίσθηση κυριότητας ισχυρή;

Πώς θα εξηγήσεις τον κύριο των πάντων;

Είναι, μήπως, ο κύριος όλων των ζωντανών

ή κύριος όλου του κόσμου του υλικού;

Ποιο το σχέδιό σου για τη συνέχεια;

Πόσοι περιμένουν να τους ποιμάνεις;

Δεν νιώθεις, άραγε, βαρύ το καθήκον σου;

Οι καημένες, αξιολύπητες ψυχές,

τυφλοί που έχουν χαθεί,

θρηνούν μέσα στο σκότος, διέξοδο αναζητούν.

Πώς περιμένουν το φως σαν πεφταστέρι να 'ρθει,

τη δύναμη του σκότους να διαλύσει, την καταπιεστική.

Τη λαχτάρα τους, μέρα και νύχτα, ποιος γνώρισε ποτέ;

Σαν το φως τους αναβοσβήνει - υποφέρουν

οι άθλιοι στο σκότος, δεν θα ελευθερωθούν.

Πότε θα πάψουν να κλαίνε;

Αυτά τα ανήσυχα πνεύματα έχουν τόση κακοτυχία.

Ανελέητα δεσμά, ιστορία ανάλλαχτη,

τους έχουν σφραγίσει γερά.

Ποιος άκουσε το κλάμα τους,

ποιος είδε τη δυστυχία τους;

Σκέφτηκες ποτέ τον Θεό, το άγχος και τη θλίψη Του,

να βλέπει να υποφέρει ο άνθρωπος

που με τα χέρια Του τον έπλασε;

Οι άνθρωποι δηλητηριασμένοι, δυστυχείς.

Aν και επιβίωσαν ως εδώ,

έχουν δηλητηριαστεί απ’ τον πονηρό.

Μήπως ξέχασες ότι είσαι θύμα κι εσύ;

Δεν θες, άραγε, η αγάπη Του να σώσει όσους επιβίωσαν,

να Του ανταποδώσεις όσο μπορείς,

που αγαπά τόσο τον άνθρωπο;

Πώς καταλαβαίνεις τη χρήση από τον Θεό,

για να ζήσεις ζωή ξεχωριστή;

Επιθυμείς και λαχταράς, άραγε,

να ζήσεις ζωή ευσεβή, στην υπηρεσία του Θεού;

από το βιβλίο «Ακολουθήστε τον Αμνό και τραγουδήστε νέα τραγούδια»

τα χνάρια του Θεού

Πηγή εικόνας: Εκκλησία του Παντοδύναμου Θεού

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XTC - TWS by Pтιтɴoυrѕ Alтer

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💗 Credit 💗

-XTC- - HeadShot Nails / Female Fit - Jail Event.

[TWS] - Cup Ashtray + Joint - Jail Event.

[TWS] - Lighter - Jail Event.

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NR.2996 by Bonnie Edring

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celery soup by connect 2012

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thick, creamy celery soup of celery, parsnip, potato, onion and fresh coriander

plenty of vegetables were used in this recipe. that's why i cooked in two saucepans. the cooked contents of both saucepans were decanted into the large preserving pan, mixed together and ladled into the boxes to freeze. much of what i buy is from the markets. yesterday at whitechapel market a bowl of 3 bunches of coriander was £1

celery and parsnip cooked in a large saucepan, then blended

potato and onion cooked in a large saucepan, then blended

both pans of vegetables including the cooking water decanted into large preserving pan

a chopped bunch of fresh coriander added

(season during this stage or season just before being plated to eat)

stirred to mix all the ingredients

finally celery soup ladled into the boxes ready for the freezer, to be eaten as and when

i add milk and/or extra virgin olive oil either in the preliminary cooking (not this time) or later when each portion is reheated ready to eat, just to keep upping the flavour :)

when reheating i add more cooked potato and blend. this restores the creamy consistency of the soup which can be lost once frozen

all cooking was done on the hob on a low heat, 2 and less, from beginning to end.

i'd heard an energy saving tip from a bbc radio 2 listener who had phoned in to a programme on rising energy costs. he had noticed it was cheaper if he cooked on the hob throughout on low rather than medium or high, making sure the lid is on the pan, apart from the occasional stir.

now i've a smart meter installed www.britishgas.co.uk/smart-home/smart-meters.html monitoring energy use i thought i'd give it a go and found it to be a good tip.

(i suppose it's a bit like driving a car: driving fast burns up the fuel, driving slow lessens fuel consumption but we reach the destination)

if i have the hob on high, the smart meter dial shoots up to the orange/red and stays there - expensive - but on low the dial remains in the green - low cost - only occasionally for a few seconds each time, going to the orange/red

it does mean i have to plan ahead to give myself time to cook in this way but i'm managing and enjoying the challenge :)

ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily

www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ helps to gather ideas and encourages me to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...

Iron Baby by DobingDesign

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Do not download without my permission.

I was very touched by this sculpture of a tiny human. I wanted to reach out and touch it but I knew it would be cold, the opposite of what it represents. A tiny, delicate yet cast iron baby is curled up on the pavement. It is so small it is easily missed. This sculpture, by Antony Gormley, is based on the artist's six day old daughter and our 'precarious position in relation to our planetary future'.

Ο Θεός έθεσε όρια για τα διάφορα πουλιά και τα θηρία, τα ψάρια, τα έντομα και όλα τα φυτά by Dallas Rilla Griffith

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ο Υιός του Θεού

Ο Θεός λέει:« ...Το δεύτερο σημείο: Πρώτον, πού ζουν τα πουλιά και τα ζώα και τα έντομα; Ζουν στα δάση και στα σύδενδρα; (Ναι.) Αυτός είναι ο τόπος τους. Έτσι, εκτός από τη δημιουργία ορίων για τα διάφορα γεωγραφικά περιβάλλοντα, ο Θεός έθεσε ακόμα όρια για τα διάφορα πουλιά και ζώα, ψάρια, έντομα, καθώς και όλα τα φυτά. Επίσης, θέσπισε νόμους. Εξαιτίας των διαφορών ανάμεσα στα διάφορα γεωγραφικά περιβάλλοντα, και εξαιτίας της ύπαρξής τους, τα διάφορα είδη πουλιών και ζώων, ψαριών, εντόμων και φυτών έχουν διαφορετικά περιβάλλοντα επιβίωσης.... »

από το βιβλίο «Ο Λόγος Ενσαρκώνεται»

Ενσάρκωση

Πίστη στον Θεό

My Korner #437 - The Angel! by Shakilyn Peppermint

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BLOG NAME: The Angel!

DESIGNERS: Rapture, Six Feet Under, Cherry Amore, Blueberry, Tram, Adorsy, Avada & Sintiklia

Watch Out Lucifer! The Angel is descending the staircase from heaven and she wants to talk to YOU!

Today I'm wearing:

TEDDY: RAPTURE-Teddy Asia-Nude

HALO: SFU - Selene Halo @Aenigma Event

STOCKINGS: Cherry Amore Gothic Lace-Up Stockings

WINGS: Blueberry - Icon Angel Wings - Gold

HAIR: tram G0220 hair / HUD-A

ARMBANDS: Alexia Armband Bracelet Gold White - adorsy

FOREHEAD JEWEL: SFU - Goddess Bindi

NAILS: Avada~ Stiletto Nails - Ahlai @#BIGGIRL

EYESHADOW/LIPSTICK: Sintiklia. - Makeup Winter's tale @C88

Rapture Teddy is rigged for Freya, Hourglass, Isis, Maitreya and Physique and comes in 10 colors. Materials enabled.

Selene halo is unrigged and comes with HUD to change stones and metal.

Stockings come with HUD and 17 colors for Belleza, Maitreya and Slink.

Wings are unrigged and come with bento and non bento version and the gold edition has multiple color choices.

Alexia armbands for both left and right arms come in 15 colors and fatpack.

Goddess Bindi comes with HUD to change metal and stone colors.

Ahlai nails are rigged for Belleza, Kupra, Legacy, Maitreya, Signature, Slink & Tonic mesh bodies and have applier with 17 color choices.

Winter's tale makeup HUD has 10 shades of lipstick and 10 shades of eyeliners to match.

Links:

Rapture Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fire%20Ridge/17/181/23

Rapture Marketplace

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/129419

Aenigma Event

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vale%20Acadia/129/59/44

Six Feet Under Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Indian%20Paradise/48/181/22

Six Feet Under Marketplace

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/45890

Cherry Amore

marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Cherry-Amore-Gothic-Lace-Up-...

Blueberry

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/113388

Tram

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minnaloushe/230/30/38

Adorsy Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sorens/221/36/21

Adorsy Marketplace

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/197132

C88

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/8%208/170/193/1086

Sintiklia Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sintiklia/133/67/25

Sintiklia Marketplace

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/179492

#BIGGIRL

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AMERICAN%20BAZAAR/173/196/30

Avada Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elmira/136/134/27

Avada Marketplace

marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/147505

Jardim de Lou Lim Ioc 盧廉若公園, Macau by Snuffy

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Excerpt from www.visitourchina.com/macao/attraction/lou-lim-ieoc-garde...:

Chinese name: 盧廉若公園

Location: Estrada de Adolfo Loureiro, in northern Macau Peninsular, Macau.

Located in the middle of Macau Peninsular at the northern foot of Guia Hill, Lou Lim Ieoc Garden (in Portuguese: Jardim Lou Lim Ieoc) covers an area of 1.78 hectares with scenic landscapes. This elegant garden was modeled after Suzhou Lion Grove Garden, one of the four most famous classic gardens in Suzhou, being the only one with Suzhou classical garden style in Macau. Lou Lim Ieoc Garden was once named "Entertainment Garden" and hailed as one of three famous gardens of Macau many years ago. And in 1992, it was rated as one of Macau’s eights sights. Lou Lim Ieoc Garden is a great place for sightseeing as it has quaint moon gate, shady walkways, grotesque rocks of man-made hills, bamboo groves, towering banyan tress, winding corridors, elegant pavilions, spattering waterfalls, ponds with green lotus, etc. The waterside pavilion is the centerpiece of Lou Lim leoc Garden. Despite it is a traditional Chinese architecture, some western architectural elements are embedded in, such as the external wall painted in light yellow, the favorite color of Portuguese, gothic porticoes, white European-style carvings at the top of porticoes. The barrier close to the pond is painted red, China’s favorite color. This building reflects the fusion of oriental and western cultures.

It was initially a vegetable plot and was purchased by a Macau Turpan, whose son Lou Lim leoc spent a large sum of money to convert it into a private garden. Lou Lim Ieoc Garden was the largest private garden in Macau. The construction started 1904 and took 21 years to finish. The garden was changed hand due to the Lu family’s bankruptcy, until it was purchased by Macau government in 1970s. After renovation it was opened to the public in 1974. At the turn of 21st century, Lou Lim Ieoc Garden was famed as the show place of Cantonese opera. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of Chinese democratic revolution, once stayed in this garden to meet celebrities of China, Macau and Portugal, and revolutionists.

Orange Alley - Urinal and Shrine by Alan W George

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The Words of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. by Robert F. W. Whitlock

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Nobel Lecture by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Quest for Peace and Justice

It is impossible to begin this lecture without again expressing my deep appreciation to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament for bestowing upon me and the civil rights movement in the United States such a great honor. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

This evening I would like to use this lofty and historic platform to discuss what appears to me to be the most pressing problem confronting mankind today. Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. This is a dazzling picture of modern man's scientific and technological progress.

Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau1: "Improved means to an unimproved end". This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man. If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual "lag" must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the "without" of man's nature subjugates the "within", dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.

This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man's chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man's ethical infantilism. Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other. I refer to racial injustice, poverty, and war.

The first problem that I would like to mention is racial injustice. The struggle to eliminate the evil of racial injustice constitutes one of the major struggles of our time. The present upsurge of the Negro people of the United States grows out of a deep and passionate determination to make freedom and equality a reality "here" and "now". In one sense the civil rights movement in the United States is a special American phenomenon which must be understood in the light of American history and dealt with in terms of the American situation. But on another and more important level, what is happening in the United States today is a relatively small part of a world development.

We live in a day, says the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead2,"when civilization is shifting its basic outlook: a major turning point in history where the presuppositions on which society is structured are being analyzed, sharply challenged, and profoundly changed." What we are seeing now is a freedom explosion, the realization of "an idea whose time has come", to use Victor Hugo's phrase3. The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses, rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom, in one majestic chorus the rising masses singing, in the words of our freedom song, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn us around."4 All over the world, like a fever, the freedom movement is spreading in the widest liberation in history. The great masses of people are determined to end the exploitation of their races and land. They are awake and moving toward their goal like a tidal wave. You can hear them rumbling in every village street, on the docks, in the houses, among the students, in the churches, and at political meetings. Historic movement was for several centuries that of the nations and societies of Western Europe out into the rest of the world in "conquest" of various sorts. That period, the era of colonialism, is at an end. East is meeting West. The earth is being redistributed. Yes, we are "shifting our basic outlooks".

These developments should not surprise any student of history. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. The Bible tells the thrilling story of how Moses stood in Pharaoh's court centuries ago and cried, "Let my people go."5 This is a kind of opening chapter in a continuing story. The present struggle in the United States is a later chapter in the same unfolding story. Something within has reminded the Negro of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained. Consciously or unconsciously, he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers in Asia, South America, and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice.

Fortunately, some significant strides have been made in the struggle to end the long night of racial injustice. We have seen the magnificent drama of independence unfold in Asia and Africa. Just thirty years ago there were only three independent nations in the whole of Africa. But today thirty-five African nations have risen from colonial bondage. In the United States we have witnessed the gradual demise of the system of racial segregation. The Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools gave a legal and constitutional deathblow to the whole doctrine of separate but equal6. The Court decreed that separate facilities are inherently unequal and that to segregate a child on the basis of race is to deny that child equal protection of the law. This decision came as a beacon light of hope to millions of disinherited people. Then came that glowing day a few months ago when a strong Civil Rights Bill became the law of our land7. This bill, which was first recommended and promoted by President Kennedy, was passed because of the overwhelming support and perseverance of millions of Americans, Negro and white. It came as a bright interlude in the long and sometimes turbulent struggle for civil rights: the beginning of a second emancipation proclamation providing a comprehensive legal basis for equality of opportunity. Since the passage of this bill we have seen some encouraging and surprising signs of compliance. I am happy to report that, by and large, communities all over the southern part of the United States are obeying the Civil Rights Law and showing remarkable good sense in the process.

Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression8. The voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right9. They defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.

Let me not leave you with a false impression. The problem is far from solved. We still have a long, long way to go before the dream of freedom is a reality for the Negro in the United States. To put it figuratively in biblical language, we have left the dusty soils of Egypt and crossed a Red Sea whose waters had for years been hardened by a long and piercing winter of massive resistance. But before we reach the majestic shores of the Promised Land, there is a frustrating and bewildering wilderness ahead. We must still face prodigious hilltops of opposition and gigantic mountains of resistance. But with patient and firm determination we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope, until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion; until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity; and until the crooked places of prejudice are transformed by the straightening process of bright-eyed wisdom.

What the main sections of the civil rights movement in the United States are saying is that the demand for dignity, equality, jobs, and citizenship will not be abandoned or diluted or postponed. If that means resistance and conflict we shall not flinch. We shall not be cowed. We are no longer afraid.

The word that symbolizes the spirit and the outward form of our encounter is nonviolence, and it is doubtless that factor which made it seem appropriate to award a peace prize to one identified with struggle. Broadly speaking, nonviolence in the civil rights struggle has meant not relying on arms and weapons of struggle. It has meant noncooperation with customs and laws which are institutional aspects of a regime of discrimination and enslavement. It has meant direct participation of masses in protest, rather than reliance on indirect methods which frequently do not involve masses in action at all.

Nonviolence has also meant that my people in the agonizing struggles of recent years have taken suffering upon themselves instead of inflicting it on others. It has meant, as I said, that we are no longer afraid and cowed. But in some substantial degree it has meant that we do not want to instill fear in others or into the society of which we are a part. The movement does not seek to liberate Negroes at the expense of the humiliation and enslavement of whites. It seeks no victory over anyone. It seeks to liberate American society and to share in the self-liberation of all the people.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

In a real sense nonviolence seeks to redeem the spiritual and moral lag that I spoke of earlier as the chief dilemma of modern man. It seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

I believe in this method because I think it is the only way to reestablish a broken community. It is the method which seeks to implement the just law by appealing to the conscience of the great decent majority who through blindness, fear, pride, and irrationality have allowed their consciences to sleep.

The nonviolent resisters can summarize their message in the following simple terms: we will take direct action against injustice despite the failure of governmental and other official agencies to act first. We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly, cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to truth as we see it.

This approach to the problem of racial injustice is not at all without successful precedent. It was used in a magnificent way by Mohandas K. Gandhi to challenge the might of the British Empire and free his people from the political domination and economic exploitation inflicted upon them for centuries. He struggled only with the weapons of truth, soul force, non-injury, and courage10.

In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence. By the thousands, faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white, have temporarily left the ivory towers of learning for the barricades of bias. Their courageous and disciplined activities have come as a refreshing oasis in a desert sweltering with the heat of injustice. They have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. One day all of America will be proud of their achievements11.

I am only too well aware of the human weaknesses and failures which exist, the doubts about the efficacy of nonviolence, and the open advocacy of violence by some. But I am still convinced that nonviolence is both the most practically sound and morally excellent way to grapple with the age-old problem of racial injustice.

A second evil which plagues the modern world is that of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, it projects its nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world. Almost two-thirds of the peoples of the world go to bed hungry at night. They are undernourished, ill-housed, and shabbily clad. Many of them have no houses or beds to sleep in. Their only beds are the sidewalks of the cities and the dusty roads of the villages. Most of these poverty-stricken children of God have never seen a physician or a dentist. This problem of poverty is not only seen in the class division between the highly developed industrial nations and the so-called underdeveloped nations; it is seen in the great economic gaps within the rich nations themselves. Take my own country for example. We have developed the greatest system of production that history has ever known. We have become the richest nation in the world. Our national gross product this year will reach the astounding figure of almost 650 billion dollars. Yet, at least one-fifth of our fellow citizens - some ten million families, comprising about forty million individuals - are bound to a miserable culture of poverty. In a sense the poverty of the poor in America is more frustrating than the poverty of Africa and Asia. The misery of the poor in Africa and Asia is shared misery, a fact of life for the vast majority; they are all poor together as a result of years of exploitation and underdevelopment. In sad contrast, the poor in America know that they live in the richest nation in the world, and that even though they are perishing on a lonely island of poverty they are surrounded by a vast ocean of material prosperity. Glistening towers of glass and steel easily seen from their slum dwellings spring up almost overnight. Jet liners speed over their ghettoes at 600 miles an hour; satellites streak through outer space and reveal details of the moon. President Johnson, in his State of the Union Message12, emphasized this contradiction when he heralded the United States' "highest standard of living in the world", and deplored that it was accompanied by "dislocation; loss of jobs, and the specter of poverty in the midst of plenty".

So it is obvious that if man is to redeem his spiritual and moral "lag", he must go all out to bridge the social and economic gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots" of the world. Poverty is one of the most urgent items on the agenda of modern life.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. More than a century and a half ago people began to be disturbed about the twin problems of population and production. A thoughtful Englishman named Malthus wrote a book13 that set forth some rather frightening conclusions. He predicted that the human family was gradually moving toward global starvation because the world was producing people faster than it was producing food and material to support them. Later scientists, however, disproved the conclusion of Malthus, and revealed that he had vastly underestimated the resources of the world and the resourcefulness of man.

Not too many years ago, Dr. Kirtley Mather, a Harvard geologist, wrote a book entitled Enough and to Spare14. He set forth the basic theme that famine is wholly unnecessary in the modern world. Today, therefore, the question on the agenda must read: Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? Even deserts can be irrigated and top soil can be replaced. We cannot complain of a lack of land, for there are twenty-five million square miles of tillable land, of which we are using less than seven million. We have amazing knowledge of vitamins, nutrition, the chemistry of food, and the versatility of atoms. There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds, and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, so must the infection and sickness of poverty be exposed and healed - not only its symptoms but its basic causes. This, too, will be a fierce struggle, but we must not be afraid to pursue the remedy no matter how formidable the task.

The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these". Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinite metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them. The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.

In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers' keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality. John Donne interpreted this truth in graphic terms when he affirmed15:

No man is an Iland, intire of its selfe: every

man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the

maine: if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,

Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie

were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends

or of thine owne were: any mans death

diminishes me, because I am involved in

Mankinde: and therefore never send to know

for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.

A third great evil confronting our world is that of war. Recent events have vividly reminded us that nations are not reducing but rather increasing their arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. The best brains in the highly developed nations of the world are devoted to military technology. The proliferation of nuclear weapons has not been halted, in spite of the Limited Test Ban Treaty16. On the contrary, the detonation of an atomic device by the first nonwhite, non- Western, and so-called underdeveloped power, namely the Chinese People's Republic17, opens new vistas of exposure of vast multitudes, the whole of humanity, to insidious terrorization by the ever-present threat of annihilation. The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of the nuclear war out of their minds because it is too painful and therefore not "acceptable", does not alter the nature and risks of such war. The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.

So man's proneness to engage in war is still a fact. But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminated even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. If we assume that life is worth living and that man has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. In a day when vehicles hurtle through outer space and guided ballistic missiles carve highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can claim victory in war. A so-called limited war will leave little more than a calamitous legacy of human suffering, political turmoil, and spiritual disillusionment. A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death. So if modern man continues to flirt unhesitatingly with war, he will transform his earthly habitat into an inferno such as even the mind of Dante could not imagine.

Therefore, I venture to suggest to all of you and all who hear and may eventually read these words, that the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence become immediately a subject for study and for serious experimentation in every field of human conflict, by no means excluding the relations between nations. It is, after all, nation-states which make war, which have produced the weapons which threaten the survival of mankind, and which are both genocidal and suicidal in character.

Here also we have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as imperative and urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to racial injustice. Equality with whites will hardly solve the problems of either whites or Negroes if it means equality in a society under the spell of terror and a world doomed to extinction.

I do not wish to minimize the complexity of the problems that need to be faced in achieving disarmament and peace. But I think it is a fact that we shall not have the will, the courage, and the insight to deal with such matters unless in this field we are prepared to undergo a mental and spiritual reevaluation - a change of focus which will enable us to see that the things which seem most real and powerful are indeed now unreal and have come under the sentence of death. We need to make a supreme effort to generate the readiness, indeed the eagerness, to enter into the new world which is now possible, "the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God"18.

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say "We must not wage war." It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace. There is a fascinating little story that is preserved for us in Greek literature about Ulysses and the Sirens. The Sirens had the ability to sing so sweetly that sailors could not resist steering toward their island. Many ships were lured upon the rocks, and men forgot home, duty, and honor as they flung themselves into the sea to be embraced by arms that drew them down to death. Ulysses, determined not to be lured by the Sirens, first decided to tie himself tightly to the mast of his boat, and his crew stuffed their ears with wax. But finally he and his crew learned a better way to save themselves: they took on board the beautiful singer Orpheus whose melodies were sweeter than the music of the Sirens. When Orpheus sang, who bothered to listen to the Sirens?

So we must fix our vision not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a "peace race". If we have the will and determination to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.

All that I have said boils down to the point of affirming that mankind's survival is dependent upon man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. Some years ago a famous novelist died. Among his papers was found a list of suggested story plots for future stories, the most prominently underscored being this one: "A widely separated family inherits a house in which they have to live together." This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a big house, a great "world house" in which we have to live together - black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated in ideas, culture, and interests who, because we can never again live without each other, must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other.

This means that more and more our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. We must now give an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in our individual societies.

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response which is little more than emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the First Epistle of Saint John19:

Let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone

that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His

love is perfected in us.

Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day. As Arnold Toynbee20 says: "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word." We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

Let me close by saying that I have the personal faith that mankind will somehow rise up to the occasion and give new directions to an age drifting rapidly to its doom. In spite of the tensions and uncertainties of this period something profoundly meaningful is taking place. Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. Doors of opportunity are gradually being opened to those at the bottom of society. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are developing a new sense of "some-bodiness" and carving a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of despair. "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light."21 Here and there an individual or group dares to love, and rises to the majestic heights of moral maturity. So in a real sense this is a great time to be alive. Therefore, I am not yet discouraged about the future. Granted that the easygoing optimism of yesterday is impossible. Granted that those who pioneer in the struggle for peace and freedom will still face uncomfortable jail terms, painful threats of death; they will still be battered by the storms of persecution, leading them to the nagging feeling that they can no longer bear such a heavy burden, and the temptation of wanting to retreat to a more quiet and serene life. Granted that we face a world crisis which leaves us standing so often amid the surging murmur of life's restless sea. But every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. It can spell either salvation or doom. In a dark confused world the kingdom of God may yet reign in the hearts of men.

* Dr. King delivered this lecture in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo. This text is taken from Les Prix Nobel en 1964. The text in the New York Times is excerpted. His speech of acceptance delivered the day before in the same place is reported fully both in Les Prix Nobel en 1964 and the New York Times.

1. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American poet and essayist.

2. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). British philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of London and Harvard University.

3. "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come." Translations differ; probable origin is Victor Hugo, Histoire d'un crime, "Conclusion-La Chute", chap. 10.

4. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" is the title of an old Baptist spiritual.

5. Exodus 5:1; 8:1; 9:1; 10:3.

6. "Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka", 347 U.S. 483, contains the decision of May 17, 1954, requiring desegregation of the public schools by the states. "Bolling vs. Sharpe", 347 U.S. 497, contains the decision of same date requiring desegregation of public schools by the federal government; i.e. in Washington, D.C. "Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka", Nos. 1-5. 349 U.S. 249, contains the opinion of May 31, 1955, on appeals from the decisions in the two cases cited above, ordering admission to "public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed".

7. Public Law 88-352, signed by President Johnson on July 2, 1964.

8. Both Les Prix Nobel and the New York Times read "retrogress".

9. Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater by a popular vote of 43, 128, 956 to 27,177,873.

10. For a note on Gandhi, seep. 329, fn. 1.

11. For accounts of the civil rights activities by both whites and blacks in the decade from 1954 to 1964, see Alan F. Westin, Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Struggle in America (New York: Basic Books, 1964), especially Part IV, "The Techniques of the Civil Rights Struggle"; Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964); Eugene V. Rostow, "The Freedom Riders and the Future", The Reporter (June 22, 1961); James Peck, Cracking the Color Line: Nonviolent Direct Action Methods of Eliminating Racial Discrimination (New York: CORE, 1960).

12. January 8, 1964.

13. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).

14. Kirtley F. Mather, Enough and to Spare: Mother Earth Can Nourish Every Man in Freedom (New York: Harper, 1944).

15. John Donne (1572?-1631), English poet, in the final lines of "Devotions" (1624).

16. Officially called "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Underwater", and signed by Russia, England, and United States on July 25, 1963.

17. On October 16, 1964.

18. Hebrews II: 10.

19. I John 4:7-8, 12.

20. Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889- ), British historian whose monumental work is the 10-volume A Study of Story (1934-1954).

21. This quotation may be based on a phrase from Luke 1:79, "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death"; or one from Psalms 107:10, "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death"; or one from Mark Twain's To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901), "The people who sit in darkness have noticed it...".

From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

retrieved January 18, 2010 from nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lec...

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ο Υιός του Θεού

Ο Θεός λέει:« ...Το δεύτερο σημείο: Πρώτον, πού ζουν τα πουλιά και τα ζώα και τα έντομα; Ζουν στα δάση και στα σύδενδρα; (Ναι.) Αυτός είναι ο τόπος τους. Έτσι, εκτός από τη δημιουργία ορίων για τα διάφορα γεωγραφικά περιβάλλοντα, ο Θεός έθεσε ακόμα όρια για τα διάφορα πουλιά και ζώα, ψάρια, έντομα, καθώς και όλα τα φυτά. Επίσης, θέσπισε νόμους. Εξαιτίας των διαφορών ανάμεσα στα διάφορα γεωγραφικά περιβάλλοντα, και εξαιτίας της ύπαρξής τους, τα διάφορα είδη πουλιών και ζώων, ψαριών, εντόμων και φυτών έχουν διαφορετικά περιβάλλοντα επιβίωσης.... »

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Where? (poem below) by JamieMcK2001

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Poem from 2014, photo this past week in Cheesman Park.

You will find more than 190 of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html

Where?

Where does the luck go

When she goes?

Lady Luck

When she takes a powder

Ignores you

Makes you gasp

Tortures you

And makes you question everything

How do we bring her back?

Wake her up?

Catch her attention?

Win her blessings

When we need her?

Without seeming desperate

Or craven

Just eager

You will find more of my poems and songs here

and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.

My songs are at

www.youtube.com/user/edtech2008/videos

Pss Antoine BIBESCO - Lady Elizabeth ASQUITH by Augustus John, 1919 by Constant

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Lady Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the 1st Earl of Oxford, British PM married Prince Antoine Bibescu, diplomat at the Romanian Legation in London and settled at the family seat of Mogosoaia near Bucharest.

She figures in an Anthology, (now available as an E-Book) entitled:

"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com/orderthebook_p1(dot)html

Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1948) was the daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. In 1919 she married Prince Antoine Bibesco a flamboyant Romanian diplomat in London and the wedding ceremony took place at the Greek Orthodox church of Sait Sophia in London and at St Margaret's Westminster.

On seeing the inevitable happen that his daughter Elizabeth would marry into a Romanian family, the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford, (1852-1928) inquired cautiously of his future son-in-law:

“It seems that you have considerable estates in Romania?”

to which the young diplomat, Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1952) answered:

“It takes the Orient Express one day to go through me”.

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com

Antoine was a friend of Marcel Proust whom he asked to be his daughter's Godfather: this was Priscilla Bibesco who died in Paris in 2004 in an apartment in l'Ile St Louis, overlooking Notre Dame. This was originally Antoine and Elizabeth's flat in Paris, where they moved after they married: it was decorated with immense canvasses by Vuillard.

Priscilla Bibesco. Elizabeth's daughter was a neighbour and cousin of Princess Marthe Bibesco, who kept a coveted literary salon.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was known as a witty writer of short stories, essays novels plays and poetry. A collection of her papers are kept in the Bodleyan library, Oxford.

Elizabeth had a brief liaison with Katherine Mansfield's husband - John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) at which point Mansfield wrote Asquith a waspish letter:

“I am afraid you must stop writing these little love letters to my husband while he and I live together. It is one of those things which is not done in our world.

You are very young. Won’t you ask your husband to explain to you the impossibility of such a situation.

Please don’t you have to make me write to you again. I do not like scolding people and I simply hate to teach them manners.” (Frank and Anita Kermode op.cit. 496).

At that time Murry (1889-1957) was 33, a socialist and pacifist, an influential literary critic, an Editor of the Athaeneum and friend of notable literary figures such as T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Katherine Mansfield was an established writer, gaining praise for her recently published volume, ironically entitled 'Bliss' (1920), whilst Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was an aspiring writer. Miss Mansfield did not object to her socialist husband’s affair with an aristocrat, rather to the irritation of seeing these love letters whilst she and Murry still lived under the same roof.

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com

"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"

Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN

Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)

DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card

COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)

LINK: www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com/orderthebook_p1(dot)html

CONTENTS:

2,250,000 words,

over 1,000 pages,

ca 160 illustrations in text

160 critical biographies,

58 social categories/professions,

600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),

circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)

6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place

index and name index)

AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.

INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status

Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)

NOTE:

Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.

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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)

AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu

BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur

CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza

DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu

EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün

FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida

GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza

HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin

II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian

JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj

KK *Mite Kremnitz

LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu

MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci

NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac

OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea

PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu

RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco

SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck

TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini

UU *Viorica Ursuleac

VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu

WW *Sabina Wurmbrand

ZZ *Virginia Zeani

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