Anthurium is a genus of about 1000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf. The genus is native to the Americas, where it is distributed from northern Mexico to northern Argentina and parts of the Caribbean. They are grown for their attractive flowering bracts which are popular with the cut flower trade. All parts of the plant, are poisonous. If ingested, may cause mild stomach disorders. 15383

German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 5201. Photo: Becker & Maass.

 

Maria Orska (1893-1930) was a Russian-Jewish actress of the German stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s.

 

On 16 March 1893 Maria Orska was born Effi Rahel Blindermann in Nikolayev, Russian Empire (now Mikolaiv in Ukraine). She was the cousin of the German actress Hedda Forsten and by her mother parented to the theatre impresario Eugen Frankfurter. Although she originally wanted to study law like her father wanted to, she became a stage actress and was discovered by the German actor and drama teacher Ferdinand Gregori when in St. Petersburg. In 1909 he brought her to Vienna's conservatory "k.u.k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst" (today Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), led by him. In 1910, she followed Gregori to the Mannheim court theater where she debuted as "Daisy Orska" and soon drew attention to herself in plays by Strindberg and Schnitzler. In 1911 she came to the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where quickly she became the star of the company. In the season 1914/1915 Maria Orska, her stage name by now, moved to Berlin, where she performed at the "Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße" (today "Hebbel-Theater") as well as Max Reinhardt’s Berlin stage. In the same year Edith Andreae was introduced to her, with whom she held a longlasting friendship.

 

In Berlin the exiled Russian artist became known as interpreter of the works by modern playwrights such as Wilde, Strindberg, Schnitzler, Wedekind and Pirandello. She was a huge success in Wedekind’s Lulu in 1917. "She had sharp, piercing tones, the uncanny effect of which the little character fanatically exaggerated. She also cultivated mundane roles, in which she unfolded the pointed humours of a devious character ... In the field of erotic representation she dared to go remarkably far. She was not an elementary artist, but she had individual qualities that made her the darling of the audience“, the reporter and author Emil Faktor noted in the Berliner Börsen-Courier (16.05.1930) in occasion of her tragic death.

 

Since her marriage to her second husband, Baron Dr. Hans von Bleichröder jun. (1888 - 1938), a grandson of the Jewish banker Gerson von Bleichröder, the ambitious Maria Orska maintained an elaborate lifestyle. For a long time, she was at the center of so-called Berlin society, and also knew how to stage herself in private as an eccentric spectacle. Her popularity was reinforced by cinema. In 1915 she began a second career as a silent film actor and soon received top salaries. Maria Orska gave her screen debut at the Greenbaum-Film GmbH in Richard Oswald's melodrama Dämon und Mensch (Demon and Man, 1915) and played the shady Lina, who wants to take a cleansed criminal (Rudolf Schildkraut) away from the path of virtue. Maria Orska worked for the first time with the filmmaker and director Max Mack (1884 - 1973) in Das tanzende Herz (The Dancing Heart, 1916), which effected in a six-part Maria Orska film series for the cinemas in 1916/17, with Orska herself as protagonist in each film. The star was praised as "the unmatched interpreter of Strindberg's women, the most fashionable actress of today's Berlin". She was the representative of an "art entirely dedicated to nerves" (Der Film, no. 23, 01.07.1916). As a girl from the gutter she presented herself in Der Sumpf (The Gutter, 1916), but also in comedies such as Die Sektwette (The Champagne Bet, 1916) she was able to win the audience for herself.

 

But it was mostly the melodramas of those years in which Maria Orska performed the type of the wicked woman. After the dramatic film Adamant's Letztes Rennen (Adamant’s Last Race, 1917) and Der lebende Tote (The Living Dead, 1917), she was for Max Mack Die schwarze Loo (Black Lu, 1917), a gypsy woman who becomes the talk of the town, and who almost wrecks the marriage of a musician (Bruno Kastner). Director Max Mack abducts his audience into the dazzling half-world of the imperial capital. The acclaimed Maria Orska acted as Black Lu, who is constantly surrounded both in the demimonde world and high society. Between push dancing and amorous intrigue, the film develops its highly dared action for those days in expressive images and pointed situations, in which with remarkable determination the stern morality of the late German Imperial Empire is shaken.

 

Die schwarze Loo was the last part of the Maria -Orska-series, which Mack realized for the Greenbaum-Film. Then Maria Orska paused from the film business and focused on her work at the theater for the next three years. In 1920 she reappeared on screen in the film Die letzte Stunde (The Last Hour), directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, and the Emile Zola adaptation Die Bestie im Menschen (The Human Beast, Ludwig Wolff 1921), Der Streik der Diebe (The Thieves’ Strike, Alfred Abel 1921), and Paul Czinner's drama Opfer der Leidenschaft (Victims of Passion, 1922) as female partner of Paul Bildt. With the role of the capricious dancer Barberina Campanini in the first and third part of the Fridericus Rex series (Sturm und Drang, 1922; Sanssouci, 1923) Maria Orska finished her film career.

 

Orska’s attempt to become a theatrical actress in Paris failed. Disappointed, the celebrated artist returned to Berlin and accepted commitments at the Komödienhaus, the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater. In 1927 for instance, in Hans Kaltneker's mystery play The Sisters at the theater in the Königgrätzer Strasse in Berlin, Orska played the lesbian Ruth. More and more however, Orska’s health visibly deteriorated by her morphine addiction. Divorced since 1925 by her husband, Dr. Hans von Bleichröder, Maria Orska became the talk of the town because of her own desire for death and her drug consumption. Nurses waited on the side stage with a syringe, directors dreaded every performance. Her suicide attempts - once she jumped off a train - soon became routine for the public. "They had an already typical character, they were each time after a rest and detox pause in the sanatorium, which the demon hunted artist used to leave like a fury, in order to escape from a life that had become worthless for her", Emil Faktor wrote in 1930.

 

All rehab attempts by Orska proved failing. She finally poisoned herself by an overdose of Veronal. The actress was brought to the Viennese General Hospital, where she died on May 16, 1930, at the age of only 37 – she couldn’t cope with a pneumonia because of her weakened body. Also the life of her sister Gabryela, who, born in 1894, became Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda when married to an Italian aristocrat, ended tragically, in 1924 (or 1926). Gabryela hanged herself in a Viennese hotel. Wikipedia claims it was after a row with her sister Maria. Their brother Edwin, aviator in the Russian Imperial Army, survived the First World War, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazis, and the sisters. In 1938 he emigrated from Germany to Ecuador where he died in 1966.

 

"Maria Orska was completely subordinate to the intoxication of the stage until it crushed her. Her strange appearance confirmed how difficult it is to understand the phenomenon of the stage actor. She seemed so enveloped in the air of the scene, but at the same time she remained so simple. She was a theatrical crowd-puller and a rhetorical star, such as Wilde’s Salome, and was also the most humble of Hedwig in Wildente [The Wild Duck] by Ibsen. She was hot and cold, she played and she lived ", Fritz Engel wrote. The famous artist Oskar Kokoschka drew the actress in 1922. Lithographies after his work hang in various museums, e.g. the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

 

Sources: www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/178_orska_m..., German Wikipedia, filmportal, and IMDb.

This was an overall view of the recent South Ronaldsay "Boys' Ploughing Match" on the "Sands Of Wright" beach near the Hoxa promontory.

 

Should you by chance have missed them I uploaded to Flickr two very closely-related and interesting photos regarding this very old long-running tradition during the past two days.

Anthurium is a genus of about 1000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf. It's native to tropical America, from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay. They are grown for their attractive flowering bracts which are popular with the cut flower trade. All parts of the plant, are poisonous. If ingested, may cause mild stomach disorders. Anthurium is a genus of herbs often growing as epiphytes on other plants. Some are terrestrial. The leaves are often clustered and are variable in shape. The inflorescence bears small flowers which are perfect, containing male and female structures. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape, but it can be globe-shaped or club-shaped. Beneath the spadix is the spathe, a type of bract. This is variable in shape, as well, but it is lance-shaped in many species. It may extend out flat or in a curve. Sometimes it covers the spadix like a hood. The fruits develop from the flowers on the spadix. They are juicy berries varying in color, usually containing two seeds. 9384

Well... I took the idea from holienmo.no from this link www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157623737675218

 

So i tried to do something really simillar, because his stuff was so awesome.

 

My grandfather is 93 years old and is still teaching at law school in most prestigious university in Chile, he has been the most longlasting teacher ever from that university and still takes the bus over to campus.

 

He is my role model.

 

Strobist info: I used a reflective umbrella umbrella box thing like a softlighter head hight camera left, a 430EX and cybersyncs.

Anthurium is a genus of about 1000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf. It's native to tropical America, from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay. They are grown for their attractive flowering bracts which are popular with the cut flower trade. All parts of the plant, are poisonous. If ingested, may cause mild stomach disorders. Anthurium is a genus of herbs often growing as epiphytes on other plants. Some are terrestrial. The leaves are often clustered and are variable in shape. The inflorescence bears small flowers which are perfect, containing male and female structures. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape, but it can be globe-shaped or club-shaped. Beneath the spadix is the spathe, a type of bract. This is variable in shape, as well, but it is lance-shaped in many species. It may extend out flat or in a curve. Sometimes it covers the spadix like a hood. The fruits develop from the flowers on the spadix. They are juicy berries varying in color, usually containing two seeds. 163

Anthurium andraeanum.

Today I felt like uploading a flower which I photographed yesterday, I still have to process the other images of the series Circles and lights.

 

Paul gave me those beautiful flowers; they are longlasting and a thing of beauty in a room.

A challenge to photograph their shiny and waxy heart-shaped spathes referred to as the floral portion.

A long spadix projecting from the spathe bears the true flowers and seeds.

The way of lighting was very important, they are very reflective, I did not want those highlights, but a soft light still revealing all the beautiful detail.

I put a green leaf behind it, out of focus, just for contrast and colour.

 

Have a day filled with beauty and thanx for your visit, M, (*_*)

 

PS: what the title means is that today I felt like uploading a flower... no, sorry I wasn't referring to myself, wouldn't dare, tee hee

These are my parents, inseperable for 62 years until we lost Pop in January of 2007

Detail of the siege of Mont Raissard.

 

The two generals of the french Alliance fight their last battle - against eachother! - after a longlasting conflict for power within the Empire.

With King Rolund's troops outside the gates ready to attack, there's but limited time for both the French General of Arms in his golden armor and the Leader of the King's Guard to take out one-another and take control of the citadel to defend their cause in the last battle before the fall of the once so powerfull French Empire, now facing the mighty army of Danish King Rolund II in his march of conquest.

 

More pictures on the way!

One of my grandfather's baking specialties was wedding cakes which he decorated. He was a baker her learned his craft in his parents' bakeries in Grand Valley and Acton Ontario. For a while in the twenties, he owned a bakery in Streetsville. He returned to Grand Valley and opened a bakery at the top of Main Street

 

From my set entitled "William Henry Watson: My Grandfather"

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In my collection entitled "The Watsons"

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_cake

 

A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding reception (or in parts of England, at a wedding breakfast) after a wedding. In modern Western culture, it is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, occasionally over a layer of marzipan or fondant, topped with a small statue representing the couple. Other common motifs include doves, gold rings and horseshoes, the latter symbolising good luck. Achieving a dense, strong cake that can support the decorations while remaining edible can be considered the epitome of the baker's art and skill. The average cost of a wedding cake in the U.S. in 2005 was $543.

 

Tradition generally requires that the first cut of the cake be performed by bride and groom together. An older, archaic tradition had the bride serve all portions to the groom's family as a symbolic transfer of her household labor from her family to the groom's family.

 

A portion may be stored, and eaten by the couple at their first wedding anniversary, or at the christening of their first child. Sometimes this portion is the top tier, and sometimes a portion of the piece from which the bride and groom fed each other, depending on the local customs. The portion of the cake may be frozen for this purpose; the top tier of the cake may sometimes consist of fruitcake, which could be stored for a great length of time.

 

Recently some Western weddings have started to use cupcakes or other individually sized dessert items in place of a larger tiered cake. These individual cakes are often arranged in tiers to represent the shape of the traditional tiered cake.

Wedding cake toppers are small models that sit on top of the cake, normally a representation of a bride and groom in formal wedding attire. This custom was dominant in US wedding in the 1950s where it represented togetherness.[2] Modern weddings have embraced more variety in design and significance. Wedding toppers today are often figures that indicate shared hobbies or other passions.[2]

 

Watson Family History

 

Thomas Watson (born 1798, died 1875) and Jane Collier (born 1807, died 1896) were raised in County Armagh, Ireland, and came to Canada in early 1843. Their son, from whom we are descended, was William Watson, who was sixteen when the family emigrated. William’s brother, Richard, and his sister, Rachel, were older.

 

The family first settled in Gananoque, and came later to Reading Corner, where they farmed on the fourteenth line, lot six. Richard Watson had a son named Nelson, who died young, and a daughter named Jane, who lived in the Okanogan Valley in British Columbia. Rachel married John Byrne of Hillsburg, who owned a carriage works. The Byrnes had sons: William and John, who remined bachelors.

 

William, married Sarah Jane Donaldson, a young widow (Mrs. J. Moody) with a daughter: Sarah Jane Moody, who married George Lindsay in 1886, having met him in Cookstown while visiting her father's family.

 

The Lindsays had one son, William Donaldson Lindsay., born August 11, 1886. They first lived in London, Ontario; then moved to Kendries, Idaho, and finally settled near Los Angeles, California.

 

My great grandfather, Thomas Watson, was next in this family.

He married Adeline East, and had two children, Hazel and Bill (my grandfather).

 

After Thomas came James Donaldson Watson (1872-1944). He married Belle McGee (1880-1958). They had two sons: James Ivan and Glen.

 

Next came Rachel (1874-1952). On March 6, 1895, she married John Scott at her home in Reading Garafraxa. They had four sons: Thomas Howard, Cecil, George and James

 

Next in the Watson Family was William George, (1880-1943). His wife was Mabel Patterson (1880). Their daughter was Sarlizabeth.

 

The youngest of the family was Letitia (1887-1931) In 1910, she married Russell Thurston. The children were: Donaldson, Donna, Robert Russell, Pauline, Roland, Bernice, Mel and Pat.

 

William Watson’s wife, Jane Collier Watson, was one of six sisters and one brother (Robert). Three of the Collier sisters were: Mrs. William Manley (Shelburne area), Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Leeson. Two young Leeson boys were drowned one Christmas day when they broke through the ice while sliding and skating.

  

German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 118/2. Photo: Becker & Maass.

 

Maria Orska (1893-1930) was a Russian-Jewish actress of the German stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s.

 

On 16 March 1893 Maria Orska was born Effi Rahel Blindermann in Nikolayev, Russian Empire (now Mikolaiv in Ukraine). She was the cousin of the German actress Hedda Forsten and by her mother parented to the theatre impresario Eugen Frankfurter. Although she originally wanted to study law like her father wanted to, she became a stage actress and was discovered by the German actor and drama teacher Ferdinand Gregori when in St. Petersburg. In 1909 he brought her to Vienna's conservatory "k.u.k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst" (today Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), led by him. In 1910, she followed Gregori to the Mannheim court theater where she debuted as "Daisy Orska" and soon drew attention to herself in plays by Strindberg and Schnitzler. In 1911 she came to the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where quickly she became the star of the company. In the season 1914/1915 Maria Orska, her stage name by now, moved to Berlin, where she performed at the "Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße" (today "Hebbel-Theater") as well as Max Reinhardt’s Berlin stage. In the same year Edith Andreae was introduced to her, with whom she held a longlasting friendship.

 

In Berlin the exiled Russian artist became known as interpreter of the works by modern playwrights such as Wilde, Strindberg, Schnitzler, Wedekind and Pirandello. She was a huge success in Wedekind’s Lulu in 1917. "She had sharp, piercing tones, the uncanny effect of which the little character fanatically exaggerated. She also cultivated mundane roles, in which she unfolded the pointed humours of a devious character ... In the field of erotic representation she dared to go remarkably far. She was not an elementary artist, but she had individual qualities that made her the darling of the audience“, the reporter and author Emil Faktor noted in the Berliner Börsen-Courier (16.05.1930) in occasion of her tragic death.

 

Since her marriage to her second husband, Baron Dr. Hans von Bleichröder jun. (1888 - 1938), a grandson of the Jewish banker Gerson von Bleichröder, the ambitious Maria Orska maintained an elaborate lifestyle. For a long time, she was at the center of so-called Berlin society, and also knew how to stage herself in private as an eccentric spectacle. Her popularity was reinforced by cinema. In 1915 she began a second career as a silent film actor and soon received top salaries. Maria Orska gave her screen debut at the Greenbaum-Film GmbH in Richard Oswald's melodrama Dämon und Mensch (Demon and Man, 1915) and played the shady Lina, who wants to take a cleansed criminal (Rudolf Schildkraut) away from the path of virtue. Maria Orska worked for the first time with the filmmaker and director Max Mack (1884 - 1973) in Das tanzende Herz (The Dancing Heart, 1916), which effected in a six-part Maria Orska film series for the cinemas in 1916/17, with Orska herself as protagonist in each film. The star was praised as "the unmatched interpreter of Strindberg's women, the most fashionable actress of today's Berlin". She was the representative of an "art entirely dedicated to nerves" (Der Film, no. 23, 01.07.1916). As a girl from the gutter she presented herself in Der Sumpf (The Gutter, 1916), but also in comedies such as Die Sektwette (The Champagne Bet, 1916) she was able to win the audience for herself.

 

But it was mostly the melodramas of those years in which Maria Orska performed the type of the wicked woman. After the dramatic film Adamant's Letztes Rennen (Adamant’s Last Race, 1917) and Der lebende Tote (The Living Dead, 1917), she was for Max Mack Die schwarze Loo (Black Lu, 1917), a gypsy woman who becomes the talk of the town, and who almost wrecks the marriage of a musician (Bruno Kastner). Director Max Mack abducts his audience into the dazzling half-world of the imperial capital. The acclaimed Maria Orska acted as Black Lu, who is constantly surrounded both in the demimonde world and high society. Between push dancing and amorous intrigue, the film develops its highly dared action for those days in expressive images and pointed situations, in which with remarkable determination the stern morality of the late German Imperial Empire is shaken.

 

Die schwarze Loo was the last part of the Maria -Orska-series, which Mack realized for the Greenbaum-Film. Then Maria Orska paused from the film business and focused on her work at the theater for the next three years. In 1920 she reappeared on screen in the film Die letzte Stunde (The Last Hour), directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, and the Emile Zola adaptation Die Bestie im Menschen (The Human Beast, Ludwig Wolff 1921), Der Streik der Diebe (The Thieves’ Strike, Alfred Abel 1921), and Paul Czinner's drama Opfer der Leidenschaft (Victims of Passion, 1922) as female partner of Paul Bildt. With the role of the capricious dancer Barberina Campanini in the first and third part of the Fridericus Rex series (Sturm und Drang, 1922; Sanssouci, 1923) Maria Orska finished her film career.

 

Orska’s attempt to become a theatrical actress in Paris failed. Disappointed, the celebrated artist returned to Berlin and accepted commitments at the Komödienhaus, the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater. In 1927 for instance, in Hans Kaltneker's mystery play The Sisters at the theater in the Königgrätzer Strasse in Berlin, Orska played the lesbian Ruth. More and more however, Orska’s health visibly deteriorated by her morphine addiction. Divorced since 1925 by her husband, Dr. Hans von Bleichröder, Maria Orska became the talk of the town because of her own desire for death and her drug consumption. Nurses waited on the side stage with a syringe, directors dreaded every performance. Her suicide attempts - once she jumped off a train - soon became routine for the public. "They had an already typical character, they were each time after a rest and detox pause in the sanatorium, which the demon hunted artist used to leave like a fury, in order to escape from a life that had become worthless for her", Emil Faktor wrote in 1930.

 

All rehab attempts by Orska proved failing. She finally poisoned herself by an overdose of Veronal. The actress was brought to the Viennese General Hospital, where she died on May 16, 1930, at the age of only 37 – she couldn’t cope with a pneumonia because of her weakened body. Also the life of her sister Gabryela, who, born in 1894, became Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda when married to an Italian aristocrat, ended tragically, in 1924 (or 1926). Gabryela hanged herself in a Viennese hotel. Wikipedia claims it was after a row with her sister Maria. Their brother Edwin, aviator in the Russian Imperial Army, survived the First World War, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazis, and the sisters. In 1938 he emigrated from Germany to Ecuador where he died in 1966.

 

"Maria Orska was completely subordinate to the intoxication of the stage until it crushed her. Her strange appearance confirmed how difficult it is to understand the phenomenon of the stage actor. She seemed so enveloped in the air of the scene, but at the same time she remained so simple. She was a theatrical crowd-puller and a rhetorical star, such as Wilde’s Salome, and was also the most humble of Hedwig in Wildente [The Wild Duck] by Ibsen. She was hot and cold, she played and she lived ", Fritz Engel wrote. The famous artist Oskar Kokoschka drew the actress in 1922. Lithographies after his work hang in various museums, e.g. the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

 

Sources: www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/178_orska_m..., German Wikipedia, filmportal, and IMDb.

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Expertly taught Yoga twice a day, a stronger hatha flow in the morning and long meditation and Yin Yoga late afternoon.

Pamper yourself with five-star accomodations, our own chef preparing healthy (mostly) vegetarian food, the infinity pool, the generous jacuzzi, entertainment rooms with billiard etc….

 

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On our National Day, not only is worth taking a moment to reflect on the beauty of this country, but also on the security and stability that we are blessed to live in.

With war and misery reigning in many parts of the world, and which uinfortunately, most often we cannot really prevent from happening or influencing through our actions or non-actions, allow us to suggest that we can start to make a first step towards each other by being kind.

This being said, we are thrilled to have such a beautiful, thriving community spirit here at +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga where a great many longlasting friendships have been created. We hope that this is source for spreading happiness and kindness in your circles, your world, all our world and that one day this will reach global proportions.

~ Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

~ May all beings everywhere be happy and free.

 

All details and specials at INNERCITYOGA until 2 August on innercityoga.com

 

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Update: Booking Form

for the 25-27 september Yoga Retreat with INNERCITYOGA's Ioana and Patric

 

We realised the link to the booking form was broken. It is all fixed now and we invite consult the updated retreat webpage.

 

From what we hear, half of the spot are gone now.

 

Yours, I+P

 

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Urgent: Looking for a Translator (English to French) for our Yoga Teacher Training

 

Recherchons une personne pour assister l'un de nos élèves pendant la formation d'enseignants pour traduire de l'Anglais vers le Français.

 

We are looking urgently for a “translator” for one French-speaking trainee. Your role consists of being present at certain times of the training, particularly for theory and philosophy and give help in translating essential information to this student.

You will officially assist our teacher trainer Joan Hyman during the training.

 

Start: NOW!

28 july - 31 july

2 - 8 august

17-25 october

 

Pay: You will get a stipend for this apprenticeship, with credit towards regular classes at Innercityoga, as well as being able to take the morning practice for free.

 

Please let us know asap on tt@innercityoga.com

 

Looking forward hearing from you.

 

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DOG DAYS at INNERCITYOGA

for a limited time only (24 july - 2 august 2015)

 

The last week in july marks the beginning of the dog days; to sweeten the transition to hot weather, we welcome you to practice in a nicely cooled studio (around 25°C so not too cold and not too hot), and have prepared the following offers for members and those who consider joining:

 

For a limited time we do have the pleasure to propose a special summer deal with instant benefits:

 

- Join INNERCITYOGA now: 10% off on 1st year's membership+ class package

 

- Up to 4 classes extra for members

 

Consult all details using this linke:

innercityoga.com/news.html#yoga-geneve-geneva-dog-days-sp...

 

And remember that INNERCITYOGA offers classes every single day of summer!

 

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Wow, our 2015 Yoga Teacher Training starts in less than 48 hours on friday. The trainer trainer Joan Hyman has arrived and is settling in.

 

www.innercityoga.com/yoga-teacher-training.html

 

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Deze headshot of portretfoto in mijn portfolio heb ik gemaakt van Chantal te Koppele tijdens de Headshot Intensive workshop van Peter Hurley.

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Welcome to the “4 classes Tuesday” at +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga Studio.

Correct, we have not compromised on classes during summer!

Have a wonderful day, and remember that we have a beautiful studio gently cooled down to nice 25°C…

 

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On first impression, it might seem a bit antiquated or even charming to see all the horse-drawn carriages ferrying people about in Cuba. However, the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba for over 50 years now has not been without impact in several areas. Restrictions on the importation of goods has made cars prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of people.

 

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We are glad to learn that equality in the pursuit of happiness, regardless of gender, age, sexual and political orientation, nationalities, skin color, abilities or disabilities have reached a new milestone.

And we are blessed to unite in every single yoga class such a diverse studentship. One world, one breath.

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This highly speculative diagram and video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhg2uOSb-LA explains the Periodic Table as a spiral within a Universe that is a continuum that we see and feel as continuous passage of time! In this theory the elements of the Periodic Table are standing waves over a period of time. A new future is continuously being formed by the spontaneous absorption and emission of light waves of EMR. This process of energy exchange forms the ever changing world of our everyday life. At the most fundamental level we have a universal process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking that forms the spiral patterns we see in our everyday life (Fibonacci Spiral) with each element of the Periodic Table having a set position forming the curvature of these spirals. With Hydrogen at the centre a Spiral Periodic Table with the noble gases and the different groups of elements radiating out like spokes from the centre of a wheel. This process of symmetry forming and breaking forms the disorganization or entropy and also the potential for every greater symmetry formation that we see in cell life!

In this video there is also Walter Russell diagram of a Periodic Table and the chemist John Newlands Spiral Octave Periodic Table.

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Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Microvascular Damage

 

Dr. Andrew Moulden recognized that every dose of vaccine given to a person produced microvascular damage whether or not the person was aware of the damage or had debilitating symptoms at the time the vaccines were given. He courageously stepped out of the conventional box of medical diagnosis and treatment, and gave us a new way to look at modern neurodevelopmental illnesses and syndromes.

 

This article will discuss Zeta potential and colloidal chemistry. These concepts will help us understand how vaccines cause damage and illness.

 

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Join us on the next +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga Retreat taking place 25-27 september 2015. You will feel at ease, pampered by our chef and attetntive hosts, enjoy the pool, jacuzzi and expertly taught yoga classes with Ioana and Patric.

Check out the details www.innercityoga.com/yoga-retreat.html

 

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Not one, not two, but THREE chances to win a Fuji X-T10 kit!! (Actually, it's 2 X-T10's and a X-T1. Details!)

 

I laid it all out on my blog: karenhutton.com/XT10, nice 'n neat in one place.

 

My head started swirling trying to schedule all these announcements about contests and chances to win stuff... so I threw up my hands yesterday and put 'em all in one place where you could see them and choose. 'Tis the season, apparently!

 

Personally, I never choose if I can do it all.

That may be a fault... or just exuberance for life, I'm never really sure. But given the option to choose (which we awesomely always have), I think I'll go with the latter.

 

This photo? Yup, it's a 6 or 7 shot pano, stitched together - taken recently with my Fuji X-T10 in Honfleur, France. Now THAT is a place I can't wait to re-visit! [sighs wistfully]. It was all part of a glorious road trip through Normandy with the hubs +Joe Dolister and our new bff +Mike Staubes back in June. [sighs wistfully. Again.]

 

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[Blogpost] Hannah Hogenkamp - Maurice Jager Fotografie

 

Hannah Hogenkamp heb ik gefotografeerd tijdens een zakelijk portretfoto sessie op locatie in de Arnhemse Rozet tijdens een netwerkevent voor vrouwen. Met mijn mobiele fotostudio heb ik de deelnemers van het evenement voorzien van nieuwe zakelijke profielfoto’s.

  

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Shared publicly - Jun 25, 2015

 

We just did update the summer schedule with a couple of staff changes over the coming days. All classes take place as indicated previously, just make sure you do check out the schedule on innercityoga.com

/news.html And remember that +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga offers not only all summer long an amazingly full schedule, with 1, 2, 3 or even up to 4 daily classes, but proposes also the SUMMER UNLIMITED PACKAGES.

And ONLY THIS WEEK there is the extra HELLO SUMMER! SPECIAL for Members and everyone wanting to benefit from all the perks INNERCITYOGA has to offer.

Happy and Healthy 2015!

 

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HELLO SUMMER !

This week only, at INNERCITYOGA we do have the pleasure to propose a special summer deal with instant benefits:

- up to 4 classes extra for members

- Join INNERCITYOGA now: 10% off on 1st year's membership+ class package

Consult all your options: innercityoga.com/news.html#summer-specials-for-members-jo...

 

plus:

Unlimited Yoga Summer Packages:

Access all classes for 30 days, 60 days, or all summer long (22 june - 6 september) at sweet summer rates!

Consult all options by going to www.innercityoga.com/news.html#yoga-geneva-geneve-summer-...

  

Full summer schedule with 1, 2, 3 or even 4 daily yoga classes!

With lots of variety offered, one more good reason to immerse yourself into a healthier lifestyle and rediscover your mindfulness.

Please consult the daily schedule by following the links in the left-hand column.

 

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My latest blog: As always I’d love your thoughts :-)

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Super Solstice Sunday at +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga

Strengthen your connection with yoga and nature this Sunday 21st June and join our 11am class celebrating both the UN's first International Day of Yoga and the summer solstice.

 

Donna will lead you through a practice full of balance, flow and unity designed to make your Sunday truly super.

 

More news to arrive soon.

 

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Wishing you all a bright Sunday!

Enjoy the warm-up before today's yoga class, throwback to our childhood.

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On vous souhaite un beau dimanche ensoleillé. Voici déjà un échauffement abdominal avant votre cours de yoga ; )

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This work is not currently on master, but it will be (99%!) on Gnome Files 3.18

 

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This summer, Geneva's premiere yoga studio INNERCITYOGA welcomes you to a full schedule with 1, 2, 3 or even 4 daily yoga classes!

One more good reason to immerse yourself into a healthier lifestyle and rediscover your mindfulness.

We have the pleasure to propose all summer long our 7am sunrise class, as well as on some days the 9.30 morning classes.

Please consult the daily schedule on innercityoga.com

 

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Cet été encore, INNERCITYOGA vous acceuillera chaque jour, proposant 1, 2, 3 voir 4 cours quotidiens!

De quoi s'immerser dans un train de vie sain et de retrouver sa zenitude. Veuillez consulter la grille des horaires des cours en cliquant sur les liens dans la colonne de gauche. Un programme varié vous attend.

A noter que tous les cours matinaux à 7h ont lieu le long de l'été, ainsi que certains cours à 9h30 !

 

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Stay tuned for the upated yoga summer schedule at INNERCITYOGA. You can practice every single day of the summer and choose from 1, 2, 3 or even 4 yoga classes!

All details to be announced very soon first in our newsletter:

innercityoga.com/registration

 

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Lululemon Athletica clothing is back at +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga!

INNERCITYOGA was the first european yogastudio to propose Lululemon in 2003; now we bring back this highly popular clothing line. We like it for the body-fitting design, the sweat-wicking properties and for both WOMEN and MEN's Essentials.

 

The first shipping has arrived, check it out exclusively at

INNERCITYOGA urban yoga

Rue de Rive 3 - across from the Apple Store Geneva

1204 Genève

 

Open for the 20-30 minutes before every class and again the 20-30minutes after each class. Full summer schedule to be posted shortly on:

innercityoga.com

 

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Stay tuned for the upated yoga summer schedule at INNERCITYOGA. You can practice every single day of the summer and choose from 1, 2, 3 or even 4 yoga classes!

All details to be announced very soon first in our newsletter:

innercityoga.com/registration

 

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Shared publicly - May 15, 2015

 

Good Morning Geneva!

Today we do propose a special schedule:

11.00 Prenatal Session 3B (only for the registered ones) with Ioana

12.30 Poweryoga with Patric subbing for Ioana

 

The regualr Yoga+Meditation class tonight is EXCEPTIONNALLY cancelled for the workshop with Special Guest and +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga mentor CHAD HAMRIN.

 

We got a couple of spots available for tonight's

18h30 – 21h00 « DEEPEN YOUR PRACTICE THROUGH BREATHING » - all levels

Your breath is the beginning of discovering your true inner self. In conjunction with yoga postures breathing properly helps you overcome those innermost fears and achieve a heightened state of awareness. We will integrate breath into a flowing movement, as well as use it for absolute stillness.

 

Please consult the schedule for saturday and sunday on www.innercityoga.com/news.html#workshop-stage-chad-hamrin

 

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www.innercityoga.com/teachertraining.html

 

If you are interested in taking this year's 200-hours foundational YOga Teacher Training, please remember that the Earlybird Deadline ends on 31 May 2015!

All info on the website www.innercityoga.com/teachertraining.html

 

We are looking forward answering your questions by email.

 

Yours, +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga Studio

 

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Shared publicly - May 23, 2015

 

Enjoy your long weekend: +INNERCITYOGA Geneve Yoga is open for Pentecôte with this schedule:

 

samedi | saturday 23 may

10.30-12.00 yogaflow Heather

 

dimanche | sunday 24 may

11.00-12.30 hatha flow Heather

 

lundi | monday 25 may

Pentecôte Holiday no regular classes

11.00-12.30 hatha yoga Iris

 

The full regular schedule resumes as of tuesday 26 may, all details on innercityoga.com/news

 

Wishing you a fabulous time in the city from our beautiful yoga retreat (www.innercityoga.com/yoga-retreat.html) in the mountains. Maybe next time.

 

Hari OM

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This husband planted 400 acres of sunflowers to honour his wife who died from cancer. Now he's selling seeds to fund cancer research (9 pics):

 

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Anyway, an awesome display of love and compassion for the world. Need more people like that,though we're good on the sunflowers...

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+Bree Craw ... go copy and paste the gov't studies done on using cannabis to tx cancer...or just ignore that ignorant opinionated guy who woke up on tbe wrong side if the bed today and who wants to take it out on you (:

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Shared publicly - May 13, 2015

 

OPEN on ASCENSION:

11h-12h30 - "The Fusion of Body and Mind"

The mind and body work as one. Our thoughts and emotions can manifest themselves physically as habits, chronic aches, or fatigue.

Join Amy as she guides you through a balanced practice intended to help the practitioner gain a better understanding of how our mental state impacts our physical being.

 

Please do consult the day-by-day schedule on innercityoga.com

 

We are looking forward seeing you in class,

Your #innercityoga team

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German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 1685. Photo: A. Moesigay, Hamburg.

 

Maria Orska (1893-1930) was a Russian-Jewish actress of the German stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s.

 

On 16 March 1893 Maria Orska was born Effi Rahel Blindermann in Nikolayev, Russian Empire (now Mikolaiv in Ukraine). She was the cousin of the German actress Hedda Forsten and by her mother parented to the theatre impresario Eugen Frankfurter. Although she originally wanted to study law like her father wanted to, she became a stage actress and was discovered by the German actor and drama teacher Ferdinand Gregori when in St. Petersburg. In 1909 he brought her to Vienna's conservatory "k.u.k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst" (today Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), led by him. In 1910, she followed Gregori to the Mannheim court theater where she debuted as "Daisy Orska" and soon drew attention to herself in plays by Strindberg and Schnitzler. In 1911 she came to the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where quickly she became the star of the company. In the season 1914/1915 Maria Orska, her stage name by now, moved to Berlin, where she performed at the "Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße" (today "Hebbel-Theater") as well as Max Reinhardt’s Berlin stage. In the same year Edith Andreae was introduced to her, with whom she held a longlasting friendship.

 

In Berlin the exiled Russian artist became known as interpreter of the works by modern playwrights such as Wilde, Strindberg, Schnitzler, Wedekind and Pirandello. She was a huge success in Wedekind’s Lulu in 1917. "She had sharp, piercing tones, the uncanny effect of which the little character fanatically exaggerated. She also cultivated mundane roles, in which she unfolded the pointed humours of a devious character ... In the field of erotic representation she dared to go remarkably far. She was not an elementary artist, but she had individual qualities that made her the darling of the audience“, the reporter and author Emil Faktor noted in the Berliner Börsen-Courier (16.05.1930) in occasion of her tragic death.

 

Since her marriage to her second husband, Baron Dr. Hans von Bleichröder jun. (1888 - 1938), a grandson of the Jewish banker Gerson von Bleichröder, the ambitious Maria Orska maintained an elaborate lifestyle. For a long time, she was at the center of so-called Berlin society, and also knew how to stage herself in private as an eccentric spectacle. Her popularity was reinforced by cinema. In 1915 she began a second career as a silent film actor and soon received top salaries. Maria Orska gave her screen debut at the Greenbaum-Film GmbH in Richard Oswald's melodrama Dämon und Mensch (Demon and Man, 1915) and played the shady Lina, who wants to take a cleansed criminal (Rudolf Schildkraut) away from the path of virtue. Maria Orska worked for the first time with the filmmaker and director Max Mack (1884 - 1973) in Das tanzende Herz (The Dancing Heart, 1916), which effected in a six-part Maria Orska film series for the cinemas in 1916/17, with Orska herself as protagonist in each film. The star was praised as "the unmatched interpreter of Strindberg's women, the most fashionable actress of today's Berlin". She was the representative of an "art entirely dedicated to nerves" (Der Film, no. 23, 01.07.1916). As a girl from the gutter she presented herself in Der Sumpf (The Gutter, 1916), but also in comedies such as Die Sektwette (The Champagne Bet, 1916) she was able to win the audience for herself.

 

But it was mostly the melodramas of those years in which Maria Orska performed the type of the wicked woman. After the dramatic film Adamant's Letztes Rennen (Adamant’s Last Race, 1917) and Der lebende Tote (The Living Dead, 1917), she was for Max Mack Die schwarze Loo (Black Lu, 1917), a gypsy woman who becomes the talk of the town, and who almost wrecks the marriage of a musician (Bruno Kastner). Director Max Mack abducts his audience into the dazzling half-world of the imperial capital. The acclaimed Maria Orska acted as Black Lu, who is constantly surrounded both in the demimonde world and high society. Between push dancing and amorous intrigue, the film develops its highly dared action for those days in expressive images and pointed situations, in which with remarkable determination the stern morality of the late German Imperial Empire is shaken.

 

Die schwarze Loo was the last part of the Maria -Orska-series, which Mack realized for the Greenbaum-Film. Then Maria Orska paused from the film business and focused on her work at the theater for the next three years. In 1920 she reappeared on screen in the film Die letzte Stunde (The Last Hour), directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, and the Emile Zola adaptation Die Bestie im Menschen (The Human Beast, Ludwig Wolff 1921), Der Streik der Diebe (The Thieves’ Strike, Alfred Abel 1921), and Paul Czinner's drama Opfer der Leidenschaft (Victims of Passion, 1922) as female partner of Paul Bildt. With the role of the capricious dancer Barberina Campanini in the first and third part of the Fridericus Rex series (Sturm und Drang, 1922; Sanssouci, 1923) Maria Orska finished her film career.

 

Orska’s attempt to become a theatrical actress in Paris failed. Disappointed, the celebrated artist returned to Berlin and accepted commitments at the Komödienhaus, the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater. In 1927 for instance, in Hans Kaltneker's mystery play The Sisters at the theater in the Königgrätzer Strasse in Berlin, Orska played the lesbian Ruth. More and more however, Orska’s health visibly deteriorated by her morphine addiction. Divorced since 1925 by her husband, Dr. Hans von Bleichröder, Maria Orska became the talk of the town because of her own desire for death and her drug consumption. Nurses waited on the side stage with a syringe, directors dreaded every performance. Her suicide attempts - once she jumped off a train - soon became routine for the public. "They had an already typical character, they were each time after a rest and detox pause in the sanatorium, which the demon hunted artist used to leave like a fury, in order to escape from a life that had become worthless for her", Emil Faktor wrote in 1930.

 

All rehab attempts by Orska proved failing. She finally poisoned herself by an overdose of Veronal. The actress was brought to the Viennese General Hospital, where she died on May 16, 1930, at the age of only 37 – she couldn’t cope with a pneumonia because of her weakened body. Also the life of her sister Gabryela, who, born in 1894, became Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda when married to an Italian aristocrat, ended tragically, in 1924 (or 1926). Gabryela hanged herself in a Viennese hotel. Wikipedia claims it was after a row with her sister Maria. Their brother Edwin, aviator in the Russian Imperial Army, survived the First World War, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazis, and the sisters. In 1938 he emigrated from Germany to Ecuador where he died in 1966.

 

"Maria Orska was completely subordinate to the intoxication of the stage until it crushed her. Her strange appearance confirmed how difficult it is to understand the phenomenon of the stage actor. She seemed so enveloped in the air of the scene, but at the same time she remained so simple. She was a theatrical crowd-puller and a rhetorical star, such as Wilde’s Salome, and was also the most humble of Hedwig in Wildente [The Wild Duck] by Ibsen. She was hot and cold, she played and she lived ", Fritz Engel wrote. The famous artist Oskar Kokoschka drew the actress in 1922. Lithographies after his work hang in various museums, e.g. the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

 

Sources: www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/178_orska_m..., German Wikipedia, filmportal, and IMDb.

There are abundant types of firewood in the market each one has different burning capability. If you are looking for longlasting burning wood to make your winter nights warmer? Then redgum firewood is the one the best which can hold heat for long durations.

This rose bud lasted weeks longer than I thought it would from a bouquet I bought over a month ago and I thought I should take a photo before it was too late.

 

The texture is by very talented and creative Cris Buscaglia www.flickr.com/photos/crisbuscagliacom/10582901243/in/pho...

 

I love this scripture by the Apostle Paul to the Philippians as he points out the really important things that we should be concentrating and setting our hearts on.....

no materialism here :)

 

Hope you all have a blessed Sunday and thank you for visiting and for the great comments on my previous photo, I had a lovely day with my nephew and the time FLEW!!! :(

 

PS.... if any of you have too much snow, send it to Northern Ireland.... apparently we're in for a WET Christmas, not a WHITE one.....

Finally I've pulled myself together to give this gorgeous mold a face - I was way scared, since I don't see myself as the faceup-hero, but it turned out quite nicely, I am very happy with him, he's so gentle (although his skincolour is somewhat scary) and looks like he can't harm a soul - actually he can, he's a Werewolfhunter who recently had to leave his natural habitat to come adjust to a very new and (hopefully) longlasting life^^.

 

Jan de Jong's History

 

1928 - Commenced training Tsutsumi Hozan ryu Ju Jutsu under S. Saito (8th Dan) in Semarang on the island of Java, Indonesia. Jan de Jong and his father, also a black belt in the system, were two of the very few non-Japanese to be taught by Saito.

1939 - Graded 3rd Dan, the highest technical grading in Tsutsumi Hozan ryu Ju Jutsu.

1940 - Travelled to the Netherlands to further his education. The outbreak of World War II interrupted these plans and cut off financial support from his family. In order to support himself he commenced teaching Ju Jutsu in Rotterdam. For the duration of the war he was a member of the Dutch resistance.

1946 - Returned to Indonesia and commenced working for the Royal Netherlands Indies Army and then the Indonesian army as a physiotherapist. Accepted into the aliran (Indonesian for system or style) to learn pencak silat from Soehadi

1951 - Graded 6th Degree Black Belt in pencak silat.

1952 - Emigrated to Perth, Western Australia.

1969 - Travelled to Japan and trained in many martial arts schools, including that of Minoru Mochizuki in Shizuoka near Mt Fuji, where he graded 1st Dan in Yoseikan aikido and Shotokan karate.

1978 - Accepted the position of Australasian representative for the World Ju Jutsu Federation.

1979 - Accepted the position of Chief Instructor and Adviser to the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS).

1980 - Promoted to 4th Dan in Ju Jutsu.

1982 - Promoted to 6th Dan in Ju Jutsu. Conducted first teaching tour of Europe which subsequently evolved into an annual occurrence.

1985 - Accepted the position of Australian representative for the International Pencak Silat Federation.

1987 - Accepted the position of President and National Coach for the Australian Ju Jutsu Association.

1989 - Promoted to 8th Dan in Ju Jutsu.

1990 - Awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia for services to the martial arts.

1991 - Accepted the position of Vice President of the World Ju Jutsu Federation. Celebrated his fiftieth year anniversary of teaching Ju Jutsu professionally.

1996 - Promoted to 9th Dan in Ju Jutsu.

 

Jan de Jong Shihan continued to teach and also to refine and improve technical and teaching aspects of his martial arts up to the last three weeks of his life, which ended at the age of 82 in April 2003.

Jan de Jong's Self Defence School

 

Often the ties formed with Jan de Jong and his School are very strong and longlasting. Many people who have experienced Jan de Jong's martial arts encourage their children and grandchildren to do likewise. Some current students in Perth represent the third generation of families involved with the School. Whilst giving a seminar in Holland in 1994, Jan de Jong was approached by two gentlemen. He immediately recognised them as former students from his Rotterdam School. They confirmed this by proudly presenting their original membership cards which they had kept for over 50 years. Two years later he was again approached by two former members, one of whom was Piet Hesselink. They had lost contact when Jan de Jong emigrated to Indonesia in 1946. Piet Hesselink is still teaching Ju Jutsu in Holland.

History of Jan de Jong's Self Defence School

 

1941 - Jan de Jong opened his first School in Rotterdam, Holland.

1944 - The Rotterdam School closed due to the demands of World War II.

1945 - The Rotterdam School re-opened and was subsequently passed on to Piet Hesselink when Jan de Jong returned to Indonesia.

1946 - Jan de Jong taught in Jakarta and Semarang, Indonesia.

1952 - First School opened in Perth, Western Australia, located in Charles Street, North Perth. Later the same year the School relocated to Mint Street, Victoria Park.

1954 - School relocated to Jan de Jong's residence in Edgehill Street, Scarborough.

1955 - School relocated to the Swan River Rowing Club, Riverside Drive, Perth. Attending the first class were ten students interested in learning Ju Jutsu. Jan de Jong demonstrated a bridgefall and put both his feet through the floorboards into the river. The next lesson he had three students. One of these students suggested that using mats may encourage more people to take up Ju Jutsu, so they made some mats by hand as they couldn't be purchased at that time. The School was named "Ju Jutsu Kan Perth."

1960 - School relocated to 870 Hay Street, Perth – the first known full-time martial arts School in Australia.

1963 - School relocated to 996 Hay Street, Perth.

1965 - First branch opened in Kelmscott. Since then the School has operated many branches throughout the Perth metropolitan area and at times in some country locations.

1968 - Classes in Aikido and Pencak Silat were offered to the public for the first time. Phillipe Boiron, trained by Minoru Mochizuki, taught aikido. Jan de Jong had been teaching Pencak Silat to higher graded Ju Jutsu students since 1955.

1975 - The name of the School changed to "Jan de Jong's Self Defence School."

2002 - The School celebrated its 50th anniversary since opening in Perth in 1952. At the celebrations, Jan de Jong Shihan was pleased to present to the instructors and students the new name of the School, "Jan de Jong Martial Arts Fitness" and the new logo, which he felt represented the direction of the School.

2003 - In March Jan de Jong Shihan asked his daughter Maggie de Jong to take over the role of principal of the School.

 

In September the School relocated to more central and modern premises at 'the Atrium' 168 St George's Tce, in Perth.

 

Maggie de Jong Sensei and Paul Connolly Sensei, together with Margaret de Jong, continued the running of the School at the city location and at the Melville Branch, with Daryl Cook Sensei taking charge of Melville classes. The School's branches in the northern suburbs were handed over to Hans de Jong Sensei.

 

German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 556/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Roman Freulich / Unfilman.

 

Virginia Valli (1895–1968)[ was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.

 

Virginia Valli, originally Virginia McSweeney, was born in Chicago, Illinois, and started acting in Milwaukee at a theater stock company. From 1916, she also acted in some 18 films at the Essanay Studios in Chicago, debuting in a minor part in the serial The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916), and quickly having all the female leads.. After that, she acted at the studios of World Film, Fort Lee, New Jersey. However, when features came along, Valli was reduced to supporting parts. By 1920, Valli had moved to California to act in films by Fox, Vitagraph and others. By that time she had already adopted the name of Virginia Valli. A major part she had in the Metro Pictures film The Man Who (Maxwell Karger, 1921) with Bert Lytell and Lucy Cotton, and scripted by June Mathis. On the film's success, Karger then directed Lytell and Valli in a string of fllms for Metro.

 

In 1922-1924, Virginia Valli did several films for Universal. A major part Valli had in John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922), based on Wadsworth Longfellow, in the northwoods melodrama The Storm (Reginald Barker 1922) with House Peters, and in The Shock (Lambert Hillyer, 1923), in which Lon Chaney falls in love with the daughter of his victim, combined with the San Francisco earthquake. Other memorable titles were The Signal Tower (Clarence Brown, 1924), Wild Oranges (King Vidor, 1924), The Confidence Man (Victor Heerman, 1924), Up the Ladder (Edward Sloman, 1925), and the British film The Pleasure Garden (1925) by Alfred Hitchcock. Location shooting for The Pleasure Garden was done in Italy and Germany. The film revolves around Patsy Brand (Valli), a woman who works as a dancer in a theater called "Pleasure Garden". She helps Jill (Carmelita Geraghty) to get a job in he theater. Via Jill's fiancee Hugh (John Stuart) she meets Levet (Miles Mander) and eventually marries him. They sail for Italy on a honeymoon. Levett and Hugh then go on a trip to one of the British colonies. Jill, meanwhile, has dropped Hugh for a rich prince who spoils her and she has become distant to Patsy. When Patsy receives notice that her husband is ill, she travels after him, but discovers he has an affair with a native woman. Patsy, instead, takes care of a really ill Hugh, which Levet doesn't like... The film was produced by Michael Balcon and Erich Pommer; it was Balcon who hired Valli as star of the film, being one of the first to do so. Also Carmelita Geraghty was American.

 

Virginia Valli continued appearing in films throughout the decade. She had no longlasting contracts with majors, so she played at all major and minor studios in the 1920s. In 1925 Valli acted in The Man Who Found Himself with Thomas Meighan. The production was carried out in the studio of Long Island, New York. Among her films were also the highlights Stage Madness (Victor Schertzinger, 1927) with Tullio Carminati, Paid To Love (Howard Hawks, 1927), with William Powell, and Evening Clothes (Luther Reed, 1927), with Adolphe Menjou. Her first sound movie was The Isle of Lost Ships in 1929, but her film career would not last much longer as her fame declined. After scarce adventures in sound cinema, she quitted acting in 1931. Valli was married to George Lamson and, in second marriage in 1931, to the actor Charles Farrell, a marriage that lasted until her death. They moved to Palm Springs, where she had an intense social life for years. She suffered a stroke in 1966, and died two years later, at the age of 73, in Palm Springs, California. She was buried in Welwood Murray Cemetery in that city. Valli did not have children.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (English, Spanish, and Italian) and IMDb.

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The competition for the Scandinavian Outdoor Industry is being hosted by S.O.G. since 2006. Up to 20 products from Scandinavian Outdoor Group member brands get nominated every season to compete for the Scandinavian Outdoor Award.

 

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This is one of the lovely flowers that my son bought me a few days ago.

I'm completely stumped here - maybe one of the many species of Armillaria ...?!?

 

Found on a meadow close to mountain needlewood, ca. 1300 m of altitude. Growing in clumps directly from the grass, no trees anywhere close on that meadow.

 

Atypical for mushrooms, they are extremely longlasting - maybe around 3 weeks in real good state!

 

Styria, Austria.

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I was really impressed because everytime I see a rainbow, I just respect this Nature's show and take the time to enjoy it. This one was the most brilliant I've ever seen, and a longlasting one. Thank's God for this morning gift. It was so early in the morning that the Spathodea campanulata is hard to distinguish because of the lack of sunlight (6:20 am)

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Because it's a power-saving, energy-efficient, long-lasting, economical light bulb.

German postcard by Photochemie, no. K 14876. Photo: Willinger, Berlin.

 

Maria Orska (1893-1930) was a Russian-Jewish actress of the German stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s.

 

On 16 March 1893 Maria Orska was born Effi Rahel Blindermann in Nikolayev, Russian Empire (now Mikolaiv in Ukraine). She was the cousin of the German actress Hedda Forsten and by her mother parented to the theatre impresario Eugen Frankfurter. Although she originally wanted to study law like her father wanted to, she became a stage actress and was discovered by the German actor and drama teacher Ferdinand Gregori when in St. Petersburg. In 1909 he brought her to Vienna's conservatory "k.u.k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst" (today Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), led by him. In 1910, she followed Gregori to the Mannheim court theater where she debuted as "Daisy Orska" and soon drew attention to herself in plays by Strindberg and Schnitzler. In 1911 she came to the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where quickly she became the star of the company. In the season 1914/1915 Maria Orska, her stage name by now, moved to Berlin, where she performed at the "Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße" (today "Hebbel-Theater") as well as Max Reinhardt’s Berlin stage. In the same year Edith Andreae was introduced to her, with whom she held a longlasting friendship.

 

In Berlin the exiled Russian artist became known as interpreter of the works by modern playwrights such as Wilde, Strindberg, Schnitzler, Wedekind and Pirandello. She was a huge success in Wedekind’s Lulu in 1917. "She had sharp, piercing tones, the uncanny effect of which the little character fanatically exaggerated. She also cultivated mundane roles, in which she unfolded the pointed humours of a devious character ... In the field of erotic representation she dared to go remarkably far. She was not an elementary artist, but she had individual qualities that made her the darling of the audience“, the reporter and author Emil Faktor noted in the Berliner Börsen-Courier (16.05.1930) in occasion of her tragic death.

 

Since her marriage to her second husband, Baron Dr. Hans von Bleichröder jun. (1888 - 1938), a grandson of the Jewish banker Gerson von Bleichröder, the ambitious Maria Orska maintained an elaborate lifestyle. For a long time, she was at the center of so-called Berlin society, and also knew how to stage herself in private as an eccentric spectacle. Her popularity was reinforced by cinema. In 1915 she began a second career as a silent film actor and soon received top salaries. Maria Orska gave her screen debut at the Greenbaum-Film GmbH in Richard Oswald's melodrama Dämon und Mensch (Demon and Man, 1915) and played the shady Lina, who wants to take a cleansed criminal (Rudolf Schildkraut) away from the path of virtue. Maria Orska worked for the first time with the filmmaker and director Max Mack (1884 - 1973) in Das tanzende Herz (The Dancing Heart, 1916), which effected in a six-part Maria Orska film series for the cinemas in 1916/17, with Orska herself as protagonist in each film. The star was praised as "the unmatched interpreter of Strindberg's women, the most fashionable actress of today's Berlin". She was the representative of an "art entirely dedicated to nerves" (Der Film, no. 23, 01.07.1916). As a girl from the gutter she presented herself in Der Sumpf (The Gutter, 1916), but also in comedies such as Die Sektwette (The Champagne Bet, 1916) she was able to win the audience for herself.

 

But it was mostly the melodramas of those years in which Maria Orska performed the type of the wicked woman. After the dramatic film Adamant's Letztes Rennen (Adamant’s Last Race, 1917) and Der lebende Tote (The Living Dead, 1917), she was for Max Mack Die schwarze Loo (Black Lu, 1917), a gypsy woman who becomes the talk of the town, and who almost wrecks the marriage of a musician (Bruno Kastner). Director Max Mack abducts his audience into the dazzling half-world of the imperial capital. The acclaimed Maria Orska acted as Black Lu, who is constantly surrounded both in the demimonde world and high society. Between push dancing and amorous intrigue, the film develops its highly dared action for those days in expressive images and pointed situations, in which with remarkable determination the stern morality of the late German Imperial Empire is shaken.

 

Die schwarze Loo was the last part of the Maria -Orska-series, which Mack realized for the Greenbaum-Film. Then Maria Orska paused from the film business and focused on her work at the theater for the next three years. In 1920 she reappeared on screen in the film Die letzte Stunde (The Last Hour), directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, and the Emile Zola adaptation Die Bestie im Menschen (The Human Beast, Ludwig Wolff 1921), Der Streik der Diebe (The Thieves’ Strike, Alfred Abel 1921), and Paul Czinner's drama Opfer der Leidenschaft (Victims of Passion, 1922) as female partner of Paul Bildt. With the role of the capricious dancer Barberina Campanini in the first and third part of the Fridericus Rex series (Sturm und Drang, 1922; Sanssouci, 1923) Maria Orska finished her film career.

 

Orska’s attempt to become a theatrical actress in Paris failed. Disappointed, the celebrated artist returned to Berlin and accepted commitments at the Komödienhaus, the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater. In 1927 for instance, in Hans Kaltneker's mystery play The Sisters at the theater in the Königgrätzer Strasse in Berlin, Orska played the lesbian Ruth. More and more however, Orska’s health visibly deteriorated by her morphine addiction. Divorced since 1925 by her husband, Dr. Hans von Bleichröder, Maria Orska became the talk of the town because of her own desire for death and her drug consumption. Nurses waited on the side stage with a syringe, directors dreaded every performance. Her suicide attempts - once she jumped off a train - soon became routine for the public. "They had an already typical character, they were each time after a rest and detox pause in the sanatorium, which the demon hunted artist used to leave like a fury, in order to escape from a life that had become worthless for her", Emil Faktor wrote in 1930.

 

All rehab attempts by Orska proved failing. She finally poisoned herself by an overdose of Veronal. The actress was brought to the Viennese General Hospital, where she died on May 16, 1930, at the age of only 37 – she couldn’t cope with a pneumonia because of her weakened body. Also the life of her sister Gabryela, who, born in 1894, became Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda when married to an Italian aristocrat, ended tragically, in 1924 (or 1926). Gabryela hanged herself in a Viennese hotel. Wikipedia claims it was after a row with her sister Maria. Their brother Edwin, aviator in the Russian Imperial Army, survived the First World War, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazis, and the sisters. In 1938 he emigrated from Germany to Ecuador where he died in 1966.

 

"Maria Orska was completely subordinate to the intoxication of the stage until it crushed her. Her strange appearance confirmed how difficult it is to understand the phenomenon of the stage actor. She seemed so enveloped in the air of the scene, but at the same time she remained so simple. She was a theatrical crowd-puller and a rhetorical star, such as Wilde’s Salome, and was also the most humble of Hedwig in Wildente [The Wild Duck] by Ibsen. She was hot and cold, she played and she lived ", Fritz Engel wrote. The famous artist Oskar Kokoschka drew the actress in 1922. Lithographies after his work hang in various museums, e.g. the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

 

Sources: www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/178_orska_m..., German Wikipedia, filmportal, and IMDb.

Before the invention of air conditioners the inhabitants of the middle east used wind towers to capture wind and cool their homes. This is one at the Madinat Jumeirah. The wooden bars used to hold wet cloths so the wind would cool as it blew into the homes.

The obelisks of Aksum are and have always been symbols of power. There are few evidences on the Aksumite Empire apart from those stelae symbolising the power of the Aksum kings. Later in the 19th century, after centuries of historical orders and disorders, Aksum became the symbolic centre of the Solomonic Dynasty: basing its power on Solomonic origins, Aksum was a perfect symbol of the miraculous and magical roots of the ruling dynasty on the Abyssinian territory. Even so, the unity of Ethiopia was a construction and the political modus of the dynasty who proved through the monuments an a continuity with the longlasting history. Aksum became the first historical capital of Ethiopia (no more Aksumite Empire): The Emperor Haile Selassie even rebuilt the Church to show off its commitment to the unity. But that was after the Italian invasion (1935-1941).

 

Bacause the Italians Facists had a 'great' idea: they had stolen the biggest Obelisk to show it off in Rome for the celebration of the restauration of the Empire. At this point in time, the monument became a reinforced symbol but an ambiguous symbol: for the italians, it became the symbol of a triumphant facist and colonial Empire, while for the Ethiopians, the absence of the obelisk had started to mean everything they were not anymore and they aspired to be. Power, triumph and loss: what is the meaning of that agency?

  

(to be continued)

   

See from where this obelisk was taken. [?]

These delicate Black Eyed Susan-like little flowers stand out in the poorly maintained memorial garden out back as beckons of cheer and mid-fall survival.

Abandoned bicycle was stayed lonely together with the fallen leaves at the corner of the park.

 

There are more and more natural disasters occured at all aspects from the climates down to earthquakes in recent years, which become the warn sign to people all over the world. Some of them are due to human bening's industries revolution & over consumption issue in life for the centuries, which brought us the pollution from the air till our mind in depth. The environment we lives in physical and we think in mind was polluted more or more. All kinds of words, sound, symbols related to the racial, the gender , the social status, and the country discrimination etc we created annoyed our soul & mind and caused more or more wars conflict from the people around the the world. All kinds of the air, water, food pollutions from all kinds of electronic & medical industries & instruments bring huge impact to our life & enfluence to our health.

 

Here I try to utilze & combine some different elements such as the leaves, the flowers, the sky, the mountain, the fog , rain & wind from the nature, and the railway station, the light, graffitti from the artifical world , and create the image which like the symbol or metaphor about what we breathe, we listen, we saw and we live together now in daily life .

 

With all these messy stuffs we got from the life and the world day by day , and it become the disturbance to our mind , and hard to seek the beauty of the clarity & the simplicity of the world we live and the mind we used to own. Let's try our best not only decrease the air pollution from the nature, but also simpify ourself from thoughts to mind if posssible from now on . And hope we can enjoy the happiness of simplicity & keep the longlasting of earth moving forwards.

British Real Photograph postcard.

 

Virginia Valli (1895–1968) was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.

 

Virginia Valli, originally Virginia McSweeney, was born in Chicago, Illinois, and started acting in Milwaukee at a theater stock company. From 1916, she also acted in some 18 films at the Essanay Studios in Chicago, debuting in a minor part in the serial The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916), and quickly having all the female leads.. After that, she acted at the studios of World Film, Fort Lee, New Jersey. However, when features came along, Valli was reduced to supporting parts. By 1920, Valli had moved to California to act in films by Fox, Vitagraph and others. By that time she had already adopted the name of Virginia Valli. A major part she had in the Metro Pictures film The Man Who (Maxwell Karger, 1921) with Bert Lytell and Lucy Cotton, and scripted by June Mathis. On the film's success, Karger then directed Lytell and Valli in a string of fllms for Metro.

 

In 1922-1924, Virginia Valli did several films for Universal. A major part Valli had in John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922), based on Wadsworth Longfellow, in the northwoods melodrama The Storm (Reginald Barker 1922) with House Peters, and in The Shock (Lambert Hillyer, 1923), in which Lon Chaney falls in love with the daughter of his victim, combined with the San Francisco earthquake. Other memorable titles were The Signal Tower (Clarence Brown, 1924), Wild Oranges (King Vidor, 1924), The Confidence Man (Victor Heerman, 1924), Up the Ladder (Edward Sloman, 1925), and the British film The Pleasure Garden (1925) by Alfred Hitchcock. Location shooting for The Pleasure Garden was done in Italy and Germany. The film revolves around Patsy Brand (Valli), a woman who works as a dancer in a theater called "Pleasure Garden". She helps Jill (Carmelita Geraghty) to get a job in he theater. Via Jill's fiancee Hugh (John Stuart) she meets Levet (Miles Mander) and eventually marries him. They sail for Italy on a honeymoon. Levett and Hugh then go on a trip to one of the British colonies. Jill, meanwhile, has dropped Hugh for a rich prince who spoils her and she has become distant to Patsy. When Patsy receives notice that her husband is ill, she travels after him, but discovers he has an affair with a native woman. Patsy, instead, takes care of a really ill Hugh, which Levet doesn't like... The film was produced by Michael Balcon and Erich Pommer; it was Balcon who hired Valli as star of the film, being one of the first to do so. Also Carmelita Geraghty was American.

 

Virginia Valli continued appearing in films throughout the decade. She had no longlasting contracts with majors, so she played at all major and minor studios in the 1920s. In 1925 Valli acted in The Man Who Found Himself with Thomas Meighan. The production was carried out in the studio of Long Island, New York. Among her films were also the highlights Stage Madness (Victor Schertzinger, 1927) with Tullio Carminati, Paid To Love (Howard Hawks, 1927), with William Powell, and Evening Clothes (Luther Reed, 1927), with Adolphe Menjou. Her first sound movie was The Isle of Lost Ships in 1929, but her film career would not last much longer as her fame declined. After scarce adventures in sound cinema, she quitted acting in 1931. Valli was married to George Lamson and, in second marriage in 1931, to the actor Charles Farrell, a marriage that lasted until her death. They moved to Palm Springs, where she had an intense social life for years. She suffered a stroke in 1966, and died two years later, at the age of 73, in Palm Springs, California. She was buried in Welwood Murray Cemetery in that city. Valli did not have children.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (English, Spanish, and Italian) and IMDb.

Our daily challenge 3 ~ "Nine"

Please note: these shots were not taken on the 25th April (May or June either!) I think when I move from one programme to another the software gets confused!

 

Someone dressed "to the nines" is dressed up as much as they can be.

 

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting" (久 pinyin jiǔ).

 

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Aristotle

 

The Japanese consider 9 to be unlucky because it sounds similar to the Japanese word for "pain" or "distress" (苦 kunrei ku)[

 

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

Mitch Hedberg

 

The word "K-9" pronounces the same as canine and is used in many U.S. police departments to denote the police dog unit.

 

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Kurt Cobain

 

Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.

   

One of my favorite lipsticks: Givenchy, Rouge Interdit, 01 Only Beige

More and more artifical buildings appeared and spoil the balance of the nature, and bring the pollution to the air, the water & the survival rights of the nature life.

  

There are more and more natural disasters occured at all aspects from the climates down to earthquakes in recent years, which become the warn sign to people all over the world. Some of them are due to human bening's industries revolution & over consumption issue in life for the centuries, which brought us the pollution from the air till our mind in depth. The environment we lives in physical and we think in mind was polluted more or more. All kinds of words, sound, symbols related to the racial, the gender , the social status, and the country discrimination etc we created annoyed our soul & mind and caused more or more wars conflict from the people around the the world. All kinds of the air, water, food pollutions from all kinds of electronic & medical industries & instruments bring huge impact to our life & enfluence to our health.

 

Here I try to utilze & combine some different elements such as the leaves, the flowers, the sky, the mountain, the fog , rain & wind from the nature, and the railway station, the light, graffitti from the artifical world , and create the image which like the symbol or metaphor about what we breathe, we listen, we saw and we live together now in daily life .

 

With all these messy stuffs we got from the life and the world day by day , and it become the disturbance to our mind , and hard to seek the beauty of the clarity & the simplicity of the world we live and the mind we used to own. Let's try our best not only decrease the air pollution from the nature, but also simpify ourself from thoughts to mind if posssible from now on . And hope we can enjoy the happiness of simplicity & keep the longlasting of earth moving forwards.

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A small intermezzo of a hopefully longlasting early summer....

Taken today. That means the Christmas are still lasting in our home. My girlfriend was removing their Christmas tree today and I realized that such a long lasting Christmas is nothing self-evident.

 

I like it. Especially when it looks exactly like this...

 

Best seen on black!