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*Working Towards a Better World
"People are made to be loved and things are made to be used... The confusion in this world is that people are being used and things are being loved..." - Author Unknown
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Seeper taking a break. Perhaps to enjoy the glorious golden glow of a Beijing evening in late springtime. Beautiful eclectic exciting vibrant friendly China.
O Parque Urbano das Paivas, localizado na freguesia de Amora, concelho do Seixal, constitui um importante espaço verde urbano na margem sul do Tejo. Na imagem observa-se uma das zonas centrais do parque, onde se destaca uma fonte circular rodeada por áreas relvadas e árvores, proporcionando um ambiente de lazer e convívio à população local. Este espaço verde foi concebido para promover a qualidade de vida urbana, oferecendo infraestruturas de apoio, zonas de recreio infantil, percursos pedonais e áreas de descanso. O Parque Urbano das Paivas reflete a aposta do município do Seixal na valorização ambiental e na criação de espaços públicos acessíveis, essenciais para o bem-estar das comunidades urbanas. A envolvente habitacional, visível ao fundo, evidencia a integração do parque no tecido urbano da Amora, funcionando como pulmão verde e espaço de socialização.
Paivas Urban Park, located in the parish of Amora, municipality of Seixal, is an important urban green space on the south bank of the Tagus River. The image shows one of the central areas of the park, featuring a circular fountain surrounded by lawns and trees, providing a leisure and social environment for the local population. This green space was designed to promote urban quality of life, offering support infrastructure, children's play areas, walking paths, and rest areas. Paivas Urban Park reflects the municipality of Seixal's commitment to environmental enhancement and the creation of accessible public spaces, which are essential for the well-being of urban communities. The residential surroundings, visible in the background, highlight the park's integration into the urban fabric of Amora, functioning as a green lung and a space for socialization.
O Parque Urbano das Paivas, em Amora, Seixal, é um espaço verde central na malha urbana densa da Margem Sul do Tejo. A imagem ilustra o seu núcleo, com um lago artificial e repuxo que ameniza o clima e um pavilhão poligonal que alberga um estabelecimento de restauração, ponto de encontro para visitantes. O parque oferece zonas de lazer, circuitos de manutenção e parques infantis, integrando-se no tecido urbano com a sua vegetação consolidada, que inclui palmeiras e árvores de folha caduca. Este espaço foi projetado para melhorar a qualidade de vida dos residentes, oferecendo áreas de caminhada, descanso e atividades ao ar livre, além de mitigar o efeito de ilha de calor urbano. A infraestrutura reflete o investimento municipal em áreas de convívio que equilibram a densidade populacional, contribuindo para a coesão social e o bem-estar da comunidade, potenciado pelas acessibilidades a Lisboa.
The Paivas Urban Park, in Amora, Seixal, is a central green space in the dense urban fabric of the south bank of the Tagus River. The image illustrates its center, with an artificial lake and fountain that softens the climate and a polygonal pavilion that houses a restaurant, a meeting point for visitors. The park offers leisure areas, fitness circuits, and playgrounds, integrating into the urban fabric with its established vegetation, which includes palm trees and deciduous trees. This space was designed to improve the quality of life of residents, offering areas for walking, resting, and outdoor activities, as well as mitigating the urban heat island effect. The infrastructure reflects the municipal investment in social areas that balance population density, contributing to social cohesion and community well-being, enhanced by accessibility to Lisbon.
This woman has lived in the Flushing Main Street Station for several months now. Even the cops can't seem to so anything, LOL...
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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. - Stewart Udall
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. - Jim Fowler
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. - Bindi Irwin
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. - Edward O. Wilson
This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals. - Walt Whitman
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. -
John James Audubon
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. - Benjamin Hoff,
The Tao of Pooh
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Nature in the middle of the city is always something wonderful. nature in the city is a precious treasure, an incomparable resource to improve the quality of life, give the chance to get out of the urban chaos, breathe, relax, play, admire. Nature is always something that must be respected to the maximum of its possibilities since it is life, our life.
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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been
poisoned and the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Prophesy
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." - Native American Pro
verb
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." - Albert Einstein
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." - Gandhi
"What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau
Phrases
Good planets are hard to find
Earth Day every day
There is no Planet B
Vote Earth
Your planet needs you
Save paper, save trees, save the planet
Act like you live here
Show you care, do your share
Make conservation a habit
Global warming is not cool!
What would nature do?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Today is the day … the release date for "Quality Of Life".
You can now purchase your copy by visiting the Lawson’s Books website. We’ll also provide a list of stockists soon.
Thanks for the support!
Kamera: Yashica Mat-124 G
Linse: Yashinon 80mm f/3.5
Film: Rollei Retro 80S
Kjemi: Rodinal (1:25 / 8 min. @ 20°C)
Sorry .....I have been out of commission so to speak for the last 3 or 4 days .....
Am much better now!
:~)
Hemma har vi ett rum bara för vila och avkoppling och att få sätta sig där med en god dryck efter en arbetsvecka - det är livskvalitet för mig.
(Fotosöndag, tema: Bokeh)
Health is a relationship between you, your mind and your body. It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work, friends and family. Celebrate Life and be happy!
Macro Monday project – 12/30/13
"Good Health”
*Copyright © 2010 Lélia Valduga, all rights reserved.
*Reprodução proibida. © Todos os direitos reservados.
*Imagem protegida pela Lei do Direito Autoral Nº 9.610 de 19/02/1998.
Acapulco (ou Acapulco de Juárez nome oficial) é uma cidade e porto mexicano localizado no estado de Guerrero, ao sudoeste do país. É cabeceira do município homônimo e um dos principais destinos turísticos do mundo. Sua baía semicircular foi batizada com o nome de Santa Lúcia, correspondente ao dia de seu descobrimento por navegantes espanhóis.
É o centro turístico mais importante do México e um dos mais importantes do mundo, dado o contexto natural paradisíaco, a nível do relevo, do clima e da própria vegetação tropical. O seu desenvolvimento económico é perfeitamente assente no turismo, com complexos turísticos, cinemas, grandes hotéis e centros de recreio que proporcionam uma boa qualidade de vida.
Fonte: Wikipedia
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Acapulco (Acapulco de Juarez or official name) is a city and port located in the Mexican state of Guerrero, southwest of the country. It is the head of the homonymous municipality and a major tourist destination in the world. Its semicircular bay was named after Santa Lucia, corresponding to the day of its discovery by Spanish navigators.
It is the most important tourist center in Mexico and one of the world's most important, given the context of natural paradise, the level of relief, climate and tropical vegetation itself. Its economic development is entirely based on tourism, tourist complexes, theaters, large hotels and recreational centers that provide a good quality of life.
The owner of this chair, my mother, was born in 1918 – just as the First World War ended.
She was one of 6 children, living through hard times, austerity and constant financial crisis.
She met my father, born in 1913, who had 8 brothers and sisters and her family did not approve of him nor of their engagement.
However, she loved him, defied her family and married him in 1935.
My sister was born in 1937 and whilst she was still a toddler, my father was sent off to the war in the Middle East to fight the Afrika Korps headed by General Rommel.
As a Desert Rat, he was fighting out there for 5 years; was trapped during the siege of Tobruk and bombarded non-stop for 10 months by German planes and artillery. During this terrible seige, 30,000 British troops deserted and escaped into the desert. My father stayed and fought.
He came back a changed man but with some very close friends and comrades, Desert Rats and Gurkhas alike, with whom he had served and fought side by side with in the desert. He stayed in touch with those he had befriended and served with until the year he died.
During the Second World War, my mother and sister were evacuated and relocated deep into the countryside, far away from the frequently bombed Portsmouth Naval Base and stayed in touch by letter with my father in the volatile and unpredictable Middle East.
On his return from the war, jobs were hard to find and my father struggled to find employment. He was desperate, so he went for an interview for a job he had never done before and knew nothing about.
When he was offered it, he immediately took it and then spent the next few days being taught how to do it by his brother.
He later excelled at the job he initially knew nothing about and won awards for his skill and quality of workmanship.
My mum, dad and sister moved into a little 2 bedroom house in 1948 and my mother, as independent and as stubborn as ever, still lives there, on her own, today.
It is where the now empty chair and all her memories are and she will not be moved.
She loves the house because it is “full of memories” for her and it is her home.
Sixteen years after my sister was born and exactly 9 months after a happy Christmas celebration, I arrived on the scene – much to my mother’s utter surprise. She had gone to the Doctor feeling tired, run down and nauseous and came home with the news that she was pregnant, with me. For me to burst on the scene as a new and unplanned addition to the family, was a big surprise for all.
My mother wanted to take a part time job to help with the finances, but my father would not allow it – he alone was the bread winner and sole provider for his family.
He worked harder and took on another job to make ends meet now that I was around and there was an extra mouth to feed.
Neither my mother nor my father coveted material possessions. They lived simply and frugally within their means.
My father died prematurely in 1984 and my mother was heartbroken. She never remarried because she only ever had one true love in her life – the man her family disapproved of and who had stood by her, provided for her, paid all the bills and kept a roof over her head for 50 years.
No-one would ever match up to my father and that’s how it remains to this day.
Since my father died, she has lived alone in the little house she loves for almost 30 years and treasures all her fond memories tied into it.
My mother is now in hospital, very weak and fighting once again to beat her illnesses.
Her heart is very weak and there has been a “Do not resuscitate” order in place since May 2013 and still she fights on.
Although she is clearly getting weaker in hospital, she still talks of getting back to her home once again, where all her memories are and of sitting in her chair by the window watching the world go by with a photo of my father by her side. She takes a photo of him everywhere with her.
My mother was 95 this year and my father would have been 100 this year had he lived - so that's a lot of living and a lot of memories between them.
This is a big chair to fill.
It might be empty but it is full of memories.
UPDATE Spring 2014
The chair in the photograph is now by my mothers bedside in the care home with her.
She is too weak to get out of bed and sit in it but it is there for her to look at and feel comfort from.
She is the weakest she has ever been and is only now able to move her head and eyes.
Her fighting spirit is often mentioned and admired by the nursing staff as she still battles her various health problems.
The "Do Not Resuscitate" order has now been in place for just over a year but so far, it has not been needed.
A small 2 inch sq silver framed portrait of my father is on the table over her bed. She nods and smiles at it every single day and whispers "Goodnight" to it without fail.
UPDATE June 2014: Morphine; anti-biotics; chest infection; water infection; blood clots; Warfarin; hallucinations; high temperature; bad dreams; struggling to eat and drink; delirious; breathing difficulties; random thoughts and ramblings; incoherent at times and a Do Not Resuscitate order.
The family have been called in several times during the night over the past few weeks to say "Goodbye" to her, as she was not expected to make it through the night on multiple occasions.
However, she continues to survive the doctors worst fears and expectations but gets slowly weaker after each major trauma.
The consultant called her a "fighter" yesterday.
My mum was 96 this year and had he lived my father would have been 101.
"Who knows where the time goes" Sung by Judy Collins Lyrics by Sandy Denny
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeLguRecYc
UPDATE Mum passed away in her sleep in the early hours of 29 Oct 2014.
Free of pain at last.
RIP Mum 1918 - 2014
Over the past three years, Strongsville has seen a steady steep decline in civility and consideration of others.
Case in point - Pearl Road at the south end of the city. We now have people in cars and on motorcycles that have been deliberately modified to maximize their noise running high speed laps around our ends of town. On weekends, it sounds like I live beside a NASCAR motor speedway. Th\sis goes on for hours. When contacted, the City of Strongsville sent the complaint to the Police Department. I have yet to see or hear *ANY* evidence that they have even tried to stop the problem. One patrol car anywhere south of Schurmer Rd. could spend hours ticketing these people, but not one siren or sudden stopping of the cars has been heard.
The City of Strongsville apparently does not consider the decline of the quality of living to be a problem.
If you like this type of thing, I will have a house for sale in a couple of years. Cheap!
We, from the Chaleur region, often brag about our quality of life, diversity of natural beauty and the friendliness of our community. Here's a glimps of it.
A young couple leasurly fishing mackerel off the Petit-Rocher wharf on a warm september evening. From where I'm standing on the wharf, about a dozen people are also tackling and chatting.
Everyone's welcome.
Pancake's doing better today although she is still scratching her bee stings frequently and is moving a tad slow. The vet (Banfield) gave her two medications - Simplicef (an antibiotic) and Temiral-P (an antihistamine + Prednisone). She's going back Friday. No signs of any life at this pond today. Ongoing heavy construction, earthmoving & drilling on all 4 sides.
Thank you, Jefferson County Kentucky for protecting the well-being and health of your current living beings inhabiting this area. I'm sure the medical facilities and funeral directors in the area will thank you in the near future.