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The Emporium always demands my attention when I enter Main Street. No matter what plan I may have for that excursion into Disneyland, I find it difficult to just pass by this beckoning building without at least having a look at one of the enchanted windows.
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"Sometimes, amid the demands of each day, it's easy to lose your sense of balance."
~ Anonymous
memories from my balcony garden...
Thanks for stopping by
and God Bless,
hugs, Chris
Ais il arriva que le petit prince, ayant longtemps marché à travers les sables, les rocs et les neiges, découvrit enfin une route. Et les routes vont toutes chez les hommes.
-Bonjour, dit-il.
C'était un jardin fleuri de roses.
-Bonjour, dirent les roses.
Le petit prince les regarda. Elles ressemblaient toutes à sa fleur.
Le Petit prince
-Qui êtes-vous? leur demanda-t-il, stupéfait.
-Nous sommes des roses, dirent les roses.
-Ah! fit le petit prince…
Et il se sentit très malheureux. Sa fleur lui avait raconté qu'elle était seule de son espèce dans l'univers. Et voici qu'il en était cinq mille, toutes semblables, dans un seul jardin!
"Elle serait bien vexée, se dit-il, si elle voyait ça… elle tousserait énormément et ferait semblant de mourrir pour échapper au ridicule. Et je serais bien obligé de faire semblant de la soigner, car, sinon, pour m'humilier moi aussi, elle se laisserait vraiment mourir…
Yes, it is PINK-WEEK, by popular demand!
Pink is a pale red color, which takes its name from the flower of the same name, Dianthus (carnation) .
According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the colour most often associated with love, beauty, charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and the romantic.
When combined with violet or black, it is associated with eroticism and seduction.
The name derives from the frilled edge of the flowers—the verb "to pink" dates from the 14th century and means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern" (possibly from German pinken, "to peck").
While the word "pink" was first used as a noun to refer to a color in the 17th century, the verb "pink" continues to be reflected today in the name of those hand-held scissors that cut a zig-zagged line referred to as pinking shears.
Pink was not a common colour in the fashion of the Middle Ages; nobles usually preferred brighter reds, such as crimson.
Shocking pink was a new and more assertive pink invented by Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1931, by mixing a little white with magenta. It became her signature colour.
Pink has symbolised a "welcome embrace" in India and masculinity in Japan.
MORE about pink HERE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink
A close-up of a candy-pink tulip of the smaller variety with enormous beauty.
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A hauteur du 37 quai d’Orsay, dont le nom évoque celui d’un prévôt des marchands du xviii e siècle, se dresse la façade de l’hôtel du ministre des Affaires étrangères. Commencé en 1844, achevé vers 1855, il forme un ensemble homogène et représentatif de l’art décoratif du second Empire. À la demande de Guizot, ministre des Affaires étrangères, le projet en fut confié à l’architecte Lacornée, à qui l’on devait la construction du palais d’Orsay, aujourd’hui détruit. La première pierre fut posée en novembre 1845 en présence de Guizot, Lacornée et Dumon, ministre des Travaux publics.
Les travaux de décoration extérieure furent confiés à des sculpteurs qui, pour la plupart, avaient déjà participé à la construction ou la restauration d’églises (Notre-Dame de Paris, Saint-Vincent de Paul…) ou de châteaux (Blois, Saint-Cloud…). Un moment freinés par la révolution de 1848, les travaux furent repris à l’instigation de l’empereur Napoléon III. Une fois le gros œuvre achevé en 1853, on fit appel, pour la décoration intérieure, à des artistes connus à l’époque, tels que Séchan, Nolau et Rubé, Molknecht, Lavigne, Liénard, Hippolythe Adam, les frères Huber… L’hôtel étant destiné à recevoir des souverains et diplomates étrangers, il convenait de les accueillir avec tout le faste dû à leur rang.
Depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, le ministère des Affaires étrangères occupe toujours les mêmes locaux. C’est à cette stabilité de près d’un siècle et demi que l’on doit l’expression courante " Quai d’Orsay " pour désigner le ministère des Affaires étrangères.
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/le-ministere-et-son-reseau/patr...
some nice flickr friends asked me if I could post some more wedding dress pictures? Well here you go, this is from my archive, hope you like it....
Here it is...after popular demand...translated into a mosaic for the tree challenge!
40cm by 55cm. Glass, mirror, milli, glass beads, ceramic beak.
Les deux fontaines, de la place de la Concorde, inspirées de celles de Saint-Pierre de Rome, ont été installée entre 1835 et 1840 par l'architecte Jacques Hittorff à la demande du roi Louis Philippe. La fontaine des fleuves du côté de la rue Royale et la fontaine des mers du côté de la Sein . Ces références marines évoquent l'emblème de la capitale et sa devise Fluctuat nec mergitur.
La fontaine des Mers (Côté Seine)
Groupe de statues en bronze (hauteur 3m) : L’Océan et la Méditerranée, par Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (1804-1865), La Pêche des perles et La Pêche des coquillages par Achille Valois (1765-1862), La Pêche des poissons et La Pêche des coraux, par Antoine Desboeufs (1793-1862).
Sous la vasque supérieure : La Navigation maritime, Le Commerce et l'Astronomie, par Isidore Hippolyte Brion
Rameswaram (Inde) - Après ce bain sacré, les pèlerins en profitent pour - moyennant quelques centaines de roupies -, demander l’aide d’un gourou, d’un mage ou d’un astrologue. Certains se revendiquent les trois à la fois. Pas la peine d’aller dans un temple, la plage sacrée fait très bien l’affaire. Les hindous ont recours à ces « saints hommes » pour prédire l’avenir et surtout pour s’attirer les bonnes grâces des dieux. Certaines familles ont même des astrologues attitrés qui les suivent tout au long de leur vie pour les aider dans leurs prises de décisions. Un bref résumé pour une pratique finalement très complexe.
Sur la photo, « l’astrologue-mage-gourou » (de dos au premier plan) vient de demander au pèlerin de bénir une pomme avec quelques gouttes d'eau de mer. Ne me demandez pourquoi ? Je n'en sais rien. Je ne suis pas devin.
Côté photo, comme vous pouvez le constater, ma présence, pourtant bien visible, ne dérange pas les dévots en pleine pratique religieuse. Cela dit, lors de mes deux derniers voyages en Inde, j’ai réalisé que si les Indiens sont toujours favorables à se faire photographier, de plus en plus de temples sont désormais interdits aux « non hindous » et aux appareils photos. Ça non plus je ne l’avais pas prévu. Chacun son boulot.
Ramaswaram (India) - After the sacred bath in sea water, pilgrims take the opportunity - for a few hundred rupees - to ask for the help of a guru, a magus or an astrologer. Some claim all three at the same time. No need to go to a temple, the sacred beach does the job very well. Hindus use these "holy men" to predict the future and especially to gain the favor of the gods. Some families even have dedicated astrologers who follow them throughout their lives to assist them in their decision-making. A brief summary for a practice that is ultimately very complex.
In the photo, the "astrologer-mage-guru" (back to foreground) has just asked the pilgrim to bless an apple with a few drops of seawater. Don't ask me why? I do not know.
On the photo side, as you can see, my presence, although clearly visible, does not disturb the devotees in full religious activity. Having said that, on my last two trips to India, I realized that while Indians are still favorable to having their picture taken, more and more temples are now off limits to "non-Hindus" and cameras.
demand unconditional love
but love me with conditions
I can't keep up with these changing positions
and it never seems to end
the constant misery is a game
that you love to pretend works for you
while secretly drowning in shame
but you're not the only one hurting
your pain isn't more important than mine
yet it's always what took over
and bulldozed over mine, every time
then you cornered me into my triggers
and I reacted as expected
what a good trap
to name me with your "crazy exes"
and who the fuck do you think you are?
those who call others narcissists as much as you
are almost always narcissists too
diagnose yourself and read the room
you're not the only one here
whenever you treated me like garbage
you'd always blame it on fear
and yes, I know that I'm not perfect
I know my own faults and failure
I took accountability for everything
and if you claim I didn't, you're a liar
but if you think you can control me
you better think again
I'm a lover and I'm a fighter
with no time for weak men
• • • • • • • • • •
Poem by me, December 2021
Demander pour utilisation merci - Ask for use thanks.
© Michel Guérin. Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved ©.
(Woliwon)
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites et commentaires ♥, thank you so much for the visit and kind comments.
Un gros merci à ceux qui partagent leur découverte.
Demander pour utilisation merci - Ask for use thanks.
© Michel Guérin. Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved ©.
(Woliwon)
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites et commentaires ♥, thank you so much for the visit and kind comments.
Un gros merci à ceux qui partagent leur découverte.
Tu t'demandes si tu es une bête féroce ou bien un saint
Mais tu es l'un et l'autre et tellement de choses encore.
Tu es infiniment nombreux
Celui qui méprise, celui qui blesse,
Celui qui aime, celui qui cherche
Et tous les autres ensemble.
Trompe-toi, sois imprudent, tout n'est pas fragile.
N'attends rien que de toi, parce que tu es sacré,
Parce que tu es en vie, parce que le plus important n'est pas ce que tu es
Mais ce que tu as choisi d'être.
Back by popular demand the ballroom dancing Collembola, yes I found my first dancing Deuterosminthurus pallipes of 2013. I was actually trying to photograph the female on the left, she seemed oblivious to anything, she was more interested in eating. Suddenly this male appeared (on the right) and tried to engage the female in a courtship dance and boy was he persistent, initially she wasn't bothered, but they did break into a brief courtship dance after much gesturing and head butting by the male. The female really was not that interested in the end.
Crop in first of comments :o)
Anyway, taken with my MP-E at x5 on 72mm of extension tubes at an F/6.3 aperture. Really working with a very fine DOF and was happy to get detail on both the male and female here. I had the leaf on a bench weighed down by my magnifying loupe, it was quite a windy afternoon, the leaf was placed back onto the same type of plant afterwards to allow the Springtails to transfer onto new leaves. These guys are just about visible to the naked eye at about 1mm for the larger females :o)
Demander pour utilisation merci - Ask for use thanks.
© Michel Guérin. Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved ©.
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites et commentaires ♥, thank you so much for the visit and kind comments.
Un gros merci à ceux qui partagent leur découverte.
Wickham Place is the London home of Lord and Lady Southgate, their children and staff. Located in fashionable Belgravia it is a fine Georgian terrace house.
Today we are below stairs in the Wickham Place kitchen which is usually a place of happiness and harmony, but today Mrs. Bradley, known by most downstairs staff as Cook, is in a foul mood as she bangs her copper pots about on the kitchen range with a violence not often seen.
In the corridor outside the kitchen, Mr. Withers the Butler catches a couple of the Wickham Place housemaids skulking about doing nothing.
“What are you doing standing about here, cluttering the area?” he demands of them.
“We’re on a break, Mr. Withers, sir.” replies Sara unapologetically.
“Then why aren’t you in the servant’s hall, girl?” he asks sharply.
“Can’t get there, sir.” Sara replies with a shrug of her shoulders.
“Don’t be insolent girl!” Mr. Withers snaps. “What rubbish! Of course you can! It’s just on the other side of the kitchen.”
“I’m not game to go in there. Are you Tilly?” Sara asks her fellow housemaid.
“Not me, Sara!” she replies, shaking her head and putting up both her hands defensively.
It’s then that Mr. Withers hears for the first time the crash of metal against metal as pots and pans are bashed about with what appears to be some vehemence. Occasionally over the clattering noise, he thinks he hears the sob of a girl.
“Cook’s in a foul mood,” Tilly continues. “And we’ll not go in there, sir. Not for love, nor money!”
Sara nods in agreement.
“We’ll soon see about this.” Mr. Withers replies as he steels himself and marches through the kitchen door.
Cook is standing with her back to the room as she stirs something violently in a pot on the great black kitchen range, banging her wooden spoon angrily on its lip. Sitting as far from Cook as she can, Agnes the scullery maid is weeping over some big Seville oranges as she cuts them into thin slivers with a knife.
“Agnes.” Mr. Withers says when he sees her tears. “Whatever is wrong?”
“Oh,” she sobs. “Mrs. Bradley’s in a foul mood, and she set me to juicing and slicing oranges, and the juice is stinging my hands.” She holds out her careworn hands, the juice covering them and seeping into the cracks in the skin on her palms and fingers.
“Got time to gab have you, you ungrateful good-for-nothing?” Mrs. Bradly spins around with her hands on her hips, her ordinarily cheerful face as black as thunder as she glares at Agnes.
“Oh! Oh, I only meant…” but the words catch in her throat as Cook’s eyebrows arch ever so slightly higher over her angry eyes. “No, Mrs. Bradley.” She busies herself, head down, continuing to slice the oranges into thin slivers.
“Now! Now! What’s this Mrs. Bradley?” Mr. Withers asks. “This isn’t like you: upsetting a poor girl and banging the pots so loudly the Master and Mistress can hear you upstairs.”
“And a good thing too if Her High-and-Mightiness does hear me!”
“Mrs. Bradley!” Mr. Withers looks shocked.
“Well, here I am happily preparing the six course French dinner for His Lordship’s guests this evening when she summons me. ‘Just a small change, Cook’, she says all sweetness and light. ‘You’ll have to change the main course. Lord What’s-His-Face doesn’t eat red meat, but I’m sure you’ll come up with a suitable alternative in its place at such short notice. That will be all.’ And she dismisses me with a wave of her lily-white hand!”
“Well, you’re resourceful, Mrs. Bradley.”
“Have you looked at the time, Mr. Withers? His Lordship’s guests will be here in two hours, and I’ve been cooking bœuf à la Bourguignonne all afternoon!” She turns and opens the oven door and pulls out something from within its confines. “So we’ll be eating like kings for servant’s dinner shortly, and tonight they will be having chicken a l’orange instead!” She slams a partially cooked chicken on a tray on the deal table. “If I’d wanted to be a short-order cook, Mr. Withers, I’d have worked at the Café Royal! I’ve a right mind to hand in my notice!” She snatches up the jug of orange juice from in front of her, sloshing some on the table in her anger, and starts pouring it over the chicken.
“You aren’t going to though, are you Mrs. Bradley?” Mr. Withers asks with a worried look on his pale face.
“No, Mr. Withers. I’ve got too much respect for His Lordship than to walk out,” she assures him. “But her!” She raises her wooden spoon to the ceiling above her and shakes it.
“Shall I put the orange silvers on the chicken now, Mrs. Bradley?” Agnes asks meekly.
“Of course girl! I didn’t put it there for you to stare at! Get on with it, quick sticks, or His Lordship will be served a half cooked, inedible chicken, and you’ll be to blame!”
“Yes Mrs. Bradley!”
The Wickham Place kitchens are situated on the ground floor of Wickham Place, adjoining the Butler’s Pantry. It is dominated by big black leaded range, and next to it stands a heavy dark wood dresser that has been there for as long as anyone can remember. There is a white enamelled sink to one side with deep cupboards to house the necessary cleaning agents the scullery maid needs to keep the kitchen clean for the cook. In the middle of the kitchen stands Cook’s preserve, the pine deal table on which she does most of her preparation for both the meals served to the family upstairs and those for the downstairs staff.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “fruit” was chosen by Gary, Gazman_AU. This tableaux is made up of part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood like the ladderback chair in the background. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableaux include:
On Cook’s deal table, the Seville oranges, the orange slices, and the roast chicken all 1:12 artisan miniatures with amazing attention to detail. All three come from Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering, England. The orange slices are so small and so fine. They are cut from long canes like some boiled sweets are but are much smaller in size!
Also, from Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering is the jug of orange juice which is also a 1:12 artisan miniature. The jug is made of very fine glass, and is half filled with glossy resin that looks exactly like orange juice.
Opposite the jug of orange juice is a Cornishware white and blue cannister. Cornishware is a striped kitchenware brand trademarked to and manufactured by T.G. Green & Co Ltd. Originally introduced in the 1920s and manufactured in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, it was a huge success for the company and in the succeeding 30 years it was exported around the world. The company ceased production in June 2007 when the factory closed under the ownership of parent company, The Tableshop Group. The range was revived in 2009 after T.G. Green was bought by a trio of British investors.
Behind the roast chicken is a jar of Gale’s Honey and a jar of Golden Shred Orange Marmalade. Gale’s Honey has been in existence as a brand in England since the early 1900s, and it still exists to this day. Golden Shred orange marmalade too still exists today and is a common household brand both in Britain and Australia. It is produced by Robertson’s. Robertson\'s Golden Shred recipe perfected since 1874 is a clear and tangy orange marmalade, which according to their modern day jars is “perfect for Paddington’s marmalade sandwiches”. Robertson\'s marmalade dates back to 1874 when Mrs. Robertson started making marmalade in the family grocery shop in Paisley, Scotland.
The sink in the background is littered with interesting items. On the left stands an old fashioned draining board which could be removed so that the space could then be used for other purposes. It is stacked with copper pots and a blue pottery mixing bowl. Near the taps is a box of Sunlight soap and a can of Vim, both cleaning essentials in any Edwardian household. Vim scouring powder was created by William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme) and introduced to the market in 1904. It was produced at Port Sunlight in Wirrel, Merseyside, a model village built by Lever Brothers for the workers of their factories which produced the popular soap brands Lux, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. Sunlight Soap was first introduced in 1884.
The ladderback chair I have had since I was around eight years old.
To the left of the sink is the food safe with a birchwood broom leaning against it. In the days before refrigeration, or when refrigeration was expensive, perishable foods such as meat, butter, milk and eggs were kept in a food safe. Winter was easier than summer to keep food fresh and butter coolers and shallow bowls of cold water were early ways to keep things like milk and butter cool. A food safe was a wooden cupboard with doors and sides open to the air apart from a covering of fine galvinised wire mesh. This allowed the air to circulate while keeping insects out. There was usually an upper and a lower compartment, normally lined with what was known as American cloth, a fabric with a glazed or varnished wipe-clean surface. Refrigerators, like washing machines were American inventions and were not commonplace in even wealthy upper-class households until well after the Second World War.
On Saturday 25 February 2023, several thousand Peace Now demonstrators gathered in London to demand negotiations to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine war.
PEACE TALKS NOW.
Almost all the protesters agreed that their main demand was for a greater effort to end the horrific conflict in Ukraine, in which possibly as many as 200,000 may have already died and with the risk of escalation threatening the end of all human life on earth.
WASHINGTON AND LONDON BLOCKED TALKS IN 2022
The evidence suggests that the United States and United Kingdom blocked Ukraine from carrying through with its proposed basis for a peace deal with Russia during negotiations in March-April 2022, with the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, citing sources close to Zelensky, claiming that Boris Johnson, on his visit to Kiev on 9 April, personally lobbied the Ukrainian president to abandon peace talks and continue the conflict.
peacenews.info/node/10287/liz-truss-helped-derail-chances...
The former Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, also claimed that Washington blocked his attempts to negotiate a peace deal between Kiev and Moscow.
thegrayzone.com/2023/02/06/israeli-bennett-us-russia-ukra...
A VARIETY OF VIEWS ON SENDING ARMS
Protesters had a greater variety of views on whether the West should send any arms to Ukraine at all, with many opposing any supply of arms that they believe will only prolong the conflict and suffering and risk further escalation, while others argued that sending some arms was morally justifiable to help Ukraine, but that the supply should be carefully calibrated so as not to make a wider and even more catastrophic world war more likely.
JEREMY CORBYN'S SPEECH
Jeremy Corbyn, as he concluded his brief speech, declared that 'if all the protagonists in this conflict can come together to discuss the supply of grain to the world, and come to an agreement by which ships carrying the grain from Ukraine and Russia can go to feed other people in other parts of the world; if the US is capable of contacting Russia to say that president Biden is visiting Kiev, then it is obviously possible they could come together for serious talks and serious negotiations to stop the fighting, stop the killing, stop the conflict, and bring about peace and justice."
WHY THE WEST NEEDS TO SUPPORT AND NOT BLOCK PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
1. Regardless of one's opinions on the rights and wrongs of this conflict, it has already claimed at least 100,000 lives, possibly over 200,000, including more than 8,000 civilians
abcnews.go.com/International/russia-ukraine-war-tens-thou...
Its continuation also threatens global food supplies and energy prices, plunging thousands into food and fuel poverty across Europe and leading to widespread food shortages and hunger across Africa and parts of Asia.
2. Every day the war continues, and as NATO supplies of ever more powerful weaponry continue to increase, the risk of the war escalating into a terminal nuclear conflict continues to grow. Putin and much of the Russian military establishment will do almost anything to prevent a Ukrainian victory, especially one that might see Crimea, of huge strategic importance and with a clear majority Russian population, be returned to Ukraine. Many strategic analysts and Russia specialists believe that Moscow would be willing to consider using at least tactical nuclear weapons, and that this could quickly escalate into global conflict. The ongoing conflict is also jeopardising all the remaining arms control agreements which prevent another nuclear arms race, so that even if Ukraine is victorious, we risk entering a new cold war which is likely to end, soon rather than later, in a nuclear conflict that will terminate all organised human life on earth.
3. The Ukraine War has led to a huge increase in the consumption of fossil fuels, and the reversal of key policies in the fight against climate change. It also hinders crucial cooperation between Russia and the West on this urgent issue with regards measures to curb emissions, as well as cooperation between Russian and Western scientists, particularly as Russia occupies a large part of the arctic, where research findings are vital for our understanding of how rapidly climate change is occuring.
4. We have to acknowledge that some of the West's recently declared war aims are highly questionable such as returning Crimea to Ukraine. Not only are the Russians unlikely to ever consider entering peace negotiations over its return, but over 60% of the population is Russian according to the last 2001 Ukrainian census and only 24% ( about 1 in 4) are Ukrainian. So it will be difficult to incorporate the territory back into Ukraine without at least some sort of referendum on Crimea's status. It also has to be acknowledged that the millions of Russians who live within Ukraine have for years faced harsh discrimination with severe restrictions on the importation of books in the Russian language since 2017 (Russian books had previously accounted for 60% of all titles), restrictions on the use of Russian language in schools and Russophobic attacks in the streets.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Ukraine
The Russians in the Donbass area have also suffered from years of shelling during a prolonged war Ukrainian forces waged against them, with a total death toll up to December 2021 (including both Ukrainian and insurgent forces) of over 14,000, including over 3,000 civilians killed. Yes, there was an inflow of Russian arms which also stoked the conflict, but many Russians viewed this as legitimate support for a population which was under attack from the Ukrainian army.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
5. Finally, whatever one's views on the Ukrainian conflict, the evidence suggests that Western strategy is failing. Russian forces continue to gain ground in Ukraine on a daily basis, despite an enormous inflow of NATO arms. Russian industry is able to be fully mobilised on a war footing in a way that the West, with its just in time corporate controlled arms industry, can't compete with. NATO has already acknowledged that by the summer of this year, Ukraine is likely to run out of artillery shells. What is brutally termed the "burn rate" of NATO supplied military equipment (and indeed of Ukrainian young men) is far higher than its replenishment rate. At the same time, despite all the sanctions the Russian economy is predicted to grow faster this year than either Germany or the United Kingdom.
www.grid.news/story/global/2023/02/01/russias-economy-is-...
The ruble has actually gained slightly in strength against the US dollar, relative to its value a year ago in February 2022,
www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD
and Russian reserves remain impressively high. Much of the world, including China, India, South Africa and Brazil, remain more than willing to retain good relations with Russia and import its oil and other key commodities. Western strategy is failing to weaken Russia but the war strengthens the position of the nationalists within Russia, and gives the Russian government a pretext to clampdown on dissent. It also pushes Russia ever closer to China, while accelerating Europe's relative economic decline. So whatever one's moral view on the conflict, the lack of any coherent strategy to end this conflict and the West's refusal even to consider peace negotiations appears to be a catastrophic mistake.
2016 erreiche Mercedes Benz einen neuen Absatzrekord mit knapp 20.000 verkauften Einheiten innerhalb eines Jahres und baute von 1979 bis Juli 2017 insgesamt über 300.000 Fahrzeuge. Ältere Modelle werden sind als Oldtimer sehr gefragt.
In 2016, Mercedes Benz achieved a new sales record with almost 20,000 units sold within one year and built a total of over 300,000 vehicles from 1979 to July 2017. Older models are in great demand as classic cars.
Le Passage d'Agen,
rue Victor Duruy.
On se demande souvent si les élus ne se moquent pas ouvertement des usagers en gaspillant l'argent public de la sorte!
Ici l'entrée de la voie cyclable obligatoire et à double sens se fait perpendiculairement à la chaussée, au niveau du passage piéton et entre les deux potelets PMR !!!
(C'est le seul endroit où le trottoir est abaissé.)
Il faut supprimer les voitures de fonction aux panoupanous qui sont censés gérer l'agglomération d'Agen et les obliger à se rendre à leur emploi à vélo!
De cette manière, ils se rendront peut-être compte de l'ineptie de l'urbanisme qu'ils infligent aux usagers !
Et puis il y a, comme souvent, ces poteaux plantés au milieu de la voie piétonne qui gênent la circulation des piétons.
C'est la constante des projets d'urbanisme dans l'agglomération d'Agen : chaque nouveau projet d'aménagement ne semble absolument pas tenir compte de l'environnement ni des autres usagers!
Des travaux récents, pourtant.
Comme d'habitude, il n'y a manifestement eu aucune réflexion de la part du service d'urbanisme!
Comme d'habitude, mépris pour les usagers et je-m'en-foutisme semblent être les maîtres mots.
Quelle honte et quel gaspillage d'argent public!
I must confess that all this while, I had been taking it for granted. I was flipping the channels and Netflix when I accidentally pressed the VOD button on my ASTRO remote. Then I learned that the new WestWorld season and episodes were out. And to my surprise, they were free and available through the box, via the internet. And they were the uedited US versions.
More exploration and then I learned that the fifth season of “Silicon Valley” was also available. Far out!
I was done with the WestWorld - only 2 episodes released so far - and was catching up on Silicon Valley. The WestWorld episodes were pretty heavy stuff though, with revelation aplenty. Too much for casual viewing ....
Anyway, the point of this post was clearly ASTRO offered a lot more that met the eyes through their “on demand” service. Most of the movies needed paying though and selection were pretty limited. But when it came to TV series, they were free, up to date and were the US versions. Not to be missed!
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8. March - International Women's Day
History of March 8
On Day 8 March 1857, workers of a textile factory, located in the North American city of New York, made a big strike. They occupied the plant and began to demand better working conditions, such as reducing the daily workload for ten hours (factories required 16 hours of daily work), Match wages with men (women came to receive up to a third the salary of a man to perform the same type of work) and fair treatment in the workplace.
The demonstration was repressed with full violence. The women were locked inside the factory, which was set on fire. Approximately 130 weavers died carbonized in a totally inhuman act.
extract from
"A History of International Women's Day: "We Want Bread and Roses Too"
A February Sunday day trip into rural Saskatchewan, I grab a default cup of coffee at Tim Horton's before heading North where I'll catch the choice mid afternoon descending light. I hadn't overheard any interesting stories at the city coffee franchise, maybe the day would bring something entirely different. Patrons seemed rather non-chatty.
An hour later, a friendly Larry B. from Mendham, Saskatchewan greets me on main street while out walking his dogs and spunky cat. Little remains from those thriving days, I focus on Jeff's Farm Supply and a modern Credit Union. Some ice is melting on the street, the air is country fresh.
"This must have been the gathering spoon for coffee daily, it has a good vibe" I suggest.
"A few of us currently meet in that tiny post office facility, Jeff's Farm Supply closed the doors ten years ago." says Larry. "It was a beehive once. We just tore down the old building across from Jeff's last year."
"We're now down to 19 residents from 35. Curling rinks used to pull these communities together, connecting families, creating purpose. At one time we had multiple grain elevators, a general store, meeting places, town hall, a curling rink, churches, bakery, farm implements, and other amenities. It's difficult finding a doctor to remain in residence for the long haul, naturally they're attracted to the cities lights."
As I left I feel some sort of hidden attachment to this village, yet couldn't place a finger on the connection. Some digging back home, it all starts making sense. I discover my Grandfather farmed this area shortly after immigrating to Canada.
I offer to buy Larry a coffee, but our options are limited.
"I'll look you up when I'm in the city sometime, catch up on urban legends" he replies.
*Please view LARGE for best rural detail
**Textures courtesy of Brenda Starr
***Always___Thank You for your generous visits and comments
[Mendham is a village in Happyland Rural Municipality No. 231 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan]
On se demande comment la vie peut se nicher dans certains endroits. Ici, dans les falaises de St Anne d'Evenos (Var, 83, PACA, France), dont le plus haut point culmine à 200m de hauteur.
We wonder how life can nestle in certain places. Here, in the cliffs of St Anne d'Evenos (Var, 83, PACA, France), whose highest point culminates at 200m in height.
demands that we use all the crayons in the box!
Copyright Susan Ogden
Throw caution to the wind...grab those colors and use them! Swirl them, color outside the lines, blend them together and make new colors.
Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed...spinning like a pinwheel, bouncing like a ball, or raining down like prism drops of water from the sky, touching everyone with your spirit!
They say you only go ‘round once...altho i am not convinced and have my own theory on that!! BUT...just in case, why not make the most of it while you can!! :)
Go forth with your colors on this Tuesday, and share them with a smile! i dare you!
PS. Thank you, Kitty Hawk Kites for your always fabulous use of the whole box of crayons!!