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I don't think the shop assistant who put together this window display really thought it through! Talk about inappropriate juxtapostions! Still, it raised a smile on my face as I was passing by with my shopping. :-)
May all you wonderful mothers out there be the happy victims of love, prezzies and ridiculous amounts of attention from your offspring.
On another note re flickr's new layout, I've got around the tedious and eye-straining task of writing a commentary in this minimalist margin by doing it first in a Simple Text document then copying and pasting it into this space. That's one hurdle down in this flickr created disaster of a web page, at least.
After killing my car with a boulder last Sunday (see full story in my comments section on previous post!) I'm settling in with my new car, so I'm taking my mother for a trip to an excellent garden centre to buy some plants for her…and the sun is out, albeit with a chill wind! :-)
Read Isaac Mao's open letter to Google.
An Open Letter to Google Founders--- to save Google in China and save Internet in China
GFW stands for "Great Firewall" [of China].
The photo above was created using a cool tool courtesy of Zhang Erning: www.sbfun.org/einstein/index.php
I thought it odd they were asking my name to write on the cup when getting the cup of tea. When I then looked at the cup, I understood why they did this.
By writing your name, this draws the person in to pay (more) attention to the message. Subtle, but effective.
You had a choice of teas. NIce.
Greenpeace activists post a banner on the window of the Prada store in New York City, Feb. 11, 2013. Greenpeace is asking supporters and consumers to challenge luxury fashion brands to clean up their act and eliminate hazardous chemicals and rainforest destruction from their supply chains and products. The Prada store refused refused to disclose information about their supply chains and their willingness to make binding commitments to create fashion free from hazardous chemicals and rainforest destruction. Photo by Jeff Christensen/Greenpeace
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from kobe with love.
akashi-kaikyo bridge, aug 2008
the longest central span of any suspension bridge.
The last time I was here shooting Spoonies this message did not exist he is headed to the Rookery with a stick there is an assortment of birds nesting but it is primarily the spoonies.
I have noticed on a lot of the photos that I upload that they appear lighter on Flickr than they do on my computer.
Will
On March 3, 2012 my dear friend Marybeth passed away after a battle with cancer. Losing someone you love is always difficult, losing a friend is something that I never had to do before.
A loss of a friend has never meant death in my lifetime. Losing friends means that you moved away, they moved away, you had a disagreement, you were too involved and didn't have enough time to get together and drifted apart, but death is different. When losing a friend is not because of death, there is still opportunity to talk with them, to visit, to have a facebook relationship, to kiss and make up.
Death has always been sad, but sad for those left behind. The person that has passed has gone somewhere better? I don't know about this, but they are not here to tell us. I will not tell you what I think. I will not tell you about God, heaven or whether I believe this or I believe you close your eyes and life turns off like a light switch. I still have many questions. A lifetime of questions.
What I do know is that I miss Marybeth terribly. I think of her daily. I never believed that cancer was going to take her until the day before she passed. I went to see her. I spent my final time with her, listening to her family members, but not talking with her because she was too weak to speak. I spent my final moment with her whispering silly things to her along with I love you because I was in shock that all this time we had known she had cancer, I was too naive to realize the end result. I didn't know what to say to her. I don't know what knowing would have done, I don't know what it would have changed or if it would have made things worse, but I do know that it took me a year to talk about this.
March 3, 2013 I went out with a friend. We decided to write messages to Marybeth. We each brought a rose with us. We wrote messages on the petals and threw them in the river. I do not know what my friend wrote and my friend did not know what I wrote, but we stood side by side writing on each petal and tossing them into the river which took them away. I wrote words about how I feel, questions I wanted to know, song lyrics, her name, I drew her pictures and I cried. It was a peaceful day for me because I finally figured out in that year that had passed what I wanted to say to her on that last day.
I have not received any answers and I really did not expect to. I still miss her terribly. I am glad that I spent my day, a year later, doing something and trying to still talk with her, see her, visit with her. I love you Mb.
Time is running out for people from other European countries who live in Wales - adults and children alike - who risk losing their rights to live here unless they register for Settled Status by 30 June.
Swansea for Europe campaigners took this message to Swansea beach, creating a giant sand artwork measuring 50 metres by 30 metres, to mark Europe Day on 9 May.
Citizens of EU and EFTA countries who came to the UK before the end of 2020 have to apply under the UK’s Settlement Scheme by 30 June – otherwise, they will lose their rights to live and work in the UK. This is a new rule because of Brexit.
This applies to citizens from the 27 EU countries, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein:
It includes:
•people who may have been living in the UK for decades, perhaps even before the UK joined the EU, who may not realise that they now need to register;
•children and other dependents of those affected who do not hold British citizenship;
•people who were previously granted UK permanent residence documents, which will no longer be valid after 30 June.
Edmund Sides, chair of Swansea for Europe, said:
“ We are very concerned that many people, including those who have been here for decades – and even children born here - could lose their rights to live here. The problem is that many of the people who will be affected either don’t know about Settled Status, or don’t realise it applies to them.
***More information is available from www.settled.org.uk****
From The Independent:
The Governor's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted yesterday that it was simply a "weird coincidence" that the email had acrostically spelled out an obscenity. He claimed that the sheer volume of the vetoes that Mr Schwarzenegger has been forced to pass in recent years meant "something like this was bound to happen". ...
But the claim met with a healthy dose of scepticism: the words cited by McLear are four letters long, a length relatively likely to crop up at random. The mathematical probability of the seven-letter phrase ... doing the same is 26 to the power of seven – or about 8,031,810,176 – to one.
Farewell messages written by employees of the North American Division (NAD) to Church employees in the World Headquarters prior to NAD moving to its new office building. NAD physically relocated September 2017.
[Photos: Mylon Medley/ANN]
Silver-plated pewter charms, Swarovski® Austrian crystals, and silver accent beads on a black cellphone lanyards.
This is a 2D barcode that hide inside a message. Using your smartphone, point the camera on the screen and decrypt the message. Have fun.
Antonio
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