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Colour version. This was a statue of orphans standing outside of an orphanage in Ukraine. It's kind of Soviet-esque the way they are looking toward the future but are rusting and decayed.
"That optimistic view of the Works, from the 1894 sale brochure, which the tax inspector thought was 'drawn with the eye of prophecy'" - Fred Bulmer
Pinnacle Pk (1,801 ft), Cascade Range, WA, USA, 981 ft +/- 40 prominence - Oct 3, 2017 w/ Becca Romig
Mopah Point (3,530 ft), Turtle Mountains, CA, USA, 960+ ft prominence - Jan 30, 2016 w/ Greg Gerlach
At the end of the task, everyone got to choose the best tops of the trees we'd felled. I didn't go for anything quite this huge.
Arctic Point (8,336 ft), San Bernardino Mountains, CA, USA, 976+ ft prominence - May 20, 2012 w/ Aidan Barlow
When John A. Thompson responded to an ad in the Sacramento Union: “People Lost to the World; Uncle Sam Needs a Mail Carrier”, he had no idea he was to become a living legend. A crowd formed in Placerville for his first mail run in January, 1856. Few had faith that he would make it over the 7,500 foot passes on his homemade 10 foot long, 25 pound oak skis, and a 100 pound sack of medicine, emergency supplies, clothing, books, tools, pots and pans, and letters containing much anticipated news. But one optimistic voice in the crowd called out: “Good luck, Snowshoe Thompson” and he set out to become a legendary postman and father of California skiing. Two to four times a month for twenty winters, regardless of weather, Snowshoe Thompson set out at the appointed hour. The Genoa postmaster S.A. Kinsey said: “Most remarkable man I ever knew, that Snowshoe Thompson. He must be made of iron. Besides, he never thinks of himself, but he’d give his last breath for anyone else – even a total stranger.” (www.snowshoethompson.org)
Optimistic Papers by Pink Reptile Designs
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Optimistic Elements by Pink Reptile Designs
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All of Me Loves {Dressed Down} by Fiddle-Dee-Dee
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These workers smile for the camera optimistically. China has been through many hard periods and has always worked together. There are so many worlers sitting woth nothing to do in sharp comparison to the streets which where full a year ago bustling with packages and buyers.
If you come early, all the streets are filled with endless lines of people who make their lively hood through exporting goods. They will flow to work for at least an hour, nonstop with little other activity. A year ago these streets were filled with foreign buyers from all over the world. Now the streets are bare, and many wholesale shops are closed. It is such a contrast that its almost scary. Many of the migrant workers have fled by the millions home early for the Spring festival as jobs were lost. Those who remain are the most desperate. China is attempting to and must focus on emergent markets if it is going to survive this economic slowdown. After many years of double digit growth, a growth forecasted at only 5% is going to cause tremendous stress for the economy. One especially magnified by the very large income gap which has been all but forgotten in the mainstream media. Local Chinese news offers little coverage of these grim scenes in an attempt to maintain domestic consumer confidence. As demand from the west slows, this charade will not be able to last much longer. As if they had a crystal ball, China cracked down on issuing visas for the 2008 Olympic games, and enforced slowdown in many areas of its domestic market. Investors slowed down to a trickle during the games do to the tight visa policies, and now even more so due to the economic crises. This was either a smart or a lucky move. If the economy didn?t slow gradually with the beginning of the Olympics continuing with the current crises; and rather slowed down all at once as within other nations the consequences would be dire.