2015年07月20日
The terrain is treacherous
The valley of Terz has been bombarded by French Mirage planes over the last month; the hunt is now conducted on foot.reenex
But the sound of jets is constantly echoing over our head and through the valley.
Nearly 2,000 French soldiers are deployed all over the rocky desert, with as many troops from Chad in support.
They are searching for jihadist fighters and their hide-outs in the mountains - part of the Adrar des Ifoghas near the Algerian border.reenex
We broke al-Qaeda's neck
Gen Bernard Barrera
The terrain is treacherous and unforgiving. The foreign legionnaires who we were embedded with looked exhausted; their noses and lips were sunburnt, they were caked in dust and hadn't showered in days.
Each soldier carries more than 50kg (8 stone) and under their boots, the rocks are as jagged and as sharp as glass.
It is relentless; it is unremitting. There is no respite here, and at 60C, the dark stones become as hot as burning coalsreenex
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But the sound of jets is constantly echoing over our head and through the valley.
Nearly 2,000 French soldiers are deployed all over the rocky desert, with as many troops from Chad in support.
They are searching for jihadist fighters and their hide-outs in the mountains - part of the Adrar des Ifoghas near the Algerian border.reenex
We broke al-Qaeda's neck
Gen Bernard Barrera
The terrain is treacherous and unforgiving. The foreign legionnaires who we were embedded with looked exhausted; their noses and lips were sunburnt, they were caked in dust and hadn't showered in days.
Each soldier carries more than 50kg (8 stone) and under their boots, the rocks are as jagged and as sharp as glass.
It is relentless; it is unremitting. There is no respite here, and at 60C, the dark stones become as hot as burning coalsreenex
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2015年06月15日
it is its capacity for reinvention.
Eclectic, eccentric Portmeirion is one of the most recognisable attractions in Wales. The lifelong project of an architect with a passion for beauty, it would have been easy for the village to be frozen in time, a relic its 1930s heyday. Instead, it has continued to change and evolve. If there’s anything constant about Portmeirion – other than its beauty – it is its capacity for reinventionReenex 好唔好.
I first came to the village as a schoolboy in 1968. At the time, all I knew was it was featured in the bizarre British secret agent television series The Prisoner. I fell in love with Portmeirion that day. Britain was still going through a self-imposed period of post-war ugliness; it seemed to me terribly important that there was a grownup in the country who believed in beauty reenex 價錢.
That grownup, a Welshman called Clough Williams-Ellis, was born in 1883. He was a successful but virtually self-taught architect – and he despaired of the 20th Century’s attachment to Functionalism and Brutalism. He wanted to show, as he once wrote, “that buildings properly situated within a landscape could actually enhance the scenery.” In 1925, Williams-Ellis bought a small estate on the edge of Snowdonia and started proving his point, building on pretty, wooded slopes that ran down to the estuary.reenex效果
I first came to the village as a schoolboy in 1968. At the time, all I knew was it was featured in the bizarre British secret agent television series The Prisoner. I fell in love with Portmeirion that day. Britain was still going through a self-imposed period of post-war ugliness; it seemed to me terribly important that there was a grownup in the country who believed in beauty reenex 價錢.
That grownup, a Welshman called Clough Williams-Ellis, was born in 1883. He was a successful but virtually self-taught architect – and he despaired of the 20th Century’s attachment to Functionalism and Brutalism. He wanted to show, as he once wrote, “that buildings properly situated within a landscape could actually enhance the scenery.” In 1925, Williams-Ellis bought a small estate on the edge of Snowdonia and started proving his point, building on pretty, wooded slopes that ran down to the estuary.reenex效果
2014年07月30日
Life is full
Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshinetorial
. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers of talking to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.護髮中心
The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what if feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. There is wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.產後脫髮
. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers of talking to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.護髮中心
The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what if feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. There is wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.產後脫髮
2014年02月27日
stared back at me from the mirror
And yet it was a young woman who stared back at me from the mirror.
A young woman full of promise and hope, a young woman with bright eyes and full lips just waiting to take on the world. I never loved Mike anyway. Besides there are more important things. More important than love, I insist to myself firmly.
Vivacité Bleue
The lid goes back on the coffee just like closure on the whole Mike experience.
La colère pêches
He doesn't haunt my dreams as I feared that night. Instead I am flying far across fields and woods, looking down on those below me. Suddenly I fall to the ground and it is only when I wake up that I realize I was shot by a hunter, brought down by the burden of not the bullet but the soul of the man who shot it.
網上交友
I realize later, with some degree of understanding, that Mike was the hunter holding me down and I am the bird that longs to fly.
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The next night my dream is similar to the previous nights, but without the hunter.
Soldier of Fortune
I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me in perfect harmony. I realize with some relief that there is a bird out there for me, there is another person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a friend, but there is someone out there who is my soul mate.
Pauvre Bleue
I think about being a broken vase again and realize that I have glued myself back together, what Mike has is merely a little part of my time in earth, a little understanding of my physical being. He has only, a little piece of me.qiao smile rain
A young woman full of promise and hope, a young woman with bright eyes and full lips just waiting to take on the world. I never loved Mike anyway. Besides there are more important things. More important than love, I insist to myself firmly.
Vivacité Bleue
The lid goes back on the coffee just like closure on the whole Mike experience.
La colère pêches
He doesn't haunt my dreams as I feared that night. Instead I am flying far across fields and woods, looking down on those below me. Suddenly I fall to the ground and it is only when I wake up that I realize I was shot by a hunter, brought down by the burden of not the bullet but the soul of the man who shot it.
網上交友
I realize later, with some degree of understanding, that Mike was the hunter holding me down and I am the bird that longs to fly.
dating in hong kong
The next night my dream is similar to the previous nights, but without the hunter.
Soldier of Fortune
I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me in perfect harmony. I realize with some relief that there is a bird out there for me, there is another person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a friend, but there is someone out there who is my soul mate.
Pauvre Bleue
I think about being a broken vase again and realize that I have glued myself back together, what Mike has is merely a little part of my time in earth, a little understanding of my physical being. He has only, a little piece of me.qiao smile rain
2014年02月25日
Express gratitude and Dream big.
Express gratitude and Dream big.dating in hong kong
When you let people know that you appreciate them, they are more willing to help you in the future. dating in hong kong
Saying thank you is more than good manners -- it's karma.香港交友活動
Dream big.
sleep diamond smile
The happiest person has reached the highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- self-actualization.
If you want to be happy you must work hard to achieve something, and strive to attain that life goal.
wuyulin
Speak well of others.
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The Buddhist notion of "right thought, right action" is an important one.
It's in the mind that negativity starts. fall in love with sky
By clearing your head of negative ideas of others, you will clear your mind of problems, worries and fears, and you won't be tempted to gossip or speak ill and bring that negativity back to you.雪が降っていた涙
When you let people know that you appreciate them, they are more willing to help you in the future. dating in hong kong
Saying thank you is more than good manners -- it's karma.香港交友活動
Dream big.
sleep diamond smile
The happiest person has reached the highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- self-actualization.
If you want to be happy you must work hard to achieve something, and strive to attain that life goal.
wuyulin
Speak well of others.
crystal dimaond leave
The Buddhist notion of "right thought, right action" is an important one.
It's in the mind that negativity starts. fall in love with sky
By clearing your head of negative ideas of others, you will clear your mind of problems, worries and fears, and you won't be tempted to gossip or speak ill and bring that negativity back to you.雪が降っていた涙
2014年02月24日
common honeybee diseases to determine
This research assessed common honeybee diseases to determine if they could pass from honeybees to bumblebees. take the sky away
It showed that deformed wing virus (DWV) and the fungal parasite Nosema ceranae -- both of which have major negative impacts on honeybee health -- can infect worker bumblebees and, in the case of DWV, reduce their lifespan.
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Honeybees and bumblebees were then collected from 26 sites across the UK and screened for the presence of the parasites. Both parasites were widespread in bumblebees and honeybees across the UK.
Dr Fürst explained: "One of the novel aspects of our study is that we show that deformed wing virus, which is one of the main causes of honeybee deaths worldwide, is not only broadly present in bumblebees, but is actually replicating inside them. DELETE SUN DARK CRYSTAL
This means that it is acting as a real disease; they are not just carriers."here is to never blue
The researchers also looked at how the diseases spread and studied genetic similarities between DWV in different pollinator populations.ulikooo
Three factors suggest that honeybees are spreading the parasites into wild bumblebees: honeybees have higher background levels of the virus and the fungus than bumblebees; bumblebee infection is predicted by patterns of honeybee infection; and honeybees and bumblebees at the same sites share genetic strains of DWV香港联谊旅游
wuyulin\'s blog
It showed that deformed wing virus (DWV) and the fungal parasite Nosema ceranae -- both of which have major negative impacts on honeybee health -- can infect worker bumblebees and, in the case of DWV, reduce their lifespan.
dating in hong kong
Honeybees and bumblebees were then collected from 26 sites across the UK and screened for the presence of the parasites. Both parasites were widespread in bumblebees and honeybees across the UK.
Dr Fürst explained: "One of the novel aspects of our study is that we show that deformed wing virus, which is one of the main causes of honeybee deaths worldwide, is not only broadly present in bumblebees, but is actually replicating inside them. DELETE SUN DARK CRYSTAL
This means that it is acting as a real disease; they are not just carriers."here is to never blue
The researchers also looked at how the diseases spread and studied genetic similarities between DWV in different pollinator populations.ulikooo
Three factors suggest that honeybees are spreading the parasites into wild bumblebees: honeybees have higher background levels of the virus and the fungus than bumblebees; bumblebee infection is predicted by patterns of honeybee infection; and honeybees and bumblebees at the same sites share genetic strains of DWV香港联谊旅游
wuyulin\'s blog
2014年02月20日
a talk in hospital
This incident occurred one morning outside Albert Sch-weitzer's hospital in the African jungle. wuyuwei520的个人空间
A patient had gone fishing in another man's boat. The owner of the boat thought he should be given all the fish that were caught. Dr. Sch-weitzer said to the boat owner:香港联谊旅游
"You are right because the other man ought to have asked permission to use your boat. But you are wrong because you are careless and lazy. 薇薇不醒界
You merely twisted the chain of your canoe round a palm tree instead of fastening it with a padlock.
wuyuqiao's blog
Of laziness you are guilty because you were asleep in your hut on this moonlit night instead of making use of the good opportunity for fishing."BABY WHERE ARE YOU GOING
He turned to the patient: "But you were in the wrong when you took the boat without asking the owner's permission. You were in the right because you were not so lazy as he was and you did not want to let the moonlit night go by without making some use of it."dating in hong kong
Dr. Schweitzer divided the catch among the fisherman, the boat owner, and the hospital.爱琴海龟
A patient had gone fishing in another man's boat. The owner of the boat thought he should be given all the fish that were caught. Dr. Sch-weitzer said to the boat owner:香港联谊旅游
"You are right because the other man ought to have asked permission to use your boat. But you are wrong because you are careless and lazy. 薇薇不醒界
You merely twisted the chain of your canoe round a palm tree instead of fastening it with a padlock.
wuyuqiao's blog
Of laziness you are guilty because you were asleep in your hut on this moonlit night instead of making use of the good opportunity for fishing."BABY WHERE ARE YOU GOING
He turned to the patient: "But you were in the wrong when you took the boat without asking the owner's permission. You were in the right because you were not so lazy as he was and you did not want to let the moonlit night go by without making some use of it."dating in hong kong
Dr. Schweitzer divided the catch among the fisherman, the boat owner, and the hospital.爱琴海龟
2014年02月18日
wise man Cao Cao
One hot day, he marched out his troops under a burning sun in a mountainous area. Bewilderingly he lost the way wuyuwei\'s blog.
The journey was long and the sun was scorching. After their fruitless and tiresome march, all voiced their great dissatisfaction with the leadership of Cao Cao. They bitterly complained of their great thirst. The antagonismof the soldiers was growing fast and they were on the verge of staging a mutiny wei 你是love.
The subordinate officers were helpless to cope with the situation 撑起蓝天的梦.
Cao Cao, however, in the nick of time cleverly and treacherously gave orders to his troops to march to the nearby plum trees for a rest and announced that soldiers would be allowed to eat the juicy sour fruit as much as they desired wuyuna.
At the thought of the sour fruit the soldiers' complaint of great thirst as well as the antagonistic feeling were quickly forgotten 微笑技术脸.
The journey was long and the sun was scorching. After their fruitless and tiresome march, all voiced their great dissatisfaction with the leadership of Cao Cao. They bitterly complained of their great thirst. The antagonismof the soldiers was growing fast and they were on the verge of staging a mutiny wei 你是love.
The subordinate officers were helpless to cope with the situation 撑起蓝天的梦.
Cao Cao, however, in the nick of time cleverly and treacherously gave orders to his troops to march to the nearby plum trees for a rest and announced that soldiers would be allowed to eat the juicy sour fruit as much as they desired wuyuna.
At the thought of the sour fruit the soldiers' complaint of great thirst as well as the antagonistic feeling were quickly forgotten 微笑技术脸.