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Construction is booming in this beach city — and endangering children who have nowhere to play. Maria Svarbova: Innovate. Contessa Gallery in Palm Beach presents Maria Svarbova’s photographs from her latest Swimming Pool Series: INNOVATE.

Maria Svarbova: Innovate

This 12-Word Quote Entirely Explains How To Be Successful. Getting yourself into the right mindset is your #1 job.

This 12-Word Quote Entirely Explains How To Be Successful

You need to 1) know what you want and 2) know that what you want is already yours. Both parts are essential. Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde. Collect. Slate’s Use of Your Data. The TDR.co’s homepage is filled with beautiful artwork.

Today’s artwork was by Ashleigh Shackelford who is a proud Black fat, trans femme whose work spans between visual art and writing in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance. In collaboration with SNaP CO., Ashleigh Shackelford created a portrait displaying different, beautiful fat black femme bodies against a celestial, city background. Pic of the Week 24: Impressions from a Vietnamese wedding - ESCapologyESCapology.

At a wedding in Hue, Vietnam.

Pic of the Week 24: Impressions from a Vietnamese wedding - ESCapologyESCapology

Caught the bride in a moment lost in thought. After a more than 24 hour train ride from Hanoi to Hue thanks to a huge delay caused by a typhoon which had just passed the coastal region, we finally arrived in the former capital of Hue. On our first day we were headed for the Citadel and the old forbidden City as we passes by what seemed like a wedding. Loud music and laughter was sounding from the nicely decorated venue across the road. Curious as ever we wanted to have a closer look. Related. Haïti : Grandeur et décadence de Jérémie.

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Haïti : Grandeur et décadence de Jérémie

Haitian Poets Extol Nation’s Beauty, Highlight Potential. JÉRÉMIE, HAITI – With pen and notebook in hand, Caldwel Appolon, 32, walks through the streets of Jérémie, a coastal town in southwestern Haiti.

Haitian Poets Extol Nation’s Beauty, Highlight Potential

He carries the pen and small, black notebook with him everywhere he goes. In it, he writes poems on whatever sparks his interest and jots down the work of poets he admires. Not a sh*thole: Here are five reasons you should travel to Haiti - Oneika the Traveller. Sh*thole?

Not a sh*thole: Here are five reasons you should travel to Haiti - Oneika the Traveller

What sh*thole? FANDOM powered by Wikia. Pinterest. Why representation matters? – The Perception. JEREMIE HISTORY. Lire en Français Jérémie, Founded 1756 Jérémie (Kréyòl: Jeremi) is a city in southwest Haiti.

JEREMIE HISTORY

It is the capital city of the Grand'Anse Département. Beware of Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Tale of A Progressive Professor Who Forgot To Hide Her… iPhone XS. HUAWEI Mate 20 X, Big Screen, Big Battery Phone. Zerolemon Samsung Galaxy Note 4 10000mah Extended Battery with NFC + Rugged ZeroShock Rugged Case (Fits All Versions of Galaxy Note 4) - Black: Cell Phones & Accessories. PARTY AND PROTEST: RIO’S CARNAVAL WAS BLACK AS F*CK. The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It. No one actually thinks the same Donald Trump who kicked off his run for the White House by calling Mexicans rapists, and subsequently, as president, left Puerto Rico for dead after Hurricane Maria, cares at all about the Venezuelan poor.

The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It

Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion. Who hasn’t been jealous at some point?

Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion

On the standard view, jealousy is the emotion of being pained by a perceived threat from a third party to the attention of someone we care about and to which we feel entitled. Who killed Marielle Franco? Speaking up against violence and impunity in Brazil. By Magdalena Medley, Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group This is the second installment in a series of blogs written as Amnesty International USA’s contribution tothe annual global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. Each year the campaign extends from November 25 (International Day Against Violence Against Women) through December 10 (International Human Rights Day). Marielle Franco was a black bisexual woman, a human rights defender, and a single mother from Maré, a favela in northern Rio de Janeiro.

She was a human rights defender and combined her strong political activism with research. She used her time as a member of Rio de Janeiro’s State Human Rights Commission, almost 10 years, to publicly denounce extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations committed by state officials. How to Spend The First Hour of Your Work Day on High-Value Work.

Don’t begin the activities of your day until you know exactly what you plan to accomplish. Don’t start your day until you have it planned. — Jim Rohn Every morning, get one most important thing done immediately. The US Role in the Honduras Coup and Subsequent Violence. Charles White was a prolific artist. The retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which opened on October 7 and will be on display until January 2019, not only demonstrates this; it also makes me want to take out my bottle of India ink, dip my pen nib into it, and start drawing hundreds and thousands of cross-hatched lines, just the way White drew them. Flicking the wrist and drawing some parallel lines in one direction and then drawing another set of parallel lines in another direction that intersect the first set of lines creates tones with texture, especially when the lines are thin.

The individual lines become subordinate to the mass of lines in the same way the letters of a word become subordinate to the word itself. Charles White, Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep, 1956, graphite and pen and ink on board, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas The drawings of Charles White are special for many reasons. Lavie By CK – The Life of Fashion & Beauty.