los palmares de castillos (via Raul Garré)
Slide Image by [luis] Taken in Colonia, Uruguay. Scanned slide. Fuji RA Sensi film. Taken with a Pentax K-1000
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I’m now in taiwan! wohoo! After 3 stressful flights, 20 minutes connecting flights and a lost baggage…Still thankful that our Europe Trip went (semi) safely. Can’t ask for better traveling partners: the cs-request-master sees and the clumsy and chill ju. Although we had to deal with many difficult, uncomfortable situations, thank God that we’re all still safe. I will be in Taiwan for the next 6-7 weeks while sees will be studying abroad in Copenhagen.
Based on our experiences, these are my Ratings:
Amsterdam- adorable, most bike-friendly, high fashion, open-minded and FAVORITE
Brussels- Best mussels, chocolates and beer (raspberry flavored)
Paris- most photogenic, touristy
Barcelona- best 3-coursed meals, most artsy
Girona- most overlooked, gorgeous
Milano- cheapest metro tickets
Munich- best beer garden, sausages and tasty tuna pizza
Prague- most historically interesting, charming, cool flavored beers
Berlin- cheapest and delicious food (including breakfast), best flea markets, coolest graffitis and most diverse and HIP also, where i would most likely to revisit
Copenhagen- Never been, sees will update all of us
very biased but maybe could help you decide where you’d like to go for your next trip:)
Although our Europe has kinda ended, still we will update it so still follow!
[CEEN]
(by 78_rpm)
My 1st aunt and cousin Lulu took my sister and I to Lukang to visit my grandma on my dad’s side (even though my aunt and cousin are from my mom’s side). My sister and I spoke to my grandma in halting and horribly accented Taiwanese, which made her so happy that she immediately called my 4th aunt (dad’s side) when we left.
After that, we went to ?? (Wang Gong), a neighboring village with huge oyster harvesting fields (seen partly above).
After Lukang, we went to Taichung, where my aunt took us to ?????? (Uncle’s Hometown Flavor) (lao3 jiu4 de5 jia1 xiang1 wei4). It’s a really famous restaurant and one of my dad’s favorites. The potsticker above is ???? (jiu3 cai4 shui3 jiao3) (potstickers with garlic chives). Delicious. I love garlic chives.
????? (suan1 bai2 cai4 shui3 jiao3) (sour cabbage dumplings)
????? (suan1 cai4 bai2 huo3 guo1) (sour cabbage hotpot)
Sauces — left: mashed garlic; middle: soycheese sauce with Chinese chives; right: vinegar with garlic
Bubble tea beckons (by KentonNgo)
It’s hello to Taiwan and bye bye to Japan. No more proper ladies and gentleman who go to great lengths to be considerate of everyone in their sights, and also friends and neighbors who may not be present but are thought to be equally as worthy of consideration regardless, people who make room for you on the sidewalk, move their bikes out of your way so you can pass freely, talk non-stop in singsong voices while making change for you in the Family Mart, and never hesitate to throw a bow or two in your direction. I’ve traded them all in for people who don’t give a damn if you’ve been waiting in line for an hour, they’re going to push and shove their way to the goddamn front anyway ‘cause they don’t give a fuuuuuuuuuck, and they want to be first even though they wouldn’t be able to tell you why. They want to be first so they can sit and wilt in the hot and sweaty steam of the dark, unventilated bus, secure in their smugness, knowing their elbows are the sharpest of the bunch and they made it in FIRST! FFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIRST!!!!!!!!! Oh yes.
I’m not sure how it happens, but sometimes, out of nowhere, I get so crabby I want to rent an apartment and buy dishes just so I can take them all out into the street and smash them. I was sitting on the bus from the airport to Taipei City, and the woman across the aisle was coughing, a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I felt like a four-year-old ready to explode into a tantrum. I had to continuously resist the urge to erupt into ludicrous suggestions, “Have a glass of water or a lozenge or something, bury your mouth in a hanky, stick your head out the window, just be quiet!” I cannot pinpoint any reason why I would be entertaining the notion of behaving in this fashion. I had a perfectly lovely day filled with complimentary snacks, beverages, and extra legroom… unless it was the pushing and shoving that sent me down the wrong path. I’m far too easily influenced by hoodlums and skullduggery. I managed to make it to the hostel without any fights breaking out. I suppose I better have a nap and work on waking up feeling cute and friendly. I’ve been having really lively dreams lately, with lots of cameo appearances from characters in my real life past. I’m interested to see who turns up tonight… MmmK, nighty night. xo.
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taken on trip to france, just thought it looked nice :) and photo worthy XD
no editing!
Expo Manet, Musée d’Orsay
Paris - juin 2011
# trip to paris
Eiffel Tower, France.
by: bro
199603 290 Ireland - Co Clare by williewonker on Flickr.
“Empire Falls” Primordial
DRIVEWAY
from ireland. for fans of daylight, balance and composure, title fight, etc. check them out, the demo is reeeeeal good. knock back a few pints and get into this band.
conversations with a sheep farmer 1 (by Dale Simonson)
sometimes you just have to look up… (by .lisakimberly.)
199603 290 Ireland - Co Clare by williewonker on Flickr.
10.16.2010. Gameday at UGA.
DSCN3226 on Flickr.
vibrance
It’s been years since I have been on a real vacation. Like taken a week off from work to...
Carnival-2 by wannaoreo on Flickr.
Savannah, GA. Lafayette Square, 2010, Katie (Fowler) Bernhard 4”x4”
Art Brownwood Park Atlanta Georgia Tristan Al-Haddad by wannaoreo on Flickr.
10.16.2010. Gameday at UGA.
It’s been too long.
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DSCN3232 on Flickr.
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Savannah River at sunrise on Flickr.
These are some of the most incredible photographs I've ever seen. Full color, high quality, from Russia 1909-1912.:I highly encourage you to check them out, you would not believe these images are 100 years old. Stunning.
Georgia Frost
Cee-lo Green “Georgia”
Part of my photographic workflow is to take a digital photograph with my cellphone of the location where I am shooting. This helps me find the places again on a map, and to help with geotagging the shots later when I upload them to Flickr.
While I’m down South, I don’t have access to a lab or a computer to upload new photos, but I thought it might be fun to upload some of these “location” shots as a sort of break from my polished (I use the term loosely) finished photos.
Anyway, here’s the abandoned Regency Mall in south Augusta. Once the rain here lets up, I’ll be doing some long exposures of this spot.
Because I’m not going with anyone and that always makes me feel awkward and I’m going to be in costume so…yeah. I really want to be able to meet up with people or something. So basically if you’re planning on being there, message me.
Finally got some tracks off Atlanta’s up-and-coming best rock-n-roll band of 2011, AMULET. A...
Toccoa River, Georgia, USA
43 days til some trout fishing and chillin’
Early Morning Traffic on Flickr.
Georgia's anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields:Georgia’s tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, “millions of dollars’ worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the fields.” The jobs the migrants did paid an average of $8/hour, without benefits, a wage that is so low that the state’s probationed prisoners have turned it down.
Yet another story that demonstrates why harsh immigration policy is short-sighted and ultimately fucks us, as a country, over.
(And yes, I’ll continue unashamedly to put immigration reform in cost-benefit terms. I’m a social scientist; it’s in my blood, damnit.)
Georgia Classifieds - Free Georgia Classifieds and Online Georgia Classified AdsGeorgia Governor shoots his own state in the face:NOTE: This post includes substantial material published earlier on this blog. It is published here as the electronic version of today’s AJC column.
After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia.
It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars’ worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields. It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they’ve done to Georgia’s largest industry.
Barely a month ago, you might recall, Gov. Nathan Deal welcomed the TV cameras into his office as he proudly signed HB 87 into law. Two weeks later, with farmers howling, a scrambling Deal ordered a hasty investigation into the impact of the law he had just signed, as if all this had come as quite a surprise to him.
The results of that investigation have now been released. According to survey of 230 Georgia farmers conducted by Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, farmers expect to need more than 11,000 workers at some point over the rest of the season, a number that probably underestimates the real need, since not every farmer in the state responded to the survey.
In response, Deal proposes that farmers try to hire the 2,000 unemployed criminal probationers estimated to live in southwest Georgia. Somehow, I suspect that would not be a partnership made in heaven for either party.
As an editorial in the Valdosta Daily Times notes, “Maybe this should have been prepared for, with farmers’ input. Maybe the state should have discussed the ramifications with those directly affected. Maybe the immigration issue is not as easy as ’send them home,’ but is a far more complex one in that maybe Georgia needs them, relies on them, and cannot successfully support the state’s No. 1 economic engine without them.”
According to the survey, more than 6,300 of the unclaimed jobs pay an hourly wage of just $7.25 to $8.99, or an average of roughly $8 an hour. Over a 40-hour work week in the South Georgia sun, that’s $320 a week, before taxes, although most workers probably put in considerably longer hours. Another 3,200 jobs pay $9 to $11 an hour. And while our agriculture commissioner has been quoted as saying Georgia farms provide “$12, $13, $14, $16, $18-an-hour jobs,” the survey reported just 169 openings out of more than 11,000 that pay $16 or more.
In addition, few of the jobs include benefits — only 7.7 percent offer health insurance, and barely a third are even covered by workers compensation. And the truth is that even if all 2,000 probationers in the region agreed to work at those rates and stuck it out — a highly unlikely event, to put it mildly — it wouldn’t fix the problem.
Given all that, Deal’s pledge to find “viable and law-abiding solutions” to the problem that he helped create seems naively far-fetched. Again, if such solutions existed, they should have been put in place before the bill ever became law, because this impact was entirely predictable and in fact intended.
It’s hard to envision a way out of this. Georgia farmers could try to solve the manpower shortage by offering higher wages, but that would create an entirely different set of problems. If they raise wages by a third to a half, which is probably what it would take, they would drive up their operating costs and put themselves at a severe price disadvantage against competitors in states without such tough immigration laws. That’s one of the major disadvantages of trying to implement immigration reform state by state, rather than all at once.
The pain this is causing is real. People are going to lose their crops, and in some cases their farms. The small-town businesses that supply those farms with goods and services are going to suffer as well. For economically embattled rural Georgia, this could be a major blow.
In fact, with a federal court challenge filed last week, you have to wonder whether state officials aren’t secretly hoping to be rescued from this mess by the intervention of a judge. But given how the Georgia law is drafted and how the Supreme Court ruled in a recent case out of Arizona, I don’t think that’s likely.
We’re going to reap what we have sown, even if the farmers can’t.
Driving to Tallahassee, FL tomorrow. I have my pocket query pulled for where I”m staying in Tallahassee + a 7 mile radius around it.
AND
I have a pocket query pulled for the route to Tallahassee!
They have both loaded and exported from GSAK and loaded into my GPS and my Blackberry! I’m ready! (..not taking my swag-bag this time)
323 Geocaches loaded and ready!
Now all I have to do is Find the time to go! :D :D
12 States. 24% of the USA
I need to get out more..
4 of these states were just layovers, so they don’t really even count. :[
Finally got some tracks off Atlanta’s up-and-coming best rock-n-roll band of 2011, AMULET. A tumblr is underway, so please look out for that. In the meanwhile, please feel to check out www.facebook.com/amuletjams