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My Skin Horse

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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I didn’t blog last week because I was traveling. Without down time and solitude, I can’t write. The hurly-burly of the world is just too much to allow me the sort of silence I need to ruminate and sort myself into language. However, I dreamed of words — I sorted and culled and braided language — as I dawdled in airport lounges and coffee shops and diners. I thought about the clear beauty of the city skyline in Seattle, about all the ways…

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Arab Activists Against Domestic Violence in Lebanon #ProtectWomenLB #March8

Hummus For Thought

We are 15 Arab bloggers, intellectuals, activists, and dreamers currently meeting in Amman for the #ASM14 Social Media training and workshop organized by 7amleh in coordination with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and 7iber. We just have a message to all those joining the KAFA protest today at 2pm against Domestic Violence in Lebanon, and to all those fighting injustices against women worldwide.


Farah from Palestine Farah from Palestine

Minem from Palestine Minem from Palestine

Hannah from Palestine Hannah from Palestine

Myself from Lebanon Myself from Lebanon

Alaa from Lebanon Alaa from Lebanon

Manar Manar from Palestine

Tala from Palestine Tala from Palestine

And finally, a group picture:

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Shhh! Don’t tell MI5 but here’s a Russian spy with his ‘good friend’ Boris Johnson

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Further to revelations that Cameron’s Tory Party is trying desperately to hide its extremely close relations to Putin’s United Russia Party…..

Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party

…. here’s a photo Boris Johnson won’t want you to see:

Boris with Russian spy

Sergey Nalobin – on the left – is a pro-Putin Russian intelligence agent based at the Russian embassy in London who was exposed as the main agent charged with forging contacts with leading UK politicians.

Sergey’s ‘good friend’ on the right is apparently quite an important figure in the Tory Party.

Shhh! Whatever you do – don’t tell MI5!

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party

Ukraine shows folly of Cameron handing over 20% of UK gas supply to Russia

Ukraine: Putin backs down after…

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‘Love Matters’ shatters sex taboos

Egyptian Streets

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By Mohamed Khairat and Moustafa Amin, EgyptianStreets.com

Talking openly about sex and relationships has long been a strict taboo in Egyptian society. Despite ranking third in the world when it comes to internet searches for the world ‘sex,’ public discussion about sexual health, whether it is in schools, amongst friends or through family, is almost non-existent.

More concerning however has been the vast amount of misinformation online. Recent studies by the Ford Foundation in Egypt show that 86 percent of online Arabic information contains inaccurate information.

Aiming to break this taboo, ‘Love Matters Arabic,’ an innovative multimedia platform engaging young people to talk about love, sex, and relationships, recently celebrated its launch in Cairo. Love Matters Arabic provides users with unambiguous and reliable information on sex and relationships: talking honestly and openly about sex while also considering cultural and religious contexts.

In just two months since its launch…

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Smart-home market will double in size in four years

Told you guys five years ago to get ready for the market – the installer market will be huge for those who want to be self-employed or start up a smart home doctor biz!

Valerio Sold Out

The last Juniper Research report shows how the smart-home market will double in size within 2018 reaching over $71 billions. The report highlights the entertainment segment as the top driver of this growth trend, while several commentators (VentureBeat above all) aren’t confident about this forecast because of the inclusion of the revenue volume of services like Netflix that are not proper smart-home solutions.

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Allied Market Research, for example, published a report with a reduced growth forecast of about $4,8 billions per year (compared to the $8 billions per year of Juniper’s report). However everybody is expecting awesome market perspectives for the immediate future and a wide range of business niches and opportunities, as the Nest’s acquisition by Google showed as well as the massive investments of Nest Labs in key segments like the smart smoke detection devices.

CES 2014 Samsung press event introducing Smart Home platform CES 2014 Samsung press event introducing Smart Home…

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Tears for Crimea #ukraine #poetry

penned in moon dust

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They fall against the pane of my heart

rattling my soul

where are they

those children I taught?

they young women  and men

my adopted grand son

what questions are unanswered

we have little concern for life they spend

each of you beautiful to me

talented, artistic, musical

full of hope

where is the land on the Black Sea?

are your dreams under the treads of a tank?

“God, please be with these people

who  have been dangled

society’s weak thread”

MapCrimeaThere’s so much being said about Crimea and Ukraine. I’ve lived with the people and know  they have suffered much. If Ukraine wanted to be part of Russia it would be. These people are  once again being placed  in a political meat grinder.

The map of Crimea is from the Ukraine Travel Advisor which shows some beautiful travel spots.

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Egyptian Aak 2014. Week 9 ( Feb 24- Mar2)

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