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#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad Kashmiris bleed green, breathe Green, wear Green and paying the cost of it with their lives: image via AK47 @KhatijahFatima, 9 August 2016
Who will win??? #SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad: image via Waheed Gul @waheedgul, 9 August 2016
Kashmiris receive bullets for their love for this sabz hilali #SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad: image via Aisha Baloch @AyishaBaloch, 9 August 2016
This is Srinagar #SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad: image via Waheed Gul @waheedgul, 9 August 2016
#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad Facing the odds, they are not afraid to raise Sabz hilali. Pic frm Srinagar: image via Aisha Baloch @AyishaBaloch, 9 August 2016
#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad Independence Day preparations in full swing #Kashmir: image via M H T @HanzalaOfficial, 9 August 2016
#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad Independence Day preparations in full swing #Kashmir: image via M H T @HanzalaOfficial, 9 August 2016
#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad Independence Day preparations in full swing #Kashmir: image via M H T @HanzalaOfficial, 9 August 2016
#SrinagarVsMuzaffarabad launched, join patriots: image via Aabekosar @Aabekosar, 9 August 2016
A man rests inside a pedicab in suburban Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines: photo by Aaron Favila/AP. 9 August 2016
Indian Border Security Force soldiers pay homage to their slain colleagues during a wreath-laying ceremony in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir: photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP, 9 August 2016
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Palestinian child with family members collecting their belongings after
Israeli authorities destroyed their home because they said it was built
without permission in the village of Umm al-Kheir, south of the West
Bank city of Hebron: photo by Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse, 9 August 2016
INDIA - A student stays seated during sudden downpour during 75th anniversary of 'Quit India' in Mumbai. By @thisisindra: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
WEST BANK - Palestinian houses have been destroyed by Israeli authorities in Umm al-Kheir. By @hazemjbader #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
PAKISTAN - A woman looks from a broken window of the Civil Hospital after suicide bombing in Quetta. By Banaras Khan: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
MYANMAR - Slum dwellers dismantle their shanty house in Yangon. By @ye_aung_thu #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
INDIA - Men cross a road during a heavy rainfall in New Delhi. By @Chandanphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
INDIA - A wreath-laying ceremony at Border Security Force headquarters in Srinagar. By @Tauseef MUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
WEST BANK - Demonstration against administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed. By @gharabli_ahmad: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
YEMEN - A man checks destruction at a food factory in Sanaa, after it was hit by coalition strike. By Mohammed Huwais: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
INDIA - Tea plantation workers hold umbrellas as they make their way to pick leaves in Sonitpur. By @BoroBiju #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
YEMEN - A Yemeni tribesman from the Popular Resistance Committees holds a position in Taez. By Ahmad Al Basha #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
SYRIA - Boy looks away from blood stained floor at makeshift hospital following mortar attack in Douma. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 August 2016
Northern hemisphere sky-gazers are in for a special treat on Thursday night: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 9 August 2016
Putin and Erdogan meet to mend ties after jet downing rift: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 9 August 2016
[The Dragon Speaks]*
'I wille you allë swalewë withouten any bot;
But some wille I save, and some wille I not.'
*part of a medieval description, in Latin, of Fortune's wheel
bot deliverance
[The Dragon Speaks]: from the Grimestone Lyrics
Putin and Erdogan meet to mend ties after jet downing rift: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 9 August 2016
Egypt's Elghobashy (L) and Italy's Giombini prepare to jump during a #volleyball qualifier at the #Rio2016 Olympics: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 9 August 2016
CHINA - Young women take a selfie photo with a smartphone at a shopping mall complex in Beijing. By @NAsfouri #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
MYANMAR - Long-exposure photograph shows lighting from heavy rain clouds over Yangon. By @ye_aung_thu #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
#RIO2016 The women’s individual sabre bronze medal bout as part of the fencing event. Photo
Kirill Kudryavtsev: image via AFP Photo
Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
#RIO2016 Rowers warm up at the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas ahead of their race. Photo @jeffpachoud: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
#RIO2016 Clouds cover the Christ the Redeemer statue. Photo @DamienMeyerAfp: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
INDIA - lluminated buildings of Central Secretariat and President's House are seen in New Delhi. By @Chandanphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
PAKISTAN - Vigil to pay tribute to victims a day after a suicide bombing at Civil Hospital in Quetta. By Banaras Khan: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
INDIA - Children of local boatmen prepare to jump into the flooded Yamuna river in Allahabad. By @sanjaykanojia07: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
Death toll in Pakistani hospital bombing rises #QuettaBlast: image via Reuters World @ReutersWorld 8 August 2016
Pakistan hanged ldrs of #Balochistan in 1960 hoping to crush r Azadi movmnt. In 2016 we're still here @BalochWorld: image via (((Tarek Fatah))) Verified account @TarekFatah, 9 August 2016 Toronto, Ontario
#India attacks hospitals and ambulances in #Kashmir, its
terror proxies attack a hospital in #Quetta #Balochistan
#IndianTerrorism #Pakistan: tweet via Ahmed Quraishi @AQpk, 9 August
2016
#Boxing effects during #OlympicGames in #Rio2016 #Brazil: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
#Boxing effects during #OlympicGames in #Rio2016 #Brazil: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 9 August 2016
Mehtap Kurnaz (TUR) of Turkey competes in the final of the women’s 63kg weightlifting competion at the Rio Olympics: photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters, 9 August 2016
Mehtap Kurnaz (TUR) of Turkey competes in the final of the women’s 63kg weightlifting competion at the Rio Olympics: photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters, 9 August 2016
Yu Mengyu (SIN) of Singapore plays against Kim Song I (PRK) of North Korea in the women’s table tennis quarter finals at the Rio Olympics: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters, 9 August 2016
digging for gold #OlympicFail: image via Schlick Willy @Jordan_Andrae11, 8 August 2016
#TeamCanada after a 2-1 win over #ITA #beachvolleyball @CBCOlympics: image via Volleyball Canada Verified account @VBallCanada, 7 August 2016
#Rio2016 photo @tabascokid #AFP: image via Rob Bodman @robbodman, 7 August 2016
@JamieBroder and @KristinaValjas win first #Rio2016 #beachvolleyball match #TeamCanada: image via Volleyball Canada Verified account @VBallCanada, 7 August 2016
I've had worse places to work. #lifesabeach: image via Leon Neal @tabascokid, 6 August 2016
#CAN faces #LAT in Men's #beachvolleyball LIVE now on @visaca #cbcvirtualreality: image via CBC Olympic Verified account @CBC Olympics, 8 August 2016
#USA's Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena defeat Tunisia in #beachvolleyball prelim 21-7, 21-13: image via Sports Illiustrated Verified account @SInow, 8 August 2016
Well, my fantasy football team name for 2016 just fell from the sky: image via Justin Henry@JRHWriting, 7 August 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg, Russia: photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, 9 August 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg, Russia: photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, 9 August 2016
A woman shelters from the sun as she walks in an outdoor shopping mall complex in Beijing: photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFP, 9 August 2016
A woman shelters from the sun as she walks in an outdoor shopping mall complex in Beijing: photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFP, 9 August 2016
An Indian Border Security Force soldier salutes near the coffins of three colleagues during a wreath-laying ceremony at BSF headquarters in Srinagar: photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP, 9 August 2016
An Indian Border Security Force soldier salutes near the coffins of three colleagues during a wreath-laying ceremony at BSF headquarters in Srinagar: photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP, 9 August 2016
People watch an elimination round of the men’s individual archery competition at the Sambadrome venue, located in a residential area, at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP, 9 August 2016
People watch an elimination round of the men’s individual archery competition at the Sambadrome venue, located in a residential area, at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP, 9 August 2016
Fiji’s Rebecca Tavo, left, scores a try as USA’s Kelly Griffin,
defends during the women’s rugby sevens match at the Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Themba Hadebe/AP. 9 August 2016
Fiji’s Rebecca Tavo, left, scores a try as USA’s Kelly Griffin,
defends during the women’s rugby sevens match at the Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Themba Hadebe/AP. 9 August 2016
Butt Fuchs? Is that real? Too much.
ReplyDeletetpw,
ReplyDeleteWe deal only in reality here.
Well, that and... delusion.
Linus Butt and Florian Fuchs (Linus and Flo, to fans) are not only totally real but are, er, the backbone... of Germany's field hockey powerhouse.
For me the drama of these Olympics begins and ends with Linus and Flo.
The velleities and vicissitudes of international terrorism and extreme weather and zika and green water and peacock network primetime fickleness and all those other problematic Olympic circumstances have been as nothing before the triumphant will of this happy couple.
Linus, at 29, from the happy town of Kempen, is the veteran of the pair. He seized his national debut eight years ago by the horns, on 3 October 2008, and has ridden opportunity to success with admirable firmness.
The tender junior member of the couple, Flo, 24, hails from in Hamburg. In 2012 he was a reserve on the Olympic gold medal team, and was named International Field Hockey Young Player of the Year.
That picture causes a song to pass uninvited through the webby chambers that have lately occluded the mind, a bit, here, every time I look at it, which, oddly enough, is pretty often.
You may recall the tune, tp, Happy Together, The Turtles, 1967. "You and me/You and me/Happy together..."
Yes, well I'd forgot the "imagine" or "illusion" part of the delusion.
ReplyDeleteThat's the death of fantasy for you.
But, hold it, back in the day, fantasy wasn't even necessary, right, tp?
Flo and Linus need never know about any of that, of course.
The Turtles (aka Flo and Eddie), Happy Together (live), 1967
Eat your hearts out, Flo and Linus!