150 ans d’engagement humanitaire de la Suisse
Source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Country: World, Switzerland Signée il y a 150 ans, la première Convention de Genève est l'acte de naissance du droit international humanitaire qui fait foi lors de conflits armés. Dans le respect de sa tradition humanitaire, la Suisse défend les v ...
Marketing 102: How I would spin the China Wine story
Okay, thanks to Sun Ho's China Wine, I am enjoying another major spike in traffic to my blog today. In my previous post that went viral, I discussed how Kong Hee and CHC's team is putting up a very poor defence in court because their entire argument is based on what they would have been able to achi ...
Down the Fictional Garden Lane
Image has no relation to text following Jennifer is 33 years old, unmarried, “study, heavy, shortlegged,” and has been a slave to her widower father for “twelve solid, faithful years” when, unexpectedly, “without saying a word to a soul,” that father comes home with a new wife, Netta, much younger e ...
Table of Contents and other potential poets
We have apparently lost our complete listing of poets and poetic subjects. Below I relist my ongoing listing of poets on which I've written and others I am still proposing. Gradually, I will relink these offerings. But if you can help by offering new entries on any poet or subject listed below, I ap ...
Wanna Buy A Little Getaway, Say Penthouse Maybe?
Wanna Buy A Little Getaway, Say Penthouse Maybe? 19AUG WANNA BUY A LITTLE GETAWAY, SAY PENTHOUSE MAYBE? Author: kenfre My oh my, what a ‘little change’ can buy you. Okay, this writer thinks it is necessary to qualify the writer’s use of a “little change”. Actually it is a lot of change. Sorry, that ...
Les Diablerets, Switzerland and the chocolate factory
Our journey to Les Diablerets was a tale of two country's national rails. As one thing our travels have shown is that stereotypes seem to be a goal rather then a joke, the French were disorganised and the Swiss punctual. Our first train, leaving Paris, was a TGV. While our interrail tickets were val ...
Switzerland on the Way
There's more coming to my 2014 Switzerland and France travel report. Really- just as soon as I can get caught up with work. But isn't this poster a beauty?
JALICIA HEBSON: Model Comeback pt.1
It’s hard to forget someone with dark skin & crystal blue eyes, so one must remember the Barbadian beauty who I mentioned in my BB Fashion Week write up last year; Jalicia Hebson (formerly Nightengale). She was my date, for lack of better words. Jalicia found joy in modeling and was signed to Scout ...
How One McDonald's Became The Epicenter Of The Ferguson Conflict
At the center of the storm in Ferguson, Missouri, is an unlikely setting: McDonald’s. The Golden Arches on West Florissant Avenue, a main thoroughfare in the St. Louis suburb, stand blocks away from where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead by a police officer on Aug. 9, setting off violent clas ...
First Airplane Trip and Family Time
We took Ella on her first airplane trip this past weekend for Mike’s aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration in Fort Worden, WA. The traveling went well—Ella is still in the stage where her first response to over-stimulation is sleep, and her first response to movement is sleep, so she ...
