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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  Apprentices must make sure every detail of a filigree inlay artwork is perfect. [Photo by Xinhua]

  
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  An apprentice works on an item of filigree:

  
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  Filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of Beijing, includes complex techniques. In 2008, the state council of China officially designated filigree inlay art as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of China.

  Yao Yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. For the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft. Yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices. It takes decades to train a craftsman and Yao currently has more than 30 apprentices.

  Some of their work is illustrated here:

  At an exhibition opened in Paris on March. 5, exquisite filigree inlay work by Yao and his colleagues was featured. A masterpiece of filigree inlay, a ruyi, or ceremonial scepter, took about 3 months to produce and is a feature of the exhibition.

  
  
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  I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?

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  i accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.

  " curious, i watched it.

  you may find it interesting also.

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  And, just maybe you should watch this one: The difference between Obama and Putin, which takes the current contretemps to a whole different place:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqJ3cDzReA
  
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  I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.

  " curious, i watched it.

  you may find it interesting also.

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  I accidentally came across this Youtube video, "Why the west fears Putin." Curious, I watched it. You may find it interesting also.

  We should recognise, of course, that Youtube is a battleground for competing concepts, but maybe that's part of its success.

  The supporting text says:

  Vladimir Putin is a hero of Christendom but in America, Putin is always portrayed as a communist dictator with many protesters against him. Yet, he is not a member of the communist party and the KGB no longer exists. They never show the millions of Russians who love him for saving Russia and his true beliefs. Why is the truth not reported? There is a reason. The western media thinks they can hide the truth. However,
  "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." -- old Russian proverb

  
  
  The person who posted this video also adds a long list of supporting videos, all ( I think ) presenting Putin to us as a mighty Christian warrior. I've listed a few.

  Vladimir Putin's Christian Faith - in his own words
  

  http://youtu.be/u3d_yxJhmjk
  
  Russian Faith
  http://russianfaith.wordpress.com/
  
  Putin- Defender of the Faith
  http://youtu.be/22HkzDOc18k
  
  Putin and the Church
  http://youtu.be/dRgWVAfHNZM

  So here you are - meet St Vlad.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNFmBJSAxUQ
  
  
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  What's in your future? A miserable old age? Something for JWs to think about?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  during the second half of the twentieth century, retirees generally found that they could afford a reasonable standard of living.

  all except mugs like me who had an implicit belief in the biblical promises highlighted in the watchtower.

  i'm not complaining about my lot, i take personal responsibility for my decisions to believe the rubbish in the bible, and by keeping on working during what would normally be retirement years i live ok. but it's no thanks at all to the yahweh/jesus combo god who filled my head with a pack of lies.. so what about witnesses these days?

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  Thnx guys, if the two examples indicate a general attitude, then it says a lot about the religion today.

  I imagine that the burning zeal that once consumed us (so that we would be like Jesus) has gone.

  I thought I was seeing something missing as I watched the trolley dollies, witnessing by sitting on their arses, yawning. If knocking on the doors of not-at-homes was boring, then shepherding a literature trolley must be infinitely more boring.

  It's just another Christian brand, full of excuses as to why Jesus has not yet come (Luke 21:32)
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  What's in your future? A miserable old age? Something for JWs to think about?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  during the second half of the twentieth century, retirees generally found that they could afford a reasonable standard of living.

  all except mugs like me who had an implicit belief in the biblical promises highlighted in the watchtower.

  i'm not complaining about my lot, i take personal responsibility for my decisions to believe the rubbish in the bible, and by keeping on working during what would normally be retirement years i live ok. but it's no thanks at all to the yahweh/jesus combo god who filled my head with a pack of lies.. so what about witnesses these days?

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  During the second half of the twentieth century, retirees generally found that they could afford a reasonable standard of living. All except mugs like me who had an implicit belief in the biblical promises highlighted in the Watchtower. I'm not complaining about my lot, I take personal responsibility for my decisions to believe the rubbish in the bible, and by keeping on working during what would normally be retirement years I live OK. But it's no thanks at all to the Yahweh/Jesus combo god who filled my head with a pack of lies.

  So what about witnesses these days? I've got no idea at all how much planning ahead witnesses are doing for their old age these days, but if they're still believing that Armageddon is only a few years away, as was a popular thought when I was young, then the forecast is that they are in for a miserable old age.

  In Australia, which has a tax funded old age pension system, the government is warning that they will have to progressively lower the payments in the future. I imagine that it's a similar situation in the UK. And, for any witness today who thinks that the solution lies in the kingdom ruling the earth, before they get old - just consider that from the 1870's (the first predictions by Russell) until now is nearly 150 years of predictions that did not come true.

  But worse is to come. Financial projections demonstrate that life in western countries is going to get harder.

  (See, this article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GECON-01-190315.html )

  So, if anyone is thinking of relying on Jesus' kingdom for a retirement benefit - think again and start planning for a cash-strapped future.
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  North Korean Businessmen outside of North Korea

  by fulltimestudent in

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  from the washington post:.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/talking-kimchi-and-capitalism-with-a-north-korean-businessman/2015/03/15/5599ff26-be0a-11e4-9dfb-03366e719af8_story.html.

  if you wonder what the truth is about the truth of north korea and what part of the western "truth" on nk is false.

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  From the Washington Post:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/talking-kimchi-and-capitalism-with-a-north-korean-businessman/2015/03/15/5599ff26-be0a-11e4-9dfb-03366e719af8_story.html

  If you wonder what the truth is about the truth of North Korea and what part of the western "truth" on NK is false

  then this Washington post story may be of interest.

  Take some care with it, the WP chose to illustrate the "story" with a photograph of a store in Dandong (a Chinese city along the common China-NK border) with Korean writing, that sells mobile phones, kind of giving an impression that it sells to North Koreans. That is very unlikely, in any case North Korea runs its own mobile (cell) phone network. Its a joint venture between an Egyptian company named between Orascom and the state-owned Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC). There are believed to be about 2,000,000+ mobile phone users in NK.

  The shop in the WP's pik will be selling to the approximately 2.5 million Chinese of Korean descent who live along the border.
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  The original Cinderalla story and its lessons

  by fulltimestudent in

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  a cbs animation:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sevb6h6low4.

  it's described as the original story from china, true enough for most people, but not quite.

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  A CBS animation:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvB6h6lOw4

  It's described as the original story from China, true enough for most people, but not quite. The story seems to have originated among the Zhuang people in S.W. China, but at the time that the story may have originated, they were on the edge of the then Chinese empire, but not fully absorbed.

  There are other variants also, and the possibility cannot be dismissed, that some of the variants are based on a common human experience and the hopes and dreams of those who were victimised in similar circumstances. But neither can we dismiss the possibility that just as products were traded backwards and forwards over the huge Asian trade network, ideas and stories also moved backwards and forwards across Asia.

  There's more, but watch the animated cartoon first.
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  hahahahahahaha !!! Sorry for giggling - this is serious. What do you think?

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  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794496860640440&fref=nf

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  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794496860640440&fref=nf