defiantEmmet Riley writes:

Not sure if you’re still doing the whole defiant tricolour thing but here’s one from last week. Spot the Paddies at the centre of Tibetan Buddhism in Kathmandu, Nepal. Me in the green.

 

G’wan the topical ‘ecker’.

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I’ve just got back from Paris where I was helping to promote ReAct Paris, a conference organised by the European Parliament to tackle the problems of unemployment in Europe, particularly youth unemployment, which in some parts of Europe stand close to a miserable 30%.

Previously: Watch Your Step

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(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)

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The antler-locking Rutting season in Phoenix Park Dublin this afternoon

A doe is only in her fertile phase for a day or less each year so competition to mate is incredibly high.

A day or less.

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Rutting Season (BBC Nature Calender)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

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Toothsome US travel blogger Rob Lloyd from StopHavingABoringLife.com shares his surfer wisdom thoughts on TBex 2013 – the travel bloggers’ conference held in Dublin earlier this month.

All of which is, you know, totally cool.

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“In Ireland, a similar debate took place based surrounding the Civil Partnership Act 2010. The then Government refused to exempt civil registrars from the the duty to officiate civil partnership ceremonies. However, the Catholic bishops argued that the constitutional right to freedom of religion required such “conscience” claims to be accommodated. This week’s French ruling further illustrates a broader tendency across Europe to reject the relevance of religious freedom in the context of public service duty.”

 

Marriage equality: French Constitutional Court rejects mayors’ conscience claim (Human Rights Ireland)

body1 body3 body2Three human sculpture pieces for the launch of the 2014 Western Australian Ballet Program by Adelaide-based body paint installation artist and photographer Emma Hack, whose work appeared (among other places) in the video for Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’.

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