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nabaath-areng · 9 months ago
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Photos from last year.. heaven on earth
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reyaint · 4 months ago
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AESPA dr | intro
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date: october 24, 2024.
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--photo edited by me
𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝑰𝑵𝑫
ZEPHYRIANNA ❪제피리안나❫, also known as ZEPHYRI is a Haiqinian member of the South Korean girl group aespa and the female unit GOT the beat, She made her solo debut on October 9th, 2024 with THE FLASH.
OFFICIAL COLORS: red
SOLO FANDOM NAME: nobles
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𝑰𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉
ZEPHYRIANNA
Career
Main Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Sub-Rapper, Center, Maknae
ae-Zephyrianna
Rep Symbol; Falling Star 💫
Rep Animal; Lioness 🦁
Ability;
Training Period; 3 years, 6 months
Talents; dancing and vocals.
Specialities; mind games.
ISTJ (formerly INTJ)
Haiqinian
Insta; Zeph_lian
Basics
Aeolian Medea Kayena Solon
CN Name; Zhao Na Feng ❪赵娜峰❫
KR Name; Kwon Mi Ae ❪권미에❫
English Name; Anne Solon
Birthplace; Waterlight City, Nirin Province, Haiqin
November 17, 2002
Scorpio
Horse
O-
5’9 ft ❪177cm❫
VC: 96neko, Rubyeye
Trivias (Kprofiles)
Education: Golden Waterlight Elementary (Graduated), Vamaithi Middle School (Graduated), Seoul International High School (Graduated)
Special Ability: mind games, she can touch her elbows from behind
Nicknames: lian, dea, medi, miae, nea, kayn, zephyri, zeph, zephlian,
Favorite Words: love
Favorite Foods: Nirin Stew, steak, kimchi, spicy foods
Favorite Color: crimson, any shade of purple or blue
Favorite Season: autumn
Favorite Animals: foxes, haiqin lioness, golden waterlight butterflies, cats, dogs, wolves, deer
Favorite Movies: a silent voice, crybaby (1990), ballerina, fast and furious: tokyo drift
Favorite type of Music: rock and pop, folk as well like the crane wives or poor man's poison
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𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆
-Excited for this dr
-I use the same name for pretty much every dr I have bc I love it sm
-My kprofiles for my drs are relatively the same bc I just find it easier copy and pasting so yeah
-I changed the positions to what I think fits for the group so yeah
KARINA; Leader, Main Dancer, Lead Rapper, Sub-Vocalist, Visual, Face of the Group
GISELLE; Main Rapper, Sub-Vocalist
WINTER; Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Visual
NINGING; Main Vocalist, Visual
ME; Main Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Lead Rapper, Center, Maknae
-I did a pretty basic of my dr since I'm still doing the script.
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voiceinwild-blog · 8 years ago
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What will cure the U.S. addiction to war?
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       What will cure the U.S. addiction to war?    
Kathy Kelly
31 July 2017                                                                    
We must redouble our efforts to stop the war makers from gaining the upper hand in our lives.
President Donald Trump and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017, at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh. Credit: Official White House Photo, Shealah Craighead via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
"I come and stand at every door But none shall hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen."  
Nazim Hikmet, Hiroshima Child
At a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on July 18 2017, Republican Senator Todd Young asked officials if the ongoing war in Yemen would exacerbate the catastrophe developing there—one of four countries, along with Southern Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, which are set to lose 20 million people collectively this year from conflict-driven famine.
Yemen is being bombarded and blockaded using US-supplied weapons and vehicles by a regional coalition marshaled by Saudi Arabia, with US support. Yemen's near-famine conditions and attendant cholera outbreaks are so dire that a child dies there every ten minutes of preventable disease.
At the hearing, Young held aloft a photo of a World Food Program warehouse in Yemen which was destroyed in 2015. He asked David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program, to name the country responsible for the airstrike that demolished it. Beasley replied that the Saudi-led coalition blockading Yemen had destroyed the warehouse, along with the relief supplies it contained.  
A July 2016 Human Rights Watch report documented 13 civilian economic structures that were destroyed by Saudi coalition bombing between March 2015 and February 2016, including:
“Factories, commercial warehouses, a farm, and two power stations. These strikes killed 130 civilians and injured 171 more. The facilities hit by airstrikes produced, stored, or distributed goods for the civilian population including food, medicine, and electricity—items that even before the war were in short supply in Yemen, which is among the poorest countries in the Middle East. Collectively, the facilities employed over 2,500 people; following the attacks, many of the factories ended their production and hundreds of workers lost their livelihoods.”  
When asked about the Saudi coalition's destruction of four cranes needed to offload relief supplies in Yemen's port city of Hodeidah, Beasley confirmed that their loss had greatly impeded WFP efforts to deliver food and medicines. Young read from Beasley’s June 27 letter to the Saudi government—only the latest of multiple requests—in which he asked that the WFP be allowed to deliver replacement cranes. The WFP Director said that the Saudis had provided no reply.  Young then noted that, in the three weeks since this last letter had been sent, more than 3,000 Yemeni children had died of preventable, famine-related causes.
Medea Benjamin of the antiwar campaign Code Pink was at the hearing, and later thanked Young for rebuking the Saudi government’s imposition of a state of siege, plus the airstrikes that are preventing the delivery of food and medicine to Yemeni civilians. One day later, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on a July 19 coalition airstrike in Yemen which killed 20 civilians—including women and children—while they were fleeing violence in their home province. The report claimed that more than two million internally displaced Yemenis have "fled elsewhere across Yemen since the beginning of the conflict, but … continue to be exposed to danger as the conflict has affected all of Yemen's mainland governorates."
On July 14, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would potentially end US participation in the Yemeni civil war. In the past, the White House has provided refueling and targeting assistance to the Saudi-led coalition without congressional authorization. Since October of 2016, the US has doubled the number of jet refueling maneuvers carried out with Saudi and United Arab Emirate jets. The Saudi and UAE jets fly over Yemen, drop bombs until they need to refuel, and then fly back to Saudi airspace where US jets perform mid-air refueling operations. Next, they circle back to Yemen and resume the bombing.
What can be done to end this seeming addiction to war?
In the summer of 2006, I joined peace campaigner Claudia Lefko at a small school that she had helped found in Amman, Jordan. The school served children whose families were refugees from the postwar chaos in Iraq. Many of the children had survived war, death threats and displacement. Lefko had worked with children in her hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts, to prepare a gift for the Iraqis at the school. The gift consisted of strings of paper origami cranes, folded in memory of a Japanese child called Sadako who had died from radiation sickness after the bombing of her home city of Hiroshima in 1945.  
In her hospital bed (so the story goes), Sadako occupied her time by attempting to fold 1,000 paper cranes, a feat she hoped would earn her the granting of a special wish that no other child would ever suffer the same fate as those who had been killed and injured in Hiroshima. She succumbed too rapidly to complete the task herself, but other Japanese children who heard about her folded many thousands more. This story has been re-told for decades in innumerable places, making the delicate paper creations a symbol for peace throughout the world.
The Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet wrote a poem about Sadako which has since been set to music. Its words are on my mind today as I think of all the malnourished children from the countries of the terrible Four Famines, and from other conflict-torn, US-targeted countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. I think of their months and years of hunger. Their stories may have ended already during the first half of 2017. Hikmet writes:
"I need no fruit I need no rice
I need no sweets nor even bread
I ask for nothing for myself
For I am dead for I am dead."
The song of the “Hiroshima Child" imagines a child who comes and “stands at every door…unheard and unseen.” In reality, we, the living, can choose to approach the doors of elected representatives and of our neighbors, or we can stay at home. We can choose whether or not to be heard and seen.
Robert Naiman at Just Foreign Policy points out that many people don’t know that the House of Representatives has voted to prohibit US participation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. So we must publicize the vote on social media, push for a House roll call vote on the Davidson-Nolan prohibitions on Defense Appropriation, and urge the Senate to pass the same provisions as the House.
I recognize that legislative activism at the heart of an empire addicted to war is a tool of limited use. But considering the impending disaster for which 2017 may well be remembered—as the worst famine year in post-WWII history—we don’t have the luxury to reject any of the tools and opportunities that are presented to us. I also personally oppose all defense appropriations and have refused all payment of federal income tax since 1980.
Billions, perhaps trillions of dollars will be spent to send weapons, weapon systems, fighter jets, ammunition, and military support to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, fueling new arms races and raising the profits of US weapon makers. We must choose to stand at the doors of our leaders and of anyone else who might have influence over this situation, honoring past sacrifices and the innocent lives we were unable to save even as we redouble our efforts to stop the war makers from constantly gaining the upper hand in our lives.
We can never reverse the decisions to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we cannot prevent all of the dying that is set to come this fateful summer in the countries of the Four Famines. In her song, Sadako, long beyond saving even as she folded more paper cranes in her bed, doesn't ask us to erase her own terrible loss, but to achieve whatever change that we can, and to lose no more time in doing so:      
"All that I need is that for peace
You fight today you fight today
So that the children of this world
Can live and grow and laugh and play."
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newstfionline · 8 years ago
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Ex-Monk Erects a ‘Cathedral of Faith’ Brick by Brick, and Mostly Alone
By Raphael Minder, NY Times, April 17, 2017
MEJORADA DEL CAMPO, Spain--In February, Justo Gallego dug his own grave, literally, in the crypt of the church he has been building here, brick by brick, since the early 1960s.
Mr. Gallego, 91, also recently switched dwellings, moving from the nearby home of some relatives to the more spartan surroundings of his self-made temple. He wants to make certain he will die in the place that has become his life’s mission.
“This is where my vocation has taken me and this is where I’m prepared to suffer, just as Jesus Christ taught us to suffer for others,” said Mr. Gallego, as he threw wood onto a stove by his rudimentary bedroom, next to the altar, where he sleeps on a plank without a mattress.
Mr. Gallego might be ready to confront death, but some residents here worry about what will happen to his extraordinary project without him. Mr. Gallego has never received a building permit or any public financing, but he has managed to erect a striking landmark in this otherwise nondescript town of 23,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Madrid.
His ambitious undertaking is labeled the “Cathedral of Faith” on internet maps, even though it has received no official backing from officials of the Catholic Church. Flanked by two cloisters and crowned by an unfinished 125-foot-tall cupola, it attracts tourists on the weekend, helping lift the local economy.
“This man has built something incredible against all odds and turned it into a symbol of our town,” said Victor Morillo, a resident who can see the cupola from the balcony of his apartment. “The Town Hall should have done a lot more to help and should certainly not allow anything bad to happen to this cathedral after he dies.”
Mr. Gallego, however, is unmoved by this kind of support, just as he has been unshaken by past criticism of his project and his own personality, sometimes derided as that of an exalted former monk. He is also unfazed that he has never received any public financing, even in a country that is mostly Catholic and whose infrastructure has been heavily subsidized.
“I’ve not been building this to get money or fame, just as I’m not here to listen to people decide whether I’m mad or unique,” he said. “I’m fully responsible for my work and I’m not looking for the authorities to have any say.”
Mr. Gallego was born here in 1925, on the day of the town’s patron saint, the Virgin of Sorrows. At 27, he joined a monastery in the northern province of Soria, but was ordered to leave eight years later, after he caught tuberculosis and risked contaminating the other monks.
After recovering in a Madrid hospital, Mr. Gallego returned to his hometown, where he decided to turn a family plot of land into a place of worship, without the blessing of the Catholic Church.
He said that his project was an act of faith, motivated in part by his desire to make amends for the desecration he witnessed during the Spanish Civil War. During the war, “I saw the Communists destroy all the churches here, with people laughing and dancing in the ruins,” he said. “But when you believe, you can then also rebuild with your own hands a beautiful new place.”
Indeed, Mr. Gallego has put up most of the church himself, without any training as an architect or civil engineer, using recycled material ranging from food tins to misshapen bricks and other leftovers from local factories and construction sites.
The capitals of some of the church’s concrete pillars are made from secondhand car tires, painted gray to resemble the color of the concrete used for the pillar. Part of the roofing is still missing, but there are already frescoes on the walls.
Mr. Gallego has financed his work by selling family farmland, as well as through donations.
He has held religious ceremonies on the premises, but the ground has not been consecrated.
“Many members of the institutional church view him as a fanatic who shouldn’t be taken seriously, but I consider him an example for humanity,” said María Teresa Alonso, a retiree from a nearby town, who visits occasionally and has donated money to help Mr. Gallego. “They say faith can move mountains, but here we see that faith can also build an incredible cathedral.”
Mr. Gallego has received some informal support from members of the local clergy. “There have been complaints about him, but we support him in as far as we can,” said Pedro Luis Jiménez Langa, a parish priest in town. “It’s an exceptional work, and he’s a good man.”
With his health growing more fragile, Mr. Gallego has increasingly relied on friends and volunteers to help with construction. A local entrepreneur offered a crane to lift the cupola, while some admirers have donated religious sculptures and decorations, rather than money.
But nothing gets added without Mr. Gallego’s approval, particularly if it jars with the arches and other circular designs that he loves, which are loosely based on the Romanesque style.
“The only plan is made in my head, drawn day by day,” Mr. Gallego said, with a grin that revealed several missing teeth. “But Jesus Christ is the one who makes the real plans and decides what eventually should happen.”
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