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Today’s outfit: vintage Harajuku Lovers tee, leopard & black joggers, OP black glitter sneaks, Furnival as leg accent. (Towel on the floor is because the kittens keep tumping out all their water. Towel did not help, it became a plaything in seconds.) #ootd #fafafafafashionbeepbeep⚡ #EverydayFashion #CheapAssChic #ClearanceFinds #AllMyClothesFromTheKidsSection #vintage #harajukulovers #leopardprintisaneutral #joggers #OceanPacific #glitter #sneakers #casualpunk #punkrockgirl #over50style #agingdisgracefully #mystyle #furnivaldethomas #furni #kittens
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Former head of Louvre charged in Egyptian artefacts trafficking case -
Jean-Luc Martinez is accused of conspiring to hide origin of works taken out of Egypt during Arab spring
… Martinez, who stepped down as the Louvre’s president last year, serves as an ambassador for international cooperation in the field of heritage. The case threatens to embarrass the French culture ministry and ministry for foreign affairs.
Two French specialists in Egyptian art were also questioned this week but released without charge.
The case was opened in July 2018, two years after the Louvre Abu Dhabi bought a rare pink granite stele depicting the pharaoh Tutankhamun and four other ancient works for €8m (£6.8m). …
… Several countries are thought to have been affected by artefacts’ being pillaged, including Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. …
(Source: theguardian.com)
Julia Soboleva (Latvian,b.1990)
Pretty Birdies, Hungry Kitties, 2021
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If you’re the kind of person who would do that, you never become Bezos in the first place.
My Dad owned a business my whole life. It was profitable, but it didn’t expand. I ask him once why he never grew it, and he said it’s nearly impossible without climbing on someone’s back–your vendors, your customers, your employees. Particularly that last one. You don’t wait until your business is big to be a good human being. The very first time you have to choose between your own profit and your employees health insurance, you choose the later. You give maternity leave even though the government doesn’t make you. You dock your own salary to not lay people off during a recession. You have adequate staffing and reliable hours. Anybody who says you can’t run a retail business on a normal, reasonable, predictable schedule you know in advance is full of shit. My Dad did it for 35 years (always have one more person than you think you need, and 98% of your staffing problems vanish). It’s just not maximum profit. If you don’t prioritize extracting profit from every corner of your business, you never become rich enough to give billions away.
(One of the things my father is proud of is that by the time he retired they hadn’t needed to take a help wanted ad in 30 years. Turnover was low, and when a spot opened, referrals filled it.)
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