" DUSSELDORF Athletics Walt Weiss Jersey , Germany, Feb.1 (Xinhua)-- A two-day art exhibition entitled ""National Cultural and Artistic Exhibition in Qinghai, China"" kicked off here on Thursday, showcasing unique traditional culture and art as well as beautiful landscape in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
The exhibition, held by the information office of the Qinghai provincial government, featured over 100 fine pictures and dozens of thangka, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting. It displayed local characteristics of arts, crafts, natural scenery and folk customs.
When attending the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Xia Wujiao, a Chinese master of arts and crafts, showed visitors the majority of the work in the exhibition.
The exhibition held in North Rhine-Westphalia. a highly developed area of German culture and art with multi-cultural dynamics, presents a good opportunity for both the Qinghai province and the North Rhine-Westphalia state to exchange ideas, said Chinese official He Wenbo on behalf of the Chinese Consulate General in Dusseldorf.
Michael Ruhland, vice director of the German-Chinese Friendship Association Dusseldorf, recalled his memory of the 12 fantastic trips to Qinghai in the past, saying the exhibition might make him to return to northwest China once again.
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Italian players pose for a photo prior to the UEFA Women's EURO 2017 soccer tournament Group B match between Russia and Italy at the Sparta Stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 17, 2017. The Russians won the game 2-1. (XinhuaYe Pingfan)
In pics: China's CH-5 drone completes trial flight
In pics: ethnic embroidery show in SW China's Yunnan
Chinese aircraft carrier formation conducts coordination training
Monkeys enjoy cool mist, watermelon at Quanzhou Wildlife Zoo in Fujian
Annual Wiener Dog Race held in Vancouver, Canada
Highlights of Miss Philippines Earth coronation night
Lotus flowers blossom at ancient town in SW China
Aerial photos show Hukou Waterfall of Yellow River
JAKARTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Thomas Lebas, a French cyclistracing for Kinan Cycling Team from Japan, won an internationalcycling championship held in Indonesia's eastern province of EastNusa Tenggara (NTT) after booking the fastest time in theevent.
Lebas clocked 19 hours, 38 and 21 seconds from six stagescontended in 2017 Tour de Flores, earning him the yellow jersey ofthe championship which ended on Wednesday.
"This race is very interesting. Neck-to-neck competition amongthe cyclists persisted until the last stage," Lebas said afterreceiving 45 million rupiah (about 3,380 US Dollars) in prizemoney.
Philippine cyclist Marcelo Felipe from 711 team secured therunner-up position, followed by Iranian cyclist ArvinMoazamigodarzi from Pishgaman team.
Marcelo earned blue jersey after he was announced the bestSoutheast Asian cyclist in the championship. Meanwhile, Indonesiancyclist Muhammad Imam Arifin from KFC team earned white jerseyafter he obtained the host country's best cyclist title.
The best sprinter title was awarded to South Korean cyclistHyeongmin Choe from Geumsan Insan Cello team, making him entitledto get green jersey. Spanish cyclist Edgar Nohales Nieto earned thepolkadot jersey for winning the best cyclist for upward tracks.
"The race should resume next year. We have to keep our spirit tomake it happen in the following year," said Head of IndonesianCycling Sports Association (ISSI) Raja Sapta Oktohari.
The Tour de Flores, sanctioned by Swiss-based world's cyclingsports organization of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), was inits second edition.
The championship, which has over 720 kilometer challengingroute, feature 96 cyclists from 11 countries and regions this year.Enditem
How can we keep the love light burning and believe in the ever lasting love we heard about in stories as a child? Despite what many think about "the beautiful people" and their seeming success in all areas of life, nothing is perfect or easy.
Anything worth having is worth working for and must be worked towards. "Having more money" (it makes it easier to buy things, but doesn't bring love.);
Owning "a bigger house" (unless you have the money to hire a housekeeper, it will only keep you from your love while you are cleaning.); "If I were better looking." (Beauty really is in the eyes of the beholder. I have seen "less than perfect" people with "stunning" mates." It really is about how you feel about yourself inside that will reflect outside.) All of these superfluous externals are fun, but don't bring happiness or peace in a relationship.
Some of the richest people in the world with every luxury at their finger tips and people at their beck and call still have the nastiest divorces time and time again. Isn't that a great example and lesson to all of us "not so fortunate" people who aren't blessed with their lives and the kind of money they posses; that money doesn't make a relationship happy?
Time, effort and determination are what make a relationship thrive. I'm not implying those people with wealth don't put the time and effort into their relationships, only that all the things many people say, "If only we had..." won't make your relationships last longer or be happier than theirs were.
Some of the best relationships have several things in common, one of those being laughter and a humor about life not to mention a lot of hard work. These are always a common thread for every thriving and joyful relationship I encountered.