I was walking the labyrinthine medieval sougs when I saw this little entrance between two shops with a sigh "hammam" on top... and I sneaked in through the steam!...
Don't ask me what i was doing in a hammam with my camera in hand! >:P...
They saw me in there, wanted me to take their picture, gave me a banana and a cucumber!!!... and i left the place running my ass off, LOL...
Aleppo, Syria...
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Munich’s transit system is a sprawling network of light rail, subway, tram and bus lines that reach every corner of a city inhabited by 1.3 million people. It’s an amazing system, but it can be overwhelming if you’re a foreigner exploring the Bavarian capital.
Munich is Germany’s third largest city, yet its mass-transit system is small compared to those in London, Moscow and New York. It’s half the size of Berlin’s mass-transit network. Still, it’s among the most efficient in Europe. It includes 245 stops and more than 325 miles of track, and it carries more than 1.6 million passengers a day. It’s clean and so incredibly comprehensive that it’s said no household in Munich is more than 1,300 feet from a transit stop of some kind.
...taken at the Marienplatz metro station...
Munich, Germany...
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...A disabled street musician playing the clarinet trying to make some money on the Christmas eve, but noone seems to care other than an amateur photographer...
...taken by the Heiliggeistkirche (Church of the Holy Spirit) at Marktplatz...
Heidelberg, Germany...
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Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, which prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and/or other public spaces. Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product.
The rationale for smoke-free laws is to protect people from the effects of second-hand smoke, which include an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, and other diseases.
The World Health Organization considers smoke-free laws to have an influence to reduce demand for tobacco by creating an environment where smoking becomes increasingly more difficult and to help shift social norms away from the acceptance of smoking in everyday life. Along with tax measures, cessation measures, and education, smoking ban policy is currently viewed as an important element in lowering smoking rates and promoting public health. When correctly and strictly implemented it is seen as one important policy agenda goal to change human behavior away from unhealthy behavior and towards a healthy lifestyle.
Research has generated evidence that secondhand smoke causes the same problems as direct smoking, including lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and lung ailments such as emphysema, bronchitis, and asthma. Specifically, meta-analyses show that lifelong non-smokers with partners who smoke in the home have a 20–30% greater risk of lung cancer than non-smokers who live with non-smokers. Non-smokers exposed to cigarette smoke in the workplace have an increased lung cancer risk of 16–19%.
...taken at the carpark of the Dockland, where three of the workers had to go out for smoking during the christmas party at the end of the working day...
Hamburg, Germany...
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Yvonne Wheeler breezes into a Starbucks and all heads turn.
She is the very picture of chic in her maroon mini-skirt, clinging sweater and big black belt cinched at her tiny waist. She wears high-heeled boots, dangly silver earrings and spiky black mascara on her impossibly long eyelashes. Her thick main of hair has blond highlights, her lips are frosted, her nails red.
You'd never guess that Wheeler, 41, is the mother of 5-year-old Madison.
"Just because you become a mom doesn't mean you have to become motherly," murmurs the divorced, size-2 marketing expert, sipping a gingerbread latte. "It's important for me to still feel sexy, to feel good, to know that I'm still a woman."
Wheeler is a yummy mummy. If you don't know that term, you might be familiar with the four-letter acronym that means essentially the same thing. The yummy mummy is a relatively recent phenomenon.
What exactly is a yummy mummy?
"It's a woman who, if you removed the babies and (stroller) from the picture, would not be identifiable as a mom, rather a sexy, glamorous woman," says London-based Polly Williams, author of "The Yummy Mummy", a novel that sends up the whole yummy mummy mystique. "A yummy mummy is what happens when hipster 30-somethings breed." As a 21st-century mother, you have to be ripped and buff and hot...
...taken at the Palladium Shopping Mall, by the movie center at the food court...
Istanbul, Turkey...
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