The Bloom Is off the BRICS

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Spring in Japan Means More Than Just Flowering Cherry Trees

In 2003, it was selected to represent Northern Ireland in the prestigious Britain in Bloom competition.

Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit.

We were burying the collective dream of intellectuals and democrats for a Russia where freedom and the rule of law would, after a long and cold Soviet winter, take root and bloom.

Both are contributors to the former digital culture and data journalism outfit OWNI, which was a Global Voices media partner in France, and are currently shooting a Web documentary entitled Les hackers dans la cité arabe (Hackers in Arab Cities) about technology, applications, hacklabs and makerspaces that are blossoming nowadays in the Maghreb and the Middle East.