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Still plugging away. This week, my focus is perserverence. I find that there are days when I have the attitude that it's okay to take a day "off", it won't hurt anything. And while I want to stay real and not totally cut off any particular food completely from my life, I do need to keep in mind that every morsel I put into my mouth does "count". So while it's okay to have, say, a cookie, I'm going to try not to let myself have 3 cookies, AND a Mcdonalds meal, AND an iced cappacino, AND pizza...all on the same day! (which by the way, I did this week).
This is the longest I've lasted on a weight-loss program in a LONG time. I have you to thank. Knowing I'm accountable to my flickr friends each week DOES make a big difference. THANK YOU for your support, from the bottom of my heart :o)
Sports allows an individual to reevaluate their shortcomings. Forcing individuals to become self-less by changing their actions for a bigger purpose (team). Do your part!
Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
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A medieval tapestry depicting an overseer gesturing imperiously with his stick at three bent peasants who are grubbing in a field. The image has been altered. Contrasts and colors have been pushed into psychedelic pinks, greens and blues. Part of the tapestry fades into a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The overseer's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
Image:
Cryteria (modified)
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg
CC BY 3.0
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
High Level Event co-organized by Estonia, Georgia, the Republic of Korea and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the margins of the 71st UN General Assembly
19 September 2016
Prime Minister of Georgia George Kvirikashvili, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark discussed how effective, accountable, inclusive and transparent institutions are playing a critical role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Click here for Helen Clark's remarks: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/speeches/20...
Photo: UNDP
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau places flowers at a vigil outside the London Muslim Mosque organized after four members of a Canadian Muslim family were killed in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack in London, Ontario, Canada, June 8, 2021. Nathan Denette/Pool via REUTERS
'What of the accountability when the intellect is lost in God's love?' - Lord Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God (Divine Love)
Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
Note: We analyzed recipient reported FTE data for Head Start and Early Head Start expansion grants.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, available here: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-166
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
April 9, 2013 | Full Committee Hearing
"Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO’s 2013 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs"
Last week: 139.5
This week: 139.5
I guess that's maintaining. I was hoping to have lost something this week because I feel like I was better about what I ate and I logged probably 5-6 miles on the treadmill plus a spin class this week. Le sigh.
On the plus side, I started up on the Hundred Push Up Challenge so hopefully that little extra calorie burn each week will help my numbers.
Cadets from 1st Regiment, Basic Camp prepare to enter their barracks to get accountability of their clothing at Fort Knox, Ky., June 22, 2019. | Photo By Dustin Massengill, CST Public Affairs Office.
SPC Tammy Hyden, a medic with the 864th Engineer Battalion, CMRE,
inventories medicine within her battalion’s aid station at Paktika province,Afghanistan, April 21. (U.S. Army photo by 1LT Elizabeth Lewis, 864th Engineer Battalion)
Miatta Mulbah is currently an accountapreneur with the Accountability Lab. In Liberia, many young girls engage in commercial sex in order to survive or to pay for school. Miatta’s vision is “a Liberia where teenage girls are not exposed or forced into harmful practices that endanger their health or their future.” Through her organization Leemah, Miatta is using music and street theater to advocate for and raise awareness among girls in Montserrado and Margibi counties, ages 11-25, who face challenges of sexual violence, abuse, poverty. Leemah strives to change the mindsets vulnerable Liberian girls, and the broader community, to understand their rights and responsibilities as citizens and to rethink their future.
Woohoo! I finally broke the 10 lb. mark. Yeah!!!
So it's been 3 weeks since I last checked in for Accountability Wednesday. With preparing for travel I ran out of time to check in 2 weeks ago (but was up .5 lbs). Then last week I was in Georgia and unable to track myself. I fully expected to be up a few pounds after returning - I just did not stick to my eating plan the way I'd hoped, though I did really well overall. Turns out I was only up a half pound by the time I got home. Since returning 4 days ago, I've lost that half pound, plus the half pound I'd gained before leaving, plus another half pound. So:
since 3 wks ago: -1.5
total: -10
left to go: 20
My workouts are going really well and I am happy to be home and back on track with how I like to eat. My mini-goal for March is to lose another 5 pounds. February was basically a wash in terms of losing weight (I ended at the exact weight I'd started), but I'm hopeful about March. Mostly I'm just really psyched to be moving in the right direction. 10 pounds is like a psychological marker or something, and I'm very excited about it!
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
High Level Event co-organized by Estonia, Georgia, the Republic of Korea and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the margins of the 71st UN General Assembly
19 September 2016
Prime Minister of Georgia George Kvirikashvili, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark discussed how effective, accountable, inclusive and transparent institutions are playing a critical role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Click here for Helen Clark's remarks: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/speeches/20...
Photo: UNDP
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Soldiers of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, hand their weapons over to rear detachment personnel who assisted in the return of approximately 70 “Warhorse” Soldiers from Afghanistan at the Fort Carson Arrival/Departure Air Control Group, April 6, 2012.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Cantrell, 4th Inf. Div. PAO)
One of the most persistent accountability deficits in the current MDG framework has been the difficulty of holding industrialized countries to the commitments they have made to the global partnership for development (MDG 8).
International accountability systems, including international human rights bodies, generally have a supervisory or oversight role rather than an enforcement function. Yet, they can play an important role in requiring States to justify their development performance in the light of human rights principles. © UN Photo/ Logan Abossi
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is a legislative branch government agency that provides auditing, evaluation, and investigative services for the U. S. Congress.
The GAO was established as the General Accounting Office by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.
The act required the head of the GAO to 'investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds, and shall make to the President … and to Congress … reports [and] recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures'.
According to the GAO's current mission statement, the agency exists to support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities, and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.
The agency's name was changed in 2004 to the 'Government Accountability Office' by the GAO Human Capital Reform Act to better reflect the mission of the office.
The GAO's auditors conduct not only financial audits, but engage in a wide assortment of performance audits as well.
The building shown above was originally called the U.S. Government Accounting Office Building, until the agency name change in 2004.
Located at 441 G Street NW in Washington (DC) and adjacent to the National Building Museum (formerly the Pension Building), the GAO building was dedicated in September 1951 by President Harry S. Truman.
Source: Wikipedia
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Ambassador Tom Pickering presents his argument for the establishment of a commission to examine the detention, treatment, and transfer of post 9-11 detainees.
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, U.S. officer of Global Criminal Justice, speaks at the Justice & Accountability for Genocide & Atrocity Crimes event held at the UN Headquarters on 17 July 2013 in New York.
Accountability, Achievement, and Action: High School Education Reform in the New Era
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC)
(February 12, 2009)
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Robust reporting and accountability at the global, regional and national levels will be critical for the implementation of a post-2015 development agenda. During this session, part of the 70th Commission meeting, the regional aspect of monitoring and accountability was discussed and developed.
Learn more about the Post-2015 development agenda: www.unescap.org/news/un-calls-betterevaluationpost-2015-d...
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
At the Hawaiian Humane Society today, Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed six bills related to protecting animals.
“These measures will rightfully hold those who abuse pets accountable for their actions,” said Gov. Abercrombie. “They will also provide those who care for pets more opportunities.”
The bills will strengthen animal cruelty laws, help residents find rental housing that allows pets, and provide other protections and accommodations for animals.
SB635 (Relating to Animal Cruelty) provides protection for law enforcement animals as they perform their duty, and adds a definition of “law enforcement animal” to the Penal Code.
SB328 (Relating to Animals) allows for “pet deposits” to increase rental options for tenants with pets.
HB235 (Relating to Collection of Restitution for Crime Victims) assists humane societies in their care of animals previously subjected to animal cruelty.
SB6 (Relating to Animal Cruelty) prohibits the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps and limits the use of snares and certain other traps in residential areas where domesticated pets may fall victim and suffer serious injury.
SB9 (Relating to Animals) keeps pets out of the hands of those found guilty of animal cruelty.
SB978 (Relating to the Penal Code) provides harsher penalties for those found guilty of animal cruelty by upgrading misdemeanor cruelty offenses involving 10 or more animals to a Class C felony.
“We commend Gov. Abercrombie, Senate Judiciary Chair Clayton Hee, House Judiciary Chair Karl Rhoads, and the state Legislature for strengthening our state animal welfare laws, including holding those who cruelly abuse animals more accountable,” said Inga Gibson, Hawaii director for The Humane Society of the United States. “Strong animal welfare laws not only protect pets, but create safer, more compassionate communities for all of the people of Hawaii.”
Hakijamii helped facilitate the Education Accountability session in Starehe, Nairobi, with community representatives from each of the districts of Nairobi present to talk to government representatives about the state of education in the people's settlements (slums). They provided some entertainment for the day-long event by a local group.
Photo by Christy Gillmore, 2010 Peace Fellow
Jan. 29, 2023. Somerville, MA.
Hundreds of people rallied at Somerville High School to demand justice and accountability for Sayed Arif Faisal who was shot and killed by Cambridge police and Tyre Nichols who was killed by Memphis police officers. Arif was a graduate of Somerville High, a UMass Boston student, and Mystic Mural participant.
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