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The Rohingya Refugee Women in Bangladesh.
They lost their citizenship status in Myanmar, then someone lost her husband, someone lost her child, someone has lost his parents, Someone has lost his wife, Young women are raped by the Myanmar Army every day, Then, Killing him burned in the fire, somebody’s throat cut and killed they says. This story is the Rohingya people of Myanmar.
The Myanmar army and Buddhist Fundamentalism terrorist are killing common and innocent people irrespective of their caste and creed in the name of cleansing the Rohingyas. Because Rohingya Peoples are fleeing and entering to Bangladesh for save their lives. The government of Bangladesh and the general people are giving shelter to humanitarian causes and extended their hands to sympathy. But no one wants that these Rohingya refugees stay in Bangladesh for a long time.
Rohingya refugees who come to Bangladesh are saying: Myanmar Army is genocide of Rohingya Muslims and burning their homes every day, raping young girls then cut his throat and kill him and some time burned killing. According to the United Nations and Government of Bangladesh newly arrived till now, more than 700.000 thousand of Rohingya Muslims people entered in Bangladesh through different borders of Myanmar-Bangladesh. And there are old, nearly 500.000 thousand Rohingya refugees. Total Rohingya refugee enters in Bangladesh about 12 million. Every day refugees are increasing among them; there are more number of women, pregnant woman, children and old people. According to the UNHCR sources, 50 thousand Rohingya children will be born within the next six months in Rohingya refugee camp, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Satellite Events are here again for 2011, a series of events throughout the year, in London, Europe and internationally. Making the Battle of Ideas Festival much more than just a weekend, Battle Satellites run through October and November: turning an intellectual feast into a Roman banquet. Click here to view other events available.
We have always had a complex relationship with technology. There are perennial claims that it may come to dominate us, or in some way undermine human values. In the 5th century BC, Plato’s dialogue the Phaedrus contained an early critique of the technology of writing at the time of its widespread adoption: Socrates voices concerns that writing will undermine human knowledge and authority and will ultimately be destructive to the Athenian polis. We find echoes of this in some of the responses to contemporary media technologies from Wikipedia to Google to Facebook. Some suggest our dependence on a range of digital ‘cognitive extension technologies’, are dumbing down culture, or even changing the nature of human consciousness.
Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has argued Facebook and related technologies are in danger of undermining children´s abilities to relate to each in a basic face-to-face manner, though these claims have been fiercely contested. Professor Sherry Turkle, author of the influential book Alone Together has suggested our ‘pathological’ addiction to social media is making us ‘less human’. Others, such as Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and novelist Zadie Smith argue it’s ‘flattening us out’, turning us into two-dimensional, dumbed-down, emotionally illiterate consumers.
Yet others believe human intelligence - rather being the simple outcome of evolution on a Pleistocene savannah - is always wrapped up with our use of technology. Our minds are not in the normal sense natural, or fixed. We may indeed think differently from our ancestors before telephones, aeroplanes, pharmacology; everything from the wheel to the locomotive has undoubtedly influenced our social relations and indeed our idea of ourselves as humans. So if human intelligence has always been forged in a relation to technology, is there really anything so special about the new technologies from a cognitive standpoint? Or, do our fears about the cognitive implications of the Web 2.0 say more about today’s cultural climate of determinism and pessimism about the future and a loss of faith in humanity? What has caused so many to view the internet and mobile technology so pessimistically?
Recommended reading
The new overlords
Man and technology are evolving together in radical new ways
Economist, 12 March 2011 www.economist.com/node/18329616
Speakers
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie heads the Violence and Extremism Programme at Demos. Jamie has recently completed a major ESRC/Public Safety Canada funded project on the relationship between non-violent and violent extremism entitled The Edge of Violence based on two years of in-depth field research across Europe and Canada which compares terrorists and non-terrorists. He is also currently working on projects related to mosque governance, surveying the populist right, conspiracy theories and North African migration.
He advises a number of international government agencies and related groups in relation to terrorism and extremism.
He is the author of Under The Influence : what we know about binge-drinking
Phil Booth
Phil led NO2ID, the UK-wide non-partisan campaign against the database state, from 2004 to 2011 – stepping down after the comprehensive defeat and dismantling of the Home Office ID scheme, including the repeal of the Identity Cards Act 2006. Phil’s new venture, TRUTH2POWER, provides “ruthlessly practical” strategic advice and skills training to campaigners and campaigning organisations. He sits on the advisory boards of Privacy International and the Foundation for Information Policy Research, and is an honorary research associate of the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham.
Variously a teenage Z80 machine coder, public sculptor and lecturer, Phil set up his first digital media company in 1994. After several years assisting international clients to adapt to the web, he joined BBC Digital Media Education in 1997 where he helped build Schools Online. In the early 2000s he worked with children’s charity, the Who Cares? Trust to build Carezone – a secure online space to help looked-after children manage their online information and ‘make sense of’ the care system.
Beyond his campaigning and advocacy interests, Phil builds tools and organisations to create systems that embody certain ‘digital fundamentals’ in an attempt to ensure that the information society comes to reflect the best of human nature, not its worst.
Robert Clowes
Rob Clowes is a founder member and the chairman of the Brighton Salon: a serious but fun discussion forum based in Brighton. The Brighton Salon, modelled on the Salons of the 18th Century, has been organising cultural activities, especially its monthly meetings in Brighton since the summer 2006. He is currently setting up the Lisbon Salon along similar lines. He also performs with and is on the management committee of Lisbon´s English Language Theatre Company: The Lisbon Players.
In his professional life Rob is a researcher and lecturer working on core issues in the philosophy of cognitive science.
Having held positions at the University of Sussex for the last ten years where he is still a Visiting Research Fellow mainly at the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS) he recently accepted a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the New University of Lisbon. He works especially on the material basis of consciousness, the role of language in mind and most recently he has been working on the relationship between cognition and technology through a number or prisms but with special regard to internet technologies. His latest project looks at virtuality as a model for representation.
Nick Pickles
Nick is the Director of civil liberties group Big Brother Watch. Established in 2009, Big Brother Watch fights injustice and campaigns to protect our civil liberties and personal freedoms.
Nick joined the organisation in September 2011, and his career has included working with innovative SMEs and large corporates.
He took on Yvette Cooper at the General Election, achieving a 12.5% swing to the Conservatives and sits on the executive of the Conservative Technology Forum.
He is also an internationally published music photographer.
Chair
Patrick Hayes
Patrick Hayes, a reporter for spiked, says: “In heeding the calls of parents and teachers alike to engage in a practical citizenship class against The Man, these kids are actually far closer to being obedient little robots, internalising the ideas of their parents’ generation.”
Patrick Hayes is a reporter for online current affairs magazine spiked www.spiked-online.com and writes on a wide range of current affairs issues, with a particular focus on protests, social media and civil liberties issues. He is also head of press and promotions at the Institute of Ideas (IoI), and has been a producer of the annual Battle of Ideas festival www.battleofideas.org.uk since its inception in 2005. He is also the co-founder of the IoI’s monthly Current Affairs Forum www.currentaffairs.org.uk, which takes place in central London.
Formerly working as a researcher for the Times Educational Supplement, Patrick’s writing has appeared in a range of local, national and online publications. He regularly speaks on local and national radio, including BBC Radio 5 and has also produced films on location in India and Nepal – alongside others - for alternative online news channel WORLDbytes.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Friends' Meeting House Ship Street Brighton
At a recording of the BBC Scotland satirical current affairs comedy panel show Breaking the News the other evening, hosted by Des Clarke, with Elaine Malcolmson and Alex Bell (on the right) and Ahir Shah and Ashley Storrie (one the left of the stage). I was sitting quite far back in the Pleasance Theatre, so they're not the best shots, I'm afraid, but best I could get from back of a dark theatre! You can hear the show via the BBC site here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066zypj
അയ് ഷൂപ്പർ ഐഡിയ #icuchalu #currentaffairs #Demonetisation Credits: Ananth Mohan ©ICU , ift.tt/2fCB3rl
അർത്ഥങ്ങളുടെ അനന്തയിലേക്ക് ഒരു യാത്ര #icuchalu #currentaffairs Credits: Mitreyan Bodhisathwan ©ICU സഖാവ് എന്ന കവിതയെ മിക്കവരും തെറ്റായി ആണ് മനസ്സിലാക്കിയത് എന്നത് കൊണ്ട് ആ കവിതയെ വിശദമായി നമുക്ക് പരിശോധിക്കേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ശരിക്കും ആരാണീ പൂമരം ആരാണീ സഖാവ്..ഒറ്റനോട്ടത്തില് ധരിക്കുന്നത് പോലെ വെറുമൊരു സഖാവിനോടുള്ള വീരാരാധനയല്ല ഈ കവിത.സമീപകാല കേരളത്തില് ഇടതുപക്ഷ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തില് സംഭവിച്ച പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട ഒരേടിലെക്ക് ഉള്ള എത്തിനോട്ടമാണ് RSP എന്ന പാര്ട്ടി ഇടത് മുന്നണി വിട്ടു പോയിട്ടും അതിനു ശേഷം വന്ന നിയമസഭ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പില് കനത്ത തോല്വി ഏറ്റു വാങ്ങിയിട്ടും അധിക നാളായിട്ടില്ല. ഇവിടെ പൂമരം എന്.കെ പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന് ആണെന്നും സഖാവ് എന്നാല് LDF ആണെന്നും ഞാന് പറഞ്ഞാല് വിശ്വസിക്കാന് അല്പം ബുദ്ധിമുട്ട് കാണും അതിനാല് ആ വരികള് നമുക്കൊന്ന് പരിശോധിക്കാം. //നാളെയീ, പീതപുഷ്പങ്ങൾ കൊഴിഞ്ഞിടും പാതയിൽ നിന്നെ തിരഞ്ഞുറങ്ങും...// പീത പുഷ്പങ്ങള് കൊഴിഞ്ഞ പാത , അത് പീതാംബര കുറുപ്പ് തോറ്റ ,ഇപ്പോള് പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന് MP ആയ കൊല്ലം മണ്ഡലമാണ് എന്നത് സുവ്യക്തമാണ് //കൊല്ലപ്പരീക്ഷ എത്താറായി സഖാവെ കൊല്ലം മുഴുക്കെ ജയിലിലാണോ...// ഇവിടെ കൊല്ല പരീക്ഷ എന്നത് കൊല്ലത്ത് വരുന്ന തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പുകള് ആണെന്ന് പറയേണ്ടല്ലോ //എന്റെ ചില്ലയിൽ വെയിലിറങ്ങുമ്പോൾ... എന്ത്കൊണ്ടോ പൊള്ളിടുന്നിപ്പോൾ. താഴെ നീയുണ്ടായിരുന്നപ്പോൾ... ഞാനറിഞ്ഞില്ല വേനലും വെയിലും.// LDF ഇല് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നപ്പോള് തങ്ങള്ക്ക് ഉണ്ടായ സുഖം ഇപ്പോള് ഇല്ല എന്ന് പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന് ദുഖത്തോടെ ഓര്ക്കുന്നു. //നിന്റെ ചങ്ക് പിളർക്കുന്ന മുദ്ര‐ വാക്യമില്ലാത്ത മണ്ണ് മടുത്തു ഞാൻ.// UDF മടുത്തു എന്നും അദ്ദേഹം വിലപിക്കുന്നു //പ്രേമമായിരുന്നു എന്നിൽ സഖാവെ... പേടിയായിരുന്നെന്നും പറഞ്ഞിടാൻ.// പൂമരം പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന് ആണെന്നതിന്റെ മറ്റൊരു സൂചകം //വരും ജന്മമുണ്ടെക്കിൽ ഈ പൂമരം... നിന്റെ ചങ്കിലെ പെണ്ണായി പിറന്നിടാം...// അടുത്ത തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പില് എങ്കിലും തിരിച്ചു വരാനുള്ള പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന്റെ ആഗ്രഹം പ്രകടിപ്പിച്ചതല്ല ഇത് എങ്കില് മറ്റെന്താണ് ? //കൊല്ലപ്പരീക്ഷ എത്താറായി സഖാവെ.// കൊല്ലത്ത് അടുത്ത ഇലക്ഷന് എത്താറായി എന്ന് വ്യംഗ്യം ഇങ്ങനെ എന് കെ പ്രേമചന്ദ്രന് LDF ലേക്ക് തിരിച്ചു വരാനുള്ള അദമ്യമായ ആഗ്രഹത്തെ പ്രതീകാത്മകമായി കവി വരച്ചു കാട്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. , ift.tt/2b1hxaa
Barack Obama talking at a Town Hall meeting in London during his visit last week. I wasn't covering it for work, but had accreditation and thought I'd go anyway. It's not everyday you get to see a President after all...
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hosea 4:3 King James Version
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"The state of urban pollution is dreadful - this is the Regents Canal..."
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....... with civil unrest and strife across many parts of the Middle East, earthquakes and destruction in New Zealand and worse in Japan, starvation and despotic dictators in Africa.....it's nice to see my local paper is concentrating on the big issues of the day........err, not!
GF1 with Lumix 20mm f1.7 lens
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"30th Anniversary; 2014... WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed in a hail of automatic gunfire from the Libyan Embassy during a protest outside in St James Square, London... It lead to the longest British police siege of all time - 11 days... This memorial marks the spot where she fell..."
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Kababayang Pilipino presents PADAYON (Moving Forward)
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing
About KABABAYANG PILIPINO- cultural performing arts group
Kababayang Pilipino is a cultural performing arts group dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Filipino folk heritage through the presentation of authentic Filipino dance, music, song and drama.
Kababayang Pilipino provides the opportunity for its members to educate themselves and inturn, educate the community at large about the rich history and culture of the Filipino.
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The support of our loyal sponsors is essential in enabling Kababayang Pilipno to continue to carry out its mission and vision.
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"Coming up to its 10th Anniversary... A red London bus travels past the iconic Gherkin building on a sunny day in London..."
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Somewhere in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Thursday 7th May 2020, at 8pm.
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Notice: Geotags are removed, and the exact location will not be mentioned, for privacy and safety.
About this photograph.
During the Clap for Our Carers gesture on Thursday evening, those two girls and their family stepped outside, but instead of clapping, they showed their support for the NHS (National Health Service) with a live music performance.
As you can see in the photos, one of the girls is seen playing the violin while the other girl does the singing.
I have no idea what they were singing about, nor do I know what music they played. It looked like a slow singing, maybe classic music.
In the tighter framed photos, the man in the T-shirt with sunglasses, and leaning against a car is their father. In the wider shots, the woman on the other side of the road, seen taking photos, is their mother.
You may notice a few other people stepping out of their homes, to take part in the clapping as show of support, watching the live performance.
The viewpoint was from one of my bedroom windows, as I took the photos of what was going on. I later went to their house, to seek permissions from the parents if I wanted to publish the photos, and they agreed.
Why I took the photographs?
Starting in February of 2020, my oldest child moved out to live independent, while the other child lived with the mother, I was finally free to try to restart my photography career, and if needed by going freelance. But only about a month later, in March, the United Kingdom went into a national lockdown in order to combat against the rising cases of the coronavirus, which put my plans on hold.
It was at that time I decided to try to get serious with Flickr, having registered in 2015, but been inactive for almost 5 years until I restarted using it in 2020. I was trying to find photos to upload and all that.
On that day, a Thursday at 8pm, it was time for the usual every Thursday event, to step outside and clap in show of our support for our NHS. I find it much easier to go upstairs, open the window at the front of the house, lean out and clap. From this position I can see other people clapping.
This was when I saw the family stepping outside, and setting up their small performance. That was when I went to grab my Nikon, and started trying to take photojournalism style photos as my skills are rather somewhat rusty and I could do with some new practise.
After taking the photos, I had to go over to their home, and informed their parents that I do photography, and wanted to check with them if I could have permissions to post my photos on my various profiles (not just Flickr, but also other accounts like with Adobe, etc.) The father agreed to give me permissions. I also gave them as many copies of the photos too.
About the subject.
The Clap for Our Carers event was a social movement carried out every Thursdays between March to May in 2020, in the United Kingdom as a gesture of appreciation and show of support for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
The idea came from Europe, likely to be either Italy and/or Spain which had lockdowns before the UK did.
On Thursdays, people would either step outside their front doors, or lean outside their windows, and give a round of applause. But some people have been taken to banging pots and pans, or playing music.
The event was meant to show our support for doctors and nurses, along with other hospital staff, but later included our show for other key workers, health services, ambulance crews, delivery drivers, waste collectors, and any other key workers who have to work during the lockdown.
In the fight against the coronavirus known as Covid-19.
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Feed your dimes into the slot, you're entering the melting pot
Of tabloid sleaze and slurs galore, the fading stars, those bloody wars
The doom and gloom of modern life, a cheating husbands jaded wife
Nips and tucks are all the rage to stretch your skin and hide your age
Seems that Libya's next up Joe, so arm your troops as off they go
Policing lands so far away when all they should, is stay away
To poke ones nose in other's life just leads to bloodshed, toil and strife
As weeping mothers bury sons, to worthless tributes, smoking guns
War dictates that man must fail, the splintered coffin, rusty nail
Of man's demise through greed and hate, you'll read about it on page eight.
Where Egypt buries freedom fighters, Mubarek runs, must catch the blighter
The Middle East has crashed and burned, and on page six, Camero, yearn.
iPad's have the nation hooked, whilst airlines fail, no tickets booked
And Easter looms for cash strapped wallets, your ships come in but you're not on it
A workforce battered, crushed and bruised, Obama's promises a ruse
As economic meltdown rules, those stocks and shares are just for fools
Seems fears are true, Dubai has drowned, Japan the radiation found
But on page ten the talking cat who brings a smile, you ponder at
The girl in front who curses loudly, fumbling in the purse she proudly
Waves for all the queue to view, she's first in line, not twelfth like you
As sighing, pages pass your eyes, whilst Supermarket smokes you buy
Page nine shows shots of super nova's, You're next in line, the waiting's over
As once again you tread the streets and view the news on your broadsheets
Tsunami's raging far away, vacation booked, you've yet to pay
An expert wheeled out specially announces that the world and we
Shall all be gone in forty years if globally we do not fear
The damage that we do each day to Mother nature's bright array
Through systematic greenhouse gas, the fallout zone, debris and trash
Berating all our futile wars as rich stay rich and poor stay poor
And on page twelve there's Charlie sheen, the good and bad and all between
Tales of coke and mass addiction, drugs the underlined affliction
He blames it on the wealth so young, the party's over, where's the fun?
A mown down baby, and childless mom, a burnt out Buick, loaded gun
Victims of a gangland feud where teeth are gold and senses crude
Too high to ever stop and think how life can change within the blink
Of eyes so saddened, weary, dead, the outward pomp, the inner dread
Page forty-six obituaries, the tributes paid amongst the tears
For mothers, brothers, sisters too and soldier fathers who never knew
The joy of holding baby boys who'll live with pain and play with toys
And grow to join the ranks of men who fight the futile wars again
And Albert was one hundred ten when Reaper came to claim him then
A life of smokes and alcohol, which proves the truth in words not all
We read is honest, straight and true, they fill our heads with waffle too
Bombarded daily by the fear or global chaos ever near
The weather page so full of graphs, reminds us of the Arctic drafts
And bold tornado's heading for the comfort of our battered shores
So batten down and say your prayers and hope that somehow your God cares
And on page fifteen cartoon heaven, laugh out loud, you're acting seven!
You turn the page and smile, it's sport, a chance to smile at last, you thought
The Sea hawks lost again last night, and your boy lost the boxing fight
Tiger woods has crashed a car, domestic problems seem afar
For millionaires with all to gain, who wave the cash yet feel the pain
You'll pay your dues for jackpot fame, the lottery's a waiting game
The freedom boat is docked but you're still waiting for the chance, but poor
You dream of life so far away, on sun kissed islands sandy bays
You think that you would trade it all for chiselled features, a swimming pool
But in your heart of hearts you know, the less we have, the more we grow
To live and love and understand the good inherent within a man
But life it sucks so much right now, you're waiting for the great cash cow
You could have been, you might just have, you're down at heel, you're just a chav
You're almost home on Sunday morn, you've read the pages full of scorn
Your happiness has turned so sad, the tabloid stories make you mad
You throw the paper to the floor inserting key into your door
Your dog is barking like a fool, he's chewed your favourite multi tool
The breakfast toast is up in flames, and kids are pointing, shouting names
Your loving wife in tears she sits, her treasured vase lies prone in bits
The hamster shredded your best pants, the kitchen sink is full of ants
A Sunday morning Chaos rules, you wish for peace and pray for school
But take a moment, stop and ponder, contemplate your life and yonder
You wouldn't trade, if truth were told, your present life for sacks of gold
You're old enough to realize, there's more to life than tabloid lies
The papers make you oh so glad, of others problems you've not had
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Written November 29th 2009/Rewritten on March 31dst 2011
Photograph taken in a little town called Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington State USA, September 17th 2008
NIKON D300 1/160s F/6.3 iso200 52mm
Nikkor AF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED IF. UV filter
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CycleEXIF
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My collections were featured on the web.
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My collections were featured on the web.
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Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
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2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
The Rohingya Refugee Women in Bangladesh.
They lost their citizenship status in Myanmar, then someone lost her husband, someone lost her child, someone has lost his parents, Someone has lost his wife, Young women are raped by the Myanmar Army every day, Then, Killing him burned in the fire, somebody’s throat cut and killed they says. This story is the Rohingya people of Myanmar.
The Myanmar army and Buddhist Fundamentalism terrorist are killing common and innocent people irrespective of their caste and creed in the name of cleansing the Rohingyas. Because Rohingya Peoples are fleeing and entering to Bangladesh for save their lives. The government of Bangladesh and the general people are giving shelter to humanitarian causes and extended their hands to sympathy. But no one wants that these Rohingya refugees stay in Bangladesh for a long time.
Rohingya refugees who come to Bangladesh are saying: Myanmar Army is genocide of Rohingya Muslims and burning their homes every day, raping young girls then cut his throat and kill him and some time burned killing. According to the United Nations and Government of Bangladesh newly arrived till now, more than 700.000 thousand of Rohingya Muslims people entered in Bangladesh through different borders of Myanmar-Bangladesh. And there are old, nearly 500.000 thousand Rohingya refugees. Total Rohingya refugee enters in Bangladesh about 12 million. Every day refugees are increasing among them; there are more number of women, pregnant woman, children and old people. According to the UNHCR sources, 50 thousand Rohingya children will be born within the next six months in Rohingya refugee camp, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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My collections were featured on the web.
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GESSATO
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My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
മുഴുവനും അവരുടെ ആളുകളാണ്... #icuchalu #currentaffairs Credits: Shahin Prem Thayat ©ICU , ift.tt/2fYXE0R
A Para stands guard in front of a bombed-out shop in Donegall Place, Belfast, 1976.
There's more material from the same era here.
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My collections were featured on the web.
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GESSATO
www.gessato.com/bianchi-mini-velo-7-by-jin-buick-hidaka/
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
Special Thanks
CycleEXIF
www.cycleexif.com/bianchi-mini-velo
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
GESSATO
www.gessato.com/bianchi-mini-velo-7-by-jin-buick-hidaka/
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
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മട്ടൺ ബിരിയാണി തന്നെ വേണമെന്നില്ല 😜 #icuchalu #currentaffairs Credits : Mridul ©ICU , ift.tt/2hW1clP
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"The Walkie Talkie Building, 20 Fenchurch Street, has just applied for planning permission to install sun-shading structures (fins) to the building to stop its famous curve burning surrounding shops and melting cars... It is seen here covered in a screen to prevent the sun reflecting issue..."
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Local polling station at Hamworthy library, Poole 07.05.2015
I'm going to chose this for my 52 weeks in 2015 project, week nineteen, 7 to 13 May 2015...topical, and I like the orange cladding & added reflection!
Sometimes, things got nasty for the media during the Troubles in Northern Ireland... here, a Thames Television reporter (Peter Taylor, left) and film crew are being set upon by men who didn't like what we were filming. Andersonstown, Belfast.
There's more material from the same era here.
If only they'd put their guns down and pick up cameras instead, and shoot children in the sunshine, not with bullets in the head.
If only they'd pick up their cameras and point them at the sky, take pictures of the sunsets, not mothers as they cry.
If only guns were cameras and the only shots you heard,
were shutter clicks and laughter, not people running scared.
If only they'd put their guns down, and pick up cameras instead, and shoot the worlds beauty and not ruin it, till it's dead.
#rawnotwar
ഒന്നിലധികം പേരുണ്ടാകുമ്പോൾ ആർക്കായാലും കൺഫ്യൂഷൻ ഉണ്ടാകും :3 #Icuchalu #currentaffairs Credits : Shinu Raju ©ICU , ift.tt/2ieHENv
The Origins of Kababayang Pilipino
by Mary Christine (Faron) Chan
kababayangpilipino.org/folk/site/company/the_origins/
(February 2003) - It was a decade ago last month when I first walked into Randy`s office at the UBC Student Union Building resolute in my purpose. I had just arrived from a whirlwind visit to the Philippines, the first in nearly 15 years. It had felt like a forced family junket when we departed for Manila in mid-December, along with other family friends - the Correas, the Romeros, the Mangalindans, and the Losanezs. But when the time to return to Vancouver came two weeks later, I felt torn leaving a family, a country, a culture I had known of all my life, but only then had discovered. Vancouver seemed dismal in the wet grey of winter, compelling me all the more to long for the warmth of the people and the climate of the Philippines. It was then that I realized how important my culture had become to me. How being Filipino was more than eating certain foods, laughing at certain jokes, or being brought up a certain way. Being Filipino is about expressing all of who I am as a Filipino Canadian in the face of a multicultural Canada, and proudly carrying the legacy of culture and heritage of the Filipino people that came before me - they who had made the sacrifices that brought me here today.
For this reason I was determined to make the meaning of that sacrifice relevant in the lives of those who had the blessing of a North American upbringing. Many of us, either born on Canadian soil or transplanted early from the homeland, had lacked the sensual first hand experience of the Philippine landscape and people. But we knew something about it through the dances we had learned at a young age. From the vigours of planting rice, to the coy traditions of courtship, to the religious rituals of a community, Filipino performing arts told the stories of the people and culture from which they were born. This was to become the medium through which we, as Filipino Canadians, would tell our collective story. And such was the proposal I made to Randy that afternoon, not knowing what would come of such a seemingly grand venture, but knowing only that our will was strong and our dedication unwavering.
Less than a month later, a group of 40 friends and acquaintances gathered in the living room of my parents` home in a cheery cul-de-sac. The meeting had a sole purpose: to propose the production of a community performance celebrating the music, dance, and song of our Filipino heritage. Upon sharing our common experiences growing up in the Filipino culture, it became clear that we were not alone in searching for that tangible expression of ourselves. The response was overwhelming and infectious. Before long, we had secured a strong following from across Vancouver and established a wonderful partnership with the then recently-formed Samahan ng Kabataan at SFU and the Filipino Students Association at UBC. The result was an amazing production in 1994 titled, Ang Bayan Ko - My Country, My Homeland. It was 10 months in the making - a culmination of absolute dedication, tears of difficulty, and overall, extremely hard work on the part of performers, parents, and production support. We presented our premier show at Richmond`s Gateway Theatre in November 1994, surprising our nearly sold-out audience - and ourselves - with our accomplishment. It became our standard of excellence upon which future shows were measured and improved upon.
So why is this important? How is KP`s history relevant? As the old adage goes: only in looking to your past can you know where you are today, that you may be confident in the direction of tomorrow. Today, we celebrate 10 years of KP. A decade that has seen over a dozen mainstage performances, over a hundred appearances in Canada and the U.S., and over two hundred committed volunteers and performers. That we have such a milestone to celebrate can only further affirm our need to continue the tradition that we founded together. Though many of us have moved on to a different phase in our lives, even a different place altogether, the legacy of what KP has become continues to rest with us.
And so we continue to gather, old and new for a dual purpose: for celebration and an invitation. As we cross the thresholds of milestones each year, we open the door to new hopes, aspirations, and opportunities. Thus, to you all I say: come and take your place among a cast of excellence and be part of our journey of cultural discovery that is Kababayang Pilipino. We welcome you to our stage.
An armoured vehicle, patrolling the near-empty streets in Brussels, post Paris attacks, after the threat level was raised.
“I did my flag this way because I think the values that people had in mind when they designed the flag are dead to us right now. I think the flag has become lessof a symbol, and more of just the background for White House press briefings”
--Student artist’s own words.
This art was exhibited on a bulletin board of a gifted and talented magnet shool in the US. I won't name the school for fear that it might alert federal agents to investigate and intimidate the teacher or the school for being "anti-american".
Time for some filming at the police cordon of the Stockholm terrorist truck attack in April this year.
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Kababayang Pilipino presents PADAYON (Moving Forward)
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing
About KABABAYANG PILIPINO- cultural performing arts group
Kababayang Pilipino is a cultural performing arts group dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Filipino folk heritage through the presentation of authentic Filipino dance, music, song and drama.
Kababayang Pilipino provides the opportunity for its members to educate themselves and inturn, educate the community at large about the rich history and culture of the Filipino.
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I thought this was rather apt....today is the Scottish Referendum when the Scots decide if they want to become an independent country...is this the end of the road for Great Britain, as we know it? We will find out tomorrow early tomorrow morning.
Poole 18.09.2014
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"30th Anniversary; 2014... The memorial stone to WPC Yvonne Fletcher, with the Libyan Embassy from where she was shot and killed, reflected in the marble name plate...
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One of seven Canadian Airforce CF-188A's night stopping at Prestwick tonight on the way to the Mediteranian to help in support of the UN no fly zone over Libya.
Also passing through Prestwick tonight was a P-3 and two A310 tankers to support the fighters one of which is in the background of this frame.
In June 2010, the Saville Inquiry published its report into the killing, in 1972, of 13 unarmed civilians by the British Army in Derry, Northern Ireland. The inquiry sat for 12 years and cost more than £190 million – the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.
The event, known worldwide as Bloody Sunday, was one of the most notorious in the long history of The Troubles. Among those present that day at a civil rights march was Father Edward Daly, a local priest. Under gunfire, he waved a bloodstained handkerchief as he led a group of people carrying the dying John Duddy, a teenager, away from the mayhem. This harrowing scene has become probably the most vividly enduring image of The Troubles, and to this day is depicted in a wall mural in Derry (top image).
In his book Ireland – A Terrible Beauty (1976), Leon Uris wrote: “For a time Father Daly had to leave Derry, for the agony of it had become unbearable. Then, in one of the hierarchy’s most enlightened decisions, he was named Bishop of Derry. This most Christian of men and most gentle of souls returned... for he was incapable of doing less.”
In my journalistic days with Thames Television, I was fortunate enough to work in Northern Ireland for some years during The Troubles, and I came to personally know the Bishop as a man of great humanity and integrity. In the bottom image, I’m on the left and Peter Taylor, now a veteran BBC reporter specialising in global terrorism, is on the right. The photograph was taken after we’d recorded an interview (unrelated to the events five years previously) for the This Week programme on 27 January 1977.
More of my Northern Ireland material from those days is here.