It seems such a shame that a place that was a cauldron of artistic creativity turns into a mere tourist attraction, but that doesn't denigrate the history that such a place itself holds.

I still felt a certain awe being outside this place, I suppose it helped that we were there very early in the morning (we didn't go in btw) and although this picture didn't really work too well - I love it.

I guess Luca being there kind of makes it for me ... my own little Pablo ...

Nikon FM2 | Nikkor 18-35/f3.5-4.5 | Fuji Superia 100 (Expired)

At the intersection lights and at the end of a half-mile raised median and fence a driver makes a prohibited u-turn; a denigration of traffic engineers and an insult to city planners.

On either side of the fence, small commercial and retail business thrive on the traffic that uses this major arterial. But thanks to band-aid engineering and reactive planning neither pedestrians nor cars can access the other side.

The fence and the raised median are not coming down any time soon; they will remain lasting monuments to the New Urban Dilemma: drawing roads of the past for a present that caught everyone by surprise.

This embarrassing and risky condition must inform the design of new major connectors.

As for the existing ones........... it would be a good topic for an Transportation planning competition.

El Cholo Café

Las Vegas, Nevada

This sign for El Cholo Café, an early Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas in the 1950s, brings to light important issues related to Nevada’s cultural demographics and how perceptions and stereotypes of cultural communities can be shaped by commercial advertising. Historically, the word “cholo” was used in the United States along the Mexican-American border as a term referring to working class people of Mexican or Mexican-American descent. In this case, the term “el cholo,” coupled with the pejorative image of the “sleeping Mexican” makes the sign highly charged and potentially controversial. Despite its long history as a denigrating term, the word cholo was turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride in the context of cultural movements of the 1960s. An entire chain of restaurants in Southern California embraced the term as the name for their restaurants beginning in the 1920s.

The neon collection of Will Durham.

Nevada Museum of Art

10/12–2/13

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An anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society. The term was first used in the modern sense in 1958, by the British magazine New Statesman to refer to its political and social agenda. Antiestablishmentarianism (or anti-establishmentarianism) is an expression for such a political philosophy.

In the UK anti-establishment figures and groups are seen as those who argue or act against the ruling class. Having an established church, in England, a British monarchy, an aristocracy, and an unelected upper house in Parliament made up in part by hereditary nobles, the UK has a clearly definable[citation needed] Establishment against which anti-establishment figures can be contrasted. In particular, satirical humour is commonly used to undermine the deference shown by the majority of the population towards those who govern them. Examples of British anti-establishment satire include much of the humour of Peter Cook and Ben Elton; novels such as Rumpole of the Bailey; magazines such as Private Eye; and television programmes like Spitting Image, That Was The Week That Was, and The Prisoner (see also the satire boom of the 1960s). Anti-establishment themes also can be seen in the novels of writers such as Will Self.

However, by operating through the arts and media, the line between politics and culture is blurred, so that pigeonholing figures such as Banksy as either anti-establishment or counter-culture figures can be difficult. The tabloid newspapers such as The Sun, are less subtle, and commonly report on the sex-lives of the Royals simply because it sells newspapers, but in the process have been described as having anti-establishment views that have weakened traditional institutions. On the other hand, as time passes, anti-establishment figures sometimes end up becoming part of the Establishment, as Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones frontman, became a Knight in 2003, or when The Who frontman Roger Daltrey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 in recognition of both his music and his work for charity.

Anti-establishment in the United States began in the 1940s and continued through the 1950s.

Many World War II veterans, who had seen horrors and inhumanities, began to question every aspect of life, including its meaning. Urged to return to "normal lives" and plagued by post traumatic stress disorder (discussing it was "not manly"), in which many of them went on to found the outlaw motorcycle club Hells Angels. Some veterans, who founded the Beat Movement, were denigrated as Beatniks and accused of being "downbeat" on everything. Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a Beat autobiography that cited his wartime service.

Citizens had also begun to question authority, especially after the Gary Powers U-2 Incident, wherein President Eisenhower repeatedly assured people the United States was not spying on Russia, then was caught in a blatant lie. This general dissatisfaction was popularized by Peggy Lee's laconic pop song "Is That All There Is?", but remained unspoken and unfocused. It was not until the Baby Boomers came along in huge numbers that protest became organized, who were named by the Beats as "little hipsters".

"Anti-establishment" became a buzzword of the tumultuous 1960s. Young people raised in comparative luxury saw many wrongs perpetuated by society and began to question "the Establishment". Contentious issues included the ongoing Vietnam War with no clear goal or end point, the constant military build-up and diversion of funds for the Cold War, perpetual widespread poverty being ignored, money-wasting boondoggles like pork barrel projects and the Space Race, festering race issues, a stultifying education system, repressive laws and harsh sentences for casual drug use, and a general malaise among the older generation. On the other side, "Middle America" often regarded questions as accusations, and saw the younger generation as spoiled, drugged-out, sex-crazed, unambitious slackers.

Anti-establishment debates were common because they touched on everyday aspects of life. Even innocent questions could escalate into angry diatribes. For example, "Why do we spend millions on a foreign war and a space program when our schools are falling apart?" would be answered with "We need to keep our military strong and ready to stop the Communists from taking over the world." As in any debate, there were valid and unsupported arguments on both sides. "Make love not war" invoked "America, love it or leave it."

As the 1960s simmered, the anti-Establishment adopted conventions in opposition to the Establishment. T-shirts and blue jeans became the uniform of the young because their parents wore collar shirts and slacks. Drug use, with its illegal panache, was favored over the legal consumption of alcohol. Promoting peace and love was the antidote to promulgating hatred and war. Living in genteel poverty was more "honest" than amassing a nest egg and a house in the suburbs. Rock 'n roll was played loudly over easy listening. Dodging the draft was passive resistance to traditional military service. Dancing was free-style, not learned in a ballroom. Over time, anti-establishment messages crept into popular culture: songs, fashion, movies, lifestyle choices, television.

The emphasis on freedom allowed previously hushed conversations about sex, politics, or religion to be openly discussed. A wave of radical liberation movements for minority groups came out of the 1960s, including second-wave feminism; Black Power, Red Power, and the Chicano Movement; and gay liberation. These movements differed from previous efforts to improve minority rights by their opposition to respectability politics and militant tone. Programs were put in place to deal with inequities: Equal Opportunity Employment, the Head Start Program, enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, busing, and others. But the widespread dissemination of new ideas also sparked a backlash and resurgence in conservative religions, new segregated private schools, anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation, and other reversals. Extremists[clarification needed] tended to be heard more because they made good copy for newspapers and television.[citation needed] In many ways, the angry debates of the 1960s led to modern right-wing talk radio and coalitions for "traditional family values".

As the 1960s passed, society had changed to the point that the definition of the Establishment had blurred, and the term "anti-establishment" seemed to fall out of use.

In recent years, with the rise of the populist right, the term anti-establishment has tended to refer to both left and right-wing movements expressing dissatisfaction with mainstream institutions. For those on the right, this can be fueled by feelings of alienation from major institutions such as the government, corporations, media, and education system, which are perceived as holding progressive social norms, an inversion of the meaning formerly associated with the term. This can be accounted for by a perceived cultural and institutional shift to the left by many on the right. According to Pew Research, Western European populist parties from both sides of the ideological spectrum tapped into anti-establishment sentiment in 2017, "from the Brexit referendum to national elections in Italy." Sarah Kendzior of QZ opines that "The term "anti-establishment" has lost all meaning," citing a campaign video from then candidate Donald Trump titled "Fighting the Establishment." The term anti-establishment has tended to refer to Right-wing populist movements, including nationalist movements and anti-lockdown protests, since Donald Trump and the global populist wave, starting as far back as 2015 and as recently as 2021.

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Marc Grossman traveled to Pakistan September 14-15. Ambassador Grossman met with President Zardari, Prime Minister Ashraf, Foreign Minister Khar, Foreign Secretary Jilani, Chief of Army Staff Kayani, Members of Parliament, and other government officials.

During his engagements, Ambassador Grossman said that the United States believes that its relationship with Pakistan should be enduring, strategic, and clearly defined. The United States and Pakistan should work together to identify shared interests and act on them jointly, for the benefit of both nations and the region.

The United States is committed to building on recent achievements, such as the reopening of the NATO supply lines and the meeting of the Safe Passage Working Group held in Islamabad on September 5. The United States looks forward to welcoming Foreign Minister Khar to Washington and President Zardari to New York for the UN General Assembly, and looks forward to several bilateral working groups this fall.

Ambassador Grossman noted that each of these engagements is an opportunity to continue to identify shared interests and to discuss concrete actions the United States and Pakistan can take together on our broad agenda. The United States is committed to continuing work on shared counterterrorism objectives; to increasing market access and economic opportunity for Pakistan; and to supporting civilian democracy and civil society. Ambassador Grossman raised the case of Dr. Shakil Afridi. Finally, it is important that the United States and Pakistan cooperate closely to ensure that Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the region are more secure, stable, and prosperous.

Ambassador Grossman emphasized that while none of those are simple tasks, and will require vision, cooperation, and hard work, the United States is committed to its relationship with Pakistan, to continued engagement, and to building on joint successes.

Ambassador Grossman also addressed the video circulating on the internet that has led to protests in a number of countries. Ambassador Grossman stated very clearly, as Secretary Clinton did, “that the United States Government had absolutely nothing to do with this video. We absolutely reject its content and message. America’s commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. And as you know, we are home to people of all religions, many of whom came to this country seeking the right to exercise their own religion, including, of course, millions of Muslims. And we have the greatest respect for people of faith.” “This video is disgusting and reprehensible. It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose: to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.” But as Secretary Clinton has also said, “there is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence. The United States condemns the violence that has resulted in the strongest terms, and greatly appreciates that many Muslims in the United States and around the world have spoken out on this issue.”

In difficult times like these, the United States relies on its partnership with the Government and people of Pakistan to ensure that divisive actions by individuals do not harm the safety of Pakistanis and Americans alike.

Finally, Ambassador Grossman offered his condolences for the victims of the tragic fires in Karachi and Lahore this week and expressed appreciation for the condolences offered by the Government of Pakistan for the loss of U.S. diplomats in Libya.

at the end of last year i went to the natural history museum to see the wildlife photographer of the year exhibition. i visited the previous year and as with then the standard was ridiculously high. in my head i tried to denigrate the superior standard of wildlife photography by telling myself that the photographers were lucky, in the right place at the right time, or use the old 'well if i was in africa...' argument. however those envious thoughts didn't hold much water when i began reading the accompanying text and it became clear how much skill, patience and effort was behind each photo. my favourite image, which was only awarded a runners up commendation, was bad boys by andrew walmsley - a shot full of power, humour and monkeys. if you're unable to make it to london to see it in person here's the online gallery. a positive side effect to seeing the exhibition was that it made me revisit some of my old photos, and i was particularly reminded of my dolphin encounter in venezuela by this dolphin shot. at the time i only posted one photo, so here's another from the same boat trip.

here's the original

Spar Supermarket, 21-23 Liverpool Road (Was Hiscocks and Young World)

Birkdale of the 50s and 60s

I enjoyed your reminiscences very much mainly because they corresponded with my own recollections of Birkdale. However I became a resident of this village in 1947 when my parents moved into a house in Crescent Road. I probably only became aware of the village in 1949 when i started school at the Notre Dame Convent in Weld Road. My elder sister and I used to walk to and from school but the most direct route was to walk along the passage that ran alongside the railway. We did not see much of the rest of the village unless we had to go on a shopping expedition. I do remember Unsworths the bakers. As I recall there were three shops in a row in the 1950s. Dutton the butchers. Hiscocks the grocers and Unsworths. I think that all of these became the Spar shop that you quite rightly denigrate. Leighs the Butchers was originally run by two brothers. Harry was the elder. I knew the daughter of his brother, Christine, quite well but I cannot remember her father's name. We always took our photos to Hares the Chemist to have them developed and I well remember those large bottles together with a chemical smell that pervaded the shop. Other shops that you have either not recalled or that maybe had disappeared by the time you were living in the village are: Griffiths the watch and clock menders. Rayners the fishmonger. Townends that sold building materials and Bambers Garage which had a car showroom. The one shop that sticks out most in my mind though was Martins the sweet shop. A regular stopping off point when sweet rationing stopped in 1953. By that time I was attending a school in Ainsdale and travelled by train everyday. Next to Martins was another bakers but I cannot remember the name of it. There was the other side of the line as well. Goulders Garage and taxi service. A barbers; the library and at one time a Police Station. I do recall Mr Leather and, although I never had a bike off him, he did carry out repairs on the one I had. The other thing I remember about the village was the number of horses that were mainly used for delivering coal, milk, bread and laundry. But there was one pony and trap driven by an old man in a bowler who usually had a lady passenger (his wife?). He nearly always used to park his trap outside Unsworths and then go shopping in the village.

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'growth','development' and 'good governance.' .

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denigration ofthe oppressed sections is embedded in his imagery, his metaphors, and his politics. His own speeches make.

it very clear that Modi's communal plank isn'.

t a thing of the past-it's very much his recipe for power in the present and nearfuture. We have already seen him refer to the victims of the Gujarat genocide as 'puppies crushed under a car,' and his jeeringreference to the 'burqa' of secularism (rather than the word 'purdah' .

which is used by Hindus and Muslims alike}!.

Here is a sample of the calculated communal colour of Modi's RECENT speeches: .

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At Khandwa in November 2013 he said, "La/ Bahadur Shastri used to talk of 'green revolution' but the UPA Government isencouraging 'pink revolution' by promoting meat exports. They are giving subsidy to set up slaughterhouses... cows and other.

animals are getting slaughtered... Export cotton and pay tax. export mutton and get subsidy" This is directly in line with thesangh's communal propaganda against 'cow slaughter,' demonising the minority communities by associating them with'slaughtering cows and other animals.' Farmers' groups demand subsidies for their products without pitting this against subsidiesfor meat producers, but Modi gives farmers' demands a communal twist. .

At Agra in November 2013, he accused the UPA Government of "neglecting and doing injustice to 75 percent of the people andplaying games for 25 percent of the people." .

And his latest call at an Assam rally (22 Feb) of accommodating Hindu migrants from Bangladesh in India while distinguishing.

those who are brought for 'vote bank'! .

The Modi Government has refused to abide by the Gujarat High Court verdict of February 2013 to implement minorityscholarships in Gujarat. In its affidavit, the Gujarat Government has attacked the Sachar Committee, saying "The Sachar Committeeis neither constitutional nor statutory. ... The Committee's target was to help the Muslims only.".

The style of Modi.

's campaign for the 'Statue of Unity' (the statue of Sardar Patel) is another example of his fascist politicalimagination. He asked people to join the campaign for 'one resolution, one goal, one direction, one voice and one determination'..

In deed for Modi, it is not "unity in diversity" but "unity in uniformity"! Modi made it very clear what this 'oneness' was all about:.

India h~s been a witness to such disciplined joint participation on religious occasions and joint celebrations of an entireneighbourhood when India wins a cricket match, he said. His slogan of 'one emotion, one nation, one culture, one es6Tution,one goal, one smile' smacks of a regimented and guided 'democracy', where any dissent or difference, and any protection forminorities will be viewed as 'anti national' and ruthlessly crushed. .

The recent Muzaffarnagar riots showed how the Sangh brigade in UP, under the leadership of Modi.

's right-hand man AmttShah, carefully engineered a communal hate campaign and carnage to reap votes through communal polarisation. It was typicalModitva bred in RSS school in action UP. The patriarchal institutions of Khap were mobilised and vicious rumour campaign was.

engineered in the name of combating "love jihad" leading to the killing of scores of Muslims and displacements of several.

thousands. .

Clearly, BJP's model of imagining India is based on an ideology which is against our secular democratic constitution anddivisive. Modi himself has claimed that he is a 'Hindu-Nationalist.' What about the rights of the minorittes if the country is.

constituted on the idea of 'Hindu nationalism?' Can the struggle of the dalits and women against the history of oppression.

legitimised in practice and scriptures of 'sanatana dharma', be a part of this nationhood? One example of the perverted vision.

of " Hindu Nationalism" is Modi's own statement about the Dalits who are forced to perform manual scavenging, contained in.

pages 48-49 of Karmayog, a collectio n of Narendra Modi's speeches to lAS officials at various points, published by the Gujarat.

govt in 2007: "I do not believe that they have been doing this job just to sustain their livelihood. Had this been so, they would nothave continued with this type of job generation after generafion.... At some point of time, somebody must have got theenlightenment that it is their (Valmikis J duty to work for the happiness ofthe entire society and the Gods; that they have to.

do thisjob bestowed upon them by Gods; and that this job ofcleaning up should continue as an internal spiritual activity for.

centuries. This should have continued generation after generation. It is impossible to believe that their ancestors did not have the.

choice of adopting any other work or business." (blogs. timesoftndia.indiatimes.com/true-lies/entry/modi-s-spiritual-potion-.

to-woo-karmayogis). After the embarrassing exposure, Modi withdrew all the copies of the book, but he did not change hisideas. In 2009, addressing 9,000-odd safai karmacharis, (sanitation workers) he likened the safai karmacharis.

' job of cleaning.

up others dirt' to that of a temple priest. He told them, "A priest cleans a temple every day before prayers, you also clean the city.

like a temple. You and the temple priest work alike"!!! And in 2013 Gujarat budget, allocated a sum of Rs 22.5 lakhs for giving.

training in Karmkand (rituals) to Safai Kamdars ! .

This is the RSS model of "samajik samrasta" and clear an attempt to reverse the pioneering role of Babasaheb Dr. B.R..

Am bedkar against untouchability and the formulation of Indian constitution. If anything has to be termed anti-national, then that.

is nothing but BJP's perverted notion of nationalism and reversal of struggle against casteism, communalism and gender-violence. .

Modi's contempt for the facts of history -no doubt a result of his saffronised education in the Sangh-has been amplydemonstrated many times, wllh him even gettmg Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's name wrong and confusing freedom ,.......

fighter Shyamaji Krishna Varma with Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookherjee. jiji It) .

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Banners representing the "Tribes of Galway," along one edge of Eyre Square, the main square of Galway City (in County Galway, western Ireland), as the sun shines on a midday of mixed rain and sun in mid-September.

Galway was known as the "City of the Tribes" from its 14 leading merchant families: Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, French, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris and Skerrett. These political and economic leaders were denigrated under Cromwell's occupation of Ireland as "tribes," just as though they were all traditional Celtic clans as found in rural areas, even though most were of Anglo-Norman origin. Each of these banners represents one of the families.

The city's Irish name is Gaillimh, or Cathair na Gaillimhe (City of Galway).

The trees along Eyre Square are just beginning to show traces of autumn colour.

[Galway Tribes banners Eyre Square 2013 sep 15 p; P1040106]

1990-1993

Honda CB Chassis

Saloon

The first time I sat in one of these I denigrated it for having such a steep windshield rake -- the top of the dash felt enormous. Of course, this was before the ridiculousness of the VW New Beetle. Yet I never looked back at what was probably the last iteration of the 80's Honda design language: thin pillars giving great visibility all around (the NS-X, for instance, was billed as being inspired by the cockpit of an F-16). For a saloon, then, it's not bad, if a little boring; the brightwork could stand to be toned down a bit, but it all fits with the character of the car-as-appliance: forgettable and unremarkable, although sometimes having an interesting car can be an impediment.

Scenes from central Ohio, 2014.

We have been given much in this nation. America is exceptional because we are also given the freedom to do what we wish with what we have, for good or ill. We are not told what to do by our leaders—indeed, we tell THEM what to do.

That is why America is so great; our founders were firm in their belief that there is no divine right of kings after all, but a divinely-given right for individuals to, as was so famously agreed on this day in 1776, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I suppose we could boil this down further: Possibility. Opportunity.

Instead of fretting constantly over access to the basic needs of life and about whether or not we're able to worship and even think as we please, Americans get to worry about thinks like producing such an abundance we can sell it at a profit to an eagerly waiting market (allowing we ourselves and our families to be independent of government and of others, thereby enabling us to help those others who've failed in their dreams).

We get to worry about things like curing diseases that have ravaged populations since time began, about creating beautiful buildings that benefit even those who don't own or work in them, about maybe trying something new that an ancestor couldn't have done because a failure would have meant abject destitution, about even fighting for the freedom of other people when we are so roused.

Friends, we even joke about the ways we hold our representatives accountable, then (considering moral limits) do it—something countless peoples throughout history have been not merely afraid, but terrified to do. Some still are terrified to do such things, terrified to even speak ill of their leaders. Not us (mostly).

That is not standard. It is, in fact, unheard of throughout human history.

America is a miracle.

Not perfect—something no one has ever said, because all men are fallible—but a true miracle, a ridiculous anomaly in the annals of mankind.

Instead of merely dreaming about living better, being better, making the world better, Americans CAN do those things. Opportunity is waiting, able to be grasped by all, no matter how "low-born". We are the ones behind the wheel, not a king or dictator or swarm of government agents! We are subordinate only to ourselves and our perceptions instead of force of arms.

That is what makes us great, that's what makes us exceptional. Though these founding principles are every day being assaulted, twisted, denigrated, and abused, they're still the truth, they're still effective, and these principles are something ingrained into many of us from sea to shining sea.

Take advantage of that. It's our birthright as Americans: Independence.

And happy Independence Day!

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Lord Byron, British Poet

Birth: January 22, 1788; Death: April 19, 1824

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Friday, August 29, 2008

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

Martyrdom of John the Baptist.

For more on Jesu’s cousin, see

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John_the_Baptist

1 Corinthians 1:17-25

Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 10-11

Mark 6:17-29

When I was in junior high, for 7th and 8th grades, we had the same nun who taught religion and almost all the other subjects. She liked to have us act out various Gospel accounts. One was the martyrdom of John the Baptist. Wisely, she did not include the dance! But, one of the girls came out from the kitchen with a platter, covered with a pan, and showed it to another girl who brought it to the "king." I liked those reenactments; they involved us in many Gospel accounts.

It was dramatic. As well it should be. This gospel is not for perusal. It shocks. The prophet has been arrested, taken away, is subject to the king's whims. This is so often the fate of the prophets. Now, because he has condemned, adultery and ravenous desire for revenge leads to John's death. The one who declared basic repentance and basic justice, who recognized the Lamb of God, is martyred.

Perhaps you and I can reenact this gospel and the biography of John the Baptist in our own lives today. How do I recognize the "One who is to come"? For He will come again. How do I apply elementary forms of justice in my life? What is the depth of my repentance? Or, more difficult, is to reflect on the Baptist confrontation with Herod about his adultery. Most likely this is not an immediate issue for you, but it continues to be now as in centuries past: fundamental infidelity and public immorality. And the lesser forms of accommodation with the ways of the world that denigrate human dignity and chastity, purity and fidelity. Perhaps there are places in our lives where the edges have been rounded down?

St. Paul makes it clear that Christ is a stumbling block. We want so much to think of His gentle presence, perfectly valid, but not His demands.

The Martyrdom of John the Baptist is also a day to pray with all the martyrs who persevered through the most difficult of human suffering. They help us find purpose in our own suffering. There is a glory to be exhibited. It is under the cover on the platter. When it is lifted, God's rising Son is displayed.

- Rev. Stephen H. Gratto

pentax takumar 55m F2 lens test on eos 550D. As you can see I had problems with the focus.

Its a great lens when you suss the focus!

There is no VR or IS so you need fastish shutter speeds to compensate.

My verdict

Build quality 10/10

You know these are very good quality as soon as you pick one up and fiddle around with it using the focus and aperture etc.

Made of metal and smooth as silk, ,make no mistake these lenses are CLASS!

Lens sharpness 8/10 I'm maybe denigrating it here but I did have trouble focussing the thing.

I have used taks and super taks before and I do like them

Practibility..7/10. You lose autofocus obviously and it is awkward trying to get the focus crack on.

You also need to buy an adapter. No problem at all if you dont mind it,

Value for money 10/10 these can be had dirt cheap secondhand on ebay.

I'd give 11 out of 10 if it were possible!

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Despite its scale, the Secretariat seems possibly the least significant of the Capitol Complex buildings. Since it's just packed full of offices, there are no major spaces of note (except maybe the wonderfully wacky ramp-tower). You could make the case that this Corbu making a rare, clear bid for democracy, giving the legislature a better site and a more spectacular building than the executive. But it's also just a reflection of programmatic fact: he had a lot of offices to accommodate here! And in fact the building's significance is as an attempt to sort through that massive quantity of repetitious program. How do you keep the exterior of such a building from becoming a monotonous gridded screen - what would later be denigrated as "graph paper architecture"?

Le Corbusier was certainly aware of such earlier attempts as Costa & Niemeyer's Ministry of Education (for which he provided some vague amount of consultation), and his own Unité demonstrates that he had begun to think about this problem seriously. Now that the trees have grown out, the Secretariat initially seems to present itself as a severe slab of unreformed graph paper (or maybe punch card). But once you get it in full view, the story changes, as the regular grid contains not a single element ad infinitum but a complex array of different mix-and-match facade treatments, seen in the following images. The building livens up... and seems to shrink, somehow.

For the die-hard Functionalists in the audience, the Secretariat probably seemed like a cop-out, fussily agitated based on compositional desiderata rather than the needs of the spaces behind. Indeed, some defend this building specifically by claiming that actually the different types of brise-soleil serve different kinds of interiors. That may be true to an extent, but I suspect Corbu would have done this anyway; a 100% regularized grid just wouldn't have squared with his painterly inclinations, or with the possibilities for variety inherent in his freshly-minted Modulor system.

I find it quite pleasant, although the ground floors and entry canopy seem underscaled; they have a hard time keeping up with the complex dance going on upstairs. But lots of architects in the 1950s were starting to wrestle with the can of worms that had been opened by the combination of huge postwar programs and Modernist language (particularly, the Corbusian language of the brise-soleil); Roger Anger is only the most charming example. I see this building as an intended entry in a larger conversation, not as a definitive solution.

I ‘won’ a chance to strand on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London for 1 hour from 3am on Monday 12 October as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other.

On 12 October in 1797 a famous Mackem nailed the Union Flag to the broken mast of the HMS Venerable. At the time Britain was at war with France, Holland and Spain. 212 years ago British and Dutch navies met in battle off the coast of Norway, near Camperdown, close to Bergen.

During the fierce fighting, HMS Venerable was badly damaged and the main mast was broken. Jack Crawford climbed the broken mast and nailed the flag to it, whilst under heavy fire. The Union Flag was the command flag of Admiral of the Fleet. In a time without electronic communication systems this flag was a very important identifier, and a proud symbol of British power. The loss of the flag could be a great blow to morale and could affect a battle. The phrases to “nail your colours to the mast” and “show your true colours” refer back to the original use and meaning of these flags.

After the battle there was a victory procession in London. Jack’s action was said to have helped win the battle. In 1890 a bronze statue commemorating Jacks deed was erected in Mowbray Park, Sunderland and unveiled by the Earl of Camperdown, the grandson of Admiral Duncan.

I applied to be involved in Gormley’s latest art attack as I thought it would be a good excuse to stand on the plinth and see things in the square from a new perspective. Its a silly thing to do and I love a bit of nonsense now and again. Since being selected the One & Other team have asked me what am I going to do on the plinth? Like I am supposed to attempt some sort of performance for the Sky Arts Endemolesque reality show.

Friends have suggested things, which in there own right would be quite fun to do anywhere – a Punch and Judy show, Nude Karaoke or something else to get a reaction.

Plinths in Trafalgar Square are reserved for monuments of monarchs or military heroes. Places where dead heroes disappear in to the landscape of myth, legend and bird shit. People like Jack Crawford.

So i’m nailing my colours to the mast: I’ve decided to boycott my slot at One & Other. The fourth plinth should not be hi-jacked. It denigrates the value of the real plinthers.

Real ‘plinthers’ make their actions on the ground (or in the air) and the lone and level sands stretch far away.

We visited a few Mayan archaeological sites while in Belize, including the city of Lamanai along the New River. The city's name is a Spanish interpretation of a Mayan word meaning "Land of Submerged Crocodiles," and in fact we did see a crocodile on the boat trip to the site. It was an important and densely populated trading center for at least a couple of thousand years, and is very impressive despite being largely unexcavated. There's a good small museum, nice natural trails between the several temples, and no roving hawkers or modern eyesores.

I think Belize does a pretty good job with these sites and in acknowledging and celebrating its very diverse cultures. I gather that this wasn't always true, and especially in the case of the Mayans' descendants, who used to be a denigrated class. However, it seems that tourism has contributed to a cultural revival and celebration of Belize's diverse groups, including the Maya. As their country turned to tourism over the last few decades, Belizeans seem to have recognized that their own history and cultures are of as much interest to visitors as their beaches and jungles. This is maybe not the ideal basis for Belizean multiculturalism (and I'm sure it's not the only one). But to an outsider at least, there seems to be pretty decent respect and coexistence between Belize's main distinct cultural groups. Simplifying matters a bit, there are Mayans, Mestizos (Indigenous and Spanish ancestry), Creoles (predominantly African and British ancestry), Garifuna (African and Indigenous Caribbean ancestry) and (a surprisingly conspicuous population of) Mennonites. For the three or so weeks we were there, everyone seemed to be the model of Belizean friendliness, toward both us and each other. Jaguar Temple, Lamanai, Belize.

El Cholo Café

Las Vegas, Nevada

This sign for El Cholo Café, an early Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas in the 1950s, brings to light important issues related to Nevada’s cultural demographics and how perceptions and stereotypes of cultural communities can be shaped by commercial advertising. Historically, the word “cholo” was used in the United States along the Mexican-American border as a term referring to working class people of Mexican or Mexican-American descent. In this case, the term “el cholo,” coupled with the pejorative image of the “sleeping Mexican” makes the sign highly charged and potentially controversial. Despite its long history as a denigrating term, the word cholo was turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride in the context of cultural movements of the 1960s. An entire chain of restaurants in Southern California embraced the term as the name for their restaurants beginning in the 1920s.

The neon collection of Will Durham.

Nevada Museum of Art

10/12–2/13

nevadaart.org

A couple of months back I headed out early in the morning hoping to capture some dawn mist in the orchards around here, and in the process I stopped at Ed’s Auto Service at the boundary between Gimsby and Beamsville, Ontario along Old Highway 8 (now demoted to a ‘regional road’ as a result of provincial government downloading to municipalities), not for any service, but to capture some colour in a somewhat tired-looking auto service shop. Amid all the other colours, the front door red trim (Red Rule – if it’s red, shoot it) stood out. This is one of those businesses I then expected to eventually disappear as the small garage operations attract fewer and fewer mechanics willing to compete with the well-financed auto dealerships. Well, as it happens, fellow Bando de Kvar (www.flickr.com/groups/2472126@N24/ ) member, Matt, was passing by Ed’s just a couple of days ago and noticed the building was completely empty. I have not confirmed this myself, but it seems Ed’s Auto Service, AKA Ed’s Garage, is now gone. Farewell.

By the way, this was taken with my go-to kit lense (18-105mm VR) and the level of detail is superb. If someone denigrates these lenses, they clearly don’t know what good technique can do to bring out their full potential. - JW

Date Taken: 2016-10-17

Tech Details:

Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 52mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Aperture priority, f/5.0, 1 sec with an EV-0.67 exposure bias to help capture/retain detail in the areas around the light. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: resize image to set final width to 9000 pixels, set exposure to ½ stop over as-shot, boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost vibrance, enable the Graduated Neutral Density tool and use it to darken the top (blue) part of the garage, apply a vignette tot he image to darken corners as well as the foreground pavement, apply sharpening, apply noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the curves tool to adjust the tone curve by pulling up the top 40-50% slightly to add some pop to the light and the high-lit areas and then darken the bottom 20% of the curve to darken the shaded areas a bit, slightly boost contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000, sharpen slightly, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was baptised as a Reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was recognised early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his talent.

Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there – during which many of his major works were premiered – form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes, however, set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook.

Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has now been recognised and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

On 21 March 1816, at the age of seven years, Mendelssohn was baptised with his brother and sisters in a home ceremony by Johann Jakob Stegemann, minister of the Evangelical congregation of Berlin's Jerusalem Church and New Church. Although Mendelssohn was a conforming (if not over-zealous) Christian as a member of the Reformed Church, he was both conscious and proud of his Jewish ancestry and notably of his connection with his grandfather Moses Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn married Cécile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud (10 October 1817 – 25 September 1853), the daughter of a French Reformed Church clergyman, on 28 March 1837. The couple had five children: Carl, Marie, Paul, Lilli and Felix.

In general Mendelssohn's personal life seems to have been fairly conventional compared to those of his contemporaries Wagner, Berlioz, and Schumann – except for his relationship with Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, whom he met in October 1844, and with whom, it was rumoured, he became emotionally involved. Papers confirming this were alleged to exist, although their contents had not been made public.

In 1829 Mendelssohn paid his first visit to Britain, where his former teacher Ignaz Moscheles, already settled in London, introduced him to influential musical circles. In the summer he visited Edinburgh, where he met among others the composer John Thomson, whom he later recommended to be Professor of Music at Edinburgh University. On his eighth visit in the summer of 1844, he conducted five of the Philharmonic concerts in London, and wrote:

"[N]ever before was anything like this season – we never went to bed before half-past one, every hour of every day was filled with engagements three weeks beforehand, and I got through more music in two months than in all the rest of the year."

In 1835 Mendelssohn was named conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

In 1843 Mendelssohn founded a major music school – the Leipzig Conservatory, now the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" or (in its own English self-designation) the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre – where he persuaded Ignaz Moscheles and Robert Schumann to join him. Other prominent musicians, including string players Ferdinand David and Joseph Joachim and music theorist Moritz Hauptmann, also became staff members.

On his last visit to Britain in 1847, Mendelssohn was the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and conducted his own Scottish Symphony with the Philharmonic Orchestra before the Queen and Prince Albert.

Mendelssohn suffered from poor health in the final years of his life, probably aggravated by nervous problems and overwork. A final tour of England left him exhausted and ill from a hectic schedule. The death of his sister Fanny on 14 May 1847 caused him great distress. Less than six months later, on 4 November, Mendelssohn himself died in Leipzig after a series of strokes. He was 38. His grandfather Moses, his sister Fanny and both his parents had died from similar apoplexies.

This statue was reconstructed and dedicated in 2008

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn

El Cholo Café

Las Vegas, Nevada

This sign for El Cholo Café, an early Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas in the 1950s, brings to light important issues related to Nevada’s cultural demographics and how perceptions and stereotypes of cultural communities can be shaped by commercial advertising. Historically, the word “cholo” was used in the United States along the Mexican-American border as a term referring to working class people of Mexican or Mexican-American descent. In this case, the term “el cholo,” coupled with the pejorative image of the “sleeping Mexican” makes the sign highly charged and potentially controversial. Despite its long history as a denigrating term, the word cholo was turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride in the context of cultural movements of the 1960s. An entire chain of restaurants in Southern California embraced the term as the name for their restaurants beginning in the 1920s.

The neon collection of Will Durham.

Nevada Museum of Art

10/12–2/13

nevadaart.org

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Civilian Conservation Corps

Camp DG-32 (Co. 234)

1935-1942

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, CCC Camps were scattered all over the USA. They provided gainful employment to youth of the nation with work on public service projects. Between 1933 and 1942, four camps were located near Moab. Each camp worked on various natural resource projects for the Soil Conservation Service, the National Park Service, and the forerunner of the Bureau of Land Management.

DG-32 was a long-lasting camp and typical of most with wooden, tar-paper covered barracks and building housing some 200 young men between the ages of 18 and 25. Enrollees came from the eastern states, and leadership was provided by the Army, Grazing Service, and local men experienced in construction and stock grazing needs.

Under spartan conditions, clothing, food, and housing were provided in the primitive camp. Pay was $30 per month with $25 sent home.

DG-32 projects included many range improvements: stock trails down the precipitous sandstone cliffs, spring developments, wells and stock ponds, eradication of rodents that competed with stock for feed, fences for corrals and pastures, reservoir dams, roads and bridges. These projects provided on-the-job training for the enrollees, besides the benefits they brought to the local economy. Many of these works are still in use today. The value of the camp and its works to Grand County is beyond estimation. It was a significant milestone that greatly influenced the economic history of the county.

All that remains of the camp today are the cottonwood trees planted by the enrollees that you see fronting this site, concrete slabs for buildings, graveled roads and rock-outlined walkways, the remains of an old windmill and a rock masonry water storage tank. these remnants signify the moving history of a time when America valiantly struggled to restore its economic stability and provide its young people with meaningful employment.

Japanese-American

World War II

Concentration Camp, 1943

On January 11, 1943, a train pulled into the Thompson Station north of here with armed Military Police guarding sixteen male American citizens of Japanese ancestry. While the locals of the town waited to cross the tracks, the entourage was loaded and transferred to the old abandoned "CCC: camp located here at Dalton Wells.

Their crime? They were classified as "troublemakers" in the Manzanar, California Relocation Center where they and their families had been forcibly located at the start of World War II. Removed from their homes in California under a Presidential Executive Order, they were subject to the whim and mercy of poorly-trained bureaucrats and military personnel in the center. The Executive Presidential Order was the result of wartime hysteria, racial bigotry, and greed.

The original sixteen men were removed from Manzanar and brought here without the benefit of council. They did not have a formal hearing or proper arrest proceedings, and the action was in total violation of their civil rights. It was a process more compatible with fascism than democracy.

The inmates troubles worsened when an informer and confidant of the administration was beaten. An organizer of the mess hall workers was thrown into jail as a suspect. A meeting was held in the camp to protest the jailing and a riot resulted. Two inmates were killed by trigger-happy soldiers.

Other Japanese-American men were soon brought to the camp. Thirteen came from Gila River, Arizona, having been charged as being members of an organization which was fully sanctioned by camp officials. Ten more came from Manzanar as "suspected troublemakers." Fifteen came from Tule Lake, California, charged with refusing to register their availability for the draft and their loyalty fo the U.S. under a set of confusing, denigrating requirements.

All these men were U.S. citizens; some were veterans of World War I, others were family men, college graduates, and responsible U.S. citizens. Their incarceration here is a vivid example of how our Japanese-American citizens were treated during World War II. May this sad, low point in the history of our democracy never be forgotten, in the hope that it will never happen again.

The group was transferred by truck to an abandoned Indian school at Leupp, Arizona, on April 27, 1943. As those involved began to realize the inequity of the situation, the inmates were released back to relocation centers later that year. Thus, a black mark in the history of liberty and justice in the United States was ended.

Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef the 39 year old Egyptian cardiac surgeon, satirist, and TV host of El Bernameg a satirical news program broadcasted by Egyptian television was summoned and interrogated by Egyptian authorities after being charged with insulting President Mohamed Morsi, denigrating Islam, and spreading false news. Abby Ohlheiser in an article published on Slate titled ‘"Egypt's Jon Stewart" Has It Tougher Than America's Version’ states “… out on bail now, but activists and critics are watching this one closely for the precedent it sets on the new government's stance towards freedom of expression. …He's commonly called the Egyptian version of Jon Stewart, and for good reason: Youssef modeled his widely-watched show after his comedic idol's Daily Show. …Youssef is also a heart surgeon who treated the wounded after a notoriously brutal attempt by the Mubarak regime to drive protesters from Tahrir square. … Youssef turns his satirical eye toward those in power, whether that means mocking the military, or its elected successors, the current government who took office in June. Now, it looks like Youssef could become the most prominent test case for the new Muslim Brotherhood-led government's commitment to the democratic process that put it into power. Egyptian journalists, as the BBC explains, have already argued that the new Islamist-influenced constitution doesn't do nearly enough to protect freedom of the press, expression, or religious minorities in the country. …Youssef, who is Muslim, [states] "We are not the ones who insult religion, all we do is expose the channels that have misused religion and harmed it more than anyone else. If there is anyone who has insulted religion it is those who use Islam as a weapon for political reasons." … Youssef posted a tweet in English to his one million-plus followers saying he was "touched by people's support and media attention, however, there are many more activists being prosecuted that deserve to get that support." Inspired by Abby Ohlheiser, Slate ow.ly/k6BVR Image source TheWorld ow.ly/k6BR3

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Built in the 50s by the thousands, this standard veteran’s single family house has no redeeming design features. It lacks detail, embellishment, proportion, harmony and a porch; all deemed essential characteristics in creating a sense of community identity.

No planner would commend it for a New Urbanist development.

Yet it has served countless young couples to start and raise a family, by matching their purse. It raised their self-esteem and their life prospects by enabling them to own, cherish and care for their place.

A denigrated dropout from urban design courses, this house shows that joy, comfort and rest can be found in a plain, humble structure. These are essential ingredients of a healty community.

STREET ART: 'YARN BOMB' on CLEMENT STREET! YARN BOMBINGS or KNIT-TAGS are appearing around the world.

(ADDA took photos of some in PARIS that were absolutly the bomb...knit-bomb at that!)

This has taken the STREET ART world by storm. It is something traditional and homey and placing it in an environment-graffiti art which is so male-dominated", says KNIT BOMB ARTIST MAGDA SAYEG aka POLYCORN. She has KNIT BOMBED a Stop sign, a rainbow cover on a Mexico City bus, and even a powder pink coat for a single stone on the WALL OF CHINA.

"It takes a private activity, part of the public domain." "With YARN BOMBING you can't deny that this kind of functional art and craft which is historically been thought of as a 'womans work' has had its worth denigrated and minimized as such. "

With YARN BOMBING it takes this 'homey' craft into an edgy art form.

The monks at Koya-san perform this ceremony every morning to welcome the new day. Wishes are written on small wooden strips which are then blessed and burnt with incense in the fire. Visitors can do this for ¥300 for a wish for the day...

Again, not to denigrate an ancient belief, but... fire, wooden buildings... ;)

Scenes from central Ohio, 2014.

We have been given much in this nation. America is exceptional because we are also given the freedom to do what we wish with what we have, for good or ill. We are not told what to do by our leaders—indeed, we tell THEM what to do.

That is why America is so great; our founders were firm in their belief that there is no divine right of kings after all, but a divinely-given right for individuals to, as was so famously agreed on this day in 1776, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I suppose we could boil this down further: Possibility. Opportunity.

Instead of fretting constantly over access to the basic needs of life and about whether or not we're able to worship and even think as we please, Americans get to worry about thinks like producing such an abundance we can sell it at a profit to an eagerly waiting market (allowing we ourselves and our families to be independent of government and of others, thereby enabling us to help those others who've failed in their dreams).

We get to worry about things like curing diseases that have ravaged populations since time began, about creating beautiful buildings that benefit even those who don't own or work in them, about maybe trying something new that an ancestor couldn't have done because a failure would have meant abject destitution, about even fighting for the freedom of other people when we are so roused.

Friends, we even joke about the ways we hold our representatives accountable, then (considering moral limits) do it—something countless peoples throughout history have been not merely afraid, but terrified to do. Some still are terrified to do such things, terrified to even speak ill of their leaders. Not us (mostly).

That is not standard. It is, in fact, unheard of throughout human history.

America is a miracle.

Not perfect—something no one has ever said, because all men are fallible—but a true miracle, a ridiculous anomaly in the annals of mankind.

Instead of merely dreaming about living better, being better, making the world better, Americans CAN do those things. Opportunity is waiting, able to be grasped by all, no matter how "low-born". We are the ones behind the wheel, not a king or dictator or swarm of government agents! We are subordinate only to ourselves and our perceptions instead of force of arms.

That is what makes us great, that's what makes us exceptional. Though these founding principles are every day being assaulted, twisted, denigrated, and abused, they're still the truth, they're still effective, and these principles are something ingrained into many of us from sea to shining sea.

Take advantage of that. It's our birthright as Americans: Independence.

And happy Independence Day!

Turnu Monastery Church, Târgşoru Vechi, Prahova, Romania

15th century

Snapshot

The Church entrance inscription, which has been preserved over the centuries, mentions the date of the Church consecration - June 24, 1461 - as well as the patronage of St. Hierarch Nicholas the Wonderworker and bears witness to the faith of a much-denigrated Voivode such as Vlad Ţepeş (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). The finest period of the town of Târgşor is linked to St. Voivode Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521), who counts the town among ”my lordship's cities”. Most documents by this Orthodox Voivode were issued in Târgşor.

Another important name linked to the Turnu Monastery is Voivode Constantin Brâncoveanu (1688-1714), executed by the Ottomans together with his four sons and recently canonised by the Romanian Orthodox Church.

2016-MAY-08; Mark Bauer had an op-ed article published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

GOP leaders came up with a great solution for climate change.

* Right-wing arguments against global warming keep changing.

* George H.W. Bush used cap and trade to solve air pollution problems.

* Waiting for global warming crisis will mean a more expensive fix.

Before Facebook, I thought everyone believed in science. I saw this as a meme on the internet, and it hit home with me..

Over the past 20 years, we?ve seen this transition play out in the conservative narrative on global warming..

Since the 1990s, when global warming was first recognized as a threat, my right-wing friends have used these arguments in sequential order:.

* Global warming isn?t real; it?s a conspiracy by scientists..

The hidden agenda of these scientists was apparently to ruin the American economy..

Right-wingers never could explain why these scientists wanted to ruin our nation and who was funding them, but they never backed off the claim that scientists were not being honest with their data..

* Global warming isn?t real; scientists are wrong..

Their basis was something even I remember: Back in the 1970s, there was vocal minority of scientists who believed in a greenhouse cooling effect..

It actually was easier to explain: Pollution was creating particulates in the atmosphere that would block the sunlight, thus reducing the sun?s heat..

It culminated in a 1974 Time magazine cover asking when the new Ice Age would occur..

Even then, the majority of scientists believed in a warming trend, but their data weren?t as exciting. The warming trend eventually was proved in the 1980s..

* Global warming is real, but it?s not man-made..

My conservative friends send me charts showing how Earth has cooled and heated over the eons..

Although climate scientists concede that Earth?s temperature has changed over time, the current acceleration in warming is easily traced to human activity since the Industrial Revolution..

* Global warming is real, humans are part of the problem, but there?s nothing that can be done about it..

Al Gore can save his breath. They agree with him that global warming is real, but the fix is too economically devastating..

Here?s the real frustration: There is a fix to global warming, and Republicans are the ones who came up with it..

It is a fix that has been proven to work, a fix that includes the free market with gentle economic incentives. It?s called cap and trade. We know it works because Republicans used it to fix a similar problem that is no longer in the headlines..

Remember acid rain? It was noticed back in the 1800s that marble statues and steel structures were deteriorating rapidly due to rain that was more acidic than normal. The first federal action to investigate this issue was in 1980 by Ronald Reagan. The final solution was signed by George H.W. Bush in 1989 with a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act..

Title IV established the cap and trade system designed to control emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides..

In fewer than eight years, the total SO2 emissions reached the goal ahead of the 2010 targets..

Industry was able to do it economically, on their own terms without draconian federal regulations..

The way it worked was that those companies that invested in pollution-reduction equipment sold their excess pollution credits to those companies that would rather pay to maintain their current emissions..

Over time, the cap was reduced until the overall pollution reductions were met. The private sector was allowed to get there in their own way. Cap and trade provides the private sector with the flexibility to reduce emissions while stimulating technological innovation and economic growth. Unfortunately, conservatives have demonized cap and trade (they like to denigrate it by calling it cap and tax)..

But cap and trade is a solution, and Republicans ought to embrace it because it is their idea..

The alternative is to wait for global warming to reach a crisis level, requiring a more expensive fix that can?t be implemented without government intervention. Let?s save our planet now, using our innovative private sector, before we lose the opportunity..

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Mark Bauer is a petroleum engineer who lives in Colleyville. He is president of the Northeast Tarrant Democrats..

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www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voi...

Melissa parked on Main Street, Daytona Beach, Florida -- Bike Week 2011.

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I am not a brand snob, and I don't denigrate others' rides. I respect all brands, and all bikers, and if it's got two wheels it equals freedom and fun.

I also appreciate custom bikes, and the amount of work and creativity that goes into them.

But for me my sweet Melissa is my ultimate dream bike! I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her, and we've enjoyed over 75,000 miles together (all that without an overnight trip!) in a little over 5 years. I think she's the purtiest ride on the streets, bar none.

We have truly had some sweet adventures together!

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As of July 4, 2012 over 83,000 miles and running stronger than ever!

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from Alberto Navarette, after a drawing of the sculpture from Bill Reid, presented at the museum of Anthropology of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The drawing represents the main god of the Haidas, the native indians of British Columbia, discovering and freeing the first humans from inside a shell on the beach. It is inspired by a sculpture from Bill Reid ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reid ), which I saw many times in the museum of antropology of UBC in Vancouver, and which you can see now on all canadian 20$ bills. I always loved this sculpture, so much that I chose it for my second piece of copper art ( www.flickr.com/photos/lejyby/3234874915/ ). I was too short on time to make another one in time for Yasaman's wedding so I had it done by my professor

It is symbolic for many reasons. I like how the legend coincides with the alternate thesis of the evolution of modern humans as seashore dwellers who developped the (unique among primates) ability to hold their breath (for swimming under water), bipedism (all primates walk on two legs in water), the reduction of hair (comparable to other, but not all, aquatic mammals), and ate a lot of sea-food with all the nutritient to develop their brain. Given that this theory is now aiming for leadership after being denigrated for years, I like the irony that "primitive" legend had a bit of it ;) Second, I like how the two art forms mix quite naturally, between an ancient story from the far North America and the art form from some South American natives. With different stories and culture, human can interact and create new and beautiful mixes, and I think those are ideas dear to Yasaman as well, so here she is now with some bit of south america for her walls :)

For the record, Alberto calls this drawing "La concha de la madre" (the mother sea-shell), which is very rude in Spanish, since "Concha" means shell, but also stands for the feminine sex...

This was just before the end of the loco hauled cross country services in 1988, 31413 had always been a good 31 and I had many an impressive run with her over the years. By now she was in ice cream van livery (done at Bescot 20/4/88) and was at the same time named 'Severn Valley Railway' . Quite often celebrity locos were in reality old wrecks, but not this one.

This journey on 1E85 was my fastest ever with a 31 and although I'd had several in the high nineties, this was the only time we exceeded 100 mph. Yes it was going down Stoke Bank, but it didn't overheat and in fact it was only stopped at Crewe four days later with a dodgy speedo. It then went to Kidderminster to celebrate its naming. Flickr Class 31 denigrators beware !

An Taoiseach (ex)

Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern (born 12 September 1951) is a former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008.

On 30 December 2010, in a speech to his party cumann in the Dublin Central constituency, he announced that he would not be contesting the 2011 general election.[66] Ahern said he had made it clear as far back as 2002 that it was always his plan to step down as a TD before he was 60.

Asked if he had any regrets, he said:

“If I had seen the banking crisis coming. Nobody advised me, no economist, all those people now writing books saying ‘I told you so’ – none of them.”

On Anglo Irish Bank, he said:

“I can honestly say that not once did anyone or any delegation that came in to see me ever say, ‘Watch out for Anglo’ . . . I wish they had have.”

Referring to the “great economic storm” currently under way in Ireland, he warned against excessive pessimism:

“Some gains have been lost, but in truth many remain. I dearly wish there was no crisis. I realise that it would have been better if some things had been done differently, but I will not denigrate the good that has been done,” he added.

Ahern will receive an estimated €135,000 as a combined ministerial and TD’s pension.

Jerusalem, Israel, reading about Hizbullah rockets falling in the North while Jerusalem is quiet and the 'internationa' community-made up of dictatorships and former Nazi collaborators, condemn Israel for 'disproportionate' reaction to haveing 900 rockets fall on her. The same countries like Germany and England who bombed Serbia despite never being attacked condemn Israel for defending itself. The Spanish Prime Minister wears a Khaffiaya in support of the Palestinian 'struggle'. Palestinians declare a 'day of rage' which in newspeak EUROpean translates to a 'peace-justice' parade. Interfaith rabbis suddenly are 'shocked' when their imam friends condemn Israel for 'genocide' and compare the bombing of Lebanon to the holocaust. 'The independent' accuses Israel of 'warcrimes' and communist-leftist-Arab protestors in Tel Aviv call for 'hands of lebanon' but no leftist protests Hizbullah as Amir Paretz comforts the workers in a bomb shelter in Nahariya, his former Peace Now colleagues running like dogs from lightening. Soppesedly 700,000 Lebanese become 'homeless' an interesting statistic when compared against the fact that only 1.75 million people even live in Lebanon meaning that sopposedly almost half of them are now 'without homes'. Not one newspaper shows wounded Israelis but every newspaper shows wounded Lebanese, especially 'children'.

Putin, whose former KGB supersoldiers just took out Shamil the Chechen terror leader with a 1 ton bomb has the gaul to complain that Israel is using 'excessive' force. The predicatable masses of diaspora Arabs in London and Australia protest along with their left wing friends(newly converted to religion) and throughout the Muslim world protests against Israel take place, Muslims in Kashmir fresh from the terror that killed 200 people in Bombay, protest and burn flags. The message is clear: we Muslims and we Europans can blow people up, kill others and do as wel please on the international stage, we can, like Egypt, suppress minorities, we can, like Saudi, have an Aparthied state, we can, like Iran, threaten to wipe countries of the earth, we can, like Pakistan, behead apostates, but you Israel must never respond, must never wage war because a different set of principles apply to you than everyone else. In the Sudan there can be genocide, but if 312 Lebanese die we will call it genocide. European imperialist-colonialist values such as the geneva convention apply only to you. If we want to wage wars of 'retaliation, Jihad and the like' it is acceptable.

Western journalists claim that occupation and poverty cause terrorist, but in Lebanon there was no occupation for 6 years, there was no poverty in southern lebanon, the average Lebanese has a BMW and a 1800 square foot house, the average Israeli has an old used car and a 800 square foot apartment.

Western bloodsucking protestors only protest what they feel like protesting where it is the easiest, they are tourism-protestors using the obsession with the 'other' and the 'exotic' as an excuse for their racist ways to denigrate those democracies that dare to not be disctatorships, which is why not one westerner ever went to Sudan but rich bourguise western liberals will come to Israel to protest. Those same rich westerners who ran away from NAzism and collaborated with COmmunism and always urged eppasement suddenly, magically, have the 'strength' to 'dare to speak out' and to 'challenge authority' but they dont challegne enything. These pathetic westerners whose very lives are full of self hate and slef loathing for their own culture suddenly find the 'beauty' of religion in others, suddenly a headscarf, which they fought so long to remove from their women, is 'beautiful' in another country. These westerners who judge people only by their skin color in order to be diverse(ignoring that in fact it is class that makes more different than merely religion and skin color). These westerners who call everyone 'racist' and all they hate 'nazism'. These westerners who have no loyalty or honor or pride or patriotism whose identity does not exist and who merely suck on to other cultures pretending to love them merely because it is 'the other'. These westerners who love only minorities in their own country and hate religious conservatives of their religion but find that they love majorities and religious fanatics abroad.

Pointed out to me by satyadasa, next to the Kimlau Memorial Arch in New York City I blogged about last week, also on Chatham Square on the Lower East Side in what is now one of the city's several Chinatowns, was a statue to Lin Zexu.

Who was Lin Zexu? A Fujian-born bureaucrat empire of the Qing in the first half of the 19th century, as Wikipedia points out he was the man whose campaign against Britain's opium trade with China started the Opium War.

A formidable bureaucrat known for his competence and high moral standards, Lin was sent to Guangdong as imperial commissioner by the emperor in late 1838 to halt the illegal importation of opium by the British. He arrived in March 1839 and made a huge impact on the opium trade within a matter of months. He arrested more than 1,700 Chinese opium dealers and confiscated over 70,000 opium pipes. He initially attempted to get foreign companies to forfeit their opium stores in exchange for tea, but this ultimately failed and Lin resorted to using force in the western merchants' enclave. It took Lin a month and a half before the merchants gave up nearly 1.2 million kilograms (2.6 million pounds) of opium. Beginning 3 June 1839, 500 workers laboured for 23 days in order to destroy all of it, mixing the opium with lime and salt and throwing it into the ocean outside of Humen Town. 26 June is now the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in honour of Lin Zexu's work.

Lin also wrote an extraordinary "memorial" by way of an open letter published in Canton, to Queen Victoria of Great Britain in 1839 urging her to end the opium trade. The letter is filled with Confucian concepts of morality and spirituality. As a representative of the Imperial court, Lin adopts a position of superiority and his tone is condescending, despite the British clearly having the upper hand, military-wise, when the event is examined with hindsight. His primary line of argument is that China is providing Britain with valuable commodities such as tea, porcelain, spices and silk, while Britain sends only "poison" in return. He accuses the "barbarians" (i.e. private merchants) of coveting profit and lacking morality. His memorial expressed a desire that Victoria would act "in accordance with decent feeling" and support his efforts.

Denigrated in his time, of late Lin Zexu has become a bit of a hero in China as one man who resisted Western imperialism, apparently the hero of no less than three movies.

Why a statue of Lin Zexu on Chatham Square? The place, satyadasa pointed out, is important, since this general area became a major centre for Fujianese immigrants from the 1980s on, gradually replacing the originally Cantonese-speaking migrants who first settled this Chinatown as these latter suburbanize. Having a statue of a Fujianese folk hero in an area with a large Fujianese population makes sense.

Too, the timing matters. Look at the inscription on the statue's plinth. The English text reads as follows:

LIN ZE XU

1785-1850

AGAINST DRUGS

Yes, the statue was put up during Rudolph Guiliani's tenure as mayor.

Again, you can tell this is a Super Beetle - a 1971, the first year the controversial Type 113 was marketed in the United States - by the bulbous nose.

The extra trunk space was created by rpelacing the front torison bar suspension with MacPherson struts, which many VW purists believed denigrated the handling. The Super Beetle could still maintian a steady pace on the road, thanks to a larger engine generating 60 horsepower

i very much enjoyed a 100% organic lunch delivered from organic valley HQ thanks to a new delivery service. i haven't had a lunch like this since being relocated after the fire ( there's no on-site kitchen at our new digs ).

tater tot casserole, mind bending chocolate pudding goodness and a chocolate chip cookie - 'cause that's how i roll.

seriously, if you're ever visiting organic valley ask if there's any chocolate pudding around. it's incredible. it all starts with the best ingredients and a dash of love :-)

btw, i'm not denigrating the local faire, so much as i'm making an observation about the spectacular awesomeness of the folks in our kitchen.

thank you all.

"Three Kings" director David O. Russell sought to capture the surreal, almost hallucinatory flavor of the Persian Gulf War. He bleached the silver out of the Ektachrome reversal (positive) film resulting in an unreal, washed out pastel look to the images.

This Buffalo Springfield song is usually associated with Viet Nam War era.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNyRWNjOXU&feature=related

While booted out of Kuwait, Iraqi strong man Sadaam Hussein survived the war. His propaganda machine created the fiction that Iraq was working on weapons of mass destruction. In the post 9-11 climate of vengeance, the US/UK invaded Iraqi ending in Hussein's overthrow and court mandated hanging.

Much of "Three Kings" was shot over a nearly four month period, at the abandoned Asarco mine, near my home town of Casa Grande, Arizona.

Many Hispanic residents were hired as extras to play the dark skinned Iraqis. In the tradition of blackface and red face (without the denigrating racism), dark makeup was applied to their visible skin.

The professional actors who had lines were from all over the map including New Zealand, Egypt and Morocco.

{NOTE: The Pima County courthouse in the background can be seen in "Pocket Money" (1972), "A Star is Born" (1976) and "Kidco" (1984).}

@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, "Three Kings," 1999, Gulf War protestors, Tucson, Arizona, I/91-2010

El Cholo Café

Las Vegas, Nevada

This sign for El Cholo Café, an early Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas in the 1950s, brings to light important issues related to Nevada’s cultural demographics and how perceptions and stereotypes of cultural communities can be shaped by commercial advertising. Historically, the word “cholo” was used in the United States along the Mexican-American border as a term referring to working class people of Mexican or Mexican-American descent. In this case, the term “el cholo,” coupled with the pejorative image of the “sleeping Mexican” makes the sign highly charged and potentially controversial. Despite its long history as a denigrating term, the word cholo was turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride in the context of cultural movements of the 1960s. An entire chain of restaurants in Southern California embraced the term as the name for their restaurants beginning in the 1920s.

The neon collection of Will Durham.

Nevada Museum of Art

10/12–2/13

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I've seen Chris in pictures posted by his wife, Jen Whalen (a.k.a. pi c's), but I've never met him in person. He is perhaps one of the handsomest strangers I have ever seen.

I know how to win over a drummer. I tell him my one musician joke that doesn't denigrate the drummer. (You can read that joke here.)

Chris has the look of an artist, and he is. I mean, besides being a drummer. ;-) He's a faux finisher; that is, he paints interiors of houses (which is exactly what I did before I got pregnant—in fact, it's why I have my SUV).

This is the thirteenth in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more at 100 Strangers.

"Schkrawnee, how i luv ya, how I luv ya...."

She wants you to note that in this shot, in contrast with the next two, something that the artist found 'disturbing' was removed. Schkrawnee would like to know your opinion on altering the reality of the pond this way.... Next image, please....

The younger (I think) of two Ring-necked Duck hens (Aythya collaris) I'm seeing at thje Fish Pond, Sutherland Hills, Kelowna, BC. I'm not denigrating, here, just acknowledging that she looks a little thin compared to 'RIngeyed the Ring-necked', the other hen of this species sometimes here, too. S. keeps company to some extent with Lady Cogo, the Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) who seems to be waiting for her boyfriend to return....

Kaepernick's incredible hypocrisy as the disgruntled victim and partaker of massive oppression is highlighted by the fact that he refuses to vote. The L.A. Times highlights that "Blacks and whites were beaten, busted and bitten by police dogs while marching for voting rights in the 1960s. Some were murdered." And Kaepernick's disregard for the right to vote is a slap in the face to all those that took practical steps to gain this right.

It's difficult to say whether Kaepernick is more of a spoiled brat or a conscious anarchist, or both equally. What should be noted is that the exaggerated victim mentality and the separation of people from their roots and their patriotism are things that Marxist Saul Alinsky advocated as a means towards a Marxist-Socialist revolutionary takeover:

"They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

A lot of people do not seem to understand the difference between valid altruistic activism with a clear and tangible goal and mere anarchy that causes division and denigrates authority. Hopefully, more people will wake up and understand the difference before it's too late. I worship God and not the NFL. I stand for the rights of all races and to honor all veterans that died for my freedoms. I do not kneel for anarchists that cause division with no clear plan or purpose. I love football but I love other things more. Goodbye NFL!

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C.T. B. frequently does this. Seems to make wry editorial comments denigrating to himself. Or, maybe he's simply indicating that he is 'out of the picture' or some similar observation. At any rate, such is his scrapbook editorializing about his newspaper tribute.

The article speaks of him [reluctantly] retiring due to 'illness'. I think the illness was a heart attack and a stoke. Or , perhaps it was a diagnosis of heart disease.

"Carl T. Benscoter, former secretary of the Brookville Title and Trust Company, who has lived in Kane for the past twenty-two years, observed his birthday anniversary on Tuesday of last week, May 2. A number of friends from Brookville went to Kane to extend greetings, and feature stories were published in Kane and Erie newspapers.

Mr. Benscoter spent the day receiving calls from his many friends. Flowers, notes, phone calls and telegrams came from friends and associates over the country. He attended a birthday dinner in the evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Vaughn V. Bowman , Jr.

Because of its interest to residents of this community, the article from the Erie Daily Times is reprinted, as follows:

Today is the birthday of Carl T. Benscoter, a resident of Kane for the past 22 years and until February of this year president of the Kane Bank and Trust Company, when ill health necessitated him giving up active work in the bank. As a member of the board of directors, he continues his interest in the bank.

He is also a member of the board of the First Methodist Church treasurer of the Salvation Army, and a trustee of the W.R. Skillman memorial fund.

Mr. Benscoter came to Kane in 1928, to assume the post of vice president of the Kane Bank. He had been secretary of the Brookville Title and Trust Company Bank at Brookville previous to his arrival in Kane. In 1929 he was elected president, succeeding S.K. Foote Jr. who had died one month earlier.

The period that Mr. Benscoter served as head of the bank was one of continual turmoil and trouble, faced by every bank in the country. With the stock market crash in 1929, the bank holiday in 1933, the depression during the 1930s and then the war starting in 1941.

Despite this, he was to see and in a great measure to assist the bank to pass safely through the period. when he came to Kane, there were three banks in the community. Today there is but one, the Kane bank.

He numbers his friends by the thousands, gained by his kindness and thoughtfulness to employees, customers and associates through the years in Kane.

Today his one hope is to regain his health to again take up the work he enjoyed so much.

Mr. Benscoter was born in Brookville May 2, 1887, attended the schools there and graduated from Brookville high school. His wide knowledge of banking was gained by experience and study, which continued after his formal schooling was ended.

His family and his hobbies of photography, drawing and the piano occupy his spare time.

He was married to Miss Janet Bunyan, June 30, 1916, at Brookville. The couple have three boys and a daughter -- Carl, Robert at ithaca, NY, Dand and Ruth Benscoter Bowman in Kane and ten grandchildren.

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*Granddaughter's note:

According to my cousin Gail, his picture is still displayed at the Bank.

Poem 1847 Melbourne needs a Bishop

Melbourne Town needs a Bishop

1847 A Cathedral City

The establishment of a bishopric requires city status

The Bishop needs a Cathedral

A deterministic paradigm

Avoid marrying the commoners

You are in a special position

Of controlling the new lands

To terraform a frontier society

A decent society

Continually under threat

Containing the deported

All those persons charged as undesirable

Their depravity

Their madness

Their sexual promiscuity

Their sickness

You are ordained to cultivate a civilization Through your appearance, dignity, and restraint

You are to privilege those who have symbolic capital

Those civic leaders

Those charged with a moral purpose

Those who value social determinism

Provisioning

Land grants

Cheap labor

Systems of denigration for those not white enough

Smoothing the dying pillow

Infrastructure

Cathedrals

Grand public edifices

Parliament buildings

Art galleries

Libraries

Theatres

For those who are vagrants, lazy and practice sexual impropriety

You must self-help

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Our empathy is unfunded

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Paddy described the Radiophonic Workshop as the best source of cheap music at the BBC. This was not to denigrate the Workshop but rather to explain the way they worked - individual members would produce all the music for a project by themselves, meaning that the costs would not escalate in bringing together a whole group of musicians to produce more traditional scores.

Click here for my photos of the Radiophonic Workshop at the End of the Road Festival 2014.

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Several thousand of Muslim demonstrators gathered in Chater Garden for a rally to denounce an anti-Islam film made in the US.

They prayed while facing in the direction of Mecca, then listened to speeches and held up placards condemning the film, which denigrates the prophet Mohammed, and demanding that the American government take action against those who made it. The film has sparked protests, some violent, in more than 20 countries.

If you've come here looking for the original post, "The Problem With PiP", it was removed after a member of Photographers in Perth sent in a complain to flickr. It was bound to happen. It was a breach of the Terms of Service.

However, I do find it more intriguing that it does appear that flickr corporate seems that they sanction the behaviour that culminated in my original post. In all honesty, I don't think they do. I think they didn't look into it as they probably get many similar complaints on an hourly basis.

Why did I post this? To show that I didn't remove the screenshot and the machinations of the removal of the image. An individual member of Photographers in Perth was behind the removal. Again, nameless.

What started this? A discussion calling for transparency in the administrative operation of Photographers in Perth after people noticed crap. This crap has been described as bullying, favouritism, blatant self promotion of businesses, (a clear breach of flickr's terms of service), and heavy handed approach to deleting threads and posts with no explanation and banning members with such expediency that no explanation from them is extracted.

At no point in the saga did I encourage or call upon members or people outside the group to campaign against the group.

The only sorry thing to come out of this is that I've been removed from the group and now am unable to participate in the Help-Portrait thread discussing the event I organised.

UPDATE 15th December 2009 8:15AM (I hope this is the last time I have to do this)

It's come to my attention that if a member voices their support of me openly in Photographers in Perth, they get kicked out of the group without explanation by an Invisible Admin. I am not sure how ridiculous and petty the team is getting with their administration. Commenting here could also place your membership in the group at risk. Post at your own risk.

UPDATE 15th December 2009 11:53PM

It's terrific being kicked out and banned from the group but yet being able to read the posts, I can actually now see a new thread linking to my synopsis of my experiences of Help-Portrait on my website so that everyone interested can find it is now being twisted as a vehicle saying that my expulsion from Photographers in Perth was due to a perceived bias towards another event, (of which I supported and encouraged people I knew outside of PiP to get involved and spread the word amongst my networks).

First of all, it wasn't what sparked all this. What sparked all this was that I spotted a minority of members of which one was a moderator of PIP grouping together on facebook to denigrate other members. In addition to that, an Admin stepped in and at no point indicated that the behaviour contravened the group's own rules and regulations, (there's a freakishly long list of them only complicated by several other layers of unwritten rules such as not asking questions of the Admin ever lest you risk expulsion unless you've got a large following in the group or deemed popular). I decided to show everyone that.

Way to go in politicising a global community event that they weren't even part of.

My reaction is to actions of PiP Admin and a core group of members who truly believe that their stand over tactics are justified and right.

So now, not only do I get to watch what people say about Help-Portrait, I now also get the displeasure of watching it get politicised without being able to say one word in defence.

The original comment on the original image right up until removal:

"I recently joined back as a member of flickr group, Photographers in Perth after leaving for a myriad of reasons.

After posting my 2c on the situation here, I come home after a day working as a volunteer photographer to find my facebook feed with this.

If anything, it's a summary of why I left in the first place and I'm beginning to wonder why I bothered re-joining and becoming active again.

I know I'll cop a lot of crap for posting this but people deserve to know, especially those singled out.

UPDATE 14th December 2009 5:00AM or there abouts

Since posting this, I have been removed as a member from Photographers in Perth with no explanation and by an invisible Admin. I don't know who was behind it. This cloak and dagger heavy handed approach has been raised as an issue within the flickr group on more than one occasion. I'm not saying that posting this image is defensible. It isn't. Frankly, it's something akin to submitting to Lamebook. I did so to expose the bullying and pack mentality that exists within the group from Admin through to some members. It's something that has either been dealt by denial, diversionary tactics or both.

I was angry when I saw this posting in my facebook feed, but now what I feel is beyond words. I can understand people being upset by this posting and I would not change my actions. I hate bullying and I have no tolerance for it. And when I become the target, I expose those attacking me. Would I do this again? You bet I would.

For a group that has a mix of professionals, semi-professionals, amatuers, and hobbyists of mainly adults, this behaviour is quite pathetic.

By removing me as a member from Photographers in Perth, I am unable to participate in the Help-Portrait thread discussing the very event that I organised. To the best of my knowledge, it was the only contribution from Perth to the global event.

UPDATE 14th December 2009 11:16AM

I have now updated the image to include the apology but I will not blur out any names. The people concerned have made their choice to publicise their opinions of other members of Photographers in Perth in another forum, facebook. Whatever the issue is, it is no longer within the defined boundaries of Photographers in Perth or flickr."