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One of the witnesses to the flight of the Avitor Hermes Jr. was John Montgomery, who eventually began experimenting with flying vehicles on his own as a professor at Santa Clara University. There is evidence to suggest that he may have uncovered the circulation theory of lift. Montgomery built four gliders between 1885 and 1911, first powered by foot, then by horse, then by balloon. In 1911, while flying the Evergreen, which had wheels and was being prepared to take a motor, Montgomery suffered a crash and was killed in San Jose. He was one of the first American experimenters of gliding.
Montgomery is also the designer of the chambered wing, rear stabilizer, flexible wingtips, and the wing-warping aileron, all present in aircraft to this day. Still his secretive nature and his early death prevented greater recognition. Partly, his widow's pursuit of claims relating to use of the word "aeroplane", first coined by John Montgomery caused many subsequent flight pioneers to denigrate the professor.
This obelisk, erected in 1946, includes a quotation from Alexander Graham Bell that “all subsequent attempts in aviation must begin with the Montgomery machine”.
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
"Schkrawnee, how I luv ya, how I luv ya...."
The younger and thinner of the two Ring-necked Duck hens (Aythya collaris) waiting for the drakes to show up at the Fish Pond, Sutherland Hills, Kelowna, BC.
I don't mean to denigrate our subject, just to make a pun, hear?
Amoreiras, Lisboa
"Structural violence is a term commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung, which he introduced in the article "Violence, Peace, and Peace Research" in 1969.[1] It refers to a form of violence where some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Institutionalized elitism, ethnocentrism, classism, racism, sexism, adultism, nationalism, heterosexism and ageism are some examples of structural violence as proposed by Galtung. According to Galtung, rather than conveying a physical image, structural violence is an "avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs". As it is avoidable, structural violence is a high cause of premature death and unnecessary disability. Since structural violence affects people differently in various social structures, it is very closely linked to social injustice.[2] Structural violence and direct violence are said to be highly interdependent, including family violence, racial violence, hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, and war.[citation needed]
In his book Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, James Gilligan defines structural violence as "the increased rates of death and disability suffered by those who occupy the bottom rungs of society, as contrasted with the relatively lower death rates experienced by those who are above them." Gilligan largely describes these "excess deaths" as "non-natural" and attributes them to the stress, shame, discrimination and denigration that results from lower status. He draws on Sennett and Cobb, who examine the "contest for dignity" in a context of dramatic inequality."
in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
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Well, I think it's her. If she would smile, and we could see the gap between her front teeth, then we could say for sure. Her sister had different genes, or a better dentist, which is not to denigrate Mary Lou. We have a special fondness for Mary Lou.
This Cliffhanger section of the Amasa Back Trail is a challenge for four-wheelers. Often the passing vehicle leaves its mark on the rocks, as seen here. Woe to those frames, struts, rods, and shafts that were bent beyond repair here!
The Green Weenie never damages the environment when cruising down roads like this one. The secret is the 48-inch lift kit that keeps its underside well above the rocks. My easy passage through terrain like this has caused much embarrassment among four-wheelers who happened to be here when I drove through. I always explain that my intention is not to denigrate the efforts or capabilities of others, but merely to put the Green Weenie through its paces. To date I have not had to use four-wheel drive.
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
Bletchley Park is famous in the UK for being the home of the codebreakers during World War Two which became an "intelligence factory" on an industrial scale.
The work carried out here shortened the war but now some half-wit in Canada, with a degree and too much time on his hands, has suggested that the place was not as significant in the Allied victory as people think.
What is it about our modern age that someone always insists on re-writing history so as to denigrate and belittle the immeasurable achievements of the past?
John Clare's story is only one strand to Andrew Foulds very impressive novel. However, it is the theme that I have chosen to contextualise.
Jonathan Bate's biography is a wonderful read, even if you are not a great lover of Clare's writing. And his selection of Clare's poetry has a number of pieces written in the Essex Asylum which is the setting for Fould's novel.
Sinclair followed Clare's 'journey out of Essex', when he escaped the Asylum run by Walter Allen, which is the concluding sequence of The Quickening Maze, and is, as Clare himself told it, one of the most impressive pieces in his Autobiographical Writings. Selected Letters has several sent from his Epping incarceration.
So now surely it must be time for Eric Robinson to start huffing and puffing and making himself ridiculous. (He is the American academic who has claimed the copyright to Clare's previously unpublished works and in the process has earned himself the disgusted denigration of a generation of Clare sympathists.)
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.
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (After a later conversion, became known as the New York State Barge Canal). Originally, it ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
“New York legislators became interested in the possibility of building a canal across New York in the first decade of the 19th century. Shipping goods west from Albany was a costly and tedious affair; there was no railroad yet, and to cover the distance from Buffalo to New York City by stagecoach took two weeks.”
— This Day in History: October 26, HistoryChannel.com[1]
First proposed in the 1780s, re-proposed in 1807, a survey was authorized, funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817. The canal has 36 locks and an elevation differential of about 565 feet (172 m). It opened on October 26, 1825.
In a time when bulk goods were limited to pack animals (an eighth-ton [250 pounds (113 kg)] maximum, and there were no railways, water was the most cost-effective way to ship bulk goods.
The canal, denigrated by its political opponents as Clinton's Folly or Clinton's Big Ditch, was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard (New York City) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of the United States that did not require portage.
“From the days of the birchbark canoe, the early trade routes of the Northeast utilized New York’s waterways. The Lake Champlain-Hudson River Route and the Lake Ontario-Oswego River-Mohawk River Route were utilized by native Americans, fur traders, missionaries and colonizers. Fortification along the these routes still stands as testimony to their importance in exploration, trade and settlement.”
— Erie Canal Museum, A Brief History of the Erie Canal
It was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95%. The canal fostered a population surge in western New York and opened regions farther west to settlement. It was enlarged between 1834 and 1862. The canal's peak year was 1855, when 33,000 commercial shipments took place. In 1918, the western part of the canal was enlarged to become part of the New York State Barge Canal, which ran parallel to the eastern half and extended to the Hudson River.
In 2000, the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor[8] to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America. Mainly used by recreational watercraft since the retirement of the last large commercial ship (rather than boat), the Day Peckinpaugh in 1994, the canal saw a recovery in commercial traffic in 2008.
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Most female avatars are maiden goddess like figures (mea culpa too), but I wonder what that says about our ability to recognize and honor the strength and beauty of women who don't fit the stereotype of the young virgin or comely sex goddess--the strength needed to juggle work and family can be phenomenal and the responsibility of traditional female roles can be profound, but those female roles are often denigrated in favor of youthful images or feminized versions of the traditionally male roles. Female warrior is celebrated---maid, childcare worker, teacher---not so much. I've been hearing a lot of phrases like "mom jeans" ; Do moms have a uniform? What's your mom's closet like?
Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.
As an antebellum New York politician, Sickles was involved in a number of public scandals, most notably the killing of his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key.[2] He was acquitted with the first use of temporary insanity as a legal defense in U.S. history.
Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Sickles became one of the war's most prominent political generals, recruiting the New York regiments that became known as the Excelsior Brigade in the Army of the Potomac. Despite his lack of military experience, he served competently as a brigade, division, and corps commander in some of the early Eastern campaigns. His military career ended at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, after he insubordinately moved his III Corps to a position where it was virtually destroyed. He left the battle with an amputated leg, struck by cannon fire, and was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. He devoted considerable effort to establishing his role in achieving the Gettysburg victory, writing articles and testifying before Congress in a manner that denigrated the intentions and actions of the army commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. After the war, Sickles commanded military districts during Reconstruction, served as U.S. Minister to Spain, and eventually returned to Congress, where he made important legislative contributions for the preservation of the Gettysburg Battlefield.
Crista's home. Well, I wish I could convince her of that. She's here in my kitchen with a busted (but healing) hand and a shot of cake vodka. We were out of beer. And that's a hell of a welcome.
The elephant in the room? Well, there are so many. The one I'm thinking of, though, is self-denigrating, and I'm putting the brakes on that.
After my all-day shoot, I did my shiatsu out of desperation and then met Crista at Clementine for a beer. I had the charcuterie plate just because I wanted the pâté. Killer. (Literally; I think Killer made it.)
Then we came back here to no beer and went to pick up Serena from her preview performance of the play. And then: sleep. Because I had to work in the morning.
(March = portraits)
65/365
The chain of 4000m peaks rising above Saas Fee includes the Dom (centre), at 4545m "the highest mountain wholly within Switzerland".
I am always bemused by that last bit of information, which is very often quoted. So what, if part of the highest mountain in Switzerland (Monte Rosa) is partly in Italy? People do not normally denigrate Mont Blanc by saying that only part of it is in France and the rest in Italy; the same goes for Mount Everest being in Nepal and Tibet.
Route: Saas Grund - (Gondelbahn up to) Kreuzboden - Mälliga - Hehbord - Wäng - Almagelleralp - Chüelbrunnji - Erlebnisweg / "Adventure path" - Furggstalden - (chairlift down to) Saas Almagell - (bus to) Saas Grund
Gordon Gill and Adrian Smith (SOM), with a clean-n-green tower for...the China Tobacco Company. LEED requirements for the new city center led them to consider the 71-story tower as an opportunity to unite environmental performance and sculptural form-making.
The building is oriented to the south, both to minimize east-west sunlight, and to catch the breeze, which is southerly more than 10 months out of the year here. The tower's profile curves in towards the two mechanical levels, which contain wind turbines and generators. Thus, the entire building is a kind of intake for the turbines, to maximize their efficiency. Forcing the wind through the building at the stress points meant that the lateral structure could actually be reduced, as well. The goal was a zero-energy building, which did not happen; however, the building does perform 58% more efficeintly than required by code, according to SOM. I've also heard it denigrated as greenwashing, but that's just hearsay as far as I know.
The client, meanwhile, thought the building resembled President Hu Jintao's extended finger, gesturing meaningfully at the West. Well....duh.
Ambassador Kalyananda Godage was a member of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (1973 batch)
Unfair attacks on professional foreign service and career diplomats
by K. Godage
The relentless attacks on members of the foreign service, who are heads of Missions, have gone without a response for only one reason, namely because the persons subjected to these vitriolic attacks cannot reply; not because what has been unkindly stated is true but because, they being public officials, cannot, in terms of the AR and the Establishment Code that governs all persons on the payroll of the state, reply on their own.
Certain persons, not understanding this, have come to the conclusion that what has been said is true; they have been called "snakes under the grass" --- God knows whether they were pretending to be friendly but indulging in throat cutting (which is the meaning of the proverb) or whether these abusive references were made without understanding the meaning of the proverb, which is most likely; however that maybe, the attacks were scurrilous and in bad taste. It was incumbent on the Ministry to have set the record straight, which they, not surprisingly, have failed to do.
This has indeed been a vicious slander campaign and even the press appears to have gone overboard by publishing letters from spurious sources without verifying the facts. The most recent incident related to some unknown individual alleging that a certain career officer who has been appointed to head a mission had got into the Service because his father worked for President J.R. Jayewardene. This man's father never worked for or under JR, there may perhaps have been someone else by the same name, a fact that can be easily verified either from Mr. Menikdiwela or from the head of the JRJ Centre, Mr. Mapitigama. This particular officer was the first in his batch and his work has been commended by no less a person than the late Lakshman Kadirgamar.
The aspersions caste on career officers during the recent cowardly 'Email campaign', were horrendous and much of it spiteful; believe it or not, there were Emails being sent under the name of the late "Lakshman Kadirgamar" (Lakshman Kadirgamar @yahoo.com)! The scum did not even let the spirit of the late minister rest in peace; need anything more be said to illustrate the fact that many of the Emails came from lowest of the low who would find their level in a cesspit.
Some of the criticisms were born of ignorance of the rules governing the 'diplomatic game' and the functions of a diplomat. A relevant question has arisen in the light of certain appointments made by this government, namely as to who is a diplomat? Is anyone appointed for whatever reason also considered a real diplomat? When one refers to a 'diplomat' one generally refers to a professional diplomat, one trained in the art of diplomacy, not to some monkey appointed to a diplomatic post for some dubious reasons. I raise this issue as the Island of March 31 has a news report captioned "Corrupt diplomat thwarts cheap bus deal". Inquiries reveal that the individual concerned is not a career officer but a political appointee; further this is some old story. Not surprising at all, for in the penod 1978 - '94 all sorts of vagrants were appointed to our missions.
But what is unfortunate is that the Foreign Service gets tarred as people associate 'diplomats' with the Foreign Service whereas many in our missions, once again (after the Kadirgamar era) are only 'pretenders' not professional diplomats.
Professional diplomacy is the conduct of our relations with foreign countries, international organizations, other international institutions, regional organizations, business corporations etc etc. Besides bilateral diplomacy there is the emergence of multilateral diplomacy which is today another specialized field. The expansion, scope and substance of diplomacy has enlarged to such an extent that it is most complex and challenging. The mind boggling advancement of communication technology only makes the task at hand of a diplomat most demanding. Besides international political relations one would need to follow the international economic situation, the monetary and financial developments promote educational and cultural exchanges, scientific and technological cooperation, promote trade, investment and tourism and above all, in our situation, we need to keep a tab on the activities of the LTTE abroad and report on matters relating to national security.
Conventional diplomacy is a thing of the past and the wide range of activities (the expansion is both qualitative and quantitative) of a state calls for specialization and training. Training is an absolute imperative. There is no such thing as a free lunch in this business any more.
Sending untrained clueless people to promote the interests of this country is a crime against the state and the people of this country. If the exigencies of service require that we recruit temporarily from officers with an abiding interest in international affairs, until permanent cadre are fully trained, the government should advertise and recruit from the department of Commerce, the AG's department, which has excellent material, from the most competent in the SLAS and from the private sector; recruitment from the latter sector is particularly important for the promotion of trade, investment and tourism. What has been done and is being done today is wholly indefensible.
There appears to be a perception in some quarters that the work of a diplomat is essentially PR and the efficiency of a diplomat representing Sri Lanka is measured in terms of how he or she has related to the more vociferous members of the Sri Lankan community. With the community being polarized because of the war with the LTTE, it is often forgotten that a Sri Lankan diplomat has to serve all those citizens of this country who are domiciled abroad, irrespective of which community they belong to, so long as they retain their Lankan nationality. It is by being in touch with Tamil nationals who are not supporters of the LTTE that valuable information has been obtained on the activities of the LTTE in many western countries.
As indicated above, after July 1983, Sri Lanka missions had a new factor to contend with consequent to the thousands of Tamil nationals who migrated to the West and Australia - namely countering anti Lanka propaganda. There were also the Sinhalese migrants particularly in Canada, UK¸ Australia and the US who took an abiding interest in the happenings in the home country and exerted various forms of pressure on the missions: quite often their involvement was most constructive and helpful. There were however misguided elements who thought they knew how to manage the affairs of the mission better than the professionals appointed for the purpose.
It is also necessary to flag another situation of recent years, namely the fact of thousands of immigrant workers in the Middle East and Italy; they do need to know that the Mission of Sri Lanka is their 'home away from home' and that the mission would pay special attention to their needs and well being. The heads of these missions perform essentially a consular function in terms of the Vienna Convention of 1963.
This short essay would not be complete unless one stresses the fact that our missions operate on shoe-string budgets. Funds are allocated for recurring expenditure such as salaries, rents and traveling expenses. Hardly any funds are allocated for substantive operational work; money has not been allocated even for the maintenance of buildings owned by the government; more than one of our premises have gone to ruin as a result and the government has had to incur billions to construct new premises as in Geneva, Washington and London.
The point I wish to make here is that unlike the LTTE which appears to have huge war chest, our missions are starved of funds and have meager resources to counter the propaganda of the LTTE and their supporters. In Washington for instance a well known lobbyist who prostitutes himself to the highest bidder is said to be paid USD 40,000/- a month for the services he renders for the LTTE. How could any third world government such as that of Sri Lanka match that? It is our missions that are blamed for not matching the efforts of such well paid lobbyists and heads of missions are referred to as eunuchs. The lack of funds, needless to say has seriously impeded the substantive work of missions and hence their efficient functioning.
Meanwhile, the expectation from our missions, particularly by the non-Tamil Diaspora in Western countries, is very high. But this expectation unfortunately is unrealistic because of the paucity of resources and the lack of trained manpower. Instead of trained manpower our missions are staffed with political 'catchers' who have no understanding or knowledge necessary for the discharge of duties expected of them.
Most criticize without understanding; unlike a politician appointed to head a mission, officials do not need or seek publicity for the work they do. To many critics, the political types who make the loudest noise are the achievers, the others to them are eunuchs, for they do not know of what has been achieved through quiet diplomacy. To cite an example, the proscription of the LTTE in Europe would not have come about but for a coordinated effort by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and our heads of missions in Europe, who had to counter not only the LTTE's Diaspora organizations but also LTTE sympathizers in Parliaments and even in Foreign Ministries of some EU countries.
A tremendous amount of work was put in quietly by the missions in Europe to have the LTTE proscribed. It is probably not known to outsiders that our missions have been working with certain intelligence agencies and this was how many LTTE operatives came to be arrested. In one country in the heart of Europe the first and second level operatives of the LTTE were nabbed and the mission did make a significant contribution to achieving this. The missions in New York and Delhi have indeed done us proud. The point the writer wishes to make is that in the management of foreign relations much is achieved discreetly, without fanfare; their actions speak louder than words.
I have in this article sought to sketch a few of the problems our missions face to show that it is easy to criticize and denigrate without real understanding of the complexities involved in managing relations between states. An envoy of a small country serving in a big country needs at all times to build 'support groups' for his or her country. This goodwill building exercise is not an easy one if the situation at home is being projected in a negative light and political support and understanding from home is not forthcoming.
It must be understood that vitriolic attacks on foreign countries are counter-productive. In our present situation, where powerful forces are seeking to alienate our country, we need all the support we can muster; we cannot afford the luxury of being abusive; "There is no counter to a factually accurate intelligent defence" stated the editor of the Island recently. He also stated most wisely, "aggressive diplomacy is not a luxury we can afford".
The brutal vilification of certain career diplomats and comparing them to what Ambassador Dayan J in Geneva is doing in a multilateral station (he is one of a kind, he has a sharp mind and an equally sharp tongue and is keeping our flag flying in his own inimitable way), is not only unfair but is baseless. The work of a diplomat is first and foremost the management of bilateral relations with the country he or she is posted in and this, it appears, is not understood even at the highest levels of government today.
It appears that our career officers are damned if they do and damned if they don't. A line must be drawn; let us hope that criticism will be based on fact and is constructive not destructive, for we are indeed cutting our nose to spite the face. Yes, some are over-reacting and doing something quite foolish.
Washington to New York and New Delhi where the millions "have done us proud"
(The writer is a former ambassador who retired as Additional Secretary to the Foreign Ministry)
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The younger (I think) of two Ring-necked Duck hens (Aythya collaris) I'm seeing at the 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....
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
You know you're in the Bible Belt when . . .
There is a prayer kiosk in the parking lot. I have driven by it many times in the past and I thought that it was an interesting re-use of what I suspect was one of those old Photo-Mat kiosks (spelling?). Does anyone remember those little drive through kiosks where you dropped off your film and could pick it up later? It must have been really convenient not to have to go into the store to take care of that chore. Anyway, I’m not denigrating or mocking the purpose of the kiosk at all, I just thought that it was unique to its place, Fayetteville, GA. I rather like the idea of a group of folks joining together to ask God to meet the needs of a perfect stranger. I think intercessory prayer is a wonderful example of folks indirectly heeding The Great Commandment. There probably isn’t enough of that in the world.
I really like this picture because of its unique subject matter, but I was torn between submitting it and another one that had a great capture of the reflection of some particularly lovely clouds. I noticed the kiosk again because I was out shopping for a Christmas tree today. I went to 6 places and only one of them still had any trees left. I was hoping for a better bargain than I found (50% off), but I am really happy about the quality of the tree I purchased, so I can't complain. I just hope that I am in the mood next season :-). At any rate, I'll be ready!
After that chore was done, I treated myself by meeting Clyde at a Waffle House in North Griffin for dinner. It was hubby's late night, so I thought it would be a good time to catch up with one of my dearest friends. I am so grateful for my understanding husband!!! Despite the horrors learned of from Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation, my cravings for a Double Pattie Melt was not to be denied, too bad the hash browns were undercooked. Why don't they know fried potatoes are SUPPOSED to be a little bit crispy?! I had only a few bites and then consoled myself by splitting a piece of chocolate pie with Clyde, I can diet tomorrow :-). Too late tonight for a walk on the treadmill. I hate that I missed my light therapy tonight, but it was worth it.
Photo title is courtesy of my beloved husband, a born-again Southern Baptist.
The slut stigma is also discriminatory in that it is always applied to females. Males who engage in sexual behavior get a pass or may even be extolled as studs. But some females who behave the same way are denigrated and tormented by being called sluts.
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp – a national disgrace.
In what could be called the final phase of what journalist and historian Carey McWilliams described in 1944 as the California-Japanese War of 1900-1941, one hundred and twenty thousand Americans of Japanese descent, both citizens born here and people of foreign birth who were denied citizenship due to their ancestry, were given only days to leave their homes, their farms, and their businesses, and choose the precious few processions that they could carry with them before being rounded up on to buses and ultimately sent to ten prison camps like this one. No one was spared, including the old and infirm (Manzanar had a hospital and a cemetery), and babies and children (Manzanar had a nursery, a school, and an orphanage). American citizens were born, lived, and died behind barbed wire, for no reason but hatred by others.
As chronicled by California State Librarian Emeritus Kevin Starr in his book Embattled Dreams (the sixth of a monumental nine-volume history of California), “for nearly forty years, white California had been harassing Japanese immigrants and denigrated their culture”. With decades of anti-Japanese discrimination in California ranging from segregation in public schools, to racist laws and restrictive covenants preventing homeownership, to sidewalk beatings, to the federal Immigration Act of 1924 that banned all Japanese from immigration to the United States forever, it perhaps was no surprise that FDR would sign Executive Order 9066, setting into motion the forced internment of Japanese Americans in this and the nine other prison camps.
When I was growing up and going to school, this forced internment was given little notice in our history books, and when it was, it was usually in a dismissive tone explaining the action as an “unfortunate necessity”. Thankfully, the history books are at least a little bit more accurate today, and Manzanar has been saved to preserve the memory of our tragedy.
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry Miller
I agree. Everything that seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Even in this harsh bitter winter, beauty can still be found within it. Same goes for this very thing we call life.
Dutch postcard by Filmverhuurkantoor Centrafilm, Dordrecht. Caption: Bobbie Blake. This little Indian can be found with William Elliott in the film Lone Texas Ranger (Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1945) and with Monte Hale in Out California Way (Lesley Selander, 1946).
American film actor Robert Blake (1933-2023) started his career as a child actor under the names 'Mickey Gubitosi and 'Bobby Blake'. He gained a good deal of fame as the Indian sidekick Little Beaver in the Red Ryder series of Westerns. As an adult, he played killer Perry Smith in the film adaptation of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967) and the title role of Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Abraham Polonsky, 1969). He gained his greatest fame through the title role in the police series Baretta (1975-1978). Then, Blake faded into obscurity until a one-off comeback as a 'mystery man' in Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997).
Robert Blake was born Michael Gubitosi. He made his film debut as a 5-year-old in the MGM production Bridal Suite (Wilhelm Thiele, 1939). Then, he appeared in some 40 short films in the Our Gang series, starting with Joy Scouts (Edward Cahn, 1939). The last was Dancing Romeo (Cy Endfield, 1944). As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained attention for his cute good looks and his lovable, if somewhat melancholy, personality. He also starred in such full-length MGM films as I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke, 1940), Mokey (Wells Root, 1942), Andy Hardy's Double Life (George B. Seitz, 1942), and Lost Angel (Roy Rowland, 1943). Republic studio engaged Blake for the lead role of Little Beaver, Red Ryder's Indian sidekick, in the B-western Tucson Raiders (Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1944). He continued to play Little Beaver in all 22 remaining Red Ryder films, up to and including Marshall of Cripple Creek (R.G. Springsteen, 1947). Blake was often cast as an Indian, Mexican or Arab, like opposite Laurel & Hardy in The Big Noise (Malcolm St. Clair, 1944), opposite John Wayne in Dakota (Joseph Kane, 1945), and The Black Rose (Hathaway, 1950). In 1950, Blake entered military service. Though roles were sporadic as he grew to manhood, he was never long off the screen. His films included The Veils of Bagdad (George Sherman, 1953), Screaming Eagles (Charles F. Haas, 1956), Three Violent People (Rudolph Maté, 1957), and The Tijuana Story (Leslie Kardos, 1957).
In the early 1960s, Robert Blake appeared in Town Without Pity/Stadt ohne Mitleid (Gottfried Reinhardt, 1961), PT 109 (Milestone and Leslie H. Martinson, 1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told (as Simon the Zealot; George Stevens, 1965) and This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966). His career took off with his stunning portrayal of killer Perry Smith in In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967), followed by the title role of Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Abraham Polonsky, 1969) with Robert Redford. Blake, to whom is sometimes attributed the longest, more or less uninterrupted film career (1939-1997), starred in such films as Un uomo dalla pelle dura/The Boxer/Ripped-Off (Francesco Prosperi, 1972), Corky (Leonard J. Horn, 1972), Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973), Busting (Peter Hyams, 1974), Second-Hand Hearts (Hal Ashby, 1980), Coast to Coast (Joseph Sargent, 1980). Consumed with anger over his treatment by his family and the studio as a child, he denigrated his early work, suffered bouts of difficulty with drugs, and became known as a difficult, perfectionist person to work with. He quit his successful TV series Hell Town (1985) when his demons became overwhelming. After eight years, he returned to filming, and he appeared in Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997), about a man who murders his wife. It was inspired, according to David Lynch, by the O.J. Simpson case. Blake himself became the centre of another high-profile wife-killing case in real life. In 2001, Blake was charged with murdering his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, but acquitted in 2005 for lack of evidence. Civil law did hold Blake liable for her death that same year and ordered him to pay $30 million in damages to her next of kin, resulting in his bankruptcy. His daughter, Rose Lenore Sophia Blake (with Bonnie Lee Bakley), was born in 2000. Quentin Tarantino dedicated the novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Blake. The character Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt in the film, was partly inspired by him.
Sources: Jim Beaver (IMDb), Hans Beerekamp (Schimmenrijk - Dutch) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
“Please update your records,” one disgruntled person wrote.
GETTY IMAGES. Chelsea Handler and Jimmy Kimmel have both come under fire for “bottom” jokes.
Chelsea Handler and Jimmy Kimmel are feeling the heat on social media this weekend after separately cracking jokes that many have deemed homophobic.
On Friday, Handler joked that Attorney General Jeff Sessions preferred to be on the receiving end of gay sex.
Jeff Sessions is definitely a bottom.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 6, 2018
The tweet had drawn over 4,000 replies as of Sunday afternoon, with many arguing that Handler had missed the mark with her joke.
pic.twitter.com/MvrbMSDJ6k
— Jon (@prasejeebus) April 6, 2018
pls stop
— Calvin (@calvinstowell) April 6, 2018
Handler, who incensed members of the LGBTQ community earlier this year with a gay sex-referencing tweet aimed at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), responded to the outcry later on Friday.
Retweeting one critic of her original tweet, she quipped that she, too, was “proud” to identify as a “bottom.”
I’m a bottom, and I’m proud of it. t.co/wPs7c7ZBb8
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 6, 2018
Kimmel, meanwhile, also came under fire from many LGBTQ rights advocates Friday when he used similar allusions to gay sex in tweets directed at Fox News host Sean Hannity.
When your clown makeup rubs off on Trump’s ass, does it make his butt look like a Creamsicle? t.co/DEhmfOh0Hn
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 6, 2018
Don't worry – just keep tweeting – you'll get back on top! (or does Trump prefer you on bottom?) Either way, keep your chin up big fella..XO t.co/R4QJCoGYCL
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 6, 2018
The two media personalities had been involved in a war of words for much of the previous week, after Hannity blasted Kimmel as an “assclown” and a “despicable disgrace” for mocking first lady Melania Trump’s accent in a segment that aired Wednesday.
But, once again, many weren’t laughing at Kimmel’s retorts.
If you're a straight comic denigrating Trump cronies with gay sex jokes, remember: Gay sex is better than their whole lives and maybe yours too.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) April 7, 2018
In front of audiences at comedy clubs, gay comics have to teach straight people about queer things, do extra set up and tone down the gay because “too gay” doesn’t work. Yet, all a straight person has to do is say “haha gay sex, am I right?” and it KILLS.
— Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) April 6, 2018
New addition to the ever-expanding gay agenda: reminding straight comics that gay sex isn't demeaning or shameful or worth making an unfunny joke about. Please update your records
— Benjamin Lee (@benfraserlee) April 7, 2018
Both Handler and Kimmel have expressed support for LGBTQ causes throughout their careers, which is perhaps the biggest reason their bottom-referencing jokes have landed with such a thud.
Acknowledging that many straight comedians opted to “employ bottom-shaming jokes to show that they ‘get’ gay culture,” The Daily Beast’s Ira Madison III nonetheless said Handler and Kimmel should re-examine the tone of their language if they wanted to be truly seen as queer rights supporters.
“If they actually cared about gay people,” Madison wrote, “they wouldn’t resort to clichéd jokes that imply being on the receiving end during anal sex is somehow a shameful, cringeworthy act.”
UPDATE April 8: Kimmel responded to the controversy in a lengthy note posted on Twitter.
re. @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/DMtWJTMsDU
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 8, 2018
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The cover story talks about how G.W. Bush has caused the term "Cowboy" to be denigrated. Cowboys in Texas, especially, have been honored for their values, honesty, culture and spirit.
The apostle statues in the niches of this cappella (chapel) were created over several centuries. These two are about contemporary to the initial construction of the cappella in the 1300s. Later apostles on the building are more accomplished in finish, and are praised for it. These older works are denigrated as crude and not worthy of mention in some guides to Siena. This is simply ignorant. In their expressiveness, these apostles are more successful and likely to be evocative to a wider range of viewers. And that, after all, was their foremost purpose as Medieval religious works. Another angle showing the faces of these two can be found among my photos.
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...
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (After a later conversion, became known as the New York State Barge Canal). Originally, it ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
“New York legislators became interested in the possibility of building a canal across New York in the first decade of the 19th century. Shipping goods west from Albany was a costly and tedious affair; there was no railroad yet, and to cover the distance from Buffalo to New York City by stagecoach took two weeks.”
— This Day in History: October 26, HistoryChannel.com[1]
First proposed in the 1780s, re-proposed in 1807, a survey was authorized, funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817. The canal has 36 locks and an elevation differential of about 565 feet (172 m). It opened on October 26, 1825.
In a time when bulk goods were limited to pack animals (an eighth-ton [250 pounds (113 kg)] maximum, and there were no railways, water was the most cost-effective way to ship bulk goods.
The canal, denigrated by its political opponents as Clinton's Folly or Clinton's Big Ditch, was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard (New York City) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of the United States that did not require portage.
“From the days of the birchbark canoe, the early trade routes of the Northeast utilized New York’s waterways. The Lake Champlain-Hudson River Route and the Lake Ontario-Oswego River-Mohawk River Route were utilized by native Americans, fur traders, missionaries and colonizers. Fortification along the these routes still stands as testimony to their importance in exploration, trade and settlement.”
— Erie Canal Museum, A Brief History of the Erie Canal
It was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95%. The canal fostered a population surge in western New York and opened regions farther west to settlement. It was enlarged between 1834 and 1862. The canal's peak year was 1855, when 33,000 commercial shipments took place. In 1918, the western part of the canal was enlarged to become part of the New York State Barge Canal, which ran parallel to the eastern half and extended to the Hudson River.
In 2000, the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor[8] to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America. Mainly used by recreational watercraft since the retirement of the last large commercial ship (rather than boat), the Day Peckinpaugh in 1994, the canal saw a recovery in commercial traffic in 2008.
Thanks Wikipedia
Day 71/365
I wasn't really sure what to do today for my photo. I went flipping through all my sources for quotes and inspiration and just kept... coming up empty. So instead of trying to be inspired by my day which was fairly calm really, I decided to remind myself of something that is an ongoing battle for me.
I've talked before about the tapes that play in my head... the ones that say I'm not good enough. The ones that say I'm not pretty enough, not thin enough, not talented enough. The tapes that I used to listen to exclusively to the point that I couldn't see anything but proof that they were right.
And I've made a lot of progress with this, I've come a long way towards not just turning off those tapes but rewriting them completely. There are a lot of areas of my life though where these tapes still play, where I am still working on turning off that imaginary person who says that I'm not enough.
This quote is especially appropriate to my journey from start to finish really. Because whether it was my mother's voice in my head... or just... that part of me that was mired in guilt from abuse, there has always been an imaginary person inside, standing between myself and my own heart. I find it so easy to love other people, to care for and about others-- even those I barely know... or may never even have met in person. But that constant barrage of not-enoughness has been a barrier to loving myself for too long. And for so many years it was so loud and so persistent that I saw NO good in myself at all. I saw nothing lovable when I looked in the mirror, saw nothing lovable in myself at all.
Thankfully, with the help of an amazing SuperTherapist, I'm starting to see myself differently, starting to think about myself differently. And yet even now, after so much progress-- I still have these moments when I don't see the amazing woman I am, the amazing woman I'm becoming. I still have moments where all I hear is that invisible person... doubting, fearing, denigrating. And tonight I remind myself again that that person, that voice is not right.
I am remarkable. I am incredibly talented and passionate and yes... even... beautiful.
What I have to do is stop listening to that invisible person and LOVE the real person that I am. Exactly as I am.
Throughout its twenty five year construction process, the GPO was marred by two major controversies, the first of which related to the selection of bells for the campanile clock and the second, more significantly, to the commission of Italian immigrant sculptor Tomaso Sani's "realistic" depictions of people for the carvings along the Pitt Street arcade. One of its first critics, Frederick Darley (later, the Chief Justice of NSW) "denigrated the carvings as caricatures" and such was the controversy surrounding these works that it led to debates on aesthetics and taste within the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1883–1890 in which Barnet was himself called upon to justify and defend his decision. Despite severe criticism and controversy, by the time of its final completion in 1891, the building was hailed as a turning point for the Colony of New South Wales, and historians have since noted the building's significance as a force for driving prosperity and for the Federation of Australia. Its architectural expression and in particular its Pitt Street carvings have since been hailed as "the beginning of art in Australia," as well as its urban significance in the shaping of Sydney's urban grid and the Martin Place precinct.
The building served as the headquarters of Australia Post from its completion until 1996 when it was privatised and refurbished. The scaled back day-to-day counter postal services are now located on the George Street frontage and the outlet is known as the Sydney GPO Post Shop.The old General Post Office post boxes and Poste restante services are now located in the Australia Post site in the Hunter Connection, on the corner of George Street and Hunter Street. Despite significant internal alterations and additions, the façade has remained virtually unchanged and is listed both on the Commonwealth Heritage List and the New South Wales State Heritage Register, as recognition of its architectural and social significance to the history of Australia.[
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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
What was Nature thinking when she created the Turkey Vulture? She left him with instincts to pee on his weak hen-like legs and sun-dry his head after a meal. She made him devoid of aggression and denigrated him to a graceless awkward glider. His only defense against predators is his vomit and his hiss. What was Nature thinking?
Here is the answer: she was thinking straight. Urinating on his legs cools down his sweatgland-less body and the acidic pee kills left over bacteria from his carrion meal. Sun drying his head also helps him boil off bugs that attach to his bald head while feeding from inner layers of the dead meat. Weak legs are best suited to run and gliding serves to preserve energy. So does lack of unnecessary aggression. His vomit is very acidic and smells bad enough to kill the appetite of his predators, although some will happily accept the semi-digested offering and let him off the hook. Like I said, Nature was thinking very straight while creating this inglorious vulture.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
And then the deeply racist and denigrating conclusion, the fourth mural in the series: the Anglo is leading the Pueblo indigenous and the Mexican-American/Chicano. The Anglo's eyes are open. He is facing forward. The Indian and the Mexican have no eyes and are facing towards the Anglo, who is guiding them. Of course the sequence depicted here as a mural is, from a critical perspective, quite an accurate portrayal of the real social and economic relations imposed by the racialized U.S. invasion and imposition of U.S. capitalism in New Mexico and the Southwest: the Indians were thoroughly subdued by managed to retain some autonomy in their Pueblos, becoming "quaint" Others and sources of art inspiration for the new Anglo rulers, while the Mexicans became the cheap labor force. Art always springs from and reflects the real social and power relations, tensions and contradictions, of society.
As seen at Jamestown Church
Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, (born 1550 in Stonely, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England; died in 1631)was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America. He was the grandson of Richard Wingfield and son of Thomas Maria Wingfield. Captain John Smith wrote that Wingfield was one of the early and prime movers and organisers in 1602-1603 in "showing great charge and industry" in getting the Virginia Venture moving: he was one of the four incorporators for the London Virginia Company in the Virginia Charter of 1606 and one of its biggest financial backers. He recruited (with his cousin, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) about 40 of the 105 would-be colonists, and was the only shareholder to sail. In the first election in the New World, he was elected by his peers as the President of the governing council for one year beginning May 13, 1607, of what became the first successful, English-speaking colony in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia. He chose the site, a strong defensive position against land or canoe attack, and supervised the construction of the fort in a month and a day, a mammoth task.
But after four months, on September 10, because "he ever held the men to working, watching and warding",and because of lack of food, death from disease and attack by the "naturals" (during the worst famine and drought for 800 years), he was made a scapegoat, and was deposed on petty charges.[6] On the return of the Supply Boat on April 10, 1608, he was sent back to London to answer the charge of being an atheist (and one suspected of having Spanish sympathies). Smith's prime biographer, Philip L. Barbour, however, wrote of the "superlative pettiness of the charges...none of the accusations amounting to anything." Wingfield cleared his reputation, was named in the Second Virginia Charter (of 1609), and was active in the Virginia Company until the age of 70 (1620).
He died in 1631 aged 81 and was buried at St. Andrew's, Kimbolton (Cambridgeshire), England parish protestant church on April 13, just ten weeks before John Smith. Wingfield played a crucial role in 1605-08; and without his truly extensive contacts (so often used to denigrate him as an aristocratic hack) and his steady input, the USA might well have been colonized by France or Spain.
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.
When you get it right they are 10/10.
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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Vancouver protestors came out to protest the Harper Government denigration of democracy.
Thanks to Sarah Beuhler and Anthony Manning et. al. for organizing. Thanks to today's speakers:
- Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver city councillor and social justice activist
- Ben West, environmental activist
- Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East
- Sasha Wiley, teacher and BCTF activist
- Brian Topp, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Peggy Nash, federal NDP leadership candidate
- Kassandra Cordero, Co-Chair of the BC Federation of Labour's Young Workers committee
- Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and federal NDP leadership candidate.
Accession Number: 1990:1062
Display Title: Krishna's cowherd-friends Scramble for Clothes
Suite Name: Bhagavata Purana
Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Creation Date: ca. 1760-1765
Creation Place/Subject: India
State-Province: Himachal Pradesh
Court: Guler
School: Pahari
Display Dimensions: 11 11/16 in. x 16 1/16 in. (29.7 cm x 40.8 cm)
Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection
Label Copy:
October 2005
Domains of Wonder
On a visit to the city governed by their evil uncle, Krishna and his brother Balarama encountered an arrogant washerman who refused to lend them city clothes. He then insulted them by denigrating them as rustic country folk. This scene depicts the moment after Krishna decapitated the washerman with his finger. The cowherds then selected garments from the bundle while ladies admire the handsome brothers from high windows."""
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Repository: The San Diego Museum of Art
This cloth banner celebrates the electoral victory of Thomas Jefferson over John Adams in the presidential election of 1800. The banner is believed to be one of the earliest surviving textiles carrying partisan imagery, created at the dawn of the first American party system in which power passed from Federalists to Jeffersonian Republicans. Its imagery celebrates Jefferson's electoral victory, while denigrating Adams, his opponent. The banner pictures Jefferson's likeness below an eagle with a streamer in its beak that proclaims, "T. Jefferson President of the United States of America / John Adams is no more."
Fun facts: this was the first inauguration held in Washington, D.C. and Jefferson broke precedent by walking to and from his swearing-in ceremony, rather than riding in a carriage as predecessors had done.
Conservative columnist and future CNN co-host Kathleen Parker posted a column on Wednesday entitled "Obama: Our first female president" in which she argues that the President "displays many tropes of femaleness."
As unbelievably offensive on so many levels this is, it’s to be expected. Parker displays a common trait of con women - garnering self worth through the denigration of all things female.
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!
(History.com) July 5, 1921 - After Judge Hugo Friend denies a motion to quash the indictments against the major league baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, a trial begins with jury selection. The Chicago White Sox players, including stars Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, and Eddie Cicotte, subsequently became known as the “Black Sox” after the scandal was revealed.
The White Sox, who were heavily favored at the start of the World Series, had been seriously underpaid and mistreated by owner Charles Comiskey. The conspiracy to fix the games was most likely initiated by first baseman Chick Gindiland small-time gambler Josep Sullivan. Later, New York gambler Arnold Rothstein reluctantly endorsed it.The schemersused the team’s discontent totheir advantage: Through intermediaries,Rothstein offered relatively small sums of money for the players to lose some of the games intentionally. The scandal came to light when the gamblers did not pay the players as promised, thinking that they had no recourse. But when the players openly complained, the story became public and authorities were forced to prosecute them.
The trial against the players was actually just for show. After a tacit agreement whereby the players assented not to denigrate major league baseball or Comiskey in return for an acquittal, the signed confessions from some of the players mysteriously disappeared from police custody.
The jury acquitted all of the accused players and then celebrated with them at a nearby restaurant. But the height of the hypocrisy surrounding the entire matter came when Shoeless Joe was forced to sue Comiskey for unpaid salary. During this trial, Comiskey’s lawyers suddenly produced the confessions that had disappeared during the criminal trial, with no explanation as to how they had been obtained.
Arnold Rothstein never even faced trial, and Comiskey hoped to go back to business as usual. However, all did not end well for everyone. Other baseball owners, hoping to remove any hint that the games were illegitimate, hired Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis to be the new commissioner of baseball. Landis was a hard-liner (and also a racist—he prevented blacks from playing in the major leagues during his reign into the 1940s) who then permanently barred the implicated Black Sox players from baseball.
Landis’ decision has come under considerable criticism for its unfairness to a few of the players. Buck Weaver, by all accounts, had refused to take any money offered by the gamblers. He was purportedly banned from baseball for refusing to turn his teammates in. And although Shoeless Joe Jackson probably accepted some money, his statistics show that he never truly participated in throwing the games—he had the best batting average of either team in the series.
African-American women suffered the insults levelled against the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team who he spoke of in a derogatory manner. This racist attitude is reflective of American media as a whole, which is dominated by capitalist corporations who thrive on the denigration of African peoples.
Drawing as Design Process (Amazon) by Peter Olpe has one of the most beautiful book covers I have ever seen. Repetition, gesture, pencil, paper. That's it. Gorgeous!
The book itself is pretty amazing as well. It is a critical discussion--mostly through imagery--of the necessity of hand drawing and sketching in a digital world yet it never denigrates the digital. It goes out of its way to make the point that digital should not be allowed to remove the designer from the design process. More often than not, the designer will avoid making design decisions by "leaving it up to the computer." In this way, many modern designers shirk the responsibilities of authorship in their work.
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From Judge Jones' Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover School District, et al..Memorandum and Order:
To preserve the separation of church and state mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and Art. I, § 3 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, we will enter an order permanently enjoining Defendants from maintaining the ID Policy in any school within the Dover Area School District, from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID. We will also issue a declaratory judgment that Plaintiffs’ rights under the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have been violated by Defendants’ actions. Defendants’ actions in violation of Plaintiffs’ civil rights as guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the United States and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 subject Defendants to liability with respect to injunctive and declaratory relief, but also for nominal damages and the reasonable value of Plaintiffs’ attorneys’ services and costs incurred in vindicating Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.
[It is] abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
Both Defendants and many of the leading proponents of ID make a bedrock assumption which is utterly false. Their presupposition is that evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the existence of a supreme being and to religion in general. Repeatedly in this trial, Plaintiffs’ scientific experts testified that the theory of evolution represents good science, is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community, and that it in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence of a divine creator.
[T]the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.
The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy. It is ironic that several of these individuals [...] would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy.
[O]ur conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.
[T]his case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.