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On Saturday, January 26, 2013, citizens from across the province descended on the Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention (Maple Leaf Gardens) to stand together to defend democratic and economic rights.
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The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney has acknowledged the huge opposition to Ireland's cruel hare coursing.
Responding to questions from ICABS President, Maureen O'Sullivan TD, Minister Coveney stated: "I am aware that a large body of people, including the Deputy, would like to see coursing banned."
Deputy O'Sullivan was highlighting the fact that "90 per cent of the Irish Coursing Club's funding is provided by dog registration fees". Her proposal to transfer the function of greyhound registration from the ICC to the Irish Greyhound Board was, however, rejected by the Minister.
Maureen went on to describe the suffering being caused to hares netted from the wild and used as lures for coursing greyhounds.
"The National Parks and Wildlife Service has detailed the extent of the injuries suffered by the hares through mauling and tossing and pinning to the ground," she told Minister Coveney. "In my view, it is incongruous and it does not make sense, that people who own greyhounds, regardless of their views on coursing, must pay that registration fee to the coursing club."
"Coursing is illegal in many other jurisdictions, including Northern Ireland and Britain, Australia and New Zealand and most of continental Europe, yet coursing with live hares is carried on in this country, in spite of the fact that so many polls show that much of public opinion is against it," she continued. "Why should a greyhound owner who is against coursing have to pay fees to the Irish Coursing Club to register and name a greyhound? It is known that Bord na gCon has financial difficulties and that the track industry is in trouble. I hope the [Indecon report on Bord na gCon] will make a recommendation and, if so, that the Minister will consider it favourably."
Responding to this, Minister Coveney said that if the report makes recommendations, he has "an open mind about implementation and change". "So far as I am concerned, there is nothing untouchable here," he added.
Referring to possible recommendations in the report in relation to hare coursing, the Minister said: "I am aware that a large body of people, including the Deputy, would like to see coursing banned. We had that discussion in the context of the Animal Health and Welfare Bill and we decided to take a different route. If the review makes recommendations for future adjustments and changes in that area, we will consider it."
Asked by Maureen "why can the mechanical hare, which is used in track racing, not be used in coursing so that live hares are not used and injured?", Minister Coveney replied: " I acknowledge the Deputy's genuine concerns and views in this area."
Read the full exchange at
www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2014-05-08a.30&s=sp...
ACTION ALERT
Please appeal to the Minister for Agriculture to remove an exemption for hare coursing from the Animal Health and Welfare Act.
Simon Coveney, TD
Minister for Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: Simon.Coveney@oireachtas.ie
CC: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
Tel: 01-607 2884 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Fax: 01-661 1013
Sign the petition - Minister Coveney: Save Irish hares from cruel coursing
www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/minister-simon-coveney-rep...
Just so you all know, the blades were not running on this tractor at the time of his joy ride, and his daddy is just to the right of this photo. I'm a paranoid mom so I can assure you all that there would be no way I'd allow my son to do this if I felt his health or well-being were in question. He was traveling about 2 miles per hour.
Carnsore Point in County Wexford, Ireland is famous for being the proposed location of the Nuclear Energy Board power plant which was to be built in the 1970s. The plan would have produced electricity for the Electricity Supply Board.
Originating in 1968, the Irish Government gave renewed effort to the plans after the 1973 energy crisis. The plan envisaged one, and eventually four, nuclear power stations, but was (discreetly) dropped in the late 1970s after opposition by environmental groups.
A series of free concerts were held at Carnsore Point in 1978 and 1979. Titled "Get To The Point" and "Back To The Point" respectively, the concerts were a massive success and served to bring to public notice the whole question of nuclear power in Ireland.
Ironically, Carnsore Point is now the site for one of Ireland's first wind generating stations, run by a subsidiary of the Electricity Supply Board.
Photos from the June 2012 Cosplayer Photoshoots
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I apologize for the image but I'm on an old computer at a family member's house in Virginia. Microsoft Paint brings back lots of memories. Anyway...
Have you been contacted by Getty Images? They have officially partnered with Flickr, and it's in beta stage. I received this e-mail:
"Hi Brian Hathcock,
Flickr has partnered with the fabulous Getty Images to offer an invitation-only service for Flickr members to sell their photos for commercial use.
The Getty Images team has noticed your work on Flickr, and is pleased to offer you an invitation to enroll with them. They have selected 18 of your photos for possible inclusion in the program."
And so forth.
Here is a link to the group for Getty Image contributors:
http://flickr.com/groups/gettyimagescontributors/
My question for those in the know is simply, What do you think of this?
Would you (or are you) going to do it?
Any discussion and thoughts in my comments are very welcome.
Father and son at a (government-sponsored) pro-government demonstration in Oromia, Ethiopia. May 2008. Antony Robbins.
It was Hare Krishna Day on Centre Island that day, and they had Questions, and Answers too. But this was as close as I could get to Questions, and Answers too, since everybody else wanted to get to the ferry.
Posted full-size for better question-and-answer discovery.
© Stephanie Fysh 2006; all rights reserved
is . . . WHY? Why have these unsightly ruins been left to mar the landscape at Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, lo these many years? Doesn't anybody care? What a dishonour to the memory of all those formerly employed by the ferry service between N.B. and P.E.I.
Part of the Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones! exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery.
Movable Borders is an ongoing research project that begins to explore possible answers to these questions through facilitating discussions around the 'reterritorialisation' of the borderline in the information age. Participants were invited to investigate the use of cybernetic military systems such as remotely piloted aircraft (drones) and the Disposition Matrix, a dynamic database of intelligence that produces protocological kill-lists for the US Department of Defense.
www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/movable-borders-rep...
Credits: photos by Giorgia Cipolla
Clean Bread and Cheese Creek would like to thank Mr. Harry Shearer and his organization for his invitation to speak and present at the Baltimore Premier of his new documentary “The Big Uneasy” at the Charles Theater on July 19, 2011. Our interaction with Mr. Shearer as well as the way he handled challenging questions from the audience showed him to be very approachable, witty and with a great depth of knowledge on the many problems of New Orleans levy system. He communicated a myriad of data and facts to his listeners with his ever present (and famous) sense of humor while shedding much needed light onto the many shadowy areas concerning the Katrina disaster.
“The Big Uneasy” is scheduled to be available through pay-per-view, on-demand, Netflix and other similar venues in August. We highly recommend this very powerful and poignant film to anyone with an interest in New Orleans, the environment, or investigational documentaries. Believe me, you will not be disappointed.
On a personal note a few of the highlights of me evening aside from actually meeting and speaking with Mr. Shearer was when I was able to fix his microphone and he said, “You are a genius!” I also have to love when I told him I was from Clean Bread and Cheese Creek he remarked, “Now I know who you are, Bread and Cheese Creek has to be the best name ever!”
To learn more about the film visit www.thebiguneasy.com
To learn more about Clean Bread and Cheese Creek visit www.CleanBreadandCheeseCreek.org
Elders being ordained were asked questions by the Bishop. From left to right are Gwyneth Arrison, Meredith Brown and Lynne Campbell.
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This building is quite amazing. When you see it "in person", it looks as if its panels were made out of blueish plastic. It looks as if you would touch it, you could make it move a little. It looks a little surreal.
And in picture, it also looks surreal. It almost looks like a drawing, like one of those renditions of what the "real building" would look like. Its lines are moving even more. Or maybe it is just the iPhone playing with my imagination.
Totally late to the meme, but here goes:
Want to play too?
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
1. What is your first name? Bonnie [isn't that the cutest beagle?]
2. What is your favorite food? blueberries
3. What high school did you go to? mssm, and no, I do not miss those winters!
4. What is your favorite color? turquoise + orange
5. Who is your celebrity crush? david tennant.
6. Favorite drink? Mojito
7. Dream vacation? Helsinki
8. Favorite dessert? Cheesecake
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? graphic designer
10. What do you love most in life? derek [also, hella cute pug puppy!]
11. One word to describe you. Crazy
12. Your Flickr name. TheBon [most of the photos are this creepy metal dude.]
1. Bonnie, 2. Giant-Blueberry, 3. www.flickr.com/photos/32214865@N00/320249358/, 4. oranges in turquoise bowl, 5. David Tennant drinks One water, 6. Mojito Power, 7. Helsinki Cathedral at night, 8. Dark and White Chocolate Cheesecake, 9. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, 10. Derek, 11. It made me crazy!!, 12. Keep Of Kalessin - Thebon
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
VIVA COMO AS FLORES...
Em um antigo mosteiro budista, um jovem monge questiona o mestre: Mestre, como faço para não me aborrecer? Algumas pessoas falam demais, outras são ignorantes, muitas são indiferentes.
Sinto ódio das mentirosas e sofro com as que caluniam.
Pois viva como as flores, orientou o mestre.
E como é viver como as flores? - Perguntou o discípulo.
Repare nas flores, falou o mestre, apontando os lírios que cresciam no jardim.
Elas nascem no esterco, entretanto, são puras e perfumadas. Extraem, do adubo malcheiroso, tudo que lhes é útil e saudável... mas não permitem que o azedume da terra manche o frescor de suas pétalas.
É justo inquietar-se com as próprias imperfeições, mas não é sábio permitir que os vícios dos outros o perturbem.
Os defeitos deles são deles e não seus.
Se não são seus, não há razão para aborrecimento.
Exercite, pois, a virtude de rejeitar todo mal que vem de fora.
Isso é viver como as flores.
Numa simples orientação, sem dúvida, uma grande e nobre lição de bem-viver.
Mas, para viver como as flores, é preciso, ainda, observar outras características que elas nos oferecem como exemplo.
Importante notar que nem todas as flores têm facilidades, mas todas têm algo em comum: florescem onde foram plantadas.
Seja em terreno hostil, em meio a pedregulhos ou em jardins tecnicamente bem cuidados, as flores surgem para perfumar e embelezar a vida.
Existem as flores heroínas, que precisam lutar com valentia por um lugar ao sol. São aquelas que surgem em minúsculas frinchas, abertas em calçadas ou muros de concreto.
Precisam encontrar, com firmeza e determinação, um espaço para brotar, crescer e florescer.
Há flores, cujas sementes ficam sob o solo escaldante do deserto por muitos anos, esperando que um dia as gotas da chuva tornem possível emergir...
E, então, surgem, por poucos dias, só para espalhar seu perfume e lançar ao solo novas sementes, que germinarão e florescerão ao seu tempo.
Em campos cobertos de neve, há flores esperando que o sol da primavera derreta o gelo para despertar de sua letargia e colorir a paisagem, em exuberância de cores e perfumes.
Ah! Como as flores sabem executar com maestria a missão que o Criador lhes confia!
Existem, ainda, flores resignadas, que se imolam na tentativa de tornar menos tristes as cerimônias fúnebres dos seres humanos... enfeitando coroas sem vida.
Viver como as flores, portanto, é muito mais do que saber retirar vida, beleza e perfume, do estrume...
É mais do que florescer em desertos áridos e em terrenos inóspitos...
É mais do que buscar um lugar ao sol, estando numa cova escura sob o concreto espesso...
É mais do que suportar a poda e responder com mais vida e mais exuberância...
Viver como as flores é entender e executar a missão que cabe a você, a mais bela e valorosa criatura de Deus, para quem todas as flores foram criadas...
* * *
As flores são uma das mais belas e delicadas formas de expressão do Divino Artista da natureza.
Parece mesmo que o Criador as projetou e as colocou no mundo para nos falar da grandeza do Seu amor por nós, e também como lições silenciosas a nos mostrar como florescer e frutificar, apesar de todos os obstáculos da caminhada...
Pense nisso, e imite as flores!
Redação do Momento Espírita, com
base em história de autoria ignorada.
Em 04.05.2009.
Desejo a todos e a todas que vivam como as flores obtendo e extraindo da vida o que ela tem de melhor..
beijos
Jana
M04We - IDK
So many questions that I don't have answers to.
What songs are we going to do? Who is going to play? What about this one? What about this one? Can I ___ ? What's my motivation? What's your motivation? Does this bother me? If it does, why? Should it bother me? Do I have time to do this? How important are my Saturday evenings? Do you really need the money? What are you doing here? When are you coming home? What do I need to stop doing? What am I doing?
I took a nap when I got home from work today to restart my brain. 'Cause it crashed ... apparently my brain is a PC. Crap.
Sometimes you just can't show or tell, you know? But I feel bad posting in Ravelry with no pictures, so...
"How do we convince young women aged 12-17(ish) to cycle when physical activity levels are so low? How do we engage younger women?"
Original IMAG0977
Virginia National Guard field artillery Soldiers explain the capabilities of the M119A2 howitzer, answer questions about the Guard and take part in a demonstration of 400 years of Virginia artillery during Military Through the Ages March 19, 2016, at Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg, Virginia. Soldiers from the Hampton-based Battery B, 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team represented the modern military at the event that features hundreds of historical re-enactors showing how uniforms, weapons and military tactics evolved through the centuries. The Virginia National Guard traces the traditions of Citizen-Solider service to the settlement’s founding in May 1607 and considers Jamestown to be its birthplace. Since 1607 when Capt. John Smith organized a militia to defend the colony there has not been a day without a military presence in Virginia to defend freedom at home and overseas. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Four-panel mosaic, 12 5-minute exposures each with my Red system. Durham, NC. Pixinsight, ICE, and Photoshop. Using the mosaic feature of Asiair Plus. Note the Bubbe, Lobster Claw, and Cave Nebula region to the lower right.
but the people who worked in the museum didn't speak english.
and our italian wouldn't have been any help since we wanted to know what this this was about, not order coffee or find the toilets...
The Piercing Question
Peter’s response to this piercing question is considerably different from the bold defiance he exhibited only a few days before when he declared, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” (Matthew 26:35; also see verses 33–34). Our natural individuality, or our natural self, boldly speaks out and declares its feelings. But the true love within our inner spiritual self can be discovered only by experiencing the hurt of this question of Jesus Christ. Peter loved Jesus in the way any natural man loves a good person. Yet that is nothing but emotional love. It may reach deeply into our natural self, but it never penetrates to the spirit of a person. True love never simply declares itself. Jesus said, “Whoever confesses Me before men [that is, confesses his love by everything he does, not merely by his words], him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God” (Luke 12:8).
Unless we are experiencing the hurt of facing every deception about ourselves, we have hindered the work of the Word of God in our lives. The Word of God inflicts hurt on us more than sin ever could, because sin dulls our senses. But this question of the Lord intensifies our sensitivities to the point that this hurt produced by Jesus is the most exquisite pain conceivable. It hurts not only on the natural level, but also on the deeper spiritual level. “For the Word of God is living and powerful . . . , piercing even to the division of soul and spirit . . .”—to the point that no deception can remain (Hebrews 4:12). When the Lord asks us this question, it is impossible to think and respond properly, because when the Lord speaks directly to us, the pain is too intense. It causes such a tremendous hurt that any part of our life which may be out of line with His will can feel the pain. There is never any mistaking the pain of the Lord’s Word by His children, but the moment that pain is felt is the very moment at which God reveals His truth to us.
O Lord, this morning disperse every mist. Shine forth clear and strong and invigoratingly.
John 21:17 (My Utmost for His Highest#YouVersion)