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On InternationalWomen's Day 2008 .
...it Is impossible to draw themasses into politics without also ,drawing in the womfJn; for under capitalism, the female half of the human race suffers under adouble yoke. The working woman and peasant woman are opprf!ssed by capital; but in addition to that, even in the most demqcratic ofbourgeois Republics, they are, firstly, in an inferior position because the law denies them equality with men, and secondly, and this is most important, they are "in domestie slavery, they are domestic slaves·, crushed by the most petty, most mental, most arduous. and most stultifying work of the kitchen, and by isolated domestic, family economy in general. -VI Lenin .
What does 'Women's Day' mean? .
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The ads tell us it's a day when husbands are supposed to buy women washing machines and kitchen gadgets, when boyfriends are supposed to buy them flowers. Radio Mirchi, for instanca, invited male listeners to send messages to their girl friends and wives "to make them feel special". Is Women's Day just another 'Day' demarcated by corporates, to con-sume more and more? Or is it a day to remember the dis-criminations and violence that women face 365 days a year? A day to look back at women whose struggles are the basis of this celebration of women's rights? .
"A pedestal is as much a prison" .
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Patriarchal society is famous for its doublespeak. On the one hand, society will place women on a pedestal and claim to worship them. Our culture is fond of saying, "Janani Janmabhoomi Swargadapi Gariyasi"(Mother and Motherland are dearer than heaven), or nYatra Narishcha pujyante, ramante tatra devta' (Where women are worshipped, gods reside there). But, as Gloria Steinem observed ~~ pedestal is as much a prison as any other small place." The revolu-tionary Hindi poet Gorakh Pandey, too, reminds us of the prison walls that our society builds, of the way in which women are bumt to death or forced to suicide in the very home in which she is worshipped as 'ghar kl lakshmi': .
There are wails in every house I Shut windows in every wall, I Banging against closed windows, herhead/Bloody, she liesfallen.! In every home there are burning ghats,/ln every home, there are gallows,/ln every home there are walls,/Banging against the walls she falls, /Halfthe world falls,!A/I humanity falls... .
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The first blows to the walls of patriarchy .
Women's Day reminds us ofthe long struggle that women launched to break down the prison walls of patriarchy. It re-minds us of the thousands of socialist and communist work-ing women, who knew that when women would be truly free only when they broke down all the prison walls; they knew that the liberation of women was linked to a struggle for the liberation of the whole of humanity. Masses of working women struck work In Chicago on 8 March In 1910, sparking off a huge movement for the right to vote, equal wages and an 8-hour working day. The German Soclallst leader Clara Zetkln, at an International Con-ference of Socialist women, proposed that this day be observed as International Women's Day. .
For us, Women's Day must be an occasion to pay trib-ute to the personal and political struggles of our foremothers, who dealt the first blows to the prison walls of our society. .
Remember Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain and Rassundarl Debl in the 19th century, who taught themselves to read and write secretly, in dark kitchens after everyone in the house was asleep! .
Sucheta De, Gen.Secy., AISA, JNU .
Recall Savltrlbal Phule, who in late 19th century Maharashtra, defended couples who had married across caste, struggled for the right of widows to study and remarry, and started a school for girls. She was pelted with stones and cow-dung by angry people who accused her of corrupt-ing their daughters. .
Salute Rakhmabal, a 20-year-old woman in the 1880s I who said she wouldn't live with the man to whom she had been married at the age of 11 , because she wanted ·to be free to study medicine! The law said such women who re-fused to cohabit with their husbands must be jailed, and the courts gave her a prison sentence. Great and powerful men like Bat Gangadhar Tilak wrote editonals attacking her for being 'singed with the flame of knowledge' -a thirst for edu-cation was 'unnatural' and 'unbecoming' for women, they said. But Rakhmabai, displaying incredible courage, wrote letters in newspapers, asserting, "Because you cannot enter our feelings do not think we are satisfied with the life CJf drudg-ery that we live, and that we have no taste for, and aspi-ration after, a higher life... ,. She did eventually study medi-cine and become a doctor. .
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The many reincarnations of patriarchy .
From the legacy of these struggles, independent India has framed a history of contradictions. Today, women in our country appear more free to study and work, and yet deeply entrenched anti-women patriarchal values are continually reinvented and reincarnated in many different forms. When fees for education are hiked, women are the first casualties, since it is deemed more necessary that their brothers should study. Girls are not allowed to be born -not just in poor households, but more so in t ..te homes even in the capital city where we live. Women are the worst hit by joblessness. since they continue to work often below minimum wages and their work is deemed 'unskilled'. Where there is violence --whether the violence of the corporates, communal or casteist violence, and the violences of the state -it is always women who are the first to be affected, the first to be made the targets of attack. The possession of women as commodities and the link that is made between the body of the woman and the prestige of the community or nation reiterates itself in the public domain. Modes of patriar-chal violence in society are manifested in its most brutal form in the political arena. We see this in AFSPA, a law which the Indian army has used to brutally rape women in the North-East, in the state-sponsored communal genocide in Gujarat, where saffron Hindutva brigade raped pregnant women and massacred those young and old or in Singur and Nandigram where sexual violence was used as a strategy by the CPI(M) cadres to quell the protests of people bemg dis-placed from their land. While claims for women's empower-ment are reiterated by successive governments at the state and central level, these are but empty claims for these self-same governments not only engage m the forms of patnar-chal violence, and also turn a blind eye to the suffering and struggles of women. The present UPA government has made tall claims of a gender-sensitive budget. But their policies make the prices soar and women go hungry; they ..relegate women to the most casual and contractualised jobs; .and of course they, like the BJP-NDA before them, shy away from even tabling the Women's Reservation Bill! .
On March 8, It Is a time for the women's movement to renew Its resolve to take on the ruling classi s, rip off the masks of 'women's empowerment' and declare, in the words of Helen Reddy's song, "1 am woman, hear me roar/In numbers too big to Ignore... " .
Vlsmay Basu, Jt. Secy, AISA. JNU .
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"Ketchup, soldier!"
"No, we mustard back now sir!"
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#3/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
Sorry.
Needed to move the Cat5 to the other side of the room. Didn't have a punch-down tool to reassemble the box.
Now I do.
An abstract image created from an abstract webcam photo using XnShape.
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#49/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
The original is on the left. The maze is on the right.
Made from the cover of a 1963 Reader's Digest Condensed book.
Related: keaggy.com/made/to-condense-a-mockingbird/
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#25/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
I thought this selection worked best in mono - from Friday night's performance by the Sex P*ssed Dolls at the Concorde 2, Brighton.
Wir pflanzen rund 20 einheimische Baumarten
Bisher haben wir überwiegend 8 verschiedene Baumarten gepflanzt. Ab 2021 pflanzen wir jedoch 20 Baumarten, um der ursprünglichen Artenvielfalt näher zu kommen. Viele dieser Baumarten, die wir hinzufügen, wachsen etwas langsamer, können aber durch ihr dichtes Holz viel mehr Kohlenstoff speichern.
Die Samen dafür sammeln wir selbst und ziehen die Setzlinge in unserer Baumschule.
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We plant about 20 native tree species
So far, we have mainly planted 8 different tree species. However, starting in 2021, we are planting 20 tree species to get closer to the original biodiversity. Many of these tree species we are adding grow a little slower, but can store much more carbon due to their dense wood.
We collect the seeds ourselves and grow the seedlings in our tree nursery.
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Test Bed, Building 34 Room C-180
SAM is a suite of instruments onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, SAM's five science goals address three of the most fundamental questions about the ability of Mars to support life - past, present and future.
Presenter: Melissa Trainer, research space scientist & Jen Stern geochemist.
Learn more at: ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
I thought this selection worked best in mono - from Friday night's performance by the Sex P*ssed Dolls at the Concorde 2, Brighton.
Here's Joey at bat. He hit to the pitcher, who made a good catch. This pitcher not only pitched well, he kept making these quick plays. Needless to say, Joey was p*ssed at himself. His team won yesterday but lost today, two innings over (they'd tied 2-2 at the sixth inning-they only have 6 innings for Little League). The other team won at the bottom of the 8th with two outs--a kid hit it way in the outfield and there was someone already at 3rd. So now his team is 1-1. Joey thinks his team is pretty good although not great, and will be 3rd, maybe 2nd in league rankings. We shall see....He plays tomorrow against the best team and the coach has him pitching. He's quite excited.
Made from reflective cardboard toy packaging.
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#16/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
I find that a good iron makes a really big difference. I was sorta p*ssed when my Dad first gifted it to me, thinking, "What the, an IRON?!" but then I used it. I will never go back to using a cheap iron.
Vintage Star Wars figures. Alt view: www.flickr.com/photos/bk/12017048245/
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#18/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
Wed 10/05/2006 08:22 10052006798
Lord Puncterro is obviously seriously p*ssed off, and has sent the puncture gremlin to haunt me in retribution for some unknown transgression. Either that or the asshole driver who incurred my (very vocal) wrath by dangerously pulling out in front of me on the way in yesterday has been sticking pins into a model bike.
This is the second puncture in <24 hours, leaving me walking the last mile into work. Bah. To add insult to injury I chose to ride on the road today to lessen the risk of punctures since I hadn't patched yesterday's puncture yet.
Pass the puncture repair kit.
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Test Bed, Building 34 Room C-180
SAM is a suite of instruments onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, SAM's five science goals address three of the most fundamental questions about the ability of Mars to support life - past, present and future.
Presenter: Melissa Trainer, research space scientist & Jen Stern geochemist.
Learn more at: ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
beautiful perch. this was one of the fish that christened my new Allcocks pin. it was seriously p?ssed off and fought like a tiger
Fail! It's been quite freezing in St. Louis, so of course the day I decide to do a project using colored ice blocks the temperature goes up into the 50sF. (Update: the very next day we were back down to 8º.)
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#26/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It's not what, I'm used to
Just wanna try you on
I'm curious for you
Caught my attention
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
No, I don't even know your name
It doesn't matter,
You're my experimental game
Just human nature,
It's not what,
Good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it,
Us girls we are so magical
Soft skin, red lips, so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable
Too good to deny it
Ain't no big deal, it's innocent
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
A horse captured against the setting sun, from Passage Road, Aust. The River Severn and Wales are in the background. I chased this shot down, driving along the road between Avonmouth and the old Severn Bridge, pulling off when a good composition presented itself.
The depth of field and shutter speed were a bit limited by the poor low light performance of my Pentax K10D. Still waiting for the Nikon D800 (everyone is waiting and growing tired of the hold up) and may buy a D7000 as a stop gap. The D700 is still full price (actually the price is creeping up, against all reason) and if I buy one days before the replacement appears I'm going to be p-ssed off. My neighbour had a similar experience with a Canon 5D purchase!
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Test Bed, Building 34 Room C-180
SAM is a suite of instruments onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, SAM's five science goals address three of the most fundamental questions about the ability of Mars to support life - past, present and future.
Presenter: Melissa Trainer, research space scientist & Jen Stern geochemist.
Learn more at: ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Main Electronics Box (MEB)
Contains the majority of electrical connections and components vital for SAM's functionality.
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
Made a projector for an iPhone based on this post at PhotoJojo.
Ingredients: a cardboard box, a small picture frame, a magnifying glass, and a paperclip.
It's stupidly cool, but doesn't work very well (I bet none do) and I'm pretty sure the last frame on the tutorial has to be fake.
Made 2 Feb but photographed and posted today.
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#33/365 of keaggy.com/made/something-small-every-day.
I did a bit of an idiotic thing on the bike this morning which right royally p!ssed me off, simply because I'm angry at myself for being so stupid.
I filtered left around a huge plant-type vehicle waiting to turn right at some lights and tucked myself in behind some car waiting at the other lights to go straight on (see rudimentary diagram here). As the right-turn lights turned green first, the big truck thing turned right and its path swept out to the left, pushing the back-end of my bike and the front shunted into the back of the car in front waiting at the lights. This is just after I've just spent over £400 on repairs...
The lights changed and so the driver of the car in front and I pulled over by the side of the road. I'd managed to scrape some paint off the back of his nice silver Audi so I just apologised profusely. Normally one shouldn't admit to anything in these situations, but whosever fault it was it certainly wasn't his.
As for my bike, I've noticed that the front fairing has come loose and cracked on one side. I just hope the back wheel is okay because it's brand new. I guess I'm going to have to book it straight back in at the shop. I think they're making a living off me at the moment...
almost straight out of camera (only a little color adjustment and cropping) - took this on a 770 km trip back home with my cam fixed to the dash with the gorillapod and triggered with the remote from the co-driver's seat. I like the wall-like effect those trees made with that long-time exposure.
No, I didn't use flash on this one :)) (In fact, my GF, who was driving, got really p*ssed when accidentially the flash triggered off, once).