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250,000 young and old, committed mass civil disobedience May 22 in Montreal marking Day 100 of the student strike by participating in an illegal demonstration.
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June 19th 2008, Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will celebrate her 63rd birthday alone, under house arrest.
She is now in her 13th year of detention yet she has committed no crime. She is imprisoned for peacefully calling for freedom and democracy in Burma. She isn't allowed to see family or friends as all visitors are banned. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted.
Banner Map is from Amnesty International
On Rescuer's Day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the personnel of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, congratulated them on their professional holiday, and awarded state honors.
He emphasized that today is the professional holiday of all those whose job and calling is to save lives.
"Whatever happens, the SES of Ukraine is always there to help, and always promptly. They remain fully committed to their most important mission: saving lives," said the President.
The President inspected samples of automotive and robotic equipment. In particular, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko and SES Head Andriy Danyk reported on the use of surface drones and robotic systems for mine disposal.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian rescuers have responded to over 170,000 shelling occasions and extinguished more than 20,000 fires. SES sappers have neutralized over half a million explosive devices.
As a result of Russian aggression, 97 SES personnel have been killed, 395 injured, and 4 are currently held in Russian captivity.
The attendees observed a minute of silence to honor all those Ukraine has lost due to the war.
The President presented the Order of the Golden Star to the family of the fallen Hero of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Protection Service Artem Kostyria. The Lieutenant Colonel participated in over 70 operations to mitigate the consequences of Russian attacks. After the liberation of the Kharkiv region, he organized the restoration of nearly 100 damaged fire and rescue units. Thanks to his efforts, over 2,400 people were evacuated. Artem Kostyria was killed on July 13 this year while responding to the aftermath of an enemy missile strike when Russian forces launched a second ballistic missile attack.
The President also awarded SES employees the Orders "For Courage", II and III class, and the Order of Danylo Halytskyi.
Additionally, in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presence, the winners of the nationwide "Hero – Rescuer of the Year" campaign were honored. Eight Ukrainians received awards:
Oleh Holubchenko, a maxillofacial surgeon from the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital. On July 8 of this year, during a Russian missile strike, he was performing surgery. Medical equipment failed, but he found alternative ways to maintain breathing and carried the child to shelter. Despite his injuries, he assisted rescuers and volunteers in clearing the hospital’s rubble.
Artem Makarov, a cadet at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. In April of this year, he saved an eight-year-old boy whom his own mother tried to drown.
Andriy Bibik, a police officer in the Novopillia community. In one of the villages, he noticed thick smoke near the houses. An outbuilding was on fire, and the flames were spreading toward homes. Andriy rescued a 13-year-old girl, an infant, and two dogs.
Yuliia Oholikhina, a personnel specialist at the SES in the Zaporizhzhia region. While on vacation, she saw a child drowning in a pool. She pulled the girl out of the water and provided first aid.
Andriy Lubenets, a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman. Severely wounded in the war, last September, near a pond, he heard a 17-year-old boy’s cry for help. Despite his injured leg, Andriy swam to the boy and pushed him 20 meters to safety with one arm. Patrol police officers helped pull the boy out of the water and resuscitate him.
Ihor Kalashnyk, an electrician at a construction hypermarket. In May of this year, after Russian aerial bombs hit the hypermarket, he fully shut down the power to the building and helped evacuate four visitors from a smoke-filled area. He also removed generator barrels with fuel from the premises to prevent another explosion.
Polina Sholokh, a SES signaller. While at a car wash, she heard a woman screaming. Next to her was a boy with no signs of life, who had been pulled out of a drainage pit. Polina immediately began CPR, and after several minutes, the boy was breathing again.
Oleksandr Zhuk, a physical education teacher. Near a lake, he heard cries for help and saw three girls in the water. One had already lost consciousness and was pulling another down. Oleksandr rescued two of the girls from the water, while the third made it to the shore on her own.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
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Jan Anderson, a committed Detroiter and poet, graciously collaborated with us on a projection series where she recited her poetry about Detroit. Text of the recited poems follows:
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAVE
When the people leave
The siege begins,
And the windows fall
And the halls are spooked
And the roof rots
And the lot vacates
And the placated defacate
Until the weeds stand tall
And the ghetto palms appear
And the tears depart
And the garden grows
In the people’s hardened hearts.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Detroit sits motionless
Like a daughter with her mother’s lifeless body.
The place is a chamber eerily apart from space and time
A ball of light hovering above a hole.
Two forms unable to inhale the next moment or
To cling together to fill the hollow.
Only in perfect still can the echo of being still be felt
So the daughter turns to stone like the mound of clay on the table before her.
The corpse must be returned to the soil
Before energy can again be found –
The heat between them forging iron to last
Until she too is a mound bereft of anything.
Detroit is still
Like a mountain blocking the sun.
A cavern is inside, precious metals in sum.
But our loss is its loss
Such is the formlessness of grief that it blankets all things
The nothingness before it is a vacuum
Into which vitality is slowly drawn –
Such is the black hole of tragedy that all material is reformed.
When our lifeless generation is duly mourned and returned to the ages,
New life will be formed
And there will no weeping, no striking out,
Only the duty of remembering in a city that is no longer an innocent child.
THE LAST PACKARD COMPANY MAN
As a lover he didn’t read minds or chart the heart’s inner terrain with his hands.
Those hands were working hands, greasy leathery tools.
Steel was the vessel of his spirit, and everything he touched became this sort of flesh.
The last Packard Company man lived to work,
Strove to be a cog in the great machine.
His shift was the prayer that sanctified him to his wife and children,
Made them believe in God.
The City’s Committee on Plant Closings asked him who he was
and he told them that he fought two great wars building the planes that brought death to the first and second global conflicts.
The heat that forges memory is the same that bends metal.
What does a soldier do after the war is lost?
Is honor found in the hands or in the heart?
Is faith the whole, or only part?
Do you believe because it’s in your head, or is belief an act of defiance instead?
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Lake Champlain. During the War of Independence the corridor up from New York State and the Hudson River and the area around Lake Champlain up to the Canadian border was the site of a number of major battles including the decisive battles (in favour of the Americans) at Saratoga and Bennington. More troops were probably stationed in Vermont than any other area during the Revolutionary War. Vermont is the second smallest state in the US and has a low population of just over 600,000 people. The state capital is Montpelier with just 7,000 people. As a state its great claims to fame are that it was the first state to abolish slavery, it is the major producer of maple syrup in the US and it was created during the Revolution. It was admitted as the 14th state to the Union in 1791 just after the Union’s formation in 1789. Vermont was not one of the original 13 rebelling colonies as it did not exist in 1776. Its name was taken from the French ‘vert mont’ referring to the Green Mountains which form the backbone mountains of the state. Its eastern border is Lake Champlain and to the north is the Quebec province of Canada. The largest city is Burlington which has around 60,000 people. Dairying is the major agricultural industry. Much of the state is still covered in temperate deciduous forests which is why we have visited it. Lake Champlain which is 125 miles (200 kms) long, has 500 miles of coastline and around 80 islands. It drains northwards to Quebec and Montreal is just 73 miles or 118 kms from the city of Burlington as the crow flies, or 94 miles or 150 kms by road.
Ethan Allen. Before the American Revolution began Ethan Allen formed the Green Mountain Boys and led them in an early battle against the Red Coats to take Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. This was the first British stronghold taken by the Americans! His group numbered just 83 but the mighty British Fort fell to them after their pre-dawn crossing of Lake Champlain. After this Allen addressed the Continental Congress and got authority for the Green Mountain Boys to become part of the Continental Army. He then led a march on Montreal which was not successful and he was taken prisoner of war by the British before being released in 1778. He just had time after his release to meet up with General Washington and the troops at Valley Forge. The Vermont Republic was declared in 1777, whilst Ethan Allen was a prisoner of war. Vermont as a republic was a dream that he had cherished for some time. It had been part of New Hampshire State. The new republic drew up a constitution and was the first state in America to abolish slavery in its constitution of 1778 but it was not admitted to the US Union until 1791. Ethan Allen eventually took up land grants covering the area of present day Burlington. Allen remained committed to the colony of Vermont, took a great interest in politics and served as a judge during the Revolution to decide which Patriots (loyalists to Britain) would have their property confiscated. He tried hard to get Vermont admitted as a state but it took 13 years to achieve.
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If I were attempting to design a seminar on the things I'm trying to understand I'd start by recommending all my (fellow) students get a copy of Thucydides' 'The Peloponnesian War' which between 431 and 404 BC ended the Golden Age.
A book of suppressed intensity, its only monsters are men. I've had this second hand copy since 1996 when I was visiting Pylos and wanted to read the start of Book 4 for background (while lying on the beach).
I'd say don't try to read the whole book - though it's not that long. For our purposes look over pages 109-119 (in my copy), chapters 69 to 87 in Book Three - Revolution at Corcyra, and read, especially, chapters 83 beginning 'Thus revolutions give birth to every form of wickedness in Hellas, and the simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn and disappeared' and 84:
'It was in Corcyra that most of these audacious acts were first committed and all the crimes that would be perpetrated in retaliation ...' in fact I'll quote this paragraph now as a taster '... in retaliation by men who had been governed tyrannically rather than with good sense and had the chance of revenge, or that would be unjustly designed by others who were longing to be relieved of their habitual poverty, and who above all were animated by a passionate desire for their neighbours' property; crimes too that men commit, not from greed, but when they assail their equals and are so often swept away by untutored rage into attacks of pitiless cruelty'
Before you ask 'what cruelty isn't pitiless?' Thucydides' adjectives are for effect - the nearest he gets to expressing his feelings. Thucydides lived through much of this war and took part in one of its failures before being exiled to his estate in northern Greece.
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I got sent another copy of The Peloponnesian War yesterday with a note from an old bonesmen buddy in the flyleaf 'Ho Sibad. Wish I'd read ole' Ducididipops b4. Haven't got to the end yet so won't spoil it for yer.'
Elizabeth Brownrigg
There was usually, at least an ambivalent attitude amongst the public towards criminals on their way to execution at Tyburn. Yes, they had committed crimes but everyone wanted to watch the “Hanging Match” especially if the condemned participated in it and behaved bravely. The crowds along the way and around the gallows would tend to be sympathetic to them. However there was absolutely no public sympathy for the lone woman in the cart on the morning of Monday, September the 14th 1767.
She had systematically tortured and abused her apprentice girls, eventually killing one of them. Attitudes to child abuse and murder have not changed over the centuries and people expressed their abhorrence of her crime, praying for her damnation rather than her salvation and saying “the devil would fetch her” and hoping that she would go to hell.
The object of this hatred was 47 year old Elizabeth Brownrigg. She had been born in 1720 to a working class family and as a teenager had married James Brownrigg, an apprentice plumber. The couple had sixteen children, of whom just three survived to adulthood, such was the rate of child mortality in those days.
The marriage was a success and over the years James’ business did well and Elizabeth also ran a successful business as a midwife from her home at Flower-de-luce Court, in London’s Fetter Lane. She was appointed by the overseers St. Dunstan's-in-the-West parish to take care of the poor women in the workhouse which she did very well, apparently showing much kindness and consideration to these women. She decided to take on an apprentice girl to assist her, such was the demand for her services.
Mary Mitchell from Whitefriars was to be the first unfortunate girl to join the family in 1765. She was quickly followed by Mary Jones. Both girls endured frequent physical and verbal abuse, with regular beatings for the smallest mistakes. At this time a young person could join a tradesman or woman for a month “on liking” and if at the end of the month both parties still “liked” each other the youngster would agree to become bound as an apprentice for a period of years.
Initially Mary Jones was treated very well but after her trial period ended she became increasingly abused. She made plans to escape having noted that the key was left in the front door over night and managed to find her way to the Foundling Hospital where she was examined by it doctor who discovered that she was covered in bruises and sores.
The governors of the hospital had their solicitor send James Brownrigg a letter, threatening a prosecution if he could not explain the girl’s injuries. Brownrigg however ignored the letter and it was decided by the hospital to take no further action. (Does this sound familiar in present day child abuse cases?) Mary Mitchell stayed with the Brownriggs for around 12 months before resolving to leave. She too managed to escape from the house, but was spotted in the street by one of the Brownrigg’s sons who forced her to return home, where she was treated with even greater cruelty for having tried to leave.
In the meantime another poor girl was to be apprenticed to the Brownrigg’s by the overseers of the precinct of Whitefriars. 14-year-old Mary Clifford joined the household in early 1766. Initially she too was treated well but as soon as she was legally bound to the Brownriggs, the serious abuse began.
Mary’s stepmother, also Mary Clifford, went to visit her on July the 12th 1767 but was refused entry by one of the servants, who had been instructed to do this and to deny that the girl was there. Mrs. Clifford was not satisfied with this and having consulted with her husband, persuaded Mr. Deacon, the Brownrigg’s next door neighbour to post one of his servants, William Clipson, to watch the Brownrigg’s house and yard.
On Monday the 3rd of August William saw a badly beaten and half starved girl in the yard, so the matter was reported to Mr. William Grundy, the overseer of St. Dunstan’s, who went to the house with Mr. Elsdale the overseer of White-Friars precinct, who knew Mary and demanded that the Brownrigg’s produce Mary, which after an altercation they did. William Clipson however did not identify the girl he had seen in the yard as Mary Clifford (she was Mary Mitchell), so Mr. Grundy ordered a proper search of the house despite threats of litigation from the Brownrigg’s.
Mary Clifford was eventually found locked in a cupboard. Her step mother described her as being in “a sad condition indeed, her face was swelled as big as two, her mouth was so swelled she could not shut it, and she was cut all under her throat, as if it had been with a cane, she could not speak; all her shoulders had sores all in one, she had two bits of rags upon them.”
She was taken straight to hospital while Mr. Brownrigg was arrested but Elizabeth and her son managed to escape. Mary Clifford died in hospital on the 9th of August 1767. The inquest into her death returned a verdict of wilful murder against James and Elizabeth Brownrigg, and their son John. An arrest warrant was issued against Elizabeth and John and adverts placed in the newspapers.
Arrest and trial
Elizabeth and John moved around London disguising themselves as best they could, finally taking lodgings in Wandsworth, at the house of a Mr Dunbar, who kept a chandler's shop.
On the 15th of August Mr. Dunbar read one of the advertisements in his newspaper, from which he identified his lodgers as the Brownriggs. He summoned a constable and mother and son were arrested and remanded to Newgate.
They came to trial at the September Sessions of the Old Bailey on the 7th of that month before Sir Robert Kite. Their case took eleven hours to hear with Mary Mitchell appearing as the star witness for the prosecution.
16 year old Mary Mitchell had been with the Brownriggs for just under two and a half years and told the court that she had been mistreated as soon as her probationary period as an apprentice had ended and that Mary Clifford had began to be abused after the completion of her month trial period when she became legally bound. Mary Mitchell described how Mary Clifford had been beaten over the head and shoulders with a walking cane and a earth-brush by their mistress and also hit by John Brownrigg.
She also stated that Mary Clifford was made to sleep “on boards in the parlour, sometimes in the passage, and very often down in the cellar”. Apparently the girls were often locked in the cellar at night. Somewhere around a year before her death, the then 15 year old Mary Clifford was starving and desperate for food so she broke open a cupboard and was caught. For this she was made to strip naked and was severely beaten. She was now kept locked up in the unlit cellar at nights with no bedding.
Mary Clifford, it seems, was also occasionally beaten by others members of the family. Mary Mitchell described how John had whipped her with a leather belt about the head and shoulders for not making up a bed to his satisfaction. This whipping re-opened wounds from previous beatings. Mary Mitchell also recounted that James had beaten Mary Clifford with an old hearth-brush, but this was the only time she had seen him abuse her.
The evidence against Elizabeth was more damning. Mary Mitchell said that Elizabeth “used to tie her (Mary Clifford) up in the kitchen “when first she began to be at her, she used to tie her up to the water-pipe, with her two hands drawed up above her head.” For these beatings Mary Clifford was stripped naked. Elizabeth beat her most commonly with a horse-whip and “seldom left off till she had fetched blood.”
It would seem that this phase of beatings had begun in the Spring of 1767 and that it was succeeded by tying the poor girl up to a hook which was put up in the kitchen specially for the purpose. Mary Clifford suffered weekly whippings tied up to this hook. Mary Mitchell told the court that no one else in the family normally whipped Mary Clifford, although on one occasion John had taken over from his mother. She also testified that Mary Clifford was chained to a door by her neck having attempted to obtain food and drink one night and broken down some boarding.
Elizabeth was away for about a week during which time Mary Clifford made something of a recovery although her back and shoulders were covered in scabs and bruises. Elizabeth accused Mary of not doing any work while she had been away and on the Friday morning once more tied her up to the hook in the kitchen and beat her. She suffered several more whipping sessions during that day and was left naked through the day and the night. Mary Mitchell told the court that she and Mary Clifford were effectively kept prisoners in the house. Mary Mitchell was cross examined on her evidence by both Brownriggs, but held up well.
Testimony was also heard from James Brownrigg’s apprentice, George Benham who confirmed much of what Mary Mitchell had said. He also told the court that he visited James Brownrigg in the Compter (small lock-up prison), after his arrest, who had told him to go and take down the hook from the beam in the kitchen and to burn all the sticks in the house. He testified that Elizabeth had told him and Mary Mitchell that if Mary Clifford’s stepmother visited the house asking for Mary she was not to be admitted as Elizabeth had told them that “the girl's mother was a bad woman, and might teach bad things to her daughter”.
Evidence was heard from the Overseers and from the doctor at the workhouse hospital where Mary Clifford was taken after her removal from the Brownrigg’s house. William Denbeigh described Mary’s injuries thus : “The top of her head and shoulders and back, appeared very bloody; I turned down the sheet, and found from the bottom of her feet to the top of her head almost one continued sore, scars that seemed as if cut with an instrument upon the body, legs, and thighs; upon one hip was a very large wound; it spread about half the palm of my hand.”
On the 5th of August Mary was transferred to St. Bartholomew's hospital where she was seen by Mr. Young, the surgeon, the following day, who confirmed the medical evidence.
In her defence Elizabeth stated that “I did give her several lashes, but with no design of killing her; the fall of the saucepan with the handle against her neck, occasioned her face and neck to swell; I poulticed her neck three times, and bathed the place, and put three plaisters to her shoulders.” Mr. Young, the surgeon disputed that Mary’s neck injury could have been caused by a saucepan handle.
The Brownrigg’s produced several character witnesses but they were not believed by the jury.
At the end of the trial James and John were acquitted of Mary’s murder but were ordered to be detained on an indictment of assaulting and abusing Mary Mitchell, for which they were subsequently sentenced to six month's imprisonment and fined one shilling each.
Elizabeth was found guilty, and on Friday the 11th of September the judge told her “It is my duty to pronounce sentence in accordance with the law, that you are to be taken from hence to the prison from whence you came; that you be removed on Monday next, the 14th of this instant September, to the usual place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead; your body afterwards, to be dissected and anatomised, according to the statute - and God have mercy on your soul."
In accordance with the Murder Act of 1752, it was mandatory that the body of a murderer should be dissected after execution. It was normal for those being condemned for murder to be sentenced on a Friday to allow them an extra day of life, i.e. the Sunday.
Execution
Elizabeth was taken back to Newgate and fettered (handcuffs and leg irons) in the condemned hold. She was allowed only bread and water. It is reported that she confessed to and acknowledged the enormity of her crimes to the Reverend Joseph Moore, the Ordinary of Newgate, over the weekend. There was a moving scene in the Press Yard on the Monday morning when James and John were allowed to see her for the last time. She embraced John and the three of them prayed together. She is quoted as saying : “Dear James, I beg that God, for Christ's sake, will be reconciled, and that he will not leave me, nor forsake me, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment.”
Her irons were removed by the blacksmith and her hands and arms tied with cord. The rope placed around her neck and she was put into the cart, accompanied by Thomas Turlis, the hangman, to make the journey to Tyburn. When she finally got there she prayed with the Ordinary and asked him to tell the crowd that she confessed her guilt and acknowledged the justice of her sentence. She was turned off and after hanging for half an hour her body was put into a hackney-coach and taken to Surgeons' Hall for dissection. Her skeleton was later hung up in the Hall as a permanent exhibit. Her execution drew a huge and hostile crowd, such was the feeling against her. Reverend Moore later wrote “This unchristian behaviour greatly shocked me and I could not help exclaiming : Are these people called Christians?”
Halloween trick-or-treating was held at Camp Zama and Sagamihara Housing Area yesterday. More than one thousand people including soldiers, family members, civilians, local national employees and local guests participated in the event.
About the United States Army Garrison Japan:
The United States Army Garrison Japan and its 16 supported installation sites are located in the island of Honshu and Okinawa in Japan. The USAG Japan mission is to support the Headquarters, U.S. Army Japan / I Corps (fwd) to ensure mission readiness and the quality of life of the Army community in a sustainable, transforming joint and combined environment.
The USAG-J area of responsibility spans 1,500 miles from north to south of Japan. Camp Zama, home for both HQ USARJ and USAG-J is located approximately 25 miles southwest of Tokyo in the cities of Zama and Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The Camp Zama base cluster includes Sagamihara Housing Area and Sagami General Depot.
Akasaka Press Center is located in the center of Tokyo. The Akizuki/Kure area near Hiroshima is an ammunition depot. Yokohama North Dock is a port facility in the city of Yokohama, a major commerce port and a popular shopping area. USAG Torii Station is located 980 miles southwest of Camp Zama on the island of Okinawa.
We are the Army's home in Japan and the "Garrison of Choice" for Soldiers, Civilians and their Family members. We are committed in becoming the leader in the U.S. Army Installation Management Command by providing world-class installation services.
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think deep within..
be strong.. be strong now..
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a student melodiously promised me this:
1 - innocence of learning *check ✔
2 - quest for improving *check ✔
3 - connecting learnings to own life *check ✔
4 - humility *check ✔
5 - questioning even if stupid question ..questioning a lot, -
- if needed for learning *er.. check :D ✔
6 - communicating *check ✔
7 - connecting learning to a purpose *check ✔
8 - smiles.. never having tears or worry in learning:) *Check :) ✔
9 - trusting the teacher *check ✔
10 - patience *check ✔
... with faith :-)
brooklynmuseum: Here at the Brooklyn Museum we are committed to addressing the most pressing current social and cultural issues not only in our canon-expanding exhibitions, but also in our new acquisitions for our renowned collection. So we are thrilled to announce that we recently acquired Shifting the Gaze by Titus Kaphar (b. 1976), who is one of the most significant contemporary artists to engage with issues of social justice today. Kaphar completed Shifting the Gaze on stage as a dramatic conclusion to his recent TED talk, “Can Art Amend History?,” that explored how the encoded language of art conveys the power and privilege of its subjects. The painting is based on the Family Group in Landscape by 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals, and depicts a Caucasian couple, their two children, and an African servant, posed against a landscape. During his talk Kaphar veiled the figures of the couple and children with broad strokes of white paint—and shifts our gaze over to the servant. Shifting the Gaze will inaugurate our new exhibition series, One Brooklyn, scheduled to begin in the summer of 2018, that will feature one work from our collection that forges an inspiring encounter and expands the ways we see ourselves, the world and its possibilities. Posted by Susan Fisher Titus Kaphar (American, born 1976). Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas, 83 x 103¼ inches. Image courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery © Titus Kaphar
The 2010 Safe Haven Awards celebrated our commitment to immigration equality, borrowing the theme from awardee Elizabeth Gilbert's newest book "Committed."
The Province committed $1 million to ensure the continued protection of several ecologically sensitive properties. BC will assume ownership of several of the 26 conservation properties transferred from The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) to the Nature Conservancy of Canada in September 2015.
For more information please visit: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015ENV0067-001793?
The Province committed $1 million to ensure the continued protection of several ecologically sensitive properties. BC will assume ownership of several of the 26 conservation properties transferred from The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) to the Nature Conservancy of Canada in September 2015.
For more information please visit: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015ENV0067-001793?
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
We are committed to this project as our shop car. We are under the process of conducting the following:
-S52 engine swap
-body work (wrap/repaint, body kit, etc.)
-suspension (Lead Tech, Jason will be making one for this project)
-Tires/Rims
and we are open to suggestions, give us your feedback here or under the "Review" tab on our fan page www.facebook.com/brianjesselautohaus
Stay tuned for the latest updates on our launch party, and many exciting events.
Also a chance to vote and win prizes throughout the building process.
TobaccoDays (TD) is committed to showing you; the pipe-maker, the pipe collector, the pipe hobbyist – the pipe world from a different perspective. Every topic covered on TD aims to make you think different. Aims to make you see different. Anything & everything that we can bundle up together and have the final outcome alter an existing attitude on the subject covered, is considered a wonderful day here at TD.
Today I launch a new series which has the aim to highlight the beautiful & varied texture on our beloved pipes. Yes, we hold our pipes, caress them, enjoy them & smoke them day in and day out. Do we ever miss some of the small details though? Can we look at them any deeper? Of course we can.
To assist that process, I went out and hired a professional photographer (high-speed camera, strobe lights, big set-up & all) and took macro pictures of pipes to focus on their surface, their texture. The next phase of the project required me to find a way to express the beauty of the pipe’s surface. Since I lack any skill in the photo shop arena, I went out and hired a professional graphic designer and together we art-directed the project and took it to it’s final stages. The question of – How do we show the beauty of the pipe’s surface & make sure that we ‘really see it’ was the one thing guiding this project. While the pipe’s surrounding’s are definitely photo-shopped, the actual surface of the pipe remains 100% untouched. You are looking at the actual pipe surface of a J.T. Cooke pipe, as it looks in reality. This was part of the project’s point. To show the surface, unchanged, in order to highlight it’s ‘interest factor’ that much more.
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Fully Committed at Lost Nation Theater, August 5-22, 2010, stars Eric Love as 40 different characters. Set is by Ellen E Jones, lighting by Emily Crosby & Jared Nelson, sound design by Nicole Carroll and skillfully directed by Tara Lee Downs. photo by Francis Moran, Francis Moran Photography
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In the Hungarian Pastry Shop’s sweet, bustling atmosphere, she was so focused on her task the entire time we were there, sipping coffee and savoring delicious pastry. Occasionally she would exchange a smile with passers by but nonetheless did her box-folding fast and perfectly. I loved watching those moments of dedication and focused joy.
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This event brought together stakeholders from the private, public and financial sector to discuss the future of energy storage and its role in creating resilient, green economies. The panel explored the potential disruptive effect of storage on the energy industry, and how businesses and governments can contribute to and benefit from investment in energy storage solutions.
Moderator
Mattia Romani
Managing Director, Economics, Policy & Governance, EBRD
Speakers
Jason Channell
Managing Director, Citigroup
Guy Doyle
Chief Economist, Energy and Carbon, Mott MacDonald
Peter Kuijs
Managing Director, AES Jordan
Risto Paldanius
Director Energy Storage, Solar and Integration, Wärtsilä Corporation
I've committed to spending Sunday in bed. I have magazines, books and laptops. There is quick access to the kitchen and my phone is set to charge. No one disturb me. I'm quite content.
ALTERNATIVE GOVT COMMITTED TO TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING FOR FOOD SHOPPERS 17-1-07
FG & LABOUR PROMISE CLEAR NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION ON FOOD PACKAGING
UK EXPERIENCE SHOWED 40% REDUCTION IN SALES OF UNHEALTHY FOOD AFTER INTRODUCTION OF TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING
FINE GAEL AND THE LABOUR PARTY HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR POLICY ON TRAFFIC LIGHT FOOD LABELLING , A SYSTEM WHICH WILL SEE DIETARY ADVICE PRESENTED AND EASY-T-FOLLOW FORMAT ON THE FRONT OF FOOD PACKAGING.
PICTURE SHOWS FROM LEFT THE PARTIES AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SPOKESPEOPLE, DR MARY UPTON TD AND DENIS NAUGHTEN TD WITH TWO SUPERHUMAN EXTREMES MODELS SUPERSIZED JOHNNY MURPHY AND HEALTHY ROBERTA ROWAT AT THE LAUNCH IN DUBLIN YESTERDAY.PIC:MAXPIX-NO FEE
Last week, I committed the unpardonable sin of making Texas chili without beans. I didn’t prep the beans the day before and I don’t eat beans from a can. I might not have much, but I still have some dignity left in New Jersey. Who eats beans from a can? Savages.
With tears in my eyes as we were eating the Texas chili without beans last week, I promised my Aggie Ring, “With God as my witness, I’ll make you real Texas chili with beans.”
I put the habichuelas coloradas out to soak last night so I could have them ready for this evening. I stopped off at the butcher and bought three pounds of “stew beef.” It was $17.00 but it looked really fresh and lean.
While I was fire roasting the onion and bell peppers, I heated up the medium cast iron skillet up as hot as I could. Then I browned all sides of the beef. Afterwards, I put the beef and a box of bone broth into a pressure cooker and brought it up to a boil. I let it cook for 15 minutes and then let it cool down and release the pressure on its own. Everyone knows if you rapidly depressurize meat, it becomes tough.
I added the onion, bell peppers, beans and lots of garlic and other spices to the authentic true Texas chili and let it simmer for a good three or four hours.
The chili beef is so tender that when I pressed a piece of it up against the side of the pot with the back of a spoon, it just fell apart. Other than tasting it for making sure I used enough spices and tomatoes, I will let it cool down and deny myself and the One Ring Who Shall Rule Them All the pleasure of eating it until tomorrow. Chili is always better the next day.
I asked my Aggie Ring, “What’s the first rule of Texas chili?”
He replied, “Texas chili always has beans. There can be only one type.”
I asked Aggie Ring, “What’s the second rule of Texas chili?”
He replied, “Any Texas Aggie who eats chili without beans has brought shame upon his Aggie Ring and shouldn’t be allowed to wear one for 24 hours.”
Now, I’m sure that there are people out there who are going to disagree with me about chili and beans. These are the men who try on their wife’s undergarments while she’s out with friends.
To anyone who thinks chili shouldn’t have beans, I say, “Send me some of that Texas Tea you’ve been smoking.”
The EBRD is committed to supporting the Green Energy Transition in its countries of operations. As more variable renewable energy sources are incorporated into the generation mix, new solutions are needed to ensure the stability of the electricity grid and the provision of reliable, high quality electricity supply. Additionally, the rise of distributed, consumer-led energy generation models may increase demand for solutions that decrease end users’ reliance on a centralized grid. Energy storage is likely to play a key role in providing such solutions to grid operators, generators and consumers alike.
This event brought together stakeholders from the private, public and financial sector to discuss the future of energy storage and its role in creating resilient, green economies. The panel explored the potential disruptive effect of storage on the energy industry, and how businesses and governments can contribute to and benefit from investment in energy storage solutions.
Moderator
Mattia Romani
Managing Director, Economics, Policy & Governance, EBRD
Speakers
Jason Channell
Managing Director, Citigroup
Guy Doyle
Chief Economist, Energy and Carbon, Mott MacDonald
Peter Kuijs
Managing Director, AES Jordan
Risto Paldanius
Director Energy Storage, Solar and Integration, Wärtsilä Corporation
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Today marks three years since my best friend Jack committed suicide. He killed himself on his 18th birthday, so today he would have been 21. enjoying a shot, and living it up. however, this picture isn't about suicide prevention, is about parenting. I've realized that teenage suicide isn't just about being bullied at school, or just taking something to get attention overboard, its the moms and dads who lack unconditional love for their children.In the case of my best friend Jack, his dad hated him, and his girlfriend. His dad was going to put him in a mental institution to keep him away from his girlfriend, and out of the way. He treated him like dirt, making him feel like there was only one way out, death.
I just wish, that i could have done something, i was on an airplane back from England, and i just talked to him like 3 days before, and everything seemed find.
I also wish that parents would love their kids unconditionally, no matter what, parents are the ones who shape their kids, starting at birth, you have to give your kids the tools they need, and set boundaries, let them know that you care by keeping them safe, but still letting them live the life they want to.
ps. first time for doing this, i really like how it turned out.
Some of the worst atrocities are committed against Falun Dafa members in China, by the Chinese Government.
Photo taken with a Rolleiflex 2.8c (built in 1953).
Lens: Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar f:2.8, 5 element lens
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Mark Setlock in FULLY COMMITTED (2001) by Becky Mode, directed by Nicholas Martin. Photo: Carol Rosegg
Members of the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments were joined by caring and supportive members of the community, including volunteer barbers, at the St. Baldrick's event in North Hollywood, California on March 15, 2008. The charitable effort raised funds to help battle childhood cancer. © Photo by Mike Meadows
Lets take another trip to the past, this time to 2007. I had just finished the Xenosaga trilogy, and had pretty much committed myself to being a KOS-MOS fan for life. I didn't realize it at the time, but Xenosaga apparently wasn't that popular of a game, resulting in much of the merchandise available in Japan never really being offered. Alter seemed to be the leading producer of Xenosaga merch offered, so I eagerly purchased what has remained a focal point in my Bishoujo figure collection, the 1/8 scale KOS-MOS v.4.0 statue.
I'd eventually get the 1/8 scale Griffon release, which I should probably pop open for a photo op, but overall the other 1/8 offerings paled in comparison to this statue. Alter would go on to release a 1/8 scale T-ELOS, though she would be nowhere as extravagant looking as KOS-MOS.
Still, much like with her Figma counterpart, I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to find a T-ELOS to complement KOS-MOS here.
Again, my stuff is all packed away so I don't have access to it right now, but one of the coolest things about this figure was the box. It was a clear plastic cube, nothing more, nothing less, and really worked well with the high tech theme of KOS-MOS.
If you do consider buying one of these, the price seems to be much higher than MSRP though MSRP was around $60 back in the day, so that isn't saying much. Sadly, because of age, KOS-MOS does suffer from the leg bend that plagues many similarly aged pieces, though fixing it is pretty straight forward.
KOS-MOS is sculpted in a dynamic stance, hair blowing in the wind, though sadly she's only posed with one of her chainguns rather than two of them like with her Figma release. The various details of her lingerie/armour are captured quite well as is her generally serene expression. Even by modern standards, the v4.0 body that KOS-MOS has is particularly busy, a vivid tapestry of lines, layers, and colours - and of course, her tranlucent blue hair.
Decals are expertly applied, and are so high resolution that they are legible even at very close proximity, which isn't something I can say about, for example, those horrible things that came with the Elita-1 Voyager toy.
I will readily admit that while this is one of my favourite pieces, it's not perfect. While assembly work and finishing of the part is top notch, as I would expect from Alter, the paint apps on busy areas is a bit on the sloppy side, with some of the gold and black oversprayed, and the masking not as crisp as I would have liked. I suspect the small scale coupled with the frequent need for paint apps and masking probably didn't help.
For over a decade, this was pretty much the defacto 1/8 scale KOS-MOS statue to own. She still displays well with contemporary items, with the exception of the lean you have to keep an eye out for. Sadly, it looks like the title of best scale statue will likely be handed off to the upcoming 1/7 release from Good Smile Company for their Xenoblade 2 KOS-MOS, but it was a good reign, and when the time comes I'll be sure leave her a space so that the v4.0 can stand tall and proud as she was always meant to.
Jan Anderson, a committed Detroiter and poet, graciously collaborated with us on a projection series where she recited her poetry about Detroit. Text of the recited poems follows:
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAVE
When the people leave
The siege begins,
And the windows fall
And the halls are spooked
And the roof rots
And the lot vacates
And the placated defacate
Until the weeds stand tall
And the ghetto palms appear
And the tears depart
And the garden grows
In the people’s hardened hearts.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Detroit sits motionless
Like a daughter with her mother’s lifeless body.
The place is a chamber eerily apart from space and time
A ball of light hovering above a hole.
Two forms unable to inhale the next moment or
To cling together to fill the hollow.
Only in perfect still can the echo of being still be felt
So the daughter turns to stone like the mound of clay on the table before her.
The corpse must be returned to the soil
Before energy can again be found –
The heat between them forging iron to last
Until she too is a mound bereft of anything.
Detroit is still
Like a mountain blocking the sun.
A cavern is inside, precious metals in sum.
But our loss is its loss
Such is the formlessness of grief that it blankets all things
The nothingness before it is a vacuum
Into which vitality is slowly drawn –
Such is the black hole of tragedy that all material is reformed.
When our lifeless generation is duly mourned and returned to the ages,
New life will be formed
And there will no weeping, no striking out,
Only the duty of remembering in a city that is no longer an innocent child.
THE LAST PACKARD COMPANY MAN
As a lover he didn’t read minds or chart the heart’s inner terrain with his hands.
Those hands were working hands, greasy leathery tools.
Steel was the vessel of his spirit, and everything he touched became this sort of flesh.
The last Packard Company man lived to work,
Strove to be a cog in the great machine.
His shift was the prayer that sanctified him to his wife and children,
Made them believe in God.
The City’s Committee on Plant Closings asked him who he was
and he told them that he fought two great wars building the planes that brought death to the first and second global conflicts.
The heat that forges memory is the same that bends metal.
What does a soldier do after the war is lost?
Is honor found in the hands or in the heart?
Is faith the whole, or only part?
Do you believe because it’s in your head, or is belief an act of defiance instead?
ALTERNATIVE GOVT COMMITTED TO TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING FOR FOOD SHOPPERS 17-1-07
FG & LABOUR PROMISE CLEAR NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION ON FOOD PACKAGING
UK EXPERIENCE SHOWED 40% REDUCTION IN SALES OF UNHEALTHY FOOD AFTER INTRODUCTION OF TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING
FINE GAEL AND THE LABOUR PARTY HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR POLICY ON TRAFFIC LIGHT FOOD LABELLING , A SYSTEM WHICH WILL SEE DIETARY ADVICE PRESENTED AND EASY-T-FOLLOW FORMAT ON THE FRONT OF FOOD PACKAGING.
PICTURE SHOWS THE PARTIES AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SPOKESPEOPLE, DR MARY UPTON TD AND DENIS NAUGHTEN TD WITH TWO SUPERHUMAN EXTREMES MODELS SUPERSIZED JOHNNY MURPHY AND HEALTHY ROBERTA ROWAT AT THE LAUNCH IN DUBLIN YESTERDAY.PIC:MAXPIX-NO FEE
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
1. Pamaname, 2. For our children’s sake…?, 3. MUNDO_UNO, 4. Caught in the act..., 5. Passing On Wisdom, 6. le idee sono colori, 7. Fish boy, 8. enjoying the story, 9. Hop Skip, 10. Untitled, 11. Taheerah, 12. Untitled, 13. Habib Koite and Bamada, 14. Mahamadou Kone of Bamada, 15. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 16. Funny, I woke up craving liver, 17. Lee & Valencia, 18. they should call it Coldorado, 19. Woman in Myanmar, 20. Queens, NY, 21. Dragonfly Zen Are Moments Of Magic Dsc03654, 22. U. Utah Phillips at the 2006 Kate Wolf Festival, 23. Closet Accordion Player ~ Barrybar, 24. L'imam de la mosquée, 25. the jaguar dance
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"Eyes of the Afghan Hound". Author: Katsume Azusa
Michiko and Aizawa and was on a trip to the site of the murder committed 12 years ago. Quietly, to the residential development area of Kagoshima ash continues down for ever. Two people who together kill the lover of Michiko. At the time, share a secret, and of the strong ties, spent a thick night like crazy. However, long years has carved a deep groove between a man and a woman. This journey, but was to get back the crush fiery those days. .... Breathing hot men and women trailing a wounded soul. Like come hear. Masterpiece collection of romance novels.
A lovely, nuanced memoir of two artists committed to helping each other create art and become known. Both did. Also captures the famous Hotel Chelsea in the '60s— New York denizen of many famous poets, artists and musicians. Reminiscent of dorm living.
Patti Smith surprises me with a life lived, on the whole, lucidly and with a great deal of integrity. To look at her you would think she was two steps away from being a heroin addict, but she didn't do drugs or sleep around really. She was just a nice kid from South Jersey. And Robert Maplethorpe was a Catholic boy discovering his homosexuality. An interesting perspective to have this revealed by a woman he was intimate with. They were both obviously devoted to each other too.
Patti traces the observations of an intuitive mind and since most of the book covers their pre-famous years it has a sense of grace that those years, despite being incredibly short on money, were creatively very powerful. And having been a big Patti Smith fan in my college years, it was fun to see where she derived her look and her poetic inspiration. Plus I had no idea she also was a visual artist.