Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.

The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.

Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.

Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

I would tell you about the things

They put me through

The pain I've been subjected to

But the Lord himself would blush

The countless feasts laid at my feet

Forbidden fruits for me to eat

But I think your pulse would start to rush

Now I'm not looking for absolution

Forgiveness for the things I do

But before you come to any conclusions

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments I kept

If you try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Morality would frown upon

Decency look down upon

The scapegoat fate's made of me

But I promise now, my judge and jurors

My intentions couldn't have been purer

My case is easy to see

I'm not looking for a clearer conscience

Peace of mind after what I've been through

And before we talk of any repentance

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments I kept

If you try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

Now I'm not looking for absolution

Forgiveness for the things I do

But before you come to any conclusions

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments I kept

If you try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments I kept

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

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He used a sharpie, because he's from Texas.

racing through a salt mine, 700m under Sondershausen, Germany

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The line at the United check-in counter--it was 90% foreigners, as was my flight to Chicago (where I caught a connecting flight to Atlanta), and since they were operating by American standards, they were all in line 2.5 hours early, which is earlier than most Japanese travelers. I had some massive reverse culture shock at the airport--not counting JET get-togethers, I hadn't seen that many gaijin in one place in nearly 11 months, since Tokyo Orientation.

I couldn't help but feel a bit disdainful, and even appalled, because the whole spectrum of American tourists was present, including some fairly snooty and snappy travelers...and there were girls wearing spaghetti-strap, stomach-revealing shirts, which is a big ダメ. For god's sake, if you travel to another country, especially when you know it's more conservative, at least have the decency to research that country's culture and customs, including the dress code. You just can't wear that stuff in Japan.

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Lost my phone at the grocery store. Somebody awful found it, turned it off, and because decency doesn't exist they didn't take it to the customer service desk. Bye bye, phone.

Cross Bones Graveyard

Cross Bones Graveyard was a mediaeval burial ground, situated in St Saviour’s parish, now Redcross Way SE1. There is a long established tradition that it was a final resting place for ‘Winchester Geese’, ie prostitutes, from the legalised brothels or 'stews' of Bankside. This dates back to the days when the Bishop of Winchester ran Bankside and licensed the ‘Geese’.

Stow, in his Survey of London in 1603, describes the burial site as being appointed to single women forbidden the rites of the church so long as they continued a sinful life. However, by Victorian times, when the area was stricken by poverty and disease, the site was used as a pauper’s burial ground.

Cross Bones Graveyard was finally closed in 1853 on the grounds that it was ‘completely overcharged with dead’ and that further burials were ‘inconsistent with a due regard for the public health and public decency’. A warehouse was built upon it.

Recent archaeological digs for the Jubilee Line extension have uncovered evidence of a highly overcrowded graveyard where bodies are piled up on top of each other and tests have shown that many of the bodies are women and children with diseases ranging from smallpox, TB and paget’s disease to osteoarthritis and vitamin D deficiency.

These are tributes placed by atavists keen on consecrating the ground and leaving the site untouched so the dead can finally rest in peace.

Jesse Hughes, Brian O'Connor and Dave Catching

EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany

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Unspoilt, peaceful, Georgian country parish church, mostly dating from 1719-20 but built on the foundation of a much older church. From the outside, it is a handsome church, X-plan, with an additional wing at the west end, topped by a belfry tower, containing the ducal retiring rooms. The interior, renovated 1784-5 and re-arranged circa 1870, has a typical presbyterian layout with central pulpit and three galleries. Many of the box pews have a central communion table. The north aisle of the church is taller and more sophisticated, built for the Duke of Queensberry and remaining from the earlier church. Inside the Queensberry Aisle is the real jewel of the church: the most amazing monument for the Queensberry burial vault, a baroque mural monument and free-standing baldacchino carved in 1695 by John van Nost to the design of James Smith who was also architect of the later church. A riot of swagged fabric, garlands of flowers, urns, barley-sugar columns, cherubs, skulls and pediments, all in gleaming white marble. 'There are few buildings in which baroque magnificence and presbyterian decency are so happily combined.' (George Hay, Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches). The churchyard contains some fine 17th-19th century stone monuments, many with classical ornament, including the martyr's monument to Daniel MacMichael and the 1685 monument to the children of William Lukup, Master of Works at nearby Drumlanrig.

Hamburg, Germany

Public restroom on the Aichi-Shizuoka border, right next to a mountain tunnel. Clearly abandoned by maintenance staff but not by dirty old men.

FWIW: The broken sign appears to say that the water from the tap is for hand washing only and is not drinkable.

Disturbing: Note the ages of the models on the magazine... For decency's sake I won't translate the text...

I decided to risk running into leopards due to the beautiful scenery on the pot holed moon surface like road from Nagarkot down to the Kathmandu valley. My guide had been very apprehensive about leopards in the area- I was hoping they may not be active at that time of the day. Situated in a strategic location, Nagarkot was an ancient fort of the Kathmandu valley built to monitor the external activities of other kingdoms. Later, it became a summer retreat for the Royal family before becoming popular as an international hill station. But with all the fanfare and a hefty toll which they collect to enter the town, the authorities could at least have the decency to fix the road coming up. My driver-guide was mentioning that some foreign guests had been furious in the past and had refused to pay, but sadly, the road remains the same- it has more potholes than tarmac. (Nagarkot, Nepal, Oct/ Nov 2019)

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Please, please have the decency not to take my idea or use my video without permission.

Well, this is my first ever moving image/ video I have ever created. We had a brief at Uni to produce a 25 second moving image to advertise shoes. A brand, a style, whatever. I chose converse, and I decided to go with how converse take you through life. So my idea was to show one guy going through the different stages of life wearing converse. I hope you like it! It got picked as the best from my class!

I never thought I'd see a graph of the LIBOR-OIS spread in a museum. Or anywhere.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, Freedom, Self Expression, All, Inclusive, Acceptance, Acknowledge, Parade, Charlotte, Downtown, Girl, Backside, Young, Different, Rainbow, Colors, Skirt, Tutu, Walk, Legs, Cover, Decency, Legal, Normal, Diversity

WH: Silhouettes

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Queens Of The Stone Age @ Lupos, Providence, RI

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“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”

Lise Hand

One Picture every day in 2007

Mikey Shuman, Queens Of The Stone Age @ Southampton Guildhall

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Irony, humor, irreverence, and even anger and fright have long served as disconcerting artistic vehicles, subverving expectation and unsettling the viewer. In the modern period, the Dada movement of the late teens and 1920s set a presedent with an "anti-art" in which nonsense reigned and provocative antics were a response to the imcomprehensibility of war. Outside the art world, the court jester of history and literature has played a comparable role, acting the clown while offering insight and advice. Contemporary popular culture offers another model: the ANTIHERO, whose frailty and outward cynicism are wrapped around a core of decency. Today's visual artist also explore these posibilities for contradiction, mining mass culture, adopting the role of performer, acting the brash of "bad boy" and "bad girl," challenging stereotypes and taboos, and overtuning standards of good taste and decorum. Critique or commentary is often the result as art strips away the veneer of artificiality from conventional social practice to reveal hidden truths and glaring imperfections.

Already undressed for bed, I realized I still haven't done today's 365 photo. I don't want to show off my PJ's, so common decency leaves me limited subject matter. In this case it's my bedtime routine of inserting my contact lenses, which I only wear while sleeping.

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Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year

On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.

There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.

The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.

The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.

For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/

I do not know what she cooked for dinner, as I had not been invited. Not that time, al least. (Pondoland is the eastern section of the Transkei and she was a typical Pondo)-

Attraversavo la zona della tribu (oggi la vogliono chiamare etnia) dei Pondo, nell'est del Transkei. Non so cosa bolliva in pentola, perchè non ero stato invitato a cena. Non quella volta.

Sandwich Bay.

I decided on an easier subject today rather than yesterdays attempt at photographing a Hobby at Stodmarsh which was very frustrating and unsuccessful with my SX60. By the time I'd managed to get the camera to focus, the bird was a dark dot 500m away.

This female Linnet did at least have the decency to keep still for a few shots.

Biffy Clyro supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Wintertur, Switzerland

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This is one of the photos from a Power Point presentation explaining a study in Augusta, Georgia about a street named for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The “Claiming A Street Named King” Project is the brainchild of Rev. Terence A. Dicks of Augusta, Georgia.

These photos depict homes, building and abandoned structures along Martin Lutheran King, Jr. Boulevard in Augusta, Georgia.

It began with research in Athens and Augusta (Georgia) through the University Of Georgia School Of Environmental Design.

Research was led by Dr. Mary Anne Akers in collaboration with Georgia Legal Services Program, Georgia State Trade Association of Non-profit Developers (G-STAND) and Neighborhood Works America, INC.

“Claiming A Street Named King” Project study in Augusta, Georgia – conducted along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard - shows areas that need economic assistance – and that’s the same issue in many American cities that have streets named for civil rights leaders

For more information:

claimingastreetnamedking.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/Claimin...

Uh, well, I'm not sure that was the name of the park. Lots of dogs, and owners of dogs. Not a lot of pit bulls. Sorry, not a big pit bull fan. Mostly because they are ugly (well, I think they're ugly). I don't like English boxers for the same reason. A cat at least has the decency to be discrete about doing its business. Not a dog.

Introducing: Treazon

Tuberose stems unveil toxic wintergreen; narcotic blossoms stare at death across the street.

Nightfall. Window screens.

Treazon is tuberose at its darkest and most dangerous moment – right after dark.

From than on, the seemingly innocent little white flowers’ aroma is so intoxicating,

that young ladies were prohibited from walking through tuberose fields, from fear that

their decency will be betrayed, and their innocence defeated by lust.

Top notes:

Aniseed, Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Sweet Birch, Cassis

Heart notes: Tuberose Absolute, Orange Blossom, Orris Root

Base notes: Benzoin, Vanillla, Massoia Bark, African Stone Tincture

The truck driver has the decency to stop for a good few minutes while I took a few shots... and waved when he passed us

Another senseless tragedy- a tree loses its life to an antiquated Christian ritual, only to be cast off into a garbage bin when it’s no longer of use. Have we no decency?

Take look at the rear 'couple'. Once I heard the commotion, I just had to capture this 'special moment'.

This image may offend some. My apologies if this image offends anyone.

www.whileseated.org/photo/002472.shtml

The "backside" of one (out of three) of the craziest outhouses (public restrooms, really) I've ever seen.

March In March Canberra, 2014

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we still ate everything - so fuck you, standards of decency!

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.

The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.

Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.

Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

my Reply to www.flickr.com/photos/missanj/3527704405/

oh hell yeah the giants are here! but wait, what's an ANT doing in the courtyard?.. scouring for food? or maybe being a stalker! hahaha missanj GossipGirl, please save some decency for yourself.. this is point blank freaky..

and honey, be careful, we might step on you.. just a friendy reminder.. ^_^

Notecard Written by missanj GossipGirl sent on 2009-05-14 14:00:21 note card:

Bea, look I'm over this. It's a damn good thing I don't go around telling people what a fuck up you are. My flickr is my personal account; I can do whatever the hell I want with it. And I'm not bothering you whatsoever, so stop being so defensive with every little thing I do. And please, don't go crying to Caleb and IMing whoever is connected to me. If you want to talk, you should've just dropped a notecard. So, whatever. I'm telling you I'm over this crap. You won't hear from me again. Nice to know you

My Reply on this 2009-05-14 15:13:45 note card:

you're over this? really? why did you post that pic if u're over it? who in the world with a bright mind would think it's nice? and didn't you predict that it'll spring up a fight again? are u out of your friggin mind? are you that dumb anj? really, i expect you to be a bit more mature.. yeah it's a personal account but everyone would see it.

if i'm the fuck up anj, why is Caleb still my friend?

think about it..

and please, I didn't start this! you did!

so don't go blaming me for what's happening to you.

THIs IS OUR FIGHT! Why is Yzzie on the picture? why are you involving her?

anj, your nasty and unlady like ways are what's gonna get your career or everything you touch turn to a disaster.

it's nice to know me? well, i sure as hell wish i've never known u.

oh and please don't put any of my pics in your account.. you don't even have permission from me to release that. and we're not friends. so stop ok?

if this doesn't end, you'll be hearing from my attorneys. oh and linden labs ofcourse.

you're over this? u really need to update your logic dear...

Dig the well before you're thirsty. La sabiduría, representada por el carácter chino “zhi”, es la cuarta de las cinco virtudes principales que se enseñan en el confucianismo, las otras son la benevolencia, rectitud, decencia, y la fe.

www.lagranepoca.com/cultura/26164-emperatrices-chinas-cuy...

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