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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

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.

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Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Perhaps in cow quartanteen

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. - W.C. Fields"

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The "Have You No Decency" quote, here directed at Trump, is a complicated joke. The line is the most famous exchange from Senator Joe McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt hearings. McCarthy's lawyer and adviser was famously Roy Cohn. Years later, when Trump and his father were sued for housing discrimination by the New York Attorney General, they hired Roy Cohn as their lawyer--and Cohn, who bragged of being a mob lawyer, became a bit of a role model for Trump. (This is why Trump is always tweeting Witch Hunt! Witch Hunt!) The joke here, is that Roy Cohn, at first the lawyer for the world's most infamous commie-hater, later became the lawyer for the world's most notorious Putin-lover. McCarthy was eventually censured by the Senate, and Cohn near the end of his life was debarred. Trump will finally get to meet with his admired Putin, in Helsinki on July 16.

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Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ

p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.

Jimmy Carter (born 1924)

When Americans elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they were voting for a positive change in executive leadership. Burdened by escalating costs of living and tired of recent scandal-ridden politics, they saw Carter as a fresh new face who would make, in his words, government “as good as the American people.” A born-again Christian, Carter touted his human decency to heal the divisions of post-Vietnam American society while also promising to fix the economy. Stemming high inflation, however, proved to be harder than he had predicted. Nor could he do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis, instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations, and characterized by a shortage of gas for consumers at the pumps and high costs for home heating oil. In 1978, Carter successfully brokered a landmark peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, spurred by the U.S. support of the unpopular Shah of Iran, crippled the last year of his administration. He lost a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In this portrait by Robert Templeton, Carter is shown standing in the oval office, as it was during his tenure. The donkey statuette on his desk was a gift from the Democratic National Committee.

•Artist: Robert Templeton (1929-1991)

•Oil on canvas, 1980

•Partial gift of the 1977 Inauguration Committee

New Mexican Newspaper article on LANL use under his administration:

www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Obama-touts-L...

Obama's flickr photostream:

www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/

Check out Cocobama for a chuckle:

www.flickr.com/photos/marcosanchez/2412683016/?addedcomme...

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/

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A single Green sandpiper remained on Restharrow Scrape this morning but it did have the decency to come within range.

As I mentioned on the previously submitted Snipe shots, there is a distinct lack of feather detail, I need to find similar shots from my old camera to make a true comparison, but my feeling - and that of many reviews, the SX60 doesn't give the quality of image that its predecessor did.

These images are cropped, but not cropped to enlarge, just to remove large areas of background. They are 1/4 of the original image, still giving a 2300x1712 image which is then shrunk to ~1800x1333 for Flickr.

p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.

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

Kari Buhl is an aristocrat who embodies the ideal of decency, modesty, intelligence, and immense sensitivity to the feelings of others.

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/

"The image of a Syrian child's lifeless body washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach this week brought the world to its knees. His name was Aylan Kurdi, and he was just three years old.

We need to do better."

light the dark, adelaide, south australia

#lightthedark

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

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still on my week off work, it's drawing rapidly to an end now. Didn't feel like going anywhere today, so went into the garden... and found this little fella. He'd the decency to wait until i clicked the shutter, then he promptly flew off.

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

Those pesky aliens, up to their old shenanigans.

On the last night of the year there was a series of explosions in Edmonton's downtown core. The aliens claimed that they were experimenting with hydrogen propulsion engines, but police suspect a meth lab explosion.

The other day one of the aliens, an obvious user, told me that his rocket was out of fuel and he needed to borrow $40 to fill it up. He promised he'd e-transfer me the money once he got to his home planet. I told him to fuck himself, then gasped in horror when he did.

I asked William S. Burroughs if my story, in particular the last sentence, was beyond the pale of decency. He said that it was, then leaned in and eyed me quizzically.

5 seconds, f/8, ISO100

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Marquis De Sade

1740-1814

“Salacious,Sardonic, Sadistic”

Born a rich nobleman, Marquis being his title rather than his birth name, De Sade gradually became a decadent libertine among the French society of Louis XVI. A liberally educated iconoclast, he wrote prose and verse, and specialized in testing the limits of decency, breaking tabboos and shocking the aristocracy, often with sordid details drawn from real life. He was thought to have committed much of the perversions and debauchery he had written about. He was incarcerated in an asylum shortly before the French Revolution. After a decade of feverish creativity, he willingly gave up writing and lived his remaining years in uneventful calm.

Size: 24"x36"

Medium: Acrylic and print on distressed wood with gold molding.

This artwork is part of Bear and Bird Gallery's "Le Iconique: Terribly Odd Solo Show" in Lauderhill, Florida. Exhibition runs April 24 - June 12, 2010, for more information visit our website www.bearandbird.com

Jimmy Carter (born 1924)

When Americans elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they were voting for a positive change in executive leadership. Burdened by escalating costs of living and tired of recent scandal-ridden politics, they saw Carter as a fresh new face who would make, in his words, government “as good as the American people.” A born-again Christian, Carter touted his human decency to heal the divisions of post-Vietnam American society while also promising to fix the economy. Stemming high inflation, however, proved to be harder than he had predicted. Nor could he do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis, instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations, and characterized by a shortage of gas for consumers at the pumps and high costs for home heating oil. In 1978, Carter successfully brokered a landmark peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, spurred by the U.S. support of the unpopular Shah of Iran, crippled the last year of his administration. He lost a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In this portrait by Robert Templeton, Carter is shown standing in the oval office, as it was during his tenure. The donkey statuette on his desk was a gift from the Democratic National Committee.

•Artist: Robert Templeton (1929-1991)

•Oil on canvas, 1980

•Partial gift of the 1977 Inauguration Committee

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It is hard to know how to do justice to the photos and subjects from Angola Prison. So, I wont even really try. Originally, Details Magazine was going to run my article about intra-prison boxing out there but things changed for a variety of reasons and I am still looking for an appropriate forum for the story. So, if anyone has any contacts at Time or the New Yorker, hook a brother up. I shot a ton of photos on Wednesday night and all I can really say about it is that my original feelings about Angola are even more jumbled and complex. Spending the better part of 4 hours in a room with 300 murderers and rapists who are, none-the-less, living human beings deserving respect and decency of some kind, is a draining experience. Every time I have visited Angola to interview prisoners or to photograph something I can’t shake the feeling that I have been given a yard pass in hell. Those guys have all done horrible things, no denying that, but they are truly just passing time until their death. If “life with out the possibility of parole” is not the definition of an Existentialist sort of hell then I can’t imagine what is; the whole experience puts the finality of the human experience into bold and stark terms. I probably just need to play with some puppies or something comparably uplifting.

This shot was taken with a Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens at ISO 800. This is moment after the bout was called, as you can tell. Taken on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

“ANZAC is not merely about loss. It is about courage and endurance, and duty, and love of country, and mateship, and good humour and the survival of a sense of self-worth and decency in the face of dreadful odds.”

Belton Molotow : so good it gives ladybugs an unresistable urge to get it on.

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enquity rejecting CPt(M) govr. 's strong opposition that the Police Commissioner and senior officers were merely transferred-neither dismissed nor even suspended. Are Prasun Mukherjee's views and actions any different from those ofVHp leader Babu Bajrangi? Both coerce Hindu women to break their marriages with Muslim men, affer all. .

Yet CPI(M) never even asked for such a man to be dismissed from his post as a pollee officer! .

VThe brutal gang-rape and murder of Tapas; Malik, the anfi land-grab activist at Singur by CPI(M) goons is a recent instance of CPI(M)'s Willingness to use rape as a weapon against a People's struggle. later, CPI(M) systematically spread the theories that she had in fact been killed by her lover, her father or her brother. At the time, the West Bengal CM fromCPI(M) ordered a CBi enquity, promising that it would PUnish the guilty if indeeiJ anyone was found guilty. But now the Cat enquity has accused CPI(M)'s own local leaders of having masterminded .

the rape, Yet CPI(M) continues to defend tho rapists and deny the rape Itself. In Nand/gram also, CPI(M)cadres and police indulged in brutal sexual violence on women. .

V CPt(MJ's top most leadership-such as its CC member Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene threats against women activists Who were speaking out against the land grab at Singur and Nand/gram. Konar threatened " When Medha Patkar visits here next time, we'll ask our women cadres to show her their backsides." When Medha Pafkar .

went to Nand/gram, not women, but CPI(M) men did in fact pull down their pants and show their behinds. .

V In 1993. Shubhankar Chakravarty, Principal ofAsh u tosh College, Kolka fa, pun/shed a g i r/ student for wearing a satwar-kameez, Which he said went against 'Bengali culture. lnspite of such anti-woman attitudes, he was .

against Mamata Banerjee from the CPI(M)..

rewarded with a Vice-Chancellorship of Rab1ndra Bharat1 University as We// as a high-profile lok Sabha ticket .

V SF! assaulted girl students In Rabindra Bharati University in 2002 While attempting to enforce a dress code of 'sarees onlyon the girl students of the Vis ual Arts Department (Ti.?1es of India, 22 and 24 July, 2002). .

V Affer the infamous Birati rape case in 1991, Shyamail Gupta, the Genera/ Secretaty ofthe CPI(M)'s West Be nga/ .

women's Wing, said about the 3 Bangladeshi refugee victims: "Many women of that area, including Shanli Das (a victim), the mistress ofa notorious anti-social, were involved in tout professions and such honeymoons ofthese women with the anti-socials were an open secret, that day's events appeared to be a sequel to the rivalty .

between these anti-socials", and this statement was published in full by the CPI(M)'s Party organ, People's .

Democracy1 (cited in Tanika Sarkar, · Renecilons on B1ra1i Rape Case·. Gender Ideology mBengal, EPW, Feb 21. 1991.) .

V CPI(M)'s former Kerata CM from CPI(M), the !ate EK Nayanar, asked about the rash of rape cases in the state, had replied: 'In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old as time and Wit/ continue.

as long as there are women. (The Hindu. April 30, 2004) .

V After the Kozhikode sex scandal in Kerala, Nayanar again said, "wherever there are women, there Wit/ be a sex.

racket. Sex rackets occur naturally.· (Outlook. 22 Dec, 1997) .

The l eft-oriented women's movement has a Well-deserved reputation for comm,tment to women's struggles. In order to .

retain and consolidate this legitimacy and combat the fasc1s1 and Patriarchal forces, the left groups need to Prove that they .

are Willing to acknowledge and consciously combat Patnarcha/ 'common sense within their C'Nn ranks When a CPi(MJ .

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rape, do they not do grievous harm to women's struggles against such patriarchal ideology? Do they not end up giving a.

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boost to the fascist Right-wing, that quotes the CPt(M)'s anti-woman statements to defend itself? .

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comrades on lhe issue of gender, when they refuse to question lhe patriarchal stances and distorted gender ideology of .

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p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.

I was going to call it "Toni, Recumbent", then "Toni, RecumBert", but then I thought that "cum" and "Bert" were a little too close together for decency, and the same argument applied nearly as well to the original title... So I realize that she's not actually couchant, but since she's on a couch, it works. :D

One of thousands of small grassroots protests organised in support of the heroes of Wisconsin, and also of all unions, public and private sector workers, middle and working class Americans being assaulted by the greed of corporations. A kind of tea party antidote.

At a playdate yesterday the moms were all discussing the possibility of radiation harming our little angels here in California. All I could do is feel just SICK thinking about the poor mommies who live near Fukushima Daiichi. They don't have the luxury of debating what to do. I pray for their babies (both ickle and big). I pray for the workers trying to cool the reactors, risking their own lives.

I am glued to the news. I feel powerless.

My prayers continue to go out to the people of Japan. I pray for those who have lost their homes, for those in darkness. For SO many rescue workers and regular citizens trying to come together to help. I am impressed by the decency and dignity of the Japanese people in the face of disaster. We in America have a lot to learn from them.

I have done my little donations and listed some things on ebay for charity but I wish I could do more. I guess I can start with getting Sherman microchipped and buying that extra bag of dog food ...

Sign found in the bathroom at Hugo's, North Hollywood, California. 28 June 2008.

"Common Decency and the STATE LAW health and safety code require that you WASH YOUR HANDS before leaving this room to resume work." Someone added, "Or eat."

This was the first time I'd ever seen "common decency" added to this kind of sign. Sort of begs the question, though...if it were that common, would we need a sign?

#2 If it still has power - pretend it`s a daylight lamp, and be safe in the knowledge that daylight lamps are what still keeps you sane, as the damned norwegian winter now has stretched far beyond both decency and decorum.

Mad hua's go out into the sea mid-winter...some of them not even having the decency to wear wet-suits!

It was a stunning morning, after a late night (well, er... does 5.30 am still count as night?), so some of the team decided to refreshen themselves in the sea. These are members of the Canterbury Underwater Club.

ANZAC is not merely about loss. It is about courage, and endurance, and duty, and love of country, and mateship, and good humour and the survival of a sense of self-worth and decency in the face of dreadful odds.

- Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia, 1996 - 2001, Gallipoli, 25 April 1999

See where this picture was taken. [?]

"Faith conquers truth, reason, hope, decency, kindness, compassion and morality. Next to it is ignorance, which conquers anything that escapes faith." -AtheistKeith

According to popular legend it was built about 1255 by the infante Frederick, brother of King Alfonso X, as a love-nest for his mistress, La Doña Juana, who was also his stepmother, the second wife of the previous king, Ferdinand III. Frederick was executed by his brother, either for the offence against public decency, or, more likely, for treason against the crown.

Either way Frederick’s land around the tower was confiscated, and in 1289 was used for the founding of a Franciscan convent.