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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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Hunter Patch Adams:
So what now, huh?
What do you want from me?
[looks down over the cliff]
Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn't stop me.
So answer me please. Tell me what you're doing.
Okay, let's look at the logic.
You create man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Man dies.
Maybe you should have had a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation.
You rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should've spent that day on compassion.
[looks down over the cliff once more]
You know what. You're not worth it.
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Hunter Patch Adams: [to Carin]
I love you not knowing how, why, or even from where.
I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride.
I love you because I know no other way then this.
So close that your hand, on my chest, is my hand.
So close, that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Hunter Patch Adams:
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of?
Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity,
and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor.
Death is not the enemy gentlemen.
If we're going to fight a disease,
let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all,
indifference.
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1) DEATH, to die, to expire, to pass on, to perish, to peg out, to push up dasies,
to push up posies, to become extinct, curtins, desceased, demised, departed and defunct, dead as a doornail, dead as a herring, dead as mutton, dead as nits , the last breath, paying a debt to nature, The Big Sleep, God's way of saying:Slow down.... ......to check out ,To shuffle off this mortal coil ,To head for the happy hunting ground
,To blink for an exceptionally long period of time, To find oneself without breath,
To be The Incredible Decaying Man, Worm Buffet , Kick the bucket ,
By the farm, Take the cab, Cash in your chips
AND if we bury you ass-up we'll have a place to park my bike.
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see what no one else sees,
see what everyone else chooses not to see
...out of fear, conformity or laziness.
see the world anew each day!
~PATCH ADAMS
WATCH IT!
Specification
Type of tram
Open-topped double-deck electric passenger tram with enclosed lower saloons (class F)
Livery
Crimson lake and ivory with lemon chrome panel lining
Seating capacity
84 (48 on top deck; 36 downstairs with additional authorised standing room for 18 passengers in the lower deck saloon) Originally built in 1901 as a single-deck tramcar with seating for 36 passengers.
Date built
1901
Date entered service
End of 1903 after extensive rebuilding
Manufacturer of body
Single-deck tramcar bodies were originally supplied by Hurst Nelson. Rebuilt by Newcastle Corporation incorporating metal components obtained from Brush Electrical Engineering Co. of Loughborough.
Manufacturer of truck
Brill 27G2 bogies
Gauge
4’ 8½”
Motor
2x GE 203N 40hp Originally equipped with 4x25hp GE 58 motors
Controller
BTH B18 was Originally equipped with B13 controllers
Current collector
Trolley
Modification
1903 – rebuilt by Newcastle Corporation; the single-deck body was initially open-sided and built to a jardinière design. It was rebuilt as an open-topped double-decker and placed on Brill 27G bogie trucks.
1933 – original hand brakes replaced by B.T.H. air brakes and B18 controllers replaced the originals. New motors were also provided to replace the original 30 hp motors.
1939 the original wire mesh above the upper deck decency panels was replaced by higher solid timber panelling. Rewiring following an electrical fire
Withdrawn from service
February 1949
Subsequent history
Following withdrawal no. 102 was temporarily housed in Bury before being put on open-air display in 1958 at the Montague Motor Museum in Beaulieu.
Restoration history
The tramcar was then moved back to its home turf at Byker Depot for restoration in March 1967, though this task was only completed after a further move to the museum’s off-site storage facility in April 1970. Its final move, to Crich, took place in 1975.
Current status
Has previously been restored to operational condition but is no longer operational and further restoration is now required.
Date started operating at Crich
1975. Has operated in 11 seasons, most recently in 2000.
Total mileage covered at Crich
5,304 at Crich plus 1257 at Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990.
Current location
Museum workshop
Future plans
It is currently undergoing a comprehensive overhaul in the workshop with a view to returning it to operational condition.
EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany
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with Whippet sister, Phantom
You will be missed.....
Run with the wind, pretty girl.
4/23/09 update
...... (sic) I will always remember the half starved, wheel backed mess that she was when she came to me through the kindness of some very wonderful Borzoi people when she was rescued from a West Virginia townhouse where she had suffered with 29 other Borzoi for nearly two years. I was remember equally as well, the glorious, gorgeous Russian diva she blossomed into not even a year later. Nadya was a love and an embassador for rescue.
To the volunteers of NBRF, to Deb West who so kindly drove all the way to Maryland and then back up to me in NE Pennsylvania, to all of her fans at her website, chroniclesofnadya.homestead.com
I send my deepest thanks and gratitude for bringing this gorgeous girl into my life.
Nadehezdha Voskresenya Anya Vesna Jeaniov
Approx. 02 /14/ 1999 to 04 /23/2009
Nadya's mom,
Jeanni
Jeanni K. Davis
Pet Portrait Artist
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
Nadya was one of 29 Borzoi rescued from a horrible situation in May of 2000 by the National Borzoi Rescue Foundation.
Full story here: www.nbrf.info/index.php?p=gallery&id=140
At that time she was called "Hope" and she went to her wonderful new home on June 12, 2000. In October of that same year she received her Canine Good Citizen certificate and was registered with Therapy Dogs International and she used to visit a state mental hospital and a children's hospital. -Deb
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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October 2, 2005
"I do not know id business at the Palais-Royal has really suffered from the absence of femmes de débauche; but what is certain is that public decency there has improved enormously...It seems to me, furthermore, that respectable women now willingly do their shopping in the shops of the galleries...; this has to be an advantage for the merchants. For when the Palais-Royal was invaded by a swarm of practically nude prostitutes, the gaze of the crowd was turned toward them, and the people who enjoyed this spectacle were never he ones who patronized the local businesses. Some were already ruined by their disorderly life, while others, yielding to the allure of libertinism, had no thought then of purchasing any goods, even necessities. I believe I can affirm...that, during those times of inordinate tolerance, several shops at the Palais-Royal were closed, and in others buyers were rare. Thus, business did not at all prosper there, and it would be more accurate to say that the stagnation of business at the time was owing rather to the free circulation of filles publiques than to their absence, which today has brought back into the galleries and the garden of this palace numerous strollers, who are far more favorable to business than prostitutes and libertines." F.F.A. Béraud, __Les Filles Publiques de Paris__(Paris and Leipzig, 1839) vol. 1. (A4,4)
I've passed this roadside memorial for almost 2 years now. This weekend I finally pulled over and took a closer look.
RIP: George Ritsick
5/16/86 to 8/15/03
My natural curiosity gets me thinking about how this kid died at this spot on a back road on a day in August. Car accident? Motorcycle accident? Every week, fresh flowers and wreaths are place at the tree. The saving grace to this memorial is that the money-grubbing land developers who are slapping up 2 million dollar houses in a month nearby have at least shown the tiniest amount of decency by not tearing this tree down to make room for another driveway.....
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/
So JPG is doing a from the HIP contest and I shoot a great deal that way. I happen to have a fondness for this image and I submitted it; and now in all of my pushiness i figure i'll beg for votes? If you like and you belong to JPG or want to join and feel free to vote for it; if i've broken every rule of common internet decency please forgive.
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
During his working visit to Chernivtsi, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with students of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Bukovinian State Medical University and Chernivtsi Institute of Trade and Economic of State University of Trade and Economics.
The Head of State spoke with Ukrainian youth about our country, its future, and the work on the analogy of the Marshall Plan for Ukraine. The President said that the main issue of this plan is the restoration of Ukraine: its energy, technology, and economy. According to preliminary estimates, this will require about $700 billion. However, the amount is not final.
"We do not know the real amounts because the war is not over yet. When it is over, we will analyze everything. Basically, the partners agree that everyone will help rebuild Ukraine, that the amounts are, let's say, understandable and affordable. Let's believe in the decency of our partners and hope that they will accept what they say and not just say it," he noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also confident that Ukraine will become a member of the EU and NATO in the coming years.
"NATO is our external defense and, of course, the best security commitment. But I am also convinced that we will strengthen our internal defense. We will strengthen our security at the borders, in the cities, in the communities. In the future, there will be a completely different approach to both security and construction," the President of Ukraine said.
The Head of State added that once the war is over, our country will also pursue the development of various areas of education: medicine, psychology, security, and construction.
Ukraine will need specialists in these fields.
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Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring
down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
I had a woman down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic."
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it. There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets,
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring
down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
I had a woman down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic."
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it. There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets,
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
bob dylan slow train
Westpac Center, Christcurch, NZ
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still has no clothes but for decency's sake is now wrapped in a bit of cloth. Really love her although she is a gangly, awkwardly jointed thing! Antique style doll wig ebay
A slightly doctored photo taken in JJ Colony. In order to be able to publish this, I had to "pull" the shirt down on the little girl sitting in the foreground. It is a very common site in the slums. Many kids don't have the clothes for decency, much less the clothes for the colder winter months.
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Read this post on Elitistreview - Beef Cartel at Hawksmoor – from the stars to the gutter
Since having Pedro’s meat at Casa Nicolas in Tolosa, the Basque country, I’ve though it’s been the best beef I’ve ever eaten. However, I am well aware that the limits of pleasure are yet to be defined or reached, so was pleased that two of the dishes at the Beef Cartel event at Hawksmoor last night out-performed Pedro’s ox chops.
However, there is more to a dining experience than raw ingredients and this event utterly failed in every other regard. The portions were insulting, the service glacial and the eating environment terrifying. Whoever arranged this event clearly had no idea how to organise an enjoyable meal. As an unabashed fan of Hawksmoor it pains me to say that Editor Dani and I found this to be one of the most dreadful restaurant visits of our lives.
The idea of the event was to eat an entire Mull Highland cow from Iain Mackay, sourced by the Beef Cartel. The cow was eight years old and its beef made two of the six courses (we only stayed for five) the most amazing things I’ve ever put in my mouth. These were so good I’ll start with them.
Slow-grilled chuck, cooked over apple wood, utterly blew my mind with its powerful flavours and dense texture. It was stunningly delicious, the incredible beefiness of the meat enhanced by being served in a little melted kidney fat. Like all the dishes it was a little tough, which I suppose you might expect from an eight year old cow, but it tasted so utterly fantastic this didn’t matter and I adored my two slices of beef. This is a cut of meat that is not prized, normally used for making mince or similar, so the fact that this was so enjoyable clearly showed the animal had class.
The following course was, to my mind, even better. Slow smoked rib of beef was meltingly tender and richly complex in flavour. It had be grunting and gesticulating with unrestricted pleasure and expanded my horizons of meat enjoyment.
However, the excessive quality of those two courses is ignoring the elephant in the room; namely that it was an event run with appalling incompetence that made it almost impossible to enjoy.
It was almost impossible to feel like you’d eaten any appreciable amount of food. With the number of people present all dining on one cow it meant that each course contained so little beef a vegetarian would be happy to eat them. They were miniscule amounts of food that combined with the pace of the service resulted in you being utterly starving all of the time. It was not a cheap evening and I was offended to leave it feeling hungry.
The pace of the service was shocking. The gaps between each course grew increasingly tiresome with the chefs standing around chatting in groups for so long they were in danger of becoming stagnant ponds. When they could actually be bothered to prepare a course it was service to the assembled hordes with reasonable efficiency, but as each tiny plateful took moments to eat the ever-expanding gaps between getting them just dragged and dragged. If your servings are going to be miniscule you should have the decency to keep them coming at a reasonable pace and not leave your guests hanging around for hours.
The number of people present and the geological pace of the meal made the restaurant atmosphere unbearable. As people tend to hit the bottle at Hawksmoor the huge numbers of people present soon got painfully loud. This was worse in the yawning gaps between each course when it seemed half the restaurant would stand up and assemble in groups to shout at each other. Shouting seemed the only way of being heard whilst at the same time making it impossible to hear anything. My primary school dinner hall, where it was not unusual to see lumps of mashed potato flying through the air, was a more civilised dining environment.
We felt cheated to get so little food, served with so little competence, in such a horrible environment for what was quite a lot of our limited funds. Whoever organised this should hang their heads in shame and give up organising dining events, they clearly cannot do it. I have a few meals at Hawksmoor booked in the near future, and I look forward to them, but the Beef Cartel at Hawksmoor event just makes me think of losing my equilibrium, lots of money and respect for the restaurant.
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Hawksmoor’s beef burger – the best I’ve had
Photos of the wonderful food at Hawksmoor
Hawksmoor’s weekend brunch
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"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.
The sad reality is that Aylan was one among millions of desperate people forced to flee from war and persecution. The world is facing a global refugee crisis on a scale we've not seen since WWII, but Australia - our lucky country of a fair go for all - is not doing enough. We can do better to help these people.
We need to do better."
light the dark, adelaide, south australia
#lighthedark
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There is a campervan company that appeals to a certain segment of the market with shabby vans and large slogans that would make your mother cringe.
They are popular with those post university backpacking travellers from Europe who said "Daddy, now that I have graduated and before I settle down and bear those 8 grandchildren that you always wanted, I want to expand my global culture by backpacking through a wild and backward country where I might be able to help poor and orphaned children like there is in Africa.
No Daddy, I don't want to go to Africa, I want to go to Australia.
No Daddy, it isn't next to Germany, it is down in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.
A year ago Wicked was in the news as they upset people so much that they were forced to remove their slogans from their vans.
They pushed the limits of decency too far, for (normal) human consumption so to see if they were remorseful, I went to visit one of their depots last week, and found that while they have toned it down, they are still trying to excite the backpackers.
I remember some years ago driving down the freeway returning from a day at the beach with the Mail family, and passing a Wicked van and sprawled across the back in big letters was the message "Well I'm not a gynecologist, but I will look into it".
While I unashamedly had a little chuckle to myself, I thought it was not really "appropriate".
Cropped for decency -- sadly, there's a pair of happily kicking legs in this picture noone will ever see.
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Today is the funeral of my old headmaster Gordon Green. He was Headmaster at Primrose Hill a big comprehensive (state/public school) in Birmingham from the time I joined the school age 11 till I left at the age of 18........ and longer........ He was a very decent man who was an educationalist his whole life and was particularly devoted to bringing education to some of the under privileged children in the UK City of Birmingham.
I knew him as my headmaster with all that goes with that............ but also knew he had a wry sense of humor and he would take great delight in reading out loud to the school....... Normally funny passages from one of his favorite authors Laurie Lee........ Especially often from the book Cider with Rosie.
I had learned of his death the day I was shooting these pictures in Atlanta.......... I was struck by the absolute decency of these men the coaches of this session........... I was struck all over again by the nobilty of teaching as I watched these guys and thought back to Mr Green and his staff.
Gordon Green's funeral......... It's an open invitation for 1.30 on the 17th at St Nicholas Church on the Green Kings Norton Birmingham......... Today.
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXX
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that has a divided back.
The Korean Gat
The men in the photograph are wearing the traditional Korean gat (Korean: Hunminjeongeum 갓)
A gat is a traditional hat worn by men along with hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) during the Joseon period. It is made from bamboo or horsehair with a bamboo frame, and is partly transparent.
Most gats are cylindrical in shape with a wide brim on a bamboo frame. Before the late 19th. century, only noble class men could wear gat, which represented their social status and protected their topknots.
Robert Neff of the Korean Times has written the following about Korean male headware:
'One of the most important articles of clothing for Koreans in the late 19th. century was the hat. The elderly man with his majestic black horse hair hat, often seen in pictures, is the iconic image of Korean male society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910).
According to Percival Lowell, an American who stayed in Seoul in the winter of 1883-84:
"No Korean can in decency appear
without it [hat], except only to make
room for some other hat."
It was a sign of manhood, "the most essential of attributes," and a badge of one's position in Korean society.
Lowell seemed amused with the difference between Korean and American culture. In the United States it was considered poor manners to wear a hat indoors, and one would rarely remove one's shoes, but the opposite was true in Korea:
"A man would part with any or all of
his clothing sooner than take off his
hat. On entering a house, he leaves
his shoes outside to await his return,
but he and his hat go in together.
As he sits down to eat, he divests
himself of his outer garments that he
may eat with greater freedom, but his
hat stays on; and so it sticks to him
through life ― a permanent black halo."
There were many types of hats. The iconic hat, the gat, was made from horse hair and bamboo and was black and somewhat transparent.
It had a fairly wide brim that in the past, according to popular legend, was much wider as a means of preventing unrest. Because of its wide brim, conspirators were kept apart, and were unable to whisper their plans to one another.
There was also a large mourning hat made from bamboo. It was designed to hide the face of mourners from others they might encounter on the streets. It was considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourner.
Early French missionaries used the mourning hat to disguise themselves as they traveled the Korean peninsula before the 1880's. They were able to move about in relative secrecy for no one would attempt to communicate with a mourner.
Court officials' hats had slightly bent-forward ear-shaped horizontal wings. It was said they symbolized the wearer's attentiveness and willingness to "catch every word of command that the King may utter."
As Korea entered the 20th. century, there were many reforms forced on the population. Some were readily accepted and appreciated, but others, especially those that dealt with hair styles and hats, were vehemently opposed.
"A man is much more firmly bound to
his hat than he is attached to his wife.
He may put away the latter; without
the hat, life becomes a hollow mockery,
for the hat makes the man. Without it
he remains forever a boy."
Hats remained a part of male culture throughout the first half of the 20th. century, but have since disappeared. The only exceptions are those worn by elderly males in the Jongno area, or the bright colorful caps that young teens and adults wear while out with their friends. The "permanent black halo" is no more.'
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Erin Blakemore has written the following for history.com in 2018, and updated it in 2023:
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945. In order to establish control over its new protectorate, the Empire of Japan waged an all-out war on Korean culture.
Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean, and emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the Emperor. Public places adopted Japanese, too, and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed.
Topographical and other postcards of Korea were published with descriptions in Japanese text.
It also became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical documents, essentially wiping out the historical memory of Korea.
During the occupation, Japan took over Korea’s labor and land. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families settled in Korea with the land they had been given; they chopped down trees by the million and planted non-native species, transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn’t recognize.
Nearly 725,000 Korean workers were made to work in Japan and its other colonies, and as World War II loomed, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Korean women into life as “comfort women”—sexual slaves who served in military brothels.
Korea’s people weren’t the only thing that was plundered during Japan’s colonization—its cultural symbols were considered fair game, too. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sovereignty and independence was its royal palace, Gyeongbokgung, which was built in Seoul in 1395 by the mighty Joseon dynasty.
Soon after assuming power, the Japanese colonial government tore down over a third of the complex’s historic buildings, and the remaining structures were turned into tourist attractions for Japanese visitors.
As historian Heejung Kang notes, the imperial government also attempted to preserve treasures of Korean art history and culture—but then used them to uphold imperial Japan’s image of itself as a civilizing and modern force.
This view of Korea as backward and primitive compared to Japan made it into textbooks, museums and even Koreans’ own perceptions of themselves.
The occupation government also worked to assimilate Koreans with the help of language, religion and education. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese families became places of forced worship.
Historian Donald N. Clark explains:
"The colonial government made Koreans
worship the gods of imperial Japan,
including dead emperors and the spirits
of war heroes who had helped them
conquer Korea earlier in the century.”
This forced worship was viewed as an act of cultural genocide by many Koreans, but for the colonists, it was seen as evidence that Koreans and Japanese were a single, unified people.
Though some families got around the Shinto edict by simply visiting the shrines and not praying there, others grudgingly adopted the new religious practices out of fear.
By the end of its occupation of Korea, Japan had even waged war on people’s family names. At first, the colonial government made it illegal for people to adopt Japanese-style names, ostensibly to prevent confusion in family registries.
But in 1939, the government made changing names an official policy. Under the law, Korean families were “graciously allowed” to choose Japanese surnames.
At least 84 percent of all Koreans took on the names since people who lacked Japanese names were not recognized by the colonial bureaucracy, and were shut out of everything from mail delivery to ration cards. Historian Hildi Kang writes:
“The whole point was for the government
to be able to say that the people had
changed their names ‘voluntarily.’”
The Plundering of Korea by Japan
(a) Historic Korean Artifacts
Koreans accuse the Japanese of plundering hundreds of thousands of ancient Korean artifacts, mostly during their 36-year occupation of the peninsula. Most Japanese consider the issue a dead one, resolved by the 1965 Japan-Korea Treaty, which led to the return of some 1,400 items.
However the treaty was not definitive, as it neglected artifacts in Japanese private collections, as well as those originating in North Korea.
The size of the haul is astounding. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And, says Seoul art historian Kwon Cheeyun:
"35,000 Korean art objects and
30,000 rare books have been
confirmed to be there, too."
However that is only the tip of the iceberg: vastly more is believed to be hidden away in private collections.
Determining legal ownership is far more difficult than with the art looted by the Nazis. Toshiyuki Kono, a law professor at Kyushu University. states:
"It's almost impossible to trace the
provenance of centuries-old artifacts."
Besides, the Japanese annexation was internationally recognized in 1910, meaning that relocating Korean artifacts within "Japanese territory" was lawful at the time.
To Korea's annoyance, Japan holds many items of particular value. More than 1,000 bronze, gold and celadon pieces owned by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura now make up the core of the Tokyo National Museum's Korean section.
A lot of precious Korean artifacts are now owned by private Japanese citizens or organizations, which means that the Japanese government can’t just acquire them and hand them back to Korea. So, unless the Korean government offers to actually spend millions of dollars to buy back the artifacts, it is unlikely they will ever be returned.
As well as removing cultural artifacts to Japan, the Japanese also burned countless Korean government buildings and palaces.
(b) Natural Resources
The Japanese also removed vast amounts of Korea's natural resources, including lumber, rice, coal, iron ore and many other minerals.
The land itself was also appropriated by the Japanese; by 1910 an estimated 8% of all arable land in Korea had come under Japanese control. This ratio increased steadily, and by 1932, the ratio of Japanese land ownership had grown to 53%.
Japanese landlords included both individuals and corporations. Many former Korean landowners became tenant farmers, having lost their entitlements almost overnight because they could not pay for the land reclamation and irrigation improvements forced upon them. As often occurred in Japan itself, tenants had to pay over half their crop in rent.
Press conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini, Secretary General Thorbjørn and Secretary of State for European Affairs Amélie de Montchalin.
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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I really like the BBC. So when we were on our way out of the Bush House lobby, I decided to snap a picture of the front door. In order to get the whole door in my shot I had to back up right against the iron gate that separated the sidewalk from the entryway. I snapped this picture, and the front door security guard came over and told me no pictures were allowed on the premises. I looked at him.
"You don't allow people to take pictures of your door?"
"Pictures from the sidewalk are fine"
"So if I take one step back, it's ok for me to take a picture?
"Yes."
I gave him a withering look. He had the basic decency to look embarrassed, and said he wasn't the one that made the rules.
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In Article 5 of the ten commandments, "keep making news and vilify their leaders. Our journalists should find opportunities to interview them and then organize their own words to attack themselves" and "democratic norms" "Focus on the illegality of an authoritarian regime or the weakness of its legitimacy; this is its weakest point. Attack the regime on issues of general concern, such as corruption and cruelty. If the regime is successful (especially economically), these attacks may not be effective. Once it is bad (and will be so) , then focus on attacking its illegality, which has become the most important means to disintegrate its power.
Another example is article 4 of the ten commandments "They often create things that have nothing to do and let their people discuss them openly. In this way, the seeds of division are planted in their subconscious mind. In particular, they should find good opportunities in their ethnic minorities to split their regions, their nations, their feelings and create new and old hatred among them. This is a strategy that can not be ignored at all", The "world revolution action plan" is expressed as: the general public does not know how to enjoy freedom. The concept of "freedom" can be used to trigger "class struggle".
Senior KGB intelligence officer Wei? General shronen cited the intelligence he handled in the KGB X-Files. Alan, the founder and first leader of the CIA? Dulles once taught his officers:
"There (Soviet Union) After creating chaos, we unconsciously change their values into false ones and force them to believe them. How? We found our own like-minded people... We found allies and assistants in Russia. Directing one plot after another to the demise of the least tame people in the world, its self-consciousness is finally and irreversibly extinguished, which is the most magnificent tragedy according to its scale... "
"We will do everything possible to support and mobilize the so-called artists. They will cultivate the worship of pornography, violence, abuse and betrayal. In short, we will create chaos and uncontrollable situation in national governance..."
"We will unconsciously but actively promote the misdeeds of officials and bribes. Unprincipled, bureaucratic and follow-up delays will be regarded as good deeds..."
"Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and become remnants of the past. Arrogance, rudeness, meanness, lies and deception, murder and drug abuse, animal like fear and shamelessness between each other, betrayal, nationalism and hostility of all nationalities, and above all hostility and hatred towards the Russian nation - all these will be cultivated skillfully and unconsciously, and all these will bloom Double petaled flowers... "(v. shronin: KGB x archives, Xinhua press, 1st edition, August 2003, P. 62).
It can be seen that these paragraphs are excerpts from Dulles's instruction. The KGB spies lurking in the CIA got the information and sent it back to the KGB. These contents are basically consistent with the contents of the CIA's Ten Commandments later disclosed.
From the comparison of the contents of the above documents, it can be seen that the ten commandments, as a kind of ideological manipulation and conceptual infiltration to subvert the sovereign state, is by no means fabricated out of thin air. It is a consistent established strategy of the family forces of transnational financial tyrants and their agents, and has been implemented for a long time. Throughout the modern history of the world, we can see that this established strategy has achieved great success.
Some countries in central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa have experienced varying degrees of turbulence in their domestic political situation, and even regime change in the form of violence. These so-called "revolutions" are uniformly called the so-called "Color Revolution". Their biggest common ground is the intervention and operation of the "black hand" of the United States. During the cold war, the United States began to counter the Soviet Union and the socialist camp by wantonly intervening in other countries' internal affairs and supporting Pro American forces. The most typical example is that in 1973, the CIA directly intervened in the political situation in Chile, overthrew the Allende government, which actively cooperated with the socialist camp, and supported the pro american military government to power. Such overt subversive actions also highlight the interference of the United States in other countries on the grounds of so-called "democracy" and "human rights". Its purpose is entirely to safeguard the interests of the United States itself and even some special groups within the United States.
Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
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Playing with my TZ6 on holiday. I actually had time to read the manual and try out some of the sillier features. This was taken in one of the options offered by transform mode:Changes the subject to a slim-looking or glamorous appearance! (Do not use in ways that violate public order and decency...)
I tried it out on profJohn first before attempting a selfie.
The Image
• Painter George Grosz's (née Georg Ehrenfried Groß), The Menace, 1934, inscribed: "To my friend Eric Cohn" - watercolor, brush & India ink on paper.
The photo is of a photograph of the painting in a book given to me by my great, dear & most affectionate friend, Mr. Gravyboat, a gentleman residing with his wife & dozens of cameras somewhere in the British Isles: George Grosz, a Ralph Jentsch book (he is managing director of the Grosz estate), texts by Enrico Crispolti & Philippe Dagen, publisher Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008, Italy (ISBN 978-88-6130-294-50).
George Grosz was an altogether uncommon man, & one deserving of being honored not just for his art, but for extraordinary humanity, wisdom & heroism. If alive today & in America he would have been jailed numerous times since 1980 for refusing to be silent about the nation's ever faster growing status as a vulgar, vicious corporatist police state, & he might well be seeking refuge & freedom of expression in today's Social Democratic Germany (for those very reasons Grosz left his native Germany & came to America just before Hitler took control of it, & by 1932 was teaching art in New York).
Grosz said of his work, "My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society....
"My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. . . . I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands. . . . I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket. . . I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry.”
Wikipedia biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz
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"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.
The sad reality is that Aylan was one among millions of desperate people forced to flee from war and persecution. The world is facing a global refugee crisis on a scale we've not seen since WWII, but Australia - our lucky country of a fair go for all - is not doing enough. We can do better to help these people.
We need to do better."
light the dark, adelaide, south australia
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