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Ministry for Foreign Affairs produces photo material for media representatives. Please feel free to use the photos for journalistic purposes, considering the following restrictions: One-time picture publishing right, no archiving or reselling. Editorial use only. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organisation shall be mentioned as a 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. The publisher is not entitled to transfer rights to a third party. 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 also obtain the permissions needed for any names, persons, works of art, trademarks, and proprietary rights shown in the pictures. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.

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

All images copyright © Matthew Field 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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From "Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency"

"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

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I just love when people are completely devoid of common decency and respect! I get to share the planet with them. It's so awesome! Jerks didn't even bother stealing anything...

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Bullards Bridge, Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon, Oregon

Something I've wanted to catch for a long time is some nice golden light on Bullards Bridge. My hope was to one day capture a much closer, tighter view of the bridge then this but the quickly moving clouds and smooth reflective qualities of the Coquille River kept us here. Although my goal is for a different view of the bridge this will do for now.

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supporting Queens Of The Stone Age at Palm Desert Benefit show, CA

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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

The room at the B&B isn't quite as luxurious as the fancy resorts but it's comfortable and they have the human decency to offer free wireless internet.

(C) Isabelle Adam

Two days ago, the fine for saying "fuck" on US radio or television was $32,500. Then they added another fucking zero at the end of that number, and the fine for saying fuck is now $325,000. It's a result of the fucking Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (BDEA).

The figure also comes with a strapless lace bra. It turns out that the lace bra just visible under her dress is actually a part of the dress, so if you remove the dress (and more on that later), you'll need this to keep a modicum of decency.

Drinking and diving is not something you see advocated against often but perhaps it should be based on how this dive is going to turn out. Anyone who recognizes this well-known joker won't be surprised to see him back-flopping onto the water. For common decency this is the only picture of our group in our bathing suits.

in a perfect world I could say anything I wanted and nobody would be offended, nobody's feelings would get hurt, everybody would laugh hysterically at everything I wrote and no one would question my decency or my character. But that is unrealistic. People cant control what offends them, and sometimes it is better to err on the side of caution.

A prisoner who is condemned to solitude. . . will in the long run, especially if the run is too long, suffer from the effects as surely as one who has gone hungry too long. Like everyone else, I need friendly or affectionate relationships or intimate companionship, and am not made of stone or iron like a pump or a lamppost, and like any man of culture or decency I cannot do without these things and not feel a void, a lack of something - and I tell you all this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.

Written by a famous painter I'm not going to mention-

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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

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.

Letchworth Town Hall, built in 1935 to a sober and restrained Neo-Georgian design by the firm of Bennett and Bidwell. It may be polite and bland but it successfully conveys a sense of civic decency.

11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström.

Finland hosts the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting on 7 May in Rovaniemi. Minister-level representatives from the eight Arctic States will convene to review and approve work completed under the two-year Finnish Chairmanship to improve sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic.

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: Rim Mezian / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

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Ministry for Foreign Affairs produces photo material for media representatives. Please feel free to use the photos for journalistic purposes, considering the following restrictions: One-time picture publishing right, no archiving or reselling. Editorial use only. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organisation shall be mentioned as a 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. The publisher is not entitled to transfer rights to a third party. 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 also obtain the permissions needed for any names, persons, works of art, trademarks, and proprietary rights shown in the pictures. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.

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A client rang me yesterday morning and asked if I'd cover an event in the North East for them this afternoon. Very short notice, but I rearranged stuff so I could do it and arrived well on time. An hour and a half later they decided that they didn't need me after all!

Now - I'm realistic about the life of an independent consultant but I still think I'm entitled to common decency and consideration...

Rant over.

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild- mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread. Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dead like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

- Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"

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/

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/

Gene Trautman, Brian O'Connor and Dave Catching

EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany

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A photographic exhibition of iconic imagery by Ged Murray of 1990’s Strangeway Riots.

Her Majesty’s Prison, Manchester, aka Strangeways, was built in 1868 to house and rehabilitate a maximum of 972 prisoners from the surrounding area, mainly those on remand or serving sentences of less than five years.

One hundred and twenty two years later Strangeways held 1660 men in appalling conditions as prisoners were held, three to a cell, for up to 23 hours a day with the cells measuring 12 foot by 8 foot (3.65 by 2.44 meters).

For some years up to 1990, prision policy had been, not to house and rehabilitate, but to control and contain as prisoners suffered the daily humiliation of “slopping out.” There were repeated claims of brutality and injustice and many of the prison officers were known to have extreme right-wing sympathies.

On April 1 1990, during the Sunday service, the prisoners first seized the chapel, and then throughout that day occupied over half the prison. So began a siege and rooftop protest ended on 25 April when the final five prisoners were removed from the rooftop, making it the longest prison riot in British penal history. One prisoner was killed during the riot, and 147 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured. Much of the prison was damaged or destroyed with the cost of repairs coming to £55 million.

The riot also sparked a series of disturbances in prisons across England, Scotland and Wales.

The British government announced a public inquiry headed by Lord Woolf.

The resulting Woolf Report which only happened as a direct result of the Strangeways Riot, was hailed as the most radical appraisal of the prison system this Century, and was to become a blueprint for the restoration of "decency and Justice into jails where conditions had become intolerable".

Prints are available for purchase.

For more info please contact Fink On Theatre on 0161 226 0807.

"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

Oh, Google. Have you no decency?

Google for iPhone/iPod Touch gives 'suggestions' when you start typing, based on popular searches from other Google users ... much like Google's website does. I'd started typing 'why...' and this is a screenshot of what Google 'suggested'.

This is the kind of thing I used to think was cool in the mid-nineties, but then that's acid for you, kills your sense of taste and decency.

"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

#lighthedark

Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009

All images copyright © Matthew Field 2009

p.s. if you are going to ignore my copyright and post my images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me and link them back to here, or i'll probably have to stop posting them here 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.

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As I've mentioned, this was a game between the Dodgers and the Rangers, but there are 15 Major League baseball teams practicing within a 20-mile radius of downtown Phoenix, so you're going to get a lot of mixing. Toward the end of things, for instance, I saw this guy in a Cleveland Indians hat. And not just any Cleveland Indians hat, but one of the hats featuring Chief Wahoo, the former Indians mascot.

This hat is not current, of course, and I guess now it'd be an antique. As you might know if you follow sports, the Cleveland Indians recently bowed to decades of pressure from Native American groups and people who just like human decency and changed their name to the Cleveland Guardians. I think the new name is stupid -- had it been up to me, I'd have called them the Cleveland Rocks -- but it's better than continuing the century of insult associated with the Indians name. I don't personally think calling a team "Indians" was offensive, but that Chief Wahoo logo was offensive as Hell. And that's one of the less offensive forms the logo took on over the years. The long history of offensive behavior connected to the "Cleveland Indians" name had tarnished the thing forever, so I'm glad for the switch. Certain types of Cleveland fans are going to hold onto those hats forever, though.