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A typical American toilette booth at the Cincinnati International Airport, taken in April 2008. There is a half incs gap between the door and the wall, and a lot of space under and above the walls around - control is apparently more important than privacy...
Egy jellegzetesen amerikai vécéfülke a Cincinnati repülőterén, 2008. áprilisában. Az ajtó és a fal között egy centis rés van, amin be lehet látni, felette és alatta pedig még sokkal nagyobb. A szeméremnél itt fontosabb a kontroll...
The Postcard
A postally unused Excelsior Series postcard of N.Y., Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. The card was published on behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The card was produced in Germany.
In the space for the stamp it states:
"Postage: United States
and Island Possessions,
Cuba, Canada & Mexico
One Cent.
For All Other Countries
Two Cents."
Itinerant vendors in Korea in the early part of the 20th. century generally used to transport their wares on large wooden frames carried on their back.
The man's burden of live poultry would have been heavy.
The Korean Gat
The man in the photograph is 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.
a sign at a restaurant in covent gardens, 7-7-05. Found on Wildfalcon.com via boingboing.com, not taken by me, just something I liked enough to nab a copy of.
Walking up these hills is hard enough. At least he had the decency to grimace with the effort of cycling up.
Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England
"political correctness" was invented to muzzle truthfulness and and decency in favor of indifference and mediocracy
I don't think our French cousins care much for morning tennis. This was the "crowd" on the French equivalent of our Centre Court for the first match on! Check out the lady on the bottom right. At least she had the decency to put her newspaper down when the tennis started.......though then her husband read it all the way through the following match!
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/
In our gallery of the Calla Lilies we present you our different works on their decency and beauty, we like our approach. Spice up your home and buy some flowers. Printed once last much longer, we sell them :)
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.
The Mo Grease is lecturing his acolytes, who in turn are having The Raptures.
"Yes, we will Spoil Everything !" cries Mo "All hail me ! Bring back Neil Sedaka and Gilbert O'Sullivan and stamp upon the fingers of reason and decency and progress !"
"Whaaaauugh !" cry his acolytes.
Thirty-ninth president, 1977–1981
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. He also could not do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations. 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, rippled 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 Clark Templeton
Biffy Clyro supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Wintertur, Switzerland
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.
Bailey watches me working outside her cell, wondering if the murder of an Anole carries a death sentence.
Bailey claims the anole
entered the house with malicious intent,
but the procesution claims the door was open, and it was hot outside.
Photographs of the victim
are being withheld out of common decency,
and respect for the family.
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This was the day of the infamous 'naked painting' stunt..
In the name of decency I won't upload them pics... (Drax)
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.
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.
News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
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One of our favorite stories (and photos)! There is a strictly enforced dress code in St. Peter's Basilica - no knees, no shoulders, no shorts, appropriate dress only. Barbara and I attended mass in St. Peters and while in line to receive communion, Barbara was approached by an usher who indicated to her that she needed to do a better job at keeping her shoulders covered. :)
In any event, this is a shot of Barbara having a "wardrobe malfunction" and exposing her shoulder in the basilica
maybe if we make decency seem obscene power will corrupt in the direction of public good
02-28-2026
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The Finnish Chairmanship Team at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi.
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: Ville Cantell / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Slightly romanticised, along with everything else to do with Ernesto, one can't help but suspect.
"I want my children to grow up to be like Che, we should all want our children to grow up like him" Something like that came gushing out of Castro's brain and onto his tongue and thereby onto paper not so long ago. Without having a clue as to why, my intuition tells me it's because the country's in such a disastrously awful state it needs another revolution (there are signs 'viva revolucion' absolutely everywhere; 'without r4evolution there is only death' uplifting stuff like that so maybe it's not so far out of the question) and Castro has been trying to remind people of what a noble wonderful revolution it was and how it's not his fault it's all turned to crap.
I saw four young Che's visiting the museum when I was there. It certainly seems to be a bit of a pilgrimage for Cubans. Shame it's so badly out of touch with contemporary museums all over the rest of the world.
This place is like the tiny town museum in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, where, until they were recently removed for the sake of decency (shame actually), the most fascinating thing on display were deformed foetuses preserved in formaldehyde.
This museum has nothing so interesting except remnants of a failed philosophical doctrine.
May 12th, 2008
I've never really been afraid to show my breasts, even in public...I actually feel kind of out of place here in North America where showing your breasts is considered a taboo and women (especially "real" women) must always keep them covered up for fear of a moral riot. Now that I work in Public Health, I appreciate their natural use (breastfeeding) even more, and find the whole idea of keeping them hidden in the name of "decency", or because of our arrested development as a society, quite foolish. So no, I did not blur out my nipple and I am not ashamed of having my less-than-perfect breasts here on this website.
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prtvilege. One 'quota-case' in every family is sufficient Irrespective of .
:hem QUiiJ'fiy and complementary education. .
YFE Women's Uberation cell: tt was only due to the efforts of hundreds of YFE caste and class. maintenance, of computers is also Verf poor. As these are pubUc .
5. The misuse of the quotaby the powerful and the rich should be taken care computers adequate caretakers should be employed. .
acbvists in_a recent case after atwo days long demonstration in Alipurpolice station, by proper investigations and the ministers who so loudly advocate the Single I·Card system for all purposes should be lntrocfuc1td. Students.
4. presenting papers in different national and international forums shoulda the ruiprf.s of agang rape case were arrested and are nowbehind the bars. reservation regime must undertake checks. .
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socety ~we launched this campaign in March 2007 in DU. Bikaner, Gandhi Nagar, 6. The government should make effort to uplift backward classes by be supported by the JNU Administration. .
strengthening the educational base ofthese classes at the prtma.ry level. 5. Library and Laboratories In an schools should be kept cptn Patna,H~and Mumbai with renowned Cyclist andPOW activist HiraiaIYadav Ji. clock and acquiring newly published books should be made Y_FE Hospital:YFEis running acharitable hospital at Nithari Village of Delhi which is .
CAMPUS ISSUES: Publication of a quarterly journal needs to be Introduced .
aJmed to h~l~ the deprived people irrespective oftheir castes and religions. YFE has Placement cell is effective only in theCESP, JNU.This has to be activated the Students of JNU. There are quite a few numberS of libraries (in been arganlZing regular health camps, two ofwhich were heldin JNU' during April and 1. in all other Centres and Schools. Eminent research organizations, Schools and Centres) In the University, apait from the Central October 2007. books andjournalsmust be digitized and linked to theJNUwebsif8..
institutions and media houses are to be contacted to organize In-campus recruitment. 6. Special classes to teach computer skills should be .
WHAT ARE WESTANDING FOR? In campus, busservice needs to be upgraded. Buses from Chandrabhaga .
We all JNU students stand for agoal, i.e.casteless and classless society. 2. school for all. Establishment of Central to various Centres should be managed according to the routine of the Science Schools should beIntroduced..
Acaste free society with equal opportunity for all. school timings. Earlier there were two buses plying to different libraries.
The optional classes In the ~.H!!!ua..Ja .
~pliftm~nt of .the _under privileged sections of the society through in Delhi from JNU. Now they are not in use and need to be converted into 7. own School buildings. The optional !lOW.,.,""' ffirmahve action like free education, scholarships etc. rather than only CNG. This should be done at the earliest possible. Bus services to SPS demand andthelikings ofthsbJdinti.A.
through thecrutches of reservation. should be regularized. Most of the DTC buses have no timetable, run on the lab should be set up In the new.
Makin~ India a true knowledge based society where focus should be on .
arbitra()' basis.While the bluellnes, don't guarantee to drop you inthe campus. SLL,.
m,~gthe potential not on mere vote bank politics. There is no bus to leave the campus after 8:10p.m. University must ensure.
gro_o_we are dedicated to de·velop leaders 8. JNU has signed seventyone(71.
Politics Is not dirtypollrrc·rans are. .
who can take the na-tion inthe right direction. transportationfor its studentsall the time.Proposed environment-friendly cabs, of foreign un~AI .
which were supposed to provide intra-campus facilities, should be provided uniVersHieS muslb&11118 .
We prom~te~ran.sparentand corruption free government; we have to end without any delay.BI-cycles tracks be constructed besides the campusroads..
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Located at the Liberties crossroad junction of Kevin Street, New Street South, Dean Street and Patrick Street. At one time the area was known as “Four Corners of Hell” as there was a pub on all four corners of the crossroads.
This caught me by surprise especially as I should have been aware that these facilities existed having gone to school in Leeson Street and college in Kevin Street. There are two separate entities - a small park and an underground public toilet. More than a year ago the City Council announced that the building would be brought back into use as a cafe “as soon as practical”.
When I first noticed the structure it a few years ago I thought that it was an old monument or memorial but upon seeing the entrance I realised that it was an underground public toilet block.
In the 1950s and 1960s there were about seventy public toilets in Dublin but all of them have been closed.
The underground public toilet block at the junction of Kevin Street and New Street was one of a number that were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in response to an increasing demand for public facilities in the city. Underground facilities such as this were partially hidden from general view in order to satisfy Victorian perceptions of decency. It retains many of its historic features including railings, gates and decorative ventilation shaft.
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.
Even on a Monday in September, Chatsworth can be pretty busy so getting half decent shots "sans-peeps" was not easy. It was also pretty gloomy so these three shots are all taken at ISO 2400 f4.5 and shutter speeds of about 1/8sec or so. They were then pushed, bent and generally knocked about way beyond the bounds of common decency!
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.
There are rules about making things beautiful... you have to want to do the maintanence with devoted regularity. Bless you Ronnie for being a beacon of pride and decency and doing the right thing. I thought the light did justice to your beautiful car at the break of a new day. This is a lovely face.
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Great blossom trees in the front yard of this picturesque church. They didn't have the decency to stand still in the wind though, so the HDR is somewhat head-ache inducing unfortunately. Liked the sky though!
Actually I was tempted to give this a caption hinting at what the young man watering the grass was apparently doing... but decency forbids LOL! From our hotel balcony.
“The folklore of the American 1929 crash—the popular picture—is that of millionaires, jobbers, brokers, company presidents and ex-rich investors throwing themselves from the windows of the stock exchange. Now they have built that building so that that is impossible. Those deaths represented a tiny handful of people, but many more people died as a result of the 1929 crash. In the years of depression that followed 1929 and the massive unemployment that occurred in Germany, in Britain and throughout the world, many people in ordinary families committed suicide. Many people died prematurely because of inadequate diet. Many people died prematurely because of diseases that could have been cured if they had had the money to seek treatment at that time. Many infants died in the first weeks and months of life because they lived in the appalling slums that existed in the cities of the world at that time. Therefore, nobody on the Labour Benches and no Socialist makes the prediction of the coming recession with pleasure.
“In recent weeks the Conservative party, officially through the Prime Minister, has said that Socialism is dead. It has been claimed that Socialism is an outmoded philosophy and that its support among the people of Britain will soon die. However, with the pressure of the stock exchange collapse, part of the Socialist ideals has been accepted by the Conservative Government. It may be argued that the stock exchange is of no relevance to the real economy and that is true. More than 90 per cent of the transactions that take place on the world stock exchanges have absolutely nothing to do with commerce and industry. They are concerned with gambling and speculation in shares, futures and currencies. They have nothing to do with the creation of wealth on a world scale. Wealth is created by the labour of working people in productive industries.
“It is on the basis of the wealth created in the productive sectors of the economy—as the Tory amendment partly recognises—that we can pay for the civilising parts of our life: health, education, sport, culture, the arts and all the things that make life richer and more noble. The belief that that is the role of the stock exchange shows that it is not Socialism that is old fashioned, but capitalism, which has gone back to the same old process of the inter-war years.
“There have been two old-style recessions since 1975, with two weak booms in between them. We now stand on the eve of an even more devastating recession in the world economy. As we have already seen with the BP farce, much of the gloss has been taken off so-called people's capitalism. Socialism stands for collective decisions and ownership of wealth, and the direction of industrial production to the needs of people and not to a handful of stock exchange speculators who benefit the most. Such Socialism is needed. It is a system of society which will become more attractive.
“We are moving into an era of people's Socialism, not people's capitalism. It is necessary, and although we have perhaps not said it very well in recent years, what we are trying to do is to build a plateau—not for the underwriters of the BP claim, but for millions of ordinary people. I refer to a plateau of decency and reasonable living standards, on which people can develop their personal talents, personalities and more satisfactory lives.
“Today is 5 November. On this day throughout the world millions of women will spend four hours collecting water and fuel—an economic activity that is not recorded anywhere in world statistics. How ironic that people are forced to that back-breaking labour in a world of yuppies, sunrise industries, space travel and enormous technological development. What sort of system are Conservative hon. Members defending when, in times of recession, only 70 per cent. or less of human productive resources are in use and, in boom times, it is only 80 per cent.? 19 October marked the end of people's capitalism and the beginning of a popular people's Socialism.”
I am proud to have known Pat and his mate Keith Narey, it is people like this who help to make a new future, by shafting the dominant ideology. Unfortunately they were born too soon
This year's show brought students from both Lloydminster & Vermilion campuses together to show off their style, budgeting and presentation skills. Students had a $33.33 budget each to go out into the community and purchase an outfit and appropriate accessories for a Business Awards Banquet.
They were expected to practice their budgeting skills as they shopped for their outfits. Contestants had to show a good taste in fashion and decency. Finally, contestants were tested on their presentation and interpersonal skills as they walked up and down the runway and answered questions from our ‘celebrity’ judges.
The main idea here is to challenge the notion that students have to spend a lot of money to look good for work. Most students struggle with money and this show is a fun way of capturing budgeting, fashion and presentation skills.
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Been posting this every year since 2015, back when you could still screenshot streaming services, back before Frasier became “hip” and “internet ironic”, and before this “meme” was shared all over the internet.
I’ll likely still post this every year, but it’s even more prevalent this year, since “our” team is in the Super Bowl. Our city/state is absolutely mad. Stores were as crowded as Black Friday, Pop up Jersey shops at every gas station corner, people wearing their cult uniforms, calling out of work, schools opening late on Monday, sending out notices to wear green or Eagles clothing, resulting in parents having to go out to buy it, or having their child feel singled out, people making signs and banners for their yard, putting green holiday lights around their house, chanting like drunken lunatics, setting off fireworks etc. The city even has to grease sign and light posts, to prevent people from climbing them to “celebrate” or riot…read that last line again…we have to go to such ridiculous measurements just to prevent people from being animals. Utterly disgusting behavior.
I’m a very passionate person in general, and can debate art and entertainment till I’m blue in the face…but there’s absolutely NOTHING I can think of in this world that isn’t religion or politics or human decency, to make me yell and throw things at a TV screen like a child, start fights with people who like a different movie than I do, or for wearing a t-shirt of a band I dislike or hate.
Sports turn adults into immature, hateful tantrum throwing infants. But because it’s “manly” and games are treated like literal combat, that childish behavior is not only accepted and excused…even considered macho. But all I see is a big immature baby.
I’ve only watched about 10 minutes of a football in my life, and that was 10 minutes too much.
Anyway, this is my yearly reminder of how much I hate it. Have fun, and “go, “birds!!!” (Is that really that much easier to say than “Eagles”? ♂️
I've had the longest day.
pretty much the longest week. being a student full time & working as much as you can is tough business.
i've been thinking a lot about this quote lately.
not about the blind part, but the part where it's insinuating we choose who we hate and who we don't. I wish it was so easy to just "turn off" hatred.
not asking for "world peace", just some decency
listen to this. you won't regret it.
Someone pushed. Or bumped. That person did not have the common decency to pick the bikes up again. To do so would be admission of wrong-doing, and the resultant loss of face would be unthinkable for many. Its an odd country, I sometimes think to myself.
Tallinn's Old Town was, in fact, two different towns: the Lower Town â free center of Hanseatic trade â and the Toompea hill, or Upper Town â the place of concentration of feudal power and the influence of distant governments, which Estonians had to obey. The interests of these two parts were different and sometimes mutually exclusive, but they had to coexist somehow even without having any warm feelings towards each other. And if in light of day it was possible to observe decency basically, nighttime awakened the eternal desire to plunder in the nobles of Toompea, or the Upper Town. So, the lower town of merchants and craftsmen had to fence itself off with a stone wall and a powerful gate â and not only from the "outer" lands, but also from its upper neighbor, and every night, just in case, the gate was locked.
This is why on the left side of Pikk jalg (Long Leg street) there is a tower with a small oak gate leading to the street Ljuhike jalg (Short Leg street). This door clearly shows who was afraid of whom: the heads of forged rivets, which made it harder to destruct the door, are turned towards the Upper Town, while the deadbolt is on the Lower Town side.
The tower was built in 1456 and is reputed to be one of the most haunted buildings in Old Town. The wooden door is original from the 17th century.
Tallinn, Estonia, 2018
Parks Highway just south of Cantwell, Alaska.
Alaska has some divisions called "boroughs" which function similarly to counties in the lower 48. The rest of Alaska is divided into "census areas" which are just that, areas to count population.
The "matanuska" name is an Indian adaptation of a Russian word used to describe both the Indians of and the route to the Copper River. "Susitna" comes from the Indian word for "sandy river" and originally had an "h" in the spelling, which has been dropped for common decency.