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From "Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency"

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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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Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,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

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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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.

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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).

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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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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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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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.

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.

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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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enquiry rejecting CPI(M) govt. 's strong opposition that the Police CommiSSioner and senior officers were merely transferred-neither dismissed nor even suspended. Are Prasun Mukhe~ee's views and actions any different from those of VHP leader Babu Bajrangi? Both coerce Hindu women to break their marriages with Muslim men, after all. Yet CPI(M) never even asked for such a man to be dismissed from his post as a police officer! .

..J The brutal gang-rape and murder of Tapasi Malik, the anti land-grab activist at S~ngur by CPl(M) goons is a recent instance of CPI(M)'s willingness to use rape as a weapon against a people's struggle later, CPI(M) systematically spread the theories that she had 1n fact been k11led by her lover, her father or herbrother. At the time, the West Bengal CM fromCPI(M) ordered a CBI enquuy. prom1s1ng that 1t would punish the guilty if tndeed anyone .

was found guilty. But now the CBI enquiry has accused CPI(M)'s own local leaders of having masterminded the rape. Yet CPI(M) continues to defend the rapists and deny the rape itself. In Nandigram also, CPI(M) cadres and police indulged in brutal sexual violence on women. .

..J CPI(M)'s top most leadership-such as 1ts CC member Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene threats aga10st women activists who were speaking out aga1nst the land grab at Stngur and Nandigram Konar threatened uwhen Medha Patkar visits here next time, we'll ask our women cadres to show her their backsides." When Medha Patkar went to Nandigram, not women, but CPI(M) men did in fact pull down their pants and show the1r behinds . .

..J In 1993, Shubhankar Chakravarty, Pnncipal of Ashutosh College, Kolkata, punished a girl student for wearing a salwar-kameez, which he said went against 'Bengali culture'. lnspite of such anti-woman attitudes, he was rewarded with a Vice-Chancellorshrp of Rabrndra Bharalt Untverstty as well as a high-profile Lok Sabha t1cket against Mamata Banerjee from the CPI(M) . .

..J SFI assaulted girl students in Rabindra Bharati University in 2002 while attempting to enforce a dress code of 'sarees only' on the girl students of the Visual Arts Department. (Times ofIndia, 22 and 24 July, 2002) .

..J After the infamous Birati rape case in 1991 . Shyamali Gupta, the General Secretary of the CPI(M)'s West Bengal women's wing, said about the 3 Bangladeshi refugee v1ctims: "Many women of that area, including Shanti Das (a victim), the mistress of a notorious anti-social. were involved in foul professions and such honeymoons ofthese women with the anti-socials were an open secret, that day's events appeared to be a sequel to the rivalry between these anti-soctals", and this statement was published in full by the CPI(M)'s party organ, People's Democracy! (cited in Tanika Sarkar, 'Reflections on Birati Rape Case' Gender Ideology 1n Bengal, EPW, Feb 21, 1991.) .

..J CPI(M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M), the !ate EK Nayanar, asked about the rash of rape cases in the state, had replied; 'In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old as time and will continue as long as there are women.' (The Hindu. April 30, 2004) .

..J After the Kozhikode sex scandal in Kerala. Nayanar again said, "wherever there are women, there will be a sex .

racket. Sex rackets occur naturally." (Outlook, 22 Dec, 1997) The Left-oriented women's movement has a well-deserved reputation for comm1tment to women's struggles. In order to retain and consolidate this legitimacy and combat the fascist and patriarchal forces, the Left groups need to prove that they are Willing to acknowledge and consciously combat patnarchal 'common sense' withtn their C'Nn ranks When a CPI(M) Government refuses to dismiss a police officer who openly den1es women s nghts and expresses communal views, when Left leaders defend 'dress codes' in the name femimne 'decency', or imply that a woman's sexual behaviour can justify rape, do they not do grievous harm to women's struggles against such patriarchal ideology? Do they not end up giving a boost to the fascist Right-wing, that quotes the CPI(M)'s anti-woman statements to defend itself? .

When SFI and CPI(M) display double standards by refus~ng to condemn the anti-woman words and deeds of their own comrades on the issue of gender, when they refuse to questton the patnarchal stances and distorted gender Ideology of their own party, they only end up strengthening the patrrarchal and ant1-woman agenda of the right-w1ng forces. .

In this JNUSU elections,AISA appeals to you to stand by those who consistently defend genderjustice and women's rights, and reject the political proponents of patriarchy and their representatives on campus! .

Central Panel sss SLL&CS SIS President : Sandeep Singh Ashok Kumar K.C. Abhineet Raj Arvind Kumar Vice-President : Shephalika Shekhar Javed Iqbal Wani P. Kumar Mangalam Khalid Abdalla Abdelwaha .

Meara Vlsvanathan Syed Mo_hammad Raghib Madri Kakotl.

Gen. Secy. : Pallavi Deka .

Sucheta De Uday Kr. Shankar Monalisa Adhlkari .

Jt. Secy. : Md Mobeen Alam .

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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.

"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."

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#lightthedark

Joey Castillo, Queens Of The Stone Age @ Odeon, Saskatoon, SK

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gene Trautman, Brian O'Connor and Dave Catching

EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany

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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.

Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009

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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.

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Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

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.

p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them and link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them without big watermarks on them.

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"

"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

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

20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA

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.

20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA

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.

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

Some of the weird things you find at garage sales

A portion of the profits from this product will be donated to the "Small Animal Decency Fund", which seeks to rid our neighborhoods of any potentially offensive naturally occurring indecent exposures.

"The poor little things don't even know they are naked! We've got to educate the animals and protect our children."

- Worried Mother

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

A distant crop but at least it had the decency to settle long enough for a shot, unlike the Brimstones and Orange-tips.

Peel Wyke, Bassenthwaite, Cumbria

07/04/2025