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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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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.
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
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.
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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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'.
Note that my camera as ABOVE his nose. That happens rarely for me as I'm always in my wheelchair and my subjects are usually standing. Chris was sitting on the stoop of Wallace's Drug store waiting for them to open. Me to. Only I was sitting, like I said, in my chair. Boring story, isn't it?
Since Chris didn't have the decency to provide me with a face full of wrinkles, cracks, and crevices I thought I'd forego my usual less than flattering treatment and see if I can actually work out something vaguely akin to a 'straight' portrait.
Turns out I can't. Close, but not quite. Oh well.
Original File: Chris_5322.psd
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.
The sad reality is that Aylan was one among millions of desperate people forced to flee from war and persecution. The world is facing a global refugee crisis on a scale we've not seen since WWII, but Australia - our lucky country of a fair go for all - is not doing enough. We can do better to help these people.
We need to do better."
light the dark, adelaide, south australia
#lighthedark
Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
All images copyright © Matthew Field 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.
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
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.
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Brian O'Connor, Eagles of Death Metal
Eagles Of Death Metal w/QOTSA @ OC Fair, Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA
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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! .
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While photographing these leaves in the water a frog came from below and poked his head up. He had the decency to remain till I got half a dozen shots off. He never asked for a release form so I think it's ok.
Nothing beats the American Dream
...except logic, wisdom, rationality, decency, humanity, and the common good.
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.
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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
Queens Of The Stone Age @ Nokia Theater, Los Angeles
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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
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
supporting Queens Of The Stone Age at benefit show in Palm Desert, CA
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Yeah, that's the tip of my noggin as I sneakily snap a photo inside St. Paul's Cathedral, where photography is strictly forbidden. I'm bad. At least I had the decency to keep the camera in my bag, not use a flash, and take a poorly-framed photo. That's all tromp d'oeil up there, btw.
Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
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OMG! ‘Krishna Bhagwan’ Varun Dhawan playing the sax gets the axe
No sax please, we are Indians. The saxophone is normally considered a sexy instrument. So shall we keep it that way? David Dhawan, it seems, crossed “limits of decency” (and I quote a CBFC source) when in his new comedy rocker Judwaa 2 he got his son Varun Dhawan to play Lord Krishna in a song playing the….no , not the flute…but the saxophone.
Outraged on behalf of a nation that has lately become more protective about its sacred cows, the censor board members clamped down on David’s “harmless fun” (as the film’s team describes it).
Says a source close to the film, “It was all in fun. In a song-and-dance sequence Varun dresses up as Lord Krishna and plays the saxophone. The censor board has asked all the shots of Varun Dhawan as Lord Krishna to be removed.” To David Dhawan’a shock, the censor board accused him of hurting religious sentiments.
“How can your son play Lord Krishna?” they argued, forgetting that BJP’s blue-eyed boy Akshay Kumar had played Lord Krishna in Umesh Shukla’s Oh My God. “And how can Lord Krishna play the saxophone? It’s blasphemous!” the censor board declared, leaving Dhawan and his producer Sajid Nadiadwala no choice but to remove the ostensibly offensive references to God.
A source from the CBFC which doesn’t wish to be named says the era of mythological is over. “You can’t cast any actor as Rama or Krishna. Human beings can no longer play God.”
OMG! ‘Krishna Bhagwan’ Varun Dhawan playing the sax gets the axe
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.
When I saw it today 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.
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2001 cotton ensemble with oversized “rosary” featuring the design house logo by A.F. Vandervorst from the External Decency collection, evoking robes worn by acolytes. From the Earthly Hierarchy section of the show in the Medieval Sculpture Gallery.
Installation views of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Avenue)
New York, New York
May 10 – October 8, 2018
The New York Times' columnist, Maureen Dowd wrote an interesting op-ed piece for the Sept. 13 edition. www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html
Read if if you wish, but I will say I know a bit about people who believe they have a right to say anything and everything about anybody.
Some have been left with little doubt about where and when they've crossed my limits.
Washington is a city of decorum and civility. If you've watched C-SPAN you have heard members of Congress refer to each other as "The honorable member from ..."
Awards shows, whether they are in New York or L- A, are places where artists show respect and honor for each other.
I believe what holds us above barbarism is a commitment to act at a reasonable level of decency. I insist upon it. Ideological or cultural differences can't be an excuse or a justification for asinine behavior.
Under current California law, farm animals such as egg-laying hens, breeding pigs and calves raised for veal can be confined in crates and cages hardly bigger than their bodies. Most of these animals cannot lie down, turn around or even stretch their limbs, and they are forced to live in these conditions their whole lives.
Now a new ballot initiative called Proposition 2, passed by Californians on Election Day, will end this practice. VOA correspondent Julie Taboh has more.
Proposition 2 in California will mandate better conditions for farm animalsMany Americans have an idealized vision of the lives of farm animals. They picture them in grassy pastures, living peacefully in their natural habitats.But in California, life for 20 million farm animals is far from ideal. The Humane Society of the United States was a major sponsor of Proposition 2. The measure requires farmers to improve conditions for cows, pigs and egg-laying hens.
Paul Shapiro is a senior director of the society's Factory Farming Campaign. "Most farm animals are confined in factory farms. Hundreds of millions of them are kept in tiny cages, where they can hardly move their whole lives," Shapiro says. "Some of these cages are barely bigger than their own bodies, and these aren't temporary holding cages. These are permanent. This is where these animals endure their entire miserable lives."On Election Day, November 4, Californians voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 2.
Calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens and pigs can no longer be confined to tiny cages under Proposition 2Under terms of the ballot initiative, calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens and pigs used for breeding cannot be confined in tiny cages but should have enough room to stand up, lie down, turn around and extend their limbs.While Prop 2 sounds simple, it has drawn powerful opponents.
Kay Johnson Smith is executive vice president of the Animal Agriculture Alliance. The group promotes what it calls responsible solutions to animal welfare. Smith says the new requirements will cause egg prices to spike and drive egg farmers out of business."It really is targeted at the egg industry; so producers, most that we talked to, say they can't afford to retrofit the buildings. They can't afford to buy the extra land that would be required to raise the birds in a more open system, and therefore, they would go out of business," Smith says.
Opponents of Proposition 2 say implementing the requirements will cause the price of eggs to spike and run egg farmers out of businessBut Shapiro says the egg industry's own analysis shows the additional cost will be negligible, less than a penny per egg.Californians will still be able to buy eggs imported from farms in states without such regulations. Smith says Californians will opt for the less expensive eggs."People will vote with their pocketbooks, and I dare to say they're still going to buy the lesser-priced egg," she says.
Shapiro disagrees. He says Americans want all animals to be treated with decency. "Americans don't want farm animals to be confined in cages that are so restrictive that they're not even able to turn around and extend their limbs," he says. "This is just wrong. It's just plain wrong." Right or wrong, both sides agree more legislation to protect animals is coming now that Proposition 2 has passed. Farmers have until the year 2015 to implement the changes.
I'm not usually one to express my internal bitterness *however* these pair of a** monkeys - apparently the security for the Burning The Clocks parade - stood here for pretty much the duration of the event.
In doing so they not only spoilt my view of the main event (which is that bright thing behind them) but also, judging from the shouts and jeers from the crowd, that of about 2 dozen spectators around me.
Even the police had the common decency (and sense) to "get out the f***ing way" - these 2, unfortunately, did not.
"Are you a model?"
"No"
"Then get your a** out of my damn shot!"
After the climb up from the valley I have the escarpment all to myself and I'm keen to stride out and get some Cotswold miles under my boots.. The summit of Dover's Hill is a large plateau with a bit of local history. In 1612 one Robert Dover instituted an annual games to be held here giving them the grand title of "The Olympick Games" These took place until 1852 when the Victorians banned them on the grounds of public decency. A book was published about these "Olympiks" in 1636 including descriptions and poetry from non-other than Ben Johnson. It seems quite amazing that something as local as this could have survived for so long. The games were revived for the 1951 Festival of Britain and continue still.
..so, I got lured into the layered world of 18th century gowns, again..
I think I'll use a bum roll for this robe à l'anglaise to be. Maybe even make some pockets, but not sure about the ditto/decency skirt, especially since one person said it goes beneath the stays, and another on top of them (back in the days, women had no underwear...)
Fascinating article about pockets here btw!
Remains to be seen what I'll decide for regarding shoes, but this was an excellent illustration.
I've also made the pinterest board: Making A Robe A La This & That, where I gather linkage.
..and should anyone that has sewn own stays want to offer virtual moral support and help, please feel free to do so!