Ibsen obviously has no decency sometimes, especially when lounging on the bathroomfloor

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.

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Given how long it took the guy on the right to get his costume pulled back together so I could take this picture, you'd think I'd have had the common decency to remember what characters they're portraying.

 

Sadly, you'd be wrong.

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!"

 

View On Black

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!

Heraldic memorial "Underneath lie interred the remains of John Cocks of Castleditch esq son of Charles Cocks esq and nephew of the great Lord Somers ; He was born the 15th of January 1697 . N.orth Stile. and departed this life 24th of June 1771 aged 74. He was constantly during his life a lover of decency and sober manners . of religion, virtue and good learning ; He had cultivated these things in himself. He showed a great regard to them in others. and was very desirous and careful that his numerous family should be strictly educated in the principles of the same kind"

 

He was the son of Charles Cox, and nephew and sole heir of lawyer, and statesman, John Lord Somers.

 

He m his cousin, Mary 1703-1779 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rt9451 daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cocks 1724 h

having 12 children,

1. Charles 1725-1806 Lord Somers www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/50bc72 m1 Elizabeth 1771 daughter of Richard Eliot 1748 & Harriot Craggs m2 Anne 1833 sister of the right hon Reginald Pole Carew of Anthony Cornwall

2. Thomas b1727-1729

3. John b1731 unmarried rector of Suckleigh ; Prebendary of

4 Joseph 1733-1775 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K0XV23 m 1758 Margaret 1734-1774 only child of Letitia & John Thorniloe of Worcester

5. James b1734 m Martha daughter of Rear Admiral Charles Watson

6. Philip 1735-1797 died unmarried rector of Acton , prebendary of Lincoln

7. Thomas 1737-1796 m Ann daughter of Alexander Thistlethwayte

8. Richard 1739-1821 of Castlemorton m Ann 1831 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/j9y827

9. Robert 1741-1765 studied medicine, died of malignant fever )

10. Timothy 1748-1757 served in the navy died unmarried due to an "unfortunate accident") www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2P8Fdu

1 Elizabeth 1729-1808 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8gtKx1 who looked after the 2 young daughters of her brother Joseph

2. Mary

  

He was buried 2nd July 1771. Newspapers reported that he left an estate worth £12,000 per year to his eldest son Charles.- - Church of St John the Baptist, Eastnor, Herefordshire

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.

NORTHERN DECENCY

Container Ship IMO 9253240 built 2003 Liberia flag

Terminal of Maersk Algeciras port

Spain

 

Vintage Italian postcard. Hobby. Bromostampa.

 

Carlo Dapporto (26 June 1911 – 1 October 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1944 and 1987.

 

Born in Sanremo, Dapporto had already a rich career behind him on stage before he debuted in film. In the late 1920s he started as cabaretier and entertainer in Alassio, becoming famous for his character Maliardo. After experiences in Sanremo and Milano he joined the stage company of Vivienne D'Arys, who discovered he did a talented imitation of Stan Laurel, and hired him to do together with Carlo Campanini a famous imitation on stage of Laurel & Hardy. In 1940 he acted in his first revue, in which he would excel, and from 1941 he played in the shows of Wanda Osiris. In those years he met and married his wife Augusta, with whom he had one son, Massimo (1945). After the war, Dapporto created his own stage company, with which he did several revues. His characters amazed audiences with his endless repertoire of double entendres, centred on the common sense of decency. The most famous of these were essentially two: that of the ‘Maliardo’, a grotesque depiction of D'Annunzio's swaggering viveur in tails with his eye always turned to Monte Carlo, and that of the popular regional macchietta: the naive ‘Agostino’, who speaks and mispronounces Piedmontese, a character he not only successfully brought to the theatre, but also starred in a number of TV commercials for the TV show Carosello.

 

Dapporto started his film career during the war years in films such as In cerca di felicità (Giacomo Gentilomo, 1943), starring singer Alberto Rabagliati. Yet, it was after the war that he became the star himself of a range of comedies such as 11 uomini e un pallone (Giorgio Simonelli, 1948) and La presidentessa (PIetro Germi, 1952), the latter starring Silvana Pampanini, and based upon a popular French pochade. Dapporto also had leads opposite Nadia Gray in Finalmente libero (Mario Amendola, Ruggero Maccari, 1953), opposite singer Nilla Pizzi and a young Sophia Loren in Ci troviamo in galleria (Mauro Bolognini, 1953). and opposite Loren again in Il paese dei campanelli (Jean Boyer, 1954). During the 1950s, Dapporto also had major supporting parts in comedies and melodramas with Delia Scala, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, and others. Often, the films take place in Dapporto's familiar world of stage revues and musicals. Dapporto thus also played an actor in the travelling company of Fortunella (Eduardo De Filippo, 1958), starring Giulietta Masina.

 

While by the 1960s, Dapporto mostly played minor parts in films, mostly comedies, a major part he had in the musical comedy Quelli belli... siamo noi (Giorgio Mariuzzo, 1970). His last part Dapporto played in Ettore Scola's La famiglia (1987), performing possibly his best part as the elder Giulio, while his son Massimo played the younger Giulio, opposite Vittorio Gassman e Fanny Ardant in the leads. Dapporto died on 1 October 1989 in a Roman clinic and was buried at the Prima Porta cemetery.

 

Sources: English and Italian Wikipedia, IMDb.

   

NS SD70M-2 #2684 leads H-BRCNTW under the CB&Q searchlights in Rochelle, now in their final days. On a line as monotonous as the Aurora Sub, you just have to appreciate anything different.

EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany

 

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I envy men who are secure enough in their masculinity and sense of dignity to wear pink puffy pants during a public parade through downtown Chicago.

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These two robbed us but had the decency to pose for a shot with their "scores".

 

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toydejour: #domo #transformers #vhs #vintagejewelry

 

marky_d_1979: Is that George Costanza

  

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

 

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you are

hiding away for whatever reason

while

I am bleeding from the inside out.

 

I can’t open up anymore.

I have shut down.

Melted down.

I am broken in every sense of the word.

 

I can only be a robot now.

 

with very few emotions, limited in whom I share them with.

 

It won’t be you…or you…or you either.

And it definitely won’t be you.

 

I hate that it has come to this.

You never deserved my openness.

Or my joy.

 

You sucked it dry…and now it’s gone.

 

I will get it back; I always do, but it will be less, like it always is.

I lack the energy to even say anything more about it…

 

except that I don’t believe in humanity anymore; human decency is dead.

 

Those are just urban myths to me now.

  

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Michael Shuman, Queens Of The Stone Age @ Gasometer, Vienna, Austria

 

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A LORRY driver who deliberately smeared excrement on two women has been barred from a Ramsbottom pub.

 

Mark Follos, 51, had denied the allegations, but was found guilty of two charges of outraging public decency after a trial at Bury Magistrates’ Court.

 

The court heard that Follos smeared excrement on women on two separate occasions, at The Oaks pub, in Bridge Street, on October 12 and 25, 2012.

 

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the girls were trying on some new dresses, new sunglasses, and a new swing when Eden spilled over the back of the seat lol, oops! it made me crack up :P

 

Eden: ACK!! Mom, why are you taking pictures??

 

Me: This is why I tell you girls to always have on clean underwear. Knowing how you girls are, just having underwear on would be a nice change.

 

Amber: oooh, a camera, hi ;)

…at least have the decency to drink local!

 

the lid was a few feet away.

 

wheaton regional park, wheaton, md

Eurasian Green-winged Teal

Anas Crecca crecca/nimia

 

Eurasian Green-winged Teal, with a horizontal light stripe, and without a vertical stripe on its side. I found it on the Columbia River down from Priest Rapids Dam. For county listers, it ventured between Yakima, Grant, and Benton Counties.

 

Here's my post to Tweeters, a birding listserv for Washington:

 

[edit notes: I think that Wanapum Village should have been written Wanapum village; and Simon Martinez Cattle should be Simon Martinez Livestock.]

 

Eurasian Green-winged Teal

 

Friday I found what looks to me like a Eurasian Green-winged Teal, the first I've ever seen. It was pretty exciting, but I couldn't share the find immediately, because I found it near a place where two prominent local bird listers have told me they trespass. I tried Friday, and over the holiday weekend, but this morning was finally able to reach the Grant County PUD head of security to alert him that birders with scopes and binoculars and such might be around, and that some might try to stop and bird on the dam. He was very polite and helpful. He made it clear that doing so continues to be prohibited. It is National Critical Infrastructure. Across the dam on the Yakima County side is the Wanapum village, Simon Martinez Livestock Company private land, and Yakima Training Center military site. Visiting without express prior permission continues to be prohibited. Security at Priest Rapids Dam, and the security camera monitor crew have been alerted.

 

There are plenty of good reasons to not trespass including simple decency, avoiding scaring or angering residents and property owners, avoiding hindering heavy construction and endangering the workers, respecting Yakama Nation sovereignty, and being able to "count" the birds you "get" if you're a lister. From ABA Listing Central -- Code of Birding Ethics listing.aba.org/ethics/ : "Do not enter private property without the owner’s explicit permission. Follow all laws, rules, and regulations governing use of roads and public areas, both at home and abroad."

 

Another good reason is bird watcher access -- for the rest of us. I was working on getting birders access permission to viewing from the dam embankment a couple of years ago. I stupidly told a local prominent lister that birders are not allowed to stop on the dam and are not allowed to go into the Wanapum village without consent of local residents, and that similarly the Simon Martinez Livestock Company land is private and requires permission from the landowner. Despite reiterating that to him and getting him to acknowledge it, he proceeded to bird on the dam and got kicked off -- politely. The person at Grant PUD with whom I was working on birder access ended the discussion. I'm not a birding expert, but I don't think that listing a Common Tern flitting back and forth across the Yakima / Grant County line, or any other sighting, was worth that. Birding ethics are not defined by what you can get away with.

 

I once again am working on getting birders access to a viewing location on the dam. It's a dream of mine that I'd value greater than any rare bird find. Please, please, do not muck that up.

 

If you witness any trespassing or security concerns near Priest Rapids Dam or Wanapum Dam, they ask you call (509) 766-2538 any day at any hour. In the ABA Code of Birding Ethics: "If you witness unethical birding behavior, assess the situation and intervene if you think it prudent. When interceding, inform the person(s) of the inappropriate action and attempt, within reason, to have it stopped. If the behavior continues, document it and notify appropriate individuals or organizations."

 

My wife Mary Giovanini, Nori dog, and I returned Saturday and relocated the Eurasian Green-winged Teal. This time there were pintails and Mallards, but no American GWTE with it as there'd been on Friday. It was tucked close to shore on the Yakima/Benton side of the Columbia River below Priest Rapids Dam dam. I saw it from the Jackson Creek Fish Camp, at the junction of Grant, Yakima, and Benton Counties, clearly venturing well into each. For listers, if you look across from the day use area, at mid-river you're looking into Benton County. Looking across and upstream a bit to the rocks jutting into the river, Yakima County is to the right, and Benton County is to the left. The Yakima/Benton county line goes from shore there, north upstream at an angle to mid river, where it meets Grant county. The Yakima/Grant line continues mid-river up to the dam. The Priest Rapids Dam spillways are in Yakima. The generators are in Grant. Google Earth shows county lines quite well.

 

I apologize for not being able to share the find sooner. I hope you can understand and respect my concerns.

 

I wish I could share this post on BirdYak, a Yakima County bird-related list-serve, but am blocked by Denny Granstrand. Just the same, I'll keep up my efforts to discourage unethical birding. Please don't share a censored or edited version of this on BirdYak.

  

Red-breasted Mergansers, both Goldeneyes, Buffleheads, and plenty of others were there to see too." [end Tweeters post]

 

Good birding -- Enjoying observing birds, and trying to give eBird and Washington Birder accurate data.

 

Please always consider the sensitivity of birds, nearby humans, and the environment.

 

Don't pish or use playback on rare or sensitive birds or in heavily birded areas.

 

Please Follow this Code and Distribute and Teach it to Others ABA Code of Birding Ethics.

Whistle blower

 

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Loc 8 bus, Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth

 

For some reason Emma bought some chicken from Flames kebab shop at 4pm and ate it, much to everyones' disgust, on the bus on the way home. The grease dripped over her dress and by the end of the ordeal public decency was lost and carniverous forces took over.

Be nice or my big "Brother" will show You some respect and decency !

 

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Lionfish in one of the saltwater tanks at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, IA. (The only fish that day that had the decency to sit completely still right against the glass.)

I actually had time to read the manual and try out some of the sillier features. This is a self portrait in one of the options offered by transform mode: Changes the subject to a slim-looking or glamorous appearance! (Do not use in ways that violate public order and decency...)

 

Admittedly longer, thinner legs do something for me.

 

I assume the "People in this photo" feature above the tags on this flickr page is an extra goody packaged with transform.

 

PS I just got a message about "People in Photos" from The Flickreenos. It looks complicated. I may have to wait until my next holiday to read it carefully enough to understand it.

  

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/

“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 unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... 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

 

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Life of Pi (movie) is a two hour movie that is worth watching :D

 

The movie was well executed! Kudos to a great director Ang Lee and congratulations! :)

 

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Georgia Clients Council (GCC) story on the "Claiming A Street Named King" Project.

Anger

 

According to sources, there is a little shy of 150,000,000km2 of land on the Earth. That is a big of area. You could get lost in that much space. You could go to places that mean you wouldn’t have to see others again. You could disappear if you so desired

 

There are over 250 recognised countries ranging from the tiny to the huge. Some with populations of hundreds, some with hundreds of millions. They have cultures so diverse that they surely warrant a visit.

 

The home I live in, my parents as it happens, and the land it occupies probably totals 200m2 at best. The village I live in is less than a mile long and barely half that wide. It has a population of 1600 give or take. I am sure you will agree, these are insignificant numbers compared with those mentioned before.

 

It boggles the mind, then, that given ALL the options, the two people you would least want to see choose this location to make a comeback. Apparently 7 months of heart ache, of sleepless nights, of self doubting and loathing, of questioning one’s self, of being trapped, of moaning, of anger, of hatred and of hating life are not enough.

 

You have no connections to my home. Nothing to tie you down or bring you back. Neither of you are English- you have TWO amazing countries of your own to explore. You could ski or walk or go to cities or sit on tropical beaches or surf or... or ANTYHING. Literally anything you want. But you have chosen my neck of the woods to come to. The place where I CANNOT LEAVE due to the mess that YOU created.

 

Forget the lies you told. The lies that said you wanted time to be alone (you are not alone.) To find yourself (have you?) To improve your career prospects (that’s right, you’re getting a waitressing job. Again.) Forget all that (although I can tell you now, I have not. I think about it every single day.) It doesn’t matter.

 

I have been struggling to understand all your choices and this one is particularly baffling. I am not sure if I have an actual answer. But I suppose it must be something to do with the lack of common decency that you both posses. You must live in a bubble of complete isolation, unaware of those around you, of others feelings, of the repercussions of your actions, if you think that this choice is a good one.

 

You have made my life a misery. I, in turn, have made the lives of those around me a misery. So please do us all a favour. Go away. Vanish. Slink off into the expanses of the world, the great world yonder where your actions can be someone else’s problem. We thank you.

 

Ralph Milbanke

only son of the late Capt. Ralph Milbanke RN of Blackwell

Died at Hong Kong in China, August 28th 1843.

First Lt of H.M.S. Childers.

 

"HMS Childers was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop that Nicholas Diddams built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1812. She was broken up in 1822." wikipedia.

 

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"THE HONGKONG Government Gazette. No. 49. SATURDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1889. VOL. XXXV.

 

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 447.

 

Removal of Old Cemetery

 

The old colonial Cemetery at Wan-tsai, in the above Colony, having become surrounded by a dense population of Chinese of the poorer classes,it is found difficult to keep it in a condition of decency and cleanliness; It is therefore notified that it is proposed reverently and decently to remove all monuments and tombstones in such Cemetery , as well as remains which may be found there, to the existing colonial cemetery in the Happy Valley, where such remains will be reinterred.

 

The monuments will be repaired and grouped round a plain memorial stone on which it will be stated from what part of the Colony they have been removed.

 

Survivors, friends, or relatives who may desire to make any objection to this removal are requested to address the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong within six months from this date.

 

A list of the remaining monuments is appended.

 

By Command, A LISTER, Acting Colonial Secretary, 25th October. 1889.

 

Rank, Name & Date of Death

 

1. John Ambrose Mercer, Esq: 23rd August, 1843

 

2. Alexander Scott, Esq: 24th August, 1841

 

3. Mr. John Slade: 2nd August, 1843

 

4. William Brodie,Master in the Royal Navy, late Commander H.M. Troopship Rattlesnake: 17th June, 1841.

 

5. J. Hume, of U.S.S. Constellation: 14th September, 1842

 

6. Aug Fred Sunger: 13th October, 1841

 

7 Lieut Oliver Charles Anketell, 37th Madras Native Infantry: 1? July, 1841

 

8. G. W. York, of Bangor, Maine, U.S.A, Seaman U.S.S. Constellation: 16th September, 1842

 

9. Julia, daughter of the Hon. John Walter Hulm: 20th October, 1844

 

10. William …. Inscription illegible

 

11. Lieut. Levin Handy USS Constellation: 14th September, 1842

 

12. Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Peter Margussen: 2nd August, 1844

 

13. John Irvine, Assistant Commissary General: 1st February, 1844

 

14. Major Charles Gregory: 30th November 1842

 

15. Henrietta, wife of the Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, of Virginia, U.S.A: 27th November, 1844

 

16. Frederick Joseph Ball: 2nd August, 1843

 

17. Mills Bridgeman Ball, (Macao): 2nd August, 1844

 

18. Lucy Hendricks, wife of Dyer Ball: 6th June, 1844

 

19. Richard M Isbell, Assistant Surgeon, HMS Agincourt: 11th January, 1843

 

20. Theodosia, Wife of Rev. W. Dean: xx March, 1843

 

21. Robert Morrison Brown: 13th January, 1844

 

22. Lieut. Benjamin Fox, R,.N., late First Lieut. HMS. Nimrod, Canton, killed at Canton 25th May, 1841

 

23. Capt A Frederick Beavan, 39th Regt M.N.I: 18th October, 1842

 

24. Lieut Francis Beavan: 6th November, 1842

 

25. John Theophilus Boileau, Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Establishment: 21st November, 1842

 

26. Capt. Henry Harriot, 39th Regt: 15th December, 1842

 

27. Major James Uniacke, (Chiu Kiang-foo), Senior Officer of R. M,also Lieut. William Atcherley, (Yong-tso Kiang), also Lieut. C. Hewet, R.M., (Woo Sing): 21st July, 1842

 

28. 1st Lieut. Ralph Milbanke, H.M. Sloop Childers: 28th August, 1843

 

29. Capt. William Currie of the British ship Leander: 10th November, 1844

 

30. John Abray Hobson: 15th April, 1843.

 

31. Major Eldred Pottinger, C.B: 15th November, 1843

 

32. Francis R Foote: XX XXX, 1842

 

33. Capt. A. H. S. Young, 55th Regt: 13th July, 1843

 

33. Lientl-Adj. J. R. Margrath: 8th July, 1843

 

33. also Capt. T. de Havelland: 6th September, 1843

 

33. also Ensign J. Campbell, 55th. Regt: 1st February, 1843

 

33. also Ensign J. H. C. Rogers, 55th Regt: 23rd December 1841

 

34. Thomas Hancorn. Master H.M.S. Menden: 10th September, 1843

 

35. Right Honourable Edward Pelham Clinton, Lieut. R.N., H.M.S. Harlequim: 12th May, 1842

 

36. William Graham, Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Establishment: 6th November, 1843

 

37. Illegible

 

38. Vere Paulet Harris: 16th November, 1843

 

39. Thomas Jackson Scills, Esq: 31st July, 1844

 

40. John Tallmon: 6th June, 1844

 

41 Lieut. Henry Dallas, 91st Regt: 26th July, 1844

 

42. J. Stewart Garnett, Esq., Merchant of Liverpool: 6th September, 1844

 

43. Capt. John Robert Cotton: 5th January 1845

 

44. Mr. Ed. Pratt: 27th January, 1845

 

45 Col.-Sergt. Henry Welch, 98th Regt: 4th November, 1844

 

46. Capt. Thomas Maitland Edwards, 98th Regt: 4th November, 1844

 

47. William Knight, Esq: XX XXXX, XXXX

 

48. Alexander Badenseh: XX August, XXXX"

 

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Queens Of The Stone Age @ Hammersmith Apollo, London

 

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

"Mr. Seal Beach" - Decent, Righteous and Noble

 

My comments at his Memorial:

 

Good afternoon everyone… thank ya’ll all for coming.

 

As Roger Glenn always said, “I am the # 4 son.

 

I stand before you to acknowledge that I have taken many things from my father over the years…. and after a person passes the family gathers and distributes the material things he accumulated in life. As I speak to you here today… know that I standing in your presence wearing his underwear -this is gonna provide a strong foundation for my future. Thanks Dad!

 

As we all know, my father was a man of strong convictions and I wanted to talk a little about his character.

 

My Dad lived his life as “Mr. Seal Beach” Righteous, Decent and Noble.

 

Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness.” Dad was noted not to be calm…but I think he found his peace when his general sense of good was acknowledged.

 

Albert Einstein wrote: “True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.” Although we are gathered here at the Unitarian Church I think his general sense of faith was guided by his goodness and fairness for everyone he encountered. His world , was the society around him and his faith was guided by his own unique personal religious fervor.

  

His passion was alarming to some… but to those that knew him well it was his deliverance of his sense of decency.

 

Rita Mae Brown wrote. “Morals are private. Decency is public.” I think his public persona was immensely decent. Decent to a fault! “Want of decency is want of sense…. To understand his life his and his desire to be supremely decent is what you must come to understand as the abiding passion of his life. He concluded in a letters to one of his dearest friends… Always your friend, whether you can stand me or not. Rog. I guess we all know what he meant when he meant it!

 

For me as a son, I knew he cared deeply about my efforts to follow his convictions for a decent path…. he was not quite as harsh about my mistakes. But I’d better get it right the next time!

 

Dad was a common man for the common person and in his his daily life he strived to be noble in every thing he did.

 

“Better not be at all…. than not be noble.” said Tennyson

  

As a man, Dad lived a truly a noble life.

At least after the kind vampire kicked me out of his house for asking him to dance with his wife, he had the decency to call one of his fancy cars to drive me to jail.

 

Such a fine creature.

I was sat with Val eating our pre-booked breakfast after a very early start to go and see the Datchet Morris Men at the historic site of Runnymede.

 

I’d parked my camera safely on the edge of the table we were sitting at. Eventually I noticed that the early morning light in the Runnymede café was rather good. This gentleman was sat about three or four metres away with some of his friends (minding his own business, unlike me!) Instinctively I picked up my camera and took his picture.

 

I only wish I’d had the decency to approach him and mention that I’d taken these two photos of him. They were taken quickly and I put my camera down again. (Sometimes Val gets a bit anxious when I do this, and I can understand why, but if she’s uncomfortable with it I have to live with that!).

 

I have slightly cropped the two photos to try and get the balance right… and also to get rid of a small bit of the photo on the left that was a distraction.

 

Again, as is my wont, I’ve also done monochrome versions too.

 

I can’t add this either of these pictures to my 100 Strangers Project, which is a pity really. I could cheat and not play by the rules of the group, but I’d prefer to stick to them as it would always be on my conscience that I’d broken them!

 

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enquiry rejecting CPI(M) govt.'s strong opposition that the Police Commissioner and senior officers were merely .

transferred-neither dismissed noreven suspended.Are Prasun Mukherjee's views and actions any different from .

those ofVHP leader Babu Bajrangi? Both coerce Hindu women to break their marriages with Muslim men, after all..

...J The brutal gang-rape and murder of Tapasi Malik, the anti land-grab activist at Singur by CPI(M) goons is a .

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Yet CPI(M) never even asked for such a man to bo dismissed from his post as a police officer!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 rn fact been killed by her lover, her father or her brother.At the time, .

the West Bengal CM fromCPI(M) ordered a CBI enquiry, promising that it would punish the guilty if indeed 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).Y cadres and police indulged in brutal sexual violence on women..

CPI(M)'s top most leadership -sucl1 as its CC member Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene threats against womenPatkar visits here next time, we'll ask our women cadres to show her their backsides." When Medha Patkar activists who were speaking out against the land grab at Singur and Nandigram. Konar threatened "When Medha.

went to Nandigram, not women, but CPI(M) men did rn fact pull down their pants and show their behinds..

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In 1993, Shubhankar Chakravarty, Principal ofAshutosh College, Kolkata, punished a girl student for wearing a.

salwar-kamecz, which he said went against 'Bengali culture'. lnsp1te of such anti-woman attitudes. he was.

against Mamata Banerjee from the CPI(M) rewarded with a Vice-Chancellorship of Rab~r1dra Bt1aratr Un1vers1ty c:~s well as a high-profile Lok SabhCl t1cket.

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SFI assaulted girl students in Rabindra Bharati University in 2002 while attempting to enforce a dress code of sarees only1 on the girl students of the Visual Arts Department. (Times ofIndia, 22 and 24 July, 2002).

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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 ofa notorious ant1-social, were involved rn foul professions and such honeymoons ofthese.

between these anti-socials". and this statement was published in full by the CPI(M)'s party organ, People's women with the anti-socials were an open secret. that day's events appearf>cl to be a sequel to the rivalry.

Democracy! (cited in Tantka Sarkar, 'Reflections on 8irc~t1 Rape Case', Gender Ideology in Bengal, EPW, Feb 21, 1991 ).

...J CPI(M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M), the !ate EK Nayanar, t\Skcd about the rash of rape cases in the state, .

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.Y as tong as there are women.' (The Hmdu Apnl 30, 200'l) had replied: 'In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea or coffP.e; rape is as old as time and will continue.

Afterthe Kozhikode sex scandal rn Kerala, Nayanaragain said, "wherever there are women, there will be a sex.

racket. Sex rackets occur naturally." (Outlook 22 Dec, 1997l.

The Left-oriented women's movement has a well-deserved rcputat1on for comm1tment to women's struggles. In order to .

retarn and consolidate this legitimacy and combat the fasctst and patnarchal forces. the Left groups need to prove that they .

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are wtlhng to acknowledge and consciously combat patnarchal 'common sense w1th1n their c·Nn ranks When a CPI(M) .

Government refuses to dism1ss a poltce off1cer who openly denies women's rights and expresses communal views, when .

Left leaders defend 'dress codes' in the name feminrne 'decency', or 1mply that a woman's sexual behaviour can just1fy 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 rerus1ng to condemn the antt-woman words and deeds of their own comrades on the issue of gender, when they refuse to quest1on the patriarchal stances and distorted gender ideology of .

thetr own party, they only end up strengthening the patnarchal and ant1-woman agenda of the right-wing 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 .

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President : Sandeep Singh SLL&CS SIS.

Ashok Kumar K.C. .

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Abhineet Raj.

Vice-President : Shephalika Shekhar Javed Iqbal Wani Arvind Kumar.

P. Kumar Mangalam.

Gen. Secy. : Pallavi Deka Meera Visvanathan Khalld Abdalla Abdelwaha.

Syed Mt?_hammad Raghlb.

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Jt. Secy: Md Mobeen Alam Sucheta De Madri Kakotl.

Uday Kr. Shankar Monalisa AdhlkariUrvashi Tilak Vishal Kumar Vlsmay Basu .

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SAA S. Karmegam I .

Sd/-Awadhcsh, Convenor, Campaign Committee, A/SA, JNU .

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