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Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
All images copyright © Matthew Field 2009
p.s. if you are going to ignore my copyright and post my images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me and link them back to here, or i'll probably have to stop posting them here or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
Today we celebrate the Italian Republic and this celebration, which comes three days after the elections' defeat of Silvio Berlusconi, is a day full of joy for italian people who believe in Freedom, Democracy and ...decency!!!
Our beloved President, Giorgio Napolitano, is in Rome welcoming the delegations of 83 countries and I'm following live on tv the celebration and the military parade.
Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ
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Robert Kolb, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance and Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied
Ethics
Loyola University Chicago
Incentive Structures, Duties, and Decency in the Financial Crisis of 2007 and Beyond
My brother Fred was a teenager when I was born. I saved him from being the baby of the family and in return he changed my diapers and babysat me when our parents went out. We were very different yet much the same. He could never understand how I could live in the city and I could never understand why he moved North. In common, we both carried our Mother's dedication to family and treating other people with charity, decency and respect.
Supporters of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) produced this matchbook circa 1953 at a time when the senator was under fire for his baseless accusations and smears charging that the U.S. government was rife with communists.
Joseph R. McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, November 14, 1908, on his Irish Catholic parents' dairy farm. A restless student, he dropped out of high school at sixteen to start his own poultry farm on land he had rented from a friend.
After a brutal winter killed all his flock, he returned to school in 1929, focused and determined to graduate with his class, which required completing four years of course work in half that time. In 1930, he enrolled in Marquette University and developed a reputation as a card shark and heavyweight boxer.
After earning a law degree in 1935 (financed by gambling winnings and wages from odd jobs), he returned home to open his practice and begin a career in politics.
When McCarthy lost his first campaign as the Democratic nominee for district attorney, he decided to seek a nonpartisan position. He soon sought a circuit judgeship and challenged a twenty-year incumbent who dismissed McCarthy as a long shot, an unelectable rookie.
McCarthy campaigned with a vengeance and over the course of the election deliberately inflated his opponent's age and salary. His tactics worked and, in 1937, the twenty-nine year old McCarthy became the youngest judge in Wisconsin history.
Five years later, even though his service on the bench excluded him for military service, McCarthy joined the Marines, hoping that his combat experience would enhance his political stature.
As an intelligence officer stationed in the Pacific, he spent the war debriefing pilots after they returned from bombing raids over Japan.
Yet, when he returned to campaign at home, he transformed himself into "tail-gunner Joe," the battle-scarred veteran who survived hazardous missions over Japanese-held territory and, in the process, "fired more bullets than any marine in history" during his fourteen (a figure he later changed to seventeen and then thirty-two) engagements with the enemy.
To prove his courage, he asked to receive (and was awarded) the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Capitalizing on his war record, McCarthy narrowly defeated the overconfident Senator Robert La Follette in the 1946 Republican senatorial primary and assailed his Democratic opponent, Howard McMurray, as a man so desperate for election that he would accept communist support.
The baseless charge worked. McCarthy trounced McMurray and, in 1947, became the junior U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
He quickly alienated his colleagues (especially after he tried to court the German-American vote by criticizing the prosecution of Nazis accused of slaughtering American troops during the Battle of the Bulge) and he soon feared that he could not be re-elected without a major issue to improve his political standing.
Consequently, on February 7, 1950, he told a group of Republican women assembled in Wheeling, West Virginia, that there was serious "communist influence" in the Truman administration, declaring, " I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . names that were known to the Secretary of State and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."
Even though no such list existed, McCarthy's accusations gripped the media and he soon became a national figure, promoted on the covers of national news magazines.
Alleged communist infiltration of government agencies became McCarthy's political calling card. By the 1952 election, he had called Sinologist Owen Lattimore America's "top Russian spy," labeled Secretary of State George C. Marshall "a traitor," nicknamed Secretary of State Dean Acheson the "Red Dean of Fashion," attacked President Truman as a drunkard and "a son of a bitch [who] should be impeached," and repeatedly referred to Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson as "Alger . . . I mean Adlai."
His tactics worked and, when reelected, McCarthy gained the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, a position he used, according to biographer David Oshinksy, "to undermine government morale, damage numerous reputations, and make America look sinister in the eyes of the world."
In 1953, McCarthy announced that he would investigate alleged communist infiltration of the U.S. Army and savaged the Army for "coddling Communists."
On March 11, 1954 McCarthy called Annie Lee Moss, a black civilian clerk in the Army Signal Corps, and accused her of having communist ties while handling classified information.
McCarthy left the hearing leaving the questioning to his hatchet-man Roy Cohn who quickly bungled the interrogation. Moss came across as an honest, victimized government worker while Cohn came across as someone caught without facts making unsubstantiated accusations in a vicious manner.
In truth, Moss handled only encrypted documents and not readable classified information. Her only contact with communists seemed to come through her former union Cafeteria Local 471, CIO.
The episode was filmed by the television show See It Now produced by renowned journalist Edward Murrow and broadcast nationwide the following week. The public began to turn against McCarthy after the show and an unflattering portrait of McCarthy broadcast the previous week by Murrow.
Disturbed by McCarthy's staccato accusations and worried that he had unjustly damaged the reputation of innocent civilians (as well as the image of the Senate), his senatorial colleagues coalesced to investigate both McCarthy and his allegations.
Agreeing with Eisenhower that televised hearings would expose the real McCarthy in a way that print coverage could not, Republican leaders decided to let the cameras inside the chambers to televise the thirty-six day Army hearings.
Forty million viewers watched the Army-McCarthy hearings and the national mood began to turn against the senator when, on June 9, 1954, the audience in the Senate Caucus room applauded army counsel Louis Welch's outburst ("Have you no sense of decency, sir?") after the senator tried to attack Welch's young assistant.
Six months later, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure McCarthy.
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McCarthy ended his career, lonely and out of the political limelight. It was revealed later he had been a morphine addict throughout the 1940s. He died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital May 2, 1957 at age 48 from complications due to alcoholism and hepatitis.
--McCarthy biography largely excerpted from George Washington University Eleanor Roosevelt website.
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Donated by Craig Simpson
"to protect their modesty" #Repost @women_ofhistory ・・・ A constitutional oversight that allowed women in Quebec to vote was eliminated in 1849 to 'protect women's modesty.' Of course. The constitution gave voting rights to certain people without destinction of sex so early 19th century women took advantage. And it wasn't just white women either - 27 Mohawk women from Caughnawaga cast ballots in 1825. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish women with property in Quebec voted too. But in 1834, Quebec politician Louis-Joseph Papineau wrote: "It is revolting to see women dragged by their husbands, and daughters by their fathers, often against their will, to [vote]. Public interest, decency and the modesty of women demand that these scandals never occur." This insight into the era voices their mindset. Women would be officially unable to vote in 1849 and would not regain the vote until the next century. Photo is of a Miss Guilmartin, Montreal, QC, 1877. #womenshistorymonth
Thursday 1 April to Saturday 5 June All day
FREE
A photographic exhibition of iconic imagery by Ged Murray of 1990’s Strangeway Riots.
Her Majesty’s Prison, Manchester, aka Strangeways, was built in 1868 to house and rehabilitate a maximum of 972 prisoners from the surrounding area, mainly those on remand or serving sentences of less than five years.
One hundred and twenty two years later Strangeways held 1660 men in appalling conditions as prisoners were held, three to a cell, for up to 23 hours a day with the cells measuring 12 foot by 8 foot (3.65 by 2.44 meters).
For some years up to 1990, prision policy had been, not to house and rehabilitate, but to control and contain as prisoners suffered the daily humiliation of “slopping out.” There were repeated claims of brutality and injustice and many of the prison officers were known to have extreme right-wing sympathies.
On April 1 1990, during the Sunday service, the prisoners first seized the chapel, and then throughout that day occupied over half the prison. So began a siege and rooftop protest ended on 25 April when the final five prisoners were removed from the rooftop, making it the longest prison riot in British penal history. One prisoner was killed during the riot, and 147 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured. Much of the prison was damaged or destroyed with the cost of repairs coming to £55 million.
The riot also sparked a series of disturbances in prisons across England, Scotland and Wales.
The British government announced a public inquiry headed by Lord Woolf.
The resulting Woolf Report which only happened as a direct result of the Strangeways Riot, was hailed as the most radical appraisal of the prison system this Century, and was to become a blueprint for the restoration of "decency and Justice into jails where conditions had become intolerable".
Prints are available for purchase.
For more info please contact Fink On Theatre on 0161 226 0807.
A return to previously held values of decency....Back To Classics!
Model: Jamila Adel Awad
Art Director and Photographer : Karim Tarek
All materials appearing on This page may not be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system without a prior permission of the publisher and in no case for profit ...
Watch The Making Of : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzi-cGdDRx0&feature=youtu.be
"So not only did Norman "I'm not crazy" Osborn steal my supervillain-turned-hero scheme with the Thunderbolts, then he goes and saves the world by shooting the Skrull Empress! Unbelievable!"
"Yes, Kang has issues with Osborn as well. But Kang is of All-when, he has issues with everyone."
"Right, I mean, have you seen this guy's hair? At least I have the decency to wear a mask."
"The secrets of his hair elude even Kang."
"I could have shot the Skrull witch!"
"Of course. In many instances of the Multiverse, you did."
"Hells yeah!"
Thursday 1 April to Saturday 5 June All day
FREE
A photographic exhibition of iconic imagery by Ged Murray of 1990’s Strangeway Riots.
Her Majesty’s Prison, Manchester, aka Strangeways, was built in 1868 to house and rehabilitate a maximum of 972 prisoners from the surrounding area, mainly those on remand or serving sentences of less than five years.
One hundred and twenty two years later Strangeways held 1660 men in appalling conditions as prisoners were held, three to a cell, for up to 23 hours a day with the cells measuring 12 foot by 8 foot (3.65 by 2.44 meters).
For some years up to 1990, prision policy had been, not to house and rehabilitate, but to control and contain as prisoners suffered the daily humiliation of “slopping out.” There were repeated claims of brutality and injustice and many of the prison officers were known to have extreme right-wing sympathies.
On April 1 1990, during the Sunday service, the prisoners first seized the chapel, and then throughout that day occupied over half the prison. So began a siege and rooftop protest ended on 25 April when the final five prisoners were removed from the rooftop, making it the longest prison riot in British penal history. One prisoner was killed during the riot, and 147 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured. Much of the prison was damaged or destroyed with the cost of repairs coming to £55 million.
The riot also sparked a series of disturbances in prisons across England, Scotland and Wales.
The British government announced a public inquiry headed by Lord Woolf.
The resulting Woolf Report which only happened as a direct result of the Strangeways Riot, was hailed as the most radical appraisal of the prison system this Century, and was to become a blueprint for the restoration of "decency and Justice into jails where conditions had become intolerable".
Prints are available for purchase.
For more info please contact Fink On Theatre on 0161 226 0807.
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
From "Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency"
Tires and cob, tin and scrap steel.
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Kara believed that this woman had shit her pants. I think this man thought so as well and stopped to lecture her on public decency.
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!
Voila! New arms! YAY! And the best part is Squirrel still has "her" body with tattoo, foot stains, history, etc. ♥
The Communications Decency Act bans images of naked breasts and other "indecent" material from appearing on the Internet
A shot I took during the cold snap in January at St Stephen's Green
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
During the Easter Rising of 1916, a group of insurgents made up mainly of members of the Irish Citizen Army, under the command of Commandant Michael Mallin and his second-in-command Constance Markiewicz, established a position in St Stephen's Green. After the failure of the rising, they were taken to Kilmainham Gaol. At her court-martial she told the court, "I did what was right and I stand by it." She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to life in prison on; "account of the prisoner's sex." She told the court, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me".
The Countess was released from prison in 1917 after a general amnesty.
this poor dead opossum laid in the pharmacy parking lot that was in front of a house i used to live in. he was there for months, undisturbed. i finally decided that it was so remarkable that folks could park right beside his stinking, rotting body, and not care....and that the employees didn't even have the common decency to remove him, even though he was about 20 feet from the business entrance.
...A shot of the website that's "borrowing" my shot of Nashville... against my wishes... and the Creative Commons license applied to it. They didn't even have the decency to ask or credit me. I mean, I'm flattered that someone like's my work enough to steal it, but come on... A license for a size shot like this is not that expensive!
UPDATE: I finally got in touch with the guy in charge of the site. He was very nice and understanding. Apparently it was a misunderstanding and someone had grabbed the shot and just given it to him or something like that. Either way, I think we've got the resolution just about wrapped up.
Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
All images copyright © Matthew Field 2009
p.s. if you are going to ignore my copyright and post my images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me and link them back to here, or i'll probably have to stop posting them here or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
Fundamentally religion is immoral. Based on books that expressly permit, prescribe and endorse, or even command, all manner of immorality and unacceptable behavior, there cannot be a shred of moral decency in religion.
Big Daddy Weave, Mark Schultz and Building 429 came to our church for a "Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana" Concert. It was to raise the level of decency in our community and to stand together against the growing porn industry.
News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
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.
Eagles Of Death Metal w/QOTSA @ OC Fair, Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA
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This is a detail from a group photo which British Intelligence used to identify Seán Treacy. Treacy (pronounced Tracy, like Dick Tracy) was a member of the Irish Volunteers, a militia that was set up in 1914. He and his friend Dan Breen were radicals who worked directly for Michael Collins as salaried gunmen in the intelligence war of 1919 to 1921. They were also leaders in their own rights. Some of their exploits were recounted in western movies by Sergio Leone: the explosives expert, Seán, played by James Coburn in A Fistful of Dynamite was based on him; and the scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly where the bandit Tuco is being mistreated by a thuggish Sergeant Wallace, escorting him to prison on a train, reflects a real incident when one of Treacy's men was being escorted to prison by a Sergeant Wallace...with the exception that Treacy and some men stormed the train and rescued their friend.
Dan Breen described Treacy as both a cool killer and in one particularly funny incident (from before they worked for Collins) as an incredibly softhearted individual:
'During our stay in the new premises [rebel munitions factory], our living conditions were far from happy. Of bodily comforts we had none. We had neither bed nor coverings; worse still, we had no money wherewith to buy them. We got the loan of a couple of blankets from neighbours, spread straw on the ground, and covered it with a blanket. Over this we placed a layer of newspapers, and used a second blanket as a coverlet. The sheets of paper kept us warm, provided we did not shift our position. In this way we were able to get about three hours' sleep. If we moved during the night, the paper got torn and the cold penetrated to our bones.
'Still greater discomfort was caused by the plague of mice! On many a night we were wakened by their nibbling at our hair. Whenever I protested, Seán would plead: "Ah, the poor little creatures! They might as well be happy when we can't. Don't be vexed with them, Dan, even if they take a lock of your black hair." I argued that it was enough to have the Peelers after us, and if the mice had any decency they ought to leave us alone.'
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Look up in the sky overhead in the daylight
And see the clouds formin, somethin doesn't seem right
It's the time for the world to see
A supreme being of extreme delinquency
Of fast pace and idiosyncracy
Of demented measures and tired decency
Of amazing grace, a powerful face
Better than the beings of the human race
JOURNEY OF THE JEDI #13 OF 25
When Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side, his inherent instincts for decency and mercy became completely submerged. With grim finality, he sought out his fellow Jedi and slaughtered them without a second thought. These dramatic actions created a keenly-felt imbalance in the Force, a sense of elemental disruption that could only be quelled by Anakin's eventual redemption. Luke Skywalker provided the emotional impetus for that years later, restoring galactic balance once again.
A shot I took during the cold snap in January at St Stephen's Green
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
During the Easter Rising of 1916, a group of insurgents made up mainly of members of the Irish Citizen Army, under the command of Commandant Michael Mallin and his second-in-command Constance Markiewicz, established a position in St Stephen's Green. After the failure of the rising, they were taken to Kilmainham Gaol. At her court-martial she told the court, "I did what was right and I stand by it." She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to life in prison on; "account of the prisoner's sex." She told the court, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me".
The Countess was released from prison in 1917 after a general amnesty.
I realise while uploading this that I've taken a very similar shot before, so apologies for that.
This is one of the soap bottles in work which has once again turned into a layered cocktail as they've been topped up from a five litre bottle of a different colour.
This one at least has the decency to be blue and white in honour of a great result for the Blues tonight.
This year's show brought students from both Lloydminster & Vermilion campuses together to show off their style, budgeting and presentation skills. Students had a $33.33 budget each to go out into the community and purchase an outfit and appropriate accessories for a Business Awards Banquet.
They were expected to practice their budgeting skills as they shopped for their outfits. Contestants had to show a good taste in fashion and decency. Finally, contestants were tested on their presentation and interpersonal skills as they walked up and down the runway and answered questions from our ‘celebrity’ judges.
The main idea here is to challenge the notion that students have to spend a lot of money to look good for work. Most students struggle with money and this show is a fun way of capturing budgeting, fashion and presentation skills.
You know when someone annoys you... but beyond reason and need and human decency ... And you tolerate them just to see how far they can (or will) go...
Strobist.
For my face just shoot thru umbrella on camera right. Little above. For her shot, just one bare flash bounced of ceiling. Triggered by rf 602.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sheba Welters, a beautiful African American woman, was stalemated by the 'glass ceiling' after doing battle with corrupt individuals within Mega City's largest civil service agency. She had finally reached the highest administrative position she could attain on her own merits through exams. After that, there were the political appointments.
At the next level, all was fair, no standards of morality, except there wasn't any deed 'too low to go', including murder.
Sheba, hardworking and decent, seemed to be an entity unto herself at work until she meets Bob Dunn, the love of her life. You will meet Agatha Fluddrucker and Violet Gray (Sheba's worst enemies), Emmaline Spenser (miserable from birth to demise), Ilene (who would do anything to get her way), Steve Beck (The boss who grossly abuses his absolute power), Ethel (one of Steve's mistresses), Paul (one of Sheba's admirers) Pearl and Evelyn (vengeful and vicious), Edith and Patricia (Both felt threatened by Sheba's intelligence and decency
EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany
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Today i got a feedback. My data analysis is not good. Has to be redone. Thesis has to be submitted in one month. This picture expresses the way i feel. The part of the desk where that pencil wrote actual (bad)words to express the way i feel, has not been included in the photo for the sake of decency. A BIT NERVOUS.
Dr. Robert Kolb
Professor of Finance and Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied
Ethics
Loyola University Chicago
Incentive Structures, Duties, and Decency in the Financial Crisis of 2007 and Beyond
News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
A solo piece I photographed for a college project at age 16.
Inspired by the coral reef and mermaid fairy-tales. To create this image I used blue dye in a bath of water, with multi-colour silk clothes for decency. My light source was one flash light directly above and facing the subject.
Model | Alice
A picture tells a thousand stories.
Film editor Sid Levin wrote in to Morning Stories to express his appreciation for our podcast, and enclosed his mug shot. The Producer and Director of Morning Stories, Tony Kahn, was surprised and delighted.
Dear Tony and Gary,
Because of podcasting, I've been allowed to share some of your experiences and I've grown fond of you both. What a strange and wonderful world we live in.
May I tell you why I sent in my donation to MORNING STORIES?
When I was about five years old, in the late thirties, my older sister and I listened to our favorite radio shows together. We gave ourselves completely to the experience . Eyes wide, we searched each other's faces during the scary parts. It was so much fun to hear these stories on my bedside radio,
Well, MORNING STORIES has brought back that particular pleasure for me. Earlier this week, when I saw George Bush the elder, being moved to tears as he talked about his son, Jeb's, decency I was reminded of a 60 MINUTES interview I saw with the great cartoonist, Charles Shulz shortly before he died. In it, he too was moved to tears by a tender remembrance. And I recognized that I, now in my autumn years, am more easily moved by the decency and reclaimed innocence of those around me. Perhaps it, like puberty, is a requisite stage of life. Which may explain, in part, my passion for MORNING STORIES.
The MORNING STORIES and their construction display the decency and compassion I now find so compelling. The money that I've sent you, a yearly tithe Lord willing, is a token of my appreciation of MORNING STORIES.
Sid Levin
I had to cut some of the bottom leaves off because it was shading my cukes and marigolds.
This package of Sunflower seeds was given to me at the LGBT Pride festival last year by the mother of Sean Kennedy. He was murdered in a hate crime against him because his sexual orientation. I spoke at length with this courageous woman, Elke Kennedy who spends most of her time now spreading her sons tragic story and educating people about hate crimes. www.seanslastwish.org/ She gives out the sunflower seed packets as a tangible symbol of hope for a future free of hate. It is my wish that she doesnt have to crusade for what I would consider "common decency" anymore.