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Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
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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 in 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) cadres and police indulged in brutal sexual violence on women..
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CPI(M)'s top most leadership - such as its CC member Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene threats against.
women activists who were speaking out against the land grab at Singur and Nandigram. Konar threatened.
"When 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 their behinds..
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In 1993, Shubhankar Chakravarty, Principal of Ashutosh College, Kolkata, punished a girl student for wearing.
a salwar-kameez, which he said went against `Bengali culture'. Inspite of such anti-woman attitudes, he.
was rewarded with a Vice-Chancellorship of Rabindra Bharati University as well as a high-profile Lok Sabha.
ticket against Mamata Banerjee from the CPI(M)..
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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 of India, 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 victims: "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 of these women with the anti-socials were an open secret, that day's events appeared to.
be a sequel to the rivalry between these anti-socials", 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.
in Bengal, EPW, Feb 21, 1991.).
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CPI(M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M), the late 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).
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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).
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The Left-oriented women's movement has a well-deserved reputation for commitment 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 patriarchal `common sense' within their own ranks..
When a CPI(M) Government refuses to dismiss a police officer who openly denies women's rights and expresses.
communal views, when Left leaders defend `dress codes' in the name feminine `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?.
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When SFI and CPI(M) display double standards by refusing to condemn the anti-woman words and deeds of their.
own comrades on the issue of gender, when they refuse to question the patriarchal stances and distorted gender.
ideology of their own party, they only end up strengthening the patriarchal and anti-woman agenda of the right-wing.
forces..
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In this JNUSU elections, AISA appeals to you to stand by those who consistently defend gender justice.
and women's rights, and reject the political proponents of patriarchy and their representatives on campus!.
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Central Panel.
President : Sandeep Singh.
Vice- President : Shephalika Shekhar.
Gen. Secy. : Pallavi Deka.
Jt. Secy. : Md Mobeen Alam.
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SIS SAA S. Karmegam SSS.
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Arvind Kumar Ashok Kumar K.C..
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Khalid Abdalla Abdelwahab Javed Iqbal Wani.
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Madri Kakoti Meera Visvanathan.
Monalisa Adhikari SLL&CS.
Abhineet Raj Sucheta De.
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Vismay Basu P. Kumar Mangalam Urvashi Tilak.
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Syed Mohammad Raghib.
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Uday Kr. Shankar Sd/- Awadhesh,.
Convenor,Campaign Committee, AISA, JNU.
Vishal Kumar.
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The fact that I had to take these pictures pisses me off beyond belief. We were walking to the car to run some errands and do some wedding registry stuff (Yay!)
However when we were walking by the swimming pool area we saw these two chairs situated as a step-stool for people to get over the fence and either into or out of the pool area. In the past we have also seen the gate jimmied in such a way that it won’t latch. There are children that live/play in our complex. The last thing that needs to happen is one of these children to get into the pool area and have some sort of accident. It bothers me that people just don’t have common sense or enough respect to follow the posted rules or the law of common sense to latch the gate and not place items close to the fence line.
What is our world coming to?
When did people lose self respect and common decency?
We have mentioned it to the office. We were glad to know that we we’re the only ones to say something. Only time will what will happen with these people.
Full 'wonderful' play (13 minutes) on this link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZtCgYSajA&t=18s
Early morning drama intervenes, but then this is a diary, and this is how life happens, intervenes even. It’s hard to give advice in these situations, especially at such a remove, with a landmass between friends. But this is now, and we catfish away, that once remove of contemporary relationships, friendships, whatever. There is almost nothing you can do relative to this, other than to try to listen. Ray, that’s his new name, not Jay, to help him alliterate, is not the most patient of creatures at the best of times. Sometimes it feels like walking on eggs, and of course whilst highly agitated this can be more pronounced. The situation puts me in mind of a period of time in London, when I would come home from the theatre (working at the National) and find Delphine lying on the floor in the middle of the hallway, unable to move, paralysed. I might gingerly broach this possibility with Ray eventually, it would be highly contentious, a psycho-somatic possible contingent to his ailment. I am, of course, the completely wrong kind of doctor to make this sort of suggestion, but this sudden paralysis does put me in mind of Delphine’s struggles. I know Ray has been under a lot of pressure lately, with the possible unravelling of his source of income, and the dementia related demise of his mother, threatening to disinherit everyone because of the neglect she perceives to be the case. Every family has its own madness, some more so than others, and Ray’s family would seem to be on that chaotic end of that spectrum. But no, I couldn’t suggest this possible psychosomatic connection without incurring a particular type of wrath, one I would rather not be subject to. Perhaps, for now, it’s just enough to write it here, and wait until his condition is further diagnosed by those trained to know more about his vulnerability, whether it be muscular or whatever.
I haven’t used the ‘Dear Diary’ like this before, to record the unsayable. This might open up new possibilities, the chance to write anything. I suspect that this is a place one has to get to anyway, the completely private, the removal of all filters. There is a lot to write, which cannot be shared, stuff that might stay there until after I am dead, until after they are dead even. It’s also not just stuff about Ireland and family. I am strangely indifferent to the dragging up of old skeletons, probably some leftover of that decimated boundary issue. Part of the problem, relative to having been abused, is the energy it takes to protect everyone else concerned, and the accommodations made so that the abuse could happen and then somehow be denied in a drive towards maintaining that façade of decency; that ‘ideal family’ carapace. I have seen it in other families too, even the families of the very rich and famous, having been absorbed in drunken conversations with one particular female friend whose world-famous father had sexually abused her sister for years, and the effort it took from the whole family to maintain the façade, one they all depended on for their wealth and place in society. But these are not my names to expose. I just put the idea out there, that this ‘disease’ is a universal, and outside the bounds that description the ‘respectable’. It transcends class and propriety, and all manifestations of obvious decency, and is no respecter of what might pass for dignity and breeding. This transgressive driver would appear to be a universal. It would also appear to be one that thrives particularly in repressive situations, religious or social or the combination of both, with all that impossible to resist draw of taboo. Again, quarantine would be the answer, either self-quarantine, or that enforced from without.
Yes, this has been a sort of centrepiece, a subject of mine, for over thirty years. There was a ‘driver’ there, a Tourette’s-type of a driver, one that seemingly caused Art and exhibitions even to be convulsed. Sometimes I feel I should apologise for this vomiting up, sometimes I think it was the right thing to do. I am mostly of the second opinion now, though I would still like to make it somehow ‘softer’. That’s partially what these words are for, to show that these things can be worked through, that light can be shone on these drivers, and that some disempowerment is, perhaps, possible. It is a lifetime’s work, and this writing is, perhaps (that word again), a sort of denouement, or a coda, something generated not to excuse the images, but to suggest why they might have been unavoidable. Again, I like these uncertain words, like perhaps, they are an indication of feeling one’s way forward, that the act of writing is not a declaration, but more like the amoeba stretching its pseudopodia forward to feel out the landscape to see if it is safe to bifurcate. There has to be a degree of trust there, and reclaiming trust is, maybe, what it’s about.
I have written about this before.
Bifurcation is central to the creation myth. Eve issued from the rib of Adam, yes that myth. I like to think of her as a breech birth, coming feet, or rather foot, first. We have a perfect model of bifurcation in the humble amoeba. Essential to the idea of infra-thin, as described by Duchamp in his notes for the Green Box, is the concept of the caste and mould. These complementaries generate infra-thin when fit one inside the other. Infra-thin is, of course, the infinite space between them. This would suggest that in the doubling through bifurcation the split is into matter and anti-matter, or subject and object, and the combination of both complementaries might negate the ego and attain towards infinity or at least towards an entropy which might act as the mulch or seedbed for the process to begin over again. The amoeba puts its best foot forward and feels it’s way into the world until it finds its footing and the courage to split.
This single celled ‘Avant-garde’ foot moves forward describing the terrain to the body to inform it as to whether it is safe to divide.
The rest, creativity itself, is a chain reaction.
I would guess that is what this attempt at finding clarity is becoming, this initially reticent ‘blind-trusting’ reaching out, this feeling out to determine safety, and that possible bifurcation into both ‘living’ and ‘describing’. For whatever compounding of circumstances that one’s life seems to have contrived to get to this point, the long and short of it seems to be that I find myself meta-morphing from using images to deploying words. My tendency is still to use both, though that might be changing.
Either way, every morning, and sometimes continuing through the day, I appear to add words, like I am ‘driven’. I am beginning to respect all ‘drivers’, even the most dangerous ones. To be truly studied they demand total quarantine, so that they don’t get to ‘act out’ destructively. But this is possibly true of all ‘creative acts’.
There’s the nub, abuse being the creative force of the universe, and how to fit that into a ‘story’, a fiction, a memoir, an image.
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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.
Opened a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli, and had the decency and good manners to not eat them right out of the can. Dumped them into a bowl, and ate them cold.
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.
Imagine a future so technologically advanced, culturally advanced in respect and peaceful harmony. This is a future possible where not one civilization has not tried to take over the other and that cultural influences have not been surpressed. This is a future where everybody is free spirited just not to live free but to think free beyond the limitless bounds of their infinite imaginations. Where not any society will try to surpress who you are when you step out of your own society. A future where you will be free to dress, eat, listen to music with no intimidation from any society that will abound on it's own incredible moral respect, decency and modesty in the most caring ways you could ever dream of. A future where everything is created in the most beautiful means imaginable from music, fashion, science, art and love for what the Universe has abounded in so many diverse possibilities. I see this has the next level of evolution since humanity is no longer a baby anymore but a child that has out grown it's crib and preparing to step it's way into the vast unknown through exploration. You are looking 50 years into the future where ancient meets advance and technology meets nature all in harmony.
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()0\ ·r. Cy CPJ(M) goons is 11 rcn:ut in~tnncc of CPI(M)'s willingness to usc rape a~ a wcnpon a~nin'il u p~.:oplc's struggle. Later, CPl(M) systcmaticJily o;prcuc.J tho theories that she hod in fnct b~:cn killed by her lovcr,.llcr father or l1cr .
~ broihcr. At the lnnc, thu West Bengal CM from CPI(M) ordered a CBl enq uiry, promising that it would punish the gui lty iC indeed anyone was found guilty. But now tho CU I enquiry has uccuscd Cl,.l(M)'s own locnJ lc:.H.Jcr.s of having mastct'-mindcd the rope. Yet CPI(M) continues to de-fend the rapists ~lnd deny the rape itself. A Nn;1digram also, CPI(M) cadres and police indulged in brultll Sl xual vioknc mosr lelltlership -such ns its CC mem-ber Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene thrcuts agninst women activists wl,o wcac speaking out against the land grab at Singur and Nandigrnm. I<onar threat-ened "\Vhen Mcdlw Patl<a· visits here next tin1c, we'll n:-.1< o ur wumcu c:tdran[S ond show their behinds. .
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l· t 199J, Sllubhankar Chakravarty, Principal or Ashulo:,lt College. Kolkata, punished a girl szudcnt fo· wearing a 'iulw~r-1\amcc:.c, which he said went a~aiu:-1 'Bengali culture'. Inspire or Sll<'h <.ll\li· wu111;11J :l llitlld~.:s, he w;a:-. n:wan..h:d with n Vi<:c-Chan-ccllorship or Rub111dra lllaur,ati L.'nivcrsity lh well as" liigla-:Holilc f.o~ '-.;,hl!:: !id:d :tb:ain:-.: ~,1:.n1.:!'\ l3~101arcl'' oul)' 1111 tht· girl \fullcut., ol lite Vi.,,wl Arh l>cpurfltteul. ( IIIII<.'\ of /nd1tl, ~ .1 unJ .:·1 uly, ~00.2). .
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i11p ions and suh of rape cases in the ~late, had replied: ' In the U~, r<1pc i~ u~ common as driul. racl<cl. St.:x r:ackcts oc<.:ur natumlly.''.
-(Outlook, 22 Dec, 199~') . .
C..J'IlfVJ) Ideologue, the J~ tc EMS Nnmhoodirip~1d, .
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1:1~Iteel <Ill I nt{JJ Iu.s 1'/tlup,.\, uccoi'IIIIJL IH.'f of "'clcht·ntlug lu~r ~w·~ dl-vuJ'.:td mv(Jicr'r~ 'dovhwt !fCiUJUJ reliJtiOJJii wtlli n .
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0 Tl1c Snbnrimalo Tomplo in l{:rala sornc rlmo ?a_ck sougl1tpunisltmcnt for lHt actress who allegedly ~lo-lutcd' the shaine'~ anti-womnn custom cf banmng worn en from cnl(!ring the shrine. Tim CPJ(M) Go;.ot. 's Temple Development (Devaswom) Minister, G Sudhuk~n~n, snid that it is up to the Temple Bonrd to decide and upho!d its "customs", and to punish (he l<antutulua uctrcss If she b l'~;ulfty" of "de-filing" tho shriu('l (BBC N~w~. 3 July 06.} Further, the President of the CPI{M) women's wing AIDWA's Kcrnln Unit, K K Shaylaja, said tunt no action sl1ould IJc tukcn against the temple, as .
"believer!!·!iltOL!Id not he tmnoyed11 (NDTV. June 30)..
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The Lcft-oril.!ntcd WOillCil '5 movl:nH'nl has a wellrdescrvccJ reputation for cvmmitment lo women's struggles. In order to retain anJ consolidate this legitimacy and combat the fascist and patri1rchnl l()rccs, the Left groups need to prove that thl'Y nre willing to ocknowlcdgc und consciously combat pn-triarcltal 'co·Hmon sense' within their own ranks. When a Man:isl ideologue of the highest stature dccb:-cs th~t it is \k-viant' for u ciivorccd mother to love a Dalit man; when Left le;;dcrs defend 'dn.:ss codes' in the name feminine 'decency', or implyJhat a woman's scxuul behavioui can j ustifY rape, do they not Jo grit!VOt:S harm to women's struggles aguinsr such ratri:m.:hal ideology? Do they not end up giving a boost to the fusdst l~lghf-wlng, that (JUOlc!. the CPI{M)'s uuti-W"IIlllll statcmrnrs ro dtfl' Jid itselr. .
Rl!spomii 1ag 10 1ht: CPI( tv!) Women's Wing leader Shyamaii Cluptct's stnrcml!nt on the Birati rapt: cru;t; in J 90, noted his-loa i:an Tuu il4:1 ~arltur had c.;omnH:tttt!d in the EPW: .
'IV/wt t'\jlli/11/\ hcJ n'fnntn: to thc· mnr,d und sucwl ,\land-/Ill: uf ''"''< wunu·n tht1/ thc1· l't'llded 111 "rmautlwr i.H'cl htlf lll<'lll.\ ·, o11d tlrut tl·· y ll't'l'c' c·nguget! in "foul profe.nimu'', ll'l'rl' ''mi\lrc:\H'\ '' oj and hud "lumeymoo11s with" fl/1.!11 they II L"r e 1101 11/cll'rt('(/ to' Thc: only rdevance fnr such dt!\trlp-lion re!!ltlt.!.'i in the llll:ilutc:tl tH:illmllon tlwt... wonum require certain .\'t?.wa/ fllld properly qualifications robe classified as .
jiilly legitimate victim.\." l'anika Sarkar argues that "The aftl.!rmuth of tlte Btrali gang rapes .. u1tder/ines, even more .Hm;tgi;\ 11 aiticu/failure,....in geud::r ideology. And rn caw: the tllo.\1 hc.\olh'd lu.:lt.:t'<.'r in !he Lt:{l Front\· ~cneral pmgn.:,,·. .\il'l! {mtuntit!l could ht~ve .\<.'1.!11 ill 11 a pa111ju!!y distort~d yel indi~iJuol op111ion uftusf one tJt.:r.lon in rite: p(Jr/y, the party moutltpicc.:e ils<'/f, the P D ufJu(1 29. JIJ!/0, proudl,v cr:rrtt'S tlte en/ire st(Jiement in a separate box. The CPJ(M) /SIOI'es H'ii/J brutal C:(ltU/OUr, J'fttgg/ng up (l/15pC!CCS for Optimism.../, .
for onc:, wo uld have ultr!butell (Gupta's words) to tli!Jinformatiult in tlte 'bourge,Ji... press' hut/ I no/ reud them iu tltt! People \" Dcuwcrnl)'..." .
When SFI :ul\' CPI(M) c..lisplny double stnndnrcJs by refusiug, to conc..lc:mn 11 e anti-womJn worc..l·; lU!d dt:ctls of their own contra<.l~:s on rite i.;suc of gcndt:r, when the)-1\!fuse to quest ion the 1 a! ri.lt ch.d shtnc.:s ond distorted £t:ndt:t itkolo~~Y of rh;.;1r uw11 pnny. tl:;:y only end up strengthening tile pall H1rrha 1 unJ <utli·\\'Oillllll ugcudu of the right-wing .
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Queens Of The Stone Age Palm Desert Benefit show
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After being crushed against a wire fence by Italian Police (women, children and all) before gaining entry to the ground and literally having to carry people over our heads who were injured. After being pelted with coins and bottles by Italian fans whilst the Italian police looked on. After being kept in the ground for two hours after the game ended - the tables turned.
Let me get this straight - in no way do I condone the behaviour of those people who threw objects at the Italian Police. It was wrong, plain and simple. However, it gave me an insight in to why this can happen. Previously I'd wondered - why do people behave like this when they surely know that it's wrong? This experience gave me a better appreciation of why they do. Further, it underlined my belief that if you treat people with respect and decency, they will return in kind. And vice versa.
Dean and Troy, Philadelphia Electric Factory
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When I've had powerful cars in the past I too have driven around everyone - the difference being that I always use my signals. Always.
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.
Site has expanded since I last passed by, offering 24-hour food, clothing & support for homeless people.
Of course it's an eyesore and public nuisance. Homeless people should have the decency to stay out of sight, so as to not offend the sensibilities of affluent middle class people and politicians.
On September 11, 1902, a letter headlined “Wants Reform at the Public Library” appeared in The Denver Republican newspaper. The customer wrote, “I was very much surprised; not to say shocked; on visiting your public library to see men readers in the newspaper room sitting with their hats on. It seems to me this very flagrant breech of good manners should be rectified at once. During many journeyings I have visited scores of libraries, but never before have I witnessed such a lack of deference not only to the house of books itself, but also to the women readers who were present. In making plans for the new library, would it not be well for the trustees in behalf of common decency, to adopt some stringent rule prohibiting the continuance of such vulgar exhibitions? I wonder what Mr. Carnegie’s opinion of the matter would be!” signed, A Visiting New Yorker. The picture shows the Library newspaper room in 1937 with men in…ahem…hats! #120years003
See more information about the Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department's Digital Image Collection at: history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html
Life. Is about taking chances. Choosing to take those chances.
Some people search high and low to define themselves.
Mysterious. Private. Personal. Seclusive.
Some people let it all out. And be happy with it.
Some chose to be distant. Some chose to leave.
Some were given second chances. Some grab any given opportunities.
Me. I was insecure. I am still very insecure. But I'm not afraid to try things. To meet people. To say I love you and mean it. To say I can't love you and mean it as well.
I want to live my life and be remembered as someone who provided that much love regardless being reciprocated or not.
I want to be that person who admits to my bitchiness mistakes and have the decency of apologising for it.
I want to be that person who explains herself not out of defense, but out of clarification and justification.
I want to be someone who is honest and frank enough to not lead people to false assumptions.
I want to take chances. Not because I want to prove myself to others. But because I am open what it may lead to happen.
I want to be on top of a castle and jump as high as I can. And I'm not afraid to fall down on the ground, bruise myself to hurt and pain.
I want to be immortal. And then die in the end.
Photo Credit: Hafiz Latif
Camera Credit: Muid Latif
Location: Rooftop of Kellie's Castle, Batu Gajah, Perak.
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.
magazine ad, for ice cream, appeared in Look magazine. It showed two priests in full robes who looked as though they were about to kiss. One of the men also wore rosary beads and held a spoon in his hand; the other held a tub of ice cream. The ad included text that stated “We Believe in Salivation”.
Six complainants objected that the ad was offensive, because they believed it mocked Catholicism.
The ASA noted the CAP Code stated that ads "should contain nothing that is likely to cause serious or widespread offence. Particular care should be taken to avoid causing offence on the grounds of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or disability".
We noted the ad used the text "We Believe in Salivation" as a theme to refer to the taste of the product and to the image of the priests, who were portrayed in a seductive pose as if they were about to kiss passionately. We considered the portrayal of the two priests in a sexualised manner was likely to be interpreted as mocking the beliefs of Roman Catholics and was therefore likely to cause serious offence to some readers. We concluded that the ad breached the Code.
The ad breached CAP Code (Edition 11) clause 5.1 (Decency).
The ad must not appear again in its current form. We told Antonio Federici to ensure future ads were not likely to cause serious or widespread offence.
Cars, fucking cars everywhere!! Don't you sods have enough room in Helsinki already, have some decency ffs!
Wikipedia. Informative. Pointly. And by the people who really know it!
Think about it.. You are with the job of spreading information, making the knowledge cheaper, searchable, taggable, fast, easily available. Just a site on the world network does the trick. But really if you have to do it alone, how fast can you do it really? So much of topics, so much information, so little time, so little experience with each topic. The internet is now turning to better ways. If you think you got what it takes to be the best, or the topic you are on the research best describes you, then go ahead, explain it to the computer in HTML tags. You hardly know how many people are frantically searching for what you know, you are explaining the world, your knowledge! Think about a age, a civilization from where men of knowledge emmerge.. People know everything they are looking at.. can explain anything happening round you, be it the mobile being called, or a rocket being launched, or perhaps why it is raining. We are the men of knowledge, we are the most intellectually advanced men, we should be the men of knowledge therefore.. Do some justice, don't write stupid stuffs on the net, or erase things there, and laugh.. you are certainly foolish then.. you don't even have the simplest knowledge of decency. Stop the spam, stop the harm, the internet is for greater good!
Agir
Entre tendresse et émotion.
Respiration sensitive,
Doux contact.
Se sentir vivre
Brûlante et charmante pudeur
Langage du corps
Entre plaisir et désir
S’apprivoiser, s’improviser
Dans un jeu de séduction
Entre sauvage et câline
S’enivrer
"Souvenir"
To act. Between tenderness and emotion. Sensitive breathing, Soft contact. To feel to live. Extreme and charming decency Language of the body. Between pleasure and desire. To tame down, improvise themselves, In a play of seduction. Between savage and câline, enivrer.
"Souvenir"
st. louis transit campaign
kind of funny that after the first 2, which appeal to some sort of sense of decency and goodness, the last sign is basically saying "and if you still don't give a shit, there's cops watching you, so..."
Factory owners in Banlgadesh are proposing a new minimum wage of just 14 cents an hour.
The workers are asking for 43 cents an hour, which would allow them to climb out of misery and at least into poverty--where they could hang on by the fingertips and live with a modicum of decency.
Click here to read more and sign the petition to help Bangladeshi garment workers.
I found this shot compelling for two distinct reasons. The first is that it highlights the linguistic complexity of Finland's situation. As a nation that was variously ruled by the Swedes and Russians for much of its history, it now finds itself (even nearly a century after its independence in 1917) with many speakers of both. In the case of the Swedes, this resulted in Swedish being made an official language of the country, and thus all public (and much private) signage --from street names to informational placards -- has both Finnish and Swedish. This is a boon to someone like me, who can generally muddle through the Danish-like Swedish toponyms, but finds the Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian) completely incomprehensible. Throwing in English for good measure as the global lingua franca (and oh, how the French must hate that English is that), we have the sort of signage pictured above. Vendace, incidentally, is a particularly widespread and delicious species of whitefish endemic to the North.
Secondarily, those three birds had the decency to plop down on the sign, standing in careful and motionless tandem, spaced across the signage almost perfectly. And as any longtime viewer of my photography knows, I'm a sucker for found syzygies.
Oh, as for where this is? The open-air market adjacent Helsinki's harbour, at the base of the Esplanadin Puisto, one of the more lovely esplanades I've had the privilege of strolling idly down.
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.
Der Fasan vergisst unsichtbare Menschen aus der Dose, wenn die laenger geparkt sind. Also maschierte dieser brav zu uns her und zeigte seinen eleganten Federanzug /
Pheasants are initially wary, but forget canned people if the car does not move for some minutes. This guy had the decency to walk up to my rolled down window and pose in his sunday suit.
Biffy Clyro supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Wintertur, Switzerland
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
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. 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.
Aman down on his luck begging on the streets of Edinbrugh. For a man who has nothing, he takes amazing care of his dog, Bruno who is the picture of health and happniess. Its difficult to see people in this place in life, but good to see the decency it brings out also.
On Hyde Park Corner.
I struggled with this statue. He seems to have a desire to have his scrap without his kit on, which is fine, but he could have had the decency to leave the armour out of frame. It definitely spoils the leg line!
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.
Artwork by dbase.
Not by Banksy. 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.
Hi Guys please share comment and let me know what you think. These 3 images are 1 My original copyrighted image. The second is a NEXT T Shirt. And the last is my image layered over the T shirt with a 50% opacity so you can see the shirt through my image. Next have NOT even had the decency to ask to use the shot or offered anything for the shot they have just taken the image from online and used it. The shirt is so popular if you look on the website it has already sold out in many sizes
A single Green sandpiper remained on Restharrow Scrape this morning but it did have the decency to come within range.
As I mentioned on the previously submitted Snipe shots, there is a distinct lack of feather detail, I need to find similar shots from my old camera to make a true comparison, but my feeling - and that of many reviews, the SX60 doesn't give the quality of image that its predecessor did.
These images are cropped, but not cropped to enlarge, just to remove large areas of background. They are 1/4 of the original image, still giving a 2300x1712 image which is then shrunk to ~1800x1333 for Flickr.
Pissigt väder ju. Sitter i Södertälje hamn, detta skithål, och inväntar avgång. På bänken bredvid mig sitter världens äckligaste småstadssvin, två killar och en tjej. Finniga, lurkiga, med för mkt texturising wax från Garnier i håret. Ni vet, kidsen som rör sig i stadens yttersta utkanter (asså typ Järna och Gnesta) har ej ännu fått informationen om att spikes är så jävla '98. Vill döda. 30-something kvinnor med kopparfärgade highlights (måtte det ej vara hårmascara) i sitt råttfärgade hår lommar förbi, kånkandes på shoppingpåsar från Joy och Flash. Ja, ni hajar. Ett ungt par begår kardinalsynden; de tunghånglar i mitt öra, slask, slafs, smack. De har inte ens the decency att vara snygga. Jag har nu uppgivit tre anledningar till att skaffa körkort, köpa en bil och bara sluta åka kollektivt. Det är antagligen det jag skulle njuta allra mest av om jag tog bilen överallt; att bli fredad av mänskligheten. Detta virus. Men asså det är så himla dyrt och miljöovänligt att köra bil så jag ska nog lägga mina slantar på att gå i terapi istället. Jag måste lära mig att se det vackra i människor! Alla människor.