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collage i made as a donation for "Rockin for Joplin" a event raising money to help Joplin Missouri after the recent disaster. another piece is soon to follow once photographed
I do think it's sad when people spend the whole time at a gig taking photos or videoing rather than living in the moment, but at the same time, it's nice to have some kind of record to look back on. My compromise was to take random photos now and then, in the hope I have one or two decent ones, and to just video a small section of most of the songs - best of both worlds!!
Have a listen if you have time - Sigrid has a good range of styles, from ballads to rocky disco songs. This was her last day of her UK tour and after this was off to Ireland She was particularly happy cos her family had come over to see her here.
We had to 'endure' two supports with Sigrid, but actually the first sing, Skaar (from Norway, like Sigrid) was quite good! The next act was Tommy Lefroy, and eventually our lovely Sigrid came on!
SIGNS OF THE LAST DAYS
AND THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
Nation shall rise against nation,
kingdom against kingdom Matt. 24:7
Earthquakes, Famines and Pestilence Matt. 24:7
Men shall run to and fro Dan. 12:4
Knowledge shall be increased Dan. 12:4
Wars and rumers of wars Matt. 24:6
Evil men shall wax worse and worse 2 Tim. 3:13
As in the days of Noah Matt. 24:37
Restaurants and Taverns Matt. 24:49
False Christs Matt. 24:5, 11:24; Mark 13:22
Falling away from faith I Tim. 4:1,2
Will not endure sound doctrine 2 Tim. 4:2-4
Scoffers who don't care to hear of
the Second Coming of Christ 2 Peter 3:3-14
They shall say peace and safety 1 Thess. 5:1-3
Men walking after their own lusts Jude 16,17,18
Heaping treasures for last days James 5:3-6
False Preachers Matt. 24:11
Men and horses out of work Zech. 8:10
Automobiles Nahum 2:3-4
Air Ships Isaiah 31:5; 60:8
Perilous times 2 Tim. 3:1
Disobedient to Parents 2 Tim. 3:2
Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
having a form of Godliness, but denying the
power thereof 2 Tim. 3:4-5
Jews returning to Palestine Jer. 32:36-42
Coming World Dictator 2 Thess. 2:1-4; Rev.13
Length of his rule Rev. 13:5
Some will worship him Rev. 13:8
Doom to those that worship him Rev. 14:9-11
Picture of last war Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:21, 27 Jer.25:29-33
Gospel preached among all nations Mark 13:10
Signs in the sun,moon,stars... distress of nations....
Mens hearts failing them for fear Luke 21:25-27
"All these are the beginning of sorrows. the end
of all things is at hand. Watch ye, therefore, and
pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass and
to stand before the Son of man. Matt. 24:8; 1 Peter 4:7;
Luke 21:36
Only one way to escape John 3:16-20
Without the shedding of blood is no remission.
For this is My blood of the New Testamment
which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you....
Ex. 12:13; Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:22
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13:5
Except ye be converted, and become as little
children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven. Except a man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God Matt. 18:3; John 3:3
Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth, and the
Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me John 14:6
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness 1 John 1:9
The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Therefore,
be ye ready; for in such an hour as ye think not,
the Son of man cometh Matt.24:44
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
- Og Mandino
Explore #78 on September 4, 2009
On the eve of the beginning of a New Year, let us remember that HOPE hides the face of sorrow and gives us the PROMISE of a bright and new tomorrow. HAPPY NEW YEAR, my dear friends!!!!!
Explore: December 30, 2008 -- #122
Thank you, dear friends, for the kindesses shown to me since I have become part of the "flickr family." May you be blessed with a most joyful day today and the beginning of a bright and happy New Year! Love, Clara
...God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Cor. 10:13
These pictographs, likely made during the "Barrier Canyon" period dating back to 400 AD, have endured the ages, but not the predations of man (and woman). The small roundish indents and star-shaped splotches are bullet wounds; the scratched writing is Graffiti, dating back many decades, not just modern times.I don't know what the pinkish undecipherable markings are around the central figure but I'm wondering if they were created by an ill-advised effort at removing Graffiti. It amazes me anyone would add their full name in conducting a crime like vandalism on what today is considered Federal property (the US Bureau of Land Management is responsible for oversight and protection of these invaluable resources).
There are at least three distinct cultures, as determined by the differences in stylistic details, that left records of their presence in the form of pictographs (painted, as in this image) and petroglyphs (pecked, etched, incised) on the rock faces on either side of the small Sego Canyon near I-70 in southeastern Utah. They are easily viewable (and, very unfortunately, also too easily accessible to the touch and well within gunshot, as evidenced by decades of Graffiti and other vandalism, especially that inflicted with bullets) from the gravel road and short trails.
According to the Bureau of Land Management website: "The main location [of the Sego Canyon Rock Art Interpretive Site], around a protruding cliff [one panel of which is in this photo]] near a streambed, has hundreds of designs spanning over a thousand years of history and representing three distinctive styles. The oldest are from the Barrier Canyon period, 400 AD onwards, characterized by complex red pictographs, many still crisp and richly-colored [as pictured]. Later designs are petroglyphs, from the Fremont culture, approximately 1,000to 1300, then the Ute peoples after 1300..."
As my followers - virtual and otherwise - well know, I'm fascinated and enchanted by what is collectively called "rock art" and I have to say, the examples here in Sego Canyon are among the most lovely and sophisticated I've seen.
Please note that the differing colors and orientations from photo to photo in this series are caused by changing light and shadow, me approaching from different angles, slight lens distortion depending on focal length, and some modest editing to assure the main subjects are easily visible in the images.
Young widow Mother and her newborn, in the Lada refugee camp along the south east Bangladesh-Burma coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Quite a common social status for women to be widow regarding the Ethnic cleansing in the Arakhane Burmese state, and the repressive Bangladesh jailing answer to the immigration.
Taken in Lada unregistered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
DH 7304 (one of only two lightning striped GP38-2's remaining) is through Lasalle station, trailing CP 8735 on CP 253. Presumably it is going to St-Luc for servicing.
Richard Ratcliffe (husband of British-Iranian Nazanin Zhagari Ratcliffe) places painted stones on the pavement outside Britain's Foreign Office for Alaa.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endured much of the last twelve years in some of the worst prison conditions anywhere for his brave work in promoting democracy in Egypt. He was last arrested in September 2019 while attending Cairo's Dokki Police Station and in December last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment for "spreading false news undermining state security." More precisely, he had shared social media posts explaining the hell-hole reality of Egyptian prison conditions.
PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE
Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, are currently staging a protest in London's King Charles Street outside the British Foreign Office in the hope that the Egyptian government can be pressured to release him, as media attention begins to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
TORA PRISON - "A DAY HERE, IS LIKE A YEAR IN BELMARSH"
In April, Alaa began his hunger strike in a cell in one of the most secure sections of Cairo's sprawling and notorious Tora Prison - a maze of grim high concrete walls and watch towers, which strike fear into even the thousands of commuters who have to pass daily.
In 2012, one young Londoner confined to one of the least uncomfortable and most survivable wings of Tora prison, contrasted it with his own previous experience at Britain's high security Belmarsh. I can never forget his exact words. "A day here, is like a year at Belmarsh!" A little over 12 months later, he died of TB - the prison authorities had refused to listen to the pleas of his aunt, who fell on her knees during a rare visit, begging that he be admitted to the prison hospital.
ALAA'S HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES AT WADI EL NATRUN PRISON
More than 200 days have passed since Alaa started his hunger strike. He has now been moved to the Wadi El Natrun prison complex in the desert north of Cairo, dubbed by inmates as the "Valley of Hell."
He may not survive much longer. However, as he holds British-Egyptian nationality, one would hope that the British government would be doing everything they could to secure his immediate release and it would be reasonable to suppose that the Foreign Office could get an immediate pledge in this regard, especially given that the British companies, including the likes of British Petroleum and BP, are the biggest investors in Egypt.
NO CONSULAR ACCESS
However, the British government have failed even to get him any consular access - think about that. That's an outrage. Even a convicted mass murderer, if British, would be entitled to consular access while in prison. That meeting would obviously not take place in his cell - but in a designated room in the prison or the highly supervised prison visiting area.
British men and women convicted of drug smuggling and other crimes in Egypt have received consular visits, so why not Alaa? The answer is because Alaa's crime is that he dared to tell the truth about Egypt, and the injustice both inside and outside its many prison walls. Nobody knows exactly how many political prisoners Egypt now has, but the number is estimated to be at least 60,000.
ALAA WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was one of the leaders of arguably the most inspirational democratic revolt the world has seen in the last hundred years. Although the first phase of the 2011 uprising in Egypt lasted just 18 days, and although it followed the toppling of the dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia - the streets and bridges around Tahrir Square became a deadly stage watched by the world, where protesters from every walk of life were pitted against Egypt's feared state security forces. Against all the odds, and at the cost of many lives, Egyptians refused to leave the square, sleeping in front of the tanks and fending off attacks from government militia.
The Egyptian people's initial success in toppling the dictator Mubarak led to further revolts not just across the Middle East (most notably in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria) - the highly organised Tahrir-Square sit-in provided the inspiration for strikes and workplace sit-ins against austerity across the United States and Europe and to the Occupy Movement of the same year. The people of Egypt showed that it does not matter how brutal, feared and authoritarian a government is, it can be toppled if people act collectively.
THE MILITARY BACKLASH
It's true that Egypt's flirtation with the path to greater freedom seemed to be only temporary - the Egyptian authorities deployed the usual divide and rule tactics - encouraging the less committed protesters to return home - and then rushed to elections without allowing time for a genuinely democratic opposition parties to develop. Instead, the Muslim Brotherhood were elected in 2012 - the movement had progressive elements, but the chance for any transformative radical programme was prevented by the corruption and self-interest of the main political actors, and the army, seeing its chance, seized power in 2013, superficially in the name of the people, but in reality, to advance the interests of Egypt's generals. The new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, moved quickly to crush all opposition, and ordering his security forces to attack Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had gathered in eastern Cairo at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, killing at least 800 people - the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Egypt's modern history.
DON'T ALLOW EGYPT TO USE COP27 TO GREENWASH ITS REGIME - AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALAA
Now COP27 is scheduled to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh and Sisi has been given a golden opportunity to greenwash his murderous regime, which has also seen ever increasing levels inequality and corruption. While British representatives at COP27 will be given accommodation in the most luxurious five star hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh and fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves, another British citizen, Alaa Abdel El-Fatah is near death, on a painful hunger strike in the darkest of places - his dimly lit cell. The only thing he might hear at night is the desperate cry from some prisoner in another cell appealing for medical help which most likely never comes.
If we care for freedom, real democracy and justice, we can't allow the British Foreign Office to forget Alaa - especially if it's simply not to upset the highly profitable relationship British multinationals have with one of the world's most authoritarian and corrupt regimes - a relationship which only benefits the wealthiest of Egyptians.
If you live in London, please show your support at the protest at King Charles Street - and wherever you live please sign the petition -
www.change.org/p/help-free-my-brother-before-it-s-too-lat...
{'I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. Iam used to it.- Abraham Lincoln}
The Florida Holocaust Museum is home to one of the few remaining railroad boxcars of the type used by the Nazis to transport Jews and other prisoners to places like Auschwitz and Treblinka. Boxcar #113 069-5 now rests on original tracks from the Treblinka Killing Center as a silent tribute to those who perished in the Holocaust and is featured as part of the History, Heritage and Hope permanent exhibition.
Boxcars were the first place of death for many during the Holocaust. The bare freight cars often became a suffocation chamber for some of the people (100 or more at a time) who were squeezed into it. Those who survived the trip had to endure the journey under conditions of hunger and thirst, extreme overcrowding, and horrible sanitation. Many of those deported, especially the elderly and children died during the journey.
Now winter has become a test of endurance. Spring will come, eventually; days will get longer and warmer. Birds will arrive from the south, and plants once again will green up and flower.
It's just a matter of waiting.
PLEASE, no multi invitations or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.
Saint Sophia provoked first the martyrdom of her three daughters "Faith", "Hope" and "Love" and then her own.
These holy Martyrs dwelt in Italy in the reign of Hadrian (117-138). When in Rome the Emperor sent soldiers to bring them before him. He was amazed how steadfast in the faith Sophia’s daughters were.
Faith, twelve years old, was brought in first. She dismissed the tyrant’s flatteries. The Emperor had her stripped, mercilessly beaten and her breasts torn off, whence milk not blood flowed forth. The other tortures she endured were to no avail, for she was protected by the power of God. When, at last, they came to strike off her head, Sophia encouraged her to accept with joy the death that would unite her to Christ.
Hope, ten years old, was brought in next. Confessing Christ as steadfastly as her sister, she was beaten and cast into a raging furnace, but its fire went out on touching her. After many other tortures, she too died by the sword, giving thanks to God.
Love, the third sister, was then summoned before the angry Emperor. She was nine years old but of the same steadfast mind as her sisters. She was hung on a gallows and chained so tightly that her limbs were broken by the bonds. She was then thrown into a furnace, from which she was delivered by an angel, and finally, beheaded. Sophia rejoiced in spirit to see her daughters so gloriously making their way to the abodes of the righteous but, overwhelmed by earthly sorrow, she gave back her soul to God a few days later at their tomb.
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St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) is the most important Catholic Church in Vienna. It has a multi-colored tile roof with a diamond pattern and two tall towers. It is the most recognizable symbol of the city.
The church was dedicated to St. Stephen, who was also the patron of the bishop’s cathedral in Passau. The church was oriented toward the sunrise on his feast day of 26 December, as the position stood in the year that construction began.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
A couple of unrebuilt Bullied Pacifics, or "spam cans", at Woodhams Bros' scrapyard, Barry. The rebuilt version was a great improvement I felt; in fact they were possibly my favourite steam locomotives. The closer engine was Battle of Britain class no. 34072, 257 SQUADRON; its fellow was West Country class no. 34007, WADEBRIDGE. I suppose they would have been withdrawn in about 1966 or 67, so, when photographed on Tuesday 4th March 1975, had been mouldering away in these brine-rich Bristol Channel airs for the best part of a decade. Most of the locos seen here are probably chuffing up and down preserved branch lines to this day. Note the satirical BR coming-and-going logo chalked by some subversive steam fundamentalist on the side of the closer locomotive just right of the blank rust circle where the nameplate once was. Still it's interesting to speculate upon the appearance of these locomotives if they'd lived on into the era of "rail blue". Might they have been TOPS-renumbered? But could the era of BR rail blue have taken place while they endured?
After all the pretty coreopsis and gaillardia matured, they left a sea of lovely seedpods. I talked my husband into leaving them in place as long as possible so that all the seed could mature and fall to the ground. What he discovered when he finally tried to recover the lawn again, was that quite a few of the plants were an inch or more in diameter at the base and had developed quite a root system. Needless to say he wasn’t too happy when the lawn tractor couldn’t make a dent in them and they all had to be pulled and chopped out by hand! Texture by moxylyn.
Explore 02/09/11, #291
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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Life in a pandemic.
Los Angeles, California
1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Helmsley Castle is a large medieval fortress and mansion in the town of Helmsley, Yorkshire. Today its well-preserved ruins provide a fascinating look into Britain’s Civil War past, with the towering architecture of the Middle Ages a picturesque backdrop.
Initially built as a timber construction by the influential baron and military man Walter l’Espec in 1120, it was converted to stone by his nephew, Robert de Roos and further expanded over the 12th and 13th centuries.
In the 16th century the old hall was transformed into a Tudor mansion by the Earls of Rutland, and eventually passed into the keeping of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham – a favourite of the Stuart monarchs.
During the English Civil War, Helmsley Castle managed to endure a massive attack by the Parliamentarians for a staggering 3 months, only falling when food and supplies ran dry.
Following the Parliamentarian occupation of Helmsley Castle it was slighted, or intentionally damaged to avoid further military use, yet the manor house was saved. In an intriguing instance of cross-factional politics, Sir Thomas Fairfax’s daughter married the Duke of Buckingham’s son, thus Helmsley remained in the family of both its Royalist and Parliamentarian ancestors.
In the 18th century a new country house was built nearby and Helmsley Castle was left to fall to ruin, attracting the likes of J. M. W. Turner to sketch its atmospheric remains.
Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.
I am concluding that bareness reveals a merit born in struggle.
The Grade II Listed Barkham Street in Wainfleet an ancient port and market town in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
In 1847 Barkham Street, a 'London-style' terrace was commissioned by Bethlem Hospital and built to the design of Sydney Smirke and to similar specifications as other Bethlem terraces in Southwark, London. While Barkham Street would be quite unremarkable in Lambeth, for example, in Wainfleet, with its population of 2,000, it is astonishing. The 19 houses of Barkham Street have a romantic - and possibly fanciful - history. In the 18th century, much of Wainfleet, an agricultural town that was the hub for many farms, was owned by Sir Edward Barkham, of the East India Company, to whom there are local memorials.
On Sir Edward's death, his estates were transferred to the Bethlehem Royal Hospital, in London, to whose trustees tenants paid their rent. However, in the 1840s, some of the Wainfleet properties were in poor repair and the tenants asked to be rehoused. The consulting architect to the Bethlehem Hospital was the respected designer Sydney Smirke. Smirke, son of the celebrated illustrator Robert Smirke, had learnt his craft as a pupil of his famous brother Sir Robert Smirke.
Sir Robert, who moved in the most illustrious circles, is best remembered for the capital's General Post Office in St Martin's-le-Grand and for the British Museum, the façade of which was completed in 1847. It was in that year that his brother Sydney was asked by the Bethlehem trustees to attend to the needs of their tenants in distant Wainfleet.
It has been suggested, probably romantically, that the Bethlehem Estate Office drawer marked "W" was withdrawn, and instead of Wapping appearing, Wainfleet was mistakenly picked. What is more likely is that Sydney Smirke had never heard of Wainfleet and, imagining that land there was at as much of a premium as land in the capital, promptly designed a street to fit his normal Bethlehem briefs.
A firm of builders in Hull - Forman and Frow - was commissioned to build the street exactly to Smirke's plans, for £7,449. And so, to local amazement - which endures to this day- a London street identical to any on the Bethlehem Estates, was erected in deepest Lincolnshire.
After the First World War, the Bethlehem Hospital began to dispose of its Lincolnshire holdings. Barkham Street, as a whole, was bought by a local builder, J T Turner and Sons, a firm founded in 1870 which had, for many years, attended to the Bethlehem Hospital Estates' needs. The company still owns the entire street.
In the 1960s, the houses were given a much-needed facelift and, in the past four or five years, a total restoration has taken place. The splendid iron railings, which were removed during the Second World War in the drive for scrap metal, have been replaced in replica.
Information gained from www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/4811177/The-street-t...
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