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2015-11-14 Hamburg-Germany Demonstration
Refugees Welcome means Equal Rights for all
Right to the City network
Under the impression of yesterday’s killings in Paris, around 9.000 refugees and supporters took to the streets of Hamburg.
We stand together united, in hope not hate!
Let’s be neighbors: Housing in apartments!
No isolation in tents, warehouses and mass-camps!
Migration happens: Freedom of movement is a human right! Right to stay for everyone!
Against defining asylum down; No one is a ›bad‹ migrant; stop deportations!
Make solidarity practical: Support the migrant struggles! For the right to full participation in society!
Fotografía para campaña de Intermon Oxfam Iguales: www.oxfamintermon.org/es/que-hacemos/proyectos/desigualda...
I haven't attempted to get Tiberius into glamourpuss mode in quite a while, so today was the day! He was patient with me though he fell asleep not long after I started.
He's still his same sweet self though he has an obsession with one of his toys - which he drags around with him and will meow at me until I submit to playing with him - or lose my mind.
My last year in this city...
Last sunday, I went on my 6-hour photowalk. I had an impulse to do so on the previous monday, but I was too busy over the weekdays to act upon my impulse. I toured Shanghai to find inspiration, and to have a photodate with andy, since I haven't used him in 5-6 weeks. It felt GOOD, relaxing, relieving. Senior year is ten times worse than junior year; that's an understatement. I miss junior year; that's a truth.
I dropped myself at a random subway station, tried to get lost, walked to the ferry to shuttle across the river to reach Puxi. From there, I tried to venture alone and unknowingly. I walked with my camera slinging on my neck and a notebook + pen within 1-second reach at the side pocket of my photowalk bag. I took down notes for inspiration for college essays (which paid off), and I snapped photos for fun.
This picture was at the bund at 5-6pm. My legs were breaking from 5-hour nonstop walk, and I sat by the river to study Psych. I love rivers (for its denotation AND connotation--though hardly anyone can understand what I mean by that), and I love cities. Urban life is amazing, and city-scape is one of the things of which I love to take most. Buildings and architecture. Throw in a river.
Equals this.
love how the river flows here.
-y&r
ITU staff members showing their support for the UN Women/ ITU Equals partnership
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ITU staff members showing their support for the UN Women/ ITU Equals partnership
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© ITU/ J. Marchand
This graphic gives the basics of the new law extending marriage to same sex couples in England and Wales. Feel free to use or share this graphic on your website or social media networks.
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Read the DCMS news item at www.culture.gov.uk/news/news_stories/9692.aspx
FULL TEXT:
Equal Marriage
The key proposals at a glance
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Equal marriage: Same-sex couples will be able to marry in civil ceremonies. Religious organisations that wish to conduct marriages for same-sex couples will be able to do so, if they have explicitly ‘opted in’.
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Protections for religions:Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights already guarantees the right to freedom of religion. A ‘quadruple lock’ of protections will be built in to primary legislation to protect those religious organisations and ministers who do not wish to marry same-sex couples.
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Civil partnerships:Couples who wish to convert their civil partnership to marriage will be able to do so. The operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, in England and Wales, will be reviewed.
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Changing genderIndividuals who wish to change their legal gender will be able to do so without first having to end their marriage.
#equalmarriage".
Track Side Life issue #1 available now at tracksidelife.bigcartel.com
38 pages of black and white freight train graffiti
Equal Pay Day
21. März, 12 – 14 Uhr
22 % auf ALLES für Frauen im sattgrün
Satte 22 Prozent – so hoch ist der Lohnunterschied zwischen Frauen und Männern im Durchschnitt. Gründe dafür sind:
Frauen arbeiten oft in Berufen, die schlechter bezahlt werden.
Frauen sind es meistens, die für die Erziehung ihrer Kinder oder die Pflege von Angehörigen eine Berufspause einlegen.
Frauen arbeiten häufig in Teilzeit und in Minijobs. Frauen erhalten bei gleichwertiger Qualifikation und gleichwertiger Arbeit weniger Geld.
Das wollen wir ändern und mit Ihnen hierüber ins Gespräch kommen.
Am Freitag zahlen Frauen im sattgrün am Hafen von 12 bis 14 Uhr für Essen und Getränke 22% weniger. Die GRÜNEN in NRW möchten mit dieser Aktion auf die immer noch bestehende Lohnungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern aufmerksam machen und laden ein zum gemütlichen Mittagessen mit:
Barbara Steffens
NRW-Ministerin für Gesundheit, Emanzipation, Pflege und Alter
Sven Lehmann
Landesvorsitzender der GRÜNEN NRW
Miriam Koch
GRÜNE Oberbürgermeisterkandidatin für Düsseldorf
Terry Reintke
GRÜNE Kandidatin für das Europaparlament
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ME: "ATTENTION GIRLS!! Special announcement this morning !
We here at Blythe Fifth Avenue … are expecting some NEW girls to join our Modeling Troupe!”
INGRID: “WHAT? Who? WHOOOO???? Is it a GOLDIE? Is it a MISS SALLY RICE? Is it a KENNER???? WHO ??? WHO IS IT ????!!!
RUBY: Doesn’t matter Ingie … We are all equal here at BFA, right Mommy???
ME: ::BIG SMILE::
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I never plan my churchcrawling to see anything in particular I have no idea what I will see when I go to visit a church, I do no research beforehand, instead prefer to let my impressions lead me to take shots.
It has served me well.
So, in planning a day out, I will look on Google maps, find churches to visit and come up with a plan, but it rarely perfect. Like last weekend, when I planned the day, I failed to include Cobham.
Thankfully, the lady at Meopham said I should go, look at the brasses and eat at the Leather Bottle opposite.
Good advice.
Cobham is a little way of the busy A2 as that road nears London. It has eight lanes and is usually a racetrack, when not jammed. Cobham is signposted, you might think it is a suburb of Gravesend.
But it is an attractve village, all timber framed houses and pubs, with a huge church on the hill overlooking the main road passing through the village.
We did park at the pub, and I walked up the hill to the church, which was open, its huge and grand interior opening up before me, and looking down the nave I could see the tomb in the middle of the chancel, with the pavement of 17 fine brasses laid out before it.
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In a county with more memorial brasses than any other, Cobham takes pride of place, with a set of nineteen, the majority of which have been grouped together in the chancel. The church consists of a thirteenth-century chancel, and fourteenth-century nave, aisles and west tower. In 1362 the church was refounded as a college by Sir John de Cobham, and the medieval domestic buildings survive to the south of the church. The south wall of the chancel displays several items of interest. There is a fine double piscina which has been moved further west of its original position. The latter is now occupied by an elaborate fourteenth-century piscina, with a finely wrought canopy of three arches and a parapet of quatrefoils and leaves. Next to it is a slightly plainer sedilia of three equal arches. The last feature of note is the stairway in the south-east corner of the chancel which led to a gallery over the altar - a unique feature in Kent. In the centre of the chancel is the alabaster table tomb of Sir George Brooke (d. 1558). It was badly damaged when a beam fell on it in the eighteenth century and is much restored. In front of the monument are sixteen of the medieval brasses, brought here from other parts of the church, the most interesting of which are: Sir John de Cobham (d. 1407), founder of the college, who is seen holding a lovely spired church in his hands; Sir Nicholas Hawkberk (d. 1407) - a super visor hinges from his face; William Tanner (d. 1418) the first master of the collegiate foundation.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Cobham
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COBHAM.
NORTHWARD from Cookstone lies Cobham, a very small part of which is within the hundred of Hoo.
THE PARISH of Cobham is rather an unfrequented place, not having any road of traffic through it. It is a healthy and rather a pleasant situation, tho' the woods and foliage in Cobham-park give it in general a gloomy appearance; it extends about two miles and a half from east to west, and a mile and a half from north to south; it contains about two thousand nine hundred and fifty acres of land, seventy houses, exclusive of the college, about seven hundred and sixty inhabitants. Cobham park, having the mansion of Cobham-hall situated in a vale within it, contains the greatest part of the parish; on an eminence in the park, about a mile from the house, is a costly mausoleum, built pursuant to the will of the late earl, as a burial place for himself and family, which being finished, his body, which was deposited in the church, was brought hither, and laid in it. The building is a conspicuous object to a considerable distance round it. It stands on Williams's-hill, on a spot of ground where it is said there was once a chapel. This elegant structure is octangular, built of Portland stone, the columns at each angle supporting a sarcophagus, the top terminating with a quadrangular pyramid over the vault, which has sixteen recesses or burial places in it, besides those for the late earl and his countess; there is a chapel elegantly sitted up, the windows of which are of stained glass, and ornamented with Brocotello marble. The soil is various; strong good mould, chalk, and some gravel, and is in general accounted a good wheat land. The village is situated on high ground, in the south west part of the parish, having the church within it, from which there is a most extensive view southwestward over the country; adjoining to the church yard is Cobham college, and at the west end of the street the parsonage, the property and residence of Mr. Pemble. At a small distance further is the estate of Outlets, and at the western boundary of the parish the manor of Henhurst; Cobham mount is situated about a quarter of a mile's distance from the Shinglewell road, which runs along the northern side of this parish, by the pales of the park. The northeast parts adjoining Cobham-park, formerly called the out park grounds, are covered with coppice woods.
The antient Roman road, or Watling-street-way, shews itself very plainly from Shinglewell hither, in its way to Rochester, with the hedges standing on it, sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left of the present road, and at other times falling in with it. It goes on to Cobham-park, where the pales seem to stand on it for some little space, soon after which it leaves them, as may be seen in the passage out of the north gate of the park, where the way crosses it, from thence it runs into a thick wood, where it is not to be followed. At the north west boundary of this parish, adjoining the above road, is a water, called St. Thomas's-well, probably from the use made of it by St. Thomas Becket in his journeyings through these parts.
Our HERBALISTS have taken notice of the following scarce plants, growing in this parish, viz.
Pneumonanthe, Calathian violet.
Trachelium majus, blue and also white Canterbury bells, found under Cobham park pales, in the road from Shinglewell to Rochester.
Chamæpitys, ground pine of several sorts.
Tragoriganum, goats marjorom, or organy, near Cobham house.
Lamium luteum etiam rubrum, the yellow archangel, as also the red, found in Cobham woods.
Lautana five viburnum, the wayfaring tree. (fn. 1)
¶Narcissus sylvestris pallidus calyce luteo, the wild English daffodil, observed by Mr. Thorpe of Bexley, in a moist place or two in Cobham park.
COBHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese and deanry of Rochester. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is a handsome spacious building, consisting of three isles and a large chancel, and has a good tower at the west end of it, with a ring of bells.
¶Among other monuments and inscriptions in it, in the middle of the chancel is a most noble monument of white marble, on which lie the essigies of Sir George Brooke lord Cobham, governor of Calais, K. G. and his wife, in full proportion; the figures and names, of their children, ten sons and four daughters, were likewise cut in marble round it; he died in 1558. This fine piece of sculpture seems once to have had a canopy of marble over it, which, with the pillars that supported it, and many pieces of the figures, now lie broken and scattered upon the tomb. It was erected by his son, Sir Wm. Brooke, in 1561, arms, Brooke quartering Cobham, and seven other coats within the garter. Almost the whole of the pavement of this chancel is covered with the gravestones of the family of Cobham and Brooke, with several of the brasses remaining on them, though so very loose, that in all probability they will soon be purloined, as numbers of the same sort were by some workmen a few years ago. Those which remain are as follows: a brass plate and figure, and inscription in French, in very antient capitals, cut round the edge of the stone, for dame Joan de Cobham; a brass plate and figure in armour, with a like inscription, south of the former, for Thomas de Cobham, and for Maud, the wife of Sir Thomas Cobeham, who died in 13 3 Richard II. another of the like sort, south of the last, with the figure of a man in armour, holding a church in his hands, for John de Cobham, founder of this place. On another, south of the former, on brass, on a chevron three lions rampant, and the same impaling three roundles, a file of three points in chief, and the figure of a woman, and round the verge of the stone, a French inscription in brass, for Margaret de Cobham, daughter of the earl of Devonshire, wife of the lord of Cobham, builder of this place, obt. 1395. In like manner with the last, are the figures of two women, for dame Maud de Cobham, 13 the rest lost; south of the last a brass plate, with the figure of a man in armour, and arms of Cobham as above, and inscription round the verge of the stone, in French, for John de Cobham, ob. 1390; westward of this, on brass plates, are the figures of a man and woman, eight sons and ten daughters, and round the verge of the stone an inscription in brass, for Sir John Brooke, baron of Cobham, and Margaret his wife, daughter of Edward Nevile, lord of Burgavenny; he died in 1506, she died in 1500; arms, Cobham as above, impaling Nevile with quarterings; north of the former, brass and figure of a man in armour, and round the verge in brass, an inscription for Sir Nicholas Hawberk, husband of Joan lady Cobham, heir of John lord Cobham, founder of this college; he died at the castle of Cowling, in 1407; underneath the figure of a child, and inscription, for John their son; another, north of the last, and brass, with the figure of a woman, six sons, and four daughters, for Joan lady Cobham, wife of Sir Reginald Braybrooke, ob. 1433; arms, Cobham as above, with impalements and quarterings. Northward of the last, on brass, the figure of a man in armour, and round the verge and inscription in brass for Sir Reginald Braybrook, husband of Joan lady Cobham; he died at Middleburgh in Flanders, in 1405; on the same stone the figure of a child, and inscriptions for Reginald and Robert, their sons; northward of the former, the figures of a man in armour, his wife, five sons, and six daughters, and round the verge, in brass, an inscription for Sir Thomas Brooke, lord Cobham, and kinsman and heir of Sir Richard Beauchamp; he married first Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Haydon, by whom he had seven sons and six daughters; and secondly Dorothy Fowthewel, widow; and thirdly Elizabeth Hart; by neither of whom he had issue, ob. 1529, arms quarterly, 1st, on a chevron, a lion rampant, crowned; 2d, Cobham as above; 3d, seven mascles, three, three, and one; 4th, on a fess between three leopards heads an annulet. A brass plate for John Sproltle, master of this college, ob. 1498; on brass the figure of a man, and these arms, on a chevron three cross croslets bottone, in the dexter chief a star, for Ranf. de Cobham, esq. of Kent, who died in 1402; a brass plate and figure for William .......... master of this college, obt. 14. another like for Wm. Tanner, first master of it, ob. 1418. A stone and inscription for Tho. Webb, esq. secretary to James Stuart duke of Richmond, ob. 1649. In the nave a brass figure for master John Gladwyn, master of this college. In the north isle, a brass for John Gery, fellow of this college, obt. 1447; a brass, on a chevron between three trefoils as many annulets, and inscription for several of the Claverings; in the nave, now almost worn out, an inscripition for Alice, daughter of Nicholas Harpur, esq. first wife of William .......... and late to Edmond .......... There is a vault in this church, which belonged to the family of Hayes, of this parish, and being full, another was granted to them in the church yard, by the good will of the parishioners. Against the wall of the church on the outside, on the east side of the porch, is a small figure cut in stone, about two feet high, of a man to his waist, and under it an inscription, to the memory of one Robert Hoth, but the date is obliterated, and the whole of it in so perishing a condition, that a few years will entirely destroy it.
When in doubt, make a mandala.
Day twenty of the #fmsphotoaday challenge for May
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Permanent Mission of Principality of Monaco to the UN, New York, 17 September 2022.
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I'll be posting a bunch of new eagle captures most likely, so I wanted to give some other flying birds equal chance ... they can be just a pretty in the air given the right lighting ;))
Sophie Martin and Nicholas Shoesmith from 'Sibilo' by Scottish Ballet in 'Sibilo' (Latin for whistle), which is part of their Autumn 2016 touring programme. Choreography is by Sophie Laplane.
You can find out more and book tickets here:
www.scottishballet.co.uk/event/autumn-2016
You can see more pics from this in my Sibilo set.
You can see more pics in my Scottish Ballet set.
My thanks are due to Scottish Ballet's Communications Officer, Carrie McAdam for inviting me to the photo call.
Funny that they give a mens shoe (as sold on Zappos) a female name. Equal opportunity.
I got these new perhaps 20 years ago. They were on Ebay, cheap because the left shoe was size 4 1/2 and the right one was size 5
When I bid on them, I was somewhat concerned that they would be too tight and I was wasting my money. Of course I had worn the size 4 1/2 boots in college, but that was years ago. I had played around with wearing small sneakers at home, but usually I had to take them off after a little while as they hurt too much
But months before I had bought a pair of Reebok DMX sneakers size 4 that, while snug, fit well enough that I could wear them all day. I had, though, remved the heel counter. So I hoped that the Wallabees would be wearable.
The package arrived at work (I had stuff shipped there despite rules otherwise, so they wouldn't be stolen off my front steps.) So I opened it and put them on. They fit perfectly on my size 7 feet, and I couldn't sense any difference between the size 4 1/2 and tthe size 5 one.
I decided to wear them the rest of the day, they were really that comfortable. They were slightly snug, my toes just touched the front, but that is how I liked my shoes. So I put the shoes I wore to work in my backpack.
These became one of my go-to shoes for work and any time I needed a good looking shoe. I wore them to work, usually several times a week.
After several years I began to notice signs of wear, and after a few years more it was obvious that the sole was in layers, and the first layer was beginning to wear through. First in the front, and soon later at the heels.
Over the years, they wore more and more. Some of the adhesive that held the crepe soles to the upper failed, but I still wore them to work regularly right up until I retired from there.
I haven't worn them too often since then, so they are in about the same condition they were in for the last year or two before I left there.
One thing I noticed today while wearing them is that the heels were worn down so much that the arch support, which normally was very slight, almost felt too high. But after a little while I became used to it. Actually, it was similar to a couple of pair of Nike Max Air that the heel pods had gone flat. A little bit of a reverse rise, with the back of the heel not touching the floor.
So having dug them out now, I'll have to wear them more often.