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“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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Sri Lankan Parliamentarians have pledged their support for Kashmala Tariq, who is vying for the post of chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA). The election will be held in London in July. Ms. Tariq is a Pakistani Parliamentarian and chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP).
Kashmala Tariq: An activist for women’s rights. Pic by Managala Weerasekera
Ms. Tariq has chosen Sri Lanka to launch her campaign to canvass votes. She has already met Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Parliamentarians from the government and the Opposition. Five Sri Lankan Parliamentarians will vote at the election.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms. Tariq said the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, which marks its golden jubilee this year, has never elected a woman to the post of chairperson in its 50 year- history.
“This year’s theme is women as agents of change, so there’s a possibility of me being elected,” Ms. Tariq said. “This year is the year for them to demonstrate their faith in women.” From Sri Lanka, Ms. Tariq will take her campaign to India, where she will meet Indian Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and other Parliamentarians.
“India, which has more than 30 votes, has always been cooperative when it comes to representing Asia in the international arena,” she said. “I was elected chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians at the 2007 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association annual conference, which was held in India. We look at India as our big brother, and we hope India shows magnanimity.”
Ms. Tariq has been an activist for women’s rights, campaigning for gender equality and racial impartiality. “We are the developing bloc, but we have equal opportunities. We should not be marginalised, despite all the difficulties we face. It is also important to activate the SAARC and create interaction, trade between countries. With people meeting, there will be more opportunities,” she said.
Ms. Tariq believes that Sri Lanka is a good example of a country that has achieved economic prosperity despite a three-decade conflict. She said countries in the region should strive for peace and democracy.
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association comprises representatives of 53 Commonwealth countries, in nine geographical regions. Each country is entitled to five votes for each respective Parliament, and one vote for each province or state. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have five votes each, Pakistan nine, and India 35.
Sri Lanka is due to host the next annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, to be held in 2012.
Sunday Times (29/05/20110
Christian Development Alternative (CDA) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization dedicated in defending and protecting human rights. Established in 2007, CDA is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups. CDA was registered as a society with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms, under the Societies Registration Act 1860 on July 18, 2007 in Bangladesh.
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On Dec. 13, 2011 at 6 p.m., the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County constitutional officers, and the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District directors all took their oath of office in the Government Center forum.
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Jan L. Brodie administered the oath of office to 15 elected officials, who each swore to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia, and to faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon them as officials of Fairfax County.
All elected officials will take office on Jan. 1, 2012.
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Church of St Mary and St Peter, Monument to Thomas (d.1730) and Mary (d. 1754) Russell, Marble.
The monument is set on the wall of the south aisle, near the altar. It looks like an over the top fireplace, with a coat of arms in a cartouche topped by a helmet surrounded by canons, flags, swords, drums, rifles and shields, incongruously flanking the inscription devoted to Mrs Mary Russell, described as a ‘good woman and pattern to her sex who died in 1754, aged 83’. That the inscription was placed so inappropriately suggests that it was added later to the monument which had been commissioned on her husband’s death in 1730.
The military equipment is explained by the inscription on dark marble set in what should be the grate, flanked by fluted columns under a black marble cornice. It describes Thomas Russell: born in 1669 in Belturbet (just south of Enniskillen) in the County of Cavan, Ireland, he spent his younger years defending Enniskillen and continued in service until that kingdom was entirely subdued by King William. The rest of his life was spent doing good, as an impartial distributor of justice, tender husband, true friend and good master, he died in 1730.
Enniskillen had been one of the centres of Catholic support for King James II after the proclamation of William and Mary’s joint rule in 1689. Recognition of William in Ireland began (grudgingly) with his victory at the battle of Boyne in 1690, and ended with the Treaty of Limerick late in 1691 (Wikipedia, William III of England, accessed 24/05/2014). That Russell chose celebrate his role in the establishment of protestant rule, long after he must have left Ireland for Kelsale, underlines the bitter religious divisions which are still so corrosive in Northern Ireland.
detail of inscription
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
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23 09 2014 Around one takh students marched through the streets of Kolkata on the 20mof this month, braving torre~ttal r~ins. and r~s1s:tng the .
threats from lhe ruling party, the Trinamool Congress. Hundreds of students have marched ar.d gather~d 1n sohdanty to tne ongomg movement all over the world Students from JNU, OU and other universities had demonstrated outsrde Banga Bhavan and then marched to Jantar Mantar on the 20~ as a joint initiative of differenl organisations and individuals The soontaneous protest started by .
the students of Jadavpur Universtty (jU) has turned into a larger movement in support of gender justrce and campus democracy The protests started when a girl student from JU lodged a complaint of sexual harassment with the university authorities. JU does not have an elected GSCASH and the university set up an enquiry committee to !ock into the allegation. However, two members of the .
enquiry committee hac! been pressurizing the complainant to withdraw the complaint. The students then rightly demanded removal of these committee members and constituting of a new enquiry to en~,ure a free and fair probe. A peaceful protest sit-in continued for 6 .
days. The students continued the sit-in as the EC meeting was held on the 16:hof September. On the night of 161h, when the students refused to end the protest till the VC assures them of constituting an impartial committee. the JU authorities resorted to Police action to disburse the peaceful protest gathering. On16:nnight. West Bengal Police, the RAF and Trinamool Congress goons entered the campus and beat up the students mercilessly. Girl students were targeted, beaten up .ar.d molested for protesting against a molestation case. Several students were hospitalised, including two in ICU and ar~und 36 students were ar:rested. The brutal .
onslaught by Police and ruling pa11y goons brought back the memories of 2005 when state machinery was used to suppress the then . _.
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ieaders from Rajabazar Science College, Scottish Church College and other places have been attempt to nip the protest against the state government. However, the movement has grown 'in the face of state spo_nsored terr~x. and has snowballed into a mass resentment against the TMC govern~ent. Three ye,ar of the TMC. rule has given a free hand to 'the misyogenic-lumpen elements and sexual assaults on women have been taking place all over the state. The·rape cases in Park Street. .
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protestors as Maoists involved !n aconspiracy against her government. Recently, the Park Street rape survivor was not allowed to enter a restaurant in Kolkata. This does not come as a su1;Jrise because the ruling TMC claimed after the rape incident that the complainant is a prostitute who is complaining because the deal went wrong! In Vishwa Bharti University, a girl from Sikkim complained of sexual harassment but instead of constituting an enquiry and punishing the perpetrators, the VC' asked her father to take some money and not tc pursue the complaint. TMC MP's have been giving open threats to rape the left activists to teach them a lesson. Recemly, the wife of a Left activist was raped and paraded naked by TMC goons. The claims of Poriborton (change) ring hollow in the .
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White different progressive organisations have expressed their solidarity with the ongoing movement in JU, yesterday the ABVP too Thanks to the discredited TMC and CPI (M}. the BJP is today sensing an.
communicated their support with the ongoing protest. opening in West Bengal. The ABVP, before claiming to be with the protestors, must come clean on BJP/RSS's position on gender justice and campus democracy. Finance minister Arun Jartely recently claimed that small incidents like the 16 December rape .
bring a bad ·name to the country and cause a·loss of millions of dollars. RSS supremo Mohan Bhagvat claims that rape happens only in 'India', not in Bharat and one can avoid rape by being in the 'laxman rekha'. The ABVP has never taken any position on the rape accused BJP Cabinet Minister Nihal Chand, who still is at the helm of affairs. The ABVP's national meet .
has decided to form vigilante groups in all major camp·us to "keep a watch on Muslim youths who try to lure Hindu women to pursue their agenda of love jihad.H With such ridiculous position on questions of gender justice, the ABVP's claim of solidarity with the ongoing movement is only a comic relief. ABVP/BJP's track record on the question of campus democracy is pathetic. We have seen. that the BJP go~ernment tries to u~police force to not allow any protest by JNU students. Lathi-charge on protestors outs1de the Israel embassy is a case in point. The JNUSU was not allowed to protest outside the Gujarat Bhavan a few m~nths. back. We have not yet forgotten the murder of Prof. Sabbarwal in Ujjan by ABVP activists. Recently, the Ujjain Unrvers1ty VC was beaten up by ABVP g-oons for demanding support to the flood-effected students and people in Kashmir. Few years back the ABVP ransacked the History department in OU and beat up the HoD for supporting the teaching a text written by Hamanuian. .
The ongoing movement ~s about fighting the patriarchal-sexist common sense established by the ruling classes. It is against the practice ~o si!ent any attempt to challenge the status-quo by using police force and goondas of the ruling party. This is a fight for right to drssent. right to prolest and all progressive students must stand by the students of Kolkata in this d.ifficult battle.We appeal to all progr.essive students to join the protest .demo on the 25lh of September in Jantar Mantar a.t 4:00 pm, called under a c-ommon banner named "Campaign in solidarity with the students of Jadavpur University:Oethi Chapter". We also appeal to a'll to stand by the struggf.e waged by the students in HPU, where police has cracked down heavily on students agitating against the fee hike. We are sure that in the days to come. the student's movement will surge ahead, challenging the ruling class by building a .
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After returning to the island early this morning, President Rajapaksa received a briefing of the events that took place in Aluthgama, Beruwala and Dharga town and decided to go to Beruwala this afternoon to hold discussions with both Buddhist and Muslim communities, together, at the District Secretariat. President Rajapaksa assured all communities that an “impartial inquiry” will be held to bring to justice anyone responsible for the violence, irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity. The Buddhist and Muslim communities that were present for the discussion told the President that they want to live in peace with each other. President Rajapaksa assured protection for the Buddhist temples as well as the Muslims who were displaced. President Rajapaksa said the Government will rebuild homes and businesses that were destroyed.
බොලිවියාවේ සංචාරයෙන් පසු අද උදැසන දිවයිනට පැමිණි ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, පසුගිය දිනවල අලුත්ගම, බේරුවල සහ ධර්ගා නගරයේ වූ සිද්ධීන් පිළිබඳව තතු විමසීමකින් අනතුරුව, පස්වරුවේ බේරුවල ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයෙදී බෞද්ධ හා මුස්ලිම් ජනයා සමග සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් විය. එම අවස්ථාවේදී රැස්ව සිටි ජනතාව ඇමතු ජනාධිපතිතුමා, තත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපක්ෂපාතී පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වා ජාති ආගම් තරාතිරම් නොබලා වැරදිකරුවන්ට දඬුවම් ලබාදීම අනිවාර්යෙන්ම සිදුකරන බව සහතික විය. තමන් එකිනෙකා සමග සාමයෙන් හා සහජීවනයෙන් ජිවත් වීමට කැමති පිරිසක් බව එහි රැස්ව සිටි බෞද්ධ හා මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව ජනාධිපතිතුමා සමග කියා සිටියහ. බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානවලට හා අවතැන් වූ මුස්ලිම් ජනතාවට ආරක්ෂාව ලබාදීමට සහතික වූ එතුමා, විනාශ වූ නිවාස සහ ව්යාපාරික ස්ථාන රජයෙන් ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කරන බවද කියා සිටියේය.
பொலிவிய பயணத்தை அடுத்து இன்று காலை நாடு திரும்பிய ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ அவர்கள், பேருவளை பிரதேச செயலகத்தில் இன்று மாலை மதத்தலைவர்கள் மற்றும் பொது மக்களுடன் கலந்துரையாடளில் ஈடுபட்டார். அளுத்கம, தர்கா நகர் மற்றும் பேருவளை சம்பவங்கள் தொடர்பில் பக்கச்சார்பற்ற விசாரணை மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டு குற்றவாளிகளுக்கு மதவேறுபாடின்றி நிச்சியம் தண்டனை வழங்கப்படும் என உறுதியளித்தார். தாம் சமாதானமாக வாழ விரும்புவதாக அங்கு குடியிருந்த பௌத்த, முஸ்லிம் மக்கள் ஜனாதிபதியிடம் தெரிவித்தனர். சம்பவத்தால் சேதமடைந்த உடமைகள் அரசாங்கத்தினால் மீள திருத்தியமைக்கப்படும் என ஜனாதிபதி உறுதியளித்தார்.
(Photos by: Sudath Silva)
Drummond was born in October 1797, the second of three sons. Despite his father dying when he was young, he credited his mother with getting him through his education at Edinburgh High School and then on to be a cadet at Woolwich Academy in 1813. He showed an early gift for mathematics. After Woolwich he was stationed in Edinburgh and was involved with public works. He was bored with this and had enrolled at Lincolns Inn when he was recruited to use his trigonometry to help conduct a survey in the Highlands.
This new work was done in the summer with the more difficult months being passed in London. Drummond took this opportunity to improve his knowledge of mathematics and science. He attended lectures by Sir Michael Faraday. At these he learned of the discovery of limelight.
In 1824 Dummond was involved in a survey of Ireland and here he used the new Drummond light. He reported that the light could be observed 68 miles away and would cast a strong shadow at a distance of thirteen miles. This surveying work was in preparation for the new constituencies required by the Reform Bill. This link shows how it was possible for Drummond to be appointed secretary to Lord Spencer and due to the intercession of Lord Brougham he was given a pension of 300 pounds per annum.
In 1835 Drummond married the wealthy heiress, Maria Kinnaird, who was the adopted daughter of the critic Conversation Sharp (1759-1835). They had three children, Emily, Mary and Fanny.
Drummond was given the post of Irish Under-Secretary, a position he held from 1835 until his death in 1840. Drummond was a supporter of the Whigs. Drummond was held in high regard by Irish, whom he treated with impartiality.
Drummond died in 1840 and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. It is generally felt that overwork and stress precipitated his premature death in 1840 after toiling unceasingly for five years as Undersecretary for Ireland
“The future is there looking back at us.” — William Gibson
According to a recent Fast Company article, design has “matured from a largely stylistic endeavor to a field tasked with solving thorny technological and social problems.” Designers are no longer relegated to the downstream position of making things look pretty. We now have a seat at the table. No longer makers, we now aspire to be leaders. Design is everywhere, yet is now called upon to respond to constantly changing technological, demographic, and environmental conditions.
In this space between ubiquity and obsolescence, how can designers develop ways of working and collaborating that respond to our contemporary world? Join us for a monthly series of provocations at MAD where practitioners and critics discuss the changing nature of design and visual culture and its impact on the also changing fields of music, education, fashion, and more.
Technology
Technology plays the dual role of being instrumentalized as both an impartial tool and critical monitor of progress, security, and connection in our society. In this talk we look at how design, programming, and writing work together to express alternative perspectives on startup culture, surveillance, and automation.
Speakers
Sam Lavigne is an artist, programmer and journalist. His work deals with data, cops, surveillance and automation. He is currently a research fellow at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. In 2015 he co-founded Useless Press, an independent online publisher of esoteric internet projects. He is also the co-founder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon.
Rob Horning is an editor of The New Inquiry and author of Marginal Utility, a blog on consumerism and technology. He has written for such publications as Art in America, Dissent, and DIS Magazine.
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Juliette Cezzar is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program at Parsons / The New School, where she was the Director of the BFA Communication Design and BFA Design & Technology programs from 2011-2014. She established her small studio, e.a.d., in 2005. While books anchor the practice, her work has spanned a variety of media for clients such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, RES Magazine, The Museum of Modern Art, Vh1, The New York Times, Eleven Madison Park, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the co-author of Designing the Editorial Experience(Rockport) and author-designer of Office Mayhem (Abrams), Paper Pilot, Paper Captain, and Paper Astronaut (Universe / Rizzoli). She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a professional degree (B. Arch) in Architecture from Virginia Tech.
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Sir Winston Churchill
The Global Network for Rights and Development is grateful for the support of a number of individuals and organizations that helped make its Joint Local-International Election Observation Mission possible. First and foremost, GNRD would like to express its sincere gratitude for the warm welcome that Egyptian people have offered the members of this mission.
GNRD would also like to thank the Government of Egypt and the High Elections Committee for the invitation to witness the Parliamentary Elections. On this occasion, GNRD implements the Electoral Observation Mission in collaboration with three partners: the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights (IIPJHR), and Maat For Peace, Development & Human Rights (MAAT).
The Joint EOM includes 300 international observers from 42 different nationalities, 2015 local observers and a group of analysts, translators, security staff and drivers.
The Joint EOM observation mission to Egypt is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers, which was adopted at the United Nations in 2005 and has been endorsed by 37 election observation groups. The declaration details principles for the conduct of credible and professional election observations. In accordance with these guidelines, the Joint EOM’s evaluation of the election focused on civil and political rights and provided an impartial assessment independent of any bilateral or multilateral considerations.
The current parliamentary elections are the third and final stage of the Egyptian roadmap to democracy, following the implementation of the new constitution in January 2014, and the presidential election in June 2014. The long awaited election comes following two postponements, and over three years without a legislative body.
Brief Summary of Election Day Observations
The first and second day of elections were peaceful and orderly, with a few exceptions observed. Polling centers visited by the mission were normally accessible and free from interference, with a few exceptions where observers were denied access by security forces. Moreover, all facilities were orderly and well-secured by police and military officials, who were present during the entire opening, voting and closing processes.
The transparency of the electoral process was mainly respected and free from any interruptions. Observers noted that the internal procedures were being followed by the election staff, especially the centers located in urban districts. However, in the rural area, the joint mission observed a considerable lack of voting education and staff training. For instance, the voters rarely their vote inside the ballot boxes themselves, and the majority of staff did not wear badges or uniforms that them from other voters. This made the identification process difficult. Also, witnesses reported procedural irregularities, as one assigned judge failed to appear on both election days. The majority of problems cited, however, did not appear to hinder the overall voting process or results.
The first phase of the parliamentary elections included 14 governorates, where candidates competed for 226 seats, "individually," in the 60 seat in the lists. A total of 27,402,353 million eligible voters were registered, 7,270,594 million voters participated, with a final turnout of 26.56%.
Joint Mission Recommendations for the Second Phase
- Implementing Strategies to Increase Voter Turnout and Combat Voter Apathy;
- Extensive training for security forces and polling station staff, including the head of constituencies and election committees;
- Addressing the gap gender balance between men and women in the formation of polling officials, particularly as heads of polling stations;
- Greater Respect for Campaign Legislation and the Day of Silence;
- Expanding the Presence of Media and National Observers During Election Days;
the use of Identification Badges;
the Presence of Voting Instructions in Polling Centers;
- Increased Digitization of the Electoral Process;
the Medical Check Procedures for Candidates;
- Inclusion of the contact details of the High Electoral Committee inside the polling centres so that voters can address the HEC directly in the event of any incident or violation;
- Removal of any party name that may lead voters to believe that they are voting for an official body of the government
The Joint EOM mandate is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the electoral process and to observe the extent to which the election complies with national law and regulations, as well as international and regional obligations that apply to Egypt.
To achieve this goal, the GNRD mission deployed its observers on 10 October 2015, who will remain in the country until 29 October 2015. During this period of time, the Joint EOM will have assessed three phases of the election process: the campaigning period, the days of election and the post-election period.
During the second round, the local-international joint mission will also deploy an observation team that will be working in the field until the electoral process is completed. Subsequently, the Joint EOM will present a comprehensive final report which will include plausible recommendations to improve the electoral processes in Egypt.
- See more at: gnrd.net/seemore.php?id=1959#sthash.YJZrnCEI.dpuf
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
The completely impartial and unbiased reporters Amanda Crook and Deborah Linton at the Manchester Evening News seems to think so
It's official: Manchester is Britain's boom city
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“Peace work is not easy, especially when dealing with such ingrained issues in a community like this,” says Rev. Killong. “I work with over 1,500 people on a daily basis, members of the various District Peace Committees in this region, and I’m glad people have come to learn the importance of peace as a result of the work we are doing here with the DPCs. I thank God that the community has learnt to trust me to be an impartial broker for peace…”
Mutantspace.ie held a CUPCAKE competition at the FEASTA food market that took place on Sunday 28th June on Patrick Street, Cork during the Cork Midsummer Festival.
We set up a stall and ran a competition for the tastiest, most crazy, over the top, delicious, silliest cupcake ever made.
A panel of judges was appointed to honestly, impartially and truthfully decide whose cupcake was the best. The winner was be announced at the inaugural Amateur Food Awards later that day and presented with the very first mutantspace.ie cupcake trophy. Congratulations to Liz Slattery the inaugural EAT MY CAKE CHAMPION 2009
Tillekeratne, (Wanniarachchige Don) Stanley (b. Aug. 3, 1929 - d. June 22, 2005), Sri Lankan politician. He had a long liaison with the country's Left movement from 1947 before joining the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in 1965. He contested and won Kotte on the Communist Party ticket at the July 1960 elections and retained the seat in 1965 for the SLFP. He was reelected in 1970 and was made speaker of parliament, in which role he won the admiration even of his opponents for the impartial manner in which he conducted the affairs of the House. Along with many of the SLFP stalwarts he too suffered defeat at the 1977 poll, but he succeeded in remaining in the public eye as a champion human rights lawyer, especially during the turbulent period of 1989-90. He figured in several groundbreaking cases. At the 1989 elections he was returned to parliament from Colombo district and remained as an MP until his exit in 1994. He was governor of Central province in 1998-2000.
accessibilité aux personnes handicapées Un bon point pour la préfecture à laon
Un bâtiment laonnois arrive en tête d'un classement sur l'accessibilité.
qui a obtenu la note de dix sur dix et les félicitations !
LE SITE INTERNET www.accessiblepourmoi.com/
a établi un classement des villes et de certaines préfectures ou sous-préfectures.
Et c'est la préfecture de Laon qui arrive en tête (ex æquo avec Melun) sur treize établissements visités
pour le moment.
L'association Mobilité réduite, à l'origine de cette action, ne se contente pas de consulter des documents et de recueillir des témoignages.
Entre début mai et fin novembre, les adhérents prennent leur voiture et viennent sur place pour voir comment les choses se passent réellement.
Ils visitent, incognito, des villes de toutes tailles et de tous bords politiques ou des établissements publics.
Une bonne surprise
Le président, Jean-Michel Royère, est venu lui-même constater comment cette administration située en ville haute accueille les personnes en situation de handicap.
Et il a eu une bonne surprise.
« Quand je suis arrivé devant la grille de la préfecture, j'ai vu le logo « handicap » sur les barrières.
On m'a ouvert et il y avait quatre places réservées à l'intérieur.
plusieurs places de stationnement réservées aux personnes à mobilité réduite ..
L'accès est facile, il y a un cheminement court et praticable, un accueil aux normes, des toilettes conformes...
Le service communication de la préfecture précise de son côté que des travaux sont réalisés depuis plusieurs années et que « le cheminement des accès au bâtiment Signier a été repris et le dallage refait.
Il y a un guichet surbaissé accessible au niveau de l'accueil général et les ascenseurs sont aux normes depuis 2008.
Un programme de travaux d'un montant de 70 000 €, d'une durée de 10 semaines, sera lancé en septembre. Chaque service (cartes grises, permis de conduire, bureau de la nationalité) disposera d'un guichet d'accueil surbaissé.
Ces guichets seront également dotés d'une boucle à induction magnétique permettant une communication adaptée entre les personnels d'accueil et les usagers malentendants ou non appareillés. »
Restera pour l'association à tester la ville.
Elle a prévu de le faire cet automne ou au printemps prochain. Mais impossible d'en savoir plus. « Afin de ne pas être influencé dans un sens ou dans l'autre et pour rester impartial, nous ne rencontrons ni élu, ni association.
C'est donc une photo à un instant T de la situation globale de la ville.
Si des travaux d'accessibilité conformes à l'esprit de la loi sont prévus ou en cours de réalisation, nous devrions normalement les constater la fois suivante. La note qui sera alors attribuée devrait donc progresser en conséquence.
C'est le but essentiel de nos audits incognito, mesurer la progression des collectivités territoriales en terme d'accessibilité. »
Préfecture de Laon (02010) Picardie > Aisne (02)
2 rue Paul Doumer
02010 Laon CEDEX 9
+33 3 23 21 82 82
courrier @ aisne.pref.gouv.fr
Très pratique
Cabine photo universelle La seule cabine photo, conçue pour être accessible à tous!
Malentendants
Malvoyants
Handicapés en fauteuil
conçue pour être accessible à tous!
Malentendants Malvoyants Handicapés en fauteuil ...
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
Pros et amateurs pour une soirée cabaret inédite.
L'association Plein Ph'Art a concocté une soirée cabaret qui promet... Le principe? Associer artistes professionnels et amateurs. Chacun dans sa spécialité s’efforcera de donner le meilleur. En duo ou en solo, une poignée d’amateurs osera ainsi franchir le pas.
Encore que pour les chanteuses Eléonore (Gisors) et Marie-Françoise (Fleury-sur-Andelle), cette scène ne sera pas la toute première. La première, couturière de métier, reprendra des tubes de chanteuses à voix comme Céline Dion ou Whitney Houston. La deuxième, d’avantage portée sur les variétés françaises, a déjà fait ses premières armes dans une troupe cabaret de l’Oise.
Katia, de Gisors elle aussi, chantera devant un public pour la première fois. Toutes trois ont passe des « auditions » et retenu l’attention des organisateurs de la soirée. Autre artiste invitée, la danseuse Cécile (de Montjavoult) est une « pro » qui fait partie de la troupe parisienne « Axelaxe ». Enfin, toujours au chapitre artistique, on retrouvera le « Petit chœur palpitant de Montjavoult » dirigée par Laura Catry, sur un répertoire plutôt boogie-woogie. L’idée maîtresse de Plein Ph’Art est de proposer une soirée conviviale. La formule « dîner-spectacle-soirée dansante » se veut donc rassembleuse.
Soirée cabaret, samedi 11 février à 20h. à la salle des fêtes de Gisors. Repas : apéritif, tajine, dessert, boisons. Danse en fin de soirée avec la DJ Miette. Tarif 20€.
Image from "The Parties and The Men, or, Political Issues of 1896 ... The Issues of the Day Impartially Reviewed."
Contrast digitally enhanced.
New Beginnings Fundraiser 2017
I was on hand for the BEGINNINGS Auction this year on behalf of board member Crash Gregg and The Triangle Downtowner Magazine.
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Place: The Umstead Hotel, 100 Woodland Pond Drive, Cary, NC
The BEGINNINGS organization is for parents of children who are at the very least Hard of Hearing is non-profit helping parents and families. Their impartial support helps families make informed decisions by empowering advocacy for their child’s needs.
New Beginnings also supports deaf parents who have hearing children.
I'm on tap next to photograph Governor Cooper again this Saturday.
On Dec. 15, 2015, at 6 p.m., the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County constitutional officers, and the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District directors all took their oath of office in the Government Center forum.
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Penney Azcarate administered the oath of office to 16 elected officials, who each swore to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia, and to faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon them as officials of Fairfax County.
All elected officials will take office on Jan. 1, 2016.
More information:
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
Russell Alexander Alger (1836-1907), Michigan Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of War.
Image from "The Parties and The Men, or, Political Issues of 1896 ... The Issues of the Day Impartially Reviewed" (1896).
Contrast digitally enhanced from faded original.
Mutantspace.ie held a CUPCAKE competition at the FEASTA food market that took place on Sunday 28th June on Patrick Street, Cork during the Cork Midsummer Festival.
We set up a stall and ran a competition for the tastiest, most crazy, over the top, delicious, silliest cupcake ever made.
A panel of judges was appointed to honestly, impartially and truthfully decide whose cupcake was the best. The winner was be announced at the inaugural Amateur Food Awards later that day and presented with the very first mutantspace.ie cupcake trophy. Congratulations to Liz Slattery the inaugural EAT MY CAKE CHAMPION 2009
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/05/20/citiz...
Citizens Advice Bureau bosses launch probe into one of their lawyers
May 20 2012 By Russell Findlay
A LAWYER who works for the Citizens Advice Bureau is being probed after it’s claimed he targeted vulnerable clients for a crooked legal firm.
Margaret Sneddon, 48, was involved in a rent dispute when she turned to CAB lawyer Gilbert Anderson, who is based atHamilton Sheriff Court and whose salary is paid by taxpayers.
But the ex-Royal Marine sent her and a friend into the clutches of John O’Donnell, who didn’t have a practising certificate.
O’Donnell broke the law by acting as lawyer for the firm Davidson Fraser.
Margaret, from Lanark, said: “Anderson told us that he was a silent partner in Davidson Fraser and he phoned them from his office to make an appointment for us.
“O’Donnell came to meet us and took on our cases.
“We had no idea that he was banned from practising.”
Last month, we told how Elizabeth Campbell was also referred to Davidson Fraser by 53-year-old Anderson.
He was listed as an associate on a Davidson Fraser letter but he claimed that he merely provided Elizabeth with a list of lawyers.
She said: “That is untrue, there was no list. I’m furious that the CAB seem to have taken the view that Anderson has done nothing wrong.”
Elizabeth and another client, Joan Hoblyn, have been interviewed by Elaine Motion who is probing Davidson Fraser on behalf of the Law Society of Scotland.
Margaret and her friend also plan to complain to the CAB.
Anderson declined to comment.
A CAB spokesman said: “It’s vital that the public have full confidence in the impartiality of the CAB service and we take allegations of this nature very seriously.”
Someone finally wrote about this painting without referring to the woman depicted as “a Slave”, and it’s about effing TIME. (Annibale Carracci; Baroque Portrait Of Elegantly Dressed African Woman Discovered) This is something that has vexed me considerably for a very long time now, because here’s the problem: unless I give the most-used or common title of the painting here, those of you trying to do further research on these works will be unable to find them. Sometimes, these titles range from questionable to outright horrendous. I try to do the best I can to be responsible about it, but racism is a system where the same people always lose, guaranteed. Where is there to walk except to step on the same people, always? How can we move at all without harming? We have so much work to do on this. And in my opinion, it’s not busywork, and it’s not even a little bit trivial. In face, if you read the notes on this post about the Rijksmuseum’s title policy changes, you’ll see tons of emotionally invested white people violently defending racist titles as if they are some kind of sacredly racist blessing given by some Impartial History Goddess unto posterity. *eyeroll* These images and histories do NOT arrive to us untouched by the intervening centuries. By ignoring that context, we are actively supporting racism that was attached to these works much later than they were created. If we pretend that “objectivity” means absolving ourselves of the responsibility to investigate the marks left by those who did not share that particular compunction about changing things, that is still a choice and an action. It’s an action that says that racism and misinformation is good and should be preserved. History is not static, nor should it be. This isn’t about mincing words, it’s about how and why we assign value, importance, and humanity to people. Moreover, examining the “middle”, the “medieval”, as it were, without looking at what came before or after, is to imagine a disembodied torso of history that makes little sense and can serve any purpose. European Medievalism in a vacuum leads to the hijacking of history by white supremacy and white nationalism, a sort of Mr Potato Head that can be dressed up and made to serve the purpose of whoever feels like evoking the concept of medieval whiteness, originary and pure. But there is no “Racial Reset Button”, and periodization is too often the enemy of historical truths. When power is used to label entire swaths of humanity with retroactive dehumanization, when this is repeated by the supposedly credible ad nauseum, and when we make any engagement with this evidence contingent on reinforcing that dehumanization, how can we recover? How can we be just, without justifying ourselves? I believe there can be an answer, and I believe in being able to do better. I want to do better. And this is the kind of question I post to myself, and to all of you, at the dawning of this year.
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
A Dentist's Daughter at aDentistsDaughter.com/ shares the best electric toothbrush reviews. Discover top rated Philips Sonicare, Oral B and other electric toothbrushes. Find unbiased, impartial and detailed electric toothbrush reviews to help you buy the best model for your needs.
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
As you'll be aware, I'm not afraid of junk food, in fact, I'm its #1 advocate. So when I discovered Walkers (they're pretty much the crisp/chip monopoly this side of the pond) had released 6 new flavours, I had to make sure the guys would let me conduct an extensive impartial comparison. Bear with me though, there's six flavours to get through!
Flavour #1: Chilli and Chocolate
A round body, initially earthy on the snout, punchy with dark velvety undertones and an after taste akin to the haberdashery concession of a well-to-do city department store.
Jess: 3/10 (gagging)
Nick: 7/10 (tastes like earth, i like earth)
Wibbly: 2/10 (could be improved with lint)
Average score: 4 (could flavour harder)
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.
Models: Gabrysia Firanelli, Fido Riddler
PhotoG: me
A desire in her eyes and suspense in him eyes (it is not my own interpretation but i like it) in dark scenery and B&W style.
Am I crazy about the mirrors? Maybe a bit :P
Feel free to comment :) (impartial chiefly)
On Dec. 15, 2015, at 6 p.m., the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County constitutional officers, and the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District directors all took their oath of office in the Government Center forum.
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Penney Azcarate administered the oath of office to 16 elected officials, who each swore to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia, and to faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon them as officials of Fairfax County.
All elected officials will take office on Jan. 1, 2016.
More information:
Central wholesale markets, established by local governments under the Wholesale Market Law, sell fresh foods indispensable to out daily life such as fish, vegetables, fruit, meat and flowers. It is difficult to store perishable foods for a long period as the spoil easily. In addition, the production of perishables is greatly affected by natural conditions such as the weather, so the price is subject to greater fluctuation than other goods. So the wholesale market, standing between producers and consumers, promotes the smooth distribution of perishables and contributes to stabilization of diet through the fair and speedy transactions between wholesalers and jobbers in the clean and functional facilities.
Role The Central Wholesale Market Law of 1923 has laid the foundation of the wholesale market system in Japan. The Law was revised in 1971 and the present Wholesale Market Law was newly promulgated to cope with the succeeding social changes.
The present system of wholesale market in Japan has two features: (1) Local governments found and manage their central wholesale markets. (2) Prices are fixed on the basis of auction regardless of volume of transaction. This is an unique system around the world; the law restricts transactions in the markets to maintain impartiality.
Before central wholesale markets were established, although auction had been held partially in vegetable markets, most prices had been negotiated in secret between sellers and buyers. It sometimes caused unfair transactions and placed producers and consumers under disadvantages.
The principle of public auction established by the Central Wholesale Market Law had a marked effect on distribution of perishable foods: fair prices and proper transactions are ensured. Thus, thanks to the central wholesale market, producers and consumers have become able to supply or consume perishable foods without anxiety.
“The future is there looking back at us.” — William Gibson
According to a recent Fast Company article, design has “matured from a largely stylistic endeavor to a field tasked with solving thorny technological and social problems.” Designers are no longer relegated to the downstream position of making things look pretty. We now have a seat at the table. No longer makers, we now aspire to be leaders. Design is everywhere, yet is now called upon to respond to constantly changing technological, demographic, and environmental conditions.
In this space between ubiquity and obsolescence, how can designers develop ways of working and collaborating that respond to our contemporary world? Join us for a monthly series of provocations at MAD where practitioners and critics discuss the changing nature of design and visual culture and its impact on the also changing fields of music, education, fashion, and more.
Technology
Technology plays the dual role of being instrumentalized as both an impartial tool and critical monitor of progress, security, and connection in our society. In this talk we look at how design, programming, and writing work together to express alternative perspectives on startup culture, surveillance, and automation.
Speakers
Sam Lavigne is an artist, programmer and journalist. His work deals with data, cops, surveillance and automation. He is currently a research fellow at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. In 2015 he co-founded Useless Press, an independent online publisher of esoteric internet projects. He is also the co-founder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon.
Rob Horning is an editor of The New Inquiry and author of Marginal Utility, a blog on consumerism and technology. He has written for such publications as Art in America, Dissent, and DIS Magazine.
Moderator
Juliette Cezzar is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program at Parsons / The New School, where she was the Director of the BFA Communication Design and BFA Design & Technology programs from 2011-2014. She established her small studio, e.a.d., in 2005. While books anchor the practice, her work has spanned a variety of media for clients such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, RES Magazine, The Museum of Modern Art, Vh1, The New York Times, Eleven Madison Park, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the co-author of Designing the Editorial Experience(Rockport) and author-designer of Office Mayhem (Abrams), Paper Pilot, Paper Captain, and Paper Astronaut (Universe / Rizzoli). She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a professional degree (B. Arch) in Architecture from Virginia Tech.
San Francisco’s tribute to the useless horror.
European powers rejected Wilson’s 14 points. Lead by the French, Italy, and British; they wanted to continue grinding small peoples under foot. It's # 5 that the powerful found a problem.
In 36, came the response. By 39, we were playing the tape all over again.
An estimated 10mil. died frivolously in WW1, just to repeat the horror with 50 mil. Dead from the second round.
The 14 points:
I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.
VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.
XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Increasingly, aid delivery in Somalia is becoming difficult since independent access and impartiality cannot be guaranteed. Armed groups have continued expelling humanitarian agencies, especially from the south-central regions where the needs are highest.
Photo: © CONCERN
BBC impartiality was challenged today by several hundred Pro Palestine protesters who gathered outside the Birmingham studios located in the Mailbox. Several speakers highlighted the disproportionality of coverage and just days after 4 Palestinian children were bombed on a beach in Gaza.
The protesters held an impromptu march to a scheduled Stop the War meeting. When it became clear that the Council House could not accomodate the number of protesters wishing to attend a sound system was hastily put together and a mass public meeting was held in the city's Chamberlain Square.