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Events as they are unfolding in the Dail this afternoon, October 3.
The proceedings can be accessed from this link Dail TV
Below is a copy of the statement released by the Labour Party leader Deputy Pat Rabbitte
HEART OF MATTER IS : ‘WAS AHERN RIGHT TO ACCEPT MONIES?’
It is fair comment that the Opposition has shown restraint in the matter of the Taoiseach accepting money for private use while a serving Minister. However, since Mr Ahern had created a context that sought to explain the Drumcondra monies in terms of his private family affairs, common decency required that opposition politicians should have demonstrated a certain restraint.
And then on Sunday I heard Minister of State, Conor Lenihan, ridicule that restraint. It was, he said, ineffectiveness, not decency, on the part of the Opposition. The suggestion was apparently that the Opposition should cut through the smokescreen to the heart of the matter. To me the heart of the matter is: was Mr Ahern right to do what he did? Is it remotely credible that monies outstanding for 13 years, without any repayment of any kind, can suddenly be called loans? You don’t need to be as bright as Minister Lenihan to know that these transactions, if they happened, were gifts and therefore there are tax implications.
Can we do more than highlight the absolute impropriety of a serving Minister for Finance accepting payment for a nixer outside the State. Never mind the “no law was broken” defence. By any standards it was wrong. What would have happened to a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Finance if he trousered money for a private encounter in Manchester? He would be sacked. Why is it alright for the Minister but not alright for the civil servant? What does it say about this Government’s standards that not a single Cabinet Minister can bring himself or herself to say what everybody knows: that what happened at Manchester was wrong. You believe in the tooth fairy if you believe that businessmen happen along to a function in a posh hotel to listen to any old Joe Soap talk to them about the Irish economy and then organise an impromptu collection to give him something for himself.
In normal life you get gifts from your friends and you take loans from strangers. Yet Mr Ahern got loans from his friends and gifts from strangers.
Maybe Minister of State Lenihan’s derision of the Opposition is because we didn’t adequately probe behind the discreet veil drawn over the other 50,000 by Mr Ahern when he says enigmatically that he “put back into” his account. “Back into his account from where”? is the questions that must be answered. Where was the 50.000 resting since Mr Ahern didn’t have a bank account? In a sock in the hotpress? If the Taoiseach says this 50.000 was savings I accept that but if he enjoyed a T.D’s salary, a Ministerial salary and the use of a premises bought by friends of Fianna Fail, how can it be portrayed that he was in straitened circumstances?
Why if there were 50.000 in “savings” was it necessary to raise a Bank loan and if a Bank Loan was in place why was it necessary to have a whiparound to replace the Bank Loan ?
An effective Opposition doing its job must ask the Taoiseach: have you evaded tax? Why did you say you paid CGT and gift tax? Why is that relevant here? Are you serious that you had no Bank account while Minister for Finance? Did you have a Bank Account elsewhere on the Island? Or outside the jurisdiction? Or did someone else open one on your behalf? If the whiparound was among friends why is there a cheque in there for 5,000 from NCB stockbrokers? How many times have NCB been retained by the State? How many of the donors were appointed on how many occasions to state boards? Who were the donors in Manchester? What was the function? Are they involved in business in Ireland? Did any of them win state contracts? Is this another loop in the golden circle?
Our new Tanaiste is also impatient with the Opposition. On Thursday he told the House he could scarcely forbear to sit in silence and watch the Opposition squander the opportunity for accountability. Well the Tanaiste had better grow accustomed to sitting in silence. The only question he will be allowed at Cabinet after this debacle is “Bhuil cead agam dul amach?” Mr McDowell sought and got a mandate to ride shotgun on Fianna Fail standards in government. He has comprehensively failed the first test. As he said himself:
“A party that stands for nothing will stand for anything.”
If the Tanaiste can no longer ask questions aloud maybe he would ask himself what Des O’Malley would have said if the Taoiseach of the day admitted receiving money, not for political purposes, but for his private use while a serving Minister?
Forget the orchestrated phone-ins to radio stations, the unscientific polls and the packed television audiences, was it right or wrong to accept money for private use while a serving Minister? You are on the record as saying you did nothing wrong and your Cabinet Ministers without exception have parroted that line. Brian Lenihan alone said it would be unthinkable.
But all the rest Hannafin, O’Donoghue, O’Dea, Dempsey, Ahern, Coughlan, Martin and Cullen can see no wrong. If anything demonstrates why this country needs a change of government it is the media parade of your Ministers, blind to standards, defending the indefensible.
New York City, April 13, 2011—PEN American Center today named Nasrin Sotoudeh, a writer, lawyer, and leader of the women’s and children’s rights movement in Iran, as the recipient of its 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010, and is now serving an 11-year sentence for her outspoken advocacy in defense of her clients arrested after the June 2009 presidential elections and interviews she gave to human rights organizations and media about their cases.
The award, which honors international literary figures who have been persecuted or imprisoned for exercising or defending the right to freedom of expression, will be presented at PEN’s Annual Gala on April 26, 2011, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, a close friend and associate of Ms. Sotoudeh, will attend the PEN Gala on April 26, 2011, and receive the award on her behalf. Ms. Ebadi, who is the author of Iran Awakening and the newly released memoir The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny, will be available for interviews in conjunction with the event.
“Nasrin Sotoudeh not only embodies the spirit of the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, but also the spirit of this remarkable year,” said Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of PEN American Center. “As a writer, as an activist, and as a lawyer she has dedicated herself to a simple and powerful idea: the principle that the rights guaranteed by law are absolute and shared equally by all. At a moment when women and men around the world are standing together peacefully to reclaim this most basic truth, she is in one of the world’s most infamous prisons, to the great shame of the Iranian government. In honoring her with this award, we stand with the millions of Iranians she has stood up for and inspired, and we urge individuals and governments around the world to join us in pressing for her immediate release.”
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is 47 and the mother of two young children, began her activism in 1991 as the only female writer for the Nationalist-religious publication Daricheh Goftegoo; one of her first projects was to prepare a series of interviews, reports, and articles on Iranian women to mark International Women’s Day, all of which her editor refused to run. After completing her Master’s Degree in International Law at Shahid Behshti University, Sotoudeh passed the bar exam in 1995 but was not permitted to practice law for another eight years, and so she concentrated on journalism instead, writing for several reformist newspapers, including Jame’e. When she was finally granted a law license in 2003, she specialized in women’s and children’s rights while continuing to write articles addressing these issues. Her clients have included women’s rights activists, among them the organizers of the grassroots, door-to-door One Million Signatures Campaign; journalists such as Isa Sharkhiz; political activists such as Hashmat Tabarzadi, head of Iran’s banned opposition group the Democratic Front; and Shirin Ebadi herself. She has also represented prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors and many Iranian opposition activists arrested in the crackdown following the June 12, 2009 presidential elections.
On August 29, 2010, security officers raided Sotoudeh’s home and office, confiscating several of her files and documents. Authorities also froze her assets. On September 4, 2010, she was summoned to the special court in Evin prison and arrested on charges of “propaganda against the state,” “cooperating with the Human Rights Defenders Center,” and “conspiracy to disturb order.” She was denied access to her lawyer and was restricted family visits for the first several months of her detention.
On January 9, 2011, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced Sotoudeh to a total of 11 years in prison—one year for “propaganda against the regime,” and a total of 10 years for the two charges of “acting against national security” and “violating the Islamic dress code (Hijab) in a filmed speech.” The court also banned her from practicing law and from traveling outside the country for 20 years, a term that begins after her release from prison and that for all intents and purposes confines her to Iran and bars her from her profession for life.
Sotoudeh has gone on several hunger strikes since her arrest, refusing even water during one 11-day stretch, to protest her detention and ill-treatment inside Evin Prison. She has reportedly lost a considerable amount of weight and is in poor health. She is being held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where she has spent much of the time in solitary confinement. Sotoudeh is still awaiting a decision in the court of appeals.
In announcing the award today in New York, Freedom to Write Program Director Larry Siems praised Nasrin Sotoudeh’s “unyielding spirit in her fight for justice, equality, and the rule of law in Iran.”
“From the start, Nasrin Sotoudeh has insisted on voicing the unspoken realities of post-revolutionary Iran,” Siems said. “The struggles of women, the experiences of minors swept up in Iran’s judicial system, the aspirations of writers, journalists and ordinary Iranians to engage in free and open debate about their country’s future—Nasrin has risked her own freedom to make sure these are acknowledged in Iran. That they have been acknowledged by sending her to prison speaks volumes about the Iranian leadership; that she is a hero and an inspiration to millions of her countrymen says even more about the Iranian people.”
Siems joined Appiah in urging the Obama administration to press Iranian authorities to bring their country into step with the human rights revolutions sweeping through the Middle East and release Sotoudeh, one of the most visible symbols of these universal values in Iran. “President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly praised the popular uprisings in the region while at the same time Iran’s security forces have been brutally suppressing peaceful demonstrations and dissent in Iran. This hypocrisy is lost on no one, at home or abroad.”
Writer, historian and PEN Member Barbara Goldsmith underwrites the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. This is the 25th year the award has honored an international literary figure who has been persecuted or imprisoned for exercising or defending the right to freedom of expression. Candidates are nominated by PEN International and any of its 145 constituent PEN centers around the world, and screened by PEN American Center and an Advisory Board comprising some of the most distinguished experts in the field. The Advisory Board for the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award includes Carroll Bogert, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch; Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation; Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, International Vice President of PEN International; Aryeh Neier, President of the Open Society Institute; and Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Freedom to Write Award is an extension of PEN’s year-round advocacy on behalf of the more than 900 writers and journalists who are currently threatened or in prison. Forty-five women and men have received the award since 1987; 32 of the 36 honorees who were in prison at the time they were honored were subsequently released.
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of PEN International, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. The Freedom to Write Program of PEN American Center works to protect the freedom of the written word wherever it is imperiled. It defends writers and journalists from all over the world who are imprisoned, threatened, persecuted, or attacked in the course of carrying out their profession. For more information on PEN’s work, please visit www.pen.org
Source : www.pen.org
RML 2472 is seen here with London General's long-serving lady driver Sandy Bouchere at the wheel prior to departing back down the hill to Wimbledon Station. This was to be the last photo I took of RML 2472 whilst the vehicle was still in the ownership of Go-Ahead London General's commercial services bus fleet.
....in the courtyard at the front of The Blue House, Frome in Somerset.
It was more than 500 years ago that William Leversedge, the Lord of the Manor, was moved by the plight of the Frome homeless and decided to do something about it. Compassion was an unusual sentiment amongst members of this difficult and cantankerous family, but William seems to have been a gentleman. He may have been influenced by the experience of his brother Edmund, a vain and dissipated youth who received a sharp lesson when he was struck down by the plague in Frome in 1465. His face became ‘black as any coal’, his tongue ‘as black as any pitch’ and protruded out of his mouth ‘the length of half a foot’. Edmund fell into a death-like trance and while in this state was taken on a journey through Hell. He survived to reform and record his experiences, which may well have inclined the whole family to good works.
The Blue House, located adjacent to the town bridge, was formerly the Bluecoat School and Almshouses, so named due to the colour of the school uniforms.
Built in 1726 at a cost of £1,401 8s 9d, it replaced a previous almshouse dating from 1461 (and rebuilt in 1621). The Blue House provided accommodation for 20 female widows, and schooling for 20 boys, and the front of the building is adorned by two statues, one of a man, colloquially known as "Billy Ball", and one a woman called "Nancy Guy", indicating the building's dual role. Its role as a school ceased in 1921, and it now provides studio and one bedroom flats for 17 elderly residents.
The charming statues of two serving girls in a small courtyard at the front of the Blue House came from the Keyford ‘Home’, founded by Richard Stevens, a wealthy leather currier, in 1796 as an almshouse for old men and as a school for training girls for domestic service. Stevens’ Asylum and Hospital, as it was officially known, was completed in 1803 at a cost of £6439. 18s. and, sadly, demolished in 1956, when the Blue House opened its doors to men as well as women.
A closeup shot of one of my late mother's Mexican serving trays. It's made of wood and is hand-painted.
Camera: Zenit ET (Made in Russia in 1984)
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Date: September 12th, 2018, 6.44 p.m.
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German and American officers and NCOs joined the staff of the Strong Teams Cafe dining facility in serving a feast with all of the traditional trimmings on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, 2014. (Photo by Karl Weisel)
We had the honor of serving 234 military families our at Jacksonville, FL Holiday Meals for Military event! Each family received a $50 Walmart gift card to purchase their favorite holiday foods, a tote of goodies from our friends at P&G, and children got to pick out a few toys that Santa dropped off early. We had a super team of volunteers from Operation Homefront, the Florida National Guard, and CSX that made the day fun and easy. Thank you to our amazing sponsors at Vogue International, Pilot, Ecolab, Advance Auto, Lockheed Martin’s Space Coast team, Navy Federal Credit Union, and Chick-fil-A’s Ortega Park location for making the event possible!
Slices of an Army birthday cake wait to be picked up by post exchange customers on Fort Bragg, N.C., June 10, 2013. The cake cutting ceremony, which was held at the north post exchange, was part of a multiple day celebration of the Army's birthday.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jeremy Bennett)
Austria's Nikola Hofmanova serving in her first round match against British wildcard Naomi Broady at the Wimbledon Qualifying Event at the Bank of England Club in Roehampton.
Hofmanova won 6-4, 6-4, but was put out by Stepanie Dubois in straight sets in the second round.
Scott Kevin Walker (born November 2, 1967) is the 45th Governor of Wisconsin, serving since 2011, and a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination to the 2016 presidential election.
Walker served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the Milwaukee County Executive before his election as governor in 2010. He survived a 2012 recall election and was reelected governor in 2014, defeating Democrat Mary Burke.
Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Walker was raised in Iowa and in Delavan, Wisconsin, before attending Marquette University. He left Marquette before graduating to take a full-time job with the American Red Cross. Walker was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1992, representing a district in western Milwaukee County. In 2002, Walker was elected County Executive in a special election following the resignation of F. Thomas Ament; he was elected for a full term in 2004 and was reelected in 2008, defeating state Senator Lena Taylor.
Walker launched a campaign for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006 and ran again in 2010, defeating Democrat Tom Barrett in the general election. Shortly after his inauguration in 2011, Walker introduced a budget plan which limited the collective bargaining abilities of most Wisconsin public employees. The response to Walker's policies included protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol and an effort to recall Walker. In the 2012 recall election, Walker again defeated Barrett, becoming the first American governor to survive a recall effort. In 2014, Walker defeated his Democratic challenger, businesswoman and Madison school board member Mary Burke.
Every four years, as America’s campaign cycle rumbles back to life, two of the country’s smaller states again return to the national spotlight.
Taking advantage of this political stage, The Seventy Four aims to bring the urgent conversation of America’s K-12 education system to both Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming months.
As first reported in The New York Times, The Seventy Four, a non-partisan, non-profit news website about education, announced it will be hosting and organizing two 2015 Education Summits beginning in August. Sponsored by the American Federation for Children, the nation’s leading school-choice advocacy organization, and organized in partnership with The Des Moines Register, the first-of-its-kind summits will gather prominent elected officials, political influencers, and education thought leaders to discuss the challenges now facing America’s education system.
“Last year, 1.3 million children dropped out of school, and U.S. students have flatlined on national and international tests,” said Betsy DeVos, chairman of the American Federation for Children. “It’s time to have a national conversation and no better time than as we look to 2016.” (The Seventy Four receives support from the Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.)
The first of the 2015 Education Summits will be held in New Hampshire on Aug. 19 and will be moderated by The Seventy Four co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Campbell Brown and others. Confirmed speakers (thus far) include Governor Jeb Bush, Governor Chris Christie, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Governor Bobby Jindal, Governor John Kasich and Governor Scott Walker. (Check out The Seventy Four's detailed education profiles of the six GOP leaders participating Wednesday)
Additional New Hampshire speakers will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Watch The74Million.org and EdSummits2015.org for new announcements, and check back for video and updates from both summits.
“These summits are an unprecedented opportunity to have an honest and intelligent discussion with our leaders about the failures of the education system”
The second summit, to be held in Iowa in October, will be co-hosted by The Seventy Four and The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s most influential news outlet.
The 2015 Iowa Summit will spotlight Democrats from both Iowa and across the nation — elected officials, analysts and thought leaders with clear thoughts on how to solve America’s education challenges.
All speakers at both the 2015 New Hampshire Summit and 2015 Iowa Summit are invited in their current personal or professional capacities and will appear on stage separately for an important conversation about America’s education challenges and opportunities.
When it comes to most political debates, K-12 education issues tend to get overshadowed by a landslide of other domestic policy issues. The 2015 Education Summits will keep the conversation focused on America’s most urgent policy issue, affording featured speakers time to provide in-depth perspectives outside the formal parameters of the presidential debates.
“As the political world descends on New Hampshire and Iowa, these summits are an unprecedented opportunity to have an honest and intelligent discussion with our leaders about the failures of the education system,” Brown said. “We must begin to treat fixing our education system with the urgency the crisis demands, as it is vital not only to our children’s future, but also the future of this nation.”
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the junior United States Senator from Vermont.
Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. A self-described democratic socialist, he favors policies similar to those of social democratic parties in Europe, particularly those instituted by the Nordic countries. He caucuses with the Democratic Party and has been the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee since January 2015.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before transferring to and graduating from the University of Chicago. While a student, he was a member of the Young People's Socialist League and active in the Civil Rights Movement as a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Sanders settled in Vermont in 1968, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor and U.S. Senator in the early to mid-1970s as a member of the Liberty Union Party. As an independent, Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont's most populous city, in 1981. He was reelected to three more two-year mayoral terms before being elected to represent Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 1990. He served as a congressman for 16 years before being elected to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-independent Jim Jeffords in the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012, he was reelected by a large margin, capturing almost 71% of the popular vote.
Since his election to the Senate, Sanders has emerged as a leading progressive voice on issues such as income inequality, universal healthcare, parental leave, climate change, LGBT rights, and campaign finance reform. He rose to national prominence on the heels of his 2010 filibuster of the proposed extension of the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthy. Sanders is also outspoken on civil rights and civil liberties, and has been particularly critical of mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act, as well as racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. He has long been critical of U.S. foreign policy, and was an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War.
Sanders is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Berlin Town Meeting
Monday, August 24 at 2:00pm
White Mountain Chalet
161 E Milan Rd.
Berlin, NH 03570
inside the premises of golden-temple of amristar, the devotees are served with drinking water, foods and warm en-closeness....
this old man serves drinking water to all
MIETENmove! – Demonstration Hamburg 2018-06-02
5.000 took to the streets to protest against increasing rents in housing and small business and for a policy serving in favour of the people of Hamburg and not in the interest of investors and real estate companies.
Demonstration für eine solidarische und soziale Wohnraumpolitik
2. Juni 2018 / 13 Uhr / Spielbudenplatz
Seit mehr als sieben Jahren regiert in Hamburg die SPD. Seitdem wird so viel gebaut wie schon lange nicht mehr. Noch stärker als Wohnungsbauzahlen ziehen jedoch die Mietpreise an. Inzwischen kostet der Quadratmeterpreis für Wohnungssuchende durchschnittlich mehr als 13 Euro netto kalt. Der Mietenwahnsinn in Hamburg nimmt dramatische Formen an. Daran hat auch die grüne Regierungsbeteiligung seit 2015 nichts verändert.
Das bedingungslose Vertrauen des Senats in den Markt hat sich als falsch erwiesen. Auch die vor drei Jahren eingeführte Mietpreisbremse ist nicht mehr als ein zahnloser Tiger. In St. Georg, auf St. Pauli oder auch in der Neustadt sind Quadratmeterpreise bei Neuvermietung von weit mehr als 20 Euro die Regel und längst nicht mehr eine Ausnahme. Die Wohnungspolitik in Hamburg hat viel zu lange auf investitionsfreudige Baufirmen gesetzt. Was wir jetzt brauchen, ist eine Wende in der Wohnungspolitik: Weg von einem profitorientierten Wohnungsmarkt hin zu einer solidarischen Stadt- und Wohnraumpolitik im Interesse von Hamburgs Bewohner*innen.
Gebetsmühlenartig verweist die Politik auf den so genannten Sickereffekt: Mieter*innen der Neubauwohnungen würden günstige Wohnungen frei machen. Davon wiederum würden Geringverdiener*innen profitieren. Ein fataler Trugschluss. Gerade in den ehemals günstigen Segmenten schnellen die Mietpreise bei Weitervermietungen unaufhaltsam in die Höhe. Das Einzige, was da sickert, ist Wasser – und zwar durch die Decke der Buden, die Abzock-Vermieter*innen Menschen zu übertriebenen Preisen anbieten, die ohnehin schon als Arbeitsmigrant*innen ausgebeutet werden. Das Wort Instandhaltung kennen solche Eigentümer*innen nicht. Wohl auch deswegen, weil die Stadt es jahrelang versäumt hat, Druck auf sie auszuüben.
Stattdessen regierte ein Bürgermeister, der von Olympia träumte und am Ende den G20- Gipfel in die Stadt holte. Und es herrscht weiterhin eine Politik, die Großevent nach Großevent in die Stadt lockt, aber die Kontrolle illegaler Ferienwohnungen vernachlässigt. Eine Politik, die sich längst nicht mehr an den hier lebenden Menschen orientiert, sondern lieber eine zahlungskräftige Klientel nach Hamburg locken will.
Aus dem Blick geraten dabei diejenigen, die sich Hamburg jetzt schon fast nicht mehr leisten können. Mehr als 30.000 Geflüchtete und Wohnungslose leben über viele Jahre ohne jegliche Rückzugsmöglichkeiten in eigentlich nur zur temporären Unterbringung gedachten Camps und Wohnunterkünften. Auch deswegen, weil schlichtweg viel zu wenige günstige Wohnungen entstehen. Nicht einmal der Drittelmix – die selbstgesteckte Vorgabe für den Sozialwohnungsbau – wird konsequent umgesetzt. Die Wohnungssuche ist für Leistungsbezieher*innen und andere Geringverdiener*innen längst zum nicht enden wollenden Albtraum geworden.
Sie und alle anderen Hamburger*innen brauchen menschenwürdige Wohnungen. Der Platz ist da. Wir sagen: Kein Quadratmeter dem Leerstand – egal ob Wohn- oder Gewerberaum! Auch der Ausverkauf städtischer Flächen an Investor*innen muss beendet werden. Wir fordern eine soziale Bodenpolitik. Die Stadt muss von ihrem Vorkaufsrecht Gebrauch machen und darf ihre Grundstücke nur noch nach Erbbaurecht vergeben! Auf diese Weise kann der Bau von Wohnungen an Bedingungen geknüpft werden, die steigende Mieten verhindern. Die Bindungen für Sozialwohnungen wiederum dürfen nicht länger zeitlich befristet sein. Alternative Wohnformen wie Wohnprojekte oder auch Bauwagenplätze müssen möglich und finanzierbar sein. Sie verdienen Unterstützung. Gemeinwohlorientierte Modelle wie Genossenschaften und Stiftungen müssen gestärkt werden. Und: Die Saga darf keine Mieten mehr anheben. Warum auch? Schon jetzt führt das städtische Unternehmen Jahr für Jahr mehr als 100 Millionen Euro aus Mietengewinnen an den Senat ab.
Es steht außer Frage: Stadt verändert sich. Aber der Wandel darf nicht zu Verdrängung führen. Und der Erhalt Hamburger Baudenkmäler darf nicht mehr an wirtschaftliche Kriterien geknüpft werden. Vielmehr sollte auch in den Blick genommen werden, wie durch den Erhalt alter Substanz die Umwelt geschont und im Endeffekt auch Kosten eingespart werden.
Längst geht es nicht mehr nur ums Wohnen. Die Folgen von steigenden Mieten sind auch im Gewerbe dramatisch. Das Kleingewerbe sowie soziale und kulturelle Einrichtungen gehören zum städtischen Raum und müssen bewahrt und gestärkt werden. Die Debatte darum, was zu Hamburg gehört und was die Hamburger*innen brauchen, muss offen und transparent geführt werden.
Es ist unsere Stadt! Und es muss etwas passieren! Wir wollen, dass die Politik aufhört, auf den Zuzug von Besserverdienenden und die Steigerung der Attraktivität für Tourist*innen zu schielen. Wir machen Druck für eine soziale Politik!
Wir wollen, dass kleinteiliges Gewerbe für den Bedarf von Anwohner*innen bewahrt wird.
Wir wollen ein Zeichen setzen für eine Wohnraumpolitik, die endlich aufhört, sich an den Gewinninteressen der Immobilienwirtschaft zu orientieren.
Wir wollen eine Wohnraumpolitik, die die Möglichkeiten, auf Kosten von Hamburgs Bewohner*innen mit Immobilien Geschäfte zu machen, drastisch einschränkt.
Wir wollen eine klare Unterstützung der Stadt für gemeinwohlorientierte Wohnmodelle, auch im Bestand.
Wir wollen wirklichen sozialen Wohnungsbau und eine solidarische Wohnraumpolitik.
Shari Barnes, the director of Mississippi College's Community Service Center, was among the volunteers serving meals at Stewpot on March 13. A Christian ministry, Stewpot serves meals and provides other services to homeless families in the capital city. MC faculty, staff, alumni and students regularly volunteer at Stewpot.
The United States Navy Memorial, which honors those who have served or are currently serving in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the Merchant Marine. Designed by Conklin Rossant from a concept by Adm. William Thompson and his staff, the memorial consists of sculptor Stanley Bleifeld's The Lone Sailor, a figure of a second-class boatswain's mate, in the middle of the Naval Memorial amphitheater, whose floor is embedded with a map of the world, surrounded by gso fountain pools, and a wall adorned with twenty two bronze bas-reliefs plaques illustrating naval scenes. Planning for the $15 million memorial was begun in 1978 by the Naval Memorial Foundation, and after years of fund raising, the Memorial was dedicated on October 13, 1987. From late 1987 to mid-1990, two buildings were constructed on the Memorial's northern perimeter, the easternmost of which was selected for the Memorial's Visitors Center, which opened in June, 1991.
This relief, sculpted by Antonio Tobias Mendez, depicts Engineering Duty Officers, "Sharpening the Point of the Spear."
A rare full-daylight sighting of a meat carving station from San Francisco's House of Prime Rib. At HoPR, a cart like this rolls up to each table to deliver tasty hunks of sliced prime rib.
(Here's one in service, and here's a meat-serving action shot.)
This one was loaded on the back of a truck for repair; The driver confirmed that it's from House of Prime Rib. (As if there was any doubt.) The design of these things is incredible.
Burundian military officers serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and HirShabelle State Minister for Women and Human Rights, Sa'adiya Mohamed Nur at a handover ceremony of medical supplies donated by AMISOM to HirShabelle State of Somalia in Jowhar on 4 July 2020. AMISOM Photo
Angelique Kerber serving against Aravane Rezai at Court Suzanne Lenglen. Second round WTA singles at Roland Garros 2010.
A novel cheese tray that provides space around the ceramic cutting board where both hard and soft cheeses can be enjoyed.
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The Belmein Woven Bag (interactive bag)
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Very versatile ✅
- 30 colours for each part of bag
- 4 hardware colours
- Hide / show contents inside bag
- 10 to 40 colours for different parts of the Bunny charm
- Hide/ show bunny
- Singles have a mini FP hud that lets you customize the inner bag, the stitch colours, hide/show and full bunny hud
- FP has full customization hud
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Interactive Features;
Bag Elbow Styling and Pick Up Bag from floor
You will need to add/wear the A & B objects together at the same time.
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- Resizable
- Decor versions
- Bag contents included separately
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 17 November 2015: The African Union (AU) has honoured and celebrated the distinguished career of one of Africa’s longest serving women Diplomats, H.E. Ambassador Kongit Sinegiorgis of Ethiopia. Ambassador Kongit spent 52 years and 10 months in the Foreign Service of Ethiopia, during which she witnessed the historic creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on 25 May 1963, and its transformation into the African Union on 9 July 2002.
The formal, but entertaining ceremony took place at the Headquarters of the AU on 16 November 2015, and was co-hosted by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, and H.E. Mr. Mull Sebujja Katende, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Uganda to the AU and Dean of the East African Region.
In her speech to honour the veteran Diplomat, the AU Commission Chairperson described Ambassador Kongit as “one of the finest daughters of our continent. An African Diplomat par excellence, who loves her country and also loves her continent.” She said that Amb. Kongit has not only fought hard for Ethiopia’s firm positions, but also for Africa’s interests.
Speaking on behalf of the East African Group of Ambassadors, H.E. Mull Sebujja Katende, said Amb. Kongit's passion over the years has never waned, describing her as a distinguished historic figure with a lot to share. This was a sentiment and a sense of admiration that were equally emphasized by all speakers, even describing her as a "walking encyclopaedia of OAU/AU."
“It is a great honour to pay tribute to you,” said the French Ambassador to Ethiopia, Amb. Brigitte Collet, noting the remarkable contribution of Amb. Kongit to Ethiopia and Africa.
The tributes were furthermore echoed online by colleagues around the world. On his Twitter account, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Russia, Amb. Mike Nicholas Sango, described Amb. Kongit as “a remarkable patriot, diplomat and all-round human being. She sets a high bar for us all to aspire to.”
H.E. Amb. Kongit was the former Permanent Representative of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the AU and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Tedros Adhanom, and Executive Secretary of the UNECA also paid tribute to the diplomacy legend.
Dr. Carlos Lopes announced that Amb. Kongit would be associated to a $46 million project to transform into a museum the Africa House at UNECA, where the OAU was founded. Her Pan-Africanism will inform the museum project expected to be completed in 2018.
On her part, the guest of honour, Amb. Kongit, expressed her emotion-filled gratitude for the tributes paid to her while still alive. “I feel greatly honoured and deeply touched… There is no greater honour than serving one’s country to the fullest,” she remarked. She said that it was time to turn the page and have a good rest with her loving son.
The ceremony brought together members of the Diplomatic community in Addis Ababa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and the staff of the African Union.
H.E. Amb. Kongit Sinegiorgis was born in Harar, Ethiopia, in 1940. She obtained a BA in International Relations from the London University College, and shortly thereafter joined the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she spent over 52 years and 10 months with different duties and responsibilities.
Picked up this tray at a thrift (where else?) late last year and decided it might be useful this time of year for serving small snacks and whatnot. Maybe even drinks?
Title: Serving Spoon
Artist/Maker: Unknown
Place Made: Austria (possible); Germany (possible)
Date Made: early 19th century (possible)
Medium: metal; silver
Measurements: Overall: 11 in; x 27.94 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Jane Bortman Larus
Collection: The Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Accession No: RR-2007.0001