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Afghanistan: Afghan Women's Network calls for sweeping constitutional changes to improve women's rights
The Afghan Women's Network
The Afghan Women's Network (AWN) has called for sweeping changes in the Afghan Constitution that would permit Afghan women free health care in all maternal health facilities and equal rights in all aspects of divorce and custody of children.
The demands are among a lengthy list of proposals that were submitted on March 3 by the AWN to a Constitutional Commission that has been set up by the Karzai government to engage the Afghan population in the redrafting of the Constitution. The Commission is due to submit its conclusions in October 2003.
The AWN is a coalition of over 25 Afghan Non Governmental Organizations and several hundred individuals, with offices in Peshawar (Pakistan) and Kabul (Afghanistan). The entire network has been engaged in the constitutional process. Two AWN working groups have spent the past five months surveying AWN members on both sides of the border, and also analyzed human rights law, Islamic law, and previous Afghan constitutions before coming up with recommendations. AWN teams also visited refugee camps in Pakistan and remote rural areas.
http://www.afghanwomensnetwork.org/
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The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, requests judicial authorisation to commence an investigation into the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
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Statement in Condemnation of Terrorist Attack Targeting Media Organizations in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia: Release Maysaa Alamoudi and Loujain Alhathloul
Egypt: Postpone the 15 December referendum on the draft Constitution!
Oman: End the Detention of Women Human Rights Defenders
Afghanistan: End the Unlawful Criminalisation of Women and Girls Based on 'Moral Grounds'
Forced Gynecological Exams As Sexual Harassment and Human Rights Violation
Sudan's Revised Penal Code: A Mixed Picture For Women
Afghanistan: Their lives on the line: Women human rights defenders under attack in Afghanistan
Morocco's Dilemma: Rights and Reform or Closure and Conservatism?
Family Law in Bahrain


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Review Article| December 06 2013
An evolving story of angiotensin-II-forming pathways in rodents and humans
Carlos Maria Ferrario
Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, U.S.A.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, U.S.A.
Correspondence: Professor Carlos Maria Ferrario (email cferrari@wakehealth.edu).
Sarfaraz Ahmad
Sayaka Nagata
Stephen W. Simington
Jasmina Varagic
Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, U.S.A.
Neal Kon
Louis Joseph Dell'Italia
Birmingham Veterans Affair Medical Center, University of Alabama Medical Center, Alabama, AL 35294, U.S.A.
Clin Sci (Lond) (2014) 126 (7): 461–469.
https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20130400
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Carlos Maria Ferrario, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Sayaka Nagata, Stephen W. Simington, Jasmina Varagic, Neal Kon, Louis Joseph Dell'Italia; An evolving story of angiotensin-II-forming pathways in rodents and humans. Clin Sci (Lond) 1 April 2014; 126 (7): 461–469. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20130400
Lessons learned from the characterization of the biological roles of Ang-(1–7) [angiotensin-(1–7)] in opposing the vasoconstrictor, proliferative and prothrombotic actions of AngII (angiotensin II) created an underpinning for a more comprehensive exploration of the multiple pathways by which the RAS (renin–angiotensin system) of blood and tissues regulates homoeostasis and its altered state in disease processes. The present review summarizes the progress that has been made in the novel exploration of intermediate shorter forms of angiotensinogen through the characterization of the expression and functions of the dodecapeptide Ang-(1–12) [angiotensin-(1–12)] in the cardiac production of AngII. The studies reveal significant differences in humans compared with rodents regarding the enzymatic pathway by which Ang-(1–12) undergoes metabolism. Highlights of the research include the demonstration of chymase-directed formation of AngII from Ang-(1–12) in human left atrial myocytes and left ventricular tissue, the presence of robust expression of Ang-(1–12) and chymase in the atrial appendage of subjects with resistant atrial fibrillation, and the preliminary observation of significantly higher Ang-(1–12) expression in human left atrial appendages.
angiotensin-(1–7), angiotensin-(1–12), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), atrial fibrillation, chymase, pro-angiotensin-12, renin
© The Authors Journal compilation © 2014 Biochemical Society
Epigenetic regulation of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) by SIRT1 under conditions of cell energy stress
Clin Sci (Lond) (December, 2013)
Role of endothelin-converting enzyme, chymase and neutral endopeptidase in the processing of big ET-1, ET-1(1-21) and ET-1(1-31) in the trachea of allergic mice
RNA interference targeting the ACE gene reduced blood pressure and improved myocardial remodelling in SHRs
Modulation of the intrahepatic renin–angiotensin system after stimulation of the gastric sodium monitor in the rat
Clin Sci (Lond) (November, 1999)

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How Are Audiologists Different From Hearing Instrument Specialists?
If you have recently been diagnosed with hearing loss, you would know what it is like to be completely confused about a condition that you know very little about. Visiting doctor after doctor and having tests done on you may be a daunting experience, but surely there is light at the end of the tunnel. As scary as it may seem now, your quality of life will undoubtedly improve after you have received the right treatment for your hearing loss.
One of the many questions that people ask about hearing loss treatment is which hearing healthcare professional to see. Just like in any other field, there are different kinds of practitioners concerned with hearing loss treatment. You need to gauge which professional is most likely to meet your unique needs. Here are some differences between an audiologist and a hearing instrument specialist (HIS).
The major difference between an audiologist and a HIS is their level of training and education. An audiologist has at least a Master's Degree in Audiology. Some audiologists also have Doctorates in their respective field. This means six to eight years of training in audiology. On the other hand, an HIS or dispenser typically has a college degree that trains for vocation and applied skills rather than research. In many states, HIS only need a high school diploma for them to get a license to practice.
The next major distinction between an audiologist and an HIS is their scope of practice. An audiologist is authorized to work with a wide array of people, ranging from infants, adults and elderly to people with special needs. They are trained for full diagnostic evaluations of the patient's entire auditory system, from the outer ear to the brain. This makes it very important for you to see an audiologist if you don't know what the cause of your hearing loss is. Since audiologists are concerned with the pathology behind hearing loss, they are the medical specialists who deal with figuring out the root cause of hearing loss.
An HIS, in contrast, is strictly concerned with carrying out hearing evaluations for the purpose of fitting hearing aids. If your sole purpose in visiting a healthcare professional is to get hearing aids fitted, then seeing a HIS will be right choice for you. Unlike audiologists, HIS can only work with the adult population for their hearing loss needs. HIS are not allowed to diagnose hearing loss or other pathologies and can only perform testing for the purpose of programming a hearing aid.
However, one of the most important aspects of success in the field of medical science is experience and attitude. Despite having lesser formal training than audiologists, some HIS can have a long spanning experience in the field that makes them very efficient at what they do. They are the right choice for someone who needs to get hearing aids fitted, but not the right choice for someone who has never had a diagnostic evaluation done to determine the cause of their hearing loss.


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In 1981, Ed Asner was the Emmy award-winning star of Lou Grant to millions of loyal TV viewers, and he explained his philosophy as a candidate for Guild president: "I have no magic solution for the problems facing the Guild but, if elected, I will totally dedicate myself to enhancing our identity as proud workers and unionists. To strike out at the attitude that the performer is not a worker. To enlighten the performer who feels guilt at success and divorces himself from his peers. To work toward that unity of performer unions wherein all artists will feel strength in numbers and freedom from jurisdictional squabbles. With these accomplished, the two contracts we face by 1983 will be satisfying realities. We are family." Addressing the membership for the first time as President, he expressed strong support for merging the Guild with both AFTRA and the Screen Extras Guild, and urged a final push for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
During the Guild's 1980 Theatrical/Television strike, which lasted from July into October, Asner became a visual, vocal spokesman, walking the picket lines on blazing hot summer days, and even contributing a long written article to the Los Angeles Times. Yet the Guild nominating committee's selection of Asner as the 1981 presidential candidate was unusual for two reasons: this was the first time a candidate with no previous service as a board member or Guild officer had been chosen, and the second time in Guild history that the nominating committee had rejected an incumbent president who wished to run again (in this case, it was William Schallert, the first was Kathleen Nolan in 1977).
1982 produced a backlash of controversy for Asner when on February 15 he and several other prominent actors, including Howard Hesseman and Lee Grant, presented a check for $25,000 to be used for medical aid to the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, who were fighting that country's U.S-backed military dictatorship. The money, presented on the steps of the State Department in Washington, D.C., resulted from a fund-raising campaign. Negative response to the donation was loud and swift from individuals and media across the country. By May, his popular "Lou Grant" show was dropped by CBS. Later that year, he traveled to Sacramento and successfully lobbied for passage of Assembly Bill 2007, which would end auto insurance discrimination based on occupation. Asner hoped for merger with the Screen Extras Guild and in 1982 (and again in 1984) referendums were sent for the membership to vote on this issue. Although over half voted in favor both times, the measures failed because they fell short of the 60 % "yes" vote required for passage. In October 1983, just before his re-election to a second term as President, Asner testified on that old spectre - Runaway Production - at a hearing in Los Angeles entitled "The Flight of the Motion Picture Industry from California" held by the Assembly Committee on Economic Development and New Technologies. In August 1984, the Guild devised a low-budget motion picture agreement giving advantages to productions that hire more women, minorities, seniors, and disabled performers.
In 2000, 15 years after completing his terms as president, Ed was presented with the Guild's Ralph Morgan Award on June 4 at the Hollywood Mid-Year Membership meeting. By then, the Guild was just a month into the Commercials Strike and, after the thunderous applause of over 1,400 members in attendance ceased, Ed told them: "I believe in unionism…I believe when we find ourselves blessed with good fortune, we must answer to a higher standard of caring. We pass this way once, and how we behave along the way is who we turn out to have been all along." Two years later, on March 10 2002, Ed Asner became the recipient of the Guild's annual Life Achievement Award presented at the 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards telecast.


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Much what I already do as a 10k + user, but with fewer restrictions.
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Everything I have said already carries a "name" associated with me (in several variants) across several sections of the web, not just here. I have cultivated that "name". I already watch what I say. I am not worried about a diamond next to it.
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Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982–84) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Black Flag and Glenn Branca) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). This coming together of several narrative voice-overs, of singing and shouting voices, of jarring sounds and text overlaid onto shaky, gritty images, proposes a historical genealogy of rock music and an ambitious thesis on the origins of America. In this illustrated book, Kodwo Eshun examines this landmark work of contemporary moving image in relation to Graham's wider body of work and to the broader culture of the time, especially in relation to history, popular culture, and individual and communal identity.


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A Breakdown of the NASA Astrovan
When the NASA Space Shuttle program retired in July 2011 after 135 missions, so did the NASA Astrovan that transported the crew to and from the launch pad.
This modified Airstream motorhome has decades of history and is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex in Florida.
Let's learn more about this historically significant vehicle and why crew members looked forward to their ride in the Astrovan.
NASA escorted astronauts from the Operations and Checkout Building to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in an Astrovan.
What Is the NASA Astrovan?
Airstream has manufactured Touring Coaches in Jackson Center, Ohio, since the 1970s. The first line, the Argosy, was released in 1974 but discontinued in 1979.
Where Was the NASA Astrovan Made?
See the famous Astrovan on display in the Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission Zone. In this exhibit, guests can also see one of three space-flown shuttles displayed in the country.
Where Is the NASA Astrovan?
The Astrovan II is the new transport vehicle for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew. The new vehicle seats up to eight astronauts.
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George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his generous father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George, with the promise of earning his wings. He shows George what things would have been like if he had never been born. Written by alfiehitchie
Category: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
Audience Rating: TV-G
Imdb Rating: 8.6
Description: George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his generous father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George, with the promise of earning his wings. He shows George what things would have been like if he had never been born. Written by alfiehitchie
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He is risen! – I'm forgiven!
This Sunday's readings draw a strong link between the resurrection of Christ and the universal message of forgiveness in his name. That forgiveness begins the moment our Savior appears to his disciples announcing peace and showing them his scars. In short order, he gives them their marching orders – to forgive and retain sins (preaching Gospel and Law) in Jesus' name (John 20).
In the book of Acts we hear Peter and the other apostles fearlessly declare the purpose for which God raised His Son from the dead and exalted him…so that all may know that God is offering them a fresh start (repentance and forgiveness) by believing in Jesus (Acts 5).
We also hear Peter's voice in the epistle reading where he encourages Christians living outside the Holy Land to hold on to the "living hope" of Christ's resurrection even as they have to endure persecution for their faith (1 Peter 1).


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Dispatches: April 2012
By Jennifer Grigg
I was about to dig in to my super awesome looking breakfast when my significant other suddenly bolted up the stairs.
I was about to dig in to my super awesome looking breakfast when my significant other suddenly bolted up the stairs. He came back down the stairs with a pager in each hand and tones going off. "Whose is it?" I casually (in my mind anyway) asked.
"Yours," he replied.
"OMG!" I looked at my breakfast again and grabbed a piece of bacon and ran upstairs to get my socks. I ran back downstairs, grabbed my keys, my pager and a toque, and off I went.
The call was for a residential smoke alarm. As I listened to the call while driving to the hall, a slew of stuff was running through my mind.
"It's probably a false alarm," the fire alarm technician in me thought. "Maybe they have a leak and there's water in the device, or it could be dust or a spider in the smoke detector that caused it to trip." Next was, "Holy crap, this drive is taking forever," followed by, "Only pump 3 is responding so far. I've still got a chance to catch a truck."
I'm almost there when I hear the tanker responding. The voice in my head starts again, "Crap! Missed that truck . . . but there's still one in the hall that hasn't responded yet."
I pull into the parking lot, jump out of the truck and run into the hall. I kick off my boots and start to put my gear on. I look up to see my captain coming in. He looks at me and shakes his head. "Ah, crap," I think to myself.
It's now confirmed to be a false alarm and the guys are about to clear. I step back out of my bunker pants and put my boots back on. My captain had picked up a broom and had started to sweep the floor. He said to me, "If you want to sweep, I'll start the paperwork." "Sure, I'd be happy to." I reply, the wind sucked out of my sails by my failed attempt to catch a truck.
Twenty minutes later, we're standing around yapping and then . . . tones go off. (And therein lies the beauty of being a firefighter – volunteer or full time – those moments when you're just chilling and doing your thing and the tones go off . . . it changes everything in an instant.) We all look at each other, and wait. The first set of tones wasn't ours, but now we're hearing the second set, which is.
We get our gear on again. It's an MVC. I head for the rescue truck (which is normally the only unit that responds from our hall when we are backing up another hall for an MVC). Then I look at the pumper and think, "I'll go jump in the back of it because there's more room in the pumper and I'm thinking that the other three firefighters will be going in the rescue." I start to head to the pumper and then I think, "Is the pumper even going, because it's an MVC?" and then, "Remember that the other station didn't respond to the first call so there's probably still no one around and we'll therefore need all three of our trucks." As I'm going in circles trying to figure out what truck to jump in to, a booming voice says, "Jennifer, back of the rescue." I do what I'm told, thankful to be relieved of my inner conflict.
It reminded me of the movie, Ladder 49, when Jack jumps out of the truck at his first fire, all eager to go, and his chief, played by John Travolta, catches him as he runs by and says, "Helmet," which Jack has forgotten and has to go back and get.
A fellow firefighter and I are in the two jump seats in the back of the rescue. I'm thinking to myself excitedly, "Yeehaw! Here we go," followed by a less enthusiastic, "OMG, here we go. Will I remember everything?" My mental barrage has started and we're not even out of the parking lot yet. (I'm not sure if it's a female thing or just a still-a-little-nervous-about-being-back thing.)
I look across at the other firefighter and see him buckling up his seat belt. I search for my seatbelt and buckle it up. Then I start to do up my coat and struggle a bit to get the clasps together with the seatbelt on. This time I'm reminded of the movie Backdraft, when Brian has to help the rookie do up his gear properly.
Self-deprecation aside, I realize how glad I am to be back. Ten years on the department, four years away, six months back. There's nowhere I'd rather be. Our MVC turned out to be someone who had pulled over on a bridge overpass and another good Samaritan had called it in thinking that the people had been involved in an accident.
We headed back to the hall. As we were discussing how amazing it was that we hadn't come across any accidents due to the weather and road conditions, dispatch called us back with a report of a single vehicle rollover.
Lights and sirens back on, we took the next exit, turned around and headed north to our third call of the day.
Although we didn't actually do a lot that day, I felt like (forgive the third movie analogy) Jack when he comes out of his first fire with John Travolta and he's all smiling and laughing and hugging Travolta.
I admit to thinking at times, that it didn't really matter whether I made it to a call or not.
But I realized on that Saturday that it does matter. Every member of the fire department matters. Volunteer fire departments rely on all of the members – to be there for training, to be there for calls, to be there for each other. It matters.
Jennifer Mabee is a blogger, mother and volunteer firefighter (not necessarily in that order) with the Township of Georgian Bay Fire Department in Ontario, in her 11th year. She joined in 1997, left in 2007, and returned in 2011 after completing a 100-hour recruit course. She is also assistant director for Ontario with the Canadian Volunteer Fire Services Association. Contact her at jhook312@yahoo.ca
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As a result of recent events, and changing international relationships, the key elements of international food law have taken on increased importance for government and industry alike. Through this course you will be introduced to the intricacies of the international attempts to harmonise national controls and establish rules governing food trade.
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With the imminent changes to the UK's international relationships (and international legal requirements) forthcoming, this course would be of direct benefit to any professional engaged in exporting products, or whose industry is likely to undergo legal changes in the coming years.


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August 3, 2015 by Melinda Selmys
Holy Moral Relativism Batman! August 3, 2015 Melinda Selmys
Way back at the height of the Enlightenment there was a test administered which "proved" that women are less rational than men. The test involved offering people moral situations which were supposed to be straightforward, and then asking whether the person involved had acted morally or not. One of the questions involved a man stealing some food. Male respondents consistently answered these questions "correctly," with a simple "yes" or "no" whereas the women often said "It depends," or suggested that more information was needed. Clearly the women were muddle-headed and couldn't tell right from wrong. At least, that's the conclusion drawn by the (male) researchers administering the study.
Actually, the women were right. It's not that they weren't thinking clearly, but that they were refusing to think in the simplistic, reductionist terms demanded by the test. This isn't a comment on gender, but rather a comment on the inadequacy of the kind of deontological morality that was in vogue in 18th Century Prussia – and which would have been drilled into the heads of male schoolchildren from a young age. The women, quite instinctively, distinguished between moral agents, moral acts, and moral principles whereas the men had been trained to collapse their ideas into a rigid, one-size-fits all system of ethics in which the only thing that mattered was the abstract nature of the principle at stake.
Contemporary moral relativism is, to a certain extent, an overreaction against this kind of reductionistic moralism. Basically, the belief that all true moral maxims could be universalized, and that actions could be easily judged without reference to their context, produced a lot of very ugly fruit. Misogyny, colonialism, racism, and elitism all flourished in the Enlightenment soil, fertilized by the belief that anyone who failed to come to the same moral conclusions as an educated European gentleman was naturally "irrational" and thus "inferior." (Ayn Rand's objectivism is, of course, the same kind of overt ethical snobbery translated into a 20th C American industrialist paradigm.)
Eventually, the cracks in this system began to show and slowly the people who had been oppressed by the ideals of modernism began to insist on their dignity. In the aftermath, any claim of moral objectivity or ethical absolutism became immediately suspect: we had been down this road before. It had led us into the horrors of social Darwinism, eugenics and "ethnic cleansing." A pure cultural relativism, which refuses to impose any external scheme of judgement on other peoples or their values seemed like the only safe way to avoid repeating such excesses.
Such relativism is, of course, unsustainable: we can't pass judgement on the values of 18th Century Prussia without asserting some kind of objective moral framework against which those values fail to measure up. But that doesn't mean that we can wholly dismiss the relativist's critique, or that we should content ourselves with the obvious, and often somewhat smug, refutations of relativism as a hard moral philosophy.
At its heart, relativism appeals because it reintroduces a number of genuine moral truths into ethical discourse. It recognizes that morality does not take place in a vacuum, on a tabula rasa, or in the realm of pure reason. It acknowledges that morality itself is a part of our incarnational reality, and that it must conform itself to the varied circumstances and situations of embodied human life. Just as human nature itself is capable of a functionally infinite number of instantiations and permutations, so too are the Divine and natural laws.
What this means, in practice, is that although principles are constant and absolute across different social and individual contexts the actual application of those principles must be conditioned by the circumstances of the act and the intentions of the agent. The introduction of these latter two factors does not represent a watering down or a dissolution of the timeless moral tradition, but rather a retrieval of something that was lost in early modernity.
The moderns, in their enthusiasm to do away with a theistic God, craved a kind of objectivity that could be situated in relation to the human person without reference to a Divine judge. God could scrutinize the hearts of men and tease out the innumerable extenuating factors and cultural conditions that might influence the morality of a billion disparate acts. He was capable of balancing the scales of justice just as He was capable of numbering the stars. Enlightenment Man was not. Classical and Medieval ethics, which had insisted that the Right Act must be performed at the Right Time, in the Right Way, for the Right Reasons, were simply too unwieldy to meet the needs of the Brave New Modern World. It was therefore necessary to scale ethics back to something simpler, something that could be grasped in its entirely by a human mind.
Unfortunately, many "conservative" Christians seem unaware of the degree to which problematic Enlightenment ideals have infiltrated Christian intellectual culture. In their zeal to avoid the incursion of problematic postmodern ideals they end up rejecting valid postmodern critiques which are aimed not at the Christian tradition, but at the cancerous entrails of modernity. The result is a largely fruitless tug-of-war between equally erroneous systems of thought, the adherents of which look with contempt on their interlocutors for missing the "obvious" truths that form the bedrock of their own philosophy.
A more responsible approach (and this is, in fact, the approach taken by the Vatican) involves discerning a middle way that avoids both the Scylla of simplistic absolutism and the Charybdis of hard relativism. It includes a willingness to engage in complex moral debate and discernment, to apply the truth in a way that respects individual conscience and social conditions, and to enter into fruitful and respectful dialogue with those who are in error. It demands an equal portion of fidelity to the teaching and humility before the truth. A recognition that Truth is not something which we possess, but rather someone who possesses us.
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UKPIA 2019 Statistical Review
London, 01/08/2019 – UKPIA has today published its annual review of the downstream oil industry.
The Statistical Review 2019, which UKPIA has published since 2003, is a comprehensive and accessible compilation of UK downstream oil industry statistics. It draws together recent information on the sector from across a range of sources including government departments and UKPIA members.
Key statistics this year include:
£39.4 billion was collected in tax from road fuel duty and VAT in 2018, the highest amount over the last decade.
The UK continues to be an overall importer of petroleum products, though it is a net exporter of surplus gasoline products.
There continues to be an increase in the miles driven in the UK, but overall vehicle sales have dropped with diesel vehicles experiencing a sharp fall, however, there is growth in sales of petrol and alternative fuelled vehicles.
UKPIA's Director-General, Stephen Marcos Jones, said:
"I am pleased to announce the launch of the 2019 Statistical Review. We have looked to refresh the format, but the information and statistics it contains continue to provide the ultimate one-stop reference point for those with an interest in our sector.
Earlier this year we published, with Oxford Economics, an assessment of the economic impact of the whole of the downstream oil sector. This annual review builds on that work and reminds us of the vital role our sector continues to play in the UK. As focus turns to achieving the UK's net-zero ambitions, the UKPIA Statistical Review reminds us too of the significant environmental improvements that have been and can continue to be made by this sector."
For an electronic version of the 2019 edition of the Statistical Review,  click here.
The UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA) represents eight oil refining and marketing companies that operate the six major oil refineries in the UK and source over 85% of the transport fuels used.
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Isadore M. Silverman, 88, of Worcester, formerly of Tampa FL, died February 26, 2010 at the Jewish Healthcare Center, Worcester after an eight-month illness.
Izzy was predeceased by his wife of 65 years, Sylvia (Kaufman) who died in 2006. He is survived by his two sons, Steven and Gary and their wives, Marsha and Janice, all of Worcester; Five grandchildren, Jonathan, of Berlin, Germany; David, of Tampa, FL; Stephanie, of San Francisco, CA; and Dennis and Benjamin, both of Worcester; as well as David�s wife Cindi and their three children, BreAnna, Rachelle, and Yochana all of Tampa, FL. He also leaves two brothers, a half-brother and a sister and their families, Albert, of Ithaca, NY; Philip, of Beverton, OR; Maurice Tonkin of Leominster, MA; and Marilyn Mendelsohn of Ithaca, NY. He was predeceased by his brother Harvey, of Anaheim, CA.
Izzy was born in Boston, MA and graduated Fitchburg High School. Izzy and Sylvia met at Sylvia�s "sweet sixteen" party and were married three years later. During World War II he served in the United States Army in North Africa For many years Izzy owned and operated Foremost Fruit Store on Water St. in Worcester. He later became a licensed financial planner for Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and a principal of Colletti and Silverman Insurance. For many years he was active in the Jewish Federation and Y.O.U., Inc. Both Sylvia and Izzy were avid bridge players in Worcester and in Florida where they retired in 1982. Izzy will be much missed by his family and may friends who will remember his wonderful optimism and great sense of humor.


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Posted on September 10, 2018 November 11, 2019 by Ann Foster
Anne of Denmark: The Drama Queen of Scots
Anne of Denmark was Queen of England during a highly tumultuous period of history, which is part of why her own life has not been examined very thoroughly. Her husband was James I, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, and they were coronated after the death of the beloved Queen Elizabeth I. So in the first place, it was a tough act to follow. But also, England was still in the midst of lots of religious violence and persecution, and as foreigners (James, from Scotland; Anne, from Denmark) they were mistrusted by many of the population. This is part of what led to the whole Guy Fawkes/Gunpowder Plot situation, a huge moment in English history that further upstaged Anne's personal story. Honestly, the whole Stuart dynasty (which started with James and Anne) tends to be overlooked compared to the Tudors maybe just because there was so much drama surrounding Henry VIII et al. Anne herself is just as interesting to study as any of the previous Queens and notable women, but currently there's just one biography about her at all — and it was written in 1970. So her life is RIPE for re-examination, because this is an incredibly interesting story. Let's dig in!
In the absence of any (!) movies about Anne of Denmark, I'll use Alicia Vikander from A Royal Affair and Tulip Fever as a stand-in
Anne was born in 1574, the second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Right away, her parents and the country of Denmark were disappointed by her gender, as they all had been hoping for a son. Despite being a princess, she was already a bit of an underdog. Anne and her older sister Elizabeth were sent away for the first years of their lives to be raised by their maternal grandparents in Güstrow (in Germany), which was maybe for the best. Their parents oversaw a royal court known for its overall debauchery with just like food and sex and wine everywhere all the time, whereas their Lutheran grandparents were stable and frugal and perhaps better role models for the girls. Their mother, Sophie, visited often. Sophie herself was much closer to her parents than was usually the case back then, and she was determined to nurture a similar bond between herself and her own children. This included breastfeeding her own children, rather than using a wet-nurse, which was so exceptional at the time that everyone was confused.
A boy, Christian, was born to the royal couple after a few years, and he joined his sisters in Güstrow. When Anne was five years old, all three children were returned to their parents' court in Denmark. Frederick and Denmark were doing pretty well, so princes and kings from all over were vying to get to marry Anne and Elizabeth. But as the national religion was Lutheranism, Anne's parents would only consider suits from Protestants, which limited the pool of possibilities. The best option Frederick and Sophie found for Anne was James VI, the King of Scotland. Frederick passed away before anything could be finalized, and with the new King Christian being just eleven years old, Sophie took the lead on marriage negotiations. James was a good option both for dynastic and political reasons, and also because he was only eight years older than Anne — a much smaller age gap than the 24 years there had been between Sophie and Frederick. James's mother, Mary Queen of Scots, had just been executed for treason and so things were sort of dicey for him, meaning that he was under a lot of pressure from his councillors to get married. He wasn't interested in women, perhaps at all, but knew that landing a Protestant wife and having a child would help make him a more appealing potential heir to Elizabeth I. And so, after years of negotiations, a marriage treaty was signed. Phew.
In advance of the marriage, five hundred tailors and embroiderers set about working on the gowns that would comprise her trousseau. Anne herself worked at stitching shirts for her husband, which was both the custom of the time, and also is such a sweet thing about how excited she was about the match. She could speak German, Danish, and went on a crash course to learn French so that she and James would be able to speak without needing an interpreter (she didn't speak Scots or Latin, the other languages that James was fluent in). They wrote letters back and forth, and James oversaw renovations of a castle despite not having enough money to do so, which shows that he was also anxious and keen on the marriage. He asked for a bigger dowry than had previously been agreed upon, and Sophie was like "Um no" but you can't fault him for trying.
Vikander in A Royal Affair
Anne and James were married by proxy on August 20, 1589. This is the sort of thing where someone standing in for Anne married James, and someone standing in for James married Anne, even though they were in separate countries at the time. To complete the total weirdness, there was a proxy-consummation as James's proxy lay fully clothed next to Anne, also fully clothed, in a bed. Ten days later, the young "bride" set sail for Scotland among sixteen ships containing her furniture, clothes, horses, and a carriage made of SOLID SILVER. Time to go meet her gay husband and start her new life as Queen of Scots!
James had twelve ships ready to greet her when she and her squad arrived. BUT the oceans were not in the mood to make this very easy. Six of her ships arrived in Scotland, but the other ten were unaccounted for. James, who was very superstitious and also obsessed with witchcraft, ordered that everyone in Scotland should fast and pray for her safekeeping, and sent out a search party. He wrote brooding songs about how worried he was, and began obsessing about all the bad omens he felt he should have taken more seriously: when one of his own ships had set out to green Anne, a cannon had exploded and killed some sailors; the boat of one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting-to-be, had sunk on its way to the port and all 40 of its passengers died. But don't worry! It turns out that Anne and her other ten ships had made an emergency landing (docking?) in Norway and, although she was traumatized and several of the ships were damaged, they had taken shelter in Oslo and were totally fine.
But it was now winter, and it was way too dangerous to cross until spring, but Anne was like, "We can try sailing over again, maybe?" but James was like "Hell no, I'll come get you myself!" and, despite literally every member of his council warning against it, set out with three hundred people to go and pick her up himself. He arrived in Oslo on November 19th, clad in red velvet, tall and gorgeous, and ran up and tried to kiss her in front of everybody. All the Danish Lutherans were shocked, but he was like, "That's just how we do things in Scotland!" and Anne was like, "OK, then," and they had a little chit-chat wherein they decided to just get married in Oslo instead of sailing back to Scotland.
And this is how this Scottish man married this Danish woman in Oslo in a sort of thrown-together wedding that just makes me think of Frozen, and sounds lovely until I mention that JAMES BURNED ELEVEN WOMEN. That's right, the Scottish King was so superstitious and paranoid about witches, that he blamed the bad weather on witchcraft and the only way to fix it was to, again I repeat: BURN ELEVEN INNOCENT NORWEGIAN WOMEN AS WITCHES. So like… that's what we're dealing with here. Some other, more low-key drama, was that Anne opted not to take part in the communion part of the mass because she was still following her Lutheran religion rather than James's Presbyterianism and everyone was like, Oh this sort of thing might be important later, so let's put a pin in this.
Post-witch-burning, the young couple had a pretty cool time that winter hanging out for an impromptu Scandanavian honeymoon. They took the party to Elsinore (yes, like in Hamlet!!) so James could meet Dowager Queen Sophie and King Christian. They were also able to attend her sister Elizabeth's wedding in Copenhagen, and then finally headed off to Scotland in March.
Anne revealed her own propensity for glamour and drama by making her official entrance into Edinburgh in her solid silver coach, which had luckily survived the stormy seas and the whole Norwegian adventure. And turns out that James also lived for drama, and so this coronation became the most. Not only was the whole thing seven hours long, but James included a thing I've never heard of before, where Anne's dress was opened up and the minister poured oil onto her breast and arm. James was like, "Oh yeah, this is a really old ritual in like…. Protestantism," and he was the King so nobody could stop him so Anne, half-topless and glistening with oil, became the new Queen of Scots.
The whole point of Anne marrying James was for her to give birth to a bunch of Scottish heirs to the throne, but the first two years of their marriage went by without her becoming pregnant. Everyone was freaking out about this, and I'm sure that added pressure did nothing to help her vis-a-vis fertility. And drama just spiralled around them like they were magnets and the drama was so many paperclips, like people were trying to kidnap them and betray them constantly; at one point, one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting helped an attempted kidnapper escape out her window, and James wanted Anne to fire the lady and Anne was like, "I would sooner return to Denmark myself, you dick!" and just screaming, screaming, fighting, that was what their relationship was like.
Eventually, she gave birth to their first child, Henry Frederick, five years after the Frozen themed marriage, and everyone calmed down. Except for her, because it turns out that she was expected to be separated from her son Henry so he could be raised in a different castle. She was despondent and upset and missed her mother and, let's all take a moment to remember that she was seventeen years old at this point. The separation was partly just how things were done for royal Scottish babies, but also was because Anne and James were so constantly almost being kidnapped/murdered themselves, it was thought Baby Henry should be kept in the most fortified of all the castles, which was in Stirling, under the watchful eye of James's trusted allies the Dowager Countess and Earl of Mar. Anne was devastated.
Anne refused to be separated from her son, and set to work convincing everyone she could that the child's place should be with her. When James heard Anne was planning to visit Henry, he ensured he came along for the trip too, so that she wasn't able to kidnap the baby herself. Anne lobbied for support from some of the Asshole Scottish Lords ™, and was gaining so much support that James made the child's new guardian write a letter saying "I WILL NEVER GIVE HENRY TO YOU, ANNE, EVEN IF YOU COME HERE AND ASK, AND EVEN IF THE KING DIES, YOU CAN'T HAVE HENRY BACK." And again: screaming, yelling, crying, misery, drama, Anne missed her mother, James was a dick, rinse, repeat.
The couple pretty clearly hated each other from then on, but did their royal duty and conceived a bunch more kids, six more in total. Their next child was a daughter named Elizabeth, who was sent off to be raised in another castle but Anne didn't mind as much because it was her own castle so she could visit it whenever she wanted. Also during this time, she secretly was (allegedly) baptized as Catholic which was a huge plot twist due to the whole religious chaos constantly happening around them. She dismissed the Danish chaplain who'd been working with her this whole time, and secretly hired a Jesuit to instruct her in religious matters. This wasn't a decision to be made lightly, as punishment of even hosting a Jesuit at your house was death. James found out about Anne's new Catholic ways and, while he didn't agree with her, agreed it was OK so long as she kept it all secret and didn't convert any of their children.
During this whole time, Anne never stopped secretly looking for ways to get Henry back. And, eight years later, she figured out a new scheme. While everyone was preoccupied with James going to London to become the Queen of England (as the heir of Elizabeth I), Anne gathered up some of the Asshole Lords and headed off to the castle where her son Henry was living. He was now nine years old, and she'd hardly seen him for the past five years of his life. The Dowager Countess and Earl of Mar refused to let her in, and refused to even let her see her son. Anne became so distraught and upset that many believed this caused her to miscarry, because she had been pregnant at the time. Yet, even in her grief and rage, she didn't stop looking for a loophole. James sent a message like, "I'm King of England now! You have to come to England and be Queen here!" And Anne wrote back like, "Sure, but I'll only join you in England if I can bring Henry with me, and let me have custody over him." James had no choice but to agree, because he had to have his Queen in England with him, and so after she'd recovered from the miscarriage, Anne and Henry triumphantly rode to England to become the royal family there.
Before she'd died, Queen Elizabeth I had been suspicious of Anne's religious loyalty. It was incredibly important for the new King of England to be Protestant, not Catholic or Lutheran and Anne just sort of politely side-stepped letting anyone know what she truly felt about any of this. Queen Elizabeth I had written letters warning Anne not to let anyone convert her to Catholicism, and demanding the names of any Catholics who tried to do so. Anne wrote back like, "No worries! All good here!" Meanwhile, one of Anne's confidantes was a woman named Henrietta Gordon, whose husband was an exiled Catholic. Some even suspected that Anne might be an Atheist; but officially, she was Protestant, like her husband. Even when a Catholic minister was caught trying to smuggle a rosary to her and got thrown in the Tower of London, Anne was like, "I never asked for a rosary, lol, how embarrassing," but then also ensured that the rosary-deliverer was freed from prison. So what was her deal? Nobody knew. Maybe her religion was just to mess with people.
Anne and James's marriage continued to be a series of incredibly passionate arguments, which makes sense given both of their personalities. Among their greatest hits was surrounding the Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600. This was a thing where the Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander allegedly tried to assassinate James and got themselves killed. Their sisters, Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven, had been among Anne's ladies in waiting but James had them fired for assassination-brother reasons. Anne was so mad about this and, even though she was pregnant at the time, went on a hunger strike and refused to leave bed for two days until the Ruthven sisters were returned to her service. They yelled and screamed and fought, and James hired an acrobat (??) to come in and do a show to get her mind off of things. Anne started eating and leaving bed again, but would not give up on her crusade to have the Ruthven sisters hired back, like for three years she was unrelenting. In 1602, she smuggled Beatrix Ruthven into the castle but she was found, and James kicked her out again. Finally, he agreed to give Beatrix a pension, like sort of severence pay. Anne = 2; James = 0.
Another of their bigger fights was when Anne "accidentally" killed James's favourite dog, Jewel, while out on a hunt. James freaked the fuck out at her, but then eventually forgave her and gave her a giant diamond as a memorial to the dog. Starting in 1607, Anne mostly lived in London while James spent more and more of his time in the countryside, which seems like the best case for this borderline toxic pairing. And Anne and James were just like sloppy gossips about each other, slipping secrets to courtiers and envoys and ambassadors about each other. Note: all of the secrets Anne slipped were personal, never political. James knew that Anne was gossipy and so didn't trust her with secrets of state but honestly? Anne only cared about that stuff when if affected her children or friends, and otherwise paid zero attention to politics — although she would sometimes play different courtiers against each other for her own reasons (and/or amusement).
Anne's whole religious thing kept popping up, and at around this same time the literal Pope wrote a letter like, "IDK what religion this woman even believes in, like she keeps changing her mind, she might even be a secret Catholic, like, no idea what's going on with her." Despite this apparent inconstancy and her surface-level frivolity, Anne was a badass and super beneficial wife for James. In public, she was gracious and a great diplomat, and the parties she threw were both legendary and also helped elevate the appearance of the English court to the other European nations. Anne was a dedicated patron of the arts, especially writing and theatre, and she would sometimes perform herself in the many, many, many plays that were put on during her time as Queen. When she was Queen of Scotland, this whole side of things wasn't as popular because at that time, Scotland was very frugal and straightlaced and Presbyterian. Anne's penchant for glamour and extravagance (which she shared with her husband, who also loved shiny and pretty and expensive things) fit in much better in England, where her encouragement allowed artists to flourish creatively.
Her parties were masques, the sort of ball you may be familiar with from the Shakesepeare plays where they happen. Basically, at a masque, a theatre company would be hired to bring singers, musicians, and performers, and the King and Queen and courtiers would join them in dancing. There would also be a play performed, and with Anne as the party planner, these would have some of the most sophisticated and ornate sets ever. When there was a Queen Anne masque coming up, people would come from other countries just because they knew it was going to be such an amazing good time. In this way, Anne helped to raise the profile of England as a cultural hub, and also showed off how rich they were, which made everyone more eager to deal with them. It was at around this time that women began to be permitted to act on stage, which was another thing that Anne helped to mainstream. In fact, Anne would sometimes cast herself or her ladies in waiting in roles in the show. This sometimes led to controversy, as when Anne wore a toga in her role as Athena that some audience members felt was too short. But she's the Queen, so what you gonna do?
Note: James hated plays, and fell asleep during them. But he was really into witchcraft, which is why Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, which is a shorter-than-usual play about a Scottish King who hangs out with witches. I bet James still fell asleep, though.
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In 1612, Anne's beloved son Henry died of old timey diseases, and the next year her oldest daughter Elizabeth was sent off to Heidelberg to be married, and Anne just fell into a deep depression and began having lots of health problems. She held her final masque in 1614, and mostly hung out by herself. With her out of the picture, James fell more into the thrall of his male courtiers (which led to the whole Thomas Overbury murder situation, among other messed-up stuff). Her illness got worse and worse, and her son Charles slept in the room next to her (James only visited three times). When Anne was dying, Charles lay in the bed next to her. She passed away at age 44 on March 2, 1619 and was laid to rest in King Henry's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
James, true to form, went over the top with his grief over Anne's death. He of course loved her, but he was also highly performative with all of his emotions. He was unable to attend her funeral as he was sick at the time, with an illness that sort of like Anne's, seems one-part physical and one-part psychological. Just as James had written songs while waiting for her to arrive from Denmark, he marked her passing with a new poem:
So did my Queen from hence her court remove
And left off earth to be enthroned above.
She's changed, not dead, for sure no good prince dies,
But, as the sun, sets, only for to rise.
Anne's son Charles would go on to become King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Anne's daughter Elizabeth became Queen of Bohemia and, through her grandson George I, established the royal house of Hanover. Basically, Anne of Denmark an ancestor to every English monarch Charles I to the present day.
There have been no (????) movies made about her, which is confusing because it's all right there, moviemakers. Her story has it all: being stranded in Oslo! A Frozen theme wedding! A fierce mother who will stop at nothing to get her son back! A debauched loser of a husband who basically abandons her! Inventing the idea of letting women act on stage! Like, someone get on this, ASAP, thanks so much. I think Alicia Vikander would be great in the part, too.
There aren't even many books written about her! What is the deal? What I can find at the moment are Scotland's Last Royal Wedding: The Marriage of King James VI and Anne of Denmark by David Stevenson and Anne of Denmark by Ethel Carleton Williams. Historical biographers and novelists: get on this too! The material is literally all right there!
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What a woman! You're right, people should have made many movies about her already.
Sanam Jamshidi says:
WHERE ARE HER MOVIES?! the Frozen themed wedding can be an entire plot in itself, she needs more recognition! I love your posts, they are so interesting and entertaining <3
Thanks so much! And YES, I mean, right???
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invitationtothegarden says:
So now I know all about Queen Anne! But I didn't realize that King James could be so mean as well as awfully stern. Never liked him.
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Half-shredded Banksy could sell for over $5 million at auction
By Jill Lawless
Assistants pose by an artwork titled Love is the Bin by British street artist Banksy during a photocall at Sothebys auction house in central London on September 3, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)
NEW YORK - A Banksy artwork that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4 million is up for sale again — at several times the previous price.
Auctioneer Sotheby's said Friday that "Love is in the Bin" will be offered at a sale in London on Oct. 14. The piece has a pre-sale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.3 million).
It consists of a half-shredded canvas bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon.
Bansky artwork shreds itself
A work by the elusive street artist Banksy self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the making.
Then known as "Girl With Balloon," the work was sold at Sotheby's in October 2018. Just as an anonymous European buyer made the winning bid, a hidden shredder embedded in the frame by Banksy whirred to life, leaving half the canvas hanging from the frame in strips.
The buyer decided to go through with the purchase — a decision that would be vindicated if the picture achieves its estimated price.
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Alex Branczik, Sotheby's chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art, described "Love is in the Bin" as "the ultimate Banksy artwork and a true icon of recent art history."
"Love is in the Bin was born of the most spectacular artistic happening of the 21st century," he said. "When 'Girl With Balloon' 'self-destructed' in our saleroom, Banksy sparked a global sensation that has since become a cultural phenomenon."
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The artwork will travel and go on public display in London, Hong Kong, Taipei and New York ahead of its sale next month.
Bansky, who has never confirmed his full identity, began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world's best-known artists. His mischievous and often satirical images include two policemen kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces and a chimpanzee with a sign bearing the words, "Laugh now, but one day I'll be in charge."
"Girl With Balloon" was originally stenciled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy's best-known images.