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Angela Witwer
Email: AngelaWitwer@house.mi.gov
N-1090 House Office Building
Map Of House District 71
D071 News / Committee / Bio - Angela Witwer
State Rep. Angela Witwer is serving her first term representing the 71st House District, which includes much of Eaton County and the cities of the cities of Charlotte, Olivet, Potterville, Grand Ledge, parts of Lansing, as well as the townships of Bellevue, Benton, Carmel, Chester, Delta Charter Eaton Rapids, Kalamo, Oneida Charter, Roxand, Sunfield, Vermontville, Walton, and Windsor Charter. An alumnus of Waverly Community Schools, Witwer went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from Northwood University.
Witwer began her professional career in clinical health care, working first in Sparrow Hospital’s burn unit and later as the manager of pediatric rehabilitation. This desire to help others, coupled with her clinical expertise, propelled her to become manager of Sparrow’s community relations and marketing department.
After 22 years working in health care, Witwer left Sparrow in 2007 to co-found Edge Partnerships, an award-winning public relations, marketing and advocacy group. During this time, she was a strong advocate for quality public education and community engagement, serving as the vice president of Waverly Community Schools’ Board of Education and was an active member of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce Economic Club committee, and the Wharton Center for Performing Arts Advisory Council and the McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation Board of Directors.
Witwer lives in Delta Township with her husband Bruce and enjoys spending time with her two children and four granddaughters.
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vp.4.14 srutadeva was married to the Karusha prince Vriddhasarman, and bore him the fierce Asura Dantavaktra. Dhrishtaketu, raja of Kaikeya 19, married srutakirtti, and had by her Santarddana and four other sons, known as the five Kaikeyas. Jayasena, king of Avanti, married Rajadhidevi, and had Vinda and Anavinda. srutasravas was wedded to Damaghosha, raja of Chedi, and bore him sisupala 20. This prince was in a former existence the unrighteous but valiant monarch of the Daityas, Hiranyakasipu, who was killed by the divine guardian of creation (in the man lion Avatara). He was next the ten headed sovereign Ravana, whose unequalled prowess, strength, and power were overcome by the lord of the three worlds, Rama. Having been killed by the deity in the form of Raghava, he had long enjoyed the reward of his virtues in exemption from an embodied state, but had now received birth once more as sisupala, the son of Damaghosha, king of Chedi. In this character he renewed, with greater inveteracy than ever, his hostile hatred towards the god surnamed Pundarikaksha, a portion of the supreme being, who had descended to lighten the burdens of the earth; and was in consequence slain by him: but from the circumstance of his thoughts being constantly engrossed by the supreme being, sisupala was united with him after death; for the lord giveth to those to whom he is favourable whatever they desire, and he bestows a heavenly and exalted station even upon those whom he slays in his displeasure.
vp.4.24 [paragraph continues] The people called Kanakas will possess the Amazon country, and that called Mushika 74. Men of the three tribes, but degraded, and abhiras and sudras, will occupy saurashtra, Avanti, sura, Arbuda, and Marubhumi: and sudras, outcastes, and barbarians will be masters of the banks of the Indus, Darvika, the Chandrabhaga, and Kashmir 75.
vp.5.21 Thus having spoken, the human Kesava summoned mentally the deity of the wind, who came upon the instant, and said to him, "Go, Vayu, to Indra, and desire him to lay aside his pomp, and resign to Ugrasena his splendid hall Sudharman: tell him that Krishna commands him to send the royal hall, the unrivalled gem of princely courts, for the assemblage of the race of Yadu." Accordingly Vayu went, and delivered the message to the husband of sachi, who immediately gave up to him the hall Sudharman, and Vayu conveyed it to the Yadavas, the chiefs of whom thenceforth possessed this celestial court, emblazoned with jewels, and defended by the arm of Govinda. The two excellent Yadu youths, versed in all knowledge, and possessed of all wisdom, then submitted to instruction, as the disciples of teachers. Accordingly they repaired to Sandipani who, though born in Kasi, resided at Avanti to study the science of arms, and, becoming his pupils, were obedient and attentive to their master, exhibiting an example to all men of the observance of instituted rules. In the course of sixty four days they had gone through the elements of military science, with the treatises on the use of arms, and directions for the mystic incantations, which secure the aid of supernatural weapons 2. Sandipani, astonished at such proficiency, and knowing that it exceeded human faculties, imagined that the sun and moon had become his scholars. When they had acquired all that he could teach, they said to him, "Now
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Created by Sreeja Jijith at 03 Aug 2011 07:31 and updated at 03 Aug 2011 07:31
vp.3.5 It had been formerly agreed by the Munis, that any one of them who, at a certain time, did not join an assembly held on mount Meru should incur the guilt of killing a Brahman, within a period of seven nights 2. Vaisampayana alone failed to keep the appointment, and consequently killed, by an accidental kick with his foot, the child of his sister. He then addressed his scholars, and desired them to perform the penance expiatory of Brahmanicide on his behalf. Without any hesitation Yajnawalkya refused, and said, "How shall I engage in penance with these miserable and inefficient Brahmans?" On which his Guru, being incensed, commanded him to relinquish all that he had learnt from him. "You speak contemptuously," he observed, "of these young Brahmans, but of what use is a disciple who disobeys my commands?" "I spoke," replied Yajnawalkya, "in perfect faith; but as to what I have read from you, I have had enough: it is no more than this (acting as if he would eject it from his stomach); when he brought up the texts of the Yajush in substance stained with blood. He then departed.
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Hunter African Communities Council
Responding to the needs of African Australians in the Hunter
Celebrating African Culture
The Hunter African Communities Council is an inclusive not-for-profit organisation supporting Australians of African decent in Newcastle and the Hunter region. Whilst HACC is not a service provider, we work closely with local organisations and government agencies in a variety of areas ranging from settlement, legal advice to personal development support.
Our goals are to advocate and work collaboratively with external agencies to create a safe and welcoming community for all Australians of African origin and their connections while encouraging integration in Australian society and embracing unique cultural diversity.
We’re dedicated to providing reliable advice and support for Australians of African origin. With our strong sense of community and well-developed relationships, we advocate for and offer effective support to assist in successful integration and inclusion in Australian society while embracing our unique cultural heritage. We help families, groups, individuals and organisations learn more about African culture and its people. We help people of African origin find their place in Australian society, enjoy personal and professional success and celebrate diversity and multiculturalism. We focus on:
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Great Steps at Yeoncheon (en242)
Great Steps at Yeoncheon
Great steps! The Augustinian Delegation of Korea has built on a donated property a complex that eventually will contain a priory, novitiate, church / columbarium and a retreat house which when completed will be able to cater for up to forty “live in” retreatants. The columbarium is a Korean tradition for reverently preserving the cremated ashes of the deceased.
Except for Stage Two of the Retreat House, the complex is now built and operating. The church has seating for 130 persons. A number of commissioned art works, including a figure of the Risen Christ made of highly polished bronze and statues of Saints Augustine and Monica (his mother). There is a large church bell in its adjacent tower. The first Mass was celebrated in the church (see photo below) during April 2012.
The Priory (the osa residence) had ten rooms to accommodate friars, novices, and private retreatants. On Saturday, 8th September 2012 Cardinal Prosper Grech O.S.A. from Rome presided at the blessing of the church and the adjacent Augustinian Priory of the Mother of Good Counsel at Yeoncheon, north of Seoul and a mere five kilometres from the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
The Retreat House has been planned in two separate construction stages, comprising two separate buildings. Its first stage is now completed, a single storey building featuring a conference room, smaller lecture room, office, foyer, reception room, prayer room, storage room, men's and women's toilets, dining hall, kitchen, cook's quarters and laundry room. Stage Two will be a two-storey building with sleeping accommodation in the form of twenty twin bedrooms.
On the feast day of St Monica, 27th August 2013, the local Bishop of Uijeongbu, Most Rev. Lee Pedro, blessed the columbarium and a statue of Saint Monica in the church. Since soon after that date, Stage One of the Retreat House has been in full operation, and planning is under way so that Stage Two can be constructed in the near future.
The previous small Augustinian site at Yeoncheon higher up in the mountains has been sold, and its Augustinian community moved to the larger site. As well as a place for retreats and a church containing a columbarium, the complex will be a place of novitiate for those formally joining the order.
For the Yeoncheon photo gallery, click here.
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Articles Posted in the " Tommy Lee Jones " Category
By Best For Film on November 19, 2013 0 comment
Men in Black 4 gets a writer
By Harry Harris on May 06, 2013 0 comment
Four. There’s going to be another one. After two, and three, they’re still going to make Men in Black Four. Four. Do you guys not remember the Ballchinnian?
By Sarah Deen on April 25, 2013 0 comment
Matt Damon makes an early bid for Oscar glory in Promised Land, a gentle yet compelling drama about a small farming town facing an economic and industrial meltdown. While the financial difficulties faced by its characters will resonate with a lot of people, it feels a little out of date and we never get a sense of why this particular story is being told now.
Hailee Steinfeld for Tommy Lee Jones western
Did you know Tommy Lee Jones is directing a Western? If you did, WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY?
Argo wins at Screen Actors Guild awards
By f.topping on January 28, 2013 0 comment
Argo, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence won the top prizes at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Steven Spielberg’s foray into the well-trodden political battlefield of the Civil War and President Lincoln’s fight to pass a bill against slavery is a predictable candidate for the Oscars, but nonetheless has many exceptional performances to applaud. Daniel Day-Lewis in particular, proves himself to be an excellent President, and makes this worthy (if turgid) drama stand out from the crowd.
Hilary Swank returns to the big screen with You’re Not You
By raynewilson on September 28, 2012 0 comment
The Million Dollar Baby actress to hopefully deliver another knockout performance.
Hope Springs is a delightful film which draws the curtain on a seldom discussed issue: What becomes of a marriage once the glitz and vitality are long gone and the couple are in their later years? As usual, Meryl Streep is terrific and works wonderfully with Tommy Lee Jones to portray a long established couple who have lost the spark in their marriage. Compelling viewing.
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln gets a poster
By Kayleigh Dray on August 22, 2012 0 comment
It’s exactly what you expect…
Daniel Day-Lewis gets wiggy with it as Lincoln.
By Hannah Lane on August 08, 2012 0 comment
Impressive beard Mr. President.
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A Reader's Brain
All about Christian Fiction & Christian Living! Reviews of upcoming authors, giveaways, and contests! Enjoy!
The Revolutionary: Liberate the Captives by Kristen Hogrefe
Title: The Revolutionary: Liberate the Captives
Author: Kristen Hogrefe
Genre: Young Adult, Action, Adventure
Freedom costs more than Portia wants to pay, but revolutions run on sacrifice … and blood. Three months a satellite prisoner, Portia wonders if the Brotherhood has left her to die—until she plunges into the domain of an underground smuggler contacted by her brother. But her rescue comes with a price tag only she can pay, and now, she must forfeit her identity to act as a spy back in the dizzying politics of Crystal. There, she learns that her enemies want the Dome to approve mass satellite executions. No one knows why. Worse, they’re using her friend Luther, now a Court Citizen intern, to sign the short-term orders. She desperately wants to confide in Luther, but can she still trust him with the company he keeps? Plagued by shadows and guilt for leaving her protector Gath behind on the satellite, Portia must find a way not only to rescue him and the other prisoners, but also to destroy the slave camps once and for all.
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Despair, lack of identity, guilt, anger, and all kinds of emotion collide with a glimmer of hope and humanity in The Revolutionary. Keeping my mind spinning and on the edge of my seat would be an accurate description of me reading this book. The author did so well in helping you feel the pain of our characters in being treated less than human. We also sense the small glimmer of hope as the book goes on that there may be a way to freedom, yet without some sacrifice. The description of the world our characters live in and interact with really gave me a clear picture of a totally fictitious realm. The characters interactions and struggles were so clear in my mind by the author's portrayal of events. While the book was futuristic, history can be found in many of the circumstances our characters find themselves as well. The contrast seen in the book between the evil and the revolutionaries really made for a great plot with twists and turns galore. If you like action, suspense, dystopian, or futuristic fiction, this book is for you!
I received a complimentary copy of this book, and all opinions given are my own.
Kristen Hogrefe is a multi-published novelist and teacher who challenges young adults and the young at heart to think truthfully and live daringly. Her publishing journey began in 2010 with the first book in her young adult (YA) suspense trilogy Wings of the Dawn. She completed the trilogy in the fall of 2014, and in 2016, contracted with Write Integrity Press for a new YA dystopian trilogy: The Rogues. Kristen also has the heart of an educator and mentor. She teaches secondary language arts for Alpha Omega Academy and served in youth ministry for many years. Through Word Weavers International, she encourages aspiring writers and acts as president for an online writing group. She enjoys speaking events that allow her to connect with readers and other writers. A lifelong Florida resident, Kristen loves adventuring outdoors and running with friends. Connect with her online at KristenHogrefe.com.
Guest Post from Kristen Hogrefe
Identity, Coffee, and a Sprinkle of History in The Revolutionary The primary purpose of fiction is to entertain, but I think good fiction goes deeper by teaching us something about human nature, something about ourselves. The Revolutionary begins three months after Portia arrived at a satellite prison camp. She feels forgotten by her brother and friends who promised to rescue her. Deeper than the physical pain of starvation, she battles the emotional rawness from the dehumanization of her identity. A number replaces her name, and the Wasps who mistreat prisoners mockingly call them “rabbits.” When a two-faced smuggler helps her escape, her identity struggles continue. She dons multiple aliases to survive and help the Brotherhood launch a daring plan to destroy the satellite camps and oust the ruling Friend and Dome. The theme of identity is one I hope will resonate with teens and adult readers alike. At some point, we all ask ourselves, “What defines me?” Is it our friends, an academic program, a relationship, or a job? While those things describe our day-to-day lives, they themselves shouldn’t define us. The source of our true identity must come from somewhere deeper. That’s the question Portia has to wrestle with, and one I hope readers will consider.
A Cup of Joe Confession: One aspect of characterization I enjoy is giving my characters a small piece of myself. One of my early readers for book one, The Revisionary, remarked, “Let me guess. You like coffee.” I laughed and replied, “How could you tell?” Maybe lines like this one gave the fact away: “I start a pot of coffee. At least the aroma makes life smell better” (Portia, The Revisionary). In book two, I incorporate the memory-association of coffee for Portia as she thinks back to simpler times (like dorm life with Lydia). Coffee also serves as a catalyst for an important scene where Portia, in disguise, serves her enemies and in turn learns of their disturbing plans for the satellites. What about you? Are you a coffee drinker? If you are, I hope you’ll enjoy a giveaway opportunity for a Starbucks gift card. After all, coffee does make life smell better.
A Sprinkle of History Two summers ago, my brother and I had the opportunity to visit the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. It’s the historical site for the “shot heard round the world” that ignited the American Revolution. In book two, Portia and the Brotherhood launch their own threadbare revolution. Though the odds are against them, they’re determined to stop the abuses by those in power. My own visit to this famous site helped inspire Portia’s journey of discovery and the Brotherhood’s fictional parallels to the American Revolutionary War. Writing the scene where she rediscovers this birthplace of liberty was one of my favorites, because I walked the North Bridge and poured over books researching what happened that fateful day. I hope the scene comes alive for my readers and quickens their interest in history and its relevance for us today.
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Aryn the librarian, April 13
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Ashley’s Bookshelf, April 14
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Texas Book-aholic, April 15
A Reader’s Brain, April 16
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Bibliophile Reviews, April 21
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Artistic Nobody, April 23 (Spotlight)
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TheCommunity.com Launches Universal Declaration of Human Rights Campaign with Advance Screening of ‘Invictus’
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Labour's Purcell
Gay Roman Catholic Steven Purcell, a key figure in Gordon Brown's Labour party, took cocaine with a dealer he met in The Boundary bar, an alleged gangland pub in Yoker, Glasgow.
(The Scottish National Party is playing the 'Purcell card'.)
The pub is run by Kelly Bryce.
Kelly's brother Jamie makes regular jail visits to crimelord Jamie "The Iceman" Stevenson (Stabbing victim's feud.)
Stevenson has been a suspect in three gangland murders and is regarded as one of the most cunning and ruthless crooks ever to rule Scotland's underworld. (Notorious Scots gangster Jamie 'The Iceman' Stevenson.)
Kelly's family has links to violence and drugs.
In 2009, Kelly's brother Jamie Bryce was part of a 'gang' convicted of an assault at Glasgow's Byblos nightclub.
Jamie Bryce and millionaire boxing tycoon Barry Hughes were convicted of assaulting Christopher Boyle with a metal pole. (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers)
Boyle was punched, kicked and stamped on before being hit with a metal pole and stabbed.
Boyle suffered suffered cuts up to 10 inches long to his face and stomach. (Tycoon who attacked man with metal pole avoids jail - Herald ...)
Barry Hughes and Jamie Bryce were told to carry out 150 hours of community service for their part in the attack.
Boyle is a friend of convicted bank robber Ian "Blink" McDonald and killer Tony McGurn, jailed for stabbing a nightclub steward to death in 1991. (Stabbing victim's feud with boxing promoter Barry Hughes - The ...)
Labour is the party of war, poverty and corruption?
Jamie Bryce lives in a penthouse and drives a £100,000 Mercedes. (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers)
Jamie Bryce is a regular visitor to Scotland's biggest drug dealer, Jamie "The Iceman" Stevenson, in jail. (Stabbing victim's feud with boxing promoter Barry Hughes - The ...)
Kelly's father, James Bryce, is a convicted major drugs dealer.
In 2009, Assistant Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne and Detective Chief Superintendent Allan Moffat told Purcell that a dealer claimed to have mobile phone footage of Purcell snorting cocaine.
Reportedly, Purcell, "invited two dealers into his flat for a party." (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers ...)
Steven Purcell was once thought of as a future leader of the Scottish Labour party.
On 5 March 2010, Purcell fled from Scotland to Australia. This was just hours after his teenage friend, Danus McKinlay, was found dying outside the City Chambers building.
Purcell's ex-wife, Katrina Murray, is the Labour candidate in Dundee East. (General Election 2010: The seats where battle will be lost and won ...)
Labour's John Reid
A number of top Labour party people have links to drugs.
John Reid was UK Home Secretary and UK Defence Secretary.
Cannabis was found at John Reid's home
According to Dean Nelson, editor Scottish edition of the Sunday Times, John Reid "is part of the Lanarkshire West Coast Labour mafia.
"It's not about... making life better for the working class.
"It's about looking after yourself and your mates and not being accountable to anyone." - Dean Nelson, editor Scottish edition of the Sunday Times.
During the 1990s Bosnian War, John Reid became friends with indicted war-criminal Radovan Karadzic. Reid has admitted that he spent three days at a luxury Geneva lakeside hotel as a guest of Karadzic in 1993. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/l)
John Reid's son Mark is married to the daughter of Ronnie Campbell who reportedly has links to crime.
According to the Sunday Mail, 9/4/2005 (Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland): Fugitive and the minister ...):
"GRIM-FACED Defence Secretary John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding yesterday - with a villain wanted by police.
"Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.
"The Sunday Mail can reveal a warrant was issued for the arrest of Campbell, 47, on Monday after a violent incident involving a woman.
"Campbell, who sported a gold cravat and kilt, was the target of a recent gangland hit."
Labour's Jack McConnell
Jack McConnell was Scotland's First Minister and part of Blair's Labour Party.
Jack McConnell's wife, Bridget, is head of the Culture and Leisure Department of Scotland’s biggest local authority.
Reportedly, Jack McConnell's wife's department, and Jack McConnell's party organisation in Glasgow, gave Eddie Lyons, an alleged 'gangster', £1.4m in public funds over 10 years to run a community centre used by children.
Local people asked that Eddie Lyons be sacked as co-ordinator of Chirnsyde Community Initiative in Milton, north Glasgow.
Reportedly the Lyons’s family was involved in a 'war' with another group of alleged 'gangsters'.
At least 11 people have been shot since 2003 as a result of this 'war'.
In December 2006, the community centre was closed when Lyons’s nephew Michael was shot dead and his son Stephen and another man were critically injured.
In 2001 Eddie Lyons, his sons Stephen and Eddie junior, his brother Johnny and a friend called Paul McGuiness were charged with the attempted murder of Thomas McDonnell, who was attacked outside the community centre.
£63,000 was confiscated from Eddie Lyons’s home by police investigating alleged drug dealing.
In 2003, local parents were complaining that the council was forcing them to send their children to after-school fitness classes at Chirnsyde.
Local people 'watched the local hood handed taxpayers money, and official endorsement from Scotland’s first lady'. (Joan McAlpine: This is a nasty stink you cannot just ignore, Jack)
'Drug baron Justin McAlroy was gunned down on his driveway in Glasgow's Cambuslang only six days after wining and dining Labour VIPs Jack McConnell and John Reid at a dinner to raise funds for the party in 2002.' (New evidence casts shadow of doubt over conviction in notorious ...)
The following is taken from: http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/sep1998/scot-s17.shtml
"The Labour Party in Scotland has had an effective majority for decades through its control of the local authorities.
"During this time it has spawned a distinct social layer who control billions of pounds in revenue, awarding building and planning contracts, administering services...
"The Scotsman newspaper ran several articles on Ferguslie Park Community Business Holdings (FCBH), in Paisley.
"This scheme, established in the 1980s in the working class area of Ferguslie Park, was supposedly aimed at building 'community' businesses as a means of tackling unemployment.
"The Scotsman reported that at least part of the FCBH ...had fallen under the control of Paisley's drug gangs and was being used to launder money.
"Glasgow's Lord Provost, Patrick Lally, only recently successfully prevented Labour's attempt to expel him from office following allegations of corruption.
"Also in Glasgow, millionaire Labour MP, Mohammed Sarwar, has been suspended and faces legal action for allegedly attempting to bribe political opponents."
Moira Anderson.
11-year-old Moira Anderson was last seen boarding a bus in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1957.
She was on her way to the shops to buy a box of chocolates for her mum’s birthday.
According to The Sunday Times (Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier), 23 April 2006, Strathclyde Police have a dossier listing members of a child-abuse ring.
This dossier may identify the people who kidnapped Moira.
The dossier is said to implicate senior public figures, including senior police officers and members of the Crown Office and former Scottish Office.
These public figures are said to have abused children in Strathclyde (the Glasgow area) during the 1950s and 1960s.
The dossier is said to list vehicles and safe houses used in Glasgow, Monklands and Paisley where children were hidden before being taken to sex parties.
Strathclyde police have decided not to release the dossier.
The dossier was written by James Gallogley, a convicted child-abuser who died in Peterhead prison in 1999.
Hotel Fontainebleau, Miami Beach. Photo by Jim Rees.
It was at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami that Mafia leader Momo Salvatore Giancana suggested that a Cuban should murder Castro.
Fontainebleau marketing director Paul Pebley has said that mob ties and CIA intrigue are part of the lively history of the hotel. (CIA Family Jewels)
THE UK LABOUR PARTY'S STEVEN PURCELL has had his name linked to COCAINE GANGSTERS
Steven Purcell, reportedly, spent 31 December 2009, at Miami's five-star Fontainebleau hotel. (The strange and sudden fall of Labour's rising star)
On 14 March 2010, Scotland on Sunday reveals that that an 'arms-length council company' set up by Purcell 'lavished money on six-figure salaries for senior employees and on fundraising for Labour party coffers'. (Inquiry call over 'secrets' of Purcell)
Scotland on Sunday refers to Purcell's relationship with a network of councillors, businessmen and public sector bosses, with connections to the Labour party.
One of Purcell's initiatives is a council body called 'City Building'.
Its wage bill for senior employees doubled in just two years.
Reportedly, some of those who benefited were pals of Purcell.
City Building spent thousands of pounds on hospitality.
When Labour ran the Edinburgh government, the Justice Minister was Labour's Cathy Jamieson.
Cathy Jamieson was Scotland's justice minister, under a former Labour administration.
According to the Scotsman (scotsman.com/5):
"Scotland's justice minister Cathy Jamieson strongly denied helping a relative evade the law.
"While the Labour MSP transferred £100 to the bank account of nephew Derek Hyslop - who was on the run from police at the time - in July 1999, she has stated that she had no idea he was wanted by police.
"Hyslop, a drug addict who had just killed a woman in a robbery in Derby, was later jailed for manslaughter. Jamieson said the money was meant for her nephew’s baby."
Allegedly, the Labour Party in parts of Scotland is linked to gangsterism.
According to annaraccoon.com/ (Gordon Brown, Steven Purcell, & Glasgow Politics.):
"Irene Adams (Labour) MP for Paisley North piped up that her constituency committee had been infiltrated by drug dealers and gangster.
"She went on the record to name drug dealer and enforcer Stewart Boyd as the source of death threats she received whilst campaigning against drug dealing.
"Boyd was killed in an inexplicable car accident on the Marbella coast road, so ferocious that it led police to believe that Semtex had been present in one of the cars.
"The first time that Southerners really registered the goings-on in Glasgow was when Mohammed Sarwar became the first Muslim MP in the UK, standing for Glasgow Govan.
"His election was quickly followed by allegations of vote rigging and bribes...
"He is not standing in the 2010 election, but guess what? – his son Anas has been nominated as the prospective parliamentary candidate.
"That is Anas, not Athif, his other son who has recently been convicted of £850,000 worth of money laundering….
"It was not only the drug mafia and the crime mafia that we were protected from news of but the gay mafia too.
"We were told that the suicide of Gordon McMaster MP was ‘not suspicious’ and may have been because he was suffering from Gulf War Syndrome."
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Massive demonstration outside Tehran University
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: Massive demonstration outside Tehran University
Massive Freedom Demonstration Outside Tehran University For Freeing Ganji and All Political Prisoners NOW
Iranians hold up a picture and placards in support of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership, during a protest gathering in front of Tehran University July 12, 2005. Iranian police beat dozens of protesters with batons on Tuesday at a demonstration to call for the release of Iran's most prominent jailed journalist. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
Iranian women, hold posters, in support of Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, shown in the picture, who is jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, during a demonstration, outside Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on 'rogue
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050712/481/vah10707121527
An Iranian woman, holds a poster of Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, during a demonstration in support him, outside Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on 'rogue agents.' The poster signed ' 32 days hunger strike??' (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Source URL : http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=Iran
Thousands demonstrate for release of political prisoners in Iran
Iran Focus and agencies
Source: http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2823
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 � Thousands of residents demonstrated this evening in front of the main gate of Tehran University, calling for the release of political prisoners.
Demonstrators included relatives of political prisoners, many of whom turned up with photos of their relatives presently in prison in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran and Gohar-Dasht Prison in Karaj.
They chanted �Free all political prisoners� and �In Iran, the cry is freedom�. Many called for the immediate release of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji.
There was a heavy police presence. State Security Forces and plainclothes agents stormed at the crowd with batons, clashing with demonstrators and injuring some seriously.
A number of protestors were also detained after holding up photos of Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi.
A number of political prisoners in Evin and Gohar-Dasht prisons have been on hunger strike for more than a month in protest to their prison conditions and as part of a boycott effort of the June presidential elections.
A Reuters journalist saw policemen beat several protesters, including young women, in streets surrounding the university and was struck by batons several times himself.
Other reporters and photographers were also forced to leave the scene, witnesses said.
IRAN: Concern over political prisoners mounts
14 Jul 2005 19:49:18 GMT
Source: IRIN
Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/7f1da250c754d024ef2f3ba1ed9dd602.htm
TEHRAN, 14 July (IRIN) - Police used violence to break up a student demonstration in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, amid escalating protests and concern over the deteriorating health of political prisoner and journalist, Akbar Ganji.
The police beat both male and female demonstrators and a local Reuters journalist covering the story was also attacked with batons as they tried to disperse the crowd outside Tehran University, in the centre of the city.
Akbar Ganji, Iran's most famous political prisoner, was given a six year prison sentence in 2000 after following his trial on a variety of charges. Some charges related to an article he wrote that linked some of the country's top officials to the 1998 murder of dissident intellectuals, known as the 'serial murders.' He was temporarily released from prison in May for medical care, when he came to the end of a 43-day hunger strike.
However, since returning to prison in June, he has resumed his hunger strike and he is now reported to be suffering severe respiratory problems.
Ganji's worsening health has prompted strong reactions from the West. As his supporters gathered at the university, President Bush released a statement calling for Ganji's release.
The authorities in Tehran reacted angrily to what they see as outside interference in domestic judicial affairs. State-run radio reported Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, as saying: "The White House talks about violations of human rights in Iran while the world hates the US violations of human rights in both Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons [the two controversial US detention facilities holding untried terror suspects]."
On Wednesday, 33 Iranian political activists wrote a letter to the United Nations warning that Gangi's life is in danger.
"For the sake of human rights, (we) ask you to intervene directly in Ganji's case and follow it as an urgent human rights issue," the activists said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Ganji said in a statement released in May: "I protest against my illegal and unjust imprisonment, all the more so because I cannot even pursue my treatment outside Evin prison. I am beginning an unlimited hunger strike this evening. No one should be imprisoned - not even for a second - for expressing an opinion."
There are also concerns about the health of Nasser Zarafshan, another political prisoner held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Zarafshan was the lawyer for the defence in the 'serial murders' case and he was detained in August 2002 on charges of divulging state secrets. He was sentence to five years in prison and 70 lashes.
In the past, the US-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called Iran the world's biggest prison for journalists and in recent years, more than 100 publications have been shut down by Iran's hard-line judiciary, on charges ranging from criticising the leadership to 'insulting religious sanctities'.
Journalists and political dissidents are fearful that under Iran's new ultra-conservative President-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, political crackdowns could increase as the power of the ideological right continues to grow.
Letter from Ganji
The following is excerpted from a letter by jailed Iranian Akbar Ganji.
"Islamic Prosecutor [Saeed Mortazavi] speaks openly of my death in prison. He told my wife: 'What if Ganji dies [in prison]? Dozens die in our jails every day; perhaps Ganji will be one of them.'
"What the Islamic prosecutor doesn't know is that Ganji may die, but the love of freedom, and the thirst for political justice will never die. Ganji may die, but humanism and the love of one's fellow man, and the hope and expectations for a better future, will never die.
"I will spend my time in solitary, but my heart will continue to beat for freedom. And some of the time I will hear prisoners cry for the windows of their solitary cells to be opened, to let the sun in."
Source: The Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org).
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: Free Activists
Source : http://www.radiofarda.com/iran_article/2005/7/8e1201a1-5363-48f2-b132-b1fb993b728c.html
فراخوان کمیته دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی و فعالان فرهنگی و سیاسی برای گردهمائی سه شنبه در برابر دانشگاه تهران
کمیته دانشجوئی دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی همراه با چند سازمان دیگر و با حمایت برخی چهره های فعال در زمینه حقوق بشر و فعالان سیاسی و دانشجوئی، فراخوانی منتشر کردند برای گردهمائی بعدازظهر سه شنبه در برابر دانشگاه تهران به منظور حمایت از تقاضای اکبر گنجی، روزنامه نگار زندانی. مسعود باستانی، روزنامه نگار پیگیر وضع گنجی و از امضاکنندگان فراخوان این تجمع، در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا می گوید جمع کثیری از دانشجویان مستقل و دانشجویان نزدیک به دفتر تحکیم وحدت و اعضای دفتر تحکیم وحدت و سازمان ادوار تحکیم وحدت و گروه اتحاد دمکراسی خواهان نسبت به این فراخوان اعلام حمایت کردند. وی امیدوار است این تجمع اعتراض گنجی را به گوش افکار عمومی برساند.
مريم منظوري (rm) صدا | (wma) صدا [ 4:27 mins ]
حمید فاطمی (رادیوفردا): کمیته دانشجوئی دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی همراه با چند سازمان دیگر و با حمایت برخی چهره های فعال در زمینه حقوق بشر و فعالان سیاسی و دانشجوئی، فراخوانی منتشر کردند و از همگان دعوت کردند در تجمع اعتراض آمیزی برای نجات جان اکبر گنجی و آزادی همه زندانیان سیاسی، فردا، سه شنبه، از ساعت 5 تا 7 بعدازظهر در برابر دانشگاه تهران حضور یابند. مسعود باستانی، روزنامه نگار پیگیر ماجرای اکبر گنجی و یکی از حامیان این فراخوان در تهران در مصاحبه با مریم منظوری از رادیوفردا در باره این گردهمائی می گوید:
مسعود باستانی (روزنامه نگار مستقل، تهران): با توجه به اینکه اعتصاب غذای اکبر گنجی مدت زیادی است که طول کشیده و قوه قضائیه هیچگونه واکنشی نسبت به این اعتصاب غذای این زندانی سیاسی که می کوشد تا به وسیله اعتصاب غذا یعنی تنها وسیله مبارزه در زندان تلاش می کند که حقوق خود را استیفا کند و اکنون در آستانه سی امین روز اعتصاب غذای مجدد گنجی بعد از بازگشت به زندان اوین هستیم، نگرانی های بسیار زیادی را در مجامع سیاسی و فعالین سیاسی و دمکراسی خواهان در ایران به وجود آورده است.
مریم منظوری (رادیو فردا): آیا کسی حمایت خود را از این فراخوان تاکنون اعلام کرده؟
مسعود باستانی: این حمایت از طرف گروه های سیاسی داخلی از جمله جمع کثیری از دانشجویان مستقل و دانشجویان نزدیک به دفتر تحکیم وحدت و اعضای دفتر تحکیم وحدت وسازمان ادوار تحکیم وحدت اعلام شده و از سوی دیگر، گروه اتحاد دمکراسی خواهان اعلام حمایت کردند و پای آن را امضا کردند و از سوی دیگر حساسیتی که خیلی از سازمانهای حقوق بشری و سازمانهای بین المللی دنیا نسبت به وضعیت و سرنوشت گنجی دارند و در بیانیه های مختلف سازمان عفو بین الملل و سازمان گزارشگران بدون مرز و بقیه سازمان های حقوق بشری دنیا از وضعیت گنجی داشتند، یقینا این حرکت حمایتی گسترده... حمایت خواهند کرد. امیدوارم که در ساعات باقی مانده تا رسیدن به زمان این تجمع، ما شاهد حمایت های گسترده باشیم.
م.م.: آیا فکر می کنید تاثیری دارد ادامه این حرکت ها؟
مسعود باستانی: مسئله عمده این است که اکنون اکبر گنجی در زندان اوین مبارزه فردی برای حقوق خودش که استفاده از مرخصی استعلاجی و استفاده از امکانات درمانی خارج از زندان هست را آغاز کرده و اعلام کرده تا زمانی که به این خواسته حق و قانونی خود نرسد، دست از اعتصاب غذا بر نمی دارد. حمایت حداقلی هر یک از شهروندان در جامعه برای کمک به اکبر گنجی با حضور در این تجمع و مراسم های دیگر می تواند تا حد بسیار زیادی فضا را در خارج از زندان آماده کرده و اعتراض گنجی را به افکار عمومی اعلام کرده...
م.م.: فکر می کنید این تجمع به شکل آرام برگزار بشود؟
مسعود باستانی: بله، با توجه به تجربیات گذشته در برگزاری چنین تجمع های اعتراض آمیزی بوده، معمولا رفتار نیروهای انتظامی و افراد بر کنترل و مهار این گونه تجمع ها بوده و ما امیدواریم با رعایت خواسته ها و رعایت نظم و امنیت توسط شهروندان شرکت کننده در این تجمع، حداقل فضا را برای برگزاری ارام و منطقی و آزاد این تجمع مهیا بشود. علیرغم اینکه از سوی سازمان ادوار دفتر تحکیم وحدت، امروز هم درخواست مجوزی به استانداری تهران داده شده و از ا ستانداری تهران درخواست شده که در حد توانائی امنیت لازم برای برگزاری این تجمع را تامین کنند.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject: Clashes as Students Protest Arrest of Dissident in Tehran
Clashes as Students Protest Arrest of Dissident in Tehran
Clashes occurred in front of Teheran University as students on Tuesday protested the continued imprisonment of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji, witnesses said.
The students news agency ISNA earlier reported that about 200 students had gathered to protest the jailing of Ganji, who has been on hunger strike for a month.
The students who also demanded release of all political prisoners clashed with dozens of police officers attempting to force the protesters to withdraw.
Reporters and photographers were also forced to leave the scene, witnesses said.
Ganji was said by his wife to in a critical health condition as a result of the hunger strike.
The dissident was temporarily released last May for treatment of pneumonia but had to return to jail just before the June 17 presidential elections, starting a renewed hunger strike.
Ganji, 48, was sentenced in 2000 to six years in prison after being charged with "disgracing" Iran in front of "counter- revolutionaries" at a controversial conference held that year in Berlin. He also linked Iranian leaders to assassination of dissidents.
Source: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1033384.php/Clashes_as_students_protest_arrest_of_dissident_in_Teheran
Payvand's Iran News ...
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jul/1088.html
Concern Grows Over Fate Of Jailed Iranian Journalist Akbar Ganji
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Iran's most prominent jailed investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, has been jailed for the last five years because of his critical articles and his investigation into the murders of political dissidents and intellectuals -- murders in which, he says, top Iranian officials were involved. Now, Ganji's wife says that he has been on hunger strike for a month as he demands to be released unconditionally from prison. On 12 July, a gathering is due to take place in Tehran in his support.
Akbar Ganji
PRAGUE, 12 July 2005 (RFE/RL) Despite his poor health, Iran's top journalist Akbar Ganji is determined to continue his hunger strike until his unconditional freedom.
Ganji's wife Massoumeh Shafii was able to visit him on 11 July. She told RFE/RL that he believes a hunger strike is the only way to secure his freedom.
She also says Ganji has lost more than 20 kilograms as a result of his hunger strike, but that his morale is good.
"He is still on a hunger strike. His weight is 55 kilos now. He has lost a lot of weight during his hunger strike, he's without any force, the color of his face is yellow, and he tries very hard to speak normally," Shafii said. "His physical condition is not good, but he is in excellent spirits."
The journalist is reported to be subsisting on water and sugar cubes.
Ganji is known for his criticism of the Iranian establishment. He has said that his five years in jail, including several months in solitary confinement, has made his views even more radical.
In his two-part book titled "Manifesto Of Republicanism," Ganji has criticized the authority of Iran's Supreme Leader and said that under the country's current governmental system real democracy cannot be achieved.
Ganji was temporarily released from jail at the end of May on medical grounds. He suffers from asthma and back pain. Prior to his temporary release, he had also been on a hunger strike to protest his detention conditions.
Several days after his release, he spoke with Radio Farda and called for a boycott election of the 17 June Iranian presidential election.
"Those who are theoretically and practically committed to Iran's constitution, if they go after reforming the current ruling establishment, maybe they are taking the right way," Ganji said at the time. "But if someone's main concern is democracy and establishing a democratic regime that is bound to human rights, then that person would not be willing to reform the establishment; his main issue would be how to move from a un-democratic regime to a democratic regime. And I've written in the first and second 'Manifesto' that under the current regime I have no hope for any reform leading to a transition toward a democratic system."
On 11 June, shortly after making this statement, Ganji was returned to prison.
Ganji was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2001 on charges ranging from harming Iran's national security to spreading lies against the country's leaders. His sentence was later reduced to six years on appeal.
Ganji's wife told RFE/RL that Iranian officials have told him that unless he changes his views, he will not be released even after his jail term is over.
"Mr. Ganji says, �Even after the few months left of my jail term would be over, [the authorities ] will not free me because they have said it to me very clearly,'" Shafii said. "Even Trade Minister Mr. Shariatmadari -- who visited Ganji in jail two years ago -- told him: �the position of the establishment is that you should stay in jail until you [retract] what you have written in the 'Manifesto.' You have to say that you were wrong.' [Therefore] Ganji considers his unconditional release as the only solution."
In a recent open letter written from jail and published on several websites, Ganji said he will not take back his words and he will not show remorse.
There have been widespread calls for Ganji's release, including from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi. In a June 30 interview with Radio Farda, Ebadi expressed concern over Ganji's health.
"Once more I would like to bring the worrying condition of Akbar human rights groups," Ebadi said. "If no immediate action is taken he could [die]. I ask judiciary officials and the Iranian and international
The EU, the United States, and several human rights groups have also called on Iran's judiciary to free Ganji.
Ganji's wife says she has written to many humanitarian organizations about his husband's condition.
"We are worried and there is nothing we can do," Shafii said. "We are just witnessing how Akbar Ganji is fading out. We've tried all the [channels] inside Iran but unfortunately there haven't been any results. We've been also following the case outside Iran, we've been sending letters to the European parliament, [EU foreign and security policy chief] Javier Solana, to the UN, to [UN Secretary-General] Kofi Annan. We've sent letters to all places we could and [brought their attention] to Mr. Ganji's case. There is international pressure but it's not clear when the Iranian officials will respond." Today, a group of human rights activists, students and families of political prisoners have announced they will gather in front of Tehran's university to express their concern over Ganji's "critical" condition and to protest against the violation of his rights.
They say "if something unpleasant happens to Ganji, Iran's rulers will be held responsible."
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: Thousands of people demonstrate
Thousands of people demonstrate in support of political prisoners outside Tehran University
Source: http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/207/69/
Relatives of political prisoners and thousands of Tehran residents gathered this afternoon outside the main entrance to Tehran University and its surrounding area.
Demonstrators, while chanting �free all political prisoners� and �in Iran, cry is freedom�, called for the release of all political prisoners.
Families of political prisoners brought photos of their relatives who are locked away in the notorious prisons Evin and Gohardasht (in Karaj).
State Security Forces and plainclothes agents tried to bring about an end to the protest by brutally attacking and beating the crowd. A number of demonstrators were injured seriuosly.
A number of protestors and supporters of the People�s Mojahedin Organization of Iran held up photos of the leader of the Iranian Resistance Mr. Massoud Rajavi and the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. While brutally attacking such people, agents of the SSF arrested several of them.
Following the attack by the SSF, the crowd dispersed and regrouped in nearby streets and continued their demonstration despite continued clashes. The regime�s suppressive forces blockaded the streets to prevent people from joining the demonstrators.
Political prisoners in Evin Prison and Gohardasht Prison in Karaj have been on hunger strike for more than a month in protest to prison conditions and lack of basic commodities, and as part of a boycott of the regime�s sham presidential elections.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: Police beat protesters at protest rally in Iran
Police beat protesters at protest rally in Iran
Source URL: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12532635.htm
TEHRAN, July 12 (Reuters) - Iranian police beat dozens of protesters with batons on Tuesday at a demonstration to call for the release of Iran's most prominent jailed journalist.
About 150 people, mostly students, had gathered in front of Tehran University chanting "political prisoners must be freed" when dozens of police moved in to break up the protest.
The rally was in support of Akbar Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership who was sentenced to six years in jail in 2001 for articles he wrote alleging links between senior officials and the murder of political dissidents.
Ganji's family and lawyers say he is suffering from poor health and needs medical treatment outside prison. They say he has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days.
Judiciary officials say Ganji is in good health and is not on hunger strike.
A Reuters journalist saw police beat several protesters, including young women, in streets surrounding the university and was struck by batons several times himself.
It was not immediately clear if police made any arrests.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Students, Police Clash In Tehran
Students, Police Clash In Tehran
Source: http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/f276bd75-9206-433e-859e-6b9e3235a561.html
12 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Clashes between students and police occurred today in front of Tehran University during a demonstration against the imprisonment of an Iranian dissident, Akbar Ganji, Radio Farda reported.
Student protesters, demanding the release of Ganji and other political prisoners, clashed with police who were trying to disperse the demonstration.
Ganji�s wife, Massoumeh Shafii, today told RFE/RL that her husband is in critical condition as a result of a month-long hunger strike.
In 2000, Ganji was sentenced to six years in jail for publicly criticizing the Iranian authorities.
(RFE/dpa/ILNA)
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: W.House urges release of jailed Iran journalist
White House Statement on a Call for the Unconditional Releases of Akbar Ganji in Iran
Akbar Ganji, an Iranian journalist who since 1999 has been routinely sentenced to prison by the Iranian government for advocating free speech, is again in jail because of his political views. Through his now month-long hunger strike, Mr. Ganji is demonstrating that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion. President Bush is saddened by recent reports that Mr. Ganji's health has been failing and deeply concerned that the Iranian government has denied him access to his family, medical treatment, and legal representation. Mr. Ganji is sadly only one victim of a wave of repression and human rights violations engaged in by the Iranian regime. His calls for freedom deserve to be heard. His valiant efforts should not go in vain. The President calls on all supporters of human rights and freedom, and the United Nations, to take up Ganji's case and the overall human rights situation in Iran. The President also calls on the Government of Iran to release Mr. Ganji immediately and unconditionally and to allow him access to medical assistance. Mr. Ganji, please know that as you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.
[White House]
W.House urges release of jailed Iran journalist
Tuesday, July 12, 2005; 5:41 PM
Source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201158.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday expressed solidarity with jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who is on a hunger strike, and urged human rights groups and the United Nations to push for his release.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan also said in a statement that President Bush was concerned about the health of Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership who was jailed for alleging links between officials and the murders of political dissidents.
"Through his now monthlong hunger strike, Mr. Ganji is demonstrating that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion," McClellan said.
"President Bush is saddened by recent reports that Mr. Ganji's health has been failing and deeply concerned that the Iranian government has denied him access to his family, medical treatment and legal representation," he added.
The statement also had a message for Ganji that "America stands with you."
The statement came after about 150 people held a demonstration in Tehran calling for Ganji's release. A Reuters journalist saw police beat several of the protesters.
McClellan said the United Nations and human rights groups should "take up Ganji's case and the overall human rights situation in Iran."
He said Iran should release Ganji unconditionally from his six-year jail sentence.
Ganji's family and lawyers say he is suffering from poor health and needs medical treatment outside prison. They say he has been on a hunger strike for more than 30 days.
Iranian judiciary officials say Ganji is in good health and is not on a hunger strike.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject:
Reports from the Demonstration in Support of Akbar Ganji
Today, Tuesday the 12th of July, scores of demonstrators responded to a call for gathering in support of Akbar Ganji and all political prisoners. This demonstration was held in front of Tehran University from 5:00 pm, with an initial count of three hundred demonstrators. Later the number of demonstrators turned to roughly around 1,500 as the demonstration spread throughout neighboring streets.
Demonstrators were confronted and beaten by Islamic Disciplinary and Security Forces armed with clubs and chains. Images of bloodshed were seen throughout the neighboring streets of Tehran University.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the freedom of Akbar Ganji and all political prisoners. In addition, slogans such as "Political Prisoners Must Be Freed" were voiced throughout the city.
According to eyewitnesses, about twenty demonstrators have been arrested and drawn into captivity. Furthermore, a number of demonstrators have been hospitalized to due severe injuries.
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Pictures here: http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/July/dd1.html
More than 2000 show support for Ganji
Here are four photos taken by me during Tuesday's demonstration at Tehran University in support of Akbar Ganji. I just want you to notice this. The police split us into many groups, therefore what the news reports say about the number of protesers is wrong. These photos are of that group which people were about 300, but in the main square they were more than 2000. You couldn't find an empty space
more pics here:
http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/July/d1.html
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: State Dept. Cites Iran Brutality Reports
State Dept. Cites Iran Brutality Reports
By BARRY SCHWEID
Thursday, July 14, 2005; 2:29 PM
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401042.html
WASHINGTON -- The State Department said it was disturbed by reports that peaceful protesters who demonstrated in support of a jailed Iranian dissident were treated brutally by Iranian police.
Spokesman Tom Casey on Thursday called on the "regime" in Tehran to exercise restraint and permit the Iranian people to invoke their right to peaceful assembly and free speech.
The statement followed President Bush's call Tuesday for the release of Akbar Ganji, a journalist jailed for writing articles linking government officials to murder. The White House statement was issued while some 300 Ganji supporters gathered in front of the Tehran University to demand his release.
The Iranian government responded Wednesday that Bush should not intervene in the case of the jailed dissident, especially in light of allegations of U.S. human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.
In the meantime, 33 Iranian political activists asked the United Nations to press for Ganji's release, warning his life was in danger because of his monthlong hunger strike, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Casey said Ganji was only one of many people thrown into jail in Iran simply for expressing their opinions peacefully. "There is no excuse for it," he said. "And it's not something the United States is going to stop speaking out on."
Covering his face, an Iranian protester, holds a banner, signed: "The regime can survive infidelity, but not oppressiveness", during a demonstration in support Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on "rogue agents." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi - AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/07/14/PH2005071401046.html
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: The US Government Representing 1 million Iranian-American
The Iranian government responded Wednesday that Bush should not intervene in the case of the jailed dissident .....,
The US Government elected officials are representing over 1 million Iranian-American community, adddressing their concerns and they have every reason to stop Islamist regime brutal practices by any means.
The illegitimate Islamist regime in Tehran with support of less than 1% of 70 million Iranian people is not in any position and has no rights to speak on behalf of 70 million Iranian population.
Past 26 Years FACTS About Islamic Clerical Regime In Tehran:
4) The Islamic Clerical Regime has executed over 120,000 political prisoners and freedom-loving Iranians in less than 2 decades.
5) 70 Million Iranian people are hostage of Islamic Clerical Regime ruling by force and fear.
6) The Iranian people have clearly rejected the Islamist regime again by overwhelmingly boycotting the Mullah's Election SHOW. The BOYCOTT AGAINST THE MULLAHS HAS A GREAT MESSAGE to the Islamist Regime that they MUST GIVE UP POWER PEACEFULY NOW Or ELSE .... (http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6312 )
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: Testing limits of dissent in Iran
FREE PRESS? Police beat protesters Tuesday at a rally in Tehran, Iran, calling for the release of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji. A woman, above, holds his photo.
MORTEZA NIKOUBAZI/REUTERS
Testing limits of dissent in Iran
Iran's judiciary said Thursday it will not free Akbar Ganji, jailed after criticizing top officials.
Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0715/p06s03-wome.html
By Angus McDowall | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
TEHRAN, IRAN � Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji entered the 33rd day of his hunger strike Thursday, demanding unconditional release from the notorious Evin prison in north Tehran.
With only six months left in his sentence on a variety of charges after he wrote articles linking Iranian officials to the murders of intellectuals during the 1990s, Mr. Ganji's plight has gained the attention of human rights groups that say he's being mistreated and the Bush administration that called for his immediate release.
But the case is also cast by reformists and rights groups as an important bellwether for how incoming president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will handle freedom of the press issues in Iran, where more than 100 reform-minded publications have been closed by authorities in the past five years.
After being jailed in 2001, Ganji wrote "Manifesto of Republicanism," a stinging critique of the Iranian political system that calls for an end to clerical rule and greater democracy. Although his sentence was for six years, Ganji's wife has said authorities have made renouncing his political views a condition of release.
Human rights groups are now becoming concerned about the health of the journalist, who is reported to have lost 40 pounds subsisting entirely on liquids for the past month. Ganji began his protest after claiming he was denied medical attention, but has now pledged to fast until he is granted an unconditional release.
Iran's clerical judiciary said Thursday Ganji is receiving appropriate care and that he will not win early release. The case has long been a cause c�l�bre for Iranian journalists and rights groups.
Police on Tuesday violently dispersed a small demonstration, estimated between 100 to 300 protesters, in support of Ganji outside Tehran University. According to eyewitness reports, police beat a crowd of women with batons and a local Reuters reporter. The crowd had earlier raised placards and chanted slogans calling for Ganji's release.
Hashem Aghajari, a university lecturer whose death sentence for blasphemy was quashed last year, told journalists at the demonstration that, Ganji's "crime is only writing, and this is not a crime under any law."
Iranian journalists say they have been instructed by judiciary officials in recent days not to write about the Ganji case. Such attempts at censorship are routine in Iran, but journalists say they have become more common since the start of the election period and they expect the situation to worsen.
"There is clear censorship," says Issa Saharkhiz, a reformist journalist who has himself been briefly imprisoned for criticizing the regime. "Things will become worse now because extremists in the judiciary and among the new conservatives have more power, and they are pushing to control everything."
Newspaper closures have been constant during the reform era, as conservatives in the judiciary and other bodies strove to block the movement. Recently the focus has turned to the Internet, as increasing numbers of websites are blocked and bloggers are jailed.
The president elect, who takes office in early August, has pledged to defend press freedom but journalists remain skeptical. At his first press conference after the election, Mr. Ahmadinejad said he had promoted free speech as mayor of Tehran, prompting heckling from local journalists. He responded by saying: "I'd like to welcome criticism even when it comes in the form of shouting."
But as speculation mounts over the incoming president's choice of cabinet members, journalists are listening with mounting concern. Tehran prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, has been cited as a possible justice minister in a leaked list. Mr. Mortazavi has ordered the closures of a number of publications and is alleged to have participated in the interrogation of journalists, including Zahra Kazemi, who died in custody in 2003.
In an interview during a brief period when he was out of jail for medical treatment, Ganji said he was prepared to stay in prison for the rest of his life for his beliefs. "Under the current regime I have no hope for any reform leading to a transition towards a democratic system."
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: Leading Dissident's Life in Danger
Leading Dissident's Life in Danger
Source: http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/07/14/iran11318.htm
The life of Akbar Ganji, Iran�s imprisoned leading dissident, is under serious threat due to his illness and a month-long hunger strike, Human Rights Watch said today. Ganji, an investigative journalist who was sentenced to prison by the Iranian government in 2000, has lost more than 40 pounds during the past month.
�Human Rights Watch is extremely concerned for Ganji�s health. The Iranian judiciary�s refusal to release Ganji for medical treatment is cruel and inhumane,� said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. �It is a serious contravention of the most basic humanitarian standards, and the international community should strongly condemn it.�
The Iranian judiciary imprisoned Ganji in April 2000 on vaguely worded charges, including �acting against national security� in connection with his participation at a conference in Berlin. He suffers from acute asthma that he developed in prison.
Iranian officials imprisoned Ganji shortly after the publication of articles he wrote documenting the involvement of high-ranking officials in the murder of intellectuals in the 1990s. The Iranian authorities have repeatedly prevented Ganji from receiving specialist medical care or taking medical leave as other prisoners are permitted. In protest of his unfair treatment, Ganji began a hunger strike last month, and has since sustained himself only on liquids.
Ganji has served nearly five-and-a-half years of his six-year sentence. Most prisoners in Iran are eligible for release after serving half of their sentence.
Ganji is one of the Iranian government�s most forceful critics. In his writings, he has criticized Iran�s system of governance. According to his wife, the judicial authorities have pressured him to �repent� for his writings as a condition for his release. In a letter smuggled out of jail last week, Ganji held Iran�s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei, directly responsible for his persecution.
Human Rights Watch is concerned that, in light of Ganji�s recent forceful criticism of the government, the Iranian judiciary may try to prolong his imprisonment by bringing new charges against him. The Iranian government frequently has relied on laws that restrict criticism of the government and its leadership as a basis for bringing charges against dissidents.
�After wrongfully imprisoning Ganji in the first place, the judiciary must not extend his imprisonment based on the opinions expressed in his recent prison letter,� said Whitson.
Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian authorities to release Ganji immediately for medical treatment and to end its persecution of peaceful critics and dissidents.
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According to research published in the Yale Daily News teenagers who smoke tobacco as well as, or with pot are more likely to develop a serious pot habit!
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Teenagers who see marijuana as a relatively low-risk drug may be more at risk for addiction than they realize, a new Yale paper says.
Co-occurring cannabis and tobacco use is significantly more likely to cause cannabis abuse and dependence than only cannabis use, according to a paper by Yale researchers accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Addiction last month. Psychiatry post-doctorate fellow Erica Peters said that she noticed consistent evidence across the literature of her conclusion and conducted the review to build momentum for the area of study. She said her study did not answer questions about the chemical pathways or the specifics of the drug interactions, but opened the door for future research.
“There’s something about tobacco use that seems to worsen marijuana use in some way,” Peters said.
She said that both simultaneous use — in the form of blunts, marijuana in a cigar wrapper — and use on separate occasions make cannabis more addictive. Co-occurring use also intensifies psychosocial problems, such as anxiety, depression and legal difficulties. The study found that adolescents were less likely to have good grades and more likely to have drunk alcohol in the past month.
Ninety percent of cannabis users also smoke tobacco, said Arpana Agrawal, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. By contrast, only 40 to 50 percent of tobacco users also smoke cannabis, she said.
“If you’re going to tackle one, you have to consider the other,” she said.
Agrawal said that for the first time, the Yale paper provides a “really comprehensive, systematic” understanding of cannabis dependence and abuse over the lifetime of an individual who smokes tobacco and cannabis.
The important next step is to understand the best approaches to clinical treatment for co-occurring users, Peters said. Clinicians have yet to develop a effective treatment for cannabis dependence, so understanding that tobacco affects the majority of cannabis users is important, Agrawal said.
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As noted in Section 3.1 for the DHF test, Pr[t7s < 0] = Pr[x2(S) < S] seems to be converging to 1/2 as S increases. However, for the periodicities typically considered this probability always exceeds 1/2. This phenomenon indicates that a standard normal distribution may not be a satisfactory approximation when the characteristic root is close to 1 and the sample size is moderate, as Chan and Wei (1987) point out. It is also a well established fact that the power of unit root tests is quite poor when the parameter of interest is in the neighborhood of unity (see, for example, Evans and Savin (1981, 1984) and Perron (1989)). This suggests a distributional gap between the standard distribution typically assumed under stationarity and the function of Brownian motions obtained when the DGP is a random walk. To close this gap, a new class of models have been proposed, which allow the characteristic root of a process to be in the neighborhood of unity. This type of process is often called near integrated. Important work concerning near integration in a conventional AR(1) process includes Bobkoski (1983), Cavanagh (1986), Phillips (1987, 1988), Chan and Wei (1987), Chan (1988, 1989), and Nabeya and Perron (1994). In the exposition of the preceding sections, it has been assumed that the DGP is a special case of
Vt = Фе Vt-s + e t (31.62)
with фs = 1 and y-S+1 = … = y0 = 0. In this section we generalize the results by considering a class of processes characterized by an autoregressive parameter фs close to 1.
Analogously to the conventional near integrated AR(1), a noncentrality parameter c can be considered such that
ф§ = ec/N – 1 + N = 1 + IIе. (31.63)
This characterizes a near seasonally integrated process, which can be locally stationary (c < 0), locally explosive (c > 0), or a conventional seasonal random walk (c = 0). This type of near seasonally integrated process has been considered by Chan (1988, 1989), Perron (1992), Rodrigues (2000b), and Tanaka (1996). Similarly to the seasonal random walk, when the DGP is given by (31.62) and (31.63), and assuming that the observations are available for exactly N (N = T/S) complete years, then
Ssn = X eN Є.,и = X e( n4) c i s = 1, . . . , S. (31.64)
j=0 i=1
This indicates that each season represents a near integrated process with a common noncentrality parameter c across seasons. One of the main features of a process like (31.62) with ф§ = ec /N, is that
N/2ysn = NWSsn ^ °2lsc(r), s = 1, . . . , S, (31.65)
where Ssn is the PSP corresponding to season s and Jsc(r) is a Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and not a Brownian motion as in the seasonal random walk case. Note that, as indicated by, for example, Phillips (1987) or Perron (1992), this diffusion process is generated by the stochastic differential equation
dJsc(r) = cJsc(r)dr + dWs(r),
so that
and Jsc(0) = 0.
Applying results given by Phillips (1987), and following analogous steps to those underlying Section 3.1, yields:
T,* . . s=u
J2c(r)dr
where Jsc(r) and Ws(r), s = 1,…, S, are independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and standard Brownian motions, respectively. Similarly, the f-statistic converges to
(Ф* – )
J 2c(r)dr
A more detailed analysis appears in Chan (1988, 1989), Perron (1992), Rodrigues (2000b) and Tanaka (1996). The result in (31.69) is the asymptotic power function for the DHF f-test. It is straightforward to observe that the distributions in (31.21) and (31.22) are particular cases of (31.68) and (31.69) respectively with c = 0.
The examination of the HEGY procedure in a near seasonally integrated framework is slightly more involved. As indicated by Rodrigues (2000b), ( 1 – (1 + n )L4) can be approximated by,
The results provided by Jeganathan (1991), together with the orthogonality of the regressors in the HEGY test regression, yield the distributions of the HEGY statistics in the context of a near seasonally integrated process. Rodrigues (2000b) establishes the limit results for the HEGY test regression. One important result also put forward by Rodrigues (2000b) is that the distributions are still valid when we allow different noncentrality parameters for each factor in (31.70).
We have considered only the simple seasonal random walk case, which was used to present the general properties of seasonally integrated processes. It should be noted, however, that the effect of nonzero initial values and drifts on the distributions of the seasonal unit root test statistics can easily be handled substituting the standard Brownian motions by demeaned or detrended independent Brownian motions.
Among other issues not considered are the implications of autocorrelation and mean shifts for unit root tests. The first is discussed in detail in Ghysels ef al. (1994), Hylleberg (1995), and Rodrigues and Osborn (1999). It is known that strong MA components can distort the power of these procedures. To a certain extent, however, these distortions can be corrected by augmenting the test regression with lags of the dependent variable.
The negative impact of mean shifts on the unit root test procedures, was noted by Ghysels (1991). Recently, Smith and Otero (1997) and Franses and Vogelsang
(1998) have shown, using artificial data, that the HEGY test is strongly affected
by seasonal mean shifts. This led Franses and Vogelsang to adapt the HEGY
test so as to allow for deterministic mean shifts (Smith and Otero also present
relevant critical values for the HEGY procedure in this context).
* We would like to thank three referees for their valuable comments.
1 The proof of the result appears in the Appendix to the companion working paper Ghysels, Osborn, and Rodrigues (1999).
2 Notice that the unit roots of a monthly seasonal random walk are:
1 -1, ±Ь л (1 ± V3 i), л (1 ± V3 і), л ( V3 ± i), і ( л/3 ± i).
The first is, once again, the conventional nonseasonal, or zero frequency, unit root. The remaining 11 seasonal unit roots arise from the seasonal summation operator 1 + L + L2 + … + L11 and result in nonstationary cycles with a maximum duration of one year. As can be observed, this monthly case implies five pairs of complex roots on the unit circle.
3 The reparameterization of the regressors proposed for monthly data by Beaulieu and Miron (1993) is typically preferred because, in contrast to that of Franses (1991), the constructed variables are asymptotically orthogonal.
4 Once again, due to the definition of his F-type statistic, the Kunst (1997) percentiles have to be divided by 4 to be comparable with those of Ghysels et al. (1994). In the monthly case, the Kunst values have to be divided by 12 for comparison with Taylor (1998). Since these percentiles are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations, they will not be identical across different studies.
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Merkle agency specialists noticed that Google is testing a new format for price expansion in product listings.
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As noted in Merkle, this format of displaying information about the discount allows you to save space in the ad and show other extensions (free delivery, product rating). In addition, it helps to increase CTR ads and highlight company offers among competitors' ads.
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According to Mueller, geographic targeting uses factors such as ccTLDs or Search Console settings.
For geotargeting we use mostly the ccTLD or search console setting, so place the server.
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The Botany Bay Medallion
Stories About Australia's Early History
Posts Tagged ‘hanging’
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD – THOMAS BARRETT
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
‘He [ Barrett] may have been the maker of the Botany Bay Medallion…a skilfully engraved metal medallion inscribed with a relief description of the voyage dated 20 January 1788 and a representation of the Charlotte at anchor in Botany Bay. Mollie Gillen, Founders of Australia, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1990
1788 – February 27, Sydney Cove: Thomas Barrett was the first person hanged in European Australia. A plague on the corner of Harrington and Essex Street in Sydney’s Rocks area marks Barrett’s fleeting presence in and dramatic exit from Australia.
Barrett fashioned the ‘Botany Bay Medallion’ AKA the ‘Charlotte Medal from a ‘silver coloured metal kidney dish’ belonging to Dr. John White who, as Chief Medical Officer would have certified Barrett’s death. See: From Here to Eternity
White an excellent medical administrator was nevertheless a flawed character exemplified by the controversy over the Watling Collection of paintings that remains currrant to this day.
Tags: botany bay medallion, charlotte medal, crime and punishment, death penalty, hanging
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A VICIOUS CIRCLE – THE HANGMAN’S NOOSE
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet’. Mike Edwards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002.
1788 – 18/20 January, Botany Bay: About 750 (570 male and 193 female) of England’s convicted criminals, reprieved death on condition they be sent into exile, reached Botany Bay in the middle of January 1788; among them Thomas Barrett, Henry Lavell, Joseph Hall and John Ryan.
‘In determining the daily ration no distinction was drawn between the marines and the convicts…the standard adopted was that of the troops serving in the West Indies’. Wilfrid Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies, Library of Australian History, Sydney 1990
1788 – 26 January, Sydney Cove: The fleet relocated nine (9) miles (14km) north to Sydney Cove on the 26th of January.
1788 – 27 January: ‘The landing of a part of the marines and [male] convicts took place the next day, and on the following, the remainder [of the men] disembarked’. Marine Captain Watkin Tench, Sydney’s First Four Years, ed. F.L. Fitzhardinge, Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1961
1788 – 27 February, Sydney: One (1) month later – 27 February – Barrett, Lavell, Hall and Ryan stood beneath‘ a large tree fixt as a gallows’.
Britain’s invasion and colonisation of New Holland brought Australia’s First Nations starvation, disease and a racist caste system based on colour. Well practised retribution was meted out when any dared to challenge the predators who stole their land and plundered their resources.
‘Imagine if we had suffered the injustices and then were blamed for it’. Paul Keating Redfern Speech, Paul Keating, 10 December 1992.
Although the myriad injustices that followed Britain’s invasion and dispossession stand in plain sight, because of widespread ignorance in mainstream non-Aboriginal Australia, they go largely unrecognised and unacknowledged, even if acknowledged, the First Australians are ‘blamed it’.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, gender inbalance, hanging, Thomas Barrett, transportation, women
CATCH 22 – JAMES FREEMAN
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
James Freeman – ‘Hang or be Hanged’.
Extract showing a pardon on condition of becoming the public executioner. Dated 1 March 1788, signed by Governor Arthur Phillip.
‘For here was an opportunity of establishing a Jack Ketch who Should, in all future Executions, either Hang or be Hanged’. Dr John White, Chief Medical Officer, First Fleet Journal.
Friday 29th February of 1788 shaped as another busy day for the infant colony’s’ criminal court. It was decided, after the long drawn-out dramas of the previous two (2) days, as well as to avoid Sydney’s intense midday sun and drenching humidity, court would convene earlier than usual. See: Blind Man’s Bluff
At 8 am convicts James Freeman and William Shearman, accused the previous day of stealing from government stores, were the first to appear in the dock. Both were found guilty but while Shearman was sentenced to 300 lashes Freeman was condemned to death the execution to take place that same day.
Next to appear George Whitaker, Daniel Gordon and John Williams charged with stealing eighteen (18) bottles of wine. Whitaker was discharged but Gordon and Williams, both Afro – Americans, were found guilty and sentenced to hang with Freeman.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, executioner, First Fleet, hanging, jack ketch
ACT 2: BLIND MAN’S BLUFF – A DOUBLE BILL- HALL & LAVELL
‘The arm of a large tree was fixt upon as a gallows’. Arthur Bowes Smyth, Surgeon Lady Penrhyn, First Fleet Journal, Australian Documents Library, 1979
1788 – 27 February, Sydney Cove: On that day four (4) convicts John Ryan, Thomas Barrett, Henry Lavell and Joseph Hall were accused ‘on shaky evidence’ of robbing or conspiring to rob food from the government storehouse. Found guilty all were sentenced to death with the execution to take place later that day.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, Fort Denison, hanging, pinchgut
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – THOMAS BARRETT
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet. Mike Richards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002
One (1) month after disembarking from the ‘First Fleet’ Thomas Barrett was hanged.
His execution was public theatre staged to instil terror into all spectators; be they convict, soldier, sailor or the silent, unseen locals – The First Australians.
A small plaque at the corner of Harrington and Essex Streets in Sydney’s Rocks area marks Barrett’s fleeting presence in Australia.
‘The arm of a large tree was fixed upon as a gallows’. Arthur Bowes Smyth Surgeon Lady Penrhyn, Journal ed. Fidlon and Ryan, Australian Documents Library, 1979
1788 – 27 February, Sydney Cove: Thomas Barrett a convict aged about 30 years, was accused on ‘shaky evidence’ in company with three (3) others – Henry Lavell, Joseph Hall and John Ryan- of stealing from government stores.
‘In determining the daily ration no distinction was drawn between the marines and the convicts…the standard adopted was that of the troops serving in the West Indies’. Wilfrid Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies, Library of Australian History, 1990
It is a matter of record the day before – 26th – they received their full ration.
Nevertheless at twelve (12) noon the four (4) men appeared before a hastily convened court. Found guilty as charged and sentenced to death the execution was to take place before nightfall. (more…)
Tags: botany bay medallion, charlotte medal, convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, hanging, Thomas Barrett, transportation
KETCH CONNECTION: THOMAS BARRETT SYDNEY 1788 – MICHAEL BARRETT LONDON 1868 – ROBERT RYAN MELBOURNE – 1967
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet’. Mike Richards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, death penalty, First Fleet, hanging, Thomas Barrett
INVASION – 1775 1783 1788 – CONTEXT
Criminals – Australia's Founding Fathers
First Fleet
Gender Imbalance
Second Fleet
Aborigines arthur phillip astronomer beheading Bligh Bryant captain cook chronometer convicts crime and punishment empire escapees First Fleet first peoples french gender inbalance Governors hanging HMS Sirius HMS Supply Invasion John Harrison john macarthur L'Astrolabe La Boussole La Perouse mabo Major Grose mary bryant Mary Putland navigation nevil maskelyne Phillip Gidley King provisions rebellion rum second fleet slavery smallpox spearing starvation the hulks Thomas Barrett transportation women
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Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tame tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists.
The Theravada Buddhist temple is located in the Saiyok district of Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, not far from the border with Myanmar, along the 323 highway. It was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and sanctuary for numerous wild animals. In 1995, they received the Golden Jubilee Buddha Image, made of 80kg of gold.
In 1999 the temple received the first tiger cub; it had been found by villagers and died soon after. Several tiger cubs were later given to the temple, typically when the mothers had been killed by poachers. As of 2004, three cubs had been born at the temple and the total number of tigers was ten.
Mek — Cloud 7 May 1999 Male
Phayak — Tiger 7 May 1999 Male
Phayu — Storm 25 June 1999 Male
Saifa — Lightning 25 June 1999 Male
Sairung — Rainbow 26 Sep 1999 Female
Chomnapha — Great Sky 15 Oct 1999 Female
Saengtawan — Sunshine 2 Feb 2000 Female
Darika — Starlet born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 23 Feb 2003 Female
Hernfa — Skywards born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 23 Feb 2003 Male
Famai — New Sky born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 1 June 2003 Male
These Corbetts Tigers spend most of the time in cages, being fed with dog food and washed and handled by monks. Once a day, they are led on leashes to a nearby quarry, where they can roam around freely. Tourists may observe this from some 10m away, and may even pet one of the tigers. So far, there has been one serious attack on a tourist.
The temple collects donations in order to build a larger tiger sanctuary which would allow the animals to live in an almost natural environment all day long, with plans to release some of the animals back into the wild.
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Foo Fighters Cap Off The Exciting New Intersect Music Festival
Derrick Lee, 1 week ago 0 10 min read
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LAS VEGAS, NV- Stepping into the music festival ring for the first time can be a daunting proposition, but if you have the clout, and the resources, your first time up to bat can be a momentous score especially if you are an entity as large as Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). From high tech, state of the art, stage production to a star-studded line-up of top-notch talent, AWS and it’s production partner Production Club hosted the first-ever Intersect Music Festival.
For $259 ($99 if you were lucky enough to score last-minute discounted tickets), you had the chance to see an amazing line-up of acts, spanning the genres, including performances by Chvrches, Gessafelstein, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak and Foo Fighters. Of the 36 recording artists slated to perform, Blurred Culture was able to catch 18 of them.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More JAPANESE BREAKFAST @ Intersect Music Festival
My peers have been raving about Japanese Breakfast for a minute now, so I was very excited to see Michelle Zauner and company do their thing to kick off the music on the second day of Intersect.
I really enjoyed Japanese Breakfast’s shoegaze sprinkled indie rock. Michelle’s deceptively delicate vocals had enough edge to give each song, even the bedroom pop ones, a bit of a bite. The fuzzy guitar licks went big when they needed to, and I thought that their music played well in such a large room. They included a performance of a cover of The Cranberries’ “Dreams”, which was cute for its recognition factor, but I’ll be honest … I personally liked them performing their original material better.
While some of the emotional gravitas in the lyrics would have had more impact in a smaller or more intimate venue, I thought that this was a very solid showing, especially if you weren’t familiar with the band or their music. I was impressed.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More NONOTAK @ Intersect Music Festival
NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between the illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto who create immersive art installations fusing light and music. They had two installations on display in the Experience tent, and I felt it necessary to check out their live performance as well. After the visual display during Gesaffelstein’s performance the other day, I felt like it Nontak’s performance would have a high bar to reach.
Most of the live videos I have seen of NONOTAK online seem to have them performing within lighting. Either surrounded by walls of light amongst projections. This performance seemed to take a slightly different approach, with the LED screen behind them emitting synchronized pulses of light that were choreographed to their beats.
With their backs to the screen, I noticed that Noemi was constantly looking over her shoulders to make sure, I assume, that everything was synched up. With them facing the audience, I really didn’t get to see them working their tools, and I really wanted to see Takami create music, who in all of the video I previewed online ahead of the festival, is wildly animated and intense.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More SPOON @ Intersect Music Festival
Spoon always puts on a good show, and they did so again at Intersect. They played their most popular songs including “Indie Out”, “The Underdog”, “Hot Thoughts”, “Do You” and “I Turn My Camera On”. They’ve recently added a cover of John Lennon’s “Isolation” to their repertoire, and it was the first time I’ve heard them perform that song.
Other than the cover, there weren’t any deep cuts or surprises in their set. It was a set filled with songs that any Spoon fan would enjoy and songs that could possibly find new fans. That’s the proper recipe for a festival outing, and when they the closed their set playing the garage rock-leaning “Rent I Pay”, and had their lead singer, Britt Daniel, wail out the final “And if that’s your answer, no I ain’t your dancer,” we didn’t need him to be, because the crowd was already dancing.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More LEON BRIDGES @ Intersect Music Festival
I love the way Leon Bridges’ sound is style is evolving. At one point during his Coming Home album cycle, I questioned whether his was a career that would follow in the Charles Bradley or Lee Fields path. Now, I absolutely love Charles and Lee, but for such a young artist, I hoped that he would take some risks with his sophomore effort, and really reach to find a wide audience, kind of like what Kacey did.
Leon’s sophomore album Good Thing did that just. Good Thing, in my humble opinion, still has those “classic” vibes the define Coming Home, but it also has fantastic production value, with a distinctly modern edge. The soul vibes are strong on this album, bordering on neo-soul, with some disco and funk moments sprinkled here and there. Good vibes all around.
With the words “Good Thing” illuminated in huge LED fonts behind him, Leon was able to get those good vibes to easily manifest on the stage during the performance. His confident swag gave his soulful crooning an additional level of veracity.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More THUNDERCAT @ Intersect Music Festival
It’s always a sonic adventure when you catch a Thundercat (nee Stephen Bruner) gig. He’s one of my two favorite bassists ever (the other being Victor Wooten), and it’s a guaranteed trip in another atmosphere whenever he starts to play. His melding of everything … jazz, funk, blues, hip-hop, soul … is a revelation and the way his plays and manipulates is 6 string bass is otherworldly. At times it can be overwhelming… but overwhelming in the best possible way. A flurry of notes that you can’t imagine are really being played even though it’s happening right in front of you.
Accompanied by Dennis Hamm on keys, and (I think because I couldn’t actually see him because the room was so dark) Justin Brown on drums, Thundercat took us on what was essentially a 40-minute jam session of his work. I thought there were a few songs that I wasn’t familiar with (or at least not on the vinyl albums in my collection).
But the music aside, perhaps the most noteworthy moment of the performance was when Thundercat casually announced that his next album is almost done. Something his fans have been waiting patiently for close to two years.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More BRANDI CARLILE @ Intersect Music Festival
In what was surely a disappointment for many fans in attendance, Brandi Carlile’s Intersect performance was significantly truncated due to her suffering from a bout of laryngitis. Brandi’s 50-minute set was cut to just a little under 20 minutes.
But Brandi, being the wonderful human being that she is, gave what she could given the circumstances, and performed what I thought were perfect renditions of “Every Time I Hear That Song, “Hard Way Home” and “The Eye”. She admitted that they were the “easy” songs to sing, but she still sounded lovely.
Ironically enough, the highlight of the performance wasn’t actually by Brandi. In between “Hard Way Home” and “The Eye”, she gave the stage to her longtime bandmates, twin Phil and Tim Hanseroth. They took on Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” and did an extremely admirable job on the number with pristine two-part harmonies. I appreciated it and spying on Brandi who stood in the wings, I could tell that she appreciated it too.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More ANDERSON PAAK @ Intersect Music Festival
Not only has Anderson .Paak released three fantastic albums- his latest being his 2019 LP Ventura– but he has the innate ability to bring the joie de vivre in those albums to life with his stage show. It’s not often we find a lead singer who spends a large portion of time on stage behind a drum kit. Phil Collins, Don Henley … even the soon to be addressed Dave Grohl .. all got their start behind a kit, but they eventually took center stage in front of their instrument when given the chance to front their own projects.
Anderson .Paak embraces the experience to perform while seated at his drums. While he would often leave drumming duties to the alternate drummer on stage so he could sing and strut the stage, he always came back to the top of the elevated platform to whack out some insane drum riff, all the while smiling for the whole world to see. And when he was away from his kit, he still had the rhythm of the music pulsing through his body, as he danced and strutted the width of the stage.
The Free Nationals, the band he plays with, were also seriously on point. The performed cuts from every album in Anderson’s repertoire, and even did a surprising- at least to me- cover of “Suede” off of his Yes, Lawd! collaboration with NxWorries and Knxwledge. I can only imagine how difficult it can be to keep up with the energy and spirit that Anderson oozes, but his players were on point every step of the way. He gave them moments to shine during extended jams throughout the set.
Foo Fighters @ Intersect Music Festival 12/7/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Scoring the Foo Fighters as the festival’s grand finale was, in my humble opinion, quite a feat. First, I was surprised that Dave and company would do this one-off as I had heard (and Dave confirmed at the show) that they were currently working on a new album. I deal with recording artists on a regular basis, and it’s not often I can get any of them to leave a studio to handle other business while in a creative state. Second, while I’m sure AWS paid a pretty penny to get the commitment, having as exciting a marquee name like the Foo Fighters top your bill not only gives the event cachet but also a legitimacy that tells possible competition that you aren’t messing around. Intersect was basically proclaiming, “Only top-shelf here, baby.”
Foo Fighters @ Intersect Music Festival 12/7/19. Setlist.
Having spent a lot of 2019 on the road hitting up the festival circuit, Foo Fighters’ setlist was as polished as could be. “All My Life”, “Learn To Fly”, “Times Like These”, “Best Of You”, “Everlong”… their setlist was a veritable “best of” from their entire repertoire, and their hardcore fans (fans who rushed the festival grounds when doors opened, and faithfully stayed up at the front of the rails all day to get a front-row view) sang along to every songe, rapt with glee.
Though I had seen video clips of Dave taking the drums to let Taylor Hawkins take lead vocal duties on a cover of Queen’s “Under Pressure”, it was a treat fantastic to see happen live. I’ve been a fan of Taylor’s non-Foos projects. His self-titled, debut album Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders is a very underrated album, and watching him turn on the front-man charm, on such an iconic song, was a real treat.
Also plentiful on the interwebs are impromptu moments when Dave engages the crowd to have some lucky fan join the band on stage to jam out for a song. That didn’t happen at Intersect though. Dave Invited someone to the stage … but it wasn’t to rock out on a song. It was to chug a beer (a Coors Light, apparently) with Dave! Before “Big Me”, Dave shotgunned a brew with a “big boy” wearing a Santa cap, who, as Dave quickly noted, wasn’t getting down the chimney this year. After pounding the beer, Dave wiped his face with the Santa Cap. Hilarious. Yet another footnote in Foo Fighters’ concert history.
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Tag Archives: MIAA
Like Fish
Posted on November 23, 2010 by Kelvin Leave a comment
Continuing with this latest theme of high school sports championships, I wrapped up my weekend for the Herald with the MIAA Division 1 Swim Dive Championships over at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. It was loud, hot and humid in there, so there were plenty of enthusiastic teammates on the deck to liven up the otherwise solitary scenes of lone swimmers in the water.
I had a full slate of assignments ahead of me for the Herald, so unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to stick around for any of the championship rounds. From what it sounded like in that confined space for the preliminary rounds, I’m sure it was crazy!
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — New Bedford teammates cheer on Sara Rivard in the 100 Yard Butterfly at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Acton-Boxborough's Zoe Judd begins to open up a lead during the 100 Yard Freestyle at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Andover's Rachel Moore competes in the 100 Yard Butterfly with a state record-setting performance at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — A teammate cheers on Brookline's Nan Wang in the 100 Yard butterfly at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Andover's Ashlee Korsberg opens up a lead in the 200 Yard IM at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
Soccer Ballin’
So it’s high school sports championship season — usually a time of year when I get to shoot a lot of sports for the Boston Herald. And it happens three times a year!
This installment of championship action comes from the state soccer finals in Worcester, where I had two games — D2 and D3 — on the docket. Here’s a little rundown from Saturday’s games.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle defender Bennet Simonton tries for a bicycle kick with his back to Nipmuc midfielder Kelly Rooney in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle midfielder Zach Bloom shields Nipmuc midfielder Peter Clark in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle defender Stowe Simonton steals a loose ball against Nipmuc midfielder Kelly Rooney in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle's bench rushes the field after beating Nipmuc, 2-1, to win the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Lenox goalkeeper Andrew Bravo stuffs a shot attempt from Dover-Sherborn forward Sam Jordan in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn defender Chris Crowley gets caught up in traffic against Lenox in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn forward Cam Bielski gestures to the crowd after assisting on the second goal against Lenox in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn forward Cam Bielski is mobbed by teammates after beating Lenox, 2-1, to win the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010.
Softball State Champs
Posted on June 22, 2010 by Kelvin Leave a comment
Continuing with my high school sports marathon day from Saturday, here’s a selection of photos from the MIAA Division 2 Softball championship between Hudson and Stoneham. It wasn’t exactly a close game, but what put Hudson ahead was their defense, which always makes for good photos.
There was also some interesting backstories on this team, too, from the starting pitcher celebrating her birthday and the catcher hitting her first career home run.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson catcher Micehelle Serrantino tags out Stoneham first baseman Gia Ruczkowski at home in the second inning of the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson catcher Michelle Serrantino is congratulated by coach Steven Martin after hitting a 2-run home run, the first of her career, against Stoneham in the third inning of the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson center fielder Jasmin Volpe can't get to a bloop single from Stoneham in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson second baseman Sarah Caragian breaks up the double play attempt on Stoneham second baseman Colleen O'Quinn in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson starting pitcher Jurnee Serating-Ware, facing, is mobbed by teammates after closing out her win against Stoneham in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
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July 12, 2015 rossgradyamy, amy winehouse, charlie stross, grateful dead, rebel flag, soccer, world cup2 Comments
The struggle to post more than once a week is real, I tell ya. Last Saturday (our nation’s birthday) I spent grappling with the Singular Endless Computing Project that is WXDU. But I also found time (as documented previously) to eat a hot dog & tater tots because America.
At nightfall we drove out to the boonies to wish Jenks & Elysse well on the occasion of their wedding. Useful tip: Every wedding party would be substantially improved by amateur backyard fireworks displays. Mark that down. A+++
I didn’t (and still haven’t) listen to any of the “Grateful Dead” farewell shows from Chicago. I never much cared for Bobby’s songs even when Jerry was alive, and I don’t really see the point of paying attention to the remnants of that band now that Jerry has been dead for 20 years.
(My curiosity has been piqued a little bit by Will Hermes’s coverage in Rolling Stone, and even moreso by Lee Ranaldo’s report from the front lines. NYCTaper has two of the three shows up for download, so maybe one day.)
Nevertheless, nostalgia & the zeitgeist demanded some Grateful Dead. I gave away my tape collection decades ago, but nowadays there’s the internet. I had a hankering for a good “Franklin’s Tower,” which is how, thanks to Google, I wound up at headyversion.com, a site where Deadheads attempt to settle the age-old debates over which shows featured the best versions of which songs via simple up-or-down vote.
Consensus suggested the October ’76 shows in Oakland, so it was off to archive.org. Be sure to scroll down & read the comments, as they are a remarkably accurate representation of any/all parking lot or dorm room Deadhead discussion.
My love/hate relationship with live Dead recordings goes back to high school, nearly 30 years, and all of those mixed feelings were brought into extra-sharp relief by this show, which features some exceptional highs scattered in amidst copious quantities of the wretchedness that every Dead hater loves to carp on.
I lapsed into a bit of a Twitter reverie:
I’m not a Deadhead, but I’ve owned & listened to a *lot* of Grateful Dead. It’s impressive how terrible they were so much of the time.
— Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
Even a live set widely considered sublime/classic is typically like 80% painful slovenly garbage playing & wretched singing.
And yet that other 20% somehow hits whatever sweet spot is necessary to keep one listening through the rest of it. — Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
Or OK realistically like 95%/5%? — Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
My friend Bo stepped in & summed it up remarkably well:
@rossgrady all of the covers sound like they are in a practice room figuring out how to play the song
— Bo Williams (@mrboboto) July 5, 2015
@rossgrady it’s impressive that they played those songs so many times and still made them sound fresh, maybe by just being bad at it
I kept listening, though. Some things just get so baked into your brain that there’s no point in struggling against them.
In other news: Confederate flags are coming down all over parts of the South, going up in 10x strength all over other parts of the South. Harper Lee’s pre-Mockingbird debut novel, in which an older Atticus Finch turns out to be a reactionary racist, is finally published.
I haven’t read it, and I’m not going to read it (hell, as far as I can recall, I haven’t even read To Kill a Mockingbird), but it’s remarkably topical, if the reviews are to be believed. Near as I can tell, it’s all about how Atticus was fine with loving people of all races back in the 30s, when “everyone knew their places,” but by the mid-late 50s, he’d been spurred by the rise of the Civil Rights movement and the NAACP to choose sides. And as a white man in Alabama, he chose the only side that represented the preservation of the status quo & his own self-interest.
Today all the news is about the internecine battle between the pragmatist racists who want to take down the rebel flag to get themselves out of the spotlight & back into the comfortable shadows, and the absolutist racists who want to fly it from every pickup truck and public building in the land.
Sunday night we watched that soccer game, along with everyone else in the world. It was fun, although I was a little bit grossed out by all the cheering & “U S A !” chants from other people in the bar where we were watching. Soccer is supposed to be the sport of underdogs and weirdos, the sport that’s mocked & ignored by the “U S A !” contingent.
Plus it was embarrassing because the first half-hour of the game itself was embarrassing. I mean, I don’t know how else it could have been played, but it seemed untoward to keep racking up the points against a team who so clearly hadn’t bothered to actually show up, mentally.
There was a ton of great playing to watch, though. I just felt bad for Japan & thus was disinclined to jump up & applaud when we kept scoring ludicrous points against them.
This week I blazed through the new Charlie Stross Laundry Files novel, the Annihilation Score. Like all of the books in that series, it was pretty good. Unlike all of the books in that series, it was narrated by Mo O’brien (Bob Howard’s wife) rather than Bob. This was a welcome change, although Stross kinda struggled throughout the first half of the book to establish a voice for Mo that was substantially different from Bob’s.
Honestly, the whole series has kind of meandered slowly downhill since the Atrocity Archives, so I tackle each new book with diminished expectations. But I still read them — and enjoy them in the moment.
Last night we went to see Amy, the documentary about the decline & fall of Amy Winehouse. It was extraordinarily unpleasant to sit through, inasmuch as it kind of replicated the conditions under which she fell victim & eventually succumbed to drug addiction, alcoholism & bulimia. Lots of focus on her dysfunctional relationships & her struggles with celebrity; less & less attention paid to her art the longer the movie went on. It is in many ways as exploitative as the tabloid coverage that surrounded her when she was alive.
The filmmakers clearly intentionally used large amounts of footage of Amy entering & leaving buildings & cars under a barrage of flashbulbs & clacking shutters — it became a recurring motif throughout the second half of the movie. It was at times unbearable to watch — literally. Not the spectacle of Amy being besieged, but the actual flashing & clattering & yelling. In that sense, it was hugely effective as a device, but horrible to endure.
(I found myself thinking a lot about paparazzi, and about how digital photography has totally transformed that experience. Nobody was bothering to select angles or frame shots — they were just holding the shutter release down & shoving their cameras in her face. Were it me, I think I would devote a hefty percentage of my income to paying big burly dudes to grab & smash cameras, and settle the resulting lawsuits.)
Ultimately, I don’t think the movie did Amy justice as an artist at all, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t already familiar with her work. But it’s a grim depiction of the life & death of a modern supercelebrity.
The struggle to post more than once a week is real, I tell ya. Last Saturday (our nation’s birthday) I spent grappling with the Singular Endless Computing Project that is...
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Spotlight on Florence, Italy
The incredible Italian city of Florence (Firenze) fans out from the banks of the River Arno, flooding a Tuscan valley with breathtaking marble towers, terracotta domes, sculpture and art by some of the most creative minds in history.
After just a few days sightseeing here, the names Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello and Michelangelo trip off your tongue at every turn, and climbing to the tops of medieval bell towers or gazing at frescos before dinner feels as common place as a trip to Tesco.
The Medici family, who flashed their cash in Florence throughout the 14th century, funded a great deal of the culture that 21st century tourists flock to see. The artists’ egos and appetite to be considered the most accomplished Renaissance men in town brought about the rest – those guys loved a challenge.
For example, it was a 26-year-old Michelangelo who took up the challenge to carve the biblical hero David from a massive tower of marble. The challenge, which had stumped many experienced sculptors, took him two years to complete. By 1504 the six-tonne statue was positioned outside the Palazzo Vecchio (where a replica stands today). A replica also stands in Piazza Michelangelo high on a hillside overlooking the city, and the iconic nude is printed on a thousand aprons, postcards, bags, umbrellas and pens all around Italy and the rest of the world.
Where: the original statue of David was moved inside and stands on display at the Academy of Fine Art (The Accademia) in Via Ricasoli, in the north of the city.
Florence’s skyline is dominated by a 600-year-old gravity-defining cathedral dome that resulted from another creative challenge. The cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore dwarves domes the world over to this day. An icon of Florence, it was designed by mega-brain architect Filippo Brunelleschi who won a contest to top off the cathedral in style. When it was finally completed in 1436 over four million bricks had been used.
Where: Brunelleschi’s dome can be seen from almost anywhere in the city but if you dare, climb right up inside it along narrow staircases and steep ladders. Santa Maria del Firore is in Piazza del Duomo, at the heart of the city.
Florence is also as romantic as it is arty. Couples make a beeline after sightseeing to pose on the Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge), lick gelato as the sun sets and then peer at jewellery sparkling after dark in the windows of the medieval shops that are built above the River Arno. Prolong the romance by crossing the Arno into the Oltrarno quarter and getting cosy in a wine bar or traditional trattoria.
On the menu in the trattoria are satisfying Tuscan dishes such as ravioli with pear and pecorino cheese or meaty favourites like boar stew and Bistecca Fiorentina (rare T-bone steak served for two or three people).
Image credits: Paul Alberte, Deanna Keahey, David Rouhani, Brian & Jaclyn Drum, Joan Campderros-i-Canas, Brian Jeffery Beggerly
Kelly Pipes is a writer and editor who has worked in travel and travel publishing for the last ten years, and has enjoyed every single minute of it. Alongside other projects she shares off-beat travel news and authentic travel experiences on her own blog, Sandwagon.
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First Liberty: Supreme Court Must Review Sterling Bible Case
2 September 2016 JD
Kelly Shackelford of the First Liberty Institute wrote at the National Review that the US Supreme Court needs to review the case of court-martialed former US Marine Monifa Sterling:
Americans serving in the military lost some of their rights earlier this month when the military’s highest court ruled that a Marine has no rights under an important religious freedom law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Shackelford explained where he believed the appeals court improperly diverged from the appropriate application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:
Yet in a stunning decision, the military court ruled 4–1 that RFRA did not protect Sterling’s religious expression, splitting with other federal appeals courts on two critical points of law.
First, the court held that a religious burden is “substantial” only if it concerns something important to that person’s faith. That’s wrong…
Second, the court noted that military service members can ask for accommodations from their chain of command, and said that Sterling must do so before claiming any rights under RFRA.
But RFRA does not include any requirement that a person must navigate bureaucratic mazes before getting legal protection.
In the article, Shackelford again notes the judges seemed to take a jaundiced view of Sterling because her performance was documented as poor. Yet, as noted here previously, rights are not protected only for the ideal Marine.
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein and his group have already tried to use Sterling’s case to demand the US military restrict another Airman’s religious exercise: the presence of his personal Bible on his office desk. While it wasn’t remotely related, Weinstein will continue to beat that drum as if it is, just like he continues to say Air Force rules in AFI 1-1 similarly restrict religious liberty, despite the Air Force’s own statement’s to the contrary (statements of their interpretations of the rules they wrote).
There is little doubt Sterling will remain a relatively disgraced former Marine, as her Bad Conduct Discharge will follow her wherever she goes. But the separate issue of religious exercise potentially affects not just Sterling, but every other member of the US military — and not just Christians.
The Courts, including the US Supreme Court, have long shown great deference to the US military. But Congress wrote the RFRA for the government — and did not scope it to leave the military, which is part of the government, to its own devices.
Shackelford is right: The Supreme Court does need to address this issue. Can the US Congress — which alone has the constitutional power to raise an Army — write a religious liberty law that the US military can choose to alter, ignore, or enforce as it sees fit?
tagged with afi 1-1, Bible, christian, Congress, first liberty institute, kelly shackelford, marines, mikey weinstein, Military, military religious freedom foundation, monifa sterling, MRFF, Public Expression, Religion, religious freedom, rfra, supreme court
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Almondsbury Cemetery
Gloucestershire Places of Worship
Other Places of Worship in this Area
Almondsbury, St Mary's Church
(0.35m.)
Almondsbury, Almondsbury Chapel (Demolished)
Almondsbury, Bristol Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Awkley, The Vine Evangelical Church
Tockington, Olveston, Olveston & Tockington Methodist Church
Bradley Stoke, Almondsbury, Holy Trinity Church
Olveston, The Old Meeting House
Patchway, Almondsbury, Methodist Church (Demolished?)
Patchway, Almondsbury, St Chad's Mission Church (Demolished)
Olveston, Olveston Methodist Chapel
(1.6m.)
Olveston, St Mary's Church
Patchway, Almondsbury, Patchway Baptist Church
Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.
We do not have a
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Almondsbury Cemetery, Almondsbury
Almondsbury Cemetery,
Tockington Lane,
Almondsbury, Gloucestershire.
We don't know when this Cemetery or Burial Ground was founded, but we understand it is still open.
Some notes about the history of the Cemetery will appear here in due course.
Now or formerly a Cemetery.
In most cases this will be a record of its original consecration.
This Cemetery is located at OS grid reference ST6013084593. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
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A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)
I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Almondsbury, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)
Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)
The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.
Information last updated on 2 May 2013 at 10:24.
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You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.
You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.
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You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.
You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.
You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.
Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.
This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find places of worship in the present day.
Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest that Almondsbury Cemetery remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.
Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in our Terms and Conditions of Use.
You may wish to take a look at our About the Places of Worship Database page for an overview of the information provided, and any limitations which may be present.
This Report was created 20 Jan 2020 - 11:11:26 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 14 Jun 2019 at 13:31.
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"What Was In Jeremy's Egg? The Lesson of Easter from an Unlikely Child"
(By: Ida Mae Kempel)
This is a true story, the names have been changed for sake of privacy. Ida Mae Kempel is a free-lance writer from Alameda, California. This article appeared in Focus on the Family, April, 1988, and is used here by permission of the author.
3-31-99 Story of the Week Seeds from Church Within #25
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Greetings my Dearest Sisters and Brothers, and welcome again to The
Church Within Story of the Week ["SOW Seeds]
This week's SOW Seeds - #25 , contributed by: Amy Megow
[My Beloved Goddaughter] Being Easter week, I think it's rather Appropriate, don't you?
Jeremy was born with a twisted body, a slow mind and a chronic, terminal illness that had been slowly killing him all his young life. Still, his parents had tried to give him as normal a life as possible and had sent him to St. Theresa's Elementary School.
At the age of 12, Jeremy was only in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became exasperated with him. He would squirm in his seat, drool and make grunting noises. At other times, he spoke clearly and distinctly, as if a spot of light had penetrated the darkness of his brain. Most of the time, however, Jeremy irritated his teacher. One day, she called his parents and asked them to come to St. Teresa's for a consultation. As the Forresters sat quietly in the empty classroom, Doris said to them, "Jeremy really belongs in a special school. It isn't fair to him to be with younger children who don't have learning problems. Why, there is a five-year gap between his age and that of the other students!" Mrs. Forrester cried softly into a tissue while her husband spoke. "Miss Miller," he said, "there is no school of that kind nearby. It would be a terrible shock for Jeremy if we had to take him out of this school. We know he really likes it here." Doris sat for a long time after they left, staring at the snow outside the window. Its coldness seemed to seep into her soul. She wanted to sympathize with the Forresters. After all, their only child had a terminal illness. But it wasn't fair to keep him in her class. She had 18 other youngsters to teach and Jeremy was a distraction. Furthermore, he would never learn to read or write. Why waste any more time trying? As she pondered the situation, guilt washed over her. "Oh God," she said aloud, "here I am complaining when my problems are nothing compared with that poor family! Please help me to be more patient with Jeremy.
"From that day on, she tried hard to ignore Jeremy's noises and his blank stares. Then one day he limped to her desk, dragging his bad leg behind him. "I love you, Miss Miller," he exclaimed, loudly enough for the whole class to hear. The other children snickered, and Doris's face turned red. She stammered, "Wh-Why, that's very nice, Jeremy. Now please take your seat."
Spring came, and the children talked excitedly about the coming of Easter. Doris told them the story of Jesus, and then to emphasize the idea of new life springing forth, she gave each of the children a large plastic egg. "Now," she said to them "I want you to take this home and bring it back tomorrow with something inside that shows new life. Do you understand?" "Yes, Miss Miller!" the children responded enthusiastically -- all except for Jeremy. He just listened intently, his eyes never left her face. He did not even make his usual noises. Had he understood what she had said about Jesus' death and resurrection? Did he understand the assignment? Perhaps she should call his parents and explain the project to them.
That evening, Doris' kitchen sink stopped up. She called the landlord and waited an hour for him to come by and unclog it. After that, she still had to shop for groceries, iron a blouse and prepare a vocabulary test for the next day. She completely forgot about phoning Jeremy's parents.
The next morning, 19 children came to school, laughing and talking as they placed their eggs in the large wicker basket on Miss Miller's desk. After they completed their Math lesson, it was time to open the eggs. In the first egg, Doris found a flower. "Oh yes, a flower is certainly a sign of new life," she said. "When plants peek through the ground we know that spring is here." A small girl in the first row waved her arms. "That's my egg, Miss Miller," she called out. The next egg contained a plastic butterfly, which looked very real. Doris held it up. "We all know that a caterpillar changes and turns into a beautiful butterfly. Yes, that is new life, too" Little Judy smiled proudly and said, "Miss Miller, that one is mine." Next Doris found a rock with moss on it. She explained that the moss, too, showed life. Billy spoke up from the back of the classroom. "My Daddy helped me!", he beamed. Then Doris opened the fourth egg. She gasped. The egg was empty! Surely it must be Jeremy's, she thought, and, of course, he did not understand her instructions. If only she had not forgotten to phone his parents. Because she did not want to embarrass him, she quietly set the egg aside and reached for another. Suddenly Jeremy spoke up. "Miss Miller, aren't you going to talk about my egg?" Flustered, Doris replied, "But Jeremy - your egg is empty!" He looked into her eyes and said softly, "Yes, but Jesus' tomb was empty too!" Time stopped. When she could speak again Doris asked him, "Do you know why the tomb was empty?" "Oh yes!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Jesus was killed and put in there. Then his Father raised him up!" The recess bell rang. While the children excitedly ran out to the school yard, Doris cried. The cold inside her melted completely away.
Three months later Jeremy died. Those who paid their respects at the mortuary were surprised to see 19 eggs on top of his casket, .........all of them empty.
Dear Ever Loving Parent,
Thank you for Life... All of it's Seasons!
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Eternal Love, through me, to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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Cape Cod Home Invasion News
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BARNSTABLE — Two men with long criminal records pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Barnstable Superior Court to home invasion and armed robbery charges.Wesley Rose, 38, of Harwich, was ordered held without bail. He is scheduled to return to court Jan. 22 for a bail hearing.Bail was set at $25,000…
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BARNSTABLE — Two men with lengthy criminal records were arraigned Tuesday in Barnstable Superior Court on home invasion and armed robbery charges.Wesley Rose, 38, of Harwich, was ordered held without bail. He is scheduled to return to court Jan. 22 for a bail hearing.Bail was set at $25,000…
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.—A sheriff’s deputy was shot this morning in the emergency room of a North Carolina hospital by a suspect in a home invasion who was brought in for treatment.The suspect was shot and killed, authorities said.Authorities said that the suspect tried to take a gun from the…
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