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Battlefield Back Stories - Thoughts on the Civil War, its battlefields, and public history.
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Guarding Trains No More
More on the 138th Pennsylvania
From the start of their service in September of 1862, the men of the 138th Pennsylvania saw little action. After organizing at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, the regiment moved down to Relay House, a junction on the B&O Railroad outside of Baltimore. For the next ten months, the regiment performed the vital if unglamorous duty of guarding the railroad from guerrillas and rebel incursions. For some of the men in the Adam's County companies - B&G - this duty became tiresome. In January of 1863, one soldier - identified as Typo - wrote to Gettysburg's Star and Banner newspaper, and complained that the men longed to see action. "They are anxious to be led forward," he wrote, "where they cannot only win laurels for themselves but help their brethren in arms to put a speedy end to this most wicked rebellion." The Gettysburg Campaign would provide the necessary shakeup to make Typo's wish come true.
In the dead of night on June 13th, the soldiers of the 138th awoke to the sounds of the long roll, and they were ordered to throw out a picket line to receive an expected cavalry raid. No enemy appeared, but on the succeeding two nights the regiment received orders to keep a close watch again. Milroy's command had gone to pieces at Winchester, and wild rumors came down the valley, and spread into Maryland and Pennsylvania. The rebel army was on the march.
On June 16th, the regiment received orders to move out. At about ten in the evening, the men boarded railroad cars. "We were left under the impression that we were only going on a scout," Typo reported. He soon found otherwise. The train arrived at Sandy Hook, Maryland. From here the regiment marched to Harper's Ferry. It was a short march, but it was fatiguing for the "Sunday Soldiers," who had seen only guard duty.
By this time Union authorities were aware of the approach of Lee's army, and despaired of holding Harper's Ferry. The 138th, and the rest of the garrison were positioned on Maryland Heights, a mountain rising on the Maryland shore opposite Harper's Ferry, and federal forces began to evacuate supplies and equipment from the south side of the Potomac. Over the next several days the men of the 138th remained constantly on picket on the heights, expecting a fight at any moment. At night rebel campfires could be spied through telescopes. Each day the troops fell in under arms by 3:00 a.m. The soldiers felt as if they had been instantly transformed from dull garrison troops into hardy campaigners. "We were playing soldier for 10 long months," Typo recorded, "and now we are experiencing reality."
The Confederate army was close, but Robert E. Lee had bagged a federal garrison at Harper's Ferry before, and it nearly cost him dearly. This time, he would bypass these troops and head straight for Pennsylvania. The 138th would need to wait a bit longer to truly experience reality. But for the families of those soldiers serving in Company B, reality was swiftly heading toward their front doorsteps.
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OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “I COULD’VE SWORN” FROM ‘IT’S NOT A BURDEN’
New music video for ‘I Could’ve Sworn’ from the new EP It’s Not a Burden (Original Songs from the Documentary Film), made by Barbara Green of Greenie Films. This amazing ‘behind-the-scenes’ video was filmed during the making of “I Could’ve Sworn” and features the producer of my new EP and composer of the film, Joanna Katcher/Nice Manners and musicians: Adam Chritsgau (drums), Liam McCormack (bass) and Peter Recine (guitar). The video also features footage from the documentary film! It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents has been chosen as Today with Hoda and Jenna’s documentary of the month and is available to rent now: http://www.itsnotaburden.com/watchfilm
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The author and scholar Clive Staples Lewis (or C.S. Lewis) (November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963) was born in Belfast, Ireland. He adopted the name "Jack", which is how he was known to his friends and acquaintances. He is known for his work on Mediaeval literature and for his Christian apologetics and fiction.
He taught as a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford for nearly thirty years, and later held the chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In spite of this position, he claimed that there was no such thing as an English renaissance. Much of his scholarly work concentrated on the later Middle Ages, especially its use of allegory. His The Allegory of Love (1936) helped reinvigorate the serious study of late medieval narratives like the Roman de la Rose. His late work, The Discarded Image, an Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964), is an excellent summary of the medieval world view, the "discarded image" of the cosmos in his title.
He was a prolific writer and a member of the literary discussion society The Inklings with his close friend J. R. R. Tolkien.
In addition to his scholarly work he wrote a number of popular novels, including a popular series of fantasy novels for children entitled The Chronicles of Narnia; a trilogy of science fiction books: Out of the Silent Planet[?], Perelandra[?], and That Hideous Strength; and a novel based on Greek mythology Till We Have Faces.
He is a winner of the Carnegie Medal in literature.
The Chronicles of Narnia are by far the most popular of his works, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which is the first and most popular book in the series, has been adapted for both stage and screen. The Chronicles of Narnia borrow from Greek and Roman mythology, and traditional English and Irish Faerie Tales: Lewis cites George MacDonald as an influence (in The Great Divorce, the narrator is chaperoned in Heaven by MacDonald). However, the overall theme of each Narnia book is a Christian one. Likewise, Lewis's Space trilogy blends traditional science fiction elements with the exploration of the biblical themes sin, fall, and redemption.
Lewis's last novel was Till We Have Faces, and many would claim that it is his most mature work of fiction. It is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Again it touches on religious themes, but the connections with the specifics of his Christian beliefs are not as clearly delineated.
In addition to his career as an English Professor, and his novels, Lewis also wrote a number of books about Christianity, such as The Screwtape Letters -- letters of advice from an elderly demon to his nephew -- and perhaps more famously, Mere Christianity. As an adult convert he was very much interested in presenting a reasonable case for the truth of Christianity. Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, and Miracles (book)[?] were all concerned, to one degree or another, with refuting popular objections to Christianity. He wrote an autobiography entitled Surprised by Joy[?], which describes his conversion (it was written before he met his wife, Joy Gresham[?]).
Recently there has been some interest in biographical material concerning Lewis. This has resulted in several biographies, at least one play about his life, and a 1993 movie, titled Shadowlands[?] after an original stage and television play. The movie fictionalizes his relationship with an American fan, Joy Gresham, whom he met and married in London, only to watch her die slowly from bone cancer. Lewis's book A Grief Observed describes his experience of bereavement.
Lewis died on November 22, 1963, at the Oxford home he shared with his brother, Warnie. He is buried in the Headington Quarry Churchyard, Oxford, England. News of the event was overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day. Also dying on that day was Aldous Huxley, the English novelist best known for Brave New World.
Many books have been inspired by Lewis, including the apologetics book A Severe Mercy by his correspondent Sheldon Vanauken[?], and numerous Narnia-inspired novels by various hands.
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Salaried Taxpayers with total Income up to Rs. 5 lakh Exempted from filing Income Tax Return for Assessment Year 2011-12-Notification issued
23-June-2011 16:54 IST
Salaried Taxpayers with total Income up to Rs. 5 lakh Exempted from filing Income Tax Return for Assessment Year 2011-12
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the scheme exempting salaried taxpayers with total income up to Rs. 5 lakh from filing income tax return for assessment year 2011-12, which will be due on July 31, 2011.
Individuals having total income up to Rs. 5,00,000 for FY 2010-11, after allowable deductions, consisting of salary from a single employer and interest income from deposits in a saving bank account up to Rs. 10,000 are not required to file their income tax return.
Such individuals must report their Permanent Account Number (PAN) and the entire income from bank interest to their employer, pay the entire tax by way of deduction of tax at source, and obtain a certificate of tax deduction in Form No.16.
Persons receiving salary from more than one employer, having income from sources other than salary and interest income from a savings bank account, or having refund claims shall not be covered under the scheme.
The scheme shall also not be applicable in cases wherein notices are issued for filing the income tax return under section 142(1) or section 148 or section 153A or section 153C of the Income Tax Act 1961.
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The relevant notification is produced herebelow:
NOTIFICATION NO. 36/2011
DATED 23-6-2011
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1C) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby exempts the following class of persons, subject to the conditions specified hereinafter, from the requirement of furnishing a return of income under sub-section (1) of section 139 for the assessment year 2011-12, namely :—
Class of Persons
1. An Individual whose total income for the relevant assessment year does not exceed five lakh rupees and consists of only income chargeable to income-tax under the following head,—
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(ii) has reported to his employer, the incomes mentioned in sub-para (B) of para 1 and the employer has deducted the tax thereon;
(iii) has received a certificate of tax deduction in Form 16 from his employer which mentions the PAN, details of income and the tax deducted at source and deposited to the credit of the Central Government;
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3. The exemption from the requirement of furnishing a return of income-tax shall not be available where a notice under section 142(1) or section 148 or section 153A or section 153C of the Income-tax Act has been issued for filing a return of income for the relevant assessment year.
4. This notification shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
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Wizards Beat Lakers To Start A New Streak
By Robby Fletcher|2021-04-30T13:32:24-04:00April 29th, 2021|News|0 Comments
After suffering their first loss in two weeks on Monday, the Wizards responded in a major way on Wednesday, outplaying the defending NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers for another big win.
Washington (28-34) put the tough 146-143 overtime loss to the Spurs on Monday in the rearview for a primetime matchup with Los Angeles (36-26) and led by a balanced scoring effort, took the lead in the second quarter and never looked back en route to a 116-107 win.
Bradley Beal and Russell Westbrook led the way in the scoring column, as they usually do, however a lot of credit is due to the Washington frontcourt. Matching up with the likes of All-Star bigs Anthony Davis and Andre Drummond as well as last year’s Sixth Man of the Year Montrezl Harrell, the Wizards frontcourt of Rui Hachimura, Alex Len and Robin Lopez all stepped up in a big way, helping the team outrebound the Lakers 50-41 and outscoring them 62-54 inside the paint.
After the game, head coach Scott Brooks commended his team’s effort after their loss to the Spurs.
“We’ve been through a lot this year, and there’s no reason for us to stop and relax now,” coach Brooks said. “We’ve got some more in us so we’re just going to keep fighting and playing hard for one another.”
BB had another highly efficient scoring night to lead the way, following up his 45-point outing against San Antonio with 27 points on 11-of-18 shooting. No. 3 is now averaging 31.3 points per game this month on 50/40/89 shooting splits for his most efficient month of the season.
It was business as usual for Westbrook as well, as his 18-point, 18-rebound and 14-assist stat line was his 30th triple-double of the season.
Both teams had success on the offensive end in the first half, with Washington shooting 53 percent from the field behind BB’s 15 points on 7-of-12 shooting. The Wizards looked like the better offensive team in the second quarter though, outscoring the Lakers 30-20 in the period to take a 61-55 halftime lead.
The Wizards extended the lead to 67-59 with the biggest highlight of the night: a Hachimura poster dunk on Anthony Davis after Brad pushed the ball up the court in transition. The Wiz turned that dunk into a momentum swing that sparked an 11-0 run in four minutes that pushed the lead to 16.
The lead got to as high as 19 points early in the fourth, and while the Lakers were able to get the deficit down to single digits with a little over five minutes left in the game, the Wiz never looked threatened. By the time Beal scored his 27th point off a ridiculous side-step three with 3:11 left to go, it was all but over for the Lakers.
The Wizards will look to build a new winning streak with their next game on Friday, April 30 against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The game will air at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Washington.
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The oldest surviving church constructed specifically for the use of the Protestant Church in the east of County Galway is that erected in what would become the village of Eyrecourt at the expense of the Cromwellian Captain John Eyre.[i] Its founder had been the beneficiary of significant lands granted by the Cromwellian authorities in the east of the county in the mid seventeenth century, much of which had formerly been in the possession of various Maddens, Horans and other families long established in the region.
In the midst of hostile neighbours and an uncertain political climate John Eyre sought to consolidate his hold on his lands as early as possible and began construction work on the building of a large county seat for himself at the townland of Killenihy or ‘Killeno’ in the parish of Donanaughta.[ii] The mansion, called Eyrecourt Castle, was built on the grounds of a long robust two-storey early-seventeenth century house, formerly the property of a dispossessed branch of the O Maddens. The existing house was retained and incorporated into the collection of ancillary buildings to the rear of the new house. Despite the Restoration of the monarchy in the person of King Charles II in 1660 Eyre managed to retain ownership of his estates in east Galway and by 1677 had constructed a small Protestant chapel in close proximity to a small ringfort or lios known as Killinehy or Killelehy fort and at what would be one of the entrances to his residence to serve the needs of his family and a small community of Protestant settlers whose presence he had facilitated in the area.
Location of the 1677 Protestant church (in red colour) at Eyrecourt in the mid-nineteenth century
While the King’s grant of manorial status relating to Eyre’s lands of two years later made reference to the existence of the church, its foundation was confirmed by a commemorative limestone tablet inserted in the south wall of the church which read; ‘JOHANES EYRE DE EYR-COURT ARMIGER PROPRYS SUMPTIBUS AD HONOREM CULTUMQUE DIVINUM HANE EDIFICAVIT ECCLESIAM, ANNO DOMINI 1677.’[iii]
The church was small in size in comparison with churches later erected in the village and consisted of a narrow nave, rectangular on plan 6m wide x 12m long, oriented on an approximate east-west axis, with a simple bell cote above its east gable and a small porch with a pointed-arched doorway and small side windows annexed thereto. A short and narrower chancel approximately 4m wide was constructed at the west end of the nave, accessed by a wide arched opening. While the chancel was lit by one large square-headed window in its gable, the nave was lit by four square-headed windows, two on the south and two on the north elevation, between the latter two of which was located a low-level square-headed internal niche. Both north windows were later blocked up, as were both porch side windows. (After its redundancy as a place of worship the entrance doorway was also partially blocked up.) The church had little or no architectural elaboration and a brick vault was constructed at one stage in the life of the building in the floor of the chancel to serve as a burial space for members of the Eyre family. About its small graveyard a stone boundary wall and entrance gate was constructed, which would appear to date from the nineteenth century, above which gate was inserted a quatrefoil stone tablet bearing the inscription ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth.’
The overgrown ruins of the 1677 church and graveyard boundary wall between the village gates to the demesne on the left and the later Park Cottage on the right
Entrance gateway to the 1677 church and graveyard
In view of Eyre’s building of this church and having ‘brought several Protestant families together’ ‘and in order to promote and encourage an English plantation there’ the King by patent dated 5th February 1679 created Eyre’s lands and others at Eyrecourt into ‘the Manor of Eyre-Court, with five hundred acres in demesne; power to create tenures; to hold court leet and baron and a law-day or court of record; to build a prison; to appoint seneschals, bailiffs, gaolers and other officers; to receive all waifs, estrays, fines, &c.; to impark five hundred acres in free warren, park and chase; to hold a market on Wednesday and two fairs more on 29th June and on Thursday after twelfth day, and the day after each at Eyre-Court.’[iv] The grant of 1679 significantly altered the landscape about Eyrecourt thereafter. His new mansion, built in an architectural style new to the country and situated as a classical object in an ordered and landscaped demesne, announced his arrival as a significant landed proprietor and the arrival of a new order in the county and country. The demesne lands he created lay principally to the north and east of his mansion, while on the edge of his demesne a small planned village developed, its main street leading to the western gates to the demesne. The demesne itself was composed of several earlier townlands and denominations whose names were later went out of use and Eyre’s church was located on the boundary of that demesne with the village but within the confines of the demesne.
A small community of minor Protestants was evident at an early stage in the life of the village who would later be buried in the small graveyard about Eyre’s church. Among the earliest buried there, with the exception of the Eyre family, were Henry Canneville, who died in 1719, at the age of 90 years and James Banco, who died, aged 74 years, in 1722. With the exception of a small number of Protestant families who settled locally in the early seventeenth century but who suffered persecution at the outbreak of the 1641 Rising, their age would point to these men as having been among the first of a minor class of Protestants who settled in and about the village in the mid to late seventeenth century. While it is possible a small cluster of houses may have existed in close proximity to the earlier house of the Maddens at Killenihy the village which developed about the western gates of the demesne appears to have been one of the first planned villages in east Galway.
Captain John Eyre, by his wife Mary, had six children, two of whom, Rowland and Katherin died young and unmarried in their father’s lifetime. At his death on 22nd April 1685 he had two sons and two daughters then surviving; John, Samuel, Mary and Anne.[v] At his death his two sons were married. John, the eldest son and heir, was married to Margery, daughter and co-heir of Sir George Preston of Craigmiller, Scotland while Samuel married as his first wife his cousin, Jane, daughter of Edward Eyre of Galway.[vi] His daughter Mary was married to George Evans of Ballygranane, County Limerick. Anne, his youngest daughter, was unmarried at the time of her father’s death.[vii] She later married one Richard St. George.[viii] Captain Eyre’s Funeral Entry in Ulster’s Office stated that he was buried ‘in the parish church of Donanaght built by himself near Eyrecourt.’
Replacement as a place of worship
Eyre’s church was eventually deemed to be too small for its congregation and was replaced as a centre of worship for the Anglican Church of Ireland community when a new church was built ‘near the centre of the town’ at the north-western corner of Market Street.[ix] The new Protestant church would appear to have been erected about the early decades of the nineteenth century. In an account of the state of the Established Church of Ireland in the diocese of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh in 1820 there was only one church then in use in the town of Eyrecourt and that church was described as ‘newly erected.’[x] (At that time Rev. Richard Eyre LLD was resident in the town and had cure of souls in the vicarages Donanaghta, Meelick, Fahy, Tyrenascragh, Killimer, Kilquane and in Kilmacunna, this last situated across the river Shannon in the parish of Lusmagh. There was no Protestant curate at that time in the parish of Donanaghta nor a glebe house, the glebe lands described as supposedly consisting of three and a half acres in the centre of Eyrecourt Demesne, ‘with boundary defaced.’)[xi] The newly constructed church was described in 1837 by Samuel Lewis in his ‘Topographical Dictionary of Ireland’ as ‘a plain building in Eyrecourt, erected by aid of a loan of £307’ from the Board of First Fruits.[xii] From this new church the road whereupon it was constructed became known as Church Lane.[xiii]
When Patrick O Keefe visited the parish of Donanaghta in 1838 he recorded that Eyre’s church of 1677 had been roofless until approximately three years earlier (c. 1835) when it was slated. The church was not used as a place of worship at that time and, despite the re-slating, it was still not used for worship.[xiv] The early nineteenth century church was exhibiting ‘signs of decay’ by about mid century and having been pronounced ‘dangerous and incapable of restoration,’ ‘it was decided to take it down and build an entirely new edifice on another site.’[xv] The early nineteenth century structure was replaced as a place of worship by a new, larger and more elaborate Gothic Revival church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, constructed across the road on Church Lane and was demolished a short time before the consecration in September of 1868 of its replacement. The newspaper correspondent who reported in 1868 on the consecration of the new building described the original seventeenth Eyre’s church as still in use ‘as a vault for the interment of members of the Eyre family.’[xvi]
Following the sale of Eyrecourt Castle and demesne in the early twentieth century and the departure of the Eyres in the 1920s, the ruins of the 1677 church and the graveyard whereupon it stood became a part of the property of the family who acquired the castle. Over succeeding decades Eyrecourt Castle fell into a ruinous state and the condition of the small church at the entrance gate between the demesne and the village grew progressively worse and its graveyard overgrown with saplings, bushes and nettles.
Eyrecourt church bellcote behind overgrowth in the early twenty-first century
In the late twentieth century the church and graveyard were in an advanced state of decay and a number of disturbed coffins were visible beneath the damaged chancel burial vault.[xvii] Ida Gantz, writing in 1975 in her ‘Signpost to Eyrecourt’ noted that in the will of Captain John Eyre who died in 1685 he commended his soul to God ‘and his mortal body to be buried in the little church by Duffy’s cottage which is now no longer accessible.’[xviii]
The cottage to which Gantz referred was a gate lodge, the rendered and white-washed curvilinear west elevation of which was located between the former demesne gates and the graveyard wall and formed part of the demesne boundary wall. It was occupied in the mid to late twentieth century by a Duffy family and served as one of two gatehouses giving access to the demesne, the other located at the eastern entrance.[xix]
The classically-designed stone piers whereupon were hung the gates at the eastern entrance to the demesne were sold in the late twentieth century by the landowner but were subsequently bought from the purchaser by the local community through the Eyrecourt Community Group who, after negotiations with the landowner, had them re-erected at the eastern, village entrance to the demesne. In accommodating the eastern gates at the village entrance Duffy’s cottage was demolished.
Certain works were undertaken as part of a State-sponsored employment scheme in the 1980s, comprising for the most part the cleaning of the graveyard and the straightening up of a number of headstones. Works on that occasion did not touch on the fabric of the church proper.
In 1994 Dr. Christopher Cunniffe, later Galway Community Archaeologist, undertook a detailed survey of the graveyard and recorded the details of the thirty-two inscribed funereal monuments or stones in the graveyard, a record of which headstones and memorials are provided, by kind permission of Dr. Cunniffe, in the associated article under ‘Graveyard burials.’
The 1677 Eyre church and its graveyard are in private ownership and are inaccessible to the public.
A detailed record of these burials with an associated layout map of graves, prepared by Dr. Cunniffe, are also available at the following link; http://www.irelandxo.com/node/389
For further details regarding the Eyre family, refer to ‘Eyre of Eyrecourt’ under ‘Families’ and ‘Heraldry.’
[i] Certain other existing Medieval or late Medieval churches such as that located at Kilreekil was used for Protestant services in the early decades of the seventeenth century but were constructed prior to the Reformation and had previously served the Roman Catholic population.
[ii] Variously given in the seventeenth century as ‘Killinehy’ and also ‘Killenno als Killmigha Bodella & Kildalaffy’ or Killeny.
[iii] O Donovan, J. and others, Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Galway. Collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Vol. 2, letter no. 4, Loughrea, dated 3 November 1838.
[iv] 15th Annual Report of Records of Ireland, p. 358.
[v] NLI, Dublin, G.O. Ms. 87, Draft Grants E, c. 1630-1780, pp. 75, 115. Funeral Entry of John Eyre of Eyrecourt; Cronin, J., A Gentleman of a good family and fortune: John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640-1685, J.G.A.H.S., Vol. 60, 2008, pp. 88-115.
[vi] Hartigan, Rev. A.S., A Short Account of the family of Eyre of Eyrecourt and Eyre of Eyreville in the County of Galway, Reading, n.d.
[vii] Gantz, I., Signpost to Eyrecourt: Portrait of the Eyre Family, Bath, Kingsmead, pp. 127-8; Cronin, J., A Gentleman of a good family and fortune: John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640-1685, J.G.A.H.S., Vol. 60, 2008, pp. 107-8.
[viii] Gantz, I., Signpost to Eyrecourt: Portrait of the Eyre Family, Bath, Kingsmead, pp. 127-8.
[ix] King’s County Chronicle, 30 September 1868, p. 2.
[x] Miscellaneous Papers, Ireland; Established Church; Linen; Grain; Trade, etc., Session 21 April to 23 November 1820, Vol. IX; State of the Established Church of Ireland, Diocese of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, pp. 127-140.
[xi] Miscellaneous Papers, Ireland; Established Church; Linen; Grain; Trade, etc., Session 21 April to 23 November 1820, Vol. IX; State of the Established Church of Ireland, Diocese of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, pp. 127-140.
[xii] Lewis noted that Protestant divine service was also performed in a school-house in the parish of Killimorbologue.
[xiii] This road was shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Church Lane while the early nineteenth century church was still in use and prior to the construction of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the 1860s.
[xiv] O Donovan, J. and others, Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Galway. Collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Vol. 2, letter no. 4, Loughrea, dated 3 November 1838.
[xv] King’s County Chronicle, 30 September 1868, p. 2.
[xvi] King’s County Chronicle, 30 September 1868, p. 2.
[xvii] Dr. C. Cunniffe, Clonfert.
[xviii] Gantz, I., Signpost to Eyrecourt: Portrait of the Eyre Family, Bath, Kingsmead, pp. 127.
[xix] Luke Duffy rented a gate lodge in the townland of Kilnaborris about 1950 and later resided at this gate lodge in Eyrecourt.
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United States Representative Allyson Schwartz, of Pennsylvania, ran for a seat in the United States Senate in 2000. She lost in the Democratic primary to Ron Klink, who won 41 percent of the vote.
Schwartz began her career in politics as as a Pennsylvania State Senator. In 1992, she created the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) which received national recognition and was used as a national model. After losing the Senate primary in 2000, Schwartz successfully ran for the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. She served in the House from 2005 to 2015 and, once elected, she created legislation that gave a tax credit to businesses that hired veterans. In 2014, she unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Pennsylvania.
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The Chinese Language School at Yale University, established in January of 1943 to provide Chinese-speaking American officers and enlisted men for the U.S. Army, has been reorganized on a permanent basis. One of the two centers in the nation emphasizing spoken Chinese, the school, which is currently training civilians for various posts in China, will henceforth be designated as the Institute of Chinese Language and Literature. During World War II, a total of 418 men, including 176 officers and 242 enlisted men, received instruction at Yale in the Chinese language to equip them to train Chinese troops in all phases of modern warfare. The last group of these men left Yale on Nov. 30, 1945.
In 1947 the name changed again to the Institute of Far Eastern Languages.
George Alexander Kennedy was Professor of Chinese at Yale University from 1938-1960. He was also director of the Military Intelligence School and Army Specialized Training Program in Chinese at Yale from 1942-1944. During World War II, the campus was largely given over to the military, and over 20,000 soldiers, sailors and marines were trained on campus at Yale through the Army Specialized Training Program. The Army undergraduate courses included engineering, premedical, and language study and the advanced work consisted of medical training, a Military Intelligence School, and a Civil Affairs Specialist Training School.
In this picture from 1943, Kennedy is sitting front row center, with the staff on both sides and with the students at the top. In the row to his left is Yale graduate and Young China Hand John De Francis, who would later go on to develop a notable series of Chinese language teaching materials of his own, followed by a major dictionary of modern Chinese. The program thus had long effects, beyond the emergency that had called it into being.
Beginning in 1951, IFEL's primary mission was to provide the US Air Force Security Service with airmen trained in Asian languages, chiefly Chinese and Korean. The director of the Institute from 1952 through 1962 was Henry Courtenay Fenn. This arrangement ended with IFEL’s last classes in 1965.
The New Haven Register published an article about IFEL in January, 1962. This is a link to a copy of the article. New Haven Register
In September, 2012, Robert Bonds and Henry Kwan of the Yale Alumni Association arranged with Thomas Opladen, Yale Veterans Association President, to host a 50th anniversary event for the 1962 classes at IFEL. Colonel Scott Manning, commander of the new USAF R.O.T.C. detachment 009, accepted a gift plaque from the IFEL62 members to be installed at 215 Park St. to mark the original location of IFEL.
In March, 2013, Tom Opladen, with Robert Bonds and Henry Kwan, arranged for former IFEL students to be able to join the Yale Veterans Association.
In April, 2013, Colonel Manning invited former IFEL students to attend Yale's first annual joint Air Force and Naval ROTC awards ceremony.
On September 25, 2013, Robert Bonds and Henry Kwan along with Tom Opladen hosted a group of IFEL students from the 1950s and 1960s for the unveiling and dedication of the plaque at 215 Park St.
In the early 2013 run-up to the first annual Joint Air Force & Naval ROTC Awards Ceremony, Colonel Scott Manning mentioned to a few IFEL62 grads that it would be possible— in fact desirable— to create an award of our own to honor today’s ROTC cadets and at the same time solidify the historical presence of IFEL at Yale.
There was widespread sentiment among IFEL grads for recognizing the importance of Bob Tharp to our IFEL educations and in some cases to future careers, so the new honor was named the Robert N. Tharp Award.
Click here for a detailed account of the award and photographs of the recipients until today.
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Roger Khan: The Only Obstacle to the Black Militants
by Rakesh Rampertab
See PNC, Army, and Police Chiefs Collude to Eliminate Roger Khan
The political parties of Guyana must know that Guyanese would not welcome the extradition of any Guyanese citizen who provided significant support to the State, since it came under siege by criminals and militants, operating out of Buxton with the unbridled allegiance of a certain opposition party, the leadership of the police and army, and certain prominent Black personalities.
Since the March 2001 General Elections, I have chronicled the violence in Guyana, especially as it relates to racial and political issues. One is aptly aware of the arguments, moral, ethical, and otherwise regarding the crime situation. What is being witnessed today is not a question of crime, but a challenge to the very concept of “government” in Guyana. Given the strenuous efforts being made by the leaders of our security forces and their colleagues-in-arms to destroy a certain individual, it is fitting to restate a few facts.
When Black police men were being gunned down by the Black criminals-militants, when Black women inside Buxton were being gang-raped and impregnated by the so-called Black “freedom fighters,” when Black families inside Buxton that resisted this campaign of violence were treated with fire and gunshot, when the very Sovereignty of the Republic shuddered under this collective violence, certain “businessmen” confronted this unjustified revolt head-on.
During this time, the much celebrated “people’s army” maintained by taxpayers’ money, became static as its leadership was already compromised along Afro-centric lines. While the ruling party (PPP) struggled to arrest the plummeting situation, the primary opposition (PNC) watched safely, refusing to aid the State, partially because primarily Indian people, its traditional non-supporters, were being raped, robbed, executed, and chased from their homes and villages in various exoduses.
Further, it sought to counter-produce progressive developments, by arguing against the deployment of the military against the seditious militants. Only when the violence overlapped in unprecedented manners that threatened the very interests of the PNC, did the party surfaced—in letter columns. There is credible documentation of all of this.
Whatever is the US position in Guyana, Guyanese cannot begrudge them their interests. Yet, Guyanese must guard against division among our peoples to serve US interest. Historically, we still suffer from such an unholy experience. If the US Government is intent on fostering a government “by the people and for the people” (e.g., power-sharing), let it be said that from today, whatever form of government is implemented, must be coupled with an immediate and necessary restructuring of the army. No country can afford an army that exhibits self-destructive tendencies. An army that stands against the people is an army that would murder the people. One hopes that the notable advocates of power-sharing understand this.
Secondly, the advocacy for the extradition of any Guyanese who prevented the fall of the State must be preceded by the deliverance of the “masterminds” (Kwayana) responsible for plotting sedition against the people and exercising rebellion against the Republic. While one is reminded that the current regime, however corrupt or inept is still a legally elected government, all must remember that Guyana is not the property of any party or people, but of all parties and all peoples. Any show of arms against an elected government, therefore, is an unlawful exhibition against Guyana and all of its peoples.
To those who ask that we uphold the law of the Federal Republic of the United States, we request that they in same fashion uphold the law of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. While Guyanese understand the concerns of the Americans over the security of America, the Americans must likewise understand the concerns of the Guyanese over the security of Guyana.
As such, the “masterminds” ought to be prosecuted for the endless list of murders, kidnappings, rapes, and other human-rights violation committed under their leadership. By “masterminds,” one must include those in the army and police who, as entrusted workers of the State, have willfully used State-sanctioned recourses to facilitate a breakdown of the State. Of course, Guyana being what it is, this seems almost like words thrown into empty space.
Having heard from the PNC MP Debra Backer that the PNC only has interest in a government made legal by the ballot box, one is elated at such libertine rhetoric. But libertine rhetoric is often a disguise for doublespeak rabble in Guyana. Therefore, the PNC should explain its position as espoused during the height of the 2002 militant-criminals’ campaign of violence; which is that the PNC intends to “oppose, expose, and depose” the PPP regime. One recognizes that in a violent climate, the word “depose” (instead of “replace”) sends volatile signals to the public which includes gunmen and “masterminds.” Thus far, there has been no reversal of this position.
In light of recent supposed revelations, it seems like a repeat of the sixties. This very slogan of 2002 was associated with the UF-PNC-CIA disturbances (1961) against the Jagan regime of 1961-1964. It was a favorite of Mr. Peter D’ Aguiar, one of two key players, the other being the leader of the PNC, Forbes Burnham, who was recipient of money from the CIA and who colluded with US interests to ouster the PPP regime.
Before I conclude, the PNC should tell the nation what is its position on Article 98 (2), under the Rome Treaty, which offers US nationals (including servicemen) accused of crimes, immunity from being handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), or tried in Guyanese courts. For its being bullied into signing the treaty in 2003, Guyana received some 27 refurbished army trucks, and a few buildings built by US soldiers. The PNC should explain to the public what would be its recourse should, say, a young Black woman, a PNC supporter, be raped by an American serviceman?
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Any Major American Road Trip – 3
June 9th, 2016 Leave a comment Go to comments
The third leg of our musical road trip through the USA takes us from Texas via New Mexico and Arizona to California, including an extended stop in Los Angeles.
The rules for this journey — which is taking us from the East Coast to the West Coast and back east, beginning in Boston and ending in Miami — demand that the itinerary must be at least notionally plausible. But some zig-zagging is allowed. This is unavoidable in the early part of this leg.
Having left Lubbock, TX in our rear view mirror in last leg, we start off in Amarillo (I knew the way and decided to go with the original of the great George Strait hit, which you can find on the Any Major Morning Vol. 2 mix). We head west via the small town of Tucumcari, mentioned by Little Feat, to Santa Fe and Albuquerque where, after a fast food meal at Los Pollos Hermanos, we must make a decision.
See, I want to go to El Paso (for the dramatic Marty Robbins song), which means a four-hour drive south, but I also want to see the Grand Canyon, a six-hour drive west. So we’ll make a massive detour: first we go to El Paso and from there we take the nine-hour drive via Winslow to the Grand Canyon (I could have had a song about the Grand Canyon but don’t want to include landmarks. So Winslow, pop. 9,479, gets its song).
From there we’ll go to Phoenix and make another detour to Tucson, which allows me to include the rooftop concert version of The Beatles’ Get Back, which sets up our departure from Arizona for some California grass, much as Jo-Jo did in the song.
Six hours later we arrive in San Diego. And our Californian journey isn’t the most sensible either. Instead of the two-hour drive along the coast to LA, we turn inland, simply because there are few good songs about Carlsbad, none about Irvine and not much about Anaheim either. So we go twice the distance via Palm Springs (from where we can take an imaginary excursion to the Joshua Tree National Park), San Bernardino and Pasadena to enter LA from the north.
Our LA songs cover some of the essential areas — Hollywood, Beverley Hills, Laurel Canyon, Watts & Compton — as well as Randy Newman’s cynical view of the city and the racism encountered there by black people who came from the south in Dorothy Morrison’s song (written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill). Also included is Echo Park, which is said to be LA’s nicest neighbourhood.
We then turn to the coast to make our way north, beginning in Santa Monica and Malibu before hitting Ventura Highway. The America song isn’t actually set on the Ventura Highway; the idea of driving on that road is notional, pretty much like this road trip.
Notional or not, the bulk of the fourth leg will keep us in California. I expect there’ll be another three parts to the series after that.
As always: CD-R length, cover, PW in comments.
1. Terry Stafford – Amarillo By Morning (1973 – Amarillo, TX)
2. Little Feat – Willin” (1972 – Tucumcari, NM)
3. Arthur Crudup – Mean Old Santa Fe (1950 – Santa Fe, NM)
4. Neil Young – Albuquerque (1975 – Albuquerque, NM)
5. Marty Robbins – El Paso (1959 – El Paso, TX)
6. Eagles – Take It Easy (1972 – Winslow, AZ)
7. Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack – Bobby In Phoenix (2010 – Phoenix, AZ)
8. The Beatles – Get Back (live) (1969 – Tucson, AZ)
9. Ralph McTell – San Diego Serenade (1976 – San Diego, AZ)
10. Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys – Palm Springs Jump (1942 – Palm Springs, CA)
11. Christie – San Bernadino (1970 – San Bernardino, CA)
12. Bee Gees – Marley Purt Drive (1969 – Pasadena, CA)
13. Randy Newman – I Love LA (1983 – Los Angeles, CA)
14. Dorothy Morrison – Black California (1970, Los Angeles, CA)
15. 2Pac feat. Dr Dre – California Love (1995, Los Angeles, CA)
16. Weezer – Beverley Hills (2005 – Los Angeles, CA)
17. Joseph Arthur – Echo Park (2002 – Los Angeles, CA)
18. Tim Rose – Goin” Down In Hollywood (1972 – Los Angeles, CA)
19. The Mamas & The Papas – Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon) (1968 – Los Angeles, CA)
20. The Beach Boys – Santa Ana Winds (1980 – Los Angeles, CA)
21. The Sweet – Santa Monica Sunshine (1972 – Santa Monica, CA)
22. Hole – Malibu (1998 – Malibu, CA)
23. America – Ventura Highway (1974 – Ventura, CA)
Bonus track: Bill Withers – City Of The Angels (1976)
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Bo Dahlstrom
I was hoping for Tony Christie’s “Is This the Way to Amarillo” which I recall as a big hit in the UK in 1971 (and again in 2005/06). Oh well, only one town and so many choices, so I guess Terry Stafford’s song will do! A fine job of sonically mapping out the road trip. Many thanks!
Yeah, it was a toss-up. I really love George Strait’s version of Amarillo By Morning, but had used it before. So I went for the original.
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FORT APACHE, THE BRONX
They were only rookies… Two green cops blown away on the killer walkways of New York. Fort Apache, The Bronx… the 41st Precinct where nobody ever gets a second chance and most don’t even have a first. Now the Force is on the prowl under a tough new captain who is determined to shape up this last command. A command for losers where life is mean and death is often murder and where the law of the jungle is the only law.
The film, which opens today at the Criterion and other theaters, is a tough-talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful, acted by Paul Newman and a huge cast with the kind of conviction that can’t be ignored…it’s also entertaining and very moving, which is not something you can say of most movies about the decline and fall of civilizations.
“…based on the experiences of a couple of real cops in the worst area of New York’s Bronx. The area looks like a bomb site, with burned-out buildings and people. The filmmakers wanted to go into this area and use a police story as a framework for showing how people live and suffer there, and how public agencies such as the police grow frustrated trying to deal with an impossible situation.”
“There were authentic perceptions and ideas available to this film and you can see them on the screen. You can see them in the look of some of the shots, tracking across the urban wasteland, and in the sound and feel of a scene where a pimp beats and berates one of his girls, and the grim humor of a scene where a thief outruns a cop who pauses, gasping for breath, and lights a cigarette.”
One of the reasons the film is so effective is that, right from the start, the audience shares a sense of physical desolation that eventually becomes psychological as well as spiritual.
The movie stars Paul Newman. He’s good in his role, as a cop named Murphy who simultaneously falls in love with a nurse, witnesses his fellow officers committing a murder, and has a battle of will with his commanding officer…
“…The Bronx still suffers from the terrifying image left by “Fort Apache, the Bronx.”
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In a fog of pestilence, politics, war and peace processes continue
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by William Milam April 10, 2020
There is very little to write about these days except the COVID-19 pandemic. But most human activities, including politics and war, do not stop during pandemics, although their trajectories may bend radically. Two things are clear about pandemics: they are caused by viruses or other bacteria to which innocent people have not developed immunity and, therefore, they are widely lethal; and that they have often changed the course of history in fundamental ways. These changes are not predictable.
In South Asia, despite the onset of pandemic in all the countries of the region, politics will continue, framed in the context if subduing the Coronavirus outbreak. War will continue too, but framed mostly in the context of the Afghan peace process aimed at ending that 30-year civil war (also known as the longest war in US history – a misnomer). The Afghan peace process has moved to the back pages of newspapers and 30-second mentions, if at all, on TV news. This seems to be the case also in Pakistan, if a quick look at today’s electronic version of Dawn is any indication. The pandemic took up the entire front page and all subsequent national pages; the Afghan peace process only appeared on the second page of international coverage.
The serious question is, however, not whether politics will continue, but what impact the pandemic will have on these countries politically and economically, and on the peace process itself. While history hides its innermost trends, we know that fundamental changes in the politics, or the political and economic structures and institutions themselves, could result from a pandemic which seems currently almost impossible to stop or mitigate. The changes in South Asian societies, the surrounding region and the world in general are likely to make political and economic issues and security issues look very different in a few years.
The impact of pandemics can be fundamental and structural. In the 14th century the most famous of pandemics, the Bubonic Plague, devastated most of the world. Fairly recent research indicates that it originated in Mongolia or the region near there in the 1330s and spread slowly South and West and reached Eastern Europe by 1347, when the Mongols attacked and besieged an Italian trading station on the Caspian Sea. When the besieged Italians escaped by sea, they brought the epidemic to Europe where it devastated that continent. It came and went for a decade and killed an estimated one third to one half of the European population. The impact cannot be overstated and was deeply transformational. Its core cause was demographic: labor became much more expensive and this transferred power to the working classes and to the middle class. Structural change, such as the slow chipping away at feudalism, was accelerated greatly. Many historians believe this began the great transformation that moved European societies into modernity, accelerated the decline of arbitrary monarchial and aristocratic power and hastened the advent of more representative government. It stopped wars; England and France were so weakened that they called a truce to the 100 years war. The Vikings stopped their raiding of Western Europe and their exploration of North America. How different might we Americans have been if our founding fathers had been of Scandinavian origin?
This Bubonic Plague pandemic had been preceded by what is called the Justinian Plague of the 6th century. It spread from Egypt to Constantinople, the seat of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. Its relationship to the later Bubonic Plague is not clear, but its symptoms were similar. This pandemic disrupted the Emperor Justinian from reuniting the then-ruptured Eastern and Western parts of the Roman Empire. This plague revisited the empire over the next two centuries and ended up killing about a quarter of the world population. Some historians believe that the apocalyptic mindset it created in the lower classes led to the more rapid growth of Christianity.
Now we come to the most devastating and significant pandemic since the 14th century Bubonic Plague, the consequences of which had equal, if not more, significance impact on politics and economics of its time. And these consequences were the result not of the large number of deaths, although the death toll was enormous, but of factors more insidious and generally misunderstood. The 1918-19 Spanish Flu pandemic did not originate in Spain, an innocent bystander, so to speak, but apparently in the United States, in the state of Kansas when a virus that infected swine jumped to humans. It came at the worst time possible, when most of the great powers of the world were at war with each other. World War 1 (1914-18) ended in November of 1918; the pandemic broke out in January of that year in US Army training camps. The Americans carried the virus to Europe, and many of the deaths in those trenches in the final months of the war were from the influenza, not from enemy fire.
The US and its allies responded as most governments at war would as the pandemic spread through the trenches of Europe. They imposed strict censorship so the truth, even the fact, of a pandemic was hidden from the publics of the warring nations until it could not be any longer, and this delay certainly was responsible for a large number of the deaths, as nations could not prepare properly for the onslaught of a virus that humans had not experienced before and which was as contagious at least as the plagues of old. Ultimately, this virus killed somewhere between 20 and 50 million people in the world, and some estimates go as high as 100 million. From their study of this pandemic, epidemiological experts are unanimous on the need for total transparency in a pandemic, yet governments (including both the US and the Chinese) have repeated the same mistake, though not so long or so pervasively this time around.
The significant political and economic impact I refer to were the result of world leaders catching that flu. In a remarkable book first published 16 years ago, The Great Influenza, author John Barry, describes in about five very terse pages toward the end of the book the scene at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. Though thousands attended this conference, only three men mattered: Prime Minister Lloyd George of the UK, weakened by serious political trouble at home; Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, wounded in a recent assassination attempt but with a well-known proclivity for vindictiveness; and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, who was at that time, Barry points out, “the most popular political figure in the world.” They were, Barry writes, “deciding the future of the world.”
All three had the flu, but Wilson’s case was much worse and began to involve mental lapses. “Then abruptly still on his sickbed, only a few days after he [Wilson] had threatened to leave the conference unless Clemenceau yielded in his demands, without warning to or discussion with any other Americans, Wilson suddenly abandoned principles he had previously insisted upon. He yielded to Clemenceau everything of significance Clemenceau wanted, virtually all of which Wilson had earlier opposed.” He had given way on the questions of massive reparations, German responsibility for the war, a demilitarised Rhineland, French control of the coal mines of the Saar, the return of Alsace and Loraine to France, giving East Prussia to Poland, creating the Polish Corridor, limiting German to 100,000 men, giving German colonies to other countries. Wilson had arrived at the conference with his famous 14 points famously summed up in his phrase “peace without victory.” These concessions violated all of them.
Historians have routinely thought that Wilson suffered a minor stroke in Paris, a precursor to his major stroke four months later. But Barry’s description and argument that Wilson was another victim of the Spanish influenza is totally compelling. And thus, the concessions he made leading to the very vindictive Versailles Treaty, which almost all historians agree was the prime cause of German revanchism and the revival of extreme nationalism in the figure of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Party means the Spanish flu was also at least partly responsible for the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian parties in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and the Second World War.
The writer is a diplomat and is Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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Whittingham's legacy grows with second straight Pac-12 title
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By W.G. RAMIREZ
LAS VEGAS (AP) Utah's Kyle Whittingham doesn't care what conversation he's involved in when it comes to the chatter of today's top college football coaches.
But after his Utes dismantled College Football Playoff-hopeful Southern California 47-24 on Friday night in the Pac-12 championship game, it may be time to place his name alongside those considered today's greats.
"I don't know why it's not. Like, back-to-back Pac-12 championships, come on now, he's been here too long for people not to be talking about him," Utah running back Ja'Quinden Jackson said. "One of the best coaches that I've been around. It's time."
Utah, which was playing in its fourth Pac-12 championship over the last five seasons, is bowl eligible for the 14th time under Whittingham, the longest-tenured coach in the Pac-12 and second longest in the FBS.
"It's an anomaly to be at a school as long as I have, that just doesn't happen in this day and age," Whittingham said. "I'm very grateful and blessed to have been at the University of Utah for as long as I have ... close to 30 years as an assistant coach and head coach. Most coaches in that time-frame have been at 10 or 12 different places, so I feel very fortunate."
Whittingham said his focus has never been on him, but more so on keeping his job.
The only way to do so, he added, is by winning.
The Utes have finished with a winning season in 16 of Whittingham's 18 years as head coach, and have nine consecutive years of winning seasons since 2014.
"It's all about relationships and building those relationships with the players and your coaching staff, and even coaches from other teams," said Whittingham, who is 154-73 since taking over the program. "Again, if you don't win enough you won't be around long enough to build relationships. I've been fortunate in that regard. And I have no really no opinion on should I be in whatever conversation."
Nevertheless, while the Utes were going to the Rose Bowl whether or not they won or lost Friday, it was their second win over the favored Trojans this season, a victory that sweetened the pot for Utah before heading to Pasadena.
As they did in the regular season matchup, in which it fell behind by 14 points thrice, Utah shook off a 17-3 deficit and outscored the Trojans 44-7 en route to its blowout victory to claim its second consecutive conference championship.
And with the Utes up by 10, and the Trojans driving to close the gap, senior R.J. Hubert intercepted Caleb Williams' pass to send a good portion of the announced sellout crowd of 61,195 into a frenzy.
Moments later, Jackson raced 53 yards for a touchdown to put the game out of reach, reigniting the crowd and further cementing Whittingham's legacy.
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In new Netflix series, Pope Francis insists old people have lessons for young people
Alvin M. Keeling December 28, 2021 4 min read
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – No one surpasses Pope Francis to stay true to the message.
From his first months as Pope, when he urged the crowd at World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro to engage in dialogue with the elderly, the Pope has reiterated his call in his public hearings, his Masses and in its publications.
It’s also there in the first scene of a new documentary airing on Netflix on Christmas Day, “Stories of a Generation with Pope Francis”: “For me today, this is important for the future of the humanity that the young speak to the elders, ”Francis said to the camera.
The pope’s vision is based on a passage from the biblical book of the prophet Joel, which Francis sums up in the documentary: “The dreams of an elderly person are the richness of the life they offer you,” says the Pope.
The documentary, based on Francis’ 2018 book “Sharing the Wisdom of Time,” is divided into four one-hour episodes, each addressing a fundamental lesson to be learned through the experiences of older people: love, dreams, the struggle and the work.
The format of this multilingual, multicultural effort is simple: Director Simona Ercolani captures a series of conversations between men and women over 70 with people under 30. Two of the most recognizable elders are filmmaker Martin Scorsese and primatologist Jane Goodall, but most are everyday. heroes who overcame challenges despite enormous odds.
Francis’ own life is among the lives examined and it offers insight into spirituality, climate change, the plight of migrants and refugees, and polarization in the Roman Catholic Church.
In the first episode, “Love”, Francis takes the viewer to his native Argentina. Prior to becoming pope, Francis – then Jorge Mario Bergoglio – was a provincial of the country’s Jesuits during the political turmoil of the 1970s known as the “dirty war”, when agents of the ruling military junta kidnapped and killed people. left-wing opposition supporters. .
90-year-old Estela Barnes de Carlotto tells the story of the loss of her pregnant daughter, who was among those known as “desaparecidos” or missing. Many children have been taken away and brought up by their parents’ killers.
After the loss of his daughter, Barnes continued to fight the regime by founding a movement of women who spoke out against the government while trying to reunite broken families.
Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca in the Netflix series “Stories of a Generation with Pope Francis”. Photo courtesy of Netflix
Many contributors have a link with the pontiff. Scorsese met Francis in the Vatican in 2016 during a screening of Scorsese’s film “Silence” on the life and martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries in 17e-century Japan. In the episode “Love”, the documentary goes to the director’s house, where he talks with his youngest daughter.
The story of an Italian ice-cream maker, Vito Fiorino, 72, is one of the most touching in the series. While sailing near the island of Lampedusa in 2013, Fiorino found more than 200 migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. He managed to save 47, whom he now considers his children.
Lampedusa was also Francis’ first destination as pontiff, where he laid a wreath in the sea to commemorate the plight of migrants and refugees – another major goal of his pontificate. Another immigrant, Gisèle Assoud Sabbagh, 87, recounts having uprooted her life twice as a refugee from Syria and then from Lebanon in the third chapter of the “Struggle” series.
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The documentary shows older people not as static individuals, but as dynamic sources of strength and inspiration. “The elderly need to dream, otherwise they will fall into nostalgia,” says the Pope, and although nostalgia may allow the elderly to relive the beautiful moments of their life, without dreams they become “hardened”.
The notion is applied during the documentary to those critiques of Francis who want the church to remain unchanged. Francis praised tradition as a “struggle to keep the roots”, but clarified that this “does not mean that we are traditionalists”, adding: “A static tradition is useless”.
The latest episode, “Work” follows the story of a Vietnamese shoemaker, a Nigerian artist and fashion designer, and a Mexican midwife who has helped bring more than 3,000 children into the world. The trio exemplifies for the Pope the unbroken line weaving together the art, knowledge and suffering of people’s past with the optimism, energy and expectations of future generations.
“I like to teach others. It’s like planting a seed, ”says 70-year-old Nigerian designer Nike Okundaye,“ and that seed will grow.
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Dome Forces US Stock Market Lower
-- Published: Monday, 7 November 2016 | Print | Disqus
Source: Clive Maund for The Gold Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund takes a look at the current state of the U.S. stock market, and reflects on how the outcome of the impending election might steepen a decline.
A number of subscribers have written in asking about the technical state of the broad U.S. stock market, which we haven't looked at for a while. With the failure of an important support level a few days back and the election drawing near, it's certainly a timely question.
We'll start by looking at a 6-month chart for the S&P500 index, on which we see that early this week, forced lower by the "distribution dome" shown, it broke down below important support. Ideally, we should have shorted it on its last approach to the dome boundary after the middle of October, but we missed the chance. Now it has already arrived at its rising 200-day moving average, which may generate a near-term bounce back up to the failed support; this is now resistance, where the market may again be shorted, perhaps by means of puts in something like SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).
Here we should note that despite the 200-day moving average still rising, this is now a weak picture, for reasons that become clearer on the 1-year chart. In any case, if the market continues to drop, the 200-day moving average will quickly roll over and turn down.
On the 1-year chart all becomes clear, and we see why the market is now dropping away. It is being forced into retreat by the fine, large dome pattern shown now pressing down on it from above�this is what triggered the support failure early this week. Volume has been persistently heavy on this drop, which is bearish, and the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) indicator shows that there is plenty of room for it to drop further. An immediate downside target is the support shown in the 2000 area.
The 3-year chart shows that the current dome is the successor to an earlier one that took much longer to form. The earlier dome forced the index to plunge back toward 1800 early in the year, after the Fed's foolish and tiny interest rate rise last December, but aborted soon after. This illustrates that these domes can and quite often do abort. The crucial point is that until they do, the trend can be assumed to be down, and knowledge of the position of a dome boundary enables the judicious placing of overhead stops to protect any open short positions.
The 10-year chart is useful as it puts the action of recent years into perspective. On this chart we can see that a potential top area is forming, but that it won't be confirmed as such unless and until the index breaks below the key support at and above 1800, which we already looked at on the 3-year chart.
If this support does fail, it would usher in a true crash phase, and the risk of a near vertical plunge. One fundamental scenario that could trigger this would be a constitutional crisis arising from Hillary Clinton first being voted into the presidency, and then being indicted as a criminal. Although it may seem farfetched, this is not beyond the bounds of possibility. Outside of the U.S., Clinton is widely perceived to be a liar, a crook and a warmonger, who has only escaped prosecution thus far because of cronyism and nepotism�she is above the law. Many average voters are simply too ignorant and insouciant to comprehend what she is really like�many do though, to a greater or lesser degree, and will only vote for her because they like Trump even less.
However, even inside the U.S., the intelligence community and various others that she has crossed and insulted are deeply fed up with her, and they have recently been supplied with all the ammo they need to bring her down, if they so choose. And that could happen fast.
Returning to the 10-year chart, the key support shown may not fail. In the event that so-called helicopter money becomes fashionable, it could take off again and advance to new highs, regardless of the state of the economy.
The trend of the market is down, and it may be traded to the downside as long as the S&P500 index remains below the dome shown on its 1-year chart. A near-term bounce toward this will throw up a shorting opportunity. There exists the possibility of a more severe decline setting in soon.
Clive Maund has been president of www.clivemaund.com, a successful resource sector website, since its inception in 2003. He has 30 years' experience in technical analysis and has worked for banks, commodity brokers and stockbrokers in the City of London. He holds a Diploma in Technical Analysis from the UK Society of Technical Analysts.
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-- Published: Monday, 7 November 2016 | E-Mail | Print | Source: GoldSeek.com
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New Year’s Eve Shooting Incident Reported in Joppatowne
January 1, 2014 By Aaron Cahall
Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a shooting in Joppatowne which occurred just before the New Year Tuesday night.
The shooting was reported at approximately 11 p.m. in Joppatowne. According to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Edward Hopkins, it was unclear whether the shooting involved a suspect or a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Hopkins said detectives were interviewing family members and a single patient had been transferred to the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Check back with The Dagger for more on this breaking story.
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Bernard Tilleman
Professor at the University of Leuven
Prof. Bernard Tilleman is a Full Professor, Dean of the Law Faculty of KU Leuven, and Director of the Institute for Methodology of Law and of the Institute of Contract law at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He studied at Leuven, Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Bernard worked at the office of the Belgian Prime Minister and as an attorney at the Brussels Office of Cleary-Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He also is an attorney at the New York Bar. Bernard was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lille II in France, Liège in Belgium and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Moreover, he is President of the Examination Board of the Belgian Institute of Chartered Accountants, member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Belgian Institute of Auditors and Vice President of the Dutch speaking commission for nomination of bailiffs. At the China-EU School of Law he teaches CISG.
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To Become a Warrior 2017
I first wrote ‘To Become a Warrior’ in 2002. It was published in Interzone, and subequently in one of Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best anthologies. It’s about Carl, a poorly educated, not particularly bright young man who’s been left outside of the prosperous, liberal society of which he is nominally a citizen, and his recruitment by a murderous gang of ‘shifters’ who want to take the world back to the world of the Vikings.
It was one of a number of stories set in this world, the first being ‘The Welfare Man’ written in 1993. Judging by reprints in anthologies and reader’s polls, they have been among my most popular stories. However, I didn’t include them in either of my story collections, choosing instead to incorporate them into my second novel, Marcher.
My work as a social worker – when I wrote the story I was only a couple of years on from working as the manager of a social work team- had given me a powerful sense that even a prosperous, economically booming, middle class town like Cambridge (where I lived then and still live now), has another side to it, people who share no part of the prosperity. There was the famous Cambridge, with its beautiful old buildings, its ancient University, its IT and biotech industries, its bright, educated, liberal-minded citizens, and there was this alternate Cambridge which no one comes to visit, where I would go as part of my job.
When I incorporated ‘To Become a Warrior’ into the novel Marcher, I shifted from first to third person, added and changed details to make it fit in with the rest of the book, swapped around some characters, and gave the story two additional endings, in keeping with the novel’s theme of branching time lines and alternate presents. Below, I have restored the original first person short story, except that this time I have opted for one of the other endings.
I’m putting it out here now to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump. A clamour of rage and fear is going up today from the members of, so to speak, my own tribe, the liberal middle class. We see everything we value under threat, and we look around for people to blame. But I have a strong sense, which I’ve tried rather clumsily to explore in previous posts (for instance this), that we ourselves must take a share of that blame. If you leave people outside, they turn to others who offer to take them in.
Anyway, here it is in full, ‘To Become a Warrior ‘ to mark this historic day:
© Chris Beckett, 2002, 2017. Not to be reproduced without permission
To Become a Warrior
Where I live it’s the Thurston Fields estate only we just call it the Fields. Which it’s what they call a Special Category Estate which is crap for a start because everyone knows it’s a dreg estate and we’re the dreggies. Which is we’re the ones they haven’t got any use for, yeah? I mean fair enough, I can’t hardly read and write as such. Which I’ve never had a job or nothing only once I had a job in this tyre and exhaust place. Like a job creation scheme? Only I was late the second day – right? – and the manager, he only told me to do something about my attitude, so I fucking smacked him one, didn’t I?
And I’ll tell you what mate, not being funny or nothing, but if you never lived on a dreg estate you’ve got no idea what it’s like. You might think you have but you haven’t. I’ll tell you one thing about it, the Department runs your life. The DeSCA, yeah? The deskies we call them. Which you get different kinds, like housing deskies which if you’re some girl who gets pregnant, they’re the ones who get you a flat. (Mind you, if you’re a bloke and you want a flat you’ve got to find some slag and say you love her and that, know what I mean?) And you get teacher deskies, and benefits deskies. You even get deskie police. But I tell you what, mate, the ones we really hate are the fucking social worker deskies. Like they try to be so nice and understanding and that, all concerned about you – know what I mean? – but next thing they’re taking your fucking kid away.
Like my girlfriend Kylie, well my ex-girlfriend because I dumped her, didn’t I? She had her kid Sam taken off her and she went fucking mental, know what I mean? I mean, fair play, he is a whinging little git and at first I thought, great, all day in bed and no distractions. But it did her head in and she was crying and that, and she was down the Child Welfare every day and she didn’t want fucking sex no more or nothing so I thought to myself, I can’t hack this, I’ll go fucking mental, know what I mean?
(Which then she tried to top herself which her mum said was down to me but it never. It was the fucking deskies.)
Anyway, one day I was down the Locomotive with my mates when this geezer comes in – yeah? – and he only had a skull tattooed all over his face! I mean like so his face looked like a skull, yeah? Which my mate Shane goes, “Shit, look at that!” This bloke he looked well hard, but – yeah? – we must have had twelve pints each minimum, so I thought to myself, fuck it. And I go up to this skull geezer – right? – and go like, “Who the fuck are you?” (Shane was pissing himself, the prat. He thought it was hysterical. He thought old skull face there was going to beat the shit out of me.)
But the skull guy just laughs.
And he was like, “I’m Laf, who the fuck are you?”
So I go, “I’m Carl. What kind of name is Laf for fuck’s sake?”
And he was like, “Watch it mate,” only he was laughing, know what I mean? And he goes, “It’s short for Olaf. It’s a warrior’s name, alright? I’m a warrior of Dunner I am.”
I didn’t know what the fuck he meant but I didn’t want to look like a prat or nothing so I just go, “Warrior of Dunner, huh?” (You know, American and that).
And he laughs and goes, “You don’t know what I’m talking about, do you mate?”
So I go, “No I don’t, mate, but I reckon you’re talking out of your arse.”
But he just kind of looks round the pub at the blokes slagging each other off by the pool table and at the kids arsing about on the machines and at that old slag Dora with her wrecked fucking face who comes in every night and drinks till they chuck her out.
So he looks all round – right? – and then he looks back at me and he’s like, “This place is shit isn’t it?”
And I’m like, “Yeah?” Because, like, I can see what he means in a way but I drink there every bloody night.
And he goes, “Want to come and meet some of my mates?”
And I’m, “Yeah okay.”
And he’s, “Only I’ve taken a liking to you Carl. I liked the way you came over like that. More bottle than your mates there.”
Well then we walk straight out past Shane and Derek and they’re like trying to make out it’s hysterical – yeah? – but really they’re fucking gobsmacked, aren’t they?
And Derek goes, “Where the fuck are you going Carl?”
But I don’t know, do I?
Laf’s got his car out there – it’s like a really old Mondeo – and, it was well good, we ton across the estate at 90, with the windows down and the music on full blast. (Well the police don’t bother with the Fields at night, only if there’s a riot or something.)
And we go up Thurston Road, right up near the wire where there is them three big old tower blocks – yeah? – which are all sealed off and that because they’ve been like condemned. (I mean: they’ve always been condemned and sealed off like that since I was a kid, because of asbestos or something, I think.)
Me and my mates, we’ve tried to get into those places but they’re like not just boarded up they’re steeled up – yeah? – with metal plates and that. Only it turns out that Laf and his mates have managed to get into one of them called Progress House. Like there’s a kind of service door or something round the back which it still looks like it’s locked up but they can get in and out, yeah?
Inside it was really dark and echoey and it smelt of piss. You couldn’t see nothing but Laf goes charging off up the stairs: one floor, two floors, three floors…
“Wait for me,” I go.
But Laf just laughs and he’s like, “You’ll have to get fitter than that, mate, if you want to be a warrior of Dunner.”
Those places are like twelve stories high, yeah? Which right at the top they’d opened up a flat. You could smell the puff smoke from a floor below. Which there’s this room in there, like a cave – yeah? – with candles and that, and weird pictures on the wall, and there are Laf’s mates, three of them: one fat bloke in one corner, one really evil-looking bloke with greasy black hair in the other corner and then this boffy-looking fucker in the middle. And he’s got glasses on and he’s rolling up a spliff.
“Good evening,” he goes, really posh. And he’s like, “Welcome to Progress House. This is Gunnar” (that was the fat one), “this is Rogg and my name is Erik. Delighted to make your acquaintance.”
I look at Laf and I’m like, “Who the fuck is this?”
And Laf don’t say nothing in words but he’s kind of frowning at me – right? – like he’s going, “Respect, man! This geezer is well hard, know what I mean?”
(But, like, he’s got a skull all over his face!)
Erik laughs, “A word of advice, Carl. Laf has chosen to let you into our little secret. We do that from time to time, because we are, well, we’re missionaries in a way.” (I didn’t know what he was talking about at first. I thought missionary meant, like, sex with the geezer on top, know what I mean?)
“But if you were to reveal our secret to anyone else without our permission,” goes boffy Erik, “I personally will kill you. I mean that quite literally. And I assure you that what I have just said is not a threat but a promise.”
And Laf is like, “He means it, mate, he’s well evil. He’d kill a bloke, no sweat at all.”
And Erik laughed, really pleasant – yeah? – like some posh bloke on the telly.
You would not believe all the gear they had up there, yeah? We did E’s and A’s and M’s and C’s and fuck knows what else until the walls were wobbling like jelly – yeah? – and it was like Erik was talking into this blob of jelly from outside somewhere, down some tube or something.
“Have you heard of Dunner, Carl?” he goes. “Or Thor, some call him?”
And I’m like, “…er, no, don’t think so, mate…” – right? – like I’m talking up this tube?
“Well, he used to be big around here,” goes Erik. “Thurston means Thor’s town for one thing. Did you know that? Come to that he’s got a whole day of the week named after him. Thursday means Thor’s day.”
“Yeah,” goes Laf, “and Wednesday’s named after his dad, right, Erik?”
“That’s right,” goes Erik. “Woden’s day.”
And I’m like, “Yeah?” (Which if anyone else had come up with this shit I would just have laughed, know what I mean?)
“Dunner or Thor,” goes Erik, “is the god of thunder. And he’s a warrior god. His weapon is a big hammer which crushes anything it strikes. As I say, he used to be big around here. Your ancestors would have worshipped him. They would have sacrificed to him too, animals and even human beings. So you can see they took him very seriously indeed.”
And I’m like “So?” but I don’t say nothing.
“And now,” goes Erik, “here is another secret. But this one I am happy for you to tell who you like. Because it’s the government who wants it kept as a secret. It’s the politicians and the do-gooders. It’s them who don’t want anyone to know.”
Well the room was as big as a fucking football pitch now – right? – with that Erik talking over the p.a. in a big echoey voice like God or something.
“Do you think about the universe at all, Carl?”
“As in, like, the sun goes round the earth?” I go. “Stars and that?”
Erik does his nice TV laugh.
“That’s it, Carl, you’ve got it in one. Stars and that. But listen and I’ll tell you something. The whole of this universe of stars and space is just one tiny twig in an enormous tree and every second, every fraction of a second, it’s branching and dividing, making new worlds.”
I laughed. But – it was weird, yeah? – I could fucking see it. Only it didn’t look like a tree. More like millions of black worms in the dark that kept on splitting in two and splitting in two and splitting in two – yeah? – like viruses or something.
“There are millions of other earths, millions of other Englands, millions of other Thurston Fields estates,” he goes – and like I said, he’s like God or something, I couldn’t even see him with all the E’s and A’s and shit going round me, just hear his big echoey voice all round me.
“And we don’t come from this one,” he goes, “Laf and Gunnar and Rogg and I, we’re shifters, we come from another world. Anytime we want to we can go to another world too. So we can do what we want here. We can do whatever we want. No one is ever going to catch us.”
I heard him moving about somewhere out there, know what I mean, like he’s on a different planet?
“Look at these!” he goes.
Well I’m lying on the floor with my eyes shut and when I open my eyes, even though it’s only candles in there, it still feels, like, too bright, know what I mean? So it’s a job to see anything at all as such – yeah? – but I see he’s holding out a bag with pills in it, hundreds of dark little pills.
“These are seeds, these are Lok seeds. Every one of these will take us to another world. Think of that. We can travel between the branches of the tree like Dunner does, with his hammer in his hand.”
And then that Rogg speaks, that evil bastard with the greasy black hair, and he’s a Scotchman or a Geordie or something.
“Yeah,” he goes, “and you know what we’s looking for, mate? We’s looking for one of Dunner’s worlds. Know what I mean?”
I go, “Yeah?”
“He means a world where Dunner is still worshipped today,” goes Erik. “We know they exist because the seeds come from there and because of shifter stories. There are thousands like us, you see, Carl, thousands of warriors of Dunner moving between the worlds. And we tell each other stories. We swap news.”
Then that fat bloke talks: Gunnar. You know how some big fat blokes have these, like, really high little mild little voices? Gunnar was one of them, right? He had this gentle little voice – yeah? – really polite and high. I’ll tell you what, though, I reckon he could beat you to a fucking pulp. But he’d still talk to you like really kind and gentle while he was doing it – yeah? – in that small little gentle high voice.
And he’s like, “Do you want to know what it’s like in Dunner’s worlds, Carl?”
And I’m “Yeah” and he goes, “Why don’t you tell him, Erik?!”
(I’ve got my eyes closed again – right? – and those black worms are splitting and wriggling and splitting all the time all round me. But those shifter geezers’ voices are far away, coming down like from like ten miles above me or something.)
“Of course,” goes Erik, “of course” and he’s drawing breath, like this is the good part coming up.
“Does civilisation mean anything to you Carl?” he asks, “Or democracy? Or human rights?”
“You what?” I go, not being funny or nothing, but I don’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.
But they all laugh like I’ve made a really good joke! So I feel well chuffed, don’t I?
“They don’t mean shit to me!” I go, like doing the joke again.
“Of course they don’t Carl,” goes Erik kindly, “and do you know why?”
“Because I don’t give a monkey’s,” I go, but they’re tired of the joke now and they don’t laugh no more.
“The reason civilisation doesn’t mean anything to you, Carl,” Erik goes, “is that civilisation isn’t there for your benefit. You’re not part of civilisation. Civilisation is for the others out there across the wire. They don’t care what you think. They don’t care about what you can and can’t do. They give you a dreg estate to live in and a DeSCA department to look after you. All they ask in return is that you leave them alone with their civilisation. Just keep out of the way, is all they ask, and let them get on with their civilisation in peace.”
“Yeah?” I go.
“Carl don’t want to know all that, Erik mate,” goes fat Gunnar in his little kind voice. “He wants to know about Dunner’s worlds.”
“I was coming to that,” goes Erik and he, like, growls. He does not like being interrupted.
“You see Carl, in Dunner’s worlds there is no civilisation, no democracy, no human rights. And there’s no DeSCA either, no Special Category estates, no wire. A young chap like you doesn’t have to go to the deskies for money or a place to live. No. What you’d do in one of Dunner’s worlds is find yourself a lord. A warlord, I mean, a great warrior, not some toffee-nosed do-gooder who sits on committees about social exclusion and goes to the opera. You’d go to a lord and, if you promised to fight his enemies for him, he’d look after you, he’d make sure you got everything you needed.”
“And Carl, mate,” goes fat Gunnar, “that wouldn’t be like a deskie flat or nothing he’d give you. Don’t think that, mate. He’d have a big hall, with a big fire in the middle, and you’d live there with all your mates. And you’d drink all you wanted, mate, and eat all you wanted and get as pissed as you wanted and when it was time to sleep, well you’d just sleep there in the hall, with all your mates around you. So you wouldn’t never have to think about money or nothing, and you wouldn’t never have to be alone. How does that sound, my old mate?”
I laughed. “That sounds like fucking heaven mate.”
“Yeah, and you don’t need to work or nothing,’ goes old skull-face Laf, ‘All you got to do is fight! It’s your job, like. You even get to kill people and that and there’s no police or nothing to stop you.”
Which I’m like “Great!”
“Fair enough it’s dangerous,” goes Laf. “You could get killed too, know what I mean?”
“So?” I go, laughing. “Who gives a shit? When you’re dead you’re fucking dead, right?”
“Well said!” goes Erik. “Spoken like a warrior! But actually it’s better than that, Carl my friend, it’s better than that. If you die fighting, Dunner will take you home to Valour-Hall, where all the brave warriors go, and then you’d live again. And then it’s feasting and fighting for ever and ever, until the Last Battle at the end of time.”
And Gunnar’s like, “So what do you say, then, Carl my old mate? Do you want to be a warrior?”
Well, of course I do, don’t I?
“Yeah!” I laugh.
“Well there’s a test you have to pass,” goes Erik, “ a little test…”
But one of them is putting this spliff into my hand – yeah? – and I don’t know what they put in it but next thing I’m down on my knees half-way through my mum’s front door, chucking up all over the fucking lino.
Well, the next few days – right? – I’m like, “Did I dream that or what?”
I even went down there to Progress House – yeah? – and no way could anyone have got in there, know what I mean? Steel plates and massive bloody locks.
So I go, “Well, I must have dreamed it,” know what I mean?
But down the Locomotive when Shane and Derek and that go, “Where the fuck d’you go with that skull bloke?” I didn’t say nothing, know what I mean? Because – yeah? – I remembered that boffy geezer Erik go, like, “That’s not a threat it’s a promise.”
I didn’t feel like taking a chance.
But, like, a couple of weeks later I was just going down to the pub in the morning – right? – when this car pulls up. Which it’s only that dodgy old Mondeo and that fat geezer Gunnar driving it.
“Hop in, my old mate!” he goes, leaning back to open the back door.
So I get in the back and that evil Scotch bastard Rogg – yeah? – he’s there in the front with Gunnar and he passes me back a spliff and, like, we’re off.
Next thing we’re at the line and Gunnar is showing his ID to the cop.
And he’s like, “Alright mate? How you doing?” in his kind little voice.
“Not so bad,” the cop goes. Which he’s a bit surprised – yeah? – like he’s not used to people being nice to him and that. And he’s like, “Have a nice day!” as he lets us through the wire.
And Rogg laughs and goes, “Anyone tell you you can’t fake deskie ID cards, Carl? Well you can.”
And Gunnar’s like, “There isn’t nothing our Erik can’t figure out, Carl mate. He’s one in a million that geezer. He’s diamond, mate, he’s pure diamond.”
We go right across town – right? – to this posh area where I never been before. And Gunnar parks the car – yeah? – and we get out and it’s like there’s shops that don’t sell nothing but coloured fucking candles right? And shops that sell little toys made out of painted wood which any normal kid would smash in two seconds flat and they cost like a week’s money each. And all these rich bastards in fancy clothes and posh voices – yeah? – like la di da, this and la di da that and “Oh really Jonathan, that’s ever so sweet of you!” and beautiful bitches in posh sexy clothes like TV stars. And you look at them and think, “Shit I fancy you, ” but you know if you tried anything they’d just laugh at you like you was an alien from space or something with tentacles and that, or eyes on fucking stalks.
And Gunnar goes, “Do you know this place, Carl mate?”
And I go, “No.”
And he goes, “It’s Clifton Village mate, where the rich people hang out.”
“The beautiful people,” goes Rogg with, like, an evil sneer.
Then Gunnar puts his arm across my shoulders – yeah? – like he’s my dad or something.
And he’s like, “How’s this place make you feel, my old mate?”
And I’m like “How would I fucking know?”
“Angry maybe?” goes Gunnar kindly. “Does it make you feel angry at all mate?”
And I’m, “Nah, I don’t give a shit,” like with a shrug and that.
And then I go, “Yeah, alright, angry then.”
“That’s the way, my old mate,” goes Gunnar, “That’s the way.”
He’s still got his arm round me like he’s my dad or my kind uncle.
“Now listen, Carl mate,” he goes, “how would you like it if you could do whatever you wanted here?”
And I’m like, “Eh? What d’you mean?”
“How would you like it, Carl,” goes Rogg, “if you could smash these shops and burn these cars and fuck these women and blow away any of these smug bastards you wanted?”
“Yes, how would you like that my old mate?” goes Gunnar.
“Well of course I’d like it,” I go, “but you’re having a laugh with me, aren’t you? You’re just winding me up.”
“No,” goes Rogg, “no wind-up, Carl. It’s what we’re planning to really do. And I’ll tell you the beauty of it. The beauty of it is we’ll have swallowed seeds, so when the police come along we can just laugh and let them lock us up, because we’ll know that in an hour or two we’ll be in a different world and they won’t ever be able to get us.”
And it’s like it finally dawns on me, yeah? It dawns on me for the first time. If you’re a shifter you can really do shit like that. That’s what it would mean to be a warrior of Dunner.
So a big smile spreads over my face – yeah? – and I’m like, “Sweet, man! Fucking sweet!”
“And you can be there,” goes Rogg. “You can be there with us if you want to, if you’re willing to take the test, like.”
And I’m going, “Yeah, no problem, mate, no sweat at all”, when this old geezer comes walking past and suddenly stops, like, and looks at me.
“Well, well,” he goes. “Carl Pendant isn’t it? What a nice surprise! Do you remember me? Cyril Burkitt? How are you doing Carl? It must be all of fifteen years.”
And he, like, smiles at Rogg and Gunnar – yeah? – like any friend of Carl’s is a friend of his. (Which Rogg don’t say nothing, and Gunnar’s like “Alright, mate. How you doing?”)
And I’m like, “Oh alright, you know, mate” and that.
Well he’s only my old social worker I used to have when I was in care and that. Which they’re all tossers but I sort of liked the bloke. He didn’t never get funny with me or nothing – yeah? – like I remember one time when I’d fucked up as per bloody usual and he says to me “You just don’t get it do you Carl?” and I go “No I fucking don’t” and he laughs and he’s like “Well that makes two of us I’m afraid Carl.”
Anyway, old Cyril Burkitt looks at Rogg and Gunnar again and he’s like, “Well, I won’t keep you from your friends Carl. But I’ll tell you what, I’m retired now. If you fancy calling by for a chat sometime you’d be very welcome. I don’t see such a lot of people these days, you see, so I’m always glad of company. And I’ve often thought about you over the years and wondered how you were getting on.”
And he gives me this little card – yeah? – with his address and that.
Well then I notice Rogg and Gunnar looking at each other with, like, a funny secret sort of look.
So I’m like, “What?”
“A deskie, right?” goes Rogg.
And I’m like, “Yeah.”
Which they look at each other again – yeah? – and sort of nod.
“Well that’s your test then, Carl mate,” goes Gunnar.
And I’m like, “What is?”
And Rogg goes, “Go to his house, Carl, and kill him.”
Well I thought, “This is a joke, yeah?” So I’m laughing and I’m like, “Oh, he’s not that bad, not for a deskie, know what I mean?”
And Gunnar goes, “No Carl mate, you don’t understand. That’s your test! See what I mean, mate? It’s what you’ve got to do to become a warrior. Are you with me, my old mate?”
“You’s got to make a sacrifice for Dunner,” goes Rogg.
Which, like, they’re just looking at me – yeah? – and waiting.
And I go, “Shit!”
And Gunnar goes, “Fair enough if you don’t want to do it, Carl mate. No hard feelings or nothing. But if you do want to be a warrior, well, that’s the test you’ve got to pass. Know what I mean?”
So I like swallow – yeah? – and I’m thinking, like, well, all deskies are the same really. Alright some of them act nice and that but it don’t mean nothing. Which anyway the stupid git, if he goes round giving out his address and that, some fucker’s going to get him – yeah? – and if it’s not me it’s going to be some bugger else. So it don’t make no difference really anyway.
So I laugh – yeah? – and I go, “Yeah, alright. I’ll do it.”
So Laf – right? – he takes me over in the car the next day to the place where Cyril Burkitt lives. (Which it’s like another part of town which I never heard of. Only I never really been nowhere much outside of the Fields as such, except down the Centre – yeah? – to clubs and that and once we went over to Weston on a school trip and Shane had six pints of lager and threw up all over the teacher.)
And he stops like a couple of streets away and he’s like, “Now it’s along there and then turn right and it’s number twenty-three, right? So don’t get lost will you, Carl?”
Well I’m like, “Fuck off,” know what I mean? Laughing and that to show I’m not worried or nothing.
So I start to open the door but he’s like, “Hang on a minute, Carl mate. You’ll need this, you prat!”
Then he gives me a gun as such and it’s like, “This is the trigger, mate, and this is the safety catch, and this is a silencer so there won’t be any loud bangs or nothing. And listen, mate, there’s ten bullets in there, so when he’s down, empty the lot into the bastard, know what I mean? Into his head and that, yeah?”
So I’m like, “No worries mate.”
He laughs and lights up a spliff for me.
“I don’t need no wacky baccy to give me the bottle for this job mate,” I go. “It’s no problem mate. It’s no sweat.”
And he’s like, “No Carl, I’m not being funny or nothing, mate. It’s just, like, to make it more of a laugh, yeah? Know what I mean?”
Then I’m outside Cyril Burkitt’s house – yeah? – and it’s doing my head in because I never really thought he had a home or nothing, know what I mean? He was just a deskie, yeah? And, like there’s a car outside and flowers and that, and a milk bottle, and there’s, like, a little path from the gate made of bricks, and coloured glass in the front door: red and blue and green. And through the front window – right? – there’s this big room with loads of books and that. Which I can see him in there – yeah? – reading the paper by himself. And there’s music playing, yeah? Violins and that.
So I ring the bell, and he looks up and sees me through the window. Which he, like, smiles and gets up and comes to the door.
“Hello, Carl! This is a nice surprise! I didn’t think you’d come. I didn’t think you’d have the time for an old deskie like me!”
He’s got like a cardigan on, and brown slippers and, like, old-man jeans, and he hasn’t shaved yet or nothing. He don’t look like a deskie, really. Just some old geezer, know what I mean?
“Come on in, Carl, come on in. Can I get you a cup of tea or something?”
And I’m like, “Yeah, thanks, tea” so we go through into this big kitchen like on telly or something with like wood everywhere and a stone floor and that.
Which he gets the kettle and goes over to the sink to fill it up.
“Let me see now, Carl, is that milk and four sugars? Have I remembered that right?”
Then he turns round smiling and sees the gun in my hand.
And he’s like, “Oh.”
It’s weird, he don’t look scared or nothing, just like, tired.
“I see,” he goes.
And then he laughs! Not like really laughs, but like, a little sad sort of laugh. Know what I mean?
“All this hatred!” he goes, “I should be honoured really I suppose. It’s almost like being loved.”
“You what?” I go.
“Never mind, Carl,” he goes. “Don’t worry about it.”
He puts the kettle down slowly and then he goes, “Someone put you up to this, I suppose, Carl? You were never much of a one for thinking things up for yourself.”
And I’m like, “Mind your own business.”
Which he nods and sort of sighs.
“Listen Carl,” he goes, and he’s really slow, like he’s thinking out loud. “Listen Carl. My wife died a while back and she was the only person in the world I really loved. And then my career sort of petered out, as you may have heard, not that it was ever much of a career and not that I was ever much cop at my job – as you probably know better than most, I’m afraid. So I really don’t have a huge amount to live for. Oh, I get by alright. I potter around. I weed my garden. I do the crossword. I watch TV. But really it doesn’t make much difference to me if my life ends now or whether it goes on for another twenty years. Do you see what I mean? I mean: if you really need to shoot me, well, be my guest!”
Well I’m like, “What the fuck?” but I don’t say nothing. I’m pointing the gun at him, and my finger’s on the trigger.
“But listen Carl,” he goes, “I don’t know who put you up to this but, you know, you are very easily led. I do suggest you think very carefully about whether it’s actually in your interest to shoot me. You really do need to think about that.”
And I’m like, “Fuck off, don’t give me that deskie shit now, alright. Just fucking leave me alone.”
It’s doing my fucking head in, know what I mean? My hand is shaking so much I can’t hardly point the gun.
“I’m worried for you, Carl,” he goes, “It probably sounds strange, but I really am.”
Which then – yeah? – I can’t stand it no more and I pull the fucking trigger just to make him stop.
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2 thoughts on “To Become a Warrior 2017”
Cererean says:
This post got shared a lot re. Donald Trump – https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ It’s very interesting reading.
I have no idea what to do to help those who find themselves surplus to the requirements of the modern age. But I suspect the decline of the church is partly responsible for the current situation – having a community that helps it’s members and encourages them to strive and live for something bigger than themselves is pretty important for humans. What is the common factor between drug addiction, overdosing, and suicide, if not despair and loss of hope? Having a job might have made up somewhat for the purpose provided by religion – one can find purpose in providing for ones family – but when those jobs went, what was left?
I don’t know much about this. You’re the one who’s worked with people in such situations, what do you think?
Thanks for comment and the interesting post. The unnecessariat. A good word.
Religion? Well, I’m not religious, but I think we have lost something when there is nothing at the centre of the community, no higher value, than the marketplace. I was very struck, on a a visit to Morocco, by the fact that at certain times of day, shops and marketstalls would be left unattended, while their owners went to the Mosque. I’m not at all drawn to Islam as a religion, but I admired the commitment to the idea that there was something more important than buying and selling.
Jobs? Yes, I agree, having a job gives a sense of purpose, not only in that you are providing something to your family, but you are contributing to the work of society as a whole. What is left in a market driven society if you have no market value?
My former job. I was a social worker, and I guess a lot of the people I used to work with might feel like they were part of the unnecessariat. I don’t think this qualifies me to know what can be done about it, because this is not a thing that could be fixed by casework.
I would say that a stable society requires that all, or as near as possible, all of its members feel they are doing something purposeful and that what they do is valued and reasonably remunerated by others. It’s not as if there aren’t useful jobs out there waiting to be done: roads and public spaces that could do with maintenance, roofs that could do with solar panels… etc
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New Release of Updated and Corrected Data from the CMCR Project
Last month we launched the CMCR project with a goal of making available a systematic, comprehensive and long-term body of data covering more than a dozen sectors of the telecom, media and internet (TMI) industries in Canada for the period from 1984 to the present. The launch coincided with the start of the CRTC’s hearings on Bell’s proposed take-over of Astral Media. It was a huge success, with nearly 700 hits on our blog on just the first day.
We worked hard on getting the material up in time for the hearings and to this I owe several graduate students, Adeel Khamisa, Adam Webb and, subsequently, Lianrui Jia, an enormous amount of gratitude. They did an extraordinary amount of work under a great deal of pressure and exceeding tight time frames to make this happen.
Indeed, it was only at the very end of July that I got the call to write a report on behalf of PIAC’s intervention opposing Bell’s bid to take-over Astral that the gears were put into motion to pull all of the data together for 2011 and to write the report. The report was submitted to the CRTC less than two weeks later, on August 9th.
I was extremely proud of the work done to pull together the report for PIAC and in getting our updated data sets out in the public domain. All sorts of numbers were being tossed about with little sense of how different people ostensibly looking at the same thing could arrive at such different conclusions about the state of media concentration in Canada.
This sense of great satisfaction took a hit on the last day of hearings, however, when Bell filed an exhibit with the CRTC claiming that the figures in my report for CBC television and radio revenues was incorrect. Unfortunately, Bell was right and the figures that I reported for CBC revenues were too low.
The data was revised, corrected and resubmitted to the CRTC immediately. These errors are regrettable and I am deeply sorry they happened. However, as I have said many times before, systematically gathering a body of data that covers more than a than a dozen sectors of the TMI industries over the course of more than a quarter-of-a-century is not easy. Indeed, this is why we initiated the CMCR project in the first place, and no doubt why no comparable body of data exists.
Nonetheless, it is essential that I be transparent about my mistakes and work to set things right. This is what we have done over the past month. Today we will start to release the revised data sets, beginning with those that are directly relevant to the Bell Astral deal: radio, broadcast television, pay and specialty television and lastly the total television market.
Also included in today’s release is a new set of tables showing the impact of the Bell’s acquisition of Astral should it be approved. Lastly, in addition to showing market shares for each of the players in these media sectors, we have also added completely new data sheets showing their revenues in each of the years covered by our study.
The corrections and revisions do not contradict my original report’s main assertions that, should Bell’s bid to take over Astral be approved, concentration levels:
1. in radio will rise significantly;
2. remain unchanged in broadcast tv because Astral has a miniscule presence there;
3. rise to extremely high levels of concentration in the pay and specialty servicesmarket (43%);
4. increase substantially in the “total television market”.
The corrections to the CBC data do reduce Bell’s market share slightly but actually result in CR4 and HHI scores that are higher than originally reported. Finally, the Bell Astral deal will raise the levels of vertical integration in Canada significantly as well. We already have the second highest levels of cross-media, vertical integration among thirty-two countries studied by the IMCR project. If the Bell Astral deal is approved, we will have the dubious honour of being Number One.
We will release the rest of the updated and revised data sets for the following sectors over the next two weeks: wired telecoms; internet access; wireless cable, satellite & IPTV; newspapers; magazines; online news sources; search engines. Stay tuned!
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Barbados Reparations Chair Clears Up Rumors About Plan To Go After Benedict Cumberbatch
Wed, January 4, 2023 at 11:43 AM
The deputy chairperson of the National Task Force on Reparations in Barbados has cleared the confusion surrounding English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Late last month, The Telegraph reported that Cumberbatch and his family were on a target list in a bid to obtain financial compensation for the descendants of enslaved people living on the Caribbean island, Newsweek reported.
Cumberbatch's seventh great-grandfather acquired the Cleland plantation located on the north part of the island in 1728. At the time, 250 enslaved people were kept there until the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper, also reported. When slavery ended, the British government compensated enslavers on the island to compensate for their business loss.
That loan to compensate them was fully paid off in 2015.
Apparently, Cumberbatch's ancestors received compensation of $1.2 million. The Telegraph asked Comissiong if descendants of the plantation's owners would be pursued for reparations.
"This is at the earliest stages," the publication quoted Comissiong saying in response. "We are just beginning. A lot of this history is only really now coming to light," a quote that Comissiong says was taken out of context.
On January 2, Barbados Today published an op-ed in which Comissiong accused The Telegraph of not only quoting him out of context but also "putting words" in his mouth. He also claimed that the newspaper is on a "mission to concoct its own narrative" about the reparations campaign.
Comissiong clarified that the newspaper's journalist asked him if Barbados "intends to pursue a reparations claim against the family of someone named Benedict Cumberbatch, and when one answered that one does not know who Benedict Cumberbatch is nor anything about his family's supposed involvement in slavery in Barbados, that answer is reported as my having asserted that Barbados has not ruled out pursuing a reparations claim against Mr. Cumberbatch and his family!"
"And then suddenly there is a big international news story about Barbados pursuing a Reparations claim against the said Benedict Cumberbatch!"
He also said that the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which includes Barbados, in 2016 "advanced a reparations claim against six Western European governments-inclusive of the government of the United Kingdom-for Reparations for the damage that Barbados and the other CARICOM nations experienced during the centuries of European-orchestrated Native genocide and African enslavement."
"And the claim was advanced against the national Government because it constitutes the institutional linkage between the European nation's present and its past.
"In the following years, CARICOM and, by extension, Barbados, extended the Reparations claim to currently existing European companies and institutions that were either directly implicated in the crimes committed during those centuries of genocide and enslavement or that benefitted financially from the said crimes."
"To date, neither CARICOM nor Barbados has officially leveled a Reparations claim against a European family," added Comissiong.
"And, clearly, the reason is that it is much easier to establish a Reparations claim against a legal entity such as a national Government or a company than it is against a family. A family, after all, may be subject to all types of discontinuities and admixtures over an extensive period of time."
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FIVE-TIME NBA ALL-STAR TIM HARDAWAY AND NBA CHAMPION BRIAN SCALABRINE HEADLINE NBA 3X PHILIPPINES PRESENTED BY AXA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced today that NBA Legend Tim Hardaway, NBA Champion Brian Scalabrine, and the Detroit Pistons Flight Crew will attend NBA 3X Philippines presented by AXA from Aug. 25-26 at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall.
NBA 3X Philippines 2018 will showcase a 3-on-3 tournament featuring men’s and women’s teams combined with authentic NBA entertainment. Preliminary tournaments for NBA 3X Philippines 2018 began on Aug. 11-12 at Benguet State University and will continue on Aug. 18-19 at Don Bosco Technical Institute University to determine the participants in the playoffs at the SM Mall of Asia.
“It’s a great feeling to return to the Philippines and get reacquainted with the passionate Filipino fan base,” said Hardaway. “NBA 3X celebrates the vibrant culture of basketball, which will be in full display for fans to experience throughout the weekend festivities.”
“Traveling to the Philippines for the first time is an exciting opportunity to experience how the game is played on this side of the world,” said Scalabrine. “As a basketball fan and analyst, I’m looking forward to interacting with the fans and sharing my knowledge with the talented athletes at the NBA 3X event.”
The competitive 3-on-3 tournament includes divisions for boys (under-13, under-16, under-18, and open category), girls (under-18 and open category), an invitation only Celebrity Division featuring popular local personalities, and a division exclusive to AXA employees and distributors.
Hardaway was drafted 14th overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 1989 NBA Draft and named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 1990. A five-time NBA All-Star, Hardaway played 14 seasons in the NBA with career averages of 17.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 8.2 assists and selected to five All-NBA Team selections. He was named an assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons from 2014 to 2017.
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Arrested Development Is Back! It’s Time to Celebrate with Fan Fiction!
I don’t know about you, but I blue myself when news surfaced that Arrested Development was coming back with a movie and 10 television episodes in 2013. Arrested Development is probably my favorite TV show. At one point X-files was, but I’ve come to discover that X-files doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time as well as AD does. The music and secondary actors were kind of cheesy on X-files. NOTHING ABOUT ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IS CHEESY.
Now that the show is back, I’ve been fantasizing about what the Bluths have been doing all this time. I used to be really good at fan fiction writing as a teenager. Coming up with stories about Mulder and Scully doing it helped me get through puberty.
I’m going to see if I still have the fan fic chops.
The show has been off the air for five years and Michael Cera and Alia Shawcat are noticeably not fat-faced anymore. However, I freaking hate when shows or movies come back in real time. Can’t everyone just stay all Simpsons-like? Do we really want to see George Michael at college or Lucille with a dialysis bag? For example, the second X-files movie picked up 6 years after the series ended and Mulder and Scully were all domestic and bitter and sad-looking. Who wants to see that? NO ONE! So I’m going to pick up with the Bluths with where the creators left them.
The series ended with Michael and George Michael trying escape on the open sea from their wholly dysfunctional family. Their flee is cut short by Lucille’s rogue getaway on the Queen Mary.
Maeby pitches her family story to Ron Howard and he suggests that it would make a good movie.
Here is what happened afterward…
Michael and George Michael make it as far as Catalina Island before their boat runs out of gas and they become stranded. Wandering around the shopping district, Michael vows to get he and George Michael off the island and to Phoenix, Arizona once and for all. Fearful of moving into a retirement community and never seeing Maeby again, George Michael drums up the courage to tell his father that he is tired of constantly running. Michael argues with his son that their family is full of sick individuals who need help and that he no longer wants to be a pawn in their warped game. Upset, George Michael threatens to run away from his father forever and survive in the wild. Michael points out that they are on a small commercialized island.
Meanwhile, back in Long Beach, the Queen Mary is pulled over by police and Lucille and George Sr. are pursued on deck. While most of the party-goers on the boat have fled in dinghies, the only people left on the boat are the clueless hot seamen down in the engine room. George Sr. knocks one of them out and steals his outfit, only to have his protruding gut give away to police the fact that he is neither hot or a seaman. Lucille, having already come to terms with the fact that alcohol is slowly killing her, decides to speed up the process by chugging bottles of liquor at the bar. Hardened by years of drinking, Lucille is frustrated to learn that she isn’t even buzzing by the time the police find her. Back on deck, having been turned on by the commotion and Lindsey’s earlier dismissal of him, Gob sets out to win her honor by proclaiming that he can walk on water and that Lindsey should come with him. Overseeing this, Tobias becomes jealous and devises a plan to win the affections of the one he loves and get rid of Lindsey…er…he means Gob, once and for all. Tobias confronts Gob and asks him what he is doing. Later that evening. No, what he is doing with his wife? Isn’t that his sister after all? Isn’t that gross? I mean, Tobias is only his brother-in-law, so isn’t that better? Wait, that’s not what he meant.
Tobias jumps on Gob’s back thinking it is the best way to attack, but Gob is mostly confused and continues making advances at his sister. Lindsey begins beating Tobias of Gob’s back before the police arrive and arrest all three.
Within this time, Maeby has already hitched a ride over to the movie studio with releases from all of her family for a television series. She brainstorms actors that would be good for the series and surmises that Drew Barrymore would best play the role of Maeby.
Buster, having run into the seal that bit off his hand, discovers that the seal is not dangerous, but lonely and bored, much like him, and he feels a kinship to the seal. Buster promises to find a way to make him his pet and tells him to meet him later under the Newport Beach dock.
Lindsay calls Michael from jail and pleads with him to come back and help the family. Michael tells her no, but the thought of seeing his entire family behind bars gives him more pleasure than he thought humanly possible. He tells George Michael that they’re going back to Newport Beach one last time to say goodbye to his family. George Michael rolls his eyes.
Michael and George Michael arrive at the station to find their family missing. An inmate tells Michael that George Sr. pimped out Lucille to a jailhouse guard who pretends not to notice when the family flees through the AC ducts. The family accidentally makes their way to the third floor of the courthouse and gets lost. While Michael is using the courthouse restroom he hears what sounds like the muffled weeping of Tobias and he calls to him through the AC vent. Michael rescues his family and they all cram into the tiny one toilet restroom. They ask Michael to help free them and Michael is torn- does the cycle continue or does he end it here?
Fill in the ending in the comments below!
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Reply nova October 5, 2011 at 4:23 pm
I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS COMING BACK! I blue myself too! So excited!
Reply hipstercrite October 5, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Yep! It is! Seems like the news came out of nowhere! I hope they stick to it!
Reply Cathy Benavides October 5, 2011 at 4:53 pm
OMG so exciting!! Can I just say that you forgot to add that when they are all crammed in the bathroom together, Michael has to say “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
HA! Good one, Cathy!
Reply Jim Ranes October 5, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Awesome. Spot on. The image of everyone decked out in a county orange jumpsuit surrounding Michael in the tiny restroom is just perfect. Maybe you could add an interlude where Lucille is looking for the bar, and Michael reminds her that it’s a prison, so there is no bar. And then she’d say “This is why people hate prisons, Michael!”
Ha! I know! I could have just kept on going with the story. Maybe we should do a community fan fic story!
Reply postage rates 2011 October 10, 2011 at 5:37 am
i love your blog, i have it in my rss reader and always like new things coming up from it.
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Author Topic: Happy Halloween
Just wanted to wish all my fellow monkeys a happy Halloween. Have fun and stay safe tonight. I have no plans other than handing out candy and watching the ghost hunters live show. Here's a little history of the holiday.
From History.com.
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.
Video: The haunting History of All Hallow's Eve (Halloween).
Video: Timothy Dickinson tells the intriguing tale of why we celebrate Halloween, and it's evolution from Samhain, an ancient Celtic Harvest Festival.
The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.
kuAngelB
Thanks for the history of Halloween
We had fun passing out candy to the kids last night. The neighborhood was really decorated and people were out there in large numbers having a great time
Later, I watched an episode of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" called "Halloween"
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Originally posted by KM4KU:
Originally posted by kuAngelB:
Sound like a fun Halloween. We didn't have to many trick or treaters. Stayed a wake the entire 7 hours of the show. Last year I fell asleep on the last hour. Really sleepy right now lol.
I did the same thing u did!!! lol
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The first exhibition in the Kunsthalle Zürich’s new and renovated premises at the Löwenbräukunst is dedicated to a reunion with an artist who presented his very first institutional exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 1995. Since then, Wolfgang Tillmans (born in Remscheid, Germany in 1968, lives and works in Berlin and London) has tested and expanded the possibilities of photography in the most varied ways through his photographic and video works. Along with his latest abstract works, the exhibition «Neue Welt» («New World») presents photographs from the artist’s new group of works of the same name, which were created in the course of numerous journeys and are collected here for the first time in a comprehensive show.
For Wolfgang Tillmans the exploration of the image, the question as to how meaning arises on a piece of paper and, accordingly, how an image actually becomes an image, is central to his work. His photographs range from portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and sky photographs to scenes involving subcultures and the circulation of goods, spaces of living and transit, abstract and medium-reflexive images; they initiate a polyphonic visual discourse on issues that affect the contemporary world as a whole. Tillmans started to expand the possibilities of photography with his early works from the early 1990s, which include the now famous photographs of his friends and his insights into the London and international club and music scenes. His committed and personal view of social and political global events presents, at the same time, an intimate view of human life and the beauty of the everyday.
Since starting work as an artist, Wolfgang Tillmans has also focused on the basic and production conditions of photography as a medium. Over the past decade, in particular, he has created abstract works, whose production is no longer bound to the camera. They show traces of light on the photographic paper (particularly in the Freischwimmer and Blushes series) or involve the chemical and mechanical processing of the light-sensitive material as in the images from the Silver series. The Silver works, which Tillmans has been creating since 1998, reflect the reaction of the photographic paper to light as well as mechanical and chemical processes. The name Silver arises from the dirt traces and silver salt stains that remain on the paper when the artist develops the photographs in a machine that is filled with water and has not been completely cleaned. The visual appearance of the deposits on the photographic paper are determined by an accidental effect produced by the photographic technology which reveals the process of formation and materiality of photography. Tillmans’s abstract works also include the Lighter series. In these photographic prints, which have been manipulated by creasing or deliberate folding, smooth, flawless areas alternate with flawed surfaces, thereby transforming the photographic paper into a fascinating three-dimensional object.
This focus on the interior perspective and the possibilities offered by purely studio-based activity is now followed, once again, by a focus on the external perspective. Twenty years after Wolfgang Tillmans first started to form an image of the world, he asks himself whether the world can be seen “anew” in an era characterised by a deluge of media images, and whether a sense of the whole can be formed. Tillmans is not only seeking the “new” in terms of political and economic change, but also in relation to the digital development of photography, which due to the potential now available in terms of resolution can now enable the presentation of details with a degree of clarity that no longer reflects the capacity of the human eye and vision. However, because our eyes have become accustomed to high definition standards, the high resolution is akin to a newly felt perception. Equipped with a digital camera, Tillmans travelled from London via Nottingham to Tasmania, via Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Argentina to Chile. He stayed in each place for just a short time – just long enough to focus intensively on the visible surface of the situation there: “The surfaces and even superficiality itself have always interested me, because we basically have to read the truth of things from the world’s surface.” (Wolfgang Tillmans) Hence, coverings, claddings and façades repeatedly feature in his photographs along with themes from technology and science, such as plants, animals, material deposits, means of transport, airports and shopping centres. A series of photographs of car headlights was shot in an underground car park in Hobart, Tasmania. Tillmans has been struck by the evolution of car headlights in recent years and sees these complex, highly-technical light sculptures as emblematic of global technology fantasies.
At the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Zürich, the artist juxtaposes these images of the global forward-march of science, technology and the movement of goods and their influences, which affect the most diverse societies in similar ways, with his latest Silver works. In this way, he formulates a visual encounter between the external images of contemporary global events and works based on purely mechanical-chemical processes.
With his new group of works entitled Neue Welt, Wolfgang Tillmans continues his exploration of the possibilities of capturing and recording the world. For Wolfgang Tillmans images are a translation of the world, in which an experience is transposed, because “a representational image forms the reality in front of our eyes, nothing more and nothing less” (Wolfgang Tillmans).
As part of a collaborative venture between the LUMA Foundation and the Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, Wolfgang Tillmans's «Neue Welt» exhibition, which is curated by Beatrix Ruf, will travel to Arles in July 2013.
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Before the development of motion picture technology, photographic pornography was available all over the world through the distribution of nude photographs. In the late nineteenth century, Eadweard Muybridge's (1830–1904) motion studies, in the form of a series of stop-motion photographs accompanied by a lecture, were some of the first experiments in pornographic representations—although these motion studies were distinctly soft core as they simulated sexual relations and showed no close-ups or penetration. Images such as two nude women posed together, either smoking a cigarette or being doused in a tub of water, differed markedly from the same motion studies of naked or near-naked men, posed alone either running or jumping. Any titillation occurring from these representations was safely contained by the contextualizing discourses of science and technology.
Mainstream cinematic representations, such as Edison's The Kiss (1896), were chaste, but more explicit pornographic films (known as stag films) were also made in the primitive era of filmmaking (1896–1911). These films comprised a single reel (approximately 15 minutes), were silent, black and white, and contained very little narrative structure. These primitive films were more interested in technologically representing authentic bodily movements than creating coherent stories; primitive films were thus termed exhibitionist in the way that they displayed images for consumption and represented documented bodies in motion.
Even after mainstream filmmaking moved out of the primitive era, pornographic films still maintained these primitive attributes. One of the earliest extant American stag films, A Free Ride (dated by the Kinsey Institute as from 1917 to 1919), employs an introductory setup of a man and two women driving in the country. As they take turns relieving themselves in the woods, the crude editing and title cards indicate that the women become turned on watching the man, and the man is aroused by subsequently watching them. These scenes are followed by various close-ups of fellatio, male ejaculation, and a woman being penetrated during intercourse while lying down and standing, all shown in a disjointed manner divorced from narrative structure and narrative modes of identification. Extreme close-ups of genitalia, filmed in an almost clinical manner, are referred to as "meat shots." Through numerous close-ups these films tend to employ a type of theatrical frontality, in which the spectator is often directly addressed by the bodies on camera—a presentation with some historic connections to striptease.
Stag films were primarily (and illegally) exhibited in European brothels and exclusively male clubs in the United States (though sometimes female guests were invited) at gatherings known as smokers. While the reasons behind these group screenings were social and sexual, future exhibition of primitive or stag films became much more solitary. Later stag films or loops, shot largely in color, could be found in adult arcades, where coins would be repeatedly fed into a slot so that the disjointed spectacle could continue as the spectator watched the footage in a private booth. As pornographic films grew to feature length, their narratives became more coherent and sophisticated, supplanting stag films as the standard for explicit sexual representations.
Until 1957, in the United States the distribution of pornography was under state control. American law has differentiated obscenity, which is disgusting or morally unhealthy material, from pornography, which is a representation of sexuality, and there have been problems with the inconsistencies of definition. The First Amendment was generally understood to protect all forms of speech with any social value, while communities could impose some regulation on materials they deemed harmful. Most states in turn allowed communities to maintain tight controls on pornography, while the US Post Office, as mandated by the notorious Comstock Act of 1873, which made it illegal to mail any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious material," regularly searched the mails for offensive material, which had been defined to include information on contraception. This policing of the mails began to wane around 1915, which was a high point in the stag film's popularity.
The first pornography case heard by the US Supreme Court was Roth v. United States (1957). In upholding the government's powers, Justice William Brennan defined pornography as "material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest." At this time, the term "hard core" entered legal discourse. Brennan also defined pornography as exciting "lustful thoughts" or "a shameful and morbid interest in sex" which could be determined by "community standards." Pornography was considered unprotected speech as it was "without redeeming social importance." Roth proved minimally useful as community standards were difficult to establish and prurient interests were hard to determine. The Court subsequently tried to clarify its standard in A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. the Attorney General of Massachusetts (1966), claiming that obscenity had to be " utterly without redeeming social value"; but again, this "social value" was difficult to determine. Consequently, the Court began overturning obscenity prosecutions unless the material was sold to minors or advertised in a way that emphasized its sexual nature ( Redrup v. New York , 1967). Simultaneously, discourses on sexuality were becoming more prevalent and commonplace, as Alfred Kinsey's work at the Kinsey Institute in the late 1950s and Masters and Johnson's research in the late 1960s attest. These cultural changes, combined with a new obscenity standard, led to the easier availability of increasingly explicit sexual materials and fed the campaign against the Warren Court and activist judges.
These obscenity decisions played a role in Richard Nixon's successful presidential election campaign (which was invested in attacking the Supreme Court). However, even Nixon's interest in returning to tradition was subverted by the changing nature of motion picture pornography, as the form moved from stag reels, largely consumed by men, to publicly screened feature films attended by men and women, of which Gerard Damiano's Deep Throat (1972) was the most notorious example. Nevertheless, the widespread popularity of these films in theatrical venues was short-lived, as a more conservative Supreme Court attempted and partially succeeded in turning back obscenity laws. In Miller v. California (1973) and its companion case, Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton , 413 US 49 (1973), Justice Warren Berger redefined obscenity by weighing the pornographic materials' social value against its offensiveness and, most importantly, brought the community standards test back to a local (rather than a national) level. State and local governments' power to control sexually oriented materials increased, as the state could act "to protect the weak, the uninformed, the unsuspecting, and the gullible" from their own desires. Still, the ways in which pornographic and obscene materials were perceived and illegalities were prosecuted varied from community to community, and state to state. At the same time, the increased presence of sexuality in public discourse made it difficult to align
Protestors outside a theater playing Deep Throat (Gerard Damiano, 1972).
sexually explicit films with pornography lacking redeeming social importance.
Hard-core pornography's legitimacy followed a trajectory of sexually explicit films that historically and culturally tested the boundaries of what was allowed. The late 1950s and early 1960s were seen as the heyday of the sexploitation film—soft-core pornographic films that contained copious nudity. These cheaply made American films were known for their spectacular representations of sex (and sometimes violence). One of the earliest "nudie cuties" was Russ Meyer's (1922–2004) The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), which featured a delivery man who, after visiting a dentist, develops X-ray (or X-rated) vision, enabling him to see fully dressed women in the nude. Radley Metzger's (b. 1929) distribution company, Audubon Films, also offered risqué exploitation films, but his foreign pictures, such as Danish filmmaker Mac Ahlberg's Jag—en kvinna ( I, a Woman , 1965), maintained higher production values and a more elite reputation.
In the mid- to late 1960s, the "beaver film" became popular. These films were similar to the illegal stag film in that they consisted of short loops where women stripped and then displayed extreme close-ups of their naked pubis. Beaver films were mostly shown in peepshow arcades and sold through private mail order. "Action" beaver films either showed a woman fondling herself, or another woman touching a woman's genitals and performing cunnilingus; nevertheless, these films did not show hard-core "action," defined as penetration by penis, finger, or tongue. Another form of sexually explicit film of the period was the educational sex documentary. For example Dansk sexualitet ( Sexual Freedom in Denmark , 1969), which ostensibly documented Denmark's burgeoning (and legal) pornography industry, was shown in exploitation and grindhouse theaters. Audiences who went to see these films could watch hard-core pornographic action—including erect penises and penetration—under the guise of gaining knowledge.
With the influx of hard-core film representations in the early 1970s, the feature-length, hard-core pornographic film became prevalent, heralding the rise of "porno chic." Deep Throat opened in the summer of 1972 and played at the New Mature World Theater in Times Square, a typical exploitation theater. Starring Linda Lovelace as Linda, and Harry Reems as her sexologist doctor, the film tells the story of a woman unable to reach sexual fulfillment (that is, orgasm) through sexual intercourse. In the course of her examination, she is found to have her clitoris in her throat and can only climax through the process of "deep throating," where the throat is opened in order to envelop the penis during fellatio. Deep Throat stands out as one of the first films that intertwines a cohesive narrative with hard-core sex scenes; critics reviewed the film (often negatively) in the mainstream press, and the film was shown in theatrical venues for audiences of both men and women. The film's success encouraged other notable releases in 1972, ostensibly known as the "golden age of porn": The Mitchell Brothers's Behind the Green Door , starring Marilyn Chambers (a former Ivory soap model), and Damiano's The Devil in Miss Jones , with Georgina Spelvin and Harry Reems were the most well known.
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Health ministry: Half of Gaza patients became with no medication
The Palestinian health ministry has warned that half of the patients in the embattled Gaza Strip have become with no medication due to a 52-percent deficit in different medical supplies.
In a recent news conference held in Gaza, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra described the deficit of 52 percent in medical supplies as an unprecedented crisis hitting the hospitals in Gaza.
Qudra pointed out that 14 types of medicinal baby milk (formula) and food supplements that more than 50 children need in Gaza hospitals had run out.
“This is not just passing figures and stories that are told and heard. Some of them pay a harsh price when they lose their sons and daughters who need treatment but find no medication,” he said.
Fearing for Patients’ Life: PCHR Warns of Medicine Shortage in Gaza Strip Hospitals
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the increasing crisis of medicine shortage in the Gaza Strip hospitals and warns of its serious impact on life of thousands of patients, who suffer serious diseases and are in urgent need of treatment.
PCHR calls upon the Palestinian Authority (PA) and international organizations to intervene immediately and dispatch the necessary medicine supplies to the Gaza Strip hospitals in order to save patients’ life.
According to PCHR’s follow-up, the Ministry of health facilities in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute shortage of medicines for patients of cancer, kidney, chronic diseases “diabetes and hypertension”, thalassemia and hemophilia in addition to shortage of the therapeutic milk (Galactomin milk) for infants.
Dr. Munir al-Borsh, Director General of Pharmacies in the Ministry of Health, said to PCHR’s fieldworker that the medicine deficit in the Ministry of Health stocks reached around 52%.
He elaborated that the medicine shortage crisis in the Strip has affected many categories including 8000 cancer patients; 2000 of them take drug doses, as 38 types of cancer drugs ran out of stocks, i.e. 62% of the treatment protocols.
Those categories also included 1189 kidney patients; 39 of them are children, who undergo frequent dialysis, and 125 hemophilia patients, half of them are children, as lack of factor 8 and factor 9 drug doses would subject patients’ life to serious health symptoms, including coagulation. In addition, this crisis has also affected thalassemia patients and chronic diabetes and hypertension patients.
According to the the Health Ministry’s statistics, the therapeutic milk (Glactomin milk) completely ran out of the Ministry’s stocks and this would threaten life of sick children and cause them either a disability or kidney failure.
Moreover, this milk is not available in the local pharmacies and its price is even very high as each can costs $130; thus, each patient will need $1000 monthly to cover their need. It should be mentioned that the Ministry of Health needs 60 milk cans monthly distributed to 10 sick children, i.e. 6 cans for each.
PCHR hereby expresses its concern over the aggravating health conditions in the Gaza Strip, and:
Calls upon the PA to shoulder its responsibilities and urgently intervene to ensure the supply of medicines and medical disposables to the health facilities in the Gaza Strip to alleviate the suffering of patients in the Gaza Strip hospitals.
Calls for the need to coordinate between the departments of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah and Gaza and to ensure the right to health of every citizen, including the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.”
Appeals to international organizations, including the United Nations relevant bodies, to intervene to provide the urgent assistance to the health sector, ensuring the continued functioning of all health facilities in the sector.
Reiterates that the Gaza Strip is still an occupied territory, and Israel as an occupying power is responsible for ensuring the supply of medicine shipments to the population of the occupied territory under its international obligations.
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PCHR: “On 61st Friday of Great March of Return and BreakingSiege, Israeli Forces Wound 92 Palestinian Civilians,28 of them were Children and Four were Paramedics,including Female Paramedic”
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Friday, 14 June 2019, in excessive use of force against peaceful protesters on the 61st Friday of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege, Israeli forces wounded 92 Palestinian civilians, 28 of them were children and four were paramedics, including a female paramedic, in the eastern Gaza Strip. One of the wounded was a child, who was hit with a live bullet to the chest and sustained serious wound.
According to observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers, the Israeli forces who stationed in prone positions and in military jeeps along the fence with Israel continued to use excessive force against the protesters by firing bullets and tear gas canisters at them. As a result, dozens of the protesters were hit with bullets and teargas canisters without posing any imminent threat or danger to the life of soldiers.
During this week, Israeli forces have escalated their attacks against the medical personnel in the field, wounding 4 members of them with rubber bullets and direct tear gas canisters in eastern Rafah. This indicates that there is an Israeli systematic policy to target the medical personnel and obstruct their humanitarian work that is guaranteed under the rules of the international humanitarian law.
On Friday, 14 June 2019, the incidents were as follows:
At approximately 16:30, thousands of civilians, including women, children and entire families, started swarming to the five encampments established by the Supreme National Authority of Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege adjacent to the border fence with Israel in eastern Gaza Strip cities.
Hundreds of protesters, including children and women, gathered adjacent to the border fence with Israel in front of each encampment and its vicinity tens and hundreds of meters away from the fence. The protesters chanted slogans, raised flags, and in very limited incidents attempted to approach the border fence and throw stones at the Israeli forces.
Although the protesters gathered in areas open to the Israeli snipers stationed on the top of the sand berms and military watchtowers and inside and behind the military jeeps, the Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets in addition to a barrage of tear gas canisters. The Israeli attacks, which continued at around 19:30, resulted in the injury of 92 Palestinian civilians, 28 of them were children and four were paramedics, including a female paramedic.
sAmong those wounded, 25 were hit with live bullets and shrapnel, 52 were hit with rubber bullets and 15 were directly hit with tear gas canisters. One of the wounded was a child, who was hit with a live bullet to the chest and sustained serious wound.
In addition, dozens of civilians suffered tear gas inhalation and seizures due to tear gas canisters that were fired by the Israeli forces from the military jeeps and riffles in the eastern Gaza Strip.
table shows the number of civilian casualties due to the Israeli forces’ suppression of the Great March of Return since its beginning on 30 March:
Killed Wounded
Total 207 12707
Children 44 2532
Women 2 385
Journalists 2 203
Medical personnel 4 209
Persons with disabilities 9 Undefined
Note: Among those wounded, 548 are in serious condition and 137 had their lower or upper limbs amputated; 123 lower-limb amputations, 14 upper-limb amputations, and 25 children had their limbs amputated according to the Ministry of Health. The number of those wounded only include those wounded with live bullets and directly hit with tear gas canisters, as there have been thousand others who suffered tear gas inhalation and sustained bruises.PCHR reiterates Palestinians’ right to peaceful assembly to confront Israel and its forces’ denial of the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination, right to return and right to end the occupation of the Palestinian territory.
PCHR stresses that the Israeli forces should stop using excessive force and respond to the legitimate demands of the demonstrators, particularly lifting the closure which is the real solution to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
PCHR reiterates the reported published in February by the UN Commission of Inquiry which emphasizes what came by PCHR and other Palestinian and international human rights organizations. The report at the time concluded that the Israeli violations may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
PCHR emphasizes that continuously targeting civilians, who exercise their right to peaceful assembly or while carrying out their humanitarian duty, is a serious violation of the rules of international law, international humanitarian law, the ICC Rome Statute and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Thus, PCHR reiterates its call upon the ICC Prosecutor to open an official investigation in these crimes and to prosecute and hold accountable all those applying or involved in issuing orders within the Israeli Forces at the security and political echelons.
PCHR also emphasizes that the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention should fulfill their obligation under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
PCHR calls upon Switzerland, in its capacity as the Depository State for the Convention, to demand the High Contracting Parties to convene a meeting and ensure Israel’s respect for this Convention, noting that these grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in the occupied territories.
Gaza: 52 percent of medical supplies ran out
The Palestinian health ministry has warned of an unprecedented scarcity of medical supplies in the besieged Gaza Strip, calling for urgent intervention in this regard.
In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry affirmed that its warehouses ran out of 52 percent of vital medicines and medical consumables
It appealed to the competent authorities and all concerned parties to immediately step in to provide Gaza with medical needs.
PCHR calls on Red Cross to protect Gaza medical personnel
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) on Wednesday called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene and provide protection for medical personnel in the Gaza Strip.
The PCHR in a press statement condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks on medical teams, who are responsible for rescuing and treating the wounded participating in the Great March of Return on the eastern Gaza Strip border.
On Monday, 10 June 2019, an ambulance officer named Mohammed al-Jadili succumbed to wounds he sustained while on duty to evacuate wounded protesters, the PCHR said. Thus, the number of medical personnel causalities has risen to 4 killed and 203 injured since the beginning of the Great March of Return on 30 March 2018.
"It should be noted that the Israeli forces continue to target medical personnel, centers and transports along the Gaza Strip borders while on duty to rescue and evacuate those wounded in the demonstrations," the human rights center added.
It affirmed that the Israeli forces used excessive and lethal force against them despite posing no danger to the soldiers' lives.
The PCHR called on the international community to take immediate action and put pressure on Israel to stop its grave violations against Palestinian civilians, including medical teams in the Gaza Strip who are protected under international law.
It also stressed that Israel should be held accountable and prosecuted by investigating the crimes committed against unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and medical crews.
Gaza: Health sector facing worst pharmaceutical crisis ever
The Palestinian ministry of health has warned that the crisis of drugs and medical supplies will lead to serious repercussions for patients in the Gaza Strip, calling on all supporters of the health sector to step in to save the patients.
Dr. Medhat Abbas, director of the Shifa Hospital, stated on Saturday that medicines and medical consumables reached a deficit rate of more than 52 percent, describing the crisis as the most severe ever.
Dr. Abbas affirmed that the largest government hospitals in Gaza ran out of many essential medicines, antibiotics, vital drugs for patients with hypertension, diabetes and tumors, therapeutic milk for children, and consumables used for patients with renal failure.
He noted that private pharmacies outside the hospitals also ran out of many similar medicines and medical supplies.
Army Injures Sixteen Palestinians In Gaza
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, sixteen Palestinians during the Great Return March processions, ongoing for the 59th week, in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said the injuries varied between rubber-coated steel bullets and gas inhalation, including some who were shot with high-velocity gas bombs.
It added that a journalist, and a female medic volunteer, were among the injured Palestinians.
All the wounded Palestinians received the needed treatment in make-shift clinics, without the needed to move them to hospitals.
Israeli soldiers have killed 307 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, and injured more than 29000, since the Great Return March procession started in the Gaza Strip, on Palestinian land Day, March 30th, 2018.
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