tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82331344622781981612024-03-13T19:33:03.198-07:00Dáithaí C... an Irish expat in London casting a cold eye on life ...and stuffSkibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.comBlogger811125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-845692452692157212014-02-03T05:03:00.000-08:002014-02-03T05:15:15.072-08:00Year of the Whores<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this
being the year of the horse. Unfortunately, we have all had problems with predictive
text but how much worse was it that the BBC News’ subtitle system logic didn’t cope with the
phrase and instead declared this to be ‘year of the whores,’ much to the
embarrassment of the channel. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>“Welcome to the year of the whores. People around
the globe celebrate,”</b></span> read the subtitles. Noticing the blunder, a number of
eagle eyed viewers were able to quickly grab a screenshot and post it on
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somewhat of a malfunction, the Archbishop of Canterbury has been referred to as
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Here is what actually happens in London on Chinese New Year,
somewhat more mundane than the BBC's version I'm afraid!</div>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-64046067642307484202014-01-28T05:24:00.004-08:002014-01-28T05:50:01.684-08:00Pete Seeger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In memory of the great Pete Seeger who has died at the age
of 94. A great Pacifist, a great Humanitarian and a Great American.</div>
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In a career that’s spanned over 70 years Pete Seeger has
embodied the idealism that once defined the American spirit. A tireless
crusader for social justice, world harmony and environmental causes, Seeger was
even called, at the height of his activism, “America’s tuning fork.” A New Yorker, he was born and died in that
great city and in his later years he was the driving force behind the
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The trajectory of Seeger’s life is amazing. Born May 3,
1919, he first wanted to become a journalist. Music beckoned, however, and
following a period where he assisted folk-song archivist Alan Lomax, he teamed
with legendary songwriter Woody Guthrie to form the politically oriented
Almanac Singers. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Seeger served out his duty and
then co-founded the folk group, the Weavers. In addition to popularizing the
Guthrie classic “This Land Is Your Land,” the Weavers topped the charts in 1950
with their version of Leadbelly’s “Goodnight, Irene.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, the Weavers disbanded
in 1953. Informally banned from TV programs and radio shows—as well as from
many concert stages—Seeger began performing at high schools and on college
campuses. How shameful this turn of events was and how it betrayed the American
spirit can be gauged from the fact in the 1940's he campaigned with Eleanor
Roosevelt against racial segregation in a still segregated Washington DC. Concurrent
with the folk revival of the early ’60s, his songs became better known to the
public at large. Thanks to hit versions by the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul &
Mary, and the Byrds, the Seeger-written songs “If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have
All the Flowers Gone” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!” have become part of the American
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He was a young lad of 74 when he performed this paean to the
waste of war, based on the Russian folk tune "Koloda Duda" and quoting
lines from the Cossack folk song "Tovchu, tovchu mak", referenced in
the Mikhail Sholokhov novel "And Quiet Flows the Don."</div>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-18352611534520868522014-01-08T16:45:00.000-08:002014-01-09T01:47:54.988-08:00The World's finest Police: An Update<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The inquest on the shooting dead of Mark Duggan in London in
August 2011 has concluded that he was lawfully killed by the Police. His family
have said they will fight for justice after an inquest jury concluded by a
majority of 8 to 2 that he was lawfully killed by police. Mr Duggan was shot
dead by armed officers in August 2011 in Tottenham, sparking riots across
England. Following the inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice, his aunt Carole
Duggan said he had been "executed". Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has asked for a meeting with local community leaders.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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Let us remind ourselves of the original lie told by the Police about the Mark Duggan
shooting repeated verbatim in The Daily Telegraph in August 2011 after a Police
briefing; <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><br /><br />"A policeman's life was
saved by his radio last night after gunman Mark Duggan opened fire on him and
the bullet hit the device."</b></span><br />
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A remarkable assertion by the Police repeated across the media containing not a single word of truth designed to justify in the public mind Mark Duggan's death. There were angry scenes outside the court, with supporters
of Mr Duggan's family chanting "murderers" at Assistant Commissioner
Mark Rowley as he read a statement. Jurors concluded Mr Duggan did not have a
gun when he was shot by officers who surrounded a minicab he was travelling in.
But the jury said it was more likely than not that Mr Duggan had thrown a gun
from the vehicle just before he was killed. The weapon was found about 20ft
(6m) away from the scene but there was no DNA evidence presented to link it to
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Mark Duggan is one of over 400 people who have died after
"contact" with the Police in the UK in the past 10 years. They
include an unarmed naked man shot in bed with his girlfriend, Ian Tomlinson a
news vendor trying to walk home and avoid a protest, Harry Stanley shot carrying
a chair leg in East London, a Brazilian electrician shot in the head on a Tube
train and numerous deaths in Police Custody. <br />
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It must be a great comfort to the corpses (if not their families) to know in
the past 10 years not one person was murdered by the Police and no Police
Officer has even been convicted of Manslaughter, a truly remarkable record
which shows there is at least one crime figure the Police don't need to lie
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reported Crime Figures in the UK are totally meaningless. On the same day as
the Mark Duggan verdict the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard
Hogan-Howe had to tell a Parliamentary Committee there is a "truth"
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Metropolitan Police officer James Patrick has alleged rape
and sexual offences were being under-reported by as much as a quarter. PC
Patrick, who is currently subject to disciplinary proceedings by the force,
told the committee in November that crimes had been reclassified to get them
"off the books". Massaging figures to hit performance targets had
become "an engrained part of policing culture", he said. The officer
had found disparities between the numbers of burglary reports and those finally
recorded while working in a specialist role looking at the recording of crime. He
had also found that "the Met had effectively been under-recording rape and
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It means, in effect, that there is not a single UK Crime statistic
which can be trusted and the industry of over 300 people producing them is
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commissioner Lord Stevens has said "fiddling of figures" has been
going on since he joined the police. He told the Home Affairs Select Committee
on Tuesday that officers had warned him the massaging of crime statistics was
the "biggest scandal coming our way", the Daily Telegraph reported.
In addition many people in the UK have simply given up reporting minor crimes
as over 60% of those reported are flagged as "no action" by our
outstanding Police Service. <br />
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Even if they do get to court figures also released today
show that in England over 50% of those convicted of violent or sexual crimes do
not receive a custodial sentence. The "Crime Fighting" experts refer
to this as "The Justice Gap" in an attempt to present this as something
normal. The Public on the other hand who pay for this farce with their taxes
probably see this as a Justice Chasm and a complete betrayal of their trust by
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citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens
with the implicit consent of their fellow citizens. Policing by consent is the
phrase used to describe this. It denotes that the legitimacy of policing in the
eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows
from transparency about their powers, demonstrating integrity in exercising
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-33627880952260731172014-01-07T15:22:00.000-08:002014-01-07T15:22:30.858-08:00Marina Ginestà - “No pasarán!”<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Anti-fascist fighter Marina Ginestà, age 17, on the roof of Hotel Colon, Barcelona, July 1936. </span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Anti-fascist fighter
Marina Ginestà </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">(29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">who died yesterday aged 94 was a
French veteran of the Spanish Civil War, who was a member of the International
Brigades. She became famous due to the photo taken by German Hans Gutmann
(later Juan Guzmán) on the rooftop of Hotel Colón in Barcelona. It is one of
the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War.</span></div>
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Toulouse, France, and moved to Barcelona with her parents at the age of 11.
Ginestà later joined the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. As the war broke
out, she served in the International Brigades as a reporter and a translator
assisting Mikhail Koltsov, a correspondent of the Soviet newspaper Pravda. Before
the end of the war, Ginestà was wounded and evacuated to Montpellier. As France
was occupied by the Nazis, she fled to Mexico and later to the Dominican
Republic where Ginestà got married. In 1946 she was forced to leave the country
because of the persecution of dictator Rafael Trujillo. In 1960 Ginestà got
married to a Belgian diplomat and returned to Barcelona. She moved to Paris in
the early 1970s. Marina Ginestà died there at the age of 94 in January 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: small; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><b> Marina Ginestà in later life</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The slogan of the
resistance to Franco's Fascists was “No pasarán!" They shall not pass!
Credit for the Spanish version of the slogan goes to the fiery Spanish Communist party
leader Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989), whose popular nickname was “La Pasionaria”
(“The Passion Flower”). On July 18, 1936, mutinous Spanish Army troops led by
Generalissimo Francisco Franco invaded the Spanish mainland from Morocco, with
the goal of overthrowing Spain’s elected Republican government. This was the
beginning of the bloody Spanish Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1936, Ibárruri made a brief but eloquent speech on Radio-Madrid. She urged her
fellow citizens to put aside their other political differences and join
together to fight against Franco’s Fascist forces. “Young men, prepare for
combat!,” she said. “Women…fight alongside your men in order to defend the
lives and freedom of your sons…All workers, all anti-fascists must now look
upon each other as brothers in arms.” Ibárruri ended her speech with the famous
words:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pass! THEY SHALL NOT PASS!” <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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pasarán! NO PASARÁN !”)</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“No pasarán” became the
motto of the anti-Fascist side during the Spanish Civil War. It is still used
as a slogan for other causes today. Ultimately, the Spanish Fascists did pass
and took over the country in 1939, starting a long era of dictatorship by
Franco. Ibárruri survived and continued on as a fervent supporter of Communism
in other countries, first in France and later in the Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Franco died, “La Pasionaria” returned to Spain. She remained active in politics
there as a member of parliament and honorary president of the Spanish Communist
party until her death at age 93 in 1989.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-62220505827511219832014-01-04T15:51:00.000-08:002014-01-06T05:34:55.698-08:00Best Newspaper Headline of 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Argus is the paper for Brighton & Hove where the
majority on the Council are Green Party and Conservative. Just saying! This is
a bitter disappointment to me as I assumed the headline might refer to FibDems trying to look both ways on
TwoFacebook!<br />
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The Argus is (rightly) famous for its headline boards. There
are Flickr groups and entire blogs just for their better ones. Unfortunately (or fortunately for humours
sake) these stories are all true reinforcing Brighton & Hove's place as
Britain's most interesting city with a glorious seaside location which has
attracted bohemian's since the Prince Regent first built the famed Brighton Pavilion
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-37438044666594197862014-01-03T16:53:00.002-08:002014-01-03T17:20:54.152-08:00Fares Up, Wages Flat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Great British Rail Rip Off continues as 2014 Rail fares in
the UK went up yesterday. Strange timing as some season tickets are now so
expensive it's enough to make even Santa weep. A Reading to London season
ticket, a journey of 43 miles, now costs £4,088 per year a rise of £128. A
Maidstone to London season ticket, a journey of 37 miles has smashed through
the £4k mark and now costs £4,080. Fares are still rising THREE times faster
than wages are. <b>We need Fair Fares Now.</b><br />
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Regulated fares are up by an average 3.1% and as usual, the
private rail operators are free to raise unregulated fares by much more. It's a
world away from the 'fares freeze' we were promised before Christmas. In fact,
as new research from the TUC shows, Britain's railways remain the most
expensive in Europe, and by some way. Here, commuters spend three times more of
our salaries on rail fares compared to other rail passengers in Europe. Action
for Rail, a trade union-backed campaign, said workers on an average UK salary
would spend nearly 14% of their wages on a monthly season ticket commute from
St Albans to London, whereas a commuter making comparable journeys in Germany
and France would spend about 4%. The figures in Spain and Italy were 3% and 1%
respectively, said the group. Which? said its analysis showed that the average
household now spent 14% of its income on transport.</div>
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<i><b>"The chancellor's move to bring an end to the inflation-busting fare rises
we've seen over the last decade shows a recognition that rising transport costs
are a barrier to economic recovery,"</b></i> he said. <i><b>"But commuters will
still feel the pinch this new year because salaries aren't increasing by
anywhere near the level of inflation. If transport remains so prohibitively
expensive, we will continue to restrict travel choices and opportunities to
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transport union head Bob Crow, calling for public ownership of the railways. More
than 50 Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, Plaid Cymru and SNP MPs have signed a
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-85469201443314629132014-01-02T16:14:00.002-08:002014-01-03T05:50:35.479-08:00Sherlock's mysterious Underground<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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the in the first episode of "The Empty Hearse" which aired on New Year's
Day starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his
sidekick, Dr. John Watson. Described as a thrilling, funny, fast-paced
contemporary reimagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic in modern London
Town it lead to some confusion as they dashed across the Tube network in a reworking
of the geography of London Underground and indeed of London. </span><br />
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constant reworking of the Sherlock Holmes stories - for me while I'm happy with
an honourable mention for Jeremy Brett I always thought Peter Cushing had the
look, voice and presence of the "Consulting Detective." I did however
give into the lure of geekdom and traced their journey around the system.
However I don't take the "outrage" at the strange geography
seriously as the Underground is merely a
prop for the action but one which in this tale of "The Empty Hearse"
really adds to the story and atmospherics. We can't really complain if
Sherlock's travel planner works better than TfL's!! So here is a guide to where
Holmes and Watson really roamed on this new outing for The Tube has always been
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the Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based
"consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess
and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning
(though in reality, he uses abductive reasoning) and forensic skills to solve
difficult cases. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John H. Watson lived at 221b Baker
Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street, London was the first Museum
in the world to be dedicated to a fictional character. There is one small
difficulty however, the stretch of Baker Street where it is situated was not
built until 1925 in tandem with the station redevelopment and well after the
times in which the novels are set. Still, as Holmes might have said, let us not
ruin a good story Watson! His statue now graces the front of Baker Street
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><strong>the original name "Strand." </strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">This is entirely appropriate as </span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">the Sherlock Holmes character grew tremendously in </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">popularity with the first series of short stories published </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">in serial form appeared between then and 1927. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.</span></span></div>
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The New Year's Day episode of Sherlock included a plot line
about abandoned London Underground stations. The eerie empty platforms and
booking offices of these stations have long enthralled photographers. The detective
drama referenced the many stations beneath London's streets that have been
closed but not demolished. Such is the allure of the mothballed stations that
occasional tours of their tiled platforms, which have been left with their
posters to rot, are popular with photographers, transport enthusiasts and
people who are fascinated by these ghostly places below the capital. Prominently
featured was Aldwych Station which operated from 1907 to 1994 and which has
doubled as other Tube stations in a number of films.</div>
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<b><i>The show starts with Watson on the Jubilee line - but
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<b><i>And pops out by Euston Square station, which is on the
Circle (which is no longer a Circle!) Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan
lines. As Drummond Street which he is heading to is famous for its Indian Restaurants
maybe Watson, who was modelled on a British Army doctor who was the only
survivor of an Afghan expedition had a craving for a quick curry!</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Once Watson is reunited with Sherlock, the pair look at a
strange video. It shows a suspicious man attempting to travel one stop on the
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<b><i>But the man has vanished by the time his Jubilee line train
reaches St James’s Park. Which isn’t that surprising, since St James’s Park is
only on the District line but does feature London Underground's wonderful HQ,
55, Broadway which is built in the airspace above it. </i></b></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b><i>He’s probably been diverted to the Jubilee Line's northern
terminus at Stanmore. In reality, this was probably filmed on the unused Jubilee line platform at Charing Cross
station. Confused by the fact that London Underground trains are pulling into
stations on completely different lines, Sherlock and Watson rewatch the
footage.</i></b></span></div>
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<i><b>And Sherlock concludes that the “five minute” journey between
Westminster and St James’s Park must have somehow been made to last ten
minutes. In reality it takes less than two minutes and at peak times there’s 28
trains an hour running along the route, leaving little room for delays. But who
are we to question Sherlock? They discover the train has stopped at a half-finished Tube stop between the two called
"Sumatra Road". In fact, there is no such station. It's a sly
reference to the "giant rat of Sumatra", which is mentioned in Arthur
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. The fearless investigators decide to get involved
and avert a disaster. So they pop into Westminster station on the Jubilee and
District lines.</b></i></div>
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<b><i>And then they’re in the abandoned Jubilee line station at
Charing Cross, where Sherlock and Watson climb down a ventilation shaft, as you
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<b><i>Which they use to access a District line train with a bomb on it …</i></b></div>
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Aldwych is an abandoned station on a branch line to Holborn that
was also used in many films including "V for Vendetta" and in Stanley Kubrick's "Sliding Doors." Ultimately, the shape-shifting London
Underground network is an even bigger mystery than working out how Sherlock
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London Underground doesn't pin down the exact number of
disused underground stations, but says there are "in the region of
40". Some of these were relocated so their names live on, but 20 on the
list won't be found on a current Tube map as they are on Lines which are either
closed or not part of The Tube, as this ghost map of the London Underground
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Click for a larger view: Map courtesy of USvsTH3M. <br />Stills from Sherlock Holmes courtesy of BBC Productions.</span></b></td></tr>
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Well it certainly it was a wonderland on Christmas Eve with some magic in the air when you could have witnessed Bono, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hanigan and Liam Ó Maonlaí busking for Dublin’s Simon Community, a homeless charity. Grafton Street is close to Paul’s heart (Paul Hewson aka Bono) as it was in McDonnell’s that the U2 members and the Virgin Prunes (Gavin and Guggi) used to meet up on a Saturday as part of their imaginary world “Lipton Village” before wandering down (as we all did) to the Dandelion Market, a colourful splash of stalls which thrived in a covered car park which had been bought for a stalled property development.<br />
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Paul and Gavin grew up in an area of Dublin 11 known as Cedarwood and I lived in the adjoining
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Grafton Street is Dublin's principal shopping street, running from St. Stephen's Green in the south to College Green in the north. The street was named after Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, and the illegitimate son of Charles II of England, who owned land in the area. <span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
Brendan Behan once remarked it was an honour to have our most fashionable Street named after a “Right Royal Bastard.” </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>It was developed from an existing country lane by the Dawson family in 1708, after whom the parallel Dawson Street is named. Street entertainers such as buskers, poets and mime artists commonly perform to the shopping crowds. It is mentioned in Paddy Kavanagh’s famous allegorical poem of unrequited love “Raglan Road”;</div>
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Bono busked for donations to the Simon Community and indulged the appreciative audience. The crowds were alert to the possibility of Ireland’s greatest rock star showing up and the U2 frontman did not disappoint. There were wild cheers when he made his appearance and pushed through the crowd to join Hansard whose song “Once” has become the basis of a smash hit Broadway musical. After briefly conferring the two led off with “Here it is Merry Christmas” a 1973 hit by the British group Slade.</div>
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Jo, David and Billy (The Cat) are wish you a Jolly Holly and a Cool Yule and all the best in 2014. Inspired by a certain TV programme
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outdoor staff. In </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">honour of George Osborne's economic illiteracy this year in
common with 99% of </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the nation we are celebrating a Downturn
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<o:p></o:p>Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-83500649401638595322013-12-18T06:19:00.003-08:002013-12-18T06:31:42.426-08:00Bigging up Ronnie Biggs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 1963 robbery which took place near where I live at
Cheddington in Buckinghamshire has become known as "The Great Train
Robbery" and was tried at Aylesbury
Crown Court where the members of the gang received what were thought of as
draconian sentences. None of them
subsequently had happy lives but achieved further notoriety by escaping from
prison, especially Ronnie Biggs who seemed to live a playboy life in Brazil
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Ronnie Biggs was a low life bit player in a robbery which
was bigged up by the media and the 30 year sentences given out convinced
criminals that in future they might just as well use guns - at the time murder
generally attracted a 15 year sentence. According to Biggs his main role was as a
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Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the
Glasgow to London mail train on 8 August 1963. Biggs, Reynolds, Ronald 'Buster'
Edwards and the other gang members wore helmets and ski masks to carry out
their crime, which took place near Cheddington, Buckinghamshire. He was given a
30-year sentence but escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965. They made off with
120 bags of money totalling £2.6m - the equivalent of £40m in today's money.
Biggs share was £147,000 which he burned through within his first three years
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In 2001, he returned to the UK from Brazil seeking medical
help but was sent to prison. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009
after contracting pneumonia. Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head
during the robbery and never worked again. He died in 1970. Three members of
the gang, including the criminal who coshed Jack Mills were never caught or
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The thing which is forgotten about Biggs and the 60's
criminal underworld is that it only existed because of widespread police
corruption. In some ways the crooks were more honest than the coppers, at least
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As for Biggs, he stayed true to his low life origins and did not deserve either
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-52020981353439911112013-12-15T15:41:00.000-08:002013-12-15T23:36:05.776-08:00Peter O'Toole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a great privilege some years ago to see Peter O'Toole
in Keith Waterhouse's stage play "Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell"
especially as I had been in the Coach and Horses, the pub in Soho which
provides the play's setting, on occasion
and seen Norman Balon in action. For me, Lawrence of Arabia remains THE MOVIE -
if I had a desert island request I would just play it on a continuous loop.
Amazing that this wonderful actor never received an Oscar despite eight
nominations. Such is his stature it is the Oscars which are devalued.</div>
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He received an honorary Oscar in 2003, having initially turned it down. In a
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it until he was 80, saying he was "still in the game and might win the
bugger outright". But when he finally clasped his statuette, he said:
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Actor Peter O'Toole, who starred in Sir David Lean's 1962
film classic Lawrence of Arabia, died on Saturday aged 81 at London's
Wellington Hospital having been ill for some years. His friend broadcaster Michael Parkinson told Sky News it
was hard to be too sad about the news of his passing, and smiled as he said: "Peter
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He hit international stardom when Sir David cast him as British adventurer T E
Lawrence, the World War I soldier and scholar who led an Arab rebellion against
the Turks. Playwright Noel Coward once said that if O'Toole had been any
prettier, they would have had to call the film "Florence of Arabia". Lawrence
of Arabia earned him the first of eight Oscar nominations, with his second
coming for 1964's Becket, in which he played King Henry II to Richard Burton's
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Burton and O'Toole's shared love of drinking garnered many
headlines along with their performances. O'Toole played Henry again in 1968 in
The Lion in Winter, for which he received his third Oscar nod, opposite
Katharine Hepburn. His five other nominations were for Goodbye, Mr Chips in
1968, The Ruling Class in 1971, 1980's The Stunt Man, My Favorite Year [1982]
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Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole was born in Connemara, Ireland
and grew up in Yorkshire. In later years he used to holiday in Connemara and was often seen at the famous horse fair. David Lean's 1962 masterpiece "Lawrence of
Arabia" is a wonderful panoramic cinematic retelling of the story of one
of history's most enigmatic figures Captain T.E. Lawrence and his part in the
Arab Revolt and his relationship with Faisal bin Hussein, another undoubtedly
heroic figure in the history of the 20th
Century. With superb acting and
characterisation from O'Toole, Sam Spiegel's moneybags, a stellar cast of acting heavyweights, Lean's
sure direction, Maurice Jarre's wonderful Oscar winning score and the expansive panorama's of Wadi Rum in Jordan it is a wonderful cinematic experience. It begs to be seen on the Big Screen, especially the digitally restored and remastered version released this year. The scenes depicting Cairo and
Jerusalem were actually shot in Seville in Spain. His portrayal of T.E. Lawrence as an egotistical attention seeker is not historically accurate, he was in fact a short man who went to great lengths to avoid attracting attention.</div>
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Based on Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt "Seven
Pillars of Wisdom" it depicts Lawrence's experiences in Arabia during
World War I, in particular his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus and his
involvement in the Arab National Council. Its themes include Lawrence's
emotional struggles with the personal violence inherent in war, his own
identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain and its army
and his new found comrades within the Arabian desert tribes. Like most great war
films it does not glorify war and leaves the viewer with unanswered questions.
It is a great pity Tony Blair and George W. Bush did not try to answer some of
these questions before blundering into Iraq.</div>
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It is also great pity that of the 8 Oscar nominations
received by this wonderful movie the 5 it won did not include one for Peter
O'Toole although great thespian that he was I'm sure he didn't begrudge Burt
Lancaster winning the honour that year for Birdman of Alcatraz.</div>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-20925700657494667062013-11-27T16:45:00.003-08:002013-11-28T00:57:10.260-08:00Eileen Gray @ IMMA<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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It was wonderful at the weekend to see one of Dublin's
hidden treasures which is little known at the moment to visitors and an
exhibition it is hosting curated by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on Ireland's greatest
designer Eileen Gray. On an elevated site at Kilmainham commanding views of the
Liffey and the Phoenix Park on the north bank is the Remarkable Royal Hospital
which is on the same scale but two years older than its counterpart in Chelsea,
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art is housed in the Royal
Hospital Kilmainham, the finest 17th-century building in Ireland. The Royal
Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to
Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost
250 years. The Royal Hospital is a striking location for displaying modern art.
Like the Royal Hospital, Chelsea it is modelled on Les Invalides in Paris.
Charles II had spent his exile in France under the protection of the French
King and upon his Restoration in 1660 he was anxious that soldiers who stood by
the Royalist cause should be looked after in their old age and infirmity.
Magnificent in scale and position the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham is arranged
around a courtyard and the interior has long corridors running along series of
modest interlocking rooms and houses the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in
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The architect for Kilmainham was William Robinson, official
State Surveyor General. Of his many other buildings only Marsh's Library,
Dublin and Charles Fort, Kinsale, still stand. The Royal Hospital in Chelsea
was completed two years later and contains many similarities of style to
Kilmainham. The Duke of Ormonde wanted the Royal Hospital to be on a grand
scale, classical in layout and continental in style. He needed a home for his
pensioner soldiers but equally he wanted a building of distinction that would,
he hoped, mark the starting point of Dublin's development into a city of
European standing. The site selected for the Hospital was once part of the
Phoenix Park. A large hospital, founded by Strongbow and under the care of the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, was sited in this exact place but was
demolished in 1670. Dr. Steeven's Hospital, built nearby in 1720, is a small
architectural replica of the Royal Hospital. Incidentally, Sir Patrick Dun was
the first Medical Officer to the Royal Hospital.</div>
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The Royal Hospital remained an old soldiers' home until
1927. In the 19th-century the building had gradually grown in military
significance - becoming the residence and headquarters of the Commander in
Chief of the army, who combined this role with that of Governor (or Master) of
the Hospital. Queen Victoria paid two visits to the building, which was
eventually handed over to the Free State in 1922. It was used as Garda Headquarters
from 1930 to 1950. The building comprises a North Wing containing the Master's
Quarters, the Great Hall, the Chapel and the Vaulted Cellar with the
19th-century kitchen and the South, East and West Wings which provided
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Francis Johnston's castellated gateway to the Royal Hospital. <br />Originally a gateway to the Guinness Brewery it was relocated <br />here at the end of the C19</span></b></td></tr>
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Eileen Gray is regarded as one of the most important
furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential
woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Her
design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an
opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced
materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier,
Charlotte Perriand and Mies Van Der Rohe, who shared many of her ideals. Her
voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair, and clinically chic E-1027
glass and tubular steel table are now as familiar as icons of the International
Style as Le Corbusier and Perriands classic Grand Confort club chairs, yet for
most of her career she was relegated to obscurity by the same proud singularity
that makes her work so prized today.</div>
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Gray’s work has often been split into two parts by critics,
with decorative arts on the one hand and architectural modernism on the other.
This exhibition approaches Gray’s work as a whole, engaging, as she did, in
drawing, painting, lacquering, interior decorating, architecture and
photography. Renowned in France during the early decades of the 20th-century as
a designer in lacquer furniture and interiors, Gray began to experiment with
architecture in the late 1920s. The exhibition includes lacquer work, several
of her carpet designs, samples from her Paris shop Jean Désert and key items of
furniture from her work on the apartment of Madame Mathieu Levy and Gray’s own
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Significant focus is given to her landmark piece of
modernist architecture the French villa E-1027 , built in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
in 1926-1929, in close collaboration with Romanian architect Jean Badovici. The
exhibition includes examples of furniture for E-1027, including the tubular
steel designs with which Gray’s name has become synonymous.</div>
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Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was born near Enniscorthy, Co
Wexford and spent most of her childhood between Ireland and London. In 1902
Gray moved to Paris. She died in France at the age of 98. This extensive
exhibition presents a unique opportunity for Irish audiences to experience a
large group of work by one of Ireland’s most important cultural figures.<br />
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The exhibition at IMMA was hugely satisfying for me as
someone who has both admired and championed Eileen Gray for many years. This
retrospective provides an opportunity to consider her other rarely seen work
such as her unrealised buildings, her prototype furniture and her personal
creative practices of painting, drawing and photography. It presents a well
rounded portrait of the person and her work as an Architect, Designer and
Painter and never before have so many of her artefacts been brought together
from multiple owners to explore the person and her works. Particularly satisfying
for me was the logical chronology of her amazing output over a long career
until she died at the age of 98 in 1976. Indeed it was only in retrospect that
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was delighted to see there were separate displays on the
three summer houses she built on the Riviera with the furniture, carpets and
fittings shown in the context of these remarkable buildings, E-1027 at Roquebrune
Cap-Martin, Tempe a Pailla at Menton and Lou Perou (named after a trip she made to Peru in 1929) at Chapelle Sainte-Anne,
south of St. Tropez. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;">H</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;">er architectural work suffered in WW11. After she left E.1027 to Jean Badovici in 1932 she built a house inland from Menton, Tempa a Pailla, at Castellar. After the war she discovered that her apartment in Saint-Tropez had been looted and her house in Tempe a Pailla had been blown up by the Nazis. She constructed her last house, Lou Pérou (1954-61) in the vineyards of Chappelle-Ste-Anne. She transformed a dilapidated agricultural shed outside Saint-Tropez into a summer home and soon moved there to continue her work.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Le Corbusier, arguably the greatest architect of the 20th
century, was obsessed and haunted by E-1027, the seaside villa Eileen Gray
built at Roquebrune Cap Martin in 1929. Over the decades, he sought to possess
her "maison en bord de mer" in a multitude of ways. It may have been
the last thing he saw before dying of a heart attack while swimming off the
rocks beneath E-1027 in 1965. After he died, the footpath serving the area was
designated Promenade Le Corbusier. In time, as Gray's reputation faded, some
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A remarkable women and a remarkably productive long life which is done justice
by this wonderfully comprehensive and well curated exhibition in one of
Ireland's greatest buildings. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The furniture from her Paris apartment now forms the centrepiece of the Eileen Gray exhibition at the National Museum, Collins Barracks in Dublin. It is good that this most famous Irish designer’s great talent is recognised in her own country and in the extraordinary prices her works achieve in the salerooms.</span></span><br />
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Once again he Longford Trust, the charity founded in memory
of Frank Pakenham (Lord Longford) held its annual Longford lecture on Thursday 21st
November in the splendid surroundings of Church House, Westminster.</div>
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The Longford Trust organizes an annual Longford Lecture on
questions of social and penal reform.
Past speakers have included President Mary McAleese of Ireland, Clive
Stafford Smith, Sir Hugh Orde, Lady (Brenda) Hale, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC,
Lord (Ian) Blair, Cherie Booth QC, Archbishop John Sentamu and Archbishop
Desmond Tutu. It also awards an annual
Longford Prize to an outstanding individual or organization working in the
field of prison and social reform. It
funds Longford Scholarships for ex-prisoners who want to rebuild their lives
through education. And it offers
financial support to Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners.</div>
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This year's lecture was delivered by the international Human
Rights activist and campaigner Bianca Jagger who demonstrated she has what it takes to be a Street Fightin' Women. Her long credentials as a civil
rights activist were emphasised by the journalist Jon Snow who pointed out he
first met her in the Intercontinental Hotel in Managua, the capital of her home
country of Nicaragua in 1983 in the uneasy days after the fall of Somoza and
the Sandinista Revolution. Since then she has been a fearless and active
campaigner against abuse of Human Rights and is the founder and chair of the
Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. She is a Council of Europe Goodwill
Ambassador, a member of the Executive Director's Leadership Council of Amnesty
International, USA, a IUCN Plant A Pledge Ambassador, a member of the Coalition
for the International Criminal Court, and a trustee of the Amazon Charitable
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For over three decades she has been a voice for the most
vulnerable members of society, campaigning for human rights, civil liberties,
peace, social justice and environmental protection throughout the world. Her
work has been recognised by the 2004 Right Livelihood Award, the 1998 American
Civil Liberties Union Award, the 1997 Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight
Award for Leadership, and the 1994 United Nations Earth Day International
Award. She has been willing to go to trouble spots. She has faced down Serb
soldiers in Kosovo and a death squad in Honduras. She visited Iraq as part of a
fact-finding mission during the row over WMDs.</div>
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She was born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias in 1950, in Managua,
the capital of Nicaragua. After her parents’ divorce, she was raised by her
mother. Witnessing the discrimination of a patriarchal society against a single
working woman inspired the young Bianca to become an instrument of change in
the world. She was determined never to be regarded as a second-class citizen
because of her gender. As a girl of 10, Bianca Jagger noticed how differently
family friends in her native Nicaragua treated her mother to her father, Carlos
Perez-Mora. He, a successful businessman, enjoyed deference and respect. Not so
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After their divorce Dora Macias Somarriba, a beautiful
thirty-something, was forced to support her three young children by going out
to work. It was not something middle-class ladies did in 1950s Managua. But
Dora ignored the snide comments; she opened a health-food restaurant –
conveniently located near La Imaculata convent school, where Bianca studied.
But her daughter never forgot her mother’s hardship. “I promised myself I was
never going to suffer that fate.”<br />
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As a teenager, she participated in student demonstrations
against the terrors inflicted by President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard.
This inspired her to pursue her interest in politics. She received a
scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of
Political Science. It was there that she discovered the value of freedom and
democracy, the rule of law, judicial review, habeas corpus and respect for
human rights - concepts she had only dreamt about in Nicaragua.</div>
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Best known in the popular imagination for her 9 year
marriage to Mick Jagger she was 4 months pregnant with Jade Jagger when they
wed in a Catholic ceremony in St. Tropez, France in 1971. Now her daughter Jade
has two grown-up daughters, Assisi and Amba. Assisi, 21, is about to make
Bianca Jagger a great grandmother. She was also a close friend of Andy Warhol
and she added to the New Year's festivities at the famous Club 54 by riding
into the party on a horse. The horse's thoughts have not been preserved for
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She outlined with dismal certainty and forcefulness the
extent of this violence and how deeply it was ingrained and how pervasive was
the impunity for those who conduct it. She singled out Iran, Sudan and Saudi
Arabia who maintain capital punishment against women who commit "adultery."
There are over 8,300 recorded bride burnings in India, a horrible cruel death
and no doubt a figure which does not fully reflect the reality. For the reality
in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China is that women are regarded as a burden
and there is widespread violence and murder, a mass infanticide. In India the
figures are dramatic for the cumulative effect of this on population with an
estimated 50 million women "missing" in the population due to the
cumulative effects of abortion on the grounds of sex, infanticide and neglect. India now has 914 females for every 1,000 males.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Tonight though, we saw the steel of a women who inspired by her mother's example has been fighting the good fight for many years for the oppressed and downtrodden Trenchantly and systematically she set out the climate of violence against women throughout the world and the toleration and acceptance which allows this to continue with impunity. She was a passionate advocate for a better more respectful world free from gender based violence. She saw this campaign to end violence against women and girls as part of the march of Human Rights, the struggle in the 19th century was against slavery, in the 20th century against Totalitarianism and in the 21st century devoted to eradicating violence against women.</span></div>
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She outlined her experience in war zones where rape was used
as a weapon of war. This point was graphically emphasised in the Q & A
session afterwards by a Syrian journalist emphasising the effect of 41 years of
totalitarianism on her country and the murder and sexual abuse of females in
the conflict over the past three years. Bianca Jagger's Longford Lecture was a
sobering reminder of how much needs to be done to make equality and the
realising of women's potential a reality. It was also a reminder of what a
powerful advocate she is for decency and respect in a world where women are too
often the victims of systemic violence.<br />
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Ms Jagger argued that “embedded deep in our cultures still
lurks an institutional belief that women are inferior”. She appealed to the world leaders to adopt
what she called “the missing Millennium Development Goal” of eliminating
violence against women and described ending violence against women and
achieving gender equality as “the paramount moral challenge of our century”.</div>
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She highlighted shocking statistics that revealed 60,000
women were raped and 400,000 women were sexually assaulted in the UK last year,
while a massive 1.2million suffered some form of domestic abuse. In contrast
there were just 5,651 rape prosecutions and only 111,891 for domestic violence.
She said “It’s common misconception that sexual violence on this scale happens
only in the developing world. I’m afraid to say that sexual violence against
women is a global crisis and the developed world is not exempt. There is a
culture of silence and shame surrounding sexual assault – only one in 10 is
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The Longford Trust takes seriously its mission to continue
Frank Pakenham's work and to encourage organisations to persevere with the
often unpopular cause of penal reform. One of the ways it does this is through
the annual Longford Prize for work in this area. This year it was presented to The
Prison Radio Association (PRA) and collected by its co-founder Roma Hooper.</div>
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The Prison Radio Association (PRA) aims to change the lives
of serving prisoners through the power of radio. An award-winning education
charity, the PRA runs National Prison Radio (NPR) in partnership with the
National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The service is available to
prisoners across England and Wales directly in their cells. The PRA also
provides support, guidance and expertise to existing prison radio projects and
advises prisons interested in setting up radio projects and radio training
facilities. The PRA was established as a charity in 2006 in response to a
growing demand from prisons to engage in prison radio.</div>
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The Longford Trust was established in 2002 by friends, family
and admirers of Lord Longford (1905-2001) to celebrate his achievements and to
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Founded in Frank Pakenham's memory and run by writer Peter
Stanford, the Longford Trust has three aims. Firstly, the annual lecture;
secondly, a programme of scholarships for ex-prisoners who are taking on
further education and thirdly, awards for an individual or organisation that
has done outstanding work in penal or social areas. Generous tribute was
rightly paid by Jon Snow to the writer and former editor of the Catholic Herald
Peter Stanford who has headed up the Trust since its inception and been
responsible for Trojan work in expanding its scope and its fundraising. His
biography of Lord Longford was the basis for Channel 4's 2006 multi-award
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For once the needs of Justice have been served by Trial and
sentencing then the needs of Society are only served afterwards by stopping
re-offending and that is the area where the UK’s Prison System is an expensive
failure. Is a prison sentence the only way to tackle criminality or do we need
to change the emphasis to rehabilitation? As Peter Stanford points out on the
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">“The benefit of such a dual approach (punishment and
rehabilitation) is that it delivers what society really wants – released
in-mates who do not offend against the rest of us again. Instead what the
present overcrowded, punishment-obsessed prison system turns out is 80 per cent
of under-21 years who reoffend within two years of release and nigh on 70 per
cent of over 21s. It is a pitiful result that costs us all a fortune. We spend
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<span style="background: white; color: #282828; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Frank Longford said often during
his life that he would like his epitaph to be ‘the outcasts' outcast’. It
summed up a long career as a politician, writer and campaigner on social and
prison policy which was all about standing up for the unpopular, the unloved,
the underdog and those on the margins of society. He was first a minister in
Clement Attlee’s post Second World War Labour government, where as Deputy
Foreign Secretary he played a pivotal role in the reconstruction of West
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1930 and continued until his death. He was assistant to Sir William Beveridge
on his landmark report of 1942 which laid the basis for the Welfare State. In
1956 he founded New Bridge, one of the first organisations in Britain seeking
to create links between prisoners and the community, and in 1963 chaired the
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both Ireland and England and have influenced both countries over the years. In
Dublin they are commemorated in Longford and Aungier Streets and the former
Pakenham Hall near Castlepollard in Co. Meath was renamed Tullynally (The
Gaelic name) by Tom Pakenham (The current Lord Longford, although he does not
use his titles) when he took it over in 1961. Tom Pakenham is himself an author
and historian of note as are his sisters, Lady Antonia Fraser, Rachel
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Saddened to hear of the death today of Sir John Tavener at
the age of 69 after many years of illness. A composer of great talent and
integrity even if some of his later work is a tad dark and Byzantine for even
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He was one of the country's most celebrated contemporary
composers and in the late 1960s signed to The Beatles' record label Apple. His
music publishers said he died "peacefully at home" in Child Okeford,
Dorset, earlier today. In a somewhat historic coincidence and cause of confusion
he shared his name with an English compose, John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October
1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as one of the most
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He had suffered ill health for much of his life, including a
heart attack in 2007 that caused him to spend four months in intensive care. He
had a stroke in 1979, and in 1990 was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome, a
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In 1992, The Protecting Veil topped the classical charts for
several months and in 1997 his Song For Athene was played at the funeral of
Princess Diana. His other well-known works included A New Beginning, which was
chosen to see in the new century at the end of 1999 in the Millennium Dome in
London, The Whale and The Veil of the Temple.</div>
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James Rushton, managing director publisher Chester Music,
described him as "one of the unique and most inspired voices in music of
the last 50 years". "His large body of work... is one of the most
significant contributions to classical music in our times," he said."For
all of those fortunate enough to have known him, John was a man of strong
beliefs, huge personal warmth, loyalty and humour. He will be much
missed."</div>
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<b><i>"Song for Athene is another elegiac tribute, not, to
the mythological goddess Athene, but to a young family friend, Athene Hariades,
half Greek, a talented actress who was tragically killed in a cycling accident.
"Her beauty," write Tavener, "both outward and inner, was
reflected in her love of acting, poetry, music and of the Orthodox
Church." Tavener had heard Athene reading Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey
and, rather as in the case of the Little Requiem, conceived the piece after her
funeral, lighting on the effective ideas, so touchingly realized, of combining
words from the Orthodox liturgy with lines from Hamlet. Between each is a
monodic "Alleluia", and, following the example of traditional
Byzantine music, the whole piece unfolds over a continuous "ison" or
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-20928143472245304212013-11-10T09:13:00.000-08:002013-11-11T01:31:21.101-08:00Happy birthday, Hedy Lamarr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy birthday today to Hedy Lamarr, a mathematician, Hollywood
actress, a Jew, a principled opponent of Fascism and an advocate for female
education and empowerment. She was the Co-Inventor of Spread Spectrum
(frequency hopping) Technology - The basis of mobile phone technology and much
more. In 1936 Hedy Lamarr became the first woman to grace the silver screen in
a feature film wearing nothing but her birthday suit.</div>
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Five years later, at a Hollywood dinner party, she engaged
in a passionate discussion with an avant-garde composer about protecting U.S.
radio-guided torpedoes from enemy interference. She scrawled her phone number
in lipstick on the windshield of his car so they could develop their ideas
further. In 1942, unbeknownst to her adoring public, the unlikely duo secured a
patent and gave it to the United States government for a "Secret
Communications System" expressly constructed to assist in the defeat of Germany as she was staunchly opposed to the Nazis and wanted to help the war
effort. The science presented in this patent serves as the basis for the
technology we use today in cell phones, pagers, wireless Internet, defence
satellites, and a plethora of other spread-spectrum devices.</div>
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Born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family, Hedwig Eva
Maria Kiesler, made a literal and metaphorical splash with her role in Ecstasy,
a 1933 Gustav Machat´y film which featured close-ups of the nineteen-year-old's
face in the throes of orgasm (according to Hedy simulated with the aid of the
director jabbing a safety pin in her behind!). The film was equally notorious
for showing its youthful star swimming naked - this time most assuredly not simulated. Its Full
frontal nudity at a time when, in the USA, the Hays Code was coming into force
was bound to cause a stir and was the first nude scene in a mainstream movie. Perhaps
the other amazing thing is that the "scandal" did not prevent her
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Although better known for her Silver Screen exploits,
Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) also became a
pioneer in the field of wireless communications She fled her country and
husband Fritz Mandl (Austria's leading arms manufacturer) in 1937. On the
voyage to America she was signed to a $500 a week contract by MGM's Louis B.
Mayer. She also took on the new last name "Lamarr," meaning "the
sea" (La Mar) but also in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent
era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from a drug overdose. The new Hedy
Lamarr became one of the most successful actresses of the late '30s and early
'40s. In a career that lasted into the late '50s, Lamarr acted in more than 25
films with the likes of Clark Gable, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and Judy
Garland. Lamarr enjoyed her biggest box-office success in 1949 with Samson
& Delilah, her favourite and first colour film, produced by Cecil B.
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The international beauty icon, along with co-inventor George
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the Nazis in World War II. By manipulating radio frequencies at irregular
intervals between transmission and reception, the invention formed an
unbreakable code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy
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Following the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr, a passionate
opponent of the Nazis, wanted to contribute more to the allied effort. As Mrs.
Fritz Mandl, she had closely observed the planning and discussions that went
into attempting to design remote-controlled torpedoes. These never went into
production, because the radio-controlled guidance system was too susceptible to
disruption. She got the idea of distributing the torpedo guidance signal over
several frequencies, thus protecting it from enemy jamming. The only weak point
was how to employ the synchronization of the signal's transmitter and receiver.</div>
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In 1940, Lamarr met the American avant-garde composer George
Antheil of "ballet mécanique" fame. She described her idea to him,
and asked him to help her construct a device that would enable this signal to
be synchronized. Antheil laid out a system based on 88 frequencies, corresponding
to the number of keys on a piano, using perforated paper rolls which would turn
in sync with one another, transmitting and receiving ever-changing frequencies,
preventing interception and jamming. In December of 1940, the "frequency
hopping" device developed by Lamarr and Antheil was submitted to the
national inventors council, a semi-military inventors' association. Lamarr and
Antheil went on to file for a patent application for the "Secret
Communication System," June 10, 1941. The patent was granted by the United
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The enormous significance of their invention was not
realized until decades later. It was first implemented on naval ships during
the Cuban Missile Crisis and subsequently emerged in numerous military
applications. But most importantly, the "spread spectrum" technology
that Lamarr helped to invent would galvanize the digital communications boom,
forming the technical backbone that makes cellular phones, fax machines and
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Lamarr received very little recognition of her innovative talent at the time,
but recently she has been showered with praise for her groundbreaking
invention. In 1997, she and George Anthiel were honoured with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award. And later in the same year, Lamarr
became the first female recipient of the BULBIE™ Gnass Spirit of Achievement
Award, a prestigious lifetime accomplishment prize for inventors that is dubbed
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Proving she was much more than just another pretty face,
Lamarr shattered stereotypes and earned a place among the 20th century's most
important women inventors. Hedy Lamarr was a phenomenally beautiful, intelligent,
creative, witty, opinionated, passionate woman who believed strongly in
cultivating inner strength. In addition to being a world famous movie star,
wife and mother, she was a visionary inventor twenty years ahead of her time. Unfortunately, Hedy cannot be with us today for what
would have been her 99th Birthday but she left the Hedy Lamarr Foundation
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The weakness of Labour and Ed Miliband's political opponents
can be found in the nature of the arguments, or lack of them, with lots of
personal abuse. Some of it from the swivel eyed loons (Downing Street's
description of the dwindling band of Tory activists) is risible with frequent
references to "Champagne, millionaire, Socialist Red Ed" who knifed
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That for the son of a penniless
Jewish refugee who fled ahead of the approaching Nazis in fear of his life and
arrived penniless and without being able to speak a word of English in Britain at the age of 15. When Ralph (born Adolphe) died in
1994 he was a Professor at the London School of Economics and Britain's leading
Marxist academic. What money the Miliband's had was due to increasing property
values as Margaret Thatcher got rid of exchange controls and London Property
became a reserve currency for dodgy international figures. Surely the Tories
would applaud a high achieving meritocrat and note his two sons were in the same "you get what you work for" mould?</div>
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Not a bit of it, with the scurrilous Daily Heil running a two
page attempted hatchet job on Miliband Senior under the headline "The Man
who hated Britain". A profile of Mr Miliband’s father in the right-wing
tabloid described Miliband senior as “the man who hated Britain” on the basis
of remarks the academic made about the nationalism of the English when he was
17 and his well-known hard-left socialism and criticism of the establishment.
Given his influence on his son, this “should disturb anybody who loves
Britain”, the newspaper opined. Well, the article disturbed many people
including the Tory Leader, David Cameron. Ed Miliband responded furiously. His
father, he said, was proud to have fought for Britain, loved his country and
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known over here as the Daily Heil as its proprietor was a "friend" of
Herr Hitler and wrote an infamous "Stand up for the Blackshirts"
article. He died in Bermuda where the Rothermere Family Trusts live and his son
and his grandson, who happens to be Cameron's best mate, are tax dodgers - Tories
too patriotic to pay Great British Taxes.</div>
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But now even the vitriol of the Daily Heil has been eclipsed
by the story of the week in the Sunday
Sport. The Sunday Sport describes itself as a Newspaper but nobody else shares
this opinion. Here is their ground breaking journalism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>“Devastating evidence emerged last night that Ed Miliband’s
Marxist father WAS evil. For Ralph Miliband stands accused of SLAUGHTERING a
little girl’s innocent KITTEN in a DRUNKEN rampage… For Eunice Clark alleges
that Miliband Senior RAN OVER and KILLED her dear bundle of joy Winston, while
drunkenly pedalling his bicycle on a dark January night in 1944.”</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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kitten in cold blood like that. The Red b*****d!”</span></i></b></div>
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form while collecting an award from the Spectator Magazine for Best Parliamentary
speech. He gave a brilliant speech via the medium of video. He was funny, he
was relaxed and he told the hilarious story about his father being accused of
running over a cat on his bike during the war. Miliband Senior was riding the
bike, not the cat. The audience of politicians and hacks loved it.</div>
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upset at Red Ed not living up to his caricature so here is a pre-fabricated
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Ed Multimillionaireband killed my hamster. I showed my
hamster a picture of Ed Multimillionaireband and he just jumped in the air then
keeled over and died. That’s what Socialists are good at, killing things and
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-226725349351120412013-11-05T16:18:00.004-08:002013-11-05T16:49:52.063-08:00REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Billion Pounds a year extra in wasted Taxpayer's money which has gone up in smoke every year in the 20 years since rail Privatisation</span></b></td></tr>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-67757294026762373302013-11-05T04:44:00.002-08:002013-11-05T14:12:20.631-08:00Mr. Beck's Locomotive<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Tube Map is an iconic design and if imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery by any standards the world’s most flattered mapmaker
must be Harry Beck who devised the famous diagrammatic London Underground Tube
Map. Harry Beck's contribution to cartography was belatedly recognised after
his death with one of the most satisfying memorials being the naming of a Class
66 Diesel Locomotive 66721 'Harry Beck' after him. This was acquired by one of
the Private Infrastructure Companies under the ill fated PPP scheme and decked
out in Metronet Livery with the Harry Beck nameplate. Metronet collapsed in
2007 but strangely the loco which was acquired by GB Railfreight has been going
around the UK rail system as the ghost of Metronet past in the livery of a
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Traveller's on London's Underground who rely on the system’s
map to get around would be amazed to discover the blueprint was rejected at
first as ‘too radical’. However, common sense eventually prevailed and after a
few modifications to the simple design by Harry Beck, a trial pocket version
was published in 1933. The reaction of the travelling public was overwhelming,
with all 700,000 copies snapped up within a month. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He apparently worked on the design in his own time and was
only paid five guineas (£5.25). Last week, 80 years on, an English Heritage
blue plaque was unveiled in Leyton to commemorate his map. The plaque was
placed on the building Harry was born in at 14 Wesley Road. Sadly, for much of
his lifetime Harry did not receive any recognition, leaving London Underground
to teach typography and colour design at the London School of Printing and
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However, in recent years the importance of his design has
been celebrated. Voted the second favourite British design of the 20th Century,
the series of coloured lines are as iconic a symbol of London as Tower Bridge
or Big Ben. There is now a ‘Beck Gallery’ at the London Transport Museum, a
stamp was produced to commemorate the Tube map and Harry even has a locomotive
named after him. Harry worked as an engineering draughtsman at the London
Underground Signals Office and his career was relatively unremarkable until in
1931, when he proposed a radical new design to illustrate the rapidly expanding
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-18387632766882559302013-11-03T16:54:00.002-08:002013-11-03T23:58:54.026-08:00War Crimes against the Tamil People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Channel 4's "No Fire Zone" has presented shocking
and irrefutable evidence of War Crimes and Genocide against the Tamil Community
in Sri Lanka in 2009, a culmination of many years of repression. It also shows
a gross dereliction of duty by the UN and the International Community who have
been so anxious to intervene "To protect civilian life" elsewhere in Kosovo and Libya. Where is the International Criminal Court which has been so active elsewhere but seems to turn a blind eye to Western Allies? How can Prince Charles, David
Cameron and @WilliamJHague go to Colombo from 15 to 17 November 2013 and shake
the hands of War Criminals who are continuing to repress democracy and free
speech in Sri Lanka. The Canadian Prime Minister is boycotting the event citing
the impeachment of the country's Chief Justice and the execution and
imprisonment of journalists and political opponents of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa.</div>
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In 2009, following a 26 year civil war,
the government of Sri Lanka launched a major offensive against the rebel forces
of the Tamil Tigers or LTTE. It was supposed to be a war without witness. But
there were witnesses and they filmed the appalling events as they unfolded.
These witnesses included victims and government soldiers themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No Fire Zone represents the culmination of three years of
journalistic investigation and contains deeply disturbing new evidence,
powerful eyewitness testimony and compelling personal stories of survival in a
war zone - including eyewitness interviews from: Vany Viji, a Tamil civilian,
Benjamin Dix, a former UN worker, Sir John Holmes, former UN
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, David Miliband, former
Foreign Secretary, UK and Peter Mckay, former staffer UNOPS, with a title soundtrack
by Tamil singer, M.I.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carefully evidenced and powerfully measured, the film uses
eyewitness accounts, expert opinion, and translated mobile phone and camera footage
from both the victims and the perpetrators of violence. This footage enables
the filmmakers, in a way almost never done before, to piece together the
day-to-day horror of this war.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Viscerally powerful actuality from the battlefield, from
inside the crudely dug civilian bunkers and from over-crowded makeshift
hospitals, records evidence of war crimes, summary execution, torture and
sexual violence. The film also addresses the culpability of the Tamil Tigers,
themselves responsible for committing war crimes and for preventing civilians
from trying to escape the carnage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since 2009 there has been no independent judicial
investigation into what happened and the Government of Sri Lanka continues to
say the video evidence of war crimes is faked.</div>
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Channel 4's "No Fire Zone" leaves no doubt and no
wiggle room over the terrible and murderous war crimes committed by the Rajapaksa
Regime in 2009. They should be hauled off to account for their crimes before
the International Court in the Hague and not be legitimised by Prince Charles,
David Cameron and William Hague and other leaders of a Commonwealth supposedly
committed to human rights and democracy. Even International hypocrisy must have
its limits?</div>
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the fate of a Tamil propagandist & TV presenter is a stark reminder of Sri
Lankan government cruelty. Until now they insisted Is Aipriya died in combat.
Warning: distressing images.</b></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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on the video above to enjoy this special edition of 'Bankwatch'. And to help
the campaign to stop HSBC's destruction of the rainforests,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333;"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/hsbc-sarawak#petition">sign the Global Witness petition here</a></span>.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">HSBC
- Money launder's to the world! Don't take my word for it speak to the US
Department of Justice where HSBC paid a £1.9 Billion settlement for money
laundering for Mexican Drug Cartels!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269</span></b></a>
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hysterically supporting Boris Johnson for Mayor with six page spreads every
night for three weeks before the Mayoral election in May 2012 and banners on
their website. Strangely the cash value of these Banners and the implication of
the Evening Standard largely being distributed in London at Tube Stations in a
commercial arrangement with Transport for London (controlled by the same Mayor)
did not figure in Boris's Election Returns. In his defence Boris had little to
do with his own election as the expensive Australian immigrant Lynton Crosby
ran a campaign which bore no relation to what BoJo had done before or has done
since. As part of a Local Authority TfL and its employees have a legal duty to
remain strictly neutral during an election period. This duty of neutrality in
an election for its controlling authority did not stop them distributing
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ended the year with a £900 million surplus. In America, by contrast, the
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public comment about her private life. Man (who was once an advertising mogul
who could even sell an unattractive product like the Tories) shows how much he
has lost his touch by issuing utterly cringe worthy statement. Rest of the
world looks away in embarrassment. Evening Standard runs absolutely baseless
story attributed to PR Man's "friends" - but actually based on letters his lawyers sent to her lawyers according to reports in The Telegraph and Daily Mirror. Suggests PR Man has some
grounds for action against abused Wife which don't exist in English Statute or
Common Law for not "Defending" Man who has signed a caution admitting
assault - "The Wife has a clear duty from Time Immemorial to defend her Master's reputation, M'Lud"? There is also the small, little, technical issue M'Lud that for their "Quickie Divorce" in the High Court both parties had to file affidavits confirming they had no further claims against each other?<o:p></o:p><br />
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-46228018279381124692013-10-29T17:35:00.001-07:002013-10-30T05:58:26.183-07:00Dublin - Lepers, Lock and Clap<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Two fascinating sites on Dublin history and lore have reawakened
a certain nostalgia for my hometown and its somewhat colourful history. That
history included squalor and disease as with the Act of Union in 1800 Dublin
lost its Parliament and with it much of the aristocratic residents and trade.
By the end of the 19th Century Dublin was said to have the worst slums and
largest Red Light District (the infamous Monto) in Europe. The abolition of the
parliament in 1800 had a major economic impact on the life of the city. Within
a decade, many of the finest mansions (Leinster House, Powerscourt House,
Aldborough House, etc) had been sold, often to government agencies. Though
parliament itself was based on the exclusion of Irish Catholics, many catholic
nationalist historians and writers blamed the absence of parliament for the
increased impoverishment of Dublin, with many of the large mansions in areas
like Henrietta Street sold to unscrupulous property developers and landlords
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The story is told here;</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/irish-parliament-building.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/irish-parliament-building.html</span></b></a><br />
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What prompted these musings was a the fine picture of the Westmoreland Lock
Hospital which once stood in Dublin's Townsend Street. A lovely picture and what a
fine building, one of the many lost to the Philistines having been let run down
when we got our freedom and demolished in 1949. Townsend Street was originally called Lazar's Hill after a leprosy hospital built outside the city - there was
another Leprosy Hospital called St. Stephens in Clarendon Street and St.
Stephens Green is named after it.<br />
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<a href="http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/tale-of-two-parks.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/tale-of-two-parks.html</b></span></a><br />
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This was known as the Westmoreland Lock
Hospital after the Viceroy of Ireland who opened it in 1792. The name dates
back to the earlier leprosy hospitals (as does Lazar), which came to be known
as lock hospitals after the "locks", or rags, which covered the
lepers' lesions. After 1820 with the decrease in leprosy it mainly treated
female suffers of venereal diseases and had about 200 inmates, mainly prostitutes from
Monto, a consequence of Dublin having a large garrison and port with estimates
of 2,000 + prostitutes in the city most of who would have their lives shortened
by disease for which there was no effective treatment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">From the 1856 survey of Dublin</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Monto, Dublin</span></b></td></tr>
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Initially the hospital treated 300 people of both sexes.
This was later reduced to 150 beds and from 1820 only women were admitted
(males were sent to Dr Steevens' Hospital and the Richmond Hospital). It was
supported by the state from the outset. Catholics and Protestants were
segregated. In the 19th century most of the patients were prostitutes, a
consequence of the large military presence in the city - Dublin having the
"largest garrison of the British army at home or in the colonies"
(Under-Secretary Thomas Larcom). It became part of the objectives of the
hospital governors to prevent the transmission of venereal disease to troops
stationed in the city, and the hospital was provided with a grant from the
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Monto was the nickname for the one-time red light district
in the north city centre of Dublin centred on the Gloucester Diamond. Monto was
roughly the area bounded by Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Gardiner Street and
Seán McDermott Street (formerly Gloucester Street). The name is derived from
Montgomery Street (now called Foley Street), which runs parallel to the lower
end of Talbot Street towards what is now Connolly Station. It was immortalised
as "Nighttown" in the "Circe" chapter of James Joyce's
famous work, Ulysses, where the central protagonists Leopold Bloom and Stephen
Dedalus together visit a brothel. I have a certain interest as this is the part
of the City Centre I lived and grew up in until the age of five, known then as
Summerhill. It was no longer a red light district (as far as a five year old
could tell!) but I do remember the definite atmosphere of the fine tall
Georgian Houses in the area which had been converted (probably badly) into
local authority flats, their height accentuated by a natural fall in the area towards
the River Liffey. These were in turn swept away by redevelopment at the end of
the 1970's.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/james-joyce-and-me.html">http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/james-joyce-and-me.html</a></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The "Tall Houses" of Summerhill</span></b></td></tr>
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In its heyday from the 1860s - 1920s, there were anything up
to 2,000 prostitutes working there at any one time, with all classes of
customers catered for. It was reputed to be the biggest red light district in
Europe at the time. Its financial viability was aided by the number of British
Army barracks and hence soldiers in the city, notably the Royal Barracks (later
Collins Barracks and now one of the locations of Ireland's National Museum).<br />
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After Ireland became independent in 1922 it became a target for cleanup by
Catholic organisations keen to impose their Taliban like stamp on the new Irish
Free State between 1923 and 1925. Religious
missions led by Frank Duff of the Legion of Mary, an aggressive evangelical
Catholic organisation, and Fr. R.S. Devane worked to close down the brothels.
They received the co-operation of Dublin Police Commissioner, General William
Murphy, and the campaign ended with 120 arrests and the closure of the brothels
following a police raid on 12 March 1925, its financial viability having
already been seriously undermined by the withdrawal of soldiers from the city
following the Anglo-Irish Treaty (December 1921) and the establishment of the
Irish Free State (6 December 1922). The "fallen women" were consigned
to Magdalen Laundries, but that as they say is another story.</div>
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The area is commemorated in the folk tune Monto (Take Her Up
To Monto) written by George Hodnett, music critic of the Irish Times, and
popularised by the Dubliners. Some have mistakenly attributed the song to James
Joyce as George used slang and phraseology from Joyce in the song. This makes
it somewhat undecipherable to anybody other than native Dubliners. The opening
lines illustrate this well:</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Where the waxies sing-o all the day;"</span></b></div>
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These words make no sense unless you know Dublin slang. A
"wing-o" was a girl friend because you walked out with her on the
"wing", "Ring-o" is Ringsend, a dockside area of Dublin
where the River Dodder joins the Liffey, and the "Waxies" were the
Cobblers who used waxed thread to sew boots. Their guild organised a picnic
each year to Ringsend which was satirised as the "Waxies Dargle", the
title of another folk song, as the Dargle River in Co. Wicklow was a picnic area
for the well off as you had to rent a horse and trap at Bray Railway Station to
make the journey, something too expensive for poorer families. </div>
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In 1794 the Lock penitentiary opened, which catered for
women who had been discharged from the hospital. Other destinations for those
discharged were the Lying-in hospital (now the Rotunda Hospital), the
work-house, or the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin. The hospital never had
power to hold women against their will.</div>
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A number of broadside ballads were printed in Britain and
Ireland in the 19th century referring to the Lock Hospital or a similar
institution, and the downfall of a young man or soldier (and later, woman). An
early mention of a hospital is on early 19th broadsides, referring to The Lock
Hospital established in 1746 at Hyde Park Corner, London. A song was called The
Unfortunate Rake in Ireland and was sung in Dublin in the 1790s. A tune with this name was printed in Crosby's
Irish Musical Repository in 1808. In America, the song has been adapted to the
cattle range (The Cowboy's Lament or The Streets of Laredo) and the gambling
hall (St. James' Infirmary). Christy Moore recorded the Locke Hospital on
"Prosperous" (1972).</div>
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Another feature was that Protestant and Catholic inmates
at The Westmoreland Lock Hospital were separated presumably the presumption
being they had come from a different "station" in life and should not
mix, this being one area where the Catholics were professional and the
Protestants were amateurs? There was also a de facto separation of religions in
all the other city hospitals something which continued well into the 20th
Century under our very own Archbishop of Bling, John Charles McQuaid, who
objected to a new children's hospital being built at St. Ultan's in Charlemont
Street as Protestants would be on the Board of Management. Despite the land
having been already acquired at public expense after World War II (or "The
Emergency" as it was called in Ireland) the project was scrapped and
"Our Lady's" Hospital was built in an awkward out of city site at
Crumlin under the control of the Archbishop and reflecting the famous
"Catholic Ethos" imposed on the fertile by the infertile. The surplus
land acquired at the more convenient central site was utilised for the
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I saw another side of this religious segregation in the
early '80s visiting a friend who was being treated in St. Patrick's Psychiatric
Hospital in James Street. I knew the Hospital Secretary and its history as one of the first dedicated psychiatric hospitals as it
had been founded and endowed by Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral
and author of "Gulliver's Travels" and much more. He left the bulk
(£12,000) of his will to the hospital originally known as St Patrick’s Hospital
for Imbeciles, which opened in 1757 to, as he put it: </div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"He gave the little Wealth he had,</span></b></div>
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The hospital in those days still had a
"Protestant" Board of Management. Imagine then my astonishment when
visiting my friend to find the place was full of Catholic Clergy, Priests and
Nuns, who were having problems with "drink" and their "nerves." Presumably they were stashed away in this
"Protestant" hospital rather than the Catholic equivalent, St. John
of God, so the simple minded
"Faithful" would not see them and be scandalised by the sight of
these frazzled celibates who were having such difficulty coping with the same
reality they were so happy to advise their "flocks" on?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan Swift's Epitaph, St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin where he was Dean</span><br /><br /><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'Here is laid the body of </span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Divinity, </span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Dean of this cathedral Church, </span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Where fierce indignation can no longer </span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Rend his heart.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Go, traveller, and imitate if you can</span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This earnest and dedicated</span><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Champion of Liberty'</span></span></i></b></td></tr>
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Leper Hospitals were common features in Europe until after the 1940's when an
effective cure for the disease was developed by a Norwegian physician and many
cities had "Leper Colonies" on the outskirts, in London
"Spitalfields" denotes one such, Spital being incorporated into our
modern word, hospital. One of the last Leper colonies in Europe was on the
Island of Spinalonga in Crete, apt in a way as the disease is reputed to have
been brought to Europe from India by Alexander the Great's returning troops.</div>
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which also features on my Blogroll on
the Blog sidebar <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">è</span></div>
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We are less than a week away from Halloween on next Thursday the 31st October but how many realise as the go around "Trick and Treating" that they are paying homage to the Celtic Pagan Festival of Samhain?<br />
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Hallowe’en seems to have grown around the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain, marking the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark half. All Hallows' Eve, has over the years moved from the Celtic Festival of Samhain to trick-or-treat. Samhain was the time of the final harvest of the beasts of the field, and the crops, in preparation of winter provisions, the eve of Winter's first day, and the beginning of the next Wheel of the Year.<br />
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The Celts lived in pre-Roman Ireland, Britain, and parts of
greater Northern Europe. On November 1st (of our calendar - the Celts used a
lunar calendar) the Celtic Wheel of the Year turned. Samhain was the night
prior - the day the old year died. On this day, the Celts believed the veil
between this world and the "other side" thinned. This had several
important effects. The otherworldly spirits, in all their omniscience, could
aid in divination rituals. "Magic" was a daily fact of life for the
Celts, and these predictions were no fortune cookie curiosities - they were an
important source of drive and comfort, helping them get through the long
winter. In addition to this, there were less-desirable spirits from the
Otherworld that could cross over to meddle with the villagers and destroy
crops. In order to dispel these angry spirits, the Celts would light sacred
bonfires - usually two, as they would walk between them to cleanse their bodies
and spirits of the bad energies of the past year - and wear costumes of animal
skins and blue or black dye in order to look more like a spirit, and thus not
attract attention. Crops and animals would often be cast into the fires as
sacrifices to the Celtic deities in thanks for a bountiful harvest, and in
hopes that the goddesses and gods would protect the remaining crops from the
angry otherworld spirits. Other animals would be slaughtered, their bones cast
into the fire, and the meat cooked in order to store for the winter. At the end
of the night of festivities, they carried home coals of the sacred fire in
hollowed-out turnips to light the new years' flame in the hearth that had been
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To the Celts Samhain marked one of the two great doorways of the Pagan Year, the other being Beltane on May 1. They held a 'dumb' or 'silent' supper in remembrance of those who passed over, placing a setting of food and drink for them at the family dinner table, or just simple cakes and wine.<br />
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In medieval Ireland, Samhain became the principal festival, celebrated with a great assembly at the royal court in Tara, lasting for three days. After being ritually started on the Hill of Tlachtga, a bonfire was set alight on the Hill of Tara, which served as a beacon, signalling to people gathered atop hills all across Ireland to light their ritual bonfires. The custom has survived to some extent, and recent years have seen resurgence in participation in the festival.<br />
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The name Hallowe’en is a shortening of All Hallows’ Even, or All Hallows’ Evening. All Hallows is an old term for All Saints’ Day (Hallow, from the Old English “halig”, or holy, compared with Saint, from the Latin “Sanctus”, also meaning holy, or consecrated). In the original Old English, it was known as Eallra Hālgena aefen. This comes from a Christian move by Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV to end the pagan Samhain festivals, by moving the feast of All Saints from May to 1 November.<br />
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There is a long tradition of the Christian Church taking other’s iconography and calling it their own! They even took the History of the Jewish People and called it the Old Testament. They took over the Basilicas of the Cult of Mithras which, like Christianity, had at its centre redemption through blood sacrifice. When they took over the Roman Basilicas after Constantine the Great made it the state religion of the Roman Empire they replaced the statues of Jupiter with those of Christos (The anointed one – a title used by the Pharaohs of Egypt as in Ptolemy VI Eucharistos on the Rosetta Stone) and changed the inscription from “J.O.M.” (Jovis Omnia Maximus) to “D.O.M.” (Deo Omnia Maximus). They even kept the gold disc behind Jupiter which represented his position as the Sun God (Helios) and depicted their images with the “Halo” as a sign of sanctity. So the Nazarenes have some form in this area, indeed after celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth in early summer for the first 400 years or so they then purloined the Roman Feast of Saturnalia on the 25th December near to the Winter solstice which was associated with feasting and merriment. Clement of Alexandria (d. 215 AD) recorded that some Christians of the time placed his birth date in April (see Stromata I:21). Hippolytus (d. 236 AD) may have believed that Jesus was born on April 2nd.<br />
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The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.<br />
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The classic Hallowe’en jack-o’-lantern, a carved grinning pumpkin, is both a new and an ancient practice. Originally, it seems to have come from an old Irish legend of a man called Stingy Jack, a miserly farmer who played a trick on the devil and as punishment was cursed to wander the earth, lighting his way with a candle inside a hollowed-out turnip. When the tradition moved to America pumpkins were used instead of turnips, as they were both more available and easier to carve.<br />
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So this Halloween, as we Trick and Treat, let us acknowledge the contribution of the Pagans of Ireland to popular culture not to mention 100s of terrible Halloween B Movies!! Watch out for the Ghosties and Ghoulies and ‘tings which go bump in the night!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">For more about the rituals of the Celts and the great Celtic sites of Newgrange and Brú na Bóinne see;<br /><br /><a href="http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/in-darkest-mid-winter.html">http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/in-darkest-mid-winter.html</a></span></b><br />
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According to Archbishop Ussher the world was 6017 years old yesterday
which is as good an introduction as any to my townsman who was one of the 17th Century's
most influential churchmen and intellectuals. <br />
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James Ussher (1581-1656) was a Dubliner, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All
Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin who was highly regarded
in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on
chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated
into an authorised version of the Bible printed in 1701, and thus came to be
regarded with almost as much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself.
Having established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, by
reference to the Books of Genesis, Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical
events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on
Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May
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While his date of creation was disproved by the finds in
Egypt when the hieroglyphs were decrypted which showed the Egyptian
Civilization was over 7,000 years old he did in the process succeed in
establishing much of the accepted chronology of our history. His calculation of
how many angels could fit on a pinhead (I jest not!) has not endured as much.
Such was the respect he was held in when he died as an Anglican Primate the
puritan Oliver Cromwell insisted he be buried will full ceremony in the Paul Chapel
of Westminster Cathedral.</div>
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Apropos nothing in particular Usher's Quay and Island in
Dublin is named after him and in a house there James Joyce set his long short
story "The Dead"</div>
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Back to my townsman James Ussher and his Chronology. The
Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world
formulated from a literal reading of the Bible. The chronology is sometimes
associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was
created only a few millennia ago by God as described in the first two chapters
of the Biblical book of Genesis.</div>
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The full title of Ussher's work is <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Annales Veteris
Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti, una cum rerum Asiaticarum et
Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici principio usque ad Maccabaicorum
initia producto." </span></i></b> <b><i>("Annals of
the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world, the chronicle
of Asiatic and Egyptian matters together produced from the beginning of
historical time up to the beginnings of Maccabes") </i></b></div>
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Ussher's work was his
contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth.
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By the end of the 19th century, Ussher's chronology came
under increasing attack from supporters of uniformitarianism, who argued that
Ussher's "young Earth" was incompatible with the increasingly
accepted view of an Earth much more ancient than Ussher's. It became generally
accepted that the Earth was tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions of years
old. Ussher fell into disrepute among theologians as well; in 1890, Princeton
professor William Henry Green wrote a highly influential article in Bibliotheca
Sacra entitled "Primeval Chronology" in which he strongly criticised
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"We conclude that the Scriptures furnish no data for a
chronological computation prior to the life of Abraham; and that the Mosaic
records do not fix and were not intended to fix the precise date either of the
Flood or of the creation of the world."</span></i></b></div>
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Ussher's life reflected the turbulent years in Ireland and
he had to flee during the rebellion of 1641 which saw Kilkenny becoming the
capital of Ireland under the Catholic Confederation which allied itself with Charles
II and the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. For eight years until the
Cromwellian invasion of 1649 Ireland was effectively independent of England. Ussher
spent his years in exile first in London and then Oxford where he died living
with his daughter who married Dr. Luke Challoner. </div>
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Such was the regard he was held in when he died in 1656 it
was Oliver Cromwell who ordered his burial in the chapel of St Paul in
Westminster Abbey and paid the funeral expenses. It is thought that this was
the only occasion at which the Anglican funeral service was read in the Abbey
during the Commonwealth period. The present Irish marble gravestone, with brass
lettering, was not put in place until 1904 and the Latin inscription was
written by Dr Gwynn (Regius Professor at Trinity College) and others. It can be
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"In pious memory of JAMES USSHER who was born in Dublin
in 1581, entered among the first students of Trinity College, promoted to the
archiepiscopal see of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the hundredth heir of St
Patrick the apostle of Ireland, historian, critic, theologian, most learned among
the holy, most holy among the learned, exiled from his own in this city of
Westminster, he fell asleep in Christ in 1656. He was expelled from his sacred
see and country by those same seditions which went on to grant him burial in
this church among the most honoured. This stone was placed by George Salmon,
Provost of the same college, 1904"</span></i></b></div>
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Ussher's basic error was to treat the Bible as a literal
work whereas it is a transcription by many writers of the oral history of the Jewish
people over many years. He also tried to use the genealogy in the Bible to
extrapolate dates in history back to the "Great Flood" which
amplified his error. However, the great irony is that by addressing the core
question of Biblical Scholarship, The Creation, he also stimulated others to ask how old is
the Earth, a quest which laid the intellectual basis for the Theory of Evolution.
He was undoubtedly a great scholar and a great Dubliner who due to the vagaries of history
ended up being a prophet not without honour, save in his own country.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">For more about James Joyce and "The Dead" house on Usher's Island
(today's spelling) in Dublin see;</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/06/james-joyce-and-me.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/06/james-joyce-and-me.html</span></b></a>
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Skibbereen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227489959419340421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233134462278198161.post-17997251193602737552013-10-24T12:14:00.001-07:002013-10-25T02:13:30.005-07:00Where is Jimmy the Dodger?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the question being asked in Scotland as they search
high and low for Jimmy Ratcliffe who owns 70% of Ineos which has closed
Grangemouth refinery and petro-chemical plant, where is Jimmy?</div>
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Union leaders are to meet managers at the giant Grangemouth
site in a bid to save thousands of jobs following the shock decision to close
the petrochemical side of the business. Unite said it had made a number of
recommendations to owner Ineos, which yesterday announced the closure of the
petrochemical plant with the loss of 800 jobs and potential 2,000 more among
contractors. A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to
Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local
community. "We meet with the company today and will hear then if they
share these objectives." The company insisted it had no alternative but to
close the business after it failed to persuade its staff to accept a survival
plan, which included a pay freeze, ending of a final salary pension scheme and
other changes to terms and conditions. The Grangemouth conflict with the Trade
Union Unite is entirely engineered by Ratcliffe no doubt encouraged by Cameron
and Osborne who he has met. Wages are less than 2% of the total cost at
Grangemouth and the supposed unprofitable petrochemical plant there posted
profits of £7M last year! Organ Grinder and Monkeys are the key words here?</div>
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Ineos Group Limited is a privately owned multinational
chemicals company consisting of 15 standalone business units, headquartered in
Rolle, in Switzerland, and with its registered office in Lyndhurst, in the
United Kingdom, near which "non-resident" Jim Ratcliffe has a £6 M
mansion. Refused VAT deferrals by the UK government during the credit crunch,
he already moved Ineos’s headquarters to Switzerland where he and 80 key
executives transferred to Rolle on Lake Geneva. Can I just run that past you
again. He had collected VAT as agent of HMRC to the tune of £340 million from
other UK customers of his operation and because he was not allowed to hold onto
other people's money at great risk to the public purse for over a year he spent
a spiteful fortune buggering off to Switzerland and paid his top management
substantial relocation costs to do the same. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Hey!! 600 Banks own this!</span></b></td></tr>
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It gets worse; The move to Switzerland was designed to dodge £100 M of British
taxes a year and was approved by a consortium of banks who were owed £6 Billion
( yes, billion) by Ineos. Lead banks in that consortium included RBS (81% owned
by the British taxpayer) and Lloyds Banking Group (41% owned by the British
taxpayer). Now, I think we understand the first principles here - Free Marketer
wanted to use taxes he had collected on behalf of you and me to float his boat.
When he was refused permission to do this he spitefully pulled out of Britain. To
do this he had to get permission from British Banks bailed out by British
taxpayer who have guaranteed the loans Ratcliffe's over leveraged group needed
to survive. Oh, did I mention when Ratcliffe's company took over ICI's Chlorine
operation in Cheshire it received subsidies from the British taxpayer he so assiduously
shuns of £50 million?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Grangemouth Refinery</span></b></td></tr>
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Perhaps Jim Ratcliffe could now come out of hiding in his
tax exile in Switzerland (another Tory too patriotic to pay British Taxes) or
from his yacht Hampshire II and explain himself instead of hiding behind the
hired help. As he owns 70% of the indebted financial House of Cards called
Ineos he could explain how in his greed and arrogance he feels he can blackmail
Scotland - a place which has comprehensively rejected the Tories and their
toxic policies. One further point, this indebted swashbucklers plans for
Grangemouth if it stays open call for £150 million of UK and Scottish
Government aid and £9 million of employment subsidies to adapt the complex to
import Shale Gas from America. Jim Ratcliffe is an experienced Chemical
Engineer which is a respected profession. He then went on to devalue this by
doing an MBA. Now these are the magic letters you find behind most spectacular
business failures as they breed arrogant overconfidence and an unreasonable
belief in the alchemy of Financial Engineering, or trying to make a silk purse
out of a pigs ear, as we used to say in old money.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The gun Ratcliffe is able to hold to hold to Scotland's head</span></b></td></tr>
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Many Tories understand tax very well and know that it pays
for the common goals, welfare and defence of the people of Britain and for the
critical infrastructure our country needs which the private sector time and
time again has demonstrated its inability to provide. Because they understand
this so well, whilst keeping their British passports and privileges, they feck
off abroad, mainly to the 23 British controlled tax havens, or even more
ridiculous on a contrived pretext they become Non-Doms a fiction
originally invented in 1799 to facilitate Slave Plantation owners and White
Nawabs returning laden with stolen treasure from India. In the past, the
German-born Tiny Rowland, the Czech-born Robert Maxwell and the Cypriot Asil
Nadir were all entitled to this enormous break.<br />
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Today, the UK accepts non-domicile status for Greek shipping
magnates, Saudi princes, American corporate heirs, Mohamed Al Fayed, the
controversial owner of Harrods, Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian steel magnate and an
assortment of foreign business executives. Apart from the Republic of Ireland,
which inherited the rule, there is no other country in the world which allows
any of its residents to claim that their real home is elsewhere. The United
States says it does not matter where you were born, if you qualify as a
resident of the US, you must pay US tax on all your income and capital gains
all over the world. If you are a US Passport holder you pay US Federal taxes,
period, so there are no US "Tax
Exiles." Give up your US passport (US does not recognise dual-citizenship
for those born in the US) and you can only get it back if you pay the taxes you
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So these tax-dodging sybarites can stick their snouts deeper
in the trough whilst displaying their business end to the rest of us aka "The
Suckers". Tories, too patriotic to pay British Taxes: eg; PR Dave's Dad
and Grandad, Lord "Belize" Ashcroft, Phil "I trousered a
Billion" Green, Union Jack Hayward, Jim Ratcliffe, Jonathan Harmsworth
("Patriotic" owner of the Daily Mail and PR Dave's Bestie), etc; etc;</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jim Ratcliffe's £130 M yacht "Hampshire II" from which he engineers conflicts with his <br />skilled Grangemouth workforce for his hired help to put into action. <br />It's a Feadship for those who know about such things, just the best Dutch quality you can buy.</span></b></td></tr>
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For an insight to where Jim Ratcliffe dreams up these wizzy
schemes to exploit the workers here is a promo video for his £130 M yacht
"Hampshire II", the name no doubt an ironic tribute to where he and
his company used to live?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yacht Hampshire II (PS; Jimmy also owns Hampshire I)</span></b></div>
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