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Ross Whitcombe, Kai Chung Wong, Kevin Smith = 3/4 of BLAME, a 6th Form-era metal outfit. We have to, er, 'blame' the man on the left for the name of the band. Nice reunion though.
Another show I did see: "Anathema" from Bearded Dog Theatre. It was a very powerful and moving drama, though not the kind of show you actually 'enjoy' as such. It deserved a much bigger audience than it got the night I saw it.
A couple of Dekalb County, IL rail fans trying to pin the blame on the other. Be wary of these characters around the rails!!!
Simon Vouet (1590-1649), actif à Rome et à Paris
Martha blâme sa sœur Marie-Madeleine, approximativement 1621
Marie-Madeleine, la belle pécheresse de la tradition chrétienne est juxtaposé à sa sœur Martha plutôt adepte d'une vie puritaine. Celle-là demandant avec des gestes éloquents de se détourner de la vie mondaine. L'image provient de l'époque romaine, orientée à Caravaggio du peintre plus tard occupé chez la cour de Louis XIII de la France.
Simon Vouet (1590-1649), tätig in Rom und Paris
Martha tadelt ihre Schwester Maria Magdalena, um 1621
Maria Magdalena, die schöne Sünderin der christlichen Überlieferung ist ihrer sittenstrengen Schwester Martha gegenübergestellt. Diese fordert sie mit beredet Gestik zur Abkehr vom weltlichen Leben auf. Das Bild stammt aus der römischen, an Caravaggio orientierten Zeit des späteren Hofmalers Ludwigs XIII. von Frankreich.
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
Federal Museum
Logo KHM
Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Founded 17 October 1891
Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria
Management Sabine Haag
www.khm.at website
Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.
The museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.
History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .
Architectural History
The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).
From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.
Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.
Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.
The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .
Kuppelhalle
Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)
Grand staircase
Hall
Empire
The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.
189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:
Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Antique Collection
The coins and medals collection
Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects
Weapons collection
Collection of industrial art objects
Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)
Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.
Restoration Office
Library
Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.
1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.
The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.
Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.
First Republic
The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.
It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.
On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.
Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.
With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Collection of ancient coins
Collection of modern coins and medals
Weapons collection
Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Picture Gallery
The Museum 1938-1945
Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.
With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.
After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.
The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.
The museum today
Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.
In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.
Management
1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials
1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director
1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director
1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director
1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director
1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation
1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation
1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director
1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation
1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director
1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director
1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director
1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director
1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director
1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director
1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director
1990: George Kugler as interim first director
1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director
Since 2009: Sabine Haag as general director
Collections
To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.
Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)
Picture Gallery
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Vienna Chamber of Art
Numismatic Collection
Library
New Castle
Ephesus Museum
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Arms and Armour
Archive
Hofburg
The imperial crown in the Treasury
Imperial Treasury of Vienna
Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage
Insignia of imperial Austria
Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire
Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure
Ecclesiastical Treasury
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna
Armory in Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle
Collections of Ambras Castle
Major exhibits
Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:
Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438
Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80
Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16
Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526
Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07
Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75
Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68
Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06
Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508
Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32
The Little Fur, about 1638
Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Kids, 1560
Tower of Babel, 1563
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564
Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565
Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Bauer and bird thief, 1568
Peasant Wedding, 1568/69
Peasant Dance, 1568/69
Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567
Cabinet of Curiosities:
Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543
Egyptian-Oriental Collection:
Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut
Collection of Classical Antiquities:
Gemma Augustea
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
Gallery: Major exhibits
Enjoyed "lammfärsbiff med potatis" during the umpteenth BBQ of the season at Villa Blåmes on Saturday evening together with two of the usual suspects.
We had the day off today and I did some gardening. Some had to go, with no blame;
only she, is so special....
View her on ORIGINAL size while listening to this amazing song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfehKorG_Qs
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I wish it was Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine
And if I had an areoplane, I still couldn't make it on time
Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train but the boss is already there!
It's just another crazy Sunday
I wish it was Thursday
Cause that's my Funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another crazy Sunday!
Prompted by Mr. Bonner, I opted to google my first name... expecting to see "Nina Hartley" (love her!) at the top of the list... some Nina Hagen, a few La Niña bits here and there... nope.
Lots and LOTS of Nina Hagen (yaaay!). Lots and lots of Nina Shoes. No Nina Hartley. Worst of all- no Nina Alter. :((
And- as the proprietess of the most deliciously-cute little bangs of all- I demmand this icky supermarket softcore blik author, give me this domain name... dammit!
The Afon Clwyd had taken over a bit more of the valley as flooding from the heavy rains spread into the pastures north of Denbigh.
Once the other Stormtroopers left in search of some help and the mysterious Stormtrooper, BA-253 found himself alone with the Clones. The Clones turn to BA-253 and advice him that they are going to blame him for what happened and that they hope he gets what’s coming to him. They actually decide that they will in fact make sure that Darth Vader finds out about this ASAP!!
"i'm like a stone ,, just like my heart"
you're the one who made me like this ,, so don't you ever ask me why i have a stoned heart ,, it's all because of you and i'm blaming you !!
AIR CDRE (RETD) ISHFAQ ILAHI CHOUDHURY
As we say goodbye to the year 2012, we might take time out to reflect on our achievements and failures in the year gone by, examine our prospects for the future and the challenges that lie ahead. Religious extremism leading to terrorist activities is one such area that needs to be reviewed. While many South Asian countries are deeply embroiled in the fight against terrorism, Bangladesh had generally been free from terrorist attacks since 2005. As we tended to relax, two incidents in 2012 brought our focus back to the terrorism issue. The first was the burning and looting of the houses and temples of the Buddhist communities in Cox’s Bazar area on 29-30 September. The second was the arrest on 17 October of a young Bangladeshi man caught while planning to bomb the Federal Reserve Building in New York, USA. As the year was coming to a close, the violence unleashed across the country by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a right-wing Islamist party, sent us a clear signal of the growing strength of Islamist politics.
s we say goodbye to the year 2012, we might take time out to reflect on our achievements and failures in the year gone by, examine our prospects for the future and the challenges that lie ahead. Religious extremism leading to terrorist activities is one such area that needs to be reviewed. While many South Asian countries are deeply embroiled in the fight against terrorism, Bangladesh had generally been free from terrorist attacks since 2005. As we tended to relax, two incidents in 2012 brought our focus back to the terrorism issue. The first was the burning and looting of the houses and temples of the Buddhist communities in Cox’s Bazar area on 29-30 September. The second was the arrest on 17 October of a young Bangladeshi man caught while planning to bomb the Federal Reserve Building in New York, USA. As the year was coming to a close, the violence unleashed across the country by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a right-wing Islamist party, sent us a clear signal of the growing strength of Islamist politics.
These are happening at a time when an avowed secular party, the Awami League (AL), is in power. AL won the 2008 election with a commitment to amend the constitution to restore its secular character. It also promised stern action against all forms of religious extremism and terrorism. Four years down the line, much of those promises remain unfulfilled. Constitutional reform was half-done; Islam remained a state religion. Religious parties are more organised today than ever before. Their student fronts are active in most educational institutions. While Islamists are active on political fronts, more radical amongst them are organising themselves for terrorist activities as and when opportunities appear.
Rise of Islamic extremism in Bangladesh
On 16 December 1971, we hoped that Bangladesh would emerge as a modern democratic state. The spirit of the nation was epitomised in the Constitution (1972) that adopted secularism as a state principle and prohibited the political use of religion. The Constitution barred the state from declaring any religion as state religion. However, it all changed after the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and many top-ranking political leaders in 1975. Those who seized power at the time found the Islamists as their political ally and started islamising the society and the state. Islamist political parties, such as JI, started building their party structures. The power elites established thousands of madrassas that produced religiously indoctrinated youths who would be the front-line activists of the Islamist parties. Poor, jobless students from the madrassas became easy target of the recruiters of militant Islamist organisations. By late 1990s we had militant organisations such as Jamiatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami (HUJI) that took roots in Bangladesh.
Starting from 1999 to 2005, the militants bombed temples, churches, political rallies, cultural functions, cinema halls etc. The government and the opposition kept on blaming each other for those attacks. Even when grenades attack was made on the AL rally in Dhaka on 22 August 2004 killing 22 people and injuring the AL Chief Sheikh Hasina, the government blamed it on the opposition. The series bombing on 17 August 2005 finally compelled the government to come out of the denial mode and stand up to the terrorist threat. In 2006-07, we saw a series of arrests, prosecution and handing down of sentences, including death sentences, on some of the terror leaders. Since then there has been no major terror attack in Bangladesh, but that the terrorists are active is evident from the frequent arrests of activists and seizure of large cache of arms and explosives from their hideouts.
Bulk of the Islamic militants arrested so far had come from poor rural communities. Many were from the Quomi Madrassa background. However, recent years saw a new breed of extremists called the Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT). HuT members are drawn from children of urban, upper income parentage, educated in the mainstream or English medium schools and colleges. HuT is targeting the cream of our youth, the nation’s future, and therefore, poses a clear danger. It is feared that HuT has penetrated among schools and universities, professionals – engineers, doctors, government officials and even among the security apparatus. Although the party was banned in 2009, its clandestine activities continue in the country. On the political front, JI continued to grow in strength in Bangladesh. The party is small in size, but highly disciplined, well-organised and has a well-defined hierarchy. Jamaat’s aim is to establish a pure Islamic state based on Sharia. The party had opposed the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 and actively collaborated in the genocide. Some of the top leaderships are now facing war-crime trial. The party, therefore, is on a back foot now, but given the fact that a new election is around the corner, its rank and file might align with the major opposition party to make a bid for power. JI’s student wing, Islami Chattra Shibir (Islamic Students Front), is now a potent student organisation, from schools to universities. The other Islamist party of importance is Islami Oikyo Jote (Islamic Unity Front), a collection of small Islamic parties. Like JI, IOJ also wants to establish an Islamic state in Bangladesh, but there are differences in outlook. IOJ members are exclusively from Quomi madrassa background and more traditional. IOJ has been in the forefront, along with JI, in the movement to declare Ahmedia community as non-Muslims. Present government’s attempt to register Quomi Madrassas and reform their curriculum was thwarted by IOJ’s agitation. None of the Islamist political parties gave open support to the militant activities, however, many of the JMB and HUJI activists had previously been members of Islamist political parties. The Islamist parties have multifarious social, economic and financial investments. Some of the largest banks, insurance, hospitals, diagnostic centres, schools, universities, coaching centres, and travel agencies are operated undercover by the Islamist parties. The Islamist parties have been gaining in strength in Bangladesh at the expense of the two major political parties – BNP and AL. Both parties at one time or other have been courting these parties in order to gain short term advantage over the other.
Countering the extremists
Bangladesh government has taken a number steps to check extremism and militancy. Notable among those are: Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 and Money Laundering Prevention Act 2009 as amended in 2011. The two acts provide for deterrent punishment to offenders in case they engage in acts of terror or launder money to support terrorism. Based on a series of dialogues, workshops and seminars, participated by academics, researchers, politicians, parliamentarians, civil and military officials, a national strategy to combat terrorism in the country has been proposed.Bangladesh has banned a total of six terrorist organizations, including JMB, HUJI and HuT. A number of Islamic NGOs have been banned who had terror links, including Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (Kuwait), Rabita Al Alam Al Islami (Saudi Arabia), and International Islamic relief Organization (Saudi Arabia), Muslim Aid (UK). More than 1,300 militants were arrested; most of them belonging to JMB, HUJI-B or HuT. 29 terrorist kingpins have been sentenced to death and many more sentenced to long imprisonment or are awaiting trial.While our police action has been commendable, we did not do enough on the social front. We need to address urgently the problem of poverty, ignorance, and backwardness. Democratisation of the society is an insurance against extremist ideology. We need to improve governance and provide access to justice for the poor and downtrodden. We need to impart modern education to our youth that prepare them to face the challenges of a fast changing world. A thorough overhaul of madrassa education in our country is long overdue. We need an education system that produce people with high ethical and technical standards, a system that encourages freethinking rather than rote learning. Emergence of HuT points out a lack of pride and a sense of disillusionment among the children of affluent class. This is because English medium schools, where most of the rich parents send their children, follow a curriculum that has no relevance to our culture, history or traditions. Therefore, English medium school syllabus too needs a thorough review.Government must legislate not to allow use of religion to gain political mileage. We need to check creeping ‘Sudiaization’ of Islam. Along with the money from the ME donors, comes the ideological package of Wahhabi Islam which is alien to South Asia. One of the prices we pay for the remittance from our labour force in the ME is the influx of Saudi brand of Islam. How do we de-radicalise these migrant workers is a big challenge for us. Meanwhile, hundreds of extremists who are arrested or under trial must be segregated from other prisoners. At present, these extremists are finding a captive audience 24 hours at their disposal, busy recruiting new ones from among the prisoners. We need to isolate the extremists and start a de-radicalisation program so that when they return to the society they become useful citizen.Our effort to counter religious extremism must be supplemented by regional and global effort. We need to have close cooperation and coordination between the governments of the region. Border monitoring, passport control, anti-money laundering measures, exchange of information on the movement of suspects, arrest and deportation of fugitives are some of the areas where regional countries could cooperate. Checking of arms smuggling across the porous border is another area where regional cooperation is the answer. In short, a total, comprehensive strategy has to be adopted for fighting religious extremism. If Bangladesh is to emerge as a modern, democratic state, the menace of extremism must be eliminated.
Lucy doesn't like Children.
From the way she was treated by Children as a puppy, I don't blame her in the slightest!
But my Nieces seem to be a different 'breed' of child in her eyes. Both girls can do anything to her and she won't batt an eyelid!
They walked her to the beach, they played with her and even got down to her level and let her lick their faces! I'm amazed when I see her so casual around them. It's just a shame she doesn't like many others.
On the beach, we passed a couple with their gorgeous Afghan Hounds, Lucy really liked the white one but found it very difficult to sniff his butt. She had to sift through the ton of hair first!
“Maguire family's double tragedy”
One bullet caused chaos at a North Island military camp when a rifle was accidentally fired on March 16, 1942.
The weapon went off while it was being loaded by a soldier sitting on a stretcher in his tent.
The bullet passed through the man's foot and wounded another trooper who shared the same quarters.
It then struck Alphonsus Patrick Maguire who had just stopped to collect one of the pair for sentry duty.
The 32-year-old father of two was squatting at the entrance to the tent and waiting for his mate to get organised when he was hit in the right lower abdomen.
"It got me," he cried, rolling onto his side and clutching at the wound with both hands.
He died a few minutes before the camp doctor arrived.
Maguire originally came from Grey Lynn and had only been in camp for five weeks.
His wife Margaret and their children lived in Hastings where his body was transported by train for burial three days later with full military honours.
An inquest was held and the coroner found no blame could be attributed to anyone.
Maguire died just four years after his mother Annie dropped dead at a trotting meet in Auckland aged 64.
His name was etched into stone on a family grave at Waikumete cemetery where she was interred.
Also buried there was his older brother Vincent who was killed when the horse-driven butter delivery van he was driving crashed on its way down Newton Rd in Auckland City on November 27, 1920.
The 15 year-old applied the brakes when the horse bolted but was thrown out of the vehicle after it continued to career down the steep hill and hit a kerb.
A companion jumped out of the cab before the collision and escaped serious harm.
Vincent was taken to hospital where he died a day later as the result of multiple injuries.
A funeral was held at St Patrick's cathedral in the city – not too far away from Nelson St where the Maguire family lived.
Patriarch Joseph worked as a bricklayer and fathered six sons in total. He died on September 28, 1942, aged 71 and also lies in Waikumete.
source: Matthew Gray's Tales from the crypt
ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND.
BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THROWN FROM BUTTER
As the result of a horse attached to a butter-van bolting in Newton Road at half-past six o'clock last evening a fifteen-year-old boy, named Vincent Maguire, is now lying in the Auckland Hospital in a critical condition. The boy was driving the van down Newton Road from the Symonds Street intersection in company with, a man whose name is not known, when the horse took fright and bolted. At the foot of the road there is a steep gradient, and here the boy was thrown out. The unfortunate lad sustained concussion and severe internal and external injuries, including a compound fracture of the right leg and abrasions to the face and head. His companion jumped clear of the vehicle soon after the horse bolted. The injured boy resides with his employer, Mr. R. J. Carbines, carrier, of Brown Street, Ponsonby.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201127.2.34
WOMAN'S COLLAPSE.
AT TROTTING MEETING
DEATH IN AMBULANCE.
TREATED FOR HEART TROUBLE.
[By Telegraph. —Press Association] AUCKLAND, May 2.
While at the trotting meeting at Epsom on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Annie Maguire, aged 64, of Browning Street, Grey Lynn, collapsed and was dead before she reached the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance.
No inquest will be held, as Mrs. Maguire had been receiving medical attention for heart trouble for some time.
Mrs. Maguire was seen to collapse as she was walking behind the totalisator and ambulance officers were called. She wad also attended by Dr. M. G. Pezaro.
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SOLDIER KILLED
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
FATALITY AT MILITARY CAMP.
TWO OTHERS WOUNDED
Tragedy visited a military camp shortly before 10 o’clock on Monday night, a soldier being killed when a rifle was accidentally discharged.
The victim was: — Trooper Alphonse Patrick Maguire, married, 32, husband of Mrs Maguire, Horetaunga Street, Hastings, and son of Mr Joseph Maguire, 19 Browning Street, Grey Lynn.
The deceased, and another soldier were due to go on sentry duty at 10 p.m., the deceased going to the tent in which the other soldier was resting to call him. While waiting for his companion to fix his web equipment, Trooper Maguire squatted at the entrance of the tent. Another member of the unit who was lying in bed in the tent was handed a rifle to load by the soldier who was going on sentry duty with deceased. This man was loading the rifle while sitting up in his bed when it suddenly discharged, the bullet passing in the direction of the entrance of the tent, striking Trooper Maguire in the right lower abdomen. The soldier who was loading the rifle called out, ''Did it get anyone?" deceased answering, ''It has got me.'' He rolled over holding his abdomen. Men in the tent went to deceased’s assistance and called the camp medical officer who arrived within a few minutes but Trooper Maguire was dead before his arrival.
Two other men were wounded —the Trooper who loaded the rifle was shot through a foot as he was sitting up in his bed. while another was shot in a leg. Both received medical attention.
An inquest was opened yesterday morning and after evidence ot identification had been given by Lieutenant T. C. Cobbald, was adjourned sine die. Lieutenant Cobbald said that from his experience Trooper Maguire was a sober, steady man. Deceased is survived by his wife and two children.
Trooper Maguire’s body was sent south yesterday by train. It was conveyed to the railway station on a military vehicle, headed by the camp band, and with a guard of honour marching on either side of the vehicle. The coffin was draped with a Union Jack, on top of which was the dead trooper’s military hat. Trooper Maguire was accorded full military honours.
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Inquest result:
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Plot 86: Ursula Manawa Maguire
John Everistus Maguire – Storeman
Plot 86-88: Joseph Maguire – Bricklayer
Plot 88: Vincent James Maguire (14) 1920
Annie Maguire
In Loving Memory
of
JOSEPH MAGUIRE
died 23 Sept. 1942, aged 71
also his beloved wife ANNIE
died 3rd May 1938, aged 64.
And their sons
VINCENT JAMES
died 27 Nov. 1920 aged 16.
PATRICK
died 16th March 1942.
Interred at Hastings.
In Loving Memory
of
URSULA MANAWA
beloved wife of
John MAGUIRE
loved mother of Doreen, Eian & Martin
died 26th Dec. 1972 aged 64,
Also her beloved husband
JOHN EVERISTUS MAGUIRE
died 12th Oct. 1983 aged 79.
R.I.P
MAGUIRE.— November 27, 1920, at the Auckland Hospital (as the result of an accident), Vincent James, dearly-beloved son of Joseph and Annie Maguire; aged 14 years and 10 months. —R.l.P.
Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 9 a.m. to-day (Monday), the funeral leaving the cathedral at 10 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
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ROLL OF HONOUR
MAGUIRE. —On March 16 (accidentally killed) Trooper Alphonse Patrick, son of Joseph and the late Annie Maguire, brother of Aubrey, Clifford, John and Stephen.
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MAGUIRE. —On Wednesday, 23rd, at Auckland Hospital, Joseph, dearly-beloved husband of the late Annie Maguire, and loved father of Aubrey. Clifford, John and Stephen, and the late Patrick. Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's, Friday, 8.45 a.m., leaving afterward for Waikumete Cemetery.