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Even at this relatively early stage after the disaster extensive protest graffiti is seen on the perimeter wall of the abandoned factory along Union Carbide Rd.
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My friend Celestina Aguirre. Tina, as friends call her, is a very gentle, thoughtful and gracious woman. She's Don Alfonso's next door neighbor. She often checks in on him to make sure he's well. Tina was born in Panama. She married a Puerto Rican man with mixed Asian ancestry. I met her shortly after 9/11, at which point she was extremely anxious about her postal worker son following the anthrax attacks.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the vessel for our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. More to the point, it is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
TITLE: The Big Time
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace - Catalog ID: #D-491
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 129
COPYRIGHT: 1961 by author
PUB DATE: 1961-00
EDITION: 1st printing Ace double with The Mind Spider by Leiber
COVER ARTIST: Emsh- not credited
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
·The printing date and number are not stated, but assumed to be a first printing in 1961 based on the copyright and the “First Book Publication” statement on the front cover of The Big Time. Also listed as such in Currey, page 307
·This is a dos-a-dos with the novel The Big Time on one side and the collection The Mind Spider: And Other Stories on the other side.
·The front cover of The Big Timesays “First Book Publication” and “Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year -17th World S.F. Convention.” It's not clear if this story was revised at all from the magazine version. The copyright page states “Copyright, ©, 1961, by Ace Books / Magazine version copyright, 1958, by Galaxy Publishing Corp.”
·The cover artists are not credited. EMSH is on the cover of The Mind Spider, lower right corner. The ACE Image Library credits Emshwiller with the cover for The Big Time as well.
·To help sort contents for each side in this ISFDB record page number for The Big Time is listed using roman numeral V while the The Mind Spider stories are listed using decimal page numbers. In the publication itself The Big Time starts on page 5 and ends on page 129.
INDEX: 0325 - The Big Time - 18 - FL - IFB
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
Escapábamos todos los días de esa mano invisible que te persigue por todas partes, esa mano de no saber si eres de aquí o de allá, si eres cristiano o budista, si ya te han bautizado o no, si ya te confesaste o no, si ayer hiciste el amor y alguno te dibujó animalitos dulces en la mitad de tu cuerpo, si en la mañana te besaron con los ojos cerrados, esa mano de no acordarte del olor de tu mierda mientras cagas en el baño y fumas un cigarrillo y piensas que cuando se extinga el cigarrillo se acabarán los problemas
y claro, saldrás a un cine de Chapinero a ver una película de
Bronson o Bruce Lee y conocerás en el centro de la penumbra a una chica de nombre invisible, de olor invisible, de teticas invisibles y luego la llevarás a un bar y le dirás I wanna be
your man I wanna be your man y la besarás con los ojos cerrados y sentirás que todas las estrellas del cielo pueblan tus
manos y luego en la 57 entras con ella a un motel, enciendes el
canal porno y le dices que los condones Cosmos son los mejores I wanna be your man y puta vida le metes la lengua por
todas partes, le partes en pedacitos el corazón con tus dientes, recorres su cuerpo con tus dedos, lentamente, le susurras
palabritas al oído coñito delicioso como el chocolate chiclecito sabroso y después salen del motel caminan de nuevo por
Chapinero, comentan las patadas de Bruce Lee y se despiden
en la 60 con un besito amargo y cada uno coge por su lado,
tú hacia Lourdes, ella hacia la Caracas y tu corazón se llena de
humo, tu corazón se va invadido por todo ese ruido de los buses que se te mete por los pies y te hace estallar la cabeza en
mil pequeños infiernos y te das cuenta de que estás en el punto de partida, te das cuenta de que no eres más que el reflejo
difuso de ti mismo en las vidrieras de Chapinero mientras fumas y piensas en esos besos anónimos que te dan una tarde
cualquiera en una cama, en una esquina, esos besitos remotos
que te hacen sentir a la vez liviano y pesado, atroz y apretado,
esas babitas que se pegan al olor del día, esas babitas que por
un instante, solo por un instante, no te hacen sentir un cualquiera, esas babitas que te hacen caminar un centímetro más
arriba del pavimento y mierda, vuelves a sentir esa mano de
no saber si tu casa queda debajo de un puente o en la comisaría, esa mano de no saber si es viernes o es sábado, si los cigarrillos se acabaron, esa mano de no saber si todavía queda en
alguna parte de la ciudad una taza de café caliente para ti.
~Rafael Chaparro.
SQ 006 & SQ 030.
Singapore Airlines Flight 006 was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport via Chiang Kai-Shek Airport (now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport) in Taiwan, Republic of China. On 31 October 2000, at 15:17 UTC, 23:17 Taipei local time, a Boeing 747-412 on the route attempted to take off from the wrong runway in Taipei during a typhoon, destroying the aircraft and killing 83 of the 179 occupants.
SQ006 was the first fatal crash of a Singapore Airlines aircraft; prior to the SQ006 crash, the sole fatal incident involving SIA was the crash of SilkAir Flight 185, operated by subsidiary SilkAir.
After the release of the ASC report, Republic of China public prosecutors called upon the flight crew of SQ006 to return to the ROC for questioning and the three-member crew complied. Rumours abounded during that period that the pilots might be detained in the ROC and charged with negligence. IFALPA had previously stated that it would advise its members of the difficulties of operating into the ROC if the flight crew of SQ006 were prosecuted. The prosecutors did not press charges and the flight crew were allowed to leave the ROC.
Singapore Airlines changed the flight route designation to SQ030 immediately after the incident, and then later to SQ028. The TPE-LAX route was operated by Boeing 777 aircraft until 1 October 2008, when the airline terminated all flights on this route.
The accident aircraft 9V-SPK was painted in Singapore Airlines special promotion livery, a scheme called "Tropical," at the time of the accident. The special livery was intended to promote Singapore Airlines' new first class and new business class seatings. After the accident, 9V-SPK's sister aircraft, 9V-SPL, the only other aircraft painted with the promotional livery, was immediately repainted with standard Singapore Airlines livery. No special colourful livery has been introduced on any Singapore Airlines's aircraft since the accident.
Dozens of survivors and relatives of those killed filed lawsuits against the airline and Taiwanese authorities. Singapore Airlines denied culpability and the pilot and co-pilot were subsequently fired by the airline,
TITLE: Clans of the Alpha Moon
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace F-309
COVER PRICE: $ .40
ISBN:
PAGES: 192
COPYRIGHT: 1964 by author
PUB DATE: 1946
EDITION: true 1st edition, 1st printing
COVER ARTIST:
NOTATION:
INDEX: 0129 - Clans of the Alpha Moon 018a - Ace F-309 1st edition - PKD - IFB
QUOTE “This is Managing Director Dill,” the teacher said, “The Coordinating Director of the Unity System.” Managing Director Dill is responsible only to Vulcan 3. No human being except Director Dill is permitted to approach the computer banks. “Mr. Dill,” a girl’s voice came. “Can I ask you something?” “Certainly,” Dill said halting briefly at the classroom door. “Director Dill, don’t you feel ashamed of yourself when you let a machine tell you what to do?”…from Vulcan’s Hammer by Philip K. Dick
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
Title: Down In The Black Gang
Author: Farmer, Philip Jose 1918-2009
Type: Hardbound; anthology of 8 stories
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Copyright: book copyright 1971 by PJF
Pages count: 215
Edition: Science Fiction Book Club
Cover artist : Gary Viskupic
Publication date: not listed
Cover Price: not listed
Magazine appearance: The eight stories in this anthology are listed in order published followed by page count, magazine appearance and copyright as follows:
Down in the Black Gang - 22 pgs - March 1969 Worlds of If - copyright Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp ,
The Shadow of Space – 26 pgs – Nov 1967 Worlds of If - copyright Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp,
A Bowl Bigger than Earth – 18 pgs – Sept 1967 Worlds of If - copyright Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp,
Riverworld – 32 pgs – Jan 1966 Worlds of Tomorrow - copyright Galaxy Publishing Corp, A Few Miles – 42 pgs – Oct 1960 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction – copyright by Mercury Press,
Prometheus –46 pgs – March 1961 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction – copyright by Mercury Press,
The Blasphemers -28 pgs – April 1964 Galaxy - copyright Galaxy Publishing Corp and How Deep the Grooves – 10 pgs – Feb 1963 Amazing Stories – Ziff-Davis Publishing Corp
Comments: Highly recommended, showcase for some of Farmer’s best stories from the 1960’s. Wow, wrap around dust jacket art - rare for a book club issue.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
TITLE: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
AUTHOR: H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937
TYPE: Collection
PUBLISHER: Ballantine/Del Rey
COVER PRICE: $13.95
ISBN: 0-345-35080-4
PAGES: 375
EDITION: 30 printing
COVER ARTIST: Michael Whelan
ISFDB:
RATING:
NOTATION: Introduction by Robert Bloch
INDEX: 0097 - Best of H.P. Lovecraft - 001 - HPL – IFB
QUOTE: “Yew want to know what the reel horror is, hey? Wal, it”s this- it ain’t what thern fish devils haz done, but it’s what they’re a-goin’ to do! They’re a-bringin’ things up aout o’ whar they come from into the taown….ever hear tell of a shoggoth?” ...….. from The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Howard P. Lovecraft
CONTENTS:
1 • Introduction: Heritage of Horror (The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre) • (1982) • essay by Robert Bloch
15 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
30 • The Picture in the House • (1924) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
37 • The Outsider • (1921) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
42 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
52 • In the Vault • (1925) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
59 • The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1929) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
69 • The Music of Erich Zann • (1922) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
76 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
100 • The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
134 • The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
185 • The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
207 • The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
225 • The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1937) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
246 • The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
296 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
325 • The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
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NO: entry indicates specific information not available from book.
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Posing with 47500 at Chester on 24 May 1991, the train being the 17.03 Euston-Holyhead. In spite of the obvious Western Region connection, 47500 was in the Crewe-based ICDA pool by this time and therefore a regular along the North Wales Coast. It is currently owned by West Coast at Carnforth but is out of traffic after it was damaged following a derailment at Salford in 2013. Network Rail was later found to be culpable,
TITLE: Web of Everwhere
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Bantam Q8398
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES: 148
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
PUB DATE: June 1974
EDITION: 1st printing 1st edition
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes
INDEX: 0191 - Web of Everwhere - 007 - JB - IFB
QUOTE: “In 1932 in April a small boy and his mother and father waited on an Oakland, California pier for the San Francisco ferry. The boy, who was almost four years old, noticed a blind beggar, huge and old with white hair and beard, standing with a tin cup. The boy asked his father for a nickel, which the boy took over to the beggar and gave him. The beggar, in a surprisingly hearty voice, thanked him and gave him back a piece of paper, which the boy took to his father to see what it was. “It tells about God,” his father said. from Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
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In 1992 artist Nick Cave sat in a Chicago park, still reeling from news of the Rodney King beating and ensuing Los Angeles riots. Feeling Vulnerable and that he -- like any African American man -- could be targeted, he gathered Sticks from the ground. At the studio, he turned these sticks into his first Soundsuit, a wearable Sculpture and defensive shell. Often seen as a celebration of movement and material, Cave's Soundsuits mask the body, erasing identity. Now, more than twenty years later, Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with this immersive installation Until -- a play on the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" or, in this case, "guilty until proven innocent." Cave's work began as a protective response to violence, and, with Until, he tackles the recent deaths of African Americans in the United States -- Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant... the list goes on -- eulogizing these victims while providing a platform for civil discourse, debate, and, ultimately, hope.
Until began with a question Cave asked himself: Is there racism in heaven? Instead of providing a direct answer, Cave offers us an experience. Across this space, visitors traverse a sculptural forest of metallic lawn ornaments --punctuated by images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack --before arriving at a crystal cloud topped by a garden of found ceramic birds, metal flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys. By removing the lawn jockeys (cast-iron figurines and racist remnants) from circulation, Cave transforms them into agents for change, placing beaded nets in their hands as dream catchers. Our journey through Until continues to a cliff wall constructed of millions of woven plastic beads, an immersive video, and a metaphoric cleansing in a Mylar waterfall.
Until is also a site for performances and community engagement, with the immersive installation becoming a stage for testimonials, music, dance, poetry, and discussion. In the end, Cave takes off the protective mask his Soundsuits. Once provided, offering an environment to discuss important issues in a space that is at Once Seductive, provocative, and -- ultimately -- optimistic.
Más info sobre la convocatoria, aqui >> www.facebook.com/events/1401970900045612
Tu fanzine culpable es el primer paso de una etapa colectiva, el cual mantiene como tema central “ese placer culpable musical que nos da miedo admitir que nos encanta o que simplemente no podemos quitar de nuestras cabezas”.
Esta segunda edición pretende seguir contando con colaboradores logrando que nos muestren sus placeres culpables musicales de la manera mas entretenida posible.
Tu Fanzine Culpable #1 >>
I thought I had visited every parish church in East Kent, and seen inside almost all of them too, so my focus is no points north and west.
And then travelling back home from an orchid hunt a few weeks back, I was driving through West Langdon and I saw a dead end lane on the right with the name Church lane.
Now, I may not be the brightest, but a road called Church Lane probably leads to a church, or did. So, the next week I went hunting.
The lane ends in the yard of a farm, and the small church sits on the left hand side, clinging to the side of a down.
It is a Victorian building, and was not open, nor it seems able to provide details of a keyholder.
I walked round the church, took a few shots of the well-knapped walls.
And left.
Another one for heritage weekend.
The church was built in 1869 to replace the ruinous medieval building.
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WEST LANGDON.
THE next parish northward is West Langdon, which takes its name from the long down or ridge of hills on which it is situated; and to distinguish it from the adjoining parish of East Langdon, in the hundred of Corniloe, and it is sometimes written in old records Monken Langdon, from the monastery formerly situated within it. The manors of Norborne and East Langdon claim over some parts of this parish.
THIS PARISH is situated among the high hills and wide capacious valleys of this part of Kent, and like the rest of the neighbouring parishes is mostly open and uninclosed, having no wood, and but little shelter within it; the soil is like that of the adjoining parish of Whitfield, chalky and poor. It is but small, containing about six hundred acres; the church which is in ruins, with about tweleve houses, forming the village, stands round a green of about an acre in compass, in the middle of the parish. About a quarter of a mile eastward from which are the ruins of the abbey, and the house called the Abbey farm, which latter was modernized and new fronted with brick by the Thornhills; but it appears now to be again falling to decay.
THE MANOR OF WEST LANGDON was antiently part of those lands which made up the barony of Averenches, alias Folkestone, of which it was antiently held by knight's service and ward to the castle of Dover, by the family of Auberville, or De Albrincis, as they were written in Latin deeds, whose capital seat was at Westenhanger; one of them, Sir William de Auberville, senior, resided there in king Richard I.'s reign, and held this manor as above-mentioned; and having in the fourth year of it, anno 1192, founded within this manor AN ABBEY of white canons of the Premonstratensian order, brought hither from Leyston, in Suffolk, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr, of Canterbury, he gave this manor, among other lands, as an endowment to it in pure and perpetual alms, free from all secular service and payment, (fn. 1) which foundation and gift was afterwards confirmed by Simon de Auberville, or Albrincis; and in the 30th year of king Edward I. by Sir Nicholas de Criol, great grandson by a female heir of the founder before-mentioned, by which means this abbey from that time came under the patronage and protection of the family of Criol, after which, in the 19th year of king Edward II. Edward, earl of Chester, the king's eldest son, guardian of the kingdom of England, and the king's locum tenens in it, was here at Langedon, on the 3d of August.
But whether the endowment of this abbey was not sufficient for its maintenance as such, so that being unable to support the expence and dignity of an abbot, it seems at times to have discontinued the election of one, and to have remained contented under the government of a prior, as the head of it, and frequently to have been under the estimation of a priory, (as appears by many deeds and instruments at different times relating to it) in like manner as Combwell and many other religious houses elsewhere, in which estate it continued till the final dissolution of it in the 27th gear of king Henry VIII. when the abbot, (for so he is stiled in the instrument of surrender) and religious of this monastery, foreseeing the impending storm to crush them, and knowing themselves culpable of many irregularities, and being besides so artfully managed by the king's commissioners, that they desired to leave their prosession and habit, and to give up their house and possessions to the king, as their founder and patron, on No vember 13, that year, voluntarily surrendered both into his hands, which surrendry was confirmed by the act which passed afterwards that year, by which all religious houses, which were under the clear yearly value of 200l. were suppressed, and this act not only gave those to the king, but all such as within one year next before had been given up to him or otherwise dissolved, this house being at that time of the clear yearly value of 47l. 6s. 10d. and of the gross revenue of 56l. 6s. 9d.
WILLIAM SAYER was the last abbot, who with ten monks, surrendered this abbey into the king's hands. (fn. 2) The arms of the abbey were, Azure, two crosiers in saltier, argent, the dexter crook, or, the sinister, sable.
The manor of West Langdon, with the scite of the abbey, and other lands and possessions belonging to it, remained afterwards in the crown, till the king, in his 29th year, granted the whole of them, excepting the advowsons of churches, and subject to a payment, to the curate of West Langdon, and other payments, to archbishop Cranmer, who not long afterwards exchanged this manor, the scite of the monastery, and all the lands in this parish belonging to it, again with the crown, where they remained, till queen Elizabeth in her 33d year granted this estate to Samuel Thornhill, esq. of London, (fn. 3) in whose descendants it continued, till it was at length alienated to Master, of the adjoining parish of East Langdon, and from that name again about the beginning of queen Anne's reign to Henry Furnese, esq. of London, the son of George, brother of Sir H. Furnese, bart. of Waldershare, who passed it away by sale to Coke, descended from a younger branch of the family seated at Holkham, in Norfolk, and he devised it by will to his brother Edward Coke, esq. afafterwards of Canterbury. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Hales, bart. of Bekesborne, by whom he had two daughters his coheirs, Mary married to Sir William Lynch, K. B. of Groves, in this county; and Annette married to Lewis Cage, esq. of Milgate, in Bersted. He died in 1773, and by will gave this estate to his grandson Lewis Cage, esq. jun. since of Combe, in Berstled, the eldest son of Lewis Cage, esq. by Annetta his youngest daughter; Mr. Cage married Fanny, the eldest daughter of the late Sir Brook Bridges, bart. of Goodnestone, by whom he has one daughter; (fn. 4) he is at this time the possessor of this estate. A court baron is held for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly maintained are about five, casually seldom any.
WEST LANGDON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sandwich.
The church, which was dedicated to St. Mary, has been long in a ruinated state. In 1660, Sir Thomas Peyton, bart. of Knolton, had a design to repair it, for which purpose he provided a quantity of timber, but in the night the country people stole the whole of it away, and besides took away the pulpit, pews, &c. which had been left standing, out of the church; in which dilapidated situation it still continues. The ruins of it consist of a nave and chancel tolerably entire, excepting the roof. In the chancel is a gravestone, now covered with rubbish, for Sir Timothy Thornhill, once owner of this abbey.
The church of West Langdon was antiently appendant to the manor, and as a such was of the patronage of the abbot and convent of West Langdon, to which it was appropriated, and continued so till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when this church, with the manor, among the rest of the possessions of the abbey, was granted to the archbishop, who, though he not long afterwards exchanged the manor again with the crown, retained this church, among others, in his possession, and it has continued ever since in the patronage of his successors, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of it.
It is valued in the king's books at 6l. 13s. 4d. but since the dissolution of the abbey it has been esteemed only as a curacy, to which the archbishop nominates, and is now of the clear yearly value of sixteen pounds.
The demesnes of the abbey are exempt from the payment of great tithes, but they are charged with the payment of six pounds yearly to the curate.
This curacy has been augmented by the governors of queen Anne's bounty, with the money from which, a small farm of about thirty pounds per annum, lying in this parish, Guston, and Little Mongeham, was purchased for the augmentation of the vicarages of the parishes of West Langdon and Guston. There are three acres of glebe, but no vicarage house.
¶The rectors of the adjoining parish of East Langdon have been for a long time past successively nominated to the several archbishops to this curacy, whose names may be seen under the description of that parish, ThoDelanoy, rector of East Langdon, being the present curate of West Langdon, nominated to it by the archbishop, in 1788.
The uniformity of the child grave memorials reminds me of the burial grounds following the World Wars. It is a testimony to the appalling loss of innocent lives following the disaster at the coal mining village of Aberfan in October 1966.
It is well known that the incident was essentially man-made and preventable. So often, the greed of the commercial system trumps the issues of human health and safety and human life.
'At 9.15 am on October 21, 1966, a colliery waste tip from Merthyr Vale Colliery slid down Merthyr Mountain and into the mining village of Aberfan. It engulfed Pantglas Junior School, smothering to death 109 children in their classrooms, and five of their teachers. They had just returned there from school assembly, at which they had sung All Things Bright and Beautiful. The total death toll was 144 humans (116 children and 28 adults) and a small number of farm animals.'
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan/home2.htm
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TITLE: The Integral Tree
AUTHOR: Larry Niven 1938-
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ballantine 32065/Del Rey Book
COPYRIGHT: 1983 by author
ISBN: 0-345-32065-4
EDITION: 1st paperback
PUB DATE: February 1985
PAGES: 272
COVER PRICE: $3.50
COVER ARTIST: Michael Whelan 1950-
ISFDB: Yes
RATING: not read
Comments: Hard science fiction by master Larry Niven. Nice cover illustration by Whelan. For science buffs 5 pages of tech diagrams.
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TITLE: World That Jones Made
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: trade paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace F-429
COVER PRICE: $ .40
ISBN:
PAGES: 192
COPYRIGHT: 1956 by author
PUB DATE: 1967
EDITION: 1st Ace pb; prior Ace double
COVER ARTIST: Kelly Freas
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
No statement of publication/printing other than the original ©1956.
• The artist is not credited; no visible signature. The ACE Image Library credits Freas
INDEX: 0434 - World That Jones Made - 37 - PKD - IFB
QUOTE “Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell,” Elias said. “We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us to see what it wants us to see and remember and think what it wants us to remember and think. …”Strange,” Herb Asher said. His business partner said, “Yes, very strange.” The Divine Invasion pg. 169
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A week or two back a British tourist was observed throwing a cigarette butt out of his car window while parked on Table Mountain. The butt started a fire and the tourist tried to drive off but was stopped by the two rangers that witnessed the cause of the fire. This fire raged, out of control, for several days before firefighters could extinguish it. Houses in some suburbs were threatened but fortunately no houses were burnt. Sadly another British tourist, a 65 year old woman, died from smoke inhalation. The person that started the fire is now on bail, awaiting trial on charges of arson and culpable homicide.
This photograph shows some of the devastation wrought on the fynbos that normally covers the mountainsides.
TITLE: Second Book of Fritz Leiber
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: DAW UY1195 No 164
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES: 204
COPYRIGHT: 1975 by author
PUB DATE: Sept 1975
EDITION: 1st printing
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan 1930-85
ISFDB: No
RATING:
NOTATION: DAW Book #164. First printing as per the number line. Stated "DAW Books original".
INDEX: 0315 - Second Book of Fritz Leiber - 08 - FL - DAW - IFB
CONTENTS:
2 • The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
7 • Foreword (The Second Book of Fritz Leiber) • essay by Fritz Leiber
13 • The Lion and the Lamb • (1950) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
67 • The Mighty Tides • (1961) • essay by Fritz Leiber
74 • Trapped in the Sea of Stars • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
92 • Fafhrd and Me • (1963) • essay by Fritz Leiber
115 • Belsen Express • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
130 • Ingmar Bergman: Fantasy Novelist • (1974) • essay by Fritz Leiber
134 • Scream Wolf • (1961) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
153 • Those Wild Alien Words: II • essay by Fritz Leiber
162 • The Mechanical Bride • (1954) • shortfiction by Fritz Leiber
182 • Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin • (1963) • essay by Fritz Leiber
198 • A Defense of Werewolves • (1948) • essay by Fritz Leiber
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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1. Cataratas Argentina, 2. barcos-ships, 3. Jineteada, 4. Y un día .... NEVO ... en La Plata, 5. Mate-traditional Argentine drink, 6. PUESTA DE SOL - SUNSET, 7. SOL - SUN, 8. BRILLA EL SOL -SUNSHINE,
9. SOL Y SIERRAS- SUN and MOUNTAIN, 10. serie Atardecer, 11. Una flor, 12. Cataratas del Iguazú- Iguazú Falls, 13. reflejos en el mar-reflections in the sea, 14. ATARDECER, 15. ¿ PORQUÉ?....NIÑOS EN LA CALLE -¿WHY? ... KIDS ON THE ROAD, 16. ATARDECER,
17. MAR CHIQUITA- ARGENTINA - enero, 18. bandera y cielo -MUSEO DE LA PLATA - LA PLATA MUSEUM, 19. ATARDECER, 20. MAR CHIQUITA- ARGENTINA - enero, 21. SIERRAS Y GIRASOL- MOUNTAIN AND SUNFLOWER, 22. Arco iris-Raimbow-Cataratas Argentina, 23. MAR CHIQUITA- ARGENTINA - enero, 24. Botnia 1,
25. Un barquito- boat, 26. Ahi está,, 27. SOLO PARA ARGENTINOS-Only for argentineans, 28. SE BUSCA !!! desaparecida-disappeared., 29. atardecer, 30. serie La Doma, 31. atardecer, 32. ATARDECER,
33. Cataratas Iguazú-Iguazú falls, 34. SUERTE *- 2 0 0 8 -* LUCK, 35. ATARDECER, 36. Río de La Plata, 37. Mate-traditional Argentine drink, 38. DOMA, 39. Mi cumpleaños-My birthday, 40. MAR CHIQUITA- ARGENTINA - enero 2007,
41. CATARATAS DEL IGUAZU-IGUAZU FALLS, 42. MAR CHIQUITA- ARGENTINA - enero, 43. Gaviotas en el horizonte- gulls in the horizon, 44. chau vacaciones - bye vacations, 45. VOLVI...., 46. CHAPADMALAL- Mar del Plata, 47. ATARDECER, 48. asi fue el ECLIPSE,
49. ELECCIONES - ELECTIONS, 50. Ruinas de San Ignacio, 51. GARDEL ...TANGO..., 52. Fuera Botnia, 53. Y un día ....Nevó .... en La Plata, 54. día de la MADRE - MOTHER day, 55. Tormenta sobre el mar-Storm on the sea Mar del Plata 20.05.06, 56. FELIZ NAVIDAD-MERY CHRISTMAS,
57. En el día de la Madre ...estamos con Uds., 58. CAMILA, mi nieta -my granddaughter, 59. rugby P U M A S rugby, 60. Flores de Jacaranda- Jacaranda flowers, 61. CARTA A PAPA NOEL - letter to Santa Claus, 62. mirando el río- watching the river, 63. La Catedral - La Plata -Argentina, 64. A media luz.......,
65. atardecer, 66. SOLITARIO MUSICO, 67. La Familia, 68. dia de MADRE - MOTHER day, 69. CULPABLE GENOCIDIO - GUILTY GENOCIDE, 70. Y un día ....nevó.... en La Plata, 71. piedra-granizo, 72. RAYOS DE SOL
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Don McCullin he is one of my few real heroes in photography. He is one of Britain's most renowned photographers. Here is a link of him speaking about his life in photography at the age of 75. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8492000/8492777.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8492000/8492777.stm)
He is an interesting man (and to quote Lynda) he is so obviously damaged by his experiences. He does not even like to call himself a war photographer when he was certainly one of the worlds leading conflict photographers back in the day.
He is so different from so many photographers and people in photography and journalism in that he does not regard himself as in a special place or as a high and mighty chronicler of events. It seems he almost sees himself as any other human being attending these often appalling man made tragedies . He feels himself sullied by these events almost as if he was no different to a combatant. It appears He feels almost guilty looking at his roll and his pictures. He certainly does not appear to regard himself as the separate chronicler lifted above these events by the moral high ground of his motivation and purpose.
Sometimes that moral certainty that some have can propel those individuals to take risks and really excel in revealing the truth, but it is a peculiar state of mind.
I heard a photographer I actually really admire laying into other press representatives in Haiti because some of them wanted their clothes washed at their hotel. My much admired and distinguished friend was disgusted because there is a water shortage for washing clothes. Its true of course. But there is also a food and drinking water shortage. But not even the most idealistic would expect press people to operate without food and water because many ordinary people are having to do so . So what's the difference with clothes washing or eating and drinking water ? ....... Or even using the sat phone or getting fuel or shelter ? These are all activities and commodities not freely available to the general population of Haiti..... Most press people by necessity and through their relative access to funds and influence have all this and more. So to choose some of these things as OK because you are using them.... and some as morally repugnant...... because you are not using them, is just arbitrary. It is just a judgement call. It's not an absolute of morality. I know it feels uncomfortable but anyone operating in their capacity as a press representative will be traveling and living at a vastly higher standard of life than the locals in any disaster situation, it is inherent to their roll in that situation.
In a way its disingenuous to pretend that you are operating in a morally superior way because you are not doing this or that. The fact is you have arrived from the first world and your task is to convey the reality of a given news story to the people of the first world and while you are there you operate with the advantages of a person from the first world whether or not you deem clothes washing to be essential.
I don't really see a discernible moral difference between any of the first world press people in a disaster situation like Haiti. Some have what they perceive to be a higher moral purpose and motivation....... Some are just doing their jobs........ But it makes no difference to the people of Haiti...... and anyway the guy working the sat dish for the huge TV network is probably having his food and water flown in especially by the network..... The radical photojournalist is more likely to be competing for scarce resources with the locals.
Im not pointing this out to support the network types against the independents......... I am an independent type myself........ but I certainly think we have to be a little careful when we take for granted the moral superiority of our own actions as against the slightly different actions of our colleagues that we view as reprehensible........ after all we ultimately have so much in common with them....... and some of the things that we feel distinguish us from them.......... for the people of Haiti and other disasters .... would be totally indiscernible.......... a distinction without a difference.
Talking of which....... I heard Eamonn McCabe the old picture Editor of the Guardian making a distinction between the way the Guardian carefully and morally chooses its pictures as opposed to how other newspapers choose their pictures from disasters. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8478000/8478314.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8478000/8478314.stm) He also made a distinction between photojournalists and just News Photographers (implying news was more exploitative). In his view news guys turn up for two days only. Whereas true photojournalists are there for weeks. Again this is just an artificial construct. The length of the stay does not determine whether its exploitative/ or news / or photojournalism to make pictures nor does the fact that you did or did not have your clothes washed while you were there.
I think there is something very important about the roll of the photojournalist. Journalism is in my view very important in free societies. I do view it as a moral activity. Still, I don't quite have the moral certainty of some. A certainty that allows me to see my approach as always correct and beyond question or to be judgmental of colleagues in the way they act. But equally I am not quite at the Don McCullin stage where he almost appears not to distinguish himself morally from the combatants in his culpability for the human behavior and war and conflict he has witnessed. In my view his work and his personality, as he appears now, are a lasting testament to his integrity and morality.
Cheers Jez XXXXX
PS............ Here above is a picture I shot in Osijeck in the war between the Serbs and the Craoats in the 1990's. It shows a Croat solidier weeping at the death of a fellow solidier.
A client of ours was requesting it today so Matt had it on the desk top ready to be sent.
PPS......... When Yugoslavia first began to implode I flew to Belgrade to witness tanks on the streets as Milosevich appeared to be about to order his armed forces to battle with students and dissidents who were massed in protest. I was on an almost empty plane beading to Belgrade. Andrew Wiard a fellow photojournalist was on the plane. I went to chat to him. He told me Don McCullin was also on the flight. I was amazed. I knew he was rumored to be coming out of retirement. But I never really thought I would be on a story with my hero Don McCullin. So I went to the back of the plane to find him. I introduced myself. I joking said hey you know you are on the right plane, heading for the right story, if you are on a plane with Don McCullin.......... He said: So you are you going to Kurdistan too?......... hehehe....... of course I was not....... I assumed he was getting off in Belgrade like the rest of us......... but he was flying on to look at Northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War........ I felt like a bit of an idiot........ :-))
‘The Impundulu is a mythological creature in the folklore of the tribes of the Southern Africa including the Pondo, the Zulu and the Xhosa. The impundulu, which translates as “lightning bird” takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a human which is said to summon thunder and lightning with its wings and talons.’ [Wikipedia]
The lightning bird is known to have super special powers, and for being generally creepy all round. Among certain African tribes the Hammerkop is believed to be the lightning bird. The creature only manifests itself as a bird to women and, ‘In one instance a village girl described a black bird that ran up her hoe and left claw marks on her body before it flew back to the clouds.’[Wikipedia]
Both the bird and it’s eggs can be found where lightning strikes, and parts are often used in traditional medicine, sometimes to catch thieves. Apparently the lightning bird also enjoys a good blood fest, and can be found sucking on human blood, most notably enemies of the witchdoctor. Yum yum! Of course it is also known to seduce naughty girls :) MissYucki read that “In 2005, a South African man was convicted of culpable homicide after killing a two year old child he believed to be an impundulu.” [Wikipedia]
TITLE: Swords and Sorcery: Stories of Heroic Fantasy
EDITOR: L. Sprague de Camp 1907-2000
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Pyramid #R-950
COVER PRICE: $ .50
ISBN:
PAGES: 186
COPYRIGHT: by author
PUB DATE: December 1963
EDITION: 1st edition – 1st printing
COVER ARTIST: Virgil Finlay
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
INDEX: 0371b - Swords and Sorcery - LSdC - 01 - IFB
CONTENTS:
7 • Introduction: Heroic Fantasy • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
11 • The Valor of Cappen Varra • [Cappen Varra] • (1957) • shortstory by Poul Anderson
27 • Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller • (1912) • shortstory by Lord Dunsany (aka The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him 1911 )
33 • Shadows in the Moonlight • [Conan Universe] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
67 • The Citadel of Darkness • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
97 • When the Sea-King's Away • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1960) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
123 • The Doom That Came to Sarnath • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
133 • Hellsgarde • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1939) • novelette by C. L. Moore
169 • The Testament of Athammaus • (1932) • shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
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Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber [0565 - 08-16-2014 - fantasy - collection]
This is the second book in Fritz Leiber (1910-92) fantasy-adventure series featuring those "dubious heroes and whimsical scoundrels" Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
This book, first published as an Ace paperback in 1970, consist of a collection of ten stories dated from 1940 - 1970. The author provides a short introduction to each story on the index page. The stories follow in approximate chronological order of the adventures life history. One need not read the stories or for that matter the seven book in any sequence - just enjoy a well-told tale from a master storyteller.
The stories, in order published in the book, first publication and a comment or two are as follows:
"The Circle Curse" (1970) first publication, the author introduces two patron wizards who cajole and threaten our companions Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Meet Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes. Sheelba resides in a hut with five spindly legs that scuttles away after a meeting with the rogues - a helpful talent in Nehwon.
"The Jewels in the Forest"(1970) first publication, a fine story in which our companions, much to their consternation, solve a riddle to a fortune in a necromancers abandoned tomb.
" Thieves' House" (1943) first published in Unknown Worlds magazine. Our adventures return to the Thieves Guide Hall in Lankhmar only to be thankful to escape with their lives.
"The Bleak Shore" (1940) another story first published in Campbell's Unknown Worlds magazine. Ourph the Mingol relates the harrowing tale of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser's voyage to the end of the world. How they returned has never been revealed.
"The Howling Tower" (1941) from Unknown magazine. A strange sound in the wilderness of Newhon lures our friends to a mysterious tower and nefarious wizard.
"The Sunken Land" (1942) from Unknown magazine. An Atlantis like sunken island is the local for this fishy tale.
"The Seven Black Priest" (1953) Other Worlds magazine. An ancient evil with a real ruby eye is stolen by Fafhrd much to the murderous consternation of seven black priest.
"Claws from the Night" (1951) in Suspense magazine as "Dark Vengeance". A resurrected bird cult, a demented princess, a lust for bright shinny things ensnares our friends in tricky claw and beak situations.
"The Price of Pain-Ease" (1970) first publication. This story is more a road map to locations and places in Lankhmar city proper and Nehwon than a scary story; but it's does have us come - almost - face to face with Death himself.
"The Bazaar of the Bizarre" (1963) Fantastic magazine. One of my favorites stories in this collection. The wizards Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes cajole Fafhrd to rescue the Mouser from a showroom he dose not want to vacate.
If you enjoy these type stories you should seek this book and read it!
TITLE: Swords Against Death
SERIES: Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Sagas Book - 2
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback collection
PUBLISHER: Ace 79152
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES: 251
COPYRIGHT: 1970 by author
PUB DATE: 1970
EDITION: based upon ISFDB this is the 2nd Ace edition, not stated
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Jones
ISFDB: Yes, as primary,
RATING:
INDEX: 0307 - Swords Against Death Ace - – Ace 2nd edition - IFB
CONTENTS:
Bazaar of the Bizarre • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1963) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
Claws from the Night • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1951) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
The Bleak Shore • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1940) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
The Circle Curse • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
The Howling Tower • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1941) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
The Jewels in the Forest • (1939) • novelette by Fritz Leiber (aka Two Sought Adventure) [as by Fritz Leiber ]
The Price of Pain-Ease • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1970) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
The Seven Black Priests • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1953) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
The Sunken Land • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1942) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
Thieves' House • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1943) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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Title: Doc Savage His Apocalyptic Life
Author: Farmer, Philip Jose 1918-2009
Type: paperback
Publisher: Bantam Q8834
Copyright: 1973, 1975 by author
Pages count: 269
Edition: 1st Bantam edition
Cover artist: not credited
Publication date: July 1975
Cover Price: $1.25
Magazine appearance: not listed
Comments: fictionalized biography of superhero Doctor Clark Savage, Jr.
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In 1992 artist Nick Cave sat in a Chicago park, still reeling from news of the Rodney King beating and ensuing Los Angeles riots. Feeling Vulnerable and that he -- like any African American man -- could be targeted, he gathered Sticks from the ground. At the studio, he turned these sticks into his first Soundsuit, a wearable Sculpture and defensive shell. Often seen as a celebration of movement and material, Cave's Soundsuits mask the body, erasing identity. Now, more than twenty years later, Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with this immersive installation Until -- a play on the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" or, in this case, "guilty until proven innocent." Cave's work began as a protective response to violence, and, with Until, he tackles the recent deaths of African Americans in the United States -- Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant... the list goes on -- eulogizing these victims while providing a platform for civil discourse, debate, and, ultimately, hope.
Until began with a question Cave asked himself: Is there racism in heaven? Instead of providing a direct answer, Cave offers us an experience. Across this space, visitors traverse a sculptural forest of metallic lawn ornaments --punctuated by images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack --before arriving at a crystal cloud topped by a garden of found ceramic birds, metal flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys. By removing the lawn jockeys (cast-iron figurines and racist remnants) from circulation, Cave transforms them into agents for change, placing beaded nets in their hands as dream catchers. Our journey through Until continues to a cliff wall constructed of millions of woven plastic beads, an immersive video, and a metaphoric cleansing in a Mylar waterfall.
Until is also a site for performances and community engagement, with the immersive installation becoming a stage for testimonials, music, dance, poetry, and discussion. In the end, Cave takes off the protective mask his Soundsuits. Once provided, offering an environment to discuss important issues in a space that is at Once Seductive, provocative, and -- ultimately -- optimistic.
Sketches from the courtroom of the first trial of the Baltimore police officers accused of being culpable in the death of Freddie Gray. www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/
March for the National Health Service. Shaftesbury Avenue, central London, crossing Cambridge Circus; and heading for Parliament Square..
On the right of the photo a glimpse of Tottenham Labour Party's red and yellow banner.
For the record, and for non-Brits who view my photos, the black and white banner (centre) does not mean that Jeremy Hunt is accused of actually murdering anyone.
Mr Hunt is currently (March 2017) an elected member of the UK Parliament. He is the Government minister (Secretary of State for Health) with responsibility for our National Health Service. So his actions and omissions are matters of politics and policy.
In the opinion of many people, including me, Jeremy Hunt remains culpable for the outcome.
Gravestone for a person who died in the railway disaster at Castlecary in 1937.
Details from Wikipedia
An accident occurred on the evening of 10 December 1937, at Castlecary in Scotland, in snowy weather conditions. Two trains were involved in a collision on the Edinburgh to Glasgow main line of the LNER, killing 35 people.
Details
In a whiteout at 6pm, the 5.30pm Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street commuter express collided with the late running 4.20pm local train from Dundee Tay Bridge to Glasgow Queen Street. The locomotive, LNER Class A3 no. 2744 Grand Parade, hit the rear of the standing local service in Castlecary station at an estimated 70 mph. This location is confined and the rear four coaches disintegrated completely. The engine of the local train, an LNER Class D29 no. 9896 "Dandie Dinmont", was pushed forward 100 yards with the brakes on.
Aftermath
The death toll was 35 (including 7 train crew) and 179 people were hurt, most of them seriously. An eight year old girl was counted as missing. Poignantly some locals swore to seeing the ghost of the girl for many years. The driver of the Edinburgh train was committed to court on a charge of culpable homicide (Scottish equivalent of manslaughter) for supposedly driving too fast in the weather conditions, but the charge was dropped. The Inspecting Officer concluded that it was the signalman who was principally at fault for the disaster. This was Britain's worst snow-related rail crash, others of note being Elliot Junction in 1906 and Abbots Ripton in 1876.
Causes
As mentioned above, whiteout conditions applied and visibility was no more than a few yards. The signalmen on this stretch of line were operating Regulation 5e. This means that a double section has to be clear ahead for a train to be signalled to pass the previous box, Greenhill Junction. A set of points ahead had been blocked by snow. The train from Dundee ran past the Castlecary home signal in poor visibility but managed to stop just beyond it. The Castlecary signalman failed to check its whereabouts and allowed the following Edinburgh express into the section. This also ran past the same signal and collided with the Dundee train. It is believed that the Castlecary distant signal had stuck in the 'off' ('clear') position, so the express took it that the line was now clear, it wasn't until he crossed the viaduct that he saw the home signal at 'danger'. Even a modern day car would not have stopped in the remaining 50 yards to the tail lamp, which was to be flattened.