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The plaque next to the scaffold site in the Tower Of London lists the names of those who were executed there.
When Amazon launched the infamous Fire Phone, it failed.
Spectacularly.
How did Jeff Bezos react?
"If you think that’s a big failure, we’re working on much bigger failures right now — and I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip."
In other words, it was a great failure! He went on to comment:
"It is our job, if we want to be innovative and pioneering, to make mistakes, and as the company has gotten big — we have $100 billion-plus in annual sales, 250,000-plus people — the size of your mistakes needs to grow along with that.
You need to be making big, noticeable failures. The great thing is that, when you take this approach, a small number of winners pay for dozens, hundreds of failures, and so every single important thing we’ve done has taken a lot of risk, risk-taking, perseverance, guts, and some have worked out. Most of them have not. That has to happen at every scale level all the way down."
This is part of the whole concept that great ideas - perhaps not a brilliant idea in the case of the Fire Phone - can often become the springboard for great success later on, providing the very foundation for that next great idea!
Consider a few great ideas that failed - or were perceived to be a certain failure - that later become brilliant opportunities:
When Amazon launched its Web Services Business, most analysts predicted massive losses and that it might actually kill the company. Today, this division is worth billions and is hugely successful.
Apple's Newton was a spectacular failure but paved the way for the brilliant launch of the iPad and iPhone many years later.
Nintendo's Virtual Boy, a 3D gaming console, was supposed to be the future of gaming. A flop, it suffered from major technological flaws. But it gave the organization a pathway forward to develop the widely successful gaming technology that Nintendo would eventually bring to market.
The IBM PCjr, an early home computer, was wonderfully pathetic, and never did manage to compete with the Apple II. But it provided insight to IBM on how to successfully compete in the PC market, leading to the market-dominating IBM PC and XT.
Google Glass was a great idea - a wearable computer that was supposed to revolutionize the way we interact with technology. However, it was far too expensive and didn’t work very well, and Google eventually discontinued it. Today, we are seeing a resurgence of interest and exploration in the idea of smart goggles and glasses - and Google will launch a newer version of the original idea almost a decade later.
Google Wave, a product that was supposed to support online collaboration, failed, but it eventually led to the widely successful Google Drive and other cloud services that the company offers.
You can play around with this phrasing in many different ways to come up with great innovation mindset opportunities; for example, I originally started out with a modification of the quote, but it didn't fit what I was trying to explain! "A brilliant idea badly executed is far better than a bad idea executed brilliantly!"
Whatever the case may be, always remember that a great idea - even if it fails - is often better than no idea at all!
Futurist Jim Carroll has always had a lot of great ideas. Some worked.
Original post: jimcarroll.com/2023/03/daily-inspiration-a-brilliant-idea...
Nothing wrong with tooting your own horn, if you wait until after you have executed well. After fending off others to have her catch for dinner , this Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, screeches as if to gloat over the wood be thieves. Stirling, Scotland
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Charles H. Caspar executed this magnificent plant complex over a number of years beginning in 1911.
The complete complex is preserved and has been wonderfully restored as office, storage and housing on Temple University's campus.
The Regional Rail stops just north of the building at Temple University Station. There was a rail spur which connected to one of the upper floors of the building.
On my first Philadelphia Brewery Tour we got an impromptu tour of the interior which showed the two-story Oriel which had a scale for weighing rail cars and afforded a view of both the rail line and Montgomery Avenue.
Regal Princess cruise ship departs the CLT, Liverpool outbound for sea.
Executing a starboard swing off the berth
Plays the theme from Love Boat with her horns
Royal-class cruise ship
Name: Regal Princess
Flag: Bermuda
IMO: 9584724
MMSI: 310674000
Call sign: ZCEK6
AIS transponder class: Class A
Detailed vessel type: Cruise Passenger Ship
Gross Tonnage: 142714t
Deadweight: 12193t
Design Draught: 8.57m
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 330m x 44m
Year Built: 2014
Registered owner: Carnival Corp
Ship manager/Commercial manager & ISM: PRINCESS CRUISE LINES LTD
Shipyard: Fincantieri-Cant. Nav. Italian, Italy
Hull number: 6224
Contract date: 4 May 2010
Keel laid: 14 Dec 2010
Launch: 26 Mar 2013
Date of build: 15 May 2014 - as per Lloyds
Engine: x2 Wärtsilä 12V46F 4 stroke 12 cyls AND x2 Wärtsilä 14V46F 4 stroke 14 cyls
Engine Power kW & hp: 62,400kW & 83,700hp
Speed: 22kts service; 23kts max
Capacity: 3,560 passengers and 1,346 crew
x19 Decks
Brief was to create an anti-Trump poster inspired by an artist
Inspiration: payload182.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/5953532/01-1969-...
(1969, poster by Rafael Zarsa, Day of Solidarity with the People of Laos)
Research, theory, inspiration, planning, production and evaluation: sites.google.com/site/joeldjwinter/year-13/digital-graphi...
The executed were buried in mass graves at Choeung Ek. Some were required to dig their own graves but they were unable to dig very deep due to their weaken physical state.
A statue of him, in Portland stone, stands on Princes Street in Edinburgh, facing Castle Street. It was executed by the sculptor F. W. Pomeroy, and erected in 1910.[4] Reading - An eloquent preacher of the gospel. Founder of the Edinburgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools, and by tongue and pen, the apostle of the movement elsewhere. One of the earliest temperance reformers. A friend of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Guthrie FRSE (12 July 1803 – 24 February 1873) was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire). He was one of the most popular preachers of his day in Scotland, and was associated with many forms of philanthropy—especially temperance and Ragged Schools, of which he was a founder.
He was born on 12 July 1803 the son of David Guthrie, a banker, and later Provost of Brechin. Thomas grew to a height of six foot and three inches.
Guthrie studied at Edinburgh University for both surgery and anatomy (under Dr Robert Knox) but then concentrated on Theology. He was licensed to preach in the Church of Scotland from 1825, but having established a reputation as an evangelical he had difficulty securing a parish and instead spent two years studying medicine and science in Paris. Following his return from Paris and a period of varied employment, including as a bank manager, he was eventually offered the living of Arbirlot in Angus by the Hon William Maule in 1830. Guthrie served as Minister of Arbirlot for eight years, and while there where he adopted a dramatic style of preaching suited to his rural congregation. As well as his training for the Ministry, his medical knowledge and experience was called upon in particular during an outbreak of cholera in the parish.
In 1837 Guthrie was called to the second charge of Old Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, alongside first charge minister Rev John Sym. Edinburgh Town Council discontinued the second charge at Old Greyfriars in October 1840 and instead created a new parish called St John's. A new church was built on Victoria Street to serve this role with Guthrie as its first minister.
Guthrie left the Church of Scotland in the Disruption of 1843 and many of his congregation followed him. They worshipped for 2 years in the Methodist Hall in Nicholson Square before moving into the purpose-built Free St John's, Johnston Terrace (now St Columba's Free Church) in 1845. Possessed of a commanding presence and voice, and a remarkably effective and picturesque style of oratory, he became perhaps the most popular preacher of his day in Scotland, and was associated with many forms of philanthropy, especially temperance and ragged schools, of which he was a founder; he first publicizing the idea in his "Plea for Ragged Schools" in 1847. His hard work as a proponent and founder of the Ragged Schools movement led him to be quoted by Samuel Smiles in his Self Help. The first ragged school was soon opened on Castle Hill, Edinburgh.
He was one of the leaders of the Free Church of Scotland, and raised over £116,000 for the Manse Fund for its ministers. Guthrie expressed serious concern that the Manse Fund would stretch the generosity of Free Church people to the limit but his fears were unfounded. After Guthrie had toured 13 Synods and 58 Presbyteries in less than a year, he was able to announce to the General Assembly of June 1846 that £116,370 had been raised. It is unlikely that anyone else could have achieved what he did in such a short space of time. His energy and oratory enabled the Manse Fund to smash its original target. Numerous ministers and their families owed a huge debt of gratitude to Guthrie for providing the resources to build manses so that the gospel could continue to prosper not just in the Highlands but across the whole of Scotland. Along with his Ragged Schools the Manse Fund was one of Guthrie's greatest legacies. With the one he showed mercy to helpless children and with the other he fought oppression by raising funds for manses.
He was made Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1862. He was succeeded in 1863 by Rev Roderick McLeod. Other roles included manager of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, work for the Blind Asylum and work at the Night Refuge. In 1847 the degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Guthrie's most enduring legacy was the Ragged Schools which had a unique curriculum; education, regular meals, clothes, "industrial training" and Christian instruction. Most of the ragged children who attended the schools did not remain overnight but were in school for 12 hours in the summer and 11 hours in the winter. The day started at 8 am with the rather painful sounding 'ablutions' and the children were dismissed at 7:15 pm after supper. Guthrie describes the daily routine; "in the morning they are to break their fast on a diet of the plainest fare, – then march from their meal to their books; in the afternoon they are again to be provided with a dinner of the cheapest kind, – then back again to school; from which after supper, they return not to the walls of an hospital, but to their own homes. There, carrying with them a holy lesson, they may prove Christian missionaries to those dwellings of darkness and sin" Thomas Guthrie, Seed-Time and Harvest of Ragged Schools,.
The unique curriculum of Ragged Schools was done in an environment of discipline and structure although there is never a sense that the schools were harsh or austere. Guthrie was no great fan of corporal punishment and instead encouraged staff to win over children with kindness; "these Arabs of the city are wild as those of the desert, and must be broken into three habits, – those of discipline, learning and industry, not to speak of cleanliness. To accomplish this, our trust is in the almost omnipotent power of Christian kindness. Hard words and harder blows are thrown away here. With these alas they are too familiar at home, and have learned to be as indifferent to them as the smith's dog to the shower of sparks" Thomas Guthrie, Seed-Time and Harvest of Ragged Schools,. While Guthrie's management of the Ragged Schools was never sectarian or denominational he never compromised on Christian education. Perhaps one of his best quotes about the Ragged Schools sums up this view; "the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible; the Bible without note or comment – without the authoritative interpretation of priest or presbyter – as the foundation of all its religious teaching, and of its religious teaching to all". It was, however, through objections to the religious part of the curriculum that those who differed from Guthrie on the issue later founded the United Industrial School, giving combined secular and separate religious instruction.
Guthrie himself saw the Ragged Schools as his most enduring legacy; "I never engaged in a cause, as a man and a Christian minister that I believe on my death-bed I will look back on with more pleasure or gratitude to God, than that he led me to work for Ragged Schools. I have the satisfaction, when I lay my head upon my pillow, of always finding one soft part of it: and that is, that God has made me an instrument in His hand of saving many a poor creature from a life of misery and crime" Thomas Guthrie and Sons, Autobiography and Memoirs (London, 1896, p 496). Guthrie’s legacy of Ragged Schools did more than almost any social philanthropist in history to change the nation of Scotland. Amongst Guthrie’s last words he was overheard to say "a brand plucked from the burning!" His legacy was that through his vision and love for his Saviour, the Ragged School movement was established which in turn plucked thousands of little brands from a life of poverty and crime, and brought them to know the ultimate friend of sinners.
As well as Ragged Schools Guthrie was also well known for his work as a temperance campaigner, although he did not become a total abstainer himself until the age of 38. While he was always against drunkenness it was an experience while over in Ireland that turned him away from drink altogether. While travelling with a ministerial friend in 1841 they stopped at a small county inn on a terrible cold night. Seeking some warmth and comfort they ordered some ‘toddies’ (whiskey and hot water). Out of kindness they called in their driver and offered him the same hospitality. Guthrie was stunned when this staunch, but uneducated and uncultured, Roman Catholic explained that he was a teetotaller and would not touch a drop of alcohol. From that day forward Guthrie resolved to abstain from alcohol and became one of the leaders of the temperance movement.
The determination with which Guthrie pursued the temperance cause was all the more remarkable when we understand how unusual this position was in the first half of the 19th century. In his autobiography he reckons that when he was at Edinburgh University there was not a single student who was an abstainer. Perhaps even more remarkably Guthrie was unaware of any minister in the Church of Scotland who was a teetotaller. Undeterred by this, Guthrie established the Free Church Temperance Society along with Horatius Bonar and William Chalmers Burns. When the ‘Scottish Association for the Suppression of Drunkenness’ was formed in 1850 they turned to Guthrie to write their first booklet entitled ‘A Plea on behalf of Drunkards and against Drunkenness’. Other booklets followed and Guthrie was instrumental in bringing about the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1853 or the ‘Forbes Mackenzie Act’, as it is better known. This Act forced public houses to close at 10.00 pm on weekdays and all day on Sundays. Even today it is still illegal to buy alcohol after 10.00 pm in shops, although this is not so in Public Houses.
Guthrie’s work on total abstinence reached its climax with preaching a series of sermons on Luke 19 v 41 and their publication under the title, 'The City, Its Sins and Sorrows’ in 1857. The stories of the impact that these sermons had around the world are many and varied but space allows us to mention only one of them. One of Guthrie’s later biographers, Oliphant Smeaton, recounts meeting a wealthy Scot while visiting Australia. This man, while resident in Scotland, had lived a dissolute lifestyle but one day found himself wandering in to St John’s Free Church. Listening to the powerful oratory of Guthrie as he preached on Christ weeping over Jerusalem, the man left affected but unchanged. All week he tried to kill his conscience through plunging headlong into drunkenness.
The following Sunday he was drawn back to hear Guthrie again despite being under the influence of drink. The great orator did not disappoint. Toward the end of his sermon he leaned his huge frame over the pulpit and said with great feeling: "There are few families among us so happy as not to have had some one near and dear to them either in imminent peril hanging over the precipice, or the slave of intemperance altogether sold under sin." The hearer could contain his emotions no longer and left a broken man. The following day he sought out Dr Guthrie and was dealt with "fatherly kindness." He continues: "when he had knelt with me at the throne of grace, and offered up a prayer, the like of which I never heard before or since, he bade me farewell, inviting me to return and see him: but I never did so". Within weeks the man was on a ship to Australia where he became a wealthy businessman and generous contributor to charity work.
Among his writings are The Gospel in Ezekiel (1855) and Plea for Ragged Schools (1847), and The City, its Sins and Sorrows (1857), "Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints" (1858), "The Way to Life", Speaking to the Heart", the "Life of Robert Flockhart", "Man and the Gospel" (1865), "The Angels Song" (1865), "The Parables" (1866), "Our Fathers Business" (1867), "Out of Harness" (1867), "Early Piety" (1869), "Studies of Character" (1868–70) and "Sundays Abroad" (1871), "The Sunday Magazine"
Born at Brechin, Forfarshire. Minister successively of Arbirlot and of Old Greyfriars and St John's parish churches and of Free St John's Church in this city.
Thomas Guthrie died at St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex in 1873 and was buried in The Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. His grave is in a commanding position, terminating the main central avenue at its southern end. His will left his copy of the National Covenant to the Free Church.
His wife, Anne Burns (1810–1899), daughter of Rev James Burns of Brechin, is buried with him.
Irish: Conchur Ó Duibheanaigh
Conor O'Devany (b.1532 d.1612) was born into a long-established clerical dynasty, probably in or around the parish of Glenfin in the Diocese of Raphoe, County Donegal. He was educated by the Observant Franciscans at Donegal Abbey in Donegal Town. O'Devany was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor by Pope Gregory XIII (b.1502 d.1585) on 27 April 1582, and consecrated on 13 May 1583 at the German national Church of Santa Maria dell’ Anima in Rome by the Cardinal Protector of Ireland, Nicolas de Pellevé (b.1518 d.1594) Archbishop of Sens, France.
On February 2, 1583, the feast of Candlemas, the Irish Franciscan priest, Father Conor O'Devany, when in Rome, was consecrated bishop of the Irish dioceses of Down and Connor. Twenty-nine years later, in the early evening of 1 February 1612, the eve of Candlemas, Bishop O'Devany & Father Patrick O’Loughran were taken by the English authorities to a scaffold in Dublin to be executed on a trumped-up charge of treason. Although, at his trial, O'Devany was offered a pardon if he would deny his faith, he answered that he was resolved to die in defence of the Catholic faith.
Background
In 1560, the English Parliament enacted the Act of Succession and the Act of Uniformity under which it was no longer possible to remain faithful to Rome while at the same time acknowledging the sovereignty of Queen Elizabeth I (b.1533 d.1603). Faithfulness to Rome at any level was treachery, according to the new law, and the English government was bent on eradicating it. Rome, for its part, was no passive observer as Pope Gregory XIII and Queen Elizabeth I of England were at loggerheads as the Queen’s agents tightened their control on Irish worship and began their systematic attempts to abolish Catholicism. In response, the Pope appointed a team of Irish bishops to provide pastoral backbone to the beleaguered Catholic people. Conor O’Devany was one of these new bishops.
O'Devany 1st Arrest
In July 1588, Conor O'Devany was committed to Dublin Castle, however failing to convict him of any crime punishable by death, Lord Deputy William Fitzwilliam (b.1526 d.1599) sought authority from William Cecil (b.1526 d.1599), 1st Baron Burghley to "be rid of such an obstinate enemy of God and so rank a traitor to Her Majesty as no doubt he is". Fitzwilliam would gladly have executed O'Devany but the law did not yet permit such a punishment for those exercising papal jurisdiction.
O'Devany lay in prison for 2 years and under the prison rules no food, clothing or water was supplied to prisoners except it was brought to them by their families or friends. Conor was over a hundred miles away from his home and he had neither contacts nor money. He came very close to dying from hunger and thirst, but thanks to his own resourcefulness and the common humanity of his fellow prisoners he survived.
November 1590 he submitted a petition for his release which was a masterfully constructed document, probably written with experienced help and advice from Catholic lawyers, for it cleverly exploited both the political and religious legal weaknesses of their case.
The Petition
The petition came before the three Protestant commissioners, Thomas Lancaster (b.1520 d.1583), the Archbishop of Armagh, Henry Jones (b.1605 d.1682), the Bishop of Meath, and head of the commission and Church of Ireland, Archbishop of Dublin, Adam Loftus (b.1533 d.1605) who eventually authorised O'Devany’s release. Loftus subsequently claimed that O'Devany had taken the oath of supremacy, but all the available evidence suggests that the Church of Ireland prelate made this assertion to defend his decision and the criticism he received for releasing “a Romish bishop.”
In September 1591, when Cardinal William Allen (b.1532 d.1594) received the power to grant special faculties to bishops that were noted for their zeal and piety, one of his choices was O'Devany.
The Catholic primate of Ireland, Archbishop Richard Creagh (b.1523 d.1586) of Armagh, had been arrested in the 1570s and held in prison for many years. Rome appointed the Bishop of Derry, Redmond O’Gallagher, (b1521 d.1601), to temporarily act in place of the primate however, anticipating that he too would soon be arrested, he wrote to O'Devany on 2 July 1588 delegating to him the primate’s powers of absolution and dispensation for one year.
The only contemporary Irish source that shed any light on O'Devany’s politician persuasion is a report in 1600 by Archbishop Peter Lombard (b.1555 d.1625), which suggests that O'Devany was apolitical.
In April 1606 it was reported that the Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill (b.c.1550 d.1616), sent O'Devany to Rome as his envoy, although Bishop O'Devany seems to have turned back before leaving Ireland. However by November O'Devany was enjoying Tyrone's protection, as he was referred to as chaplain to the earl's brother, Brian O'Neill (b.1543 d.1562).
In March 1607 George Montgomery (b.c.1569 d.1621), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry, attempted to persuade Tyrone to give up O'Devany to him but Tyrone refused.
O'Devany 2nd Arrest
With the Flight of the Earl's escaping to the continent on the 14 Sept 1607 this resulted in O'Devany being left without his powerful guardian, Tyrone and vulnerable to arrest.
O'Devany evaded arrest until May / June 1611, when he was almost eighty years old, he was taken while administering Confirmations in Ulster in the family home of Brian MacHugh óg MacMahon (d.1607), of Dartree (Dartry), Co. Monaghan the son-in-law of Hugh O’Neill (aka Tyrone). Once again, O'Devany was committed to Dublin Castle, accused of treason.
On April 1611, King James I (b.1566 d.1625) ordered the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Arthur Chichester (b.1563 d.1625) to make sure that there was a “uniform order set down for the suppression of papistry.” This enigmatic order required a clarification, which Chichester duly sought. He got his answer in August when he was told that it might be useful and timely to impose exemplary punishment on some titular bishops, provided that the facts could be twisted to show political rather than religious transgression. There was a chronic shortage of available bishops apart from Archbishop David Kearney of Cashel (b.c.1558 d.1624) and there was no other Catholic bishop to be found in Ireland apart from Bishop Conor O’Devany who was already conveniently held in Dublin Castle.
O’Devany’s execution was also the personal wish of the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Arthur Chichester, who was vehemently anti-Catholic, which seemed to have been against the wishes of the English Government at that time.
O'Devany Trial
On 28 January 1612, O'Devany was tried and found guilty of high treason by the majority of the jury with only one Irish juror refusing to find him guilty. O'Devany convincingly denied aiding Tyrone during his rebellion and as the weakness of this charge became apparent the government introduced a fresh charge of his being an accomplice to the Flight of the Earls. He declined to rebut this charge and it is possible that he had advance notice of Tyrone's intention to flee Ireland.
He protested, stating that he was being charged because of his religion and not because of any treason. The bishop also denied the competence of a secular court to try him. His pleas were futile as he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Dublin on 1 February 1612.
Father Patrick O’Loughran
The closing chapter of O'Devany’s life was now to be linked with a young priest whom he had never met before, Father Patrick O’Loughran (b.c.1577 d.1612), a priest born in Annaghmakeown, Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone and from the archdiocese of Armagh. His actual name was a variant of Patrick Giolla Phádraig, which means the servant of Patrick. His family were Erenagh, which meant they were responsible for managing church lands.
As he grew up, he became a chaplain, a kind of priest who provided a serve to Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Patrick O'Loughran left Ireland prior to the Flight of the Earls; however he left on the same ship subsequently used by the earls. He went to the Spanish Netherlands, Flanders, (encompassing modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg) to continue his education and provided exiled Gaelic noblemen who had left Ireland with the sacraments. He also served as a chaplain to Catherine O'Neill, (b.c.1574 d.1619) Countess of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill's wife.
O'Loughran also spent time at the College Douai, Society of Jesus of Anchin, France, which was established to train English Catholic men as priests in the wake of the Elizabethan regime enforcing Protestantism and penalizing Catholicism. Here, he met Hugh O'Neill again and travelled with him to Rome.
O’Loughran Arrest
On his return from Rome in June 1611 he was arrested upon landing in Cork City and under interrogation admitted to being a priest, haven given the sacraments to exiled members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland, and that he had assisted the Irish bishop, Conor O'Devany. As a result of this confession he was confined for the next seven months to a dungeon in Dublin Castle. Fr. O'Loughran's closeness to the O'Neill appears to have been the reason behind the government's decision to single him out.
Their Execution
On 1 February 1612, they were both taken on a horse drawn cart through the streets of Dublin from Dublin Castle to the gallows beyond the river; at George's Hill. As they passed through the streets of Dublin's, Catholics emerged from their homes to kneel in reverence to their prelate.
On the way to the scaffold, the bishop said to Patrick O'Loughran, the priest facing death with him, "Come, my brave comrade, noble soldier of Christ, let us imitate as best we can the death of him who was led to the slaughter as the sheep before the shearer."
Protestant clergymen pestered O'Devany with ministrations and urged him to confess before he died for treason. "Pray let me be", O'Devany answered, "The viceroy's (Sir Arthur Chichester) messenger to me here present, could tell that I might have life and revenue for going once to that temple".
Bishop O'Devany asked to die last so that he could provide Father O'Loughran moral support in his moments before death, but the request was refuse.
On reaching the top of the scaffold, O'Devany prayed aloud for all the Catholics of Dublin and of Ireland, urging them to persevere in their faith. He prayed for all heretics and for their reunion with the Church and he forgave his persecutors before being thrown off to his death. After the bishop had been hanged the executioner cut off his head and held it up with the customary cry: ‘Look on the head of a traitor’. The execution of O'Loughran followed in a similar fashion.
The work of dismembering the bodies was completed and the crowd surged forward, seeking some relics of the martyr’s.
The execution backfired on the English government as a large crowd, consisting of some of the most respectable gentry of the Pale, came out to see it. A protestant observer sourly noted that they could not have been more dismayed if St Patrick himself had been going to the scaffold.
An infirm man was reported as cured by touching them; Mass after Mass was said there from midnight until daylight. Such was the concourse that Sir Arthur Chichester ordered the bodies to be buried on George's Hill, but the next night Catholics exhumed them and interred them at St. James's Churchyard.
Shortly before his execution O'Devany had smuggled out of prison a catalogue that he had been working on called the ‘Index Martyrialis’, which listed those Irish Catholics who had been martyred for their faith. It was published in David Rothe 3rd volume of "Analecta" in 1619.
Martyrs
Conor O'Devany (b.c.1532 d.1612, aka Conchur Ó Duibheanaigh or Cornelius O'Devany, a formally beatified Irish Catholic who was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop and Martyr.
There are many spelling of his name, but the Four Masters (who would have known) called him, Conchur Ó Duibheanaigh, which means he belonged to the Eranagh family of Tully in the parish and diocese of Raphoe, Co. Donegal
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh, Cardinal Seán Brady marked the 400th Anniversary of the death of Blessed Patrick O’Loughran with a Mass on 20th June 2012 at Patrick O’Loughran Primary School, Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone.
Beatification
O'Devany and O'Loughran were both beatified by Pope John Paul II (b.1920 d.2005) in Rome on 27 September 1992 and 15 other Irish Catholic Martyrs. Their feast day is celebrated on 20 June each year.
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Dr. Dinesh Prasad Raturi and Dr. Rajashree Joshi from the BAIF Development Research Foundation discuss lessons learned from executing an Adaptation Fund project on climate smart agriculture in the Indian Himalayan Region
Early this morning (1 April 2025), our Money Laundering Team were out in force executing two warrants as part of an operation cracking down on money laundering in Greater Manchester.
As a result, two men, aged 30 and 25, have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences and remain in police custody for questioning.
Approximately £2,000 in cash and a car worth around £80,000 was seized from an address in Salford, around £50,000 in cash was seized from a business premises in Cheetham Hill, and a further search at a property in Crumpsall also resulted in the seizure of £1,000 in cash.
This morning (1 April 2025), at the break of dawn and the start of a new financial year, our Money Laundering Team were out in force executing two warrants as part of an operation cracking down on money laundering in Greater Manchester.
As a result, two men, aged 30 and 25, have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences and remain in police custody for questioning.
Approximately £2,000 in cash and a motor vehicle worth around £80,000 was seized from an address in Salford, and around £50,000 in cash was seized from a business premises in Cheetham Hill.
A further search at a property in Crumpsall also resulted in the seizure of £1,000 in cash.
Today’s arrests are part of a sustained crackdown into individuals suspected of being involved in high level money laundering offences in the Greater Manchester area.
Over the last year, GMP’s Economic Crime Unit have successfully forfeited over £17 million from the back pockets of criminals, and the funds have been handed to organisations who support local communities across Greater Manchester via the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS).
Non-profits, which benefit communities, can apply for a maximum of £20,000 to help fund activities. The activities must support GMP’s objectives to fight, prevent and reduce crime; keep people safe; and care for victims.
Detective Sergeant Peter Goddard, from our Money Laundering Team, said: “Today marks the start of a new financial year and we have started as we mean to go on, continuing in our relentless pursuit of those suspected to be laundering money from their criminal proceeds.
“Criminals try to disguise their ill-gotten gains to support illegal activities and exploit vulnerable people, causing harm to our communities.
“We have a dedicated team of specialists to tackle organised money laundering, which often supports criminal activity such as: drug dealing, firearms, terrorism and organised immigration crime.
“We are asking the public to remain vigilant and if you see, or suspect something is wrong, please tell us, and we can do something about it. The information you continue provide us with is vital to our investigations.”
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Well-practised potter Linda Bloomfield is famous for her perfectly executed shapes and innovative glazes. “I think a lot about form and surface texture before I begin,” she confides. She extensively researches her glazes – she is a scientist by training – and avoids commercial stains, making her own colours from raw materials such as nickel oxide and titanium dioxide. Nature continuously inspires – rocks, pebbles, seashells. A favourite colour combination comes from mustard yellow lichen on weathered grey slate roofs in St Ives in Cornwell. Also fruitful are visits to exhibitions to see art, ceramics and textiles. “The most intricate work I do is throwing on the wheel, when the hand touches the clay. It’s akin to meditation”. Happiness can be simply the down-to-earth satisfaction at the end of the day of shelves of freshly- thrown pots.
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Holbein executed this portrait shortly after the marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. In attitude and expression, the Seymour portrait matches that in the Whitehall composition, but the portraits differ in the arrangement of the bonnet veil; this individual portrait follows the preparatory study in the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle. This change is important only from a compositional point of view, and probably derived from Holbein himself. However, the major changes in tonality and patterns in Jane's gown will probably have been undertaken only after consultation with the client.
Holbein's portrait depicts a figure frozen in an official sense of responsibility. The simplicity of the shadowed background accentuates the increasing richness and boldness of design and adornment in Henrician court fashion, and the artist's skill is pre-eminent in creating the sheen and luster of the precious stones. Great attention has been paid to the realism of the silver thread in the queen's dress, and this new opulence was to be echoed in the portrait of Henry himself.
Designed and executed by the sculptor Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm Bt. R.A. (1834-1890)
It was erected in 1887 in celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
The Salisbury Tower to the left and the King Henry VIII Gate to the right.
Officers forced entry into an abattoir on Higher Bury Street in Stockport on Thursday 30th January 2025, while a second warrant was executed simultaneously at a residential property on Merlin Road in Blackburn, Lancashire.
A man and a woman – both in their thirties – were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and an offence of slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour, contrary to S1 and s2 of The Modern Slavery Act.
A man also in his thirties was arrested at the abattoir after he tried to evaded police, fleeing from the site and hiding on a nearby roof. We discovered he was an Albanian national living and working illegally in the UK. He is now being processed by Immigration Enforcement.
This operation took place after we received disclosure alleging a man who previously worked at the abattoir was a victim of modern day slavery. The claims are that he was forced to live in the abattoir and work around the clock to pay off extortionate debts that were said to be associated with a sponsorship visa and travel expenses.
Detectives acted quickly, following lines of enquiry, gathering potential evidence, and coordinating a joint response with national agencies: the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) and Home Office Border Security and Asylum. This included the Salvation Army and Crime and Justice charity.
The team involved in the late-night raid interviewed 30 employees onsite with a keen eye for spotting signs of exploitation. We also seized mobile phones, computer equipment and documentation as our investigations continue.
Detective Sergeant Lee Attenborough from GMP’s Stockport Challenger Team said: “We hope this robust and coordinated action taken in response a concerning report instils confidence in our approach to tackling modern slavery head on.
“Officers spoke with every employee working within the abattoir last night, they were receptive to our presence, and we engaged in good discussions around their working conditions, payment, and terms of employment.
“It’s so important we do this diligence and thankfully there were no further claims of exploitation. We have communicated the support that is available and how to access it should anyone choose to come forward.
“This activity forms one of several active modern slavery investigations within the force. In 2024 we supported more victims of modern slavery and held more offenders accountable for the misery they caused as 80 charges were laid – 40% more than the previous year – and 19 convicted were secured, up from seven, with several cases continuing to progress through the criminal justice system.
“Modern slavery is happening across Greater Manchester, and we encourage anyone who is a victim of this crime, or suspect someone they know could be, to report it. You will always be taken seriously, and protection and support is available.
“You can report modern slavery to us using our online crime reporting service."
Debi Lloyd, Head of UK Counter Trafficking Operations at Justice and Care, said: “Our Victim Navigators were deployed alongside police and other agencies on Thursday and it was fantastic to see a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to tackling alleged modern slavery.
‘Navigators are embedded in police forces across the UK and help survivors to rebuild their lives and secure justice against exploiters. We are supporting the survivor in this case and commend their bravery in coming forward.
‘If you are experiencing exploitation, please know you are not alone, and support is available.
‘Every person out there can play a part in fighting modern slavery by learning to spot the signs and reporting any concerns to police or the Modern Slavery Helpline on 0800 0121 700.”
Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) Investigations Manager Michael Heyes said: “The GLAA works to stop the exploitation of workers in the UK and ensure that they are treated fairly. We have powers to investigate modern slavery offences and work with law enforcement and other partners to achieve this end.
“The GLAA has been involved in at least seven modern slavery and human trafficking investigations in Greater Manchester between April 2024 and January 2025.
“The GLAA is an intelligence-led organisation. Anyone with information or concerns about workers being exploited for their labour should email contact@gla.gov.uk or use the online reporting form which can be found at www.gla.gov.uk.”
Director of Anti Trafficking and Modern Slavery for The Salvation Army, Major Kathy Betteridge said: "The Salvation Army was on site today with Greater Manchester Police to make available specialist support for any potential victims of modern slavery identified. It is vital that victims’ needs are assessed, and they receive immediate access to protective care and specialised support, available through a Government contract operated by The Salvation Army.
“We work with survivors as they begin the long journey to rebuild their lives and their trust in humanity. Support provided by The Salvation Army can include intensive 24/7 support for people with high-level needs as well as safe accommodation, counselling and help with returning home, finances and finding employment.
"If you suspect that you, or someone you have come into contact with may be a victim of modern slavery and in need of help, please call The Salvation Army’s 24-hour confidential referral helpline on 0800 808 3733."
Minister for Border Security and Asylum, Dame Angela Eagle MP, said: “Modern slavery is an abhorrent crime that dehumanises people for profit. We are committed to tackling it in all its forms and giving survivors the support and certainty they need to rebuild their lives.
“We know that many people are sold lies about their ability to live and work in the UK and are often subjected to squalid conditions and illegal working hours for little to no pay.
“That’s why, as well as playing a critical safeguarding role, our immigration officers are also ramping up enforcement activity across the country to clamp down on illegal working and the exploitation of illegal workers to put a stop to the abuse of our immigration system and ensure those involved face the full consequences.”
Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester, Kate Green, said: "Modern slavery is an appalling crime that has no place in our communities. Exploiting vulnerable people for profit is utterly unacceptable, and I fully support the efforts of our teams in bringing those responsible to justice.
"I’d like to welcome the way different agencies are working in partnership to tackle this disgusting crime. Through Programme Challenger, our partnership with GMP and a broad range of partners from across the public, private and voluntary sectors to tackle serious and organised crime, we are making a real difference, ensuring victims are protected and offenders face the consequences of their actions.
"We all have a part to play in spotting the signs of modern slavery. If something doesn't feel right, take action and report it. And I ask businesses specifically, please consider your supply chains and whether there may be a risk that modern slavery is happening where you access goods and services.
"Greater Manchester will not tolerate such exploitation, and we remain committed to rooting it out wherever it occurs."
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
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A U.S. Air Force fighter pilot assigned to the 157th Fighter Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, sits in the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet on the north ramp at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, Nov. 1, 2025. The pilot remained in the aircraft as maintenance, fuels, and weapons specialists executed an Integrated Combat Turn, where the jet is refueled and rearmed with engines running, to demonstrate the 169th Fighter Wing’s ability to rapidly generate combat-ready aircraft and sustain high-tempo operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Megan Floyd)
U.S. Air Force pararescuemen execute precision parachute landings at Freeman Municipal Airport in Seymour, Ind., Sept. 4, 2023, as part of the PJ Rodeo. The biennial event, which tests the capabilities of pararescue Airmen across the service, was hosted by the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Dale Greer)
Florida Park Service staff execute a prescribed burn in the pine flatwoods of Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring, Florida. Prescribed burns are used periodically to keep invasive species, such as Cogon grass, in check.
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(•) – The-Lockheed-Martin-HC-130-P-Hercules-The-Combat-K.I.N.G-1-I-is an extended-range version of the C-130 Hercules transport. HC-130 crews provide expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery capabilities to our Combatant Commanders and Joint/Coalitions partners worldwide.
Mission
The mission of the HC-130P/N "King" is to rapidly deploy to austere airfields and denied territory in order to execute , all weather personnel recovery operations anytime...anywhere. King crews routinely perform high and low altitude personnel & equipment airdrops, infiltration/exfiltration of personnel, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area refueling point missions.
When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, casualty evacuation, noncombatant evacuation operations, and, during the Space Shuttle program, space flight support for NASA.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130P/N are improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications.
The HC-130 can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130P/N is the only dedicated fixed-wing combat search and rescue platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard operate the aircraft.
First flown in 1964, the aircraft has served many roles and missions. It was initially modified to conduct search and rescue missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range and increasing loiter time during search operations.
In April 2006, the continental U.S. search and rescue mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
They have been deployed to Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in support of operations Southern and Northern Watch, Allied Force, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. HC-130s also support continuous alert commitments in Alaska and the Horn of Africa.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Rescue platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,910 shaft horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 98 feet, 9 inches (30.09 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 6 inches (11.7 meters)
Weight: 83,000 pounds (37,648 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 155,000 pounds (69,750 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 73,000 pounds (10,724 gallons)
Payload: 30,000 pounds (13,608 kilograms)
Speed: 289 miles per hour (464 kilometers per hour) at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, navigator) and four enlisted (flight engineer, airborne communications specialist, two loadmasters). Additional crewmembers include a Guardian Angel team consisting of one combat rescue officer and three pararescuemen
Unit Cost: $77 million (fiscal 2008 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 1964
Inventory: Active force, 13; ANG, 13; Reserve, 10
Woman Before a Mirror - 1918
Louis Ritman (American, 1889 - 1963)
Executed during Ritman's "high Impressionist" period of the late teens, the New Britain painting is typical of his best Giverny canvases. (1) The subject, seated and facing the viewer, is partially reflected in a large mirror, which reflects a simple but comfortable interior. Ritman has aligned the compositional elements parallel to the picture plain to emphasize the painting's flatness and decorative qualities, created by the jumble of colors and patterns in the model's clothing and a variety of square, elongated, and flecked brushstrokes. No surface remains smooth--even the olive wallpaper is flecked with periwinkle blue dots and the paint itself reveals a slightly rough texture.
Ritman's style changed during the Giverny years, from more finished fluid evocations of young womanhood to a preoccupation with light, texture, palette, and decorative surfaces. As contemporary critics noted, Ritman's canvases reveal the influence of Frieseke, who wove a colorful tapestry of light and color in his evocations of women in flower gardens dotted with dappled sunlight. Yet many of Ritman's paintings, especially this one, go beyond Monet's and Frieseke's elaborate tapestry of color, recalling the decorative interiors of Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard and the patchy brushwork of Paul Cézanne.
While Ritman's style varied over the years, his subjects remained remarkably consistent. “Woman before a Mirror”, painted at the end of his Giverny period, is a variation on “Pink and Blue” (1913; Private collection), in which the same model sits moodily, with crossed arms, next to a window. The woman may be Gaby, a favorite model whom Ritman painted many times. Throughout his paintings of the teens she often appears in the same settings, wearing the same ruffled, dotted, and blue-trimmed summer frock, either sewing, reading, walking in the garden, rowing on the pond, or dressing in the boudoir.
Louis Ritman was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family about 1900. His father got a job in Chicago as a designer and tailor of men's suits. The position was not well paid and, as the eldest son, Louis was expected to help support the family. Ritman worked as a sign painter during the day then diligently attended night classes--at Hull House, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1907 he won a scholarship for full-time tuition at the academy and the following year won a scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia. He remained at the Pennsylvania Academy only a few months, studying under William Merritt Chase, before deciding to go abroad at the suggestion of Lawton Parker, a Chicago painter who moved easily in the French art world. In fall 1909 Ritman and his friend Norbert Heerman left for Paris. Ritman promptly enrolled in the Académie Julian and soon passed the entrance examination for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. At night the pair frequented the Café du Dôme, where they met the Midwestern painters Frederick Carl Frieseke, Richard E. Miller, and Morgan Russell. Their circle of acquaintances also included Gertrude and Leo Stein, Walter Pach, Patrick Henry Bruce, and Max Weber.
In 1911 Ritman spent the first of many summers working in Giverny, the home of Claude Monet. Also working in the village were a number of American painters, including Frieseke, Miller, and Parker, who all painted in a mode of "decorative Impressionism" developed by Frieseke. During his years in Giverny, Ritman developed a close friendship with Frieseke, who allowed the young painter to work in his garden, house, and studio. Following a style popularized by Frank Benson, Robert Reid, Edmund Tarbell, and other figural painters of the time, Ritman and his Giverny compatriots executed “intimist” pictures-private scenes of beautiful women encased in the color and sunlight of richly decorative interiors or gardens, seen passively reading, sipping tea, or musing.
Beginning in the teens, Ritman exhibited often, particularly at the Paris Salon, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was given one-man shows at the Art Institute in 1915, 1920, and 1923; at Macbeth Galleries, New York, in 1919 and 1925; and at Milch Galleries, New York, in 1924 and 1929. He worked in France until 1929, making frequent trips to the United States. In 1929 he accepted a teaching position at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he remained for over thirty years, often exhibiting in major group shows and winning a number of prizes. He remained committed to figure painting, though his style gradually changed from an Impressionist to a more realist one. In the 1950s he devoted himself to landscape painting.
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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.
Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
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Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.