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MANCHESTER UK 25.04.2017 Scott Frankland arriving at Manchester Magistrates court to be sentenced after pleading guilty to masturbating on a train in broad daylight at 3pm in the afternoon.
This layout documents the first complete sentence my youngest son every wrote. It is special because my son has developmental delays and it has been a struggle for him to learn to read and write. I was so surprised when he wrote this sentence. I immediately tore the paper out and saved it because I knew I would want to scrap it.
Door to Desiree's room on the trailer
(Disclaimer: The pictures here are photos from Desiree's personal collection and are in no way the official stills released by Twentieth Century Fox; and should not be used as such.)
Jonathon Huynh was sentenced today at the Long Beach Courthouse for committing first degree murder of Kate Su Yi, a CSULB nursing student.
Huynh was sentenced to 25 years in prison and a fine totaling near $20,000.
www.daily49er.com/news/man-receives-25-to-life-for-murder...
Anonymous Hacks US Sentencing Website in Retaliation for Aaron Swartz’ Death
Hacked data could reveal government secrets, including the identities of informants and targets of surveillance.
The hacker collective ‘Anonymous’ took down a government website for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, USSC.gov, late Friday night, citing that a ‘line was crossed’ with the death of Reddit founder and prominent SOPA opponent Aaron Swartz. Read More on hackingstuffs.com
Only counting books I read (or soon-ish will have read) in their entirety…
Below are starting dates, titles, authors, and some quotes / comments that I could think of. :p Hopefully I have not typo-ed up the quotes too badly.
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13-Jan-2024: 1. 1968 by Jan Guillou
Fave!
"Henning återvände till frågan om taktiken vid Vietnamdemonstrationer. De danska kamraterna i KUF hade till exempel funnit metoder att neutralisera polisens hästar, ammoniak och långa nålar. Trängde nålen igenom bukhinnan dog hästen efter några dar. En dusch ammoniak över mulen gjorde den tokig, man kunde använda blomsprutor. Då blev det rodeo."
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5-Feb-2024: 2. Reveal by Chris Heath
Robbie Williams bio, part 2.
"'So,' he announces, 'I'm going to re-form. Me.'
With the original line-up? I ask.
"'No,' he says. 'Some of us have gone.'"
"Rob goes out to film along the raised strip that protects the isle from the sea. Someone who has spotted Rob drives along the track that runs parallel to the inland side of the strip. Videoing Rob as they drive, they crash into a road sign and are stuck there. Rob goes down to film their efforts to get free.
'I was too busy looking at you,' the driver says, in a way that sounds less like an apology and more the first half of a sentence that she would like to finish by saying so it wasn't my fault."
"Their principal criticism seems to be that Robbie Williams has made a Robbie Williams album. And sometimes they express a kind of bemusement that anyone would think to do that in this day and age."
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3-May-2024: 3. De som dödar drömmar sover aldrig by Jan Guillou
Fave!
"Till saken hörde den något egenartade omständigheten att möjligheterna att få ut den hustrumördande klienten på fri fot relativt kvickt ökade ju brutalare han mördat sin hustru. /.../
Den hustrumördare de nu skulle försvara var i mer än ett avseende idealisk, med en klar möjlighet att vandra ut på fri fot redan inom sex månader.
Det som främst talade till den åtalades fördel var att han tagit sin hustru av daga på ett sällsynt vidrigt sätt. Han hade manipulerat bastuaggregatet i familjens villa så att det inte gick att stänga av, ställt in hettan på maximum, lurat in hustrun och sedan spikat igen dörren utifrån, därefter satt i sig en och en halv flaska whisky och somnat framför tv:n.
Den tekniska bevisningen mot hustrumördaren innehöll hjärtskärande detaljer. Offret hade klöst av sig samtliga naglar mot den stabila bastudörren som blivit kraftigt blodbesudlad. Enligt rättsläkarens bedömning hade offrets medvetslöshet inträffat efter en knapp timme och döden genom kokt hjärna och hjärtstillestånd ytterligare någon timme senare.
Den som överbevisats om ett sådant mord tio år tidigare hade utan tvivel dömts till livstids fängelse, på den tiden livstid betydde tjugo år, till skillnad från dagens verklighet där livstid betydde på sin höjd tio år.
Det handlade om en politisk förändring, inte en juridisk. Skillnaden kunde förklaras med ett helt annat samhällsklimat. Landets justitieminister, utsedd av Olof Palme, var en modernt progressiv man, mycket omhuldad av de unga liberaler som kallades sexliberaler, och han var principfast motståndare till hårda straff. Han var dessutom, till sexliberalernas förtjusning, också mot kriminalisering av vissa beteenden som den politiska högern ville komma åt. Barnpornografi hade just avkriminaliserats. Reaktionära förslag om att förbjuda och straffbelägga prostitution hade en kraftfull motståndare i denne socialdemokratiske justitieminister, vilket föralldel kunde förklaras med andra än principiella ställningstaganden. Eftersom justitieministern personligen drog frekvent nytta av prostitutionens laglighet.
Riksförbundet för sexuellt likaberättigande, ett av sexliberalernas hårda fästen, drev kampanj för att avkriminalisera sexuellt umgänge mellan barn och vuxna och hade för det mycket moderna kravet den socialdemokratiske justitieministerns öra.
Riksförbundet för kriminalvårdens humanisering var emot fängelsestraff, liksom deras favoritminister. Hela den intellektuella vänstern höll med och tyckte för övrigt synd om förbrytarna eftersom de var offer för olyckliga sociala omständigheter som de inte själva rådde över och därför skulle straffas dubbelt av samhället om man dessutom låste in dem i cell.
En sidoeffekt av denna radikala tendens var ett galopperande, tilltagande sjukdomstillstånd bland landets mördare. Ungefär tre fjärdedelar av mördarna ansågs numera sinnessjuka och kunde därför inte dömas till fängelse och slapp följaktligen undan med sluten psykiatrisk vård, under vilken påfallande många av dem kunde uppvisa ett mirakulöst snabbt tillfrisknande."
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17-May-2024: 4. Kvinnor utan barn: Om reproduktion och livets mening by Sara Martinsson
Swedish book about women without kids.
"Även i den liberala abortnationen Sverige omgärdas avslutandet av graviditet med en varnande struktur. /.../ Detta trots att processen är säker och enkel, och trots att, som [läkaren] Rebecca Gomperts säger, det faktiskt jämförelsevis är farligare att vara gravid. Man hör dock sällan läkare gå ut i media för att avråda kvinnor från att bära och föda barn. Ingen försöker skrämma bort bebisfebern med varningar för högt blodtryck, diabetes, havandeskapsförgiftning, allvarliga bristningar, sfinkterrupturer eller framfall. Inga välmenande bekanta påminner om riskerna för avförings- och urininkontinens, infektioner, venösa och arteriella tromboser, uterusrupturer eller svåra placentakomplikationer vid nästa graviditet. Kvinnor utsätter sig hela tiden för ökade risker för allt detta. De riskerar faktiskt till och med sina liv när de blir med barn. Men den typen av våghalsighet anses märkligt nog inte problematisk. Inte ens i en tid där vi ständigt nås av rapporter om brister i mödra- och förlossningsvården och där barnmorskor larmar om att underbemanningen innebär risker för patientsäkerheten talar vi särskilt ofta om graviditeten som vad den också kan vara: ett hot mot kvinnors kroppar."
"En av de internationellt mest uppmärksammade studierna på barns klimatpåverkan kommer från Lunds universitet. I samarbete med University of Vancouver presenterade man 2017 en rapport som visar att varje icke-fött barn minskar utsläppen med 58,6 ton koldioxid per år. Siffran är svår att relatera till, men blir tydligare om man jämför med de max 0,2 ton koldioxid man kan spara in genom att källsortera. Att äta vegetariskt, låta bli att flyga eller cykla istället för att ta bilen i all ära. Den enskilt mest effektiva insatsen en individ kan göra för klimatet är att avstå från reproduktion."
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25-May-2024: 5. Den andra dödssynden by Jan Guillou
Fave!
"För när man fyller 60 och så att säga går in i andra halvlek, fortsatte onkel Carl Lauritz, något optimistiskt kanske, så börjar man också tänka på att se om sitt hus. Släkten hade en gång ägt många hus, hela den gamla stadskärnan i Dresden och en stor del av centrum i Berlin. Allt detta hade emellertid svepts bort av krigets vindar och kommunismens maktövertagande.
Onkel Carl Lauritz sänkte blicken i kort begrundan över hur andra världskriget och kommunismen särskilt hårt tycktes ha drabbat släkten Lauritzen."
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7-Jun-2024: 6. Breaking boundaries: The science of our planet by Johan Rockström & Owen Gaffney (foreword by Greta Thunberg)
Fave!
"The most numerous organism on Earth is probably the bacterium Pelagibacter ubique, found in the ocean and fresh water. This was first described in 2002. Scientists estimate that the ocean contains 10²⁹ microbes, far more than the 10²² stars in the observable universe. If you were to place all life on Earth on a weighing scale, the writhing, wriggling mess would weigh 550 billion tonnes (600 billion tons). Plants make up 82 per cent of this weight. There are about 3 trillion trees on Earth, but we are losing 15 billion a year through deforestation. We have cut down 46 per cent since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago, and most of the chopping happened in the past two centuries. /.../
[A] full 96 per cent of the weight of mammals will be made up of humans, and cows, sheep, pigs, and horses. Wild mammals – big cats, rodents, blue whales, dolphins, and the other 6,500 species of generally furry creatures – make up just 4 per cent. It was the other way around a few short centuries ago."
"End the crazy subsidies for fossil fuels, totalling about USD 500 billion every year, and more like USD 5 trillion when you count health impacts and pollution. In fact, if fossil fuels were priced correctly, greenhouse gases would be reduced by more than 28 per cent."
"Forty-six countries have adopted a price on carbon. Yet not one applies it to food, despite the carbon gushing from food production into the air. /.../ We must also consider a price on nitrogen, phosphorus, and water."
"And providing family planning and education to girls has the potential to avoid 85 billion tonnes (93 billion tons) of carbon dioxide emissions this century and to stabilize global population at levels that are manageable."
"But growth is often subsidized by cheap labour: exploiting poor adults and children in developing economies. And growth is subsidized by the planet: mining, soil erosion, deforestation, air pollution, and greenhouse gases. When you think about it like this, nothing is growing really. Social and natural capital are just being converted to economic capital. Net zero. There is no growth. The subsidized phase of consumer capitalism has come to an end. The free lunch is over."
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26-Jun-2024: 7. Slutet på historien by Jan Guillou
Fave!
"Överdrivet artigt bad han reportern ringa om en timme så skulle han möjligen ha en kommentar, om han fann något av allmänt eller juridiskt intresse.
Nej, reporter och fotograf kunde dessvärre inte följa med upp i lägenheten för att avvakta hans tidningsläsning. Nej, inte under några omständigheter, trots att det var mer än tio minusgrader. Inte ens vid minus 273,15 grader Celcius skulle herrarna släppas in i hans hem."
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4-Jul-2024: 8. Passad by Harry Martinson
Swedish poems. I read it because it contains one of my fave poems, which concerns earthworms and is insanely sweet. ^_^
"Vem vördar daggmasken,
odlaren djupt under gräsen i jordens mull.
Han håller jorden i förvandling.
Han arbetar helt fylld av mull,
stum av mull och blind.
Han är den undre, den nedre bonden
där åkrarna klädas till skörd.
Vem vördar honom,
den djupe, den lugne odlaren,
den evige grå lille bonden i jordens mull."
I don't always make shitty translations of the Swedish book quotes, but when I do, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S THE EARTHWORM POEM:
"Who reveres the earthworm,
the farmer deep below the grasses in the soil of the earth.
He keeps the earth in transformation.
He works completely filled with soil,
mute with soil and blind.
He is the lower, the nether farmer
where the fields are dressed for harvest.
Who reveres him,
the deep, the calm farmer,
the eternal grey little farmer in the soil of the earth."
#liedowntrynottocrycryalot
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8-Jul-2024: 9. Command and control: Nuclear weapons, the Damascus accident, and the illusion of safety by Eric Schlosser
Fave!
"A small amount of fissile material was responsible for the devastation; 98.62 percent of the uranium in Little Boy was blown apart before it could become supercritical. Only 1.38 percent actually fissioned, and most of that uranium was transformed into dozens of lighter elements. About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that."
"The core looked like an enormous gray pearl resting inside a shiny beryllium shell. Slotin used a screwdriver to lower the top half of that shell – and then, at about 3:20 in the afternoon on May 21, 1946, the screwdriver slipped, the shell shut, the core went supercritical, and a blue flash filled the room. Slotin immediately threw the top half of the tamper onto the floor, halting the chain reaction. But it was too late: he'd absorbed a lethal dose of radiation. And he, more than anyone else in the room, knew it.
Within hours Slotin was vomiting, his hands were turning red and swollen, his fingernails blue. General Groves flew Slotin's parents down from Winnipeg on a military plane to say good-bye. A week later, Slotin was gone, and his death was excruciating, like so many tens of thousands at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been. It was recorded on film, with his consent, as a sobering lesson on the importance of nuclear safety."
"Through the Freedom of Information Act, I obtained a document that listed the 'Accidents and Incidents Involving Nuclear Weapons' from the summer of 1957 until the spring of 1967. It was 245 pages long."
"A command-and-control system designed to operate during a surprise attack that could involve thousands of nuclear weapons – and would require urgent presidential decisions within minutes – proved incapable of handling an attack by four hijacked airplanes."
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1-Aug-2024: 10. Dreams from my father: A story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
A re-read.
Re his maternal grandma: "Slowly she had risen, playing by the rules, until she reached the threshold where competence didn't suffice. There she would stay for twenty years, with scarcely a vacation, watching as her male counterparts kept moving up the corporate ladder, playing a bit loose with information passed on between the ninth hole and the ride to the clubhouse, becoming wealthy men."
"Otherwise, our worries seemed indistinguishable from those of the white kids around us. Surviving classes. Finding a well-paying gig after graduation. Trying to get laid. I had stumbled upon one of the well-kept secrets about black people: that most of us weren't interested in revolt; that most of us were tired of thinking about race all the time; that if we preferred to keep to ourselves it was mainly because that was the easiest way to stop thinking about it, easier than spending all your time mad or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you."
Spoiler: I guess he did survive classes, did find a well-paying gig, and did get laid. :O
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14-Sep-2024: 11. The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Fave!
"In a waste ore called pitchblende, a black sludge that came from the peaty forests of Joachimsthal in what is now the Czech Republic, the Curies found the first signal of a new element – an element many times more radioactive than uranium. The Curies set about distilling the boggy sludge to trap that potent radioactive source in its purest form. From several tons of pitchblende, four hundred tons of washing water, and hundreds of buckets of distilled sludge waste, they finally fished out one-tenth of a gram of the new element in 1902. The metal lay on the far edge of the periodic table, emitting X-rays with such feverish intensity that it glowered with a hypnotic blue light in the dark, consuming itself. Unstable, it was a strange chimera between matter and energy – matter decomposing into energy. Marie Curie called the new element radium, from the Greek word for 'light.'"
"In the 1910s /.../ a New Jersey corporation called U.S. Radium began to mix radium with paint to create a product called Undark – radium-infused paint that emitted a greenish white light at night. Although aware of the many injurious effects of radium, U.S. Radium promoted Undark for clock dials, boasting of glow-in-the-dark watches. Watch painting was a precise and artisanal craft, and young women with nimble, steady hands were commonly employed. These women were encouraged to use the paint without precautions, and to frequently lick the brushes with their tongues to produce sharp lettering on watches.
Radium workers soon began to complain of jaw pain, fatigue, and skin and tooth problems. In the late 1920s, medical investigations revealed that the bones in their jaws had necrosed, their tongues had been scarred by irradiation, and many had become chronically anemic (a sign of severe bone marrow damage). /.../ Over the next decades, dozens of radium-induced tumors sprouted in these radium-exposed workers."
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31-Oct-2024: 12. Against empathy: The case for rational compassion by Paul Bloom
Fave!
"All these problems – biases in self-report, the fact that other traits might correlate with high empathy, problems with the scales, and biases in publication – would lead to published studies inflating the relationship between empathy and good behavior. So what is the relationship?
Surprisingly, even given all these considerations in favor of finding an effect, there isn't much of one. There have been hundreds of studies, with children and adults, and overall the results are: meh."
"Other studies compare how we respond to the suffering of one versus the suffering of many. Psychologists asked some subjects how much money they would give to help develop a drug that would save the life of one child, and asked others how much they would give to save eight children. People would give roughly the same in both cases. But when a third group of subjects were told the child's name and shown her picture, the donations shot up – now there were greater donations to the one than to the eight."
"[T]he idea that rationality is an especially white male Western pursuit is where the extremes of postmodern ideology circle around to meet with the most retrograde views of a barroom bigot. In fact, there is no reason to believe that those who are not male and not white have any special problems with reason."
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4-Dec-2024: 13. So nah, so fern by B. Brunetti
German kids' book. I took German from grade 6 to 8, and sucked. Then I started practising it on Duolingo in 2019. I still suck. Didn't understand everything in the kiddybook, but I got the gist of it. :p
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6-Dec-2024: 14. Humboldt und Beaufort by Michael Engler
German kids' book. See above…
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7-Dec-2024: 15. Mannen från framtiden by Eugen Semitjov
Short Swedish scifi novel written in 1976. :B Possibly suggested to me by an auction site, and it sounded interesting. :B It's about a stranded time traveller from 2177. Fun. The hero has some kind of iPad with some kind of Wiki, but shitty. Also contains contemporary, casual, unintentionally funny sexism. xD
"De fick syn på Link knappt tio meter bort på däcket inunder. /.../ Hans ansikte och överkropp lystes upp av ett svagt blåaktigt sken från föremålet som han höll i knät. Det påminde om en miniatyr-TV, men det var något annat...
/.../ Apparaten hade en liten bildskärm som en TV, men där löpte bara rader av siffror och tecken förbi i snabbt tempo. Link gjorde en lätt fingerrörelse och ljusbilden växlade till textrader som matades fram lika snabbt, men det var omöjligt att se vad som stod där. /.../
Link märkte dem när de var ett par meter ifrån honom, och stängde av apparaten. Det blå skenet falnade bort, och han stoppade ned den i väskan.
- Vad är det där? frågade kaptenen.
- En hidor. En slags dator med extensiv minnesfunktion."
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12-Dec-2024: 16. När tiden vände by Eugen Semitjov
Short Swedish scifi novel bound into the same book as the above novel. Hence the 16 covers in the picture… Also pretty fun.
"I rymdens vakuum förmedlas inga ljud. Sheil hörde ingen knall, men han såg mynningsflamman och kände den häftiga rekylen från Magnum-revolvern.
Han märkte plötsligt att han inte längre låg på teleskopets plåtyta. Rekylen hade kastat honom bakåt – i en tumlande rörelse drev han sakta bort från Super-LST!
Sheil famlade efter manöveraggregatet, efter selen som han nyss haft över höger axel. Den hade glidit av. Aggregatet med vilket han skulle ha kunnat ta sig tillbaka – det tumlade ett tiotal meter från honom och kastade hånfulla solreflexer.
Revolvern! Den hängde kvar i remmen från patronbältet. Med den borde han kunna skjuta sig tillbaka – med skott i motsatt riktning. Då måste han ha teleskopet eller skytteln bakom sig, och det var svårt att finna motsatt riktpunkt bland stjärnorna i det svarta tomrummet. Han sköt ett skott, han sköt ett till... Men rekylerna drev honom i andra felaktiga riktningar, och den tumlande rörelsen blev bara värre.
Hela stjärnrymden roterade omkring honom som en galen karusell. Rymdskepp och teleskop skymtade till ibland, allt mer avlägsna. Bob Sheil greps av panisk rymdsvindel igen. Han skrek ut sin hjälplöshet, och de två männen som var kvar på skytteln hörde hans radioskrik. Men de kunde ingenting göra – de såg honom inte, de visste inte ens i vilken riktning han drev bort. Så hördes en kort, liksom kvävd knall, och det blev tyst.
Bob Sheil hade vänt revolvern mot sin hjälm och skjutit. Blodet kokade och förgasades i rymdens vakuum. Det svävade likt en diffus, rödaktig dimslöja från kroppen som drev bort i evigheten."
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16-Dec-2024: 17. Scattershot: Life, music, Elton, and me by Bernie Taupin
I haven't finished it yet...
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Vegan FAQ! :)
The Web Site the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See.
Please watch Earthlings.
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Craigslist Sentence Generator Garland, 2014 for CSA PGH
Each contributor was paid $5 for one autobiographical sentence. The letters from each sentence will be cut and sewn into letters to form the garland.
Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.
Sentence: The girls have cellphones.
[Image source: theodysseyonline.com/texas-am/importance-family-vacations...]
24 year-old Charly Pitman, of Brislington, Bristol, was found guilty of riot following a trial at Bristol Crown Court in April. On 7th July 2022 she was sentenced to three years in prison.
During her trial jurors heard how she positioned herself at the front of the crowd challenging police officers as they attempted to separate them from the neighbourhood police station.
They were shown footage of her acting aggressively towards the officers, striking their shields and helmets, and were told her actions caused them and others to fear for their safety.
Judge Julian Lambert said Pitman made a conscious decision not to leave the riot and encouraged others to attack police officers. He added jurors decided quickly there was ‘no basis for self-defence’, as Pitman had claimed during the trial.
Including Pitman, those jailed for offences committed during the riot have been imprisoned for a combined total of 74 years and nine months.
Nurse Edith Cavell was executed by German forces during WWI as she had aided British POWs to escape.
There was great diplomatic efforts to have her death sentence commuted or delayed, but to no avail.
She was shot by eight soldiers, and in time, her body was repatriated, the wagon her body was carried from Dover is the same used for the body of the Unknown Soldier.
The luggage wagon usually rests at Bodiham on the Kent and East Sussex Railway, but for November it has been brought back to the former Dover Marine station.
I got tickets, so after lunch we would visit, not just to see the wagon and pay our respects, but the station is now a cruise terminal, and is rarely open to the public, and it had been a decade or so since my last visit.
I slept late, late enough so that Jools driving off to yoga woke me up at ten past six. Outside rain was bouncing down, and there was the bins to do.
I got up and put them out, dodging the raindrops, and back inside to make a coffee.
With rain expected all day, other than doing to the station after lunch, not much else planned, whilst Jools had her craft and gossip morning at the village library.
Jools came back from yoga as I was finishing my coffee, so I made breakfast giving her an hour before she had to leave again.
I listened to podcasts and watched videos for the morning, not much else to do, really.
Sadly, we had what we thought was the plumber coming to fix the overflow, but instead Craig came to touch up some paint in the toilet.
So Jools stayed home and I drove down to the Western Docks, over the flyover, past the former Lord Warden Hotel, then round to where lines from London entered Dover Marine, forming a large flat crossing in a tangle of lines.
You can still see how the lines used to curve west to join the main line to Folkestone, but is now concreted over, as are the tracks between the platforms, so to create a large flat parking area for cruisers.
I showed my ticket, and walked up through the central arch along what was the path of platforms 2 and three, past the former station buildings and under the footbridge.
At the far end there was the wagon, so I walked up, showed my ticket again, had my name ticked off, and went to look inside.
Inside there is a coffin, a replica of the one that brought the body of the unknown soldier back from France, and on the walls there were information boards on the only three bodies to be brought back from the war.
I exited it, took shots all around it, then walked to the war memorial, which is a splendid thing, and should be more accessible.
And I was done.
I thanked the volunteers and walked out, getting shots of the walkway linking the former hotel with the station and the Admiralty pier before taking shelter from the rain in the car and driving home.
I had been gone all of 40 minutes.
Once back I began to cook dinner/lunch: chicken pie, roast potatoes, steamed leeks, sprouts and spring greens, gravy and shop bought Yorkshire puddings.
It was all done by four, by which time Craig had done two coats of paint and had left.
I poured a beer and a cider, then dished up, the potatoes lovely and crunchy, without being burnt.
I won the music quiz at six, which was nice, then after washing up I settled down to watch Northern Ireland play in Slovakia.
A poor game, ended 1-0 to the home side, but Northern Ireland go to the play-offs anyway.
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Edith Louisa Cavell (/ˈkævəl/ KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Cavell was arrested, court-martialled under German military law and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German government refused to commute her sentence, and she was shot. The execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.
The night before her execution, she said, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone". These words were inscribed on the Edith Cavell Memorial[1] opposite the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery near Trafalgar Square. Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled her to help all those who needed it, including both German and Allied soldiers. She was quoted as saying, "I can't stop while there are lives to be saved."[2] The Church of England commemorates her in its Calendar of Saints on 12 October.
Cavell, who was 49 at the time of her execution, was already notable as a pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium.
In November 1914, after the German occupation of Brussels, Cavell began sheltering British soldiers and funnelling them out of occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands. Wounded British and French soldiers as well as Belgian and French civilians of military age were hidden from the Germans and provided with false papers by Prince Réginald de Croÿ at his château of Bellignies near Mons. From there, they were conducted by various guides to the houses of Cavell, Louis Séverin, and others in Brussels, where their hosts would furnish them with money to reach the Dutch frontier, and provide them with guides obtained through Philippe Baucq.[18] This placed Cavell in violation of German military law.[4][19] German authorities became increasingly suspicious of the nurse's actions, which were further fuelled by her outspokenness.
The night before her execution, Cavell told the Reverend H. Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain of Christ Church Brussels, who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, "I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."[30][31] These words are inscribed on her statues in London and in Melbourne, Australia.[32][33] Cavell's final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, "Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country.
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Situated on Admiralty Pier for connection to ships, this was constructed on an expanded pier by SECR, finished in 1914, began to be used on 2 February 1915 but was not available for public use until 18 January 1919; in the meantime it had been renamed Dover Marine on 5 December 1918. It was a large terminus with four platforms covered by a full roof. Platforms were extended to take 12-car trains in February 1959.[6] It was renamed again to Dover Western Docks on 14 May 1979, and was closed by British Rail on 26 September 1994[1] with the demise of boat trains and the opening of the Channel Tunnel. It has since been turned into a cruise-liner terminal.[7]
Work on the new train ferry pier at the station suffered damage worth £300,000 during the Great storm of 1987.[8]
Regie voor Maritiem Transport used to run ferries until 1994 from here to Oostende railway station which connected into Belgian railway line 50A run by NMBS. There was a fast ferry service using the Jetfoil as well as conventional ferries.
The Southern Railway opened a large locomotive depot at the site in 1928. This was closed in 1961 and demolished.
Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.
30/8/12 Crown Court Cardiff. Edward Howell Adams (known as Howell) was sentenced today to 18months of which he is recommended to serve 9 for drink driving, failing to stop and dangerous driving for the incident in which he left paralympian cyclist Simon Richardson MBE with life threatening injures last August. Adams is also banned for 5 years though with such poor eyesight it's not expected he will be allowed to drive again. Multi Paralympic medallist Simon Richardson's preparations for London 2012 were dashed when he was smashed 23m into the air off his bike during an early morning training session by drunk partially sighted farmer Edward Howell Adams driving a van on the A48 nr Bridgend.
Pensioner Ilyas Ashar sentenced to 13 years in jail for raping deaf and mute girl trafficked to UK from Pakistan ow.ly/q9Ztw The pensioner who repeatedly raped a deaf and mute girl who he trafficked to Britain aged 10 has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.
In a dark alley, Philip Marlowe runs into concrete poetry... Each sentence in The Short Goodbye was borrowed from Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye; quotes about coffee, whiskey, guns, lips, eyes, sex, and gimlets have been formatted into thematic typographic shapes. This condensation of the original comments on its language and attitudes. The front covers were plugged with a 9mm pistol. Nos. One through Seven are housed in a louvered wooden box, with an additional photograph visible behind the louvers. Printed letterpress from handset metal type.
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