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Eric Frank Russell - Wasp
Bantam Books S5913, 1971
Cover Artist: Gene Szafran
"Wars must be won or lost –The Terran Agitator was the sting to cripple the invincibility of the Sirian Empire."
Inspired by the hot Ukrainian elections of the spring-summer 2019.
Nearby the Industar 61' minimal focusing distance, thus, a ruthless crop.
Mix of the yellow livery of Boral coming and going over the railway level crossing at the Cement Works.
(1 of 6) VOLVO FM13.
(2 of 6) 2013 MACK Metroliner
(3 of 6) MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
(4 of 6) PETERBILT 389(?) with quad axle dog trailer.
(5 of 6) IVECO Acco 2350G agitator.
(6 of 6) 2015 MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
Maldon, New South Wales, Australia
Morpeth Historical Village, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.
These devices were used in the days before washing machines and spin dryers - I can recall using one of these in the mid-1950s when I was 7 or 8 years old.
Clothes were washed in boiling water in a 20 - 30 gallon copper tub set over a wood fire, using a wooden pole as an agitator, with soap flakes as the washing detergent.
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Modern Art & Politics in Germany (1910-1945) exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum
Old Town Albuquerque
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Felixm%C3%BCller
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Despite the Republic of Kurdistan enjoying substantial international support from the West, the fledgling state's frontiers still remain contested by its neighbors, particularly Turkey. Indeed, many border communities feature substantial security risks as displaced persons and proxy agitators attempt to compromise Kurdish security wherever possible. For this reason, the Pashmerga and Kurdish gendarmes have had to create checkpoints and outposts for observation and policing purposes. This has disquieted some folks as a permanent armed presences heavily resembles the tyranny Kurdistan recently fought to overthrow. Nevertheless, despite the poor optics, the Kurdish state has gone ahead with what it thinks is the best solution to its security woes--e.g. a physical, martial presence in periphery communities meant to dissuade bad actors.
As a result of these conditions, the republic has employed some rather peculiar equipment. One such example is the Req (meaning tortoise; also referred to as the Chieftain Req in many Western reports). Utilizing retired Chieftain Mk.14 chassis deemed unfit for combat, the Kurds hired Israeli engineers to design a mobile watchtower/pillbox (thus the Req's resemblance to units like the Nagmachon). By replacing the Chieftain's turret with an armored cubicle, the engineers were able to create a locomotive panopticon. Indeed, much of the Req's success comes from security theater since the vehicle itself is unarmed and must remain immobile while the tower is vertically deployed. Nevertheless, having a 50-ton armored vehicle parked in one's neighborhood is often enough to deter one from expressing too much discontent or acting dubiously. Still, some disgruntled youth have taken to throwing Molotov cocktails at deployed Reqs, resulting in the mounting of caged armor on the observation box and ERA panels on the chassis just in case. Furthermore, the ubiquity of drones forced the Kurdish state to invest in jamming equipment derived from the United States Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS), hence the jumble of equipment atop the vehicle. More or less, the Req is something of a bastard child slowly crawling to meet twenty-first century security demands--just as the name suggests.
The chassis is naturally derived from Evan's Chieftain, as linked above. Go show it some love if you haven't already. The dozer blade design is courtesy of my homie Wayne; go check it out on his build!
Fabulous to see in 2022, this 2003 ERF ECS 8-wheeled concrete mixer is still earning for its operator- and has just recently been MOT'd for another years service!
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Bernie Shaw ~ Pool Deck Stage ~ Day 1 ~ 8:30 PM
About Uriah Heep Band
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uriah_Heep_members
~~~~ Below is their entire show! LOL - Enjoy! ~~~~
"Sunrise" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcsjCED_TM
"The Law" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7qTKVgBXk
"Lady In Black" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLqL3JtlTQQ
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"The Wizard" - Alhambra Theatre - Day 2- 7:30 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnHc8igrE8
*Easy Livin' (*biggest hit/*encore) - Alhambra Theatre
Day 2 - 7:30 PM www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m2YgAz9P2s
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*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea just east of the Florida Keys]
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
(four more photos 'from this cruise' in the comments)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
"Building work on the court house had not yet started when the famous Battle of Red Cliffs erupted in March 1939. Hundreds of itinerant workers had converged on the town for the picking season; all were hard up and some penniless and reduced to begging for food. Conditions were wretched and many slept without blankets among the vines, tormented by mosquitoes. Because of bad weather, the harvest wasn't ready and no work was available.
Tempers flared on the evening of 11 March when five hundred rioters ran amok. Police failed to subdue them with fire hoses and batons and it needed reinforcements from Mildura to fire warning shots before the crowd dispersed. On the following Wednesday eighteen defendants faced the Red Cliffs bench on 86 charges. There were so many spectators the venue was moved from the Methodist Hall to the Diggerland Theatre (the name reflects the town's origins as a soldier settlement) and the court sat without a break until 6 pm.
Inevitably, police blamed the riot on a small group of 'communist agitators'. The worst of them, they said, was Louise Edwards who had incited the men to violence with her strident cries. During the hearing she heckled police witnesses. Dubbed the 'Queen of the Red Cliffs Riot', Edwards could not or would not pay her twelve pound fine, and served eight weeks' gaol instead.
The pickers' grievances were mostly legitimate and conditions improved after the riot. A labour bureau was arranged, and block-holders were made to provide shelter and camping places for their workers. The next year, pickers passing through Ouyen on their way to Mildura were even allowed to draw ten shillings sustenance - provided they did 51 hours' work for the local council, then left town promptly!
Due to wartime austerity, Red Cliffs Court House opened without fanfare on 18 July 1940, despite the lack of furniture and a jungle of weeds at the entrance. A shallow, tiled roof covers the courtroom while parapets conceal the flat, iron roofs of the ancillary rooms. In rendered brick, the building presents a stark, blockhouse appearance, emphasised by the horizontal bands and the bars to the windows. After an abortive closure in 1973, the courts ceased officially in 1989. Red Cliffs Historical Society now occupies the building."
Historic Court Houses of Victoria, by Michael Challinger
A part stripped Leader A8 model, which was at one time a Readymix cement mixer, is seen on the scrap pile at a western NSW truck breaker in September 2018.
John Lilburne (1614 – 29 August 1657), also known as Freeborn John, was an English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. A libertarian, he coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every human being is born, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or human law. In his early life he was a Puritan, though towards the end of his life he became a Quaker. His works have been cited in opinions by the United States Supreme Court.
John Lilburne was a child of middle level, the exact date of whose birth is unknown; there is some dispute as to whether he was born in 1613 or 1614.He was probably born in Bishop Auckland[1] in County Durham, England where his uncle Richard Lilburne became one of the first members of Parliament to represent the County of Durham.[2] John's elder brother Robert Lilburne also later became active in the Parliamentary cause, but seems not to have shared John's Leveller beliefs. By his own account Lilburne received the first ten years' of his education in Newcastle, almost certainly at the Royal Free Grammar School.[2]
In the 1630s he was apprenticed to John Hewson who introduced him to the Puritan physician John Bastwick, an active pamphleteer against Episcopacy who was persecuted by Archbishop William Laud. Lilburne also campaigned against Tithes, a system where peasants paid the Church one tenth of their income, on the basis that they were a Jewish tradition abolished by the New Testament.
In 1638 at age 22, John Lilburne imported into England religious publications from Holland which were not licenced by The Stationers' Company (known after 1937 as the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers). At that time all printing presses were licenced as well as the publications that were produced on those presses.
John Lilburne was arrested upon information by an informer acting for The Stationers' Company and brought before the Court of Star Chamber. Instead of being charged with an offense he was asked how he pleaded. John Lilburne demanded to be presented in English with the charges brought against him (much of the written legal work of the time was in Law French). The Court refused Lilburne's request. The court then threw him in prison and again brought him back to court and demanded a plea. Again, Lilburne demanded to know the charges brought against him.
The authorities then resorted to flogging him with a three-thonged whip on his bare back, as he was dragged by his hands tied to the rear of an ox cart from Fleet Prison to the pillory at Westminster. He was then forced to stoop in the pillory where he still managed to campaign against his censors, while distributing more unlicenced literature to the crowds. He was then gagged. Finally he was thrown in prison. He was taken back to the court and again imprisoned.
This began the first in a long series of trials that lasted throughout his life for what John Lilburne called his "freeborn rights". As a result of these trials a growing number of supporters began to call him "Freeborn John" and they even struck a medal in his honour to that effect. It is this trial that has been cited by constitutional jurists and scholars in the United States of America as being one of the historical foundations of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It is also cited within the 1966 majority opinion of Miranda v. Arizona by the U.S. Supreme Court. On his release, he married to Elizabeth Dewell (a London merchant's daughter) in September 1641. Lilburne’s agitation continued, the same year he led a group of armed citizens against a group of Royalist officers, forcing them to retreat.
Lilburne was held in the Tower until March 1654, then transferred to Jersey and finally, in October 1655, he was brought to Dover Castle. On parole at Dover, Lilburne met Luke Howard, a Quaker whose serenity impressed him and began the process of his own conversion. In 1656, he was allowed to leave the castle during the daytime to visit his wife and children, who had settled in Dover. Later he was permitted to stay away from prison for several days at a time and took to visiting Quaker congregations in Kent. In the last of his 83 pamphlets, The Resurrection of John Lilburne, he declared that he had given up political activism and become a Quaker. In the summer of 1657, whilst visiting his wife, who was expecting their tenth child, he caught a fever and died at Eltham, Kent, on 29 August 1657, aged 42.
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
C L A S S I F I CATION
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product
and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
MAIN PROPULSION Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi:1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMP TION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3 srh 42 /
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 srh 42 / B RIDGE DESIGN: NAUT - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
[...] If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant [...]
-- Quote by Leon Trotsky (Russian Communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. 1879-1940)
Nikon D200, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8, 52mm - f/11 - 1/250s
Street Artist: OZMO
Subject on the wall: Antonio Gramsci
Rome, Italy (April, 2016)
n May and June 1831 the workers of Merthyr Tydfyl, Wales, rose up against the British Government in what would become known as the Merthyr Rising. It is believed that the red flag of revolution was flown as a symbol of workers' revolt for the first time during this event.
In 1829 the iron industry entered a depression that would last three years and as a result Merthyr Tydfil’s Ironmasters took action by making many workers redundant and cutting the wages of those in work. This was set against a background of rising prices and combined this forced many people into unsustainable debt. Consequently, creditors turned to the Court of Requests, which had been set up in 1809, to allow the bailiffs to seize the property of debtors.
In 1830 the Radicals of Merthyr, as part of the National movement for political reform, organised themselves into a Political Union and in November of that year held demonstrations to protest against the Truck System and the Corn Laws. By the end of 1830 the campaign had broadened to embrace the Reform of Parliament.
In March 1831 William Crawshay announced cuts in the wages of his workers and redundancies at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which would take effect in May. It was this, combined with similar situations in other ironworks, the hatred of the activities of the Court of Requests, and some stirring up by political agitators which lit the spark of rebellion. On May 30th 1831 at the Waun Common above Dowlais a mass meeting of over 2,000 workers was held and tensions were high.
On May 31st bailiffs from the Court of Requests attempted to seize goods from the home of Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) at Penderyn, near Merthyr. However, neighbours rallied behind Lewis and the bailiffs were prevented from entering his home. The Magistrate, John Bruce, was called and he arranged a compromise between Lewis and the bailiffs which allowed the latter to remove a trunk belonging to Lewis. The next day workers from Merthyr marched to the Ironworks of Richard Fothergill at Aberdare where they demanded bread & cheese and created a disturbance. At the same time, at Hirwaun, a crowd led by Lewis Lewis marched to the home of a shopkeeper who was now in possession of his trunk, took the trunk back by force, and prepared to march to Merthyr.
On the march to Merthyr the crowd went from house to house, seizing any goods which the Court of Requests had taken, and returning them to their original owners. By this time the crowd had been swollen by the addition of men from the Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun Ironworks. They marched to the area behind the Castle Inn where many of the tradespeople of the town lived and in particular the home of Thomas Lewis, a hated moneylender and forced him to sign a promise to return goods to a woman whose goods he had seized for debt. Bruce arrived at the scene and recognising what was the start of a revolt withdrew. He then quickly enrolled about 70 Special Constables, mainly from the tradespeople, to help keep the peace. He also advised the Military Authorities at Brecon that he might need troops.
On June 2nd an attempt was made to persuade the crowd to disperse and when this failed the Riot Act read read in English and Welsh. This was ignored by the crowed who drove the magistrate away and attacked the home of Thomas Lewis. That evening they assembled at the home of Joseph Coffin, President of the Court of Requests, seizing the books of the Court, which they burned in the street along with his furniture. On hearing of the attack Bruce called for troops to be deployed and so soldiers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were dispatched from Cardiff and a detachment of the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders were sent from Brecon. Meanwhile the crowd had marched to the various ironworks in the town and persuaded the workers to join them.
By the time the Highlanders had reached the Castle Inn where they were met by the High Sheriff of Glamorgan, the Merthyr Magistrates and Ironmasters and the Special Constables, a crowd of some 10,000 had gathered. The Riot Act was once more read and once more it was ignored. The crowd pressed towards the Inn with the soldiers drawn up outside. The workers demanded the suppression of the Court of Requests, higher wages, the reduction in the cost of items they used in their work and parliamentary reform; these were refused outright. They were told that if they did not disperse that the soldiers would be used. The result was to anger the crowd, which surged forward throwing stones and clubs at the soldiers. In the fight the soldiers outside the Inn were bludgeoned and stabbed, eventually provoking the soldiers stationed within to open fire, killing three of the rioters with their first shots. The fighting continued for a further 15 minutes before the crowd withdrew. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed. The authorities withdrew to Penydarren House while rioters sent word to the Monmouthshire ironworks in an attempt to obtain further support.
By June 4th more troops including the Eastern Glamorgan Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal Glamorgan Militia arrived in Merthyr. A troop of the Swansea Yeomanry Cavalry were ambushed on their arrival at Hirwaun, having apparently been greeted in a friendly manner. They were however quickly surrounded, their weapons seized and forced into a retreat back to Swansea, where they re-armed and joined the Fairwood Troop for the march back to Merthyr. A similar ambush was laid at Cefn Coed y Cymmer to stop ammunition being delivered from Brecon, forcing the Cardiff Troop of Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry into retreat. A troop of 100 Central Glamorgan Yeomanry was sent to assist but were unable to break through the mob. By now the rioters commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and dyed in blood. Those who had military experience had taken the lead in drilling the armed para-military formation, and created an effective central command and communication system.
On Sunday June 5th delegations were sent to the Monmouthshire Iron Towns to raise further support for the riots and on June 6th a crowd of around 12,000 or more marched along the heads of the valleys from Monmouthshire to meet the Merthyr Rioters at the Waun Common. The authorities decided that rather than wait for this mob to attack them they would take the initiative, and 110 Highlanders, 53 Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia and 300 Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry were despatched to stop the marchers at Cefn Coed. Faced by the levelled muskets of the army the crowd dispersed without bloodshed. The Rising was effectively over.
Panic spread through Merthyr and arms were hidden, the leaders fled and workers returned to their jobs. On the evening of June 6th the authorities raided houses and arrested 18 of the rebel leaders. Eventually Lewis Lewis was found hiding in a wood near Hirwaun and a large force of soldiers escorted him in irons to Cardiff Prison to await trial.
The trials began on 13 July 1831 at Cardiff Assizes. 28 men and women were tried. Most of those found guilty were eventually sentenced to transportation. Lewis Lewis and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) were charged with attempting to murder a soldier, Donald Black of the 93rd Highland Regiment, outside the Castle Inn on June 3rd, by stabbing him with a bayonet attached to a gun. The main evidence against the two Lewis' was from Black himself, James Abbott, a hairdresser and Special Constable and James Drew, also a hairdresser and Special Constable. On the evidence it was adjudged that Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was guilty but that Lewis Lewis was not (though he was already under sentence of death for the attack on Thomas Lewis' house). Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.
Joseph Tregelles Price, A quaker Ironmaster from Neath, took up the case of Dic Penderyn and Lewis Lewis and presented a petition to have them transported. Evidence was produced that Abbott had threatened Penderyn prior to June 3rd and people said that Penderyn was not there when Black was attacked and that they knew who had carried out the attack but it was not Dic Penderyn. Strangely Lord Melbourn, the Home Secretary, reprieved Lewis Lewis, who was certainly one of those most responsible for the riots, and transported him to Australia, but would not reprieve Penderyn, who seems to have been much less involved. Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was taken from his cell at Cardiff Prison on August 13th 1831 to the gallows at St.Mary Street, Cardiff and there he was executed protesting his innocence. He was 23. His body was transported across the Vale of Glamorgan to be buried at Margam.
In 1874 the Western Mail reported that a man named Ieuan Parker had confessed to a Minister on his death bed in Pennsylvania, USA that he was the man who attacked Donald Black. James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, later said that he had lied under oath, claiming that he had been instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.
In 2000 a legal case was started by Lewis's descendants to seek a pardon and in June 2015, Ann Clwyd MP presented a petition for a pardon in the House of Commons. However Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, responded that pardons were only granted where evidence has come to light which demonstrates conclusively that the convicted individual was innocent and that the relevant appeal mechanisms have been exhausted. In July 2016, Stephen Kinnock MP presented a 600-signature petition to the Ministry of Justice, calling for a pardon. The Ministry of Justice replied that 10,000 signatures were required to trigger a parliamentary debate, and referred to the answer given by the ministry in 2015. Kinnock said that the fight for a pardon would continue.
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
(Videos below - Alhambra Theatre - Day 4 - 3:00 PM - 2018)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGmjAtBLxUA (Magic Carpet Ride)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGDGXC6doQ (Born to Be Wild)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOW0RCzFLg (The Pusher)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVSsZIIlnY (Monster)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31SmzHr0P8 (Who Needs Ya)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fqsYbNAGIo(I'm Moving On)
About Steppenwolf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28band%29
*[Wolf Rockin' the Waves at Sea about 50 miles north of Cuba]
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
www.flickr.com/photos/genefreeman/51808907911/in/photostr...
АNNO 1971
...in personal approximation
and search of single quantum of freedom
to Exist, as personality of Individual, as being
me-Myself in all aspects as resonance
of binding positive emotions to be degraded
and trans-mutated from the norm
of being Human, and independent member of
Human race existed with out stated theorem,
or critical re-marks with out its collectively
dysfunctional chimera, object, model of named
sublimed such "persona incognito non-grata" -
I missed my train again, and run and run anew
through their vigilant totalitarian sharp eyes of the
control, dictating me and everyone including you,
in every fragmentary aspect that I can't,
and what I should, or must I do by their tyrannic
"Do!" command from Party far above, controlling ego,
brain, plus consciousness and Will in their armful
sweaty, hairy hands by digging, sorting and
Personality and Dreams, and reliability behavior
of Subject, by their model-built ability to smash
and kill, and such regime presents Commissars'
politically manifested force, its pointer, political
and total supervision and power to oppress,
to hold securely, suppress and to control
not only by the strength of my hands:
the most important to hold in iron vise the Will,
and brains, of mine and others, by bending
under their yoke, and breaking by a force
free moments and dynamics of free Will,
because:
"The Party is the Helmsman, and Honor
and Conscience" of all the People,
(which is the punch-line of Marxist manifesto!)
and to suppress me in their effort to be my-self,
by forcing by Decrees to think, to dance and
to express according "as bequeathed" by their
bloodies and greatest leaders at behest of
Karla-maxa, having shot a-mass, infected all
by Spanish-flu, and forcing mass to starve by
shortages of food, and mass-repressing entire
nation by iron-fist of "Red-Terror" under
convoy to underground mines and all Siberian taiga,
too-too! to deadly frozen Solovki, and Kolyma, and everywhere to omni-potent monstrous GULAG,
and each of bloody labor camps, exterminating life
as if at "Eastern Front", according to manifested
"quarantine" decrees, and totalitarian mandates
that deadly changed my Mother's life
and consciousness of her to Null-and-zero...
All those agitators, activists and party's leaders
being armed with Marxian indoctrination
against legality of Owners' capital to take away,
for which extortion I Per-se objected and gave up my citizenship by naivete for illusory Freedom to be my-self
in own volume of modest thoughts and Soul,
were running through the cinder Post-and-block, and
through rails and ways to history unfortunate in
its entirety to replicate "It-self", to move away from
history and set of lost ago in vanished Past initial,
abolished points been flowing from the basin "A" into arbitrary set of "B" inherent in stream off fluid where
eyes shaped these Water flocks, and rather
upon further fast attraction to alphabet
washed up me on the shores of flooded,
but still bucolic Vienna already prematurely
aborted and deserted without crowd and
without pillars in arms of euphoria of jubilation
and Yugends, Folks, and such enthusiastic
as it never happened before, almost emptiness,
approaching Spring has been already swept
away a remnant snow from so shiny pavements
with admiration raged, forgetting firmly ringing
echo of horseshoes and steps-chased by
lacquered boots from such unknown always
returning cycle "Again"...
And many trees by losing their leaves spelled
uttered silent whisper "I'm sorry ..." for those
years that have passed since sad resentment,
however, all fat muzzles were devoured, growing
as it should be, two hanging navels, almost like
ham in color of their shiny eyes, showcases,
and counters with "pillar-to-eat", deserted
streets without helpful taxis-cabs,
without marching nurses and rallies with poster:
"I want to live like my Dear-Soviet nurse!"
brainwashed by propaganda off,
O, you F...en-naive-Ladies! for my three
grosh-a-pennies, yes! for a salary at night
emergent over-loaded rooms by pain
were brought in shifts to Ob-Gyn floor at midnight
by "miscarriage-patients" full-filled all night by
unfortunate poor predominantly working-class
young Females from all the outskirts of One-million
city in my forgotten days - they brought all those from
exhaustive overwork, and losing lives of premature
life-less macerated fetuses, and endless repetition
of tragic losses was also communal Soviet way of
communistic Life, the only thing perhaps
"uniquely fair", and so roams pain raking
tribute to Marxist regime from Near Mills
"to-opposite" behind the fence and cemetery's
gates without an escort, along the graves
without "Peace" ...
But in that Vienna stood a market with
all essential for me The Books, on Lingos far
before my birthday lost-forgotten, and from
the Soviet period hunger ripples to this day
stands before my eyes,
but there was no penny to dive into the revelry
of the abundance of pages still unread...
Additionally, there is exists a first impression.
almost invisible as feeling, rather an epiphany,
from first firmness of independent steps,
even before of reading all the whiteness of
folios, and pages, and other things, as pledge
of my foundation upon the Snow-First of virgin
in the midst of fright! of course delight that
foot of mine steps upon so firmly on something
covered with thick and many! white! by childish
standards still subject to transmutation by
energies of Hope emitted
through thousands of days of expectation,
that fundamentally intrinsic a-la dim Dream
between initial and current, but still a Dream...
Yes, the sum of expectations still old and left
in similarity of sled about mountain from
those Past remaining since, as if in depths upon
Neuronal bundles and transmitters conducting
impulses to cortex Consciousness formation,
and within the Cortex and structures deep
between admitted that I am only a particle
of Your majestic Greatness,
and in the miserliness of this phenomenon
does not diminish belongings and flesh
and crumbs the course of thought
to realize my-Self just as elementary particle...
(Night-Shift-ER-Gyn-Obs, 1971 начато, 2022 доработано, неокончено)
Mix of the yellow livery of Boral coming and going over the railway level crossing at the Cement Works.
(1 of 6) VOLVO FM13.
(2 of 6) 2013 MACK Metroliner
(3 of 6) MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
(4 of 6) PETERBILT 389(?) with quad axle dog trailer.
(5 of 6) IVECO Acco 2350G agitator.
(6 of 6) 2015 MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
Maldon, New South Wales, Australia
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Southern Rock/Blues/Storyteller (75-years-young!)
Studio B Stage ~ Slide Guitar ~ Day 2 ~ 10:00 AM
~~~~~~~~ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member ~~~~~~~
*Elvin Bishop is an American blues and rock music singer,
guitarist, band leader and songwriter. An original member
of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, he was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of that group in
2015 and the Blues Hall of Fame in his own right in 2016.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Bishop
*[FYI: Ship-videos shot in 'very windy' sea-conditions!}
"Old School" www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_S5_p3Z18k
"Everybody's In The Same Boat" - Day 3 - 6:15 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJUevPctktc (Live)
*[On a personal note: I spoke to Mr. Bishop a few days later in the pizza-shop on the Promenade Deck. As a big Allman Brothers fan
I asked him what it was like the night of Fillmore East (1971), playing after The Brothers, and he said, "Well...we went on real late, about three in the morning...because the show was delayed with a (false) bomb-scare earlier in the night!" - Thank you, Sir. Did not know that.]
*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea just east of the Florida Keys]
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
(three more photos 'from this cruise' in the comments)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
This was painted on a flattened out and abandoned, rusty can that I found in Detroit's Eastern Market Yard (aka the dequindre cut) back in the day when writers still hungout down there and painted on a daily basis. The pea/agitator is ripping through the side at the top of my D. I colored it green.
Palestinian protester and agitator arrested by Miami Police for instigating fights at Israeli Palestinian protests by crossing to the Israeli side and throwing fists trying to hit people.
She was letter let go with a warning and an escort to the opposite side of the street back with the rest of the Palestinian protesters.
Facts
Purpose....... earlier the House of Political Education of the City Committee of the CPSU in Kamensk-Uralsky, nowadays the Social and Cultural Center.
Location........ Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia
Style..... Soviet Modernism
Year of putting into operation....... 1981
History
In 1978 in the Kamensk-Uralsky by the city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) the ideological organization of the House of Political Education (HPE) was founded. Its main activity was the political study of propagandists, political reformers, agitators for the city's enterprises.
The building for the HPE have being built almost ten years on funds of party fees and was the property of the CPSU. In July 1, 1981 the object was put into operation, and the party library moved first in it. It was an elite organization, closed to the public access. There were a lot of rare books in the library in a single copy.
After August 1991, in the city as in the whole country anarchy reigned for two months, the building was sealed. HPE as an ideological organization ceased to exist. The building was transferred to the department of culture, and it housed a new organization - the Social and Cultural Center, which exists to this day. Various city events, concerts, exhibitions, competitions, etc. are held here. The Great Hall is also a philharmonic hall where you can hear classical, jazz, popular and folk music.
About the model
The model is built on a scale of 1: 700. The building located on a natural elevation, so the cascade of stairs leads to the main entrance. A massive parallelepiped above the central entrance rests on columns, on the right and left glazed wings. The whole appearance of the building corresponds to the architectural style of the 70-80s. In order to adequately convey all the altitudinal differences in the model, a transition to half the height of the plate was used.
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Pat Travers (63) Band (kickin' off cruise w/ the 1st show)
Studio B Stage ~ Day 1 ~ 8:00 PM ~ just off US coast
About Pat Travers www.pattravers.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Travers
"Crash & Burn" - pool-deck stage - Day 2 - 10:00 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFvfJoF6kQ
*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea just east of the Florida Keys]
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
(three more photos 'from this cruise' in the comments)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
n May and June 1831 the workers of Merthyr Tydfyl, Wales, rose up against the British Government in what would become known as the Merthyr Rising. It is believed that the red flag of revolution was flown as a symbol of workers' revolt for the first time during this event.
In 1829 the iron industry entered a depression that would last three years and as a result Merthyr Tydfil’s Ironmasters took action by making many workers redundant and cutting the wages of those in work. This was set against a background of rising prices and combined this forced many people into unsustainable debt. Consequently, creditors turned to the Court of Requests, which had been set up in 1809, to allow the bailiffs to seize the property of debtors.
In 1830 the Radicals of Merthyr, as part of the National movement for political reform, organised themselves into a Political Union and in November of that year held demonstrations to protest against the Truck System and the Corn Laws. By the end of 1830 the campaign had broadened to embrace the Reform of Parliament.
In March 1831 William Crawshay announced cuts in the wages of his workers and redundancies at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which would take effect in May. It was this, combined with similar situations in other ironworks, the hatred of the activities of the Court of Requests, and some stirring up by political agitators which lit the spark of rebellion. On May 30th 1831 at the Waun Common above Dowlais a mass meeting of over 2,000 workers was held and tensions were high.
On May 31st bailiffs from the Court of Requests attempted to seize goods from the home of Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) at Penderyn, near Merthyr. However, neighbours rallied behind Lewis and the bailiffs were prevented from entering his home. The Magistrate, John Bruce, was called and he arranged a compromise between Lewis and the bailiffs which allowed the latter to remove a trunk belonging to Lewis. The next day workers from Merthyr marched to the Ironworks of Richard Fothergill at Aberdare where they demanded bread & cheese and created a disturbance. At the same time, at Hirwaun, a crowd led by Lewis Lewis marched to the home of a shopkeeper who was now in possession of his trunk, took the trunk back by force, and prepared to march to Merthyr.
On the march to Merthyr the crowd went from house to house, seizing any goods which the Court of Requests had taken, and returning them to their original owners. By this time the crowd had been swollen by the addition of men from the Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun Ironworks. They marched to the area behind the Castle Inn where many of the tradespeople of the town lived and in particular the home of Thomas Lewis, a hated moneylender and forced him to sign a promise to return goods to a woman whose goods he had seized for debt. Bruce arrived at the scene and recognising what was the start of a revolt withdrew. He then quickly enrolled about 70 Special Constables, mainly from the tradespeople, to help keep the peace. He also advised the Military Authorities at Brecon that he might need troops.
On June 2nd an attempt was made to persuade the crowd to disperse and when this failed the Riot Act read read in English and Welsh. This was ignored by the crowed who drove the magistrate away and attacked the home of Thomas Lewis. That evening they assembled at the home of Joseph Coffin, President of the Court of Requests, seizing the books of the Court, which they burned in the street along with his furniture. On hearing of the attack Bruce called for troops to be deployed and so soldiers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were dispatched from Cardiff and a detachment of the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders were sent from Brecon. Meanwhile the crowd had marched to the various ironworks in the town and persuaded the workers to join them.
By the time the Highlanders had reached the Castle Inn where they were met by the High Sheriff of Glamorgan, the Merthyr Magistrates and Ironmasters and the Special Constables, a crowd of some 10,000 had gathered. The Riot Act was once more read and once more it was ignored. The crowd pressed towards the Inn with the soldiers drawn up outside. The workers demanded the suppression of the Court of Requests, higher wages, the reduction in the cost of items they used in their work and parliamentary reform; these were refused outright. They were told that if they did not disperse that the soldiers would be used. The result was to anger the crowd, which surged forward throwing stones and clubs at the soldiers. In the fight the soldiers outside the Inn were bludgeoned and stabbed, eventually provoking the soldiers stationed within to open fire, killing three of the rioters with their first shots. The fighting continued for a further 15 minutes before the crowd withdrew. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed. The authorities withdrew to Penydarren House while rioters sent word to the Monmouthshire ironworks in an attempt to obtain further support.
By June 4th more troops including the Eastern Glamorgan Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal Glamorgan Militia arrived in Merthyr. A troop of the Swansea Yeomanry Cavalry were ambushed on their arrival at Hirwaun, having apparently been greeted in a friendly manner. They were however quickly surrounded, their weapons seized and forced into a retreat back to Swansea, where they re-armed and joined the Fairwood Troop for the march back to Merthyr. A similar ambush was laid at Cefn Coed y Cymmer to stop ammunition being delivered from Brecon, forcing the Cardiff Troop of Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry into retreat. A troop of 100 Central Glamorgan Yeomanry was sent to assist but were unable to break through the mob. By now the rioters commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and dyed in blood. Those who had military experience had taken the lead in drilling the armed para-military formation, and created an effective central command and communication system.
On Sunday June 5th delegations were sent to the Monmouthshire Iron Towns to raise further support for the riots and on June 6th a crowd of around 12,000 or more marched along the heads of the valleys from Monmouthshire to meet the Merthyr Rioters at the Waun Common. The authorities decided that rather than wait for this mob to attack them they would take the initiative, and 110 Highlanders, 53 Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia and 300 Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry were despatched to stop the marchers at Cefn Coed. Faced by the levelled muskets of the army the crowd dispersed without bloodshed. The Rising was effectively over.
Panic spread through Merthyr and arms were hidden, the leaders fled and workers returned to their jobs. On the evening of June 6th the authorities raided houses and arrested 18 of the rebel leaders. Eventually Lewis Lewis was found hiding in a wood near Hirwaun and a large force of soldiers escorted him in irons to Cardiff Prison to await trial.
The trials began on 13 July 1831 at Cardiff Assizes. 28 men and women were tried. Most of those found guilty were eventually sentenced to transportation. Lewis Lewis and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) were charged with attempting to murder a soldier, Donald Black of the 93rd Highland Regiment, outside the Castle Inn on June 3rd, by stabbing him with a bayonet attached to a gun. The main evidence against the two Lewis' was from Black himself, James Abbott, a hairdresser and Special Constable and James Drew, also a hairdresser and Special Constable. On the evidence it was adjudged that Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was guilty but that Lewis Lewis was not (though he was already under sentence of death for the attack on Thomas Lewis' house). Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.
Joseph Tregelles Price, A quaker Ironmaster from Neath, took up the case of Dic Penderyn and Lewis Lewis and presented a petition to have them transported. Evidence was produced that Abbott had threatened Penderyn prior to June 3rd and people said that Penderyn was not there when Black was attacked and that they knew who had carried out the attack but it was not Dic Penderyn. Strangely Lord Melbourn, the Home Secretary, reprieved Lewis Lewis, who was certainly one of those most responsible for the riots, and transported him to Australia, but would not reprieve Penderyn, who seems to have been much less involved. Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was taken from his cell at Cardiff Prison on August 13th 1831 to the gallows at St.Mary Street, Cardiff and there he was executed protesting his innocence. He was 23. His body was transported across the Vale of Glamorgan to be buried at Margam.
In 1874 the Western Mail reported that a man named Ieuan Parker had confessed to a Minister on his death bed in Pennsylvania, USA that he was the man who attacked Donald Black. James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, later said that he had lied under oath, claiming that he had been instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.
In 2000 a legal case was started by Lewis's descendants to seek a pardon and in June 2015, Ann Clwyd MP presented a petition for a pardon in the House of Commons. However Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, responded that pardons were only granted where evidence has come to light which demonstrates conclusively that the convicted individual was innocent and that the relevant appeal mechanisms have been exhausted. In July 2016, Stephen Kinnock MP presented a 600-signature petition to the Ministry of Justice, calling for a pardon. The Ministry of Justice replied that 10,000 signatures were required to trigger a parliamentary debate, and referred to the answer given by the ministry in 2015. Kinnock said that the fight for a pardon would continue.
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
About Blue Oyster Cult Band
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult
*[Just off Miami - Main pool-deck stage - Day 1 - 6:15 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-n2_HkJsUM (Buck's Boogie)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZg7LPCiUg (Fear The Reaper)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=htNNwd2olHM (Godzilla)
*[Photo-above - off Cuba - Studio B stage - Day 2 - 8:00 PM]
*[Just off Key West - Alhambra Theatre - Day 4 - 8:00 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTL-4sfWsZY (Golden Age of Leather)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AapiSpaZ4tA (Reaper w/ Eric Gales)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTYwdB2lhFM (Godzilla w/ guest lol)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ 38 Special ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
1. periwinkle standing, 2. a jar of goodies., 3. The key to my heart, 4. available, 5. white little raincloud, 6. rounds, 7. magnesy, 8. Detail 2, 9. Untitled, 10. rose bird feet 3, 11. Pete & Peter, 12. living, 13. Untitled, 14. Lavender sachets, 15. new mushroom, 16. Collection of seaweed on black felt., 17. tricotar a cores, 18. my favorite, 19. agitator bunny, 20. etsy wrapping
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
*[day five ~ off the Florida Keys ~ deck-stage ~ 12:15 PM]
About Molly Hatchet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Hatchet
rocklegendscruise.com/artists/molly-hatchet/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuleyEEgAtg (Molly Hatchet 1978)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
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*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ 38 Special ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*2017 Rock Legends Cruise V slide-show:
*2018 Rock Legends Cruise VI slide-show:
Nuhn Spreader....Agri-management. Saxon St,N.S. Canada.
Nuhn Industries Ltd. is the leading manufacturer of liquid manure spreaders,
liquid manure agitators, liquid manure pumps, manure hauling equipment and slurry tankers.http://www.nuhn.ca/
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
*[Cozumel, Mexico - Caribbean Blues - Day 3 - 11:00 AM]
(five more photos 'from this location' in the comments)
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A jagged coastline follows this flat Mexican island all the way
around. It appeared out of the ocean thousands of years ago.
With the shallow rock, agriculture is impossible, so therefore it
is conducive to only one thing; tourism ~ Cozumel, Mexico
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
Lasst uns endlich massenhaft #aufstehen! Lob und Kritik der Sammlungsbewegung namens "Aufstehen".
(von Florian Ernst Kirner, 8.9.2018, aus www.rubikon.news/artikel/lasst-uns-endlich-massenhaft-auf...)
Über Hunderttausend Menschen sind schon dabei. Was aber hat es mit der neuen Bewegung auf sich, die Simone Lange (SPD), Ludger Volmer (Grüne), Sahra Wagenknecht (LINKE) und der Theatermann Bernd Stegemann am 4. September in Berlin vorgestellt haben? Unser Autor war vor Ort und schildert seine Eindrücke.
Vorweg: ich, der Autor dieses Artikels, gehöre neben Nina Hagen, Julia Neigel, Eugen Drewermann, Albrecht Müller, Antje Vollmer und vielen anderen zu den Erstaufrufern von #aufstehen. Nehmen Sie, liebe Leserin und lieber Leser, diese Verortung bitte zur Kenntnis. Denn ich gedenke nicht, sie im Folgenden hinter einer Wolke angeblicher Neutralität verschwinden zu lassen.
Erwarten Sie, liebe Unterstützerin, lieber Unterstützer von #aufstehen, deshalb aber auch keinen kritiklosen Jubelartikel. Denn es gibt an einem alles in allem gelungenen Start dieser Sammlungsbewegung durchaus auch Kritisches anzumerken. Das werde ich in der gebotenen Deutlichkeit tun.
#aufstehen hätte gar nichts davon, wenn sich die Unterstützung der Sammlungsbewegung in Kritiklosigkeit und Jubelpersertum zu beweisen hätte. Diese Art von Kadavergehorsam hat schon ganze Weltreiche ins Abgrund gestürzt. Da wird sie einer jungen, noch kleinen Bewegung kaum gut tun.
Und wie sollten sich Menschen, die von unterschiedlichen oder auch: von keinen politischen Traditionen geprägt worden sind, sammeln und zusammenfinden zu einer Bewegung, wenn es keine Möglichkeit gäbe, diese Unterschiedlichkeit einzubringen und eben auch auszutragen?
Das große Geheimnis
Das allerdings ist eine wahre Pest in unserer Zeit: die grassierende Unfähigkeit, Konflikte zivilisiert, lösungsorientiert und mit der nötigen Relaxtheit auszutragen.
Wir sind alle miteinander Meinungstotalitaristen geworden. Jahrzehntelange Freundschaften werden aufgekündigt, Menschen erklären sich zu Feinden - weil man sich über sicherlich relevante Teilaspekte der aktuellen Politik uneins ist. Die Kommentarfunktion auf Facebook ist das Paradebeispiel für diese kollektive, kommunikative Erkrankung.
Es wird Zeit, den Kopf aus diesem Treibsand zu ziehen und sich einmal umzuschauen, abseits der medial vermittelten Scheinrealität. Dann erkennen und verraten wir uns vielleicht gegenseitig ein großes Geheimnis.
Dieses Geheimnis ist, dass wir uns in Wahrheit einig sind.
Etwa nicht? Es gibt geschätzt 2.973 konkrete Maßnahmen, die jeder Mensch mit einem funktionierenden Gehirn und zwei Augen im Kopf selbstverständlich unterstützt.
Oder kennen Sie irgendeinen Menschen in Ihrem persönlichen Umfeld, der den allgemeinen Plastikwahnsinn befürwortet? Ist Ihnen jemand untergekommen, der fordert, wir sollten dringend noch mehr Plastikmüll produzieren?
In 12 afrikanischen Ländern wurden Plastiktüten bereits verboten. Warum nicht hier? Weil das „der Markt von selber regelt“, wie uns die Neoliberalen seit vier Jahrzehnten ins Ohr säuseln? Der Markt regelt offensichtlich gar nichts, zumindest nicht im Sinne der Allgemeinheit. Also muss das geregelt und durchgesetzt werden - und die überragende Mehrheit wird es selbstverständlich gutheißen.
Oder zeigen Sie mir einen Normalsterblichen, der nicht unterstützen würde, dass Spekulationsgewinne besteuert werden, dass auch Großkonzerne endlich wieder Steuern abführen oder dass Menschen, die 40 Jahre gearbeitet haben, ihr Alter in Würde zubringen dürfen.
Es mag in der FDP oder in der AFD oder unter den Superreichen Leute geben, die diesbezügliche Maßnahmen ablehnen. In der Breite unserer Gesellschaft gibt es solche Leute schlicht und ergreifend: nicht. Alle Umfragen zeigen das. Jedes Gespräch zeigt das.
Ein Verbot von Waffenexporten - wer wäre dagegen?
Eine Politik des konsequenten Umweltschutzes - wer wäre nicht dafür?
Der große Konsens
Sollte es #aufstehen gelingen, um diesen breiten, gesellschaftlichen Konsens herum, eine in der Gesellschaft verankerte, aktivistische Bewegung zu sammeln, wäre ungeheuer viel gewonnen.
Deswegen soll dieser Konsens des ganz offensichtlich Sinnvollen die Basis der Sammlungsbewegung bilden. Über Details mag man sich derweil getrost weiter auseinandersetzen. Offene Fragen sollen und dürfen diskutiert werden. Theoriearbeit auf hohem Niveau braucht es selbstverständlich auch.
Der große Grundkonsens aber ist eine simple Zusammenfassung des offensichtlich Notwendigen.
Im Gründungsdokument von #aufstehen wurde dieser große Konsens im Wesentlichen ausformuliert. Noch prägnanter und an sich für den Alltagsgebrauch ausreichend liest man auf einem ersten Flugblatt von #aufstehen:
„Nach dem Aufwachen kommt das Aufstehen. Wir müssen aufstehen, um dieses Land zu verändern. Keine Politikerin, kein Politiker wird unsere Probleme lösen, wenn wir es nicht selbst tun.
Eine Mehrheit der Bevölkerung wünscht sich eine soziale Politik, eine gesunde Umwelt und Frieden. Aber die Interessen der Mehrheit haben keine Mehrheit im Bundestag. Trotz Wahlen.
Viele Menschen sind müde. Sie erwarten nichts mehr von Parteien. Und jene, die in Parteien für eine andere Politik kämpfen, sind zu wenige, um sich durchzusetzen. Daher brauchen wir Dich, wenn Du unsere Ziele teilst. Melde Dich an und mach mit: www.aufstehen.de/mitmachen"
Ist es aber möglich, die Gräben zu überwinden, die unsere Gesellschaft und die ganze Menschheit wie klaffende Wunden durchziehen?
Der Kampfbulle & ich
Gerade saß ich im Zug neben einem Bundespolizisten aus Bayern, der sich in seiner martialischen Uniform, mit Transponder, Funkgerät und restbewaffnet neben mich gesetzt hatte. Ich bin nun zwar ebenfalls aus Bayern, aber es gibt, so dachte ich, kaum jemanden, dessen Weltsicht weiter entfernt sein könnte von der meinen, als ein „bayerischer Kampfbulle“, wie ich Leute dieses Berufsstands und seiner Einheit routinemäßig zu bezeichnen pflege.
Es stellte sich heraus: wir sehen es ziemlich ähnlich. Und zwar: so ziemlich alles sehen wir ziemlich ähnlich. Siehe oben. Der große Konsens.
Sogar, was den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg angeht, sahen wir es ziemlich ähnlich, der gelernte Linksradikale und der Kampfbulle, beide aus Bayern. Ich finde es nämlich inzwischen auch nicht mehr so gut, wenn Polizisten - wie es ihm widerfahren ist - von Hausdächern aus Wackersteine auf den Kopf geworfen bekommen, Helm hin, Helm her. Er wiederum gab zu, dass einige seiner Kollegen komplett ausgerastet sind und sich gewaltig daneben benommen haben.
Alle beide fanden wir, dass es eine aberwitzige Entscheidung war, einen solchen Gipfel ausgerechnet in Hamburg stattfinden zu lassen, während wir die Sinnhaftigkeit solcher sündhaft teuren Veranstaltungen grundsätzlich infrage stellten.
Alles andere: Umweltschutz, Waffenexportverbot, Schluss mit den Ressourcenkriegen, faire Renten, Besteuerung der Finanzspekulation und so weiter und so fort … wir gingen in einem gut einstündigen Gespräch dies, das und noch mehr durch und waren uns Punkt für Punkt einig. Auch die AFD fand er extrem gefährlich.
Sicherlich hätte es nun auch Möglichkeiten gegeben, sich mit dem jungen Polizisten zu streiten. War es Opportunismus, dass ich nicht zielgerichtet auf die Suche nach Differenzen gegangen bin?
Opportunismus war es nicht. Wäre er zum Beispiel mit rassistischen Sprüchen gekommen - ich hätte, wie ich das immer und ausnahmslos tue, sofort dagegengehalten. Hätte er die Finanzspekulanten verteidigt oder den Afghanistankrieg, hätte ich Argumente aufgeboten, ihm diesen Blödsinn auszutreiben.
Aber dieser Mensch war kein Rassist und er war kein Vollidiot. Er war auch keiner, der es cool findet, wenn man Ertrinkende ersaufen lässt, anstatt sie zu retten. Er ist überhaupt dagegen, dass uns die Weltgesellschaft um die Ohren fliegt, weil sich eine winzige Elite die Taschen voll macht, während es der Masse der Menschen am Nötigsten fehlt und das Ökosystem kollabiert.
In Hannover musste ich schließlich #aufstehen und er ist sitzengeblieben. Wir hatten an diesem Tag dann eben doch verschiedene Fahrtziele. Im Großen und Ganzen sage ich: eine fortschrittliche Bewegung muss solche Leute für sich zu gewinnen versuchen - und das schreibe ich als jemand, der schreckliche Erfahrungen mit der Brutalität und Gewalt nicht nur der bayerischen Polizei gemacht hat.
Ich ärgere mich nur, dass ich nicht den Schritt gemacht habe, mit diesem hochsympathischen Kampfbullen über die Sammelbewegung zu sprechen. Dafür war ich wohl doch zu perplex über das Ausmaß unserer politischen Übereinstimmung.
Next time…
Der Auftakt im Internet
Bis zur offiziellen Gründung der Sammelbewegung hatten bereits 116.000 Menschen den Schritt, sich #aufstehen anzuschließen, gemacht, ohne von mir im Zug darauf angesprochen worden zu sein. Sie taten das im Internet, auf der Homepage der Sammlungsbewegung.
116.000 Leute, das ist eine enorm beeindruckende Zahl. Wie ist sie zu bewerten?
Einerseits darf man diese Zahl nicht überschätzen. Sahra Wagenknecht alleine hat bei Facebook 442.820 „Gefällt-mir’s“. Zudem sind diese 116.000 Namen natürlich nicht mit Parteimitgliedschaften zu vergleichen, die mit regelmäßigen Mitgliedsbeiträgen, der Zustimmung zu einem umfassenden Grundsatzprogramm und in der Regel auch mit der Kontaktaufnahme zu einer lokalen Parteistruktur verbunden sind.
aufstehen hat noch gar keine lokalen Strukturen und strebt nicht an, eine Partei zu werden. Zum Zeitpunkt der Gründung gab es noch kein definiertes Gründungsmanifest und das Selbstverständnis, welches dann am 4. September veröffentlicht worden ist, gilt ebenfalls nur als vorläufig.
Andererseits sind diese 116.000 Namen weitaus stärker zu bewerten als Likes auf Facebook oder ganz lose Sympathiebekundungen. Denn diese 116.000 Leute sind innerhalb von lediglich vier Wochen zusammengekommen. Sie sind von sich aus auf die Webseite www.aufstehen.de gegangen, sie haben dort nicht nur ihren Namen, sondern auch ihre Emailadresse hinterlassen, sie haben eine Email von #aufstehen erhalten und diese per Antwortmail bestätigt.
Sie haben sich damit sehr bewusst und selbständig für die Sammlungsbewegung erklärt, in einem medialen Umfeld, das alles andere als positiv gewesen ist.
Übrigens sind diese 116.000 um Doppel- und Mehrfachmeldungen bereinigt. Die Parteimitgliedschaften der Grünen und der LINKEN ergeben addiert 126.000 Menschen. Da wird man den Anfangserfolg von #aufstehen durchaus beachtlich finden dürfen.
Lob der Worker, Campaigner, Organizer
Aus dieser Flut der Spontanmeldungen echte, gesunde, arbeitende Strukturen zu generieren, ist nun die Herkulesaufgabe, mit der sich die Organizer von #aufstehen befasst sehen. Ich durfte am Gründungstag der Bewegung in Berlin einige dieser Organizer kennenlernen. Mein Eindruck war aus mehrerlei Gründen sehr positiv.
Einmal sind das kompetente Leute, die sich zweitens mit allem, was sie haben, in die gestellte Aufgabe werfen. Das immense Arbeitspensum, das sie bis zum Tag der Gründung bereits absolviert hatten, war ihnen des Abends deutlich anzumerken. Es sind diese Jungs und Mädels, die unter der Lawine der Anmeldungen ächzen. Von daher sind Verzögerungen bei der Bearbeitung der Emails und zwischenzeitliche Serverprobleme ein Preis des frühen, massenhaften Erfolgs.
Aber alles, was die Organizer organisieren hat, so mein Eindruck, Hand und Fuß und folgt einer stringenten methodischen Idee, die nach und nach verfeinert wird.
Genau solche Leute, die sich verbeissen in die gestellte Aufgabe, die nicht lockerlassen, die an auftretenden Problemen herumtüfteln bis sie eine Lösung haben, braucht es jetzt. Die ungestörte Arbeit und das Primat dieser Praktiker sollte von Anfang an abgesichert werden.
Man bewahre uns dagegen vor den Schwätzern, den Schwadroneuren, vor verhinderten Heilsbringern und Messiasanwärtern. #aufstehen wäre nicht die erste Bewegung, die in den Treibsand der Geschwätzigkeit gerät und dort zunächst ihre Dynamik und dann die besten, ehrlichsten Aktivsten verliert.
Die Glücksritter der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie werden ganz von selber angelaufen kommen und pausenlos ihren Platz an der Sonne einfordern. Dass Profilneurotiker aber das Material sind, aus dem eine neue, bessere, gesündere Menschheit wachsen kann, darf bezweifelt werden.
Was die Bewegung stattdessen braucht sind Worker, Campaigner, Organizer.
Netzwerker, Agitatoren und stille, rebellische Mäuschen
Das ist nun kein Plädoyer gegen den ehrbaren Beruf des Agitators, des Aufrührers, des local hero!
Wir brauchen gut verankerte Leute, die Tag für Tag am Netz der Rebellion weben, im Betrieb, in der Schule, an der Uni, im Tangokurs oder in der Kneipe, im Stadtteil, bei den Nachbarn, im Dorf. Das ist eine langwierige Arbeit, die Geduld, Genauigkeit, Schläue und absolute Integrität erfordert. Nur wer selbst glaub- und vertrauenswürdig ist, kann diese Vernetzungsarbeit erfolgreich leisten.
Wir brauchen auch die beherzten Draufgänger, die mit einem Megaphon bewaffnet auf einem Weinfest, in einer Fussgängerzone oder bei sonst einer unpassenden Gelegenheit auf- und Alarm schlagen, zur Sammlung rufen, für die Bewegung trommeln. Ohne die genial Verrückten, die Unverschämten und Kühnen wird nichts gehen.
Aber #aufstehen muss auch ein Ort sein für die Leisen, die Nachdenklichen, die Sorgsamen und für tiefschürfende, melancholische Grübler. Für alle, die verzweifeln an der Welt und dennoch nicht aufhören können, die Menschen zu lieben. Eine Sammlungsbewegung, die wirklich bewegt, muss schließlich bei allem Pragmatismus auch eine poetische Bewegung sein, eine Bewegung der Träume, der Leidenschaften und der Utopien.
aufstehen sollte eine sichere Heimstatt bieten für jene, die arg gebeutelt noch vorsichtig tastend nach Möglichkeiten suchen, wie sie sich selbst ermächtigen und einbringen können.
Es gilt Sorge zu tragen, dass gesunde, bei aller Offenheit arbeitsteilig funktionierende Strukturen wachsen können, in denen alle unterschiedlichen Charaktere zu ihrem Recht kommen, und nicht nur eine Sorte Mensch rücksichtslos durchzieht.
#aufstehen in der Bundespressekonferenz
Das sicherste Mittel gegen den Treibsand der Geschwätzigkeit und eine feindliche Übernahme durch Profilneurotiker ist die organisierte Aktion.
Bewegt sich die Bewegung, arbeitet sie und organisiert sich, kommen die Handlungsfähigen und Handlungswilligen nach oben. Eben jene, denen es wirklich um die Sache geht und die mehr einzubringen haben als ihren Geltungsdrang.
Steht die Bewegung allerdings nur gesammelt in der Gegend herum, wächst unvermeidlich das Gewicht all derer, die vor allem einen Debattierklub suchen, der ihre Welterneuerungsergüsse eine Zeitlang erträgt.
In diesem Sinne ist der Start der Bewegung am 4. September suboptimal verlaufen.
Die Vorstellung von #aufstehen in der Bundespressekonferenz jedoch verlief hervorragend. Simone Lange, die Flensburger SPD-Oberbürgermeisterin, die beim Bundesparteitag aus dem Stand gegen Andrea Nahles fast ein Drittel der Delegiertenstimmen geholt hatte, war dabei die Überraschung des Tages.
Sahra Wagenknecht war gewohnt brillant, aber, so hatte man den Eindruck, viel gelöster als sonst, wärmer, zugänglicher. Sichtlich tut ihr gut, dass sie in der Sammlungsbewegung zur Abwechslung einmal mit netten, loyalen, sympathisch verrückten Menschen zusammenarbeiten kann.
Nervtötend waren die Fragen der Journalisten. Ja, Herrgott, wir haben es jetzt doch alle begriffen, dass der Dreh darin besteht, die Sammlungsbewegung nach rechts zu schreiben oder als rassistisch zu verleumden.
Penetrant wurde in diese Richtung gefragt. Wieso #aufstehen denn nichts „zu Chemnitz“ gesagt habe? Die offensichtliche Antwort wäre gewesen: „Weil wir uns gerade erst in diesem Moment gegründet haben!“
Aber das Offensichtliche reicht den Hauptstadtjournalisten natürlich ebensowenig wie die völlig eindeutigen Statements von Sahra Wagenknecht.
Unbeirrt betrieben unsere geliebten Topjournalisten, etwa Hans-Ullrich Jörges oder Monika van Haaren, was sie für engagierten Journalismus halten: sie bohrten nach, wo es nichts zu bohren gibt, und zwar mit der Frage, ob denn jemand von #aufstehen in Chemnitz beim Demonstrieren gewesen sei?
Der brillante Konter von Simone Lange: selbstverständlich, einige Erstaufrufer und Unterstützer der Sammlungsbewegung seien in Chemnitz gewesen, sie selber habe aber leider keine Zeit gehabt. Sie habe nämlich gleichzeitig auf einer #Seebrücke-Demo in Flensburg gesprochen. BAMM!
Wie gut sich Simone Lange, Ludger Volmer, Sahra Wagnknecht und der Theatermann Bernd Stegemann bei dieser Bundespressekonferenz geschlagen haben, wie effektiv sie vermieden haben in die aufgestellten Fallen zu tappen, zeigte sich dann daran, dass die Hauptmedien entschieden, den Start der Bewegung lieber doch nicht als Titelmeldung niederzuschreiben. Man zog vor, das Ereignis an siebter oder achter Stelle oder gar nicht zu berichten…
Wann bewegt sich die Bewegung?
Sehr gelungen war auch der digitale Start der Bewegung. Das Video mit Charlie Chaplins Rede an die Menschheit aus seinem Film „Der große Diktator“ als Auftaktvideo zu bringen, ist eine exzellente Idee gewesen und die wurde auch sehr gut umgesetzt, wie bisher alles Videomaterial der Bewegung. Den Stier der vermeintlichen Sympathien von #aufstehen für rechtes Gedankengut gleich bei den Hörnern zu packen und zwar mit Chaplin als Hitler: das ist dreist, das ist unverschämt, das ist selbstbewusst, das ist … genau richtig!
(Leider ist das Video noch nicht auf YouTube zu finden...)
Allerdings hätte man sich doch gewünscht, dass die Sammlungsbewegung mit einem Aktionsaufruf startet. Dass sie am Tag ihrer Gründung eine erste Kampagne lostritt, eine erste Aktionsform vorstellt, wäre dem Anspruch einer Bewegung gemäßer gewesen, als ein auf Bundespressekonferenz, Interviews und eine rundum erneuerte Homepage beschränkter Start.
So war der Auftakt in aktionistischer Hinsicht deutlich defizitär. Das ist gefährlich. Die Menschen sind der Seiltänzereien müde, sie haben allzu oft erlebt, dass ihre Hoffnungen nur mobilisiert wurden, um enttäuscht zu werden.
Mit echten Aktionen und Kampagnen um die Ecke zu biegen, muss deshalb jetzt die dringlichste Aufgabe der noch blutjungen Bewegung sein, will sie nicht Gefahr laufen, die riesigen Erwartungen, die sie geweckt hat, ruckzuck zu enttäuschen.
Allerdings besteht hier Hoffnung und kein Anlass, sofort ins Nörgeln zu geraten. Der Kern derer, die #aufstehen bis dato organisieren, ist klein, die wirtschaftlichen Ressourcen sind noch gering. Was mit diesen Möglichkeiten bisher geleistet wurde, ist großartig. Dass es so bald wie möglich erste Aktionen geben muss, war allen, mit denen ich gesprochen habe, sonnenklar.
Viele der Aufstehenden der ersten Stunde jedoch haben mit dem Aufbau einer politischen Bewegung noch wenig Erfahrung. Das wäre nur dann ein Problem, wenn man sein Defizit nicht erkennt und behebt. Beides ist aber der Fall. Auch Oskar Lafontaine und Sahra Wagenknecht ist deutlich bewusst, dass sie nicht einfach ihren üblichen parteipolitischen Stiefel durchziehen können, dass sie Neues wagen und ausprobieren müssen. Eben dies ist ja der Sinn der ganzen Veranstaltung.
Der Wissenstransfer durch Organizer der Sanders- und Corbynkampagne läuft derweil kontinuierlich. Die bereits vorhandenen worker, organizer, campaigner sind gute Leute.
Ansonsten kommt der Appetit beim Essen und die Kampferfahrung beim Kämpfen.
Ökologie: wieder nur Lippenbekenntnisse?
Eine weitaus größere Gefahr liegt in dem sich in diesen Anfangstagen abzeichnenden Themenmix der Bewegung. Hier droht der sofortige Rückfall ins Übliche, und der Bereich Ökologie geriet quasi ansatzlos in Gefahr, einmal mehr und wie wir es seit ewigen Zeiten gewohnt sind, hinten runter zu fallen.
In der Pressekonferenz spielte die existenzielle Frage, wie der keineswegs „drohende“, sondern längst stattfindende Ökozid eingebremst werden soll, keine erkennbare Rolle. Ökologie schien auch wenig Bedeutung zu haben in der strategischen Konzeption. Es dominierte „das soziale Thema“, dessen Dringlichkeit ja nun niemand in Abrede stellt.
Auf Platz zwei folgte die Frage von Krieg und Frieden, auch das ist gut so. Die zerstrittene Friedensbewegung braucht dringend eine schnelle und nachhaltige Belebung durch die Sammlungsbewegung. Nebenbei bemerkt hätte dem Grünen Ludger Volmer ein öffentliches Wort der Selbstkritik gut zu Gesicht gestanden, als er bei der Bundespressekonferenz nach seiner Rolle als Regierungsgrüner im Kosovokrieg befragt wurde.
Aber der Zusammenbruch der Insektenwelt? Die Klimakatastrophe? Mikroplastik? Der Wahnsinn der Massentierhaltung? Der Kampf gegen die Verpestung der Biosphäre? Unsere völlig kranke, von allen guten Geistern verlassene Lebensweise? Der sofortige, unaufschiebbare Umbau unserer gesamten Gesellschaft entlang kategorischer ökologischer Notwendigkeiten? Die nötige Revolution im Transportsektor? Die sofortige Abschaltung der Kohlekraftwerke?
Die totale Herausforderung unserer Epoche kam so irgendwie am Rande sehr gelegentlich und recht allgemein ein wenig vor. Eine der Dringlichkeit und Tragweite der Bedrohung auch nur annähernd angemessene Rolle spielt die rasante Zerstörung der Lebensgrundlagen der menschlichen Spezies auf diesem Planeten bisher nicht.
Das ist einerseits kein Wunder. Von sehr wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen, haben weder Sozialdemokraten noch Parteilinke noch weiteste Teile der Linken als Tradition und Szene den ökologischen Imperativ unserer Zeit begriffen.
Andererseits ist es einfach nicht zu fassen, wie schwer sich auch #aufstehen schon wieder zu tun scheint, der Rettung unserer Spezies vor den Folgen des Ökodesasters gerecht zu werden.
Das geht so nicht weiter. Wir haben keine Zeit mehr. Und eine Sammelbewegung, die für höhere Löhne und Renten streitet, während die Kohlekraftwerke weiterlaufen, die Agrarwirtschaft Böden und Wasser vergiftet und der Petromobilismus und die Industriedinosaurier die letzten fossilen Ressourcen in die Atmosphäre blasen, braucht kein Mensch.
Sie wird auch keinen dauerhaften Erfolg haben, denn wenn wir das Ökodesaster nicht stoppen, werden niedrige Renten ein Problem sein, das die überwältigende Mehrheit der heutigen jungen Generation ohnehin nicht mehr erlebt.
#aufstehen in und für #aufstehen
Hält mich diese Beobachtung nun davon ab, mich bei und für #aufstehen zu engagieren? Bereue ich bereits, meinen Namen für die Sache hergegeben zu haben?
Ganz im Gegenteil! Ich bin begeistert und enthusiastisch und vom Erfolg der Sache überzeugt. Ja, diese Bewegung ist keine fertige Struktur aus dem Baukasten, zusammengefügt nach einer strikten Anleitung. Einiges ist schief und krumm. Manches noch nicht stimmig.
Das ist eben keine Bewegung, die am Reißbrett entworfen wurde und nun autoritär von oben nach unten durchgereicht wird, wie vielfach behauptet.
Dieses Unfertige, Experimentelle, das Vorwärtsstolpern und Vorwärtstasten dieser Sammlungsbewegung ist gerade die Möglichkeit, sich einzubringen und das nunmehr ins Leben kommende Wesen mitzuformen, mitzunähren, mitzugestalten.
116.000 haben bereits entschieden, das zu tun. Hunderttausende sind angefixt und gehen mit der Frage schwanger, ob #aufstehen eine Bewegung ist, die ihren Einsatz lohnt. Die Hoffnung von Millionen liegt derweil brach in der Gegend herum, gänzlich unerreicht von einer SPD unter Nahles und Scholz, von hemmungslos opportunistischen Grünen und einer heillos zerstrittenen Linkspartei.
Dafür, dass diese Millionen sich in Bewegung setzen für die Rettung unserer Spezies und des Planeten vor den Machenschaften einer restlos durchgeknallten Minderheit, gilt es #aufzustehen - für, mit und innerhalb der neuen Sammlungsbewegung.
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Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
*[Cozumel, Mexico - My Wife Laura - Day 3 - 11:00 AM]
*[Flickr Photo: #10,000 ~ in eight-and-a-half years!]
(one more photo 'from this location' in the comments)
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A jagged coastline follows this flat Mexican island all the way
around. It appeared out of the ocean thousands of years ago.
With the shallow rock, agriculture is impossible, so therefore it
is conducive to only one thing; tourism ~ Cozumel, Mexico
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
About Quiet Riot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Riot
*[Note: lead singer : 4th Place 'American Idol' seven yrs ago]
James Durbin intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJN-BRQhhc
*[w/Sammy Hagar - deck-stage - day two - 3:00 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCcHMI5n100 (Heavy Metal)
*[Off Cuba - Studio B stage - Day Two - 5:45 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRuh7tMEMw (Can't Get Enough)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiRn5d34YKI (Bang Your Head)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIY-uv5fNz8 (Let's Get Crazy)
*[At Cozumel, Mexico - deck-stage - day three - 1:45 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQqVZJd59w (Terrified)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Gn6hS2NJ0 (Run for Cover)
*[w/Sammy Hagar - deck stage - day four - 3:00 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPm8CVvtINU (Heavy Metal)
*[Show above-off Key Largo - Alhambra Theatre - Day 4 - 10:30 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMFmbndA4g (Weer All Crazee Now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrCNPOw7hLI (Thunderbird)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3w5YmwGuoY (Love's a Bitch)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCowomLWxYo (Sign of the Times)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSx4A1StqIs (Condition Critical)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ 38 Special ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges
Bruges (Dutch: Brugge; French: Bruges; German: Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 sq km; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee, meaning "Bruges by the Sea"). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of whom around 20,000 live in the city centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km2 (238 sq mi) and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North. Bruges has a significant economic importance, thanks to its port, and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities. Bruges is well known as the seat of the College of Europe, a university institute for European studies.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markt_(Bruges)
The Markt ("Market Square") of Bruges is located in the heart of the city and covers an area of about 1 hectare. Some historical highlights around the square include the 12th-century belfry and the West Flanders Provincial Court (originally the Waterhall, which in 1787 was demolished and replaced by a classicist building that from 1850 served as provincial court and after a fire in 1878 was rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style in 1887. In the center of the market stands the statue of Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck.
In 1995 the market was completely renovated. Parking in the square was removed and the area became mostly traffic-free, thus being more celebration friendly. The renovated market was reopened in 1996 with a concert by Helmut Lotti.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_de_Coninck
Pieter de Coninck (died 1332 or 1333) was a weaver from Bruges well known for his role in the events surrounding the Battle of the Golden Spurs. He was not the head of the weavers' guild as is popularly believed (mostly because he was portrayed as such in the novel The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience). Together with Jan Breydel, a butcher, he was in the forefront of the popular uprising that led to the Battle of the Golden Spurs. Right before that battle he was knighted together with two of his sons.
Before the Battle of the Golden Spurs began he was seen by the city government of Bruges as a dangerous agitator and was imprisoned in June 1301. He was freed by the people of Bruges. Afterwards, the Leliaarts, a political faction supporting French rule, took over control of the city. Jacques de Châtillon, the then appointed governor of County of Flanders, entered Bruges with a small force and de Coninck was banished.
Urged on by John I, Marquis of Namur, de Coninck restored his authority in Bruges in December 1301. He tried to align the people of Ghent on the same side but failed. On 1 May 1302 he was one of the leaders of a gang of rebels who took the castle of Sijsele and Male. At Male, the rebels killed the entire French garrison. De Châtillon responded by again marching on Bruges with a force of 800 men, and again expelling de Coninck from the city. De Châtillon marched into the city with his army fully clad and battle-ready (against established agreements with the city magistrates) The people of Bruges, fearing bloody preprisals, and in order to protect themselves helped de Coninck to enter the city with his followers during the night. On 18 May 1302, during the so-called Bruges Matins or "Brugse Metten", nearly all the French present in Bruges and their Leliaart supporters were killed. De Châtillon barely managed to escape.
After the Bruges Matins, de Coninck was one of the leaders of the Bruges militia that cleared the coastal area from Leliaart insurgents and French stragglers. After they failed to take the besieged castle of Cassel, they marched onto Kortrijk (Courtrai) where a Flemish makeshift army was gathering to stop a French army under the command of Robert II of Artois. This battle, won by a motley alliance of Flemish and Namur petty nobles and many commoners, was later famously called the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
In 1309, together with Jan Breydel and Jan Heem, he led a new uprising in Bruges, this time against the adverse effects (for Flanders) of the peace of Athis-sur-Orge (1305). In 1321 he again took part in an uprising in Bruges. As a punishment all his possessions were confiscated and sold.
Pieter de Coninck was married twice. He died in 1332 or 1333. Together with Jan Breydel he has a statue on the market of Bruges. It was put up in 1887.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Breydel
Jan Breydel (born in Bruges in the 13th century) is credited with leading the Bruges Matins (Brugse Metten), a violent uprising against Philip the Fair.
Breydel, who was by trade a butcher, led the Bruges Matins together with Pieter de Coninck, a weaver, in May 1302. About three weeks before, on 1 May that year, they had participated in an attack on the castle of Male and the complete annihilation of the French garrison there. The city archives of Bruges show that Jan Breydel was present from 8 July until 10 July 1302, in Kortrijk, as a supplier of meat for the troops. On the basis of this record, it is generally accepted that he had fought on 11 July 1302 in the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
In 1308, he helped to disengage Willem van Saeftinghe, who had fought on the same side at Kortrijk six years earlier, from the church of Lissewege where Willem had barricaded himself during an uprising.
In 1309, Breydel, together with Pieter de Coninck and Jan Heem, again led an uprising in Bruges, aimed against the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge (1305) forced upon Flanders by the French; he killed the substitute of the Count of Flanders the same year.
Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck have often been portrayed as patriotic heroes in Belgium because of their passion for Flemish identity. Belgian nationalists (like the historian Henri Pirenne) used to claim they and the actions of their militia prevented Belgium from becoming an integral part of France early on. Flemish nationalists credit them with ensuring the survival of the Dutch language in the northern part of Belgium. Jan Breydel himself always regretted that the retrieval of Flemish autonomy meant giving up the French-speaking but culturally Flemish town of Lille, which was later reconquered by the Burgundians, but lost for good as a result of Louis XIV's annexation wars. The statue Jan Breydel shares with Pieter de Coninck has decorated the Market Place in Bruges ever since 1887.
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
*[Note : Jason Bonham on drums - son of Led Zep drummer]
*[Note : Sammy Hagar was once the lead singer for Van Halen]
(Just Off Cuba - Main Pool-Deck Stage - Day Two - 3:00 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKEZcY4gmI (I Can't Drive 55)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcM2NJeRbjk (55 w/crowd shots)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vSn_aBIA8 (Sexy Little Thing)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCcHMI5n100 (Heavy Metal)
(Just Off Mexico - Day Three - Alhambra Theatre - 4:30 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhgGmqedAM (Sun Don't Shine)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukFdH02kFg (acoustic w/ family)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2emwKURXw (Father Time /acoustic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUaSuqGqwg (Behind Blue Eyes)
(Off Key West - Day Four - main pool-deck stage - 3:00 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmkDmR6HSvE (Right Now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRxh-pG6U0I (Best of Both Worlds)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPm8CVvtINU (Heavy Metal)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ 38 Special ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
n May and June 1831 the workers of Merthyr Tydfyl, Wales, rose up against the British Government in what would become known as the Merthyr Rising. It is believed that the red flag of revolution was flown as a symbol of workers' revolt for the first time during this event.
In 1829 the iron industry entered a depression that would last three years and as a result Merthyr Tydfil’s Ironmasters took action by making many workers redundant and cutting the wages of those in work. This was set against a background of rising prices and combined this forced many people into unsustainable debt. Consequently, creditors turned to the Court of Requests, which had been set up in 1809, to allow the bailiffs to seize the property of debtors.
In 1830 the Radicals of Merthyr, as part of the National movement for political reform, organised themselves into a Political Union and in November of that year held demonstrations to protest against the Truck System and the Corn Laws. By the end of 1830 the campaign had broadened to embrace the Reform of Parliament.
In March 1831 William Crawshay announced cuts in the wages of his workers and redundancies at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which would take effect in May. It was this, combined with similar situations in other ironworks, the hatred of the activities of the Court of Requests, and some stirring up by political agitators which lit the spark of rebellion. On May 30th 1831 at the Waun Common above Dowlais a mass meeting of over 2,000 workers was held and tensions were high.
On May 31st bailiffs from the Court of Requests attempted to seize goods from the home of Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) at Penderyn, near Merthyr. However, neighbours rallied behind Lewis and the bailiffs were prevented from entering his home. The Magistrate, John Bruce, was called and he arranged a compromise between Lewis and the bailiffs which allowed the latter to remove a trunk belonging to Lewis. The next day workers from Merthyr marched to the Ironworks of Richard Fothergill at Aberdare where they demanded bread & cheese and created a disturbance. At the same time, at Hirwaun, a crowd led by Lewis Lewis marched to the home of a shopkeeper who was now in possession of his trunk, took the trunk back by force, and prepared to march to Merthyr.
On the march to Merthyr the crowd went from house to house, seizing any goods which the Court of Requests had taken, and returning them to their original owners. By this time the crowd had been swollen by the addition of men from the Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun Ironworks. They marched to the area behind the Castle Inn where many of the tradespeople of the town lived and in particular the home of Thomas Lewis, a hated moneylender and forced him to sign a promise to return goods to a woman whose goods he had seized for debt. Bruce arrived at the scene and recognising what was the start of a revolt withdrew. He then quickly enrolled about 70 Special Constables, mainly from the tradespeople, to help keep the peace. He also advised the Military Authorities at Brecon that he might need troops.
On June 2nd an attempt was made to persuade the crowd to disperse and when this failed the Riot Act read read in English and Welsh. This was ignored by the crowed who drove the magistrate away and attacked the home of Thomas Lewis. That evening they assembled at the home of Joseph Coffin, President of the Court of Requests, seizing the books of the Court, which they burned in the street along with his furniture. On hearing of the attack Bruce called for troops to be deployed and so soldiers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were dispatched from Cardiff and a detachment of the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders were sent from Brecon. Meanwhile the crowd had marched to the various ironworks in the town and persuaded the workers to join them.
By the time the Highlanders had reached the Castle Inn where they were met by the High Sheriff of Glamorgan, the Merthyr Magistrates and Ironmasters and the Special Constables, a crowd of some 10,000 had gathered. The Riot Act was once more read and once more it was ignored. The crowd pressed towards the Inn with the soldiers drawn up outside. The workers demanded the suppression of the Court of Requests, higher wages, the reduction in the cost of items they used in their work and parliamentary reform; these were refused outright. They were told that if they did not disperse that the soldiers would be used. The result was to anger the crowd, which surged forward throwing stones and clubs at the soldiers. In the fight the soldiers outside the Inn were bludgeoned and stabbed, eventually provoking the soldiers stationed within to open fire, killing three of the rioters with their first shots. The fighting continued for a further 15 minutes before the crowd withdrew. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed. The authorities withdrew to Penydarren House while rioters sent word to the Monmouthshire ironworks in an attempt to obtain further support.
By June 4th more troops including the Eastern Glamorgan Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal Glamorgan Militia arrived in Merthyr. A troop of the Swansea Yeomanry Cavalry were ambushed on their arrival at Hirwaun, having apparently been greeted in a friendly manner. They were however quickly surrounded, their weapons seized and forced into a retreat back to Swansea, where they re-armed and joined the Fairwood Troop for the march back to Merthyr. A similar ambush was laid at Cefn Coed y Cymmer to stop ammunition being delivered from Brecon, forcing the Cardiff Troop of Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry into retreat. A troop of 100 Central Glamorgan Yeomanry was sent to assist but were unable to break through the mob. By now the rioters commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and dyed in blood. Those who had military experience had taken the lead in drilling the armed para-military formation, and created an effective central command and communication system.
On Sunday June 5th delegations were sent to the Monmouthshire Iron Towns to raise further support for the riots and on June 6th a crowd of around 12,000 or more marched along the heads of the valleys from Monmouthshire to meet the Merthyr Rioters at the Waun Common. The authorities decided that rather than wait for this mob to attack them they would take the initiative, and 110 Highlanders, 53 Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia and 300 Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry were despatched to stop the marchers at Cefn Coed. Faced by the levelled muskets of the army the crowd dispersed without bloodshed. The Rising was effectively over.
Panic spread through Merthyr and arms were hidden, the leaders fled and workers returned to their jobs. On the evening of June 6th the authorities raided houses and arrested 18 of the rebel leaders. Eventually Lewis Lewis was found hiding in a wood near Hirwaun and a large force of soldiers escorted him in irons to Cardiff Prison to await trial.
The trials began on 13 July 1831 at Cardiff Assizes. 28 men and women were tried. Most of those found guilty were eventually sentenced to transportation. Lewis Lewis and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) were charged with attempting to murder a soldier, Donald Black of the 93rd Highland Regiment, outside the Castle Inn on June 3rd, by stabbing him with a bayonet attached to a gun. The main evidence against the two Lewis' was from Black himself, James Abbott, a hairdresser and Special Constable and James Drew, also a hairdresser and Special Constable. On the evidence it was adjudged that Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was guilty but that Lewis Lewis was not (though he was already under sentence of death for the attack on Thomas Lewis' house). Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.
Joseph Tregelles Price, A quaker Ironmaster from Neath, took up the case of Dic Penderyn and Lewis Lewis and presented a petition to have them transported. Evidence was produced that Abbott had threatened Penderyn prior to June 3rd and people said that Penderyn was not there when Black was attacked and that they knew who had carried out the attack but it was not Dic Penderyn. Strangely Lord Melbourn, the Home Secretary, reprieved Lewis Lewis, who was certainly one of those most responsible for the riots, and transported him to Australia, but would not reprieve Penderyn, who seems to have been much less involved. Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was taken from his cell at Cardiff Prison on August 13th 1831 to the gallows at St.Mary Street, Cardiff and there he was executed protesting his innocence. He was 23. His body was transported across the Vale of Glamorgan to be buried at Margam.
In 1874 the Western Mail reported that a man named Ieuan Parker had confessed to a Minister on his death bed in Pennsylvania, USA that he was the man who attacked Donald Black. James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, later said that he had lied under oath, claiming that he had been instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.
In 2000 a legal case was started by Lewis's descendants to seek a pardon and in June 2015, Ann Clwyd MP presented a petition for a pardon in the House of Commons. However Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, responded that pardons were only granted where evidence has come to light which demonstrates conclusively that the convicted individual was innocent and that the relevant appeal mechanisms have been exhausted. In July 2016, Stephen Kinnock MP presented a 600-signature petition to the Ministry of Justice, calling for a pardon. The Ministry of Justice replied that 10,000 signatures were required to trigger a parliamentary debate, and referred to the answer given by the ministry in 2015. Kinnock said that the fight for a pardon would continue.
MV “SOLVIK SUPPLIER”
SHIP DESIGN PSV VS 485 CD
CLASSIFICATION DNV
BUILDER SEVERNAYA YARD ST PETERSBURG, HULL NO 696
PORT OF REGISTRY NASSAU
FLAG BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 070 200
IMO NUMBER 95 89 607
DELIVERY NOVEMBER 2011
CALL SIGN C6ZW5
MACHINERY AND PROPELLER PLANTS
Main Engines/Generators : 4 x 1825 kw CAT 3516B-DSG
Emergency Generator: 1 x 200 kw Volvo Penta D9A
Main Propulsion: 2 x 2300 kw SteerProp SP 35 CRP
FWD Azimuth: 1 x 880 kw Brunvoll CPP
FWD Tunnel Thrusters: 2 x 1000 kw Brunvoll CPP
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck Cargo: 2 800 Tons
Deck Area: 1000 m2 wood covered deck
Deck Strength: 10 Tons/m2
Fuel Oil: 903 m3, Flowmeter with Printer
Fuel Transfer Capasity: 2 x 150 m3/hour
Liquid Mud (SG 2.8): 703 m3, 4 x 100 m3/hour
Agitators: Fitted in each tank
Brine (SG 2.5): 418 m3, 2x 150 m3/hour
Base Oil: 203 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour
Pot Water: 1007 m3, 1 x 150 m3/hour
Drill Water/Ballast: 2470 m3, 2 x 150 m3/hour
Methanol: 145 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour
Special Products: 146 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour
Slop: 186 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour
ORO: 1803 m3, 8 x 100 m3/hour
Cement/Barite/Bentonit: 440 m3, 2 x 30 m3/hour
Dispersant: 34 m3
Lubrication oil: 35 m3
ENVIRONMENT AND CARGO CONTROL PLANTS
Icinerator: Saniterm SH 20 SM/SR
Steam Generator: Parat Halvorsen AS 1600 kw
Hot Liquid Cargo Tank: 1 x 146 m3
Tank Cleaning: Per Gjerdrum AS
Special Cargo Tanks: Stainless Steel Tanks for Methanol
Inert Gas System: N2 Generator, Membrane Separation
Cargo Manifolds: Amidships and Aft each side
inside “Safe haven”
NAVIGATION
Bridge Consoles: Aft, Fwd and both Wings
Operation Control Office: Located on Bridge
Autopilot: Furuno AP 50
DP System: Kongsberg K Pos DP 2
Joystick System: Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 2
DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 5
Fanbeam: Kongsberg Lazer Mk 4,2
DGPS: 2 x Kongsberg Seatex
Wind Sensor: 2 x Kongsberg Maritime
Radar 1: Furuno FAR 2137 S
Radar 2: Furuno FCR 2827 Chart Radar
Echo Sounder: Furuno FE 700
Gyro: 3 x Simrad GC 80
Speed Repeater: Skipper IR 300
VDR: Furuno VR 3000
Bridge Watch: VICO system NAUT/OSV
ECDIS: Tecdis T 2138
Speed log: Furuno DS 80
SPEED AND FUEL CONSUMPTION
Full speed: 15.0 knots 28.0 m3/24 hours
Service speed: 12.5 knots 17.0 m3/24 hours
Economic speed: 11.0 knots 12.0 m3/24 hours
DP operation: 5.6 m3/24 hours at position keeping
Harbor mode: 1.4 m3/24 hours
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT
1 x TTS Marine GPK knuckle crane, SWL 3 tons/13 meter
1 x TTS Marine GPT telescopic jib, SWL 3 tons/13 meter
2 x Capstans aft, NDM SWL 8 tons
6 x Cargo Securing Winches, NDM SWL 3 tons
1 x Tugger Winch, NDM TU SWL 15 tons
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Ship Certificate: 23 persons
Life Rafts: 4 x 25 persons Unitor
MOB: 1 x NOREQ RRB 500
MOB Davit: 1 x HLT 3500 TTS
Survival Suits: 23 SOLAS Immersion Suits
COMMUNICATION
Navtex: Furuno NX-700 B
Radar Transponder: 2 x Jotron Tron SART
DSC Terminal: Furuno FS 2570 C
AIS: Furuno FA 150
EPIRB manual: Jotron 45 SX
EPIRB Free Float: Jotron Tron 40 S Mk II
Radio Station: SSB, MF, HF, Furuno FS 1570
VHF Portable: 3 x Jotron Tron TR 20 GMDSS
VHF Station: Furuno FM 8800 S
UHF Portable: 5 x Motorola GP 340
Inmarsat C: Furuno Felcom 15
Intercom: Zenitel ACM 144 66/VO
Sound System: Vingtor VSS 111
Emergency: Vingtor VSP 211 L
PA System: Zenitel VPA 120, 240 and 400
Satelitt Communication: TBA
Mobile Phone: TBA
Vessel E-mail: captain@vestlandoffshore.no
ACCOMMODATION
Outfitted for 23 persons in spacious and comfortable facilities
Single Cabins: 15 with bathrooms
Double Cabins: 4 with bathrooms
Hospital: 1 Highest standard
Office: 1 fully outfitted
Day Room: 2 comfortable outfitted
Gymnasium: 1 fully outfitted
Entertainment: In Day Rooms and all Cabins
Antiroll Tank: 1 x 440 m3 + 1 x 160
Kann man Ironie blasen? Klassenkampf singen? Die Bolschewistische Kurkapelle kann das!
Die Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot -hier auf einer Demonstration und Kundgebung zum „Internationalen Kampf- und Feiertag der Arbeitslosen“ am 2. Mai im Prenzlauer Berg vor dem Baiz- ist eine Blaskapellengruppe aus Trompete, Bariton, Horn, Saxophon, Klarinette, Posaune und Tuba aus Berlin, die sich 1986 als soziales, musikalisches Experiment und als Nachfolger der Liedtheatergruppe Karls Enkel in Ost-Berlin gründete, mit dem Anspruch, Arbeiterlieder jenseits der DDR-Propaganda wieder hörbar zu machen. Beeinflusst wurde die Band durch die Ideen von Erwin Piscator.
In unterschiedlicher Besetzung, aber immer mit einer deutlichen Dominanz der Blechbläser, hat sie vor allem Arbeiterlieder im Repertoire, die sie neu interpretiert. Frönte man anfangs agitatorischen Liedern des Ostens – die Hymne der Sowjetunion, „Soldaty v put“ (Солдаты в путь), das Weltjugendlied samt Junge-Pioniere-Heimat-Kampf-Potpourris, so ging man später dazu über, westliche Protestformen in der Musik auszuloten und blies mit Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Laibach und den Einstürzenden Neubauten zur Attacke.
Grundsätzlich stehe der „programmatisch-politische Anspruch“ im Vordergrund, die Band möchte sich nicht auf ein reines Spaßprogramm beschränken lassen.
Ein Querschnitt durch die Ostberliner Bohème hatte sich einst in der Kapelle versammelt, eine Abordnung derer, die anders waren, unangepasst, subversiv und vielleicht sogar ein wenig widerständig. Sie spielten für die FDJ und für Hausbesetzer, in Kirchen, Umweltbibliotheken, Galerien, Jugendklubs, auf Straßenfesten und überall, wo man sie ließ. Sie spielten nicht nur Eisler und Brecht, nicht nur Arbeiterlieder und Agit-Prop, sondern auch Popsongs oder Folklore, Walzer und Marsch, altes und neues.
Die Bolschewistische Kurkapelle teilte sich im Sommer 2010 in zwei Sektionen. Eine firmiert weiterhin als Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot, die andere Sektion tritt seit 2012 unter dem Namen „Sogenannte Anarchistische Musikwirtschaft“ auf.
hinzugezogene Quellen:
Wikipedia: Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolschewistische_Kurkapelle_schwarz...
taz: Sie spielten überall, wo man sie ließ taz.de/!5356114/
Buschfunk: Die Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot verlag.buschfunk.com/kuenstler/die-bolschewistische-kurka...
Webpräsenz der Band Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot www.bolschewistischekurkapelle.org
Berliner Zeitung: Interview 25 Jahre durchgetrötet www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/interview-25-ja...
Spiegel Online: Revolutionärer Hupfauf www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/bolschewistische-kurkapelle-r...
Arte: Bolschewistische Kurkapelle www.arte.tv/de/suche/2395444.html (archive.is/20120721165503/http://www.arte.tv/de/suche/239...)
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Stand: Mai 2015
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ 2/15-19/18
Paul Rodgers (68) - second from right
Alhambra Theatre ~ Day One ~ 9:30 PM
*{FYI: Ship-Videos shot in 'extremely-windy' conditions!]
"Rock Steady" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvBXljViGc
"Honey Child" www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwbt8jc1xg
"Gone, Gone, Gone" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQzPwqGF68c
"Can't Get Enough" www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7XlY4F5_zg
"Feel Like Makin' Love" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFwRHYSXc4U
"Born Under A Bad Sign"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyoAxHG8gT4
"Seagull" - encore - Bad Company w/ Jason Bonham
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFWxzH0O9vs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNegUIeg_I
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rodgers
*[FYI: British born Paul Rodgers is now a Canadian Citizen]
www.paulrodgers.com/show/bad-company-rock-legends-cruise-vi/
*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea about 90 miles north of Cuba]
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
(2 more photos of 'Bad Company' on this cruise in the comments)
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
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Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Boston
Estes and Lauriat
Seen at the antique mall in Klipsan Beach, Washington
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,[1] British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.[2] His father was a grandson of Thomas Thackeray (1693–1760), headmaster of Harrow School.[3]
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.
Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse,[4] and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse".
Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed]
Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.[5]
Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up.
On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.[citation needed]
Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816–1894), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837–1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840–1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher.
Thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times.[6] He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".[7] Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854.[8]
Tragedy struck in Thackeray's personal life as his wife, Isabella, succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child, in 1840. Finding that he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away until September 1840, when he realised how grave his wife's condition was.
Struck by guilt, he set out with his wife to Ireland. During the crossing she threw herself from a water-closet into the sea, but she was pulled from the waters. They fled back home after a four-week battle with her mother. From November 1840 to February 1842 Isabella was in and out of professional care, as her condition waxed and waned.[3]
She eventually deteriorated into a permanent state of detachment from reality. Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up in two different asylums in or near Paris until 1845, after which Thackeray took her back to England, where he installed her with a Mrs Bakewell at Camberwell.
Isabella outlived her husband by 30 years, in the end being cared for by a family named Thompson in Leigh-on-Sea at Southend until her death in 1894.[9] After his wife's illness Thackeray became a de facto widower, never establishing another permanent relationship. He did pursue other women, however, in particular Mrs Jane Brookfield and Sally Baxter. In 1851 Mr Brookfield barred Thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with Jane. Baxter, an American twenty years Thackeray's junior whom he met during a lecture tour in New York City in 1852, married another man in 1855.[citation needed]
In the early 1840s Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book, the latter marked by its hostility towards Irish Catholics. However, as the book appealed to anti-Irish sentiment in Britain at the time,
Thackeray was given the job of being Punch's Irish expert, often under the pseudonym Hibernis Hibernior ("more Irish than the Irish").[8] Thackeray became responsible for creating Punch's notoriously hostile and negative depictions of the Irish during the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1851.[8]
Thackeray achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers (serialised 1846/7, published in book form in 1848), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Charles Dickens.[10]
Portrait of Thackeray in his study, c.1860
He remained "at the top of the tree", as he put it, for the rest of his life, during which he produced several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near-fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis. He twice visited the United States on lecture tours during this period. Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. The latter series was published in book form as The Four Georges.[3]
In July 1857 Thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for the city of Oxford in Parliament.[3] Although not the most fiery agitator, Thackeray was always a decided liberal in his politics, and he promised to vote for the ballot in extension of the suffrage, and was ready to accept triennial parliaments.[3] He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell, who received 1,070 votes, as against 1,005 for Thackeray.[3]
In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine,[11] but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "Roundabout Papers".[citation needed]
Thackeray's health worsened during the 1850s and he was plagued by a recurring stricture of the urethra that laid him up for days at a time. He also felt that he had lost much of his creative impetus.
He worsened matters by excessive eating and drinking, and avoiding exercise, though he enjoyed riding (he kept a horse).
He has been described as "the greatest literary glutton who ever lived". His main activity apart from writing was "gutting and gorging".[12] He could not break his addiction to spicy peppers, further ruining his digestion.
A granite, horizontal gravestone fenced by metal railings, among other graves in a cemetery
Thackeray's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, photographed in 2014
On 23 December 1863, after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, he suffered a stroke. He was found dead in his bed the following morning.
His death at the age of fifty-two was entirely unexpected, and shocked his family, his friends and the reading public. An estimated 7,000 people attended his funeral at Kensington Gardens. He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.[3]
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Klipsan Beach, Washington.