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poets please maintain 3 minutes silence for the dead departed rotten soul of our evil brother
poet braywell
He was crossing the Coolangatta road
Towards Banora Point and Kingscliff node
This deformed pompous Australian
Bullfrog toad
A garbage dumper had he slowed
The best of poet Braywell
Would have not been mowed
With a huge sound he did explode
Now slaking his thirst at Satans Abode
Analogue anomaly manual mode
This man carrying his sins
Pederasty an excessively heavy load
On life’s beleaguered crossroads
Now the best of his limericks
No downloads
His rotten soul the system
Did finally upload
He up there breaking
The Da Vinci code
Desposyni the heritage
Of Mary Magdalene Jesus Christ
on the rulers of France bestowed
Hubcap Shithead pays him tribute
With this Ode
Rest in Peace of Shit
1/22/2013 - Staff Sgt. Spencer Merritt, of the 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Blue, gives the thumbs up to begin lifting the AIM-120 during the 2012 Loadcrew of the Year competition Jan. 18 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The best of the best maintainers from AMU Red and Blue battled for the title of this yearly competition. The Blue Team was timed and judged for accuracy of their weapons load of an F-16, while the Red Team was evaluated on an F-15. Although the Blue Team finished first, the competition is still being judged. The winners will be announced at the 96th Maintenance Group annual awards banquet in March. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
REEL TRICKYONE (t3) maintains his fine recent form in heat 4 of the Coronation Cup, seeing off fast finishing Sidarian Jaguar (t5) and Jaytee Jules (t2) in 35.67.
Romford 3rd January 2014.
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Maintained by the National Park Service, Kingsley Plantation on Fort George Island is home to Florida’s oldest surviving plantation house. The plantation house was built in 1798, and is surrounded by other later buildings, including 23 remaining cabins for the enslaved. As with most plantations in the 18th century, the house faces the Fort George river, rather than the rest of the plantation, because transportation by ship or boat was the easiest way to get crops to market or to bring in supplies.
The story of Kingsley Plantation dates back to the Kingdom of Great Britain’s 18th-century occupation of Florida. One of several plantations established in the region during this period, the island was ceded to Richard Hazard in 1765 for cultivating indigo. After Great Britain transferred Florida back to Spain in 1783, the Spanish government granted the island to South Carolinian John “Lighting” McQueen. McQueen developed a plantation with 300 enslaved Africans in 1793 but soon found himself in bankruptcy, turning the property over to Georgia’s John McIntosh in 1804. To escape punishment from the Spanish for leading an unsuccessful rebellion to annex Florida into the United States, McIntosh fled back to Georgia, leasing the property to Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. in 1814; Kingsley then acquired it in 1817.
Born in England in 1765, Kingsley was raised in Charleston and grew up to become a successful shipping merchant and slave trader. Considered “one of Florida’s most flamboyant slaveholders”, Kingsley purchased and married Anna Madgigine Jai, a Wolof girl from present day Senegal in 1806. He eventually grew to depend on Anna to run his plantations in his absence. After taking over McIntosh’s land at Fort George Island, they managed 60 enslaved under a task system to produce indigo, sea island cotton, okra, oranges and other vegetables at the 1,000 acre property. Sold after Kingsley’s death, the Kingsley Plantation was briefly controlled by the Freedmen’s Bureau and was under private ownership until being acquired by the State of Florida in 1955. With many of its structures still surviving on the isolated sea island, the property was acquired by the National Park Service, becoming a part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in 1991.
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o can y a ras an us an~;~u~le~er made any comment about holding a referendum on the deployment of the paramilitary in the_'Nax~l-hif states. The::;trlcl adt1tmmce or U1e AAP to the ·national security paradigm· suosumes a stmultaneous devotion to pnvate mterests.AAP's right-wing reactionary underbally, btmeath all tho rhetoric and hypcrbolo, is clear. not just their usage of rigllt.
wing slogans like vande mataram and bharat mataki jai (which they try to balance with inquilab zindabad), but concr~teactions and alliances on ground exposes their real character. Last May, the newly formed AAP members ganged up WithBajrang Dal as appointed lumpens of the state to forcefully stop a press conference and physically heckled the speakers thatincluded SAR Geelani, Varavara Rao and many others. That press conference had been organized to condemn the statecrackdown on hundreds of Kashmiris, whose children have 'disappeared' (read murdered) in the last two decades, and whohad come to Delhi to protest against the same. Notwithstanding the current cacophony that electoral contingencies haveforced between the two, AAP and RSS/BJP/ Bajrang Dal stand together in their conceptualization of the 'nation' and the.
marginalization of the oppressed. Not just their actions, but even their silences speak volumes about their right wing.
credentials -the calculated sil~nce on the Muzaffarnagar carnage, right in the vicinity of Delhi, being a case in point. On the.
question of sexual violence too, Arvind Kejriwal and his party have proved that they are no different from any other ruling.
class party when it comes to patriarchal values. One of the agendas on which the AAP contested elections was the formationof special commando squads for the 'protection of women' and the recruitment of retired army men for the same. It merelyreplicates the same patronizing idea of protecting women rather than challenging the unequal gender relations that are thereason for sexual violence and crimes against women The misogynist poems and speeches of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas is.
another indication of the rottenness within the party when it comes to the question of gender. It was therefore not surprising,that a couple of days after the brutal gang-rape of a Danish woman in the city, Arvind Kejriwal has obnoxiously stated that.
'rape tendencies' are increasing because of the proliferating 'drug and sex rackets'. On the question of reservations too,.
Kejriwal (a former YFE ideologue) clearly stated that AAPis opposed to anyone availing reservation more than once.True to its history, the parliamentary 'left' be it CPI, CPM or CPI(ML)Liberationis left with no other option but to tailbehind, this time AAP.The1r political-ideological degeneration is manifest in their unabashed welcoming and appreciation ofAAP -even going to the extent of stating that they need to learn a lot from them. In fact, it would be clear to anyone who.
looks at some of the current tactics and antics of the AAP that they also have learnt a lot from the parliamentary 'left' and forthe same end as them, i.e. achieving class collaboration and strengthening the system. As for now. AAP seems to haveoutsmarted them. All of them, desperate for a pie of power, are pre:;ently wooing AAP for an electoral alliance. This is nothing.
new and in the past too, these so called left parties have not shied away from allying with crass reactionaries like AIADMK,JDU, BJD or RJD (CPI, CPM) or Lok Janshakti Party, Samta Party (Liberation). .
The emergence of AAP is nothing new or unprecedented. The same phenomenon has been re-enacted again andagain over the course of the past 65 years in different ways. Every time the ruling class has faced immense crisis andhas been thoroughly discredited it has propped up such cronies with pro-people posturing to restore the faith of the people tothe same system of injustice. After the Telangana movement in which massive assertion of peasants took place, the cult of.
Vinoba Shave and his bhoodaan movement was exalted by the state, parallel to its ruthless repression of peasants, adivasisand Communist leaders. Similarly after the Naxalbari upsurge and the susbsequent imposition of the emergency, theimmense discontent of the masses were channelized through the JP movement and the vision of sampoorn kranti which soon.
exposed itself with its right wing agenda coming to the fore. Right now when once again the ruling classes stand thoroughly.
discredited, this new pro-people avatar hell bent on pushing class harmony and reinstating faith of the masses in the system.
has been floated. At a time when all genuine people's movements are meeting with ruthless state repression, when over ahundred workers who were protesting against exploitative working conditions in nearby Gurgaon are in prison for over a year,when even activists of democratic rights movement like Shahid Azmi was assassinated in broad day light and when all kindsof dissent is branded as 'terrorist' Maoist, 'anti-national' and clamped upon, the wide space provided to AAP and its"movement based politics" only reveals the comfort of the ruling classes in breeding such manufactured dissent. Given thebrutal response of the state to the various people's movements, the Indian ruling Classes in the past few years have beenincreasingly been finding it difficult to sustain the image of the 'world's largest democracy'. In the urban areas, where AAP isnow projecting itself as an alternative, there has been immense discontent (even if not in the form of organized politicalmovements) amongst not just the urban poor but also a sizeable section of the middle classes who have not remainedimmune to this spiraling crisis. It is precisely these circumstances that have given rise to the emergence of AAP as a politicalforce which has been more than keen to brush urgent structural issues under the carpet, project 'corruption' as the maincause of all problems and thereby channelize the large discontent of the people into safe avenues by symptomatically.
addressing the problerns.AAP has emerged as asaviour not for the aam aadmi but for the crisis ridden system. .
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Thorpe Abbotts Village Hall serves as a vital community hub in the village, particularly since the closure of the local pub and post office. It was built by villagers after World War II and has been maintained and funded by the community ever since. The hall is a key gathering place for social events, activities for all ages, and is considered the last remaining social meeting place in the village.
– 1943 – 1945 ''BLOODY 100TH'' BOMB GROUP –
In most military services, there are usually those units that stand out as unlucky, unfortunate, or destined for unfortunate consequences. Either by mission, assignment, or the fates, such hapless organizations often achieve a kind of legendary yet revered status among its sister units. The US Army’s 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, USS Indianapolis, after delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, or the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal, are examples of military units experiencing exceptional hardship but being treated with sympathetic yet reverent tones. For the US Army Air Forces during World War II, this kind of reputation was earned by members of the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group (BG).
As a part of the Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) over Europe, the “Bloody 100th” appeared to suffer disproportionately at the hands of the German Luftwaffe, with its members both respected and pitied by fellow bomber crews. Its reputation was well known throughout VIII Bomber Command as a jinxed unit, with the chances of surviving a tour of 25 missions appearing as a dim possibility. Highlighting this expectation in late 1943, a new airman was assigned to the 100th BG. Upon receipt of his posting, he told a companion while sobbing, “I’m not going to make it…they just put me in the 100th Group. I haven’t got a chance.”
Established on January 28th, 1942, and activated on June 1st, the Group’s personnel began to assemble at Walla Walla Army Air Base in Washington; the unit was subsequently stationed at several different locations. Despite its activation earlier in the year, the unit did not receive its first B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers until November. At the same time the new planes arrived, the unit organized itself into four squadrons, with Colonel Darr H. Alkire as its first commander. Alkire was a stern commander who painted a grim picture of what lay ahead. Addressing the crews, he said, “Don’t get the notion that your job is going to be glorious or glamorous… you’ve got dirty work to do, you might as well face the facts. You’re going to be baby-killers and women-killers.”
With a full complement of 37 aircraft, the men of the 100th began to familiarize themselves with their new mounts as they jumped from base to base with a training schedule that was disjointed and poorly coordinated. Instead of developing their individual and collective skills, aircrews took advantage of the lack of oversight and sought more puerile pursuits over professional. Taking their liberties, many of the crews were overconfident in their skills and airmanship. Such hubris led one 100th BG navigator to quip, “We were all conceited and quite impossible. We were undertrained and not as good as we thought we were.”
By early 1943, the unit prepared for movement overseas. As part of their pre-deployment inspection, the Group conducted a long-range training exercise. Finally consolidated at Kearney Field, Nebraska on April 20th, 1943, 21 crews of the 100th were supposed to fly some 1,300 miles from their home base to Hamilton Field near Novato, California. However, given their ill-disciplined nature and patchwork training, the exercise was a fiasco, and the unit scattered across the western United States. While some bombers made it to California, three ended up in Las Vegas—to include an embarrassed Col. Alkire. One bomber went in the opposite direction and landed instead at Smyrna, Tennessee! Given that the pilot’s wife just happened to be in Smyrna, the crew’s wrong-way journey was probably not a gross navigation error. As a result of the failed exercise, Alkire was fired under the charge of incompetence and replaced with Colonel Howard M. Turner. Despite this change of command, such antics and a relaxed attitude would still be part of the unit’s culture.
Given its poor showing, the unit received remedial training at Wendover Field, Utah. Here it conducted intense navigation, bombing, gunnery, and formation exercises, and was eventually placed on the list of operational units. At the end of May, they traversed the North Atlantic and arrived in the United Kingdom on June 9th. Flying over the green fields of England, the 36 bombers and aircrews of the 100th eventually made their way to the unit’s home base, Station 139, located at RAF Thorpe Abbotts in East Anglia. Located 20 miles south of Norwich and 90 miles northeast of London, RAF Thorpe Abbotts was one of the hundred-odd airfields used by the Eighth Air Force in the United Kingdom during the war.
The aerodrome included three intersecting runways and 50 hardstands, with an accompanying bomb dump, communal sites, technical areas, a control tower, and an officer’s club dubbed the “Silver Wings.” With a bar, poker tables, and a library, the club served as the social hub of the base. The building’s ceiling was soon marked by “smoking,” the practice of using candle or cigarette smoke to spell out the name of targets the Group attacked. This was a common ritual for bomber groups celebrating their actions and survival. Included in the bar was a traffic light; red signified no flying was scheduled, yellow meant a possible mission, and green indicated that a sortie was in the offing.
The Group flew its first mission on June 22nd, but it was merely a diversion flight over the North Sea. However, three days later the 100th conducted its first combat mission against targets in Bremen and the surrounding area. Flying in a formation comprised of 275 bombers, the 100th sent 17 B-17 crews, who sighted their first German fighters while also receiving their initial barrage of ground-based Luftwaffe Fliegerabwehrkanone (flak). In total, 18 bombers were lost, with the 100th losing three. The baptism by fire had a sobering effect as the Group’s downed bombers each took ten men with them. Killed or captured, the loss of 30 airmen underscored the deadly and unforgiving nature of the air war.
A few days later, Col. Turner was transferred to the 1st Air Division and was subsequently replaced by Colonel Neil “Chick” Harding, a West Point graduate and the school’s football coach before the war. A veteran of the interwar public relations flights to South America proving the efficacy of airpower, Harding was a seasoned aviator who emulated much of the attitude of the 100th. Short, round, and affable, he was a popular figure. With a penchant for alcohol, he was no disciplinarian, and often saw fistfights and emotional outbursts as a way to release the strain of combat. Understanding the human element of war, he was fond of saying his men were made of “flesh and brain” and exhibited an appreciation for his crew’s mental and emotional well-being. Given this disposition and concern, he was widely respected by the command and saw it through some of its darkest days.
Harding was just one of many colourful characters assigned to the 100th. Two of the squadron commanders, Majors John “Bucky” Egan of the 418th Bomb Squadron (BS) and Gale “Buck” Cleven of the 350th, exuded the dash and audacity often associated with aviators. Their skills as pilots were matched by their personalities. Both were described as “debonair”; with white scarves and a Hollywood swagger, they were frequently the center of attention at the Silver Wing. Larger than life, other pilots idolized them as both served as the “heart and soul” of the Group. When then-Brigadier General Curtis LeMay, Commander of the 3rd Air Division, came for an inspection of the 350th, Cleven was absent. When LeMay inquired as to the squadron commander’s whereabouts, the senior enlisted airmen reported that Cleven had “taken to the woods.” His “partner in crime” Egan was a charmer who was often found in nearby pubs drinking the local ale and singing songs with the patrons. Both their character and antics, combined with Harding’s style of command, set the tone for the 100th during the early days of combat.
After Harding assumed command, the Group took part in a 12-hour mission to bomb German U-Boat pens in Trondheim, Norway. The 1,900-mile flight traversed mostly over the waters of the North Sea. Given this aquatic-dominated route, the lead navigator, 1st Lt Harry Crosby, was unable to make pilotage checks of off ground references. The young navigator felt the full weight of his responsibilities leading the 63-plane formation. Fortunately, Crosby’s calculations were accurate, and the bombers hit the target. On the way home, Crosby deviated from the planned route due to weather and then realized he did not make the required radio/position reports. Upon landing, he was summoned to the Group operations hut, expecting to be in line for a court martial. However, his radio silence and change in the return route prevented German interceptors from getting a fix on the bomber formation, and in an ironic twist of fate, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions that day.
A romantic at heart, Crosby was famous for another mission weeks later. On August 11th, Crosby was at Thorpe Abbotts listening to classical music. His selection that day was Beethoven’s Third and Fifth Symphonies, and he had just learned that Beethoven was born and educated in Bonn, Germany. The next day, Crosby was the lead navigator for a mission over the Ruhr Valley, but the primary target was obscured by clouds. Unable to drop their bombs, the formation proceeded to the next target available, the city of Bonn. At 25,000 feet, as the formation lined up at the initial point for the bomb run, Crosby realized it was where Beethoven had attended school. With this epiphany, he called over the plane’s intercom, “… we can’t bomb Bonn!” As a result, 63 B-17's flew over the target with bomb bay doors open and none of them dropping their payloads. He then provided a new heading and set course for the marshalling yards in Cologne. When LeMay was informed of Crosby’s action, Col. Harding asked the General if he wanted to talk to the tender-hearted navigator. LeMay replied, “No, for Christ’s sake, keep him out of my sight!”
A few days later the Group participated in one of its bloodiest missions that helped cement part of its infamous reputation. On August 17th, 1943, the 4th Bomb Wing conducted the first shuttle mission flying from East Anglia, bombing the German aircraft factory at Regensburg, and then continuing to North Africa. Flying in the low and trailing squadron in the larger bomber formation, the 100th flew in what was often referred to as “Purple Heart corner.” German fighters often attacked the bombers at this location first and then worked their way up. While the Division successfully hit the target, the Regensburg force lost 24 bombers. The 100th alone lost nine of the 22 planes it launched that day—a 40 percent loss rate. During this raid, the 100th suffered the most of any other Group.
In addition to these losses, supposedly Captain Robert Knox of the 418th BS, flying in a B-17 christened ''Picklepuss'', lost two engines and straggled out of the formation. Singled out by Luftwaffe fighters, Knox reportedly lowered his landing gear in a recognized gesture of aerial surrender. While escorted by the Luftwaffe to a German aerodrome, the bomber’s second engine recovered and Knox allegedly raised his gear and dashed for home, while the gunners engaged the escorting fighters. Despite this attempt to escape, the bomber crashed with the crew either killed or captured. Given this purported violation of aerial diplomacy, the legend grew that the 100th was now specifically targeted by the Luftwaffe for this egregious act. While a highly dubious (and inaccurate) claim, this story circulated around bomber bases and helped establish the Group’s hard luck reputation.
However, the August 17th shuttle mission was not without its humor. Landing in Africa, the unit found spartan accommodation but eventually pieced itself back together for the return home. Before departure, 1st Lt Owen “Cowboy” Roane, flying in a B-17 named ''Laden Maden'', acquired a donkey and decided to make the animal a mascot. He smuggled the donkey aboard and wrapped it in blankets to keep it warm while at altitude. Upon approach to the airfield at RAF Thorpe Abbotts, Roane radioed, “I’m coming in with a frozen ass!” Upon landing, the bomber was met by ambulances thinking the crew had frostbite injuries. Opening the plane’s hatch, the only frozen passenger was a tiny African ass named “Mohammed” (Mo for short)! This was a serious breach of British customs and agricultural law, and host nation officials did not find it a laughing matter. Despite the legal wrangling, the matter was finally settled when the donkey eventually succumbed to the vagaries of English weather.
Perhaps no other mission cemented the reputation of the 100th more than the Munster raid of October 10th. Targeting worker’s housing in the Ruhr Valley, the Group launched 13 planes, with one flown by a reflective and scholarly 1st Lt Robert Rosenthal. At 25, “Rosie” was older than most of the pilots and trained as a lawyer before enlisting. More importantly, he was Jewish and, clearly understanding the Nazi threat, he saw his service as a moral obligation. While en route to the target, the Group experienced the most violent Luftwaffe attacks yet seen as bombers took hits from both flak and fighters. As the formation made its way to the initial point, planes of the 100th were downed one by one. Only Rosie made it to the target. With his own plane hit, he continued the bomb run. He dropped his payload while also losing two engines, the intercom, and oxygen systems. As the only plane of the 13 launched returning to RAF Thorpe Abbotts, “Rosie” soon earned a legendary status. His reputation would continue to grow as he completed two tours of duty, was shot down twice, evaded capture, and earned the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, two Distinguished Flying Crosses (plus the British equivalent), and two Purple Hearts. Despite Rosie’s bravery and airmanship that day, with the Group’s losses over Munster, the 100th was now firmly labeled a jinxed unit.
While the 100th was given the reputation as a hard-luck unit, such a distinction was more myth than reality. Over the course of the war, the Group did not suffer statistically more than any other and in some missions came away unscathed. Given the losses of the Eighth Air Force over the conduct of the CBO, most bomber groups sustained losses at a relatively even rate. However, the Regensburg and Munster raids created a perception that was hard to shake. In addition to those missions, the colorful personalities that filled the ranks of the unit added to its unique reputation. Men like Chick Harding, the two “Bucks,” “Cowboy” Roane, Harry Crosby, and “Rosie” Rosenthal all added to the unit’s distinct history and reputation. The collection of missions, actions, and personalities created a synergy making the 100th Bomb Group one of the most storied units of World War II.
Information sourced from – www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/bloody-100th-bomb-...
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Maintained by the National Park Service, Kingsley Plantation on Fort George Island is home to Florida’s oldest surviving plantation house. The plantation house was built in 1798, and is surrounded by other later buildings, including 23 remaining cabins for the enslaved. As with most plantations in the 18th century, the house faces the Fort George river, rather than the rest of the plantation, because transportation by ship or boat was the easiest way to get crops to market or to bring in supplies.
The story of Kingsley Plantation dates back to the Kingdom of Great Britain’s 18th-century occupation of Florida. One of several plantations established in the region during this period, the island was ceded to Richard Hazard in 1765 for cultivating indigo. After Great Britain transferred Florida back to Spain in 1783, the Spanish government granted the island to South Carolinian John “Lighting” McQueen. McQueen developed a plantation with 300 enslaved Africans in 1793 but soon found himself in bankruptcy, turning the property over to Georgia’s John McIntosh in 1804. To escape punishment from the Spanish for leading an unsuccessful rebellion to annex Florida into the United States, McIntosh fled back to Georgia, leasing the property to Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. in 1814; Kingsley then acquired it in 1817.
Born in England in 1765, Kingsley was raised in Charleston and grew up to become a successful shipping merchant and slave trader. Considered “one of Florida’s most flamboyant slaveholders”, Kingsley purchased and married Anna Madgigine Jai, a Wolof girl from present day Senegal in 1806. He eventually grew to depend on Anna to run his plantations in his absence. After taking over McIntosh’s land at Fort George Island, they managed 60 enslaved under a task system to produce indigo, sea island cotton, okra, oranges and other vegetables at the 1,000 acre property. Sold after Kingsley’s death, the Kingsley Plantation was briefly controlled by the Freedmen’s Bureau and was under private ownership until being acquired by the State of Florida in 1955. With many of its structures still surviving on the isolated sea island, the property was acquired by the National Park Service, becoming a part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in 1991.
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2015-05-08: Picture of Kurt Lonsway, Division Manager for Environment and Climate, African Development Bank; Joseph Kitilit, Deputy Manager, Corporate Planning and Strategy for Kenya’s public developer Geothermal Development Corporation (GDC); Lisa Elges, Transparency international and CIF Observer representative and other delegates during Annual Meeting 2015, CSO Forum - Maintaining the Momentum approach to the transparent engagement of CSOs Advancing Africa’s Climate-Smart Development in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.