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Scenes from the closing of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held at UN Headquarters in New York on 23 March 2018.
The UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s rights concluded in New York with the strong commitment by UN Member States to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. Coming on the heels of unprecedented global activism and public outcry to end gender injustice and discrimination worldwide, the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) reached a robust agreement highlighting the urgency of empowering and supporting those who need it most and have, for too long, been left behind.
Today, 1.6 billion people still live in poverty, and nearly 80 per cent of the extreme poor live in rural areas. Many of them are rural women. They continue to be economically and socially disadvantaged – for instance, they have less access to economic resources and opportunities, quality education, health care, land, agricultural inputs and resources, infrastructure and technology, justice and social protection.
The outcome of the two-week meeting, known as the Agreed Conclusions adopted by Member States, puts forth concrete measures to lift rural women and girls out of poverty and to ensure their rights, well-being and resilience. These include ensuring their adequate living standards with equal access to land and productive assets, ending poverty, enhancing their food security and nutrition, decent work, infrastructure and technology, education and health, including their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and ending all forms of violence and harmful practices. Member States recognize in the conclusions rural women’s important role in addressing hunger and food insecurity. This strong outcome provides a roadmap on next steps that governments, civil society and women’s groups can undertake to support the realization of rural women’s rights and address their needs.
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Source: Sold on Ebay for $200 Jan. 2012.
A.H. Gregg was a prominent business man in Farmer Village, now called Interlaken, NY. They originally produced agriculture machinery, and later moved to Trumansburg, NY and established Gregg Iron Works. The principle article of manufacture was the Meadow King Mower, but other implements were added as the capacity of the works increased as the demand warranted. The Osborn Sulky Plow, Sharpe Horse Rake, Morse Horse Rake, King of the Lawn and Young America Lawn Mowers, and later, reaping machines and twine binders were built to quite an extent.The annual out- put for several years was in the neighborhood of 2,000 mowers, 500 reapers, 1,500 rakes, 1,500 lawn mowers, 500 sulky plows, besides hand plows and miscellaneous tools.
This rare pass is signed on front by Gregg, with information on back. There is an embossed stamp on the signature portion as well. In good condition with some wear and light soiling. Please see photo. If you collect 19th century Americana history, World's Fair / Expo, photography, etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Important genealogy research importance too. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins!
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a World's Fair held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 5 to December 3 of 1881. h The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present day King Plow development. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production.
Placed a short train ride from downtown, it was designed so that the largest building could later be used as a cotton mill. A quarter of a million people attended generating between $220,000 and $250,000 in receipts split evenly between sales and gate receipts.
Founding
The idea of holding such an exhibition in the South was first suggested by Edward Atkinson of york who in August 1880 wrote a letter to a New York journal discussing the great waste incident to the methods then in use in the gathering and handling of the cotton crop and advised the exhibition to bring all of those interested in the production of this great Southern staple for the purpose of improvement. The Atlanta Constitution republished and urged the importance of some action in regard thereto. A few weeks after the publication of this letter it was announced that Mr. Atkinson was about to make a Southern trip for the purpose of putting the suggestion in form. Mr. H. I. Kimball being impressed with the importance of the enterprise and personally acquainted with Mr. Atkinson, invited him to Atlanta to address the people on the subject. This invitation Mr. Atkinson accepted, and at the solicitation of many prominent citizens of Atlanta he delivered, on October 28, 1880, an address in the senate chamber, in which he advocated Atlanta as the proper place in which to hold a cotton exhibition, such as would result in devising improved methods in the cultivation of the cotton as well as to be a stimulus to the entire industrial development of this section.
Early that november, James W. Nagle and J. W. Ryckman came to Atlanta to ascertain what action the citizens proposed to take in the matter. At their suggestion several preliminary meetings were held. A committee consisting of Governor A.H. Colquitt, Mayor W.L. Calhoun, ex-Governor R.B. Bullock and J.W. Ryckman was appointed to prepare a plan for preliminary organization, which resulted in the formation of such an organization and the election of Senator Joseph E. Brown, president; S.M. Inman, treasurer and Ryckman, secretary.
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In February 1881, the chamber of commerce proposed and a corporation was organized under the general law, and a charter was obtained from the court. The Atlanta incorporators were those above plus R.F. Maddox, Benjamin E. Crane, Evan P. Howell, M.C. Kiser, Robert J. Lowry, Sidney Root, Campbell Wallace, J.F. Cummings, W.P. Inman, J.C. Peck, L.P. Grant, W.A. Moore, G.J. Foreacre, Richard Peters and E.P. Chamberlin. Associated with them were citizens of several other counties in Georigia and of the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Rhode Island and of London, England. Thus equipped the new enterprise commenced active operations.
At first it was only contemplated that the exposition should be confined to cotton and all pertaining thereto, in its culture, transportation, manufacture, etc. The capital stock of the corporation was originally fixed at $100,000 in shares of $100. As the work advanced, however, and as the country became interested in the subject, it was decided to open its doors for the admission of all products from every section, and the capital stock was therefore to $200,000. H.I Kimball was elected chairman of the 25 member executive committee whose mission was to raise the money.
It was believed if Atlanta subscribed one-third the amount required, other cities interested in the succedss of the enterprise would contribute the balance. A canvass of the city was made, and in one day the amount proportioned to Atlanta was secured. Mr. Kimball was authorized to visit Northern cities and endeavor to interest them in the undertaking. He visited New York and secured subscriptions to two hundred and fifty-three shares of stock ($25,300); Boston took sixty shares; Baltimore, forty-eight; Norfolk, VA buying twenty-five; Philadelphia, forty-three; Cincinnati, seventy-nine. The gratifying result of Mr. Kimball's work in the North and the apparent interest manifested by the whole country caused the executive committee to take immediate steps to put the whole work of organizing and conducting the enterprise in hand. Kimball was named director-general and CEO.
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Contemporary rendering of the 1881 Exposition
Oglethorpe Park was selected as the site of the exposition. It belonged to the city and was located two and one half miles northwest from the railroad depot, and on the line of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. This park was originally laid out and improved under the direction of Mr. Kimball, in 1870 for the use of agricultural fairs, but the work of adapting the grounds and erecting the necessary buildings for the exposition was not an easy task. The work was begun under Mr. Kimball's direction and rapidly pushed to completion and made ready in ample time for the opening of the exposition.
The main building was constructed after a general model of a cotton factory, as suggested by Mr. Atkinson, the form being a Greek cross, the transept nearly half the length, the agricultural and carriage annexes extending along the southern side, and the mineral and woods department forming an annex at the extreme western end of the building. Its extreme length was seven hundred and twenty feet, the length of the transport four hundred feet, and the width of the arms ninety-six feet. The dimensions of the remaining principal buildings were as follows:
Railroad building, 200x100 fee
Railroad annexes, 40x60 and 40x100 feet
Agricultural implement building 96x288 feet
Carriage annex, 96x212 feet
Art and industry building, 520x60 feet
Judge's hall, 90x120 feet
Horticultural hall, 40x80 feet
Restaurant, 100x200 feet
There were several other buildings, as the Florida building, press pavilion, police headquarters, etc, and quite a number of individuals or collective exhibitors erected buildings for themselves.
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The exposition was opened on October 5, 1881 and the occasion formed a memorable day in the history of Atlanta. The event was attended by many governors, senators and congressmen and addresses were made by Kimball, Governor Colquitt, North Carolina Senator Z.B. Vance and Indiana Senator D.W. Voorhees.
The exposition was a success in every way. The entire number of exhibits was 1,113 of which the Southern States contributed more than half; New England and Middle States, 341; Western States, 138; foreign, 7. The gross receipts were $262,513, and the total disbursements $258,475. The average daily attendance was 3,816 for the seventy-six days it was open. The largest number of admissions on any one day occurred on December 7th, Planters' Day, when there were 10,293.
The Exposition Cotton Mill was opened on the site in 1882 and remained in operation until 1969.[1]
Magdala is the home town of Mary Magdala who was the first disciple to see the resurrected Christ. In the last decade archaeologists have unearthed a synagogue of Jesus' time. The site is run by the Mexico-based Legion of Christ who have built a chapel called Duc in Altum (Put out into the deep"
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And so to the weekend again. And what might be the last orchid-free weekend until well into June or even August.
So, enjoy the churches while you can.
Saturday, and not much really planned. We get up at half six with it fully light outside. The cloud and drizzle had not arrived, instead it was pretty clear and sunny.
No time for thinking about going out to take shots, as we had hunter-gathering to do.
In fact, we didn't need much, just the usual stuff to keep us going. That and the car was running on fumes. So we will that up first, and then into Tesco and round and round we go, fully the trolley up. It being Mother's Day on Saturday, we were having Jen round on Sunday, we were to have steak, so I get mushrooms.
And once back, we have breakfast then go to Preston for the actual steak, three ribeyes, all cut from the same stip. Jools had gone to look at the garden centre for ideas as we're going to dig up the raspberries, so just wondering what to put in their place.
By then the rain had come, and so we dashed back to the car, and on the way home called in at two churches.
First off was Goodnestone, just the other side of Wingham.
Its a fine estate church, covered in wonderfully knapped bricks, giving it an East Anglian feel. Before we went in, we sheltered under a tree to much on a sausage roll I had bought at the butcher, that done, we go to the church, which is open.
I have been here quite recently, five years back, and in truth no much glass to record, but I do my best, leave a fiver of the weekly collection and we drove over the fields to Eastry.
St Mary is an impressive church, with carved and decorated west face of the Norman tower, at its base an odd lean-to porch has been created, leading into the church, which does have interest other than the 35 painted medallions high in the Chancel Arch, once the backdrop to the Rood.
I snap them with the big lens, and the windows too. A warden points out what looks like a very much older painted window high among the roof timbers in the east wall of the Chancel.
I get a shot, which is good enough, but even with a 400mm lens, is some crop.
I finish up and we go home, taking it carefully along nearly flooded roads.
Being a Saturday, there is football, though nothing much of interest until three when Norwich kick off against Stoke: could they kick it on a wet Saturday afternoon in the Potteries?
No. No, they couldn't.
Ended 0-0, City second best, barely laid a glove on the Stoke goal.
And then spots galore: Ireland v England in the egg-chasing, Citeh v Burnley in the Cup and Chelsea v Everton in the league, all live on various TV channels.
I watch the first half of the rugby, then switch over when England were reduced to 14, so did enjoy the lad Haarland score another hat-trick in a 6-0 demolition.
And that was that, another day over with.....
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Set away from the main street but on one of the earliest sites in the village, flint-built Eastry church has an over restored appearance externally but this gives way to a noteworthy interior. Built in the early thirteenth century by its patrons, Christ Church Canterbury, it was always designed to be a statement of both faith and power. The nave has a clerestory above round piers whilst the east nave wall has a pair of quatrefoils pierced through into the chancel. However this feature pales into insignificance when one sees what stands between them - a square panel containing 35 round paintings in medallions. There are four deigns including the Lily for Our Lady; a dove; Lion; Griffin. They would have formed a backdrop to the Rood which would have been supported on a beam the corbels of which survive below the paintings. On the centre pier of the south aisle is a very rare feature - a beautifully inscribed perpetual calendar or `Dominical Circle` to help find the Dominical letter of the year. Dating from the fourteenth century it divides the calendar into a sequence of 28 years. The reredos is an alabaster structure dating from the Edwardian period - a rather out of place object in a church of this form, but a good piece of work in its own right. On the west wall is a good early 19th century Royal Arms with hatchments on either side and there are many good monuments both ledger slabs and hanging tablets. Of the latter the finest commemorates John Harvey who died in 1794. It shows his ship the Brunswick fighting with all guns blazing with the French ship the Vengeur. John Bacon carved the Elder this detailed piece of work.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Eastry
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Above the Chancel Arch, enclosed within a rectangular frame, are rows of seven "medallion" wall paintings; the lower group was discovered in 1857 and the rest in 1903. They remained in a rather dilapidated state until the Canterbury Cathedral Wall Paintings Department brought them back to life.
The medallions are evidently of the 13th Century, having been painted while the mortar was still wet. Each medallion contains one of four motifs:
The trefoil flower, pictured left, is perhaps a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary to whom the church is dedicated; or symbolic of Christ.
The lion; symbolic of the Resurrection
Doves, either singly, or in pairs, represent the Holy Spirit
The Griffin represents evil, over which victory is won by the power of the Resurrection and the courage of the Christian.
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EASTRY,
THE next parish north-eastward from Knolton is Eastry. At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, it was of such considerable account, that it not only gave name, as it does at present, to the hundred, but to the greatest part of the lath in which it stands, now called the lath of St. Augustine. There are two boroughs in this parish, viz. the borough of Hardenden, which is within the upper half hundred of Downhamford, and comprehends the districts of Hardenden, Selson and Skrinkling, and the borough of Eastry, the borsholder of which is chosen at Eastry-court, and comprehends all the rest of the parish, excepting so much of it as lies within that part of the borough of Felderland, which is within this parish.
THE PARISH OF EASTRY, a healthy and not unpleasant situation, is about two miles and an half from north to south, but it is much narrower the other way, at the broadest extent of which it is not more than a mile and an half. The village of Eastry is situated on a pleasing eminence, almost in the centre of the parish, exhiblting a picturesque appearance from many points of view. The principal street in it is called Eastrystreet; from it branch off Mill street, Church-street and Brook-street. In Mill street is a spacious handsome edisice lately erected there, as a house of industry, for the poor of the several united parishes of Eastry, Norborne, Betshanger, Tilmanstone, Waldershare, Coldred, Lydden, Shebbertswell, Swynfield, Wootton, Denton, Chillenden and Knolton. In Churchstreet, on the east side, stands the church, with the court-lodge and parsonage adjoining the church-yard; in this street is likewise the vicarage. In Brook-street, is a neat modern house, the residence of Wm. Boteler, esq. and another belonging to Mr. Thomas Rammell, who resides in it. Mention will be found hereafter, under the description of the borough of Hernden, in this parish, of the descent and arms of the Botelers resident there for many generations. Thomas Boteler, who died possessed of that estate in 1651, left three sons, the youngest of whom, Richard, was of Brook-street, and died in 1682; whose great-grandson, W. Boteler, esq. is now of Brook-street; a gentleman to whom the editor is much indebted for his communications and assistance, towards the description of this hundred, and its adjoining neighbourhood. He has been twice married; first to Sarah, daughter and coheir of Thomas Fuller, esq. of Statenborough, by whom he has one son, William Fuller, now a fellow of St. Peter's college, Cambridge: secondly, to Mary, eldest daughter of John Harvey, esq. of Sandwich and Hernden, late captain of the royal navy, by whom he has five sons and three daughters. He bears for his arms, Argent, on three escutcheons, sable, three covered cups, or; which coat was granted to his ancestor, Richard Boteler, esq. of Hernden, by Cooke, clar. in 1589. Mr. Boteler, of Eastry, is the last surviving male of the family, both of Hernden and Brook-street. Eastry-street, comprizing the neighbourhood of the above mentioned branches, may be said to contain about sixty-four houses.
At the south-east boundary of this parish lies the hamlet of Updown, adjoining to Ham and Betshanger, in the former of which parishes some account of it has been already given. At the southern bounds, adjoining to Tilmanstone, lies the hamlet of Westone, formerly called Wendestone. On the western side lies the borough of Hernden, which although in this parish, is yet within the hundred of Downhamford and manor of Adisham; in the southern part of it is Shrinkling, or Shingleton, as it is now called, and the hamlet of Hernden. At the northern part of this borough lie the hamlets and estates of Selson, Wells, and Gore. Towards the northern boundary of the parish, in the road to Sandwich, is the hamlet of Statenborough, and at a small distance from it is that part of the borough of Felderland, or Fenderland, as it is usually called, within this parish, in which, adjoining the road which branches off to Word, is a small seat, now the property and residence of Mrs. Dare, widow of Wm. Dare, esq. who resides in it. (fn. 1)
Round the village the lands are for a little distance, and on towards Statenborough, inclosed with hedges and trees, but the rest of the parish is in general an open uninclosed country of arable land, like the neighbouring ones before described; the soil of it towards the north is most fertile, in the other parts it is rather thin, being much inclined to chalk, except in the bottoms, where it is much of a stiff clay, for this parish is a continued inequality of hill and dale; notwithstanding the above, there is a great deal of good fertile land in the parish, which meets on an average rent at fifteen shillings an acre. There is no wood in it. The parish contains about two thousand six hundred and fifty acres; the yearly rents of it are assessed to the poor at 2679l.
At the south end of the village is a large pond, called Butsole; and adjoining to it on the east side, a field, belonging to Brook-street estate, called the Butts; from whence it is conjectured that Butts were formerly erected in it, for the practice of archery among the inhabitants.
A fair is held here for cattle, pedlary, and toys, on October the 2d, (formerly on St. Matthew's day, September the 21st) yearly.
IN 1792, MR. BOTELER, of Brook-street, discovered, on digging a cellar in the garden of a cottage, situated eastward of the highway leading from Eastrycross to Butsole, an antient burying ground, used as such in the latter time of the Roman empire in Britain, most probably by the inhabitants of this parish, and the places contiguous to it. He caused several graves to be opened, and found with the skeletons, fibulæ, beads, knives,umbones of shields, &c. and in one a glass vessel. From other skeletons, which have been dug up in the gardens nearer the cross, it is imagined, that they extended on the same side the road up to the cross, the ground of which is now pretty much covered with houses; the heaps of earth, or barrows, which formerly remained over them, have long since been levelled, by the great length of time and the labour of the husbandman; the graves were very thick, in rows parallel to each other, in a direction from east to west.
St. Ivo's well, mentioned by Nierembergius, in Historia de Miraculis Natureæ, lib. ii. cap. 33; which I noticed in my folio edition as not being able to find any tradition of in this parish, I have since found was at a place that formerly went by the name of Estre, and afterwards by that of Plassiz, near St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire. See Gales Scriptores, xv. vol. i. p.p. 271, 512.
This place gave birth to Henry de Eastry, who was first a monk, and then prior of Christ-church, in Canterbury; who, for his learning as well as his worthy acts, became an ornament, not only to the society he presided over, but to his country in general. He continued prior thirty-seven years, and died, far advanced in life, in 1222.
THIS PLACE, in the time of the Saxons, appears to have been part of the royal domains, accordingly Simon of Durham, monk and precentor of that church, in his history, stiles it villa regalis, quæ vulgari dicitur Easterige pronuncione, (the royal ville, or manor, which in the vulgar pronunciation was called Easterige), which shews the antient pre-eminence and rank of this place, for these villæ regales, or regiæ, as Bede calls them, of the Saxons, were usually placed upon or near the spot, where in former ages the Roman stations had been before; and its giving name both to the lath and hundred in which it is situated corroborates the superior consequence it was then held in. Egbert, king of Kent, was in possession of it about the year 670, at which time his two cousins, Ethelred and Ethelbright, sons of his father's elder brother Ermenfrid, who had been entrusted to his care by their uncle, the father of Egbert, were, as writers say, murdered in his palace here by his order, at the persuasion of one Thunnor, a slattering courtier, lest they should disturb him in the possession of the crown. After which Thunnor buried them in the king's hall here, under the cloth of estate, from whence, as antient tradition reports, their bodies were afterwards removed to a small chapel belonging to the palace, and buried there under the altar at the east end of it, and afterwards again with much pomp to the church of Ramsey abbey. To expiate the king's guilt, according to the custom of those times, he gave to Domneva, called also Ermenburga, their sister, a sufficient quantity of land in the isle of Thanet, on which she might found a monastery.
How long it continued among the royal domains, I have not found; but before the termination of the Saxon heptarchy, THE MANOR OF EASTRY was become part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, and it remained so till the year 811, when archbishop Wilfred exchanged it with his convent of Christchurch for their manor of Bourne, since from the archbishop's possession of it called Bishopsbourne. After which, in the year 979 king Ægelred, usually called Ethelred, increased the church's estates here, by giving to it the lands of his inheritance in Estrea, (fn. 2) free from all secular service and siscal tribute, except the repelling of invasions and the repairing of bridges and castles, usually stiled the trinoda necessitas; (fn. 3) and in the possession of the prior and convent bove-mentioned, this manor continued at the taking of the survey of Domesday, being entered in it under the general title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi; that is, the land of the monks of the archbishop, as follows:
In the lath of Estrei in Estrei hundred, the archbishop himself holds Estrei. It was taxed at Seven sulings. The arable land is . . . . In demesne there are three carucates and seventy two villeins, with twenty-two borderers, having twenty-four carucates. There is one mill and a half of thirty shillings, and three salt pits of four shillings, and eighteen acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs.
After which, this manor continued in the possession of the priory, and in the 10th year of king Edward II. the prior obtained a grant of free-warren in all his demesne lands in it, among others; about which time it was valued at 65l. 3s. after which king Henry VI. in his 28th year, confirmed the above liberty, and granted to it a market, to be held at Eastry weekly on a Tuesday, and a fair yearly, on the day of St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist; in which state it continued till the dissolution of the priory in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it came in to the king's hands, where it did not remain long, for he settled it, among other premises, in the 33d year of his reign, on his new created dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it continues at this time. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.
The manerial rights, profits of courts, royalties, &c. the dean and chapter retain in their own hands; but the demesne lands of the manor, with the courtlodge, which is a large antient mansion, situated adjoining to the church-yard, have been from time to time demised on a benesicial lease. The house is large, partly antient and partly modern, having at different times undergone great alterations. In the south wall are the letters T. A. N. in flint, in large capitals, being the initials of Thomas and Anne Nevinson. Mr. Isaac Bargrave, father of the present lessee, new fronted the house, and the latter in 1786 put the whole in complete repair, in doing which, he pulled down a considerable part of the antient building, consisting of stone walls of great strength and thickness, bringing to view some gothic arched door ways of stone, which proved the house to have been of such construction formerly, and to have been a very antient building. The chapel, mentioned before, is at the east end of the house. The east window, consisting of three compartments, is still visible, though the spaces are filled up, it having for many years been converted into a kitchen, and before the last alteration by Mr. Bargrave the whole of it was entire.
At this mansion, then in the hands of the prior and convent of Christ-church, archbishop Thomas Becket, after his stight from Northampton in the year 1164, concealed himself for eight days, and then, on Nov. 10, embarked at Sandwich for France. (fn. 4)
The present lessee is Isaac Bargrave, esq. who resides at the court-lodge, whose ancestors have been lessees of this estate for many years past.
THE NEVINSONS, as lessees, resided at the courtlodge of Eastry for many years. They were originally of Brigend, in Wetherell, in Cumberland. They bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron, between three eagles displayed, azure. Many of them lie buried in Eastry church. (fn. 5)
THE FAMILY of Bargrave, alias Bargar, was originally of Bridge, and afterwards of the adjoining parish of Patrixbourne; where John Bargrave, eldest son of Robert, built the seat of Bifrons, and resided at it, of whom notice has already been taken in vol. ix. of this history, p. 280. Isaac Bargrave, the sixth son of Robert above-mentioned, and younger brother of John, who built Bifrons, was ancestor of the Bargraves, of Eastry; he was S. T. P. and dean of Canterbury, a man of strict honour and high principles of loyalty, for which he suffered the most cruel treatment. He died in 1642, having married in 1618 Elizabeth, daughter of John Dering, esq. of Egerton, by Elizabeth, sister of Edward lord Wotton, the son of John Dering, esq. of Surrenden, by Margaret Brent. Their descendant, Isaac Bargrave, esq. now living, was an eminent solicitor in London, from which he has retired for some years, and now resides at Eastry-court, of which he is the present lessee. He married Sarah, eldest daughter of George Lynch, M. D. of Canterbury, who died at Herne in 1787, S.P. They bear for their arms, Or, on a pale gules, a sword, the blade argent, pomelled, or, on a chief vert three bezants.
SHRINKLING, alias SHINGLETON, the former of which is its original name, though now quite lost, is a small manor at the south-west boundary of this pa Kent, anno 1619. rish, adjoining to Nonington. It is within the borough of Heronden, or Hardonden, as it is now called, and as such, is within the upper half hundred of Downhamford. This manor had antiently owners of the same name; one of whom, Sir William de Scrinkling, held it in king Edward I.'s reign, and was succeeded by Sir Walter de Scrinkling his son, who held it by knight's service of Hamo de Crevequer, (fn. 6) and in this name it continued in the 20th year of king Edward III.
Soon after which it appears to have been alienated to William Langley, of Knolton, from which name it passed in like manner as Knolton to the Peytons and the Narboroughs, and thence by marriage to Sir Thomas D'Aeth, whose grandson Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. now of Knolton, is at present entitled to it.
There was a chapel belonging to this manor, the ruins of which are still visible in the wood near it, which was esteemed as a chapel of ease to the mother church of Eastry, and was appropriated with it by archbishop Richard, Becket's immediate successor, to the almory of the priory of Christ-church; but the chapel itself seems to have become desolate many years before the dissolution of the priory, most probably soon after the family of Shrinkling became extinct; the Langleys, who resided at the adjoining manor of Knolton, having no occasion for the use of it. The chapel stood in Shingleton wood, near the south east corner; the foundations of it have been traced, though level with the surface, and not easily discovered. There is now on this estate only one house, built within memory, before which there was only a solitary barn, and no remains of the antient mansion of it.
HERONDEN, alias HARDENDEN, now usually called HERONDEN, is a district in this parish, situated about a mile northward from Shingleton, within the borough of its own name, the whole of which is within the upper half hundred of Downhamford. It was once esteemed as a manor, though it has not had even the name of one for many years past, the manor of Adisham claiming over it. The mansion of it was antiently the residence of a family of the same name, who bore for their arms, Argent, a heron with one talon erect, gaping for breath, sable. These arms are on a shield, which is far from modern, in Maidstone church, being quarterly, Heronden as above, with sable, three escallop shells, two and one, argent; and in a window of Lincoln's Inn chapel is a coat of arms of a modern date, being that of Anthony Heronden, esq. Argent, a heron, azure, between three escallops, sable. One of this family of Heronden lies buried in this church, and in the time of Robert Glover, Somerset herald, his portrait and coat of arms, in brass, were remaining on his tombstone. The coat of arms is still extant in very old rolls and registers in the Heralds office, where the family is stiled Heronden, of Heronden, in Eastry; nor is the name less antient, as appears by deeds which commence from the reign of Henry III. which relate to this estate and name; but after this family had remained possessed of this estate for so many years it at last descended down in king Richard II.'s reign, to Sir William Heronden, from whom it passed most probably either by gift or sale, to one of the family of Boteler, or Butler, then resident in this neighbourhood, descended from those of this name, formerly seated at Butler's sleet, in Ash, whose ancestor Thomas Pincerna, or le Boteler, held that manor in king John's reign, whence his successors assumed the name of Butler, alias Boteler, or as they were frequently written Botiller, and bore for their arms, One or more covered cups, differently placed and blazoned. In this family the estate descended to John Boteler, who lived in the time of king Henry VI. and resided at Sandwich, of which town he was several times mayor, and one of the burgesses in two parliaments of that reign; he lies buried in St. Peter's church there. His son Richard, who was also of Sandwich, had a grant of arms in 1470, anno 11th Edward IV. by Thomas Holme, norroy, viz. Gyronny of six, argent and sable, a covered cup, or, between three talbots heads, erased and counterchanged of the field, collared, gules, garnished of the third. His great-grandson Henry Boteler rebuilt the mansion of Heronden, to which he removed in 1572, being the last of his family who resided at Sandwich. He had the above grant of arms confirmed to him, and died in 1580, being buried in Eastry church. Richard Boteler, of Heronden, his eldest son by his first wife, resided at this seat, and in 1589 obtained a grant from Robert Cook, clarencieux, of a new coat of arms, viz. Argent, on three escutcheons, sable, three convered cups, or. Ten years after which, intending as it should seem, to shew himself a descendant of the family of this name, seated at Graveney, but then extinct, he obtained in 1599 a grant of their arms from William Dethic, garter, and William Camden, clarencieux, to him and his brother William, viz. Quarterly, first and fourth, sable, three covered cups, or, within a bordure, argent; second and third, Argent, a fess, chequy, argent and gules, in chief three cross-croslets of the last, as appears (continues the grant) on a gravestone in Graveney church. He died in 1600, and was buried in Eastry church, leaving issue among other children Jonathan and Thomas. (fn. 7) Jonathan Boteler, the eldest son, of Hernden, died unmarried possessed of it in 1626, upon which it came to his next surviving brother Thomas Boteler, of Rowling, who upon that removed to Hernden, and soon afterwards alienated that part of it, since called THE MIDDLE FARM, to Mr. Henry Pannell, from whom soon afterwards, but how I know not, it came into the family of Reynolds; from which name it was about fifty years since alienated to John Dekewer, esq. of Hackney, who dying in 1762, devised it to his nephew John Dekewer, esq. of Hackney, the present possessor of it.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sandwich.
The church, which is exempted from the archdeacon, is dedicated to St. Mary; it is a large handsome building, consisting of a nave and two side isles, a chancel at the east end, remarkably long, and a square tower, which is very large, at the west end, in which are five very unmusical bells. The church is well kept and neatly paved, and exhibits a noble appearance, to which the many handsome monuments in it contribute much. The arch over the west door is circular, but no other parts of the church has any shew of great antiquity. In the chancel are monuments for the Paramors and the Fullers, of Statenborough, arms of the latter, Argent, three bars, and a canton, gules. A monument for several of the Bargrave family. An elegant pyramidial one, on which is a bust and emblematical sculpture for John Broadley, gent. many years surgeon at Dover, obt. 1784. Several gravestones, with brasses, for the Nevinsons. A gravestone for Joshua Paramour, gent. buried 1650. Underneath this chancel are two vaults, for the families of Paramour and Bargrave. In the nave, a monument for Anne, daughter of Solomon Harvey, gent. of this parish, ob. 1751; arms, Argent, on a chevron, between three lions gambs, sable, armed gules, three crescents, or; another for William Dare, esq. late of Fenderland, in this parish, obt. 1770; arms, Gules, a chevron vaire, between three crescents, argent, impaling argent, on a cross, sable, four lions passant, quardant of the field, for Read.—Against the wall an inscription in Latin, for the Drue Astley Cressemer, A. M. forty-eight years vicar of this parish, obt. 1746; he presented the communion plate to this church and Worth, and left a sum of money to be laid out in ornamenting this church, at which time the antient stalls, which were in the chancel, were taken away, and the chancel was ceiled, and the church otherwise beautified; arms, Argent, on a bend engrailed, sable, three cross-croslets, fitchee, or. A monument for several of the Botelers, of this parish; arms, Boteler, argent, on three escutcheons, sable, three covered cups, or, impaling Morrice. Against a pillar, a tablet and inscription, shewing that in a vault lieth Catherine, wife of John Springett, citizen and apothecary of London. He died in 1770; arms, Springett, per fess, argent and gules, a fess wavy, between three crescents, counterchanged, impaling Harvey. On the opposite pillar another, for the Rev. Richard Harvey, fourteen years vicar of this parish, obt. 1772. A monument for Richard Kelly, of Eastry, obt. 1768; arms, Two lions rampant, supporting a castle. Against the wall, an elegant sculptured monument, in alto relievo, for Sarah, wise of William Boteler, a daughter of Thomas Fuller, esq. late of Statenborough, obt. 1777, æt. 29; she died in childbed, leaving one son, William Fuller Boteler; arms at bottom, Boteler, as above, an escutcheon of pretence, Fuller, quartering Paramor. An elegant pyramidal marble and tablet for Robert Bargrave, of this parish, obt. 1779, for Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Francis Leigh, of Hawley; and for Robert Bargrave, their only son, proctor in Doctors Commons, obt. 1774, whose sole surviving daughter Rebecca married James Wyborne, of Sholdon; arms, Bargrave, with a mullet, impaling Leigh. In the cross isle, near the chancel called the Boteler's isle, are several memorials for the Botelers. Adjoining to these, are three other gravestones, all of which have been inlaid, but the brasses are gone; they were for the same family, and on one of them was lately remaining the antient arms of Boteler, Girony of six pieces, &c. impaling ermine of three spots. Under the church are vaults, for the families of Springett, Harvey, Dare, and Bargrave. In the church-yard, on the north side of the church, are several altar tombs for the Paramors; and on the south side are several others for the Harveys, of this parish, and for Fawlkner, Rammell, and Fuller. There are also vaults for the families of Fuller, Rammell, and Petman.
There were formerly painted in the windows of this church, these arms, Girony of six, sable and argent, a covered cup, or, between three talbots heads, erased and counter changed of the field, collared, gules; for Boteler, of Heronden, impaling Boteler, of Graveny, Sable, three covered cups, or, within a bordure, argent; Boteler, of Heronden, as above, quartering three spots, ermine; the coat of Theobald, with quarterings. Several of the Frynnes, or as they were afterwards called, Friends, who lived at Waltham in this parish in king Henry VII.'s reign, lie buried in this church.
In the will of William Andrewe, of this parish, anno 1507, mention is made of our Ladie chapel, in the church-yard of the church of Estrie.
The eighteen stalls which were till lately in the chancel of the church, were for the use of the monks of the priory of Christ church, owners both of the manor and appropriation, when they came to pass any time at this place, as they frequently did, as well for a country retirement as to manage their concerns here; and for any other ecclesiastics, who might be present at divine service here, all such, in those times, sitting in the chancels of churches distinct from the laity.
The church of Eastry, with the chapels of Skrinkling and Worth annexed, was antiently appendant to the manor of Eastry, and was appropriated by archbishop Richard (successor to archbishop Becket) in the reign of king Henry II. to the almonry of the priory of Christ-church, but it did not continue long so, for archbishop Baldwin, (archbishop Richard's immediate successor), having quarrelled with the monks, on account of his intended college at Hackington, took this appropriation from them, and thus it remained as a rectory, at the archbishop's disposal, till the 39th year of king Edward III.'s reign, (fn. 10) when archbishop Simon Islip, with the king's licence, restored, united and annexed it again to the priory; but it appears, that in return for this grant, the archbishop had made over to him, by way of exchange, the advowsons of the churches of St. Dunstan, St. Pancrase, and All Saints in Bread-street, in London, all three belonging to the priory. After which, that is anno 8 Richard II. 1384, this church was valued among the revenues of the almonry of Christ-church, at the yearly value of 53l. 6s. 8d. and it continued afterwards in the same state in the possession of the monks, who managed it for the use of the almonry, during which time prior William Sellyng, who came to that office in Edward IV.'s reign, among other improvements on several estates belonging to his church, built a new dormitory at this parsonage for the monks resorting hither.
On the dissolution of the priory of Christ-church, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII.'s reign, this appropriation, with the advowson of the vicarage of the church of Eastry, was surrendered into the king's hands, where it staid but a small time, for he granted it in his 33d year, by his dotation charter, to his new founded dean and chapter of Canterbury, who are the present owners of this appropriation; but the advowson of the vicarage, notwithstanding it was granted with the appropriation, to the dean and chapter as above-mentioned, appears not long afterwards to have become parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, where it continues at this time, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of it.
This parsonage is entitled to the great tithes of this parish and of Worth; there belong to it of glebe land in Eastry, Tilmanstone, and Worth, in all sixtynine acres.
THERE IS A SMALL MANOR belonging to it, called THE MANOR OF THE AMBRY, OR ALMONRY OF CHRIST-CHURCH, the quit-rents of which are very inconsiderable.
The parsonage-house is large and antient; in the old parlour window is a shield of arms, being those of Partheriche, impaling quarterly Line and Hamerton. The parsonage is of the annual rent of about 700l. The countess dowager of Guildford became entitled to the lease of this parsonage, by the will of her husband the earl of Guildford, and since her death the interest of it is become vested in her younger children.
As to the origin of a vicarage in this church, though there was one endowed in it by archbishop Peckham, in the 20th year of king Edward I. anno 1291, whilst this church continued in the archbishop's hands, yet I do not find that there was a vicar instituted in it, but that it remained as a rectory, till near three years after it had been restored to the priory of Christchurch, when, in the 42d year of king Edward III. a vicar was instituted in it, between whom and the prior and chapter of Canterbury, there was a composition concerning his portion, which he should have as an endowment of this vicarage; which composition was confirmed by archbishop Simon Langham that year; and next year there was an agreement entered into between the eleemosinary of Christ-church and the vicar, concerning the manse of this vicarage.
The vicarage of Eastry, with the chapel of Worth annexed, is valued in the king's books at 19l. 12s. 1d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 19s. 2½d. In 1588 it was valued at sixty pounds. Communicants three hundred and thirty-five. In 1640 here were the like number of communicants, and it was valued at one hundred pounds.
The antient pension of 5l. 6s. 8d. formerly paid by the priory, is still paid to the vicar by the dean and chapter, and also an augmentation of 14l. 13s. 4d. yearly, by the lessee of the parsonage, by a convenant in his lease.
The vicarage-house is built close to the farm-yard of the parsonage; the land allotted to it is very trifling, not even sufficient for a tolerable garden; the foundations of the house are antient, and probably part of the original building when the vicarage was endowed in 1367.
¶There were two awards made in 1549 and 1550, on a controversy between the vicar of Eastry and the mayor, &c. of Sandwich, whether the scite of St. Bartholomew's hospital, near Sandwich, within that port and liberty, was subject to the payment of tithes to the vicar, as being within his parish. Both awards adjudged the legality of a payment, as due to the vicar; but the former award adjudged that the scite of the hospital was not, and the latter, that it was within the bounds of this parish. (fn. 12)
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The very last photo in my series "Growth". This photo captured my dad tilling the garden after I had bush hogged the remains of dead plants. After we finished tilling we planted Rye and Vetch as a cover crop to help the soil for the next gardening season.
打你個小人頭，等你成世無出頭，十足豬泵兜。
打你個小人眼，等你眼紅兼眼坦，行路僕到喊。
打你個小人鼻，等你索野無曬味，鼻涕流到地。
打你個小人耳，等你耳嗚難制止，唱歌一舊屎。
打你個小人口，等你有氣無定抖，食親飯都嘔。
打你個小人手，等你有錢唔識偷，無鞋挽屐走。
打你個小人胸，等你呼吸唔暢通，肺癆兼中風。
打你個小人肚，等你惡運行到老，日日畀人告。
打你個小人腳，等你有鞋唔識著，出街無人約
A popular Chinese belief practice in Hong Kong, a voodoo-like ritual called Beating the Petty Person takes place at street junctions, which is believed that it will cast the evil away along the roads.
These cut-out paper tigers (called White Tiger despite its yellow appearance ) represent the evil omen (白虎), one can cast away these bad omen by offering (feeding) these tiger with fatty pork and sticky rice, it will then be burnt at the end of the ritual
Demanding boss, troublesome neighbour or annoying customer – now you can give that petty person holding you back a good pasting without having to do time for assault.
In Causeway Bay, the flyover known as Ngo Keng Kiu passes over a three-way junction, making it the ideal feng shui spot for dispelling evil.
It is here that Hong Kong’s ‘professional beaters’ gather. Don’t waste time waiting for tattooed heavies to show up; these fighters come in the form of old ladies. Just tell one who the person holding you back is and she’ll light some incense, make cut-outs of a paper tiger and beat the ‘petty person’ out of your life with her shoe while chanting a series of rhymed curses on the target person.
This ritual is considered to be more effective on Jing Zhe; – the first thunder of the year as predicted by the lunar calendar.
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Taking the Streets in Hong Kong
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Petty Person Beating 鵝頸橋底的打手們
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Project SoulPancake task: Give a stranger a compliment.
This one was actually really easy for me. I feel like i give a lot of people compliments, especially on the subway when people catch me looking at them. See, mostly i keep my eyes averted (to discourage crazies from striking up conversations), but i am easily distracted by shiny jewelry or cute shoes. And when i see someone see me see them, well then i feel like i ought to explain why i was staring. Hence, the compliment.
I think it's nice to compliment people on things, because i think often (maybe even especially here in NYC) people work hard on presenting a particular image of themselves. And it must please them to know it's working.
That's how i got the idea for this photo. I was remembering this time my best friend and i were sitting in the grass on our college campus (making fun of people, which isn't nice but i can't seem to help it), and we drew "popular" faces on paper and held them up in front of ourselves and told each other how pretty we were. Because we didn't think we had very pretty, popular faces. And everyone around us seemed to be wearing pretty, popular faces. And i wonder now how many of those faces were real.
295/365
The zebras can put on quite a show for guests, who may be concerned that they're fighting. On this day, I was the only person crazy enough to be standing there with an umbrella and a camera, watching them play.
Put up to host his father Gerry's 70th, a little bit of Mongolia visits Watford Heath.
PB's yurt.
Photo by Gerry.
A burning heap of straw is dealt with by the fire brigade at Weeting during a Timeline Events photo shoot.
Three little birds, sat on my window. And they told me I don't need to worry. Summer came like cinnamon. So sweet, little girls double-dutch on the concrete.
1100 R Korčula, Samostan Anđela čuvara, Put sv. Nikole 31, Foto Berner 6168 sent 23.XI.1930. Dorica Janku Burgstalleru TDor 19301123c
Samostan Anđela čuvara u Korčuli zaživio je 1905. godine kao kuća matica nove Kongregacije koju je podigao iz postojećih zajednica u Šibeniku i Splitu hrvatski dominikanac o. Anđeo Marija Miškov. Samostan je odmah postao kuća novicijata. Godine 1906. otvoren je dječji vrtić. Privatna ženska građanska škola odobrena je 1910. godine, a pravo javnosti dobila je 1921.Godine 1915. otvorena je ženska pučka škola s pravom javnosti. Sestre su odgojile naraštaje djevojaka u kršćanskom i hrvatskom duhu. Tijekom II. svjetskog rata samostan je bio razrušen, a sestre su proživjele teške dane i godine. U vrijeme komunizma zabranjen je svaki javni odgojni rad. Sestre su od samih početaka na Korčuli skrbile za stare i nemoćne u staračkom domu Zaklonište. Otvorile su prvi laboratorij u gradu i počele sa zdravstvenom skrbi. Nakon ublažavanja političkih prilika 70 – ih godina prošlog stoljeća sestre su ponovno otvorile odgojno obrazovnu ustanovu dječjeg vrtića, a nakon otvaranja Doma zdravlja u Korčuli bile su većinski dio radnog osoblja. I danas je samostan Anđela čuvara kuća matica Kongregacije i kuća novicijata. Nakon demokratskih promjena sestre se stručno osposobljavaju za rad u predškolskom odgoju i danas uspješno rade s djecom u vlastitom, suvremeno opremljenom vrtiću koji svojim radom obuhvaća sve dobne skupine djece. Daju satove iz stranih jezika, glazbe i matematike. Prisutne su u školskom vjeronauku i župnoj katehezi u Korčuli i okolnim župama. Geslo “BOGU, REDU, NARODU” pod kojim je o. A. M. Miškov postavio na noge Kongregaciju, sestre nastoje ostvarivati i danas.
Cheerleaders put on show for 2ID Soldiers
Story by: Sgt. Scott Kim 1HBCT PAO
Soldiers were given a little something extra for the Holidays as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders performed their Annual Christmas Concert sponsored by the United Service Organization Dec. 29 at Carey Gym on Camp Casey.
The concert was a Vegas-style dance show with lots of costume changes and music ranging from country to hip hop, all to entertain Soldiers and uplift spirits during the holiday season.
Although the cheerleaders themselves missed the holidays in order to come to Korea, many feel that performing for the troops was well worth the sacrifice.
“This is my very first USO tour and it’s been everything I’ve imagined and more,” said Meagan Sharp, a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. “It’s been great meeting everybody and see them smile knowing that we brought the a little bit of home to them over Christmas and New Years.”
The cheerleaders gave an energizing and spectacular performance which was extremely well received by Soldiers especially during the audience participation parts.
“They pulled me onstage, told me to stand at parade rest and said I couldn’t move no matter what they did, which was to dance around me,” said Pfc. Anthony Thompkins, a food service specialist for Gulf Co. 302nd BSB. “It was the best experience of my life!”
Along with dancing and trivia from the Cowboys Cheerleaders, Family Morale Welfare and Recreation along with Maj. Gen. John W. Morgan III, commanding general of the 2ID and Lt. Col. Donald Meisler, garrison commander for Camp Casey recognized three Soldiers, Capt. Lauren Shaw, operations officer for 2ID Provost Marshal’s office, Staff Sgt. Kathleen Hedges, a health care specialist for HHC 1st BSTB and Spc. Devin Monroe, a fire support specialist for HHC 2-9 Inf.
Shaw and Hedges were recognized for being on the All-Army Softball team as well as the All-Forces Softball team while Monroe was awarded Athlete of the Year for his participation on Camp Casey’s Flag Football Team.
For some of the cheerleaders it was a particularly touching tour as their own loved ones have served at some time or another.
“I had an uncle in the Marines and I always looked up to him but I never really understood did until I came here,” said Nicole Hamilton, a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. “Now I have an even greater respect for the military and I can see his (her uncle’s) aspect on things.”
The Soldiers and cheerleaders alike are grateful for the support and sacrifice each makes to the other in order to help them along with whatever it is they do, whether it’s on the field of battle or at a football game.
“I feel good personally knowing that I did my part to make somebody happy, keep them motivated and keep them going,” Hamilton said. “We love the troops and this is our way of giving back to them for all their sacrifice.”
By: Cpl. Bo Park, 2ID
Nicole Hamilton, a member of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, introduces herself before a mini performance as part of the 2008 USO Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Holiday Korea Tour at the Kilbourne Dining Facility, Camp Red Cloud, Dec. 29
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Dear President Obama,
I am a liberal Democrat who donated time and money to put you in the White House. I, like so many others, worked hard making calls and knocking on doors to help get you elected President with the hope that you would use your office to save the disappearing middle class from the Republican induced slide into serfdom – not so you can “welcome” the same failed “Republican ideas” turning “The Land of the Free” into “The United States of Serfs and Lords” since Reaganomics declared war on those not “born on third base thinking they hit a triple,” as Anne Richards once said to describe George W. Bush.
I have been watching in anguish as you squander the mandate and the majority we worked for and negotiate away the progressive initiatives that would not only give the American People a chance, once again, at the American Dream, but also ensure the Democratic majority for generations.
Now I see you AGAIN pining for Republicans like a battered spouse pining for an abuser while the Republicans promise to destroy you – and by extension destroy WE THE PEOPLE.
I would agree that the midterms were a repudiation of your policies if the People were actually CORRECTLY INFORMED ABOUT THEM and having a conversation in the REAL WORLD. The FACT is that most people are woefully misinformed BY DESIGN and are wedded to outright lies perpetrated by Republican propaganda outlets like Fox “News.”
So, NO… The Republicans did not win because people embrace Republican policies... They voted AGAINST YOU because, besides the misinformation campaigns designed to make them stupid enough to vote for their own demise, the American People want a leader with a spine.
Your incessant penchant for capitulation sends the message that Republican ideas have merit and your constant submission merely makes you looks weak.
If you KNOW that the Bush tax giveaways to the rich will add 700 Billion to the deficit while not creating A SINGLE JOB, WHY WOULD YOU CAPITULATE to it? Republican ideas are what GOT US into this mess – which is why THEIR benefactors have the millions of dollars it takes to run misinformation campaigns targeting Democrats.
To quote Harry S. Truman, “The Democrats are for the people. The Republicans are for the special interests. They've always been for the special interests.”
This is the message you need to stick to – NOT “we welcome Republican ideas!”
Republican “ideas” can be broken down to two words – CHEAP LABOR… And now… WITH YOUR HELP… they are actively hurting the People for political gain.
SO WHY would you validate Republican policies that have FAILED THE WORKING PEOPLE whenever they are tried and collapsed the economy for a SECOND time in a century?
Why would you agree to policies that will guarantee more people fall into poverty while the rich disappear behind the walls of their gated communities?
When they attacked FDR, he FOUGHT BACK with COURAGE:
“…although I rubbed my eyes when I read it, we have been told that it was not a Republican depression, but a Democratic depression from which this Nation was saved in 1933 - that this Administration this one today - is responsible for all the suffering and misery that the history books and the American people have always thought had been brought about during the twelve ill-fated years when the Republican party was in power.
Now, there is an old and somewhat lugubrious adage which says: "Never speak of rope in the house of a man who has been hanged." In the same way, if I were a Republican leader speaking to a mixed audience, the last word in the whole dictionary that I think I would use is that word "DEPRESSION."
Are you really a Democrat or just so traumatized by growing up as a mixed-race child with an absent father that you can’t upset the big, authoritarian, white daddies whose approval you desperately long for?
Are you just an empty suit that doesn't have the courage of Democratic convictions?
Democratic Policies WORK - and we have history to back that up. The Dems gave us the New Deal policies that CREATED the America Dream and built the middle class!
Conversely, Republican policies destroyed the middle class, created the widest gap between rich and poor and turned America into the LEAST upwardly mobile of all industrialized nations.
I understand that there is a 24-hour propaganda channel devoted to destroying you (and that’s another thing. Why would you walk back from THE TRUTH when your administration called Fox “News” an arm of the Republican Party? THAT IS THE REALITY –and their million-dollar donation to the RGA is just a confirmation of what everyone knows. Why do you NEVER stick to your guns?) …but SOOO WHAT?
The TRUTH and the TRAGEDY is that people who are paying attention know that you have done more for the middle class in 2 years than ALL Republicans have done since well before the time Reaganomics declared war on working people.
Unfortunately, your “bipartisan Kum Bah Ya” nonsense helped blow Republican booby traps in policies that COULD HAVE BEEN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE for the people.
If you think that FINALLY Republicans will come to the table as the “Team of Rivals” you yearn for now that they’ve gained a majority in the House, you better come to his senses.
Capitulate to the GOP again and again and AGAIN and they will STILL call you a Socialist, a Marxist, a Kenyan, an "other." They will still work to destroy you (and US) – that’s a PROMISE reiterated repeatedly by Mitch McConnell - to ensure your policies fail, the America People CONTINUE to suffer, and you are a one-term President.
I’m sure you know that “undecided voters” or “Independents” are, in actuality, low-information voters. They don’t pay attention to politics until the last 2 weeks before the election. Then they turn on the TV and hear Republicans railing against you and they DON’T SEE ANY CONCRETE IMPROVEMENT in their lives, so it’s easy to be conned.
For instance… a health bill that keeps the insurance racket in charge AND doesn’t kick in until 2014 DOESN’T do ANYTHING to fix the miseries of TODAY!
Was it worth secretly bargaining away the STRONG PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE – The Public Option - to get the vote of Olympia Snowe?
You should have come out fighting with MEDICARE FOR ALL and then negotiated your way into a Public Option that KICKS IN IMMEDIATELY.
You gave the Republicans and their “privileged Princes”, as FDR called them, all the time in the world to “catapult the propaganda” and run the “BIG LIE” strategy on so-called “Obamacare” plunging the approval ratings for a program that forces insurance ghouls to treat people like humans – rather than hosts from which to suck profit – from above 70% approval to below 50%.
These numbers should be a reminder of the power of propaganda –not a reflection of what the people think is an effective policy.
So you squandered your mandate and your majority - but don’t for A SECOND think it is because the American People rejected liberal democracy – they rejected fecklessness and inaction.
Instead of trying to reflect Lincoln’s so-called “Team of Rivals”, you needed to be more like FDR – and UNAPOLOGETIC DEMOCRAT on the side of the people who never missed the opportunity to remind them which Party plunged them into Depression – and which Party pulled them OUT.
If you had reached back through the proud history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and channeled FDR – creating something like a 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps to put people back to work IMMEDIATELY, you (and by extension US) would not be in the position of having to endure another round of Republican assault on the working people of America.
When Democrats act like Democrats instead of "Republican Light" they win elections. Period. Just ask Blanch Lincoln and the other 20 Republican-Light “Blue Dogs” joining the ranks of the unemployed.
Why are you begging for Republican ideas when DEMOCRATIC ideas, policies and ACTION, CREATED the American Middle class? Before the New Deal, we had a country that was reflective of "Oliver Twist" - an upper class that ran everything and had all the wealth a small mercantile class and an EXTREMELY LARGE pool of poor, cheap labor to exploit.
These are pesky facts that the “undecided” voters don’t know. YOU need to REMIND THEM!
Reach back into the great history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY for inspiration. We have plenty to be proud of and Republicans have… who? Lincoln? Read the 1864 Republican Platform and you will discover that Lincoln was a Liberal who would have been drummed out of today’s Republican Party.
STOP trying to win Republicans over and get help for those childhood wounds rather than work them out at the detriment of the People.
Be a PROUD DEMOCRAT!
Harry S. Truman said, “The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing- -And we don’t need to try it.
The record the Democrats have made in the last 20years is the greatest political asset any party EVER HAD IN WORLD HISTORY! We would be foolish to throw it away. THERE IS NOTHING OUR ENEMIES WOULD LIKE BETTER and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.”
Imagine this: Instead of looking like a whipped puppy at your press conference following the midterms, if you had come out swinging and HONESTLY explained to the American People that the REPUBLICANS are blocking EVERY attempt to get us out of the ditch for POLITICAL GAIN – and TURN THEIR EVIL STRATEGY AGAINST THEM!
When that reporter asked, “how does it feel?”
Rather than say, “it feels bad,” hoping to appear humble enough to win some Republican hearts- imagine if you said, “I fear for America. These elections saw the influence of foreign money and unprecedented power of anonymous special interests and their front groups that THREATENS our entire electoral system. These are the same powerful influences FDR reigned in with the New Deal… he called them ‘privileged princes” of ‘new economic dynasties, thirsting for power,’ who ‘reached out for control over government itself.’ They are BACK and, with the help of the Citizens United ruling, have democracy itself against the ropes! Tragically, REPUBLICANS are ALSO blocking every attempt to solve the problems THEY CREATED solely as a political strategy, proving again that they care only about their own jobs and futures – not the jobs and future of the American People!”
Now THAT would have been a game-changing statement that would use jujitsu to crush them under the weight of their own obstruction.
I know you give good speeches… in fact, I started to support you for the nomination and gave money to your campaign after your speech on race because it was a breath of fresh air for a politician to address a tough subject with HONESTY, warts and all…
WHERE IS THAT MAN?
Not to mention your incessant buying into the Republican talking points about deficit-reduction when we need a real STIMULUS from the bottom-up makes me really wonder about you. I’m sure you’re familiar with Republican strategist Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Claus Theory” – where Republicans spend like drunken sailors when in power and then scream about deficits when Democrats are in control as a strategy to privatize everything? Why wouldn’t you be honest with the American People and tell them that it’s ALL part of Republican strategy?
Why would you HELP their agenda rather than being STRAIGHT and HONEST with the People?
If you had been honest and courageous, instead of “we’ll compromise with Republicans” so their terrible, middle-class-killing ideas will finally create an American landed gentry and force future generations to compete with Chinese slaves for jobs…. WE THE WORKING PEOPLE wouldn’t be poised to, once again, fall off the Republican-created cliff.
The America People like a FIGHTER and they like a WINNER who takes ACTION – not some weak-capitulator, middle of the road, mush who compromises away our future in the name of “playing nice.”
Our GREATEST PRESIDENT FDR said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
I as YOU to start channeling him now - and remember that the only reason FDR didn’t get elected to a FIFTH term WAS BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD.
On the other hand, if you can’t muster the stomach for the fight, and would rather capitulate to abysmal policies meant to cut the “uppity” American worker down to size, please simply announce yourself as a one-term President so we can nominate someone with a spine and a stomach for the fight.
Members: Ron Whiteside sent the Reunion notice of the Doolittle Raiders which took place. It’s too long to include in the Nov Newsletter, but I thought I’d send it as a separate mailing in case you were interested in reading it. I did put part of it in the Newsletter.
The Final Toast
It's the cup of brandy that no one wants to drink.
On April 17, 2013 in Fort Walton Beach , Florida , the surviving
Doolittle Raiders gathered publicly for the last time.
They once were among the most universally admired and revered men
in the United States . There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942,
when they carried out one of the most courageous and
heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The
mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring
tears to the eyes of grateful Americans.
Now only four survive.
After Japan 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor , with the United
States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn
the war effort around.
Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan
for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was
devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off
from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been
tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.
The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James
Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet,
knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They
would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a
safe landing.
But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of
the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off
from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted
on. They were told that because of this they would not have
enough fuel to make it to safety.
And those men went anyway.
They bombed Tokyo , and then flew as far as they could. Four
planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the
Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed.
Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew
made it to Russia .
The Doolittle Raid sent a message from the United States to its
enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no
matter what it takes, we will win.
Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as
national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced
a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,"
starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and
emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the
national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM
proclaimed that it was presenting the story "with supreme pride."
Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each
April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different
city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson , Arizona , as a
gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders
with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with
the name of a Raider.
Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is
transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away,
his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion,
as his old friends bear solemn witness.
Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special
cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy
Doolittle was born.
There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving
Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and
toast their comrades who preceded them in death.
As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February,
Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.
What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a
mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill
with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to
Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured,
and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.
The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a
passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that,
on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that
emblematizes the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:
"When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home,
he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing
home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her
clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he
walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for
three years until her death in 2005."
So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick
Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite,
Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have
decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to
continue.
The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It
has come full circle; Florida 's nearby Eglin Field was where the
Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town
planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration
of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.
Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save
the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their
sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other
people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this
week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might
want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from
firsthand observation that they appreciate hearing that they are
remembered.
The men have decided that after this final public reunion they
will wait until a later date -- some time this year -- to get
together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is
when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing
by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are
only two of them.
They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets.
And raise them in a toast to those who are gone.
Their 70th Anniversary Photo
PLEASE SEND THIS ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, ESPECIALLY
TO THOSE WHO WERE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW ABOUT THESE GUYS. THIS SHOULD
BE READ BY EVERY KID IN GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOL SO THEY KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti- Petty Officer 3rd Class Antonio Seisdedos (LEFT), of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Seaman Apprentice Chloe Hicks (CENTER) of Jacksonville, Ark., help a young, injured Haitian girl put in ear plugs just prior to be loaded into a Dolphin rescue helicopter for transport to an area hospital Monday, January 18, 2010. Seisdedos helped the crew communicate with the patients by translating for them, explaining what the crew was doing and asking if the patients were comfortable. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith)
Banjo is growing so fast it amazes me. He's a not that tiny 7 weeks old puppy we brought home anymore, it's hard to see it in pictures but his face is changing. I can see another breed in there I just cant put my finger on it. And his ears, oh his cute ears. I really hope they go all the way up haha.
After having put a few stickers in place the rest looked so empty, so had to put one one more... and more... and more. I thought i might have overdone it a bit, but now I've had it like this for two days, and i like it. When it is dark in the room if i lay in bed reading on the screen the glittering of the HK plastic is kind of cosy.
This was the most spiteful trash can placement I've ever seen! This made me laugh repeatedly throughout the party.
Do Not Put Trash Here Ever sign, trash can.
funny spite.
Scott and Melanie's house, Washington D.C.
July 4, 2007.
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puta se fue mi hermanito po:(
dios lo qiso a si aun q me dule mas q la kresta.ya no va tar esa alegria en nuestra kasa .el que llegue a eskuxar temas .. el q me invite a una xela.. el q siempre estava alegre.. pero toy claro q mi tata te kuida aya hermano ! te kero musho! x siempre en mi (L)
HASTA SIEMPRE!
q.e.d.p jose claudio donoso aguilera!
Dassanech men put mud on their bodies to join dimi ceremony to celebrate circumcision of teenagers, Omo valley, Omorate, Ethiopia , Camera: ILCE-7RM2 , f4.5 , 1/320 , 34.0 mm , ISO 100 , © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
These shoes are way out of my comfort zone, what with the shininess and the lack of heel and did I mention they're shiny? But I desperately needed a non-flip-flop flat sandal that I could wear to work because apparently 5 months pregnant is the point at which I can no longer stand to wear heels on a daily basis. I was thinking of everything I learned from M:PT when I picked these, and I think, despite how far out of my comfort zone they are, I kind of love them. They're pretty casual, which makes them good for office wear (the dress code is not strict at my workplace) or weekend wear.
Also, if I may say something about this skirt. I haven't owned a denim skirt since I was in elementary school, and now that I have this one, I can't believe I went so long without it. I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to buy a non-maternity version of this skirt next summer.
Dassanech men put on leopard skins and ostrich feathers headdresses to join dimi ceremony to celebrate circumcision of teenagers, Omo valley, Omorate, Ethiopia , Camera: ILCE-7RM2 , f5.0 , 1/500 , 43.0 mm , ISO 80 , © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
Oracle- The lowlife that put the bounty on your head was Sionis.
Batman- Black Mask
Oracle- I'm hacking into the live feed of the cameras in Sionis industries.
====Sionis Industries====
Black Mask- What's taking you all so damn long to load the weapons on the truck!?
Black Mask Thug- Sorry boss, the weapons are pretty heavy.
Black Mask- I don't want to hear any damn excuses, what I want to hear is you load those weapons on the truck.
(Black Mask then punches him in the face)
Black Mask- NOW DO YOUR DAMN JOB!
====Coms====
Oracle- It looks like he's shipping illegal caches of guns in and out of Gotham on post office trucks.
Batman- I'm already here.
Oracle- Of course you are.
====Sionis Industries====
Black Mask Thug- Hey boss something's wrong with the camera feed.
(Black Mask picks up a crowbar and opens a crate)
Black Mask- Each of you grab a gun, you see anything you shoot it.
Black Mask- I'm going to my office.
(Batman throws a smoke pellet to the ground)
Black Mask Thug- Smoke! Wait I see someone, IT'S BATMAN!
Black Mask- What the hell is happening out there!
(And out of the smoke only one man stands--Batman. Black Mask steps out of his office)
Black Mask- Ah Batman so glad you could make it to the party. Funny I don't remember you getting an invitation. I'll have to kill you myself.
(Black Mask then pulls a gun out on Batman)
Black Mask- There's only one way you're leaving out of here & that's in a body bag.
Batman- I don't think so.
(Batman then disarms Black Mask & breaks his arm)
Black Mask- Ahhhhh
Batman- You're going to Blackgate Sionis.
(Batman takes out his explosive gel & blows up all the weapons crates)
(Batman contacts Gordon)
Gordon- Hello Batman
(Sionis is tied up, & I've just sent you the evidence you need to put him away)
Gordon- Thanks Batman