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Following is a devastating report by Rod Nordlund of Newsweek, which deserves the widest possible audience. This article is currently being fronted by MSNBC, but has not yet appeared in Newsweek's print edition. Please circulate this story, and: (1) Vote on the story's value (MSNBC's online poll appears on the bottom of the story's web page); and (2) Write Newsweek <mailto:email@example.com> urging that this report be included in the print edition, perhaps as part of a 10-year retrospective. === <http://www.msnbc.com/news/438876.asp> Sanctioning Starvation? An Oil for Food trade program has helped Iraq, but many of the country's children are still going hungry By Rod Nordland NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE July 28 - At the El Wiyah Pediatric Hospital in Baghdad, Dr. Muhammed al-Juborri shouts his way through an interview on malnutrition among small children in Iraq. "Before sanctions we never saw cases like this," he says. "Marasmus-oily skin, lack of calories and protein. Kwashiorkor-protein deficiency. Marasmus-kwashiorkor! This is because of the United States of America! They are the enemy of our people! Rickets, we have rickets now. We never had rickets before." DR. AL-JUBORRI may sound like a raving propagandist, but-at least about the state of Iraq's children-he's right. One in five Iraqi children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to independent UNICEF surveys, the most recent in 1999. "We had to teach doctors here how to treat it," said a UNICEF official. "The mortality rates that exist in Iraq [due to malnurishment] are comparable to those in Haiti," said Anu Pama Rao Singh, UNICEF's director in Baghdad and a veteran of African famine work, "and it will take a long time for the country to recover from it." The sad thing, she noted, is that "this is chronic malnutrition, which is extremely difficult to reverse, if not irreversible." Dr. al-Juborri puts it more forcefully. "The effect goes on and on. It affects their mind! They will be retarded! Maybe a little bit dwarfed! It will create many people in our community who are mentally subnormal! Even those who are not that badly affected will by stunted in their educational development. "If you are hungry you can't read! If you are hungry you can't write!" Dr. al-Juborri, a pediatrician, strides off on a tour of the nutritional intensive care unit that he runs at El Wiyah hospital. This is a ward with two interconnected rooms, with a total of 19 beds-and twice as many patients. Since the patients are under five, that means four to a bed since in almost all cases their mothers stay with them in the hospital. The beds are narrow, single beds, with clean but faded sheets and blankets. The parents sleep on them in shifts, but after breakfast one recent morning everyone is awake. The mothers get a hot meal; the children a specially formulated gruel-often through nasal tubes-and a saline drip to combat dehydration. Most of the children are in arms, and there is no laughter or playfulness. One of the symptoms of chronic malnourishment is listlessness and depression. These are the worst cases, but by far not the only ones at this children's hospital in the heart of the capital. "Seventy percent of our outpatient clinic are malnourished," al-Juborri says. The doctor strides between the beds, scattering nurses, in their white, British style uniforms, and orderlies, wearing grey frocks, before him, and stops suddenly in front of a tall woman wearing a scarf and holding a baby in her lap. "This one is in the pre-Kwashiorkor condition," he says. "Look at that!" The doctor pulls away the rags that half-swaddle Zahara Ibrahim, 19 months old; she weighs only 6 kilograms [13 pounds, 3 ounces], just over half what a healthy child would at that age. "Distended belly!" Kwashiorkor perversely gives its victims large bellies as their bodies start to consume their own protein in tissues, muscle and bone; they are in effect eating themselves alive. "And the hair is orange!" Another symptom; this child's hair has turned that color throughout. "And the hair comes right out!" And with that he tugs on a tuft of it, which separates from Zahara's scalp without even causing her pain, and holds it up like a trophy, a lock of orange hair. "I know this family, this is a very large, very poor family, they are 20 people in one house. And look at her." He indicates the child's mother, Khawla Hadi, 35, and grabs her face, squeezes her cheeks. "Look at how anemic she is." Her skin is pallid, almost yellow. "How can she take care of her children, she can't even feed herself." Mrs. Hadi says Zahara is the youngest of her five children. "All of them are hungry," she says. "Only this one is so bad." The problem is that many people sell some of their food supply to get cash to pay for necessities. Like all other Iraqis, Mrs. Hadi and family receive a food basket paid for by the Oil for Food program administered in Iraq by the United Nations. Iraq is allowed to sell enough oil to buy food and other humanitarian goods and the UN monitors the distribution of that food to make sure it gets to its intended receipients. UN officials give Iraq high marks in conducting the program honestly and efficiently, and there is enough food being delivered monthly to provide every person with 2,400 calories-enough to survive and remain healthy. But the problem is that many people sell some of their food supply to get cash to pay for necessities. Even if people have jobs, salaries have dropped so low in real terms that $10 a month is considered a relatively good wage. Prices, on the other hand, are high, and $10 buys little. Mrs. Hadi's family is a good example. Last month, they sold five kilograms of sugar from their ration, and they ended up finishing their supplies on the 25th day of the month, she says. For the rest of the month, they went hungry. Some months are even worse, and of the 20 persons in their home, no one works. "Look at this child," says al-Juborri. "She has even lost the ability to focus, look at her eyes." Zahara is awake, but doesn't seem to notice anything around her. Bad as she seems, though, there is still hope that feeding will bring her back. But then she'll leave the hospital and be back on short rations at home. "People are too ashamed to come here for feeding," says the doctor. "We see them when they get sick, because with malnutrition the immune system is compromised. We don't have AIDS in Iraq. The AIDS of our country is malnutrition." There is no doubt that sanctions have badly hurt the Iraqi people. Until 1996, there wasn't even an Oil for Food program, and Iraq's only income was from smuggling - the proceeds of which did not find their way to most people. Since the program, malnutrition has stopped rising, and even in some ways improved. One common measurement for severe malnutrition, for example, is "stunting" (being smaller in weight and size than is age-appropriate) and, according to UNICEF, this has decreased from 27 percent to 20 percent in Iraqi children. But the situation is still dire and international officials say there's little hope for much improvement very soon. From 1994 to 1999, according to a World Health Organization study, the mortality rate for children under five in Iraq rose to 131 deaths for every 1,000 births-in other words, some 13 percent of children in Iraq can now expect to die before age five. Before sanctions, and the Gulf War, the mortality rate was less than half that, 56 deaths per 1000. Of course, Iraq could end the sanctions by acceding to UN weapons inspections. Even short of that, which the Iraqis vow they will never do, they could use some of the immense resources developed outside of Oil for Food to help improve the nutritional lot of their people. Saddam Hussein is "responsible," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns in 1996. "He's the leader of Iraq. If people are starving in his country, if their kids are in orphanages that don't have money-and we're very sensitive to that-he is responsible. And look where the money trail is with Saddam Hussein." U.S. officials point to extensive palace building, and an opulent lifestyle by some top officials in the regime. "This is absolutely ridiculous," says Riyadh al Qaysi, Iraq's deputy foreign minister, in an interview with Newsweek. The palaces "are all built by internal Iraqi resources without a single [Oil for Food] dollar spent on them. We should stay idle, be depressed, not rebuild what you have destroyed? Why should this be squandering resources? To the contrary, people are getting work on them and they are getting paid." It isn't enough. At the El Wiyah intensive care ward, the child who at the moment is probably in the worst shape is Muntader, a three-month old boy who has severe marasmus, a progressive wasting away of the body. In the boy's head is a connection for intravenous drip; it's the only place nurses could find a vein big enough to get a needle in. Muntader's family is not poor, normally, says his mother Hamdiyah Latif, 34. Her husband is a government clerical worker in the Ministry of Communications, who supplements his 15,000 dinar monthly salary with night work as a guard. Before sanctions, 15,000 dinars was a princely sum- each dinar was worth as much as $3.00. Now a dollar fetches 2,000 dinars, and bags of 250 dinar notes (the largest denomination) are needed to make the smallest purchases. The family is supporting 14 persons in all, and their monthly food basket has been lasting a mere 15 days, she says. Mrs. Latif says she didn't know that she could have registered for extra food for a newborn baby, and extra care for herself as well as a mother of a baby. The doctor next stops in front of Zainab Abdu Zahara, who is mostly covered by a black chador; she recoils as if she's done something wrong as he looks at how much flesh there is on her wrist. "Skin and bones!" Examining her, he discovers she's four months pregnant. "These mothers are malnourished; you can imagine the child," he says. "She is only about 30 kg [66 pounds], she should be 50 [110 pounds]. The baby, the same! Only 4 kilos, should be 7.5." Her daughter Ayaat Naim, who is eight months old, is also suffering from rickets and anemia -common complications of severe malnourishment. Zainab herself is only 22, which means she was 12 when the international embargo was first imposed on Iraq in 1990; her husband has work, as a vegetable seller, but it hasn't helped the family diet much. "I don't remember what it's like not to be hungry," she says. "I've always been hungry." -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email firstname.lastname@example.com Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi


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Ignacio narrates. He recounts working his way through college. In his freshman year, he applies for the position of assistant to the renowned biologist Dr. Samuel Forrest. During the interview, Dr. Forrest asks Ignacio which animal Ignacio admires the most. Ignacio responds that it was the parasite. Intrigued, Dr. Forrest asks why. Ignacio explains that it is the most original of all animals. A good parasite must exploit its much larger, stronger and faster host to survive. After his explanation, Dr. Forrest offers him the job. From that day forward, Dr. Forrest becomes a friend and colleague to Ignacio.
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The US is still hopeful about a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but US President Donald Trump is prepared for a tough negotiation process, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said yesterday.
North Korea yesterday threw the June 12 summit into doubt, threatening weeks of diplomatic progress by saying it might reconsider if Washington insists it unilaterally gives up its nuclear weapons.
"We're still hopeful that the meeting will take place and we'll continue down that path, but at the same time we've been prepared that these could be tough negotiations," Huckabee Sanders said in an interview with Fox News.
"The president is ready if the meeting takes place. If it doesn't, we'll continue the maximum pressure campaign that's been ongoing," she said.
Huckabee Sanders said the comments from North Korea were "not something that is out of the ordinary in these types of operations."
"The president's fully prepared and fully ready to carry on in these conversations both leading up to and if the meeting takes place," she said. "He'll be there and he'll be ready."
In an angrily worded statement, Pyongyang insisted it would abandon the high-level meeting if Washington sought to pressure it into giving up its atomic arsenal.
"If the US is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue," North Korean First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye-gwan said in a statement carried by state media.
In that case, Pyongyang would have to "reconsider" its participation at next month's summit in Singapore, he said.
The North's weaponry is expected to be top of the agenda at the historic talks, but Pyongyang has long insisted it needs the weapons to defend itself against invasion by the US.
The vice minister tore into Trump's national security adviser John Bolton for drawing parallels between North Korea and Libya.
After giving up his atomic program, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was killed in an uprising backed by NATO bombing.
"It is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea], a nuclear weapon state, to Libya, which had been at the initial stage of nuclear development," he said.
"We shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past, and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him," he said.
Washington is pressing for its complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization, but so far, the North has not given any public indication of what concessions it is offering, beyond euphemistic commitments to denuclearization of the "Korean Peninsula."


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Its economy is also tops, chugging out $211 billion in annual GDP despite its relatively small population of 5.6 million. Economic inequality? Not a problem. Income distributes more evenly there than most places.
But Denmark has a sex problem. (Re-evaluating that happiness ranking already?)
Well, it's not exactly a sex problem, per se. It's more like a baby problem. According to government statistics, Denmark posted a birth rate of 10 per 1,000 residents in 2013 — its lowest in decades. The nation's birthrate was 9.9 in 1983.
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This month was a relatively successful one, for my novel. I doubled my word count, and sent it out to some (not all) of my test readers. Feedback was negative, which is a good thing because I can improve!
Today, I'd like to talk about the mixed messages I get as a writer.
At Thanksgiving, one of the questions my mother asks me is "Are you going to continue with your PhD?"
I can't believe I'm hearing this! I try writing a novel, and suddenly people ask if I'm continuing with my PhD program? Nobody ever asked that in relation to any of the other hobbies I pick up. When I started blogging, no one ever asked if I would continue with university. When I picked up guitar, no one ever asked me if I was planning to switch to being a rock star. When I picked up origami (and even made a small profit from it), no one ever asked if this meant I was giving up physics.
Let's put this in perspective. I wrote about 7k words of my novel, and there were about 10k words in the novel I scrapped. This is less than 20k words over the course of 8 months. How many words did I write for my blog in the same amount of time? I estimate 50k words. But somehow, writing a book signals a greater time commitment.
Another thing that happened this month was National Novel Writing Month. Every November, hundreds of thousands of people attempt to write a complete novel with at least 50k words. This is quite an undertaking, and most people don't succeed. I've heard that the resulting novels are usually terrible and require a lot of editing.
But still, this isn't something people quit their jobs for, not for just one month. Writing fiction can be a career for some people, but for most people it isn't. More often, it's just a weighty hobby. For me, it's not even that, it's a light hobby. There was no way I'd write 50k words in a month. I wrote about ten times less than that, mostly while riding the bus to and from work.
Here's another kind of writing that people do: fanfiction. Personally, I can't stand fanfiction. The quality is just too low. The only fanfic I ever really read was HPMOR, and even there I feel like I'm struggling with Yudkowski's awful prose and peculiar plot obsessions.
But I don't begrudge people writing for the pure love of writing and stories. On the contrary, I admire it. And who is to say my writing is any better? Test reader feedback isn't positive enough to justify such a view.
And that's fine with me. I would love to be a great author and get published, but that's not the real goal here. If the small amount of time I commit isn't enough to get to the finish line, it's not a big loss. The goal is to enjoy myself, and I am already accomplishing that.
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Contoh Judul Skripsi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris - Contoh judul ini tentang "Narrative Writing" dengan judul lengkapnya "DEVELOPING STUDENT'S NARRATIVE WRITING THROUGH FAIRY TALES (An Action Research at Year VIII of SMPN 38 Semarang in the Academic)". Ada beberapa judul lengkap pendidikan bahasa inggris yang juga pernah saya berikan dikesemptan sebelumnya dan berikut ulasan mengenai judul yang saya sebutkan diatas.
1.1 Background of the Study
Human beings always need to interact with others to fulfill their needs. To achieve that, we use a means called language. Language is a system of choices by which we can communicate certain functions, allowing us to express our experiences of the world, to interact with others, and to create coherent messages (Hylland, 2004: 25). We use language to convey our ideas, feelings, and so on. We combine the ideas in our mind into verbal expressions using the language and create a communication. It is inseparable from almost every human activity. It is not only used for daily conversation but also used in many important fields such as education, science, government, international relationship, and so on. Thus, language has an important role in human life and it can be the reason why people never stop learning language.
We learn language from the babbling of babies to the language needed in every new situation in our lives. Through language we can learn everything includes the language itself and make sense of the world. As we use language, we develop a relatively unconscious, implicit understanding of how it works. As we hear people use language to talk about what is going on, we can notice that their language changes along with what they are talking about and to whom they are talking to. Language changes according to different situation (Butt et al, 1995:10). The environment of the speakers and writers affect on their ways in conveying their intents.
Verbal communication constitutes a process of constructing a text, either in spoken or written form. Eggins (1994:11) argues that the overall purpose of the language can be described as a semantic one, and each we participate in is a record of the meanings that have been made in a particular context. We cannot butt into others conversation if we do not know the context in their mind that is realized through their language though we understand the language. Thus a text is a product of context of situation and context of culture. It means that making a text in different language requires different ways and different rules.
We usually have spoken language first in acquiring either First Language or Second Language. We need an education process to acquire written language in addition to spoken one. Written language also tends to be more complicated than spoken one. Writing in Second Language is assumed to be more difficult than that in First Language. To some extents the writing disabilities are caused by mistakes in vocabulary and grammar. But an understandable and acceptable writing is not only affected by the use of vocabulary and grammar, it also has to be well sequenced, cohesive, coherent and appropriate with its purpose. Writing a given text will have different ways from writing another text. Each kind of text has its own characteristics. We cannot use any structure in different text types. There are many things which have to notice in writing a text in order to be appropriate with its context.
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The Crisis Management committee of the Coptic Orthodox Church's Holy Synod convened Monday 25 July to discuss the successive attacks waged by Muslim extremists against Copts in several provinces in Egypt, notably Minya and Beni Sweif, and which left one man dead, several injured, and Coptic homes and property damaged and burned. [http://en.wataninet.com/coptic-affairs-coptic-affairs/sectarian/the-copts-painand-bitterness/16916/]
Visiting Minya and Beni Sweif
Anba Pimen, head of the crisis management committee; and Anba Raphail, Secretary-General of the Holy Synod, presided over the meeting. Discussions centred around the expected fallout of the attacks against Copts whose only crime was that they were subjects of rumours which Muslim extremists used as pretexts to wage attacks against them. The attacks turned into collective punishment of the Coptic communities in the villages of al-Karm, Koum al-Loufi, Abu-Yacoub and Tahna al-Gabal in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo; and Saft al-Kharsa in Beni Sweif, some 100km south of the capital.
A statement by the committee declared that the meeting came in the wake of deliberations with the bishops of the parishes in which the attacks took place. This, the statement said, drove the committee to take a decision to visit Minya and Beni Sweif during the next few days and hold meetings with the bishops there to look into possible solutions with all the parties concerned. The aim is to put an end to incidents which represent serious violations of citizenship rights. The situation, according to the statement, must be swiftly addressed in context of a national framework that accords with State dignity and authority, the rule of law, and efforts to thwart attempts to create a rift between Egyptian Christians and Muslims. It must be realised, the statement expressed, that Egypt is in dire need of national unity and solidarity of all sectors of the Egyptian community to overcome the crises it is mired in and to realise the aspiration of an "Egypt for all Egyptians".
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Also on Monday 25 July, Pope Tawadros II met a delegation of MPs at the papal headquarters at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo. Anba Pola, Bishop of Tanta, participated in the meeting.
The Pope began by confirming that Egypt is an old nation whose people carry a matchless stamp of Egyptian, Christian, and Islamic traits. "This unique image of Egypt," Pope Tawadros said, "is now being defaced, and it is our responsibility before future generations, before the entire world, before the history of humanity and before God, to preserve it." He talked of Egypt during Pharaonic times, the Christian era which was introduced to Egypt at the hands of St Mark who was later martyred in Alexandria in AD68, and the Islamic era which came with the Arab conquest in 640. "Egypt's Christians," he said, "went through hard times in which they were victims of violence and injustice, but also through good times. Yet the unique Egyptian identity remained intact. Now it seems under assault."
"Attacks against Copts have escalated since 2013," Pope Tawadros said.
That year the Egyptian people, backed by the military, rid Egypt of the Islamist regime which came to power in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring. Despite the fact that Copts in their entirety form no more than 10 – 15 per cent of Egypt's population, Islamists saw them as key accomplices in the 33-million-strong revolution of 30 June 2013 that brought about the downfall of the Islamist regime. They have since made Copts pay the price. Most notorious among the Islamist violence against Copts was the series of attacks that took place nationwide on 14 August 2013, and which left four Copts dead, scores injured, and some 100 churches, Christian institutions, and Coptic homes, property, and businesses looted and burned. [http://en.wataninet.com/egypt-arab-spring/egypt-post-30-june/avalanche-of-hate/1292/]
Coptic anger
"I am a normally patient, forbearing man," Pope Tawadros said, "But the post-2013 attacks against Copts carry a warning we need to heed. Minya alone was the scene of some 37 attacks against Copts during these three years, meaning on the average an attack every month. These attacks were ferocious and caused immeasurable pain. They were more often than not triggered by groups that incite Muslims and mobilise them in the wake of Friday noon prayers. The usual pretext was that the Copts were building or converting a house into a church, which in itself is no pretext for attack, yet the mob set off to burn that building. These were no mere crimes, they were premeditated attacks."
The Pope said that unless we call things by their name we cannot even start addressing them. "Judge for yourselves," Pope Tawadros said, "When the Copts were viciously attacked on 14 August 2013 they did not utter a complaint. They realised their pain was being used to split and damage Egypt; they bore it with fortitude, offering their nation the ultimate sacrifice.
"Today," the Pope said, "The attacks against Copts are on a smaller scale than that, but Coptic anger at the unjustified attacks has gained scary proportions. I plead with you as lawmakers, with all love and faithfulness, to confront the injustice."
Anba Pola pointed to the lamentable fact that in all these attacks, not one culprit was brought to justice. Instead, the Coptic victims were threatened and coerced into 'conciliating' with their attackers through traditional out-of-court settlements sponsored by the local Muslim elders, politicians and security officials. The conciliation terms were invariably oppressive and unjust to the Copts, and forced them to relinquish their legal rights.
Draft law for building churches
Given that the attacks are in their majority under the pretext of building a church, it was natural that the topic of the draft law for building churches should come up. The Pope was very straightforward when he addressed the MPs with: "We will not accept that any body or authority should hold sway over the building of churches. The matter has so far been governed by an outdated edict that goes back to the Ottoman Empire." He demanded that the new law should be transparently discussed. "Do not put me in the position where I will have to reject the law," he said.
The situation of the Copts at home caused an outcry by Copts in the Diaspora; US Copts have been calling for demonstrations in front of the White House to bring to light the plight of Christians in Egypt. This in turn caused an outcry at home that Diaspora Copts were inciting the international community against Egypt and that Pope Tawadros should act to stop them. During the recent meeting with the MPs, the matter was brought up, and the Pope's reply was a heated: "The Copts in the Diaspora have been strongly supportive of Egypt. I did ask them, though, that they would hold no demonstrations but I know many will not listen."
MP Osama al-Abd, head of parliament's Religious Committee, told Pope Tawadros that the MPs had come to listen to his wisdom and viewpoint on the attacks against the Copts. "Egyptians must remain one national fabric as they have always been," Mr Abd said. "We will not stand with our hands tied before those who incite sedition from inside or outside Egypt. We also intend to see to it that the culprits who attack the Copts are brought to justice."
Law applies to all
MP Saad al-Gammal, head of the Support Egypt bloc in parliament, reminded those present of the demand by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi that Islamic religious address, which he described as a pillar in thwarting sedition, should be reformed.
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday 21 July commented on the recent wave of attacks against the Copts in Egypt by saying that he trusted Egyptians would be vigilant to attempts to divide the nation. "In this motherland," he said, "there is no Muslim or Christian, only Egyptians who are all one before the law in rights and duties." He said Egypt is a country where the rule of law prevails; "The law applies to all," he said, "starting with the president of the republic. No one should ever doubt this."
Judging from comments on social media, however, many Copts were not so sure. "Why then do the attackers of Copts run free?" was a common remark.
Pope's evening of prayer
Responding to the severe Coptic pain at the recent wave of violence, Pope Tawadros II gave up his weekly Wednesday sermon to hold instead an evening of prayer at the 4th-century Muallaqqa, literally 'Hanging' Church in Old Cairo. The church earned its nickname for being built over a gatehouse of the 2nd-century Roman Babylon Fort, and was the seat of Coptic popes from the 7th to the 13th century.
Copts could not fail to see the symbolism carried in the choice of site. The Hanging church had actually been chosen well beforehand to host the Pope's Wednesday 20 July sermon, but that it should host the prayer evening was regarded as highly auspicious. The church, which is consecrated in the name of the Holy Virgin, stood witness to centuries of persecution against the Copts, and was also the site where many miracles were worked.
Pope Tawadros said he was closely following up on the recent attacks against the Copts, and was in contact with Egypt's top officials on the matter. He said he had been in talks with the Prime Minister the day before.
"Today, we hold prayers for the dead and injured; and for us to regain our authentic Egyptian spirit."
The service lasted for a full two hours during which Pope and congregation were one in prayer. "Lord, save our land," Pope Tawadros prayed. "Forgive whoever hurt us in villages or towns in the length and breadth of Egypt." He prayed for the dead, the injured, those who lost loved ones; also for those who lost property or belongings, and for the attackers and offenders, that "the Lord should help us love them". He prayed for the forgiveness of all sins, lifting of all suffering, and for the Lord's peace and love to finally prevail.
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AUSTELL, GA. Teen jumps 2 fences, is hit by roller coaster and killed
A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area yesterday at Six Flags Over
AUSTELL, GA. Teen jumps 2 fences, is hit by roller coaster and killed
A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area yesterday at Six Flags Over
Georgia, authorities said.
Six Flags officials were uncertain why the unidentified 17-year-old from Columbia, S.C., scaled two 6-foot fences and passed signs that said the area was off-limits and dangerous, spokeswoman Hela Sheth said in a news release.
Authorities were investigating reports from witnesses who said the teenager was retrieving a hat, Cobb County police Sgt. Dana Pierce said.
Police said the ride was going full-speed when the teen was struck. The ride's top speed is 50 mph, according to the Six Flags Web site.TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS Boat seized on Caribbean; cocaine could top 4.6 tons
Honduran and U.S. authorities have seized at least 4.6 tons of cocaine on a boat in the Caribbean Sea and arrested six of the vessel's crew members.
Honduran Navy Cmdr. Juan Pablo Rodriguez said the cocaine was found on the Honduran-flagged Eclipse about 100 miles off the coast in a joint operation with the U.S. Coast Guard. The area is near Nicaragua.
Rodriguez said yesterday that the officials were still searching the boat, and the total of the haul could rise.SOFIA, BULGARIA 60 arrested in attacks on city's first gay-pride parade
Extremists throwing rocks, bottles and gasoline bombs attacked the Bulgarian capital's first gay-pride parade.
Police said they prevented the extremists from harming the 150 or so people in the procession. No serious injuries were reported.
Police said they detained about 60 people accused of harassing parade participants.ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA Police, militants killed in Chechnya, Dagestan
Russian officials said five militants and four police officers have been killed and four wounded in the violence-plagued south.
The local interior ministry said police killed three suspected militants, including a woman, in Dagestan province yesterday.
A police spokesman in neighboring Chechnya said that a clash in the province left two militants and four police officers dead and four more officers wounded. The spokesman said the clash occurred Friday when police pursued a group of militants suspected of arson and killing civilians.MOGADISHU, SOMALIA Three clearing land mines are kidnapped, released
A Swede, a Dane and a Somali who were kidnapped yesterday in southwestern Somalia were released the same day, officials said.
The victims had been working with a U.N. program to clear land mines. They will be flown to Kenya today, according to the U.N.'s humanitarian and resident coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden.
No ransom was paid for the release, which was negotiated by clan elders, government officials and others, he said.
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Episode Title: "The Lesser Key of Solomon"
Writer: Damian Kindler
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"Sleepy Hollow" has now been confirmed for a Season 2 and people are really beginning to fall in love with this series. I am not sure where I sit on it just yet. I find it very entertaining and visually striking, but I am finding more issues than promise with the series so far. The first problem that I am running into with this show is that the episodes seem to go up and down in quality. Coming off of Episode 1.03, which was the most interesting episode to this point, Episode 1.04, "The Lesser Key of Solomon," comes out rather flat from what seemingly looked like an episode that would come out strong.
Episode 1.04 weaves a nice tale and offers us more insight into what should become another key character in the series though. Jenny Mills, Abbie's sister, gets plenty of air time during this episode and we hope to see a stronger dynamic between these specials sisters because it is very tough to buy them as sisters after this episode. While I enjoy them both individually, I am not quite sure how much I like them together.
Crane, played by Tom Mison, seemingly becomes more intriguing with each episode between each little piece of information we get from his past and with his plight in dealing with his new surroundings. Every now and then, we get a witty comment about an object that Crane has never seen before and his tone is believable.
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The Full Sun (Beyond the Clouds) Initial Review / Preview : Standard… what else to say?
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Hello. This is a Korean in America. Amist the mediocre Korean drama showings of early 2014, we have a new show. Is "The Full Sun" an exception or just more of the same mediocrity?
This is my Initial Review of the first 2 episodes.
Korean dramas have a limited range of subjects it covers. Some of the most common subjects are "The Rich are bad!" and "I want revenge!... but have not really thought about whether I should". The combination of those two subjects is "The Full Sun" or "Beyond the Clouds" if you watch this show via #Viki.
The #Viki translated title does not make any sense but that #Viki for you!
To be frank, in contrast to its overall increase in popularity in international markets, the overall quality of Korean dramas has declined significantly compared to the 2000s. The 2000s was the golden age of Korean dramas when the influence of J-dramas and U.S. shows started to ignite a strong spark of creatively not characteristic of Korea. As a result, many unique, for Korean dramas, were made and the basic framework of what would be defined as Korean dramas were established.
Then it ended not with a bang but with a whimper.
Korean dramas were still being made. To be more accurate, with the rise of cable original programming, more shows were being made than ever. However, they just seemed to be rehashing old stories and formulas with a rotating set of new actors who have questionable credentials and with a new gimmick.
Now, many of the Korean dramas ranged from terrible to mediocre in term of quality. In regard to what they are, it is the same old and same old. This applies to the popular Korean dramas also who rely on stunts/gimmicks more than ever.
Same old and same old… what a good description of "The Full Sun"
The Plot
"The count of monte cristo"… Korean dramas should really pay a lot of licensing fees to French author, Alexandre Duma. Koreans love their revenge stories and many Korean dramas use the basic plot of "The count of monte cristo". This is the same for "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen. But they have been gone for centuries and their works are public domain.
Heww… That's money saved. (I am rubbing my hands together)
Or in Korean…"money has solidified!"
"The Full Sun" is a standard "The count of monte cristo" based Korean revenge story with all its convoluted plots, forced character motivations, and blue collar sense of "Self-righteousness". In other words, it is a standard Korean revenge story.
Our male protagonist is a rather dimwitted son of a con-man who weirdly somehow thinks he is going to be a diplomat.
Why do I say it's weird?
All of his books he is studying are legal books. I thought he was taking the bar exam for a while before the show awkwardly corrects this impression.
Our female protagonist is Han Ji-Hye's stock 'Candy' character but now she is a daughter of a big Jewelry producer. And, if you have seen any of Han Ji-Hye's Korean drama characters, you've seen them all.
She really looks like the candy character with her dimwitted innocent face and large eyes.
The fact that she is always type casted is a shame since I have always liked her as an actress. In "I Summon You, Gold!" she did something different which I liked. But that show devolved into a mess and you could read my review of that show here.
So, we have our protagonist couple. But we need the tragedy! Insert a mustache twirling standard rich guy as our female protagonist's father and you have an instant 'tragedy' with all the nutrition of an instant ramen bowl. Still we need something else…
We need to connect the protagonist couple together. This is where the double crossing con-man who is the father of the male protagonist and the idiot boyfriend of the female protagonist who thinks it is a good idea to threaten the mustache twirling bad guy without any precautions.
Now we have everything we need.
Being mediocre and being stupid
There have been many decent "The count of monte cristo" based Korean revenge stories. However, "The Full Sun" is not one of them. While it is not terrible, it does not bring anything new to the table. It opens with the whole "starting with the ending and flashing back" technique. This has been overused in Korean dramas to the point that it has become an irritating cliché.
The whole jewelry company back drop has already been used a bunch of times. Han Ji-Hye's last drama, "I Summon You, Gold!" , had a jewelry company back drop. Even the description of the male protagonist is standard with the blue-collar young man trying to get ahead by studying but is really an idiot.
Nothing is new!
At the same time, the plot is rather stupid to be exciting for a revenge drama. If you look closely, there are only two reasons that male protagonist went to jail for a crime he did not commit. First, he is an idiot who haplessly meddled in his con-man father's caper. Second, his con-man father tried to double cross his crew. The actual plot point regarding the actual crime the male protagonist was convicted for had nothing to directly do with him.
So, who is to blame?
Rather murky for a good revenge story. So, the bad guy had to be a typical 'mustache twirling bad guy father' which does not help the quality of the story. In addition, there are a lot of well-worn plot contrivances in the show.
Example would be the female protagonist not knowing who was convicted of killing her boyfriend in order for the following "I fell in love again but he was the person who was wrongly convicted of killing my boyfriend who was actually killed by my father" plot line. Another example is that the male protagonist getting released from a Bangkok prison only after 5 years on a murder charge. It would not happen.
Even "The count of monte cristo" spend more time in jail.
It does not help that reading books for 5 years made the male protagonist an expert on Jewelry
At the end
"The Full Sun" is a very standard "The count of monte cristo" based Korean revenge story.
The characters are nothing special.
It is so predictable on how the story will unravel.
There is nothing new that the show brings to the table. On the other hand, it is not terrible. The acting is just OK. The visual design and direction is also just OK.
It is just OK!
I will have to give this show a pass recommendation. At my age, life seems too short to waste on such as non-entity show like "The Full Sun".
I would rather watch a terrible Korean drama instead.
At least, more to learn from it.
If you are young and really bored, you will not be offended by the show though…
Grade: C-
Streaming Link: Viki
Tagged in : K-Drama, Miniseries, Ongoing Review,
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Hi a Korean in America,ReplyDelete
Except for proposal daikusen I'ver watched all the other series in your double drama review. And my opinion is pretty close to yours. I also watched the Departed and inferno affairs and liked both except for diCaprio. And i loved my Sassy girl but I don't want to imagine how hollywood adapted it. So do you think the adaptability of a story is dependent on it's cultural content? Because it's seemed to me that stories about dating like my Sassy girl is really dependent on context the Korean dating culture. While universal story about spies/cops will probably work in any kind of setting.


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Old chestnuts, the Stone of Destiny and Scotia, came up as they often do. We have a little history to work with and a bit of archaeology to go on . . .
The foundation stone or rock of faith is the point where ascension takes place in Christianity and Islam. They routinely have a footstep in them.
However, this is much older - Scotia is a personification of the Cailleach, properly translated as the Veiled One. We find her at Callanish in 2,600 BC and Callanish was part of the ancient Orcadian civilisation at Ness of Brodgar. Brodgar is built from stones brought from all the islands in the manner of a Moot Hill where stones or soil were carried by nobles to medieval coronations such as Robert I's.
The community or land is brought together/ assembled, then it is built up . . . all of which connects to early Scottish sovereignty where the people and the land are considered indivisible. The king marries the land at coronation in an act of epiphany wedding the community together and building upon that through the road to Damascus connect . . . the laying down of a pillow/ stone which in early translations becomes pillows using the same platform and ladder/ tree metaphors as in the biblical tale.
So we have an original Scottish Stone of Destiny in place at Dunadd and an earlier model of the same concepts going much further back. Consequently, we can consider the Stone of Destiny, (in it's Christianised form Foundation Stone or Rock of Faith), as largely an investiture in a system of understandings and beliefs, a philosophy. This investiture is expressed in the actions of bringing together 'the land' or assembling 'stones' to form a Stone of Destiny, which can then be stacked/ raised upwards.
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Papa Westray
Like other wells and springs in Orkney, it is likely that the traditions surrounding St Tredwell's Loch had their roots in pagan custom – practices that were christianised when the site was taken over by the church.
Archaeological evidence shows that the chapel was built on top of a mound containing a complex of prehistoric buildings that may include an Iron Age broch and earth-house.
We know the significance of bodies of water to the prehistoric people of Orkney, so it seems likely that the original figure of veneration was a pagan goddess, or spirit, possibly associated with fertility or healing.
The long-established customs surrounding the loch and the island within were subsequently absorbed by the church, who then adapted to incorporate the figure of St Tredwell as the popularity of her cult grew and reached Orkney towards the end of the 12th century..
There is one strange snippet of folklore surrounding the loch that is particularly intriguing. It was said that the loch's waters would turn blood red as a presage to a "disaster" befalling the "Royal family".
There are numerous similar examples of "prophetic" wells throughout Scotland – with some turning to blood, others rising or simply making noises to signify a forthcoming event.
Regarding St Tredwell's Loch, the significance of the "Royal family", however, has been lost. But Rev Brand had no doubts:
"As for this Loch's appearing like Blood, before any disasture befal the Royal Family, as some do report, we could find no ground to believe any such thing."
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The Western Isles
In his book 'Behold the Hebrides', Alastair Alpin MacGregor (1925) explains how the people of the Hebrides are surrounded by the sea and it though the sea is part of them and they are part of the sea. He says it was known as well as though it were a member of their own family and that to them the sea spoke in Gaelic. He says they listened to what it said and from this they prophesied good and bad fortune, at home and abroad, and how by its sounds and moods they could tell what weather was coming. There was the 'laughing of the waves' – 'gair nann tonn / gair na mara' and sometimes this laughter would be mocking and derisive when a storm had risked life and feeble humans had struggled to survive it. He also describes the laughing of waves across a great stretch of sand on Lewis in calm and frosty weather as being "weird and eerie".
In the Hebrides there are many descriptions of the sounds and moods of the sea. Here are a few of them.
Nualan na mara – sounds like the lowing of cattle
Buaireas na mara – restless sea
Gearan na mara – complaining or fretting sea
Mire na mara – joy and cheerfulness of sea
Osnadh – sighing of sea, like the breeze through pine and larch at nightfall
Caoidh na mara – lament of the sea.
He says that sometimes the sea is totally still and silent as though it sleeps, and the people nearby are lulled into sleep also; and he says that people who live by the sea derive their vision from it.
Martin Martin, writing of the Western Isles in 1695 says of the inhabitants of one of the small, then inhabited, islands round Lewis, that they took their surname from the colour of the sky, the rainbow and the clouds.
Source: 'Mother of the Isles' by Jill Smith
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(Standing Stones)
These stones are mentioned by Sara Maitland in her book "Gossip From The Forest - The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales" in her chapter on Purgatory Wood. She relates their dark history as a a non-native spruce plantation and associations with Pugatory Burn which marked the western boundary of a nearby leper colony.
"The track I took into the Purgatory Wood meets the Southern Upland Way as it climbs up from New Luce, and a single path crossed the Purgatory Burn and runs eastward to Laggangairn ... and then beyond it to the Laggangairn standing stones - the last vestiges of a Bronze Age stone circle, carved with eighth century christian graffiti left by the pilgrims to St Ninians shrine at Whithorn"
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St. Kilda
Apparently the native people of St Kilda had developed a genetically inherited elongated big toe that let the men cling more easily to the cracks in the rocks. On one side of the island is the Mistress Stone where marriageable men had to balance on one leg - on the edge of a 300 ft drop - to prove their agility on the rocks and their ability to support a family.
Source: "West Coast" by Kate Muir
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The Great Circle, North East Circle & Avenues
(Stone Circle)
Taken from Aubrey Burl's book "John Aubrey & Stone Circles".
(As a 12 year old John Aubrey spent time playing around Stanton Drew)
The chaos told the young Aubrey nothing.
Village gossip offered explanations. Some slabs were so ponderous that no man could have raised them. They were the work of giants. The name of one of them was known, Hackwell. He had been so strong that he had thrown an immensely heavy stone from a distant hill and it landed over a mile away on that ridge on the skyline just above the circles. There were rumours claiming Hackwell was so famous that he was buried in the nearby church at Chew Magna.
Others added a warning. The boy should never try to count the stones. It was impossible anyway because of the jumble but if anyone did reach the right number that person would suffer great misfortune, maybe even death for interfering in what was best left alone.
Another superstition relates how, on the sixth day of the full moon, at midnight, the stones walk down to the river to take a drink. But the best known whimsy, probably celebrated from Puritan pulpits as justifiable punishment for profaning the Sabbath, was that the stones were the petrified remains of a wedding party that had sinned.
A fiddler and his accompanists had played merry jigs for the dancers until Saturday midnight when, of course, the merry-making had to stop before Sunday began. Defiantly, the young bride refused to abandon her pleasure. She, her husband and all their guests would dance on. Midnight came.
The fiddler vanished. The Devil flashed, flared into the night. Everyone, bride, groom, parson, dancers, musicians, all of them instantly became stones wherever they were. And there they remain.
Superstitiously apprehensive locals told Aubrey that the sinners were still to be seen. Three stones by the church were the solidified bride, groom and parson. In the fields the rings were the rigid remnants of the dancers. The avenues were the tumbled lines of musicians.
The tale-tellers said that the fate of those wicked merry makers had been observed that dreadful night by horrified bystanders and had been remembered ever since in this neighbourhood.
"That a Bride goeing to be married, she and the rest of the company were metamorphos'd into these stones: but whether it were true or not they told me they could not tell."
Reminiscing years later John Aubrey mused:
"I know that some will nauseate these old fables; but I do professe to regard to regard them as the most considerable pieces of ['observable' inserted] of Antiquity' …. After all, was not Lot's wife turned turned into a pillar of salt"
It would be almost another thirty years before he was experienced enough to see the devilish stones with a more sceptical archaeological eye. He was living in a superstitious world.
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Alderley Edge
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"The Wierdstone of Brisingamen" by Alan Garner is now out in its 50th anniversary edition.
Am reading for the first time - magical and scary. Great escapism for those journeys on public transport.
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A Jar of Honey
by George Mackay Brown
A woman came from every house that morning to the croft of Scar. Slowly, like holy women, they moved through the fields. Seven men stood at the end of the byre of Scar: five young men, an old man, a boy. The oat fields were yellow, gulls dipped and squabbled over the mackerel in the bay. The men stood outside the ceremony, unwanted and useless. One of the young men shared the holy look of the women, but he too was outside their ceremony. The other men did not have a thing to say to him. They kept turning away from him. He stood there in a double isolation. A woman with huge hands and a face like stone crossed the fields, Bella of Windbeck. She walked slowly, by herself. The door of Scar opened and shut on this priestess. Now it was noon. The men at the end of the byre smoked their pipes, all but the lonely one. Once the boy chased a butterfly with a shout but the old man checked him and the boy sat down at a fissure in the wall, watching bees oozing in and out. A girl, an acolyte, crossed over to the burn from Scar for water. With a pure white look on her she passed the men and returned, silent and intent, a heavy brimming pail at each side of her. Another woman came out for peats, her arms red from the flame. The sun dragged through the afternoon like an ox through furrows. Suddenly the water girl stood in the open door of Scar, her arms wild circles. 'Simon!' she cried. 'Come now.' The young man turned his burnished face to the house. He wouldn't move. He was afraid of the elemental women inside there, with their water and fire, the terrible priestess and her servers, swaddlers, shrouders, guardians of the gate of birth and the gate of death. He couldn't move. The other young men were laughing all around him now. They laid earth-coloured hands on him. They buffered him gently. They turned his face towards the open door. Two of them walked with him, one at each side, to the threshold. He went inside alone. The boy sat at the end of the wall, gray wax at his mouth, his fingers threaded with honey. The old man knocked out his pipe, spat, lifted six creels from the wall, and slowly walked down to the boats.
A young man lifted scythe from the end of the barn. He began to whet it on a red stone.
The gate of life had been opened.
Between that and the dark gate where the fish and the fleece and the loaf, the oil jars and the jars of salt and the jars of grain, and the one small jar of honey.
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Long Stone
(Standing Stone / Menhir)
Taken from D.P. Sullivan's "Old Stones of the Cotswolds & Forest of Dean" (Reardon Publishing)
A note from Mr J.C. Wood (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society vi., 1881-2 357), quoted by Crawford says ..
"The first halting place was at a remarkable monolith by the side of the highway ... This monolith is of unhewn stone, and stands 8ft above the ground, and probably is as deep beneath it. It is known as the 'Long Stone'. No tradition conserning it remains except if it be pricked by a pin exactly at midnight, it will bleed."
There are no visible traces of an associated mound or any other stones in the vicinity. Ray Wright quotes a source from 1857 telling of a carving of a mask on the side of the stone facing the road. I have been unable to find this piece of Victorian vandalism, but have, by photographic accident, noticed a bizarre simulacrum on the side of the stone facing towards Staunton. In the right conditions it is possible to discern the image of a human form on the surface of the stone, with arms outstretched in the manner of a crucifixion.
The Long Stone forms the important centre point of Ray Wright's 'Leyline Cross', as described in Secret Forest.
(D.P. Sullivan)
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Wayland's Smithy
(Long Barrow)
In his book 'Villages of the White Horse' Alfred Williams writes about the legend of Wayland or Weland, the invisible smith who dwelt in the cave known as Wayland's Smithy. His forge was hidden far under ground and legend has it if a traveller wanted his horse shod and left some money by the entrance when he returned later he would find the horse newly shod. A well known legend; Alfred Williams adds to it this passage:
"One day old Wayland lost his temper and gave a thrilling proof of his mighty strength, striking fear into the folks of the countryside round about. Running short of nails, he sent his favourite imp, Flibbertigibbert, down the valley to obtain some from the other blacksmiths, and bade him to make haste about it, as a horse was waiting outside to be shod. After waiting several hours he looked out from the cave and saw the imp had yielded to the temptations of a mortal and gone bird-nesting in the fields, forgetful of the nails. Thereupon Wayland, fell into a passion, snatched a big round stone, used as an anvil, and threw it at the loiterer, two miles off; the stone shot through the air with a loud whizzing noise and, falling short of the mark, nevertheless slid along the ground and struck the imp on the foot retaining the mark of his heel on one side. Thereupon the imp appeared to the astonished rustics, limping and snivelling and rubbing his eyes with his fist, so they called the spot Snivelling Corner, and the name remains to this day."
Alfred Williams goes on to say "Others think the 'heel' on the stone at Snivelling Corner may be a clue to its true significance as a 'heol stone' or sun stone from 'heelios'. Greek for sun."
Source: "Villages of the White Horse" by Alfred Williams (first published 1913)
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Uffington White Horse
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The Scouring of the White Horse
Historian, Brian Edwards' paper *'The Scouring of the White Horse' – published in the 2005 WANHS magazine, has a section on the scouring of Uffington White Horse which proved of great interest. The Revels, a two day festival of rustic games, backswording, wrestling, sack races and pole climbing, was held as a precursor to the scouring. However, the last scouring and games to took place in 1857.
*Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays) wrote a novel in 1859 called The Scouring of the White Horse.
The last chapter of Alfred Williams book Villages of the White Horse (first published 1913) is also about the about Uffington, the White Horse and the last games that took place in 1857. He too drew on Thomas Hughes' original work for his information but although he says that nearly all who took part are now dead he managed to find an eye witness account in the person of Old William Reeves of Shrivenham who was by then nearly 90.
"Old William with his picturesque red woollen waistcoat, red knitted cuffs and head slightly inclined, is delighted to talk about the Revels, though he admits there was a little "blaggardness" sometimes, and sundry small accidents; as when, in the cart-horse race, a big mare stumbled and fell on her rider, killing him on the spot; and again after the pig hunt, how five competitors claimed the prize, and killed the poor pig in contending as to which should have it; and how thieves broke into the booths and carried off all the taking, and other suchlike happenings."
Very descriptive and possibly clues as to why it was abandoned.
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A verse taken from poem by Tom Murtagh
"My Loved Colmcille"
"When I think of it now sure my memory recalls
Pulliness, Pullaveeny, the lonely Four Walls;
The stately old Cromlech, och! oft I was told
It was lofted at ease by giants of old.
The hill by the church where we climbed long ago
To view the wide world in the valleys below,
Little homes and boreens and the rivers that spill
In the sylvan lagoon of my loved Colmcille"
Source: "A path through Colmcille", compiled by Owen Denneny
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