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CA/ State Prison RN job question - page 6
Hi..I am thinking of taking a position in San Quentin or Folsom/ Sacramento...if you work there would love some feedback about how you enjoy your work, working for the state etc...thanks!... Read More
Nov 30, '08To those wanting to work in the CA state prison system:
Go to the CA State website and from there follow the links. You need to take a 'test' online which is really just an inquiry into your experience. I applied last December, got called for an interview in April and started in May at San Quentin State Prison.
Good luck!
Nov 30, '08I already did that in October.
Did you take the job at San Quentin? If so, are you happy you did? That is where I would like to work, but I would also like to work in the S.F. jail system.
Have a good day.
Dec 11, '08I just started working at Coalinga State Hospital Nov.3 2008 and they lowered the pay for any nurses who started working there after Oct. 18, 2008. The pay went from 7224.00 to 6625.00 a month.
Dec 12, '08http://www.cdva.ca.gov/Homes/Default.aspx
veterans home of california.
as far as i know, part of the new contract is that all state mental hospitals, of which coalinga is, the rate is going up to 8000.
the union fought for it.
the union agreement is that we will get within 5% of the prison pay.
if you are new maybe does not apply till after your first year.
that rate also includes veterans, and Dev. disabled hospitals.
they just have 2.0 vs. 2.5 retirement of prison and mental health.
Dec 12, '08Quote from RNCCHPi'd not work the jail system.Is the State hiring nurses? I am currently looking. I want to move to the Bay area. What about San Francisco jail system?
from the people i have talked to when i was at the state prisons, and they did both, county and city jails are alot harder and hectic.
state prison for the most part is much smoother.
still, how rewarding is it working with convicts.
i myself after three years could not get around that.
i went to school to be an RN for a different reason, I dont' like being told i can't care.
and i just could no longer justify in my head careing for rapists and murders, when our veterans need us.
Dec 18, '08Hi "BLEUGIRLRN" - Please describe your interview experience with the prison job you're at. Thank you.
Dec 29, '08This is for bleugirlrn. I completed an online application several months ago to work in any of the Bay area prisons, preferably San Quentin. I just received a notice from San Quentin today inquiring about my interest in an RN position. I am from Oklahoma and have worked in the prison system here, but it's like comparing apples to oranges! I'm interested in knowing about your experience so far at San Quentin. How much did your experience as a nurse count as far as the determination for your starting pay? SQ is an old facility. Do you feel safe? Overall, what can you tell me about your experience? Thanks!Last edit by GenXRN on Dec 29, '08 : Reason: To clarify who message is to.
Dec 30, '08My pay will only go up 5% after 1 year. No where near some of the State Workers pay at the Mental facilities. They say all new Rn's that started at the Mental State facilities after October 18, 2008 will start at the beginning T range of 6623.00 a month.
Mar 26, '09Do you still work at Yountville Veteran Home? If yes how is it for a nurse to work the SNF unit on night shift?
May 11, '09Quote from bleugirlrnbleugirlrn,To those wanting to work in the CA state prison system:
Go to the CA State website and from there follow the links. You need to take a 'test' online which is really just an inquiry into your experience. I applied last December, got called for an interview in April and started in May at San Quentin State Prison.
Good luck!
I'm a new grad RN moving back to the bay area. I finished school in Arizona. I have a year of experience as a paramedic and have been working as a registry LVN the past year in corrections in AZ. I have a full-time job lined up in the Bay but was thinking of pulling registry shifts on the side.
Does San Quentin use a lot of registry? If so, which agencies send out there the most? Also, are there any other prisons within an hour of Oakland? Or do you know anything about the jails in the Bay Area?
Last, how is it working at San Quentin. I worked three different prisons in AZ and there was a HUGE difference in working conditions between the three.
Jun 22, '09Do you know how long the orientation for new RNs is at the Yountville Veterans Home? I was looking at an opening and the only requirement listed is an RN license. Desired are good customer service, communication skills. I have been looking to get into a new grad program because I never did med surg. I went into maternity nursery for a few months, did dialysis for a few months about five years ago and my most recent job was at a blood bank.
Do you think they would train reentry nurses at Yountville and would this be a good place to get experience? Do they have a great need for bilingual spanish speaking nurses? Do you know what the nurse patient ratios are? I will try to call their HR tomorrow but would like to get more insight into their working conditions from someone here. The pay is great but I need to get good experience.
Jul 1, '09Those of you who are looking into working for the calif. prison system be aware of what the state is doing to keep from paying employees any more than they can get away with.....Like right now 2 furlough days and probably 3 starting in July. Next they will be trying for changing the pay scale. As of right now I figure I am losing approx. $1,000.00 per month! Compared to take home last year.....
Jul 2, '09Will these furloughs include ALL nurses working for the CA prison system? Are there any nurses or other staff who are exempt or is it the same for all facilities and disciplines, including those working in the Bay Area prisons?


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Neptune is direct again in Pisces together with Chiron, Neptune will defy this New Moon in Sagittarius by reminding us that a balance is needed between our dreams and reality as Neptune being the Planet of Dreams and Illusion could make us fall into the trap of just dreaming without even the intention of bringing those dreams into fruition, so Sagittarius energy is here to remind us that dreams are just mere illusions if we do not take the necessary steps for bringing them into form as in the end we are here to manifest the Divine within us into our Human Plane, instead of letting ourselves be carried away by illusory dreams that lead us to nowhere, so it is important to remember that we came here to co-create and keep expanding ourselves into this earthly reality of infinite possibilities within this vast universe of love and light. Neptune direct in Pisces together with Venus and the sun in Sagittarius is a gift if we channel its powerful and deep energy properly, because it could assist us to find what lies behind the surface in all aspects of our lives, as Neptune helps us to go beyond what seems real for us so we can find what truly IS behind our limited minds, in love matters, this planetary combination can also assist us to go deeper into this feeling of falling in love that we have from a human perspective, leading us to experience it in a Divine way as well.
Venus in Sagittarius since November 16 makes our relationships fiery and passionate at the same time we enjoy our freedom we also enjoy to socialize and be with others, sharing our bliss and love for life is what make us reunite in joy and gratitude for all we have, so love in all forms will be plethoric in Sagittarius and abundance will keep pouring to us, remember that love is the main form of abundance and that it is only from pure and Divine Love that all things emanate, so we have another cosmic blessings with Venus being in Sagittarius together with Jupiter the ruler of this same sign in combination with the sun, a perfect opportunity for us to direct this energy into creating something that nurtures not only ourselves but everyone else as this is what unconditional love does, it shares feely without restriction or fears for the highest good of all.
Mercury will also join Sagittarius on November 27, so we are going to pass from going deeper into all matters and bringing into the surface what was hidden, to manifest new opportunities in our lives with the gentle energy of the Centaur who tends to also seek beyond the surface but at the same time enjoys its quest, and every single moment with the joy and gifts that it brings to us, an opportunity to be in perfect alignment with our physical and higher selves, that will give us the harmony and balance we need to keep discovering more of who we are and our True path without the severity that we felt with Scorpio, now it is a time to enjoy every challenge and adventure that we will find in our quest at the same we express our gratitude for all we have accomplish in our journey until this present and perfect moment.
Set your intentions during this wonderful New Moon in Sagittarius, start envisioning all the desires that you would like to create next and remember that these inner desires that come from your Soul, are Divine whispers eager to be expressed by You and not just mere human desires but Source creating through You and the least we can do is to honor this Divine Will within ourselves by expressing our truth and wisdom and sharing our soul gifts with others, so do not be afraid of shining who you are as by doing so, you will be given your unique gift to this world which is precious, unrepeatable and needed!
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According to Cell C coverage map I'm well into 3G coverage area. According to gr8signal and my phone best is Edge.
The gr8signal map is going to make for interesting viewing in weeks to come.
According to Cell C coverage map I'm well into 3G coverage area. According to gr8signal and my phone best is Edge.
The gr8signal map is going to make for interesting viewing in weeks to come.
Installed the app and got a mate to do the same. we just took a walk around our local area one phone on mtn the other on vodacom. lets see what the logs say! will prolly jump in the car next weekend and take a drive around our town. try complete the map..
i think this is a brilliant idea. lets hope the cellular providers take a look at it!
one thing that needs to be improved: when there is no signal it doesn't report the cellular providers name. is it possible to allow selecting your provider each time the app starts?
If anyone on the forum would like me to unlock their account now after registering (till we unlock it for everyone). Please just drop us an email at [email protected] and we'll get your account unlocked during the testing period.
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They won't upload until that phone goes on WiFi or upload over 3g is enabled. There will be a notification showing a whole lot of pending signals to upload.
I don't normally have GPS switched on, does the app use cellular triangulation or AGPS in the absence of real GPS?
I like the fact that it uses wifi by default
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We went to a secluded beach near Durban (Balito) last week, I had the app and my gprs on the whole way. Thought that would show a nice graph. In the end I noticed my signal logs did not show on the map! was very disappointed. Just checked again and they are showing now!
I'm so disappointed I didn't know of the Turbo Mode! That would have given better results. We went to Zimkwazi Beach. You can actually see the few log points now over there! Also only Vodacom and MTN 3G had coverage.
I like the sugestion to pick a provider, because then the app can also log 'no signal' zones.
EDIT: For anyone still reading this thread, I meant to say I had the app and my GPS on the whole way. (Not GPRS). BTW. I'm running the app on my Galaxy Tab2, don't have a Android phone (yet).
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Installed and uploaded some data Awesome idea
@ waste, I think there's a certain time of day when the data gets processed, for some reason i must have hit it on the nail because just after installing the app my few logs around my house showed up... took a walk around and it seems the newer logs haven't been processed. I have my phone set to turbo all the time..
i was also wondering if it uses actual GPS or just the cellular stuff
Picking up dead spots is difficult until we have sufficient logs. Ie someone goes into flight mode or they go into a tunnel (Gautrain).
In a future version of the app were are planning on adding dropped calls.
Also as we get more data we will keep on looking at accurate ways to give you information on dead spots.
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What is the chance of getting access to the raw data?
The company I work for is in the process of launching something similar, but on a global scale ...


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Cassini Sniffs Organic Chemicals Leaking into Space from Saturn Moon, Enceladus
During a flyby of the small moon on March 12th, the Cassini probe detected significant amounts of organic chemicals as it flew through powerful geyser-like jets of ice blasting into space. This active moon appears to be generating organic chemicals much like the substances found in comets. As Cassini bravely travelled through the plume at a speed of 32,000 mph, it was able to take some indirect measurements of the density of the gas from the surprising amount of torque applied to spacecraft. Fortunately the craft was undamaged as the particles bounced off its bodywork…
Cassini took the daring journey through the plumes of ice crystals and gas at 200 km above the moon's surface. It came within 50 km of the surface at closest approach, giving mission scientists an unprecedented view of the mysterious satellites northern hemisphere. Images acquired by Cassini showed a vast, ancient region of pits and craters mixed with cracks, with geysers fizzing chemicals into space. Enceladus is located in the densest region of Saturn's E-ring, possibly indicating there is some relationship between the geyser emissions and ring density.
To discover significant quantities of organic compounds being emitted from the Saturn system is of particular interest to scientists trying to understand how Saturn evolved as the solar system formed.
"A completely unexpected surprise is that the chemistry of Enceladus, what's coming out from inside, resembles that of a comet, to have primordial material coming out from inside a Saturn moon raises many questions on the formation of the Saturn system." – Hunter Waite, principal investigator for the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
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The gases detected, over 20 times more dense than estimated, contained water vapour, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, organic compounds and volatile molecules. Quite an explosive mix. The clouds of gas were so dense that the spacecraft felt the force of the emission, creating a torque. From this, some measurements on gas density were possible.
It is thought Cassini was unharmed during the flyby and it will return in August for an even more daring, lower flyby of this strange, gassy moon.
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Primordial material within Enceladus is sooo promising – maybe it will lead to more funding for NASA (hope). It begs to question deeper exploration of our own moon, as in – lets get the heck back at lunar exploration.
Maybe Cassini's finding shouldn't be all that suprising. I've often heard the mantra; "The Universe is homogenous – that is, everything is the same everywhere." So why not the same for the moons of the outer solar system where these bodies formed under the same conditions?
omfg !!
this is gettin intresting
we need more spacecrafts
the true is out there
David – I'll add the icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt as candidates for life. It'll be mighty primative, but it's out there.
My predictions: Life on Titan is stromatolithic and has already been observed. The low mountain range is a huge, stromatolite reef. The chemistry is carbon based, but very different then on Earth. Most of the biochemical transformations will be of a free-radical nature, not ionic. I'll accept my Nobel Prize, but it'll probably be long after I'm gone.
I'll make a prediction right now. There is active life on Earth, Mars, Europa, Ganymede, Titan and Enceladas. And there was life on Venus.
I base this on 1) The difficulty of eliminating life once it starts 2) The apparent multitude of places that meet or met the criteria for life forming: Liquid water, organic compounds and an energy source
Cool down geek-heads. Yeah, I know, your gonna be talking about finding "life!".
Traveled with 30000 lengths of Madagascan's lizard per second … Please use SI it's a site talking about space science not farmer's crops.
Best wishes.
Can't wait for the next fly by, I hope our future spaccraft can bring some of the material back home like star dust
Lol David,
I love the enthusiasm as I would love to find out there is other life out there.
That being said, just because there are organic chemicals firing from Enceladus and numerous other bodies doesn't exactly make a prediction for life.
I admit, as a race we have a very narrow minded view of the conditiongs for life, given we only have one model to base it off of (carbon based). However, with that being said, I would say the three most likely canidates would be Mars, Europa and Titan, specifically Titan as it has a diverse atmospheric system and planetary conditions.
It sounds very promising. Im very optimistic that there is life out there.
Anybody wanna take some bets? Organic material…….I bet there is life. What kind? I don't have a clue. It appears all the mixes are there…Na, wait a minute. I don't think there is life. Nope! Wait, yes there is…wait, no there isn't. Somebody help me with this. Life…hmmmm no way, no how…..Can we ever know in the near future?
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I don't know if New Mexico State Treasurer Robert Vigil is guilty or innocent of extortion charges any more than our governor knows that Vigil has betrayed the public trust.
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Ryota Igarashi recently received a box of items he had shipped from Japan. When he got the box, he noticed a big hole in the side. Upon opening the box, he realized he was missing three baseball gloves with the number 18 stitched into it. He has put in another order for more baseball gloves but will now have to use the glove that has the number 53 stitched into it (the glove he used when he played for the Swallows).
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Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5) by Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #3.5
Published by Feiwel & Friends on January 27th 2015
Genres: Fantasy, Retelling, Sci-Fi, Young Adult
Pages: 220
In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana's story is finally told.
Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all?
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now.
Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.
Okay, I admit, I was kind of annoyed when Fairest was announced because that meant Winter got pushed back and really, I don't want to like the bad guy! But I recant all that because this novella was pretty awesome.
If you've been living under a rock, this novella/prequel is the story of Levana, the evil Queen of the super fabulous The Lunar Chronicles (seriously, read it now). Technically this is book 0.1 so you could read it first, but there's something really nice about getting this background story/information after you've read the other books, because suddenly now, it gives the books a different perspective.
I'm really impressed with Marissa Meyer, because while she didn't make me like Levana, it definitely gave me a better understanding of her (and her need for her glamour). She was a product of a series of unfortunate events, of a loveless and affection-less childhood and sometimes you can't help but feel pity for her. But at the same time, it was still her choices that led to who she is today. It could only result in tragedy. I actually loved seeing Levana go down the road of destruction, of the people around her, of herself. It strange to think that maybe she wouldn't have turned out this way if she had just chosen a different way to handle the crappy cards dealt to her.
The novella introduces a few new intriguing characters and and the return of some secondary characters (from book 1-3), too. It was really interesting to see everything build up to the events we know that happens in Cinder, Scarlet and Cress. We also get a glimpse of adorable (toddlers) Cinder, Winter and Jacin!
Overall, a fantastically written story with a compelling villain. This a definite must-read if you love the Lunar Chronicles.
She hated mirrors. Hated their reflections, their truths.
PS. Pretty art!
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1. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopRodWard May 22, 2012 7:21 AM (in response to jfine1107)
OK. I think that's three different threads you've started on this same topic in the past hour or less. Perhaps you're imagining that your chances of getting an answer to this will increase if you have more threads, but I assure you the opposite is more likely. Double-posting (or in your case triple-posting) is only going to annoy people.
For the record, Captivate is designed to capture screens best on the computer on which it is installed. Capturing remote desktops will always be problematic and manual captures are required more often because Captivate cannot 'hear' all the screen events required to trigger captures.
There's little you can do about the default text added into the captions other than editing the RDC file inside the Captivate install directory. But that's usually not worth it. I prefer to turn off the automatic captions and add my own afterward because Captivate always adds far more than I need and the default text always needs chaning. It is what it is.
2. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopjfine1107 May 22, 2012 11:44 AM (in response to RodWard)
Thank you for the information, and I apologize for the triple posts; I
am old in age and new to posting and wasn't sure my posts were going
So now I know they were and will not make the same mistake again.
Jeanne M. Fine
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Message was edited by: Captiv8r - Removed personal information
3. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopRodWard May 22, 2012 7:32 AM (in response to jfine1107)
That's OK. No penalties for a first offense...
There are several of us that watch every single thread that gets posted on this forum. If you put up a question, you'll usually get an answer within the hour 24/7 because we all live in different parts of the world. One thread is all you need.
Having said that...there's no guarantee that you're going to love the answer. There are some things about the reality of creating e-learning with current technologies that we cannot do much about. Your issue is just one of those things.
4. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopCaptiv8r May 22, 2012 11:46 AM (in response to RodWard)
Hi there
I've deleted the other two posts.
Jeanne, you may want to read the threads below, as they are intended to help new folks.
Cheers... Rick
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5. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopjfine1107 May 22, 2012 11:52 AM (in response to Captiv8r)
thanks Rick. do you concur with RodWard above that the issues i am encountering when trying to use Captivate to record in a remote desktop environment are just 'the way it is' and not likely to be addressed in any way?
6. Re: cp 5.5 captures w/remote desktopCaptiv8r May 22, 2012 5:33 PM (in response to jfine1107)
Hi there
Absolutely I would concur. As Rod said, when you are recording via Remote Desktop, Captivate can't understand the events that trigger things such as clicking on menus and the like.
I suppose if I were to try and offer an analogy, it would be this. Imagine the guys in the space shuttle. They use remote control and a TV screen to control the huge mechanical arm that is used to reach out and grab parts of a satellite. They are unable to actually hear the contact of the arm with the device because they simply aren't there next to it.
I'm not sure if that analogy is valid, but hopefully you get the drift. I tried.
Cheers... Rick
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« Towards the mobile wallet. | Main | Android – not so Alien among mobile platforms »
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep...
Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep was the Title of Philip K. Dick's book which was the basis for the cultfilm Blade Runner. The plot, where Harrison Ford playing Android hunter Dackart, is trying to spot Androids among people. Faxes from real. I do not know why I woke up with this thought and thinking of Google's play in the mobile phone operating system market. It this is serious effort or a fake one?
I am generally pleased to see that more players are moving into this space as competition stimulates innovation, which benefits the end users. Mobile phone operating systems are one the one hand extremly sophisticated and on the other hand very primitive. With primitive I means as they are such gigant SW efforts of hundreds of people they evolve slowly, looking like they are stuck in the past. Remember that Nokia makes 10000 permutations of their phones. See this interesting piece at Business Week.
Linux will change the game, in the way that it will replace the core part of the SW, and shift the innovation to a higher level. When it in the past took 4-5 years to build an mobile operating system it now could take much less, maybe 2 years or so. The effort is probably also reduced from several hundreds of people to maybe a hundred to make a phone, less if you do not want the differentiation. Again in that time one does not make a customisable platform only a phone. If one wants to sell it to lots of players it needs enless amount of customisation and I wonder is Google going to do that? Maybe they can hire some Androids to code these boring customisation features making them run in the 800+ mobile networks, all wanting to have differentiated handsets one way or another.
The big question for me is: who will control the user experience? It seems to me that the operators now get SW assets that will allow them to control it further, hence possible everyone looses, as they will promote their own device and having even more control than when these SW assets were not controlled by them. Quoting the Open Handset Alliance Q&A"Why is an open platform good for mobile operators? The overall cost of handsets will be lower and mobile operators will have complete flexibility to customize and differentiate their product lines. Furthermore, they will see much more rapid innovation in handsets and in services." This is a dangerous thing for the end users, it gives more power to the operators. If the UI is controlled by Google, and they dictate the reference UI then things get interesting. They can do that, by controlling the tools and by controlling the licensing agreement under which this is open sourced. If Qualcomm would take this asset, add it on top of their chipsets, add UI One, you suddenly can get the whole thing from Qualcomm, hmmm. pretty interesting.
It will be interesting to see how the open source community reacts, one of the lessons from the MobileCamp London where the creators of the OpenMoko phone platform was present, was that Linux will enable increased fragmentation in the mobile application market. This is one place where Google can add some value, they can provide the reference and maybe have the momentum to see it prevail. But then it is the GPhone. My qestion is who will raise to become the champion of the open mobile UI, as that is the real next battle ground. Google just made that a battle of more players not less. In democracy a leader is still needed.
Another thing which is really interesting is monetisation. It is not free to have several hundred of SW engineers working on something. The Google guys are not dumb, once there is 'Google' software in thousands of phone models and millions of phones, it could in a magical way turn itself very Google friendly and 'whopsee' very Yahoo unfriendly, it could auto update with new Google apps, it could feed Google profile information, now polling at system level rather than from an app silo in Java or Symbian as present.
What Google gets is a client server architecture deployed, which is crucial when dealing with mobility, as good data coverage is never as good as good voice coverage. For example the phonebook needs to be native on the device or the sim card rather than in the sky. Yes, it also needs to be in the sky for auto updating etc.
So in the end I ask myself, can one trust an Android, atleast I need to consult my open source friends and some lawyers to help me read their TOS, before I resort to retina scans, like Dackard in Blade Runner...back to sleep, back to dreaming...
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>Remember that Nokia makes 10000 permutations of their phones.
Christian, are you trying to say that Nokia no longer use designers and enginers to create next versions of their product line, but rather rely on chaos and genetic ? Interesting...
Posted by: Pavel at Nov 7, 2007 12:11:51 PM
Interesting article, I absolutely love the name and the tie in to Philip K. Dick . I think that the community building on an open platform will lead to much more diversity and innovation in the mobile market as we have seen in the desktop market with linux getting more popular with Ubuntu. Thats what I am staking the success of my blog on haha
Posted by: Alex Hortin at Nov 12, 2007 5:53:18 AM
Posted by: Tomota at Apr 10, 2008 10:38:30 AM
Technology has gone so far. Nokia was the first to have its cool innovation on such mobile phones. Talking about androids used by many to operate some task are somewhat not safe and cannot deploy the actions of human. They cannot give the assurance and safety brought by human services at all times.
Posted by: international call rates at Feb 16, 2011 11:40:00 AM
I usually play Linux games, and I am entertained by it. There are different apps now available on various mobile phones and probably many are getting in to download different versions.
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Originally posted by Zeta_101
If they are not, then these individuals should have been under arrest.
Originally posted by Jamuhn
What is it with Muslims in Britain that they are so crazy?
By the way, do you have a link that this actually took place during a peace rally?
Originally posted by Shabaz
And the British citizens let them march like this because??? Insult your soccer team and you start a riot but have a religion threaten your life and you let it go? Cowards! If that happened in America the good citizens would kill them in the streets and deservingly so.
Originally posted by Shabaz
And the British citizens let them march like this because??? Insult your soccer team and you start a riot but have a religion threaten your life and you let it go? Cowards! If that happened in America the good citizens would kill them in the streets and deservingly so.
Originally posted by Ezekiel
Okay have done a bit of quick research and these photos were actually taken during a rally following the publication of the infamous "Dutch cartoons" that muslims got all pissy about.
Still, regardless of the situation those photos are a sad indictment of "peace loving" muslims.
Full story
Originally posted by Jamuhn
But, you should probably change your original post so that it accurately reflects where this event took place.
In Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades, British historian Christopher Tyerman challenges many assumptions about the epic conflicts that began when Pope Urban II summoned Christians to invade areas of the Middle East in 1095. Christian troops conquered Jerusalem, killing most of the city's inhabitants, and Western-sponsored states were established in Syria and Palestine.
"Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?. But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"... "But Jesus said, "No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him." (Mat.26:50-54, Lk.22:51)...
Far from the crusaders being the aggressors, it was the Muslim armies which had spread Islam from Saudi Arabia across the whole of Christian North Africa into Spain and even France within the first century after the death of Muhammad. Muslim armies sacked and slaughtered their way across some of the greatest Christian cities in the world, including Alexandria, Carthage, Antioch and Constantinople. These Muslim invaders destroyed over 3,200 Christian churches just in the first 100 years of Islam.
Originally posted by xihaoli321456
Although you may find the viewpoints of these muslims offensive, you should also remeber you yourself can also be called guilty of such discrimitory remarks.
From my viewpoint, the same people that have expressed their true colors on these threads are not much better, if not worse, than the people depicted in these photos.
A historical example would be the confrontations during the 60s between the nation of islam extremists and "right-winged" southerners.
If the west is to truly earn the trust and leadership of the free world, than they should set an example by adhereing first to their religious principal of peace and co-operation. Unless of couse, people here actually want more war and bloodshed.......
Lets face it, the western world does not have a good track record in their treatment of defenceless colored nations......
Being chinese, one aspect I look at is numbers, for they hardly lie. (unlike news sources....)
40 000 - 100 000 dead muslims, vs 3000 dead westerners. Is this truly justice?
Would love to see them try that kinda # in Australia. Especially somewhere like Cronulla...
Originally posted by gps777
Disturbing pics Ezekiel thanks for sharing them.
Your an Aussie too i see
Thing is these type of Muslim people more than likely wont protest like wise as your pic`s from England show because there would be a huge outcry and/or repercussions here ì`d bet.
But i dont know which would be worse,letting them show themselves as extremists and keep tags on them or have these type of extremists quietly living among us teaching and encouraging peaceful Muslims to become extremists.
"Freedom go to Hell" "Europe you will pay your 9/11 is on its way" "butcher exterminate massacre slay Behead those who mock/insult Islam"
If Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion where is the loud and deafening outcry from the supposed majority who are peaceful denouncing these scum bags at the same and should be greater noise level as the cartoon incident?and if the world has`nt seen such pictures as these they should,but what of all the Muslims here on ATS where are their voices?
or have we heard it in the bringing up of the crusades?


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A blogspot dedicated to my existence as a full-time writer in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, and celebrating the world of weird fiction and poetry.
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Dreaming of Providence
Been rereading "The Haunter of the Dark," and that always makes me dream of Providence. In the photo above I am standing in front of Lovecraft's final home, where he wrote the story. It seems I cannot read "Haunter" without also wanting to reread one of my favourite Robert Bloch stories, "The Shadow from the Steeple," whut Bob wrote as a sequel to "The Haunter of the Dark." And always...always, reading those stories together fills me with an ache to write my own wee sequel to "The Shadow from the Steeple," to continue the myth of the daemonic force that haunted Providence in those stories. This writing of sequels to Lovecraft's tales, or tales inspired by him, seems a peculiarly Lovecraftian disease, and I love it. Yuggoth knows that there are many such stories that I dream of writing, but Yog knows if I'll ever get around to writing any of them. Still--still, this new ache to write a sequel to Bob's story seems rather potent at ye moment, so we shall see. I need to write at least 30,000 or 40,000 words of new original fiction for my second collection forthcoming from Centipede Press, and I've decided I want that book to be Lovecraftian-to-ye-core.
Getting rather excited about World Horror Convention next month, so I am; although I'm glad I'll be there for two days only, as I get so worn out with the required activity. S. T. Joshi is my ride to and from the convention, and he needs to leave no later than noon on Saturday so as to be home in time to prepare to sing that evening with his choral group. Friday is gonna be a busy day for me. I have a Lovecraft panel at eleven in ye morning, and then David Barker and I will be doing a special 2:00 p. m. signing of our new book at the Book Bin table in ye dealer's room (followed at 3:00 p. m. by Ellen Datlow doing a special signing of her fab new anthology, LOVECRAFT'S MONSTERS). Then from six to nine p. m. is the mass autograph session with all of the horror writers at the convention. Directly after that is the special launch party for S. T.'s new anthology, SEARCHERS AFTER DARK, in which I have a new Sesqua story. Whew, that's all gonna wear me down, but it's also gonna be such fun. Hope to see some of y'all there!
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Above, Maryanne Snyder and I contemplate H. P. Lovecraft's final home, where he lived when he wrote what is perhaps my favourite of his tales, "The Haunter of the Dark." I'm glad I was able to stand before this house last summer, as I will never again return to Providence, travelling being so arduous for me due to increasing poor health. I once dreamed of living in Providence, of writing my final Lovecraftian tales as a resident there; but I am far too settled in my present home, with my cats and my handsome companion, and it is here that I will compose my final books.
My next book, out next month, will be the 33,000 word novella, THE REVENANT OF REBECCA PASCAL, that I co-wrote with my pal David Barker, published in hardcover and trade pb by Dark Renaissance Books. David and I originally wrote the novella to be part of our collection for DRB, SPECTRES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR, but our publisher decided to bring it out as a wee single volume, and so David and I have been working on two new things of length to fill the void. I wrote a very rough first version of a thing I called "In the Gulfs of Dream" (a title Lovecraft was considering for "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"), set in Dreamland and concerning Cyrus, the child of Sesqua Valley who was abducted and taken to the dream world by Nyarlathotep at the end of my tale, "The Strange Dark One." This new thing of mine came to 9,000 words, but it needs a lot of work, so now David is going to expand it, writing new scenes and bringing in new characters, so that maybe we can give my original another 10,000 words or so.
I am slowly writing my book of homage to Clark Ashton Smith, but it has proven far more difficult that I anticipated. I like the challenge and am determined to do justice to CAS in my own weird way.
The next main book I am working on is my second omnibus collection for Centipede Press. My working title for the book is MONSTROUS AFTERMATH. It will include such things as my new 40,000 word version of SOME UNKNOWN GULF OF NIGHT, and I am spending the rest of this year writing some new original stories for the collection. Now that BOHEMIANS OF SESQUA VALLEY is no longer available in book form, I want also to include four of its original pieces: "An Ecstasy of Fear," "Unhallowed Places," "This Splendor of the Goat" and "A Quest of Dream" (although the last named story will soon be reprinted in a major weird fiction anthology, I still think I want to include it in ye Centipede book). "Unhallowed Places" is a prose-poem sequence, and I plan on expanded it by 10,000 words, bringing it to a total of 20,000.
So, that's what I'm doing. I'm experiencing, at ye moment, a boring inability to write--or rather, an inability to concentrate on work. My mind is a thing of chaos and I can't stop its grotesque buzzing and wandering. I cannot seem to relax enough to fully concentrate on one thing. Perhaps I will be able to settle down after World Horror Convention, during which I will be frantically busy although I am on but one panel, a Lovecraft panel with S. T. Joshi, Cody Goodfellow, Ellen Datlow and others. The new book from DRB will have its official release at the convention, and David and I will be holding a special signing in the dealer's room at 2:00 p. m. on Friday. This will be my last convention ever.
Shalom, my darlings.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
Ye link above will take you to Leslie Klinger's blog in which he listed ye entire Contents for THE NEW ANNOTATED H. P. LOVECRAFT. I shall soon have a galley of the book and will add to this post a video shewing the book at length. I think it's gonna be awesome,y'all!
Ye link above will take you to Leslie Klinger's blog in which he listed ye entire Contents for THE NEW ANNOTATED H. P. LOVECRAFT. I shall soon have a galley of the book and will add to this post a video shewing the book at length. I think it's gonna be awesome,y'all!
|me with editor Leslie S. Klinger in Providence, Rhode Island 2013
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Friday, April 18, 2014
The Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction: H. P. LOVECRAFT
This is the second volume of the new Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction. The theme of this series is just that: weird fiction, no fantasy, mystery, of science fiction. Therefore, there are none of the Dunsanian tales by Lovecraft in this thick volume of 859 pages.
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
The Picture in the House
The Outsider
The Music of Erich Zann
Herbert West--Reanimator
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Festival
The Shunned House
Cool Air
The Call of Cthulhu
Pickman's Model
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Colour out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
From S. T.'s Introduction: "I have determined that Lovecraft's 'Dunsanian' tales--beginning with 'The White Ship' (1919) and culminating with The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926-27)--are less central to the weird tradition than his tales of supernatural horror, including those tales that verge on science fiction. Accordingly, all the Dunsanian tales, for all their and merit, have been excluded.
"I have also been compelled to be selective in regard to the short, macabre stories of the first decade of Lovecraft's literary career (1917-26). Entertaining and significant as some of these tales are, they are dwarfed in importance by the longer tales of Lovecraft's final decade of writing. I have therefore included only a small number of the pre-1926 tales, focusing on those that are of intrinsic merit and those that have had significant influence on subsequent weird writing."
The stories are arranged in order of writing rather than publication. It was originally planned that some of Lovecraft's weird verse would also be included, but the publisher felt that there was not sufficient space, and so no poetry appears in the book. It's a very handsome, solid book, with a sewn-in red ribbon marker. One nice wee feature is Lovecraft's signature embossed on the front board. The book is available for pre-order at Amazon for a significant savings of $20--I believe the price at Centipede Press will be $60.
It is strange that so many editions of Lovecraft's fiction are coming forth this year. This is the first, and will soon be followed by the individual illustrated volumes of nine of Lovecraft's tales from PS Publishing. Then we will have S. T.'s THE VARIORUM LOVECRAFT in three volumes. And finally, the huge THE NEW ANNOTATED H. P. LOVECRAFT edited by Leslie Klinger. (Leslie is sending me one of the galleys of the NEW ANNOTATED HPL, so I'll be able to shew that on YouTube.) One ponders: who is going to buy all of these various editions? Hopefully, Lovecraft is popular enough that there are plenty readers with different preferences for the kindof editions they desire, and all of these books will find homes.
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Monday, April 14, 2014
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Ye first three volumes of PS Publishings LOVECRAFT ILLUSTRATED are about to be unleash'd upon ye world. Part of ye allure that this series has for me is that some of the volumes will include essays written about Lovecraft's tales, and one of my initial introductions to literary criticism, for which I now have a passion, came from reading such criticism in publications such as LOVECRAFT STUDIES and CRYPT OF CTHULHU. In the PS Publishing illustrated volume for THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE, besides a new Introduction by S. T. Joshi, there will be a Foreword by Stuart Gordon, who filmed the story for telly; and a reprinting of "Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin," by Fritz Leiber.
For THE DUNWICH HORROR volume, for which S. T. has written a new Introduction, there will be included a foreword by series artist Pete Von Sholly, "The Mythic Hero Archetype in 'The Dunwich Horror'", by Donald R. Burleson, and one of my old essays from ye 1990's (and reprinted in a 2003 issue of Crypt of Cthulhu, I think) in my "Lustcraft" columns for TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR. I am slightly dubious about the worthiness of this latter for inclusion in an actual book, thrill'd as I am to be included at all.
"The Dunwich Horror" was one of the stories that most delighted me when I first read H. P. Lovecraft, and it is a story to which I often return and continue to find satisfying--despite what I see as an extremely silly ending. I mean, to pack some magick powder into a pesticide gun and then proceed to a haunted Dunwich hill so as to shoot ye powder at some invisible cosmic grotesque:
ye can just barely see the pesticide gun in Santiago Caruso's wonderful illustration above, carry'd by ye chappie at ye back of ye line. Sorry, my dear E'ch-Pi-El--it just doesn't work for me. And what purpose does the powder serve, except to make visible the monster so that it may be vividly described? Yet, despite misgivings about ye climax of the tale, I do not at all agree with S. T. Joshi that the story is an artistic failure. There is too much in it that is wonderful, evocative, delicious. Lovecraft is often derided for being unable to create interesting, realistic characters. First, such characters were not his concern as an author, and had he concentrated on them it would have been an artistic misstep. However, with just the slightest of strokes, Lovecraft in this story creates three distinct characters that are absolutely fascinating. Little is told of Lavinia Whateley; but we learn enough so that a fascinating portrait is suggested, enough so that an ingenious writer could fashion an entire novel concerning Miss Whateley from just the few mentions we have of her in this story. Indeed, the magnificent poet, Ann K. Schwader, has written an entire sonnet sequence, Lavinia; here is one of ye poems:
She heard the voice of thunder in the hills,
& knew it for a summons. Wandering
Alone among the ageless stones, she thrilled
At premonitions subtler than spring
Might spark in other maidens. All she'd read
& wondered at came clear, as though a gate
Had opened for a moment in her head,
Revealing her both cursed & fortunate
Past human comprehension. Lightning split
The sky in triumph as she turned for home
Convinced of chaos & her place in it,
Exulting in the mystery to come
Beyond this last brief spate of April rains:
A black tide rising, surging in her veins.
And what of Wilbur? No cinematic version has yet to capture the power of this creature as it is portrayed in Lovecraft's prose. The aspect of Wilbur's sinister and unearthly nature, especially when he be fully grow'd and of towering height, is a masterpiece of dramatic writing. Lovecraft captures, superbly and absolutely, the Outside nature of this gigantic hillbilly, and the degrees of fantastic mental abilities that lies beneath the facade of country bumpkin-ism. This is rich character writing, perfectly suited to the story in its ability to both arouse fearful suspicion and move the plot. Lovecraft's characters shew, as does his excellent prose style, that he was in full artistic control as a writer. Despite his repeated complaints that he had fail'd to accomplish what he wanted to as an artist, his fiction has survived and continues to stay in print because it is, in every way, successful.
And nigh we get this awesome new illustrated edition of this remarkable story!
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Saturday, April 5, 2014
Fedogan & Bremer
I am, at last, publish'd in a Fedogan & Bremer book! I love that press so much, and ever since Arkham House went inactive, I kinda thought of F&B as a new Arkham House. Thus it seems more than fitting that S. T. Joshi should continue the fabulous Arkham House tradition of publishing new anthologies of original weird fiction. Searchers After Horror looks fantastic. The interior illustrations by Rodger Gerberding really enhance the handsome volume. This book is a thing of quality, and of authentic weird richness. I've listed its Contents in a blog below, but want again to post a link to the publisher so that you may order the book yourself -- www.fedoganandbremer.com
I did, alas, find two typos in my tale, and they both originate from my typed Microsoft Word doc, so it's my fault. I thought I had totally proofed that story when S. T. sent us ye file. Now, as much as I love and admire S. T., I have qualms about some of his editorial practices--the main one being his attitude, which I only just discover'd, about proofing. Black Wings III is a fantastic anthology, but it is riddled with a wretched amount of misprints. When I chided S. T. about this, his defense was that he had sent the proofs to all of the writers and it was our job to see that our text was error-free. To this I say "nay." If you are the editor of a book, if your name is on the cover, is should be one of your duties to also proof that anthology. Because you will get the blame, along with the publisher, for the typos therein. If my name was on a book as its editor, I would want very much to go over all of the stories carefully in final proof to make certain that this book is error-free.
Anyway, it's always great to sell a story to a Joshi anthology, and I am thrill'd to be in this one. Below is ye illustration to my story.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
LOVECRAFT ILLUSTRATED soon to crawl forth from PS Publishing! Ia!!
Now, as many of ye know full well, I am a very serious Lovecraftian. When it comes to H. P. Lovecraft as an author, y'all better shew him some respect. Thus, when I first began to witness ye artwork of Pete Von Sholly, I was confused and slightly annoy'd. I mean, I digs me artwork that illustrates these stories that I love so much -- but this artist had such a perverse sense of whimsy that rather disconcerted me. And when I look at ye above spread from THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE, one particular illustration evokes from my antique lips a soft murmur of, "oy gevalt...." But I can say with all honesty that I have become a fan. And I became so excited when PS Publishing [www.pspublishing.co.uk] announc'd their initial nine volumes of LOVECRAFT ILLUSTRATED, I was delighted. I became really excited, and I arranged with S. T. Joshi (who has written new Introductions for all nine volumes) to buy the series directly from him when he got his extra copies. Then I got invited to write essay for some few volumes, and thus I get free contributor copies of all nine volumes, Yok-Sotot!! Speaking of Yog-Sothoth:
I am overjoy'd to be a part of this series. I love essays concerning the fiction of E'ch-Pi-El as much as I adore artwork that illustrates it, and for some of these volumes, the books will be filled out with essays old and new concerning the story of that particular volume. I have written new original essays for THE CALL OF CTHULHU, THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, and THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME; & for THE DUNWICH HORROR, one of my old essays from TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR will be reprinted. The first three volumes, soon to be available, will consist of THE DREAM-QUEST OF
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
CAS-inspir'd collection feebly begun
I have, for years, ached to write a book inspir'd by ye brilliant fiction and poetry of Clark Ashton Smith. The thing that stopped me from doing so is a feeling that I wou'd merely write a book of stories that were more Lovecraftian than Smithean. With the publication of S. T.'s Penguin Classics edition of Smith's work, my resolve to write my own book hath increas'd. I have nigh written a very rough first draft of the book's first story, "Some Hidden Rift of Ruin" (the title is from "The Treader of the Dust"). One thing I don't wish to do is set my stories in any of Smith's fantastic realms. Rather, I want to invent my own kingdom in ye Ashton Smith tradition. I have done this, I think (I cannot clearly remember the story) with a story that was publish'd in Weird Fiction Review, naming my kingdom Khroyd'hon, after the "dream aspect" of Ssequa Valley's Mount Selta. My own setting will be an expanded and fantastical reinvention of Sesqua Valley as a Smithean locality. The white twin-peaked mountain will be red and far more actively daemonic. I will have wizards and mummies and witches, and sorcery up ye arse.
I think, this time, after so many false starts, I am determined to write this book, although I have no set schedule or timeline for its completion. I want to enjoy this delicious project to ye full, and thus I will take me time, aye. Of course, because I am unstable in all my ways, in writing ye polish revision of this first story, I am going to add a wee Lovecraftian node, as I want to submit ye tale to S. T. for Black Wings V.........
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I put up a post about Sikhs' role and their bravery in WWII ( LINK )and received a comment that these Sikhs who fought with the British were traitors and should not be considered "HEROES" at all. JUST BECAUSE THEIR FACES ARE NOT ON THE CURRENCY NOTE, DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE ANY LESS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FREEDOM OR EVEN LESSER "HEROES".
It is very easy to condemn or bash something when a person is unaware of related facts. Due to information overload in recent years, people now feel that they know all there is to know and others simply cannot be as informed as themselves. And I don't blame them since unless one is looking for such information, there is none to be found in mainstream education system or otherwise. It is with this thought in mind that I present some historical facts about Sikhs, their contributions and sacrifices in shaping the history of the land we now call India.
NOTE: We don't want to discriminate freedom fighters on the basis of cast, panth or mazhab. We want to negate the history written by the Nehruvians and Leftists and try to put facts forward to let all know who think SIKH did not play a "ROLE" in our freedom.
Let's start from the beginning:
Sikhism is one of the youngest religions in the world, coming into existence just over 500 years ago. Irrespective of this fact and with a population of only 2% in India, their history is full of sacrifices and hard work that has contributed so much towards the building of the Indian nation, without which the course of Indian history would have been very different.
In 1710, Banda Singh Bahadur was the first Indian to re-establish Indian rule after seven centuries of foreign rule in India. He fought fierce battles with the forces of Aurangzeb, although this was short lived.
Between 1713 and 1801 the Sikhs were homeless and living as Guerillas, demonstrating heroic acts of courage at every possible instance. The tyrant rulers had put a reward of Rs. 25 for every Sikh head and Rs. 100 for every Sikh caught alive. The money is compared to hundred thousand US dollars of today. Those caught alive were cut to pieces. Many new vocabularies originated, such as 12 o' clock warriors, Sikh who fought at midnight to use the darkness to their advantage.
After the return of Nadir Shah to Persia, Zakhariya Khan went on a rampage against the Sikh movement and killed 10,000 of them in a short span of time.
Finally, Sikhs under Ranjit Singh, in 1798 bought an end to the 800 years of foreign invasions into India through Khyber pass, by bringing it under their control. This was the best gift Sikhs gave to the nation which finally allowed the rest of India to breathe in peace. Hari Singh Nalwa, who manned the Khyber Pass for years became a name of threat in Afghanistan. Ranjit Singh brought the world famous Kohinoor diamond back to India, which was looted by Nadir Shah earlier.
If it was not for the Sikhs, who brought back Kashmir in 1819, today Kashmir would have been a part of Afghanistan. Ladakh owes its existence on the map of India to Zorawar Singh, who brought the region back to India in 1836.
The Battle of Saragarhi was fought on 12 September 1897 at the North West province of India between twenty-one Sikhs of the 4th Battalion of the Sikh Regiment defending an army post against 10,000 Afghans. All 21 Sikhs fought till the last bullet had been fired against the Afghan army. Twenty one Sikh soldiers then charged with their Kirpans to be eventually cut down to pieces. The easier way out would have been to surrender but the spirit of Sikhs has always made them do what Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Guru had said, "Grant me this wish, O Sword. I may never fear to stand up for righteousness. I may not fear when I go to war. If my defeat is definitive, I may die fighting in the battlefield for the sake of righteousness".
Sikhs were the first to rise and fight invasions by Pakistan in 1960s and 1970s. Pakistan's invasion lead to full force wars between Indian and Pakistan. Again Sikh, this time joining hands with Hindus contributed and laid their lives down to protect the borders and freedom of India. Pakistan lost all the wars.
Contribution of Sikhs towards the Indian Defense Services is the highest with respect to their 2% population size. This community has also won the maximum number of gallantry awards since independence – 5 Param Vir Chakras (PVCs), 40 Maha Vir Chakras (MVCs), 209 Vir Chakras (VrCs).
Today Sikhs are still 2% of the population of Indian but 20% of Indian Military consists of Sikhs. As a part of Indian Military, Sikhs have constantly been fighting Muslim terrorists on the border of Pakistan and India since last India-Pakistan war.
During the phase of English rule, Sikhs played leading role in the independence struggle. Some details in short:
Following is the contribution of Sikhs who are less than 2% of the population of India in the freedom struggle against the British:
Hanged by British 121, 93 Sikhs – 77%
Life Imprisonment 2646, 2147 Sikhs – 81%
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1300, 799 Sikhs, 62%
Book source: "History of Indian National Congress
After two bloody Anglo-Sikh wars British finally managed to take over Punjab as the last kingdom on the map of British-India Empire. It is an irony of fate that the Sikhs had to fight against their own countrymen as British forces employed Indians from the South to invade Punjab. It was not due to lack of soldiers' courage or conviction that the wars against British were lost, but a treachery by Gulab Singh, a Hindu minister under Ranjit Singh, who joined hands with the British in exchange for the title of Kashmir upon winning the war.
In 1824, Sikh majority company 47 Native Infantry refused to fight against Burmese brothers but rather supported them. For this mutiny, Sir Edward sentenced 879 Sikhs to death on November 11, 1824.
In 1824, Talpedar Vijay Singh of Kunja in Roorkee leads in the mutiny of army. 211 Sikh army men killed in gun fire, 18 were hanged.
October 14, 1925, Grenadiers Company refused to suppress Assamese. Two Sikhs, who were responsible for this act, Kartar Singh and Hari Singh, were hanged.
KUKA MOVEMENT – The ORIGINAL "SWADESHI APNAO" movement:
In 1857, about 70 years before non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi, Baba Ram Singh started a non-cooperation movement against the British Raj. English language, English clothes, government services, courts, Post Office, rail and railway were totally boycotted. For this defiance, 82 Sikhs were tied to canons & blown apart by British. Sikhs were the only Indian community to be internationally acclaimed as early as 1897 for their heroism and courage.
In 1871, anti-cow slaughter movement was started by Namdhari Saints. Slaughter houses were removed from Amritsar. Two butchers were killed in the process.
Ludhiana 1882: Attempt to occupy artillery depot outside; 42 Sikhs martyred.
1907: Movement of 'Pagri Sambhal…..' by S. Ajit Singh (uncle of S. Bhagat Singh).
In 1913, Ghadar Party was formed in San Fransisco's historic place Astoria in America to overthrow the British Empire. The founding president of the Ghadar Party was Sardar Sohan Singh Bhakana. Other leaders are Sardar Kesar Singh Thargarh – Vice President, Lala Hardayal – Secretary, Lala Thakur Dhuri – Joint Secretary, Sardar Kartar Singh Sarabha, Sardar Santokh Singh etc.
1908: Foundation of Babbar Akali Laher
1914: Kamagata Maru – Out of 376 travelers, 355 were Sikhs. During firing by British at Baj-Baj Port in Calcutta, 67 Sikhs were martyred.
October 24, 1914: A Jatha of 170 Sikhs – all non resident Indians, reached Mumbai Port where all of them were arrested and sent to Montgomery and Multan Jail that was infamous for torturing prisoners.
March 1915: About 3125 Sikhs reached India from different countries to protest the events of 'Kamagatta Maru'.
1915 and 1916: Kartar Singh Sarabha and his colleagues were arrested in an army mutiny case. The British Empire called it "The Lahore conspiracy case".
November 24, 1917: 12 Sikhs were hanged, 24 other Sikhs received death penalties from different courts.
April 13, 1919: During Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, about 1300 people were killed out of which 769 were Sikhs. Udham Singh killed General O' Dier in vengeance.
August 9, 1921: During Morcha 'Guru Ka Bagh' of Shiromani Akali Dal, many sikh martyred.
1921-1924: Gurudwara Sudhar Laher started, a non-violent movement during which 500 Sikhs were martyred.
Movement against Colony Act: Those who received life imprisonment were all Sikhs.
1914-1915: In Lahore central jail, 18 patriots belonging to Babar and Gaderites were hanged, life imprisonment of 28 Sikhs.
5 Brave Sikhs were hanged in 'Lahore supplementary case', 91 received life imprisonment out of which 90 were Sikhs. 50 Indians received other sentences, out of which 49 were Sikhs.
1931: Some freedom fighters were sent to Andaman prison. Sardar Rattan Singh and his companions tried to free them, were arrested and killed.
Bhagat Singh, a great revolutionary and patriot who threw a bomb inside the Parliament. Due to the Gandhi-Irvin pact, he was sentenced to death by hanging as a terrorist.
Founder of 'Azad Hind Fauz' was General Mohan Singh. Netaji Subhash Chander Bose became part of it after eight years.
Out of 42,000 army men of Azad Hind Fauz, 28,000 were Sikhs.
Of all the sentences carried out for kalapani in Andaman prison, majority of prisoners were Sikh.
During the Partition of India, about one million people were killed, out of which 450,000 dead were Sikhs.
After reading the above, can one seriously think that Sikhs were traitors and should not receive any recognition for their bravery and valor ?
I rest my case!!