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Polytechnics in Kolkata
There are several polytechnics in Kolkata keeping in mind the need for providing training and education on industrial arts related to specific technical fields. Polytechnics play an important role advancing technical education in Kolkata. The polytechnics are becoming popular educational destinations in Kolkata because more and more people are opting to take up courses, which will help them in getting employed in the profession of their choice.
This section provides complete information about polytechnic institutes in Kolkata. It also provides the contact details of each and every polytechnic institutes in Kolkata. The best polytechnics in Kolkata are covered here. If any polytechnic institutes in Kolkata is missing in this list, kindly inform us using our Contact Form. Students studying in polytechnic institutes in Kolkata can also write to us to give their reviews and feedback.
We have made the best efforts to provide accurate information on Kolkata polytechnic institutes. This list of polytechnic institutes in Kolkata is compiled from various authentic sources and hence can be relied upon. Still if there are any errors, please do let us know using our Contact Form. Remember, www.Kolkataeducation.net is your best source for all educational information in Kolkata.
Polytechnics in Kolkata offer educational courses in the most emerging fields of technical education, which is attracting student enrollment more and more. Polytechnics are institutions, which provide higher education on various technical fields of study. The institutions are affiliated to All India Council of Technical Education - AICTE.
The polytechnics in Kolkata offer courses on Civil, Electric, Mechanical and Instrumentation Engineering, Automobile Engineering Computer Science & Technology, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Printing Technology, Photography, Printing Technology etc. The Kolkata polytechnics colleges also offer courses like footwear technology, tool and die making and architectural assistantship.
Given below is the list of polytechnics in Kolkata:
1. A.P.C. Roy Polytechnic (AICTE Approved)
Raja S.C.Mullick Road, P.O. Jadavpur UniversityKolkata 700 032, 24 Parganas (S)
Courses : Civil Engineering (Seats:60), Electrical Engineering (Seats:40), Mechanical Engineering (Seats:60), Computer Science & Technology (Seats:60), Instrumentation Engineering (Seats:30)
2. Air Technical Training Institute (AICTE Approved)
Nazrul Islam Sarani, Kaikhali Kolkata 700 052, 24 Parganas (N)
Courses : Automobile Engineering Computer Science & Technology (60 Seats each)
3. Birla Institute of Technology (AICTE Approved)
56, B. T. Road-700 050, 24 Parganas (N)
Courses : Electrtonics & Telecom. Engg. Mechanical Engineering (60 Seats each)
4. Calcutta Technical School (AICTE Approved)
110, S. N. Banerjee Road Kolkata 700 013
Courses : Electrical Engineering (Seats:40), Mechanical Engineering (Seats:60), Marine Engineering (Sandwitch- 4yrs) (Seats:60), Computer Sciences & Technology (Seats:60)
5. Central Calcutta Polytechnic (AICTE Approved)
21, Convent Road Kolkata 700 014
Courses : Electronics & Telecom. Engg. (Seats:30), Electrical Engineering (Seats:40), Electrical Engineering (Seats:60), Mechanical Engineering (Seats:60), Mechanical Engineering (Seats:60), Computer Science & Technology (Seats:60), P D Medical Electronics (Seats:15), Electronics & Telecom..Engg. (Seats:40)
6. Central Footwear Training Centre (AICTE Approved)
No.1, Phani Bhosan Pathak Road, O. P.N. Pur, Budge Budge 743 320 24 Parganas (S)
Courses : Footwear Technology (Seats : 30)
7. Central Tool Room & Training Centre (AICTE Approved)
Bon Hooghly Industrial Area, 13 Noapara Arable Land, Baranagar Kolkata 700 108, 24 Parganas (N)
Courses : Tool & Die Making (Seats : 90)
8. J. C. Ghosh Polytechnic (AICTE Approved)
7, Mayurbhanj Road Kolkata 700 023, 24 Parganas
Courses : Civil Engineering (Seats:60), Electrical Engineering (Seats:40), Mechanical Engineering (Seats:60), Electronics & Telecom. Engg. (Seats:60)
9. Ramkrishna Mission Shilpapith (AICTE Approved)
Mission Road, Jatin Das Nagar Belghoria 700 056, 24 Parganas (N)
10. Regional Institute of Printing Technology (AICTE Approved)
Raja, S. C. Mullick Road-700 032, 24 Parganas
Courses : Printing Technology (Seats:55), Photography (Seats:30), Printing Technology (Seats:40)
11. Women's Polytechnic (AICTE Approved)
1/1/2, Gariahat Road (S) Jodhpur Park 700 068, 24 Parganas
Courses : Architectural Assistanship (Seats:30), Electronics & Telecom. Engg. (Seats:60), Computer Science & Technology (Seats:60), Modern Office Practice (Seats:30)
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I really like this Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader profile of local retailer A+ Comics & Collectibles, which each Sunday turns into The Point Community Church.
Owner Russ Battaglia and his wife Christie were introduced by a customer to The Point, which at the time was sharing space with another church. The Battaglias really connected with the congregation, and when they moved the store to a new, larger location, Pastor Tony Cecil proposed a radical idea: that A+ and The Point share the new space.
And so the display racks were placed on rollers or slides so they can be moved easily, and the empty space at the back divided to serve has childcare during services. Each Sunday, curtains go up to hide the merchandise, a window shade comes down to advertise the church, and ... voila! The whole process takes about a half-hour.
"It's like a comic book store that becomes a Transformer, too," Battaglia tells the newspaper.
It won't need to transform for much longer, however: The Point Community Church will soon move down the street.


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Liberty Trumps Globalism
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Killing The Nation State
Chris Gaines
Philanthropy: Gates Way of Advancing Geopolitical Marxism (Pt. 1)
by Chris Gaines
Posted on June 19, 2020 July 4, 2020
(This article is one in a series entitled "Killing The Nation State: How COVID-19 Was Used to End the Sovereignty of America", uncovering the purpose and ultimate objectives of globalism.)
Susannah Malarkey, senior advisor of APCO Technology, spoke highly of the founder of Technology Alliance in Washington state. "If you look at who have been the most influential people over the last 50 years, he's definitely in the top 10," said Malarkey, then executive director of the Seattle-based company. "There's no doubt about that."
The praise and accolades for his achievement as a civic leader, pioneer in the field of technology, and philanthropic endeavors are virtually endless. "His fingerprints are all over so many things," said Jim Sinegal, co-founder and former CEO of Costco, on whose board this man served. "The list goes on and on. It's pretty tough to find something that doesn't have his stamp on it somewhere along the line."
The man these distinguished individuals are referring to is NOT the Bill Gates making news headlines worldwide. It is William Henry Gates II, otherwise known as Bill Gates, Sr. The elder Gates created a large footprint as a philanthropist and leader long before his far more famous son. Highly respected by both peers and disciples, the senior Gates was more than just Bill, Jr.'s dad, but shaped the influence of his son in many ways. Dad blazed a trail that took the younger Gates on a journey into many fields; far beyond technology.
"My dad is a little more cautious, wise, not as over-the-top quite so quickly," said Bill Gates, Jr. at his father's 90th birthday celebration. "There's a lot about my dad that I and others would love to have come more naturally."
Though Bill Gates, Sr was known for his days as a powerful attorney, he had created his own foundation that became a foreshadowing of the one his son would later lead. In fact, dad's foundation would merge with Bill, Jr.'s Gates Learning Foundation to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Together, they would tackle global issues that were of the highest order, in their books.
But with every philanthropists charitable donation comes a revelation of what their idea of the greater good truly is centered around. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has made no bones about the causes that mean the most to him. All of these causes have the markings of geopolitical Marxism. Yes, this is globalism, but so much more.
A young Bill Gates (lower left corner) opposite Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen (lower right corner) in 1978 (courtesy Business Insider)
Gates revealed many objectives of his foundation in an interview with Bill Moyers back in 2003, along with one position his father held for many years:
"When I was growing up, my parents were involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it's fascinating."
Gates' father lead Planned Parenthood during and after the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. This was just one of the many organizations that the senior Gates was involved with on an executive level. As a philanthropist, Bill Gates, Sr. demonstrated to his son how you can create change in people's lives on a global scale.
But, as with many good intentions, there is a danger to following a path that is part of a global structure. And that's where Bill Gates gave us a glimpse of the type of philanthropy he wanted to provide. He then shared about an experience that changed him when it came to philanthropic giving:
"…a report was done, it was called "The World Development Report of 1993" that talked about these diseases. And I remember seeing the article and it said Rotovirus (was infecting) over half million children a year. And I said to myself, this can't be true…so then I got drawn in a little bit."
Gates goes on to tell a story about a dinner in his honor for providing a $125 million grant. The doctors and scientists present were each working towards cures for various diseases; in short, vaccinations.
He then realized after talking to these doctors that they could possibly eradicate many diseases impacting the globe if they had a greater monetary commitment, as government funding fell far short of what was needed. "It really is a failure of capitalism", said Gates. "You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it really let us down."
Thus, the advent of Bill Gates taking on a new venture. The creation of vaccines to end diseases around the globe. A noble venture it would seem. But it is not as simple as one of the worlds wealthiest philanthropists handing doctors a truckload of capitalist-stained, sweaty money. It is his entry into the world health arena that places his motives and associations with globalists, whom are grounded in Marxist philosophy, that make his level of participation a dangerous one.
Here are the takeaways from that interview…
Gates favors centralized government to solve issues.
Gates views capitalism, despite how his wealth was achieved, as an economic system that doesn't value all people; just some.
Gates sees vaccinations as the answer to many global health crises.
Gates strives to provide a "leveling of the playing field" of economic and social inequality as a primary objective.
Those may seem innocent to many. But these objectives are all grounded in the principles of Marxism. And his geopolitical approach to these issues leads some to believe (including yours truly) that inevitably he will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with despots and dictators. These are the more aggressive individuals leading the charge to destroy the individual freedoms founded in our Constitution. Why would he do this, you ask? Quite simply there is no room for people that place individual liberties first because it severely inhibits his progress.
In summary, many would view Bill Gates as a nefarious character based on his globalist pursuits. But I measure his danger in terms of his overall objectives and the willingness to let those that fulfill these end goals take charge.
But there is much more evidence to how his philanthropic endeavors are not only dangerous to America, but is certainly not making him poorer. Come back in a few days and judge for yourself as I reveal more about the Bill Gates saga…
(Chris Gaines is an author and editor for patriotgaines.com)
Photo sources: Geekwire (family photo of Bill Gates Sr. & Jr.), Business Insider
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willywordwizard says:
I never knew his father was so accomplished and this helps to explain why he's on the path he's on. As I read this, I couldn't help recalling that old expression "who died and left you in charge of anything?" His strategy, his power, is diametrically opposed to democracy although I get the feeling Gates believes he's doing this in the name of democracy. Believing he is capable of governing the world and taking steps to do this simply because he has money and what he feels is an altruistic heart, doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I suspect George Soros shares this derangement. Gates' beliefs, thoughts and actions are a quantum leap in audacity. I honestly cannot recall any election with his name on the ballot and, frankly, I resent his intrusion no matter how philanthropic his intentions. Please continue.
Chris Gaines says:
Many did not know about the story of Bill Gates, Sr. It does shed light on the direction his son has taken.
I share your concerns about where Gates goes from here. Hope to provide more information and perspective on the second piece.
Thanks for you comments.
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Remember the Laura jar? Here is another lidded jar, a different shape but with the Laura aka Cosmos flower design. I've done a couple of sgraffito jars this morning, the slip was just at the right stage to make it a delight to draw into.
From the recent photo shoot with Shannon Tofts, the large finger wipe and slip trail vase, do you remember it from it's thrown stage? I'm really pleased with it. It looked great at Ceramics in the City with 5 stems of, er,. what was it? Heck me and my flower names don't do very well together. I'm sure someone will enlighten me.
Freshly slip trailed jug, I've been looking at the old Verwood jugs again recently, very low rounded bellies. Lovely shapes they are, I need a bit more practise to be able to get that belly low enough and full enough.
Slip trail wood fired tyg. This one is about 15cm diameter. Proper toasty and nice too.
Second sgraffito jar of the day. This one with a birdie and a long winding flower.
I am a bit all over the place with the things I am making at the moment, one of this one two of those. I had such a solid batch of making making making and then the shows and now I need to calm down again and get back to it I suppose. These sgraffito jars might make it into a wood firing in Devon next week all being well.
Looking forward to seeing those fired, and the fired ones look great.
Liked that big finger wiped jar before it was fired. Like it better now!
I love your work, Hannah. Sorry I couldn't get out to Minnesota. I would have liked to meet you. Next time you visit, please come out to Seattle. Or perhaps fortune will smile upon me & I can get back to Scotland & England. Keep that beautiful work coming!
Lovely work Hannah. I really like the 2nd sgraffito jar, look forward to seeing it finished. Do you use reference books for your drawing or sketch from life?


Rhubarb crowns are best planted in winter. They are usually available from retailers from early to mid winter.
Crowns are simply dormant root systems usually sold in packets or loose. They need to be kept moist up to point of sale, but not wet.
Advice on planting will help the consumer feel more confident, this relates to position, drainage moisture and soil fertility.
Gardeners should be advised to prepare bed before planting, digging in well rotted compost and other organic material. Blood and Bone is a good addition.
In the home garden rhubarb should not be harvested until the second year. Every 4 – 5 years clumps should be lifted, divided, soil should be enhanced with compost and crowns replanted.


These balm sticks are as clever as they are functional. Easy to throw in your bag, and a conversation starter when you take it out of that bag. Massage some of this mild scented (but ultra powerful) Quit Your Bitchin' balm on to relieve tired and sore muscles. Apply generously as often as needed. Big Moisture is your do-it-all moisturizer, ready to repair dry skin wherever you are.


UNLIMITED FREE WIFI, free tours daily, and free sausage sizzle on the weekend! We are 200m from the bus stop and shops, and we are close to the beach and skydive centre… Sshh! A resort disguised as a hostel!
Absolute Backpackers Mission Beach is a 4 star hostel set on an acre of lush, tropical gardens offering a clean, safe, and friendly environment with completely renovated dorm and twin rooms, sparkling bathrooms, air-conditioning, and a fully equipped 24 hour kitchen.
At Absolute Backpackers, helping you relax and have fun is our priority! Chill out by the pool, or soak up the friendly atmosphere while having a few drinks on the lawn; It's your call. We've even created chill-out zones throughout the hostel, each with their own music and vibe, so no matter what your mood is, there's always somewhere that's right for you.
We are just a few minutes walk from Queensland's best beach, shops and pub. Enjoy free weekly BBQs, pool and spa, movie and games nights, beach football matches, and many more fun activities! Our friendly staff know the local area and can't wait to let you in on its many secrets!


An evaluation of outdoor school environments to promote physical activity in Delhi, India - Download this document for free, or read online. Document in PDF available to download.
BackgroundIncreasing physical activity in children is an important public health goal in India. Schools may be a target for physical activity promotion, but little is known about outdoor school environments. The purpose of this study was to describe characteristics of the surrounding outdoor school environments that may promote children's physical activity in Delhi, India.
MethodsFor this cross-sectional study, we conducted a structured observation of outdoor school environments in a random sample of 16 private schools in Delhi, India using the Sport, Physical activity and Eating behavior: Environmental Determinants in Young people SPEEDY audit tool. The SPEEDY school audit measured six categories, including 1 access to the school; 2 surrounding area; 3 school grounds; 4 aesthetics; 5 usage; and 6 overall environment. Six trained data collectors conducted the audit independently in the summer of 2012 while schools were in session.
ResultsOf the 16 schools, one had cycle lanes separated from the road while two schools had cycle lanes on the road. Two schools had pavement on both sides of the road for pedestrians. One school had marked pedestrian crossings. No schools had school warning signs, road safety signs, or route signs for cyclists that would help calm vehicular traffic. Fifteen schools had playground equipment and nine had courts, an assault course a sequence of equipment designed to be used together, and a quadrangle an enclosed or semi-enclosed courtyard for outdoor physical activity. The majority of schools were shielded from the surrounding area by hedges, trees, or fences n = 13 and were well maintained n = 10. One school had evidence of vandalism. Two schools had graffiti, seven had litter, and 15 had murals or art.
ConclusionsThe majority of schools did not have infrastructure to support physical activity, such as cycle lanes, marked pedestrian crossings, or traffic calming mechanisms such as school warning signs. However, most had playground equipment, courts, and outdoor play areas. Nearly all were free from vandalism and many had murals or art. These results provide preliminary data for future work examining outdoor school environments, active transport to school, and children's physical activity in India.
Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1186-s12889-016-3987-8 contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.


Through the Sacrament of Baptism, we are freed from sin and reborn as children of God. We become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church, and made sharers in the Church's mission. Through the waters of Baptism, sin is forgiven and the new Christian, having died with Christ, rises to new and everlasting life.
The practice of infant baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. Born in the midst of a sinful world and affected by original sin, children are born anew through baptism, are freed from the power of darkness, and are welcomed into the community of the church.
The Sacrament of Baptism for infants is celebrated every third Sunday of the month throughout the year. Several infants are baptized at each celebration, which begin at 1:00 PM in the main church.
Families may also speak with Msgr. Massie about arranging for a private Baptism or Baptism at Mass. Private Baptisms can be on Saturdays or Sundays in the main church as long as the parish calendar allows. Baptisms at Mass can be arranged to occur at a 10AM or 11:45AM Sunday Mass in the main church.
Parents are required to attend a preparation session prior to the baptism of their child. There must be at least one Catholic Godparent for the Baptism, other witnesses are allowed. The original birth certificate of the child must be brought to the parish prior to the baptism so that a copy may be placed with your child's record.
If you are interested in baptizing your child at Sacred Hearts – St. Stephen please contact Msgr. Guy Massie at 718.596.7750 or info@SacredHearts-StStephen.com no later than one month prior to the desired date of the baptism.
Since the beginning of the Church, adults have been welcomed into the church through baptism after a period of instruction, prayer, and reflection. For more information about the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, click here.


We are currently looking for 3 fabulous full time stylists to join our style team here at 1302. The role consists of 37.5 hours a week over 5 days with two days off per week. The positions are permanent.
Any successful applicants must have at least 2 years salon floor experience running a column and preferably be qualified to SVQ or equivalent inc level 2 and level 3 in hairdressing.
We are always looking for the right people to join our team. Outgoing, fun, creative and hard working people prosper in our environment, simply because we are all fun loving people who love what we do. It is very important that the team dynamics work well in order for our company to continue to expand the way we have been doing over the last few years. There is a real genuine respect between us all here and we work as a proper team, helping and encouraging each other from the Saturday girls to the apprentices and among the stylists.
All of our team have worked together for years in harmony and get on great, and why shouldn't you have a great time at your work, you spend a lot of time there.
We offer a fantastic remuneration package which includes 28 days paid holiday per year, a company pension, a competitive salary and an amazing bonus structure. As well as discounted products and hair services.
If you think you have what it takes to join our team and you want to work in a fun salon that truly appreciates and respects what you do and very importantly, listens to your ideas, then get in touch with us we would love to hear from you!


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Pending: 1669 Whitham Ave, Los Altos, CA
Interested in learning more about this home?
Nestled in Los Altos Hills this home is where classic contemporary meets comfort, privacy, and convenience. Brand new construction! Built by Aron Developers and designed by prestigious architect, Gary Kohlsaat. This contemporary property provides a modern open floor plan as every room enjoys natural light along with an indoor/outdoor luxury lifestyle. Terrific floor plan! The property features quality finishes including professional grade appliances, Quartz countertops, hardwood flooring, expensive La Cantina patio/deck doors, Anderson windows. Set on 0.57+/- acres of privacy and serenity yet only minutes from downtown Los Altos. This home embodies classic, clean lines that will never go out of style. Sought after Los Altos Schools.
5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths
5100 square feet home
0.57 acre lot
Loyola Elementary School - K to 6 - API: 954 (10/10)
Georgina P. Blach Junior High School - 7 to 8 - API: 958 (10/10)
Mountain View High School - 9 to 12 - API: 861 (9/10)
Main Floor Plan
Lower Floor Plan
Rear & Left Elevation
On Lot 1:
Exterior: All stucco patch and deck tiles were 100% completed.
Interior: All trades are finishing up, flooring is 90% complete. Electrical is 90% complete. Electric meter set inspection passed and we expect the meter to be set and house to have power next week. Dishwasher, Grabage disposal, Wine Refrigrator, oven, Microwave and the Refrigerator are installed.
Exterior: Siding installation is 100% complete, Staining is in progress. The deck tile is almost complete. Upstairs deck will be finished this weekend. Gutters are installed. Fascia board and gutters are painted 100%.
1677 Whitham (Lot 1) construction is complete. We are currently working through Santa Clara County to complete "as-built" paperwork they are requesting as part of the final sign-off. We are working on a daily basis with our consultants and Santa Clara County to resolve and close escrow on the pre-sold property.
1669 Whitham (Lot 2) is making steady progress. The exterior is nearing completion with only staining of cedar and painting of fascia remaining. For the site work, we hope to start working on the landscape within the next month. On the interior, cabinet installation is complete, tile work is done, and flooring installation is about half-way done.
On Lot 1, all departments have signed off on the permit card with the exception of the Land Development Department. The house is complete and we are working on the punch-list items for the incoming buyer, while we work with Santa Clara County to process the Certificate of Occupancy for the home.
For Lot 2, tiling in the bathrooms is complete and cabinets are installed. We will be painting over the coming couple weeks in preparation to install the finish trims. On the exterior, we are on the final coat of stucco and will start working on the siding next week once we have a break in the weather.
The Whitham project continues to come together as we are completing the final touches on Lot 1. We have our final inspections scheduled for this upcoming week and if all goes well, will be closing escrow by the end of the following week.
On Lot 2, we are almost done with tile installation. Finishing of drywall is also nearing completion, and we are looking forward to starting cabinet installation next week. Hopefully with the break in weather coming next week, we will begin stocco and siding installation on the exterior.
The Whitham project is nearing completion and the end result is breathtaking. On Lot 1, we are just now completing the finishing touches and are expecting to receive occupancy in the next couple weeks. On Lot 2, we are working on taping and finishing the drywall and then will soon after be installing cabinets and starting tile work. On the exterior, we will also begin the first coat of stucco and begin the siding work.
On Whitham, construction is moving along really well. For Lot 1, we are completing exterior sewer and utility connection work and working on interior insulation and dry wall work. For Lot 2, we are completing the last of the framing work and have rough trade work going on. Again, both homes are pre-sold in non-contingent contracts.
Lot 1 is now nearing framing completion. We will soon be installing windows and starting plumbing, electrical and mechanical installation. On Lot 2, the first floor joists are now complete and we are prepping to begin framing of the first floor.
The foundation on the first floor of both homes is nearing completeion. Framing on lot 1 is well underway, and the second floor walls are making great progress which will be followed by framing of the roof.
Lot 2, framing is just begginning. We have a completion date of early April, which we are pushing aggresively towards.
Our property renderings are complete (and attached), material selection is completed, and we are going live this week with the homes on MLS!
The foundation for the garage and for the first floor of Lot 1 was inspected however there were a few correction items that need to be addressed. We are hoping to get it reinspected this week and pour. The framing will continue once those pieces of the foundation are complete. On Lot 2, the retaining walls along the rear of the property and at the driveway are complete. The waterproofing, drainage, and backfilling are about 80% complete. The foundation for the garage and the 1st floor will commence once the basement walls have been fully backfilled.
On Lot 1, the foundation for the first floor and the garage are nearly complete. As soon as we have the foundation poured, we will frame the first floor. On Lot 2, the basement walls are now poured, and the backyard retaining walls are complete. Waterproofing of the basement walls is making progress and when done will be begin backfilling.
On Lot 1, the foundation footings are excavated and the piers have been drilled. We will be pouring and then will be framing the first floor. On Lot 2, the basement wall reinforcement is complete and will be setting inside forms in preparation for pouring the walls. We are also working to complete the retaining walls behind Lot 2 that will support the eventual lawn.
On Lot 1, we are working on the foundation for the first floor. The footings have been excavated and we will be working on reinforcement and forming next week. Once the foundation is poured, we will continue the framing of the first floor and then begin to stand the walls. On Lot 2, the slab has been poured and reinforcement is at 50% for the walls. As soon as inspection has passed, we will be forming and pouring the basement walls.
Backfilling of the Lot 1 basement walls are complete and will now be working on the first-floor foundation so we can complete framing. On Lot 2, the slab is poured and we are now working to form and pour the basement walls as quickly as possible.
On Lot 1, the first-floor framing is now nearing completion. The backfilling of the basement walls will be done in "lifts" in order to ensure proper compaction. On Lot 2, the waterproofing is complete and now the construction crew is working on the structural reinforcement of the slab.
On Lot 1, the first-floor framing is underway. Waterproofing of the basement walls is now complete and backfilling of the walls is progressing. There is additional foundation work for the second floor which is required once backfill is complete. On Lot 2, the under-slab plumbing is complete and waterproofing is progressing. Structural reinforcement will be completed over the next two weeks.
Lot 1 forms have been stripped, waterproofing has started, and we are preparing to start interior wall framing. Lot 2 plumbing is complete and we are preparing to backfill and begin underslab waterproofing.
As you know we acquired the property in Jan 2017 with the purpose to build 2 new homes on the site. The original goal was to complete the project in 12 months - by Jan 2018.
Like we have mentioned in the past updates, the extensive rains in Winter as well as soil conditions delayed the project by about 4-5 months. We will be working on refinancing or extending the exisiting construction loan appropriately.
On Lot 1, the concrete walls for the basement are going to be poured tomorrow. The pour was scheduled for last week, but due to inspection issues with the County, we were forced to push that date. On Lot 2, we are working on plumbing prior to starting structural reinforcement for the slab.
On Lot 1, we are pushing to pour concrete this week for the basement walls. As soon as we complete the basement walls, we will begin waterproofing and backfill in preparation to frame the walls. On Lot 2, we are completing the plumbing trenches and preparation for the slab.
The construction team has started forming and reinforcement for the basement walls on Lot 1. We will continue this work next week. On Lot 2, they are starting outside forms for the slab and will be working on subgrade and reinforcement for the slab this week.
On Lot 1, we just poured the slab and will now start forming and putting in the structural reinforcement for the basement walls. On Lot 2, we also just poured all the piers. There are over 30 piers extending 18 feet to support the lower house foundation. We will now start preparing the basement slab.
On Lot 1, the slab reinforcement is complete and we are ready to pour. On Lot 2, cages are being built for the piers. Due to the slope of the lot, we have 35+ piers at varying depths.
On Lot 1, all under slab rough-in is complete and we are finishing up the slab reinforcement. We are hoping to pour at the beginning part of next week. On Lot 2, we have received final pad certification and all piers have been drilled. The drainage around the perimeter of the basement walls is also complete. Due to the soil issues we had at the beginning of the project, we are doing everything we can to crash the schedule and minimize durations and optimise dependencies.
On Lot 1, the piers have been poured and we are currently working on under slab plumbing for the basement level. Next week we will continue under slab plumbing and work on concrete. On Lot 2, we are importing dirt and building up the last remaining section of the building pad in order to start concrete work. We are spreading and compacting in 8" lifts so it is a very time-consuming process in order to ensure the building pad is properly built. We are working closely with the Soils Engineer to ensure that we are abiding by his recommendations during this process.
On Lot 1, we received approval from the Soils Engineer today to place the rebar in the piers and pour concrete. We will be pouring the concrete next week. On Lot 2, we are still grading the site. The drainage and soils conditions have made this particular site quite difficult. We are hoping to hand it off to the concrete contractor next week.
Whitham Lot 1 perimeter footings are now excavated and interior footings are nearing completion. We will be drilling the piers next week. On Lot 2, we continue to mix native and import material and compact so we can satisfy the requirements of the soils engineer.
Grading for Lot 1 is complete and concrete layout is progressing. We are currently importing dirt due to a requirement from the soil engineer requesting that the soil on-site be mixed with non-native, dry, soil. This has caused about a three-week delay in the grading progress. Grading work will continue on Lot 2 over the next two weeks. Meanwhile, we are eager to concurrently make progress on the Lot 1 concrete.
Lot 1 pad is now complete and the concrete contractor is setting elevations in preparation to start formwork. On Lot 2, we ran into some unanticipated soil conditions. Due to saturated conditions, we are having to over-excavate and import non-native soil to address the soil engineers concern. We are hoping to have the Lot 2 building pad complete is the next two weeks.
Grading work is progressing quickly now that the soil has dried out quite a bit. The Lot 1 building pad is nearing completion. Lot 2, the lower lot, retaining wall will be starting shortly so we can backfill against to complete the building pad. We have also started working to finalize the exterior design renderings.
The recent storms have slowed us down in our grading progress to date but with a break in the weather being shown in the coming forecast, we are hopeful to catch up. Grading re-started again today and the Lot 1 building pad is nearing completion. We will be working our way down the hill to build up the Lot 2 building pad.
The site work has just started with the grading for the two homes. We have been value-engineering the design over the last couple of weeks and will continue to do so until we have the design that yields the best value.
All fees have been paid and the permit is ready to be pulled in order to begin construction. We have been working closely with the contractors and consultants on this project so we can hit the ground running. We will begin mobilization next week.
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Defending champions Kipchoge and Kosgei set for titanic clashes
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September 29, 2020 shows Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge (L) training within the grounds of the official marathon hotel and biosecure bubble for the elite-only 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon to be held on 4th October. AFP
Women's race looks like it's Brigid's to lose but Chepngetich and Vivian are expected to mount challenge.
He is already the history man of marathon running but Eliud Kipchoge will be chasing another record-breaking milestone when he lines up for today's 2020 London Marathon.
A victory for the mighty Kenyan would make him the first able-bodied athlete, male or female, to win five London Marathon titles, taking him past the great Norwegian Ingrid Kristiansen, with whom he is currently tied on four wins.
Meanwhile, women's world record-holder Brigid Kosgei is the hot favourite to make it a Kenyan double by lifting her second successive London crown.
Positive thinking has always been Kipchoge's mantra, and he is typically confident he can add to the London titles he won in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, despite the peculiar circumstances surrounding this year's race due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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"I am feeling well and happy to be back in London to run for my fifth title," he said at a socially distanced pre-race press conference in midweek. "I think the race will be a really fruitful one for us on Sunday and a fast race."
Kipchoge, the Olympic champion, world record-holder and the first man to break the two-hour barrier in last year's unofficial challenge in Vienna, has turned the London Marathon into a personal tour de force in his four previous appearances, not least when he delivered a front-running masterclass last year to triumph in a course record of 2:02:37.
October 2, 2020 shows Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge posing for a photograph inside the official marathon hotel AFP
But this year, in what will be the 40th edition of the race, there are a number of unknown factors to occupy Kipchoge's thoughts as he plots his path to the finish line: a dramatically different course, the absence of any spectators and a host of top-quality opponents.
Kenenisa Bekele, one of Kipchoge's biggest rivals on the track and the second-fastest man in history for the marathon, had been set to race in London in one of the most highly anticipated clashes of the year. But a niggling calf injury ruled the Ethiopian star out of Sunday's race.
"I am very disappointed that I cannot race on Sunday," Bekele said on Friday. "It has been a tough preparation time with lockdown when I couldn't have my NN team around me. I was in good shape but then I picked up a niggle in my left calf after two fast training sessions too close together in the last weeks of preparation. I have been having treatment every day since then and I truly believed I would be ready but today it is worse and I now know I cannot race on it."
In Bekele's absence, Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew and Mule Wasihun appear most likely to take the challenge to Kipchoge.
Both tried valiantly in last year's race, hanging on to Kipchoge's coat tails until two miles from home and recording two of the fastest marathon times in history. Geremew's clocking of 2:02:55 to finish second puts him fourth on the world all-time list.
October 1, 2020 shows Kenya's Brigid Kosgei posing for a portrait after taking part in a virtual and socially distanced press conference inside the official hotel and biosecure bubble for the elite-only 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon to be held on 4th October. AFP
Other athletes to watch are Sisay Lemma, Tamirat Tola, Marius Kipserem and Shura Kitata, all of whom have run inside 2:05.
Like Bekele, Kipchoge had to adjust to the rigours of solo training after the pandemic forced the closure of his training camp in Kaptagat, Kenya, though he has recently been able to return to group work.
"It was really difficult when I had to train on my own because for 17 years I have been training with six, 10 or 20 people all year round," said Kipchoge. "So, it was like an electric shock when I had to train on my own.
"It was hard to get fit and up to a high level of training. But lately we have consolidated a bigger team around me and training has been good."
Runners were also required to undergo Covid-19 tests before flying to London, which resulted in the highly promising Degitu Azimeraw, a debut winner at the 2019 Amsterdam Marathon, testing positive at home in Ethiopia and being forced to withdraw.
In her absence the women's race looks like Kosgei's to lose after her sensational world record of 2:14:04 in Chicago last October, carving more than 80 seconds off Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old mark.
The experience has made her even more determined to lower the record even further.
"It made me more encouraged to do a lot of training and to focus on training so I could try to break that record again," she said.
Breaking records will not be on Kosgei's mind today, however.
She admits racing on a tight, looped course will be a step into the unknown, while the pandemic has restricted her training volume compared to 2019.
Kenyan showdown
"Due to the pandemic I will not say I will run 'this' or 'this' (time) because the coronavirus affected us," she said. "We didn't do a lot of training like last year."
Fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot, the 2018 London champion, will be among her principal challengers, though Kosgai beat her convincingly to win her first London crown last year, finishing almost two minutes ahead after a storming second half to the race.
Another compatriot, Ruth Chepngetich, will be making her London debut following her World Championships victory in the heat of Doha last year. With a personal best of 2:17:08 from last year's Dubai Marathon, she is the second fastest woman in the field.
In an intriguing sub-plot to the main battle for honours, four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah will be participating in Sunday's race as a pace-maker for a group of male runners chasing the Tokyo Olympic qualifying standard of 2:11:30.
Farah, himself, is committed to competing on the track rather than the roads in Tokyo but was happy to accept the invitation to perform pace-making duties as it fitted into his training schedule. A number of female runners will also be chasing the women's standard of 2:29:30.
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A primary interest of mine is supporting students development, & an important aspect of this is facilitating communication. @Stanmore college we have implemented what could be called an online "Personalised Learning Environment" (PLE) . This YouTube screen-cast should give you some insight. However in my experience it would do no harm if all maintained schools provided certain things as standard to staff & parents online.
In a recent book called "14-18 a new vision for secondary education" by Kenneth Baker (a former secretary of state for education), Mike Tomlinson and others makes a number of recommendations. The fundamental recommendations being establishing more middle schools for 9-13yrs, and improving the options we offer 14-18 year olds and their families.
Having implemented the changes shown in the previous blog post, adding Grades & Feedback seem like a logical improvement ?
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@StanmoreCollege started to use Moodle (1.7) in 2007 and it is now used by nearly every member of staff & full time student in some capacity. The broad aim was to prepare the site for another 5 years of intensive communication, learning & creative use. By creative, I mean I wanted the database, codebase & servers setup so the college could readily exploit new services & software that could enhance teaching & learning. For example integrating with other community resources (personal blogs, mnet, hubs…) & publishing to the community. Ideally we would have installed a fresh moodle 2 site & built the 300+ courses from scratch, but this would loose the user account #IDs which links to users (ILP 1.0) Personal Learning Plan data in moodle 1.9 (PLP) & could require returning students to update their profile… This would also take hundreds of hours of teachers time to rebuild the courses, so the compromise was to upgrade the existing moodle 1.9 site to 2.2, then migrate the required courses across to a fresh moodle 2.2 installation (backup & restore), but where certain data* for example the Moodle 1.9 mdl_user table… was migrated to the fresh 2.2 installation.
Turnitin Assignment type –> Deleted all instances of this prior to migration due to issues!
Thousands of the mdl_user rows from the upgraded table were inserted into this fresh installation. This was necessary because I wanted all returning students to be able to login without requiring them to update their moodle profiles. Also for their ILP 1.0 data to be available.
This resulted in reducing the DB & moodledata by well over half, which is good as Media & Computer teachers are now needing students to be able to upload files upto 50MB.


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The Hunic superterrane is a terrane that is now attached to Europe and Asia. At the end of the Ordovician or beginning of the Silurian it separated from Gondwana and joined Laurasia at the beginning of the Carboniferous, at the time of the Variscan orogeny. Rather than being a single block, there were apparently two groups of blocks, the European Hunic terranes and the Asian Hunic terranes.

The collision with Laurasia (specifically, with the Kipchak Arc) formed what is now known as Kazakhstania according to one geological model of the ancient Earth.

The Hunic terranes are named after the Huns, since they are found in the areas that the Huns occupied.

See also
 Paleo-Tethys Ocean
 Rheic Ocean

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Terranes
Tectonic landforms

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1872: John Kewish, the last to hang on the Isle of Man
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This 2004 episode from Manx Radio gives us the story of John Kewish, hanged on this date in 1872 for killing his father with a pitchfork. Kewish is the last person ever executed on the Isle of Man — indeed even at his own time such a punishment was so passe that the local gallows-makers were vexed by the contract.
Interestingly, because this Irish Sea island is a crown dependency rather than a part of the United Kingdom proper, capital punishment did not end on the Isle of Man when Westminster abolished in the 1960s. Death sentences continued to be handed down there until 1992, and thus it is that a Manx judge holds the distinction of being the last person in the British Isles to pronounce a death sentence from the bench, and a Manx criminal that of being the last to hear it. (Such latter-day sentences were always commuted by Queen Elizabeth II's royal prerogative.)
1630: Guglielmo Piazza and Giangiacomo Mora, colonna d'infamia - 2019
1938: Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet naval commander - 2018
1766: James Annin and James M'Kinzy - 2017
1595: Gabriel de Espinosa, the confectioner of Madrigal - 2016
1831: John Bell, age 14 - 2015
1548: Seraphin d'Argences - 2014
1556: Joan Waste, in Windmill Pit - 2013
1924: Felix McMullen, bank robber - 2012
1946: Andrei Vlasov, turncoat Soviet general - 2011
Feast Day of the Holy Maccabees - 2010
1997: Norio Nagayama, spree killer and author - 2009
1917: Frank Little of the IWW lynched - 2008
1845: John Tawell, the man in the Kwaker garb
1872: William Frederick Horry, Marwood's first
1849: Rebecca Smith, to save her children from want
1863: William Ockold, the last hanged at Worcester
1854: John Tapner, the last hanged on Guernsey
1881: Percy Lefroy Mapleton, police sketch milestone
1849: Sarah Harriet Thomas, the last female juvenile hanged in Great Britain
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,History,Isle of Man,Milestones,Murder
Tags: 1870s, 1872, august 1, family, john kewish
1876: Hjert and Tector, the last public beheadings in Sweden
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Augusta, you are now so big that the world's temptations begin to surround you. Pay close attention to your own heart, for in the human heart lies a seed of evil and when it has the opportunity to take root it grows very fast …
–From the last letter of Gustav Hjert to his family
Below is a photo of the May 18, 1876 beheading of Gustav Adolf Eriksson Hjert, who with his accomplice in murder Konrad Petterson Lundqvist Tector/Tektor comprised the last public beheadings in Sweden. In the shocking image at hand, the fatal blow has been inflicted by the practiced arm of executioner Johan Fredrik Hort.
Hjert and Tector committed their capital crime together — it was a badly botched* armed robbery of a carriage that resulted in two people shot dead and no booty heisted — but they were separately separated from their heads: Hjert in Lilla Malma, and Tector in Stenkumla, both on the same Thursday morning.
* Botched as in, they were waiting to ambush the mail coach but in their eagerness they waylaid the wrong vehicle.
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1618: Nicole Regnault and the brothers Bouleaux - 2018
1917: Otilio Montaño, Zapatista - 2017
1548: Giulio Cybo, Andrea Doria disaster - 2016
1616: Margaret Vincent, "Pitilesse Mother" - 2015
1871: Edward Rulloff - 2014
1891: Benjamin Harrison spares the Navassa rioters - 2013
1812: John Bellingham, Prime Minister assassin - 2012
1965: Eli Cohen, Israel's man in Damascus - 2011
1990: Dalton Prejean, cop-killing child - 2010
1781: Tupac Amaru II, Incan insurgent - 2009
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1939: Eugen Weidmann, the last public beheading in France
1909: The Pollet gang, breaking the French moratorium
1909: Les Chauffeurs de la Drome
1819: Pierre Charles Rodolphe Foulard, Henry-Clement Sanson's first execution
1868: Heli Freymond, the last beheaded by sword in Switzerland
1773: Eva Faschaunerin, the last tortured in Austria
1830: Agnes Magnusdottir and Fridrik Sigurdsson, Iceland's last executions
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1876: Louis Thomas, gallows builder
1 comment April 28th, 2020 Headsman
This musing on the torments for condemned prisoners of seeing their own rickety gallows put up in their own prison yard comes via Ken Leyton-Brown's The Practice of Execution in Canada … and culminates with a Winnipeg execution that took place on April 28, 1876.
In principle, hanging may be said to have begun when the procession arrived at the scaffold, at which point the hangman took control of proceedings, and to have ended with the death of the condemned. During what was supposed to be a brief time, the hangman was to perform a number of tasks. First, the condemned had to be positioned over the trap. In the years just after Confederation, this might be delayed while he made a short address to the assembled onlookers, but in later years, the address was rarely permitted. Second, the hangman would secure his ankles and sometimes his knees. Third, what was called a cap, but was actually a bag, was placed over his head, and the oose was put about his neck and tightened. And lastly, the trap would be released, allowing him to drop through the platform.
This seems a fairly simple set of operations, and it might be expected that hanging was generally quite straightforward, but in fact, problems could arise at every stage. The first of these sprang from the fact that hangings occurred at the prson where the condemned person had been held during trial. An inevitable consequence of this was that they took place in a large number of small facilities across the country, frequently in locations that had never conducted them before. This meant that the required apparatus had to be built from scratch, virtually always by people who lacked either plans or experience to guide them. Thus, predictably, it was not always a great success: a hastily erected scaffold might not work properly, and its construction could be unsettling, sometimes even cruel, to prisoners waiting to be hanged.
Even a hurriedly built gallows took some time to assemble because it had to be a substantial structure, able to meet the demands that would be placed upon it. It required a platform large enough to accommodate the various civic officials, one or more spiritual advisors, the hangman, and the condemned; it must include a trap door and a stout overhead beam; and it needed enough clearance underneath to allow for both the body to hang and the subsequent examination to ensure the death had occurred. None of this would be difficult for skilled carpenters, provided they had enough wood and nails, but the task did not necessarily appeal to them. Therefore, a gallows was often built to less than the desired standard, and on occasion this adversely affected its functioning. More serious, though, was that its construction meant for the condemned, and for everyone in the prison. It was a noisy project, and the sound of sawing and hammering, combined with the certain knowledge of what was being built and what would happen when it finished, preyed on people's minds, especially, one supposes, on that of the condemned. Worse, they could sometimes see its manufacture, either from their cell or was they went for exercise, and could watch it take shape, knowng that they would die upon it. A Winnipeg Free Press discussion of the preparation of a scaffold for Philip Johnston and Frank Sullivan illustrates this well:
Reverberating through the precincts of the provincial jail today are the sounds of the hammer and saw and to the two men these sounds mean the beginning of the end of their existence. Formal announcement is expected today from Ottawa that no reprieve can be granted Frank Sullivan and Philip Johnson, the two men condemned to pay the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of Constable Snowden.
Yesterday's word from Ottawa that John Stoike had been reprieved and the fact that no announcement was made in regard to a new trial for the other two men caused a start to be made on the erection of the scaffold. Unless Minister of Justice Doherty grants a stay of execution today in order to listen to a new witness the men will be executed at 7 o'clock Friday morning.
Ellis, the executioner, is expected to reach the city tomorrow. Last night the floor of the double scaffold had been constructed and the framework will be completed in time for a thorough test to be made by noon tomorrow.
A scaffold had to be a sturdy affair, and it was often left standing for long or short periods as a mute reminder to prisoners of what their future might hold if they were unlucky or did not mend their ways. Usually, though, the scaffold was taken apart after a hanging and the wood either salvaged or stored. A stored scaffold could be reassembled when next it was needed, a detail typically mentioned in newspaper accounts. The hanging of Louis Thomas in 1876 provides an example. In 1874 Joseph Michaud had been hanged at Winnipeg, and it appears that the scaffold had been dismantled and the pieces stored. Two years later, when Angus McIvor was executed, it was taken out of storage and reassembled. The scaffold was then left up, and four months later Thomas became the third person to die on it. The most macabre feature of this was that, while in jail, Thomas was required to help raise McIvor's scaffold, all the while knowing that his life would probably end on the same apparatus.
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1708: William Gregg, spy of slob - 2018
1909: A triple execution in Chalco - 2017
1770: King David Hartley, Yorkshire coiner - 2016
1634: Mikhail Borisovich Shein, for failing to take Smolensk - 2015
1876: The slave Francisco, Brazil's last execution - 2014
1899: Not J.M. Olberman, spared by Oregon's governor - 2013
1945: Hermann Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law - 2012
1882: George Henry Lamson, aconitine poisoner - 2011
2010: Zheng Minsheng, child-stabbing doctor - 2010
1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, the doctor who ran Denmark - 2009
1945: Benito Mussolini, his mistress, and his aides - 2008
1899: Hilda Blake, poorhouse orphan
1869: Nicholas Melady, the last public hanging in Canada
1899: Three in the Klondike Gold Rush
1874: Private Joseph Michaud, the first in Manitoba
1888: Tsimequor, indigenous Snuneymuxw
1879: Swift Runner, wendigo
1834: Catherine Snow, the last hanged in Newfoundland
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1871: Generals Lecomte and Thomas, at the birth of the Paris Commune
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On this date in 1871, the Paris Commune was born, with the execution of Generals Lecomte and Thomas.
Paris had come to the brink of revolution by dint of the country's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. After a monthslong Prussian siege of the capital, Paris had become thoroughly radicalized and stood at tense loggerheads with the newly elected conservative national government of Adolphe Thiers. A militant National Guard swelled by the city's large proletariat had defended Paris during its late privations, only to see a government of national humiliation accept punishing peace terms from Bismarck and submit to a Prussian victory parade on the Champs d'Elysees.
Now, it blanched at the national government's intention to reassert its own long-absent authority in Paris.
These sovereigns' rivalries chanced to focus in the critical moment upon 400 bronze cannon in Paris, which the National Guard had used in the city's defense and deployed to working-class neighborhoods with the intention of keeping them out of the government's hands.
On March 18, upon an order by Thiers which some of his ministers opposed, the army moved upon these guns, intending to seize weapons and authority together. General Claude Lecomte (English Wikipedia entry | French), a rock-ribbed career officer of 63, had charge of this operation so offensive to the Parisian populace.
Lecomte was able to deploy his men at Montmarte where a great portion of the guns would come into his possession, but well did the master observe that "The line between disorder and order lies in logistics" — for a delay in the arrival of the horses and tumbrils by which the artillery would be hauled away gave time for word to spread in the city and an angry crowd assemble to oppose this outrage. Thiers had overruled objections that his soldiery was itself sympathetic to the radicals and would not be reliable in the breach; now, those warnings were vindicated as the soldiery declined to fire on Parisians and instead fraternized as the people took back Montmarte.
Although Lecomte was "merely" seized for the Central Committee of the National Guard, Paris's blood was up; "the mob wanted to tear their victims to pieces, and it is my opinion they are the culpable judges," writes John Leighton in Paris Under the Commune.
The first to lay hands on General Lecomte were linesmen and Mobiles, one of the latter observing, as he made a gesture, "Formerly you punished me with thirty days in prison, now I will be the first to fire at you." Whilst this was going on a new movement was observed in the crowd. It was the arrival of another prisoner, a venerable gentleman, with a white beard, in plain clothes. It was General Clement Thomas, who had been arrested in the Place Pigalle by the National Guards. The General had been advised to run away, but he would remain, saying, "I will walk, it is my right." This brought about a mob, who conducted him to the Rue des Rosiers, making it still worse for the prisoner Lecomte, for it was well known that Clement Thomas had been pretty severe at the Hotel de Ville and elsewhere, on the battalions of Montmartre and Belleville.
Once in the Rue des Rosiers, General Thomas felt he was lost, but as he would not die without knowing the cause, he mounted some steps and in a loud voice demanded, "What do you reproach me with?" "To death!" replied the crowd. "You are too great cowards to shoot me," said the General. With these words he was driven into the garden, whilst General Lecomte in the scuffle attempted to escape by the back door, though unfortunately without success. Once in the garden, the old vine-covered walls and chestnut trees became crowded with miserable spectators ready to see the horrible deed perpetrated by a peloton of soldiers of the line and two francs-tireurs. In falling, poor General Lecomte exclaimed, "Oh my poor children! my —-" As he sunk mortally wounded, a villain of the group stepped forward and slapped him in the face. Clement Thomas was shot by National Guards. At first only wounded, he afterwards fell pierced in fourteen places. A National Guard pulled him over by the beard, that his face might be seen, and for two hours afterwards the bodies afforded a ghastly spectacle that was enjoyed by an ignoble procession of spectators.
Outside the garden, with the city in an uproar, the proletarian organs that had grown over the long siege took Paris firmly in hand while national government officials fled as they could — or were rounded up as hostages if they could not. The Commune would be master of Paris for ten tense weeks, until Thiers's republic drowned it in blood.
For Leighton, no friend of the Commune, all the woe in its suppression could be traced to the ham-handed cannon debacle of March 18, 1871:
One thing appears certain — that General Lecomte did not take prompt measures and proper precautions, and that the Government, which sent him to remove 171 guns, without teams, and so small a force, acted inconsiderately, and must be held morally responsible for the disasters which ensued — disasters that, terrible as they are, might have been worse and have led to the total ruin of France.
1696: Charnock, King, and Keyes, frustrated of regicide - 2019
1915: Wenseslao Moguel, "El Fusilado", survives the firing squad - 2018
1563: Jean de Poltrot, assassin of the Duke of Guise - 2017
1752: Helen Torrence and Jean Waldie - 2016
2015: Nine more in Pakistan - 2015
1905: An unknown spy in the Russo-Japanese War - 2014
1825: Peggy Facto, Plattsburgh infanticide - 2013
2010: Paul Warner Powell, jurisprudentially confused - 2012
1647: Mary Martin, infanticide - 2011
1314: Jacques de Molay, last Templar Grand Master - 2010
1789: Catherine Murphy, Britain's last burning at the stake - 2009
1741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric? - 2008
1871: The Paris Commune falls
1808: The Executions of the Third of May
1358: Guillaume Cale, leader of the Jacquerie
1942: The village of Lidice, for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
1871: Hostages of the Paris Commune
1920: Bloody Sunday in Ireland
Unspecified date: British soldiers by urophagia
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Borderline "Executions",Cycle of Violence,Execution,France,History,No Formal Charge,Power,Public Executions,Shot,Soldiers,Summary Executions,Wartime Executions
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1874: Sid Wallace
On this date in 1874, colorful outlaw Sid[ney] Wallace was hanged for murder in Reconstruction Arkansas.*
A large enough figure to merit his own entry in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Wallace was a little boy on a farm near Clarksville in Johnson County when his father was murdered by Union men in 1863.
The legend has it that his family's slave, Missouri Blackard, kept the identities of the killers from the youth until he turned 20 or 21 … whereupon Wallace served his revenge cold, tracking one of them as far as Kansas to murder him.
How Sid learned that one of the killers had relocated to Kansas is never explained, but the account describes him traveling to Kansas, finding the murderer, and staying the night with him and his family, claiming to be a peddler. He even displayed his wares to the family to make his story convincing. Only in the morning, as he was taking leave of the family, did he identify himself as the son of Vincent Wallace, as he drew a pistol and shot his host dead. No charges were ever filed against Sid for this cold-blooded act, nor was it mentioned during his trials for the killings that happened in Johnson County. (Unvarnished Arkansas: The Naked Truth about Nine Famous Arkansans)
Back in Clarksville, Wallace carved out a niche (with his brother George, until the latter got shot) as a colorful James Gang-like populist criminal with a knack for escaping actual or would-be jailers: the most charming adventure attributed him is dodging a posse by hiding under Missouri Blackard's (evidently quite capacious) skirts while the latter took a casual stroll to the well. We're not vouching for this story, just reporting the allegation.
To return to Unvarnished Arkansas, Clarksville
was shattered by a pair of murders in the last days of August 1873. Constable R.W. "Doc" Ward was the first victim to be assassinated. Doc Ward had first come to Arkansas with the Federal army during the Civil War; like some other northern soldiers, Ward had stayed in the South after the war to make his fortune. Such men often were described as "carpetbaggers," suggesting that their only motivation to remain in the South was to profit at the expense of the defeated and demoralized southerners. Carpetbaggers had rebuilt the government of Arkansas and other southern states, even representing these states in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as in state legislatures and in governors' offices. Carpetbaggers had opened banks, built railroads, started businesses, and constructed houses for themselves and their famlies. Many carpetbaggers, like Doc Ward, had been appointed or elected to positions of local authority. Ward does not appear to have been generally disliked in Johnson County; he was just a man doing his job, like so many other men around the county. Still, as constable, he had a responsibility to arrest criminals, and anyone pursuing a life of crime could expect to profit from the elimination of the local enforcer of the law.
Doc Ward was sitting on a wooden sidewalk in front of W.P. Rose's drugstore one fine summer evening — August 20, 1873 — when a single gunshot rang out, and the constable fell, mortally wounded. He did not die until September 12, however. The shocked witnesses reported that a gunman had fired a double-barreled shotgun at the constable and then ridden away on horseback. No one was arrested for the crime. Exactly one week later, county judge Elisha Mears was walking home for his noontime meal after a pleasant visit to Blind Bob's Saloon in Clarksville when, once again, a single shot rang out. Mears fell, badly injured — he died an hour after midnight. Witnesses said that the gunman had been concealed, but no one claimed to know who had fired the shots. Tongues began to wag, though, and fingers of blame were being pointed at Sid Wallace. Even in Little Rock, the Arkansas Gazette took notice of the crimes, grumbling that no effort was being made to bring the assassin to justice.** Citizens of Johnson County were not as blind to criminal behavior, however, as the Little Rock journalist suggested. More than a century later, one writer would characterize their attitude with these words: "The killing of Judge Meers [sic], a progressive Johnson County native, turned the tide of public opinion in Clarksville against Sid Wallace. Sid was the prime suspect, and most thought he should not have shot the judge, even if he was a Republican."
But even under sentence of death, the roue got a pass to escort the prison warden's daughter to a dance. Unsurprisingly, she returned home begging for her date's life.
He was hanged publicly in Clarksville on March 14, 1873, with the manful last words, "I have no confession to make to man, but whatever I have to confess must be to God. I die in defense of myself and friends, and I regret not having a dozen deaths to die." He had only the one, but that hasn't hindered his rich posthumous life in folk hero-dom, regional class, including a highly dubious rumor that he survived his execution and lived on to rob and murder again on western trails.
* The very tail end of that post-Civil War era: in Arkansas, the terminal event was a factional bush war that broke out in April 1874 and brought about a new state constitution followed by nearly a full century of Democratic governors.
** Arkansas, which was out on the frontier at this point in America's march across the continent, had a national reputation: the New York Times threw it some shade while reporting Wallace's hanging: "The determination which has been shown during the past year by the decent citizens of Arkansas to bring murderers to justice will eventually result in making the State a desirable place of residence. For many years it has been heard of almost entirely in connection with the reports of dark deeds."
1953: Abel Danos, le mammouth - 2019
1964: Jack Ruby condemned - 2018
1824: John Smith - 2017
1808: Thomas Simmons - 2016
1610: Henry Paine, shipwrecked mutineer - 2015
1908: Massillon Coicou and the Firminists - 2014
1726: William "Vulcan" Gates, Black Act casualty - 2013
1719: Mary Hamilton, lady in waiting - 2012
2009: Four Iranians - 2011
1757: Admiral John Byng - 2010
1551: Alice Arden, husband killer - 2009
1957: Evagoras Pallikarides, teenage guerrilla poet - 2008
1875: Six in Fort Smith under Hanging Judge Isaac Parker
1804: Little Harpe and Peter Alston, Mississippi pirates
1881: George Parrott, future footwear
1895: Jesus Vialpando and Feliciano Chavez, desperados
1857: James Copeland, repentant gangster
1895: A day in death penalty around the U.S. (McTeague edition)
1896: The Rufus Buck Gang, heaven-dream't
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arkansas,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Murder,Outlaws,Public Executions,USA
Tags: 1870s, 1874, clarksville, march 14, sid wallace
1879: Anders Larsson, the first private execution in Sweden
Add comment February 13th, 2020 Headsman
On this date in 1879, Sweden conducted its first private execution, that of Anders Larsson.
Executioner Johan Fredrik Hjort.
Deep in the 19th century's Long Depression, the farmer had murdered his pregnant wife in despair at providing for the whole family.
This positioned him to become the first* subject of an 1877 royal decree moving Sweden's beheadings behind prison walls. The time and the location of the execution were also supposed to be concealed from the public — announced only after the fact, like present-day hangings in Japan — but in this instance word got around and the walls of Västerås county jail were thronged with would-be gawkers.
* There's a complete list of modern Swedish executions here.
1844: John Knatchbull, moral madman - 2019
1995: Franklin Thomas, David Thomas, and Douglas Hamlet, the last in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 2018
1818: Samuel Godfrey, American picaro - 2017
1945: 59 collaborationists in Bulgaria - 2016
1751: John Morrison, Francis McCoy, and Elizabeth Robinson, robbers - 2015
1864: Bizoton Affair executions - 2014
1859: Father Paul Loc, Vietnamese martyr - 2013
2009: Minurul Islam and two friends, for a dowry death - 2012
1892: Two Georgian bandits, witnessed by Stalin - 2011
1906: William Williams, the last hanged in Minnesota - 2010
1542: Kathryn Howard, the rose without a thorn - 2009
1942: Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Japanese spy - 2008
1796: Mastro Titta's first execution of many
1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine
1810: Tommaso Tintori, the first guillotined in Rome
1879: Takahashi Oden, dokufu and she-demon
1900: John Filip Nordlund, Mälarmördaren
1910: Johan Alfred Ander, the last executed in Sweden
1887: Georgette and Sylvain Thomas, guillotine couples act
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Milestones,Murder,Sweden
Tags: 1870s, 1879, anders larsson, february 13, vasteras
1872: George "Charcoal" Botts
Add comment January 27th, 2020 Headsman
It's the old, old story: conniving war profiteer helps client get divorce, conniving war profiteer installs divorced client as mistress, rival lover also awaiting divorced client's divorce shoots conniving war profiteer, rival lover winds up on Executed Today.
It's the story of George Botts (hanged January 27, 1872) and D.C. Civil War gadabout Oliver "Pet" Halsted. Friends of the site Murder By Gaslight has the details.
1597: Jaakko Ilkka, Cudgel War victim - 2019
1725: James Casady, aged beggar - 2018
1697: George Seager, deserter and burglar - 2017
1591: Arnold Cosbie, writing his own elegy - 2016
1928: Edward Rowlands and Daniel Driscoll - 2015
1868: Three Italian bandits - 2014
1565: Benedetto Accolti, would-be papal assassin - 2013
1961: Wasyl Gnypiuk, sleep-killer - 2012
1550: The leaders of the Prayer Book Rebellion - 2011
1940: Isaak Babel - 2010
1781: Mutinous ringleaders of the New Jersey line - 2009
1142: Yue Fei, paragon of loyalty - 2008
1898: Theodore Durrant, the Demon of the Belfry
1861: Paula Angel … but why?
1887: Thomas Cluverius, Richmond murderer
1886: Robert Silas Fowler, lustful
1829: George Swearingen, Maryland sheriff
1888: Two in New Jersey, by father and son hangmen
1888: Alexander Goldenson, San Francisco obsessive
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Murder,New Jersey,Sex,USA
Tags: 1870s, 1872, george botts, january 27, love triangle, pet halsted
1877: Dato Maharaja Lela, Perak War rebel
On this date in 1877, the British put a bow on a suppressed rebellion in Malaysia by executing one of its leaders.
The conflict is known as the Perak War. Perak was a sultanate on the Malaysian peninsula that had been torn by conflict for much of the 19th century and in 1874 sought protectorate status from the trade-hungry British who were only too happy to grant it.
Many Malayans were much less happy, and the very next year the first British Resident of Perak, James W. W. Birch, was assassinated by nationalists chuffed at his meddling — launching in the process the brief and unsuccessful Perak War.
The sultan-appointed mufti Dato Maharaja Lela (English Wikipedia entry | Malaysian) was the author of this murder* and then one of the primary leaders of a very short-lived rebellion. It was all done and dusted in a matter of weeks with the British carrying a couple of decisive early engagements and our Maharaja sinking into the wilderness for a few months as a fugitive. Add in some mopping up and there's your war.
He'd be captured and eventually executed for the Birch assassination, in Taiping, Perak (Not to be confused with Taiping Island, in Taiwan); in this he had a better fate than the sultan, whom the British merely exiled to the Seychelles — where the deposed sovereign occupied his time adapting a French ditty into what became the Malaysian national anthem.
* Birch's ham-handed carelessness of local mores is the stock motivation imputed to his killers, but some have pointed to his move towards outlawing the slave trade as a serious ding to Dato Maharaja Lela's bottom line.
1823: Giles East - 2019
1875: A day in the death penalty on opposite sides of Pennsylvania - 2018
1905: John Johnson - 2017
1922: Eleuterio Corral and Rumaldo Losano, escapees - 2016
1979: Julio Vargas Garayar, the last executed in Peru - 2015
2013: Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sorouri, viral video stars - 2014
1964: Preap In, Khmer Serei operative - 2013
1880: Andrew Scott and Thomas Rogan, bushrangers - 2012
250: Pope St. Fabian - 2011
1677: William Drummond, for Bacon's Rebellion - 2010
1758: Francois Macandal, forgotten black messiah - 2009
Feast Day of St. Sebastian - 2008
1920: Kevin Barry
1902: Gideon Scheepers, Boer guerrilla
1945: Eliyahu Bet-Zuri and Eliyahu Hakim, Lord Moyne's assassins
1950: Rosli Dhobi, Sarawak patriot
1908: Khudiram Bose, teenage martyr
1901: Filipino insurgents on Luzon
1916: Eamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert, and Sean Heuston
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Assassins,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,England,Execution,History,Malaysia,Murder,Occupation and Colonialism,Separatists,Soldiers,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1870s, 1877, january 20, perak war, taiping
1879: Juan Oliva Moncusi, attempted regicide
Add comment January 4th, 2020 Headsman
Juan Oliva Moncusi (sometimes given as Moncasi) was publicly garroted at Madrid's Campo de Guardias on this date in 1879 for his failed assassination attempt on King Alfonso XII the previous October 25.
"That day the young* king had returned to his capital, after a month's absence," quoth The Atlantic,
Everywhere he was received with hearty welcomes; the crowds cheered, and ladies showered bouquets of flowers upon him from the balconies. As the royal cortege passed along the principal street of Madrid a young man pressed through the soldiers who kept the line, and, drawing a pistol, fired point-blank at Alfonso. The bullet missed its aim. The would-be assassin was instantly seized, and he proved to be one Juan Oliva Moncasi, a cooper, twenty-three years of age. He had for several years been noted in the district of Tarragona, in the province of Catalonia, where he was born, for his exaggerated ideas in politics. He was uncommonly daring and cool in his behavior after his arrest, and he declared that he did not feel the slightest remorse. He had meditated this crime for a long time past, and came to Madrid with the firm resolve to carry out his design. He admitted that he had forfeited his life, but said he believed that he was, like Nobiling and Hoedel, furthering the objects of his school in social questions.
Source are at odds over whether to characterize this young man as a socialist or an anarchist, but his attack — succeeding the aforementioned separate assassination attempts by Nobiling and Hoedel upon the German Kaiser, and followed by the November 1879 attempt on the Italian king by Giovanni Passannante — shook Europe's crowned heads. The anarchist Kropotkin would complain in his memoirs of the harassment he endured in Switzerland by authorities who suspected a coordinated international plot.
Although that proved not to be the case, Moncusi's errant bullet might have actually insured the continued existence — down to the present day — of the Bourbon line in Spain, for in view of the year's campaign of attentats "the royal advisers deemed it urgent that the succession to the throne should be assured" and accelerated negotiations to wed Alfonso to the Habsburg princess Maria Christina.
And not a moment too soon. When Alfonso died young of dysentery in 1885, Maria Christina was pregnant with what proved to be a posthumous son and heir.
1745: William Hook - 2019
1957: Geza Szivos - 2018
1944: Kaj Munk, Danish pastor-poet - 2017
1794: Nicolas Luckner, German marshal of France - 2016
1568: Eighty-four Valenciennes iconoclasts - 2015
1943: "Native parachutists" in Morocco - 2014
1897: The Bicol martyrs of Philippines independence - 2013
2011: Ryu Kyong, Kim Jong-un rival - 2012
1721: John Stewart, pirate - 2011
1943: Jerzy Iwanow (Georgios Ivanof) - 2010
1946: The treacherous Theodore Schurch - 2009
838: Babak Khorramdin - 2008
1852: Martin Merino, Jesuit assassin
1892: Four anarchists in Jerez
1897: Michele Angiolillo, assassin of Canovas
1884: Seven anarchists of La Mano Negra
1894: Santiago Salvador, William Tell bomber
1894: Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist assassin
1801: Chevalier, bomb plot scapegoat
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Assassins,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Garrote,History,Notable for their Victims,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Spain,Strangled
Tags: 1870s, 1879, alfonso xii, january 4, juan moncusi, madrid
1872: Joseph Garcia, for the Llangibby Massacre
Add comment November 18th, 2019 Headsman
Spanish seaman Joseph Garcia was hanged at Usk Prison on this date in 1872, for the Llangibby Massacre.
It occurred in the Welsh village of that name, inland from the mouth of the Severn where Garcia had alit as a mariner at Newport nearly a year before.
He'd committed a burglary there, and been committed to jail for his pains. His sentence was nine months … followed by release to a foreign land whose language he barely spoke, his ship long gone and no friend or occupation to direct him.
A "short, thin man, just five feet five inches tall, with a swarthy complexion, coarse black hair and beard," Garcia trudged the road in to the farming town. Several times he was observed loitering there but his presence was really announced by the billows of smoke pouring from the home of William Watkins, a farmworker — and neighbors who rushed to the scene beheld the horror of its owner dead from a stab wound through his throat, his wife similarly dealt with, and all three of their small children also put to the blade — their wee corpses already partly charred from the fire.
The stranger's foreignness invited attention, of course, and when he was arrested back at Newport circumstantial evidence appeared to confirm the connection: he had some injuries and bloodstains that suggested a scrap, a pair of boots that might have been stolen from Watkins, and some stolen household articles that a surviving daughter of Watkins fortunate enough to be away from the house at the fatal hour recognized as the family's own. He also possessed a knife that he hadn't been discharged with.
Then as now the fury for a swarthy outlander come uninvited to go a-viking among law-abiding Britons was potent; while legal proceedings were entirely regular, "the noise outside the court was powerful enough at times to prevent the witness from being heard, and from the character of the exclamations which permeated to the interior of the court the crowd appeared ready to lynch Garcia." (Period press quoted here.) Indeed, such a sentiment was openly published in at least one broadsheet murder ballad:
May the murderers to justice quickly be brought,
And suffer the penalty they surely have sought,
Lynch law in some countries they would very soon find,
And their bodies be swinging on the trees to the wind.
1936: The Seven Martyrs of Madrid - 2018
1784: Richard Barrick and John Sullivan - 2017
1441: Roger Bolingbroke, "hanged, hedyd, and quartered" - 2016
1813: Ezra Hutchinson, teen rapist - 2015
1329: Alberghettino II Manfredi, upstart condottiero - 2014
1427: Johann Bantzkow, Mayor of Wismar - 2013
1646: Twelve at an Evora auto da fe - 2012
1961: Four for the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - 2011
2009: Danielle Simpson, "If I can't be free - Kill me!!" - 2010
1864: Hong Tianguifu, in the Taiping Rebellion - 2009
2005: Elias Syriani, a family affair - 2008
1577: Soulmother of Kussnacht - 2007
1814: Six slaves in Guyana
1880: Ned Kelly
1864: Franz Muller, "Ich habe es getan"
1882: Myles Joyce, Maamtrasna murder miscarriage
1887: Charles Smith
1857: Dedea Redanies, immigrant soldier
1885: James Arcene, the youngest juvenile offender hanged in the US?
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,England,Execution,Hanged,Murder,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,Wales
Tags: 1870s, 1872, joseph garcia, llangibby, november 18


The Republic of the Congo is in Central Africa. The country is also known as Congo-Brazzaville to distinguish it from its giant eastern neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola (the exclave of Cabinda).
The Republic of the Congo's sparse population is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the country, leaving the vast areas of tropical jungle in the north virtually uninhabited. Thus, Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with 85% of its total population living in a few urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the small cities or villages lining the 332-mile (534 km) railway which connects the two cities.
In rural areas, industrial and commercial activity has declined rapidly in recent years, leaving rural economies dependent on the government for support and subsistence. Before the 1997 war, about 15,000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French. Presently, only about 9,500 remain.


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Noircast Special 4: TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir
Miguel Rodriquez of Monster Island Resort and Will McKinley of Cinematically Insane interview Clute and Edwards on the topic of TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir, a free multimedia online course presented by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Ball State University. This course is the latest collaboration by the creators of the Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir podcast series and will benefit from the promotional and social media support of TCM, where Clute now serves as head of Marketing and Editorial, and the innovative multimedia course materials created by Ball State University, where Edwards is Executive Director of iLearn Research. The course is free and open to the public, will run in conjunction with the two-month "Summer of Darkness" festival on TCM, featuring 24 hours of film noir every Friday in June and July, 2015.
Direct download: Noircast_Special_4.mp3
Out of the Past's Top Ten Episodes on Australian Broadcasting Radio National
Clute and Edwards are pleased to announce that the Out of the Past podcasts were broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Radio National, as part of their Top of the Pods programming--their selection of the world's best podcasts. (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/topofthepods/)
It was truly an honor to be included in this program, and a pleasure to hear the podcasts introduced by ABC host Robbie Buck.
Thu, 2 June 2011
Clute and Edwards Publish New Noir Book!
Grab a copy of Clute and Edwards' new noir book today at Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/jCePwG and at other online booksellers.
In December 2011, Dartmouth College Press (University Press of New England) released Clute and Edwards' new study of film noir, The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism. This exciting book builds on crucial insights from the Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir podcasts, and draws on the work of the experimental literary group Oulipo (an acronym for "Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle," or "Workshop of Potential Literature") to investigate the extreme self-consciousness and high degree of visual punning exhibited by noir. In the process, the book proposes—and serves as a sustained demonstration of—an OuFiNoPo, or Workshop of Potential Film Noir. Part thinking-man's fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this study will help scholars and film fans alike to view film noir afresh, and achieve new insights into even the best known movies.
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