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Luke 23-24
Luke 23-24 The Message Bible
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23 1 Then they all took Jesus to Pilate 2 and began to bring up charges against him. They said, "We found this man undermining our law and order, forbidding taxes to be paid to Caesar, setting himself up as Messiah-King." 3 Pilate asked him, "Is this true that you're 'King of the Jews'?" "Those are your words, not mine," Jesus replied. 4 Pilate told the high priests and the accompanying crowd, "I find nothing wrong here. He seems harmless enough to me. 5 But they were vehement. "He's stirring up unrest among the people with his teaching, disturbing the peace everywhere, starting in Galilee and now all through Judea. He's a dangerous man, endangering the peace."
Jesus before Herod
6 When Pilate heard that, he asked, "So, he's a Galilean?" 7 Realizing that he properly came under Herod's jurisdiction, he passed the buck to Herod, who just happened to be in Jerusalem for a few days. 8 Herod was delighted when Jesus showed up. He had wanted for a long time to see him, he'd heard so much about him. He hoped to see him do something spectacular. 9 He peppered him with questions. Jesus didn't answer - not one word. 10 But the high priests and religion scholars were right there, saying their piece, strident and shrill in their accusations. 11 Mightily offended, Herod turned on Jesus. His soldiers joined in, taunting and jeering. Then they dressed him up in an elaborate king costume and sent him back to Pilate. 12 That day Herod and Pilate became thick as thieves. Always before they had kept their distance.
Jesus Sentenced to Die
13 Then Pilate called in the high priests, rulers, and the others 14 and said, "You brought this man to me as a disturber of the peace. I examined him in front of all of you and found there was nothing to your charge 15 And neither did Herod, for he has sent him back here with a clean bill of health. It's clear that he's done nothing wrong, let alone anything deserving death. 16 I'm going to warn him to watch his step and let him go." 18 At that, the crowd went wild: "Kill him! Give us Barabbas!" 19 (Barabbas had been thrown in prison for starting a riot in the city and for murder. 20 Pilate still wanted to let Jesus go, and so spoke out again. 21 But they kept shouting back, "Crucify! Crucify him! 22 He tried a third time. "But for what crime? I've found nothing in him deserving death. I'm going to warn him to watch his step and let him go." 23 But they kept at it, a shouting mob, demanding that he be crucified. And finally they shouted him down. 24 Pilate caved in and gave them what they wanted. 25 He released the man thrown in prison for rioting and murder, and gave them Jesus to do whatever they wanted.
26 As they led him off, they made Simon, a man from Cyrene who happened to be coming in from the countryside, carry the cross behind Jesus. 27 A huge crowd of people followed, along with women weeping and carrying on. 28 At one point Jesus turned to the women and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't cry for me. Cry for yourselves and for your children. 29 The time is coming when they'll say, 'Lucky the women who never conceived! Lucky the wombs that never gave birth! Lucky the breasts that never gave milk!' 30 Then they'll start calling to the mountains, 'Fall down on us!' calling to the hills, 'Cover us up!' 31 If people do these things to a live, green tree, can you imagine what they'll do with deadwood?"
32 Two others, both criminals, were taken along with him for execution. 33 When they got to the place called Skull Hill, they crucified him, along with the criminals, one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing." 35 The people stood there staring at Jesus, and the ringleaders made faces, taunting, "He saved others. Let's see him save himself! The Messiah of God - ha! The Chosen - ha!" 36 The soldiers also came up and poked fun at him, making a game of it. They toasted him with sour wine 37 "So you're King of the Jews! Save yourself!" 38 Printed over him was a sign: this is the king of the jews 39 One of the criminals hanging alongside cursed him: "Some Messiah you are! Save yourself! Save us!" 40 But the other one made him shut up: "Have you no fear of God? You're getting the same as him. 41 We deserve this, but not him - he did nothing to deserve this." 42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom." 43 He said, "Don't worry, I will. Today you will join me in paradise."
44 By now it was noon. The whole earth became dark, the darkness lasting three hours - 45 a total blackout. The Temple curtain split right down the middle. 46 Jesus called loudly, "Father, I place my life in your hands!" Then he breathed his last. 47 When the captain there saw what happened, he honored God: "This man was innocent! A good man, and innocent!" 48 All who had come around as spectators to watch the show, when they saw what actually happened, were overcome with grief and headed home. 49 Those who knew Jesus well, along with the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a respectful distance and kept vigil.
50 There was a man by the name of Joseph, a member of the Jewish High Council, a man of good heart and good character. 51 He had not gone along with the plans and actions of the council. His hometown was the Jewish village of Arimathea. 52 He lived in alert expectation of the kingdom of God. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Taking him down, he wrapped him in a linen shroud and placed him in a tomb chiseled into the rock, a tomb never yet used. 54 It was the day before Sabbath, the Sabbath just about to begin. 55 The women who had been companions of Jesus from Galilee followed along. They saw the tomb where Jesus' body was placed. 56 Then they went back to prepare burial spices and perfumes. They rested quietly on the Sabbath, as commanded.
24 1 At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. 2 They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, 3 so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn't find the body of the Master Jesus. 4 They were puzzled, wondering what to make of this. Then, out of nowhere it seemed, two men, light cascading over them, stood there. 5 The women were awestruck and bowed down in worship. The men said, "Why are you looking for the Living One in a cemetery? 6 He is not here, but raised up. Remember how he told you when you were still back in Galilee 7 that he had to be handed over to sinners, be killed on a cross, and in three days rise up?" 8 Then they remembered Jesus' words. 9 They left the tomb and broke the news of all this to the Eleven and the rest. 10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them kept telling these things to the apostles, 11 but the apostles didn't believe a word of it, thought they were making it all up. 12 But Peter jumped to his feet and ran to the tomb. He stooped to look in and saw a few grave clothes, that's all. He walked away puzzled, shaking his head.
The Walk to Emmaus
13 That same day two of them were walking to the village Emmaus, about seven miles out of Jerusalem. 14 They were deep in conversation, going over all these things that had happened. 15 In the middle of their talk and questions, Jesus came up and walked along with them. 16 But they were not able to recognize who he was. 17 He asked, "What's this you're discussing so intently as you walk along?" 18 Then one of them, his name was Cleopas, said, "Are you the only one in Jerusalem who hasn't heard what's happened during the last few days?" 19 He said, "What has happened?" 20 They said, "The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene. He was a man of God, a prophet, dynamic in work and word, blessed by both God and all the people. Then our high priests and leaders betrayed him, got him sentenced to death, and crucified him. 21 And we had our hopes up that he was the One, the One about to deliver Israel. And it is now the third day since it happened. 22 But now some of our women have completely confused us. Early this morning they were at the tomb 23 and couldn't find his body. They came back with the story that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. 24 Some of our friends went off to the tomb to check and found it empty just as the women said, but they didn't see Jesus." 25 Then he said to them, "So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can't you simply believe all that the prophets said? 26 Don't you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?" 27 Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him. 28 They came to the edge of the village where they were headed. He acted as if he were going on 29 but they pressed him: "Stay and have supper with us. It's nearly evening; the day is done." So he went in with them. 30 And here is what happened: He sat down at the table with them. Taking the bread, he blessed and broke and gave it to them. 31 At that moment, open-eyed, wide-eyed, they recognized him. And then he disappeared. 32 Back and forth they talked. "Didn't we feel on fire as he conversed with us on the road, as he opened up the Scriptures for us?" 33 They didn't waste a minute. They were up and on their way back to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and their friends gathered together, 34 talking away: "It's really happened! The Master has been raised up - Simon saw him!" 35 Then the two went over everything that happened on the road and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
36 While they were saying all this, Jesus appeared to them and said, "Peace be with you." 37 They thought they were seeing a ghost and were scared half to death. 38 He continued with them, "Don't be upset, and don't let all these doubting questions take over. 39 Look at my hands; look at my feet - it's really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn't have muscle and bone like this." 40 As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 They still couldn't believe what they were seeing. It was too much; it seemed too good to be true. 42 They gave him a piece of leftover fish they had cooked. 43 He took it and ate it right before their eyes. 44 Then he said, "Everything I told you while I was with you comes to this: All the things written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms have to be fulfilled." 45 He went on to open their understanding of the Word of God, showing them how to read their Bibles this way. 46 He said, "You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day, 47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations - starting from here, from Jerusalem! 48 You're the first to hear and see it. You're the witnesses. 49 What comes next is very important: I am sending what my Father promised to you, so stay here in the city until he arrives, until you're equipped with power from on high."
50 He then led them out of the city over to Bethany. Raising his hands he blessed them, 51 and while blessing them, took his leave, being carried up to heaven. 52 And they were on their knees, worshiping him. They returned to Jerusalem bursting with joy. 53 They spent all their time in the Temple praising God. Yes.
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Peace Stone, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire
8th August 2019 8th August 2019 megalithix
Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – NS 56413 99540
Canmore ID 44622
Gartrenich
Malling
Menteith 1
Peace Stone cup-and-ring
The quickest way here is bedevilled with troublesome parking (and an unhelpful local at Malling Cottage). That aside, roughly halfway along the A81 between the Braeval roundabout (near Aberfolye) and Port of Meneith, turn down the track at Malling, following it round for 300 yards through the farm, then another 500 yards or so until you reach a junction with a gate on your left. Walk down the track to your right, roughly alongside the Lake of Menteith, for nearly 700 yards until you reach the gate into the forestry commission land. Go thru the gate and turn immediate right, following the fence for about 200 yards where a clump of stones lives. You're there!
The Peace Stone in 1899
This seemingly isolated petroglyph, known about by local people in the middle of the 19th century and earlier, was said to have been "held in great reverence." It was first mentioned in literary accounts in 1866, when the oral traditions about it were more important than any archaeocentricism. But things change with the times: local people were kicked off their lands, old stories and knowledge of sites were lost, and the 'discipline' of archaeology was beginning to look at these curious carved rocks with puzzled minds.
The Peace Stone was described at some length and with considerable accuracy in Mr A.F. Hutchison's (1893) gazetteer on the ancient stones of Stirlingshire. It was one of the regions only known petroglyphs at that time and thankfully he gave us a good account of it, saying:
"On the west ride of the Lake of Menteith, about half a mile south from the farm-house of Malling, this stone is to be found, lying at the boundary of the arable land. The ground at the place rises into a slight eminence, on the top of which the stone lay till some seven or eight years ago, when a labourer took it into his head that a stone on which so much labour had evidently been spent must have been intended to cover something valuable. He proceeded to excavate the earth at the side with the intention of getting at the buried treasure, with the result that the stone slipped down into the hole which he had made, where it now lies. It is quite possible, however, that an interment, if no treasure, might be found beside it on further research. The stone is roughly circular on the surface, measuring about 4 feet in diameter. It is entirely covered with cup and ring marks—22 cups in all—varying in size from an inch to two inches in diameter. The cups and rings are very symmetrically formed. Nearly in the centre is a fine one surrounded by four circular grooves. Others have incomplete triple and quadruple circles, with radial duct dividing them. There are other curious curves that sometimes interlace, and near the lower side of the stone are five or six cups with straight channels running out from them over the edge. This is an extremely interesting stone. It is unique in our neighbourhood, so far as I know, in showing these symmetrical carvings. They are now, however, much weather-worn."
Ron Morris' sketch & photo
When Alison Young (1938) came to write about the carving, she echoed Hutchison's thought that the stone might have originally have covered a tomb—but we simply don't know and it should be treated as guesswork, as there are no known prehistoric tombs anywhere hereby.
Close-up of faded cups
Years passed before the next archaeological visit – by which time the stone had been uprooted and moved, apparently "ploughed up by the Forestry Commission", and when Ron Morris (1981) last sought it out found that "the stone was un-traceable". On a previous visit, before being moved, he found it to be,
"a cup-and-three-rings, 3 cups surrounded by two rings…and 6 cup-and-one-ring. One of these and 2 cups form part of the design of the cup-and-three-rings. There were also at least 7 other cups, and a number of grooves, some forming lines from a central cup, or a cup-mark, downhill. Greatest diameter visible in 1977 30cm (12in) and depth of carving 3cm (1 in)… Many of the carvings are so weathered as to be visible only when wet in early morning or late evening."
And when we visited the site a few days ago, the stunning sunlight that had followed us all day, sadly faded and disallowed us better photographs of the site. Huge apologies…. But it's worth visiting when the daylight's good, perhaps when you're exploring the huge number of brilliant petroglyphs at Ballochraggan and Nether Glenny on the hillside 1½ miles immediately north of this "outlier", as Brouwer & van Veen (2009) called it.
In a landscape bedevilled with stunning petroglyphs, traditions and folklore of them is all but gone; but the story of the Peace Stone was thankfully captured in words by Mr Dun (1866), who told us:
There is a curious prophecy connected with a stone situated near the ruins of the chapel of Arnchly, and which is worth recording. From time immemorial this stone went under the name of the Peace Stone, and it was held in great reverence by the natives. One Pharic McPharic, a noted Gaelic prophet, foretold that, in the course of time, this stone would be buried underground by two brothers, who, for their indiscretion, were to die childless. By-and-by the stone would rise to the surface, and by the time it was fairly above ground, a battle was to be fought on "Auchveity," that is, "Betty's Field." The battle was to be long and fierce, until "Gramoch-Cam" of Glenny, that is, "Graham of the one eye," would sweep from the "Bay-wood" with his clan and decide the contest. After the battle, a large raven was to alight on the stone and drink the blood of the fallen. So much for the prophecy then; now for the fulfilment. About fifty years ago, two brothers (tenants of the farm of Arnchly), finding that the stone interfered with their agricultural labours, made a large trench, and had it put several feet below the surface. Very singular, indeed, both these men, although married, died without leaving any issue. With the labouring of the field for a number of years, the stone has actually made its appearance above ground, and there is at present living a descendant of the Grahams of Glenny who is blind of one eye, and the ravens are daily hovering over the devoted field. Tremble ye natives! and rivals of the "Hero Grahams," keep an eye on Gramoch-Cam!
The name of Betty's Field came from an earlier piece of folklore: where a prince out hunting a stag was caught in one of the deep bogs hereby, only to be rescued by a local lass. In return for her help, she was given a large piece of land which was to bear her name.
Armit, Ian, "The Peace Stone (Port of Menteith parish)," in Discovery & Excavation Scotland, 1998.
Brouwer, Jan & van Veen, Gus, Rock Art in the Menteith Hills, BRAC 2009.
Dun, P., Summer at the Lake of Monteith, James Hedderwick: Glasgow 1866.
Hutchison, A.F., "The Standing Stones and other Rude Monuments of Stirling District," in Transactions Stirling Natural History & Antiquarian Society, volume 15, 1893.
Hutchison, A.F., The Lake of Menteith: Its Islands and Vicinity with Historical Accounts of the Priory of Inchmahome and the Earldom of Menteith, Stirling 1899.
Mallery, Garrick, "Pictographs of the North American Indians," in Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, volume 4, 1886.
Morris, Ronald W.B., The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland, BAR: Oxford 1981.
van Hoek, Maarten, "Menteith (Port of Menteith parish) Rock Art Sites," in Discovery Excavation Scotland, 1989.
Young, Alison, "Cup-and ring Markings on Craig Ruenshin, with some Comparative Notes", in Proceedings Society Antiquaries Scotland, vol. 72, 1938.
© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian
Peace Stone CR
Peace Stone CR 56.166808, -4.313964 Peace Stone CR
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Montalt, Dunning, Perthshire
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – NO 06 13
Mount Alt Farm
Montalt's curious cup-marked stone
This is a curious stone and may not be the type of 'cup-marked' rock we're used to. Maybe… It is presently housed in Stirling's Smith Art Gallery & Museum, where a small note tells that is was originally found "on the top of the Ochils, near Mount Alt Farm, Path of Condie in 1893." The stone was found at the same time, and adjacent to, a prehistoric collared urn—which implies it had an association with a cairn or cist, or burial site of some sort (which isn't uncommon). However, the exact location of its original whereabouts has been forgotten.
Broken off from a larger piece of stone, the remaining piece of rock has six cup-markings cut into it, between one and three inches across. The smallest cup is what we might call a 'normal' size, but the rest of them get increasingly large and may have been more functional than purely mythic in nature. In a small note attached to the stone in the Museum, they add the interesting note that,
"There are…indications that in some places they may be related to transhumance: the practice of moving sheep, cattle and goats to higher pastures in the summer, where they may have been used to mark routes or sources of water."
They may indeed – amongst a variety of other things too. But the suggested relationship with cattle occurs in stones found near Haworth, West Yorkshire, where large man-affected carved 'cups' such as the ones here, were known to be filled with milk at specific times of Nature's calendrical rhythms, for the spirits of the place to give good fortune to the farmer and local people. We know of one instance where this practice still occurs and goes back generations in the same family. Examples of this animistic practice have also been found in the Scottish Highlands.
Montalt CR
Montalt CR 56.299723, -3.528439 Montalt CR
Cup-and-Ring Stones, Perthshire, Scotlandanimism, Bronze Age, burials, Condie, cup marked stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, Dunning, Forgandenny, Forteviot, heritage, neolithic, Ochil Hills, Ochils, Perthshire, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, rock carvings, sacred sites, Scotland, Scottish history, urnsLeave a comment
Gawk Hall Stone, Middleton Moor, North Yorkshire
14th June 2019 2nd July 2019 megalithix
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 13004 53097
Gawk Hall Stone
Probably the easiest route to find this is via the Roman Road from Blubberhouses. Go up Cooper Lane a few hundred yards, turning right (west) on the footpath past the Manor House and onto the moor. Walk along the footpath until you hit the dead straight Roman Road and walk 1⅓ miles (past the cup-marked Eagle Stone) until you meet another footpath on your right veering over the haunted Sug Marsh away from the straight road. This takes you to Gawk Hill Gate ½-mile away. Go over the wall here and walk for 350 yards where several stones are just yards to the left of the path. You're there!
…and again!
Depending on the age of the old path by which this carving lies, it may have represented a marker of the ancient route. It lives in relative isolation from other petroglyphs a mile or so further down the moorland slopes and is probably one only for the purists amongst you. A smoothed (female) medium-sized rock, about 2 yards by 1 yard across, possesses at least two simple cup-marks on its upper western surface. A third cup seems evident between the main two cups, with a carved line running some 10 inches towards the eastern side of the stone. What may be several other cup-marks can be seen on the stone, but the day was overcast when we came here and so we're unsure as to whether they're natural or man-made.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to James Elkington and his little compatriot Mackenzie, who accompanied us to this and other sites nearby.
53.973796, -1.803226 Gawk Hall Stone
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Langside House, Cathcart, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
9th December 2018 6th November 2019 megalithix
Cup-and-Ring Stone (removed): OS Grid Reference – NS 5726 6128
Bluebell Woods
Langside Stone
The Langside House, or Bluebell Woods carving
Amidst where now the busy city spreads on the south-side of Glasgow, there was once an excellent multi-ringed prehistoric petroglyph to be seen. According to the official records, it was all alone – but I don't buy that for one minute! (petroglyphs rarely occur in isolation) However, it looks as if this might have been the last of its kind in the area, betwixt where now large houses grow in the landscape of Langside and Battlefield, a few hundred yards south of the hillfort-topped Queen's Park.
Before being noticed by archaeologists, the stone was apparently being used as a stone seat in the woods for people to sit on! It was probably a part of a larger monument, perhaps a cairn of some sort. Certainly from the sketches we have of it, it was part of a larger piece of stone and was likely to have had companions, but records seem to be silent on the matter. The most detailed description of it comes from the pen of northern antiquarian Fred Coles (1906), who gave us the following literary portrait:
"The first notice of the Stone incised with the design shown below was due to Mr W. A. Donnelly, who contributed a description and a sketch to The Glasgow Evening Times of 25th June 1902. Later, Mr Ludovic Mann, at my request, sent me certain notes he had taken of the cup-and-ring-marks. But prior to this, the Stone itself had, on the instigation of Mr Donnelly, I think, been removed from its site in the wood, and placed near one of the entrances to the new Kelvinside Museum. There I saw it and made measurements in July 1903.
"The Bluebell Wood lies in a curving line to the west and south of Langside House, and the cup-marked Stone was at a point in the southern extremity of the wood, above and north of the river Cart. It is interesting to be able also to record that the longer axis of the Stone lay almost precisely north and South, and the opposite axis east and west.* The Stone is of a hard, whitish sandstone, a good deal weathered and rounded at the edges. It measures 4 feet 9 inches in length and 3 feet 2 inches in breadth, and varies in thickness from 2 feet 6 inches to 1 foot 7 inches. The striation of the Stone has helped to efface the cuttings which, though perfectly clear and measurable, are shallow in proportion to their width. And this feature I have endeavoured to portray in the accompanying illustration (above). Beginning at the north end of the Stone, there is one cup placed just where the outermost ring of that group touches the edge of the Stone. The ring has a groove leading towards but not into a central cup, and four other cups are placed on the two outermost rings, there being four rings in this group. The middle group consists of a central cup and three rings, flanked on the west by a row of three cups (one of which is the largest of all), and on the east by a double row of six cups, three of which are almost obliterated. This middle group is imperfectly concentric, two of its arcs running into the fourth ring of the group on the south, which has a fine deeply picked central cup. All the better-preserved rings are very nearly 1½ inches in width of cutting.
"The diameters of the outermost rings in each group are: of the north group, 1 foot 9 inches; of the middle group 1 foot 5 inches; and of the south group 1 foot 7 inches. The cups vary in diameter from 3 inches to 1½.
"Considering the extremely easily weathered nature of this Stone, and the fact that its sculptured surface has already suffered much ill-usage, its present position, near the entrance of the Art Galleries, entirely unprotected by a railing and exposed to all sorts of abuse by casual passers-by as well as the weather, is not a fit and proper place for a Stone of such interest."
A few years after this, the local historian Ludovic MacLellan Mann (1930) wrote a piece for the Glasgow Herald, in which he thought that both this and another carving in the area,
"commemorate chiefly…an eclipse of the sun seen in Glasgow district in the year 2983 BC, at three o' clock in the afternoon of the sixth day after the Spring Equinox."
A fascinating idea… Mann was intrigued by the theory that petroglyphs represented astronomical events or maps of the skies – and we know from cultures elsewhere in the world that some carvings had such a function; but it's not integral to all carvings by any means.
The stone was included in Ron Morris' (1981) survey, merely echoing the description of Fred Coles, adding nothing more. And so it seems that the carving is still in the museum somewhere. Canmore has it listed as "Accession no: 02-78". Does anyone know of its present situation? Can anyone get a photo so we can give it a more fitting site profile? It looked a damn good carving! And, if anyone lives nearby, I note that there are small patches of the old woodland still visible on GoogleEarth: therein, perhaps, a diligent explorer may just find another carving….
Coles, Fred, "Notices of Standing Stones, Cists and Hitherto Unrecorded Cup-and-Ring Marks in Various Localities," in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, volume 40, Edinburgh 1906.
Donnelly, W.A., "Letter", Glasgow Evening Times, 25 June, 1902.
Mann, Ludovic MacLellan, "The Eclipse in 2983 B.C. – Discovery near Glasgow," in Glasgow Herald, 17.09.1930.
Morris, Ronald W.B., "The Cup-and-Ring Marks and Similar Sculptures of South-West Scotland," in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, volume 14, 1967.
Morris, Ronald W.B. & Bailey, Douglas C., "The Cup-and-Ring Marks and Similar Sculptures of Southwestern Scotland: A Survey," in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, volume 98, 1966.
Small, Sam, Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide, RIAS: Edinburgh 2008.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Huge thanks to beautiful Aisha for putting me up.
* Although Coles did note how its earlier use as a stone seat probably negates his axial measurements.
Langside House
55.823689, -4.279978 Langside House
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Coilsfield, Tarbolton, Ayrshire
18th November 2018 27th June 2019 megalithix
Cup-and-Ring Stone (lost): OS Grid Reference – NS 4469 2624
King Coil's Grave Stone
Old King Cole's Stone (Morris 1981)
Daniel Wilson's 1851 sketch of the carving
This fascinating and very ornate prehistoric carving was found on the underside of a grave-slab beneath Old King Coil's Grave, or an adjacent prehistoric burial feature (we don't know for sure). In Daniel Wilson's (1851) superb early work on prehistoric Scotland is a detailed drawing of this ornate petroglyph—similar in design and form to those found across the waters in Ireland—copied "from a drawing presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Colonel Hugh Montgomery of Shielmorly, in 1785." Mr Wilson informed us that,
"It formed the cover of a cist, discovered in digging a gravel-pit at Coilsfield, in Ayrshire, and underneath it was found an urn filled with incinerated bones. The dimensions of the stone were about five feet in length by two and a half feet in breadth"
James Simpson's 1866 sketch
A few years later Sir James Simpson (1866; 1867) wrote and published the earliest (and still one of the finest) books on aboriginal rock carvings in the British Isles, and all but echoed what Wilson had described. He added a further description of the designs that were carved onto the stone, telling us that,
"it had cut upon it a series of concentric circles, consisting of six rings placed around a central cup, the rings traversed by a straight radial groove. On the drawing are marks of other cups and rings, or rather volutes, and a number of angular lines… This sculptured stone covered an urn…"
Following the descriptions of our early authors, many archaeologists and antiquarians explored the site but could find little else about the carving. In Ron Morris' (1981) most recent survey, he told us that it was,
"a gritstone slab, 1½m by ¾m (5ft x 2½ft), possibly broken after carving, had on one side (not now known if this was the inner of outer face); a cup-and-six-complete-rings with radial groove from the cup – diameter 50cm (20in) – 5 other cups-and-rings, mostly partly broken off or incomplete, an irregular 'reversed-S-shaped' single spiral with 3 convolutions at each end, other irregular grooved figures, 4 cups and about 7 'dots' (6 of these are in the cup-and-six-rings)."
The Royal Commission at Canmore tell us that "the present location of the food vessel and cist cover is unknown"; yet the rock art researcher Ronald W.B. Morris (1981) reported the petroglyph was "said to have been given to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland but (is) now missing"; whilst the local writer E.H. Letham (1900) told us "the urns were conveyed to Eglintoun Castle." This aint good. Has anyone subsequently found out what became of it?
The tumulus of King Coil's Grave was the legendary resting place of the "Old King Cole" of popular rhymes. There were two such northern kings in ancient times and, as William Robertson (1889) said, "the only difficulty is to say which of the King Coils he was, whether the Coilu who lived three hundred and thirty years before Christ; or Coel, King of the Roman districts, who must have lived in the third century."
Letham, E.H., Burns and Tarbolton, D.Brown: Kilmarnock 1900.
Morrison, Alex, The Bronze Age in Ayrshire, Ayrshire Natural History & Archaeology Society 1978.
Robertson, William, Historical Tales and Legends of Ayrshire, Thomas D. Morrison: Glasgow 1889.
Paterson, James, History of the County of Ayr – volume 2, Thomas Stevenson: Edinburgh 1852.
Simpson, J.Y., "On Ancient Sculpturings of Cups and Concentric Rings," in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, volume 6, 1866.
Simpson, James, Archaic Sculpturings of Cups, Circles, etc., Upon Stones and Rocks in Scotland, England and other Countries, Edmonston & Douglas: Edinburgh 1867.
Smith, John, Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire, Elliot Stock: London 1895.
Wilson, Daniel, The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Sutherland & Knox: Edinburgh 1851.
Young, Alison, "Cup-and-Ring Markings on Creag Ruenshin, with Some Comparative Notes," in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, volume 72, 1937.
Coilsfield petroglyph
55.505011, -4.460516 Coilsfield petroglyph
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St. Patrick's Well, Portpatrick, Wigtownshire
20th October 2017 23rd June 2019 megalithix
Holy Well (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NX 0010 5412
St Patricks Well on 1849 map
This long-lost holy well was located on the southeast side of the town. It was highlighted on the first OS-map in 1849, but its waters were disrupted shortly after this. Daniel Conway (1882) told that,
"It flowed where there was a quarry used for the harbour works. The writer of this notice heard from two men, John Mulholland and Owen Graham, dwelling at Portpatrick in 1860, that they had seen on the rock beside the well what tradition said was the impression of the knees and left hand of St. Patrick."
When the holy wells writer E.M.H. M'Kerlie (1916) came to visit this site, it was "no longer to be seen." He wrote:
"The water which issued from a rock on the south side of the village is now diverted by means of pipes into another course."
Agnew, Andrew, The Agnews of Lochnaw: The History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway, A. & C. Black: Edinburgh 1864.
Agnew, Andrew, The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway – volume 1, David Douglas: Edinburgh 1893.
Conway, Daniel, "Holy wells in Wigtonshire," in Archaeological & Historical Collections Relating to Ayr & Wigton, volume 3, 1882.
Harper, Malcolm MacLachan, Rambles in Galloway, Edmonston & Douglas: Edinburgh 1876.
M'Kerlie, E.M.H., Pilgrim Spots in Galloway, Sands: Edinburgh 1916.
MacKinlay, James M., Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs, William Hodge: Glasgow 1893.
Morris, Ruth & Frank, Scottish Healing Wells, Alethea: Sandy 1982.
Royal Commission Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland, Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway – County of Wigtown, HMSO: Edinburgh 1912.
Walker, J. Russel, "'Holy Wells' in Scotland," in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.17 (New Series, volume 5), 1883.
54.841853, -5.114569 St. Patrick's Well
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Cow Keeper's Field (1), Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire
3rd October 2017 25th September 2019 megalithix
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – NZ 75398 19218
BOU-5 (Brown & Chappell)
Cup-marked stone inside Cow keepers Field tomb
Inside the once prominent prehistoric tomb on the Cow Keeper's Field, the northern antiquarians William Hornsby and John Laverick (1920) came across two small petroglyphs in association with a cremation burial, several feet south of the central cist: the Cow Keeper's Field 2 carving, plus this small, triangular-shaped stone, 8in by 6in, consisting of five standard cup-marks, with two of the cups (as the photo shows) connected to each other. It is akin to the numerous 'portable' cup-marked stones which, in other cultures, were deposited onto cairns in remembrance of the ancestral spirits of the tomb. Such widespread practices may also have occurred here. Petroglyph researcher and writer Graeme Chappell (2017) informed us that the carving "is in storage in the Dorman museum in Middlesborough."
Brown, Paul & Chappell, Graeme, Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors, Tempus: Stroud 2005.
Chappell, Graeme, Personal communication, October 4, 2017.
Crawford, G.M., Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Cleveland, Cleveland County Council 1990.
Elgee, Frank, Early Man in North-East Yorkshire, John Bellows: Gloucester 1930.
Hornsby, William & Laverick, John D., "British Barrows round Boulby," in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 25, 1920.
Cow Keepers Field CR1
Cow Keepers Field CR1 54.562585, -0.835499 Cow Keepers Field CR1
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Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – NZ 75402 19222
Cup-marks and linear forms
Inside the once prominent prehistoric tumulus on the Cow Keeper's Field (now destroyed), the northern antiquarians William Hornsby and John Laverick (1920) came across two small portable petroglyphs: the Cow Keeper's Field 1 carving, plus this "peculiarly marked stone" as they put it, some "5ft south of the centre" where a cist, or stone-lined burial existed. Measuring 18in by 7in, the rock carving consists of at least one large cup-marking which is clearly evident on top of the stone, plus what seems to be another one next to it, half-covered. Along the side of the stone, a series of twelve roughly parallel lines have been carved out, running down to the bottom of the stone. Rock art researcher and writer Graeme Chappell (2017) tells us the carving is supposed to be "in storage in the Dorman museum in Middlesborough," although no one has seen it in years. It would be worthwhile if fellow research students could visit the said museum to recover this and other portable cup-marked stones that were found in the area.
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Cow Keepers Field, Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire
Tumulus (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NZ 75400 19220
Boulby Barns
This prehistoric tomb was one in a cluster of tumuli in the Boulby district, uncovered by the northern antiquarians, William Hornsby and John Laverick in 1918. Most of them have subsequently been destroyed – this one included. When they visited the site, they described it as "a barrow…with a diameter of 36 feet." Once they began digging into it,
"at the centre we found a cist, the top of which was 2ft 7in below the present surface. The cist lay north 64° west, and south 64° east. It had no cover and the slab at the north-west end was wanting. The cist measured: side 3ft 6in, end 3ft 2in. Its depth was 2ft 2in. In it we found nothing except sandstone chips. With these there was no admixture of soil. Above the cist and covering a space of 5 ft by 5 ft there was a layer of burnt earth and black ashes (of furze bushes). At a distance of 5 ft south of the centre, and 1ft 10in below the present surface, there was a burnt burial, 20in in diameter. With this we found many flint chips, a shale pendant, and the peculiarly marked stone" we've called, simply the Cow Keeper's Field 2 carving.
A second cup-marked stone was also found inside the tomb, a few feet south of the cist. When G.M. Crawford went to survey the burial mound in the late 1970s, he reported "there is no trace of it" and "has probably been destroyed by ploughing."
Cow Keepers Field tumulus
Cow Keepers Field tumulus 54.562603, -0.835468 Cow Keepers Field tumulus
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Snowden Carr carving (610), Askwith, North Yorkshire
25th July 2017 15th October 2019 megalithix
Snowden Carr carving 610
From Otley, take the road north across the River Wharfe up and up, heading towards Askwith Moor. As the moorland opens up ahead of you, at the crossroads turn right along Snowden Carr Road and literally ¾-mile along (1.25km) where a track on your right goes to Carr Farm, on the left-side of the road is a gate. Go through here to the Naked Jogger Stone and walk up the rocky ridge ahead of you, alongside the walling (as if you're going to the Sunrise Stone), and about 20-30 yards up you'll reach this carving.
Best visited on a clear day, this is one carving amidst a small cluster of cup-marked petroglyphs found along the small geological ridge between the Sunrise Stone and Naked Jogger carving (none of which are as impressive as those two!). This particular design consists of a number of faint cup-marks— between 17 and 25 of them—reaching along the horizontal surface, with no distinct formal pattern, as usual. The carving continues beneath the encroaching soil.
Looking down at the carving
Archaeo-sketch
It seems to have been described for the first time by Stuart Feather (1973); then subsequently in Boughey & Vickerman's (2003) survey, in which they attach a single cup-marking on an adjacent rock into the matrix of this design—but the two rock surfaces are distinctly separate. This apart, their description tells, briefly as always: "Large long rock which may be outcrop, with hill falling away steeply below. Seventeen worn cups."
Boughey, Keith & Vickerman, E.A., Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding, WYAS: Leeds 2003.
Feather, Stuart, "Askwith, W.Yorkshire," in 'Yorkshire Archaeological Register', Yorkshire Archaeology Journal, volume 45, 1973.
Snowden Carr CR-610
Snowden Carr CR-610 53.956668, -1.725579 Snowden Carr CR-610
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As well as being a successful and busy complementary therapist herself, Alison is the founder of Ali's Therapy Academy, providing business support and advice to other professional therapists who are excellent at giving treatments but perhaps lack the confidence or knowledge in how to market themselves effectively.
On top of that she's also an FHT Local Support Group (LSG) Coordinator for the Worthing area. This is a voluntary role that aims to provide support, advice and learning opportunities to other local FHT members, through regular meetings and activities. As many therapists are self-employed, these are great opportunities for them to network, offer mutual support, and expand their knowledge and skill set.
Like all of FHT's Coordinators – who, collectively, head up more than 60 groups across the UK – Alison goes to a great deal of effort to provide her group with a varied calendar of events each year. This includes treatment exchanges and talks from different health, wellbeing and business experts. However, what made her nomination for the 2018 FHT Local Support Group Coordinator of the Year Award stand out from the rest was that she was nominated by an FHT member who doesn't live in her area and hasn't physically attended any of her meetings.


It was a very beautiful early March day for this years race. A bit too warm for a marathon maybe but there were some fast times. Not for me though. My friend Laura MacLean is in the green shirt in the photo with another fast young lady, Jeanna Chain.(Laura would finsh 3rd and Jeanna 4th in the women's race.) Laura would go on to run a very fast 3:36, an excellent time on this tough course. It's great to see her running so well lately.
After the full, hard schedule I ran in February I didn't expect to run a fast time but I did hope to have a good run and a good workout, but even going slower it was still hard. I made sure I got off to an easy start the first mile. Shortly after that my buddy Tony Rouse caught up to me. Tony and I find ourselves running together quite frequently and it's great to have him along for company. We began to pick the pace up a little and take advantage of some of the easier parts of the course but after an 8:19, 3rd mile we figured maybe we need to back off a little bit.
All of the single-track comes in the first 7 miles of the race so we were enjoying it but not trying to push too much. We were both feeling ok and running fairly well at this point. After reaching the aid station near 10 miles, I turned onto the South Turkey Creek Trail. It is nearly all downhill and I decided to take advantage of the gravitational aid and ran strong down the hill. Tony had stopped to refill his water bottle and it would be two miles before he caught back up to me. By the time we hit North Turkey Creek we both decided it was going to be a long slow second half to the race. It's almost like I was two people out there today. I felt great on the flats and downhills but as soon as we started climbing I felt weak and tired so we ended up walking most of the uphills the rest of the way.
The rest of the run was pretty uneventful, just slow and tired, but Tony and I were able to still smile and joke all the way back. Lots of volunteers, spectators and other runners were telling us we were looking good. We just figured they were liars, but as Fernado says" It's better to look good than to feel good, and we looked Mahvelous".
The Godiva Track Club do a great job with this race. The best part is so many Mangum Track Club and NCRC friends were participating so there were many friendly faces out on the course.
Oh yeah, my time was 4:38:03. It was my best time here but only by a little over a minute faster than in 2004.


Prolia treats osteoporosis and can be used to treat bone loss in patients receiving certain treatments for cancer. Before you have any dental work, tell your dentist you receive this drug.
Prolia is a prescription medication used to treat osteoporosis. Prolia is also used to treat bone loss in patients receiving certain treatments for prostate cancer as breast cancer.
Prolia belongs to a group of drugs called RANK ligand inhibitors. These work by decreasing the breakdown of bone and increasing bone strength and thickness.
This medication comes in an injectable form to be given under the skin (subcutaneously) and is given once every 6 months.
Common side effects of Prolia include red, dry, and itchy skin, back pain, and headache.
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Prolia is used to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Prolia is used to increase bone mass in men who are at an increased risk for a bone fracture. It is also used to treat bone loss in men with prostate cancer and women with breast cancer receiving certain cancer treatments.
Serious side effects have been reported with Prolia. See the "Drug Precautions" section.
This is not a complete list of Prolia side effects. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
No drug interactions have been determined by the manufacturer. However, you should tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-pperscription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Not all drug interactions are known or reported and new drug interactions are continually being reported.
anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction. Seek immediate medical attention if you experience any of the following symptoms: swelling of the lips, tongue, or throat, difficulty breathing, dizziness, or itching.
hypocalcemia. Hypocalcemia refers to low levels of calcium in the blood. Tell your doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms of hypocalcemia: muscle stiffness or spasms, dizziness, or numbness in the fingers. Your doctor may check your calcium level in your blood before you use Prolia to make sure it is not too low. Your doctor should also instruct you to take calcium and vitamin D supplements during treatment to make sure your calcium does not get too low.
osteonecrosis of the jaw. Osteonecrosis is a serious bone disease that can degrade bone and limit its function. It typically occurs after tooth extraction or local infection. You should have a dental exam before you start treatment with Prolia.
fractures of the femur. While Prolia is intended to prevent fractures, patients using the drug have experienced fractures. Tell your doctor if you notice any new thigh, hip, or groin pain.
infection. Tell your doctor if you notice any signs of infection such as a cough, runny nose, sore throat, or fever.
skin reactions. Tell your doctor if you develop a rash or develop itching, burning, or redness of the skin.
bone, joint, and muscle pain. Stop taking Prolia and tell your doctor if you experience pain in the joints, or deeper in the muscle or bone.
decreased bone remodeling. It is not known if Prolia use over a long period of time slows the healing of broken bones.
Medications can interact with certain foods. In some cases, this may be harmful and your doctor may advise you to avoid certain foods. In the case of Prolia, there are no specific foods you must exclude from your diet when receiving this medication.
The FDA categorizes medications based on safety for use during pregnancy. Five categories - A, B, C, D, and X, are used to classify possible risks of an unborn baby when a medication is taken during pregnancy.
Prolia falls into category X. It has been shown that women taking Prolia during pregnancy may have babies born with problems. There are no situations in which the benefits of the medication to the mother outweigh the risks of harm to the baby. These medications should never be used by pregnant women.
It is not known if Prolia crosses into human milk. Because many medications can cross into human milk and because the possiblity for serious adverse reactions in nursing infants with use of this medication, a choice should be made whether to stop nursing or stop the use of this medication. Your doctor and you will decide if the benefits outweigh the risks of using Prolia.
Take Prolia exactly as prescribed.
Prolia comes in injectable form to be given under the skin by a healthcare professional anywhere from weekly to every 6 months, depending on the condition being treated.
If you miss a dose, take the missed dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and take your next dose at the regular time. Do not take two doses of Prolia at the same time.
The recommended dose of Prolia (denosumab) is 60 mg injected under the skin in the upper arm, upper thigh, or abdomen every 6 months.
If Prolia is administered by a healthcare provider in a medical setting, it is unlikely that an overdose will occur. However, if overdose is suspected, seek emergency medical attention.
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Local high school graduate begins her nursing career at TSC
Monika Ortiz graduated this summer from TSC's Certified Nursing Assistant program and was recently honored in a pinning ceremony hosted by the program.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (September 17, 2021) – Monika Ortiz took a leap in getting ahead in her career this year when, as a high school student, she decided to enroll in the Certified Nursing Assistant program at Texas Southmost College.
And this summer, she earned her certificate, officially beginning her nursing assistant career.
"It's such a great feeling knowing that I was able to prove to myself that I could do this," said the 18-year-old. "And the fact that TSC gives us this type of opportunity, so young, means a lot. I'm really grateful that I got this chance."
The Los Fresnos High School graduate said she thought earning this certification in high school would be a good start and would solidify her career decision.
"This has just fueled my passion for nursing even more," said Ortiz. "I know for sure that this is what I want do in life."
Growing up, Ortiz had her mind set on being a teacher, but as family members became ill, some even diagnosed with cancer, she got a first-hand look at the work every nurse who cared for her loved ones did and just how much of a difference they were making.
"Everyone that cared for our family during these difficult times were so helpful," she said. "They were empathetic, compassionate and passionate, and it showed in their care. I knew right then and there that this was my calling too."
However, Ortiz said she hasn't given up on teaching just yet.
"As a nurse, I get to care for others, lend a hand, but I also get to teach them about health and wellness," she said. "It's a perfect blend."
So, after numerous hours in the classroom and in clinical settings, Ortiz is on her way to working in the field of nursing, while pursuing her bachelor's degree at a local university.
"Because of the CNA program, I am so much more confident beginning my journey as a university student," said Ortiz. "From classroom and lab to hospital settings, I was exposed to everything that comes with being a nursing assistant and then some. It's really difficult to explain how impactful it all was."
Ortiz's dream is to become a nurse specializing in oncology or neurology, and she said TSC helped give her a brighter outlook.
"TSC's CNA program allowed me to grow up, change my mentality about what it really means to be a nurse and learn about personal responsibility," she said. "There are lives in my hands as a nurse and connections to be made with patients, it's a lot more than what someone sees on "Grey's Anatomy," and I'm in this for the long run. This is where I'm supposed to be."
Ortiz was one of four Los Fresnos High School graduates who received their certification as a nursing assistant from TSC this summer.
After being honored for her achievement at a recent pinning ceremony hosted by TSC's CNA program, she is officially welcomed into the profession and ready to take the journey toward becoming a registered nurse one step at a time.
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Was this delicate relation between city doctors and forests patients that motived André to follow professionals of a Brazilian organization that travels to the most remote places since 2007.
Respecting the forest and patient and his family's traditions, doctors, nurses, and volunteers of Brazilian Health Expedition (EDS) go deep in Brazil with a cause: provide medical care, especially surgical, to indigenous population.
This work avoids trauma and the high cost of going to big cities searching for treatment. More than 140,000 Indigenous people, from 58 ethnic groups, have already been taken care by the Brazilian Health Expeditions since it beginning, in 2003.
"The Brazilian Health Expedition rekindles hope, the sweet and blessed hope that not all is lost, and win much more than a historic registry of yours expeditions, the deserved acknowledgment or visibility. They win in the beauty of each photography, thankful eyes unnoticed in the hurry of the everyday work". Sydney Possuelo's words and wisdom was chose to be at the preface of Brazilian Health Expedition (2013), a result of eight expeditions with the organization including the first international travel to Haiti, after the strong earthquake, in 2010.


"He nearly came back last night. Can you imagine, after all this time? He can." A Helen/Klaatu short, in every sense of the word 'short'.
He nearly came back last night. Can you imagine, after all this time? He can.
He imagines landing again, but quieter this time, the way of Mr. Wu. Depending on the time and season, he imagines hitching a ride with one thumb stuck out like a white flag, the sunrise-salmon or high-noon-bleach or bruised evening sky in the backdrop and a truck slowing before him in the foreground. It is a scene straight out of one of those movies he used to watch with Jacob; he can't remember which. He imagines tracing you through camera networks and internet billing and government intelligence. Through states and hitched rides and neatly rerouted bank transactions. He imagines finding you.
Can you imagine, Helen Benson? Can you?
He knocks on the door. A pause first, stretched wide and heavy like a wound; then one knock, two. Dust in his hair, silence in his eyes. A knock is still raised in his fist when you open the door. Your face changes. His doesn't.
A word, a whisper. Or maybe nothing at all. Your face is blurred with human emotion and it's hard to read your lips. You forget yourself; do what humans do when they think words aren't enough. You express yourself in human language. Body language.
An alien language. He has forgotten how to speak it, and stands unsmiling and still. You don't seem to care. You press on, an argument of lips. Insistent and soft. From your eyes, emotion is leaking. Water and salt. He tastes it and you exploit his vulnerability, invade his mouth. It looks clumsy and unpleasant. Why would anyone return for this?
But he has. He imagines it all. He imagines coming in, shoes by the door. He imagines imprints in the carpet, footprints chronicling his return. Your son in the living room, a gun in his hands. Aliens on the screen. The boy glances up. Freezes in frames. The controller falls to the ground, forgotten.
Shouts and accusations and hot, wet eyes ensue. The sounds of joy, like hearts breaking.
Later, there is dinner. Take-out. He remembers how to use chopsticks better than he remembers how to smile. Questions are served as the main course. Hurt as a side, forgiveness for dessert. He tries to remember the correct facial expressions, mixes them up. You are sitting too close, and your elbows bump more than once. It burns through the thin cloth of his sleeves. He smiles and frowns at the same time; then blanks his face out and starts again.
Fast-forward to deep evening. The sky is the colour of an eclipse. Painted smooth and black, like the inside of your eyelids; no moon or stars or clouds. It makes it nearly impossible to see in Jacob's bedroom, but he manages. Your son insists he is too old to be put to bed. The petulance in his tone suggests otherwise. You watch from the door as he waits patiently by the bedside as Jacob messes with his sheets. Dim fingers of corridor light mould outlines to shadows. It catches the movement of the ritual, the humanized version of it – his fingers brushing over your son's forehead while his thumb lies in the soft of Jacob's throat. The boy starts to say something – but then the picture shivers, shifts abruptly, changes. It skips ahead, another scene – outside Jacob's room, a wordless clash of eyes as he closes the door. Skips ahead, like a needle on one of your old earth discs – down the stairs; through the hall; the open front door. Skips ahead – to the deck outside the house, his shadow steady beside yours.
Skips ahead – to sitting on the deck stairs, the living darkness pressing around your bodies.
Skips ahead – to the fresh scent of cut grass, the cooling air.
Skips. Skips. Skips. Like a pulse, trembling.
Can you imagine? Watch carefully.
Skip ahead to the both of you sitting close together in the deep black. His sleeves are rolled up. Every now and then, the heat of your arm whispers against his. Neither of you ever touch. Your voices are quiet.
Skip ahead to a sudden hush in the conversation. A stillness in the air. Just black static, and the ghost glow of the moon behind thinning clouds. Still too dark for expressions to matter, but you can see him. The pale outline of his throat, the narrow angles of his face. The dark dispassion of his eyes, watching you. Only ever watching you.
Skip ahead to a silence lodged in your throat. To happiness tightening in your chest, till it feels more like heartache; skip to this. Skip here.
Did you see? Watch again.
It happens so fast. That decision. So fast.
He kisses you. Like a human. Can you imagine, Helen Benson? He chooses you. Can you imagine?
Because he does. Every star-burst, every sleep. And we watch him. We watch the flutter-pulse of his dreaming, watch him imagine himself travelling across the universe, back to earth. We watch him find you. We watch him love you.
You are surprised. That is an encouraging sign. We have scanned your memories, Helen Benson. But you are not our kind, and we can only see flashes of moments, like bright-edged images in a kaleidoscope without sense or depth. We see his imaginings were based on the familiarity of the earth-bound normality he used to share – the oriental take-out, the gaming console, the nightly ritual with your son, the moments of evening conversation with you on the deck. We see that you shared body intimacy, that it was only always you who initiated. We see all this, but because you are not our kind, we cannot sense what you felt in those moments, those three earth-years. Our methods of communication are worlds apart.
This is why we have shown you this, human. Our species are emotional worlds apart. The only way to show you was to bring you images from his head, explained in words from your own head. Did you understand them? He is in love with you. He is in love with you, a human.
We know you care for him, Helen Benson. So do we. When he wakes, he doesn't remember that he dreams. We don't let him. It wouldn't be caring. It wouldn't be kind. What we want to know is this: can you be kind, human? Can you be selfless? You, who are trapped by your species and brief lifespan; you, with your guardianship of that blood-stranger child that you still call son. That blood-alien child that he still calls son in every dreaming, in every ritual of touch and trust. Can you both let him go? Can you?
Don't be afraid. You are right about what we want, but it is easy enough to help him. Our biology records memories in mutual networks, in shared perceptions. If you allow us to erase certain memories from your mind, it will mute this sickness of his. He will forget what you mean to him. You will forget what he means to you, if anything at all. You will both remember the Coming, the Process, the Second Decision that saved your species; you will even remember, vaguely, that he stayed on after the process was terminated. But the precise details of those three human years that he stayed with you will be blurred, forgotten. Like a word at the tip of your tongue, tantalizing and easily replaceable. Painless.
Don't leak. Why are you crying? You have the power to end this sickness. You have the power to stop his dreaming. It has been nearly two human years since he left the earth. The process will not hurt. There is nothing to be afraid of. We would not ask – we would not insist this of you if there was no other way. His sickness is getting worse – you have seen it yourself. He is the one to kiss you now, rather than the other way round. He dreams of holding you. In terms of an alien physicality. In terms of a borrowed body. Can you imagine? Can you understand?
You care for him. You shared body intimacy, what we understand to be the current human equivalent of friendship. Don't leak. It won't hurt. You will barely notice anything – just a headache when you wake, like faint static in your temple. Is that why you are unhappy? It won't hurt.
No. Your son will not miss what he can't remember. Here. Hold this. It is better if we do this now. It is better if it happens fast, all at once, like a bad dream. But this is no dream, human. You are giving him a gift. Giving him the only thing you can give.
You are doing the right thing. The kind thing. Don't leak, human. Hold this.
Nothing will hurt after this.
Don't let go. Helen Benson.


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The Strange Tale of Black Jack Ketchum and the Hole in the Wall Gang
Thomas Edward Ketchum has never been as famous as Black Bart or Bonnie and Clyde, but this Wild West robber's tale has some very unusual twists and turns that make his story a sad and captivating one. Perhaps it's because his story is so tragic and gruesome that it would never have made a good Western.
Over the course of 50 years, a secluded spot in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming operated as a hideout for various outlaw gangs of the Wild West and used the sheltered location to escape from lawmen and to spend the winters.
The name of the secret spot was Hole in the Wall and the gangs that lived there, while operating each under their own chain of command and committing separate crimes, became collectively known as the Hole in the Wall Gang. The name of the locale comes from the wall of rock through which one may only enter into from a comparatively small break in the stone, making it ideal for hiding.
The fortress-like red stone of Hole in the Wall. Via/ Flickr
Ketchum joined the Hole in the Wall Gang around 1897 after he had been robbing trains and shops for around 5 years. Born in 1863, Ketchum had been a cowboy with his brother, Sam, before becoming an outlaw, as their parents had died and the care of their family's ranch fell to them, along with their oldest brother, Berry. Already at 16, though, Tom had been afoul of the law for not testifying in a case as a witness in 1879.
Tom Ketchum was reportedly thought very handsome by the girls he danced with in La Belle, New Mexico.
Mistaken Names and Crimes
Ketchum and his crew had committed their first train robbery and the brothers soon fled after they came under suspicion of murder. The two had no intention of turning back once they had begun their life on the lam and the brothers would go on to rob shops, post offices, and more trains in their careers as professional outlaws.
Incidentally, a later member of Ketchum's gang also started his life of crime after mistakenly believing that he had murdered someone, William Ellsworth Lay (nicknamed Elza Lay). He would be the only one of the group to live a long life.
Ketchum had been mistakenly identified as another outlaw nicknamed Black Jack Christian and the name stuck. You have to admit that Black Jack Ketchum is a very memorable name!
The Gruesome End of the Ketchum Brothers
Sam died in 1899 after a train robbery gone bad in which he was shot and captured. He died of his gunshot wounds in prison. Tom would go on to rob more trains until he eventually met a similar fate to his brother, having been shot in the elbow during a botched train robbery in 1900. But, Tom survived his gunshot wound and was sentenced to death, a first for the New Mexico Territory town of Clayton, though by that time Ketchum's arm had been amputated.
Those in charge of the execution were very inexperienced and botched the hanging by not removing a 200 pound test weight or by creating too far of a drop for the body.
Via/ U.S. National Archives
On April 26th, 1901, poor Tom Ketchum was decapitated instead of hanged and the newspapers reported that spectators (of which there were many that day) were splattered with blood from the incident. The townspeople had to sew his head back on before burying him.
Postcards were made of the gruesome event such was the spectacle of the scene. For those stout of constitution the most famous postcard of the beheaded Ketchum can be viewed here, but be warned this graphic photo is not for the faint-hearted.
In a sad twist of fate, the law that allowed Ketchum to be hung for the crime of attempted train robbery was later ruled to be unconstitutional. And, no doubt because of his hard life and his horrifying death, there are those who say Black Jack Ketchum's ghost still roams the old hideouts he used when he was an outlaw.
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On Lake Champlain, hot weather and pollution have triggered blooms of toxic blue-green algae. The blooms are a near-annual event. But this year, they've reached dangerous levels in Missisquoi Bay. The state Health Department says pets and people should stay out of the affected water. And a town in Quebec that uses the bay for its water supply says the water is no longer safe to drink.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has rejected Vermont's cleanup plan for Lake Champlain. The agency says Vermont has made progress, but needs to do more to cut phosphorus pollution in the big lake.
Governor Jim Douglas attended a signing ceremony in Grand Isle for an updated work plan aimed at reducing pollution in Lake Champlain.


Patrick Harran has been named the first Donald J. & Jane M. Cram Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Harran was the Bell Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas.
Arthur J. Ragauskas has been named the first recipient of the newly created Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy Technology, which is aimed at fostering collaborative, international research in this field. The position will be located at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ragauskas will remain as a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a research faculty member of the Institute of Paper Science & Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology.
George C. Shields has been appointed dean of the newly formed College of Science & Technology at Armstrong Atlantic State University, in Savannah, Ga. Shields comes to Armstrong Atlantic from Clinton, N.Y.-based Hamilton College.
Matthew B. Soellner has joined the faculty of the department of medicinal chemistry within the University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy. He completed postdoctoral research with Jonathan A. Ellman at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has accepted a full professorship in biological chemistry at Sweden's Ume? University. She had been an associate professor in biochemistry at Rice University, in Houston, since 2004. Currently, she works on copper transport proteins and how the crowded cell environment affects protein folding.
Susan J. Ainsworth compiles this section. Announcements of promotions, new hires, and retirements may be sent to s_ainsworth@acs.org.


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Prime minister Justin Trudeau calls deadly plane shooting a 'national tragedy,' Canadian crash team en route to Iran to investigate
iStock(NEW YORK) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a crash team was en route to Iran to participate in the investigation of the plane crash that killed 176 people, including 57 Canadians.The crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 Wednesday occurred about three hours after Iran fired multiple missiles into Iraq, targeting U.S. military sites in retaliation for the American drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, one of its top generals.Iran has admitted that it unintentionally shot down the plane, which was mistaken for a "hostile flight" after it turned toward a "sensitive military center." The plane was "unintentionally hit" with an anti-aircraft missile, according to an official Iranian statement released early Saturday morning local time."Earlier this morning I spoke with Iranian president Rouhani," Trudeau said in a press conference Saturday. He called Iran's admission of "unintentionally" shooting down the plane "a very important first step" toward providing answers for the crash victims' families, though he also said there are still many questions "that must be answered.""A full and complete investigation must be conducted," Trudeau said. "We expect the full cooperation of Iranians," he added.Trudeau said the team would also support the families of the Canadian victims. Three visas have been approved to send lead members from a Canadian crash team — the country's version of the U.S.' National Transportation Safety Board — to Tehran. The team is expected to arrive at 4 p.m. Saturday local time.The prime minister also called for a de-escalation in U.S.-Iraq tensions after speaking to President Trump he said in a press conference on Saturday.Rouhani, meanwhile, expressed his regret in a post to Twitter."Armed Forces' internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people," Rouhani said, writing in English. "Investigations continue to identify & prosecute this great tragedy & unforgivable mistake.""The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake. My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences," he added. Copyright © 2020, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
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Dharmi Kapadia, one of our Data Impact Fellows, shares how she engaged with younger potential researchers.
I recently had the pleasure of talking to Sixth Form College pupils as part of an event with the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences that took place from 3rd to 10th November across the UK.
The event, 'Britain by numbers; the big social sciences data quiz' was organised by Dr Jen Buckley from the UK Data Service. The idea of the event was to introduce quantitative data to pupils in an interactive way using fun facts and quizzes, based on data available from the UK Data Service, and show them how statistics can be used to understand important social issue in Britain today.
My part in the day was to give the pupils a flavor of what a researcher/ lecturer at the university does and how I use data in my research.
I have to be honest that although I happily agreed to speak at this event, as the date of the event drew closer, I realised that I was more nervous about speaking to Sixth Form pupils than I was about most of the other talks and presentations that I had given in the past! I know how to lecture undergraduate students, present my research findings to the academic research community and I'm even confident in talking to voluntary organisations, government departments and other non-academic agencies about my research, but sixth form college pupils were a new audience for me.
How would I talk to them about my research in a way that was accessible to them? How could I make sure that I didn't put them off using statistics for life?!
Needless to say, I spent quite a bit of time preparing and I decided that I wanted to tell them about my personal background and my journey into academia as well as presenting research findings to them. I thought this was particularly important as an ethnic minority junior female academic; there's not that many of us around. I also wanted to show pupils that attended on the day that there are an array of ways of forging an academic career. I bit the bullet and admitted to them that I quit both my first and second degrees before finally gaining a degree by studying part time with The Open University whilst working at The University of Manchester. These kind of 'failures' are not usually what you expect of university academics nor are they the types of admissions that academics are generally willing to make. But it is important for pupils to hear about how things go wrong sometimes, especially in the current climate where there is an enormous amount of pressure on the young people of today to 'succeed'.
The talk ended up going very well. The pupils were interested in the two examples of research using quantitative data that I presented to them.
Secondly, I presented some findings from my PhD research that showed that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women are the least likely to use outpatient mental health services, using the survey, Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the Community. One pupil even asked me what confidence intervals were and how they are calculated, such was the level of engagement!
For me, it is important to participate in events like these to take research findings outside the academy, but also to inspire pupils to think about what is possible for them in terms of their future education and careers. I will definitely be looking at more opportunities to engage younger audiences with research findings in the future.