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14th Street/Sixth Avenue station
(Redirected from 14th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line))
For other uses, see 14th Street.
14th Street/Sixth Avenue is an underground New York City Subway station complex in the Chelsea district of Manhattan on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, the BMT Canarsie Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line. It is located on 14th Street between Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and Seventh Avenue. It is served by the:
1, 2, F, and L trains at all times
3 and M trains at all times except late nights
<F> train during rush hours in the peak direction
14 Street/6 Avenue
New York City Subway station complex
Entrance looking west at 7th Avenue and 14th Street NW street stair
Station statistics
West 14th Street, Sixth & Seventh Avenues
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Union Square
40°44′14″N 73°59′48″W / 40.737328°N 73.996796°W / 40.737328; -73.996796Coordinates: 40°44′14″N 73°59′48″W / 40.737328°N 73.996796°W / 40.737328; -73.996796
A (IRT), B (BMT, IND)
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
BMT Canarsie Line
IND Sixth Avenue Line
1 (all times)
 2 (all times)
 3 (all except late nights)
F (all times) <F> (two rush hour trains, peak direction)
 L (all times)
M (all times except late nights)
NYCT Bus: M7, M14A SBS, M14D SBS, M20, M55
PATH: JSQ–33, HOB–33, JSQ–33 (via HOB) (at 14th Street)
July 1, 1918; 101 years ago (1918-07-01) (Seventh Avenue Line platforms)
September 24, 1924; 95 years ago (1924-09-24) (Canarsie Line platform)
December 15, 1940; 79 years ago (1940-12-15) (Sixth Avenue Line platforms)
Station code
not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
OMNY accepted
15,002,214 (complex)[3]  1.2%
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Station service legend
Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only (limited service)
Stops weekdays only
A connection is available from this complex to the PATH station at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue. There is a direct passageway from this complex to the PATH station's southbound platform; transferring between this complex and the northbound PATH platform requires exiting onto street level first.
1.1 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
1.2 Canarsie Line
1.3 Sixth Avenue Line
1.4 Consolidation as a station complex
2 Station layout
3 IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platforms
3.1 Exits
4 IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
5 BMT Canarsie Line platform
5.2 In popular culture
Broadway–Seventh Avenue LineEdit
The Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were "dual" in that they were signed between the City and two separate private companies (the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.[4][5][6]
The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the Lexington Avenue Line, would change the operations of the IRT system. Instead of having trains go via Broadway, turning onto 42nd Street, before finally turning onto Park Avenue, there would be two trunk lines connected by the 42nd Street Shuttle. The system would be changed from looking like a "Z" system on a map to an "H" system. One trunk would run via the new Lexington Avenue Line down Park Avenue, and the other trunk would run via the new Seventh Avenue Line up Broadway. In order for the line to continue down Varick Street and West Broadway, these streets needed to be widened, and two new streets were built, the Seventh Avenue Extension and the Varick Street Extension.[7] It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Greenwich Village.[8][9]
14th Street opened as the line was extended south to South Ferry from 34th Street–Penn Station on July 1, 1918, and was served by a shuttle.[10] The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.[11] An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle. The completion of the "H" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.[12]
Canarsie LineEdit
Sixth Avenue on the BMT Canarsie Line opened on June 30, 1924, as the terminal of the 14th Street–Eastern Line, which ran from Sixth Avenue under the East River and through Williamsburg to Montrose and Bushwick Avenues.[13][14]
Sixth Avenue LineEdit
14th Street is a local station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line that opened on December 15, 1940, along with the rest of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from West Fourth Street–Washington Square to 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center.[15]
Consolidation as a station complexEdit
Free passageway tunnel
On January 16, 1978, a free transfer passageway connecting the 14th Street station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line and the stations on the BMT Canarsie Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line opened.[16]
The entire station complex except for the PATH station will receive elevators in 2020–2022.[17] Originally, the improvements were scheduled for the Sixth Avenue and Canarsie Lines only.[18][19]
Station layoutEdit
G Street level Exit/entrance
B1 Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, transfers between services
Broadway–Seventh Avenue platforms Northbound local ←
toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (18th Street)
toward Wakefield–241st Street late nights (18th Street)
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Northbound express ←
toward Wakefield–241st Street except late nights (34th Street–Penn Station)
toward Harlem–148th Street except late nights (34th Street–Penn Station)
Southbound express →
toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College except late nights (Chambers Street) →
toward New Lots Avenue except late nights (Chambers Street) →
Southbound local →
toward South Ferry (Christopher Street–Sheridan Square)
toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College late nights (Christopher Street–Sheridan Square) →
Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms Northbound local ←
toward Jamaica–179th Street (23rd Street)
toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays, 96th Street late evenings and weekends (23rd Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound PATH ← HOB–33, JSQ–33, and JSQ–33 (via HOB) toward 33rd Street (23rd Street)
Southbound PATH → HOB–33 toward Hoboken Terminal (9th Street) →
→ JSQ–33 (JSQ–33 (via HOB) nights and weekends) toward Journal Square (9th Street) →
toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (West Fourth Street–Washington Square) →
toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue except late nights (West Fourth Street–Washington Square) →
Canarsie platforms Westbound ←
toward Eighth Avenue (Terminus)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Eastbound →
toward Canarsie (14th Street–Union Square) →
B4 Northbound express ←
do not stop here
do not stop here →
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platforms and the other lines' platforms are one block apart.
The express tracks of the IND Sixth Avenue Line run under the complex but are not part of the station.[20]
The PATH platforms are at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue, between the IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms, but require a separate fare payment.
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platformsEdit
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Uptown platform for local (right) and express trains (left)
A (IRT)
(all times)
 2
(all except late nights)
2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
July 1, 1918; 101 years ago (1918-07-01)
Opposite-direction transfer available
Station succession
Next north
34th Street–Penn Station (express): 2
18th Street (local): 1
Next south
Christopher Street–Sheridan Square (local): 1
Chambers Street (express): 2
Stops late nights only
Track layout
to 34 St
to Christopher St
to Chambers St
14th Street is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, consisting of four tracks and two island platforms.[21]
Both side track walls have their original IRT mosaic trim line with "14" tablets on it at regular intervals. Both platforms have blue i-beam columns that run along both sides at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.
ExitsEdit
This station has three fare control areas. The full-time entrance is at the north end. A single staircase from each platform leads to a crossover that has a newsstand in the center, two now defunct restrooms above the southbound platforms and tracks (mosaic signs reading "MEN" and "WOMEN" remain intact), and two full height turnstiles above the northbound platform and tracks (one entry/exit and one exit-only) leading to a staircase that goes up to the southeast corner of 14th Street and Seventh Avenue.[22] There is also a passageway leading to the BMT Canarsie platforms on Sixth Avenue, which in turn allows a free transfer to the IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms. The full-time turnstile bank at the center of the crossover opposite the newsstand leads to a mezzanine containing a token booth, three staircases going up to the either northern corners as well as the southwest corner of 14th Street and Seventh Avenue.[22] There is also a now-closed passageway with directional mosaics that leads to 14th Street/Eighth Avenue.
The station has an exit-only area at the center. Two staircases from each platform go up to a crossover where on either side, a single exit-only turnstile and emergency gate leads to a staircase that goes up to either northern corners of 13th Street and Seventh Avenue.[22]
The station has an unstaffed fare control area at the south end. A single staircase from each platform leads to a crossover and a bank of turnstiles as well as one exit-only and one full-height turnstile. The mezzanine has a now-unused customer assistance booth and two staircases going up to both northern corners of 12th Street and Seventh Avenue.[22]
IND Sixth Avenue Line platformsEdit
Southbound platform
B (IND)
(all times) <F>
(two rush hour trains, peak direction)
 M
(all times except late nights)
2 side platforms
December 15, 1940; 79 years ago (1940-12-15)
23rd Street: F
<F>
M
West Fourth Street–Washington Square: F
PATH to 23 St
6 Av Line
6 Av Line to W 4 St
PATH to 9 St
14th Street is a local station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line, and has two side platforms to the inside of the tracks. Both platforms have a green trim line on a darker green border and name tablets reading "14TH STREET" in white sans serif lettering on a dark green background and a lighter green border. Beneath the trim line and name tablets are small directional and number signs in white numbering on a black background. Trains open their doors to the left in both directions, which is unusual for a side platformed station in New York City. Most side platforms in the system are to the outside of the tracks and thus trains open the doors to the right. The PATH tracks and platforms are located between the two Sixth Avenue Line platforms, on the other side of the platform walls, and are not visible from this station.[20]
The Sixth Avenue express tracks are at a lower level beneath the PATH tracks and thus not visible from this station either. The deep-bore tunnel's round shape becomes square below this station and at 23rd Street, where provisions for lower level platforms were built.
There is a full length mezzanine over the platforms and tracks that is largely unused and dimly lit.[20]
There are entrance/exits at both 14th Street and 16th Street, with fare controls at both ends. The 14th Street entrance is shared with the PATH station of the same name, which has a separate fare control.[22] At both intersections, exits lead to all four corners.[22] At the extreme south end of each platform, there is a single-wide stairway descending to the Canarsie Line platform.
BMT Canarsie Line platformEdit
6 Avenue
B (BMT)
1 island platform
June 30, 1924; 95 years ago (1924-06-30)
Next west
Eighth Avenue: L
Next east
Union Square: L
to 8 Av
to 14 St-Union Square
Mosaic tablet on track wall
Sixth Avenue on the BMT Canarsie Line has one island platform and two tracks and is approximately 40 feet (12 m) below street level.
Both track walls have their original mosaic trim line consisting of earthy tones of olive green, brown, ochre and tan augmented by light green and Copenhagen blue. "6" tablets representing "Sixth Avenue" run along the trim line at regular intervals.
The 1993 artwork here is called MTA Jewels by Jennifer Kotter. It consists of paintings of various subjects on the passageway leading to the IRT.
West of the station, a center lay-up track begins at a bumper block and is only accessible from the Eighth Avenue terminal. This station was the terminal for the BMT Canarsie Line until Eighth Avenue opened in 1931.
The station has seven staircases going up from the platform. The two westernmost ones go up to a passageway that leads to the full-time fare control area at the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station. The next two go up to the extreme south ends of either platform of the IND Sixth Avenue Line station. The western staircase goes to the southbound platform, and the one directly east of it goes to the northbound platform
The next two staircases go up to a mezzanine leading to fare control that has a powder blue and state blue trim line. A bank of three regular turnstiles and two high entry/exit turnstiles provide entrance/exit from the station and there is no token booth. Two staircases go up to either eastern corners of 14th Street and Sixth Avenue.[22] Another unstaffed bank of turnstiles by the northeast staircase leads to the mezzanine above the Queens-bound platform of 14th Street on the IND.[22]
The last staircase on the extreme east end of the platform leads to a storage area and ventilation room. Another staircase in this section has been removed.
In popular cultureEdit
Starting roughly at the 27-minute mark in the 1977 film Joy, the title character, portrayed by Sharon Mitchell, enters the Sixth Avenue station, then boards a train car on which she seduces the only other passenger, a young man who had been reading a book titled How To Pickup Girls by T. R. Ames M.D.
Image galleryEdit
Mosaic decoration with number "14" in the tile borders
Mezzanine area
Mosaics above the former men's restroom
Trim line and name tablet
Northwest stair of PATH leading to the station
Musician playing on the southbound IND platform
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^ a b c d "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2013–2018". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
^ "Terms and Conditions of Dual System Contracts". nycsubway.org. Public Service Commission. March 19, 1913. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
^ "The Dual System of Rapid Transit (1912)". nycsubway.org. Public Service Commission. September 1912. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
^ "Most Recent Map of the Dual Subway System WhIch Shows How Brooklyn Borough Is Favored In New Transit Lines". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 9, 1917. p. 37. Retrieved August 23, 2016 – via Brooklyn Newspapers.
^ Engineering News-record. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. 1916.
^ Whitney, Travis H. (March 10, 1918). "The Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subways Will Revive Dormant Sections — Change in Operation That Will Transform Original Four-Tracked Subway Into Two Four-Tracked Systems and Double Present Capacity of the Interborough" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 12. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
^ "Public Service Commission Fixes July 15 For Opening of The New Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subway Lines — Will Afford Better Service and Less Crowding — Shuttle Service for Forty-Second Street — How the Various Lines of the Dual System Are Grouped for Operation and List of Stations on All Lines" (PDF). The New York Times. May 19, 1918. p. 32. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
^ "Open New Subway to Regular Traffic — First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials — To Serve Lower West Side — Whitney Predicts an Awakening of the District — New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service" (PDF). The New York Times. July 2, 1918. p. 11. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
^ "Open New Subway Lines to Traffic; Called a Triumph — Great H System Put in Operation Marks an Era in Railroad Construction — No Hitch in the Plans — But Public Gropes Blindly to Find the Way in Maze of New Stations — Thousands Go Astray — Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor" (PDF). The New York Times. August 2, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
^ "Subway Tunnel Through". The New York Times. August 8, 1919. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
^ "Celebrate Opening of Subway Link". The New York Times. July 1, 1924. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
^ "New Subway Line on 6th Ave. Opens at Midnight Fete". The New York Times. December 15, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
^ "Add 3 Subway Transfers". New York Daily News. January 16, 1978. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
^ "Project Description, Budget and Scope: ADA: 14th St 6th Av/7th Av Complex - Design Only". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 30, 2018. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
^ Berger, Paul (June 26, 2018). "MTA Postpones Platform-Safety Pilot Program". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
^ "Elevators are a win, but L-train shutdown fight still on track". The Villager Newspaper. June 21, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
^ a b c nycsubway.org – IND 6th Avenue: 23rd Street
^ "OPEN NEW SUBWAY TO REGULAR TRAFFIC; First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials. TO SERVE LOWER WEST SIDE Whitney Predicts an Awakening of the District--New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service. Present Service Tentative. Currents of Travel to Change" (PDF). query.nytimes.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
^ a b c d e f g h "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Chelsea" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
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Buddhist Bhutan Proposes 'Anti-Conversion' Law
Posted on August 10, 2010 by particularkev
Already suppressed Christians say bill is designed to control growth.
THIMPHU, Bhutan, July 21 (CDN) — Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of "anti-conversion" law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of "coercion."
The amendment bill would punish "proselytizing" that "uses coercion or other forms of inducement" – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor.
"Now, under section 463 [of the Penal Code of Bhutan], a defendant shall be guilty of the offense of proselytization if the defendant uses coercion or other forms of inducement to cause the conversion of a person from one religion or faith to another," reported the government-run Kuensel newspaper on July 9.
"There was always a virtual anti-conversion law in place, but now it is on paper too," said a senior pastor from Thimphu on condition of anonymity. "Seemingly it is aimed at controlling the growth of Christianity."
Kuenlay Tshering, a member of Bhutan's Parliament and the chairperson of its Legislative Council, told Compass that the new section is consonant with Article 7(4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which states, "A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No person shall be compelled to belong to another faith by means of coercion or inducement."
He said that the National Council had proposed that offenses under the proposal be classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one to less than three years in prison.
Tshering said that the amendment bill "may be passed during the next session of Parliament, after the National Assembly deliberates on it in the winter session."
Asked if he was aware that similar "anti-conversion" laws in neighboring India had been misused to harass Christians through vague terms of "inducement," he said he was not.
Authorities usually act on complaints by local residents against Christian workers, so frivolous complaints can lead to their arrest, said another pastor who requested anonymity.
Of the 683,407 people in Bhutan, over 75 percent are Buddhist, mainly from the west and the east. Hindus, mostly ethnic Nepalese from southern Bhutan, are estimated to be around 22 percent of the population.
There are around 6,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Nepalese, but there is neither a church building nor a registered Christian institution. The Bible, however, has been translated into the national language, Dzongkha, as well as into Nepali.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has not officially recognized the presence of Christians, whose practice of faith remains confined to their homes.
The Drukpa Kagyue school of Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, with Hinduism dominant in the south, according to Bhutan's official website, which adds, "Some residues of Bon, animism and shamanism still exist in some pockets of the country," but makes no mention of Christianity.
Still, since Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 after its first-ever elections – following more than 100 years of absolute monarchy – people have increasingly exercised their freedom, including religious choice.
'Why More Religions?'
Home and Culture Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji told Compass that Bhutan's government had "no problems" with Christianity or any other faith.
"But Bhutan is a small country, with a little more than 600,000 people, and a majority of them are Buddhist," Dorji said. "We have Hindus, also mainly in southern parts. So why do we need more religions?"
Buddhism is closely linked with political and social life in Bhutan. Dorji's office sits in a gigantic monastery in Thimphu known as Tashichho Dzong. Buddhism unites and brings people together, Dorji said, explaining that the social life of a village revolves around its dzong (monastery).
Dorji said India's multi-religious society had led to tensions and bloodshed.
"India can survive riots and unrest," he said, "but Bhutan may not, because it is a small country between two giants [India and China]."
With leaders who have been proud that they have not allowed it to be colonized, Bhutan historically has been keenly concerned about its survival. Bhutan's people see their distinct culture, rather than the military, as having protected the country's sovereignty. And it is no coincidence that Dorji's portfolio includes both internal security and preservation of culture.
The constitution, adopted in July 2008, also requires the state to protect Bhutan's cultural heritage and declares that Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan.
A government official who requested anonymity said that, as Tibet went to China and Sikkim became a state in India, "now which of the two countries will get Bhutan?"
This concern is prevalent among the Bhutanese, he added.
Sikkim, now a state in India's northeast, was a Buddhist kingdom with indigenous Bhotia and Lepcha people groups as its subjects. But Hindus from Nepal migrated to Sikkim for work and gradually outnumbered the local Buddhists. In 1975, a referendum was held to decide if Sikkim, then India's protectorate, should become an official state of the country. Since over 75 percent of the people in Sikkim were Nepalese – who knew that democracy would mean majority-rule – they voted for its incorporation
into India.
Bhutan and India's other smaller neighbors saw it as brazen annexation. And it is believed that Sikkim's "annexation" made Bhutan wary of the influence of India.
In the 1980s, Bhutan's king began a one-nation-one-people campaign to protect its sovereignty and cultural integrity, which was discriminatory to the ethnic Nepalese, who protested. Their non-compliance, however, resulted in a harsh crackdown by authorities, leading to the expulsion or voluntary migration of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese, many of whom were Christians, to the Nepal side of the border in Jhapa in the early 1990s.
"Bhutan did not want to become another Sikkim," said a local resident, explaining why the government did not tolerate the protests.
Bhutan is also rigorous in implementing its laws related to the use of the national language, the national dress code and the uniform architectural standards throughout the country to strengthen its cultural integrity. Bhutanese men are required to wear the gho, a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt, when they go to work or attend a public function. Women have to wear the kira, an ankle-length dress clipped at one shoulder and tied at the waist. Non-compliance can lead to fine
and imprisonment.
Brighter Future
One hopeful pastor said he expects the government to officially acknowledge the existence of Christianity in Bhutan in the near future.
"Religious freedom will be good for both Christians and the government," he said. "If Christians are not officially acknowledged, who will the government go to if it wants to implement an executive decision related to religious communities?"
Explaining the reason for his hope, he recalled an incident in the Punakha area in January, when a house under construction was demolished after rumors that it was used as a church.
"The house owner, a Christian, went to his majesty [King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck] and told him he was not constructing a church but would have worship with other believers on Sundays," the pastor said. "The king allowed him to build the house."
He also said that a delegation of Christians met with Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmey Thinley in May 2009, who reassured them that there would be more freedom soon.
Christianity is gradually growing, but through word-of-mouth – testimonies of those who have received healing from sickness – and not public preaching, he said, adding that Christians needed to understand and be patient with the government, "which cannot and should not make changes or give freedom overnight."
Christians' Skulls, Bones Used for Buddhist Ritual
The ambiguity in Bhutan over the status of Christians has brought with it a new difficulty: A national daily recently reported that at least eight graves of Christians had been exhumed and the skulls and thigh bones extracted for a Buddhist ritual.
Although the report marked the first time the practice had made the news, Christian leaders said more than 100 graves have been dug up as the trade in human bones has been going on for more than five years.
A local resident of the Lamperi area, near Thimphu, identified as Namgay, told the Bhutan Observer that he found eight graves in a "secret forest graveyard" that had been exhumed by hunters of craniums and thigh bone.
"We saw skulls without craniums and a hand sticking out of a grave," he was quoted as saying in the daily on May 27.
A human skull garners between 5,000 ngultrum (US$105) and 10,000 ngultrum (US$211) in Bhutan, with men's skulls considered more valuable. The skull of a man affected by leprosy is not considered ideal for purification. Rather, such skulls are considered best for rituals to subdue evil spirits.
In a visit to the graveyard, the Bhutan Observer found at least eight graves freshly dug up. "Hand gloves, khaddar [a coarse homespun cotton cloth], a currency note, a wooden cross, and a wooden hammer lay scattered all over," it reported.
The daily said the graveyard apparently belonged to the Christian community in Thimphu and nearby areas.
"Christians in the country say that there should be an official recognition that there are Christians in the country, and other things like burial rights will naturally follow," the report noted.
A local pastor told Compass that since Christians did not have a burial ground, they buried their dead in forests.
"More than 100 bodies have been dug up, even though we have changed several locations for burial," he said. "I wonder how the traders in human bones discover these locations. Where do we go now?"
Some local residents reportedly believe that a Christian grave brings bad luck.
Damcho Wangchu, a resident of Thinleygang area, told the daily that the area surrounding the graveyard was holy. He attributed all misfortune in the area – including storms, the death of three students and of four others – to the Christian cemetery.
"We never experienced such misfortunes in our gewog [cluster of villages] before," he said.
The daily explained that the tradition of use of human skulls and thigh bones in Buddhist rituals was as old as Tantric Buddhism itself. "Thoepai Dagpa is a generic name for the text that illustrates the use and study of quality of skulls," it reported.
Tantric Buddhism, widespread in Bhutan, involves rituals as a substitute or alternative for the earlier abstract meditations.
An editorial in the same newspaper noted, "Our hunt for the criminal will probably lead us from the unplanned graveyard to the sacred altar."
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INDIA: FAITHFUL MOURN DEATH OF PRIEST ATTACKED IN ORISSA
Hindu extremists beat Fr. Bernard Digal unconscious, leaving him bleeding in forest.
NEW DELHI, October 31 (Compass Direct News) – More than 3,000 people today attended the funeral in Bhubaneswar, Orissa of a Catholic priest who died on Tuesday (Oct. 28) from injuries sustained in anti-Christian violence that began in August.
Father Bernard Digal died in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, after an operation to remove a blood clot that developed in his brain due to a head injury from Hindu extremists attacking him on Aug. 25-26 in Kandhamal district, Orissa state. He was 46.
"He was smashed like a pulp," Raphael Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, told Compass. "Because of the hate campaign of the [Hindu extremist] Sangh Parivar, the attackers lost their humanity and they became devils. Human beings can't do what they have done."
Archbishop Cheenath flew with Fr. Digal's remains from Chennai to Orissa. Treasurer of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar archdiocese in Orissa, Fr. Digal was visiting Sankarakhole parish when violence flared after Maoists killed Hindu leader Laxmanananda Saraswati and his disciples on Aug. 23.
Though police suspected Maoists from the start and the outlawed Marxists had claimed responsibility for the murders by Sept. 1, Hindu extremists bent on stoking anti-Christian flames continued to publicize that Christians had committed the crime – and have not stopped doing so.
Fr. Digal and Father Alexander Chandy, along with driver Sisir Pradhan, had taken shelter in a forest after a furious mob gathered outside the parish shouting slogans to kill all missionaries. After spending two days in the forest, they left the forest after Fr. Chandy became ill, moving from village to village.
They finally took refuge in a gutted church building in Dudukangia village. It had been torched and only its walls were standing. Legs swollen from walking, the refugees hoped that the enraged Hindu mobs would not come, Archbishop Cheenath said.
But the mob tracked them down by midnight, the archbishop said, and the clerics and driver ran. The crowd caught hold of Fr. Digal, who later told Archbishop Cheenath, "The mob shouted to each other to kill me. I pleaded for my life, but in vain."
Stripping Fr. Digal naked, the Hindu mob then hit him with crowbars, iron rods, cycle chains, axes, sticks and other weapons, the archbishop said.
"They made a bonfire to burn him alive," he said.
Seeing the fire, Fr. Digal managed to escape and run through some thorny bushes but was caught shortly after. The intolerant Hindus continued to hammer him until blood flowed from his head and he lost consciousness, and they left him for dead, Archbishop Cheenath said.
"He lay there on the wet ground and in the cool breeze for six to seven hours," he added. Two villagers who found him in the forest carried him to Phulbani.
After much pressure, the state administration took Fr. Digal to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, under security cover, and from there he was taken to Holy Spirit Hospital in Mumbai.
Discharged the first week of October after more than a month in the hospital, he reached Chennai, Tamil Nadu on Oct. 12 to visit his friend the vicar general of the archdiocese, who was undergoing a heart treatment in St. Thomas Hospital.
"Fr. Digal, after coming to Chennai, complained of high fever, blood in the urine and headache, and lastly his lungs collapsed," Archbishop Cheenath told Compass.
Tests revealed he had a blood clot in the brain, and he underwent emergency surgery on Sunday evening (Oct. 26), reported The Times of India. The next day, he developed acute respiratory disorder and slipped into a coma.
Kandhmal district Police Chief Pravin Kumar told the national daily that he had no knowledge of the attack on Digal.
"So many incidents took place," he reportedly said. "I don't know whether there was any formal complaint pertaining to the attack on him. The police can begin an enquiry into the incident if a complaint is lodged even now."
The Orissa state government has ordered a probe into the death of Fr. Digal, according to The Statesman News Service.
Fr. Digal was ordained on May 29, 1992. He was a native of the village of Tiangia in Kandhamal.
Orissa Rape Victim's Plea
Two months after a nun was raped and paraded half-naked on Aug. 25 in the anti-Christian violence in Orissa, the victim went before the media in New Delhi on Oct. 24 and recounted her traumatic experience.
Her head and face covered by a black scarf, Sister Meena Lalita Barwa accused police of being "friendly" with the attackers and of not being responsive to her plea. Expressing her distrust in Orissa police for failing to protect her from those who raped her and other attackers, she demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.
The nun had gone into hiding after the attack but decided to come forward after the Supreme Court turned down her initial request for a CBI investigation last week.
Sr. Barwa read from her handwritten statement, giving stark details of the incident. Archbishop Cheenath accompanied her in the press conference.
"Two of them were holding my neck to cut off my head with an axe," she said. "Others told them to take me out to the road; I saw Fr. [Thomas] Chellan also being taken out and being beaten."
The 40 to 50 men were armed with axes, spades, crowbars, iron-rods and sickles, Sr. Barwa added. She said she was taken to a building full of ashes and broken glass and raped there, with the mob subsequently parading her and Fr. Chellan for about a half a kilometer. Upon reaching a market she asked about a dozen Orissa police to help her, she said, "but they did not move."
"This hate campaign," Archbishop Cheenath said, "is done under the very nose of the authorities, and they are mere spectators of these shameful deeds."
At the Balliguda police station, the nun recounted, she told the inspector in charge and other government officers how she was attacked, raped, taken away from policemen and paraded half-naked, and how the officers did nothing as she wept bitterly. The inspector asked her, she said, if she knew "what will be the consequence" of filing a First Information Report (FIR).
On Aug. 26, as she was writing the FIR, the inspector told her to hurry and not write it in detail, she said.
"State police failed to stop the crimes, failed to protect me from the attackers, they were friendly with the attackers," she said. "They tried their best that I did not register an FIR, not make complaints against police, [and] police did not take down my statement as I narrated in detail and they abandoned me half of the way. I was raped and now I don't want to be victimized by the Orissa police. I want a CBI enquiry."
Since her press conference, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has called for a detailed report on the sequence of events from the district collector and superintendent of police.
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recently I discovered this amazing webshop called Olive & Ellie.
Not only their name sounds so cute, the clothes are amazing!
Of course I have been wearing my items for a while now, and I've got a lot compliments!
First stop: sipping coffee at the amazing Maurice Coffee & knits in my blue denim dress.
Ps: remember my post about Morning Maker at Maurice Coffee & knits?
Second stop: the streets of Antwerp city! So many beautiful places here in our amazing city, so we had to take a few pictures outside as well 😉 I love that I can wear this dress with sneakers! I combined it with my new Adidas Stan Smith limited edition sneakers and my favorite Clouds of Fashion fringe bag.
Special thanks to my dear friend Jason for taking the pictures!
Next week I'll be sharing part two of our shoot and a new Olive & Ellie outfit, make sure you visit their webshop!


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LBC White Swan – Book 78 (!?!) – The Kingdom of Shadows – K.W Jeter
August 12, 2019 January 2, 2021 / Drneevil
LBC White Swan
Venue: White Swan Leeds
Date: Sunday 14th of July 2019
Address: Swan Street, Leeds
Discussing: The Kingdom of Shadows
K.W. JETER
Adapted from GoodReads:
K. W. Jeter, is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He is credited with the coining of the term 'steampunk'. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and has written three sequels to Blade Runner.
That's all I knew going in.
I'd read the Blade Runner sequels way back in the dark recesses of time (the 1990's). And they were fine.
Like most book adaptations of film or TV shows, my expectations were of a positive – if unchallenging – reading experience; with not necessarily the most demanding concepts or content matter.
Suffice to say…those expectations were not met!
In the sinister and glamorous world of the film industry in the Third Reich and in Hollywood, a young actress struggles not just to survive, but to unravel her own mysterious heritage. As war begins, dark conspiracies tighten around her; to escape them will require a journey through the apocalyptic landscape of Berlin's last days…
A friend of mine told me recently about a film review for Meet the Spartans*, which declared that the film was so terrible that capital punishment – the death penalty – could be replaced by mandatory viewings. To be clear, that repeated viewings of that film, would preform the same function or punishment…as death.
To my mind, replacing the death penalty with readings of this book would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
*****SPOILERS*****
There's a reason why the blurb is so short. Revealing any *actual* details of the plot would be hugely off-putting and possibly offensive to many.
Ostensibly an exploration of the power of story telling; K.W. Jeter attempts to compare and contrast propaganda in Nazi-era Germany – as dictated and directed by Josef Goebbels – with the glossier but no less exploitative stories from Hollywood.
On top of that, there's a Christian sect known as the Lazarenes' – easily identified by their shared heterochromia trait (different coloured eyes – likely a product of inbreeding). The Lazarenes have been granted holy secret knowledge from Christ, not only about how to live forever, but also how to use their bodies to tell shadow stories. This knowledge is passed on from generation to generation once children reach their adolescence. Christian sect…got that?
The final thread involves two young Germans, growing up in chaos. Pavli is a Lazarene – a teenager with whom the secrets of his faith are not shared; his communities attempt to protect him from the Nazis. As a young boy, he worked for his uncle in a camera shop and while there he fell madly in love with a photo of his cousin – Marte – a photo that he carries with him throughout the entire book.
Marte is half Lazarene – however, she does not have different coloured eyes – in fact she is regarded as the Aryan ideal – blond hair and blue eyes. This was a deliberate attempt at assimilation on the behalf on her father, who predicted …I dunno…the rise of fascism and the extermination on a grotesque scale of those who were regarded as impure by said nazi fascists. As one does. He has rejected his roots and has thrown in his lot with the Nazi's.
He sends Marte to become one of the 'fountains of life' – to produce a 'racially pure' child to an SS officer. Marte – we are told repeatedly, by every character, multiple times, including Marte herself – is very beautiful. Spectacularly beautiful. And in that very specific way that is only enhanced by a deep and abiding sorrow.
Naturally, she is picked by the 'best' of the SS officers, and successfully produces a child for the state, which really irks a true believer and utter cow-bag rival. However, her child has the Lazarene eye trait and is immediately deemed impure and therefore…handed over to the cow-bag rival. Not killed. Oh no. Handed over to a zealot. This makes no sense whatsoever, except in an obvious 'this will be revisited later in the book' sort of way.
(SIDE NOTE – the Lebensborn initiative – to have children for 'Hitler' was a real program and an estimated 20 000 children were born during the 12 years of the Third Reich)
On the other hand, this does make Marte sad. And therefore more beautiful. So beautiful in fact that a gay film director (his homosexuality is literally never referenced again across the book. For me it was a pointless gesture, however, it was noted by another that by including this reference, we are at least led to believe that Berlin prior to the Nazi's was quite a different place than afterwards) takes her on as his muse. Marte becomes a film star…and captures the eye of Josef Goebbels. She also develops a tendency to float alongside herself during intercourse, in part perhaps a link to her Lazarene origins, but more likely a result of extreme detachment due to constant abuse. While floating along herself, she frequently comments on her own beauty.
Oh yes, Goebbels is a romantic lead in this…story. I mean, here's a historical character, who was known for his preference for brunettes – so much so that it was noted at the time. Here falling over himself to impress this typical Aryan beauty. It's that level of attention to detail that makes this book truly eye rolling.
While Marte gets whisked off to Hollywood for a brief chapter or two that adds practically nothing to the tale, Pavli and his entire Lazarene community are taken to a concentration camp. There, they are experimented and tortured down to the last soul in an attempt to wrest their holy secrets from them. Pavli – who doesn't have the tattoos and knowledge – is forced (well, volunteers, but it's a concentration camp – hard to blame him) to work the camera during the torture. He often occasionally gets drunk with the Doctor who is obsessed with the Lazarenes and may have inadvertently confirmed that his sect do indeed have mystical gifts. As a result, Pavli basically witnesses his entire community die from vivisection. He gets to handle the remains.
The Lazarenes' are Christians, right – got that? Not Jewish. Christian. And that's important because even the author realised how deeply horrifying and offensive his fiction is. Because – fundamentally – this group *do* have mystical secrets that they are keeping from the world and specifically the occult-obsessed fuhrer…which – whether intentional or not – creates this toxic and awful impression that Doctor 'makes Mangela look like a rational softie' has a point in his obsession and subsequent vivisection. This literally makes me ill to my stomach.
More and more horrendous things happen and – to be honest, I'm only really at the half way point of the book but it's stomach churning so I will speed up a bit.
Suffice to say, Marte continues to get sadder and sadder, which naturally results in her becoming more and more beautiful – because that's how that works. She returns from Hollywood and to Goebbels and that also makes her sad. So by now, her beauty is practically unspeakable. But she and everyone else keeps mentioning it.
By this point, Pavli has seen his entire community killed and this is where things get really weird. The skin remains of his vivisected brother(!) teaches Pavli the secrets of the sect, which allows Pavli to escape to the forest where he uses his magical powers to kill the evil evil doctor, kinda. His brothers spirit keeps him company for a while, but Pavli has more important tasks in mind – namely, he's heading off to find Marte…because he remains madly in love with her…photo.
In a wholly unbelievable way, the two cousins are reunited. Marte is determined to find her son – even though the only person who knows where he is, is dead, due to the Russian assault on Berlin. Oh and by now, her eyes had changed colour – her lineage clear to see. Pavli pollutes his entire communities historical knowledge and legacy to try and communicate with the deceased nazi, who fails to disclose anything useful at all.
Thankfully – and just in the nick of time – the cow-bag reappears…but Marte's child is dead as of about ten minutes previously. Marte is devastated. And this makes her – you guessed it – hideous…no wait, it makes her more beautiful. She decides to finish her film, all about some incredibly relevant German Red Hunter myth story in a very dramatic fashion…and then dies.
The Hollywood director, the German director and Pavli are all left…sad…but not more beautiful…which is strange…
Forget about any philosophical discussion of our bodies being canvasses; or of the Hollywood ideal being parallel to the Nazi propaganda machine; or the Kingdom of Shadows – the Schattenreich – the worlds of light and shade on our cinema screens; or the degradation of the soul by the screen or the camera – this book at its core is body horror. This is not a cinema epic writ large. It's a glorification of cruelty and of abuse that diminished this reader.
For the first time across a decade of book clubs, I refused to score this book.
NOTE – a new clubber who read a different book by K.W. Jeter scored it 3/10 and Liam who hadn't read the book but immensely enjoyed the discussion scored the night 10/10.
*It might have been a different film
It's been about three years since I regularly reviewed any books for this blog 😦 – life just hasn't been conducive for a creative flow, as it were. However, this book – THIS BOOK – has inspired me to pick up the 'auld' parchment and quill. I've never felt so strongly about a book club book before.
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* Security Fix: Bug #13510739 and Bug #63775 were fixed.
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Frankfort harriers race at Manistee
Robert Myers, rmyers@pioneegroup.com
MANISTEE — The Frankfort cross country team prepared for upcoming pre-regionals at the Chris Grabowski Memorial Invitational on Oct. 15.
Frankfort's boys team finished eighth behind meet champion Mason County Central among others.
Logan Foster led the Panthers with an 18th place finish (19:12). Adam Townsend came in 21st (19:24). Chris Provo placed 38th (20:15). Quincy Thayer was 50th (20:39). Skylar Werden took 56th (20:59), and Trevor Moody finished 65th (22:01).
Two Frankfort girls competed at the meet.
Taylor Myers finished fifth (21:48), and Tara Townsend finished 13th (22:55).
The Panthers will compete in pre-regionals at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 at Benzie Central. The top four team finishers in the pre-regional will advance to the regional meet. There will also be opportunities for individuals to qualify to advance to the regional meet.
Frankfort's boys team is currently favored to be the third and final team to make it out of what looks to be a difficult region which includes strong teams such as Buckley and Mason County Eastern.
For the girls, Frankfort coach Dal Townsend said he could see Myers not only qualifying for state finals, but quite possibly earning all-state honors.
"I am looking forward to the next few weeks. I think Taylor has the potential to be an all-stater," Townsend said. "I think she's that good."
Robert Myers
I grew up in Manistee County, and I returned home after graduating from South Dakota State University. In my spare time I enjoy running and hiking.


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Alberta Hunter performing at U.S.O. show., c. 1941-1949 (NYPL)
In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. I sat beside my mother, a blues lover who never misses a chance to dress up and step out, and prepared to enjoy the show. When the time came, our chagrin turned to horror as no Black woman had been specifically chosen to claim Hunter's award and speak lovingly of the artist who had called herself a child of Memphis. A posthumous, backhanded slap. Because Hunter had no living relatives, country and blues singer Tracy Nelson accepted Hunter's award on her behalf, singing "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" for the woman who had carried the spirit of Memphis to Chicago, across the ocean, and back again. It was a sad song, beautifully offered.
Hunter deserved to feel the weight of that metal bouquet while she was still flesh and breath. She was last home in 1978, six years before her death, for the premiere of Alan Rudolph's film Remember My Name to a full audience at the Orpheum Theatre. She had composed the score, and was reveling in the embrace of a city that she had once called home. Years after her last homecoming, the city that was finally, fully remembering her name still failed to properly celebrate her life.
Alberta Hunter's archival practices and theorizations of her own life offer an additional dimension to our understanding of how a range of Black women have used practices of hiding, tricking, and obscuring towards the end of resistance.
Alberta Hunter was an international blues and cabaret singer born in spring 1895 to a family of modest means and high aspirations in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a Pullman porter, died shortly before her birth, leaving her mother and grandparents to care for her. Having grown up in a home with hardworking women, young Alberta adopted their work ethos while quietly nurturing higher ambitions. She fled to Chicago at 15 and began a career in music that would eventually mark her place in the blues canon. Though she meticulously preserved artifacts from each stage of her public life, her story faded into obscurity between the 1950s and the 1970s. But, after a chance encounter in 1977 led to a several-year comeback career, the octogenarian Hunter used her return to publicly cement her legacy.
Hunter was the quintessential Great Migration blues mover, traveling what would become a well-worn and well-studied path of Black migrants, and getting by on her talent, wit, and ability to change with the wind. When Hunter left the Bluff City, she never intended to look back, but she carried every scrap of her Memphis savvy with her to Chicago. She joined a community of women in the Midwest, who were determined to escape domestic labor by making it big in the entertainment industry.
During a stint peeling potatoes in a boardinghouse, she began a nightly ritual of pulling her one good dress around her thin shoulders, imitating a sultry pout, and being promptly shown the exit at Dago Frank's. She was a young girl playing a woman's game believing that she would win. Eventually, she did. Hunter blended her Southern charm and bluesy grit to become the South Side Sweetheart, building a career that rivaled women with prettier faces and stronger voices. As sweat rolled between her shoulder blades, she grinned at strangers applauding her through curls of cigarette smoke and understood that, "if you had worked in Chicago and had been recognized there, you were somebody, baby." This was a chosen life, not one decided by a Jim Crow birth lottery.
Through her blueswoman performances, Hunter embodied both a heteronormative working-class and an interior shaped by her strivings for a private life as a queer Black woman with global sensibilities. The feminine blues aesthetic she highlighted in her public career, complete with the sexually-charged songs and sultry performance style, was a labor requirement for her career, not a fixed part of her personal identity. Furthermore, Hunter eschewed the secrecy and mystery characteristic of blueswomen's navigations of their personal and professional lives. Making these distinctions herself in public, she opted for a clear distinction between her "real" self, a queer Black race woman loner, and the entertainer she played for financial success.
Alberta Hunter's two-faced strategy involved recognizing the rules of survival in a white supremacist society and playing the game to her advantage. Whereas many prominent Black women dissembled to protect their position as race women, Hunter's claim to race womanhood arose out of her interiority. She successfully played a game of self-preservation and later archived it as one of race advocacy. However, she also invited readers in on the subterfuge, in part so we could know who she really was beyond the trickster character. Hunter's life, characterized by her desire to live as a free woman on her own terms, is fertile ground for re-reading Black women's history with more of an individual, existential lens. By making her archival process visible, Hunter carefully wrote herself into history as a lay journalist and queer Black race woman, worked with and against the limits of her biographer to ensure her story was told as she intended, and left a blueprint for how to witness and make space for how Black women want to be remembered.
Writing a trickster's biography is one long game of hide and seek. You have to find what they have hidden in plain sight, respectfully interrogate what they say, and trust them to be the authority of their own experiences. Alberta Hunter's biographer, and the person she used to make her archive public, was a journalist whose narrative did not always align with her recollections. For instance, he asserted that Hunter's father had abandoned the family, though Hunter repeatedly told him that her father died shortly before her birth. Her biographer also failed on several accounts to rigorously engage with Hunter's presentation of her collections, choosing instead to privilege a misreading of city archival records and thereby perpetuate longstanding stereotypes about Black family dynamics.
Despite, and possibly because of, the epistemological gaps in community outsiders' attempts to chronicle the lives of Black women, we have always archived ourselves and each other. In doing so, we have offered the most comprehensive windows into the interiority of Black womanhood possible to capture in words. I owe a particular debt to Black women who have prioritized creating biographies of other Black women, including Erica L. Ball, Valerie Boyd, Shanna Greene Benjamin, A'Lelia Bundles, Alexis De Veaux, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Paula Giddings, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Kali M. Gross, Sheena Harris, Tiya Miles, Nell Painter, and Michelle Scott Hillman. My book, Remember My Name: Alberta Hunter and the Two-Faced Archive, contextualizes Hunter's archival practices within the long history of Black women's curated recordings of their lives, from enslaved women to the former first lady of the U.S. I put her archival strategies in conversation with established traditions of theorizing how Black people, and Black women in particular, navigate spaces of racial violence and hostility, including Du Bois' notion of double consciousness, Hine's culture of dissemblance, and Shorter-Gooden's articulation of shifting.
A self-described loner, Hunter developed what I call a two-faced archive, a curation of her public and private selves that turned back and forth on class and sexuality depending on which side she might have been inclined to read. This two-faced archive consisted of a primary, public archive of recorded songs, stage performances, and newspaper editorials as a cosmopolitan blues and race-woman and a secondary archive of formerly private letters, memorabilia, and recorded interviews with her biographer. Remember My Name extends these ideas of navigating two worlds and two realities to a person who embraced and cultivated a two-faced life, not to obscure her interior but to reveal and shape its reception in the historical record. My work attends to Hunter's trickster intentions and her deliberate archival practices, underscoring the breadth of Black women's self-curation strategies from the turn-of-the-century to the present, with implications for the future of Black women's archives.
How we think about what constitutes an archive is in flux, dependent often upon the subject being archived. My work adds to ongoing reconsiderations of how we view Black women's substantial collections, especially when they are carefully preserved, if not meticulously curated. Professional Black women archivists whose life work has challenged how we engage traditional archives, as well as offered new ways of revealing overlooked ones, has been essential to my thinking.
Alberta Hunter told many stories about her past, and her love of exaggeration and obfuscation makes it difficult to pinpoint the line between fact and fantasy. She built her life on that line. This was Alberta's story. Southern seeds planted in Midwestern soil and spread out across the globe. However the veracity of her origin story is measured, the outcomes are real because she kept and showed us the receipts herself.
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Kamili Anderson | June 2, 2022 at 11:37 am
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, K. T. Ewing for this outstanding synopsis of your book and mostly for the book itself!! A. Hunter has long been a favorite singer of mine, and knowing the full story of her life has always been of interest to me. She was put on the back burner and hidden in the closet for too long. Can't wait to get and read your work!


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Raiders of the lost basement
Greeting, fellow travelers, and welcome to my shop of curiosities! What does this shop sell, pray tell? Many, many things. Relics, artefacts, reminders of a bygone era, an age long before the one we know, where strange, alien objects were once traded back and forth between collectors of the exotic, the bizarre, and the otherwordly. Yes, good fellows, this place exists as a reminder of what came before, and a marker of how far we've come. Please, do come in, for I have many strange wares to show you...
A lot of otaku in this modern world have it easy. You can buy manga at Borders, anime at Best Buy, borrow it from the library, download it online...thanks to the explosion of shows like Pokemon and the entire Toonami experience back at the turn of the millennium, anime has gone from being a quaint subculture tied to the larger fan community into a massive juggernaut, slowly trampling past the fandoms that once supported it, and infiltrating the lives of almost every person on Earth.
But it wasn't always this way. And those times weren't exactly that far back....
A few weeks ago, I was cleaning (or at least attempting to clean) out my basement, pushing through stacks of old papers, ancient tomes and case after case of Legos, when I happened upon a most interesting find: an old box of anime. It was labeled "Japanese Stuff" in untidy scrawl, and I knew immediately what I had stumbled upon: my old collection of anime and anime-related merchandise from my first years as an otaku. Gathered from a variety of sources (not all of them legit), I had assembled what I felt was an amazing representation of my newfound fandom. Looking back on it, it really was just a collection of junk, but it was a telling reminder of what it was like to be an otaku back in 1997.
Let me give a brief overview of the time period, for those readers recent to the fandom, or who came into it after the rise of Pokemon. (I would like to take this moment to say, I am not ragging on, or underestimating the experiences of, Pokemon fans. A lot of you know how hard it was to find anime related merchandise as well, outside of the scope of the Poke-phenomenon. But the Pokemon craze came at a crucial juncture in anime exposure, and was one of the pre-eminent causes for why anime became such a force in the early years of the 21st century. As such, very few of the people who became involved in it at that time had knowledge of what life was like for an otaku before that moment in media culture. That said, I also am well aware of the difficulties faced by those who came into the fandom before me, where it was even rarer to find anime anywhere outside of a small area of the fan community. I would love to hear your stories, if you care to share one. That said, i am merely speaking from my own experiences as an otaku coming into the fandom in 1997.)
Back then, anime on television was extremely restricted. Without cable television, there were few outlets where one could "get their fix." As a boy living in New York City, my options for satisfying my visual craving were limited to: the "classic" (read: BAD) dubs of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon, shown on WPIX (later the WB/CW) at the ungodly hour of 6 AM. Were those showtimes not an option, there was always the chance to watch an old episode of Dragonball Z on Telemundo at around 10 AM, provided you spoke, or at least understood, a bit of Espanol. Interestingly, I late found out that the Spanish dubs were actually more accurate and the episodes far less edited, though that came of little consolation to me, who barely understood enough of the language to order a taco from the Chinese Tex-Mex place. Aside from that, I was in the dark, so i tried my best to catch as many episodes of the show as I could. Fortunately, I would awaken at around 6 every morning for class, so catching the shows weren't particularly hard, and i always made sure to have my VCR set to record.
Of course, beyond the scope of television, there were also VHS tapes of episodes. Those were, unfortunately, missing from the box, but allow me to explain them a bit: some anime had already been licensed for distribution inside the US. At the time, I had managed to track down a tape of Armitage III and the first four episodes of Dragonball Z (because they were always showing the g****** Namek Saga on near endless repeat for two years). The Dragonball tape came courtesy of the local Coconuts music and video, where it was shoved into the children's section and marked at $12.99. At the time, i thought it was a good deal. it wasn't until I had the good fortune to visit another music and video store that I realized it wasn't a good deal, it was an amazing deal.
A visit to Broadway with my student government class later that year introduced me to the now-defunct Virgin Megastore. And tucked all the way in the back of the bottom floor of their Times Square flagship was a small section devoted to anime. Yes, it was even called "Anime," and it was filled with what I later realized were hentai tapes. But mixed in between titles like "La Blue Girl" and "Bondage Queen Kate" was a little, hardcased VHS for Armitage III. For those who don't know the series, it's about a police detective named Naomi Armitage, who happens to be a robot. Very similar to Ghost in the Shell at times, it was amazing back then, not so amazing now, and featured the voice talents of Elizabeth Berkley (aka Jessie from Saved by the Bell) and Kiefer Suthlerland for the dub of the movie. I had previous knowledge of this series from the Ani-Mayhem card game, so I decided to buy the tape, expecting it to run about the same as the Dragonball one, maybe less since it had just one episode on it.
The tape set me back $30. For one episode. Subtitled.
Of course, at the time there were other options available for obtaining anime that weren't just overpriced tapes from specialty stores. Living in an asian neighborhood like I do leads to meeting a lot of people your own age who have their own ways of finding anime. And sometimes it only takes a chance meeting for them to take you to their suppliers. Such was the case with a friend of mine named Jelani. We went to high school together, and he was the resident otaku. He never told me exactly where he got his tapes from, but every week I would supply him with a VHS or two and he would give me back second, or maybe even third, generation subs of any anime I wanted. That was how I discovered Gundam, Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo. The quality was horrid, the translations ranging from accurate to tetched, but I was able to feed my addiction effectively. And feed it I did. I would watch those tapes over and over and over again, commandeering the family VCR every day for hours while I sat, enamored by what I was seeing, and driving my parents up a wall.
Manga, on the other hand, wasn't that hard for me to find. Again, living in an asian neighborhood, my local comic shop thankfully had a manga section that was decently stocked. Next week, I will show some of the things I managed to find there over the years. But outside of my little enclave, some of my friends found it challenging to locate manga. Book stores rarely carried it, and if they did it would run upwards of $20 a book. And it was printed in Western format, often meaning that the panel order would be switched, or the pages "flipped", where by creating mirrored images and the occasional reverse text, all so the books could be read left to right, instead of in their native format.
As for merchandise? Well...best forget ever finding it unless you had a thriving Chinatown in close proximity. While this remains a problem even today, there will always be the chance the local FYE or Best Buy might have a trinket or two for sale. But back in 1997, the only places anyone could buy anime-related paraphernalia were from trading companies located in predominantly Chinese districts, which meant that the products most likely weren't even officially licensed, just knockoffs of popular Japanese goods by Hong Kong companies. Of course, if you were rabid enough, then even that tidbit wouldn't stop you from buying as much of it as you could.
So there it is, that was the world of otakudom I came into back in 1997. Living in my little corner of Queens, I took what I could get and consumed it endlessly, waiting for the day when I could find more and more. Those days were coming, it was only three short years before an entire new world opened up to me, a world of Canal Street, Kinokuniya Bookstore, the internet and Cartoon Network, not to mention friends from across the city who had struggled to find exactly what I had been looking for. But back then, when those days were just a dream, this was what I lived with. And this is what I plan to show over the next few weeks.
Next Session: Anime Anthropologist and the Temple of Otaku


As Kansas City Sporting celebrated 20 years this week, it honored two physicians practicing at St. Joseph Medical Center who have been with the team from the start. They debuted on April 13, 1996, caring for Kansas City Wiz players. After a year, the team changed its name to the Wizards, to its current Sporting Kansas City.
Dr. Luallin and Dr. Erickson had just opened their practices when the team approached them about being team physicians. Through the years, they've seen soccer grow enourmously. When they started, the team played at Arrowhead stadium with a few thousand fans in the stands. Today, Sporting Kansas City has its own stadium which has sold out 73 consecutive MLS matches.


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The ARF David Ogilvy Awards Honors Dstillery For Creative Analytics and Data Science
Posted on March 16, 2016 by Dstillery
New York – March 16, 2016 – Dstillery, a trailblazer in big data intelligence, today announced that the company was honored at The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) David Ogilvy Awards for its work with Chobani and Omnicom Media Group. Dstillery was awarded Silver in 'Big Data' and Bronze in the 'Innovation' categories for the 'Moving Cups: Micro-Audiences & Messaging' campaign. The ARF David Ogilvy Awards celebrate the critical role of insights that inspire great advertising.
"We are very proud to receive these awards," said Tom Phillips, CEO of Dstillery. "This unique campaign demonstrated that micro-audiences respond differently to varying creative, leading to 60% and better lifts in offline sales of Chobani products. Chobani uses the findings here to optimize creative messaging, and to manage promotional programs with various audience segments."
Chobani, in collaboration with Omnicom Media Group, is constantly looking to improve their audience brand experience. For this campaign, they partnered with Dstillery to better understand their consumers' preferences and to inform their brand messaging. Using behavioral and geo-location data within a causal inference framework, Dstillery identified the best-performing creative choices at a micro-segment level to impact both brand affinity and purchase results. The insights have helped Chobani connect emotionally with consumers by serving impactful creative to their diverse audiences.
The Advertising Research Foundation showcases leading and bleeding-edge solutions and evangelizes the leaders that lead them into action. The organization challenges conventions and discovers new insights that benefit its member network. This collaboration yields meaningful, actionable and indispensable insights that empower members to have a true impact on their marketing and build leadership in their organizations.
Dstillery is a trailblazer in big data intelligence. It uses a combination of proprietary technology and human intuition to help brands and media companies achieve their marketing objectives. The company distills massive data sets to identify patterns in consumer behavior and build custom audiences across multiple channels. Brands and media buyers activate these audiences using Dstillery's managed service or programmatic self-service platform. Dstillery is distinguished by its transparency and passion for good science, values held by its 165 employees across eight offices in the U.S. Its 97% client retention rate is testament to the quality of both its performance and its service. For more information, visit www.dstillery.com.


I am beyond ready for some fall sewing. It's been a hot, hot, hot summer here in Boulder and I am awaiting cool mornings, crisp leaves, and long sleeves. In what I hope is just a matter of weeks, we'll be experiencing the change of seasons. You may have noticed, but in the sewing world, fall wardrobe planning is intense. It seems that we've all had at least a bit of a sewing hiatus in the . . .
I have a deep reverence for the button-down shirt (as evidenced by Shirt Month , my Archer Shirt Dress , and the various Willamettes , Cheyennes , and Archers currently hanging in my closet). Despite the fact that collars, in my opinion, have absolutely no practical function in modern day society, they certainly are visually appealing. For someone with a smaller upper body, I like the way . . .
UPDATE: This survey is now closed and one random respondent has been selected and emailed. Thank you for your help in making Indiesew.com better! It took six months to build Indiesew.com in 2014. At the time, there weren't many off-the-shelf systems that offered what we knew our customers needed from a sewing community. We couldn't find a single shopping cart system that checked all the boxes. So . . .


Episode 254: Strength. Sport. Spirit.
Hard to believe in just a few weeks yours truly will be embarking on a journey of a lifetime as I head off to Dubai and then Abu Dhabi to compete at the Special Olympics World Summer Games representing Team Canada and Canada's Capital of Ottawa, Ontario and to my fans, listeners and to everyone with me all the best as I pledge the althetes oath. Let me win but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt. Hope you enjoy this weeks funfest with tons of music and laughs.
Hi Professor Mike Tuned in this morning as always on a Monday morning. Excellent show!


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Enjoy scorch folk at Wildwood Sounds
DEL NORTE — Wildwood Sounds, 850 Grande Ave., Del Norte, presents Hogan & Moss playing scorch folk and old time music on Friday, April 14, at 7 p.m. Cost is $15. Call 657-4757 or see wildwoodsounds.com.
Hogan & Moss play scorch folk: Original songs with old souls, the Carter Family canon, Appalachian trad, Delta soul, Gypsy swing and gospel blues, delivered with passion, speed and drive.
Part folk-punk, part 1930s vintage valentine, it snaps with mad harmonies, Mother Maybelle-style picking, yodeling, scat, upright bass and an archtop-guitar rhythm chop that's like a driving wheel.
It's early country, Old Weird America, cockeyed covers of Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse and Townes Van Zandt, and a blend of old-time and original songs that's uplifting and dark, modal, modern, and haunting.
Jon Hogan has been a full-time folk musician for more than 20 years. He grew up in the American West, immersed from childhood in traditional mountain, gospel and country music. He's written hundreds of ballads, love songs, and waltzes rooted in his love of traditional music. He's also an engaging speaker on the history of Appalachian music, helping listeners understand the difference between old-time and bluegrass, and illustrating their connection to modern popular genres. He is a regional winner in the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk songwriter contest and was presented with the Key to the City of El Paso by Mayor John Cook for preservation of American heritage music.
Maria Moss grew up in Houston, but spent summers as a child soaking up the music of her father's East Tennessee roots. Through Houston's vibrant arts scene, she found the blues and folk music she loved to play reflected in Southern folk, self-taught, outsider and visionary art. After graduating from the University of Houston, she wrote for newspapers — including a two-year post-college stint at the Houston bureau of the New York Times — edited city magazines, freelanced about art, food and travel for national publications, and was co-author of two books. In 2007, while recovering from a serious illness, guitar took center stage in her life, and she found her unique, driving finger-picking style.
Wildwood Sounds presents Hogan & Moss playing scorch folk and old time music on Friday.


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PEEK BEHIND THE SCENES
Anne K Moore
Photograph of Amethyst Falls Wisteria Anne K Moore
Photograph of the ChevroletTerrain, courtesy of GMC
Garden writers strive to bring the best information to home gardeners. However, what drives companies who help garden writers? Monrovia Nurseries have been sharing plants and their growing expertise with professional garden writers for many years. General Motors Corporation became a Platinum Sponsor for the Garden Writer's Symposium held this year in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plant Introductions at Monrovia Nurseries, has this to say, "When I talk with garden writers about plants, the primary focus is always new plants. However, there is enormous value in plants that have been passed by, that is to say, plants that are in older gardens or botanical gardens that are waiting to be discovered and brought to market. Highly likely, these plants have been 'hidden from view' for years and years."
We don't need to use the same plants as our neighbors. Diversity fuels interest. Monrovia can offer diversity and interest. Since 1926, Monrovia has expanded and now grows more than 2,500 varieties.
Continues Staddon, "Bearing in mind the diversity of plant material growing in the United States is enormous, it remains a challenge or near impossible to know the fine points of every plant in production. So, the plant business remains a constant learning curve. We introduce plants to garden writers who in turn bring these new plants and old forgotten plants to the public."
"I have always placed garden writers on a pedestal. Their ability to communicate in all the varying forms is of great importance to the gardening community. This fact alone puts them fairly and squarely into the camp of educators," he said. Additionally, "I am a firm believer that people continue to read the printed word and fully realize there is undue pressure on books, magazines, and physical newspapers. I still see people carrying reading material. Garden writers tell gardeners and would-be gardeners what's going on and the end product they can expect."
Recently, Bountiful Blue Blueberry was named Best Edible Plant at the 2011 Farwest, the green industry's top tradeshow. Staddon was asked, "How long is this food trend going to continue?" His answer, "If we believe the food trend and the sustainability trend, because it really is part and parcel of the same, this so-called trend will be passed in the blink of an eye. We are part of a cultural shift, that is to say edibles and this passion for sustainability including this use of organics is here to stay. As a community, we must establish edibles as part of someone's wellness program. Only this part of the wellness program lives in the garden, not in the gym." For more information on Monrovia products: http://www.monrovia.com/
Someone else talking about protecting the earth is General Motors Corporation Communications Manager, Joseph LaMuraglia. GMC has brought to market two SUV Crossovers that fulfill several gardening needs - good-looking, fuel efficient, and able to haul garden stuff. "Gardeners need utility in their vehicles," said LaMuraglia, "but appreciate the very stylish package and fuel efficiency of these new, lighter SUV's."
He continued, "Incidentally, the definition of a crossover is a SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) but built on a car frame, not a truck frame, so that they are lighter, more fuel efficient, and have a softer, more car-like ride. They will keep the driver- gardener and the $98 shrub in the back comfortable on the ride home. And, because of their lighter weight, they lessen the impact on the environment by using less fuel."
LaMuraglia believes their new crossover vehicles, the Terrain and the Acadia, are perfect for gardeners. "We realize our customers have a myriad of interests. These new crossovers are stylish, efficient, and capable of hauling" what the gardener needs. Garden writers get that word to gardeners.
My husband and I are a Chevy family. Our Chevrolets sport USC on their tail bumpers, which here stand for the University of South Carolina, not that "other" team out West. My husband prefers our sporty Cobalt while I usually drive the SUV. What does all this have to do with gardening? I haul compost, topsoil, fertilizer, bales of straw, and plants to my garden. The sporty car my husband prefers just won't do all the jobs I need accomplished. With these new GMC additions, we could feasibly become a one-car family.
I can vouch for the OnStar feature that comes standard on these two vehicles. It is great to talk with a live person when you are driving to an out of the way garden or garden center and need directions.
LaMuraglia said GMC realizes, "People who garden are really unique. They are active in their gardens. GMC knows that most gardeners prefer to do the work themselves." These vehicles "Allow people to do what they love with fewer stops at the pump and less impact on the environment."
These are not truck wannabes. They are stylish enough for the family ride to church and big enough to do the gardener's hauling afterward, without feeling like a truck. This is the new generation of softer, sensible, stylish vehicles manly enough for even a burly gardener.
Furthermore, there is plenty of room on the bumper for your team's logo. For more information on GMC products: http://www.gmc.com/
Follow Anne K Moore and Linda Weiss as they blog at Diggin' It at the Christian Science Monitor website.
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Q: Segmentation fault 11 (probably in struct) before the main function even started I'd like to know where is the mistake in my code. I just started learning C and I just got to pointers and arrays so I have no idea where the mistake is. The problem seems to be in the part where I use struct to create my own data type because none of the debug texts that I've put in show themselves in console when I run the program. I've looked on the internet for an answer but haven t found anything. Any help would be appreciated.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_size 2000
typedef struct TMatrix{
    int grid[MAX_size][MAX_size];
    int sizex;
    int sizey;
} TMATRIX;
int readSize(TMATRIX *matrix);

int main(void){
    TMATRIX matrix;
    printf("DEBUG\n");
    if (readSize(&matrix)==1){
        printf ("Invalid input.\n");
        return 1;
    }

    printf("%d %d\n", matrix.sizex,matrix.sizey);

    return 0;
}

int readSize(TMATRIX *matrix){
    printf("DEBUG\n");
    if (scanf("%d %d", &matrix->sizex, &matrix->sizey)!=2) return 1;
    if (matrix->sizex<1 || matrix->sizey<1) return 1;

    return 0;
}

A: In your TMATRIX structure, you declare an array of integers of 2000x2000.
2000*2000*4 is 16 megabytes. You're using an auto variable approx. that size (that if sizeof(int)==4 but that could be the double if sizeof(int)==8).
So you probably get a stack overflow before you even reach the first instruction, when the compiler-generated code tries to allocate enough stack room for your variable, typical stack sizes are smaller than that.
Fixes:

*

*increase the stack (linker option)

*use a global variable (move matrix outside the main procedure)

*allocate your table using malloc, and not statically (to keep multidimensional aspect, define int (*grid)[MAX_size]; and make a malloc on MAX_size * sizeof *grid)

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Зафир Тодоров Кънчев е български общественик, етнограф и изследовател на традициите, обичаите и фолклора на Неврокопския край, основател на Неврокопския ансамбъл за народни песни и танци.

Биография
Роден е в Неврокоп на 19 август 1915 година. Кънчев изследва бита на местните хора и създава огромна колекция от характерни за района тъкани и плетива. Също така проучва, регистрира, картотекира празнични и старинни обичаи в Неврокопско. В 1946 година създава ансамбъл за народни песни и танци "Яне Сандански" към читалището в Гоце Делчев, който по-късно приема името Неврокопски ансамбъл за народни песни и танци. Под негово ръководство ансамбълът постига големи успехи. С негова помощ Кънчев пресъздава събраните от него народни обичаи, песни и танци. За своите заслуги Зафир Кънчев получава орден "Кирил и Методий" I степен.

Зафир Кънчев умира на 8 ноември 1987 година.

На 5 май 2016 година, по повод 70-годишнината от създаването на Неврокопския ансамбъл, община Гоце Делчев го удостоява посмъртно със званието "почетен гражданин на Гоце Делчев" "за неуморната му и безценна изследователска и етнографска дейност, съхранила местния фолклор и традиции, и за създадения от него, преди 70 години в град Гоце Делчев (Неврокоп), първи в България самодеен ансамбъл за народни песни и танци".

Бележки

Български общественици от Македония
Родени в Гоце Делчев
Почетни граждани на Гоце Делчев
Български фолклористи от Македония
Носители на орден "Св. св. Кирил и Методий"
Заслужили деятели на културата

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Sri Lanka serial blasts: Two bombers were sons of prominent business tycoon
Colombo [Sri Lanka]: Two of the nine suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent family in Colombo, sources have told CNN. The brothers, identified as Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim and Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim, were sons of spice merchant Mohamed Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, the founder of Colombo-based Ishana Exports, was among one of the dozen people detained in the wake of the attacks. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan government late on Wednesday reimposed a curfew till Thursday morning in the wake of the devastating blasts which have caused multiple casualties in the island nation, a police spokesperson said.
The curfew was imposed from 10 p.m. local time (12.30 p.m. ET) on Wednesday until 4 a.m. Thursday morning, Eight explosions rattled various suburbs in the Sri Lankan cities of Colombo, Negombo, Kochchikade and Batticaloa as the Christian community celebrated Easter Sunday on April 21. Over 350 people have lost their lives until now, as more than 560 people have been injured. Out of the deceased, around 39 people have been identified as foreigners, reported CNN.
Sri Lanka serial blasts: One of nine bombers was a woman, says Sri Lanka's deputy defence minister Ruwan Wijewardene
On Wednesday, Sri Lanka's State Defence minister Ruwan Wijewardene told reporters that the culprits of the Easter attacks were well educated, belonged to the upper-middle-class families, and financially independent. "That was a worrying factor," he added. Meanwhile, British security sources have identified another bomber as Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who is said to have been studied in the southeast of England from 2006 to 2007, and was a postgraduate student in Australia before returning to Sri Lanka.
In addition, Sri Lankan authorities claim that Shiral Lakthilaka, an adviser to the President, has been identified as one of the accused. Lakthilaka, who blew himself up at the Shangri-La hotel as Inshan Seelavan, has been described as the "mastermind" of the attacks. Amid intense criticisms raised over the Sri Lankan government for its inaction against curbing the massacre, President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday planned to change his Defence Minister and the Inspector General of Police over allegations of mishandling the prior warnings of the attacks.
Most of those killed and wounded were Sri Lankans, including 39 foreigners and 10 Indian. The others included British, American, Australian, Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese nationals. The United Nations Children's Fund noted that there were 45 children among the dead.