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Book Review # 262: The Night Watchman
Date: June 20, 2021Author: carllbatnag 2 Comments
2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner
Before the Dutch, the Spaniards, the French, and the British arrived and "discovered" what we all refer to as the great United States of America, American Indians have long established their own strongholds in various part of the American continent. For centuries, they have been enjoying the tranquility of community life, content in the simplicity of domestic life. This was until Europeans came into the scene, seizing every space they can. With an insatiable appetite, the white men scoured every nook and cranny, pushing the natives into the defensive. As they were pushed to the fringes, the natives started losing lands they once owned and cultivated. Decades thence, the natives still face oppression and their legacies are put in question.
The current government, ironically dominated by descendants of the European invaders, have long tried to further suppress the Native's rights and domains through legislation. One such proposed legislation was House Concurrent Resolution 108, announced by the United States Congress in August 1, 1953. The legislation introduced measures to repudiate nation-to-nation treaties which were made with the American Indian nations for "as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow." The legislation also sought the termination of five tribes, including the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, to which Patrick Gourneau belonged. As the tribal chairman, Gourneau was at the forefront of the fight against this drastic new measure.
Decades later after this monumental struggle, Gourneau's granddaughter would be inspired by his life and his fight against the tribe's termination. His granddaughter, renowned writer Louise Erdrich, crafted a narrative that was eventually published as The Night Watchman. A fictionalized account of this seminal phase of the Turtle Mountain Band's history, The Night Watchman zeroes in on Thomas Wazhushk. The readers meet Wazhushk while he was working as a night watchman at the Turtle Mountain Jewel Bearing Plant. It was the first factory built near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota and was where gems and semi-precious stones are drilled for use in military artillery and watches.
"The sun was low in the sky, casting slant regal light. As they plodded along, the golden radiance intensified until it seemed to emanate from every feature of the land. Trees, brush, snow, hills. She couldn't stop looking. The road led past frozen sloughs that bristled with scorched reeds. Clutches of red willow burned. The fans and whips of branches glowed, alive. Winter clouds formed patterns against the fierce gray sky. Scales, looped ropes, the bones of fish. The world was tender with significance."
~ Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
While working as the night watchman, Wazhushk was also the tribal chairman of the Reservation. His mettle as the chieftain was challenged when House Concurrent Resolution 108 was announced by the United States Congress. It was aimed at denying Native American tribes the benefits granted by treaties previously signed with the U.S. government, such as the provision of basic structures for medical care, education, and social welfare. This, however, was just the tip of the iceberg as this measure also impinged on the tribes' claims on their lands, eventually forcing them out of the reservations and moving into the cities.
The primary narrative thread follows Wazhushk's as he organizes a solid plan to counter the legislation which will further shrink the plot of land they possess. The Chippewas were once powerful hunters and gatherers but were forced into agriculture in order to survive. Barely receive any assistance or even recognition from the government, the tribe was cognizant that the only way to fully counter the legislation is to build a solid case and present it before the Congress and the Senate. Without a minute to waste, Wazhushk sought the wisdom of the more knowledgeable members of the tribe and recruited the assistance of experts to further their cause. With indefatigable resolve, Wazhushk journeyed to different parts of the country to build a case for his tribe. His journey culminated with an appearance before the Senate Committee in Washington D.C.
Whilst Wazhushk concerns himself with his duties as the tribe's chief, members of Thomas' family and also the extended families of the reservation were introduced by Erdrich. At the forefront of this eclectic albeit diverse mix of characters is Wazhushk's niece, old Patrice Paranteau who worked at the local jewel bearing plant where her uncle was the night watchman. At the young age of nineteen, Patrice, who used to be called Pixie during her high school years, was the sole breadwinner for her family , supporting her mother and brother. The family patriarch was alcoholic and chronically stole from her daughter. Meanwhile, her older sister, Vera, left for the city and has since made herself scarce from her family. However, Vera's absence left a gaping hole that Patrice tried to find the answer to.
As Patrice traced her sister's tracks in Minneapolis, the last known place where Vera was seen, she got to witness a world that was so foreign from the world of the Reservation. In the guise of a coming-of-age story, the narrative thread that followed Patrice's journey in Minneapolis was also a subtle portrayal of the fate that awaits members of the tribes once the resolution is approved as a law. Albeit the sense of excitement at the prospect of moving into uncharted territories, there always a daunting feeling, as Patrice learned. She was ushered into a world where discrimination and exploitation are both ubiquitous.
"Her hair, shoulders, and back grew damp. But moving kept her warm. She slowed to pick her way through places where water was seeping up through the mats of dying grass. Rain tapping through the brilliant leaves the only sound. She stopped. The sense of something there, with her, all around her, swirling and seething with energy. How intimately the trees seized the earth. How exquisitely she was included."
Recently, CNN broadcaster and former US Senator Rick Santorum earned the ire of many with a speech he gave to a conservative youth group. He was quoted saying, "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture." This statement, made in the 21st century, a time where information is readily available, further underscored how the influences of the Native Americans were continuously undermined. This also highlighted the years of oppression made on the original settlers in the American continent.
At its heart, The Night Watchman is the intimate portrait of reservation life. The readers get to see, or read, how Native Americans interact with each other, and with the world beyond them. The reservation, however, was never safe from the influences of the outside world. The jewel bearing plant, for instance, employed many of the locals, consequently exploiting their labor in exchange for meager compensation. The reservation have also become more accessible to non-natives as white men like Lloyd Barnes and two young Mormon missionaries find their way into the Chippewa landscape.
An account of reservation life would not be complete without the darker shades. Erdrich, whilst focusing on the story of Patrice and Thomas, devoted hefty attention to the challenges the natives had to grapple with, such as destitution, unemployment, and alcoholism. Domestic violence was also prevalent. At the factory, female workers also had to contend an atmosphere where sexual abuse is always a step away. One can never let his or her guard down. At one point, Patrice was nearly the victim of sexual assault. Some, like Vera, dream of running away from their roots and cannot be helped. By giving an intimate picture of reservation life, Erdrich gave the narrative a different complexion.
Overall, the narrative, however, came off as uneven and inconsistent. It was weighed down by several unnecessary elements. There were one too many characters. Some of these characters were inconsequential, almost caricatural, and were obviously drawn to provide comic relief. The narrative threads, both distinct and bold, also never converged down the road. In particular, Patrice's story meandered and was bereft of the urgency of her uncle's story. There was also an unnatural, almost unhealthy, effort in elevating Patrice to a heroine that she came off, at times, as superficial. The character's lack of psychological complexity made up for a bland reading experience. The primary characters even came off as monochromatic.
"Emancipation. Emancipation. Emancipation. This word would not stop banging around in his head. Emancipated. But they were not enslaved. Freed from being Indians was the idea. Emancipated from their land. Freed from the treaties that Thomas's father and grandfather had signed and that were promised to last forever. So, as usual, by getting rid of us the Indian problem would be solved. Overnight, the tribal chairman job had turned into a struggle to remain a problem to not be solved."
Whilst the novel had the tendency to meander, the beauty of Erdrich's prose came across in The Night Watchman. She employed elements of magical realism in her narrative. Folklore and the magical are two important facets of Native American culture. As the lines between the supernatural and the real were blurred, the characters have encounters with the ethereal and the otherworldly. Thomas himself gets to witness some of these supernatural activities as he sees the spirit of a young boy during his nightly rounds.
Erdrich's prose flourished when the characters made connections with their environment and then nature was made a part of the narrative. At one point, Patrice was described as: "She could hear the humming rush of the tree drinking from the earth. She closed her eyes, went through the bark like water, and was sucked up off the bud tips into a cloud." Another passage described: "The stars were impersonal. But they took human shapes and arranged themselves in orders that conveyed directions to the next life. There was no time where he was going. He'd always thought that inconceivable. For years now he'd understood that time was all at once, back and forth, upside down. As animals subject to the laws of earth, we think time is experience. But time is more a substance, like air, only of course not air. It is in fact a holy element."
The Night Watchman was recently awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Parts magical realism, parts historical fiction, parts coming-of-age story, the novel had its highs and lows. Erdrich, with her capable and bold strokes, painted a community that was struggling to keep up with the challenges emanating from all corners of society, both official, and unofficial. In the Chippewas, we see a group of people hounded by the rapid development taking place around them. Despite the challenges, the readers see a community that, when the need arises, can unite and stand up against these very same forces that oppress them.
Characters (30%) – 18%
Plot (30%) – 20%
Writing (25%) – 16%
Overall Impact (15%) – 11%
The Night Watchman was my first Louise Erdrich novel although I bought one of her novels previously; I never got the chance to read it. Admittedly, I would have never considered buying her latest novel had my interest not been piqued by its inclusion in USA Today's list of Best books of 2020 so far: What USA TODAY's critics loved reading. I thought, well, I haven't read any of her works before so I might as well start somewhere. I was really looking forward into delving into an uncharted territory for Erdrich's works seemed popular. To some point, I did like The Night Watchman. That was until it diverged into different directions. Once it meandered, it lost my interest. The plotline following the progress of the tribe's struggle against House Concurrent Resolution 108 was seminal in the story. However, I find its impact mostly was ephemeral as it was weighed down by the other elements of the story.
Book Specs
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publishing Date: 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of Louise Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of a literary master.
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom: Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"?
Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that pays barely enough to support her mother and younger brother. Patrice's alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children, and to bully Patrice for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence and endangers her life.
Thomas and Patrice live in a reservation community. We also come to know young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue, and Patrice's best friend, Valentine, as well as Hay Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopefully in love with Patrice.
In The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, with and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
Karen Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, USA, the oldest of seven children of Ralph Erdrich, a German-American, and Rita (née Gourneau), a Chippewa woman (of half Ojibwe and half French blood).
In 1972, Erdrich attended Dartmouth College, becoming part of the first class of women admitted to the university. Her subsequent literary career was greatly influenced by her encounter with Michael Dorris, an anthropologist, writer, and hen-director of the new Native American Studies program, during her freshman year. Attending his class, Erdrich started looking into her own ancestry. To support her studies, Erdrich took on a range of different jobs, working as a lifeguard, waitress, researcher for films, and as an editor for the Boston Indian Council newspaper The Circle. She completed her A.B. in English in 1976. Two years later, she enrolled n a Master of Arts program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned the Master of Arts in the Writing Seminars in 1979. After completing her graduate studies, returned to Dartmouth as a writer-in-residence.
While attending Dartmouth, Erdrich received her first literary award, the 1975 American Academy of Poets Prize. In 1979, she wrote the short story The World's Greatest Fisherman. She submitted it to the Nelson Algren Short Fiction prize in 1982, which it won. Eventually, the short story became the first chapter of her debut novel, Love Medicine (1984). It won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award and was featured on the National Advanced Placement Test for Literature. Love Medicine was eventually expanded into a tetralogy, succeeded by The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), and The Bingo Palace (1994). Her latest novel, The Night Watchman (2020) recently won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Erdrich has also published a score of short stories and short story collections, poems, children's fiction, and nonfiction works. She has also copped several literary awards such as the 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Plague of Doves, 2012 National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House, 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for LaRose.
Erdrich, after a successful literary partnership, eventually married Michael Dorris in 1981. The couple had six children; three children whom Dorris had adopted as a single parent, and three biological children together. In 1995, the couple separated. Erdrich currently resides in Minneapolis.
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Hello Carl. I know very little about Native American Culture but what that man, Rick Santorem said, was dreadful, but typical I think, of those who oppress others. When the British first went to Australia, they charted it as "empty land".
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Shri Dominic McAllister, Deputy High Commissioner of United Kingdom welcoming Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon'ble Union Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas with a bouquet.
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan addressing the participants.
Shri S. Rath, Director(E&P) moderating the session.


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Iran hit with new sanctions over first protester execution
AFP Published December 9, 2022
A woman walks after the morality police shut down in a street in Tehran, Iran, Dec 6. — Reuters
Iran was slapped with fresh sanctions on Friday after carrying out its first execution over demonstrations that have shaken the regime for nearly three months, as activists called for fresh protests.
Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged on Thursday after being found guilty of "moharebeh", or "enmity against God", following what rights groups denounced as a show trial, sparking international outcry and warnings that more hangings were imminent.
The judiciary said Shekari was arrested after blocking a Tehran street and striking a member of the Basij paramilitary force linked to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a machete — a wound that required 13 stitches.
The Islamic republic said late on Thursday it was exercising "utmost restraint" in the face of the protests that flared over the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women.
Britain on Friday announced wide-ranging sanctions against 30 targets worldwide, including officials in Iran whom it accused of pursuing "egregious sentences" against protesters.
European diplomats said the EU was also set to impose more sanctions on Iran for drone supplies to Russia and the protest crackdown.
The sanctions are expected to be formally signed off by foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday.
Amnesty International said on Thursday it was "horrified" by Shekari's execution, which followed a "grossly unfair sham trial".
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR), said "Shekari was executed after a hasty and unfair trial without a lawyer."
Calls for more protests
Shekari's body was buried 24 hours after his execution in the presence of a few family members and security forces in Tehran's Behesht-i-Zahra cemetery, the 1500tasvir social media monitor reported.
Overnight, protesters took to the street where he was first arrested, shouting, "They took away our Mohsen and brought back his body," in a video shared by 1500tasvir.
Elsewhere, chants of "Death to the dictator" and "Death to Sepah" were heard at a demonstration in Tehran's Chitgar district, in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
1500tasvir said Shekari's execution happened with such haste that his family had still been waiting to hear the outcome of his appeal.
It posted harrowing footage of what it said was the moment his family learnt the news outside their home in Tehran, with a woman doubled up in pain and grief, repeatedly screaming the name "Mohsen!"
Hamed Esmaeilion, an Iranian-Canadian activist who has organised mass protests in Berlin, Paris and other cities, said more demonstrations would be held at the weekend.
"Regardless of belief and ideology, let's join these gatherings in protest against the brutal execution of #MohsenShekari," he tweeted.
'Contempt for human life'
UN rights chief Volker Turk described the execution as "very troubling and clearly designed to send a chilling effect to the rest of the protesters".
Western governments, which had already imposed waves of sanctions against Iran over the protest crackdown, also expressed anger.
Washington called Shekari's execution "a grim escalation" and vowed to hold the Iranian regime to account for violence "against its own people".
Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador, a diplomatic source said, without providing further details.
"The threat of execution will not suffocate the will for freedom," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock tweeted, criticising a "perfidious summary trial".
"The Iranian regime's contempt for human life is boundless," Baerbock added.
Iran has defended its response to the protests and accused the West of hypocrisy.
"In countering riots, Iran has shown utmost restraint and, unlike many Western regimes … Iran has employed proportionate and standard anti-riot methods," its foreign ministry said.
"The same is true for the judicial process: restraint and proportionality," it tweeted late on Thursday, adding: "Public security is a red line."
According to rights group Amnesty International, Iran executes more people annually than any nation other than China.
IHR, which says the security forces have killed at least 458 people in the protest crackdown, this week warned that Iran had already executed more than 500 people in 2022, a sharp jump on last year's figure.
At least a dozen other people are currently at risk of execution after being sentenced to hang in connection with the protests, human rights groups warned.
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GettingThere
Where's the justice here?
All the praises for the brave people of Iran and best wishes to them for overthrowing the Stone Age mullah tyrannical regime.
Israel killed 4 Palestinian protestors yesterday, but I guess that's alright for EU.
Dr. Maha Mad.
Welcome to medieval ideology.
Why are they protesting when hijab law and moral police has been terminated??
Only Justified Execution aka capital punishment helps in maintaining rule of law. Crime rates are lower in nations where law is strict for example middle east, Saudi and Iran.
M. Siddique
Europeans should be under sanctions because they colonized others' countries for decades if not centuries.
What about implementing sanctions against Israel and India for executing minority Muslims for decades.
Alih Kazmi
This is what Pakistan failed to do with TTP.
Just for domestic consumption. There are no more sanctions left to apply.
@Hamid, Hijab law has not been removed Please understand - it is part of their constitution - they will need to amend that The protesters can't rest - it is their goal to fight for freedom of choice in their personal lives
@Hamid, crime rates are low???????where did you get that statistic you think this young man Shekari deserved to die???? for what?? what did he do wrong? May his brave soul rest in peace. Iran's govt. has the blood of innocent Iranians on its hands
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Academics: New Katiba 'no big deal'
Friday July 02 2021
Academics believe that the new constitution may not lead to immediate changes in the status quo. In any case, it may largely depend on the will of those in power
By Jacob Mosenda
Dar es Salaam. A debate over the stalled new constitution agenda erupted yesterday between academics and politicians.
The former argued that the new constitution may not be a solution if those who are required to protect and implement it do not fulfil their responsibilities.
Discussing after the distinguished Nyerere Lecture presentation with the theme: 'Liberating Democracy and Democratic Liberation' by Prof Emeritus Issa Shivji of the University of Dar es Salaam, some politicians, however, believed that democracy and development should go hand in hand.
Speaking during his presentation, Prof Shivji outlined the relationship between democracy and development where he stressed that both are important but achieving them is a process that needs to be done all the time.
Citing the example of China, the scholar, who has been a lecturer at UDSM for more than 30 years, said while the country (China) set goals for the next 100 years, politicians from African countries, including Tanzania, were seriously focusing on the next election, so they set goals for five years.
However, after his presentation which lasted about an hour, a debate which was full of questions and comments on the topic kicked off and one of those who got a chance to ask questions was the opposition ACT-Wazalendo Party's Secretary General, Mr Ado Shaibu.
Mr Shaibu said recently there erupted a perception that demand for democracy was delaying development and that demand for development should be given priority first before the new constitution agenda revival.
Recently, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said that public rallies by politicians, as well as the proposed new constitution agenda, will be revived - but only after the economy gets back to pre-Covid-19 growth momentum.
However, Mr Shaibu says "this has led to the decision to suspend democracy and the new constitution agenda to wait for the country's economy to be strengthened first so that there is a solid foundation, what do you as a scholar think of this? Mr Shaibu asked.
Responding to the argument, Prof Shivji cited the speculation that says, "The new constitution is a remedy to the people's problems," saying that it was not always true.
He cited South Africa and Kenya as having the best constitutions in Africa,
"But look at the situation of these countries. Today South Africa is the most unequal country in the world despite having a very good constitution," said Prof Shivji.
He noted that in recognition of this, during the process of a new constitution in Tanzania, he and his fellow scholars said they would not enter the process until a national debate was held.
"Citizens should be involved and talk about their problems and be told how the new constitution will help them," he said, adding that "I do not want to say much more than that…"
The two-day Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professorial Chair festival kicked off yesterday at UDSM main campus, bringing together scholars from all over the continent.
The two-day event will look at Pan-Africanism, national sovereignty, unity and democratic governance: Challenges of consolidating the African Polity.


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If you haven't studied 1 Chronicles yet, you'll want to do so before you begin your study of 2 Chronicles.
Second Chronicles is filled with truths and lessons for life, which, if heeded, will help you in your pursuit of holiness. Second Chronicles focuses on the reigns of the kings of Judah and their relationship to God and His house from the time of Solomon until the Babylonian exile. Read all the instructions before you begin.
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Look for what each king does, what God does in respect to that king, and what role the prophet plays, if any. In 2 Chronicles the "house" of God takes center stage; therefore, in each reign observe what the king's relationship is to the Lord and to His house.
Also keep track of when events occur. Don't forget to note references to time with a clock ¹.
This is a historical book; watch where things occur and double-underline these references in green.
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Record your insights on the kings mentioned in2 Chronicles.
On an index card make a list of the key repeated words: house, ark, covenant, cry (cried), seek (sought), heart, pray (prayer, prayed), prophet (s), sin, rebellion, glory of the Lord (cloud), the Spirit, humble, pride, did evil, did right. Use this list as a bookmark while you study 2 Chronicles.
In your notebook, record all you learn from marking each of these key words. Note that after chapter 8, ark, one of the key words, is used once more-in chapter 35.
You will also observe key words and phrases that will play a major role in only one or two chapters. Don't miss these. They will come to the surface as you prayerfully read and meditate on a chapter.
As you study each chapter, take notes in the margin of all you learn about God. You will gain rich and perhaps surprising insights. Also mark and record any lessons for life ("LFL").
Remember that 1 and 2 Chronicles were written as on book. Second Chronicles is a continuation of 1 Chronicles. Chronicles have a number of speeches, prophecies, and prayers, some of which are not mentioned in Samuel or Kings. Watch for these and pay attention to what is said, by whom, and why. Highlight or note your insights in the margin.
When you finish reading each chapter, record its theme on Structure of 2 Chronicles and in your Bible. Also watch for the major historical events that occur in 2 Chronicles. Highlight these on the chart.
Complete Structure of 2 Chronicles. As you review the chapter themes you have recorded, see how this book could be segmented and record this under "Segment Divisions." Also, record the book's theme.


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Unmanned Supply Rocket Explodes Seconds after Liftoff
Orbital Sciences's Antares rocket burst into flames mere moments into its mission to send a cargo-carrying spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station. NASA reported no injuries to personnel
By Mike Wall, SPACE.com on October 28, 2014
A private Orbital Sciences-built cargo launch to the International Space Station ended in a fiery explosion just seconds after liftoff Tuesday night (Oct. 28).
Orbital's unmanned Antares rocket exploded in a brilliant fireball shortly after launching from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 6:22 p.m. EDT (2222 GMT), crashing back down to the launch pad in a flaming heap. The Antares was carrying Orbital's unmanned Cygnus spacecraft, which was toting 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms) of food, scientific experiments and other supplies on this flight — the third cargo mission to the space station under a $1.9 billion contract the company holds with NASA. You can see photos of the Antares rocket explosion here.
A NASA spokesman described the explosion as a "catastrophic anomaly" during a NASA TV webcast. While the assessment and investigation of the accident have just begun, NASA emergency operations officials report no injuries, Orbital Sciences representatives said. Property damage is limited to the south end of Wallops Island, they added. [Listen to a first-hand account of the rocket explosion]
"It is far too early to know the details of what happened," Orbital executive vice president Frank Culbertson, a former NASA astronaut, said in a statement. "We will conduct a thorough investigation immediately to determine the cause of this failure and what steps can be taken to avoid a repeat of this incident. As soon as we understand the cause we will begin the necessary work to return to flight to support our customers and the nation's space program."
Orbital Sciences representatives were tracking no problems in the leadup to the launch. But upon ignition it soon became clear that something was wrong, said Robert Pearlman, editor of the space history news website collectSPACE.com (a Space.com partner). Pearlman watched the launch failure from just a few miles away at NASA's press site observation area.
"As the vehicle was climbing off the pad, there was something trailing — a smoke and fire plume from the rocket itself — trailing from the rocket all the way up," Pearlman told Space.com. "As it cleared the top of the water tower, there was a clear break-apart, and the booster's integrity failed. There was then a tremendous fireball, trailed by a very loud explosion. Parts were sent flying everywhere, and then the vehicle fell back to the pad, exploding in an even larger fireball, setting the entire area on fire."
Tuesday night's launch try was Orbital's second attempt to launch the Antares rocket in two days. A launch attempt on Monday night was scrubbed when a boat wandered into the launch range safety area offshore.
NASA has tapped Orbital Sciences to provide eight cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station using the company's Antares rockets and unmanned Cygnus spacecraft. The Virginia-based company launched its first official cargo mission to the space station earlier this year in January, with a second mission following in July. Both missions, as well as two test flights in 2013, were a success.
California-based SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion NASA resupply deal to make 12 robotic flights to the orbiting lab using its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. To date, SpaceX has flown three of these missions without incident.
NASA is looking to the private sector to fly both supplies and astronauts to and from the space station. Last month, the space agency awarded multibillion-dollar deals to SpaceX and Boeing to develop their astronaut taxis, with the hope that one or both private spaceships will be up and running by 2017. (NASA has been reliant on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly its astronauts to and from orbit since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011.)
A Russian robotic cargo craft known as Progress, incidentally, is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station Wednesday (Oct. 29) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Orbital Sciences' two-stage Antares rocket stands 133 feet (40 meters) tall. Today's attempted launch was the first to use an upgraded, more powerful version of Antares' Castor 30XL second-stage motor, company representatives have said, but it is unknown at the moment if this motor was involved in the launch anomaly in any way.
Space.com managing editor Tariq Malik contributed to this story.
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Mike Wall has been writing for Space.com since 2010. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter
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The finalists for the prix Arts excellence unveiled
THREE RIVERS — This was the big unveiling Tuesday of the finalists of the 20th edition of the prix Arts excellence, an initiative of Culture Mauricie. In addition to the tribute that will be made to a personality of here for the whole of his work and his contribution to the cultural community, seven awards will be presented during this evening which will be held on march 14, the THIS.
Six categories were the responsibility of the jury chaired by Denis Massé, founding member of the Tireux d Roches. This is the prize awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the finalists were selected by an independent jury. This was not an easy task for the committee who has had to peel more than fifty applications submitted in the different categories, demonstrating the abundance of art in the region. Some of the categories, including the Creation of visual arts of the year and the cultural Initiative of the year include the four finalists because of the large amount of projects submitted to the jury, which is still reached by consensus.
This vitality of the culture, rejoices greatly Sandie Letendre, chair of the board of directors of Culture Mauricie. "There are a lot of applications but it is also important to emphasize the quality of the applications submitted, which makes the jury's task was not evident."
Moreover, the region as whole was well represented, since the initiatives are remote from the major centres, have found their way to the list of finalists. For the former general and artistic director of Corporation of development of the arts and culture of the City of La Tuque this presence has a particular resonance. "We don't want the geographic distance of the headquarters of Culture in the Mauricie region is an obstacle to their representation."
Production crafts of the year
Roxane Campeau, annual exhibition of mosaic canadian
François Fréchette, ImaginaciÒn
France Nobert, Creation France Fabule
Michel Châteauneuf, The descent into the underworld of Snowdrop
Louise Lacoursière, Wind broad
Elise Rivard, The unexpected arrival of the potato hairy
Creation of visual arts of the year
Suzie Bergeron and Mathilde cinq-Mars, A Dignified Affair
Isabelle Clermont, Crossing harmonies opus No.1, The sacred and opus No.2 and moved
Guy Langevin, a Veil of skin
Josette Villeneuve, Interzone
Initiative cultural vitality of the year
Native friendship Centre, Centre Sakihikan
Corporation of development of the arts and culture of La Tuque, development projects of the public
Frédérique Guichard, Surf and demographics, and influence of cultures
Creating the performing arts of the year
Sébastien Deshaies, The guitar South
Simon Laganière, Saturday night of week
Mack and Ro, Roman
Cultural Initiative of the year
Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Path of the senses, the art and science
Co-op The Freedmen, The People surveyor
Art gallery of the Park, Pierre Landry, sculptor – 50 years of creation / a tribute to the man and his work
Museum of the Ursulines, 1699 – 2018: The story of a life
Prix du CALQ / Creator or designer of the year in the Mauricie region
Isabelle Clermont
Guy Langevin
Josette Villeneuve
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De Tragische Week (Catalaans: la Setmana Tràgica, Spaans: la Semana Trágica) (25 juli-2 augustus 1909) is de naam van een serie bloedige confrontaties tussen het leger en de arbeiders van Barcelona en andere steden in Catalonië gesteund door anarchisten, socialisten en republikeinen, in de laatste week van juli 1909.

Gebeurtenissen

Aanloop
De aanleiding voor de gebeurtenissen is het oproepen van reservetroepen door de Eerste Minister Antonio Maura op 9 juli, ter versterking van de Spaanse troepen in de exclave Melilla tegen de dreiging van Marokkaanse troepen, en in ruimere zin omdat het land zijn militaire en koloniale inspanningen in Noord-Afrika wilde hernieuwen. Deze koloniale oorlog zou uitlopen in wat nu bekendstaat als de Rif-oorlog of Tweede Marokkaanse oorlog.

De minister van oorlog Arsenio Linares y Pombo had de derde gemengde brigade van chasseurs opgeroepen. Deze bestond uit reservisten en actieve eenheden uit Catalonië. Daaronder bevinden zich 520 man die hun complete diensttijd van 6 jaar hadden uitgediend en geen verdere dienstplicht meer verwachtten. Men kon een vervanger inhuren als men niet wilde vechten, maar dat kostte 6000 reales. De meeste arbeiders hadden daar de middelen niet voor.

De confrontaties

Deze mobilisering, gecombineerd met de anarchistische en linksnationalistische ideeën die in die tijd in Catalonië leefden, leiden tot de vorming van de vakbond Solidaridad Obrera. Deze wordt geleid door een comité van anarchisten en socialisten.

Deze bond roept een algemene staking uit tegen het oproepen door Maura van de reservisten op maandag 26 juli 1909. Ondanks de waarschuwingen van gouverneur Ossorio y Gallardo, die overigens weigert de staat van beleg uit te roepen, worden er vandalistische daden begaan door zogenaamde jóvenes bárbaros (jonge barbaren), die geassocieerd worden met de "Radicale Republikeinse Partij" (de Partido Republicano Radical) van Alejandro Lerroux, waarop Ossorio wordt vervangen door de advocaat Evaristo Crespo.

Op dinsdag nemen de arbeiders de macht over in Barcelona. Ze zetten troepentransporten stop en gooien trams om. Alle communicatiemiddelen naar de stad worden afgesneden zodat de stad geïsoleerd raakt van de rest van het land. De relschoppers, waarvan er velen antimilitaristisch, antikoloniaal en antiklerikaal zijn, beschouwen de kerk als een deel van de corrupte burgerlijke laag, wiens zonen niet zijn opgeroepen. De anarchistische elementen in de stad stoken dit antiklerikalisme op. Het bevel kloosters in brand te steken gaat de stad rond, en tegen de middag staan er al een groot aantal in vlammen. 's Avonds is er een tweede ronde klooster- en kerkverbrandingen. Er wordt zelfs melding gemaakt van grafschennis waarbij veel van de relschoppers dansen met lijken van geestelijken.

's Woensdags zijn er straatgevechten met de ordetroepen. De betogers bestormen het commissariaat Drassanes en verkrijgen op die manier een groot aantal wapens. Desalniettemin weigeren de linkse Catalaans-nationalisten de leiding van de beweging op zich te nemen als er in de rest van het land geen navolging aan wordt gegeven, en een van de leiders van de radicalen, Emiliano Iglesias, draagt zijn partijgenoten op de barricades te verlaten.

Op donderdag zijn er grote troepenbewegingen de stad in vanuit meerdere andere steden in Spanje. Onder leiding van de Generaals Brandeis en Santiago neemt het leger na een aantal bloedige straatgevechten Drassanes en een aantal andere wijken van de stad in. De volgende dag is het leger weer meester van de stad. Zonder enige problemen wordt er begonnen met het verschepen van troepen naar Marokko. Wel blijft het onveilig in de stad, een aantal scherpschutters beschiet de ordetroepen. Deze onrust blijft nog een paar dagen aanhouden maar sterft dan ook uit.

Het beëindigen van de ongeregeldheden
Politie en leger tellen 8 doden en 124 gewonden. Van de burgers zouden (wisselende opgaven) 104-150 personen omgekomen zijn. De reactie van de regering was niet alleen hard maar ook willekeurig. Meer dan 1700 individuen worden voor de militaire rechtbanken beschuldigd van "gewapende rebellie". Vijf worden ter dood veroordeeld en geëxecuteerd in het kasteel van Montjuïc, onder wie de Catalaanse onderwijzer Francisco Ferrer, stichter van de Escuela Moderna); 59 anderen krijgen levenslang. Alejandro Lerroux gaat in ballingschap.

Ook buiten Barcelona valt er het nodige voor tijdens de Tragische week. Er zijn volksoproeren in verscheidene Catalaanse steden en in Sabadell, Mataró, Granollers en Palafrugell wordt de Republiek uitgeroepen.

Gevolgen
Na de gebeurtenissen is er een onmiddellijke algemene veroordeling in de Europese pers en Koning Alfonso XIII, geschrokken van de binnen- en buitenlandse reactie, ontslaat zijn Eerste Minister Antonio Maura om hem te vervangen hem door de liberale Segismundo Moret y Prendergast.

Voor de binnenlandse sfeer zou deze gebeurtenis lang van grote betekenis blijven. De Tragische Week was een klap voor het idee dat een parlementaire democratie geleidelijk gevestigd kon worden. Als de massa's blijken te zijn zoals ze hadden laten zien in 1909, zou werkelijke democratie in een puinhoop eindigen. Vanaf dat moment vermijden politici zo veel mogelijk algemene verkiezingen uit te schrijven en proberen ze coalities te sluiten tussen groepen parlementariërs die al deel uitmaken van de wetgevende macht.

De internationale woedende protesten tegen de executie van de anarchistische schoolmeester Ferrer werken averechts. De heersende politieke klasse zagen hem als de aanstichter van het kwaad. Zij interpreteerde deze protesten als de schijnheilige en hysterische reactie van een geheimzinnig verbond van internationale bemoeials en vrijmetselaars, dat al snel bekend zou worden als het 'anti-Spanje'.

Na afloop van de tragische week publiceert de Catalaanse dichter Joan Maragall een vurig stuk, La ciutat del perdó (de stad van de vergiffenis) wat soms wel vergeleken wordt met het pamflet J'accuse...! van de Franse schrijver Émile Zola.

Historische context
De Tragische week kan gezien worden als precedent en opmaat voor de Spaanse Burgeroorlog. Het legt de scheidslijnen bloot die ruim 15 jaar later de Spaanse samenleving zouden verscheuren, waarbij Barcelona een anarchistisch en separatistisch republikeins bolwerk blijkt te zijn.

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Geschiedenis van Catalonië
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Presentation of the Portrait of Benjamin Graves
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At the opening of Court on Tuesday, January 8th, 1884, being the first day of the January term, the Honorable George V. N. Lothrop addressed the Court as follows:
May it please your Honors: I am charged by my brethren of the Bar of Michigan with the performance, this morning, of a most agreeable duty.
At the end of the year just now closed, Mr. Chief Justice Graves retired from this bench. His judicial career had been long and most honorable. He had shown very high judicial qualities of mind and character. He had brought to his duties learning, patience of temper, habits of laborious investigation, a discriminating judgment and the most conscientious purpose. He had a profound reverence for the worth and dignity of his great place. To decide a cause was, with him, more than the disposition of the controversy of the litigants. It was to do justice, and to maintain law, as the sovereign order of the State. This made his presence on the bench always instructive and impressive.
The Bar of Michigan justly thought that this retirement of Judge Graves should be marked by a distinct expression of their respect and esteem. Accordingly, on the evening of December 27th last, the Bar of Michigan gave Judge Graves a public reception at the Detroit Club House, which was honored not only by the profession, but by many eminent citizens at large. At the same time a brief address was prepared, elegantly engrossed on parchment, and, after being largely signed by lawyers, was presented to Judge Graves as a permanent memorial of the occasion.
While this was intended as a most sincere and individual tribute to Judge Graves, it had, I think, a still further meaning, of which I may properly here speak. I am justified in saying that it was felt not only as a tribute to Judge Graves, but also to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of this State has always possessed the esteem and confidence of our entire people. It is not yet fifty years since our State was formed; but the government then organized was organized as a government of law; for it was felt that just laws, wisely administered and cheerfully obeyed, gave a security greater than could be given by arms. The men who founded this State were a handful in number and poor in wealth; but they were men of rare foresight. They looked forward to a commonwealth, not inferior to any other in institutions of learning, in social and religious culture, and in liberty protected by law. Their work was not in vain. All that is now about us testifies to this–the nearly two millions of people now gathered in our domain, the noble building where we now stand, the University of which we are so proud, our schools and churches, our prosperous towns and cities, and, more than all, the innumerable homes which shelter instructed, cultured, refined and happy men and women, the glory and perfection of any state.
Such fruits are possible only where there are upright judges and a pure administration of law. From beginning to end, the roll of the names that have adorned our Supreme Bench is without stain or reproach. To their great honor they have moulded a system of jurisprudence just, equal and liberal, practical in character, and of great simplicity, where the magistrate never ceases to be the citizen. At the same time their labors have been marked with distinguished learning and scholarship. Perhaps to-day we stand too near for perfect criticism. But I sincerely believe, what it gives me pleasure here to declare, that in our reports may be found judgments that would do honor to Westminster Hall or to the United State Supreme Court,–judgments that in learning, in judicial sagacity and in comprehensive wisdom, are worthy to stand beside those of Mansfield, of Marshall and of Kent.
If I may add a word personal to myself, I wish to say that it has been my happiness to know personally every judge who has ever sat in the Supreme Court of Michigan. To the larger part of the living bar, the names of many of the earlier judges are only historical names. To me they are the names of personal friends. And, as I stand here, I recall with emotion that it is just forty years, at this term, since I first essayed to speak in the Supreme Court of Michigan, and that here a large part of the humble labor of my life has been done.
I have therefore felt it a personal privilege, in offering our tribute to Judge Graves, also to offer a tribute equally sincere to the high tribunal of which he was so long a distinguished member.
May it please the Court: In the name of the Bar of Michigan, I now bring to you a copy of their address to Chief Justice Graves, and, in their behalf, respectfully ask that it may be entered on the journal of this Court, and given an appropriate place in the Reports of Michigan.
The Address was as follows:
To the Honorable Benjamin F. Graves, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
The undersigned, members of the Bar of Michigan, deploring the loss which they, with all your fellow-citizens, sustain in your relinquishment of office, wish, in these few, imperfect words, to testify to you their sense of your merits and of their own appreciation. Upon the Circuit and Supreme Court bench you have given the long service of twenty-five years. Patient in hearing, careful in judgment, courteous to the bar, studious and learned without ostentation, wise without pretension, in private life pure and upright, without suspicion and above reproach, you have commanded the respect and won the love of all. Your high bearing and good example have kept before us, as ministers of the law, the dignity and responsibility of our profession, and worthily shown how men should serve in places of public trust. Nothing graces an honorable retirement like sincere respect and affection won by duty well done; and we follow you with the earnest prayer that your future may be as rich in peace as your past has been in good service.
We congratulate you that you still have good health, and we trust that your learned leisure, like a sound and healthy tree, may bear further fruit in the field of enlightened jurisprudence.
We shall not say farewell, for we hope that days and years may be graciously added, and that in your future life and new labors the ripest blessings of a kind Providence may be your happy lot.
Signed by: Geo. V. N. Lothrop, Henry C. Wisner, John D. Conely, Otto Kirchner, William P. Wells, Henry D. Barnard, Levi L. Barbour, Geo. H. Lothrop, DeWitt C. Holbrook, Henry A. Haigh, Oscar M. Springer, Henry M. Cheever, S. M. Cutcheon, Andrew Howell, J. W. Finney, James F. Joy, A. C. Blodgett, C. A. Kent, Henry M. Duffield, Geo. W. Moore, F. H. Canfield, John H. Bissell, E. W. Pendleton, Henry H. Holt, Henry M. Campbell, Alfred Lucking, L. N. Keating, J. H. Chandler, Geo. H. Hopkins, C. E. Warner, J. Patchin, Jas. W. Romeyn, Theodore Romeyn, C. I. Walker, Levi T. Griffin, Hoyt Post, Geo. Jerome, Fred A. Baker, Geo. Gartner, Samuel T. Douglass, Thomas Weadock, C. P. Black, James A. Randall, George P. Voorheis, T. J. O'Brien, Isaac Marston, Don M. Dickinson, Hugh McCurdy, Martin V. Montgomery, Henry Russel, William A. Moore, Charles M. Swift, Charles B. Lothrop, C. J. Reilly, Edward A. Gott, Wm. T. Mitchell, A. H. Wilkinson, T. Crocker, E. H. Flinn, J. W. Champlin, John Atkinson
The Honorable Charles Upson then addressed the Court as follows:
May it please the Court: The sentiments of the members of the Bar on the occasion of the recent voluntary retirement of Chief Justice Graves from the bench of this Court, have been appropriately and feelingly expressed in the communication lately addressed by them to him, to which your attention has, in such felicitous language, just been called. The present has also been deemed by them a proper occasion for some further manifestation of their respect and esteem calculated in some degree to preserve and perpetuate his presence here after his retirement.
On behalf, therefore, of the members of the Bar of this State, I have now the honor and the pleasure of presenting to this Court a portrait of the Honorable Benjamin F. Graves, late Chief Justice of this Court, accompanied with their respectful request thta the same be assigned a permanent place in the Supreme Court Room.
The Chief Justice said: It affords the members of the Court very great pleasure to receive and assign to a suitable place in the hall where he so recently presided the admirable likeness of their late associate. It also gives them the highest satisfaction to respond affirmatively to the request that they should place upon their records the very feeling and appropriate address which was presented to Judge Graves by the bar of the State. The address was a spontaneous tribute by the bar to official worth and official integrity, but no one could know so well as the members of the Court how truthful was all that was said and how well deserved. All of us have known him long and intimately; two of us have practiced before him when he has been sitting at the circuit in the trial of causes; two of us have sat with him upon the bench in the closest possible official relations for sixteen years. His kindness, his courtesy, his devotion to duty, his indefatigable industry are known to all men; but none could know so well as those who were officially associated with him how little he spared himself, how patiently he gave his time and attention to the study of records and to the examination of the printed arguments and the authorities, how anxious he was not only to do what justice seemed to him to demand, but also to put upon record the right reason for the right judgment. All these things were seen most clearly by those who were associated with him in the consultation room and in the disposition of causes. Passing by without remark all that has been said that is complimentary to the Court, it is a pleasure to say that nothing could be more truthful than what is said concerning Judge Graves himself, and nothing better deserved. And the Court are gratified with the reflection that while it is well on personal grounds that these things should be said, it is still more important for public reasons. It is always conducive to public virtue, to good order in the State and to a proper and thorough administration of the law, when faithful and conscientious public services are cherished and so suitably commemorated.
The Clerk of the Court will be directed to enter the address at large upon the Journal of the Court, and the Reporter will give it appropriate place in the next volume.


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Q: Windows command line ZIP extraction with checksum or similar? What I need to do, at the command line, is:

*

*Extract the contents of a a ZIP archive.

*Change an arbitrary number of the extracted files.

*Repeat step 1, but because it is a huge archive, only extract the archived copies of the files changed in step 2 which is much faster.

Ideally the extraction in step 3 would do something like a checksum on the files on disk and only extract those where the file in the archive has a different checksum. Or maybe compare the date changed stamp on the disk file.
At the minute I use pkzipc.exe which is the command-line version of PkZip. I can't see a way to do it with this though. You can extract files from the archive that are newer than the disk files, but what I want is the opposite of that in a sense.

A: I've been looking for a program that would use the CRC32 in the zip file to know if a file had changed, but if all you care for is a date/time stamp and size, TreeComp could work for you.

A: Hmm, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but why don't you just keep a second copy of the files that you're going to change (in step 2)?
Is there any particular reason you need to re-extract?
7-Zip has a command-line version that I'd suggest looking at regardless, I prefer it over all the other windows archiving tools I've used.

A: You can make a small Powershell function:
Function MyZip($Source,$Destination){
  "MD5 Hash: $((certutil -hashFile "$Source")[1])"
  Expand-Archive "$Path" "$Destination"
}

It will first show the MD5 hash of the zip file, then it will expand the archive into destination. To call:
MyZip("Source.zip","C:\Destination\")


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12th April 2020 By Gary Gowers 14 Comments
Regular readers of this column probably know more about my dad than they do me. I'll spare you the details, but in a nutshell, he's a massive City fan, he's my hero and this was to have been his last season as a season ticket holder.
He also lives alone (unless you count Ben the Lhasa Apso – named of course after Ben Godfrey), so the lockdown has been a challenge for someone with impaired vision and COPD but who still loves the great outdoors.
It's been tough… he admits it's been tough.
Then, at 9:30 on Good Friday morning his phone rang. A familiar voice.
"Morning. Is that Derek Gowers? This is Stuart Webber from Norwich City Football Club. How are you doing?"
Imagine the shot in the arm that gave him.
Stuart, of course, was afforded the Canary Call 'my first game was in 1946' treatment, but was, in Dad's words, an 'absolute gentleman'.
Also in Dad's words: "We're so lucky to have this bloke in charge".
And we are.
I'm sure other clubs are doing similar things – despite criticism for all corners, the players and officials within clubs have more than played their part during this pandemic – but at half 9 on the morning of a Bank Holiday? A club's sporting director?
I may be turning into an old softie, but seeing the lift that small act gave my dad, meant a lot.
In the unlikely event you're reading this, Stuart – thank you. And I'm sorry about the "I've been going since 1946 and …" 🙂
I'd intended to use this piece to get stuck into the Premier League and its paymasters over their seeming heartless and cynical obsession over getting the season concluded.
Never has their need to appease shareholders and the billionaire purse holders been laid barer, as they frantically search for a solution that has lives and public health as not top priority.
But Robin Sainty, also of this parish, absolutely nailed it in his EDP column yesterday. It's here. He also cites writer extraordinaire, John Nicholson, whose book "Can we have our football back?" sets the scene perfectly for what is now unfolding.
Between the pair, there is little left to add, other than to say we can hope the recalibration of the game, which appears inevitable when the dust has settled on this human tragedy, will result in a sport that is not there merely to tip-toe around the Big Six. A game that values clubs equally all way down the chain would be nice.
I know… but I've always been a dreamer.
I guess it could be perceived as a little odd that City announced the signing of Danel Sinani in the midst of a period where non-playing staff at the club have been furloughed, but looking at even the tiniest bit of detail would have revealed why it was an announcement that had to be made.
For starters, it was a deal that almost happened in January but was, in the end, deferred until the end of the season. Secondly, it's a free transfer with his wages not kicking until he officially joins the club, And thirdly, it was only when Master Sinani decided to prematurely spill the beans to the Luxembourg press that the club was left with no option but to announce it officially.
But the club has taken potshots aplenty, the latest being Rob Draper from the Daily Mail, who couldn't resist a City/Sinani reference in his piece on a potential deal between the Premier League and the TV companies.
I can see why the words 'furloughing' and 'new signing' in the same sentence may induce a reaction, but before castigating the club a modicum of research wouldn't go amiss. I guess that doesn't make a story.
At this unbelievably difficult time, small nuggets of good news are priceless and to be treasured, but there's no escaping the bottom line: those around us are dying from a disease for which there is no cure and for which we were clearly ill-prepared.
We crave for normality to return but when it eventually does I fear we'll barely recognise it. Carrow Road will never be the same, some seats will be empty in the same way there'll be gaps in our lives.
This is brutal and football seems so insignificant. But I still can't wait to have it back.
Hang in there people. We will meet again.
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martin penney says
12th April 2020 at 11:25 am
During my 40 years of paid employment I always, without fail, adhered to my own unwritten rule: never toady to the boss.
But for the first time in my life I'll make an exception – great article, Gary.
How heartwarming for your father to get a call from SW. He must have felt like a dog with two, erm, tails. And talking of dogs he's made a wise choice in Ben the Lhasa Apso – I can barely cope with our terriers at 62, let alone if I were in my mid-80s.
I avoid the Daily Mail so haven't read the piece Gary mentions but I certainly read Robin's piece. Even the commentators on the Pink 'Un site praised it – bullseye indeed.
When we reconvene it will indeed not be the same.
It might, just might, be even better.
PS Gary, can I have a pay rise when this is all over?
AlexB says
12th April 2020 at 12:14 pm
Good read for this Easter Sunday morning with all the sad news that seems never ending.
The sad news today of the Great Sterling Moss having died after a long illness and Greaves still in hospital with complications so my heart felt wishes goes out to both families and I hope Greavies family can have a few more years together.
As with Martin I am so pleased the SW got in contact with your dad and took time out on a day with his own family.
There us a call for clubs furlonging staff that they have a transfer ban, when the game is back there will be much criticism floating around and being a city supporter I am sad to see we have taken up this option, but also understand the long term need for the clubs survival.
Spurs and Newcastle with billionaire owners could have taken it on the chin, and it was reported that Burnley with their owner footing the bill only had 6 months max to survive so how long would city have in that set up 2 months.
Criticism and blame will come from all directions and it will be the survival of the fittest.
Completing the season behind closed doors might get the clubs more TV revenue but will it cover the losses.
OTBC
All stay well and safe
Hi Alex.
I was only a tiny when Stirling Moss retired but I do remember him and the likes of John Surtees, Jim Clark and particularly Graham Hill.
Maybe Surtees was the only man to be world champion on both two and four wheels? I never met Moss but Dad did in the 70s [can't recall where or how] and reckoned he was a great bloke – and a bit of a ladies man as well.
I reckon survival of the fittest is a very poignant phrase to use just now. Something tells me stadium expansion will be off our agenda for some time but we should eventually be okay, unlike the vast majority of the EFL clubs the way things are heading.
It's okay if you're a Leeds, Derby or West Brom, but otherwise…….
Jim Davies says
Not sure if you're right about Derby, Martin. They have an inquiry into the sale of their stadium hanging over them, and I read somewhere last week that they have further financial problems on top of that. Leeds and West Brom may be ok.
13th April 2020 at 1:44 am
On winning both 2 and 4 wheel championships I thought it was Mike Hawthorne.
I was curious so I just googled Surtees – five world championship 500cc bike titles in the late 50s/early 60s and the Formula One world championship in 1964 – driving for Ferrari.
Mike Hawthorne was the first ever F1 British Wirld Champion.
I knew he had some record lol
Ady says
Lazy reporting from people who know nothing about OUR club is best avoided in my honest opinion. Just because we happen to be in the Premier league they seem to think we're on equal financial footing to the powerhouses of English football.. Even Shearer realises that it has to judged on a club by club basis.
Stephen Godbold says
If you look at the actual figures (from the 2019 accounts) being saved by the club by the furloughing of non-football staff it is comparative peanuts – probably less than £1m in total. This out of a projected income of £120m, which may reduce by a maximum of £15m if the season isn't completed.
The decision was at best premature and at worst exploitative; but talk of transfer bans is silly as nothing illegal has been done, despite some ministers and some media writing it up badly.
Equally talk of "affordability" is relative. Billionaire owners or millionaire owners; you get to a point where it doesn't matter much. The scheme was made available to all. I don't like that NCFC have used it, and I think our executive have made a mistake – I genuinely hope that once Sky confirm they won't want their money back they will reverse this decision.
So you know when this will all end then? Please let the government know, they're pulling their hair out.
Seems there is more sad news with the Cat Bonetti passing after a long illness, and a Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor with Cov-19.
Don Harold says
SW seems to judge most things well, I am glad Delia and Michael have trusted him to look after the club. Fantastic that he called your dad; a little bit of unnecessary and unrequested effort is often a great joy and I'm sure you and your dad will never forget it.
I haven't read Robin's piece yet but will. If today's reports are right the broadcasters seem willing to forego their right to a rebate if this season is not completed in return for increased coverage next season and in future seasons. This sounds attractive in the short term but could prove to be a pound of flesh that will be given by football for ever more; I hope their are some wise heads making decisions-perhaps they should consult SW,
Shocking that Rob Draper should mis-represent a situation to such an extent. Surely this is a first for a Daily Mail journalist.
There, not their.
Hope that last sentence was meant to be ironic!!!
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Q: FETCH throwing exception java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00918: column ambiguously defined Whenever I add this line of code it always throw the exception
OFFSET 0 ROWS
FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY;

Complete code:
SELECT
    EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID,
    EMPLOYEES.FIRST_NAME, EMPLOYEES.LAST_NAME, EMPLOYEES.EMAIL,
    EMPLOYEES.PHONE_NUMBER, EMPLOYEES.HIRE_DATE, EMPLOYEES.JOB_ID,
    EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID, EMPLOYEES.MANAGER_ID, EMPLOYEES.SALARY,
    JOBS.JOB_ID, JOBS.JOB_TITLE, DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID,
    DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_NAME, DEPARTMENTS.MANAGER_ID, M.EMPLOYEE_ID,
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    || ' '
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FROM
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INNER JOIN
    JOBS ON EMPLOYEES.JOB_ID = JOBS.JOB_ID
INNER JOIN
    DEPARTMENTS ON EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID = DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID
INNER JOIN
    EMPLOYEES M ON DEPARTMENTS.MANAGER_ID = M.EMPLOYEE_ID
ORDER BY
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I want to display data from multiple tables in my site and limit it only to ten output but it always throw the exception. What should I do? I've tried adding aliases but it didn't work.

A: Give alias to duplicate names
M.FIRST_NAME as "Manager name"

Or without as
DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID "Department ID",

A: The simple answer to your question is:
According to The Oracle 12c documentation about FETCH:

If the select list contains columns with identical names and you
  specify the row_limiting_clause, then an ORA-00918 error occurs. This
  error occurs whether the identically named columns are in the same
  table or in different tables. You can work around this issue by
  specifying unique column aliases for the identically named columns.

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