While Missouri NEA believes that testing is a necessary part of the educational process, we also believe that a single testing event does not provide a multifaceted picture of the student as a motivated learner and a member of society.
MNEA believes that students should be held accountable for their learning.
However, a single test is an extremely limited method of demonstrating student proficiency. MNEA believes that assessment of student learning should include, but not be limited to, achievement tests, portfolios, grades, teacher recommendations, attendance, extra curricular activities, community involvement, 504 plans and IEP goals. Taken together, these means of evaluating student performance and accomplishments create a more complete picture of student achievement as well as a greater level of motivation in students.
teachers to incorporate these academic standards.
1976), students challenged the testing requirement as racially biased. The case "established two major requirements for diploma sanction testing: adequate notice and curricular validity. Adequate notice requires that students be told what a graduation test will cover several years before the test is implemented. Curricular validity means that the schools are teaching what is being tested; under Debra P., the state must collect data to demonstrate curricular validity" (Phillips, 1993).
of a single test score, but should also take other relevant information into account (Hubert & Hauser, 1999).
The assessment must be aligned with clear, teacher-developed content standards or "benchmarks" that state what should be taught in the schools, and at what level (Barton, 1999).
consideration if there is to be an assessment of the achievement of all students. The needs of these students should be considered throughout any test development process (Heubert & Hauser, 1999).
participation of these students as well as increase the validity of the assessment. It is especially important for decisions about the achievement of these students to include information from multiple sources (Fisher, Roach, & Kearns, 1998).
professional development is a vital component of the assessment process.
knowledgeable about assessment, including appropriate classroom practices.
them on students. The public (i.e. parents, educators, and other officials) needs to be informed about the purpose for testing and the impact of testing outcomes. This information should be a focus point in both teacher training and educational programs for principals, administrators, public officials and others. Results from these efforts will ultimately foster more parent involvement and increase public support for schools. When a high-stakes decision is made, accountability is shared between students, parents, teachers, administrators, public officials, school districts and states because high standards don't happen by imposing them upon students (Heubert & Hauser, 1999).
experiences for most pupils, doom many to failure, and limit the development of many worthy talents" (Coffman, 1993, p.8 in Linn, 1994).
single assessment will only address strengths of certain students at a specific point in time. In order for a test to be valid in a legal sense, all students must have an equal opportunity for success. "Not everyone is equally talented academically. Given a fixed amount of time, some individuals will achieve more than others. As a result, some critics have charged that diploma testing has reduced what is taught in the public schools to the lowest common denominator of what the least prepared students are able to learn. The pressure to do well led teachers to spend weeks before the test drilling students on the specific objectives tested. Meanwhile, these teachers neglected the remainder of the curriculum, from which the specific objectives tested had been sampled" (Phillips, 1993).
In a 1987 Missouri case, St. Louis Teachers Union v. St. Louis Board of Education, a ruling was made against a school system that used student test scores as a measure of teacher evaluation. It was determined that "the student test had not been validated for evaluating teachers, and the resulting unsatisfactory ratings were arbitrary and capricious" (Phillips, 1993).
not valid for this purpose (Heubert & Hauser, 1999).
Research is needed on the effects of high-stakes graduation tests on teaching, learning, and high school completion. Research is also needed on alternatives to test-based denial of the high school diploma, such as endorsed diplomas, end-of-course tests, and combining graduation test scores with other indicators of knowledge and skill in making the graduation decision.
high stakes assessment -- any assessment activity that is used for accountability purposes (Phillips, 1993). This decision would be based upon a combination of evaluation events.
professional development -- the continuing education of teachers, administrators and other school employees. Professional development includes, but is not limited to, college course work, district-based programs, study groups, action groups and peer coaching.
right kind in k-12 education. Educational Testing Service Policy InformationCenter, Princeton, NJ.
Maryland. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Summer, 20. 95-113.
measurement standards. Educational Researcher, 23 (9), 4-14.
systems. Fairtest report: high stakes do not improve student learning.
Rose, L.C. & Gallup, A.M. (September, 1999). The 31st annual Phi Delta Kappa poll of the public's attitudes toward the public schools. Phi Delta Kappan, p 42-56.


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March 12, 2011 sheikyermami	1 Comment
Arid Uka was thoroughly embedded in the Salafist networks.
The "lone wolf" has a billion supporters, world wide. No, he didn't need the internet to radicalize him. Â And no again: Hollyweird crapola like 'Redacted' didn't cause it either: Islam did. Jihad did. The question is simply: who are his backers. Need we look further than the next mosque?
More from the Baron, here:Â Da'wa Bears Bitter Fruit in Frankfurt
The hypocrisy and political correctness on the left will be the death of us
Thanks to peperud (Source)
Spencer: Germany's Jihad Murders Point Up the West's Denial
German media roundup: Frankfurt's lone terrorist
What caused a young man in Frankfurt to turn to radical Islam and kill two US airmen? Newspapers in The Local's media roundup on Friday try to make sense of a senseless act.
A top German lawmaker called Friday for the expulsion of "hate preachers" in the wake of the shooting. (Somewhere in an ivory tower, Tony BLiar must be giggling like a shopkeeper on Saville Row)
(The Local)
Hollywood's War on America
Great idea: lets go after the KKK instead!
In Human Events this morning I discuss the ongoing jihad and the ongoing denial:
A Kosovar Albanian Muslim, Arid Uka, murdered two American airmen outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany last Wednesday. "I did it for Allah," he explained.Like so many jihad attacks these days, this one was initially dismissed as having nothing to do with terrorism. Boris Rhein, interior minister for Germany's Hesse state, almost immediately declared that there were no indications that the shootings had been a terror attack. After Uka's openly jihadist statements, Rhein had to reverse himself. But his initial reaction was indicative of the general tendency toward denial of the reality of the Islamic jihad among government and law enforcement personnel in the West.
What actually would constitute a terrorist attack for enlightened liberal Westerners such as Rhein? Would the murderer have to announce that he was about to carry out a terrorist attack before he started shooting? Would he have to be carrying an al-Qaeda membership card? In the case of the Frankfurt Airport shooting, Uka appears to have acted alone. Thus German security analyst Bernd Georg Thamm noted: "We have a new … perpetrator of terrorism, the lone wolf. Terrorism experts have dreaded this for a while, and now it's happened. And it won't be the last case."
Indeed. Yet it is abundantly clear that even if Arid Uka acted alone in the Frankfurt Airport, his view of the Koran is not eccentric among Muslims worldwide. Yet nearly 10 years after Mohamed Atta and his crew flew a plane into the World Trade Center out of love for Allah, we still don't see any sustained or concerted effort by self-proclaimed peaceful Muslims in the United States or anywhere else to disabuse their coreligionists of this jihad ideology and its globalist, supremacist, totalitarian political agenda. Such an effort should not be seen as optional or incidental. Without it, the very commitment of these self-proclaimed moderates to the United States and its Constitution can and should be called into question….
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Mark Steyn:
Those U.S. airmen were killed by Arid Uka, whose Muslim Albanian parents emigrated from Kosovo decades ago. Young Arid was born and bred in Germany. He is a German citizen who holds a German passport. He is, according to multicultural theory, as German as Fritz and Helmut and Hans. Except he's not. Not when it counts.
Why isn't he a fully functioning citizen of the nation he's spent his entire life in?
Well, that's a tricky one.


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Actress Carrie Fisher — who's widely known for playing Princess Leia in Star Wars — has suffered a massive heart attack, according to an exclusive report from TMZ. Carrie reportedly was on a flight from London to Los Angeles when she went into cardiac arrest just 15 minutes prior to landing.
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Seesmic for Android is a very full Twitter client, with virtually everything you need and some more surprise. Certain that there is any lack, but to the user medium is a nearly perfect choice.
The first thing we see in The Seesmic interface It is that the general trend. Four tabs: history, mentions, direct messages, and view your account profile. On the tabs, buttons to manually update, to write a new tweet, and to perform searches. Simple, functional and direct, the joy of the new arrival user.
In terms of our timeline, mentions stand out with green background, while direct messages appear with a blue background.
And soon you discover details that make it big. Which I liked most is the of the Previews. All Twitter client that previews of images, and some also of videos available, but Seesmic inserts you a miniature of the image directly in the timeline, whenever possible (depends on the service used for the image). Works perfectly at least with TwitPic, yfrog and Plixi, the most commonly used.
In addition, Seesmic offers the possibility of adding not only Twitter accounts, but also of Google Buzz and Salesforce Chatter. Perhaps the choice is successful, because they are not very extended services. But if you are one of those who use them, Seesmic must be of the few to support them.
Another feature that I haven't seen in any other client is that with Seesmic you can connect to a Twitter account using a proxy server. In this way, we can use anonymous proxies or any other type, which helps to access Twitter from capadas connections.
Seesmic offers plenty of options to fine tune our experience with the application. The configuration is not customized to the style of the application, but it uses the same format of menus that Android brings by default. Despite being less aesthetic, is also more comfortable for which it is used to format the operating system. In this aspect, it is again clear and intuitive.
Although we can with Seesmic manage multiple Twitter accounts, to toggle between one and the other we must move to an account selection screen, to there to choose who we want to see, and then go to the tab in question.
The unique, and important exception to this is when publishing. In the edit view you can select from what account (or accounts) we want to publish, and can deliver the message simultaneously by several of them. In the image above, the menu to select the account to use is located in the Center view.
But the minimum you steps several Twitter accounts, I am afraid that Seesmic will be somewhat uncomfortable you. Having to go through a selection of accounts screen to look at what's new in each of them is torture if you have to do often. But of course, not everyone has this need, so this to me is a very negative point, for the average user, it will never be a problem.
The latest version of Seesmic desktop has two characteristics that make it stand above the rest. It is possibly the only Twitter client that runs on Silverlight (at least the well known), when it is Adobe AIR. But above all, it is to be Extensible through plugins. Integrate LinkedIn? Install your plugin. Or maybe Foursquare? As equal.
Just what is this integration capability It would be really big to Seesmic for Android, because really in what win you other options is in the few services that integrates. And for those few who offers, one is Buzz. Only one I can think of worse: Google Wave. No, wait, Ping would be worse.
In summary, Seesmic for Android It is a powerful client, with features that make it unique, perfect for the average user. Only is you short if you need to integrate multiple social networks in one application and multiple accounts.


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0.2 THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR
This is the first complete English version of Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga, a faithful record and exposition in Bengali of the various aspects of the life of Sri Ramakrishna (1836-86), whom the late reputed French savant Romain Rolland introduced to the Western world as "the Messiah of Bengal". Indeed, Sri Ramakrishna's life was a significant spiritual event of the last century. His chief disciple, Swami Vivekananda, declared, "His (Ramakrishna's) life was a thousandfold more than his teaching, a living commentary on the texts of the Upanishads, nay, he was the spirit of the Upanishads living in human form Nowhere else in this world exists that unique perfection, that wonderful kindness for all that does not stop to justify itself, that intense sympathy for man in bondage. He lived to root out all distinction between man and woman, the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the Brahmanas and the Chandalas. . . He came to bring about the synthesis of the Eastern and Western Civilizations. Indeed, not for many a century past India produced so great, so wonderful a teacher of religious synthesis. ... The new dispensation of the age is the source of great good to the whole world, specially to India; and the inspirer of this dispensation, Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna, is the reformed and remodelled manifestation of all the past great epoch-makers in religion." Such a life may be presented and interpreted only by a thoroughly rational mind endowed with a high order of intuitive insight and almost an encyclopaedic knowledge of the spiritual realm
Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga, the original Bengali biography of Sri Ramakrishna, based as it is on first-hand observation, assiduous collection of materials from different sources, patient sifting of evidence by way of an earnest effort for precision, and backed up by lucid interpretation of all relevant intricate problems connected with religious theories and practices, may easily be ranked as one of the best specimens of hagiographic literature.
The book was published serially in five volumes in Bengali. The first two volumes (Parts III & IV) contain illuminating discourse by way of explaining and illustrating the aspect of Sri Ramakrishna as a Guru (spiritual guide). His early days and his vigorous spiritual practices in youth are delineated in the following two volumes (Parts I & II) respectively. The last (Part V) depicts the manifestation of Divinity in and through the life of Sri Ramakrishna.
But, unfortunately, the book was incomplete. It did not cover the last few months of Sri Ramakrishna's life. However, Romain Rolland was perfectly justified in stating, "Incomplete though the work remains, it is excellent for the subject."
Regarding the author, the French savant cogently remarks; that he "is an authority both as a philosopher and as a historian. His books are rich in metaphysical sketches, which place the spiritual appearance of Ramakrishna exactly in its place in the rich procession of Hindu thought." Really, the masterly treatment of the subject gives a glimpse of the marvellous capacity of the author. His wide experience, vast erudition, spirit of rational enquiry and, above all, his far-reaching spiritual achievements may be discerned even by a casual reader of the book.
An acquaintance with some details of the author's life, may prove interesting and helpful to the readers of the present English publication of the work. It will enable them to appreciate its worth as an authentic and comprehensive record of an epoch-making spiritual phenomenon, the hallowed life of Sri Ramakrishna. Hence the following outline:
The author was Swami Saradananda, one of the outstanding monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.Before he took orders his name was Sarat Chandra Chakravarty. He was born in December 1865, of a fairly well-to-do Brahmin family residing in central Calcutta.
His early life showed unmistakable signs of a saint in the making. Sedate and polite by nature, he had a robust physique, a sharp intellect and a highly sympathetic heart. Easily the best boy of his class, Sarat Chandra made his mark also in the debating society of his school, though it was not possible for him to hurt anybody's feelings by a harsh word or a caustic taunt. His loving heart invariably prompted him to serve any ailing acquaintance, be he a relative, a friend, a neighbour or a menial, — and this even if the disease was an infectious one. To crown all, a remarkable feature of Sarat Chandra's mental make-up was its precocious bias for religion. Even as a little boy he evinced an instinctive craving for religious rites. Mimic worship was the child's favourite play. As he grew up, this play gradually turned into the most serious pursuit of his life.
Born of an orthodox Brahmin family, he inherited a profound reverence for the traditional Hindu religion. Towards the end of his school-days his faith was fairly secured on rational grounds as he came in touch with a sophisticated form of Hinduism through the New Dispensation Movement of the Brahmo Samaj. His ardour for spiritual growth got a fresh stimulus when in St. Xavier's College he contacted the Holy Bible and became inspired by the life and teachings of Jesus. Lastly, it was during his college-days that he lighted upon an exalted spiritual guide who resolved all his possible doubts regarding the truth behind all religions, and by whose surging spiritual power the course of Sarat Chandra's life was entirely changed.
The spiritual guide was Sri Ramakrishna, then known as the Saint of Dakshineswar, a northern suburb of Calcutta. The news of a towering spiritual personality residing in a Kali temple in that suburb had been spreading for some years among the Calcutta public through several Calcutta journals, particularly under the auspices of the Brahmo Samaj. This was drawing a stream of pious visitors, young and old, from Calcutta to meet the saint. Sarat Chandra and his cousin Sasi (later Swami Ramakrishnananda) were caught in the current. Both of them were then college students and were in their teens when one day in October 1883, they went over to pay their respects to the saint.
Sri Ramakrishna appeared to be waiting for such pious young souls. As soon as he met them, he hailed them with delight and made them his own by his endearing and edifying talks. By his sweet and simple words he burnt deep into their minds the supreme need of renouncing sense-enjoyments for realizing God. They felt instinctively that in Sri Ramakrishna they had found a worthy guide on the spiritual path.
After this first visit Sarat Chandra made it a point to come alone to meet the saint every Thursday, which was a holiday in his college. The enchantment of Sri Ramakrishna's incomparably pure and selfless love was upon him, and as days went on, he began to feel an irresistible attraction towards the holy man. Through repeated contact with him Sarat Chandra's ideas about practical religion became clearer and clearer, and he advanced step by step on the spiritual path as directed by Sri Ramakrishna.
Even in his early youth, Sarat Chandra's spiritual aspirations were pitched very high. He was not after washy sentiments, nor even after visions. God in any particular form was not his quest. He wanted to see Him manifested in all creatures. Though told by Sri Ramakrishna that this was the finale of spiritual attainment and could not be easily achieved, Sarat Chandra said that nothing else could satisfy him, and that he was determined to get to that blessed state, whatever difficulties might stand in the way. Evidently Sri Ramakrishna was pleased to find such a prodigious mental calibre in the young aspirant, and suggested that the latter should make friends with Narendranath (later Swami Vivekananda), a potential spiritual giant.
Within a year of his first visit to the saint, Sarat Chandra came to be attached to Narendranath by a bond of intimate friendship. One day in October 1884, hearing from Narendranath about his marvellous mystic experiences connected with Sri Ramakrishna, Sarat Chandra's perspective of the Saint of Dakshineswar became radically changed. He perceived that Sri Ramakrishna was not merely a saint but a spiritual personage ranking with the Prophets and Incarnations he had heard about.
Naturally, after the above incident, Sarat Chandra's love and esteem for Sri Ramakrishna soared to spontaneous adoration of Divinity in the garb of the holy man. With unquestioned faith he resigned himself to the loving care and guidance of the saint as his Guru, and devoted himself heart and soul to spiritual practice, as far as the limits of his home environment and academic career would allow. Sri Ramakrishna, on his part, recognizing in Sarat an aspiring soul of a very high order with a brilliant past, poured out his unstinted grace upon the young disciple and vitalized his budding spiritual genius.
Things went on smoothly till the middle of the year 1885, when Sri Ramakrishna was laid up with a serious attack of throat trouble (cancer) and was brought to a rented house in the quarter of Calcutta for treatment. The alarming news came to Sarat Chandra like a bolt from the blue. The terrible shock he received, however, served eventually as a fillip to his spiritual progress. The moorings of worldly life seemed immediately to give way. With anxious concern for the health of his beloved Guru, he rushed to his bed-side, playing truant from his home and bidding adieu to the Calcutta Medical College, which he had recently joined. Shortly, he began to live day and night with Sri Ramakrishna, and followed him when after about four months he was removed to a garden house in Kasipur, a northern suburb of Calcutta. With his phenomenal zeal for nursing, Sarat Chandra kept on tending the Master till the last moment of the latter's earthly life.
Sri Ramakrishna's illness lasting for about a year proved to be a signal, as it were, for his picked, young disciples to tear themselves away from their home life and be eventually banded together into an incipient holy brotherhood under their preeminent leader Narendranath. They came obviously to nurse their beloved Guru, but stayed on to be drilled into monastic life. It was in the Kasipur garden house that one day Sarat Chandra with most of his comrades received from Sri Ramakrishna the ochre cloth, the distinct garb of a Hindu monk. It was here that, under the Master's instructions and encouragement, they learnt to beg their food like Sannyasins in order to practise complete resignation to Providence as well as to purge their minds of deep-rooted egotistic tendencies. Thus inspired by their Guru with the highest spiritual ideals, and ushered symbolically into monasticism, they forgot all other concerns except the service of their beloved Master and an intense devotion to spiritual practice.
In this way the lofty aim of realizing God was rooted deeply in their minds. The world and its humdrum affairs had no attraction for them. And this state of their minds became more intense after the Master passed away in August 1886. Soon after that, a monastery was started for them in a rented house at Baranagar, not far from the Kasipur garden house. Though for a time Sarat Chandra returned home reluctantly, yet as soon as the monastery was started, he began to visit it off and on and spend long hours in the company of his comrades, absorbed in spiritual practice or in talks about the life and teachings of the Master. Apprehending that his eldest son Sarat was tending to be a recluse, and failing to turn his mind towards worldly life by arguments; Sarat's father, Girish Chandra, took the extreme step of cutting off all contacts of his son with his fellow disciples by locking him up in a room. Unruffled, Sarat Chandra accepted the unenviable solitary confinement in his own house, and fully utilized his loneliness in focussing his mind on his spiritual objective. However, one day when one of his sympathetic younger brothers furtively unlocked the room, Sarat Chandra silently walked out of the house and went straight to the Baranagar monastery. Shortly after this, he and some of his brother disciples assembled in the village home of Baburam (later Swami Premananda), and there, inspired by their leader Narendranath's exhortation during a night-long vigil round a sacred fire, they took the solemn vow of Sannyasa, that is, monasticism for life.
Thus, step by step and without any fuss, Sarat Chandra forged ahead on the path chalked out for Hindu monks. A period of austere monastic life in the Baranagar monastery followed. Without paying any heed to the meagre allowance of food and dress that the slender resources of the monastery provided for these educated middle-class youths, they braced themselves up for the arduous task of realizing the Divine. No other concern could stand in the way of their one-pointed spiritual endeavour. Meditation, hymns, prayers, scriptural study and discussion on religious topics were all that absorbed most of their time and energy.
Thus the young spiritual aspirants kept themselves busy and were not in a mood to rest before they reached their goal. On one auspicious day in the Baranagar monastery, they performed the prescribed sacred rite known as Viraja Homa and thus ceremonially joined the traditional Hindu monastic order. Though their monastic life was virtually started by Sri Ramakrishna during his last days in the Kasipur garden house, and was reinforced by their solemn vows in the village home of Baburam under the inspiration of Narendranath, it was from this day that they commenced a new life as sanctioned by Hindu religious texts. Wiping out all previous impressions about their castes and social positions related to the families of their birth, they discarded even their previous names and titles. From this day Sarat Chandra came to be known as Swami Saradananda.
Soon, however, Saradananda, like most of the inmates of the Baranagar monastery, was seized by a passion for leading the lonely life of a wandering monk (Parivrajaka). Even the company of his brothers as well as the comparatively secure life within the monastery sat on his nerves as an unbearable bondage. He felt an indomitable urge for moving about from place to place as an unfettered soul in pursuit of his spiritual aim, depending absolutely on God for food and shelter. Sacred cities, river banks and Himalayan retreats, rich with spiritual associations piled up by saints and sages through scores of centuries, made their irresistible appeal to his pure mind.
His first sojourn outside the Baranagar monastery was at Puri, the sea-side holy city of Jagannath. After a time he came back, and went out again to spend a considerable time in various sacred places in Northern India. Through Banaras and Ayodhya he proceeded to Hrishikesh, where, absorbed in spiritual practice, he stayed on for some months leading the traditional life of Hindu monks. In the summer of 1890, he climbed up the Himalayas to visit Kedarnath, Tunganath and Badrinarayan, and in July came down to Almora, where within a month he met Swami Vivekananda. With the latter he went again to Hrishikesh through the Garhwal State. Then, after spending some time in Meerut and Delhi with Swami Vivekananda, he went down to Banaras, visiting on the way holy places like Mathura, Vrindavan and Prayag (Allahabad). After another period of intense spiritual practice in the holy city of Banaras, he had an attack of blood dysentery, which eventually brought him back to the Baranagar monastery in September 1891. On recovery, he went to Jayramvati to pay his respects to the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna, known to the devotees as the Holy Mother.
The itinerary of a wandering monk like Swami Saradananda may be followed in detail, but the path traversed by his mind speeding through spiritual experiences cannot be mapped. How, when and by what stages his spiritual genius unfolded itself completely, cannot be traced. Thus the most interesting and substantial contents of his life remained like a sealed book in the bosom of the sage.
In 1892 the monastery was shifted from Baranagar to Alambazar, a place nearer to the Dakshineswar temple. For a fairly long time before and after that, the brotherhood had no knowledge of the whereabouts of their leader Narendranath, till they were thrilled to learn that their itinerant brother had crossed the seas and burst upon the American society in the wake of the Chicago Parliament of Religions as Swami Vivekananda, the Cyclonic Monk of India. From March 1894, the latter kept himself in touch with the brotherhood of the Alambazar monastery through regular correspondence, and went on inspiring it to step out of the traditional monastic seclusion and to inaugurate a new Order of Hindu monks accepting as its motto individual salvation together with the service of deified humanity. Two years later he called Swami Saradananda to assist him in his Vedanta movement in the West. Accordingly, on the first of April 1896, Swami Saradananda reached London, where about a month later Swami Vivekananda arrived for the second time from America.
After delivering a few discourses in London, Swami Saradananda had to go over to the United States and join the Vedanta Society that had already been established by Swami Vivekananda in New York. There he set about doing some solid work through his interesting lectures on the Vedanta and the ideas and ideals of the Hindus as well as through his edifying classes on the Yoga System He made precious contributions to the Greenacre Conference of Comparative Religions, the Brooklyn Ethical Association and to the interested elite of Boston and New York by way of introducing the Hindu view of life to the American public. His talks coming out of the fullness of the heart had a marked effect on the audience. Besides, his calm, dignified and courteous bearing, his catholic outlook and universal love won for him many friends and admirers over there. Under his vigilant care the Vedanta Society in New York was being placed on a sound footing, when a call from the leader made him cut short his work in the West and sail for India via Europe on the 12th of January, 1898.
Swami Vivekananda, the leader, had come back to India in January 1897, and in the midst of a hectic period of broadcasting his message practically all over India, from Colombo to Almora, he had started working breathlessly at the foundation of the Ramakrishna Order of monks and the Ramakrishna Mission. On the first of May of the same year, he inaugurated the Ramakrishna Mission, an Association of lay and monastic members for carrying on spiritual and humanitarian work. Within a year after his arrival, the monastery at Alambazar was shifted temporarily to Nilambar Mukherjee's garden house at Belur, where close by, on the western bank of the Ganga, a suitable site was purchased for building up a permanent monastery for the brotherhood; At this stage Swami Saradananda's service was requisitioned for piloting the Ramakrishna Mission as its Secretary as well as for organizing the management of the monastery.
Swami Saradananda reached the monastery in the above garden house early in February 1898 and took up the responsible duties allotted to him. At the beginning of the next year the monastery was shifted to its permanent site now known as the Belur Math, and within a couple of years after that Swami Vivekananda placed the monastic organization on a stable legal basis by executing a Trust-Deed and incorporating in that organization the ideas, ideals and activities for which the Ramakrishna Mission Association had been started. In this new set-up also Swami Saradananda was chosen by the leader to function as its Secretary. It may be mentioned that later on, when for certain practical considerations the Ramakrishna Math and Mission were split up into two parallel organizations, the Swami continued to direct the affairs of both of them as their Secretary. With the allegiance of a faithful follower, Swami Saradananda stuck to this post right up to the end of his life, considering it to be a sacred task entrusted to him by Swami Vivekananda.
However, Swami Saradananda, equipped with his fresh experience of the Western methods of organization, quickly brought the internal affairs of the monastery into perfect order. Under his care and guidance, a routine life divided between spiritual practice, scriptural study and household jobs went on like clock-work within the monastery. Moreover, with his knowledge of the needs and temperaments of the Western people, he applied himself in right earnest to training up preachers for the West from among the deserving young monks.
On the top of these, he had to attend to quite a number of occasional duties at the instance of the leader. Within a few months of his arrival from America, he had to take an active part in conducting the Ramakrishna Mission plague relief work in Calcutta; several months later he had to act as a guide for some Western disciples of Swami Vivekananda in their tour through a number of historical sites in Northern India. Early next year, shortly after the monastery had been shifted to its permanent site, he had to engage himself in collecting funds for the Belur Math in the course of a lecturing tour through some of the important States in Rajasthan and Sourashtra in Northwestern India. Coming back to the Math shortly before Swami Vivekananda left for his second visit to the West, he devoted himself with his usual zeal to his normal duties within the monastery. Towards the end of the year he visited some important towns in Eastern Bengal, and roused the spiritual fervour of the interested people in those parts by his inspiring talks and instructions.
Swami Vivekananda returned from his second tour in the West towards the end of 1900; he executed the Belur Math Trust-Deed in January 1901; and in July 1902 he passed away, leaving the Ramakrishna Math and Mission to the care of the Trustees, of whom Swami Brahmananda and Swami Saradananda held the pivotal positions of the President and the Secretary respectively. In spite of the severe shock of separation from their beloved and esteemed leader, Swami Saradananda proceeded to shoulder the onerous responsibility of the day-to-day administration of the Math and Mission under the inspired guidance of the President Swami Brahmananda, the spiritual child of Sri Ramakrishna.
Shortly, Swami Saradananda took upon himself the additional task of running and editing the Bengali monthly magazine, Udbodhan, that had been started about three years back under the direction of Swami Vivekananda and was being ably conducted by one of his brilliant colleagues, Swami Trigunatitananda. As the latter had to leave India for joining one of the preaching centres of the Mission in the United States, the magazine was about to stop for want of a capable organizer, when Swami Saradananda stepped in. Under his efficient and persevering care the Udbodhan went on gaining in popularity, as had been desired by the departed leader, and its financial condition gradually looked up. After several years of keen struggle and hard work it became possible for the Swami to move the Udbodhan Office to a permanent house of its own.
It was to find a permanent Calcutta residence for the Holy Mother that the Swami felt the urge of getting up the building as quickly as possible, even by incurring a loan on his own responsibility. The upper storey of the house was reserved for her Residence when she would come to stay in Calcutta in order to bless the monks and novitiates of the Ramakrishna Order as well as hundreds of devotees from far and near. She graced this house by her first visit on May 23, 1909. Of course, the additional purpose of the house was to accommodate the office of the Udbodhan, which was fast developing into a publication concern mainly of Bengali books comprising mostly of what is known as Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature. The ground-floor was set apart for this. This is why even to this day the house is known to the devotees as the Mother's house, and to the general public as the Udbodhan Office.
However, it was to pay off this loan that Swami Saradananda hit upon the idea of writing and publishing an authentic biography of Sri Ramakrishna. With supreme enthusiasm he bent himself to see through the work, sharing all the time the ever-increasing burden of directing the affairs of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. He vigorously applied himself to collecting all available data and sifting them with scrupulous care in order to bring out a correct account of the Master's life, as far as that was possible, relying on nothing but indubitable evidences. Day in, day out, year afer year, the Swami would remain absorbed in this work before a tiny writing desk in a small room, though distracted now and then by visitors or by pressing duties in connection with the Math and Mission. This was the genesis of the brilliant Bengali production, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga, that came out first serially as articles in the Udbodhan since 1909 and then in five volumes between the years 1911 and 1918.
In 1909 the Ramakrishna Mission was organized as a separate body for carrying on philanthropic and educational activities among all sections of people, irrespective of caste, creed or colour. Branch centres of the Ramakrishna Mission as well as those of the Ramakrishna Math were opened one afer another in different parts of India and in certain foreign lands, and these went on multiplying as years rolled on. Besides, occasional relief works during wide-spread calamities due to floods, famines, earthquakes or epidemics in this country had to be organized and conducted from time to time. Naturally, the task of piloting all these as the Secretary of both the Math and the Mission became more and more arduous as years went by. Yet Swami Saradananda was always found equal to the occasion. With his usual calmness he would silently and unostentatiously direct the affairs, meeting embarrassing situations sometimes and solving many a complicated problem arising out of them. It was through his bold and sagacious handling that a number of political inspects aspiring for spiritual life could join the Ramakrishna Order and put in valuable work unmolested by the Government. When the political authorities looked askance at even social service organizations, it was through his efforts that the Ramakrishna Mission could carry on its activities unhampered by any governmental measure.
Beneath the intense and multifarious activities of Swami Saradananda, one may perceive the supernormal lineaments of his inner life. It is through a seer's responses to the world outside that one may possibly get a clue to the source of his inspiration and energy. The following incidents of Swami Saradananda's life obviously give such a clue.
Towards the end of 1898, while he was travelling in a tonga from Rawalpindi to Srinagar in Kashmir in order to meet Swami Vivekananda and his party, he gave a convincing proof of his marvellous equanimity in the face of a perilous situation. It so happened that all of a sudden the horse took fright and crazily rushed downhill with the vehicle at a breakneck speed. Luckily, its mad career was arrested some way down by a big tree standing on the sloping hill-side, when Swami Saradananda quietly came out of the carriage. At that very moment a heavy boulder crashed down from above and, sparing his person by a few inches, fell upon the horse and killed it on the spot. Absolutely calm all through the incident that might very well have cost his life, the Swami remained a disinterested witness of the entire scene like a true Sthitaprajna, one whose consciousness is anchored in the higher Self.
The extraordinary quietude of a liberated soul before a precarious situation was also demonstrated through some other thrilling incidents of his life. On his voyage to London in 1896, when his ship was overtaken by a cyclone in the Mediterranean, the Swami sat unmoved, witnessing dispassionately the panicky stampede and desperate cries all about him On another occasion, later in life, while crossing the Ganga in a country boat that was about to be capsized by a violent storm, the Swami sat unperturbed, as if there was nothing serious about him to take notice of. His absolutely unconcerned attitude went so far as to impel his panicky companion to make a rude gesture. Such behaviour of the dismayed companion drew only a genial smile from the Swami.
Another incident of a different nature has a peculiar significance, reminding one of Sri Ramakrishna's vision of Swami Saradananda's previous life as a companion (apostle) of Jesus. On his way to London from India, when he visited St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, his mind was abruptly whisked off to a super-conscious plane, and he fell into a deep mystic trance (Samadhi). What he actually saw and felt at that time remained a closely guarded secret of his life. One may reasonably guess, however, that the holy Cathedral associated with the sacred memory of the apostles of Jesus stirred up a vivid recollection of his previous life as had been visualized by the Master, and drowned for the time being his consciousness of his immediate surroundings.
Swami Saradananda's spiritual eminence read through these significant incidents of his life was verified by a few hints given by him on some rare occasions. On the pages of his personal diary one finds repeated mention of his direct communion with the Divine Mother. Then his following explicit admission while dedicating his illuminating Bengali book Bharate Shakti-Puja (Worship of the Divine Mother in India) may be cited as another instance to the point: "The book is dedicated with great devotion to those by whose grace the author has been blessed with the realization of the Divine Mother in every woman on earth." This shows to what a peak of spiritual experience his mind had been lifted. Indeed, such a realization is the very goal of Mother Worship (Tantrika Sadhana). Incidentally it may be mentioned that Swami Saradananda went through a course of this kind of spiritual practice within about a couple of years after his return from the West. Later in life, in answer to the repeated and earnest queries of a monastic attendant regarding Swami Saradananda's spiritual attainment, a significant hint escaped unawares from the Swami's usually tight lips: "Nothing beyond my spiritual experience has been recorded in the book, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga." And this book is replete with spiritual realizations of various kinds, including the highest one of transcendental oneness in Nirvikalpa Samadhi. This hint sums up the core of his inner life as that of a liberated soul — a seer of the ultimate verities of life and existence.
However, over and above all other activities of Swami Saradananda connected with the Math and the Mission as well as with the composition and publication of his Master's biography, his primary concern appeared to be looking after the ease, convenience and health of the Holy Mother. He regarded her as the Divine Mother incarnate and placed himself completely at her service. Whether she stayed in her rural home at Jayramvati or in the city, the Swami was all attention to her. The Calcutta house was erected, as we have seen, mainly for facilitating her comfortable sojourn in the city. And for doing this as quickly as possible, he did not mind running into debt; nor did he mind undergoing strenuous labour for about nine years at a stretch in the production and publication of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lila- prasanga in order to clear off that debt. Indeed, his devotion to the Holy Mother cannot be fathomed. Seated in a small room downstairs in the Calcutta house, he would be found regulating the stream of her visitors exactly like her door keeper. Sometimes he would sportively introduce himself to strangers as the Mother's janitor. One could learn from his bearing that it was a glory and privilege to be allowed to serve the Holy Mother even in this way. Throughout her last stay in the Calcutta house during her fatal illness in 1920, with what anxious care the Swami would go into minute details regarding her medical treatment and nursing, sparing no pains, though in vain, for bringing her round!
Three years later in April 1923, the Swami had the satisfaction of perpetuating the sacred memory of the Holy Mother by getting a temple erected and dedicated to her in her native village Jayramvati. During the dedication ceremony, the benignant mood of the Holy Mother seemed to possess the Swami's mind as he went on like her, gracing with spiritual initiation all sorts of people who approached him on that occasion. One could feel the spiritual fervour radiated by the Swami on the festive days connected with the ceremony.
The dedication of the Holy Mother's temple was perhaps the final oblation offered by Swami Saradananda by way of completing his life-work, which was one long-continued sacrificial rite. After the successive exits of some of the stalwarts of the brotherhood, the passing away of the Holy Mother in July 1920, followed within two years by that of Swami Brahmananda, the first Abbot and inspired guide of the Order, shook even the unmoved Swami. These bereavements appeared to squeeze out the Swami's zest for work. That was why after seeing through the construction and dedication of the Holy Mother's temple, the Swami practically detached himself from active work and went on spending long hours in meditation. He gave up writing and was never in a mood even to finish his magnum opus, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga.
The only thing that concerned him at the moment was to instil into the junior members of the Order unflinching faith in the ideas and ideals left by its founder, Swami Vivekananda, and also to train up a batch of young monks for sharing the burden of piloting the organization that he had been carrying on his own shoulders. For this purpose, in 1926, he called a Convention of representatives from all Math and Mission centres; he surveyed before them, through his inaugural address, the origin and growth of the Ramakrishna movement that was careering at the time at top speed, cautioned them against the possible pitfalls on the path ahead and exhorted them emphatically to stand firmly by the ideals, so that they might march onward clearing all hurdles in the way. In the wake of this Convention, the Swami set up a Working Committee for advising the Secretary of the Math and the Mission on practically all administrative problems. As the remaining elders were about to disappear from the stage, it was in the fitness of things that a fresh batch of junior monks should be trained for stepping into their shoes. This device of the Working Committee inaugurated by Swami Saradananda served not only the purpose for the time being but also has proved to be a permanent and useful administrative link of the Math and Mission;
Thus enthusing the young members of the Order by holding aloft the ideas and ideals they were to strive after, and devising ways and means for realizing them in practice through successive generations, Swami Saradananda complacently laid down the charge entrusted to him some three decades back by his beloved leader Swami Vivekananda, and placidly entered Mahasamadhi on August 19, 1927.
An illumined soul, freed completely from all kinds of bondage, is not restricted by any prescribed code of life. Even the idea of duty ceases to have any meaning to him who has seen through the universe and realized the all-pervading Oneness as its essence. Yet such a liberated soul, when commissioned by the Divine Will to work for the uplift of humanity, does display distinctive traits of character befitting the role he is made to play. Swami Saradananda's role was to demonstrate through his life the pattern of an ideal Karma-yogi. With perfect non-attachment and self-possession he would go on scrupulously discharging the duties before him, paying equal attention to the minor as to the major ones. Neither frown nor favour, nor any number of difficulties could swerve him from the straight and strict path.
Indeed, he held up the model of an ideal worker as desired by Swami Vivekananda. His rational mind, compassionate heart, pure and perfectly poised mind, indomitable energy and rare organizing ability combined to set up such a model. "Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance," as Swami Vivekananda wanted to see, were in his blood. The latter once remarked, "Sarat's blood is as cold as that of a fish, nothing can inflame it." His heart was "deep as the ocean, broad as the infinite sky," as Swami Vivekananda would have it. Swami Saradananda saw potential divinity even in the worst sinner, and tried to the last to work it up with extreme love and sympathy. Truculent and refractory persons thrown over by his colleagues found refuge under his benign care, and they naturally gathered round him Indeed, he was a living illustration of the truth of Swami Vivekananda's assertion, "The man of renunciation sees all with an equal eye, and devotes himself to the service of all." Without any air of superiority, he treated all people alike with love and tenderness. He never cared for his personal ease and comfort. He would hardly accept any corporal service even from his own disciples. But he was ever ready to face any amount of hardship or even to hazard his life for helping others out of danger. While crossing a ravine on the Himalayas on his way to the Badrinarayan temple, he handed over his stick to one of the fellow pilgrims, an unknown old woman, without thinking for a moment what a risky adventure it would be for him to get over the steep hillside without a staff in his hand for support. He would be found by the bed-side of patients suffering from contagious fatal diseases, whom their own kith and kin would not dare contact. His solacing words would give relief to many a person aching with mental agonies.
A distinctive mark of personality was stamped on his general demeanour. It was an object-lesson on decorum. Even those who were punctilious about etiquette would be captivated by his winning manners. The patience he would usually exhibit while listening to and answering even silly questions from youngsters was surely marvellous. His sweet and soothing voice would often take the edge off any harsh word that he might have to utter by way of rebuking an offender. It would sound like a mother's appeal to her erring child. Yet this motherly voice was balanced by an awe-inspiring solemnity, and these combined effectively to produce the desired effect on the conscience of the guilty.
Swami Saradananda was an exemplar of methodical work. Slow, steady and regular in his movements, he would regard even a trifle with as much serious attention as it deserved. Any undertaking, big or small, was equally sacred to his thorough-going mind as an act of worship.
Always cool in judgment, he was hardly found to rush to any decision on insufficient or unreliable data before him He was perfectly rational, considerate and psychological in his methods while dealing with men and their affairs.
Lastly, love for orderliness was an innate virtue with him Though quite simple in his requirements, he would scrupulously see that everything about him was kept neat and tidy. Possibly, this trait was reinforced by the example of his Master, Sri Ramakrishna, who had been a past master in simplicity with orderliness.
From the above sketch one may get an idea of the part that the author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lila-prasanga, Swami Saradananda, had to play as one of the prime organizers of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. It will ever remain a perfect model to be emulated by all who will seek personal salvation along with the well-being of the world as their aim of life.


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'The Space Hotel' – Part Two, Chapter 7
The murder mystery gets more interesting as the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Billy begin to work out who the suspects are at Rotenhend Hotel 360….also known as 'The Space Hotel'. Find out what happens in Chapter 7 of this story. Is it Gordon Rotenhend? Could he be responsible? Or is it Bruce the android?
Here is a brief summary of what 'The Space Hotel' is all about.
The TARDIS takes the Doctor, Nyssa and Billy to Rotenhend Hotel 360 in the 37th century. They meet a rude hotel manager and murders take place.
7. Finding out the Suspects
SCENE #58 – INT – KITCHEN, LEVEL #44 – 37TH CENTURY – AFTERNOON
In the kitchen on Level #44, Truk the chef tries to woo Enuji. Enuji runs away from him.
ENUJI
"Na, Na, Monnoir! Cuddle no! Cuddle no!"
"Oh please, Enuji! You're so cute!"
"Na, Monnoir!"
"Just one kiss, please!"
"Na!"
Enuji leaves the kitchen whilst Truk remains, upset and distraught.
(sobs) "Enuji! She doesn't love me! I want her!"
Whilst Truk sobs, Nyssa enters, now fully-clothed. She approaches Truk in the kitchen.
(distraught) "Go away and leave me alone!"
Truk takes a bottle of wine and drinks it down. Nyssa watches him do this.
(gradually) "My name's Nyssa. I'm here on behalf of the Doctor!"
"Doctor? There's no doctor that can help me with my sorrows!"
"The Doctor's conducting the investigation of these murders happening at this hotel, didn't you know?" (Pause; intrigued) "What do you mean 'your sorrows'?"
"You wouldn't! You wouldn't want to know about my sorrows!"
"No! You wouldn't want to know about the suffering I'm having with not having the woman I love working at this hotel!" (sobs) "Just before you came in here, that dear girl Enuji, the waitress, happened to be in here, and I expressed my love to her! But she wouldn't accept me!"
"Well you have to give these things time, Mr…"
"Time?! She's so sweet! So wonderful! I can't wait for her!"
"Well, I'm sorry about the way you feel. But I really need to ask you some questions." (Pause) "You were the one who made Mr. Stedman's croissants before he died, weren't you?"
"Not just any croissants, miss! The greatest croissants! The finest that Truk has ever made in his entire cooking career! Of his life!"
"Yes I'm sure, Mr. Truk. But what I want to know is who took them up when you finished making them?"
"Mr. Rotenhend, of course. Although it was Bruce the android that was supposed to take them up. Then it was Enuji." (sobs) "Oh! Sweet Enuji!" (gradually; snaps out of it) "Anyway, Mr. Rotenhend took them up in the end! Then his son took up the jug of milk."
Nyssa then shows the knife, found in Mr. Stedman's room, to Truk.
"This knife was found in Mr. Stedman's room. I don't suppose it's yours by any chance?"
Truk sees it and immediately takes the knife from Nyssa.
"Hey! I was looking for that! That's kitchen property!"
"Where were you last night, Mr. Truk?"
"I was here! In the kitchen!" (sobs) "Drowning my sorrows!"
"And you hadn't been in Mr. Stedman's bedroom all this time?"
"Of course not!"
"You're sure?"
"Of course I'm sure! What do you think I am? A murderer?"
"There was a couple that was murdered yesterday. Were they in the dining room by any chance before they died?"
"Of course. Two days ago. They had a meal together in this dining room. The man was having a fish platter and the other had roast duck. They kept complaining how awful their food was and that it was the wrong shape!"
"Did you protest?"
"Of course I did. No chef who had made sure a fine meal gets complaints!"
"Did you check the right ingredients to prepare the meal, Mr. Truk?"
"What are you implying, miss?"
"The meal you prepared for that couple and the croissants you made for Mr. Stedman involved food. You could have easily had every opportunity to poison those meals."
"But you forget! Mr. Stedman didn't eat his croissants at all. He was dead before he ate them."
"Yes, that is true. But you can't dismiss the young couple!"
"I didn't kill them!"
"Did you go to the simi-suites after you finished serving dinner?"
"No I didn't"
"Then where were you?"
"I was in the kitchen…drowning my sorrows.
Truk sobs for a while.
(gradually) "Thank you, Mr. Truk. You've been helpful."
Nyssa leaves the kitchen whilst Truk has a good cry, still holding the knife.
(sobs; dreamily) "Enuji! So beautiful!" (Pause) "I could kill myself in order to have you!"
Just then, Truk is terrified, as his hand holding the knife goes for his chest. He grabs hold of his hand to hold it back.
"My hand!"
Very soon, the knife is at his chest.
(cries) "No! No! When I said 'I could kill', I didn't mean…"
Truk then screams in terror, as he stabs himself with the knife. He falls to the floor dead. He is left abandoned and neglected in the kitchen.
SCENE #59 – INT – CORRIDOR, LEVEL #44 – 37TH CENTURY – AFTERNOON
In a corridor on Level #44, close to where the dining room is, the Doctor; Nyssa and Admiral Brown report to each other what they've learnt from interrogating Gordon Rotenhend and Truk the chef.
"Mr. Truk said he'd been in the kitchen all night whilst Mr. Stedman was in his room. And he was in the kitchen serving the couple Jo and Joe before they died. But he denies having killed them."
"Hmm? Well I'm not really sure we should take his word for it yet. He confirmed that the knife found in Mr. Stedman's room was one of the kitchen's."
"He was too preoccupied to be thinking about guilt, Doctor. He seemed upset about not having Enuji the waitress as his soul mate."
"It could be a bluff."
"Come on, Doctor. The chef might have a futile fancy with some waitress working at a hotel to be thinking about murder."
"All the same. I'd like to question this Truk person before I can make any final judgements."
"What about Mr. Rotenhend?"
"Well he certainly was suspicious as I expected. He's obviously more interested in the welfare of his own hotel."
"Hardly surprising. But did you suspect he might be involved."
"It's hard to tell at this point. He seemed rather oblivious to the fact that murders have been committed and he's not worried about his own skin. He stated that 'it's all tripe'!"
"That's heartless of him."
"Yes. Though I wonder why he's not so willing to take an interest in these murders. I find it rather odd."
"Why do you find it odd, Doctor?"
(challengingly) "I don't know, Admiral! You tell me!"
"Me? Why me?"
Just then, Bruce enters as his mechanical motors echo in the corridor.
"Doctor! There's that android Bruce!"
"Ah! Now here's another likely suspect we can ask."
The Doctor; Nyssa and Admiral Brown approach Bruce the android.
"Uh hello? Excuse me, Mr. Bruce. Can we talk?"
"Me? You wish to talk to me?" (laughs drearily) "You must be joking."
"No. We're quite serious actually."
"It's rather important. It relates to the murders."
Bruce stops walking.
"Why should that concern me? I'm an android. I have no desire to kill."
"Well maybe so, but…"
(interjects) "Where were you on the night of Mr. Stedman's murder?"
"Where was I? I was asleep. Though I doubt my quarters were a hospitable environment to sleep in."
"And on the night that the young couple was murdered?"
"Asleep again. Though…I want my quarters changed."
"Where's your room then, Mr. Bruce?"
"On level five. Where all staff members' quarters are situated of course."
"And Mr. Stedman's room was on level twenty-three."
"Yes. So if you were thinking that I had direct access to Mr. Stedman's room when I was sleeping eighteen levels above him, you're very much mistaken."
(raises voice) "Yes of course. But what I want to know [is…"]
(interjects) "Can anyone vouch for you being in your room at the time of the murders?"
"No. Nobody can."
"No one saw you go in?"
"You didn't even tell anyone?"
"Why should I? I can do whatever I want."
"Mr. Rotenhend would have liked to have known about you going to your room, surely?"
"Why should he? He doesn't care. He doesn't care about androids no more than he cares about his grandmother who got eaten by the big bad beast of Thrall."
"Did she?"
"No. That's wishful thinking."
"You don't like working or being among humans or humanoids do you, Mr. Bruce?
"I don't enjoy it."
"Now that's a very interesting point…"
(interjects) "Why don't you, Mr. Bruce?"
"Why should I? They don't like androids more than they like Rarg's steak and double kidney's pie! They say they treat me well, but they don't mean it. They just want someone to polish their shoes for them and make sure they get their just desserts. But they don't offer anything in return."
"So your dislike for humans could be a possible motive to kill, couldn't it?"
(gradually) "That's a very logical line of reasoning."
"I am a logical person, Mr. Bruce."
"I am not programmed to kill anyone, my lady. The three laws prevent me from doing so."
"Your programming could have changed during the time of the murders."
(gradually) "I have no desire to kill, lady. I may be capable but I'm not a murderer."
"Well that's all very well…"
(interjects) "Now if you will excuse me, I must attend to my duties. Though I don't see why I should bother."
"But wait just a minute! I need to know…"
But before the Doctor can ask, Bruce is gone.
"Well. That's another potential suspect. He even denies the fact that he could be reprogrammed."
(annoyed) "Nyssa!"
"Yes Doctor?"
(annoyed) "Next time, let me do the questioning! I couldn't get a word in edgeways!"
"But I questioned Mr. Bruce rather well."
"She did, Doctor. She did it better than you!"
"Nevertheless, I would appreciate it if you could let me do the talking. Carrying out a murder investigation is a very sticky business. And I would rather prefer it if you let me handle these matters with delicacy and practicality. Alright?"
"Yes, Doctor. Whatever you say, Doctor."
In the kitchen on Level #44, Enuji the waitress is about to enter before she knocks the door gently from outside.
(calls) "Truk? Truk? Me in come now. Cuddle no. Cuddle no. Yako?"
Enuji then enters. Once she's in the kitchen, she screams and drops the cutlery she's carrying onto the floor. She turns to call back through the door she came in.
(screams; calls) "Helpa! Helpa san! Truk ninka! Truk ninka!"
She screams, whilst Truk lies dead on the floor.
Minutes later, the Doctor examines Truk's dead body. Nyssa and the Admiral are also with him.
"How can he commit suicide like that? There's no sense in it!"
(matter-of-factually) "Who said he committed suicide, Nyssa?"
"Miss Nyssa did."
"I wasn't talking to you, Admiral."
"Well what else could it be, Doctor? The knife next to him says it all!"
"Not quite? What do you mean 'not quite'?"
Just then Enuji enters with Gordon and Billy.
(shouts) "Fireballs and foundations! Why must you be so squeamish, girl?! A man's dead. There's nothing to be concerned about!"
"Na! Na, Mr. Rotenhend! Truk made me gowe!"
(to Enuji) "Ah, Enuji! Just the person I want. Is this how you found Mr. Truk?"
Enuji then bursts into tears.
"In other words 'yes', Doctor."
(wryly) "That was handled well, Doctor."
"Well I can't help it if she's squeamish."
(shouts) "Don't you start pestering me, Doctor!"
"I wasn't going to, Mr. Rotenhend." (Pause) "In any case, I can see the evidence before me."
"Lack of consideration of how you and your hotel's reputation might be affected."
(shouts) "Preposterous, Doctor! I have nothing to hide!"
"Then why are you being so ignorant? I see in your face you're afraid" (to Nyssa) "You see it too don't you, Nyssa?"
"I'm afraid I do, Doctor."
"You lot ask so many questions. Just what kind of a doctor are you, Doctor?"
"A doctor that looks and seeks for the answers he requires and you're just not giving them to me, Mr. Rotenhend."
"There's nothing to say. I have my way of right. I don't see anything to be ashamed of."
Just then, the tannoy blares off.
ELIZABETH (V'O)
(through tannoy) "Gordon! Gordon! Come to reception at once!"
(bitterly) "You see! You see what's happened now! You've made my day worse! My wife's calling me! Oh what a wretch!"
Gordon heads off, as he leaves the kitchen.
"So much for the finely-established."
"What is it about this chef's death that you find so baffling, Doctor?"
(gradually) "Oh just the fact that this knife is not as it seems."
"What do you mean by that, Doctor?"
The Doctor raises the knife in the air for everyone to see.
"Have a look, everyone! See anything strange on the knife?"
Everyone looks at the knife to see what the Doctor's referring to. A short while later…
(realises) "The knife's clean, Doctor! There's no blood on it!"
"Precisely! And from the look of Truk's wound, there's no blood at all. Very unlike what happened with Mr. Stedman earlier."
"But there must be blood on the man Truk, Doctor!"
"Must there, Admiral? Must there?"
(realises) "Wait a minute! Doctor, there is something on the knife!"
The Doctor and Nyssa look at the knife to see what Billy's seen.
(gradually; realises) "Billy's right, Doctor! Look! There's a substance layered on the knife. Some kind of carbon compound."
Nyssa touches the substance on the knife.
(disgusted) "Ugh! And it's rather sticky too!"
"This is oil."
(to Doctor) "Oil?"
(to Nyssa) "Oil!"
"Oil?"
(to Billy) "Oil!"
(to Admiral) "Oil!"
"Oili!"
(to Enuji) "No, my dear. Oil!"
"Yes, Admiral. We've gathered the idea."
"But how can the chef try to commit suicide and the knife somehow manage to get oil on it? He can't have oil in his bloodstream surely?"
"Well, there's one way to find out!"
(apprehensively) "Doctor, you're not going to…"
"I most certainly am, Nyssa!"
"What? What is he going to do?"
"The Doctor's going to try and check Mr. Truk's internal organs."
"And how in heaven's name are you going to do that, man?"
"With the sonic screwdriver. Stand back, everyone!"
"Coo?"
"Stand back!"
"Ah! Wee, wee, wee!"
Everyone stands back, as the Doctor kneels to check on Truk using his sonic screwdriver. He switches it on and the sonic screwdriver buzzes away. Suddenly, the once dead corpse of Truk comes to life again. He sits up on the floor. Everyone, including the Doctor, are startled once this happens.
"What in the world?"
"Great heavens above!"
"Doctor! He's sitting upright!"
"Yes, Nyssa. And he gave me a start!"
"But how's that possible. He was dead!"
"Well he's alive!"
Suddenly Truk explodes, with sparks of fire coming out of his body. He falls back to the floor again.
"And now he's dead again!"
"I don't understand this."
"He's an android, Doctor. Mr. Truk is an android."
(wearingly) "Yes, Nyssa."
"He's certainly a good piece of engineering. Such a beautiful machine."
(startled) "Well, that's quite a…'kind' way of putting it, Nyssa."
"But what does it all mean, Doctor?"
"It means Admiral…that Mr. Truk was never dead or alive!"
Moment of silence, as everyone is disturbed by what the Doctor has just said.
SCENE #62 – EXT – ZONDOR SPACE STATION – 37TH CENTURY – N/A
In another part of Zondor space, light years away from Rotenhend Hotel 360, is a small space station situated on the rim of the galaxy. It is surrounded by a gaseous nebula and is hidden from the hotel. Huge shockwaves emit from the space station, shooting across the stars. The space car stolen by Larry and Bob is docked at the space station.
SCENE #63 – INT – OPERATIONS ROOM (STATION) – 37TH CENTURY – AFTERNOON
In the operations room of the space station, Larry works on fixing a control panel on the operations deck. He finds it a challenge to repair the extent of the damage. The control panel keeps blowing up every time he uses a tool to fix it.
(frustrated) "Stupid garbage!"
Just then, Bob enters.
(calls) "Larry?"
"Bob! Where are you?"
"I'm here! Where are you?"
"I'm here!"
"How can you be here if I'm here?"
"I'm in the operations room!"
"Where's the operations room?"
"Stop asking questions and come here!"
"Alright. I'll come. Even though I don't know where you are, I'll come. Can't help getting lost on this station. If we…" (startled; realises) "Oh. Here I am!"
Bob takes in his surroundings once he's in the operations room.
"What have you been doing?"
"I was talking to you, wasn't I?" (realises) "Oh yes, sorry. I mean I've been down to the engine room. Just to make sure all systems are functioning in normal parameters."
"And are they?"
"Splendid. Now see to that crystal chamber that generates the engine power. It's right next to you."
Bob goes over to the crystal chamber. He opens the lid and looks inside.
"There's no Nitrite crystals!"
"Now what would you do in a situation like that, Bob?"
(thinks) "Um…err…err…um…"
Moment of silence.
(thinks) "Go and fetch some?"
"Certainly! It's perfectly simple! There's some in the bag! It's over there in the far corner!"
Bob makes his way over to the bag and fishes out the crystals. Larry meanwhile manages to fix the control panels, as the lights come on.
"Ah now! This is more like it! All systems go!" (to Bob) "I told you I'd have this space station running! All thanks to me!"
Larry types away at a keyboard, as he gets used to the controls on the control panel.
"Say, Larry?"
"Who was that woman in that portrait we saw earlier?"
"Oh some old hag that was running the space station before we came here I expect. Someone who knew the ins and outs far longer than she would have liked to have kissed in the rose bushes with some bloke!"
"She reminded me of someone, Larry!"
(thinks) "My sister. And someone else, I think."
A beeping sound then goes off. Larry checks the control panel.
(realises) "Wait a minute! I'm getting a connection."
Larry checks the control panel for a while, whilst Bob is far off.
"Yes! It's a hailing frequency on a subspace channel. It's code-inverted." (realises) "It's from her ladyship."
(amazed; distracted) "Well, well, well! Can you beat that?"
"Yes. I always suspected her ladyship was punctual."
"Not that. I found this star chart. Look".
Bob brings over a star-chart whilst Larry focuses on the communication from Lady Mite. Bob sprawls his star-chart onto the control panel in front of Larry.
"Here, Larry. Here's where we are in Zondor space. And there's our home. We're not far from our home now. I hope it doesn't get blown up by some confederacy that would fail to inform us of constructing a bypass in advance."
"Oh stop playing with your charts, Bob. This is important. I'm going to increase the frequency. Shut up a minute."
Larry increases the frequency, as he attempts to establish the communications link.
"Almost got it…now!"
Larry slams hard on the control panel. Moment of silence.
"There! You see? You see, Bob?"
"I see, Larry. You've broken it."
"Ah now be fair, Bob. It's a hard job working at this contraption."
"So hard that it may never work again."
"Now don't be so rude, Bob."
Just then, they're interrupted.
LADY MITE (V'O)
"Mr. Cooper; Mr. Hill. Are you receiving me?"
"Hey, Larry! That's Lady Mite on the intercom, isn't it?"
"It certainly is, Bob! I told you so!"
Larry presses a button to switch the intercom on at his end.
(repeats) "Mr. Cooper; Mr. Hill. Are you receiving me? It's Lady Mite here"
(through intercom) "Yes, your ladyship. I'm receiving you loud and clear!"
(cheerfully) "I am too, your ladyship!"
"Shut up, Bob."
"That's good. Now listen carefully. I haven't got much time. I shall shortly be going to reception to do my bit. You two know what you have to do?"
(through intercom) "Yes we do, your ladyship."
"Do we?"
"Yes we do, Bob."
"Oh! We do, do we?"
"Contact me as soon as you can, once you've finished what you've done. I shall attend to my tasks now."
(through intercom) "Yes, my lady. Thank you so much for putting your trust in us."
"Not at all. Now, go to it! Good luck!"
Lady Mite ends transmission, by switching off the intercom at her end. Larry then turns to Bob.
"Right, Bob. Go in the lift to the lower levels."
"Me?! Why does it have to be me?"
"I can't do it. I have to help you get through all the booby traps in those conduits to get to the cargo bay. And you're smaller than me."
"What's that got to do with it?"
Just then, engines roar from outside.
SCENE #64 – EXT – ZONDOR SPACE STATION – 37TH CENTURY
In outer space, a fleet of spaceships zoom pass the space station. They head for the space hotel. These ships are foreboding and menacing, as the engines grind with age. The space station emits a shock wave through its deflector ray, as a few ships get hit and their engines sound sluggish. Despite this, the fleet maintains its course.
In the operations room, Larry and Bob watch the fleet of spaceships passing by.
"Will that be them?"
"Yes, Bob. That will be them alright."
"Bit ahead of schedule, aren't they? I thought her ladyship said they would go to the hotel two hours later."
"Oh never mind that, Bob. We've got a job to do! Well…you've got a job to do!"
Bob reluctantly leaves the operations room, while Larry happily works at the control panels.
SCENE #66 – INT – LOBBY, LEVEL #1 – 37TH CENTURY – AFTERNOON
Back at the space hotel, in the lobby on Level #1, Mr. Rotenhend fumes at the reception desk.
(shouts) "Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Where are you?!"
Just then, the turbo-lift doors slide open as Enuji steps out.
"Mr. Rotenhend! Mr. Rotenhend!"
"What do you want, you stupid girl?"
"Doctor see you!"
(slowly) "Doctor…see…you!"
"Where's Elizabeth?"
(frustrated) "Where's E-liz-a-beth?!"
(puzzled) "Err…where's…the list of deaths?"
(agitated) "No, not the list of deaths! This isn't a cemetery, this is a hotel! Where's my wife?!"
"Where's my wife Elizabeth?"
"She not here!"
"She is here!"
(insistently) "She not here!"
(groans) "Oh never mind! Never mind!"
Just then, the lift doors slide open as the Doctor; Nyssa and the Admiral enter. The Doctor approaches Gordon at the reception desk in the lobby.
"Ah, Mr. Rotenhend! I must speak to you!"
"I'm sorry, Doctor! I can't speak to you now!"
"You can't or you're unwilling?"
"I would appreciate it if you mind your own business, Doctor!"
"Your hotel is holding a secret and a murderer! And while we're at it, your chef was robotic!"
"Thank you. Now have you seen my wife?"
"You didn't flinch!"
"Do I need to?"
"Didn't you hear what the Doctor said, Mr. Rotenhend? Your chef happens to be an android!"
"Not unlike your Mr. Bruce, Rotenhend!"
(frustrated) "Yes, Admiral! Thank you for telling me!"
"Not at all! Oh and by the way, is there…?"
(shouts) "No newspapers""
Just then, the turbo-lift doors slide open as Billy enters. He attempts to get the Doctor's attention.
(calls) "Doctor!"
"Not now, Billy." (to Gordon) "Mr. Rotenhend, it is important you help us…"
"Stop wasting my time! Now have any of you seen my wife, Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth then enters.
(drearily) "Yes, Gordon."
"Elizabeth! I must speak to you!"
"Ah, Mrs. Rotenhend. Could I talk to you?"
"Yes of course, Doctor."
"I was here first, Elizabeth!"
"You don't count."
"Now look here…"
(shouts) "Gordon!"
Gordon staggers back. Meanwhile Billy talks quietly to Nyssa.
(quietly) "Nyssa? There's something I need to tell the Doctor."
(quietly) "Go on, Billy."
(quietly) "Well Joel…"
(interrupts) "Quiet, you two!"
(protests) "But what about me?"
"You wait in the office, Gordon! I'll be with you in a moment!"
(groans) "Oh very well!"
Gordon leaves and goes into the office, slamming the door shut behind him.
(to Doctor) "Now, Doctor…"
"Well, you've no doubt heard about the recent deaths that have occurred at this hotel."
"Yes I have. It's such a shame that Mr. Stedman died so suddenly!"
"Did you ever speak to Mr. Stedman then?"
"Yes. Just before he went to bed last night."
"Did he say anything before he went to bed?"
"Well, just to say that he was queasy and that he was so tired."
"That might be a potential cause that led to his death."
(agitated) "Please, Nyssa. Let me handle this." (to Elizabeth) "Did you say anything to him when he went to bed, Mrs. Rotenhend?"
"No, not much. I asked him if he would like to have something to help him get better."
"And did he?"
"Yes! Now you come to mention it, I gave him some sleeping pills."
"Sleeping pills?"
"Yes. I have some in my drawer here."
Elizabeth opens a drawer from the reception desk and takes out a bottle of sleeping pills.
"Can I have a look at them?"
Elizabeth hands the pills to the Doctor. The Doctor takes them and examines them for a while.
(to himself) "Glasses! Where are my glasses?"
The Doctor finds and slips on his glasses on to examine the pills closely. Moment of silence occurs.
(gradually) "Any opinions, Doctor?"
"Not yet. I'll have to examine these pills more carefully." (to Elizabeth) "Do you mind if I keep these?"
"Of course not. I have another set where that came from."
"Uh…I would advise you not to take any pills from now, Mrs. Rotenhend."
"You think they might be poisonous, Doctor?"
"Yes I do, Billy. If these are what killed Mr. Stedman, then it's best to take all necessary precautions."
Gordon then shouts from within the office.
(shouts) "Elizabeth! Elizabeth!"
"Will you excuse me please, Doctor."
"By all means."
"Oh by the way! The Weerds will be arriving soon, so be best prepared for when they arrive."
(shocked) "Weerds!"
"Oh just for a few days, Admiral. They wish to inspect the hotel."
Elizabeth leaves the reception desk to see Gordon in the office. She shuts the door behind her. Gordon and Elizabeth bicker from inside. Meanwhile the Admiral mutters, troubled to himself.
"Is there anything wrong, Admiral?"
(mutters; troubled) "Well, I'm not at all comfortable when the Weerds are here."
"Why? What are these Weerds, Admiral?"
"Oh we're at peace with them now. But decades ago, they were the cause of the conflict between humans and Weerds in this sector of the galaxy. They were like scout police patrols and still are. They'd give you a strike on the back and punish you without question. No negotiating with them."
"I don't like the sound of them."
"You mean they're in charge of this sector of space and everything in it? Even this hotel?"
"Yes! Never cared for them much myself. Always wanted to see the back of them." (chuckles) "Always wanted to see them throw themselves off the silly ships that they travelled in or even at this hotel. Not everyone likes the Weerds. And as far as I'm concerned, they don't like us."
"And that Admiral Brown…is a possible motive for murder!"
(surprised) "You mean that the Weerds might be the reason why these murders are taking place?"
"Or someone's trying to sabotage the Weerds' visit here to blame somebody!"
The Doctor, Nyssa, Billy and the Admiral ponder on these facts whilst they're in the lobby.
© Tim Bradley, 2016
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Q: Structured-binding and cv-/ref-qualifier propagation Consider the following example (available here on Compiler Explorer), matching the 3 scenarios of structured-binding:
    {   // array
        auto value = std::array{ 1, 2 };
        auto & [ v1, v2 ] = value;
        static_assert(std::same_as<int, decltype(v1)>);
    }
    {   // tuple
        auto value = std::tuple{ 1, 2 };
        auto && [ v1, v2 ] = std::move(value);
        static_assert(std::same_as<int, decltype(v1)>);
    }
    {   // user-defined type
        struct toto{ int i; char c; };
        const auto value = toto{ 1, 2 };
        auto && [ v1, v2 ] = value;
        static_assert(std::same_as<const int, decltype(v1)>);
    }

I have troubles understanding why cv-qualifiers are propagated to the identifiers, but not the ref-qualifiers.
In the example above, I feel like it is kind of counter-intuitive that v1 is a possibly const-qualified int, but never ref-qualified.
What am I missing?

A: Your three decltype(v1) specifiers all yield the referenced type of the v1 expression, which is int (with the const qualifier, in the third case). From cppreference:

If the argument is an unparenthesized id-expression naming a
structured binding, then decltype yields the referenced type
(described in the specification of the structured binding
declaration).

However, if we add an extra set of parentheses around v1, we convert that to an 'ordinary' lvalue expression, which includes the reference qualifier. From the same cppreference page:

Note that if the name of an object is parenthesized, it is treated as
an ordinary lvalue expression, thus decltype(x) and decltype((x)) are
often different types.

Thus, just taking your first (array) case, the following assertion fails:
auto value = std::array{ 1, 2 };
auto& [v1, v2] = value;
static_assert(std::same_as<int, decltype((v1))>); // Fails: int != int&

But the assertion succeeds (again) if we add the reference qualifier to both sides of the test:
auto value = std::array{ 1, 2 };
auto& [v1, v2] = value;
static_assert(std::same_as<int&, decltype((v1))>); // OK: int& == int&

Note that, because the parenthesized version of v1 is an lvalue expression, in the second and third examples you give, decltype((v1)) will yield int& rather than int&&:
auto value = std::tuple{ 1, 2 };
auto&& [v1, v2] = std::move(value);
static_assert(std::same_as<int&&, decltype((v1))>); // Fails
static_assert(std::same_as<int&, decltype((v1))>);  // OK

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Henry Goulburn PC FRS (19 March 1784 – 12 January 1856) was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.

Background and education
Born in London, Goulburn was the eldest son of a wealthy planter, Munbee Goulburn, of Amity Hall, Vere Parish, Jamaica, and his wife Susannah, eldest daughter of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Goulburn lived in Betchworth, Dorking, in Betchworth House for much of his life.

Sugar plantation owner
Goulburn's inheritance included a number of sugar estates in Jamaica, with Amity Hall in the parish of Vere, now Clarendon Parish, being the most important. Slave labour was still being used to work the sugar plantations when he inherited the estates.

Goulburn never visited Jamaica himself due to his health and political work. He relied on attorneys to manage his estates on his behalf. One attorney, in particular, Thomas Samson, held the top job at the estate from 1802 to 1818 and earned a reputation for cruelty towards Goulburn's slaves.

By 1818, the income from his Jamaican estates halved to less than £3,000 "although he did console himself that the condition of his slaves had probably improved".

In 1818, Henry Goulburn's brother was sent to inspect the Jamaican Sugar Plantation. Thomas Samson had already been dismissed over his treatment of slaves. Henry Goulburn wrote to Samson in June 1818:

Political career
In 1808, Goulburn became Member of Parliament for Horsham. In 1810, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and two and a half years later, he was made Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.  It was in this capacity that James Meehan named Goulburn, New South Wales after him, a naming that was ratified by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Still retaining office in the Tory government, he became a Privy Counsellor in 1821, and shortly afterwards was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, a position which he held until April 1827. Here, although he was frequently denounced as he was considered an Orangeman, he had a successful period of office on the whole, and in 1823 he managed to pass the Composition for Tithes (Ireland) Act 1823. In January 1828, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Duke of Wellington; like his leader, he disliked Roman Catholic emancipation, which he voted against in 1828.

In the finance domain, Goulburn's chief achievements were to reduce the interest rate on the part of the national debt and allow anyone to sell beer upon payment of a small annual fee, a complete change of policy about the drink traffic. Leaving office with Wellington in November 1830, Goulburn was Home Secretary under Sir Robert Peel for four months in 1835. When this statesman returned to office in September 1841, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer for the second time. Although Peel himself did some of the chancellor's work, Goulburn was responsible for a further reduction in the rate of interest on the national debt, and he aided his chief in the struggle, which ended in the repeal of the Corn Laws. With his colleagues, he left office in June 1846. After representing Horsham in the House of Commons for over four years, Goulburn was successively member for St Germans, for West Looe, and for the city of Armagh. In May 1831, he was elected for Cambridge University, and he retained this seat until his death.

According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College London, Goulburn was awarded a payment as a slave trader in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 with the Slave Compensation Act 1837. The British Government took out a £15 million loan (worth £ in ) with interest from Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Montefiore which was subsequently paid off by the British taxpayers (ending in 2015). Goulburn was associated with two different claims, he owned 277 slaves in Jamaica and received a £5,601 payment at the time (worth £ in ).

Goulburn was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848.

Family
Frederick Goulburn (1788–1837), the first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, was his younger brother. Henry Goulburn married the Hon. Jane, third daughter of Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron Rokeby, in 1811. They had four children. He died on 12 January 1856, aged 71. His wife died the following year.

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