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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
July 7, 2014 September 1, 2014 The Animation Commendation
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When people think of a Disney movie similar to Mary Poppins, the one that comes to mind is Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And why not? It shares many similarities with Mary Poppins. They both feature heroines with supernatural abilities, both feature much of the same cast/crew, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks was actually worked on by Walt Disney himself while waiting for the final go-ahead from P.L. Travers for Mary Poppins.
So is the film that's most similar to Mary Poppins any good? Let's find out! By the way, I'll be reviewing the restored edition of the film (the one that makes the movie like 140 minutes long)!
And remember, SPOILERS AHEAD!
The film starts with opening credits displayed on an old medieval tapestry.
What the heck is Spungbuggy Works?
After the credits play, we see our setting: the English countryside during WWII. The people are doing their best to prevent a Nazi invasion by blocking out road signs, having the Old Home Guard patrol and sing a catchy Sherman Brothers tune,
It looks as if Admiral Boom has been promoted…or demoted, however you wanna look at it.
as well as having to take care of children who have been sent to the country from London. One inhabitant of this town, Miss Eglantine Price, played by Angela Lansbury, gets stuck with having to take care of three children. Unbeknownst to all, Miss Price is actually a witch-in-training who has been studying the art of witchcraft via a correspondence course from a Professor Emelius Browne in London. And having 3 kids around the house is sure to cause some trouble for her.
"It's long been known in the annals of witch history that witches and children never mix well."
Nevertheless, she's forced to take in Charlie, Carrie, and Paul, played by Ian Weighill, Cindy O'Callaghan, and Roy Snart, respectively, at least until someone else can take the kids off her hands. When she takes the kids home, she tries her best to keep them comfortable as she doesn't care too much for having them nor do they care all that much for being there.
"You will eat what I eat. No questions asked!"
Later that night, after the kids have gone to sleep, Miss Price heads to her secret workroom and opens up her latest package from Professor Emelius Browne: a broom! And she even attempts to fly it.
Ah, don't you just love invisible wires and lifting devices?
Well, that is, until they let you down…literally!
It's at this moment that the kids have woken up and are planning to run away from the house, but Charlie, the eldest, has an idea. They go back to their room and the next day, Charlie tries to be clever and blackmails Miss Price. He won't reveal her secret identity as a witch and in turn, she can give in to some of his demands like not having to wash up all the time, being able to eat unhealthy foods, and getting paid cold, hard cash. But, the first lesson of blackmail is that you shouldn't ever blackmail someone more powerful than you, especially a witch.
Miss Price: 1
Charlie, the Ex-Human/Now-Rabbit: 0
But since Miss Price isn't exactly the most expert witch around, her spells don't last too long and Charlie is soon back to his human self. After sitting down for a minute, Miss Price lets them know that she's not a wicked witch. Rather, she's learning witchcraft to help the war effort…somehow. And to entice the kids to keep this a secret, she gives them a spell: a bedknob which she enchants to be able to take them anywhere in the world that they want. Hmm…seems that Charlie's blackmailing paid off.
"Hey, if it was worth being changed into a rabbit for a few seconds in order to gain the gift to travel any and everywhere you want on a comfortable bed, then by all means, do it again!"
Before they can all test out the magical bedknob, Miss Price receives a letter from Professor Emelius Browne stating that he has closed down his college of witchcraft due to the war, hence the final lesson of "substitutiary locomotion" will not be sent to her. Miss Price is gravely disappointed as this spell was the one that she was anticipating mostly! What's to be done? Well, they do have a magical bedknob!
They decide to use the bedknob and travel to London to meet Professor Emelius Browne and get the substitutiary locomotion spell from him. As they get the bed ready for flight and Charlie shows some skepticism in this bed actually working as a magic carpet of sorts, Miss Price sings the Academy Award-nominated song, The Age of Not Believing. The song is basically about when one reaches a certain age/point in one's life and loses faith in certain things and needs to regain hope in other things such as one's self. I guess it's a sweet song, but I personally never cared much for it nor think it deserving of an Oscar nomination!
That probably best describes the Academy Award-Best Song Committee in 1971.
Anyway, the bed actually works and they are soon transported to London. Once there, they find Professor Emelius Browne, but they quickly realize that he's not exactly the type of professor that they had in mind.
GEORGE BANKS!!!!
Yep, Professor Browne, played by David Tomlinson (in what happens to be, to the best of my knowledge, his last of 3 Disney films) is pretty much a truthful con-artist, a magician who's bad at his illusions, but admits to it. We know this from a song that he sings, With a Flair, which is probably my favorite song in the entire film.
Once Miss Price explains her situation to him, he hesitates to pay any mind to her, but after being transformed into a rabbit by her, he's quickly astonished to find that one of his spells actually worked.
You see, the spells were just nonsense words that he got out of an old book and he just sold them to students in order to make a quick buck and didn't really expect them to work. But now that he knows that they do work, he's more inclined to listen to Miss Price and even invites her and the kids to his house where they can take a look at the original book from where he got the words.
"And maybe when we're home, I should start a new correspondence course using the Oxford Dictionary. With my luck, they'll be magical spells too!"
At the house, the guests are treated to dinner and Professor Browne even sings a song, Eglantine, to Miss Price telling her how if she pairs up with him, they can create a remarkable double act combining her magic and his showmanship. However Miss Price isn't interested in anything of the sort and just wants to take a look at the spell book.
After finally seeing it, she realizes that the second half of the book (which features the substitutiary locomotion spell) has been torn out of the book and that's the reason why Professor Browne closed down the college. So now, the quest is to find the second half of the book. Where do they search first? In London's famous Portobello Road, a road famous for its street markets that sell antiques and the like…a good place to look for a second half of a book as well as to sing a titular song.
I officially want to go to Portobello Road and start singing this song. I'm sure the shopkeepers are so tired of hearing this song!
After the quite long song-and-dance number is finished, the shopkeepers close up shop, vacate Portobello Road, and our protagonists are no further on in their journey to find the second half of the spell book. That is, until they're threatened by a character of questionable decency named Swinburne, played by the surprisingly-cast Bruce Forsyth.
"Nice to see you! To see you…nice!" (I know that everybody including uses this caption, but I mean, what else can one say about a Bruce Forsyth screenshot?)
He holds them at knifepoint and takes them to a man known as the Bookman who would like to have a word with them. It seems that Swinburne overheard our heroes looking for the book in the markets and that his boss, the Bookman, actually owns the second half of the book. The Bookman, played by Sam Jaffe, tells Miss Price that he wants for them to swap their halves be it cooperatively or via Swinburne's persuasion. Not surprisingly, Miss Price chooses to go the cooperative route.
"You made a good choice, my dear lady! A very good choice indeed!"
However, the swap is unsatisfactory as the second half of the book doesn't give the words to the substitutiary locomotion spell. Rather, it mentions that the words are inscribed on a medallion worn by an old sorcerer that is now in the hands of an anthropomorphic animal race that may or may not exist.
"And I thought my spells working would be the only hard thing to comprehend in this film."
Yeah, apparently, this sorcerer had some dealings with animals and the magic got all askew causing the animals to develop anthropomorphism, murder the sorcerer, and live on a mysterious island somewhere in the world. As strange as this sounds, Paul mentions that one of the children's books that he got from Professor Browne's house talks about an island called Naboombu that has a civilization of anthropomorphic animals led by a lion king,
Uh…no.
a lion king named Leonidas who wears this amulet over his neck.
Miss Price, the kids, and Professor Browne are soon convinced that this island in this children's book exists and hop on their bed and wish to go there. Why don't the Bookman and Swinburne stop them? Well, if someone told you that they were going to be transported by a magical bed, would you believe it?
After our heroes are transported, Swinburne and the Bookman look in shock! So what do they do next? Umm…well, we don't know. We never see them again. Yep, these characters appear in the movie for like 15 minutes and…that's it.
"I Hope to be paid. To be paid…I hope!"
Anyway, the bed isn't exactly the best navigational system in the world as it falls into the Naboombu Lagoon instead of the land part of the island itself. No trouble, as it gives a chance for the Disney animators to create a Jolly Holiday-like sequence mixing live-action and animation with an unused Mary Poppins song entitled The Beautiful Briny.
If only in real life one could do what one wanted and not worry about breathing oxygen.
After our heroes make it to the land part, they discover that the King is in a really bad mood as there doesn't seem to be anyone willing to referee the Royal Soccer Match that he had "so set his heart on". And as soon as our heroes notice that the King is wearing the medallion, Professor Browne volunteers to be the referee in an effort to try to read the words inscribed on the medallion.
"Let the odds be forever in our favor!"
What follows is a quite enjoyable "soccer" match featuring animals and practically no rules. But the King's team wins in the end, as he is the King after all.
Professor Browne isn't without injury though.
After the game has finished, Professor Browne still hasn't gotten a chance to look at the words on the medallion, so he surreptitiously steals the medallion and our heroes quickly take the bed back to Miss Price's house.
Once there, Miss Price wants to get to work on the spell, but trouble arises as the medallion seems to have vanished. Apparently, you can't take objects from one world into another world. Now this is where it gets confusing. We've already assumed that this island of Naboombu is an actual island in the real world, and NOT a different realm/dimension, hence the medallion shouldn't have disappeared!
"Oh great, another thing that's difficult to comprehend!"
Our heroes try desperately to remember the words inscribed on the medallion until Paul shows them a page from his Naboombu book that has a picture of the medallion with the words in big, readable font. The words were in his blasted book the entire time!!!!
Professor Browne is probably cursing himself out now; there was no need to get stampeded in that savage soccer match!
Anyway, after that pointless detour, Miss Price tries out the spell (with a song, of course) and it makes all the clothing in her house come to life.
This is probably a commonplace event in Merlin's house though.
Miss Price is upset that she isn't able to master the spell, but that feeling of depression has to be put temporarily on hold as the Germans have made a surprise practice attack on the village that night! In an effort to stop the invasion, Miss Price (with the help of Professor Browne and the kids) uses the substitutiary locomotion spell on the arcane pieces of armor on display at the local museum which causes them to come to life and fight off the invading Nazis in a quite enjoyable climax!
Imagine explaining this to Hitler!
The movie ends with Professor Browne going off to join the Old Home Guard and Miss Price deciding to keep the kids with an implication that they can have even more adventures with their magical bed. Oh, and Roddy McDowall appears in this film for like 10 minutes, but his character isn't that important, so I refrained from mentioning him earlier.
"GASP…How dare you, sir?!"
And that's Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And what can I say besides that it's worth checking out?
It's definitely not as perfect as Mary Poppins. The film has MANY plotholes, MANY things that are unexplained, MANY characters that are underused, and features some bad acting from the kids at times. But you tend to forgive the film for its faults because of all the other positive aspects: the enjoyable music and songs (though second to Mary Poppins' music and songs), the animation/live action mix, the characters, the locations, and of course, David Tomlinson!
"Well, that's one thing that I can actually understand."
If you haven't checked the film out yet, you better do it soon!
(You can click on the image below for an enlarged version of my rating sheet.)
So, the final score for this film is 30/35 = 85.71% (B) !
The next review will be posted on July 21st.
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20 thoughts on "Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)"
swanpride says:
I love the movie, but I very much prefer the heavily edited version I grew up with (yes, for once I am actually pro cutting down a movie). For starters, there are three songs less in this version (they cut the homeguard completely (which, I think, makes for a nicer ending….instead of Emelius suddenly becoming all patriotic, it is implied that he decides to stick around and take responsibility for the little family), also "The age of non-believing" and the Eglantine song), the Portobello scene is way shorter. I guess they should have left in the scene in which the children explain that they are orphans, though.
High points are naturally the football game (the movie is set in England, it's football, plus, I never get why the Americans call a game which is not played with the feet football in the first place) and the climax (though, again, the version I know is a little shorter and never overstays its welcome).
You know what? I really should put Ms. Price on the potential heroine list…while there is a love story, it is clearly not the central theme of the movie. Mmm…perhaps I should do a "witch month" or something like that…..If I can come up with witches for each category.
oh, they also cut the part with the star suddenly vanishing, which makes for a much better movie.
Yeah, the star vanishing is just a pointless detour. And a witch month would be awesome if you can find enough people.
I find it weird that they'd cut 'The Age of Not Believing' since it did get an Academy Award nomination. But yeah, 'Portobello Road' is SOOOO long in the full version.
So when/how does the movie end in the edited version? Does it just end as soon as the Nazis flee?
Well, you first get the scene in which Ms. Price says that she is content with not being a witch anymore and next there are the three children, with Carrie bemoaning that there won't be anymore fun now, and then Paul shows of the knob.
I guess the version I know is a little bit weird in that they removed ANY reference to the Nazi's (it was for the German market after all), instead they always talk about "the enemy". Which kind of works better for me in hindsight. The tone in the movie is so light-hearted, Nazi's don't really fit in there.
Finding Howl's says:
This is a movie I have to go out and buy. I haven't seen it in YEARS and honestly the only part I ever remembered was the part on the island and the end battle. I also remember thinking "Portobello road" was "portabella road" and wondering why they weren't selling mushrooms!
Thanks for the review! You've piqued my interest in seeing it again!
I'm glad I piqued your interest! Disney films should be watched over and over again…the good ones, anyway!
Corbin says:
Loved this movie as a kid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You're welcome! Disney movies are always a great trip to take…the good ones, at least.
kirksroom says:
It amazes me that Roger Ebert praised The Black Cauldron, the film that almost destroyed Disney Studios, as a return to classic form: "By the end of The Black Cauldron I was remembering, with something of a shock of nostalgia, the strength and utter storytelling conviction of the early Disney animators. The Black Cauldron is a return to the tradition", and yet he wrote such a negative review of this movie: "The Disney people seem to be drifting farther and farther away from a sympathetic understanding of what kids really enjoy at the movies. Sometimes they try to pass off their sad, dumb movies as family entertainment….. I have a hunch that if you had a strong, highly motivated lead in one of these pictures it would show up the flabbiness of the whole conception."
Especially considering both you and Doug Walker liked this!
I didn't know that Ebert said that about this movie. That is strange!
Yep, Doug Walker and I share similar views sometimes 😉 .
This was the same year he trashed The Million Dollar Duck. But what I can't understand is it being one of only 3 movies Gene Siskel walked on. I will never forgive him for that.
I haven't seen 'The Million Dollar Duck' yet; how is it?
I hope you are planning to review it. I honestly do think it's just a fun silly movie. I do like it a lot. I watched it just yesterday in fact and enjoyed it as much as I did when I was 12. I think it is a genuine classic, and everyone I have watched it with has agreed with me. My 65-year-old aunt said, when I asked her if she liked it, "It was funny when it needed to be, sad when it needed to be, and action-packed when it needed to be, too……"
But then I got into a lot of forgotten live-action Disney movies when I was 12, just having my dad buy them off Amazon.
If you're going to review it, I also recommend you review No Deposit No Return, Gus, The Barefoot Executive, Monkeys, Go Home!, and Blackbeard's Ghost.
Oh yeah, my intention for the blog is to review ALL the theatrical live-action Disney films, so they're all definitely on my list somewhere down the line.
oscarstainton says:
I remember Doug Walker's strong recommendation for this film back in 2013, and he suggested locating the original cut on DVD because the most common version is the extended version and apparently the songs go on a tad too long in that version.
I was wondering what your recommendation would be, as I have't seen the film and want the best experience from it. If you could provide a link to the version you watched or you think is best, please leave it in the comments. 🙂
I personally prefer the extended version for two reasons: 1) It's the version I've seen most and 2) It keeps in my favorite song of the film, 'With a Flair', which is cut in the common version.
That's not to say that it is without its faults. The extended version does have scenes that just go on too long especially in the 'Portobello Road' sequence, but to me, it's just one of those things you have to bear.
Thanks, dude! 🙂
Jordan Briskin (@JordanBriskin) says:
I last saw this film on VHS several years ago, and I'm intent on re-watching it.
Reading this review, I'm rather surprised that Bruce Forsyth was in this; I'll have to keep my eyes open, to see if he's any good. (I haven't seen any of his film roles, but he was an absolute scream as the guest star on episode 113 of THE MUPPET SHOW.)
In regards to the role that Eglantine Price plays in the film, she strikes me as being sort of a combination of Mary Poppins and Kiki (from KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE)- the latter being included in the mix due to the fact that she's a witch-in-training, who doesn't quite have the knack of flying yet….
Yeah, Bruce Forsyth's role is mostly just a cameo; he isn't in it that much if I remember correctly. And it'll be good to watch it again in honor of his passing.
That's a good way to describe Eglantine Price actually!
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In this edition, we talk with Anthony Amato and Nicole Kline, the designers of RESISTOR_, about private and public information, shifting game states, two-player games and more.
The double-sided cards in RESISTOR_ restrict information to one player or the other, while giving each player more information overall than they'd get from single-sided cards. What role does information play in the game, and how did you decide to parcel it out to the players?
Information gain is important in RESISTOR_. We tried to tie the times you gain information mostly to when it's not your turn, so it was a way for us to reward the inactive player for paying attention--or lose an advantage. It's also important in how the cards in hand work. We could have just had each player hold four one-sided cards, but because the cards are double-sided, when a player takes a card for themselves or uses it, they're taking an unknown card away from their opponent. This reinforces that both the board state and your choices available are constantly changing. It also adds an interesting psychological dynamic to the game. Because you're holding two cards, you think of those cards as "your" cards, and the cards in your opponent's hand as "their" cards, when in reality, you're just sharing those four cards. So when a player does the Draw and Trash action, they often say, "I don't want to give you this card, so I'll trash a card from my hand." Even though the information is very clear, physically holding onto that information changes the way players look at it and treat it.
Are there any lessons here that can be useful to designers when figuring out the right mix of public versus private information in their game?
The right mix of public versus private information really depends on the kind of game being created. If you're making a cooperative game, there's not a lot of reason to have an excess of private information unless you want to constrain the players' ability to communicate.
But in a game like RESISTOR_, the top faces of the board and both sides of every card in the discard pile are the only public information, because so much of your turn relies on that hidden information. Also, the use of private information really reinforces soft gotcha mechanics, since you might be sitting on something that can really change the game. How information is delivered, for us, was highly tied to the physical manipulation of the pieces, and we thought that this was a explorable area.
Thinking about the game as a physical thing can be a very informative angle to look at problems as well as look to your greater game design. Jaipur does this very elegantly with how it handles the camels. You could hold those in your hand, but that would be awkward, and so they made a choice for you to put them face up in front of you. This idea messes with public and private information and also speaks to what the players are physically doing at the table. Another good example is Sheriff of Nottingham--the bags aren't necessary, but the action of the sheriff physically taking the bags and threatening to open them once they're out of the players' hands adds so much to the feeling of it.
The Resistor cards shake up the game in several ways, including by shortening the circuit required to hit your opponent. This pushes the game toward a resolution and gives it an arc. How did you decide what effects the Resistor cards would have in the game?
Before the Resistor card was in the game, we had many problems we needed to solve, but we knew that we needed to keep the game short and simple for our audience at the time we created it. We had to solve as many problems as we could with as few mechanics as possible. Because each player has three actions afforded to them each turn, one player could continuously undo what the other player had done, which made the game feel stale, and often ended in victory for the first player who scored. The Resistor stops this from happening because it has the potential to change more on the board than you could with your normal actions, but due to its chaotic effects, it adds in a risk/reward dynamic.
We also felt that adding in the healing element helped to balance it as well, not only because it can help a player gain footing, but also because the player who got healed then discards their hand and draws a new hand, which burns through the deck quickly. The Resistor card is more likely to punish the person with the most advantageous situation at the moment, because if you are fully connected across the board, you are more likely to be affected.
In conjunction with the Draw and Trash action, the Resistor adds in a mechanic where the game destroys itself. So it's dangerous to the person in the lead, helps the person who is losing, and shortens the game, which ends up upsetting the memory balance of the game, since some people have a hard time remembering the card faces. But it also adds risk, because using a Resistor has the potential to be chaotic, and could reveal more Resistors, which can shorten the board way more quickly--or end up unexpectedly flipping cards back over again.
All of this enhances the idea that you should use cards in the moment or expect to lose them, and also prevents players from counting or remembering cards, since they can be discarded before you see both sides of them.
How important is it for a short game to have a changing game state and arc, and what are some ways of achieving this in a short game?
This is important in both short and long games, especially those in which there's a chance you could be losing very early on and never have a way to catch up. Nothing is more demoralizing--or less fun--than a game where you feel like the loser left behind. In a shorter game, you might even be able to get away with less of this, since sometimes the change happens so abruptly that the game ends. But in a longer game, it's important because it's part of what keeps players engaged.
If a shorter game doesn't have an arc, then you want to ensure every playthrough experience is different in some way. Hive is an example where it's a short experience but there's a chance that it's going to be exactly the same, depending on strategies. Seven7s is the opposite: every time you play it, you're going to get to the ending in a completely different way. By that we mean, the end state is always changing, and the values of the cards change as you're playing. So you're constantly making choices about whether you think the value of the cards in your hand will go up or down, and whether or not they're worth keeping or using. There's also no guarantee about the length of the game--one player could feel they have a good hand and try to rush the ending, while another might slow it down to get better cards. But it's never entirely in your control.
RESISTOR_ is strictly a two-player game. Did you ever consider expanding it to handle more players?
What are some special considerations for designing a strictly two-player game?
Generally, a two-player game should be shorter. Obviously, that isn't a hard rule or anything, but it feels like if you're making a long-form game, you're making it for more than two players.
With our game, because of the double-sided cards, the players must also literally face each other, which is interesting, because most games don't have any kind of physical requirement to optimally play them.
Also, in a two-player scenario, it's especially important to make sure that both players are engaged at all times, which is why we tried to make sure that all of the actions available to a player on their turn also in some way affect the other player, even if it's just that they're gaining information. When you're designing a game for more than two players, it's more understandable that there will be some down time. But given the length of a two-player game, players shouldn't have down time, and the tempo should be tight.


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'Allāmah Sarfrāz Khān Ṣafdar's (1914 – 2009) 'Ibārāt e Akābir, a work written in 1972, is a detailed appraisal of Aḥmad Riḍā Khān's false fatwās of takfīr against the Akābir of Deoband. An edited and adapted English translation of the work has alḥamdulillāh been completed, and can be found at the link below.
The book not only provides a detailed and clear rebuttal of the allegations made in Ḥusām al- Ḥaramayn, but also some allegations made against Shāh Ismā'īl Shahīd in Aḥmad Riḍā Khān's al-Kawkabat al-Shihābiyyah (and in other Barelwī writings).
There are also responses to allegations made based on two dreams mentioned in the writings of Shaykh Khalīl Aḥmad Sahāranpūrī and Shaykh Ashraf 'Alī Thānawī.
The work clearly demonstrates Aḥmad Riḍā Khān's deception, distortions, extremism in takfīr and the lie of his carefulness in issuing takfīr. The book has the added advantage of providing short biographies of the personalities Aḥmad Riḍā Khān assaults and providing clear translations and citations of useful passages from original Urdu works (some for the first time made available in English).
The introduction also offers a useful historical background, showing Aḥmad Riḍā Khān and his senseless takfīrism was opposed by mainstream Sunnī scholarship of his day, even by those unaffiliated with the madrasa of Deoband and its luminaries.
In al-Muhannad 'ala l-Mufannad, a work completed in Shawwāl of 1325 AH (1907 CE), 'Allāmah Khalīl Aḥmad Sahāranpūrī described the beliefs of the 'Ulamā' of Deoband in matters that they were alleged to have parted from the Ahl al-Sunnah. The work comprises of 26 questions and answers.
Do you believe in the possibility of the occurrence of falsehood in a statement from the Speech of the Master (Great and Glorious is His Transcendence). If not, what then is your opinion?
We and our elders (Allah Most High have mercy on them) declare and are convinced that all speech that issued from the Creator (Great and Glorious is He) or will issue from Him is absolutely truthful, and it is certain that it concurs with reality. Undoubtedly, there is no trace of falsehood in any part of His (Exalted is He) Speech, nor any doubt about [the absence of] contravening reality [in His Speech]. Whoever believes contrary to this or conceives of a lie in any part of His Speech is a disbeliever, apostate and heretic, and does not have even a trace of faith.
Have you ascribed the view of "imkān al-kadhib" (the possibility of lying) to some of the Ash'arīs? If so, what is meant by this? And do you have a proof-text for this view from the reliable scholars? Explain the matter to us as it is.
This began as a dispute between us and the Indian logicians and innovators about the ability of the Creator (Transcendent is He) to act contrary to what He promised, informed, intended, etc. They said that acting contrary to these things is negated from Allah's Ancient Power (qudrah qadīmah), hypothetically impossible (mustaḥīl 'aqlan), impossible to exist within His ability, and it is necessary for Him [to act] in accordance with His promise, report, intent and knowledge.
We said: Such things are certainly within His ability but their occurrence (wuqū') is not possible according to the Ahl al-Sunnah wa l-Jamā'ah, namely the Ash'ārīs and Māturīdīs, textually and logically according to the Māturīdīs, and only textually according to the Ash'arīs.
They objected that if it were possible that these things are included within the Power, it would entail the possibility of falsehood and this is certainly not in His ability and is intrinsically impossible (mustaḥīl dhātan).
Even if the concomitance of the possibility of falsehood in acting contrary to the promise, reports etc. in His ability is accepted, it too is not intrinsically impossible, rather, like oppression and impudence, it is intrinsically within the Power, but it is textually and logically impossible, or just textually, as several imāms have espoused.
When they saw these responses, they caused corruption in the land and attributed to us [the position of] allowing imperfections (naqṣ) in relation to His Holiness (Blessed and Exalted is He), and they spread this accusation amongst the foolish and the ignorant to create enmity in the common people and to seek enjoyment and popularity amongst men. They reached the roads of the heavens in fabrication when they fabricated an image from themselves on the actuality (fi'liyyah) of falsehood [and ascribed it to us] without fearing the Knowing King. When Indians became aware of their scheming, they sought help from the noble 'ulamā' of the two Sanctuaries because they know they are ignorant of their evil and the reality of the views of our 'ulamā'.
They do what they do because of the absolute transcendence [of Allāh], but they are unable to perfect the Power and broaden it. As for our predecessors, the Ahl al-Sunnah wa l-Jamā'ah, they combined between the two matters, of widening the Power and perfecting transcendence for the Necessary Existent (Transcendent and Exalted is He).
"The deniers of the inclusiveness of His Power are many groups; of them are al-Naẓẓām and his [Mu'tazilī] followers who say that He does not have power over foolishness, falsehood and oppression and all ugly acts (qabā'iḥ), for if their creation were in His capacity, their issuance (ṣudūr) from Him would be possible, and this concomitant (lāzim) is false because it results in impudence (safah) if He knows the ugliness of this and its dispensability, and in ignorance if He is not knowing.
"Then he i.e. the author of Al-'Umdah said, 'Allah (Exalted is He) is not characterised by Power over oppression, impudence and falsehood because the impossible is not included in [His] Power, i.e. it is improper for it to pertain to them, while according to the Mu'tazilah, He (Exalted is He) is capable of all that but does not do [them].' End quote from Al-'Umda.
"It appears as though he altered that which he transmitted from the Mu'tazilah, since there is no doubt that the absence of power over what was mentioned is the madhhab of the Mu'tazilah. As for its presence, i.e. power over what was mentioned, and then abstention from pertaining to them by choice, it is more fitting to the madhhab, i.e. it the madhhab of the Ash'aris, than it is to the madhhab of the Mu'tazilah. It is obvious that this more fitting position is also included in transcendence, since there is no doubt that abstention therefrom i.e. from those things mentioned of oppression, impudence and falsehood, is from the matter of transcendence, from that which does not befit the majesty of His Holiness (Exalted is He).
"In sum, lying being ugly in the uttered-speech (al-kalām al-lafẓi), in the sense that it is an attribute of deficiency, is not accepted according to the Ash'arīs. That is why al-Sharīf al-Muḥaqqiq (al-Jurjānī) said it is from the totality of the possibilities (mumkināt), and acquiring decisive knowledge of its non-occurrence in His speech by consensus of the scholars and the Prophets (upon them be peace) does not negate its intrinsic possibility like all decisive knowledge of normal occurrences (al-'ulūm al-'adiyah) and it does not negate what Imām al-Rāzī said…".
"Therefore – i.e. since whatever is conceived as a deficiency is impossible for Him – the decisiveness of the impossibility of characterising Him – i.e. Allāh (Exalted is He) – with lying and the like of it (Transcendent is He beyond that) becomes apparent. Also, if His act being characterised by ugliness was possible, confidence in the integrity of His promise, the integrity of His speech besides it – i.e. [besides] His (Exalted is He) promise – and the integrity of His Prophets would be removed – i.e. in principle, His integrity would be uncertain.
"According to the Ash'arīs, He (Exalted is He) is certainly not characterised by ugly acts, but they are not rationally impossible, like all of creation. [This is] just like all the sciences in which one of two opposites being the reality is certain, but the other is not impossible, if it were assumed that it is the reality; just like the certainty of Mecca and Baghdad – i.e. their existence – since their non-existence is not rationally impossible. Therefore – i.e. when the matter is such – confidence [in the integrity of His word] being removed is not necessitated because the possibility of something rationally does not necessitate not having firm resolve of its non-existence.
The treatise is dated to Rabī' al-Awwal, 1329 H (1911), and was consigned by over 20 scholars of Madīnah.
فعقائد البريلوية هذه وغيرها – كقولهم بأن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم 'مختار الكل' وأن الإختيارات كلها بيده يفعل ما يشاء فى الكون ويتصرف فيه كيف يشاء وقولهم بأنه ليس بأمي حقيقة بل يقرأ ويكتب وقولهم بأن له سماعا محيطا وهو في قبره فيسمع من البعيد كما يسمع من القريب إلى غير ذلك من العقائد الباطلة الفاسدة – كلها ضلالات وانحرافات، وتبطل زعمهم أنهم أهل السنة والجماعة وأنهم قائمون بنصرة الحق بالقارة الهندية، والحق – كما ترى – أن البريلوية فرقة ضالة مبتدعة خارجة من دائرة أهل السنة، يضاهون الوهابية في توسعهم فى التكفير، وجمعوا الشواذ والغرائب من أقوال المتصوفين المتأخرين. ما أحسن ما روي عن الإمام المجتهد المحدث عبد الرحمن الأوزاعي رحمه الله من قوله: ((من أخذ بنوادر العلماء فقد خرج من الإسلام))، فكيف بمن أخذ بنوادر الجهلاء؟ وجعلوها كأنها من أصول الدين وأسسه التي جاءت الأنبياء والرسل لدعوة الناس إليها؟! أعاذنا الله من هذه الفتن والخرافات والمخالفات، وجعلنا أمة وسطا عدلا، سائرين على النهج القويم بين إفراط الغلاة المبتدعين وتفريط الأغبياء المتشددين، آمين يا رب العلمين.
The scholar Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, whom Barelwis deem as one of their own, sits here in Turkey with the Deobandi scholar Azizur Rahman and mentions here his sanad back to the Deobandi scholars such as Anwar Shah Kashmiri. He also narrates back Shah Abdul Ghani, whom he describes as the "pride of peoplle of Hijaaz" (fakhr alh al-hijaaz). Shah Abdul Ghani is also counted as a Wahhabi according to Barelwi standards.
According to the manhaj of Alahazrat, Al-Yaqoubi should at least be deemed as a deviant! We wonder whether our Barelwi brethren will bring out a fatwa against him.
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BowelScreen - The National Bowel Screening Programme is now available to men and women aged 60-69
A public information campaign is beginning which will also support the programme in addition to information leaflets, a Freephone information line and website www.bowelscreen.ie
BowelScreen - The National Bowel Screening Programme, a Government-funded programme is now offering regular free bowel screening to men and women aged 60 to 69. Bowel screening involves a free, quick, easy-to-use BowelScreen home test every two years while in the age-range. Information is available at www.bowelscreen.ie.
Professor Diarmuid O Donoghue, Clinical Lead, welcomed the programme saying "BowelScreen will save lives, making it a life changing public health intervention. Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer among men and women in Ireland with almost 2,400 new cases identified each year. It is so impressive that this simple BowelScreen test, which can be carried out at home, has the potential to reduce mortality from bowel cancer amongst the participating population."
Professor Diarmuid O Donoghue, Clinical Lead continued, saying "we are delighted with the early interest in BowelScreen and thank those who have already participated. However the continued success of the programme for both the individual and our entire population is very much dependent on everybody acting on their invitation. It is so important to take part when invited. The vast majority of people will have a normal home test result and be invited again in two years time, yet for a small number this home test may indicate something that requires further investigation, which is so important as if bowel cancer is found early, there is a much better chance of treating it successfully."
The BowelScreen home test looks for tiny amounts of blood in the bowel motion (also called a stool) which are not visible to the eye. Most people will have a normal result (95 per cent). In the small number of cases where a result shows traces of blood not visible to the eye, a colonoscopy will be offered in a screening colonoscopy unit in a hospital organised by BowelScreen.
The BowelScreen programme is being introduced on a phased basis and it is expected that all those on the register will be invited for their first screening by the end of 2015. In the meantime people in the age range can check they are on the register by contacting Freephone 1800 45 45 55. Once on the register:
Over time they will receive an invitation and if they want to take part they contact the call centre with their GP (family doctor) details;
Following this they will be sent a BowelScreen Home test kit in the post with clear instructions on how to do the test;
On completion of the test, they return it in a special free, pre-paid envelope provided by the programme;
They will get a letter with the results of their BowelScreen home test in four weeks.
BowelScreen is a quality-assured bowel cancer screening programme, based on international evidence that will over time offer free bowel screening to over one million people aged 55 to 74.
Information about the programme is available at: www.bowelscreen.ie or from Freephone 1800 45 45 55. A public information campaign is beginning which will support the programme in addition to information leaflets, a Freephone information line and website.
BowelScreen encourages all people, regardless of age or participation in screening, to become bowel aware and to contact their GP advice if they have symptoms of bowel cancer.
How can I reduce my risk of developing bowel cancer?
Take part in the BowelScreen programme when invited
Be more physically active
Eat a diet with plenty of dietary fibre such as fruit, vegetables and wholegrain bread, brown rice and cereals
Reduce intake of processed and red meat
Keep a healthy weight
Limit the amount of alcohol you take
What are the symptoms of bowel cancer?
Symptoms of bowel cancer may include:
bleeding from the back passage (also known as the rectum) for no obvious reason;
a change in your normal bowel habits that persists for a number of weeks such as diarrhoea, constipation or passing stools more frequently.
A number of benign conditions may also cause these symptoms. But if you have one or more of these symptoms for four weeks or more, you should ask your GPs (family doctor) advice.
Sheila Caulfield / Aoife O Sullivan, Communications, National Cancer Screening Service
www.bowelscreen.ie

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The Kingstonians - Sufferer
Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing. Sufferer was one of the classic tunes from the skinhead or boss reggae era of the late sixties, with it's popularity, along with a number of subsequent follow-ups, leading to a debut album of the same name by the vocal trio who had burst upon the Jamaican music scene in 1967: The Kingstonians. Showcasing a dozen of the group's best known works to date for esteemed Kingston-based producer, Derrick Harriott, the LP features a number of sizeable Jamaican hits, including 'Singer Man', 'Hold Down', 'Nice Nice', as well as the best-selling title track. Soon after it's release, the group moved on to work with other Jamaican producers of note, but unable to sustain their popularity, all but disappeared from the local music scene by the late seventies. Meanwhile, this, their one and only long player, continued to attract interest and today is regarded one of the finest ever vinyl collections of boss reggae sounds, with original copies now highly prized, not to mention, extremely valuable collector's items.
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Bear Grylls is an English adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survivor in the United Kingdom.
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Charley Boorman is a modern-day adventurer, travel writer and entertainer. He is known for his enthusiasm for motorbikes, as demonstrated in several documentaries of his travels, including two with his friend, actor Ewan McGregor.
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Nursing Experience 1.0
I just finished the first two weeks of my first attachment at an acute setting -- Changi General Hospital and I have mixed feelings about it. While nursing is already a very tough and demanding profession, having stubborn or rude patients will definitely make your day 10x worse. As if being on your feet for eight hours a day isn't bad enough (get comfortable shoes!!), you're running around getting requisites and food and everything and dealing with patients who're ringing their call bell all the time. You'll get patients who have fall risk but still want to walk to the toilet every few minutes, diabetic patients who ask for more sugar, patients who yell incoherently for no reason, patients who lecture and advise you on how to do your job. That's just the beginning. You'll get patients who spit on your face, patients who'll call you a bitch even though you're only doing what's right. Don't let it get to you. It might take awhile to pick yourself back up after a shitty encounter when you're starting out, but believe in yourself. Leave the shit in shitty shifts behind. On the other hand, you'll have really nice patients. Patients who ask if you've had lunch or dinner, patients who tell you to sit down when you're evidently tired, patients who joke around and make you laugh, patients who want to know you better (please don't tell everything about yourself you have to maintain some professionalism in a workplace), patients whose faces light up when they see you at the start of the shift -- and it's these patients that put a smile on my face. I was in a surgical ward and one thing that I learnt is that you'll encounter really really bad patients... but you'll also meet really nice patients who make it all worthwhile.
So of course, nursing is very patient-centered, but not everything is about the patients!! (Actually yes it is lah but) the staff you're working with matters a lot. As a student nurse in NUS, I'm attached to this hospital for six weeks and every two weeks, I'll switch wards. And every week I'll be in one team which is basically like sixteen beds in a C Class ward. Every shift there will be two staff nurses and one enrolled nurse. And as a total newbie, of course you'll spend the first few days observing everyone and there'll be some nurses who are willing and even excited to teach you -- they're the best. Those nurses make the shift enjoyable and memorable. Nurses who make jokes, call you "babe" even though you've known them like two days, and actually give a shit about you -- they're the ones to be thankful for. Of course there'll be nurses who completely ignore you, ask you to do stuff and don't even stay long enough for you to ask what which when where why how. So the staff you work with is super super important. Of course you don't really have a say in the matter. You might get a staff nurse who asks you to go home and rest immediately when your shift ends, or a nurse who asks you to begin nasogastric tube feeding for a patient right when you're about to leave. It really just depends on your luck.
My last attachment in December was at a nursing home and wowowowow a hospital is so so different.
Tips for student nurses (attached at CGH):
- Get a kopitiam card, there's 20% off at hospitals
- Arrive 15 minutes early and check on all your patients
- Get really comfortable shoes or else you'll die
- Revise on your skillz and knowledge (or you'll be a blur queen like me)
- Be proactive (easier said than done, but this is super important!!)
- Talk to your patients! Get to know them. They have such interesting stories
- Have fun!
- Go home, rest, elevate your legs
Some days will be worse than others, but you have to be strong, put in 110% and hope for the best!!
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Studio tramwaj  – program telewizyjny prowadzony na żywo z krakowskiego rynku emitowany w telewizji TVN w latach 1998–1999, a produkowany przez lokalną Telewizję Wisła. Program prowadzony był z zabytkowego tramwaju SN1 i trwał 26 minut.

Gospodarze zapraszali do programu znane osobistości ze świata kultury, sztuki, filmu i mediów, m.in. Zbigniewa Wodeckiego, Jana Nowickiego, Krzysztofa Krawczyka. Program emitowany był wczesnym popołudniem w niedzielę. Program prowadzili Sławomir Sochacki (producent), Andrzej Sołtysik oraz Agnieszka Wróblewska. Kierownikiem produkcji była Agnieszka Niemczewska.

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The National Bravery Awards are a set of awards given annually to about 25 Indian children below 18 years of age for "meritorious acts of bravery against all odds." The awards are given by the Government of India and the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW). The award was instituted in 1957.

National  bravery award
The National Bravery Awards consist of five categories, which are .
 The Bharat Award
 The Geeta Chopra Award
 The Sanjay Chopra Award
 The Bapu Gaidhani Award
 The General National Bravery Awards

Origins
On Gandhi Jayanti day, 2nd October 1957, India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was watching a performance Delhi's Ramlila ground, at the Red Fort. During the performance, a short circuit caused a fire to break out in a shamiana (decorated tent).  Harish Chandra Mehra, a 14-year-old scout, promptly took out his knife and ripped open the burning tent, saving the lives of hundreds of trapped people. This incident inspired Nehru to ask the authorities to establish an award to honour brave children from all over the country. The first official National Bravery Awards were presented to Harish Chandra and one other child on 4 February 1958, by Prime Minister Nehru, and the ICCW ( Indian Council for Child Welfare) has continued the tradition ever since.
The Sanjay Chopra Award and the Geeta Chopra Award were established in 1978, in memory of two Chopra children who lost their lives while confronting their kidnappers. The Sanjay and Geeta awards are given to a boy and a girl for acts of bravery. The Bharat Award was established in 1987, and the Bapu Gaidhani Award was established in 1980.

In 2001, Scholastic published a commemorative book featuring the winners of the 1999 National Bravery Awards. The book was entitled Brave Hearts.

Selection process
Each year, the ICCW receives applications for the National Bravery Award. These applications come from official agencies such as local and district governments, school authorities, and councils for child welfare. The applications must be received by 30 September to be eligible for selection.

Awardees are selected by a committee constituted by the ICCW. This committee consists of representatives from leading government and non-government organizations, such as the secretariats of the president and the vice-president, the Central Social Welfare Board, the Indian Police, All India Radio, Doordarshan, the National Bal Bhavan,  SOS Children's Villages of India.

Ceremony
The awards are usually announced on 14 November, Children's Day, or in January the following year, and later presented by the prime minister on the eve of the Republic Day, and prior to this the President hosts a reception in their honour, where the children meet the media. On 26 January, the awardees take part in the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath, New Delhi.

List of awards

Bharat Award

Sanjay Chopra Award

Geeta Chopra Award

Bapu Gaidhani Award

Other recipients
1982: Ajmal Khan Gauhar (Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh)
1985: Abdhesh Kumar Gupta, (Etah, Uttar Pradesh).
1993: Prem Prakash Pathak, (lives in Delhi), native place: Gangolihat, District: Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand).
1993: M Pavitra 6 years (Bhopal Madhya Pradesh/Native K Keeranur, Oddanchatram Taluk/Settled at Chennai, Tamil Nadu). Youngest awardee.
1987: Vikas D. Satam (Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra), Saurabh Oberoi (posthumous, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan) and Savottam Jeevan Raksha Padhak 1988; Shantanu Oberoi (Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, ICCW-Rajasthan 1988)
1990: Prashant Singh (Rewa, Madhya Pradesh), Prabhakar (Uttar Pradesh).
1994: Nilesh Umale, (12) (Vidarbha, Maharashtra)
1995: Shivshankar Madhukar Bidri killer earthquake 1993 two persons saved life
1997:  Nandan Kumar Jha, (15) (Adityapur, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand)
2000: Richa Tiwari,(Sagar, Madhya Pradesh) Saved her sister Mansi from drowning in a pond.
2001: Aakash Sabharwal (Delhi), Amrik Singh (Jammu & Kashmir) Ashwini Kamath, Andy Tenita Fernandes, Shruti Ullal, Sridevi Damodar, K.J. Kamaraju and Shilpa Satish Tamadaddi (Karnataka); Katta Trinadh and Putta Someshwar (Andhra Pradesh); Sanath (Kerala), Lalitha Devi Yadav, Mehul Sanyal (Bhopal), and Ritu Singh Tomar (Madhya Pradesh), Nijal Omprakash Patil, Narendra Shantaram Bithale, Sharvari Sudhir Mali, Mitali Khanapurkar of Maharashtra, Bhoopendra Singh Bainiwal (Rajasthan), Reshma Mohapatra from Orissa (posthumous), Nikhil (Posthumous), Lalmunsanga, Johny Lalnunfela (Mizoram).
 2002: Prithi Singh (10), Aparajit Singh (11), Swapnali Harishchandra Ghag (13), Rukaiya Begum (14), Nikky Maria Jacob (14), Jessamma George (16), Ashok Kumar Choudhary (18), Abdul Razak CM (16), Mumthaz TM (12), Balkrishna Upadhyay (17), Shreshthi Amrit Gorule (17), Naseer Khan (13) and Justin K Tom (19).
 2003: Chuneshwari Kothalis, Ramsadharan (Chhattisgarh), Nitin Uttamrao Kakde, Dyaneshwar Manikrao Kakade, Raju Namdev Kakde, Satyam Mahendra Khandekar, Skiewtidaris Lyngkhoi (Meghalaya), Pratap Vikubhai Khachar (Gujarat), Neelam Rani, Sarita Tyagi, Sunita Devi Sighdoya, Swati Tyagi, Sushma Rani (Haryana), G. Kranthi Kumar, Thotakura Mahesh (Andhra Pradesh) Ram Nayan Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Harish Rana (Uttaranchal), Ajith Kumar P.T, Saneesh K.S, Suramya U.R. (Kerala).
 2004:Hotilal, Km Mahima Tiwari both from Uttar Pradesh, Master Ramandeep Singh and Master Pawan Kumar of Punjab (Joint Deed), Master RK Rahul Singh of Manipur, Km Shiney TA, Master Sajan Antony, Master TP Krishna Prasad and Master Johncy Samuel all from Kerala, Master Khiangdingliana of Mizoram, Km Priyanka of Haryana, Master Gopal Singh Sondia of Madhya Pradesh, Master B Sai Kushal of Andhra Pradesh and Master Vinod R. Jain of Karnataka.
 2005:Master Sarath sabu, Km. Divya TV, Late Master Shibu T (all from Kerala), Master Laxman (Chhattisgarh), Master Mukesh Kumar Tanwar (Madhya Pradesh), Master Puttijungshi (Nagaland), Master Nelson Karam, Km L. Pusparani Devi (both from Manipur), Master Nagarani Venkateswara Rao (Andhra Pradesh), Master Santosh Ramesh Dahe (Maharashtra).
2006: Master Aakash Saha (New Delhi), S/O Ravi Saha & Purnima Saha was awarded for helping and donating blood at the age of 15, was taken under custody for donating blood being a minor by Delhi Police however was applauded later and awarded by Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Republic Day.
 2006: Km. Deepa Kumari, Master Sudhir Jakhar, Master Pawan Kumar Parashar, Master Rajender Kumar (all from Rajasthan), Kumari Anita Singh Lodh (Madhya Pradesh), Master David Kino (Arunachal Pradesh), Master Michael N.George (Delhi), Master Joel Salim Jacob (Kerala), Master Parth S Sutaria, Kum Antara Srivastava, Kum Ankita Ashok Bhosle (all from Maharashtra), Km. Paonam Babyrose Devi (Manipur), Km. Pooja Kabadwal (Uttaranchal), Master Rahul Chaurasia (Uttar Pradesh).
 2007: Master Raveendra Halder, Master Ravi Kumar Jhariya, Master Awadhesh Kumar Jhariya, Master Manas Nishad (all from Chhattisgarh), Master Vishnu C.S., Master Bijin Babu (both from Kerala), Master Kavvampalli Rajkumar, Master Pinjari Chinigi Sab (both from Andhra Pradesh), Km. Meher Legha (Noida, UP), Master Ankit Rai, Late Master Abhishake and Late Master Suraj (all from Haryana), Master Subhash Kumar (U.P.), Km. Congress Kanwar (Rajasthan) and Master Sunil Kumar P.N. (Karnataka).
 2008: Master Gagan J. Murthy, Km. Bhoomika J. Murthy (Karnataka), Km. Silver Kharbani (Meghalaya), Master Yumkhaibam Addison Singh (Manipur), Master Vishal Suryaji Patil (Maharashtra), Master Shahanshah (Uttar Pradesh), Km. Dinu K.G. (Kerala), Master M. Marudu Pandi (Tamil Nadu), Km. Anita Kora, Km. Rina Kora (West Bengal), Km. Manjusha A (Kerala), Km. Kritika Jhanwar (Rajasthan), Km. Hina Quereshi (Rajasthan), Master Manish Bansal (Haryana) and Master Rahul (New Delhi). For the first time, an award-winner's real name was withheld, as he identified the men who planted bombs on Barakhamba Road in New Delhi, during 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings, and helped police make sketches of the suspects.
 2009: Uddesh R. Ramnathkar (Goa); Zonunsanga and Lalrammawia (Mizoram); Sujith R., Amal Anthony, Krishnapriya K. and Sujith Kumar P. (all from Kerala); Dijekshon Syiem (Meghalaya); Thoi Thoi Khumanthem (Manipur); Vaishaliben Sambhubhai Solanki (Gujarat); Rekha Kalindi, Sunita Mahato and Afsana Khatun, (all from West Bengal); and Yogesh Kumar Jangid (Rajasthan).
 2010:  Kalpana Sonowal and Rekhamoni Sonowal (Assam), Rahul Kurrey and Parvati Amlesh (Chhattisgarh), Anoop. M. and Raj Narayanan (Kerala), Rohit Maruti Mulik (Maharashtra), Md. Nurul Huda (Macnipur), Freedy Nongsiej and Lovelystar K. Sohphoh (Meghalaya), Lalmawizuali (Mizoram), Gurjeevan Singh (Punjab), Late Km. Chhampa Kanwar and Shrawan Kumar  (6yrs) (Rajasthan),  Bibek Sharma  (Sikkim),  Uttam Kumar (Uttar Pradesh), Late Km. Shruti Lodhi (Uttarakhand) and Sunita Murmu (West Bengal).
 2011: Yandam Amara Uday Kiran and Suthrapu Shiva Prasad (Andhra Pradesh), Ranjan Pradhan and Km. Sheetal Sadvi Saluja (Chhattisgarh), Km. Divyaben Mansangbhai Chauhan (Gujarat), Sandesh P Hegde and Km. Sindhushree B.A. (Karnataka), Mohammed Nishadh V.P., Anshif C.K. and Sahsad K (Kerala), Johnson Tourangbam and Kshetrimayum Rakesh Singh (Manipur), Late C. Lalduhawma (Mizoram), Km. Prasannta Shandilya (Orissa), Dungar Singh (Rajasthan), G. Parameswaran (Tamil Nadu), Late Km. Lovely Verma (Uttar Pradesh)  and Late Km. Saudhita Barman (West Bengal).
 2012: Ramdinthara (Mizoram, posthumous), Devansh Tiwari (Chhattisgarh), Mukesh Nishad (Chhattisgarh), Lalrinhlua (Mizoram), E. Suganthan (Tamil Nadu), Ramith.K, (Kerala), Mebin Cyriac (Kerala), Vishnu MV (Kerala), Koroungamba Kuman (Manipur, 7 yrs), Sameep Anil Pandit (Maharashtra), Viswendra Lohkna (Uttar Pradesh), Satendra Lohkana (Uttar Pradesh), Pawan Kumar Kanaujiya (Uttar Pradesh), Mahika Sharma (Assam) Stripleaseman Mylliem (Meghalaya), Sapna Kumari Meena (Rajasthan), Suhail KM (Karnataka).
 2015: Labhanshu Sharma (15) (Rishikesh, Uttarakhand)
1987:Naga Varaprasad Surikuchi (6) won National Bravery Award for saving his brother from drowning in a well. ('Bhimavaram, Andhrapradesh')

Note: Many others who have received these awards are not listed in this due to the unavailability of the complete information about them.

References

External links

 National Awards for Bravery, webpage at Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW)
 National Bravery Award 'Govt. of India Portal.
 Special Feature: Meet India's Braveheart, a detailed profile of 19 awardees, of year 2004 Rediff.com
 Recipients of Bravery Awards 2012

Indian children
Civil awards and decorations of India
Awards established in 1957


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Q: Switch between two color schemes for an app? For instance, I want light colors for all my views(background and labels) during the day and dark colors at night. The app will change its color automatically according to the time. Also the user will be able to switch to the other color scheme in settings. What is the most efficient way of doing this?
Multiple colors are involved in the switch (background and labels).

A: I have done something very similar in the recent past; an app required various, user-selectable, colour schemes.
Theme
Create a Theme class with properties for each of your colour types. Try to stay away from describing the specific usage (submitButtonBackgroundColor), instead describe the purpose (this way you'll end up with much fewer colour definitions):
extern NSString * const ThemeChanged;

@interface Theme : NSObject

+ (Theme *)currentTheme;
+ (void)setCurrentTheme:(Theme *)theme;

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *backgroundColor;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *foregroundColor;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *darkerForegroundColor;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *lighterForegroundColor;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *highlightColor;

@end

Implementation:
NSString * const ThemeChanged = @"ThemeChanged";

static Theme *_currentTheme = nil;

// Note this is not thread safe

@implementation Theme

+ (Theme *)currentTheme {
    return _currentTheme;
}

+ (void)setCurrentTheme:(Theme *)theme {
    _currentTheme = theme;

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:ThemeChanged object:nil];
}

@end

This class can then be instantiated with each of your desired schemes (one for day, one for night).
Each of your view controllers will need to access [Theme currentTheme] to retrieve the colours. They (your view controllers) can also register as an observer of the ThemeChanged notification in order to dynamically update their view's colours if/when you change the theme using setCurrentTheme:.
Day/Night detection
As for updating automatically based on the time of day you could use a repeating NSTimer with a reasonable interval, check the current time and call setCurrentTheme: with the dark theme object you created.
@interface DayNightHandler : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSTimer *timer;

@end

@implementation DayNightHandler

- (instancetype)init
{
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
        _timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1
                                                  target:self
                                                selector:@selector(checkTime)
                                                userInfo:nil
                                                 repeats:YES];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)checkTime {
    NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSCalendarUnitHour | NSCalendarUnitMinute
                                                                   fromDate:currentDate];

    NSLog(@"%@",components);

    // Very crude
    if (components.hour >= 18 || components.hour <= 6) {
        // set dark theme
    } else {
        // set light theme
    }
}

@end

You may want to swap out the crude day/night check for something a bit more solid, this is purely a high-level example intended to get you on the right track.

A: Create one property named appColor of type UIColor in AppDelegate.h File.
Create its custom getter, and add your logic for timing as well as selection from settings.
Just set color by using,
self.view.backgroundColor = ((AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]).appColor

this will execute your custom getter method and return color as per your logic.

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The CodeYard project of the Radboud University of Nijmegen is acknowlegded to be very successful: the aims of the project are all met, within planned time-frame and budget, and more people were reached.
The participating groups had a broader background than initially planned: next to secondary school students, also groups of students of colleges and universities joined the community. Also geographically, the project became broader then in the initial plans: participants from other Dutch speaking countries (Belgium and the Dutch Antilles) were joining in. Interest was expressed from France as well. CodeYard has become a synonym for innovative education. In this sense CodeYard can be seen as an incubator of Open Source in educational world.
Participants use the materials provided by CodeYard, and add their project results on CodeYard platform. Besides, they are seen to actively help each other with realizing projects. To support these communications, the project team organised a number of meetings for the participants to meet.
Quite a lot of publicity coverage was reached by the project team: Linux Magazine, Vives, TINFON, NRC Handelsblad, Linux.com, Livre.nl are the examples thereof.
Taking in account the success of the project, the Radboud University and NLnet agreed to sponsor the next stage of CodeYardi: the way to self-sustainability. NLnet will support CodeYard with 70.000€, until August 2008. CodeYard should be a self-supporting activity by that time. The focus in the coming period will be on attrackting even more publicity, binding new sponsors, and collecting the means necessary to continue the activity on permanent basis.


the District of Columbia, where the judgment was in all things affirmed, 5 D.C.App. 397, and the plaintiff has brought the record here for review.
It appeared on the trial that the record title to the lot had been at the time of his death, in one David A. Hall, who died December 24, 1870, and the heirs at law of Hall, by divers conveyances, conveyed this lot to the plaintiff in fee. The plaintiff proved also that the defendants, at the commencement of this action, were in possession of the premises through one Richard Rothwell, their tenant, and that they claimed to own the same as heirs at law of William Douglas, who died in September, 1865. The defendants, on their part, proved a deed of conveyance to William Douglas of the lot in question from the corporation of the City of Washington, the deed reciting a sale of the property for unpaid taxes assessed on the land in the name of David A. Hall, the deed being dated July 6, 1865, and recorded July 12, 1865, in the proper office. The deed was admitted in evidence to show color of title in the defendants.
"It was testified on behalf of the defendants that, sometime in the latter part of the same year, 1865, one Richard Rothwell, a stonecutter and builder, who owned and occupied an adjoining lot, deposited upon the rear of the lot in controversy some pontoons which he had purchased from the United States, and which he stored here until he could make some disposition of them, and that he afterwards used a part of this lot for the deposit of stone and marble which he used in his business. He testified that he had deposited three of four wagonloads of marble there as early as the year 1867, and that some of the pontoons remained on the lot four or five years. He also testified that in the year 1870 he commenced to deposit stone there in large quantities, and that in 1872 he erected a small shed on the lot in which to carry on his work, and which he replaced with a larger structure in or about the year 1882. "
"Sometime in the year 1867, Mrs. Douglas, the widow of William Douglas, apparently acting on behalf of his estate or of the estate of their children, had an interview with Rothwell and came to an understanding with him, with reference to his continued occupancy of the lot, in pursuance of which understanding he agreed to pay as rent to her annually therefor a sum of money equal to the amount of taxes that should annually be assessed upon it, and he did so pay rent to her until her death in 1887, and after her death he paid the rent to her daughter, a Mrs. Wirt, down to about the time of the institution of this suit. During all this time -- that is, from 1867 to 1889 -- Rothwell continued to occupy the property, and paid rent therefor to the Douglases, and the latter paid the taxes annually for all the years from 1868 to 1893, both inclusive, except for the year 1870, during which there was an interregnum in consequence of the establishment about that time of a territorial form of government in the District of Columbia, the assessment of the property having been in the name of William Douglas since the year 1868, inclusive."
"By a stipulation filed in the cause since the argument, in order to supplement some omission in the printed record, it appears that at the death of William Douglas in 1865, four of his children were adults and two minors, and that Mrs. Douglas, the widow, was appointed guardian to the two latter, and filed in her guardianship accounts for several years the annual receipts for taxes on this lot, paid by her, and was allowed credit for them by the court. It therefore appears that, with reference to this lot, she acted not for herself or on her own individual account, but on behalf of the estate that was then in her children."
had not been actually laid out in that neighborhood otherwise than by their delineation on the map of the city, and the whole region was an open field, with no definite landmarks to indicate to the casual observer the actual location of this lot."
This action was commenced on the 31st of May, 1889, and, as stated in the brief of the counsel for the plaintiff, the vital question for the jury was were the defendants in adverse possession prior to May 31, 1869? The evidence is uncontradicted that from a period as early as 1867, the defendants, through their tenant, Rothwell, were in possession of the premises, and such possession was continued up to the commencement of this action; but it is claimed that because Rothwell had entered upon the land in 1865 without claiming to own the same or to be entitled to possession, and had deposited the pontoons and marble mentioned in the foregoing statement of facts, he thereby became a tenant of the plaintiff's predecessors in title, and that he could not change the character of his possession, as being in subordination to them, by any agreement between himself and Mrs. Douglas, without giving notice to them that such an agreement had been made.
under his agreement with Mrs. Douglas, acknowledged her right, and paid her rent, and it was immaterial, so far as the heirs are concerned, that Rothwell had before that time entered upon the lot, although under no claim of title, and presumably in subordination to the title of plaintiff's predecessors. Harvey v. Tyler, 2 Wall. 328. If Rothwell were himself asserting a title by adverse possession, while coming into possession in acknowledgment of and under the title of the owners, there might be an opportunity for the application of the doctrine contended for by plaintiff, and in such case Rothwell could not set up title by adverse possession while entering in subordination to the title of the owner, unless he first vacated, and then retook possession as a hostile entry or did some act necessarily evincing an intention to put an end to his tenancy. We are not dealing with Rothwell's rights or title. The defendants did all they were called upon to do in order to take possession and inaugurate an adverse holding, when they came with their tax deed, claimed to own the property described in it, and exercised an act of ownership by letting the lot to Rothwell as a tenant at a certain rent. When Rothwell recognized the claim of ownership and remained in possession from that time in subordination to the rights of Mrs. Douglas and the heirs at law, their adverse possession, so far as this point is concerned, was sufficiently inaugurated. Mrs. Douglas was no party or privy to the prior entry of Rothwell, and therefore, whatever the circumstances as proven in this case regarding such prior entry, her rights and those of the heirs cannot be in any way affected thereby. There is no pretense of any fraud or concealment in the case by anyone, certainly not by Mrs. Douglas. Neither she nor the heirs were bound, in order to maintain their rights, to give any written or verbal notice to the former owners that they were in possession through Rothwell; nor did the possession of Rothwell, as tenant of the Douglas heirs, fail to commence at the time of this agreement because he did not give notice to the former owners of his recognition of the title and right to the possession as claimed by Mrs. Douglas.
submitted to the jury that the possession of the defendants was in all other respects adverse, within the meaning of the law upon the subject, for more than twenty years before the commencement of this action. There is no doubt that the entry of defendants by means of the agreement mentioned was under a claim of title on the part of Mrs. Douglas and those whom she represented as the heirs at law of William Douglas. There was enough to authorize the jury to find that the possession was notorious and exclusive, continuous, actual, open, and adverse. Ward v. Cochran, 150 U. S. 597.
Payment of the taxes, as described in the above statement of facts, is very important and strong evidence of a claim of title, and the failure of the plaintiff's predecessors to make any claim to the lot, or to pay the taxes themselves is some evidence of an abandonment of any right in or claim to the property. In Ewing v. Burnett, 11 Pet. 41, it was held by this Court that the payment of taxes on land for 24 successive years by the party in possession was powerful evidence of the claim of right to the whole lot upon which the taxes were paid. The same principle is held in Fletcher v. Fuller, 120 U. S. 534, 120 U. S. 552. It is some evidence that the possession was under a claim of right, and was adverse.
Although there was no fence around this lot during the period in question, yet it was occupied by the tenant for the purposes of his business -- that of marble and stone cutting -- and although every foot of the property was not covered by his material, yet it was placed upon the lot in a convenient manner to be used by him in the prosecution of his business and in a manner which showed that his possession was not in connection with any others, but was exclusive and perfect in himself.
upward of twenty years, the record owners of this property wholly neglected their duties to the public in regard to it, never sought to pay the taxes, and permitted the defendants to discharge the burden which it was incumbent upon themselves to bear, and it might well be supposed that they had abandoned the property, and acquiesced in the title which the defendants had acquired."
"To defeat the claim of the plaintiffs in this action upon the defense of adverse possession, the jury must find from the evidence that the defendants, in person or by their tenants, have for more than twenty years prior to the 31st day of Mary, 1889, held actual, exclusive, continuous, open, notorious, and adverse possession of the said premises, and they cannot extend their possession by tacking it to the prior possession of any person who, during such prior possession, did not claim any title or right to the premises."
Ward v. Cochran, 150 U. S. 597.
This charge contains a statement of all the requisites for constituting an adverse possession according to the above-cited case.
And the jury were instructed that the defense of adverse possession was an affirmative one, and that it was incumbent upon the defendants to establish it by a clear preponderance of proof, and, if the proof was equally balanced, they must find for the plaintiff.
and the taxes thereon from that time until the beginning of this suit paid by the said William Douglas or his successors in title, the defendants in this case; that at a period of time more than twenty years before the commencement of this suit, the said property was rented in behalf of the defendants to a person who took the same and held possession thereof as tenant of the defendants for the purposes of a stoneyard, paying rent therefor from the date of making such arrangement with the defendants, and that, although the said property was not enclosed by a fence, yet the person so renting the same, either upon the whole or a part thereof, during his occupancy, deposited stone used by him in his business, and that such use and possession of the said property was continued by the occupant thereof actually, exclusively, continuously, openly, notoriously, adversely, and uninterruptedly for a period of twenty years next before the commencement of this suit, then the jury is instructed that the defendants are entitled to recover."


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Great story. If i don't win, I hope you do 🙂
Reno Anderson says
And you did!!! Well done.
Linda Moore says
Anita Merriman says
Oh, how painful! I really feel for Casey.
The heavy oak doors flung open. Hundreds of watery eyes and lipsticked grins turned to greet Casey. She felt like a sacrificial lamb amongst a satanic cult. Was her father's grip tightening around her arm? She didn't even realise she had started to move. It was almost as if he was carrying her. – Really great image, paragraph.
Way to go on capturing the terror at the altar, all those thoughts as she went down the aisle (up the aisle?) Almost like seeing her life flash before her eyes.
Rhonda Valentine Dixon says
Fabulous story. Congrats.
Demi LeJeune says
Wow great job Stacey! I don't know what was my favorite line… "She felt like a sacrificial lamb amongst a satanic cult." OR "It's just like acting in a play," Both seem to capture the essence of the story so well.
I felt the walls closing in on Casey and me as I got further into the story. You truly captured the theme of isolation with someone among friends and family but not seen by any of them. Well done.
Karen Scott says
Lovely story! I could really feel her angst as it grew throughout. But I'll be honest, I really rooting for her to walk away! Congrats on your win!!
Page Craw says
How many brides marry out of obligation and/or family pressure?! Sadly, convention and duty stymied Casey's gumption and youthful spirits. The long years of regrets await – a hopeless destiny for many in this place. A sensitive tale. Thank you, Stacey.
Cathy Ryan says
Wow, Stacey! I was really, really hoping she would walk away. Love it when a story is so captivating that I care about what happens. Well done. Congratulations!
Ray Kelly says
Very nicely done, Stacey. I loved your ending.
dorothy turner says
Your writing style created an emotional stir I was not prepared for….
Thank you, for sharing ….
Bilquis Dairkee says
Great story. It is a winner. The emotions are so vivid of a woman stepping into her new life. Awaiting more stories from you.
Bilquis
Stacey Barnes says
Thank you everyone for the great feedback; I'm touched!
Hi Stacey,
Congratulations on your win. I know how important it is after working so hard on a story. I know the attitude of other readers was reflected in their comments about Casey's choice to go through with the marriage but I don't agree. Years ago women were compelled to accept a marriage proposal whether they had second thoughts or not. In today's world, I would have respected Casey's strength to walk away knowing it might be better to give herself more time to be sure. But I do appreciate your efforts and am pleased for your recognition.
Selma Martin says
Congratulations on this win, Stacey. So she went through with it. I hope the thoughts that arose were only nerves. She is after all a grown up. Doing grown up things.
We all have doubts like that. About everything.
But I do Wish brides, especially, would stand their ground if they didn't feel ready yet. Her parents chiding her about the guests this and that — that shouldn't come into play as much as it does. It shouldn't be a deciding factor.
Like I said I hope it was just nerves. Or she was taking this "mawriage" Thing too lightly.
Marriage is a constant work in progress. I wish she wanted it more than I felt she did this day.
Your theme was wonderful. Your writing exquisite. I can certainly see the win well deserved. I'm so happy for you. Do it again, please.
Happy writing. Happy celebrating for this one. You did a phenomenal job with it by bringing this to light. All parts of it. Even the darn shoes spoke. Thank you. Blessings.
Susan Liddle says
Thanks for the story. You really had me rooting for her. I was convinced that she'd escape! Good job and congrats!
Gary G Little says
What came to my mind was my own wedding. Of course … I was the schmuck waiting at the altar. We were married in the backyard of my wife's sister's home. I don't think she had time for these thoughts, for she was thinking most about her shoes not getting stuck and pulled off in the soft turf of the yard. At least that is what she told me.
When she stepped out to begin that walk … oh my yes … she was the most beautiful of them all!
Ellis says
this was a great read! i knew/hoped from the beginning that casey didn't want to get married (then it would make for a more interesting story!), and i love how you wrote about that. everyone seemed against her and like they weren't listening to her, especially her father… "He saw the bride, not the daughter" i think this line really showed that. i really wanted casey to say no and run away but she didn't… i'm disappointed haha but can totally understand the peer pressure. this was a really well written story and congrats on getting runner up!
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12 Sea Swimming Spots in Ireland that will Take your Breath Away
August 15, 2017 by Outsider	One Comment
Open water swimming is a great way to stay fit and explore the outdoor beauty of Ireland. Here are our favourite sea swimming spots in Ireland.
Ireland owes a lot of its rugged beauty to the constant battering it's received from the Atlantic Ocean over the centuries. You can enjoy its impact first hand by diving in and enjoying open water swimming. This activity has really grown in popularity in recent years and it offers a great way to get out and embrace mother nature all year round. While open water swimming also covers lakes and rivers, we've decided to focus on just sea swimming here.
Check out our top sea swimming spots in Ireland here:
1. The Forty Foot, Dublin
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One of the best known and most popular on our list, The Forty Foot draws crowds all year round. You can find people swimming off this rocky outcrop from 4am every morning in all conditions. It's easy to reach from the city centre via commuter trains. The Martello tower that overlooks Forty Foot features in the opening chapter of Ulysses and hosts a James Joyce museum, even if the author only lived there for a week. The brave among you may also want to join the congregation that tackles the Irish sea on Christmas Day.
2. Kerin's Hole, County Clare
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The closest town to Kerin's Hole is Milton Malbay and it is a spot beloved to the local residents. When the Atlantic finally wore down the access point to the pool locals worked hard to raise the money needed for the steps to be rebuilt. The pool is popular most evenings and is a picturesque location to take a dip. White Strand is also nearby and offers another spot to swim in.
3. Vico, Dublin
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Just a few kilometres around the coast from the Forty Foot is the Vico. Considerably quieter than its neighbour, Vico has long been the choice of local naturists but fear not, those in togs are most welcome too. Once you've made it down the steep steps to the waterfront you'll be greeted by a deep, inky water that offers serenity just an hours drive from the capital. As you swim you'll be able to look across to the mansions on Sorrento Terrace and those lucky enough might also spot the resident porpoise.
4. Salthill, Galway
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Impossible to miss, the Blackrock diving tower juts out into the Atlantic acting as a beacon for swimmers young and old in Galway. Built in 1954, the tower wasn't open to women until the 1970s. The tower and surrounding sea can get very busy during the summer months so perhaps one to avoid if you're looking for somewhere more secluded.
Wild swimming spots inland: 10 of the best
5. Carrick-a-Rede, County Antrim
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The kilometre long swim between Larrybane Bay and Carrick-a-Rede Island is one of the most dramatic swims in Ireland. You'll be able to hear the screams and shouts of tourists overhead as they cross the famous rope bridge to the island as you make the bracing swim below. Due to the rocky outcrops and tidal currents this is one for more advanced swimmers.
6. Pollock Holes, Kilkee
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The Holes are well known to locals for reasons which will come clear once you've traversed the rocks down to the water. They are a large network of tidal pools that are crystal clear and teaming with wildlife – including the fish that give them their name. Because of their nature, you'll need to time your visit to coincide with low tide.
7. Aughrus Pier, Connemara, Co Galway
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Nestled in Claddaghduff in the heart of Connemara, Aughrus pier is a gem of a sea swimming spot. With the option of easing yourself in gently from the beach or taking a run and jump into the clear waters of the Atlantic from the pier itself, the calm waters of Aughrus Bay is the perfect place to soak up the surrounding scenery. More often than not you will also have the place to yourself, even on a warm summer's evening.
Aughrus pier is located in Claddaghduff and is well signposted from the road. Parking is available on the pier itself.
8. Solomon's Hole, The Hook, Co Wexford
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Solomon's Hole at Hook Head in Co Wexford is a natural salt-water pool located a 300m walk south of Slade harbour. Completely surrounded by rock, it is an oasis for sea swimmers in the otherwise unpredictable waters around the Hook. This swimming spot is definitely at its best at high tide when the sea is not too rough.
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9. Badger's Cove, Dunmore East, Co Waterford
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Dunmore East is a haven for sea swimming enthusiasts. With a host of inviting bathing spots to choose from, including ladies' and mens' coves, we reckon Badger's Cove is arguably one of the best. Steep steps lead their way to a small sandy cove which is backed by imposing cliffs and a cave. Adventurous souls can swim out of the cove, where an abundance of rocks, ranging in height, are begging to be jumped off.
10. Annagh Bay, Achill Island, Co Mayo
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Tucked away, completely out of sight, Annagh Bay has to be one of the most breath-taking sea swimming spots in Ireland. Sitting adjacent to Ireland's lowest corrie, with its white sand and turquoise waters there are few places on the planet more inviting!! The only drawback is that the bay can only be accessed via foot – it's about a 1.5hour hike over the hill to get there! But with stunning views throughout, the hike in only makes the entire experience more special!
11. Portocloy, Co Mayo
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While the picture-perfect beach at Portocloy would be worthy of a place on this list, there is a swimming place even more awe-inspiring just a short distance up the coast. As you drive away from the beach to the small harbour you will see signposts for a walking route. Just beyond these signposts, you will see a gentle waterfall flowing off the emerald green land into the vibrant waters below – it is pure paradise!
12. Belmullet Tidal Pool, Co Mayo
We don't see many tidal pools in Ireland, which is a pity when you see the impressive pool at Belmullet. Located on the coastal road outside the town, the pool here is about 20m long with a smaller pool adjacent to it which is perfect for smaller kids. The pool is easily accessed thanks to human intervention in the form of ladders at either end. A lifeguard hut and portaloos are also present.
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Al Loveday
Excellent list …. just one small correction… the Pollock Holes can only be accessed at low tide-they are inaccessible at the high.