Yes, there are details in the article I linked to. She's extremely traumatized; and her eyes are damaged, and she can only see out of one.
People are fundraising online for her medical expenses, and also those of the other elder from the same (?) incident.
A good start for the blank blank person who did this would be to have to work and require him to pay her medical expenses, kind of hard to do though if he is in jail.
In that the dictionary definition of person is essentially an individual human being, yes he does. It doesn't make him someone one would want to meet though.
Yes, there are details in the article I linked to. She's extremely traumatized; and her eyes are damaged, and she can only see out of one.
People are fundraising online for her medical expenses, and also those of the other elder from the same (?) incident.
A good start for the blank blank person who did this would be to have to work and require him to pay her medical expenses, kind of hard to do though if he is in jail.
Perhaps all his possessions (assuming he has any) could be seized and sold, the proceeds being used to help his victim? If he himself is left homeless and destitute (after coming out of jail) as a result, well, maybe there's a church-run soup kitchen or night shelter nearby.
Granted, if he has a family, they should not suffer the consequences of his evil actions.
I just remembered, at least in California, when someone such as himself is fined by the court as he should be, once released they are required to make payments on that fine and if they fail to do so can be sent back to prison. This money then goes into a general fund that is used by the district attorney's office to pay for victims of crimes expenses. This can include hospital bills, as well as counseling, lost wages, and such. I hope the victim, in this case, will be able to draw on those funds. I see no reason why they should not have them available to her.
We used to have - perhaps still have - a similar system in this country, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, IIRC. Whether the funds come from fines, I couldn't say.
The BBC. Their 'Repair Shop' is such comforting and feelgood television that it is a calorie-free treat in these Lenten days - but so often, when we turn on the recording in the evening, we get *another* Covid update programme. Given how many TV news bulletins we could watch - but don't for the sake of our mental well-being - this just seems like another bandwagon being leapt upon.
Surely Auntie Beeb could realise that anyone looking to watch the Repair Shop is not going to find a Covid update a satisfactory replacement?
We used to have - perhaps still have - a similar system in this country, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, IIRC. Whether the funds come from fines, I couldn't say.
now its called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. A few years ago, when he was still at school, my son got punched in the face by a lout whizzing past on a bicycle. He needed stitches to his cut lip and was left with a scar. With the help of accurate photos done at the hospital he received around £1500 from the CICB which went a long way to funding his school trip to Bolivia.
I saw that the injured woman has received over one million dollars in a go fund me account, and she is donating it to programs to help stop racism. Good for her.
That Chrome app was working fine. So they went and updated it, and for two whole days it crashed quite literally 95% of the other apps on my phone every time I tried to open them. I have now spent a couple of hours on the internet (from the 'puter, obviously), working out how to fix it, deleting and reinstalling all the apps, and restarting the device repeatedly. A not inconsiderable amount of time was also spent swearing.
That Chrome app was working fine. So they went and updated it, and for two whole days it crashed quite literally 95% of the other apps on my phone every time I tried to open them. I have now spent a couple of hours on the internet (from the 'puter, obviously), working out how to fix it, deleting and reinstalling all the apps, and restarting the device repeatedly. A not inconsiderable amount of time was also spent swearing.
Cheers, Google.
I wonder if that's why a couple of my students were having nightmare experiences with their learning platforms over the past couple of days. Thanks for sharing this bit of hellishness; it might prove helpful.
TICTH whoever is responsible for terminating my French pension. It is only a tiny amount but I am entitled to it.
I have a suspicion that somehow my annual proof that I am alive went astray. For the first time ever I was invited to send it online. I did get an email receipt saying they now had everything they needed to continue to pay me, yet it has stopped. Unable to find an email address to contact them, I have had to resort to snail mail, using up the stamps I had bought specially to write to a former colleague/ friend for Easter.
ICTH the first wedding couple of the year. They called to arrange a meeting so I made my way out to meet them on a day with filthy weather only for them to (a) arrive 17 minutes late - and no apology; and (b) announce We've already chosen our songs* and the other music. So why waste my time?
* All things bright and beautiful, Crimond and Abide with me - dear God!
I can hardly think of less appropriate "songs" (cringe!) for a wedding. David would have felt your pain!
eta: I wonder if the reason they're having a church wedding at all is because the travel restrictions mean they can't have it on a beach in Mauritius or up a tree in Bora Bora.
I was in the choir once at a wedding where the bride and groom had picked "My Song is Love Unknown" as one of their hymns. I don't think they'd read beyond the first line.
I had a couple who insisted on having - despite my strong urging not to - "Autumn Days". Not only did no-one know it, not even the couple sang it!
And IMHO it's ghastly.
ISTM that this is about context. I too would shudder if asked to sing Autumn Days in a church service but it was a firm favourite when I was teaching. As the only church goer on the staff I was often called upon to lead assemblies and the children and staff all sang it with gusto. Most of the staff were of an age to remember some of the things mentioned in the song and the theme of thankfulness provided an opportunity for some spiritual reflection.
From what I can gather lots of people who are not church goers seem to choose songs they remember from school when they ask to be married or have a funeral in church.
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia....
From what I can gather lots of people who are not church goers seem to choose songs they remember from school when they ask to be married or have a funeral in church.
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia....
Hence, indeed, All Things B&B* - and 'One more step along the road I go'
* we were once doing the music in church, 5 of us, and while selecting music for the service, 3 of us vociferously insisted that we were not under any circumstances going to sing that. Imagine our horror, then, when the guitarist stood up just before the service began and launched into it.
We sat there like 3 stuffed otters (can't remember about the pianist) in stunned silence till he finished and sat down. What Margery Allingham referred to as 'an enduring coolth' resulted, but I stick by my refusal
My daughter has been going to church all her life and has a comprehensive knowledge of CH4. One more step along the road I go is in her wedding hymn shortlist because her fiance is Hindu, and it works for both of them.
I would have quite liked Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, but the second line, "pilgrim through this barren land" didn’t seem quite right.
Having said that, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had it at theirs, which brought forth one of the best descants I've ever heard (written by James O'Donnell, the Abbey organist).
My then-husband-to-be (later ex-husband) wanted "Turn back, o man, Forswear thy foolish ways" as our processional. I now wish that we had used it -- and that he had turned back.
I always fancied having beautiful south songs for my hypothetical wedding, Don’t Marry Her, Fuck Me on the way in and This Is The Woman You Laid coming out. But I suspect I could never get a venue to agree ...
I did a service of blessing a few years back where the couple walked in to the Agnus Dei from Fauré's Requiem.
But the best, by some margin, was in the 1980s. Naval officer groom, German bride.
The bride walked up the aisle to some of the Overture of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Hymns: Will your anchor hold in the storms of life, Eternal Father, strong to save and A safe stronghold our God is still(Ein feste burg), the last verse of which contains the immortal lines And though they take our life,
Goods, honour, children, wife,
Yet is their profit small,
The signing of the registers brought Mendelssohn's I waited for the Lord and they walked out to his Wedding March.
I attended a Vietnamese wedding where one of the hymns was I-have-no-idea, doubtless something theologically suitable--but to the tune of "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille."
TICTH the blackbird that perches on the gable of the house across the road and wakes me up each morning with its lengthy singing. How can one bird be so loud?
At least the clocks have gone forward so it now wakes me up at 6am rather than 5am!
But, but, but .... blackbirds are amazing with such a beautiful song, and I haven't seen so many around recently.
Although, saying that I used to have a bedroom under the eaves with a swifts' nest over my window, and used to be reliably wakened at dawn by one of the adults screaming out of the nest, which is a loud and rude awakening. And last summer we had a magpie nest in a tree out the back, with, count the damn things, three young raised to adulthood. That wasn't quiet or particularly melodic
We have three or four magpies around, who do a lot of shouting at each other!
Cat for hire. Cheap rates available. Bugger had his first short-tailed field vole of the season this morning.
The cat who is currently sitting in the back of the car with me (because we're queuing for the vet to have a jab for her eczema) has been taught not to bother magpies. She has been taught this by a magpie who would hop around the grass pretending to have a broken wing: cat would stalk bird, then once up close bird would explode noisily (and without broken wing) at cat. It took all afternoon, but the cat has learned.
Whatever blasted creature dissected a baby bird then left large portions of whatever- it-was on our back doorstep/ beside the greenhouse / on top of a storage shed/ along the back path.
“Just eat the damn thing please”
( local community cat out of the frame, it can’t jump neither can it see well enough anymore to hunt)
I think the most ghastly bird cry I've heard around here was when we had a pair of Oystercatchers nesting somewhere in the yard.
Beautiful birds to behold, but O! the awful fortissimo screeching they would let out if any other creature (human, beast, or bird) got anywhere near the nest was horrible to hear...
Just at the moment, we are being visited by Crows. Not sure why - normally they keep to the trees some way away - but TICTH their hideous croaking and cawing.
At VERY silly o'clock, even with the change to Summer Time...
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Yes, there are details in the article I linked to. She's extremely traumatized; and her eyes are damaged, and she can only see out of one.
People are fundraising online for her medical expenses, and also those of the other elder from the same (?) incident.
Sorry to hear about that.
A good start for the blank blank person who did this would be to have to work and require him to pay her medical expenses, kind of hard to do though if he is in jail.
Perhaps all his possessions (assuming he has any) could be seized and sold, the proceeds being used to help his victim? If he himself is left homeless and destitute (after coming out of jail) as a result, well, maybe there's a church-run soup kitchen or night shelter nearby.
Granted, if he has a family, they should not suffer the consequences of his evil actions.
Surely Auntie Beeb could realise that anyone looking to watch the Repair Shop is not going to find a Covid update a satisfactory replacement?
Grrrrrrr
now its called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. A few years ago, when he was still at school, my son got punched in the face by a lout whizzing past on a bicycle. He needed stitches to his cut lip and was left with a scar. With the help of accurate photos done at the hospital he received around £1500 from the CICB which went a long way to funding his school trip to Bolivia.
Cheers, Google.
I wonder if that's why a couple of my students were having nightmare experiences with their learning platforms over the past couple of days. Thanks for sharing this bit of hellishness; it might prove helpful.
I have a suspicion that somehow my annual proof that I am alive went astray. For the first time ever I was invited to send it online. I did get an email receipt saying they now had everything they needed to continue to pay me, yet it has stopped. Unable to find an email address to contact them, I have had to resort to snail mail, using up the stamps I had bought specially to write to a former colleague/ friend for Easter.
* All things bright and beautiful, Crimond and Abide with me - dear God!
eta: I wonder if the reason they're having a church wedding at all is because the travel restrictions mean they can't have it on a beach in Mauritius or up a tree in Bora Bora.
And IMHO it's ghastly.
MMM
ISTM that this is about context. I too would shudder if asked to sing Autumn Days in a church service but it was a firm favourite when I was teaching. As the only church goer on the staff I was often called upon to lead assemblies and the children and staff all sang it with gusto. Most of the staff were of an age to remember some of the things mentioned in the song and the theme of thankfulness provided an opportunity for some spiritual reflection.
From what I can gather lots of people who are not church goers seem to choose songs they remember from school when they ask to be married or have a funeral in church.
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia....
I fear that, never having heard of it before I looked up the words just now, I never shall be able to forget it! <projectile vomiting>
Hence, indeed, All Things B&B* - and 'One more step along the road I go'
* we were once doing the music in church, 5 of us, and while selecting music for the service, 3 of us vociferously insisted that we were not under any circumstances going to sing that. Imagine our horror, then, when the guitarist stood up just before the service began and launched into it.
We sat there like 3 stuffed otters (can't remember about the pianist) in stunned silence till he finished and sat down. What Margery Allingham referred to as 'an enduring coolth' resulted, but I stick by my refusal
Yes, that prayer was indeed answered...
Second time round was done without benefit of clergy or religion, but that prayer was still in operation, as it turned out.
Having said that, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had it at theirs, which brought forth one of the best descants I've ever heard (written by James O'Donnell, the Abbey organist).
But the best, by some margin, was in the 1980s. Naval officer groom, German bride.
The bride walked up the aisle to some of the Overture of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Hymns: Will your anchor hold in the storms of life, Eternal Father, strong to save and A safe stronghold our God is still(Ein feste burg), the last verse of which contains the immortal lines
And though they take our life,
Goods, honour, children, wife,
Yet is their profit small,
The signing of the registers brought Mendelssohn's I waited for the Lord and they walked out to his Wedding March.
They're still married.
At least the clocks have gone forward so it now wakes me up at 6am rather than 5am!
Although, saying that I used to have a bedroom under the eaves with a swifts' nest over my window, and used to be reliably wakened at dawn by one of the adults screaming out of the nest, which is a loud and rude awakening. And last summer we had a magpie nest in a tree out the back, with, count the damn things, three young raised to adulthood. That wasn't quiet or particularly melodic
Cat for hire. Cheap rates available. Bugger had his first short-tailed field vole of the season this morning.
The cat who is currently sitting in the back of the car with me (because we're queuing for the vet to have a jab for her eczema) has been taught not to bother magpies. She has been taught this by a magpie who would hop around the grass pretending to have a broken wing: cat would stalk bird, then once up close bird would explode noisily (and without broken wing) at cat. It took all afternoon, but the cat has learned.
“Just eat the damn thing please”
( local community cat out of the frame, it can’t jump neither can it see well enough anymore to hunt)
Beautiful birds to behold, but O! the awful fortissimo screeching they would let out if any other creature (human, beast, or bird) got anywhere near the nest was horrible to hear...
Just at the moment, we are being visited by Crows. Not sure why - normally they keep to the trees some way away - but TICTH their hideous croaking and cawing.
At VERY silly o'clock, even with the change to Summer Time...