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![]() ![]() That is, the conquest operated as an effort to sever connections linking Aceh with other areas and to constitute the region as an isolated periphery of the colonial state. ![]() Footnote 3 The conquest of Aceh was congruent with the incorporation of Malaya by the British, on the opposite side of the Strait of Malacca. Much emphasis has been placed, for example, on perceptions of the struggle as a “holy war.” Little has been written, in contrast, on ambivalent and multidimensional stances taking shape on both sides. While the literature has dwelt on the magnitude of the struggle and its reverberations throughout the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, it has also produced a simplistic and detrimental image of single-minded colonialists pitted against fanatical Muslims. ![]() Footnote 2 The Dutch-Acehnese war (1873–1942) was the largest, longest, and deadliest in pre-1945 Dutch colonial history. Inspired by Edward Said's statement and Willem van Schendel's work on the politics of knowledge and geographic imaginings in area studies, this article analyses the role of and linkages between knowledge, ideology, and geography in the colonial subjugation of Aceh and the Acehnese. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings. ![]() Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Barry County Sheriff’s Department Special Response Team was called to assist. When troopers arrived, Leiter initially refused to exit the RV, and officers surrounded the vehicle. Prior to troopers arriving, Leiter threatened people at the campground and started “shooting rounds into the air from a handgun he had pulled out of a backpack,” the Barry County Sheriff’s Department reported. Michigan State Police received a report of a domestic dispute involving the suspect and his girlfriend. Leiter is charged with three counts of felonious assault and one count of reckless use of a weapon in connection with the May 16 incident at the campground on Welcome Road, north of the city of Hastings. A conference had been scheduled for last week but was adjourned, court officials said. Trevor Dean Leiter is scheduled to appear for a probable-cause conference June 15 in District Court 56B. A new court date has been set for a 24-year-old Battle Creek man accused of threatening campers at the Welcome Woods campground in Carlton Township last month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I had an experience with some wild golden pheasants in Kew Gardens in London. Witness Jane Goodall's paradigm-shifting observations of the Gombe chimps. I also have a problem with scientific pronouncements of animal behaviour being taken as gospel and anecdotes considered frivolous when they actually might be even more meaningful. I always have a problem with scientists' testing of animals because we are testing them in comparison to our own intelligence not to themselves. But although it is science-based, to some extent, it is full of unproven theories and anecdotes, some of which are very charming and some which belabour the point at length. So since I liked Bernd Heinrich's Mind of the Raven and his other books on ravens, owls and geese, I prepared to meet another 5-star natural history book. I read this over Christmas mostly because a customer ordered four copies saying it was brilliant and would make great gifts. ![]() ![]() ![]() As well as its exploration of violence and the struggle to make ends meet, Pulp offers a poignant look at ageing and the limitations it brings to us. Pulp is another fantastic story by Brubaker and Phillips and I highly recommend it. As competition in the pulp market grows and money gets even tighter, Max looks to his troubled past for a way out. His stories of the Red River Kid have brought in just enough money to keep Max going through the hard times of the Great Depression. Max Winters is an aged pulp writer who pens Westerns for the booming pulp magazine market. And another must-have hardback from one of comics most-acclaimed teams.” ![]() ![]() ![]() A celebration of pulp fiction, set in a world on the brink. One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, Pulp is unlike anything the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips have ever done. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? “Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word – tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. ![]() ![]() Now, with the Information Age bringing the possibility of a truly unbreakable code ever nearer, and cryptography one of the major debates of our times, Singh investigates the challenge that technology has brought to personal privacy today.ĭramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, The Code Book will forever alter your view of history, what drives it and how private your last e-mail really was. With clear mathematical, linguistic and technological demonstrations of many of the codes, as well as illustrations of some of the remarkable personalities behind them – many courageous, some villainous – The Code Book traces the fascinating development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in Ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers, to reveal how the remarkable science of cryptography has often changed the course of history.Īmongst many extraordinary examples, Simon Singh relates in detail the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code and put to death by Elizabeth I the strange history of the Beale Ciphers, describing the hidden location of a fortune in gold, buried somewhere in Virginia in the nineteenth century and still not found the monumental efforts in code-making and code-breaking that influenced the outcomes of the First and Second World Wars. This obsession with secrecy has had dramatic effects on the outcome of wars, monarchies and individual lives. ![]() The Secret History of Codes and Code BreakingĮver since humans began writing, they have been communicating in code. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing herself as unclean trash, Teresa jumps out a window. Completely unhinged, Edward stomps out of the room. One evening at a midtown Manhattan party, Teresa confesses to Edward that she had an affair with his high-class concert manager. Turns out, Edward was once deeply in love and married to a beautiful Puerto Rican woman named Teresa. Then why, we may ask, is one of the world's greatest pianists tickling the eighty-eight at a rundown bar? It isn't until midway through the novel that we are given Eddie's backstory. In the first few pages we also come to know there is another side to cool Eddie, that is, some years ago Edward Webster Lynn, a concert pianist trained at the Curtis Institute, toured Europe and performed at Carnegie Hall, captivating and mesmerizing audiences with musical talent bordering on genius. Remaining cool, detached and emotionally uninvolved is the key note (no pun intended) of Eddie's threadbare, solitary life. Eddie acknowledges his brother but remains cool and doesn't stop playing his sweet honky-tonk music on the joint's piano. ![]() Turley ducks into a run-down neighborhood bar called Harriet's Hut and finds his brother Eddie (the novel's main character) who he hasn't seen in over six years. This gritty, hard-boiled novel by David Goodis opens with an action scene where a bloody-faced Turley Linn is running for his life through the alleys of a Philadelphia slum, fleeing from two professional hit-men. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked what I saw of The Flash in Justice League and it would be nice to just spend time with that character rather than him being shocked at how Batman is different even though he’s only spent one movie with Batman. You still haven’t fully established Barry Allen as a character yet and he should have his own standard movie before having to exist as a giant reset button for the DCEU. RT snyderall: Geoff Johns ego was so inflated by his fellow CB writers/artists & fans, that he decided to do a Flashpoint movie as the first Flash movie so he can 'save DC'. ![]() However, there are noticeable differences in the newly released Flash trailer which debuted at CinemaCon shortly before the movie itself played to highly positive reactions that reveal a few points of divergence. Personally (and I’ll have a longer article about this next week), I think Flashpoint would be a mistake at this point. Many of the core events of Flashpoint have remained the same across all three adaptations. ![]() However, Miller says that he’s still waiting to see a script for Flashpoint, and the film still doesn’t have a director. “The scale of it, the Batman story of it all.” With regards to Batman, in the Flashpoint comics, Batman is Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s father, but he could be anyone in this new big screen iteration. Johns, who has a lead creative role in the DCEU, says of the Flashpoint movie, “There’s elements in it that we’re going to be playing into that we couldn’t do anywhere else,” Johns explains. ![]() ![]() The next day four masked people break into their apartment, destroying its cheerful order while they take all their books. The police treat this as the normal disappearance of an irresponsible man but his family knows something has happened. ![]() Then one day Dash disappears leaving on the street his notebook of words, his bike, and the groceries. From one of these boxes Dash removes The First Book of Rhythms by Langston Hughes, paying a fair price for it to Al, who brings him the boxes. He does extra work processing and transporting old books to a book seller to make money for this dream house. Dash works as a library page sharing with his family his love for words and poetry. ![]() Summary: The Pearl family-Dashel, Summer, Early, and Jubilation-live in a one room apartment and dream and save for the day when they can have a house. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read most of the Sandman story as separate graphic novels bought off ebay about 10 years ago. This massive hardcover tome, over 1000 pages, collects the first 37 issues of Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking series! But he'll learn his greatest lessons at the hands of his own family, the Endless, who-like him-are walking embodiments of the most influential aspects of existence. His journey to find his place in a world that's drastically changed takes him through mythical worlds to retrieve his old heirlooms, the back roads of America for a twisted reunion, and even Hell itself-to receive the dubious honor of picking the next Devil. ![]() Upon his escape from an embarrassing captivity at the hands of a mere mortal, Morpheus finds himself at a crossroads, forced to deal with the enormous changes within both himself and his realm. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm-be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons. The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming-a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. ![]() |