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Gilan Province
Rudkhan Castle
Rudkhan Castle
Counties of Gilan Province
Counties of Gilan Province
Location of Gilan Province in Iran
Location of Gilan Province in Iran
Coordinates: 37°16?39?N 49°35?20?E / 37.2774°N 49.5890°E / 37.2774; 49.5890Coordinates: 37°16?39?N 49°35?20?E / 37.2774°N 49.5890°E / 37.2774; 49.5890
Country Iran
RegionRegion 3
 o Governor-generalArsalan Zare
 o Total14,042 km2 (5,422 sq mi)
 o Total2,530,696
 o Density180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+03:30 (IRST)
UTC+04:30 (IRST)
Area code(s)013
Main language(s)Gilaki

Tati language (Iran)

Gilan Province (Persian: , Ost?n-e G?l?n),[10] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of Mazandaran, east of the province of Ardabil, and north of the provinces of Zanjan and Qazvin.[11] It borders Azerbaijan (Astara District) in the north.

The northern part of the province is part of the territory of South (Iranian) Talysh. At the center of the province is the main city of Rasht. Other towns in the province include Astara, Astaneh-e Ashrafiyyeh, Fuman, Lahijan, Langarud, Masouleh, Manjil, Rudbar, Rudsar, Shaft, Hashtpar, and Sowme'eh Sara.

The main harbor port is Bandar-e Anzali (previously Bandar-e Pahlavi).

In antiquity, this area was a province of Persia known as Daylam (sometimes Daylaman, Dailam or Delam). The Daylam region corresponds to the modern region of G?l?n.[12]

Early history

It seems that the Gelae, or Gilites, entered the region south of the Caspian coast and west of the Amardos River (later Safidrud) in the second or first century B.C.E. Pliny identifies them with the Cadusii who were living there previously. It is more likely that they were a separate people, had come from the region of Dagestan, and taken the place of the Kadusii. That the native inhabitants of Gilan have some originating roots in the Caucasus is supported by genetics and language, as the Y-DNA of Gilaks most closely resemble that of Georgians and other South Caucasus peoples, while their mtDNA closely resembles other Iranian groups.[13] Their languages shares typologic features with Caucasian languages.[14]

Chapalak Cave, Amarlou region, Gilan, Iran

Medieval history

Gilan Province was the place of origin of the Buyid dynasty in the mid-10th century. Previously, the people of the province had a prominent position during the Sassanid dynasty through the 7th century, so that their political power extended to Mesopotamia.

The first recorded encounter between Gilanis/Deylamite warlords and invading Muslim Arab armies was at the Battle of Jalula in 637 AD. Deylamite commander Muta led an army of Gils, Deylamites, Persians and people of the Rey region. Muta was killed in the battle, and his defeated army managed to retreat in an orderly manner.

However, this appears to have been a Pyrrhic victory for the Arabs, since they did not pursue their opponents. Unlike the Rus', Muslim Arabs never managed to conquer Gilan as they did with other provinces in Iran. Gilanis and Deylamites successfully repulsed all Arab attempts to occupy their land or to convert them to Islam. In fact, it was the Deylamites under the Buyid king Mu'izz al-Dawla who finally shifted the balance of power by conquering Baghdad in 945. Mu'izz al-Dawla, however, allowed the Abbasid caliphs to remain in comfortable, secluded captivity in their palaces.[15]

The Church of the East began evangelizing Gilan in the 780s, when a metropolitan bishopric was established under Shubhalisho?.[16] In the 9th and 10th centuries AD, Deylamites and later Gilanis gradually converted to Zaidite Shi'ism. Several Deylamite commanders and soldiers of fortune who were active in the military theaters of Iran and Mesopotamia were openly Zoroastrian (for example, Asfar Shiruyeh a warlord in central Iran, and Makan, son of Kaki, the warlord of Rey) or were suspected of harboring pro-Zoroastrian (for example Mardavij) sentiments. Muslim chronicles of Varangian (Rus', pre-Russian Norsemen) invasions of the littoral Caspian region in the 9th century record Deylamites as non-Muslim. These chronicles also show that the Deylamites were the only warriors in the Caspian region who could fight the fearsome Varangian vikings as equals. Deylamite mercenaries served as far away as Egypt, Islamic Spain, and in the Khazar Kingdom.

The Buyids established the most successful of the Deylamite dynasties of Iran.

Beaker, 1100-1000 BC, Marlik

In the 9th-11th century AD, there were repeated military raids undertaken by the Rus' between 864 and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Dagestan as part of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus'.[17] Initially, the Rus' appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th century. The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913; having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged the westernmost parts of Gorgan as well as Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.

The Turkish invasions of the 10th and 11th centuries CE, which saw the rise of Ghaznavid and Seljuk dynasties, put an end to Deylamite states in Iran. From the 11th century CE to the rise of Safavids, Gilan was ruled by local rulers who paid tribute to the dominant power south of the Alborz range but ruled independently.

In 1307 the Ilkhan Öljeitü conquered the region.[18] This was the first time the region came under the rule of the Mongols after the Ilkhanid Mongols and their Georgian allies failed to do it in the late 1270s.[19] After 1336, the region seemed to be independent again.

Before the introduction of silk production (date unknown but a pillar of the economy by the 15th century AD), Gilan was a poor province. There were no permanent trade routes linking Gilan to Persia. There was a small trade in smoked fish and wood products. It seems that the city of Qazvin was initially a fortress-town against marauding bands of Deylamites, another sign that the economy of the province did not produce enough on its own to support its population. This changed with the introduction of the silk worm in the late Middle Ages.

Early modern and modern history

Gilan recognized twice, for brief periods, the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire without rendering tribute to the Sublime Porte, in 1534 and 1591.[20]

The Safavid emperor, Shah Abbas I ended the rule of Khan Ahmad Khan (the last semi-independent ruler of Gilan) and annexed the province directly to his empire. From this point onward, rulers of Gilan were appointed by the Persian Shah. In the Safavid era, Gilan was settled by large numbers of Georgians, Circassians, Armenians, and other peoples of the Caucasus whose descendants still live or linger across Gilan. Most of these Georgians and Circassians are assimilated into the mainstream Gilaks. The history of Georgian settlement is described by Iskandar Beg Munshi, the author of the 17th century Tarikh-e Alam-Ara-ye Abbasi, and the Circassian settlements by Pietro Della Valle, among other authors.[21]

The Safavid empire became weak towards the end of the 17th century CE. By the early 18th century, the once-mighty empire was in the grips of civil war and uprisings. The ambitious Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great) sent a force that captured Gilan and many of the Iranian territories in the North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, as well as other territories in northern mainland Iran, through the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723) and the resulting Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1723).[22] Gilan and its capital of Rasht, which was conquered between late 1722 and late March 1723, stayed in Russian possession for about ten years.[23]

Qajars established a central government in Persia (Iran) in the late 18th century CE. They lost a series of wars to Russia (Russo-Persian Wars 1804-1813 and 1826-28), resulting in an enormous gain of influence by the Russian Empire in the Caspian region, which would last up to 1946. The Gilanian cities of Rasht and Anzali were all but occupied and settled by Russians and Russian forces. Most major cities in the region had Russian schools and significant traces of Russian culture can be found today in Rasht. Russian class was mandatory in schools and the significant increase of Russian influence in the region lasted until 1946 and had a major impact on Iranian history, as it directly led to the Persian Constitutional Revolution.

Gilan was a major producer of silk beginning in the 15th century CE. As a result, it was one of the wealthiest provinces in Iran. Safavid annexation in the 16th century was at least partially motivated by this revenue stream. The silk trade, though not the production, was a monopoly of the Crown and the single most important source of trade revenue for the imperial treasury. As early as the 16th century and until the mid 19th century, Gilan was the major exporter of silk in Asia. The Shah farmed out this trade to Greek and Armenian merchants and, in return, received a handsome portion of the proceeds.

In the mid-19th century, a fatal epidemic among the silk worms paralyzed Gilan's economy, causing widespread economic distress. Gilan's budding industrialists and merchants were increasingly dissatisfied with the weak and ineffective rule of the Qajars. Re-orientation of Gilan's agriculture and industry from silk to production of rice and the introduction of tea plantations were a partial answer to the decline of silk in the province.

After World War I, Gilan came to be ruled independently of the central government of Tehran and concern arose that the province might permanently separate. Before the war, Gilanis had played an important role in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran. Sepahdar-e Tonekaboni (Rashti) was a prominent figure in the early years of the revolution and was instrumental in defeating Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar.

In the late 1910s, many Gilanis gathered under the leadership of Mirza Kuchik Khan, who became the most prominent revolutionary leader in northern Iran in this period. Khan's movement, known as the Jangal movement of Gilan, had sent an armed brigade to Tehran that helped depose the Qajar ruler Mohammad Ali Shah. However, the revolution did not progress the way the constitutionalists had strived for, and Iran came to face much internal unrest and foreign intervention, particularly from the British and Russian empires.

During and several years after the Bolshevik Revolution, the region saw another massive influx of Russian settlers (the so-called White émigrées). Many of the descendants of these refugees are in the region. During the same period, Anzali served as the main trading port between Iran and Europe.

The Jangalis are glorified in Iranian history and effectively secured Gilan and Mazandaran against foreign invasions. However, in 1920 British forces invaded Bandar-e Anzali, while being pursued by the Bolsheviks. In the midst of this conflict, the Jangalis entered into an alliance with the Bolsheviks against the British. This culminated in the establishment of the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic (commonly known as the Socialist Republic of Gilan), which lasted from June 1920 until September 1921.

In February 1921 the Soviets withdrew their support for the Jangali government of Gilan and signed the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship (1921) with the central government of Tehran. The Jangalis continued to struggle against the central government until their final defeat in September 1921 when control of Gilan returned to Tehran.

Administrative divisions

Map Abbreviation in map County (Shahrestan)
AS Astara
AA Astaneh Ashrafiyeh
Am Amlash
BA Bandar-e Anzali
FM Fuman
RZ Rezvanshahr
LH Lahijan
LR Langarud
RT Rasht
RS Rudsar
RB Rudbar
SS Sowme'eh Sara
SH Shaft
MS Masal
TL Talesh/hashtpar
SK Siahkal

Geography and climate

Rudkhan Castle
Bandar Anzali sea with fisherman
Asalem Khalkhal road
Rice cultivation in Lahijan, Gilan
Visadar Waterfall

Gilan has a humid subtropical climate with, by a large margin, the heaviest rainfall in Iran: reaching as high as 1,900 millimetres (75 in) in the southwestern coast and generally around 1,400 millimetres (55 in). Rasht, the capital of the province, is known internationally as the "City of Silver Rains" and in Iran as the "City of Rain".

Rainfall is heaviest between September and December because the onshore winds from the Siberian High are strongest, but it occurs throughout the year though least abundantly from April to August. Humidity is very high because of the marshy character of the coastal plains and can reach 90 percent in summer for wet bulb temperatures of over 26 °C (79 °F). The Alborz range provides further diversity to the land in addition to the Caspian coasts.

The coastline is cooler and attracts large numbers of domestic and international tourists. Large parts of the province are mountainous, green and forested. The coastal plain along the Caspian Sea is similar to that of Mazandaran and mainly used for rice paddies. Due to successive cultivation and selection of rice by farmers, several cultivars including Gerdeh, Hashemi, Hasani, and Gharib have been bred.[24]

In June 1990 large parts of the province were destroyed by a severe earthquake, in which about 45,000 people died. Abbas Kiarostami made his films Life, and Nothing More... and Through the Olive Trees based on this event.

Gilan is overwhelmingly Gilak and Talesh, with a minority of Azerbaijanis, Persians and smaller groups of Georgians, Armenians, Circassians and others.

Five Iranian languages are spoken in Gilan -- Gilaki, Taleshi, Persian, and, to a smaller extent, Tati and Kurdish. All (excluding Persian) belong to the northwestern branch of Iranian languages. Non-Iranian languages are mainly Azerbaijani, Georgian, Armenian, Circassian, and some Gypsy (Romany). Three million people speak Gilaki as their first or second language.

Year 1996 2006 2011 2016[25]
Approximate population 2,241,896 2,404,861 2,480,874 2,530,696

Rasht Municipality

Considering Gilan is mostly inhabited by Gilaks, a Gilaki Iranian culture is present in the province that is not much different from other Iranian traditions. The biggest differences are seen in foods, traditional songs, traditional clothes, rural areas and their every-day life, and other traditions such as the Gilaki Calendar and the Gilaki New Year called "Nouruz Bel" which is during the summer. This new year is distinct from the more popular Iranian New Year as it relates to the people of Gilan and their mostly agricultural life.

Gilan's position on the Tehran-Baku trade route has established the cities of Bandar-e Anzali and Rasht as ranking amongst the most important commercial centers in Iran. As a result, the merchant and middle classes comprise a significant percentage of the population.

The province has an annual average of 2 million tourists, mostly domestic. Although Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization lists 211 sites of historical and cultural significance in the province, the main tourist attraction in Gilan is the small town of Masouleh in the hills southeast of Rasht. It is built similar to the Pueblo settlements, with the roof of one house being the courtyard of the house above.

Gilan has a strong culinary tradition, from which several dishes have come to be adopted across Iran. This richness derives in part from the climate, which allows for a wide variety of fruit, vegetables and nuts to be grown in the province. Seafood is a particularly strong component of Gilani (and Mazandarani) cuisine. Sturgeon, often smoked or served as kebab, and caviar are delicacies along the whole Caspian littoral. Other types of fish such as mahi sefid, kuli, kulmeh, Caspian salmon, mahi kapur and many others are consumed. Fish roe, or ashpal, is widely used in Gileki cuisine. Traditional Persian stews such as ghalieh mahi (fish stew) and ghalieh maygu (shrimp stew) are featured and prepared in a uniquely Gilani fashion.

More specific to Gilan are a distinctive walnut-paste and pomegranate-juice sauce, used as a marinade for 'sour' kebab (Kabab Torsh) and as the basis of Fesenj?n, a rich stew of duck, chicken or lamb. Mirza ghasemi is an aubergine and egg dish with a smoky taste that is often served as a side dish or appetizer. Other such dishes include pickled garlic, olives with walnut paste, and smoked fish. The caviar and smoked fish from the region are widely prized and sought-after specialties in domestic and foreign gourmet markets. See also Cuisine of Iran.

People of Gilan[26]
nationality Percent
Gilaks and Taleshs

The Gilaki language is a Caspian language, and a member of the northwestern Iranian language branch, spoken in Iran's G?l?n Province.[27][28] Gilaki is one of the main languages spoken in the province of Gilan and is divided into three dialects: Western Gilaki, Eastern Gilaki, and Galeshi (in the mountains of Gilan). The western and eastern dialects are separated by the Sefid Roud.[29] Although Gilaki is the most widely spoken language in Gilan, the Talysh language is also spoken in the province. There are only two cities in Gilan where Talyshi is exclusively spoken: Masal and Masoleh (although other cities speak Talyshi alongside Gilaki) while Talyshi is spoken mostly in the city of Astara, Hashtpar and surrounding towns.

Persian[30] is also spoken in the province of Gilan as it is Iran's official language, requiring everyone to know Persian.

Notable people

Colleges and universities

  1. University of Guilan
  2. Islamic Azad University of Astara
  3. Islamic Azad University of Bandar Anzali
  4. Islamic Azad University of Rasht
  5. Islamic Azad University of Lahijan
  6. Gilan University of Medical Sciences
  7. Institute of Higher Education for Academic Jihad of Rasht
  8. Technical & Vocational Training Organization of Gilan
  9. Islamic Azad University of Talesh
  10. Payam-e-Noor University - Talesh

See also

  1. ^ Selected Findings of National Population and Housing Census 2011 Archived 31 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Guilan Government Province website Archived 11 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ library Great Encyclopedia of Islam - Astara
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Iranica:Manjil Archived 17 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "HugeDomains.com - TalesHan.com is for sale (Tales Han)". www.taleshan.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2018. Cite uses generic title (help)
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 July 2013. Retrieved 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018.
  10. ^ [1] Archived 17 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine University of Guilán
  11. ^ " - ? ? ? (Provinces were divided into 5 regions)". Hamshahri Online (in Persian). 22 June 2014 [1 Tir 1393, Jalaali]. Archived from the original on 23 June 2014.
  12. ^ The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley P166
  13. ^ Nasidze, Ivan; Quinque, Dominique; Rahmani, Manijeh; Alemohamad, Seyed Ali; Stoneking, Mark (2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Current Biology. 16 (7): 668-673. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511. S2CID 7883334.
  14. ^ The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia, D. Stilo, pages 137-185
  15. ^ http://original.britannica.com/eb/article-22885/Iraq#147477.hook[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ David Wilmshurst (2011), The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East, East and West Publishing, p. 166.
  17. ^ Logan (1992), p. 201
  18. ^ Charles Melville - "The Ilkhan Öljeitü's conquest of Gilan (1307): rumour and reality", in R. Amitai Preiss & D.O. Morgan (eds), The Mongol empire and its legacy, Leiden 1999, pp. 73-125
  19. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. ^ Donald Edgar Pitcher (1968). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. p. 132. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
  21. ^ Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi, 3 vols. in 4 parts, Rome, 1658-63; tr. J. Pinkerton as Travels in Persia, London, 1811.
  22. ^ William Bayne Fisher, P. Avery, G. R. G. Hambly, C. Melville. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 7 Cambridge University Press, 10 okt. 1991 ISBN 0521200954 p 321
  23. ^ The Caucasus in the System of International Relations: The Turkmanchay Treaty Was Signed 180 Years Ago ? ? Archived 29 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine p 142
  24. ^ Pazuki, Arman & Sohani, Mehdi (2013). "Phenotypic evaluation of scutellum-derived calluses in 'Indica' rice cultivars". Acta Agriculturae Slovenica. 101 (2): 239-247. doi:10.2478/acas-2013-0020.
  25. ^ "IRAN: Gilan". Archived from the original on 29 July 2020. Retrieved 2014.
  26. ^ :?/ ? ? ? ( ?){}: / ? ? : ?:? ? ? -?:?--?-- * :- ? ? * :? ( ?)? ( ?)
  27. ^ ^ Coon, "Iran:Demography and Ethnography" in Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume IV, E.J. Brill, pp. 10,8. Excerpt: "The Lurs speak an aberrant form of Archaic Persian" See maps also on page 10 for distribution of Persian languages and dialect
  28. ^ Kathryn M. Coughlin, "Muslim cultures today: a reference guide," Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. p. 89: "...Iranians speak Persian or a Persian dialect such as Gilaki or Mazandarani."
  29. ^ Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "Former Dept. of Linguistics - Northwest Iranian Project". www.eva.mpg.de. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 2018.
  30. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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Another Korean curiosity. The cab drivers roll the windows up and lock them when they drive through tunnels. SO. I’m hungover. I’m fighting the urge to shit my pants there in the cab. I’m sweating profusely and losing the battle with my nausea, the window down in the backseat, me gulping in fresh air, which is really not helping much because said air is not at all fresh. And then. Our driver rolls up the windows and locks them, for a sojourn through what must have been the worlds longest tunnel. I panicked. I swallowed vomit. I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth and prayed for salvation.

I didn’t end up throwing up in that cab, thankfully, and he did allow the windows to come back down after, but dude, it was no bueno.

At the station, we located fast food. The fact that I, the most obnoxious of photo takers, have no pictures whatsoever of our departure that day attests to the state of my being. I don’t know what fast food place we hit up, but I think it was a Lotteria. We’d had Lotteria once before in Vietnam and it was terrible, but this time, that burger and fries saved my life (but did nothing to happen the state of my intestines).

Back in Seoul, we settled in, once again at the Ramada. We then took yet another ill-fated 45 minute cab ride to a restaurant we wanted to go to for Mikey’s bday (which was that day) called Brew 3.14. We had to wander a bit and ask people for help to find it, because of course the taxi dropped us somewhat near it, but not at it, and we can’t freaking read hangul. Naturally, when we got there, it was closed. Despite all evidence that it should have been open…their sign, their facebook, their website, it just was not.

On second approach, it appeared that everything was closed. It was a Sunday. AND. Listen up, because this is an important AND. We were there during the golden holidays. Buddha’s birthday was on May 6, which was two days away. What we didn’t understand about the golden holidays is that they last a week. There’s parents day, childrens day, his day, her day, Buddha’s day, which of course affects the normal order in Seoul. Things aren’t open when they normally should be. All week long. I consulted my map and saw that Gwangjang market was nearby so we walked to that instead.

It’s supposed to be a cool place, but none of us were in the mood for winding our way through more stalls of crappy clothes (this stuff was particularly low budge) or street food. Also, the food scene was just weird, or at the least the first thing we came across was. There were people sitting in somewhat of a circle, on folding chairs, with random coolers and grills in the middle. Food strewn here and there, some of it just sitting half in plastic bags, some of it laying on coolers. I honestly couldn’t make sense of it and I was in no mood to try.

Taking another long cab ride to a place on our list that may have also been closed was extremely unappealing. We figured that since Itaewon is an expat neighborhood, things would be open, so we went there, and things were, indeed, open. We saw Bulldog’s pub; their loaded hot dogs were on my list of things to try, so we went in for a snack and drink, only to find the hotdog menu was not at all available, so ended up with the worlds most disgusting plate of “nachos”.

Yeah. If Bulldogs is on your list, you can go ahead and cross it off. This is not their only gross dish, to be sure. Also, that is sweet Korean ketchup drizzled about. Not salsa. *shudder*

We tried Vatos, knowing it would be rough, and it was. There were people all over the goddamned place waiting to get in and the wait was something like two hours. So we made a reservation for a future date and moved on. At one point, we found a sushi (or was it ramen?) spot that also had a wait, but it was a small place, so the wait was occurring outside. On rows of folding chairs, under a tent. Yep. That would be a first for me.

After enough trips up and down the street, enough restaurants with wait lists, and a desire for some red wine, we bit the bullet and settled on Vongo Tapas, http://vongo.co.kr/ fully expecting it to totally suck. Miraculously, it did not. It’s actually a nice place, comforting, with dark wood, a sizeable wine selection, a chalk specials menu, and wine glasses hanging from the bar.

The bathroom doors were pretty cute as well, with male and female silhouettes frosted on to them

We started with some boquerones

And a salad

That was a little life altering simply because I hadn’t had anything green since I can’t remember when. The wine was having a similar effect, after a week of beer, magkeolli, soju and sake.

We had their tortilla

A perfect board of Serrano ham

And one very satisfying pot of meatballs, swimming in rich tomato sauce. It was a really nice respite from our Korean/Japanese diet of the last week.

We closed the night out with a room party at the Ramada Seoul, then we recharged our batteries for our big day at the ballpark.

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    Haha, I didn’t think Busan smelled that bad… I was mostly in Haeundae area – did you notice it there just as much?
    I also know there was a lot of particulate matter wafting over from China while I was there, although I suppose that may be unrelated.

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Tyson Fury’s co-promoter Bob Arum has said a heavyweight title unification bout against Anthony Joshua will not happen this year, because Joshua will lose his upcoming fight with Kubrat Pulev.

Joshua, who holds the he WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight belts, is scheduled for a defence against Bulgarian Pulev on 20 June at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Pulev is promoted by Arum.

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“Anthony Joshua is getting knocked out. Listen, Anthony Joshua is getting knocked out at Tottenham Stadium in London by my guy, Kubrat Pulev.

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Joshua regained his titles in a rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr. in December after the Mexican-American handed the Briton his sole career loss at Madison Square Garden earlier in the year.

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Record Review: Oh No, It’s DEVO DLX RM

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DEVO: Oh No, It’s DEVO DLX RM US CD [1995]

  1. Time Out For Fun
  2. Peek-A-Boo!
  3. Out Of Sync
  4. Explosions
  5. That’s Good
  6. Patterns
  7. Big Mess
  8. Speed Racer
  9. What I Must Do
  10. I Desire
  11. Deep Sleep
  12. Part Of You
  13. Find Out
  14. Peek-A-Boo! (Dance Velocity)
  15. Peek-A-Boo! (Devo Dub)
  16. Here To Go (Go Mix Version)
  17. Here To Go (Here To Dub Version)

I’ll admit that I was not paying rapt attention to Rick Rubin and Henry Rollins’ Infinite Zero label when they surfaced with it in the mid 90s. I noted that several New Wave and Post-Punk albums came back in print due to their largesse, but I already had the Virgin UK twofers that were salted with bonus tracks and those were paid for and in my Record Cell. I was not obsessive enough about DEVO to have bothered with the Infinite Zero reissues at the time. It remained until last decade that I even bothered buying the “Shout” DLX RM and that was only because I had never bothered to hear the album at any point in time! But used, in a local bin, it gained some cachet.

There is a similar tale for the “Oh No, It’s DEVO” album. The Virgin twofer had the 12″ mix of “Peek-A-Boo!!” appended, and at the time, that had been enough for me. But last week, while at a used media emporium, I saw this edition, and I was aware that they had resale value above and beyond what the cover price was, so I snapped it up. But having heard it, I’m not flipping this disc. It is possibly the best of the DEVO Infinite Zero reissues for its generous, if slightly vexing, serving of bonus material.

First of all, this was the last classic period DEVO album that seemed to have mattered. Even so, the negative traits that caused me to abandon the spuds back in the 80s, were fully blown by the time that Roy Thomas Baker [?!] got it all down on tape. Not that it was of importance who was producing, since the band were dogged in their determination to control the whole shebang, as Brian Eno famously found out when attempting to produce their debut. Those negative traits were as follows: rigid, metronomic tempos, digital synths, a diminishing of guitars to the point of nil, and crucially, replacing Alan Myers with drum machines. The last in particular, hurt the band immeasurably to my ears.

This version of the album is singular in that it contained six bonus tracks; by far the most generous edition of this album ever. Not the least of which is the first of these, the song “Part Of You.” The track was a previously unreleased cut that from the sound of the recording, might have been an unissued track from the “New Traditionalist” sessions. The synth percussion recalls “Race Of Doom” from that record. It’s handily more vibrant than many of the tracks from “Oh No.”

devo - peekabooUS12AThe “Peek-A-Boo!!” 12″ single appeared on this edition with all three tracks given an airing. “Peek-A-Boo!! [Dance Velocity]” was a CD track on the Virgin twofer, but the 12″ B-sides also appear here, for the first [and only] time. “Peek-A-Boo!! [DEVO dub]” is a nice long dub mix clocking in at nearly 5:30, but the single’s B-side is the excellent “Find Out,” a track that I like better than most of what’s on the album! It sounds like possibly the last time that Alan Myers played acoustic drums for the band, giving the track some much-needed grounding that other mid-period tracks lack. I realize that MIDI makes it “easy” to synch every fershlugginer thing to a drum machine pulse, but that doesn’t mean that you should do it! Especially when the band in question has as deft a timekeeper as Myers was!

delo - thatsgoodUSP12AWeirdly enough, the last two bonus tracks here were from the “Here To Go” single that was released from the band’s next album, “Shout!” Even weirder, the Infinite Zero DLX RM of that title, only had the “Shout [E-Z Listening Version]” that was the B-side to the “Here To Go” 12″ single. While I appreciate having the remixes of “Here To Go” on CD, it would have made more sense on the “Shout” CD reissue. Crucially, there is a 12″ that I have that ties in with the album in question here, the “That’s Good” US Promo 12″ single. It featured promo only remixes of “That’s Good” and “Speed Racer” which by all rights should have been on this reissue, but for one reason or another, are still in digital limbo. As such, these two cuts represent an opportunity still not taken.

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  1. Echorich says:

    DEVO without the human metronome/Alan Myers driving the song is not really DEVO for me. I have to say after Freedom Of Choice there are few DEVO songs that interest me. But the first 3 albums are part of the core collection for me.

    • postpunkmonk says:

      Echorich – “New Traditionalists” is my line in the sand. I just love some of those songs so much. And it’s still pretty analog, but by ONID the dark path was abundantly clear. Digital cartoons were their future, sadly. That said, I kind of liked “Total DEVO!” Songwise, any way. I have never heard anything past that, but at this point, I might as well hear the rest. I’m considering it, any way.

  2. While I don’t disagree with the negative traits you mentioned, I love this album to pieces anyway. In part because the songs are still solid, the performances are good, but mostly because I love both the videos and “art direction” which the band kept consistent for their live shows (and still do a variation of that idea today).

    I do not have a copy to hand to verify this, but I believe the Monk is mistaken (!!) about the lack of Alan Myers on this album. He is obviously on the cover and credited on Wikipedia as having played drums on the album. “Human drum machine” INDEED!!

    There are plenty of standout tracks on this record, including “Time Out for Fun,” “Out of Sync,” “That’s Good,” “Big Mess,” “Speed Racer” and “What I Must Do,” the latter of which is still performed (along with “Peek a Boo” and “That’s Good”) at the most recent concerts I’ve seen them play.

    To me this is the last GREAT original Devo album, though I have to say that “Watch Us Work It” and Something For Everybody prove you can return to greatness with great effort. Even their later, lesser efforts had a few gems among the wreckage …

    • postpunkmonk says:

      chasinvictoria – Oh, Alan Myers was still in the band, but he was not playing acoustic drums. It was all Simmons or programming. I just listened to “Freedom Of Choice” yesterday afternoon, and the overly synthetic sheen on ONID is to its detriment, but basically, I agree. That was the last great DEVO album. I’ve not heard the new one, but I’m beginning to crack on “Smooth Noodle Maps” and saw it in the bins at the same place where I bought the DLX RM of ONID. They also had a copy of “Something For Everybody” there, but as I was buying “Slings + Arrows” the complete boxed set and season 1 of “Sherlock” on DVD, the cash for music [gasp] was diminished. Once I have the last three albums, that DEVO Rock G.P.A. can commence! By the way, thanks so much for the use of style tags in your comments!

      • Taffy says:

        i’m gonna chime in an agreement as well, that Oh, No! was the last Devo album worth investing in (altho I own Shout too, cuz Here To Go was too damn catchy to ignore).
        Meanwhile, That’s Good is one of my top three favorite Devo songs, and I can’t deny that a teeny contributing factor to that is the video, complete with french fry “penetrating” a donut. What better way for those spudboy dorks to portray sex?!

        • postpunkmonk says:

          Taffy – The wild thing was that MTV refused to play the clip for “That’s Good”… not because of the french fry animation. They were fine with sexual metaphor. What MTV objected to was the shot immediately afterward with the woman showing a look of pleasure on her face! The extended mix I refer to should have been more widely available!

  3. JT says:

    Yes, me too, ONID is the last great Devo record.

    The synths, by the way, are still analog, and this record was still pre-MIDI. The slick sheen came from other sources. I do believe that Alan physically played drums on most of the tracks, but yes, they were electronic, for sure. Watch live footage and music videos for further evidence. There is also guitar on almost every song on this record, but it is so polished and set low in the mix that you have to listen to pick it out… it often reads like another synth.

    Shout’s synths were all Fairlight and it sure sounds like it. The Fairlight was used to such great effect in obvious ways like on the early Art of Noise records, and more subtly on Kate Bush’s The Dreaming (almost every tune features Fairlight on it somewhere), but oddly, Devo and samplers just didn’t mix.

    The first truly digital synths appeared on Total Devo, which has its moments, but is for hardcore fans only. Skip skip skip Smooth Noodle Maps (knowing you to the degree that I do, Monk, I predict that you will abjectly loathe it), but do give Something for Everybody a spin. It has moments.

    • postpunkmonk says:

      JT – Yes, sampling was the ruin of many, but not Kate Bush, as you correctly point out! She and Peter Gabriel were two of the best users of the technology in my opinion. Hell, so were Heaven 17 with their paving slab percussion! It was when people realized you could bite records that any creativity went bye bye as sampled hooks and riffs predominated, sadly. Creative use of samplers was always in the minority.

      Hmmm. I think I like “Total DEVO” more than you do, which is why I’m buckling on “Smooth Noodle Maps” after 24 years! Even though I hated, HATED “Post-Post Modern Man!” I am interested in finally hearing the whole DEVO story… at least the straight albums. All of the specialty albums they have represent almost a parallel, underground career to delve into. I have the first Hardcore volume, and the RSD live from last year, but that’s about it.

  4. IIRC, my pal Phantom Third Channel and I played “Subhuman Woman” on a recent new Crusty Old Wave broadcast. That’s the test of true Devo fandom!

    As for post-ONID late-80s/early 90s albums, you could take the best bits of those records and make one pretty good Devo album out of them, I think. I’d have to review those albums again, but as I mentioned before, I can usually find a few gems in there — “Baby Doll” is one of my favourite Devo 12″ releases ever.

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Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics

Changing the World?

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics. Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon—yet the impact of these high-profile humanitarians on public awareness, government support, and mobilization of resources remains under-researched. Bringing together a diverse group of contributors from media studies and public diplomacy, Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics aims to fill that void with a new interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of celebrity activism in international relations.

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"Celebrities stir the public to handwringing, but effect few fundamental changes. . . . This well-edited book offers thoughtful analysis and recommendations on the politics and challenges behind the modern gold rush to do good deeds."—YaleGlobal Online

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Introduction: The Challenge of Transnational Celebrity Activism: Background, Aim and Scope of the Book
      Liza Tsaliki, Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos, Asteris Huliaras

Part I: Transnational Celebrity Activism, Diplomacy and Global Politics
Chapter 1: Bringing the Individuals Back in? Celebrities as Transnational Activists
      Asteris Huliaras and Nikolaos Tzifakis
Chapter 2: Celebrity Politics and Cultural Citizenship: UN Goodwill Ambassadors and Messengers of Peace
      Mark Wheeler
Chapter 3: The Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide and Celebrity Anti-war Activism
      Annika Bergman Rosamond
Part II: Transnational Celebrity Activism and Conflict
Chapter 4: ‘Creating a Groundswell or Getting on the Bandwagon? Celebrities, the Media and Distant Conflict’
      Virgil Hawkins
Chapter 5: Can Celebrity Save Diplomacy? Appropriating Wisdom through ‘The Elders’
      Henk Huijser and Jinna Tay
Chapter 6: Fighting Superior Military Power in Chiapas, Mexico: Celebrity Activism and its Limitations
      Roy Krøvel
Chapter 7: Hollywood Goes to the Eastern Mediterranean: Spiro S. Skouras and ‘Unorthodox Power’, 1940s and 1950s
      Evanthis Hatzivassiliou and Georgios Kazamias
Part III: Celebrity Activism, Global Humanitarianism and the Global South
Chapter 8: Consuming Ethics: Conflict Diamonds, the Entertainment Industry and Celebrity Activism
      Sue Tait
Chapter 9: The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism
      Riina Yrjölä
Chapter 10: Madonna’s Adoptions: Celebrity Activism, Justice and Civil Society in the Global South
      Graham Finlay
Part IV: Transnational Celebrity Activism, ‘Celebrityhood’ and Media Representations
Chapter 11: Linking Small Arms, Child Soldiers, NGOs and Celebrity Activism: Nicolas Cage and the Lord of War
      Michael Stohl, Cynthia Stohl and Rachel Stohl
Chapter 12: Calling a New Tune for Africa?  Analysing a Celebrity-led Campaign to Redefine the Debate on Africa
      Dorothy Njoroge
Chapter 13: Fame and Symbolic Value in Celebrity Activism and Diplomacy
      George Pleios
Chapter 14: Celebrity Culture and Postcolonial Relations within the Portuguese Media Landscape: The Case of Catarina Furtado
      Ana Jorge
Chapter 15: Big Dog Celebrity Activists: Barking up the Wrong Tree
      Varihi Scot
Conclusion: Making Sense of Transnational Celebrity Activism: Causes, Methods and Consequences
      Liza Tsaliki, Christos Frangonikolopoulos and Asteris Huliaras

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The Eileen Sarmenta-Allan Gomez Murders

The Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez murder case happened more than twenty four years ago and the perpetrators are already convicted and in jail. However, a single news about the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law brought this case up again. Why and what are all the fuss behind this?

The Good Conduct Time Allowance Law

On 20 August 2019, Bureau of Corrections Director General Nicanor Faeldon announced that former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez will likely to be released in two months time. In another statement, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra cited Republic Act 10592 of 2013 which increases the good conduct time allowance and a Supreme Court decision applying this law retroactively.

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“Under the Supreme Court en banc ruling released last 25 June this year, the articles under the Revised Penal Code were amended. The application for Good Conduct Time Allowance Law became retroactive. That’s why we expect that many (inmates) to be set free.”

This law gives around 10,000 inmates a chance of early release if they maintain a clean record during imprisonment including those who were detained from 1963 to 1998.

What caused the recent public uproar was the inclusion of former Calauan mayor and convicted rapist Antonio Sanchez as among the inmates to be freed by the virtue of this law. Antonio Sanchez gained notoriety during the mid-’90s when he and his men were charged of rape and murder of Eileen Sarmenta and the murder of Allan Gomez.

Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez Murder

On 29 June 1993, about 8:00 a.m., the silence of once peaceful town of Calauan was broken when two dead bodies were discovered separately. One was found at Bgy. Imok, a male body full of bruises and had gunshot wounds at the back and in the head.

The other was found inside a Toyota Tamaraw van in Sitio Paputok, Bgy. Mabacan. It was a female body that showed signs of rape before she was shot on the head.

Police identified the bodies as Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, both 4th year students from the College of Agriculture in UP Los Baños, Laguna.

Police Inspector (P/Insp.) Rizaldy Garcia of CIDG CaLaBarZon was called to investigate. Garcia arrived at the police station and found the Toyota Tamaraw van where Eileen Sarmenta was still laid, covered. Thus, he saw that she was shot on the head, her shirt was still rolled up, and a rubber shoe was still on her foot.

Garcia requested for assistance to accompany him to the separate crime scenes but no one from the police force assisted him except for the municipal ambulance driver, Aurelio Centeno. They went to the crime scenes but found only blood stains, so Garcia suspected that the crime could have started somewhere else and ended there.

He had a hard time determining the motive because of the lack of evidence in the crime scenes and there were no witnesses for him to interview. Garcia also asked for a police report but the Calauan police said there were no reports made yet. The lack of interest and assistance from the Calauan police made Garcia suspect a coverup.

After a few days, Centeno was no longer in Calauan, Laguna. Authorities found him in Metro Manila working as a “kargador” (a man tasked to carry heavy objects) and convinced him to testify and put on the government’s Witness Protection Program.

What Aurelio Centeno Knew

Reports showed that Aurelio Centeno and Sanchez’ security aide Vicencio Malabanan became star witnesses in the 16-month long trial. Their sworn statements became the basis of the prosecution’s arguments. Centeno and Malabanan admitted that they took part in the abduction but not in the subsequent rape of Eileen and the double murder.

On the night of 28 June 1993, Centeno drove the ambulance to Los Banos, Laguna and had seven passengers — Calauan deputy chief of police George Medialdea, Luis Corcolon, Rogelio Corcolon, Zoilo Ama, Pepito Kawit, Baldwin Brion, and Vicencio Malabanan. Along the way, Luis announced the real purpose of the trip. They would take a pretty young lady whom Mayor Sanchez long desired and offer her to the Mayor as a gift. Luis even assured the group that her beauty will make them drool.

The pretty young lady Luis referred to was Eileen Sarmenta whom the Mayor met during an interview for Sarmenta’s school project.

They arrived at the U.P. Los Baños grounds driving at a snail’s pace while Luis scoured the area searching. They went out of the university compound and proceeded to the Agrix complex.

Centeno overheard Medialdea informing the “boss” via the radio that they were already at the site. The “boss” they’re referring to was Mayor Antonio Sanchez.

Passengers Ama, Brion, Kawit, and the Corcolon brothers alighted from the vehicle and went inside the Agrix complex. They saw a parked Toyota Tamaraw van where Eileen and Allan were seated at the front. At gunpoint, the Corcolon brothers took the two victims by force and loaded them at the back of the van. All of them boarded the van while Centeno and Malabanan stayed in the ambulance. Both vehicles headed to Erais Farm, owned by Mayor Sanchez, in Bgy. Curba.

As soon as they arrived at the farm, the two captives were brought down the van. Eileen was gagged by a handkerchief and her hands were tied. Allan was gagged with a towel and his hands were tied, too.

The Mayor emerged from the resthouse and asked the group: “Mga anak, ano’ng problema?” (My children, what’s the problem?)

Luis replied, “Mayor, ito po yung regalo namin sa inyo. Ito po ‘yung babae na matagal na po ninyong kursunada.” (Mayor, here’s our gift to you. She’s the girl you’re longing for.”)

The Mayor replied, “Aba, ang ganda talaga ng babaeng ‘yan. Pero, sino ‘yung kasama ninyong lalaki?” (She’s really beautiful. But who’s that guy with you?)

Medialdea said, “Boss, kasama ho ‘yan ng babae ‘yung lalaki (sic). Isinama na rin ho namin para wala pong bulilyaso.” (The girl’s companion, Boss. We brought him along to avoid complications.)

Then the captives were brought inside the resthouse. Eileen was taken to the Mayor’s room, while Allan was badly beaten up by Luis, Boy, Ama, Medialdea, and Kawit in another room. It was Kawit who struck Allan’s diaphragm with the butt-end of an armalite rifle causing Allan to fall. Brion thought Allan was already dead but Kawit said, “His death will come later.

Centeno, while waiting for further orders, joined the Mayor’s other personal aides watching television in an adjacent resthouse. One of the Mayor’s aide, Raul Alorico, told Centeno that the Mayor had been waiting for the group and had become worried that they will not arrive.

At around 1:00 a.m. the next day, Luis and Medialdea dragged Eileen out of the resthouse. Her hair was disheveled, mouth covered with a handkerchief, hands still tied, and stripped of her shorts. The Mayor followed and thanked Luis and Medialdea.

O sige, mga anak, salamat sa regalo ninyo. Salamat sa regalo ninyo sa akin. Tapos na ako, sa inyo na iyan. Bahala na kayo diyan,” the Mayor said in contentment. (My children, thank you for your gift. I’m through with her. She’s all yours.) “Ano naman ang gagawin ninyo diyan sa lalaki?” he asked. (What are you going to do with that guy?)

Medialdea replied, “Boss, papatayin na rin po namin ito para wala pong bulilyaso.” (Boss, we will kill him to avoid further complications.)

The six suspects loaded Eileen and Allan into the Tamaraw van and headed for Calauan, followed closely by the ambulance driven by Centeno.

While driving the ambulance, Centeno noticed the van swayed from side to side. Then he heard gunshot coming therefrom. The van pulled over and he saw Kawit dragged Allan, whose head was already drenched in blood, out of the vehicle onto the road. Using his armalite, Kawit fired another shot on Allan. The van and the ambulance then sped away.

Upon reaching a sugarcane field in Sitio Paputok, Luis announced “Turbohin na rin natin ang tinurbo ni Boss.” (Let’s feast with the one whom Boss feasted earlier.)

The gang-rape happened at the back of the van. In between sobs and whimpers, Eileen pleaded them to stop. But her pleas landed on deaf ears. Kawit invited Centeno to join them but the latter refused as he cannot bear the bestiality being committed on Eileen who appeared to be dead.

After Kawit’s turn, Eileen knelt on the seat and begged for her life. Unmoved, Luis muted Eileen’s cries by forcing an object into her mouth and then fired his baby armalite at her.

They ordered Centeno to get rid of Eileen’s dead body. However, all eight men boarded the ambulance and proceeded to Calauan, leaving the Tamaraw van with Eileen’s remains behind. Along the way, Centeno and Malabanan watched in dismay as Luis, Boy, Medialdea, Ama, Brion and Kawit savored the night’s escapade. Centeno brought each of the passengers to their respective homes.

The Kit Alqueza or the Love Triangle Angle

However, when the bodies were found and the public demanded explanation, Mayor Sanchez and his men pointed their fingers to Kit Alqueza, son of General Dictador Alqueza, Allan’s fraternity brother, and Eileen’s ex-boyfriend. They claimed that a love triangle was the primary motive.

However, in a televised news report, it showed that Kit was brought to then Vice-President Joseph Estrada who was then the head of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC) only to be presented to the media as a prime suspect.

In an interview, Kit said that while en route to Manila, he heard over the radio that the PACC already captured a suspect, when in fact, he was only invited for questioning. The manner in which Kit was presented to the media was already off and somewhat manipulated. Thus, the public were not buying the Kit Alqueza/love triangle angle.

It was only when Centeno and Malabanan surfaced and declared their sworn statements that the whole story came to light.

The Trial

The case took 16 months, with 13 witnesses for the prosecution and 27 witnesses for the defendants.

Sanchez’s lawyers Mario Ongkiko, Antonio Bucoy, and Ernesto Brion begged off from the case following a “serious professional disagreement”. Among those left to tend for the cases were Marcelino Arias and Salvador Panelo, now chief presidential legal adviser and spokesperson of President Rodrigo Duterte.

The defense pointed out the numerous times Aurelio Centeno changed his sworn statements. However, Judge Harriet Demetriou pointed out that Centeno’s changes of sworn statements were brought out of fear from the Mayor and his men. Anyway, Centeno stood the test during the cross-examinations on the witness stand and stayed consistent with his story.

Unlike the statements of the defendants, nothing corroborates and several statements proved to be inconsistent.

The Crucial Piece of Evidence

A small piece of belt loop recovered by Maj. Lulita Chambers, a forensic chemist, on 19 August 1993 at the Erais Farm under a search warrant became a crucial piece of evidence that would link the Mayor to the crime. The belt loop came from the pair of white shorts worn by Eileen that fateful night. Laboratory examinations concluded that the belt loop matched in color, size, and fiber composition from the white shorts of Eileen.

And to make matters worse, Mayor Antonio Sanchez presented the pair of shorts a few days after claiming that his men found it while conducting their “own” investigation.

On 14 March 1995, Judge Harriet Demetriou concluded the 16-month trial and found Calauan Mayor Antonio Sanchez and several henchmen guilty of raping and murdering Sarmenta and killing Gomez.

Sanchez is currently serving seven terms of reclusión perpetua (20 years and one day to 40 years per term) for the crime. On 25 January 1999, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Regional Trial Court.

While he was accompanied out of the court, Antonio Sanchez was recorded on video cursing which already defied his “religious” character he tried to project. Until now, he denies his involvement on the crimes, shows no remorse, and blames politics for it. He planned to run for governor before the case came out.

Going Back to the Good Conduct Time Allowance

As the law’s name implies, good conduct of prisoners will merit time less than their jail sentence term. However, in the case of Antonio Sanchez, the Bureau of Corrections should be diligent and fair enough to compute his good conduct while in prison.

But how are you going to consider good conduct when in 10 October 2006, during a surprise inspection, authorities found shabu and marijuana inside Sanchez’s jail?

How are you gong to consider good conduct when in July 2010, he was caught again with 1.5 million worth of shabu concealed in a statue of the Virgin Mary?

And to add insult to the other poor inmates, on November 2015, an air conditioning unit, a refrigerator, and a flat-screen TV were seized from his jail cell during a raid.

Not only that, before the Eileen Sarmenta-Allan Gomez case, Mayor Antonio Sanchez was already charged, together with Luis Corcolon, with another double murder of father Nelson and son Rickson Peñalosa in April 1991. The case was tried and rendered its verdict in 1996. The Supreme Court affirmed the decision on 29 August 1999 making his prison sentence add up to 280 years in jail.

Yes, 280 years is too long. Hardly one can reach 100 years of age much more a life sentence. However, the purpose of serving jail time is for rehabilitation and correction. Thus the name Bureau of Corrections. They need to be rehabilitated so that society may embrace them back into the fold once done.

But few criminals show remorse and even worse, commit crime after their jail term, during parole, or after their pardon. And, to top it all, since we don’t have death penalty, the jails we have in our country become overcrowded. That’s why the Good Conduct Time Allowance was amended as part of the measure to lessen the problem of overcrowded jails.

Recently, the Senate announced that they will review the law and will try to amend it. They plan not to include those criminals who committed heinous crimes like Sanchez to avoid future public uproar. If this will push through, then the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law will serve the inmates well and better.


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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

In "A Rose For Emily", William Faulkner portrayed Emily as a young woman that latter became an obligation. She was kept in the past and kept clinging to all she had even if it was dead. First, she did not want to admit her father's death. Then after she poisoned Homer she kept clinging to his body for some time. Her voice had become dry from not talking to people and her body was a sagging bag. She had become crazy, but no one tried to help her, because they thought greatly of her. For example, after her father's death Colonel Sartoris told her she would not have to pay any taxes in that town and even after the new generation came in it stayed that way. The new mayor tried to get her to pay her taxes but after some time gave up. The reader can also see he power when she goes to the store to buy some rat poison. The guy helping her knows that there is a policy he must follow and must ask what the poison is for. He tries to get some answers before giving her the poison, but gets no where and ends up caving in and giving her the poison. Emily was once a strong woman who with time became falling and falling and that is how the name "Fallen Monument" became about. There is also some irony to the story; Emily being from the south falls in head over heals with a Northern. She even thinks about marry him when back in that time people would not do those kinds of things. She goes off and buys the necessities for the wedding and stores them in a room. This lady thought she was getting married, but Homer was "not a marring man". At the end of the story Faulkner talks about a strand of "iron-gray hair," which belonged to Emily. It was found in the bed next to Homer's rotten body. Throughout time all the town people pity her for being alone in that old home, with only her servant. Wondering if she's all right and how she is taking things. While all this time she has been at home sleeping with Homer's rotten body. Faulkner used some good techniques writing this story. "A Rose for Emily" gets one of my best ratings. All together he creates a story with a good conflict about a woman who can not let go. He show symbolism and irony in the story and puts in some good points.

Critic Michael L. Burduck suggest that Faulkner's narrator is a woman because she seems to be concerned with every detail of Emily's life. I believe this is true he also states that the narrator sees to it that Emily's story is not to be forgotten. The main character is Emily Grierson, referred to as Miss Emily throughout the story. This story has many flashbacks and is told in five sections. The story starts with the death of Miss Emily and people going to her funeral. The narrator lets us know that the men where there out of respect and the women showed up to her house out of curiosity. The house is described, as once being white and decorated, "set on what had once been our most select street. "(2) Knowing this we can assume that Emily's origins are of upper-class status, which later leads to issues with her and her father. They soon flashback to when Emily was alive to the old mayor, Colonel Sartoris. He plays an important part in Emily's life in that he after her father dies he remits her taxes "on into perpetuity." (4) Colonel Sartoris knows Emily's father left her with nothing when he died. For that reason, he made up a story to save Emily the embarrassment of accepting charity. ...

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