In addition to telling a compelling story, Shirkers uses a variety of media — including 16mm, animation, handwritten letters, tapes, digital, Hi8, and Super8 — to reconstruct the making of Shirkers and its aftermath.
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Shirkers premieres October 26 on Netflix and in select theaters.
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Critical consensus: Shirkers currently has a score of 88 on Metacritic.
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"These men were seen as weaklings and shirkers and pushed aside," said Bean.
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Yet it is not true that most, or even many Medicaid claimants are shirkers.
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In this world there are movers, shakers, and shirkers, it turns out ("shirker" basically means "slacker").
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Sandi Tan's buzzed-about Sundance hit Shirkers was a clear standout from the True/False Festival.
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As Hochschild's informants see it, Obama's Washington cares more for shirkers and cheaters than for hard-working people.
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The film Shirkers circulated through several film worldwide film festivals throughout 2018 and is out now on Netflix.
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Shirkers can be fined up to nearly 80 Australian dollars if they fail to show at the polls.
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For example, making the first Shirkers I was probably an early bloomer and now I'm probably a late bloomer.
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But are Europe's defence shirkers really prepared to pull their weight now that Britain is on the way out?
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"Shirkers" is the director Sandi Tan's first feature — the first, at least, that anyone has been allowed to see.
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Tan, who wrote the screenplay for the original Shirkers and starred in it, was left adrift, angry and confused.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Could there be a more winsome documentary this year than Sandi Tan's Shirkers?
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Tan, who wrote the screenplay for the original (fictional) Shirkers and starred in it, was left adrift, angry and confused.
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SHIRKERS Sandi Tan revisits the footage from an unfinished movie she filmed with friends in Singapore in the early 1990s.
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What it's about: Shirkers is a documentary, a personal exploration by director Sandi Tan into what exactly happened with the footage from the original Shirkers as well as George Cardona, the mysterious American man twice her age who mentored Tan and her friends Jasmine and Sophie, shot the movie with them, and then disappeared with the footage in tow.
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Meanwhile, Shirkers on Netflix and Minding the Gap on Hulu drew almost as much attention from critics as the service's scripted shows.
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Tan, who, in the late '90s started writing film criticism and had penned the original Shirkers script, has an obvious knack for words.
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The government, he explains, has enough "self-awareness" to recognise that turning a blind eye to tax shirkers is in its political self-interest.
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Shirkers is Tan's reflection on that time in her life — and how she turned her efforts to reclaim the stolen footage into something new.
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She was 19-years-old, and alongside her two friends Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique, and her mentor Georges Cardona, they wrote and shot Shirkers.
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A merit-based system will reward great public servants, and getting rid of the shirkers will improve morale and the pride of our federal workers.
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It's one of the best films from the year so far and good news for those who weren't at the fest: Shirkers will hit Netflix soon.
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This infuses "Shirkers" with a powerful sense of loss, of chances missed and a what-might-have-been tone that isn't entirely about those stolen canisters.
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Shirkers, an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity, delivers a story of ultimate geekiness, as director Sandi Tan sketches a portrait of her younger self.
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Shirkers, which has just made the Oscar documentary shortlist competing for the award with fourteen other films, is an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity.
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Sandi Tan's Shirkers is initially about the shaggy little indie movie she and her fellow punky cinephile teens made in their native Singapore in the early 1990s.
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Many shell-shock victims were derided as shirkers; some were even sentenced to death by firing squad after fleeing the field in a state of mental confusion.
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Shirkers was on the Oscars shortlist for Documentary Feature, and it seemed like a possible contender — but though it ultimately missed a nomination, it's a must-see.
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In that way, the new Shirkers is a kind of punk feminist project — a deeply personal, fabulously engrossing, visually assured bit of first-person creative nonfiction filmmaking.
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As things stand now, though, it doesn't look good for any potential rule-violators, duty-shirkers, and other miscreants hoping to fight in New York in the future.
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With teams of volunteers manning corners to shame would-be shirkers into parking their cars, and police out in force to slap on fines, few flouted the ban.
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Shirkers, the new documentary on Netflix and the name of said film, tells the story of that summer, and what happened after Cardona disappeared with all of the footage.
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It's narrated with such animated, colorful prose, and with the mystery aspect to the film, Shirkers is a nail-biter thriller presented with the aesthetic of a DIY zine.
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It's a mesmerizing, fascinating story that also feels like an attempt, on Tan's part, to reclaim Shirkers from Cardona, putting it back in the hands of its rightful owners.
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In the U.S. Documentary competition, the Directing Award went to Alexandria Bombach for On Her Shoulders, while Shirkers' Sandi Tan won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary category.
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As teenagers in 173, Sandi Tan and her friends Jasmine and Sophie made Singapore's first indie movie, a scripted film called Shirkers — and then their American mentor absconded with the footage.
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If it is the arm-twisting, head-lopping version proclaimed by Islamic State (IS), which dismisses all Muslims but its own ardent followers as shirkers and sinners, there are few takers.
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As teenagers in 1992, Sandi Tan and her friends Jasmine and Sophie made Singapore's first indie movie, a scripted film called Shirkers — and then their American mentor absconded with the footage.
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Sandi Tan and Bing Liu were both considered top contenders for 2019 Best Documentary Oscar nominations for their films Shirkers and Minding the Gap, respectively, with Liu eventually making the final cut.
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Like a photograph slowly developing before our eyes, "Shirkers" (which was also the title of the original picture) is both mystery and manhunt, a captivating account of shattered friendship and betrayed trust.
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The premise: As a teenager in 1992, Sandi Tan and two of her friends made Singapore's first indie movie, a scripted film called Shirkers — and then their American mentor absconded with the footage.
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Shirkers, now the name of the documentary on Netflix, tells the story of the summer they shot the film and Tan's quest to piece the memories back together to reclaim the narrative that was stolen.
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It shares the same name as the film Tan had worked on in 1992, when she was just 16 years old, and this current iteration of Shirkers features beautiful footage from the original, shot on 16mm.
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This documentary, also called Shirkers, chronicles Tan's personal investigation into what happened with her film, decades after George Cardona, the mysterious man twice her age who shot the original movie with them, disappeared with the footage in tow.
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This documentary, also called Shirkers, is Tan's personal exploration into what happened with her film, produced decades after George Cardona, the mysterious man twice her age who shot the movie with them, then disappeared with the footage in tow.
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Roma didn't make this list, which could have easily gone on twice as long if it included close calls like Cold War, First Man, First Reformed, Mission: Impossible — Fallout, On Her Shoulders, Paddington 2, Revenge, Shirkers, Shoplifters, Summer 1993, and Widows.
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Along with friends Sophia Siddique Harvey and Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, as well as her mentor, Georges Cardona, Tan spent a summer writing, filming, and acting in Shirkers, an indie road-movie about a young girl played by Tan herself.
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I would never do the kinds of things he did, but I'm now his age when he was working on Shirkers with us and I understand the anxieties of somebody who might be growing older but doesn't quite feel it.
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Using a variety of media, Tan reconstructs the making of Shirkers and its aftermath, working through the story and sussing out what exactly went down and how it affected the path that she and her friends took in their lives.
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Two long-unfinished projects, Orson Welles's "The Other Side of the Wind" and Sandi Tan's "Shirkers," are now streaming on Netflix; those pictures, an earlier version of "A Star Is Born" and other butchered classics make for fascinating stories of cinematic archaeology.
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These ghostly, long-ago scenes, artifacts from a painful past, at times turn this new "Shirkers" into an act of exorcism, a purging of regrets and questions that have bedeviled the adult Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, for longer than she would like.
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Shirkers director Sandi Tan, judging from the found footage of her long-lost movie that was included in her stranger-than-fiction doc, would've made an incredible superhero movie at the age of 16—so she's certainly suited for it now, 26 years later.
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But the way Assassination Nation was snapped up as the most commercially viable bet out of a lineup heavy with more ambitious, interesting work from female directors — like The Tale, Shirkers, Skate Kitchen, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post — really set a tone for the year.
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Since this is real life and not a fictional detective story, Shirkers is a mystery film that lacks the cathartic moment of finding all the answers, and yet the digging proves therapeutic, especially as the filmmakers find solidarity among others who have been deceived by Cardona.
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Using a variety of media — including 16mm, animation, handwritten letters, tapes, digital, Hi8, and Super8 — Tan reconstructs the making of Shirkers and its aftermath, working through the story, sussing out what exactly went down and how it affected the path that she and her friends took in their lives.
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Using a variety of media — including 16mm, animation, handwritten letters, tapes, digital, Hi8, and Super8 — Tan reconstructs the making of Shirkers and its aftermathc working through the story, sussing out what exactly had happened and how it affected the path that she and her friends took in their lives.
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Sandi Tan's haunting new-to-Netflix documentary is a movie about another movie, also called "Shirkers" — a never-completed low-budget indie that she shot on the streets of Singapore the summer after high school, with the help of several friends and an American film teacher named Georges Cardona.
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Director Sandi Tan takes a deep dive into exactly what happened with the footage from the original Shirkers, a movie she made as a teenager, and with George Cardona, the mysterious American man twice her age who mentored Tan and her friends Jasmine and Sophie, shot the movie with them, and then disappeared with the footage in tow.
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The first week's highlights include Andrew Bujalski's workplace dramedy "Support the Girls" (on Friday), in which the terrific Regina Hall plays the manager and fulcrum of camaraderie at a Hooters-like Texas sports restaurant; Aaron Schimberg's conceptual but sweet "Chained for Life" (on Sunday), with Jess Weixler as an actress cast opposite a co-star who has a facial deformity (Adam Pearson, from "Under the Skin"); "Shirkers" (on Monday), a sort of memoir-mystery in which the filmmaker Sandi Tan revisits a movie she made in Singapore in the early 20312s and the circumstances that followed the shoot; and "Crime + Punishment," a documentary that trails New York Police Department officers as they challenge quota-based policing, which they say persists even though it has been banned.
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Shirkers is a 2018 documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye, 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary. Shirkers was released on October 26, 2018, on Netflix.
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An activist who was due to appear with Hancock expressed surprise that "a minister whose Government berates 'shirkers' couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to defend his own policy".
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In the summer of 1992, 19-year-old Sandi Tan, alongside friends Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique, as well as film teacher and mentor Georges Cardona, shot the independent film Shirkers in Singapore. After wrapping, Tan, Ng, and Siddique left the footage with Cardona as the trio went to study abroad for college. However, Cardona disappeared with the footage and the trio never saw or heard from him again.How a "Shape-Shifter" Director Hijacked a Teen Film for More Than 20 Years On September 11, 2011, four years after Cardona's death in 2007, Cardona's ex-wife emailed Tan, informing her that she was in possession of the footage for Shirkers, minus the audio tracks.
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They saw the Zazous as a rival and dangerous influence on youth. In 1940, 78 anti-Zazou articles were published in the press, a further nine in 1941 and 38 in 1943. The Vichy papers deplored the moral turpitude and decadence that was affecting French morality. Zazous were seen as work-shy, egotistical and Judeo-Gaullist shirkers.
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Campaigning prior to the second vote proved even more vitriolic and divisive than the first. In the wake of these setbacks, recruiting organisers pulled out all stops to meet the quotas demanded by the government. There was no neutral political space available for those who were eligible but chose not to enlist. They were typically branded as "shirkers", "traitors" and "pro-German".
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Cavalry was important at Blenheim (1704), Rossbach (1757), Eylau and Friedland (1807), remaining significant throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Even with the increasing prominence of infantry, cavalry still had an important place in armies. They often patrolled the fringes of army encampments, with standing orders to intercept and kill suspected shirkers and deserters on sight. Cavalry units also served as outpost pickets in advance of the main body.
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Shirkers made its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, at which it won the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary. Her debut novel, The Black Isle, was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2012 and was generally well received by critics and readers. Tan's novel Lurkers is forthcoming from Soho Press. She will be directing a film adaptation of Elif Batuman's novel The Idiot.
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The French filled gaps with "shirkers", workers being disciplined and youths of the 1917 class. In the British Expeditionary Force, the first conscripts arrived and on 16 October, Private Harry Farr was shot by firing squad as an example, despite extenuating circumstances. Fayolle judged that the battle should end and that the armies should wait for spring but in November, protests from senior officers like Cavan and the inspection report of Major John Gort were set aside.
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Instead he stayed in Georgia and later in 1864 commanded a camp near Macon where dismounted cavalrymen, stragglers and shirkers were organized into infantry.The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. I-XVL-2, pp. 658–659 When the area was evacuated in late 1864 Tyler returned to West Point as commander of Fort Tyler, a small square earthwork with two field guns and a large 32-pounder gun.
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Wilfred Bourne- Charley's younger brother, 'Wilf' enters the army under-age by assuming the identity of a deserter. Injured on the Western Front in 1917, Wilf transfers to the Royal Flying Corps and serves as an observer/gunner in a two-seater Bristol squadron. Captain Morgan- Wilf's pilot & commander whose previous three observers have all been killed. Morgan is a tough, hard-bitten pilot who has no tolerance for shirkers nor for the chivalrous pretensions of his fellow officers.
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Discussion at Methodist Conference, Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14299, 9 March 1912, Page 6 Anti-militarists, such as Reginald Williams of the Passive Resisters Union, and the National Peace Council also spoke out against compulsory training.The anti-militarists, New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15632, 11 June 1914, Page 9 These were all very much in the minority of public opinion, conscientious objectors being generally perceived as shirkers. Political opposition to the measures came from the socialists and Federation of Labour.
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In a message to his subordinate commanders in December 1966, he noted that "new difficulties have beset us" including "continuing attacks, serious casualties, and attacks upon our rear bases." He complained of a "considerable increase" in the number of "shirkers," many of whom "surrender and betray us." Discipline had to be restored immediately, even if it became necessary to "purge the ranks of undesirables." As Norton's men persisted in grinding down the 3rd Division still further during the next three months, Truc's superiors decided to replace him.
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In the proceeding years, Tan decided to digitize the footage and use it to make something new - a documentary about the making of the film.Shirkers: a movie mystery 25 years in the making Interviews were conducted in 2015 with Tan's friends, people involved with the making of Shirkers, and people who knew Cardona. The interviewees were Sophia Siddique Harvey, Jasmine Ng, Sharon Siddique, Philip Cheah, Ben Harrison, Foo Fung Liang, Pohshon Choy, Tay Yek Keak, Grace Dane Mazur, Stephen Tyler, and Georges Cardona's ex-wife.
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Sandi Tan (born 1972 in Singapore) is a film critic, writer, and filmmaker. After attending the University of Kent, she wrote as the film critic for The Straits Times from 1995 to 1997 before attending Columbia University's film school and earning a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. Her first short film, Moveable Feast, was her entry in the 1996 Singapore International Film Festival. Tan has worked as the director for short films Moveable Feast (1996) and Gourmet Baby (2001), but is best known for her full-length 2018 documentary, Shirkers.
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Her work colleagues regard her as a bit of a joke, and refer to her as "Wacko Jacko" or "Harry Potter"; she regards them as "shirkers and idiots". Clues gradually emerge to a troubled past. Eleanor has a badly scarred face; knows nothing about her father; spent much of her childhood in foster care and children's homes; and, as a student, spent two years living with an abusive boyfriend who regularly beat her. Twice yearly she receives a routine visit from a social worker to monitor her progress.
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In fact, those who forgot to give had their names put in the paper to remind them of their neglect. Neighbors and even family members were encouraged to whisper the names of shirkers to their block leaders so that they could persuade them to do their duty. On one occasion, a civil servant was prosecuted for failure to donate, and his argument that it was voluntary was dismissed on the grounds it was an extreme view of liberty to neglect all duties that were not actually prescribed by law and therefore an abuse of liberty.Mark Mazower (1998). Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century. p. 36. .
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In 1991 they released their debut album Shandyland on an independent label, its title track featuring a lyric (reproduced on the album's front cover) which summed up their vision of Northern life and people: "Chips and egg would make them high/But God has poked them in the eye". Two years later they released Up the Shirkers on the more established MusiDisc label, which had previously released the debut album by The Levellers, a band to whom the Tansads were often compared. Their chaotic, frenetic live shows were generating much interest, but they also began a series of regular line-up changes, with only Anderton and the three Kettle brothers remaining constant members. Guy Keegan, formerly of The Railway Children, was a member for one album.
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Originally called Nolletquesset by the Lenni Lenape Indians, the name Shark River appears on the 1686 John Reid manuscript map of East Jarsey which is the earliest existing detailed map of Monmouth County. Due to the location of the county poor farm in what is now Shark River Hills, the river and surrounding area was given the nickname of Shirk River due to the shiftless folks lazing about on the banks of the river near the poor farm. "Shack River" was also derogatorily used in describing the area in relation to the shacks and shanties in which the poor shirkers dwelled in. Revolutionary soldiers gave the nickname of Hogs Pond to the area as wild hogs roamed freely throughout the woods near the salt works there.
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The song relates the Legion's feat of arms in Tuyên Quang (1884–1885) and in Camerone (1863), the date of which (April 30) is celebrated as the Legion's anniversary. While the tune was composed prior to the Legion's departure for Mexico in the 1860s, the lyrics were progressively composed after the Franco- Prussian War since Alsatians and Lorrains flocked to the legion after the regions were annexed by Germany.Fabienne Fischer, Alsaciens Et Lorrains En Algérie: Histoire D'Une Migration, 1830–1914, p.120 The song makes also repeated reference to the fact that the Belgians are "lazy shirkers", which comes from the fact that Belgian King Leopold II, who wished to remain neutral in the Franco-German conflict, asked the French government not to commit the Belgian Legionnaires into the conflict.
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World War I was the first war in which mass media and propaganda played a significant role in keeping the people at home informed about what was occurring on the battlefields. This was also the first war in which the government systematically produced propaganda as a way to target the public and alter their opinion. According to Eberhard Demm and Christopher H. Sterling: :Propaganda could be used to arouse hatred of the foe, warn of the consequences of defeat, and idealize one's own war aims in order to mobilize a nation, maintain its morale, and make it fight to the end. It could explain setbacks by blaming scapegoats such as war profiteers, hoarders, defeatists, dissenters, pacifists, left-wing socialists, spies, shirkers, strikers, and sometimes enemy aliens so that the public would not question the war itself or the existing social and political system.
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Estimates vary of how many listeners the Feindsender had. According to Sicherheitsdienst reports, a large-scale campaign in 1941, charging Nazi Blockleiter to visit the households in their area and attach warning paper tags to receiving sets, met widespread discontent. The author of Berlin Embassy, a bilingual American who traveled widely in Germany in 1939-40, estimated that 60 percent of Germans secretly listened to foreign broadcasts at low volume. Listening to foreign radio stations has been dubbed "the little man's resistance" because, together with being friendly to forced laborers (also a crime, and punished even more harshly), and taking detours to avoid passing a Nazi memorial where one would be forced to salute (the Viscardi Way or "Shirkers' Way" in Munich) it was very common and, later, could allow individuals to claim they had never really been a Nazi.
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Hard Tack and Coffee is not about battles, but rather about how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived in camp and on the march. What would otherwise be a mundane subject is enlivened by Billings' humorous prose and Reed's superb drawings which are based on the sketches he kept in his journal during the war. The book is noteworthy as it covers the details of regular soldier life, and as such has become a valuable resource for Civil War reenactors. The volume is divided into twenty-one chapters which treat the origins of the Civil War, enlisting, how soldiers were sheltered, life in tents, life in log huts, unlucky soldiers and shirkers ("Jonahs and Beats"), Army rations, offenses and punishments, a day in camp, raw recruits, special rations and boxes from home, foraging, corps and corps badges, some inventions and devices of the war, the army mule, hospitals and ambulances, clothing, breaking camp and marching, army wagon trains, road and bridge builders, and signal flags and torches.
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In 1998, as part of HRH Prince Charles' 50th Birthday Gala televised on ITV, Atkinson returned to the Cavalier incarnation of Blackadder reading aloud a letter to the Privy Council of King Charles I. He colourfully refuses their invitation to stage a royal gala, calling such occasions "very, very, very dull" and asserting that there was "more musical talent on display when my servant Baldrick breaks wind." In 2000, on the BBC's annual Royal Variety Performance, Atkinson portrayed Blackadder as a present- day officer in "Her Majesty's Royal Regiment of Shirkers" and delivered a monologue titled "Blackadder: The Army Years," proposing that Britain regain her former greatness by invading (or at least buying) France. In 2012, as part of the Prince's Trust charity show We Are Most Amused, Atkinson and Robinson reprised their roles as Blackadder and Baldrick in a comedy sketch featuring Miranda Hart as leader of a government inquiry into the recent banking crisis. Blackadder, chief executive of a fictional British bank, appearing with Baldrick as his gardener, convinces the panel to publicly blame the entire crisis on Baldrick, to the latter's consternation.
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