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Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
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Real Lies – Seven Sisters
This fun track is a throwback to my days living in London. I used to travel through the Seven Sisters area on a daily basis. Feels like a lifetime ago.
Real Lies are from London and remind me more than a little of the Pet Shop Boys.
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The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
I remembered listening to a cassette version of The Queen Is Dead on my yellow Sony Walkman! I find Morrissey a little tiresome truth be told but he had some serious game and that album saw The Smiths at just about the peak of their powers.
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Paul Simon – Born at the Right Time
This is the last of a few posts about albums that have influenced me recently. The Rhythm of the Saints recently turned 25 years old. It is one of my favorite albums of all time (I go back and forth between it and Astral Weeks) and is perhaps the most influential.
Simon’s experimentation with African and World Music and the wonderfully rich sound that was produced inspired me to investigate some of these sounds and musicians. I had a very enjoyable sojourn exploring African music and one that I’m sure I will return to in due course.
This track is a highlight of the album and I love the colorful, mythical imagery.
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His eyes as clear as centuries
His silky hair was brown
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I couldn’t resist after yesterday…
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Aey Ganpat Baja Na* …Feat. Mc Hammer You cant touch this
One of the more fun parts of the wedding in Pakistan was a ceremony called a Mehndi where various friends and family of the Bride and Groom performed dance routines. There were some impressive Bollywood moves on display!
This is the song that some of my friends danced to. That is is set to the video from MC Hammer is merely bonus…
Seamus Heaney* – Digging
I have been reading Stepping Stones while in Lahore, Pakistan over the past few days. It’s made me feel more connected to Northern Ireland than in some time.
Seamus Heaney’s journey from from rural Derry to Nobel Prize winner and Harvard Professor is still truly inspirational to me.
Aretha Franklin – (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Live)
Aretha’s still got it! This is taken from a performance at the Kennedy Centre a few days ago.
Jeff Buckley – Grace
This track is taken from the spectacular album of the same name. I had never heard anything like it before when I first came across it in high school. I was transfixed by it’s sheer intensity.
D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Betray My Heart
Continuing on my theme of albums, this is taken from one of the other albums I listening to a lot this year D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah. It’s silky smoothness got me through a long summer of running, riding buses and performing monotonous tasks.
It was released in late 2014 and signaled a return to form after a very long hiatus for the talented, if enigmatic D’Angelo.
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Getting Ready for the Paradigm Shift What is Singularity University?
By Ron Chapman & Tony Cartalucci
Apr 17, 2012 - 8:25:11 PM
Getting Ready for the Paradigm Shift
What is Singularity University?
April 18, 2012 - A paradigm shift is coming that will change everything about the way people work, learn, and interact - it will be the beginning of a new age and the shape that age takes depends greatly on the number of informed people that take part in it and where they decide to steer it. Already, the top minds across a variety of industries are converging and preparing for the shift. One such group, an educational institute called "Singularity University" comprises of innovators, teachers, scientists, and engineers from both the private and public sector. Some could be considered elitists interested in consolidating power, others are truly forward thinking and interested in a better world for all of mankind.
Singularity University Presentation (4' 41" video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs1Zw-HTtrc&feature=player_embedded
Video: An introduction as to what "Singularity University" is. It is easy to pick out good and bad people, corporations, and agendas involved in Singularity University, it is much more difficult to determine what its overall agenda is. It may be possible, if average people became informed on a large scale, to steer its agenda toward what benefits humanity as a whole, rather than a handful of corporations.
Uploaded by singularityu on Dec 21, 2009
Daniel Reda, co-Chair of the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics track at Singularity University, introduces the key concepts and breakthroughs in biotechnology and bioinformatics. Filmed during the November 2009 Executive Program at Singularity University.
[Ron: The misdirected thinking behind the establishment of this university is encapsulated in Daniel Reda's statement that: 'There's really no other institution that studies the exponential growth of information technology and how it can solve the major problems of the world.'
I beg to differ. information technology is a TOOL for human use, nothing more. It is NOT the solution to the major problems of the world. Indeed, to date it's use by governments, corporations and the military has exacerbated humanity's problems.]
The battle that will play out depends entirely on the general public becoming informed and active in the coming paradigm shift, guiding it toward a society of solidarity and progress rather than one of disparity between enslavement and superiority. Analyzing Singularity University's website and video productions, the impression is one of a multitude of ideas and directions - not a predetermined agenda, so far. [Ron: There may be no specified agenda BUT the whole tenor of this initiative seems to have a 3d scientific bent rather than a spiritual orientation. In my view that constitutes a subtly misleading agenda since mainstream science today has a non-spiritual orientation which misdirects much human effort.].
One concept that is omnipresent throughout Singularity University's activities is cutting edge technology and the possible implications it will have on society. This includes everything from 3D printing, robotics, artificial intelligence, and radical advances in genetics and biotechnology. The implications range from the ability for every individual on Earth to "print" at will any conceivable object they are able to obtain the blueprints for or design, to gene therapies capable of extending human life to centuries. [Ron: These technological manifestations need to be allowed to actually occur and to be actively shared by ALL humanity. That will require a very substantial growth in collective consciousness so that the necessary spiritual adjustments to humanity's political, societal, economic and cultural paradigms can occur. It is not enough that lots of people become knowledgable in relation to nformation and other technology - to some extent that has occurred already without noticeable spiritual changes resulting in global political, economic and societal improvements. Just ask the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Bahrain and Pakistan et al; or even the populations of the US, UK, EU et al. Humanity's problems are essentially spiritual and they require increases in consciousness about ALL aspects of life not just technology. After all, Nikola Tesla gifted numerous hugely beneficial technological patents to humanity a century ago yet most of them have not been used to improve human welfare.].
While the public is distracted with gritty political ploys, wars, and engineered destabilization, it is hoped that these emerging technologies can be meshed into the existing power structures and preserve the power of elites who have reigned over humanity for generations. Sabotaging education, ruining family and culture, and perpetuating the futile "rat race" also plays a role in keeping the vast majority of humanity out of the debate, and thus at a clear disadvantage. [Ron: Exactly so.].
Video: An amazing presentation given by Singularity University's Daniel Reda discusses the latest breakthroughs in biotechnology and bioinformatics. While some of these breakthroughs carry with them horrifying implications, they are only horrifying if the knowledge and techniques surrounding them remain monopolized in the hands of a select few. Just as many would argue against gun control and the dangers of an unarmed society subjected to the whims of a brutal dictatorship, the same could be said of a technologically and intellectually disarmed population as well.
[Ron: Although there was much interesting Gee Whiz info about genes etc in this talk I got the impression that this speaker thinks that matter is real, that we don't live in an energetic, holographic universe and that random biological events explain life the universe and everything. the mind bggles, especially if this is the future that the Singularity University is gonna propound.].
Just like Europeans arriving on the shores of the New World - with vastly superior weapons and institutions to perform a campaign of full spectrum domination over natives that has endured ever since, the global elite of today hope to assume a position of vast superiority enabled by quantum leaps in technology while the rest of us, through ploys such as "environmentalism" and "sustainable living" increasingly disarm ourselves industrially and technologically. Polluting our priorities with political issues instead of pragmatism also widens the rift of disparity between the people and the ruling elite.
What many may find as a surprise however, is that not only are there members and guests of Singularity University that are aware of this, but many are very outspoken about this issue and insistent on the masses becoming engaged and participating in the coming paradigm shift. [Ron: This aspect HAS to become dominant and MUST succeed or the exercise will be counter productiveas is the case with the current global higher education system. That change will not happen unless the existing global monetary, banking, political, education and science systems are radically reformed and that will only happen if enough people (a critical mass) begin to understand the negative aspects of those systems and actively seek to change them.].
One comment by entertainer William James (Will I Am), speaking as a guest at a Singularity University event, made the point that progress is moving at such a pace that those not involved in science and technology stand a very real danger of being left behind. James made the point that his reason for coming to Singularity University was to raise awareness of technological advances amongst people from the inner cities and inspire them to become engaged and involved directly. He also made the point that technology stands at a crossroads where it could either doom humanity or produce unthinkable benefits and pressed for caution as humanity moved forward.
Video: A panel featured at a Singularity University event featuring a wide range of views from a Hollywood monopolist, to entertainer William James, to techno-entrepreneur Elon Musk of SpaceX.
[Ron: I agree with William James' assessment. He is a very thoughtful human and I recommend that everyone listen to what he says on this video. IMHO the first and third speakers and the presenter are typical of the current system, ie they are part of the problem, not the solution. The third speaker in particular advocates that everyone should "be positive" and ACCEPT that life is great yabba, yabba, yabba.].
The points James brings up are indeed valid and in fact, the very root of the problem we now face - an ignorant population facing a profound paradigm shift that will leave them vulnerable to great exploitation should they fail to "catch up." This was a point famous astronomer Carl Sagan made during one of his last interviews where he too pointed out that civilization was increasingly built upon science and technology the vast majority of the population did not understand, and warned of the dangers that might result.
Video: One of the last interviews Carl Sagan gave, warning of the consequences of a technologically advanced civilization where the population is vastly ignorant of both science and technology.
[Ron: Carl Sagan evinced the typical arrogant ignorance of establishment science experts and commentators. He gives the impression that science is god and that anything that science hasn't been able to see and feel doesn't exist. The technological advancements that Carl Sagan trumpets, are based on false gods yet he scorns any idea that there could be any reality beyong his myopic scientific vision. In my view his ideas are part of the problem and represent the reason most of the population know little about science and technology. For me, along with Albert Einstein and julius Robert Oppenheimer et al, he epitomises the individuals that have been humanity's scientific dictators until recently.].
Those dangers include the vast majority of decisions being monopolized by very few individuals, a scientific-dictatorship of sorts, that can manipulate, abuse, and exploit the ignorance of the population with devastating results. The future we live in, Sagan explained, will be determined by those who understand the principles our modern, scientific and technological society is built on. In essence, all of the "democratic" trappings any given society may have, or may pose to fight for, are irrelevant where proper education and understanding regarding pragmatism and technical subjects is lacking, sub-par, or worse yet, non-existent.[Ron: Sagan's suggestion that 'proper education and understanding regarding pragmatism and technical subjects' are what's important typifies the global banksters' dumbing down of human consciousness and spirit. Before worrying about understanding technology, humanity MUST understand and cast out the false memes and mind control mechanisms that banksters and their minions and enablers have foisted upon mankind for aeons. Understanding communications and manufacturing technology etc is counter productive if people in society do not first reject false and enslaving mechanisms such as fiat money created out of thin air upon which interest (usury) is charged; fractional reserve banking; and domination and control of so-called democratic societies by fictional legal entities called corporations which not only function as our governments and judiciaries, but also they arrogate to their fictive personhood, rights and privileges that their secret human owners use and benefit from but which the real flesh and blood men and women that constitute society, are denied!].
For a ruling elite who presumes dominion over mankind, providing such education is almost unthinkable. [Ron: Of course, but in any event humanity must first demand its birthright which is autonomy in ALL things including the educational process.]. It is not something we will be able to ask our representatives to do for us, but something we must do for ourselves.[Ron: Actually we must change our governance systems so that those chosen to RE-PRESENT our views DO THAT! Sovereign humans must get up off their knees and organise new forms of governance if they wish to be free and secure.],No amount of "freedom" or "security" can be achieved unless we are fully informed, not simply in terms of history and the functioning of our chosen form of governance, [Ron: It isn't enough to be "fully informed" about our systems of governance,WE MUST CREATE AND CONTROL THOSE SYSTEMS!] but also in the essential subjects of science and technology that have inevitably achieved supremacy in the administration of human society.[Ron: Once we create appropriate and proper forms of governance we will automatically seek to educate ourselves and our children in essential science and technological subjects.].
Get Informed.
For the population to become informed - it would be best to follow those converging at Singularity University, and by following William James' advice, being cautious about the progress and achievements showcased there instead of blindly being caught up in the enthusiasm. The Internet is a vast resource available for anyone willing to take on the responsibility of becoming informed regarding these essential topics. Any word or concept mentioned during any of the talks featured on Singularity University's YouTube channel can easily be looked up and researched. TED Talks are another great resource for finding the very latest topics in science and technology to begin researching and understanding. TED represents another forum where both "good" and "bad" interests converge and compete in the court of opinion.
For those seeking more academic presentations, universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or Berkley University provide "open course ware," or in other words, an entire series of lectures for free on both their own websites and on YouTube.
If one has the money or opportunity to take courses in a technical trade - this too would be highly recommended. The "service economy" and much of the current economic paradigm will be swept away as emerging technologies like 3D printing, personal manufacturing, and biotechnology comes of age. Entire supply chains and even the concept of "logistics" may be radically changed or even effectively ended when all someone has to do is hit a "print" button and an object is produced before their very eyes. Biotechnology has made it possible to create artificial genetic sequences capable of producing raw materials for anything from fuel to construction materials to spare body parts. The speed at which these technologies are being developed and implemented is increasing exponentially.
[Ron: Yes Pilgrims. It's all happening! What we need to do is change our forms of governance so that we can take full advantage of the technological changes that are already with us. For instance, instead of going cap in hand to some government bureaucrat to seek a "licence" to use a biological or other 3d printer, we need to be able to do what any sovereign individual should be able to do - JUST DO IT! Abundance can be ours provided that we really want it. Do we?].
Video: Carl Bass, president and CEO of Autodesk, discusses the paradigm shift 3D printing is going to have as well as the convergence of disciplines and the need to vastly overhaul the way we approach education.
[Ron: the true meaning and implications of the rapid uptake of mechanisation, electronics, automation,computerisation, robotics and 3D printing technology for human society and human workplaces is that the steady decline in available paid employment for people heralds the end of the monetary system that has held humanity in thrall and enslavement to the banksters for centuries. That would end the wealth, power and influence of the banksters.
This 58' 25" video is fascinating in that the experts on the panel tell us in the first 20 minutes that technological developments have made our existing manufacturing and general economic system (and its associated education, and employment arrangements) obsolete. They then spend 40 minutes pfaffing about, talking about innovation and how the US can/should maintain employment and workers' quality of life by changing educational and corporate attitudes and being more innovation.
They refuse to notice let alone acknowledge the obvious conclusion to be drawn, which is that humanity needs to completely change how it thinks about living, working and producing the goods and services needed to ensure a positive human life for everyone. Yet this is a forum put on by the Singularity University and it purports to be forward looking ...
Nobody on the panel or the audience gives a thought to the possibility that technological developments in computing, electronics, robotics, 3D printing and so on, have completely undermined the old Capitalist paradigm based on scarcity and the paid employment work ethic. YET the panel's opening remarks makes clear that the need for most of humanity to work all day 5 or 6 days a week for a living are gone because computerisation, mechanisation, robots etc are making physical human labour economically uncompetitive and hence unnecessary.
The moment you acknowledge that there is no need to keep the Capitalist system the problem disappears. The Capitalist global economic system is founded on two mechanisms. First, the monetary (and its associated fractional reserve banking) mechanism. Second, and symbiotically co-dependent with that money mechanism, is the labour for income mechanism. In effect the system is based on human beings selling their labour as a commodity in the open market so that they can then buy and consume the production of that market.
However now that machines can do most of the work previously done with human labour a new paradigm is obviously needed because the greatly reduced need for paid employees means that unemployment will soar and the unemployed will have no wages and salaries with which to buy goods and services. This unemployment problem has been a growing albatross around the neck of governments in Capitalist systems at least since Einstein noted, during the Great Depression in the 1930s, that humanity had solved the problems associated with adequately producing goods and services sufficient for humanity's needs.
Sooo, if today many people do not have the option of working for a living and that number of unemployed people is set to grow hugely because paid employment is unavailable, then the monetary system, as we know it, is finished; and the capitalist economic system based on it must implode also. No one can buy goods if they don’t earn money. Similarly, companies and businesses cannot afford to produce goods and services if consumers have no purchasing power to buy them. Lastly, governments that have previously paid welfare benefits to unemployed people will cease to be able to collect sufficient income, sales and other taxes and charges to pay such unemployment benefits if only a minority of people are working, earning money, paying taxes and consuming.
This is the stark reality that the global bankster controllers have been concealing since the Great Depression by, on the one hand, fostering wars; and on the other, creating the "Welfare state" that provides social security and other benefits and payments. But as the need for workers declines below the “tipping point” at which the state ceases to be able to take enough money from those in paid employment to provide adequate “welfare” payments to the unemployed and their dependants, this jerrybuilt system must break down.
As that happens, if the current Capitalist system persists, those who control the corporations that own the machines will decide who lives and who dies and whether the process will be quick or not: unless of course the global population “wakes up” to the truth of its situation and does something about it. That is why the banksters have had a long held policy that many billions of people must die.
Of course the new economic reality in which machines do more and more work should be a boon to humanity provided that societies organise themselves in such a way as to enable the benefits of machine production to be shared equitably. If humanity eliminates the old Capitalist meme with its associated mind controlled memes about the need for people to use fiat usury money that requires that they sell their labour as a commodity, a new system designed to equitably distribute the abundance of goods and services generated by machines could begin to free up much of mankind's time and energy previously tied down by employment drudgery.
While the banksters understand the situation, most of their corporate, political, academic and commentator henchmen, may not. Clearly this Singularity University innovation forum did not understand the situation even though they told us about it. But whether people understand what’s happening or not, these changes are now upon us. Abundant Hope seeks to raise consciousness about this matter so that a critical mass of humans will help humanity to change its collective mind about it ].
Becoming aware is the first step of getting involved. Even as just a part-time hobby it would be immensely beneficial to pursue something constructive, either machining, wood working, or studying in an amateur capacity any number of scientific fields. Another topic at Singularity University that is brought up time and time again is the fact that fields of research as well as occupations are beginning to converge. Just as our forefathers were jacks of many trades, technology is once again making it possible, even necessary to have a multitude of talents and pursuits as well as a wider range of knowledge to be productive and successful in society.
As mentioned before, it is essential that people understand the world around them, understand the role large multinational corporations play in maintaining the crippling disparity between themselves and an infinitely ignorant population, and the necessity to reverse this disparity before the paradigm shift unfolds.
We must boycott those corporations, institutions, and individuals that seek to dominate humanity, and support those that believe in a future we all will benefit from. We must be ever vigilant as technology emerges that we both understand it, its benefits and dangers, and examine with due diligence the best way to implement it within our changing society. We must examine, then reexamine the leaders in industry, their motivations and agenda, and help encourage them to do what is right, while penalizing them with boycotts and alternatives when they are demonstratively harming society.
The future is in the hands of whoever reaches out and grabs it. Right now, we as a population are distracted, our heads are down, our eyes fixed to only what is directly before us. The future, no matter how many times we "vote" and no matter how vigorously we "protest," is demonstratively not in our own hands. We must get informed, we must get pragmatically involved. We must look at what the top minds across industry and innovation are doing at Singularity University, who are preparing themselves for this convergence and acceleration, and likewise prepare ourselves, lest we find ourselves on the wrong divide of an infinitely vast disparity.
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Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel English
Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie Collection
Petrie H. MSS
Probably early 1900s
Two albums. One labelled 'Scraps', which contains mainly photographs, only one of which shows Egypt (Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Gîza); the rest are British churches and historic buildings. The other album is labelled 'Post Card Album' and contains postcards showing French Prehistoric stone circles, megaliths, and chamber tombs, as well as excavations in progress.
Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel
Handwritten extracts from Journals
Two handwritten extracts of journals:
-Abridged copy of pages 203-206 from season 1883-4, handwriting not identified
-Copy by Hilda Petrie of pages 7-10 from season 1909-1910
Petrie 'Scraps' photograph album
Album, 24 x 30 cm, “SCRAPS” impressed on the cover, 52 pages, most photographs glued onto the page (using stamp-papers) or mount-slots cut into the page. Most of the photographs are commercial picture cards of locations in the United Kingdom, typically measuring 6.5 by 10.5 cm, many with printed captions, as well as Petrie's annotations. These were presumably purchased by Petrie when travelling around the country. The majority of the photographs are commercial images. Most of the photographs are listed in the order they are presented in the album.
-Tunbridge Wells, Rusthall Rocks, High Rocks
-Carshalton Church, Surrey
-Windsor Castle
-Savernake Forest
-Walton Parsonage
-Broad Street, Hereford
-Clifton Suspension Bridge
-Bristol Cathedral (interior)
-St Mary Radcliffe Church, Bristol
-Cheddar Gorge (two 10 x 16 commercial prints)
-St Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton
-Wells Cathedral (interior)
-Charmouth (multiple views, where Petrie was born and grew-up, includes a view of “our old house / Montefiore's”)
-Monkton Wylde
-Whitchurch
-Whitchurch Canonicorum Church
-Wooton House
-Forde Abbey
-Lyme Regis, landslip near
-Exeter Cathedral (interior)
-Torquay
-Antstey’s Cove
-Lustleigh Cleave
-Chagford
-Lynton
-Lynmouth
-Ilfracombe
-Durham Cathedral
-Sudley House, near Liverpool
-Ben Leagach, Glen Torridon
-Edinburgh
-Family group in the garden of a house (annotated: “Mrs Y., Mary, Wm., C. Mr. Y. Fred & Cecy”)
-Perth
-Rochester, Cathedral and Castle
-Dover Castle, St Mary in Castro [church with Roman lighthouse]
-Reculver, St Mary’s Church
-Sandwich, St Peter’s Church, St Bartholomew’s Chapel
-Stonehenge [Petrie’s own photos?]
-Avebury
-Silbury Hill
-Cromlech, The Devil’s Den
-Southampton, Bargate and The Arcades
-Netley Abbey
-Portchester Castle
-Drewsteignton, Cromlech, “The Three Spinsters”
-St Austell, Holy Trinity Church
-Mont Saint-Michel
-Bloomer Cut, near Auburn, CA
-Kessler Peak, Cottonwood Canyon, UT
-Giza, Great Sphinx and Khufu Pyramid
-“Bp. Crowther’s residence / Gbebe / River Niger”.
-Melbourne (views from the Botanic Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, The Treasury, the Yarra at Studley Park)
-Gold miners
House 13, Masset, BC
-"The Blind Beggar” by J. L. Dyckmans, National Gallery
-“The Reading Girl (La Leggitrice)” by Pietro Magni, National Gallery
-Photograph of a young man standing at the base of a rock formation. Perhaps W. M. F. Petrie? Location, probably United Kingdom, Cheddar Gorge?
-Christmas greetings card addressed to Mrs Petrie [W. M. F. Petrie’s mother] from Elizabeth Flinders Naylor, 1891
-Engraving of an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette or coffin of a bat
-Portrait of Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) (1801-1885)
Petrie 'Post Card Album'
Album, 36 x 24.5 cm, "Post Card Album” impressed on the cover, 38 pages with 192 postcards. Most of the postcards have not been used, those which have been posted are all addressed to Alfred Lionel Lewis (d. 1920), a Prehistorian and Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, also possesses a collection of Lewis’ scale models of prehistoric monuments. Most of the postcards are listed in the order they are presented in the album.
Prehistoric monuments
-Carnac
-Locmariaquer
-Le Croisic
-Champ-Dolent
-Saint-Vran
-La Rochelongue
-Glomel
-Trégunc
-Corley
-Kerien
-Saint-Nazaire
-l’île d’Oléron
-Saint-Renan
-Porspoder
-Kérangoaker
-Ploufragan
-Pleumeur-Bodou
-Plouescat
-Commequiers
-La Rochepot
-Morvan
-Solutré-Pouilly
-Draguignan
-Les Ventes
-Vallée d’Iton
-Pacy-sur-Eure
-Saint-Micaud
-Neaufles-Auvergny
-Ussy
-Berrias-et-Casteljau
-Saint-Agrève
-Saint-Cergues
-Saint-Alban-sous-Sampzon
-Souppes-sur-Loing
-Aude
-Evreux
-Bretteville
-Neuville-Bosc
-Boubiers
-Delincourt
-Yzeures-sur-Creuse
-Connerré
-Saint-Nectaire
-Martinvast
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (series produced during the C. Hauser excavations)
-Sers
-Fontenille
-Poitiers
-Roullet-Saint-Estèphe
-Bernac
-Gurat, église monolithe Saint-Georges
-Lanterne des Morts (Charente, Quercy, Cellefrouin, Château-Larcher, Vivonne)
-Aubeterre, l’eglise Saint-Jean
Several series of postcards produced for congresses
-Congrès Préhistorique de France, Autun, 1907 (Alise-Sainte-Reine, Mont Beuvray, Camp de Chassey, Solutré-Pouilly)
-IVe Congrès préhistorique de France, Cambéry, 1908 (Pierre-Châtel, Saint-Saturnin, Aiguebelette, Aix-les-Bains, Butte de Montjay, La Balme, Lac du Bourget)
-Ve Congrès préhistorique de France, Beauvais, 1909 (Trie-Château, Champignolles, Villers-Saint-Sépulcre, Champlieu, Sainte-Geneviève, Beauvais)
-XIVe Congrès d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques, Genène, 1912 (small flint figures)
Prehistoric monument
-Tervueren
-Coria (Corbridge; Corstopitum) (objects)
-Arran, Shiskine
-Penrith, “Giant’s Grave”
-Aylesford pit Kent, Bennett Coll.
Objects in museums
-Colchester Corporation Museum (The Colchester Vase, British 1st and 2nd Century vessels)
-Glastonbury Bronze Bowl
-Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (Knossos, great store-jar and fresco-painting)
-Westminster Abbey, funerary wax effigies of British Kings and Queens
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Hector Horeau Collection
Horeau MSS
Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.
Horeau, Hector
John Williams Rubbings Collection
Wiliams MSS
4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.
Karl-Heinz Kuhn Collection
Kuhn MSS
Notes, negatives, transcripts, photographs and photostats of Coptic documents.
Kuhn, Karl-Heinz
Griffith MSS
Griffith, Francis Llewellyn
Percy Edward Newberry Collection
The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and neswpaper clippings.
The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files and Research Material.
The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>
Newberry, Percy Edward
Clark MSS
late 1920s-1970
Notes, notebooks, some correspondence, annotated offprints, lantern slides and a small number of photographs and negatives.
Clark, Robert Thomas Rundle
Douglas Newbold Collection
Newbold MSS
Two volumes on the history and archaeology of the Beja tribes of the Eastern Sudan (MSS 1) and small group of detached papers / personal file (MSS 2).
Newbold, (Sir) Douglas
Griffith Institute Squeeze Collection
GI Squeezes
Paper squeezes from various sources.
Stobart, (Revd) Henry
Reginald Engelbach Collection
Engelbach MSS
Site indexes to the Journal d'Entrée and Temporary registers of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Engelbach, Reginald
Griffith K. MSS.
Two journals (trip undertaken with Amelia Edwards to America) and a box and two rolls of miscellanea.
Griffith, Kate
Kahle MSS
Card indexes, photographs, notebooks, notes, copies, correspondence, typescripts, and negatives.
Kahle, Paul Eric
Gertrude Caton-Thompson Collection
Caton-Thompson MSS
Notes, papers, correspondence, etc., on prehistoric Faiyûm.
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude
John Gardner Wilkinson Collection
Wilkinson J. G. MSS
Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.
Wilkinson, (Sir) John Gardner
Peter Le Page Renouf Collection
Renouf MSS
Correspondence.
Renouf, (Sir) Peter Le Page
Siegfried Hugo Erdmann Schott Collection
Schott MSS
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks .
(b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier.
(c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
Schott, Siegfried Hugo Erdmann
Robert Hay Collection
Hay MSS
Typescript copy of Hay's journal from 24th November 1824 to 27th October 1827, photographs of drawings made by Hay in the tomb of Neferhotp (TT49) (Griffith Institute photos. 3070-7), 13 mounted photographs made from Hay's drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada, and microfilm roll with copies of the Hay MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.
Hay, Robert
James Burton Photographs Collection
J. Burton MSS
9 mounted photographs made from drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada.
Microfilm roll with copies of the Burton MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.
Burton, James
Arthur Cruttenden Mace Collection
Mace MSS
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-2 (working with G. A. Reisner).
(2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
(3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923.
(4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923).
(5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2).
(z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
Dewey MSS
c. 1980s - 2000s
C. 10,500 colour slides (35mm) mostly of Egypt (temples, tombs and other ancient monuments), but also of different countries in the Middle East (Syria, Persia, Turkey, etc.) as well as the Far East. They are cross-referenced with an extensive card index and cover a period from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. They consist of images from virtually every site in the Egyptian Delta region and Nile Valley.
Dewey, John Frederick
Bracci MSS
c. 1750s-1773
Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.
Bracci, Pietro
Magee MSS
Complete papers, including notes (DPhil), some photographs, small group of correspondence, etc.
Magee, Diana Norma Elizabeth
Griffith Institute Stereoscopic Photographs Collection
GI Stereoscopic Photographs
1) 103 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, consisting of views of Egypt (49), China (50), Europe (3), and India (1).
2) Sawyer's View-Master Model B, black bakelite (c. 1944-1947), and twelve View-Master reels with seven pictures of Egypt each (© 1950): 3301 'Cairo, Egypt'; 3302 'The Famous Mosques of Cairo, Egypt'; 3303 'The Great Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt'; 3304 'The Tombs of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt'; 3305 'Treasures of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, Cairo, Egypt'; 3306 'The River Nile, Assuan to Cairo, Egypt'; 3307 'The Valley of the Nile, Egypt'; 3308 'People of the Nile Valley, Egypt'; 3309 'Sakkara and Memphis, Egypt'; 3310 'Luxor & El Karnak, Egypt'; 3311 'Ancient Thebes, Egypt'; and 3312 'Assuan on the Nile, Egypt'.
3) 50 stereoscopic glass positives accompanied by a handwritten numbered index of images and a Gaumont stereoscopic viewer. The positives were created in Egypt sometime between 1900 and 1914. Views include Alexandria, Cairo (street scenes and inside the Egyptian Museum), the pyramids at Giza, the Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, and Aswan.
Robert Elcum Horsfall Negatives Collection
Horsfall MSS
Negatives of Egyptian sites and monuments taken before 1914.
Horsfall, (Capt) Robert Elcum
Sayce MSS
1872-early 1930s
Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
Sayce, (Revd) Archibald Henry
Jelf MSS
Notebook containing notes on work in Theban tombs, financed by Sir Robert Mond, 1909-1910.
Printout of the booklet "Charles Gordon Jelf. Born June 8, 1886. Killed in Action October 13, 1915" (printed for private circulation, 1915); from Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford copy [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph013761443&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_OX&tab=local&lang=en_US].
Jelf, Charles Gordon
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection
Edwards A.A.B. MSS
-Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
-Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
-Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour entitled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
-Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
-Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
-First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘Katie’.
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
500-02-03 - 1100-04-04
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Watch an amazing 22-minute compilation of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s career
Mark Walters
Published: March 4, 2014Posted in: News
It’s still hard to believe the great Philip Seymour Hoffman is no longer with us. His tragic and heartbreaking death has created a void in the world of entertainment that will likely be felt for a long time. Vimeo user Caleb Slain has compiled a rather incredible 22-minute edit of some of Hoffman’s best acting moments. The end result is moving, emotional and spectacular. If anyone ever says they don’t understand why Philip was held in such high regard, tie them to a chair and make them watch this all the way through. What I noticed while watching it myself is how many roles I forgot about, which now make me anxious to revisit these great works. Hoffman made movies better just by being in them, and Caleb captured that in this moving tribute. The legacy he leaves behind is one any actor should aspire to. Rest in peace you wonderful performer, we miss you terribly.
200 hours of work went into breaking down 47 of Hoffman’s films. Compiling his legacy has been one of the most challenging experiences I’ve ever faced as an editor, and yet indescribably rewarding. I can assure you that after 22 years on screen and nearly fifty films, we now look at the work of an actor who never had a single dishonest moment on camera. I know because I’ve seen them all. Please take a breather and raise your glasses to one of our greatest.
Here’s a list of all the films and other works featured in the compilation:
2012 A Late Quartet
2012 The Master
2011 Moneyball
2011 The Ides of March
2010 Jack Goes Boating
2009 The Invention of Lying
2009 Pirate Radio
2009 Mary and Max
2008 Synecdoche, New York
2007 Charlie Wilson’s War
2007 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2007 The Savages
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2005 Capote
2005 Empire Falls (TV Movie)
2004 Along Came Polly
2003 Cold Mountain
2003 Mattress Man Commercial (Video short)
2003 Owning Mahowny
2002 25th Hour
2002 Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Love Liza
2000 Almost Famous
2000 State and Main
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 Magnolia
1999 Flawless
1998 Patch Adams
1998 The Big Lebowski
1998 Next Stop Wonderland
1998 Montana
1997 Boogie Nights
1996 Hard Eight
1994 Nobody’s Fool
1994 When a Man Loves a Woman
1993 Money for Nothing
1993 My Boyfriend’s Back
1992 Scent of a Woman
1991 Law & Order
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff.
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Land Rover to support wounded soldiers’ rehabilitation program via Race2recovery Dakar Rally Dream
201218 Jun
Posted in Dakar Rally Dream, Land Rover, Race2Recovery, Dakar Rally 2013, Pharaohs Rally Raid, Land Rover Discovery, Help for Heroes
By Mukul Sarkar
Race2Recovery Team and Car
Land Rover has taken the major decision of extending sponsorship support for a team of wounded soldiers. Since these maimed brave men look for opportunities to come out of their injuries, this ‘automobile’ support will provide them a perfect platform to delve into a top-tier arduous off-road racing challenge. The next Dakar Rally will be special from the point of view that in its history the first participation instance of an amputee driver and co-driver will take place.
Land Rover’s sponsorship of the Race2Recovery project will cover a 31-strong amateur rally team, including the brave soldiers who have been seriously injured but have not lost their zeal. It will help them to fulfil their dream of getting engrossed in the thrills of the famed action-packed Dakar Rally in January next year. Moreover, the raised money will be utilised for charity purposes, such as contribution to ‘Help for Heroes’ with an eye on wounded soldiers’ recovery and rehabilitation programs.
Land Rover’s association with Race2Recovery includes the delivery of Land Rover engines for their actual utilisation in the team’s race vehicles, Land Rover Discovery support vehicles and off-road driving training. That is not all; comprehensive spares and parts supply facility, besides providing promotional and PR coverage and marketing and financial assistance are also parts of Land Rover’s support purview. All these facilities and financial help will indeed play a big role in better managing the team’s logistical and management activities, generally a cost-consuming affair.
The four Qt Wildcat rally raid vehicles under the hood of Race2Recovery at the Dakar Rally arena have close similarities with Land Rover Defender in both running gear and external visual aspects as well. Engines, axles and some cosmetic parts are some of the quality ingredients of Land Rover vehicles that have been reserved on the Wildcat.
Commenting on the grand initiative, Mark Cameron, Land Rover Brand Experience Director, Global Marketing, said: “Race2Recovery truly exemplifies ‘enduring human spirit’ and powerfully symbolises hope for all servicemen, and indeed civilians, recovering from disabilities caused by serious injury. We are proud to support the team’s efforts to complete this incredible feat and raise funds for the service charities that helped them in their own recovery and rehabilitation.”
“Competing in the Dakar Rally will challenge the team to go beyond their life-changing events. The determination and mental attitude required by the team to take part in the world’s toughest rally raid epitomises the human spirit of adventure, determination and teamwork. Land Rover is pleased to support the rehabilitation of the courageous individuals within the team, and to help them positively impact on a much larger number of their fellow service personnel through the money they are raising,” Cameron further added.
Established last year by a group of injured warriors, Race2Recovery is a challenging cross-country racing and aims at participating in the Dakar Rally in full gear.
The Race2Recovery Dakar team includes the following:
- Driver Captain Tony Harris (one leg amputated below knee)
- Co-driver Corporal Tom Neathway (triple amputee)
- Team Manager Warrant Officer Andrew ‘Pav’ Taylor (spinal fusion)
- Co-driver Corporal Phillip Gillespie (leg amputated below knee)
- Mechanic Corporal Wayne Williams (paralysed vocal cord)
The entire team will leverage rich advantage from the presence of experienced rally raid biggies, such as Pierre de Frenne, Team Principal, and Quinn Evans, a co-driver who hit the fourth place in the Dakar.
Besides its involvement with the rehabilitation of wounded ex-servicemen, Race2Recovery also strives at raising money for Tedworth House, a military personnel recovery and assessment centre part funded by the Help for Heroes charity.
“Race2Recovery is immensely proud that Land Rover has chosen to support our ethos and determination to succeed in the Dakar,” said Captain Tony Harris, driver of one of the Dakar Wildcats. “Our team recognises the power and strength of Land Rover-based products and technology and it’s reflected in our choice of vehicle for this project…For all of us on the team, this is an opportunity to push the boundaries of the possible and to challenge the human spirit of adventure and ensure that our injuries do not dictate our lives. We are incredibly grateful for Land Rover’s backing for our comrades, colleagues and families who still require on-going care and support,” Harris further added.
To strengthen the preparation ground before hitting the Dakar Rally track, the Race2Recovery team will participate in a slew of competitive rallies during the next seven months, including the Pharaohs Rally Raid in Egypt in October.
The Dakar Rally Raid will throw a challenge to the team to cross over 5,000 miles (9,000 km) in 15 days through a vast tract of Latin American countries, including Peru, Argentina and Chile in January next year. It is expected that the rally cars will achieve a speed of 70-120mph while covering up to 700km per day. This event will be marked by some of the most difficult terrains in the world. Naturally, the driving teams, including their drivers, mechanics as well as the competing vehicles go through a tough phase of stress and anxiety during such meets. However, iron-will of the ex-army men will motivate them through the entire route.
Fans motor racing enthusiasts will get the opportunity to hook up with the Race2Recovery team and get closer to the competing vehicles at several places in this month. The Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in Cheshire (June 15th to 17th) and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex (June 28th to July 1st).are some of the names worth mentioning in this regard.
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Kulture leads at completion of First Round in National Over-40 Football Tournament 2017
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 20, 2017–With still a back-match in hand, undefeated Kulture Yabra Veterans lead the National Over-40 Football standings at the completion of the first round-robin; while their fellow Belize City squad, Pickstock Lake-I, who share the backmatch with Kulture, are still winless at the bottom of the standings. (See standings below.)
8 teams are in the double round-robin competition, and Week 7 games this past weekend completed the first round-robin, with 1 back-match remaining between Kulture Yabra and Pickstock Lake-I. Week 7 consisted of 3 Saturday games and 1 on Sunday.
The first game on Saturday started at 4:00 p.m. at the Amin Hegar Field in Benque Viejo, and saw Mangro Creek Veterans come away with the 3-2 win over home standing Benque Veterans. (Benque normally plays on Sunday, but the game was played on Saturday “for financial support due to Benque Fiesta.”) Due to a bit of confusion resulting from the game date change, we so far only have the goal scorers for Mango Creek, who were Melvin Zavala, Noe Velasquez and Kirk Mayen. At 5:00 p.m. on the same day at the MCC Grounds, Belmopan Veterans dealt home squad Pickstock Lake-I their fourth loss, beating them 4-2 with goals from Micky Chavez (11’), Avery Galvez (35’) and Gary Wiltshire (38’ & 84’); while Pickstock goals were by Jermaine “Bowfoot” Zuniga (39’) and Alrick Smith (70’). Also on Saturday, starting at 7:30 p.m. out at the San Pedro Stadium, it was the home team, San Pedro Veterans shutting out BDF Veterans, 4-0, with a goal each from Orlando Pinelo (63’), Jacinto Pinelo (68’) and Javier Chavez (76’), along with the help of an own goal by BDF’s Marvin Card (87’ OG).
The only game on Sunday was at the MCC Grounds, where visiting San Ignacio Quintas put a scare on Kulture Yabra Veterans, carrying a 2-1 first half lead deep into second half, before Kulture regained the lead to secure the 3-2 victory. San Ignacio striker #8 Ramiro Carillo (10’) beat Kulture goalie Anthony “Willie Bo” Bernard with a low right foot shot against the left goal post; Kulture’s #9 Kevin Rowland (13’) equalized shortly after with a right foot shot from close range; but San Ignacio midfielder #4 Byron Gonzalez surprised Willie Bo with a high glider from 35 yards out that slid under the cross bar at the 21st minute, to give the visitors the 2-1 lead. Veteran star Ismael John Thompson (Trapp) had replaced the injured San Ignacio goalie Humberto Rivera early in second half after his collision with Kulture striker Maurice “Magic” Francis; but it would have made no difference, when Rowland unleashed a left foot blast to tie things up at the 70th minute; and then completed his hat trick at the 73rd minute, for the Kulture Yabra 3-2 win.
Updated Week 8 schedule to begin the second round:
*4:00 p.m. – Belmopan Veterans vs Benque Veterans – Amin Hegar Field
(*Note: This game date was changed from Sunday in our mid-week issue.)
7:30 p.m. – BDF Veterans vs Mango Creek Veterans – M.A. Stadium
7:30 p.m. – San Ignacio Quintas vs San Pedro Veterans – San Pedro Stadium
4:00 p.m. – Kulture Yabra Veterans vs Pickstock Lake-I Veterans – MCC Grounds
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Urbi et Orbi, peas on earth
Urbi et Orbi,
But he was still hungry.
And bored.
Pees on earth,
And gives swill to auld men.
Mental degeneracy
The scientific mind, both natural and social,
finds itself in secular degeneration
since the seventeenth century.
Needless to say, it does not notice its dementia,
having long since forgotten the ontological difference
in the mists of its mental oblivion.
Today it is working on artificial intelligence,
progressing to consummate its own superfluity.
With a change of mind,
Changing the world follows
As a matter of course.
Aristotle on small initial error
In De Caelo Aristotle formulates a thought that has repercussions far beyond the particular context in which it is uttered:
σχεδὸν γὰρ αὓτη πασῶν ἀρχὴ τῶν ἐναντιώσεων τοῖς ἀποφηναμένοις τι περὶ τῆς ὃλης φύσεως καὶ γέγονε καὶ γένοιτ΄ ἄν, εἴπερ καὶ τὸ μικρὸν παραβῆναι τῆς ἀληθείας ἀφισταμένοις γίνεται πόρρω μυριοπλάσιον. (De Caelo I v. 271b7-10)
"This, one could say, is what has been and will [continue to] be the source of all the contradictions among those pronouncing on beings as a whole, since going astray from the truth just a little initially becomes multiplied ten-thousandfold standing far [from the starting-point]." (De Caelo I v. 271b7-10)
The crucial word here is ἀρχὴ, which can be rendered in various ways in English as 'principle', 'starting-point', 'source', 'beginning', especially in the sense that the ἀρχὴ governs what proceeds from it. In the quote, this meaning is apparent because a little error in the principle results in major deviations from the 'truth' further down the line.
In Metaphysics Book Delta, Aristotle provides a definition of the multiple meanings of ἀρχὴ, pointing out that they are all a kind of ὄθεν, i.e. a 'whence'.
Most frequently, this 'whence' is taken in a chronological sense as the source whence something develops in linear time, but this is a restriction that suits the lazy thinking apparent everywhere, for instance, in evolutionary theory.
Or the 'whence' is taken as the starting-point, i.e. the premises, of an argument that proceeds by logical deduction. If your premises are false, so formal logic proclaims, then your conclusions will be fallacious. This is a favourite way of proceeding in mainstream philosophy and elsewhere: arguing for your position.
A deeper signification of ἀρχὴ, however, is the starting-point for thinking through phenomena conceptually. Such a path of thinking has to respect a sequence of thinking in which the concepts of more fundamental and elementary phenomena precede and provide the basis for thinking, i.e. forming adequate concepts for, more complex phenomena with more determinations. This is often called, as in Hegel, moving from the most abstract, simple phenomena step by step to the more concrete phenomena whose concepts require the concepts of simpler phenomena to be properly articulated.
One crucial case in point, which to date philosophical thinking has obstinately ignored, is whether a concept of time must precede the phenomena of movement and change to grasp them adequately, or whether time is a concept that presupposes the phenomenon of movement. The traditional conception of time is the latter: that time is a number lifted off movement by counting it. Hence Aristotle's famous formula for time:
"Time is the number of movement with regard to before and after."
(ὀ χρόνος ἀριθμὸς κινήσεως κατὰ τὸ πρότερον καὶ ὕστερον ἐστιν. Phys. IV xi 219b2; cf. also De Caelo I ix. 279a15)
Elsewhere, in Aristotle's "before and after" & quantum gravity, I have pointed out that this definition of time is viciously circular. There has to be a deeper, more elementary conception of time on which this definition is based in order to account for the "before and after" in it. I won't repeat here what I have said before.
Here it is important to see that the path on which thinking thinks through phenomena makes a very big difference, and if you choose the wrong starting-point you will end up, down the road, very far from the truth of the phenomena themselves, no matter how clever your theories are. The truth here is not the conclusion of a valid logical argument, but an insight into how the phenomena show, disclose themselves of themselves if you care to look closely enough and do not obscure their self-disclosure with theoretical constructions.
Western thinking's starting with a linear conception of time counted off movement has had enormous repercussions for the trajectory of Western history as a whole, for without it there would be no science, no ἐπιστήμη, and therefore also no global technoscience. We would be on another historical path altogether on which science with its absolute will to efficient power would assume its proper, more modest place.
Further reading A Question of Time.
Conscious subject plaything of the Zeit-Geist
The conscious subject is supposed to be the bedrock for conceiving human being for all time. Hence, for instance, science speaks unrestrainedly of the evolution over millennia of consciousness in the species of animal called homo sapiens. Humankind is thus conceived as just one among many animal species and given the flattering label of 'wise'. Such putative long-term ontogenetic evolution of consciousness is thought to be somehow a result of, or at least concomitant with, the enlargement of the human brain over long periods of linear time. Human consciousness is supposed to emerge in linear chronological time through some kind of increase in complexity of the brain's neural interconnections which, in turn, is explained (teleologically) as serving the enhanced survival of the species. Science's conviction is that one day 'we' will scientifically explain the evolutionary emergence of human consciousness on a scientifically materialist basis.
Conceiving human being itself as specifically distinguished from other animal species by intelligent consciousness residing in the conscious subject, however, shows how our self-conception is the plaything of our historical time's own mind, i.e. our shared historical time-mind or Zeit-Geist that here encompasses both the mind and spirit of the times. For, marking the human species with the specific difference of (intelligent, mooded) consciousness, as happened only in the modern age, differs radically from ancient determinations of this hallmark as soul, anima, animus, ψυχή or νοῦς. Talk of the soul, for instance, is out of bounds for today's science. The Christian soul is also conceived in an essentially different way from the Latin anima or the Greek ψυχή.
One consequence of conceiving human being as subjective consciousness is that mind itself becomes individualized, encapsulated in individual, interior consciousness. Such postulated, brain-based, individual consciousnesses 'inside' can then only come together 'outside' through some sort of collectivity of consciousness which modern mainstream philosophy conceives as collective intentionality of will. What this inside/outside dichotomy actually means and how (since, on closer examination, it can be seen that it does not do justice to the phenomena themselves) it can be overcome (as treated in other of my posts and books) remains a hardly noticed ontological problem.
Such a conception of subjective consciousness comes too late, for individual consciousness always already partakes of the mind of our scientifically dominated historical age. The Zeit-Geist is prior to the conception of interior consciousness of individual subjects, for it is the source that has cast human being itself as interiorized consciousness. The casting of human being itself as individual subjectivity endowed with interior consciousness is itself a fairly recent historical event. This hermeneutic casting is not the terminus of history, since, through philosophical thinking, history may have a further twist through recasting. The casting itself can be historically interrogated and revised, thus rescuing human being conceived inappropriately as subjective consciousness from its status as mere plaything of an hegemonic mind-set by paying close attention to certain simple, elementary phenomena that are "hard to see" (Aristotle), i.e. are taken as self-evident and therefore, even after millennia of Western thinking, have yet to come to adequate concepts.
The crucial point in the present context is that the very interiority of consciousness vis-à-vis an objective external world supposedly independent of subjective, individualized consciousness is questionable. Such questioning is anything other than mere scepticism, but forceful interrogation of entrenched clichés in thinking that brings an alternative to light. Despite our age's hegemonic mind-set that is fixated on an absolute will to effective power over all kinds of movements (including even the explanatory power of evolutionary story-telling), the Zeit-Geist retains nevertheless an historical malleability under philosophical interrogation that can transcend such a fixation.
Further reading: A Question of Time: An alternative cast of mind.
Power over whats and whos
In a famous formulation, Aristotle defines power (δύναμις) to be ἀρχή μεταβολῆς ἐν ἄλλῳ ἠ ᾗ ἄλλο. (Met. Theta 1, 1046a9f), i.e. "a source governing a change in something else or in the same being insofar as it is regarded as something else". This is the metaphysical formula for productive, efficient power to effect a change from a power source that provides the foundational ontology of movement in all Western thinking, and today globally, in all scientifico-technological thinking. All science, i.e. all ἐπιστήμη, from the Greeks on is will to efficient, effective power over all kinds of movement and change. This will is the theological orientation of modern science's onto-theology, i.e. its metaphysics.
This famous formulation can be given a further twist: ἀρχή μεταβολῆς ἐν τινι ἠ τις ᾗ τι, i.e. "a source governing a change in something or in someone regarded as something" or, to bring out the difference between what and who: "a source governing a change in somewhat or in somewho regarded as somewhat". This variant brings to the fore the essential character of epistemic power as a power over whats, or whos insofar as they are seen as whats. For this reason, modern science, born in the seventeenth century as mathematized physics, retained its essential will to power over whats, or whos as whats, when it developed further into the various social sciences such as political economy, psychology and sociology. To fulfil its essential determination as science, all social science has to emulate physics in striving for knowing power over the movements and changes of people by reducing their genuine whoness to a whatness amenable to the will to effective power. The phenomenological violence of this reduction still goes unnoticed today.
This observation enables a better understanding of Heidegger's statement, "The question concerning who the human being is [...] cannot be adequately asked within the domain of traditional metaphysics, which remains essentially ‘physics’." (Die Frage, wer der Mensch ist [...] läßt sich im Bereich der überlieferten Metaphysik, die wesentlich ‚Physik‘ bleibt, nicht zureichend fragen. Martin Heidegger Einführung in die Metaphysik S. 107)
The singleness of the source of effective power in Aristotle's definition nips in the bud any genuine access to the phenomenality of a plurality of whos in power interplay with one another. Such a power interplay precludes establishing a single source of power over whos, i.e. of social power. Rather, social power can only be adequately conceived as mutually estimative power interplays of various kinds. This hermeneutic as remains in oblivion as long as an alternative ontology of movement and change to the Aristotelean ontology of causally efficient movement, which remains tacitly intact throughout all modern science, is not explicitly dismantled and curbed by philosophical thinking in favour of a phenomenally adequate ontology of specifically social, sociating movement and change that brings with it a radically alternative, historical cast of mind.
All kinds of authoritarian politics currently re-emerging across the globe treat people as things, i.e. as whats, to be manipulated, especially by calculating words, in ruthless power games. Likewise, today increasingly aiding authoritarian governments, the cyberworld is bent on algorithmically controlling all the movements of people through so-called 'artificial intelligence' and so-called 'deep learning' by neural networks fed with huge mountains of data. These data, on which the neural networks train, carry all the prejudices and biases of the empirical world, reducing human beings to statistically significant or insignificant data bit-strings, whereas the artificially intelligent algorithms enable an outsourcing and automation of power over people by dictating what they can and cannot do. 'Misjudgements' on the part of these 'intelligent' algorithms can and do have dire consequences.
However, here it is not so much a matter of pointing to dire consequences of algorithmic control and weighing them against those which are beneficial, convenient, entertaining or whatever. Philosophical thinking's task does not amount to a balancing act between upsides and downsides on some kind of ethical see-saw. Rather, already the terms 'artificial intelligence' and 'deep learning' in connection with the concatenation of countless universal Turing machines constituting the cyberworld indicate that we humans have long since become accustomed to thoughtlessly conceiving ourselves as whats, instead of insistently posing the question as to our whoness.
Further reading: Social Ontology of Whoness and The Digital Cast of Being.
Degeneracy of mind
Despite all the advances in science and technology (or rather, precisely because of them), our present age is blighted by an ongoing, secular degeneracy of mind that has been progressing for generations. The algorithmization of the world is proceeding apace amidst a thoughtlessness about the nature of the ever-encroaching cyberworld. This thoughtlessness consists primarily and primally in our mind's cluelessness about the ontological cast of world in our present historical age that has culminated in the digital cast of world. Today's mainstream philosophy continues to let us down badly, for it, too, is clueless about what genuine ontology is. It has thoroughly unlearned what ontology was at its inception with Plato and Aristotle, who were the first to articulate the ontological difference, that is, the difference between beings taken in their naked ontic facticity and their mode of being.
Today's philosophers have risible conceptions of both Plato's and Aristotle's thinking because they interpret it by retrojecting the subjectivist ontology of the modern age, with its illusory, irreconcilable split between subject and object, back onto Greek thinking. They remain incarcerated in the ontological cast of the modern age, i.e. our all-enveloping, modern mind-set, clueless about any historical alternative, either past or future.
For instance, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy currently has no entry at all for ontology. Under the entry for "Metaphysics" it deals with ontology as the "science of being as such" without the least mention of the ontological difference. Questions of ontology boil down to whether a certain (kind of) being "exists". Thus we read e.g. the incoherent statement:
"Still, many questions of the new and old metaphysics are not questions of ontology. For example, many participants in the debate over causation are not particularly worried about whether causes and effects exist. Rather, they want to know “in virtue of what” something is a cause or effect."
As if the "what" in "in virtue of what" did not exist!
Under the entry for "Logic and Ontology", again, there is no mention of the ontological difference. Instead, we read:
"But we have at least two parts to the overall philosophical project of ontology, on our preliminary understanding of it: first, say what there is, what exists, what the stuff is reality is made out of, secondly, say what the most general features and relations of these things are."
As if the question of "what exists" could be answered by saying "what the stuff is reality is made out of". This is blatant begging of the question in a materialist direction, foreclosing any interrogation of what it means for anything to exist at all. The question of the very meaning of being itself (and that, under interrogation, this meaning is shown to be ultimately temporal in a genuinely three-dimensional, non-linear way) is not posed at all.
"The second set of problems is that it isn’t so clear what these questions really are. This leads to the philosophical debate about meta-ontology." And what does meta-ontology concern itself with? It "isn’t so clear how to settle questions about what there is, at least not for the kinds of things that have traditionally been of special interest to philosophers: numbers, properties, God, etc." Again, the focus is on whether beings of a certain given kind exist. And whether they exist is always a question of the logical truth of certain propositions, not the disclosive truth of phenomena themselves. Hence the entry's heading, "Logic and Ontology".
The ontological debates within mainstream philosophy are carried on academically as jousts held on pleasant university campi between virtually countless -isms that take up their many and various positions and fight it out on the tournament field employing their chosen tilting strategies. The rules of the contest are implicitly very well-known, and those who transgress the rules are quickly disqualified as not being proper professional academic philosophers.
There is not the least awareness that the categories of subjectivity and objectivity themselves are ontological in nature and, indeed, hermeneutically ontological in an historical way that admits of recasting. Rather, they are taken for granted as unshakeable basis for all philosophical debate and are thoughtlessly retrojected onto Greek thinking and projected onto all possible futures as immutable. No notice is taken of the very concept of 'subject' so crucial to modern ontology meant the precise opposite to the Greeks, for whom the subject (ὑποκείμενον) was precisely what is today called the object. This circumstance should give pause for thought, but it doesn't. Through what hermeneutic-ontological recasting did this historical inversion come about? Rather, dogmatism unfolds with the assertion of such nonsensical claims as calling Aristotle an "objectivist". For instance, I read very recently in a draft paper on an openly accessible academic web-site by a philosophical acquaintance, a retired professor, "Aristotle’s objectivism might be said to be naïve [...] in not being self-consciously and systematically held against any subjectivist contrary". Aristotle's position in the inane battle of the -isms is then labelled "naïve realism" as opposed to a kind of idealism. The very distinction between realism and idealism is itself only a pseudo-distinction generated by the subject-object split in subjectivist metaphysics.
The same analytic philosopher writes, "Words can contingently represent actual substances because they express perceptually based 'affections in the soul' which are likenesses to those things (Aristotle [De Interpretatione] 1984 vol. 1, p. 25). But how exactly is this more fundamental mental representation to be conceived? Aristotle seems to have little to say." No wonder Aristotle has "little to say" on this point, because for Aristotle, 'affections in the soul' are not representations of an external objectivity at all! 'Representatio' (in consciousness) is an ontological concept first introduced by Descartes, which is renamed 'Vorstellung' by Kant. That the Greek ψυχή is translated as "consciousness" in modern-age metaphysics does not instigate any philosophical questioning. This goes unnoticed in the violently thoughtless hermeneutics of reading Aristotle with a dogmatic modern-age mind-set that has closed itself off from the phenomena themselves.
Such philosophers are incapable of learning anything whatsoever from Aristotle, for they risibly regard themselves as a priori superior to him. Yet Aristotle is one major source from whom we can (re)learn today what the ontological difference is.
There reigns abysmal ignorance in today's mainstream philosophy regarding ancient Greek philosophy, and the potential inherent in a phenomenological re-reading of it. The ignorance is self-inflicted, for there have been for more than a century valiant and lucid phenomenological endeavours to escape the prison of the modern age's mind. They are ignored, brushed off and suppressed, for they unsettle the status quo by asking too many simple questions. Degeneracy of mind parades as the faithful ally of cutting-edge science and technology without the least inkling that this is a sycophant's role.
Further reading: The Digital Cast of Being and Social Ontology of Whoness.
Searle's ‘Social Ontology and Political Power’
In his 2003 paper ‘Social Ontology and Political Power’, John R. Searle approaches the problem of the ontology of social power from within subjectivist metaphysics. “The important point to emphasize is that the essence of political power is deontic power. [...] It is a matter of rights, duties, obligations, authorizations, permissions and the like. Such powers have a special ontology.” (All further quotes in double inverted commas are from Searle’s paper.) This “special ontology” is said to reside in “status functions”, as distinct from ‘objective’ “physical functions” such as ‘Rain makes you wet’. Status functions, “imposed” by the “collective intentionality” of human beings “can be represented in the form, ‘X counts as Y in C’”. What enables this collectivity of intention is not a question for Searle, but simply taken as an ontic fact.
The “brute fact” of a physical phenomenon such as expressed in the statement “It is raining” or ‘George is sitting at his desk’ is superimposed with a status that allows, for example, the statement “George W. Bush is president” to fit the model ‘X counts as Y in C’: Bush counts as President in the context of the institutions of democratic elections. “Counts as” here is synonymous with ‘is valid as’ or ‘is recognized as’. Like all analytic philosophy, Searle seeks to locate truth in the logos, i.e. in logical propositions.
The status accorded to Bush through this putative projection of collective intentionality confers on him deontic powers such as the power to command the armed forces, which are obliged (deontically) to obey, or the power to veto legislation which Congress is obliged to acknowledge. Furthermore, Searle asserts, “Where political status functions are concerned it is [sic] almost invariably linguistic.”, an example being the linguistic thought, “He is president”. Hence, according to Searle, political power is constituted “almost invariably” by certain linguistic conventions that confer “rights, duties, obligations, authorizations, permissions and the like”.
Likewise, Searle regards the social power, money, as a thing (paper) accorded a “status function” by convention according to the formula, ‘This paper counts as means of payment (money) in the context of market exchange’. This counting-as-money is presumably accompanied by the linguistic thought, ‘This is money’. Searle’s problematic of social and political power is thus isomorphic with Neo-Kantianism’s (e.g. Heinrich Rickert) account of values, according to which ‘values’ are overlaid over ‘objective reality’, instead of being intrinsic to the being of the entity in question. 'Counting as' is a mere sticker stuck on by analytic philosophy. In Searle’s terminology, such ‘values’ are status functions projected onto “observer-independent”, objective, physical things and physical people by “collective intentionality” and are therefore “observer-dependent”.
The key distinction between “observer-independent” objectivity and “observer-dependent” subjectivity, however, is untenable. Why? Searle’s root concern (a misguided non-question) is with the question “How can there be political reality in a world consisting of physical particles?”. Hence the dichotomy between physical objectivity and social reality, which latter, it is claimed, is “observer-dependent” in the sense that it depends on a projection of “collective intentionality” onto physical things of the kind ‘X counts as Y in C’. But all beings in the world, including bare, physical beings, are ‘counted as’ in the sense that they are understood as, say, “physical particles”. Such understanding-as... is only possible in the modern scientific age within the Cartesian cast of being (which Searle obviously believes is the unquestionable, rock-bottom, scientific truth), and “physical particles” are such only for the scientific subject of the modern age, i.e. ‘physical reality’ is not “observer-independent” and “objective”, but is conceived and cast as such by an historical way of human thinking.
Even the innocuous, brute, factual statement adduced by Searle that “it is raining” depends upon the apophantic as according to which the observed phenomenon of precipitation is understood as rain. There can be no “observer-independent” objectivity because objectivity is such only for a human subject within an historical world that is cast within its own epochal understanding of the world. Moreover, human beings are always already in the world engaged in practices with each other, i.e. in interplay, taking care of their lives, and are never merely subjective consciousnesses separated from objective reality. Rather, they always already share the open 3D-temporal clearing. Moreover, in the context of these practices of interplay, and not merely linguistically through representations in consciousness, individual or collective, they estimate, value and evaluate things and people based first of all upon what they are good for and worth in the context of such daily, individual and shared, practices. The stepwise path in thinking via value (τιμή) as it emerges from the practices of everyday life through to specifically political power has been adopted in the present inquiry to bring the power play among human beings in all its facets socio-ontologically to light. For Searle, mired as he is in subjectivist metaphysics, for which unquestioned ‘collective intentionality’ serves as theological anchor, such a social ontology can make no sense.
Adapted excerpt from Social Ontology of Whoness: Rethinking core phenomena of political philosophy
How do you we the people?
Interrogating a self-evidence
Modern science's theological hubris
Modern science is very proud of itself, overweeningly so, for all it has effected and effects in the world. It has differentiated itself into countless areas of knowledge in both the natural and social sciences. The specialization into different kinds of knowing is so ramified, that not even those scientists working in the same science know about what their colleagues are doing in the very next compartment. To say nothing of whether, say, an economist knows anything about biology or vice versa.
Regardless of the narrowing of the mind that accompanies scientific specialization, science is very proud for all the progress it continues to make, for its mission will never be finally accomplished. What is this mission? It is to establish foreknowing, effective mastery over all types of movement and change in the world, no matter of what kind including, of course, through medical science, the inevitable movement of mortal human life toward death. This scientific way of knowing has established itself as purportedly the sole mode of knowing access to the world that can be taken at all seriously. Everything else — such as literature, the arts, religion, the humanities — is merely cultural decoration which, of course, many scientists enjoy on the side. Science, however, is concerned with establishing the truth of the world through its empirically-based scientific method which, it claims, is the sole kind of truth with any serious credibility. Hence, any scientific claim has to be backed by reference to empirical studies or replicable experiments. For this scientific mind-set, all else is merely unsubstantiated, drivelling waffle.
The scientific mind-set is smugly confident that it has the knowledge-game sewn up. It purports to have the only game in town that no other area of intellectual endeavour can hope to match. The humanities, for instance, are conceded their appropriate playground for reflecting on the human condition, but they represent no danger whatsoever to scientific knowing's hegemony, based as it is on the ostensibly hard, indisputable evidence of experimentally registered facts.
But this story of science's putatively unchallengeable hegemony as the only mode of truth is too good to be true. Its Achilles' heel is the state of empirical facts which the scientific mind takes to be naked facts, i.e. the 'unvarnished' data collected, according to proper experimental design, which are fed into a scientific theoretical model to either confirm or falsify it. In truth, these naked facts are vested with an interpretation prior to their being taken as facts. All so-called naked facts are in fact hermeneutically enrobed. The name for this a priori interpretation of all phenomena in the world is the hermeneutic As, for every phenomenon that shows itself to the human mind is understood in some way or other (including even misunderstood) as such-and-such.
The most elementary phenomenological example of such showing-as is the category of something. If you look, say, at your left index finger, you see it as something, don't you? If you look at your right foot, you also see it as something, even as something else, don't you? Finger and foot are both understood 'self-evidently' as something, although, if you inspect your finger or foot, you can find no trace of the category of something in them. There is no empirical-factual basis for the category of something. Nor is the category of something to be discovered as some kind of evolutionarily arisen, genetically steered neuronal trace in the brain that generates somehow or other a subjective category of something in each and every single consciousness. For science the category of something is causally inexplicable. Nevertheless, something itself is indubitably a category interposed between your mind and the thing itself enabling you to understand anything as something.
This apparently trivial observation is, in truth, crucial, for the interpretive access to the world from the ground up does not stop with the category of something. The hermeneutic as interposes itself between the mind and beings showing themselves in the difference between beings themselves and how they are understood as such-and-such in their being. In phenomenology, this is known as the ontological difference between beings and their being, i.e. their 'beingness'. Among other things, phenomenological ontology studies the beingness of beings as they show themselves in a given age to an historical hermeneutic cast of mind.
At the culmination of ancient Greek thinking, Aristotle worked out his ontology of movement, which had been a problem for philosophy since its inception with Parmenides. What is movement/change? How is it to be conceived as a mode of being? Aristotle's answer is that movement is to be conceived as the putting-to-work of a power to effect an end. The Greek word for power here is δύναμις, which can be translated also as force, potential or potency. A power at work is its energy, ἐνέργεια, which effects finally (τέλος) a finished product.
Now the punch-line: this Aristotelean ontology of effective, productive movement was adopted by modern science, starting with Newton et al., whilst tacitly dropping its hermeneutic nature as an ontology of effective movement. With this sleight of hand, modern scientific slipped in its way of knowing in terms of cause and effect as the now apparently unquestionable nature of all movement and change in the world, whether it be natural or social. All today's scientific knowing (ἐπιστήμη) is dedicated to this ontology of effective movement, without knowing its own ontological orientation. From the start, the social sciences sought to emulate the natural sciences' success and hence adopted unwittingly also its ontology of efficient-causal movement. The only hitch is whether all movement and change in the world really does show itself to a careful gaze at the phenomena themselves as effected. Modern science postulates dogmatically that it is unquestionably so, and it points to the empirical evidence and the apparent unparalleled success of its theoretical models. Even the quirkiness of so-called quantum indeterminacy will not stand in its way (which, incidentally, itself results from modern mathematical physics' misinterpretation of the nature of movement itself; cf. Digital Cast of Being).
But science's so-called evidence base is a case of blatantly begging the question (petitio principii), for the very principle is never put into question. In this case, the principle, i.e. the beginning, is the foundational ontology of effective movement. Since all modern science, of whatever ilk, denies the ontological difference, it is unable to see that its effective-causal access to the world is itself an effect of its own tunnel vision. Unbeknownst to itself, it is not only ontological in nature, but also thoroughly theological. It is, in truth, onto-theological.
But hang on, this must be nonsense, for doesn't modern science reject all talk of God and gods? Nonetheless, the hidden god of all modern science is the absolute will to effective power over all kinds of movement and change, which science devotedly worships absolutely, not tolerating any other god beside it, i.e. another kind of knowing based on an alternative ontology of movement and change whose aim is not effective mastery. Those scientists who faithfully dedicate their lives to worshipping their unknown god are amply rewarded with secure, well-paid careers and honours bestowed.
I call the alternative mode of movement and change that calls for thinking today interplay. Unlike productive, effective movement, interplay is played out among two, three or many sources of power, instead of the classical ontology of effective movement that has to proceed from a single source of power, i.e. force. In classical ontology, if there are two or more forces, they interact, and their interaction remains precalculable by simple mathematical vector addition. This continues to hold when forces are conceived as force-fields. Not so with the ontology of interplay, in which the various sources of power are in unfathomable, unpredictable interplay with one another. That is, interplay is ontologically fundamentally different from interaction.
Hopelessly caught as it is in its own theological hubris coupled with deep ontological naivety, the modern scientific mind refuses absolutely to deny its hidden god and countenance an alternative, namely, an ontology of interplay as a kind of movement sui generis. Such an ontology demands learning to see that the interplay among sources of power is applicable first and foremost to us human beings sharing the world with each other. The interplay is, in the first place, one of the mutual estimation and esteeming of powers residing in the plurality of individual players. The individual players can no longer be understood as a kind of whats, e.g. hermeneutically cast as conscious subjects, but must be conceived as whos playing in the estimative interplay and demanding an explicitly unfolded phenomenology of whoness.
Already Aristotle's ethics were lacking their proper foundation in an ontology of sociating, estimative interplay. Instead, his ontology of effective movement was implicitly at work also in his ethics, which resulted in their being conceived hermeneutically as normatively bridling, a negative enterprise and one posterior to effective, productive knowing. A positive ethics, however, consists in taking the phenomenality of mutually estimating interplay into view and explicitly working out the appropriate ontology of sociating interplay.
Needless to say, all ethics since Aristotle have also remained captive implicitly to the will to effective power, with the result that all ethics hitherto have concerned themselves exclusively with normatively bridling effective and social power as some kind of afterthought. Hence ethics' impotence due to its always coming too late. Our present state of mind pays dearly for wilful blindness to the hermeneutic As lodged in the ontological difference, for it prevents seeing modern science as the consummation of the onto-theology of effective power.
Further reading: Social Ontology and, for the absolute will to effective power personified playfully as Willy P., Land of Matta.
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Thinking sociation
Τhere is a difference between thinking about society and thinking society. It is questionable whether the Western tradition in thinking has ever thought the phenomenon of society in itself, its sociation (Vergesellschaftung) through a kind (είδος) of movement sui generis with its own peculiar ontology, namely, a social, sociating ontology. A preposterous claim that can be comfortably dismissed out of hand from a securely superior, more knowledgeable position such as that of empirically-based social science? Or a challenge that we must first learn to even countenance the ontological question concerning sociation and thus to think society as such as a mode of being, and a somewhat presumptuous claim that political philosophy and social science per se do not think the very element in which their thinking moves?
What does it mean to think society as such? Hasn’t the tradition of Western philosophy already thought society as a sociation of human beings living together in communities? Don’t other species of animals and even plants also form societies or sociations? What is the specific nature of human society? What is sociation as a mode of being? In Aristotle’s Politics we read that “man is by nature a social animal”, a ζῷον πολιτικόν. The social or political animal congregates around the pole of the πόλις, living together in communities. This famous Aristotelean definition of humankind’s essence, of what it means to be a human being as a social being, is closely linked with that other essential definition of man as τὸ ζῷον λόγον ἔχον, the animal that has the λόγος, or language, through which it reasons. Accordingly, humankind would be sociated first and foremost by virtue of having the power of speech as a means of communication.
The sociation of human community in the first place would be linguistic in nature or essence through the practice of humans’ talking with one another. Human community would thus be founded fundamentally on language employed to communicate in a context of common, shared living-practices, with language itself having arisen evolutionarily as enhancing survival chances of the human species. These basic definitions of human society seem to be hardly controversial statements and would presumably be accepted by both political philosophy and social science as rudimentary, essential, definitional characteristics of social human being. However, their apparent self-evidence is itself problematic for any socio-ontological questioning that takes neither human being nor sociating human being for granted, but rather patiently interrogates their meaning as modes of being. The run-of-the-mill way of thinking human being as the human species (είδος, look) subsumed under the genus (γένος, descent) of animals so well-established in scientific anthropology is one example of how superficially Greek thinking has been adopted and put to use, without the least inkling remaining of the ontological depths of thinking in which such terms είδος and γένος were first employed. There are good reasons to regard modern scientific thinking as the residual left-overs of Greek ontology unwittingly adopted which has long since covertly established its as-yet-unchallenged hegemony.
Further reading: Social Ontology.
Ontological difference overgrown by weeds
Together with its staunch, subservient ally, analytic philosophy, the modern sciences, both natural and social, have grown and flourished as noxious weeds that spread into every crevice, covering and swallowing the ontological difference that has been the distinctive hallmark of all genuine philosophy since its Greek beginnings: the difference between beings and their mode of being.
The steady, centuries-long degeneration of mind has already led to today's situation, in which even philosophers — not to mention natural and social scientists of all stripes as well as artists — no longer have a clue what the ontological difference means. In this sense of oblivion to the OD, philosophy, too, has also long since degenerated into positivism. Hence, for instance, the never-ending dance in analytic philosophy between so-called realism and idealism, the hermeneutic AS remaining all the while invisible to analytic consciousness.
The historical dementia of the mens — the unminding of the mind, Geist, νοῦς — started already with its degeneration into consciousness, i.e. the co-knowing of itself of the self-certain ego, on which all knowledge was to be unshakably based. This Cartesian hermeneutic casting opened the modern age.
The ontological difference is the crucible whence not just the whatness of whats, but the whoness of whos is cast, and thus how a world shapes up and presents itself to the mind in open historical time.
Instead of hermeneutically recasting, demented modern consciousness is rushing headlong into outsourcing itself to algorithms in which it is becoming inexorably ever more inextricably — but altogether willingly — entangled.
And the worst of it is that 'we' are painlessly blind to what is happening, and therefore defenceless.
Further reading: The Digital Cast of Being. Digital Whoness, Social Ontology.
The proposal of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a response to jobs 'running out' due to algorithmic automation and as a 'final solution' to poverty has become popular in some quarters.
But does the UBI not display the Usual Bovine Ignorance about the nature of freedom? The phenomenon of freedom can only be disclosed by a thinking that has not cut off its access to the ontological difference that has nurtured Western thinking from its Greek origins on. In particular, as a social ontology shows, the phenomenon of freedom includes the striving for each individual to find and adopt his or her self in a reflection from its world of existential possibilities. Through this self-reflection afforded by the esteem of others, the self gains its own self-esteem — its stand and standing as somewho in the world.
Not only would a Universal Basic Income not address the need and desire for self-esteem, but, like the idea of the welfare state as a whole, would only further undermine the self-esteem of those needing encouragement most of all. Siphoning the poor off into the pool of social losers with misplaced compassion. Whereas, given encouragement, there is no end to what people can do for each other, each within the limits of their own abilities, whatever they may be, hence deriving their self-esteem and self-standing.
UBI seems to be not such a good idea, after all. And that already due to the Usual Bovine Ignorance about the nature of ideas themselves. An idea, namely, is the 'look' a phenomenon presents of itself in the difference between being and beings. Our times pay dearly for the lack of a phenomenology of freedom — and hardly a glimmer on the horizon. Positivist thinking of all shades is consolidating from generation to generation; the ability to think philosophically from the ontological difference is silently, painlessly dying.
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Further reading: Social Ontology
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Nowhere In Africa Review
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The latest film from director Caroline Link follows a young Jewish family from Germany to Kenya as they flee the Nazi regime at the onset of World War II. Far from being yet another war epic, this adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel deals primarily with the trials and triumphs of starting a new life in a foreign land. As young Regina (played by Lea Kurka and Karoline Eckertz) grows up in the company of the Pokot tribe, her parents Jettel (Juliane Köhler) and Walter (Merab Ninidze) must learn to cope with their waning love for one another and the fact that they may never see their families again.
That the movie focuses mainly on the characters rather than the war gives this story its strength. Kurka and Eckertz both give skillful performances as Regina in her respective stages of adolescence. The character comes off as being not only blissfully innocent but fiercely intelligent. When the Pokot children teach her how to warm her feet in cow dung, or when she gathers everyone around for a story about angels, you can't help but wonder whether the tribe still talks about Stefanie Zweig so many years later. Likewise, when she debates with her tribal boyfriend about whether she should remove her blouse in order to more freely climb a tree (the way any Pokot teenager might do), we're presented with a clever example of culture clash.
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By Norm Schrager
It's Stalingrad, late 1942. A young Russian sharpshooter is picking off Germans at will, bringing a much-needed lift to a demoralized Soviet army. The impatient Nazis send their top sniper to kill the man. A World War diminishes in scope to a battle of two. With such a promising plot, absolutely ripe for gutsy drama and emotion, why does Enemy at the Gates ultimately fail?
First, and foremost, because of its screenplay. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet, The Bear) and partner Alain Godard take a horrific true tale and sap it of its energy, irony, and tension. It starts off impressively enough: Russian soliders are immediately gunned down as they arrive in Stalingrad -- if not by the enemy, then by their own officers, who kill the boys when they retreat in terror. Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law) becomes an instant hero when he plays dead, and in sniper fashion, shoots a number of unsuspecting Nazis.
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Is it possible to make a film about Hitler and his regime's final days without humanizing the Nazis? Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (Der Untergang) proves to be a harrowing recreation of the Nazi elite's last stand trapped underground by the encroaching Red Army, but on the issue of depicting its notorious cast of characters - and the gangs all here, from Hitler and the Goebbells family to Himmler, Eva Braun, Albert Speer, and Hermann Fegelein - the film is unable to avoid sentimentalizing what is, for most of the modern world, a distinctly unsentimental moment in 20th century history. One can recognize the dramatic necessity of attempting to portray such monsters with more than a blunt brushstroke, and often, Hirschbiegel's impressively expansive drama (adapted by Bernd Eichinger from both Joachim Fest's Inside Hitler's Bunker and Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller's Until the Final Hour) eerily captures the hysterical, delusional fanaticism that gripped the Nazis - and Hitler in particular - up until the very end of April 1945. But if the sight of crying Nazis and "brave" SS soldiers is the price to be paid for such a riveting portrait, one must wonder if this well-intentioned enterprise - the first German-produced film to directly confront Hitler in nearly 50 years - doesn't sabotage its own portrait of the appalling empire's collapse.
After a brief prologue that finds Hitler (Bruno Ganz) choosing Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) - the woman who would later become the subject of the 2002 documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary - as his secretary, Hirschbiegel's film whisks us away to 1945 Berlin, where der Fuhrer and company are vainly attempting to keep the Aryan dream alive from a concrete bunker deep underneath the battle-ravaged city. Hitler remains convinced, against overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that the war remains winnable, and Ganz - an actor whose strength is usually found in contemplative silence - superbly brings the horrific fascist to maniacal life, balancing an exhausted, stooped posture and twitching left hand (always held behind his back) with sudden delusional tirades of mouth-frothing madness. Surrounded by increasingly cynical military officers, an unrepentant Hitler is agitated, desperate, and unable to relinquish the belief that his Nazi army will re-mobilize for a final, fatal strike against the Russians. Meanwhile, absurd and surreal last-gasp mini-dramas play out throughout the bunker, from Junge and her fellow secretary's attempts to remain optimistic and Albert Speer (Heino Ferch) and Heinrich Himmler's (Ulrich Noethen) eventual desertions to, most chillingly, Magda (Corinna Harfouch) and Joseph Goebbels' (Ulrich Matthes) plans to exterminate their six children should National Socialism crumble.
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By Rob Blackwelder
For those not already versed in the lore of Adolf Hitler'sfinal days, the intimacy, immediacy and bunker-mentality minutia of "Downfall"may make for truly engrossing cinema. A detailed, historically accurateaccount that bears witness as the psychotic dreams of a 1,000-year ThirdReich slip away from its increasingly paranoid Fuehrer, this bravely matter-of-factGerman epic features uniformly powerful performances and is an eerie, vividrealization of gray-walled claustrophobia and the terror of saturationbombing. (The camera shakes in a uniquely unsettling, knock-you-off-your-bearingsway with each mortar shell.)
The fantastic Bruno Ganz (best known in the US for "Wingsof Desire") plays Hitler with a broken kind of humanity that makeshis evil subtler than expected, but by extension all the more chilling.His senior staff is accounted for nearly every moment of the detailed film,but none of them stands out except Ulrich Matthes as psychotically loyalpropaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and Corinna Harfouch as his wife.She has the film's most disturbing scene, poisoning her children to "save"them from growing up in a world without National Socialism.
But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel ("DasExperiment") very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play-by-play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character -- inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.
The first half-hour of "Enemy at the Gates" is a cinematically stunning, hyper-realistic battlefield nightmare that transports the viewer right into the heart of the Nazis' yearlong siege of Stalingrad during World War II.
"Autumn, 1942," deplores the period-style voiceover as a shadow creeps across an illustrative map in an updated homage to old-timey war pictures. "Europe lies crushed under the Nazi jackboot..."
German planes dive-bomb troop transports in an incredible attack sequence. Sweeping shots the color of mud and blood take in the scale of the besieged city's cold, yet smoldering ruins while Red Army officers recite threatening propaganda to masses of soldiers who would rather flee.
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Bishop Robert N. Lynch bows in reverence toward the altar at the beginning of Mass on All Souls’ Day, November 2, 2015.
It was perhaps one of the warmest November days of record at Calvary Catholic Cemetery, but that did not deter those who attended the 55th Annual Mass on All Souls’ Day. Nearly 300 of the faithful gathered beneath the shade of heritage oak trees and canvas canopies to praise God for the lives of deceased loved ones and pray for souls.
We were especially blessed that the celebrant, Bishop Robert N. Lynch, included a request for a breeze in his morning prayers. For indeed there were gentle winds at times as the bishop and five priests celebrated Mass at the outdoor altar.
Mass is celebrated at Calvary Catholic Cemetery twice each year at the outdoor altar on Memorial Day and All Souls’ Day. And a Month’s Mind Mass is celebrated on the last Thursday of every month in the Chapel of the Resurrection at 12:15 p.m.
Alessandra Flanagan holds a flowerpot of mums that Franciscan Sister Rose Behrnard, asked her to place on the grave of her longtime friend, Father Roch Coogan, OFM. Father Coogan, who passed away on August 1, 2013, was a retired Air Force Chaplain and also was a chaplain at St. Anthony Hospital.
The faithful join in the Opening Prayer at Mass on All Souls’ Day.
Jo Greene, Assistant Music Director at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle, leads the Psalm Response at Mass on All Souls’ Day at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Carol Abate and Richard Phares listen to the reading of the Gospel during Mass on All Souls’ Day at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
While joining in the Prayer of the Faithful, Rose Stalikas holds a lone red rose she brought to place on the grave of her sister, Angela Stalikes, who passed away on July 27, 2015.
The faithful pray the Lord’s Prayer at Mass on All Souls’s Day.
Father Ralph Argentino, Director of Cemeteries for the Diocese of St. Petersburg, distributes the Eucharist.
Bishop Robert N. Lynch and clergy pause for prayer at the graves of the priests who are buried alongside of the altar at Calvary Catholic Cemetery after Mass on All Souls’ Day.
Aelred and Linda Lauth pause for prayer at the graves of some of the priests who are buried alongside of the outdoor altar at Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Father John Colgan was a friend of the Lauths, who have been parishioners at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle for nearly 40 years.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Photographs: Copyright 2015 Ed Foster Jr.
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San Jose = Cinderella?
It's an age-old story, and one with even more meaning this time of year, with the NCAA tourney grabbing headlines. After a miserable start, the Scorpions are now window shopping for glass slippers and are one step away from the title.
It's been a long haul for the squad, through the winding path of all wild card teams with big dreams. This was a team that almost punted after losing its first ten games of the season, and going 13-14 in April. Rumors had team star Carlos Pena on the trade blocks, but instead management saw opportunity despite the sluggish start to the year, and managed to trade for Mark DeRosa and Brandon Webb in order to make a stretch run. Webb went 7-2 after the trade, and carried the team to the playoffs while helping to save a somewhat beleaguered bullpen.
In the WC round, the Scorpions matched up against a tough Meridian squad with a similar regular season record. In a seesaw game 1, Ryan Doumit came on against Meridian closer Matt Capps with San Jose down a run 6-5 and down to their last out with a man on base. Doumit came through in the clutch with a 2-run jack that sent the home fans into a frenzy. Game 2 saw Doumit continue his torrid regular season (1.053 OPS) by going 3 for 3 and DeRosa go 3 for 4 with 3 RBI to lead San Jose to a 2-0 series edge with a 6-3 win. After a Game 3 loss on the road where Vlad Guerrero smashed 2 homers for the Trojans, Roger "The Pincushion" Clemens tossed a complete game shutout and Josh Bard hit a PH 3-run homer to close out the series and advance San Jose to the Silver LDS round.
In the LDS, San Jose squared off against a Montreal squad that finished a scant 1 game behind the Scorpions in the regular season. The Sunsets took game 1 in spectacular fashion, scoring 3 runs to erase a 5-3 deficit in the top of the 9th inning. Moises Alou went 2 for 3 with a HR and 3 RBI to lead the way, and the heretofore untouchable Manny Delcarmen took the loss. Game 2 saw the home team mount a furious rally in the bottom of the 9th, down 4-1, but we came up just short for a 4-3 final. Derek Lowe notched the “W” with 7 strong innings of work.
The Scorpions then donned their road jerseys and made the trek to Montreal to try stop the Sunset steamroller. Game 3 featured a pitcher’s duel with Joe Blanton and Daisuke “Dice-K” Matsuzaka going toe to toe with neither starter giving an inch. In the top of the 9th, San Jose managed to eke out a run off the Montreal bullpen as pinch hitter Jayson Werth singled home the only score of the ballgame. Blanton lasted 8 innings and gave up just 5 hits and no walks. Delcarmen was back in form to close Montreal out in the 9th. In Game 4, the San Jose bats came to life in the 4th inning, putting up 6 runs against Sunsets starter Carlos Zambrano, and the team held on for a 7-3 victory. Webb went the distance in the win, and just like that, the series was even at two games apiece. In Game 5, the Sunsets took a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the 7th and held on for a 6-2 win, with Lowe once again providing 7 strong innings of work. DH Jonny Gomes drove in 3 runs on 2 hits to help the Montreal cause.
With a 3-2 lead in games, the series went back to San Jose and the tension was palpable. In games 3 & 4 in Montreal, San Jose sparkplug Reggie Willits had been beaned in the 1st inning in each game and knocked out each time, and the Scorpions crowd was calling for retaliation on their home turf. That set the stage for an ugly game in every sense of the word. Sunset had struck first blood, and San Jose was down 5-1 in the 5th inning when Country Joe Blanton came high and tight to Macier Izturis, who couldn’t avoid the 91-mph heater and went down hard after it caught him on the earflap. The dugouts exchanged angry words and but Blanton managed to settle down and retire the side. In the bottom half of the inning, Chris Snyder was at the plate for San Jose with two men on when Chad Billingsley cut loose a fastball that hit Snyder square in the back. Both dugouts emptied, but after a huddle the umpiring crew determined that there could be no intent on Billingsley’s part to hit Snyder and therefore load the bases. A couple of singles cut the lead to 5-4 and chased Billingsley from the game, accompanied by catcalls from the partisan crowd. In the 6th inning, the Scorpions rallied for 4 runs on a gland slam by Carlos Pena to grab a 8-5 lead. San Jose would add 2 more in the 7th for a seemingly commanding 5-run margin at 10-5, but the bullpen almost gave the game away in the 9th as Montreal pushed 4 runs across the board before Delcarmen came in to put out the flames, and San Jose hung on for a 10-9 win to force a game 7.
After the huge buildup, Game 7 turned into a laugher quickly as the home team scored almost at will against Dice K, putting up 9 runs in the 1st 4 innings of play. Pena, completely quiet in the series until his clout in Game 6, confirmed that he had found his power stroke by sending two more balls over the wall, good for 4 RBI on the day. Webb absolutely dominated from the mound, tossing a complete game shutout on 125 pitches, striking out 10 in the process & giving up just 4 hits & a walk, and San Jose moved on to the LCS with a convincing 12-0 win.
In the LCS, San Jose was matched up against a Duluth-Superior squad that it had dominated during the regular season, winning all 7 games. But in the LCS, fond San Jose memories of the season sweep were quickly erased as the Dukes took the 1st two in San Jose. Albert Pujols and Erik Bedard starred for D-S in Game 1, a 6-2 win, and in Game 2 the Dukes scratched out a 3-2 win behind 3 innings and 6 Ks from their 2-headed bullpen monster of Joe Nathan and Mariano Rivera.
Once again, the Scorpions needed some magic on the road, and Game 3 did not disappoint as WC hero Doumit and LDS hero Webb contributed epic performances. Doumit set the tone with a Grand Slam in the 1st, and he went on to pound the Dukes pitching for 3 hits, 2 dingers, and a jaw-dropping 7 RBI. Webb once again went the full distance, this time needing just 120 pitches, giving up 1 earned run and 7 hits on the day against 7 Ks. Game 4 was a back-and-forth battle that went to extra innings. In the 10th, pinch hitter Josh Hamilton hit an RBI single with the bases jammed that held up. Ryan Franklin got the win with 3 scoreless relief innings, and the series was tied at 2 games each. Game 5 was over quickly, as the Scorpions erupted for 5 runs in the 3rd and cruised to an easy 14-3 win. Mark Ellis was 3 for 3 with a Grand Slam and 5 RBI to lead the way for San Jose, and Blanton needed just 112 pitches to nail down the victory in a complete game effort.
Game 6 was close throughout, and after Webb went 7+ strong innings, the San Jose bullpen came on to preserve a 5-3 win. Ellis and Hamilton chipped in 2 RBI each to lead the way for the home team, and the San Jose fans held a raucous postgame celebration on the field with their team as they completed the comeback series victory and claimed the Silver League crown. Now we await the outcome of the Gold League to see if the glass slipper might actually fit...
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Duluth-Superior Dukes Postseason Recap
The Dukes first opponent was the Cream City Pirates. The Dukes got off to a fast start in Game 1 scoring 5 runs in the first three innings. Alex Rodriguez had a 2-run homer in the first to keep the home town crowd quiet for the rest of the game. Five pitchers combined to beat the Pirates with Nathan finishing the job and a 5-2 victory and Duluth-Superior taking a 1 game to none lead.
Game 2 the Cream City Pirates dominated all game and whipped the Dukes 7-0. Shane Victorino was the star of the game as he went 3-4 and scoring 2 runs and knocking in one. Four Pirate pitchers combined for the shutout and Cream City and Duluth-Superior are tied at 1 game apiece.
With the series ties 1-1, the Dukes were feeling pretty good playing the next three at home. Game 3 saw the Dukes start right away scoring 3 runs in the first. Alex Rodriguez went 3-5 and was one of three Dukes to drive in two runs. The others were Justin Morneau and Albert Pujols. Chris Young pitched a gem going 6 innings while only giving up one earned run. The big three Rodriguez, Morneau and Pujols each homered in the game. The Dukes won 6-5.
Game 4 went to the Dukes to take a commanding 3 games to one lead in the series. Pirate pitcher Jeff Francis gave up seven walks in 3 and 2/3 innings pitched. Offensively, Michael Cuddyer came through with a bases clearing triple.
Game 5 saw a low scoring 3-2 11 inning Pirate win, each starting pitcher went 7 2/3 innings. Dukes pitcher Eric Bedard struck out 11 batters while walking only one. Alex Rodriguez hit his 3rd homerun of the series. B.J. Upton was the difference as he hit a game winning homer in the top of the 11th, his second of the series.
Game 6 in Cream City was another nail biter. The pitching matchup pitted Javier Vazquez and Rich Hill. Vazquez pitched in to the 8th on a two-hitter and striking out nine Cream City Batters. Rich Hill walked seven batters and was tagged with the loss. The Dukes went on to win game 6 and the series with a 2-1 score. Millar homered for the Dukes.
The Dukes were on to meet up with the San Jose Scorpions. The Dukes were on the road again for games 1 and 2.
Game 1 matched Eric Bedard and Barry Zito. Bedard pitched 6 strong innings striking out five batters. Bedard would be the winning pitcher as the Dukes outscored the Scorpions 4-2. Offensively the Dukes got big hits from Albert Pujols (2-4) knocking in three of the four runs scored. Scorpions’ Jimmy Rollins went 3-3 and two runs scored.
In game 2, Javier Vazquez kept his strong postseason going, getting seven strikeouts and allowing only one earned run. Joe Blanton also pitched well for San Jose going six innings. The winning run was scored in the 7th inning as Rafael Furcal doubled and stole third. With Furcal on third, Juan Pierre delivered the game winning RBI single. The Dukes won game 2 by a score of 3-2 and had a commanding 2 games to none lead in the series with the series coming to Duluth-Superior for the next three games…..How could we lose?
Game 3 saw the start of the Dukes bats go silent as the Dukes would only score 11 runs in the last four games. The Scorpions won game 3 by a score of 9-2. San Jose’s big hitter was Ryan Doumit hitting two homeruns, going 3-5 with 7 RBI. Others hitting homeruns were Willie Harris and Nate McLouth.
Game 4 was a little closer but same result, San Jose wins outscoring Duluth-Superior 4-3 in 10 innings. Travis Hafner hit his first homerun of the series. In the top of the 10th, Carlos Pena walked, Hafner doubled him to third. Jimmy Rollins was intentionally walked to load up the bases. Josh Hamilton the singled in the eventual game winner. With the series now tied at two, the Dukes were feeling pretty down.
Game 5 was a laugher and the San Jose bats really woke up torturing the Dukes inning after inning totaling 15 runs on 12 hits. Dukes pitchers allowed 8 walks and four hit batters. Joe Blanton went the distance for the Scorpions allowing only five hits while striking out six batters. Mark Ellis had a grand slam homerun to start off the slug fest.
Game six capped off San Jose’s four game streak and end the series. San Jose won 5-3. The key at-bat was Josh Hamilton’s double in the fourth innings plating two runners. Winning pitcher Brandon Webb won his fourth game of the postseason. Webb finished the series with a 2.19 ERA.
Some notable Dukes stats:
Team Batting Average: .213
Homeruns (12 games): 10
Opp. Homeruns: 14
Stolen Bases: 14
Dukes batters hitting above .250: ONE-Alex Rodriguez
Dukes batters K’s: 78
Dukes pitchers K’s: 113
Dukes' Dominance
The Duluth-Superior Dukes find themselves in quite a quandary. A rough season or two may be in their future.
After seasons of 112-50 in 2006-07 and 106-56 in 2007-2008, the Dukes were picked as preseason favorites to come out of the Silver League to challenge the Plainsfield team. The Dukes did win the Copper division but with only a 95-67 record.
Consider the years their players have had in the “real” major leagues.
We aren’t talking just run of the mill players but high dollar contract players saw a lot of time on the disabled list.
Tim Hudson, $12.1M, pitched only 142 innings. Not all that bad one might say. The problem….of the four remaining starters totaling a little more than $28M, he has the most innings pitched.
Chris Young, $1.2M, was signed to a U1 contract this year mainly because he is so injury prone, a broken nose, strained arm. He amassed a total of 102 innings.
Brad Penny, $10M, he had to have pitched hurt all year. Penny pitched only 95 innings and his stats were horrible. 6.27 ERA and a 1.63 WHIP, striking out only 51 batters in those 95 innings.
And then there is Erik Bedard, the one my real favorite team (Seattle Mariners) just had to trade for. His contract is $4.8M and I am going to get a whopping 81 innings out of him. He did strike out 72 batters though, so hopefully I will get quality there.
Rafael Soriano was hurt most of the season too. Soriano was a huge part of the Duke bullpen this last year. One of the strong areas the Dukes have is their bullpen. “I knew if we had the lead after 6 innings and we turned it over to the bullpen, I knew we had the win,” manager Mike Swanson said. Soriano totaled 14 innings last year for the Braves.
My injury bug does not stop there though. My offense was hit as well too.
Rafael Furcal was able to get in 163 plate appearances before his season was done. My cost: $10.8M. He did hit well before the injury. His batting average is equal to that of his Dukes teammate (well teammate for now) .357.
Another Duke to get injured was Mike Cuddyer. Cuddyer was released from his contract with the Dukes because of the shortage of money. Cuddyer was able to get 274 PA’s last year but not enough to warrant a long term contract from the Dukes.
Other players that saw reduced playing time was Juan Pierre $10.5M. In his limited 397 PA’s he was able to steal 40 bases and still was unable to become a fulltime outfielder for the Dodgers.
Tadahito Iguchi saw a reduction in playing time as well, which forced the Dukes to release him.
The Dukes have only 20 players under contract before the free agency period and have only $2.7M to spend.
Players like Justin Morneau, Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez may have to be traded to keep this team afloat.
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Saint Leodegarius of Autun
Leodegar
Son of the nobles Bobilo and Saint Sigrada. Brother of Saint Gerinus. Raised in the court of King Clotaire II. Studied in Poitiers, France under the guidance of his uncle, the bishop of Poitiers. Deacon in Poitiers, working in diocesan administration. Priest. Monk at Maxentius Abbey in 650. Abbot in 651, a position he held for six years during which he placed the abbey under the Benedictine Rule. Advisor to Queen Saint Bathild, and tutor to her children, in 656. Reforming bishop of Autun in 663. Fought Manichaeism, reformed the secular clergy, enforced discipline in religious houses, adopted the Creed of Saint Athanasius, and stressed the administration of the sacraments, especially baptism.
His work, and his support of Childeric over Ebroin for the throne, incurred the anger of many powerful entrenched rulers and groups. Exiled to Luxeuil, France in 675, he returned to Autun at the request of Theodoric III after the death of Childeric. When the city was attacked, Leodegarius arranged a surrender to avoid the Autun‘s destruction. He fell into the hands of Ebroin, was blinded, his lips cut off, and his tongue pulled out. Some time later this same Ebroin accused him of instigating the murder of Childeric, had him imprisoned for two years at Fecamp monastery in Normandy, regularly tortured, crippled, and finally executed.
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murdered in 678 in the woods near Sarcing, Somme, France
relics translated to the abbey of Saint Maxentius in 782
relics later translated to Rennes, and then to Ebreuil, which was renamed Saint-Leger
relics later translated to the cathedral of Autun and to Soissons, France
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Lives of the Saints, by Father Francis Xavier Weninger
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5 Other Great Games @ Gamescom 2015
Though Gamescom was filled with a few press conferences, other trailers were showcased at the event away from the expensive cameras and massive stages. The games shown outside of press conferences were arguably more impressive than what was showed on stage, and many of these trailers serve as a final teases of what's to come rather shortly. So, in a bid to not let you pass by any of these awesome upcoming games, here's a final rundown of the Gamescom trailers/gameplay you might not have seen.
After starting the legendary series back in 1987, Hideo Kojima's final Metal Gear Solid game is almost upon us. Though he was recently shat on by Konami and literally cast aside, his final masterpiece looks like it's still intact. For many of us this is the end to a very long road, but it certainly looks like one that's worth taking. Featuring an open-world like nothing we've seen before, classic Metal Gear Solid game mechanics re-jigged for a new generation and core gameplay that looks truly astounding, I think Kojima may finally better his current masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. My body is ready.
Some gamers enjoy punishment, and when it comes to punishment Dark Souls 3 is the granddaddy of pain. The new game, much like Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls before that, blends the beautiful with the monstrous to a near perfect effect. Despite the world being a truly dark place, it's one that I'm already dying to get back into. Though it's hard to say what it has changed since Dark Souls 2 (and possibly learned from Bloodborne), it at least retains the mood and atmosphere that us Dark Souls fans crave.
It seems like we've been waiting forever for Final Fantasy XV, but there isn't much longer to wait now. After playing the demo on the Playstation 4 not too long ago, I was blown away by how the Final Fantasy series so easily gelled with the open-world genre. This latest short chunk of gameplay reveals the return of the classic Final Fantasy foe, the Malboro; the toxic green plant that is best avoided. I guess no one told these guys though, as the Malboro literally kicks their asses. My hype levels couldn't be high enough for Final Fantasy XV.
Does anyone remember B.C, the cancelled Xbox game from way back when? Google it. Since its demise I've always wanted something that looked like it used B.C as a jumping off point. Perhaps the developers will disagree with me here, but ARK: Survival Evolved looks to be directly, or indirectly, influenced by B.C. It's a open-world survival game that gives you the chance to explore a vast and diverse world, build your own structures, plant and grow crops, tame and ride dinosaurs and use a whole array of customized weapons. It looks like if B.C and Minecraft had a baby, and though it certainly won't get the attention as the other games on our list, it's a game I'm dying to play. Bring it on.
Since playing the first game yonks ago on the PC, I've been a pretty big fan of this series. Though I don't think Mafia 2 reached the heights that the original did, it was a fun game that resurrected a series I thought was long dead. Now, after 5 years since Mafia 2 was released, Mafia 3 has been announced. This time taking place in New Orleans in the late 60's, Mafia 3 puts you in the shoes of Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam veteran, with the mafia themselves being the antagonists directly from the outset. With a few people by his side to help including Mafia 2 protagonist Vito Scaletta, Lincoln wants to take back his city from the ever growing mafia presence that is slowly corrupting everything.
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Helton agrees to two-year contract extension
By Troy E. Renck
National League, Todd Helton
TUCSON — Todd Helton has agreed to a two-year, $9.9-million extension taking him through 2013, and in all likelihood, allowing him to retire as a Rockie. As part of the contract, Helton will defer $13.1 million beginning next season, which gives the Rockies tremendous flexibility. Helton’s current contract was scheduled to end at the end of next season. The five-time National League All-Star also agreed to defer a portion of his contract over a 10-year period beginning in 2014.
Helton will make $4.9 million in 2012 and $5 million in 2013.
He was scheduled to make $19.1 million in 2011. As part of this new deal, he will get $10.6 million — a $6 million salary and the $4.7 signing bonus which is essentially the conversion of the buyout of his old contract. So it saves the Rockies $8.4 million on next year’s payroll.
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Gessler finally gets outside work
Attorney General John Suthers, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler
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Gessler: Ready to teach
Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who sidelined plans to moonlight for his old law firm after widespread criticism about conflicts of interest, says he’s found a gig that won’t pose an ethical dilemma.
“I’m going to be teaching an election law class at DU,” Gessler said today.
It’s a three credit-hour class that will require him to teach two, 75 minute classes a week this fall at the University of Denver, Gessler said.
“I’m doing it as much as anything to stay sharp on election law,” he said, adding, “So much of what I do now is policy-oriented and less about the law.”
Gessler said he is also in discussions with the University of Colorado-Boulder to teach a workshop on redistricting this fall.
The Republican, who defeated incumbent Democrat Bernie Buescher in November, said he expected to earn “several thousand dollars” from the two classes. Gessler said he’s previously taught law classes at CU.
Attorney General John Suthers also teaches law part time at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Gessler, who earns $68,500 a year, in January said his salary was a huge drop in earnings compared to what he made as an elections law attorney for Hackstaff Gessler and said he would be working part-time for his old law firm, now Hackstaff Law Group.
That immediately brought criticism over conflicts of interest, since Hackstaff would have cases before the secretary of state’s office. Gessler said he would not personally do any legal work on the firm’s elections law cases cases and as secretary of state would treat them like any others.
But after weeks of criticism, he dropped the idea. Still, Gessler said today that the “income issues have not gone away” and he is still considering doing outside legal work for other firms.
Gessler previously has said it would be “problematic” if he had to reveal the names of legal clients, though he said he was prepared to do that if he’d worked for his old firm.
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This sounds like a fine compromise. Public officials can earn extra money by teaching, and avoid the obvious conflicts of interest that would arise from doing business with their own government clients.
Teaching one’s expertise at local colleges is certainly a time-honored tradition, in the mold of AG John Suthers, or former State Senator for Illinois Barack Obama.
I am still concerned about this notion that Mr Gessler is “still considering doing outside legal work for other firms.” Doesn’t he get it? You cannot start legally taking the payoffs until after you LEAVE public service.
My simple rule is: If Mr Gessler still insists on doing outside legal work for election law firms while wearing the Secretary of State hat, and actually does it, then impeach him.
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Take a look. The article uses very poor evidence to make some not very good points, thus loosing the good points that may have been made.
Anyone wants to defend the use of history or facts here, I'm all ears.
thus loosing the good points that may have been made.
Are you being kind here Wilf, are do you genuinely see some good points in this? I'm normally very cautious of trashing someone's work without reflection and secondary sources/ opinions to put it into perspective (or, from another perspective, I'm an easily persuaded sell-out...)
However I failed to see anything of relevance or utility here at all.
Rule 2: Finding is the new flanking is flawed, albeit the least flawed of the three. If you can't find the enemy then flanking, attacking by fire or even an all-out up-the-guts assault will simply not be possible. As to portraying 'finding' rising to prominence over the 'strike, exploit' (the flank) I'd suggest this is rather a part of fighting an enemy who seeks to employ guerrilla/ unconventional tactics. Alexander's forces in Bactria would empathise with the difficulty in finding an enemy who seeks to avoid pitched battle - and history could provide countless more examples. If the author wanted to say that finding the enemy in the COE/ any COIN-type undertaking is more important as a tactical function than striking him then I would agree. We enjoy a huge advantage in terms of technology and firepower (most counter-insurgents do) so delivering death and destruction isn't the problem, but finding him is. But to portray a grand narrative of battle whereby flanking was once being a dominant form of manoeuvre and is now replaced by that of finding? Uh, no.
Rule 1: "Many and Small" Beats "Few and Large." Nice idea I'd like to subscribe to, but god does tend to be on the sides of the big battalions that are backed by overwhelming firepower supported by solid doctrine and led by competent leaders... all of which is outside the simplistic rendering of the above. After all, a big battalion can split into the 'small and many' when required.
Rule 3 - Swarming is the New Surging I'll admit that I struggle to create a solid argument against the concept of swarming, but it has always struck me as being infeasible. My gut feeling is that swarm tactics lack operational mobility once deployed, they are too difficult to resupply/ their logistic chain is simultaneously too fragile and too inefficient and the individual part of the swarm is too easily suppressed, fixed and defeated in detail by a competent enemy.
As to the concept of netwar, I don't think too much needs to be said as I doubt anyone will argue in support of it.
At the practical level I see it as inevitable that increased technology will be pushed down to the lowest level. I hate the term 'Network Centric Warfare' as it seems to replace the concept of warfare with the concept of a network - better perhaps is work towards a 'Warfare Centric Network'. Much like the concept of recon pull/ push we need to think of technology as being a network push, not a network pull. The core concepts of close combat won't dramatically change, so best support the core combat functions as we know them rather than trying to change.
In my capacity as a student of war/history, I'm seeing military progress as evolution rather than revolution. Along with that reading comes the caveat that anyone peddling revolution or the silver bullet ought to be treated with great suspicion.
Last edited by Chris jM; 02-25-2010 at 08:43 AM. Reason: fixing poor sentence construction
Originally Posted by Chris jM
Are you being kind here Wilf, are do you genuinely see some good points in this?
Thus my statement, "thus loosing the good points that may have been made."
Finding is good. Always has been. = Good.
Nothing to do with flanking. Flanking fulfils a completely and utterly different function, which is found in "Fixing." = Does not understand the Core Functions, thus undermines his understanding that Finding is good. He merely states it, and does not demonstrate he understand why. - and this is the high point!!
The author wasn't accurate in his use of military terms and examples. The level of thought is nevertheless above average.
I should have worded my question better - do you see any good points being able to arise from this? Not only are the 'rules' nonsense, the premise and reasoning on which they are founded is flawed.
And Fuchs, where is the level of thought above average? I fail to see any indications of above average thought. Claiming that it's original thinking I can agree with, but as to the quality of thought?
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Most articles on military matters are quite devoid of thought, the bar "average" is quite low.
Most military writing is about technicalities and superficial stuff. In fact, about 90% of military writing should be considered to be poorly done PR texting.
I concur. It was a massive missed opportunity. There are some really critical debates to be had, but the US (and pretty much the UK) seem incapable conducting it in a useful way. Why that is might also be worth asking!
The best effect of such texts is to push readers into new territory. Some readers may feel compelled to look up "swarming" for their first time, for example.
(Swarming works under the condition of superior elusiveness of the swarming parties; see sub wolfpacks in '40-'42, Parthian light cavalry.)
Tukhachevskii
Regarding Arquilla's "Rule No. 1" this statement irks me no end:
"This was the case during the Vietnam War, too, when the prevailing military organizational structure of the 1960s -- not much different from today's -- drove decision-makers to pursue a big-unit war against a large number of very small insurgent units. The final result: 500,000-plus troops deployed, countless billions spent, and a war lost. The iconic images were the insurgents' AK-47 individual assault rifles, of which there were hundreds of thousands in use at any moment, juxtaposed against the U.S. Air Force's B-52s, of which just a hundred or so massed together in fruitless attempts to bomb Hanoi into submission".
This statement neither proves that smaller and more numerous is better than larger and fewer nor does it provide evidence of the need for a paradigm shift in the organisation of armies. Why?
The US Army in Vietnam fought numerous engagements with both the NVA and the Viet Cong both of which were organised and fought differently (the former as conventional units fighting "set-piece" battles and the latter as "insurgents"). Yet, in all cases the US Army and USMC fought succesful engagements (take the battle of Hue city for instane or the Tet Offensive). Both the US Army and the USMC adapted their units to fit METT-T considerations without needing to tweek TOEs (take the firebase concept for instance). The reasons for the US "losing" the war (when in fact they actually lost the peace, or rather, South Vietnam did) were geopolitical, grand strategic and domestic with regards to the overly restrictive ROE imposed on the forces by both Congress and the President and were not solely due to the armed forces having failed to "transform". The author is not deploying a ceteris paribus (all things being equal) chain of reasoning. Furthermore, he later compares the forward deployment of platoon sized units in conjunction with allied tribes in Iraq as evidence of the force-multipling effects of "networked" systems after mentinong the surge, the surge, firthermore, which was finally responsibile for beinging order I might add. I don't know what particular axe Arquilla has to grind or from which corporation he recieves his consultants cheque but this article, IMO, made even William Lind's turgid "4th Generation Warfare" article seem like an exercise in historical erudition.
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J Wolfsberger
I got as far as page three, and read this: "For many centuries, legionary maniples (Latin for "handfuls") marched out -- in their flexible checkerboard formations -- and beat the massive, balky phalanxes of traditional foes, while dealing just as skillfully with loose bands of tribal fighters."
So, that explains the stunning Roman victory at Teutoburger Wald.
Oh, wait ...
Poor mastery of history, poorly reasoned, not much use.
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
Originally Posted by Fuchs
So what is "Swarming." Wolfpacks, moved dispersed then massed on command, often directed by aerial reconnaissance. The answer to Wolfpacks was convoys - again massing.
Mongols did not "swarm." Nor did Panzer Regiments. I keep hearing about Swarming, but no one actually seems to know what it is. If it just means simultaneous attacks from multiple directions, then its hardly a useful characterisation.
marct
Originally Posted by Tukhachevskii
I don't know what particular axe Arquilla has to grind or from which corporation he recieves his consultants cheque but this article, IMO, made even William Lind's turgid "4th Generation Warfare" article seem like an exercise in historical erudition.
What truly got my goat was this statement
Then again, perhaps the best example of a many-and-small military that worked against foes of all sizes was the Roman legion. For many centuries, legionary maniples (Latin for "handfuls") marched out -- in their flexible checkerboard formations -- and beat the massive, balky phalanxes of traditional foes, while dealing just as skillfully with loose bands of tribal fighters.
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Sure, maniples were a key tactical unit: as part of a cohort. In no Roman campaigns I'm aware of were maniples used as a basic unit separate from their cohorts. Cohorts, along with ala, would be detached for independent operations, but not maniples. And if he wants an example of ancient "swarming", and how effective it was, he should take a look at the final battle of the Boadicean revolt! And, as far as those "flexible checkerboard formations" are concerned, he really should consider that tactics are effected by technology as, for example, when my ancestors stomped the legions at Adrianople. As for the Teutonberg Wald, well, what can I say? It's all the fault of that nasty Arminius (aka Herman) who was waging an unconventional campaign !
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Honestly, there are a few good ideas in the article but, to my mind at least, they are buried in an overpowering morass of poor historical scholarship and an even poorer ability to abstract the essential factors. For example, as Wilf quite correctly points out, "finding" has always been important (ask Arminius !). Smaller units and increased segmentation can work and be incredibly effective, but they are dependent upon the technologies involved, especially the defensive, mobility and logistics technologies, and the use to which they are put.
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A RAND study pretty much defined the stuff about a decade ago.
You're wrong. Wolfpacks were the answer to convoys, not the other way around. Convoys were the answer to individual subs in 1917.
Wolfpacks were quite complicated. Aerial recce played a minor role, there were never more than two aerial recce squadrons with sufficient range available and their aircraft were quite suboptimal.
First Phase:
Establish a screening line till one sub gets in contact with a convoy (that enough subs can intercept in time).
Second Phase:
One sub gets into contact and keeps in contact, shadows the convoy and radios its position and movement.
A central station receives the radio message and transmits necessary info, not the least to make sure that every sub gets the message with minimum radiation from the shadowing sub.
Third Phase:
The subs of the wolfpack move into position and attack all in the same night, from different directions if possible at almost the same time.
This was a saturation approach to overcome the defences.
Fourth Phase:
Convoy still being shadowed, subs regroup for an attack another night, proceed to phase 3 again.
It's vastly different from the more understood tactics of battlefleets and army units/formations from battalion up to corps (the big arrows on maps).
This vast difference easily justifies that earlier authors chose to attach an own label to this behaviour.
Conventional tactics don't include an all-round pulse attack - not even during the annihilation of a pocket.
The German army would never have developed wolfpack tactics - their mode of attack was too much opposed to the Schwerpunkt idea. The difference is huge.
@marct:
"Finding" was no key issue in the Teutoburg Forest battle. Enemy identification was the key issue for the Romans, logistics & politics for the Germans.
Hi Fuchs,
Hmmm, I would include "enemy identification" under the heading "finding" myself, as in finding the moles . And I agree, for the Germans it was definitely politics and logistics.
Cool! Where?
So the response to Wolfpacks was to STAY in Convoys, not disperse.
One sub gets into contact and keeps in contact, shadows the convoy ....
The subs of the wolfpack move into position and attack all in the same night, from different directions if possible at almost the same time....
Convoy still being shadowed, subs regroup for an attack another night....
OK, how does that qualify as "Swarming?" Did the Kriegsmarine ever call it swarming? Sounds like U-boat specific "Wolfpack," to me.
So who else has used "Swarming" tactics?
http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB311/
My position is that RAND pretty much defined this term for military theory by publishing that work. That was a legitimate move because they identified a group of tactics that were sufficiently different from more common tactics to deserve a group name.
edit: Slightly related text http://redteamjournal.com/2009/12/interposing-tactics/
Not really. The response to wolfpack tactics was a huge set of efforts.
- dispersed aerial sub hunter patrols over the whole ocean
- suppressing the shadowing by pressing the subs below water using carrier-borne aerial cover for the convoy
- sub hunter groups (equivalent of combat air patrols) near their bases
- naval minelaying (especially in training areas and coastal regions)
- bombardment of bases, shipyards and industry
- more escorts per convoy
- more efficient convoys (area of a square grows faster than its borders - bigger convoy allows for more freighters per escort)
- technological innovation
- intelligence efforts
- industrial effort (a much, much larger ship production output)
...and of course a higher tolerance for losses than some 'experts' had expected.
Ken White
J.F.C. Fuller lives...
Swarming and Checkerboards. They crop up every few years, are touted as the Holy Grail and fail miserably in application far more often than not. Those who tout the techniques -- and the net centric stuff-- invariably are theorists who will have no responsibility for executing but cite a success or two and rarely mention the many failures of their recommended techniques.
What most miss is the human dimension. Too many leaders are not up to the theoretical level of performance. A good example is the above mentioned Viet Nam experience that Tukhachevskii posted:
"This was the case during the Vietnam War, too, when the prevailing military organizational structure of the 1960s -- not much different from today's -- drove decision-makers to pursue a big-unit war against a large number of very small insurgent units..."
The good Perfesser fails to note -- or notice -- that the Organization was totally capable of morphing into small units and Checkerboarding and many units did just that and did it successfully but USARV / MACV did not do so in toto because the leadership and the too powerful Staffs at high echelons were comprised of people whose experience was predominately in northwestern Europe and thus they tried to force the fight in the paddies to be conducted the same way they would have on the north German plain.
The theories espoused in the article are not totally wrong but most will fail in combat application due to personnel quality. People are the problem
Actually, training people is the problem. Well trained people and units will be able to shift gears and fight as required.
The sharp and well trained will do what MarcT said, send out Cohorts for independent operations as required. His summary of the good and bad in the article is on target, not least in this:
(ask Arminius !)
....so basically enhancing and supporting the convoy system? No convoys, no point.
I think the question could be, did the Wolfpacks require a disproportionate allocation of resources to defeat, balanced by was the Wolfpack the best use of the U-boat - which I do not think it was!
Originally Posted by Ken White
Swarming and Checkerboards. They crop up every few years, are touted as the Holy Grail and fail miserably in application far more often than not.
I remember reading some years back, that a science becomes a science when it drops static typologies and looks at change over time. Swarming, checkerboards, etc - any tactic really - can work if the factors limiting the situation are right. No tactic, however, is a Holy Grail; they will all fail if the situational limits are against them.
Those who tout the techniques -- and the net centric stuff-- invariably are theorists who will have no responsibility for executing but cite a success or two and rarely mention the many failures of their recommended techniques.
Hey, I resemble that remark !
More seriously, cherry picking historical examples of the success of a tactic (or strategy) is fine as long as it is designed to highlight the limiting factors. Unfortunately, the author in this article appears to be doing it for another reason. Swarming, as a tactic, seems to work best when there is limited capability for opponent identification and when immediately available defensive technologies can be breached quickly. It also seems to work really nicely when you have both of those conditions and the aim is actually to attack in some other area, usually moral via logistics (i.e. force the non-swarming group to invest heavily in infrastructure and logistical support). Probably the classic campaign along these lines, which, BTW, Arquilla does not mention, was Crassus' expedition against the Parthians.
Yup! That is the lesson he should have drawn from the legions.
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According to Rachel Roth’s post in Mom’s Rising today, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced plans to issue emergency regulations to put a stop to the shackling of pregnant women in labor.
“Regulation is good but here law would be better,” the governor said. Pledging his support, Governor Patrick added, “I urge the Legislature to send [a bill] to my desk for signature this session.”
That bill, S. 2012, just reported out of the Public Safety Committee, provides broader protection than the emergency regulations.
The bill has two aims: to set standards on medical care for pregnant women in jail and prison and to set clear limits on shackling. The bill includes these important provisions:
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bans on leg irons and waist chains after the first trimester
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