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← A Georgia fan’s existential dilemma
“Not a close-knit team.” →
Bad cases make bad law.
I’m beginning to wonder if one day we’re going to look back on this year’s BCS title game, aka The Rematch, as sort of college football’s Bush v. Gore equivalent. Check out this comment from Andy Staples:
This season’s Alabama-LSU national title game was the tipping point for the anti-playoff crowd. Several leagues were already leaning in the direction of a four-team playoff — strategically called a “plus-one” so dim bulbs won’t realize it’s actually a playoff — but when voters passed over Oklahoma State for an all-SEC rematch, the momentum finally swung in the direction of a bracketed tournament, even if it is a small one… [Emphasis added.]
If there is some form of SEC backlash involved in the playoff movement – and I’m not saying Staples is wrong to suggest there is – boy, are some people going to be disappointed when the SEC puts three schools in a plus-one tourney. (Unless, of course, they limit the number of schools one conference can place in a plus-one, which would speak volumes about Andy’s point.)
Then there’s this from playoff proponent Matt Hinton.
… For the sake of argument, let’s say Alabama beats LSU in another generally competitive game, by a margin of anywhere from one point to two touchdowns. In that case, the Crimson Tide will finish the year 12-1 with two or three wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take Penn State). LSU will finish 13-1 with four or five wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take West Virginia). They’d be be 1-1 against one another, with LSU’s win coming at Alabama. LSU will still be the SEC champion.
Under the circumstances, that’s a formula for a split championship, at worst. (The Coaches’ Poll is contractually obligated to vote the winner of the BCS title game No. 1; as LSU fans are well aware, the Associated Press poll is not.) That wouldn’t be the case if the rematch came as a result of the Tigers and Tide eliminating the competition head-to-head, on the field, leaving no questions and no alternatives. If there happens to be a rematch at the end of a playoff, it’s between two teams who have decisively earned it in a way that Alabama, in the current system, has not. [Emphasis added.]
Don’t you just love that? It’s not the rematch that’s bad; it’s the system which delivered it that’s bad. Nifty bit of circular reasoning there.
Of course the real problem this season isn’t that there’s a rematch in the title game. As Matt backhandedly acknowledges, the real problem is that there’s a debate over which team is the second best.
… That’s not to suggest that Oklahoma State or anyone else has earned a stronger claim on a second chance, either. But as long as that opportunity exists for some teams at the expense of others, the current system belongs in the scrapheap.
And because we can’t decide that issue (and because, let’s not forget, the schools want that TV/BCS money), the solution is to make the clear number one team in the country play more games so that we can all feel better about which school is the runner-up. We’re supposed to take an illogical situation and make it even more illogical.
You can see the slippery slope coming a mile away once this rationale is sanctioned, can’t you? This time it’s about #2 vs. #3. With the plus-one, the next debate will come when the argument is over which team is the nation’s fourth-best and the pressure will return to expand again to solve that debate (even if, say, it comes in a season à la 2005, when there was a clear consensus on the top two teams in the country). In other words, a playoff won’t solve this particular concern any better than what we’ve got now.
My point here isn’t to argue against a plus-one format (even though I expect most to question me on that). I’m okay with one that’s constructed with an eye towards being resistant to further expansion. There’s a convincing case to be made that there should be a better way to deal with the way the 2003 and 2004 seasons played out. But those were situations where the debate centered on more than two teams with a legitimate claim to being considered the best going into the postseason. Now we’re being urged to replace that standard with one that merely asks which teams deserve to show up in a postseason tourney, and that’s a very different animal.
Which means that if this season truly and finally provides the impetus for a D-1 playoff, either the movers and shakers embrace a new, flawed metric for inclusion, or (what I suspect) give it to us with a nudge and a wink that while it’s about what happened in 2011, the facts are unique and they promise with all their hearts that it will never, ever be a factor again. We can believe them, right?
Hey, if you can’t trust the folks who were pushing to expand the basketball tourney to 96 schools until they couldn’t find a broadcast partner willing to pay for the privilege, whom can you trust?
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126 responses to “Bad cases make bad law.”
If we are now pushing to go from a two-team playoff to a four-team playoff without changing how the entrants are determined, then what is to stop an 8, 16, 20-team playoff in the next decade?
Btw, I’ve been pushing for a “conference champs only” rule for the two-team playoff since 2001.
We assume that you took off from that position in the 2007 season.
Exactly. The larger the field, the more teams get left out too. A couple of teams can argue for the two spot, but there are probably eight teams tht would get left out of a sixteen team bracket. Few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right.
I disagree with this sentiment. “Oh, we shouldn’t have a playoff, because while we’ll definitely get teams #1 – #10, people might be unhappy with our selection of teams #11-#16. And because of that, we shouldn’t have a playoff.”
The reason few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right is because they don’t. That would be like me saying, “Hey, few will admit it that Hitler came closest to getting it right.”
So I’m a Jew hater if I’m against a playoff? Well damn, I guess I want a playoff. You win. Great point. I never thought about it that way till now, but wow. What an eye opener. Thanks.
Yes, if you don’t want playoffs, you hate Jews.
Serious as a heart attack
Honey Do!!
Didn’t understand that ‘Jibberish’; talk English, man; and btw, give us a playoff with 8 teams, and pick from the 12 top teams from AP & CP; no computers..
I think Adolf would have been a wishbone man, but aside from that what’s the use of bringing all that up on a college football blog?
To point out the absurdity of the statement in reference by making a similar, but exaggerated claim, to bring attention to and further elaborate my point.
I didn’t find it that exactly. But you brought the Hitler stuff into the football blogosphere, not this Dawg.
You right, Lone. Indian Rights much better topic.
Sorry. “Signed, Tonto”.
The whole point is there is rarely a season where more than 3-4 teams deserve a chance at the National Title after the regular season has been played. Teams 5-?? don’t need to be involved. Ever.
Thanks – that a better way of putting my comment above.
really? Hitler? 3 posts into a discussion? You must not be old enough to buy beer.
That’s my opinion on the issue and ought to be Topic #1 — a prerequisite for a national champ should be a regional championship. Sort of a football pyramid, of sorts.
I read this blog a lot and generally agree with what you have to say, but your anti-playoff stance is becoming increasingly dated. Hinton, who I read and respect, makes great points and I imagine 90% of the people out there would agree with him.
Alabama did not win their league, Alabama had a less impressive resume of wins than OSU, Alabama already lost to LSU at home, and the only thing Alabama had in favor over OSU was their loss was more respectable, but its hard to consider that when their loss is to the very team we’re deciding who Alabama or OSU would play.
The people freaking out about having a 4 or 8 team playoff turning into a NCAA style tournament come off to me as the same people who were scared to give women the right to vote, because whats next, the blacks?! (this is made in jest, but the point remains is you come off as outdated and paranoid).
As Hinton points out had Alabama gone through a playoff and ended up matched with LSU, it is what it is, but that would have left other teams (such as OSU) with good claims to that coveted #2 spot the opportunity to play for it. I’ve increasingly lost interest in the bowls as 8-4 teams, with coaching staffs having been fired, go through the motions. I’d rather see playoff football.
I’d rather see playoff football.
I can respect that. But it means the rest of your comment is irrelevant.
– I like your blog (how is this irrelevant?)
– I think your anti-playoff stance is outdated (how is this irrelevant?)
– Alabama does not deserve to be in national title game, though should be in a playoff with OSU (this relates directly to what I said)
– Not wanting a playoff because you’re afraid of playoff creep is paranoia (this is relevant)
I’m not sure what is not relevant.
You state a personal preference for playoff football. That’s cool. It’s also purely subjective. So turning around and telling me that my fear of playoff expansion is mere paranoia is an opinion on your part, not a factual subject for debate.
It’s pretty much the same for the rest of your commentary. For example, I don’t have an anti-playoff stance, but if I did, it’s outdated only in the sense that you prefer something else. After all, there is no playoff now (unless you consider the BCS title game a one-game playoff).
Though I’ll admit your blog praise isn’t irrelevant. 😉
No, I love your blog. #1 Fan.
I just wish you fell in line with my opinion on this issues.
Jordan – you’re simply blinded by preference. Every argument you make can probably be similarly turned around on you. For example, team A is 13-6, team B is 18-1 and they are 1-1 against each other. Team A is the champion. This is obviously absurd if the question is “Who had the better season”. But in a playoff, Team A is the champ. End of story. And like the Senator says, that’s cool if you prefer that.
But to sit here an call people who prefer the current format over a larger playoff out of date is pretty lame. Simply say “I’m a bracket buy” and you’ll find a lot more respect. Logically, both sides of the argument are reasonably compelling. I personally find the 2 team playoff more compelling simply because it places so much importance on almost every game in the regular season, which I personally favor. Those two last second pass plays broke Wisconsin’s heart this year. And the fans will still talk about it 20 years from now. I like that. This is an odd year where we really don’t need a playoff because LSU is the best team. A playoff wouldn’t change that if LSU and Bama met in the finals. One bit. Of course, playoffs seem to have a lot of odd years lately in the NFL with the wild cards winning it all. Might explain why I skip most of the regular season in the NFL and watch the playoffs.
I believe anything more than a 4 team playoff would severely dampen regular season importance of almost every game. I’ll never know for sure since I haven’t figured out the whole alternate universe thing yet, but looking at almost every other sport, it’s hard for me to argue otherwise.
Again, note I simply state personal preference.
That’s good. So was Jordan. His comments were to the point and no more inflammatory than the Senator’s. For all the reasons you seem to think a playoff has so many holes, I can rip off a littany of reasons why the present BCS system is straight BS, embraced by those who simply want to play a game of who can outbitch the other.
When you lay all the pros and cons end to end, a playoff seems more reasonable than preferential treatment to decide the top two teams to play for a championship out of 120 teams (which is absurd). If we can all get over ourselves, we should proceed as fans who give a shit, to embark on playoff planning.
Fans… playoff planning… wait, what?
You’re not seriously suggesting that we have any input in the process, are you? That would be crazy talk.
If it’s just a “+1” or 4 team playoff, it definitely expands. And it also will assuredly not allow 3 SEC teams out of the 4. It may not even allow 2 and be restricted to just conference champs. At most, I’d see it requiring 3 conference champs with 1 “at large” selection, but no more than 1.
So much for “settling it on the field”, then.
Right – and which conference championship will Notre Dame win?
But how can you be national champ if you’re not a conference champ? That’s settled on the field, right?
Although from past back and forth, I’m thinking you and I are both pretty much lock step in thoughts on this stuff.
By that rationale, Notre Dame could never be a national champ.
Your point?
Like they were ever gonna be anyway.
Switch on your sarcasm meter…
Fair enough, although they’d try and throw their weight around in the process, and maybe make themselves guaranteed as the at large when they win 10 games. Because you know, there is so much interest nationally in the Notre Dame brand.
I got them “Lockstep Blues”. {(one word. ;-)}
Yeah, you haven’t stalked me enough lately.
Goodness are we cross again? Are things slow over there at the shock blog? Nothing to poor mouth about?? Too much time on your hands? Reaching out? Let me lift up up your spirits.
There … now we can be friends again.
AthensHomerDawg; That really U doing that picking? If so stop fussing bout futball & go out pickin.. Come on & lets get something going rather than what we’ve got, it does not work neither, i cannot decipher just what would be best, but i think most everyone on these “BlogSpots” will agree with me that we need some kind of change; And who said he was going to “Bring About Change”; though it was ‘NOT’ in the realm of ‘Football’; it was about “Government”. And not seen any better; only worse!!.. There i’ve got onto another irrelevant subject.. BTW– Answer– Husan Obama..
And of course that “at large” team would be Notre Dame eight years out of ten.
I could absolutely agree with up to an 8 team playoff. I think that is a bit much because I can’t think of anytime in the history of CFB that 8 teams have “deserved” to be in consideration.
My concern is that 8 will become 12 or 16 because playoff addicts are just like alcoholics. Their motto is MORE IS BETTER. It never stops. MLB going down that path now. It is a mere matter of time before the NCAA Basketball Tourney goes to 90 plus teams. The NHL and NBA are a joke…the regular season is nothing more than extended Spring Training for both.
If we take the step on the playoff, I would want the absolute strictest rules in place to prevent this type of mindless expansion.
I don’t think a concern that an 8 team playoff would turn into a 12 or 16 playoff is adequate reason for adopting a better (in many people’s opinion) system. Sure, it could happen, and if it does, its because the market (the people) demanding it. Would we not be stoked at playing Michigan State right now for the right to move onto the next round of the playoffs? I would love that. I would be there. As of now, while I want UGA to win, I’m apathetic to the game. Its just a bowl game, a glorified scrimmage.
And lets not compare NCAA Basketball to NCAA Football. NCAA basketball has 350+ teams, football has what, 120? Also, NCAA basketball also does not have a lot of disparity. A school like Butler or Gonzaga can compete with schools like Duke or Kentucky, unlike football where there are maybe 2-10 teams that could win the national title each year.
Also, the ADs and conferences have a lot of say in what goes on in college football it appears, whereas the NCAA controls college basketball. It appears the ADs and conference officials all have the same fears as you Bob (and the Senator) and they would most likely check your fears with those rules and regulations to prevent mindless expansion.
But I reiterate, to not move towards a better system that would allow the best 4-8 teams to play for the national title on the field, simply because you’re afraid of what might happen is unjustifiable. Progress can’t be stopped because of fear.
As a card-carrying member of the anti-playoff crowd, I’m willing to listen to the other side.
But I will tune out any argument made by someone who is apathetic
about a UGA football game.
That proves a fundamental difference in the way we view college football, and it’s a gap that won’t be
bridged by any postseason system.
So how should I feel?
You’re telling me you wouldn’t have more invested in a game in which if we win we would move onto the next round to play another game for the opportunity to play for the national title? I’m sorry, but as you said, if you prefer a post season scrimmage than you’re right, there is a fundamental difference in the way we view college football.
I see no reason to set up college football in a way that attempts to crown a national champion. That’s what the NFL is for. Same reason I don’t get worked up when Walton High doesn’t
get to play Mater Dei for a national championship.
That’s the fundamental difference.
And the only good one I’ve seen in this now-volatile discussion.
Jordan has good points and is not trying to be overwhelming in his preferential statement. Others come from an opposite standpoint. We all should be able to subscribe one way or the other and reason past unsubstantiated points. It’s all good. When we have to examine our reasoning, most often we learn.
In an 8 team playoff UGA-Michigan State would still be a “glorified scrimmage” because we would not be in the top 8. Do you really think that the number 8 team in the country, Kansas State, has a legitimate claim to the national championship? If not then including them in a playoff makes it just as much of an exhibition as a bowl game.
Careful Brad,
I understand, I’m just trying to address a UGA crowd by using relevant examples. Unfortunately, we wouldn’t be in the playoffs this year.
And Brad, that’s the great thing about a playoff. If Kansas State made the playoffs they don’t need a “claim” to the national championship. They just have to play well and win their games and they’ll be given the national championship. No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.
And no, including them in the playoffs is not as much an exhibition as a bowl game. The MSU / UGA game is a post season exhibition game. The Kansas State versus whomever game is a playoff game in which the winner would go on to play another team for the right to play in the national title.
So Kansas State beats LSU and now Kansas State has the opportunity to move on and LSU stays home? After the season that both of those teams have had I don’t see how that seems logical. LSU beat Oregon, Bama, WVU at Morgantown, UGA, and Arkansas while K-State lost a game 56-17. If you think that makes sense then I hope you have no complaints about our home schedule next year. If I’m an AD I am not putting a team on my OOC schedule that does not start with either Eastern, Western, Northern, or Southern, it does me no good. I can beat cupcakes and get at least a number 8 seed, then I’m in!
I appreciate your response.
Yes, if Kansas State beats LSU, they deserve to move on. How could they not? Kansas State is a good team and having beat LSU in a game clearly, and irrefutably, they deserve to move on.
I have no complaints about our schedule this year. I would like to see a marquee out of conference game, but we can’t help what Georgia Tech has become ;-).
If you’re an AD you can schedule how you’d like out of conference, but you’d still (most likely) have to win your conference and in Georgia’s case beat teams like South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, etc. If UGA finished #8 I’m sure they would’ve deserved it, regardless of who they played.
Thanks for the civil debate Jordan. I don’t think either one of us will change the other’s opinion but it’s good to hear some different opinions. The college football regular season is the best and most important of any sport and a playoff would cheapen that. The great thing about college football is you have to be good throughout a four month regular season, not a three week tournament in the post season.
+1, +1
There is the truth. A playoff of too many teams will definitely dilute the CFB season. CBB used to be great. And it still is…in March for 16 days. From December to early March it is a snorefest of utterly unimportant games. #1 plays #2 and no one pays any attention at all. Believe me, it did not used to be that way before every team with a pulse made the tourney.
Be very careful for what we wish for. The CFB season is by far the best regular season going. The ending is like a whimper some times, but we have 3 plus months of great drama in MOST years. There is absolutely none of that in basketball.
+2 – see Bob’s reply above as well. Jordan wants killer post season matchups that he believes will “irrefutably” crown a champion. I still think the Patriots were better than the Giants in 07, but I guess that’s just me. The rest of us like the fact Vandy can ruin someone’s season. It’s really that simple.
Jordan’s case is better than the BCS, no matter the word differences. A playoff champions the best team at that end of the season. Isn’t that what we are discussing? If LSU loses it before the season is over, then they no longer are the best team. Pretty simple with a playoff. When we were relegated to playing Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl instead of playing for the NC at that time, can you honestly not feel we were the best in the country at that time? And wouldn’t you have given anything for the chance for that team to prove it? The BCS rooked us and as long as snarky insinuations by ESPN are taken into consideration, the BCS will remain an indeterminate method of crowning a “NC”. I personally don’t like my alma mater playing in that shitty pool. A playoff deprives the sobs of exercising decisions and provides them with only a minimum amount of power over our great University.
I’m probably being pedantic, but this:
“No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.”
Could be describing the BCS. Minus the ‘s’ at the end of playoffs, it’s the entirety of the argument for the creation of the BCS championship game in the first place 13 years ago. You’re just arguing that it should be 4 teams, or 6 or 8 instead of 2. Count me in the camp that doesn’t want that, and that would be fine with scrapping the whole thing. Make the SEC championship and a trip to New Orleans the ultimate goal of Georgia and every team in the SEC. The game I grew up watching and came to love can’t support a huge playoff.
DarrrenRovelll
So if Butler had won the national title in basketball the last two seasons then they would not have had a legitimate claim to the NCAA title?
They were not seeded in the top 8 in either tournament.
Are you really making a basketball-football comparison as if it is apples to apples? Are you advocating a 65 team football playoff? Are you going to put the Horizon League champion in your playoff?
No but your argument is flawed. Are you saying that no team below the 8th seed has any hope of beating a team ranked 8 or higher?
You nailed it Jordan. The anti’s arguments are not just dated and tiring, they are flawed with the “you can’t do what is right to fix it because we would then screw it up”, as if that has ever been a reason for man not striving to make things better. We would never have had cars or planes because someone might use them unsafely. A plus one is a half-assed solution that says we know we don’t have enough entrants with two teams yet doesn’t allow just one more round, to insure the major conferences have representation. It is destined to fail because a plus one would cry out for immediate expansion because it doesn’t solve the problem of legitimate inclusion. 8 teams would do that for all but the weird.
The Senator summarily dismisses Hinton’s point about the rematch, but Hinton’s comments are irrefutable. If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted,so it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be? I doubt it would bother the Tide fans at all, but who else would recognize them? They are the butt of many jokes about this already.
But this isn’t about the lack of cred of Tide fans, this is about how CFB has gone a century without finding an adequate way to have one team earn it’s way to a title bigger than a regional one. No sport, at any level, does that. But if we are going to ignore that need/desire for a true champion, let’s win it on the field and stop pretending we have a true method of identifying a champ. Let’s just stop at conference titles, they are the highest earned achievements in CFB. As silly as I think that is, I could support that ahead of the disastrous system we currently have in post season play.
Has America gone completely to preferring handouts to actually earning something?
Mac, needless to say I think your argument is overwrought, but one thing in particular stands out:
… it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be?
Isn’t that an argument that we don’t need a playoff at all?
As I have said many times before, I would rather have no claims of having a champion than this phony process we now have. I am cool with everyone having their conference champion and nothing beyond…certainly nothing as contrived as what we have now. It is the falseness of it that bothers me most.
How so? In what way does his quote argue that we don’t need a playoff?
He clearly states:
“If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted…”
At this point the anti-playoff crowd is like the old man resistant to change, not because of actual, sound reasoning, but because he’s afraid of change itself.
I know you’re an educated man Senator, but I can’t help but feel you’re anti-playoff stance is simply a rabble-rousing maneuver to draw page views. Fess up.
If LSU is the best team, regardless, what’s the point of a playoff?
Also, I’ve got better things to do than write merely to draw page views. That’s Mark Bradley territory, thanks.
Dawgaholic
In reality, this is a year where LSU deserves the pre-1995 system. The best system for college football is a variable system that is flexible according to the state of things after the regular season. For this year, the pre-bowl alliance system would work as we have one clear top team. For years like 2005, 2006, or 2010, the current regular season plus BCS model is great. For years like 2003, 2004, or 2007, a 4, 6, or 8 team playoff may be needed – though I’ve never seen a season where 8 teams had a legitimate argument that they were number one.
Any playoff should be limited to teams that have a legitimate argument that they are number one. If it’s just one team, nothing is needed. If five teams, then the 4 and 5 play and the winner advances to a 4 team playoff. To determine what is needed, you would need a set metric that qualified all teams within a certain point ranking or score of the number one ranked team. Ideally, this system would contain record, strength of schedule, and a component that gave additional credit to schools from conferences that had won recent national championships.
Although this would only result in at most 3 additional games, I doubt such a system would ever be accepted due to the uncertainty at the end of each year- despite the fact it may be the best way to determine a true national champion and still keep emphasis on the regular season.
Dawgaholic;
I think you may B forgetting about the inclement weather we have at ‘Bowl Playing Time’. If all wining teams playing in Bowls could play in Domed Stadiums, then that would be grand; but reckon that could B the case? Hardly..
Note that the title is ambiguous as to what the subject matter of the post might be, thus negating any chance of increased page views from people who might be “roused” enough to click through to it simply because they disagree with it.
WVMtnDawg
I think its supports the argument that there are too many FBS programs out there. 120 is too many, we should have less, and let conference champs settle it on the field against each other.
It really is that simple WV, If we can just get those mid-majors to step back. That was close to what the BCS founders tried to do but they left the door ajar. The 4 Super Conferences could accomplish this in the next few years but it would be cleaner if there were different divisions established for the have and have-nots.
“No sport, at any level, does that.”
Not true. High school football.
I understand that the money and the stadiums and the TV contracts of CFB resemble the NFL, and that’s great, because it puts UGA on my TV every Saturday. I just don’t want it to copy the NFL on the field, because I find the NFL very boring.
Don’t think Mac’s argument is “overwrought” at all. That would make yours “overbought”, Senator.
The words “National Champion” should be dissected. Some of us put different meanings to the words than do others.
Yeah, I see exactly what you mean.
It may be a leap (but not overwrought) to compare Bammers with the entitlement mentality spreading from the Leftist movement, but the whining and begging for another shot is annoying for similar reasons. Of course, there are those who don’t see a problem with either.
And , as sharp as your vision is with all matters football, I really don’t think you “see exactly” much at all when it comes to what is going on outside the game. JMO.
From Jordan:
Yeah – not overwrought at all…totally logical – after all this isn’t an opinion it is FACT that a playoff will be better for every single person!
I’m a Saints fan, and I hate that the Saints are probably going to have to play the Falcon’s in the first round of the playoffs, for the 3rd time in 8 games. Talk about watering dwon the regular season.The worst the Saints can be this season against the Falcons is 2-1, but if that’s the case, the Falcon’s will have had a better playoff run than the Saints. Nobody has ever complained about the fact that teams that already played in the regular season play again in various playoff formats until the BCS did it.
See the Senator’s circular reasoning in the post.
That’s just a bit over the top. Where do you get off attaching some nasty label on someone who doesn’t agree with you and then ask for a pardon for rude statements because it was supposedly done “Tongue in Cheek”. “One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/28/gore-global-warming-skeptics-are-this-generations-racists/#ixzz1i2oK49tk
Now this from the guy who invented the internet and you both concern me.
I may be outdated but I do enjoy the long standing traditions of college football. The bowls are one of those traditions and I would like to think the athletes enjoyed playing in them as much as I enjoy watching them. It was something we always looked forward to and they do too!
“The BCS was not designed to award the national title to the most deserving team; it was designed to make money for the top-20 or so programs in Division 1.
Football programs need cost certainty; the business model of D1 athletics depends on it. The “revenue” sports (men’s football and basketball) generate millions of dollars in profits that are re-invested into “non-revenue” (Olympic and women’s) sports, as well as various facilities to enhance/solidify recruiting.
Why exactly are poor inner city kids sacrificing their bodies to subsidize suburban kids playing country club sports in college anyway? **
So it doesn’t matter that a playoff system will bring in more money to college athletics. That’s money the NCAA would get its hands on; money that would be spread much more equally around the 100+ Division 1 programs. The big-time programs would rather have bigger cuts of a smaller pie than smaller cuts of a larger one.
That’s the fundamental problem with playoff proponents’ – they think they are talking to a business when they are actually negotiating with a monopoly.
And like all monopolies, the six BCS conferences aren’t looking to give up their power.
The way the system is set up now, if you go undefeated in a BCS conference, you will play for a national title. Except in a rare occasion like 2004, when USC, Auburn and OU all finished undefeated.”
Now unless you are a racist, sexist, Nazi homophobe wife beater…. I’m sure we can agree. (Just kidding..it’s all good!)….right?
or “overwrought”.
I am all for a plus one as long as the College Administrators fix it as a long term contract to stem the voracious appetite that exists for playoff addicts. And make it a requirement that you must win your conference. We know Alabama is inferior to LSU. I would like to KNOW that Oklahoma State was.
And yeah, I am hoping against hope that LSU beats the ever living hell out of Bama just so I can see Herby tell us how this was the right match up. That alone would be worth it.
I like the cut of your jib, Bob … and in a football way. ‘Special interests’ have that certain special habit of nibbling at the edges of issues and exploiting the idea of a utopian solution to common inconvenience. Once the lid is off the ‘playoffs bottle’ the result will be a stampede for profit. And, I think, the inherent unpredictability of semi-amateur football will be gone down the drain.
As opposed to the current state of football where conferences and broadcasting companies ink billion dollar deals and we have 30+ bowls simply because they rake in profit. Yea, playoffs are really going to ruin college football and cause a stampede for profit.
To be a playoff opponent simply because the bowls have existed and that’s “how we’ve always done it” is absurd. Doing something wrong, even if you’ve been doing it wrong all along, is still wrong.
Well, that’s just like your opinion, Man…If and when there is a movement toward a playoff it will only be about one thing —- DOLLARS (or yuan)! Profit is what has proliferated these Belk/Meineke/San Diego Credit Union(?) Bowls and should sponsors be presented with a business plan that increases revenues faster they’ll jump on it like Chuck Berry on a honky girl.
I think you may be confusing what is best for a marketplace of jackal advertisers vs. the maintenance of the most meaningful regular season on the American sports landscape.
I’m not confusing anything. A playoff might be best for the marketplace, but that’s irrelevant, its whats best for college football. The regular season would still be meaningful and please spare me that line when Alabama, who did not win the SEC and lost to LSU at home during the regular season, was selected to rematch LSU for the title game.
Again, I don’t understand why the regular season would all the sudden lose its meaning. Look at this year. In an 8 team playoff, there would only be 8 coveted spots. A single loss could knock you out of the running, just like now. The regular season would maintain its importance. The whole “the regular season would lose its importance” argument is old and holds no water.
I don’t like the prospect that Bama gets another crack at LSU, but sell those goods to the voters. Those Harris Poll grandpas and the Coaches Poll sycophants are the responsible agents for elevating Alabama above OSU.
Strength of schedule, in some form agreeable to every conference, must be sprinkled into this BCS formula or else all manner of subjective bias can creep in.
We think it’s hard deciding who the second best team in America is, wait til we have to decide who the 8th or 16th best is.
But they rake in the profit because the large BCS schools also control the power too.
If they opt for a football in the FBS division, we will see a major shakeup in the NCAA. There will be a big fight and it will be bloody. Non-BCS schools have reasonable representation and revenue sharing from the basketball and they will demand the same from a football playoff.
This probably why the BCS conferences floating the “plus one” are calling it such. Labeling it a playoff will open the Pandora’s box with the potential to completely destroy the NCAA as it is currently structured.
By your reasoning, we KNOW UGA is inferior to South Carolina. Why did UGA make the SECCG? Because of how the rest of the season played out for those two teams and others. Same reason Bama was able to slide into the NCG.
If Bama beats LSU an LSU is voted #1 in the AP, will they claim a national championship? Anybody remember 2003? That would be fun to follow on the LSU boards!
Yeah, I just thought about that. I would really enjoy hearing them debate themselves. I might just start cataloging some of their arguments from 2003 for fun.
Having seen both Bama and Okie State play several times this season, I can tell you I don’t need to watch LSU play Okie State to KNOW LSU is better.
I don’t even need to spend the night at a mid priced motel to know it.
If you don’t KNOW LSU is better, well…maybe you should find some other sport to be interested in.
Scorpio,
I think I have been around long enough to know something about this sport. Do you really know that LSU is better? For fact? I think they are better. Hell, I THINK Alabama is better that OSU. But I do not know that they are not better than Alabama. Don’t need to see that show again.
And no matter how smart you think you are, you don’t know either. Did you assume Utah was better than Alabama? Oh, I thought so. 😉
Bob;
I think we “ALL” should wait until 1/09/12 to see who wins “THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES”;
Alabama OR
LSU ?
If Bama comes up and wins!! Well stranger things have happened.
Wasn’t it not 2 many years ago when LSU was undefeated and came time to play (was it Kentucky, or someone else) whomever? And that whomever beat them handidly. I say “Don’t count your ‘Chicks’ B4 they hatch”. If LSU goes into that game “OverConfident”; well don’t B suprised if BAMA pulls out a win; I Said; “Stranger Things Have Happened”..
The only reason I’d like to see Okie State play LSU is to watch LSU destroy them. Alabama is the only team that has a chance (and a good chance) to beat LSU if they’re both on their games. Ok State, not so much.
As long as the number of SEC teams are not limited in a playoff system and just based it on rankings of some sort. I still can see the SEC dominating and other conferences unhappy.
You can already see the dilemma coming for UGA next year (yes, that’s premature I know but we do have a very easy SOS, i’ve heard…)
Undefeated UGA wins East
Undefeated LSU wins West, beating one-loss Alabama (or vice versa)
West winner beats East winner in SECGC.
Two 1-loss SEC teams remain, both losing only to #1 ranked LSU.
who goes to the BCS CG? The divisional winner? But we just demonstrated that isn’t a criteria this year. Is it the one with the higher ranking? that will likely be the one that lost earlier in the year.
I think this year’s rematch sets bad precedent, and sort of upturns previous precedent from 2007 when some Eastern division team didn’t deserve to go to the Championship because they didn’t win thier division. I forget who that was…
reipar
Did I actually see a slippery slope argument?! When I was in school it was not against the conduct code to punch someone for making a slippery slope argument in crim pro.
The bcs is designed to get the two best/most deserving teams in. You can’t make the argument that Osu is better or more deserving than Alabama. Moreover, you can’t justify LSU having go win 2 games to claim the national title when they shouldn’t have to play one. This is ahead in which the old system of choosing a national champ before the bowls makes the most sense. Instead, you have a system where the most accomplished regular season team has to beat a team it beat on the raid to claim a trophy. Rather than acknowledge the stupidity of that process most want to aggravate it by making LSU beat two undeserving opponents. I just can’t make any sense out of that.
so much of this season’s anti-BCS argument seems to be summed up in the following sentence: “We dont like seeing LSU play Alabama again.”
Well, I dont like it either, but anyone who thinks these arent the two best teams this year just hasnt been paying attention. If your point is “Alabama shouldnt be in this game because they already had their shot at home and lost,” I can’t argue against that; however, the BCS rules dont prohibit it. Does anyone really think OK St’s O would do much against the Bama D? Does anyone think a mediocre OK St D would do much to slow down Bama’s O? Substitute Stanford or Oregon for OK St, same conclusion.
I can see the argument that a second place team in its division shouldnt play for the title. Fair enough. But if your goal is to put the two best teams in the title game, this year is your dream game. Makes no sense to me to make LSU play MORE games to get to the title game.
If the BCS title game is to determine which is the best team in the country, everything such as conference titles, affiliations, schedules, who Corso is in love with, who Herbstreet is trying to screw, great traditions, and so on and so on need to be put aside. Let a computer program decide who’s stongest. If it’s two teams from the same conference who have already played….so be it. BUT if it’s about making every region and conference feel needed and building the biggest national audience, figure out a playoff system. Pandora can help arrange it. It will give a lot of people the warm fuzzies to think that their team is “going to the big dance”, or is “on the bubble” (just to use the more boring sports’ tourny lingo).
Just think of the possibilities. If you think the a-holes at espn (just for instance, not to be picking on that wonderful cast) are sickining in their partiality now…just wait until you have a playoff system. Game day will have to start at midnight on Thursdays just so they can get their politicing in….
Keeping it like it is sucks.The subjective, human element has to be removed and this is the time in history where, thanks to technology (computers) it can actually be done. Just don’t let GT write the program.
But even if we finally got it all perfect….with computers or playoffs or whatever, one bad call by a biased referee could sink the whole thing….again. And it WOULD happen…again. Or someone would sue that the computer program wasn’t written perfectly and some quirk left their team out.
Oh, well. It never hurts to try.
Bottom line here…this year the two best teams are playing for it.Next year maybe not…one of them might get stuck playing Hawaii becase Corso says so.
What if you had three polls at the end. If they disagreed, any of the teams could challenge one of the others to a playoff game. They would have to be willing to put up one million dollars and forfeit it and every cent they made on the extra game to charity if they lost. They’d have to be pretty confident, as would the opposing team to accept the challenge. You think OSU would do this against LSU? KSt against Bama?
Yes…I’m crazy. Just fun.
I think you would have the same problems with a play off system that you do now. Somebody’ s going to be left out and will start whining about the unfairness of it all. What if 4 of the top ranked 8 teams are from the SEC? You would again hear how the system is rigged to favor the SEC from all those other conferences that don’t know how to play defence.
Yeah, but the differences in selecting the 16th team (I just used that number because it will piss someone off) are so close that you may settle for a raffle system. Now there we go! Select the top 8-12 teams and throw 8-16 in a pile to raffle off the next placements. These would be called The Future Incoming National Games Raffle and by acronym would be known as the FING Raffle, shortened by some to FING R. By having this Fing Raffle, we can stipulate we are giving the BCS the FING R.
I’ll have to check with corporate to determine the use of the FING R logo since that conflicts with the next model name for Fing Scooters.
surely!
Dear 4 Team Playoff Advocates,
Please explain how the argument of Bama vs. OSU is not the same, if perhaps not even more intense, between #4 Stanford and #5 Oregon?
Oregon beat Stanford, Oregon is the Pac (whatever) Champion. Oregon lost to LSU. Stanford has arguable a weaker schedule. Stanford beat USC in triple OT, Oregon lost to USC by 3.
And if you want conference champs only, Bama’s out and Whisky is in (as well as Oregon, so you’ve got #5 and #8 in the playoffs, while #’s 2, 4 , 6, and 7 are out)?
I’m not sure what that would be, but it’s not “progress”.
It’s a clarion call for 8-16 teams in a playoff! Outstanding, AusDawg.
It’s called the pros. They play on Sunday. Check it out sometime.
Every year, without fail, a four team playoff is messier than the two team BCS. Every year. The argument I get is that people won’t care about who is 4 or 5 as long as they ‘know’ that the best teams are in the playoff. But you won’t know that. Look at this year. No one is arguing that LSU shouldn’t be in there. And no one is arguing that Bama or OSU are better than LSU. The quest is whether or not Bama is better than OSU. Move it back, is Stanford Better than Oregon? Move it back, is Kansas State better than South Carolina? Is Michigan State better than UGA? I guess we’ll find that one out, but I assure you if we just got the spot and they were left out (they’re currently 17th in the BCS to our 16th) they’d be screaming mad.
I doubt anyone will be able to give a serious answer to this. Any takers?
The lone voice in the wilderness. I am against the BCS as it now stands.
I am against any team playing in more than 2 bowl games.
I like the bowl system in place now EXCEPT: I am a proponent of a PLUS ONE (4 TEAM PLAYOFF).
That would settle the National Championship issue for me every year.
all great points made by the senator….
I find the most irritating element whenever someone attempts to examine the DI FBS “Champion” is that they do so in a vacuum, completely isolated from causation and rationale. We have a current system in place for post-season play that by-and-large is irrespective of the polls (save the BCS bowls) and is settled by conference ranking. We have large scale exhibition games geared at pitting equal conference opponents against each other.
If we introduce a “+1” system of a 4-team playoff scenario, it would be honest for us also to actually address how the rest of the bowls will be impacted. No, it won’t be “just an extra game”. It will essentially become two post-season seasons; the “haves” and the “have nots”. I think what gets lost in all of this is what bowl games represent to college football. These really aren’t “just games”, they are winter vacations for both the schools and fan bases that travel. Its a big deal and an event (even when teams lose the bowl game). The perspective of the spectator that actually takes part and attends the game is missing from this discussion. The “playoffs or bust” is mainly coming from people who are just casually watching on the tube.
What is ‘broken’ in the current bowl series? Is it JUST determining the National Champion? If thats all it is…then I suppose we have to ask if something could help weight these teams to create a consensus of a team’s ability. We already have it – its the BCS score combing several polls and computer formulas. The “National Champion” isn’t endorsed by the NCAA (it is completely a concoction of the ‘BCS’ collective), so whatever we’re attempting to do here is simply for TV and sponsor revenue.
It would be nice the next time some sportswriter brings up this argument, that he does his homework and actually illustrates what would happen from all perspectives. Is the current bowl system profitable for the bowl, for the hosting city, do the teams actually profit, what impact does being a bowl winner (no matter how trivial the bowl) have on a program – instead of just how making a change to satiate ESPN ratings?
Hilarious to see all the “regular season is so sacred” crowd defend a system that completely ignores the November 5 game between LSU and Alabama. No requirement to earn it, let’s just hand them a do-over. I understand that some prefer no playoff at all, but at least be consistent. If you aren’t gagging about this, then you weren’t sincere about the sanctity of the regular season. This is the worst of all scenarios. It knocks out the “regular season” argument in a way a playoff never could.
And I am a “regular season is sacred” guy who supports a limited playoff because it would enhance the regular season.
This again? It doesn’t ignore the November 5 game. LSU is 1 and Alabama 2 because of that game. The nice thing about the system is that it also factors in the other 11 weeks of the season in arriving at the matchup. In those other 11 weeks Alabama didn’t play a game closer than 16 points. They were also the only team to stay within 13 of LSU. I don’t like the rematch, and I’ve always thought they should have a conference championship requirement for participation (with exemptions for independents). However, Alabama has no embarrassing losses and pretty clearly looks like the second best, if not the best, team in the country by any metric you want to use.
Beyond my other argument, even if I concede that in this one particular instance the regular season is somewhat diminished by this rematch, why in God’s name would I want to switch to a system that would ensure multiple instances of regular season matchups between top teams being only determiners of seeding?
If LSU beat Bama 27-3 on Nov 5, I guarantee you OSU is in the title game.
Bama rightly gets credit for playing LSU very close.
The regular season matters.
Patrick..very important point. The closeness of that game begs for the rematch.
Also, I came away thinking that Alabama was a little better overall. That may no longer be the case with Jefferson playing QB. He certainly gave the LSU offense a spark when he entered that game.
Guys, having a playoff whether it is 2,4 8, 16, or 32 teams does not guarantee you will identify the best team…ever. Each match-up is unique and results are for that day only. We can all make extrapolations based on interwoven five-off game results, but you never really know who is the best…that will always be argumentative. Only the intensity of the argument will vary. You can have a NC though, if you have a representative playoff.
If anyone using the “regular season” stuff isn’t disgusted by what the rematch says about the importance of the regular season results Biggus, I don’t guess we are discussing the same thing. It couldn’t be a more direct assault the foundation of the regular season’s significance.
And a playoff is not an even more fierce assault on the regular season? Seriously, if LSU having to play Bama is a travesty, what is LSU having to play Stanford and then Bama, or K State, Stanford, then Bama? You can’t make an argument that the BCS harms the regular season’s sanctity and argue for a playoff at the same time.
Dude – rematches happen ALL the time in the pros. Giants/Pats anyone? Yes – smaller population granted. We’ve had 2 (that I can remember) maybe 3 rematches in the BCS history. Guarantee playoffs it happens as well. This is a tired argument. A playoff won’t prevent rematches. A 2 team playoff (which the BCS really is when you get down to it) won’t as well. Your first paragraph, with the exception of the last sentence, is the most coherent thing you’ve written on this post. You “can” have a NC either way. But it means different things to different people.
But the regular season will get diminished the larger the playoff gets. Go look at revenue distribution of most (if not all) playoff sports and then look at what we have. Not too difficult to figure that one out, but it’s not something the playoff advocates tend to address.
Dave, first of all I am not a “dude”, nor have I ever been referred to as one unless I traveled from the East to the Old West in another life. Just cannot recall that far back.
Secondly, if you honestly don’t see how a playoff of 8 teams from a group of 120 differs with what the NFL does (or the NBA, NHL, NCAA Basketball, etc) there is simply no way to have a conversation with you on this subject. You seriously don’t think they are relevant do you? I have always said I opposed the 12, 16, 32, or more playoff proposals for many reasons. And, a well designed playoff of 8 would most definitely enhance the regular reason by making each game precious and a step to something very significant, something earned, something never accomplished before (beyond the Conference title, of course, which is actually earned.)
If Oklahoma State had lost twice in the regular season, would you still exclude ‘Bama from the title game?
Yes, if presented with the current “vote them in” option, I would have taken the next best team from a different region of the country….Stanford probably. Let’s face it, Bama is really only in because of a small plane crash involving OSU coaches.
Stanford didn’t win their Conference, or even Division, either. You’d have to take Oregon, right? Wait… they already lost to LSU too.
Oregon 53, Stanford 30. ‘Course, that would be a rematch, too. 😉
That is why I wouldn’t take Oregon. Keep in mind, I am not in favor of a 2, or 4 team playoff…was just answering what I thought would be the best choice if OSU were not available with the resume they have.. I would choose to not pretend that would be a NC at all until we really have a playoff.
While respecting all opinions on a college fotball playoff, have to say we begin to take on fake expertise when we argue points we have conjured up from media info. It just creeps into all our arguments. It all begs for a study of playoffs that are already set in college football transposing over to study such a large number of interests that reside in college ball.
I confess that most of my interest in a playoff comes from negative aspects of the BCS and all the self-serving interests from afar who try to and sometimes impact my alma mater negatively and in a poor spirit of competition. And sometimes what I write as attempted humor somehow begins to look more and more plausible.
It’s time to up the FING R plan for the BCS.
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So near, and yet so far.
One thing I can’t help wondering about after reading this piece by Bill Shanks – okay, one thing after I wondered why the Macon Telegraph can’t find somebody who writes better than Bill Shanks – is would people be moaning about an 8-4 season in 2013 if C.J. Mosley hadn’t tipped that pass and Mitchell had come down with it to put last year’s Georgia squad in a national title game?
My point here isn’t to play woulda, coulda. I’m simply asking how much Georgia making a title game after winning the SEC would have changed your current perception of the program and Richt, assuming your feelings are similar to those of Shanks’. If your position is that it wouldn’t have and that 2013 reflects not so well on either, I respect your intellectual consistency. If, though, you admit that you wouldn’t feel nearly as harshly about both had Georgia faced Notre Dame, are you really saying that your disappointment boils down to a tipped pass?
Again, I’m not asking if you agree with Shanks’ arguments. I’m sure many of you do. I’m just curious how much you’d be complaining if Mosley hadn’t made a great play. Tell me in the comments.
171 responses to “So near, and yet so far.”
I’ve been one that botches now an then about coaches, but I am all for this coaching staff staying in place. The only caveats are I really have my doubts about Lakatos being the right guy… And Grantham needs to show his ability to adapt in some of his coaching philosophies. But I see very little that isn’t fixable. Given the adversity the coaches and players have had to gace this year, it’s hard for me to bitch about 8-4, and the most maddening thing is that we had a real deal offense that could have gotten it done with a serviceable defense, which I really don’t think we had, even when healthy….. And I HATE that for Aaron Murray most of all. But the coaching turnaround Mark Richt did behind the scenes that led us to last year’s outcome and almost outcome, convinced me that we can’t ask for much more, IMO.
I had the same thought earlier this year when Murray’s legacy was being discussed. For the people that thought he was “pretty good” or “slightly above average” (yes, I heard plenty of it). The difference between “Legend” and “slightly above average” is supposed to be more than a fingertip.
Parrish Walton (@ParrishWalton)
The real question to ask is would this season have been a disappointment had the injuries been less intrusive? With a healthy Gurley UGA beats Vandy and Missouri. I firmly believe that. And with a healthy WR core I think we beat AUB. So would 10-2 or 11-1 be a disappointment? Some seasons are lost due to unforeseen issues. 2013 was one of those seasons. It sucks, but that’s life. But if 2013 is the final straw that breaks a fan’s back, that seems silly to me.
@gatriguy
I get that. The problem is that most people have already made up their minds on Richt, so the injuries this year are similar to the injuries in Goff’s last year, in that detractors are overlooking their impact because their minds are already set.
Spot on. People see AUB winning and get pissed (as do I). But sometimes it’s harder to accept there isn’t much to be done. AUB is playing for a national title with a defense ranked 95th !!! in YPP. Think about that. You know how hard it is to pull that off? You need not just some luck, but an enormous amount of it. Georgia is in a better position than every school in the SEC except Bama moving forward. People need to understand that.
If we’re going to play “what if” with injuries, a healthy Gurley for the entire game, and certain and full game from 100% Gurely plus Malcom Mitchel and we’re talking about possibly not losing a game, even with a mess on D. (The Vandy and UT games aren’t close, and the Missouri and Auburn games look like the Sakerlina and LSU games.)
But that would be a mix of the luck to stay healthy, and Murray + Gurely carrying us.
As crappy as part of this season has been, the lackluster results will hopefully spark far more effort than making the title game with a lesser squad than 2012’s. (For example, the questioning of Friend and the OL is a lot less loud if we went 12-0 or 11-1.)
Saying that our disappointment boils down to a tipped pass is pretty simplistic. We had a heck of a break with the blocked FG returned for TD and we didn’t capitalize on it in the end. Without that play (that rivals Auburn’s FG returned for TD in every aspect except timing and final outcome) we’re down by 11 on our final drive (and possibly 14 if the FG is good).
We had the lucky break we always wanted but we didn’t play well enough the rest of the game to capitalize on it. That’s the difference between teams like us and teams like Auburn.
Again, I’m not asking you to vent (or, in your case, re-vent). I’m simply asking if Georgia had made the play at the end to win the game, would it affect your perception of the program?
If you don’t want to answer the question, that’s fine. But I really don’t want to hear the same old stuff rehashed in this thread. Thanks.
I assumed your question was at least a little rhetorical. How could someone NOT feel better about their team after a MNC?
If I’m asking for responses, I think you can assume the question wasn’t rhetorical.
Senator, if the tipped pass in the 2012 SECCG had been an isolated event I would agree with your premise. Unfortunately, it is not. Rather, the tipped pass is another in a long line of end of game failures/in game failures that the coaching staff and its defenders want to lay off as “bad luck.” Just like the tipped pass to the opposition in the ’13 Auburn game was “bad luck.” Just like the missed FG in the bowl against Michigan State was “bad luck.” I could go on and on and list a whole lot of similar events that cost us games during the CMR tenure but what’s the point? The truth is these all occurred as a direct result of end of game coaching errors. I don’t want CMR’s head. I want him to learn from his mistakes and start making decisions that win games rather than lose them. Ivy Leaguer had it right in a post yesterday. CMR needs to get an expert to analyze the reasons behind this and fix the problem but he appears to be in denial or too stubborn to do that.
How is the tipped pass a coaching failure? How is the Auburn play a coaching failure? The Barn QB threw the ball up into double (triple coverage). When the ball was released, every coach on that field thought the same thing: INC or INT, game over. The tipped pass was absurd. It was tipped in just the right way to fall to just the wrong person. Does it suck to come up short (in excruciating ways)? Damn right it does. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is a dangerous game. Ask Nebraska, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama (pre Saban), etc…
Well, one could argue that the pass was tipped because Gurley didn’t step into Mosley like he was supposed to on the play. Or that throwing it to the front of the end zone rather than deeper into the end zone brings a tipped pass that is going to be caught short into play. But whatevs.
This. The pass was tipped because the RB didn’t meet Mosley at the LOS and instead let him into the backfield before picking up the block. Watch the replay on Youtube, folks.
Irwin R Fletcher
A segment of the Georgia fan base and Bill Shanks in a web chat circa 1863-
“Stonewall is a good general, but he’s not Robert E Lee. Why is he so stoic and reserved? He sure does win a lot of battles, but he’s never won the big one. His faith makes him soft. Can’t we get someone like Grant or Sherman that get angry when they lose? I want some emotion. And don’t tell me that getting shot by friendly fire isn’t bad leadership instead of luck? It’s always something with him…i got shot by friendly fire. I caught pneumonia after the amputation.”
I blame the Confederate pickets. What happened in Chancellorsville stays in Guinea Station. Sure, he had a combat reputation as a genius with no off-switch but what kind of offensive and defensive coordinator was he “as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862.” (¿Amirite wiki?)
Both you guys got it all wrong. Stonewall Jackson was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s not his or the Confederate picket’s fault. Sh!t just happens. It’s fate, Kharma, whatever you want to call it, but it certainly isn’t anything that could have been avoided with better communication or planning. I for one am sick and tired of people like you 2 trying to blame what happened to Gen. Jackson on lack of preparation or some other controllable phenomena. It’s just bad luck. Quit trying to blame some innocent kid on sentry duty for killing the best General in the Confederate Army. How was he to know that the General was going to ride by at night? He did exactly as he was taught–shoot first and ask questions later. He just reacted instinctively. It is not necessary for him to think, he’s just a soldier not a commander. And Stonewall never could have foreseen that riding through combat lines at night might result in one of his own troops shooting him. How could anyone ever imagine such an unforeseeable thing? Next time the Kharmic Bitches will be on our side and Grant will get shot by HIS people. Just wait and see. This will all turn out fine for the South in the end. Let’s just keep on going like always–no changes. We are destined to win.
I don’t disagree. I think it was likely a freshman mistake, rather than a coaching error.
So every single failed play is a coaching failure? Got it.
JonDawg
Surely you’ve noticed that sign hanging around that dead horse’s neck that states just that..
Seriously. The tipped pass was a coaching error? It was a guy on the other team making a play.
I’d say, yes, it would affect it. Having a 3rd SEC title (by way of beating everyone’s favorite deity) and playing for (and most likely winning) the title would. However, I also think people need to realize how much luck goes into these things. Look at Auburn. Take the two games they won to close the reg season out of it. They still needed Mich St to beat Ohio State. They did nothing in 2013 Georgia didn’t do in 2002. Only difference is Ohio State converts a 4th and 7 against Purdue in 2002 and Michigan State beats the Buckeyes in 2013.
Then you have the tipped pass last year. You also have a different voting mindset this year compared to 2007, when many felt UGA was the best team to close the year, but was jumped by a team 4 places behind them due to not winning their division. The state of the program is much stronger than the debbie downers want to admit, but I get seeing your rivals win adds to that.
Especially in comparison to the Goff and Donnan years.
Jim Donnan’s last 4 years he was 35-13. That’s a winning percentage of 73%, which is almost exactly the same as CMR’s. Just sayin.’
And what was Donnans record against Tenn, Florida, Auburn and Tech those years?
Something like 6-12. (There were some games Tech, I believe, had to forfeit). There was an interesting article I read once about Donnan, talking about, in retrospect, what a good record he had in light of the fact that FU and UT were in the top 5-10 teams nationally the whole time Donnan was HC at Georgia, each winning a national championship during that span. Tech had O’Leary as its HC and had the best stretch it ever had since Bobby Dodd in the 50s, too. Donnan won the second most games in his 5 year tenure of any coach starting out at Georgia in history up to that time. The higher one was back in the 20s. Donnan didn’t get fired because of losing too many games. That’s a myth. He got fired because (1) he was a prick and (2) he refused to replace his son as QB coach when given a direct order to do so by Mike Adams. The “he had a bad record against our main rivals” argument was just used to justify to the masses Adams’ firing of Donnan.
And I would say it was Quincy Carter that got him fired. But Auburn was not a top 5-10 program at the time. And Tenn was still a top 5-10 program when Richt arrived in Ga. And Auburn has been one consistently in Richts tenure. Fact is, we fire Richt, we will get goff Redux. Then we will hire a coach who will have to work to get us to what Richt has us at now and then will have to be lucky where Richt has not been.
Who is saying fire Richt? I’m certainly not. I’m just saying that Donnan’s record isn’t as bad as some have portrayed it to be. P.S. Q: What do Billy Graham and Quincy Carter have in common? A: They both can get a stadium full of 100,000 people to jump to their feet in unison and scream, “JESUS!!!”
A blocked kick returned for a touchdown equates to a kid missing a 57 yarder and THAT being returned for a touchdown?
No. It Doesn’t.
That’s not even the entire story. Your question leaves out the timing of both plays.
The sequence of touchdowns in a close game is irrelevant because no single touchdown contributes to the final score any more than any other touchdown. The timing only magnifies the *perception* of the play. Auburn’s FG return for TD didn’t help them win any more than the first TD they scored during the game. If you flip the order of the TDs the end result is the same, the odds of the FG returned for TD is the same, but nobody is talking about “luck.”
ETennDawg
Valid point. But, do you think Auburn returns the kick if it were the 3rd qtr? I am thinking they would have watched it sail and taken the ball around midfield. Perhaps scoring, perhaps turning it over on downs, perhaps turning it over, perhaps losing Marshall to injury.
Point being, if Alabama attempts the FG sometime other than the end of the game – Auburn doesnt return it.
This season would still be disappointing even if we’d won the 2012 SECCG and the BCSCG, mainly because of the injuries, but also because of the shafting in Nashville and the hand of Satan at Auburn. But, had we won out in 2012, at least the program wouldn’t seem as star-crossed as it does now.
GaskillDawg
I did not read the article because I do not want to give him the page hit. If his argument is that Richt has not gotten UGA to a BCS championship game and that makes him an inferior coach to Les Miles, then I ask. Richt lost 1 game in 2002 but did not play in the BCS championship because Ohio State completed a long 4th down pass to beat some Big ten team and stay undefeated. Miles got his crystal football with a 2 loss team and only got into the game because Pitt upset West Virginia. What coaching did Miles do that Richt would not have been able to do on behalf of Pitt to cause WVA to lose? What would Miles had done differently as coach of the Bulldogs in 2002 to make Ohio State miss that 4th down pass?
Corch Irvin Meyers was more fortunate with a 1 loss team in 2006 than we were with a 1 loss team in 2002. Meyers, WHILE BUSY COACHING IN THE SEC CC, made some brillant coaching moves on behalf of UCLA to cause UCLA to upset number 2 USC, The Shanks of the world say, “Meyer can get a team to the BCS. Richt cannot, as if Meyer woudl have personally intercepted Ohio State’s 4th down pass in 2002.
A few years ago Shanks’s bitching was that Richt had not beaten Florida enough. Now we have beaten it 3 ties in a row he has to complain about something else. If we win the playoffs in 2014 he will bitch that Richt cannot repeat and is no better than Chizik if we do not win again in 2015.
It’s actually worse that that…his argument is that Richt can’t coach because:
(a) he didn’t throw a tantrum in 2008 when Bama was killing them
(b) he is a bad coach because we don’t get the lucky breaks. Seriously…luck happens when you have a ‘special season’
Oh..and that South Carolina would have run off Spurrier if he went 10-19 against ranked opponents…which makes total sense because Spurrier didn’t start his first 5 seasons at Carolina with a sub .500 record in the SEC and has won tons of SEC titles while he has been there.
Exactly. SC NEVER has won an SEC title and only holds 1 conference title in THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY. SC began the whole trend of the “East” title
If Spurrier won even one SEC conference title for SC, Columbia would burn itself down in ebullent celebration before re-building the Capitol in his likeness.
I think it’d change our perceptions, of course, but not really change reality. We’ve got a great coach and program. My biggest concern is that we don’t and haven’t had a D that can win the dang game. It’s always up to the offense to win some last minute miracle or seal the deal because we sure as heck can’t count on the D winning it for us.
-Bama we led in the 4th (and by 11 in the 3rd)
-Clemson we led 21-7
-Vandy we led by 10 in the 4th
-Mizzou we pulled within 2 in the 4th and couldn’t stop a backup QB to get the ball back to our All-Conference kicker.
-Auburn…you know the story.
Win the game for us. Win it. Stop them. We’re ahead. We made the play. Stop them. Even against LSU, the offense had to go BACK down the field and score. When we scored I didn’t even celebrate because there was too much time left and we hadn’t stopped them all day.
Had Mosley not tipped that pass, we still wouldn’t have stopped them and that story would be the same, we’d just have a crystal football to go with it. And, I wonder if we can win with the style of ball we play if we just can’t stop people. Every D has games they can’t stop people. See LSU vs. us or Bama vs. A & M. But we never stop people. That bothers me. We never seem to have enough points. I’m always worried about that. Without the injuries this year, it might not matter. We might have just outscored folks. The two most disappointing moments for me were Mizzou and Tech. With a depleted roster in a huge game at home, coming off 3 straight wins when the offense carried us, we needed the D and Mizzou shredded us right out of the gate. Same thing at Tech. Back-up QB finding his footing, we need the D to stand up and keep us in this game…and they shred us. The D doesn’t seem to have a gas pedal, and I’m not sure what that means going forward.
We were babies back there, that’s for sure, and they’re going to get better. I believe that. I hope we have the staff over there to do it, but, frankly, I’m unsure. I’m hopeful Grantham surprises me.
Had Mosley not tipped that pass, we still wouldn’t have stopped them and that story would be the same, we’d just have a crystal football to go with it. And, I wonder if we can win with the style of ball we play if we just can’t stop people.
That’s a fair question. So is that how you feel about Auburn? Because Shanks obviously doesn’t.
This. Shanks says we should imulate auburn and then rants about the D. I could be wrong but I think our D was actually better than theirs this year.
I’m fully in favor of immolating Auburn.
It’s ready. Al from Dadeville has already cleared the foliage. The only thing to worry about now are the machine gun pillboxes on the TOOMER’S DRUGS® fortification and taking out the Forestry Department fire tower pickets
I think the difference is that Auburn is trying to score 50 every game and just rolls with it, and I’m not sure we are. I thought about them, because their D is wretched, and they didn’t stop us on that night on the Plains. Had we 10 more seconds, I think we win the game anyway.
It’s the style. We play kind of like Bama. We’re more explosive, but we’re not trying to go a hundred miles per hour the whole game and score 50. I’m okay with that. We play kind of hoping our D will put up some resistance, but we can’t.
For the record, I don’t think the Auburn ‘dynasty’ will last. I think FSU will smoke them. I think defenses will figure out that offense and game-plan and recruit to stop it. I think they’ll never have a good D there, and it will eventually cost them. What has happened with them this year is nearly unexplainable, as we all know. Like Tech, I don’t think they’re D will ever get a good look in practice to prepare them, which will end up costing them over the long haul.
No one can stop the Florida Marilins of the SEC West. Of course, no one can stop Jameis either.
What’s with all of this whining regarding 2002 and a 1 loss GA team not getting to play for the MNC? We’d have played for it with one loss in at LEAST 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Every SEC team that has won it since then either had an undefeated season or multiple seasons with only 1 loss. We’ve never had an undefeated season and we’ve only had ONE season with only 1 loss. Sorry folks, but the banter about our 2002 season should be dropped.
LSU won the SEC in ’07 with two losses.
And UGA can only blame themselves for that.
LSU also only lost once in 2004 and were undefeated in 2011, so my statement still stands. We should put together more than one good season before complaining about being unlucky, because every other SEC team that’s played for a MNC (or won) has done so.
Again, you’ve been there, done that with the luck stuff. Please give it a rest in this thread.
Half of the posts in this thread have some variation of “UGA was unlucky in 2002, 2007 and 2012.” This feeling has been re-hashed hundreds, if not thousands, of times on this blog. It really bothers you that I’m voicing a dissenting opinion for the second time?
165 is right. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, Bluto. Almost all the Disney Dawg posts above are just regurgitating “bad luck, bad luck, bad luck” to the point of absurdity, and basically ignore the reasons behind why things happened.
If your reply is meant for my post above, I am not whining about not playing for the BCS NC in 2002. I was pointing out that factors beyond the control of the SEC champions’ coaches affect whether the SEC champ could get into the BCS CG.
If the complaint about Richt boils down to the fact that he was not able to get into the BCS game then the comparison between the teams above us not losing and the good fortune UF in 2006 or LSU in 2007 had shouldn’t “be dropped.”
By the way, the 2005 SEC champion had 2 loses, as well.
Both of those teams have put together multiple seasons like ours in 2002. We’ve only put together one. The more often you put yourself in position to take advantage of luck, the more lucky you will appear.
No, LSU has not put together multiple seasons as ours in 2002. It lost 2 games in 2007. It has 1 one loss BCS championship (2003). UF, it is true, does have has one more 1 loss SEC championship than us.
What is your response to the point of this thread? The question is, “If we had completed the last play pass for a TD and beaten Alabama and then beaten ND would your [perception of Richt and the program change for the better?” You have typed a bunch of words but have not answered the question.
I answered the question above. It’s a silly question and of course the answer is yes. I’m saying these things because the comments are flooded by disney dawgs who pretend like Georgia has had nothing but bad luck and other programs have nothing but good luck.
Oh, as far as 1 or 0 loss conference championships, Florida has FOUR in the past 20 years (1995, 1996, 2006 and 2008). LSU has TWO (2003 and 2011). Auburn has THREE (2004, 2010 and 2013).
Seems like putting together a good season more than once every blue moon tends to yield good results, huh?
Try to keep up 😉
Why is it a silly question to ask if a single play has much of an effect on how you view the program?
1) It assumes, pretty boldly, that the pass would have been a TD even though Malcom Mitchell was covered pretty tightly (and it just as likely could have been picked off)
2) Generally speaking, playing for a MNC is going to make anyone view their program better than playing in the Capital One bowl will, and
3) The question pretends like the tipped pass is the only reason we didn’t play for the MNC. We were only a tipped pass away because of how lucky we were to have a blocked field goal returned for a TD earlier in the game. How can you ignore this play but attribute so much to Auburn’s similar play against Bama? And then go on to talk about “intellectually consistency”…?
By the way, Bluto, what’s your answer to the question?
Which question is that? 😉
You’re missing the fucking point.
I’m not asking about luck. Say what you will about how Georgia got there, the fact remains that it was one play away from beating Alabama. For purposes of this one stinking post, I don’t care how Georgia put itself in position to pull that off, but the fact remains it was there. All I want to know is if it had been a Georgia player making a great play instead of Mosley, would Shanks have written the same column? And if your feelings about the program would be different, what does it say that one play can have such an impact on your view of things?
Why is this so hard for you to grasp? Others in this thread seem to have figured out what I’m interested in.
I grasp it, and I’ve answered your question (twice).
What’s your answer to the question?
You answered this?
And if your feelings about the program would be different, what does it say that one play can have such an impact on your view of things?
I must have missed it. Sorry.
It means I am the same as every other fan and care more about actual results than “coulda woulda shoulda.”
A single play can change everything. Except for Josh Harvey-Clemons knocking an INT (or drop) away from Tray Matthews, Alabama is playing FSU in the Natty, all else being equal. How much differently is Bama and Bama’s season viewed if they’re playing for 3 in a row in a few weeks?
Question I’d like to explore: If you KNEW you’d be playing in the Natty once every 5 years, would you accept 2 losing seasons in the 4 out years? My answer: hells yeah.
I think most fans would.
Went back and read your original post again and my question answers your question. Your premise: Pass isn’t tipped, Mitchell makes catch, UGA plays in Natty. I’ll extend the premise: UGA likely wins Natty against ND. So your question becomes, “Would people who are bitching about 8-4 be doing so if UGA won the Natty last year?” We agree that most fans would put up with 2 losing seasons in 5 just to PLAY in the Natty much less win it. Ergo, most fans would not be bitching about 8-4 if pass isn’t tipped and Mitchell makes play.
Funny you should say that Senator because several of our posters just in the few days were waxing on eloquently about how UGA’s program under CMR is superior to Auburn because the Dawgs are more consistent–none of those ridiculous lows to balance off against those undeserved highs (like winning the BCSNC) as Auburn has done. “We’re better because we stay on an even keel.”
I used the word “most”, Mayor.
FWIW I agree with you on that point.
Greg B.
I honestly think that his articles screams “read me”. Maybe that is his plan, because everything that I have read in the past seems that way. If you break down the season this year, I honestly think that CMR may have done his best coaching job since he has been here. The team played hard every down. Luck is a big part of your season and record. This is probably the worst year as far as injuries….especially key injuries, that I have ever seen any college team have. In short, I was happy the way the team performed this year under the circumstances. I certainly was happy last year. Again, luck is a big part of it….Richt is the best coach the Dawgs have ever had. I am proud of the team.
The play of last year’s SECCG wasn’t the tipped pass, it was the fact that we didn’t stop Yelton on 3rd and 5 which gave them a first down. We hit him but Williams didn’t wrap up, and Yelton got the 1st by an inch. We all remember the next play where McCaron went up top for the score. THAT was the play that lost the game.
But that’s not what I’m asking about!
I’m beginning to sense that getting people to stay on topic is futile. 😉
Yeah but I don’t care. I enjoy hijacking the topic.
The answer from any sane person would be “yes, I feel better about our program after winning the SEC and National Titles. Even with all the problems associated with this year, it’s hard to repeat therefore I can accept the disaapointment of this season”.
“it’s hard to repeat therefore I can accept the disaapointment of this season”.”
I had a dream that I was in Auburn…
Like trying to herd cats….. OK I’ll jump in… from my perspective if we had won the SECCG (and most likely MNC) last year I think I would have the same level of frustration regarding how this season went, but may have cut the coaches additional slack because they proved they could get us to the mountain top.
66DAWGnNC
The problem with such a question dear Senator is you have too many “coaches” on this blog that know more about how to win both a SEC and National championship more than Mark Richt does. My advice to them: apply for the dang job! Surely some one out there is looking for a “coach” that has all the answers and can win all their games.
Right, only those “in the arena” should have an opinion, right?
“I ALMOST won the trial and kept my client off death row. If I had just remembered to call that one witness! Oh well, I’m still a great lawyer and next time I’ll do better!”
Yeah, right, that works just about as well.
Hard to give me a straight answer, eh?
Yes, I’d certainly feel differently about Richt and the status of the program if we had won the SEC championship game played for the BCS championship last year. Feel better?
Silliest question ever.
I have been a trial lawyer for 35 years this coming June (UGA Law class of 1979, proud to say.) I can tell you that I have seen juries rule against great lawyers. Lawyers cannot change the facts and sometimes crappy assistant D.A.s get convictions because their facts are just better. I have seen Bobby Lee Cook walk out of a courtroom after a jury convicted his client.
Bobby Lee Cook is a terrible lawyer who relies on luck and can’t win the big one. Nick Saban has never lost a case.
A couple of points Senator: I agree Shanks isn’t the greatest writer in the world, but the quality of his writing doesn’t diminish the purpose of his point which has been consistent for almost 6 years. He wants his alma mater to win a national title and doesn’t think Richt can get them there (an opinion that incidentally, he isn’t alone on). Is that really so horrible? He thinks Richt is sheltered from a lot of criticism because he’s a good man. That’s hard to prove for sure one way or the other, but I can see where he’s coming from there. He’s right about UGA fans selling the program short and the defeatist attitude of “who are you going to get that’s any better?” Five years ago, no one outside of Palo Alto knew who David Shaw was. Ten years ago, Gus Malzahn was coaching high school football in Arkansas. Fifteen years ago, Nick Saban was going 8-4 in the Big 10 and couldn’t get Michigan St. over the hump. To think that Mark Richt is the only football coach in the country that can win big at UGA is myopic to the point of absurdity.
Also, it’s time to get past the “tipped pass” story line. We didn’t lose to Alabama because of a tipped pass. We lost because Bama ran for 350. We lost because of timeout management in the second half (shocking development, I know). We lost because once we got up by 10, Alabama’s play sheet could have fit on a cocktail napkin and we couldn’t stop it. Garner never built any depth on the line, JJ and Kwame played with horrible technique, and Grantham never subbed for Tree and Robinson, even though he had Herrera and Wilson.
YMMV of course, but I personally don’t see a lot inappropriate with Shank’s comments. People can disagree of course, but it’s hard to dismiss out of hand as being completely off base.
To answer the Senator’s question I would say, “Yes” and you would say “No,” right?
Not that it’s on topic, but UGA gave up 512 yards in the SEC championship game last year. Auburn gave up 534 yards in the SEC championship game this year. Perhaps Malzahn is too Christian to have a good defense.
@gatriguy: Excellent post!
RocketDawg
What you two mental midgets seem to be missing is that it DOESN’T MATTER HOW we got to the last play of the game last year. How does the result of that one play in a vacuum color your perception of the program and Coach Richt?
This is not a hard question yet the two of you can’t seem to come up with a straight answer. Let me answer for you: If we had won the SEC and MNC last year the two of you would be crowing from the highest peaks about how awesome “WE” are and how “WE” won (even though the two of “you” didn’t do squat). You would wear something that says “UGA 2012 National Champions” everyday and your car/truck/moped would be covered in every sticker imaginable. But the reality is that pass was tipped and we didn’t win, so you sit here and bitch and moan about everything associated with the program. Funny how one tipped pass can change everything for small minded people.
Awww. Poor Disney rocket dawg haz hurt fee fees. Only sunshine and rainbows about our dogs until he stops PMS’ing.
What a drama queen. Heaven forbid someone put forth an opinion different from yours. Geeze.
D.N. Nation
“I agree Shanks isn’t the greatest writer in the world”
Here we should note that Bill Shanks was a huge supporter of Jeff Francoeur, and that Charlie Weis is better at his job than St. Jeffy is at his. Moving on.
“He thinks Richt is sheltered from a lot of criticism because he’s a good man.”
“Five years ago, no one outside of Palo Alto knew who David Shaw was. Ten years ago, Gus Malzahn was coaching high school football in Arkansas. Fifteen years ago, Nick Saban was going 8-4 in the Big 10 and couldn’t get Michigan St. over the hump. To think that Mark Richt is the only football coach in the country that can win big at UGA is myopic to the point of absurdity.”
Sure, but getting rid of a good-to-great coach for (enter hot new sh*t here) seems to be what the derp portion of the UGA fanbase so desperately desires, and to that, we put up a big picture of Dan Mullen and call it a day. Richt is the devil we know, and it isn’t 2009-2010 anymore. That would’ve been the time to move on. He’s gotten us to within a whisker of the national championship since. You fire him now, and who….exactly…..would want to come coach? At a program that cans coaches to the whim of Internet Fanboys? Keep in mind that Papa John was initially wary of coming to Florida because they sacked the Zooker after only three seasons.
“Also, it’s time to get past the ‘tipped pass’ story line. We didn’t lose to Alabama because of a tipped pass.”
We lost to Alabama for a number of reasons, one of which is a tipped pass. That’s brought up a lot because of how small the thing was that kept us from knocking off the champs. That’s *important*. If you don’t see that, then you’ve already made up your mind about Richt.
“We lost because of timeout management in the second half (shocking development, I know).”
If anything, the team that botched timeouts was Alabama, when Saint Saban apparently thought he could take his TOs to the second half and boned his team out of a potential TD drive to end the first half. (Also, Alabama was called for delay of game on a fake punt. And gave up a fake punt. And a long FG return for a TD. If there was any team that looked shaken and not particularly well coached that night, it was the one in crimson.)
“People can disagree of course, but it’s hard to dismiss out of hand as being completely off base.”
It’s red meat for morons. It matters squat to this program’s future. If that troubles you, there’s the door. Others (Will Trane, Ivy Leaguer) seem to have taken it, thankfully.
The Senator asked for opinions, I offered mine. You disagree. That’s fine, but not everyone does. I’m not anti-Richt. I’m not “anything” Richt. I’d like to see him win a national title at UGA, but that’s bc I want a NC. Conversely. If one side or the other decides it’s time for a change, I’m fine with that too.
Honestly, after reading all this, we got the right guy with the wrong luck. Sometimes, the tips, regular season stars aligning and injuries don’t line up. Its tough to argue you need another coach with better luck, but my golly, after watching Auburn this year, maybe there is such a thing.
This is not to say that a good chunk of this isn’t on Richt. He’s made mistakes. But as maddening as this is for some to hear, his good character and the way he treats the kids has given him some padding.
If given a choice, I WANT to see us win with Richt. But I can’t say how I would feel if we broke it all up, grayshirted and oversigned a bunch of kids, then won the National Championship on the back of a starting QB who was kicked off Texas A&M after stealing a personally signed laptop from Johnny Football.
This is basically where I’m at too: I WANT Richt to get it done, but I honestly wouldn’t be disappointed if there was a change either.
I would, if it ensured a period of instability and turnover with no clear path to just getting back to where we are now. I don’t want to be Nebraska.
Why are you so certain we would get it wrong? Have we hired the ONLY coach in America that win at UGA?
What makes you so sure we would get it right? Hiring someone better than CMR is less than a coin flip…way less.
Would be interested to see a post on how a many programs in the last few years got it wrong vs got it right.
An uninformed guesstimate is
Alabama, LSU, South Carolina, Clemson, FSU, Miami, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Penn State, Duke, Ole Miss, Arizona State, Stanford, Oregon, Washington State, Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Auburn, Central Florida, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Miss. State, North Carolina
Wrong:
Nebraska, Florida, Tennessee, Southern Cal, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, Virginia, Southern Miss, Cal, Pitt, Rutgers, South Florida, Maryland, Michigan
Even:
Kentucky, Navy
In fairness you should list FU as being both right and wrong.
And Auburn.
Whatevs? How do you not win a national championship with Andrew Luck? Harbaugh and Shaw suck.No excuse.
And Clemson? Dabo can’t even win the ACC.
Miami? Duke? North Carolina? See Clemson.
Ohio State hasn’t won a championship since 2002. They should have fired Tressell in 2003 and hired Saban. And Corch had it lined up and CHOKED! FIRE HIM!
Carolina hasn’t won the SEC. FIRE SPURRIER!
Oregon? Puh-leeze! With all that Nike money, they should be UNDEFEATED!
Miss State and Ole Miss? Huh? They can’t beat Bama! Losing to Bama by a lot is the sure sign your coach should be FIRED!
Throwin in some perspective there eh Irwin? Nice.
When you list Alabama as a got it right are you referring to offering the job to Rich Rodreguiz before offering it to Saban? Had Rich Rod said “Yes” Saban would be somewhere else.
The only moment I keep coming back to from this season is the end of the LSU game…I still well up watching Richt and Murray at the end of that game. That 4 game stretch was as difficult as any the Georgia program has had to go through in 40 years. And Georgia beat two top 10 teams and came within a field goal of beating three.
Before injuries, this was a team that was talented enough and coached well enough to win a championship. If you watched Georgia football this season and came away with the idea that Richt can’t coach, I don’t know what you were watching.
As far as not making the championship game, I don’t know how it would change my perspective if it were different. I know this…I watched a team that was that close to the mountaintop have its goals and dreams shattered by injuries, suspensions, and bad calls…and that team didn’t quit. It didn’t ever show any signs of quit, period. The fact that these kids were mentally able to mount the kind of comebacks that they did against Auburn and Tech is remarkable.
Exactly. If you told any one of us in the hot month of August that we would be sitting at the end of September 3-1, we’d have started reserving hotel rooms in Pasadena.
Our team had it all this season to be a contender for the crystal ball, which makes the rest of the season so damn frustrating October forward. We were decimated by injuries, and our defense was never there to help carry the load at the end. Still, but for our offensive injuries we win at least two more (2 of our 3 SEC losses, you pick) and are in the SEC Championship game.
No, it wouldn’t change my perception of Richt or the program, which is that we are consistently good, never great and we’re going to be perennially about the third best team in the conference. We played our hearts out against Bama but the difference between the two programs is a lot more than 5 yards. I also don’t understand why it’s a given we would have beaten Notre Dame. We most likely win a shootout but don’t kid yourself into thinking we would have dominated the golden domers the way Alabama did, especially without John Jenkins.
I think a better question might be how we would feel if 2009-2011 hadn’t have happened? If you take those outlier years out and I’m not sure there is much to debate.
There is no question but that the fire Richt crowd would have clammed up had we gotten to the BCS championship game, even if they would claim otherwise. After all, being unreasonable is sort of their specialty. I don’t think that, like Bill Shanks, that you can judge a coach on an isolated flop like the 2008 Bama game or last year’s USC game. I think you have to look at two things: 1) are we bringing in the talent necessary to compete at the highest level? 2) are the players buying in and playing hard for 4 quarters? I think that we’ve improved dramatically since we hit bottom a couple of years ago on both counts. Moreover, I don’t think people realize that the odds of the next coach being more successful are very, very low. Could it happen? Sure? Why just take a chance simply because you can? Especially when there is no reason we can’t be in the discussion for a playoff spot in 2014.
I’ve debated this several times with the people who have been on the ‘Fire Richt’ campaign since 2008. The response is about the same that this thread has garnered. I don’t think it would change my perception of the year or the program itself. This year was just frustrating and there’s just no way to overcome that sort of decimation we saw on the depth chart.. I’m not even sure Saban has recruited well enough to overcome that. My perception of the program overall wouldn’t change, which is that we have a really good coach and a really good program. Are we great? By no means. Have we had our moments? Absolutely.
I personally feel that we should consider ourselves fortunate to get as close as we did in 2012 considering what we were up against: a semi-professional franchise located in Tuscaloosa. Until our Athletics Dept and the Board ‘commit to the G’ in the same way the fan base, players and coaches do, we will always be what I described earlier. A good, but not great program/team with it’s fair share of moments (2002, 2007, 2012). The playing field is not level and what Richt has done in spite of that is one of the more impressive things I’ve seen.
Wow. I actually feel dumber for reading that. Thankfully I didn’t even know this guy existed until now. I guess he’s trying to take F-baum’s place.
“I’m just curious how much you’d be complaining if Mosley hadn’t made a great play.”
I would be bitching a lot more (if, in fact, that’s even possible) because an 8-4 would be a thermonuclear hotseat. After all, if you win the tournament once, why can’t you do it again stat!
Well, I’m not on the Fire Richt Bandwagon, so I’m not sure the question applies to me, but I’ll answer it. Of course an SEC title (and likely NC) last year would change my perception of the program. How could it not? And I would view anyone who says otherwise with skepticism, to say the least.
You are literally correct when you say that means one’s opinion comes down to a tipped pass, but that is a tad simplistic. That particular cat could be skinned many ways.
rampdawg
I live in the Macon area. I have to listen to Bill Stanks all the time. Bill is a spoiled sounding child of the me me me now now now era. Bill Stanks would have wanted Bobby Bowden and Tom Osborne fired. Why? Because FSU and Uof N didn’t win it all early or often enough. Forget all the good winning seasons they had. Bill wants it last year, this year or 8 years ago, or he’s gonna throw a hissy fit till he gets his way A lot the same can be said about a lot UGA fans on your site. Bobby and Tom were showed patience, and all the fans of the schools they coached for, were rewarded in time with multiple championships. I guess it’s the time we live in now. The rod was spared, and now we have to keep listening to whiny, big mouthed, spoiled brats who were given everything they wanted now, now, now.
Been a dawg for 52 yrs and I think Mark Richt best coach we have ever had. Dooley played a lot of bad teams every yr, but we only had two chances for a national championship. Herschel Walker yrs. Most yrs 7-3 6-4 or 8-2. Be thankful for what we have.
pcidoc
I’m sure I dont represent the mainstream opinion but the tipped pass doesn’t change my opinion of Richt or the program at all. It seems to me that Shanks and those who agree with him are wrong minded in feeling that the only successful season is one that ends with the MNC. That means 120 plus teams fail each season and only one is a success. I’d sure love for the Dawgs to get one but realize a successful season can’t be defined based on getting the crystal. That tipped pass meant to me that the team I love fought valiantly against a team that was heavily favored for the entire game, even after things went against them. I was extremely proud of that game even in the loss. Again I want my team to get that championship but playing with class, representing my University well on and off the field and not cheating matter as much to me.
Ho Lee Shit! Can’t believe all the Richt-supporting comments that question the author’s question. While it was alluded to by Shanks, the question should have been posed for Grantham, not Richt.
I don’t feel very down on Richt and the program right now, but If we had won that game I’d be swaggering around a little more, thinking that this year is just a little bump in the dynasty.
I find it hard to believe anybody wouldn’t sincerely feel better (or not as bad) about this year with Richt and the program, if we’d won that game and then beat ND last year.
To answer your question directly, I would not be complaining as much if Mosley hadn’t made that play. Mitchell would have a TD and we’d have beaten ND like they stole something.
Mitchell did make the play and another team got to beat ND like they stole something. I never wanted our guys to get back to the SEC title game as badly as I did this year–I’m sure that’s true for other fans, not to mention the players and coaches. That made the year’s disappointments that much harder to take. And it does make me more skeptical of our program and its leadership.
In short, that tipped past is leading me slowly to the grim conclusion that our favorite program is one that chronically underachieves. Call it bad luck, call it bad staff, call it inadequate administrative support, call it whatever you want. We are the flagship program in a state flourishing with football talent–we have a better deal than any other SEC team in that regard. But our program continues to demonstrate maddening tendencies that I simply no longer believe will be corrected, because they haven’t been. I won’t rehash them, because we know what they are, and you’ve made it clear that’s not the question you’re asking.
Right now, all I have is a sort of diminishing hope that somehow next year all the lights will finally go “On.” But my actual expectations are well short of that, based on past experience that includes that fateful tipped past.
Boom! Pretty much nailed it.
Well said S.D.
I am pretty much where you are SD. Think back to when CMR first took over at UGA. He said: “There has been a lid on this program and we are going to blow that lid off.” (Or words to that effect.) It appears to me that the lid is back on the program.
I have thought that same thing many times during the latter part of this season.
stoopnagle
Sorry. Can’t give Shanks a click. He’s a troll.
Just because Football Jesus®* moved our luck and never smiles on us (except for having home rather than road games against USCe and LSU this past season) is there ever a regression to the mean for bad signs
*”Football Jesus (n.) — a separate, auxiliary Jesus maintained by America’s Christian God to handle all pre-, in-, and post-game prayer requests, as the big guy is kept somewhat busy with sick children, lost pets, failing crops, and what have you.”
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9599552/holly-anderson-college-football-grantland-dictionary
sethdavidmiller
I’ll admit that I’ve given that one play a lot of power over me in relation to my opinion of this coaching staff and the program as a whole. If it goes the other way, this season would still be brutal, but I’d be much more confident about the program.
Being honest with myself is hard, but I think it matters a ton and, sometimes, legacies are written (or changed) based on one, brief moment.
So it goes with Richt & the current UGA football program.
Seriously, Senator…throwing red meat out for the whiners? How charitable in this season of giving.
In the spirit of creating turmoil, let’s revisit a constant theme that is presented here quite often by both sides of the Richt argument…”with all of the talent in Georgia” we should de facto win a MNC as the flagship institution. This line of reasoning is the most flawed of all. Georgia turns-out some fantastic players and because of that, is also heavily recruited by all other schools. Texas, California, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania also have tons of talent. There is no direct relationship to in-state high school talent and State U. winning the MNC. Yet this belief colors the perception of UGA’s program for far too many, including Mr. Shanks. If this “we have the in-state talent, why aren’t we doing better?” argument were valid, then why is it we only have 1980 to show for it since the 1960’s? You can’t blame Richt for this…try as you might.
Could another HC win the MNC at UGA? Of course…its the perfect hypothetical so why not support the position. But like I pointed-out the other day, there have only been 8 gentlemen to lead their teams to the MNC while Mark Richt has been at Georgia. 4 – 5 of them are no longer with their teams and have proven scandals left behind. So did UGA choose poorly in taking a chance on Richt? As the Senator points-out, what evidence is there that the powers controlling the HC position at UGA (which goes far beyond the AD) are capable of picking the new NC that can turn the corner?
Frankly, I wish the Senator had asked the whiners why they aren’t screaming at the top of their lungs for us to go get Mack Brown. He’s available, has exactly the resume they demand, and won’t be all that expensive. I’d love to hear the rationale for this conspicuous silence.
“I’d love to hear the rationale for this conspicuous silence.”
Because Georgia hiring Mr. Football would be too much of a good thing for Spurrier?
“The cruelest and most accurate thing ever said about Mack Brown came from Steve Spurrier. Spurrier was then the coach at Duke. Brown was at North Carolina. Spurrier was fashioning himself into a monomaniacal offensive strategist. Brown was becoming a Reaganesque CEO. When sportswriters traveled that little corner of the ACC, Spurrier would say, ‘I just don’t think I know enough about the game to compete with Mr. Football.’…..
Spurrier wouldn’t let the slur go. By 1997, he’d moved to the University of Florida and won a national championship. The sportswriter John Feinstein sent Spurrier a note saying that if he thought he was so great, he should go back to Duke. “Nah,” Spurrier wrote in his reply, “I don’t think I could deal with the pressure of competing with Mr. Football again every year.”
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10134500/the-end-era-mack-brown-texas-longhorns
And yet…here we are 20 years later with Mack Brown sitting on just as many national championships as Steve Spurrier.
No….doesn’t change my view of our team. Shanks is a finebaum wannabe and a hack.
How about the coaching staff address these two issues…:
I am all for running a clean program, running a program that values academic excellence, family atmosphere etc….some people say it’s only a game and we do the best we can and there are more important things to focus on in life……but there is also doing the BEST you can and training the players to be the best, holding the coaches to be the best and bearing down on EVERY detail of the program to make sure the University and the kids and alumni are absolutely getting the most out of their program possible. It’s not happening up there. It’s a joke. It’s not even CLOSE at UGA. Aaron Murray and Stafford go through that program and not SEC titles in those 7 years. AJ and Moreno too.
A microcosm of this is this:
Between 2007-2012 these are the following recruiting numbers:
Auburn 164 players
LSU 151
S Car 163
UGA 130
That is a joke, with these numbers you just can’t compete and that is why UGA is 6-17 against ranked opponents. I understand you don’t want to oversign and gray shirt and run kids off, but you also can use some common sense and understand there is going to be attrition like Nick Marshall and Chris Sanders and some of the OL that have quit. We started FOUR true freshmen on defense this year in Wiggins, Floyd, Matthews, Langley and. That is 100% unacceptable for a team that could’ve made a run. It lost us every game. Clemson was a joke with Connor Norman and Brandon Langley playing. Neither played much the rest of the season.
The 2nd microcosm is the fact that every year our special teams is horrible. Pathetic.
Punt return team 103rd nationally
Kickoff return 111
Punt team 74th
Kickoff coverage 96th
special teams blunders in 2013 and how they impacted the scoreboard.
· Botched field goal in the third quarter against Clemson (Georgia lost by three)
· Fumbled snap on a punt in the second quarter against South Carolina (South Carolina scored a touchdown one play later)
· 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the second quarter by North Texas (Cut the Mean Green deficit to seven)
· Blocked punt returned for a touchdown in the third quarter by North Texas (tied the game)
· Blocked punt returned for a touchdown in the third quarter by Tennessee (tied the game)
· Fake field goal for a touchdown in the second quarter by Vanderbilt (gave Vandy the lead)
· Fumbled punt return late in the third quarter against Vanderbilt (Vandy scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive to cut Georgia’s lead to six)
· Bad snap on a punt in the fourth quarter vs. Vanderbilt (Commodores scored the game-winning touchdown one play later)
Maybe he magically puts it together next year. I really hope so. I hope the talent so overwhelms the other teams, we can’t help but win.
And success is not wins and losses per se or if they win a MNC or not, although that is a part of it, success is much more attributed to playing at the highest level possible every week given your talent and resources. Demanding excellence. It is NOT playing just good enough to win games and having a coach not demand and correct mistakes and not communicate to the public, the alumni and the players and coaches that “we expect to play better, this was not the way we expect to perform at GA (and when playing far inferior competition) and we will make the necessary changes to make sure it does not ….”
Hope you don’t mind me commenting on this.
As an outsider, I think y’all should be hugely disappointed in this year – despite AND because of the tipped pass.
In the pre-season, I believe I had UGA pegged to go 11-1 with the loss being to Clemson. You guys were the team I feared the most of the other 13. Yes, there were losses on defense, but the offense looked to be unstoppable.
In my opinion, the loss in the SECCG last year should have stoked a fire for a title run this year. So from that perspective, 8-4 would be a huge downer.
It did stoke the fire of a title run. We were on that title run until we had our best offensive skill players on the shelf with multiple game or season-ending injuries. When we went to the spread, there wasn’t a defense that could handle the combination of Scott-Wesley, Bennett, Conley, and one of the tight ends with Gurley/Marshall out of the backfield. That’s with our best big play guy hurt on the first play from scrimmage with Malcolm Mitchell. Eventually, Murray gets hurt the week before our rivalry game.
Bama would have had some of the same issues with Cooper, Yeldon, Drake and others. Then to lose McCarron the week before Auburn, I’m not sure you guys could have survived all of that to go 11-1.
I’m disappointed but it’s about the defense for me. When the offense was trying to find its way less a bunch of pieces, the defense and special teams didn’t pull their weight.
I hear ya.
I guess I was coming from the perspective of simply looking at the end results from each year.
Hard to do that, though.
There is a difference b/w being disappointed and thinking the program is in a state of complacency, needing new leadership, etc.
I’m disappointed in 8-4. Especially after the 3-1 start against three top 10 teams. But you can’t lose your grip on reality.
This team had to play Mizzou, a top 10 team, and Vandy pretty much without Mitchell, Gurley, Marshall, Scott Wesley, Bennett, Matthews, Rome, Rumph, Norman, and Reggie Wilkerson.
I’m disappointed Georgia finished 8-4, but it is different than 2009 when you just wondered if it had passed the team by. It feels more like 2006 when it was easy to get down about losses to Kentucky and Vandy, but I felt good about the way the team competed and how Stafford was developing, etc.
In the last three seasons, the two where the team hasn’t been decimated by injuries, Georgia made the SECCG and in the other has a chance for 9 wins and finished 5-3 in the SEC. The schedule sets up favorably in 2014…ya’ll can keep whining about the program. I’m going to watch Mason get ready for the bowl game and the 2014 campaign.
A10Penny
All of us would be happier if that pass was caught. But were any of us happy with the Defense last year with the talent we had? Imagine how it would have been without Jarvis.
IveyLeaguer
It’s a very interesting question. First, if Moseley hadn’t tipped that pass, it would have been either incomplete or intercepted.
But say we had won the NC last year, because that’s what would have happened if we had either scored on the next play or spiked the ball with 3 plays left to score.
Had that happened I don’t see how it’s possible for anybody’s perception of the program to not have changed. A national championship is very toxic, for at least a year or two, and in a good way.
Having said that, I can honestly say my take on what’s wrong with the program would not have changed (or at least would have changed back by midseason) because it has never been based on W’s and L’s or Championships. After the Vandy game my stance would have been the same as it is now, and of course the rest of the year would support that as well.
The Vandy game was the final block of evidence that a long-term systemic problem has still not been addressed. And that’s one thing a NC could not have changed.
“…it’s an incompletion or interception”. Let’s go to the source, Aaron Murray, who states in post game interviews that “Oh, it’s a touchdown. The defender has his back to the play and it’s just up to Malcolm to go up and get it”.
In defending HIS decision to not order Murray to spike the ball, CMR quotes consultant, Homer Smith, who says that spiking the ball is for a team without a plan. We had one and wanted to execute to that advantage.
You guys criticize the program all you want, but at least try to get your facts straight.
Murray is not the source. Richt is not the source. EVER. The only real source in football is the film.
If you are interested in facts, I suggest you study the film. I’ve studied a lot of film, and that’s the way I see it. To me, it’s obvious.
Further, I don’t get off on criticizing the program. I do, however, point out reality, the best I can discern it. But I know better than to think everybody will agree with it.
Just curious how it would have either been incomplete or intercepted, but not completed….for a touchdown? I’m pretty sure all 3 of those things are possible as they are with any pass thrown in football.
Because if you are sufficiently negative about the program, or, depending upon your point of view, simply being brutally realistic, it’s a given that Vince Dooley’s famous dictum about throwing the ball (“three things can happen… and two of them are bad”) is overly generous. 😉
Thanks for clarifying that, Senator. As soon as I read that, I knew exactly what the rest of his comments would look like. It was too easy when he started it out the way he did.
Because on the replay you can see that MM was covered pretty tightly. I actually agree with the decision to not spike the ball there, but to just assume that the pass was a guaranteed TD is a bit of a stretch.
And I think it’s a bit of a stretch just to assume it’s not a completion. Again, all 3 things are a possibility: incompletion, interception, TD.
I agree. I’m not saying that it definitely wouldn’t have been a completion. I’m just saying a completion was far from guaranteed.
Fair question.
Best I can tell you is go back and watch the film. Notice that the trajectory of the ball, projected forward if un-tipped, is right at the pylon or even just outside of the goal line.
Then look at the route (which was poor), the coverage, and go from there.
Hahaha. Alright, man. There’s no sense in arguing with someone like you. I love that you threw MM under the bus there as well, job well done.
Raleigh St. Claire
Mark Richt routinely fields teams that are terrible at special teams and defense and has done so since 2005.
He also fields teams that invariably show up to 2-3 games per year totally unprepared and unmotivated. See, e.g., the Carolina game in 2012 and the first half of the Auburn game this year among many many others.
He is not a championship coach any longer. He does not coach teams that do the small things well. He is not detail oriented and he is several steps below coaches like Saban, Meyer, and even Malzahn.
Richt is never again going to win another championship of any kind. And, in the process, he’s going to waste the careers of players like Gurley, just like he did with Stafford, Moreno, Green, and now Murray.
He needs to go because barring scheduling luck, like in 2011 and 2012, he’s a 3-4 loss per year coach. He’s simply incapable of preparing a team week in and week out to get better results.
I mean, look at his Gator Bowl press remarks where he said you can’t win every game and that this season was a success. Those arent the types of comments made by a coach who demands excellence and is focused on championships.
Next year will be just like this one. Terrible defense and shockingly bad special teams. The sheep who love Richt more than UGA will find yet another excuse to explain away the bad coaching and then we’ll do it all over again in 2015.
All the while, the other teams in the conference will actually be doing the things necessary to out themselves in the best position to win big.
I prefer a different solution, because I want Richt to succeed.
But I certainly agree with your diagnoses. Each offseason, I hope Richt will reach out for a solution, one which would involve systemic intangible changes, and I hope he will this year. But he never does.
So I hope you are wrong, but fear you are right.
I want Richt to stay and to figure out the overwhelming issues that he is seemingly blind to. But those that support him ask yourself this: What top coach, Saban, Carroll, Meyer, Spurrier, Miles, Shaw….whoever, when they had a team ranked #1 in the country has ever been BLOWN OUT in their own stadium and down 31-0 at halftime? Please answer this for us. And people that see the blue sky and talk about last year and a dropped pass in the SECC……just ask yourself this, what team has ever won a national title when they had been BLOWN OUT (South Carolina) earlier in the year and struggled to beat several other inferior teams? I have supported Richt for years but 08 started the slide (that Bama game was unacceptable and as unprepared a team as I have ever seen) and honestly, when I heard him interviewed after the TN game this year, a team that SUCKED and was BLOWN OUT by Oregon and has been decimated by all the coaching changes, I was embarrassed for the players and as an alumni that my coach said NOTHING about the way we played and how unacceptable it was and that we will do everything in our power to correct these mistakes and we have an obligation to the players to coach them better and hold them accountable and WE WILL get better because this is not the way we play at UGA……nothing. Frankly it was embarrassing.
That same Bama team that beat UGA 41-30 (that was the final…I assume those points count, right?) made it to #1 and then got down to Utah 21-0 in the first quarter before losing 31-17.
But that has never happened to Saban, right? Because that would SUCK!
I mean…it’s not like Bama got down 20-0 in the FIRST QUARTER of a GAME LAST YEAR….AT HOME…AND LOST…then won a national championship or anything. That would SUCK!
And Auburn was so unprepared that they were down 21-0 against Bama in 2010 (and 21-7 the week before to UGA!!!).
The 2008 Florida team lost to Ur Ole Miss at Home.
The 2007 LSU team lost to two teams that would finish below .500 in the SEC and unranked.
And I agree that it was embarrassing that Richt didn’t crap all over the team after watching 4 guys go down with ACL tears during the game. Those kids deserved to be publicly humiliated.
By the way, one tiny…eetsy beetsy detail….Auburn was losing 21-0 at the end of the first half against LSU this year. THEY WERE UNPREPARED! WHAT TEAM GOES AND GETS BLOWN OUT IN THE FIRST HALF AND THEN PLAYS FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER ONLY BEATING GEORGIA VIA A MIRACLE AND SNEAKING BY MISS STATE! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH ALL CAPS BLAH!
What world do you people live in? Is it one without TV? Does Google not exist in your corner of the universe?
Embarrassed is really the right word.
You are smoking something fierce if you are comparing UGAs program to LSU, Florida, Bama and Auburn. 6-17 against ranked teams is yes, an embarrassment. There is a difference between crapping on the team (which I never advocated) and holding them accountable. If you think the way they played against TN and Vandy was acceptable then that is your opinion.
I thought you made a point about top coaches not getting blown out at home when they are #1? Oh riiiiiiiiiiight…I forgot, that point wasn’t really a good one so on to the next one, I assume.
Since 2010, Florida is 4-15 against ranked opponents. Of course, UGA is 2-2 against Auburn, 3-1 against Florida, and 1-1 against LSU over that stretch…BUT THERE IS NO COMPARISON OF THESE PROGRAMS! Embarrassment! Hyperbole!
Again, if you watched the Tennessee game and didn’t see how those kids continued to compete and grind after watching their teammates continue to fall to injuries, then it isn’t really worth any more effort looking up facts that show how bad your opinions are.
{“I was embarrassed for the players and as an alumni that my coach said NOTHING about the way we played and how unacceptable it was and that we will do everything in our power to correct these mistakes and we have an obligation to the players to coach them better and hold them accountable and WE WILL get better because this is not the way we play at UGA……nothing. Frankly it was embarrassing.”}
A good point, IMO. And a fair point.
Richt doesn’t have very many faults (outside of some apparent coaching faults that have nothing to do with his personality), but this is one. He does not publicly hold himself or his coaches accountable, i.e., doesn’t always put the blame where it should be.
After a loss like the 2012 SECCG, where his team played about as well as they could (and didn’t crap all over themselves), and showed heart, fight and resilience, it is proper for a coach to present himself and his program the way Richt did .. as being proud of his team for the way they played and the effort they gave in hard-fought, classic SEC battle.
But after most of the losses we experience, where we play sloppy ball and pretty much beat ourselves, and perhaps even embarrass ourselves to some extent, some accountability is very appropriate, even called for.
The best coaches do it all the time. For example, Dooley always did it, Bryant always did it (though losses from beating yourselves were rare for both), Today, you will hear Spurrier say something like, “We need to coach better”, or “I need to coach better.” Saban will say something like, “that’s our fault and our responsibility as a coaching staff, and it’s our task and responsibility to make sure the problem is taken care of.” And so on down the line.
But you don’t hear anything like that from Richt. He almost seems to refuse to hold himself or his coaches accountable. If there’s any accountability at all, it falls on lack of “execution” .. in other words, on the players in general (he does protect his players, as he should). This might not be absolute (though I can’t think of an exception) but, certainly overall, that’s the way it is, and that’s the way it has been.
But Richt would do well to make public accountability a habit, IMHO. It has served other coaches well, and would serve him well. It would go long way both internally and externally. Because sometimes his ‘cover’, or ‘shield’, is stretched so thin, it IS embarrassing. Further, in many instances, it doesn’t gel with what he stands for. Let reality be what it is, and be accountable. Be HONEST and forthright about what happens, no matter how bad.
I even suspect this could be one of the causative elements of the systemic problem that has been integrated into the program for so long now. That is to say, one reason why we can’t consistently play solid football. Richt never lets the weight of accountability fall down upon his players and coaches. He acts as a shield, and never lets it hit. Not even upon himself.
{“There is a difference between crapping on the team (which I never advocated) and holding them accountable.”}
Well said. I don’t believe in crapping on the team, either. Or Richt, Assistant Coaches, McGarity .. or anybody else. I love the program as much as anybody, and I’m sure you do.
Therefore whatever is said – whether in person, in the Dawgosphere, or anywhere else – should have SUBSTANTIVE cause, evidence, grounds, or logic behind it, as it relates to football. Or it shouldn’t be said at all. And almost all of the time, it should be related directly to football, and not anything else.
I think of it as simply being honest, telling the truth, just being realistic and calling it like it is, good or bad. I’ve never thought of it that way, but holding them accountable is a fair way of putting it, too .. there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I’d even go as far as to say that is a desirable quality in a loyal fan and supporter. Provided they know that they are talking about, and freely admit when they are wrong.
Here’s honesty….either you didn’t watch the Tennessee game or you have no concept of what happened during the Tennessee game or you don’t want to talk about the Tennessee game and instead just want a platform to talk about some general point you think needs to be made.
I submit that if either of you really think the Tennessee game and how coach Richt handled himself after the game was an embarrassment, then you both represent the worst of the Georgia fan base. One that doesn’t appreciate the blood, sweat, and emotions poured into every game…and how that affects coaching, players, etc. Embarrassed to pull out a win in Knoxville? When you have 3 guys already out and another 4 go down during the game with possible season ending injuries? Funny you mentioned Spurrier…they lost to Tennessee the next week with a full squad. I guess he should have been fired on the spot.
Nah, not after he said he should have coached them better. 😉
#slowclap
My post didn’t refer to the Tennessee game at all, but to Richt’s public accountability in general. And it is accurate.
The rest of what you said doesn’t reflect anything I’ve said or believe, and i won’t have you putting words in my mouth.
If you’re going to disagree and/or criticize me, fine. But at least know what you’re doing when you criticize or lecture me. It’s likely I’ve forgotten more about what goes into a football game than you’ll ever know. So please think, and get the facts straight before you fire off.
I have a vague recollection of Richt after the Tennessee game, and recall no problem with it. It was a tough day. But my post regarding his public accountability, above, stands.
“If you’re going to disagree and/or criticize me, fine. But at least know what you’re doing when you criticize or lecture me.”
Fine. The entire first paragraph of your post was about the Tennessee game. Your second quote about crapping on the team was from a post about the Tennessee game. That’s what it was about. Game over. Done. Fin.
Only three options here…
#1- Your post ‘did have something to do with the Tennessee game’
#2- You think that by cutting and pasting and leaving off the word “Tennessee”, you have completely changed the subject matter of the quote and the discussion.
That sounds like fun!
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” <—Churchill on Ga-Florida…nothing to do with WWII.
"We dare not fail to see the insidious nature of this new and deeper struggle. We dare not fail to grasp the new concepts, the new tools,
the new sense of urgency we will need to combat it"<—-JFK on Georgia's problems in the secondary, nothing to do with Cuba
#3- You are literally Donny from the Big Lebowski
Were you listening to the Dude's story, Donny?
Were you listening to the Dude's story?
So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know…
I had no thought of Tennessee when I wrote that post, Irwin Dear. Nothing you say can change that.
But who really cares? it doesn’t matter. Carry on.
So if you had no thought of Tennessee, does that just mean you copy and paste without reading and/or understanding…
because that actually would explain a lot.
~~~~~>>>
How dare you. For that, you can KMA.
Just to add a little different flavor since most of the discussion has been around an unlucky and its negative implications to other seasons, but I wonder how everyone would feel about Richt’s coaching tenure if an Auburn DB didn’t stumble covering Michael Johnson in the corner? It’s a singular lucky play in one season many years ago, but reading so many messages above where posters feel Richt had his team just as positioned for a MNC as other SEC coaches have since, I wonder how everyone would honestly feel about Richt’s tenure if he hadn’t stumbled and made a play on the ball?
It’s an interesting thought.
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Shirley’s embracing a digital future with help from Centacare’s technology day during Senior’s Week
By Joe Higgins
Tech future: Shirley Hamilton showing off an online game Kahoot! at the Centacare Jamboree Heights Learning and Lifestyle Hub’s technology workshop.
SHIRLEY Hamilton wakes up at 5am each day and she sits down with her cup of coffee and opens up her smart tablet to read the news.
“I do like the news first thing in the morning,” she said.
Mrs Hamilton, a Corinda resident, said she loved how easily accessible it was.
But it wasn’t just news from around the world she got on her tablet, it was news and photos about what her four daughters, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren were doing in their lives.
Mrs Hamilton talks to them and hears about their life events using a messenger app on her tablet.
“It’s good because it’s an up-to-date thing,” she said.
“And we reply, and the whole family replies funny remarks.
“It is lovely being able to have up-to-date photos.”
And she said she had “a million photos” of her family.
Mrs Hamilton is a Centacare Jamboree Heights Learning and Lifestyle Hub client and recently attended their technology workshop during Queensland Seniors Week.
She joined more than 20 others for a day learning about online games, competitions and activities aimed towards greater digital literacy.
Centacare service delivery manager Cheree Pattison said many older people found real benefits being online, including increased access to information, services, social connections and support networks.
“Seniors Week is all about providing opportunities for older people to share and learn new experiences, which aligns with our philosophy at Centacare,” Ms Pattison said.
“Age doesn’t limit a person’s ability to live a full and purposeful life.
“Our clients want to live out their later years in their own homes and communities, doing what they love.
“It’s our job to ensure they have plenty of opportunities to build their capacity and confidence in the areas that matter to them most.”
For Mrs Hamilton, one of her favourite parts of her tablet was the digital notepad.
She said her grandson was amused she used notes but she said it was great being able to keep notes in a single place.
“Everything from Centacare to My Aged Care, if something has happened I make a note in here,” she said.
“So I’ve got records and it’s all together.”
Another Corinda resident Mary Dann also attended the Centacare technology workshop – and she said she was always willing to give things a go.
Mrs Dann discovered a love of painting at the age of 60, and volunteers with Centacare’s music group every second Monday.
“You don’t know what you don’t know,” she said. “That’s why I’m always willing to give things a go.
“I never want to stop learning.”
Written by: Joe Higgins
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Penny Lee Schaller Trahan
Penny Lee Schaller Trahan, 59, of Village Mills, finished her final chapter, laying down her reading glasses and pen on Thursday, December 12, 2019, at the end of a brief, but beautiful life. Her story began in Alexandria, La on July 19, 1960, born into this world unto proud parents, Dorothy Riles Schaller and Jerry Gordon Schaller, their firstborn of five children.
As a child she attended Frasch Elementary School in Sulphur La, before relocating with her family to Johnson Bayou, La. She met her future husband of forty years, Gregory K. Trahan, on the first day of fourth grade. Along with her soon to be husband, she graduated with honors, at the top of her class, valedictorian, lettered in both basketball and track. Her graduation speech was typed neatly on note cards and stapled together in a manner befitting of her calm and collected nature. After high school she attended Louisiana College in Pineville, La, where she wrote numerous letters to her family and her sweetheart, all of which she kept in her beloved hope chest. Sentimental, nostalgic, and perceptive she accumulated keepsakes and tokens of gratitude from every facet of her life.
She married her childhood sweetheart on December 29, 1979 at Johnson Bayou Baptist Church, in a traditional Christian ceremony surrounded by friends and family. She spoke of this day with such clarity and reverence, her small country wedding, where she and her soulmate became one. Loyal, honest and true, one of the greatest joys in her life was her husband, whom she never lost that innocent love for. They purchased their first home in Johnson Bayou, a tiny green trailer, bought from her brother in law, Jesse Trahan. She recalled the simplicity of these times, and laughed about her Papa, and father in law, Alton Trahan, taking the hideous new carpet they purchased for the trailer up to the high school gymnasium, where they spread, measured and cut it.
Three years after marrying her soulmate, she gave birth to her firstborn son, Casey, finding her newest and most treasured title, a proud mother. Three and half short years later, she gave birth to their second son, Jared. She raised her two boys, with whom she referred to as her lights, in the marshlands of south Louisiana with a pure and honest love. Encouraging, bright, quick witted and classy, her nurturing nature was visible to all. She and her husband created a home, the type of home that was always full of visiting relatives, friends, laughter and love.
A creative and artistic soul, she learned to play the piano from her mother and grandmother, of whom she recalled often and fondly. Some of her favorite childhood memories were sitting on the piano bench with her grandmother, watching her fingers glide delicately and effortlessly across the ivory keys. Following in her grandmother’s footsteps, she became the church pianist, recreating the memory as a Yaya, for each of her own beloved granddaughters. For over 20 years she served as the pianist for the Johnson Bayou Baptist church before relocating to Wildwood Baptist Church after Hurricane Ike.
She worked throughout her life, holding numerous titles, none of which meant more to her than that of wife, mother and Yaya. She drove the school bus for her children, was a library manager, laundromat employee, cafeteria worker, chaperone on countless school and athletic functions, HR manager, organized numerous church and community events, each job done diligently and respectably. No job, or person for that matter, was beneath her. A devoted Christian, wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and Yaya, she selflessly volunteered and gave her time for the betterment of her family and community.
An avid reader, she could devour an entire book in a day, all while casually rocking on the porch with a cup of coffee, containing plenty of French vanilla cream. She adored reading, writing, music, history, art and the wonders of the natural world. A true wordsmith, she left tucked away in her hope chest numerous journals, their pages filled with her stories, memories, poetry and thoughts. Humble and kind, she never met a stranger. She had a way of seeing people, of making people feel comfortable. A rare type of person who had a knack for striking up conversations with anyone, no matter the background, no matter the place, she could find common ground and her way of talking made you feel as if you’ve known her all your life.
Her favorite flowers were white Shasta daisies, and the Louisiana iris. Her favorite bird was the eastern blue bird. Her favorite smells were hardwood gymnasiums, gardenias, freshly cut grass, feed stores and saddle shops. Her favorite meal was a fried porkchop, smothered greens, purple hull peas, mashed potatoes, cornbread and an ice-cold glass bottle of Coca-Cola. She loved clean white clothing, and her accent color was always red. Her favorite sight was all of her kid’s shoes piled up at the door. She was a simple girl, who loved the character and backstory of things, rode with the top down, beat up shoes, frayed ball cap and radio blasting.
Penny leaves behind her soulmate, Gregory Trahan; her loving children, Casey Trahan and his wife, Penni, of Wildwood and Jared Trahan and his wife, Brooke, of Brenham; her beautiful granddaughters Lainey, Aubree, Miley, Norah, and Roslyn Trahan; proud parents, Dot and Jerry Schaller of Longville, Louisiana; beloved siblings, Robin Hall and her husband, Dana, of Deridder, Louisiana; David “Rip” Schaller and his wife, Marsha, of Conroe; Anne Bartlett and her husband, David, of Longville, Louisiana; and Joseph Schaller and his wife, Lisa, of Cut and Shoot; and a host of friends, relatives, and “strangers” she met, whose hearts have forever been changed by her beauty and grace.
A private gathering of Penny’s family and friends will be at their home, from 3:00 pm until 5:30 pm on Monday, December 16, followed by a community wide viewing from 6:00 pm until 9:00 p.m., Monday, December 16, 2019, at Wildwood Baptist Church, 101 Wildwood Drive, Village Mills, under the direction of Broussard’s, Silsbee. Her funeral service will be 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at Johnson Bayou Baptist Church, 6710 Gulf Beach Highway, Cameron, Louisiana. Her interment will follow at Head of the Hollow Cemetery, Johnson Bayou, Louisiana.
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You had the voice of an angel. I loved listening to you sing at church. It was you that brought me closer to God. I cherish the time we shared together. Rest In Peace my sweet friend! I will forever love you! Watch over us. Fly high with the other angels!
Wanda Jinks
My prayers and thoughts are with all of you. Penni was a wonderful person and friend, she will be missed by all. Rest In Peace my dear friend.
Byron Wooldridge
My most heartfelt condolences to you and your family. I recall how much your love for Penny came through in your voice when conversation turned to family. May the Lord bless and keep her and the Perpetual Light shine upon her.
Penny always had a warming personality and was a soul that always made me feel as part of the family ! Penny rest easy and be in peace as your work her is done . Watch over your family and know that we already miss your spirit.
Elaine Barnett
Penny was just as classy as she was sweet. She was always so kind to me and my boys. There is nothing anyone can say or do to take away the hurt everyone’s hearts are feeling right now however just know she was a Christian woman and our Lord and Savior has Penny in Heaven.
Pam Blanchard Hall
Such a beautiful soul was Penny.I thought the world of her.She will be terribly missed by all.A voice of an angel and befitting she will now sing with the angels.Be at peace now Penny.We will meet again someday.
Hard to believe that beautiful smiling face is no longer walking the earth.
My prayers for healing, peace and understanding during this most difficult time. Love and hugs for you all.
Carolyn Brown Stewart
May God hold you in His arms and keep you my friend. Your loving smile and friendship will truly be missed.
Brandi Moore
Our hearts are broken for the Trahan family. Yaya was so precious to us! We felt like family when we were with her! Fly high sweet lady!
Ben James Lapina
She was my aunt in law and have great memories of her. We will truly miss her.
Ritch Mooneyham
I'm at a loss for words. So many emotions are still tearing at my heart and head. Penny & I had that special cousin bond between us. Even after losing touch with each other for many, many years, when we finally reconnected it was as if we were never apart. I will cherish our phone calls over the past year. Greg ... I can tell you that you were her rock and she loved you, the boys (men) & wives and grandchildren with every fiber of her body. I listened to story after story about everybody on our phone calls with each other. I will miss hearing about everyone's escapades in that unique manner in which she would tell the stories. My heart aches for the family and I am only a phone call away for ANY of Pen's family.
Edmond Trahan
Sorry for y’all’s loss prayers for the family
Charlotte Jinks
My dear friend,so many beautiful memories we shared in Johnson Bayou will always be in my heart and soul.. you were a one of a kind cherished woman,loved by many. May you rest in peace my dear friend.I love you,and my thoughts and prayers are with all the family members.
Debby Griffith
Penny was a remarkable beautiful friend and lady. She always made everyone she met feel welcome, accepted, loved and special. It's difficult to realize she isn't on earth with us anymore. But I'm picturing her with Jesus in heaven and with family members and friends. I will always think of her with the fondest memories and will see her again, when I'm called home.
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Hoops Report: Georgia vs. Temple
Rob Sherrell
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Yante Maten dunks against Georgia Tech – December 19, 2017
Welcome to the Bulldawg Illustrated Hoops Report. It’s like removing warts with dynamite. And that’s exactly what the Dawgs did Tuesday night when they blew up the enemy in the second half to win 80-59.
While it was a two-point game at the half, it turned into a laugher in the second twenty minutes. The Dawgs opened the second half hitting their first eight shots to get a double-digit lead. They never looked back from that point on. Yante Maten finished with 24 and 6 going 9-13 from the floor, 5-5 from the stripe and made his only three-point attempt. Rayshaun Hammonds bounced back from a poor game at UMass to put in 11 while Turtle Jackson, Derek Ogbeide and Juwan Parker all finished with nine. The team shot 58% from the floor and Parker was the only starter under 50%. He continues to struggle at 39% from the flood and 21% from three. That spot in the lineup must improve.
Up next the Dawgs host Temple at 1 pm on Friday. The Dawgs are 8-2 right now. That’s the best record ever at this point under Coach Fox. They’ve played well in most all games this year other than Umass. However, that game was coming off the 16-day layoff, involved a lot of travel, and occurred while a winter storm was howling outside. While basketball is played indoors, the weather affects travel, temperament, and health. So that’s hopefully the only egg we lay this year. Plus, that makes this game even bigger. Temple appears to be a decent team this year. The Dawgs biggest problem has been inconsistency the last three or so years. So number one it’s imperative to see if this team can start putting together multiple good performances. Second, this is our last out of conference game. A win would be another good score on the season’s report card come March and 9-2 is obviously better than 8-3. Every win is critical for bubble teams. Plus, the Dawgs open the SEC schedule in Lexington on New Year’s Eve where the Dawgs are approximately 5-66 in the last 111 years. So history doesn’t bode well for us there.
As far as what Temple brings to the table, I don’t really know. I don’t really care. Generally, I know we have the best player on the floor every time we suit up. The problem is who are our second and third best options. Right now, I think you have to say Turtle is number two. Beyond that, it’s a lot of talent but just as many question marks. Hammonds, Tyree Crump or Jordan Harris are all three able-bodied studs. They need to start playing like it. Hammonds has been inconsistent game to game, Crump’s been inconsistent play to play, Harris hasn’t really been good enough yet to be labeled inconsistent. All three of these guys can be studs and we really need them to start producing night in and night out.
So we’ve got a big game Friday. It’s a weekday matinee. It’s also a reason to start drinking at lunch. Go grab a few cold ones in Five Points to get your game face on. Then show up prior to tip-off. We need the W and we need your passion. I’ll see you there. Go Dawgs!
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Debunking Douglas Dietrich
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See also: Satanists vs Setians at the Presidio
So far my Shadow History series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 , Part 5a, Part 5b, Part 6, Part 7) has led to an unprecedented level of ad hominem attacks. When they can’t address the facts, they attack the messenger. This time they have come from unexpected sources, and quite possibly co-ordinated together on the Satanic Magick Day of Friday May the 13th.
In my research I quoted some claims made by Douglas Duane Dietrich, who calls himself “Renegade Historian” and “Weapon of Mass Instruction”.
I use Shadow History because it’s in the shadows of history that you can glean enough nuggets of truth to piece together the true picture of what’s going on. Just like the Shadow Economy includes offshore wealth and the Shadow Government includes unelected propagandists, Shadow History includes obscure (even, “occulted”) facts and verifiable documentation.
I am not claiming to have invented the term.
In my case, I am only dealing with non-fiction. Real history, not propaganda; proven, verifiable facts; information from primary documents and multiple credible sources. Sometimes I add my own speculation and interpretation, connecting dots and questioning coincidences, but there is no fictional component to my work.
I first came across the term Shadow History in the book “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet” by Finn Brunton, released in 2015.
Trying to “own” shadow history?
Mr Dietrich’s non-specific claims that I misappropriated his work are baseless – if indeed he is sharing history. If he’s creating unique tales from his own imagination, then perhaps his case is stronger – or would be, if I were passing off fictional stories he had written as my own.
I try to use as many sources as I can, and although I have referenced his work a couple of times, there is nothing unique to the historical component of his research. It is all from the books of others, he has no writings of his own.
In the case of the Presidio military base’s links to Burning Man, Mr Dietrich has never explored this. The connections between the First Earth Battalion handbook, the rollout of the Internet, and the launch of Burning Man, MAPS, and the Cacophony Society in 1986, are original insight.
In the case of the link between the Presidio, the Army’s 7th Psychological Operations Group, and Moffett Field and the Internet, credit for discovering that should properly go to Thunkerdrone on the LetsRollForum. He posted “time for some dot connecting” on Sep 6 2014, and I was in touch with him and sharing my own previously published research by Sep 8 2014. Jan Irvin and I also reached out privately to him earlier this year and invited him on the show.
Mr Dietrich’s bizarre rants against me make the Unabomber manifesto look like Shakespeare (Breakspear?)
Having never met me, all he can do is Google my name to find stuff to criticize me with. I encourage Mr Dietrich to get some legal advice, stop with the slander and hate speech, and not try to falsely claim ownership of others’ intellectual property.
It’s possible that this self-proclaimed former Marine, mercenary, rave cop, escort security guard, and Department of Defense contractor is operating independently. However he recently ganged up with Brandon Young and Amanda Eut. All three claim to have suffered from traumatic brain injuries, and near-death assassination attempts. One of them brags of a connection to Opus Dei, the secret society from the Da Vinci Code.
He has accused me publicly of all kinds of things, and more recently expanded his attacks to include my wife and a friend. I have turned the other cheek for two months but their slander continued. The outrageous personal attacks and hate speech from this group are best dealt with in Court.
However, Mr Dietrich made another claim which is even more insidious: that I “co-opted everything he has ever done and claimed it as my own”. This post is my public statement to refute these claims.
You might think he is accusing me of “plagiarism” – copying his work, claiming it’s mine, and not providing any attribution to the source of my research. This is simply untrue, I reference thousands of other sources including Mr Dietrich.
In fact, what he is accusing me of is much worse. He appears to be a disinformation agent, since so much of the information he promotes is untrue. By saying I am “stealing his work”, he tars me with his own brush. Since his work is so easily discredited, it must follow that if I have copied it, then my work should be discredited like his.
He has made this claim repeatedly, so I am forced to address it specifically. I absolutely do not support his research and nor am I making any of the claims that he is.
I am sharing a perspective of history based on facts that I’ve uncovered. Am I right? Wrong? We’ll find out along the way. Hopefully you will journey with me to the conclusion. Do your own research, make up your own mind.
This story will not be shut down by some Satanic coven of dark propagandist cyber-trolls.
Douglas Dietrich is a Disinformation Agent?
He can’t write very clearly in English, but he sure can talk. He has his own language of pronunciation and writing, which is sometimes hard to follow. He shares interesting stories. Some of the more remarkable ones checked out, like the Great Hedge of India.
Dig deeper into his body of work and a different picture emerges, one that fits the model described by Jan Irvin in Spies in Academic Clothing. A large amount of truth is used to hypnotize the audience into a sense of trust and security; and then the intended messages can be slipped in.
Mr Dietrich’s main message seems to be “I’ve worked for the government and they’re incompetent. Therefore there can’t be any vast conspiracy like Alex Jones says”.
See what he did there? “Government = incompetent, therefore Alex Jones = conspiracy”. Guilt by association and non sequitur. This basic, dumbed down programming works on less of the sheeple than it used to. We can fact check from our phones.
Think for yourself, question authority.
Authority based on lies is false authority. We deserve a civilization based on truth.
Mr Dietrich’s place in the alternative media milieu is based on his claim first made on Coast to Coast (2008) that he worked for 10 years as a Department of Defense librarian at the Presidio, in charge of document destruction. Because of that, he is an expert on the Roswell crash, aliens, UFOs, World War 2…actually I’ll let him explain:
Mr. Dietrich was a Department of Defense Research Librarian for almost a decade, responsible for incinerating Highly Classified materials on critical historical topics such as Pearl Harbor, Roswell, Viêt-Nam, and the different ethnic Holocausts; as well as documents exposing the reality behind vampires, zombies, Soviet psychic warfare, and other occult phenomena. Volumes of notes on Tesla, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, the Vatican and United Nations were destroyed, along with reams of reports detailing everything from Military/Intelligence-sponsored drug-smuggling operations to experimental mind-control programs. Records plundered from both Allied and Enemy States articulated the hidden objectives of modern mass-movements such as Nat-Ƶism, Ƶionism, Iƶlamicism (Wähhä’bīst/Islamist Fundamentalism[s]), Vouhodouxnism (“Voodooism”), and other ideologies. His Post was San Francisco’s Presidio, which was seething with Satanism, child abuse, and controversial medical experimentation. An Assassination Plot on Presidential Candidate William Clinton was even attempted. Since Base-Closure, his background in Military Reference and his experiences in Mercenary/Security Enforcement exposed him to startling insights into geopolitics, the current demographic apocalypse, and the Medical-Industrial Complex thanatizing our future. Weapons of Mass-Deception unleashed generations ago by increasingly self-deluded American Élites have since warped the U.S. Electorate’s very perception of reality — NOW is the time for TOTAL Disclosure.
His 44 page detailed “Bio Bomb” and “Total Disclosure” on his web site add details like this (emphasis ours) :
How Douglas Dietrich Stopped Gulf War I on His Summer Vacation
In 1981 I transferred out of the Electronics Department of San Francisco’s John H. O’Connell Vocational Institute of Technology (colloquially referred to as: “San Quentin Prep”) and majored instead in Commercial Illustration via that particular Trade School’s Advertising Arts Department. I was able to enter the field of Graphic(s), even as a student, by producing pornographic comic-book illustrations: San Francisco being internationally celebrated at that time as one of the capitals of Adult Entertainment on the world scene; as well as the acknowledged countercultural epicenter of a thriving “underground” publishing industry catering to the ubiquitous local (and national) market(s) of sex, drugs, music, and the occult.
By 1982 I entered employment on-site El Presidio Real de San Francisco’s Western Defense Command Center as a Librarian’s Aid through the D.O.D. (Department Of Defense) via my status as a Military Dependent – even while continuing my education at John O’Connell. San Francisco hosts more Foreign Consulates than any other city in the United States other than New York City (Washington, D.C. hosting actual Embassies) because the United Nations was founded inside San Francisco’s Presidio Military Base on the 1st of January in 1942. In 1988 the Editor of The Star Presidian, the Presidio Post’s newspaper, approached me to let me know that the ‘Iraqi Consulate was seeking to expose Iranian atrocities in the ongoing, and seemingly endless, First Gulf War (Islamic Fundamentalist Iran vs. U.S.-Allied Secular Æl ‘Iraq: 1980—1988); which was entering its eighth year at the time. The Editor knew of my pornographic illustration sideline and felt that my talent would be appropriate to such an endeavor.
From his LinkedIn profile:
Born Oct 1966
High school 1980 – 83 John H O’Connell Vocational Institute of Technology, GED equivalent, Commercial Arts and illustration
US Department of Defense Librarian’s Aid at Presidio SF 1982-1989
Google Docs bio says 1983; elsewhere he says 1984
SF Academy of Art college 1983-84
City College of SF Degree in Criminology & Psychology 1984-86
Associates in Science degree
SF State University Bachelors in Political Science 1987-88
Sonoma State University – Baccalaureate credit, investigative journalism
Apr 14, 1988 – Aug 88 “Iraqi propagandist” for Ba’ath party.
USF – ROTC accreditation
Oct 21 1989-late 91 US Marine Corps Corporal Dragon Anti-tank Assaultman Task Force Taro
Professional acting school/finishing school John Robert Powers school 1991-92
DoD Research Librarian/Military Reference Technician Sep 1991-Sep 92
SF Police Academy 1992-93
“Personal Bodyguard Bottom” for Porno Actresses 1992-94 Executive Security & Investigations Inc
Contract policeman at raves – 1993-94. Organization hired underage cops
CIA 95-96 Corporate Investor’s Associates
InterCon Security Systems 1996-97 –ACORN West Oakland
Freelance Mercenary 1997-99 Transnational Allocation
Tenderloin Action Group 1999-2000
Caring for his elderly parents 2000-2007
Public speaking since July 2011. LAFing Communications.
Like that other rail-thin spook who tried to publicly smear me, Danger Ranger, there are a lot of missing years in this resumé. In this case, his last visible paid job was as a mercenary in Africa in 1999 – although he’s still bound by confidentiality agreements (and potential war crimes charges) on discussing the details of that.
He admits to being a cop, working for the Department of Defense and an Army PSYOP specialist, disseminating propaganda, working for the CIA, being a mercenary, and getting professional training as an actor.
Assuming all of the above is true, at some point his career evolved from all this to “Renegade Historian”. And yet, he does not publish any history. He just abuses people like me on his show and repeats his stories about documents destroyed 30 years ago.
Original Appearance of Douglas Dietrich
His first appearance on the online stage was Coast to Coast with George Noory in 2008. In his opening comments he links himself to disinfo agent Dannion Brinkley, a truck driver who falsely claimed to have been a CIA sniper during the Vietnam war.
The ISGP article Cult Of National Security Trolls exposes Coast to Coast. His credentials seem to have been accepted there without question.
Next, he surfaced at the Bay Area UFO conference 2009. In the “Tell Your Story” open mic session, he introduced his unique theory that the Roswell crash was actually bald Japanese prisoners in an experimental balloon. His presentation was discussed at the AboveTopSecret forum. Almost immediately, he was forced to explain his historical revisionism.
The next major appearance was Coast to Coast again, John B Wells in 2011. He says that he was contacted by an Air Force General before going on the show and warned that he cannot disclose anything that might compromise troops in the field. So this suggests as recently as 2011 he was following orders from the military.
[Update 9/1/16]
Shortly after I published this post, the YouTube I linked to of the John B Wells show with Dietrich was taken down. Not removed for copyright claims or anything like that; all traces of it gone. There were at least a dozen other web sites on the Internet linking to this video, so there had never been a problem in the previous 5 years. I managed to find a copy of the show.
From the November 13, 2011 Coast to Coast AM with John B Wells. Dietrich was a guest for four hours. In his introduction, he says he received an email from a retired Air Force General reminding him of his obligations under the Secrecy Act before going on air.
What is his Problem With Burners.Me?
We mentioned him a couple of times in Shadow History of Burners Part 2 – PSYOP and the Presidio. He worked at the Presidio for ten years, including the time when Burning Man began (at Baker Beach, not Crissy Field as he claims), but he never connected the world’s largest public Satanic ritual with his own “specialty”. I did reference some of his research:
He then lied to YouTube, claiming that he owned the copyright to our show:
He said this about me :
My Singular Possession In This World Is my Good Name, The Message Said Name Conveys, and The Legacy Which Will Be Forever Carried By Such Whene’‘er It Crosses The Lips of Others Once I myself Am Gone.
Same Name (DOUGLAS DIETRICH) was Recently (and, by way of Subject Matter[s], quite inescapably) Uttered (albeit In Vain) within context of an Interview of MULTIMILLIONAIRE STEVEN OUTTRIM as Conducted by a Vindictive Fear Pornographer (a Former GLP [GODLIKE PRODUCTIONS, see <https://theinternetiscensored.wordpress.com/…/the-truth-ab…/>; GLP is part of the TENA Prógroamme from Tavistock Behavorial Research Institute run out of Eglin Air Force Base By The United States Central Intelligence Agency, a total PSYchological OPeration: See <http://tavistockisfaggish.blogspot.com/…/why-are-there-so-m…>] Castoff who has “Interviewed” myself a few times before [see “DOUG DIETRICH’s 042413 GLP TREATY OF SAN FRANCISCO AMBUSH” on The Maggot-Channel @ <https://youtu.be/W8p9c-Cdsao>]) via his “own” Bitcoin-Boosted (see my Column “BITCOIN PROVES THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL OF PARADISE IS HELL-ON-EARTH” @ <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php…>) YouTube Platform.
The US DOD (United States Department Of [the] Defense) can No Longer Deny my Exposition(s), so they have Contracted an “Outrim-Jobber” to Co-Öpt them In Toto – Claiming his “Status” as a Failing Multimillionaire (quite literally fattened on Defense Contracts Redepositing YOUR Tax-Dollars) Grants him Credibility, when it (f)actually betrays him as a Corporate Welfare Ward of The ‘State(s).
The Outtrimmer has Exploited his Overt Connections to The Military-Information Complex to but blatantly regurgitate my Expositions verbatim (e[lectronically]-[a]ccompanied by Images Leaked via myself Ô’‘ēr The Decades, no less [Referenced Materials themselves Originally Presented In my own Lectures, The Unpublished Records of which were turned over to Contractor Outtrim from my Former Affiliate-Under-Circumstances LORIEN-ANNE FENTON On Order of DOCTOR MICHÆL ANGELO “MIKEY” AQUINO, Philosophiæ Doctorate in Political Science, COLONEL, United States Army Special Forces Psychological Operations, “RETIRED”: birthed 1946—aged 69 yrs; Reportedly United States National Security Agency Supergrade – Federal Bureaucratic Equivalent of The Military Rank of General]) – Revealed to yourselves at Incomparable Sacrifice(s) to myself (most Tragically of All my Loved Ones) – even whilst Outtrim Revisions Realities of The Second World War (The United Nations Against Dæirs Dritten Reiches [“The Third Empire-State”] – Judea Declares War On Germany: 03 / 24, 1933 [sic, see <http://guardian.150m.com/jews/jews-declare-war.htm>]—[sic]; and 大 きい東アジア太平洋戦争 [“Ōoki-i Higashi-ajia Taiheiyōusensōu,” or The “Greater East-Asian Pacific War”]: 大日本帝國 [“Daï Nīpphôn Teikoku,” or The “Empire of Greater Japan”] versus The Anglo-American Allied United Nations; Hostilities Commencing with USS [United States Ship] Panay & HMS [His Majesty’s Ship] Ladybird Co-Incidents: 12 / 12, 1937―Cessation of Hostilities: 08 / 28, 1952 – Nīpphônjīn & Anglo-American Allied Peace Treaty of San Francisco Effective as Recognized by The United Nations – of which both The UK-GB / NI [United Kingdom of Greater Britain & Northern Ireland] and The USA [United States of America] are Founding Member-States; Concluding a Conflict Ô’‘ēr Fourteen Years and Fēowertyne Niht [“ˈFôrtnight” or “Fourteen Nights”] In Duration [大日本 / “Daï Nīpp-hôn,” or “Greater Japan” is still Legally In State-of-War Under Conditions of Ceasefire with The Постсоветский / “PostsƵoŵjetskij,” or “Postsoviet” РСНГ / “RSHG,” or “RCIS”: Российский Содружество Hезависимых Государств / “Rossijskij Sodružestvo Heƶavisimyh Gosudarstv,” or The “Russian Commonwealth of Independent States” regarding NEA: Northeast Asian Territories]) per The US DOD DISFO (DISinFOrmation) Agenda.
[Source: Facebook]
It goes on, in a similar barely legible style. I’ve never met this guy. What he’s claiming is that I work for the US Department of Defense and Michael Aquino, who retired fully from the military in 2006. Neither of these claims are true. I haven’t worked for anyone since I was 22. Why would I start now? However, both of these claims are core parts of Mr Dietrich’s own raison d’etre. He worked for DoD! He worked for Aquino!
In Mr Dietrich’s view, World War 2 went from 1937-1952 (but never really ended) and the US lost. He said that “Steve Outtrim is the one trying to convince the American people that they won the war”. OK…
His claim that the GodLike Productions forum is a front for the Tavistock Institute, is true AFAIK. We’ve been highlighting this organization’s role in psychological operations. It’s bizarre to bring this up, perhaps he confused “Gnostic Media” and “Godlike Productions”.
On his Facebook page he accused me of tax evasion, and said if I were a “sincere social activist” I should have paid him money:
As I predicted, my comment didn’t even last a minute before he blocked my account. Rather than acknowledging that I had reached out to him like he’d requested, instead in his subsequent shows – 2 hour radio broadcasts, twice a week for the last 2 months, all of which have comments disabled on YouTube and none of which allow listener calls – he presents this email as “evidence” that I stole secret documents from him via his former producer. What documents, how I supposedly stole them via Gmail, or where I used them, are of course unspecified. I doubt he has even bothered to read Manufacturing the Deadhead or Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon in the ensuing 2 years.
Clearly, this person is not interested in the truth. These trolls block you so you can’t see what they’re saying, then slander you outrageously. It shows their character.
Here’s what he said about reptilians of Mu:
What’s MYTH? What’s REALITY? What’s FRAUD?
In his show on Tuesday May 17th, he read my Facebook comment out on air. In response to my point that Douglas Dietrich is the first whistle-blower in history to destroy all the documents instead of releasing them to the media, he posted a link in his chatroom to an ABC Barbara Walters 20/20 story about FDR’s fore-knowledge of Pearl Harbor, based on a missing document JB/355.
He also posted a link to GAP , the Rockefeller-backed Government Accountability Project which has helped more than 6000 whistleblowers since 1977. His claim is that he released his documents as a whistleblower anonymously through GAP, and that the release that first brought him to world attention was this Barbara Walters story.
DEBUNKING DOUGLAS DUANE DIETRICH
We’ll examine 21 of his claims .
CLAIM #1: HE DESTROYED DOCUMENT JB/355 BUT TOLD BARBARA WALTERS ABOUT IT
SF Bay Area sports journalist Robert Stinnett quit his day job and dedicated 17 years of his life to researching this story. He received 200,000 documents via FOIA requests. This was published in a book Day of Deceit (2001).
In 1987 Duane Schultz published a book on the topic The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers. This mentions the JB/355 document.
Although he did not mention the specific document JB/355, Mark Weber gave a presentation about FDR’s complicity in World War II in 1982, which was published in The Journal of Historical Review in 1983. He wrote about it again in the same publication in Winter 91-92; in this article he referenced JB/355 from Schultz’s book.
The story was also the subject of a Soldier of Fortune magazine cover story in January 1989: Tigers of a Different Stripe: FDR’s Secret plan to Torch Japan by Don McLean (pp 66-93).
The Soldier of Fortune story was discussed in an article originally published in Liberty Bell, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor by Professor Revilo P Oliver (July 1989). Although Oliver/Revilo seems like a palindromic pseudonym, according to Wikipedia it’s a real dude.
In any case, Mr Dietrich doesn’t reference any of these earlier stories in providing what he says is his “proof” of when he first came to public prominence as a whistleblower.
Indeed, he claims to have actually destroyed the JB/355 document as part of his employment at the Presidio:
The document still exists
In 20/20 story they specifically mention how the document was de-classified in the 70’s. It was located in the National Archive in Washington DC.
The Timing Doesn’t Work
Mr Dietrich’s bio claims he was dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 1991, and returned to his old job at the Presidio in September 91 (LinkedIn), or Late 91 (dddietrich.com). [Update: he never made it through basic training. See end]
The 20/20 story aired on November 22, 1991.
So by his account, the first thing practically he did after returning from a war and being kicked out of the military was to go back to working for the Department of Defense on a military base. He found this document in Washington and immediately got it into the hands of the 20/20 producers. Then he retired from whistle-blowing for 20 years, before returning with stories about the other documents he’d destroyed – none of which he’d wanted to share with Barbara Walters at the time he shared the JB/355 material.
In his 2008 interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, at 8:19 he brings up JB/355, but neglects to mention that he discovered the document (while destroying it) and supplied it to the 20/20 program. An accompanying article referenced Stinnett’s book. He said he was “in the process of writing a book, which is still being written”
CLAIM #2: HE IS A WHISTLE-BLOWER. HE PROVIDED HIS INFORMATION ANONYMOUSLY, UNDER THE COVER OF GAP THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
The GAP exists to defend whistleblowers who go public.
The mission of the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is to protect the public interest and promote government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers and empowering citizen activists. GAP offers legal defense and advocacy for whistleblowers. Since its founding in 1977, GAP has helped more than 5,000 whistleblowers
There is not much legal defense and advocacy they will be able to give to anonymous whistleblowers without documents. Mainstream media is unlikely to touch it. WikiLeaks, Snowden, Chelsea Manning etc. are all about documents.
The Government Accountability Project vet each application personally and if they agree to work with a whistleblower they help facilitate legal support.
Question 1 on the intake form for the Government Accountability Project is “name”. It says you will be interviewed, but does not say anything about anonymity. The whole point of the project is to protect whistleblowers who are leaking information to the public and the media. There is no mention in their history of anonymity, and their timeline of whistleblowers only mentions a one-off case relating to the World Bank in 2007.
There is no information from the Government Accountability Project that suggests they would work with someone in this manner, or that they have ever released anything related to JB/355 or any of the rest of the broad spectrum of topics that Mr Dietrich claims to have blown the whistle on in his decade of destroying documents and the 25 years since.
CLAIM #3: THE US DID NOT WIN WORLD WAR 2 AND OCCUPY JAPAN AND GERMANY.
The FBI recently declassified its file on Hitler
Some claim the “Thousand Year Reich” plan of the Nazis is still running. The FBI have now declassified that Hitler lived on for years in South America. Others argue that the US had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and allowed it to happen, as was discussed in Claim #1. Mr Dietrich’s not making those arguments. He claims WW2 started long before Pearl Harbor or Hitler’s invasion of Poland, and Japan won the 17-year war with indestructible bio-warfare balloons. America surrendered to Japan after we wiped out their Navy, dropped two nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and firebombed Tokyo.
His theory is not supported by other historians. To be clear, I believe the US, British and Russia were the winners in World War 2, and Japan and Germany lost.
OCCUPYING PERSONNEL
The US has 38 active facilities and 215 former facilities in Germany. It is the headquarters of the US military in Europe (NOT SHAPE in Brussels which is NATO HQ). Over 53,000 troops are stationed in Germany (2011) including 14,510 Air Force. Approximately 200 aircraft are stationed there. Drones operate combat missions worldwide from Rammstein airbase.
Almost all of the US troops in Europe are located in Germany. [Source: army.mil]
The US has 83 current facilities in Japan, and 49 shared facilities with Japanese forces. It is the base of the Navy’s 7th Fleet.
The Seventh Fleet …is headquartered…in Yokosuka, Japan, with some units based in Japan and South Korea. …At present, it is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 60 to 70 ships, 300 aircraft and 40,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel.[1]
Another 130 USAF fighters are stationed there, and the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force.
AS of 2013 the US had more than 50,000 troops in Japan, 5,500 civilians working for the Department of Defense, and 40,000 military dependents.
FINANCIAL COMPENSATION
Japan is still paying for the occupation:
The Japanese government paid ¥217 billion (US$ 2.0 billion) in 2007[4] as annual host-nation support called Omoiyari Yosan (思いやり予算?, sympathy budget or compassion budget).[5]
But they have fought against paying full reparations like Germany.
As best can be determined, Japan’s compensation payments both to war victims and their heirs have totaled a mere $1 billion. This contrasts remarkably with Germany’s record. Already by the early-1990s Germany’s payments to victims and their heirs had exceeded $70 billion... most of Japan’s victims, including millions in China, have not received a penny
The US paid $20k to each interned Japanese. 82,219 – just above $1.6 billion. This was paid in 1988.
According to Article 14 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951): “Japan should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Japan will promptly enter into negotiations with Allied Powers”. War reparations made pursuant to the San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan (1951) include: reparations amounting to US$550 million (198 billion yen 1956) were made to the United States, and US$39 million (14.04 billion yen 1959) to Viet Nam; payment to the International Committee of the Red Cross to compensate prisoners of war (POW) of 4.5 million pounds sterling (4.54109 billion yen) was made; and Japan relinquished all overseas assets approximately US$23.681 billion (379.499 billion yen).
… Payments of reparations started in 1955, lasted for 23 years and ended in 1977.
In accordance with Article 14 of the Treaty, Allied forces confiscated all assets owned by the Japanese government, firms, organization and private citizens, in all colonized or occupied countries except China,
The US took over about $10 billion of non-Chinese assets.
Japanese overseas assets in 1945 (¥15=1US$)
Country/region Value (Yen) Value (US Dollars)
Korea 70,256,000,000 4,683,700,000
Taiwan 42,542,000,000 2,846,100,000
North East China 146,532,000,000 9,768,800,000
North China 55,437,000,000 3,695,800,000
Central South China 36,718,000,000 2,447,900,000
Others 28,014,000,000 1,867,600,000
Total ¥379,499,000,000 $25,300,000,000
Nearly a hundred thousand personnel have been in Germany and Japan for 70 years – clearly occupied territory. There are no Japanese or German forces stationed in the US, although Germany did lend us a submarine for 5 months in 2013.
For credible and interesting WW 2 Shadow History check out Edwin Black’s work on IBM or Anthony Sutton’s Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, or The Greatest Story Never Told .
CLAIM # 4: THE PENTAGON HAS NO ELEVATORS AND WAS BUILT WITHOUT AN OUNCE OF METAL
The Pentagon was built from steel-reinforced concrete. It has lead contamination problems.
Because it was war time, steps were made to reduce the amount of steel, saving 43,000 tons – enough for 1 battleship.
It contains 13 elevators, 19 escalators, and more than 100,000 miles of telephone cables connected to the world’s largest private switchboard, a 5-mile network of mailing tubes, 4,200 clocks, 91 water fountains, 284 rest rooms, over an acre of heating and refrigeration plant, and another acre of sewage structures. All these things contain metal.
“The service roadway within the building provides access for delivery trucks or fire protective equipment. Loading platforms along this road are convenient to kitchens, freight elevators, post office and storage rooms…One interesting section contains the special suites of Secretary of War Stimson and the General Staff. Here are fine offices, dining rooms, kitchen, sleeping quarters and the only passenger elevator in the building”
[Source: Popular Mechanics, March 1943; The Pentagon – The First 50 Years (pg 60)]
There is a very famous story about LBJ getting stuck in one of the elevators at the Pentagon.
CLAIM # 5: THE PRESIDIO DAY-CARE CENTER WAS IN BUILDING 666
Abuse was reported in the following locations:
Room 2 and 3, Building 572
Rooms 13 and 14, Building 563
The Day Care center was actually in building 387, next to the Post Library built in 1960 (building 386). [Source]
[Update: Dietrich claims he was talking about West Point, not the Presidio; see below]
CLAIM # 6: HE WORKED FOR THE “POSTAL LIBRARY” AND DESTROYED DOCUMENTS, FEEDING BOXES THE SIZE OF A CHILDS COFFIN INTO THE INCINERATORS THERE
There were several libraries at the Presidio.
The Presidio Branch Library, off base and open to the pubic, created in 1898.
The Post Library (building 386), built in 1960. This is an arts center today.
The Post library building lacks a chimney. It is also surrounded by dense forest. Not a very suitable place for feeding child-coffin sized boxes into big incinerators. The giant windows in the front don’t make it that great for secret coven rituals, either.
The Sixth Army library was located in a warehouse near the Palace of Fine Arts (Building 1188). This was completely looted when the Presidio was closed down; only empty museum display cases were found. He may have been cleared to work here; if so, he should probably be questioned about those empty cases.
The Medical Research library at the Letterman Medical Center. Dietrich claims to have been the liaison to this for Col Aquino, but not to have worked for them. And then the center was destroyed and all the records it ever had were too.
The Classified library next to the Worldwide Military Command and Control System computer (WWMCCS). The classified library was created in a remodeling in 1985, when the Command & Control Center was put in. This is the early foundation of the Internet, that we talked about in Shadow History part 2. [Source]
He would not have been able to work in the Classified library with no security clearance, just a military dependent ID card, since it was most likely what they call a Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF).
His bio says his mission to Nicaragua with the Sandinistas in 1984 (he was 17) compromised his chances of getting a clearance. In 1986 he was infiltrating Project Censored at Sonoma State University, to learn about the HAARP technology in order to get a higher level security clearance. This attempt failed, so he went to Iraq as a propagandist for Saddam Hussein in 1988.
Like everything else, the military has official procedures for document destruction. Unlike the State Department, people in the military don’t get to improvise on such things. The most classified information is not allowed to leave a SCIF and must be destroyed there. They have equipment for that purpose, such as the “burn bag”.
The Presidio had a 10-ton garbage incinerator, built in 1936. This was in Building 669 or 670 on Incinerator Rd.
Why would they install large incinerators in this small library without a chimney, when there is a gigantic trash incinerator already operating on the base?
[Update 9/27/16]
Thanks to Presidio Trust Director of Hospitality Karen Maggio and one of our fans, Jan Irvin and I were given a personal tour of the Presidio today. We went inside the former Post Library building, and can confirm that there are no chimneys, incinerator, or basement. There is nothing there to indicate the facility was suitable in any way for document destruction or Satanic covens doing rituals around ancient grimoires kept in special refrigerators. The incinerator was located at an entirely different part of the base, next to the haunted mental hospital; you would need to drive to get between the two buildings. Mr Dietrich has said on air many times that he doesn’t drive.
CLAIM # 7: DOUGLAS DIETRICH WAS A LIBRARIAN’S AID, BECAME A MILITARY REFERENCE TECHNICIAN AND A MEDICAL REFERENCE TECHNICIAN, BEFORE BECOMING A FULL-BLOWN DoD RESEARCH LIBRARIAN
None of these positions exist within the Department of Defense, according to USAJOBS.gov
There is:
Library Technician
Medical Records Technician
Educational Aide
He says he worked for a Library Operations Manager, who forced him to destroy documents. This position does not exist in the military, but is common in civilian libraries.
CLAIM # 8: AS THE SON OF A VETERAN HE HAD AN ID THAT GAVE HIM ACCESS TO AN ACTIVE MILITARY BASE
Children of military can apply for a Military Dependent ID card. Mr Dietrich’s father was discharged before he was conceived. He was born in Taiwan. His father’s family was from Rochester, NY; his father was an alcoholic and lived in the Tenderloin. [Source]
Mr Dietrich claimed that his father did not have access to military medical treatment, as the VA denied that his wounds were related to service in combat. The VA provides care to all military personnel, not just combat veterans.
You can’t just show up at a military base saying “my Dad was ex-Navy when I was born in Taiwan, let me in”. The application form for dependents has to be sponsored by an active service member.
If he did have this card, it would give him access to the Commissary Exchange and certain MWR – Morale, Welfare and Recreational privileges (including libraries). This service member lost his privileges after an Honorable Discharge, so Mr Dietrich would definitely have lost them after his Dishonorable Discharge. How did he get on the base after 1991, without a Military Identification Card?
CLAIM # 9: HE WAS INSTRUCTED BY AQUINO TO USE THE OCLC SYSTEM TO SEEK OUT ANCIENT GRIMOIRES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
From his LinkedIn:
D.D. Dietrich was Assigned Liaison to Col. Aquino as he exploited O.C.L.C. (On-Line Cataloging & Library Cooperation) Program to establish an M.I. equivalent to the C.I.A.’s “Remote Viewing” (a Program for Army Sorcerers as opposed to Agency Psychics). Col. Aquino cited National Security Issues to Authorize D. Dietrich’s temporary appropriation of tomes & grimoires out of storage in universities & museums across many nations (Aquino held International Security Clearance[s] On-Account of his Service[s] w/World Affairs Council & his status On Secondment to N.A.T.O. [North Atlantic Treaty Organization]).
The OCLC system was only available within Ohio until 1978, and then was slowly expanded. There was no overseas participation until 2002. [Source]
CLAIM # 10: HE WORKED FOR A-KEE-NO, WHO RETIRED AS A FULL BIRD COLONEL, AND IS NOW AN NSA GENERAL
“I began working with Aquino after 1984 when I was supposed to be the class thereof, actually I began working with him around 1982, 1983, and then really around 1984. I went from being a library assistant to a military reference technician to a full blown Department of Defense librarian with the full credit of a Master’s Degree in Science from the University of San Diego which is the only university offering the equivalent course
I was making these rapid jumps due to my incredibly enhanced memory after the nano-blood transfusions”
With such a good memory, you’d think he’d remember how to pronounce his boss’s name.
Dr A-quee-no claims he has never met him:
Michael Aquino 2 years ago
I first heard of Dietrich yesterday and have found a few of his Aquino rants on YouTube. Simply put, he’s a liar: I never had any contact with this crank in or outside the Army. 1987 Presidio “SRA”-scam facts: go to xeper dot org/maquino and download the .pdf. As for “mind control”, go to Amazon and see my 2013 book _MindWar_. Red Ice needs to do a bit more story-checking in the future if it doesn’t want to look ridiculous. In this case even an email check with me would have sufficed.
Dietrich says he last saw Aquino in 1992, when the Presidio was closed down.
Aquino was not stationed at the Presidio after 1988. He was in Washington DC from July 86-July 87, then transferred to St Louis in 1988, before moving to Space Intelligence in Colorado in 1990.
Aquino retired from Active Duty in 1994, and from Military Intelligence in 2006.
Later on I transferred first to Civil Affairs, then to Military Intelligence, from which I retired in 2006. I spent most of my career in PSYOP, which at the time was branch-immaterial. This kept me bouncing around between the Defense and State Departments, as well as DIA and CIA.
Here is Lieutenant Colonel Aquino’s 2006 retirement certificate:
Although Generals can be appointed to positions in the NSA, it does not have its own Generals. From Michael Aquino himself:
CLAIM # 11: HE EXPOSED THE CHILD MOLESTATION AT THE PRESIDIO BETWEEN 1985-87
my public exposure of the massive On-Site Presidio child-molestation fiasco through the years spanning 1985—1987 [Source: dddietrich.com Total Disclosure]
By the time I succeeded in forcing the multiple authorities involved (the Presidio Provost Marshall’s Office, the CID’s [Criminal Investigations Division’s] team of the Sixth Army stationed at the Presidio and headed by the JAG [Judge Advocate General], as well as the FBI, and the SFPD) in investigating the ongoing assaults against the base’s underage population to act on my evidence against him…it was January 5th, 1987.
Jan 5, 1987 is the date Gary Hambright was arrested. The case actually broke on November 18, 1986, when Mike Tobin spoke to a chaplain
on Tuesday Nov. 18, Joyce Tobin was driving through the Presidio with the boy. When they came to the intersection where she would have turned to go to the day care center, he raised himself up out of his car seat, as if he were attempting to get out, and started to cry…The incident convinced her that she should contact the day care center. On Wednesday, she called the director…Despite the seriousness of the complaint, Curl said she couldn’t see Joyce until Friday, two days later. Within half an hour of the call, Joyce was called at home by one of her son’s pre-school teachers wanting to know what the problem was. The day care center staff had been told immediately about Joyce’s call. Authorities did not search the center until Friday.
Joyce Tobin never got to meet with Diana Curl. The case broke before then. On Thursday, Mike Tobin spoke with a chaplain at the Presidio, who contacted the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. Officers from the CID made an appointment to interview and videotape the boy about his allegations. After the video taped interview on the morning of Nov. 21, the Tobins’ son was examined…at San Francisco General Hospital…
A strategy meeting on Dec. 10 set the tone for the case. The meeting was attended by all the brass from the Presidio, representatives of the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office and staff from the Child Adolescent Sexual Abuse Referral Center. The CASARC workers told the Army to expect multiple victims…Five days later, on Dec. 15, letters were mailed to 242 parents whose children were in Hambright’s classes. “The Commander of the Presidio of San Francisco, has been apprised of a single incident of alleged child sexual abuse reported to have occurred at the Presidio Child Development Center…….
“We have no reason to believe that other children have been victimized.”
Hambright was released without charges in March 1987, and re-arrested in September 1987 after the Daycare Center burned down on the solstice. Michael Aquino’s involvement in the case began in August, 1987 when a search warrant was served on his house.
When Aquino was aquitted by the SFPD on Aug 1, 1988 , Dietrich claims to have been in Iraq stopping the war with Iran.
The Army sent a letter to at least 56 parents concerning the abuse on April 22, 1989, so the scandal continued for much longer than Dietrich’s claim.
Mr Dietrich claims the families were all posted to various corners of the world so the children could not be tested for AIDS. In fact, the military specifically DID do this.
“We tested every kid that was brought in,” said Presidio spokesman Bob Mahoney. “That was done worldwide because the victims and their families were all dispersed.” [Source]
None of the 500 children tested positive for AIDS, but at least 4 did for chlamidya. Hambright died of AIDS, supporting his suggestion of multiple perpetrators – how did the kids get a different STD? One FBI report said 102 may have been victimized
Constance Cumbey spoke about Jim Channon and the First Earth Battalion and Michael Aquino’s black magick Nazi rituals in her newsletter published June 2, 1986 – less than 3 weeks before the “first” Burning Man.
The first instance of suspected child molestation at the Presidio was discovered by a parent in November, 1986. So what was Mr Dietrich’s involvement in the child abuse in 1985 and 1986?
The story was reported in the LA Times on August 11, 1987 , the New York Times 16 November 1987, and the San Jose Mercury News Army of the Night July 24, 1988
The “Satanic Panic” that swept the 80’s was a major story being discussed by Oprah Winfrey and Geraldo Rivera in 1988. Satanism was very real then, and it is very real now. Michael Aquino describes pyschological operations and propaganda as part of “Lesser Black Magick”.
It was exposed by Mae Brussell on her show in November 1987.
I can find no evidence that Gary Hambright was an art teacher at the John O’Connell vocational school, that he was arrested off base due to a stash of child porn that he kept there, or that Dietrich was involved in this story in any way. Hambright was arrested based on the children’s testimony, not a stash of porn.
CLAIM # 12: HE WAS ABLE TO GET AQUINO OUT OF TROUBLE BY SHOWING THAT HE COULDN’T POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN AT THE PRESIDIO WHEN THE ABUSE OCCURRED
Aquino says he could not have participated in the abuse because he was at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University in Washington DC from July 1986-July 1987
His resume lists National Security Management (1986) and Industrial College of the Armed Forces (1987) at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He received a Regional Studies Research award from NDU in 1987.
Joyce Tobin first noticed something wrong with her 3 year old son on Nov 14, 1986. At this point Michael Aquino had been away from the Presidio for 4 months.
It is not clear why he would have to turn to Mr Dietrich for an alibi, since where he and his wife lived and the college he was studying at would have been simple to verify.
The alibi that Dietrich claims “saved” Aquino is not very tight anyway.
The letter from the Presidio Headquarters to 56 parents alerting them to potential abuse states these dates and locations:
September 1985 – May 1986, Preschool for Children 3 years of age, Room 2 Building 572
September 1985- May 1986 After School Hourly Care for School Aged Children, Ages 5 to 12 years, Rooms 13 and 14, Building 563
June 86- August 86 Hourly Childcare Program for Children, ages 3-5, Room 3 Building 572
September 1986-November 1986, Preschool Hourly Care Program (Morning) Ages 3-5 years, Room 13, Building 563
September 86-November 86 Afternoon Kindergarten Program and afternoon Hourly Care Program, Ages 3-6, Room 14 Building 563
Gary Hambright worked there Jun 85 – Nov 86 [Source]
Leaving aside the possibility of travel to San Francisco during his studies, Aquino’s SF dates overlap with 3 of the 5 periods.
Later investigations of abuse centered on June 10, 1986. Michael Aquino was in SF on leave from June 3 86-July 18 86 – the period when Burning Man began. He provided investigators with a documented alibi showing a painter was doing work at his house on June 10. [Source: Aquino, via napolis.pdf]
Mr Dietrich’s claim that “he proved Aquino was not in SF on any of the alleged dates” is disproved by Aquino himself, in his own alibi that he provided to police, FBI, and Army CID.
CLAIM # 13: GARY HAMBRIGHT RAN THE DAYCARE CENTER
He was one of 40 day care workers, employed part time for $7.59 per hour. John Gunnarson ran the Daycare Center. [Source]
CLAIM #14: AFTER MURDERING TWO SAUDI RELIGIOUS POLICE IN THE AL-JUBAYL INCIDENT OF AUGUST 7 1990, HE WAS GIVEN A DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE WHICH BUMPED HIM FROM CORPORAL DOWN TO LANCE CORPORAL, THEN SENT INTO COMBAT IN DESERT STORM
I was reinstated to my former Technical Reference Post for another two years after mustering out of the United States Marine Corps. Most immediately this was due to exposure to cyclo-sarin nerve gas blown downwind from Chemical Weapons Storage Bunkers explosively demolished at Kamisaya to destroy evidence of American involvement in Genocidal actions against the Kurdish population of Ba’athist Iraq (by supplying the industrial constituents incorporated into manufacturing the toxic nerve agent[s] deployed under Saddam Hussein’s orders in Iraqi-Occupied Kurdistan). Since
that day my lungs have collapsed seven times, ultimately necessitating radical surgery
that stapled them to my ribcage permanently – with a 20% chance of future “spontaneous
pneumo-thoraxes.”
Another factor cutting short the normal five-year Marine Corps “hitch” for me was a major diplomatic incident involving my “Desert Shield” Tour in Saudi Arabia (we spent almost half of 1990 “In-Country” assembling the ad-hoc Marine “Task Force: Taro”). On August 7th of that year, at the Saudi port city of Æl Jubayl (south of our Portof-Deployment), I personally attempted to prevent a Mutawh’wha’in (Saudi Religious Police) Unit from machine-gunning schoolgirls who were escaping from a burning schoolhouse. They were being shot because they were daring to expose themselves in public without veils (289 young women ultimately burned alive in this incident). Only the
impending state-of-war prevented my lifetime incarceration in military prison…Returning to the United States and determined to pursue my Mercenary work domestically once recuperated, I resettled into the Presidio Postal Library System as a Military Reference Technician
It is very difficult to get a Dishonorable Discharge. You must be Court-Martialed. It is usually accompanied with serious time in military prison. By its very definition, you can’t get discharged and then sent into service. And you would not be eligible for any security clearances in the future. It is unlikely that the DoD are so in need of “Research Librarians” or “Reference Technicians” that rather than advertising for such a position, they just grab this convicted murderer.
At one point, Mr Dietrich referred to his Dishonorable Discharge as a “blue sheet”:
“I was friends with a VA bureaucrat for 30 years. In that time he had only seen one other single blue sheet dishonorable discharge, and that was for a Castro defector.”
In fact, the “blue sheet” is something related to gays in the military. It has nothing to do with a dishonorable discharge, which is the worst possible level.
As every Able-Bodied Marine was needed for the impending Operation: Desert Storm, Corporal Dietrich was Stripped Down by a Stripe and Released for Duty, Pending Final Judgement.
This was the largest ever deployment of Marines. They had “shock and awe” air support and armored vehicles with wire-guided missiles. There was no need to free murderers awaiting trial to send into the fight with bazookas.
He joined the Marines on October 20, 1989. He claims to have been Corporal on August 7, 1990. This grade is E-4, “Non-Commissioned Officer”. So he would have gone through 13 weeks of recruit training, and then been promoted 3 times in 6 months. This is impossible:
In the Marine Corps, the junior enlisted ranks from private to lance corporal are based solely on time in grade, meritorious promotion or previous college credit hours. Once a Marine is promoted to lance corporal, though, his subsequent promotions to corporal and sergeant are based upon his performance as a Marine, evaluated by a composite score…Once a Marine has been a lance corporal for eight months and served for 12 months, he is eligible for promotion.
[Source: Marines Magazine, DoDLive]
Even assuming that his college education was sufficient that he immediately joined the Corps as a Lance Corporal, he still could not have been eligible for promotion to Corporal because he had not yet served for 12 months.
The event sounds suspiciously like this 2002 incident :
On March 11, 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen people, all young girls. The event was especially notable due to complaints that Saudi Arabia’s “religious police” (aka the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice) stopped schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered rescue workers because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress, and possibly for not being escorted by a male… CPVPV officers did appear to object to Civil Defense workers going into the building—Human Rights Watch quoted a Civil Defense officer as saying,
“Whenever the girls got out through the main gate, these people forced them to return via another. Instead of extending a helping hand for the rescue work, they were using their hands to beat us.”
The CPVPV denied the charges of beating or locking the gates but the incident and the accounts of witnesses were reported in Saudi newspapers such as the Saudi Gazette and Al-Iqtisaddiyya. The result was a very rare public criticism of the group
In Mr Dietrich’s “Al Jubayl Incident”, 297 girls died, plus the 2 religious police (armed with machineguns and whips) that Mr Dietrich murdered with his bare hands in front of his off-duty squad, one of whom hit him in the back of the head with a metal bar causing traumatic brain injury.
The worst school fire in history was the Collinwood School Fire (March 4th 1908). 172 children and 2 teachers were killed. The worst school tragedy was the Beslan massacre, 385 killed and 783 injured. The Lady of Angels fire (December 1 ,1958) left 92 students and 3 nuns dead. This was front page news across the world.
The disaster was the lead headline story in American, Canadian, and European newspapers. Pope John XXIII sent his condolences from the Vatican in Rome. The severity of the fire shocked the nation and surprised educational administrators of both public and private schools. The disaster led to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes. [Source]
On August 7, 1990 global tensions were heightened to the brink of war, and CNN and FOX crews were embedded with the troops for the first time. Yet nobody noticed this horrific death of innocent schoolgirls? 12 years later, when the same thing happens again, this time it makes worldwide news, but no-one recalls the earlier, 20 times worse incident?
CLAIM # 15: AL JUBAYL INCIDENT OCCURRED ON APRIL 7 1990 ( Fetzer show) or AUGUST 7 1990 (LinkedIn)
These dates do not align with Marine deployment in Desert Shield.
Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait: August 2, 1990
Bush declares Desert Shield: August 7, 1990 [Source History.com]
The first troops (82nd Airborne) shipped out to Saudi on Aug 9, 1990. The first Marines arrived August 11.
On 2 August, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered two Navy carrier battle groups to the Persian Gulf. Five days later, the United States Central Command (USCentCom), the unified command responsible for the Persian Gulf, ordered to Saudi Arabia a brigade of the lightly armed U.S. Army 82d Airborne Division, U.S. Air Force fighters from the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, and two squadrons of maritime pre-positioning ships (MPS) carrying Marine Corps equipment and supplies.
…BSSG-7 began moving by air to the Gulf as part of the 7th MEB’s 148-
man Surveillance, Liaison, and Reconnaissance Party, tasked with preparing the
Port of Al Jubayl for unloading MPS ships. This team reached Saudi Arabia
on 11 August…On 21 August, the main body reached Saudi Arabia,
increasing the size of BSSG-7 to nearly 3,000 Marines and sailors in-country.
If he did indeed serve in DESERT SHIELD in the Marine Corps as a Dragon Anti-Tank Man Lance Corporal, he would have arrived on August 21 at the earliest. However these troops were logisticians from the 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. He says he was part of Task Force Taro, which is the 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment, part of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force. They describe on their blog shipping out to the Gulf via Hawaii, Okinawa, Diego Garcia, before arriving at Al Jubayl on August 26 1990.
CLAIM # 16: WHAT IS YOUR MOS?
Jim Fetzer asked him this in a 2012 interview. He answered “Dragon Anti-Tank Assault Man”. Most military people recite the number.
There are three relevant MOS:
MOS 0351 Infantry Assaultman
MOS 0352 Antitank Missile Man
MOS 0365 Infantry Squad Leader.
There is not “Dragon Antitank Assaultman”.
The USMC used the M72 LAW as their primary infantry anti-tank weapon in Desert Storm. The older, heavier, and less accurate Dragon system was not really used, and ultimately many of the missiles were just thrown out as junk. This story does mention the plight of Task Force Taro’s Dragon gunners carrying heavy gear through minefields, but there is no mention of these weapons actually being used in combat at any point. It is not clear why the 5’7″ Dietrich would be given the task of carrying the heaviest weapons.
CLAIM # 17: HE IS RELATED TO MARLENE DIETRICH
There is no connection in their family trees. She was born in Berlin in 1901. Her father was police lieutenant Louis Dietrich, who married in December 1898.
The other Dietrichs were from Rochester, NY. His last ancestor in Germany was Frank Dietrick, born March 1861 in Germany, children in New York 1888-1900, died 1905 in Rochester Ward, Monroe, New York.
According to his bio, he was born in Taiwan, and is 25% ethnic Japanese. His mother was a citizen of the Japanese empire. Her father was full blooded Chinese. His grandfather was so important to the development of Formosa that he was made mayor by imperial decree of a Japanese city. He is also 14% Native American.
[Source: ancestry.com]
CLAIM # 18: TUNNELS WERE DUG AT THE PRESIDIO FOR THE NIKE ZEUS MISSILE
This is an extraordinary claim, given the size of the 3-stage Zeus missile and the proximity to the wealthiest residential areas of the city.
There are Nike batteries at the Presidio, but for the much smaller Ajax missile.
Ajax, Hercules, Zeus. Image: U.S. Army – Redstone Arsenal Historical Information
Ajax, Hercules, Zeus
Zeus: 50 ft long, 3 feet diameter
Weighs 12 tons
Hercules: 41 ft long, 2.5 feet diameter
Weighs 5 tons
Ajax: 21 feet long, 1 foot diameter
Weighs 1 ton
The Zeus is the largest one of these Nike missiles. It is a 3-stage rocket, the sort of thing that gets launched at Vandenberg AFB or Cape Canaveral to go out into space with heavy payloads. It’s not something you put next to the Gettys and Danielle Steele in Pac Heights. The 450,000 lbs of thrust taking it to Mach 4 could cause serious problems on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Zeus was tested a dozen times, but never at San Francisco. The only California test was at Point Mugu. It was never actually deployed, Kennedy canned the system in favor of the much smaller Nike-X (aka A-7 Ajax).
Nike site SF-88 at Fort Cronkhite is a museum now. The Presidio had two Nike sites, SF-89C at Mt Sutro and SF-89L
One of the Nike Missile Batteries at the Presidio. As you can see, not suitable for 3-foot diameter, 50-foot long 3 stage space rocket launch
SF-89C at Mt Sutro
Zeus being lifted into launch position by crane, 1961
CLAIM #19 : HIS ALBANIAN RECEPTIONIST LEEANN PRIFTI AT JOHN O’CONNELL VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE WORKED FOR THE CIA VIA RADIO FREE EUROPE/VOICE OF AMERICA. SHE GOT HIM THE JOB AT THE PRESIDIO LIBRARY. SHE WAS MOSCONE’S SECRETARY
I embarked on my own intended career in Library Science as a “Librarian’s Aid”
in 1983…I was originally employed directly after opting for early GED-tested “graduation” from the John H. O’Connell Institute of Vocational Technology … Strangely enough, I was initially granted opportunity for interview regarding this particular employment opportunity by networking through the Secretarial Receptionist of John O’Connell Tech’s Administrative Offices. She herself had found employment at “the J.O’C” after having been sacked from her previous job as “Lap Secretary” to the Mayor’s Office(s) at San Francisco’s City Hall when former San Francisco Supervisor Daniel James “Dean” White … forced his way past her with a loaded firearm on November 27th, 1978, to kill then-San Francisco Mayor George
Richard Moscone… [and] Harvey Milk…The killings proved a Godsend to future Senator Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein…who succeeded to the Mayoralty on December 4th, 1978 and – apparently having no need for the services of a female secretary (at least not one noted for servicing her predecessor) – immediately dismissed the young woman…The O’Connell Receptionist was of Illyrian (ethnic Albanian) extraction but she was not of Albanian national origin, her parents having fled that enigmatic Balkan state
prior to her conception.
The secretary played a famous role in this case because she let Dan White into the secure office, where he shot Harvey Milk and Moscone.
Her name was Cyr Frances Mullins Copertini. Her father Thomas Morgan Mullins was born in Marysville, CA; she and her mother Grace Dorrance were born in SF. Feinstein kept her on. She had an “interest in Irish ancestry, history, and lore” befitting her Irish name.
November 27, 1978 is the day that San Francisco Supervisor Dan White murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Cyr Copertini was Mayor Moscone’s appointment secretary at that time. She testified on the witness stand about how, just prior to the shooting, a “nervous, pale” Dan White appeared at the mayor’s office asking to meet with Moscone. White chatted with her for a few minutes before entering the Mayor’s office. Five minutes later the fatal shots were fired that left Mayor Moscone dead.
For 14 more years, Cyr Copertini continued to be the appointments secretary for other mayors and it was not until 1992 that she was released (along with many others) by the new mayor Mayor Frank Jordan.
There is a “Lee Ann Prifti” who worked for the City of SF in 2006. I can find no link between her, Albania, the 1978 Moscone/Milk shootings, or Mr Dietrich.
CLAIM # 20: ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
HE IS CERTIFIED BY UCSF MEDICAL SCHOOL
“I subsequently attended (and am certified in completion of) many years of lectures in Medical Journalism at UCSF Medical School”.
UCSF Medical School does not teach Medical Journalism. The public cannot attend UCSF Medical School lectures without enrolling. Students must have completed the following training before the first day of orientation:
Introduction to HIPAA
APeX training for MS1s
[Source: http://meded.ucsf.edu/mse/required-trainings-medical-students]
HE WAS ON THE DEAN’S LIST AND HONOR ROLL AT CITY COLLEGE SF, WHILE AVERAGING 25 UNITS PER SEMESTER
At age 16, Douglas Dietrich earned Scholarship to attend the College of S.F.A.A. (San Francisco Academy of Art) for two Semesters; consequently taking & Passing the G.E.D. (High School Diploma Equivalency Exam) to do so.
D.D. Dietrich Attained and Maintained Standing on both the Dean’s List and Honor Roll while Averaging 25 Units/Semester at C.C.S.F. (City College of San Francisco), circa 1984—1986 (simultaneous to upholding responsibilities of Primary Employment as a DoD [Department of Defense] Military Reference Technician) – he was consequently Promoted to the Position of DoD Research Librarian.
The Maximum amount of units per semester at CCSF is 17. Their computer system does not allow any more. Permission is granted in exceptional circumstances, for students with at least a B grade average. This means he would have had to complete a regular semester first (17 max), and then increased from 17 to 33 for his second semester, in order for the average to be 25 units/semester. I can see them letting him add an extra course or two on if it was required to complete his degree, but a jump from 17 to 33 is effectively doubling the course load. There are simply not enough hours in the day or classes in the week.
He claims to have studied Criminology and Molecular Biology, but CCSF do not teach any classes in these subjects. Specifically, CCSF do not offer courses “Criminology & Psychology”, “Criminal Justice”, “Criminal Behavior” , or Molecular Biology & Genetics.
HE HAS ACCREDITATION FOR A MASTERS OF LIBRARY SCIENCE DEGREE FROM SAN DIEGO STATE
“the only college to offer such a degree in the United States”
I can find a “Masters of Library Science” degree available as an online course from two colleges in California alone: San Jose State and USC. I can’t find any evidence that San Diego State University offers a Masters of Library Science (or even an undergraduate course), or that they accept degree accreditation from work done as a Department of Defense Research Librarian.
CLAIM # 21: HE RECEIVED A TRANSFUSION OF EXPERIMENTAL NANO-BLOOD IN 1980 AT THE LETTERMAN MEDICAL CENTER
The Letterman Army Institute of Research did specialize in research into artificial blood, laser surgery, and resuscitation.
The term “nano-technology” was not used in the US until a 1981 paper by Eric Drexler. However Dietrich claims to have received the nano-blood or “nano-plasma” in 1980.
Nano-blood giving photographic memory is not something I’ve encountered anywhere else. The only similar thing I could find online was this comment about what one cybernetic implant people would have if they could:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkn9wt03r1y4vqt/Screenshot%202016-05-16%2009.33.32.png?dl=0
If anyone has a better link for this technology, please share. If it existed in 1980, surely there must be more discussion about it by 2016 than this one thread of gamers speculating on transhumanism, and this chap being the first human out of 50 live guinea pigs to survive the experiment.
Curiously, there is a Queer Science Fiction neo-noir short film called Nanoblood, which seems to have emerged in August 2013. Actress/Director Lindsey Haun’s father Jimmy is a former guitarist for Yes, Air Supply, and Sheryl Crow, and an award-winning commercial jingle-writer (“Yahoo!,” “Expedia”) [Source]
Here’s Mr Dietrich telling his nano-blood story in his own words.
Is this a cry for help?
I count 0 out of 21 claims as reality. YMMV. I’ve provided evidence supporting what I’m saying, I invite Mr Dietrich to do the same.
They say you can judge a man by the caliber of his enemies. Unfortunately that’s not always true. I am sympathetic to the mental health issues of our Vets, but by his own account this fellow was dishonorably discharged for murder. So he says – like most of these tales, his involvement is not verifiable by anyone but himself, and all the documents have been destroyed.
John Lear, Richard Dolan, and Michael Aquino have all denounced him as a disinfo agent. He seems to have had a bitter falling out with his manager Lorien Fenton; with Red Ice Creations host Henrik Palmgren who sounded skeptical by the interview’s end; and probably with James Fetzer.
This sort of reminds me of the rap game guerilla marketing strategy: “yo Fiddy! Go start some beef on Twitter wit Jah Rule!” Saying that I am a government agent, and then starting a fight with me on his controlled media channels, is an attempt to create “anti-establishment” cred.
Perhaps there is more to this than trolls trying to make a name for themselves. This may be a co-ordinated attack from the Combine. An attempt to associate my name and material with his disinformation. Something like this appeared to be happening in the YouTube comments before Dietrich fraudulently convinced YouTube to take our videos down. Someone was questioning me about a Mark Twain quote that Eddie Murphy tweeted when he was awarded the Mark Twain prize. I checked the guy’s page out and it was all Flat Earth conspiracy stuff. Another person made weird videos and linked it back to ours in the comments, also a Flat Earther. Flat Earth is a psyop people, I’ve been at 59,000 feet on Concorde and you can clearly see a curve to the earth. [See LIB and the Flat Earth Conspiracy]
Organized or not, these trolls have not succeeded in shutting this story down. Please download, repost, and share. There’s more, “coming soon”…
Part 1 powerpoint with notes
Part 5a powerpoint with notes
Part 5b powerpoint with notes
[Update 7/12/16 12:23 pm]
I was just sent this, the results of a FOIA request into his military records. “Entry Level Separation” in 12 weeks means he didn’t even pass basic training, let alone get promoted to Corporal.
[Source: National Archives]
Where I come from, stolen valor is very much frowned upon.
Is Douglas Duane Dietrich a fraud, a charlatan, or a liar? The official record speaks for itself. There is plenty more evidence, I believe I have presented enough here for people to consider and make up their own minds.
Last night Mr Dietrich addressed 2 of the 21 Claims being questioned here on his radio show.
Claim 5: the Presidio Daycare Center was Building 666. He claims he was talking about the West Point Daycare Center, and never once got them mixed up. Let’s just give him the benefit of the doubt for this one – so 1 of his 21 claims does check out. We’re still at 96% that don’t. [Although technically, his argument here is he never actually made this claim…which brings us back to 0 for 20, 100%].
Claim 20: he addressed one small aspect of his academic record. He said that he was able to do a double course load at City College of San Francisco because of the enhanced powers he got from his nano-blood transfusion at age 14. He also re-iterated that he was on the Dean’s List. He said his “major in Criminal Psychology” was because he actually had 2 majors, Criminology and Psychology. As I pointed out, CCSF does not offer Criminology as a major or minor subject. The appropriate course would be “Administration of Justice”. He seems to have now dropped the “molecular biology” from his claims, although it is still on his Facebook page (he has at least 4 different versions of his resumé with conflicting information: at his web site, his LinkedIn, his FaceBook, and a 44-page “Bio-Bomb” document on Google Docs).
Here is the 2016 course load from CCSF. Check out the times and days; MTWRF is Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri. It is not possible to do all of these psychology courses, because most of them are on at the same time.
The Administration of Justice qualification is the only one that has a Forensics module. However the “Forensic Evidence” class is only offered in their spring program; Mr Dietrich claims he attended 2 summer semesters at CCSF.
As you can see, most of the courses are worth 3 units and are in the mornings. So to make the necessary credits to match his story, he would have to have done 11 modules in his second semester.
Once again, let’s give Mr Dietrich the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume that when he attended CCSF for two semesters during the years 1984, 1985, and 1986, the courses had different names and timetables from today.
It still does not make it physically possible to attend 11 different classes per week. There are only so many classes, classrooms, and hours in the day – and many of the classes are on at the same time, and go for longer than an hour. The summer program only runs for 6 weeks.
I can’t find any evidence that CCSF ever had an “Honor Roll”. There’s nobody other than Mr Dietrich on the Internet claiming to have been on it, and the college has been running since 1935, with 90,000 students per year.
CCSF offers an Honors Program with extra courses for exceptional students. This can be used to transfer to UC Berkeley, or UCLA. For some reason Mr Dietrich chose to apply his alleged academic prowess and Dean’s List qualifications to a larger community college course load, rather than a more prestigious University.
Mr Dietrich would go a long way to establish some credibility if he could produce documentary evidence. A transcript of the courses and grades, or the Dean’s List certificate. Or did he burn all his degrees too?
This liar does not deserve any more attention, however if he continues to accuse myself, friends and family of heinous crimes (that he and his accomplices say they are reporting to Federal Judges and the FBI in the name of terrorism), I am forced to keep dealing with it.
I thought we had finally shut them up. All I can point to that has happened in the last month or so since Mr Dietrich and his gang last made their attacks is the release of Shadow History Part 3 on Satanism and Part 4 on Occult Burning Man. Is this professional-grade team trolling really a coincidence? Or are the Satanists using this gang of traumatic brain injury victims as their yapping attack dog? The Psyops team must be struggling these days, because this crew is like the Keystone Cops. Or, perhaps this is a coven casting a Net for people gullible enough to believe anything on the Internet without fact checking it for themselves.
Mr Dietrich and his accomplices Laura Lee Solomon, Brandon Young and Amanda Eut got together to launch another 2-hour long slanderous attack against me on his Revolution Radio show on Tuesday August 16th. All claim to have been victims of stalking, threats, and harassment from me. I have no idea who these people are, and would never threaten or stalk anybody, something anyone who’s met me would readily attest. Meanwhile this group (and whoever may be pulling the strings and pushing the buttons behind them) have been publicly recorded threatening me, and are quite obviously ganging together to repeatedly harass and slander me, my friends, and my family.
Once again, Mr Dietrich makes a string of wild claims that are easily validated as false, while presenting zero verifiable evidence of his own. He continues to slur my friend, accusing him of child abuse. Here is a statement from Nick, a bright guy with a promising career in the UK Army, whom I met when we both flew to the US to attend a buddy’s bachelor party in Las Vegas around 2004.
“I am fighting a costly and painful custody case to see my only son and being accused of conspiracies, immorality and lack of professionalism is slander and unacceptable. He has no respect for serving members of NATO or veterans and I am outraged at his false valor and disgusting propaganda”
This is a real soldier with a young son, with multiple combat tours, dealing with the sort of issues that real people with real families do. He lives in England and works for the British Army, not the US Department of Defense. Like myself and Mr Dietrich, he has never met Michael Aquino – who has been retired for more than a decade. Nick’s only “sin” was to give me this endorsement on LinkedIn:
As they say, no good deed goes unpunished. His reward for saying something nice about me has been to get dragged into this, forced to waste valuable time denying these offensive slurs to his child and colleagues. He is quite rightly concerned about legal and OPSEC issues of his name being bandied about the lunatic fringes of the Internet in conjunction with words like “terrorism”, so he contacted Mr Dietrich on a call in show to express his objection. This is Dietrich’s “proof of child abuse”. Never mind that phones can be used from anywhere in the world, and fathers have been able to operate telephones without the assistance of their children since the technology was invented. The Dietrich Gang told him “if he had beef, take it to the Facebook page” – where presumably they could delete his comment, block him, then continue to slander him behind his back. What they call “beef” like this is Junior High, I call an outrageous and scandalous slander to someone who actually works for a living (and puts his life on the line for his country). Although Mr Dietrich calls one of his hate shows “Firing Lines”, it’s rare for him to take calls on it. He forbids comments on his shows on YouTube or anywhere outside of his chat room, but seems to have no problem sending his troll team out to clog up legitimate discussions on my own work.
He co-hosts his shows with a panel of accomplices, but they barely speak. It is not clear why they are present or what they have to offer.
Brandon Young chimed in to say that changing my shirt between each of my 2-3 hour long videos is proof of me stalking him and copying his wardrobe to intimidate him. His evidence is that he has the same shirt (a Merona brand, available in any Target store).
The only proof Mr Dietrich offers for his claims “they fear for their lives” and I am committing “terrorism, gang stalking, and death threats” is someone named “MrGunner65” who tried to have sex with him on an online gaming site with an avatar disguised as an Asian girl. The evidence presented is a story that this person somehow obtained Mr Dietrich’s phone number and spoke with a twang. Errr, if someone got your number from an online sex chat, it might not be a DoD conspiracy…
In his rant, he uses the word “nigger” at least 7 times and “faggot” twice. This is hate speech, I would once again encourage him to seek legal advice.
Perhaps Mr Dietrich and his gang will consider this update to my post another “terrorist threat to their lives”. I invite them to publish any information they have of threats that they consider to have come from me, since I have made no such threats. I have no henchmen, or gang of trolls to go on radio shows slandering people with. All I have is the truth, and the ability to think for myself and finance independent OSI-based research. There’s no question that I have threatened legal action on Facebook if they continue their public group harassment and hate speech – I put the screenshots right there at the beginning of this post. One could hardly say this was a terrifying threat to them, since they deleted my comment immediately then blocked me.
His timing is impeccable, as I will be going live this Saturday night Aug 20th at 8pm EST with the She-Beast, Big Mack, and Dirty Frank on the Hillbilly Radio Network show Patriot Outlaws.
They asked me on a couple of weeks ago as a guest after their excellent interview with Dr Michael Aquino, specifically to address Dietrich’s previous claims about me. Dr Aquino, who served the military for a lifetime and won many medals and accolades, confirms in this interview he has never met Dietrich, considers him a liar, and makes a very good point about wasting time on people like this. YMMV.
De-Bunking Round 2
Dietrich keeps shooting, but hasn’t scored yet. Round 1’s score was 20-1 towards our debunking. And I’m being a gentleman with the 1.
This time, he addressed claims 14, 15, and 16 above – about his alleged service in the Marine Corps as a Corporal. He failed to provide any further evidence supporting his case, but doubled down on his claim of Aug 7, 1990 (the day Bush declared war on Iraq) as the date of the Al Jubayl incident. Another absurdity. This time he says 15,000 Marines were north of Al Jubayl by August 14. I already posted the links above to the Marine Corps detailed reports of troop deployment, with units, numbers, and dates, and the blog of the unit he says he was with which provides a detailed timeline of their deployment – but here they are again, just in case. Perhaps if Mr Dietrich reads his unit’s blog, his nano-memory of his double murder and near-beheading will improve.
He added some new claims to the stack for us to validate. One of them is “a claim is the same as a lie”. No, it’s not – if you can substantiate the claim. Otherwise, I take this as a confession.
His claim that I have been paid $70 million by the Defense Department to do a “soft sell on Satanism” indicates that he hasn’t even bothered to watch the videos he’s criticizing me about. I’m not the one dressing like the devil and handing people contracts to sell their souls. I am the one exposing it and being attacked by this gang as a result. We need Satan gone from this world way more than I or anybody else needs $70 million. If anyone wants to know where my money came from they can read about it here or here.
Here’s the show I am addressing with this update:
He mentions the many psychiatrists and doctors that have been treating him for his issues. Does this sound like a well person to you…or more like someone that needs to get their meds stabilized? Perhaps anyone involved in the care of this patient may want to check in on them.
CLAIM #22: HE JOINED THE MARINES ON THE SAME DAY AS BRUCE YAMASHITA
In this latest variant of his life story, the Marines were reducing the amount of time required in boot camp in a recruitment drive. Bring in additional recruits, reduce your training time by weeks and get promoted. If you brought in 1 recruit, you could be Private First Class, 2 you got Lance Corporal. He brought two so he joined the Marines as Lance Corporal and left basic training before the full period to go to jail for a few days.
Obviously, the military records produced by a FOIA request from the National Archives and Records Aministration don’t confirm this story. But Mr Dietrich is saying that document is fake, and sticking to his story of signing up 1989. Here the various lies seem to be colliding into each other now, and spinning off into even more lies.
This LA Times story says Bruce Yamashita objected to racial treatment in a 1989 officer training course, and it took him 5 years to make Captain. Before he did the course at Quantico in February 1989 the Washington, D.C. resident graduated from Georgetown Law School:
Yamashita, now a criminal-defense attorney in Washington, D.C., trained at the Marines’ Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Va., in February 1989 after graduating from Georgetown Law School. [Source]
Once again, a case of Mr Dietrich’s story being easily disproved by a few seconds on Google.
The evidence posted above shows Dietrich finished his basic training on January 11, 1988. It’s not a forgery, I stand by its authenticity.
Mr Dietrich’s new story about all this is that back then (October 19, 1987 1989) he was nearly 6 foot tall (a car accident later shrunk his height by 4 inches, requiring him to wear lifts in his shoes) and he could carry twice as much as any Marine, and could fight two of them at once. When challenged by a drill instructor during martial arts training, he dislocated his testicles, and as punishment they put him in the brig for several days. After a few days, they came and got him out of jail and promoted him to Lance Corporal because the Marines were short of personnel.
Again, there is nothing to verify this claim except Mr Dietrich’s word. It sounds highly implausible. He should be able to produce a DD-214 discharge slip, this would easily confirm his story with dates that align to his own claims. Right now the official documentation shows his dates to be incorrect, and his early separation as a Private First Class. According to his resume in 1988 he was on a special mission to Iraq stopping World War III single-handedly and creating propaganda for the Ba’ath party (chosen because of his skills in creating adult cartoons). Did he leave the Marine Corps early to do Psyops missions?
CLAIM #23: HIS MILITARY PERSONNEL RECORDS AND DISCHARGE INFORMATION WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE TO CIVILIANS, SO ANYTHING I AM PRESENTING MUST BE A FORGERY
He says: “as if someone’s military records could ever be there for you to view…whatever dishonorable discharge I’ve got is still under lock and key, and would not be available to people like Outtrim…personnel records are not public due to the privacy act…the document is obviously a forgery because the dates are correct but the years are wrong…This all requires a Federal investigation because you can’t trust anything the government says with its records.”
From archives.gov:
In November 2007, NARA opened to the public 6.3 million OMPFs of former military personnel who served in the United States Army (including Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces), Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. In September 2009, marking the 62nd anniversary of the creation of the United States Air Force, NARA accepted the first block of Air Force records into its custody.
I use Golden Arrow, an excellent professional military research service who work at the National Archives. Why would they forge dates on a document? Everything else I’ve obtained from them (and we’re up to double digits now) has checked out. The researcher agrees with me that this appears to be a case of stolen valor.
Mr Dietrich is encouraged to post his DD-214 discharge form, which would confirm many of his stories. If he can prove the National Archive is wrong and his tall tales are true, I will be the first to publicly apologize.
CLAIM #24: FOIA DOES NOT APPLY TO CIVILIANS, TO PREVENT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FROM RELEASING FALSE INFORMATION
Of course civilians can file FOIA requests. That’s the whole point of them. If Mr Dietrich were truly a legitimate researcher he would have learned this in his 30+ year career working in Department of Defense libraries with the country’s most important secrets.
Mr Dietrich’s logic here implies that he is a civilian with no records. He claims the page of a military document posted above is a forgery. But then he says it was only the dates that were forged. This is an obvious contradiction.
He says “in the end there’s no evidence anything happened“. This claim is true.
CLAIM #25: HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO BE DIAGNOSED WITH PTSD BECAUSE OF ALL THE VIOLENCE HE SUFFERED AS AN ASIAN/PACIFIC GANG MEMBER GROWING UP IN THE TENDERLOIN
PTSD was added to the DSM in 1980. This means that by the time Mr Dietrich was 13, there had been so many diagnoses that a formal definition as a disorder was required, and went all the way through the medical approval process. From Wikipedia:
the term “posttraumatic stress disorder” came into use in the 1970s in large part due to the diagnoses of US military veterans of the Vietnam War.[13] It was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).
You can see a detailed timeline of PTS here. Of course, Mr Dietrich’s pioneering role does not appear in the history.
Claim #26: At the age of 14 he got a bleeding ulcer and was sent to the Letterman Army Medical Center. Dr John Hagmann reversed the polarity of his blood type from O- to O+ . During this time he died for a period of 2 days at least. The doctor who assisted him was forced to retire for sexual experiments with Ketamine, where he gave kids drugs and liquor then made them perform medical experiments on each other, turning humans into animals and inserting catheters into each others’ genitals.
The use of the word Ketamine may be a red flag here. I am seeing some warning signs of possible drug abuse, in this chaotic compilation of complete crap. Fitting the half-truth template that we’ve established now, the Dr Hagmann story did happen – not in 1980, but in 2013 in Virginia.
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that several high-ranking military officials have known about Hagmann’s disturbing teaching methods since at least 2005. In email exchanges with Reuters, Hagmann wrote: “In 25 years no one has ever been harmed. What military training — or even most sports — can report that?”
U.S. Army Colonel Neil Page, who led a USU investigation into Hagmann in 2014, testified that Hagmann had retired from the university in 2000 under a dark cloud after getting unprofessional conduct job ratings.
A one-time pioneer in combat resuscitation medicine, Hagmann returned to teaching at USU in 2012 on the strength of his reputation and the turnover of leadership at the school, Page said, producing “amnesia” about his questionable activities.
On July 24, 2013, a USU student reported troubling behavior from Hagmann, at which point the university suspended its relationship with the company, according to USU spokesperson Sharon Holland.
The school notified the Naval Criminal Investigative Service five days later, she added, then contacted the Defense Criminal Investigative Service within 48 hours. [Source]
He had been practicing medicine in the army since the 1990’s [Source].
There is no evidence that Dietrich was involved, and the dates and places don’t add up in any way with his other tales.
This story seems to be a variation and embellishment of his earlier claim (#21) about his nano-blood transfusion. Again, his Lazarean medical miracle of being dead for 2 days and coming back to life is unverifiable. Nobody on the record has ever come close, 60 minutes is considered internationally newsworthy.
CLAIM #27: THE USMC NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED BECAUSE OF INTERNET TROLL GUNNER65’S STATEMENTS WHILE TRYING TO SOLICIT SEX ONLINE FROM MR DIETRICH POSING AS AN ASIAN WOMAN
I think National Security may be more important to them right now. But…not my call to make. Semper fi!
I’m happy to talk to the Marines, Homeland Security, and FBI at any time. They know where to find me, they gave me the visa. For 21 years now of successful business trips to this country.
CLAIM #28: “STEVE OUTTRIM HIRED A HITMAN TO KILL ME”
That is seriously a direct quote, from near the end of his 2-hour long rant. I mean, what can I say to that? How did I advance so quickly from “see you in court” to hiring a hitman? Is it just because his team haven’t been served with papers yet, he’s grown paranoid a hitman is coming? He thinks his case for the truth is so strong that I’m afraid to go up against him in a courtroom, so I would have to turn to criminals to get justice?
And what, is this assassin I’m supposed to have hired slow? Can’t aim? LOL. WTF. BRB.
I don’t look for idiocy and incompetence in anyone I hire for anything – but sadly thanks to the Internet, I’m sometimes forced to deal with it. Which I try to do through private messages, and if that doesn’t work, maybe a blog post and the Trivium Method. Hitman to me is a video game or something out of the movies.
How does one prove they didn’t do something that never happened?
He does seem to be on a mission to stack up enemies like they’re rare Pokemons. Maybe he pissed off one of his rival gangs in the Tenderloin.
CLAIM #29: ALL HIS MEDICAL RECORDS BURNED TO THE GROUND WITH THE LETTERMAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
The Letterman Medical Center was carefully demolished in 2001. It did not burn to the ground. You can read about the building’s long history and watch photos of its demolition here.
Here is a MisterSF story about its demolition in 2001 by the Presidio Trust, long after the base closed.
Even in a City where you practically need a permit from the Planning Commission before picking a dandelion, no one’s weeping for Letterman Hospital (Letterman Army Medical Center). The demolition of the rather ugly, 10-story former military hospital in the Presidio was underway in the fall of 2001. The razing of the government building is the first move by the Presidio Trust which will significantly alter the landscape of the Presidio, a military installation in the shadow of the gateway to the Pacific for as long as Bay Area history has been recorded. When the Presidio was closed by the military in the 1990s, the U.S. Congress mandated that the land turn a profit by 2013 in order to remain in the public trust. The Letterman property is key to plans of the Trust, which was established to oversee the transformation from government installation to profitable national park. The razing of Letterman Hospital and adjoining Letterman Army Institute of Researchclears the way for construction of a 23-acre office and digital production campus for Industrial Light & Magic, THX Group, Lucas Arts Entertainment Co., Lucas Online, Lucas Learning, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Included in the campus project are a 1,500-car underground parking garage, 15 acres of open space, a cafe, and a public lawn with fountains, sculpture, and landscaping designed to complement the Palace of Fine Arts and San Francisco Bay. The Trust, under the leadership of Executive Director, former Air Force pilot James Meadows, wisely decided to dismantle the old Letterman facilities rather than implode them in order to avoid further galvanizing anti-development forces which would likely be energized by images of blasting in the Presidio. The $10 million demolition project will see the hospital taken apart piece by piece.
Although the article above uses the word “raze”, it also says “dismantle” and “taken apart piece by piece”. This is a photo of it being demolished. You can see at least two wrecking ball cranes…but I can’t see any fire damage.
It did catch fire in 1901, and after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 (just like 90%+ of the whole city). They rebuilt it when Mr Dietrich was an infant to be fire-resistant:
The joint venture architect-engineering firm of Stone, Marraccini and Patterson and Milton T. Pflueger prepared the plans and specifications for the new Letterman. Halverson and McLaughlin, under the supervision of the U.S. Army District Engineer, Sacramento, completed the construction in the fall of 1968 at a cost of $15.5 million. The 550-bed, fire resistant building contained ten stories and had 445,000 square feet of floor. A wide, three story base housed the clinical facilities. It was surmounted by a seven story tower that contained two nursing units on each level. Poured-in-place concrete piles supported the structure. Reinforced concrete formed the frame. The exterior walls consisted of precast concrete panels.
CLAIM #30: MOST VETERANS HAVE NO RECORDS AND ARE HOMELESS. YOU CAN TELL A REAL VET BECAUSE THEY’RE UNEMPLOYABLE AND HOMELESS
I’m sorry, but this is where I draw the line. What a disgraceful frikking remark. How dare this guy who never served in the military hate on America, call us enemies and cowards, and spout this bull about our tens of millions of proud Veterans – most of whom I would hire in a heartbeat before some kombucha drinking Silicon Valley millenial-Poké-Burner type. They have received the best training in the world, on some of the most advanced equipment in the world. And unlike many militaries, duty in ours is very often ACTIVE.
Let’s forget about debunking this douchebag and end this post by talking about something real.
The sad situation of Post Traumatic Stress (it’s better for the patients not to call it a disorder) and veteran homelessness is something we have learned about through working with Operation Dignity in Oakland. In between helping out Burning Man art projects at the last minute, spare a thought and maybe some food and change for people really in need, and those who are out there helping them.
In particular I want to highlight the needs of our female veterans. We are one of the first countries in the world to put women at the front lines, and many suffer PTS as a result. The best ways to treat emotional pain for women are not necessarily the same as for men, and the PTS and community re-integration issues are different. The VA has traditionally been set up to deal with men, and change is happening at a frustratingly slow place. It would be wonderful if Bay Area innovation such as MAPS work with MDMA , virtual reality, or other proven low-tech models like cannabis, animal and art therapy were more readily available to Veterans.
Here are some stats to consider, pulled from a recent presentation [huge kudos to the staff of Yahoo! who have been amazing partners to Operation Dignity]:
US Veterans: 22 million
Female Veterans: 2 million
Veterans who enlisted since 9/11: 18% Female
Veterans using VA Health Care: 7% Female
Women Sexually Abused In Service: 1 in 4
2013 Veterans treated in VA Hospitals:
Female: 390,000
Male: 5,300,000
VA Hospitals Without a Gynecologist: 1 in 4
Female Veterans Who Delayed/Went Without Medical Care: 1 in 5
Rural Clinics Without Designated Women’s Health Provider: 1 in 6
By 2043, the number of female veterans will increase by 16%,
By 2043, the number of male veterans will decrease by 40%
12% of adult homeless are Veterans
20% of male homeless are Veterans
8% of all homeless Veterans are female
200,000 Veterans are homeless in the US on any given night [this is breaking my heart to write]
500,000 Veterans are homeless at least one night per year
Half of all homeless Veterans suffer from mental illness
Two thirds suffer from alcohol or drug abuse problems
40% suffer from both psychiatric and substance abuse issues.
In many ways, female veterans face tougher challenges than their male counterparts, as they are more likely to be uninsured, unemployed, divorced, and suffer from post-traumatic stress symptoms – often the result of a sexual assault.
The good news is that there is shelter, a warm shower, clothing, a bed, and help available for every homeless person in the Bay Area, military or not. The less good news is they have to want it: they must agree to live by the rules of a sober facility. And that is one of the sad realities of the many people we see suffering on the streets. They need our help, compassion, and love.
Anyone needing assistance with these issues, please get in touch with Operation Dignity in the East Bay. Their VA funding requires them to give preferences to veterans if there is a shortage, but they provide wrap-around services and case managers to anyone in need, even if they never served in the military. They can help you straighten your life out and put you in a position of dignity, to get back up off your feet.
Operation Dignity was founded in 1993 by Alex McElree, a formerly homeless Vietnam veteran. He was declared the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf at a tribute concert for Martin Luther King at the Scottish Rite Center.
Every cent they get goes to help. Another wonderful crew in the Bay Area supporting the homeless is Marc Roth and the Learning Shelter.
I was invited on the Patriot Outlaws show last Saturday. They asked me about Mr Dietrich’s outrageous slander of me at the end of the interview – listen to it here.
Still no documentation produced in relation to any of the 30 claims listed above.
On last night’s show, Mr Dietrich and his Troll Gang continued their outrageous slander, calling me “faggot”, “terrorist”, “Satanist”, “Cthulhoid”, and all manner of other hateful names. Perhaps he does not understand that H P Lovecraft was a fiction writer: Cthulhu is not real, and I am not his high priest trying to bring Lovecraft horror into this earth. There is no such thing as Lovecraft horror, it is all made up. Meanwhile, his mental illness psychiatric injury is very real, as he keeps telling us on every show.
His accomplice Brandon Marshall Young revealed a number of very interesting details about his own background. CIA, OSS, military intelligence, Satanism Cthulhu, Jesuits, Opus Dei, mafia, Pokemons, the occult…in a similar vein to Mr Dietrich’s “bio-bomb”, the “Brandon Boston Bomb” has it all:
he is related to Arthur and Ruth Young. Arthur was a founder of Bell Helicopter. These two were both at “The Seance That Changed America”, doing CIA experiments with Dr Andrija Puharich. Their channeling of “The Nine Principles” is linked to Esalen, the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set. This is one of the highest level families in the STARGATE side of military intelligence that I described in Shadow History, Part 2 – which seemed to trigger the beginning of this gang’s attacks on me in May 2016.
his ex girlfriend was a Satanist. He had a baby with her. She moved to another town with the baby. The baby died mysteriously. She came back and he kept dating her for another two years. He never found out what happened to his child.
Young himself was recruited into a secret Psychic Spying program by the Jesuits when he was at kindergarten
his parents got married when they were both 16. It was an arranged marriage to unite the two sides of the mafia in Boston. His mother was from the Mazziano family, his father was the Boston mob.
his Uncle George Gordon O’Brien was a hitman for the Irish and Italian mob
his family “own” the Weston Police Department
his “second mother” was trained to be an intelligence agent, her father was in the OSS in Vichy France
his family are multi-generational occultists, Satanists, and Freemasons
he joined the Catholic Church and the Opus Dei sect from the Da Vinci code
his family are close to both the Bush and Kennedy families. He spent last summer at the Bush compound at Walker Point
his father was a doorman for 15 years and now drives a towncar
he was featured on CNN and C-Span when Bush Sr was President, Barbara Bush (Aleister Crowley’s daughter) came straight off Air Force One to kiss him.
These are the people who are accusing me of having ties to the military industrial complex, hitmen, and Satanism. As usual, the things the trolls accuse you of are actually what they themselves are guilty of – in this case, that even includes “promoting Burning Man”.
Young’s blood relation to the founders of Project STARGATE adds further credence to the theory I expressed in my Patriot Outlaws interview: that Lt Col Aquino may have been set up by a rival Satanic coven operating at the Presidio. He was a vocal critic of this program in his 2000 paper Project Star Gate: $20 Million Up In Smoke (And Mirrors)
It would be a mistake to assume that CIA, DIA, NSA, and military intelligence are one seamless unit. There are still rival factions, politics, budget battles, secret societies and hidden agendas. Knowing which faction Young and Dietrich represent gives us the context to understand their otherwise nonsensical behavior.
Sex-baiting Professor Darrell Hamamoto of UC Davis who “teaches mainly with YouTube videos” has also joined the Dietrich Troll gang. He’s the guy who said Burning Man is modeled on the Japanese concentration camps of World War II. He says that I am funded by “Room 355 of the Pentagon”. Meanwhile, this gentleman gets his own funding from the Rockefeller Research Lab, Fulbright Scholarship, and the porn business.
the CIA has controlled the Fulbright scholarship program since the 1950s, recruiting some of its best spies from the program. Senator Fulbright sat on the Intelligence Committee years ago. Today Fulbright Jaworsky is the biggest Democratically controlled law firm in Washington. [Source]
Funded? To do what – research Shadow History? That would be a cool job! Pentagon, if you’re reading, please call. You would need to pay very, very well. If you see me on Facebook on a yacht in the next month, and this site goes dark, you’ll know they called and I took the money! Otherwise, life goes on, and I continue to pay for this from my own pocket, and give it to everyone for free. No commercials, no donations.
Why would I need Defense Department funding to research Burning Man and Silicon Valley? What benefit is this funding supposedly obtaining for the Pentagon? Seems to me that their budget is really going towards these Troll Gangs trying to distort the truth and mislead the masses.
I wonder which kooks on the Internet will be attacking us next?
Jan Irvin from Gnostic Media responded to Mr Hamamoto and Mr Dietrich’s slander with a great episode of Unspun that looks at WHY many of the voices on the Internet are peddling disinformation in the guise of truth:
The Dietrich troll gang have expanded their attacks to include a former US Marine name Richard K Cole, aka “Gunner”. He posted some comments on YouTube linking to this post under the name “MrGunner65”. For this, he has now been slandered multiple times on Mr Dietrich’s show, accused of offensive and outrageous things. Dietrich said that he was “Randy Allen Cramer, who thinks he travels to Mars” as well as accusing him of trying to solicit sex from Dietrich online disguised as an asian girl. He claims I have hired Mr Cole as a hitman to asssassinate him, and has repeatedly encouraged his audience to contact the Marine Corps, the FBI, and the Australian and New Zealand Embassies to warn them of this hitman on the loose on the East Coast, looking for Mr Dietrich who lives in Russian Hill, San Francisco (median house price $2.4 million).
Needless to say, both myself and Mr Cole deny and disavow this claim. Mr Dietrich has still not produced any proof of it, or any of the other claims – though he did say that my Ancestry.com research into Marlene Dietrich that proved he was not related to her “was false, because anyone can see the resemblance”. You be the judge:
Marlene Dietrich, 1940’s.
Image: wnd.com
On their August 16 show, Dietrich and his accomplice Brandon Young said that Mr Cole was fraudulently misrepresenting his service in the Marines, and demanded he produce proof of his service. He has sent physical copies of the proof to me.
Here is his statement for the record:
I am submitting these copies of original U.S. military issued documents to substantiate my claims as being an 0351/8151 U.S. Marine
Copy of DD-214 Release from Active Duty
Copy of Certificate of Honorable Discharge
Copy of Certificate of Infantry Training 0351
Copy of Certificate of Jungle Training
Mr Cole was interviewed about his own research into Mr Dietrich’s past on Patriot Outaws last Saturday.
The onus of proof is now on Mr Dietrich to produce his own DD-214 discharge document (let alone any documentation for any of the 30 claims being questioned here). He claims that the NA-13164 form we showed a segment of above was obtained in violation of Federal law (despite the clear statement “Information Releasable Under the Freedom of Information Act” on top of the government document). He also claims that it is his DD-214 form, and “either incorrect on the dates or a forgery”. It is again Mr Dietrich who is incorrect: a DD-214 form is different from a NA-13164. One is from the Defense Department (DD-), one is from the National Archives (NA-). Given his Entry Level Separation on 1/11/88, he would not have received a DD-214, so it is not surprising he is unfamiliar with this form.
He has also claimed that his Dishonorable Discharge has been certified by two Federal Judges. I cannot find these cases in PACER. Unless Mr Dietrich can provide the judges’ names, dates, court locations, and case numbers, we must assume these documents do not exist either.
The onslaught of material defamation continues. According to Mr Dietrich, I am stalking him with a gang, and can never miss a moment of his show (this week, about Big Foots).
Every time this happens, I receive multiple messages from our fans alerting me to the latest outrageous claims. His campaign to promote this story now appears to be inspiring others to do their own investigations. Some new evidence has been presented on a thisainthell.us story, Duane Dietrich Phony Desert Storm Marine (if you’re not a Dietrich fan, you will enjoy the comments at this site).
According to Mr Dietrich, the National Archives made an error with his dates of service, with his Entry Level Separation in 1988. If that were true, then the DoD Human Resources department record would confirm his dates. Instead, it confirms no service. Perhaps they made an error too, and the lack of documentation for all his other claims is just a string of coincidences.
Either that or he’s lying.
This person and his gang of accomplices have a unique definition of “being victims of gang stalking”. There’s a gang of them, they mention me on every show, they block me from Facebook and disable comments on their YouTube slander. So I’m the stalker? And this gang continually harassing me are the victims?
I smell a set up – this crazy Satanist, probably the most disposable member of the coven we’re exposing, gets ordered to go on air and say “Steve Outtrim hired someone to kill me”...well, what if suddenly this guy disappears? Would there be any other suspects? For the record, I don’t even know who this person is, I have never met them, but I have never wished them any harm.
Meanwhile, if he gets a virus on his computer, he accuses me of hacking Facebook
You will note from his own comment to Facebook that he actually did find Malware on his computer when he scanned for it. What the information was that I was supposedly trying to hide from the world by hacking Facebook to tell him (correctly) that he had a virus…is unclear.
Mr Dietrich is no longer revealing much (or anything) in the way of history or independent research to his audience. Instead, he obsessively continues with his ludicrous claims that I hired a hitman in New York to assassinate him in SF, who is an astronaut from Mars. In the latest version of this “fairy” tale, my handler is a British guy in his 30’s who liked me on LinkedIn, who is my gay lover despite his young child and my recent marriage. He was recruited by Michael Aquino 33 years ago when Aquino was seconded to NATO in Germany. I was 10 at the time, and living in New Zealand. In this plan, the US Department of Defense decided the best way to deal with my 10 year old self was to send a HUMINT specialist to Germany to recruit a younger child in England that would later grow up, meet me in the US, seduce me from overseas, and become my handler; then both he and his boss from a different country’s military would send me out to gang-stalk Douglas Dietrich and his accomplices. Lt Col Aquino and myself have both been retired for more than a decade, but I guess Dietrich’s information about zombies and Japan defeating us in World War 2 is just too important to National Security, and there were no active personnel available for the mission. So they had to bring us out of retirement, activate this long-dormant sleeper cell and give me $70 million.
If this was a novel, nobody would buy it. The budget seems astronomical for an assassin that can’t aim.
So what else is new?
He claims the Marine Corps brought 35,000 dogs into operation DESERT STORM because they look like demons to Muslims.
The reality is there were 118 war dog teams used in DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM by the USMC. For Mr Dietrich’s claim of 35,000 to be true, there would have to be about 300 dogs in each team. Think about that logistically, going into battle with a pack of 300 dogs per solider. Nothing like that has ever been seen in the history of warfare. Even 10 dogs per solider would be ridiculous. Ever seen how two dogs can get their leashes tangled?
In fact the “devil dogs” have one handler if they are a scout, and two if they are in demolitions. At its height the entire Marine Corps had 650 explosives dogs and there are about 2500 dogs in service across all branches and theaters of the US military.
Mr Dietrich also claims that Troll Gang member Daniel Arola, aka Taboo Bros, is a martial arts specialist. If true, then this character shows no honor to his training. A thug is not a master. He was interested in the takedown techniques used by Dietrich to murder 2 members of the heavily armed Saudi religious police while on leave in Saudi Arabia with this troop, in the weeks between Bush declaring war on Iraq and the Marines arriving there. The Saudis were shooting the schoolgirls with fully automatic submachine guns, when Dietrich choked one and beat another to death…at least, that’s how he describes it:
they all carry fully automatic weapons
they began machine gunning the girls for exiting the dormitory without first donning their veils
I ran up
this is not the movies people
when you kill somebody you do not snap their necks…that’s for the films…
I grabbed the first one by the throat
I smashed his head against my knee
And then I pulled him to the ground
I kept smashing his head against the ground
I grabbed his machine gun and I slammed it against his adams apple and crushed his larynx on his throat,
I took the same machine gun and I clubbed the other police officer to death
So when I said I killed them with my bare hands, its not technically with my bare hands
But I killed them both, so I was sentenced to a beheading and the marine corps couldn’t afford the scandal of a diplomat in uniform who was scheduled to do embassy guard duty, at least that was my impression,
….I don’t know what’s in the paperwork , if any exists at all at this point
They pulled me out of the Saudi prison system
they said that I would be punished
I was I was stripped down by a rank immediately
They told the House of Saud I would be dishonorably discharged,
Which I eventually was after operation Desert Storm…in a kangaroo court.
Grabbing someone by the throat to smash their head against your knee sounds like a strange maneuver. What martial art was this? Perhaps he has big hands for a 5’7 guy. I guess murder victim 2 (and the rest of their squad) sat by, unable to operate their whips or the machineguns they’d just been shooting children with, watching Dietrich beat and strangle their colleague to death while waiting patiently for their turn to be next.
It should be clear to anyone who has read this far that this person is a fantasist, not an historian. But take a look at what they fantasize about. Every show is talking about murder, rape, torture. He murdered these two cops, he murdered his uncle when he was an 18 month old baby, he was in a taxi accident where the driver was killed but only he survived. He ripped the testicles off his drill instructor during the boot camp he didn’t complete, in a different year from what the documents say. He did a few days in the brig for that but got a mere Dishonorable Discharge for a double murder that was not in self defense.
His fantasies sound kinda harmful and violent.
Look at the people signing on with this, the accomplices. What’s in it for them? Why would anyone in their right mind lend their name to this drivel, and support this murderer?
If they are doing it for orders and/or money, it makes a little bit of sense. Otherwise, it’s simply nonsense-cia-cool.
[Update 10/20/16]
In the course of my research I found this 2013 Michael Aquino comment at Above Top Secret, responding to a claim that Douglas Dietrich’s accounts are “corroborated by official records”. Point #6 is particularly interesting.
Michael Aquino makes the same reasonable request as us: let’s see proof of any of these records. Why hasn’t Douglas Dietrich produced these documents since 2013? Perhaps because the documents we found after using professional military researchers and FOIA requests prove his 4 different resumés to be erroneous.
The same research methods yielded military records of all these types for Michael Aquino, Jim Channon, Oliver North, and many others. Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, Navy, ROTC. Lt Col Michael Aquino was literally Above TOP SECRET. Surely Dr Aquino’s un-ranked assistant librarian would not have a more secret clearance than his boss? Indeed, Mr Dietrich’s records are so secret that they are completely invisible…except for his Entry Level Separation in 1988, of course.
Douglas Dietrich’s October 18 show once again featured his accomplice, the Fulbright-funded professor-cum-porn producer Darrell Hamamoto. I can’t post the show because of some bizarre problem where a homeless lady called My Stick Warrior from the Dietrich Troll Gang who used to live in Colorado drove her SUV to San Francisco and parked it in the Mission (uh-oh) while going to the library for 45 minutes to upload Douglas Dietrich’s videos. The SUV which was her home was stolen, leaving her “literally on the streets” (I guess she couldn’t crash at Doug’s pad). Then she got it back, but it was stolen again, so now she can’t upload Douglas’s shows to YouTube from the library. Which is strange, because the thieves who stole her SUV could not have stolen her library card at the same time. Of course, all these events were part of my mastermind plot, because I subscribed to her YouTube channel.
You couldn’t make this stuff up! Although it looks like Douglas can. A more likely story is that YouTube reviewed his slanderous, racist bullying and pulled his hate speech off their platform. You can’t use the “n—-r” and “f—-t” words in modern society. In this latest show he called a woman who had criticized him a “c–t” .
Darrell Hamamoto and his troll partner Douglas Dietrich spend almost the entirety of their two hour show disparaging me with lies, while continuing to accuse me of gang-stalking. Who is ganging up on whom?
Professor Hamamoto chimes in occasionally, if he can interrupt Douglas Dietrich’s stream-of-semi-consciousness ranting, to argue with Doug over such hot topics as the merits of different holocaust revisionists. Some guy called Soilman (another racial slur?) lost his Facebook account for having a fake name, which even though it is Facebook policy they blame as some kind of hacker intelligence Pentagon plot by me.
Darrell Hamamoto at one point gave a 5 minute diatribe on why nobody should listen to me because I have a New Zealand accent, so like Sir William Stephenson (agent Intrepid, the model for James Bond) I am part of an attempt by British Intelligence to take over the US. This is the level of in-depth analysis and college-grade sophistry that Rockefeller and CIA foundation funding gets you these days.
Professor Darrell Hamamoto really needs to listen to Mr Dietrich’s show more. Foreign-born Dietrich HATES America and bashes Americans in almost every episode, including this one. He is a US citizen who doesn’t know how to vote.
Douglas Dietrich claims that I accused Darrell Hamamoto of “sex-baiting” and “teaching mainly with YouTube videos”. In fact, if you click the links, you will see that I am just summarizing their contents: mainstream media publication Salon described his sex-baiting in 2003, and students from his recent classes at U.C. Davis describe his teaching style from 2015 back to 2011. The quote is from the very first review, which rated Professor Hamamoto 1 out of a possible 5.
STAY AWAY. Taking this class was a mistake but I needed it for GE credit. Class does not discuss Asian American sexuality and loves to talk about conspiracy theories. Teaches mainly using YouTube videos. Good class if you don’t like feminists/the government/UC Davis/political correctness. Will shoot you down if you don’t agree
[Source: ratemyprofessors.com]
The claim that Darrell Hamamoto is a financier in the porn business was made by himself to the L.A. Times in 2004. Professor Hamamoto is proud to have recruited a student out of U.C. Berkeley and into the pornography world, and did not deny teaching with YouTube, saying “you’ve gotta go where the eyeballs are“.
On the October 18 2016 show Douglas Dietrich claimed responsibility for another murder, a woman that he shot and killed after first inviting her to shoot him. Her shot really hurt his ribs so he killed her. He also said he was being held responsible for the death of “super soldier” Max Spiers and accused of murdering Miles Johnson (whoever that is, they appear to be alive). Adding that to the taxi driver killed in a car crash with him, the uncle that molested him, and 2 armed Saudi religious police, that is 4 murders he has personally committed, one he has been accused of, and 2 sudden deaths right next to him. Plus the brutal mauling of a Marine Corps combat instructor, when Douglas Dietrich punched below the belt and ripped off his testicles. He only lives at night, only sleeps with people he pays, and death follows him everywhere he goes…
At this point, nobody with any credibility is thinking this guy is for real, but I guess to some, that is his appeal.
I guess he’s into it. Source: Facebook
Professor Darrell Hamamoto claims that I cast a magic spell over murderer Douglas Dietrich, but he too has magic and talismans – yes, this is what passes for a tertiary education at UC Davis! I’ve heard of Voodoo Economics, I guess this is Voodoo Asian Studies. Sex sells, so sex spells. He performed an on-air exorcism on Dietrich to break this spell, saying “begone, Demon”! Let them pray to their chosen Lord of Darkness and The Flesh. I am praying to the God of Universal Love that this will be the end of this nonsense with Douglas Dietrich and Darrell Hamamoto. Between all of us praying to all of the gods, maybe we can get this insane posse of clowns to stop their ridiculous rants.
Why is that Douglas Dietrich can confess to murders on air, but the police never investigate? Is it to do with accomplice Brandon Young’s statement that his occultist family “owns” the police department?
Further spinning his web of deceit, Douglas Dietrich makes the claim that YouTube and LinkedIn existed in 1995, back when I started a company at 22 to make it easy for people to create Web pages. Before I wrote HotDog it was hard to even put an image on a web page, let alone streaming video. There was video technology from RealNetworks (Rob Glaser) and Broadcast.com (Mark Cuban), but nothing like YouTube. This is historical revisionism once more.
Like most of this gentleman’s statements, a couple of seconds on Google is all it takes to prove his fraud:
Mr Dietrich also told his audience that I am not educated like himself. I’m not sure anybody is! See his “bio bomb” for the many stories about what he was doing when he was 16.
When I was 16 I attended Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and graduated 3 years later with a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration. Their Vice Chancellor requested a meeting with me on his recent visit to San Francisco.
I had to provide the US Government with details of my education for my visa:
Mr Dietrich also claimed that I am not Australian. It shows he does not even do the most basic level of research on what he talks about on air; my nationality is no secret, you can read about it at my Wikipedia page or on LinkedIn. I became an Australian citizen in 1996, and was a state finalist for Young Australian of the Year.
C’mon, Douglas! You challenged my education and nationality, you challenged Richard Cole to produce documents proving his military service. We’ve responded with proof. Now where is yours?
Sadly, Professor Darrell Hamamoto’s exorcism of the “demon Steve Outtrim’s magic spell” from renegade historian Douglas Duane Dietrich failed like America’s nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Demon is still on air and possessed. And without documents. Here’s a brief summary of what he said on tonight’s show:
His transsexual escort adopted “son” (pardon me if that’s not the right term) gave lifelong bachelor Douglas Dietrich a couple of prostitutes for a 50th birthday present.
“happy birthday, daddy! Thanks for using my services so many times for years that I could save up to get a sex change” . Image: Facebook
Defense Department ABOVE TOP SECRET Librarian and Marine Corps convicted murderer Douglas Dietrich has had a falling out with UC Davis Professor Darrell Hamamoto since my update to this post 2 days ago. Beefs spring up quick, in this particular shadowy corner of the Internet. Perhaps the way Jan Irvin responded to Darrell Hamamoto’s baseless accusations by outing Trineday and other publishers as nests of CIA-sponsored authors – coincidentally, all very vocal public critics of Jan personally (but never presenting evidence challenging his work) – has led to a hasty re-think of their recent battle plan.
Apparently Professor Hamamoto has been suspended without pay from UC Davis. His current University web site talks about white supremacy, and in the last update I linked to reviews of his classes by multiple students from the last 5 years…so this could be Yet Another Dietrichism. If true, then it must be very recent, so it is probably related to Darrell Hamamoto’s frequent appearances on the Douglas Dietrich show. He went on Alex Jones and Jan Irvin’s shows and seemed to do just fine.
He got his education in Long Beach, home of Snoop Dogg…who also made pornos. That explains the Pimp Cup on his University profile page…but what about the “gerbil derby”? Sounds like animal cruelty, or a bizarre fetish. Hey, not saying that a porn producer with a pimp cup who likes gerbils would be into fetishes or kink, or anything…that’s cray-cray.
I don’t know what you heard about me…
Future guests with careers on tenterhooks who are considering going on the Douglas Dietrich hate speech troll show, I suggest you read this post in its entirety first. Think for yourself, and question Douglas. Click the links here for references and documents, Google any of the claims he makes, then Google any of the claims I make.
Other trolls, best be on yo’ game if you gotsta run wit da big dogs!
On his most recent show Douglas Dietrich said “people who think the United States won World War 2 are the same as people who think the earth is flat”.
I am so sorry to be the bearer of bad news to people like Douglas Duane Dietrich who hate the United States of America, but this statement is false. Red Ice TV had a fascinating episode last weekend about the Back To The Future timelines, but I don’t think there are too many others sharing the Douglas Dietrich parallel. Even Flat Earthers understand that the team with the occupying bases 70 years later is the team that won the war, and the team that paid billions in reparations and had all their cities destroyed is the one that lost.
Perhaps even Darrell Hamamoto understands that now. Although he does think Burning Man is a Social Science Laboratory – and he is a Professor of Social Sciences at one of the closest Universities to Burning Man, He calls it the modern version of Japanese Internment camps. Sorry prof, I’ve been to Angel Island many times, there’s no Orgy Dome. Bliss Dance was on Treasure Island…but now it’s at the MGM in Vegas.
Bliss Dance, by Marco Cochrane
Artist Marco Cochrane…legend. Art that respects and celebrates the amazing power of women, instead of demeaning them as sex objects for a few dollars
Douglas Dietrich says that “his entire life is a Truman Show” and “this is a golden opportunity to explain to people the workings of psyops”. Not really, this is a pretty lame attempt at it from a crew of buffoons.
Taboo Bros aka Daniel Arola. Dude, mind control much? Image: Facebook
One of Little Dougie’s comments about me was that I have displayed a “monumental ignorance of the psyops field” , and at the same time everything I do is based on the instructions I was given by my psyop specialist handlers. What a paradox!
In my opinion it’s too early for anyone in the audience to tell, I haven’t yet finished my series Silicon Valley’s Secret Weapon: The Shadow History of Burners. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a case until you’ve heard all the evidence. As is his signature style, Douglas Dietrich has jumped to a conclusion of his own invention that is not supported by facts, evidence, or anybody else outside his Troll Gang. I don’t think the people reading this would be surprised to learn that! But it was surprising to me to learn that this post still gets dozens of views per day, and is perhaps my only old post that is growing in daily views. That may be because as Mr Dietrich claimed in this last show “a lot of homosexual prostitutes are talking about Douglas Dietrich”. They were saying “Douglas Dietrich is going to be fryed“ – that meant “they were going to send a Japanese American patriarch against him” and “this is why you cannot trust so many Asian-Pacific Islander Americans”.
Here’s some near-real-time commentary from Douglas’ chat room and official Facebook page. He keeps referring to all the stuff he’s saying about me on his personal Facebook page, but since I am blocked from that I can’t comment on it. Generally it seems he is not scoring too well on user engagement, despite all the homosexual prostitute hackers on his Troll Team. One of the Canadian intelligence agents that Professor Darrell Hamamoto talked about as invading the US is still supporting Douglas Dietrich, despite this latest controversy over his academic credentials and integrity. Of course, “Zoraah Juin Fu Mock” may not be a real person. They seem to have the same unique manner of expression as Doug.
Darrell Hamamoto’s disdain for bloggers and YouTubers is at odds with his public Facebook page, where he boasts about being a “YouTube Celebrity” and that his major academic contribution is “New World Order Theory”. Which makes sense given who has funded his past academic work. I guess if you are an academic and people recognize you walking down the street from your YouTube work, you become a “recognized academic authority”. What, exactly is his theory on the New World Order? That there is one? How ground-breaking.
Luckily, we have a large and rapidly growing fan base compared to these clowns. Their mission of disinformation is fizzling out before it gets very far.
One of our fans sent these from Douglas Dietrich’s personal (blocked to me) Facebook account. They contain threats from one of Douglas Dietrich’s henchmen, Daniel Arola:
Douglas Dietrich is now using his lies to interfere with my relationship with Facebook. He claims that his failure to connect on Facebook is actually because he refused my sexual advances in 2012.
Homophobia and lies once more.
For the sake of argument, let’s entertain the possibility that an Australian citizen who lives in the US on a work visa was really a Department of Defense former child spy being handled by a British Army Major on behalf of a retired CIA colonel who was really a Scottish Baron…and that this elaborate operation was necessary to challenge the claims of Douglas Dietrich that he burned the maps of the Presidio bunkers. Even then, The Powers That Be don’t approve of the “n—-r” and “f—-t” and “c–t” words, or his constant homophobia and anti-Americanism. YouTube and Facebook are able to fact-check, and they know hate speech when they see it. This is 2016, not 1956.
Douglas Dietrich’s producer accomplice Laura Lee Solomon says that Professor Darrell Hamamoto was “whiny about not being in the spotlight the whole time”, and “petulant” because of planetary positions. She wouldn’t describe Douglas as petulant and whiny? Does she listen to the show? Let’s hope that Darrell Hamamoto becomes the “new Steve Outtrim” in future episodes of Douglas Dietrich’s nocturnal emissions.
Crossing swords again
The producer’s comment proves the story that Douglas Dietrich fired Darrell Hamamoto over their holocaust revisionism debate to be false. Professor Hamamoto quit.
What’s the 1st Law of Holes?
I just got back from a charity fundraiser for John Perry Barlow, author of The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. Click here to donate to his health and recovery fund.
In the Uber on the way over I was able to catch some of Douglas Dietrich’s appearance tonight on Project Camelot with Kerry Cassidy. A very “alien-friendly” show (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
photo by Trey Ratcliff
Many of the topics already covered in this post were discussed, with details varying again in Douglas Dietrich’s account of his own exploits.
Dietrich Troll Gang accomplice Brandon Young had a few words to say to me in the chat room. I shared a link to this post under my own name since chat room seems to be this gang’s preferred method of communication…but my comment didn’t show up in the YouTube chat feed at all. I was obviously pre-blocked. I was able to slip through their censorship with another account; who knows where this chat stream is now. Other audience members were Googling Douglas Dietrich’s claims for themselves, and quickly proving them to be wrong. For example he claimed that Hillary Clinton and assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were room-mates in college. Hillary Clinton was born 6 years earlier and went to Wellesley College to the west of Boston in Norfolk County from 1965-1969 and then Yale in Connecticut; she was not accepted into a sorority, and instead became a Rockefeller Republican. Bhutto went to Harvard’s Radcliffe College in Middlesex County from 1969-1973 and then Oxford. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest fraternity in the U.S.
Both of these details are right at the top of their Wikipedia pages, but facts are just a nuisance to the Douglas Dietrich research methodology.
Even if they could have met each other in 1969, how many 22-year old college girls are hanging out with 16 year olds – in the Sixties?
In fact, Hillary Clinton in her autobiography specifically said “Bhutto was the only celebrity I had ever stood behind a rope line to see” (when she met her in 1989). Who lines up with the crowd to reconnect with their college room-mate? Later, in her official statement after Bhutto’s death, she said “I came to know Mrs. Bhutto over many years, during her tenures as Prime Minister and during her years in exile.”
Benazir Bhutto getting to know Hillary and Chelsea Clinton in Pakistan in 1996
More shows, more lies, more debunking required. It’s good to know the audience are waking up too. This woman could use some better lighting and makeup. Is she wearing a hospital gown?
He really wanted to clarify that his dad was mafia and a Satanist. [Update: then he really wanted to clarify that his Dad was NOT mafia or a Satanist, but other family members were mafia and Wicca]. Brandon Young insists that he himself is a Satanist occultist, and his grandfather was OSS during World War II…in Vichy France, the Nazi collaborators who welcomed Hitler with open arms in lieu of fighting. Both of my grandfathers fought against the Nazis in World War II in France and Germany, so forgive me if Nazi sympathizer Satanists occultists don’t impress me. The actual gangsters I have met in life don’t go around tweeting about it, even if their dad was a low-level hotel chain employee. We all know what doormen do, just like we know what limo drivers do and what escorts do and what Satanists black magick occultists do. Perhaps Brando’s Dad Kenny got special tips for his service to CIA director and Knight of Malta George Bush Sr, and other high level spooks and occultists.
Image: Twitter
What I have been able to verify so far has not confirmed any of Brandon Young’s story that his father is a mafia kingpin. He was a doorman for many years and now drives a towncar. Perhaps Brando’s “PM” will clear things up for all of us. He demanded on air that Richard Cole produce proof of his military service, which he has. It’s time for Brandon Young to produce some documents of his own, if he wants to be considered with any credibility in cyberspace.
Brandon Young is was a fan of Bertrand Russell, from the Dukes of Bedford Russells who started Skull and Bones at Yale and the Tavistock Institute in the UK. They built their mind control systems on top of technology obtained from the Indian drug/slave trade over centuries. Then they came up with this “obey the United Nations or it’s nuclear annihilation” global control model that we are still threatened with today.
Brandon Young says he’s no longer a Bertrand Russell fan, but still a Satanist occultist, and a Catholic too. It’s hard to keep up, but it sure sounds like he’s on the side of evil and the Devil to me. Perhaps I’m wrong, and he can comment here pointing to something good he’s done.
He certainly seems like another spooky guy with intelligence, Defense Department, and occultist ties, who somehow wound up on the Internet in the gang of ex-military, ex-Department of Defense, ex-CIA occult librarian Douglas Dietrich. CIA being the acronym for some Oakland night stick company.
Brando said he was going to “PM” me but I didn’t receive any private message in about 5 hours. How long does it take this guy to write a message? Does he have to philosophize it first? Maybe the psyop team has to meet and brainstorm it in the morning. Or perhaps this Satanist occultist OSS Opus Dei Illuminati Mafioso Philosopher meant “post mortem”, as yet another threat of violence from this gang.
Get thee behind me, Satan. You’ll love the smell back there.
CLAIM # 31 Douglas Dietrich Wrote “The Neutron Bomb” for Michael Aquino
In the Tuesday October 25 2016 show, Douglas Dietrich said he wrote Michael Aquino’s paper “The Neutron Bomb” for him. An interesting theory, given Dougie’s unique and instantly recognizable writing style.
The Neutron Bomb was Dr Aquino’s PhD dissertation at UC Santa Barbara. He published it in 1980 and updated it in 1982. In 1980 Little Dougie was a 14 year old Tenderloin street kid getting a nanoblood transfusion. According to Douglas Dietrich’s own resumé, he did not start working at the Presidio until either 1983 or 1984.
Source: xeper.org, MIchael Aquino curriculum vitae
That’s one hell of a bus ride! There weren’t any closer post-graduate students in need of a 14 year old assistant?
Now Dietrich accomplice Brandon Young is demanding money: $500,000. At the same time he demands that I act like a gentleman, and denies statements he made about himself on Douglas Dietrich’s show. He says his Dad is not mafia but his uncle was – Gordon, I called him George. His fiancé not his girlfriend was Wicca not a Satanist; his family are multi-generational Freemasons not Satanists.
I have made the amendments and corrections he requested, a gentleman lives by his word and his deeds.
I never called the Ritz Carlton a low level hotel – although it’s hardly the St Regis. A doorman is definitely a low-level employee in a large international hotel chain like that. Is Brandon admitting here that his Dad is actually a Lifetime Actor, more than just a doorman…and the “friends and advisors” behind him are pulling the strings of these puppets?
He does seem to be admitting that Douglas Dietrich is not a good guy. Hmmm, ya think?
As a show of good faith, I have modified this story to make all the corrections and updates Brandon requested. It is amusing that he thinks calling him a Satanist is defamation, since he is a regular on a show accusing me of being one. Brandon has never met me and obviously knows nothing about me. Anybody can watch this video or this one if they think I am a Satanist.
Brandon, I’ll make you a deal – here, in public, I am not interested in private meetings or conversations with you trolls. Look at what happened to others who went for coffee.
Here’s the deal: you and your accomplice Douglas Dietrich stop involving me in any more of your shows, and I will stop debunking your lies by updating this post. Presumably that is what you mean by “stalking”.
There is a gang of you and you slander me in public for hours on a radio show twice a week. I have been accused of hiring a hitman, being a Satanist, not being an Australian, planning a fake suicide plot, using prostitutes, working for the Defense Department and Michael Aquino – almost all of these are things that Douglas Dietrich admits to in his own resume! And none of them are true. You said your uncle was a hitman, it turns out he’s the guy who ran all the heroin into Martha’s vineyard too. I have the recordings of everything you’ve said about me and your family on Douglas Dietrich’s shows. You want to meet me in court and get a judge to work out who owes whom here? I will play 6 months of tapes and you will either produce evidence to prove that your claims were true and mine are false, or pay me and my lawyers.
That’s probably why Douglas invited Brandon Young and Darrell Hamamoto on the show, to be his patsy. The patsy’s patsy, Douglas slanders me and they pay…while he basks in the attention like a sociopath. Follow the money, Douglas doesn’t have any…but somebody’s paying for his hooker habits.
By disputing his own statements, Brandon forces me to find the audio to prove what they said. That might take a while, and I’m busy right now. Here’s the page of the book Brando’s talking about, which I bought but didn’t think worth mentioning in this post about Douglas Dietrich. He is page 280 of 300, it’s not in alphabetical order and it has indexes. It doesn’t confirm any of Brandon’s stories in any way. People from my family were in books, so what? It’s not exactly Harry Potter…
Source: Boston Irish by Brett and Beggy
Here are some links to learn more about Arthur Young, Andrija Puharich from the Army Chemical Warfare Center and projects MKOFTEN and STARGATE.
In the October 29 2016 show, Douglas Dietrich said that I posted on the Burners.Me Facebook page that the recent CERN mock sacrifice ritual was a real sacrifice. Here’s the actual post, which catches Douglas Dietrich in a lie yet again. I also wrote about it at Tech Conspiracy.
[Update 11/2/16]
I have publicly demonstrated my behavior as a gentleman as a show of good faith in updating my account of Brandon Young’s statements. His response? Going on Douglas Dietrich’s November 1 2016 show to claim that he is now pursuing me criminally. What the crime is, was of course never stated; something about “being an immigrant”.
Quick summary of the “episode” [seems like the appopriate word]: Douglas Dietrich now claims that Darrell Hamamoto is the latest agent on the payroll of Michael Aquino, which is why he came on Douglas Dietrich’s show begging for money. YMMV. It’s amusing to hear a homeless guy give an economics lecture to Trump and Clinton. Quote of the episode: Douglas Dietrich “I’m Catniss with a sex change”
Brandon Young seems to be distancing himself from his own chat room comments, reproduced above; as well as his own messages to me, see above and below; not to mention his own statements about himself and his family on Douglas Dietrich’s show. In his messages to me on Twitter he seems to also be distancing himself from Mr Dietrich.
The chatroom comments were during a recent Project Camelot show where Douglas Dietrich was lying about Hillary Clinton and Benazir Bhutto being college roommates.
Brandon and Douglas both warned that “screenshots may be photoshopped”. The next thing will be “the Revolution Radio archives may be doctored, and anyone can create fake statements by splicing together words from other shows”. For the record, there are no doctored images here. We are trying to get to the truth, against a gang of proven liars. That’s why my comment in the chat was “people should Google what he’s saying for themselves”. Only liars would find a statement like that threatening.
Brandon Young had asked me if I would go on Patriot Outlaws or Unspun to discuss Douglas Dietrich with him, to which I initially agreed; but Mr Young has now demonstrated his true nature by his actions. He did not choose to respond to polite gentlemanly behavior with the same – which is really no surprise from a dark occultist. I see little point in further promoting this troll, who has no audience of his own. Ken Cole has suggested that I go on the Project Camelot show, which I am open to. Perhaps we can find better things to discuss there than just America’s Top America-Hating Liar Douglas Dietrich.
Brandon Young claimed that I edited his Twitter photo to take the Templar cross out:
“Templar training at 3 because He Man has a Maltese Cross on his chest. But you cropped that out of the picture”
As you can see, I did no such thing. It turns out he twice tweeted this toddler shot. Can you see a Maltese Cross on He-Man’s chest?
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104 comments on “Debunking Douglas Dietrich”
Frater Lucath
Dietrich is seriously sad. Thanks for such a thorough debunking! Though, it’s doubtful than any of his “fans” would believe such overwhelming evidence–sad as that claim is… DD is so full of crap it should be obvious to just about anyone, but yet there he is claimed over and over as some kind of reliable source. I actively reality tunnel and give people the benefit of the doubt over and over, but every time I listen to him, he pushes the limits of my credulity with just about every sentence he says. I would trust him a little more if he could back up any of his claims with evidence, but he cannot because he’s a liar. It’s sad how he smears people who he’s just making up things about.
Christopher J. Mckinley
Mr. Dietrich dislocated the testicles of a USMC MMA instructor, yeah okay.
rkcolejr
in 1987? When Dietrich was all of 125 pounds and 21 years old! Dietrich claims he received an Article 15, NJP and was imprisoned in the brig. Then released and promoted to E-3 prior to graduating basic training!!
The truth is that for some reason during 3rd phase he was sent to a recruit separation platoon (RSP) to be processed out of the USMC. His discharge was an Entry Level Separation (ELS) and was first recommended by his platoon Senior Drill Instructor and then issued by his Recruit Series commander.
An ELS is not a discharge involving any criminal charges. It is simply a decision made by officers that the recruit is determined UNFIT to serve. And releases the person without any record because they have NONE! No DD214 and no benefets because they have not served 180 days or more!
The term used in those days was “Close Combat Instructor” “CCI”
sweetisinhaa (@sweetisinhaa)
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StephenCharles Arthur
03-09-19 Recent more entries here: https://dialoguewithdoug.blogspot.com/ “Hubris” is as apt a name I always thought it was in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVbUMx8_IQ
StephenCharles Arthur same account as spiralcosmosart with the weird Google account splice thing!
spiralcosmosart
https://dialoguewithdoug.blogspot.com/2019/03/more-on-kind-of-asian-spirituality-that.html The kind of revolutionary meritocracy that Genghis Khan and united confederacy of Mongol tribes Uniting disparaged divine Masculinity in harmony with Divine Femininity in Equilibrium worldwide is being revised and revived universally. Hopefully it will destroy and liberate the oppressed Chinese and Tibetan people from both the kind of twisted tyrannical Imperialism & Communism and fraud imbalanced culture Hubris Tweaktwitch fantasizes about escalating in his gay transvestite gaslighting doublespeak agenda. And it was that meritocracy that once destroyed the decadent Sodom & Gomorrah corrupt civilizations of & China and Persia and other adversaries all around them. May that continue. This power is pure and undefeatable and has balls the vile hot winded icharus high riding hot air balloon little spineless punks like Hubris Tweaktwitch & their followers riding on SJW libtard fear porn only wish they had.
If lions come, we’ll fight until the end
If tigers come, we’ll fight and battle
If elephants come, we’ll fight in rage
If humans come, we’ll fight and obliterate
We, If lions come, we’ll fight until the end
If you come as snakes,
We’ll become Garuda birds and fly over you
If you come as tigers,
We’ll face you as Lions with blue mane
If you with come evil intentions, we’ll give you a fight!
Ten of us will strike you as thunder
Hundred of us will shatter your hearts
Thousand of us will destroy and obliterate
Ten thousand of will hand you the wrath of Heaven!
If you come as flood, we’ll fight until the death
If you come swarming, we’ll scatter you around
If you come flying, we’ll shoot you down with our archery
If you come charging, we’ll slice you with our swords
Let’s cut through them as speed of flying falcons!
Let’s burn within as the hearts wolves!
Let’s stampede with our horses!
Let’s defeat them with the wisdom of our Great Khaan, Chinggis!
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There’s some new entries as I was trying to understand and dissuade the kind of people Hubris Tweaktwitch dupes from being duped here: http://dialoguewithdoug.blogspot.com/
Dietrich will dissuade his listeners from viewing this blog and others in a vain attempt to conceal the facts. But more and more people are discovering Dietrich is a fraud, including his “cult followers”. He has been attacking you voraciously for the last week . Feel free to join us at Bellgab.com “Critical Omissions with Douglas Dietrich”
Wed and Sun @ 8pm EST where we have a bit of fun witnessing his insane BS!
Thanks Gunner. Interesting timing for Dietrich to be back on the attack against me. Amazed that he still has a platform.
Finally I am approved at BellGab. I will post as sneaksie-taffer. Took them long enough but I will forgive them this time. That name came from my favorite videogame called Thief :The Dark Project. I also have a sneaking suspicion that Dietrich knows of this game since I believe he made up his bullshit claim about being a DoD librarian based on the protagonist in this game who was a acolyte in a secret organization of mystical operatives that collected data of people and events for their vast library in order to predict and arrange future outcomes in their city and chronicle it’s history, something like the NSA. The acolyte decided to quit the organization and used the skills he learned there to ply his occupation as a Master Thief. Dietrich cannot fool me since I know just about everything he claims about himself is made up fantasy.
Hey Gunner, why not post here more often? BellGab is a shithole. No doubt Dietrich trolls there in disguise looking for porn and to harass you. I tried to apply there for membership to take part in the forums but no reply so far. Their registration server is wonky and won’t let me repeat the process with some bullshit about HOTMAIL not accepting e-mail from them and that multiple accounts is not allowed when I tried to give them another e-mail address instead. Also they offer no means to file a complaint or ask for help or even cancel an account. That idiot that runs the place doesn’t know what he is doing.
If there is martial law coming by Christmas I hope Trump has Dietrich arrested for espionage and treason and hopefully executed. Even if Dietrich is some deranged nut-job, he is still dangerous, especially to children whom he can corrupt to take part in his sick and twisted lifestyle. If he is working for some clandestine government agency in the U.S. then he and his co-conspirators should be all arrested since they are obviously working against Trump. Then hopefully they will all be sent to the gulags of Siberia as guests of Mr. Putin where they will be worked to death.
Dietrich made one of the worst insults against the Marine Corps. He falsely accused them of treason and cowardice during wartime. I believe any Marine would be honor bound to challenge Dietrich to personal combat for this unforgivable offence. A fight to the death. Dietrich is a pussy and will not reply to the challenge but will continue with his demonic rants from his hiding place against the Marines which he claims he was one which in fact he never was. It doesn’t matter in the long run because someday a Marine will have him dealt with once and for all.
Hope someday that Dietrich will write a memoir and confess who he really is. His real name, place of origin, real family or not, occupation and motives for the years of lies he has posted on YouTube. He then can have the last laugh at our expense and tell us what fools we were for believing him. What does he have to lose? Nobody really knows who he is or where he lives so he can be safe from persecution. I did see that Gunner65 posted on BellGab about Dietrich’s alleged place of residence and family names that lived there but I am still not convinced that the Dietrich we hear on YouTube is actually living there. Seriously, would any sane landlord would allow some resident to go on a screaming rant on a weekly basis that would seriously disturb the other occupants? Most unlikely and I am not convinced that the three names of the Dietrich family listed has any bearing on who Dietrich really is. He could be using the names to create a false identity for himself. I am willing to accept Gunner65’s idea that Dietrich enrolled in the Marine Corps under the name of Douglas Dietrich and was washed out of boot camp. Or maybe he never did go there and the actual Douglas Dietrich may have been the one who joined the Marines but got washed out. It may be possible that as a youth that Dietrich may have lived in that house with one of the former residents who was a foster parent since I am convinced that Dietrich is an orphan from Vietnam who was brought into the U.S. by the military or CIA.
Dietrich worries too much about Russia and what is taking place near Ukraine and the Black Sea. Anyone who knows geopolitics knows it’s all about the moving of oil and gas to hungry customers and who ultimately controls that. There is no danger of war since the worldwide supply of oil is plentiful and no country is being deprived of it but it is the opposite with everyone competing for oil dollars. Instead he should look more towards our back door by the Bearing Straits. Eventually a bridge will be built with a railroad connecting Russia to the U.S. west coast. Dietrich will be heating his home and boiling water for his “tea” with gas supplied by Russia…LOL. But of course Putin can shut that off if Dietrich becomes a pain in the ass and let him freeze to death during winter.
Dietrich should watch the first 16 minutes of Blade Runner 2049. It is a prophetic movie and might explain what is with all the fires raging in California and what that state will become in the near future. The Russians are coming…LOL.
November 8, 2018 @ 12:44 am
I found the Mack Bolan series boring. Each book was like the next. Similar to a watered down Tom Clancy novel. A much better series in my opinion was called Death Merchant by Joseph Rosenburger. It had more geopolitical intrigue, humor and attention to detail about martial arts, intelligence organizations,military tactics and weapons.
Dietrich will no doubt celebrate the Democratic party win in the mid term elections. Who cares? It’s just business as usual in D.C. and was expected. Nothing has changed. The coming civil war and martial law is still on schedule. San Francisco will soon have Russian tanks, armored fighting vehicles and helicopters as well as ground troops rounding up homosexuals, leftists, pedophiles and the gender confused for the labor camps in Siberia. I heard it gets pretty cold there.
To those who view this blog: If you can stand listening to Dietrichs’ shows and would like to comment on his historical revisions, political and racist comments and have a bit of fun doing do – join us at http://bellgab.com/index.php?topic=10966.new#new or https://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=72.new#new every Wednesday and Sunday @8 pm EST.
We often “fact-check” Dietrich and debunk his latest pathological rantings “on-the-fly” during shows. And we have a few laughs doing it!
Thanks for the bellgab info. I stopped going to ellgab since it keeps asking me to sign up. I also believe Dietrich is getting his idea about the Dietrich Hologram from reading the Montauk Project books by Preston Nichols ( who died recently ) and Peter Moon.
The books are about the Philadelphia Experiment, time travel, mind control, pedophilia, Aleister Crowley and the occult. The kind of stuff DIetrich loves to read about and claims his sainted daddy-o was involved in.
November 1, 2018 @ 11:56 pm
DD’s lie and hate filled show is getting unbearable to listen to. He uses expletives in almost every sentence. At most I can bear to listen to about 15 minutes of it then quit.
I hope DD’s enablers realize that DD is useless as far as getting their message across since the mere sound of DD’s voice causes nausea and depression. Perhaps they can do one final farewell show where DD is sacrificed to SATAN on air and we can hear his screams of horror. That will be a show worth listening to.
Listened to a short segment of Dietrich’s Critical Omissions live show on bellgab.
Just as disgusting as his previous shows. But the artwork that Dietrich put in the video which I assume portrays himself in a garish red outfit with him in tears suggests he checks this ( burners.me ) site and no doubt when I offend or frighten him with my posts he puts up artwork which shows him in tears. It might be better if he quits speaking to the public for good then maybe I will stop posting about him. I have no doubt Dietrich’s disappointed handlers are ready to flush him like a cockroach sitting on a turd that is floating in a toilet. That is the way these people work. That is what they do to failed entertainers that are no longer useful to them. If Dietrich is so smart why does he not realize that? Maybe he is pumped so full of drugs and booze he spends his days in a hazy stupor until his handlers pump him full of stimulants to get him to sober up and talk. It sounds like Dietrich is living in some sort of “floating world” the Japanese often write about. A world of prostitutes, drugs and debauchery. Dietrich better realize that these things cost a great deal of money in the real world which his handlers are shelling out and not getting anything in return.
Looking forward to the interview with Aquino and hope it will be posted on bellgab. Although my hunch tells me that Aquino won’t have much to say about Dietrich other than he has never met him and considers Dietrich a liar and a kook. But it does puzzle me how and why Dietrich had singled out Aquino of all people to vent his rage. I wonder if Dietrich ever went to the Church of Satan in San Francisco when Aquino was there? The one person that could have cleared this mystery was Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan but he passed away. I say that because from what I have gathered, Satanists do not talk about their activities and members to outsiders. It is like a secret society where there is a oath of silence. As a former member of that organization it is understandable why Aquino would prefer not to talk about Dietrich even if he did met him. The other mystery is that Dietrich would have been a minor at that time and Satanists do not admit minors into their organization since their activities sometimes include sex magic.
I had one of those weird remote viewing type of dreams I get once in awhile and had one involving Dietrich I think. In the dream I was in some multi level underground arcade or mall where there were lots of people milling about having a great time perhaps. I kept reminding myself to go in a “west-north” direction in order to find my objective. After going down several levels I reached a door and made my presence known and gave a password which was “west-north”. The door opened and I was escorted in by a woman with dark complexion. The large room I entered seemed to be a living room and kitchen combined with the appliances and furniture placed along the walls with the center of the room that was bare but had only a small coffee table.
There were others in the room sitting on the sofa and chairs and appeared to be waiting for perhaps Dietrich to make his grand entrance..LOL.
There was a doorway in one corner of the room that led to a hallway and I thought I heard Dietrich coming from there. I never got to see Dietrich and the dream ended.
This dream seems to tell me that Dietrich is not some lone nut job trying to scam the American people for money and fame but he is involved with something bigger with a sinister agenda and he does not seem in any way impoverished or in need of money.
He also perhaps lives in a underground facility where he would be more secure. His house on Green St. is perhaps a front to mislead his pursuers.
With his extreme anti Jew rants the past few shows it won’t be surprising if Dietrich and his pals gets a visit from a Mossad hit team.
Adios Dietrich. It was fun knowing you.
Dietrich is confirming what I stated earlier that Google is helping him stay on YouTube and not be able to be removed by those making legitimate complaints about him. Dietrich claims he now has remote viewers helping him. What a crock. His so called remote viewers are nothing more than a fantasy or likely spies working for some foreign government like communist China. When the SHTF during martial law he will be on the special ops to arrest list along with the rest of his traitorous friends helping him spread his lies and hate. They all better pack up and leave the U.S. while they can.
It seems it’s not possible to file a complaint on YouTube about Dietrich’s racist material. The option to do that does not work. Even looking up any past complaints about Dietrich on Google is also negative. Perhaps Dietrich is some sort of psy-op with Google helping him spread his lies and hate. So all his anti-Jew rhetoric was just pretending. Doesn’t Dietrich feel bored about winning all the time? It’s like cheating in a multi-player game. Where is the fun in that?
douglasddietrich.wordpress.com Website Has Been Removed – Dietrich had been using this website to post audio of his shows and to attack, slander and defame his detractors, His blog posts attacked Steve Outtrim, myself and many others. He used the site to encourage his listeners to make false reports to the FBI and VA, and to published my personal information which he used to incite others to harass me by calling my unlisted phone etc.
“The site in question has been removed from WordPress.com for violating our Terms of Service.” – WordPress.com
Douglas Dietrich had previously posted my personal information on this site in March, 2018. That information was redacted/removed by WordPress staff on August 13, 2018. Last week, in addition to posting “Nazi” themed photographs as his website “banner”, Dietrich not only re-posted my information four times in a lengthy blog post, but also published a gay porn photo/screenshot on which he superimposed my USMC photo from boot camp in 1984. His blatant dismissal and disregard for WordPress Terms of Service has now resulted in the removal of the website.
That is good news.
A movie called “Emperor” will no doubt get Dietrich’s attention. The trailer already contradicts most of Dietrich’s assertions about how Japan “won” the war….LOL.
Likely he will become so unhinged by the movie that he will devote his entire show to the subject and no doubt blame the Jews in Hollywood. Perhaps it will push him over the edge and cause him to perform hara-kiri just like Yukio Mishima. Nah that will never happen. Dietrich is a liar and a coward. He does not have the will or the courage to act on his convictions.
This is actually an old movie. Dietrich probably saw it already but I don’t recall him ever talking about it. He likely knows it’s based on fact so he doesn’t want to talk about it. Only his version of history matters.
Dietrich likely sips blood during the show which he claims is tea. The blood of his victims no doubt. This fiend needs a wooden stake driven where the sun don’t shine like the way Vlad Dracul punished his enemies.
His show is all about provoking the white race to anger towards Asians and other minorities. His pseudo history is completely made up and false. He spends most of the show talking non-stop about it but who does he thinks is listening to it? Nobody that’s what. He might as well be talking to himself. Then he has the nerve to ask for money. He likely gets nothing but garlic cloves or holy water sent to his mailbox. Sometimes even a blessed crucifix which will cause him agony like he was in hell and where he will ultimately end up.
Dietrich is still going on as usual. Spreading his lies and hate. He seems oblivious or in denial to the possibility that martial law could be coming very soon to San Francisco. It is a reasonable certainty that Dietrich is on Trump’s shit list after all the very nasty things Dietrich was saying about him to the American public. I can imagine all the exquisite agonies they have planned for Dietrich at their rendition facilities. If Dietrich doesn’t flee when he has the chance then he has a death wish. Maybe that should be his middle name from now on. Douglas Death-wish Dietrich.
If Dietrich ever read the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov he should know that the main villain in the trilogy is a character called The Mule. Looking back over the years it seems to me that Dietrich has emulated this character from the start and is using it as a template which guides his motives and speech. But Dietrich should know that this character will ultimately lose in the end only to die defeated, disillusioned and in bad health. He doesn’t have to go this way. He can still choose to change his ways and live a more fulfilled and productive life perhaps returning to commercial art.
September 27, 2018 @ 10:47 pm
Dietrich is not aware that China has lost the trade war with the U.S. and much more, wrecking it’s economy and environment in the process and that possibly Xi has already stepped down privately due to his many failures and is making plans to relocate to either Canada or the U.S. to start a new life and avoid political persecution at the hands of their oppressed people. China could be dismantled soon and it’s top leadership will flee for Canada or the U.S. for the same reasons as Xi and Taiwan will likely take over it’s administration with U.S. guidance. Also Taiwan will likely issue an international arrest warrant for Dietrich and will have him executed for his criminal activities against the Chinese peoples and putting the Republic of China in a bad light with that ridiculous Dietrich hologram nonsense. The Japanese government likely want Dietrich also in order to execute him since Dietrich is a liar of the worst sort that tried to put the nation and people of Japan in the worst possible light to the world and Dietrich doesn’t even have any Japanese ancestry. He is a Vietnamese national that was brought into the U.S. most likely by the military or CIA back in the late sixties or early seventies for their monarch mind control or psy-ops programs which explains Dietrich’s extremely strange persona. Dietrich, which is not even his real name or that of his parents was not brought into the U.S. through normal channels, therefore he could be denied or disavowed as being part of any covert U.S. operation against it’s own people. Is it not strange that Dietrich has not published a single photo of him being with his family or being in the military or that he has no relations in the U.S. that can verify his identity? Dietrich’s usefulness to his handlers is coming to an end. He better flee to Canada and disappear forever from the public if he plans to survive.
Dietrich is such a loser. He is too chicken to go out in public to even get a Chinese take out so he gets his food delivered. The delivery person might be a Russian agent. The note in the fortune cookie will read ” There is no antidote, with regards, Putin” .
September 24, 2018 @ 1:30 am
Dietrich got it wrong. The Chinese are Romulans, the Japanese are Klingons and the Vulcans are South Koreans if he is really into the Star Trek stuff. The North Koreans are Remans which are a evil mutated offshoot race of the Romulans. In South Korea there is a mountain called Mount Sorak. On Vulcan there is Mount Surak which was named after the philosopher that changed the Vulcan civilization and it’s people from a violent warlike race to that of a peaceful one devoted to controlling their emotions with logic. Korea which had shamanic beliefs later adopted Buddhism as it’s national religion before the Christian missionaries arrived centuries later to replace it. Dietrich calls his parents “sainted” but that status is reserved for persons of extraordinary deeds and accomplishments and is bestowed only by the church by papal decree. There is no Saint Dietrich.
In regards to the Russians and Putin which Dietrich hates so much and which he thinks he can insult without consequence to himself, is he aware that Russia has formidable remote viewers that can pinpoint his location and they have psychics with the ability to remotely kill people with their psionic powers from any distance? It is the perfect murder weapon since no evidence can ever be obtained. The U.S. has them too so maybe Dietrich should reconsider the next time he wants to bad mouth Trump and white people? Dietrich’s faggot Satanic magic is no match for psionics which have been proven to work through many scientific testing.
Dietrich’s idiocy continues to amaze. He hates the Russians but it is only a matter of time until Russia will be allowed to send it’s troops into the U.S. to help crush the Chinese ( PRC ) supported leftist insurgency once and for all starting in Washington state and moving down to Oregon and California and finally into Hawaii. Dietrich will become a fugitive with a price on his head so he might as well flee to Canada asap. That’s what happens during martial law.
Dietrich is entering his last days it seems. He is going off script and alluding that he is an MK Ultra type of mind controlled victim and not some messiah from hell.. Is he aware that his kind are usually suicided when their handlers no longer see them as useful and a potential lethal liability if they talk? He should call Trump and beg for forgiveness for all the nasty things he was forced to say and perhaps he might grant Dietrich some sort of protective custody if he turns himself in to the authorities with a full confession as to who he was working for all this time. The idea that Dietrich is some sort of scam artist who managed to carry on for years with many people supporting his questionable lifestyle and his vicious attacks on white americans is utterly ridiculous. He had to have received help and orders from people with deep pockets and an agenda to malign the U.S. and it’s citizens like some shadowy rogue elements in our government or the Chinese Communist Party for example or even the Democratic Party. But I believe that Dietrich has gone beyond all help and will march in his fashionable boots to a tragic conclusion.
September 6, 2018 @ 11:34 am
While surfing on YouTube I happened to run across this: https://www.youtube.com/user/DouglasDietrich/videos
Dietrich has his own YouTube site now? Looks like the evil has returned.
Oh..it looks like all his old stuff but I never noticed this site..strange, I guess I am getting old.
I think Dietrich will be on air with his treasonous demonic rants soon but the delay seems to tell me that he is making arrangements to upload his show from another locale. His Green St. address was just a front for his human smuggling operation I believe and the authorities will raid that place pretty soon and hopefully arrest Dietrich wherever he is hiding for his crimes and treason. I still think he will try to sneak into Canada where there is a large Asian population where he can blend in and continue his illicit occupation. Mystick Warrior and Taboo Bros will likely be shut down soon despite Dietrich dumping all his toxic past shows there. I believe all of Dietrich’s material will be wiped from YouTube thanks to pressure by Trump. Dietrich’s only recourse will be to use the Deep Web where his uploads will be difficult to track to post his rants but who will even bother to go there since only perverts go there to get their kiddy porn like Dietrich does since he seems to know a lot about that sort of thing because he is always talking about it.
If Dietrich doesn’t return within a month then most likely he has been dealt with permanently or on the run never to show his face in public again. Even his handlers likely don’t want anything to do with him anymore since he has become useless and will risk exposing them. Good chance too that he will try to flee to Vancouver, B.C. Canada and stay with his Asian underworld chums in Richmond to avoid persecution in the U.S.
Handlers? I don’t think so. Dietrich has used “sponsors” and donations to facilitate his shows and pay his rent/utilities etc. for years! (And also maintain a rumored drug habit). Relocation seems out of the question. The last portion of your comment makes no sense. He cannot even qualify for or afford a US Passport! How could he “flee” anywhere?
He has published his previously “paid for only” DVD lectures “Satans Crusaders” and “Roswell and the Rising Sun” to You Tube but has now made them “private” and has blocked all comments as has “Mystick Warrior”. Check the link for yourself!
http://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=72.new#new
“Asian underworld chums”….In Richmond?
Dietrichs’ entire personae and scheme are lies. We can only speculate on whether or not his absence will be permanent.
San Francisco rents are not cheap, even with section 8. I know because I used to live there working as a security guard. Sponsors and donations alone cannot keep his lazy ass afloat if Dietrich was not working at any job other than his association with the Asian underworld and god knows who else which I refer to as his “handlers”. You also think that Dietrich was at Marine Corp boot camp and was washed out. Where is your proof? Did you know him in person? That printout you show doesn’t reveal much other than the name of the recruit and the reason for the separation and does not prove if it is the same Dietrich we are referring to since we don’t have any proof his U.S. identification or immigration papers. He himself could also be an undocumented alien. San Francisco is a sanctuary city so nobody will even bother to check it. Where are the photos of his graduation from boot camp, he being in dress uniform or even his family at his side. No military I.D. either. If they were posted in Facebook why did you not post a copy of them as proof? Dietrich mentioned on air several times that he was involved in smuggling illegal aliens from China. They usually arrive into San Francisco by ship or air carrier then are driven by car to the U.S. Canadian border then smuggled into Canada and most of them live in Toronto or Vancouver B.C. with the Richmond area that has a huge Asian population of mostly Chinese. Canada always had a sanctuary policy if one can get past their border guards since they are socialists like the U.K.
Dietrich is back..LOL. And he is “live” on YouTube? Helped by his courageous allies ( that is until he stabs them in the back ) at Mystick Warrior and TabooBros ! Dietrich claims there were SFPD at his house to remove a vagrant which of course Dietrich describes as a white person sleeping in front of his house. Not likely. The homeless usually prefer to sleep near a steam grate or in a makeshift shelter on Market Street to avoid the cold. Perhaps the truth was they were there looking for Dietrich to arrest but of course he never was there to begin with. He used that name and address to receive checks then have one of his underworld chums deposit it into a bank account using the same name and his chum having changed his name to Douglas Dietrich which is very easy to do since the real Dietrich cannot afford to expose himself in public for fear of arrest. His chum can later withdraw cash then send it to Dietrich. Dietrich also said he plans to find another venue other than YouTube to post his shows. And I have predicted that ALL his shows will be removed from YouTube any day now since Dietrich stepped on so many toes of the rich and powerful like Trump and Putin one can be certain they WILL do something about it. Dietrich also thanked a supporter in Washington State. That suggests to me that he may be planning to sneak into Canada with some help there since Washington State shares a border with Canada with much of it unguarded farmland and Dietrich likely does not have a valid passport to go through customs and immigration. Once there he will lay low and post his shows while trying to prevent from being tracked down and arrested by U.S. authorities for his admitted crimes. Dietrich loves to play cat and mouse games. One of his chums may have opened a bank account with a bank like the Royal Bank of Scotland Canada in the U.S. and using a ATM card sent to him Dietrich can withdraw cash while hiding in Canada. Dietrich should realize he is on borrowed time. They WILL find and arrest him sooner or later.
Dietrich has been silent this week. Perhaps he got apprehended by a government agency or he is on the run and hiding from his pursuers. Or perhaps he O.D.’d on drugs and now is dead? No matter what the reason it can’t be good for him since he rarely misses a show.
Douglas Dietrich was removed from American Freedom Radio (AFR) following his Aug 22, 2018 show. Dietrich initially reported that station manager Joseph “Danny” Romero was shutting down AFR due to lack of financial/sponsor support, but now it appears Dietrich was removed for other reasons. Most specifically his attacks on Jonn Lilyea and claiming Lilyea died during a botched satanic ritual attempting to summon the angel of death against Dietrich. (Lilyea died unexpectedly following a heart-attack on July 26th.)
Dietrich Posts Comments About His Removal From AFR
https://www.facebook.com/douglasduanedietrich/posts/2132850183456880?__tn__=K-R
Dietrich began his statement by saying he would “relate the Backstory behind AFR (“American ‘Freedom’ ‘Radio’;” C[ondīta] est 2008—2018) when I Recommence Transmission(s)” He blamed Romero of course since apparently Romero had enough of his BS, especially his racist rants anti-American/veteran rhetoric. Dietrich accused Romero of “Sicking fellow veterans on him so he could not return on air”. These veterans include members and staff of https://thisainthell.us/ and others who have complained about his false allegations regarding the recent death of Jonn Lilyea.
And that Lilyea had also lost his VA benefit award and was “facing life in prison” for forging documents and fraudulently receiving VA benefits. A false claim which Dietrich has urged his followers to report to the VA and FBI for the past two years,
Of course Dietrich provided no evidence to substantiate his claim. In fact, the claim is absolutely ridiculous on its face.
1. Lilyea would have faced a VAOIG investigation of his entire VA Claims File which would have taken months.
2. Lilyea would then have faced prosecution by the Feds following an indictment.
3. Lilyea would have been arrested prior to being indicted.
4. Lilyea would have faced trial and conviction in a Federal court.
5. How could the penalty be life in prison?
6. Where is the evidence for any of this?
7. Where is the evidence of a satanic ceremony?
It is an outrageous lie that Dietrich did not get away with so easily this time. Not only does he face being called out by TAH veterans and others, many of the https://thisainthell.us/ (TAH) admin and staff are also practicing lawyers who for years battled with Dan Bernath and prevailed in over a dozen Bernath related cases! (Bernath died in a bizarre crash of his private plane last year).
My speculation is that Romero was contacted by these lawyers and this may have influenced him to get rid of Dietrich. I would not be surprised if a “Cease or Desist” letter was involved. (Which would involve both Romero and Dietrich receiving the same).
Dietrich has been removed from the AFR schedule and his shows placed in the “Past Shows” archive. He has no manager/producer, his “sponsors” may be having second thoughts, he has been rejected by numerous radio hosts from other “stations” who he then attacked, he is a complete lying asshole. Yet he seriously believes that he will be back on air!
At any rate, Dietrich has no one to blame but himself, getting booted from two “radio” stations within 90 days has to be a record! And his reputation is the opposite of what he claims. I have no pity for him whatsoever.
Thanks for the info. I never go to Facebook. Something evil about it.
Dietrich’s “sponsors” is probably the Deep State ( black hat faction ) rogue C.I.A. , Chinese Communist Party or the U.S. Democratic Party, perhaps even his buddy Col. Aquino..LOL. Somehow I see him returning to continue his hate filled rants against all freedom loving white people. Most likely he will produce his own “show” which is him talking into a microphone attached to his laptop PC. He will then edit it and put some artwork he created or obtained from elsewhere then give it to that witch ( Mystick Warrior ) for uploading to her YouTube site.
One claim that dietrich makes which I’m sure is equally false that I don’t think you addressed is that he is related to Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam memorial.
April 4, 2018 @ 10:54 pm
Looks like Dietrich will continue his hate filled delusional rants into the year. Doesn’t look like Revolution Radio or Freedom Slips has the balls to give him the boot. And besides even if they did, Dietrich has supporters who will find a way for Dietrich to be able to spread his sick and twisted messages on YouTube perhaps with his own show and still available through that cunt operated Mystick Warrior channel. So nothing changes. The only way to stop Dietrich is for Trump to authorize his removal with special ops. Dietrich is a enemy spy and combatant. He even admitted several times that he is one. He deserves no mercy.
June 30, 2018 @ 12:05 pm
Dietrich was abruptly removed (while on-air) from Revolution Radio on May 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL4f11c5WMI Dietrich blamed his removal on Rev Radio staff and persons in the chat room and Bellgab.com. He was then interviewed on May 17 by American Freedom Radio host Ed Opperman http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archives/Opperman-Report-32k-051718.mp3
Dietrich shows his true deceptive nature in the interview. What is interesting is that Dietrich had already been allowed a spot at AFR prior to the interview. Dietrich has since occupied the AFR website, Facebook page and removed the AFR chat room.
The AFR chat-room (Chatango) was rarely used prior to Dietrich and those commenting included frequent listeners to AFR who revealed suspicions that Dietrich had conspired with former Rev Radio hosts at AFR for a spot. All posts critical of Dietrich were removed and the Chatango link removed from the AFR website.
The owner of AFR Joseph “Danny” Romero is a convicted drug felon having served a 5 year sentence in Texas State Prison. Mystick Warrior has monetized its You Tube channel. The location of the mailing address to send donations to AFR is a trailer #130 in a trailer park in Gig Harbor, WA.
Dietrich continues to slander myself, Aquino and others.
July 1, 2018 @ 3:57 pm
Thanks for the update Gunner. Ed Opperman has basically thrown all credibility out the window by embracing Dietrich the way he did in this interview. A show run out of a trailer park seems to be the right home for this babbling drug addict. No wonder everybody on every show is always broke and begging the audience for money. Dietrich’s web site has the donation address of 1242 Green St San Francisco (no unit number). This house is in one of the most expensive parts of the San Francisco city, where former investment banker, career officer and real estate inheritor Michael Aquino lived in the 80’s. Dietrich is 4 blocks from Aquino’s house. Dietrich, by his own admission, is long term unemployed, does not get money or healthcare from the VA, is addicted to drugs and is a frequent user of prostitutes. How can he afford to live this lifestyle in the same neighborhood as a Scottish Baron?
Dietrich stated in his June 27 broadcast (at aprox 1:52:00) http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archives/Critical-Omissions-32k-062718.mp3 that his long-time producer Lara Lee Solomon has “severed all ties” with him. His statement on June 27 accusing myself and Bellgab.com is not the explanation he gave upon his removal from Rev Radio or to Opperman on May 17.
The AFR website is registered in Ontario, Toronto Canada https://www.whois.com/whois/americanfreedomradio.com and will expire 3-26-19. Romero is missing from management of AFR following his prison release.
According to court documents, Romero plead guilty to felony drug charges. (“No Contest”, no jury trial) .He was sentenced to 5 years on 7/26/14 (with 405 days jail credit) to the Texas Dept of Corrections. That means he is due for release this month, (or before if he was released early). My guess is that Ed Opperman is managing AFR (Seattle, WA) on his behalf and arranged to bring Dietrich on AFR. Opperman is just as anti-Trump as Dietrich. So it would not matter to him that DD is a lying POS.
During Oppermans’ interview in May with DD it was clear that DD has neither “met with” nor spoken with Romero. And DD has since hinted that he and Opperman on not on speaking terms. There is considerable lack of public info on either AFR or Romero. I believe Opperman (who claims to be a Private Investigator) did not vet Dietrich before offering him a slot.
Dietrich also seems to be reading and paraphrasing from a number of sources. (His recent hour rant against “Milo” is a perfect example). He appears to be reading from prepared notes/texts which he has carefully assembled prior. to his shows.
So Dietrich has somehow crawled into a more obscure place to hide. While attempting to occupy and control it via deception, plagiarism and censorship.
Dietrich is certainly getting money from somewhere to be able to afford to live in San Francisco, and since he is not forthcoming about his sources of revenue then most likely he is engaged in illegal activities which he admitted on air of doing.
My suspicion is that for security reasons he does not even live in that house on Green St. Perhaps he has a confederate who collects the checks for him there then deposits it to Dietrich’s bank account probably under an alias. But the checks alone cannot explain how he can afford to live in San Francisco. If the authorities cannot find him he is a fugitive living off the map so to speak since to disclose his actual location would lead to his arrest and persecution for the crimes he has admitted on air of conducting. One possible way to smoke him out of his hiding place is to freeze his assets ( pun ) .
Looks like Dietrich has slithered back into YouTube again. Same ol poisonous hate speech and lies he shoots from his fangs. Since Dietrich declared numerous times on air that he is at war with the U.S. his transmissions should be considered an act of war and should be jammed at the source.
Looks like Dietrich is finished. He has stopped uploading to Mystick Warrior. Still does his show on Freedomslips but who would want to pay to hear a bunch of lies? Gunner65 seems to have revealed that Revolution Radio is not happy with Dietrich’s racist rants. Verly likely they told Dietrich to tone it down or take a hike. Also likely they told him to no longer use Youtube since that would make him go back to his old ways of racist rants and false accusations to bring in an audience and Revolution Radio will probably have none of that anymore. Snippets of his show can still be heard on TabooBros but I now will never visit that site with that idiot Arola always hanging around to insult people with his dumb videos.
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Your a joke outrim. Go back to new zealand with your mountain of cash.. unfortunately people arent aware of your past. Your a con artist that has essentially stolen someones research and claims to truth for your own private gain.. your gov. Sponsered website is a giant dis info campaign to sway the public from the truth Dietrich uncovered. How about you and you master aquino stop sucking eachother off and man up to the truth. You are a govt sponsered piece of shit and theres no amount of burners that can save you from your fat slob, sorry excuse of a life. Shame on you and a curse for you and your future henefations to come. No amount of cleansing rituals will sheild you from the prime sources light. You will face the karmaic results of your actions you feind.
What research are you saying was “Stolen”?
I thought so: nothing. Just another troll. Probably Dietrich’s little chum Daniel Arola.
Matthew Schwab
June 25, 2017 @ 9:04 am
DDD on air posted false pictures on rr show there not of him either one,https://douglasdietrichproductions.app.box.com/s/balxufilhtii5a1ljmp8v2dh0zhczhpp also the pic outrim posted in his article are not of dd surrogate son and person in pic never meet or herd of ddd, also ddd is older then he states he was not born in 1966, also mt bio father in ca who my mother told me about is the real ddd who had those experiences that your potential fake radio ddd stole, But if it is that ddd on radio then so be, but the night library incident took place in 1979 and there was burn area on base near library, also my mother was there night of libary incident took place, later on he join military and got in dispute and aka ball dislocation incident of instructor and after dislocating drill instructor ball sack he was later allowed to re join but i don’t think it was same branch service, not sure, but my father real one who was librarian at presidio base and he did bit of his grandfather dick as child. but as of yet i have never met the man in ca… but yes library incident was real and etc. but one should know majority of pic on ddd time line are not his works or even him in said pics and majority of time if not all time the people in pics never meet or herd of ddd, and thats not ddd surrogate son in pic you used in article and you sir can get in trouble for using them potentially by the owner, and ddd surrogate son might just be figment of ddd imagination creation. but there was a real ddd if that was his name and he did work on site presidio base in 1979 and the stuff ddd spouts as his life experiences are potentially and was not his unless he radio ddd was on site base library in 1979 and sleeping with special force army man wife. ddd on radio a persuade just like aquino a persuade and outrim etc. so all i can say you want to discredit ddd find the real one who lives in ca and who Michael Aquino knows off.
i should rephrase context my mother when alive ran into a man with ddd story and background, and she was at night of circle incident by accident, but^ can you sir out of respect for aquino and good morale people of world delete my previous comment cause i may not have all facts correct at this time, but i can say for certain referencing your ddd article, don’t take any pic ddd posts as true, or are of his works, what i said about ddd posting pics like example given in link from dd radio chat room is proof that he not being up front on his persona cause that pic not of ddd but from some chinese film but defiantly not him, many pic if one takes time to do quick background check one can know is not of ddd or his art work. but some part of me ponders if ddd has based his carrier on half truth and lots shit, So steve can you delete my previous comment above from your page and thank you sir only tip i have for you is look in years 1978 and 1979 and 1980 at presidio military base and for man who was native American and asian who may have had different surname then dietrich there as civilian employee. and from my mother story, burn area i think was separate from library but linked by heating things lots tech old and prob in used in early 1978 through 1980… but the real leak at presidio base could in fact have been aquino himself working at library. he at time was in area going to college while in military with wife Lilith. but all i know there was a man in t hat library as employee working nights and my mother new of him and mentioned him before she passed on to me. is it ddd im not sure but one no longer can take anything of ddd as a absolute truth. i think i gave you enough sir to continue learning truth if your wise enough to pierce through hate mud. but i as well well someday truly investigate ddd and in future i pray Yehovah truth well reign… https://douglasdietrichproductions.app.box.com/s/balxufilhtii5a1ljmp8v2dh0zhczhpp
Spiral CosmosArt
January 8, 2017 @ 11:53 am
https://dialoguewithdoug.blogspot.com/ I have had a complete fallout of respect for Douglas Dietrich over the years. At first I thought he was a great and thorough exposer of the Presidio Military base child abuse scandals and a defender of children’s rights, especially regarding the notorious satanic military colonel whose name need not be repeated. As I’ve listened to Doug over the years it slowly became clear to me that his agenda is all about his chips on his shoulder: his proud victim card and revenge for being born into a family where he spent much of his childhood and young adulthood in a shit-hole called the Tenderloin District of San Francisco where he got victimized by racist white men and gangs bisexual and homosexual pedophile rapist men all trying to rape him. And agaihttps://burners.me/2016/07/09/debunking-douglas-dietrich/n this victim card is played by his own dumbfucking decision to volunteer as a jarhead and be victimized from the same mentioned culprits, and then again with the same criteria of culprit pervert co-workers at the Presidio Military base library complex. Doug’s bloated pride as some kind of Megalomaniac heroic avenger for his now deceased immigrant half Japanese and half Taiwanese mommy and deceased derelict World War 2/Korean/Vietnam Veteran Daddy (with questionable American Indian heritage), living in deplorable poverty, is so utterly and completely repeatedly rehashed that it is a great counter example to anyone aspiring to make a name for himself in the alternative media as a ridiculous, albeit somewhat effective, big publicity stunt gone completely wrong.
Doug in case you’re reading this here’s a question for you or anyone with your weird habits: Since when did your pre-deliction as a man to frequent “escorts” ever denote anything other than another sleazy transaction of another dime a dozen John paying fiat currency and cold hard cash for his privilege to stick his little dick in a whore? Or rather a misguided woman, a woman detached and desensitized from any true notion of any true loving monogamous sex because it’s all another fucking debased transaction for fiat currency to her? The ridiculous claims of championing yourself as
as a great advocate for women and girl’s rights means nothing as you do nothing to advocate for the rights of boys and men and ending infant circumcision. And your creepy effeminized fucking voice inflections as a you kowtow to women and girls in your interviews like saying “dear lady: Madam laura lee solomon” or
“Dear Madam” or “Dear Lady” is so off the charts showing your goddamn pussywhipped self-loathing faggy-ness, that its a fair conclusion you have a fetish for being humiliated by some dominatrix whores (or a “escorts”) as well. Whatever floats your boat you goddamn DisinFo False pride fucking basket case agent tool. I now anoint you officially as Sir. Dear Hubris Tweak Twitch, who sounds like you’re chronically high on Crystal Meth, and who likely enjoys getting anal raped by Dominatrix whores. Is this video by Kevin Bloody Wilson “Cum Chee my Gurlfren” a typical session with one of those whores Doug? Or What?
MufonMad
Wow, burnersxxx. You don’t need to convince me of Douglas Dietrich’s satanic connections to Colonel Pedo Michael Aquino. That devil-worshiper Dietrich was selling satanic jewelry at a San Jose Mufon event just last year. He was just slimy & he should get booted out of the Truther/UFO circuits. I’m sorry he’s targeted you & Burner culture.
Thanks, MufonMad.
It really does seem like Duggo Detritus here is using you to further gain notoriety in the conspiracy communities… I’m amazed that any Truther radio hosts have actually given this goof airtime, especially recently. I just don’t understand why anyone would want to talk to an ick who brags about their connections with Col. Pedo Aquino & the Presidio pedo-ring scandal. Why this A-hole is getting any airtime at all is a red flag to me.
October 21, 2016 @ 11:11 am
Here is another recent example of narcissist sociopath psycho Dietrichs’ anti-American sentiment:
IN GRATITUDE TO ALL MY FANS, FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS : THE AMERASIAN STRANDÉÉ ON THE WORLD’S DARKEST CONTINENT (North America) – WHO WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIS ALL TO KILL AS MANY AMERICANS AS POSSIBLE AND DESTROY THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THESE UNITED STATES HAD HE BEEN ALIVE AT-TIME OF MASS-INTERNMENT – INVITES YOURSELF TO SPEND HIS SÓLAR RETURN W(ith) HIM ! VISIT AND SEE CONCLUSION OF THE LATEST LEAK PROJECT-VIDEOGRAPHED DIETRICHONIC INTERVIEW (The Opening Installment readily E[lectronically]-[a]vailable via YouTube [established 2005]) – SO INTENSE IT’S TOO POWERFUL TO BE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC (NOTE : NO Proceeds Go To Douglas Dietrich, whose Gift is merely your Review[s]) !
The Germanic Surname “Dietrich” – as Transliterated into The Ænglish – means “(The) Master Key, Skeleton Key, (a) Key That Can Open All Doors (Visit ) …”.
ADDENDUM : The colouration of mine Irises generally tends to reflect my Late and Sainted Father’s Alexandria’s Genesis Syndrome (either Under Available Sunlight or sometime Aftermath Exposure to Sólar Rays) and my Late and Sainted Mother’s 病症候群 (“Kawasakibyō Shōkōgun [‘Kawasaki Disease Syndrome’]”) In The Darkness or Under Ambient Conditions of Artificial Lighting (id est, a Cityscape of Urban Nightlights, et cetera).
Once again, five minutes research proves Dietrich wrong. The surname Dietrich has nothing to do with keys or dragons. Alexandria Genesis Syndrome is so rare it is considered mythical. And Kawasaki disease has nothing to do with Japanese Shogun at all. It seems Dietrich and Rex Bears of the Leak Project are charging people money to listen to his more psychotic and racist rants which You Tube will not tolerate. I wonder if anyone has considered investigating him for Federal Social Security Disability Fraud!!
He would have given his all to kill as many Americans as possible. Says everything.
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very well done (presented). Doug was very quick to block comments (actually, questions and statements) on his fb very quickly and block my profile as well. Simple questions and an observation as to why he was slamming Aquino for satanism, while his radio show partner (Laura Solomon) endorses and teaches the same fundamental occult practices. Nonetheless…. blocked and erased. I’ve listened to enough of his shows and begin to wonder why he paints a full populace with one brush based upon MILITARIAL perspective, which is completely INSANE. literally. He just did a show where he denounced REVISIONISM of the Nazi “Death Camps” as an attack on ones who revision such atrocities, and yet claims to be a “Revisionist” as a sort himself (when it comes to Japan and the USA, that is), go figure… I’m not going to say i understand what is going on with Douglas, it’s muddy water from the looks of it, he might have to turn his whole paradigm into that of a Fictitious delivery in order to get his message across, but i don’t trust such vainous attempts. He and Aquino were both in UNIFORM, that speaks for itself… murder inc… as for the satanic aspects, that’s a diversion…
Laura Lee Dykstra
Hello, I am a Christian and I have spiritual gifts of discernment. I tried to watch one YT tape by Douglas Dietrich (as I am researching SRA). What I tell you is esoteric and is a testimony of spiritual gifts of discernment. I can only testify. Douglas Dietrich is very, very, very possessed by satan. To the level that I would believe he is a practicing satanist due to the measure of possession he manifests to my perception. I know he testifies of times to Aquino. I immediately questioned if he is “Chan” who Fiona Barnett I believed testified worked with Aquino on a military base and had a young girl on a meat hook for the purposes of cannabilism. Mr. Dietrich manifests to my perception satanic possession at the level of a man who puts a young girl on a meat hook for the purposes of cannabilism: Chan per the testimony of Fiona Barnett.
I next wanted to see his age. I know he is a liar. He states birth in 1966 per your article. He states in 1985 he exposed to break up this:
If he was born in 1966, he would have been 19 years old. This is fully unbelievable. He is claiming that at 19 years of age he exposed child molestation. A 19 year old does not have this level ability to accomplish such things. It is simply not plausible.
What it shows me is that he is lying about his age. That is what I am looking for: proof that he can be of the age of Chan who would be a few years older than Fiona Barnett.
I believe he matches the age of Chan (as far as I can understand Fiona… I believe she was a minor and Chan was a young man when she witnessed Chan with the girl on a meat hook).
I believe there is an age match range with this man… he is very, very, very possessed by satan and so esoterically/spiritually I match him at the level possession of satan as Chan would have… and like Chan he testifies of involvement with Aquino.
Therefore, I question if this man is actually Chan.
I can only tell you that spiritual gifts mark this man Douglas Dietrich as very, very, very possessed by satan at the level character composition that in my own senses I would personally believe fully capable of having put a girl on a meat hook, still practising these atrocities, and fully unrepentant of all evil deeds. This is what my “sensors” read from listening to him.
In fact, I was going to attempt to be objective and even though there is satanic power moving through him at the level of someone who has blasphemed the Holy Spirit and is fully possessed by satan…. I simply could not. The satanic power moving through him was so incredibly great, I didn’t want to hear him. I’d heard enough. I did not want to analyze what he had to say. I wanted to do background research instead. Listening to this man was listening to satan speak through a human being… he is that possessed to the hearing of my spiritual ear and senses. He is that satanic.
This is my testimony… these are a simple personal opinion based on spiritual gifts of discernment and just minimal research. Your article is the first article that started to give me bearings on his stated age and a testimony I could go over… and not hear the devil speaking through that man. He is so possessed…. it is actually spiritually repulsive (and to those with less strong spiritual armor than me it is spiritually dangerous the power of satan moving through him is so great) I do not want to hear that diablos speak or hear his diablos voice.
My question for community is… is this Chan?
My name is Laura Lee Dykstra.
I have this to say, “Chan, I am coming for you. Get off of American soil in the name of King Jesus. Get off the soil or face acts of God (not human violence) to confine you to the prison of hell without prejudice. I am the Romans 13 Authority sent by God to send you to the prison of hell in spiritual warfare. God is with me. And Michael the arch angel is with me.”
I am dealing with satanists. I am an officer of the High Court of God the Supreme Judge sent as a form of guardian angel with guardian angels with me to protect the children and send these diablos to the prison of hell in acts of God (no human violence). This is my commission from God in this respect.
I ask the community if this is Chan.
I will wield the Sword of the Spirit and anathematize him and send him to hell in prayer of anathema in the mighty name of King Jesus.
I must send this Chan to the prison of hell by commission as an officer of God’s Court as Supreme Judge.
I have never met Fiona Barnett, but I have seen and heard multiple interviews. Like Dietrich, her claims are extraordinary to the point of defying logic. She does have *some* documentation – drawings she supposedly did as a child.
What do your spiritual powers tell you about her? If you watch the documentary “Candy Girl” it is her mom, friends etc saying “yeah nah I believe her” but never explaining why they didn’t do anything to prevent the long-term abuse.
You could be right about Dietrich being Chan. I heard on several of Dietrich’s shows where he claims he was trained or brainwashed by Aquino to take on the persona of a 60 year old Vietnamese man in order to infiltrate the communist government of Vietnam on some clandestine mission. Dietrich even looks Vietnamese and not Chinese/Japanese. Even his attempts at speaking Chinese sounds strange. My theory is that he is of Vietnamese Caucasian mix and possibly was brought to the U.S. from Vietnam during the sixties or early seventies by Aquino or someone from the CIA to be used in some MK Ultra experiments which resulted in the monstrosity that is Dietrich. If Dietrich is mind controlled he most likely has a “kill switch” implanted into his psyche where he will commit suicide after he has finished his objectives. Nice and neat and you don’t even have to do a thing.
I have responded to a recent challenge from Dietrich by providing Steve Outtrim with copies of original documents which substantiate my own claim of having served as a US Marine Infantry 0351 (Anti-tank Assaultman) and with Marine Security Forces Republic of the Philippines as an 8151 (Guard).
I have never claimed to have been a US Marine Captain and I am not Randy Allen Cramer. I have never called Dietrich or threatened him in any way. I have never made comments in his chat room. Yet I am being attacked and slandered by Dietrich and his Producer (Solomon) and others on his internet radio broadcasts and You Tube simply because I posted comments to videos informing his listeners that the FOIA response obtained by Outtrim proves he was never a US Marine. Dietrichs’ claims of access to records at the Presidio and service in combat as a US Marine form much (if not all) of the basis for his credibility as a historian/revisionist. The issue of credibility seems to be a wide-spread problem in the alternative/historical revisionist community. Dietrichs’ anti-American sentiment and contempt/disdain for Veterans and the USMC in particular, are both reasons I have legitimately questioned his intentions, integrity and credibility as a historian.
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August 20, 2016 @ 12:29 pm
Dietrich also claimed that while in USMC “Boot Camp” he was subjected to his entire Recruit Platoon firing blanks at him for 30 minutes every day in simulated executions. I did the math on this. Let’s assume there were 51 Recruits in his Platoon (including himself). And let’s say each Recruit fired 5 rounds per minute at Dietrich. That’s 250 rounds per minute for 30 minutes totaling 7,500 rounds per day for 12 weeks totaling 675,000 rounds! That means Dietrichs’ Senior Drill Instructor went to the Armory every day (including weekends) to draw and sign for 7,500 rounds of blank 5.56 ammo and issued 8, loaded 30 round magazines to each Recruit with another 500 rounds to be loaded separately (each of 50 recruits would load the remaining 10 rounds each into one of his 8 empty magazines). After which the Recruits would be ordered to police up the 7,500 spent brass shell casings and clean their rifles for aprx 30 minutes. All for Dietrich! Totally unbelievable and unlikely. That has to be the most insane “Boot Camp” lie I have ever heard! 50 Recruits illegally discharging weapons at MCRD San Diego surrounded by hundreds/thousands of other Recruits and training personnel every day for 12 weeks? Think about it!
lol I thought about it, this is hilarious.
I observed two other claims in Dietrichs’ laster broadcast (rant). 1. In the first few minutes Dietrich claims that Soloman is beneficiary to his Servicemans Group Life Insurance Policy (SGLI) administered by the Office of SGLI (OSGLI). This is incorrect. A serviceman/woman pays a discounted rate for a policy during Active Duty status which expires at the end of enlistment (EAS). It may be extended for 120 days under special circumstances or if the person enters Reserve Status (IRR). 2. Dietrich claims that following his demotion from CPL to LCPL he was an 0351 “Fire Team” Leader. I served a Marine 0351 from 1984-88. At that time a basic Marine Infantry Battalion was composed of three “Rifle” Companies (0311) and a Weapons Company: Mortars, Heavy Machine Guns, and an Anti-Tank (0351) platoon. An 0351 platoon consists of 4 Squads of 4-5 two-man teams. (Gunner and Assistant Gunner). There are no “Fire Teams” in an 0351 platoon. A “Fire Team” is an element within a Marine Rifle Squad (0311). Dietrich has made no mention of attending what was then called Infantry Training School (ITS) required for all “03” MOS. He would have been required to complete this training in order to receive a “Primary MOS” designation as 0351.
Thanks very much for confirming all this Richard.
I am interested in your recollection of USMC using the Dragon ATW vs the Javelin?
Sure. During ITS in Sept 1984 I was trained to use the M47 “Dragon”. They began by training us with the LAAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) which was practically obsolete. I was one of 3 Marines picked to fire a “live” M47 prior to completing ITS. My target was stationary (an old shot up APC) at 800 meters. My recollection was that I fired from a sitting position. There is a “gyro” which can be heard just after initiating the trigger after releasing the “safety” with your thumb and “pinky” fingers, shortly after which is a considerable blast effect or “white out” during which I could not move or breathe to maintain crosshairs on the target. So I basically held my breath for 8 seconds until the missile impacted the target. I remember watching the small rockets fire as I tracked the target. There were a series of small rockets designed to guide the missile as the gunner tracked the target. The more you move, the more the rockets fire to compensate. I did not move! The M47 was wire-guided, optically tracked with a maximum range of 1,000 meters. After ITS I was selected for Marine “Barracks Duty” and was assigned Marine Security as a Guard (8151) to the Philippines for 15 months. I was then assigned to Weapons Co 3rd BN 6th Marine Reg. To save money on “live” M47 rounds we used a Launch Effect Trainer (LET) which was an actual M47 “tube” weighted to simulate the 40 pounds of explosive warhead etc. We were required to be proficient in engaging stationary and moving targets with this system. I did fire two more live rounds. I was never trained on the Javelin System but I understand it is much more effective/costly. During “Humps” I would carry the M47 strapped in front of me to balance the weight from my pack. It was difficult to carry and as we were assigned to 0311 Rifle Platoons it was a challenge to always be where they wanted us to be.
I have two photographs of myself and fellow 0351 Marines with the M47 I can provide you via e-mail if this is of interest to you.
I am glad someone is thoroughly calling bull shit on Douglas Tweaktwitch’s ridiculous hubris, even though I still appreciate a lot of what Douglas Dietrich’s passion against child abuse. In the meantime where do I get some of that enhanced nano blood to grow my foreskin back so I don’t feel like another “average American male monster” (Doug’s own words describing the average American.) Eisenhower would have American soldiers convicted of rape executed, unlike the Japanese who raped children in the rape of Nanking under the “Bushido code”.
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Nano blood? My eyes are drowsy, and I just read the headlines.
Steve, this Dietrich dude is obviously unhinged. You shouldn’t have even dignified him with a response, let alone in so much work drafting such a lengthy dox-like report.
You need to get away from the computer, and San Francisco. Let’s go get some beers. First round is on me.
I take your point, and appreciate the sentiment.
In my research into Mr Dietrich I obtained a lot of information that could be considered “doxing”. I haven’t published any of that. He is a public figure with radio shows, and posts his “Bio-Bomb” with every show on YouTube, so I think it is appropriate to discuss.
I expect to get many challenges to my integrity and character as I publish my Shadow History series. Not everybody wants the truth to come out.
August 3, 2016 @ 5:37 am
Just a quick note. Yes, Dietrich is a sloppy researcher, and no doubt a complete bullshit artist, but this claim – “The FBI have now declassified that Hitler lived on for years in South America.” shows you to be fairly sloppy yourself. Read the FBI document – it says nothing like you claim, but merely reports on an allegation that cannot be verified. Seriously, such standards of research are woeful.
“woeful”, huh? I have addressed your comment here
https://burners.me/2016/08/03/hitler-lived-on-for-years-in-south-america/
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Didn’t read this one.
Stevia Johnson
good stuff, zos. Ran across this Dietrich fool before and always thought he was full of shit. Hard to tell the professional disinfo guys, though, from the schizophrenic wannabes….
Disinformationist upset about a disinformationist. Hilarious. It’s like two retards arguing over who is more retarded.
Care to point to some disinformation coming from burners.me? Or just trolling?
Perhaps you’re confusing us with BMOrg.
I mostly have problems with Irvin’s disinformation. Which you promote. Here’s a nice little example of their shoddy “research”
https://youtu.be/FUF2TGy_JM4
Someone spent a lot of time to add Satanic images to this. They should’ve spent more time on what facts were wrong. Ok, joe said “Alastair cooper” not Anderson. That doesn’t automatically disprove all the other research.
If you can’t connect the dots in someone’s edited video, that doesn’t mean there are no dots to connect.
And they *did* mention the Burned Over District, in that very episode!
Be careful of those giving you the message that “truth is fear”
They were the ones mentioning satanism. As they make such enormous broad meaningless “connections” spanning over a 100 years and miles upon miles. half the time the names mentioned having no clue about the other. But for sure that’s Jan’s new kick now, everyone is satanic agents part of a master plan fear mongering garbage. That’s why you guys attacking clown Dietrich is so hilarious. To peas from the same disinformation pod. I’ve talked to you before on facebook, showing how Irvin is wrong about Wasson and many others. It fell on your deaf ears.
Jan Irvin has produced primary documentation proving Wasson was CIA, Century Club, and CFR. So maybe your argument was weak, rather than my ears being deaf.
Anyway, we have a ton of Satanism information coming for you soon. Perhaps you can keep an open mind, and let me know your thoughts after you’ve seen that.
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The History Blog just reported ( http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/57154 ) that the only known antebellum image of slaves with cotton recently sold at auction for a hammer price of $260k. This daguerreotype was purchased for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Here's their announcement of the acquisition: https://nelson-atkins.org/rare-daguerreotype-purchased-hall-family-foundation-nelson-atkins-s/
Here's the image (posted with permission from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art):
The History Blog says that the image was discovered in 2012 and had to undergo conservation. The blog explains why this image is significant:
"Images of enslaved people working on the cotton plantations of Georgia and the Carolinas are extant, but they were captured by photographers who traveled south with the Union Army. They were taken at the large coastal planters owned by the wealthiest elites and worked by hundreds of slaves. This daguerreotype depicts slavery at a rural holding, the type of small-scale operation that was typical for the vast majority of slaveholders."
Roy B. -- 25 Nov 2019
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Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the Nelson-Atkins Museum contains perhaps the best collection of 19th. century
daguerreotypes in the United States.
I have been to many of the finest art museums in this country and I feel that the Nelson ranks among the highest and approaches the Chicago Art Institute in its breath and scope. The collection of miniature colonial rooms is unsurpassed and its collection of American Art, including Thomas Hart Benton's and George Caleb Bingham's is outstanding. The museum is also the home of one of Monet's large watercolor triptychs.
Make the Nelson a must-stop on your next trip through Kansas City.
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Boonslick said:
daguerreotypes in the United States. I have been to many of the finest art museums in this country and I feel that the Nelson ranks among the highest and approaches the Chicago Art Institute in its breath and scope. Make the Nelson a must-stop on your next trip through Kansas City.
Great suggestion -- sounds like a wonderful place to visit!
Roy B.
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JPChurch
When you say "conservation," what does that mean? The reason why I ask is because I have similar type image of my GG Grandfather's parents. It has faded over the years and you need to tilt it to see the image clearly. My GGG grandma's cheeks are hi-lighted in a rose tint. She was a very beautiful woman.
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Mike Serpa
That is a whole lot of money!
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lupaglupa
Interesting that they think this portrays a more typical setting for enslaved labor. The picture appears to have about 12 people of African descent, most of them adults. Presumably they are all all enslaved persons. That seems to be a larger plantation than many for the time.
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JPChurch said:
The History Blog doesn't go into great detail about the conservation process, but they do say this:
"The daguerreotype was discovered in estate of Charles Gentry, Jr., after his death in Austin, Texas, in 2012. It was in good condition, but needed conservation to remove tape residue and dirt and to re-glaze and rebind the plate. The hinges of the case were also repaired."
Checking around, I find that there are some businesses that do restoration, and some of them discuss the processes they use. One of them ( https://www.finedags.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=restoration.dagrestoration ) says this:
"Roughly 80% of all daguerreotypes have had their original seals broken. Those images have been resealed with paper tape, or left unsealed. Many times the glass was changed. Underneath that glass about 95% of the time is a layer of hazy film that both diminishes the contrast and softens the appearance of the image. Often, it can't be seen until the old piece of glass has been removed. If moisture is also present, very detrimental problems can occur on the actual silvered surface...
"One other issue that needs to be discussed is out gassing. Both my dad and I have seen various types of haze and sometimes even white dots appear on the under side of glass in as little time as six months after new glass was added and the package was taped with Filmoplast P-90. We have discussed this phenomenon with other archivists. None of us have conclusively decided or perfectly understand the problem. However, we have noticed that out gassing does not appear on all dags, but more commonly on those that have been improperly cleaned. It can occur on images with paper seals, no seals and archival seals."
There's more to learn if you do a Google search on something like "how are dagguereotypes restored."
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Mike Serpa said:
Sure is! I guess it was the age and uniqueness of the image. I don't understand everything about auctions, but apparently it cost the buyer even more than the $260k hammer price. I'm not 100% clear on what the "buyer's premium" means, but here's what History Blog said:
"[The sale price] blew past the pre-sale estimate of $100,000 – $150,000 for a hammer price of $260,000 ($324,500 including buyer’s premium)."
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Auction houses usually charge both the buyer and the seller a premium for selling the item. Make money on both ends!
The photo was sold at 25% buyer's premium.
$260,000 x 1.25 = $325,000. $65,000 to the auction house. Don't know if the seller paid a commission. If a 25% seller's premium was charged the auction house gets 50% of the final sale price.
Lottta money in that deal!
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A. Roy said:
Thanks so much for this info!!
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on the cotton plantations of Georgia and the Carolinas
Thanks for sharing this post. It's a very interesting image. I noticed that they mentioned GA and Carolina plantations. It got me wondering if that means they think this image is of a GA/Carolina plantation?
discovered in estate of Charles Gentry, Jr., after his death in Austin, Texas, in 2012.
Luckily, they provided the source of the image so maybe we can find out - that is, if it's a family image and not one acquired later from some source outside the family. According to this obituary the Charles Gentry Jr who died 1/11/2012 at Ennis TX was Charles Edward Gentry (b. 1/3/1924.) His parents were Ernest Leamon and Mary Alice Tallant Gentry.
According to Find A Grave Ernest Leamon Gentry was born 1896. According to the 1940 US Census, Ernest and his wife Mary Alice Tallent Gentry were both born in Hardeman TX - Ernest in about 1896 and Mary in about 1901.
Here, according to the 1910 US Census we find Ernest L Gentry (age 14; born about 1896) whose parents are David L Gentry and Georgia Gentry. David L was born about 1874 in Texas and his wife, Georgia, was born about 1875 in Alabama. Both of David's parents were born in TX and both of Georgia's parents were born in AL.
To be continued....
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Oh but look....in the 1900 US Census David reports that both his parents were born in Georgia
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watercolor triptychs.
Post #2 should read as water lily pond triptychs. (Not watercolor triptychs).
Thanks for posting this, @A. Roy
The brick chimney coming out of the house suggest a very prosperous place (those were expensive). There's also an African American woman standing on the right side of the picture who looks resolute, quite confident in her posture and demeanor. That is very interesting.
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Oh shoot. I had started a reply; never finished it; and didn't post it. Now it's gone. So I'll try to recreate it.
I found David L Gentry and his wife Georgia listed in the Huckabay Cemetery, Erath County, Texas
Gentry, David L. 1874 - 1941
Gentry, Georgia Lee 1875- 1919
Georgia's middle or maiden name was "Lee." I'll take a look and see if I can find her in the 1880 or 1890 census with her parents - prior to her marriage. Im still not sure who David L.'s parents are.
brick chimney coming out of the house
Drew thanks for calling attention to the architecture. The brick chimney seems to be square? This house appears to be a three-bay, one and a half story, vernacular with a central square brick chimney and no dormers. The old 1 1/2 story vernacular houses Ive seen were generally symmetrical - the windows on the half story matched up with the windows/door on the first floor. But this one has no window on the right lower level (nearest the camera) and there's that odd door on the end. The windows seem odd too - it looks like there are no muntins - just two large sheets of glass on each window? One on top and one on bottom? The windows of most antebellum homes I've seen had six, eight, or even nine smaller panes divided by muntins.
I also dont recall ever seeing one that had a front and rear porch that extended all the way across the house, where the lean-to roofs were attached at the upper roofline. Some 1 1/2 story antebellum vernacular houses didnt have porches at all. Most of the ones I've seen that did, had the shed/lean-to roof attached at the top of the first story and the ends of the lean-to roof were open - not covered over with siding. Maybe it's a Texas thing? @diane @Nathanb1 do you guys know? Fancier plantation homes had porches that went all the way across, but they usually had decorative columns supporting the roof. This one seems to have square posts like a 4" x 4"
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Fancier plantation homes had porches that went all the way across, but they usually had decorative columns supporting the roof. This one seems to have square posts like a 4" x 4"
It's just a wild guess, but I think fancy plantation homes were built over time and not just built out of thin air - money had to be made to get them "just right."
Glass panes had to be carried over many miles, were fragile and expensive. I kinda think it may have been done a little at a time, but what do I know.
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Nathanb1
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Smack dab in the heart of Texas
In some cases you are absolutely correct. In others, the father might build it as a gift to a child upon their marriage, or an older one burned down, so it would be done at once...I know of some in Louisiana that were built at one time just because they had oodles of money, too...so there's that.
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lelliott19 said:
I suspect it's a Texas thing. I looked and found several with the porches like that. Shade was at a premium in Texas, so it doesn't surprise me--the lack of symmetry in the windows/doors in the front does. One thing I thought of was that the plantation office was in the right front downstairs and they didn't have windows for security purposes. That's something I have seen, just not in the house. Or, LOL, they were putting it together one piece at a time like Johnny Cash's song....
It's a strange world...I went to high school in Huckabay and grew up near there. I might check with a friend to see if we didn't go to school with a Gentry (for some reason it sounds very familiar--but I'm old).
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archieclement
I would have guessed the house and image a rare postwar personally.
it seems a bit unusual to me, not sure if we are looking at the main-house or overseers house if prewar. If its the overseers house, and seems least 9 blacks evident, not sure if it would be a small rural plantation. Porches didnt really generally come into vogue with smaller frame houses till later.
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Hugh Freeze Charles Snowden PK Kier Bryce Perkins Stephen Calvert Joe Reed Bronco Mendenhall Terrell Jana Heskin Smith Lamont Atkins Mike Hollins Brennan Armstrong Sports College football Football College sports
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Perkins, Virginia cruise past Liberty, 55-27
By HANK KURZ Jr. - Nov. 23, 2019 04:59 PM EST
Virginia's Lamont Atkins (5) scores a touchdown against Liberty during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, in Charlottesville, Va. (Erin Edgerton/The Daily Progress via AP)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia had every reason to come out flat against Liberty, especially with a showdown looming next Friday against arch-rival and 25th-ranked Virginia Tech with a chance to win the ACC’s Coast Division championship for the first time in program history.
That the Cavaliers overcame that challenge, winning 55-27, shows appreciable maturity, coach Bronco Mendenhall said.
“The outside pressure to look past (the Liberty game), really, that’s all they heard,” Mendenhall said.
The Cavaliers came out dominant, then appeared to lapse into cruise control before a defensive play changed everything.
On first and 10 from the Virginia 38 and with Liberty ahead 14-10, Flames quarterback Stephen Calvert dropped back, faced pressure, scrambled and threw the ball deep downfield, even though there was not a player wearing the same jersey anywhere nearby.
Safety De’Vante Cross was, though, and not only intercepted, but returned it 52 yards to the Flames’ 42.
“That kind of snapped us back into it,” Mendenhall said.
Five plays later, Lamont Atkins 3-yard run gave Virginia a lead it would only build on.
First-year Liberty coach Hugh Freeze was disappointed the rest of the way.
“Up 14-10 and we just went off the rails doing things that we haven’t done,” Freeze said. “I felt like it kind of carried over into the locker room and we just never responded. ... It appears that it affected us more than I would like to admit.”
Bryce Perkins threw for two touchdowns and ran for another for the Cavaliers (8-3), who scored a season-high total.
Perkins hit Terrell Jana for 8 yards and Joe Reed for 7 and scored on a 1-yard run. Mike Hollins and PK Kier also had scoring runs for the Cavaliers, and backup quarterback Brennan Armstrong completed a 44-yard scoring pass to Dontayvion Wick with 1:58 remaining.
Calvert threw for two touchdowns for the Flames (6-5). The interception was the fourth-year starter’s first in 296 pass attempts, and Cross later got him again, again when Calvert threw deep into Cavaliers territory.
Liberty: The Flames are dangerous with the tandem of Calvert and Gandy-Golden and can qualify for a bowl game in their first year eligible next Saturday against visiting New Mexico State (1-9 coming into the day). First-year Flames coach Hugh Freeze has made a huge impact on Calvert, a gun-slinger who looks for the big play and threw 18 interceptions last year. This season, he’s thrown for 25 touchdowns with just five interceptions. Gandy-Golden had six catches for 60 yards, including a one-handed touchdown grab in the third quarter.
Virginia: The Cavaliers’ depleted secondary got a lift from sophomore Heskin Smith, who had played sparingly but was thrust back into action two weeks ago because of injuries. Late in the first half, the 5-foot-11 Smith broke up consecutive passes intended for the 6-foot-4 Gandy-Golden from the Virginia 25, forcing a 43-yard field goal try that sailed wide left, preserving Virginia’s 24-14 halftime lead.
Virginia has lost to the Hokies in the last 15 meetings, a trend Mendenhall promised to change when he arrived four years ago.
He never used the words Virginia Tech during his postgame comments , but wasn’t shying away from the importance of the game.
“The Coastal championship will be on the line and I think that reflects just growth and progress within the program,” he said.
The winner of the Coastal gets a date with No. 3 Clemson in the ACC title game.
TRICKERATION
Virginia led 24-14 when it went into field goal formation from the Flames’ 31. But it was a fake, and Armstrong hit linebacker 6-foot-7 Charles Snowden with a pass that went for 24 yards, setting the Cavaliers up at the Flames’ 7. Two plays later, Perkins hit Reed for the TD.
“It was a really nice job by Brennan Armstrong and it wasn’t an easy catch,” Mendenhall said.
Asked if the talented Snowden has a future at receiver, Mendanhall answered quickly: “No.”
The Flames finish the regular season at home against New Mexico State, which they beat 20-13 on the road in October
Virginia faces No. 25 Virginia Tech with a chance to win its first ACC Coastal Division title — and end a 15-year losing skid to the Hokies
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If you’ve been reading Collider for any amount of time, you know how we feel about Milo Ventimiglia. Since first interviewing him about a year and a half ago, Milo has been a great supporter of the site and has made himself available whenever we’ve had a question. Also, he’s one of the nicest actors in the business.
Anyway, at this year’s Comic-Con, the cast of Neveldine/Taylor’s “Gamer” was out promoting and Jonah was able to sit down with Milo as I couldn’t make the interview. But don’t worry, Jonah stepped up to the plate and asked some great questions. So if you’d like to see Milo talk about his work in “Gamer”, “Heroes”, and video games, take a look after the jump:
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GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in the near future, a time when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has created the controversial form of entertainment, “Slayers,” a hugely popular game that allows millions to act out their innermost desires and fantasies – online – in front of a global audience. Gaming has evolved into a terrifying new dimension…mind control… manipulation… people playing people!
At the center is Kable (300’s Gerard Butler), the superstar and cult hero of “Slayers,” the savage, ultraviolent first person shooter game. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.
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'Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn Review': Improving on an Already Creative Formula
By Tanner Dedmon - March 4, 2019 09:32 am EST
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn for the Nintendo 3DS still isn’t your typical Kirby game, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a wonderful platformer that builds on an already unique world full of yarn and patchwork. With the improvements Nintendo added that set it apart from Kirby’s Epic Yarn which released years ago, Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn is brought further into the traditional Kirby formula while still maintaining its charm.
Those who played the original game when it released for the Wii in 2010 will find that the setup to the string-filled story is the same, but for those who haven’t, the intro explains why Kirby’s now an adorable yarn creation. Kirby and the rest of his friends have been sent to a world full of yarn by the sorcerer who’s aptly named Yin-Yarn, and it’s up to Kirby and his new friend Prince Fluff to progress through levels and worlds so that they may restore things to their natural order.
Using a Yarn Whip to manipulate the environment and progress through levels by unraveling yarn enemies and finding secret passageways, Kirby must try to avoid getting hit so as not to lose the craft beads he’s collected. The worlds and stages that contain those beads and enemies are remarkably creative with scenery built from pieced-together yarn and cloth, and each one is full of interesting ways for Kirby to progress. Stitching together a bear and unraveling a fossilized bird to access new areas are just a few of the ways the 3DS game charms players. It helps that every world is also expertly crafted and diverse with players traveling underwater and into space and everywhere in between through some stunningly creative environments.
Kirby also has a new tool in Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn called Ravel Abilities, but if you’re like me and never played the original, you might find yourself double-checking to make sure these weren’t a part of the original game. Throughout the various stages, enemies and Prince Fluff will hold abilities above their heads that Kirby can lasso to bestow upon himself a neat hat and, more importantly, a new power. These Ravel Abilities take inspiration from Kirby’s traditional powers – you can’t suck up enemies in this game since Kirby’s made of yarn, of course – and are the main feature that make this feel more like a Kirby game than ever. You can slash enemies with a wire sword, throw out a button great distances to whip opponents at range, and can toss bombs to clear out large areas. If you’re looking for a powerup to pick, the Nylon Ravel Ability that lets Kirby create a whirlwind that sucks up beads and defeats nearby enemies is by far the best option.
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If you did play the first game and found it to be easy, you’ll probably feel the same about Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn. Most of the levels are fairly simple since Kirby only loses beads when hit, though there are some stages that’ll test your patience if you’re trying to get the best score possible while collecting everything and holding onto beads. Either the analog stick or the D-Pad can be used to pilot Kirby as he transforms into a car and other objects with a hard press on the stick or a double-tap on the pad sending Kirby into a dash. The analog stick feels like the better option, but its sensitivity and just a desire to move quicker in levels means you’ll always be dashing for the most part. It’s frustrating when getting used to the controls to continuously bump into walls and watch Kirby bounce off to the platform below, but towards the end of the game, you’ll be flying through levels.
The Devilish Mode does add some difficulty to the game if you’re looking for more of a challenge though. Each level including boss fights and bonus missions can be played in Devilish Mode which causes flying devils after Kirby to hinder his progress. You can send them away temporarily, but they’ll always come back until the level is finished. What’s more challenging about this is that the mode actually gives Kirby life points, and losing all of them will end the stage. The mode puts a b it more pressure on players and again makes everything Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn feel more like a traditional platformer.
New minigames featuring King Dedede and Meta Knight also make for a nice break between levels or some post-game content. Dedede Gogogo sees the hammer-wielding character racing through a stage that’s constantly moving while collecting beads and avoiding obstacles while Slash & Bead has Meta Knight dashing through enemies and stalling for time until the level ends. Completing these games and levels on the Devilish difficulty will award players with new decorations to fill Kirby’s pad, but the minigames and extra challenges themselves are the real draw.
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn is simply delightful and is worth picking up for anyone who didn’t play the original, though mileage may vary for those who played the original and are looking for a completely new experience. This Kirby game being on the 3DS instead of the Nintendo Switch might be a head-scratcher to some, but it’s still just as enjoyable on the handheld-only device. It’ll keep you entertained for 6-7 hours if you’re just looking to experience the story and some bonus levels and will last much longer if you take part in all it offers.
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn releases on March 8th for the Nintendo 3DS for $39.99 with more information found here.
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Category Archives: Chapter 17
Doing a review of the text in preparation for writing this, I noted that it was difficult to find any sort of common theme running between the various episodes. These include an admonition about not corrupting the little ones, telling a mulberry tree to throw itself into the sea, the cleansing of ten lepers, all ending with sort of a trailer for the coming prediction of the apocalypse. It would be possible to suggest that the common thread is faith, and it would not be difficult to argue against such a conclusion; however, the theme of faith is so generic, and so common to so much of the NT that claiming this as the central theme is almost meaningless. It’s simply too broad of a concept. So let’s return to the metaphor of the thread; perhaps we should thing of it as a string, as in the connecting thread used to create a string of pearls. I’ve used this analogy before in describing the text of the various gospels. They are only loosely connected around the theme of Jesus preaching and then taking the fatal trip to Jerusalem. As such, they do not form a coherent whole; rather, they are more reminiscent of a string of beads, each distinct and possibly unique, only connected to the other beads by the string.
This tells us something about how the stories of Jesus came about, how they came into existence. There was no unifying narrative at first. What happened was that individual stories popped up here and there, sort of like mushrooms: each one is unique, each one is separate, and the sole unifying common denominator is that they are all mushrooms. They might not even be the same species: some could be button mushrooms, others porcini, others portobello. And so it is, I truly believe, with stories about Jesus. They popped here and there. Some were about his healing powers. Some were about the kingdom. Some were about faith. Different stories featured, or emphasized different aspects of Jesus’ life and career. But note the difference: was he a teacher? A wonder worker? A preacher of repentance? Or of salvation? The answer, of course is “yes”, he was each of these things; at least, that’s what the stories tell us. And this, I think, is the key to the eventual “success” of Christianity as a religion: Jesus was– or could be made to be– all things to all people. We discussed how Mark seemed to be a concerted effort to converge the two primary traditions, the two main threads of the Jesus cult in his gospel. These are stories of Jesus the Wonder-Worker, and Jesus the Christ.
In addition, recalling that Luke adds a lot of rich detail to the tapestry, one could argue that he represents another tradition: What it means to be a Christian*. And it is wholly appropriate to describe the people Luke was writing for as Christians*. These are the stories of The Prodigal Son, The Good Samaritan, and Dives and Lazarus. Here we get the story of the Ten Lepers, which, while novel, doesn’t quite fit the category I’m describing.
As far as the stories in this chapter, given the lack of thematic connexion, it seems difficult to summarize the chapter as a whole. We get a little of this and a little of that. The apocalypse will recur later, so perhaps the two most salient features of the chapter are the returning leper was a Samaritan, and the idea that just doing your duty is not enough. The former fits in with the Good Samaritan parable in two ways. It does demonstrate how we should behave as Christians. In addition, it is a not-so-subtle disparagement of the Jews. Who was the neighbor? The Samaritan. Which of the lepers returned? The Samaritan. We are now at the point when Christians start doing the doublespeak on their Jewish heritage. On the one hand, writers like Hippolytus Romanus (circa 200 CE) stress the connexion, even while disparaging certain leaders of “heretical” sects as introducing “novel” ideas and doctrines. I have said this repeatedly, but it bears repeating even more: to the mind of someone in the Roman world of Jesus, novelty was not a good thing. One respected ideas that were old, that had withstood the test of time. Egypt is the premiere example of this. Even half a millennium before Jesus, the Greeks were in awe of the civilisation of Egypt. Many teachings, Pythagoras being an outstanding example, were said to trace back to Egypt. So in order to fit into this, Christians needed– almost desperately– to claim the centuries-old heritage of the Jews. At the same time, however, they had to explain why the Jews had rejected Jesus. This was a bit of an awkward, or inconvenient fact. Stories like the Good Samaritan and the Ten Lepers do not, in fact, explain why the Jews rejected Jesus, but they do emphasize that the Jews did reject Jesus. And the way they rejected him leads us into the story of the lepers.
The first section we discussed ended with Jesus using the metaphor of the slave. He has returned from working all day in the fields, but the master does not wait on the slave. Rather, the slave is then expected to wait on the master while the latter is at his meat. This leads Jesus to ask if we are not grateful for such slaves, but adds the admonition that doing what we are told is not enough. We must go, in modern parlance, over and above mere duty. When read, this seems a bit of a non-sequitur. Jesus makes a logical jump, and the landing on the other side is a bit jarring. The slave was told to wait on the master; how was this going the extra mile? I’m not sure. This admonition to do more is what leads us into the Ten Lepers. These lepers approached Jesus as a group. Jesus healed all ten, and then gave them instructions to go show themselves to the priests, to show that they were now ritually cleansed, and then they were to make the sacrifices as prescribed by Moses. Again as a body, the ten trundle off to do what they were told. At least, ten of them started to do this; nine of them continued, but the tenth returned, groveled before Jesus, and gave thanks. In other words, he did more than just what he was told to do. He took the extra step, went the extra mile, went over and above mere duty. This is how the Christian is expected to act. And, as a personal note, I’ve always felt this way. Think about situations when you’ve done something for someone and they are thankful, and say “you didn’t need to do this”. Well, of course not; that is exactly the point. Doing only what is expected is good, but it’s expected. Not doing this, of course is bad; but the point is, what is expected is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
*The term “Christian” came into existence sometime in the period of Matthew, so by the time of Luke it was probably not uncommon. In particular, Tacitus uses the term writing in or around 112 CE.
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There is a lot of text to cover here. Here we get to a prelude to Luke’s version of the coming “apocalypse”, or day of wrath, or however you wish to describe it. This is kind of an odd bit coming here, or at least an odd place to put something like this. It follows hard on the heels of the Ten Lepers. I suppose one could argue that the intent of this passage in this location is meant to illustrate what will happen to those like the nine who did not return to give thanks, although their place is taken over by Pharisees. They are the ones who initiate the conversation about the arrival of the Kingdom of God. Is that question unique to Luke? Is he the only evangelist who puts this question into the mouths of people around Jesus? I don’t recall it, at least not in so many words, but I suppose there are different versions of it, or many and various ways to couch the implication of the question to evoke Jesus’ response.
What is, perhaps, more interesting is the placement of the reference to Noah. This occurs in Matthew as well, and Kloppenborg includes this as part of Q. But there is a “but” here; Matthew has this reference in the context of his version of the coming wrath, and it’s all together in his Chapter 24. Luke, OTOH, splits this off from his main narrative of the apocalypse. which will come in Chapter 21. This is sort of a teaser, or perhaps the trailer for the main story that is to come. What this means is that one of them, Matthew or Luke, changed the order of the Q material. It may have been Matthew moving it to be part of the longer apocalypse story, or Luke who removes it from the longer apocalypse and places it here. I mention this because the handling and organization of the Q material presented in the Sermon on the Mount is a major prop for the pro-Q argument. Why would Luke mess with this masterful arrangement if he’d read Matthew? Perhaps because Luke tended to rearrange the material he had, whether in the form of Q, or in Matthew’s gospel. More will be said on this later.
As a final note, I forget who said it, whether Ehrman, or Crossan, or someone else, but apocalyptic writing is the last resort of the downtrodden. Sure, we’re your chattel now, but just you wait. OUR GOD is gonna come and clean your clock and teach you a lesson. Him and my big brother. So you better watch it, buster. Honest. I mean it. So anyway, here what Luke has to say about the End Times, or the Time of Retribution, or whatever you wish to call it.
20 Ἐπερωτηθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν Φαρισαίων πότε ἔρχεται ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς καὶ εἶπεν, Οὐκ ἔρχεται ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ μετὰ παρατηρήσεως,
21 οὐδὲ ἐροῦσιν, Ἰδοὺ ὧδε: ἤ, Ἐκεῖ: ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν.
Having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God is coming, he answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with observable things (more literally, observations). (21) Nor will they say, ‘Look here’, or ‘look there’, for the kingdom of God is within you.”
This finishes Jesus’ response to the Pharisees, so we can pause here a moment. “The kingdom of God is within you”. The problem with that perfectly legitimate translation is that “you” is plural. If Jesus had said, “within you(singular)” the meaning would be crystal clear, that each of us carries the kingdom within ourself, as in we carry it in our hearts, or in some such metaphorical manner. It is within me, it is within my friend and my sister and each of us individually. But it’s within us plurally, as a group, as a plural number of us. So do we take this in the distributive sense, as it’s within each of you and you and you? This, in fact, is how the Liddell and Scott understands this usage. They have a specific entry referring explicitly and specifically to this passage, rendering is as “within your hearts”. So where is the problem?
The problem, such as it is, is that this is most frequently rendered as “in your midst”. To me, this is sort of saying that there are three people sitting in a triangle, and the kingdom is sort of sitting there on the grass in between them all. It is in their midst, which is a way of saying “it is in the middle of the three of them, but not specifically within any one of them”. At least, that is how I would understand “midst”. Or is that a needlessly strict understanding of “midst”? What else does it mean, if not “in the middle of all of you”? So my point is that I really do not agree with the “in your midst” translation. It lacks, IMO, the personal implication of what is in the Greek. And if we check the Latin, the Vulgate says intra vos, which is a pretty literal rendering of the Greek. “Within you”, again as in, “within your heart”, i.e. And, for those keeping score at home, the KJV comes in with what I would consider the authoritative reading, of “within you”. It is the modern translations that go astray. I wonder why?
I will be quite honest: I’m more than half-way through the third gospel and like three epistles, and the number of times that reading the original has made a tremendous difference can probably be counted on two hands. Or at least two hands and two feet. But this, I think, is definitely one of them.
One last note. The idea of the kingdom being within us is an extension of the admonition not to look here, or look there, for it. Both are part of the same idea.
20 Interrogatus autem a pharisaeis: “Quando venit regnum Dei?”, respondit eis et dixit: “Non venit regnum Dei cum observatione,
21 neque dicent: “Ecce hic” aut: “Illic”; ecce enim regnum Dei intra vos est”.
22 Εἶπεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς μαθητάς, Ἐλεύσονται ἡμέραι ὅτε ἐπιθυμήσετε μίαν τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἰδεῖν καὶ οὐκ ὄψεσθε.
23 καὶ ἐροῦσιν ὑμῖν, Ἰδοὺ ἐκεῖ: [ἤ,] Ἰδοὺ ὧδε: μὴ ἀπέλθητε μηδὲ διώξητε.
24 ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἀστράπτουσα ἐκ τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν εἰς τὴν ὑπ’ οὐρανὸν λάμπει, οὕτως ἔσται ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου [ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ].
He said to his disciples, “The days are coming that you will yearn for one of the days of the son of man to see and you will not see (you will long to see the son of man, but you will not see him). (23) And they will say you, ‘Look there’, or ‘look here’; but he will not come nor should you follow him. (24) For as the lightening lightens from the one under the sky to the one under the sky it shines, so will be the son of man on that day.
The Greek in that last verse is a bit odd. Nor is the Latin much help, because it follows the Greek pretty closely, and neither of them seem to match the English translations of (more or less) “lightening flashes from one part of the sky to the other”. There may be some sort of idiom involved that persons more adept in Greek & Latin can follow that are simply beyond me. Part of the confusion is that this verse is connected to the one before, with people saying “he’s here or there”, so it seems like the sense is that lightening flashes, and the son of man is seen here, and it flashes again the son of man is seen over there. Sort of a celestial strobe effect, with the son of man changing places in the time between the flashes. And “lightening lightens” is a very clumsy attempt to get across the fact that the words for both the noun and the verb are derived from the same root.
22 Et ait ad discipulos: “ Venient dies, quando desideretis videre unum diem Filii hominis et non videbitis.
23 Et dicent vobis: “Ecce hic”, “Ecce illic”; nolite ire neque sectemini.
24 Nam sicut fulgur coruscans de sub caelo in ea, quae sub caelo sunt, fulget, ita erit Filius hominis in die sua.
25 πρῶτον δὲ δεῖ αὐτὸν πολλὰ παθεῖν καὶ ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης.
26 καὶ καθὼς ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Νῶε, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου:
27 ἤσθιον, ἔπινον, ἐγάμουν, ἐγαμίζοντο, ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθεν Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, καὶ ἦλθεν ὁ κατακλυσμὸς καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πάντας.
28 ὁμοίως καθὼς ἐγένετο ἐνταῖς ἡμέραις Λώτ: ἤσθιον, ἔπινον, ἠγόραζον, ἐπώλουν, ἐφύτευον, ᾠκοδόμουν:
29 ἧ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθεν Λὼτ ἀπὸ Σοδόμων, ἔβρεξεν πῦρ καὶ θεῖον ἀπ’οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πάντας.
30 κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔσται ἧ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀποκαλύπτεται.
But first it must be that he (son of man) suffer much, and be rejected by this generation, (26) and accordingly it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man. (27) They ate, they drank, they married, they married until the day Noah went into the Ark, and the cataclysm (a straight transliteration of the Greek kataklysmos) came and destroyed everything. (28) It was similar in the day of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought at the market, they sold, they planted, they built. (29) But on the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the sky (or, from heaven) and destroyed all. (30) Accordingly it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed (apokalyptai).
I mentioned the placement of this in the introduction. The references to Noah and Lot occur in Matthew, but as a part of his “complete” version of the apocalypse. Why is it separated out by Luke? As a prefiguration? Is it, as such, as a literary device? Or is Luke just slavishly following the layout of Q, putting stuff where the compiler of Q left it?
Such a suggestion should be seen as risible even at first glance. To suggest, to think, that the author of The Good Samaritan or The Prodigal Son didn’t have the literary chops to know how to organize his material is ridiculous. When Luke does something like this, he does it with purpose aforethought. This has to carry through to the discussion of Q, but, of course, it doesn’t. The focus is on how badly he mangled the Sermon on the Mount. Now, saying, that, I seem to recall Mark Goodacre, a prof at Duke, suggested something along the lines of Luke not liking long stories. Goodacre is one of the few people I’ve run across who is willing to take a stand against Q; but I do recall that his suggestion that Luke likes to keep things more concise was met with a wave of derision and what bordered on outright dismissal. This is a topic on which I need to do much more research; so, for this particular moment at least, I will drop the topic of Q and move on. Yes, I show forbearance.
As for the actual content, this is a direct throwback to Jewish culture. As such, it fits in nicely with the Jewish slant that Matthew is said to have. Thus, one has to admit, it is the sort of thing that a Jew like Jesus would be familiar with, and so would use as an example. As such, it is honestly very difficult to gainsay this inference and argue that it does not show Jewish heritage. One question this raises, however, is how often did Jesus actually make references to the HS in Mark? The quick answer is: not that many. The hard copy Greek NT that I have (wonderful little book, btw; Bible Society, ca 1912 or thereabouts; it’s still around) has book, chapter, & verse to all the HS cites that are made. In Mark, most of the cites are to other Gospels, some to Acts, and some to epistles. In the first half of the gospel, I came up with about a dozen refs; of those, perhaps eight are things Jesus said. That’s 75%, which is a high number; however, even a glance at the margins of the pages, the cites in Mark are sparse while the margins in the gospel of Matthew are crammed with cites. Which indicates, IMO, that the author of Matthew spent a lot of time poring through the HS to find relevant passages, or passages that could be made to fit in a Procrustean Bed* sort of way. It seems, for example, that Matthew made up the story of the Slaughter of the Innocents to use a passage from Jeremiah about the wailing coming from Rama. Or the fight to Egypt so he could use the line from Hosea that YHWH called his son from Egypt. Indeed, he placed Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem so he could use a quote from Micah. Or that he put Jesus in Nazareth because Isaiah said “He will be called a Nazarene”.
Now, all that being said, it is worth noting that Matthew did not include the bit about Lot. Regardless, there is no purchase to be gained by parsing this out in terms of Q; Luke added another example of destruction, whether he got the first from Matthew or from Q really can’t be deduced from the evidence. Luke is going one up on someone. To my mind, it makes more sense that he would go up on Matthew, who was familiar to some members of his audience, rather than going one-up on Q, because one has to wonder the extent to which the general public would have been familiar with Q, assuming it existed. Since it, allegedly, disappeared without a trace, we have to suspect the answer is that the general public– in the sense of those listening to the gospels–was not terribly aware of Q.
We shouldn’t pass this by without mentioning the fire and brimstone. In English, brimstone is another word for “sulphur”, the element. It’s yellow, and burns, and lets off a rather foul odor. Pitch has a high sulphur content, so it tends to smell pretty awful when it burns. If you check the Latin below, you will see that the Greek translates to sulphur. This is the only time this word is used in any part of the NT– with the exception Revelation.
*Greek myth, exploits of Theseus. In his journey Theseus comes across a man named Procrustes who offered food and lodging to travelers on the road. The main selling point Procrustes offered was a bed, that was the perfect size for any and all. Well, turns out, if the traveler was too sort, Procrustes stretched the traveler until the latter was long enough. Too tall? No problem. Just lop of the excess. Of course Theseus overcame the man and left him a victim of his own bed. Not sure if he was too short or too tall.
25 Primum autem oportet illum multa pati et reprobari a generatione hac.
26 Et sicut factum est in diebus Noe, ita erit et in diebus Filii hominis:
27 edebant, bibebant, uxores ducebant, dabantur ad nuptias, usque in diem, qua intravit Noe in arcam, et venit diluvium et perdidit omnes.
28 Similiter sicut factum est in diebus Lot: edebant, bibebant, emebant, vendebant, plantabant, aedificabant;
29 qua die autem exiit Lot a Sodomis, pluit ignem et sulphur de caelo et omnes perdidit.
30 Secundum haec erit, qua die Filius hominis revelabitur.
31 ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὃς ἔσται ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος καὶ τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ, μὴ καταβάτω ἆραι αὐτά, καὶ ὁ ἐν ἀγρῷ ὁμοίως μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω.
32 μνημονεύετε τῆς γυναικὸς Λώτ.
33 ὃς ἐὰν ζητήσῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ περιποιήσασθαι ἀπολέσει αὐτήν, ὃς δ’ ἂν ἀπολέσῃ ζῳογονήσει αὐτήν.
34 λέγω ὑμῖν, ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ ἔσονται δύο ἐπὶ κλίνης μιᾶς, ὁ εἷς παραλημφθήσεται καὶ ὁ ἕτερος ἀφεθήσεται:
35 ἔσονται δύο ἀλήθουσαι ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, ἡ μία παραλημφθήσεται ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα ἀφεθήσεται.
36 καὶ 37 ἀποκριθέντες λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, Ποῦ, κύριε; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Οπου τὸ σῶμα, ἐκεῖ καὶ οἱ ἀετοὶ ἐπισυναχθήσονται.
On that day, one will be upon the (ie, roof of) the house, and his belongings will be in the house, do not go down to take it up, and one will be in the field (and) in the same way let him not turn back. (32) Recall the wife of Lot. (33) The one seeking to preserve his life it will be destroyed, and the one who will destroy it will live it. (34) I say to you, that night will be two upon a single couch; one will be taken up and the other will be left behind. (35) Two (women) will be grinding upon the same (millstone?), the one will be taken you and the other will be left.” (36) And (37) responding, they said, “Where, lord?” He said to them, “Where the body, there also the eagles will be gathered.”
Numerous points to discuss. Let’s get some of the minor ones out of the way. Due to the gendered grammar of Greek, we know there are two men on the couch; presumably they are eating because that is how they dined. In the same way, we know that there were two women grinding– presumably at the same millstone, but I don’t know enough about how these tasks were done in First Century Galilee. Eventually, this became a specialized profession, resulting in the surname “Miller”, but at the time of Jesus my impression is that a village would have numerous smaller ones that were used in common. But don’t cite me as an expert who knows that kind of thing.
More interesting is the verse before: the one seeking to save his life. The word used is psyche, which we are told means “soul”. Well, it does, but it often means life. We saw this in both Mark and Matthew, both of whom have this axiom in their gospels. I know we discussed this when we ran across it in Mark; I have always seen it translated in that context as soul: what shall it profit…gain the world, lose one’s soul? We discussed whether “soul” was the proper translation. In English, there is a very big difference between losing one’s life and losing one’s soul; not so much in Greek. where the same word can– and does– have both meanings. In Mark, translating as “soul” had metaphysical, or salvation aspects whereas it obviously gains one nothing to acquire the world and die a physical death. In all three gospels, when Jesus says, as he does here, that whoever would save his psyche will lose it, all the translations render it as “life”. Context is everything. And, btw, back in Luke 9, when he gives his version of Mark’s question about gaining the world, Luke renders it as “what shall it profit…gain the world…and lose oneself?” That very much eliminates the ambiguity, and makes me wonder if we have to rethink the consensus translation of Mark’s question.
The idea of one being taken while the other was left is the basis for the idea of the Rapture. The title of the series of novels called Left Behind, will certainly corroborate that. Beyond that, we’ve discussed much of this when we read Matthew, and we will discuss more when we get to Luke Chapter 21.
31 In illa die, qui fuerit in tecto, et vasa eius in domo, ne descendat tollere illa; et, qui in agro, similiter non redeat retro.
32 Memores estote uxoris Lot.
33 Quicumque quaesierit animam suam salvam facere, perdet illam; et, quicumque perdiderit illam, vivificabit eam.
34 Dico vobis: Illa nocte erunt duo in lecto uno:
unus assumetur, et alter relinquetur;
35 duae erunt molentes in unum: una assumetur, et altera relinquetur ”.
(36) 37 Respondentes dicunt illi: “ Ubi, Domine? ”. Qui dixit eis: “ Ubicumque fuerit corpus, illuc congregabuntur et aquilae ”.
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Luke Chapter 17:11-19; with Addendum
This is a short section of text. I’m never sure how long these will take, whether it will be a straightforward piece of translation and commentary, or if something will come up that sends me off onto a very long tangent. Time will tell. But the one after this definitely will be a long piece of text, so let’s try to keep this one on-track, shall we?
When last we saw our hero, he was telling stories about servants and mulberry trees. The general sense is that Jesus is progressing towards Jerusalem. That is sort of the general, ambient setting for the Synoptics as a whole: Jesus teaching in and around Galilee, even up to Tyre & Sidon, but then making the fateful trek to Jerusalem, where he will meet his doom. Doom? Funny you should ask. It doesn’t necessarily mean ‘death’, although that is a strong undercurrent. Rather, it’s synonymous with ‘fate’, rather than simply ‘to die’. However, in Christian terms, meeting one’s fate is what happens when you die and are subject to the Last Judgement. So, in order to meet your fate, your doom, you have to die first. So, saying “We’re doomed” became a euphemism for dying, but it skipped the bit about actual physical death and went straight to the part about the Judgement. And, btw, once we die and our soul is released from our physical, temporary, and temporal body, we step into the realm of the eternal. Hence when we die we go straight to the Last Judgement, because we are no longer bounded by time. Now, there are all sorts of problems with this, but let’s not get into them. That’s more the realm (now, anyway) of theoretical physics.
11 Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ πορεύεσθαι εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ καὶ αὐτὸς διήρχετο διὰ μέσον Σαμαρείας καὶ Γαλιλαίας.
And it came into being in the journey towards Jerusalem and he passed through Samaria and Galilee.
Geography lesson. In the time of Jesus, Samaria sat smack in between Galilee and Judea. The city of Samaria was the capital of Israel after the split of the United Kingdom after the death of Solomon. The problem with this is that I do not believe there ever was a United Kingdom ruled from Jerusalem. This latter city does not provide clear archaeological evidence for such an exalted position in the 9th or 10th Century BCE. Rather, it seems more likely that Israel was the power, was a significant kingdom in a period when neither Egypt nor any other power was able to exert control over Israel/Judea. The latter was likely, or possibly, a client state; perhaps nominally independent with its king (who could easily have been men named David, Solomon, etc), but who owed fealty– that is, tribute– to Israel. Then, when Israel was captured by Assyria, Judea asserted a claim to the lands that had been Israel. Hence was the “United Monarchy” born, several centuries after the fact. Much of the OT was sort of a foundation myth meant to prove that Judea and Jerusalem was rightwise ordained as the divine kingdom of the Chosen People.
There is also this: much of the books of Kings is about how wicked the kings of Israel were, always chasing after the baals, and worshipping in the high places. This would translate, roughly, to meaning that Israel did not recognise YHWH as their primary deity. Israelites worshipped Ba’al and Ishtar and the rest because they were still mostly what we would call pagans. YHWH, OTOH (!) was the tribal god of the hill people in Judea; IOW, a local deity for a very petty state. This would help explain the animosity the Judeans felt for the Samaritans: the latter did not accept the Judean version of history, and so did not acknowledge the primacy of the Temple in Jerusalem. A nice little theory, no? But that’s all it is. And I have no ready explanation for why Galilee, which was separated from Judea by Samaria, did recognise the Temple in Jerusalem. There are all sorts of possible explanations of varying degrees of plausibility, but this is neither the time nor the place. I’m a verse into this section, and I’ve already had my first tangent.
What I’m about to say is semi-risible; but that won’t stop me, because it’s the sort of things that historical analysts– especially those studying ancient history– will bring up. They will do this because there is so little evidence for ancient history that every last drop of implication has to be wrung out of every word. Dead horses are still beaten, over and over. Looking at a map as I just did, I noted that Galilee is uppermost north of the three provinces. So, if I were writing this verse, I would say he passed through Galilee and Samaria to indicate the geographic progression. But what if I didn’t have Google, or even a decent library, and could not pull up a map? What if I were writing somewhere else, and only had the vaguest idea of how the three territories were arranged? Then I might easily have written as Luke did here. The point is that this is the sort of thing that lets historians piece together the derivation of these works, and to conclude that they were not written by someone familiar with the geography of the area, thereby inferring that they were written somewhere else.
There is something to be added to this. In Matthew 10:5, when he is sending out the Twelve, he specifically instructs them not to preach to pagans, nor to enter any Samaritan town. When writing the commentary above, I had forgotten about this instruction; this is what happens when one is not well-versed in Scripture, and I am certainly not. The upshot here is that I’m not entirely sure what to do with this. Or, perhaps I do know, but don’t want to get into it. My initial impulse is that, to some degree, Matthew was trying to counteract the influx of pagan thought; that is, he was trying to re-Judaize (to coin a term? Are there enough syllables?) the belief system that had developed. And this would actually play well with my idea that he was a pagan himself; as a convert, he had the zeal of a convert and was bending over backwards to be as Jewish as possible. Hence, his assertion that not an iota of the Law was to be superseded.
Of course this is speculation. There are a thousand ways to look at this, and probably ten thousand questions to be addressed before this can even reach the level of theory, let alone hypothesis. It would require weighing such attempts to reinstitute Jewish ideas against those places where he shows his pagan background. Why, for example, use the Greek Hades instead of the Aramaic Gehenna? Of course, this choice could easily be explained as he was using the term he thought his readers would best understand. But then, that is the issue. Matthew was aware of how far he was going to paganize the vocabulary, and so the concepts and thought-world of the emerging religion. So he counteracted where and when he could. Then why include the story of the centurion and his slave? I don’t know the answer. But I am asking the question. That is a huge step forward.
11 Et factum est, dum iret in Ierusalem, et ipse transibat per mediam Samariam et Galilaeam.
12 καὶ εἰσερχομένου αὐτοῦ εἴς τινα κώμην ἀπήντησαν [αὐτῷ] δέκα λεπροὶ ἄνδρες, οἳ ἔστησαν πόρρωθεν,
13 καὶ αὐτοὶ ἦραν φωνὴν λέγοντες,Ἰησοῦ ἐπιστάτα, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς.
And he, coming into a certain village, ten lepers met [him]. they stood from afar, and they called out in a loud voice, saying, “Jesus, overseer, have mercy on us!”
The word rendered as “overseer” is almost universally translated as “master”. This isn’t wrong, but it’s misleading. Even the Latin doesn’t truly support “master”. So we get “overseer”, or maybe “boss” would work…or maybe not. But it’s more of a word that refers to someone appointed by the master/lord to supervise the underlings.
12 Et cum ingrederetur quoddam castellum, occurrerunt ei decem viri leprosi, qui steterunt a longe
13 et levaverunt vocem dicentes: “ Iesu praeceptor, miserere nostri! ”.
14 καὶ ἰδὼν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Πορευθέντες ἐπιδείξατε ἑαυτοὺς τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν. καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ὑπάγειν αὐτοὺς ἐκαθαρίσθησαν.
15 εἷς δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν, ἰδὼν ὅτι ἰάθη, ὑπέστρεψεν μετὰ φωνῆς μεγάλης δοξάζων τὸν θεόν,
16 καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον παρὰ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ εὐχαριστῶν αὐτῷ: καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν Σαμαρίτης.
And seeing he said to them, “Going, show yourselves to the priests”. And it happened in the going they were cleansed. (15) One of them, seeing that he was healed, turned around (and) in a loud voice thought about (in Christian usage only = praised) God, and (16) fell on his face before his (Jesus’) feet giving thanks (euchariston) to him. And he was a Samaritan.
This last bit, of course, is the punchline. It was the Samaritan who did this. Note that we’ve already had the parable of the Good Samaritan, so Luke is apparently very keen on pointing out how the Jews have fallen by the wayside. It’s a bit more than that, actually. Since the Jews had such a low opinion pf Samaritans (despised, might be the proper term), to hold them up for praise is really kind of rubbing the Jews’ collective face in it. Sure, you were the Chosen People, but what about now? Except it’s more they were the Chosen People. I make this correction because at this point Luke is doubtless talking to an audience that’s north of 90% pagan; there probably just weren’t that many Jews left in the Jesus movement; there weren’t that many formerly Jewish Christians left, and probably barely a trickle of new converts from Judaism. This will culminate with John talking about The Jews in a very disparaging fashion.
Once again, this sort of raising other groups at the expense of the Jews is not terribly appropriate to Jesus’ lifetime. Paul became the first to attempt to convert pagans in any numbers; that means for twenty years (plus or minus), most new members of the assemblies (ekklesiai) were Jews. As such, a story like this would not have been great recruiting material. So the likelihood of this tracing back to Jesus is, IMO, pretty much nil. This is a point I’ve raised numerous times before, so it doesn’t require a whole lot of additional discussion at this point.
Of course we notice that Jesus tells them all to go show themselves to the priests. Why the priests? Why not a physician? Because they had been cleansed, not so much cured of a disease as cleansed of ritual pollution. It was a moral cleansing, not so much a physical one. This is something more entrenched in Jewish thinking than in Greek thought. The Greeks had notions of ritual pollution as the source of disease– check out the opening of The Iliad, for example– but that was a bit different. Hippocrates was a Greek, and not Jewish, or even Persian for a reason. However, this does lead to one question: are we to assume that the Samaritan was going off to show himself to the Jewish priests, too? Actually, this is a really interesting question. I have become more sure that much of the Bible (OT/HS) was likely written during the Exile in Babylon. This is more or less to say that the legends were worked up and compiled (stuff like the two versions of creation that appear in the first dozen verses of Genesis, for example) and shaped into something like final form in the 6th Century BCE. That is to say, the form was achieved several hundred years after Israel had ceased to exist after being crushed by the Assyrians. If the Kingdom of Israel did not honor YHWH above all others, then would they have held the Pentateuch as their foundational myth, too? Offhand, and at first glance, I would tend to doubt it. But I have never heard that discussed because no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever asked that question, because it’s simply assumed that the United Monarchy actually existed, and that Israel worshipped YHWH. Of course, 2 Kings in particular tells us otherwise. So that was all a big roundabout to the question of whether the Samaritan would have understood Jesus’ instructions to show themselves to the priests. The Samaritan probably would not have understood because there is a real possibility that the Samaritans weren’t adherents to Mosaic Law. And this is all additional indication that the story does not date from the time of Jesus.
14 Quos ut vidit, dixit: “ Ite, ostendite vos sacerdotibus ”. Et factum est, dum irent, mundati sunt.
15 Unus autem ex illis, ut vidit quia sanatus est, regressus est cum magna voce magnificans Deum
16 et cecidit in faciem ante pedes eius gratias agens ei; et hic erat Samaritanus.
17 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, Οὐχὶ οἱ δέκα ἐκαθαρίσθησαν; οἱ δὲ ἐννέα ποῦ;
18 οὐχ εὑρέθησαν ὑποστρέψαντες δοῦναι δόξαν τῷ θεῷ εἰ μὴ ὁ ἀλλογενὴς οὗτος;
19 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ἀναστὰς πορεύου: ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέν σε.
Answering, Jesus said to him, “Were there not ten that were cleansed? Where are the (other) nine? (18) The ones not turning back were not found to give glory to God, except the person of another ethnicity?” And he (Jesus) said to him (the Samaritan), “Rising, go. Your faith has saved you.”
The translation of Verse 18 is a bit rough in English. Jesus is making the point that it was the Samaritan, and not the other nine who were, presumably, Jewish, that returned to give thanks. The use of <<ἀλλογενὴς>> is unique to this passage in the NT. I have been avoiding the term “gentile” at all costs for a very long time because it’s a made-up word that I suspect was derived from Latin rather than Greek. I could easily be wrong on that, given that the Latin root is gens, gentis, while the Greek genea lacks the “t” in declension. Also, the Romans used the plural form gentes to mean foreigner. That is a very short step to gentile. If the word used here were the standard term, then I might be more inclined to consider using the standard word for “those other people”. Because I tend to use the term pagan where most English versions use gentile; but my choice is pretty much exclusively a Latin root. Oh well. So much for consistency and purity.
We mentioned above that this story is meant to explain why there weren’t many (any?) Christians of Jewish origin any longer. As such, there is no way this story dates to the 30s. Another question occurs to me: would Jewish lepers pal around with a Samaritan leper? All were outcast, of course, so perhaps their being outcast brought about camaraderie; however, it’s just as likely that the social barriers remained, even among the despised class. If Jewish lepers could still despise Samaritan lepers as somehow lesser, then I tend to believe that Jewish (or any other ethnicity; not singling out Jews) would have despised Samaritan lepers as lesser. People are funny that way, as we in the early 21st Century are still learning about ourselves.
The last point I want to cover (something else may yet occur) is the last bit. “Your faith has saved you”. Saved him from what? He’s already been cleansed of his disease. This is analogous to the situation with the paralytic lowered through the hole in the roof. Jesus first cures him, then tells him that his sins are forgiven. It’s the latter that sets off the sticklers in the crowd. So, given that the physical cure is already historical fact, it would seem that he is saved would mean something other than he has been healed physically. More, he has been saved by faith. Now, this is nothing new; the Bleeding Woman was healed by her faith, and Jesus tells her she has been saved by her faith. Most translations do not say that the woman has been saved; they tend to say she has been made whole; that is, she has been healed. This is the ambiguous nature of the Greek word for to save. In fact, the word means either to heal physically or to save a physical life. It is the Christians who add the extra dimension of meaning to the word, by thinking in terms of eternal salvation; id est, the saving of the immortal soul. In the case of the Bleeding Woman, is Jesus telling her that she has been healed, or that her soul has been saved by her faith? Which is Jesus saying here? Why do you think what you do? This is the beauty of being able to read this in the original: the translation to another language can/does mask when a single word in the original can have different meanings. It can/does blunt the impact of the text as written.
17 Respondens autem Iesus dixit: “ Nonne decem mundati sunt? Et novem ubi sunt?
18 Non sunt inventi qui redirent, ut darent gloriam Deo, nisi hic alienigena? ”.
19 Et ait illi: “ Surge, vade; fides tua te salvum fecit ”.
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Luke Chapter 17:1-10
Since my production is down, I’m going to try the short-and-quick route by doing short sections. I’m also going to skip an intro and jump right into the
1 Εἶπεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ, Ἀνένδεκτόν ἐστιν τοῦ τὰ σκάνδαλα μὴ ἐλθεῖν, πλὴν οὐαὶ δι’ οὗ ἔρχεται:
2 λυσιτελεῖ αὐτῷ εἰ λίθος μυλικὸς περίκειται περὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔρριπται εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ἢ ἵνα σκανδαλίσῃ τῶν μικρῶν τούτων ἕνα.
He said to his learners, “It is not admissible that the stumbling not come, but woe to the one through whom it comes. It is more profitable for him if a millstone be hung around his neck (trachea) and he be thrown into the sea than to make stumble to one of these little ones.
I deliberately made some idiosyncratic choices for translations here. The first is “learners” instead of “disciples”. That is a very literal translation of the Greek. “Disciple” comes from the Latin, which happens also to mean “learners”. Like “baptize”, disciple has taken on a very specific meaning in English that was not present in either the original Greek or the Latin translation. It is a good idea to throw a little sand in the gears once in a while to obviate the tendency for us, as modern readers, to get too comfortable with the standard rendering of a particular word. This is especially true for words like this that have become ossified in English into a specifically theological sense. These were just garden-variety words in Greek & Latin; that needs to be remembered. Jesus is just speaking; he is not uttering Holy Writ.
The second involves “skandala”. The English result of this word is transparent. The meaning in Greek is “to stumble”, from “stumbling block”. However, I notice that, while the KJV renders as “offenses”, several modern translations use “to stumble”. So I’m not being as weird as I had thought.
More interesting is the idea expressed. Of course we’re all going to stumble, because we’re human likely to be understood. Let’s think about that for a moment. Recall that Luke is (possibly/probably) the first evangelist to be aware of Paul’s writing. At least, he’s the first that we’re sure who knew about Paul as an apostle, even if he was not aware of Paul’s writing. I don’t see a lot made of this for whatever reason. Having read 1 Corinthians, we know that Paul was sort of hung up on sex. Reading this passage with that in mind, I wonder if perhaps some Christian communities went to extremes about sex, going full-bore puritanical. Of course, it doesn’t have to be about sex, but the next line seems to indicate that it is. At least, this admonition which is also in M&M, that is how this was presented to me back whenever. And let’s be honest: pederasty was a common practice in the Graeco-Roman world. Tacitus, and especially Suetonius have all sorts of lurid stories about the sexual depravity that Tiberius was (said to be) practising in his pleasure dome on Capri. And recall that Tiberius was on the throne when Jesus was executed, if the chronologies are to be believed–and there’s no really good reason not to believe them so far as I know; admittedly, however, that isn’t very far. OTOH, while this is the sort of thing historians would debate endlessly, it never seems to occur to biblical scholars to question it. Eusebios very confidently accepts the standard chronology, and places Jesus’ execution in the 15th year of Tiberius’ reign (IIRC. Might be off a bit on that).
So anyway, Luke, like Mark & Matthew before him, is telling us that it’s not the sin per se that is horrible; it’s the corrupting of “one of the little ones”. It’s certainly easy to interpret that as children, and it’s probably difficult to interpret it any other way, at least, not credibly. “Little ones” can refer to the downtrodden or the peasants, in the way that Oscar winners thank the “little people” who helped make their performance possible. Realistically, though, taking “little ones” to mean anything other than children is a stretch. To emphasize, this story in Mark is part of the story in which Jesus tells the disciples to become like the child he is holding in his arms (one envisions Jesus sitting with the child on his lap. Perhaps due to artistic depictions?). What is interesting about this version, IMO, is that Luke does not feel the need to give us the context like this. He just says, “these little ones”, but we have absolutely no context on where they are. At the end of the previous chapter, they–or at least Jesus–was in the company of Pharisees as he told the story of Dives and Lazarus. At the outset of this one Jesus is simply with his disciples. Where? Where are “these” little ones? The answer, I think, is that they are in the other two gospels. We have seen this before in Luke. In stories that have been well-told, and adequately handled by the other two, Luke shortens his version or leaves out details as he does here. In places where perhaps Matthew summarized Mark a bit too severely, Luke provides a long version to fill out the narrative omitted by Matthew. And yes, of course this ties back to Q; at least, it ties to the question of whether Luke had read Matthew. When there is a high level of correlation in situations as described, this comes down rather convincingly as evidence that Luke was very much aware of Matthew.
1 Et ad discipulos suos ait: “Impossibile est ut non veniant scandala; vae autem illi, per quem veniunt!
2 Utilius est illi, si lapis molaris imponatur circa collum eius et proiciatur in mare, quam ut scandalizet unum de pusillis istis.
3 προσέχετε ἑαυτοῖς. ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἐπιτίμησον αὐτῷ, καὶ ἐὰν μετανοήσῃ ἄφες αὐτῷ:
4 καὶ ἐὰν ἑπτάκις τῆς ἡμέρας ἁμαρτήσῃ εἰς σὲ καὶ ἑπτάκις ἐπιστρέψῃ πρὸς σὲ λέγων, Μετανοῶ, ἀφήσεις αὐτῷ.
5 Καὶ εἶπαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι τῷ κυρίῳ, Πρόσθες ἡμῖν πίστιν.
6 εἶπεν δὲ ὁ κύριος, Εἰ ἔχετε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον σινάπεως, ἐλέγετε ἂν τῇ συκαμίνῳ [ταύτῃ],Ἐκριζώθητι καὶ φυτεύθητι ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ: καὶ ὑπήκουσεν ἂν ὑμῖν.
“Devote yourselves (as in, ‘pay attention!’). If your brother might sin against you, (rebuke) him, and if he repents forgive him. (4) And if he should sin against you seven times in a day, turn to him saying, ‘Repent,’ (and) leave him.” And his apostles said to the lord, “Put upon/within us faith.” (6) The lord said, “If you have the faith as a seed of mustard, if you said to [the/that] sycamine tree, ‘Uproot yourself and throw yourself in the sea’, and it would heed you.”
First, let’s talk about the tree. It appears there is a whole thing about the “sycamine” tree; “sycamine” is a straight transliteration, which means the English letters are substituted for the Greek letters and the word is pronounced (more or less) the same. “Logos” is a great example. I was going to translate as “sycamore” tree and leave it at that, but then I wanted to check to see what sort of tree it was that Zacchaeus will climb. Back in Catholic school, we sang a song about Zacchaeus, and how he climbed a sycamore tree, so it seemed wise to corroborate the genus and species across verses. The KJV renders the word as ‘sycamine’; modern translations render as ‘mulberry’. Well, it turns out that a sycamine tree is actually a mulberry tree. A Google search turns up a whole bunch of stuff on the mulberry tree mentioned here, of which two species are common to Palestine. Luther apparently translated the word as “mulberry tree.” Wikipedia says he made his German translation directly from Hebrew and Greek, so he would have encountered sycamine. However, Luther learned his Bible in Latin; going back to the Greek was still an unusual activity in his time and everyone in the west learned the Bible in Latin. And the word used in Latin is “morus”; and the genus of the mulberry trees common to Palestine is “morus”. This makes me wonder if the whole mulberry thing is based on Luther’s reading of the Vulgate, which means it may indeed have been the same tree that Zacchaeus will climb in 19:4. We’ll come back to this again, but, in the meantime, I will defer to St Jerome whose knowledge of Mediterranean flora was doubtless much superior to mine.
Perhaps of more interest to most is the admonition on forgiving your brother. Most of us recall that Matthew enjoined us to forgive seven times seventy, or seventy-seven times. Luke, here, only tells us to do it seven times. Per my Absolutely Official version of Q, the “correct” version of this, as found in Q, is the seven we find here. Ergo, Luke has the more “primitive” version. In this case, I would tend to agree with that assessment, assuming I actually believed in Q. Which I don’t. So this becomes problematic, which, in turn, sure makes it convenient to have a Q so that we don’t really have to weigh the two versions and decide why they are different. But is that true? If the more primitive version is seven, why did Matthew change it? Do we have a redactionally consistent explanation of every time Matthew varies from Q? That is what the Q people demand of those who do not accept Q, but it seems to me they’ve got that backwards, doesn’t it? The question isn’t– or shouldn’t be, really– why Luke deviates from Matthew, but why Matthew deviates from Q? What reason does Matthew have for changing it to “poor in spirit” or “seventy-seven” times? Because I will grant that it does seem curious that Luke only tells us to do it seven times. The “poor in spirit” change is easy enough to explain, but the seven, vs the seventy-seven, is a bit more difficult.
As a quick aside, I seriously doubt that one can come up with an redactionally consistent explanation for why Luke changed Matthew in this case. Luke disagreed. He had his own view, but is it realistic to believe that he had a consistent, abiding understanding, or re-interpretation of Matthew from which he never deviated? Really? What human being in the world is capable of that degree of consistency? None that I know of. Which is where and why the whole divine inspiration thing comes in handy. But I do think the Q people have, once again, managed to shift the burden of proof onto those who don’t accept the idea. The Q people should be made to prove that it did exist, and then explain every instance where Matthew diverged from the “original” text. Instead, they demand that we prove it didn’t exist– which is impossible, btw; one cannot prove a negative– and provide a redactionally consistent explanation for every time Matthew chose to ad lib.
But even more interesting is that Luke gives us leave to leave. Matthew’s ‘seventy-seven’ times is a sort of rhetorical short-hand for “ad infinitum”; that is, there is no limit to the number times we should forgive our sibling. (Practically speaking, however, if we are talking about a literal sibling, forgiving seventy-seven times over the course of a lifetime is hardly “infinite”.) So what this means is, if Q did exist, Matthew was being more lenient than Jesus. Luke tells, OTOH, that seven is enough, after which we can leave the sibling and go one’s own way. And, given Q, this is the original message of Jesus. Think about that. Jesus did not preach a forgiveness that was infinite. You get your set number of chances, but after that, you’ve proven yourself to be incorrigible and you’re on your own. So, this means that if Luke was less forgiving than Matthew, Jesus was also less forgiving than Matthew. Of course, this latter conclusion vanishes if we follow the evidence and accept that Q never did exist. This means that Luke was less forgiving than Matthew, and that’s the end of it. Jesus never enters the comparison. The commentaries don’t have a lot to say on the differences between the two versions. That is the problem with commentaries: they do not always cross-reference sufficiently; Rather, they focus too narrowly on the passage before us at the moment. An effective discussion would have to come from a theologian who is discussing the concept of forgiveness in the NT. Ellicott does provide an interesting insight. He says that the leave to leave is Luke enjoining the listener to get up and leave the moment after forgiving seven times rather than remain and lose your temper. That does make sense.
The final point is one I’ll leave to you to determine the level of importance. It seems hugely significant to me, but then my perspective is usually a bit off-kilter. I’m like Pluto: I don’t lie on the same plane as the rest of the solar system. The point is that I cannot ever remember hearing any of this chapter read aloud as the gospel. That includes nineteen years growing up in the Roman Rite, and then another eighteen or nineteen as an adult in the Episcopal Church. Never. Of course, that’s not to say it never happened. One possibility is that this reading is done on a Tuesday in April or something when I wasn’t at church. Why is that? Of course, the most likely answer is that this would highlight the difference between this passage and the corresponding version in Matthew. That would lead to the uncomfortable questions about the appropriate number of times we should forgive our sibling.
3 Attendite vobis! Si peccaverit frater tuus, increpa illum et, si paenitentiam egerit, dimitte illi;
4 et si septies in die peccaverit in te et septies conversus fuerit ad te dicens: “Paenitet me”, dimittes illi ”.
5 Et dixerunt apostoli Domino: “ Adauge nobis fidem! ”.
6 Dixit autem Dominus: “ Si haberetis fidem sicut granum sinapis, diceretis huic arbori moro: “Eradicare et transplantare in mare”, et oboediret vobis.
7 Τίς δὲ ἐξ ὑμῶν δοῦλον ἔχων ἀροτριῶντα ἢ ποιμαίνοντα, ὃς εἰσελθόντι ἐκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ, Εὐθέως παρελθὼν ἀνάπεσε,
8 ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ, Ἑτοίμασον τί δειπνήσω, καὶ περιζωσάμενος διακόνει μοι ἕως φάγω καὶ πίω, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα φάγεσαι καὶ πίεσαι σύ;
9 μὴ ἔχει χάριν τῷ δούλῳ ὅτι ἐποίησεν τὰ διαταχθέντα;
10 οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς, ὅταν ποιήσητε πάντα τὰ διαταχθέντα ὑμῖν, λέγετε ὅτι Δοῦλοι ἀχρεῖοί ἐσμεν, ὃ ὠφείλομεν ποιῆσαι πεποιήκαμεν.
“Who among you having a slave that having been ploughing or herding, who comes from the field says to him, ‘Immediately coming in, get off your feet’, (8) but does not say to him, (rather than saying to him) ‘Prepare the dinner, and gird yourself to minister to me while I eat and drink, and after that you will eat and drink’? (9) Do you not have thanks to/for the slave that performs the commands? (10) It is also this way for you, when you do all the commands (given to) you, you say that ‘We are useless slaves, we have done what we were obligated to do.”
Upon reading this the first time, I was beginning to question my reading comprehension. How did we go from the mulberry tree throwing itself into the ocean to having a slave who ploughs/herds? But the payoff does come at the end when it kinda sorta maybe relates to having faith. Or maybe not. The lesson is that just doing what you’re told is not sufficient; you have to go above and beyond that, and such a lesson makes sense. And so it’s by going above and beyond that you have the faith of a mustard seed and can move trees. At least. that’s how I’m reading this.
7 Quis autem vestrum habens servum arantem aut pascentem, qui regresso de agro dicet illi: “Statim transi, recumbe”,
8 et non dicet ei: “Para, quod cenem, et praecinge te et ministra mihi, donec manducem et bibam, et post haec tu manducabis et bibes”?
9 Numquid gratiam habet servo illi, quia fecit, quae praecepta sunt?
10 Sic et vos, cum feceritis omnia, quae praecepta sunt vobis, dicite: “Servi inutiles sumus; quod debuimus facere, fecimus’ ”.
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21 Τότε προσελθὼν ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Κύριε, ποσάκις ἁμαρτήσει εἰς ἐμὲ ὁἀδελφός μου καὶ ἀφήσω αὐτῷ; ἕως ἑπτάκις;
22 λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Οὐ λέγω σοι ἕως ἑπτάκις ἀλλὰ ἕως ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά.
Then approaching, Peter said to him, “Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven?” (22) Jesus said to him, “Not, I say to you, seven times, but seventy-seven times”.
Note that this does not say “seventy times seven”. Apparently that was a convention of the KJV, and it stuck for several hundred years. It appears some more recent translations are rendering this as “seventy-seven” now. That’s a whole lot less than 490 times. But of course the point is not to affix a specific number to the forgiveness, but to indicate that, well, you should be forgiving a lot.
Did Jesus say this? I see, prima facie, no reason why he didn’t. Nihil obstat, as it were. This was printed in books that had the Vatican seal of approval; it means something like “nothing stands in the way”. And so here. There is really nothing that overtly precludes Jesus saying this. The exact set-up may be fictional, but the words themselves–or at least the sense behind them–could easily be authentic. Whether they are or not is a different matter, but I don’t think the possibility can simply be dismissed.
As for the thought behind the words, once again the sensibility is easily derived from Judaism. Stephen A Gellar, in the quotes found in Religion in Human Evolution, argues that the transformation of Judaism occurred when the covenant was seen to be between God and the individual Jews, rather than between God and Israel. And God was endlessly forgiving towards Israel; as such, it’s but a step to forgiveness extended by God to individual Jews. From there, it’s only another short step to forgiveness extended between Jews, or between people in general. Between siblings, whether of blood, culture, or religion. So once again, the thought expressed may have a novel twist, but it’s not especially revolutionary. As such, it could easily be something that Jesus actually did say. Nihil obstat.
21 Tunc accedens Petrus dixit ei: “ Domine, quotiens peccabit in me frater meus, et dimittam ei? Usque septies? ”.
22 Dicit illi Iesus: “ Non dico tibi usque septies sed usque septuagies septies.
23 Διὰ τοῦτο ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ βασιλεῖ ὃς ἠθέλησεν συνᾶραι λόγον μετὰ τῶν δούλων αὐτοῦ.
“In this way the kingdom of the heavens resembles to a man who comes before a king to give an account with his slaves.
This is the opening to a parable, which will take up the rest of the chapter. Comment is deferred until the end. Unless something that demands immediate attention should appear.
23 Ideo assimilatum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui voluit rationem ponere cum servis suis.
24 ἀρξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ συναίρειν προσηνέχθη αὐτῷ εἷς ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων.
“And he having begun to take up (the matter), (a slave) was brought to him regarding owing ten thousand talents.
The word is “myriad”, which literally means 10,000. The Latin agrees, and all of my crib translations render it as ten thousand. This is an incredibly enormous amount of money; on the order of millions of dollars. It’s such a large sum one wonders if it shouldn’t just be translated as “an enormous amount of money”, or something such.
24 Et cum coepisset rationem ponere, oblatus est ei unus, qui debebat decem milia talenta.
25 μὴ ἔχοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποδοῦναι ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν ὁ κύριος πραθῆναι καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὰ τέκνα καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔχει, καὶ ἀποδοθῆναι.
“But he not having it, the lord ordered him to be handed over to be sold, and his wife and all his children however many he had, and he was given over.
As I said, this was a huge amount of money; I’m not sure that selling the whole family would recoup the debt, so this was to a large degree punitive.
25 Cum autem non haberet, unde redderet, iussit eum dominus venumdari et uxorem et filios et omnia, quae habebat, et reddi.
26 πεσὼν οὖν ὁ δοῦλος προσεκύνει αὐτῷ λέγων,Μακροθύμησον ἐπ’ ἐμοί, καὶ πάντα ἀποδώσω σοι.
“Falling therefore the slave groveled before him (the lord) saying, ‘Have mercy upon me, and I will give everything over to you (will repay the debt)’.
As stated, selling the whole family would not recoup the full monetary loss, so this is a tempting offer.
26 Procidens igitur servus ille adorabat eum dicens: “Patientiam habe in me, et omnia reddam tibi”.
27 σπλαγχνισθεὶς δὲ ὁ κύριος τοῦ δούλου ἐκείνου ἀπέλυσεν αὐτόν, καὶ τὸ δάνειον ἀφῆκεν αὐτῷ.
“Taking pity upon this slave he released him, and the debt was removed from him.
A tad curious, since the slave bought his freedom by promising to pay the debt. But, this is Truth, not realism. Oddly, the NT Greek dictionary I use does not have << δάνειον >> in it. Liddell & Scott provide this as an Hellenistic form.
27 Misertus autem dominus servi illius dimisit eum et debitum dimisit ei.
28 ἐξελθὼν δὲ ὁ δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος εὗρεν ἕνα τῶν συνδούλων αὐτοῦ ὃς ὤφειλεν αὐτῷ ἑκατὸν δηνάρια, καὶ κρατήσας αὐτὸν ἔπνιγεν λέγων, Ἀπόδος εἴ τι ὀφείλεις.
“Exiting, the slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed to him a hundred denarii, and he seizing him, he choked him saying, ‘Give me what you owe’.
“Denarii”, plural for “denarius” is the root of the English word “penny”. Which is why you purchase 10 d (ten penny) nails. The point is, this is not a large sum overall, and it’s a trifle compared to 10,000 talents.
28 Egressus autem servus ille invenit unum de conservis suis, qui debebat ei centum denarios, et tenens suffocabat eum dicens: “Redde, quod debes!”.
29 πεσὼν οὖν ὁ σύνδουλος αὐτοῦ παρεκάλει αὐτὸν λέγων, Μακροθύμησον ἐπ’ ἐμοί, καὶ ἀποδώσω σοι.
“Falling, the fellow-slave beseeched him saying, “Have pity on me, and I will give to you”.
29 Procidens igitur conservus eius rogabat eum dicens: “Patientiam habe in me, et reddam tibi”.
30 ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἤθελεν, ἀλλὰ ἀπελθὼν ἔβαλεν αὐτὸν εἰς φυλακὴν ἕως ἀποδῷ τὸ ὀφειλόμενον.
“But he did not wish this, but going out he threw him into gaol until he might give over the debt.
There is no modern equivalent for the word I translated as “gaol”, which is a Briticism and an anachronism. “Under guard” would probably be the best, simply because “jail” is just too misleading. “Into the dungeon” might capture the sense. And this is an extreme course of action considering the paltriness of the debt.
30 Ille autem noluit, sed abiit et misit eum in carcerem, donec redderet debitum.
31 ἰδόντες οὖν οἱ σύνδουλοι αὐτοῦ τὰ γενόμενα ἐλυπήθησαν σφόδρα, καὶ ἐλθόντες διεσάφησαν τῷ κυρίῳ ἑαυτῶν πάντα τὰ γενόμενα.
“Seeing these events, the (other) fellow slaves were exceedingly sorry, and coming they told their lord all the events.
31 Videntes autem conservi eius, quae fiebant, contristati sunt valde et venerunt et narraverunt domino suo omnia, quae facta erant.
32 τότε προσκαλεσάμενος αὐτὸν ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ λέγει αὐτῷ, Δοῦλε πονηρέ, πᾶσαν τὴν ὀφειλὴν ἐκείνην ἀφῆκά σοι, ἐπεὶ παρεκάλεσάς με:
33 οὐκ ἔδει καὶ σὲ ἐλεῆσαι τὸν σύνδουλόν σου, ὡς κἀγὼ σὲ ἠλέησα;
34 καὶ ὀργισθεὶς ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν τοῖς βασανισταῖς ἕως οὗ ἀποδῷ πᾶν τὸ ὀφειλόμενον.
35 Οὕτως καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος ποιήσει ὑμῖν ἐὰν μὴ ἀφῆτε ἕκαστος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν καρδιῶν ὑμῶν.
“Then calling him his lord said to him, ‘Wicked slave, all this debt I removed from you when you beseeched me. (33) It was necessary for you be compassionate to your fellow slave, as I compassioned you’. (34) And the lord having waxed wroth, gave him to the torturers until he should pay the entire debt. (35) Thus my father heavenly will do for you unless you don’t take away each to your brother (dative of possession: of your brother’s) from your heart.”
The irony here is too plain to require any comment. What about the theology? If you think about this the right way, this could be a proof text for Purgatory: the sinner is held until the debt is paid. That’s pretty much the definition of Purgatory. Of course, no one believes in that any more except the Roman Rite, but tell me I’m wrong. Against the Purgatory reading, one could argue that the slave will never pay off the debt because he’s in the dungeon; how can he work to make the money back to repay the debt? In which case, we’re talking about eternal damnation rather than Purgatory.
The point is, God will forgive us anything, no matter how enormous, but we have the obligation to do the same for our fellows. That is how this ties into the 77 iterations of forgiveness to our brother. And this certainly doesn’t seem to sit well with sola fides, but that’s an entirely different conversation. Depending on your definitions, the faith creates the works (by their fruits…). Of course, that’s not the only way to understand sola fides, but this isn’t the time nor place for that debate. Offhand, I don’t know how this fits with Jewish morality; I suspect it does, because social consciousness is a big part of Jewish belief, and there is a lot of it in the HS. So this doesn’t have to be seen as revolutionary.
Then there is the question of provenance. This was not in Mark, and it’s not in Luke, so we can’t ascribe it to the hypothetical Q. My sense is that Matthew composed this. It’s not the most eloquent story; it certainly does not have the elegance of Luke’s solo material. It feels a little forced. I’m not sure that lyrical storytelling is a strong point for Matthew, so I’m going to come down on the side that Matthew did compose this. Most of the Matthew-solo material has this unpolished feel, or this bit about not quite being literary quality. Could it trace to Jesus? It could. The content of the story contains no internal inconsistencies or anachronistic attitudes. The only real problem is that most of these kinds of stories aren’t found in Mark, and Luke will have a whole passel more of these: think Divus and Lazarus, for example, or Zacchaeus. Think back to the stories in Mark; the Gerasene demonaic; the bleeding woman; Jairus and his daughter; there is nothing even remotely like this. The parables that Mark gives to Jesus are short: the sower, the mustard seed; the possible exception being the parable of the vineyard owner who sends his son against the wicked tenants, only to have the tenants kill him. If we stop to consider the arc from Mark through Matthew into Luke, what we have is a steady increase in the sheer number, the length, and the complexity of the parables told by Jesus. In Mark, we get the Sower and the Wicked Tenants; in Matthew we get those, plus this one and the Lost Sheep; in Luke, we get the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, and the Good Shepherd.
As we progress through the Synoptic Gospels, the parables have a different feel, different symbolism. These may be very subjective observations, but that doesn’t mean they lack validity. But think about that observations: more parables in the latest of the Synoptics; and not only more, but perhaps the most memorable, the “titles” of which are aphorisms in English language and culture. We can talk about a prodigal son and expect that the allusion will be understood. If these parables actually trace to Jesus, where were they for the 70 years between Jesus’ execution and the point Luke wrote? The answer, of course, is that they hadn’t been written until Luke came along. This is a classic example of how legends grow over time.
In the meantime, a comparison of the content, the style, and the message of the parables told by Mark and then by Matthew would, I think, be, fruitful.
32 Tunc vocavit illum dominus suus et ait illi: “Serve nequam, omne debitum illud dimisi tibi, quoniam rogasti me;
33 non oportuit et te misereri conservi tui, sicut et ego tui misertus sum?”.
34 Et iratus dominus eius tradidit eum tortoribus, quoadusque redderet universum debitum.
35 Sic et Pater meus caelestis faciet vobis, si non remiseritis unusquisque fratri suo de cordibus vestris ”.
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All in all, Chapter 17 was largely a recapitulation of themes and stories that were in Mark. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are enough additions and subtractions that we can get some valuable insight into when and where and how Matthew’s purpose and perspective is different from that of Mark. Once we have determined that, we can ask why these changes occurred. What changed?
The first part of the chapter contains the Transfiguration story. Overall, Matthew’s story is slightly shorter; interestingly, Luke’s story is the longest, and significantly so. The difference between Mark and Matthew comes to a few details that we touched on. Mark describes the way Jesus’ garments glowed in human terms; they were impossible to attain, but the reference is to the fulling of the cloth to make it white. In Matthew, Jesus’ garments are “white as light” and Jesus’ face shone like the sun. The terms of description are no longer human; Jesus has transcended humanity and entered into the divine. It occurs to me now I that I may have failed to catch the possible significance of light during the commentary; the concept of light was very important for dualistic religions. It represented the principle of Good. And Platonic philosophyis implicitly dualistic, with a distinction between good spirit–light–and bad flesh–dark. So is Matthew once again drawing on his pagan background and implying Jesus’ connection to the principle of Good by saying that Jesus’ garments were white as light?
Or was he making a really obvious simile?
In this instance, it’s most likely the latter. Or is it?
Because at the climax of the Transfiguration, Jesus is covered by a cloud in Mark; here he is covered by a shining cloud. So we again have the reference to light. Because in the passage where Jesus’ clothes are white as light, his face shone like the sun. So, pagan references?
This might be more probable if there weren’t the passage in Exodus in which Moses’ face shone after his communication with YHWH. So is this a reference to Moses?
Or, once again, is Matthew simply using a fairly obvious simile? I still suspect none of this really refers back to Matthew’s pagan background. All of this is to imply that Matthew would tend to draw on images and iconography that was familiar to him, that he was used to, that was at his fingertips when he was sitting and writing, not that he was dropping covert clues about being a pagan. It’s an American calling a traitor a “Benedict Arnold” where a European might use the term “Quisling”. Matthew, I believe, does leave unconscious clues pointing to his pagan background throughout the text. I’m just not sure that this is one of those places.
So the implication of the differences between Mark and Matthew in the Transfiguration story is fairly straightforward. Matthew changed some of the details mainly to make the divinity of Jesus more apparent. The differences are not large, but they are, I believe, telling. They tell us that Matthew’s attitude about Jesus was more exalted than that of Mark. There is less ambiguity about Jesus’ identity.
There are some additional changes in detail in the telling of the immediate aftermath of the Transfiguration. The only one of consequence comes during the discussion of Elijah. In both stories, everyone understands that Elijah has to come before the Messiah. In Matthew’s version, the disciples understand that, this time around, John had played the role of Elijah. Sufficient emphasis was not given to this during the commentary. Yes, we discussed that the implication was that the disciples were not simply the dullards that Mark had described. Instead, they are more perceptive, they understand implications, they get it to a degree they hadn’t in Mark. And these are valid points. Matthew’s disciples, overall, are more keen in their understanding than the group in Mark. But there is another element to the Elijah = John identity. What’s really important is how this reinforces what I’ve been saying about the way the role of the Baptist grew over time. That is, far from being embarrassed by the connexion, the later followers played it up, made John’s role more prominent, and increased the importance of John’s role. This is exactly the opposite of what should have happened had the followers of Jesus truly been embarrassed by the way John seemed to be Jesus’ mentor.
Both Mark and Matthew introduced John with the quote from Isaiah about preparing the way of the Lord. Both Mark and Matthew cite Malich 4:5, which tells us Elijah must come before the day of the Lord to set things right. But only Matthew equates Elijah with the Baptist. This equation makes John more prominent than he was in Mark. We have noted how Josephus devotes more time to the story of John than to the story of Jesus, indicating that Josephus thought that John was more important, or that John’s story was more interesting and compelling. Either one is entirely flattering to Jesus and his followers, which in turn may indicate why they were interested in appealing to John’s followers. And so this equation by Matthew actually raises John’s significance; he has attained the status of Elijah, one of the two figures to appear in the Transfiguration. And by bolstering John, the equation bolstered Jesus as well. True to form, Matthew raises both Jesus and John, but the clever aspect of Matthew’s treatment is that, while elevating John, he simultaneously makes John decidedly subservient to Jesus.
At this point we probably should ask why this part of the story was omitted by Mark. We have two choices: that Mark didn’t think of this, or that the connexion had not yet been made, or that Mark knew of/thought of the connexion and deliberately suppressed it. If it’s the first, this is another fantastic example of the growth of legend, as in the Arthur legend. The king himself is elevated (first, by being named a king rather than a war-leader), and those around him are elevated and often flat-out invented. If Mark chose to suppress, we then have to ask why? Was it because he wanted the disciples to be thought of as dullards? (Why he would go so far to leave that impress is a separate question…) My first impulse is to believe the first possibility: that the equation of John and Elijah had not been made. That is the easy way out, because it has no real ramifications. But given the way Matthew puts this, presents this, the context in which he puts it, I’m tempted to understand this in terms of Mark deliberately excising the disciples making the connexion. But that would assume that Matthew had access to a different source in which the disciples made the connexion. So, the likelihood is that either Matthew, or someone after Mark at least, was the one to make the equation explicit. IOW, this is a case of the growing legend.
There are other possible explanations, of course. But the either/or here takes it down to minimal essentials, and sort of gets at the roots, if not all the possible branches.
Next comes the story of the boy with a demon. The differences with Mark are clear and easily interpreted. Basically, this is one story in which Mark discusses what I call magical practices. Primarily, in Mark this concerns the question of the disciples on why they could not drive out the demon. Mark attributes it to lack of knowledge: this kind can only be exorcised by prayer. For Matthew, it’s a lack of faith. All that is required is faith the size of a mustard seed and one can move mountains. Of course, the implication is that the disciples lack even this much faith. This is akin to Peter’s attempt to walk on water; in both cases, the disciples and Peter can do what they try if they only believe they can because of the wonders of God. Here, I think, we can clearly see the development of the story of Jesus. In Mark, he’s a wonder-worker, with an arsenal of knowledge about how to handle situations and effect cures or exorcisms; in Matthew, it’s about Jesus’ connexion to the limitless power of God, enough to move mountains if we only believe. This is an enormous step on the journey from wonder-worker to Second Person of the Trinity.
Finally, the last story is that of the fish and the Temple tax. As noted, it’s unique to Matthew. The two key elements, IMO, to the story are the reaffirmation of the connexion to Judaism, and the wondrous prediction of catching a fish with a coin in its mouth to pay the tax. The connexion to Judaism is represented by the payment of the tax; in Luke, this story will become “render unto Caesar”. As such, this story links to the question of Matthew’s religious provenance. Matthew has traditionally been considered the most “Jewish” of the evangelists, the one that has the keenest understanding of the workings of Judaism as practiced in the First Century. In my mind, I used to characterize the four of them as Mark the Journalist, Luke the Novelist, John the Theologian, and Matthew the Rabbi. This was based on what I had read about the evangelists from secondary sources. Overall, so far I have not come across much that would disabuse me of my interpretations of Mark and Matthew; I’ll judge Luke and John when I get there.
As such, my contention that Matthew wasn’t a Jew, but a pagan, is a fairly radical departure from standard academic orthodoxy. I won’t claim to be the first one in 2,000 years to make the claim, but it’s not something I’ve ever seen in my (admittedly limited) reading of the academic sources. In fact, I have not come across anything to make me suspect that such a contention about Matthew exists. Even when unstated, the existence of a given argument or position will leave a gravitational field that can be felt, even if the cause of the field is invisible. Matthew’s Jewish origin is so taken for granted that no one bothers to mention it much of the time; this, in turn, implies the non-existence of a gravitational field left by the argument that he wasn’t. The logic of arguments has to run both backwards and forwards; if it only goes in one direction, it’s not sound logic. It’s the case of Mark suppressing the equation of John and Elijah; that hypothesis really only worked in one direction, so it seemed safe to discount it.
In the very near future I need to go back over my commentary to pick out all of the clues that I’ve found that point to Matthew’s pagan background. So far, this is a working hypothesis. The various premises need to be put together to see if, indeed, they constitute an argument. At this point, I’m not certain they do, but time will tell whether I need to recant. If it becomes necessary, so be it. At this point, suffice it to say that I’ve seen nothing that makes me seriously doubt his pagan background. Even this story, where Matthew attempts to reaffirm the ties to Judaism do not provide much evidence contrary to my thesis. I’ve mentioned numerous times that people in the ancient world were impressed not by novelty, but by an ancient pedigree. As such, Matthew’s reaching back into the history of Jewish practice to re-establish, or reaffirm that connexion makes a lot of sense whether Matthew was a Jew or was a pagan. Recall the teachings of Paul, reiterated more wanly in Mark, that some Jewish practices need not be followed; the dietary laws are the best example. Given the existence of these teachings in the time preceding Matthew, it seems safe to infer that the followers of Jesus had drifted noticeably from their Jewish roots. And if a lot of new converts were pagans rather than Jews, this drift would have been more pronounced. Matthew here, it seems, attempts to counteract that drift, whether as a Jew concerned that the Jesus followers were becoming too far separated from their roots, or as a pagan who wanted the ties to the ancient traditions.
When trying to make a decision about which is more likely to have been Matthew’s motivation, it may help to stop and consider where Matthew falls in the timeline of developing Christianity. He wrote, probably, in the mid-80s, fully fifty years after Jesus’ death, thirty years after Paul, maybe fifteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and maybe a dozen years after Mark. From what we gather from Paul’s eyewitness account, the center of the new movement in the 50s was Jerusalem, where James, brother of Jesus was regarded as the central and key figure of the movement. If Josephus is to be believed, and there’s no good reason to doubt him, James died in the early 60s. Then, less than a decade later, Jerusalem was destroyed. It seems very likely that the combination of these two factors seriously undermined the position of Jerusalem as the focal point of the movement. Later tradition implies that it was somewhere in this period that the focus began to shift to Rome. Of course, we need to bear in mind that there were also significant centers also came into being in places like Alexandria and Antioch and, eventually, Jerusalem again. But by the early Second Century, you have a tradition of the bishops of Rome aspiring to a role of primacy.
All of this is by way of thinking about the composition of the followers of Jesus. With Jerusalem removed, most of the focus on converts probably started to shift away from Jews. Think about it: we have, essentially, a diaspora situation. We also have a number of communities founded by Paul in pagan cities like Galatia, Thessalonika, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome–although he personally did not found that assembly, and may never have visited it. These are the reasons I believe that, by the time Matthew wrote, the tipping point had already been passed, when the Jesus movement was becoming more pagan than Jewish. To be honest, I’m not sure what the orthodox position on this is; my sense is that most biblical scholars sort of assume that the movement was more Jewish than pagan until sometime into the Second Century, just as it’s assumed that the evangelist who wrote the gospel of John was still Jewish. I highly doubt both of these ideas. Of the four evangelists, I would suspect that the only one who was raised as a Jew was Mark.
The point of this digression is that Matthew comes along after the tipping point has been passed. Now we can ask if this tells us anything about the likelihood of Matthew being a Jew or a pagan. Later tradition is, in my opinion, just about worthless. The leaders of the movement had no interest in what we would consider historical accuracy. A “tradition”, at root, is just a story that tells listeners what the one telling the story wants them to know. The bishops of Rome, to some greater or lesser degree, were able to usurp the position of primacy, but it took centuries for this to happen. Into the time of Charlemagne, the Patriarch of Constantinople had a legitimate claim to be the true leader of the Catholic Church, to being superior in position to the bishop of Rome.
So the answer, I think, is that none of this really provides any evidence to increase the likelihood of Matthew being a Jew or a pagan. When I launched into it, my preconceived notion was that it weighed in favor of his being a pagan, but I see that’s not the case. My thought was that a pagan would have more incentive to go back to the Jewish roots as a way of authenticating the origins of Jesus after a period in which the Jewish roots were being trampled under by the weight of pagan converts. One could argue that this makes it more likely that Matthew was, indeed, Jewish, and so was afraid to see that heritage lost. But this is the same author (presumably) who introduced a number of pagan motifs, so Matthew may have been conscious of balancing out the two traditions. In this way he set the tone, and the precedent for much of what was to follow during the Patristic Age.
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Here we have another of those “short” sections. Hopefully, this will actually be fairly short. It’s the conclusion of Chapter 17.
21 Συστρεφομένων
22 δὲ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Μέλλει ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοσθαι εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων,
23 καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν αὐτόν, καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἐγερθήσεται. καὶ ἐλυπήθησαν σφόδρα.
They having returned (22) to Galilee, Jesus said to them, “It is destined that the son of man will be handed over to the hands of men, (23) and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised”. And they were made to be sorrowing exceedingly.
Just to start, in a lot of versions Verse 21 is blank. Here it is shown with a single word. This is a matter for textual criticism; as such, it’s not really something I can discuss. Textual criticism and reconstruction is an arena for specialists; as such, it’s beyond my poor understanding.
Second, let’s consider the purported return to Galilee. Is this accurate? True historically? Is it even meaningful? We have no way of verifying whether this represents an historical fact. Given that it leads to a prophecy that was likely after the fact, we should immediately be put on guard. But either way, that it’s unverfiable means we shouldn’t put much stock in it, and it especially means we should probably not use this as the basis for any further inferences. In the final analysis, it’s a minor point, except to serve as a reminder not to take throwaway details like this too seriously.
That brings us to the actual content. We just came across a similar pronouncement to this effect in the last chapter. And that is what should interest us here. We’ve discussed how improbable it is that Jesus ever said these words; the question is why Matthew repeats it so soon after the previous prophecy. After all, we’re only just a bit past half-way, so there is time to space these out a little more. Is that the point? By repeating the prophecies in close proximity in the text, is Matthew attempting to drive the point home more effectively? Say it once, maybe it sticks. Say it twice, and it probably will. Or does this have more to do with the way Matthew was editing Mark’s material? That seems just as likely. Whichever, it’s not something that carries a lot of weight, but I think it should make us a little more suspicious of claims that Matthew’s editing was “masterful”.
(21) 22 Conversantibus autem eis in Galilaea, dixit illis Iesus: “ Filius hominis tradendus est in manus hominum,
23 et occident eum, et tertio die resurget ”. Et contristati sunt vehementer.
24 Ἐλθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν εἰς Καφαρναοὺμ προσῆλθον οἱ τὰ δίδραχμα λαμβάνοντες τῷ Πέτρῳ καὶ εἶπαν, Ὁ διδάσκαλος ὑμῶν οὐ τελεῖ [τὰ] δίδραχμα;
25 λέγει, Ναί. καὶ ἐλθόντα εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν προέφθασεν αὐτὸν ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγων, Τί σοι δοκεῖ, Σίμων; οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς ἀπὸ τίνων λαμβάνουσιν τέλη ἢ κῆνσον; ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτῶν ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων;
They having come to Caphernaum, they came those receiving the didrachma (two-drachma piece) to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two drachmas?” (25) He said, “Yes”. And having come to his house Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What does it seem to you, Simon? Do the kings of the earth from someone receive the duty or the tribute? From the sons of them or from strangers?”
This second verse here is sort of tricky grammatically. The phrase <<ἀπὸ τίνων>> would most often mean “from someone” as I have translated it here. However, in reading the last question, it becomes clear that it’s meant to be “from whom”, which is how it’s generally rendered. Now, my discomfort with this is due in no small amount to the lack of nuanced understanding that I often bring to translation. I’m simply not all that comfortable with the language, especially with regard to NT Greek, that sometimes the subtleties escape me. I fully concede that such might be the case here. Regardless, this is not a standard Classical usage. In fact the unabridged Liddell & Scott, which focuses primarily on Classical usage, does not really register “from whom” as a viable usage. The abridged L&S, however, does recognize this as a translation. The shorter L&S, unlike the bigger version, does tend to focus more on Christian usages, especially NT usages. So once again, we are confronted with a passage in which the Greek has strayed somewhat from the way pagan authors used the words. This is not exactly a consensus translation, but we are in the antechambers of such a rendering. Honestly, the Classical usage here does not entirely make sense, but the NT usage does. So maybe it’s time to swallow my misgivings and proceed.
The content has a couple of interesting points. Once again, Jesus has a house. This time, I think, there is no real disputing this. When Mark mentioned Jesus’ house, there was often a certain ambiguity in the reference; it seemed like it was Jesus’ house, but it was never stated flatly the way it is here. So what does this mean? That Matthew had a source unavailable to Mark, testifying that Jesus, indeed, owned a house? It’s possible, but unlikely. The probability is considerably higher that Matthew read what Mark said and took it as given, and so states it as given. Jesus had a house, point of fact. Now this is a great way to see how the legend grows. In the first telling, there is a bit of uncertainty; in the second, it’s taken as proven. It happened here about a small thing with the house; it happened even more so with Jesus’ identity. In Mark, Jesus as the Christ was implied, but maybe not definite; in Matthew, it’s taken as a given.
And the bit about the didrachma, I suspect, will come to a climax in the next couple of verses.
24 Et cum venissent Capharnaum, accesserunt, qui didrachma accipiebant, ad Petrum et dixerunt: “ Magister vester non solvit didrachma? ”.
25 Ait: “Etiam”. Et cum intrasset domum, praevenit eum Iesus dicens: “Quid tibi videtur, Simon? Reges terrae a quibus accipiunt tributum vel censum? A filiis suis an ab alienis?”.
26 εἰπόντος δέ, Ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἄρα γε ἐλεύθεροί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοί.
27 ἵνα δὲ μὴ σκανδαλίσωμεν αὐτούς, πορευθεὶς εἰς θάλασσαν βάλε ἄγκιστρον καὶ τὸν ἀναβάντα πρῶτον ἰχθὺν ἆρον, καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ εὑρήσεις στατῆρα: ἐκεῖνον λαβὼν δὸς αὐτοῖς ἀντὶ ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ.
But responding, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “In this way the sons are free. (27) In order that we do not stumble on them, go to the sea throw the net and hauling in the first catch of fish, and opening you will find in its mouth a stater. Taking this give to them for me and you.”
OK, this is just kind of silly. It sounds like a fairy tale, and perhaps that is why it only occurs in Matthew. Luke wanted nothing to do with it. But it demonstrates Jesus’ divinity. Herodotus tells a similar story about a king who throws a ring into the sea because it’s the most precious thing he owns. By doing this, he is trying to avert the fate that awaits him because he is too powerful. But, a peasant catches a splendid fish and presents it to the king. Well, the ring is in the fish’s stomach, so the ring came back to the king and whatever the fate he was trying to avoid struck him anyway. The hand of god/God will not be turned.
And I believe this was the temple tax, rather than a Roman tax. That is significant because this isn’t “render unto Caesar”, but an affirmation of the Jewishness of Jesus. Recall that Mark seemed to distance himself from the Jews; but a generation later, when the scars of the Jewish Revolt had healed somewhat, Matthew wished to attach himself and the movement more firmly to the ancient heritage of the Jews, so here we have Matthew doing exactly that. In a way, it’s similar to the way that the Baptist was c0-opted by Jesus’ followers, the better to show potential converts that theirs was not a novelty, or novel, but something stretching back for centuries, just as Homer did. Now, does Matthew’s attempt to tie Jesus and his followers more firmly to the Jewish heritage make it more or less likely that Matthew was a pagan, rather than a Jew? Or does it change the likelihood at all? My sense is that this story provides another clue that Matthew was a pagan. Why? Because the story is very deliberately placed. It’s not in Mark, it’s not in Luke. It’s unique to Matthew. So why add this? To confirm Jesus’ attachment to Judaism. Why is that important? To preserve the lengthy pedigree so important to the ancients. Were he born into the Jewish tradition, would Matthew have felt such a need to affirm that Jesus was, indeed, a Jew? I don’t think so. There is almost the sense here that Matthew is trying to convince himself as well as his readers of the great age of the tradition. By going out of his way to tell a story like this, I think that Matthew is displaying a level of need, a need to grab onto the antiquity provided by Judaism.
Writing this, it’s immediately apparent that this whole contention is almost a complete conjecture. It is not at all difficult to see this in an opposite light, or indeed as simply irrelevant to the question of Matthew’s background. But I think the small little clues, like this one, are all weighing on the side of Matthew having a pagan background. As always, feel free to disagree, but be prepared to explain why you do. The tradition that Matthew was a Jew is pretty much useless as historical evidence. The early fathers had a very powerful motivation to present Matthew as a Jew, so whatever they said fifty or a hundred years later is pure hearsay, and is more likely than not to be wishful thinking. Again, when I see how political figures in my lifetime have morphed into something that they simply were not, I realize just how unreliable the tradition of a generation later actually is. We live in an age when documentary evidence is overabundant, and yet we still find the common conceptions of what happened a generation ago to be wildly inaccurate. How much worse in the First Century, when there was so very little evidence? So I have almost no faith in anything the traditions of the early church tell us. Eusebios is pretty much unreliable.
26 Cum autem ille dixisset: “ Ab alienis ”, dixit illi Iesus: “ Ergo liberi sunt filii.
27 Ut autem non scandalizemus eos, vade ad mare et mitte hamum; et eum piscem, qui primus ascenderit, tolle; et, aperto ore, eius invenies staterem. Illum sumens, da eis pro me et te ”.
This section is the follow-up, or conclusion of the Transfiguration story. It may be fruitful to read this while keeping in mind the idea that this may have constituted the beginning of the story that held Jesus to be the Christ.
10 καὶ ἐπηρώτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ λέγοντες, Τί οὖν οἱ γραμματεῖς λέγουσιν ὅτι Ἠλίαν δεῖ ἐλθεῖν πρῶτον;
And they asked him the disciples saying, “So what do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Apparently, the bit about Elijah coming first, before the Messiah, refers to a prophecy of Malachi. Apparently the idea is that Elijah would return and usher the way for the Messiah. I do recall reading about this when we did this passage in Mark. Malachi is a later, lesser prophet. I’ve noted several times that there have been a number of citations of these later prophets. A moment’s reflection should tell us that this is not surprising. These later prophets were written in the last centuries BCE; as such, they are close to the time of Jesus, and they both speak to a similar secular environment of Judea being subjugated to a pagan foreign power. So the “way out” of this would have had appeal to those living under the Seleucids as well as those living under the Romans.
10 Et interrogaverunt eum discipuli dicentes: “ Quid ergo scribae dicunt quod Eliam oporteat primum venire? ”.
11 ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν, Ἠλίας μὲν ἔρχεται καὶ ἀποκαταστήσει πάντα:
12 λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι Ἠλίας ἤδη ἦλθεν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν αὐτὸν ἀλλὰ ἐποίησαν ἐν αὐτῷ ὅσα ἠθέλησαν: οὕτως καὶ ὁυἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μέλλει πάσχειν ὑπ’ αὐτῶν.
He, answering, said “Elijah is to come and restore everything. (12) But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they did not recognize him, but they did to him as they wished. In this way the son of man is destined to suffer from all”.
The thought world of First Century Judaism was waiting for Elijah to come as the herald of the Messiah. Jesus is telling them that this has already happened.
11 At ille respondens ait: “ Elias quidem venturus est et restituet omnia.
12 Dico autem vobis quia Elias iam venit, et non cognoverunt eum, sed fecerunt in eo, quaecumque voluerunt; sic et Filius hominis passurus est ab eis ”.
13 τότε συνῆκαν οἱ μαθηταὶ ὅτι περὶ Ἰωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς.
Then the disciples understood that about John the Dunker he spoke to them.
The first thing to note is the distinction between Mark and Matthew here. Mark does not include this line about the disciples understanding. The disciples have become a lot more perceptive in the interim between the two gospels. We are justified to ask why this would happen. It would seem to be part of the process of creating legend out of history. In Mark, the disciples are mere fallible–so very fallible–mortals. Here, they are starting to ascend the higher reaches, thereby becoming larger than life.
This connexion is very interesting. Is this why the relationship to John grew over time? Now, the idea of John-as-herald was already in Mark, but now it’s being expanded as he is equated with none other than Elijah. And not only did the association with John grow, the followers of Jesus were finding a way to co-opt and further domesticate him, by insisting on his role of Jesus’ herald. The interesting thing here is that someone came across the Malachi quote and understood that it could be pressed into service in this way, figuratively, in which the Baptist could stand in for Elijah no less. Which makes one recall the road to Emmaus on Easter, when the traveler laid out to the disciples (unnamed; usually a bad sign for historical authenticity) all the passages of the HS that referred to Jesus as the Messiah. This passage even puts Elijah into a subservient position as one who prepares the way.
Then we also have Jesus once again stressing that he will be ill-used by…whom? The same people who did whatever they wished to Elijah. Except Elijah was not killed by the crowd, so the part about “doing what they want” actually refers to John. Perhaps this is how the disciples knew?
13 Tunc intellexerunt discipuli quia de Ioanne Baptista dixisset eis.
14 Καὶ ἐλθόντων πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπος γονυπετῶν αὐτὸν
15 καὶ λέγων, Κύριε, ἐλέησόν μου τὸν υἱόν, ὅτι σεληνιάζεται καὶ κακῶς πάσχει: πολλάκις γὰρ πίπτει εἰς τὸ πῦρ καὶ πολλάκις εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ.
And coming toward the crowd a man came to him and knelt (before) him, (15) and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, that is moon-struck and suffers badly. For often he falls into the fire and often into the water.”
First, what I translated as “moon-struck” uses the root for “moon”. Of course, the word for “moon” in Latin is “luna”, which has become our “lunatic”. The idea carried through from Greek, into Latin, and ended up in English (and perhaps other languages?). Second, the man says “Lord have mercy,” which transliterates as “kyrie eleison”, which of course is the prayer “Kyrie” which is said in Catholic and Episcopalian masses. It’s the only part of the Latin mass that was in Greek, and it persists, if in English form in Episcopalian mass.
14 Et cum venissent ad turbam, accessit ad eum homo genibus provolutus ante eum
15 et dicens: “ Domine, miserere filii mei, quia lunaticus est et male patitur; nam saepe cadit in ignem et crebro in aquam.
16 καὶ προσήνεγκα αὐτὸν τοῖς μαθηταῖς σου, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν αὐτὸν θεραπεῦσαι.
17 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, “ω γενεὰ ἄπιστος καὶ διεστραμμένη, ἕως πότε μεθ’ ὑμῶν ἔσομαι; ἕως πότε ἀνέξομαι ὑμῶν; φέρετέ μοι αὐτὸν ὧδε.
And I brought him (the lad) towards his disciples and they were not able to heal him. (17) Responding, Jesus said, “O faithless and having been perverted generation, until when with you will I be? Until when do I suffer you? Bring him to me.”
This is very interesting. Who is Jesus calling faithless and perverted? “This generation”, but on first reading it seems like this is directed at the disciples. After all, they were unable to heal the boy. Now, it’s also possible that the faithlessness of those around the disciples and the boy was what prevented them healing the boy. This is what happened in Mark 6 when Jesus was unable to perform any significant miracles due to the lack of faith of those in his home town. In all probability, that is how we should understand this passage. But the placement of this here is interesting for a number of reasons.
The problem is that Mark did not include this allusion to a faithless generation in his version of this story. Yes, Mark has Jesus bewailing this faithless and perverted generation several times, but he doesn’t do it here. Rather, Mark has Jesus explaining how to handle this sort of demon, telling the disciples that they can only be exorcised through prayer. This is one of a half-dozen times that Mark talks about, or describes the magical practices of Jesus, the things he does to effect the miracles he performs. One time it was making mud with his saliva; here it was categorizing the demonic species and providing a training session on how to cure “this type”. That being the case, we have to ask why Matthew did include it.
Of course, we have no way of knowing what Matthew’s motivation was. So we have to speculate. As I see it, the most likely explanation is that Matthew was generally going out of his way to downplay the wonder-worker aspect of Jesus. He didn’t want to eliminate the miracles the way Thomas Jefferson did, but he didn’t want them to play quite so prominent a role. At least, that seems a reasonable inference based on the overall presentation. It can be argued and counter-argued, of course, but the position is eminently viable. But the one thing that Matthew consistently does is eliminate all of the descriptions of magical practice that Mark included. In reading the latter, I found these descriptions fascinating, and there are more of them than one realizes until they are aggregated. This story was a great example. So Matthew eliminates this aspect of the story, resorting instead to the “faithless generation” theme that was also prominent in Mark.
Given this, it’s rather pointless, I believe, to ask whether this jibe was directed at the disciples, at the surrounding crowd, or the generation in general. In Matthew’s usage of the theme, it wasn’t actually directed at anyone in particular. It was more of a misdirection, an attempt to change the subject than an expression of genuine angst.
Given this second aspect, and assuming we accept it, Matthew’s treatment of this story provides are really sharp insight into the creation of the message of Jesus. Matthew could not just excise the miracles, the wonders, themselves, but he could alter the way they were presented. Doing this, we get a keen view of how Jesus message was subtly re-worked, re-arranged, changed over time just as the attitudes towards Jesus evolved as the writing of the NT progressed. If you read the NT as a developing document, rather than something that flashed into existence simultaneously, with each piece independent of, but also contingent upon every other piece, this development of ideas becomes remarkably clear. Matthew was not writing with every piece of Paul in mind, let alone John. They were each presenting their own message and not trying to reinforce and consciously complement the others. In fact, subsequent writers were trying to correct previous ones in some situations. This is one of them.
16 Et obtuli eum discipulis tuis, et non potuerunt curare eum ”.
17 Respondens autem Iesus ait: “ O generatio incredula et perversa, quousque ero vobiscum? Usquequo patiar vos? Afferte huc illum ad me ”.
18 καὶ ἐπετίμησεν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ δαιμόνιον: καὶ ἐθεραπεύθη ὁ παῖς ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης.
19 Τότε προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ τῷ Ἰησοῦ κατ’ ἰδίαν εἶπον, Διὰ τί ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἐκβαλεῖν αὐτό;
20 ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Διὰ τὴν ὀλιγοπιστίαν ὑμῶν: ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον σινάπεως, ἐρεῖτε τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ, Μετάβα ἔνθεν ἐκεῖ, καὶ μεταβήσεται: καὶ οὐδὲν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν.
And Jesus rebuked it, and it came out of him the demon. And the boy was healed from that hour. (19) Them the disciples coming to Jesus in private said, “On account of what were we not able to cast him out” (20) And Jesus said to them, “On account of the little faith of yours. Amen I say to you, if you may have the faith as a mustard seed, you will say to that mountain, ‘Come here’, and it will come here. And nothing you will be unable to do.”
Well, this sort of seems to contradict what I said earlier about the “faithless generation”, but I stick to my position. It was misdirection. Lack of faith is an acceptable reason for the inability to work a wondrous cure; not knowing your demonic taxonomy is not. I stand by my position because of the invocation of the faithless generation; this is not “oh ye of little faith” as Jesus said to Peter when the latter realized he couldn’t walk on water. This is what Jesus says when the Pharisees want to see a sign from heaven. As such, it’s not entirely appropriate to ascribe this to the disciples, and particularly not in private. Matthew is still trying to change the subject from the demon itself, and to make the conversation about a general lack of faith.
So I stand by what I said in the previous comment. As always, feel free to disagree. But if you do, make sure you have reasons for doing so, that you can explain these reasons, and that these reasons form a coherent explanation.
18 Et increpavit eum Iesus, et exiit ab eo daemonium, et curatus est puer ex illa hora.
19 Tunc accesserunt discipuli ad Iesum secreto et dixerunt: “ Quare nos non potuimus eicere illum? ”.
20 Ille autem dicit illis: “ Propter modicam fidem vestram. Amen quippe dico vobis: Si habueritis fidem sicut
granum sinapis, dicetis monti huic: “Transi hinc illuc!”, et transibit, et nihil impossibile erit vobis ”.
Matthew Chapter 17:1-9
This is the story of the Transfiguration. The narrative follows that of Mark fairly closely, so I don’t think it will be necessary to add too much line-by-line commentary. But I always think these will be shorter than they actually are.
1 Καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέρας ἓξ παραλαμβάνει ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὸν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰάκωβον καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀναφέρει αὐτοὺς εἰς ὄρος ὑψηλὸν κατ’ ἰδίαν.
And after six days Jesus took Peter and James and John his brother, and carried them up the high mountain by themselves.
This is almost verbatim from Mark.
1 Et post dies sex assumit Iesus Petrum et Iacobum et Ioannem fratrem eius et ducit illos in montem excelsum seorsum.
2 καὶ μετεμορφώθη ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔλαμψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος, τὰ δὲ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο λευκὰὡς τὸ φῶς.
And he was transformed before them, and shone his face like the sun, his clothing became white as light.
This is slightly different from Mark, who does not have Jesus’ face becoming like the sun. Mark spent his description describing Jesus’ clothing as being impossibly white. This added description by Matthew would seem to be an expansion of the myth, or is it just a more graphic description? The other question worth asking is whether this is pagan imagery? It’s probably not necessary to take it as such, but it’s worth noting that this is the only time this simile is used. Even Luke, who is often considered to be a pagan, does not use it. So here again we have something peculiar to Matthew. Of course a detail like this is not significant because just because it’s unusual
2 Et transfiguratus est ante eos; et resplenduit facies eius sicut sol, vestimenta autem eius facta sunt alba sicut lux.
3 καὶ ἰδοὺ ὤφθη αὐτοῖς Μωϋσῆς καὶ Ἠλίας συλλαλοῦντες μετ’ αὐτοῦ.
And he was seen by them speaking together with him with Moses and Elijah.
Pardon the bad English. I was trying to preserve the Greek, but there was no real way to do that, so I had to repeat the “with”. Again, Moses and Elijah, perhaps the two most important figures of the HS, taking that with some latitude. The point is it’s Elijah, and not Isaiah, whom I think a lot of Christians might expect given his prominence in NT citations and thinking.
3 Et ecce apparuit illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
4 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν τῷ Ἰησοῦ, Κύριε, καλόν ἐστιν ἡμᾶς ὧδε εἶναι: εἰ θέλεις, ποιήσω ὧδε τρεῖς σκηνάς, σοὶ μίαν καὶ Μωϋσεῖ μίαν καὶ Ἠλίᾳ μίαν.
And answering Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will make here three tents, one for you alone, one for Moses alone, and Elijah alone”.
I’ve never been sure how to take this. Is Peter just babbling? It seems like it. Now contrast this with him being the rock upon whom Jesus would build the church. The two images do not quite go together, do they? In fact, this is almost comic relief, just as his attempt to walk on the water was almost comic relief. This seems to provide further evidence that the “rock” passage of the last chapter was interpolated. Here and when he tries to walk on water, Peter is bordering on buffoonish behaviour, and yet we are told that he is the rock on which Jesus will build his church. There seems to be some inconsistency in the portrayal. Or what we’re probably seeing is a layering of the traditions. As time passed, more stories were told, and not all would have portrayed Peter in the same manner. This is the way legends grow. The stories told of Ronald Reagan now, just under two generations after he left the presidency, do not necessarily bear much resemblance to the person who actually sat in the White House. The legend has begun to conflict with itself, to the point of contradiction.
Despite all of this, the significant thing here, I believe, is not the way he is portrayed, but that it is Peter who is speaking and not one of the others. Throughout the gospels, it is Peter with whom Jesus interacts. He is the one who got out of the boat, the rock, the one speaking here, the one who denies him, etc. And it’s always a little surprising to note how little James and John actually say or do, despite their positions of supposed prominence. What this tells me is that, as Paul corroborates, Peter was Jesus’ loyal follower, one who played a leading role in the ministry. James and John are likely later creations. Or, perhaps more accurately, they are like time travelers, individuals who played significant roles after Jesus’ death, and they have been teleported back in time to justify their leading role in the aftermath. And if James and John are retro-projections, I think it’s very safe to say that the other members of the Twelve are as well. I still suspect they were named by James, brother of the Lord, after the latter’s death. Of course, it would be interesting to speculate that the James here named was perhaps the son of Zebedee and Mary.
4 Respondens autem Petrus dixit ad Iesum: “ Domine, bonum est nos hic esse. Si vis, faciam hic tria tabernacula: tibi unum et Moysi unum et Eliae unum ”.
5 ἔτι αὐτοῦ λαλοῦντος ἰδοὺ νεφέλη φωτεινὴ ἐπεσκίασεν αὐτούς, καὶ ἰδοὺ φωνὴ ἐκ τῆς νεφέλης λέγουσα, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα: ἀκούετε αὐτοῦ.
Upon him speaking, behold, a shining cloud obscured them, and, behold, a voice from the cloud saying, “This is my son, the beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him”.
The details are only slightly different from Mark’s version. The “shining” cloud is new, and rather an interesting concept. Meteorologically speaking, there are times when clouds do seem to shine, usually when the sun is beside or behind them, but here the intent is purely poetic, I believe. This was not a standard-issue or garden-variety cloud, dull of hue and brightness, but a luminous cloud, one that shines. The object is to contrast this to “ordinary” clouds, to indicate the divine aspect, one that was numinous as well as luminous.
5 Adhuc eo loquente, ecce nubes lucida obumbravit eos; et ecce vox de nube dicens: “Hic est Filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi bene complacui; ipsum audite”.
6 καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ μαθηταὶ ἔπεσαν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν σφόδρα.
And hearing, the disciples fell upon their faces and they were exceedingly afraid.
I dearly wanted to render this as “sore afraid”, and I did so at first before changing it. The KJV actually does render this as “sore afraid”, but that says more about Stuart-era English than it does the Greek. In the famous passage of Luke, the shepherds actually “feared a great fear”. It’s just that the passage of Luke has been lodged very deeply in the cultural vernacular of the English-speaking world. Hearing Linus repeat it all those years in A Charlie Brown Christmas certainly helped.
6 Et audientes discipuli ceciderunt in faciem suam et timuerunt valde.
7 καὶ προσῆλθεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἁψάμενος αὐτῶν εἶπεν,Ἐγέρθητε καὶ μὴ φοβεῖσθε.
8 ἐπάραντες δὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν οὐδένα εἶδον εἰ μὴ αὐτὸν Ἰησοῦν μόνον.
And Jesus came forward and touched them, saying “Get up and fear not”. (8) And raising their eyes the saw no one except Jesus alone.
Normalcy returns, the aperture to the divine is closed. What had happened? Had it happened? Surely, the disciples must have thought something like that.
In the discussion of Mark, I toyed with the idea that the Transfiguration may have been the climax of the story at one time. In Mark, it comes sort of at the point where the wonder-worker tale gives way to the Christ tradition, and it seems possible that this was meant to be the turning point, where Jesus true identity is revealed. That is an attractive thesis, but on further consideration it is probably more appealing than it is substantiated. I am not at all sure the thesis can be defended. It’s pretty to think this, but it’s not a sound position. This story does, of course, reveal Jesus’ identity, but I doubt very much that it was ever meant to be a climax. Rather, it’s more like a second baptism story; this is hardly a novel idea, given the repetition of the voice from the heavens declaring Jesus as “my son”, with the tacit understanding that we are hearing the voice of God.
But once we’ve granted that it’s a second baptism, what do we make of this? From a stylistic perspective, from how the stories of the baptism and the transfiguration mirror each other, it’s very easy to see them as brackets, or bookends. It was from thinking on these terms that the idea of the transfiguration as the end of the story occurred to me. And even now, this idea still seems appealing, and I suppose it could be argued if we think in terms of a fairly primitive story. But further reflection leads to another possibility that warrants at least some consideration. Rather than beginning and end, it’s probably more appropriate to think of the transfiguration as a second beginning. Here is where the identity of Jesus is fully revealed. The baptism, with it’s heavenly voice, opens us up to an adopted Jesus; the transfiguration gives us a truly divine Jesus, whose face shines like the sun, and who converses with Moses and Elijah. As such, I would suspect that this is a later addition to the story, one that came after the baptism and the wonder-worker stories. It was designed to elevate Jesus above the role of wonder-worker, and place him more securely in the realm of the gods.
7 Et accessit Iesus et tetigit eos dixitque eis: “Surgite et nolite timere”.
8 Levantes autem oculos suos, neminem viderunt nisi solum Iesum.
9 Καὶ καταβαινόντων αὐτῶν ἐκτοῦ ὄρους ἐνετείλατο αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγων, Μηδενὶ εἴπητε τὸ ὅραμα ἕως οὗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγερθῇ.
And they coming down from the mountain Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell no one this thing having been seen until the son of man from the dead has been raised.
Once again, this is almost verbatim from Mark, so there’s really not much new to say. This is part of the Messianic secret that Mark perpetuates. We’ve speculated on why; my position is that Mark–or an intervening source–came up with this idea to explain why Jesus was not followed more widely by Jews than he was. Were there assemblies in Galilee? We don’t know of any–to the best of my limited knowledge. Why weren’t there? Or why weren’t there more? Because Jesus kept his identity as the anointed one secret, so only a few people knew about this. But how does this square with the enormous crowds that Mark says followed Jesus? Well, they were only interested in the healing powers Jesus demonstrated. Because if you read Mark with any perspicacity, you will note that it’s the healings that draw the crowds. And there is where Mark joined the two traditions, that of the wonder-worker and that of the Christ.
This story belongs to the latter element, and could be seen as the splashy intro to the Christ tradition in Mark. By retaining Mark’s basic structure, Matthew repeats aspects of Mark–like the messianic secret–even when they don’t exactly make a lot of sense. In the context of Matthew, this secret of Jesus is not terribly appropriate, whereas it’s a key part of Mark. This is yet another indication of why it’s obvious that Mark wrote first: things like the messianic secret only make sense when the idea of Jesus as Messiah wasn’t the prevailing attitude.
9 Et descendentibus illis de monte, praecepit eis Iesus dicens: “Nemini dixeritis visionem, donec Filius hominis a mortuis resurgat”.
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Game Grades: Georgetown
Story posted November 15, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Andrew Field
Penn State defeated Georgetown on Thursday night by a final score of 81-66 to improve to 3-0 on the season. It was the first road test of the year for the Nittany Lions, as they were underdogs coming into Capital One Arena. Let’s hand out some grades for a big win early on in the season.
Offense: B
Sophomore guard Myreon Jones was hot early for the Nittany Lions, as he scored 14 of the first 16 points. Jones finished with a career-high 21 points on 6-of-13 shooting, including 5-for-8 from beyond the arc, and was 4-for-4 from the free-throw line. Lamar Stevens struggled in the first half, as he was 1-for-7 from the field and had just four points. Stevens would come alive in the second half and finish with 14 points, nine rebounds and three assists. Myles Dread also pitched in 14 points and was 4 of 11 from 3-point range.
Penn State shot 44% as a team and was 45% from behind the arc. The Nittany Lions also shot a pretty decent 71% from the free-throw line. As the season goes on, they'll look to improve on that number, especially on the road in close games if they want to win.
Penn State struggled against Georgetown’s press. The Nittany Lions had 20 turnovers in the game due to sloppy play in transition and poor passing. Out of those 20, Stevens uncharacteristically had six. Penn State will need to clean up its turnover issues before taking on tougher Big Ten opponents.
Defense: A-
The defense was solid all night for Penn State. The active hands on defense led the Nittany Lions to force Georgetown into tough passing situations, which led to 21 turnovers for the Hoyas. A couple of players like Jamari Wheeler and Mike Watkins had standout nights on this side of the ball. Wheeler had four steals in the game, and Watkins recorded four blocks. Lamar Stevens also had a good defensive effort, as he had four steals and block of his own. As a team, the Nittany Lions had 15 steals and five blocks in total.
The Nittany Lions also shut down Georgetown sophomore guard Mac McClung, who had just two points on 1-of-7 shooting and three turnovers. As a team, the Hoyas shot just 38% from the field and 31% from 3-point range, thanks to the strong defensive effort by the Nittany Lions.
With McClung largely erased from the game, the Hoyas only had two players in double figures, as James Akinjo had 13 points and Omer Yurtseven had 16. No other Hoya had more than eight points.
Coaching: A-
Pat Chambers had his team ready to play early, as the energy on both sides of the courts was evident. The hot start eventually faded as Georgetown went on a run late in the first half, but Chambers subbed in Izaiah Brockington, Curtis Jones and John Harrar to relieve some starters, giving the Nittany Lions a new motor. Chambers made good substitutions through the entire game and balanced the lineup well.
Chambers also called timeouts when necessary during multiple Georgetown runs. Penn State responded after each timeout and regained comfortable leads multiple times throughout the game to hold on to a big road victory.
Andrew Field is a junior majoring in broadcast journalism. To contact him, email aaf5329@psu.edu.
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I am a Junior from Haverford, Pennsylvania which is actually right outside of Philly. I am a huge Philly sports fan as I have passion and excitement for all four Philly teams and also all Penn State sports. I write articles and do podcasts for CommRadio Sports. I also have my own website that I started this summer where I give my opinions and sports takes each week. I hope to one day work in the sports industry or become a writer.
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2 Chainz – “Rap or Go to The League” Album Review
posted March 18, 2019 in Arts & Entertainment by Jerome Taylor .
2 Chainz shows serious evolution as an artist and rapper on his latest project “Rap or Go to The League,” released March 1st. Chainz’ lyricism is sharp, his flow is impeccable, and his storytelling is vivid. Combine this with an impressive ear for production and the traditional 2 Chainz anthems and it produces a stellar fifth studio album for the hip-hop veteran.
The rapper, formerly known as "Tity Boi," has began to delve into more socially-conscious raps and he showcases this more mature sound immediately, as the intro “Forgiven” concludes with a powerful open word poem about the way black men are viewed in America.
Later, Deuce uses his traditional anthemic hit-making style to create a high energy head nod inducing track with “NCAA,” which is critical of the establishment. Chainz raps, “Let me get this straight, if I drop 40 today/ You don't care if I eat, you don't care if I ate /They say, ‘You better have a good grade like a mixed baby hair’/They say, ‘We goin' to the tournament, we gonna need you there.’” These lyrics show a new focus on social issues and are consistent with the title of the album.
This maturity is becoming of a hip-hop elder statesman and he showcases how long he’s been in the game by name-dropping while telling street tales from his younger life on “Statue of Limitations.” He also delivers the harsh realities of this life when he raps about having to discuss his past life on the chorus of “I Said Me.” Explaining that he had to tell his daughter that he was a drug dealer when she asks what one was.
“Rap or Go to The League” is a star-studded affair containing features from Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, Travis Scott and more. The Lamar-assisted “Momma I Hit a Lick” contains a magnificently-showcased vocal versatility as Kendrick switches flows and deliveries effortlessly, further solidifying his spot as the greatest rapper alive.
On the most pop-friendly song, “Rule The World,” Deuce teams up with Ariana Grande in what seems like an olive branch for her using his flow on “7 Rings.” The collaboration is a smooth track which features Grande’s vocals over the chorus singing, “I realized I can rule the world,” which seems like the new mindset and focus that 2 Chainz seems dedicated to, based on the content of this project.
On the production side Chainz enlist some star power with the production lineup consisting of Pharrell Williams, 9th Wonder, Buddah Blessed, Mike Dean, WondaGurl and more. This collection of producers creates a diverse soundscape that highlights some of 2 Chainz best skills.
On “Money in The Way,” Buddah Blessed and Jab create a soulful track that can be best described as driving music due to its use of the sample and the smooth use of drums. “NCAA” features the most interesting production direction of the project as incorporates a guitar solo before going into the anthem-like song.
The pace of the album also slows down at the perfect points on the project, like on “Girl’s Best Friend," where Cardo and Dez Wright create a bouncy but smooth track that perfectly highlights 2 Chainz skills when constructing a more vocally-based chorus accented by Ty Dolla $ign.
“Rap or Go to The League” is an evolutionary showcase of an artist who seems more focus on legacy than the moment. When looking back at when 2 Chainz started, he is commercially successful. “Rap or Go to The League” will be the starting the point.
Reviewer’s Best Track: “Momma I Hit a Lick” & “NCAA”
Reviewer’s Worst Track: “Sam”
Jerome Taylor is a senior majoring in broadcast journalism. To contact him, email jerometaylor91697@gmail.com.
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Jerome Taylor currently serves as one of two Arts & Entertainment Managers for CommRadio. He currently serves as a host for the department’s flagship radio show, “The Nittany Record Club.” He has also written several album reviews and has contributed to several lists that the department has produced. Jerome has also served as a beat writer and producer for several Penn State sports including, lacrosse, volleyball, and basketball. After graduation Jerome hopes to work in the broadcast journalism field covering sports or entertainment. Follow him on twitter (@ThatGuy_Rome) or email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Plugging In/ Energy/ Environment
State’s top executives push for more natural gas
MA Competitive Partnership appeals to Baker, DeLeo, Chandler
By Bruce Mohl Electricity, Energy 4 Comments Mar 20, 2018
THE MASSACHUSETTS COMPETITIVE PARTNERSHIP, a group representing the top executives of the state’s largest employers, released a letter on Tuesday urging the state’s top three political leaders to push for an expansion of the region’s natural gas pipeline infrastructure.
The letter was dated March 12, but not released publicly until Tuesday because officials with the partnership first wanted to reach out personally to Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Senate President Harriette Chandler. Officials did not disclose how those personal conversations went.
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The letter from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership broke little new ground on the divisive pipeline issue. It said more natural gas capacity was needed to stabilize energy prices in the region, particularly during peak demand periods when demand for natural gas outstrips available supply.
Dan O’Connell, the president and CEO of the partnership, and Bryan Jamele, the chief operating officer, said in the letter that the organization supports the shift to hydro-electricity and renewable energy. “The reality is that the region is still years away from the benefit of relying solely on renewables for the majority of our electricity generation needs,” the letter said.
The two officials went on to call for a “balanced energy approach” that increases access to natural gas while bolstering the state’s renewable energy portfolio. The letter did not address how additional pipeline capacity would be financed, a major roadblock.
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The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership has 17 members who are all influential CEOs. The chairman is Robert Reynolds of Putnam Investments, who with O’Connell reached out to the political leaders. Other members of the group’s board include Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments, Robert Kraft of the Kraft Group, Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, James Judge of Eversource Energy, David Torchiana of Partners HealthCare, and John Fish of Suffolk Construction.
Officials said the partnership is also now a member of the Coalition for Sustainable Energy, an organization made of Massachusetts business groups that is pushing for more natural gas capacity. The group announced its formation in February.
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This week student immigrants who were undocumented started to apply for a two year extension on deportation.
By Susanna Capelouto, CNN
(CNN) - Welcome to the CNN Radio Soundwaves Sunday Playlist. Each week we bring you some interesting stories we're listening to. We hope you'll return the favor and let us know your pick of the week.
Here's what we discovered this week. These stories made us think, empathize and laugh.
Latino USA: Infiltrating Broward
Immigration was a big topic this week as a new federal policy went into effect allowing students to apply for deferred action on deportation. This story caught our attention as it features a group of young undocumented activists who get detained on purpose so they can find out what's going on in a detention center in regards to low priority detainees. This report comes one year after ICE called for prosecutorial discretion.
NPR News: Georgia digs deep in Drought
The drought affecting much of the country got a bit better this week, but in some places it actually got worse. What struck us about this story is that it's reported from one of the driest counties in the country...and it's not in the Midwest.
The Takeaway: A non-profit brewpub in 'Beervana'
The beginning of this story is just fun. And, we felt the idea of a pub that boosts non-profits is a novel idea. After all it will open this fall in Portland, a city that apparently has the most non-profits per capita in the U.S.
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Grand Olympic Auditorium (now Glory Church of Jesus Christ), Los Angeles.
Keeping that post-Olympic flame burning
(CNN) - The athletes are long gone. Hundreds of thousands of spectators are back at home. Work crews will now begin deconstructing all but six of the venues that hosted the world’s best athletes at the Olympic Games in London.
So what comes next? Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Georgia Tech, says the intent is to transform East London and give the city room to grow:
[1:44] “The legacy of the investments in transit, in the public space, giving London room to expand as the population continues to grow but that it expands with access to transit and to parks and to employment and housing, I mean that’s huge.”
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The sound of a dying star
(CNN) - Think of this: you’re an astronomer, and you and your team have detected, for the first time, a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole almost four billion light years away.
This is the first time astronomers have captured this drama happening so long ago – and so far away – with a black hole this large.
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High school students learning in a computer lab.
The teenage "pressure cooker"
(CNN) - Getting into a good college is so competitive that even the nearly perfect student has trouble.
[0:38] “I got a 2390 out of 2400 on my SAT,” said 18-year-old Kevin Mark.
Yet with that near-perfect SAT score, a 4.0+ GPA throughout high school, an Eagle Scout and volunteer work for his church and community, he was not accepted to MIT, his first choice of college, nor his second choice Cal Tech.
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Dull, Scotland welcoming its visitors.
A "Dull" and "Boring" partnership
(CNN) – This is a dull and boring story. Or rather, one about Dull and Boring.
Seemingly always meant for each other, this summer officials from the towns of Dull, Scotland and Boring, Oregon signed-off on an 'unofficial' sister-city partnership.
The Dull and Boring citizens hope the good-natured notoriety can bring a little extra tourist traffic – and fun – to their city limits.
[1:44] "Basically, it's a means of just attracting attention to our names: Boring and Dull", says Steve Bates, chairman of Boring's Community Planning Organization.
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Peterson: The official domestic beer power rankings
By Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times
True story: The first time I got drunk, I was a freshman in college. While inebriated, I sent an email to the entire school that included, among other things, the lyrics to “The Super Bowl Shuffle” as well as a (false) claim that I’d defeated the computer Deep Blue in a chess game. The moral? Always drink responsibly.
And now, without further ado, I ado hereby present the unerring, unredacted and 100 percent correct L.A. Times Domestic Beer Power Rankings. For the purposes of these rankings, I have sampled and judged a large selection of popular domestic beers. And while I’m certainly not implying that any of the beers listed here are “watery” or “swill” or “bad” in any sense of the word, I’ll just say that the $22 Ironfire Outcast Dead Imperial Red Ale you like so much will not be found within this article.
I ranked the beers based on two qualities: 1) taste and 2) chuggability, a highly scientific metric I devised to measure how easily a given brew goes down the hatch, like a refreshing mountain stream tickling your esophagus.
MILLER HIGH LIFE: How are you going to argue against the Champagne of Beers? How could you not proclaim a beer with an elegantly sloped neck designed to resemble that of a champagne bottle, and occasionally bedecked with gold foil to reinforce the point, the finest American beer in all the land? This, beyond all, is the beer that says luxury, affluence and effervescence.
Miller High Life has a bouquet that tastes pleasingly of apple juice and Corn Nuts, light and sweet with just a hint of toffee. It’s highly drinkable and is remarkably skunk-free considering it comes in a clear glass bottle. The fact that it comes in squat little 7-ounce ponies for lightweights like me is all the better.
Chuggability ranking: 6
BUD LIGHT: Like Natalie Imbruglia and this ligament in my left ankle, I’m torn. This was a contender for No. 1, and it could have gone either way. Bud Light is clean, crisp and ideal for hot-weather consumption. It tastes like a slightly alcoholic cream soda. It also positively crushes, sales-wise, every other beer in America. By, like, a lot. Bud Light shipped around 33 million barrels in 2017, double that of the second-most-popular beer, Coors Light.
And, yes, because I am a human being with a soul, I also enjoy Spuds MacKenzie, the sunglasses-wearing, skateboarding bull terrier from 1980s Bud Light commercials. But it wasn’t quite enough to push this beer into first place.
ROLLING ROCK: There’s something very welcoming about the deep green glass of the Rolling Rock bottle: It says comfort, hominess, the forest, high school. This is a malty-tasting beer with a clean and quite smooth finish, but the flavor that sings through (if there really is one) is one of a general toasted-ness. Make sure this is very cold when you drink it.
Chuggability ranking: 12
YUENGLING: Much like the Wagyu slider, the name of this beer makes you think it could be somewhat Asian; upon further inspection, you realize it isn’t at all. Established in 1829, Yuengling Brewery, which bills itself as the country’s oldest, got its start in Pottsville, Pa. The beer is very difficult to find on the West Coast and has a strong local feel to it, despite pumping out a couple million barrels a year.
The flavor is fairly stolid, much like the Midwestern temperament — a bit sweet with a slight lingering bitterness in the back of the throat.
BUD LIGHT LIME: You know what? I’m just going to go ahead and admit that I like Bud Light Lime. I’m not sure there’s actually a more perfect beach beer — it’s just as good as a Corona or Pacifico. And when soaking up unhealthful UV rays, the lime flavor tastes remarkably not like a cleaning product.
Things change under the dark, sobering shadows of an actual bar, of course. Would you order Bud Light Lime in a bar? You certainly would not.
COORS BANQUET: Founded in 1873, Coors has fully embraced the Rocky Mountain aesthetic of rugged dudes doing rugged dude things: Hiking. Panning for gold. Roping a steer. Or, if you’re a hot young “St. Elsewhere”-era Mark Harmon, putting on some waders and walking through a cold mountain stream.
The beer itself has a malty-sweet flavor — the finish is a little more sour than I’d have imagined from the breath of the Rockies, but at least it doesn’t linger.
BUDWEISER: Clydesdales. Beechwood-aging. The frogs that proved the world wrong and learned to say “Budweiser.” If there’s another beverage that says “America” more vociferously than Budweiser, the self-proclaimed “King of Beers,” I’ve yet to sample it.
Budweiser is a little malty, a little sweet and a bit heavier than you’d expect.
MICHELOB ULTRA: Cotton candy’s alcoholic liquid equivalent: Michelob Ultra. This beer tastes like practically nothing, only vaguely sweet and goes down easier than Placido Domingo on a Sunday morning.
PABST BLUE RIBBON: I’m not exactly sure how Pabst Blue Ribbon got its reputation over the last decade or two of being something of a hipster beer (or what hipster even means, frankly). Because it’s cheap, I suppose? And has that state-fair, Americana look and feel to it? Whatever the reason, it’s probably not that the beer is super-delicious, because it’s not. But it’s perfectly fine. Flat, nutty and a little sour, PBR has a delayed bitterness that lasts at least as long as a Neutral Milk Hotel song.
The beer itself isn’t bad. It’s slightly malty, a little sweet and is fairly drinkable — the flavors and slightly bitter aftertaste linger after you’ve set it down.
BUSCH: I tell ya, I’m not usually one to fall for the cowboy nostalgia of beer commercials, but that old Busch commercial, where they break it down a cappella halfway through the theme song, gives me legitimate chills. Actual goose pimples on the forearm.
Busch beer is fairly oaty with a slight mineral aftertaste. It’s not the most inspiring beer, but it may make you want to saddle up.
COORS LIGHT: Coors Light, known as the “silver bullet” because of its signature shiny, metallic cans, is mostly what you want in a light beer. It goes down about as easy as a dozen White Castle sliders. The taste is not quite where it needs to be, though — it tastes like hard water; it’s minerally like when you’re drinking from a garden hose or a water fountain at the public park.
Special shout-out to the “ … and twins” commercial of the early 2000s, which holds its own against the many, many terrible and embarrassing beer commercials of the modern era.
BUD LIGHT PLATINUM: This is the sleek, turbo-charged version of Bud Light. This is what the Wall Street bros drink when they’re looking to cut loose but also need to watch their calorie intake because they don’t play lacrosse anymore (and weirdly, Bud Light Platinum has just 8 fewer calories than regular Budweiser). It’s a denser, slightly more bitter version of Bud Light.
BUSCH LIGHT: Busch is so named because of the company that owns it. Anheuser-Busch InBev, with almost $55 billion in revenue in 2018, owns so many beer companies. In addition to all the Budweiser brands, they also have Corona, Michelob, Stella Artois, Beck’s, Rolling Rock and dozens of smaller brands. Ever wonder why a lot of your beers sort of taste the same?
Busch Light is actually an outlier, though, in that it tastes like nothing at all. I literally wrote down “no tasting notes.” It doesn’t taste like anything. It tastes like Arrowhead water. It is refreshing, though!
MILLER GENUINE DRAFT: I won’t pretend to know what “cold-filtered” actually means, or if it makes a marked difference in the taste of a beer. But in the case of MGD, which leans heavily on the adjective, it makes the beer remarkably … average. Like a 40-something-year-old man, the beer is fairly round and middle-of-the-road. There’s nothing particularly notable about it, save for a lingering, slightly acrid finish.
NATIONAL BOHEMIAN: With a name like National Bohemian, one would think of the beer as somewhat iconoclastic or unconventional. This is decidedly not the case. Natty Boh, as it’s affectionately known in Baltimore, where it is the go-to domestic beer, is about as un-bohemian as it comes: it’s yeasty and slightly creamy, with a mild skunkiness to it. It is, however,, fairly cheap and chuggable.
STEEL RESERVE: Like Carrot Top, this is unexpectedly full-bodied. The austere-looking Steel Reserve can has plenty of writing on it to let others around you know that you’re serious about your drinking. This beer isn’t terrible — it’s sort of malty and sweet — but it just doesn’t have much soul. And it’s not something I’d want to drink more than one of. Fortunately, as this beer has a jaw-dropping 8.1 percent alcohol content, you may not need to.
SAMUEL ADAMS: Would you rather have a good version of something cheap, or a cheap version of something good? Would you rather have a super-good grilled-cheese sandwich, or a somewhat disappointing chateaubriand?
Sam Adams is a bit like the latter. It’s a bad version of a good beer. It’s trying hard. Trying with its deep amber color, tasting a bit too sweet and hitting a few caramel notes. But, like my last relationship, it leaves a slight lingering bitterness.
NATURAL LIGHT: Natty Light: The staple of every bad college party. Forever staining the carpets of dormitory basements across the country. Natty Light is bad, sure, but it tastes like so little, can it actually be that bad? It tastes like when you accidentally grab the Brita from the fridge and pour water all over your cereal — slightly malty and very, very watered down.
BUD ICE: Bud Ice is apparently the product of ice brewing, wherein the beer is brought to a below-freezing temperature and allowed to freeze, just a tiny bit. When the resulting ice crystals are removed, you’re left, in theory, with a slightly more concentrated beer with a higher alcohol content.
In the case of Bud Ice, the alcohol percentage difference (5.5 percent versus 5 percent for regular Budweiser) is marginal, but the taste difference is quite noticeable. And it’s not a good noticeable. Bud Ice is sharp and very sour, like that brilliant but fundamentally damaged single friend you have who’s been on the dating apps for way too long. At least the taste dies off immediately, leaving no lingering memory.
MILLER LITE: The classic Miller Lite commercials of old feature the never-ending debate over which is Miller Lite’s most notable characteristic: That it tastes great? Or that it’s less filling?
The debate is over. It certainly doesn’t taste great. After a particularly bubbly and fizzy nose, the actual flavor of Miller Lite then becomes clear — that of a frat pledge’s khakis at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Like the memory of an encounter with the wearer of such khakis, the stale, skunky taste is difficult to shake.
KEYSTONE LIGHT: “Grab a ‘stone,” the friendly copy on the Keystone Light can encourages you. It should be noted that this is a different imperative than “grab ‘em by the stones.” So sure, grab a ‘stone, but know what you’re getting. A pretty average light beer that tastes slightly minerally and lasts a bit longer on the palate than it should.
HAMM’S: They don’t let beer and cigarette companies advertise with cartoons like they used to, but let’s revisit an old Hamm’s beer commercial from 40 years ago in which a bunch of cartoon animals are playing a game of pickup baseball.
Suddenly, an adult, human man appears on the screen and encourages you to drink a refreshing Hamm’s beer. Then, like nothing happened, we’re back with the cartoon animals. Those were different times. And maybe Hamm’s beer was different back then too, because today it’s certainly not much to write home about. Flavorless and largely without character, save a vague swampiness, it’s certainly easy to drink, but I wouldn’t feed it to any forest creatures.
NATURAL ICE: Natural Ice, the high-alcohol version of Natty Light, is a bit like the double black diamond ski trail at the resort: When you approach with undue hubris and take it in too fast, you run the risk of hurting yourself as well as others. Natural Ice is sharp and bitter but leaves virtually no aftertaste, like how hand sanitizer disappears without a trace.
SCHLITZ: I had an old teacher who used to constantly make a lame crack about Schlitz beer. He’d say something like, “When you’re out of beer, you’re full of Schlitz!” and then chuckle to himself.
I’m not sure exactly why he thought that was funny, or even precisely what the joke was, but he overlooked one essential: that the beer, Schlitz, basically tastes like cardboard. Like a big cardboard box. It drinks more smoothly, thankfully, than a cardboard box.
ICEHOUSE: There’s a line from the old 1987 “Leisure Suit Larry” computer game that goes, “Your mouth tastes like the inside of a motorman’s glove,” used as a prompt to get you to use your breath spray. I never really knew what that line meant when I was a kid, but, after drinking some Icehouse, I now get it. The lingering, sour taste stayed on the back of my throat for a good two minutes after I finished drinking. I could feel fur growing on the back of my tongue. That’s not a good feeling.
BUD LIGHT ORANGE: Imagine a “Twilight Zone” episode in which a horrible, rich man owns an orange grove and secretly despises oranges but loves to drink beer and wishes his whole family would die — and actually they do, when an asteroid strikes the orange grove (the horrible man was out of town when this happened) — and he finally gets to just drink beer in solitude for the rest of his life, but he didn’t realize that the asteroid striking the orange grove actually caused the groundwater to permanently get contaminated with orange flavor forever, and all the beer he will ever drink for the rest of his life will taste like oranges.
Anyway, that scenario would feasibly produce a beer like Bud Light Orange, one of the strangest, most nauseous beverages I’ve had in quite awhile. The orange flavor is so pervasive and overwhelming, like what would happen if Yankee Candle decided to open a brewery inside an Orange Crush factory.
Whereas Bud Light Lime can convince you to reasonably suspend your beer disbelief in the service of kind-of refreshing, fake-tasting fruit flavor, this is a shandy gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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Tenure is, in part, designed to protect one from retaliation. It’s the tenured that can make the culture of silence (and shame) within a profession disappear…. Obviously they need help from their employers (universities and grant agencies), but it does make a difference.
What is so distressing about professional philosophy, is that too much of the hard work in changing our norms and practices has fallen on some of the most junior and vulnerable in our profession (when these are not actively undermined or shunned for breaking the culture of silence) or on a relatively small group of change-agents.
Yes, there is a lot more support of victims and far wider public recognition of our profession’s problems than there was, say, a decade ago. (I hope that’s true; there is also a lot more public vilification too, so I may be too optimistic.) During all the scandals that have come to light during the last few years, some of our senior colleagues were instrumental in aiding victims; behind the scenes there is a lot more effort to prevent serial harassers from speaking at conferences and workshops. But too many of our profession’s big shots continue to show indifference or, worse, cover for philosophically talented peers about which there are plenty of “open secrets.”
That’s Eric Schliesser, writing at Digressions & Impressions about how the sexual harassment scandal concerning Geoff Marcy is being handled by the astrophysics community in which Marcy is a central figure, particularly by senior, tenured members of that community, and how it seems to differ from what happens in the philosophy profession.
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The Development Data Partnership initiative may appear to be a simple website, but underpinning its design are sophisticated innovations that facilitate efficient collaboration. These include:
Open WBG Access to Private Sector Opportunities
Traditionally, private sector partnerships are signed between individual staff or units, limiting the opportunities offered through the partnership to one team, which may or may not be the most effective use of that partnership. As the WBG seeks to scale up its collaboration efforts with larger technology companies, we need mechanisms to open these opportunities to more staff, without creating unnecessary bottlenecks.
A core objective of Development Data Partnership is to facilitate opening these partnership opportunities to all qualified WBG staff. The operating principle is that partnerships can be originated by any WBG unit, so long as:
If the partnership involves data sharing, the agreement follows the Data Sharing Policy developed by the Data Council and approved by the WBG CEO in 2018, which includes provisions that support internal sharing of data; Partnership activities are recorded on the Development Data Partnership platform (see Private Partner Relationship Management System, below); and If the partner is amenable to additional uses of the data or resources being shared with the WBG, the unit uses the Development Data Partnership platform to solicit ideas and proposals to generate additional value from the partnership. Private Partner Relationship Management System
Private technology partners want to track how the WBG is leveraging their contributions. This tracking quickly becomes challenging, when multiple WBG units are leveraging the same resources. To overcome this issue, the Development Data Partnership platform includes unique, easily updatable partner web pages (viewable only by WBG staff and partners through a login). Each partner web page serves as a custom tracking system, showing current opportunities, received proposals, links to completed projects, names of persons in the WBG who have previously worked with the data partner, and automatically updated links to WBG blogs and articles that includes the partner’s name.
Integrated WBG-Wide Resource Support Ecosystem
Another critical aspect of the Development Data Partnership platform is the novel introduction of a complete ecosystem of support for technology initiatives. For example, a TTL who has been introduced to a big data set from a ridesharing company may receive consultation support from WBG data scientists and geospatial specialists; cloud computing credits through ITS; a consultation with the AI Lab; an introduction to an urban specialist working on Smart Cities; a consultation with the DEC Development Data Group that can support data cleaning, hosting, and visualization; and through the Data Council, connections to the appropriate legal and procurement teams. By formalizing this ecosystem of services, the WBG can improve its level of service in technology, with economies of scale.
Transparent Proposal Submission and Evaluation Process
All solicitations for ideas and proposals are conducted in a transparent manner. Any WBG staff can view another team’s proposal and idea on the Development Data Partnership platform before the selection process is complete. Transparency has the advantage of ensuring a merit-based selection process, as well as stimulating new ideas and avoiding redundancy. Once participating companies are granted access to the site, we can then take the next step of facilitating comments and ideas between the partners and the WBG.
The actual process for selecting winning proposals (who reviews, criteria, timing, etc.) is unique to each opportunity and agreed upon with the private partner. It is envisioned that in FY19, the Working Group will have a budget code and expanded mandate to maintain a rotating cadre of proposal reviewers, to expand opportunities for participation with the Working Group, as well as to limit the burden on core members.
Pooling Internal Resources through Crowdfunding
All persons submitting proposals through the Development Data Partnership platform have the option of electing to raise funds for their proposal through crowdfunding (for more information on crowdfunding – see How it Works question, “What is crowdfunding?”).
When submitting a proposal via on-line template for crowdfunding, a team describes their idea, indicates resources needed to implement the idea, and presents “reward tiers” — what contributors receive by joining their team (for example, in return for a $10,000 budget contribution, a TTL may receive a product translated into their client’s language; for $20,000, the TTL may receive the translated product plus a training workshop tailored for their counterparts and a customized analysis). Then, others viewing a proposal have the option of “joining the team”, through which they make the requisite contributions.
A combined transparent proposal presentation and crowdfunding strategy helps us achieve the following:
Transparency: Bank staff can browse proposals submitted by others; Lowering Barriers to Idea Contribution: Bank staff can submit a proposal, without prior clearance; Pooling Resources and Data: Bank staff may join / support an existing proposal.
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K Corners Aren't Racist, But They're A Little Weird
Lauren Theisen
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Tuesday night, a Bad Tweet made the rounds online and drew some derision from baseball fans:
You’ll be shocked to learn that this user’s replies quickly clogged up with attempts at correction and mockery. (It didn’t help that she doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on her initial comment.) And I mean, yeah, of course she’s wrong, and there’s no ill intent behind a K Corner. But to someone not well-versed in baseball scoring, the association of “K” with “strikeout” is not immediately clear or understandable, and does bring up some interesting questions.
Why a “K?” We can thank Henry Chadwick, the inventor of the box score, for that. Chadwick was well before his time as a statistician. Not only did his box scores change the way people talked about the game, but he also invented the concepts of unearned runs and batting average. When devising symbols for the box score, Chadwick supposedly used “K” for strikeouts because “S” was already taken for “sacrifice” and “K” was the last letter in “struck.” This made more sense in the 1800s than it would today, but nearly every aspect of Chadwick’s box score remains unchanged from his original idea.
About 100 years later, when rookie pitcher Dwight Gooden was dominating for the Mets in 1984, the “K” went mainstream. Dennis Scalzitti, a New York fan, is credited with starting the Shea Stadium tradition of posting “K” signs in left field, practically on a whim. Soon, Scalzitti’s lark caught on across the country, and still today, the K Corner is an important part of the baseball-fan experience. Seeing several Ks add up over the course of a night can be an exciting representation of a home pitcher’s great performance.
When the guy on the mound has three swinging strikeouts, however, things get a little bit awkward. Seeing a sign that says “KKK” at a baseball game is, well, seeing a sign that says “KKK.” For any knowledgable baseball fan, that’s basically irrelevant and easy to ignore, but for newcomers to the game, it can raise concerns. Last year, during Game 7 of an instantly legendary World Series, the triple-K was displayed, and people somewhat understandably moaned.
The weird part of this whole misunderstanding is that there’s absolutely no reason for it other than tradition. (MLB, possibly conscious of all of this and wary of any negative connotations, uses “SO” as its official abbreviation for “strikeout.”) As anyone who’s tried to explain a K Corner to a non-baseball fan before knows, there’s no logic behind it; the novice just has to take it on faith that Ks, occasionally tripled, are the way it is. The iconic K Corner is simply the result of history, like all sorts of other baseball stuff.
I’ll admit that the “K” is a tall, strong-looking letter, and that backwards Ks when a batter is caught looking are awesome. But an X could look imposing, too! And an R could be reversed quite nicely. A variety of symbols would continue to do the job.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with K Corners. The sheer randomness of their inception, though, means it would be totally fine if we one day decided to change them, too.
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Tag Archives: Walton Centre Neurology Hotline for GPs
Outline National Strategy for Information Technology in Health and Care (DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / NIHR / HEE / WHO / SMF / CQC)
Posted on October 21, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary Matt Hancock, Health and Social Care Secretary, has announced the latest vision for IT modernisation in the NHS, This will involve moving applications / data to cloud-based services, and technical standards which will allow NHS IT systems to be … Continue reading →
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(director/writer: Francis Ford Coppola; cinematographer: Charles Hannawalt; editors: Stewart O’Brien/Mort Tubor; music: Ronald Stein; cast: William Campbell (Richard Haloran), Luana Anders (Louise Haloran), Bart Patton (Billy Haloran), Mary Mitchel (Kane), Patrick Magee (Dr. Justin Caleb), Ethne Dunne (Lady Haloran), Peter Read (John Haloran), Karl Schanzer (Simon), Ron Perry (Arthur),Derry O’Donavan (Lillian, the Maid), Barbara Dowling (Kathleen Haloran); Runtime: 75; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Roger Corman; American International Pictures; 1963)
“The first 12 cases of dementia are conveniently ignored.“
Francis Ford Coppola’s (“The Godfather”) debut as a director is with this AIP low-budget psychological chiller. It was influenced by Roger Corman, noteworthy splatter filmmaker. Coppola reused the set of The Young Racers that Corman just completed in Ireland. The film picks up with dementia 13, as the first 12 cases of dementia are conveniently ignored.
Ireland-born John Haloran, of a noble family, recently married an American gold-digger named Louise (Luana Anders), who is threatened by John with being cut off from receiving any inheritance from his spiteful widowed mother Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunne) if he should die. Wouldn’t you know it—John has a heart attack while rowing and listening to Elvis on the radio. Louise doesn’t report the death and flies from America to visit John’s mom in Ireland at the spooky isolated Castle Haloran to get in the good graces of the matriarch. Louise arrives in time for the annual family reunion observed the last six years to mark the death of John’s only sister Kathleen, the family’s youngest sibling born when mom was 40, who accidentally drowned in the castle pond.
Louise tries also to befriend John’s nice younger brother Billy (Bart Patton) and more aloof middle brother Richard (William Campbell), a sculptor engaged to the American Kane (Mary Mitchel). Dr. Caleb (Patrick Magee) is the family doctor, who is concerned over Lady Haloran’s obsession with her dead daughter. She insists on marking her daughter’s death with the same ceremony as on the day of the funeral seven years ago (all the immediate family members hold umbrellas, put flowers on the gravesite and mom faints).
Louise’s visit sets off a negative reaction toward her by Lady Haloran, and brings out an axe murderer. It leads the viewer to guess which brother has gone into a dementia and is killing off members of the family, and to see if you can figure out why before it’s explained in the final act.
It’s not a great mystery story, but is effectively macabre due to its lively pace, the imaginative Gothic setting and the tingling cameo by Patrick Magee.
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Faborito
Since the 1990, Faborito is a local family owned brand that was served in many school cafeterias in grade school and high school. The brand has then been overshadowed by other more aggressively marketed players over the years. They approached us to give a new refreshing take on the the beloved kid’s classic that can strike through the similarities of other ice-cream packaging out there. From identity to the fun and colourful- pop illustrations, we wanted to speak to the curious minds of every children to bring back a classic in every school and supermarket.
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DexMat Carbon Nanotube Yarn: Will it Burn?
November 7, 2018 /0 Comments/in Application, Carbon Nanotubes Materials, CNT Rope, CNT Wires, CNT Yarn, Military, Resources, Sensors, Videos /by Dmitri Tsentalovich
This video highlights the high temperature stability of CNT yarns compared to copper wire by applying a 1430 C butane torch to both materials. The copper wire lasts about 5 seconds before melting, while the CNT yarn survives the torch for more than 30 seconds without any visible damage. The high thermal stability and superior thermal conductivity of the CNT material is most likely the reason that it is able to survive exposure to the flame from the torch. The impressive thermal properties of CNT fibers and films make them highly promising for application in flame retardant materials such as those used in firefighter suits.
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Carbon Nanotube Badminton Strings In Action
October 1, 2018 /3 Comments/in Application, Carbon Nanotubes Materials, CNT Rope, CNT Wires, CNT Yarn, Resources, Sensors, Videos /by Dmitri Tsentalovich
Above is a video demonstrating the performance of a badminton racket that uses strings made solely out of CNT yarn! The racket is strung with 700 micron diameter braided CNT yarn from DexMat.
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Badminton Racket Strung with CNT Yarn [Demo]
September 24, 2018 /0 Comments/in Application, Articles, Carbon Nanotubes Materials, CNT Yarn, News, Resources, Sensors /by Dmitri Tsentalovich
This is no ordinary badminton racket! The strings are made entirely out of DexMat CNT yarn, offering superior performance, durability, and the ability to embed sensors and electronics directly into the rackets of the future because these CNT strings have high electrical conductivity. 700 micron diameter braided CNT yarn was used for the strings on this racket to match the typical diameter of polymer-based strings used in badminton rackets. Check out the video of the racket in action below:
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Carbon nanotube yarn taps nerves for electroceutical treatments and diagnostics
July 27, 2018 /0 Comments/in Application, Articles, Carbon Nanotubes Materials, CNT Wires, CNT Yarn, Medical, Sensors /by Matthew Yonan
(Nanowerk News) Ingested or injected pharmaceuticals can target specific molecules involved in disease processes, but get distributed throughout the body where they can cause unwanted side effects. An approach known as electroceuticals aims to avoid systemic exposure by using small wires to electrically monitor and manipulate individual nerves that control organ function and carry information about disease. Despite the promise of electroceuticals, it has been challenging to develop long-term therapies due to the lack of biocompatible wires.
Now, NIBIB-funded researches have spun carbon nanotubes into flexible, nerve-sized wires or yarns capable of high-fidelity long-term connections in live animals. The development of these biocompatible yarns opens the possibility of new bioelectric diagnostics and therapies through regulation of internal organ function at the single nerve level.
Individual carbon nanotubes are pulled from a substrate and spun into the flexible carbon nanotube yarn. (© NPG)
All the organs of the body such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys are automatically controlled by nerves that stretch from the brainstem to each organ. These nerves control organ functions such as heartbeat, breathing rates, and blood pressure, making constant adjustments in response to environmental and physiological changes. Variations in the electrical activity in this area of the brain, known as the autonomic nervous system, can also be predictors, indicators or causes of disease development.
“Monitoring and manipulating the autonomic nervous system to both understand and potentially treat disease has been an intriguing yet understudied approach to medicine,” explains Michael Wolfson, Ph.D., director of the NIBIB program in Rehabilitation Engineering and Implantable Medical Devices. “This is largely due to technical limitations in being able to insert wires into nerves that can reliably and safely record electrical activity over long periods of time and under different physiological conditions.”
In a study reported in the journal Scientific Reports (“Chronic interfacing with the autonomic nervous system using carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn electrodes”), bioengineers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio describe the development of highly flexible carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn electrodes that were capable of months-long electrical recording in major nerves of the autonomic nervous system in rats.
The CNT yarns are essentially, just that, yarns made from a “forest” of hundreds of carbon nanotubes that are pulled from the metal surface they are grown on and spun into a highly flexible, highly conductive wire 1/100th the size of a human hair.
The carbon nanotube yarn is wound around a tungsten needle for insertion into a nerve. The coiling of the yarn causes it to remain solidly embedded in the nerve after the needle is withdrawn. Actual needle and yarn (top). Diagram showing detail of how yarn is wrapped around the needle for insertion (bottom). (© NPG)
Current technologies for recording electrical signals from nerves include relatively large stiff tungsten needles used by neurologists to obtain readings from single nerves of patients for several hours, but must be removed before causing lasting nerve damage. Other wire electrode technologies can record nerve signals for short periods but because of their dimensions and stiff mechanical properties they are not suitable for long-term recording in small nerves.
“The currently available electrode technologies simply do not match the mechanical properties of nerves,” explains Dominique Durand, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western and senior researcher on the CNT yarn work. “With those types of electrodes, it’s often like sticking glass into spaghetti. Our CNT yarns are similar in size and flexibility to actual nerves. These properties allow them to be stealthily inserted into specific nerves and remain there for months without destroying the tissue or inducing an attack by the immune system.”
The combination of the biocompatibility of the CNT yarns and their outstanding ability to carry an electrical signal that is 10 times stronger than current technologies makes them ideal for long term recording of specific nerve signals. Finally, the lack of nerve damage keeps the surrounding axons intact, which helps to eliminate background noise. Thus, the CNT yarns have an excellent signal to noise ratio (SNR), which is critical for this type of research.
The group tested the CNT yarns in two major nerves in the autonomic system in rats. One study involved the vagus nerve, which stretches throughout the body to connect to numerous organs. The nerve is known to control and monitor a range of functions including heart rate, digestive tract movement, sweating, and immune response.
CNT yarn electrodes were also inserted into the glossopharyngeal nerve. The nerve is connected to a number of organs including the carotid artery, and parts of the ear, tongue and salivary glands where it is known to be involved in swallowing.
Carbon nanotube yarn embedded into the vagus nerve of a rat. (© NPG)
In both nerves, recordings of stable electrical activity were maintained over a 10-week period. Pulses of nerve activity were also monitored while the animal responded to physiological challenges. The challenges included distension of the rat’s stomach with saline solution, and short durations where the rats were in low oxygen environments. In each case, the physiological changes induced by the challenge resulted in easily detectable changes in electrical activity that were recorded using the CNT yarn implants over the entire 10-week period of the experiments.
“Although this is early research, we believe the results demonstrate that this technology can be used for reliable long term electrical monitoring of physiological functions,” says Durand. “This is an important step in pursuing monitoring of disease progression through the nerves that control the function of the diseased organ.”
Durand explains that the goal is to learn what electrical signatures or profiles are indicative of disease development and to use that for early intervention, potentially by electrical stimulation or even blocking of the nerve. For example, one therapy for severe hypertension is the cutting of the renal nerve. This is obviously irreversible. Durand, explained that CNT yarn electrodes could be used to block the nerve impulse without cutting the nerve, making the treatment reversible.
The group is also excited about the potential of this recording method to improve prosthetics. “When an arm has been amputated there are tens of thousands of neurons remaining,” said Durand. “The approach would be to insert the CNT yarns into individual nerves and record the electrical signals that are created as the individual thinks about moving the missing arm—essentially learning the electrical signals that are formed by the intention to move the arm.” The ultimate goal is to develop neural interfaces capable of translating those electrical signals into better control of the prosthetic by the user.
Source: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
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Physics Charge Smartphones Clothes Made From Carbon Nanotubes
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Physicists from the University of Cincinnati will soon be able to charge smartphones using clothes made from carbon nanotubes. With the assistance of their colleagues from the BBC, Wright-Patterson, the experts intend to create a special material, which because of the peculiarities of carbon nanotubes would be exceptionally heat-resistant conducting electricity, and will also differ for their durability. Professor mark Schultz, is also involved in the study declared that the task of scientists is to use the resistance and conductivity for energy storage, which can charge a variety of gadgets.
Schulz said that at the moment the science is on the verge of a “carbon revolution,” as this material may soon completely replace metals because of its strength, low weight and various additional properties. Yarns made from nanotubes can store energy, replacing bulky batteries, which soon altogether sink into oblivion.
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Scientists fine-tune carbon nanotubes for flexible, fingertip-wearable terahertz imagers
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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed flexible terahertz imagers based on chemically “tunable” carbon nanotube materials. The findings expand the scope of terahertz applications to include wrap-around, wearable technologies as well as large-area photonic devices.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are beginning to take the electronics world by storm, and now their use in terahertz (THz) technologies has taken a big step forward.
Due to their excellent conductivity and unique physical properties, CNTs are an attractive option for next-generation electronic devices. One of the most promising developments is their application in THz devices. Increasingly, THz imagers are emerging as a safe and viable alternative to conventional imaging systems across a wide range of applications, from airport security, food inspection and art authentication to medical and environmental sensing technologies.
The demand for THz detectors that can deliver real-time imaging for a broad range of industrial applications has spurred research into low-cost, flexible THz imaging systems. Yukio Kawano is of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). In 2016 he announced the development of wearable terahertz technologies based on multiarrayed carbon nanotubes.
Kawano and his team have since been investigating THz detection performance for various types of CNT materials, in recognition of the fact that there is plenty of room for improvement to meet the needs of industrial-scale applications.
Now, they report the development of flexible THz imagers for CNT films that can be fine-tuned to maximize THz detector performance.
Publishing their findings in ACS Applied Nano Materials, the new THz imagers are based on chemically adjustable semiconducting CNT films.
By making use of a technology known as ionic liquid gating[1], the researchers demonstrated that they could obtain a high degree of control over key factors related to THz detector performance for a CNT film with a thickness of 30 micrometers. This level of thickness was important to ensure that the imagers would maintain their free-standing shape and flexibility.
“Additionally,” the team says, “we developed gate-free Fermi-level[2] tuning based on variable-concentration dopant solutions and fabricated a Fermi-level-tuned p?n junction[3] CNT THz imager.” In experiments using this new type of imager, the researchers achieved successful visualization of a metal paper clip inside a standard envelope.
The bendability of the new THz imager and the possibility of even further fine-tuning will expand the range of CNT-based devices that could be developed in the near future.
Moreover, low-cost fabrication methods such as inkjet coating could make large-area THz imaging devices more readily available.
[1] Ionic liquid gating: A technique used to modulate a material’s charge carrier properties.
[2] Fermi level: A measure of the electrochemical potential for electrons, which is important for determining the electrical and thermal properties of solids. The term is named after the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi.
[3] p-n junction: Refers to the interface between positive (p-type) and negative (n-type) semiconducting materials. These junctions form the basis of semiconductor electronic devices.
Tokyo Institute of Technology. “Scientists fine-tune carbon nanotubes for flexible, fingertip-wearable terahertz imagers.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 28 June 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180628105041.htm>
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August 2, 2013 January 22, 2017 / Tom
Release: Thursday, August 1, 2013
Gleefully tongue-in-cheek, 2 Guns is a mostly-successful buddy-cop action film that delves into the heart of a Mexican drug cartel while revealing surprising truths about the clientele it conducts business with. One could sense the lack of seriousness a mile away with this film. Fortunately, though, one gets exactly what one expects (and pays for) in this humorous account of two crooked trigger fingers, played by Marky-Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as they get caught between the cartel and several nefarious American government officials, including those within the Navy and the CIA.
Wahlberg’s Marcus “Stig” Stigman is a former Naval employee who went AWOL awhile back, and now finds himself “partnered” up alongside the smooth-talking, shady DEA agent Bobby Trench (Washington). The two make a satisfyingly comedic pair, and even when the events surrounding their story include plot holes and cliches galore, one cannot deny that the pairing of Wahlberg with Washington is the main reason you go to see this film from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.
The film, set ostensibly near the Mexican border, opens with the duo planning a bank heist in which they stand to gain something like $3 million in cash. The bank they plan to rob — Tres Cruces Savings & Loan — is situated across from a diner with apparently some of the best donuts you’ll ever eat. Or so Bobby thinks, anyway. However, when the act goes down after some editorial backtracking to bring us all up to speed on what has occurred over the week prior, the two walk away with a hell of a lot more than the $3 mil they were expecting. It turns out they become $43 million richer, but a hot-tempered, rough-and-tumble CIA agent named Earl (Bill Paxton) quickly catches on to the scent of these pseudo-expert bank robbers and soon starts blazing a trail to find them and, presumably, kill them.
One of the main issues with this film is the lack of seriousness in any and all aspects of it. Well, excluding the violence. There are certainly a few moments that are shocking and which don’t seem to fit the bill of a movie that tries to be more light-hearted than dramatic. It is a little difficult to buy into the fact that Stig and Bobby are this good when they shoot their mouths off at each other, as well as several more serious-looking Mexican drug dealers. Aside from Stig’s demonstration of his accuracy (by shooting the heads off of several partially-buried chickens in a backyard — all the while eating a plate of fried chicken, no less), and the same applying to Washington’s character in other contexts, this is a film that insists you wholeheartedly accept these characters based on the actors’ reputations alone. That’s all well and good, except for the final scene where they manage to avoid a torrential downpour of bullets. It’s perhaps one of the most egregious scenes of Hollywood magic, and would make Keanu Reeves in The Matrix look like a newbie in his bullet-dodging scene. Still, it’s best to accept things at face value here and leave it at that.
An appealing aspect of 2 Guns, which may be misconstrued by more bitter critics as being dumb or confusing, is the fact that identities are never really clear virtually until the very end. We are not even sure for half of the time whether Bobby and Stig are working together or working against each other. Their relationship is certainly one of love-hate — perhaps more of the former than of the latter — and is a real treat to watch unfold. The two prove here that they could carry at least another movie together — not a sequel as such, but I’d love to see them pair up again as the leads of a similarly toned movie. They are simply too much fun to watch, and again, this is in spite of the fact that their backdrop is extremely familiar and steeped in cliche.
Paxton makes for a suitably villainous and corrupt CIA agent whose only intent is to reclaim what’s his. Edward James Olmos plays the despicable drug lord Papi Greco; James Marsden as Naval Officer Quince as well as Fred Ward, as Admiral Tuwey, prove that not even the Navy is free of corruption. Unfortunately, by the time you get around to meeting the latter character, the whole business of literally everyone on screen being a crook has become old news and any credibility that was barely established at the beginning is more or less evaporated by the desert heat (and somewhat abecedarian writing). Even the enticing Deb (Paula Patton), the would-be girlfriend of Bobby, turns out to be nothing more than femme fatale. The double-crossing gets to be a little too much, admittedly, but it’s not quite enough to turn the movie from a ‘two guns up’, to ‘two guns down.’
An explosive finish predictably pits mob boss, American government officials (represented of course by Paxton, Marsden and a few others), and the two rogues in Bobby and Stig all together in the ultimate showdown where bullets fly, bodies drop, bulls run rampant and $43 million in cash erupts in one of the funniest “makin’ it rain” sequences I’ve seen in a while. As cliche as it is going to sound, Bobby and Stig indeed stumble off into the desert sunset together, and, well. . . that’s that.
On the whole, this movie is nothing special. It is boosted exponentially by the fun interplay between well-matched leads in Washington and Wahlberg, and although it may sound repetitive saying that, I honestly couldn’t get enough of it. To me, seeing them together was well worth the price of admission. The story line needs little to no explanation (other than a warning notice about all the confusing betrayals and such) since it’s so well-worn and not entirely thought out well. But it’s just enough to justify 2 Guns‘ existence. It may be surprising to think of the fact that this film will be far from anyone’s mind when it comes Oscar season when you consider the star talent on display, but it proves that you need more than just great actors elevating an average script to make a great movie. This one is purely for entertainment purposes only, and I’m quite alright with that.
Recommendation: Come in with low expectations and you’re sure to have a good time. It’s capably acted, decently paced although it plods around a bit in the middle, and the conclusion can be seen coming a mile away, but if all you’re looking for in a movie is a great escape from your real-life drama, be sure to check in on these guys’ movie life drama. I’m sure it’ll be worth it in the end. And honestly, who DOESN’T like Mark Wahlberg. . . ?
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sanclementejedi
Bring on the free Netflix streaming.
it’ll be a fun one to stream for sure Adam. hope you enjoy it. I certainly did. 🙂
Sounds like another dime a dozen action flick. Not in a a rush to see it.
oh but Chris that’s where you make a mistake, friend. you must be in a rush to see an overly complicated plot (that’s ultimately cleaned up entirely too fast) unravel between two textbook lead roles (granted they’ve got strong rapport) in an oft-visited locale (the Mexican border, there’s drugs there, really?) featuring some really hot chick as one of the unforeseen traitors. you’re missing a lot man.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
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Tyson Carter
Sounds good man. Solid cast, look forward to catching this one day 🙂
As you should be, it’s nothing particularly significant but certainly worthwhile. Easy to review as well, as you know exactly what you are in for. lol
Absolutely! Marky Mark Wahlberg is a proper star and any film with Bill Paxton in it gets my vote. I’m really looking forward to this now. Ace review.
Why thank you! It’s a lot of fun man, I enjoyed it quite a lot. Even if he worked really well here as well, I kind of think Denzel was an interesting choice to go with. But hey, a paycheck is a paycheck, right?
CMrok93
Will not change the game of the action-thriller in any way, but still allowed me to have a great deal of fun while I could. Good review Tom.
Thanks Dan, real great to hear you had fun with it too. I guess that’s all this was designed for, which is fine by me. Paula Patton drove me crazy, too
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THIS AIN’T NO BANK ROBBERY!
lol it’s good shit, isn’t it??
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Paul Waldman explains this “Centerist” Media manufactured controversy-
On Monday, CNN reported that in a private meeting in 2018, Sanders told Warren that a woman couldn’t win the presidency. Sanders then vehemently denied he had said any such thing. Warren released a statement in response saying that in the conversation, “I thought a woman could win; he disagreed” but emphasizing their friendship and common cause.
As a conflict between two candidates, this is all but meaningless. My guess is that Sanders said something he thought was innocuous about the higher odds a woman would face, but Warren didn’t like what it implied, so she remembered it and he forgot about it. Whether that’s what happened or not, nobody actually thinks Sanders is some kind of secret sexist.
As Sanders says now, “Do I believe a woman can win in 2020? Of course! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016,” which is a good point. But you can believe that a woman can win and still think that she’ll face challenges a male candidate wouldn’t. She might have to work twice as hard to get the same recognition and respect, a problem that would sound familiar to pretty much anyone who isn’t a white man.
I’m actually angrier on behalf of Liz than I am Bernie because this has all the earmarks of the “Native American” ancestry crap. All she said was that her Grandmother told her she had some First People heritage. Well, Grandmas tell you all kinds of crazy lies but in this case IT’S TRUE! Five generations removed mind you, but still true.
What controversy?
People are idiots.
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Course options range from college preparatory to Career and Technical Education classes, all designed to help students have a positive transition from high school to the world of work or to post-secondary education.
East Jordan High School’s high achieving students have the opportunity to enroll in AP Literature and Honors Courses in English and Science.
High School students are enriched by programs funded by grants from the East Jordan Learning Alliance, the Malpass Foundation and the Charlevoix County Community Foundation.
Members of the class of 2012 earned college credits through dual enrollment and direct credit options, prior to graduation.
More than 84% of our parents attend parent-teacher conferences. East Jordan High School students benefit from the efforts of a school counselor who helps senior students and their families with college plans, campus visitations, financial aid, college and scholarship applications, and much more.
EJHS business students consistently qualify for national competitions in the Business Professionals Association, a competition that measures a students’ business related skills.
All EJHS school Career and Technical Education courses are articulated with colleges and universities that extend college credit upon successful completion of the high school course. The courses include Accounting, Automotive Technology, Business Management Technology, Drafting & Design Technology, Furniture & Woodmaking, Marketing and Retailing.
80% of EJHS students participate in one or more co-curricular programs in athletics, academic clubs and the dramatic and performing arts.
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The East Jordan Co-Operative Nursery, established in 1968, continues to provide a top-notch preschool education for East Jordan area children 3 to 5 years of age.
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Ebenezer Christian School was founded in 1945 by people of faith who wanted the Holy Bible to be the basis for the education of their children. We are a non denominational school who is open to all faiths.
Ebenezer Christian Preschool was founded in 2002. The preschool uses Zoo Phonics which is a method developed to make children strong readers at an early age. Research supports the focus of phonics in early reading programs and has many educational benefits for the student’s future.
We offer strings programs through the Crooked Tree Art Center for grades 3rd-8th Grade. Our students also participate in the public school band program grades 5th-8th.
Our students will be using iPad’s during the school year which will be integrated into their current curriculum. These will allow students to take advantage of teachable moments as well as have access to endless education at the touch of a finger. The teacher will incorporate online learning in all subjects and utilize apps that are created specifically for education.
Though we are a small school, we offer a great education in a loving environment and we strive to be an extension of the home. Please feel free to visit our website as well as our facebook page for more information.
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Char-Em ISD is proud to have achieved accreditation by AdvancED for a second 5-year period effective July 2016. The AdvancED Accreditation Commission determined that Char-Em ISD engages in a continuous systemic process of improvement, and has effective and efficient quality assurance controls throughout the system. This achievement recognizes the quality of services provided by the ISD through the leadership team and governing authority, the dedication and service of the professional staff, and the support of community stakeholders.
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“Sail Charlevoix (Lake Charlevoix Mariners, Inc.) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable educational organization, dedicated to supporting the development and access to youth and adult sailing opportunities for our community. Since 1985, we have served hundreds of students every year, many of whom wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to access Lake Charlevoix without our affordable programs and two, Boyne City and Charlevoix locations. We aim to offer students of all levels, a learn-to-sail (or race) program, with an on-the-water and classroom approach, while providing a safe, informative, and hands-on experience for all.”
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About the Author: Kent Wayne
Musings, the books
The Filthy 108
Echo 4: Existence as a Comic Book
Echo Chapter 1
Echo Vol. 2, Chapter 1
Echo: Glossary of Concepts
I’m on a Podcast!
Kor’Thank: Chapter 74 (Epilogue)
Optimization!
Bones and Back
Sexy-Ass Brains
The Rarefied Tightrope Chapter 1
Prologue for Kor’Thank: Barbarian Valley Girl
-Kor’Thank: Chapter 1
Kor’Thank: Chapter 10
Atriya was on his way up.
The boots on his feet struck hard against the trail. His ruck, as well packed as it was, still shifted ceaselessly on his back. Every bounce tugged at his shoulders, sending stabs and aches throughout his body. His lungs burned as if he were holding his breath. Fatigue had spread from his legs to his arms, even though his arms were under no strain whatsoever. The exhaustion was simply a measure of how hard he was pummeling the ground with the combined weight of his gear and his body.
He embraced the pain. In a way, he was addicted to it. Not the pain itself, but the validation it gave him. Each burning breath, each chafe of gear against skin—every ounce of discomfort assured him he was strong. That he was tough. During his runs, he would pick the hardest, steepest trail available. And he always made it a point to fill his pack with the densest, heaviest sandbag he could find.
All throughout his life, he’d been rewarded by sticking to a simple philosophy: refuse to be weak. Push as hard as you can. Pain and hardship were not only inevitable, they made you stronger. Fuck everything else. What didn’t make you stronger wasn’t just useless—it was a waste of time.
Occasionally, someone would ask him why he punished himself as harshly as he did. The only answer he could produce was a condescending scoff, or a blank look.
It was the only way he knew. For him, it was the only way that worked. Whether it was talent or luck that allowed him to push as hard as he did and avoid injury or plateau, Atriya had never cared.
That, however, was starting to change. His contemplative side had begun to interrupt the regulated march of his thought process. The timing of it was troublesome—he couldn’t afford distractions. The job was too important.
Atriya wasn’t just ascending in the physical sense; his career was taking off as well. He was gaining acceptance as a member of the Crusaders, an elite division of shooters within the Department of Enforcement. The guys in the unit openly mocked the pompous sounding title of “Crusader,” and opted simply to call themselves “The Crew.” If they ran into former or active teammates outside of work, they would shorten it even further, dropping the word “the.” As in: “Hey, are you Crew?”
He saw a plateau up ahead, where the trail leveled off. He summoned the last of his energy, churning his boots against dirt. He reached the break-point drenched in sweat, gasping, feeling like he was drowning even though he was on dry land. Every ounce of his ruck was transcribed into a unique pain: a mix of screaming agony and paralyzing fatigue.
He paused at the leveled part of the trail and sucked water from a bottle. He looked down to his right and saw the Crusader training compound at the base of the mountain: a series of squat, boxy buildings with the occasional comms array or obstacle course breaking up the drab, linear patterns of architecture.
Up towards his left lay a series of gentler, flatter trails that revealed an expansive view of forest-ringed lakes on the side of the mountain that was opposite the compound. During off hours, a good amount of compound staff would hike past the plateau to appreciate the scenery, but nobody explored those wilds. It would be beyond foolish; that territory was held by Dissidents.
Atriya didn’t run past the plateau—ever—so he never got a chance to appreciate the view. Why should he? He could run up the steeper, lower-lying grades faster than most could sprint on the higher, flatter sections. The lower trails were a better workout, which meant that the upper trails were an indulgence, a waste of time.
The other reason he didn’t want to venture up there was purely mental. It was his job to kill Dissidents. Thinking of them got his blood boiling. So regardless of the view, he opted not to interrupt the tentative peace he found during his runs with a visual reminder of the enemy. He experienced a welcome escape in his solo exercise, and refused to disturb it with thoughts of work.
He looked back towards where he’d come from, and noticed a Crew Selection class approaching from a distance, rucking in a loose column of two abreast. After reaching the plateau, he would usually race down the trails and proceed to crush himself in the weight room. But this time—for some reason—he decided to drop his pack, sip some water, and watch the class.
Every now and then a small, inquisitive part of him—one that was buried deep and marked by intense curiosity—took control. That part of him enjoyed noting the layered, subtle connections that ran through the world. He was rewarded with a profound satisfaction from indulging his contemplative side, but also realized that it was potentially dangerous; it could easily lead to a lack of focus.
Atriya counted heads. This class looked to be about twenty strong. They would probably drop another ten or so before moving on to Technical Phase. Typical Selections started with around a thousand prospects. Nine excruciating weeks later, they ended with roughly ten survivors. The remaining men (occasionally a woman) would move on to train in the nuts-and-bolts skills of being a Crusader.
Despite passing the first nine weeks—Commitment Phase—the harshness would continue. The majority of it, however, would be channeled into training rather than weeding out the weak.
In Commitment, students were thrown into a world of merciless competition, where hurting and crippling each other was standard procedure. In a very real sense, each class would cannibalize itself. This was to be expected—animalistic brutality was forever present in the life of a Crusader; it was threaded throughout training from beginning to end, and also infused in the day-to-day job.
As the class grew from dots on the trail to distinguishable outlines, Atriya heard the instructor’s haranguing grow from far-off needling to a steady drumbeat of insults, interspersed with appeals demanding to know why the students were putting up with this shit. The instructor had no ruck, so while the candidates destroyed themselves in an effort to keep up, he chugged along at an easy jog.
They clambered up the trail, close enough to where Atriya could make out faces. Their pace was barely a shuffle, and their mouths were slack with exhaustion. There were two that were having a harder time than the rest, and they were getting the entirety of the instructor’s love.
Stragglers. In training, stragglers were the enemy.
“Bottom ten percent,” the instructor sneered. “What the fuck.”
The verbal abuse was a nonstop thing, and often punctuated by a smack to the face, or a half-push, half-punch to their packs or their arms. The worst was when he wound up and threw a vicious kick at a random pair of legs. Agony on top of agony.
The instructor called a halt, and the ragged group stopped in its tracks. Outwardly, they looked dumb and slow. Lazy. Atriya knew though, having been in their place, that this was a result of the accumulated abuse they’d been forced to endure. He knew that their hearts—even while sleeping—were racing abnormally fast from the unrelenting grind. He knew that their once trustworthy bodies felt traitorous; their limbs and joints had become awkward collections of fatigue and rawness. He knew that every action—an action that might normally be considered doable—required extra scrutiny to insure that limbs or spines didn’t give out. He knew that it felt like they were in a never-ending series of sprints, each one making them weaker and clumsier.
Atriya recognized the instructor as a Crew operator named Clement. Good on the gun. Not much of a personality.
Clement addressed the stragglers, arms crossed. “Hey fuckers, I’ve got a treat for you. Extra incentive, you might say. See Candidate 382 up front? Since you fucks aren’t pulling your weight, one of you is going to buddy carry him while the other handles his ruck. 382’s been pulling his weight, so he deserves a break. You pieces of shit are going to put in some extra work to make up for your fucking slacking. If you can keep pace for two minutes with the added load, then I’ll let the class drop rucks and sit for twenty minutes. If not…well, you know what comes next.”
He took a step back. His head canted upward and he addressed the rest of the group: “Any shitbag that falls back will join these weaklings in their misery. Keep the fuck up.”
The pair of stragglers gave each other dumb looks, steam rising from their uniforms. A resigned dread had entered their eyes, but upon hearing the instructor’s announcement they both straightened, and pitiful hope registered in their clammy expressions.
Atriya noticed that one of the two bore a strong resemblance to him.
The stragglers loaded up with the extra weight. The Atriya look-a-like was assigned the buddy carry. Heavier, but more stable. The candidate with the extra ruck had less weight, but less stability. The pack was positioned on the front of his body, and its main straps threatened to slide off his arms—the straps were designed to pull against the front of his shoulders, not the backs. It was only by gripping a pair of bunched up storage pockets on the front of the ruck that he was able to anchor it in place. The bottom part—the lower piece of the frame—pressed against the top of his hips, cutting his steps short. Because he needed to stay upright in order to keep ahold of both rucks, he couldn’t lean forward. All of this combined to cut down on the efficiency of his stride.
Instructor Clement looked on implacably, his mouth etching a hard line across his face. His eyes were covered with menacing sunglasses, giving him a cruel, robotic appearance.
Without speaking, the class realigned and neatened their formation. They were wrung out, barely able to think, but training had made this reflexive. They would endure brutal hardship that threw them into chaos, but as soon as they had a moment’s reprieve, they were expected to straighten their gear out, and then themselves. All the while knowing that the results of their toil were going to fall apart, and that they would have to repeat themselves again and again. Their efforts to maintain order never ceased, and stretched endlessly into infinity. Their suffering seemed eternal.
The two stragglers took their place in the back, one hoisting 382 in a fireman’s carry, the other adjusting the extra ruck through his arms, anchoring it as best he could on the front of his torso. With one ruck on his back and the other on his front, his silhouette bore vague resemblance to a double-shelled turtle. One shell on his front, one on his back.
Clement took his place at the head of the column. He set the timer on his wrist holo and began jogging.
The sound of rustling packs filled the air. While Clement was moving at an easy clip, it might as well have been an all-out sprint for the burdened candidates. Their breathing harshened into pained braying. To Atriya, the sound seemed starkly out of place amidst the sun-kissed trails and the whispering trees.
The two stragglers bowed forward with the extra weight. Their mouths were open wide, forcing out plumes of moisture with each exhale. Their eyes were sightlessly intent on the boots of the man to their front. Their already-reddened skin adopted an alarming flush, causing them to look severely sunburned.
Thirty seconds. The two stayed close, their faces tight with desperation.
Sixty seconds. The additional weight became apparent as the two began to stumble and trip. Grunts and moans burst from their lips, and occasionally one of them would let loose with a defiant yell, trying to summon any aggression he could in order to help bear the load. The one carrying the extra ruck was hanging on to it by gripping the bunched-up folds of the front-side pockets; the jostling had caused the main straps to slide completely off his shoulders.
Seventy-five seconds. While the rest of the students’ breathing had a steady, grating quality to it, the men bearing the added mass were exploding with gasps. Dread blossomed in their eyes as they saw a short gap appear between them and the others.
Clement looked over his shoulder, noted the gap, and picked up the pace.
Ninety seconds. The gap widened. The stragglers weren’t going to make it.
Two minutes. Beeping from the wrist holo filled the air. It sounded like the crowing of a playground bully. The doomed pair were now unacceptably far back. Not just stragglers now, but failures as well. The candidate assigned the buddy carry, the one who resembled Atriya, turned an ankle and fell.
Legs were normally springs; muscles, tendons, and ligaments worked together to partially recycle the energy of every step. For the man doing the buddy carry, exhaustion had turned his legs into dumb, unresponsive weights. He had to spend the familiar effort of lifting a leg, but also the unfamiliar one of making sure that it didn’t collapse once he put it back down.
The man’s time was up; he had reached the limits of his energy and caved like a marionette that had just had its strings cut. The dust of the mountain trail blew upwards in a quick puff as his face smacked the ground and 382 tumbled off his back.
The beaten-down group had reached Atriya’s perch on the plateau. They were uncomfortably close, so he picked up his ruck and moved back a dozen feet. He dropped his gear and sat on it, resuming his observation. He knew what was coming. It was Crew tradition.
The instructor called a halt and rallied the men around the failures. The one with the extra pack had shucked it, and was now sucking air with his hands on his knees, barely conscious. The student who’d been carrying 382 was facedown on the ground, legs quivering.
A malicious smile bloomed on Clement’s face. This was the only time in Selection where the training cadre would demonstrate joy.
Clement gave the order: “Drop rucks!”
The class peeled off their rucks and organized them into a neat, double-row of packs by the side of the trail. Now that their fear and adrenaline were cycling down, they moved like old men. They took short, choppy steps and walked with a pronounced hunch; their best attempt at trying to keep the chafing to a minimum and exert as little energy as possible.
Clement spoke with a raised voice, demanding everyone’s attention: “What’s the Crew motto?”
In dull unison: “I am the mission.”
“What are these two, who refuse to carry their weight?”
“Obstacles.”
“And what are obstacles?”
“The enemy.”
“Show me what you do to the enemy.”
The men shuffled over to the failures and began kicking them. Weakly at first, but with increasing savagery as they recovered from their sprint. Members of the class began smiling and laughing, whooping it up. The relief from dropping their rucks had flooded their minds and pushed out all other thoughts.
The men on the ground mumbled and groaned as punishment rained down on them. The one who had been carrying the extra ruck coughed up dark streamlets of blood.
The instructor looked on, nodding approvingly. He walked closer so he could get a better look.
“Keep going. I want to hear some bones crack. Cripple these motherfuckers.”
The class picked up the tempo, boots coming down in one earnest thrust after another. One of the failures was now drooling blood. He let out a pained yell as someone stomped his elbow, catching it at the joint while it was straightened. A harsh crack shot through the air.
The students stopped, assuming the air of handymen admiring their work.
“Good job,” the instructor said. “That one’s done. Get to work on the other.”
The mob crowded around the one that resembled Atriya. At first they rained down a storm of blows, but were rewarded with little more than muffled grunts. Then they started taking deliberately aimed shots. Still nothing. They were getting frustrated, and so was Clement.
“Hey fuckers, if you guys don’t break something, we’ll do buddy carry races for the next two hours. So hurt this motherfucker.”
They paused to reorganize their efforts. One man pinned the failure, so that the full force of each blow would be completely absorbed. Others hyperextended his limbs and propped them onto rucks, ensuring that his joints would be extra vulnerable.
With the failure’s body positioned and secured, candidates wound up and took their best, cruelest shots. It didn’t take long before three joints—an elbow and both knees—broke with sickening pops. The failure screamed, but it came out as a lazy moan. Without the context of exhaustion and abuse, the noise might have been comical.
Clement had been watching the process with a frown, disappointed at the man’s resilience. As the pops rang through the air, his frown relaxed into a smile. He sauntered closer to the failure, knelt down, and spoke in a conversational tone:
“Hey man, you hear about those cold-hearted fucks that wouldn’t piss on you if you were covered in flames? Well you’re in luck, friend. Because we’re not them.”
The class howled with laughter. It wasn’t funny per se; they had heard the joke thousands of times as every straggler was beaten and crippled, but their relief at having dropped their rucks made the statement temporarily hilarious.
The instructor stood up, unbuttoned his trousers, and let urine fly on to the face of the man by his feet. Clement hammed it up, sighing and groaning, and the men laughed harder. Once he was done he made an exaggerated show of shaking off, which got a few extra chuckles. Everybody was in a good mood when the instructor was. And instructors were always in a good mood when there were failures.
He turned to the class. “Line up! Piss break!”
Two lines formed. Once everyone had fallen in, the mob took turns pissing on both failures. The conquered men turned their bloody, swollen faces to the side as dark streaks of urine arced through the air and onto their bodies.
The remaining candidates were in a good mood, laughing at the misfortunes of their former classmates. Their loss was the class’s gain. Failing selectees meant that the class got to experience relief from the weight of their rucks, and in the literal sense as well.
The instructor turned to Atriya. “You want in on this?”
Atriya got up and walked over. Even though he didn’t feel like participating (which he knew was strange; this was a scene he’d witnessed—and been a part of—countless times before), he said, “Got to uphold tradition.”
The last man finished, and Atriya replaced him. He unbuttoned his fly, relaxed his muscles, and took aim. He waited expectantly. Nothing came. For some reason this disturbed him deeply, but his only admission of it was the furrowing of his brow.
What the fuck? I’ve been sipping water all day.
Clement called out, “What’s taking so long? Don’t worry about us—we won’t tell anyone how small your dick is.”
Laughter from the class.
Atriya covered it up with a joke: “It’s the exact opposite. I can hear all you fuckers smacking your lips and salivating over this luscious penis. I can’t relax knowing that all of you are barely restraining yourselves from chugging my amazing cock.”
They howled in laughter, and even Clement chuckled a bit. Atriya buttoned up, unable to relieve himself. He covered his consternation with another joke. “Get out of here. Your hungry-ass meat gazing makes me too nervous to piss.”
More laughter.
Clement turned to the class. “That’s a Crusader addressing you, motherfuckers. Ruck up—time to get moving.” His smile was pure malevolence—like a slick, underhanded stab. “There’s still almost twenty of you. About half of you are going to get what you just gave.”
There was a low-voiced groan as the men staggered to their rucks, readying themselves to re-enter the cycle of suffering. They lifted sweat-darkened packs onto their backs, primed to dive into agony once more.
The instructor keyed his wrist holo and spoke into it. “Command. Requesting med pickup for two.” His console barked out a static-threaded reply and he nodded in response.
The class took off, leaving the crippled failures where they lay. A steady rustle filled the air as rucks jostled along, accented by the choppy drumbeat of booted feet.
Atriya watched them leave. He had seen the insides of people strewn about like garbage. He had pushed himself through mind-bending pain. He had completed some of the most brutal and demanding training on the planet. For some reason, his inability to piss on a failed candidate—something he’d done hundreds of times—distressed him more than anything he could remember.
And he couldn’t figure out why.
He raced down the mountain, trying not to think about it.
Click the link to continue reading: Chapter 2 or click this link to buy Echo: Buy Echo
Here’s a link to the author’s notes for chapter 1: Chapter 1 Author’s Notes
281 thoughts on “Echo Chapter 1”
ThinkDifferent says:
Love it, I’ll be back for more. Thank you.
DirtySciFiBuddha says:
Thanks, man! 🙂
duzy23 says:
Really enjoyed this introduction. It’s obvious the military training is shining through. The main character, world and hierarchy are all fleshed out effortlessly. 👌
Thanks muchly! The perfectionist in me feels like I could go back and re-do the whole thing, but it was the first fiction I’d ever written, and I’d already put it through thirty drafts, haha!
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The Beez 2018 says:
You write beautifully and strong. I strive to write better every day and today you have inspired me. Thank you.
Thank You! Keep doing it, and you’ll naturally get better. 🙂
camocat9 says:
I love your writing style! Thanks for checking out a couple of my pieces, as well!
Thank you, and no problem! 🙂
BlackJack in Bali says:
Hell! your designs are Good
I like the lugubrious and Sisyphus presentation of the students — that really enhances the image of their misery.
Thanks! He’s really seeing himself, where he came from and where he’s going. 🙂
Absolutely awesome, cannot wait to read more.
Thank you! Sorry if it was a bit raw. 🙂
I truly believe that in this kind of genre row is great, much more flavor then well done (:
Awesome! In the end, (no spoilers) it’s all about the need for seeing both sides of an argument, and what might possibly dictate the heart of existence, if there is such a thing as an underlying order to all phenomena. But along the way, I dress it up in the shoot-em-up pew-pew-pew, robots-vs-magic craziness my teenage self used to gobble up.😅
theredsheep says:
Thank you for the feedback. I see you’ve been playing the serial game for a while; I’m just starting. You’ve clearly put a lot of effort into this–sort of future Sparta?
Yeah, pretty much. Although the story branches into existential philosophy and magic later on.
Johanna's Fan-Fiction Blog says:
Hi! While I’m not one for this genre , your writing IS good and kept me engaged long after I would have quit a lesser writer. This story has movie potential!
I’m also jealous of your descriptive ability. My strength is more with dialogue so I need to work on narrative and description. Finally, that Clement is a major JERK! If I was a soldier, I’d join the enemy’s side for the chance to capture and torture him! Take it as a compliment. A good story makes the reader feel for the characters and I feel for anyone who had Clement as a commanding Asshole…sorry, officer.
Haha! Thanks! I can’t take full credit for my descriptive abilities—I honestly think I’m a little on the spectrum (I know it’s fashionable to say that these days, but I’m simply expressing my true opinion) and that leads me to be a near-obsessive overthinker. As far as Clement…he gets some of what he deserves in book two. 🙂
Leonard L. Sand says:
Very intriguing! Sometimes I struggle through reading prose, but this time it was worth reading until the end. You write really good. Thanks for inspiring me by your example to continue and develop my own writing skills!
Thank you! You should have seen it when I first wrote it. Adverbs and clunkiness all around. 😅
eliviasalt says:
Your chapter had a great flow, especially the part where you describe the labels “The Crew” to “Crew.” Thanks for posting it for everyone to read!
No problem, and thank YOU for the kind words, Elivia! 😁
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Thanks for the share! 🙂
spreadingtheword4u says:
Wow you had me completely drwn into his world. thanks for sharing!
No problem! It gets a lot weirder as the story progresses into volume 3, so if it doesn’t turn out like you expect, I apologize in advance. 🙂
You are a very talented writer.
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jftsciencefictionfantasy says:
The Crusaders ‘Crew’ sound like Special Forces for whoever’s in charge. As for the dissidents, I wonder what their views are. Whom does the Department of Enforcement serve? That, and these training classes are brutal. I don’t think the Seals or Delta would do what these guys did to those training failures. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but I don’t think there are any in this world. Good job.
Thanks! And no, a professional selection course doesn’t purposefully damage its candidates; that just sometimes happens in the process of screening with job-related stressors. This is an iteration of the dystopic nature of Echo–how they’ve taken the idea of selection into something dysfunctional and really just an excuse for cruelty.
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butterflyobsession says:
I need the book. I want to hear the paper rustle and I want to read under my bedsheets at 2 am in the morning choking on weed smoke. I loved this too fucking much. Wonderful,
Thank you! I prefer shroom buzz myself, but weed is good too! 🙂 It doesn’t get REALLY psychedelic until book 3, then it goes full-on existentially weird in book 4. 😉
full on existentially weird. ah you sure know how to turn me on and we’ve never met. go figure.
Hahaha! Marvel at my big, slick shiny brain!
AH Writes says:
I am definitely drawn in. My husband is a former Marine. This world reminds me of some of his stories of boot camp. Awesome Job with chapter one. I will continue on!
Thanks! The story starts out very gritty and dirty, but then in books 3 and 4 gets very psychedelic and existentially weird. 🙂
Howlietzer says:
Damn, that was brutal! Good job!
buvlo says:
Very much like this so far.
It seems clear you know the characters, which gives them a unique voice and helps make them real. The same for the world; it feels like you understand the world they live in, which gives the parts we see here a sense of underlying support, of being connected to a reality.
But you also aren’t in a huge hurry to dump it all on the reader at once, letting it emerge through events as they come. That speaks of confidence and insight, both of which always make me trust the author and the journey they’ve set up for the reader.
Thank you! Yes, I only use the military stuff as a starting point, and although I expand it into a spectacular battle in book 2, I veer completely away from it in books 3 and 4 as I introduce existential conflicts and magical set pieces.
Gonzalo says:
Diving into this now, this is great. Looking forward to reading more !
animalshelterveterinarian says:
This is brutal. And I thought I had it a little tough some days on the PCT. It’s good. thanks for the read Dirty Sci Fi Buddha.
No problem! Thanks for the comment. 🙂
Kailey Oliver says:
Great write ! I really enjoyed it!
butlersgloves says:
Great descriptions! I could totally feel the trainees’ misery. Very well done! 🙂
And thank you for following my story. I really appreciate it.
Thanks and no problem! 🙂
Ayesha Khosla says:
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Whoa ho ho! Thank you so much for the endorsement! I had to spend an entire year editing book 4, due to that specific subject matter coming as cheesy or preachy (in my opinion) half the time someone makes an attempt at pulling it off! Thank you!!!
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16 entries from October 2015
The Long Haul...
Only fifty-six more sleeps (approx) so I'm starting to think about it all...
Itineraries are being planned and booked over in New Zealand; the road trip, the glamping, the hot springs, the gold trail, the glaciers, the cabins, the bikes...yikes the bikes for part of the Otago Central Rail Trail, Janet Frame's house in Oamaru, Milford Sound, Queenstown, and I am busy upping the fitness and now turning my attentions to the Long Haul Flight.
London to Singapore overnight ...thirteen hours
Brief layover.
Singapore to Christchurch...ten hours.
I will be downstairs in steerage, and it's a while since I've done a long-haul so I've been doing my research...
Comfortable clothes...
Spare clothes...
What to wear on my feet...
Flight socks...
Keeping warm...
Neck pillows...
Ear plugs...
Headphones...
Permitted toiletries...
Carry-on luggage...
Snack packs...
Gadgetry...
Mainly it's about comfort en route and how not to arrive looking like a sack of spuds...
So all you seasoned travellers out there, please do share your wisdom and tips.
Saturday, October 31, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (46)
Night Waking ~ Sarah Moss
There was a book that came to mind as I read Night Waking by Sarah Moss.
Happy as a Dead Cat by Jill Miller, and published by The Women's Press in 1983 (remember the black and white spines and the iron?) somehow voiced how many of us were feeling back then. It was much borrowed, enjoyed, laughed over and greatly discussed amongst my circle of friends...
'...the life of an emerging feminist with five children (two at the breast) one rabbit, one cat, a goldfish and a husband. Thirty-seven years old and discovering that she's oppressed.'
In a cover quote Fay Weldon says...
'A fictional tale which carries all the force of naked truth. Funny, tragic, appalling and heartening all at once. How brave we are! Well, have to be...'
We were the generation of women trained in a career but with few choices available once we had children. Here in the West Country childcare was almost non-existent. Offspringette was the sixth child on the roll when the town's first nursery opened (didn't want to look too keen, but three children under the age of four was quite a challenge) I loved my years at home but there is no doubt it had its moments.
I once recall taking all three pre-school children to the GP with different ailments and being asked if I needed anything... out shot my reply before I could stop myself
'A week's solitary in Dartmoor Prison...could you sort that?'
He was the GP for the prison, it was the practice I had worked in, it seemed a remote possibility.
I had come across Happy as a Dead Cat in a second-hand bookshop in town whilst struggling to get my double buggy in and out of the door whilst keeping wandering toddler hands away from the books. It was a very old-fashioned shop; all new books were wrapped in polythene bags, thus defying closer inspection, and I could see the owner's heart sink as anyone with children walked in the door. He would always ask me to park the buggy and children at the door...and I never would, though god knows if anyone wanted to steal them they were welcome to try that manoeuvre back out through the narrow doorway.
Eventually the book was lent and never returned but I bought another copy a few years ago thinking I would read it again and remember and laugh. The funny thing was that I didn't find it in the least bit amusing; it had lost its relevance in my life...was my memory really so short...about sleepless nights and nappies and toddlers, and that sense of frustration at once having held down a good job, and not being able to decide whether to buy Frosties or Cornflakes in the supermarket.
This is all by way of saying that having thoroughly enjoyed Night Waking, there were moments when my patience with Anna's relentless and enforced martyrdom to motherhood wore a little thin. I'm out of that working world now too, when I had to empathise with young mothers every day...maybe that's part of it. I'm out of both practice and practise.
None of this detracted from the premise of Night Waking which is fascinating...
Anna Bennett finds herself sleep-deprived and marooned from her academic life for a year in order to accompany Giles Cassingham, her ecologist husband, to a remote Scottish island where the puffins have to be counted. In tow are the couple's two children, the precocious and terrifyingly intelligent seven-year old Raphael (heavens what trouble awaits ahead in his life) and the demanding toddler Moth (nicely and differently short for Timothy). As well as the remoteness of Colsay, the situation is further complicated by the fact that the island has belonged to the Cassingham family for generations and with it comes an inherited dislike and suspicion from the locals. When the bones of a baby are dug up in the garden suspicion falls in every direction.
It's all a rich dichotomy that Sarah Moss explores extensively, whilst neatly juxtaposing the twenty-first century plot with a series of letters written on the island in the 1870s by May Moberley. May has been sent to the island to try and stem the tide of infant mortality akin to that on St Kilda, on which the book is historically based, and it is all interspersed with child care theory from the recent past....Anna Freud, John Bowlby et al.
I find the story and history of St Kilda endlessly compelling, it's on our list of Places to Visit (somehow)
And, like St Kilda, in its own way Night Waking is also a book of extremes.
The dialogue, the interactions and exchanges often seem to reflect what may often be thought but not said, except there are no checks and balances on a remote island. St Kilda had its own tried and trusted methods of self-regulation and self-caring, but no holds are barred on fictional Colsay as Anna's isolation and sense of frustration increases, and with it a descent into savagery of a verbal kind. It seems damaging and exposing, as if island life strips away all the niceties and the need to keep up appearances. When a family come to stay in the holiday cottage...well they are prey to it all too...dysfunction abounds.
And then there's Moth, verbally ahead of himself in both language and reasoning for a toddler, and the hapless Raphael who worries about matters of great technical import such as the logistics of building a cable bridge across to the island. Poor Anna has her work cut out with the pair of them day-in-day-out whilst Giles dashes off to do his puffin counting at every fraught moment.
Maybe every generation of mothers needs a Happy as a Dead Cat sort of book and I suspect Night Waking is the one for now. I can imagine the Mumsnet generation readily identifying with many aspects of this.
If you have read Night Waking I would love to know your thoughts...
Maybe you have grandchildren and your powers of empathy are more acute than mine at the moment...
Maybe not...
But I am now really looking forward to the next book in this 'trilogy' Bodies of Light.
Thursday, October 29, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Fox Cubs...
We have been watching them from the bedroom window all summer..
Three little fox cubs scampering around Mowhay Meadow, chasing and hiding, learning the ropes and growing.
Very occasionally the vixen has wandered along our boundary and we have momentary pangs of fear for our little stone-deaf Dowager cat, though she knows how to look after herself and doesn't wander far, and Magnus, ever the gentletom, is never far behind her being eyes and ears for both of them.
This morning, there they all were as we looked out of the bedroom window; the fox cubs looking fully grown and in fine condition unlike many that we see as the winter progresses. I'm guessing this might be one of their last rough and tumble sessions before they scatter further afield as grown-ups; the shooting season is upon us, the Guns arrive on Friday and once they hear the shots they will be up and away.
They kept us entertained for a good long thirty minutes, herewith two of those minutes, rather blurry but I think you'll get the gist, wildlife having fun before the serious stuff begins...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (13)
A Game of Thrones...
I'm sorry... it's happened... I've gone there.
I was so far behind the curve it would be frightening if it bothered me, so own up everyone who kept hearing the name Jon Snow and wondered what was so special about the man who reads the news on Channel 4??
This joke must have been going on for years now that I know, but I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about...was it the ties maybe.
Slowly I paid a little more attention and was reliably informed by the Tinker that there was another Jon Snow and this was the world of A Game of Thrones. He loved the books, read them all on his Kindle and would scurry off to watch another episode on TV.
Anyway fast forward and here I am walking round saying 'Winter is coming,' and pondering the journeys of the Dothraki, and just how cold it really is on the Wall with the Night Watch, and whether Nell would be friends with Nymeria the Direwolf or would there be trouble over the tennis ball.
I had sent for the DVDs from Lovefilm thinking that perhaps Bookhound and I would sit and watch and fight our way into the party that is Game of Thrones, but they came and sat there and were eventually returned unwatched, neither of us in the mood for catching up on a TV series on a summer's evening.
Then the Happy Campers had both read Book One for a book group, and neither of them seemed to be complaining about it too much.
And so, with the quilt still far from completion and having finished listening to A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, half of Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety before needing a break from it and had that very false start with two hours of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (soporific narration, I was bored) I plumped for A Game of Thrones...just to see what all the fuss was about.
If there is one genre I have avoided it has to be fantasy on the assumption that is it 'wasn't my thing at all, ' probably not very well-written or something, but now I think about it the 'assumption' and its basis is all a bit vague, I can find no valid reason for it at all given that I've hardly read any.
And now here I am completely addicted. It has been like opening a door and stepping into an astonishingly exciting new and parallel world.
And as I listened to Game of Thrones I sensed a great raft of historical fusion of everything bar the kitchen sink, and a bit of background reading (not difficult to find online) filled in the gaps for me...
The War of the Roses...the Houses of Lannister and Stark could easily be those of Lancaster and York
Hadrian's Wall...the Great Wall that protects the territory..
Medieval jousting...
Viking marauders...the Ironborn
Mongolian hordes...the Dothraki
Atlantis... Valyria
Greek fire... Wildfire
And the world was ever thus with its themes of power and treachery, love, loyalty and fealty, trust and betrayal and the ever-present threat of who-knows-what so I am completely immersed in the world of Winterfell and King's Landing...and finally I meet the other Jon Snow, the bastard child of Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark.
But, and it's a VERY BIG BUT...I am being read to by Roy Dotrice and I wonder whether reading the books for myself would have cast quite the same spell of enchantment.
If you have read them I would be interested to know your thoughts.
In the first book actor Roy Dotrice, now aged ninety-two, voices two hundred and forty-four characters, every one different, every one recognisable and every one superbly done. A Place of Greater Safety, after maybe six hours of listening, was leaving me confused, each time I listened I was completely lost and had to rewind, maybe because the voices weren't different enough, I'm not sure.
Not so with The Game of Thrones. I am right back into the action the minute I start listening and in little doubt about whether I am hearing King Robert Baratheon or Tyrion Lannister speak. This audio is a mega-achievement for Roy Dotrice and I can't recommend it highly enough, especially if you are in the mood for something different.
SPOILER ALERT...I keep Bookhound updated too...
'Well the King's just been gored from groin to chest by a wild boar...'
'Curtains?'
'Looks like it, though plenty to eat for the funeral feast...the boar not the king's entrails that is.'
'And you know Queen Thingy...well those aren't the King's children at all, those are the children of her twin brother.'
'Messy?'
'Looks like it. I mean they are Lanisters masquerading as Baratheons, and of course one of them is betrothed to a Stark daughter and of course Eddard Stark is now running the show...it's going to be carnage...and then there's the Dothraki riding around and she's got a horse called The Silver ...which I suppose is to stop us all getting her confused with the Lone Ranger now I think about it...'
And so it goes on.
And jumping into this fantasy feels like a mega-achievement for me too. It's good to know that I am not as set in my reading or listening ways as I might seem; that an occasional foray into another world holds such delights as The Other Jon Snow and a compelling, skilfully-written and brilliantly narrated story that grips and engrosses.
And the whole series entitled A Song of Ice and Fire would seem to be endless.
A Game of Thrones,
A Clash of Kings,
A Storm of Swords Part One: Steel and Snow,
A Storm of Swords Part Two: Blood and Gold,
A Feast for Crows,
A Dance with Dragons.
If I don't run out of steam I may be away with Roy Dotrice and the Starks and the Lannisters for some time.
No more spoilers please but does anyone else want to talk A Game of Thrones...
Is it worth reading as well as listening...
And what about watching, would the DVDs be a good investment of time...
And what about other fantasy series...any recommends or is this definitely not your thing...
And dare I go there too...
Monday, October 26, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (52)
River walking...
I hope you have recovered from that walk to the woods because we have seven miles along the river to do today.
It was a perfect day for the annual Tamar river bank walk last Sunday.
Mild temperatures and sun shining...
and as we have had very little rain for a few weeks we decided to take Rusty and Nell.
There are plenty of reasons not to take them...
If the river is in spate the chances are one of them will be in and swept out to sea before we know it...
There is usually livestock along the way and though neither of the dogs give chase the bullocks can see it very differently...
There is always the chance of a bit of pheasant sport, and would Rusty be off on a frolic of his own.
But Nell is three now, puppy madness less-evident, and Rusty at six is generally steady. In the end they were little angels the pair of them, back on the lead every time we suggested it to them, and walking to heel with a tweet of the whistle and never straying far from us...
The Tamar was looking idyllic and it's always a treat to have access to this seven mile stretch, usually the domain of people paying a mortgage for a day's salmon fishing, but opened up on this one day to raise funds for the village church.
Once upon a time someone realised that there was sport to be had here, and money to be made, the man-made weirs creating a deep pool on one side and a fast run of water on the other to make the river more interesting to fish (so I am told). In spate the whole lot disappears under a torrent of water, the river can rise at least six inches within a hour of a downpour of rain.
This was a gentle day...
Remembering the floods of a few years ago, this is what the Tamar is capable of on a fierce day, and we can hear it from home. This the next river crossing down at Horsebridge and to think this bridge has survived this seasonal onslaught since it was built in 1437..
Greystone Bridge, built in 1439, and the next crossing point up-river from Devon into Cornwall, is always a welcome sight at the end of the walk, and this year we happened to catch it just as a fleet of vintage tractors were travelling over...
If there was a very slight hiccup it was the shuttle bus ride that takes us back to the start.
Very nice new mini-bus, and to the driver's acute and very vocal dismay, one very river-wet Rusty was in and up on the seat to get a good view before we could blink. Nell meanwhile, completely petrified, spent the entire journey trying to sit on Bookhound's lap and shedding enough white fur to knit a jumper.
You know that thing where you just look at each other and try not to laugh, agree silently to make a hasty getaway on arrival, and imagine the rest of the bus is silently passing judgement on your naughty charges, dogs worse than children honestly.
Saturday, October 24, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Be prepared...
I'm not saying the C*******s word yet, of course I'm not, but......you might want to be thinking about your list to Father C*******s and starting to drop hints because, as I say every year, be it on your own head if you get the Strictly Come Baking I'm a Celebrity Apprentice Annual 2015 when you might have preferred to find these 'neath the tree...
Fortunately I had received advance warning in the shape of a small proof sampler or I might just have collapsed with joy when two volumes of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story arrived.
Bookhound was off on his weekly bookbinding course day. It's going swimmingly well, he's finally back in touch with his inner art student, the first hand-stitched notebook is out of the press and I can see I am going to love all this....
My plan is that I try and use my home-alone day to do something creative too, rather than domestic duties.
I was upstairs cleaning the bath when I heard Jim the Postie pull up outside. Normally he skips in like a whippet, puts the post in the box if Magnus isn't sitting on it and he's off again before you can blink, but on this particular day there was a lot of commotion and a bit of huffing and puffing and the noise of large parcels.
'Oh good, books,' I thought.
So much for my creative day, and the bath cleaner had solidified in situ by the time I came to run a bath at 11pm, having forgotten all about it.
I was riveted to the kitchen table for the next how-ever-long drinking in the beauty that is these two linen-bound volumes; 700 pages and a lot of short stories, just what my self-prescribed reading had ordered in between the interminable but very enjoyable escapade that is The Luminaries (100 pages to go)
'Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected ; these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story.'
Edited by Philip Hensher Volume One - From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan and Volume Two - From P.G.Wodehouse to Zadie Smith promises to take me on a massive journey via ninety short stories, and if there is one thing I love about that, as I did about the Persephone short story collection, it is the chance to meet so many different authors who I may not have read before.
Of the Persephone collection I said this at the time...
"Each story in the Persephone book has a delicious kernel of quiet truth at its centre, as well as a good crunchy bite at the end, and I would be hard pushed to choose a favourite to date, but along the way I am meeting some authors whose voices resonate and I will seek out more short stories by them for sure...to be honest, forget the 100th book, I'd love Persephone to publish a volume like this every year. There can be no shortage of stories and the collective approach makes for fascinating contrasts whilst, for all the years that pass, the concerns and themes surrounding the constraints and pleasures of women's lives seem timeless and unchanging."
There would certainly seem to have been no shortage of stories for Philip Hensher to choose from, and he confirms this in his introduction which makes for interesting reading. I'm ahead of him on the potential for monotony and repetition of themes in a single-author collection, whilst agreeing that Secret Villages by Douglas Dunn is superb example of one that bucks that trend. It might be one of the first short story collections I bought back in the 1980s and is a book I would never part with.
Some very relevant points are made about the seemingly parlous state of the short story today. The current lack of enthusiasm for them around the publishing houses and magazines, the poor remuneration for the authors if they do manage to get one into print, and to think that prior to World War One there were at least thirty-four high circulation magazines devoted to nothing but. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could command £100/1000 words.
Philip Hensher makes an interesting point about the ability of the short story, in its heyday, to react almost immediately to national events, compare this to the furore surrounding the publication of Hilary Mantel's The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (which incidentally he considers to be ' not a very accomplished piece of work) so I am hoping this might be played out in some of the stories that have been selected for inclusion.
An equally interesting stance, given our recent read of the entries for the BBC Short Story Award, on the rise of the short story competition...
'The problem with relying on competitions as a means of developing talent, rather than the response of the paying public, is that they reward what they think ought to be good, and not what contains any real energy.'
and this..
'Not until the rise of literary competitions in the second half of the twentieth century, however, did the British hit upon a method ingeniously devised to suppress everything that had previously been good about a literary form.'
By replacing the system of commissions, payments, circulation and readers with competitions, Philip Hensher argues that much has been lost, pointing out that the dullest he read whilst compiling these anthologies were those very winners.
Neither are we very good at banging the national drum apparently. British modesty forbids it and as a consequence the short story in this country has been 'underestimated and even dismissed.' Fighting talk and there is plenty more in this introduction, Philip Hensher takes no prisoners, setting this reader up for a roller coaster of a ride through some of the very best.
This one of those perfect books for slow-dip-into every so often progress. I have made a start and even given over a new notebook for the duration, though I am all back to front and reading Volume Two first, 1920 to the present day.
I wonder what you think about Philip Henser's opinions...
Where do we find British short stories these days...
Are there any magazines out there upholding the tradition...
Are other countries better at this than here in the UK...
And talking of wish lists...are there any other books you will be hoping to find nicely wrapped on that day some weeks hence...
Blogging masterclasses...
I have had a great time doing the blogging masterclasses and met some really enthusiastic people who are keen to get writing. Blogs about cookery, farming life, dogs, books, local history, architecture, sailing et al hopefully now gestating.
One more event booked before I go into winter hibernation.
I will be at Hamworthy Library, Poole on Saturday October 24th from 2pm-3pm.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (1)
The White Road - a pilgrimage of sorts ~ Edmund de Waal
Published a few weeks ago, on my birthday and given as a present, in the end I couldn't wait a minute longer to read The White Road - a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal.
I have wonderful and special memories of The Hare With Amber Eyes but could have done without the sticker to remind me. It was removed.
But since finishing The White Road, how surprised I have been to read some of the reviews...
Rachel Cooke in The Observer..
'...an agonising read I struggled to finish it...Why did no one edit this, and passages like it? Perhaps the esteem born of a surprise bestseller got in the way.'
Kathleen Jamie in The Guardian
'There are two kinds of people in the world. One lot are hoarders, those frightened to let anything go, who imbue objects with memories, who feel aghast, naked, stripped of their identity without their accumulations, collections, crowded cabinets and vitrines. They will love this book. The other kind, those who value silence and space, may feel they are asphyxiating, that time and a thorough edit would have revealed the book’s true shape, its “beautiful resonance”.
I think I've read a different book.
No struggle here.
Don't edit it, please leave me all the words in the same place.
I loved this book, so clearly, according to Kathleen Jamie, I must be a hoarder (I think we know that) and I am wondering if anyone out there who values silence and shape (which I thought I did too) and can manage without their cabinet of curiosities, has read The White Road and if so what did you think?
I'm feeling slightly invalidated by the idea that I'm 'frightened to let anything go'...or that I 'imbue objects with memories.' and have therefore found the 'true shape' of a book that the critics have, in some cases, shredded.
Might as well go the whole hoarding hog and share my accumulation of garden shards in that case, and you saw my cabinet of curiosities a few months ago.
It was the sense of pilgrimage that resonated with me, and searching around for an all-encompassing definition, I liked this one by Benedictine monastic and spiritual writer Macrina Wiederkehr...
'A pilgrimage is a ritual journey with a hallowed purpose. Every step along the way has meaning. The pilgrim knows that life giving challenges will emerge. A pilgrimage is not a vacation; it is a transformational journey during which significant change takes place. New insights are given. Deeper understanding is attained. New and old places in the heart are visited. Blessings are received and healing takes place. On return from the pilgrimage, life is seen with different eyes. Nothing will ever be quite the same again.'
'Porcelain warrants a journey,' suggests Edmund de Waal, and with no particular interest in porcelain I was happy to tag along and surprised to find myself quickly intrigued and interested. My expectations were of a journey of course, plenty of commitment and reflection, some sharing of the discomfort (what's a pilgrimage about if not waking at an unearthly hour and pondering life and doubt). I would expect an acute awareness of place, a sense of history, but above all I would expect the personal and Edmund de Waal delivers all.
Another critic James McConnachie, in the Sunday Times, suggests...
"It was clearly torture to write and it is, at points, torture to read … The problem with The White Road is that it is everything that porcelain is not. It is overthought and overworked, somehow both fragile and heavy.”
Who can know whether that was the case, maybe it was torture to write, just about every author I have met, bar one, seems to suggest their books take them through the nine circles of hell and back, but I have not found it anything other than a pleasure to read, that's for sure.
Porcelain is the Big Secret. The exact proportions of petunse and kaolin, then fused at great heat 'to create a glass that is vitrified', have been known for a thousand years in China and it took a long time for anyone else to find out (I resisted saying 'crack it' which I hope you appreciate was hard.)
From the 261 foot high porcelain Temple of Repaid Gratitude built by Emperor Zhu De in Nanjing in the fourteenth century, to the flamboyant French courts of Versailles, to Dresden and Meissen and thence to humble old Plymouth, the city where porcelain was first made in Britain, and to Cornwall and its china clay (kaolin) mountains.
From there to Wedgwood and the Cherokee territory of the USA before a return to Germany in the 1940s and the concentration camp at Dachau, Edmund de Waal's short chapters, his shards of writing and his people, made up a perfect whole, his own experiences and observations the glue that melded the book together for me and gave it shape. There are moments of introspection and self-reflection, moments of self-doubt and questioning of purpose...a baring of the soul, all essential requirements of the true pilgrimage. He has a means of investing himself knowingly into the lives of the main characters throughout history, and in a way that only someone who has been a potter for so long is entitled to do, and it worked for me.
There is a sense of humility too. In the face of some mighty endeavours throughout the history of porcelain, it is clear that Edmund de Waal is rediscovering his place in that grand scheme, and with it a sense of continuity that he had felt in the early days of his life as a potter...
'It was the feeling that something was being handed on in these long hours in the workshop. something that had come down from one potter to another across centuries, which had the feeing of being part of an elect.'
Yes, pilgrimage is definitely the word to hold onto if you are reading The White Road.
The writing of Jesuit priest Pere d'Entrecolles, a primary source for the porcelain industry in China in the early eighteenth century, provides the clues and I was delighted by the idea that William Cookworthy, our Plymouth man, has the wherewithal to spot it in a book some years later. I shall be on the man's trail around the city soon and looking yet again at the cabinets in the museum, but now with informed interest...
Famed for his installations, and for making many thousands of pots over the years, I would beg to suggest that a degree of obsession has been required by Edmund de Waal for him to stay the course. You have to love the product and the process, and enjoy what you are creating to sustain that enthusiasm (I guess it helps too that people admire and buy your work) and it is clear that Edmund possesses all this and more as he reflects on his life as a potter.
'This I think is what I've been trying to trace, the glimpse of white rising and then sinking below the waves again, the wind catching and eddying the white dust, settling and resettling.'
It doesn't bore him and on reaching the end of his pilgrimage the circle feels complete as he settles down again to his family, his wheel and working in his studio..
'I am not writing. I have written. And I am making again.'
You might enjoy this interview about the book with William Rycroft ...the big question is does Will walk away with that pot Edmund is making as he talks...
There are a lot of things The White Road is not and never claims to be ...it is not a text book and it makes no claim to be a definitive source of reference, hence no requirement (in my mind) for the distraction of footnotes and bibliographies. Don't be deterred, it is a readable quest, a journey to tell a history and rediscover the people, a means for a man to 'enrich his understanding of this rare material, 'the white gold' he has worked with for decades,' and thereby ours, and all from a very personal and personable perspective.
I for one have thoroughly enjoyed reading and travelling that road alongside him.
If you have read The White Road I would love to know your thoughts...
And what about the reviews..
Does a stinker of review deter or encourage you to read a book...
If you are a writer, I think I can guess how it might make you feel...
A walk to the woods...
I've taken you up here so many times, so I hope you don't mind going again.
Most days we walk up to the woods with the dogs. Out of the gate, a hundred yards or so of our quiet, three-cars-a-day lane before we reach the green lane that tracks up the side of the four fields leading to the little woodland copse.
Our spring water supply emerges to the right of the trees and is piped underground to our garden where Bookhound has routed it to six different taps for watering. Should we ever move to a house with a water meter we will be in terrible trouble, we shamefully have no idea about being economical with water in this house.
I even watered the apple trees this year, giving each one a good fifteen minutes-worth back in early June, and we wonder if this might be why we have had a bumper disease-free crop this autumn.
On a clear day walking to the woods we can look across to Dartmoor in one direction and Bodmin Moor in the other and feel as if we own the entire world.
We stop and look across the fields, a constant work in progress...
There is so much to spot underfoot, the fungi last year were magical and I wonder if this year will bring the same...
The dogs are rarely on the lead now. They know the score and as we reach the gate to the field we decide...green lane or fields. It's often a weather-dependent decision, if it's blowing a hoolie and raining then the green lane is the best option for shelter...or if it's sweltering we will all be cool and shaded. If it's summer, and the cool of the evening, the green lane holds the heat of the day and we will wander up there for the strange sensation of warmth coming from the hedges like radiators.
Running the dogs up either way will inevitably involve a bit of pheasant flushing. Rusty is a part- trained working dog who doesn't know when to have a day off, whilst Nell just thinks pheasants are a bit of fun to set into flight before she heads off to find her much more interesting tennis ball again. I feel sorry for spaniels in a way... they have such a nose on them absolutely nothing escapes their attention; apparently 220 million or more olfactory receptors compared to our own five million. They miss nothing...not a thing, and every single 'thing' must be investigated. I often wonder whether the customary dip in the trough is about damping down the smells as much as it is about cooling off...
Talking of pheasants, and with the shooting season about to start, there will always be one (and we always call him Philip, much as the last fly left in the house is always called Andrew) who takes refuge in our garden and somehow survives the rout. Philip stays on to plague us and drive the dogs crazy out in the kennel as he struts around but his days will be numbered if he pushes his luck with Rusty, and likewise with Nell if he pinches her tennis ball...
But invariably, as we approach the woods we will hear and then see the hawks. In this case our commonest bird of prey, Buteo buteo, the buzzard and I have been endlessly interested in them since reading H is for Hawk, not that I want one on a perch in the sitting room or anything.
Our skies are full of buzzards during the summer, we watch them gliding on the thermals and being mobbed by gangs of crows. The collective name for crows is apparently a murder, and that comes as no surprise when you see what bullies they are. Buzzards on the other hand are collectively called a wake, and that is no surprise either. They have the most plaintive and melancholy cry. It seems tinged with disappointment, almost unfinished and rests hanging in the air in the saddest way. Helen Macdonald's suggestion, in H is for Hawk, that hawks and falcons are messengers between this world and the next suddenly seems very real overhead.
There is almost certainly a pair of buzzards nesting up at the woods somewhere, we always see them. The canopy will soon be set for winter, the light streams in again, all that bosky (Helen Macdonald likes this word too) summer shade will have gone and the place will be transformed into a very welcome theatre of light and bright...
Whilst I will miss summer there are fine things to look forward to in winter too.
How's autumn going over your way...
Or spring...
Books I have been meaning to read...
The stack gets higher and higher though I have managed to scrape about three inches off it with my reading of The Luminaries, but another writer came to my attention recently and I realised that I had somehow missed her along the way and here was a third novel in a loosely connected series.
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss.
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination.
I ventured halfway into Japan recently with David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet before the present tense narrative defeated me. I was disappointed in myself as much as the book having had such high hopes after enjoying The Bone Clocks.
As for Falmouth and Truro, we go there all the time.
Never mind, that's the story of a reading life after all.
But what on earth had happened to Sarah Moss on my radar and her previous two books in this series, Night Waking and Bodies of Light and an earlier novel Cold Earth?
Night Waking had even been chosen for Fiction Uncovered the year before I was a judge, Bodies of Light had been shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize in 2014, both prizes that I follow and both sounded like 'my sort of book' especially given Sarah Moss's own observations...
It’s the story-telling part of medicine that attracts me, the way we go to a doctor with one story and expect to come away with another, and the way doctors are like editors, deciding which bit of our story to keep and which bit is extraneous to the next draft, the diagnosis. I think doctors have long known that the ‘patient histories’ they take are shaped by narrative tradition, but often, I think, a diagnosis is also a story, shaped by a different tradition.
I was reminded of that medical humanities conference of many years ago, when I heard Arthur Franks talking about his book The Wounded Storyteller, the narrative of illness and how patients are telling their story in a consultation and the importance of listening. It was one of those eureka moments in professional practice for me, linking medicine and literature and changing substantially how I would approach those situations in future.
And it was something I was acutely aware of when the tables were turned earlier this year and my dad was on the receiving end.
I watched very carefully..
Who gave him time to talk...
Who asked him about himself and his life, and understood that just because he was approaching ninety was no reason to assume he was weary of it all, because he wasn't, even at the end.
Who was in a rush and heard only what they wanted to hear...
We had a moment very early in the process when minor surgery was required to remove what everyone had thought was a benign cyst and, little suspecting what it harboured, I was more terrified about the risks of a general anaesthetic. Knowing how compromised the Tinker's heart was a very astute anaesthetist picked up my concerns and came to see us bedside prior to the surgery, actually kneeling on the floor to talk to us thus placing himself below both my dad in bed, and me sitting alongside. He listened and reassured us for a good long thirty minutes when we knew theatre time was booked and everyone was ready and waiting.
These things really do make a difference I realised.
All of which may or may not be relevant to my reading of Sarah Moss, but I will be bearing it in mind.
Meanwhile I would love to know your thoughts if you have read any of Sarah Moss's fiction, or the non-fiction Names for the Sea - Strangers in Iceland , which incidentally I think you will agree sports a cover that is right up our alley...
And what about the books you have been meaning to read...
Half of The Luminaries...
Luminary : definition
An object, such as a celestial body, that gives light.
In astrology, one of the brightest celestial objects, such as the sun, moon, or bright planets.
A person who inspires others or achieves eminence in a field.
I think this is probably what constitutes a rather profligate 21st century reading dilemma...
The hardback edition is too heavy, the Kindle version no good for flicking back and forth and so I have also resorted to the Third Way, a more manageable paperback edition of Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries, though I haven't finished it yet so please don't tell me what happens. But having read 400 pages or so, which is the equivalent of any other book in total, there is so much spinning around in my head I thought a half-way post might be an idea or you will be waiting until next year for final thoughts.
And besides that, whilst looking up an accurate meaning of the word luminary seemed like a good place to start, if you have read the book I could use your help right now.
For those that haven't read The Luminaries the story thus far, set in Hokitika on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island, revolves around a group of people living and prospecting for gold in the 1860s. There has been a mysterious death, missing trunks (storage not swimming), missing people, the discovery of a surprise cache of gold aka 'the colour', the arrival of a stranger, a meeting of men implicated in something they are, as yet, very uncertain about, some complicated weddings, a ship has sunk, and the captain, loathed by one and all for reasons as yet unknown, seems nowhere to be found. All set against a backdrop of opium dens, brothels, intrigue and suspicion and a lot of very messy weather.
Eleanor Catton builds up the story layer upon layer, each one folding again within itself until I was so completely immersed it has been getting harder and harder to extricate and do things like wash the kitchen floor. I have stopped reading all other books in order to stay in the geographical zone 42 43' 0" S / 170 58' 0" which, when you check it out is, predictably, Hokitika. Italy with Elena Ferrante and China with Edmund de Waal are waiting patiently in the wings
Each layer rests lightly on the next, skilfully handing on the baton of character and plot, all of which must have taken an almighty amount of skill, patience and post-it notes to create. Successive characters add their version of the truth as they sees it, or in some cases perhaps the partial truth, with the narrative darting back and forth in time and place, as the story is revealed to Walter Moody, the stranger in town. Slowly the plot builds and emerges, and I can easily imagine readers giving up on this book while waiting for something significant to happen.
If you have I wonder if this is why?
I have had to persevere after several start-stop failures since The Luminaries was published.
The greater mystery for me is all the astrological significance, and I daren't look it up for fear of spoilers, but what am I missing?
And does it matter...
As well as charts each chapter heading is screaming clues at me I feel sure...
Mars in Sagittarius... Saturn in Libra.... Sun in Capricorn... Medium Coeli / Imum Coeli.
Planets are aligning and I must be missing it all.
I've looked these up and can only assume that perhaps their meanings point towards the action in the chapter, but say the word 'zodiac' to me and for some reason I don't think star signs until I've gone through the sleek lines of Mr Simmonds' Zephyr Zodiac car back in the early 1960s. It was the only car in the street and quite a spectacle and I've never really been one for astrology anyway. I don't read my horoscope, and, apart from knowing that I am a Libran who is supposedly well-balanced and can't make decisions, I have not the first clue about whether the sun rises in my Sagittarius or if my Jupiter is dominant in my Gemini.
With the basic info you can actually do your own birth chart online, which I did because charts feature in The Luminaries, and this revelation might explain why I had to start looking all this up...
Mars is in 07 Degrees Virgo.
Very careful and systematic, you pay great attention to details. You are always seeking perfection and sometimes get bogged down searching for the ultimate when adequacy would have been sufficient. You dislike abstractions, preferring whatever is practical, useful and demonstrable.
And then there are all those squiggly zodiac signs...Libra is ♎ which I have taken no notice of ever, but can now see means something, and which Eleanor Catton uses in such great detail that I feel sure I am missing acres of significance.
Thus far all I can do is marvel at a book which offers superlative writing on every page and carry on reading and enjoying. I can't even imagine myself writing any of this, let alone being able to put the right words in the right order, it really is a tour de force for such a young writer and little wonder that The Luminaries won the Booker Prize in 2013.
If you have read it I would love to know your thoughts..
Is 'adequacy sufficient' or am I right to be 'searching for the ultimate.'..
Should I just read for a jolly good story and not expect more...
If you have given up on The Luminaries I would love to know your thoughts too...
And what about astrology per se...
I've always had a bit of an aversion to marigolds...not the rubber gloves, the flowers.
I think it might be down to 1950's overkill along with municipal bedding associations, plus they really did seem to proliferate in the gardens of my childhood, and the smell seemed very peculiar, not a pleasant one.
I found this picture just to confirm that I wasn't imagining it all..
This must be 1962 and one of the few colour pictures I have of us all together back in the days when photography was all very expensive. One roll of colour film was bought for the Kodak Brownie camera and a list of eight essential pictures was compiled. There's my brother in his Mitcham Boy's Grammar School uniform, the first in our family to pass the eleven plus (thankfully I was the second) and my mum wearing her home-made dress, me in my favourite smocked number, my dad standing proudly at the back, and all of us fronting hundreds of marigolds.
But I found a packet of African Marigold seeds in the Tinker's kitchen drawer. They were years and years out of date so I wasn't expecting much, and who knows why he kept them. He was ace at clearing out the unnecessary was my dad; he has made this year very easy for us...if it was still there it was there for a reason, all I have had to do is figure out why.
Remember the piece of string...
If I could ask him he'd say..
'Ah well... I use that for...'
And it would be something completely sensible and clever, and I'd go and get my own piece of string and do likewise.
To my surprise up popped the marigolds in their seed tray, but disappearing to a rogue slug as fast as they appeared. I still wasn't in love with them so wasn't really paying attention and only managed to salvage six plants, but having read somewhere that they are the best thing for keeping whitefly out of the greenhouse and off the tomatoes, I potted them up and let them do their thing.
And they have been beautiful and still are...good doers I think would best describe and now I can't imagine why I have been so averse.
All summer long we have had these splashes of brilliance in the greenhouse. They have really earned their keep, flowered and flowered and I suspect will carry on until first frosts, no sight of an aphid, and now I have seeds galore and will never be without them...
It's all a bit confusing. Originally a native of Mexico, it would seem the Flos Africanus came to Britain from N.Africa in the sixteenth century but was also found in Japan, China and India though not indigenous there either. John Evelyn was growing them in his garden in the seventeenth century so a good pedigree but I wonder whether there is a class prejudice to all this flower-growing now.
Are some flowers just out of fashion..
Bookhound read somewhere recently that chrysanthemums were the flower of the working classes, and I wonder whether marigolds suffer the same fate. I had a quick browse through my books and was delighted to find that Christopher Lloyd, in his letters to Beth Chatto, talks up the humble marigold, planting some for October colour in amongst the nasturtiums, whilst acknowledging that Beth hates them and would never consider such a thing.
I am now waiting on a library book reservation ...Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes which might help explain it all, because suddenly I am interested ...
This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers' cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, revealing the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played--and continues to play--an integral role in everyday British life.
Setting all past prejudice aside I shall certainly be considering Marigolds every year from now on.
How about you...like or loath...
And has anyone read Margaret Willes's book...
In which the Happy Campers see Hilary Mantel at Budleigh LitFest & bring news of The Mirror and the Light.
I am indebted to the Happy Campers (remember them from Port Eliot) this week, not only for the short story reading but also for making the effort to take such brilliant notes at Hilary Mantel's second event that was clearly as spell-binding as the one Bookhound and I attended, and for sharing those notes with us. I had asked them to wear their matching Bretons at our recent lunch for a photo shoot, which is a posh way of saying 'Stand over by that tree and smile,' as we tipped out of Cafe Liaison. The stripey sailor shirts were provided free and the flowers appliqued on at a Seasalt workshop at this year's Port Eliot festival, and the perfect attire for a day at the seaside.
Linda : Budleigh Salterton has a bit of a reputation in Devon as a place people retire to, probably a bit old fashioned and fusty I thought. Well, this was my first visit and I was pleasantly surprised. It might just have been because there was a literature festival in full swing, but it struck me as vibrant - and it certainly wasn't only populated with those of a certain age and it is also blessed with one of those rarities of life ...a free car park within sight of the festival book tent.
First stop the aforementioned book tent, which was also the home of Festival food providers Posh Nosh, for tea and very moist chocolate brownies. We also blew our book budgets, necessitating the first trip back to the car to offload and to explain to a couple of hopeful car drivers in the now full car park that we were only dropping things off and not leaving our space.
We couldn't visit a seaside town without going to the beach, where we admired the pebble sculptures and the pebbles in general, they really are something special at Budleigh but, tempting though it was, we left the pebbles where they belonged on the beach. There is a local bye-law making it illegal to remove them but we did take in all the charity shops on the way back and certainly didn't leave those empty-handed. More books, which we then took back to the car, explaining to more people now desperate for spaces that we were only etc etc and now it was time to queue.
Angela : While queuing good humouredly for this headline event (good humouredly because it was beautiful sunny weather and we were at the front), we witnessed something I have not seen before at a literary festival, the buying and selling of tickets outside the venue, with only half an hour to go! There was a buzz in the air which promised much – the opportunity to hear the latest from Hilary Mantel about the last book of the Wolf Hall ‘trilogy’, ‘The Mirror and the Light’, or as some have wryly suggested, Cromwell III.
Hilary Mantel is currently experiencing something of an ‘Annus Mirabilis’. She was introduced by Carol Ackroyd with what was called a brief news update: telling of the 8 Emmy nominations for the TV series Wolf Hall; her re working of the stage plays which played in New York; the nomination for her short story ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ for a BBC award; the increased footfall at what are now called the ‘Wolf Hall Properties’ in the National Trust’s care. Some people have even tried to seek out the ‘real’ Wolf Hall, a modest manor house which no longer exists; there is now a farm on the site. All this, Hilary said, was proof that she has started something which has now a life of its own, it has become more than one individual’s creation.
While acknowledging that something has shifted in her world, which she no longer has total control over, it is clear that Hilary Mantel is more than happy (but perhaps not ‘the most happi’!) with how things are going. Her involvement in the adaptation of the stage plays has been most fruitful, as the process of change by the writer, the actors and director has made the plays ‘fluid’, and given her ideas to use in the next book. Those fleshed out ideas then fed back into the plays, causing the actors to play scenes differently because of the new knowledge they had about a character in the draft of the book. Hilary gave an example of this. We know from ‘Wolf Hall’ that Cromwell met Thomas More when they were young at Lambeth, but in the new book Cromwell’s memory re runs an incident from those years with a different emphasis . This time, More comes across as a victim of an early Cromwell protection racket, rather than as an aloof, patrician scholar out of the younger boy’s league. This mirroring of texts does not mean there is contradiction, just another way of looking at the story; the perspective has been changed.
When Hilary said she was going to read again from The Mirror and the Light, there was a sigh of delighted anticipation. I felt thrilled that this was to be shared, and not just shared, but the words spoken by the author herself. The passage she chose describes Cromwell interrupted at his desk in the city at Austin Friars. There is a commotion below, and we witness the arrival of an exotic creature, from foreign parts. We are entranced by the power of the scene; the amazement and the fear of those who have seen nothing of its like before, the slightly world weary but pragmatic reaction of Cromwell, who has to look after the beast now he has got it. We feel his pity for the caged animal, and smile at the way Cromwell manages simultaneously to ensure the leopard is cared for and promote Dick, a very junior member of his household, to the new position of ‘leopard keeper’, which boosts the boy’s status. The reading grips me; it is a tour de force.
The leopard was real. It appeared, explained Hilary, as an ‘item’ in the account and record books of Cromwell’s household. Her best efforts to find out where it came from failed. Was it a bribe? A gift? Who knows, but in the white spaces between the lines, says Hilary, is where the novelist goes to work. ‘You have to appreciate the silences of history and their depth before you can attempt to fill them.’ Interestingly, she is not yet sure where exactly this scene will be used.
A question from a member of the audience opened up the world of the author’s research. It was fascinating to learn of the mini economies of Thomas Cromwell’s household – there was a budget, not surprisingly, for every task. Every piece of information that entered the premises was filed, and the facts that these kind of documents yield up are usually lying about for anyone to access, Mantel says. Often letters are a rich mine of source material, but can be an accident of preservation.
Another question concerned the difference between short story writing and the novelist’s craft. The short story, according to Hilary Mantel, does not mean a short process. Some gestate for years, awaiting a conclusion. There are often endless goes at getting it right. She said she finds it difficult; in her own admission she is built for the marathon and not for the sprint!
The hour flew by. How lucky we are that one of the great authors of our time lives near enough for us to drive for an hour to hear her. We felt immensely privileged.
Linda : We were disappointed to discover that there was to be no book signing but maybe not surprised. Hilary Mantel gives her all as President of the Budleigh Festival and it had been a very busy few days, so it was back to Posh Nosh to drown our sorrows, when who should walk in but Hilary herself. Fortified by a cream tea, I took my courage in both hands and approached her. She couldn't have been nicer, and was more than happy to sign a couple of books, one for me and one for Dovegreyreader.
All in all, a lovely day out, finished off by a great sunset as we headed westward and home.
And the winner is... @bbcarts
Watching the BBC Short Story Award announcement live online has been fascinating...who knew that Mark Haddon's influence for writing Bunny was a TV documentary, unwittingly the exact same thing we had discussed as a comparison to the real truths behind the story.
Every story of the highest standard and finally the announcement...
The runner up...Bunny ~ Mark Haddon
And the winner is Briar Road by Jonathan Buckley.
What a great project this has been, and with thanks to the Happy Campers for reading along.
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I go through phases with short stories, sometimes they are just the ticket, sometimes they are not long enough and I'm in the mood to settle down for the long haul with a novel...talking of which I have hesitated to add The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (800+ pages) to my 'Reading' list over here >>> in case I crashed out at page 200 as per The Quincunx recently. Not so, I am loving it and am hopefully in for the home run now.
But I have also been enjoying Katherine Mansfield's short stories in recent weeks, and so when the suggestion came in that I read this year's short list for the BBC National Short Story Award, and then choose my own unofficial winner prior to the official announcement tomorrow...well it seemed like a good idea.
Selected from 438 entries, this year's shortlist is:
'Briar Road' by Jonathan Buckley - A psychic investigates the case of a missing teenager.
'Bunny' by Mark Haddon - A morbidly obese young man makes an unlikely friend as his world shrinks around him.
'Broderie Anglaise' by Frances Leviston - A tale of tensions between a mother and a daughter.
'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' by Hilary Mantel - An intruder hovers at a window hoping to catch a shot at Margaret Thatcher.
'Do It Now, Jump The Table' by Jeremy Page - A young man meets his girlfriend's parents for the first time - not knowing that they are nudists.
But what use is a panel of one for a bit of lively debate. This year's judges Allan Little, Di Spiers, Ian Rankin, Sarah Hall and Tash Aw will have been having some great conversations, so I co-opted the Happy Campers, fresh from their spell-binding session with Hilary Mantel at Budleigh Literary Festival (report and news of The Mirror and the Light to come later this week, trust me you won't want to miss their thoughts). We all duly read the stories and then convened for lunch at Cafe Liaison in Tavistock. I always feel a but odd sitting in there...it was our design showroom premises for twenty years, with my little quilt shop upstairs, and there I was seated in the exact same spot where Bookhound's secretary used to sit.
Greetings and pleasantries out of the way, we all held our breath before saying almost in unison 'I know who I want to win..' and how fascinating to explore all those issues about 'favouritism' that we often level at prize juries when, having done it, nothing could be further from the truth.
Every story engaged us in its own way. Characters we identified with, often not the same one for each of us; stories that were spare on detail and made us think, others that made us laugh or had us biting our lips with sadness, or tension, or acute embarrassment on the part of a character, others that asked us to do a little bit of work filling in the gaps.
Briar Road was an interesting read for me in the light of my recent encounter with Beyond Black; a missing girl, a clairvoyant seeing more than she feels she need reveal as the family sit around the table for a seance in varying moods of belief, or lack of. The family dynamics, as in several of the stories, yielded a fruitful source of discussion, as well as some speculation about what the future might hold for each beyond the final paragraph.
One of our number, famed for being able to eat and not gain an ounce (not me) and nicknamed Gannet, took very kindly to the first paragraph of Mark Haddon's Bunny with its journey through Sweets We Have Known. Admitting that she would enjoy all of them though with some discussion about Reece's Pieces, a new one for all us amidst the Wispas and the Crunchies. The upshot for Bunny is a bed-bound obesity with its social isolation and loneliness until an old school friend arrives to care for him.
Quite why and how had the mother and daughter reached such an impasse in their relationship in Broderie Anglaise we weren't quite sure, and maybe it is the poet in Frances Leviston that leaves those things unsaid. We spent some time deciphering the signposts scattered through the narrative as the daughter finally reveals the hand-sewn dress she had been keeping a secret, resisting her mother's attempts to help. The dynamics gave us much to talk about.
The stories were read anonymously by the judges, though that can't have been easy given the publicity that surrounded the publication of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' by Hilary Mantel. Brouhaha sums it up. Windsor is about to become as infamous as Dallas as the marksman lines up to take his shot at the then Prime Minister, and from the window of an innocent woman's home. We all love and admire Hilary Mantel and the question was could we set that aside and look at the story for itself...was it to be our winner...
Read 'Do It Now, Jump The Table' by Jeremy Page and brace for a moment that might truly make you cringe. Your toes might also be curling with embarrassment, ours were, but we were roaring with laughter too as the boyfriend finds himself discovering a new side to his girlfriend on a weekend visit to her parents in rural Wales. To conform or not to conform to their naturist tendencies...and you might never look at carrots heaved from the ground in the same way either.
Decision time as the tables around us has changed occupancy twice at least and we were still sitting there pondering our options.
Of the short story, chair of judges Allan Little says this in his introduction to this short list...
Stories - long or short - are how we make sense, how we interrogate ourselves , and come to know ourselves. I have been thrilled to find the British short story in such good nick.'
And I think the three of us would concur with that. We enjoyed every story but ultimately felt there was one that had achieved the most and come the nearest to that statement... it was time to reveal to each other the story we each felt deserved to win, and with not a word of dissent we all declared our unofficial winner with one voice...
Bunny by Mark Haddon.
It was the one that had engaged us on every level, elicited our sympathies, our understanding and admiration, all of which overrode any sense of discomfort and prejudice we may have felt reluctant to acknowledge about a much misunderstood condition. It offered us a little window onto a hidden life these days often further misrepresented by fly-on-the-wall TV documentaries; a life that would be so easy to scorn and ridicule and apportion blame for whilst not seeing what may lie beneath and behind the situation. Once read it would be hard to forget Bunny or his friend Leah.
We now can't wait to discover the judges' choice, to be announced on Front Row BBC Radio 4 Tuesday October 6th (programme starts at 7.15pm) and in the meantime, and for the next few weeks, you can listen to each story as a BBC download here.
P.S. A date for your diaries...Happy Camper Angela (yes, the one who can eat a sweetshop and not gain an ounce) will be featuring on the Antiques Roadshow on Sunday October 11th from Royal William Yard in Plymouth. Look out for woman with interesting embroidered sampler.
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The Hollyhockery
'Hollyhocks are almost as easy to grow as sunflowers and would probably be grown as often if more gardeners were aware of their good nature. Unlike many other dramatic flowers that are simpler to admire than to actually grow, hollyhocks need no coddling. Their character is superior to their reputation and they are best praised by being grown.'
Well I was utterly convinced and enthused by this information that came with my hollyhock seeds, three different varieties, 125 seeds, plenty of margin for error, what could possibly go wrong.
I had visions of breathing reality into this Mary Azarian wood cut...
Well. you might recall last year's Hollyhockery fiasco...all leaf, a lot of rust and certainly no flowers to show for it. I had been a martyr to the seeds the year before as well and was expecting a full house from this lot.
In fact the only things that approached fullness were the slugs who took one look, said grace and tucked in.
The advice came pouring in from all quarters (thank you...heeded) and it was obvious that, as well as being kind to the slugs, I had been far too kind to my sole surviving Alcea rosea 'Nigra, and my one and only Alcea ficifolia...the Antwerp or Fig-leaved Hollyhock. There was only one solution and that was to dig up the clumps and throw them into a bed down at the woodshed/washing line corner of the garden and forget about them. It isn't even really a bed, more a weedy overgrown messy corner, where things seem to thrive nonetheless, but doubtless the slugs would eat the lot, I'd never see them again and that would be Hollyhocks struck off my list and out of my life and my imagination.
I have feigned lack of interest all year for fear I may be tempted to feed them, or weed around them, or keep the Rambling Rector from smothering them, or deal with the slugs. In fact I have been the mistress of neglect whilst keeping an eye when I hang out the washing, and the hollyhocks have loved me for it...
The Nigra hasn't been prolific, just a single stem, but a succession of flowers for months now and each one a perfect specimen...
..and sideways on like a demure Victorian bonnet...
The dark maroon flowers do change colour with the light, as the instructions that came with the seeds (from seedaholic.com) said they would. Near-black on overcast days with a hint of red when they catch the sun, apparently described as early as 1629 as being ' of a darke red like black blood.'
I am hopeful we might get another year or two out of these, but as I type they are going to seed so I can at least put myself through the misery all over again and sow some more knowing it will be worth the effort.
Now the Alcea ficifolia, 'Antwerp', variety, the one that was all leaf and no flower last year, behaves slightly differently, and isn't it odd that no matter how well I read the blurb, none of it makes sense until I see the thing grow. Looking back I think I was being impatient, I think this is what is supposed to happen because now we have a bushy, multi-stemmed plant that will apparently behave like a perennial, about which I am well-pleased.
The leaves are indeed fig-leaf shaped but the Antwerp has been a revelation for its flowers, a delicate shade of primrose yellow with a blush-pink centre that colour-matches our Elephant Hawk Moth population, all as if Farrow & Ball had designed it thus..
If this isn't an Elephant Hawk Moth please do say, I frequently need saving from myself on here and am always grateful when you tell me....but isn't it...well...pretty.
Thinking this was the sum total to show for about sixty plants it was a pleasant surprise to find some (well just the two) of the Indian Spring Mix showing their colours too...
If I have one regret it is that in consigning the Hollyhockery to the far reaches of this 3/4 acre garden we don't enjoy them as often as we might, and have to make the journey to visit them, but that seems a small price to pay for this moderate success.
I don't want to get over-confident, but do you think we might have cracked it?
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BY THEIR FRUITCAKES YE SHALL KNOW THEM...
Please bear with me. I am sorry.
There's lots of good, interesting stuff out there. Fascinating stuff. Truly fas-ci-nating!
The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator designed to find a.o. the Higgs-boson aka the "God Particle", is scheduled to begin operation in May!
2008 will see the launch of Europes very first spacetruck, the Jules Verne. It will carry cargo to and from the ISS.
Also, Europes new spacelab Columbus is scheduled to finally begin operation this year... and a new launch missile, smaller than the Ariane V, is making its entry: the Vega.
Contrary to what you would think, there IS substantial progress in much of (black) Africa. A country like Botswana e.g. deserves far more attention than it gets.
Between 1997 and 2004, carbon dioxide emissions from countries which signed he Kyoto protocol rose on average 21.1%. Carbon dioxide emissions from the US rose 6.6% in that same period.
Al Qaeda has lost in Iraq. Harry Reid is as depressed about that as Brian de Palma over his summer 2007 earnings, but that don't change a thing.
But in spite of myself, I keep coming back to what is quickly evolving into an existential issue for Europe. The following topic is but one in a kaleidoscope of faits divers, societal trends, side effects and very visible developments, which all point in the same direction: the islamization of my continent. It is but a small topic. But it will tell you a lot.
Spirit is a Flemish "leftist liberal" party, an offspring of the now defunct Volksunie, which once was a relatively normal Flemish nationalist party. More than thirty years ago, some unsatisfactory accord, the so-called Egmontpact, was reached between Flemings and Walloons which angered the more radical part of Volksunie's electorate enough to flock to the then brand new Vlaams Blok. Some ten years ago, what was left of Volksunie split into a "rightwing" part, NVA, and a "leftwing" part, ID21. NVA attracted the saner guys, ID21 the nutters. ID21 quickly crumbled and morphed into the even nuttier Spirit under the guidance of a certain Bert Anciaux. Leftist, progressive, ecologically responsible, pluralism, general nuttiness plus a mellow variant of Flemish nationalism were the main credos of the hodgepodge of weirdos making up Spirit. The founder, Bert Anciaux, somehow made it Minister of Culture on a Blue Monday, some five or six years back. I recall a story from those days, when there was a serious row about a school director who had sent a kid back home because he was so stitched up with piercings and earrings that he'd set off a metal detector at Zaventem International Airport by simply thinking of using a plane. Minister Bert Anciaux rushed to the defense of... the pupil, on the grounds that, fasten your seatbelts, all great cultures of humanity had worn earrings.
These days, the chairwoman of Spirit is Bettina Geysen. Spirit's bigshots are a bit pissed off, because their ideological brothers, the Flemish socialists from SP.a, find themselves in the opposition now that there is a government (other big losers of the June 10, 2007 elections, the Walloon socialists, hold minister portfolios though). So it was not exactly in the best of moods that Mrs. Geysen climbed the stage to give the annual New Years' speech, two weeks late.
Guess what she was wearing.
Geysen lambasted the fact that the City Council of Ghent, in a rare show of realism and not a little influenced by a VB proposal, approved in November 2007 of a decree requesting Ghent's public servants working in a visible position to not wear the veil. Before you think that is discriminatory, know that the decree also forbids the wearing of any religious symbol, be it a Christian cross around the neck or a jewish yarmulke. Also, the rule does not apply to muslim women working in some back office where they are not seen by ordinary citizens. All this to ensure strict neutrality. No protests btw from the crusaders and the world's evil machinists, only from you-know-who.
You just remember.
These are the people actively promoting abortion.
These are the people actively promoting euthanasia.
These are the people who fiercely opposed any reference to Europes judeo-christian roots in the EU Constitution.
These are the people who spit on our traditions and who mock the Catholic Church.
These are the people who would love Bush, Powell, Rummy and Cheney to be tried by the ICC.
These are the people who think America is a dictatorship (one lunatic, Geert Lambert, "observed" the 2004 Presidential elections anxious to prevent another theft of the election by Bush)
These are the people actively promoting gay marriage.
These are the people actively promoting gay adoption.
These are the "Boss In Own Belly" feminists.
These are the BOM-Mothers (Bewust Ongehuwde Moeders, "Consciously Unmarried Mothers").
These are the people who would suggest instead of a stable family transitional relationships whereby the initial biological mother and father swap partners every number of years, creating ever more complicated so-called "composed families".
And they lie in bed with a belief system that, once in power, will crush them first.
I, Outlaw Mike, live in the world's Biggest Open-Air Loonybin.
One day, we will come to Columbus. And Vega. And Botswana. And the ISS. And the God Particle. God willing. One day we will come to that.
MASSIVE TERROR ATTACKS FOILED IN BRUSSELS AND ROTTERDAM.
I meant to post this right after my return from Poland on January 3, but frankly, I was so sick of it all that at the moment I could not bring myself to complete the post back then. Then the Iowa caucus caught my attention. But I still owe it to you. Here's what I learned upon returning in my country:
A.) BELGIUM.
No traditional New Year's Eve festivitities and fireworks in Brussels last time. Lots of coverage in Belgian media, but of course all in Dutch and/or French. However, FOX News had a good article in English:
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Traditional New Year's Eve fireworks in central Brussels have been canceled due to a continuing terror threat in the Belgian capital, officials said Sunday. The popular downtown Christmas market will close early, at 6 p.m., on Dec. 31 rather than staying open all night, and the adjacent skating rink will shut at 8 p.m. Authorities warned of an increased risk of attack after police last week detained 14 people suspected of plotting to help an accused Al Qaeda militant break out of jail.
The inmate, Nizar Trabelsi, 37, is a Tunisian ex-professional soccer player who is serving 10 years for plotting to drive a car bomb into the cafeteria of a Belgian air force base housing about 100 U.S. military personnel.
I got back from Poland only this evening, so I did not hear of all this firsthand, but my neigbour's wife just told me there was a terrible show of force by Police in Central Brussels, with streets cordoned off and huge police visibility. We have sadly all come to know the Brussels mayor, the infamous Freddy Thielemans, Parti Socialiste. If a scoundrel like him complied immediately with the recommendations of the Ministry of Interior's Crisis Centre, which got its information from OCAD, the Anti-Terror Cell, things must have been very serious indeed.
It is highly likely that the security measures were related to the arrest of 14 terror suspects, earlier in December, who allegedly planned to blow up bombs in the Brussels Subway system. Among he fourteen arrested was Malika El Aroud, the widow of the assassin of the Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was murdered days prior to 9/11. Another was Trabelsi's girlfriend Naima. Tapped telephone conversations revealed that Naima had boasted that her daughter, who studies chemistry, was able to make explosives. When interrogated about these phone talks, Naima defended herself by saying "that she was only joking."
B.) THE NETHERLANDS.
On the last day of the year, an arrest took place in Rotterdam whereby three suspects were rounded up who reportedly planned a terror attack. Police got its information from the Dutch Anti-Terror Service, the AIVD, and reacted immediately. The three men, aged 31, 32 and 39 years, were two Moroccans with Dutch nationality and a Sudanese without fixed domicile. So far, so good. Happens all the time these past few years.
But then, immediately after New Year, details emerged. Dutch blog GeenStijl reports:
But now it appears that the three terror suspects rounded up days ago wanted to stage a HUGE BOMB ATTACK during the New Year's Eve. Target: Veronica New Years Eve on the Erasmus Bridge. Purpose: blow everything up during Kane's live concert [note by MFBB: they probably mean the popular band Keane]. Two Moroccans and oen Sudanese almost had theor own Ground Zero. They were arrested only hours prior to 00:00. Kudos for the arrest, but the whole affair leaves us with an unpleasant feeling...
The prestigious Dutch daily De Telegraaf confirms:
Only the past few days, the muslim extremists' internet communication revealed their intention: cause a bloodbath on the busy new year's party taking place on and around the Erasmus Bridge.
Immediate action [by security services and police] in all likelihood prevented a disaster of unknown proportions. The party was attended by more than 15,000 people perched onto each other, following the concerts, a mass of people which can hardly, if at all, be protected. Yet that very evening special measures had been announced. Visitors were not allowed on the bridge. Of the Moroccan suspects is known that they have Dutch nationality. The Sudanese had been on our country for auite some time illegally, but would not have been sent to Holland with the specific purpose of staging an attack...
And in a move very likely related to the arrests of the would be bombers, another roundup took place on January 4. An alert citizen was able to shoot the whole thing, probably with a cell camera. Geenstijl again:
A spectacular arrest this afternoon near Goirle in Brabant. There, a heavily armed arrest team plucked two suspects, involved with the foiled Rotterdam attack, from the national road A58. The whole thing was filmed by a prototype GS onlooker [sorry - Geenstijl writes 'prototype GS reaguurder' but even I sometimes have trouble with Dutch slang] who coincidentally had duty as a cameraman for Brabant Broadcast. The movie of the arrests can be found here.
Jesus. Christ. W-T-F is going on lately?
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Click above to watch the "Nell Gwynn" cast in Rehearsal
There’s nothing quite like a rehearsal room on a chilly, damp Sunday afternoon in January … for lifting the spirits. At least that’s what I discovered as I joined the cast of BCP’s forthcoming production of Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn.
The play charts the rise of Restoration heroine Nell Gwynn from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to becoming Britain’s most celebrated actress – winning the heart of King Charles II along the way. Premiering in 2015 at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the play transferred to the West End in 2016 and won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. It is a bawdy, raucous and warm homage to a woman truly ahead of her time – one of the first female actresses on the stage.
As BCP’s cast gathered for the first time since their last pre-Christmas rehearsal, the camaraderie was evident. Not an easy thing to achieve with a cast of 19. Nell has certainly sparked the interest of Banbury’s acting fraternity. As the actors huddled around coffee mugs or grappled with rehearsal shoes, skirts and corsets, there was a great deal of banter. Something you might expect where members of the cast have known each other for a long time but this cast is made up of an exciting mix of experienced, young, BCP long-timers and complete newcomers.
The air of apprehension in the room was, I discovered, because the rehearsal was predominantly set aside for choreography. Led by the highly experienced Sharon Green, the afternoon was like watching a masterclass. The team were taken from zero to hero in a little under two hours. Coupled with an additional singing rehearsal from skilled Musical Director Kieron Galliard, the afternoon was certainly entertaining. The cast proved (to mangle one of the lyrics slightly) “they could dance and they could sing”.
Click the link in the video to see the cast in action. Licencing restrictions prevent sharing the music at this stage so if you’re curious what they sound like you’ll need to buy a ticket. And on that front, I’d just add that the Portuguese scene is hilarious - worth the price of the ticket itself!
Nell Gwynn opens at The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury, OX16 5QE on 12th February 2020 and runs until 15th February 2020. Curtain up is 7.30pm.
Tickets are available from The Mill Box Office on 01295 279002 or online
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TicketSource Reveal Exclusive Insights Into UK Theatre Trends
Press release: 2nd January 2020
Aladdin Takes Number One Spot For Most Performed Theatre Production
The online event ticketing platform, TicketSource, reveals that, for the second year running, Aladdin is the most performed theatre production in the UK, rising a massive 23% compared to the previous year. The most popular theatre production to attend however is Jesus Christ Superstar, with 202 tickets sold per performance.
The report which analyses over 1.5 million tickets transactions from 12,500 amateur and professional theatre performances sold in the last year highlights theatre industry trends such as:
• Most Performed Productions
• Most Popular Productions
• Most Performed Genre
• Top Referral Sources
• Average Ticket Price
• In-House v Online Bookings
• Seasonality
A key highlight of the report is the growing importance of event organisers using online methods to sell and promote their events, raising 3% to a total of 63% of ticket purchasers preferring to buy tickets online rather than in-house.
Online promotional methods such as Facebook also overtook more traditional methods to become the second most effective way of promoting events in the last year.
Terry Rosoman, Head of Marketing at TicketSource said that the report clearly shows that more event organisers are having to adapt to newer online technologies to increase awareness and ticket sales for their events.
“With the increasing amount of competition from other events, the report emphasises the importance of selling and promoting your event tickets online, which can be ready and available for purchase as soon as the event is live.”
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Natural Theatre School
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The Natural Theatre Company Returns to Bristol For Its Fiftieth Birthday
The Natural Theatre Company, which was formed in Bath in 1970, is famed for its interactive pop-up comedy performances which take place all around the world. Last year they launched their Adult Theatre Skills Course in Bristol for the first time, and this Spring they are returning to the city after popular demand with not one, but two courses on offer.
The classes, which are suitable for participants of all abilities, offer an alternative to traditional performance techniques: students will be taught the Naturals’ famous trademark style of comedy acting, including improvisation skills, physical performance and street theatre. They will get the chance to wear costume from the company’s extensive collection and learn about classic theatre pieces from their 50-year history as a performance company.
After the huge success of their original Performance & Theatre Skills course, which is returning to the Southville Centre in January, the Natural Theatre Co. are launching their follow-on course Creating & Devising, which will be held at the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Spielman Studio and is suitable for those who have acting experience and are looking to develop their skills.
“Amazing fun! A great theatre training foundation, great to meet new people and be allowed to just be me.” Adult Theatre School participant, Luke John Emmett
The evening classes are designed for anyone with an enthusiasm for performance, whether they would like to build self-confidence, have an interest in acting professionally, or want to start a new hobby and meet new people. Elle Roberts, Company Manager of the Natural Theatre Company, says:
“We started the Adult Theatre School with the aim of giving grown-ups a chance to have fun and de-stress after work in a supportive environment. We believe that having fun is just as important for adults as it is for children!”
The classes, which are taught by the Naturals’ professional actors, will take place every Monday night from 7:45pm – 9:45pm at the Southville Centre, and every Tuesday night from 8pm – 10pm at the Spielman Studio. There are also classes available at Natural Theatre HQ in Bath for adults and under 18’s.
Introduction to Performance & Theatre Skills
Cost: £95 for the 10-week term
Location: The Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1QG
Term Dates: Monday evenings from the 13th January – 23rd March (half-term break on the 17th February)
Creating & Devising Skills
Location: The Spielman Studio, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF
Term Dates: Tuesday evenings from the 14th January – 24rd March (half-term break on the 18th February)
Andy Hutchings
Survey for Performers
I'm a playwright based in Chester, currently working to improve my craft and continue developing as a writer. I'm currently doing a survey for performers in order get try and get a different perspective about what aspects of a role/production are desirable to performers. The questions are about what piques the interest of an am-dram or professional actor when they look at a potential script, and what turns them away from it.
The survey should take an individual 5-10 minutes to complete (depending how detailed their answers are), and is completely anonymous.
I would be very grateful to anyone that would help me spread the word and everyone that takes the time to fill in this survey.
The link to the survey is HERE
I intend to leave the survey open until 7th January 2020, and will have a write up of my results completed by the end of the month.
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actOUT! - 3 Shows for its 25th Season
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS, – Based on the classic animated film, Disney's 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney's most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. With a high-spirited score and lovable characters, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all audiences. ActOUT!’s production will run in April 2020 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre, closing on April 3rd.
Pet owners, Roger and Anita, live happily in London with their Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, stalwart dogs devoted to raising their puppies. Everything is quiet until Anita's former classmate, the monstrous Cruella De Vil, plots to steal the puppies for her new fur coat. The Dalmatians rally all the dogs of London for a daring rescue of the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen.
A spring show of the 2019-2020 season, actOUT!’s Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS will feature performers ages 6-10 from Ayr, Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo under the direction of Amy Neufeld.
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS plays at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre (9 Princess St E, Waterloo, ON N2J 2H4) April 1-3, 2020; evening shows start at 6:30pm. Advance tickets are available at the website www.actoutkw.com or through www.ticketscene.ca. Large group bookings and queries tickets@actoutkw.com
Disney’s Frozen JR. – Frozen JR. is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life, onstage. The show features all of the memorable songs from the animated film, with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production. ActOUT!’s production will run in December at the Registry Theatre, closing on December 21st.
A story of true love and acceptance between sisters, Frozen JR. expands upon the emotional relationship and journey between Princesses Anna and Elsa.
When faced with danger, the two discover their hidden potential and the powerful bond of sisterhood. With a cast of beloved characters and loaded with magic, adventure, and plenty of humor, Frozen JR. is sure to thaw even the coldest heart!
A December Musical of the 2019-2020 season, actOUT!’s production of Disney’s Frozen JR. will feature performers ages 10-17 from Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo under the direction of Anita V. Smith.
Disney’s Frozen Jr. plays at the Registry Theatre (122 Frederick St, Kitchener, ON N2H 2L9) December 18-21, 2019; evening shows start at 6:30pm. Advance tickets are available at the website www.actoutkw.com or through www.ticketscene.ca. Large group bookings and queries tickets@actoutkw.com
She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition – A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games. She Kills Monsters tells the story of high schooler Agnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger sister, Tilly. ActOUT!’s production will run in February at the at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre, closing on February 22.
When Agnes stumbles upon Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and ’90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
The actOUT! Advanced Actor production of the 2019-2020 season, actOUT!’s production of She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition will feature performers ages 13-17 from the Waterloo Region under the direction of Todd Vercoe.
She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition plays at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre (9 Princess St E, Waterloo, ON N2J 2H4) April 1-3, 2020; evening shows start at 6:30pm. Advance tickets are available at the website www.actoutkw.com or through www.ticketscene.ca. Large group bookings and queries tickets@actoutkw.com
The Thrill of Love - Rescheduled
In a slight case of deja vu (though not quite as deep as 1998, 2007 or 2012 this time) BCP are sad to announce the cancellation of their forthcoming production of Amanda Whittington’s The Thrill of Love due to flooding last week at The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury.
Following a meeting of BCP’s equivalent of the COBRA committee this weekend, the decision has been taken to reschedule the production to 25-28 November 2020.
If you have already booked a ticket (thank you!) The Mill will be in contact with you directly. If you are a BCP Gold Card Holder, you will still be able to use your vouchers for any of the forthcoming shows in our Season. If you have specifically purchased a BCP Gold Card for this production, you will be able to carry it forward to the rescheduled production in 2020. For any further queries, please email contactus@banburycrossplayers.org.uk.
Our regular Tuesday evening meetings will recommence at The Mill from 26th November.
Our thanks go to all who have come forward with offers of help during this week and to The Mill staff for their on-going clean-up work.
As a footnote, we are still on the lookout for a place to store two large items of scenery for the show so please get in touch if you think you may be able to assist.
We look forward to seeing you in February for Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn.
Liz Riley
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Splitting the top musicals by each continent, there is a clear worldwide divide between High School Musical, which is most popular in Asia, Africa and Europe, and The Lion King in the Americas, with Australia/Oceania bringing School of Rock into the top three.
Top Musical by US State
In the USA, international hit Wicked dominates the accolade of "Top Musical", with Shrek: The Musical and Chicago coming at number one in a few states each. Award-winning Menopause the Musical, somewhat surprisingly, pops up as the top musical in Nevada.
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Disney dominates the very top echelons, with first-place took up by Elton John's blockbuster The Lion King, with High School Musical coming in a close second, even though it's limited to junior performances. The legendary musical composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, sees his School of Rock production making up the top three.
Having been recorded in a whopping eight different languages, Notre-Dame de Paris is fourth on the list. Even though it failed to live up to the hype, particularly on the West End, it's clearly still popular amongst French speaking countries and Asia. The much-loved and well-travelled Cats completes the top five.
Despite its recent rise to world-wide popularity, Lin-Manual Miranda's phenomenon Hamilton doesn't have quite enough punch (at least yet) to break the top ten, coming in twelfth position behind musical stalwarts such as Wicked, Chicago, Les Misérables and Abba-inspired Mamma Mia!
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Click above to watch the show trailer!
BEHIND THE REHEARSAL ROOM DOOR
The Rehearsal Room is an odd kind of space. Chaos and concentration are happy bedfellows. For the actors it’s a safe space to develop their character whilst at the same time developing relationships with their fellow cast and crew members – people they will be very close to and rely upon heavily during show week. For the crew, it’s a military exercise requiring full concentration working through how the show will be managed, what needs to be where - and when - during the run. To be invited in is a particular privilege – one your roving reporter enjoyed recently to watch a rehearsal of BCP’s forthcoming production of Amanda Whittington’s The Thrill of Love.
The room at The Mill Arts Centre was replete with props and furniture, and the cast were rehearsing in (stylised black and white with the odd pop of colour) costume – something not always seen until closer to the show. It certainly added to the atmosphere. More of the atmosphere of this stylish production was added by the Sound Tech being on hand providing the multitude of repeating sound effects and under-cutting the action and dialogue with a sound track of emotive Billie Holliday songs.
By the end of the evening I was completely drawn in to the story that was unfolding. Each of the characters was being beautifully drawn before me. The stranger in the midst, Inspector Gale, with his dogged yet poetic determination to get to the truth; the excitable wannabe star, Vickie Martin; the hard-working, caring charwoman, Doris; Sylvia the hard-bitten grand-dame of Club-land with her effective staccato delivery, and finally the fragile yet aloof Ruth whose story this most definitely is.
All this just from the first act. I look forward to this production coming to the stage at The Mill Arts Centre and being enjoyed by a much wider audience than was room for in the rehearsal space. It really is a show “not to be missed”.
The Thrill of Love opens at The Mill Arts Centre on 20 November 2019, 7.30pm, and runs until 23 November 2019. Tickets are on sale now from The Mill Arts Centre Box Office on 01295 279002 or online.
A short Q & A session with director and cast follows the performance. A “behind the scenes” look at putting the production together and a chance to talk about the facts in the controversial and tragic case of Ruth Ellis.
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Retail Shareholder Participation in the Proxy Process: Monitoring, Engagement, and Voting
Alon Brav, Matthew Cain, Jonathon Zytnick
Board of Directors,
A central premise of corporate governance research is the shareholder collective action problem. Shareholders, the ultimate economic beneficiaries of firms, are by commonly-accepted wisdom dispersed and rationally apathetic, unable to effectively monitor firms. In recent decades, most shareholders have held stocks indirectly through institutions and the rise in the importance of corporate governance over the past several decades has brought with it a new focus on the role of institutions as monitors acting on behalf of their underlying investors. Little is known, however, about how retail shareholders monitor and communicate with the managements of their portfolio firms. While previous research has produced extensive empirical analysis on institutional investor (i.e. non-retail) voting, the question of how actual retail shareholders vote has not been addressed, mostly due to lack of data availability.
In our article, we provide the first detailed empirical analysis of retail shareholder voting. We analyze a sample of U.S. retail shareholder voting data covering virtually all regular and special meetings during the three years 2015 to 2017. Retail domestic shareholder aggregate share ownership is sizeable, averaging 26% of shares outstanding. It averages close to 38% in firms in the smallest size quintile and declines to 16% in firms in the largest size quintile.
On the decision whether to cast a ballot, we find that retail shareholders cast 32% of their shares, on average, which is significantly lower than the 80% rate of participation by the entire shareholder base. In total, 12% of the average firm’s retail accounts choose to vote. Retail voter participation is higher among smaller firms. The decision to cast a ballot varies predictably with anticipated costs and benefits. It increases with stake size, when the company’s return on assets is poor, and when there are ISS-opposed proposals on the ballot.
Conditional on the decision to vote, we find that retail and non-retail shareholders tend to provide similar overall support for management proposals. Retail shareholders, however, provide less support for shareholder proposals relative to the broader investor base. These unconditional support rates mask three important heterogeneities. First, retail shareholders at small firms are less supportive of management proposals, and more supportive of shareholder proposals, than they are at larger firms. Second, retail shareholders with a larger equity stake provide stronger support for management proposals (and weaker support for shareholder proposals) than smaller shareholders. Third, as discussed below, ISS recommendations in support of management and shareholder proposals have a much weaker association with retail voting than that for institutional investors.
Retail shareholders and institutional investors vote substantially differently. Retail shareholder support for management proposals is strongly related to lagged firm stock price performance, even with account-firm fixed effects, consistent with a focus on disciplining poorly-performing firms, whereas the voting of the Big Three institutional investors is not statistically significantly correlated with recent stock performance. On the other hand, ISS opposition is associated with a 35 percentage point decrease in Big Three support, but only a 5 percentage point decrease in retail shareholder support. Retail shareholders do not support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proposals to the same degree as non-retail shareholders. This is driven by the tendency of retail shareholders with large stake sizes, who participate more often, to vote against such proposals. We find that shareholders with smaller stake sizes, whose turnout rate is low, provide stronger support for ESG proposals when they choose to engage.
The evidence we present is consistent with the view that retail shareholders play a beneficial role in monitoring, and one that institutional investors may not perfectly replicate. Our results also speak to the potential impact of measures to increase retail shareholder voting. Ultimately, we conclude that in contrast to the common caricature of retail shareholders as uninformed and apathetic, these investors can and do provide meaningful feedback to firms through the voting process.
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When to use most things and when to use most of (the) things
I want to know when we should use "of" after "most." For instance,
Most of the documents are read completely.
Most documents are read completely.
Most of (the) people know about that.
Most people know about that.
What is the general rule?
prepositions articles
DiamondDiamond
The general rule is that if you include the (optional) definite article the, you're explicitly referring to some particular documents or group of people - the documents we were talking about earlier, or "the people" identified as a substantial part of "society in general", for example. – FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica Mar 9 '17 at 18:26
When you say most people or most books you are speaking in general terms about the majority of people (in a country, in the world) and the majority of books (eg. are soft-back or are now available online).
Most people would agree with me .....
Most people would object to your views...
When you speak of most of the people you are talking about people in a particular context and not universally:
Most of the people in the hall....
Most of the people who went to university...
The same applies to books:
Most of the books in the library....
Most of the books that I have read...
Thus most of the documents would refer to specific documents
Most documents would refer to documents in general.
Ronald SoleRonald Sole
It's a difference of scope. Adding "of the" narrows the scope. For instance:
This implies that most people in the world know about "that".
Most of the people know about that.
This implies that most people in the group being referenced know about "that".
Peyton BPeyton B
I think it's worth noting that in practice most of the people know that would often be used in contexts where there isn't actually any specific "group being referenced". The implication in that case is usually that the conversants don't really consider themselves to be included in "the people" - for example, a couple of political spin doctors talking about whether the ordinary (voting) public are aware of something. – FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica Mar 9 '17 at 18:34
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By Matanat Nasibova – Trend:
Azerbaijan’s Gilan Textile Park LLC intends to export textile products to the new markets in the CIS countries, chairperson of the Azerbaijan Textile Products Manufacturers and Exporters' Association Mehriban Akhundova told Trend.
"The negotiations on the export of the company's textile products are underway with Russian partners," she said.
"Besides Russia, we also intend to supply textile products, namely, terry products, bathrobes, blankets and others to Belarus," Akhundova said. "In the future, we plan to supply our textile products to other CIS countries."
She stressed that Gilan Textile Park’s products are environmentally friendly and meet all international quality standards.
Taking into account the production potential, Gilan Textile Park is considered one of the biggest processing enterprises not only in Azerbaijan, but in the entire region.
Gilan Textile Park, which uses cotton grown in Azerbaijan as a raw material for the production of various products, renders great support to the development of the Azerbaijani industry and agriculture.
The weaving, dyeing and sewing factories operate on the basis of the Gilan Textile Park, which launched its activity in Azerbaijan’s Sumgait city in 2012.
The National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support under the Azerbaijani Ministry of Economy issued a preferential loan worth 15 million manats for the construction of three factories in the textile park worth 46 million manats.
Mehriban Akhundova
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Handbook of Genetic Counseling/Gorlin - Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
< Handbook of Genetic Counseling
This page may need to be reviewed for quality.
Gorlin - Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
1 Contracting
2 Gather Medical and Family History
3 Risk Assessment
4 Inheritance
5 Clinical Diagnosis
7 Incidence and Carrier Frequency
8 Clinical Features
9 Management and Treatment
10 Psychosocial Issues
11 Support Groups and Resources
Contracting[edit]
How did you first learn about Gorlin syndrome? (Tell us about that experience), What were you told at the time? How did you feel, what did you think? How have you coped with the diagnosis? Did you think about contacting genetics then? What motivated you to contact genetics now?
Assess main concerns of patient
Are there any specific questions or concerns we can address?
What issues would they like to discuss?
What do they hope to gain from the session?
Overview of today's session
Restate patient's concerns
Medical history, family history, physical exam
Gather Medical and Family History[edit]
State that we are going to get some information about your family history and medical history to help give us clues to whether or not the syndrome you have may have been passed down through the family
Jaw keratocysts
Skin findings (cysts, bumps, tags)
Cancers: skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma), medullablastoma, other cancers
Birth defects: cleft lip/palate, eye problems, polydactyly
major health concerns
others with cancer
benign conditions, required biopsies, had polyps
female problems
mental retardation or learning disabilities
anything you think may be inherited
Ethnic background
Risk Assessment[edit]
About 70-80% of probands have inherited the condition from a parent and about 20-30% of probands have a de novo mutation
Offspring will have a 50% chance of inheriting the deletion
Inheritance[edit]
Hereditary cancers are caused by a change in a specific gene
Have you ever taken a biology class, do you know about genes and chromosomes, review of genes so we are on the same page:
Explain genes and chromosomes (use recipe analogy)
Explain autosomal dominant inheritance
Autosomal - The changed gene can be inherited either from a mother or father, because the gene is carried on an autosome
Dominant - Only one copy of the changed gene is needed to be at an increased risk for cancer
Show diagram of autosomal inheritance
Carrier has a ½ or 50% risk of passing changed to gene to children, if it is not inherited they would not be at increased risk for cancer and could not pass it on.
Clinical Diagnosis[edit]
diagnosed in individuals with two major and one minor criteria or one major and three minor criteria
Major criteria
Lamellar (sheet-like) calcification of the falx or clear evidence of calcification in an individual <20 years of age. Falx calcification is nearly always present and observed on AP and lateral X-rays* of the skull after age 20 years.
Jaw keratocyst (odontogenic keratocyst histologically; seen on orthopantogram as an area of translucency)
Palmar/plantar pits (two or more). Plantar/palmar pits are particularly useful in diagnosis and are more pronounced when the hands and feet are soaked in warm water for up to ten minutes. They may appear as white "punched out" or pink "pin prick" lesions.
Multiple basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) (more than five in a lifetime) or a basal cell carcinoma before the age of 30 years.
First degree relative with NBCCS
Minor criteria
Childhood medulloblastoma (also called primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor [PNET])
Lympho-mesenteric or pleural cysts
Macrocephaly (OFC >97th centile)
Cleft lip/palate
Vertebral anomalies observed on chest x-ray and/or spinal x-ray: bifid/splayed/extra ribs; bifid vertebrae.
Polydactyly that is either pre-axial or post-axial
Ovarian/cardiac fibroma
Ocular anomalies (cataract, developmental defects, and pigmentary changes of the retinal epithelium)
Testing[edit]
NBCCS is caused by germline mutations of the gene PTCH (chromosomal locus 9q22.3)
In about 60-85% of individuals fulfilling diagnostic criteria, it is possible to identify the underlying gene mutation.
Uses of testing: confirmatory diagnostic testing, predictive testing, prenatal testing
Cost is $1700.00 (from GeneDx)
Testing Methods:
Sequence analysis. Sequence analysis of the PTCH coding region is available on a clinical basis and detects mutations in up to 85% of patients with typical clinical findings of NBCCS.
Southern analysis for large deletions. In patients with typical clinical findings of NBCCS who test negative for a mutation by sequence analysis, Southern analysis may be performed to detect large deletions.
Linkage analysis. When a known disease causing PTCH mutation is not identified in a family, linkage analysis can be considered in families with more than one affected family member. It is 98-99% accurate. Linkage testing is not available to families with only a single affected individual.
Incidence and Carrier Frequency[edit]
Incidence is 1 / 40 000, but may be underestimated due to missed milder cases
Clinical Features[edit]
NBCCS is characterized in 90% of patients by the development of multiple jaw keratocysts typically observed in the second decade of life and/or basal cell carcinomas usually seen from the third decade onwards.
About 60% of individuals with a PTCH mutation have a recognizable appearance with macrocephaly, bossing of the forehead, coarse facial features, and facial milia
Findings in their usual order of appearance are:
Macrocephaly. The first feature likely to be observed is relative macrocephaly. A large proportion of babies with NBCCS require delivery by Caesarian section due to large head size. Head circumference increases above the 97th centile until 10-18 months and then maintains its centile. Large head size may also contribute to some delay in motor milestones, although as yet there is no psychometric evidence for more global delay.
Birth defects. Congenital malformations, found in about 5%, include cleft lip/palate (5%), polydactyly, and severe eye anomalies. Severe skeletal defects due to multiple rib/vertebral anomalies have been reported. Open spina bifida is uncommon.
Medulloblastoma. About 5% of individuals with NBCCS develop the childhood brain malignancy medulloblastoma (now often called primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor [PNET]) The tumor tends to be of desmoplastic histology and to have a favorable prognosis. Peak incidence of medulloblastoma in NBCCS is about two years of age compared to seven years in its sporadic form.
Jaw keratocysts. Although these can start at about five years of age, the peak occurrence of jaw keratocysts is in the teenage years. They usually present as painless swellings. Untreated, they can lead to major tooth disruption and fracture of the jaw. Jaw cysts become less frequent after age 30 years, after which it is unusual for de novo keratocysts to occur.
Basal cell carcinomas. Browny/pink/orange basal cell nevi may occur in early childhood and may lie quiescent without evidence of aggressive behavior. A 75% risk of developing BCCs by age 20, a 90% risk by age 40. They can occur in early childhood, but in general do not present until late teenage/early adulthood. 10% of individuals with NBCCS never develop a BCC. Individuals with type 1 skin (white skin that burns, but never tans) and individuals with excessive ultraviolet light exposure seem especially prone to developing large numbers of BCCs. Clinically, some patients seem to be particularly radiosensitive, with new BCCs appearing in the field of radiation following radiotherapy.
Other skin manifestations. Other skin manifestations include facial milia, which can be numerous, and meibomian cysts in the eye lids. Sebaceous cysts and dermoid cysts are also common. Skin tags (especially around the neck) often have the histological appearance of basal cell carcinomas but do not act aggressively.
Other. Cardiac and ovarian fibromas occur in about two and 20% of individuals respectively. Cardiac fibromas are usually present at birth or soon after. They can be asymptomatic or can cause arrhythmia or obstruction of cardiac flow. Ovarian fibromas are usually an incidental finding on ultrasound examination or at Caesarian section. They may cause torsion of the ovary, but are not thought to affect fertility. They can become large and calcified; however, malignant transformation rarely occurs.
Morbidity/mortality. Life expectancy in NBCCS is not significantly different from average. The risk of other malignant tumors is not clearly increased, although lymphoma and meningioma have been reported. No other tumors occur at a frequency that warrants surveillance above that offered to members of the general population. The major problem is with the cosmetic effect of treatment of multiple skin tumors and usually, to a lesser extent, treatment of jaw keratocysts. A poor cosmetic outcome can lead to social difficulties such as holding employment.
Management and Treatment[edit]
Medulloblastoma. Awareness of the risk of medulloblastoma in the first years of life is important and may justify developmental assessment and physical examination every six months
Jaw keratocysts. There is probably justification for regular (every 12-18 months) jaw x-rays (orthopantograms) from around eight years of age. Keratocysts identified early in life usually need surgical excision. Any symptomatic or expanding keratocysts should be excised.
Skin. Strong advice about avoiding excessive sun exposure is important. Patients are advised to use complete sunblock and cover the skin by using long sleeves, high collars and hats. Radiotherapy should be avoided in the treatment of tumors in NBCCS unless absolutely necessary. The skin should be checked at least annually and patients should have close follow up if they have skin problems in the meantime. Some physicians recommend examinations of the skin by a professional every three to four months. The sheer number of lesions means that early treatment is essential to prevent long-term cosmetic problems particularly on the face.
Other features. Surveillance is probably not necessary for the other disease features.
Psychosocial Issues[edit]
Contracting - coping with diagnosis, sense of well being (how have you been doing, how have you been coping); motivations for making the appointment, why didn't she come when she was first diagnosed.
Family History - support, assess closeness with family, do they live in the area, do they know about the diagnosis, has she shared with the family that she is here?
Concern over what issues to anticipate with NBCCS
Feelings of guilt over passing gene, or risk of passing gene, to the children
Social stigma and self consciousness due to multiple skin tumors.
Support Groups and Resources[edit]
BCCNS Life Support Network
Burton, Ohio 44021
email: info@bccns.org
http://www.bccns.org
http://www.gorlinsyndrome.org
Basal Cell Carcinoma Nevus Syndrome/Gorlin Syndrome Homepage
3044 Peoria
Steger, IL 60475
Email: gorlinadvocate@aol.com
Gorlin Syndrome Support Group (UK)
Phone: UK: 01772 517624; International: (+44) 1772 517624
Contact: http://www.gorlingroup.org/index.php?option=com_contact&view=category&catid=0&Itemid=8
http://www.gorlingroup.org
www.geneclinics.org
Counseling About Cancer: Strategies for Genetic Counseling. Schneider, 2002.
The information in this outline was last updated in April 2003.
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Meg’s Bad Luck Continues In Season 18 ‘Family Guy’ Trailer While Peter Gets A ‘Beavis & Butt-Head’ Makeover
By Jamie Samhan. 20 Jul 2019 8:19 PM
“Family Guy” brought an almost 5-minute trailer for season 18 to Comic-Con.
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Ten Points Regarding The Rob Porter/White House/Domestic Abuse Scandal…
February 15, 2018 February 15, 2018 / Jack Marshall
1 We know that the FBI had told the Trump White House about allegations from Porter’s two ex-wives that he had been physically abusive. Apparently, the FBI did not confirm, or could not, that the accusations were true. The allegations were still sufficient to prevent Porter from getting security clearance, whether they were true or not. There are good reasons for this. That does not mean that it is fair that someone’s career can be derailed and his reputation smeared without proof of wrongdoing, but it is necessary.
2. The position of an employer that has its own integrity and reputation to protect when an explosive allegation of personal and criminal misconduct regarding an employee arises is an ethics conflict. The Golden Rule suggests that such an employer should not jettison such an employee absent due process and sufficient proof of wrongdoing. However, the greater duty in this case is to the administration.
3. Porter should have resigned. In fact, that he did not resign was the best reason to fire him. This was his domestic problem, and he had no right to inflict it on the White House, even if he was innocent.
4. There was nothing inconsistent about President Trump’s tweets condemning domestic violence and regretting the lack of due process and fairness in the current #MeToo witch hunt environment. He is right on both counts. As usual, he was not as articulate as he needs to be when opining on such delicate topics. He is not going to become more articulate, however.
5. Porter’s denials of wrongdoing, absent more, should carry no more nor less weight than the accusations against him.
6. Nobody who does not know Porter, the women involved or the intimate details of their relationships should be saying things in public like “I believe the wives” or “I don’t believe them.” This flips us back to “I believe Anita Hill but don’t believe that slut Paula Jones” territory. People believe who they want to believe. Women who accuse men of abuse have no more claim or right to be believed without evidence than any other accuser, including those who accuse you.
7. Domestic disputes are infamous for the frequency with which previously honorable combatants will use false or exaggerated accusations to gain legal leverage or for old-fashioned revenge. It is possible that Porter’s two wives want to destroy his life. They seem to be doing a good job of it, if that’s their objective.
8. Neither of Porter’s ex-wives, Colbie Holderness or Jennifer Willoughby, ever called the police or filed charges against Porter. That matters. I know all the reasons why abused wives choose not to file charges—I have known a few— but that matters. That’s how the law works. You can not ethically seek punishment for wrongdoing by making an unsubstantiated accusation of criminal wrongdoing in a manner that ensures personal destruction of your ex-spouse because the opportunity arises years later. That is wrong, and not only is it wrong, it is a method that invites abuse.
9. This op-ed, in the Times, is unconscionable, but typical of the news media’s and the pundit class’s attitude in this matter. Lindy West, who Ethics Alarms flagged for this unethical commentary, writes in part,
CNN reported that chief of staff John Kelly, aware of the allegations for months, “told associates that Porter was one of the few competent professionals on his staff and wanted to ensure that he was being used to his full potential.” One wonders if Kelly saw the photographs of Porter’s ex-wife’s face, the gold and the purple nimbus around her eye, the angry swell, the throb of it.
That was the photo of a Colby’s black eye, above, It was not connected in a verifiable way to an incident, a doctor visit or a police report. Porter may have done it, or he may not have. It could have been an accident, his or hers. My wife once had to have stitches in her scalpwhen she startled our English Mastiff (she bussed her on the neck) and she nicked my wife with a tooth when she jerked away. It was a complete accident. She could have used a bloody photo to have Patience killed. The black eye could have been self-inflicted. It could be make-up. West is endorsing bias, prejudice, and emotionalism.
What a luxurious degree of compartmentalization we afford white men — to not only separate Porter the guy-whose-ex-wife-filed-a-protective-order-against-him from Porter the guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-being-a-staff-secretary, but then to weigh their relative importance and choose the latter. (I believe that unit of measurement is called “capitalism.”)Inasmuch as we can judge a person’s interior based on their actions, it’s fair to say that a man who disregards women’s physical and sexual boundaries, as President Trump reportedly has, does not care about women. If it is possible to simultaneously care about women and subordinate their wishes to yours, to prioritize your sexual urges over their bodily autonomy, then what does “care” even mean? I think it’s also fair to say that a man who lashes out at women with physical violence, as Porter allegedly has, harbors some degree of hatred for them. What else does “hatred” mean if not this — the object of our fury, the thing we love to hurt?
She’s a sexist bigot, but at least she makes it screamingly clear how biased she is. I wonder what “alleged” means to Lindy. This paragraph piles alleged on to alleged, making it clear that to West, if the alleged accusation comes from a woman, it means the man did it.
10. Once again, we see the truly unprofessional standards of the Times by printing such inflammatory and dishonest junk. Would they allow this kind of screed under their banner it it didn’t involve impugning Trump? I wonder.
Feminists and sexual assault activists are misplaying a strong hand so egregiously and dishonestly—dealing from the bottom of the deck, hiding cards up their sleeves, shorting the pot, that they guarantee a backlash from those—like me—who should be their natural allies.
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texagg04
I was wondering when you were gonna prompt the impeach-24-7 wing of the commentariat to comment again.
You deserve a bigger megaphone, Jack. You could call it, “There is an Adult in the Room.”
4. There was nothing inconsistent about President Trump’s tweets condemning domestic violence and regretting the lack of due process and fairness in the current #MeToo witch hunt environment.
I can see why @realDonaldTrump supported Rob Porter and emphasized his claims of innocence, given the President's long history of commitment to due process and fairness. pic.twitter.com/nfB99FjS9o
— HighlySelectiveHat (@Popehat) February 9, 2018
6. Nobody who does not know Porter, the women involved or the intimate details of their relationships should be saying things in public like “I believe the wives” or “I don’t believe them.”
The FBI also asked Porter to explain Holderness’s black eye, according to a person familiar with the conversation. It’s unclear what he told investigators. He has privately told others that they were arguing over a vase, and she was somehow hit with the vase.
Your stance is that a reasonable person can’t look at that obviously ridiculous explanation and come to a reasonable conclusion about whether Porter is guilty?
Michael Ejercito
When was that published?
Rich in CT
Corner says 1989
Google is really a terrific invention. Through it I was able to confirm that Trump stood by his incorrect stance on the Central Park Five as recently as 2016.
Through Google you can also find numerous other stories about Trump’s stance on due process. There was his speech to officers in 2017 where he encouraged them to rough up suspects upon arrest. There were his multiple calls to bring back torture during the campaign. There were his many slanderous claims about his opponents, including the birther claims about both Obama and Ted Cruz.
All of which makes his tweet decrying false allegations and asking “Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?” ridiculous, and the statement that “there was nothing inconsistent” about such tweets incredibly ignorant. Trump does not believe in due process, except for himself and his friends.
There was his speech to officers in 2017 where he encouraged them to rough up suspects upon arrest. False: it was not a serious comment, and it has nothing to do with due process.
There were his multiple calls to bring back torture during the campaign. Again, unrelated to due process.
There were his many slanderous claims about his opponents, including the birther claims about both Obama and Ted Cruz. Also not due process. Allegations and opinions do not breach due process.
And the tweet about due process was still correct. If someone has said the sky is green, it doesn’t make him wrong when he says the sky is blue.
If it wasn’t a serious comment, then explain the joke to me. I don’t think you can. Was he being ironic? Was he satirizing police brutality to make the point that it’s actually terrible? That’s a risky move, and absolutely no one, including police organizations that decried the comments, interpreted it that way. They took it as a serious call for more police brutality, because it was, and the fact that he said it with a smile doesn’t make his meaning any less clear. He likes to see people roughed up. We know this from his campaign events where he told supporters to rough up protesters. We know it from his violent fantasies about pigs’-blood-laced bullets against Muslim terrorists. We know it from his calls to bring back torture. Were those not “serious comments” either?
Imagining that Trump did not seriously mean police should rough up suspects when he said police should rough up suspects requires us to forget every single relevant fact we know about Donald Trump. I know that doesn’t stop you, and you operate as if every single action he takes should be analyzed as if it occurs in a contextless void, but that’s not how you form your opinions of any other individual in the universe, and it shouldn’t be how you analyze Trump.
Your assertion that stating police should rough up suspects before a trial has “nothing to do with due process” is nothing short of scandalous, especially as you have just declared Trump right for invoking due process in the Rob Porter affair, which actually has nothing to do with due process. Either you don’t know what due process is, or you’re choosing to forget what it is so you can bend over backwards to defend Trump in this case.
You’ve got to be kidding me. Has John Yoo stolen your keyboard? Of course torturing people violates due process rights.
I didn’t object to you for saying the tweet was correct, I objected because you said it wasn’t inconsistent, when it is absolutely inconsistent with Trump’s previous hostility against due process.
But I will now object to your assertion that the tweet was correct about due process. It was not. Due Process applies to state punishment of citizens. Porter losing his job because he’s become an embarrassment and a distraction isn’t state punishment, even if it’s a government job.
Really, if your goal here was to convince people you don’t know what due process is, you’ve succeeded. Go talk to Popehat about this. You’re anti-anti-Trump bias is causing you to forget basic legal principles.
*Your
I’d really like clarity on this:
Allegations and opinions do not breach due process.
I actually agree–I brought up the birther claims to show that Trump is not, as he indicated in his tweet, against false allegations. But then how exactly was Trump’s tweet about due process correct as it applies to the Porter affair?
Due process means that accusations and allegations alone are not sufficient to take punitive, tangible action, unless there is evidentiary reason to conclude they are accurate, and a fair process has been used to determine the truth. However, in cases of massive numbers of similar allegations, res ipsa loquitur may be enough.
Trump has no ethics. His birther comments may have been sincere or not. They were just opinions, in any event. Not allegations. He had no first hand knowledge of anything. He couldn’t make an allegation of anything.
You’re splitting hairs. I can’t find a definition of allegation that requires first-hand knowledge, and that is not the only way it is commonly used.
Police brutality and torture are both certainly “punitive, tangible action,” and thus would violate due process as you define it.
I can’t imagine a country in which police brutality and torture aren’t considered violations of due process but firing an alleged wife-beater is. That country would not be based on the U.S. constitution.
It also just occurred to me that Trump’s tweet is inconsistent even with his own actions toward Rob Porter. If he truly thought firing Rob Porter was a violation of his due process rights (which it isn’t), he could have, you know, not fired Rob Porter. So there are layers of inconsistency to this.
Torture and police brutality are crimes. Due process means a formal process is required before legal determination of guilt or fault. These words have meanings. Extra legal activities do not need a due process argument to condemn. It’s true that civil rights charges are used in double jeopardy loophole actions by the government when a cop is acquitted of a crime like brutality, but that’s a misuse of the principle that leads to overly broad uses of it, like yours here. Torture violates the 5th Amendment, also the 8th, as well as human rights under the Declaration of Independence, covered in the 10th. Trump doesn’t even know that; translating his pro-torture arguments into a knowing rejection of due process is an absurd stretch.
Torture and police brutality are crimes. Due process means a formal process is required before legal determination of guilt or fault.
It also means a formal process is required before state punishment. I don’t know why you keep leaving that part out.
No legal determination has been made about Porter’s guilt, and there is no risk of that happening without due process, making Trump’s “due process” tweet meaningless.
Torture violates the 5th Amendment, also the 8th, as well as human rights under the Declaration of Independence, covered in the 10th.
Meaning it violates due process. Thanks for making my point for me.
Trump doesn’t even know that; translating his pro-torture arguments into a knowing rejection of due process is an absurd stretch.
I don’t know where you are getting the idea that people have to know things about the Constitution in order to be fairly criticized for being against the principles articulated in the Constitution. Lots of liberals think the Second Amendment only allows guns for a well-regulated militia. It is still fair to call them anti-Second Amendment. And it is still fair to call Trump anti-due process even if he doesn’t know what part of the Constitution it’s in.
You were claiming hypocrisy, Chris. Trump’s previous comments about torture do not prove hypocrisy, and the question of whether the Torture subjects he was talking about, as enemy combatants, even should have the benefit of due process is questionable. The controversy over torture of enemy combatants, aka terrorists, always involved treaties and human rights. It is not punishment, never has been. Nor is police brutality punishment. An arrest isn’t punishment, and what occurs during an arrest isn’t punishment.
Procedural due process, as when someone is fired, is not what the Constitution is talking about, and not what Trump was tweeting about. The Constitution does not require procedural due process in the workplace, and that, and only that, was what Trump’s tweet was about.
You keep flying off on these tangents. I wrote that both of Trump’s tweets were correct: there has been a lack of due process in a lot of the #MeToo consequences, it is wrong in many cases, and domestic abuse should not be tolerated. They are still correct, and Trump’s past endorsement of torture and dumb comments about Obama’s birthplace and joke about letting criminals bang their heads getting into cars have no more bearing on them than his favorite color.
Back to the start, and all of your gratuitous Trump-bashing amount to nothing except a demonstration of an unhealthy tendency to spin, while demonstrating the common confusion between the ethical concept of procedural due process and Constitutional due process.
Al Franken was required to resign by #MeToo Democrats without procedural due process. It was wrong. It was not unconstitutional. End of tangent.
Due Process outside of legal situations, that is, what we consider is analogous to “due process” within our personal lives, or our work environment, is all a subset of manners and etiquette. “Due process” is just a short hand way of referring to a somewhat more formalized, thought still slightly arbitrary, version of etiquette in work place situations.
It’s a great term for saying “I’m going to give you benefit of the doubt and let you have your defense, but not at the expense of greater concerns” which in the American legal since is the same definition, but since we consider Rule of Law and “Innocent until proven guilty” as an essential American ethos — that is to say one of America’s “greater concerns”, the formula in American legal situations reduces to: “I’m going to give you benefit of the doubt and let you have your defense”.
But in the free market and workplace situations, the formula still holds that “but not at the expense of greater concerns” caveat.
You were claiming hypocrisy, Chris. Trump’s previous comments about torture do not prove hypocrisy, and the question of whether the Torture subjects he was talking about, as enemy combatants, even should have the benefit of due process is questionable.
It really shouldn’t be. Here’s what the due process clause of the fifth amendment says:
No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law …
It’s hard to argue that torture doesn’t do that.
Nor is police brutality punishment. An arrest isn’t punishment, and what occurs during an arrest isn’t punishment.
Wrong, and ignorant of case law. Kingsley v. Hendrickson found that excessive force on a suspect did violate that suspect’s right to due process.
This is nonsensical. So he wasn’t talking about Constitutional due process, and he wasn’t talking about procedural due process…so what was he talking about? Again, Porter is in no danger of having his constitutional rights to due process violated. He’s being tried in the court of public opinion. That simply isn’t a due process issue.
You keep flying off on these tangents. I wrote that both of Trump’s tweets were correct: there has been a lack of due process in a lot of the #MeToo consequences, it is wrong in many cases, and domestic abuse should not be tolerated.
And you are wrong. There has been no lack of due process in these cases. Not one of the high-profile men accused of abuse, harassment or assault has had their right to a fair trial denied. Most of them haven’t even been charged. None of them have been roughed up upon arrest. None of them have had the police plant evidence against them. This isn’t a Constitutional issue at all.
They are still correct, and Trump’s past endorsement of torture and dumb comments about Obama’s birthplace and joke about letting criminals bang their heads getting into cars have no more bearing on them than his favorite color.
Again, if you’re going to call it a “joke,” I need you to explain what the joke was. “Isn’t it funny when I say things I actually mean?” isn’t a “joke.” Is your stance that Trump really meant that police actually shouldn’t intentionally bang their arrestee’s heads against a car? That can’t be your stance.
You won’t explain the joke’s meaning because it wasn’t a joke. It meant exactly what Trump said.
There’s no confusion. The Porter affair involves neither. And the spin here is all yours.
As I said, you’ve gone way beyond any point or legitimate argument by now. Talk to yourself if you want. You’re not listening, or learning.
If you really are going to stick with the ridiculous proposition that Trump was seriously telling police to bang arrestees heads on cars, you are no longer capable of objective thought. The video is clear. It was another bad, stupid joke, and another example of the news media taking Trump literally when they would never do so with anyone else.
I’ve asked you, repeatedly, what the joke was. I am open to an answer–I am trying to listen and learn. You won’t answer the question. If it is so utterly ridiculous to believe that when Trump told police to rough up suspects, he was trying to communicate to police that he was OK with them roughing up suspects, then it should be very easy for you to explain what Trump actually meant.
But you can’t. Because that’s exactly what he meant.
It was facetious, Chris. Look it up. The audience laughed.
The audience must have laughed because they were all unabashed supporters of a police state in which individuals are “guilty until proven rich”.
I thought that was obvious…
Don’t pretend like people don’t joke on a regular basis about what they “wish they could do” but don’t because society condemns it. That’s the joke…yeah it isn’t a “set up tension, here’s the punchline” joke that you are demand Jack explain. But that’s the joke.
Quit the pedantry.
It’s a bad joke, because Presidents should NOT make “I wish I could do this if it weren’t for the pesky Constitution and societal norms” jokes.
Tex at least provides a plausible reading of Trump’s statement as something other than an actual call for roughing up suspects. But given that Trump has advocated unconstitutional practices in the past, including unconstitutional practices targeting criminals, I don’t see why reading this as advocating an unconstitutional practice targeting criminals is unjustified. The fact that people laughed doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it seriously; people laugh at things that aren’t funny all the time.
Except that it was obviously a flip, ad-libbed remark and not a policy recommendation. Another example was the crack about hoping the Russians had Hillary’s spoliated e-mails.
Of course, the 1989 ad you mentioned does not even mention the Central Park Five. That his stance in 2016 was wrong does not mean the 1989 ad was wrong.
Are you going for the gold in the Willful Obtuseness event at the Winter Olympics? The ad was about the Central Park Five. Everyone knows this. Why do you consistently pretend to not have access to knowledge that is readily available, at your fingertips?
Rusty Rebar
It seems to me that the information in the statement you referenced is not enough information to determine anything. You have a second hand report that the FBI asked a question, and then conjecture as to what was said, coupled with a different second hand report that he said something to someone about a vase.
In what world does that lead to a reasonable conclusion of anything?
We have two identical allegations from two different women who were both married to Porter, and a report that he has defended himself from the allegations of one woman by claiming that “they were arguing over a vase, and she was somehow hit with the vase.” Yes, that’s enough for a person to come to a reasonable conclusion.
No, it’s not. And if I cared enough, I could find many examples of conclusions supported by far less equivocal and less circumstantial evidence that you have denied vociferously.
I’m thinking of your conclusion about the Bill Clinton allegations, which I never denied but simply wasn’t sure I believed. They look more credible by the day.
Good example. Thanks.
So you concede that reasonable people can draw conclusions about whether they believe multiple accusers against individuals without seeing hard proof that those accusations are true.
Phlinn
There is a material difference between 2 ex wives and 60 women with no known reason to be biased against cosby.
I did not say Cosby, I said Clinton. The number of accusers who have publicly alleged sexual assault, rape or harassment against Clinton is three.
I’ll grant a material difference between 2 and 3, but it isn’t much of one.
I’m sorry about that. For some reason I thought I saw Cosby.
There is still a difference between ex wives and women without a known reason for bias, although quantity matters. We also have, with Clinton, established fact that he engaged in sexual harassment of Lewinsky and committed perjury about that fact, which makes him provably untrustworthy when he claims innocence about other women. I think it’s plausible but unlikely that some of clinton’s accusers are false, but I have less corroborating or exculpatory evidence to go on with rob porter.
I think I agree with Jack that it’s enough that he shouldn’t hold high office.
Are these multiple accusers accusing him of the same act, or different acts?
It’ only an “obviously ridiculous explanation” because you don’t want to give the individual the benefit of the doubt. The explanation for many, many accidents are far more ridiculous, and you know it, because you have been involved in some, unless you live in a terrarium.
I have never seen an accident produce a bruise like that one. Have you?
Yes. My coworker, just the other day, gave herself a black eye slipping on ice in our parking lot.
Debra Lee
Long time lurker, first time poster seeing an opportunity to finally dip a toe in the water without fear of making a fool of myself…. Yes. My father gave my mother a black eye in bed one night. He was dreaming vividly and jerked his arm. His elbow connected with her face. Furthermore, there’s me. I pushed open a door not knowing my roommate was standing right behind it. The door hit her and swung back hard, hitting me resulting in a black eye and three stitches. Perhaps I should rethink that bit about not making a fool of myself.
Congratulations for entering the fray, Debra, and thanks: I was looking for a good example of how a spouse could get black eye without being abused.
I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that Porter is an abuser, but that doesn’t mean I have anything but a gut feeling, and none of us should be pilloried based on gut feelings.
My husband and I were playing doubles raquetteball. We were both going for the hit right in between our zones when his racquet hit the left side of my face. Besides the black eye and bruised face, in the resulting trip and tumble mess I ended up with a sprained ankle and a strained wrist. Fortunately a doubles match in a glass box grants witnesses.
That your husband was completely innocent does not mean that he still should not suffer for what has always happened to women. Has the Statute of Limitations passed?
Is this sarcasm?
If not, I don’t know why an innocent man should suffer from non-ideal but known possible consequence of playing a game. I knew there was a risk when playing racquetball and accepted that.
I was going to compliment Alizia for finally making a comment that looks like she’s really assimilating into the blog culture. Because it was, in my opinion, solidly done satire. It smells of snark and sarcasm.
But then she published a handful of Homeric tomes below that I don’t have a spare year to read.
Assimilation is a process not a point in time.
But yes, I think it’s sarcasm.
Those tomes, they’ll be waiting for you Tex. Solid, good material there. Almost ‘required reading’ to understand our present.
What I have resolved to do is write comments that I would wish to see on a blog such as this. And to write about my relationship to ethics and morality in this utterly bizaree and ever-unfoldingly strange present!
If even one person reads what I write, I am happy.
And aren’t you the one that has a 900+ Volume reading list?!?
Indeed it was sarcasm. You either include a 🙂 or you don’t.
Don’t. If you have to say “It’s sarcasm!” then you’re not doing it right.
Paul Schlecht
> 3. Porter should have resigned. In fact, that he did not resign was the best reason to fire him. This was his domestic problem, and he had no right to inflict it on the White House, even if he was innocent.
Can you clarify, is this specific to the White House, or politicians, or highly placed leadership positions?
Does a person with allegations against them owe their resignation to any company or group?
I can understand David Sorensen’s resignation, but I don’t think Sorenson owed anyone that resignation, and I don’t think he should have been fired had he not resigned. Presumably David Sorensen resigned because he does understand that he has these false charges against him and it will be a full time job to fight them and heat from above and outside would hurt that.
But I could also understand Sorensen not resigning, because hell, the best way to fight a defamation charge is with a lawyer and lawyers frequently demand payment.
I’m probably making a mountain out of a molehill, I just don’t understand why Porter should have resigned or otherwise should have been fired, unless it was because there is an assumption he is guilty, or there is something special about the nature of the job or organization.
It has to be the later.
A world where, in general, it is acceptable to impose adverse consequences because of unsubstantiated accusations would be a truly frightening world.
Red Pill Ethics
I once tried to stop someone from hurting/killing themselves with a knife. They were mildly cut during the mad scramble with the knife. When I took them to the hospital and let the receiving nurse know it was an injury that resulted from an attempt at self-harm/suicide, they called the police for baker act proceedings. When the police showed up the individual, in a panic, claimed that I had deliberately cut them with the knife.
The police gave me the benefit of the doubt – part past experience, part stoicism on my side – and after a few questions the individual admitted that it was an incident of self-harm and spent a week recovering at a very nice mental health facility in a resort town along the coast (gotta love that good insurance).
I’m not especially butthurt about it. I probably should be given that it was an accusation that could have very literally ruined my life (a la, a junior league Wanetta Gibson) but the police weren’t SJW warriors, had seen distraught women throw every accusation in the book while under emotional or psychological duress, and the individual wasn’t fundamentally evil, just scared and mentally off-balance. It all worked out in the end.
The point is that Jack is 100% right about domestic disputes. The truth is often more complex than what the evidence would immediately suggest (i.e. person A has knife wounds, and claims that person B caused them) and exaggerations and misrepresentation is par for the course. Only a detailed accounting of the stories, evidence, and individuals could possibly suss out the truth and anybody picking sides without those components is clearly choosing tribalism or emotionalism over reason.
Jack writes: “She’s a sexist bigot, but at least she makes it screamingly clear how biased she is. I wonder what “alleged” means to Lindy. This paragraph piles alleged on to alleged, making it clear that to West, if the alleged accusation comes from a woman, it means the man did it.
In my opinion the *key* to understanding a good deal of what is going on in the present is I think the term ‘social hysteria’. There is the surface element —- what is visible and what seems to be going on —- and then there is an invisible element, which seems something profoundly psychological. To analyze that requires a person with skills in multiple disciplines, perhaps social psychology or perhaps some other unrelated field that could shed light. But what I principally notice is that there is no one who can make the assessment, no one to shed clarifying light on the social hysteria. If a problem is not clearly seen and understood how can it be addressed?
On the surface it seems to me that it is hugely unethical, and bordering into the illegal, that the claims of these two women are made. That they can make and do so without having to suffer any consequences. If the reports of violence, the photographs, and the accusations that arise from them and which cause harm to Porter, but yet have not been substantiated through a police report, through a formal complaint, and through solid evidence, then it seems pretty clear to me that they should not be able to bring them forward without the possibility of suffering a legal consequence.
I further suggest that some enlightenment must be available to any observer if they do apply some sort of psychological analysis to a great deal of what we see going on in the present, be it around race conflict and the psychological weilding of tremendous violence against Whites (the establishment turning against ‘whiteness’ et cetera), and also as it pertains to the feminist’s struggle against male power.
It does seem to me a very strange juncture for a nation when its political and economic or gender issues are played out in massive national psychological rehearsals which also bleed out into the international! You’ve got to at least admit: this is unlikely to turn out well.
It would be a tough assertion to uphold, so consider it speculative. I read up on the articles written by the abused women and also ones written about them. I have to say that it sounds convincing. But what I do not at all understand is making it into public allegations which are then picked up in the maelstrom of intensely combative politics and which, certainly in this case, touch on the presidency (and all the ‘evi;’ that is projected onto Pres. Trump).
In one comment to these articles someone mentioned EUPD (emotionally unstable personality disorder). And because I am interested in the psychological dimension of these large, exteriorized social conflagrations, I then did a little research on this specific ‘disorder’. Here is one therapist who helps people with this issue: http://www.eggshelltherapy.com/bpd/
The purpose here would not be to undermine the claims of women who are beaten and abused but rather to attempt to shed light on a massive social phenomenon that appears to have ‘unconscious elements’ operating in it and through it. But (I propose) these psychological elements are not recognized as such. Therefor, the ‘surface’ is made apparent but the ‘real underlying issue’ remains invisible.
The argument would proceed to suggest as possible that some part of the #meetoo phenomenn and related phenomena are part of a deep psychological complex the only word I know being ‘hysteria’ which is coming out through mass-projections. A ‘projection’ is an unconscious exteriorization of inner psychological content.
One simple way to entertain the idea of ‘projection’ is to see that the Left ‘projects’ onto the Right a wealth of unrecognized content that is in fact a part of the Left, but the Left and many leftists and progressives cannot see that they do this. Similarly, the Right has been known to ‘project’ its own unrecognized paranoid content onto the Left-Progressive. And with this reference we can understand a) The Crucible (Aurthur Miller) and the notion b) of social and political withhunts.
I was ‘naturally’ suspicious of the Brock Turner incident and noticed in it a national rehearsal of Twitter-rage and Twitter-revenge. I read the entire police report and noticed some elements which made this woman’s case seem suspect. I concluded (though I really cannot conclude in absolute terms) that she was just as responsible for the outcome she suffered as he was for getting into it. I did write about my ‘conclusions’ way back then on this blog.
So, what I am suggesting is not thoughtless exoneration of this man (Porter) but perhaps a different level of analysis of the women that are bringing these rehearsals forward. This line of analysis would also take into consideration what seem to be evidences of deep psychological issues that are coming to the surface and are being acted out on a national level. That is, one thing connects to another thing. It is in this sense a ‘conflagration’.
The more difficult supposition, which also would involve an ‘Rx’ as they are called (a prescription, a medicine), would be in assuming and suggesting that the hysterical conflagration has some center in ‘unstable women’ or in women generally. Yet a great deal points in this direction I have to (embarrassingly) suggest and admit. To name a few:
Deep currents of feminine ressentiment (of the Nietzschean variety) which appear to function through revenge-desire. This is very much evident when the race questions are considered: the pathological level of anger and hatred that are now coming out of their hidden recess as POC attack Whites and ‘whiteness’. But it is also (I suggest) quite evident with this female-rage. In both these instances both the White and the man-accused essentially have no line of defense. That is, at a social and cultural level they have no way of combatting or opposing the accusatory social movement that rises up to strike them.
When I use the term ‘feminine’ I run right into the gauntlet. But yet to understand what I mean, and certainly what Nietzsche meant when he used the term ressentiment requires understanding a particularly passive-aggressive psychological mechanism. Certainly men can become infected with it, yet it is really a feminine-domain and is deeply enmeshed with the way that women use their power (psychologically). Just the use of the word ‘hysterical’ makes a reference to a female issue and ailment.
These ‘social sicknesses, and these now-present conflagrations did not arise out of nothing, but they all flow out of Sixties politics and out of tremendous inner words of sentiment. In this sense they are feminine. And I suggest that the entire culture has been infected with That, which I admit to know not exacly how to define or describe.
But this is a large part of my argument: we are dealing with invisible forces that have not been named. And that means not recognized, and certainly not understood (and made conscious).
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Correction: “These ‘social sicknesses, and these now-present conflagrations did not arise out of nothing, but they all flow out of Sixties politics and out of tremendous inner worlds of sentiment. In this sense they are feminine. And I suggest that the entire culture has been infected with That, which I admit to know not exacly how to define or describe.”
[Also I forgot to dedicate my ‘essay’ to Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromm]. 🙂
These paragraphs from Charles Blow (in an opinion-piece in today;s NYTs) seem to me to illustrate ‘projection’. At the same time a poisonous and I would say contagious ressentiment:
“When more than a third of the country — among them many who once considered themselves part of the “moral majority” — stand with a man who is the literal antithesis of all the values they once professed, that is a problem for America. They are no longer interested in the health of the democracy. Their mission and objectives have veered into a dark place where vision is short and risks and dangers are multiple.”
“”We patriots and dissidents, we many, we strong, we steadfast, are the last hope the country has of returning to what remains of a pre-Trump America, where porn stars weren’t paid off, accused wife beaters weren’t valorized and our president showed more allegiance to our country than to another.”
I suggest that the ‘psychological state’ of this man demonstrates more or less precisely a group of different maladies and might provide a glimpse into the nature of the sociological and mass-hysterical conflagration that is playing itself at national levels.
— Identification of ‘a third of the country’ and an association of them with *the enemy*.
— Inference that the moral majority is not moral. This implies that the one making the observation is.
— ‘Literal antithesis’ implies absolute ‘otherness’ and an absolute alienation from normalcy and of course ‘goodness’.
— A declaration about the ‘health of democracy’ can be turned around to some profit. If 1/3rd of the demos has an opinion or idea or vision different from M. Blow, what advantage is there in labeling it ‘anti-democratic’? It seems a sheer projection!
— Declarations about ‘dark places’ are quite interesting. A read a good deal on Christian and Catholic sites and there is certainly ‘projection’ onto the events of the day, and some of the personalities, of ‘darkness’. The Luciferian reference is very interesting, both from a theological perspective and then from a secular-psychological perspective. Shall the Left though be the pole that decides what is evil and what is good? It is a very peculiar, and a very difficult., problem from any angle-of-view.
— ‘We patriots and dissidents’, from where I sit, is a problematical statement! But it certainly does go right to the heart of the issue. Even here on this Blog most everyone asserts, adamantly, that they are ‘civic nationalists’ and their patriotism and activism is expressed through the declaration of this value. But in truth there is a very large question that comes to the fore when one is asked to opine about who is a ‘patriot’ or not, and who is a ‘dissident’ or not. If seems a similar attempt to establish the sort of polarity that arose in the American Civil War, no? Oh dear how confusing all this quickly gets!
— The last three assertions: 1) paying off of pornstars, 2) valorizing wife-beaters, and 3) having an allegiance to Russia, are really very rich. It is a strange and complex set of accusations, given the tenets of liberal leftism generally. Pornstars and wife-beaters aside the most interesting and psychological one is that of ‘allegience to Russia’. I suggest that this is where a tremendously unrecognized projection is to be found. What does ‘Russia’ mean in this psychological complex? Suite à la prochaine mes enfants. I promise to reveal all!
Blow is obsessed. He’s engaged in a red-faced rant, all the time, every column. I cannot imagine who his audience is.
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Laws Would Combat Animal Cruelty
News by Lucy OhlsenPosted on 05/07/2015
State legislators in Salem are moving forward with bills to protect animals living in Oregon. Many of the new laws would give law enforcement officers additional means to make sure existing laws against animal cruelty are obeyed.
As the weather heats up, the issue of dogs being left in hot cars heats up too. The “dogs in cars bill,” as its sponsor Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend) calls it, is moving forward in the Legislature. SB 614 would allow law enforcement officers to break into a vehicle to save an animal.
“Law enforcement didn’t feel they had the authority to break in,” Knopp says. Sometimes they have to break a window or do serious damage to the car, and this bill would guarantee they wouldn’t be sued for the damages.
Lane County Disrict Attorney Alex Gardner says the county already has an ordinance that allows an animal welfare officer or a peace officer to enter a car and impound an animal that they believe may be in danger of dying.
Knopp says SB 614 would be enforced the same way across the state — any officer could break into a hot car if they had probable cause to believe that an animal was being subjected to abuse. The bill passed out of the Senate and the House Committee on Judiciary with a “do pass” recommendation.
Rep. Brad Witt (D-Clatsakanie) has proposed a new law every session dealing with animal cruelty issues. This session, he’s sponsoring HB 2888 — a bill that would allow individuals or the court to shut down establishments where animal cruelty is taking place. It uses a “nuisance abatement” structure, meaning actions like an enjoinder (an order for the cruel acts to stop or to shut the establishment down) could be taken against people who were causing the “nuisance.”
HB 2888 would not make any additional cruel acts against animals illegal. It solely gives communities an extra tool to eliminate places where animal cruelty is occurring.
Scott Beckstead, the Oregon director for the Humane Society of the United States, says the bill is especially needed in rural communities where law enforcement is already underfunded and overloaded.
“Local sheriffs offices don’t have the resources to be really aggressive towards these issues,” Beckstead says.
The law would be an alternative means to take action toward it, because observers or neighbors could file their own action. Anyone witnessing cockfights, dogfights, puppy mills, the selling of raw fur or just severe animal neglect could use the bill to make the offenders stop.
“This will help society be able to begin shutting down avenues for abuse in other realms,” Witt says. He says animal cruelty is often a “gateway” to physical abuse and other crimes against humanity.
Representatives from the Oregon Farm Bureau and Oregon Dairy Farmers Association testified against HB 2888. They voiced concern that some neighbors might have different perceptions of what animal cruelty is. They are concerned that “normal” practices of animal husbandry might fall under cruelty for some people.
“You can’t process a chicken or a pig without harming it first,” says Roger Beyer, representing ODFA.
Witt says animal husbandry is not illegal, so his bill would have no effect.
Rep. David Gomberg (D-Central Coast) is also working to make sure laws against animal cruelty are followed. He is the sponsor of HB 2393, a law that would make the “encouragement” of sexual assault of animals illegal. It is meant to target producers and distributors of recordings of sexual acts between animals and humans. The bill would also increase the penalties for sexually assaulting an animal to five years imprisonment, a $125,000 fine, or both.
Both HB 2888 and HB 2393 passed out of the House and are now in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Because Lane County issues code violations in most cases rather than criminal charges, previous legal improvements to Oregon’s handling of animal cases haven’t always affected Lane County.
Mike Russell of Lane County Parks and Animal Services says, “In general, for those severe cases that we believe rise to a criminal level, Lane County Animal Services would refer those cases to the district attorney for criminal prosecution.”
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Instrumentation: guitar
From the Same Melancholy Fate
From the Same Melancholy Fate (2015) is an improvisatory piece for any instrumentalist, inspired by visionary artist Cleveland Turner, aka the Flower Man. Pete Gershon, author of Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston’s Visionary Art Environments, introduces the Flower Man’s story this way: “after seventeen years as a homeless alcoholic, he had a near-death experience in the gutter in 1983. Then, a divinely inspired vision of a whirlwind of colorful junk prompted him to devote the rest of his life to brightening his neighborhood and the lives of countless visitors with the deft arrangement of colorful refuse.” The Flower Man worked on his whirlwind constantly, roaming the neighborhood to forage for abandoned treasures to add to his ever-evolving yard show. But immediately after the Flower Man’s final illness and death (in December 2013), the house and its array of urban detritus began to decay. On 7 February 2015, the city demolished the structure, and it is now a vacant lot. Matt Petty’s video documents that day.
The player is given a pre-recorded track which has as its base my reading of Louise Glück’s poem recorded and re-recorded in space so that it is engulfed by room resonance (a la Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room), along with additional layers of music and song. The performer records every performance of the piece, and each performance recording becomes the pre-recorded track for the next performance. Thus the original track gradually disappears into the new layers, the performer responds to his/her previous self as part of the counterpoint of sound, and every performer’s tape part is unique, a palimpsest of previous performances of the piece.
The title of the piece comes from a gravestone Matt Petty showed me the day after I met him for the first time. In the white people’s cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the gravestone says in its entirety: “Negro, From the Same Melancholy Fate.”
Not I, you idiot, not self, but we, we—waves
of sky blue like
a critique of heaven: why
do you treasure your voice
when to be one thing
is to be next to nothing?
Why do you look up? To hear
an echo like the voice
of god? You are all the same to us,
solitary, standing above us, planning
your silly lives: you go
where you are sent, like all things,
where the wind plants you,
one or another of you forever
looking down and seeing some image
of water, and hearing what? Waves,
and over waves, birds singing.
—Louise Glück: Scilla: from Wild Iris
In addition to being part of Lighten Up, a multimedia project about visionary visual arts, the piece is also part of my ongoing project A Book of Days. Please visit 19 January to watch and listen to Jessie Nucho’s ninth pass on the flute, which I think is the most layered version in existence so far, and I am LOVING it! You can also go here to hear David Steele’s second pass on the clarinet, and here to hear Timothy Rosenberg’s second pass on the saxophone.
To perform From the Same Melancholy Fate, you’ll start with the original pre-recorded track (with the optional video.) You’ll record your performance of the piece each time you play it, and use that performance recording as the pre-recorded track for your next performance. Gradually, the original track will be obscured under the layers of your successive performances.
I’d love for you to send me performance recordings periodically so I can hear where your version of the piece is going. My idea is to gather a bunch of different versions after some time has passed, and figure out some interesting way to present them as a group.
Please use the PayPal button to purchase the materials. And thank you for supporting this low-key way of publishing.
Instrumentation: flute oboe clarinet bassoon saxophone trumpet horn trombone tuba percussion (pitched) harp harpsichord synthesizer guitar violin viola cello bass open instrumentation
Duration: 5-12 minutes
Video: Yes
Project(s): A Book of Days Lighten Up
Walking Music
Walking Music was originally written for an opera based on a Stephen King story called The Man in the Black Suit. This music accompanies a boy’s walk to the stream where he unexpectedly meets the devil. It’s a decorated arrangement of an old hymn of the sort the boy might have been humming as he walked. The hymn, called The King of Love , is a reworking of Psalm 23, set to an old Gaelic tune.
Several years after making the piece, I made an arrangement that can be played as part of the River Project. Thankfully, I did not meet the devil on my journey down the river(!) But I feel that the music captures something of the trusting elation I sometimes felt on the journey.
Walking Music is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days. You can listen to a live performance by BRIM and the Guidonian Hand visiting May 11th.
The original version of this piece is for two singers, two guitars, chorus, string quartet, and optional stream ambience. The BRIM and Guidonian Hand version is for singer, violin, guitar, trombone quartet, and piano. You can download a score of that version here. If you would like a version that works for your ensemble, just let me know your needs.
And thanks for supporting this low-key way of publishing!
Instrumentation: trombone piano guitar voice (singer) choir violin viola cello open instrumentation
Ensemble Size: 7-12
Electronics: No Electronics Fixed Audio
Waiting for Billy Floyd
Waiting for Billy Floyd was written in response to Eudora Welty’s short story, At the Landing, which takes place in a town called Rodney, Mississippi, that I visited during a trip down the Mississippi River in November 2009 with Mary Rowell and again over Easter weekend 2010 with H. C. Porter. The river pilot and poet David Greer was my guide and compass, both practically and conceptually, through this part of Mississippi, and it was he who selected which Welty stories I needed to re-read and which towns I had to be sure not to miss. I am grateful to these three traveling companions, and to Despina Sarafeidou, who helped me when I got stuck.
“She’s waiting for Billy Floyd,” they said.
The original smile now crossed Jenny’s face, and hung there no matter what was done to her, like a bit of color that kindles in the sky after the light has gone.
from At the Landing
Here is Newspeak’s live performance of Waiting for Billy Floyd.
Here are scores for two different versions of Waiting for Billy Floyd.
original sextet version [fl, cl, vln, vc, pf, perc]
octet version [Newspeak version: as above, plus guitar and trombone]
When you order the performance materials by clicking the button below, please let me know the instrumentation you need. There is some flexibility, so talk to me if you have specific needs for your ensemble.
A set of images of Rodney, Mississippi can be projected as part of the performance of the piece. Please let me know if you would like those materials as well.
Instrumentation: flute clarinet trombone percussion (pitched) piano guitar violin cello
Ensemble Size: 2-6 7-12
Until It Blazes
Until It Blazes is an amplified solo piece for piano, guitar or other plucked string instrument, harp, marimba, or vibes. The piece requires a stereo multi-tap digital delay for processing, and some kind of distortion processing for the ending. You can also perform the piece using a MIDI keyboard or mallet controller. (If you’re using a MIDI instrument, you can implement the delay in MIDI, if it’s easier to do that than to use an audio delay.)
The piece’s duration is variable: I imagine it could work at any duration between six and twenty minutes. I have made a twelve minute version, but it is only one possible version of the piece: please don’t regard it as definitive.
The overall idea of the piece is to set up various repeating patterns and then gradually group the notes so that new melodies grow out of the accents. For example, when you are playing a three-note pattern, if you accent every fourth event, you will get one melody; if you accent every fifth event, you will get a different melody.
There are six patterns in Until It Blazes, each an outgrowth of the previous pattern. In each case, you will first want to establish the pattern very softly with no accents at all, and then very gradually begin to stress a grouping that creates a slower melody arcing across the pattern. This accenting happens gradually during a slow overall crescendo, reaches some high point, and then the accenting recedes as you diminuendo. The length of the piece will vary depending on how slowly you want the cross-melodies to build and recede. The most interesting place is where you can hear both the pattern and the melody that cuts across it.
Prior to beginning to play the piece, you can say the words: “I have cast fire upon the world, and watch, I am guarding it until it blazes.” This line is attributed to Jesus in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas.
Cory Arcangel has created a video for the piece that can be played back in live performance. If you are interested in this aspect of the piece, please get in touch with me.
The stereo delay should be set up as follows: The left channel should have a delay time of 454 ms (equivalent to a dotted eighth at MM = 99) and should give three repeats. The right channel should have a delay time of 303 ms (equivalent to an eighth note delay at MM = 99) and have four repeats. The delay should be set to approximately 70% of the volume of the direct sound. The direct sound should come from the center of the stereo field.
Once you have reached the last pattern, you want to very gradually bring in distortion or some other processing that gives the feeling of a watched fire beginning to blaze. Performers have handled this in a variety of ways, and I am open to all of them.
Until It Blazes is dedicated to Kathy Supové with love and thanks.
There are four recordings of Until It Blazes currently available; all are performed on guitar. Here is Giacomo Baldelli’s 2018 recording, which is preceded by Kate Soper performing the text. Here is Giacomo Fiore’s recording; here is Emanuele Forni’s; and here is Seth Josel’s. As you prepare to play the piece, you might also want to listen to my original keyboard version.
Until It Blazes is part of my ongoing project A Book of Days. You can go to April 15th to hear Giacomo Baldelli’s really excellent guitar recording, which is preceded by the text performed by Kate Soper.
You can download a pdf of the score and information here. If you perform the piece, please let me know.
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Instrumentation: percussion (pitched) piano toy piano harpsichord synthesizer guitar open instrumentation
Duration: 5-12 minutes 13-25 minutes
Electronics: Live Processing
Project(s): A Book of Days
I remember having once walked all night with a caravan and then slept on the edge of the desert. A distracted man who had accompanied us on that journey raised a shout, ran towards the desert and took not a moment’s rest. When it was daylight, I asked him what state of his that was. He replied: ‘I saw bulbuls commencing to lament on the trees, the partridges on the mountains, the frogs in the water and the beasts in the desert so I bethought myself that it would not be becoming for me to sleep in carelessness while they all were praising God.’
Yesterday at dawn a bird lamented,
Depriving me of sense, patience, strength and consciousness.
One of my intimate friends who
Had perhaps heard my distressed voice
Said: ‘I could not believe that thou
Wouldst be so dazed by a bird’s cry.’
I replied: ‘It is not becoming to humanity
That I should be silent when birds chant praises.’
Sa’di: Gulistan II:26
Early in the Morning was inspired by a text in the Gulistan (Rose Garden) by the 13th century Persian poet and mystic Sa’di, which is said to be one of the most widely read books ever produced. Saadi was beloved by Emerson and Thoreau, and a quotation from his poetry adorns the entrance to the Hall of Nations in New York, but his work is currently virtually unknown in the United States.
While traveling down the Mississippi River in 2009, I was awakened in Iowa one night by an incredible din of frogs and insects. I recorded the racket, and its percussion creates the rhythmic material for the piece. About a year later, I happened upon a work chant from the Mississippi Delta called “Early in the Morning,” which was recorded in the 1947 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. An adaptation of that work song became the basis for this piece.
Well, it’s early in the morn-
in the morning, baby
When I rise, Lordy mama
Well, it’s early every morning a-baby
When I rise well-a well-a
It’s early in the morning, baby
When I rise, Lordy baby
You have-, it’s I have misery, Berta,
Wa, in my right side
Well-a, in a my right side, Lordy baby-
R-in-a my right side, Lordy, sugar.
Well, it’s I have a misery, Berta,
R-in-a my right side, well-a.
Well-a, it’s-a, Lordy, Ro-Lordy-Berta,
Well, it’s Lord (you keep a-talkin’), babe,
Well, it’s Lord, Ro-Lordy-Rosie,
Well, it’s, o Lord, Gal, well-a.Well-a, whosonever told it, That he told a-
he told a dirty lie, babe.
Well-a, whosonever told it, that he told a-
he told a dirty lie, well-a.
Well the eagle on the dollar-quarter,
He gonna rise and fly, well-a.
He gonna rise and fly, sugar.
Well-rocks ’n gravel make -a
Make a solid road
Well-a takes a-rock –a gravel make a
To make a solid road, well-a
It takes a good lookin woman to make a
To make a good lookin whore
Well-a It takes a good lookin woman, Lord, Baby
To make a good lookin whore, Lord sugar
It takes a good lookin woman to make-a
To make a good lookin whore, well-a
Boys, the peckerwood a-peckin’ on the-
On the schoolhouse door, sugar.
Well, the peckerwood a-peckin’ on the-
R-on the schoolhouse door, Well-a.
Well he pecks so hard, Lordy, baby,
Until his pecker got sore, well-a,
Until his pecker got sore, Lordy, baby,
Until his pecker got sore, Lord, sugar.
Well he pecks so hard, Lord, mama,
Until his pecker got sure, well-a.
Well, hain’t been to Georgia, boys,
but, Well, it’s I been told, sugar.
Well, hain’t been to Georgia, Georgia.
But, it’s I been told, well-a.
But, it’s I been told, Lord, mama.
Work Song, Parchman Farm, 1947
Here is a score of the piece in pdf format. This score is the version for flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, and percussion. There are other orchestrations of the piece for up to 16 players. If you would like a customized orchestration for your ensemble, up to and including concert band, please get in touch with me.
Early in the Morning is part of my ongoing project A Book of Days. You can hear Kisatchie Sound’s recording of the piece, which is called the Lulu in the Gaslight Mix, by visiting September 14th.
Instrumentation: flute oboe clarinet bassoon saxophone trumpet horn trombone tuba percussion (unpitched) piano guitar voice (singer) violin viola cello bass open instrumentation
The Garden of Cyrus
Some time in the early 1980’s, I happened upon an essay by the 17th century polymath Sir Thomas Browne called The Garden of Cyrus OR, The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. It is a wacky and marvelous piece of work, and reading it kind of changed my life.
The essay both describes and embodies the idea of the “decussation”, the place where two opposed forces meet, releasing energy by embracing their opposition. Sir Thomas Browne is a simultaneously a mystic and a scientist, a medical doctor and a literary stylist. He talks about the quincunx pattern as it appears on beetle’s wings and in Plato’s cosmology and a bunch of stuff in between.
My electronic piece, The Garden of Cyrus, was the first big piece I wrote after I finished school. It embodies the decussation by being totally rigidly serial, with algorithmic structures defining every pitch and rhythmic event, but I simultaneously tried to make the processes organic and available to the listener, as classic minimalism does. My goal was to wrestle the crunchy techniques of old-school modernism into something I could use, something I could love.
This score is the last movement of electronic version of The Garden of Cyrus. It’s a four-part canon in twelve sections, where each player does faster and faster repeated notes in each section until finally s/he falls into sustained notes. The original version was electronic, but the excellent guitar quartet Dither recently asked me to make a four-guitar version, so that’s what I’m posting here. It could probably be adapted for string quartet as well; please get in touch with me if you’d be interested in performing a string quartet version.
The electronic version of The Garden of Cyrus with all five movements is available on my CD Overstepping.
The Garden of Cyrus V is part of my ongoing project A Book of Days. You can hear and see Dither’s performance by going to July 22nd.
Here is the original electronic version:
Here is a score of the piece in pdf format. For a set of parts, please click the donation link below, with my thanks for your support of this very low-key way of publishing:
Instrumentation: guitar violin viola cello
Ensemble Size: 2-6
Machaut a Go-go
Machaut a Go-go adapts both the music and the lyrics of Machaut’s virelais “Moult sui de bonne heure nee” to the go-go style. Go-go is a jazzy offshoot of rap that fourished in Washington, D.C. a while ago. Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers were my main inspiration in adapting the style. Machaut a Go-go was written in 1991 for Kitty Brazelton and her nine-piece band, Dadadah. Kitty made the translation and adaptation of the Machaut lyrics, as well as helping immeasurably to shape the piece. Many thanks to her and the other members of Dadadah for their work and musicianship.
Machaut a Go-go can be performed with an introduction: a performance of the original virelais (for voice and harp or guitar) that is rudely interrupted by the drummer, who leads in the other musicians. Here is a scan of the original score to use if you want to do this introduction.
Machaut a Go-go is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days . You can listen to a Dadadah’s recording by visiting May 7th.
You can download a score of the piece here. You can purchase performance materials by clicking the link below.
Instrumentation: saxophone horn trombone percussion (unpitched) harp guitar voice (singer) cello bass
Project(s): A Book of Days Machaut in the Machine Age
Play Like a Girl was commissioned for the BASK Collective by the University of Idaho for a multimedia project in which the keyboard player, Kristin Elgersma, asked for the possibility of playing either grand piano or toy piano, or both, depending on performance constraints. My solution was to write a set of eight variations on Kaval Sviri, one of those Bulgarian Women’s Chorus pieces that were a surprise hit in the late 1980’s. If their ferociously joyous singing is girl music, I’m there! Some of my variations are for grand piano, some for toy piano, and some for celeste or harpsichord or other “girly” instruments, I’m open. The variations can be played in any combination, simultaneously (with pre-recorded tracks) or successively, allowing for a total of eight factorial (40,320) versions of the piece.
After I completed the piece, I learned that the same song had been adapted as the theme music for the late 90s cult classic TV show Xena: Warrior Princess. Now that I’ve checked out the show, I’m definitely enjoying picturing Lucy Lawless in full battle garb playing the toy piano like the girl she is.
Here is a link to the Bulgarian State Women’s Chorus performance of the arrangement that inspired my piece:
Here is a score of the complete piece in pdf format.
Play Like a Girl is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days, where I post a different version of the piece on the 13th of each month. I’ve also made a downloadable streamable playlist of various demos and live performances, check it out!
After you click the donation button below, you’ll get a link to download all eight individual scores and recordings, which will allow you to perform the piece in any way you like. If you’d like an Ableton Live session with my MIDI and pre-recorded tracks already loaded, I can send you that also.
You can also read a short take on “being a girl” in the second paragraph of this blog post from The River Project.
Instrumentation: percussion (pitched) harp piano harpsichord organ synthesizer guitar open instrumentation
Ensemble Size: solo 2-6
Duration: <5 minutes 5-12 minutes
Electronics: No Electronics Fixed Audio Live Processing
I’m worried now but I won’t be worried long
I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long is a piece for violin and electronics that starts from a recording I made of leaky pipes in a bathroom at the Beijing Conservatory and incorporates melodic material from a traditional Armenian song called Tsirani Tsar (Apricot Tree.) The title comes from a line in Down the Dirt Road Blues by Charley Patton. The piece was written for Mary Rowell and is dedicated to her with vast affection.
I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long is September 6th in A Book of Days.
• here is the score
• here is the solo violin part
If you are interested in performing the piece, please order the necessary performing materials below. You are welcome to arrange the piece for other instruments, and for additional live performers on the other lines. Let me know what you need, and we can make it work.
Instrumentation: guitar violin bass
Electronics: Fixed Audio Live Processing
the bus driver didn’t change his mind
Hi Bus Driver Visitors:
One of many emotions that has come up for me post 9/11 is an intense form of feminist rage, something I feel quite uncomfortable about, if I can be honest, having always thought myself quite beyond all that. But when I got this Bang on a Can commission, the first thing I thought of was this poem by the Bangladeshi troublemaker Taslima Nasrin. (She had a fatwa issued against her in the mid-90’s and seems to have pretty much disappeared from public life.) Originally I was going to set it in the piece, but I decided not to. Here’s how it goes:
You’re a girl
and you’d better not forget
that when you step over the threshold of your house
men will look askance at you.
When you keep on walking down the lane
men will follow you and whistle.
When you cross the lane and step onto the main road
men will revile you and call you a loose woman.
If you’ve got no character
you’ll turn back,
and if not
you’ll keep on going,
as you’re going now.
The harmonic language is mostly built of diminished seventh chords, in reference to that cool climax in the first movement of Mahler’s Second, which I was listening to because I’d been hanging out with Berio’s Sinfonia because of the “keep going” connection between the Beckett/Berio and the Nasrin text.
The pre-recorded material is constructed solely from samples of the pipa, a Chinese instrument that is conventionally played by cultivated young ladies performing elevated music for the delectation of the upper classes.
The title of the piece comes from something I read yesterday in a profile of the American troublemaker Al Sharpton in this week’s (2/18-25/02) New Yorker:
“The bus driver didn’t change his mind, Rosa Parks changed hers.”
The piece is dedicated to the memory of Samia al-Rumn.
the bus driver didn’t change his mind is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days. You can hear a rocking performance by the young Australian group Concept Ensemble by visiting August 22nd.
Here is a score of the piece in pdf format, and here’s a set of parts. I’m open to you reorchestrating it for your ensemble; let me know what you have in mind.
As part of your process in learning the piece, I urge you to listen to my sketch of the piece, where I sing the Nasrin text that later became the clarinet part. It will tell you many things that can’t be embedded in the score.
In order to play the piece, please order a copy of the backing track by following the paypal link, and thank you for your interest in the bus driver didn’t change his mind.
Instrumentation: clarinet percussion (unpitched) piano guitar cello bass
Atque Semper
ATQUE SEMPER (2006) for flute, horn, electric guitar, bass, and piano
Atque Semper is a meditation on the early medieval hymn Ave Maris Stella. The guitarist plays a free version of the melody while the other instruments try very hard to mess it up. The pianist is torn between supporting the guitar and hanging out with the troublemakers.
Atque Semper was commissioned by the young guitarist Dylan Allegretti for Santa Fe New Music and is dedicated to him with many thanks.
Atque Semper is part of a project called ReThinking Mary , which also includes Lullaby , Wonder Counselor , Take Your Joy , and Be/Hold . Atque Semper is also part of my ongoing project A Book of Days . You can listen to a live performance by the Cal State University New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Alan Shockley, by visiting January 7th.
Here is the score of the original arrangement. I am open to people making arrangements of the piece for different instrumentation, so if you have ideas about this, please feel free to get in touch with me at eve at evbvd dot com.
For a set of parts, please click the donation link below, with my thanks for your support of this very low-key way of publishing:
Instrumentation: flute horn piano guitar bass
Project(s): A Book of Days Rethinking Mary
It Happens Like This
It Happens Like This sets the recitation of a poem by James Tate against an adaptation of a traditional Persian chaharmezrab melody and dance rhythm. Perhaps the cyclical embroiderings of the chaharmezrab echo the successive embroiderings of the narrator’s tale of the goat.
It Happens Like This was commissioned by Mary Sharp Cronson and Works and Process, Inc. for a celebration of James Tate at the Guggenheim Museum. Many thanks to Greg Hesselink for help and advice with the cello notation, and Mary Rowell for ideas and advice for the two-instrument version.
It Happens Like This was written while in residence at the Civitella Ranieri and is dedicated with affection to Diego Mencaroni, who once loved a goat.
I was outside St. Cecelia’s Rectory
smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me.
It was mostly black and white, with a little reddish
brown here and there. When I started to walk away,
it followed. I was amused and delighted, but wondered
what the laws were on this kind of thing. There’s
a leash law for dogs, but what about goats? People
smiled at me and admired the goat. “It’s not my goat,”
I explained. “It’s the town’s goat. I’m just taking
my turn caring for it.” “I didn’t know we had a goat,”
one of them said. “I wonder when my turn is.” “Soon,”
I said. “Be patient. Your time is coming.” The goat
stayed by my side. It stopped when I stopped. It looked
up at me and I stared into its eyes. I felt he knew
everything essential about me. We walked on. A police-
man on his beat looked us over. “That’s a mighty
fine goat you got there,” he said, stopping to admire.
“It’s the town’s goat,” I said. “His family goes back
three-hundred years with us,” I said, “from the beginning.”
The officer leaned forward to touch him, then stopped
and looked up at me. “Mind if I pat him?” he asked.
“Touching this goat will change your life,” I said.
“It’s your decision.” He thought real hard for a minute,
and then stood up and said, “What’s his name?” “He’s
called the Prince of Peace,” I said. “God! This town
is like a fairy tale. Everywhere you turn there’s mystery
and wonder. And I’m just a child playing cops and robbers
forever. Please forgive me if I cry.” “We forgive you,
Officer,” I said. “And we understand why you, more than
anybody, should never touch the Prince.” The goat and
I walked on. It was getting dark and we were beginning
to wonder where we would spend the night.
Here is the traditional chaharmezrab on which the piece is based:
https://evbvd.com/goat/Dastgah-e%20Homayun%20-%20Crmezrab.mp3
It Happens Like This is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days . To hear a live recording of the duo version by BRIM, please visit July 6th.
The instrumental part has been done on cello, on mandolin, and on guitar. Here is a score of the original cello plus actor version. And the piece has also been done as a violin/viola duo, and as a mandolin/guitar duo. Here is the violin/viola version of It Happens Like This. For a set of parts, please order by clicking the donation link below (and let me know if you need different transposition or clefs.)
Instrumentation: guitar voice (speaker) violin viola cello
Did he promise you tomorrow?
I wrote Did he promise you tomorrow? on 7 February 2011 as a memorial to Steven Dennis Bodner (1975-2011.) The title is something a woman named Carla asked me in a bar in Los Gatos, California precisely one year earlier, on 7 February 2010, while Chris Porter and I were watching the New Orleans Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl. I had never watched a Super Bowl before, but the fact of two river cities being in contention made it sort of a required event that year. I don’t know what Steve’s attachment to the Super Bowl may or may not have been, but I do know that he loved Louis Andriessen’s music passionately, so I have re-purposed a lick from De Volharding as the basis of the piece.
The piece can be performed by virtually any group of at least six instruments and/or singers. You can arrange your own score from the six conceptual lines. The vocal score is the simplest arrangement. You can look at the Newspeak arrangement to see one approach to arranging the piece for larger forces.
Did he promise you tomorrow? is part of my ongoing multimedia project A Book of Days . Please visit February 7th to hear a live performance by Roomful of Teeth.
You are warmly invited to support this low-key way of publishing. Once you make your purchase, we will send you a Finale file so you can make your very own arrangement of Did he promise you tomorrow?
Instrumentation: clarinet saxophone trumpet trombone percussion (pitched) percussion (unpitched) piano guitar voice (singer) choir violin cello open instrumentation
Brownie Feet
Brownie Feet is a messed up mashup with several sources: Feet Can’t Fail Me Now, a NOLA standard by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and the first movement of the Bach G minor Violin Sonata are the two necessary ones. If you like, you can perform the piece alongside my recording of a progressively more and more messed up James Brown Funky Drummer sample and George W. Bush’s 2 September 2005 press conference, but I’d prefer for you to work with a live drummer and/or sampler/laptop/turntable player so you can mess things up your own way.
The original version of this piece is called Cattle Feet, and it combines Feet Can’t Fail Me Now with a Phil Collins lick, and is performed on multiple trombones as a half-time number for David Neumann’s dance piece, Feed Forward. Bach and George Bush got enveloped into it for Peggy Gould’s From Within and Outside a Bright Room Called Day, where we did it as a vocal piece with live drums. And now here’s the score arranged for string quartet. You can welcome to perform The Flood as a companion piece to Brownie Feet or not, as you desire.
Brownie Feet is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days. You can watch Tom Emerson’s video for the piece along with a performance of the vocal quartet version by visiting September 3.
A studio recording of the BRIM + Guidonian Hand octet version of the piece is available on Songs from the River Project, Vol. 2.
Here is a score of the string quartet version of the piece in pdf format. I’m open to you reorchestrating it for your ensemble; let me know what you have in mind.
Instrumentation: trombone percussion (unpitched) guitar voice (singer) choir violin open instrumentation
The Continuous Life
The Continuous Life (2000) was commissioned as part of a project called Continental Harmony to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Written for the Houston-based Orchestra X, the piece was supposed to celebrate Houston and incorporate electronics and interactivity.
I chose to set a poem by Mark Strand that is about the opposite of celebrating a particular moment in time:
What of the neighborhood homes awash
In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes,
Watching the grown-ups for signs of surrender,
Signs that the irregular pleasures of moving
From day to day, of being adrift on the swell of duty,
Have run their course? Oh parents, confess
To your little ones the night is a long way off
And your taste for the mundane grows; tell them
Your worship of household chores has barely begun;
Describe the beauty of shovels and rakes, brooms and mops;
Say there will always be cooking and cleaning to do,
That one thing leads to another, which leads to another;
Explain that you live between two great darks, the first
With an ending, the second without one, that the luckiest
Thing is having been born, that you live in a blur
Of hours and days, months and years, and believe
It has meaning, despite the occasional fear
You are slipping away with nothing completed, nothing
To prove you existed. Tell the children to come inside,
That your search goes on for something you lost—a name,
A family album that fell from its own small matter
Into another, a piece of the dark that might have been yours,
You don’t really know. Say that each of you tries
To keep busy, learning to lean down close and hear
The careless breathing of earth and feel its available
Languor come over you, wave after wave, sending
Small tremors of love through your brief,
Undeniable selves, into your days, and beyond.
The original orchestration is spoken word, full orchestra, and a sound mix of recordings of daily life in Houston. At the end, multiple live acoustic guitar players are invited to join in, playing from their places in the audience.
The piece can also be done by sixteen electric guitars plus pre-recorded sound. That version can be heard at September 2nd in my ongoing project, A Book of Days.
A year ago, the New York ensemble Contemporaneous performed a new version of the piece for eight players and pre-recorded sound. If you are interested in performing the piece with an ensemble of at least eight people, please get in touch with me and we’ll figure out how to make that happen.
In the meantime, you can visit the very first webpages I ever made, (with lots of help from Cory Arcangel), where I put lots of stories and examples about how I made the piece. I’ve left the pages pretty much how they appeared in 2000, so you can revel in the millennial flavor ;-).
Instrumentation: guitar voice (speaker) orchestra open instrumentation
Ensemble Size: large ensemble
Duration: 13-25 minutes
Creating the World
I wrote this note for the premiere of Creating the World in 1996:
I had cut Milosz’s poem “Creating the World” out of The New Yorker when it was printed there several years ago, and when Paul Dresher called to ask me for a piece for his ensemble, I knew the time had come for me to take it on. Because the instrumentation of Paul’s ensemble allows for the possibility of live performance and control of A LOT of pre-recorded samples, it seemed the perfect opportunity to create a world of hedgehogs and sopranos and urban intersections and Mozart.
At first, everything was big fun: I had a great time recording the text with the wonderful actor Roger Rees; I spent weeks collecting recordings of virtually every sound mentioned in the poem (including something like forty different settings of the word “gloria”); I got obsessed with Tosca (which became the soprano sample) and saw about four different performances of it (both live and on video: NYC is a great place for creating the world(!)); studied the complete works of Joni Mitchell from the point of view of guitar tuning (which ended up not being incorporated into the piece at all)…
And then the abyss hit me.
I realized I could not knit all these wonderful samples into a piece until I had a way of making sense of the central contradiction of the poem: that all the creation in the world does not necessarily make meaning. And it really threw me.
I went back and read Milosz again, not only the poems, but also The Captive Mind, his analysis of the totalitarian mind-set, and A Year of the Hunter, his journal from 1987 (around the time he wrote “Creating the World”), and things got even worse: all the horrors of the twentieth century came crashing down on me. The abyss of meaninglessness became the abyss of actual evil. The image of the Soviet soldiers standing outside the city watching the Germans destroy Warsaw for them became real for me, became my history.
Gradually I went back to the poem itself, to its feeble invocation of feasts of love as protection against the abyss, and I remembered a lullaby that my Bangladeshi friend Babu (M. Faslur Rahman) had sung for me this summer, a very private form of love feast. And I started thinking about the Dionysian feasts of love that pervade every human culture, and I figured that the brittle present-directed pleasure of house music is the current American embodiment of that protection. And so you will hear these feasts of love, and I hope they will protect you as they protect me.
Creating the World is part of my ongoing project A Book of Days. You can hear the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s recording by visiting December 31st.
For the original version of Creating the World the drummer played the spoken word samples on drum set, and lots of other samples were performed on both MIDI keyboard and MIDI mallet controllers. I am happy to make versions for whatever controllers you have available, and some things can certainly be sequenced for practicality. The main live instruments you need are violin, bassoon (or bass clarinet), guitar, and probably two keyboards, although one might work.
Here is a score of the piece, and when you click the purchase button below, I will work with you to make a cool live version of the piece for your band! It’s more expensive than my other pieces, because I have to rejigger the samples and all that. If you think of it as a consulting fee rather than as a publishing fee, I hope it will feel reasonable. If you really want to play the piece, and you don’t have the money, get in touch and we’ll work something out.
Instrumentation: bassoon percussion (pitched) percussion (unpitched) synthesizer guitar violin open instrumentation
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Dad, How Do I Make Money?
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As a parent you want to have all the answers. You bring a child into this world and, for some reason, they believe that you are the all knowing deity in their life. The last thing you want to do is disappoint them. But as parents we all know we aren’t perfect and often we are just doing our best. This is one of those situations, I hope you can relate. Here’s what happened:
Our Story Begins in a Magical Place
A few weeks back, we were in Best Buy (ok not really magical) and there was a display for a PS4 VR (virtual reality) demo. My son, who is very shy, wanted to know if he could try it out. He has been seeing these types of VR masks and really wanted to see what the hype was about.
He managed to get the nerve to go up to the worker and ask if he could try it. My son was kindly told “No, sorry” because they were already shutting down (dad’s fault for walking into Best Buy 10 minutes to close, my bad).
Then my son asked the clerk to my surprise, “How much does it cost?”
“Well,” the clerk replied, “The gaming system and the VR bundle would be about $1000 all together”
“Ok. Thank you.” my son said politely.
As we walked out of the store my son was quiet. I could tell he was thinking. Assuming there was a question coming up, I started to go through how I wasn’t about to spend $1000 for this system. I was trying my best to think of a way not to be the “bad guy” in this situation and say “No” when the question finally did come.
Then I Was Surprised
After a long pause, my son said something that almost made me cry.
“Dad?” he asked.
“Yes son?” I replied.
“Dad, How do I make money? How do I make a thousand dollars so I can buy that system?”
My heart swelled with an unbelievable pride. Here was my son trying to figure out how he could buy it himself.
He didn’t ask me for the money.
He didn’t hint around getting it for a gift.
Just “Dad, how do I make a thousand dollars”
Not: “Can I have a thousand dollars?”
Not: “Can you buy that for me?”
As a parent it’s one the prouder moments I have had in a long line of proud moments.
It’s a moment that will define him, because as time goes on his first thought will be “How can I afford it?” and not “I can’t afford this.” That mindset shift is huge at any age.
Now Here’s Where Dad (a.k.a me) Falls From Grace
My first thought was “I have no clue.”
Making suggestions for other people to make more money is something I like to do. If you come to me and ask me how to make more money, I can usually give you some suggestions.
But a young kid, my own kid, I was speechless.
“Well,” I finally put some words together, still with a glint of pride in my eye. “You need to provide value to others that they want to pay you for.”
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We brainstormed ideas as we walked along. He came up with things like yard work for other or walking dogs. All the while I kept thinking was: “How do you get a child to earn money, when they don’t have many skills yet?”
For weeks this has been nagging at me. There are literally thousands of ways to make money but I didn’t know what to say to my kid.
My thought is to encourage this line of thinking and behaviour. He’s asked the right question, and he deserves the right answer.
For now I have set him up with my Swagbucks account. He can watch videos, play games and in doing so earn towards his goal. It’s a start and it will show him how doing things over time can add up. As we come up with new ideas I plan on updating this post with how it goes.
What would you say if it was your child? Let me know in the comments below.
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Steveark on September 26, 2017 at 1:03 pm
Great parenting! Can you find some extra house chores he could do for pay? At 4 its tough but that is what I’d try.
Andrew on September 26, 2017 at 7:34 pm
Thank you! I like that, but he does some chores already. I’m hoping he can find a way outside of bank of dad.
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Landing On His Feet: Nicolas Chourot
Listening to Nicolas Chourot‘s début album: First Landing (available on iTunes). Now, here’s someone who found his voice.
A few years ago, Nicolas Chourot played with us as part of Madou Diarra & Dakan, a group playing music created for Mali’s hunters’ associations.
Before Chourot joined us, I had been a member of Dakan for several years and my perspective on the group’s music was rather specific. As an ethnomusicologist working on the original context for hunters’ music, I frequently tried to maintain the connection with what makes Malian hunters so interesting, including a certain sense of continuity through widespread changes.
When Nicolas came up with his rather impressive equipment, I began to wonder how it would all fit. A very open-minded, respectful, and personable musician, Nicolas was able to both transform Dakan’s music from within and adapt his playing to a rather distant performance style. Not an easy task for any musician and Nicolas sure was to be commended for such a success.
After a while, Chourot and Dakan’s Madou Diarra parted ways. Still, Nicolas remained a member of the same informal music network as several people who had been in Dakan, including several of my good friends. And though I haven’t seen Nicolas in quite a while, he remains in my mind as someone whose playing and attitude toward music I enjoy.
Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the launch of Nicolas’s launch/show, on August 29. What’s strange is that it took me until today to finally buy Nicolas’s album. Not exactly sure why. Guess my mind was elsewhere. For months.
Ah, well… Désolé Nicolas!
But I did finally get the album. And I’m really glad I did!
When I first heard Nicolas’s playing, I couldn’t help but think about Michel Cusson. I guess it was partly because both have been fusing Jazz and “World” versions of the electric guitar. But there was something else in Nicolas’s playing that I readily associated with Cusson. Never analyzed it. Nor am I planning to analyze it at any point. Despite my music school background and ethnomusicological training, I’ve rarely been one for formal analysis. But there’s something intriguing, there, as a connection. It’s not “imitation as sincerest form of flattery”: Chourot wasn’t copying Cusson. But it seemed like both were “drinking from the same spring,” so to speak.
In First Landing, this interpretation comes back to my mind.
See, not only does Chourot’s playing still have some Cussonisms, but I hear other voices connected to Cusson’s. Including that of Cusson’s former bandmate Alain Caron And even Uzeb itself, the almost mythical band which brought Caron and Cusson together.
For a while, in the 1980s, Uzeb dominated a large part of Quebec’s local Jazz market. At the time, other Jazz players were struggling to get some recognition. As they do now. To an extent, Uzeb was a unique phenomenon in Quebec’s musical history since, despite their diversity and the quality of their work, Quebec’s Jazz musicians haven’t become mainstream again. Which might be a good thing but bears some reflection. What was so special about Uzeb? Why did it disappear? Can’t other Jazz acts fill the space left by Uzeb, after all these years?
I don’t think it’s what Nicolas is trying to do. But if he were, First Landing would be the way to go at it. It doesn’t “have all the ingredients.” That wouldn’t work. But, at the risk of sounding like an old cub scout, it has “the Uzeb spirit.”
Which brings me to other things I hear. Other bands with distinct, if indirect, Uzebian connections.
One is Jazzorange, which was a significant part of Lausanne’s Jazz scene when I was living there.My good friend Vincent Jaton introduced to Jazzorange in 1994 and Uzeb’s alumni Caron and Cusson were definitely on my mind at the time.
Vincent, musician and producer extraordinaire, introduced me to a number of musicians and I owe him a huge debt for helping me along a path to musical (self-)discovery. Vincent’s own playing also shares a few things with what I hear in First Landing, but the connection with Jazzorange is more obvious, to me.
Another band I hear in connection to Chourot’s playing is Sixun. That French band, now 25 years old, is probably among the longest-lasting acts in this category of Jazz. Some Jazz ensembles are older (including one of my favourites, Oregon). But Sixun is a key example of what some people call “Jazz Fusion.”
Which is a term I avoided, as I mentioned diverse musicians. Not because I personally dislike the term. It’s as imprecise as any other term describing a “musical genre” (and as misleading as some of my pet peeves). But I’m not against its use, especially since there is a significant degree of agreement about several of the musicians I mention being classified (at least originally) as “Fusion.” Problem is, the term has also been associated with an attitude toward music which isn’t that conducive to thoughtful discussion. In some ways, “Fusion” is used for dismissal more than as a way to discuss musical similarities.
Still, there are musical features that I appreciate in a number of Jazz Fusion performances, some of which are found in some combination through the playing of several of the musicians I’m mentioning here.
Some things like the interactions between the bass and other instruments, some lyrical basslines, the fact that melodic lines may be doubled by the bass… Basically, much of it has to do with the bass. And, in Jazz, the bass is often key. As Darcey Leigh said to Dale Turner (Lonette McKee and Dexter Gordon’s characters in ‘Round Midnight):
You’re the one who taught me to listen to the bass instead of the drums
Actually, there might be a key point about the way yours truly listens to bass players. Even though I’m something of a “frustrated bassist” (but happy saxophonist), I probably have a limited understanding of bass playing. To me, there’s a large variety of styles of bass playing, of course, but several players seem to sound a bit like one another. It’s not really a full classification that I have in my mind but I can’t help but hear similarities between bass performers. Like clusters.
Sometimes, these links may go outside of the music domain, strictly speaking. For instance, three of my favourite bassists are from Cameroon: Guy Langue, Richard Bona, and Étienne Mbappe. Not that I heard these musicians together: I noticed Mbappe as a member of ONJ in 1989, I first heard Bona as part of the Zawinul syndicate in 1997, and I’ve been playing with Langue for a number of years (mostly with Madou Diarra & Dakan). Further, as I’m discovering British/Nigerian bass player Michael Olatuja, I get to extend what I hear as the Cameroonian connection to parts of West African music that I know a bit more about. Of course, I might be imagining things. But my imagination goes in certain directions.
Something similar happens to me with “Fusion” players. Alain Caron is known for his fretless bass sound and virtuosic playing, but it’s not really about that, I don’t think. It’s something about the way the bass is embedded in the rest of the band, with something of a Jazz/Rock element but also more connected to lyricism, complex melodic lines, and relatively “clean” playing. The last one may relate, somehow, to the Fusion stereotype of coldness and machine-like precision. But my broad impression of what I might call “Fusion bass” actually involves quite a bit of warmth. And humanness.
Going back to Chourot and other “Jazz Fusion” acts I’ve been thinking about, it’s quite possible that Gilles Deslauriers (who plays bass on Chourot’s First Landing) is the one who reminds me of other Fusion acts. No idea if Bob Laredo (Jazzorange), Michel Alibo (Sixun), Alain Caron (Uzeb), and Gilles Deslauriers really all have something in common. But my own subjective assessment of bass playing connects them in a special way.
The most important point, to me, is that even if this connection is idiosyncratic, it still helps me enjoy First Landing.
Nicolas Chourot and his friends from that album (including Gilles Deslauriers) are playing at O Patro Výš, next Saturday (January 23, 2010).
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In this issue, Alex Perry describes how researchers from all over the world are investigating the health consequences of exposure to ionising radiation.
He briefly summarises the studies by scientists of different groups of people who are known to have been exposed to radiation. These populations include the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their descendants, people affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and American nuclear test veterans. Our aim in summarising these studies is to highlight their relevance for British nuclear test veterans and their families and to show how they relate to some of CHRC’s ongoing research.
We know that many of you are keen to hear about our progress with the Genetic and Cytogenetic Study. Invitations continue to be forwarded by various GPs so please do respond if you receive one. However, we are pleased to let you know that have reached an important milestone in our recruitment target for nuclear test veteran couples. Although there remains a lengthy process in progressing each family member through the formal consent process, we can say we are nearing completion of this stage of the study. Our laboratories also continue to be busy with the receipt, processing and analysis of all of the blood samples donated by those who are participating in the study. This continues to be a big effort with a lot of in-depth analysis underway and this work will continue over the next year. We thank everyone who is taking part in this study.
As ever, it is important to remind everyone that we have no way of knowing what the results will show. If any evidence of genetic change in veterans of nuclear weapons testing and their children is found, when compared to family groups not associated with nuclear testing, further research would be required to assess the meaning and possible health impacts of this.
We would also like to take the opportunity to update you on the other studies where members of your community are volunteering.
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George Collett, who is investigating the relationships between exposure worry and cognitive functions, has to date conducted 60 cognitive tests over the telephone. George will invite an additional 20 veterans to take part in these tests by the end of August. These veterans have already taken part in earlier research with George and have agreed to be contacted for follow-up studies. He will analyse the data from these tests to assess whether exposure worry affects cognitive functions such as memory and reasoning.
Amy Prescott, who is investigating the relationships between sport, culture and wellbeing, has conducted 13 face-to-face interviews over a 4-week period in the South of England. Telephone interviews are currently being conducted and are due to be completed by the end of August. Some of the participants will be invited for follow-up phone calls in September to clarify topics discussed in their interviews. Amy will be in touch directly with those involved.
Both George and Amy would like to thank all of the veterans who have given their time to these studies and greatly appreciate their contributions.
We will continue to keep you updated on the progress of these studies but in the meantime, we hope you are all enjoying the summer.
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Majic 100’s Program Director on Making The Switch To 24HR Christmas Music
The Holiday season is an especially busy time for Majic 100’s Program Director Connie Bernardi. Trying to balance the holiday classics with a slew of new releases from some of today’s top artists will be a challange, while still making time for song requests from the station’s dedicated listeners. But having worked in radio since 1997, she’s more than excited to take on the task this year. We talked about what’s to come for Majic 100’s all-Christmas programming, her holiday favourites, and the charities that mean the most to her.
How long have you worked as the program director for MAJIC 100? What led you to this role?
I was named Program Director for MAJIC 100 back in December of 2015.
I’ve loved the radio industry even before I realized that I could make a career out of it….I was that teenager that religiously taped radio countdowns every weekend on my dual cassette player so I could have songs for my mixed tapes. I always had the radio on in my room and in the car…I thought the “DJs” had the best jobs ever.
The “I can totally do this for a living” lightbulb moment came when my cousin took me to Boston and we had a chance to visit the legendary KISS 108 radio station. I was instantly hooked.
I’ve been working in the radio industry here in Ottawa since 1997 (a very looong time). I’ve worked my up through a number of roles. I’ve been very lucky that my entire career has been based in my hometown and I’ve never had to move away from home.
During my second year in the Algonquin College Radio Broadcasting Program, I was hired to do weekend overnights at the classic rock station in town. I then moved on to a full time position doing traffic/weather hits on a no-longer-exists rock radio station morning show, and part time receptionist (for the radio station).
Over the years I moved on to different departments, learning as much about the industry as I could…from morning show co-host, promotions assistant, promotions director, music director, assistant program director and then finally a program director. Plus I’m still on air on MAJIC 100 which I still love doing.
It’s truly been an amazing ride so far….
Starting in November, MAJIC100 once again becomes Ottawa’s Christmas Music Station.
What’s it like programming all Christmas music?
I always say it wouldn’t be Christmas in Ottawa without MAJIC 100 transitioning to all Christmas music.
It’s fun programming MAJIC 100 as Ottawa’s Christmas Music station. It’s become a tradition in Ottawa – our listeners know it’s coming…but what day is always the most asked question. There are listeners that wait all year for the switch to all Christmas music…I usually start getting emails and messages at the end of October asking when they can expect the holiday music.
We play the big traditional Christmas classics that you know and love like Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, Andy Williams, and Burl Ives, mixed in with more contemporary takes on holiday favourites. So many current artists are releasing Christmas music – everyone from Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, John Legend, Pentatonix, Colbie Caillat, Train, Serena Ryder, Katy Perry to Ariana Grande. With that said, Mariah Carey and Michael Buble will always hail as the queen and king of Christmas music on MAJIC 100…
Plus it’s a great opportunity for us to play talented local artists like Steve Gardiner, Andrew Waines, Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine, and Keek.
What is your favourite holiday movie?
Die Hard. It’s so totally a
Christmas movie.
(A close second and third is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and The Family Stone)
What’s on your wishlist this year?
Sleep. Disconnecting and being present, and enjoying my holidays with family and friends. And if Santa could work his magic and convince Maroon 5 to come to Ottawa, I’d be OK with that too. I’m still holding out for a record player…but I bet my parents still have my orange Fisher Price that I used to have back in the day in their basement.
Stu and I always exchange our gifts on Christmas Eve after the kids have to gone to bed. I’m pretty predictable with my wishlist – spa gift certificates, a bottle or two of Prosecco, a jar of Nutella and some Panettone from La Bottega and I’m good.
You and Stuntman Stu have been married for 17 years. What are some of your favourite
traditions to do during the holidays?
Stu puts up the tree on a Sunday afternoon (a month before Christmas), and the kids and I decorate. Every year Stu and the kids get a new decoration to add to the tree…if it’s a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation themed ornament…it’s on our tree.
We also have a Christmas baking day – my cousin Riley brings over all the supplies and ingredients and bakes with my kids…her mom and I sit on the couch, drink coffee and tea and catch up.
We also love taking a drive through the Magic of Lights at Wesley Clover Parks – you feel like a kid again looking at all those lights and displays.
Christmas Day is always at our house. Love watching my kids and my niece and nephew take in the day. My dad’s birthday is also on Christmas Day, so it’s a dual celebration – lots of food, wine and wrapping paper to clean up.
We also celebrate Hanukkah. The kids have their own menorahs. We only do one night of gifts but the kids love reciting the prayer with dad and lighting the candles. And one day I’ll perfect making potato latkas and maybe even attempt to make brisket …that’ll be my Hanukkah gift to Stu.
You and Stu have strong ties to local charities – which ones does your family support during the holidays?
For us giving back to the community has always been part of who we are…
And it’s something we are teaching and instilling in our kids so they continue to pay it forward in their lives.
There are so many ways to give of your time and to donate to various organizations.
The Shoebox Project Ottawa, CTV and MAJIC 100’s Toy Mountain, The Ottawa Mission and The Ottawa Food Bank are some initiatives and organizations that we always try and help out with donations.
I remember one year I was at Carlingwood Shopping Centre with the kids and they had a “Be a Santa to a Senior” program. The kids each took a tag off the tree and bought gifts for a deserving senior in the community – it was a such great way to teach them the true meaning of the holiday and the joy you get in giving to others.
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Principal The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book
The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book
A. Leo Oppenheim
Editorial: American Philosophical Society
Páginas: 373 / 195
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book
LEO OPPENHEIM
Introduction..
Abbreviations ...........................................
Dreams and their interpretation in the ancient Near
The dream as topic .
Pattern of the "message" dream....
Content of the "message" dream.197
Content of the "symbolic" dream......
Interpretation and interpreters..
Etiology....
Mantic dreams..
Dream-reports from ancient Near Eastern sources....
Part II. The Assyrian Dream-Book
1. The dream-omina from Susa.
The series dZiqiqu ... .
Related omina .
The ritual tablets.
Transliteration of the Assyrian Dream-Book .........
List of translated dream-reports ...................
List of additional dream-incidents ................
Arrangement of the transliteration........
List of fragments..
List of Akkadian and Sumerian words....
Topical index..
Additions and corrections.
Illustrations ..................
This book has grown under my hands in a somewhat
peculiar way. The original plan was to prepare the
"Assyrian Dream-Book" as a kind of text-edition
which is standard practice in Assyriology. This
means, as a rule: hand copies of all cuneiform texts,
transliterations and-if they cannot be avoidedtranslations, accompanied by a modest introduction and embellished by copious and learned philological notes.
However, while collecting the material for such an
"Introduction," I became fascinated by the subject
of dreams and their interpretation. The study of the
dream-reports preserved in Sumerian and Akkadian
texts then drew my attention to the use of dreamincidents as a literary device, and the research I had
to do on such purely philological problems as the
various words for "dream" and "to dream" induced
me to concentrate on the various types of "native"
etiologies of the dream as experience. Soon I found
it necessary to turn to the other civilizations of the
ancient Near East for information as well as for comparison, and I ended up with an "Introductory Essay"
too lengthy to be presented in any other way than as
the first part of the present book.
Since the first part was written in non-technical
language, it appeared to me that it would be unfair to
the reader, supposedly interested in the subject, to
inflict upon him-in the second part-the obnoxious
boredom of a conventional text-edition.
The unfortunate fact that most of the tablets containing the "Assyrian Dream-Book" are in a rather
poor state of preservation was a decisive factor in
prompting a complete change in the method of presenting the text material. The second part has,
therefore, been planned as what might be called an
experiment. In it I have made an attempt to combine
translations of the better preserved fragments with
detailed discussions of the structure and the history of
the text. More stress has been laid throughout on
the presentation of the background than on philological detail work. The manifold and often complex
problems of the reconstruction of the text have given
me occasion to introduce the reader to technicalities
of Assyriological work which are rarely touched upon
even by the specialist in the field.
If the book has thus-as it is hoped-gained somewhat in readability, the Assyriologist will still find in
the complete transliteration and in the photographs
of the fragments all the information he is entitled to
expect in a text-edition. Only the material arrangement has been changed for the sake of the educated
layman to whom this book addresses itself.
And it may not be out of place to anticipate hereby pleading guilty-the obvious criticism that a display of philological erudition has been set aside for a
presentation which aims at a synthesis, however precarious and short-lived it may soon prove. In a
synthetic approach which strives to utilize whatever
the methods of the historical disciplines or the study
of any other aspect of civilization can contribute, and
what philological investigations are able to extract
from the raw material of the text, I cannot see an
OPPENHEIM:
DREAMS IN THE ANCIENT
ultimate, ideal goal but rather the way in which our
type of research should proceed here and now.
The "Assyrian Dream-Book" is extant in rather
numerous fragments, some of which were recognized
and identified more than half a century ago. Yet the
publication of the series and the study of this interesting material has been hampered by circumstances
which should not remain without mention in this
Assyriologists have been interested in dream-omina
ever since the last third of the nineteenth century,
when F. Lenormant and later Ch. Virolleaud began to
publish the omen texts of the Kouyundjik Collection
in the British Museum which contains what has been
excavated of the library of Assurbanipal. Only a
small number of dream-omina have thus been placed
at the disposal of the scholars, mainly by A. Boissier
(but often only in excerpts), while others have been
identified and mentioned in the literature (especially
Bezold Catalogue 4: 2143, also M. Jastrow jr., Die
Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens 2: 958 ff., Giessen,
Topelmann, 1905-1912).
In the years preceding the First World War, Dr.
E. Klauber, upon the suggestion of Dr. B. Landsberger
who identified the fragments, made more or less provisional hand copies of nearly all pertinent tablets.
The outbreak of the war, however, and the death of
Dr. Klauber in action (1914), prevented their publication (to have been entitled: Reste babylonischerTraumbiicher, cf. ZA 30: 130). In 1939 Dr. Landsberger
succeeded in interesting Father A. Pohl, professor at
the Pontificio Istituto Orientale in Rome, in this group
of texts. Father Pohl went to London and prepared
new copies of all fragments, but the Second World War
and the increasing pressure of scholarly and administrative duties on Father Pohl thwarted the second
chance of the "Assyrian Dream-Book" to be published.
In 1951 Dr. Landsberger entrusted to me the copies
made by his friend, Dr. Klauber, which he had carried
with him through all his peregrinations, to utilize in
the Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and for eventual
publication. Father Pohl was generous enough to
place at my disposal all the copies, finished and unfinished, which he had made in 1939 and to relinquish
his claim to publish them.
These two sets of hand copies have been supplemented by copies made by Dr. F. W. Geers (Oriental
Institute) in the years between the two wars, which
he handed over to me with his characteristic selflessness. All these materials were utilized, in conjunction
with photographs of the fragments, to establish the
text that is given in transliteration on pp. 307-344.
This transliteration and the photographs shown on
plates I-XIII are meant to replace the customary
hand-copies.
The present book has the following composition:
the first part deals with the topic, Dreams and their
[TRANS. AMER. PHIL. SOC.
Interpretation in the Ancient Near East, and includes
as the final section, in translation, all extant dreamreports of that provenience. The second part is
dedicated to a presentation of all fragments of the
"Assyrian Dream-Book" as well as of other texts of
this genre coming from Mesopotamia. Its concluding
section contains a complete transliteration of the
text of the Dream-Book. In the plates, the photographs of the fragments which have been utilized to
establish the text are shown.
The abbreviations used in quotations, etc., will be
perfectly understandable to the Assyriologist. The
layman will kindly disregard them as well as the particular way in which certain words are transliterated
using capitals, Roman or italic characters, spacings,
index-figures, accents, etc. All this is a necessary evil
caused by the transfer of the various cuneiform systems of writing into modern type. Square brackets
indicate broken passages; explanatory remarks and
additional words needed to convey the meaning of the
original text are given in parentheses. Three dots
indicate words which remain obscure.
This book owes much to the collaboration of my
friends and colleagues at the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago. I have to thank Drs. H. G.
Giiterbock and Th. Jacobsen who not only contributed
the translations of the Hittite and Sumerian dream
incidents and related passages but also gave me
liberally of their time in discussing other pertinent
problems. Dr. K. C. Seele translated the dreams
from Egyptian texts and Dr. R. Marcus those of the
Greek papyri. For the Old Testament I had to rely
on the usual handbooks; the monographic study of
E. L. Ehrlich, Der Traum im Alten Testament, Berlin,
Topelmann, 1953, came into my hands too late to be
utilized. Special thanks are due to Professor B.
Landsberger with whom I have spent countless hours
reading the numerous difficult passages of the texts,
discussing their philological problems, etc.
I should like to thank Mr. C. J. Gadd, Keeper of the
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of
the British Museum for permission to publish here a
number of fragments of cuneiform tablets from the
collection there. My thanks are also due to Dr.
Rudolf Meyer, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatische Abteilung, for the photographs of the fragment VAT 14279 published on plate X, and to the
Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, Berlin, for the photograph Babylon 1540 (Babylon 36383), reproduced on
plate V.
I wish also to acknowledge with thanks the financial
help granted me by the Division of the Humanities of
the University of Chicago for secretarial and photographic services.
The diagrams of the figures 1 to 6 were made by my
wife, Elizabeth Oppenheim, and to her this book is
dedicated; without her it would never have been
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DREAMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
1. THE DREAM AS TOPIC
Wer nicht von dreitausendJahren sich weiss Rechenschaftzu gebenBleib' im Dunkeln unerfahren,mag von Tag zu Tage leben.
Goethe, West-OestlicherDivan; Buch des Unmuts, 13.
The dream-experiences of a civilization dead for
many millennia must be studied in the reflections
which they have produced in the literary documents
of that civilization. Hence, for the breaking of the
ground, philology and, for the exploration of those
subtle nuances and complex implications often so revealing, literary criticism are the only possible approaches. Their success, however, depends necessarily
on the accidents of survival of pertinent and sufficient
text material.
In the written records of the civilizations of the
ancient Near East, references to dreams occur on
several clearly distinct literary levels, each subject to
its own rigid and consistent stylistic conventions.
Since these restrictions bear heavily upon the content,
form, and etiology of the recorded dreams, it is obvious
that an investigation must first turn to them. References to dreams can only be evaluated adequately
after one has recognized and established the extent and
the basic trends of the conventions valid for the text
type in which they occur.
Of the two levels of consciousness which are alternatingly experienced by man-the waking world and
the realm of dreams-the latter is subject to a characteristic dichotomy. In dreams intermingle in many
and curious ways the influences of the conceptual conditioning of the waking world with all its manifold and
interconnected configurations of experiences, attitudes,
and expectations and that fundamental inventory of
dream-contents which is most likely shared in varying
degrees by all humans of all periods. The terrors of
the dream and its delights, the meeting with the
departed, the untrammeled sweep of the earth, the
nether-world, and the heavens, the pressures of the
needs of the creature, the encroachment of the troubles
of the daily life, to mention only a few aspects, produce
an ubiquitous fundus in that world of dreams upon
which is superimposed a rigid pattern of selections and
restrictions adopted by the individual civilization and
adjusted to the cultic and social standing of the
dreamer. This pattern derives its ultimate authority
and unshakable consistency from that setting of the
waking world which, by some unknown process, each
civilization creates as the only admissible vehicle of its
self-expression.
Such a configuration of admitted, preferred, and
excluded forms of exDression within the dream-
experience produces necessarily a typology of dreams.
Each such dream-type is characterized by specific
features which determine not only the form in which
a dream-experience is to be reported but exercise their
influence also upon the very repertory of the dream
for which they establish the rules for admission or
rejection of specific contents.
For the ancient Near East it can be stated-with
the oversimplification which should be permitted only
in such preliminary remarks-that dream-experiences
were recorded on three clearly differentiated planes:
dreams as revelations of the deity which may or may
not require interpretation; dreams which reflect,
symptomatically, the state of mind, the spiritual and
bodily "health" of the dreamer, which are only mentioned but never recorded, and, thirdly, mantic dreams
in which forthcoming events are prognosticated.
Within these planes patterns have evolved which
are valid only for a specific type of literary document.
Such patterns are conditioned by the characteristic
ideological attitudes of the several individual civilizations within the orbit of the ancient Near East and
are, in each civilization, subject to growth by accretion, to the vicissitudes of external (and therefore
accidental) influences, and-as all things alive-to
ultimate and inevitable disintegration. To reconstruct the features and the history of such a pattern
in a given setting, we are compelled to rely exclusively
on the scarred, scattered, and accidental remains of
the text material. The resulting picture is necessarily
blurred and distorted, full of "blind spots" which hide
from us the answers to many crucial questions.
Under these circumstances, the only feasible approach is to collect the extant reports of actual and
imaginary dream-experiences and to attempt to reconstruct the stylistic features, the typical situations, the
range of dream-contents, etc. This will yield material
for the investigation of the dream-pattern with respect
to the meaning and function of its elements, which, in
turn, should shed light on the background of the
"pattern."
The stylistic conventions which determine the way
in which the dream-report is presented, what contents
are admissible, etc., can, however, only be fully
studied with regard to that one Near Eastern dreamtype which is best attested and in which the intentions
of the deity are revealed to kings and priests. These
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revelation dreams always contain a message and occur,
as a rule, only under critical circumstances and then
as a privilege to the leader of the social group. They
cannot be termed simply "culture-pattern dreams" as
they have been recently by E. R. Dodds, The Greeks
and the Irrational, p. 108 f. (Berkeley, University of
California Press, 1951), because they in no way establish the social or cultic standing of the person who
experiences them, nor are they even a characteristic
prerequisite in this respect. As a matter of fact, the
evidence for initiation dreams offered by B. Bruyere
for Egypt ("Le Sphinx de Guizeh et les ipreuves
Sportives du Sacre," Chroniqued'Egypte 38: 194-206,
1944) and accepted by C. J. Gadd (Ideas of Divine Rule
in the Ancient East, 26, London, Oxford University
Press, 1948) cannot, for philological reasons, be admitted at all.
Inasmuch as such "message dreams" are nearly
always recorded in royal inscriptions, which actually
furnish a very large section of what is preserved of
Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts, they must necessarily figure predominantly in the present investigation. This situation should not, however, be allowed
to lead us into the belief that these dreams reflect in
any way the extent and the variety of moods which
characterize actual dream-experiences. The latter
were subjected to a severe censorship which yielded
the following results: irrational dream-contents are
only reported either if they are accompanied by a
rational and divinely authorized interpretation, or for
mantic purposes in systematic collections of such
dreams. All other dreams of this kind are only referred to vaguely as "evil dreams." The individual
civilizations show, however, variations in this respect
which the present study will have to determine in
By the very nature of its subject matter, an investigation like the present is expected, rightly or wrongly,
either to take cognizance of the achievements of the
psychoanalytic school or schools, or to contribute in
some way towards the research work on dreams based
upon the approach and methods initiated by Sigmund
Freud.
The material which is to be presented in this book,
however, does not lend itself readily to such treatment,
and it might even be doubted whether any satisfactory
and constructive results could be expected under the
specific circumstances. There is a variety of reasons
which hamper the psychoanalytic approach to an
investigation of the few extant dream-reports of our
civilizations. These reports are couched in a language
which still offers considerable linguistic difficulties,
especially with regard to the nuances and connotations
of the main religious terms. In addition, they are
styled, as a rule, in very condensed and terse sentences,
under the palpable influence of rigid restrictions as to
form, content, and mood. The censorship exercised
by these conventions has reduced the dream-contents
to an extremely small number of types which have to
be studied as such and not as the expression of individual experiences. To uncover the information
these dream-reports contain and to establish this
typology one has to resort to methods 'of literary
criticism (cf. for an example p. 187 ff.) A purely
psychoanalytic approach would yield here only distorted results. Dreams recorded in ancient Near
Eastern literatures cannot be expected to reflect the
psychological status of the dreamer, his aspirations
and individual conflicts; even in the few cases which
offer exceptions to this statement (cf. p. 203f. and
227), the personality of the dreaming person remains
wholly beyond the reach of the investigation, and this
deprives us of that essential information which the
background of the inidividual or, better still, his utterances in other contexts impart to the psychoanalyst.
It is, furthermore, rather obvious that the existence
of literarily acceptable dream-types has channeled the
imaginations of dreamers and poets alike into certain
pre-established patterns. Such models not only
answer the needs of the literary structures of which
they form integral parts, but they also add authenticity to the dream-experiences of the individual.
Dreams which are true to type are necessarily theologically acceptable.
Even in those comparatively rare cases in which
irrational dream-contents have been permitted to be
recorded, the psychoanalyst is bound to encounter
grave difficulties. Their sparse inventory of symbols,
symbolic actions, and gestures has grown out of
associations that endowed them with favorable or evil
implications which, because of our lack of background
knowledge orour philological shortcomings, remain outside of our ken. And even if we knew the meaning of
the words more exactly and had a more extensive
insight into their aura of connotations, the very purpose for which all the irrational dream-contents have
been recorded would preclude their utilization by a
student of psychoanalysis for anything beyond the
recognition of the most primitive and universal symbols and situations. These dreams occur exclusively
in literary texts where the interest of the poet and his
audience is always directed towards the future.
Mantic, the prediction of things to come, is paramount
in all these dream-reports. Quite naturally, the poet
uses actual dream-experiences to build up and to
embellish his dream-story, but their substance and
temper are subordinated to the purpose mentioned.
The only type of dream-experience which would be
of interest to the modern "interpreter," is represented
by those evil dreams the reporting of which the style
conventions (grown, as a matter of fact, out of superstitious fears) forbade. They are referred to, and
then only very rarely, in a context which deals with
specific "therapeutic" measures taken to counteract
them. For a revealing example, cf. p. 230.
It should, however, be stated here that our determination to abstain from any, necessarily dilettantic,
attempts to introduce psychoanalytic terminology and
concepts, has been weakened in a few cases where such
observations were too obvious to be passed over in
silence. Cf. e.g. pp. 204, 227 and 230 f. In other
instances, illustrative or interesting parallels and contrasts have been pointed out between the methods
and aims of the ancient oneirocritics and their modern
"colleagues," the psychoanalysts.
Our presentation will draw primarily, but by no
means exclusively, upon the evidence originating in
Mesopotamia, that is upon Sumerian and Akkadian
(i.e. Assyro-Babylonian) sources. For a better perspective in distinguishing the essential features of the
pattern, the pertinent Egyptian and Hittite texts as
well as the material contained in the Biblical sources
have been included in this investigation. An effort has
furthermore been made, and to the same end, to glean
from the rich and informative Greek literature as
much material as is relevant for the elucidation of the
ancient Near Eastern evidence. Here the fullest
possible use has been made of the labor of classical
scholars, who have repeatedly dealt with the topic of
the present study.
This branching out into adjacent and even somewhat outlying fields of research has proved quite
fruitful; comparisons, if attention is focused on differences rather than on superficial similarities, often
disclose facts overlooked even by specialists in the
compared fields. The heuristic value of such an approach is especially great where slightly different
patterns, originating in a group of kindred civilizations,
all refer to the same field of human experience or
endeavor. Carefully compared, they throw into relief
even the smallest differences. The comparative approach is here, therefore, not an end in itself, nor is it
meant to establish far-reaching connections which by
their very nature are beyond proof, but it is applied
to promote a keener analysis of the content and form
of the dream-reports in the literatures of our field.
Obviously, literary evidence for dreams can either
deal with their content as recorded in historical inscriptions, in epical texts, and, rather rarely, in the
religious literature; or with references to dreams as
experience. Here private letters and other passages
which reflect actual impressions of the individual and
do not adhere to established conventions offer important evidence in their attempts to describe the unique
and unmistakable sensations accompanying the dream
either as such or in order to use certain of its aspects
as tertia comparationis in similes or other figures of
speech. Furthermore, the Mesopotamians as well as
the Egyptians-and, in the middle of the first millennium B.C., the Greeks-evolved a special type of
literature concerned with the mantic import of dreams.
The present part will treat these groups of evidence
in the sequence just indicated.
2. PATTERN OF THE "MESSAGE" DREAM
Passages which describe the contents of dreams are
not too frequent in the cuneiform (Sumerian and
Akkadian) historical texts; they are even rarer in the
records of the Egyptians and the Hittites. They
occur somewhat more often in the Old and the New
Testament. Each of these reports consists by necessity of two clearly defined and very characteristically
styled sections: the description of the setting of the
dream, informing us who experienced it, when, where
and under what noteworthy circumstances; and the
content of the dream itself. It should be noted that
the latter is always imbedded in the former which thus
forms a "frame" (for an exception cf. p. 213).
Even in the consciously creative literary effort,
where dream-reports are quite frequently employed as
technical devices for purely artistic purposes, this
natural division is consistently preserved. The entire
report with its two sections described above is, of
course, integrated in the contextual framework of the
story told by the text. As none of these reports contain all the stylistic features which constitute the
"pattern," it will be necessary to analyze each story
carefully in order to establish the borderline between
its typical and its individual traits. Only then can the
relationship between the dream-report and the story
within which it is told be investigated.
The two main sources for the evidence to be discussed in the present section are royal inscriptions of
historical content and certain other types of records
of the past-here, the Old Testament holds a unique
position-and texts whose style and scope classify
them as literary whatever their specific function may
have been in the religious life or the artistic aspirations
of our civilizations. From these documents were collected the dream-reports given in translation on pp.
245-255 to which the reader will be referred by the
numbering given them there. The cuneiform material
is intended to provide a complete coverage, as are the
passages from Egyptian and Hittite texts.
At this point some preliminary observations should
be made concerning the distribution in time of dreamreports preserved in datable historical inscriptions.
Although the implications of this distribution-pattern
will be studied later (cf. p. 199 f.), a discussion of the
stylistic features of these reports should be preceded
by some indication as to the chronological framework.
In Mesopotamian royal inscriptions, we have two
reports contained in Sumerian texts of the end of the
third millennium B.C. (?8, no. 1 and p. 211), while all
other examples (in Akkadian) come from the inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Assurbanipal (seventh
century B.C., ?8, nos, 8-11) and of the "Chaldean"
king, Nabonidus (sixth century B.C., ?8, nos. 12-13).
Within this enormous gap falls one text from Hittite
Asia Minor, the so-called autobiography of King
Hattushili (twelfth century, B.C., ?8, nos. 25-29) which
makes ample use of the dream as a means of the deity
to direct this king's rise to power.
From Egypt, the first fully recorded (and preserved)
royal dream dates from the end of the fifteenth century
B.C. (Thutmose IV, ?8, no. 15).
It is followed by
another solitary example, the dream of the Pharaoh
Merenptah (thirteenth century B.C., ?8, no. 16).
Then from the latest period we have a group of reports
concerning Egyptian kings from a variety of sources:
one experienced by the Ethiopian Tanutamon (seventh
century B.C., ?8, no. 17), one recorded by Herodotus
(2: 141; ?8, no. 22) concerning a king called "Sethos"
supposed to have ruled at the time of the Assyrian
invasion (cf. below p. 200); and one mentioned by
Plutarch (De Iside 28) of Ptolemy I, Soter. (?8, no.
In the domain of literary documents, the accidents
of text-survival have definitely blurred and even distorted the picture. It now seems as if the use of
dreams as a literary device had a much better established tradition in the stylistic repertory of Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad alike) than in that of
Egypt where-certainly only by accident-only the
very latest literary texts (cf. below p. 194) resort to it.
With regard to the frequency of dream-episodes, the
epic of Gilgamesh enjoys, however, a special position
in its Akkadian as well as in its Sumerian version.
The latter contains even an additional dream-incident
in which Enlil seems to have "destined" Gilgamesh for
kingship but not for "eternal life" (S. N. Kramer,
"The Death of Gilgamesh," BASOR 94: 2-12, 1944).
Another episode, still more damaged, refers to dreams
dreamt by the hero on his journey to the "Land-ofthe-Living" (S. N. Kramer, "Gilgamesh and the Land
of the Living," JCS 1: 12, line 47, 1947). The dreams
of the Semitic version of the epic will be discussed on
pp. 214, 215 (?8, nos. 3 to 7). For a dream-incident
in another Sumerian epical text, cf. also S. N. Kramer,
"Lugalbanda and Mt. Hurrum" (in "Heroes of
Sumer," Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 90: 120-130, 1946);
the passage is unfortunately broken.
With regard to the distribution of dream-reports
within the same literary type of text, it can be observed that the frequency seems to depend not only on
stylistic conventions but also on the individual preferences of authors and compilers. There are some very
revealing examples of this observation: the Elohist
source of the Old Testament provides us with the
majority of dream-stories; the Gospel of Matthew
contains nearly all the dream-incidents of the New
Testament; the so-called autobiography of the Hittite
king Hattushili (cf. for details p. 197 if.), and the inscriptions of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal, offer
most or perhaps even all of the dream-reports of their
respective types of texts. This situation can be accounted for either by a personal interest of the ruler
for such incidents, which, especially in the case of
HaTttu.shili.seems to he bevond doubt. or hv a relaxa-
tion of style-restrictions in a specific period of which
a scribe or a compiler took advantage. These causes
might have coincided, and changes in the spiritual
inclinations of certain social groups could well have
been a contributing cause.
The typical dream-report of our source-material
appears within a strictly conventionalized "frame,"
the pattern of which can be reconstructed from evidence that is surprisingly uniform from the Sumer of
the third millennium up to Ptolemaic Egypt and from
Mesopotamia westward to Greece-not to mention
still more distant regions (cf. pp. 188 and 192). The
"frame," as already indicated on p. 186, consists of an
introduction which tells about the dreamer, the locality and other circumstances of the dream which
were considered of import. The actual report of the
dream-content follows and is succeeded by the final
part of the "frame" which describes the end of the
dream and often includes a section referring to the
reaction of the dreaming person or, also, to the actua
fulfillment of the prediction or promise contained in
the dream.
It is customary, in the first part of the "frame," to
stress the fact that the person who is to experience the
dream has gone to bed and is deeply asleep. Cf. the
Egyptian passages "while the Prince of Bekhten was
sleeping in his bed" (?8, no. 18), or "thereupon his
majesty rested" (cf. p. 190), and the Assyrian use of
the verb utullu "to be in bed" (?8, nos. 10 and 11).
The time of the night at which the dream occurred
does not seem to have mattered (contrast the classical
world and cf. the remarks p. 240), because it is
never expressly indicated; a possible exception seems
to be contained in the Akkadian literary work Ludlulbel-nemeqi (?8, no. 14) which mentions a dream occurring in the morning hours. Only one dream, that of
the Pharaoh Thutmose IV recorded on the "Sphinx
Stela" (?8, no. 15), happened at noon-time and the
report stresses this circumstance in a patent attempt
to characterize the nature of this sleep as unusual.
Still the Egyptians seem to envisage elsewhere (cf. the
passage of the Hieratic dream book quoted below on
p. 243 f. and also K. H. Sethe, "Achtung feindlicher
Firsten, Volker und Dinge auf altagyptischen Tongefasscherben des Mittleren Reiches," Abhandlungen
Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., phil.-hist. KI. 1926 (5):72)
the possibility of experiencing dreams during the day.
The setting of the mentioned dream of Thutmose IV
is unique-in the shadow of the great sphinx-but
parallels in one important respect the dream of Jacob
in Bethel (Gen. 28: 12 ff.). In both cases, the devotee
chances upon the numinous place where the god who
has his abode in this very locality appears to him in a
dream. This might well be called a case of unintentional incubation.
Actual incubation incidents are rarely recorded in
the sources originating in the ancient Near East in
contrast with Greek and later Near Eastern practices.
A typical example is the dream of Solomon in Gibeon
(I Kings 3: 5, also II Chron. 1: 5) or that of Daniel
in the Legend of Aqht, both to be classified as provoked incubation dreams experienced by kings. Obviously, such a dream is here considered a royal
In emerprivilege (cf. probably also Gen. 46:1-4).
gencies, kings are reported to resort to incubation in
order to obtain divine help or advice. This is the case
in the incident related in the Hittite version of the
legend of Naram-Sin (cf. H. G. Giiterbock, "Die
historische Tradition und ihre literarische Gestaltung
bei Babyloniern and Hethitern bis 1200, ZA 42: 1-91,
1934; 44: 45-145, 1938) as well as in the story of the
dream of the Egyptian king "Sethos" mentioned by
Herodotus (?8, no. 22). Analogous instances are
the second dream of Gudea (cf. p. 212) and that of
Nabonidus (?8, no. 13 and p. 204 f.), both being provoked in order to confirm the interpretation of a
symbolic dream seen by these rulers (cf. below p. 205
for this practice).
Turning to incubation-dreams provoked and experienced by priests destined for this purpose, one should
mention first the Arrian passage (Anabasis 7: 26, 2)
which tells about an incubation enacted in Babylon, in
the sanctuary of "Sarapis," in a desperate effort to
obtain divine help for the dying Alexander the Great.
Then we have reference to certain Mesopotamian
priests, or better, diviners (cf. p. 222 for the bdrl2and
p. 221 for s'd'ilu), who seem to have obtained divine
information by means of dreams, although it cannot be
said whether such communications occurred in the
sanctuary. Priestly incubation is also reported from
Asia Minor; in his famous prayer occasioned by the
ravages of a pestilence, the Hittite king, Murshili II,
clearly differentiates between dreams seen by him, as
king, dreams experienced by priests during an incubation (cf. also below p. 199), and dreams in which the
deity addresses any other person (cf. A. Goetze in
ANET, p. 394 ff., sub 2 and 11).
As a special case must be regarded dreams seen by
priests who sleep in the sanctuary but who neither
provoke nor expect such experiences. The dream of
Samuel (I Sam. 3: 1 ff.) offers an example (cf. below
p. 189), and an analogous incident is reported in an
inscription of the Assyrian king, Assurbanipal. The
latter concerns the dream of a priest of the goddess,
Ishtar of Arbela (?8, no. 10), and parallels in many
respects the Samuel story (cf. for details pp. 199
and 200).
As to priests receiving dream-revelations according
to Akkadian texts, no tendency towards specialization
can be observed; we have a sabri2-priest in one of the
dream-incidents contained in the inscriptions of Assurbanipal (?8, no. 10), and a sangi2-priest on a small
fragment found in Boghazkeui (KUB III, 87) which
seems to contain a legendary story about the Hittite
king, Shuppiluliuma, in which the Weather-god appears in a dream to his priest.
As to Egypt, it should be stressed that, notwithstanding all statements in popular and semi-popular
presentations, actual incubation dreams are not mentioned in pre-Ptolemaic texts and that the pertinent
evidence even in the latter is very slim (cf. e.g. P.
Boylan, Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt, 168, London,
Oxford University Press, 1922).
The sudden shift in reality-levels, the startling
shock experienced in meeting the dream-apparition is
expressed in various ways in the dream-reports originating in our source material. The "Sphinx Stela"
e.g. (?8, no. 15) uses here the very striking term "to
find (in one's sleep)" (recurring, as a matter of fact,
also in Middle English dream-descriptions: "to meet"
in one's sleep) to describe the suddenness of the encounter between the dreamer and his god. The expression "to see (a dream)" which is the rule in our
sources (for exceptions cf. p. 226) bespeaks a basically
passive attitude of the person who experiences the
dream. It is, in the Old Testament, often replaced
by "God came to NN in a dream by night" (cf. e.g.
Gen. 20:3 f., 31: 24, I Kings 3:4 f., 9: 2). This more
active attitude of the appearing deity is also attested
in the Memphis Stela which records the dream of
Pharaoh Amenhotep II in the following form: "The
majesty of his august god, Amon, . . . came before
his majesty (i.e. the Pharaoh) in a dream."
The Greek epics show a marked desire to describe
the appearance in such details as to give the impression
that the appearing deity "actually" entered and left
the room of the sleeper. This demonstrative objectivity has left but few traces in the dream-reports of
our civilizations. The Assyrian dream translated in
?8, no. 10 uses the verb erebu "to enter" (also ?8,
nos. 14 and 19) and asu (ana ahiti) "to leave," but
the setting of this incident is rather specific and can
hardly attest to a tendency to show the objective
reality of the experience. On p. 234 we shall discuss
a curious Akkadian passage in which a simile is used,
paralleling certain verses of the Odyssey which describe how the dream-figure (oneiros) actually entered
the room through a small hole in the door.
While the tendency to show the objectivity of the
dream-experience is attested in Greece only by certain
details of the dream-pattern (entering and leaving of
the room, hearing of the voice of the visiting deity at
the very moment of awakening, cf. p. 191, and the
leaving of tokens in the hands of the dreamer, cf.
p. 192), the dream-reports of Nordic origin seem definitely to stress this aspect of the dream. Cf. G. D.
Kelchner, Dreams in Old Norse Literature and their
Affinities in English Folklore (Cambridge, University
Press, 1935) where the dreams mentioned on pp. 87, 98,
108 and 124 note expressly that the sleeper, after the
sudden awakening out of his dream, still had a glimpse
of a "person" just leaving his room. This and other
features of these reports (cf. below p. 192) succeed in
giving the experience a certain spooky character.
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On the optic plane, the impact of the apparition, be Paradise Lost (8: 292) "when suddenly stood at my
it a deity or his substitute or messenger, etc., is, in head a dream." The elaborate description of the first
Near Eastern dream-reports, sometimes expressed by appearance of the Lord to Samuel (I Sam. 3: 10) in a
a reference to his towering size. This is an essential dream (cf. p. 188) formulates the mood of this meeting
feature of the famous dream of Gudea, e n s i of the with circumstantial and somewhat hieratic precision:
Sumerian city of Lagash (?8, no. 1), in which he "and the Lord came and stood (lit.: took his stand)
reports seeing a divine figure reaching from earth to and called." The Akkadian reports use here the verb
heaven. In an isolated Akkadian passage not only *zazu "to take one's stand" as key-word in such dethe stature of such a dream-apparition is described as scriptions; see likewise the poem known as Ludlul bel
superhuman (a-tir s.i-kit-[ta] mi-na-ta s.ur-ru-uh, ?8, nemeqi (cf. p. 217 and ?8, Ino. 14) which uses the
no. 14), but his beauty is stressed in addition. There words "he (the deity) entered and took his stand"
exists furthermore another reference (Epic of Gilga- (i-ru-ba-am-ma i-taz-zi-iz), and the dreams of Namesh, KUB IV, 12:16 i-na KUR dd-mi-iq-ma du-mu- bonidus translated in ?8, no. 12 and no. 13. There
uq-su, cf. ?8, no. 5) to the beauty of the dream-figure, exists even an Egyptian parallel. In the so-called
a detail which is repeatedly paralleled in classical "Hunger-Stela," a pious, late forgery, the apparition
sources (cf. presently).
of the god, Chnum, in a dream is described by the
Returning to the description of the appearance in royal dreamer as follows: "standing over against me"
dreams of a giant figure, attention should be drawn to (?8, no. 19). In the Homeric epics, finally, the term
an Egyptian parallel. In this dream, the Pharaoh epistanai kata "to stand over the head (of a person)"
Merenptah (?8, no. 16) saw "as if a statue of Ptah is quite typical and is recognized as such. It persists
were standing before Pharaoh. He was like the height also in the dream-reports contained in the Greek
of [x cubits]." Here, the context requires the as- dramas (cf. simply W. St. Messer, The Dream in
sumption that the apparition was of extraordinary size. Homer and Greek Tragedy, p. 6, n. 22; p. 23, n. 68; p.
The giant stature of divine apparitions and dream- 90, n. 348, New York, Columbia University Press,
figures is well known from classical sources as collected 1918) and has influenced Latin and medieval European
e.g. in A. St. Pease, "M. Tulli Ciceronis De Divina- literatures.
tione Liber Primus" (Univ. of Ill., Studies in Language
It might be to the point to draw attention here to
and Literature 6 (2-3): 165, note to line 4) and also the fact that the Iliad and the Odyssey contain two
in E. R. Dodds, op. cit., 109, n. 37. The latter pro- descriptions of a person waking a sleeper. In both
poses to link this feature of the classical dream-pattern cases, this person takes his stand "at the head" of the
with actual dream-experiences which are interpreted sleeper, cf. the passages Iliad 24: 683 (Hermes wakenas reflecting the symbolic implications of the appear- ing Priamos) and Odyssey 20: 32 (Athena addressing
ance of giants in dreams. Although such a connection the sleepless Odysseus, leaning over his head, and
does not seem a priori impossible, the psychological speaking to him from this position). This seems to
background of dream-records separated from us by suggest the possibility that the deity appearing to the
two or more millennia is a most difficult topic to sleeping person experiencing a dream characteristically
investigate and to ascertain. It should furthermore chose that position from which to rouse the sleeper.
be stressed that the appearance of the carrier of the
And this leads us to another feature of the pattern
dream-message (cf. presently) as a giant (and endowed of dream-reports which, exactly as the two preceding
with supernatural beauty, cf. above) constitutes only (that is, the size and beauty of the apparition and the
one aspect of the complex mise-en-scMneof the dream in position at the head of the dreamer) link the reports of
the ancient Near East and in classical sources.
the Western (classical) world to those of the ancient
Another and equally important feature of the Near East.
dream-appearance is the way in which the actual
The already repeatedly discussed Berufungstraum
meeting is described. Here we find again a relevant of Samuel puts unmistakable stress on the fact that
link between the East and the West, a feature which the deity called the name of the sleeping youth before
is defined by a key-word. Sumerian, Akkadian, making his appearance. In fact, Samuel was called
Hebrew as well as Greek dream-reports very often use three times with such intensity that he woke up each
a phrase meaning that the appearing deity, his time, till Eli informed him that this calling of his name
messenger, etc., "stood (suddenly, we have to assume) was meant to announce to him a divine apparition.
at the head of the sleeper. "
This feature of the dream-description (also attested
In the greatly damaged Sumerian dream-account of e.g. Gen. 31: 11) is well known from Greek (and later)
Eannatum ("Stela of the Vultures" VI: 25-27, end sources. There the waking of the sleeping person is
of the third millennium B.C.) we read already "for him always done with the words "Are you asleep, NN?"
who lies (there) . . . he (the appearing deity) took (cf. for references simply Dodds, op. cit., p. 105, n. 13).
his stand at his head" (n A . a . ra . . . s ag . gA The Mesopotamian parallel is to be found in a dream
m u . n a . g u b), and, obviously as the result of clas- already mentioned (quoted on p. 188, ?8, no. 10) which
sical influence, we meet the very same phrase in Milton, corresponds in its elaborate complexity and its setting
in a sanctuary to the dream of Samuel. A priest of
the goddess, Ishtar, sleeping presumably in the cella
as Samuel did, had a "dream," which, because it
obviously had only the purpose of rousing him (the
text actually uses the verb negelti, cf. below p. 191)
from his sleep, is not described in the text.
This Wecktraum and the repeated calling of the
name of Samuel are both clearly meant to prepare the
sleeper for the approaching (dream-)revelation. So
Samuel lay down again and the Lord appeared to him
in the conventional manner to speak with him; correspondingly, the awakening of the Assyrian priest was
followed by an experience which the text terms
"nocturnal vision" (cf. for this term p. 225.)
The dream itself falls in this specific case into two
sections: an introductory experience which is to endow
the subsequent theophany with the urgency and the
appeal required by the extraordinary circumstances of
such dreams (dream-theophany in a sanctuary) and
the "message" dream itself.
A Greek parallel should be quoted at this point not
only because the pertinent passage stresses the fact
that the sleeper awoke (in. his dream) to communicate
with his deity but also because of another feature of
this dream-incident, a feature which will be discussed
on p. 192.
The following verses of Pindar (Olympia XIII: 65 if.,
translation of R. Lattimore, The Odes of Pindar,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1947) describe
a dream which unites conventional with extraordinary
(Bellerophon . . ), endured much hardship
until the maiden Pallas gave him
the bridle gold-covered. Out of dream
there was waking, and she spoke:
"Do you sleep, king descended of Aiolos?
Behold, take this magic for the horse
and dedicate to the father who tames
beasts, a shining bull in sacrifice."
To his dream in darkness
the girl of the black shield seemed to speak
such things, and he sprang upright on his feet.
Gatheringup the strange thing that lay beside him,
This and the preceding passages consider the dream
a sui generis state of consciousness, a hovering between
the eclipse of sleep and the stark but dull reality of
the day. Here, it is very much to the point to draw
attention to the fact that the Egyptian word for dream
(rswt) is not only etymologically connected with a
root meaning "to be awake" but is also written with
the determinative representing an opened eye.
The setting of the dream of Samuel and of that of
the Assyrian priest (cf. above p. 189) as well as the
specific features occurring in them seems to us to indicate the background and origin of all the dreamreports which contain a theophany or its substitutes.
We would like to propose that the incubation dream,
the dream experienced in a sanctuary or a sacred
locality-whether the dream is sought or not-is to be
considered the prototype of most of the dreams discussed so far. This would explain-if such rationalistic considerations are permissible at all-the towering
size of the dream-appearance through which the
characteristic setting of the incubation seems to reach
into the dream. The sleeper in the cella, lying at the
feet of an image, conditioned by appropriate ritual
preparations which nourish his apprehensions and by
reports which channel his imagination, distorts this
image in his dream into towering size and hears his
name called in the stillness of the night.
It is not meant that all dreams which convey a
divine message can or should be interpreted as being
experienced in an incubation, but only that the pattern
of incubation-dreams was considered both theologically acceptable and admissible for literary records.
The traditional circumstances of a theophany experienced in a dream furnish the mold into which all
dream-experiences containing a message from supernatural powers were cast. In other words, the content of the dream determines the form of its report,
and the latter has above all the purpose of endowing
the experience with authenticity.
This proposed explanation sheds light also on the
fact that these dreams are almost exclusively addressed
to male dreamers. Obviously, spontaneous revelations of the deity in dreams are reserved in the ancient
Near East to persons of the male sex. This seems to
have likewise been the original situation in the Greek
world (cf. the Iliad against the Odyssey) where, however, a shift can be observed which is already evidenced in the Odyssey and which became still more
marked in the Greek dramatic literature. Within the
Near East, Hittite texts form a unique exception
which will be discussed on p. 197. It should, however, be noted in this context that the type of the
dream is important in this respect; "symbolic" dreams
tend to be more frequently experienced by women than
by men and this might be taken to indicate that they
stem from a different level of contact between the
worlds of the gods and humans than the "message"
dreams. Cf. also p. 240.
Before turning to the paragraphs dedicated to the
discussion of actually recorded dream-contents, some
space should be given to the wording of the second and
final part of the "frame" of the typical dream-report.
Here again literary conventions have created a pattern
of expression which is attested throughout all our
civilizations in only slightly varying forms.
Parenthetically, a dream-report should be pointed
out in this context which dispenses with the traditional
manner of presentation just described. On the socalled Memphis-Stela (lines 20 f.), a dream of the
Pharaoh Amenhotep II is reported as follows (translation of K. C. Seele): "His majesty was resting. The
majesty of this august god, Amon, Lord of the Thrones
of the Two Landes, came before his majesty in a dream
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in order to give valor to his son Askheprure (= Amenhotep II)." (Cf. also p. 203 for an Akkadian example.)
In Akkadian, the key-word used to describe the
ending of a dream is negeltui"to wake up with a start";
it refers to the sudden termination of the dream,
apparently considered an essential feature of the entire
experience and as such worth being mentioned and
stressed. The Egyptian counterpart is only preserved
in the late story which reports a dream of the Pharaoh
Djoser (?8, no. 19), where we find the phrase, "Then
I awoke refreshed (?), my heart determined and at
rest." This, by the way, parallels closely the following verse of the Odyssey (4: 839) occurring in the same
context: "But Icarius' daughter, waking with a start,
drew a warm sense of comfort from the vividness of
this dream."
This specific description of the awakening appears
even in the oldest dream recorded in literature, the
second dream of Gudea (cf. below p. 212), which terminates with the words i'. h a. I u h ma M U4 .dam
(TCL VIII , Cyl. A XI I: 12) "he woke up with a start,
it was (but) a dream!" The stress which all these
words place upon a phase of the dream-experience
which to us moderns seems to be devoid of any importance is double: it refers to the suddenness of the
transition between dream and waking, and, at the
same time, it attempts to describe the surprise of the
dreaming person. The sudden awakening marks the
reported dream as a unique and meaningful experience,
the impact of which should not be blurred by subsequent dreams. The reference to the bafflement of the
dreaming person-reflecting, of course, actual experiences-seems to be prompted by the desire to
underline the vividness, nay the "objectivity" of the
dream which in turn demonstrates its validity and
authenticity.
The sudden awakening thus serves the same purpose as the above mentioned attempt in Norse literature (cf. p. 188) to prove the "objectivity" of the
dream by having the dream-events encroach for a
fleeting moment upon the "frame." This is also the
case if only to a very slight degree-with the words
of the poet, "the king awoke with the divine voice
echoing about him" (Iliad 2: 41 f.), which terminate
the famous "false" dream of Agamemnon. As to the
bafflement of the dreaming person caused by the
vividness of the dream at the very moment when the
two realities clash, compare the naive phrasing of
the Pharaoh Tanutamon (?8, no. 17) "then his
Majesty awoke and found them not"; that is, the two
heraldic serpents, which, in a "symbolic" way, predicted to him his impending conquest of all Egypt,
had disappeared with the dream. There is also a
pertinent passage in the "Legend of Krt" (C. H.
Gordon, Ugaritic Literature, a ComprehensiveTranslation of the Poetic and Prose Text 71: 154, Rome, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1949) and one in the Old
Testament, in I Kings 3: 15, where we read "and
Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was (but) a dream."
The astonishment of Achilles (Iliad 23: 65) mentioned
in the report of the dream-appearance of Patroclos,
asking for burial, does not belong to the "pattern" but
is rather meant to express the shock of the hero caused
by the special circumstances of the disappearance of
the psyche of Patroclos.
We now turn to the core of the dream-report, to its
content and to the style requirements that determine
in what way this content is to be presented. The
dreams under discussion contain without exception a
divine message (command or warning) couched in
clearly understandable terms which do not necessitate
interpretation. The carrier of this message is the
central (and mostly the only) figure of the dream.
The nature or status of this central figure differentiates the dream-stories of the Near Eastern civilizations from those of the classical world. In the East,
owing perhaps to the overwhelming influence of
organized religion, this figure is by necessity divine:
the deity (originally that of the sanctuary, cf. p. 190)
or his messenger, rarely replaced by a sacred emblem
or animal. The apparition of deceased human beings
is extremely rare, the dream of Nabonidus (?8, no. 13)
being-in Mesopotamian sources-the only extant
exception. Living persons are not admitted (for a
Hittite exception, cf. p. 193). In the classical world
the situation is far more complex. Although the
setting is clearly the same, the central figure is not a
deity but rather a demonic being either created by a
god for the purpose of delivering a message or a
"dream-demon" whose function it is to serve as a
messenger between god and man. In both cases,
strangely enough, this figure assumes the likeness of a
living human being familiar to the person who is to
experience a dream. The disguise of the "dreamdemon" is quickly dropped when he has contacted the
sleeper, hence it is not meant to deceive but is rather
the expression of a specific attitude towards the meeting between divine and human beings. The very
same attitude is also in evidence when-in waking
life-the messengers of the Olympic gods and even
they themselves address humans, interfere in battles
and assemblies.
Dream-theophanies make their appearance only
rather late in the classical world, the early reports
avoiding them. In the Near East, however, the
theophany is the prototype of the "message dream."
The deity appears and addresses the sleeping person
for whom submissive consent is the only admissible
reaction. Only rarely does a dialogue (cf. Solomon's
incubation dream, I Kings 3: 5 ff.) ensue, its tenor
being always pious, in fact, some texts-such as the
dream of the priest of Ishtar (?8, no. 10) and that of
Thutmose IV (?8, no. 15)-stress that the deity addressed the sleeper like a mother or a father. Nothing
of the stirring urgency of an actual dream-experience,
its typical distortion, and its lack of sequence can be
felt in these reports. They record theophanies which
for religious or literary reasons are styled as dreams.
The essential feature of the theophany, however, its
dramatic, soul-shaking impact, the shattering inroad
of the supernatural into the reality of this world, the
terror-inspiring sight of the deity, etc., have disappeared in the transfer from consciousness to dream.
The change of reality-level acts as a cushion to soften
the contact between god and man.
As has been stated already, the scene and the
actor (s) of the "message dream" are rigidly restricted.
The "messenger" appears and is immediately recognized. There is a solitary exception: the Pharaoh
Djoser (?8, no. 19) recognizes the god, Chnum, who
appears in some sacred disguise, prays to him, and
is only then awarded the privilege of seeing the face
of the deity. Here again the theophany exercises its
influence (cf. Moses and the burning bush).
Gestures and actions performed by either of the
participants are rarely reported. There are, of course,
exceptions. In one atypical as well as in several
typical instances the barrier between the apparition
and the dreaming person is transgressed. Atypical is
the dream-report contained in a damaged NeoAssyrian letter (Harper ABL, 1021) in which a supplicant supports his claims for assistance in a letter
to the king (the address of the text is missing) by
referring to a dream-theophany. The god, Bel (dEN),
so the writer asserts, spoke to him in a dream, promising him prosperity in Assyria and (lines 19 ff.) "he
placed his hand upon my hand (saying): 'My hand
(is) upon your hand!'" Here, the wording of the
divine message is accompanied and underlined by a
corresponding gesture of the god, a gesture which
breaks through the curtain separating the world of
the gods from that of man. Typical, however, is the
dream of the Pharaoh Merenptah (?8, no. 16) where
the speech of the giant image of Ptah is accompanied
by an action: the god extends to the king a sword with
the words, "Take now (this sword) and banish from
yourself your troubled heart!" A similar incident is
told in the apocryphal second book of the Maccabees,
15: 11. Judas Maccabeus saw-in "a reliable dream,
a sort of vision"-the prophet, Jeremiah, who handed
him a golden sword to encourage him in the impending
battle: "Take this holy sword as a gift from God and
with it you shall crush the foe!" A parallel from the
Greek world is clearly offered by the dream of Bellerophon quoted above p. 190 after Pindar. Here, however, the magic means of securing success is not only
given by the goddess in a dream-it remains in the
hands of the dreaming person as material proof that
his experience was genuine. It is tempting indeed to
speculate whether the two dreams which have just
been mentioned consciously avoid violating the borderline between dream and waking world and consequently refrain from reporting that with this very
sword the decisive battle was fought and won. Has
the sweep of the Greek poets' imagination exposed the
very core of concept which in the Eastern dreamreports, bound by conventions, was avoided as too
flagrant a violation of the boundaries of the dreamworld? It is certainly relevant that the dreams in the
old Norse literature speak quite frequently of such
tokens left by dream-figures (cf. Kelchner, op. cit.,
114, 128, 131 and 138; even the opposite is attested,
ibid., 83, a material object disappearing through a
dream). For another instance of a link between the
Greek "pattern" and that of the North, excluding the
ancient Near East, cf. above p. 188.
At this point of the present section dealing with the
typology of the "message" dream we plan to treat a
group of reports representing special cases of "message"
dreams which remain, unfortunately, without any
close parallels. They are organized in the subsequent
pages as follows: a group of dream-reports bearing on
specific messages of the deity, messages which concern
the work of the artist; a dream in which the cure of a
patient is indicated; a message in a specific setting
which deviates from the pattern; and finally, a dreamstory which has to be treated separately for expediency's sake, because it does not fit into the dichotomy
("message dreams and "symbolic" dreams) that has
been made the basis of the discussion of dreams in this
part of the present book.
The twelfth year of the Old Babylonian king,
Ammiditana, third successor of Hammurabi, is named
-as is customary during this period-after an event
which took place in the preceding year and which the
date-formula describes as follows: "Year in which he
(the king) brought into the [temple 6] . n a m . t i . I a
(as a votive offering) a statue of himself in a praying
attitude which [he was ordered to do] in a dream"
(cf. simply Ungnad Datenlisten, 187b). This constitutes the first reference from Mesopotamia proper
attesting to the dedication of votive offerings requested by the deity in dream-appearances. This
pious custom is rather frequently mentioned in the
(later) classical world as we know from numerous
inscriptions which underline the fact that the dedication of a specific object, the building of a shrine, etc.,
was ordered in a dream (ex somnio, in somnio iusso).
Cf. for references J. B. Stearns, Studies of the Dream
as a technical Device in Latin Epic and Drama, vii,
Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster Press, 1927 (with literature),
and Dodds, op. cit., 108 and notes 30, 31.
Another attestation for this custom is furnished by
a large chalcedony bead in private possession on which
is inscribed the following curious line: GIR #i-Hih-ti
dEN.ZU EN.DINGIR gd ina MAS.GE6 mdAG.IMAN
DIN.TIRki i-ri-su " (From a) dagger, a request of Sin,
the king of gods, for which he asked Nabonidus, king
of Babylon, in a dream." Apparently, Nabonidus, in
his desire to revive long forgotten religious practices,
is imitating here again an Old Babylonian custom
which in itself should be taken as an indication that
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in that period the dedication of votive offerings motivated by dreams must have occurred more frequently
than the isolated reference in the date-formula
suggests.
These isolated passages from Babylonia must however be connected with a group of Hittite texts recording the dedication of votive offerings (golden statues,
jewelry, weapons, but also sacrificial animals, etc.) to
various deities of the pantheon by the king, the queen,
and high dignitaries of the court. Among these
texts, published in KUB XV 1-30, written in the
period of the kings Muwatalli and Hattushili most
likely by the officials of the temple which was to
receive these donations, we find a small group, nos. 1,
3, 5, 12, and 29, which indicate that the vows had been
made on account of and in dreams in which the gods
and goddesses appeared and requested these very gifts.
There is a definite standardization evident in the
Hittite dream-reports of this type and it is only rarely
dispensed with. Each entry starts with the phrase:
A dream of His Majesty, or, of the queen, etc. Most
of the experiences seem to have been auditory only,
either unidentified persons, or certain named individuals requiring the sleeper to make a specific vow to
a deity. In other cases, the deity is introduced as
speaking, but the pattern does not seem to admit of
any direct reference to the divine apparition. Rarely
the sleeping person is said to have made a promise to
the deity in exchange for the intervention of the latter.
In such instances it is always the queen who is concerned about the health of her husband (cf. K UB X V
1 I: 1-11 in ?8, no. 30, III: 8-16 in ?8, no. 31, and
KUB XV 3 I: 17-21 in ?8, no. 32). Other reasons,
such as neglected dead souls (K UB XV 5 IV: 36-39)
or the appeasement of a dead person (5 I: 10-17), are
sometimes given.
In spite of their stereotyped stylization, these
dream-reports contain certain interesting features.
The use of iterative verbal forms to describe the
stirring and forcible effect of the auditory experience
adds a touch of genuineness. The bad conscience of
the king who failed to fulfil his vow (KUB XV 5
III: 4-14 in ?8, no. 33) is reflected in a report which
tells about various persons addressing him in his dream
to remind him of his negligence. It constitutes,
furthermore, an important and meaningful departure
from the dream-pattern of the ancient Near East that
living persons (even the king himself, KUB XV 1
I: 15-18) appear in these dreams (for another instance, cf. below p. 198) as well as the dead (KUB X V
5 IV: 34-35). One specific dream-incident (KUB XV
I II: 5-10 = 37-41) will be discussed later (cf. p. 227)
as an isolated instance of a genuine and very human
dream-experience so rare in the texts of the ancient
Near East.
Among these reports are two dreams which refer
to the dedication of works of art representing what the
dreaming person has seen. Cf. KUB XV 5 II: 39-45
(translation of H. G. Guterbock), "As to the god Iarri
who in the dream was standing on a lion, his form
being, however, like that of the Weather-god, and as
to (the fact that somebody) said in the dream to His
Majesty: 'This is (the god Iarri of) the father of His
Majesty!'-the
(priestess) ijepa-SUM said (concerning this dream): 'This statue one should make exactly
as (seen) and give it to the Great Deity (i.e. the deity
of the sanctuary to which the priestess belonged) !'"
The passage K UB X V 5 III: 45-49 runs as follows:
"A dream of His Majesty: As to the lion of ivory
[which you have seen] in the temple of the god [NN]
make exactly alike [for me]-the
(priestess) ijepaSUM said (concerning this dream): '[One should
make] a lion of ivory and give it to the Great Deity!' "
It should be stressed that such dreams correspond
in type and purpose to those dreams through which
poets and prophets claim to have received divine
inspiration, if not dictation. Whether it be in the field
of the fine arts or in that of literature (cf. presently),
the creativeness of the Near Eastern artist can derive
its authenticity and legitimation only from the fact
that his opus reflects faithfully its prototype in heaven
which was revealed to him either in a dream or through
a specific and special divine intervention.
The latter point is illustrated by a strange passage
in the Old Testament, I Chron. 28: 11-19, which tells
how David gave to Solomon the "pattern" of the
temple with all its buildings and also the "courses of
the priests and the Levites and for all the work of the
service of the house of the Lord," besides the gold and
silver needed for the appurtenances of the sanctuary:
"All this, said David, the Lord made me understand
in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of
this pattern" (Verse 19). Note also in this context
Exodus 25: 9 which speaks of the "pattern" for the
tabernacle which was "shown" to Moses by the Lord
(note also Numbers 8: 4).
In their desire to stress the supernatural origin and
hence the validity and the value of literary products,
authors and compilers alike have often made use of
the dream as the alleged medium through which a
specific opus was communicated to them. As a
literary motif-derived, of course, ultimately from
actual though rare experiences-we find such instances only very seldom in the ancient Near East.
At the end of the Akkadian "Epic of Irra," a late
(first millennium B.C.) composition, the pious editor
has added a short epilogue in which he asserts (K.
1282: rev. 6-8, BA 2: 495) that the very god in whose
praise the poem was written "showed it to me in a
nocturnal vision" (i.e. in a dream, cf. p. 225), and
when he (the author) rose in the morning, he did not
miss or add a single line in writing the opus down.
The Egyptian example is less explicit as to the faithfulness with which the dreamed literary work was reproduced by the "author." The first sentence of the
"Wisdom"-text known as the "Instruction of King
Amen-em-het" (cf. simply J. A. Wilson in ANET,
418 f.) has been taken by B. Gunn (JEA 27: 2 ff., but
not accepted by all Egyptologists) as indicating that
the content of the entire collection of sayings had
been revealed to the king by his deceased father in a
dream. Hence, the text as such is presented as the
speech with which the latter addressed his son and
Hesiod's auditory experience, possibly a dream
(Theogony, 22 ff.), reflects the same attitude towards
literary creativeness, only tempered by the sophistication of the poet and his public. The transfer of the
creative experience from the realm of divine interference-in dream or waking vision-to that of a
specific state of consciousness follows the shift in the
attitude of the audience, which desires authoritative
and supernatural authenticity whatever the origin of
the inspiration be. The internalization of the source
of such an experience, of the trans-human fountainhead of creativeness, constitutes only a rather recent
step in this evolution but a change which we ourselves
still prefer to hide behind the linguistic trappings of a
not too distant past.
It should be noted that outside of the ancient Near
East (and of the civilizations under its influence) such
inspirational dreams are a favorite subject in myth
and folklore (cf. B. Laufer, "Inspirational Dreams in
Eastern Asia," Jour. Amer. Folklore 44: 208 ff., 1931),
mainly in connection with the creative activities of
painters, sculptors, and architects.
The rather obscure dream-story in Gen. 31: 10
seems to have been originally an example of an inspirational dream concerned with the lore of the
shepherd. As the text now stands, it hardly makes
sense. Apparently Jacob received divine instruction
by means of a dream and this enabled him to thwart
the crafty plans of Laban and to receive a maximal
share from his flock.
For an isolated instance of a dream-incident bearing
on the building of a Sumerian temple, cf. p. 224.
Another extraordinary "message" dream is contained in a late Egyptian (Demotic) story dealing with
the famous magician Khamuas and his son Si-Osiri
(cf. F. Ll. Griffith, Stories of the High Priests of
Memphis, the Sethon of Herodotus and the Demotic
Tales of Khamuas, 42 f., 143 ff., Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1900). The typological background of the
dream under consideration is rather complex. Two
types of dreams are here fused into one: there is first
the type of dream a childless husband or wife has in
which he or she, during an incubation, is promised a
son-the characteristic "annunciation" dream which
presages the birth of a hero, a founder of a dynasty,
etc. (for a typical example, cf. ?8, no. 20). Then
there is the dream-type in which a sick person seeks
and gets instruction as to how to cure himself with
some god-ordained medicine or treatment. This
again is well attested especially in the sanctuaries of
certain healing deities of the late classical world.
There, in medical incubations, the remedy is often
prescribed for the hopeful patient by the god of the
sanctuary in a dream, as can be seen in pertinent inscriptional records, for which should be noted E. J.
and L. Edelstein, Asclepius: A Collectionand Interpretation of the Testimonies 2: 145 if., Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins Press, 1945.
But in our Egyptian dream, there is involved still
another "motif": the wife of Setme Khamuas dreamt
that an apparition (the papyrus is very damaged here)
asked her about her identity and whether she was
seeking in vain to be healed (presumably of her barrenness). Then she was advised to go the next morning
to the privy of her husband where a plant grew of
which she should prepare a "medicine" -either for
herself or for her husband; here again, holes in the
papyrus rob us of an important piece of information.
The remedy thus revealed was, of course, fully
effective and-in another dream-the
father is told how to name the child, who it is predicted
will grow to be a famous magician. For the psychoanalyst, there can be little doubt that the "medicine"
must have been taken, i.e., eaten, by the wife because
the entire situation reflects plainly a so-called "infantile sexual theory" (conception through eating a
plant grown on the indicated location). The fairytale atmosphere of the Khamuas story is the very place
where such normally repressed concepts can reach the
level of literature. It should in this context be noted
that the Egyptian Tale of the Two Brothers alludes
to the very same motif (conception through swallowing
a piece of wood from a tree which grew out of a drop
of blood of the male).
In this context we may perhaps illustrate the very
rare use of dream-experiences for therapeutic purposes
in the ancient Near East by means of a curious Hittite
ritual which purports to heal impotence in a male.
After lengthy and circumstantially described ritual
preparations and actions accompanied by invocations
of the deity-a goddess as we shall see-the text
(KUB VII 5 IV: 1-10) runs as follows (translation
of H. G. Giuterbock):
Then the patient (literally: the man who has made the
sacrifice) goes to sleep (on the bed which had previously
been spreadout for him in front of the sacrificialtable and
upon his clothes which had been in contact with the offerings presentedto the deity and thus had become "sacred").
And when he will see the deity in a bodily presencein his
dream, he will go to her and sleep with her. During the
three days during which he is entreating the deity, he
will report all the dreams he has seen: whether the deity
was showing (herself) to him (only) or whether she was
(actually) sleeping with him.
The dream-contact with the goddess which heals
the patient is to be compared with the cases recorded
in Greek inscriptions which give testimonies of the
removal of barrenness from those women whowhile sleeping in the temple of Asclepius-had been
"touched" by the god; cf. E. J. and L. Edelstein,
op. cit., no. 423 (Stela I), nos. 31 (in a dream "it
seemed to her that a handsome boy uncovered her,
after that the god touched her with his hand"), 39
("it seemed to her in her sleep that a serpent lay on
her belly"), and 42 ("with that snake she had intercourse"). For the corresponding instance concerning
a man, cf. no. 14 where "a fair boy" replaces the
goddess of the Hittite ritual.
A curious document reporting a "message" dream
which is extraordinary in many respects should now
be mentioned. A letter found in Mari, an ephemeral
kingdom (destroyed by Hammurabi) on the middle
course of the Euphrates (cf. G. Dossin, RA 42: 128,
also von Soden, WO 5: 398 f.), was sent to the king of
Mari by a high court official on account of a dream
reported to him. A minor provincial functionary
dreamt that he was on his way to the capital and
visited the temple of the god, Dagan, first thing upon
arriving in Tirqa, an important city of the realm. In
his dream, he performed the customary prostrations
before the image and heard in the same moment a
voice addressing him (without introduction) with a
question. He identified the voice immediately as that
of the god, Dagan, and answered. When he was
about to leave the sanctuary-so the account of his
dream continues-the same voice gave him a message
for the king of the country. The message is quoted
verbatim,addressing the king in the second person
Here is a translation of this document:
Say to my lord as follows: thus (says) Itur-Asdu: "On
the very day I dispatched this letter of mine to my lord,
Malik-Dagan, a native of Sakka, came to me and reported
to me as follows: 'In a dream I had, I was travelling, I
(myself) and an attendant of mine, from the district of
Sagaratum,in the Upper District, going towards Mari . . .
immediately when I came into Terqa I entered the temple
of Dagan and prostrated myself before (the image of)
Dagan. While I was in prostration,Dagan began to speak
and said to me as follows: "Have the sheiks of the Benjamina-tribes and their army come (already) to a peace
agreement with the army of Zimri-Lim which came here?"
I (answered): "They have not come (yet) to a peace
agreement." When I was about to leave (the sanctuary)
he said as follows: "Why do the messengers of Zimri-Lim
not present themselves regularly to me and why do they
not deposit his 'full report(s)' before me? Were that so, I
would have long ago delivered the sheiks of the Benjamina-tribes into the hands of Zimri-Lim. Now go, I
am sending you herewith with a message; say to ZimriLim as follows: Send your messengers to me and deposit
(again) your 'full report(s)' before me then I shall . . .
them in a fisherman's basket and place them before you!" '
This is what this man has seen in his dream and what he
told me. Now I am (only) reporting to my lord (but)
may my lord heed this dream! Furthermore, if this be
the intention of my lord-may my lord deposit his full
report before Dagan and may the messengers of my lord
(come) regularly to Dagan. The man who told me this
dream has to give an animal sacrifice to Dagan and (for
this reason) I did not send him (together with this letter).
And because this man is (so) trustworthy I have not taken
a curl of his hair nor (a piece) from the fringe of his mantle
(as surety)."
Leaving aside for the moment the subject matter
discussed in this dream interview, the mere fact that
the pious dreamer seems to stress that he had only
an auditory experience is worth noticing. He heard
the divine voice when he was in prostration or when he
turned around to leave the cella. In other words, the
deity did not appear to him nor did he observe a
miraculously talking image. Such "discretion" reveals a curious limitation imposed upon the contact
between man and the deity, valid even when the encounter occurs on the dream level.
The dialogue between the god and his worshipper is
in a startlingly matter-of-fact vein. The god Dagan
-very naively-asks whether the king of Mari is at
peace with his enemies; the answer of the worshipper
is short and negative. Without showing any reaction
to this exchange of words, the reporter of the dream
turns then to leave and only at this moment does the
god give him a message for the king. This solemn
message is, however, preceded by a somewhat querulent and very "human" remark in which the god
stresses that he would have helped the king long
before if only the latter had sent what the god terms
specifically (emum gamrum, a "complete/full report"
to the temple. The context suggests by such a "full
report" the first example of a cult-custom well attested in later Assyria, to wit, a report in form of a
letter addressed by the king to his god immediately
after a victorious campaign. What the Assyrians
termed a "first report" (lisadnuresetu, cf. Landsberger,
MAOG 4: 318; Th. Bauer ZA 40: 250, n. 1) was
apparently called "full report" ((emum gamrum) in
Mari. The receiving of such royal reports on battles
was obviously considered the special privilege of a
sanctuary and had as such most likely political implications. It seems that we have here an attempt of
the priesthood of the sanctuary of Dagan in Terqa to
gain or to regain prestige by having the god receive
such messages from the king of Mari.
This dream-report disregards the "pattern" in
nearly every respect. The conventional references to
the circumstances in which the dream was experienced
are omitted; the dream-story is full of apparently
irrelevant details. It is not the god who comes to the
sleeper nor is any incubation involved. It seems to
us that the entire incident is based on an actual
visionary experience which the person who was so
privileged saw fit to report to the officials as a dream.
The reason for such afraus pia can perhaps be guessed:
it is possible that there existed in the religious outlook
of the people of Mari a fundamental difference between those who were oriented towards Mesopotamian
civilization, from which they received not only the
language but also the religious pattern, and those
who preferred to remain in the orbit of their own
native civilization. If the latter accepted (in contra-
distinction to Babylon) visionary experiences as a characterized as clairvoyance on the dream level,
"oracular" dream
valid means of communication with the divine, the or-in classical terminology-an
reporter of our story might have preferred to cast (cf. Macrobius, A.A.T., Commentary on the Dream of
his experience in the form of a dream which he, prob- Scipio 3: 2, 9, translated by W. H. Stahl, New York,
ably correctly, assumed to carry more weight with Columbia University Press, 1952).
Another instance of a dream of this same type is
the ruling classes, oriented as they were towards
Babylon.
recorded in the story of Petesis, the hieroglyph-carver
We may take as an indication that the content of to Nektanabo, king of Egypt (?8, no. 23), preserved
this dream was considered definitely atypical the fact on a Greek papyrus of the fourth century B.C. found
that the writer of the letter which contains the dream- in the famous Serapeum.
In a dream requested by the king on account of
report felt obliged to assure the king, his addressee,
that the person who experienced the dream was certain untoward happenings most probably mentioned in the missing first column of the papyrus, he is
trustworthy.
We intend to terminate this section, which contains made witness to a carefully described meeting bea group of special "message" dreams, with another tween the goddess Isis and the god Onuris. The
latter, characterized as a giant, approaches the godatypical dream as we have indicated on p. 192.
This is a dream from the Epic of Gilgamesh ex- dess, who is installed upon a throne erected on a
perienced by Enkidu, which happens to be preserved papyrus boat, complaining about the neglect of his
only on a fragment of the Hittite version of the poem sanctuary by Nektanebo and, specifically, about the
(cf. J. Friedrich, ZA 39: 19ff.; ?8, no. 6). This is unfinished work on the re-cutting of the obliterated
neither a "message" dream nor a dream which alludes hieroglyphs on the stone walls of the god's sanctuary
to impending events in a "symbolic" way, in fact, it in Sebennytos. The dream ends here, rather abruptly,
contains no direct reference to such happenings. In with the revealing remark that the goddess did not
this dream, Enkidu sees and hears the great gods de- answer. The entire dream-incident is clearly meant
liberate in their heavenly assembly and decide that to convey the complaint of the offended god to the
he is to die. Although this decision is, of course, to king not by means of a direct revelation or a "message"
materialize in the near future, the dream itself contains dream (cf. here the demotic dream-story published by
neither a message destined for Enkidu, nor a warning W. Spiegelberg, ZAeS 50: 32 ff., and 51: 137 f.) but,
for the latter; he is merely given the opportunity, for some unknown reason, by allowing him to witness
through divine volition, probably that of Shamash, to a scene in which that very complaint is made to the
be present in some miraculous way when his death is queen of the gods, Isis. Nektanebo, exactly as
decided by the gods. Enkidu is not granted this as a Enkidu in the dream-story just discussed, is shown in
forewarning but in order to indicate to him-and to his dream what is happening beyond his human ken.
For a strange and unique combination of a "symthe "reader"-the reasons which have determined
certain gods to ask for his punishment. Seen as a bolic" dream with features of the "clairvoyance" type,
literary device, this dream incident represents an in- cf. also the dream of the Sumerian god Tammuz
genious short cut of the poet in linking together the (?8, no. 2) discussed on p. 212.
At this point, near the end of the present section
various strands of his story.
The mechanics of Enkidu's witnessing, in a dream, dealing with atypical dream-incidents, some words
the discussion between the gods Enlil and Shamash must be said concerning a dream mentioned in a
concerning his punishment are difficult to ascertain. private letter of the Cassite period (middle of the
The writer of this rather
It is unlikely that his soul or a part thereof had been second millennium B.C.).
brought by some agent into the mansions of the gods, damaged document (Lutz, PBS 1/2 60) seems to have
because Enkidu would have reported this journey to had a dream concerning a golden piece of jewelry
Gilgamesh when he told him his dream. It seems which had been stolen from the goddess Ishtar.
rather that the dream made him merely see what was Although the context is broken and the preserved
happening at that very moment in the assembly of passages far from being clear, the incident, as such,
the gods. Through divine intervention "his eyes has to be taken as presenting the unique example of a
were opened" as the Old Testament expresses the dream which is concerned with the past rather than
peculiar phenomenon by means of which things hidden with the future.
For this we know of no parallel from the ancient
to the waking senses are, through divine intervention,
suddenly revealed (cf. Gen. 21: 9, Numb. 22: 31, II civilizations of the Near East; even the classical world
Kings 7: 17, 20 and also Luke 24: 31). This dream fails us (for an exception, cf. presently), although the
of Enkidu can, in terms of typology, only be compared Iliad (1: 70) and Hesiod (Theogony 38) stress that
with that of Jacob in Bethel when he beheld the en- the knowledge of the hidden past falls into the domain
trance to heaven, the ladder with the angels, etc. of the soothsayer (cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses I: 517-8
Jacob's dream, however, is fused with a message per me quod erit fuitque estque patet). We may, howdream. while that of Enkidu can DerhaDs be best ever, refer here to an analogous incident recorded in
the Old Testament (I Sam. 9: 6-8, 20; 10: 2) in which
lost objects are found through the help of a "seer,"
a "man of God." Thus, Samuel expected to locate
the lost asses of his father by asking the assistence of
just such a person, who was supposed to receive a
small fee for this service.
Cicero's De divinatione (I: 25) mentions, however,
a dream-incident which offers a revealing parallel to
our Akkadian letter of the Cassite period. He speaks
of a dream of the poet Sophocles in which a god
revealed the identity of a thief who had stolen a golden
bowl from his temple. This reminds one, of course,
of the fact that among the so-called primitive people
dreams are sometimes provoked (or expected) to
establish either the identity of a thief or the whereabouts of the stolen property. Thus, our letter
furnishes us a unique example of a very primitive
type of dream.
In this text we have the only dream-report in the
literatures of the ancient Near East in which a deity
appears in a "message" dream to a woman. Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Old Testament reserve this
favor exclusively to the male sex (cf. above p. 190, but
note also p. 193). Even in the New Testament only
a passing reference to the bad dreams of the wife
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probability distribution of chaotic attractors.
Chaos occurs in a variety of scientific disciplines, and proves to be the
rule, not the exception. The book is primarily intended for undergraduate
students in science, engineering and mathematics.
is Professor of Physics at Eötvös University, Budapest,
Hungary. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Nonlinearity and Fractals and the advisory board of Chaos. His main fields
of interest are non-linear dynamics, statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics
and environmental flows.
T A M Á S T É L
teaches and studies physics at Eötvös University,
Budapest, Hungary. His main area of research is in non-linear dynamics
and he is involved in teaching chaotic phenomena.
M Á R T O N G R U I Z
Tamás Tél and
Márton Gruiz
Eötvös University, Budapest
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The phenomenon: complex motion,
unusual geometry
page ix
1 Chaotic motion
1.1 What is chaos?
1.2 Examples of chaotic motion
1.3 Phase space
1.4 Definition of chaos; a summary
1.5 How should chaotic motion be examined?
Box 1.1 Brief history of chaos
2 Fractal objects
2.1 What is a fractal?
2.2 Types of fractals
2.3 Fractal distributions
2.4 Fractals and chaos
Box 2.1 Brief history of fractals
Introductory concepts
3 Regular motion
3.1 Instability and stability
Box 3.1 Instability, randomness and chaos
3.2 Stability analysis
3.3 Emergence of instability
Box 3.2 How to determine manifolds numerically
3.4 Stationary periodic motion: the limit cycle (skiing
on a slope)
3.5 General phase space
4 Driven motion
4.1 General properties
4.2 Harmonically driven motion around a stable state
4.3 Harmonically driven motion around an unstable state
4.4 Kicked harmonic oscillator
4.5 Fixed points and their stability in two-dimensional maps
4.6 The area contraction rate
4.7 General properties of maps related to differential
Box 4.1 The world of non-invertible maps
4.8 In what systems can we expect chaotic behaviour?
Investigation of chaotic motion
5 Chaos in dissipative systems
5.1 Baker map
5.2 Kicked oscillators
Box 5.1 Hénon-type maps
5.3 Parameter dependence: the period-doubling cascade
5.4 General properties of chaotic motion
Box 5.2 The trap of the ‘butterfly effect’
Box 5.3 Determinism and chaos
5.5 Summary of the properties of dissipative chaos
Box 5.4 What use is numerical simulation?
Box 5.5 Ball bouncing on a vibrating plate
5.6 Continuous-time systems
5.7 The water-wheel
Box 5.6 The Lorenz model
6 Transient chaos in dissipative systems
6.1 The open baker map
Box 6.1 How do we determine the saddle
and its manifolds?
6.3 General properties of chaotic transients
6.4 Summary of the properties of transient chaos
Box 6.2 Significance of the unstable manifold
Box 6.3 The horseshoe map
6.5 Parameter dependence: crisis
6.6 Transient chaos in water-wheel dynamics
6.7 Other types of crises, periodic windows
6.8 Fractal basin boundaries
Box 6.4 Other aspects of chaotic transients
7 Chaos in conservative systems
7.1 Phase space of conservative systems
7.2 The area preserving baker map
Box 7.1 The origin of the baker map
7.3 Kicked rotator – the standard map
Box 7.2 Connection between maps and
Box 7.3 Chaotic diffusion
7.4 Autonomous conservative systems
7.5 General properties of conservative chaos
7.6 Summary of the properties of conservative chaos
7.7 Homogeneously chaotic systems
Box 7.4 Ergodicity and mixing
Box 7.5 Conservative chaos and irreversibility
8 Chaotic scattering
8.1 The scattering function
8.2 Scattering on discs
8.3 Scattering in other systems
Box 8.1 Chemical reactions as chaotic scattering
8.4 Summary of the properties of
chaotic scattering
9 Applications of chaos
9.1 Spacecraft and planets: the three-body problem
Box 9.1 Chaos in the Solar System
9.2 Rotating rigid bodies: the spinning top
Box 9.2 Chaos in engineering practice
9.3 Climate variability and climatic change: Lorenz’s
model of global atmospheric circulation
Box 9.3 Chaos in different sciences
Box 9.4 Controlling chaos
9.4 Vortices, advection and pollution: chaos in fluid flows
Box 9.5 Environmental significance of
chaotic advection
10 Epilogue: outlook
Box 10.1 Turbulence and spatio-temporal chaos
A.1 Deriving stroboscopic maps
A.2 Writing equations in dimensionless forms
A.3 Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations
A.4 Sample programs
A.5 Numerical determination of chaos parameters
Solutions to the problems
Colour plates
I. Chaotic attractor of an irregularly oscillating body (a driven
non-linear oscillator; Sections 1.2.1 and 5.6.2 and equation (5.85)) on
a stroboscopic map (Fig. 1.4), coloured according to the visiting
probabilities. The colour change from red to yellow denotes less than
8% of the maximum of the distribution. Between 8 and 30% is
depicted by a colour change from yellow to white. Above 30% is
represented by pure white. The picture contains 1000 × 1000 points.
II. Chaotic attractor of a driven pendulum (Sections 1.2.1 and 5.6.3 and
equation (5.89)) on a stroboscopic map (Fig. 1.8), coloured according
to the visiting probabilities. Dark green represents up to 4% of the
maximum; medium green to yellow represents between 4 and 50%;
bright yellow represents 50% and above. The picture contains
1000 × 1000 points.
III. Basins of attraction of the three equilibrium states (point attractors
marked by white dots) of a magnetic pendulum (Sections 1.2.2 and
6.8.3, Eqs. (6.36) and (6.37)) in the plane of the initial positions
parallel to that of the magnets, with zero initial velocities. The friction
coefficient is 1.5 times greater than in Fig. 1.10; all the other data are
unchanged. The fractal part of the basin boundaries appears to be only
slightly extended. The distance between neighbouring initial positions
is 1/240 (the resolution is 1280 × 960 points).
IV. Basins of attraction of a magnetic pendulum swinging twice as fast as
the one in Fig. 1.10 (all the other data are unchanged). The fractal
character of the basin boundaries is pronounced.
V. Basins of attraction of the magnetic pendulum in Plate IV, but the
fixation point of the pendulum is now slightly off the centre of mass of
the magnets (it is shifted by 0.2 units diagonally). The strict symmetry
of Plate IV has disappeared, but the character has not changed.
VI. Basins of attraction of a magnetic pendulum for the same friction
coefficient as in Plate III, but for a pendulum swinging four times as
fast and placed closer to the plane of the magnets.
VII. Basins of attraction of two stationary periodic motions (limit cycle
attractors marked by white dots) of a driven pendulum (Sections 1.2.2
and 5.6.3 and equation (5.89)) on a stroboscopic map (like the one in
XIV.
Fig. 1.13). The lighter blue and red hues belong to initial conditions
from which a small neighbourhood of the attractors is reached in more
than eight periods. The resolution is 1280 × 960 points.
Overview of the frictionless dynamics of a body swinging on a pulley
(Sections 1.2.3 and 7.4.3 and equation (7.36)) on a Poincaré map. The
mass of the swinging body is smaller than that in Fig. 1.17. The dotted
region is a chaotic band, whereas closed curves represent regular,
non-chaotic motions. Rings of identical colour become mapped onto
each other. Their centres form higher-order cycles (yellow, green and
blue correspond, for example, to two-, five- and six-cycles,
respectively). The chaotic band pertains to a single, the rings to 24
different, initial condition(s).
Mirroring Christmas-tree ornaments (Section 1.2.4). The four spheres
touch, and their centres are at the corners of a tetrahedron. The one on
the right is red, that on the left is yellow, and the ones behind and on
top are silver. The picture shows the reflection pattern of the flash.
(Photographed by G. Maros.)
Christmas-tree ornaments mirrored in each other (Section 1.2.4). All
four spheres are now silver, but the surfaces tangent to the spheres are
coloured white, yellow and red, and the fourth one (towards the
camera) appears to be black. The insets show the reflection images at
the centres of the tetrahedron from slightly different views.
(Photographed by P. Hámori.)
Droplet dynamics in a container with two outlets (Sections 1.2.5 and
9.4.1 and equations (9.24)). The top left picture exhibits the initial
configuration of the square-shaped droplet and the state after one time
unit (outlets are marked by white dots). The top right, bottom left and
bottom right panels display the situation after two, three and four time
units, respectively. The part of the droplet that has not yet left the
system becomes increasingly ramified, and the colours become well
mixed. The picture contains 640 × 480 points.
Natural distribution of the roof attractor (the same as that of
Fig. 5.44(b) from a different view). The grid used to represent the
distribution is of size ε = 1/500. The colour of each column of height
up to 2% of the maximum is red, it changes towards yellow up to 50%,
and is bright yellow beyond 50%.
Natural distribution on the chaotic attractor of the driven non-linear
oscillator presented in Plate I. Blue changing towards red is used up to
10% of the maximum, then red changing towards yellow up to 60%,
and bright yellow beyond.
Natural distribution on the chaotic attractor of the driven pendulum
presented in Plate II. Dark green is used up to 2% of the maximum,
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XXI.
XXII.
then medium green up to 5%, green changhing towards yellow up to
30%, and bright yellow beyond.
Natural distribution on the chaotic attractor of an oscillator kicked
with an exponential amplitude (ε = 1/800). Same as Fig. P.23(a)
from a different view (the distribution is mirroring on the plane of the
map).
with a sinusoidal amplitude. Same as Fig. P.23(b) but seen from below
(ε = 1/200). Blue changing towards green is used up to 2% of the
maximum visible value, then green changing towards yellow up to
Natural distribution on the roof saddle (the one presented in
Fig. 6.13(c), from a different view). Colouring is the same as in
Plate XII.
The distribution of Plate XVII from the top view and with different
colouring.
Natural distribution on the parabola saddle (the one presented in
Fig. 6.13(d) but from a different view). Blue is used up to 4% of the
maximum visible value, then blue changing to red up to 21%, red
changing towards yellow up to 70%, and bright yellow beyond.
Natural distribution of a conservative system. The distributions in
three chaotic bands (from 106 iterations), coloured in different shades
of green, of the kicked rotator (i.e. of the standard map with the
parameter of Fig. 7.7(c)) are shown. The distribution is uniform
within each band. The numerical convergence towards the smooth
distribution is much slower near the edges, which are formed by KAM
tori, than in the interior. The yellow barriers represent a few
quasi-periodic tori.
Escape regions and boundaries in the three-disc problem; Section
8.2.3. Scattering orbits with the first bounce on the left disc are
considered. The initial conditions on the (θn , sin ϕn )-plane are
coloured according to the deflection angle, θ , of the outgoing orbit:
red for 0 < θ < 2π/3; yellow for −2π/3 < θ < 0; and blue for
|θ | > 2π/3. The escape boundaries contain a fractal component,
which is part of the chaotic saddle’s stable manifold shown in Fig.
8.12(a). Note that all three colours accumulate along the fractal
filaments of the escape boundaries! (A property that also holds for the
basin boundaries shown in Plates IV–VI.) The left (right) inset is a
magnification of the rectangle marked in the middle (in the left inset),
and illustrates self-similarity.
Natural distribution on the attractor of Lorenz’s global circulation
model (permanent winter, see Section 9.3, Fig. 9.19, from a different
view). Colouring is similar to that in Plate XII, but in blue tones.
XXIII. Sea ice advected by the ocean around Kamchatka from the NASA
archive (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=
STS045&roll=79&frame=N).
XXIV. Plankton distribution around the Shetland Islands, May 12, 2000,
from the NASA archive
(http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/scifocus/oceanColor/
vonKarman vortices.shtml).
XXV. Ozone distribution (in parts per million, ppm) above the South Pole
region at about 18 km altitude on September 24, 2002. The chemical
reactions leading to ozone depletion are simulated over 23 days in the
flow given by meteorological wind analyses during a rare event when
the so-called ‘polar vortex’ splits into two parts.1
XXVI. The same as Plate XXIII but for the distribution of HCl (in parts per
billion, ppb). Note that both distributions are filamental but that the
concentrations of the two substances are different.1
XXVII (Front cover illustration) Natural distribution on the chaotic
attractor of the non-linear oscillator of Plate XIII with a blueish-white
XXVIII (Back cover illustration) Natural distribution on the chaotic
attractor of an oscillator kicked with a parabola amplitude (on the
parabola attractor). Colouring is the same as in Plate XIX.
Groop, J.-U., Konopka, P. and Müller, R. ‘Ozone chemistry during the 2002 Antarctic
vortex split’, J. Atmos. Sci. 62, 860 (2005).
We have just seen that the complexities of things can so easily
and dramatically escape the simplicity of the equations which
describe them. Unaware of the scope of simple equations, man
has often concluded that nothing short of God, not mere equations, is required to explain the complexities of the world.
. . . The next great era of awakening of human intellect may
well produce a method of understanding the qualitative content
of equations.
Richard Feynman in 1963, the year of publication of the
Lorenz model 1
The world around us is full of phenomena that seem irregular and random
in both space and time. Exploring the origin of these phenomena is
usually a hopeless task due to the large number of elements involved;
therefore one settles for the consideration of the process as noise. A
significant scientific discovery made over the past few decades has been
that phenomena complicated in time can occur in simple systems, and
are in fact quite common. In such chaotic cases the origin of the randomlike behaviour is shown to be the strong and non-linear interaction of the
few components. This is particularly surprising since these are systems
whose future can be deduced from the knowledge of physical laws and the
current state, in principle, with arbitrary accuracy. Our contemplation of
nature should be reconsidered in view of the fact that such deterministic
systems can exhibit random-like behaviour.
Chaos is the complicated temporal behaviour of simple systems.
According to this definition, and contrary to everyday usage, chaos is not
spatial and not a static disorder. Chaos is a type of motion, or more generally a type of temporal evolution, dynamics. Besides numerous everyday
processes (the motion of a pinball or of a snooker ball, the auto-excitation
of electric circuits, the mixing of dyes), chaos occurs in technical,
chemical and biological phenomena, in the dynamics of illnesses, in
R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics,
Vol. II. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1963, Chap. 40, pp. 11, 12.
elementary economical processes, and on much larger scales, for example in the alternation of the Earth’s magnetic axis or in the motion of the
components of the Solar System.
There is an active scientific and social interest in this phenomenon
and its unusual properties. The motion of chaotic systems is complex but
understandable: it provides surprises and presents those who investigate
it with the delight of discovery.
Although numerous books are available on this topic, most of them
follow an interdisciplinary presentation. The aim of our book is to provide
an introduction to the realm of chaos related phenomena within the scope
of a single discipline: classical mechanics. This field has been chosen
because the inevitable need for a probabilistic view is most surprising
within the framework of Newtonian mechanics, whose determinism and
basic laws are well known.
The material in the book has been compiled so as to be accessible to
readers with only an elementary knowledge of physics and mathematics.
It has been our priority to choose the simplest examples within each
topic; some could even be presented at secondary school level. These
examples clearly show that almost all the mechanical processes treated in
basic physics become chaotic when slightly generalised, i.e. when freed
of some of the original constraints: chaos is not an exceptional, rather it
is a typical behaviour.
The book is primarily intended for undergraduate students of science,
engineering, and computational mathematics, and we hope that it might
also contribute to clarifying some misconceptions arising from everyday
usage of the term ‘chaos’.
The book is based on the material that one of us (T. T.) has been teaching for fifteen years to students of physics and meteorology at Eötvös
University, Budapest, and that we have been lecturing together in the last
few years.
First of all, we wish to thank Péter Szépfalusy, who established chaos
research in Hungary, without whose determining activity and personal
influence this book could not have been brought into existence.
One of us (T. T.) is indebted to Ch. Beck, Gy. Bene, W. Breymann,
A. Csordás, G. Domokos, R. Dorfman, G. Eilenberger, M. Feigenbaum,
H. Fujisaka, P. Gaspard, R. Graham, P. Grassberger, C. Grebogi,
G. Györgyi, B.-L. Hao, E. Hernandez-Garcia, I.M. Jánosi, C. Jung,
H. Kantz, Z. Kaufmann, G. Károlyi, Z. Kovács, Y.-L. Lai, L. Mátyás,
A. de Moura, Z. Neufeld, E. Ott, Á. Péntek, O. Piro, I. Procaccia,
A. Provenzale, P. Richter, O. Rössler, I. Scheuring, G. Schmidt, J. C.
Sommerer, K.G. Szabó, D. Szász, Z. Toroczkai, G. Vattay, J. Vollmer,
J. Yorke, and G. Zaslavsky, who all provided joint work or were included
in useful discussions, which greatly determined his view on the subject.
The book owes much to the reviewers of the Hungarian edition,
P. Gnädig and F. Kun, who greatly contributed to making it more understandable by their innumerable constructive suggestions.
We are grateful to our colleagues, B. Érdi, G. Götz, Gy. Muraközy, J.
Pap and G. Stépán, and students, I. Benczik, G. Csernák, P. Hantz, J. Kiss,
S. Kiss, B. Muraközy, G. Orosz, J. Schneider, A. Sótér and A. Suli, for
carefully reading and commenting on parts of the book. M. Hóbor, Gy.
Károlyi and K. G. Szabó also helped us with their advice on programming
and text editing.
Special thanks are due to K. Kulacsy for the translation, to Sz.
Hadobás for the aesthetic presentation of the three-dimensional pictures,
to G. Károlyi, G. Maros and P. Hámori for the photographs, and to Knorr
Bremse (L. Palkovics) and to the Journal of Atmospheric Science, as well
as the authors, J.-U. Groß, P. Konopka and R. Müller, for their permission
to use their figures. The authors would like to thank NASA for the use
of Fig. 9.32 and Plates XXIII and XXIV. This work has been supported
by Grant OTKA TSO44839.
We would like to express our thanks to the editorial staff of
Cambridge University Press; in particular our editors, Simon Capelin
and Vince Higgs, and the copy-editor, Irene Pizzie.
The first part of the book presents the basic phenomena of chaotic dynamics and fractals at an elementary level. Chapter 1 provides, at the same
time, a preview of the five main topics to be treated in Part III.
Part II is devoted to the analysis of simple motion. The geometric
representation of dynamics in phase space, as well as basic concepts
related to instability (hyperbolic points and stable and unstable manifolds), are introduced here. Two-dimensional maps are deduced from
the equations of motion for driven systems. Elementary knowledge of
ordinary differential equations, of linear algebra, of the Newtonian equation of a single point mass and of related concepts (energy, friction and
potential) is assumed.
Part III provides a detailed investigation of chaos. The dynamics
occurring on chaotic attractors characteristic of frictional, dissipative
systems is presented first (Chapter 5). No preliminary knowledge is
required upon accepting that two-dimensional maps can also act as the
law of motion. Next, the finite time appearance of chaos, so-called transient chaotic behaviour, is investigated (Chapter 6). Subsequently, chaos
in frictionless, conservative systems is considered in Chapter 7, along
with its transient variant in the form of chaotic scattering in Chapter 8.
Chapter 9 covers different applications of chaos, ranging from engineering to environmental aspects.
Problems constructed from the material of each chapter (many also
require computer-based experimentation) motivate the reader to carry
out individual work. Some of the solutions are given at the end of the
book; the remainder appear (in a password-protected format) on the
following website: www.cambridge.org/9780521839129.
Topics only loosely related to the main train of ideas, but of historical or conceptual interest, are presented in Boxes. Some important
technical matter (for example numerical algorithms, writing equations
in dimensionless forms) are relegated to an Appendix. A bibliography is
given at the end of the book, and it is broken down according to topics,
chapters and Boxes.
In order to emphasize the general aspects of chaos, the most important relations are also given in a formulation independent of mechanics
(see Sections 3.5, 4.7, 5.4, 6.3, 7.5 and 8.4). The description of motion
occurs primarily in terms of ordinary differential equations, and we
concentrate on chaos from such a mathematical background. Irregular dynamics generated by other mathematical structures, which do not
represent real phenomena, are thus beyond the scope of the book. The
case of one-dimensional maps is mentioned therefore as a special limit
only. This approach might provide a useful introduction to chaos for
all disciplines whose dynamical phenomena are described by ordinary
differential equations.
The book is richly illustrated with computer-generated pictures
(24 of which are in colour), not only to provide a better understanding, but also to exemplify the novel and aesthetically appealing world of
the geometry of dynamics.
Chaotic motion
Certain long-lasting, sustained motion repeats itself exactly, periodically.
Examples from everyday life are the swinging of a pendulum clock or
the Earth orbiting the Sun. According to the view suggested by conventional education, sustained motion is always regular, i.e. periodic (or at
most superposition of periodic motion with different periods). Important
characteristics of a periodic motion are: (1) it repeats itself; (2) its later
state is accurately predictable (this is precisely why a pendulum clock
is suitable for measuring time); (3) it always returns to a specific position with exactly the same velocity, i.e. a single point characterises the
dynamics when the return velocity is plotted against the position.
Regular motion, however, forms only a small part of all possible
sustained motion. It has become widely recognised that long-lasting
motion, even of simple systems, is often irregular and does not repeat
itself. The motion of a body fastened to the end of a rubber thread is a
good example: for large amplitudes it is much more complex than the
simple superposition of swinging and oscillation. No regularity of any
sort can be recognised in the dynamics.
The irregular motion of simple systems, i.e. systems containing only
a few components, is called chaotic. As will be seen later, the existence of such motion is due to the fact that even simple equations can
have very complicated solutions. Contrary to the previously generally
accepted view, the simplicity of the equations of motion does not determine whether or not the motion will be regular.
Understanding chaotic motion requires a non-traditional approach
and specific tools. Traditional methods are unsuitable for the description
The phenomenon: complex motion, unusual geometry
Table 1.1. Comparison of regular and chaotic motion.
Regular motion
self-repeating
of simple geometry
of complicated geometry
of such motion, and the discovery of the ubiquity of chaotic dynamics
has become possible through computer-based experimentation. Detailed
observations have led to the result that chaotic motion is characterised
by the opposite of the three properties mentioned above: (1) it does
not repeat itself, (2) it is unpredictable because of its sensitivity to the
initial conditions that are never exactly known, (3) the return rule is
complicated: a complex but regular structure appears in the position
vs. velocity representation. The differences between the two types of
dynamics are summarised in Table 1.1.
The properties of chaotic systems are unusual, either taken individually or together; the most efficient way to understand them is by
considering particular cases. In the following, we present the chaotic
motion of very simple systems on the basis of numerical simulations,
which are unavoidable when studying chaos. It should be emphasised
that all of our examples are discussed for a unique set of parameters, and
that slightly different choices of the parameters could result in substantially different behaviour. These examples also serve to classify different
types of chaos and help in developing the new concepts necessary for a
detailed understanding of chaotic dynamics.
1.2.1 Irregular oscillations, driven pendulum – the
chaotic attractor
Fig. 1.1. Model of driven
oscillations: a body of finite
mass is fixed to one end of a
weightless spring and the
other end of the spring is
moved sinusoidally with time.
Objects mounted on spring suspensions (for example car wheels and
spin-dryers) oscillate. Because of the losses that are always present due
to friction or air drag, these oscillations, when left alone, are damped
and ultimately vanish. Sustained motion can only develop if energy is
supplied from an external source. The supplied energy can be a more or
less periodic shaking, i.e. the application of a driving force (caused by
interactions with pot-holes in the case of the car wheel and by the uneven
distribution of clothes in the spin-dryer), as indicated schematically in
Fig. 1.1.
As long as the displacement is small, the spring obeys a linear force
law to a good approximation: the magnitude of the restoring force is
Fig. 1.2. Irregular sustained oscillations of a point mass fixed to the end of a
stiffening spring (a driven non-linear oscillator), driven sinusoidally in the
presence of friction.
proportional to the elongation. In this case the sustained motion is regular: it adopts the period of the driving force. If the natural period of
the spring is close to that of the driving force, then the amplitude may
become very large and the well known phenomenon of resonance develops. For large amplitudes, however, the force of the spring is usually no
longer proportional to the elongation; i.e., the force law is non-linear.
Resonance is therefore a characteristic example for the appearance of
non-linearity.
For non-linear force laws, the restoring force increases more rapidly
or more slowly than it would in linear proportion to the elongation: we can
speak of stiffening or softening springs, respectively. Whichever type of
non-linearity is involved, the sustained state of the driven oscillation may
be chaotic. A qualitative explanation is that the spring is not able to adopt
exactly the sinusoidal, harmonic motion of the forcing apparatus, since
its own periodic behaviour is no longer harmonic. Thus, the sustained
dynamics follows the driving force in an averaged sense only, but always
differs from it in detail (instead of the uniform hum of the car or the
spin-dryer, an irregular sound can be heard in such situations). Neither
the amplitude nor the frequency is uniform: the sustained motion does
not repeat itself regularly; it is chaotic.
Figure 1.2 shows the motion of a body fixed to the end of a stiffening
spring and driven sinusoidally.1 It can clearly be seen that there is no
repetition in the displacement vs. time curve; i.e., the motion is irregular.
Slightly different initial conditions result in significant differences
in the displacement after only a short time (Fig. 1.3): the dynamics is
unpredictable. This figure also shows that the long-term behaviour is
of a similar nature in both cases: the two motions are equivalent in a
statistical sense.
The precise equations of motion of the examples in this section can be found in
Sections 5.6.2 and 5.6.3.
Fig. 1.3. Two sets of motion
which started from nearly
identical positions. The small
initial difference increases
rapidly: the motion is sensitive
to the initial conditions and
therefore it is unpredictable.
Fig. 1.4. Pattern resulting
from a sustained non-linear
oscillation in the velocity vs.
position representation, using
samples taken at time intervals
corresponding to the period
of the driving force. The
position and velocity
co-ordinates of the nth sample
are xn and vn , respectively.
An interesting structure reveals itself when we do not follow the motion continuously, but only ‘take samples’ of it at equal time intervals.
Figure 1.4 and Plate I have been generated by plotting the position and
velocity co-ordinates (xn , vn ) of the sustained motion at integer multiples, n, of the period of the driving force, through several thousands of
periods.
It is surprising that there are numerous values of xn to which many
(according to detailed examinations, an infinite number of) different
velocity values belong. Furthermore, the possible velocity values corresponding to a single position co-ordinate xn do not form a continuous
interval anywhere. The whole picture has a thready, filamentary pattern,
indicating that chaos is associated with a definite structure. This pattern
is much more complicated than those of traditional plane-geometrical
objects: it is a structure called a fractal (a detailed definition of fractals
will be given in Chapter 2). Remember that a single point would correspond to a periodic motion in this representation. Chaotic motion is
therefore infinitely more complicated than periodic motion.
Fig. 1.6. Motion of a driven pendulum. (a) The pendulum a few moments after
starting from a hanging state (over the first half period). (b) The path of the
end-point of the pendulum for a longer time: the pendulum swings irregularly
and often turns over. The horizontal bar indicates the interval over which the
suspension point moves.
Another example is the behaviour of a driven pendulum (Fig. 1.5).
The large-amplitude swinging of a traditional simple pendulum is nonlinear, since the restoring force is not proportional to the deflection angle
but to the sine of this angle. Without any driving force, the swinging
ceases because of friction or air drag: sustained motion is impossible.
The pendulum can be driven in different ways. We examine the case when
the point of suspension is moved horizontally, sinusoidally in time. In
order to avoid the problem of the folding of the thread, the point mass is
considered to be fixed to a very light, thin rod. With a sufficiently strong
driving force, the motion may become chaotic. Figure 1.6 shows the path
of the pendulum in the vertical plane.
Note that the pendulum turns over several times in the course of its
motion. The ‘upside down’ state is especially unstable, just like that of
a pencil standing on its point. Two paths of the pendulum starting from
nearby initial positions remain close to each other only until an unstable
state, an ‘upside down’ state, separates them. Then one of them turns
over, while the other one falls back to the side it came from (Fig. 1.7).
The reason for the unpredictability is that the motion passes through a
series of unstable states.
The structure underlying the irregular motion can again be demonstrated by following the motion initiated in Fig. 1.6 for a long time and
taking samples from it by plotting the position (angular deflection) and
velocity (angular velocity) co-ordinates (xn , vn ) at intervals corresponding to the period of the driving force (Fig. 1.8 and Plate II).
In a frictional (dissipative) system, sustained motion can only develop if some external energy supply (driving) is present. Regardless of
the initial state, the dynamics converges to some sustained behaviour
that will therefore be called an attracting object, or an attractor (for the
Fig. 1.5. Driven pendulum:
the pendulum is driven by the
periodic movement of its
point of suspension in the
horizontal plane.
Fig. 1.7. Separation of the
paths of two identical driven
pendulums starting from
nearby points while passing an
unstable state. The notation is
the same as in Fig. 1.6. The
arrows show the direction in
which the end-points of the
pendulums move.
from a chaotic driven
pendulum (chaotic attractor)
obtained by plotting the state
of the pendulum in the
position–velocity co-ordinates
at integer multiples of the
driving period.
Fig. 1.9. The magnetic
pendulum: magnets are fixed
to the table and a point mass
attracted by the magnets is
fixed to the end of the thread.
The pendulum ultimately
settles in an equilibrium state
pointing towards one of the
magnets, but only after some
irregular, chaotic motion.
xn π
exact definition, see Section 3.1.2). Simple attractors correspond either
to regular or to ceasing motion. A sufficiently large supply of energy
inevitably brings about the non-linearity of the system; the sustained dynamics is then usually irregular, i.e. chaotic. This is accompanied by the
presence of a chaotic attractor, also called a strange attractor because
of its peculiar structure. Figures 1.4 and 1.8 display examples of chaotic
attractors.
1.2.2 Magnetic and driven pendulums, fractal basin
boundary – transient chaos
Consider a pendulum, the end-point of which is a small magnetic
body, moving above three identical magnets placed at the vertices of a
horizontal equilateral triangle (Fig. 1.9). When the force between the
Fig. 1.10. Basin of
attraction of the three
equilibrium states of the
magnetic pendulum (one
white and two black dots).
Each point on the
horizontal plane is shaded
according to the magnet in
whose neighbourhood the
pendulum comes to a rest
when starting above that
point with zero initial
velocity.
end of the pendulum and the magnets is attracting, the pendulum can
come to a halt, pointing towards any of the magnets. Thus there are
three simple attractors in the system. Starting above any point of the
plane, we can use a computer to calculate which magnet the pendulum
will be closest to after coming to rest.2 By assigning three different
colours to the three attractors, and to the corresponding initial positions that converge towards them, the whole plane can be coloured.
Each identically coloured area is a basin of attraction. Surprisingly,
the basin boundaries are interwoven and entangled in a complicated
manner (see Fig. 1.10 and Plates III–VI); these simple attractors have
fractal basin boundaries. (Naturally, the close vicinity of each attractor
appears in one colour only: the boundaries do not come close to the
attractors.)
Motion starting near the fractal boundary remains irregular for a
while, exhibiting transient chaos, i.e. chaos lasting for a finite period of
time (Fig. 1.11), but ultimately it ends up on one of the attractors.
A driven pendulum (Fig. 1.5) may also exhibit transient chaos. When
the friction is sufficiently large, the pendulum can exhibit regular sustained motion only. There are two options for the given parameters (see
Fig. 1.12, which depicts the paths corresponding to these two simple attractors in the vertical plane). An overall view of the basins of attraction
can again be obtained by representing the starting point in the position
The equations of motion of the magnetic pendulum can be found in Section 6.8.3.
Fig. 1.11. Path of the
end-point of the magnetic
pendulum viewed from
above. The motion is irregular
before reaching one of the
rest positions: it is transiently
chaotic. (The fixed magnets
are represented by solid black
dots.)
Fig. 1.12. Simple periodic attractors of the driven pendulum: for sufficiently
strong friction only these two types of sustained motion exist. All the different
initial conditions lead to one of these motions, corresponding to a simple
attractor each.
(angular deflection) – velocity (angular velocity) plane in the colour of
the attractor which the motion ultimately converges to (Fig. 1.13 and
Plate VII).
Motion starting close to the boundary is similar initially to that seen
in the case of the chaotic attractor, but it ultimately converges to one
of the simple attractors. Irregular dynamics has a finite duration; it is
transient. There exist, however, very exceptional initial conditions from
which the dynamics never reaches any of the attractors, and is chaotic for
any length of time. There exists an infinity of such motion (Fig. 1.14),
but the initial conditions that describe these state do not form a compact
domain in the plane, but rather a fractal cloud of isolated points called a
chaotic saddle.
Fig. 1.13. Basins of
attraction in the driven
pendulum on the plane of
initial conditions. The two
simple attractors in Fig.
1.12 appear here as points
(white and black dots),
and the initial states
converging towards them
are marked in black and
white, respectively.
Fig. 1.14. Initial states of
the driven pendulum of
Fig. 1.13 that never reach
either simple attractor: all
points shown here are on
the basin boundary and, if
followed in time, they keep
moving between
themselves after every
period of the driving force.
This chaotic saddle is
responsible for chaotic
dynamics of transient type.
Thus, chaotic dynamics can also occur if the sustained forms of
motion are regular, but there are many possible transient routes (chaotic
transients) leading to them. In such cases several simple attractors coexist, each with its own basin of attraction defined by the set of initial
conditions which converges to the given attractor. The basins of attraction
often penetrate each other, and their boundaries can also be filamentary
fractal curves. The motion starting from the vicinity of these fractal basin
boundaries behaves randomly along the boundary for a long time, as if
it is difficult to decide which attractor to choose. During this period of
uncertainty the motion is irregular and is bound to fractal structures.
1.2.3 Body swinging on a pulley, ball bouncing
on slopes – chaotic bands
Fig. 1.15. Body swinging on
a pulley: two point masses are
joined by a thread wound
around a pulley of negligible
radius, one of them swinging
freely in a vertical plane, the
other moving vertically only.
Let us examine what happens in frictionless (conservative) systems. Consider two point masses joined by a thread wound about a small pulley
(see Fig. 1.15). The case when both points can only move vertically is a
well known secondary school problem. Here, however, we let one of the
point masses swing in a vertical plane (with the thread always stretched
for the sake of simplicity). It will be shown that new types of chaotic
motion develop under such conditions.3
The instantaneous length, l, of the thread of the point mass that can
swing is one of the position co-ordinates; the other is the angle of deflection. In the traditional arrangement, where only vertical displacement is
allowed, the heavier mass always pulls the other one up, but the situation
is much more interesting now. If the swinging body is thrust horizontally
with sufficient momentum while the other body moves downwards, then
the swinging body turns over several times, the thread shortens, the body
spins faster, and thus becomes able to pull the other body upward, even
if the latter is the heavier. (It is assumed that the swinging body does not
collide with anything and that the thread does not become unattached
from the pulley when turning over.) Thus, a long-lasting, complicated,
chaotic motion may develop. The path of the swinging body and the
length of the thread vs. time are shown in Figs. 1.16(a) and (b), respectively. Again, the paths of the motion starting from nearby initial
conditions soon branch off; the motion is unpredictable.
An overview of the motion corresponding to a given total energy
can be presented with the help of some sampling technique. The system
is not driven in this case, and therefore sampling will not take place
at identical time intervals, rather at identical configurations: whenever
the swinging body passes through the vertically hanging configuration,
the instantaneous length, ln ≡ xn , of the swinging thread and the rate of
change of this length, vn , will be plotted as one point in the plane. Thus,
chaotic motion is represented by a sequence of points jumping around
in a disordered manner and dotting a finite region of the plane; This is
called the chaotic band (Fig. 1.17). Other initial conditions outside of the
The equations of motion of the examples in this section can be found in Sections 7.4.1
and 7.4.3.
Fig. 1.16. Frictionless motion of a body swinging on a pulley. (a) The spatial
path of the swinging body (the initial position is marked by a black dot, the
pulley by the centre of an open circle); (b) the dependence of the length of the
swinging thread on time within the same time interval.
Fig. 1.17. Overview of
the motion of a body
swinging on a pulley
without air drag and at a
given total energy, on the
basis of samples of length
and velocity (xn , νn ) taken
when passing through the
vertical position, from the
left. The dotted region is a
chaotic band, which can
be traced out by motion
starting from a single initial
condition. The sets of
closed curves form regular
islands.
xn 1
band may result in a single point, a few points or a continuous line, all of
which correspond to regular motion. These objects together usually form
closed domains that can be called regular islands. A frictionless chaotic
system is characterised by a hierarchically nested pattern of chaotic bands
and islands. Together they form a complicated structure of interesting
texture, different from the fractals presented so far (see Fig. 1.17 and
Plate VIII).
Our second example illustrates the fact that elastic collisions with flat
surfaces can also lead to chaotic motion. Maybe the simplest situation
Fig. 1.18. Ball bouncing on
two slopes of identical
inclination that face each
other in a gravitational field.
is the case of an elastic ball bouncing on two slopes that face each other
(Fig. 1.18). (A motion very similar to this can be realised in experiments
with atoms.) Chaotic behaviour arises because after bouncing back from
the opposite slope the ball does not necessarily hit its original position.
Non-linearity and inherent instability are caused by the break-point between the slopes. The chaotic motion of two balls dropped from identical
heights but slightly different positions soon branches off (Fig. 1.19), just
as in the previous examples.
A sampling technique providing a good overview of the dynamics
is in this case to plot the two velocity components as points of a plane,
at the instant of each bounce (Fig. 1.20).
There is no need to apply driving forces in order to sustain a motion in
frictionless systems, since there is no dissipation and energy is conserved.
On the other hand, this motion cannot converge to a well defined sustained motion because there are no attractors in frictionless, conservative
Fig. 1.19. Paths of two balls
starting from nearly identical
initial positions above the
double slope (the continuous
line is identical to that drawn
in Fig. 1.18). The motion is
sensitive to the initial
Fig. 1.20. Pattern generated
by the possible motions of a
ball bouncing on a double
slope with given total energy
in a representation where the
abscissa is the velocity
component parallel to the
slope (un ) and the ordinate is
the square of the component
perpendicular to the slope (zn )
taken at the instance of the
nth bounce. The dotted
region is a chaotic band. The
angle of inclination of the
slope is 50◦ .
Fig. 1.21. The three-disc
problem: particles
bouncing perfectly
elastically between
identical discs fixed at the
vertices of a regular
triangle. Paths starting
from nearby initial points
soon diverge.
systems. As a result, the nature of all motion strongly depends on the
initial conditions and the total energy. Regular motion corresponds to certain sets of initial conditions, while chaotic motion corresponds to other
sets. The initial conditions that lead to chaotic motion form chaotic
bands that, contrary to chaotic attractors, are plane-filling objects.
1.2.4 Ball bouncing between discs, mirroring
Christmas-tree ornaments – chaotic scattering
Three identical discs are placed at the vertices of a regular triangle in
the horizontal plane and a ball is bouncing among them – like in a pinball machine (see Fig. 1.21). The motion is considered to be frictionless;
therefore the velocity of the particle is constant during the entire process.
Starting from a given point, the motion depends on the initial direction of
the velocity vector. Some initial conditions cause the particle to bounce
for a very long time between the discs; during this time the dynamics
of the particle is complicated and aperiodic.4 Two slightly different initial conditions cause the paths to diverge rapidly (Fig. 1.21); therefore,
this motion is also chaotic. The deviation of paths with nearby initial
conditions is easy to explain, since the discs act as dispersing mirrors
and the angle between the straight sections of the paths increases with
each collision. The complicated structure related to the motion manifests itself in several ways. The number of bounces experienced by the
particles that start along a segment in a given direction towards the discs
strongly depends on the initial position. Some initial conditions lead to
many collisions (Fig. 1.22). Moreover, there is an infinity of initial points
A detailed investigation of this problem can be found in Section 8.2.3.
Fig. 1.22. Number of collisions of 20 000 particles starting with unit velocity at
right angles to the line segment drawn in Fig. 1.21, as a function of the y
co-ordinate. (The centres of the discs are at unit distance from each other.)
from which an arbitrary number of bounces can, in principle, occur (the
particles then become trapped among the discs), but these do not form
an interval: they form a scattered fractal cloud along the line segment.
Three or four Christmas-tree ornaments in contact with each other
reflect light several times before light reaches our eyes. The interesting
fractal images resulting from these reflective spheres (Plates IX and X)
are examples of everyday consequences of chaotic motion.
The process whereby a significant force is only present in a finite
region of a frictionless system is usually called scattering. Such a force
can be tested via the motion of particles approaching from large distances. This motion is initially rectilinear, but the force causes the path
to curve; then the particle leaves the scattering process and resumes its
rectilinear motion, most probably in a new direction. The chaotic nature
of the process arises because the motion may become long-lasting and
irregular in the region where finite forces are in action. In these cases we
speak of chaotic scattering. The average lifetime of chaos, similar to the
dynamics around fractal basin boundaries, is finite. Even though there
are no attractors in this case, the different outgoing states play a role
similar to that of simple attractors. Chaotic scattering always involves
transient chaos.
1.2.5 Spreading of pollutants – an application of chaos
Chaotic motion occurs in numerous phenomena related to practical
applications. One of these is discussed here: the spreading of pollutants
Fig. 1.23. Tank with two outlets. The outlets, when opened alternately,
generate chaotic advection in a flat container. (a) and (b) illustrate the flow in
the first and second half period, respectively. The flow itself is very simple; the
advection of the particles is nevertheless chaotic.
in a flowing medium (air or water). The environmental significance of
this matter is obvious.
Consider a large and flat container with two point-like outlets. Water
whirls while flowing out. The two outlets are alternately open, each for
half a period (Fig. 1.23), yielding a flow periodic in time. We want to
know how a dye particle moves in this flow. For the sake of simplicity,
it is assumed that the material properties of the dye are identical to that
of the liquid; the only difference is the colour. In this case, the motion
is determined by the condition that the instantaneous velocity of the
particle is identical to that of the liquid. The path of the particle is then
easy to follow.5 Chaos arises because a particle moving towards the open
outlet may not reach it within half a period; therefore it starts moving
towards the other outlet, but again it may be too late to be drained, and
so on. It may thus take a very long time before the particle flows out of
the container. Figure 1.24 illustrates two complicated paths starting very
close to each other, but leaving the tank via different outlets.
In the context of the spreading of pollution, it is especially important
to follow the motion of a dye droplet. This corresponds to the examination of the dynamics of an ensemble of particles, each starting from
a certain initial region, the initial shape of the droplet. A surprising
discovery is that, despite the chaotic motion of each individual particle, the drop traces out a well defined thready fractal structure (after
losing its original compact shape) within a short time (Fig. 1.25 and
Plate XI).
The spreading of impurities in the form of filamentary patterns can
be observed in numerous phenomena, ranging from oil stains on road
surfaces through the mixing of cream in coffee to the propagation of
The equation of motion for this example can be found in Section 9.4.1.
Fig. 1.24. Paths of two dye
particles (continuous and
broken lines) starting near
each other in a tank with two
outlets (situated at (−1, 0)
and (1, 0)). The consecutive
black dots (squares) indicate
the instants when the left
(right) outlet is opened. In the
initial instant the left outlet is
opened. The time spent in the
tank is very different for the
two particles.
Fig. 1.25. Shape of a dye
drop initially and after five
periods in the tank with two
outlets.
chemical pollution in the atmosphere. This thready structure unmistakably signals the chaotic motion of the individual pollutant particles.
The type of chaos found in the advection problem may depend on
the parameters of the system. The problem of the tank with two outlets
in the above arrangement is analogous to the problem of the fractal basin
boundaries. If the outlets are closed but the alternating whirling motion
is sustained by mixers, the so-called blinking vortex model is obtained.
In this case there is no outflow that could be the analogue of the simple
Table 1.2. Comparison of the traditional and phase space
representations of dynamics.
Traditional representation
Phase space representation
instantaneous co-ordinates
time-dependence (x(t), v(t))
structure in time
point in the phase space
trajectory (v(x))
structure in phase space
attractors for the advected particle; the chaotic behavior of the dye or
impurity particles is therefore the same as that of conservative systems.
It may be important to take into account that the density of the known
pollutant may not be identical to that of the fluid and/or that the particle
is of finite size (for example in the case of aerosols). Consequently, the
velocity of the particles usually differs from that of the liquid. It can
be shown that advection then corresponds to dissipative systems. The
advection dynamics can then have attractors, often even chaotic ones.
This implies that pollutant particles accumulate along a fractal pattern
on the surface of the fluid. This phenomenon can indeed be observed in
lakes, bays and harbours as a direct consequence of chaos!
Our examples have shown that the traditional representation via the
displacement or velocity vs. time graphs does not provide a suitable
overview of the motion, since, however long the observation time may
be, one can always expect some further novel behaviour. The order appearing in chaos does not manifest itself in the position vs. time representation, but rather in the position vs. velocity representation.
The instantaneous state of a mechanical system is given by its position and velocity co-ordinates, since the motion can be continued
uniquely if one knows these co-ordinates and the dynamical equation.
The position and velocity variables define the phase space of a system
(for more details, see Section 3.5). For motion occurring along a straight
line with position x and velocity v, the phase space is the (x, v) plane.
The state of the system is represented by a single point in the phase space,
and this point wanders, indicating the change of the state, as time passes.
The path of the motion in phase space is called the trajectory (Fig. 1.26).
The trajectory itself does not indicate directly how fast this change is
in time. The arrow only shows the direction of the motion. A set of
several trajectories, however, provides a global overview of the different
possible types of motion of the system (see Table 1.2).
Fig. 1.26. Trajectory in phase
space (thick line). The path
described by the motion of a
particle in phase space can be
constructed from the
respective projections of the
x(t) and υ(t) graphs. The
direction of time is
represented by the arrow on
the trajectory.
Fig. 1.27. Monitoring trajectories using maps. In higher-dimensional phase
spaces, samples are taken on certain sections. The rule relating the co-ordinates
of two consecutive intersects of a trajectory with this surface (or equivalent ones)
is a map.
Two data points are often insufficient to define the state of a system uniquely; i.e., the phase space is three- or more dimensional (this
is always the case with chaos). In such a situation it is useful to take
samples from the higher dimensional phase space according to some
rule. This is usually done by taking a ‘section’ of the phase space and
recording the points of a trajectory on this section only, as illustrated by
the schematic Fig. 1.27. In driven cases it is advisable to ‘look at’ the
system at time instants corresponding to integer multiples of the driving
period. This representation is called a stroboscopic map. Thus, Figs. 1.4
and 1.8 exhibit the results of stroboscopic mappings. In non-driven cases
a section can be defined by the fulfilment of conditions corresponding
to certain configurations. This defines a Poincaré map, like the one seen
in Fig. 1.17.
Our examples have demonstrated that it is in such maps that the
fractal structure of chaotic dynamics becomes plausible. Only in special
cases (like those of the magnetic pendulum, the mirroring spheres and
advection) can fractal structures be observed in real space. Therefore
the use of phase space is inevitable as a means of understanding the
structure accompanying chaos. (However, phase space is very useful in
investigating regular motions also.)
1.4 Definition of chaos; summary
Chaos is a motion, a temporal dynamics of simple systems that can be
described in terms of a few variables. Such motion is:
r irregular in time (it is not even the superposition of periodic motions,
it is really aperiodic);
r unpredictable in the long term and sensitive to initial conditions;
r complex, but ordered, in the phase space: it is associated with a fractal
structure.
These properties are so strongly and uniquely bound to chaotic dynamics that they may be used to define ‘chaos’. We shall apply this
definition throughout the book.
The listed characteristics are present simultaneously: when a simple
system is aperiodic over a long time, its evolution must be unpredictable
and representable by a fractal structure in suitable co-ordinates. From
a traditional view, all three characteristics are novel and surprising. A
single common feature underlying them is that the long-term behaviour
is random-looking, irregular and therefore it can properly be described
by using probabilistic concepts only.
On the other hand, not all complicated temporal behaviour can be
considered to be chaotic, only those that derive from simple laws. Noisy
motion is the random behaviour of some component of a system with
a great number of constituents (for example the Brownian motion of a
particle), which is the consequence of the complicated interaction with
the environment (i.e. the other constituents). Chaos is a bridge between
regular and noisy motion. It differs from regular motion in that it is probabilistic and differs from noise in that its randomness is due to the strong
interaction (following from simple laws) of the few constituents, i.e. to
the inherent dynamics. Noisy motion fills the phase space uniformly,
thus fractal structures cannot develop.
Table 1.3. Basic types of chaos and related phenomena and sets.
Permanent chaos
Transient chaos
Dissipative
motion on chaotic
motion in chaotic
chaotic transients towards
attractors, fractal basin
boundaries (chaotic saddles)
chaotic scattering (chaotic saddles)
The traditional investigation of motion concentrates on regular, periodic behaviour, since the applied classical mathematical tools are not
suitable for describing chaos. These tools can only indicate chaos in as
much they break down and yield meaningless results. The modern approach, supported by numerical investigations, makes it clear that it is
regular motion that is exceptional.
Two important classes of chaotic dynamics (so far simply called
chaos) are permanent and transient chaos. In the latter case, only exceptional initial conditions lead to steady chaotic motion; typical initial
conditions result in finite time chaotic behaviour (which can last for an
arbitrary long time, however). Both classes can occur in frictional (dissipative) systems as well as in frictionless (conservative) systems. The
phase space sets underlying different kinds of chaos (chaotic attractors,
bands and saddles) are collectively called chaotic sets. The main types
of chaotic dynamics are summarised in Table 1.3, and will be studied in
detail in Chapters 5–8.
It is also worth discussing the types of chaos from the point of view
of the energy input. In non-driven frictional systems, motion ceases and
chaos can only be present as a transient (often accompanied by a fractal
basin boundary). Driven frictional motions may be related to chaotic
attractors. In frictionless cases chaos (both in a chaotic band and in the
form of chaotic scattering) might occur without forcing.
Before turning to a detailed analysis of motion, we list some instructions
worth keeping in mind in what follows, based on the lessons drawn from
the examples of this chapter.
r You should understand unstable behaviour (considered to be uninteresting in traditional approaches), even in non-chaotic systems.
r Become acquainted with the phase space representation of and the
geometric approach to dynamics and the use of the stroboscopic and
Poincaré maps.
r It is pointless to hope that the long-term dynamics can be given analytically in terms of known functions (the infinite series constructed
to describe the dynamics do not even converge).
r Solve the equations of motion numerically.
r Proper understanding requires the introduction of new concepts and
the search for new theoretical relations.
r Do not forget about the measurement errors that inevitably accompany
observation and simulation, and follow their temporal evolution.
r Accept the necessity of using particle ensembles and of describing
them by means of probabilistic concepts (distribution, typical behaviour, average).
r Become acquainted with the geometry of fractals.
The possibility of chaotic motion was first formulated by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré in the
1890s (obviously in a terminology largely different from that used nowadays) in his paper on the stability of
the Solar System. Some time later, the Russian mathematician, Sonia Kovalevskaia, proved that the motion
of a heavy, asymmetric spinning top is usually chaotic (it is only regular at special values of the moment of
inertia). These results were mostly forgotten and only lived on in the first half of the twentieth century due
to the work of the American scientist George Birkhoff and his German colleague, Eberhard Hopf, on
statistical mechanics and ergodic theory. Independently of these developments, chaotic behaviour was found
in certain non-linear electrical circuits during World War II, but the results could not be properly
interpreted. As a continuation of the Birkhoff–Hopf line, in the mid 1960s the Russians Andrey
Kolmogorov and Vladimir Arnold and the German Jürgen Moser worked out the statement that has since
been named after their initials, the KAM theorem, formulating the condition of weak chaotic motion in
conservative systems. The investigation of strong chaos became possible due to the appearance of
computers. The behaviour related to chaotic attractors occurring in dissipative systems was first described
by the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz in 1963. He recognised the unpredictability of chaotic
behaviour in connection with the numerical solution of a model named after him. The term ‘chaos’ itself
was introduced by the American mathematician James Yorke for the random-looking dynamics of simple
deterministic systems in a paper in 1975. The work of the American physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum helped
the term become widespread. In 1978 he proved the system-independence, i.e. the so-called universality, of
one of the possible routes towards chaos. In the investigation of the statistical properties of chaos, a major
role was played by, among others, B. Chirikov, M. Berry, L. Bunimovich, J. P. Eckmann, H. Fujisaka, P.
Grassberger, C. Grebogi, M. Hénon, P. Holmes, L. Kadanoff, E. Ott, O. Rössler, D. Ruelle, Y. Sinai, and
S. Smale. The possibility of the occurrence of chaos has established a new way of thinking in widely
different disciplines (see Box 9.3); this has been pioneered by H. Aref, P. Cvitanović, J. Gollub, A.
Libchaber, R. May, C. Nicolis, H. Swinney, Y. Ueda, J. Wisdom, and others.
Fractal objects
2.1.1 Objects with large surfaces
It is taken for granted that the surface or volume of a traditional geometrical object, for example a sphere or a cube, is well defined. Indeed,
filling the object with smaller and smaller cubes leads to better and better
approximations, and the total volume of the cubes converges to that of
the object in question. It is well known that the surface, S, is proportional
to the second, while the volume V is proportional to the third, power of
the linear size, L, of the object. Consequently, the surface-to-volume
ratio, S/V , is proportional to V −1/3 . (For plane figures, the ratio of the
perimeter, P, to the area, A, is proportional to A−1/2 .) The surface-tovolume ratio is therefore finite and becomes smaller as the size becomes
larger. This is why surface phenomena are of little importance compared with volume phenomena for macroscopic systems of traditional
geometry.1
On the other hand, it is known that there exist macroscopic objects
with large surface area. These are always porous, with ramified or pitted
surfaces. Effective chemical catalysts, for example, must have a large
surface. The need for rapid gas exchange accounts for the large surfaceto-volume ratio of the respiratory organs. The surface area of the human
lungs (measured at microscopic resolution), for example, is the same as
This is used for example in thermodynamics, when the internal energy of a system is
considered to be the sum of the internal energies of the finite volume elements, thus
neglecting the interactions of the volume elements across the surfaces.
that of a tennis court (approximately 100 m2 ), while the volume is only
a few litres (10−3 m3 ). How small the amount of matter is in candyfloss
or in beer froth can be checked with a single mouthful; the numerical
value of their surface area is much greater than that of their volume. Such
systems obviously do not follow the rule S/V ∼ V −1/3 which is valid
for traditional objects: indeed, our very concept of measuring surface
area has to be revised in view of these types of surfaces.
A unique value cannot be assigned to the surface of such ramified
systems because the surface area essentially depends on the resolution,
in other words, on the accuracy of the measurement (see Table 2.1).
The numerical value of the surface area increases with the resolution
of the observation, through several orders of magnitude. Consider, for
example, an island with an embayed coastline: one would try to determine
the perimeter of the island using a high-resolution map and counting how
many times a certain compass setting fits on the coastline. As smaller and
smaller settings are chosen, more bays and peninsulae appear; therefore
the number of settings required increases more rapidly than for an object
with a smooth perimeter. The resulting perimeter length keeps changing,
increasing as the compass setting decreases. The same tendency would
be observed when trying to measure the surface area of a mountain by
fitting smaller and smaller squares on it.
It is useful to introduce the term observed surface or perimeter. Consider squares of size ε or line segments of length ε. The observed surface,
S(ε), or the observed perimeter length, P(ε), shows how the respective
values depend on the resolution, ε. For the sake of simplicity, the resolution is given in units of the linear size, L, of the system. Note that
ε is a dimensionless number smaller than unity, since the observed surface or perimeter length should be determined on scales smaller than the
total extension. Refining the resolution implies decreasing ε. Experience
shows that for fractals the observed surface or perimeter increases as a
negative power of the resolution:
S(ε), P(ε) ∼ ε−γ ,
for ε 1,
where γ is a non-trivial (usually non-integer) positive power or exponent.2 Since no precise value of the surface or the perimeter can be given,
they are better characterised by the exponent γ . This latter will prove to
be simply related to a quantity called the fractal dimension (see equation
(2.5)).
Fractals occurring in reality only approximate the property that
relation (2.1) is valid in the limit ε → 0, partly because the resolution can
never be infinitely fine, and partly because fractal properties are usually
The notation ∼ expresses proportionality without the prefactor written out.
Table 2.1. Comparison of traditional and fractal objects. P(ε) and S(ε)
denote the perimeter length and surface area observed with accuracy
ε, respectively.
Traditional object
Fractal object
perimeter P and surface S exist
P(ε) and S(ε) convergent
smooth on small scales
P or S is undefined
P(ε) or S(ε) increases with resolution
ramified on small scales
lost or become meaningless below a certain size. (The lungs’ surface
becomes smooth, i.e. two-dimensional, on the micrometer scale of cells,
and measuring the perimeter of an island becomes meaningless at a scale
of a few metres where the coastline becomes undefined because of the
waves.)
The fact that the perimeter or the surface of a fractal is not defined
implies that the object cannot be well approximated with squares or
cubes: its structure differs fundamentally from that of traditional objects.
On the other hand, the fact that relation (2.1) is valid throughout several
orders of magnitude of ε indicates that the object exhibits the same
structure when observed at any resolution within this range: fractals are
said to be self-similar. The surface of the Moon is a good example: the
typical crater-dominated structure is characteristic from the millimetre to
the 1000 km scale, the latter approaching the Moon’s radius. Thus, the
surface of the Moon is self-similar throughout nine orders of magnitude.
This is why it is necessary to indicate the names or sizes of the main
craters in pictures showing the surface of the Moon. As this example
illustrates, self-similarity usually does not mean that a magnified view is
identical to the whole object, but rather that the character of the patterns
is the same on all scales.
As a mathematical model of a coastline, consider a Koch curve. It
is constructed as follows. First, a segment (shorter than 1/2) is removed
symmetrically from the centre of a unit interval, then two segments of
the same length as the remaining pieces are joined to the new end-points
in the shape of a roof (Fig. 2.1(a)). Denoting the length of the remaining
pieces by r (1/4 < r < 1/2), the result is a broken line of length 4r . This
process is then repeated with the segments of length r : the resulting new
segments are of length r 2 (Fig. 2.1(b)). The essence of the algorithm
is an iterative repetition of the same rule applied always to the most
recently obtained segments. Meanwhile, the curve becomes more and
more broken and its length increases. The curve obtained as the limit
of this construction is called the Koch curve. At the nth step of the
Fig. 2.1. Koch curve. First
three steps of the
construction with
parameter r = 0.3.
construction, the length and the number of the segments are r n and 4n ,
respectively; the length of the curve is therefore P(n) = (4r )n . At the
same time, this is the observed length of the exact curve when using
the resolution ε = r n . Being interested in the resolution dependence of
the length, we express n via the logarithm of ε as n = ln ε/ ln r .3 Thus,
P(ε) = 4ln ε/ ln r ε, and as a consequence of the identity 4ln ε = ε ln 4 , we
P(ε) = ε1+ln 4/ ln r .
The exponent γ defined by (2.1) is thus γ = ln 4/ ln (1/r ) − 1 > 0. The
length of a Koch curve is undefined, since the observed length is a negative power of the resolution. The part of the exact curve which sits on
an original segment of length r is a downscaled version of the full curve
by a factor of r . The same holds for any segment of length r m (m > 1),
with a reduction factor of r m . Koch curves are prototypical fractals. They
are, in addition, self-similar in an exact geometrical sense. Note that the
larger the parameter r , and therefore the exponent γ , the more ramified
the coastline it models. In the limit r → 1/4, on the other hand, the curve
turns into a straight line segment, since the intervals are too short to form
triangles. The length of a straight line segment does not therefore depend
on the resolution, and exponent γ vanishes as expected.
Problem 2.1 Examine how the perimeter of a traditional object, a circle of unit radius, varies with resolution when it is approximated by the
perimeter of an inscribed n-sided regular polygon, the side length ε,
being the resolution (n 1, i.e. ε 1).
In this chapter the notation ln may be considered to denote the logarithm of arbitrary
Problem 2.2 Determine the area of a Koch island formed by three
triadic (r = 1/3) Koch curves, the first four construction steps of which
are as follows:
Show that the area of the Koch island remains finite.
2.1.2 Fractal dimension
Objects with a large surface or perimeter are strongly ramified; the value
of their surface area or perimeter length increases with resolution, while
the entire object is restricted to a finite region of space. The concepts
of the traditionally two-dimensional surface and the traditionally onedimensional perimeter become meaningless, since these objects penetrate significantly into a space of dimension one more than their own. It
is therefore a straightforward generalisation of the concept of dimension
to assign fractional or irrational numbers greater than two (one) but less
than three (two) to objects with a large surface area (perimeter length)
so that the more ramified the object, the larger the dimension.
To this end, it is worth covering the object with cubes of linear
size ε. For a traditional body the number of cubes needed to cover it
is obviously proportional to ε −3 , while for plane figures and lines, the
respective numbers of squares of size ε and segments of length ε are
proportional to ε−2 and ε −1 , respectively. The exponent with opposite
sign is therefore the dimension itself, which is an integer for traditional
objects. A Koch curve, however, can be covered with 4n segments each
of length ε = r n , and this number can be expressed in terms of ε as
ε− ln 4/ ln (1/r ) . Thus, the negative of the exponent is not an integer for
objects with large surface area.
To deduce the general definition of fractal dimension, consider a
set of points in a Euclidean space of d = 1, 2 or 3 dimensions (i.e.
along a line, on a plane or in space). Let N (ε) be the minimum number
of d-dimensional cubes of linear size ε necessary to cover the object
(Fig. 2.2). This number obviously increases with resolution, namely as a
negative power, but the exponent, D0 , is not necessarily identical to the
dimension, d, of the space. The relation
N (ε) ∼ ε−D0 ,
Fig. 2.2. Measuring fractal dimension. A set of points (or any object) is covered
with identical d-dimensional cubes of size ε, and the number of cubes containing
points (grey boxes) is N(ε). As the resolution ε decreases, N(ε) increases
according to the relation N(ε) ∼ ε −D0 , where D 0 is the fractal dimension.
defines the fractal dimension, D0 , of the object in question. Rearranging
the equation yields
D0 =
ln N (ε)
ln 1/ε
for ε 1.
The fractal dimension can therefore be extracted from the dependence
of the number of covering boxes on resolution. This number equals d
for traditional objects. A set is described as fractal if its D0 is smaller
than the dimension of the space.4 The complement set of a fractal is
not a fractal. As for (2.1), relations (2.3) and (2.4) have to be fulfilled
throughout several orders of magnitude of ε (see Fig. 2.3).
Problem 2.3 Determine the number of boxes required to cover a unit
interval and a right-angled isosceles triangle, for which the length of
the equal sides is unity. Demonstrate that their respective dimensions
defined by (2.3) are indeed 1 and 2.
The relation to the observed perimeter or surface area is now obvious,
since this is the number of boxes multiplied by the length or area of a box:
P(ε) = εN (ε) and S(ε) = ε2 N (ε). The exponent γ in (2.1) is therefore
γ = D0 − 1
for the perimeter and surface area, respectively. The rate of increase of
the observed surface area or perimeter is thus a unique expression of
the fractal dimension. Such systems are therefore better characterised
by their fractal dimension (or their exponent γ ) than by the numerical
value of their perimeter or surface area at a certain resolution.
Another class of fractals, fat fractals, will be discussed in Section 2.2.3.
lnN(e)
1 + constant
D0 ln −
ln −
Fig. 2.3. The fractal dimension is the slope of the straight line appearing in the
log–log plot of the number of boxes against reciprocal resolution. The curve
ln N vs. ln 1/ε deviates from a straight line of slope D 0 both for resolution
approaching unity and for very small resolution. The respective reasons are that
for coarse resolution no power-law behaviour can be expected, and that on very
fine scales new effects set in and the system behaves differently.
The fractal dimension of a Koch curve is, according to (2.4),
ln 4
ln (1/r )
a number between 1 and 2. For the triadic case (r = 1/3), D0 =
ln 4/ ln 3 = 1.262.5 As shown, the observed perimeter increases as
ε1−D0 , while the observed surface area decreases as ε 2−D0 with refining resolution. This implies that on covering a Koch curve with squares
of size ε, the area of the object converges to zero and the curve does not
fill any part of the plane. On the other hand, the curve is more complicated than any smooth curve, which is reflected by its increasing length
and by its dimension being greater than unity.
The dimension as a measure of ramification increases monotonically
with the parameter r . The choice r = 1/4 corresponds to a smooth line
segment, a one-dimensional object. Koch curves with parameter r close
to 1/4 are only slightly ramified (such as, for example, the edge of a slice
of cauliflower), while values D0 = 1.2 − 1.3 around r = 1/3 correspond
to the average dimension of coastlines or to the dimension of a section
through the Moon’s surface (Fig. 2.4). Values near r = 1/2 belong to
strongly jagged curves, with dimensions approaching 2 (see Fig. 2.5).
Almost plane-filling curves or space-filling surfaces are ubiquitous in
Nature. Examples are river networks, with their smaller rivers, brooks
and water courses spreading over the tributary basins, or the vascular
system of living organisms having a lymphatic system, and the dense
foliage of trees.
Irrational numbers are henceforth given up to three decimals.
Fig. 2.4. Koch curves with parameters (a) r = 0.26, (b) r = 0.3, (c) r = 0.35,
(d) r = 0.4. Larger parameters, r , correspond to more jagged curves and higher
fractal dimensions. The respective dimensions are D0 = 1.029, 1.151, 1.321
and 1.513.
Fig. 2.5. Koch curve with
parameter r = 0.49 after
the first six steps of
construction. The exact
curve is almost
plane-filling; its dimension
is D0 = 1.943.
Problem 2.4 Calculate the dimension of this Koch-type fractal:
(Measure three segments of length 1/2 onto the unit segment as shown,
and repeat this in a proportionally reduced fashion for the newly obtained
segments.)
Fig. 2.6. Cantor set: the first
four steps of the construction
with parameter r = 0.3. The
dimension of the set is
D0 = 0.576.
2.2.1 Exactly self-similar fractals
An important group of fractals whose dimension can be expressed by
simple formulae is that of exactly self-similar fractals, in which small
regions of the fractal are similar to the entire fractal.
One-scale fractals consist of N identical parts, each a copy of the
entire fractal reduced by exactly the same factor, r < 1. Koch curves
are obviously of this type. Another typical example is a Cantor set. This
is constructed by preserving the two outer segments of length r < 1/2
of a unit interval, then removing the proportional middle segments of
the remaining pieces of length r , then of length r 2 , etc. (Fig. 2.6). Since
the number of segments of length ε = r n needed to cover the set is 2n , the
number of covering intervals is N (ε) = εln 2/ ln r , and
A Cantor set does not form a continuous curve, rather it is a dispersed
set of an (uncountable) infinity of points. Accordingly, its dimension is
less than unity.
Cantor sets and Koch curves consist of N = 2 and N = 4 identical
parts, respectively, that are exact copies of the entire fractal reduced by
a factor r each. Consequently, the fractal dimension of such self-similar
objects consisting of N units is expected to be
ln N
This is easy to see: the minimum number, N (ε), of boxes corresponding to resolution ε is obviously N N1 (ε), where N1 (ε) is the number of
boxes needed to cover one part. On the other hand, due to the similarity,
this is exactly the number of boxes covering the entire fractal if the size
of the boxes is multiplied by 1/r : N1 (ε) = N (ε/r ). Altogether, therefore, N (ε) = N · N (ε/r ). Substituting definition (2.3) yields Nr D0 = 1,
which is equivalent to (2.8).
Problem 2.5 Determine the dimension of the fractals obtained by repeating a given construction step: (a) a Cantor cloud, (b) a Sierpinski
gasket and (c) a snowflake fractal.
The white parts are removed from the initial black objects (top); the
resulting pattern is repeated several times in a self-similar way, which
results in the fractals shown at the bottom.
Problem 2.6 Determine the ratio of the observed perimeter to the observed surface area of a Cantor cloud. At what values of the parameter
does the perimeter diverge?
Problem 2.7 A simple model of porous materials with a large surface
can be obtained by constructing (a) a Menger sponge or (b) a Sierpinski
tower. (a) A regular three-dimensional cross consisting of seven identical
cubes of size 1/3 is removed from a unit cube. This is repeated for the
remaining smaller and smaller cubes. (b) At the vortices of a regular
tetrahedron, four copies of the tetrahedron, reduced by a factor of onehalf, are kept. The rest is removed, and this process is repeated again and
again. What is the fractal dimension of each of these objects?
A multi-scale fractal is a fractal consisting of N parts, each of which
is a copy of the entire fractal reduced by factors r j < 1, j = 1, 2, . . . , N .
Then the total number of boxes necessary to cover the fractal is
Fig. 2.7. Two-scale Cantor set. The first four steps of the construction with
parameters r 1 = 0.25 and r 2 = 0.4 are shown. Segments are removed
repeatedly from the middle of the intervals in such a way that the length of the
preserved segments on the left and on the right is r 1 and r 2 times the original
length, respectively.
N (ε) = Nj=1 N j (ε). However, because of the similarity, the number of
boxes covering part j is the same as the number of boxes covering the entire fractal if the size of the boxes is multiplied by 1/r j : N j (ε) = N (ε/r j ).
Thus, N (ε) = Nj=1 N (ε/r j ), and substituting definition in (2.3) yields
the following relation:
r jD0 = 1.
The fractal dimension is now determined by an implicit equation that
can only be solved numerically; there is no explicit formula for D0 .
A simple example of a multi-scale fractal is the two-scale or asymmetric Cantor set. In the first step of its construction, a segment of length
r1 is kept on the left and a segment of length r2 is kept on the right end
of the unit interval. This is repeated for the smaller and smaller remaining segments (see Fig. 2.7). For r1 = 0.25 and r2 = 0.4, for example,
the numerical solution of the equation (0.25) D0 + (0.4) D0 = 1 yields the
fractal dimension D0 = 0.605.
Problem 2.8 Determine the dimension of the two-scale Cantor set in
the special case when r2 = r12 = 1/4.
Problem 2.9 Determine the dimension of the two-scale snowflake
fractal constructed from a unit square by preserving four squares of
size 2/5 in the corners and a fifth of size 1/5 in the centre,
Repeat this for each remaining square.
Fig. 2.8. Diagram explaining what is meant by projecting two sets, A and B,
together to obtain set C. The composite set C is also called the direct product of
components A and B. (a) Component A is a line segment. (b) Component A is
the union of three points. Component B is, in both cases, the union of four
Fig. 2.9. Cantor filaments: the first four steps of the construction with
parameter r = 0.4. This construction is similar to that of a Cantor set, but the
initial object is not a line segment but a square, and rectangles are removed
instead of intervals. The resulting dimension is D 0 = 1.756.
2.2.2 Projecting together fractals
There exists an important class of fractals – whether exactly self-similar
or not – which can be decomposed into component fractals. This is the
case when a fractal is created by projecting two simpler fractals together
(see Fig. 2.8).
As a first example, consider the case of Cantor filaments. These are
constructed by symmetrically removing a rectangle from the centre of a
unit square in such a way that the two remaining rectangles are of width
r and of unit height. In the following steps the remaining, narrower and
narrower, rectangles, always of unit height, are thinned out in the same
manner (Fig. 2.9). The result is an infinite set of parallel unit intervals.
When intersected with a horizontal line, a Cantor set of parameter r is
obtained. Cantor filaments appear when projecting together a unit interval and a Cantor set of parameter r . In other words they are the direct
products of these component sets. When determining the dimension of
Cantor filaments, notice that covering the object with squares of size
ε = r n yields 2n columns, containing 1/ε boxes each. Thus, the number of covering boxes is N (ε) = ε (ln 2/ ln r −1) . The dimension of Cantor
filaments is therefore
D0 = 1 +
Fig. 2.10. Asymmetric Cantor cloud: the first four steps of the construction
with parameters r 1 = 0.3 and r 2 = 0.4. Rectangles are removed from the unit
square in a symmetrical cross shape in such a way that the sides of the preserved
rectangles are r 1 and r 2 times the original sides, and this is repeated iteratively.
greater than that of a Cantor set by one. An interesting feature of Cantor filaments is that their observed perimeter increases while their area
decreases with refining resolution. The observed perimeter, P(ε), can
be expressed as a negative power of the observed area, A(ε): P ∼ A−β ,
where β is positive. Thus, the larger the perimeter, the smaller the area!
Problem 2.10 Express the exponent β in terms of the fractal dimension.
An asymmetric Cantor cloud is obtained by removing a cross symmetrically from the centre of a unit square in such a way that four identical
rectangles of width r1 and height r2 remain (Fig. 2.10). This procedure is
then repeated for each remaining rectangle, keeping the proportionality
factors r1 and r2 . The resulting set of points is concentrated in smaller
and smaller rectangles. Covering them with squares of size ε = r1n requires 2n = ε ln 2/ ln r1 columns. Each of these columns now contains less
than 1/ε boxes, since a Cantor cloud is a fractal vertically also: a Cantor
set of parameter r2 . Thus, the boxes of size ε = r1n are less densely
placed than in the case of a vertically continuous object. Their number
in a column can be estimated as ε− ln 2/ ln (1/r2 ) , where ln 2/ ln (1/r2 ) is the
fractal dimension of the Cantor set formed vertically. The number of covering boxes is therefore N (ε) = 2n ε − ln 2/ ln (1/r2 ) = ε {ln 2/ ln r1 −ln 2/ ln (1/r2 )} .
Thus, the fractal dimension is given by
ln (1/r1 ) ln (1/r2 )
For r1 = r2 ≡ r , D0 = ln 4/ ln (1/r ), formally the same as the dimension
of a Koch curve for r > 1/4. The two fractals are, however, essentially
different, since one of them is a broken line, while the other is a set of
points dispersed in a plane. This example shows that fractal dimension
is only one measure of an object: identical dimensions do not imply
identical objects.
The determination of the dimension of a composite fractal obtained by projecting two arbitrary fractals, embedded in perpendicular
straight-line segments, together is based on the fact that the number of
squares of size ε needed to cover the composite fractal appears in the
form of a product: N (ε) = N (1) (ε)N (2) (ε). Here N (1) (ε) is the number
of columns of width ε perpendicular to the horizontal axis and N (2) (ε)
is the number of bands of height ε parallel to the horizontal axis. Each
N (i) increases according to the dimension D0 of the corresponding
fractal component: N (i) (ε) ∼ ε −D0 . For the co-projected set this yields
N (ε) ∼ ε−D0 −D0 ; therefore the total fractal dimension is
D0 = D0 + D0 .
Thus, the fractal dimension of composite fractals is the sum of the di(i)
mensions of the components. These dimensions, D0 , are often called
the partial fractal dimensions.
This sum rule is valid not only for fractals embedded in one dimension, but also for the direct product of arbitrary fractals, and the number
of components is also arbitrary. The same relation holds for traditional
objects, as, for example, a plane is the direct product of two straight lines,
and its dimension is in fact 1 + 1. It is important to emphasise that the
sum rule is valid not only for fractals projected along perpendicular lines,
but also along arbitrary smooth curves. This is because such a projection
is a smooth transformation that can modify the prefactors not written out
in (2.3) only, not the exponent of the power law, the dimension.
Problem 2.11 What is the algorithm given in terms of the removal of
pieces from a unit cube which leads to the direct product of three Cantor
sets of parameter r = 1/3 placed along the edges of a unit cube? What
is the relation of the observed volume of this set to that of the Menger
sponge (Problem 2.7(a)) at the same resolution, ε = 3−n ?
2.2.3 Thin and fat fractals
Covering a fractal embedded in d dimensions with d-dimensional cubes
of size ε, the observed volume V (ε) of a fractal is given by
V (ε) = εd N (ε).
This is a generalisation of the traditional concept of volume.6 Because
of the resolution dependence (2.3) of the number of covering boxes, the
The observed surface area in this generalised concept is S(ε) ∼ εd−1 N (ε), which is for
d = 2, for example, the observed perimeter length.
observed volume varies according to the following rule:
V (ε) ∼ εd−D0 ,
The difference between the dimension of the space and that of the fractal
is often called the co-dimension of the fractal. The fractal dimension of
the objects examined so far is smaller than the dimension of the space;
consequently, the observed volume decreases with resolution. These
fractals may be called thin fractals, since their observed volume would
vanish in the limit ε → 0. One can also say that these fractals are not
space-filling; in a mathematical sense they are sets of measure zero. They
do not possess a volume, but they do have an extension; moreover, their
observed surface may tend to infinity. This has been shown for the Koch
curve embedded in a plane, where the two-dimensional volume – the
surface area – decreases, while the length increases with resolution.
The fact that the fractal dimension of a set equals the dimension of the
space, i.e. D0 = d, does not necessarily imply that the set is a traditional
object. Even if the observed volume converges to some finite value, V ,
for sufficiently small resolutions, it may occur that the structure of the
object is essentially ramified. Such objects are called fat fractals: parts
of them appear to be porous, while others look smooth. (‘Bulky’ plane
figures bounded by fractal curves, such as the Koch island in Problem
2.2, are not fat fractals.)
A measurable property of fat fractals is that their observed volume
depends on the resolution in such a way that the deviation from the
exact volume, V , decreases slowly and proportionally to a power of the
V (ε) − V ∼ εα .
Here α < 1 the fat fractal exponent, is a positive number. (For traditional
objects, α is typically unity; see Problem 2.3.) Exponent α is not a
dimension, rather it is the co-dimension of the difference of the observed
volume and the volume itself. As (2.15) indicates, the complement of a
fat fractal is itself a fat fractal of the same exponent α.
Problem 2.12 Consider a Cantor construction in which the proportion of the interval length removed at step n is λn . Given the sequence
(λ1 , λ2 , . . . ), determine the fractal dimension D0 . What is the condition
for D0 = 1?
Simple examples of fat fractals can be obtained by modifying the
Cantor construction. In the first step the centre third of the unit interval
is removed, but afterward it is 1/9 (and not 1/3) of the remaining 1/3
intervals, then 1/27 of the new segments, etc. At the nth step, 1/3n of the
Fig. 2.11. Fat Cantor set. In contrast to a Cantor set, a decreasing proportion of
the segments is removed. These proportions are 1/3, 1/9, 1/27, . . . , 1/3n . The
total length of the fat Cantor set constructed in this manner converges to a finite
number greater than zero. The dimension is D0 = 1 and the fat fractal
exponent, α, is 0 < α < 1.
Fig. 2.12. Fat Cantor
filaments: the first three
steps of the construction.
Fig. 2.13. A prototypical
fat fractal of the plane. The
figure shows the result of
the construction described
in the text after three steps
with λ = 0.6.
remaining segments is removed (Fig. 2.11). The length of the removed
intervals decreases much more rapidly than the triadic Cantor set.
Problem 2.13 Determine the volume V (the length) and exponent α
of the fat Cantor set of Fig. 2.11.
Two-dimensional fat fractals can be obtained, for example, by forming the direct product of a fat Cantor set (Fig. 2.11) and an interval as
shown in Fig. 2.12.
A more general type of fat fractal can be constructed by cutting out
areas of decreasing proportions from a compact object. In the example of
Fig. 2.13, a square of size λ < 1 is cut out in the first step from the middle
of a unit square. The continuations of the edges of this square define
rectangles of the remaning area. The construction goes on therefore by
cutting out a downscaled copy of each rectangle from its middle, and so
on. In order to obtain a fat fractal, the reduction factor is chosen to be λn
in step n. The result is a planar object in which the black and the white
regions are intricately interwoven into each other, and both have finite
In the following, the attributive of thin fractals will be omitted and
these objects will simply be called fractals, while fat fractals will always
be accurately named.
Problem 2.14 Determine the fat fractal exponent of the object shown
In natural phenomena fractals not only mean a mere geometrical structure but also provide stages on which ‘something is going on’. Processes occurring on fractals generate distributions of certain measurable
quantities. These generally become time-independent rather rapidly. The
character of such stationary distributions depends on the nature of the
process going on on the fractal. In the case of catalysts, the reaction product is not necessarily of uniform distribution everywhere; for example,
the reaction rate might be higher in certain parts of the fractal and lower
in others. If the fractal is a connected set and its material is a conductor,
then an electric voltage generated between two points of this structure
will produce highly different current intensities at different sites of the
fractal. On fractals produced in the course of slow precipitation processes
(such as electrolytic precipitation), each point of the surface can be characterised by the probability that a new particle will be bound to that point.
If particles move at random along the surface of the fractal, then some
points of the object may be visited more often than others. In chaotic
systems, it is a consequence of the dynamics that a time-independent
distribution develops on some fractal subset of phase space.
Since all these distributions are non-negative, they can be normalised
to unity on the entire fractal. Such distributions can therefore be considered as probability distributions, and their normalisation expresses
the fact that an event certainly occurs somewhere on the entire fractal.
Experience shows that distributions developing on fractals are rather
inhomogeneous and can themselves be considered as fractals in some
sense. It is not only the support of the distribution (the set where the
function is non-zero), but also the internal structure of the entire function that exhibits a fractal character. The dimension of this function is,
however, different from the dimension D0 of the support.
In the following, such highly inhomogeneous probability distributions will be investigated for (for the sake of simplicity) fractals
P(x)
Fig. 2.14. Fractal distribution: first four steps of the construction of a
probability distribution on a Cantor set with parameter r = 1/3. The parameter
of the distribution is p1 = 0.4 ( p2 = 0.6). (a) The respective areas of the columns
on the left and on the right are p1 and p2 . (b) The respective areas of the
columns from left to right are p12 , p1 p2 , p2 p1 and p22 . Proceeding similarly in
(c) and (d), the dis
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When a Gang Becomes an Organized Criminal Enterprise
The Shift from Gang Rivalry to Money
Once a gang shifts away from turf orientation and petty crimes ("First Generation Gang") and begins organizing illegal activities with a money making focus, they become what is characterized as a "Second Generation Gang". Second generation gang activities tend to be drug-centric, operate in broader areas and have a centralized leadership. Most urban gangs fit into the first and second generation characterizations.
Organized crime is defined by the FBI as any group having a formalized structure whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Gangs perpetuate control of enterprises and illegal activities through threatened and actual violence, graft, and extortion. Turf wars and gang pride are still important however, the focus becomes more about the money.
The Growth of Prison Gangs
Prison gangs pose a serious domestic threat, particularly national-level prison gangs that affiliate with Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) and they can maintain substantial influence over street gangs in the communities in which they operate. Prison gangs are highly structured criminal networks that operate within the federal and state prison systems. Furthermore, these gangs operate in local communities through members who have been released from prison. Released members typically return to their home communities and resume their former street gang affiliations, acting as representatives of their prison gang to recruit street gang members who perform criminal acts on behalf of the prison gang.
Migration, Competition and Conflict
Drug distribution by gang members poses a growing concern in suburban and rural communities; Gang members are the primary retail-level drug distributors and are increasing their wholesale-level drug distribution in most urban and suburban communities. As law enforcement target violent gangs, gang members migrate from the city to suburbia when they attempt to blend in to escape threat of law enforcement action. As gangs move into new communities; crime and violence follows.
How Transnational Gangs are Different from Street Gangs
The primary distinction between transnational gangs and other domestic street gangs is that they are criminally active and operate in more than one country. Transnational gangs tend to operate globally and their criminal activities transcend borders. They are sophisticated and their activities resemble those of organized criminal syndicates. As transnational gangs migrate to the U.S., they bring their gang culture, style and violence with them.
A transnational gang has the following characteristics:
Criminally active and operational in more than one country.
Criminal activities tend to be sophisticated and transcend borders.
Criminal activities committed by members are planned, directed, and controlled by gang leaders in another country.
Such gangs tend to be mobile and adapt to new areas.
Regional, National and Transnational Gangs
Gangs from the United States are increasingly involved in cross border criminal activities, particularly in the southwest border areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. Much of this activity involves the trafficking of drugs and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. U.S. gangs are reported to be involved with Mexican drug organizations and are involved in the transport of currency and weapons back to Mexico.
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Brazilian born and home to the most beautiful women in the world, the stunning Fernanda has put her mark on the fitness world. At the age of 23, armed with a Bachelors degree in Kinesiology, Fernanda left the comfort and familiarity of family and friends and her native Brazil. Having not yet learned English, Fernanda stepped off the plane on to American soil as an immigrant, with nothing but the clothes in her suitcase and the intention to pursue the American Dream.
Resilience was a necessity for her to survive as her secret was still too raw to expose. Why America? The United States is vastly known around the world as the place to come as an immigrant for all your dreams to come true. Many impoverished, religiously persecuted, and stifled people from all walks of life come to the United States to regain their freedom of expression and opportunity to be their true selves.
It was only later, that Fernanda would realize that first step off that plane would be a step towards overcoming the obstacles of her life. That the success she has created for herself could only happen in a place like the United States.
Becoming the new fitness sensation and helping thousands of women achieve personal success was always in the forefront, but identifying her sexuality and being comfortable with it was yet to come.
In 2010, Fernanda became a US Citizen. She has not merely survived, but she has thrived. Rocha has made a name by taking a stand for gay rights and building a successful business empire.
Along with her Fitness brand, her Brazilian Booty Workout DVD, as well the workout program Jinga Fitness launching in 2016, she has continually set her sights high. Fernanda is a co-owner of a highly-successful, well-known Laguna Beach gym, Art of Fitness. She has been a long time supporter of the NOH8 Campaign, It Gets Better Organization Project, and Let’s Move Project.
Both on and off camera, Fernanda sets her sights on anything from Human Rights advocacy to becoming one of the country’s leading Fitness Experts. Fearless in nature, Fernanda has never been one to shy away from the truth. In 2010, she became an advocate for gay rights as the first lesbian cast member on the OC Housewives, and was the Grand Marshall at the Chicago Gay Pride parade.
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Mainardi, Elizabeth (nee Froio) of Totowa at rest in Newark on October 2, 2004. Beloved wife of the late Joseph Mainardi. Mother of Dr. Carlo Mainardi and Donald Mainardi. Sister of Anthony J. Froio. Grandmother of Courtney, Timothy and Blake Mainardi. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Festa Memorial Funeral Home, 111 Union Blvd., Totowa, on Tuesday at 9:00 AM. Funeral Mass to follow at St. James R.C. Church, Totowa at 9:30 AM. Interment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa. Friends may call Monday 2-4 and 7-9 PM. In lieu of flowers donations to the Elizabeth Mainardi Scholarship Fund, Department of Institutional Advancement, Ramapo College Of New Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430 would be appreciated. For more information go to www. Festamemorial.com OBITUARY Elizabeth (nee Froio) Mainardi age 82 of Totowa died Saturday. Born in Little Falls, NJ she was a lifelong resident of Totowa. She worked in the Probation Office and was a Court Administrator for Passaic County. Mrs. Mainardi was a parishioner of St. James R.C. Church, Totowa and President of the Totowa Senior Citizens Club. She was Treasurer of the Italian American Club, Totowa. Preceeding her in death was her husband: Joseph Mainardi Survivors include: 2 sons: Dr. Carlo Mainardi of Livingston, NJ Donald Mainardi of Little Falls, NJ Brother: Anthony J. Froio of Wayne, NJ Also survived by 3 grandchildren. Festa Memorial Funeral Home, 111 Union Blvd., Totowa is in charge of arrangements.
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HomeOur ObsessionsSave ‘Shadowhunters’ x The Trevor Project
Save ‘Shadowhunters’ x The Trevor Project
Our Obsessions / Shadowhunters
by: Daisy Franklin
Listen up and gather close, Shadowfam – it’s time to get a game plan together.
Ever since Freeform cruelly announced the cancellation of Shadowhunters, the Shadowfam has worked tirelessly to see their adored show saved from the chopping block.
The ongoing #SaveShadowhunters campaign has seen pedicabs circling the SDCC, banners flying over Netflix headquarters, ads in Times Square, and a victorious turn at last year’s People’s Choice Awards, the results of which carry the same message: the fight isn’t over.
While the Shadowfam keeps on truckin’ like the group of valiant demon hunters they are, we’ve been talking a lot about the significance of Shadowhunters, why it deserves to continue, and why it’s a travesty that no one has snapped it up yet.
If you hadn’t realized, we’re taking matters into our own hands and working with the fandom to further the profile of the show everyday in order to tell the powers that be that we’ll keep on fighting till the happy end (when Shadowhunters is saved).
The Shadowfam raised over $24,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity The Trevor Project – which apparently Freeform has matched – which is an amazing achievement. We think their valiant charity efforts are a great example of why Shadowhunters needs to continue. What TV network wouldn’t want to work with a tribe of positive and dedicated people who want to make the world a better place?
We got an email from The Trevor Project earlier today that gave us our #SaveShadowhunters activity of the day. The Trevor Project said:
“Today is the last day of our fiscal year. Thank you for being part of the solution towards ending LGBTQ youth suicide. Would you consider making another generous gift before today ends?”
Wouldn’t it be a great way to show our fandom’s dedication to continue raising money for The Trevor Project? We’re asking all our fandom friends to do the following this week:
Pitch in $1 to the #SaveShadowhunters Trevor Project campaign, and
Find ten members of your friends, family, and community to pledge $1 to The Trevor Project.
Here’s a handy pledge letter for you to share with your loved ones to make this task easier for you:
As you know already, I’m a massive fan of the show Shadowhunters. I’ve been working to save the show since it was cancelled back in 2018. We’re still campaigning and I’ve got a favor to ask. Would you mind making a small $1 donation to The Trevor Project? It’s an amazing charity which helps LGBTQ+ youth. All you need to do is go to The Trevor Project and follow the instructions there. This show means so much to so many people, and it would mean everything to me if we could help raise money in its name for such a worthwhile cause.
This fandom cares, and we’re so proud of y’all already. We hope we can continue to spread the love for Shadowhunters through donations to The Trevor Project and help them support LGBTQ+ youth.
Thanks to Basic Shadowhunters Stuff for setting this campaign up.
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Wallace Stegner says that without public lands ‘We Are A Lesser People’
An excerpt of Wallace Stegner’s famous “Wilderness Letter” by Alexander Atkins, a graphic designer and writer. It appeared in Bookshelf in September of 2012.
Excerpts of Stegner’s 1960 “Wilderness Letter”:
Stegner poses for the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University in the 1960s. Photo by Dan Stober, Stanford News Service. Stegner died on April 13, 1993 (aged 84) Santa Fe, NM.
I want to speak for the wilderness idea as something that has helped form our character and that has certainly shaped our history as a people… Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. Without any remaining wilderness we are committed wholly, without chance for even momentary reflection and rest, to a headlong drive into our technological termite-life, the Brave New World of a completely man-controlled environment. We need wilderness preserved–as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds–because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as vacation and rest, into our insane lives. It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there–important, that is, simply as an idea.
As a novelist, I may perhaps be forgiven for taking literature as a reflection, indirect but profoundly true, of our national consciousness. And our literature, as perhaps you are aware, is sick, embittered, losing its mind, losing its faith. Our novelists are the declared enemies of their society. There has hardly been a serious or important novel in this century that did not repudiate in part or in whole American technological culture for its commercialism, its vulgarity, and the way in which it has dirtied a clean continent and a clean dream. I do not expect that the preservation of our remaining wilderness is going to cure this condition. But the mere example that we can as a nation apply some other criteria than commercial and exploitative considerations would be heartening to many Americans, novelists or otherwise. We need to demonstrate our acceptance of the natural world, including ourselves; we need the spiritual refreshment that being natural can produce. And one of the best places for us to get that is in the wilderness where the fun houses, the bulldozers, and the pavement of our civilization are shut out.
These are some of the things wilderness can do for us. That is the reason we need to put into effect, for its preservation, some other principle than the principles of exploitation or “usefulness” or even recreation. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Read the complete letter here . . .
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Giving power back to the people—it sounds great. Except that it’s a smoke screen. Trump had to overlook what 80% of Maine voters wanted.
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: January 18, 2019
Palestinian School And Sewage Projects Unfinished As U.S. Cuts Final Bit Of Aid, NPR
The White House has blocked an emergency effort to finish major U.S.-funded school, water and sewage projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to documents reviewed by NPR.
Pro-Palestinian lawmaker shakes up Israel status quo with seat on foreign affairs panel, Al-Monitor
Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is one of two freshmen Democrats openly embracing the pro-Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. On Wednesday she joined the House Foreign Affairs Committee, giving her an unprecedented opportunity to elevate BDS as an issue on the traditionally pro-Israel panel — should she choose to do so.
IDF destroys home of Palestinian teen who killed Ari Fuld, JTA
The home of the family of Khalil Jabarin, 16, was blown up Friday in the village of Yatta near Hebron, Ynet reported. The teenager, who is standing trial for murder in Israel, fatally stabbed Fuld in September.
Israel goes after Hamas in Sinai, Al-Monitor
Recent reports suggest that Israel has been leading a campaign in the Sinai Peninsula to stop arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip.
Jailed Palestinian who sold land to Israelis set to be freed, Al Jazeera
A Palestinian-American who received a life sentence for selling property to Jews is reportedly set to be sent to US.
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You Can Plan to Feast at MLB Stadiums During the 2016 Season
By Chris Campbell
Last night, the Kansas City Royals defended their World Series crown against the New York Mets in a 4-3 game, officially launching the Major League Baseball season. As the 162-game campaign begins, fans round the world will begin to adjust their meals to match up with those iconic baseball foods like hot dogs and cracker jacks. Last year, we spent some time searching for produce in stadiums. We even found some! (Even if it wasn't with concession vendors). This year, we'll spend some time looking at the incredible and over-the-top fare available at some parks around the country.
In 2016, the trends seem to focus on creating larger-than-life versions of regional and historical favorites. Hot dogs, cracker jacks, pizza and burgers are being redesigned into enormous specialties, and it makes sense: HDTV changed the way people watch games. To keep fans in seats, stadiums need to step up the "spectacle" aspect of attending a game, and that's the perfect word: some of these meals are show-stoppers.
Speaking of the defending National League champions, the New York Mets seemed to harness their renewed notoriety on the national scene by enlisting celebrity help: Momofuku's David Chang, Milk Bar's baking guru Christina Tosi and "Magician of Meat" Pat LaFrieda all helped craft a spicy fried chicken sandwich, a pizzaiolo hero and filet mignon sandwich. When it comes to the NL East, however, the Atlanta Braves may hold the crown: the club plans to offer the "Burgerizza" at all home games, a 20-oz. beef patty complete with five slices of cheddar cheese and bacon. The bun, you ask? Two 8-inch pepperoni pizzas.
The New York Yankees had to postpone their home opener due to snow, rain and all other sorts of precipitation, delaying fans' chance to try their Tape Measure Cheesesteak, a two-foot sandwich topped with shredded beef and Cheez Whiz. The Yankees will also feature artisan grilled cheese sandwiches created at the Big Cheese, a gourmet stand. Division rivals, the Toronto Blue Jays, will to top their culinary adversaries with a Buffalo Cauliflower poutine.
This year's craziest food award probably deserves to be with the Pittsburgh Pirates: the Cracker Jack & Mac Dog is a belly-buster that marries a foot-long all-beef hot dog, macaroni and cheese, salted caramel sauce, deep-fried pickled jalapeños all wrapped in naan, with a side of Cracker Jacks. That's not the only dog on the menu, though: the Arizona Diamondbacks are back at it with the Cheeseburger Dog. At $10, the product is essentially a giant hot dog made from a cheeseburger. That's deep fried. And then topped with chopped bacon, lettuce, tomato and a secret sauce. The defending champions are also making a run to fan's stomachs with the Champions Alley Dog, a bacon-wrapped, tempura-battered hot dog topped with sweet slaw and chipotle ketchup.
Not every team is staying with the classics, though: the Boston Red Sox will offer a Savenor's Steak Tip Sandwich, featuring marinated steak tips with cheese and BBQ sauce on a crusty roll. The Houston Astros will offer Irish Nachos, a dish of kettle chips covered with jalapeño queso, roasted tomatoes and the usual nacho toppings. Baseball may be America's past time, but that doesn't mean the cuisine needs to stay in the past.
The beginning of spring, the sounds of summer, the chase of the pennant into the fall: the opening of the baseball season is just the impetus for a number of great American traditions. What stadiums do you plan on visiting this year, and more importantly, what will you eat?
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MOYS, PFAG pay tribute to Junior Agogo
August 22, 2019 DARAJA KAPOOR JR.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports and Professional Footballers Association of Ghana have have paid tribute to Junior Agogo following his death at the age of 40.
The Ex-Black Stars striker reportedly died in the early hours of Thursday morning in London.
He will be remembered fondly for his contributions at 2008 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil where he scored three goals in six outings as the Black Stars settled for a third-place.
Agogo’s life would change dramatically in 2015, however, suffering a debilitating stroke while out jogging with his dog in a London park.
He was featured in the BBC Four documentary ‘Speechless’ which chronicled his battle, along with others, with aphasia – the impairment of language that affects the ability to speak or comprehend speech and the ability to read and write.
“You epitomized a phrase in our national anthem ‘Bold to defend’ and as it were, the privilege and the pride to represent your country with the @ghanafaofficial Black Stars.
Indeed, you will be fondly remembered for the memories
RIP Junior Agogo!” the Sports Ministry paid tribute in a statement.
“May your soul rest in peace, Junior Agogo. For the joy, the happiness and the smiles you brought to millions of Ghanaians, you will always be in our heart. Rest Well🌹❤️🙏” PFAG also took to Twitter to join in the mourning.
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Salesforce.com (CRM) Outpaces Stock Market Gains: What You Should Know
Zacks January 13, 2020
In the latest trading session, Salesforce.com (CRM) closed at $183.75, marking a +1.97% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.7%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.29%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.04%.
Heading into today, shares of the customer-management software developer had gained 13.63% over the past month, outpacing the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 7.4% and the S&P 500's gain of 4.38% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from CRM as it approaches its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect CRM to post earnings of $0.55 per share. This would mark a year-over-year decline of 21.43%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $4.75 billion, up 31.84% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $2.89 per share and revenue of $17 billion. These totals would mark changes of +5.09% and +27.99%, respectively, from last year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for CRM. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection remained stagnant. CRM is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).
Digging into valuation, CRM currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 62.3. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 32.93, so we one might conclude that CRM is trading at a premium comparatively.
Also, we should mention that CRM has a PEG ratio of 3.32. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.21 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 88, which puts it in the top 35% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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Director Elia Kazan's first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn shows that the filmmaker's great empathy for his characters was already quite evident at this early juncture, and this endures as one of the most moving Hollywood dramas of the 1940s. Based on Betty Smith's novel – a bestseller in the U.S. but also one of the most popular books among American soldiers overseas in WWII – Kazan's debut is a sensitive, masterful adaptation.
Set among Brooklyn tenements circa 1912, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a portrait of the Nolans, an Irish-American family living in financially challenging circumstances, often made worse by father Johnny's drinking and employment problems. But matriarch Katie keeps the family together during all of the obstacles, caring for son Neeley and daughter Francie, as well as Katie's outspoken, oft-married sister Sissy. But just as Francie's gift for writing opens up new avenues, more tragic developments test the family's resolve.
Winning Academy Awards for actors James Dunn (as Johnny) and Peggy Ann Garner (as Francie), and featuring splendid work by Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a heartfelt testament to the strength of family, and offers an early indication of Kazan's unrivalled proficiency with actors.
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This year’s Journey of a Lifetime Award recipient, Redzi Bernard, completed her two-week journey travelling through northern Ethiopia to learn about the lives of women there earlier this year
Following in the footsteps of her mother who undertook the same journey 50 years ago, Redzi travelled on foot and by mule between the towns of Weldiya and Lalibela, and recorded her travels for a BBC Radio 4 documentary. We caught up with Redzi to discuss her journey.
What did you want to achieve with this journey to northern Ethiopia? Why now?
I wanted to follow in my mother’s footsteps and get to know a country I had already grown to love through stories told in my childhood. The journey also had particular resonance as shortly after I applied, my beautiful, adventurous and inspirational mum was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. I am fortunate to have been able to travel when I did – we swapped lots of notes and she has enjoyed reliving an amazing time in her life.
What key issues facing women did you come across during your time there – are they being tackled?
In the rural areas where I trekked, women still have trouble accessing good healthcare, especially in relation to reproductive health. But it seems to be improving. I visited the new maternity unit at the hospital in Lalibela and learned about a programme of satellite healthcare services being rolled out across the countryside which takes health services directly to areas where people live rather than expecting women to come to the hospital.
Your mother took this same journey 50 years ago, what do you think has changed since that time?
For the most part I was not able to take the precise route my mother took. But there were points when I was on the exact track she was, and that felt really exciting. Since getting back I have shown her pictures and she has said some of the images were exactly the same when she went in 1968. But a lot has changed. There are more roads, better sanitation, family size is coming down and there are much better standards of universal education.
Redzi atop a mule recording her documentary [Image: Redzi Bernard]
What was the highlight of your journey?
The overwhelming spirituality of Lalibela was astounding – I was humbled and awed in equal measure. The churches were hewn from a single expanse of rock in the 12th century and the fact that they are still in use as a place of worship makes them truly special. When I visited there was a tangible sense of devotion I have never experienced anywhere else.
How did making a radio documentary affect the journey?
It helped me to stop and reflect at points where I perhaps would have walked on by, and it made me pay attention to how I was feeling. It also upped the pressure slightly. When there were no mules available I downright insisted that someone find me one, because I had promised I would ride one on the radio!
What advice would you give to the next recipient of the JOLT award?
Apply! If you’re sitting at home thinking there is no point in applying because past winners have special skills or unique talents – remember that I’m just normal. I had a strong personal pull to a place that I had always longed to see and in taking that one small decision to apply for this grant I have been fortunate enough to have had an unbelievably enriching experience. So if you’re thinking of applying – do it! You have nothing to lose and the experience of a lifetime to gain!
Redzi’s BBC Radio 4 documentary will be broadcast at 1.30pm on Sunday 20 October 2019. The Journey of a Lifetime Award is run by the Society in partnership with BBC Radio 4 and offers a £5,000 grant to make an original and inspiring journey anywhere in the world, and the chance to create a travel documentary. Do you want the opportunity to make your own Journey of a Lifetime? Find out more on our website: www.rgs.org/jolt
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By David Ross, November 9, 2012 in Food Media & Arts
Location:Spokane Valley, WA
I'm glad Carla is gone. Passion is one thing. Psychosis is another.
Exactly. Whenever I've been around Carla when I'm in Las Vegas I always leave sort of shaking my head. Very talented but also, I sense, incredibly insecure. I think that's why she over-compensates with her intentional "psychosis" and a craving for attention. The insecurity clouds her ability to understand that if she just cooked the great Italian dishes she grew up with, people would laud her for that--not for the fact she's injected her lips with Botox and she wears heels in the kitchen. I think there's a shard of truth here that she realizes. You could see it in her face when they told her to pack her knives and go. I sort of felt bad for her. It was like the pretty girl at the party being told that nobody liked her--and she knew it.
She just opened a new meatball restaurant in a mall in Las Vegas, (the venture at the Tropicana suddenly closed this Fall), so hopefully someday she will realize a better balance between her cooking and her "image."
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Location:NY Suburbs
Of the 6 chefs who cooked an omelette for Wolfgang Puck, 4 have already been eliminated and Tyler is holding on by a fingernail. Wolfgang was way too generous to his omelette chefs, the only one he should have passed is Kumiko.
so where then would they find the chefs to fill up the rest of the pool? Or would they cut the season short? This is TV, and things are somewhat structured in advance. I'm sure each of the judges was given a narrow minimum and maximum number of chefs they could pass.
So Jeff, being from Dallas, did the local community really once call Tesar the most-hated Chef in Dallas? And what could the guy have done that was so egregious that it earned him that woeful title?
D Magazine gave him that dubious title in cover story. I suppose he is most noted for taking over at the Mansion On Turtle Creek after Dean Fearing left, totally revamped the place, and won rave reviews. (he left RM Seafood in Las Vegas to take the gig). That didn't last long. But I think most of the hate comes from other chefs, cooks, waiters, etc. and restaurant owners, and probably less from the general public (though I suppose some hated that he changed the Mansion in a major way). He even gets mentioned by Anthony Bourdain in 'Kitchen Confidential'.
Anyway... whole story is here.
http://www.dmagazine...in_Dallas.aspx?
After watching that deplorable effort on Tesar's part to act as the expediter in the pass I'm now not suprised that his contemporaries in Dallas say nasty things about him. He'll probably get far in this competition just based on his cooking talents, but in the end I predict his disregard for others and ignorance of the negative vibe he sends off will catch him and that will trump him up.
Don't tell me that a "Top Chef" can't properly roast a squab. If you can't, you don't deserve to stay Carla. I know one highly regarded Italian Chef in Las Vegas who is noted for his delicious treatment of game birds. Carla's inference that an Italian Chef wouldn't know how to cook a squab was laughable.
The squab thing was weird. I would assume, as a chef, she has at least cooked small birds at some point in her life. Why not just apply those techniques to the squab?
I was left wondering if the "I've never cooked a squab" thing was set up by producers for "drama."
-Sounds awfully rich!
-It is! That's why I serve it with ice cream to cut the sweetness!
Holly Moore
Location:Philadelphia, PA
Enjoying this year's Top Chef, whidh is something I haven't been able to say for a few years. The low point in the series was the Peewee Herman and the bicycles episode. Figured they had jumped the shark at that point. The producers were playing with the chefs like a little girl plays with her Barbie Doll's. All about placing chefs in ridiculous situations and going for the chuckle. At the risk of speaking too soon, it seems this year is more cooking oriented.
My guess is Tom Colicchio got pissed and steered the show back to an actual cooking competition.
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Location:Atlanta
I agree with Holly. Although the quality of chefs doesn't seem to be any better (excepting the ringer Tesar), putting more focus on actual cooking than gimmicks in the elimination challenges is a vast improvement. Plus no catering elimintations yet -- Yay!
So far I'd rank this season above Seasons 9 (Texas), 5 (NY) and 7 (Wash DC) but still well below the series high points of seasons 3, 4, & 6 (my favorites). At this point, I'd settle for a solid season.
lindag
Location:W. Montana - The Last Best Place
I'm thoroughly enjoying this season. I love the Seattle location, nice that it's in the West.
There's something quite different about this year, more interaction with the real Chefs maybe? That's a nice touch.
As usual though there's that blend of really odd characters.
Like everyone else I wish Hugh would have those eyebrows worked on, he looks ridiculous. And I don't know why he's one of the judges anyway but I don't know what his background is.
And Carla! Wow! What a train wreck. Doubly glad she's gone.
huiray
Location:Indianapolis, IN, USA
John Tesar was "Jimmy Sears" in Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential".
One reads this-and-that about John Tesar's reputation in Dallas and elsewhere, and that dmagazine story wasn't exactly "neutral". Still, what did you hear the chefs, waiters, cooks etc say about Tesar , both good and bad?
Those omelets were pretty gross. Amazing a potential TC can't do a decent looking omelet. In their slight defense it looked like they were given steel pans to cook them in. If you expect teflon, that'd be a big adjustment and would account for the brown eggs.
I suppose they were expected to make classic French omelets, even though it wasn't spelled out and Wolfgang Puck merely asked them to make "an omelet" for him, and the comments about their being brown, sloppy etc would be meaningful in this sense. I wonder - suppose one of them (say, Chrissy Camba, drawing on her Filipino heritage and extrapolating into SE and E Asian fare) had made something like an oyster omelet ("Oh Chien" in Hokkien; https://www.google.com/search?q=oh+chien&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) or Kuniko Yagi had made a form of "Tamagoyaki" instead? They're omelets - just not a *French* omelet.
I thought there was a good case for CJ Jacobsen or Joshua Valentine to have been sent home instead of Chrissy Camba at the end of the latest episode.
I agree, it appears that we're in for a more focused season with more emphasis on real-life cooking challenges. That, for me, is a great relief over years of insane challenges cooking with ingredients out of the local 7-11 or catered affairs for debutante coming of age parties. I'm sensing that since were this far into the show, I don't think we'll go down the ludicrous path of past seasons. While Seattle is best-known for seafood, I'm hoping they venture out a little and taste some of the other wonderful products the region has to offer.
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I'm glad Carla is gone.
This has made the show so much more watchable! ... She was insane!
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I hope CJ gets the axe.....and he will judging by his cooking.
How did he get so pompous?
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Like so many of the Top Cheftants that have come and gone, (and are in the game this year), fame seemingly goes to their head. They lose all sense of what got them to the point of even being a strong candidate for Top Chef at the video submission stage-the ability to cook.
CJ is a perfect example. Last week during the Canlis "Classics of the 50's" challenge, he put out a tepid dish of Shish Kebab over rice. From the looks of the dish, (and the comments of the judges), the rice was tasteless, as was the lamb. No seasoning, no spice, no heat, na-da.
I'm old enough to have dined at a number of "Continental" rooms in the 60's and 70's and Shish Kebab was always an exotic treat. In all honesty, my Father probably let me order it because it was cheaper than the filet mignon. That didn't matter to me, I thought it was a fabulous dish, often paraded into the dining room spiked on swords with a stunning trail of flame. Apparently CJ not only forgot the seasoning but also forgot to review his history books. Had he traipsed into Canlis with flaming Shish Kebab, he probably would've scored a few more style points with the judges.
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Location:Southern Chester Co.
I know that teams add drama and variety, but from a competitive sense I don't like them. The argument goes something like a good chef will have to be able to work with people. But not with flaming jackasses that he'd never hire in the first place. This year does seems well-stocked with jackasses BTW.
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Well, I suppose the producers, etc., feel like their first priority is to keep Top Chef on the air. So, basically, they're "casting" a show just like all other entertainment. Not sure the series would have so many viewers if all it was was a bunch of dedicated, competent, focused professionals quietly going about their work.
I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering. It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home. Most of us already walk like that.
Did I say I was against flaming jackasses?
With a cheap brandy In a chafing dish, perhaps?
Good for Tom for pulling the $10K off the table for the latest challenge. If you get past the touristy aspects of flying fish, Pike Place Market in Seattle is fabulous. It's literally a seasonal smorgasboard of local ingredients and hand-crafted products. Any one of us would have come up with more creative dishes than what we saw.
I can always spot it ten miles away-Cheftestants with attitude and inflated egos, coupled with any sense of manners and treating other people with a whit of respect are the Chefs who often stumble along the way. Cookery skills are supposedly the primary trait that garners a win on Top Chef, but that can only take you so far, especially when you are paired on a team or in a group. CJ was just the most recent example. His "I'm the best Chef" in this competition attitude obviously cast a haze over rational thinking. In his mind, a ground pork burger on a crumpet garnished with a fried pickle would easily reward him with a win and a culinary medal. He's more of a joke than that joke of a burger. And then there was his teamate Tyler. He suffered the indignity of being paired with an egotistical ass who didn't craft a good burger, but Tyler trumped CJ because he left with grace, class and professionalism.
Of course, knowing the dramady that Bravo pushes on us, I won't be surprised when they announce CJ won in the Last Chance Kitchen and raises his ugly head back in the competition.
they alll seemed to phone it in on that last challenge. I'm sure there's a bit of "i just don't want to be last so lets keep it simple"strategy going on. also, it looked like the challenge started at about 6am. probably not a ton of creative juices flowing that early. still, i'd be sad if i was one of the producers of the ingredients, excited for an amazing meal and then got that.
Boy those ingredients were pretty lame. Rose water? Pickles? Come on. Fine dining doesn't see that stuff used... ever. Top Chef needs to be careful of the foolish tests if it wants to stay interesting.
I totally agree. You've gotta use more realistic ingredients if you want stellar results.
But "we're gonna make a bad burger on a bad bun and throw pickles on it!"
Really? Seriosuly? The best you can do with your pickles is fry and toss them onto a burger?
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The Falkland Islands: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tell Argentina to STFU
AManFromEarth Let's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered User regular
February 2012 edited February 2012 in Debate and/or Discourse
The land of rocks, sheep, and penguins has once again found itself in the hungry gaze of Argentina.
A long time ago, in an age of myth and legend, Europe sent ships full of people with guns to travel around the world and take things from brown people who didn't have any guns. This is how all of the countries in what we call "America" were created. From Canada down to Argentina, each country has tried to reintegrate its indigenous population with varying levels of success.
At the bottom of the continent were a couple empty rocks that were first seen by Magellan in 1520 and first landed on by the British a hundred and seventy years later in 1690, where they were named after the patron of the ship's captain, Viscount Falkland.
The first settlement was by the French in 1764 and named Port Louis. Spain objected to this and was ceded the islands, which they called the Malvinas, in 1767. In 1765 the British had set up an outpost on the islands which was later expelled by Spain. The Spanish let them return to resettle later, but at this point in time Spain controlled the islands, and pretty much everything in South America except for Brazil and some other stuff near the Caribbean.
And for a long time nothing happened and no one lived on the islands. In 1833 the British set up the current society in the Falklands. The Falklanders, their sheep, and their chummy penguin neighbors lived on in peace until the 1980s when the military dictator of Argentina invaded the islands, triggering the Falkland Islands war in 1982. The British won this war quite handily, securing their claim on the islands.
Now, with the recent discovery of oil in the British Exclusion Zone, the old chestnut of "take back the Malvinas" has been taken out of the Argentinian political chalk board. The president of Argentina, Sean Penn, various liberals, the head of the UN, and apparently President Obama, have urged for talks on the issue.
In actuality, the Falklanders, who have lived on the islands for almost two hundred years, have shown no desire to become Argentinian, and indeed repeatedly state their wish to remain British. To me, this is the clinching argument. Especially since Argentina's counter argument is "why should we care what they think?"
If anyone is being imperialist in this case, it is Argentina, who is using their station as an economic power in Latin America to curry the opinion of South America into their view by raising restrictions on the people of the Falklands in an attempt to--almost literally--starve them out.
AManFromEarth on February 2012
override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
Exciting, now we get to be at war with Argentina and Iran at the same time
a5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
Argentina doesn't want to get their shit stomped in again, so I doubt this will end up like last time.
AManFromEarth Let's get to twerk! The King in the SwampRegistered User regular
I think a) the president of Argentina wants to get re-elected, and b.) they want a share of the oil.
I don't see why the UK should give a toss about either point, honestly.
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override367 on February 2012
I think Argentina has even less of a chance against the UK military this time, to be honest
Edit: if my quick internetsings are correct, Argentina only has eight fourth generation fighters and the rest are from the 1970s, I don't see why they'd want to provoke a war with the UK, especially when the US might help with air cover
Dis' Registered User regular
AManFromEarth wrote:
Well its never really been taken off the political chalkboard, just shouted about less. The claim on the islands is a much an accepted part of Argentine consensus mindset as George Washington's cherry tree/shooting freedom lasers from his eyes is to Americans. Its an emotional issue, not a rational one.
Dis' on February 2012
Mill Registered User regular
Yeah, if the Falklanders are fine being British citizens than Argentina can go right the fuck off.
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spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
*brushes shoulder off*
That's what the Brits should think of Argentina.
Dis' wrote:
Oh to be sure, but that doesn't mean that they should get what they want.
The US firmly believed that we should own Canada and that got put paid to.
adytum Registered User regular
It gives me endless amusement that Argentinean maps lay claim to the Falklands.
This is the best time to pick a fight with Britain though, so Argentina's timing is good...ish?
I mean their chances aren't good, but the British fleet is undergoing a transition and they only have one operation aircraft carrier before the first Queen Elizabeth class carrier comes online in 2016, at which point they'll have force projection nearly that of a Nimitz combined with the F-35C
Although they could always ask the US navy, as they have an extreme hardon for defeating less advanced air forces.
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Mill wrote:
Eh, Britain has a history of pulling shit like this. Ulster was districted so that there would be a reliable bare majority to keep the area in is clutches.
PantsB Registered User regular
So basically, Argentina is bitching that they should control the Falklands, the British people don't want to listen, the people who live in the Falklands don't want to listen and Argentina lacks the power or leverage to force anything.
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That may not stop them from trying to take it by force again, I don't know if they're crazy enough to try again
PantsB wrote:
I believe Argentina has successfully lobbied to have ships flying the Falkland flag barred from docking in Mercosur ports, which is why this is in the news again.
adytum on February 2012
Bagginses wrote:
I'm no expert on the Falklands but from what I understand there just really isn't an appreciable chunk of the population on them that wants to be Argentinian. I'm pretty sure that if you can get X% of the population to want to join you, you don't have a valid claim as far as most other countries are concerned. I'd argue that most countries would side with Britain because legitimizing Argentina's claim would open a can of worms best left closed.
Ulster =/= Falklands
Ireland had a thriving indigenous population, the Falklands had some penguins.
And amusingly, the original war was started partly to divert attention from Argentina's floundering military regime's economic crisis.
Today, the increasingly autocratic Argentinian government is facing severe internal economic turmoil.
Yeah, Britain wouldn't even need to do anything special to ensure a referendum to stay with Britain ended in their favor because it would be pointless. I'm sure the Falklands had some immigration that brought in some Argentinians that wouldn't mind if their new home was part of Argentina but I'm also pretty sure that their are other immigrants or decedents of immigrants that wouldn't mind if the Falklands were part of their country of origin. It's just so small that it doesn't really matter and letting anyone make a land grab on such circumstances would create so many issues elsewhere in the world that it wouldn't be funny.
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adytum wrote:
And wasn't the the war started because Thatcher wanted a distraction from the economic crises in England at the time and wanted to score some points to get elected?
And guess what's happening today in England...
dbrock270 wrote:
The war was started by Argentina because England was having economic problems? So that English politicians could score political points? Buh?
I saw this piece of mental greatness on tumblr:
What's wrong with people? Why does such a large part of the population just not pay attention to facts?
The UK didn't start this, at all.
DoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
Holy 1980's redux Batman!
In this time and age, self-identification and self-determination are important issues, based on that alone the decision should be left up to the current inhabitants of the Falklands, but as they have already made their decision, tough cookies to Argentina.
Harry Dresden Registered User regular
The Falklands - The place all conquering nations choose to distract their populace from their internal screw-up's
Harry Dresden wrote:
Hey, hey, some of us use the middle east.
I don't always invade foreign lands, but when I do, I prefer current and former British colonies.
BubbaT Registered User regular
Oil, you say?
Sounds like it's time to dust off the ol' Monroe Doctrine, and protect the resources people of the Western Hemisphere from the predations of dastardly European colonialists.
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BubbaT wrote:
But that interferes with the Bomb Brown People Doctrine.
Doctrinal Crisis! Which to choose? Which to choose?
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tinwhiskers wrote:
COMPROMISE!
The US will take the Islands, cut out all the oil, and then the UK and Argentina shall receive the left overs.
Win-Win-Win
We'll then build a pipeline from the Falklands up to the gulf coast, through the seismic zones, countries that we are on good terms with and we'll man this thing with less than a 100 people. What could possible go wrong with this plan?
No-one suspects the penguins are the Falklands secret weapon.
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Yes, that's exactly what happened.
They dressed up a load of penguins to look like Argentine conscripts and told the world that Argentina had invaded the Falklands and now we needed to blow some shit up in retaliation.
In the same way that the US didn't start tensions with Iran and Israel didn't start tensions with damn near everybody.
You're right, those damn Brits, electing Cristina Kirchner and then having her start banging the drums. Will Blighty never learn?
Oh right, that's bullshit. Britain isn't encroaching on Argentinian interests, it's quite the other way around.
tbloxham Registered User regular
You can certainly say that Thatcher took a much harder line in her presentation of and response to the invasion than she might have done if it wasn't an election year. While the Argentinians were absolutely the agressors and had no legitimate claim to the territory the British would likely have moved through the UN and an allied force to free the islands if it had not been for the economic and political situation at home. For example, she turned down US offers of aircraft carrier support to maintain a wholly British response to the invasion.
The event was not brought on by the British, but the response was, and there could indeed be a similar attitude of 'keep it british' to a response this time for the same reason.
Look at China and Hong Kong after that, after the massive political success that the Falklands was for the Conservatives they considered re-negotiating their treaty with China to let them keep Hong Kong forever. Lack of US and international support tabled the issue, but there were certainly thoughts along those lines.
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If you can come up with a reason why those analogies are relevant, great. Cameron (and Thatcher before him) didn't suddenly bring up the Falklands as a distraction, though he might be glad of the opportunity to make a couple of stern speeches. Do you seriously think he just casually mentioned in a speech that those Falklands sure are British apropos of nothing and then Argentina suddenly remembered oh yeah we think those are ours dammit? This is a regular drum that Argentinian governments/dictatorships bring up for a popularity boost and for the chance to get their hands on some oil rights. Britain tells them to fuck off, and Argentina whines to it's neighbours and anyone else who'll listen about how unfair this all is wah wah wah.
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Thatcher has been pretty open about using the war for political gains.
rockrnger wrote:
But she didn't cause Argentina to invade the Falklands. Can you blame her for using a war for political gain?
Argentina invaded the Falklands, Britain was well within its rights to defend itself. Are we really supposed to be surprised that the politician used the event politically?
I guess Obama shouldn't mention that he killed OBL or saved Detroit during the campaign or it negates the actions he took in the first place.
It's fairly ignorant to claim that the UK has blame in this instance in the same way that Israel or the US are culpable in middle east politics.
Thatcher definitely gained politically and almost certainly knew that, though I've never heard her openly acknowledge doing so for political gains. Source? I woul absolutely accept that British actions before the Falklands helped instigate the conflict, but these weren't deliberate. For example, the Falkland Islanders citizenship was altered to make them less than full citizens of Britain, the navy was massively cut and deployments in the area were cut down. All encouraged Argentina to press their case, but Britain wasn't trying to tempt them into it so they could retaliate. They never thought in a million years Argentina would invade.
I would fully accept politicL calculations as to the popularity of the war as part of her motivation, but since it coincided with pretty much the right thing to do I don't really give a shit. The Falklands was invaded by a fascist dictatorship intent on bolstering support at home. It would have been pretty unconscionable to do nothing, and worse than useless to pursue an response short of a full military one.
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•October 21, 2018
•Cigars, Costa Rica, Reviews, Selected Tobacco
Atabey Hechizos
When it comes to the Atabey line of cigars, it seems like there’s as much unknown about them as there is seemingly known.
Nelson Alfonso—who has his own Wikipedia page, as Charlie Minato once noted—and his Selected Tobacco S.A. operation, doesn’t disclose the blend of the Atabey line, which given Alfonso’s established reputation in the Cuban cigar industry, has led to rampant speculation that the blend uses Cuban tobacco, which while generally denied has helped give the brand a fair amount of appeal despite single cigar prices that hover in the $30 to $40 range.
This year, the brand added its 12th vitola, the Hechizos, a name that means spells in Spanish, and which is far and away the smallest size in the collection.
Atabey Benditos — 7 1/4 x 58
Atabey Brujos — 5 x 52
Atabey Delirios — 5 3/4 x 55
Atabey Dioses — 8 x 50
Atabey Divinos — 4 2/5 x 50
Atabey Duendes — 6 x 54 Torpedo
Atabey Hechizos — 4 x 40
Atabey Idolos — 4 x 55
Atabey Místicos — 6 3/4 x 56
Atabey Ritos — 6 1/8 x 55
Atabey Sabios — 5 1/4 x 52
Atabey Spiritus — 7 1/2 x 40
As would be expected, it comes with a lower cost, though it still has an MSRP of $15 per cigar and $375 for a box of 25.
Cigar Reviewed: Atabey Hechizos
Country of Origin: Costa Rica
Factory: Tabacos de Costa Rica
Wrapper: n/a
Binder: n/a
Filler: n/a
Vitola: Petit Corona
MSRP: $15 (Boxes of 25, $376)
Number of Cigars Released: n/a
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
At first glance, the Atabey Hechizos feels like a half of a lancero, and that suspicion isn’t too far off. At four inches long, it’s a bit longer than half of a traditional 7 1/2 inch long lancero, while the 40 ring gauge is a tick thicker than the more common 38 ring gauge. Regardless, the initial impression remains and seems to be a fair one. The wrapper is very soft and oily in the fingers, while its very light shade seems played up by the white and light gold parts of the band. The roll is on the firm side with visible seams that aren’t laid quite flat in spots, likely due to some small veins. The wrapper leaf has a fairly neutral aroma though there does seem to be a faint smell from the oils, while the foot is a bit fuller but lacking the oils and any discernible aromas on the first and third samples, while the second is fuller and has some pepper. The cold draw is near ideal as far as airflow, with a bit of faint black tea at the onset finished by a subtle sugar sweetness.
Unless you’ve smoked this blend and/or size before, there’s more pepper than you might expect in the first puffs of the Atabey Hechizos, at least there was more than I was expecting given the very light color of the wrapper and the connotations that come with that. It’s not quite starting out lacking balance, but it’s far from the most complex or engaging start I’ve had from a cigar. That begins to change after a few minutes, where the base of the profile rounds out with a bit of chalk. The first clump of ash drops unexpectedly about 10 minutes into the smoke, a development that coincides with black pepper getting much more developed and tingling in the nostrils. The final puffs of the first third start to show a bit of change in the profile as some thick sweetness begins to emerge both on the palate and through the nose.
Pepper is still driving much of the profile entering the second third, but signals of change continue to develop as the thick sweetness now gets a bit of thick creaminess to round out the base of the profile as well provide some more flavor sensations for the palate. There is definitely some variance as to how much sweetness the cigar gives off, and while I don’t want it to overdue that component, it does seem to be a better overall profile when there’s more present than less. The draw remains quite smooth with plenty of fairly creamy smoke produced with each puff.
The sweetness continues to take more developmental steps entering the first third, and finally has enough character to call it syrup or molasses-like, though it fights with the pepper at each puff to establish its own identity and doesn’t always show up. Thankfully the pepper gets dialed back in the final inch-plus, though the sweetness seems to have largely gone with it, leaving a bit of smoky creaminess to close out the Atabey Hechizos on the palate while some raw sugar hangs on in the aroma until it’s time to put the cigar to rest. The final inch or so can see the flavor get a bit sharp on the tongue; the third sample was particularly pointed on the front third with a combination of white pepper, metals, and the kind of sourness I generally associate with Connecticut shade-grown tobaccos. It’s not the best finish from this sample, but it’s not enough to stop me from smoking it to the point where my fingers can no longer comfortably hold the tiny bit of tobacco left.
For as much pepper and flavor intensity as the cigar offered, I didn’t get a lot of nicotine in any of the three samples.
Given its length, it’s a challenge to review this cigar in our typical format of splitting it into thirds, though the Atabey Hechizos did seem to do a good job cooperating as opposed to some other similarly sized cigars that I’ve smoked before.
Even with the smaller size, Atabey still packaged these in solid wood humidor boxes, some of the beefiest and most impressive boxes on the market.
Atabey is distributed by United Cigar Group in the U.S.
Final smoking time was 50 minutes on average.
The cigars for this review were purchased by halfwheel.
Site sponsor Corona Cigar Co. carries the Atabey line, but does not list the Hechizos as being available.
87 Overall Score
There are sayings about having too much of a good thing, but in the case of the Atabey Hechizos there wasn’t enough of it. While I like the cigar’s compact size for a quick smoke, it seems like it comes at the expense of some balance and room for the blend to breathe and show the complexity that is found in the larger ring gauges. This is particularly true in the case of the pepper, which seems forced and over-modulated at points and as such, doesn’t sit quite as well on the palate. While I wouldn’t turn down the Hechizos vitola, if I wanted to enjoy all that the Atabey blend has to offer, I’d take any of the other, larger vitolas before this one.
AtabeyAtabey HechizosCosta RicaNelson AlfonsoPetit CoronaSelected Tobacco S.A.Tabacos de Costa RicaUnited Cigar Group
Atabey Spiritus
Brooks Whittington
Atabey Misticos
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pictures from Heydenwall
Fencing Pictograms
Fencing art
weekly training
Castle presentation
Übersetzungen dieser Seite
Heydenwalls Nature
Heydenwall and the Historical Presentation
Heydenwall and the Armed Encounter
(version one)
Heydenwall is a community interested in living history. Members from Heydenwall meet for weekly fighting practice, visit medieval and viking events and are crafting in common.
(version two)
We are fighters who enjoy weekly practice. We host a bimonthly training which is attended by a number of other groups and takes place in a forested area.
We are craftspeople displaying a variety of viking and medival handcrafts. We trade experiences as well as handcrafted goods.
We have fun with living history, but we are always up for facts and discussion as well.
In the beginning there was none. Asked who we are, we explained „Well, we are a group of people who practice in Oldenburg…“ But this will not do if you want to sign up for events.
So a name was needed. We wanted a name that had something to do with our kind of fighting. A name which represents us and so for a time we called ourselfs „Schildwall“. After a while we learned another group was using that name too. We decided to search for a new name.
Just at this time the so called "Heydenwall" was found at an excavation in Oldenburg. The small circular rampart has probably given our hometown its name. We named ourselves after this fortification.
And so today we are „Der Heydenwall“ The wall of the heathens in the viking period and the wall against the heathens in high medieval times. Anyway, as long as it incorporates battling, tinkering and good food and drinking.
„Keen nich will dieken, de mutt wieken“
(Who doesn't want to build a dike, has to leave.)
Who wants to be with Heydenwall, must be Heydenwall!
HIKG Zertifikat heydenwall
Our group is not limited to one special era. Everyone decides for herself to which extent she commits herself to a certain representation. At the moment most recreations are military, in the early medieval setting viking and frisian in the high-medieval german citizens.
Heydenwall is also always interested in dealing with history. This takes place in various forms of historical representation and also in the context of reconstructions and researches. Each person determines which interests are pursued and with which demands. It is common for us to adapt the claim to the events and to go beyond it.
Each representation, however, represents only an attempt at rapprochement, which is often limited by our resources or also by our right to physical integrity and always also by our thinking as human beings of the present. Nevertheless, every attempt at representation brings us closer to understanding the past and, in reflection, the present.
What we understand by the various terms used to name representations and reconstructions:
Living history and tales
Mostly referred to by the terms „Living History“ and „Historical Role Play“.
Historical representation as living history. It is about experiencing or bringing to life a historical epoch. The focus is on the social images and roles of time and on the relationships between people. This is also represented by the material culture of the epoch.
Presentation of historical events
Mostly referred to by the term of „Reenactment“.
Historical representation as the reenactment and retelling of concrete events. A concrete, historical event is reenacted. (This can be a certain court hearing, or a certain battle, as well as a historical dispute between negotiating parties.) In order to implement this appropriately, the historical circumstances are researched as clearly as possible in order to present the events.
Reconstruction of historical methods
Usually referred to by the terms „experimental archaeology“ and „HEMA“.
Historical representation as reconstruction of application techniques. Here, replicas of finds in concrete experimental situations are used in order to learn more about individual aspects of their possible applications by using them. The starting point is always the archaeological find, the purpose is to learn something about its application possibilities. Thereby we are able to learn something about the object as well as the resulting options and techniques of action. In addition, traditional techniques will be reconstructed and imitated and thus revived in their underlying method and way of application.
Reconstruction of historical techniques
Usually referred to by the terms „archaeotechnics“ and „historical craftsmanship“.
Historical representation as a reconstruction and demonstration of techniques. Historical finds are reproduced with historical tools or traditional techniques are being revived. The starting point are hypothetically assumed production techniques, the goal is the replication of the find and thus the theoretical foundation of the production techniques. This usually leads to a deeper insight into the structure of the finds and into the production contexts. The possibilities of the historical tools are simulated and as a result further insights into the possibilities of the represented time are gained.
Historical setting for a nice get-together
Historical representation as a setting for a friendly togetherness. It's about the good parties that there are in this hobby, without those, everything would only be half as good as it is. Usually we meet at beautiful locations in our robes and drink drinks from our vessels made after finds and let us get drunk and so we sing heroic songs about great deeds, as it is reported in old traditions.
At Heydenwall the medieval armed encounter - the fencing with medieval and early modern weapons - is something that is practiced in many different styles and trained under different aspects. We have many interests and like it that they add up to each other.
It is clear that it isn't possible to meet the requirements, but we strive to get near them!
Fencing as Sport
Mostly realized through Codex Belli 2003, 2010 and Western Style.
Medieval fencing as sport as we understand it is a team sport with undefined group size that needs no referee, because the game is characterized by mutual respect and the own claim to improve oneself. The main goals are physical fitness, being active for fun and the tactical aspects of group fighting.
Fencing as Martial Art
Mostly realized through Huskarl and Eastern Style.
Medieval fencing as martial arts as we understand it covers the right flow and balance of movement in tempo, position and strength und their elegant execution. The main focus is to perfect one's technique and style and the social and mental aspects of fighting.
fencing as Historical Renconstruction
Mostly realized through HEMA and historical fencing.
Medieval fencing as historical renconstruction from our perspective is an attempt to recreate techniques from historical sources and revive them through practical trial as useable techniques in sparring. This way we hope to gain insights into historical fighting methods and their systems to finally fill them with live again.
Fencing as Full Contact
Mostly realized through Buhurt and Vollkontakt.
Medieval fencing as full contact fight as we understand it is the concious omission of Rules, though not of common sense. It is obvious that this causes an expansion of the protective gear beyond historical correct and that levers, stact and blows exist, which cannot be carried out without injury. Nonetheles does full contact combat give an opportunity to experience fighting in another dimension thus opening another perspective.
Fencing as Showfight / Stage Combat
Mostly realized through showfighting and re-enactment.
Medieval fencing as showfight as we understand it is a concpet of showing contemporary and historical fencing styles, reenacting historical events and recreating stories that fit into the historical context. This can happen as a rehearsed show or as a free spontaneous combination from a repertoire. One goal is to keep the performance interesting for the audience and the actors alike in duels and bigger battles. In this we like to show non deadly solutions for conflicts.
Fencing as Play
Medieval fencing as play as we understand it is an important part of all styles and one of the core ideas of Heydenwall. As a means of training as well as form of playful fighting style.
A playful fighting style implies to expand one's on requirments beyond the rule. This means to restrain yourself in the used repertoire or to increase the wanted level of precision and thus changing your own fighting and improve your skills and find your own joy in playing.
The use of games to concentrate on certain aspects of fighting helps to train the right reaction to these situations in the bigger context. This broadens the repertoire, the communication and the ability to make decisions. Best of all: Games are fun and motivating!
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Edmund Beecher Wilson Exhibit Poster
Poster for the Edmund Beecher Wilson digital exhibit, housed on the MBL History Project website
Cover of the 1900 (Volume 1) edition of The Biological Bulletin
Cover of the first edition of The Biological Bulletin
Cover of the June 2014 edition of The Biological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Snail Natica tecta feeding on the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Photo © Ross Coleman, University of Sydney)
Sea urchin Brisaster antarcticus (Photo © Ashley Miskelly)
Branching coral Acropora sp. (Photo by Maria Byrne, University of Sydney)
Bottom row, left to right
Foram Baculogypsina sphaerulata (Photo by Neo Wu)
Periwinkle Afrolittorina unifasciata on the limpet Cellana tramoserica (Photo © Ross Coleman)
Bryozoan Iodictyum yaldwyni (Photo by Abigail M. Smith, University of Otago)
Cover of the 1898 (Volume 1) edition of The Zoological Bulletin
Cover of the first edition of The Zoological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Large image: Illustration in pastel and colored pencil of Tritonia diomedea in mid-escape from its predator, the seastar Pycnopodia helianthoides, by Tamara Clark, Marine Biological Laboratory, <<A HREF="http://www.tamaraclark.com/">http://www.tamaraclark.com/>
Small images: Left, top to bottom:
Lymnea stagnalis, provided by Takeshi Karasawa (Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan);
Cover of the August 2012 edition of The Biological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Large background image
Sea slug, Elysia chlorotica (Photo by Karen Pelletreau, Univ. of Maine)
Top row, left to right
Black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus (Photo by Adam B. Lazarus)
Bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes (Photo by C. Frazee, Univ. of Wisconsin)
Coral colony, Acropora spathulata (Photo by Madeline van Oppen, Australia Institute of Marine Science)
Nematode, Brugia malayi (© Mark Blaxter)
Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos
Manual describing methods for handling embryological materials available at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Example of a simplified nutrient cycle from Ecosystems Center 1979 annual report
Caption reads: "Figure 1. The biotic systems that have built and now maintain the biosphere also influence the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, sulfer, and other elements. The general pattern of movement is a series of exchanges between the atmosphere, the land, and the sea. Human activities worldwide have mobilized significant additional quantities of biotically important substances, including toxins, and have modified the natural cycles."
The Origins of the Grass Foundation
From the Biological Bulletin 201 (October 2001)
In the fall of 1935, Albert M. Grass and Ellen H. Robinson both came to the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This entirely fortuitous confluence of their lives led to their marriage, to a commercial endeavor-the Grass Instrument Company-that would provide equipment of high quality to neuroscientists and other physiologists for over half a century, and finally to the formation of The Grass Foundation, which has benefited the neuroscience community since 1955.
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Biological lectures from the Marine Biological Laboratory Wood's Holl, Mass., 1898
Biological lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in the summer of 1898
Biological lectures from the Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Holl, 1899
Biological lectures delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl, 1896-1897
Biological lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in the summer of 1896-1897
Biological lectures delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl in the summer session of 1893
100 Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988: the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
In 1988 the Marine Biological Laboratory celebrated its centennial. In this well-researched, sometimes humorous, always human "biography" of this eclectic institution, historian of science Jane Maienschein catches a glimpse of what it is that has made the MBL so special to all who have spent any time there.
Collecting Net. v. 9, 1934
Vol. 9. 10 numbered issues published from June 30-Sept. 1, 1934. Numbered both as issues 1-10 and issues 72-81.
Vol. 8. 11 numbered issues published from July 1-Sept. 9, 1933. Numbered both as issues 1-11 and issues 61-71.
Vol. 7. 10 numbered issues published from June 25-Aug. 27, 1932. Numbered both as issues 1-10 and issues 51-60. Issue 10 [60] includes Marine Biological Laboratory Chemical Room Formulae and Methods II, edited by Oscar W. Richards.
Vol. 6. 10 numbered issues published from June 27-Aug. 29, 1931. Numbered both as issues 1-10 and issues 41-50.
Vol. 5. 10 numbered issues published from June 28-Aug. 30, 1930. Numbered both as issues 1-10 and issues 31-40. Includes anniversary supplement in honor of Professor Frank R. Lillie, published June 28, 1930. Includes supplement published August 30, 1930 - Marine Biological Laboratory Chemical Room Formulae and Methods, edited by Oscar W. Richards.
Vol. 4. 8 numbered issues published from July 6-Aug. 25, 1929. Includes the following supplements: Serial publications held by the Marine Biological Laboratory, June 15, 1929; "?????" news supplements vol. 1, no. 1-3, published July 25, 1929, July 29, 1929, and August 5, 1929; Woods Hole Log, vol. 1, no. 5-7, published August 19, 1929, Sept. 4, 1929, and Sept. 18, 1929.
Collecting Net. v. 20, 1953
v. 20 published in August 1953
v. 19, no. 1 published in Nov. 1949 as a single issue.
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January 8, 2019 tommy wilson No Comments
FINDING A FAIR PRICE FOR CUSTOM GRAIN DRYING
BY ALEXIS KIENLEN • PHOTO COURTESY OF GRAIN SYSTEMS INC.
The biggest thing is we’re not getting any heat, so the grain is all coming off tough or wet,” said Alberta Wheat Commission region four director Todd Hames who farms peas, wheat and canola near Marwayne. GrainsWest first spoke to Hames in mid-October when wet weather and record early snowfall had disrupted harvest across the province. It was clear then that a high percentage of Prairie grain would need to be dried. This got farmers talking about fair pricing for custom drying.
As the crisis unfolded, Neil Blue, provincial crop market analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, compiled sample drying prices from elevators across the province. “There isn’t a huge price discrepancy between elevators, but it’s a matter of how they’re doing it and what increments they’re using on their moisture levels. One elevator, for example, used a range of moisture levels, within which they assessed a flat-rate fee for drying costs. But some elevators were not taking anything above 17.5 per cent. Some elevators only took grains at a certain moisture level and below,” he said.
The elevators Hames contacted charged from $3.50 to $5.50 a tonne for wheat for each percentage point of moisture dried. “It will cost producers in the ballpark of 30 to 50 cents a bushel to have the drying done. You might dry it yourself depending on how wet the grain is, but generally you’re taking four per cent out.”
In October and beyond, many farmers went to elevators for drying, but many used dryers they’d purchased during the wet harvest of 2016. Some have been contracted to custom dry grain for their neighbours.
Blue said elevators set the trend for farmers engaged in custom drying. However, he noted good-neighbour rates were likely available. “Farmers often do drying for lower than commercial rates. Some are charging on a per-hour basis, plus fuel costs, and they’re able to keep track of their fuel costs by having different fuel tanks. Or they might just charge a per-hour rate,” he said.
Blue said this year’s custom grain drying prices were comparable to rates charged over the last few years. In general, however, on-farm drying capacity didn’t match combine output, said Hames, forcing wet grain to remain in storage for a time. Drying was further slowed as farmers were unable to offer custom drying until their own crops were complete.
Hames hadn’t planned to do custom drying, and he suspected most farmers had it done at the elevator. He said the trickiest part about drying grain on his own farm is the labour. The dryer runs continuously and must be checked or monitored every hour. In his area, most wheat was harvested at 17 to 18 per cent moisture. Accounting for labour and a cost of three cents a bushel for natural gas, his 2017 drying worked out to 30 cents a bushel. “My costs for drying in 2018 are in a similar range—20 to 25 cents a bushel,” he said.
Blue suggested farmers need to be cost conscious, noting that though a lack of local elevators limits options for some, farmers should shop around to locate the best pricing and drying capacity. He said factors affecting drying cost include the type of dryer being used, the moisture level of the crop and ambient temperature. Fuel costs and source are an additional variable as natural gas is much less expensive than propane.
Most tough or damp crops harvested in the 2018/19 season will have been dried as soon as possible to relieve storage risk and take advantage or warmer, or less cold, ambient temperatures, he noted. “Considering that harvest progressed rapidly during the last two weeks of October and much of that crop was dry or near dry, I expect that most crop drying will be done by the end of 2018.”
Team Alberta seeks farmers with on-farm conditioning systems to participate in a three-year study being carried out to better understand current practices, cost implications and barriers to incorporating such systems. For more information, contact Alberta Wheat Commission government relations and policy manager Shannon Sereda at 403-219-6263.
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Race Against The Sun: The Icy Wonderland Of Skógafoss And Jökulsárlón — The Reykjavik Grapevine
Race Against The Sun: The Icy Wonderland Of Skógafoss And Jökulsárlón
Charley Ward
@charl3yward
Just over 370 kilometres from Reykjavik, in the far southeast corner of the country, you’ll find the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. This particular lake—Iceland’s deepest, in fact, at a depth of around 250 metres—is considered to be amongst one of the crown jewels of Icelandic nature. It’s easy to see why; calm and dreamy, the lagoon has the backdrop of jutting, angular Vatnajökull glaciers, and is liberally decorated by shining blue and white icebergs, all reaching upwards against the serene, mountainous surroundings.
Jökulsárlón also sits next to the so-called ‘diamond beach’: a majestic, Tim Burton-esque black sand shoreline, which owes the basalt-rich ground for its unusual colouring, and the glittering chunks of ice studding its length for its moniker. Once upon a time, the sea spilled into a river, travelling along for around 1.5 kilometres before opening up into the lagoon. But as the glaciers melted, Jökulsárlón grew, and now the beach and the lake sit right next to each other in one surreal, Swarovski-bedazzled landmark.
The journey from Reykjavík to Jökulsárlón is a long trip to make in a day, clocking in at around five hours each way. We set off for the south at the end of November when the days are short, with the sun rising around ten in the morning and setting around four. To make it to Jökulsárlón during the few hours of daylight, our guide warns us that we’ll be racing against the clock. So we set off from the BSÍ bus terminal in the pitch black early morning, sleepy and bleary-eyed.
After two hours the sun finally begins to peek over the horizon, adding a cool glow to the frosty November landscapes. The last time I travelled these roads it was in the summertime, and the different season has given the scenery a brand new look. Lush green fields have been transformed into shining white stretches, and the omnipresent moss covering the lava fields now boasts a glittering blanket of snow. Where delicate waterfalls once cascaded down grass-topped cliffs, frosty stalagmites have formed, stuck fast against the rock faces. These frozen waterfalls, with their sharply pointed fingers of ice, provide a stark—but equally beautiful—contrast to the flowing energy of the summer.
On the way we make a quick stop at Skógafoss, one of the country’s largest waterfalls, with its expansive 15 metre width and 60 metre drop. It’s bitterly cold as we approach the mammoth column of water that thunders down amidst the ice-encased cliffs casting plumes of misty spray up against the wintry walls.
I peer at the crystallised precipices, noting the different patterns that emerge; the frozen spray hitting the cliff has created a swirling pattern, and the liquid dripping downwards forms hundreds of spindly, entwined icicles. As I consider going up the steps to see the view from the top, our guide calls us back to the bus to continue our race against the sun.
The glacier lagoon
Finally, after four more hours of driving, we peel off Route One to Jökulsárlón and pick our way carefully across to the edge of the lagoon. As with anything created naturally, you never really know what you’ll find, and the scattered icebergs make the lake look very different from day to day, and even from moment to moment. This time, we’re greeted by a vast array of huge, hulking, jagged chunks, sharply shaped and coloured a pure, translucent blue, as if made of stained glass.
“As the glaciers melted, Jökulsárlón grew, and now the beach and the lake are one conjoined, surreal, Swarovski-bedazzled landmark.”
A smattering of smaller ice fragments orbit outwards, some dusted with a film of smoky grey ash, their images mirrored on the lake beneath. There must be over one hundred icebergs in total, stretching all the way back to the serene, snowy mountains. The water is perfectly still, and as the sun begins to set, the waning light bounces from the white peaks, adding a touch of warmth to an otherwise cool and wintry colour palette.
We cross the road to the beach and crunch over the black sand, admiring the strange, glassy blobs of ice marooned on the shore. Unlike the icebergs bobbing on the lagoon, the incoming tides on the beach have left these stranded chunks polished, shiny and crystal clear—the “diamond beach” moniker is well earned.
“The dusk light pouring over the monochrome black beach and its icy treasures turns out to be perfectly beautiful.”
By now, the sun is dipping lower in the burnt pink and orange sky. Despite the earlier worries about missing the narrow window of daylight, the dusk light pouring over the monochrome black beach and its icy treasures turns out to be perfectly beautiful after all.
We linger for a while, watching the tide ebb and flow over the icy diamonds, washing them clean of gritty dark sand. But it’s so cold that my hands are almost completely numb, even in my thick Icelandic wool gloves. We managed to beat the early sunset, but now the darkness is encroaching, and it’s time to turn our backs on this strange vista and head back home.
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Weighted Blankets - Gravityblankets UKTerms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions of the online store
The owner of the online store Gravityblankets.co.uk is Senso-Rex Ltd
Located at 7 Kings Avenue Manchester M8 5AS, United Kingdom Company No.: 11022227 telephone: 0044 161 41 40 200 and e-mail: cs@gravityblankets.co.uk
The Seller carries out a commercial activity in the sales of custom-made medical devices.
Paragraph 1. Definitions
The terms used herein shall mean:
User – means a natural person who is fully capable of acting in law, unaccompanied minor, a natural person with limited legal capacity (a person who is 13 years old or partially legally incapacitated) acting with the prior consent of his or her legal representative (e.g. a parent), a legal person, an organizational unit without legal personality to whom legal capacity is granted pursuant to separate provisions, who purchases or intends to purchase goods from the online store or who uses or intends to make use of user account service and the Seller’s services via electronic services.
Client – means a legal person with full legal capacity, legal entity or organizational unit without legal personality and having legal capacity, acting directly within his or her business or professional activity.
Consumer – means a natural person undertaking an act in law not directly related with his or her business or profession.
Buyer – means Client and/or Consumer.
Electronic Service – means a service provided electronically by the Seller to the User via the online store.
Code of Good Practice – means a set of rules of conduct and in particular, the ethical and professional standards referred to in Article 2 Point 5 of the Act on Counteracting Unfair Market Practices of 23 August 2007 as amended.
Registration Form – means a form available at the Online Store to create a User Account.
Order form – means a form available at the Online Store enabling placing Orders, in particular by adding products to the electronic shopping cart and determining the terms of the sales contract, including the delivery method and payment.
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Shopping Cart – means an interactive form available at the online store allowing the Buyer to place orders.
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In case of natural persons: name, permanent address, mailing address – if different from the permanent address, e-mail address, and telephone number. If an order is placed in relation to conducted business activity, Buyer`s contact details also include company name and tax id. n. (NIP);
In case of a legal persons or organizational units without legal personality to whom legal capacity is granted pursuant, to separate provisions: name, seat, mailing address, tax id. no., e-mail address and telephone number.
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Order – means the Buyer`s statement of intent aiming directly at the conclusion of the Sales Contract, specifying in particular the type and amount of the Goods.
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All rights to the Online Store, including copyright, intellectual property rights to its name, internet domain, website, as well as patterns, forms, logos and images belong to the Seller and may only be used as specified and in accordance with the provisions hereof.
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How to register and make use of the User Account at the Online Store;
The rules for the submission of Orders at the Online Store;
The rules for the conclusion of the Sales Contract using the services provided via the Online Store;
The technical requirements necessary for cooperation with IT systems (personal computer, laptop, etc.) used by the Buyer;
The procedure of submitting complaints.
Buyers may access the Terms and Conditions at any time via the link at Gravityblankets.co.uk homepage to download and print it.
Confirmation of material terms of the Sales Contract is made via e-mail to the Buyer`s address provided upon registration, as well as by attaching a printout of the confirmation of the conclusion of the Sales Contract to the shipment containing the ordered Goods, relevant documentation and VAT invoice issued on request.
The User may use the services provided via the Online Store upon familiarizing with the Terms and Conditions, as well as with services description, price lists, etc.
The offer presented on the Online Store, as well as product descriptions do not constitute an offer within the meaning specified in the Polish Civil Code. The binding nature – for the purposes of concluding a specific contract – shall only be gained once the order is accepted by the Seller.
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In order to use the Online Store, the Buyer should have access to a computer station or other devices with:
Internet access,
properly configured web browser;
active and properly configured email account.
The Online Store allows Users to order services using widely available software, internet browsers that accept cookies such as Firefox version 3 or later, Opera version 9 or later, Chrome version 10 or later, Internet Explorer version 7 or later and Safari.
The Online Store, upon the prior consent of the User or his or her representative, stores cookie files necessary to: enter into the Sales Contract, execute it and provide user account service, as well as to facilitate the use of the Online Store by the User, and maintain a session (with no need to re-enter the password by the User) and create statistics on the traffic on the Online Store.
The User may remove saved cookies at any time or block cookies from using the options available in his or her web browser.
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The Buyer makes a free of charge registration in order to create a User Account.
Registration is made by filling in the registration form provided in the “Register” section.
For registration purposes, the Buyer shall complete the registration form provided by the Seller at the Online Store and send it electronically to the Seller by selecting the appropriate field on the registration form.
While completing the Registration Form, the Buyer may view the Terms and Conditions and accept it by marking the appropriate field.
Online Store registration and use is free of charge.
Upon the registering User Account is created where User`s data is collected. The services are provided for an unfixed term.
Once the completed Registration Form is submitted, the Buyer immediately receives a registration confirmation to the provided e-mail address. At this moment, an agreement for the provision of User Account service is concluded and the User obtains access to the User Account and may change the information provided during the Registration, except for the login.
User Account service is provided from the moment of the User Account activation.
Access to the User Account is secured with a password.
The User may at any time terminate the User Account with immediate effect without giving a reason by deleting User Account. Deletion may be made via email request sent to the Seller.
This does not apply to situations in which the Seller is in the process of performing an order placed by the Buyer. In such a case, the termination of the contract shall be effected after the completion of the above order.
The Seller may terminate User Account service in the event of User`s breach of the provisions hereof. The termination notice is sent to the User`s email provided in User Account.
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Users may place Orders in the Online Store.
The conclusion of the Sales Agreement shall be made upon Buyer`s submission of the Order through the Order Form.
The Order is a free of charge; one-off service provided by the Seller and shall be terminated upon the submission of the Order or upon the Buyer’s prior termination of the Order.
When placing an Order, the Buyer is obliged to provide correct contact details and personal information.
Prior to the conclusion of the Sales Contract, the Buyer is able to check the availability of the selected Goods. Availability information is visible in the description of the Goods.
The Buyer has the opportunity to see photographs of the goods and the descriptions placed next to them.
To place an Order, the Buyer adds to cart the selected Goods and determines their quantity.
The buyer may return to the Goods selection panel to add further Goods to the shopping cart, delete the selected item (remove order) or open the payment and delivery panel (by clicking “next”) where the Delivery method and the form of payment are determined.
When clicking “next”, the Buyer moves to Delivery address panel where appropriate contact details shall be provided to enable the execution of the Sales Contract and the Goods Delivery.
The Buyer should also read and accept the Terms and Conditions and confirm the fact by marking a relevant box.
During the Order submission – until the “I order with payment” button is clicked, the Buyer may modify the entered data and select various Goods. For this purpose, the Buyer shall follow the displayed messages and information made available in the Online Store.
Each time, prior to shipping the order by the Seller, the User is informed of the total price for the selected Goods and Delivery, as well as any additional costs that shall be borne in connection with the Order
Placing an Order by the Buyer means submitting the offer to conclude the Sales Contract.
Pursuant to placing an Oder, the electronic confirmation of the Seller’s receipt of the Order and Oder summary is sent to the e-mail address provided by the Buyer.
Order summary shall include the information on:
The Online Store details including mailing and email address, as well as phone number;
The quantity and total price of the ordered Goods;
The total price under the Sales Contract (i.e. total price of the ordered Goods + the costs of performance of the Sales Contract (including e.g. payment and delivery costs);
The form of delivery – including the date of delivery and, if applicable, the information on delivery restrictions such as weight or location;
The method of payment;
The information on the right of withdrawal from the Sales Contract without giving a reason within 14 days;
The information about the guarantee.
The Sales Contract is concluded in the English language.
The Buyer may place orders at the Online Store 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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The Prices in the Online Store are expressed in GBP and include VAT. The Seller enables to place Orders in other currencies.
The prices do not include shipping costs.
The information on the total value of the Order is presented in the cart following the Buyer`s selection of the ordered Goods, Delivery and payment form.
The Buyer may choose the following payment methods:
bank transfer through PayPal’s external payment system or
credit card through PayPal’s external payment system.
In the event of failure by the Buyer to pay within the time specified in the Order, the Seller shall designate the Buyer an additional deadline for making the payment and shall keep the Buyer informed via e-mail in the event of a lapse of the additional deadline, the Seller shall send to the Buyer an e-mail declaration of withdrawal pursuant to Article 491 of the Polish Civil Code.
Paragraph 7. Order and Deliveries
The Seller is obliged to deliver defect-free Goods subject to the Sales Contract.
The Orders are processed on Working Days.
Orders placed on non-working days are treated as submitted on the first following Working Day.
Each Goods’ description contains an estimated shipping time. Orders are shipped as soon as all the requested Goods are available.
Order’s shipping time begins once the Buyer sends all the details necessary for the Order, confirmation of the size, color of the Products, delivery address, form of payment (in case of payment to the account, the payment confirmation, delivery method.
The shipping costs shall be borne by the Buyer unless agreed otherwise.
Orders exceeding EUR 199,99 shall be shipped in the EU and UK free of charge.
The Delivery is made by a chosen carrier to the address specified in the Order Form.
The Seller shall be liable for accidental loss or damage of the Goods in the Delivery.
In the event of Buyer`s (who is also the recipient) unreasonable refusal to receive the Order if the Buyer is not entitled to withdraw from the Sales Contract within 14 days of the date of refusal to receive the package, the Seller shall be entitled to charge the Buyer with the cost of the shipment and return to the recipient. If the unreasonable refusal to receive the Order is made by a Client, the Seller may charge it with the Delivery costs.
Paragraph 8. Complaints
Pursuant to Article 558 Paragraph 1 of the Polish Civil Code, the Seller fully excludes the liability to Customers for physical and legal defects of the Goods (warranty).
In the event of defects or inconsistencies of the Goods with the offer, the Consumer shall have the right to claim defect-free Goods by giving notice to the Seller e.g. at:
7 Kings Avenue Manchester M8 5AS, United Kingdom or
cs@gravityblankets.co.uk.
Complaints shall contain the following information:
name and surname of the Buyer;
address for correspondence, as well as email address and telephone number of the Buyer;
subject of complaint;
reason for the complaint;
demands of the Buyer;
signature of the Buyer (handwritten in case of mail complaints).
In case of Sales Contract with a Consumer, if a physical defect has been discovered within one year upon the Delivery of the Goods, it is assumed that it had existed at the time of Delivery.
In case of defective Goods, the Consumer shall be entitled to:
Request price reduction;
Withdraw from the Sales Contract unless the Seller promptly and without excessive inconvenience to the Consumer replaces the defective Goods with the Goods free from defects or removes the defects;
Request replacement of the Goods with defects to the Goods free form defects;
Request removal of the defects;
and the Seller shall conform with the above in a reasonable time and without undue inconvenience to the Consumer.
The Consumer may, instead of the Seller’s proposed removal of a defect, request a replacement for defect-free Goods, or instead of replacing the Goods, request the removal of the defect, unless it is impossible to bring the Goods into conformity with the Sales Contract selected by the consumer or it requires excessive costs.
The Consumer shall not be entitled to withdraw from the Sales Contract after 14 days upon the receipt of the Goods if the defect is irrelevant.
The Seller may refuse to conform with the Consumer’s claim if it is impossible for the Consumer to comply with the contract in the selected manner.
Replacement or repair costs shall be borne by the Seller.
The Seller shall be obliged to accept the defective Goods from the Consumer in the event of replacement for the Goods free from defects or Consumer`s withdrawal from the Sales Contract.
The Seller shall, within 14 days, respond to complaint submitted by the Consumer. Failure to do so shall be deemed to be the Seller`s acceptance of the complaint demands.
The Seller shall be liable under the guarantee if a physical defect of the Goods is discovered within two years upon the Delivery of the Goods to the Consumer.
If, due to Good`s defect, the Consumer makes a declaration of withdrawal from the Sales Contract or demands price reduction, he or she may demand compensation for the damage suffered by contracting without knowing of the existence of the defect, even though the damage was a consequence of circumstances beyond the control of the Seller. The Consumer may in particular demand reimbursement of contract costs, costs of Delivery, storage and insurance of items. This does not prejudice the Seller`s obligation to pay compensation on a general basis.
The Consumer shall be also entitled to seek non-judicial means of dispute resolution such as: mediation at by the Provincial Inspectorates of Trade Inspection [Wojewódzki Inspektorat Inspekcji Handlowej], consumer courts, consumer ombudsman and non-governmental organizations.
The detailed information on the Consumer’s rights to non-judicial dispute resolution are available at consumer ombudsmen offices and websites, social organizations, relevant provisions of the law, Provincial Inspectorates of Trade Inspection offices, as well as at the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in Warsaw.
Any disputes between the Consumer and the Seller arising under the terms hereof and Sales Contract may also be settled via the internet platform at: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
Paragraph 9. Guarantee
Guarantee claims shall be dealt with in accordance with the Goods guarantee terms if applicable.
General guarantee rights and guarantee rights granted to the Consumer by the Seller are independent from each other.
Paragraph 10. Right to Withdraw
The Buyer shall have the right to withdraw from the Sales Contract within 28 days without giving a reason upon the receipt of the ordered Goods. In order to exercise the right, the Buyer shall send (by post, fax or e-mail) a notice to:
7 Kings Avenue Manchester M8 5AS, United Kingdom
Email address: cs@gravityblankets.co.uk
Phone number: + 48 786 233 200.
In the event of the Buyer`s withdrawal from the Sales Contract, the Seller shall reimburse the Buyer all the payments made, including Delivery costs (in the amount of the least expensive Delivery method) without undue delay and, in any event, not later than 14 days upon the receipt of withdrawal notice. The reimbursement shall be made free of charge with the same means of payment as used for the initial transaction unless expressly agreed otherwise. The Seller shall have the right to withhold the reimbursement until the receipt of the returned Goods or the evidence of sending it back, whichever is the earliest.
The Buyer shall return the Goods within 14 days upon the Seller`s receipt of withdrawal notice. The costs of return shall be borne by the Buyer. The Buyer shall be liable for any decrease in the value of the Goods.
Paragraph 11. Free Services
The Seller provides to the Buyer a free of charge digital services such as: form, newsletter, User Account.
The services are provided 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
The newsletter may be used by the Buyer who expressly agrees to receive commercial information and provide his or her email address in the registration form. Following the registration, the Buyer shall immediately receive from the Seller an e-mail confirmation. This moment shall be deemed as the conclusion of the agreement on the provision of newsletter service.
Each newsletter shall contain the information on unsubscribing from the service available to the Buyer on a continuous basis.
Paragraph 12. Privacy Protection
The administration of Buyer`s personal data by the Seller is subject to Buyer`s consent expressed at registration or submission of a one-off Order and within the framework of the Seller’s provision of services by electronic means or under other circumstances specified herein.
Buyer`s personal data provided when placing an Order shall be processed for the purposes of sales and ordered services, withdrawal from the Sales Contract, submitting complaint or guarantee claims – pursuant to Article 23 Section 1 Point 3 of the Personal Data Protection Act (Dz. U. of 1997 No. 133 Item 883 as amended), and the fulfillment of obligations resulting from the generally binding tax and reporting obligations, Article 23 Section 1 Point 2 of the aforementioned act; and in cases justified also for the purposes of claiming debts – pursuant to Article 23 Section 1 in connection with Article 23 Section 4 Point 2 of the aforementioned act.
The Seller shall also process Buyer’s personal data for the purposes of providing the services by electronic means and other purposes as set out herein.
The provision of required Buyer`s personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of the Order. Any other personal data that is not necessary for the above purposes shall be immediately removed by the administrator.
The Seller shall protect the obtained personal data and exercise due efforts to protect them from unauthorized access or use.
The Seller may disclose the Buyer’s personal data to Suppliers to the extent necessary for the Delivery.
The Buyer shall have the right to access his or her personal data, correct and remove it at any time by contacting 7 Kings Avenue Manchester M8 5AS, United Kingdom, e-mail: shop@gravityblankets.co.uk.
The Buyer shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent to data processing by sending a request e.g. to the Seller’s e-mail address.
Paragraph 13. Buyer’s Obligations and Intellectual Property Protection
The Buyer shall in particular:
Use the Online Store in a way that does infringe its operation, in particular with the use of appropriate software and devices;
Not send or place unsolicited commercial information (spam) at the Online Store;
Use the Online Store in a manner not resulting in any inconveniences to other Buyers or the Seller;
Use of the Online Store in accordance with the Polish law and provisions hereof.
It is forbidden to use any material published at the Online Store without the Seller’s prior written consent.
Paragraph 14. Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction
This Terms and Conditions shall be construed in accordance with the laws of User`s domicile.
Any disputes arising in connection thereto shall be settled by a public, generally competent court unless expressly agreed otherwise.
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Welcome to a site where you will find stories, features, links, etc., all of them renal-related or to do with organ donation. . . . From time to time, we may do some Scattershooting, too.
Scattershooting on a Sunday night while contemplating the Blue Bombers’ victory and the end of the Legend of Shorts Guy . . .
Congratulations to Bombers defensive co-ordinator Richie Hall — now a four-time Grey Cup champion. He is the only Roughrider to have played or coached in three Grey Cup victories. Now this. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
— Rob Vanstone (@robvanstone) November 25, 2019
A Manitoban by birth, I quite enjoyed watching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup on Sunday, beating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 33-12, in Calgary. . . . I was most thrilled for Richie Hall, the Bombers’ defensive co-ordinator. There was a time during the season when you might have thought his first name was Much-Maligned. You won’t find a nicer person in all of football, indeed, in all of the sporting world. Yes, this victory looks good on him.
There might be a lesson for a whole lot of sporting fans in the following two tweets . . .
I have nothing but love for Richie Hall right now …. Thank-you and I'm sorry I ever doubted you.
— MoTown Curmudgeon (@WpgSportsTalk) November 25, 2019
when I saw that shot of Richie Hall on the field by himself with tears in his eyes I've never felt more like a POS for all the times I criticized him and his coaching.
Action shot 👖 #ShortsGuy #ForTheW https://t.co/7af4aSWvMY
— CFL (@CFL) November 25, 2019
You know it’s the Grey Cup when a guy who hasn’t worn pants, only shorts, for 18 years becomes a big story. It was a story during the week, and it was a bigger story after the game when, yes, he put on a pair of pants.
His wife: “I know fashion and those are horrible”. If this is not a heritage moment by the end of the week we need to re-examine our priorities. https://t.co/0fIF6GsTa3
— Stephanie Carvin (@StephanieCarvin) November 25, 2019
me: I wonder what's going in Canada
Canada: a man didn't wear pants for years and years and now he's going to wear pants again
me: excellent, thank you Canada
— Namita (@nnstats) November 25, 2019
In light of Don Cherry’s firing by Rogers Sportsnet, you may have been wondering whether the 17 Canadian WHL teams will continue with the third annual promotion that goes by the name RE/MAX Presents: WHL Suits Up with Don Cherry to Promote Organ Donation. . . . Chris Young of The Canadian Press asked the WHL about it on Thursday. He got this email response: “At this time, we continue to review this matter with the stakeholders involved (sponsor, charity, member clubs). We will provide a further update when we are able.” . . . To date, it’s been crickets from the Kidney Foundation of Canada and RE/MAX.
It is hard to comprehend how the WHL will be able to maintain the status quo considering why Cherry was fired and that the league has this statement on its website:
“The WHL is committed to remaining a world leader in the development of players, coaches and officials for the NHL, U Sports and Hockey Canada while continuing to offer the finest player experience and academic opportunities. The WHL also continues to be recognized for a high standard of competition, fair play and integrity while playing an active role in communities, minor hockey programs and local charitable initiatives throughout the region.”
In the first two years of the promotion, the Kidney Foundation has benefitted by more than $460,000. However, the foundation and RE/MAX also should have acted a whole lot quicker than this to sever ties with Cherry.
I know it’s not that easy, not with thousands of Don Cherry/Ron MacLean bobbleheads sitting in a warehouse somewhere and all of those jerseys being produced for the teams to sell at auction. But you can’t continue to talk about inclusivity and diversity and be involved in something like this.
It pains me to write this because of the volunteer work we do in the Kamloops kidney community, but the time has come for all involved to go in a different direction.
I will be changing my wifi password to “IMPEACH45” this Thursday so that my MAGA family members have to put that in their devices to have some of my delicious WiFi.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) November 23, 2019
A report from Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “In the latest MLB cheating update, now there’s reports that Houston players wore realistic-looking electronic bandages that buzzed in real time to relay signs stolen from the opposing catcher. Astros GM Maxwell Smart declined comment.”
The Edmonton Oilers had more than a few fans in Vegas on Saturday night where they dumped the Golden Knights, 4-2. By the look of things, some of those fans went home with some money in their jeans.
#Oilers fans queuing up to cash in the winning tickets. #NewYorkNewYork @EdmontonOilers @nielsonTSN1260 @Lieutenant_Eric @OilersnationHQ pic.twitter.com/gXRbr8FQpt
— Ferg (@EdmCaper) November 24, 2019
Here’s Larry Brooks in the New York Post: “Through Friday, 17 of the NHL’s 31 teams had won nine, 10 or 11 games. While 26 — 26! — teams somehow could claim records of .500 or better. That’s parity, folks, only it is spelled P-A-R-O-D-Y.” . . . There’s more, including Brooks’s thoughts on the Mike Babcock firing, right here.
What’s that? You’re wondering about the WHL? Well, including Sunday’s games, nine of the 22 teams had won 11, 12 or 13 games. At the same time, 15 teams somehow could claim records of .500 or better.
There has been a lot of chatter the last while as to just how inclusive hockey is (or isn’t). In the middle of all this, the Saskatchewan Hockey Association has told the midget AA and midget AAA programs at Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation that they are done after this season. . . . Alex MacPherson of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix writes right here about the decision, and there is more right here.
A proud 25-year tradition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous hockey talents coming together on the ice is set to come to a sudden and confusing end https://t.co/s8b2W6h41R
— Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) November 20, 2019
Why do we like Patti Dawn Swansson’s musings in these parts? Well, it might have something to do with the River City Renegade’s snark. And, well, she definitely took the snark pills before penning, er, tossing darts in her latest piece, which is right here. If you haven’t already, try it; you’ll like it.
Am I the only one using the new Oregon sports betting app to try to exploit weird WHL moneylines? On a related note, why can we bet on supposedly amateur teenagers playing hockey but not college sports? 🤷🏻♂️
— Scott Sepich (@SSepich) November 24, 2019
JUST NOTES: You’re wondering: What happened to Mike Babcock with the Toronto Maple Leafs? In short, someone hired an old school head coach then chose to bring in a new school general manager. In the end, the new guy won the battle and in the world of pro sports that isn’t a surprise. Just don’t expect Babcock to surface in Seattle, the expansion franchise having made a huge commitment to the world of analytics. . . . Would someone please get a charger for that woman on the bus. Thank you. . . . F Hendrix Lapierre of the QMJHL’s Chicoutimi Sagueneens suffered his second concussion of this season — and his third in eight months — on Thursday when he absorbed an open-ice hit. Lapierre, who had two goals and 15 assists in 19 games when he was injured, has been projected as a first-round selection in the NHL’s 2020 draft.
#thefarside pic.twitter.com/kRguzRBndu
— The Far Side (@TheFarSide_ish) November 24, 2019
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Why Boxing Day is called 'Boxing Day'
By Jo Abi| 1 year ago
Boxing Day is a public holiday in Australia, falling on December 26, the day after Christmas. It originated in the UK and is celebrated around the world.
There are a few theories as to why it is called ‘Boxing Day’. One theory is that the name derived from Britain in the 1830s and signifies the first week day after Christmas, the first possible date postal services can resume including the arrival of packages in boxes.
Alternatively, the name could refer to charity collections that used to take place in Great Britain following Christmas, the money being collected in the box.
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Another theory points to a British custom during which tradesmen would collect Christmas boxes or money as thanks for their services on the first weekday after Christmas.
Other say the name comes from the practice during which wealthy European families would gift their staff boxes filled with Christmas treats following Christmas Day.
In Australia, Boxing Day is about four things, and four things only:
Sydney to Hobart
Australians spend up to $2.4 million at Boxing Day sales. (Getty)
In Australia, Boxing Day is a federal public holiday and some mad cash is spent during ‘Boxing Day Sales’ by those who have money left after the annual Christmas splurge. Shops open early and scenes of thousands of customers streaming through department store doors are broadcast around the country, although these days you’re just as likely to score a bargain on Boxing Day online.
For cricket fans, Boxing Day is all about the Boxing Day test. (Getty)
For cricket fans, Boxing Day is all about the Boxing Day test match at Melbourne Cricket Ground between Australia and other national teams touring Australia. Test matches can last for up to five days.
The Sydney to Hobart yacht race happens each Boxing Day. (Getty)
The Sydney to Hobart yacht race also takes place on Boxing Day in Australia, covering a distance of 630 nautical miles between Sydney Harbour and Hobart in Tasmania.
Boxing Day is a huge day at the movies for Australian families. (Getty)
Boxing Day is also a huge day at the box office in Australia, with big ticket movies opening on December 26. This year movies opening on boxing day include Aquaman, Cold War, Holmes and Watson and Ralph Breaks the Internet.
What are your plans for Boxing Day this year? Let us know by sending an email to 9Honey@nine.com.au.
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Tag Archives: Major Marin Tour
Birds, In Alaska, Mammals, Wildllife
Sea Life and Glaciers : Seward, Alaska
July 1, 2014 grizjohnson 10 Comments
There are many “Alaskas”. The large state is renowned for its dry, cold interior and also for its coastal regions. The coast itself varies from tundra to temperate rainforest and is full of a birds and marine mammals. In the Kenai Penninsula, large tide water glaciers add icebergs to the water which are used by pupping harbor seal mothers for rest. The region is known for its rising peaks which jut from the ocean as snow-capped mountains.
On the sunny, late June day, that we departed Seward harbor the sun shone on islands and mountains around us. In every direction, gulls and black-legged kittiwakes wheeled and dove over the open ocean.Our 9-hour tour through Major Marine Tours to the Northwestern Glacier and Chiswell Islands had just begun. Once in the open water past the Kenai Peninsula your feet are floating above the largest stretch of open ocean in the world – stretching thousands of miles to Antarctica. Kassie and I had birds on the brain and our small 30 passenger ship (in comparison to some of the 200 passenger ships) was perfect for the trip we were hoping to have. The waters of the Kenai Peninsula is home to many sea (also called pelagic) birds. These birds are remarkable in that the majority of them only come to land to nest, all other times- including the brutally cold winters- are spent at sea on the water. The bodies of many pelagic birds are so tuned to sea-life that they often look awkward on the land. However, their graceful, powerful ability to swim and catch fish makes up for their awkwardness.
I’ll just spoil the conclusion, by saying we had an incredible day on the water! This video highlights some of the power of calving glaciers, the beauty of sea-birds and the behaviors of marine mammals.
Birds of the Chiswell Islands
The vertical spires of Spider Island jut from the ocean just outside of Seward, AK
The vertical cliffs Chiswell Islands are perfect for nesting sea birds. Horned Puffins and Tufted Puffins burrow into the cracks to escape predating gulls. Parents are mated for life and separate during the winter, however find each other for every breeding season. Each of the puffin species found around the Kenai coast have extraordinary features. Horned puffins have a dark check-mark patch through through their eye which makes them look as though they have applied makeup to preform at a circus. Part of this check-mark is a horned protrusion comes off each eye like a fancy eyelash. Tufted puffins, the largest of the three puffin species, have large golden ‘eyebrows’ which waggle back and forth when they turn their head. Puffins are recognized by their large bills which they use to catch fish. Both of the pacific puffin species only have orange and cream colored bills, where the Atlantic Puffin’s bill includes blue and red. Puffins can dive up 200 feet beneath the ocean’s surface and they can hold their breath for a minute or two. However Puffins typically only need to stay under for 20 to 30 seconds at a time to catch the small fish that compose their diet.
A Horned Puffin flying around the Chiswell Islands.
Horned Puffin photographed at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin picture taken at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, AK
Pelagic birds are often found in large breeding colonies located on islands. For this reason they are referred to as ‘colonial nesting birds.’ These islands provide refuge from land-based predators and the large numbers of birds act as sentries, mobbing any intruder which gets too close. Our Captain informed us that once they had spotted a Black Bear on an island that was a mile from shore. It feed on bird eggs for a couple weeks then swam back to shore. It was a very rare occurrence but it is easy to see how one large predator can decimate the nesting success rates on the island.
Black-legged Kittiwakes nest in large colonies in the Chiswell Islands.
Our bird list added many ‘lifers’ to our life-lists (along with a couple we had already seen) and many photographs to my hard drive. Our list for the day was comprised of Bald Eagles, Rhinoceros Auklets, Horned Puffins, Tufted Puffins, Parakeet Auklets, Pigeon Guillemonts, Common Murre, Pelagic Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Marbled Murrelet, Black-legged Kittiwake, Mew Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, and a possible Ancient Murrelet.
Rhinoceros Auklet photographed at the Alaska SeaLife Center. These birds develop their ‘rhinoceros horn’ during the breeding season, and lose it each fall.
Mammals of the Chiswell Islands
There several species of whales and porpoises in the rich waters of the many estuaries of the Kenai. Sea Otters feed on clams, urchins, and other invertebrates that tend to feed on kelp. The Sea Otter is a keystone species that helps to protect the kelp beds providing shelter for a plethora of other sea creatures. Doll Porpoises, Humpback Whales, Fin Whales and Orcas cruise through the waters. The Fin Whales were a rare occurrence for the tour, our guides said they maybe see a Fin Whale 20 times a summer. Our tour saw a very rare pod of at least 6 Fin Whales surfacing together, which meant they were most likely rounding up bait fish instead of filter-feeding. On the rocks, 1 ton Stellar Sea Lion males watch over their harem of females, and the ice flows at glacier heads provide rest for harbor seal mothers and their pups. We saw several pods of Doll Porpoises throughout the day, on the way back to the harbor we had a small pod that decided to race in our wake.
One of the highlights of the trip was observing a “lunge feeding” humpback whale with her calf. Lunge feeding is when a whale dives far below a school of food (krill or small fish). Then, rushing to the surface with their mouth open the burst through to the open air swallowing anything in their mouth!
A Humpback Whale explodes on the surface, exhibiting ‘lunge feeding’
This Humpback Whale is headed back down for some more food.
A Sea Otter floats on its back displaying its classic behavior. They float along and crack urchins on their chests. They spend their whole lives in the ocean, even giving birth in the water. If seen on land it is typically a sign that the animal is sick.
Harbor Seal mothers rest themselves and their pups on ice flows which have broken away from the tide-water glaciers.
Stellar Sea Lion males control and mate with many females called a harem. Male Sea Lions can be up to 2,000 pounds!
Glaciers of the Kenai
The Harding Ice Field is the largest ice field in the United States and is the source of dozens of glaciers. Some of the glaciers reach all the way down to the ocean and are classified as ‘tide water’ glaciers. These glaciers are constantly being eroded by the oceans daily movements and some of the glaciers have receded miles since the 1800’s when the Russians were exploring the coasts. The receding glaciers open up habitat for mammals and birds. The Northwestern Glacier that we sat in front of stretched for a half mile across the blue fjord, but you would never guess its size by just looking at it!
One can get a true sense of power of the tide-water glaciers by watching them ‘calf’. From time-to-time sheets of ice would break away from the exposed glacier face and cascade into the ocean. Even though our boat was positioned 1/4 of a mile away the rush of sound from the huge chunks of ice sounded like a jet engine rumbling in the not to far-off distance.
The craggy moraine of the Northwestern Glacier ending at the tideline.
Another boat sits in front of the glacier for a bit of perspective. If the boat floated at the front of the glacier it would be a mere speck on the its moraine.
The Northwestern Glacier reaches about 1/2 mile from side to side. It’s split into two ‘lobes’ by a rock face.
This river of ice and snow is the result of a large chunk of ice which broke away hundreds of feet above. The ice-chute that it slid down poured snow and ice chunks into the ocean.
If you’ve made it this far I’d like to put in a quick pitch (unsolicited) for the Major Marine Tour company. Their boat the Viewfinder was piloted by a great captain and the tour guide on board was great with kids and had all the answers. The small size of the boat and number of passengers was perfect for us. They were more than happy to concentrate on birds when we told them what we were after. It was an extraordinary day.
Secondly, I would like to put in another unsolicited pitch for the Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward. Their exhibits are truly top-notch, and the chance to experience the pelagic sea-birds up close was wonderful. On top of that, proceeds go towards outreach and science. I am not normally a “zoo type” person, but everything I saw there impressed me to no end!
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Cannes 2019 review: The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
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About the ICS
When Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) meets Gilda (Catrinel Marlon) for the first time, he doesn’t know what to think: this statuesque figure of an elegant woman, not only because of her dresses but also because of her posture, her confidence, the way she generally behaves. Someone is following Cristi; he knows it and she knows it too. So this is the set-up: they start acting as if she was his mistress. This farce must even continue at his home because of hidden cameras spread throughout his fancy but sad apartment, and the two end up in bed in order to preserve the appearances. What is really happening is that Gilda needs Cristi to move to Spain and find Zsolt, who disappeared with 30 million euros.
With The Whistlers, director Corneliu Porumboiu continues to establish himself as one of the most clever and funny directors out there. His latest effort is a witty comedy noir which echoes Hitchcock (and Melville and others) in a sophisticated yet accessible way. On the same path he took with his equally entertaining The Treasure, which was selected in Un Certain Regard four years ago, the Romanian director constructs a solid mystery imbued with the absurd, without becoming surreal despite these premises.
The way Porumboiu picks elements, ideas or mere intuitions from the genre is quite interesting, since he knows how to transform what he borrows to something of his own. For example, the narrative structure on paper could strike one as distracting, but eventually splitting the narrative into chapters, one for each of the main characters, makes a significant contribution to the potential comical soul of the film. Each chapter is titled after their names, but it’s not there to introduce someone as much as it is to take the story further.
Proof of the aforementioned intelligence is that Porumboiu keeps us busy with enough information so we can follow the sequence of events even without trying to rationalize more than is necessary. At the point where the audience starts to understand what is in Cristi’s mind, they will want to understand whether it would be possible for him to have his plan succeed, whatever it might be, or if he’s going to be smashed by the many things he can’t control – and there are many. Truth unravels one scene after another, while at the same time each scene seems meticulously organized, working together so well, which is a clear confirmation that the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.
No lesson to learn, The Whistlers is an exercise in genre, much aware of the gimmicks it employs. Like a game, Porumboiu enacts a masterful example of what one can do when playing with structures and topoi while at the same time not letting them limit his/her own process. In such an environment it becomes easier to achieve the unpredictability whose importance ends up being enormous. The contrast between the seriousness of the actors’ performances and the ridiculousness of many scenes is spot on, and for a dark comedy like this finding that balance is paramount.
What to say, in conclusion, about the language Cristi has to learn (which, by the way, really exists)? It’s called El Silbo, a whistled language which can virtually replicate all the others. While less central than the title suggests, there are a few scenes, especially in the first part, involving some of the most exhilarating moments in the film; until the story turns romantic and this peculiar language serves its last purpose even then. That sort of flexibility is something Porumboiu is still experiencing himself in his filmmaking so far: he can adapt his humor to different situations, genres, even locations. Nonetheless his refined verve remains untouched, so poignant and amusing even during the credits.
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Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank IFSC (INDIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM CODE) Code, MICR Code & SWIFT Code
IFSC (Indian Financial System Code) codes, MICR codes and SWIFT codes are playing vital roles in to transfers money between banks or account-holders in India. Since short description, these codes have simplified the transfer and payment process for billions of consumers and businessmen domestic or international.
Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank uses IFSC (Indian Financial System Code), MICR and SWIFT codes to offer its consumers and businessmen with varied money transfer options which are fast, secure and economic. These unique codes (IFSC. MICR and SWIFT Codes) are used to identify unique information, like name of the bank and location of the respective branch.
Customers and businessmen of BANK Name are required to provide their name, account number, account type and the IFSC (Indian Financial System Code) code, MICR code and/or SWIFT code of their branch and that of the recipient in order to execute bank transfers and digital transactions.
How to Find IFSC Codes, MICR Codes and SWIFT Codes for Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank
It’s easy and quick to locate the IFSC code, MICR code and SWIFT code of Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank via consulting the cheque book provided by the bank or going online.
By looking at your cheque book you can see that every page contains the relevant IFSC code of the respective branch of the bank. You can also visit ifsc.sarkaribank.com and use the convenient search facility, in order to find the IFSC code, MICR code or SWIFT code of any bank branch in India.
At the top of our website you will find a search button labelled ‘Search’, which will take you separate page where you can find the information you required instantly. You can simply enter the details of the branch you wish to locate along with its IFSC code, MICR code and SWIFT code.
The website is free to use and covers all pan India banks (888 CBS banks), incorporating thousands of branches across the country.
How do we transfer money using BANK NAME NEFT, RTGS & IMPS Services?
The Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank provides convenience of its customers by allowing money transfer vis NEFT and RTGS. Both the electronic currency transfer processes are hassle-free and use IFSC codes to quickly and securely transfer money from one account to another.
National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT):
The National Electronic Fund Transfer standard - most commonly referred to as NEFT - was created and rolled out by the RBI to both facilitate and simplify retail transactions for customers. National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) is one of the most comprehensive online money transfer methods from one bank to another. NEFT is based on a deferred system, which means that money is transferred to different sets (batches).
There are more than 1,50,000+ branches of 800 banks which take part in the NEFT network all throughout INDIA.
Operation at Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank involve several batches NEFT transaction which are carried out throughout the day. As bank name has joined the NEFT network it has made convenient and safe for its customers to make monetary transfers and payments to other accounts in banks.
Bank Customers looking to initiate a NEFT transaction are required to first complete a Fund Transfer Instruction Form, which can be picked up from any branch of the bank. Information required includes the name of the beneficiary, the bank and specific branch of the beneficiary, the account type held as saving or current account number of the beneficiary and the IFSC code of the beneficiary's branch and bank.
In terms of the sender, the bank and respective branch's IFSC code must be provided, along with the account number, type of account and so on. In the absence of any of these details, it is not possible to make a NEFT transfer with Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank or any bank taking part in this scheme.
Timings and Fees:
settlements of fund transfer requests in NEFT system is done on half-hourly basis. There are twenty-three half-hourly settlement batches run from 8 am to 7 pm on all working days of week Certain charges are payable in accordance with the amount of the transaction, which at the time of writing are as follows:
The structure of charges that can be levied on the customer for NEFT is given below:
a) Inward transactions at destination bank branches (for credit to beneficiary accounts)
– Free, no charges to be levied on beneficiaries
b) Outward transactions at originating bank branches – charges applicable for the remitter
- For transactions up to ₹ 10,000: not exceeding ₹ 2.50 (+ Applicable GST)
- For transactions above ₹ 10,000 up to ₹ 1 lakh: not exceeding ₹ 5 (+ Applicable GST)
- For transactions above ₹ 1 lakh and up to ₹ 2 lakhs: not exceeding ₹ 15 (+ Applicable GST)
- For transactions above ₹ 2 lakhs: not exceeding ₹ 25 (+ Applicable GST)
c) Charges applicable for transferring funds from India to Nepal using the NEFT system (under the Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme) is available on the website of RBI at http://rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=67
With effect from 1st July 2011, originating banks are required to pay a nominal charge of 25 paisa each per transaction to the clearing house as well as destination bank as service charge. However, these charges cannot be passed on to the customers by the banks.
These fees and timings are of course subject to change, so please consult your local branch directly for more information.
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS):
Real Time Gross Settlement - more commonly referred to as RTGS - is another example of a standardised system for making and receiving electronic payments in India. Devised and introduced by the Reserve Bank of India, RTGS operates as a convenient and secure alternative to personal cheques, enabling banks taking part in the scheme to make transfers using online messages directed through the official RTGS Payment Gateway.
With a view to rationalize the service charges levied by banks for offering funds transfer through RTGS system, a broad framework of charges has been mandated as under:
a) Inward transactions – Free, no charge to be levied.
b) Outward transactions – ₹2,00,000/- to 5,00,000/-: not exceeding ₹30/-;
Above ₹5,00,000/-: not exceeding ₹55/-.
Within the maximum charge there is a component which depends on the time of day when the transaction is initiated. Banks may decide to charge a lower rate but cannot charge more than the rates prescribed by RBI.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of RTGS is how it eliminates manual cheque-clearing processes and waiting times from the equation. Transactions using RTGS are more or less instantaneous, making it much quicker and easier for payments to be settled and funds credited to their intended accounts - typically within 2 hours.
Another great thing about RTGS is that it is uniquely economical in nature while carrying out comparatively large amount transfers. the minimum transactions sum to qualify for an RTGS transfer is set at Rs 2 lakh. There are more than 1,50,000+ branches of 700+ banks which take part in the RTGS network all throughout INDIA.
In terms of required information, the sender of the funds must complete all fields including the name of the beneficiary, the name of their bank and the respective branch, account number, the type of account they hold and the IFSC code of the recipient's bank.
RTGS is not a 24x7 system. The RTGS service window for customer transactions is available to banks from 8 am to 6 pm (The timings are extended from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm from June 01, 2019) on a working day, for settlement at the RBI end. However, the timings that the banks follow may vary from bank to bank.
Immediate Payment Service (IMPS):
IMPS is an immediate funding service and works of 24 * 7. It can be used 365 days in a year to transfer money from one bank to another bank account. This service was introduced by the National Payment Corporation in 2010.
We do not need to register separately for IMPS service – Once we are logged into our Net Banking account, we will get the option to transfer our money through NEFT (National Electronic Fund Transfer), RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) or IMPS (Immediate Payment Service). we can choose the IMPS option for the transfer.
Once again, we need the full name of the beneficiary, its bank account number, and IFSC code to complete the transfer fund.
Transactions using the IMPS protocol can be requested and actioned on a 24/7 basis, 365 days a year. This means that payments can be sent and received at any time, irrespective of standard bank opening times and/or operational hours.
In this instance, customers using IMPS are required to provide either a combination of their MMID (Mobile Money Identifier) and their mobile number, or the IFSC code of their respective bank branch and their account number.
MMID (Mobile Money Identifier) is the seven-characters number provided by the bank for the IMPS service if the person is using mobile banking as a beneficiary.
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Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS) provides a bus service to Yosemite
Amtrak trains serve San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento to and from Merced/Riverbank and connect with YARTS bus lines for direct buses into Yosemite Valley
If driving from San Francisco via Highway CA 120, take the Oakland-Bay Bridge (Highway 80 East) and then take Highway 580 east and follow the signs for Tracy/Stockton to Highway 205. Follow Highway 205 to Highway 120 and take Highway 120 into Yosemite National Park
If driving from Sacramento via Highway CA 120, take Highway 99 South to Manteca and exit onto Highway 120 East in Manteca and follow directly into Yosemite
If driving from Los Angeles’ South Entrance Via Highway CA 41, follow Interstate 5 North toward Bakersfield and just beyond the Grapevine towards Bakersfield, follow Highway 99 North to Fresno. From Fresno, follow Highway 41 to Yosemite Valley
One of the easiest ways to view the park is by taking the free shuttle bus. Parking can be difficult so it’s best to park your car and take the shuttle where ever you need to go around the Valley Floor.
The shuttle provides service around the eastern Yosemite Valley, including stops at or near all overnight accommodations and shops. The bus operates all year from 7am to 10pm. Click here for the route map.
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Travelers that fly to California can rent a car in San Francisco (4 hours away) or Sacramento (3 hours away)
In the peak season, the roads get busy due to the school holidays. Avoid the rush in Yosemite Valley by arriving before 9.00 am. After 7.00pm, there’s fewer cars again
Visitors can use the Tuolumne Meadows Hikers bus to reach Tuolumne Meadows on selected days during the summer season
If driving, visitors pay an entrance fee of $30 in summer and $25 in winter. There is free parking in Yosemite but it is limited, so arrive early if you want one of these parking spots
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“Sthithi” Benefits Shiva Murugan Temple
by Usha Balaraman | Nov 1, 2008 | Features, General | 0 comments
Vishwa Shanthi Dance Academy, led by artistic director Shreelata Suresh, is set to premier Sthithi, a benefit program for the Shiva Murugan Temple. Vishwa Shanthi has performed at the temple’s fundraisers since its inception in 1999.
An innovative choreographer and performer, Suresh has had many credits to date, such as Sankhya: Numbers and Creation, a bharatanatyam performance that displayed a unique choreography based on the philosophy of numbers and evolution of the consciousness of Sage Kapila. Another production, Srishti,
used the traditional repertoire of bharathanatyam as a metaphor to portray the creation of the universe.
Sthithi, the new production, is a full-length program that depicts how divine creation in its duality of good and evil forces is preserved permanently by the life force. The program will open with a unique item expressing the beginning of a Yuga with darkness lifting and light flowing in. The next few items will symbolize the sound Om, the Vedas, and how Lord Vishnu in his various incarnations conquers the dark life forces to preserve the good and divine. After intermission, the program will continue with items such as a snake dance, peacock dance, koli dance, and temple dances to emphasize the beauty, rhythm, melody, and ecstasy of life energies.
In addition to temple programs, Vishwa Shanthi dancers have performed in several prestigious events across the U.S. and Canada. Most recently, they won a coveted spot at the 30th San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and performed three shows in June. They were also selected to perform at the Spring Dance Inspiration 2008 in April.
Suresh’s attractive style, expressive movements, and fleeting footwork have won her many awards and titles. Bharat Kalachar, Madras, awarded her the title of Yuva Kala Bharathi in 1996. She was adjudged the best young dancer in 1991 and again in 1993. In recognition of her talent she has also been awarded the titles of Natyananmani and Natyaratna.
She has given numerous stage and TV performances in over 20 countries including India, South America, France, Azerbaijan, Australia, and East Africa, and has shared this rich cultural heritage of India with the local peoples.
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Londale is a rock band with a driven and energetic attitude. Their music dives head first into the energy of pop and the punch of rock, while also expanding their sound with layers of melodies and hooks. AM/FM is chock full of powerful tunes with a lot of bite and attitude. The ten songs on these release showcase stripped-down arrangements that allow the band’s musicianship and energy to stand out seamlessly, far and away from studio trickery.
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Home UK News Who spent what on Facebook during 2017 election campaign?
Who spent what on Facebook during 2017 election campaign?
Last week we learned more about the political adverts on Facebook pumped into people’s feeds ahead of last year’s general election.
Using the site is free but getting noticed can be expensive.
The Electoral Commission has published a detailed breakdown of party spending in the run up to 8 June.
The figures show the Conservatives spent far more than Labour on Facebook – but their posts reached fewer people.
How much cash?
The figures break down how parties spent almost £40m during last year’s general election campaign period:
Conservative and Unionist Party: £18,565,102
Labour Party: £11,003,980
Liberal Democrats: £6,788,316
Scottish National Party: £1,623,127
Best for Britain: £353,118
National Union of Teachers: £326,306
Green Party of England and Wales: £299,352
Women’s Equality Party: £285,662
UKIP: £273,104
Theresa May’s party paid Australian strategist Lynton Crosby’s firm, CTF Partners, £4m to run their campaign, as part of £5.3m spent overall by the party on “market research/canvassing”.
The Liberal Democrats spent £1.29m on market research/canvassing, while Labour spent just half that amount.
Spending on “unsolicited materials to electors” – things like leaflets – was more evenly split between the parties.
Lots of money went on various things classed as “advertising” – £5.3m overall spent by the Tories, £3.1m by Labour, £840,000 by the Liberal Democrats, £320,000 by the SNP, and amounts below £80,000 by the Green Party, Plaid Cymru and UKIP. Much of this went on things like billboards.
But an increasing amount is being paid to companies like Facebook and Google for online advertising, and to smaller companies which help parties target voters effectively online.
Of the £40m, parties spent around £3m directly on Facebook – and it wasn’t evenly distributed. The Conservatives spent twice as much as all the other parties combined on Facebook.
Back in 2015 the Conservatives secured an unexpected victory after spending £1.2m on the social media site, about ten times more than Labour. Although it’s hard to prove a direct link, clever use of Facebook advertising in marginal seats was one of the things credited with helping David Cameron’s surprise win.
This time the Tories spent even more, but the party ended up going backwards, losing their majority in parliament.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party got far more views and shares online despite spending barely a quarter of the amount the Tories did. Labour only spent a little more than the Liberal Democrats who made far less of an impact online. So how did this happen?
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The Liberal Democrats reached far fewer people than Labour on Facebook despite spending almost as much money
During the campaign BBC Trending ran a project called Filter Bubbles of Britain which tried to shed light on social media campaigning.
The project analysed parties’ use of Facebook tools to target people with precise, localised messages based on their age, location and political affiliation. This is known as “microtargeting”.
“It’s a pattern we noticed in this election that wasn’t really there, or we didn’t really notice, in previous ones,” says Mike Wendling, who headed the project.
Wendling’s team spotted one clear trend in particular: the Conservatives paying for numerous adverts attacking Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn or his close allies, particularly John McDonnell and Diane Abbott.
The most viewed video made by a political party during the campaign was a Conservative video attacking Mr Corbyn for being weak on defence. It was viewed more than 8m times.
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A Conservative advert accusing Jeremy Corbyn of being weak on defence
The most watched video posted by the official Labour page – giving 10 reasons to vote for the party, a couple of days before the 8 June vote – got half as many views.
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An election video posted by the Labour Party
Overall though, Labour’s page posted far more videos, and they got far more views overall than videos posted by the Conservatives or other parties. Labour videos were often reposted multiple times, a tactic the Conservatives barely used.
Mark Wallace, editor of the website Conservative Home, has published a lengthy, critical account of how the operation which succeeded in 2015 failed to do so two years later.
“Lots of the data gathered for the 2015 election had been allowed to go stale, and the machine was caught off-guard,” he told the BBC. “They had been letting people go in late 2016 on the assumption that the next election was still four years away.”
Away from the parties’ official pages, analysis by Buzzfeed News found that pro-Labour, anti-Tory news stories were far more widely shared online than articles supporting Theresa May’s party.
While much of the mainstream print press was critical of Labour and its leader, several left-wing websites like Evolve Politics and The Canary were pushing the opposite view online.
Issues like fox hunting and the ivory ban did particularly well on social media, and were particularly likely to paint the Conservatives in an unfavourable light.
Since the election Environment Secretary Michael Gove has unveiled a raft of policies aimed at protecting animals,.
Ivory, the election and social media
Disproportionate enthusiasm
Posting on Facebook is free of course, as is watching and sharing videos. Money just helps push videos in front of more people – but isn’t always necessary for posts to do well.
Both parties paid for Facebook advertising, but Labour posts were far more shared widely by supporters and activists, a very effective form of free publicity. The Conservatives did not benefit from this “organic reach” in the same way.
Joey D’Urso
Much of the Conservatives’ messaging focused on the two leaders, arguing May would be better at negotiating Brexit
“Organic reach is the number of people who see a message without anybody paying for it,” says Mike Wendling. “It’s distinct from paid reach, which as the name implies is paid for.”
There was “a disproportionate level of enthusiasm for Labour messages”, says Wendling. “It’s clear from the figures that organic reach was a crucial factor in mitigating the Conservative Party’s large advantage in paid reach.”
As well as posts from the official Labour page and Corbyn’s personal one, the party benefited from lots of other content that pushed the party’s message on social media but wasn’t funded or directed by the party.
One example is the video “no one spits bars like Jeremy Corbzy”, uploaded by JOE Media, an online digital publisher. It shows Corbyn’s face superimposed onto that of rapper Stormzy, appearing to rap a list of policies.
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A video of Jeremy Corbyn appearing to rap a list of policies got almost 9m views
Although it seems a trivial example, the video clearly distils many of Labour’s key policies into a 38 second long video, and was aimed a young audience unlikely to watch a conventional political broadcast.
It has been viewed almost 9m times – more than any video posted by a major party during the campaign – and didn’t cost Labour a penny to make or distribute.
If it had been aired by a broadcaster rules would likely have required it to be part of a balanced range of views. That is not the case online.
This video was also aimed at a group which is hard to reach through conventional political messaging. Young voters have been said to have played a significant role in last year’s surprising result, although some recent research suggests reports of a surge in youth turnout may have been overstated.
There are many more examples like this. “Inside the Conservative campaign, they concede that they did not see this red tide coming,” says Mark Wallace. “However, some of those involved did start to notice it as the campaign went on, and began to worry about whether it was having an impact.”
The myth of the 2017 ‘youthquake’ election
Dark ads
Advertisers have always targeted things at particular groups – just flick through a magazine aimed at older women and one aimed at younger men to see the difference in ads – but the internet allows for more precision.
Everyone sees different Facebook adverts depending on their friends, location and demographic details like age and gender, as well as the things they ‘like’. This makes it hard to track exactly what adverts people are seeing.
The organisation Who Targets Me tried to track political advertising during the campaign by crowdsourcing material from more than 10,000 users across the country.
“We had just launched our project when the general election was announced,” said Maeve McClenaghan of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which helped analyse the data during the campaign.
“We were well aware that everyone was talking about how this was going to be the ‘dark ads’ election.”
Dark ads are tailored messages which can only be seen by a targeted audience. Whereas ‘microtargeting’ can simply refer to a public post being pushed prominently to a specific audience, “dark ads” will not be seen by anyone not targeted by it, making them very hard to track. They’re perfectly legal.
In London the Conservatives were targeting voters with ads accusing Jeremy Corbyn of supporting a “garden tax” which would hit expensive homes in the capital the hardest.
Different messages were used in other parts of the country. In Derby, home to a Rolls Royce plant which works with nuclear material, voters saw adverts accusing Mr Corbyn of risking jobs in the nuclear industry.
An example of a hyper-targeted Conservative advert seen in Derby North. Labour won the seat
Closely targeted adverts are often negative according to Sam Jeffers of Who Targets Me. “If a party knows it can put their ads in front of people who will respond to them, but keep them away from people who won’t, that’s a great temptation.”
Facebook says it is making advertising more transparent. In October the company announced new tools that will allow users to see all the ads a page is running, including “dark ads”.
The tools are being tested in Canada with the intention of being ready for the US midterm elections this November. Facebook says it will provide details about election adverts including how much was spent promoting them, how many Facebook users they have reached, and the demographics of those people.
Facebook also says political advertisers will have to verify their identity under the new rules. Before and after the 2016 US election, Facebook said, about 80,000 posts were uploaded by Russia-based operatives.
How Russian bots appear in your timeline
In the UK last year, although much of the media attention during the campaign focused on Tory “dark ads”, Labour used the same tactics according to an analysis by Buzzfeed News.
Buzzfeed cited a Labour source as saying that potential voters who raised concerns about the NHS on the doorstep would then have that information fed into voter databases, and the voter would then receive targeted Facebook posts.
Labour targeted voters who expressed concern about the NHS with relevant videos and posts
Psychological profiling?
Compared with broadcast media, online political messaging is far less regulated. Broadcasters are under strict political balance rules. The same model does not apply online.
Sam Jeffers of Who Targets Me thinks the rules should be tightened up: “There is very little visibility of the data being used to target people.”
At the moment tech giant Facebook and data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica are at the centre of a dispute over the harvesting and use of personal data, and whether it was used to influence the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election or the UK Brexit referendum. Both sides deny any wrongdoing.
Cambridge Analytica: The story so far
There is no suggestion Cambridge Analytica had any involvement in the 2017 general election.
“[Parties] seemed to be targeting people based on location, age and quite broad ‘likes’, rather than the Cambridge Analytica stuff where the suggestion is they can do very heightened psychological profiling,” the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Maeve McClenaghan told the BBC.
Not just Facebook
Money paid directly to Facebook does not give the full picture – parties also paid consultancies and agencies to help better target voters via social media and email as well as traditional methods like door-knocking and sending leaflets.
Cash was also paid to other tech companies including around £1m to Google. The Conservatives spent about £500,000 with the company, Labour about £210,000, and the Liberal Democrats around £170,000.
A lot of this went on adverts on YouTube, which is owned by Google. All the main parties were running adverts on the video sharing site during the campaign. However Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats pulled their material after an investigation by the Times revealed adverts were being promoted next to videos of Islamic extremists.
Not very much was spent on Twitter advertising – just £56,500 by all parties combined.
One of the more unusual pieces of electoral expenditure shows up in the Electoral Commission database as two separate payments from Labour to ‘Snap Group Limited’ in the final week of the campaign, totalling around £64,000.
This money went on a Jeremy Corbyn Snapchat filter and other adverts on the picture-sharing app which is popular with teenagers.
A spokeswoman for the Labour leader told the BBC the Corbyn filter was viewed 9m times according to data provided to the party by Snapchat.
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Labour used Snapchat as a campaigning tool during the election campaign
The Corbyn filter was UK-wide but conventional adverts – videos that pop up between your friend’s posts – were geographically targeted, the spokeswoman said. “The adverts were in places that made sense, like universities.”
The Conservatives filed an expense for £17,800 to Snap Group Limited a month after the election, but the party’s activity on the app does not seem to have had nearly as much reach as Labour’s.
Aside from the parties, other groups played a big role too – such as Momentum, a pro-Jeremy Corbyn grassroots group which has shifted the centre of gravity within the Labour Party from centrist MPs to left-wing activists.
The group racked up huge numbers of views on Facebook during the campaign with eye-catching adverts such as one called “Tory Britain 2030” painting a gloomy picture of a country struggling after successive Conservative election wins. It was viewed 7 million times in one week.
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Videos posted by Momentum, a pro-Jeremy Corbyn grassroots group, during the election campaign
Although Momentum videos were viewed millions of times on Facebook, the group declared less than £4,000 in payments to the company and less than £40,000 overall. Momentum is currently being investigated by the Electoral Commission over allegations it broke finance rules. The group says it is cooperating with the investigation which it says refers to “administrative errors that can be easily rectified”.
Last week’s Electoral Commission figures list the seven political parties which spent more than £250,000 in the year before election day (on everything, not just online advertising).
It also gave details about two other groups. Best for Britain is a pro-EU campaign group which spent £350,000 supporting candidates opposed to a “hard Brexit”. Like the big parties, Best for Britain used different adverts for different audiences according to Maeve McClenaghan of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
An advert featuring the photograph of a middle-aged woman appeared in the Facebook feed of a 46 year-old in Tynemouth in the North East, while one featuring a young woman was seen by a 24-year-old woman in Wimbledon, South-West London.
FACEBOOK/BESTFORBRITAIN
The Best for Britain campaign used different adverts for different demographics
The other organisation to make the list was the National Union of Teachers (NUT). It spent £326,306 in the year up to the 8 June 2017 poll, more than UKIP and the Greens.
The NUT campaigned heavily on the issue of school funding – and education rose in prominence during the campaign according to Ipsos Mori, a polling firm.
Most of the money spent by the NUT went to printing firms – presumably for leaflets, flyers and other old-school methods of political communication.
But about a third went to an agency called Small Axe Communications, which built an interactive map showing people “the scale of school cuts in their constituency and where Parliamentary candidates stood on the issue.”
The company claims to have “reached 3,180,321 people across the country through targeted Facebook ads in target constituencies”.
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School funding increased in prominence as an issue during the campagin
An NUT explainer video titled “The Truth About School Cuts” was viewed 4.8m times on Facebook. It used images of Theresa May and was critical of Conservative policies on education – so presumably benefited opposition parties, especially Labour.
Both the NUT and Best for Britain are under investigation by the watchdog for allegedly submitting an incomplete spending return, while Best for Britain is also facing questions for allegedly not returning a £25,000 donation from an “impermissible” donor within the 30 days required by electoral law.
“Best for Britain’s audited spending return was filed on time, together with supporting documentation and the requisite auditors report,” a spokesman said. “We are dealing with the questions raised with us by the Electoral Commission, some of which have already been answered, and will offer whatever further assistance they may require.”
What about next time?
If these examples seem a bit imbalanced, it’s because the digital election campaign last year was imbalanced. Official Labour content tended to do better than Conservative content, with organic shares and outside groups overcoming the difference in cash spent on Facebook advertising.
However just because Labour seemed to benefit last time, that won’t necessarily always be the case, says Mike Wendling.
The Conservatives used Facebook very effectively in 2015, and examples from abroad show it is not always left-wing parties which benefit from digital campaigning.
“The same pattern could be seen in the US 2016 Presidential election, where memes and posts in pro-Trump groups were widely shared among really enthusiastic people,” says Wendling.
US Election 2016: Trump’s ‘hidden’ Facebook army
The next general election – whether it is in May 2022 as currently planned, or earlier – will be fought on very different turf. The social media landscape has changed dramatically even since last June, so who knows how it’ll look in four years’ time.
Maeve McClenaghan says the 2017 general election campaign was very unusual because of the way it started – Theresa May announced it on April 18 with absolutely no warning.
“The snap election took everyone by surprise, including the Tories’ social media team,” she told the BBC. “It may be that next time we have an election, things are more sophisticated.”
Conservative Home’s Mark Wallace agrees: “Last year’s pretty dire experience has delivered a wake-up call to the Conservative Party that is very hard for anyone to deny.”
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Investorshub.com and Matt Brown penny stock scams
Go to: http://kristapatterson.blogspot.com/...own-penny.html
My name is Krista. Last March I met Matt Brown in Kenosha, WI at a bar on Sheriden Road just north of the old Drive in Theater, on the west side of the road. We spent the weekend together in a motel just south of there.
I was asked to post music on YouTube so they could trade stock against them. He told me that the people on Investorshub.com put spyware on people’s computers to see what they buy and then dump the stocks.
He and others on the board proved this to me by posting private pictures and information on my credit cards and bank accounts on the IHUB board.
He also told me that he and others were starting a new board called Investmentnation.com and wanted to get rid of the IHUB board for this action and the fact that they sold the Credit card numbers people give them.
This scam also included a Las Vegas casino and the mafia who was involved as well. This was proven to me by telling me the names of the mafia people my family knew in Chicago. This was also verified by a visual contact of one of these Mafia people in Chicago, which later I called. Of course he tried to act like he knew nothing about it, but the tone and actions of his told me very differently.
I would post some music under one email name girlcavediver@yahoo.com for the "family" and some music under kristapatterson@aol.com for the casino.
After the first of the year Matt Brown had me sign up for many YouTube site as I could under my AOL account which in turn got me banned from YouTube. He said it was the master plan, which later I came to realize that way he could oust the casino from playing the game. So therefore he is ripping off his employer as well.
He wanted me to spend the year posting music and at the end of that year wanted me to go to the FBI, SEC whomever I could to get IHUB busted for these actions.
He also set up a meeting with one of his partners out of Brandon, Fl. I went there to teach a scuba class. They put me and my employer Don Winter in a hotel and we taught a class at this man house and the local spring, the Blue Grotto This was done to meet me and to prove to me this was real.
They continued this throughout the year and at the beginning of 2009 they placed cameras in my house at 3208 SE 5th Ave, Cape Coral, FL, my neighbor’s house at 3216, in all our vehicles and spyware in our computers including her underage daughter’s computer. They watch every move we make including the daughters.
During February they told me to paint INVESTORSHUB.COM/ Insider Trading on the roof of that house so that the president would see as he flew over leaving Ft Myers. This was done to try to shut down IHUB so they could start their own board Investmentnation.com.
I got carried away and painted the street as well. I went to jail for this action and I owe big fines. Now I have a warrant out for my arrest. They told me not to worry and don't pay this that they would take care of it soon.
Now it is almost July and they have not lived up to any of their promises. I am broke, sick, and homeless. I haven't been able to take care of my mentally challenged sister in Chicago. And my dog is in a shelter dying there as well.
I have done everything they asked me to including going to the SEC lawyer handling the case against Matt Brown from Delaware, Paul Kisslinger. I have told him part of the story. He told me that he will be having his investigator contact me soon.
Krista Patterson’s house In Cape Coral, FL which she abandoned after painting INVESTORSHUB.COM/ Insider Trading on the roof of the house
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Why Creating a Private FB Group can be a safe Support System for your Patients
Social media is one of the fastest and most efficient ways for people to connect. While there are several social media platforms that you might consider, Facebook is by far the most popular. It also allows you to create an exclusive group for people with a similar agenda. Private Facebook groups are helping patients stay connected, manage their chronic conditions, and gain a sense of hope and empowerment.
Purpose of a Facebook Group
For any medical clinic keen on healthcare marketing on social media, Facebook is a great tool. With Facebook, you can create a group, add people you know who might be interested in joining, and trust that others with similar interests will look it up. This has made Facebook a popular avenue for social media marketing, thanks to its niche audiences.
Apart from being an excellent healthcare marketing technology, it is also a great forum to carry out research and discussions, and to pass on important information. A private Facebook group not only helps patients manage their chronic conditions, but it also helps them stay connected to others within the safety net of their group.
Types of Facebook Groups
Facebook provides the option to create private groups, many of which are being used in an interesting fashion: personal support groups. Mothers are uniting to ask each other questions in mom groups, divorcees are connecting for help with the trauma involved in going through a divorce, and medical patients suffering from similar diagnoses are finding comfort in one another. These groups have turned complete strangers into close friends through the community vibes created within the groups.
There are three different settings in which a group can be created: open groups, closed/private groups which are searchable but their content is private, or completely private groups by invitation only. For medical support groups, most of them would fall into the closed group category, allowing for patients experiencing similar conditions to easily locate such groups.
Benefits of a Private Facebook Group as a Support Group
A Facebook group for your patients is more or less an online support group. The only difference is that this option does not require physical meetings. A Facebook private group is a gathering of strangers, each sharing their stories, progress, motivational tips, and other experiences. Some of the benefits of using a private Facebook group as an emotional support group are as follows:
Safe haven:
The groups provide a safe haven for individuals to feel a sense of comfort and camaraderie when conversing with others going through the same thing.
Symptom reducer tips:
Patients can relate to others experiencing similar symptoms, and offer one another tips to help. For example, if a patient is struggling with nausea, there may be a special ginger tea that is recommended and makes all the difference for another group member.
Privacy is essential when it comes to medical issues, and patients may feel more at ease discussing personal matters with others who can truly relate to what they are going through.
Expert information:
In some groups, medical professionals may be welcome too, and able to share helpful guidance. They may offer educational opportunities, where a guest doctor, psychologist, nurse or social worker join the conversation about a topic related to the group’s needs.
Anxiety reduction:
In many cases, being able to speak openly about the aspects of a condition that causes you the most anxiety can be enough of a support system to reduce the anxiousness you are feeling. For example, there is a Facebook group created for women who have tested positive for the breast or ovarian cancer gene mutation. What this means is that there exists a higher risk of developing cancer at some point in their lives. Imagine the anxiety that comes with each mammogram, and the relief you would feel if given the chance to share openly with women feeling the same way.
Coping:
Having this community to connect with others going through similar points in their lives allows the patients to feel more confident and improves their coping abilities with the challenges they are facing.
Since participation is optional and flexible, people can turn to these groups only when they feel they need to, and keep to themselves when they want. This provides a sense of peace in itself since there is no pressure to share unless you are comfortable with it.
Who Can Start a Private Facebook Group?
Anybody can start a private Facebook group. From a perspective of a medical clinic starting a niche group, you can use this as an opportunity to reach patients and give back to the community by connecting with them directly.
Facebook will not allow you to advertise directly to a group. However, this is also what makes a closed group essential, as you have a ready audience.
Just like the regular support groups, the private Facebook group might have some drawbacks, like disruptive members or those sharing false information. The additional credibility of it being monitored by medical professionals can help reassure the group members. You can also set specific rules, and warn or eliminate members who do not follow the standards set.
Despite these drawbacks, a private Facebook group is beneficial to both medical clinics and patients. With strict moderation, everything is likely to be smooth and helpful.
How to Create a Private Facebook Group
As a point of reference, the following steps can be used to create a private Facebook group:
Log into your Facebook account. If you do not have one, you need to sign up.
From your ‘News Feed,’ click on the menu then tap ‘Groups.’
Tap ‘Create Group’.
Type the name of the group.
Add members.
Click ‘More,’ and select ‘Edit Group Settings.’
Scroll down to ‘Privacy,’ then change those privacy settings to ‘Closed.’
Click ‘Confirm’ then ‘Save.’
There is every reason for a medical clinic to have a private Facebook group. For the medical clinic, Facebook is an ideal choice and can actually boost your clinic’s social media presence and credibility. Furthermore, it provides ample online support systems to the public. Members in your area will turn to your clinic as a first choice in healthcare.
If you want to leverage your social media presence to improve your bottom line, we can help. Give us a call at 501-235-8194 or contact us by filling this form, and let us help you put together support groups that can both help people and attract them to your clinic.
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R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown
Votes: 508,314 | Gross: $48.07M
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick
3. Enchanted (2007)
PG | 107 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.
Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey
Votes: 169,382 | Gross: $127.81M
4. X-Men (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen
5. X-Men: First Class (2011)
In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon
6. American Pie (1999)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
Directors: Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz | Stars: Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jennifer Coolidge
7. American Pie 2 (2001)
R | 108 min | Comedy
Jim and his friends are now in college, and they decide to meet up at the beach house for some fun.
Director: J.B. Rogers | Stars: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan
8. American Wedding (2003)
It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.
Director: Jesse Dylan | Stars: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy
9. American Reunion (2012)
Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion.
Directors: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg | Stars: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Chris Klein
10. Grown Ups (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock
11. Finding Nemo (2003)
G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
12. Shrek (2001)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow
13. Shrek 2 (2004)
Princess Fiona's parents invite her and Shrek to dinner to celebrate her marriage. If only they knew the newlyweds were both ogres.
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews
14. Shrek the Third (2007)
When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.
Directors: Chris Miller, Raman Hui | Stars: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas
15. Puss in Boots (2011)
An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town.
Director: Chris Miller | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton
16. Tangled (2010)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard | Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman
17. Ice Age (2002)
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Goran Visnjic
18. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.
Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott
19. Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Directors: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier | Stars: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Aziz Ansari
20. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.
Directors: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier | Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Eunice Cho
21. Toy Story (1995)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Director: John Lasseter | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
22. Toy Story 2 (1999)
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye.
Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer
The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Director: Lee Unkrich | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty
24. Up (2009)
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
25. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think.
Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi
26. Monsters University (2013)
A look at the relationship between Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) during their days at Monsters University, when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Director: Dan Scanlon | Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren
27. WALL·E (2008)
G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
28. The Incredibles (2004)
PG | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee
29. Made for Each Other (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
The best part of any marriage is consummating it. However, after 3 months of a sexless marriage, Dan finds himself in the throes of casual sex with another woman. Dan decides the only way ... See full summary »
Director: Daryl Goldberg | Stars: Josh Alexander, Christina Brucato, Lyman Chen, Caroline Clay
30. Happy Gilmore (1996)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Sport
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay
31. Mr. Deeds (2002)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.
Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert
32. Big Daddy (1999)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse
33. SLC Punk! (1998)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.
Director: James Merendino | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 24,883 | Gross: $0.30M
34. That's My Boy (2012)
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent until Todd's 18th birthday. Now Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding after years apart, sending the groom-to-be's world crashing down.
Director: Sean Anders | Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 85,828 | Gross: $36.93M
35. Just Go with It (2011)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Romance
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman
36. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Chester
38. 50 First Dates (2004)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin
39. Click (2006)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff
40. Funny People (2009)
R | 146 min | Comedy, Drama
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana
41. Billy Madison (1995)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.
Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Bradley Whitford
42. Bedtime Stories (2008)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce
Votes: 84,472 | Gross: $110.10M
43. The House Bunny (2008)
After Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings
44. The Animal (2001)
PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.
Director: Luke Greenfield | Stars: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner
45. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
An average aquarium cleaner house-sits for a gigolo, only to be forced to become one himself.
Director: Mike Mitchell |
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Egypt security arrests two Germans on suspicion of terrorism
Published By ITCT News Desk On : January 12, 2019
‘More force and roadblocks won’t cause terror to disappear’: Israeli Chief of Staff
Egyptian imam foils deadly attack against church on the eve of Coptic Christmas
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Egypt: Egypt has arrested two German nationals on suspicion they tried to join an Islamic State group affiliate and deported one of them, Egyptian security sources said on Friday.
German media reported earlier this month that two Germans had gone missing after arriving separately in Egypt in December.
Germany’s foreign ministry on Friday confirmed the return of one German national and said another was still in Egyptian custody.
The families of both men believe their arrests were cases of mistaken identity. And Egyptian authorities had previously denied the arrests to AFP.
One man was detained at Cairo International Airport over suspicions he was seeking to join the IS jihadist group in Egypt’s turbulent northern Sinai region, the Egyptian sources said.
The suspect, who Germany said was 23, was reportedly arrested on December 27.
“Since he did not commit any crime under the Egyptian law and gave up the Egyptian nationality, the authorities decided to deport him to his country of nationality — Germany — in coordination with the German embassy,” one of the sources said.
A German foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that the man had arrived back in the country late on Thursday.
The spokesman said the German embassy in Cairo had received confirmation that a second German, aged 18, was also being held and that the mission was seeking consular access to him.
The second suspect was reportedly arrested in mid-December after landing in the southern city of Luxor.
He was found with maps of North Sinai in his possession and authorities believe he came to Egypt with the intent of joining IS as well, the Egyptian security sources said.
Procedures were still underway for his deportation to Germany.
The German foreign ministry said it could provide no information on Egypt’s accusation that the men were IS followers or whether they would be questioned in Germany.
Egypt has been battling an insurgency in North Sinai, which surged following the 2013 military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
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Food! Sex! Silence! Terrific NYTimes Story On New James Beard Documentary!
There’s A New James Beard Documentary On The Way!
James Beard was a cookbook author, teacher, and one of America’s first “TV Chefs.” Wikipedia called him:
“A champion of American cuisine who taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. His legacy lives on in twenty books, other writings and his foundation’s annual James Beard awards in a number of culinary genres.”
PBS is premiering a new documentary, “James Beard: America’s First Foodie,” next month on its “American Masters” series.
The New York Times’ Frank Bruni had a terrific story about James Beard and the documentary in the paper and online, and I wanted to share a snippet of it with you, because it once again showcases how important journalism and analysis are to us!
The story was titled “Food, Sex And Silence” and for a good reason!
Here is the opening of the story:
James Beard was large. His obituaries told you so. “Portly” was how The Associated Press put it. The Los Angeles Times said that he was nearly 300 pounds at his apogee, though The New York Times clarified that a diet at one point “divested him of some of his heft.”
Nature divested him of his hair. He was bald, as all of those obituaries prominently noted.
He was also gay. Good luck finding a mention of that.
Oh, there were winks. “A lifelong bachelor.” “An Oregon-bred bachelor.” Oregon-bred? Makes him sound like a dairy cow. Or maybe a mushroom.
But there was nothing in those remembrances about his 30-year relationship — at first romantic, then less so — with Gino Cofacci, who was provided for in Beard’s will. Nothing about Beard’s expulsion from Reed College in the 1920s because of his involvements with other men. This newspaper’s obituary simply called him a “college dropout.”
As you can see, Beard lived with many secrets – due to the circumstances of a time he was born into – this is great writing!
Bravo again to Frank Bruni for terrific writing and insight – read the entire story here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/food-sex-and-silence.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
I recently subscribed to the digital edition of The New York Times because, now more than ever, we need intelligent, honest writing and reporting.
If you love to read about great food – and great restaurants, here is my story about a visit to the #1 rated restaurant in the world:
Eleven Madison Park in New York was voted the 2017 World’s Best Restaurant – here is my review of the night we are there:
https://johnrieber.com/2016/05/16/eleven-madison-park-worlds-best-restaurant-a-visual-tasting-menu-revealed/
My wife Alex and I also were lucky enough to attend the 20th anniversary of one of America’s greatest restaurants, The French Laundry.
Chef Thomas Keller has created some of the world’s most unique dishes, like his “Oysters and Pearls” dish:
See the entire menu here:
https://johnrieber.com/2014/07/07/the-french-laundrys-20th-anniversary-celebration-chef-thomas-kellers-xx-party-food-pics-galore/
Bravo to PBS for their upcoming documentary and to Frank Bruni for the great articles about James Beard!
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Lloyd Marken
May 2, 2017 • 4:04 am
So sad when people can’t just live their lives in peace when they’re not hurting anyone. We’ve come far but probably still have far to go.
Agreed. He lived his life in silent shame
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Tag Archives: Amy Lehpamer
Posted on September 14, 2015 by jolitson
Hayes Theatre Co, September 7
Amy Lehpamer, sizzling in red, and the cast of High Society. Photo: Kurt Sneddon
High Society is set in the palatial home of rich socialites complete with swimming pool: quite a challenge in a 111-seat theatre.
But, true to form, the Hayes Theatre Co production solves it ingeniously. Set designer Lauren Peters has come up with four elegant, moveable arches and a clever reveal for the party scene. Lucetta Stapleton’s 1930s costuming, a few props and some sound effects (Jeremy Silver) are enough to complete the picture, along with Gavan Swift’s lighting.
The 1998 stage musical is based on the 1956 film High Society starring Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra and Philip Barry’s 1939 play The Philadelphia Story. It has a very funny script by Arthur Kopit and songs by Cole Porter, some of which were in the movie, such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Well, Did you Evah! and True Love, along with others of his that weren’t. Not all the lyrics relate as well as they might to the situation but overall it works a treat.
It’s the eve of Tracy Lord’s wedding to the rather pompous, dull George Kittredge. However, her younger sister Dinah is determined that Tracy remarry her first husband CK Dexter Haven, who turns up unexpectedly with a pair of reporters from Spy Magazine, Mike Connor and Liz Imbrie.
Helen Dallimore directs with a sure, light touch, telling the story with great clarity, while Cameron Mitchell’s choreography suits the period. In another ingenious touch, Dallimore uses a quartet led by musical director Daryl Wallis whose jazzy arrangements of the score work brilliantly.
Virginia Gay and Bobby Fox. Photo: Kurt Sneddon
Amy Lehpamer positively glows as Tracy: glamorous, tough and very funny when drunk, her singing, acting and dancing all perfectly pitched. Virginia Gay is sensational as Liz, who is quietly in love with Mike. Her comic timing is impeccable, her performance is full of delicious, surprising little details (the way she hesitates to articulate the word ‘you’ when singing “All I want is you” in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? just one of many) and she knows exactly how to deliver the songs.
Bobby Fox convincingly conveys Mike’s gradual softening as he falls for Tracy in a charismatic performance, while Bert LaBonté is an understated, rather melancholic Dexter whose charm grows on you.
Along the rest of the exceptionally strong cast, there are well judged comic performance from Scott Irwin as George, Jessica Whitfield as Dinah and Laurence Coy as the lecherous uncle Willy, while Delia Hannah is lovely as Tracy’s mother. All in all, divine.
High Society plays at the Hayes Theatre Co until October 3. Bookings: www.hayestheatre.com.au or 02 8065 7337
A version of this review ran in the Sunday Telegraph on September 13
Posted in Musical Theatre | Tagged Amy Lehpamer, Bert LaBonte, Bobby Fox, Cameron Mitchell, Daryl Wallis, Delia Hannah, Gavan Swift, Hayes Theatre Co, Helen Dallimore, Jeremy Silver, Jessica Whitfield, Lauren Peters, Laurence Coy, Lucetta Stapleton, Scott Irwin, Virginia Gay | Leave a reply
Hayes Theatre Co – coming soon in 2015
Posted on May 19, 2015 by jolitson
A week ago, the Hayes Theatre Co had its twice-yearly Coming Soon event at which they announced their program for the second half of this year. Although the company has only been in existence for 18 months, we’ve come to expect the Hayes to give a good launch – and so they did.
Hosted by David Campbell, one of the producers running the venue, the evening began with a lively video montage telling the Hayes story to date. Dedicated to the presentation of independent musical theatre and cabaret, it certainly illustrated what a great start the-little-venue-that-could has had.
Blasting off with Sweet Charity and The Drowsy Chaperone, other productions have included Blood Brothers, Miracle City, LoveBites, Next to Normal, new musicals Beyond Desire and Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You and the current production of Dogfight, as well as a cabaret festival and several Month of Sundays cabaret seasons. It hasn’t all been an unmitigated success but it’s been an exciting ride with some sensational high points, proving beyond doubt that the Hayes is an invaluable addition to Sydney’s musical theatre scene.
So what do they have in store for us for the rest of the year?
Cabaret Season 2015
Running from June 1 – 28, this year’s cabaret season includes 17 acts by artists including Marina Prior, Phil Scott, Amanda Harrison, Rob Mills, Tyran Parke, Mitchell Butel, Josie Lane and Damien Leith among others.
It begins on June 1 with Australiana: A Celebration of Australian Musical Theatre directed by Genevieve Lemon with Max Lambert as musical director. Featuring performers such as Nancye Hayes, Christy Sullivan and Patrice Tipoki, the concert will raise funds for the presentation of a new musical in November as part of the New Musicals Australia program, now being run by the Hayes.
The cast recording of Luckiest Productions’ acclaimed Miracle City, recorded at the Hayes, will be launched that night.
Phil Scott gave us a taste of his new cabaret show Reviewing the Situation, which he has written with Terence O’Connell and which he will perform as part of the cabaret season. Telling the story of Lionel Bart, composer of the musical Oliver! the character and concept would seem to be right in the pocket for Scott and one of the shows to look out for.
Akio!
The Hayes will host its first children’s show when it presents Blue Theatre Company’s Akio! – the story of a shy, young boy who is bullied at school and escapes by immersing himself in video games. Things get strange when he and Harumi, the girl of his dreams, are sucked into a video game. Akio! plays on July 4 & 5.
Jaz Flowers sings Dead Girl Walking from Heathers. Photo: Noni Carroll
Trevor Ashley was on hand to discuss Heathers The Musical, which he will direct with a cast including Lucy Maunder and Jaz Flowers. A rock musical by Lawrence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy based on the cult 1988 film, Heathers opened off-Broadway last year. It tells the deliciously dark story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful, teenage misfit who manages to become part of The Heathers, a powerful clique of popular girls all named Heather at Westerberg High School. When Veronica falls in love with new kid J.D. and Heather Chandler, leader of the Heathers pack, says she will ruin Veronica’s social life, there will be hell to pay.
The New York Times described the show as a “rowdy, guilty-pleasure musical”. Ashley’s production for the Hayes is the first time the musical has been staged outside the US. Flowers raised the roof at the launch with her blistering rendition of the number Dead Girl Walking. Heathers plays July 19 – August 9.
A hit in Melbourne, Left Bauer Productions brings its acclaimed production of Terence McNally’s renowned play Masterclass to the Hayes. Inspired by Maria Callas’ 1971 visit to New York’s Juilliard School of Music, the production stars Maria Mercedes, who recently won a Green Room Award for her portrayal of Callas. The cast also includes Blake Bowden who sang Recondita Armonia from the opera Tosca at the launch. Fast becoming a regular at the Hayes, Campbell quipped: “we’re not going to let him go until he gets it right!”
Masterclass plays August 12 – 30.
Amy Lehpamer sings It’s All Right With Me from High Society. Photo: Noni Carroll
The Hayes Theatre Co will present Cole Porter’s classic musical High Society. It’s the first show presented solely by the Hayes rather than with one of the production companies involved with the theatre, or an external producer. Richard Carroll will serve as producer.
Amy Lehpamer will play Tracy Lord, the gorgeous, privileged but coolly pretentious young socialite, whose swelegant wedding plans are thrown into disarray when her ex-husband turns up as well as a pesky, undercover, tabloid reporter. Directed by Helen Dallimore, the cast will also include Bert LaBonte, Bobby Fox and Virginia Gay – or “Amy Lephamer, Bert LaBonte, Bobby Le Fox and Virginia Le Gay” as they will be known for the production, joked Dallimore.
Singing It’s All Right With Me, Lehpamer – who is on an incredible roll right now – showed why she’s been cast as Tracy Lord.
High Society plays from September 4.
Highway Run Productions (Toby Francis and Lauren Peters) will present Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent in association with the Hayes. Loosely based on La boheme, Rent is set in New York City’s East Village, over the course of a year in the early 1990s, where a group of impoverished artist friends struggle to live, love and create under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic The cast of Dogfight performed the song Seasons of Love from the show and set spines tingling.
Rent plays October 8 – November 1.
Mitchell Butel will direct the musical Violet with book and lyrics by Brian Crawley and music by Jeanine Tesori, which he described as his favourite Broadway show of the last 10 years. A road movie of a musical, it is based on a short story by Doris Betts called The Ugliest Pilgrim about a young, disfigured woman who embarks on a bus journey from North Carolina to Oklahoma to find the preacher she believes can heal her. The production will star Samantha Dodemaide who sang the numbers All to Pieces and Lay Down Your Head.
Violet plays November 2 – December 20.
I Might Take My Shirt Off
As part of A Month of Sundays, Dash Kruck will perform his cabaret show I Might Take My Shirt Off, which premiered at the Brisbane Powerhouse in February. Featuring original songs by Kruck and composer Chris Perren, Kruck performed a short extract from the show. He plays Lionel, a timid flooring salesman and cabaret virgin struggling to cope with a relationship break-up, who finds himself on stage when his German therapist Grizelda pushes him into doing a cabaret show as a way to express himself. On the basis of the launch taster, it’s a very funny evening.
I Might Take My Shirt Off plays on September 20 & 27 and on October 11.
Neglected Musicals
Nicholas Hammond and David Campbell discuss Neglected Musicals’ Dear World. Photo: Noni Carroll
Neglected Musicals will present Jerry Herman’s Dear World, directed by Nicholas Hammond. Based on Jean Giraudoux’s play The Madwoman of Chaillot, Hammond described the 1969 musical as “25 years ahead of its time”. The Broadway production, he said, was over-produced; as a small production, he believes it works a dream. The staged reading will feature Genevieve Lemon and Simon Burke, with Max Lambert as musical director. Dear World will be presented on August 3.
It was also announced that the Hayes has launched TALK through its website, which consists of regular podcasts and a series of editorials by Daily Review arts writer/reviewer Ben Neutze about musical theatre and cabaret.
All up, it’s an impressive line-up from one of the exciting companies in town.
Full details of the Hayes Theatre Co season can be found on its website: www.hayestheatre.com.au
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Posted on April 20, 2015 by jolitson
Lyric Theatre, April 15
Amy Lehpamer, Stephen Mahy and Craig McLachlan. Photo: Brian Geach
It was great when it all began….. The Rocky Horror Show started life as a small, gritty production whose outrageous parody of 1940s to 1970s B-grade sci-fi and horror films felt genuinely subversive, shocking and theatrically groundbreaking.
Australian director Jim Sharman and designer Brian Thomson had a great deal of input in helping Richard O’Brien (who wrote book, music and lyrics) create the aesthetic. They were also instrumental in expanding, developing and guiding the show from an experimental production Upstairs at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1973 to the Chelsea Classic Cinema on the Kings Road and from there to world, taking it to the screen too as The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Over the years, the musical has become lighter, brighter and tamer: an anodyne parody of itself. These days it’s called Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show and so much of the edgy strangeness that made it a cult in the first place has been lost along the way.
While it is never going to shock in the way that it originally did, I’m sure there is a stripped-back, darker, dirtier, sexier production, closer to its roots, just longing to do the timewarp in Australia. Gale Edwards tried in 2008 with a (fairly glossy) production starring iOTA, but though it had a lot of going for it, it still didn’t manage to capture the danger of the original. (Apparently O’Brien and the British producers disliked some of what she had done and insisted on last minute changes).
For this 40th anniversary production, which originated as a UK tour, Christopher Luscombe directs one of the loudest, most colourful, glib productions yet. Gliding across the surface of the show, it’s a cartoon-like, bubblegum, party version verging on pantomime.
Hugh Durrant has designed a flexible set framed by rolls of film. The bottom right corner of the ruched front curtain is slightly torn, but that’s about it for any kind of grubbiness. Instead, the perky aesthetic is established right up front with a cartoon car for Brad and Janet and a cartoon castle, with comical Phantoms poking their heads out from behind it. There’s a fairly opulent interior for “the Frankenstein place” and some sci-fi looking gizmos for the science lab.
Sue Blane has reworked her original costumes to make them brighter, cleaner and sparklier, which work well within the world created.
The cast of Rocky Horror. Photo: Brian Geach
Craig McLachlan is a forceful presence as Frank-N-Furter, a role for which he first donned the fishnets in 1992 – but not in the way Frank should be. He goes for broke, strutting his stuff to the max but all too often his shameless mugging goes a step too far.
He frequently breaks the fourth wall. Most Frank-N-Furthers interact with the audience but not to the degree that McLachlan does. So many of his winks, leers and suggestive gestures are overdone that it becomes hammy and his comical antics during the seduction of Brad and Janet are plain tacky.
Frank should be irresistibly sexy, crazed and dangerous. McLachlan’s Frank is none of these things. Instead he plays the role for laughs.
As the squeaky clean Brad and Janet, Amy Lehpamer and Stephen Mahy give nicely centred performances that help keep things real amid the frenzy. Lehpamer’s Janet evolves dramatically and vocally over the course of the show, to match the character’s growth, and both sing strongly.
Angelique Cassimatis is a spunky dynamo as Columbia, shining in the role. Jayde Westaby gets the show off to a great start as the usherette, Kristian Lavercombe brings a soaring rock voice to a rather manic Riff Raff, and Bert Newton as the Narrator is, well, Bert Newton.
The production has little heart or teeth, and if you didn’t know the story – such as it is – some of it could well be lost in the frenetic carry-on, with the ending coming somewhat out of nowhere. Nonetheless, the show has been selling out around the country and many in the Sydney opening night audience embraced as it as pure fun. It is fun – but there is so much more to Rocky Horror than that.
The Rocky Horror Show plays at the Lyric Theatre until June 7. Bookings: www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100
A version of this review ran in the Sunday Telegraph on April 19
Posted in Musical Theatre | Tagged Amy Lehpamer, Angelique Cassimatis, Bert Newton, Christopher Luscombe, Craig McLachlan, Hugh Durrant, Jayde Westaby, Kristian Lavercombe, Richard O'Brien, Stephen Mahy, Sue Blane | 1 Reply
Posted on October 22, 2014 by jolitson
Princess Theatre, Melbourne, October 18 matinee
Madeleine Jones and Tom Parsons. Photo: Jeff Busby
Once is a lovely, wistful little musical that could charm the birds from the trees, so it could. It certainly had the audience entranced at the performance I saw.
Based on John Carney’s low-budget 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who also wrote the songs, it maintains the bittersweet, understated feel of the movie but has enough added brio to really shine on stage.
Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical when it opened on Broadway in 2012, the Australian production is co-produced by John Frost with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
As soon as you enter the auditorium you are swept up into the world of the piece. Several performers are already on stage making music and dancing, joined by various members of the audience who hang around, drink in hand, as if at an impromptu ceilidh in an Irish pub. Then, before we know it, we are into the action of the piece.
Set in Dublin, Once tells the story of an Irish Guy and Czech Girl (we never learn their names). They meet when she passes him busking on the street, howling a song in anger and pain. She recognises some kind of kindred spirit in him. Both are musicians (she plays piano) and both are dealing with difficult, unresolved relationships.
Disillusioned, he is on the verge of giving up music but over the next five days she badgers and cajoles him into recording an album. He meets her mother, daughter and friends – who support him on the album – and as they bond over music, love quietly blooms between them. But it is not destined to be.
Bob Crowley’s set design is an old-style pub with walls covered by framed, tarnished mirrors. A hidden walkway over the top is used for brief scenes when the Guy and Girl escape town. Other than that different locations are suggested with little more than the odd prop moved quickly into place.
The lo-tech nature of the staging adds to the charm. The busking scene segues into a hoover repair shop simply by someone pushing a vacuum cleaner across the stage to Girl, for example. It looks deceptively simple but director John Tiffany has done an ingenuous job of keeping the action flowing in ways that are inventive and often witty.
The direction is complemented by Steven Hoggett’s stunning movement – which isn’t dancing in the ‘big-production-number’ way of many musicals. Instead it combines dancing that emerges directly from the story with more gestural movement that feels deeply imbued with emotion.
Tiffany and Hoggett collaborated on Black Watch, the superb National Theatre of Scotland production seen at the 2008 Sydney Festival, and their work is just as special here.
The cast of Once. Photo: Jeff Busby
The songs, which combine a Celtic folksy feel with light pop-rock and gorgeous ballads, spring naturally from the action and seduce with their infectious, lilting rhythms. They include the haunting Academy Award-winning song Falling Slowly.
The fact that the music is performed by the cast, all of whom play instruments (fiddle, guitar, cello, mandolin, drums etc) and most of whom rarely leave the stage, also adds to the charm of the show.
Enda Walsh’s book manages to include sentiment without becoming sentimental and offsets it with lots of humour, from the straight-talking bluntness of Girl to the slapstick humour of her manic drummer friend. When Guy sings a song in the pub, introducing it as one that he wrote, someone in the crowd groans “Aw, fuck.”
The use of surtitles is also cleverly done. Most of the dialogue between the Czech characters is conducted in English with Czech surtitles, but occasionally they speak Czech with English surtitles. It’s a neat touch and used in just the right way.
The production has been beautifully cast. Madeleine Jones (best known in Sydney as a straight actor for companies including Sport for Jove and pantsguys) is gorgeous as Girl, underpinning her pugnacious, straight-speaking feistiness with plenty of heart. Her comic timing is great and she has a lovely voice.
Tom Parsons (who is a British actor) captures Guy’s lanky, slightly daggy-shaggy quality but also conveys his soulfulness and pain, and he sings with a heartfelt rawness. The chemistry between them is tangible and when they sing and make music together it’s magic.
There’s a terrific supporting cast. Amy Lehpamer exudes great energy and zesty charisma as the fiddle-playing, sassy Reza (one of Girl’s Czech friends). Colin Dean is very funny as the grouchy music shop owner Billy who hankers after Girl, as is Susan-ann Walker as Girl’s mother, Brent Hill as Czech drummer Svec, and Anton Berezin as the bank manager with musical aspirations.
The ending is bittersweet. The unfulfilled love story gives the piece an air of melancholy but both Girl and Guy have been reinvigorated by their relationship, while the friendships that blossom – even between the initially hostile Billy and the bank manager – are uplifting. Somehow it all feels real: some things work out, some don’t but that’s life.
A paen to the power of music and the importance of friendship, Once creeps gently up on you and plays with your heartstrings. I must admit I didn’t expect to be so moved by it but I went home enchanted.
Once is at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre until December 31. Bookings: ticketmaster.com.au
Posted in Musical Theatre | Tagged Amy Lehpamer, Anton Berezin, Bob Crowley, Brent Hill, Colin Dean, Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard, John Carney, John Tiffany, Madeleine Jones, Marketa Irglova, Steven Hoggett, Susan-ann Walker, Tom Parsons | Leave a reply
2013: The Year That Was
The last day of 2013 seems a good time to look back over what happened on the boards during the last 12 months. Here are some personal arts highlights from Sydney theatre predominantly: productions and people that will live on in my memory long past tonight’s Sydney Harbour midnight firework display heralding a new year.
Tony Sheldon, Katrina Retallick and Matt Hetherington in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Photo: Kurt Sneddon
It was a pretty patchy year in musicals. My two out-and-out highlights were The Production Company’s Gypsy in Melbourne and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Sydney.
Caroline O’Connor was phenomenal as Rose, giving us everything we’d hoped for and so much more: a stellar, unforgettable performance that was both monstrous and heartbreaking. For me, it was the musical theatre performance of the year.
Matt Hetherington was impressive as Herbie in Gypsy but really came into his own with a superb performance as the vulgar Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Co-starring with Tony Sheldon – who made a welcome homecoming from the US as the suave Lawrence Jameson, a part tailor-made for him – Scoundrels was a delightful, perfectly cast, stylish, laugh-out-loud production. Amy Lehpamer shone as Christine Colgate and Katrina Retallick was riotously funny in a scene-stealing performance as Jolene Oakes (after another scene-stealing turn in The Addams Family earlier in the year). Scoundrels was a real feather in the cap for up-and-coming producer George Youakim. The show deserved to sell out but despite reviews your mother might write, it struggled at the box office. Instead Sydney audiences opted for the familiar, even when reviews were much less favourable.
Squabbalogic
Confirming its growing value to the Sydney musical theatre scene, indie musical theatre company Squabbalogic led by Jay James-Moody enlivened things immeasurably with terrific productions of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Carrie with Hilary Cole making an impressive debut as Carrie.
The British arena production starring Tim Minchin, Mel C and Ben Forster really rocked with Tim Minchin in commanding form as Judas – giving a superstar performance, in fact.
ELSEWHERE IN MUSICALS….
The Lion King proved just as stunning visually a second time around but the first act felt flat with the dialogue scenes slowing the action, not helped by some underpowered performances. However, Nick Afoa made a promising debut as Simba.
Premiering in Melbourne, King Kong was an ambitious production and the puppetry used to create Kong himself was breathtaking. In fact, Kong the creature was awesome, the musical’s book less so. Esther Hannaford was lovely as Ann Darrow.
Lucy Maunder was the standout in Grease, owning the role of Rizzo. Her moving rendition of “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” was the emotional and musical highlight of the production.
Michael Falzon as Leo Szilard. Photo: Gez Xavier Mansfield Photograph
Michael Falzon was in superb voice as physicist Leo Szilard in new musical Atomic, giving a beautifully wrought performance. In fact, the entire ensemble was terrific. Written by Australian Danny Ginges and American Gregory Bonsignore (book and lyrics) and Australian Philip Foxman (music and lyrics), the structure of the musical could do with some honing but the show has great potential.
I also enjoyed Jaz Flowers and Bobby Fox in the 21st anniversary production of Hot Shoe Shuffle. And what a treat to be able to see Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in concert at the Sydney Opera House within 10 days of each other.
It was an impressive year in Sydney theatre both in the mainstream and independent sectors with a large number of excellent productions and performances. Never has the discussion among the Sydney Theatre Critics in the lead-up to the Sydney Theatre Awards (to be presented on January 20 at Paddington RSL) been so protracted, agonised and, at times, heated.
Among my own personal highlights were:
Waiting for Godot, Sydney Theatre Company. Directed by Andrew Upton after an injured Tamas Ascher was unable to fly to Australia, this was a mesmerising production full of tenderness, humanity, pathos and humour to match the bleakness. Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving, Philip Quast and Luke Mullins were all exceptional. Wow to the power of four.
Hugo Weaving, Philip Quast, Richard Roxburgh and Luke Mullins in Waiting for Godot. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
The Secret River, Sydney Theatre Company. Eloquently staged by director Neil Armfield, Andrew Bovell’s stage adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel used both English and the Dharug language to tell the story movingly from both sides.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Sydney Theatre Company. Another fabulous STC production starring Toby Schmitz and Tim Minchin, directed by Simon Phillips on a brilliant set by Gabriela Tylesova that played with optical illusion.
Angels in America, Belvoir. Staging Parts One and Two, this marvellous production directed by Eamon Flack confirmed that Tony Kushner’s play is a truly sensational piece of writing that sweeps you up in its epic vision. The fine cast included Luke Mullins, Amber McMahon, Marcus Graham and Mitchell Butel – all superb. (Mullins also gave a fine performance in Kit Brookman’s Small and Tired Downstairs at Belvoir. What a year he’s had).
The Floating World, Griffin Theatre. A devastatingly powerful production of John Romeril’s classic Australian play directed by Sam Strong. Peter Kowitz’s performance left you utterly gutted. Valerie Bader was also excellent.
The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Workhorse Theatre Company. The independent scene was unusually strong in Sydney in 2013 and this was one of the real stunners. Directed by Adam Cook in the intimate space at the TAP Gallery, the tough play kept you on the edge of your seat. Troy Harrison and Zoe Trilsbach gave riveting, grittily truthful performances. If you missed it, the production has a return season at the new Eternity Playhouse in September.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Sport for Jove. Sport for Jove’s outdoor Shakespeare productions are now a highlight on the Sydney theatre calendar. Damien Ryan’s production of Edmond Rostand’s sweeping, romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac was gloriously uplifting with an inspiring, verbal tornado of a performance by Yalin Ozucelik as Cyrano.
Lizzie Schebesta and Yalin Ozucelik in Cyrano de Bergerac. Photo: Seiya Taguchi
Jerusalem, New Theatre. A wonderful production of Jez Butterworth’s brilliant play directed by Helen Tonkin that has justly snared a large number of nominations at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Penelope, Siren Theatre Company. Kate Gaul directed a tough, challenging, indie production of Enda Walsh’s play, set in the bottom of a drained swimming pool, which riffs on the ancient myth. Another clever use of the small TAP Gallery, here playing in traverse.
Sisters Grimm. It was great to see the acclaimed, “queer, DIY” Melbourne company in Sydney with two of their trashy, gender-bending, outrageously funny productions: Little Mercy presented by STC and Summertime in the Garden of Eden as part of Griffin Independent. A hoot, both of them. (How drop dead beautiful was Agent Cleave in Summertime in drag and beard?). Can’t wait to see their production of Calpurnia Descending at STC in October.
All My Sons, Eternity Playhouse. The beautiful new Eternity Playhouse, a gorgeous 200-seat venue now home to the Darlinghurst Theatre Company, opened its doors with a fine, traditional production of All My Sons directed by Iain Sinclair with great performances all round, among them Toni Scanlan and Andrew Henry.
OTHER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES….
Besides those mentioned above I loved Sharon Millerchip in Bombshells at the Ensemble, Lee Jones in Frankenstein also at the Ensemble, Cate Blanchett in The Maids for STC, Paul Blackwell in Vere for STC, Ewen Leslie in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and in Hamlet at Belvoir (where he took over from Toby Schmitz whose performance I also liked very much), John Bell as Falstaff in Bell Shakespeare’s Henry 4 and Damien Ryan as Iago in Sport for Jove’s Othello.
OPERA AND BALLET
The Ring Cycle, Opera Australia. I was lucky enough to see The Ring Cycle in Melbourne. It was my first Ring and I was utterly thrilled by it. Numerous visual images will stay with me forever as will performances by Terje Stensvold, Stefan Vinke, Susan Bullock, Warwick Fyfe and Jud Arthur among others. As is his forte, director Neil Armfield brought the relationships to the fore and found enormous emotion and humanity. Conductor Pietari Inkinen, who took over at short notice, harnessed the musical forces superbly. A very special experience.
David Hansen and Celeste Lazarenko. Photo: Keith Saunders
Giasone, Pinchgut Opera. At the other end of the spectrum, small-scale, indie company Pinchgut delivered a sparkling production of Francesco Cavalli’s baroque opera with countertenor David Hansen dazzling in the title role.
Cinderella, Australian Ballet. Alexei Ratmansky’s beautiful, witty Cinderella was a joy with some meltingly lovely pas de deux for Cinderella and her Prince, divinely performed by Leanne Stojmenov and Daniel Gaudiello. Jerome Kaplan designed the gorgeous costumes and some clever surrealist staging effects.
VISITING PRODUCTIONS AND ARTISTS
How lucky we were to see Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy, the National Theatre’s brilliantly bonkers production of One Man, Two Guvnors, Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter, the Paris Opera Ballet’s exquisite Giselle, Semele Walk at the Sydney Festival, which gave Handel’s oratorio a wacky twist in a catwalk production with costumes by Vivienne Westwood, and firebrand soprano Simone Kermes singing with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
There was much, much more. Barry Humphries‘ Weimar cabaret concert for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, for example. In the end, too much good stuff to mention it all.
And now, bring on 2014….
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Matt Hetherington and Tony Sheldon. Photo: Kurt Sneddon
Theatre Royal, Sydney, October 24
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a complete delight from start to finish: a joyous night of perfectly cast, laugh-out-loud musical comedy.
Based on the 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, the show is set in the French Riviera where two conmen – the suave, sophisticated Lawrence Jameson and the younger, brasher Freddy Benson – compete to swindle $50,000 from a soap heiress called Christine Colgate. The loser must leave town.
Jeffrey Lane’s book and David Yazbeck’s catchy, melodic songs are deliciously witty and full of double entendres as well as occasional outright bawdiness, all of which inspire genuine, giddy mirth. There is also some priceless playing with the fourth wall (“Did I miss a scene?” asks Lawrence at one point) along with other meta-theatrical in-jokes including references to the musicals Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.
Lane’s book cleverly builds the comedy, which becomes ever more farcical as the two scam artists spin their web of deceit in the hope of ensnaring their target. In the hands of this fine cast every comic moment is mined for all it’s worth, without it ever becoming heavy-handed.
Tony Sheldon makes a triumphant homecoming in the role of Lawrence, returning especially to play the part from the US where he is now based after his Tony Award-nominated performance in the Broadway production of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. With his twinkly, dimply charm and immaculate comic timing, Sheldon is a natural for the debonair, charismatic Lawrence. He nails every laugh and makes the most of the opportunity to use several ludicrously funny accents.
It’s a consummate performance, matched by Matt Hetherington who is the perfect foil as the vulgar upstart Freddy. Hetherington’s unrestrained physical comedy and whacky slapstick is inspired – particularly when he is playing Lawrence’s supposed loony, sex-mad brother Ruprecht. He is also in great voice.
Hetherington played Freddy with great success for The Production Company in Melbourne in 2009 and was offered it in a US touring production but was unable to accept as his working visa was about to run out. Now we see why; he’s brilliant.
Together he and Sheldon are dream casting, managing to make the two scoundrels a hugely likeable odd couple despite their dubious trade.
Amy Lehpamer, who hasn’t been seen in Sydney since Rock of Ages never got here, is gorgeous as the kind, pretty, clumsy Christine Colgate (who is also not quite what she seems) and sings superbly. Katrina Retallick is downright hilarious as Jolene Oakes, a crass lass from an oil-rich family in Oklahoma, who is determined to marry Lawrence and take him home to the ranch.
In a romantic sub-plot, Anne Wood is very funny as a droll, swinging American divorcée, who having been duped by Lawrence becomes romantically involved with his side-kick, the Chief of Police played by John Wood. Wood’s questionable French accent wanders between Europe and Australia, but he plays the character with understated charm.
Having cast the production in exemplary fashion (the ensemble is also terrific), Roger Hodgman’s excellent direction puts the focus firmly on the performers in a production that is deliciously light on its feet. There’s a modest but attractive, flexible set by Michael Hankin, elegant, colourful costumes by Teresa Negroponte, beautiful lighting by Nicholas Rayment and appealing choreography by Dana Jolly, while musical director Guy Simpson conducts the 18-piece orchestra with panache.
All in all, it’s a superb production of a hugely entertaining show that exudes the charm of classic musical theatre, and is oodles of fun.
Hats off to producers James Anthony Productions and George Youakim. It’s their first big production and they deserve to have a massive hit on their hands.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels runs at the Theatre Royal until December 8.
An edited version of this review appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on October 27.
Posted in Musical Theatre | Tagged Amy Lehpamer, Anne Wood, Dana Jolly, David Yazbeck, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, George Youakim, James Anthony Productions, Jeffrey Lane, John Wood, Katrina Retallick, Matt Hetherington, Michael Hankin, Nicholas Rayment, Teresa Negroponte, Tony Sheldon | Leave a reply
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The Color Symphony
Champions, 4th Edition
By Rob Bell
Big Hair, Big Guns!
Hero Games’ Champions wasn’t the first superhero roleplaying game1 or even the first SHRPG I played2. It was, however, the SHRPG I played the most often.
Originally published in 1981, the system was initially developed in a rather haphazard way; rules accreted across several editions of rule books. Efforts to correct this lack of organization began in the mid-1980s. 1989’s 4th Edition Champions, written by George MacDonald, Steve Peterson, and Rob Bell was arguable the culmination of this process. Known as the Big Blue Book, it was a fan favorite that shaped many games that came after it.
How does the rulebook stand up after OH GOD HOW IT IS 30 YEARS ALREADY?
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Jeff Carmack
Writer | Blogger | Funny Guy
A setup like this only comes around once in a blue moon 7
Uncategorized • Tags: blue moon, funny, new year's eve, smartass
Last night, Liz and I went to a party in Travis Heights at the home of a friend of some friends. Late in the evening the host gave some of us a tour of the house, which featured a deck on the roof.
As you know, we had a blue moon on New Year’s Eve, and we were discussing this phenomenon.
Several in our group were curious about the exact nature of a blue moon. Ever the pedant, I was happy to drop science.
“Any time there are two full moons in a month,” I explained, “the second is called a blue moon.”
“Hmm,” one of our party mused. “Is there any significance to a blue moon?”
“Not really,” I said. “It just indicates a second full moon in a month.”
“How often does that happen?” she asked.
What could I say? Mere minutes into the new year, she was handing me a totally sweet setup. For about a nanosecond I wrestled with my inner smartass and, as usual, he won. I almost hated to do it to her, but a setup like this is rare. I paused, letting her question hang just long enough for the group to process it.
“Oh,” I said, “once in a blue moon.”
And I wonder why I don’t get invited to more parties.
If it quacks like a duck, it might be an anti-aging doctor
Getting old beats the alternative? Jury still out
Takenby1 says:
One second into the new year and you’re already on Santa’s Naughty List…tsk, tsk, tsk…
Chris H. says:
You made em laugh no doubt…they’d be smart to ask you back…they probably have no idea how smart your “Ass” can be. Happy new year!
Confucius say: “Truly, if not for smartass, you would possess no ass at all. Or no smart at all. One of those. Probably the former, since snappy witticisms require a surprising amount of mental facility…”
Well, never mind Confucius. Old dude tends to ramble sometimes. But that’s one funny anecdote, whether those people ever have the courage to invite the Snark King of South Austin to dinner again.
Anyone who asks you a question is, well, asking for it. …So anyway, why is it blue?
$ says:
I think you confused “pedant” with “pissant.” That’s what I think.
jeffcarmack says:
I’m always doing that.
NAK says:
(With apologies to late Bill Monroe.)
Blue moon of South Austin, keep on shining,
Shine on the one that’s gone and proved unclued;
Shine on the one that’s gone and left me booed.
It was on a moonlight night, the stars were shining bright;
And they whispered from on high, your quip must surely die.
Shine on the one that’s gone and said goodbye.
About Jeff Carmack
I write, edit and occasionally make people squirt beer out their noses. Want to know more?
Jeff Carmack on “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers
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Museum+Heritage Awards 2016
A fantastic thing about being a consultant is how many great projects and teams I am privileged to work with on a daily basis. So you can imagine my pride when, on reading the shortlist for the Museum+Heritage Awards this year, I found 3 clients had been nominated as well as 2 organisations for whom I volunteer.
Top of the list of course, were the team at the Coffin Works, run by Birmingham Conservation Trust, of which I am a trustee. We were up for the Customer Service Award – very fitting given the passion of our staff and volunteers, and my own professional interest in good quality visitor experience. Christine Cushing, one of our excellent FoH volunteers and I were there at the ceremony to represent everyone.
In the Educational Initiative category were the talented Creative Bridges team from Herbert Media, part of Culture Coventry, whose 2-year Esmee Fairbairn-funded project I am evaluating. Their project is focussed on building the confidence and embloyability skills of young adults with learning disabilities, involving them in live commissions and work experience in some of the City’s many creative industries. It’s a fascinating project that is proving very satisfying for its participants. Project manager, Kerrie Suteu was there to collect a HIGHLY COMMENDED for the team.
Staying with Culture Coventry, Coventry Transport Museum were nominated for the Permanent Exhibition Award. The HLF and EDRF-funded project has enabled the Culture Coventry team not only to redisplay all but 2 galleries in their huge venue, but also to overhaul their learning and community programming, and build a new volunteering programme for front of house that may well see them nominated in years to come. I am working with DC Research on the evaluation of this work over the next 2 years. Although unplaced, the team were in excellent company on the shortlist.
NT Croome, whom I have worked with over the last decade whilst volunteering for NT Whose Story? and NT Regional Advisory Boards, were nominated for a Trading & Enterprise award for their innovative Sky Cafe, perched on top of the scaffolding above the current HLF-funded restoration work on the Court. They were HIGHLY COMMENDED, behind the winners, Black Country Living Museum. So what ever happened, the prizes all came to the West Midlands! And it was lovely to see that the volunteers from the Defford Airfield Trust, who now have a museum space at Croome, were nominated for the Volunteers of the Year Award too.
Last of my clients up for an award were the Cadbury Research Library, part of the Special Collections Department at the University of Birmingham, nominated for the Restoration or Conservation prize for their work on identifying, restoring and exhibiting the 9th Century Qu’ranic Manuscripts recently discovered in the Mingana collection. Josefine Frank, project manager, found the resultant exhibition and community interest provided a tremendous boost to the Esmee Fairbairn/MA Collections-funded Mingana Community Engagement activity, and I shall certainly enjoy writing up its effects in my final evaluation report. Sadly, the team went home empty handed, but the shortlist recognition for their conservation staff is well deserved.
So what of the Coffin Works you cry? Did we win?
The winner of the Customer Service #MandHAwards, spons by @BDRCContinental, goes 2 @coffinworks for the fun passion and enthusiasm they show
— Museums + Heritage (@MandHShow) May 18, 2016
“Quirky, innovative, creative, passionate.” That’s us!
Christine and I were over the moon on behalf of the team. Really. If we could have rocketed up there, we would have done. We managed to get to the stage, make a speech, and sit down again without tripping over, and we were so proud and thrilled by the prize and by the outpouring of compliments in person and online for our wonderful staff and volunteers (you can see those in our storify of the event).
Christine Cushing, self, and presenter, Marcus Brigstocke, collecting the Coffin Works award for Customer Service at the M+H Awards 2016. Photo copyright Simon Callaghan.
The Coffin Works has won 6 awards since we opened in October 2014, for the building restoration, for the collections conservation, for the volunteers. This one, alongside the People’s Choice Award at the Heritage Angel Awards 2015, is one of the most important. A great building, dedicated curators, passionate staff and volunteers are nothing without the support of the public, and a great visitor experience. As a trustee, I work hard with the team to make sure we offer that, and reviews on Tripadvisor and from our peers tell us that it is Top Class. Thanks everyone!
Top shelf for our latest award we think! © Simon Callaghan https://t.co/ltSBPcx66t pic.twitter.com/ZFXLwABGpC
— Coffin Works (@CoffinWorks) May 19, 2016
Oh My Gosh! We WON! #MandHAwards pic.twitter.com/FFvcbRZHFT
Congratulations @CoffinWorks on your Customer Service Award @MandHShow 2016!! pic.twitter.com/tkHdweSHit
— WM Museum Dev (@WM_MuseumDev) May 18, 2016
May 20, 2016 by jenniwaugh | Tags: award, Birmingham Conservation Trust, trustee, visitor experience | Leave a comment
Thanks for helping us to #bringitbackforBrum
It’s time to ease your suspense, following my last post, asking for your votes.
Yes! Thank you all you wonderful peeps. As a result of your support and enthusiasm, Birmingham Conservation Trust won the Heritage Angel, Historic England and Telegraph People’s Favourite award for our restoration of the Newman Brothers Coffin Works.
It’s a long title, but a very worthwhile prize that means a great deal to all of us, as you can see from the short film I made of the acceptance speeches made by Simon Buteux and Elizabeth Perkins, respectively our current and former Directors, who have worked to hard to see the restoration project succeed.
The Heritage Angel Awards are organised by Historic England and sponsored by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. As a result, Sir Andrew’s Foundation paid for 12 of the BCT team to attend the ceremony in the Palace Theatre, London, on 7 September 2015.
Consequently, as well as bringing along the BCT staff, and Jane Arthur, chair of the BCT Board, Simon was able to invite the project manager, Kate Dickson, project architect, Ed Kepczyk, another trustee, (me!), and 3 volunteers: David, Pam and Owen.
The ceremony provided a great opportunity to see the high standard of exciting restoration work taking place around the country. After the show, we mingled with the other nominees at a reception, where we snaffled as many mini-cones of fish & chips as we could, whilst comparing notes and sharing tales of restoration highs and lows.
Two days later, an article about our success appeared in the Daily Telegraph – considering he was interviewing 12 very over-excited people, the journalist did a remarkably accurate job!
We are very grateful to you, our friends and supporters, as well as those of Heritage England and the readers of the Telegraph, for voting so strongly in our favour. Please do come and visit us now so that you can see the award you helped us to win!
September 11, 2015 by jenniwaugh | Tags: award, Birmingham Conservation Trust, Historic England, museums, trustee, Value of Culture, West Midlands | 1 Comment
VOTE COFFIN WORKS for the Heritage Angel Award and #BringitbackforBrum
Please VOTE COFFIN WORKS for the Heritage Angel Award 2015
As a proud trustee of Birmingham Conservation Trust, I am delighted to report that we have been nominated for one of Historic England’s Angel Awards, specifically the Best Rescue of an Industrial Building Award, for our restoration of the glorious Newman Brothers at the Coffin Works.
However, there is another Heritage Angel award, which we need your help to win: the 2015 Historic England followers’ & Telegraph readers’ Favourite Award will be presented to the project that receives the most public votes.
So please, vote for us by following this link*:
http://historicengland.org.uk/news-and-features/angel-awards/shortlist-2015/
A little bit about our restoration of the Coffin Works
15 years of hard work, fundraising and a £2m refurbishment paid off when we re-opened the factory in October 2014. The semi-derelict grade II* listed industrial building now has a very bright and sustainable future as both a highly-rated ‘time-capsule’ museum, an events venue, and eight commercial units, which are all fully let!
BCT, along with our wonderful team of volunteers, have given the factory a new lease of life and preserved a unique and special slice of Birmingham’s history for the city. Just check out our TripAdvisor Reviews to see how special the museum is!
For more information about the work of Birmingham Conservation Trust, click here.
To visit the Coffin Works for yourself, click here.
*Just for information…
When you follow the ‘vote’ link you are taken to a SurveyMonkey page where you are asked to provide your name, email and telephone number and are asked whether you are ‘a) A Historic England follower b) A Telegraph reader (the Telegraph is one of the award sponsors) c) Both’. Being a ‘follower’ of Historic England means anybody with an interest in their work – i.e. anybody can vote.
You can opt out of being contacted by Historic England simply by not ticking the relevant boxes about this. Although, why not follow them on Twitter @HistoricEngland or on Facebook.com/HistoricEngland or subscribe to their newsletter and find out more about the great work that they do.
For more about the Heritage Angel Awards, follow this link
July 17, 2015 by jenniwaugh | Tags: award, Birmingham Conservation Trust, museums, trustee, West Midlands | Leave a comment
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A.J. Confessore: 1969-2012
Anthony J. Confessore, better known to legions of heavy metal fans as bizarre fringe character C.C. Banana, died today at his New Jersey home of an apparent suicide. He was forty-three.
According to friends, Confessore had been struggling financially as of late, having invested greatly in a rock tribute album saluting plus-size women. The album, entitled Whole Lotta Love, features an array of ’80s rockers performing songs such as “Baby Got Back” and “Unskinny Bop.”
Whole Lotta Love was not proving as successful as Confessore hoped it would be, leaving him in the red. Matters became more dire when the Garden State native lost the home he shared with his mother; originally reported to be a foreclosure, several people close to the situation have come forward to explain that the house was actually sold without A.J.’s consent by other family members who were concerned for the elder Confessore’s own financial comfort.
Early this morning, Confessore posted a final statement to his Facebook page, which read in part: “Xanadu has been breached, my friends. Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the vultures and jackals. No more past. No more future. Both have been taken away…It took just one year of Hell to undo a lifetime of hope. I am too lost to be found and too broken to be fixed. Let the Monday morning quarterbacking begin…”
Hailing from Nutley, New Jersey, Anthony J. Confessore was a dedicated heavy metal fanatic whose keen sense of humor birthed one of the genre’s most smirk-inducing characters, that of C.C. Banana. Conjured up in 2001 while en route to a Poison concert, the fruit-based mascot was initially created as a mockery of Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille’s decision to start charging fans (via sandwich board) for autographs, pictures, and handshakes.
“At some point [during that car ride] we began discussing the nonsense with C.C.,” Confessore later explained to Metal Sludge. “Apparently C.C. stands for ‘Currency Challenged?’ I looked in the back seat, and saw an enormous yellow fruit staring back at me. ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if I wore the banana suit to the Poison concert?’ Lightbulbs go off over our heads. ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if the banana had a sign, asking people to pay him for his autograph and pictures and stuff?’ Illumination with a brightness equivalent to the entire Poison stage lighting truss fills the car.”
DeVille and Confessore eventually crossed paths that night. Although the guitarist was initially perplexed by his fruit-based counterpart, DeVille eventually gave his blessing, peeking into Confessore’s face hole to say, “You’re pretty smart. I can tell.”
C.C. Banana would become something of a fixture at Tri-State area rock events in the early Aughts, teasing/snagging photo ops with such acts as Kiss, Jani Lane, Quiet Riot, and Twisted Sister. Outside of the hair n’ leather set, Confessore managed to get audiences with such pop culture luminaries as George Lucas and the late Gary Coleman (the Banana engaged Coleman in a lengthy, enlightening conversation about “Robotech”).
A graduate of NYU, A.J. Confessore went by “Tony” with many of his friends and was well-liked for his warmth, humor, and charm. As C.C. Banana, Confessore injected a great sense of mirth into a hoary old scene that otherwise seems to have difficulty laughing at itself. It’s so tragic that such mirth apparently vanished from his own life. The world’s missing someone hilarious now. We’ll never forget him, though, or his thousand-watt grin.
Rats off to ya, Banana Man.
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A developer has gotten permission from the city to tear down an old building in Grass Valley in favor of new ones. The single-family building was constructed around 1939 at 500 Bennett Street. City Community Development Director Tom Last says it’s boarded up, and not in very good condition…
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"trigon 67" – Spaces and Dissolved Boundaries
Author: Jürgen Dehm
“trigon 67” – Spaces and Dissolved Boundaries
The deputy mayor of Graz, Alexander Götz, did not conceal his opinion about the third edition of the tri-nation biennale “trigon.” Shortly after its opening in September 1967, he vehemently and devastatingly passed judgment on the exhibition in the Graz newspaper Kleine Zeitung: “It is a capital provocation to call Trigon 3 a reflection of the intellectual powers of the present.”[1] The controversy that “trigon 67” sparked—and which led, in the course of Götz’s polemics, to some angry letters to the editor directed against the exhibition—may not have been planned, but it was foreseeable. How did this come to pass in Graz during the autumn of 1967?
The Tri-Nation Biennale “trigon”
The “trigon” biennale was initiated in 1963 by Hanns Koren, who at the time headed the Styrian cultural department.[2] Conceived as a strongly rooted event by the Steirische Akademie, taking place in Graz for the fourth time that year, the exhibition strove to bring together “contemporary painting and sculpture from Italy, Yugoslavia, and Austria,” as the subtitle read.[3] The Steirische Akademie, which brought scholars from all over the world to the state capital every year, but also the Forum Stadtpark, which was planned starting in 1958, finally opened in 1960, and sought to unite different art forms through an interdisciplinary approach, had already been sending far-sighted signals meant to overcome prejudices and mental barriers.
The founding of the tri-nation biennale was not only directed expressly against a bourgeois understanding of art influenced by tradition, as was prevalent in Graz during the second half of the 1960s; “trigon” was also meant to raise awareness for collective cultural space. The activities connecting Austria, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, and Yugoslavia aimed to take a stance against the territorial demarcations undertaken during the war and postwar periods.
All the same: “trigon” debuted as a survey exhibition on current artistic activity in Austria, Italy, and Yugoslavia, yet it was perceived predominately as an art competition between the participating countries. While the exhibition enjoyed high popularity, some of Graz’s citizens—even in the year 1963—expressed a lack of understanding for the abstract art shown there, despite the show’s focus on the traditional genres of painting and sculpture and a conventional presentation.[4] In the “trigon” exhibition of 1965, the complexity arising from the participation of 134 artists was to be countered by a concentraion on only five painters and three sculptors per region.[5] However, this reduction of the number of artists enhanced the competition character—which was further heightened by the lack of an exhibition theme and the still traditional means of presenting the works of art. The impression again arose of a “competition among the countries for the best art.”
The “trigon” biennale started with the aspiration to surmount both factual borders and barricades of the mind, yet in its first two editions some of the exhibition visitors were rather wary due to their conservative appreciation of art. The criticism coming from middle-class circles was well noted by Hanns Koren at the cultural department, but he was not discouraged and thus oriented the concept of the third “trigon” even more strongly toward international developments in the contemporary art scene.
“trigon 67 – ambiente / environment”
Accompanying the third tri-nation biennale, held in 1967, was a more concrete execution of the original exhibition concept. The organization of the event was handed over to Wilfried Skreiner, who the year before had been named director of the Neue Galerie. Supporting him as advisors were Umbro Apollonio, the representative for Italy for the first two “trigon” shows, and Zoran Kržišnik, who had been in charge of the Yugoslavian part since 1965. Thanks to the decision to focus “trigon 67” on explorations of space in contemporary art, a theme for the exhibition was chosen, reflecting one of the most essential tendencies in recent avant-garde art.[6] The art press accepted this downsizing with benevolence, as the statement by Kristian Sotriffer in the Presse illustrates: “Commendable … is this self-imposed limitation … Confrontations like these are valuable and necessary. They clarify one’s own position (that of the artists, the critics, and the audience) and also make connections that no one will underestimate who knows how necessary it is to always reevaluate one’s own thoughts and actions and to willingly open oneself to new insights and realizations. We are surely on the right path in Graz, at least when it comes to the form of the selection and the objective being pursued.”[7] The starting point for selecting this topic was, most especially, the “cut paintings” of Lucio Fontana, which the Italian artist famously used to “force” two-dimensional panel painting into three-dimensional space.[8]
At fifteen participants, the number of involved artists was manageable.[9] The inclusion of architecture as a spatial art form was underscored by the commissioning of the architects Günther Domenig and Eilfried Huth to design the exhibition parcours, which this time was to be presented at the Künstlerhaus and in the directly adjacent city park. The planning group Domenig / Huth had caught the attention of the “trigon 67” organizers with their design of the vertical housing structure “Stadt Ragnitz” and a related exhibition at Forum Stadtpark in 1966 in particular.
With the help of around forty students, Domenig and Huth spent several weeks implementing the exhibition structure as well as supporting the artists and their on-site installations, spatial sculptures, and environments. As an access point for the exhibition, the architects designed a house-high entrance pavilion shaped as a spiral and made of scaffolding and plastic sheets. The idea was for guests to be “transposed into” the exhibition, fully in line with the zeitgeist of expanded consciousness during the 1960s. A multimedia show installed in this pavilion, along with the ticket office and book sales, was also meant to introduce the feel of the works shown in the exhibition. A pneumatic dome made of rubber tubing, intended to cover the scaffolding, could not be completed due to a thunderstorm during assembly, which damaged the tubes.[10]
Sections of scaffolding also lent structure to the main exhibition hall at the Künstlerhaus. In the foyer, the Slovenian artist Jaki Jože Horvat presented stand-up displays created on site featuring a mythical language of form. He tried to evoke a sense of space by painting the additionally installed horizontal pedestal and oblique ceiling sections.
In order to achieve an appropriate presentation of their ideas, several of the artists showing their work inside the Künstlerhaus decided to create room containers. The Italian artist Luciano Fabro, for example, selected for his conceptual approach a white, brightly illuminated, cuboid installation that was separated at the middle into two identical spaces. The structure was given two identical access points, one outside and one in the separating wall of the container, although the entrance to the second room was obscured by a canvas—so it was left up to the imagination of the viewer as to what was situated behind it.
Such a negotiation of the “White Cube” as a realm for exhibition and experience was unusual for the year 1967. For artists engaging with Minimal Art in America, space was a pivotal category. However, the well-known artistic explorations with this topic in Europe did not start until around 1967, for instance with Lawrence Weiner’s removal of a square layer of wall for A 36" X 36" REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALLBOARD FROM A WALL at the exhibition When Attitudes Become Form in Bern or Daniel Buren’s “sealing” of the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan with white-green strips of fabric.[11] It was not until the opening of the famous essay series Inside the White Cube by Brian O’Doherty[12] in the year 1976, in which the relationship between art and (exhibition) space became a point of focus, that the topic caught on with exhibition-makers, artists, and critics. O’Doherty’s text inspired, for example, the Italian curator Germano Celant to invite thirteen artists to the Venice Biennale that year to present, under the heading “Ambiente Arte,” space-encompassing installations.
But now back to the other works in “trigon 67.” In order to arrive at the eight-meter-high tower featuring the spatial installation by Oswald Oberhuber in the exterior space next to the Künstlerhaus, one had to traverse a man-made landscape by Miroslav Šutej with large, bright wooden flowers and raindrops made of painted ping-pong balls. As an environment, Šutej’s work was a clear connector to previous artwork, such as Claes Oldenburg’s “Bedroom Ensemble,” shown in 1964 at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York.
For works shown to the exterior of the Künstlerhaus in the city park, Huth and Domenig had planned a path made of yellow wooden boards. Assigned to the end of each board was a respective artwork with number, matching the exhibition catalogue. An inconspicuous fence was meant to protect the exhibition premises from vandalism. The sculptural works shown there were conceived as open structures: the Slovenian artist Drago Tršar, who had already participated in the tri-nation biennial thrice, stacked up concrete pipes like those used in sewer systems to create a three-level pyramid. The Austrian artist Josef Pillhofer transferred a small bronze sculpture, abstracting a bird, into a large-scale scaffolding structure painted white in the exterior space. Aside from the outside contours, the inner connecting lines and diagonals of his work were visible. Walk-in spaces were shown by Guiseppe Uncini and Roland Goeschl. The former, an Italian artist, presented his Unità Cellulare, a metal sculpture that reflected the contours of a furnished interior space, like an outline drawing, although it integrated the shadows in a different color. Goeschl, born in Salzburg, in turn crafted a “dead end” from polyester components up to four meters high in the primary colors of yellow, red, and blue.
“Shock of the new”
“trigot 67” was an ambitious endeavor. Due to the inclement weather, the architects Domenig and Huth had to rethink their plans, and some of the works created on site were adjusted accordingly. Vjenceslav Richter from Croatia, for example, had originally planned to fashion a cube from glass tubes, with a hemispherical form of approx. 2.5 meters in diameter being “cut out” of the cube. However, the implementation of Richter’s idea turned out to be too complicated. An alternative using concrete failed due to the symmetrical relations between the individual parts. The state of the exhibition remained unfinished long after the opening on September 5, 1967, upon which Otto Breicha also remarked negatively in his commentary in the Kurier: “I visited the Trigon exhibition at Graz’s city park a week after its opening, and all kinds of setup activity was still going on. It was like a rehearsal for the dress rehearsal.”[13]
Another point of criticism noted by Breicha that is consistently cited—such as in Alexander Götz’s polemics mentioned earlier—is the overblown exhibition budget: “The fact that a ‘total’ exhibition (usually only undertaken in exceptional cases due to the related costs and nuisance) devours so much of what merely signifies arranged framed paintings and decorous sculptures on pedestals, well, they should have known better.”[14]
Despite the environments and spatial installations explicitly designed to be experienced, of which some were specially geared toward tactile sensation, and despite the high number of exhibition visitors, the artworks shown were widely met with incomprehension. In the discussion sparked by Alexander Götz’s contribution to the Kleine Zeitung, many people took a position of angry rejection toward the exhibition, for instance: “This mockery of all thinking people, as this exhibition signifies, is not worthy of a critique”[15] or “This so-called art is the joke of the century.”[16] Yet it also inspired the initiators and proponents of “trigon 67” to defend the exhibition, for example Günther Waldorf, director of Forum Stadtpark, who found fault with Götz’s knowledge of art, noting that he had “plenty of opportunities during his many trips abroad … to obtain information about the current state of the international art scene, considering that he meant to make a critical statement on these issues.”[17]
Due to the fierce reactions to “trigon 67,” Wilfried Skreiner, who was responsible for the exhibition, coined an apt phrase: “shock of the new”[18] (“Schock der Moderne”). In the eyes of visitors who had already considered the abstract sculptures shown at the 1963 and 1965 tri-nation biennales outlandish, the installations and environments at the Künstlerhaus were now quite unfathomable. The unusual exhibition architecture likely also had a daunting effect, even if just due to its size. The public doesn’t appear to have been prepared for exploring space through art.
In the catalogue to “trigon 67,” Skreiner emphasized that the selection of the topic “space” for the show had been made “without knowledge of similar exhibition concerns.”[19] As an advisor, the Italian Umbro Apollonio—with his knowledge of Lucio Fontana, for instance his presentation with Sofu Teshigahara, already shown in 1960 at Palazzo Grassi—likely provided the impetus for choosing the topic of space. The fact that this theme was highly topical for art in 1967 was surely clear to all those keeping up with current developments, such as Richard Rubinig. In his preliminary discussion of “trigon 67” in the Kleine Zeitung, he spoke of the relevance of the topic:
“The idea [behind trigon 67] is not to line up paintings and sculptures, but rather to create living space that the architect does not present, incomplete and inalterable, to a given person who, as an individual of his own kind, is meant to help create this ‘ambience.’ Painters, sculptors, and architects are today repeatedly forced to arrive at spatial solutions.”[20]
The investigation of space—a topic that was of central importance not only for the “trigon 67” artists, but also for the exhibition itself, with its display and parcours—appears not to have appealed much to the audience in Graz. However, the rush of visitors was tremendous. In the fifth exhibition week, for example, there were over 12,000 visitors.[21] Despite the dismissive voices, Hanns Koren and the organizers were confident that, with this edition of the “trigon” biennale, they had succeeded in arriving at a high niveau within the international art scene. Indeed, “trigon 67” was one of the essential jumping boards leading to the official founding of the international festival for contemporary art steirischer herbst in Graz a year later, also headed by Hanns Koren.[22] In the scope of the steirischer herbst, on the heels of “trigon 67,” other innovative, thematically focused “trigon” editions were held, such as on architecture in 1969 and on “audiovisual messages” in 1973. The future-oriented nature of the tri-nation biennale was thus clearly demonstrated by “trigon 67.”
Alexander Götz, “Eine einmalige Provokation!,” Kleine Zeitung (September 16, 1967):11.
See Gernot Rabl, “Trigon: Idee und Geschichte eines trinationalen Ausstellungskonzepts” PhD diss., Graz: Karl-Franzens-Universität, 2004).
See Hanns Koren, “Zum Geleit,” in Trigon 63: Malerei und Plastik der Gegenwart aus Italien, Jugoslawien, Österreich, exh. cat. Burggarten, Forum Stadtpark, and Künstlerhaus, September 15 to October 6, 1963 (Graz, 1963): 1–2.
See Werner Fenz, “‘Trigon’: Kunst als Protokoll der Zeit,” in Die Steiermark: Brücke und Bollwerk, ed. Gerhard Pferschy and Peter Krenn, exh. cat. Landesausstellung Steiermark 1986 (Graz, 1986):519–523, 520–21.
See Trigon 65: Italien, Jugoslawien, Österreich, exh. cat. Künstlerhaus and Burggarten / Palmenhaus, Graz, September–October 1965 (Graz, 1965).
Program for “trigon 67,” unpaginated: “trigon 67 is devoted to ambiente / environment and represents the attempt to have the problem of space addressed by painters and sculptors in an exemplary way. Each artist creates an appropriate spatial idea using his own autonomous means.”
Kristian Sottrifer, “Ein Konzept nahm Form an: Die Dreiländerausstellung ‘Trigon’ in Graz,” Die Presse, (September 14, 1965): 6.
Fontana had been asked to participate in the founding exhibition of “trigon” in 1963 but did not accept the invitation.
Participants in “trigon 67:” Austria: Marc Adrian, Roland Goeschl, Oswald Oberhuber, Josef Pillhofer, Rudolf Pointner, Jorrit Tornquist; Italy: Mario Ceroli, Gianni Colombo, Luciano Fabro, Enzo Mari, Giuseppe Uncini; Yugoslavia: Jaki Jože Horvat, Vjenceslav Richter, Miroslav Šutej, Drago Tršar. However, Ivna Picelj, who is also mentioned in the catalogue, did not ultimately participate in the exhibition.
Some of the inflatable tubes found use in the exhibition as seating areas.
See Markus Brüderlin, “Die Transformation des White Cube,” in Brian O’Doherty: In der weißen Zelle / Inside the White Cube, ed. Wolfgang Kemp (Berlin, 1996): 138–66, 141.
Ibid., 143.
Otto Breicha, “Besser noch nicht benützen! Zur Situation und zu den Problemen der diesjährigen Grazer Trigon-Ausstellung,” Kurier, (8 Septmber 23, 1967): 9.
Klaus Turek, “Geschlagener Mann,” Kleine Zeitung, Forum, (September 27, 1967).
Maria Gaszar, “Der Schmäh des Jahrhunderts,” in ibid.
Günther Waldorf, “So einfach geht’s nicht, Herr Vizebürgermeister!,” Kleine Zeitung, Forum, (September 21, 1967).
Wilfried Skreiner, “Biennale Trigon: Geschichte eines Ausstellungskonzepts,” in 8 x 2 aus 7, exh. cat. steirischer herbst 1991, vol. 1. (Graz, 1991): 123–46, 124.
Wilfried Skreiner, in trigon 67 – ambiente / environment, exh. cat. Künstlerhaus Graz (Graz, 1967), n.p.
Richard Rubinig, “Auftakt zum steirischen Herbst: Vorschau auf das Grazer Trigon 1967 bei einer Pressekonferenz,” Kleine Zeitung, (August 24, 1967):12.
Styrian State Archive Graz, Neue Galerie, Trigon 67, contribution: 5. Wochenbericht, Ohne GZ, Graz, October 5, 1967, p. 4, cited in Rabl 2004, p. 37.
Wilfried Skreiner, “Die Biennale trigon: Geschichte eines Ausstellungskonzepts,” in 8 x 2 aus 7, exh. cat. Steirischer Herbst 1991, vol. 1 (Graz, 1991):123–46, 123. Founding committee in 1968: chair: Hanns Koren (Deputy State Governor, State Government of Styria); members: Emil Breisach (Artistic Director of the ORF Studio Styria), Erich Marckhl (President of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz), Reinhold Portisch (Secretary General of the Music Society for Styria), Wilfried Skreiner (Director of the Neue Galerie at the Styrian Museum Joanneum), Günter Waldorf (President of Forum Stadtpark). The title “Steirischer Herbst” was already being used in 1967 for the events included later. See Rabl 2004:39. Here, Rabl is referencing Max Reisinger, Steirische Kulturpolitik 1965 bis 1975 – Der Steirische Herbst (Graz, 1994):14.
…Possible Currents to Follow
In her installations, drawings, paintings, sound, and video works, the Croation artist Tina Gverović (* 1975 Zagreb, lives in London and Dubrovnik) contemplates, destabilizes, and reconstitutes notions of space, territory, and identity. In the following conversation, Gverović speaks about her interest in the relationship between the fragment and the whole, about the convergence of bodies both fluid and solid, and waves, or the sea, as carriers and metaphors for the unstoppable forces of real and imagined masses set in motion.
Propositions for a Map of trigon
Visualized data of trigon as a network by Branka Benčić and Tihana Puc; programmed by Mihael Giba
Three questions for…
Tobias Putrih
Kunst kann sein: jede produktive Tätigkeit des Menschen, die unsere fünf Sinne anspricht
Der Architekt Eilfried Huth war vor fünfzig Jahren gemeinsam mit seinem Partner Günther Domenig an der Ausstellung trigon 67 beteiligt – und ist auch bei der Neuauflage trigon 67/17 wieder dabei. Ein Gespräch über die Unterschiede zwischen damals und jetzt, Kunst und Architektur und die Kontroverse über die Ausstellung 1967.
Drei Fragen an...
trigon 1967
Presented at the Künstlerhaus exactly fifty years ago, the exhibition "trigon 1967“ is considered to be contemporary art’s debut in Styria. Architect Eilfried Huth, who was responsible for the show’s architectural display structure, photographed the installation process.
A very optimistic ghost
Flaka Haliti on how ghosts and haunting influence her work, the importance of the color blue, and how she navigates different types of spaces, starting with the politics of the personal space.
Rücklings nach vorne
Die Arbeiten von Jelena Trivić bewegen sich auf der Grenze zwischen Skulptur und Bild, Malerei und Collage. In der Ausstellung „trigon 67/17“ im Künstlerhaus Graz ist einer Reihe dieser hybriden Kunstwerke zu sehen. Wir haben sie nach der Grenze zwischen Design und Malerei befragt, nach dem Stellenwert von Camouflage – und nach der Hochsprunglegende Dick Fosbury
Im Gleichgewicht
Die Künstlerin Sonia Leimer ist in der Ausstellung trigon 67/17 mit ihrer Arbeit Instabil auf Unstabil vertreten. Im Gespräch erklärt sie die Entstehungsgeschichte ihres Beitrags und spricht über Strategien im Umgang mit Raum, über seine Inbesitznahme und Fragen der prekären Balance.
We shouldn’t focus only on
what we think we can control
Artist Micol Assaël speaks about the importance of the viewer’s experience and how we should not privilege seeing over other bodily sensations because “there is always a bigger picture.”
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