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The buildings of the White City were constructed over steel frames with plasterwork on the outside, providing a striking contrast between their exteriors and interiors. This portion of the fair was underwritten by leading Chicago industrialists, such as Cyrus McCormick of reaper fame, and admission was free. How does such architecture represent "progress?" To what might we compare it?
From Josiah Flynt, Tramping With Tramps (New York: Century Co, 1899)
from the portfolio Education Art Series, N. D. Thompson Publishing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1893
Never, since the first gray dawn of time, has there been such a collection of genius, such an assembly of the Master Spirits of the world, as that brought together by the grandest civic event in history, know as THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Here was a "Spectacle of the Centuries," the wondrous beauties of which have been heralded to the ends of the earth, whose like men now living may never hope to see again. All the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery, and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor.
... The question is, how best to secure and preserve for the people the fullest and most permanent results from the lessons it teaches. We know how quickly vanish scenes caught by the eye and preserved only by the memory. Some safer receptacle must be found, or, great as the beneficial influences of this grandest of civic displays, the larger part of its benefits will be lost.
It is the purpose of this "Portfolio of Photographic Views" to furnish such a receptacle, in a form at once portable, beautiful, and permanent, for present use and future preservation. In its pages will be presented all the FEATURES OF THE FAIR--artistic and industrial, paintings and statuary, with interesting descriptions of the marvelous exhibits of the United States and Foreign Nations.
... For the entertainment and instruction of the young this book is especially set forth; such a book in the family is an object lesson, a work of perpetual interest, in its influence more wide-reaching and lasting than the Fair itself. It is at once a Souvenir for the millions who attended the exhibition as a record of what they saw, and the exhibition itself for the millions who did not see it. The photographs used in this book were taken by the Government Photographer and used here by special arrangement.
DETAILS OF THE HORTICULTURAL DOME
The engraving (above) offers to the reader and student a searching view of the central one of three pavilions in Horticultural Hall. The curtains at right and left lead to large but less impressive features of the structure. The rich sculptural garniture of this building was the work of Professor Lorado Taft, the accomplished art lecturer and sculptor. Some figures are also to be seen in groups and over the Ionic columns. The sculpture of Taft is like the genius of the man-- smooth rather than notable-- rich, pleasing, but conventional, although on the best models. The padding to protect the gondolas may be seen at the landing, and the spacious ascent to the quay. The great dome springs up from four small but ornate hemispheres, with by far the broadest expanse of any of the similar constructions in this rich field of domes. The fidelity of the sculptural decorations is certified on every frieze, stanchion, balustrade, and on the corona that recalls the summit of the Administration dome. This was doubtless the largest hot-house ever erected. It was to fulfill its office as a conservatory and yet stand creditably among the colossal halls which were required for the display of the world's industries. Its diameter was one hundred and eighty feet and its height one hundred and fourteen feet. Its crystal construction, and its happy angular posture in the great aquatic vista, were noted with relief by the most critical, and praised by all. Rarely has there been a more successful adjustment to necessities than was shown in this proud home of flowers.
OKLAHOMA'S PAVILION
IN THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING
As may be seen at a glance in the engraving, the new territory of Oklahoma erected one of the most peculiar and characteristic pavilions to be found among the oddities and fancies of the cereal architects in Chief Buchanan's large domain. This section was situated prominently in the first aisle away from the west wall, at the southwest corner of the main building. Sorghum and corn served as the principal materials of the builder, and canopied many other displays. From the ceiling depended great bunches of grasses, and a pyramid of jars formed the central feature of the exhibit. Cane, cereals and vegetables were displayed with a profusion that led the visitor to marvel upon the swift march of agriculture across the " Great American Desert," which was a central tract in all school geographies of Lincoln's time. The Territory of Oklahoma was settled while the last World's Fair was in the midst of its splendor at Paris, in 1889, and sat here among sister States in 1893 as visible as were they, occupying as much space, courting as much attention, receiving as many visitors, hoping to gain as many new residents. The National Commissioners of Oklahoma were Pthniel Beeson, of El Reno, and Frank R. Gammon, of Guthrie; the Alternate Commissioners were John Wallace, of Oklahoma City, and Joseph W. McNeal, of Guthrie. Mrs. Guthrie was one of the Lady Managers, and Mrs. Beeson was her colleague.
THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING
There was erected on a broad plaza, which reached to the lake shore, a large and ornate building, surmounted by a high dome, the structure bearing many resemblances to the headquarters of Illinois near by. Both edifices were disliked by many critics, who admired the Art Palace further north. It was held that these two domes, with their various colors, none of them clear, were prejudicial to the appearance of the great Greek Temple which held the pictures of the world; but the Government Building was probably the largest and most expensive undertaking of its kind connected with any of the universal expositions, and it was dedicated to the display of such a number of invaluable relics as will perhaps never again be seen together. The building was the work of Windrim & Edbrooke, architects, of Washington, D. C., and had it not stood in close comparison with more simple Greek example, would have created a strong sense of satisfaction in every beholder, for it had many elegant pavilions with pylon entrances at east and west on which were placed groups of sculpture representing Liberty, by Waagen, and bronze eagles at each of the four pediments. It was crowded all summer, the people fully appreciating the efforts of the War, State, Navy, Treasury, Interior, Postoffice, Justice and Agricultural Departments, and the Fish Commission to impart instruction and afford a high order of entertainment. Dimensions, four hundred and twenty by three hundred and fifty feet. Dome two hundred and seventy-five feet high. Cost, $325,000.
THE COLOMBIAN ILLUMINATIONS
The photograph recalls to the minds of all who witnessed the illuminations of 1893, the splendors of the Administration Building and its environs in the Court of Honor. In the eye of the camera there is detailed, with thrilling fidelity, the balustrade of the first stage, the Ionic colonnade of the second stage, and the festoons and panels of the dome; but for the fires that burned their tiny points, or the flambeaux that flaunted their broader flames, or the arc-lights that made a thousand suns, we here must introduce a poor white background; and for the misty voyaging clouds that sailed upon the sapphire vault of Heaven, we here must hang a heavy sable pall. The octagonal dome, thus lit, was the particular beauty of the Fair; its corona realized some religious dream of diadems in paradise. On the strands of a gleaming lake, over the groves and the meadows, cheating the nightingale and the whippoorwills, undulating in the fragrant air of harvest eves, hastening the midnight time with speed too swift, this vision dwelt like butterfly upon a summer hour, and fled from out our world into the welcome recollections of grateful poets and faithful bards. And, while it burned at night, then Edison, the wizard who had summoned this same scene from out the hidden realms of nature-- he came and looked across the waters and across the groves, and heard his own heart beating loud, and, mayhap, felt the love of men for him, and sorrow, too, that such a thing should pass away.
THE GRAND BASIN FROM THE PERISTYLE
This view is from the Columbus Quadriga, on the Colonnade at the harbor, and gives a nearly complete photograph of the Basin. We obtain here a right sense of the width of the lower plazas, between the balustrades of the Basin and the balustrades nearer the buildings. The admirable drapery of the sixty-five foot statue of the Republic is displayed, showing that French was a master of the arithmetic of his art, for nobody could judge of the total effect of this work until it was put together on a thirty-five foot pedestal. The entrance to the statue is seen at the foot of the pedestal, and, doubtless, men are standing in the door. Thus we may be guided to measure the height of the wonderful effigy-- perhaps the most successful of its kind that has ever been moulded. On the right is the Manufactures, next the Electricity and next the Mines. In front is the Administration, which but partly hides the Terminal Station. On the left is the Agricultural and, further off, Machinery Hall, whose central northern spires are seen to break the facade line of the Court of Honor, as this square was called. The sea-horses and Barge of State of the MacMonnies' Fountain are but dimly discerned behind the sprays of water. E. C. Potter's bulls and horses are seen at the boat landings on either side of the Basin. The angels on the Administration Building, with all their heroic size, have dwindled to the appearance of tropic plants, and smaller statues barely show at all. Greatest length of Basin, thirteen hundred feet; width, three hundred feet.
MACHINERY HALL
The Palace of Mechanic Arts of 1893 is here portrayed as it looked on its two exhibitory facades, and it is doubtful if a more original or beautiful building was ever erected. Its remarkable features were undoubtedly the figures of flying angels just alighting on its many spires with laurel wreaths of victory, and the eye will detect these visitors all over the structure, and in postures most airy and inspiring. The company of heroic figures that seemed to assemble at each portal, too, gave force and interest to those needfully accentuated points, and the great loggias were the largest and most ornate of all those which fronted on the Court of Honor. This building had one, perhaps, necessary fault. It was under three roofs. These roofs drained together, and when avalanches of snow slid down the arches, there was no place for the accumulations to escape except upon the floor below. A picture of the eastern portal occupies a page of this volume, and the statuary may there be fully inspected. Machinery Hall was the creation of Peabody & Stearns, of Boston. The long facade which we see, measured eight hundred and forty-two feet; the shorter one four hundred and ninety-two feet. There was an annex, four hundred and ninety by five hundred and fifty feet. The floor area was thus spread to twenty-three acres without gallery, and the amount of money expended was $1,200,000. The style of architecture was called Spanish Renaissance, but it should be named more justly after its ingenious and adventurous authors.
THE COURT OF HONOR
This splendid scene, the triumph of the Columbian year, has evoked unfeigned praise from the very heart of civilization. Whether we look upon this spectacle by day, under a blue sky that is clarified by the reflection of the limpid waters of Lake Michigan; or by night, when fretted with fires that out-spangle the vault of heaven, with flying fountains bathed in floods of rainbow lights, and overlooking domes bejeweled with glittering crowns, and waters resounding with choral song or echoing the soft splash of Venetian oars-- we feel that the dream of hope has come true The victory of Art and Soul over the moods of tempestuous Nature is bulletined on every architrave and joyously proclaimed from the mouths and the trumps of a thousand heroes and angels. Nowhere else in the modern world have the skill and genius of sculptor and architect been so prodigally bestowed. The Court of Honor is itself a fabulous fountain, curbed with high palaces and colonnades, on whose fronts are marshaled the army of Art's kingdom. Along these friezes, pediments, faades, springing with every arch, sitting high on every column, holding office at each portal, may be seen some memorable groups that came from the sculptor's brain in obedience to the confident call of a glorious nation that was to invite the Elder Hemisphere to its august festival. Brooched on the bosom of the scene is the MacMonnies' Fountain, which cost $50,000, and was made in Paris. On the right is the Agricultural Building, remarkable for the wealth and beauty of the sculptor Martiny's statuary-- his Zodiacs and bovine groups, his Four Races, bearing their armillary spheres. In the Basin towers the golden statue of the Republic, sixty feet high, by Daniel C. French. In the distance is the Peristyle, so-called, and on the left the mountainous Manufactures Building, the largest structure so far erected within historical times.
ON THE SOUTH LAGOON
The engraving, beside giving a study of the four-oared swan-beaked gondola (there were usually but two oarsmen to each boat) depicts the eastern termination of the South Screen or Colonnade, and the western facade of the Agricultural Building. We barely see the circular base of the obelisk and lion-fountain which accentuated this region, and besides looking through the columns on the Live Stock Amphitheatre, may note garlanded Corinthian pillars at the end of the Colonnade and their rich effect, as if decked for a triumph. It was from the Colonnade that colored lights were thrown on the MacMonnies' Fountain. The Agricultural Building may be profitably observed. Here was a Corinthian porch, "Pilio", Pediment and "Ceres" bas-relief, with mural painting. Between the arches may be seen two of the sixty Zodiacs, holding their signs. Under the upper cornice are two of the sixty copies of Abundance, as caryatides. On the corner is one of four copies of the Four Races. Lower, at the left, is one of four copies of the Four Seasons; and further at the left are copies of the four groups each of a man with oxen, and a man with horses. All these were made under direction of Philip Martiny. At the water-side are two of E. C. Potter's bulls. The admirable manner in which exotic plants were grouped in corners, and otherwise placed, should be remarked.
THE HEROIC STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC
The ancients delighted in heroic statues, such as the Colossus of Rhodes, the Egyptian Sphinx and Memnon, and the statues of Jupiter at Athens and Olympia, which made the fame of Phidias. But the moderns, until the day of Bartholdi, did not undertake great effigies, and the success of Daniel C. French in creating the figure of a woman for the central statuary of the Fair, was owing to the general resemblance of his figure to humanity, and not because it offered a model of form or fashion. Indeed, it is impossible to determine whether the figure is too short or is too tall, as the judgment will surely be formed according to the distance of the eye from the pedestal. This statue is sixty-five feet high. Portions of the skirt, while they stood in the Forestry Building, looked like a front of the New York Building; nor could any uniformed person opine what might be the use to which the pieces could be put, The work was done in the early spring and summer of 1892, in a room cut off at the north end of the Forestry Building. The working model was itself sixteen feet high, or larger than Carl Rohl-Smith's Franklin, in the south hemicycle of the Electricity Building. The sculptor received $8,000 for his services, and when it came to the gilding of the statue-- for it appears as a golden image, after the methods of Phidias-- it was found that no less than $1,400 worth of gold-leaf was required for the labor. The total cost was about $25,000. The face is fifteen feet long, the little fingers a yard. The total height from the water is one hundred feet.
THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
This structure nobly sustained the expectations of the public, and held a sovereign position among all the wonders of the Fair. It was designed by Richard M. Hunt, of New York, and, besides serving as headquarters for the chief officers of the Exposition, its spacious rotunda offered a favorite meeting place for friends, and was thronged early and late by admirers of the beautiful and impressive in architecture. Four square edifices (called pavilions) of the general height of the principal facades of the Exposition, were placed at the corners of a quadrangular square of two hundred and fifty feet, and from the inner corners of the roofs of these edifices rose the beautiful French octagonal dome, which, in addition to its gilding, bore a conspicuous outer ornamentation in relief. Between each pavilion was a space about ninety feet square, making the entrances to the rotunda-- that is, the main entrances-- about that far from the outer lines of the building. The whole design was in three stages: the first was the four pavilions, and carried the height sixty-five feet, to a level with the facades of the Court of Honor; the next stage was a central one, forty feet high; the third stage was the dome itself. The first stage was Doric, the second Ionic, with a colonnade of great dignity, as viewed from its loggia; the third was the ribbed dome, with its sculptural panels, and reached a height of two hundred and sixty feet from the floor below. The rotunda was ornamented with panels that bore the names of nations and celebrated men, with didactic inscriptions; and in the upper part of the vault were Dodge's allegorical paintings. At night the dome was lighted with incandescent bulbs so as to define its panels, and a corona shone on its crest, making a memorable illumination-- the chief beauty of the Fair. The total cost was $650,000.
THE PERISTYLE
This magnificent colonnade takes its name from a projected peristyle of columns that was to have encircled the harbor of the Fair, but was happily abandoned for this simpler and more beautiful form. Through this portal came all visitors by lake, and it was by this entrance alone that the architecture of the Exposition could be effectively judged. The colonnade in which this portal was centrally placed contained forty-eight great Corinthian columns, and connected the Casino on -the south with the Music Hall on the north. The States and Territories of the Union were symbolized in the columns. Placed upon the arch of triumph, in the most distinguished position, stood the Columbus quadriga, or four-horse chariot, designed by the sculptors French and Potter, completed at a cost of $15,000. On pedestals at the right and left of the portal are groups representing the "Genius of Navigation," the creations of Bella G. Pratt, of New York. Heroic figures stand in double row on the balustrade, representing Eloquence, Music, Navigation, Fisherman and Indian, and fill the spaces between the two terminal structures. The promenade beneath its colonnade at night, under the incandescent lights that ornamented as well as illuminated its high spaces, was much frequented, especially by visitors who were watching the display of fireworks. The inscriptions on the Peristyle were suggested by President Eliot of Harvard University. It will be noted that other explorers beside Columbus are honored in this classic structure. The cost of the Peristyle, Music Hall and Casino was $200,000, and the architect was C. B. Atwood, of Chicago.
THE GOLDEN DOORWAY OF THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING
The position of this remarkable portal may be ascertained by reference to the picture of the Transportation Building itself, on another page of this volume, and in a study of these shining arches it is necessary to know that the structure which they adorn has been purposely made severe in aspect, in order that by contrast this central feature might gain the greater distinction. The architects of the building have called its vari-colored effects "Wagnerian," and we may accept their ideas so far as to name this entrance the wedding-march of a "Lohengrin"-- in other words, an unquestionably beautiful feature in an ensemble that is purposely devoid of entertainment and delight. It may be inferred that the architects, in producing these rich geometrical effects, were inspired by Wagner's music. But whether there be or be not any practical relation between music and decoration, the people gave the seal of approval to the " Golden Doorway "-- which was rather silvern than golden-- and Wagnerians who spoke in riddles, and the masses, who used shorter words, alike admired and praised the work. In its essence it is Asian, relieved by the beautiful tablets, or teas reliefs of John J. Boyle, the sculptor, which give, on either side, a touch of free art to the circles and foliations of the Orient. Quotations from Bacon and Macauly are inscribed over the doorway. The gilding was done experimentally, and occupied many months, with prodigious expense.
THE COLOMBIAN FOUNTAIN
Frederick MacMonnies was entrusted with the design and construction of the central fountain at the Pair, and $50,000 were placed at his disposal for the purpose. Of this amount, it is said that the ardent lover of sculpture actually expended fully $48,000 in bringing his great conception to successful completion, The fountain shows Columbia sitting aloft on the Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by the sea-horses of Commerce. The prow of the barge is ornamented with an eagle's beak; its sides are bordered with dolphins in relief; and horns of plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. The pedestal on which Columbia sits, bears a national shield in front, and the throne is supported by four kneeling children, who also bear heavy garlands. A torch at rest is in Columbia's hand. The rowers on the right are Music, Architecture, Sculpture and Painting; on the left, Agriculture, Science, Industry and Commerce. Time has improvised a helm by using his scythe. This barge stands in the center of a circular basin, one hundred and fifty feet in diameter, which at its eastern periphery flows in circular cascade in many falls to the surface of the Grand Basin of the Exposition, twelve feet below. In the basin of the fountain, four pair of sea-horses, mounted by riders who represent modern intelligence, draw the barge. Near the semi-circular balustrade which guards the rear of the fountain, dolphins send streams upward, and mermaids and tritons at various places add to the fleecy display of high-thrown water. The general effect of the MacMonnies fountain was marvelously beautiful, and thousands of visitors gained their chief enjoyment in sitting near by and enjoying this principal scene. It was said to be the largest fountain in the world.
MARTINY'S "CERES"
It is to be remembered that, when the architects of the Agricultural Building placed the charge of their sculpture in the hands of Philip Martiny, the pupil of St. Gaudens, it was left to him to operate as best he could. In less than a year's time he was to cover the long-stretching cornices and facades of the Agricultural Building with the richest ornamentation ever seen in America. To accomplish so much, and to secure a harmony of design, he must himself make the plan, and invent the groups-- or, at least, decide upon their character, while a whole school of sculptors under his direction must labor incessantly, and with a certain kind of originality, to vanquish the stubborn element of time, and enliven the wide spaces of the south side of the Court of Honor with the company of statues on which the search-lights afterward shone at night. Mr. Martiny proved that wealth and grandeur of sculpture can be attained by the duplication of ideas in similar architectural positions, for although all his important groups appear several times on the fronts of Agricultural Hall, yet the very unity of appearance assures the observer that sculpture was here used in its true, subordinated relation-- that is, it was the Agricultural temple as a whole which was to be admired. The figures that support this shield of Ceres in our engraving are remarkable for uncommon beauty of feminine contour, and betray the refined eye of the great designer.
LOOKING EAST FROM THE FERRIS WHEEL
Seated in a car of the Ferris Wheel, the scene of the circuit par excellence, was offered as the spectator rose gently above the Midway Plaisance, looking eastward. Here the panorama was essentially as is represented in the engraving, except that in the latter days the famous street was never to be espied so nearly bare of people, and there were times, as on October ninth, or Chicago day, when the picture was pitch black with people. From the eyrie of the Ferris Wheel the mountainous significance of the Manufactures Building became apparent, and it was found that nothing whatever could belittle the chief structure of the Exposition. The stupendous disappointments covered in the abandonment of the Steele Mackaye Spectatorium were to be noted on the left (just out of range of the picture) in a half-built pile of timber and staff that frowned over the Fair. The domes of the Government and Illinois buildings competed for the attention of the eye. On the left, the secrets of the German Village were broken open, and the straw roofs of the Java Village beyond warned Chicagoans of the danger of fire, and hinted of a calamity that never happened. The circular building on the right, below, held the panorama of the Bermese Alps, and the circular roof and chimney on the left, beyond the first viaduct across the Plaisance, was over the Libby Glass Works. Two viaducts are seen, both of which seriously marred the vista, The Midway at night was bewilderingly bright and exciting.
ON THE YACHT NAMOUNA
A painting by Jules Stewart, exhibited in the United States section, and loaned by Mrs. Henry P. Borie, of Philadelphia. The extraordinary increase of wealth in English--peaking countries with its accompanying activity in ocean commerce, has given rise, during the present century, and particularly toward its close, to the sport, science and pastime of yachting, perhaps the most costly diversion which peoples or nations ever indulged. It is said that $50,000 a year, as the expense of keeping a fine yacht, is now a common item in the personal accounts of the millionaires; and in the race for social eminence and the formation of exclusive coteries, certainly the yacht is an effective measurement of both financial ability and docility and loyalty to the conventions of fashion. One of two things is probable, if we consider the party of men and women who while away the summer hours on this yacht Namouna. Either they did not earn the money which is here being spent at the rate of a thousand dollars a week, or, if they did earn it, there is a certain martyrdom in the ennui of fashionably spending it. We cannot imagine Peter Girard, John Jacob Astor, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Commodore, thus using the time which made their lives so valuable to them. But the second or third generation finds the method satisfactory. The elite of Great Britain possess 3,000 of these yachts, and America over 1,200; there are a half dozen annual publications which record their history.
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE DIVING EXHIBIT
This little building, which surrounded a huge tank of water, stood opposite the Libby Glass Works, on the south side of Midway Plaisance, at the intersection of Washington avenue, had that street crossed Midway. A man turned the force-pump on the balcony, attracting much attention. The visitor paid ten cents and entered at the right portal. Ascending a rude stair-case he reached the surface of the water. There a lecturer was seated, who explained the entrance and exit of air into and from the diver's armor, and asked for small coins, which were tossed into the water by their owners. Through a telephone the diver, "Charley," who was unseen in the bubbling water, reported the dates on these coins, and often returned them to their former possessors. The diver then came to the surface with the effigy of a drowned man, and allowed the people to see the armor in which he was encased. He did not look essentially different from the painting which is seen at the left front of the gaudily bedecked shanty. Next the visitors filed down another rough pine stair-case on the left and took positions at the many peep-holes which looked in upon the pale blue water in the tank. To these holes the diver came in turn, holding up a card on which, in large letters, was printed some civil farewell compliment. His appearance was that of a very wet man. His hands were shriveled and soaked, and the visitor received the impression that life in the deep is not easy even for a scientific diver.
© 2010 Rebecca Edwards, author of New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 by Rebecca Edwards, Oxford University Press
Part I: Excerpts from the Education Art Series, N. D. Thompson Publishing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1893, in a weekly series of 20 portfolios
The Dream City: 1893 World's Fair
The 'White City'
National Buildings and the Woman's Building
The Art Palace
The Midway Plaisance
Part II: Poems and Architecture in the State Buildings, by David Greenstein Vassar '05
State Building Photos
State Building Poems
Dream City Resources


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In Puerto Rico's "Town of the Forgotten," Residents Are Desperate for FEMA to Show Up
Ciales is just 45 minutes from San Juan, but help is nowhere to be found.
AJ Vicens
Mud covers a street in Ciales, 10 days after Hurricane Maria devastated the town.AJ Vicens/Mother Jones
As two Puerto Rican journalists and I walked through Ciales, a mountain town hit hard by Hurricane Maria, and surveyed the profound devastation on Saturday, at least a dozen residents approached us with the same question: Are you from FEMA?
Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump had slammed San Juan Mayor Yulín Cruz on Saturday for "such poor leadership ability," boasting that federal efforts to assist in hurricane recovery were robust. "10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job," he tweeted from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
But according to residents, none of those 10,000 federal workers have made it to Ciales, just 45 minutes from San Juan. The storm in this town of 19,000 knocked out the power grid, destroyed entire blocks, and filled streets and homes with a pervasive chocolate-brown mud. Everyone we talked to in Ciales—young and old, residents of public housing and private homes, and even the mayor—complained about the local, Puerto Rican, and federal response to the disaster.
Ciales is one of many towns facing the same issues, and therefore just one of the many problems the federal and local government has on its hands in Puerto Rico. As of noon on Saturday, the US Department of Energy reported that 95 percent of the island was still without power and that "fuel supplies remain an area of focus," but that "the situation is stabilizing." There is some anecdotal evidence to back that up, but it doesn't take long while driving around San Juan or other towns to see hours-long lines for fuel. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Saturday morning that people living in public housing would not have to pay rent until January, and many businesses remain closed due to the lack of electricity.
But as much as the people we talked to in Ciales sympathize with storm victims elsewhere on the island, they're focused on their own gutted homes and neighborhoods. "Some of them are calling themselves 'the town of the forgotten,'" said Eduardo Melendez, a photojournalist with the newspaper Claridad and one of my companions. "The mayor has only come [to this neighborhood] once. Nobody else."
"Since we're not in the time of politics, or in the time of elections, we don't see them around," Wilfredo Salgado Santiago, an older man with white thinning hair and a white beard, yelled to us as he walked by.
We found Mayor Luis "Rolan" Maldanado at the Coliseo Raul Feliciano, a basketball arena that is serving as the center for emergency operations in Ciales. He said that almost every section of the town had been hit hard in some way and that he was trying to stretch the town's meager resources. "We are working with what little resources we have to attend to everyone," he said.
Maldanado said that he had been promised things a satellite phone to stay in touch with the governor, but it never arrived. He told us that when he gets diesel fuel, which is very hard to obtain on the island right now, it gets stolen at night, and that he has only 14 municipal police and 24 Puerto Rican police to manage a town of nearly 19,000. He showed us the meals he says the National Guard gave him to distribute to residents seeking food. Each one-day ration comprised a small fruit cup, a 7.5-ounce can of Hormel Corned Beef Hash, four small cookies, and a pack of peanut butter and cheddar crackers.
The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment about the situation in Ciales. A FEMA spokesperson didn't immediately respond to questions about Ciales.
Near the edge of Ciales, we found Paula Santos Pérez, an older woman with short hair and a soft voice, standing outside her sister's house. Their other sister, who was off waiting in a line for gasoline at the time, used to live in a small house in the back of the property. That house was mostly washed away during the storm.
"I have no words," she told us and started to cry. When we asked about help from the federal, island-wide, or local government, she quickly said, "nada, cero"—nothing, zero. She told us that if government officials were standing in front of her, she would tell them that her family feels that "they only have help from God."
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Santos led us across town to her house, where the flood waters had reached six to eight feet high. Now the floors were coated with mud and her possessions were ruined. The situation was similar across the street at the home of Nestor and Rosa Miranda, a middle-aged couple. Their house was standing, but it had been flooded with more than six feet of water, covering everything in mud. Over the last 10 days, they'd managed to clear out most of the mud, but everything they had was destroyed.
"You are the first person to come here," she told me—no government officials or relief workers had come. She and her husband had been staying with various family members. "One or two days with this one, then one or two days with that one," he said. "We've lost everything. We can't even say what we're going to be wearing."
We walked around to the next block, on a street called Dos Rios. Armando Fernández was in the street with half a dozen other people working to clear the mud. Most people's belongings were piled into huge mounds in their front yards. Fernández said he works with the local public housing office, and he said 44 of 60 public housing units in this part of Ciales had suffered severe damage or been completely destroyed. He told us we were the first people from outside the neighborhood to come to the street asking people how they were getting by. He and his neighbors were more than willing to help the local government clear the mud, he said, if the government could just bring the machines to do it. He added that he and his friends were organizing to obtain their own fuel and equipment if the government couldn't step up.
Fernández's neighbor Saul Pagan told me that the mud—and everything inside it, from trash to dead animals—was a major public health hazard. "There are all sorts of bacteria and other stuff in there that can get on us," he said.
On our way out of town, we visited a shelter for people who lost their homes near the Ciales city center. Marisol Vega, a doctor volunteering to help coordinate medical care at the shelter, told us that the local government did have some supplies to nourish the people, but that the bulk of the water and other items were donated by people in Ciales.
"It's amazing," she said. "The same community that's down is the same community that donates."
What else do you want to know about the crisis in Puerto Rico? AJ is taking your questions while he reports from the island. You can submit them here, and he'll see what he can investigate for you.
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Home Other News France 'Michelin dared to say we use cheddar in our soufflé!'
'Michelin dared to say we use cheddar in our soufflé!'
Celebrity chef Marc Veyrat has said he wants to withdraw his restaurant from the Michelin Guide in a row over the loss of one of his stars.
Mr Veyrat, who is famous for his signature black hat and for using unusual botanical plants such as mountain plants, mountain herbs, and wild flowers in his recipes, accused a "new generation" at the Guide for "attacking institutions", after his Haute-Savoie restaurant Maison des Bois, in Manigod, lost its three-star rating in the latest edition of the renowned 'Red Book'.
"I've been depressed for six months. How dare you take the health of your cooks hostage?" he said in an interview in Le Point this week. "This is serious for all those who come after us," he added.
"I've decided to get rid of my two stars. I am withdrawing from the Michelin Guide."
He said that he had already visited the guide's headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt to find out why his restaurant was given a two-star rating in the latest edition. "They dared to say that we put cheddar cheese in our reblochon soufflé! They insulted the region, my employees were crazy," he said.
He has demanded access to the Guide's accounts to see when inspectors visited his restaurant.
But Mr Veyrat's demands will not be met. The Guide's international director, Gwendal Poullennec, told AFP that Maison des Bois would not be removed.
"If the facility remains open and our inspectors evaluate the table at one of our awards, we will continue to recommend it," he said.
"Just because Chef Veyrat did not see our inspectors, it does not mean that they did not have dinner at his table. Michelin Guide inspectors visit tables around the world anonymously. They pay their bills like any other customer."
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Marie's Quilting Lodge opening a success
By Staff | Aug 11, 2017
(Rugby Chamber of Commerce) The Rugby Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome Marie's Quilting Lodge (Former Theresa's Quilt Lodge) to the Rugby Chamber, Congratulations on your Grand Re-Opening!
Marie's Quilting Lodge, formerly Theresa's Quilt Lodge, had its grand opening this week, August 7-12. The week saw prizes, goodies, snacks and more, including a Jelly Roll class with Chelce Detert on Thursday, August 10.
The grand opening also features specials, such as one free pattern with every $25 purchase and one charm pack, jelly roll or layer cake given away daily.
Friday, August 11 offered 25% off every purchase.
"The opening has been fabulous," owner Marie Watts said. "All of the merchants in town sent flowers and everyone has been so welcoming. I am so grateful that I have been as welcomed to the community as I have been, and I am overwhelmed by the amount of open arms that has been given to me."
According to Watts, the lodge was packed from open to close each day of the opening week. Watts looks forward to being a member of the business community in Rugby and will be having more events in the near future.
Marie's Quilting Lodge, located at 510 S Main Ave in Rugby, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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NFL starting quarterback power rankings entering Week 17
Aaron Rodgers is about to be a three-time NFL MVP.
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Throughout the NFL season, we're ranking all 32 current starting quarterbacks from best to worst. Here's the breakdown following Week 16:
32. Drew Lock, Denver Broncos: Dropped passes were a factor in Week 16, but the league's second-lowest-rated passer just couldn't get it done on big throw after big throw in a close game. He's likely to be replaced this offseason.
31. Cam Newton, New England Patriots: Dude was benched in a blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills, which means he might finish his season (and his career?) with a 5-to-10 touchdown-to-interception ratio.
30. Mike Glennon, Jacksonville Jaguars: At this point, we might as well just list Trevor Lawrence in this spot.
29. Alex Smith, Washington Football Team: Even before his latest injury took him out of Washington's Week 15 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, Smith was averaging just 2.6 air yards per attempt. The only qualified passer with a lower mark? Now-former teammate Dwayne Haskins Jr.
28. Tua Tagovailoa, Miami Dolphins: It's just not happening for the rookie No. 5 overall pick, but this was always likely to be somewhat of a redshirt season. The Dolphins should move back to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
27. Sam Darnold, New York Jets: His job is also very much in jeopardy despite back-to-back decent, victorious performances. Darnold remains the NFL's lowest-rated passer.
26. Jimmy Garoppolo, San Francisco 49ers: The inconsistent Garoppolo is hurt again. Not much more you can say about Jimmy G at this point.
25. Daniel Jones, New York Giants: Jones hasn't been strong since returning from injury, and has taken 12 sacks the last two weeks. The 2021 season will likely make or break him.
24. Teddy Bridgewater, Carolina Panthers: He hasn't posted a triple-digit passer rating since early-November, and 15 touchdown passes isn't going to cut it. Bridgewater has to prove soon that he's more than a game manager.
23. Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons: The veteran has "rebounded" with a 115.0 passer rating the last two weeks, but that's coming too late, and he's become far too inconsistent considering his lucrative salary.
22. Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers: He might have seriously dropped into the bottom five if not for that impressive second half in which he took the game against the Indianapolis Colts into his own hands. Big Ben's numbers aren't impressive, but he might not be toast just yet.
21. Mitchell Trubisky, Chicago Bears: He still has his "Bad Mitch" moments, but there's hope for a 26-year-old who has led the Bears to 30-plus points in four consecutive games and has a 108.5 passer rating during that stretch.
20. Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions: Kudos to him for fighting through injuries as long as he could. Stafford is an average quarterback with above-average potential who needs a change of scenery.
19. Kirk Cousins, Minnesota Vikings: The league's eighth-highest-rated passer is comically inconsistent.
18. Derek Carr, Las Vegas Raiders: The league's ninth-highest-rated passer just isn't a game-changer.
17. Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles: The promise is there, especially with his rushing skills. Still, a poor passing performance in Week 16 was a reminder that he still has a long way to go.
16. Jared Goff, Los Angeles Rams: He's far too inconsistent, and now he's hurt.
15. Philip Rivers, Indianapolis Colts: He didn't come through when it mattered in a big game in Week 16, and hasn't that always been the problem?
14. Kyler Murray, Arizona Cardinals: He has a sub-90 passer rating during the second half of his sophomore season.
13. Baker Mayfield, Cleveland Browns: That was an ill-timed dud against the Jets, but Mayfield has still made strides this year. Week 17 will be crucial for him.
12. Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals: The rookie No. 1 overall pick has been done for weeks as a result of a major knee injury, but his rate-based numbers were promising under extremely tough conditions before that.
11. Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers: It's been an up-and-down year as expected, but that 28-to-10 touchdown-to-interception ratio is extremely promising.
10. Ryan Tannehill, Tennessee Titans: The league's fourth-highest-rated passer was a mess in a blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers in Week 16.
9. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks: I mean, "he" technically beat the Rams in a critical game, but the defense did most of the work. Wilson hasn't been right for quite a while.
8. Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys: His numbers were off the charts before he suffered a season-ending ankle injury. Prescott is a franchise quarterback, period.
7. Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints: He still isn't right since returning from injury.
6. Deshaun Watson, Houston Texans: Suddenly, despite all of the Texans' problems, Watson is the AFC's highest-rated passer.
5. Tom Brady, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: I was wrong to write the 43-year-old off. He has a ridiculous 130.8 passer rating over the last three weeks.
4. Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens: Remember when Patrick Mahomes "regressed" after winning MVP, but still got it together down the stretch and led the Kansas City Chiefs on a Super Bowl run? This has a similar feel. Jackson has a 117.7 rating in four consecutive Baltimore wins.
3. Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills: That's now 34 touchdowns to nine interceptions for the future MVP.
2. Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs: We're giving the superstar the benefit of the doubt for now. But Mahomes and the Chiefs continue to cut it too close, and his sub-90 passer rating over the last four weeks has taken him out of MVP contention.
1. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers: The race is over. Rodgers' 44-to-5 touchdown-to-interception ratio is off the charts. He might finish with the highest-rated passing season in NFL history.
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Normal People by Sally Rooney (Book Analysis)
978280801905752EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Normal People by Sally Rooney. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including social class, communication and the desire to conform. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows: Biography of Sally Rooney Presentation of Normal People Summary of Normal People Character study Marianne Connell Lorraine Alan Helen Analysis of Normal People Class Normality Structure and perspective About Normal People Normal People tells the story of two students, Connell and Marianne, and their on-off romantic relationship throughout high school and university. When they first meet, Connell's mother works as a cleaner for Marianne's much wealthier family, but whereas he is popular at school, she is an outcast. This changes when they go to university together, but their relationship faces new challenges as Connell grapples with depression and Marianne embarks on a series of unhealthy relationships. Despite these tribulations, the bond between them never truly fades, and they constantly find themselves drawn back together. The novel has received numerous accolades, including Best Novel at the Costa Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year and Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was also longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. About Sally Rooney Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She completed her first novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her Masters degree in American literature, and following an auction for publication rights, the book was published in 2017. In the same year, her short story Mr Salary was nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Her second novel, Normal People, also met with critical acclaim and cemented her position as one of the most exciting young writers active today.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Normal People by Sally Rooney. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including social class, communication and the desire to conform. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows: Biography of Sally Rooney Presentation of Normal People Summary of Normal People Character study Marianne Connell Lorraine Alan Helen Analysis of Normal People Class Normality Structure and perspective About Normal People Normal People tells the story of two students, Connell and Marianne, and their on-off romantic relationship throughout high school and university. When they first meet, Connell's mother works as a cleaner for Marianne's much wealthier family, but whereas he is popular at school, she is an outcast. This changes when they go to university together, but their relationship faces new challenges as Connell grapples with depression and Marianne embarks on a series of unhealthy relationships. Despite these tribulations, the bond between them never truly fades, and they constantly find themselves drawn back together. The novel has received numerous accolades, including Best Novel at the Costa Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year and Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was also longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. About Sally Rooney Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She completed her first novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her Masters degree in American literature, and following an auction for publication rights, the book was published in 2017. In the same year, her short story Mr Salary was nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Her second novel, Normal People, also met with critical acclaim and cemented her position as one of the most exciting young writers active today.application/pdf1
This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Normal People by Sally Rooney. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including social class, communication and the desire to conform. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear...
This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Normal People by Sally Rooney. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including social class, communication and the desire to conform. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
Biography of Sally Rooney
Presentation of Normal People
Summary of Normal People
Connell
Analysis of Normal People
Structure and perspective
About Normal People
Normal People tells the story of two students, Connell and Marianne, and their on-off romantic relationship throughout high school and university. When they first meet, Connell's mother works as a cleaner for Marianne's much wealthier family, but whereas he is popular at school, she is an outcast. This changes when they go to university together, but their relationship faces new challenges as Connell grapples with depression and Marianne embarks on a series of unhealthy relationships. Despite these tribulations, the bond between them never truly fades, and they constantly find themselves drawn back together.
The novel has received numerous accolades, including Best Novel at the Costa Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year and Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was also longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
About Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She completed her first novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her Masters degree in American literature, and following an auction for publication rights, the book was published in 2017. In the same year, her short story Mr Salary was nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Her second novel, Normal People, also met with critical acclaim and cemented her position as one of the most exciting young writers active today.
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ABC appoints new Controller Children's TV August 22, 2013
The Australian Broadcasting Commission has announced that Deirdre Brennan, one of the television industry's most experienced and respected executives, has been appointed ABC's Controller Children's TV. Brennan will take up her new role in the new year.
She is currently Director of Content Australia and New Zealand for BBC Worldwide which she joined in 2010 as Director of Television, managing production, programming, acquisitions, on-air promotions and presentation for the local portfolio of channels. Her television career has included roles at MTV Networks and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She joined BBC Worldwide from Nickelodeon Australia, where she was Director of Programming from 2007 to 2010.
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I had a really fucked up dream last night. Do dreams mean anything
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I had a really fucked up dream last night. Do dreams mean anything at all or is it just my mind's bullshit? I'm pretty worried about it
>what was it about, femanon?
sometimes they mean something. most times they dont. can't even begin to decipher it without actually hearing about it.
but for the most part its just general anxiety or fears even when they 'mean something' it just means you're thinking too much about something.
I'm not a girl, though we all knew that.
I dreamed that I drugged a black girl, hooked her up to some bdsm thing and raped her while she was unconscious.
I really fucked me up because it was really vivid and I'd never considered myself as evil/degenerate as that. I don't even like bdsm bullshit
weird, thats oddly specific.
99% of the time I forget what I dreamed about seconds after waking up. I don't ever have dreams that are detailed like this
You sure it was a dream? You could have slipped into psychosis from all that weed you've been smoking.
I'm not a stoner. I don't even drink.
Typical stoner in denial. You raped that woman and you're going to prison.
What you did was rape.
You raped Patty.
Honk honk!
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you can dream about anything and that's what you dream about
Patty is white
I just want someone here to tell me if dreams mean anything at all. I do to want to find out I'm heading down a dark path.
*Don't want to
but you can literally rape anything in your dream i don't understand
This isn't the fucking middle ages. You aren't going to be come King of England because some friar dreamt it. Ignore it and move on. It's just a fucking dream you big baby.
As far as I know, one of the most important parts of a dream is your reaction to it WHILE and AFTER having it.
I've read in some articles that dreams are meant to simulate some emotional states that aren't usually encountered IRL, even if they don't make any sense from a logical or personal standpoint (e.g. having a gay romance when you're heterosexual, or going to heaven or hell when you're an atheist).
If in both cases you were disgusted at the images you saw, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, since -if you're not lying about the BDSM stuff-, that nightmare was meant to put you in the most uncomfortable state possible.
I don't think you should worry about that. As many anons here have said, dreams are just dreams.
For a while now I have had a reoccurring dream where my teeth are crumbling up and I spot them into my hand. They have been pretty lucid. Sometimes I wake up and have to run my tounge over my teeth to reassure myself they are still there.
very common dream, means low self esteem.
anon here is right. Continuing off this:
dreams are your way of sorting through your collective thoughts to process them. in the most basic sense you're being presented the data again so you can make sense of it. Also dreams can also work by Simulating stuff you need to face- or can't do normally in waking life. just focus on which is the case


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THE UFO MAZE – PART II
April 7, 2018 April 10, 2018 G. A. STEWART
I have over 40 years experience in aviation, most of that time has been spent working on military aircraft and space vehicles. Every evolution of a US military aircraft gets a Block Number. Having worked for 14 years at an advanced jet and space propulsion laboratory, I know that it can take 10 years or longer for projects in development to reach the public domain. Even aircraft that are 50 years old still undergo upgrades and modifications, and with each one, those Block Numbers increment upwards.
I was born just after the dawn of The Flying Saucer Age. I am sure many readers have seen some of the UFO photographs below. Have you noticed the evolution of the vehicles? I would like to point out a few things.
Separate photographs in time and location often show similarities in craft, and in videos there is a signature way each type of vehicle moves. I find a fifty year steady evolution in UFO type a curious aspect of supposed Extraterrestrial Cultures that are thousands of years more technologically advanced. Some of the latest craft exhibit radical design differences from their predecessors.
1950's UFOs look very 1950s… 1950's Flying Saucers looked like 1950's Studebakers, and 21st century UFOs look like Tesla Roadsters. A questioning person would think that any Extraterrestrial Civilization that can travel light-years between star systems would have its basic vehicle design for such extreme travel locked down at least for a period of more than 10 years. The 1960's and 1970's UFOs are vastly different.
The best example I can present is the current aircraft I work on, from first flight until today, it has been in service for 62 years. Its outward appearance has changed little in that time span, yet new engines, airframe enhancements, and advanced avionics make it a very different aircraft. It is expected to be in service until 2050. The last airplanes may well be 94 years old when they are retired.
The areas where you will see cutting edge design changes are in your next generation fighters and in a military's front-line hardware.
At the close of The UFO Maze – Part I, I embedded the videos of alleged TR3-Bs. The two videos in Afghanistan are very impressive. The video of the TR3-Bs following Air Force I, I have questions about. The main being the albedo and shadows on the TR3-B do not change very much, but I have noticed this in other videos. It may be the auto-focusing of modern recorders, but the exact reason is beyond my technical knowledge and ability to validate.
I do find it interesting that the Air Force I TR3-B escorts resemble the UFO that zooms by the US soldiers in the Afghanistan video. Consider in that video that the TR3-B is dropping flares and is being chased by a jet.
The command structure that released the jet to pursue the UFO did not recognize the craft. That either means the UFO is from another country, it is an extraterrestrial craft, or it belongs to a part of the United States military that is very secret. The main point is that a flying vehicle dropping flares to avoid being shot down by a heat-seeking missile is all very terrestrial.
I would have to say that the UFO Era really began with The Battle of Los Angeles in February of 1942. As I have mentioned in my books and on this Website, there is nothing in modern UFO lore that you can trust. Even most of the 1950's photographs were questioned as forgeries; and in 2018, forget UFO photographs and videos, there are hundreds of them on YouTube.
However, I have slowly come around to The Nazi Flying Saucer Theory. I cannot believe that it was as extensive as the Nazi Regime colonizing Antarctica, but I do believe that the Nazis may have escaped to South America with Adolf Hitler, a few test vehicles, scientists, equipment, and most importantly ancient knowledge.
Readers should note in The Battle of Los Angeles photograph that the apparent shape of the craft in the search lights is the familiar 1950's style bell-shaped vehicle. In February of 1942, war between the United States and the Axis powers of Germany and Japan were clearly on the horizon.
THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES BEGAN ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 24th, 1942
IN THE SEARCH LIGHTS IS THE WHITE SILHOUETTE OF A FLYING SAUCER
I suggest that the vehicle photographed in The Battle of Los Angeles is a Nazi test vehicle and not a craft from some Extraterrestrial Civilization.
I have not pursued UFO Research because of the tremendous effort it takes to sort out fact from fiction.The Air Force actively used Psychological Warfare tactics to drive Paul Bennewitz insane. This is the true nature of late 20th century and 21st century government intelligence agencies, and it is all very Nazi-like.
The Battle of Los Angeles points to the reality of a Nazi Flying Disk Program. German physicists at that point in time were pioneering Quantum Physics. Unless, The Vril Society summoned aliens.
The best researcher and compiler of data on UFO and Extraterrestrial visitation is Linda Moulton Howe. The Archives at Earthfiles will keep you reading for awhile and allow you to construct your own interpretation of the UFO/ET Phenomenon. The subscription to Earthfiles' Data is well worth the price.
In May of 1998, Linda Moulton Howe interviewed a former Army/CIA UFO Analyst. He alleges that the Nazis had first contacted "aliens" through the efforts of The Vril Society in 1918.
It is beyond my ability to question such a declaration, but I have also come around on my mechanistic view of Extraterrestrials and their spacecraft. If you review ancient scriptures and reevaluate The Ancient Astronaut Theory, then you just may see the possibility that the UFO/ET Phenomenon is a spiritual and psychological aspect of the reality of homo sapiens sapiens.
THE NAZI ERA UFO
THE GEORGE ADAMSKI TYPE UFO
THE NEXT GENERATION STAR TREK
ILLINOIS – 1950
THE 1960'S UFO
NOTE THE DIRT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD BEING LIFTED UP BY THE CRAFT
BELOTIC, YUGOSLAVIA – 1970
THE NEXT, NEXT GENERATION STAR TREK
SOUTH CAROLINA – MARCH 7, 1973
DENMARK – NOVEMBER 17, 1974
THE 1997 MEXICO CITY UFO IS CLEARLY SIMILAR TO THE 1970'S STYLE CRAFT – THESE GENERALLY APPEAR IN MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.
THE WOBBLING UFO IS DESCRIBED AS "A FALLING LEAF MOVEMENT" BY WITNESSES IN MANY UFO SIGHTINGS.
IN THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ROTATING RING MOVING AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE CRAFT IS SYNCHRONOUS WITH ITS WOBBLING MOVEMENT.
AMAURY RIVERA'S STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS (PDF)
The Amaury Rivera Abduction by far presents the best evidence ever, and it is my favorite because his photographs of three F-14s from the nearby Naval Air Base chasing a flying disk immediately after his return to Earth would be nearly impossible to fake in that time frame. Do note the sleekness of the UFO compared to previous photographs of what may be clumsy reverse-engineered Earth knockoffs.
THE EARLIEST TRIANGLE CRAFT, OHIO – 1985
It is interesting that one of the first photographs of a Triangle UFO happens to be in Ohio. Besides Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio where allegedly crashed UFOs were taken, there is also the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, with the Plum Brook field station near Sandusky, Ohio.
I almost took a job at the 6,400 acre rocket test facility at Plum Brook. A friend and former coworker of mine reactivated a number of test stands there back in the 1990s. I had an insider's tour of the facility after my job interview, and they do some very interesting development work there for a number of space vehicles, including the Martian Rovers. I opted for 64 year-old aircraft and the sub-tropics instead of winters along the shores of Lake Erie testing the latest rocket engines.
Paranormal investigators claim 'leaked' UFO pictures taken from US submarine show vessels hovering over Atlantic Ocean.
Researchers believe the black and white images were taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine in March 1971 and show evidence of alien lifeforms. The pictures are said to have been taken from the US submarine on its journey between Iceland and islands of the coast on Norway.
This series of pictures show a very large Triangular Craft that is either an Extraterrestrial Vehicle or a Nazi Vehicle. It would seem that around the 1980's time period the Majestic Program Overseers of all UFO related material finally were able to develop the TR3-B Triangular Craft. One can then speculate that the 1971 Submarine photographs are most likely pictures of an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft.
Readers can judge from these posted photographs that there has been a pretty substantial evolution of UFOs over the last 76 years. I believe that Adolf Hitler's greatest tactical errors were using his military before his Defense Industries were ready to mass produce the latest innovations in military technology.
Personally, I accept that this is the way fate and universal engineering seem to workout. I suppose it can be identified as karma. Here is where we get into spirituality, religion, and 7000 years or more of human history. How does this slice of history fit into The Bigger Picture?
Operation Paperclip was basically the integration of NATO and Nazi Germany. The monarchies of both Great Britain and the Netherlands have been proven to have early allegiances to Nazi Germany.
NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTS THE FORMATION OF NATO
Nostradamus Sixain XLIX (47)
Venus & Sol, Iupiter & Mercure
Augmenteront le genre de nature
Grande alliance en France se fera,
Et du Midy la sangsue de mesme,
Le feu esteint par ce remede extreme,
En terre ferme Oliuier plantera.
Venus [Islam] and the Sun [Christianity], Jupiter [Capitalists/Globalists] and Mercury
Will augment the forms of nature
A great alliance will be made in France,
And the leech in the South the same,
The fire put out by this extreme remedy,
In farmland will he plant the Olive Tree.
Nostradamus and the Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, Pages 338-339
Immediately after World War II both the French and Arabs formed alliances of note. The French signed the Treaty of Brussels on March 17, 1948, which led to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 4, 1949.
As a historical side note, the elected politicians of three major European countries did not sign the Treaty of Brussels: signing for Belgium was Prince Charles, signing for the Netherlands was Queen Wilhelmina, and signing for Great Britain was King George VI.
Nostradamus and Third Age of Mars, Volume I, G. A. Stewart, Pages 129-130
This Sixain presents us with a good reason to suggest that Vincent Seve got the numbering wrong when he copied The Sixains from the material given to him by Henry Nostradamus. As I will point out, some of Nostradamus' prophecies have numbers that align with the year of a prediction. There is almost the temptation to suggest that Sixain XLIX reflects the year of the NATO treaty.
Readers should note the consistent use of these metaphors in The Sixains, The Quatrains, and The Presages, "Venus [Islam] and the Sun [Christianity], Jupiter [Capitalists/Globalists]".
I believe "Mercury" is an allusion to post-World War II scientific knowledge and technology. Hermes Trismegistus is the first scientist. "Augmenting the forms of nature" sounds suspiciously like nuclear engineering, thus nuclear bombs.
THE LEECH
"A great alliance will be made in France, and the leech in the South the same…"
The Arab League was founded in Cairo on March 22, 1945. There are two side notes to the formation of the Arab League that need to be examined to understand the identity of the Leech and another important character in The Sixains, the Relative of the Leech.
…After Egypt signed the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979, Egypt was expelled and the symbolic capital of the Arab League was moved from Cairo to Tunis in Tunisia. In 1989, Egypt was allowed to rejoin the Arab League and its headquarters moved back to Cairo.
The second important historical note is the admission of Palestine. …At the Arab League Summit of 1964, however, the League countered the Israeli obstinacy to negotiate by giving Palestinians full membership.
The signatures on the 1949 NATO Treaty validate the fact that the German descendant monarchies of Europe still rule the West.
Nostradamus and the Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, Pages 267
Both the House of Windsor and the House of Orange-Nassau publically disavowed the extended family connections to the Nazis during World War II. But Prince Bernard was a Reiter SS member before the invasion of the Netherlands. After his family fled to London, he did fight against the Nazis as a pilot and aviator, but after the war, when he sat on the board of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, there were rumors that he had Nazis flown to South America.
Fascism is the signature of the Pagan Sect. In Chapter Fourteen you will see that all connections to the Nazis lead to the Pagan Sect. It infests the three main houses of power, the House of Orange-Nassau, the House of Windsor, and the Vatican. All have deep and well documented ties to Germany even after the Nazis came to power. After the bombs started dropping, those early connections to Nazi Germany seem to have been purposely blurred in the history books.
As I have written, the leaders and enforcing arm of the Washington elite are really the New England Tory families who historically have linked themselves with the southern slave states during the Civil War.
After World War II they became part of the political power structure in the states of Texas, Florida, and Louisiana, and when their front organizations were discovered there, they tried to find a new cover in Arkansas during the 1980s. The connective link between all of these states is the drug and gun running businesses.
So, let us return again to Licio Gelli of Tuscany; whose life story is part of the public record. Licio Gelli was always a committed fascist. He volunteered for Mussolini's Black Shirt expeditionary forces and fought in Spain to support Francisco Franco while also working with the Third Reich and Hermann Göring. After World War II, he gained notoriety by supporting the ratlines that fleeing Nazis were using to escape to South America.
In 1951, Gelli and Croatian Roman Catholic Priest Krunoslav Draganovic helped Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon" escape to Argentina.
In 2018, the Vatican and both the House of Windsor and the House of Orange-Nassau control the West. In the West, every Central Bank is controlled by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, thus the City of London, and thus Great Britain are at the helm of the West.
Most people do not understand the delicate dynamic behind monarchs and bankers. Yes, the banker finances the armies of the monarch, but ultimately, not one banker or their mercenaries have a chance against the army that a monarch can marshal. In an instant, a well-prepared monarch can just order his or her military to seize everything a banker owns.
Leaders of armies control the world, and that is just the plain simple fact of 7000 years of recorded human history.
I have led readers to this point, because all of it is central to The Q Phenomenon, which made the New York Times on April 6th, 2018.
The Q Phenomenon is the validation of one of my interpretations of Nostradamus' prophecies.
MILITARY COUP D'ÉTAT IN THE UNITED STATES
THRASIBULUS RESTORED DEMOCRACY TO ATHENS
Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 30
Until there will be one born from a branch long sterile one, who will deliver the people of the world from this benign and voluntary servitude. Placing them under the protection of Mars, stripping Jupiter of all his honors and dignities, and establish himself in the free city [and] in another smaller Mesopotamia.
And the chief and governor cast out from the middle and hung up in the air, ignorant of the conspiracy of one of the conspirators with the second Thrasibulus, who for a long time will have directed all this.
Then there will come forth a military leader believing in the ideals of democracy, which had long been sacrificed to the excesses of capitalism and globalism [Jovialists]. He will deliver the world from usury and the benign and voluntary servitude of fascism imposed by multinational corporations, banks, and corrupt politicians.
He will protect the laws of the Constitution with military force. First, he will establish himself in the war in Iraq, a smaller Mesopotamia, and then establish himself in Washington D.C.
A prominent leader, ignorant of the conspiracy, will be cast out of government and lynched. One of the conspirators with the second Thrasibulus directed the plot for a long time.
The Q message drops specifically point to President Donald J. Trump leading the United States military against this global control force that has been in place at least since the 1949 NATO Treaty, but more likely for just over the last 300 years, and with the outside chance that these forces extend much further back in time and originate off-Earth. In a biblical-sense they would be called "Heavenly Forces".
Already we have seen President Donald J. Trump publicly state that he was pulling all American military forces out of Syria, and then that decision was immediately reversed.
Who is in control of the United States military?
Who is in control of the TR3-Bs and the exotic weaponry?
WAR IS PREPARED IN THE WEST
Nostradamus Quatrain IX-55
L'horrible guerre qu'en l'Occident s'appreste,
L'an ensuivant viendra la pestilence,
Si fort l'horrible que jeune, vieux ne beste,
Sang, feu, Mercure, Mars, Jupiter en France.
The horrible war which is being prepared in the West,
The following year will come the pestilence,
So very horrible that young, old, nor beast,
Blood, fire Mercury, Mars, Jupiter in France.
Nostradamus makes it quite clear in The Quatrains and The Sixains that the West starts World War III. Another very important point to examine in the layering of predictions in this Quatrain is "the following year will come the pestilence". In Nostradamus and the Third Age of Mars, Chapter Twelve, I describe how this apparently comes after a great naval battle.
Human civilization is following an ancient social engineering plan. I am not quite sure how President Donald J. Trump can marshal the United States military to challenge such a powerful and ancient force that has essentially enslaved humanity for millennia.
If true, The Q Message Meme validates every character and the plot I first identified in my 2010 EBook, The Age of Desolation. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are leading some very dark forces within Nostradamus' Pagan Sect.
I have been repeatedly challenged by naming Barack Obama as Nostradamus' Black King and his Third Antichrist. Even though at the very top of my Website I quote Dr, Martin Luther King, the racial overtones in my interpretation have always come into play.
In fact, in August of 2013, I began a heated debate with well-know Nostradamus Commentator John Hogue over who first identified Nostradamus' Black King with Barack Obama. He won; Hogue did indeed beat me by several months in publishing this interpretation. Only I did give credit to Edgar Leoni for first solving the anagram inside "Noir" that identifies one on the leading characters in Nostradamus' writings.
At last check, John Hogue has walked that interpretation back several times by either identifying Russian President Vladimir Putin or Turkish President Erdogan as Nostradamus' Third Antichrist. You cannot get on television by calling Barack Obama Nostradamus' Black King. That is so politically incorrect today that it might get you killed.
However, I am sticking with my interpretation that Barack Hussein Obama, is Nostradamus' Black King and his Third Antichrist. Obama was clearly groomed for the role he plays today. His Nobel Peace Prize and the Norway Light Spiral are the major clues on how long this ancient social engineering plan has been shaping civilization.
Once again, as I suggest in my EBooks, is some organization or group trying to Immanentize the Eschaton?
I will examine this in The UFO Maze – Part III.
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Singapore pop artist Dominic Chin has finally released his debut EP 'License to Cry', via indie label Umami Records.
The 7-track EP is a diverse collection of songs that document the early stages of self-discovery in Dominic Chin's life, in his efforts to articulate his struggles and explore different sounds.
A Confessional Record
"It was always difficult for me to verbalize my feelings growing up because I didn't ever want to give myself away and reveal my vulnerability to others," the acclaimed singer-songwriter/producer said. "I feared that they would judge me or find me a burden, and so this album is in a way, me talking about what I didn't want to talk about."
The recording process eventually felt therapeutic for Chin, as it allowed him to confront some of the personal traumas in his life. He shares, "In the process of making the songs, we always made it a point to make the song not sound too much as what it would lyrically seem to be. For example, HERE is a midtempo and "springy" type of song, but it talks about me missing my late grandmother. SHY is a high energy EDM song, but it talks about my paranoia and insomnia."
Confessional in terms of songwriting treatment, Dominic Chin's latest EP, 'License To Cry' is the explanation that he finally can give to people. "This is why I am the way I am," he admits. "I have many reasons for my tears, I have many stories of my past. This album is an extension of myself."
Cry: Breaking Social Demands
The EP's focus track, the previously unreleased CRY, is an R&B track with a bit of a late 90's pop vibe, saying that it's OK to cry, even as you're told to "man up."
"It's about being yourself and breaking free of the fear and shame from having to conform to others' silly expectations and rules," Chin explains. "Growing up, I have always had poor confidence, and hated sports and the general rowdiness that boys would get up to. I would constantly be told to 'suck it up' and 'don't be a girl.' The song is about how me, being male, faces society's demands to behave and act a certain way, but in fact, every man is different. I used the term 'cry' as a symbol in the song to represent all the unfair expectations that others place on us. We came into this world crying and yet somehow it has become 'feminine' to do so."
With its gospel-inflected arrangements and incredible bigness, CRY marks a milestone for Dominic Chin as it tackles themes that aren't usually discussed in mainstream pop music in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia– rejecting conformity, rising above society's expectations, and empowering self-expression. It's a powerful song to cap off a brilliant 7-track EP– a personal statement that no matter how vague and intimate, still manages to capture humanity at its finest.
Listen to License to Cry by Dominic Chin everywhere at this link: https://www.umamirecords.sg/license-to-cry/
Tracklist (focus track is 3 / CRY):
1 / SHY
2 / HERE
3 / CRY
4 / AWARE
5 / BETTER
6 / ALONE
7 / CLSE2U
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