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Maple Leafs' Rielly, Gardiner ramp up compete level
By Kevin McGranSports Reporter
Fri., Sept. 19, 2014timer3 min. read
Morgan Rielly is on a losing streak.
The Maple Leafs defenceman can't seem to win a coin flip. That's how he and roommate/teammate/friend Jake Gardiner decide who does what at their downtown condo.
"We flip a coin to see who drives. The loser drives," said Gardiner, taking a moment away from Friday's testing at Maple Leafs training camp.
"I'm on a cold streak right now," said Rielly. "He's been beating me. I've been driving every day it seems like."
The competitive nature is apparent elsewhere in their lives — from games on Xbox to basketball in the living room to flipping coins to decide who buys dinner or brings the garbage to the chute.
It translates on the ice, where they push each other to be better, challenging for ice time and at the same time cheering each other's success.
"In team practice, we compete all the time," says Rielly. "When it comes to games, we want each other to play well. When he scores, I'm obviously completely happy for him. We cheer each other on. I'm a big Jake Gardiner fan. We get along great."
It's a coin flip, really, as to which one is more talented.
Gardiner is ahead for now, coming into the season with a chance to become the team's No. 1 defenceman. The 24-year-old is entering his prime and has confidence that the team believes in him thanks to a new five-year, $20.25 million deal signed this summer.
His upside and talent level are similar to those of Rielly, who could well supplant Gardiner in time as the club's top puck-moving defenceman. Rielly is just 20 and perhaps ought to be worried about avoiding the sophomore jinx. Both are smooth, puck-carrying, creative, left-side defenders with great skating ability.
"They can be really good," said captain Dion Phaneuf. "They are, at a young age, already playing big minutes in the NHL and their minutes are obviously going to grow. Every year of experience is going to help a player."
The changes on the blue line are many and start with Phaneuf. For one thing, he's going to switch to the left side and said Friday he expects his minutes to come down a bit. He averaged 23:33 a game last year, tops on the team, while leading in power-play time and sitting third in penalty killing.
Gardiner was second on the team in minutes, averaging 21:04. It would be easy to add to Gardiner's power-play duty (he averaged 2:16, compared to Phaneuf's 3:17). Rielly could also see more work with the extra man (he averaged 1:55).
It's most likely Phaneuf will play with Roman Polak, a right-handed shot and sleek skater, as the team's so-called shutdown pairing.
The betting is Gardiner will be paired with Stephane Robidas and Rielly with Cody Franson, as the team enjoys a rare balance between left-handed and right-handed shots.
"As a player, you probably prefer to play your strong (natural) side," said Rielly. "It's nice to have equal numbers on the strong side. When you're trying to make a pass, you can use your forehand. If you're on your off wing you have to use your backhand. It's a bit easier to make a forehand pass as opposed to having to make a backhand pass."
Both have gone through growing pains in the often unforgiving Toronto market. It has taken Gardiner a couple of seasons to fully gain the confidence of coach Randy Carlyle. Rielly, meanwhile, went through the daily drama of whether he'd stay or go back to junior at age 19 last year. They helped each other through those times.
"I had times last year when it was not going so great," said Rielly. "(Gardiner) has had those as well. We have a chance to talk about it. I try to help him. He helps me. So it's a pretty good relationship."
Rielly says he might shoot more than he did last year, when he had two goals on 96 shots, choosing to pass to more experienced teammates.
"I spent some time this off-season working on my shot," said Rielly. "When I get a chance to shoot it, I might do that a bit more often than I did last year."
Kevin McGran talks about the abundance in the forward position at the Maple Leafs camp.
How good can they get? Neither gives it much thought.
"We just worry about the present, having a good camp," said Rielly, "playing good this year. Not worried about what's down the road. We each want to play as much as we can. That's all we can worry about."
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Stephen Noteboom (ur. 31 lipca 1969 w Geldrop) – holenderski tenisista.

Kariera tenisowa
Karierę zawodową Noteboom rozpoczął w 1992 roku, a zakończył w 1999 roku. Największe sukcesy odnosił głównie jako deblista, wygrywając dwa turnieje rangi ATP World Tour.

W rankingu gry pojedynczej Noteboom najwyżej był na 333. miejscu (1 listopada 1993), a w klasyfikacji gry podwójnej na 52. pozycji (31 marca 1997).

Finały w turniejach ATP World Tour

Gra podwójna (2–0)

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Urodzeni w 1969
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Dr Ishigaki Video: TUSA Summit (+analysis)
1 CommentThursday, 21 September 2017 | Paul G
First of all big congratulations to Daniel and the team at TUSA for putting on what proved to be the world's largest tenkara gathering to date. That's a super positive contribution to the global #tenkaratribe and a great achievement, so High 5. I just got chance to watch Dr Ishigaki's Summit presentation on the TUSA blog and YouTube and it really interested me to see that he had recognised something of an evolution in the Western audience for tenkara…
Yes, Dr Ishigaki's stated mission is to bring people into tenkara and break down the perceived barriers of complexity and cost (things sometimes associated with fly fishing)…But this latest presentation - included below so you can see what I mean - has moved up quite a step from the earliest content that Ishigaki-sensei was prepared to reveal. In other words, it seems as if he recognises that we are "growing up" in our ability to appreciate tenkara's broad range of techniques. I think this may also be a pattern reflected in the Tenkara Guides' annual Oni School as described by Chris at TenkaraBum. It is a great time to be involved with the global tenkara community.
The video (below) talks in far more detail about the changing "moods" of fish and the technical adaptations that you can make to cope with that. In that way, I felt it chimed a bit more with the kinds of detail that pro bass anglers in the US think about and deal with all the time (the classic "switching on" of the fish for short periods of time). If you don't know about that, you might think that your technique sucks! Another thing that flagged as different for me was being more ready to push the Japanese names for some of the specific manipulations. Probably the most obvious example would be "Gyaku biki" that I just happen to have a handy illustration for taken from our free email tutorial series :)
Interestingly, his presentation also describes the anchored-fly presentation commonly known as "tome-zuri", but that was not something he specifically asked his translator to relay as a term. In the same way, the "tome-okuri" (pause & feed or pause and drift) technique was just explained in a functional way (rod tip movement illustrated below). Regardless, it was more technically nuanced than the talks I've seen him give before – and I think that is significant.
Of course, his trademark charisma and sense of humour were on show – and you see once again why he fits that tenkara ambassador role so well. That ability to charm the audience and his teaching experience from a career in science is something that even much more technical tenkara experts in Japan may not be able to replicate. That, again, is significant in my book.
An especially interesting development in his presentation was the preview clip of the new DVD that Dr Ishigaki has made with two "under the radar" masters – Shin Takahashi and Kazumi Saigo (aka "Ajari")
Western tenkara veterans may remember the profile of Ajari on our old Discover Tenkara Wordpress site from some years ago (reproduced on this site when we rebuilt it after being hacked: https://www.discovertenkara.com/blog/ajari.html).
Here's the thing, both Takahashi-san and Ajari are phenomenally technical and accomplished tenkara anglers. They have also both studied European competition methods (with Takahashi-san taking a near-obsessive level of interest in the deep detail) and can effortlessly switch between those different "schools" as well as melding all their knowledge into very recognisably "Japanese" tenkara tactics.
Make no mistake, those two experts have been very carefully selected by Dr Ishigaki – not least because of their incredibly consistent success rate on some of the most difficult waters and fish in Japan. There is good reason to suspect that they are the two anglers who, between them, catch the most fish on a tenkara rod in Japan each year. Not that those numbers are their primary aim, just that the amount of time on-stream and their "next-level" skillset make that result almost inevitable.
But I guess the key point of my analysis is that, in taking his ambassador role with the level of dedication and seriousness that you'd expect, Dr Ishigaki has made sure to find out what folks at the cutting edge are doing. As always it is a pleasure to see his smooth "muscle memory" when doing his demonstrations on the videos from the 2017 Tenkara Summit. The repetitions of loading/unloading the rod with minimum effort to create smooth loops have polished that action to a fine shine for over 40 years. On top of that, it is also fascinating to see the impact on his own approach that, particularly Saigo-san (Ajari), has had over the last five or six years or so…
Ajari is notorious for a few things in Japanese tenkara circles. First of all, his extensive written log of conditions, techniques, fish behaviour across hundreds and hundreds of fishing spots across Japan spanning almost 15 years by now. This means that, whenever a top angler needs to get a photo feature for a magazine article…Who you gonna call? Ajari will have up to date data on what fish are biting where and on what tactics. I know Ishigaki-sensei really appreciates that relationship with Saigo-san.
The second part of Ajari's notoriety is that he has never been known to fail to produce the goods for any of his own articles in prestigious Japanese angling magazines. His incredibly detailed understanding of fish behaviour patterns – coupled with his long-term dataset – give him a huge advantage. He will also preview his chosen venue the day before – using some special tactics to avoid spoiling the next day's fishing that we may get into as part of Season 2 of Tenkara in Focus.
So, yes, I'm looking forward to checking out the DVD when I get the chance and, again, congratulations on a significant milestone event in the tenkaraverse to Daniel and team. Here is the video so you can check it out:
If you've found some extra value in this analysis, please let your friends know by clicking on the social sharing buttons on this page…
And if you want to explore some of the topics raised here in more detail; please subscribe to my email tutorials and Check out the Tenkara in Focus Resources below:
Takahashi-san's Onstream "Tenkara Nymphing" Masterclass
PG's Tenkara Manipulations E-book and Onstream Video
Dr Ishigaki's Onstream Masterclass Video
Dr Ishigaki's Masterclass Analysis (PDF)
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If I read the kanji correctly off the video screen:
石垣 尚男 「テンカラ大王」より
2018年1月で
数か,尺ものか・
テンカラ新戦術 DVD.
From Hisao Ishigaki "Tenkara the Great"
A few, ? or not ・
Tenkara New Tactics DVD


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Ming Lee Simmons is definitely making a name for herself outside of that of her famous parents, Kimora and Russel Simmons. This talented Renaissance woman eloquently finds a way balance it all. Recently, the young rising start posed for her first magazine cover and interview with Galore. Check out a snippet of what she had to say below in regard to fashion, music, and more.
Hi Ming, glad we could connect! You've been busy lately. Recently you shot the Galore September cover.
Ming Lee Simmons: Same here. Our shoot was next level, right? The photos came out great, I think.
Definitely. And since then, you've been on the move. You're enrolled at NYU and starting your freshman year, so tell us – NYC to LA?
MLS: That's not a fair question at all (laughs)! I was raised bi-coastal, so there never really was an "or." They're both great places with different vibes. I feel lucky to be going to school in NYC since it's a hub for fashion and beauty.
Speaking of which, what are some of your favorite upcoming trends for Fall?
MLS: I know I'm planning to delve deep into OTKs…over the knee boots are where it's at for me. There's such a power there. I'm also going to fully embrace plaid. Forest green is going to be big this season, too, which is great because it's such a rich tone.
Ok now which trends do you low key want to see die off this season?
MLS: Crocs! I'm not a crocs girl at all.
No? They're definitely trending in certain fashion circles.
MLS: Can rubber shoes be shoes, though? They're just visual pollution to me.
Are you hype for for NYFW? What are some of your plans?
MLS: I've gotten some invites to a few great shows, so I'm excited about that. My mom is speaking at the United Nations Women's conference at the top of Fashion Week.
She'll be addressing key global women's initiatives so I'll be proud to join her for that. She'll also ring the bell at the NASDAQ, which is such an honor. I'm also proud to help launch the Galore September issue.
Right back at you! Okay so tell us about your public finsta, @mingleesimmons2.
MLS: My main account – @mingleesimmons – is more of a portfolio of images I've created sometimes in partnerships with lifestyle brands I work with. Hair, nails, fashion, and cosmetics. I look at them more as collaborations than endorsements. I like crafting images.
@mingleesimmons2 started as a separate account to post silly things but now it's almost 100% HUJI-based. The posts are random things that I do as seen through the eyes of this HUJI App, which I love. It makes everything look so different. I should be their spokesperson, really. Everyone should have it.
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Over 1,500. That's how many manuscript submissions a literary agent recently told me she receives every year. It's by no means atypical either. Most agents would proffer a similar number while you can probably double it for publishers.
As an author, it's enough to make your blood run cold. Is there really any chance of cutting through all that clutter? Will our carefully-crafted book ever make it to the top of the slush pile? Should we just give up while a series of footballers, Love Island contestants and celebrities jump the queue ahead of us?
Yes, yes and no. At least I hope so.
Writing has been helping pay my bills for the best part of a decade now, predominantly through my job as a copywriter for a communications company but also as a children's author. In that time, I've been fortunate enough to have four titles published with Cambridge University Press (CUP). But then, earlier this year, I took the plunge and self-published a children's football story called Striker Mikey Meets His Match in partnership with a very talented illustrator friend called Terry Eagling Joyce.
Now, as any aspiring author can attest, the briefest of Googles will uncover a whole host of potential pitfalls here. Stories of writers unwittingly signing away their rights (both intellectual and economic) and tales of companies out to make a fast buck using stock images and questionable publishing standards.
While this hasn't been my experience, I did think hard before parting with my cash – around £500 – for a publishing package. Partly because of the money and partly because, yes, it does feel a bit like cheating. If my book was good enough, surely someone would publish it traditionally, right?
But then I go back to those numbers. 1,500 a year. With that many unpublished titles sloshing around, it follows that even the most brilliant ones risk falling through the cracks sometimes. Little wonder, then, that many writers are choosing to cut out the middle man.
According to the latest figures from bibliographer, Bowker, the number of self-published titles topped one million in 2017, a 28% increase from 2016. I'm willing to bet it will rise again this year.
In fact, the more you look into it, the more you realise self-publishing has moved from last resort to genuine career option. That's not to say the majority of self-published writers would turn their back should Penguin come knocking. But on Amazon alone, data shows over a thousand writers currently earning a full-time living through self-published titles.
Meanwhile the self-publishers themselves are getting smarter, offering everything from straightforward print-on-demand services to global marketing programmes. More companies are springing up every year too, recognising the growing popularity and sales power of the industry.
Just a few months in (Striker Mikey came out in February), I'm wary of drawing too many firm conclusions. Certainly, I've missed the simplicity of CUP doing all the marketing and sales outreach for me as well as, of course, the royalty advance. But it's also kind of cool to know I have a hand in my own destiny. If I work hard enough to market the book successfully, I will reap the rewards. If I don't, well, that's on me.
Either way, the fact it's possible to make a career as a writer without ever sending a submission email makes for an evolutionary and exciting time. For sure, I will continue to pitch my work to traditional publishers and fervently hope to stand out from the crowd. But like many authors, I'll take comfort from knowing there are other routes out there.
Whatever happens, though, I know there's one thing that will never change. Whatever I write and however I publish it, it's the readers who'll decide if I succeed or not.
Alex Eeles' book Striker Mikey Meets His Match is a story of football and unexpected friendship for 6-10 year olds. Buy it here
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Pulse parties like it's 1999
By Erin Sierchio
Nothing compares 2 the ladies of the Pulse Dance Ensemble.
1999 has come and gone, but Prince fans still go crazy for the bite-sized pop superstar. In 2004, the man formerly known as Prince Rogers Nelson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his contributions to the music industry. This weekend, the Pulse Dance Ensemble will pay tribute to the one-man tour de force with its production Icon: A Tribute to Prince. The 13-member, all-female dance ensemble will get down to classics like "Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy" and "Nothing Compares 2 U." The dances, mostly choreographed by the ensemble's founder, Summer Ayala, will incorporate various dance styles, including ballet, modern, hip-hop, jazz and tap. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the Guild Theater, located at 2828 35th Street.
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Tiny Clark Paint holding its own
2005-06-05 | Marcia Blomberg, Springfield Republican
mblomberg@repub.com
Category: Springfield Republican
Andrew M. Raker was just 18 when he left college to save the family business, a West Springfield paint factory that his grandfather had purchased in 1945.
Raker took over Clark Paint & Varnish Co. in 1978 from his mother and grandmother, who had tried to hold things together at Clark after his grandfather Milford Raker's death in 1963.
By the time Andrew took over, "things were shaky here. We were just about out of business," he said.
The technology of making paint had improved, but their tiny company hadn't kept up with the times, and competition had gotten tougher as more discounters and chains were selling paint, Andrew Raker recalled.
The veteran employees left when Raker took over, so he bore down. Even though he had worked in the store as a teenager over summer vacations, he still had to learn how to make paint.
For two or three years, he worked to improve the quality of the company's paint, working in the lab with a kitchen blender and materials recommended by vendors to develop new recipes. Those recipes worked. Raker declined to reveal the company's revenues, but he estimated they have tripled since he took over in 1978. While the company sells several national brands of paint, it also sells huge quantities of its own Clark paints.
In the warehouse behind the retail store, stacks of gallon paint cans bear labels like "Clark S.C. (stands for solid cover) White Oil Stain," "Clark Deck Gray," "Puritan Wall and Ceiling," "Rubber Latex Water Base Paint" and "Clark S.C. Oil Stain C.C. (stands for Cape Cod) Red."
Raker is not one to brag, but he did admit that "we're sort of known for our oil-based polyurethane. It's very high-quality at a low price."
The Mirro-Lite is a "very high-gloss, relatively quick-dry enamel" that is used on boats, floors and machinery. "People come in and say 'I've never used anything as good as this,'" Raker said.
The company's Kwik Satin interior flat latex is extremely popular, he added, with a gallon selling for $14.98 and a five-gallon pail going for $69.90.
Customers come from as far away as Vermont and Maine, though Raker modestly noted that they are people who used to live in this area and stop by when they're in town. Clark also sells to the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut, which favors the Clark Kwik Satin. Plastic five-gallon buckets labeled "Clark Industrial and Architectural Paints" are sold mainly to contractors and apartment complex managers who use paint by the bucket. About half the company's sales are to retail customers, with the rest evenly divided between contractors and commercial customers representing big buyers like apartment complex owners or municipalities.
Clark's own paint represents about a third of the total sales in dollars, but since Clark paint is sold at a lower price than the other brands, it represents more than a third of the total volume sold. The company sold about 100,000 gallons of paint last year. Making paint is "like following a recipe to make a cake," Raker said. Water or oil-based resin in solution is the main ingredient, followed by powders and pigments. Titanium dioxide, a white pigment, is the ingredient that makes for the best "hiding," to cover old colors or blemishes. Temperature is critical at various steps, as well as the rate of addition of pigments.
Raker said that 40 or 50 years ago, most cities probably had a small paint factory, but now he believes Clark is the only small, independent paint manufacturer in Western Massachusetts.
Though paint does not run in his veins, Raker is the fourth generation of Rakers making a living making and selling paint.
Clark Paint was founded in 1928 at its current location at 966 Union St. by Fred Clark, according to information provided by Marcia Raker, Andrew's mother. Her father and Andrew's grandfather Milford Raker was already in the paint business. He owned two Raker Paint factories, one in Scranton, Pa., and the other in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The company had been started by Milford's father, Harry Raker.
After seeing an advertisement in 1945 that Clark Paint was for sale, Milford Raker drove up Route 5 to check it out.
"He wanted to start fresh, not answer to anybody," Andrew Raker said.
Milford Raker found Longmeadow charming, and after buying the company and running it for a year, he decided to move his family here from Scranton, according to Marcia Raker.
Milford helped some of his uncles set up paint factories in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He also started a Clark Paint Factory in Hartford, as well as a factory and laboratory in Asbury Park, N.J., for all the Raker paint-factory owners to use. In 1963, when his grandfather passed away at the age of 52, he had eight stores selling Clark Paint around the area, Andrew Raker said.
Those other stores and factories have since closed.
For years after he took over, Andrew Raker sold only the Clark paint made at his Union Street factory. But then The Home Depot opened its first store in the area, in 1990 on Riverdale Street in West Springfield. The advent of the giant discounter caused a number of responses.
"We saw a drop-off in retail trade, and that forced us to go after more commercial business," Raker said. He hired a sales representative to go on the road, and added Pratt & Lambert paint, a high-quality brand.
"That gave us the idea that we could sell anybody (any brand of paint)," Raker said. "For years, I was of the mentality that everybody else was the enemy." Now, Clark Paint carries Pratt & Lambert, Pittsburgh and Benjamin Moore paints, Cabot Stains, and M.L. Campbell's lacquer line that is favored by woodshops and cabinet makers, he said. He's invested in a $22,000 tinting machine, a state-of-the-art machine that can match custom colors, especially light colors that up to now have been difficult or impossible to make in a quart size, due to the miniscule amounts of color required.
"The new machine can break it down to 1/10,000th of an ounce," Raker said, allowing just the right droplet or two of color to be added to a base. Raker has also computerized customer records, so someone who wants to match the paint they used in their kitchen five years ago can get the same paint color and type. Raker's favorite part of the job is hearing a customer tell him that they managed to perfectly match a paint or stain. If someone wants to match a stain on a cupboard or floor, he recommends they bring in the raw wood they'll use so Clark's workers can test and retest. The wood itself will affect the final color, he noted. Clark Paint & Varnish Co. now employs five full-time staffers and one part-timer, Raker said.
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Guide to the Liverpool Under 18s Squad
Michael Sweeting
LFC academy director Frank McParland recently said the club's target is to have 50% of the first-team squad having coming through the academy. We take a look at the current crop of youngsters in the Reds under 18's squad.
AFTER the Great Academy Reform of 2009, Liverpool Football Club has rebuilt it's reputation as a centre of footballing excellence – providing the first team with several fresh new faces who have benefitted from the improved coaching, nutrition and facilities.
The likes of Martin Kelly, Jack Robinson, Jon Flanagan and Raheem Sterling have established themselves as well known names while their counterparts Suso, Andre Wisdom and Jerome Sinclair have also impressed fans in their varying amounts of brief displays. Wisdom in particular has emerged (out of position) as a genuine first team option.
However, as the majority of fans are embracing the influx of talented teenagers to the first team, the coaching staff at the Kirby Academy have already switched their sights to the next group of prospects. This article will briefly explore the current U18 set up; analysing players, management and tactics as well as trying (in a non-pressuring way!) to assess the first team prospects of those young Reds. The clichéd line is that "The stars of tomorrow" are in the youth squads… I won't sink so low, but it's safe to assume that with Liverpool's current set up and ideology that they will get chances if they are good enough.
It's fair to say Steve Cooper has had a difficult start as Liverpool U18s manager. Given a side packed with first year scholars – mostly his U16 team from last season – he was always facing an uphill challenge to form a competitive team. Liverpool have been shipping goals at U18 level but this was always expected with a back four whose average age is far younger than 17 and have never played U18 football before.
Cooper has started with some interesting ideas; the core 4231 formation remains unchanged – a feature of the entire Academy – but his commitment to a tiki-taka style is perhaps not as clear cut as that of Borrell or even Marsh and certainly not Rodgers. However, that is not to say the style won't emerge overtime and it is early into his tenure as manager so perhaps it is too difficult to judge yet.
What Cooper is excellent at is player development. Already this season we have seen several players switch positions or be asked to do jobs they are not usually comfortable with. For example; Connor Randall, usually thought of as a defensive player, has been used up front and Yalany Baio has been given more of a license to push forwards. While this may well mean that results at U18 level suffer, and they have, it is much better for the young players all round development to leave their comfort zone.
All in all it's a promising start for Cooper with room for improvement. Last week's convincing 3-1 away win against previously unbeaten Fulham was much more encouraging and leaves room for optimism.
Tyrell Belford: Perceived as the first choice Academy goalkeeper, Belford plays for both U21s and U18s. Talented goalkeeper but prone to the odd handling error, he is loud and commanding though.
Andy Firth: Yet to feature much at U18s level so it's difficult to judge him fairly.
Ryan Fulton: Similar to Firth in that he has featured little at this level but was hugely impressive in his last outing against Chelsea. Has great reflexes but time will tell what level he is at consistently.
Yusuf Mersin: Turkish youth international goalkeeper but has struggled since joining Liverpool. 18 years old now and has surely not done enough for a new contract with such little game time.
Cameron Brannagan: Born a Manc, Brannagan has impressed in his showings for the U18s. His versatility means he can play anywhere across the back four or midfield and works hard for the team.
Daniel Cleary: Predominantly a central defender, he can also play at right back and has featured on the bench for the U21s. Big blonde defender looking to establish himself in a group of very talented sixteen year old centre backs.
Niall Heaton: Capped up to England U16s level, Heaton has the natural talent to develop a career at Anfield but first off needs to re-establish himself at the 2nd choice centre back having recently come under threat by Williams and Cleary.
Lloyd Jones: The star of the bunch as far defenders go; commanding centre back with excellent close control and a great temperament. Capped by Wales at U17s and has also played for Liverpool reserves and NextGen squads. He has holes in his game – particularly his heading – but with the right input could become a massive prospect.
Joe Maguire: Sixteen year old left back who appeared with Lloyd Jones in the youthful Liverpool side that beat Chester in pre-season. Prone to diving into challenges but otherwise a very tidy looking full back who is keeping the highly rated Alex O'Hanlon to a rotation role.
Alex O'Hanlon: Signed by Liverpool from under the noses of Real Madrid, O'Hanlon has yet to find his feet at this level of football. Most often seen as a left full back he can also be deployed on the left hand side of midfield and made a name for himself at U16 level for his regular goal scoring exploits.
Connor Randall: Difficult to know which position to put Randall in. A stockily built centre back by trade he has played pretty much every position out there so far this season and made a few appearances just off the striker. It may help his development in the long run, but could do with finding a primary position to master.
Jordan Williams: Can play either defence or midfield and has recently started to challenge the pairing of Jones-Heaton. Williams has been capped at U19 level for Wales despite being just 16 and is considered a bright prospect.
Yalany Baio: Combative defensive midfielder Yalany Baio is a Portugese youth player currently in his second year with the U18s; although he has also performed well in several outings at right-back for the U21s. Talented 17 year old who is really the only defensive midfielder in the Academy set up.
Nathan Burke: Burke can play at centre midfield or right back. He appeared several times at the back end of last season as an underage player but has so far struggled to make an impact this season due to injury.
Jack Dunn: Difficult to know what to classify Dunn as thesedays; naturally a central midfield player he has appeared regularly at left back and recently up front. A couple of injuries have ruled him out so far this season but Dunn has endless natural talent.
Sam Gainford: Second year winger Sam Gainford is a tricky winger who has started to add consistent goals to his game. Having struggled for regular action last season Gainford has a lot to prove this term.
Jordan Lussey: Central midfielder Lussey really grew in stature last season and as such has gained the captaincy this season. Efficient user of the ball with an eye for goal, if he continues to develop at a good rate then Lussey could really develop into a top prospect.
Henoc Mukendi: Left winger Henoc Mukendi is an enormous figure of a man currently on loan to Northampton Town. Although not the most technically proficient he is usually a danger due to his sheer size and physicality.
Seyi Ojo: 15 year old midfielder Seyi Ojo was brought in last season from MK Dons' youth academy. Possessing electric pace and superb technical ability he already plays three years above his age group at both Liverpool and England.
Kristoffer Peterson: Winger Kristoffer Peterson is a Swedish U19 international. This is his second year at U18 level and it will be expected of him to become the shining light of the team. He possesses good technical ability and likes to run at full backs but can go missing for periods in a match which is something he needs to work on this year and as he moves into the U21s.
Nathan Quirk: Second year scholar Nathan Quirk has most often been used at right back this season but is usually a right midfielder. He has good pace and quick feet; although he needs to develop more strengths to his game if he is to push on further than the U18s.
Jordan Rossiter: U16 captain Jordan Rossiter is an aggressive midfield player who is expected to feature later on in the season for the U18s. He has a good passing range, likes to get forward and is a good leader – evidenced by also being England U16 captain.
Dan Trickett-Smith: Signed in the summer from Crewe, Dan Trickett-Smith has made a huge impact at youth level and given Liverpool a different dimension to their attack. He is excellent at running with the ball and can play those 'cute' passes from the withdrawn striker position. A top talent.
Jerome Sinclair: Sinclair became Liverpool's youngest ever player when he came off the bench less than a week after his 16th birthday away to West Bromwich Albion. Pacey, with good movement – he causes endless problems for defenders.
Armin Hodzic: He has reportedly failed to gain a work permit again (a problem we seem to face yet a certain club down the M62 don't…), but Hodzic showed in pre-season that he is a natural goalscorer; in particular he executed a delightful chip against the USA – a taster of his undeniable talent.
Tags Academy, Steve Cooper, Youth, Youth Development


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Compounding James Rosemond's already formidable criminal troubles, prosecutors are planning to indict the rap music manager for his alleged role in the murder of a man who once assaulted his teenage son.
The looming homicide conspiracy charge could expose Rosemond, 47, to the federal death penalty, prosecutor Todd Kaminsky revealed today during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, where Rosemond (pictured at right) is under indictment for allegedly heading a nationwide cocaine trafficking ring.
As TSG previously reported, two Rosemond associates--Rodney Johnson and Brian McCleod--have already been charged with the ambush killing of Lowell Fletcher, an associate of the rapper 50 Cent. Fletcher was gunned down on a Bronx street in September 2009, two weeks after being paroled from a New York State prison.
Fletcher had spent two years in prison for a pair of separate crimes--narcotics dealing and assault. The victim in the latter offense was Rosemond's son, who was attacked on a Manhattan street in early-2007 by Fletcher and 50 Cent sidekick Tony Yayo (real name: Marvin Bernard). The boy, then 14, was struck in the head after Fletcher noticed that he was wearing a t-shirt bearing the name of Rosemond's management company.
At the time of the assault, the 50 Cent forces were involved in a rap world dispute with rapper The Game, a Rosemond client. Investigators believe that the murder of Fletcher (seen below) was retribution for the attack on Rosemond's child.
In an indictment filed last May in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Johnson and McCleod were accused of involvement in a trafficking organization that shipped narcotics from Los Angeles to New York (Rosemond has been charged with leading the ring).
The duo was also charged with orchestrating Fletcher's murder, which carries the possibility of the death sentence (Department of Justice officials are now weighing whether to pursue that possible penalty).
Johnson and McCleod are accused of hatching the Fletcher murder with "known and unknown" coconspirators. Prosecutors are expected to soon identify one of those alleged plotters--Rosemond--in a superseding indictment.


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Kareena Kapoor Birthday Date: September 21st
Happy Birthday Kareena Kapoor!!!!
Kareena Kapoor (pronounced [kəˈriːnaː kəˈpuːr]; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. She is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor.
Noted for playing a variety of characters in a range of film genres—from romantic comedies to crime dramas—Kapoor is the recipient of several awards, including six Filmfare Awards, and is one of Bollywood's most popular and highest-paid actresses.
Kapoor will next team with Aamir Khan for the third time in Laal Singh Chaddha, a remake of the American comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994). She will also portray the Mughal princess Jahanara Begum in Karan Johar's directorial venture Takht, a historical drama featuring an ensemble cast, including Ranveer Singh, Vicky Kaushal, and Alia Bhatt.
Kapoor is expecting her second child with husband Saif Ali Khan as of August 2020, the announcement of which she made on Instagram.
Today, Kapoor is considered as one of the most popular Bollywood celebrities in India. Her look and performances have established her as a style icon for young women. In a 2009 poll conducted by the newspaper Daily News and Analysis Kapoor was voted one of India's most popular icons;with her partner Saif Ali Khan, she was listed amongst the top celebrity endorsers for brands and products worldwide.
She became the only Indian actress to be featured on CNNGo's list of "Who Mattered Most in India",and was later selected by Verve for its list of the country's most powerful women from 2008 to 2013 and in 2016.
In June 2010, Kapoor was named "India's Most Beautiful Woman" by the Indian edition of People magazine; Eastern Eye and Indian Maxim named her as "Asia's Sexiest Woman" and "India's Hottest Woman" in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
The following year, she was selected by India Today for its list of the country's most influential women.From 2012 to 2018, Kapoor has featured on Forbes India's "Celebrity 100," a list based on the income and popularity of India's celebrities,peaking at the seventh position in 2012 with an estimated annual earning of ₹735 million (US$10 million).
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 Art Tatum (1909–1956), US-amerikanischer Jazzpianist
 Bradford Tatum (* 1965), US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Schriftsteller
 Channing Tatum (* 1980), US-amerikanischer Schauspieler
 Chase Tatum (1973–2008), US-amerikanischer Wrestler
 Donn Tatum (1913–1993), US-amerikanischer Manager
 Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909–1975), US-amerikanischer Genetiker, Nobelpreisträger 1958
 Hilt Tatum (* 1934), US-amerikanischer Zahnarzt und Implantologe
 Jack Tatum (1948–2010), US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler
 James Tatum (1931–2021), US-amerikanischer Jazzpianist und Hochschullehrer
 Jayson Tatum (* 1998), US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler
 Joseph Tatum (* 1980), Fußballspieler von den Cayman Islands
 Kelvin Tatum (* 1964), britischer Bahnsportler
 Tiffany Tatum (* 1997), ungarische Pornodarstellerin


My son is thinking about competing in a science fair this spring. I can tell you one thing -- science fairs are not what they used to be in the 70s and 80s. Just look at what's out there now.
And then there's this gadget called the Arduino. It hails from the land of Italy and over 100,000 have been sold already. You can get it in Toronto at Creatron on College/Spadina. Can you imagine your own 3D Printer to make your own, well, anything? Download a coat hook design and print it yourself in any colour or size. Yes, Virginia, possible. Today.
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European Super Cup, UEFA guinea pigs revitalize the stadium
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UEFA began experimenting to revive the stadium amid the coronavirus pandemic. The European Super Cup 2020 will be an opportunity to do so.
According to Reuters, UEFA is planning to bring spectators back to the stadium for the European Super Cup. The game itself will take place on September 24th.
In a conference call with 55 members of the secretary general on Wednesday (19.8.2020) local time, UEFA discussed the potential for spectators to return to the stadium. Because so far the match has not been a spectator and took place in a neutral location to reduce the spread of the corona virus.
The audience should be present at the start of the UEFA Nations League group stage, which will take place on September 3. However, UEFA felt it was too early for the hoped-for European Super Cup to be an opportunity for UEFA to try first.
One of the things that will be highlighted in later attempts is cleanliness. It is also in the country spotlight.
"Participants stressed the need for strict sanitary and hygienic measures to ensure the health of everyone attending matches before spectators can return," UEFA said in a statement.
The European Super Cup itself is an annual event that brings together two champions from UEFA club competitions. Champions League winners will play against the Europa League winners.
This season, the Champions League itself only reached the semi-finals, which were held in Lisbon, Portugal. Paris Saint-Germain has already qualified for the top round and is just waiting for Bayern Munich's winner against Lyon in the final on August 23, 2020.
The Europa League already has finalists. Inter Milan will face Sevilla on August 21st in Cologne.
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Pesticide-Free Towns Campaign gains momentum
Sam Claydon2019-03-22T11:54:35+01:00March 22nd, 2019|
The Pesticide-Free Towns movement is gathering pace across the UK as public concern about the use of glyphosate and other pesticides in our parks, playgrounds and streets continues to grow.
Not long after the recent news from the London Borough of Croydon, which has ended the use of pesticides in all its public parks and green spaces, we have news from three major UK cities that are switching to pesticide-free: Bristol, Derry and Trafford, joining the ranks of Hammersmith & Fulham, Lewes, Wadebridge, Glastonbury and others.
Unanimous, cross-party vote to phase out glyphosate in Bristol
In January, at a full meeting of Bristol City Council, a Motion to phase out the use of glyphosate was adopted unanimously in a show of cross-party unity. The Motion called on Bristol Council to commit to phasing out pesticides over a three-year time period, starting with ending use in public parks and green spaces. It also called on the Council to establish a pesticide-free task force composed of council representatives, the Pesticide Safe Bristol Alliance and other key land managers from across the city. The aim of the task force is to encourage all land managers, not just the council, to come together to share experiences, overcome obstacles and share costs in order to make all of Bristol truly pesticide-free by the end of 2021.
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This fantastic result was achieved by the Pesticide Safe Bristol Alliance (PSBA), an initiative started by two Bristolian parents in 2015 after they grew alarmed at the use of glyphosate in local schools. Their campaigning attracted other concerned individuals and organisations from across Bristol. They organised petitions, awareness raising events, polled the opinions of Bristol residents and made strong alliances with elected Councillors. Despite several setbacks over the years they never gave up! It should also be mentioned that the Mayor of Bristol, Mervin Rees, was supportive of their objectives throughout. Bristol has certainly set the pace and is living up to its billing as one of the UK's greenest cities.
Pink Ladies successfully campaign in Derry
Meanwhile in Derry City, Northern Ireland, The Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group raised concerns about the use of glyphosate by Derry Council. They contacted Councillor Patricia Logue to ask if anything could be done about it. As a result a Motion, submitted in February, was put to the council and as with Bristol it passed unanimously. The Council pledged to discontinue the use of glyphosate in all Council operations, also calling on sub-contractors employed by the Council to cease the use of glyphosate.
Jacquie, Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group, said:
"I believe the council is supportive of our strategy locally and my city will be a safer place for not using this chemical. I'm pleased that the motion passed unanimously and unchallenged."
The next steps for the Council are to roll out an education programme for council employees and contractors in the use of non-chemical alternatives to glyphosate and to turn the Motion into a long-term strategy document.
Trafford protects citizens and wildlife from urban pesticides
Most recently, a Motion submitted by Green Councillor Dan Jerome and supported by the Liberal Democrats was submitted at a full Council meeting on 20th March. The Motion called on Trafford Council to;
Phase out the use of all pesticides and weed killers on council land.
Cut out all use of glyphosate-based treatments in all council operations in one year.
Trial pesticide-free alternatives during this period
Dan Jerrome, Green Party councillor for Altrincham and motion proposer, said:
"The ban on glyphosate weed killers from all Trafford Council operations is a great victory for residents. It will mean our streets, parks and other communal spaces are no longer sprayed with potentially cancerous herbicides. We can now trial and implement biodegradable alternatives which will be better for wildlife too. Hopefully, this will inspire other councils in Greater Manchester to do the same."
Again the Motion was adopted unopposed to the delight of those that had been campaigning for a ban.
Where is the campaign heading?
So we have three major cities going pesticide-free in the first three months of 2019. All the Motions submitted to the Councils were adopted unopposed. This, we believe, shows both an understanding of the need to do things differently and the responsibility that Councils have for the well-being of their citizens.
PAN UK is aware of a number of other councils across the UK that are interested in following suit as increasingly public opinion, issues of worker safety and the impacts of pesticide use on urban biodiversity are driving them to look for alternatives to harmful pesticides.
With the support of the public and by working closely with elected councillors, contractors and suppliers of alternative technology we expect to see many more towns and cities announcing that they are ditching pesticides over the course of 2019.
Pesticide-free is possible!
Live in Brighton & Hove? Find out how you can support our local campaign here.
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According to a new book, the notorious practice of "harvesting" organs from Falun Gong and Uyghur prisoners of conscience has been extended to members of The Church of Almighty God.
During the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom of 23-26 July 2018, attended at the State Department in Washington D.C, by the Foreign Ministers of 82 countries, both Falun Gong and Uyghur Muslims denounced the atrocious practice of "organ harvesting." Organs to be sold for transplants are "harvested" from living prisoners of conscience. Other prisoners are killed for the main purpose to remove and sell the organs. These atrocities fuel the "transplant tourism" market to China and have repeatedly been censored by international organizations, including the United Nations.
The well-known NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers, based in Brussels, Belgium, has now published a book, Tortured to Death: The Persecution of The Church of Almighty God in China (Brussels: Human Rights Without Frontiers, 2018), documenting 21 cases of members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, who died while in custody in highly suspicious circumstances.
The book also indicates that the practice of "organ harvesting" has been extended to prisoners of conscience of The Church of Almighty God. Zhang Ruixia (female, 1961-2014) was tortured to death in Linzhou, Henan. Relatives who saw her body before it was cremated testified that "her abdomen was dented, and there was a long sewed up scar on it," normally a tell-tale sign that her internal organs had been removed.
Zhang Hongtao (female, 1957-2012) was arrested on December 6, 2012, in Xiaochuan Town, Cheng County, Gansu. The following day, the police claimed she had died of "sudden cerebral hemorrhage." Her husband Dong declared that her skull had been opened and other suspicious signs were present in Zhang's body. The police claimed this was just due to a routine autopsy, but at the same time paid to Zhang's family a compensation of 100,000 RMB (almost $ 15,000) against their agreement not to insist on examining and retrieving Zhang's body.


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Is Plerôma Satan's Lair?
The subject is not yet exhausted, and has to be examined from still other aspects.
Whether Milton's grandiose description of the three days' Battle of the Angels of Light against those of Darkness justifies the suspicion that he must have beard of the corresponding Eastern tradition—it is impossible to say. Nevertheless, if not himself in connection with some Mystic, then it must have been through some one who had obtained access to the secret works of the Vatican. Among these there is a tradition concerning the "Beni Shamash"—the "Children of the Sun"—relating to the Eastern allegory, with far more minute details in its triple version, than one can get either from the Book of Enoch, or the far more recent Revelation of St. John concerning the "Old Dragon" and his various Slayers, as has been just shown.
It seems inexplicable to find, to this day, authors belonging to mystical societies who yet continue in their preconceived doubts as to the "alleged" antiquity of the Book of Enoch. Thus, while the author of the Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and Quiches is inclined to see in Enoch an Initiate converted to Christianity (! !),1167 the English compiler of Éliphas Levi's works, The Mysteries of Magic, is also of a like opinion. He remarks that:
Outside the erudition of Dr. Kenealy, no modern scholarship attributes any more remote antiquity to the latter work [the Book of Enoch] than the fourth century b.c.1168
Modern scholarship has been guilt}7 of worse errors than this one. It seems but yesterday that the greatest literary critics in Europe denied the very authenticity of that work, together with the Orphic Hymns, and even the Book of Hermes or Thoth, until whole verses from the latter were discovered on Egyptian monuments and tombs of the 533] {LIVING DEVILS.} earliest dynasties. The opinion of Archbishop Laurence is quoted elsewhere.
The "Old Dragon" and Satan, which have now become singly and collectively the symbol of, and the theological term for, the "Fallen Angel," are not so described either in the original Kabalah (the Chaldæan Book of Numbers) or in the modern. For the most learned, if not the greatest of modern Kabalists, namely Éliphas Lévi, describes Satan in the following glowing terms:
It is that Angel who was proud enough to believe himself God; brave enough, to buy his independence at the price of eternal suffering and torture; beautiful enough to have adored himself in full divine light; strong enough to still reign in darkness amidst agony, and to have made himself a throne out of his inextinguishable pyre. It is the Satan of the republican and heretical Milton . . . the prince of anarchy, served by a hierarchy of pure spirits (! !).1169
This description—one which reconciles so cunningly Theological dogma and Kabalistic allegory, and even contrives to include a political compliment in its phraseology—is, when read in the right spirit, quite correct.
Yes, indeed; it is this grandest of ideals, this ever-living symbol—nay apotheosis—of self-sacrifice for the intellectual independence of humanity; this ever Active Energy protesting against Static Inertia— the principle to which Self-assertion is a crime, and Thought and the Light of Knowledge odious. As Éliphas says with unparalleled justice and irony:
It is this pretended hero of tenebrous eternities, who, slanderously charged with ugliness, is decorated with horns and claws, which would fit far better his implacable tormentor.1170
It is he who has been finally transformed into a Serpent—the Red Dragon. But Éliphas Lévi was yet too subservient to his Roman Catholic authorities—one may add, too Jesuitical—to confess that this Devil was mankind, and never had any existence on Earth outside of that mankind.1171
In this, Christian Theology, although following slavishly in the steps of Paganism, has only been true to its own time-honoured policy. It 534] had to isolate itself, and to assert its authority. Hence it could not do better than turn every Pagan Deity into a Devil. Every bright Sun-God of antiquity—a glorious Deity by day, and its own Opponent and Adversary by night, named the Dragon of Wisdom, because it was supposed to contain the germs of night and day—has now been turned into the antithetical Shadow of God, and has become Satan on the sole and unsupported authority of despotic human dogma. After which all these producers of light and shadow, all the Sun- and the Moon-Gods, have been cursed, and thus the one God chosen out of the many and Satan have both been anthropomorphized. But Theology seems to have lost sight of the human capacity for discriminating and finally analyzing all that is artificially forced upon its reverence. History shows in every race and even tribe, especially in the Semitic nations, the natural impulse to exalt its own tribal deity above all others to the hegemony of the Gods, and proves that the God of the Israelites was such a tribal God, and no more, even though the Christian Church, following the lead of the "chosen" people, is pleased to enforce the worship of that one particular deity, and to anathematize all the others. Whether originally a conscious or an unconscious blunder, nevertheless, it was one. Jehovah has ever been in antiquity only a God "among" other "Gods."1172 The Lord appears to Abraham, and while saying, "I am the Almighty God," yet adds, "I will establish my covenant . . . to be а God unto thee" (Abraham); and unto his seed after him1173—but not unto Aryan Europeans.
But, then, there was the grandiose and ideal figure of Jesus of Nazareth to be set off against a dark background, to gain in radiance by the contrast; and a darker one the Church could hardly invent. Lacking the Old Testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of Jehovah—the Rabbinical secret substitute for the Ineffable and Unpronounceable Name—the Church mistook the cunningly fabricated shadow for the reality, the anthropomorphized generative symbol for the one Secondless Reality, the ever Unknowable Cause of All. As a logical sequence the Church, for purposes of duality, had to invent an anthropomorphic Devil—created, as taught by her, by God himself. Satan has now turned out to be the monster fabricated by the Jehovah-Frankenstein—his father's curse and a thorn in the divine side, a monster, than whom no earthly Frankenstein could have fabricated a more ridiculous bogey.
535] {JEHOVAH, A PERSONATING SPIRIT.} The author of New Aspects of Life describes the Jewish God very correctly from the kabalistic standpoint as:
The Spirit of the Earth, which had revealed itself to the Jew as Jehovah.1174 . . . It was that Spirit again who, after the death of Jesus, assumed his form and personated him as the risen Christ
—the doctrine of Cerinthus and several Gnostic sects with slight variation, as one can see. But the author's explanations and deductions are remarkable:
None knew . . . better than Moses, . . . [and] so well as he, how great was the power of those [Gods of Egypt] with whose priests he had contended, . . . the gods of which Jehovah is claimed to be the God [by the Jews only].
Asks the author:
What were these gods, these Achar of which Jehovah, the Achad, is claimed to be the God . . . by overcoming them?
To which our Occultism answers: Those whom the Church now calls the Fallen Angels and collectively Satan, the Dragon—overcome, if we have to accept her dictum, by Michael and his Host, that Michael being simply Jehovah himself, one of the subordinate Spirits at best. Therefore, the author is again right in saying:
The Greeks believed in the existence of . . . daimons. But . . . they were anticipated by the Hebrews, who held that there was a class of personating spirits which they designated demons, "personators." . . . Admitting with Jehovah, who expressly asserts it, the existence of other gods, which were personators of the One God, were these other gods simply a higher class of personating spirits, . . . which had acquired and exercised greater powers? And is not personation the key to the mystery of the spirit state? But once granting this position, how are we to know that Jehovah was not a personating spirit, a spirit which arrogated to itself that it was, and thus became, the personator of the one unknown and unknowable God? Nay, how do we know that the spirit calling itself Jehovah, in arrogating to itself his attributes did not thus cause its own designation to be imputed to the One who is in reality as nameless as incognizable?1175
Then the author shows that "the spirit Jehovah is a personator" on its own admission. It acknowledged to Moses "that it had appeared to the patriarchs as the God Shaddai" and the "God Helion."
With the same breath it assumed the name of Jehovah; and it is on the faith of the assertion of this personator that the names El, Eloah, Elohim, and Shaddai, have been read and interpreted in juxtaposition with Jehovah as the "Lord God Almighty." [Then when] the name Jehovah became ineffable, the designation Adonai, "Lord," was substituted for it, and . . . it was owing to this 536] substitution that the "Lord" passed from the Jewish to the Christian "Word" and World as a designation of God.1176
And how are we to know, the author may add, that Jehovah was not many spirits personating even that seemingly one—Jod orJod-He?
But if the Christian Church was the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma, it was because, as shown in Isis Unveiled, the Devil—the powerful Enemy of God (? ! !) had to become the corner stone and pillar of the Church. For, as a Theosophist, M. Jules Baissac, truly observes in his Satan ou le Diable:
II fallait éviter de paraître autoriser le dogme du double principe en faisant de ce Satan créateur une puissance réelle, et pour expliquer le mal originel, on profère contre Manes l'hypothèse d'une permission de l'unique Tout-Puissant.1177
The choice and policy were unfortunate, anyhow. Either the personator of the lower God of Abraham and Jacob ought to have been made entirely distinct from the mystic "Father" of Jesus, or—the "Fallen" Angels should have been left unslandered by further fictions.
Every God of the Gentiles is connected with, and closely related to, Jehovah—the Elohim; for they are all One Host, whose units differ only in name in the Esoteric Teachings. Between the "Obedient" and the "Fallen" Angels there is no difference whatever, except in their respective functions, or rather in the inertia of some, and the activity of others, among those Dhyân Chohans, or Elohim, who were "commissioned to create," i.e., to fabricate the manifested world out of the eternal material.
The Kabalists say that the true name of Satan is that of Jehovah turned upside down, for "Satan is not a black God but the negation of the white Deity," or the Light of Truth. God is Light and Satan is the necessary Darkness or Shadow to set it off, without which pure Light would be invisible and incomprehensible.1178 "For the Initiates," says Eliphas Levi, "the Devil is not a person but a creative Force, for Good 537] {ÂKÂSHA, THE MYSTERIUM MAGNUM.} as for Evil." The Initiates represented this Force, which presides at physical generation, under the mysterious form of God Pan—or Nature; whence the horns and hoofs of that mythical and symbolic figure, as also the Christian "goat" of the "Witches' Sabbath." With regard to this too, Christians have imprudently forgotten that the "goat" was also the victim selected for the atonement of all the sins of Israel, that the scape-goat was indeed the sacrificial martyr, the symbol of the greatest mystery on earth—the "fall into generation." Only, the Jews have long forgotten the real meaning of their (to the non-initiated) ridiculous hero, selected from the drama of life in the Great Mysteries enacted by them in the desert; and the Christians have never known it.
Éliphas Lévi seeks to explain the dogma of his Church by parodoxes and metaphors, but succeeds very poorly in the face of the many volumes written by pious Roman Catholic Demonologists under the approbation and auspices of Rome, in this nineteenth century of ours. For the true Roman Catholic, the Devil or Satan is a reality; the drama enacted in the Sidereal Light according to the seer of Patmos—who desired, perhaps, to improve upon the narrative in the Book of Enoch—is as real, and as historical a fact as any other allegory and symbolical event in the Bible. But the Initiates give an explanation which differs from that given by Éliphas Lévi, whose genius and crafty intellect had to submit to a certain compromise dictated to him from Rome.
Thus, the true and "uncompromising" Kabalists admit that, for all purposes of Science and Philosophy, it is enough that the profane should know that the Great Magic Agent—called by the followers of the Marquis de St. Martin, the Martinists, the Astral Light, by the mediaeval Kabalists and Alchemists the Sidereal Virgin and the Mysterium Magnum, and by the Eastern Occultists Æther, the reflection of Âkâsha—is that which the Church calls Lucifer. That the Latin scholastics have succeeded in transforming the Universal Soul and Plerôma—the Vehicle of Light and the receptacle of all forms, a Force spread throughout the whole Universe, with its direct and indirect effects—into Satan and his works, is no news to any one. But now they are prepared to give out to the above-mentioned profane even the secrets hinted at by Éliphas Lévi, without adequate explanation, for the latter's policy of veiled revelations could only lead to further superstition and misunderstanding. What, indeed, can a student of Occultism, who is a beginner, gather from the following highly poetical sentences 538] of Éliphas Levi, which are as apocalyptic as the writings of any of the Alchemists?
Lucifer [the Astral Light] . . . is an intermediate force existing in all creation; it serves to create and to destroy, and the Fall of Adam was an erotic intoxication which has rendered his generation a slave to this fatal Light, . . . every sexual passion that overpowers our senses is a whirlwind of that Light which seeks to drag us towards the abyss of death. Madness, hallucinations, visions, extasies, are all forms of a very dangerous excitation due to this interior phosphorus [?]. Thus light, finally, is of the nature of fire, the intelligent use of which warms and vivifies, and the excess of which, on the contrary, dissolves and annihilates.
Thus man is called upon to assume a sovereign empire over this [Astral] Light and conquer thereby his immortality, and is threatened at the same time with being intoxicated, absorbed, and eternally destroyed by it.
This Light, therefore, inasmuch as it is devouring, revengeful, and fatal, would thus really be hell-fire, the serpent of the legend; the tormented errors of which it is full, the tears and the gnashing of teeth of the abortive beings it devours, the phantom of life that escapes them, and seems to mock and insult their agony, all this would be the Devil or Satan indeed.1179
There is no false statement in all this; nothing save a superabundance of ill-applied metaphors, as, for instance, in the application of the myth of Adam to the illustration of the astral effects. Âkâsha,1180 the Astral Light, can be defined in a few words; it is the Universal Soul, the Matrix of the Universe, the Mysterium Magnum from which all that exists is born by separation or differentiation. It is the cause of existence; it fills all the infinite Space, is Space itself, in one sense, or both its sixth and seventh principles.1181 But as the finite in the Infinite, as regards manifestation this Light must have its shadowy side—as already remarked. And as the Infinite can never be manifested, hence the finite world has to be satisfied with the shadow alone, which its actions draw upon humanity and which men attract and force into 539] {THE SOUL AND HEART OF THE GREAT MOTHER.} activity. Hence, while the Astral Light is the Universal Cause in its unmanifested unity and infinity, it becomes, with regard to mankind, simply the effects of the causes produced by men in their sinful lives. It is not its bright denizens—whether they are called Spirits of Light or Darkness—that produce Good or Evil, but mankind itself that determines the unavoidable action and reaction in the Great Magic Agent. It is mankind which has become the "Serpent of Genesis," and thus causes daily and hourly the Fall and Sin of the "Celestial Virgin"—which thus becomes the Mother of Gods and Devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving, beneficent Deity to all those who stir her Soul and Heart, instead of attracting to themselves her shadowy manifested essence, called by Éliphas Lévi—the "fatal light" which kills and destroys. Humanity, in its units, can overpower and master its effects; but only by the holiness of their lives and by producing good causes. It has power only on the manifested lower principles—the shadow of the Unknown and Incognizable Deity in Space. But in antiquity and reality, Lucifer, or Luciferus, is the name of the Angelic Entity presiding over the Light of Truth as over the light of the day. In the great Valentinian Gospel Pistis Sophia it is taught that of the three Powers emanating from the Holy Names of the three Triple Powers (Tridun=mei~), that of Sophia (the Holy Ghost according to these Gnostics—the most cultured of all), resides in the planet Venus or Lucifer.
Thus to the profane, the Astral Light may be God and Devil at once —Demon est Dens inversus—that is to say, through every point of Infinite Space thrill the magnetic and electrical currents of animate Nature, the life-giving and death-giving waves, for death on earth becomes life on another plane. Lucifer is divine and terrestrial Light, the "Holy Ghost" and "Satan," at one and the same time, visible Space being truly filled with the differentiated Breath invisibly; and the Astral Light, the manifested effects of the two who are one, guided and attracted by ourselves, is the Karma of Humanity, both a personal and impersonal entity—personal, because it is the mystic name given by St. Martin to the Host of Divine Creators, Guides and Rulers of this Planet; impersonal, as the Cause and Effect of Universal Life and Death.
The Fall was the result of man's knowledge, for his "eyes were opened." Indeed, he was taught Wisdom and the Hidden Knowledge by the "Fallen Angel," for the latter had become from that day his 540] Manas, Mind and Self-consciousness. In each of us that golden thread of continuous Life—periodically broken into active and passive cycles of sensuous existence on Earth, and super-sensuous in Devachan—is from the beginning of our appearance upon this Earth. It is the Sûtrâtmâ, the luminous thread of immortal impersonal Monadship, on which our earthly "lives" or evanescent Egos are strung as so many beads—according to the beautiful expression of the Vedântic Philosophy.
And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the "Lord of Phosphores"—brimstone was a Theological improvement—and Lucifer, or "Light-Bearer," is in us: it is our Mind, our Tempter and Redeemer, our intelligent Liberator and Saviour from pure animalism. Without this principle—the emanation of the very essence of the pure divine principle Mahat (Intelligence), which radiates direct from the Divine Mind—we would be surely no better than animals. The first man Adam was made only a living soul (Nephesh), the last Adam was made a quickening spirit1182—says Paul, his words referring to the building or creation of man. Without this quickening spirit, or human mind or soul, there would be no difference between man and beast; as there is none, in fact, between animals with respect to their actions. The tiger and the donkey, the hawk and the dove, are each one as pure and as innocent as the other, because irresponsible. Each follows its instinct, the tiger and the hawk killing with the same unconcern as the donkey eats a thistle, or the dove pecks at a grain of corn. If the Fall had the significance given to it by Theology; if that Fall occurred as a result of an act never intended by Nature—a sin, how about the animals? If we are told that they procreate their species in consequence of that same "original sin," for which God cursed the Earth—hence everything living on it—we will put another question. We are told by Theology, as also by Science, that the animal was on Earth far earlier than man. We ask the former: How did it procreate its species, before the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had been plucked off? As said:
The Christians—far less clear-sighted than the great Mystic and Liberator whose name they have assumed, whose doctrines they have misunderstood and travestied, and whose memory they have blackened by their deeds—took the Jewish Jehovah as 541] {THE LOGOS AND SATAN ARE ONE.} he was, and of course strove vainly to reconcile the Gospel of Light and Liberty with the Deity of Darkness and Submission.1183
But it is sufficiently proven now that all the soi-disant evil Spirits who are credited with having made war on the Gods, are identical as personalities; that, moreover, all the ancient religions taught the same tenet, save the final conclusion, which differs from the Christian. The seven primeval Gods had all a dual state, one essential, the other accidental. In their essential state they were all the Builders or Fashioners, the Preservers and the Rulers of this World; and in the accidental state, clothing themselves in visible corporeality, they descended on the Earth and reigned on it as Kings and Instructors of the lower Hosts, who had incarnated once more upon it as men.
Thus, Esoteric Philosophy shows that man is truly the manifested deity in both its aspects—good and evil, but Theology cannot admit this philosophical truth. Teaching as it does the dogma of the Fallen Angels in its dead-letter meaning, and having made of Satan the corner-stone and pillar of the dogma of redemption—to do so would be suicidal. Having once shown the rebellious Angels distinct from God and the Logos in their personalities, to admit that the downfall of the disobedient Spirits means simply their fall into generation and matter, would be equivalent to saying that God and Satan were identical. For since the Logos, or God, is the aggregate of that once divine Host accused of having fallen, it would naturally follow that the Logos and Satan are one.
Yet such was the real philosophical view in antiquity of the now disfigured tenet. The Verbum, or the "Son," was shown in a dual 542] aspect by the Pagan Gnostics—in fact, he was a duality in full unity. Hence, the endless and various national versions. The Greeks had Jupiter, the son of Cronus, the Father, who hurls him down into the depths of Kosmos. The Aryans had Brahmâ (in later theology) precipitated by Shiva into the Abyss of Darkness, etc. But the Fall of all these Logoi and Demiourgoi from their primitive exalted position, contained in all cases one and the same Esoteric signification; the Curse, in its philosophical meaning, of being incarnated on this Earth; an unavoidable rung in the ladder of Cosmic Evolution, a highly philosophical and fitting Karmic Law, without which the presence of Evil on Earth would have to remain for ever a closed mystery to the understanding of true Philosophy. To say, as the author of Esprits Tombes des Païens does, that since—
Christianity is made to rest on two pillars, that of evil (ponhro$), and of good (#gaqo$); on two forces, in short (#gaqaJ kaJ kakaJ dun=mei~): hence, if we suppress the punishment of the evil forces, the protecting mission of the good powers will have neither value nor sense
—is to utter the most unphilosophical absurdity. If it fits in with, and explains, Christian dogma, it obscures the facts and truths of the primitive Wisdom of the ages. The cautious hints of Paul have all the true Esoteric meaning, and it took centuries of scholastic casuistry to give them the false colouring, in their present interpretations. The Verbum and Lucifer are one in their dual aspect; and the "Prince of the Air" (princeps aeris hujus) is not the "God of that period," but an everlasting principle. When the latter was said to be ever circling around the world (qui circumambulat terram), the great Apostle referred simply to the never-ceasing cycles of human incarnations, in which evil will ever predominate unto the day when Humanity is redeemed by the true divine Enlightenment which gives the correct perception of things.
It is easy to disfigure vague expressions written in dead and long-forgotten languages, and palm them off on the ignorant masses as truths and revealed facts. The identity of thought and meaning is the one thing that strikes the student in all the religions which mention the tradition of the Fallen Spirits, and in those great religions there is not one that fails to mention and describe it in one or another form. Thus, Hoang-ty, the Great Spirit, sees his Sons, who had acquired active wisdom, falling into the Valley of Pain. Their leader, the Flying Dragon, having drunk of the forbidden Ambrosia, fell to the Earth 543] {THE SEVENTH MYSTERY OF CREATION.} with his Host (Kings). In the Zend Avesta, Angra Mainyu (Ahriman), surrounding himself with Fire (the "Flames" of the Stanzas), seeks to conquer the Heavens,1184 when Ahura Mazda, descending from the solid Heaven he inhabits, to the help of the Heavens that revolve (in time and space, the manifested worlds of cycles including those of incarnation), and the Amshaspands, the "seven bright Sravah," accompanied by their stars, fight Ahriman, and the vanquished Devas fall to the Earth along with him.1185 In the Vendidad the Daevas are called "evil-doing," and are shown to rush away "into the depths of the . . . . world of hell," or Matter.1186 This is an allegory which shows the Devas compelled to incarnate, once that they have separated themselves from their Parent Essence, or, in other words, after the Unit had become multiple, after differentiation and manifestation.
Typhon the Egyptian Python, the Titans, the Suras and the Asuras, all belong to the same legend of Spirits peopling the Earth. They are not "Demons commissioned to create and organize this visible universe," but the Fashioners or "Architects" of the Worlds, and the Progenitors of Man. They are the Fallen Angels, metaphorically—the "true mirrors" of the "Eternal Wisdom."
What is the complete truth as well as the Esoteric meaning about this universal myth? The whole essence of truth cannot be transmitted from mouth to ear. Nor can any pen describe it, not even that of the Recording Angel, unless man finds the answer in the sanctuary of his own heart, in the innermost depths of his divine intuition. It is the great Seventh Mystery of Creation, the first and the last; and those who read St. John's Apocalypse may find its shadow lurking under the seventh seal. It can be represented only in its apparent, objective form, like the eternal riddle of the Sphinx. If the Sphinx threw herself into the sea and perished, it is not because Œdipus had unriddled the secret of the ages, but because, by anthropomorphizing the ever-spiritual and the subjective, he had dishonoured the great truth for ever. Therefore, we can give it only from its philosophical and intellectual planes, unlocked with three keys respectively—for the last four keys of the seven that throw wide open the portals to the Mysteries of Nature are in the hands of the highest Initiates, and cannot be divulged to the masses at large—not in this century, at any rate.
544] The dead-letter is everywhere the same. The dualism in the Mazdean religion was born from exoteric interpretation. The holy Airyaman, the "bestower of weal,"1187 invoked in the prayer called Airyama-ishyo, is the divine aspect of Ahriman, "the deadly, the Daeva of the Daevas,"1188 and Angra Mainyu is the dark material aspect of the former. "Keep us from our hater, O Mazda and Armaita Spenta,"1189 has, as a prayer and invocation, an identical meaning with "Lead us not into temptation," and is addressed by man to the terrible spirit of duality in man himself. For Ahura Mazda is the Spiritual, Divine, and Purified Man, and Armaita Spenta, the Spirit of the Earth or materiality, is the same as Ahriman or Angra Mainyu in one sense.
The whole of the Magian or Mazdean literature—or what remains of it—is magical, occult, hence allegorical and symbolical, even its "mystery of the law."1190 Now the Mobed and the Parsî keep their eye on the Baresma during the sacrifice—the divine twig off Ormazd's "Tree" having been transformed into a bunch of metallic rods—and wonder why neither the Amesha Spentas, nor "the high and beautiful golden Haomas, nor even their Vohu-Mano (good thoughts), nor their Rata (sacrificial offering)," help them much. Let them meditate on the "Tree of Wisdom," and by study assimilate, one by one, the fruits thereof. The way to the Tree of Eternal Life, the white Haoma, the Gaokerena, is through one end of the Earth to the other; and Haoma is in Heaven as it is on Earth. But to become once more a priest of it, and a "healer," man must heal himself, for this must be done before he can heal others.
This proves once more that, in order to be dealt with, with at least an approximate degree of justice, the so-called "myths" have to be closely examined from all their aspects. In truth, every one of the seven keys has to be used in its right place, and never mixed with the others—if we would unveil the entire cycle of mysteries. In our day of dreary soul-killing Materialism, the ancient Priest-Initiates have become, in the opinion of our learned generations, the synonyms of clever impostors, kindling the fires of superstition in order to obtain an easier sway over the minds of men. This is an unfounded calumny, generated by scepticism and uncharitable thoughts. No one believed more than they did in Gods—or, we may call them, the spiritual and 545] {THE NUMBER 888.} now invisible Powers, or Spirits, the Noumena of the phenomena; and they believed simply because they knew. And though after being initiated into the Mysteries of Nature, they were forced to withhold their knowledge from the profane, who would have surely abused it, such secrecy was undeniably less dangerous than the policy of their usurpers and successors. The former taught only that which they well knew. The latter, teaching what they do not know, have invented, as a secure haven for their ignorance, a jealous and cruel Deity, who forbids man to pry into his mysteries under the penalty of damnation; as well they may, for his mysteries can at best be only hinted at in polite ears, never described. Turn to King's Gnostics and their Remains, and see for yourself what was the primitive Ark of the Covenant, according to the author, who says:
There is a Rabbinical tradition . . . that the Cherubim placed over it were represented as male and female, in the act of copulation, in order to express the grand doctrine of the Essence of Form and Matter, the two principles of all things. When the Chaldæns broke into the Sanctuary and beheld this most astounding emblem, they naturally enough exclaimed, "Is this your God, of whom you boast, that He is such a lover of purity!"1191
King thinks that this tradition "savours too much of Alexandrian philosophy to demand any credit," to which we demur. The shape and form of the wings of the two Cherubim standing on the right and left sides of the Ark, these wings meeting over the "Holy of Holies," are an emblem quite eloquent in itself, not to speak of the "holy" Jod within the Ark! The Mystery of Agathodæmon, whose legend states, "I am Chnumis, Sun of the universe, 700," can alone solve the mystery of Jesus, the number of whose name is "888." It is not the key of St. Peter, or the Church dogma, but the Narthex—the Wand of the Candidate for Initiation—that has to be wrenched from the grasp of the long-silent Sphinx of the ages. Meanwhile:
The augurs, who, upon meeting each other, have to thrust their tongues into their cheeks to suppress a fit of laughter, may be more numerous in our own age than they ever were in the day of Sylla.
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