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Love Kills
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The entire pathos of punk in the 1970s – the clothes, the music, the attitude, the excess, the animalistic urge, everything – can be summed up in two words: Sid Vicious.
Sid Vicious started life as John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham, a district of southern London. Rumor has it that when Vivian Westwood suggested to Malcolm McLaren that he get a guy who hung around the Sex boutique named John to be the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, she was not talking about John Lydon, but Sid Vicious. When McLaren booted out Glen Matlock from the bass position, he recruited Vicious despite the fact that he had never played bass.
In fact, Sid's bass skills were so lacking that he only actually plays on one track of Never Mind the Bollocks, that being "Bodies," and on the rest Steve Jones plays both bass and guitar. But according to Keith Levene, he picked it up with alarming speed because of his incredible focus. One night he sat down with the first Ramones record, playing to it over and over again through the night. In the morning, he was a bass player.
The movie Sid & Nancy, directed by Alex Cox, is one of the only silver screen depictions of Sid. The titular roles are played by Gary Oldman as Sid and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen, Sid's girlfriend. After an initial meeting where Nancy (already a junky) is supposed to score some drugs for Sid, Nancy then introduces Sid to heroin before they have sex – all with a very bored Johhny Rotten in the room. From then on, they're a pair. The only thing that separates them is the Sex Pistols going on a tour of the United States. And all along, they're going in a wide and uncontrollable downward spiral; things get bad, then real bad, then real bad, and then the absolute worst.
The film has been the subject of a lot of controversy; Johnny Rotten in particular says it romanticizes heroin addiction, playing as merely the catalyst for the love that existed between Sid and Nancy. The famous scene at the end where Sid gets in a cab and finds Nancy (no longer gross and desiccated but in a white dress) and they go riding off in the distance is said by many to be the epitome of irresponsible filmmaking.
I respectfully disagree. The centerpiece of the entirety of Sid & Nancy is the love between the two central characters. Yes, they were heroin addicts, but I think the film is suggesting their love couldn't really be complete and functional until they were off of heroin. Now, that point came after they were both dead, but in that, the film might also be suggesting that love is bigger than our temporal world. And as for romanticizing heroin use, you only have to look at any moment from the entire rest of the movie to see that heroin use is bad news. According to Sid & Nancy, there is absolutely nothing glamorous, fun or minutely redeemable about heroin.
I want to make something very clear, though. Sid and Nancy loved each other, but everything about that was horrible. There is much to be said about the positive and transcendent nature of love, but we almost always forget that love, like anything else in the hands of humans, can be an extremely negative force as well. The love between Sid and Nancy didn't get them anywhere they wanted to go, but instead took them to increasingly worse and worse places. The same energy that fueled their love for each other also fueled their addictions. What's worse, their individual addictions became more than the sum of their parts when added together, much like a marriage. It even fueled an apparent suicide pact they had forged. What Sid & Nancy brings out for me is that love is incredibly powerful, and just as it has the power to heal, build and create, so does it have the power to completely destroy.
Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen died in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan from bleeding to death from a stab wound to the stomach. It's not certain, but Sid probably murdered her. He woke up from a drug stupor to discover her body on the bathroom floor, blood all over the hotel room. Of all the ways of murdering somebody, Sid's murder of Nancy is the least malicious and most tragic. In the police interviews, Sid himself said, "I never stabbed her. I loved her, but she treated me like shit." He later said he didn't remember what happened, but she may have fell on the knife while he was holding it. What it really comes down to is that I don't believe for a second that Sid had murder in his heart, at least not the cold-blooded, purposeful taking of a life which we stereotypically think of as murder; he just wasn't capable of it.
Ten days after Nancy's death, Sid tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists. He was taken to Bellvue Hospital to recover, and made bail from his murder arrest in February of 1979. The day after he got out of jail, Sid and his mother Anne were at a party to celebrate his bail. Anne gave him a fatal dose of heroin at that party, as she admitted to journalist Alan Parker near the end of her life. According to a suicide note left by Sid, he was fulfilling a suicide pact with Nancy. The whole story is just very, very sad, in every sense of the word.
Sid's life and death represented the life and death of punk music, or rather punk in its Platonic, virginal form. Sid was more than just the bass player for the biggest punk band that ever existed – Sid WAS punk. After Sid, there was no more punk. I think something was lost that the music world can never get back. Blink-182 and NOFX and Rancid and Less Than Jake can put on a good show and rock as hard as the day is long, but they're not punk. Nor should they be. Sid is dead, punk is dead, and it's time to move on.
Next: bound for hell, and loving every second of the trip.
Tags: Gary Oldman, heroin, Johnny Rotten, love, Malcolm McLaren, Nancy Spungen, Never Mind the Bollocks, punk, Sex Pistols, Sid & Nancy, Sid Vicious
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The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. – 5/12/1972
A breaking point came for the Rolling Stones in 1970, when they finally broke free from Decca Records and label bigwig Allen Klein. The severing of that business relationship was messy, both parties fighting tooth and nail for what they considered "mine." It was like a divorce and the push-and-pull over custody rights for the kids.
They followed in the footsteps of the Beatles, forming their own record label, conveniently called Rolling Stones Records. Sticky Fingers was released under their new label, but the freedom that brought would soon turn to license as they fled England under the threat of the British government turning their liberty into prison time. The British police didn't try to bust them on drugs, their tactic in the 60s, but unpaid taxes. It licked Al Capone, but not the Rolling Stones.
They relocated to Paris, and Keith rented a villa near Nice called Nellcôte. There they sank into drugs, chaos, and all sorts of debauchery. Bassist Bill Wyman recalls this as the most frustrating period of his entire time with the Stones. They couldn't find the right studio space, so they recorded in Nellcôte's basement, as well as the Rolling Stones' mobile studio parked outside. Not everyone would show up most days, no one listened to long-time producer Jimmy Miller who had earned his stripes, and there was an attitude of frenetic lack of direction. Their productivity, however, was top-notch. Somebody was working on something every day from 8 in the morning 'til 3 the next morning.
The capstone, however, was the drugs. Millions of dollars worth of drugs flowed through Nellcôte on a weekly basis like a diamond-studded sewer. Heroin, cocaine, pot, hashish, angel dust, LSD, you name it. There were no limits to the Stones' excess or lack of control. Keith Richards in particular was using heroin on a daily basis; his system didn't know how to function without drugs anymore, so he kept it stocked. I really don't know how in the world he's still alive.
While the Stones were breaking down, though, their music was reaching a fever pitch of quality, depth, soulfulness and greatness. It seemed as though their heights of glory and musical triumph were matched by the descent of their personal lives, and as one got higher, the other got lower at an equal speed. They eventually reached rock bottom/heavens high, and that moment is captured on the entirety of Exile On Main St.
Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues
The song "Stop Breaking Down" is the entire thing in miniature, I think. Yet another Robert Johnson cover, this song explains in simple and exquisite terms the basic problem with drugs. The Stones' cover of it is simply dripping with irony. "Stop Breaking Down" is like the pebble at the center of Jupiter, with the cloud surrounding it being the irony (the red spot is Mick's voice).
The Robert Johnson original is about a drug dealer who deals to "Saturday night women," or prostitutes, and how they're completely enslaved to the drugs he sells them. His main tactic is hyperbole, something used by not just dealers but salesmen in general. The refrain goes like this:
The stuff I got'll bust your brains out, baby / It'll make you lose your mind
This song has been covered many times, most notably by Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, Lucinda Williams and the White Stripes, but the Rolling Stones' version changes the lyrics just a tiny bit. Some people won't even notice. The effect, however, is extremely significant as it turns the hyperbole into a cautionary statement, and turns the meaning of the whole song.
The stuff is gonna bust your brains out, baby / It's gonna make you lose your mind
Take it from your Uncle Mick, kids: don't do drugs. They'll tear your soul out and make you a slave. And you don't wanna look like your Uncle Keith, do you? No one wants that…
Next: Balls-to-the-wall Stones like never before (and never again).
Tags: Allen Klein, Decca, drugs, Exile On Main St., heroin, Jimmy Miller, Nellcôte, Nice, Paris, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stones, Stop Breaking Down
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From the first time a caveman scratched a burnt stick on a wall, art has been made about a few basic subjects. The struggle for survival (man vs. nature) is a popular theme, as is the creation of the universe. It may have taken a little time to develop, but a motif that's even stronger and more prevalent, I think, is the classic quest of a lover to win their love. That's a story that's been told literally millions of times, and that's for two reasons. The first is that it's applicable to nearly everyone. No one doesn't know the pain, yearning and joy of striving for something of highest value. The second is that it can be told an infinite number of ways. The star-crossed lovers (Romeo and Juliet), the love triangle (Nikolai, Sonya and Marya in War and Peace), the unrequited obsession (Eponine in Les Miserables), the rescue (Superman), the stalker (Erik in Phantom of the Opera), or the woman worth going to war over (The Iliad).
Stories are always more compelling if they really happened. Movies bandy about the term "based on true events" even if the movie shares only the most extremely tangential relation to the facts. It's because there's something that automatically ups the drama if there's a hint of it being reality.
George Harrison & Pattie Boyd, 1969
Cut to 1970 Britain. George Harrison is in wedded bliss with his beautiful bride of 3 years, Pattie Boyd. The "bliss," however, is a fiction; as George's interest in Eastern religion is growing, so is the rift between him and his wife. George is quickly becoming distant and strange, morphing into someone Pattie never would have married. But she remains committed to him, and despite the rift, there is still much love between the two. There some rather beautiful moments, not the least of which is the recording of "For You Blue," a no-brainer blues number that George wrote quickly that illustrates nothing more complicated or less marvelous than a man's adoring love for his wife.
Parallel to that is the story of Eric Clapton. During the mid to late 60s, he had scaled the heights of stardom almost as high as George and the other Beatles, first gaining notoriety with the Yardbirds, and really showing the world what he could do as one third of Cream. Being already on the mountaintop, George naturally befriended Eric when he reached that high. Eric played lead guitar on the Beatles track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in 1968, they worked together to pen the Cream track "Badge" in 1969, and Eric and George became the best of friends.
Eric Clapton, 1970
What makes this story 50x more compelling than that is Pattie. To use a somewhat antiquated phrase, Pattie was a knockout. Her profession, other than Beatlewife, was as a model. Eric met George and became attached to him, but not nearly as much as to Pattie. For certain people, forbidden fruit is much more appetizing, increased by the severity of the forbidding. Call it cliché, but there's little more forbidden than another man's wife. The cliché holds true for Eric and Pattie. He was crazy about her.
Eric was feeling the tension between desire that drives you bonkers and loyalty that doesn't budge. His reaction to the war inside his head and heart was one of the worst things you can do in this situation, or any. Heroin fixes things temporarily, but only makes them worse when the high wears off. Eric tried to distract himself from one woman who had control of his life by giving control to another. Which is worse? The pain of addiction, or the ache of a heart that breaks every day? Drugs or unrequited love?
It all sounds like something out of a drug store romance paperback, doesn't it?
Eric was serving third mistress, as well; music. Unlike the other two, this one cradles you when you hurt, whispers in your ear when you're trapped in silence, and always stands beside you when all your other mistresses are gone. Just as Eric used heroin to dull his pain, he channeled it into music. And the blues is a singularly awesome thing to channel that particular type of pain in to. Thus, in 1970, he delivered to the world Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs.
After the bitter disintegration of Cream, Eric tried to capture lightning in a bottle with the supergroup Blind Faith. That band toppled over with the weight of its own stardom after one album, but Eric wasn't ready to give up. He tried again by recruiting two old buddies who played for Delany & Bonnie and taking advantage of a chance crossing with Duane Allman, a rising star who played American yin to Clapton's British yang. Duane had equal chops to Eric, and their different approaches to the six-string combined in a cosmic brilliance to create something that was so much more than the sum of its parts.
The final piece of the puzzle was the name of the group. They were originally called Eric and the Dynamos, but the announcer at their first public gig screwed it up by saying "Derek and the Dominos." It turned out to be a happy accident, since Clapton had some misgivings about pasting his famous name to his new band. People might think it was another supergroup, and the problem with Blind Faith was that it withered under the hot sun of media focus. What better solution that the red herring of Derek? Done.
Their one contribution was Layla, and Clapton poured every ounce of pain, yearning, and hopeless angst into that one album. And let me tell you… it's really something to behold.
Tags: blues, Derek & the Dominos, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, heroin, Layla, Les Miserables, love, Pattie Boyd, Phantom of the Opera, Romeo & Juliet, Superman, The Iliad, War and Peace
Twenty Six Dollars In My Hand
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The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico – 3/12/1967
The Velvet Underground's first album is kind of like a dream, shifting and undulating as a mirage would. Poppy and bright one minute, dark and sardonic the next, The Velvet Underground & Nico presents the New York experience with a smirking laziness and cynical amusement about its inherent darkness. It drops names of places in NYC with generosity, and now having lived there I understand them. But beware: this is New York as seen through the eyes of a heroin addict, which colors every perception.
The album starts with a tinkly, delicate celesta melody, followed by a fey voice. "Sunday Morning," the first track, is a soft introduction to this dream-like landscape, and a very pretty one. The name "Sunday Morning" was penciled in at the top of the track list on the album's back cover because it wasn't originally intended to be on there. Verve Records bigwig Tom Wilson suggested late in the game that the record needed one more song with lead vocals by Nico, to potentially be a big single. In the end, Nico only sang background on the track.
It might be said (incorrectly) that the album truly starts with the second track, "I'm Waiting For the Man." This is Lou Reed's deadpan and surprisingly frank description of the narrator (presumably Reed himself) going up to the corner of Lexington Ave. and 125th St. (Spanish Harlem to the uninitiated) to buy $26 worth of heroin, and use some of it on the premises. It bears a trademark of Reed's writing in that it deals with important subject matter in a morally neutral voice and observational tone. Even though it's in 1st person and the narrator is in the thick of heavy drug use, Reed doesn't comment or expound; he merely presents.
This motif is also present in "Heroin," the seventh track. The music of "Heroin" is intended to be representative of what it's like to be on its namesake drug, and the lyrics detail with some startling beauty the feelings associated with it. I've never been on it myself (I prefer not to take drugs that don't prevent me from dying), but I remember it being described as the best orgasm you've ever had x100, and lasting several hours. To me, the best description comes from Reed himself: "I feel just like Jesus' son." Reed caught a lot of flack, some people saying that in his naked and uncommented portrayal of drug use he was implicitly glorifying it. It was a sin of omission at worst; I would wager that anyone tipped over into heroin addiction by this song was already too far gone.
The pairing of Nico and the VU might seem awkward and unnecessary, but it was worth it for the creation of a single 6 minute track. "All Tomorrow's Parties" is like a hazy specter, haunting and beautiful. Nico's deep alto is the centerpiece of the song's deadened plodding. John Cale's relentless piano (complete with a chain of paperclips woven throughout the strings) and Lou Reed's ostrich guitar (all 6 strings tuned to the same note in different octaves) work in perfect harmony with Nico's non-histrionic voice, creating a sound that can't be duplicated. There is so much magic here that it boggles the mind. Its subject matter is that the celebrity/high art/rich living lifestyle, which the Factory was a big part of, is ultimately empty and unfulfilling. Lou Reed was very good at self-examination, but not so good at self-improvement.
Nico's other two contributions fall pretty flat. "Femme Fatale" is a song Andy Warhol asked Lou Reed to write about Factory superstar Edie Sedgwick, sung by another Factory superstar. Andy's odyssey with Edie is the stuff of legend, and "Femme Fatale" is a fairly accurate portrait of her, as well as true to Andy's perception of her. But the song itself is rather bland and unexciting. I think Nico's voice is best used in a doomy, unsettling presentation, like "All Tomorrow's Parties." "Femme Fatale" and "I'll Be Your Mirror," the third Nico song on the record, are simply not that. They're both little more than pop tunes, sterling though they may be. "I'll Be Your Mirror" is even one of Reed's favorites; after Nico and the Velvets parted ways in late '67, they performed the song imitating Nico's German accent.
More about VU&N on Wednesday!
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties, Edie Sedgewick, Femme Fatale, heroin, I'll Be Your Mirror, I'm Waiting For the Man, New York City, Nico, Spanish Harlem, Sunday Morning, Tom Wilson, Velvet Underground, VU&N


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Q: How can I see the animated result? I have been trying to plot an animation which will show the number of refugees over the years. The code runs without issues, but it won't show the output animation. Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
animation <- refugees_clean %>%
ggplot( aes(x=year, y=number, group= origin_region, color=origin_region)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point() +
scale_color_discrete() +
ggtitle("Refugee numbers over the years") +
theme_dark() +
ylab("Number of refugees") +
transition_reveal(year)
animation
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structure(list(origin_country = c("Afghanistan", "Angola", "Armenia",
"Azerbaijan", "Belarus", "Bhutan"), iso3 = c("AFG", "AGO", "ARM",
"AZE", "BLR", "BTN"), origin_region = c("South Asia", "Sub-Saharan
Africa",
"Europe & Central Asia", "Europe & Central Asia", "Europe & Central
Asia",
"South Asia"), origin_continent = c("Asia", "Africa", "Asia",
"Asia", "Europe", "Asia"), year = c(2006, 2006, 2006, 2006, 2006,
 2006), number = c(651, 13, 87, 77, 350, 3), year_date =
 structure(c(13149,
 13149, 13149, 13149, 13149, 13149), class = "Date")), row.names =
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In a video to governors attending a two-day summit on global warming in California, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his federal proposal to tackle global warming.
"We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 level by 2020 and reduce them an additional 80 percent by 2050. Further, we will invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future," Obama told governors in his video message.
"Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all," Mr. Obama said. "Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response."
Already there's enough greenhouse gas in the atmosphere to keep the planet warming even if the world's economies grind completely to a halt - and they haven't. Despite what slowdown there is in the global economy, people are still driving, keeping their homes warm or cool, businesses are still operating, power plants are still humming, factories still churning out goods and farmers still plowing their fields. Greenhouse gases are still being pumped into the air.
But you can almost hear coal and oil interests scream when Obama says he wants to start right away on global warming. "It will cost businesses and consumers too much in higher energy costs. They're struggling with a recession. Higher energy costs will push them over the brink, push the economy over a cliff, " those interests will say.
Right now the biggest thing the U.S. (and other economies) need is a next big thing. Green energy is it. The fifteen billion a year for 10 years that Obama wants to spend in the private sector on clean energy technologies is just a down payment on building new wind farms, solar power plants and others. That spending, along with any private capital scraped together, will create jobs and business opportunities. The American economy is built on jobs and opportunities. That's what we need right now.
Though it may seem on the surface that zero-emission energy generated from green technologies is more expensive than conventional sources and rate payers will have to pay the tab for it, in the long term the more green capacity that is built the cheaper it will get:Technologies will improve that will drive down costs. This is already happening.
Obama also for a cap-and-trade system to force power plant operators to cut emissions or buy the right to pollute. Cap-and-trade wasn't invented as an overnight solution to make those cuts. It was developed as a way to encourage the growth of cleaner technologies. In cap-and-trade programs those companies that are able to generate power with low emissions will benefit financially. Those who couldn't would pay. But, over time, those who can't cut initially might find it beneficial to their bottom line if instead of buying the right to pollute, they clean up their act. Again, over time, the cost of cleaner energy goes down and jobs and business opportunities go up as more companies adopt clean technologies.
He's also for a national renewable portfolio standard (RPS). Already we've seen an uptick in the development of renewable power capacity in states that have mandated the standards. While utilities forced by law to build or buy renewable capacity may grumble behind closed doors for being forced to build renewables, in front of the public they seem to like the idea of selling green energy. It's suddenly cool to be green. People like buying green power.
And again, as above, there are job and businesses opportunities every time a utility company builds more renewable capacity, whether they want to or are forced to by law.
Some utility companies, too, are seeing a new opportunity in going green: The opportunity to sell power they generate but don't sell. Plug-in vehicles will allow those companies that have excess off-peak power will be able to sell it for additional revenues. (And in the process they will contribute to overall emissions cuts.) Power companies may end up being the biggest promoters of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, again creating new job and business opportunities.


The new Bellingham Scottish Gathering, lead by well known Whatcom County highland dancing teacher, judge, and competition organizer Heather Richendrfer, begins its inaugural highland games and Scottish festival on Saturday June 2, 2018 at Hovander Homestead Park in Ferndale, WA.
The press release for the announcement is located here.
BCPA is pleased that piping, drumming, and pipe band competitions are returning to Whatcom County in early June and has indicated to the organizers that BCPA will assist with the piping, drumming, and pipe band competitions and their promotion to ensure a successful launch.


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Home/IN FOCUS/'An emergency' for global education, as millions cannot return to school this academic year
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'An emergency' for global education, as millions cannot return to school this academic year
Classes for more than 450 million students starting the new academic year are expected to be entirely remote – or for some, a mix of distance and in-person learning – the UN education and cultural organization (UNESCO) has said.
UNESCO, the lead UN agency for education globally, also highlighted persisting inequalities associated with distance learning that affect vulnerable populations in particular.
"The educational crisis remains severe," said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
"Several generations are facing the threat of school closures, which concern hundreds of millions of students and have lasted many months. This is an emergency for global education," she added.
This year, 900 million pre-primary to secondary students were set to return to school between August and October. However, fewer than half – about 433 million in 155 countries – can actually return to classrooms at this stage, according to UNESCO.
Factoring in about 128 million students in the middle of their academic year, a total of 561 million students, or one-in-three pupils globally, will attend classes.
That leaves almost a billion students – two-thirds of the global student population – facing either school closures or uncertainty surrounding their classes.
Girls at a higher risk
According to UNESCO, till date, students around the world have lost an average of 60 days of schooling since lockdowns began in February and March.
Situations such as school closures, uncertainty over classes, inability to access remote learning or other challenges raises the risk of dropouts, decreased quality of learning, and negative social and economic impacts is high. Often vulnerable populations, in particular girls are at a higher risk.
It is therefore crucial that education authorities work quickly to determine how best to ensure a safe return to school, while protecting the health and safety of students and education staff, said UNESCO.
Against this backdrop, through the Global Education Coalition, UNESCO has launched the #LearningNeverStops campaign to ensure the continued learning of girls during school closures, and their safe return when schools reopen, in light of the many obstacles they face outside education, including adolescent pregnancy, early and forced marriage, and violence.
Also through the partnership, UNESCO has produced and disseminated communication and advocacy toolkits and a girls' back to school guide to help all stakeholders.
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Whether painted or untreated wood floors create a cozy atmosphere. They are extremely durable, warm to the touch and anti-static, they also have good moisture management.
A good wooden floor fits seamlessly into the circle of life. Not only the longevity of a wood floor up to 150 years speaks for itself. Has an ecological wooden floor reached his natural age, it can be recycled.
Now you are spoiled for choice, whether you choose solid wood flooring or wood flooring. Wooden floors are well worth their price.
Soil Association The ship consists of parallel elements laid with staggered joints, whereby the planks visually displayed on a ship's deck.
This classic pattern produces interesting play of light. The pattern is especially suitable for large rooms.


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Last Spring, I purchased a "Spring Fever Pattern Bundle" which included 44+ crochet patterns – what a steal. The bundle included a handful of tops, hats, blankets, totes and this "French Market Bag" by one of my favorite bloggers, Two of Wands.
I must admit; this tote took me a couple months to finish. It was my WIP that I kept nearby to do a couple rows here and there, while also working on other projects.
On Saturday, I took the market bag on a test run to Haymarket. Haymarket is Boston's oldest outdoor market, open on Fridays and Saturdays (throughout the year, I believe). I can appreciate the whole "experience", and the deals on produce is worth the trip.
However, if you're not prepared to fight off the crazies with their mini foldable shopping carts, then it may not be worth it. The experience can end up being a total debacle – People are pushy, and my ankles get jammed multiple times per visit. I don't know if I'm annoyed by the crowds of people, or annoyed that I don't have a cart of my own to retaliate.
I mentally prepare up to 4 days in advance and I barely lasts 4 minutes before I start to lose my cool. I usually end up standing back and shouting what we need from afar while the hubs handles the transactions. My job is to make the grocery list and map out the easiest way to get in and out of there unscathed.
I didn't want to overload this bag with too many goodies, but it served its purpose of being a pretty market accessory and no one was injured in the shopping process, which is more than I can say for those obnoxious, yet efficient folding carts.
It's clear that I am a fan of totes, and this one is no exception. The pattern was simple enough, but also included some construction techniques that I don't regularly use (treble, decrease for cinched edges).
The tote could have been ready sooner if I didn't have have multiple half-finished project distractions. I can never finish what I start right away. Unless I'm up against a deadline, I always get distracted and need several other pretty things in the 'to-do' queue. I can't be the only one, right? Right.
Anyway, it's finally finished – look how pretty it is next to these terribly sour (inedible) clementines – at least they served their purpose for the photo – worth it.


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Q: Optical convolution processor I was reading Chapter 4, on Fourier Optics, of the course notes on Photonics by Roel Baets and Günther Roelkens (Ghent University, 2009).
I am struggling with the following section:

4.3.5 Optical convolution processor
It is possible to realize, in an optical set up, a convolution between two functions
$$
\left|\int \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}g (ξ, η) h (x − ξ, y − η) dξdη\right|
\tag{4.129}
$$
The set up is shown in figure 4.18. The "input"-function $g$ is realized as a mask with transmittance function $g(x_1, y_1)$ and placed in plane $P_1$, which is the first focal plane of a lens $L_1$. It is normally illuminated with a monochromatic plane wave. In the second focal plane $P_2$ of this lens one obtains the Fourier transform $k_1 G(−x_2/λf, −y_2/λf)$ of $g$ (in which $k_1 =$ complex constant). In
this plane $P_2$ one puts a second mask with transmittance function
$$
t(x_2, y_2) = k_2 H\left(\frac{-x_2}{\lambda f},\frac{-y_2}{\lambda f}\right),
\tag{4.130}
$$
with
$$
H (fx, fy) = F_{2D} \left\{h (x, y)\right\}
\tag{4.131}
$$
Behind this mask, the field is proportional to $G.H$ ; hence in the focal plane $P_3$ of the second lens $L_2$ one finds the following irradiance:
$$
I (x_3, y_3)
=
K
\left|\int \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}g (ξ, η) h (x_3 − ξ, y_3 − η) dξdη\right|^2
\tag{4.132}
$$
This kind of convolution processor can be practically realized by inserting in the planes $P_1$ and $P_2$ a LC-SLM (Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator). This is a two-dimensional transmission screen, with which one can realize an arbitrary two-dimensional function with the help of a computer. In plane $P_3$ one puts a CCD (Charged Coupled Device) Camera which transforms the optical information in an electrical one. An advantage of this processor is the fact that the "calculations" are done immediately (the speed is only limited by the input and output speed of the LC-SLM and CCD). Disadvantage (as compared to the calculations with a digital computer) is the analog character of the calculations, with its inaccuracy, the non-linearity in the LC-SLM and CCD, and also the aberrations in the lenses. Moreover there is also a technological problem: the function H is usually a complex function. This implies that in plane $P_2$ one needs an SLM in which not only the amplitude, but also the phase transmittance should be simulated electronically; and this is a very difficult technological problem

But I do not agree with its conclusion (I think it is wrong). Indeed, we have (I use a slightly different notation, hope it's clear):
$$U(x,y,2f)=const \ F[g(x_{1};y_{1})]_{(\frac{kx}{f};\frac{ky}{f})}$$
and after the second mask:
$$U(x,y,2f)=const \ F[g(x_{1};y_{1})]_{(\frac{kx}{f};\frac{ky}{f})} F[h(x_{1};y_{1})]_{(\frac{kx}{f};\frac{ky}{f})}$$
Finally:
$$U(x,y,4f)=const \ F(F[g(x_{1};y_{1})]F[h(x_{1};y_{1})])_{(\frac{kx}{f};\frac{ky}{f})}$$
And so I can't say that $U(x,y,4f)$ is the convolution product of $g$ and $h$ because to say it, it should be:
$$U(x,y,4f)=const \ F^{-1}(F[g(x_{1};y_{1})]F[h(x_{1};y_{1})])_{(\frac{kx}{f};\frac{ky}{f})}$$
not?

A: Imagine a slightly different optical setup, in which light representing the product of Fourier transforms which forms at P is simply reversed and sent back through lens L1 to form an image at P1.  Since L1 forms at P2 the Fourier transform of whatever is at P1 for light passing from left to right, it forms the at P1 the inverse Fourier transform of whatever is at P2.
Now notice that L1 and L2 are the same. That means the right-hand half of your diagram is equivalent to the second step of the different optical setup described above. So, light passing from P2 to P3 through L2 forms the inverse Fourier transform of whatever is at P2.


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Academic journal article Canadian Psychology
Designs, Participants, and Measurement Methods in Psychological Research
By Bodner, Todd E.
Critical reviews of psychological scholarship suggest that self-report questionnaires, experimental designs, and college students dominate psychological research. Although researchers within specific subfields of psychology have the requisite knowledge to assess the generality of these concerns, novices of psychological research do not. To provide such knowledge, we surveyed a random sample of 200 journal articles in the PsycINFO database coding for psychological content area, research design, measurement method, and participant type. Results indicate self-report questionnaires, experimental designs, and college students each appeared in a minority of studies and these study characteristics often varied significantly by content area. Results also suggest no single dominant "typical" study in psychological research but rather that the characteristics of such research exhibit remarkable diversity.
What features characterize a "typical" empirical study in psychological research? How "typical" is that kind of study? Answers to these motivating questions will vary depending on one's schema of psychological research. Schemata are mental structures that organize prior knowledge, guide current perceptions, and provide future expectations (Fiske & Taylor, 1991). Research suggests that experts have more complex (and presumably more accurate) schemata in their areas of expertise compared to novices (Newell & Simon, 1972). Thus, researchers in psychology, students in college, and individuals outside of academia are likely to answer these questions about psychological research differently. Indeed, past research suggests that people hold many misconceptions about psychology and psychologists (Friedrich, 1996; Nauta, 2000; Rosenthal, McKnight, & Price, 2001; Rosenthal, Soper, Rachal, McKnight, & Price, 2004; Webb & Speer, 1985; Wood, Jones, & Benjamin, 1986), that correcting these misconceptions is difficult (Gutman, 1979; Lamal, 1979; Vaughn, 1977), but that these misconceptions decrease with greater levels of education and expertise (Gardner & Hund, 1983).
The purpose of this article is to answer the two motivating questions empirically to correct potentially inaccurate schematic representations of the characteristics of psychological research. We view this research as important because perceptions of psychology can affect the level of available funding by private and public agencies (Shaffer, 1977; Wood et al., 1986), the choice of undergraduate major and career by college students (Flowers & Schandler, 2006; Nauta, 2000), and the perceived usefulness of psychological research by the general public (Webb & Speer, 1985; Wood et al., 1986). We focus this investigation on the types of research designs, participants, and measurement methods used in psychological research because information sources from inside and outside of psychology may lead novices to inaccurate schematic representations about these particular features.
We are unaware of any formal research on portrayals of psychological research outside of psychology (e.g., in the entertainment industry, the news and print media, and everyday conversations). However, research suggests that portrayals of psychologists in film, radio, and television are often narrow and stereotypic in nature with particular emphasis given to the therapeutic and health services side of psychology (Fishman & Neigher, 1982; Flowers & Frizler, 2004; Flowers & Schandler, 2006). We conjecture that portrayals of psychological research (by novices to novices) would also be highly stereotypical in nature and not capture the range of features in actual psychological research. For example, stereotypical portrayals of psychological research in cartoons often involve a researcher in a white laboratory coat and rodents. Such stereotypic portrayals encourage a narrow view and potentially inaccurate schemata of psychological research. …
Publication: Canadian Psychology
Volume/issue: Vol. 47, No. 4
Bodner, Todd E.
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Q: command to print out list of folders from multiple drives Is there a CLI command to print out in alphabetical order (but in one single txt or spreadsheet) the list of folders contained in different hard drives?
For example, lets say I have this configuration:
/sda/Alfa/File 1
/sdb/Bravo/File 5
/sdb/Bravo/File 20
/sdc/Delta/File 14
/sdc/Delta/File 11

What i would like to output is a TXT or Spreadsheet file where folders are listed in alphabetical order, somethings like:
File 1
File 5
File 11
File 14
File 20

Is this something I can do from the CLI?

A: Try using find with sort:
find /sda /sdb /sdc -type f -printf '%f\n' | sort

For example:
$ tree sd[a-c]
sda
└── Alfa
    └── File 1
sdb
└── Bravo
    ├── File 20
    └── File 5
sdc
└── Delta
    ├── File 11
    └── File 14
$ find sd[a-c] -type f -printf '%f\n' | sort
File 1
File 11
File 14
File 20
File 5

Note that this is what is typically meant by alphabetical order, more precisely stated as lexicographic order. (5 the character does not come before 1 the character, so 5 the string cannot come before 14 the string - 05, however, will.)

Explanation:
find is a program for finding things.

*

*-type f indicates we want regular files, and not directories (or other special files).

*The usual output of find is the path of the file, so we would get sda/Alfa/File 1, but using -printf '%f\n', we tell find to print only the filename.


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UAE non-oil Sectors grow 5% from 2010 to 2016
From Gulf News, October 4, 2017.
Flow of direct investments received during the past year stood at $9b, up 2.2% on 2015, Minister of Economy says.
Sharjah: Non-oil sectors in the UAE have achieved an average growth of 5 per cent during 2010-2016, said Sultan Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy and Chairman of the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre.
During the second Sharjah International Conference on Islamic Economy, Al Mansouri said that there is a plan to raise the contribution of the industrial sector to the GDP by 16 per cent by 2021, and to 20 per cent by 2025.
He pointed out that the flow of direct investments received during the past year stood at $9 billion (Dh33 billion), an increase of 2.2 per cent compared to 2015.
The two-day conference, held under the patronage of His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah and President of the University of Sharjah (UoS), is being organised by the university's Sharjah Islamic Centre for Economy and Finance Studies.
Al Mansouri said that the conference opens a window of opportunity for Islamic economy, and ways to boost its contribution in sustainable development operations would be a valuable addition to currently exerted efforts. He pointed out that according to statistics by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for 2016, Islamic economy has become a key component of the global economy, and that the volume of investments in its various sectors globally is estimated to be $8 trillion, with its clients exceeding a quarter of the world's population.
Al Mansouri noted that the primary reason for this growth is that crises have driven people to look for safe alternatives, and Islamic economy has proven its credibility in this aspect. He added that Islamic financing has become a primary contender as a method for financing major international projects, such as the One Belt One Road initiative launched by China.
The minister said: "On a national level in the UAE, the country's historic roots regarding the availability of an environment that is friendly for Islamic economic institutions gives us a clear vision on the extent of growth achieved by this vital sector in the UAE, such as the development of Islamic banks and financial institutions or the journey of economic progress and its accompanying legislations, laws and systems."
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Scholar Commons > College of Arts and Sciences > Humanities and Cultural Studies > Faculty Publications
Humanities and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications
Submissions from 2019 2019
Kate Smith and Our Minstrel Past, Andrew S. Berish
"The Baritone with Muscles in his Throat": Vaughn Monroe and Masculine Sentimentality during the Second World War, Andrew S. Berish
Irony and Sincerity in a Time of Crisis: Sentimental Piety in The Robe, Andrew S. Berish
Space and Place in Jazz, Andrew S. Berish
Dancing with Knives: American Cold War Ideology in the Dances of West Side Story, Daniel Belgrad and Ying Zhu
Survival, Adaptation, and Experimentation: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra in the 1930s, Andrew S. Berish
Charlie Barnet, Andrew S. Berish
Leisure, Love, and Dreams in Depression America: Duke Ellington and Tin Pan Alley Song, Andrew S. Berish
Music and the Great Depression, Andrew S. Berish
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s, Andrew S. Berish
Negotiating "A Blues Riff": Listening for Django Reinhardt's Place in American Jazz, Andrew S. Berish
"I Dream of Her and Avalon": 1930s Sweet Jazz, Race, and Nostalgia at the Casino Ballroom, Andrew S. Berish
Review: Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience, Andrew S. Berish
Review: In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music, Andrew S. Berish
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Cryptocurrency – Data Center Friend or Foe?
Feb 27, 2019 |
Top–of–Mind for Digital Infrastructure Leaders
This is the final in a series of five blog posts reflecting the top-of-mind issues discussed during the most recent Infrastructure Masons Advisory Council meeting, held in London in November. The Advisory Council is made up of end users and partners from across the digital infrastructure ecosystem.
According to World Bank data, Georgia – the former Soviet republic, with a population of less than 4 million people – is the world's second largest miner of cryptocurrencies. (China is the largest.) Surveys indicate that up to 5% of households in Georgia are engaged in cryptocurrency mining or investments of some sort.
Bitfury, a U.S.-based company that positions itself as a one-stop shop for all aspects of the cryptocurrency business, and other companies responding to the digital gold rush to this small country, are benefitting from an attack on the region's oldest industry. In 2006, Russia imposed a ban on imports of Georgian and Moldovan wines. Wine exports to Russia had been responsible for 80-90% of total wine exports for both countries and the ban, which lasted nearly eight years, was considered a huge blow to the Georgian economy.
As Georgia looked for ways to improve its economic standing, tech companies were attracted to the region's cheap hydropower and lack of regulations.
"Bitfury and other companies responding to the digital gold rush to Georgia are benefitting from an attack on the region's oldest industry." – Click to tweet
Bitfury accounts for much of the cryptocurrency activity in two data centers in Georgia: a 20MW data center in Goriand 100MW data center in the capital city of Tbilisi. According to its own data, the company uses around 28 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per month for its mining operations there – equal to the average consumption of 120,000 Georgian households.
Concerns about cryptocurrency
As with most discussions about mining cryptocurrencies, this is where the story turns to concerns. The iMasons Advisory Council meeting in London was no exception. Members expressed worries about how the cryptocurrency business will impact data centers and what leaders in the digital infrastructure sector should be thinking about to avoid adverse impacts from such a volatile business.
The volatility of cryptocurrency values raises doubt about its viability as an alternative to legal tender. Other challenges include ensuring financial oversight, combatting money laundering, tax evasion and illicit transactions, and ensuring security in the data centers hosting the mining technology. Another key concern is the amount of electricity used.
"We're seeing a very big problem because cryptocurrencies are coming into the area and chewing up a lot of power," one member said.
Indeed, cryptocurrency mining has had a major impact on electricity consumption in Georgia, turning the country from a net exporter to a net importer of electricity. The World Bank estimates that the 10-15% of Georgia's electricity demand is devoted to cryptocurrency mining. Per capita electricity consumption in Georgia in 2016 was almost three times higher than in countries with similar levels of per capita income.
"We're seeing a very big problem because cryptocurrencies are coming into the area and chewing up a lot of power." – Click to tweet
A risky business
One Advisory Council member equated cryptocurrency miners to fly-by-night businesses. "The way that cryptocurrency developers build today they almost deserve government oversight. Because it's very risky business. If you look at the way they contract, you'll get a 12-month or 24-month contract with them. That's all they can do because that's all they've got for their customers. So it's very risky from an investment standpoint and then what you're left with, once they fail, is a facility that you have a very hard time converting to something else."
Another member concurred. "Cryptocurrency is often in Tier 1 data centers. They are generally not built to mission critical design standards. They are built to really cheap basic infrastructure. If it fails, it fails. That's usually good enough for what they are trying to do." Good enough for mining cryptocurrency, but not, typically, for customers that might take over a data center once the miners are gone.
"The way that cryptocurrency developers build today they almost deserve government oversight. Because it's very risky business." – Click to tweet
One Advisory Council member was even more definitive: "I don't want cryptocurrency on my site. They don't leave anything behind for the rest of the market. Banks have excluded cryptocurrency from financing because you can't tell who's behind it. It leaves a big question mark about the data center industry overall because you can't differentiate what's the cryptocurrency guys and what's the real industry."
"I don't want cryptocurrency on my site. They don't leave anything behind for the rest of the market." – Click to tweet
Continuing to be good corporate citizens
The problems brought about by cryptocurrency businesses can give the public a negative impression of digital infrastructure as a whole. One Advisory Council member explained that local authorities don't necessarily understand the difference between data centers created for cryptocurrency mining and the rest of the industry. "The collateral problem is when you talk about wanting to be a high performance computing data center, then the communities don't like it. They say you are guzzling all the power and you are releasing heat. And then we get bad press."
Not all high density data centers are created equal, of course. Beyond mining for cryptocurrency, high performance computing is also used for genomic sequencing, seismic modeling, and other applications unequivocally making the world a better place.
One Advisory Council member, who represents a community looking at ways to enhance their economic development, talked about the hard work already done to build solid partnerships with digital infrastructure players. "We have prepared for the data center industry. We have improved the taxes, done a lot of right things to create an environment for the data center industry. And this is the industry we want because it also creates infrastructure that the rest of the economy will use. So it leaves more behind than just sucking up power."
"Beyond mining for cryptocurrency, high performance computing is also used for genomic sequencing, seismic modeling, and other applications unequivocally making the world a better place." – Click to tweet
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Regarding Myatt
About David Myatt, A Modern Mage
A Modern Mystic
Extremism And Reformation
One Exquisite Silence
Poetry Of David Myatt
Concerning The Numinous
David Myatt, Satanism, ONA
From Nazi To Mystic
Myatt – A Matter Of Honour
Strange Life Of Myatt
A Review of Diablerie
A Review of Myngath
Academia And The Occult
Agent Provocateur?
Bealuwes Gast
Breaking The Silence Down
Clans and Spaceflight
Clouds In The Sky
Concerning Scholarship
Conundrum Of Myatt And Long
Cyclic Theory and Aeonics
Demonizing Mr Myatt
Development of the Numinous Way
Esoteric Hitlerism
Exegesis And Translation
Explaining The Acausal
Fourth Reich
Greco-Roman Paganism
Honour, Suffering, And The West
Honour: Corpus Hermeticum
Humility, Islam, and Tolerance
Is The O9A Satanist?
Labyrinthos Mythologicus
Meeting With An Interesting Man
Meeting With Lowles
Monette On The O9A
Myatt And Aquino
Myatt And Reichsfolk
Myatt's The Divine Pymander
Myatt: Vindex, Destiny of The West
Myattian Mystery
Myngath
Reading Myngath
Mythos of Vindex
Nexus of Life
NS Guide to Islam
O9A And AWD
O9A History
O9A In Academic Literature
One Vagabond
Physics of Acausal Energy
Quite By Chance
Remembering Mr Myatt
Review Of Myatt's Mythos
Selected Letters
Standard Reply To Requests
Star Game Overview
Theoretician of Terror
Time As Emanation
Two Reformed Racists
Undercover Spies
Understanding Physis
Western Paganism
David Myatt, National Socialism, And The O9A
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David Myatt, National Socialism, And The Order Of Nine Angles
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Is David Myatt Still A Neo-Nazi?
While the question "is David Myatt still a neo-nazi" has been asked many times over the past six or seven years – with academics such as Senholt seeming to answer in the affirmative [1] and with Myatt himself consistently denying that he is – many items written by Myatt since 2010, and his reclusive lifestyle since 2010, seem to indicate that he is no longer a neo-nazi.
These items include his 2013 book about extremism titled Understanding and Rejecting Extremism: A Very Strange Peregrination; his autobiography Myngath; essays such as Persecution And War mentioned below in Part Two, as well as the articles he published in 2012 which were directly critical of National Socialism, the Third Reich, and Adolf Hitler [2] and which criticism led to one liberal and pro-Zionist website to describe Myatt as "having a change of heart" [3].
In one of those critical essays, Hitler, National-Socialism, and Politics – A Personal Reappraisal, he writes:
"There is thus, based on applying the moral criteria of The Numinous Way, a complete rejection by me of National-Socialism – of whatever kind – and an understanding of Hitler as a flawed individual who caused great suffering and whose actions and policies where dishonourable and immoral."
In his essay Pathei-Mathos, Genesis of My Unknowing, quoted in the aforementioned book, he writes:
"For what I painfully, slowly, came to understand, via pathei-mathos, was the importance – the human necessity, the virtue – of love, and how love expresses or can express the numinous in the most sublime, the most human, way. Of how extremism (of whatever political or religious or ideological kind) places some abstraction, some ideation, some notion of duty to some ideation, before a personal love, before a knowing and an appreciation of the numinous. Thus does extremism – usurping such humanizing personal love – replace human love with an extreme, an unbalanced, an intemperate, passion for something abstract: some ideation, some ideal, some dogma, some 'victory', some-thing always supra-personal and always destructive of personal happiness, personal dreams, personal hopes; and always manifesting an impersonal harshness: the harshness of hatred, intolerance, certitude-of-knowing, unfairness, violence, prejudice.
Thus, instead of a natural and a human concern with what is local, personal and personally known, extremism breeds a desire to harshly interfere in the lives of others – personally unknown and personally distant – on the basis of such a hubriatic certitude-of-knowing that strife and suffering are inevitable. For there is in all extremists that stark lack of personal humility, that unbalance, that occurs when – as in all extremisms – what is masculous is emphasized and idealized and glorified to the detriment (internal, and external) of what is muliebral." [4]
It is interesting and perhaps indicative that such forthright statements by him, such essays and books of his written since 2012, have been ignored by those who continue to propagate the claim that Myatt is still a neo-nazi and involved with the Occult movement the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA). [5]
Indicative because of the propagandistic nature of the claim for which no facts which have probative value – no evidence – is ever presented, and interesting because for those propagandists and the many others who have not taken the trouble to read Myatt's extensive post-2012 writings the question of whether Myatt is still a neo-nazi is inseparably bound up with two questions about the O9A.
Which two questions are: (1) is the O9A a neo-nazi Occult movement?, and (2) is David Myatt really Anton Long, founder of the O9A, author of over 95% of its texts, creator of its 'Seven Fold Way' and who, as Grand Master, still operates behind the scenes despite having (apparently) retired?
The propagandists – such as those in the special interest political pressure group named Hope Not Hate (HnH) which is adept at manufacturing and spreading "fake news" (that is, propaganda and disinformation) about those they consider are their enemies [6] – claim that the O9A is neo-nazi, that Myatt is Anton Long and is still active in the O9A. Yet such purveyors of propaganda and disinformation never provide any evidence for their claims with their "fake news" replete with factual errors, revealing of a lack of detailed research or often a lack of any research at all, and often based on logical fallacies such as consensus gentium, the fallacy of incomplete evidence, argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam, secundum quid et simpliciter, and of course on argumentum ad hominem.
Hence why for example in the five pages devoted to the O9A and to Myatt in the recent 2019 report issued by HnH, there are at least fourteen factual errors [6], no evidence for their disinformation that Myatt is Anton Long and still a neo-nazi, and a complete lack of understanding of, a lack of research into, the nature of the O9A based as their propagandistic and often sensationalist claims about the O9A are on the fallacy of incomplete evidence, consensus gentium, and secundum quid et simpliciter.
This lack of research into the O9A and the committal of such fallacies are obvious in the fact that "insight roles" and "culling" and Occult ceremonies are not considered in that report in the context of the individualistic and decades-long Seven Fold Way with its aim of attaining Lapis Philosophicus. Which context reveals "insight roles" and "culling" and Occult ceremonies in texts such as the Black Book of Satan occupy only around a year forming as they do some of the tasks of the External Adept, the third stage of the Seven Fold Way. [7]
The lack of research and the committal of such fallacies by propagandists and many others are also obvious in the fact that, as a study of the O9A corpus reveals [8], for the O9A exoteric ideas such as neo-nazism and satanism are considered as merely useful causal forms, as abstractions, with a practical involvement with such causal forms forming just a small part of the possible learning experiences that an External Adept may find useful.
For correctly understood, via a thorough study of the O9A corpus, the O9A is neither satanist nor neo-nazi and as a practical movement in the real world is based more on anarchy than on anything else. [9]
To conclude, my research into the O9A and into the life and the post-2012 writings of David Myatt convinces me that he is not now a neo-nazi, not involved with the O9A, with the O9A itself being an anarchic Occult movement which has no leader and which espouses an individualistic and anarchic praxis.
Morena Kapiris
Revised 2019 ev
The web links below were available as of March 2019 ev
[1] Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition, in Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen (eds), The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012.
In the Logical Fallacy of Incomplete Evidence – A Case Study section of his 2012 text A Matter of Honour, Myatt effectively demolishes Senholt's claims about involvement with the O9A and about him being Anton Long. Myatt's text is available from https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/a-matter-of-honour.pdf
[2] https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/myatt-problems-ns-v3a.pdf
[3] http://hurryupharry.org/2012/12/11/david-myatt-has-a-change-of-heart/
[4] http://www.davidmyatt.info/genesis-of-my-unknowing.html
[5] The O9A has been described by Professor Connell Monette as "a movement, a subculture or perhaps metaculture that its adherents choose to embody or identify with." Mysticism in the 21st Century. 2013. Sirius Academic Press.
[6] https://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/twelve-basic-errors/
[7] https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/o9a-7fw-practical-v3.pdf
[8] The O9A corpus, written between the 1970s and 2019 by "Anton Long" and his Occult students (the Inner ONA) amounts to between 4,000 and 10,000 pages depending on which items – such as the Deofel Quartet, other Occult novels, and more recent texts, are included. For an overview of the corpus see (i) https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/recommended-reading-list/ and (ii) https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2019/03/09/a-compilation-of-some-recent-o9a-texts/
[9] http://www.o9a.org/o9a-and-anarchy/
The Myattian Saga Continues
In the decades long and on-going saga of whether or not David Myatt is or was Anton Long of Order of Nine Angles (ONA, O9A) fame {1} some of Mr Myatt's latest writings are intriguing and seem to provide more proof that, as he has maintained all along, he is not and was not Anton Long, founder of the O9A, author of most of its vast Occult corpus, and "paramount to the whole creation and existence of the ONA." {2}
These latest writings of his include the two part In Defence Of The Catholic Church {3} and his Persecution And War {4}. His In Defence Of The Catholic Church as the title indicates is a defence of the Catholic Church, and in particular in respect of allegations of sexual abuse by priests and monks. The article is based on his personal experience of the Catholic religion from boy to Catholic monk. His Persecution And War is a fascinating, if somewhat annoyingly brief, autobiographical account of some of his experiences as a visiting Catholic in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and of how those experiences helped him when he came to develop his philosophy of pathei mathos.
In part one of In Defence Of The Catholic Church he has many positive things to say about the Catholic Church. Mentioning some medieval liturgical music he writes that he is
"so reminded how the Roman Catholic Church inspired such numinosity, such beauty, century following century. For it is as if such music presenced the Divine to thus remind us, we fallible error-prone mortals, of another realm beyond the material and beyond our own mortal desires."
He goes on to write that he
"from personal experience appreciate[s] that for all its many faults – recent and otherwise – and despite my disagreement regarding some of its teachings it still on balance does, at least in my fallible opinion, presence – as it has for centuries presenced – aspects of the numinous and which presencing has over centuries, again in my fallible opinion, had a beneficial affect on many human beings."
He then recounts a journey of his in Africa, commenting about the Christian folk he met that he
"admired them and respected their belief and understood what that faith seemed to have given them. Who was – who am – I to try and preach to them, to judge them and that faith? I was – I am – just one fallible human being who believes he may have some personal and fallible answers to certain questions; just one person among billions aware of his past arrogance and his suffering-causing mistakes."
As for the allegations of sexual abuse made against priests and monks he is adamant, based on his personal experiences as a Catholic and especially as a Catholic monk, that "they, and the few others like them over the years, were the exception" and that those who believe otherwise commit the logical fallacy of a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter, which basically is to use particular individual cases to form a general rule to then use that rule to describe, and thence to blame, or to castigate, or to defame a whole group. {5}
Such statements by Myatt regarding Catholicism, and such personal feelings as he describes, are not those of a Satanist and not those of someone who associating with the O9A is expected to despise both Christianity in all its forms and Christians themselves. {6}
Part two of his In Defence Of The Catholic Church presents a theological defence of the actions, the response, of the Catholic hierarchy when cases of sexual abuse by priests and monks were made known to them. This is the more interesting part of his article since this theological defence is not only clearly explained by Myatt but also has seldom featured in all the media and other criticism of the response of the Catholic hierarchy.
Myatt's argument is that in regard to the individuals involved, the Catholic church has a higher spiritual responsibility. Which is to consider and take care of their eternal souls and thus apply the Catholic "sacrament of penance and reconciliation" to them.
Naturally in the modern world of the capitalist West with its secular governments and secular laws this theological view is not popular. Nor a view which many would even consider or understand. Which explains why some States in America, and governments in other lands, have tried to introduce secular laws to break such things as the Catholic "seal of the confessional". {7}
That Myatt presents and defends a Christian theological argument is not something a Satanist nor someone associating with the O9A would do.
In his Persecution And War Myatt uses his "Catholic remembering" – of Catholic civilians killed by the British army in Northern Ireland – to make a point about prejudice, intolerance, and propaganda, concluding that
"the real tragedy is that events similar to those of my very personal remembering have occurred on a vaster scale millennia after millennia and are still occurring, again on a vaster scale and world-wide, despite us having access to the wisdom of the past."
These again are not the kind of things a Satanist nor someone associating with the O9A would write.
One final point deserves mentioning. The erudite nature of the articles. There are, as to be expected with Myatt, quotations from the ancient Greek together with his own translations, quotations in Old English and Latin as well as detailed explanations of terms such as "sin" in relation to the New Testament with relevant quotations from the Greek New Testament again with his own translations.
It is conceivable that believers in the Myatt=Long theory, who exist both outside and within the O9A and who seem intent on demonizing Myatt if for different reasons, will in support of that theory claim that someone who was O9A might be devious enough – à la O9A year long Insight Roles – to pretend to write or act as someone who has a diametrically opposite personal character or life to his or her own. Hence someone O9A dialectically praising Christianity.
The fundamental flaw to such a claim in respect of Myatt is that he has been writing similar and consistent things about Christianity, Catholicism, and about prejudice and intolerance since at least 2011, and since then has also penned voluminous other writings about his philosophy of pathei mathos, about compassion, humility, and extremism which echo the sentiments found in the recent writings we have been discussing.
As someone wrote in this regard in 2016,
"All these sentiments, these feelings, are so consistent over so many years, chime so well with his poetry, with the feelings that run through his pre-2009 letters, with his autobiography Myngath, and with post-2011 writings about his philosophy of pathei-mathos, that it seems inconceivable to me that they are artful constructions – fakes – by someone else (or some others) or the product of some 'sinister trickster' who has consciously adopted a certain persona in order to try and fool people. Also, what they express is a mysticism, a reverence for and an appreciation of the numinous, so at odds with the ethos and the practice of Satanism – of whatever variety – that it is also inconceivable that they were written by a Satanist or even by a practising Occultist." {8}
One has for instance only to read essays by Myatt such as his Numinous Expiation {9} and Catholic Still In Spirit? {10} and his book Understanding and Rejecting Extremism {11} to appreciate this.
These latest writings therefore on balance provide more proof that Myatt is not and was not Anton Long. As I wrote in my article Demonizing Mr Myatt,
"The demonizers of Myatt have ignored such things because those things reveal a very different Myatt. One at odds with the 'sinister' image of him they have all in their own way strived to manufacture and have propagated in pursuit of their aims. For the image of Myatt that emerges from his poetry and his post 2011 writings is of a reclusive man who regrets his extremist past, who values virtues such as empathy and compassion." {12}
Rachael Stirling
{1} The book published earlier this year titled A Modern Mysterium: The Enigma of Myatt And The O9A is a detailed and neutral study of the controversy, including both articles which support the Myatt=Long idea and articles which provide evidence to the contrary, allowing readers to arrive at their own conclusion. The book is available as a gratis open access (pdf) file from https://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/myattian-mystery/
See also The Real Anton Long? available at https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/real-anton-long-v1.pdf
{2} Jacob C. Senholt. The Sinister Tradition. A paper presented at the international conference Satanism in the Modern World, Trondheim, 19-20th of November 2009.
{3} The two-part article is available from https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/in-defence-rc-1.pdf
Update, 2019: Included in the pdf document is Myatt's Two Metaphysical Contradictions Of The Modern West in which he comments on the letter written by Pope Francis in January 2019 and sent the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
{4} https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/persecution-and-war/
{5} In naming the fallacy a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter Myatt pedantically uses the complete Latin phrase rather than the shortened version secundum quid et simpliciter.
{6} Anti-Christian sentiments abound in fundamental O9A texts such as The Black Book of Satan and in the three volumes of Hostia: Secret Teachings Of The ONA.
{7} See for example The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2018. New Laws Require Priests to Break the Seal of Confession.
{8} JR Wright. The Strange Life Of David Myatt. The essay is included in A Modern Mysterium: The Enigma of Myatt And The O9A.
{9} https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/numinous-expiation/
{10} https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/numinous-expiation/a-catholic-still-in-spirit/
{11} Available from https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/rejecting-extremism/
{12} The article is included in A Modern Mysterium: The Enigma of Myatt And The O9A.
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