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Stingchronicity (The Police Tribute) releases new Video/EP
April 6, 2020 Clay Burton Uncategorized 0
Gliding through the air around us like some sort of divine force sent by heaven to impart a message of solidarity in even the hardest of times, the smooth melodicism dispensed in the song "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," even when performed by cover band Stingchronicity, is unmistakably Sting in every way that truly counts, but as anyone who has seen or heard this sensational new act knows, it's got as fresh a finish as ever when they take it out for a spin. Stingchronicity recently released a promo video of a performance at The Ardmore Music Hall that included their rendition of this track, and to say they're working with a one of a kind skillset – despite being a cover act – would be putting it quite mildly.
URL: stingchronicityband.com/
Cosmetics aside, this band puts some serious muscle into the familiar beats that define "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic," "Message in a Bottle" and even their own progressive take on "Roxanne." Despite the fact that all of this material has been performed a hundred different ways by a hundred different artists over the years, there's nothing present in Stingchronicity's play that leaves a watered-down taste after consumption (which makes them quite the rare find to say the least).
You don't have to be a professional critic to appreciate the sonic depth that this band is bringing to the table in "Synchronicity II," "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" and "Message in a Bottle," but for those of us who are keen on the subtle details in music, there's no getting around the level of seriousness Synchronicity affords the technical side of these compositions. There's no tininess in their live sound, but instead a warmth that tethers their audiological assault both to The Police and the tradition of filler-free alternative rock in general.
By sticking to the basics of pop melodicism in their cover of "Every Breath You Take" and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic," Stingchronicity go a long way towards distinguishing their work from that of their campier contemporaries, the bulk of which would never think to put as angular an arrangement into their construction of the classic hook in "Roxanne." This isn't a costumed cover act that cares more about the visual than they do the virtuosity of their play; on the contrary, these guys could go independent from the catalogue of Sting and The Police and probably do just as well as they are here.
Stingchronicity Band – Promo Video (Live at The Ardmore Music Hall)
While I've admittedly been biased against most cover bands for the majority of my career in the music industry, what Stingchronicity are doing is simply too good for any legit melody enthusiast to turn down, and I highly doubt I'm the only critic remarking as much this April. Stingchronicity aren't changing the world as we know it, nor are they changing the narrative of the legacy left behind by Sting and The Police, but one thing is for certain – they're giving some of classic rock's best hits the revival they deserve.
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Recording Police Is Protected by the First Amendment, EFF Tells Court
EFF Supports Citizen Journalists' Role in Reporting on Law Enforcement Use of Force
Philadelphia—In an era when bystander recordings of police shootings have shined a much-needed light on law enforcement activities—greatly contributing to public discussion about police use of force—it's never been more important to establish that citizen journalists have a free speech right to record and share videos of public police activity, EFF told a federal appeals court today.
"Individuals have the unambiguous right under the First Amendment to record police officers exercising their official duties in public," said EFF Staff Attorney Sophia Cope. "Bystander videos published online have alerted the public to the use of deadly force in numerous cases—Alton Sterling, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, the list goes on. These recordings have informed the public and elected officials about what is happening on our streets. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the process of taking these photos and videos is protected by the First Amendment as an inherently expressive activity or as a form of information and news gathering, and this is true regardless of the intent of the maker at the time of the recording."
EFF filed filed an amicus brief today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of two plaintiffs in consolidated cases, Fields v. City of Pennsylvania and Geraci v. City of Pennsylvania. Both plaintiffs were detained for recording the Philadelphia police in 2012 and 2013. Richard Fields, a Temple University college student, was arrested for photographing about 20 officers breaking up a house party. In a separate incident, Amanda Geraci, was detained and prevented from filming an officer arresting a participant at a public environmental protest. The appeals came after a federal judge improperly ruled earlier this year that individuals have no First Amendment right to record the police unless they do so while also engaging in a verbal confrontation with officers or otherwise expressing an intent to criticize law enforcement.
"The district court decision is wrong and could force people into dangerous altercations with police officers in order to justify recording the police," said Cope. "Worse, if government is granted the power to restrict recording, it can control what information is available to the public about police conduct. Bystander recordings of police misconduct have repeatedly ensured that these troubling episodes receive the public attention they deserve, and we're fighting for the right of people to continue playing such a vital role in our democracy."
For the brief:
https://www.eff.org/document/fields-eff-amicus-brief
Sophia Cope
Fields v. City of Philadelphia
Right to record police
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014): A Farewell to the Patriarch of Literature
It is a rare genius who can encapsulate in writing the soul of a country. One who does so with an entire continent is rarer still. Those attributed with such virtuosity tend to be long dead, and most had the good sense not to be born in South America. That did not stop Gabriel García Márquez from leaving an indelible mark on literature.
To condense into novel form all the tempers, colours, and rhythms of such a vast place where every individual component feels somehow ancient yet transplanted, smuggled, stolen even, and haphazardly reassembled on the other side of the world. A continent with a deceptive familiarity, an unrelenting heat, and the tranquil disposition you'd expect from a place founded by men who thought they had found paradise, only to immediately start tearing it apart looking for gold and other riches. Such a literary feat would require a mind as vibrant, as blunt, as melancholic, as magical as the continent itself. It's that vibrant, blunt, melancholic mind that won Gabriel Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mr Marquez launched his writing career in the early 1950s, after quitting his studies at the National University of Colombia. His first job at El Heraldo in Barranquilla earned him three pesos per article. He went on to become a contributor and film critic for El Espectador in Bogotá. In December of 1957 he accepted a position at El Momento in Caracas just in time for the 1958 Venezuelan coup. That same year he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo who would accompany him for the rest of his life. The following year their first son Rodrigo was born.
Mr Márquez' literary debut, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, was a journalistic expose of a marooned sailor, Alejandro Velasco, from a Colombian naval vessel carrying contraband goods. The following controversy forced him to accept a post as a foreign correspondent in Europe.
After this sojourn, the family settled in Mexico City in 1961, where a few years later Gonzalo, their second son, was born.
Since starting out as a writer, Mr Márquez knew he wanted to write a novel based on his childhood in Aracataca, a town near the Colombian Caribbean coast, and the grandparents who raised him. This was to be a novel based on the stories of his grandfather Nicolás Márquez Mejía, a veteran of the Thousand Days' War and a hero among Colombian liberals, who had shaped Marquez' political outlook. The novel was also to be rooted in the stories of his grandmother, who conflated the superstitious with the sensible, and the magical with the mundane, all delivered in the same matter-of-fact tone.
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." That opening line finally came to Marquez while driving his family on a vacation to Acapulco. Marquez later tells how he immediately turned the car around, got home and locked himself in a room with four packs of cigarettes, and worked on the book every day for 18 months. The result was A Hundred Years of Solitude; an epic novel telling the story of several generations of the Buendía family from the time they founded the village of Macondo. The book became an instant bestseller going on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide.
The success of A Hundred Years of Solitude was followed by a string of best-selling novels such as Autumn of the Patriarch which recounts the thoughts of a dictator of a fictional Caribbean country who is simply referred to as the General and who serves as an amalgamation of several Latin American and European dictators. He also penned Love in the Time of Cholera, a love story based on his parents' courtship, as well a number of nonfiction books and short stories.
Upon receiving his Nobel Prize in 1982, Marquez gave a speech entitled The Solitude of Latin America concerning the colonial legacy of the continent and its relationship with the rest of the world.
Public Duty
Márquez held strongly that the writer had a public duty to speak out on political issues, and put his fame to good use. He was a particularly vocal critic of US imperialism, which resulted in him being labelled a subversive and banned from entering the US. In 1975, Gabriel Márquez pledged not to publish again until the Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet was deposed, a pledge, as it turned out, he could not fulfil.
His socialist views led him to consistently back the regime in Cuba, and he became a close personal friend of Fidel Castro. His faithfulness to the Cuban revolution led to him falling out with many of his own generation of Latin American writers, who were increasingly critical of the lack of intellectual freedom on the island.
Despite the occasional controversy, Marquez was seen as a man respected by all parties in the region where he is affectionately known as Gabo, even acting as a facilitator in several negotiations between the Colombian government and the guerrillas, including the former 19th of April Movement (M-19), and the current FARC and ELN organizations.
In 2002, Marquez published Living to Tell the Tale which was intended to be the first part of a three volume autobiography. Volumes two and three were never published. In 1999, Gabriel García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Three years later, his brother Jaime announced that Márquez was suffering from dementia. He was hospitalised in Mexico City for lung and other infections. Mr Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87.
This decade marks the bicentennial of independence in many Latin American countries, including Marquez's own Colombia. Those 200 years have brought revolution, civil war, and military coups. The decolonisation process was also reverted with large swaths of the continent bought up by foreign interests.
As Marquez himself pointed out in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech; the metaphorical nation populated by her forced migrants rivals Norway in size. It is the continent of the Amazon River, of the United Fruit Company and El Dorado, of drug cartels, carnival, and the Andes Mountains. A continent of ancient devotion and superstitions – both indigenous and imported – and of fervent rationalism and ideological dogma (mostly imported).
It is also home to 99 billionaires and counting and host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. It is the continent of Fidel Castro, Pablo Escobar, Christiana Figueres, Pope Francis, José Mujica, Augusto Pinochet, Carlos Slim, and Diego Rivera. It is the continent of Gabriel García Márquez. This very well may be the century that the region finally finds stability and prospers, but that hope could just as easily be the naïve optimism of the contemporary. If we are to have a hope of understanding that future we must discover the place and its people by its own terms. These are the terms of Gabo himself.
John Marinus, who also contributes to our Editor's Heroes section, is a freelance writer based in the Netherlands.
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In this case, because it's a fairly simple sound, we'll be using Logic's ES 1 softsynth to recreate the heavy bass synth sound you hear at about 1:05 into the song. Let's get started.
Next, let's listen to the sound: it's a little hard to make out clearly, because of all the other layers in the song, but the bass plays simple whole notes (A-E-F#-D) using a fairly dark sound with no filter sweeps or wah-wahs, unlike many synth bass sounds. The attack and decay are short, but don't approach a plucked or percussive sound. Closer listening reveals that the sounds consists of two sawtooth or square waves an octave apart, with a slight chorusing, and that the notes are played legato, so that there are no gaps between them.
Check the settings closely and do your best to reproduce them as exactly as you can; if you do, you should hear a convincing version of the Lady Gaga sound.
First, the Sub oscillator is set to a staircase wave, which is a little richer than a sawtooth.
We're using a straight sawtooth for the primary wave, which plays an octave higher than the Sub oscillator.
Note that the Oscillator Mix slider is set so that we hear a bit more of the Sub than the Primary.
Next, Drive is all the way up, to add a little more edge to the sound.
The Filter is set to 24 dB, with no Resonance.
The Cutoff to about 11 o'clock or so, to darken up the sound.
Amplifier is set to Full to give us the maximum level. All the other modulation settings are set to zero, as we don't want any vibrato or tremolo in this sound.
For the same reason, the Mod Envelope is set to zero.
Next, note that the ADSR is set to a short Attack and Release, although neither are set to zero, which would add too much "snap" to the sound.
The Decay is also fairly short, while the Sustain is set to its maximum, so the sound level doesn't drop off after the attack.
Voices are set to Legato, so to be sure that there are no gaps in the sounds when it's played.
We've also added a little Chorus to add just a little motion to the sound.
Note that this is played legato, that is, each note is held down while the following note is played, so there's no performance gap between notes, and I'm playing this starting on the "A" an octave and a third below Middle C.
Check out The Logic ES2 Exposed tutorial to get a handle on synthesis in Logic and the Live 8 Designing Sounds for Dance Music and Live 8 Making Electronic Dance Music by Olav Basoski to give you a head start in sound design for the electronic realm of music.
Thank you for this great tutorial! Beside the way that it shows that the ES1 still can generate modern sounds its also good to see that the professionals also work with simple sounds and not every patch needs to be overloaded with modulations, fx or anything else.


Lwandiso Njara is a young and talented sculptor who hails from Libode in the Eastern Cape. He has an impressive record of awards and participation in prestigious group exhibitions. His works are included in quite a number of private and public collections.
Lwandiso's recent works explore his own spiritual journey through Christian religion and Xhosa ancestral rituals. They are an investigation how these elements become vital for the survival in society. With their rich metaphorical meanings, his works convey profound messages of healing and faith. The exhibition will be opened by Jayne-Kelly Crawshay-Hall on Friday 3 June 2016 at 18h30 for 19h00 and runs until Wednesday 22 June 2016.


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Volunteers serving Lawrence County, MO, through the Office of the Sheriff (We are not law enforcement).
Per ardua liberi: what does it mean?
Courtesy, Formality, and Command
Submitted by evought on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 19:34
Although this is not a military organization, the structure and hierarchy is based on a military command structure. As a volunteer organization, no one is compelled to be a part of it, everyone's skills and input are valuable, and a paycheck is not an incentive, so off-the-field, many of our activities may be relatively informal. On-the-field, however, we are an emergency response team: actions must be taken quickly, decisively, and correctly. We must move, act, and function as a team. We must obey orders from the licensed Peace Officers who are supervising us promptly. Doing our jobs on the field requires hierarchy and clear chain of command.
Hierarchical chain of command only works when goals are well defined, subordinates bubble up the information necessary for leaders to make informed decisions, and leadership listens to their subordinates. Subordinates advise; superiors decide, order, and commit; teams communicate and coordinate with one another. This does not happen magically. Team skills are built through planning, training, and exercises.
During an emergency is not the time to work out personality issues, test boundaries, build trust, or establish communications. It is time to follow orders based on a structure, procedures, and doctrine which has already been worked out. The organization evaluates each action to determine what went right, what went wrong, and how procedures or structures must be adjusted. Changes are tested in training and exercise. That is how one team member can move decisively, knowing from experience that the other team members will do their jobs in a timely and competent fashion.
The structure and formality we integrate creates a sense of belonging and pride in who we are. Respect showed to rank and office reenforces the roles we take on the field and the responses which must become automatic. Formality in communication ensures that critical aspects of what is happening are understood: who has responsibility from moment to moment, what the goals are, and how the action is being coordinated. It is no different from 'calling the ball' in a sport activity to avoid either everyone or noone acting at the same time.
Formal Acknowledgements: Throughout your involvement in the Auxiliary, we will train and practice the formality and courtesies expected. One example is that accepting or relinquishing a post is always formally acknowledged. Changing from one Watch rotation to the next involves the outgoing Officer of the Watch briefing the incoming, logs for the shift are signed, and then authority is formally relinquished: "I relieve you, Sir." "I stand, relieved," and is punctuated by a salute. This makes it very clear to all involved and all observing who is responsible at each moment and becomes critically important, for instance, when an incident during a Watch causes an off-rotation officer to resume command for the crisis. Many formalities exist because they carry a legal or operational significance.
It is critical to acknowledge formal commands formally, with a "Yes, Sir," or, upon leaving to execute orders, "With your permission, Sir," a brief coming to attention and salute. Where the orders are complicated or legally significant, they can be acknowledged by repeating them back (usually summarized), as in, "My quad is ordered to accompany Deputy Smith on a search of this neighborhood: yes, Sir."
In many instances, especially where command or responsibility for the action is transferred, it is best to do so face-to-face in order to ensure that it is understood clearly. This is especially true in the chaos of a disaster where usual communications may not be functioning correctly in any case. We will cultivate an older, more formal courtesy which has often fallen out of use: "Mr. Smith, my compliments, please take your team into the site to scout it for safety concerns." Politeness and courtesy does not take substantially more time, it ensures that participants do take the time to acknowledge each other and their respective duties, and it defines what we intend to be as an organization. In message passing, this takes the form, "Cadet, please give the Sheriff my compliments and tell him: my men are deployed and ready for duty." (trot... trot... trot... trot...) "Sheriff, Major Smith sends his compliments and says: his men are deployed and ready for duty, sir."
Sir, Ma'am
Who is "Sir" or "Ma'am"? In general, a commissioned officer (whether officer of the Auxiliary, the Sheriff, or a Deputy, but not an NCO) is "Sir," or "Ma'am." We extend the same courtesy to leadership of the agencies we serve, and to members of the general public since they, ultimately, are the object of service. It is better to inadvertantly extend respect than disrespect.
A male officer (or member of the public) is "Sir" and a female officer (or member of the public) is "Ma'am". If a woman or female officer/deputy indicates a preference for "Sir," as is now custom in some services, honor it, but there is no need for male officer to try to guess or female officers to take offense.
As a rule of courtesy, when a woman and a man are walking together, the woman goes first, unless there is a need for assistance, or moving through a crowd where the man (usually larger) can clear the way. In the same way, male officers should offer to hold doors for female officers and courtesy should be shown to the public as well. This is not done as any indication that a woman is weak or incapable, but out of respect as a formal courtesy. If a woman indicates that this courtesy is not desired, simply politely acknowledge and stop doing it.
Volunteers, especially officers, are expected to display respect at all times, in all places. The goal of courtesy is to take the time to stop and demonstrate respect due to someone's service, station, or simple status as a fellow creation and does not depend on liking the recipient of the courtesy. Comporting yourself with dignity also demonstrates self-respect and respect for the uniform. Short of a need for physical conflict, there is no need to be discourteous--- and no point after: "Please drop the weapon, Sir." Show courtesy, restraint, and firm resolve as necessary, especially when someone else is being rude or combative.
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Spring time pompano fishing is creeping up on us. The weather and fishing currently isn't great so I stayed inside and made a quick video of 5 must have tools for surf fishing. Hope it helps!
As always a good video. I'm in St. Clair Co. Alabama and enjoy the videos even more because you are fishing the same beaches and bays I frequent several times a year. I've picked up quite a few tips and a can't wait for my next trip down!
What's the fishing outlook for this weekend down there on the Gulf, BBB?
Man oh man, I drove down fro Opelika this weekend without checking the weather. Bad call. Everyone I ran in to said it was the single worst week of fishing they've ever experienced. I had the same luck. Bummer. At least it's only a three and a half hour drive.
Thanks for the suggestions some of the most simple thing can be some of the most important things to have along. Good fishing to you.
Sweet tips! Im watching it rain too lol!
Bama please post a video of your favorite rod n reels to take surffishing.
Especially the towel and hook grabbers.
I had one day when all I was catching was wrays and all I had was a pair of plyers and one particular one was trying his best to kill me, even though on his back. A crowd gathered of course, and I was at the point of just cutting the line, which would probably turned the crowd into a MOB and a metal detecting gent came along and used his scoop bucket on a stick thing to restrain the tail while I performed oral surgery, and all was happy. There might have even been some cheers.
I'm not into blowing you money on every gimmick out there but some tools and hacks are a must!
Which fish did you say in a past video that had venom or something on its spines or fins?
Ive only got a few birds cought in my lines and had to use my shirt thanks for the tip Bama, here in Texas the wind is blowing at 30.
Serrated scissors work best for braid. They work great on larger diameter monofilament because it doesn't try to spit it out when you try to cut it.
Awesome cold day video!. Where you purchase your floats from or make?!
Never thought about the towel – thanks!
good job as always beach bro ! good items to have any time fishing any wher ! Ill see ya out ther !
Totally agree on the annoying fabric matrix and scissors are a great way to get the FISHBITES fabric off.
And if you don't use this tool to cut line you need to start using them. Hands down the #1 tool I have for fishing!
I don't play golf anymore so I had all these golf towels laying around. They have a grommet that makes it perfect to put a loop on and hang on anything you take to the beach. Very handy.
I'm surprised you don't have more subs!
All good points, well taken!
Thanks for the tips man, see you in April!!
Haha its gonna be about 38-41 with a 15+ mph wind when I hit the water tomorrow. I guess maybe that plays a bigger effect on the surf but the reality is its never too cold to fish!!!
Hope your family and friends in Wetumpka weren't too badly damaged by the tornado! They're in our thoughts!
Had it all right up until the towel. Thanks for that suggestion. Any ideas on where to get a low cost beach cart? I went el cheapo last year and bought a blue collapsible wagon from academy with narrow wheels. Just about killed this old man trying to pull it around on the beach.
Great Channel! Great Tips! I love to fish for Pompano from the Beach!
Matt, seems like my expensive sunglasses last longer because they are made much better that cheaper pairs. Also… warranty!
Hey man. Just wanted to tell you that of all the fishing channels that I view, yours is probably my favorite. I live in Kentucky and fish the majority of the rivers and lakes in this area. I've been to the coast several times and have been out on charters; but, I've always been interested in surf fishing. I'm pretty confident after watching your videos and all the information you provide that I could come down there and not leave empty handed. So, I said all that to say Thanks. I enjoy all your videos and your down to earth approach and attitude even if you don't like catfish ;). Keep it up man!
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FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013
FIFA U-20 World Cup 2013
Argentina rally to avoid Czech shock
Czech Republic may have weathered an Argentinian storm to seize a goalless draw in their Group E opener at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007, but few gave them a chance of stopping Hugo Tocalli's star-studded symphony when the teams met again in the final, five years ago to this Sunday.
La Albiceleste had, after all, since won five successive matches, scoring 14 goals and conceding just one in the process; Maxi Moralez and Sergio Aguero, who had already been capped at senior level and played his club football for Atletico Madrid, had been in rampant form; and the South Americans were out to win their fifth title in seven attempts and extend their own record to six overall, while the Europeans had only just made the semi-finals for the very first time.
Yet just nine minutes were on the clock when the alarm bells rang for the South Americans, with Marek Suchy's close-range effort tipped onto the post by Sergio Romero. At the other end, Ever Banega and Aguero combined delightfully to set up Moralez, whose effort was superbly blocked by Radek Petr.
Moralez spurned another glorious chance just after the restart, before his team-mate Romero made a spectacular save from Lubos Kalouda as a pulsating game swung from end to end.
On the hour, the deadlock was broken - and in such emphatic fashion, with Martin Fenin's sumptuous volley on the turn flying just inside the post to give Czech Republic the lead. Argentina desperately needed their talisman to deliver when it mattered most, and Aguero did just that two minutes later, latching on to Banega's through-pass and slotting the ball home.
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Yogi Ramsuratkumar
Hilda Charlton
There are great gurus in this world, like Sathya Sai Baba. When he goes into a town, a hundred thousand , two hundred thousand people will be there to mob the place. They sing all night. I've been there. I've stayed at a place where the police had to come to keep calmness and quietness in the street. There are those beloved such as Satchitananda, who built the city of Yogaville with his inspiration; the great Anandamayi, who attracted thousands; the Yogi Bhajans, the Muktanandas that attract so many. Perhaps many of you belong to them. But there are some other yogis that some of you might not know much about, They are not even yogis - they are beyond yogis. They are simple, quiet people who are hidden and not known, who stay incognito, who act like beggars, who act foolishly so you won't know they are anything special. They might throw rocks when people come near, like Nityananda did at one time so they would think he was insane. They are people who just hide.
Hidden angels and hidden divinities - It's hard to find them. I'll tell you later what I think their work is.
I'm going to call on Will to speak. He's going to talk of a great hidden one he knows who lives near where Ramana Maharshi was. Some of you may know this hidden one, and others of you may not understand; may be you passed him and thought, "What a old beggar". I found him, though I have not yet met him on the physical plane. I received a letter from him and I saw through his disguise. I'm not teaching you about another guru tonight. He's not a guru. He wouldn't have you. His work is universal. No, I'm not teaching another teacher - I'm teaching a way. You see, kids, it's very nice to sit here and have Hilda make you laugh or something, but what if Hilda went at you? What if Hilda demanded certain things, as I do of some of the people around me? It's a tough scene, I'm telling you, to be in the presence of someone like that. They demand something, or get out!
Now, Will, you tell us exactly your experience of this great one. Yogi Ramsuratkumar is this great one's name. He looks like a beggar. He carries a crazy spear, he is in rags, he doesn't bathe and yet smells like roses, and look what he has made of himself.
Will: "He usually changes his clothes about once a year. He's a very, very eccentric being, to say the very least. He dresses as a beggar, he comes on as a beggar. He doesn't have polish on the outside, except that his eyes and his face are just totally marvellous, totally unbelievable. The guy walks like he's walking on two inches of air, as Hilda was teaching us to do tonight. And he goes very, very quickly, like a locomotive, so rapidly that Joan, my wife, and I had a very hard time keeping up with him physically - and we think that we walk very fast. He would just shoot off in one direction, and it would be very difficult to follow.
He's a very incredible, beautiful person. He lives in Tiruvannamalai. There's a set of brass shops near the temple, and every night at eight o'clock or so, they all shut down. He sleeps there in the night, and then in the morning he gets up and usually goes out near the railway station. He sits under a very, very small tree, and he does his work.
"He's unknown to the world, and most of the people around there think he's just totally nuts. He walks around. He sings. He has this big staff. It looks like a bow and arrow with peacock feathers. He finds strings and ties everything, everything, on the strings. He just carries that around, holds it and sometimes he'll say, 'Sita Ram, Ram Rain Sita Ram, Jai Jai Sita Ram.' The kids love him. They all come out to be near him, and he says that within three days he can have any kid be his best friend. I've seen it. They come out and they say, 'Ram! Ram!, He says 'Govinda Ram!' Within a few days of this, even the little Muslim kids say, 'Ram! Ram!' too. And their parents look at them very strangely.
"Anyway, Yogi Ramsuratkumar is a total child, and that's the major thing. I don't know what his physical age is - he may be about sixty. But he's just a kid, just a really joyous, joyous kid at heart. I've seen him get up in the middle of the night and sing 'Rama Rama' and dance in ecstasy. And then sit down again, within the total bliss of it all. When he sings, he sings with his whole being.
"I'll relate to you when I first met him. We heard a lot about him from our friend Caylor. Yogi Ramsuratkumar apparently knew us. He had told Caylor some information about our natures and what we were to do in this life. He already knew. When Caylor took us to see him, he was under a small shrub bush, a very small pine. It was very hot. He would always keep us in the shade by moving us around. When we met him, he was very, very thankful. We had done something which he considered a favour, so he very, very sweetly told us how much he was indebted to us. And we said 'No, no. It is our pleasure to serve you.' Then he looked at me for a while, and he put his hand up. I was sitting may be two or three feet away. And he just put me into a really, really deep ecstasy. I closed my eyes and I saw light coming out of my head, and I was way out of my body consciousness within about a minute. And then he said, 'Mr. Will, Mr. Will don't go that side, come back, come this side.' And I couldn't come down, I just couldn't.
"Then he said, 'Ohhh, not so good to go that side. 'He said, 'No good cigarettes on that side."
Hilda : Understand, kids, that Yogi Ramsuratkumar smokes because his teacher told him to smoke to stay down, like Shirdi Sai Baba did, like Ramakrishna did.
Will : "And then he said a very strange thing. He repeated four numbers. He said, 'Two, nine, zero, eight.' And immediately I was back in my body, just instantly, and I had my eyes open. He said, 'Oh-ho, so that's your number.' He wrote it down on a piece of paper, circled it and gave it to me. I was trying to get the meaning out of him. I said, 'Swami, what is this number? Is this my room number in heaven?' He just cracked up all over the place. He said, 'Oh, no. Oh, this sinner just did something in his madness. He doesn't know what he did.'
"He always refers to himself as 'this beggar, this madman'. 'He never uses the first person. I think maybe once during our stay of eight months did I hear the word 'I'. It was a very, very special night, Shiva Ratri or something like that.
"Once there were people really hassling him. Politically he wasn't very well liked because he was advocating the unity of India, and at this time this particular state had advocated secession from India, and the local government was not very sympathetic to Indira Gandhi or the central government. Yogi Ramsuratkumar said, 'India must be united. India must be whole. It must be, to do its work on the Earth.' They were really hassling him one day, and it was a very, very gruelling day, and I said, 'Swami, why do you take this? Why do you do this?' And he said, 'This beggar's here not to defend his ego. He's only here to do the Father's work.' And that's really a lesson for me, because we all feel what we do is right and we push ourselves and we force ourselves - and he merely said he's not here to defend his ego.
"He does work in very strange ways. Sometimes we would order tea. He would have somebody to go out and get the tea, or Joan or I would go get the tea. But sometimes he would serve the tea himself. You would think it wouldn't be any big deal just to serve the tea. But when he served tea, he would place the cups exactly. If there were five of us, he would serve one here, and then go over and serve another one there - in no seeming order whatsoever. Once I made the mistake of moving my cup a little, and he just stopped and said, 'This beggar put that cup there for a purpose, and he knew just what he was doing.' Then he walked around and walked around and held his beard like this, and just walked around with this very, very, very determined look on his face. He walked around and held his staff up and walked around some more, and then finally he came back. And then, after the tea was about cold, he served it. And he said, 'Well, this beggar did what he could.' After that I never ever did that again, and I really followed his instructions to the letter because he was just too severe when I didn't.
"To be put down like that once, I tell you - I never wanted it to happen again. It's very, very, very severe, his tone of voice, his whole look at you - it's something that bums through you. You just can't face it. Once I said something, and he thought I shouldn't have said it. I was going to defend myself, and he just put his hand up to stop me. And I stopped right there. So he went at it for a while, and then finally in my mind I just let it go, and he stopped. He was very, very severe. Whenever you did something that wasn't conscious, that wasn't in harmony with his work, he would really make you regret it. You would feel so bad, and yet you couldn't do anything about it. But that's the way you learn, unfortunately - or that's the way some of us learn.
"In the morning after we got up, we usually went and spent the afternoon or the evening with him, but then he would send us away at night. Once we had the grace to spend two full weeks, night and day, twenty-four hours a day, with him. I think I went home once; I was out of his sight for an hour. It was really intense, and I really learned a lot. But I also went through a few trips about it.
"For his bath he carries a coconut bowl, just a little shell of a coconut, cleaned out and dried. That's his water pail, so to speak. He drinks out of it, he eats out of it, he washes with it. He fills it full of water, then splashes it over his face, throws a little over his head, and the guy looks like he's just had a bath that cost a million dollars. He is just so radiantly beautiful.
"Then he assigns everybody to carry something. He always had big bundles of newspaper all tied up in burlap bags. Sometimes there would be four huge bags. He would never throw them away, and he would just carry them around. He usually had two Indian devotees there. They were very, very well disciplined, and very sweet people. Once when he assigned me to carry some thing, I made the mistake of saying, 'Swami, i don't want to carry that. Let me carry this.' No. You did only exactly what he said. Sometimes he would have you carry nothing, and it would be seemingly unfair because somebody else would have such a tremendous load, and you would be walking around with nothing, feeling like a real fool. But he would say, 'It doesn't matter. You're doing something else for me.'
"Once we were walking down to go out to this field where we usually went. In South India there are a lot of rice paddies with little dams between them, and those very thin dams are the paths you walk on so that you don't spoil the crops. We are walking with him, carrying our big burdens early in the morning, by the beautiful holy mountain Arunachala. We weren't being so observant - we were so enamoured with the beauty of the mountains, the beauty of the fresh air, the beauty of the crows and all the birds and everything. He stopped dead on the path, and Joan was in front and she hit right into him, and I hit into her. It was like the Marx Brothers. He really gave it to us for that. He said, 'This beggar doesn't want you to think about any mantras. Don't think of any gurus. Don't even think of God. Be observant and do what he says to do.' He said, 'We have this work to do nicely and that's all you have to be concerned with.' We really learned to be aware after that.
"He would use the staff in a very nice way. We might be going down the street, and he would put his staff up and say, 'Stop. Go over to the side.' And just that second a car would turn around the comer. His political enemies had tried to run him over about three or four times, so he was a little conscious about that. They had knifed him a few times, too. Once they knifed him and he just rubbed his hand over the wound, saying, 'Rama, Rama, Rama' and it was healed.
"He used to place little things around Tiruvannamalai. He would smoke a pack of cigarettes and then throw down the wrapper. Then just before we left, maybe about three or four hours later, he would pick the wrapper up again and put it in his pocket. His pockets were just bulging with all kinds of things, every little thing imaginable. He never threw out anything. Even his old clothes were in the sack he carried. And then he would place little things around Tiruvannamalai. He would look for the exact place, the exact time to put something, and then he would put it there, and a few days later he would come back and get it. It would be right there, and he would put it in his pocket again. He never threw anything out.
"Once he had this little sack tied up in his clothes. I said, 'What's in this little sack?' He took it out, and it was some nellika, which is like a very salty little nut. Then he said, 'Oh, I didn't know I had these'. He made us eat them and they were very, very sour. And he said," Oh, these are so good for you, really so good for you.' So we really had to be on our toes.
"His awareness was really fantastic. Once a girl from Canada came to see him. She was sitting op- posite to him, and Joan and I were sitting on the side, facing another direction. It was about midnight. In Tiruvannamalai they have a lot of owls, and in the distance, in the direction that Joan and I could see, a little owl came and perched on a very, very far roof. It was there for about a minute and flew off. And the very next thing he said to the girl was, 'Tell me. Do you have owls in Canada?' We were just astounded because we had been sitting there so quietly, and then we noticed the owl. He wasn't even facing in the same direction that we were. He would have had to see it out of the far, far comer of his eye, and yet it seemed as if he were giving this girl all of his attention.
"Being with him was really a lot of fun. He used to make fun of himself constantly. He would call himself 'this beggar, this madman.' Caylor told us that once when he was with him, before he could say anything, Swami said, 'Oh, you're thinking this about this beggar and that about this beggar.' He was dumbfounded because that's exactly what he had been going to say. He just sat down, shut up and was very quiet for a while."
Hilda : Thank you, Will. Joan, would you say something about Yogi Ramsuratkumar? Is this interesting to you, kids, to hear about a different kind of a yogi, hiding behind rags? I'll tell you afterwards what I believe he does.
Joan : "I feel it's such an honour just to get a chance to talk about Yogi Ramsuratkurnar. I can hardly believe this opportunity that's been given to us. I know that the beggar in Tiruvannamalai would probably weep joyous tears at the thought of people in another part of world, so many hundreds of us, thinking about him and talking about him.
"Will told you about the teacups that were misplaced. My first experience with his sternness came one evening when the two devotees Will had spoken about had gone back to their homes because they had some work to do there. They weren't able to stay overnight with him. As usual, we had come from the field into town and had settled ourselves on the stone platform, where we were talking. We had some tea together, and when the shops began to close, Swami said that it was time to move now, meaning that we should move all the things over to the place where he slept every night.
"This one particular night he was having to work with just Will and me, who were not very aware, although we'd been with him for some weeks. He said, 'This beggar will try to do this nicely, but there may be some difficulty.' So slowly we took those huge burlap bags filled with newspapers and no telling what else over to the spot where he slept. After we got ourselves moved over there, we just sat quietly and lit a candle because it was very dark. Everything was just so quiet, so peaceful. Then Swami said, 'Joan!' And I came to attention. He said, 'You can do some work for this beggar,' and I was thrilled. He said, 'Pannal isn't here. You can unroll my bed. 'Well, his bed - one would never suspect it as it was only a roll of burlap rags - was stuffed away underneath the shelf that a shopkeeper had kindly let him use. He began to explain to me very carefully how I was to do this work. I was just so excited about the opportunity to do something like this for him, something more than carrying newspapers or whatever. Except I always especially liked to carry his staff. He told me in detail how I was to proceed about this work and said, 'Don't get up now. This beggar will explain how you must do this nicely.' I sat there, all the time thinking in my mind that I knew how to roll out a bed, because we had sleeping bags and I knew how to unroll those. I waited patiently until he explained it all to me. And then he said, 'Now you can do this'. So I got up and went over to the burlap bag and began to unroll it according to my own idea. He jumped up and said, 'What are you doing?' I said, 'Well, Swami, I'm..uh..you know..' And he said, 'Sit down.' I was just mortified. I said, 'Swami,' trying to continue, but again lie said, 'Sit down.' So I sat down. I tried to defend myself by telling myself that lie hadn't spoken clearly. Of course, the truth was that I hadn't heard what he was telling me. Then after some minutes of silence which felt like hours to me, he said, 'Mr. Will, Joan thinks this beggar is very arrogant.' I was shocked because I'm sure I was thinking he was very arrogant. And then he became very serious once more, and he explained so I understood. He said, 'After sometime, when you've been with this beggar, sometimes he treats you differently.' He explained that, and for the first time I realized that if we were going to stay there with him, I was going to have to really listen and follow the instructions he was giving me, because these instructions, though they didn't seem very important, were really, really important. Hilda has enlightened us even more about the meanings behind them.
"Once when we were in the field, sitting under the tree that Will spoke of, we had the honour of helping him write a letter to a man who had been to see Yogi Ramsuratkumar and was a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba. He had since gone back to Europe. Swami said, 'I must write to Sri Raman today. 'Any casual observer would think, here's this mad fellow, this beggar, just sitting under a tree, and he should have plenty of time for everything. But his work was so intense. Can you imagine that he only changed clothes may be once in six months? I remember once he had on a new set of clothes and he looked glorious. But he said, 'This beggar, this sinner, had no chance to get a bath.' There just wasn't time for him to spend on himself to take a bath.
"So he began to write a letter to Sri Raman, and we were speaking about the things that Sri Raman had written to him and what things Swami wanted to tell him. The letter was written nicely. Then it got to be about five o'clock and we heard the evening whistle, so he said we should be going and told me to take care of the letter. 'Here, hold this letter, and carry it,' he said to me very firmly. 'Just hold it and carry it.' But I began to think on my own that if we walked along the dirt road, the path that we usually followed, I would probably have it spoiled by the time we had to mail it. So I said, 'Swami, I have a good idea.' He didn't like my saying this, but he was very nice. He said, 'Yes, what is it?' I said, 'Swami, why don't we put the letter between the newspapers and I'll carry it in the newspapers. Then when we get to the post office, it'll be in perfect condition.' He mumbled. 'This beggar thought it would be better if you hold it, but all right, do it your way.' So I thought, 'Oh, boy, it's going to be in perfect condition.' I put it in the newspapers and thought no more about it. I got to carry a few more things also, and we stopped to sit on a rock near a farmhouse where he was known to the people who lived there. Parmal, his devotee, was alerted that he would be taking the letter to Sri Raman to mail at the post office. Swami said, 'Joan, give me the letter.' I opened up the newspapers, but by some horrible accident the letter had slipped down the newspapers, and my hand - it was hot weather, you know - had spoiled the edge. It was torn. That was the first thing he saw, the tear in the letter. It was just horrible. To make matters worse, the two men who were with him all the time were laughing! Swami said, 'This beggar will do what lie can, but it won't be the same. He'll do what lie can. He'll make some lines on the letter, but it won't be the same."
Hilda : Thanks, Joan. Caylor, speak just for a second or two. Loud and clear.
Caylor : "I went to India in the spring of 1970. For about six years I knew him and frequently went to see him. He's a fantastic being, and the longer I'm away from him, the more I feel this in my heart. I'll tell you the way we met, the beginning of it all."
"At that time he had lived in Tiruvannamalai for about thirteen years. No one knew him except for just the few village people who understood who he was. He avoided people. He walked for miles on the highways in a state of trance. He would sit in graveyards for days and days and not eat, just to avoid people so he could be doing his work.
At this time I was eager to do some meditation in India to really profit from my stay there. I was like so many of the devotees of Ramana Maharshi who sat in the meditation room for five or six hours at different times of the day, However, I started to have tremendous pressure in my forehead. It would move up to the top of my head and my head would feel as if it were being pressed in a vise. I couldn't stand it. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't sit still, and I couldn't think. Nothing seemed to stop it. I went from one person in the ashram to another, but no one seemed to be able to help me, no one. I was astonished that there wasn't someone there who could do that work or understand it.
"So finally I went to an old French woman in the ashram who'd been in Tiruvannamalai for about seven years. She knew one person, she said. But oh, no, I'd never find him - she couldn't even find him. I asked her again the next day when she was walking on the hill at sunset, and she said, 'All right, I'l1 watch for him tomorrow when I go to the bazar.' The next day she went and she saw him there. You know, it was as if he were waiting for her, because otherwise she never would have round him. He told her to bring me to the temple at five o'clock the next evening.
"So there I am waiting at five minutes before five, and here he comes, with about a half dozen little kids all prancing around him. He's just ecstatic, he's just floating, and the kids are all dancing, and they're so happy together. Finally we sit down, and he gives me some flowers, and I give him the flowers I have. He asks me some questions about where I'm from and so on. I tell him about my problem, and he tells me to come back alone the next day to the bazaar, to a little stone-carving shop where they make tiny little deities. The next day there he tells me to sit still and not to think about anything. He puts his hand on my head, and for the first time in months, suddenly this whole pressure just disappears; it's gone. He explains that it's probably going to come back in two weeks and that if it does, I should find him again. How? You know, it didn't occur to me that I'd have to find him, that I'd have to really hunt.
"So in two weeks the pressure came back. I prayed and I prayed that I'd be able to find him, and I designated that he would be under the main archway into the temple, where I had left him two weeks earlier. That evening I started off early, and it was storming by the time I got there. There are thousands of people selling things on the streets of India, and every one of them was stuffed under that archway. It was just incredible. How was I to find him? He would never be there with so many people - and be wasn't. So I ran out into the street and I ran here and I ran there. I looked in tea shops, I looked everywhere - I was desperate. Finally, alter about half an hour, I ran out into the street, turned around and there he stood, inches from my nose. He jumped away and said, 'Mr. Caylor, what are you doing here?' And I said, 'Oh Swami!' and I grabbed him and hugged him. He took me to the tea shop where we sat and talked about American Indians for about half an hour, just to get my mind off my problems. Then he put his hand on my head again, and it went away. And I've never had that problem since. But that's how it all began.
"And then began a long process of learning things like Will and Joan have told you. I learned how every single thing he touches - even if it's a cigarette butt or the package or a twig he plays with or a string that he's taken off a little wrapper of food - anything he's ever touched you can't just throw away, because there's power in there. There's something: there's an essence, there's a quality. It may be months before he finds time to empty his pockets and place everything where it will do some work. It takes a long time to see him doing these things. He doesn't talk about them. He's a beggar. He calls all these things his 'madness.' He loves to talk about how bizarre he is . It's really remarkable.
"You have to learn little things - like when he's talking, you can't interrupt. It took me time after time of interrupting to learn this. After hours of sitting with him, he would be in a sort of abstracted state, and he'd have me talk about a particular subject. It was always different, but always specific. For a half hour, an hour, an hour and a half, he would ask me questions, and I would keep going. After the day had gone by, my head would be so tight that I couldn't take any more from him. I'd have to go out and be away for a while. But as this was going on, if I tried to change the subject, suddenly he'd stop and say, 'We'll talk about that later.' He'd ask me another question. He explained once, and I finally understood, that to stop him and to change the subject was like derailing a train going at sixty or ninety miles an hour. He's intensely involved in a certain work. And to suddenly change the subject is to leave all that up in the air. You know how we feel when we're working and somebody interrupts us. But he works on so many different levels all at one time that to just simply change the subject - what does it do to that man? It's astonishing.
"When we walked with him or when we sat with him, he was always so conscious of where every one was. We all had to be in a certain arrangement. He'd think a long time about where he would put us before we would even get to sit down. And if I let somebody walk between us while we were walking in the bazaar, it would upset him. It upset his body physically. He would remind me, 'Please don't allow anyone to break us up.' We would have been working together for days, hours, on whatever it was.
"He talked about himself a little bit. One very beautiful story is that one morning, as usual, he was going to a little shop in the bazaar where he bought cigarettes - but maybe be went at that time knowing who was going to be there. He saw an old sadhu also buying something, maybe some cigarettes too. And this sadhu takes from the shop owner what he had asked for and turns around and looks at Swami and says, 'Who are you?' Swami takes a step back, and he looks at him as he does out of the comer of his eye, and he says, 'I am who you are. And who are you?' It was this joyous occasion of two Masters meeting, and they both knew it was this little leela, this little miracle, right in the bazaar. They embraced.
"I've written some things about him, beautiful things I think, and he used to love to have me read them over and over and over. He would say, 'You know, this beggar is only the dust at the Lord's feet. And you have taken this soil and you have made it into some mud. That's all I am, this beggar's just mud. And you have shaped it and fashioned it like a master crafts man into some beautiful, beautiful statue. He would say, I can't ever thank you for what you've made of this beggar.' To hear him talk like this - well, I don't know what to say.
Once or twice late at night he has said to me that he is a Master. And he has said something very beautiful which I always remember. He said, 'I am infinite and so are you and so is everyone, my friend. You see only a small part of the real man, like a man standing on the seashore of a great ocean and looking out, sees only a small portion of that great ocean. Like that, you see only an infinitesimal part of me.' And he said, 'I am Infinite.'
Hilda : Thank you very much. Thank you.
What I wanted to say was that to me, those who work like that are working with the Infinite . Do you comprehend what he was doing, kids, when he put a teacup here and one over here and one over here and one over here and nobody could move them? He was working with the Infinite. Do you understand? Do you comprehend at all? He was placing something that had power to change the world. He might have been working with religions. He might have been working with countries. He might have been working with ideas. But he was shaping things. And he once said to Joan, "Watch this world in twenty-five years." What did he say, Joan?
Joan: "He said if we were to just stop our existence now and wake up again in twenty-five years, the glorious world that we would see in twenty-five years we wouldn't even recognize. We wouldn't believe that it was the same world we had once been in.
Hilda: See, do you understand what he was doing? What these silent ones, these people who are never known to you, do? They don't have big crowds, they don't have Yogavilles. I'm not downing any of that, kids. I'm not downing the hundreds of thousands following well-known yogis. I'm not downing any of it. But there are the invisible ones at work, and I've always said it's these people along with the other great ones who keep the world in balance.
He takes a stone and puts it here. He has a reason. He puts a thought behind it. And he hides behind his craziness; he hides behind his laughter. But he's stem, stem, so stem you have to do it just right. And people don't understand - why can't you just do it sloppy?
Why not? Because when he puts a stone there, he's placing it for the universe; he's placing it for the world. He's changing the world with his thoughts, with his power. I tell you, I've had a letter from that man, and he calls himself with every other word, "this old sinner, this old beggar." Well, if he's a sinner and beggar, he's the most beautiful 'sinner and beggar in this universe. He's powerful! If he puts a stone down, he changes the world!.
He reminds me somewhat of Shirdi Sai Baba, who would go out on the temple porch in the afternoon and nobody would go near him because he was doing his universal things. They aren't funny, these strange people.
These hidden angels, these great ones, help hold the world in balance. Perhaps they appear mystical to some, foolish to others, insane in the minds of the earthly sick ones who are tied to customs. Oh, we have a custom, you mustn't wear rags, no, no. Mustn't tie pieces of rock in your clothes. You'll end up in Bellevue with a psychiatrist saying you mustn't tie rocks in you dress. That's not nice, that's not the way humans do things. You've got to do it just the way everybody else does. Well, these great ones don't. Their ways break the rules of cultures. But to me they are the sacred ones who sacredly work for their brothers and sisters unnoticed - except that I brought it out into the open here, with all my heart. And he knows it this night. He knows it. I'm going to write him and tell him that people in the second biggest cathedral hall on the Earth heard all about you, Swami.
To these hidden brothers and sisters of light, let us humbly bow. They care not for fame, for recognition, but quietly walk through life as God's beacons of truth and light. And I sang out from my soul with them as I awakened this morning, and I heard these words. They were wonderful as I awakened. "I love life'" I said, in all its diversities. I love giving, I love receiving, I love the sun, I love the moon, I love the mud. I love the hardships. And I love the glory. Yes, I love life, God's life in all its diversities and forms. And best of all, I love the Formless One."
Yes, these hidden ones, kids, these hidden ones work that way. Let me know that there are a few hundred here that understand things beyond their ken, beyond their mind. I had a hard day today, but I came here laughing, laughing like a fool. New people will say, "What is that crazy woman up there laughing about?"
Nope, the hidden ones like Yogi Ramsuratkumar are not crazy. He knows just what he's doing for the universe - and he's changing the universe. I know when I work in the funny way that I work - if 1 never saw you kids again and never left my room, I'd still be working for the universal as I do with the Master Pericles. Watch the papers for the results of the work we here are doing for Greece, for Egypt and for Israel. I have somebody else watch the papers. I don't read them. I'm not like the great ones carrying newspapers. Now do we know what he's got in those newspapers? Maybe he is carrying the world in those newspapers! Do you understand? And we say he's nuts.
Well, I'm telling you, let's change our ideas of right and wrong this night, shall we? Let's get up out of our strait-jackets. Let's change those ideas of what's right and wrong this moment and know that some- where in India or in the mountains here are great ones - hidden - never seen by you or me, perhaps, but who are keeping our world in balance.
(Extracted from SAINTS ALIVE by Hilda Charlton. Publishers, Golden Quest, Woodstock, New York.)
(Courtesy TATTVA DARSHANA - 1990)


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The Importance of Adebayor | Stats Comparison of Strikers From Top 6
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With two weeks to go until Tottenham face their season opener up at Newcastle, to say we are lightweight up front is an understatement. The only recognised strikers on the books are Jermain Defoe and the youngster Harry Kane. While I admired Spain playing with a false number 9 in the Euro's, I don't think it is realistic to expect Spurs to play it with the same level of impact!
It has been widely reported that a deal for Adebayor is likely to be in place, as long as some obstacles can be overcome. The stumbling block is the astronomical salary that Adebayor has become accustomed to and how the shortfall in salary with a move to Spurs will be overcome.
Spurs fans appear to have split opinions on Adebayor. I am firmly of the belief that he is an exceptional player and he was vital to us securing a top 4 position last season. As long as we are able to come to a reasonable agreement that doesn't disrupt the wage structure, we should be doing everything in our powers to secure the Togolese hitman on a permanent basis.
Adebayor Goals
Adebayor finished as our top scorer last season with 17 goals. Without some dodgy refereeing/linesman decisions, he would have broken the 20 goal barrier. One of the criticisms that is often levelled at Adebayor, and one that I fully agree with is that his finishing is often poor. Last season he had a shooting accuracy of 53% and a chance conversion of 19%. If he can score 17 goals with poor finishing imagine what he could produce with a bit of extra time on the training pitch. In the past Adebayor has scored for fun against Spurs – it made a pleasant change watching him put the ball in the net for, and not against us.
Adebayor: Adding so much more
Aside from the goals, Adebayor was instrumental in our overall play. He held the ball up well bringing others into play and was the target man we have cried out for; for years. He had some exceptional performances where he was unplayable (Liverpool and Newcastle at home stand out for me), but I can't deny there were also some off games. He particularly didn't seem to enjoy his time on Merseyside with less than impressive displays against Everton and Liverpool where he was largely anonymous. There is no doubting though that Adebayor was a major plus point for us last season.
The table below looks at Adebayor's creativity stats against those of the other attacking players in the Tottenham team. By all accounts they are pretty impressive. As well as being the top scorer, he also had the most assists with 11, one ahead of Bale and 4 more than one of our most creative attacking players in Van der Vaart. All in all he created an impressive 49 chances from open play, with only Modric (65) and Bale (62) creating more chances from open play.
Importance to the team
With Adebayor being our top scorer and also top assistor, it is evident that he was vitally important to the team. To put this in context I have compared this to strikers from the other teams that made up last season's top 6. The players looked at are Aguero, Rooney, Van Persie, Ba and Torres. Demba Ba was chosen ahead of Papiss Cisse as he was at Newcastle for the whole season and Torres was selected ahead of Drogba as he played more minutes, scored more goals and had more assists – essentially a more influential player for Chelsea (in the league) than he is maybe given credit for.
It has been well documented how vital Van Persie was to Arsenal, but not so much has been made of Adebayor's contribution to Spurs. The table above shows that Adebayor contributed to 28 of Tottenham's goals. This is less that Van Persie, Rooney and Aguero (and Adebayor took longer to contribute) but if we look at this is terms of contribution to total team goals, Adebayor is 2nd to only Van Persie. Van Persie contributed to (scored or assisted) over half of Arsenal's goals (52.7%) while Adebayor contributed to 42.4% of Tottenham's total goals.
If Van Persie leaves Arsenal as is widely expected, everyone has already said he will leave a huge void. If Tottenham fail to secure the permanent transfer for Adebayor, his contribution to the team will be equally missed.
I for one hope that something gets sorted out sooner rather than later.
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by Matt Swan
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Dynamic Duo Spearhead Spurs | Stats
In my previous article I looked at how Adebayor offered more to the team than just goals. His movement, hold up play and creativity have all been excellent and a major factor in Tottenham's rise to the top 3 of the Premier League. Against Newcastle on Saturday evening, Adebayor was once again back to his best. With a new strike partner to play alongside, Adebayor seemed to be keen to impress. He linked up wonderfully with Saha and it was …
Harry Kane - The Goal Machine
What a year its been for Harry Kane. The Englishman has risen through the ranks at White Hart Lane and after several loan spells the striker is now one of the first names on Mauricio Pochettino's team sheet, and its no surprise. Kane has scored 14 goals in all competitions so far this season, including 4 goals in 13 appearances in the Premier League and is set to become only the second Spurs player to score 20 goals in a …
Emmanuel Adebayor: Uninspired, or Misused?
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Adebayor - Offering More than Just Goals
The one thing that Tottenham had been crying out for since selling Dimitar Berbatov was a top class striker - someone who could hold the ball up, bring others into play and most importantly put the ball in the back of the net. Signing Adebayor seemed to tick all of the boxes - a player with pace and power and someone who constantly found the net at White Hart Lane for his previous employers…. Just recently I have heard a …
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Watch a US Air Force vet's amazing story of ejecting from his aircraft only for it land itself
Pilot Ejected, Fighter Jet Flew And Landed By Itself Safely (The Joint Forces Channel/Youtube)
March 02, 2017 Cheryl Hinneburg
Ret. United States Air Force Maj. Gary Foust tells the story of a training exercise gone wrong, only to go right again. The now infamous story of the "Cornfield Bomber," which Foust insists should have the name of the "Wheatfield Fighter" instead, occurred on Feb. 2, 1970 just north of Boston.
Foust was forced to eject from his Convair F-106 Delta Dart, only to watch the aircraft stabilize itself from a flat spin and coast off into the distance to land safely in a farmer's field near Big Sandy, Montana.
Foust said this is a one in a million occurrence, so what exactly happened that day?
Foust was flying at around 40,000 feet in a combat maneuvering session that was supposed to include four aircraft, but one aborted, leaving three. Foust's opponent was flying at a lower altitude. They met and got into vertical scissors.
Listen to Foust tell the story in his own words below:
Wingman Tom Curtis described it like this, "I figured I could handle [1st Lt.] Gary [Foust] pretty easy, but I did not trust Jimmy [Major James Lowe]. I figured he would probably break off and come after me. With this thought in mind, I came at them in full afterburner. I was doing 1.9 Mach when we passed. I took them straight up at about 38,000 feet. We got into a vertical rolling scissors. I gave [Gary] a high-G rudder reversal. He tried to stay with me, that's when he lost it. He got into a post-stall gyration…a very violent maneuver. His recovery attempt was unsuccessful and the aircraft stalled and went into a flat spin, which is usually unrecoverable," according to History.net.
Shortly after the maneuver, the aircraft encountered a problem and immediately went into a left-hand turn and a flat spin. Foust went through the procedures to recover, but was unsuccessful.
By the advice of his wingman, Foust ejected at around 8,000 feet.
The aircraft was headed nose down racing to the ground. Amazingly, it recovered and flew off. It flew for a few miles and safely landed itself in a snow-covered field in a town called Big Sandy.
The aircraft sustained minor damage. Local authorities arrived on the scene to find the aircraft's engine still idling, causing it to slowly drift across the field. When contacted by the local sheriff, the Air Force advised him to allow the aircraft to run out of fuel. One hour and forty-five minutes later the aircraft came to a rest.
Foust said he was certain the aircraft had crashed, and the fact that it didn't was stunning to him and everyone else.
The aircraft was eventually repaired and returned to service. It now rests in on a display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
(National Museum of the U.S. Air Force/Youtube)
Foust was able to visit the museum and see the aircraft. He said it felt good to see it and know that it is in the museum and his story will live on until it happens again.


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