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Art Tickles – Well-suited
November 26, 2018 · by Taylor Hidalgo	· in Art Tickles, Haywire Magazine, Opinions, Portfolio, Uncategorized.	·
Written for Haywire Magazine.
It's all glitzy neon and flashing lights in Yakuza 0, people in suits and waistcoats mill around the streets barking advertisements for their stores and inviting businessmen into the bars to drink with well-dressed women. The finest sushi is paired with an array of booze. Bars offer karaoke machines to every patron, each booth its own private singing club. The streets of Kamurocho are packed with pedestrians, flitting to and fro in the city of glitz and light, and Kiryu is punching a man halfway to death in an alleyway.
At the edges of alleyways and through the glowing doorways, the city has a great deal to do and see. Kiryu stalks these streets as he goes about his business, and around every corner is a building with a purpose. Restaurants are packed with foods to partake in, and drinks to imbibe. Punks stand at the street corner ready to fight. Bars are stuffed full of karaoke machines and tight-dressed hostesses. Ruffians stand astride a park looking for trouble. Telephone clubs open the doors to all sorts of lewd conversations with curious women. A drunk belligerently challenges passersby to fistfights. A gaming arcade beeps cheerily in the night with claw games and the hottest new release, Outrun. Three men in dark suits press their expensive shoes into the face of a victim on the street corner. Businesses are available for purchase, promising to lead to a burgeoning real estate empire. Kiryu stands at the precipice of it all, caught between a lavish life to lead and a never-ending gallery of fistfights.
The fictionalized city has a great deal to see and explore, but in the margins of all of the things to see, places to visit, food to eat, booze to drink, and mahjong to bet on, there is a group of people milling around, waiting to pick a fight. Kiryu can hardly walk for a minute without someone yelling after him as he passes, or a handful of men blocking a narrow alleyway, looking for a reason to throw down. Conflict comes in all stripes, but in Kamurocho, it holds no punches. Be ready to fight.
Games in general have a certain exhaustive obsession with combat. Physical conflict is the bread-and-butter of the videogame, and it makes interactions intuitive. Identify enemy, acquire weapon, combine, shake vigorously, and ta-da, the recipe yields hot and fresh combat that tastes of victory. Easy enough.
For some games, this mechanic is all that really needs to be there. Even within Yakuza 0, the arcades' Space Harrier cabinets never explain why the player is running through polygonal fields exchanging fire with monsters. The journey is never explained, and frankly no explanation is really necessary. Dodging, shooting, and success are their own rewards. But while Kiryu feeds the machine 100 Yen coins, it can be hard not to realize that this interaction is one of several available to him. Space Harrier offers no alternatives, and the experience is punchy and challenging and fun, but it's not a game that lasts very long. A few coins, a few minutes, and life goes on.
In some games, the range of mechanics gets wider: conversation options, morality judgments, minigames, music to unlock, collectibles to pick up, and upgrades to buy. All of these things stand as a way to broaden the scope of an experience, so there's more to a game than just a lot of fights. Getting to dwell in the characters' lives or explore the world through another's lens is itself a compelling part of the play experience. Not all conflicts need to be built with the groundwork laid by fisticuffs and gunfire. There's nothing wrong with combat, but it often plays too central a role, even when there are great alternatives.
Hosting a duo of glitzy cities with lots to do, things to collect, people to meet, sushi to buy, booze to down, and crane games to play, Yakuza 0 also has men at every corner waiting with bated breath for a target, and the next opportunity to catch the player in a dark alley and settle in for some good old-fashioned fisticuffs. With so much to do, it feels like there's a living, breathing world just asking to be explored and interacted with, but wait, first these hooligans feel like a scrap. With so much more world out there, it almost feels like the violence should taper off—some guys are accosting a woman, fighting is the only way to make them stop—since the characters get so much more to do than just throwing hands hour after hour. Being something other than lowly yakuza muscle should open the doors to see the world as more than a—three men in leather jackets square up to fight—long string of conflicts.
After slamming a man's head into the bricks, turning another's elbow inside out, and shattering a man's spine on a bike rack, for hours, violence should by now be less omnipresent. Kamurocho waits forever in all directions: gambling, gaming, gourmet, and gachapon are all available just down the street. Since missions often devolve into scripted fights anyway, there's no threat of combat disappearing. Just before this alleyway fight, Kiryu was perhaps on a date at the theater with someone he had met at through telephone club. Or had just finished an hours-long marathon session of Outrun in which he'd finally gotten to see some of the late-game scenery he'd never seen before. Maybe he'd just finished a mission in which he'd already done an exhausting amount of fighting. Perhaps what he would be best served by is just a lovingly cooked beef bowl before his next brawl. Instead, men with knives stand in front of the restaurant. C'mon, guys, there's more to this world than violence. There's more to do than packing the nearest emergency room with bodies suffering from shattered limbs and missing teeth.
Breathless fury is instilled in men that charge, five at a time, but the fighting really could use a break. I want so desperately to sink into this world, even just an hour of uninterrupted and childlike wonder before it gets back to men with brass knuckles waiting to externalize my internals. Besides, I haven't gotten to dance to this song yet. Though you'll need to give me a minute to catch my breath—I just slammed a rich guy's head with the door of a Ferrari.
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Classic Variety at the Luton Festival of Transport
Tony Wawryk
Another weekend, and another decision to make as once again I was presented with a choice of classic events to attend last weekend, but having enjoyed Classics on the Crick in Naphill for the past four years, this year I opted for an event new to me – the Luton Festival of Transport.
For those who don't know, Luton is about an hour north of London, some 55km away – apparently close enough for its airport, renowned for being the base of budget airline EasyJet and one of the least enjoyable starts or indeed finishes you can have to a journey, to be called London-Luton Airport – either a farcical or clever bit of branding, depending on how you view it.
For those of us interested in cars, Luton is much better known as the main manufacturing base for Vauxhall, one of the oldest and longest-running motor manufacturers in the world. Originally founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, the company began producing cars, and later, vans and other commercial vehicles, in 1903 and has done so ever since. In 1925 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, and subsequently was rolled into Opel. While for many years its model line-up differed to those from Opel, the two companies now make identical ranges differing only in the badging, but under the Groupe PSA umbrella, having been acquired from GM in 2017.
I mention all this as Vauxhall, though not Opel, was – unsurprisingly – a major presence at the Luton Festival of Transport. Visitors were also able to visit the Vauxhall Heritage Centre, an opportunity I chose to take up; more on that later.
The event itself is now in its 27th year and is another charity fund-raiser, not dissimilar in size and scope to the recent Chiltern Hills event. It's organised by the Chiltern Vehicle Preservation Group, which arranges a number of events through the year, including pub meetings of the type which our own Dave Leadbetter recently visited.
Having kept an eye on the weather forecasts during what had been a miserable week weather-wise, Sunday morning dawned bright and clear – the organisers must have some incriminating evidence on the weather gods, as it's pouring with rain again as I write this the following day. I arrived in die Zitrone just before 9:30 and Stockwood Park, venue for the day, was already busy with owners lining up their classics in the appropriate section, with some of them putting their polishing cloths to use. I parked up in Class K for Cars and Campervans Between 1971-1980. There was a wide range of classes for cars, commercials and bikes, with the usual food vans, autojumble (one day I'll actually spend some time rummaging around one) and live music provided by the Wannabe Shadows – close your eyes and it's as if Hank Marvin is in the house. As is my usual practice, I declined to join the polishers, searching instead for a coffee before setting off on my wanderings among the rows of classic treasures.
The half hour or so before a show officially opens gives a good opportunity to take photographs without being constantly photo-bombed. Among the early arrivals were members of the NSU Owners Club who had arranged a line-up of NSU Prinz 4's. These tidy little rear-engined cars from Neckarsulm in Baden-Württemberg were built between 1961 and 1973 with only minor modifications over that time. The four on display here were later models, by which time the "Prinz" name had been dropped, and included a pair of 1971/2 1000C models, a 1200TT from 1971, and a 1970 race-prepared version sporting a 1498cc engine. I really liked the 1200TT in particular, and these small, light cars had surprising performance – even the 48bhp 1000C could reach 85mph or 135km/h, and the twin-Solex equipped 65bhp 1200TT could hit a claimed 95mph or 155km/h, not to mention spirited acceleration and handling as well.
While admiring this row of small NSU's, the car that is perhaps the crowning glory of the company arrived in the form of a metallic blue 1973 Ro80. Sadly, but understandably given the original Wankel rotary engine's reliability issues, this car had the Ford Essex V4 installed as a replacement, as was often the norm back in the day. This then-revolutionary car still looks modern today, and this was a lovely example. It did make its smaller contemporary stablemates look very dated, though – such a wonderful car.
A delightful surprise for me was the presence of an Opel Manta A, and a very nice one at that. The white 1971 1.6S belongs to Katrina Anderson, who has owned it for 18 years. Apart from the front spoiler and a Blydenstein head, the car remains as it left the factory. It was her daily driver for a while but in recent years has led a much more sheltered life and still has only 33,000 miles on the odometer. Katrina and her husband Mark are classic GM fans – Mark owns the bright orange Viva GT in the pictures.
Speaking of GM products, since the show takes place a very short distance from the Vauxhall factory, it's only right and proper that I spend some time to mention some of the products of that factory on display.
As you would expect, there was a wide selection of Vauxhall's from across the decades, as I hope the pictures will show. Among the various generations of Velox's, Viva's, Victors, Cresta's and Cavaliers were some real gems – a pale blue 1957 Velox with white roof and matching wheels looked stunning in the sunlight, a very tasty mid-blue with black bonnet '68 Viva GT, and the only 3-window PA Cresta Friary Estate known to survive. I can't say that I particularly liked the Friary, but it had undeniable presence; although actually only 15 feet long, the Cresta always seemed like a British version of an American car to me.
There were regular coach transfers – via a classic coach – for those wishing to visit the Vauxhall Heritage Centre just ten minutes away, so I took the opportunity to check it out. In truth, the centre is pretty disappointing; it's very cramped – whoever managed to squeeze the cars into the very limited space did an incredible parking job – and there's little or no information about the cars on display. I gather that the centre will be moved to a new and more spacious location soon, which is nothing less than the cars deserve.
Despite the inadequate space, there was a succinct history of the marque, much of it reflected at the show. Perhaps the prize exhibit – actually on display outside – was the 1930 Hurlingham T-Type, but the most intriguing were the two concept cars tucked into a corner of the building. One was the 1970 Vauxhall SRV, as dramatic a wedge as anything from Bertone or Pininfarina – just 41 inches high, it was designed to seat four, just like an Espada, but sadly was unable to run under its own power.
Alongside it, and if anything even more futuristic, was the orange 1966 (!) XVR two-seater – three of these were built and one of them could actually be driven, though not the one on display. It's a literally fantastic looking car and you wonder how the perception of Vauxhall as a manufacturer of mostly staid family-oriented saloons might have changed had the XVR – or indeed the SRV – made it into production. Perhaps this design exercise was what led to the Opel GT, or is that fanciful thinking on my part?
Back at the show itself, time to pick out a few more highlights, starting with some impressive landyachts from across the pond. Following the revelations from Tatton Park, Mrs. International Editor would have loved the sight of not one, but two very pink US classics – the obligatory pink Cadillac, this time in the form of a 1959 de Ville, and more unusually, a 1961 Chrysler Windsor. Other road-going oceanliners included a light metallic blue 1972 Chevrolet Caprice, a huge gold 1974 8.2-litre Caddy Eldorado convertible parked back-to-back with an equally huge de Ville, a red 1968 5.7-litre Buick Electra, and a black 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88. A menacing 1970 Dodge Coronet, elegant 1965 Thunderbird, and a 1959 Galaxie with retractable hardtop added to the acres of US metal, with some old-fashioned muscle in the shape of a metallic green 1969 Firebird 400 and a 5.7-litre second-generation Camaro Z28 from 1972 contributing to a significant set of American entries.
There were more Humber's than usual – or at least it seemed that way. There were fine examples of this former Rootes marque in the shapes of a couple of Super Snipes, a Hawk, and a very tidy 1965 Sceptre saloon which I had passed en route to the show. But perhaps the most unusual one was the yellow 1975 Sceptre Estate – I don't ever remember seeing one before. Another rarely seen Rootes survivor was a 1978 Chrysler Avenger 1.6LS which also caught my eye – fewer than 20 of this variant of what was previously known as the Hillman Avenger survive in the UK.
A couple of cars along from me was an even scarcer version of a previously common car – the Citroën GS. My father used to have a metallic brown GS Pallas back in the '70's – of course we often asked him to turn the engine on and off just to feel the suspension rise and fall; we were kids, after all. Nowadays the GS in general is a rare beast in the UK, with under 50 in total on the roads here. But this was a 1978 GS Basalte – just 1500 were built, and this black and red one is believed to be the only one left in the UK.
Another uncommon eye-catcher was what appeared to be a bright yellow DAF 66, but on closer inspection, this proved to be a late-1975 – and immaculate – Volvo-badged version of the car. Only four are recorded as still being on UK roads – cars like this, and the aforementioned Avenger and Citroën GS are further proof that you don't need a Ferrari or Lamborghini to own an exclusive classic!
I just want to mention a couple of other classics that stood out for me and then let the pictures tell the rest of the story of the day. One was a tiny two-seater sportscar in a very bright shade of mintgreen – a mid-engined GTM coupé manufactured, according to the DVLA, in 1961. More accurately, what this almost certainly meant was that a 1961 Mini had been used as the donor car for this GTM – the company wasn't founded until 1967 and has a chequered history. Still, I really liked this little kit-car, and I'm not usually in favour of kit-cars at all.
One more notable rarity – a very stylish red Bond Equipe GT convertible from 1969 with a 2-litre 6-cylinder engine from the Triumph Vitesse, parked alongside one of the prettiest cars ever made, an exquisite 1961 Lotus Elite SE. This smart soft-top bears no resemblance to the three-wheelers for which Bond, and the company who acquired them in 1969, Reliant, are better known. Reliant should have kept making it; in my humble opinion it's a far better-looking car than a Sabre.
To finish, I just have to mention one of the daftest vehicles I think I've ever seen, even though it's not a car. I know that it's customary for scooter riders, more specifically mods, to customise their rides, but there was one – dedicated to the 2-Tone record label and Madness in particular – which was so festooned with lights and mirrors that I'm not sure it can possibly be roadworthy – I'd hate to try to take it round a corner! Still, each to their own…
This was a pretty good show, with lots of the variety with which we are regularly spoiled at such events, and while I might make a return to Naphill next year, I'll definitely come back to Luton another time.
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yrhmblhst June 17, 2019
Lots of very cool stuff – including a real dog – there; thanx for sharing. I am constantly amazed at the variety of cars that show up at your get togethers over there. usually, I learn of a marque or variant that I had no previous idea existed. REALLY liking that Manta, several of the various Opels / Vauxhalls , the yellow Escort wagon and the wagon, um, er, estate car, in the header/lead photo. Always enjoy the Vauxhalls and Opels, not only because I like em, but its fun to sit and pick out various styling cues and relating them to the parent company's core products in the Homeland.
Speaking of… I think – do not bet the farm on it tho – that the Opel GTs styling is based on the Mako Shark II mainly, which shares some DNA with the Monza GT. Sadly, the Monza was never produced, but the Mako became the 68 to 82 Corvette. That basic shape took genesis around the turn of the decade in Mitchells studios and shows its influence throughout GM in the late 60s and 70s – as well as outside of GM – across all of GMs brands from America to Australia to Europe.
Thanx for sharing.
Anders Bilidt June 17, 2019
Well, I've refrained from showing my dear wife the pics of that pink de Ville and the equally pink Windsor… ;-)
@yrhmblhst
, we clearly share quite a few opinions on classic cars. That Manta A looks absolutely delicious. The yellow Escort estate too. And that Vauxhall Cresta estate in the lead picture is just fabulous – though I'd lose the Jensen Interceptor alloys and put it on a set of wide steelies instead.
Oh, and when did you last see a FIAT Croma?? I had almost forgotten they even exist…
But the very best of them all simply has to be that entirely bonkers Bristol 405. Love the aviation inspired design and the quirky but brilliant engineering of that big saloon!
Tony Wawryk June 17, 2019
glad you liked the dog – I thought it would be fun to have a picture of a Rover (generic dog name in the UK, don't know about the US) with some Rovers…probably over-reaching, but still…
After reading this piece this morning, the Mako Shark also came to my mind with regard to the XVR and thus the Opel GT, and the Opel is of course often referred to as a "mini-Corvette", and looking at photos of the Mako Shark (Shark II rather than Shark I) there seem to be clear links.
@Anders Bilidt
– that FIAT Croma is not just any Croma, it's a Turbo ie, and apparently the only one left in the UK, out of about 18 first generation Croma's in total in this country – in 2001 there were over 1600…no wonder you can't remember the last time you saw one; neither can I!

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In my .editorconfig I created rules for fields to start with an underscore _. in Visual Studio I can see the error as IDE1006. However this does not cause the build to fail. From what I have read the setting <EnforceCodeStyleInBuild>true</EnforceCodeStyleInBuild> should cause the build to fail. I tested this in Visual Studio and from the Command Line using dotnet build.
How can I have this error to cause a build failure?

A: You have to set dotnet_diagnostic.IDE1006.severity = error or warning to get it work. CLI only recognize this syntax.
See one of my related answer on similar topic.

A: Pass the /WarnAsError flag to dotnet build:
dotnet build /WarnAsError

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Ortom Rejects Invitation To Rejoin APC
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The Benue state governor Mr Samuel Ortom has rejected the invitation extended to him by the All Progressive Congress to return to the party, noting that he is fully committed to the ideals of the Peoples Democratic Party, thereby putting to rest, speculations on his alleged defection plans to the APC.
Governor Ortom made this public at the PDP congress to elect a new state executive committee of the party was returned the John Ngbede led executive, admitting that the APC indeed reached out to him but the congress decision would determine if he would remain in the PDP.
Expectedly, the delegates passed a vote of confidence on him after a voice vote he put forward to leave for the APC, was rejected by the PDP delegates, promising to work for the victory of the PDP come 2023.
With that cleared out of the way, the issue of equitable distribution of power, where only the Tiv ethnic group has been ruling the state since its creation in 1976 was tabled.
The Senator representing Benue South Senator Abba Moro and the former senate president, Mister David Mark makes a compelling case for the zone to produce the next governor come 2023.
After acknowledging cheers from the crowd and taking his seat, delegates began casting their votes for the candidates running for the 39 positions led by the incumbent chairman, Mr. John Ngbede.
Some notable persons who were present at the congress on Saturday include former Senate Presidents, David Mark, and Iyorchia Ayu, as well as the three Senators representing Benue at the National Assembly.
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When Amir describes America as "a river," he means that it is "unmindful of the past" (Kite Runner 136). This particular aspect of America attracts him because in such a country he may be able to forget his own past. He wishes that his painful memories would at least remain dormant. If they would simply stay asleep, he could move on, forget his past decisions and become a happier person. America's forgetful culture could help him be happy. If only it were that simple.
If Amir had been hoping for a placid taxi ride in Peshawar, he was sorely disappointed. Gholam's taxi is "smoke-filled," and Amir sits on "shredded upholstery," while Gholam, "a chain-smoking, sweaty little man," talks non-stop, just barely missing collisions (Kite Runner 195). This bumpy ride presages many of Amir's other experiences in Pakistan.
The red grapes that Assef had set out on the table are hardly a sign of amicable relations between him and Amir (Kite Runner 273). The violent scene that proceeds in this place proofs the animosity Assef feels toward Amir, largely because of what Assef sees as unfinished business.
The newspapers lately have raised my suspicion of collusion among people who made mortgage loans to unassuming home owners. Somewhere within the banks' systems, some employees have had secret conversations about how likely a given customer is to make payment. I am not alone in my suspicion because churches, for example, have started withdrawing their money from banks they suspect of this collusion.
When Dr. Frankenstein and his friend take an evening turn in the boat, Lake Geneva is placid. Not a breath of wind could be seen anywhere across the entire lake.
The category/label called HISTORICAL EVENT indicates sentences that refer to a significant event (occurrence) that took place in the past. This category is different than the one indicating a current event. Since occurrences in this category happened in the past, you might describe or explain an event that took years or days. For example, you could consider the American Civil War as a single historical event. Or you might consider the storming of the Bastille as an event, rather than the whole period/event known as the French Revolution.
Around the time of the French Revolution, a princess, who some people believe was Marie Antoinette, tried to appease French common people who struggled to buy just a loaf of bread. She showed little sensitivity to these people's hunger, when she proclaimed, "Let them eat cake." Her attempts at appeasement backfired.
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In the opening scenes of Hamlet, Claudius, the newly crowned king of Denmark, is trying to appease his nephew, Prince Hamlet. The prince obviously resents his uncle's quick coronation, now that Hamlet's father has been murdered. Claudius worries that young Hamlet suspects him of the murder. The sooner he can appease the young man, the more secure will be his own power.


MACOMB, IL — "Practical Problem Solving in Organic Agriculture" is the theme of Western Illinois University's 2018 Allison Organic Research and Demonstration Farm Field Day, slated for Friday, Aug. 10.
According to WIU School of Agriculture Associate Professor Joel Gruver, the daylong event will feature presentations in the morning and field tours and equipment demonstrations in the afternoon. The presentations will begin at 9 a.m. in the Dakin Farm shop - 0.7 miles south of the Allison/WIU Organic Research Farm in southwest Warren County (directions listed below). A complimentary lunch, featuring local farm products, will be served at noon.
Dave Bishop, of PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, IL, will share the keynote presentation at 11 a.m. PrairiErth Farm is a highly diversified, 480-acre family farm that raises certified organic fruits, vegetables, forages, grains, cattle, heritage breed pigs and laying hens. Bishop has been a principal operator for more than 30 years and currently farms with his sons, Hans and Graham and daughter in-law, Katie. Bishop is an innovative problem solver and was honored with the Midwest Organicand Sustainable Education Service Farmer of the Year Award in 2017.
In addition, Will Glazik will share insights on problem solving gained as an organic farmer and crop consultant working with organic and conventional farmers, and Gruver will provide an overview of recent research at the Allison Farm and moderate a panel discussion about problem solving. Panelists will include Joe Bassett (Dawn Manufacturing) and Gary McDonald (organic farmer and consultant).
Between 1:30-3:30 p.m., Gruver will lead a walking tour of the Allison Farm's research and demonstration plots featuring corn, soybeans, sunflowers, diverse cover crop mixes, tillage systems, fertility programs, interseeding of cover crops and cultivation practices. There will also be equipment demonstrations, weather permitting.
On-site registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Dedicated time for meeting with vendors and networking with attendees is scheduled before and between presentations. To pre-register, or obtain more information about the Field Day, contact Andy Clayton - WIU Organic Program research technician and farm manager - at AW-Clayton@wiu.edu, (217) 322-2639 or the WIU School of Agriculture at (309) 298-1080, or visit wiu.edu/cbt/agriculture/farms/organic/field-day.php. Pre-registration is recommended for planning purposes.
If arriving from the north, travel on U.S. Route 67, five miles south of the U.S. Route 67, and IL Route 116 intersection in Roseville to County Rd. 20th Ave. N, then turn west and travel four miles on 20th Ave. to the southeast corner of the Allison Farm (intersection of 20th Ave. and 20th St.). Turn left and proceed south 0.7 miles on 20th Street to the Dakin Farm shop, located on the west side of the road.
If arriving from the south, travel on U.S. Route 67, seven miles north of the U.S. Route 67 and IL Route 9 intersection in Good Hope to County Rd. 20th Ave. N (two miles north of the McDonough/Warren County line), then turn west and travel four miles on 20th Ave. to the southeast corner of the Allison Farm (intersection of 20th Ave. and 20th St.). Turn left and proceed south 0.7 miles on 20th St. to the Dakin Farm shop located on the west side of the road.


TFN is up to its usual tricks (link to 7.18.11 article in Houston Chronicle posted below), but the good news is that more and more Texans know who and what TFN really is. America-loving Texans are no longer listening to the junk that TFN puts out there through their liberal mouthpieces.
TFN, Bob Craig, and Thomas Ratliff have chosen to castigate new Texas State Board of Education Chair Barbara Cargill for having spoken at a friendly meeting in which she stated that she believes the SBOE needs more conservative Christians on it.
Never mind that the term "conservative Christians" (and far worse) is used as a derogatory term by the liberal leftists to describe anyone and everyone with whom their ruinous agenda does not agree.
We Texans want our children to be able to discuss and ask questions in their classes about the strengths and weaknesses of leading scientific theories, including evolution and also the contradictions between various evolutionary trees of life.
We Texans expect the publishers in their new Science instructional materials to follow the new Science TEKS that were carefully worded and passed by a majority of our elected SBOE members after extensive public hearings.
Nowhere in the new Science standards (TEKS) does it mention the words "intelligent design" or anything faintly religious. It is TFN that loves to whip up "fears" that the SBOE members are miraculously going to wave their magic wands and thrust "intelligent design" onto each page in the new Science instructional materials! Ridiculous! The battle over the new Science TEKS was fought two years ago, and the standards were finalized then. Nothing has changed. Interestingly enough, the ACLU knows Texas' Science TEKS are Constitutional and has never challenged them.
Planned Parenthood; the Human Rights Campaign (largest homosexual organization in the U. S.); the ACLU Texas; Alliance for Clean Texas; People for the American Way; Center for Public Policy Priorities; Equality Texas; NARAL Pro-Choice; Sierra Club; Freedom From Religion Foundation; Stand Down Texas; Texas Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates (TAPPA); Texas Impact; The Texas Observer; MECha (who wants to eliminate the border with Mexico entirely and honor Mexican revolutionary war hero Ernesto Zapata and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara); the Center for Inquiry (CFI) who fought to make the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
Do we want Texas Freedom Network to influence Texas' education standards, textbooks, and curriculum?
Cecile Richards founded Texas Freedom Network in 1995. She is now the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Cecile left for Washington, D. C., Samantha Smoot took Cecile's place.
When Samantha left for Washington, D. C. in 2005, she went to work for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest homosexual organization in the country.
Another far, leftwing organization has recently been added to the TFN alliance: MEChA.
Now we have Texas Freedom Network, Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign (largest homosexual organization in the country), and MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) all speaking as one voice. Who is MEChA?
On 3.25.10, The Daily Texan reported: A UT-based group called Save Our History, an alliance between University Democrats, a Chicano civil rights group called MEChA and the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit that works to combat the radical right voice in education, staged a march and press conference on March 10. Garrett Mize, a member of the Texas Freedom Network and the coalition, said the group plans to continue its activism and hopes to expand its membership in preparation for the May meetings.
MEChA wants to eliminate the border with Mexico entirely. They honor Mexican revolutionary war hero Ernesto Zapata and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
What parent in his right mind would want the TFN alliance to have any influence whatsover over what impressionable and vulnerable public school students are taught?
I find it ironic that Bob Craig had the nerve to rail against Barbara Cargill as indicated in the 7.18.11 article in the Houston Chronicle. Back in March 2009 when the Science TEKS were being finalized and Barbara and the other conservative SBOE members were working tirelessly to make them the best in the United States, it was Bob Craig and others who mucked up the clarity of the standards.
The 13 SBOE members were finally able to come together and pass the amendment. However, as a lawyer, Bob Craig certainly should have known that saying "all sides" is ambiguous and sets up a frustrating situation for classroom teachers. When a person says a teacher is to present "all sides," then this wording technically means every opinion/report ever written. How could a teacher realistically teach "all sides" of any issue?
The social conservatives were forced to compromise in order to get the amendment passed, but we still need to hold Bob Craig accountable for creating havoc and implementing lack of clarity into the standards.
At the bottom of this article, I have posted a chart showing Bob Craig's voting record. It shows that he has clearly obstructed the hard work of the conservatives on the Board who have produced three of the finest standards documents in the entire United States. It is the conservatives on the SBOE who have led the way for our Texas public school students to follow the path to authentic education reform.
For Thomas Ratliff to use the term "divisiveness" really takes gall. Just by his presence on the SBOE, he has created divisiveness.
In this article I explain that Thomas Ratliff is currently under investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office because Ratliff was elected to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) even though the Texas Education Code says clearly that a person who is a registered lobbyist is not eligible to serve on the SBOE.
Thomas Ratliff has been a registered lobbyist with the Texas Ethics Commission since 1998. One of his most lucrative clients is Microsoft earning him between $25,000 – $50,000 each year since 1998. The SBOE is the caretaker of the Permanent School Fund (PSF), and Thomas Ratliff managed to get himself appointed to the PSF committee. On May 30, 2010, Microsoft was one of the PSF's top five stocks at $157.16 million. If this is not a direct conflict of interest, I do not know what is!
Since it is Bob Craig and Thomas Ratliff who are self-righteously touting their Christianity in today's Houston Chronicle article, I guess it is safe for me to make mention of the Biblical scripture, "You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. (New Living Translation)" I will leave it to the reader to see if this applies to Bob Craig and Thomas Ratliff. The truth is that no man can serve two masters, and we know in whose camp these two men really are.
*Provided by unnamed person on 2.12.10: This individual tabulated what happened during a single hour of voting at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on the Science standards, January 2009. He said he did not cherry-pick the votes but tabulated all of them during a one-hour period. In EVERY single vote below (which were ten consecutive ones…no omissions), Craig voted against the 7 conservatives, and in EVERY case where their motion failed, Craig switching his vote would have made it pass. Note that some motions DID PASS, but without Craig's vote.
This is indicative of what Bob Craig has repeatedly done for years to obstruct the conservatives on the Board.


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G4S, billed as a International Security Contractor, head quartered in London, England provides Security to many U.S Government Agencies and many companies in the Private Sector. They failed to recognize "Terrorist" Omar Mateen as a threat to our Country who took the lives of many Americans and wounded many others in Orlando even though they were warned by former employee Daniel Gilroy, who has stated the following:
Gilroy, age 44 former Fort Pierce Police Officer, states he quit G4S because Mateen kept threatening him, texting 30 times a day, phone calls, threatening his wife and family also told Fox news that he had raised numerous concerns with his supervisor about his dangerous behavior. He and Mateen had worked as security guards at the same South Florida resort and Gilroy stated that Mateen, used "horrible words" at the sight of women and blacks and was in a constant state of "anger and rage". "The company wouldn't do anything" about his concerns Gilroy stated "This guy was unhinged and unstable; he talked about killing people" and because of these issues with Mateen, Mr. Gilroy quit his employment.
In hearing these comments from a former employee of G4S who once was a Police Officer, we could only think that sometimes going with "Bigger" is not "Better". At Prudential Security, we pride ourselves on growing to a size where we can manage our employees and address every concern our employees have so no "employees slip thru the cracks" We are saddened by the events in Orlando and pray for all the victims and their families.


Every morning Erin and I argue long and hard about what she is going to wear. At three she seems to believe she can choose her clothes. I, a complete and utter control freak, disagree. But no more! It was becoming a real issue with lots of tears (from both parties). So I'm giving her a chance. For one week she can wear WHATEVER she wants. There is one rule NO party dresses. Unless of course it is a party. Or every day would be a party dress day. This is a guarantee.
So each morning I shall post the outfit she chooses and hopefully by the end of the week I will be able to embrace that my little baby girl is growing up and let her have a little more say in what she wears.
Curses. Today she proved me wrong and chose a rather splendid outfit. Top was from TU at Sainsburys. Short and tights combo Next sale. Little faux dark brown uggs Primark. She also popped in a spotty grip (it didn't match but I took a deep breath and let it go, god forbid she wears her Monday pants on Wednesday. I will have a breakdown). Then we had a little walk round the shops.
Pick a grip I said and Erin picked this subtle combo from H&M. I'm sure both grips combined are the actual size of her head but they made her happy so no doubt these will feature a lot over this week until she accidentally loses them (in my bin).
Verdict: Day 1's outfit twas a triumph! Well done Erin. But you must try harder with your accessory purchases.
Tomorrow: Day 2 Erin chooses a party outfit to wear to her brothers 1st birthday party. I'm already worried. Those bloody grips best not make an appearance.
Labels: Children's clothes. Style. Fashion. Toddler. Girls. Growing up.


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2 Teblick Job 00:07:0584.18 00:34:4386.33 00:16:1487.38 00:58:51 88.33
3 Boeye Dieter 00:06:2488.94 00:35:5585.82 00:15:5687.94 00:58:59 88.18
4 Vandermeeren Wout 00:06:2688.71 00:35:5085.85 00:16:2487.06 00:59:26 87.66
5 Biesemans Elias 00:06:2389.06 00:35:5285.84 00:16:3286.81 00:59:35 87.49
6 Monchy Wouter 00:06:1889.64 00:35:5485.83 00:16:4686.37 00:59:49 87.22
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8 Kiveryn Troy 00:06:2189.29 02:35:2835.16 00:29:3862.13 01:00:33 86.37
9 Bonami Hannes 00:07:1583.02 00:36:1785.66 00:16:3586.72 01:00:55 85.95
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13 De Pauw Stijn 00:07:4679.41 00:35:0586.17 00:18:1183.70 01:02:48 83.77
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Cob is a structural composite of earth, clay, straw, sand and water that is hand-sculpted into wall decorations. shelters or houses. With cob you can also create beautiful wall-sculptures, to achieve various interior design effects, you can build ovens, you can build garden walls.... The possibilities are endless!
Cob as building material is is non-toxic, non-polluting, 100 percent recyclable and biodegradable.
It is one of the oldest, safest and most eco-friendly materials for building. If mixed carefully, well-maintained and adequately protected from moisture - it can last for many centuries.
Cob buildings have extremely positive energy, one really get healed while living in such house. During the summer, inside is cool, during the winter pleasently warm.
Building such country home or weekend house is cheap and fun, one feels free like child playing with mud while being at the same time the most responsible builder and artist (sculptor) at the same time. When you can shape your own home with your own hands - believe me there is no better feeling then that.
Cob is great material because you can use it in already finished buidings, of any kind: it can be later applied on any type of inside or outside walls to insulate them, decorate them, or make them healtier.
Building with cob - earthen materials is part of many ecological houses - you use layers of cob in building the Earthship (pls check my article),Cordwood Houses, Strawball Houses, Adobe Houses... and yes, with the help of the nails you can apply it on any other wall surface !
Tatjana-Mihaela`s cob weekend house. Ekoloska kuca od zemlje.
I tested this way of building when I bought my weekend house several years ago: over 100 years old village house was made from cob. Altough nobody took care about if for 30 years before I bought it, cob walls were unbelievable hard, stable and majority of them in reasonably good condition, despite the fact that roof was in very bad state etc.
Well, fixing such old house (which was not build as it should be from the very benning) is long story on it´s own so I will not mention all challenges which my ex and me faced for 4 years living there (this subject deserves special Hub, or better saying - whole book). I do not complain, because while finding simple solutions to repair all structural damages on that house, I learned about building much more that I would ever learn in any other situation. There were only two of us doing this job (4 hands, 1 brain - mine), altough we had several times a little help from friends (often this help was more contraproductive then useful, he, he).
The walls of the house were far too thin for any building material (low thermal mass) so we used cob again (inside and outside) to make them thick enough and to sculpture them on very nice ways, so that house gradually became very pleasant place for living. Building with cob was very fun, interesting and successful experiment which brought excellent results at the end.
As I mentioned before, cob houses are very pleasently cool during the summer and warm during the winter, and all this earthen-materials assure excellent healing energy.
Of couse, in colder climate, where there is a lot of rain and winds, combination of classical and modern materials should be used in building in order to achieve the best and most permanent results.
In 4 years I became expert in various ways of building with cob, because my ex boyfriend and me tested various combinations of earthen materials, dependig on place where we were using them.
Did I like the cob building? Yes, of course! I simply adore it, and ,if needed, I would today start it again: digg the soil, cut the straw, add to the clay all needed ingredients (straw, water, sand or lime), mix that, and start building, sculpting, carving... It is one of the most pleasant jobs I ever done in my life.
Well, your hands must get dirty (not only the hands), but it is such pleasure when adult people start playing in mud... Whenever building I just could not stop singing: my heart and soul were full of joy. Contact with Earth always heals and make happy.
I did not take a lot of photos while doing that, only few: I did not have my own digital camera then, plus I was to busy to even think about taking photos, so I will share these few I have: these are taken before all what is on them was finished.
I would never recommend to anyone to renovate any too old house (especially if sctructual damage is very big), it is much better and easier if you build from the very beginning, or if you just renovate your present place for living.
Main living room - my 100 years old and renovated cob house.
When we bought the house, main living room had cob floor (we applied concrete afterwards, because house was build without foundation ) and to thin cob walls, and very damaged oak planks on the beams of ceiling. We had to fix the walls, remove all damaged planks (put 1 inch thick chipboard instead , which I painted and protected from moisture). Later on, we insulate them with layers of straw from above on what we put thin layer of concrete in the attick.
After we winished fixing the walls, winter came, and I fully understood full meaning of importance of thermal mass which was on old house far from sufficient - walls were only 8-9 inches thick. People love to build too thin walls even with bricks, so during the winter have to use too much energy to heat the house up. In the springtime, we applied additional layers of cob, on outside and inside walls plus additionaly insulate them - this is area where winter winds are strong and cold.
Thickness of the outside cob walls, if not additionally insulated should be 50 cm (19 - 20 inches), actually this is ideal thermall mass for any brick house as well . Insulation is adding thermal mass and saving heating energy.
Old extension of the house made from bricks was completely damaged in 30 years of non-using. Roof was also destroyed. You can see that on the left. This was me sitting next to the bricks.
We fixed roof, repaired extension with bricks again, and applied cob on the walls to get bigger thermal mass...and nice decoration.
These walls originally did not have any windows: so we cut the walls put windows and fix them with the cob. On that way, in kitchen was finally enough of light.
This is photo of, at that time, unfinished cob mural in the living room, next to fireplace. I live very far from my weekend house now, in another part of country, so at this moment, cannot take new photos. When was completely finished, mural was very charming.
Cob buildings have very warm atmosphere and are very pleasant: you can get inpired with the following video of some other cob- houses.
Cob is the best possible material for interior design, but i will write more about sculpting the walls in some other Hub.
Some ideas about building with cob you can get while watching the video on the bottom. Altough even children can do it, and they really like to help adults in such building projects, building itself requires some basic knowledge, theoretical or practical. The best is to start with proper foundation and small stone or brick walls before starting to build cob-walls.
I hope I inspired you to test it !
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These cob homes are lovely. This is a very entertaining Hub, I really enjoyed reading and dreaming of building a little hut getaway! I am not so sure if anyone has built these in Canada Thanks!
I loved your article and pictures on renovating that old house. I always wanted to build a mud brick house but never got around to it. But years later I did in a second hand sort of way when my daughter and her husband built their own house out of mud brick… probably as a result of me constantly talking about how wonderful they are.
I am planning on starting a cob home this summerin Texas. Is there any advice you could give me that you wished you had before you started? I love your site. Thank you so much.
What beautiful homes! Thanks so much for all the photos and there is nothing like a personal experience. I would love to live like this. I am reading a bit more about this type of building in the US. We are building far too many poorly made, cheap homes. It's time to go back to quality and endurance.
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Thank you very much for the visit and commen, Enlydia.
I have never heard of cob houses until this article...I enjoyed reading this...and love the pictures of the cob houses...yours and others.
Thank you AIDY...You certainly deserve peace and quiet and beauty of nature.
Tatjana! I adore this! Oh my--beautiful! I see myself living in such a home. Out in the open--for me that is just a writers heaven. No one to bother you out there--just absorb nature and light and write away! I will bookmark this one, yes indeed!
Thanks May, I cannot stand too much complainig (without real reason) as well.
Thank you. Love and hugs.
That was a fun hub to read. I like it when people don't complain about their passion. I love how fresh and natural the houses look. Keep it up girl!
Thank you C.C:A for supporting words. This world can be improved only if people return to creativity and art again and stop believe that Santa Clause resides in every shopping moll.
You"re the inspiration for many who would not think twice about reaching in to their creative JEANS and pulling a trowel out of their back pocket. This writing is a way to create change in attitudes developed over commercial time. Keep up the good work, very interesting write.
Thank you so much, CWB, your comment is most beautiful ray of light for me - today.
I am already preparing an article about adobe buildings, I think it will be published today.
Tatjana, thank you so much.
You are a ray of light in a world of darkness. Your weekend house is a thing of beauty.
Here in New Mexico, adobe was once the most common building material used. It is strong, durable and energy efficient. It was forced into obscurity by the cheap, inadequate, inefficient and even unsafe materials used by kapitalist, profit-seeking korporate builders.
Large areas of Albuquerque and Rio Rancho are now covered with an ugly scab of energy wasting boxes built so close together one can barely walk between them.
Many now sit empty. Some are foreclosed, some unfinished and others never sold. They are the corpse of the speculative real estate bubble that helped plunge us into a global depression.
Hopefully people will soon realize that there is more to life than profit.
You are a shining example we should all strive to follow.
Thank you Dohn,just to tell you that your Hubs are excellent!!! You are able from very simple things to create something really exciting and that is your great and very rare talent.
I am glad you have liked my Hub. Only the photos of my weekend house are mine, but not the rest.
He, he, does it mean that you will try to build something with cob? Maybe to decorate some wall in your house?
Thank you so much for your visit, compliments and comment.
You have some of the best ideas for hubs, Tatjana-Mihaela...Maybe you should slow down so others can write some REALLY GOOD hubs too!
I really like the designs of the houses and the cob used on them really give them a very unique look and feel.
Thank you so much for this fascinating and breathtaking hub! Did I ever tell you that I'm amazed by your photography?
Hi, Anjali, so glad to see you here. Women are especially sensitive on beauty of natural homes... that are also very comfortable to live in. I discovered that so often we choose something "modern" just because all people want it, not because is really what we need.
There is nothing wrong in MODERATE USE OF MODERN MATERIALS, but they should be used only to improve the traditional style of building, not to make style of life less healthy and uncomfortable.
Hi Tatjana: Wow! You have something new to offer every time. The houses look so pretty, down to earth and 'homely'. It makes me feel that the technological innovations have made our lives more complicated. Apart from losing touch with Nature we have (sort of)imprisoned ourselves within those stylish wooden / concrete walls. Thx for reminding us time and again, the benefits and beauty of staying 'simple'.
USA is using adobe - what is rammed earth, but basicaly the material is the same...mainly clay. But cob is better for shaping the walls.
Thank you for the visit, comment and support.
Looking forward to reading more of your series!


Sorry this blog update took so long. My old macbook finally ran out of gas. I couldn't get online at the Flagler Library, my update venue. Update – not the computer, the internet at the library was screwed up.
Went to the doc for a routine annual follow up and learned that my iron blood count was back to normal after dropping as a result of the hematoma developed from a fall in North Carolina. I had a huge hematoma which turned by backside black and blue from my waist to my knee – Really ugly and enough blood involved (internally) to drop me into anemia. Eventually the iron in the bruise blood is reabsorbed. That took about 2 months enhanced by taking iron pills.
100% of what's grown in the garden is used – even weeds. It's either eaten or composted. This year the wet spring and hot summer yielded the largest crop of weeds ever and consequently I have the most compost for the fall garden ever. I've been using it as needed and still have what I estimate to be 2 cubic yards of first class compost. I bet the whole garden will be raised up a couple of inches as the new compost is added. Aside from just being a much better growing medium, raising the level makes the garden less susceptible to flooding – better drainage. That's important with this garden because the lake sets the groundwater level and I like to have at least a foot of soil above that.
Lost my cousin Billy this week. We were best buddies when we were kids. We both loved exploring, fishing, diving, camping – anything with a large outdoor component. We got into lots of "trouble" by disappearing – long walks in the woods, on the beach – you name it. I'll miss him a lot. Not that we saw each other often but I thought about our exploits frequently and I'll continue to do so.
Another loss – both the NY Times and the Washington post have morphed into the National Inquirer. I always knew they were way too liberal for me but thought they had journalistic integrity. Not now.
Working in the garden is really, really hot, sweaty work this time of the year. I go out fully ready to tackle the tasks at hand and come in 2 hours later totally wrung out, drippy wet with sweat. I did an experiment. I weighed myself just before heading over to the garden and then again about 2 hours later when I was done for the morning. I was 2.5 pounds lighter which has to be 100% water loss. FYI, 2.5 cups of water = 2.5 pounds. So now I'm starting to get it on the dehydration front. To make sure, I repeated the experiment on Friday with the exact same results. When I'm working like that, I'll get a little light headed but didn't link that to water loss -but I bet that's the cause.
Not happy with the germination of the beans so I used all the left over seeds from the original pack to fill in the gaps. I'm used to that when I use seed I've had for a couple of years but this was newly purchased so it must have been in the system for a couple of years before it ended up in my shopping cart. Most seed packs have a use by date but this particular information was missing on these seeds. Suspicious. But I started the gardening in earnest by making the first transfers from my started seedlings to the garden. My first planting was two Early Blue Ribbon tomatoes, two Dixie Red tomatoes, -both varieties I've never grown before – two Skyway's which I have grown and three Declaration green bell peppers, an old standbye. I also planted seeds for 4 greyzini zucchini plants. The four tomatoes are part of a set that includes 4 more varieties and a total of 16 plants, a couple of paste tomatoes and a couple Cherrys. I planted the first ones very carefully and I'll watch them for a couple of days to make sure it's ok before planting the remainder.
I started the seeds for the full winter garden 9/16. That includes the cabbage, cauliflower, kale, and collards. I was out of broccoli and chard seed and expect delivery on those this week. I start these indoors in peat pots with a target of late October, early November for transplanting to the garden. I'll squeeze a few lettuce and spinach plants as weather and space allow. If you can keep track of it all, it means a very full garden from November thru December when both the fall and winter plants are sharing the garden space.
Nancy and her quilt buddy did a quilt shop tour in west central Florida – over in the Tampa area. They left first thing Thursday morning and back at supper time on Friday. I can't figure why Nancy likes going to quilt shops when she really can't see the material – but she does.
It's nice to be watching the hurricane season developing without being directly in the path of something. I think our Carolina friends and family are far enough inland to be spared the worst of it. I imagine they'll lose power for a short time but no flooding or wind related problems. Fingers crossed.


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[From Light, 1884.]
I WRITE to rectify the many mistakes—if they are, indeed, only "mistakes"—in Mr. Lillie's last letter that appeared in Light of August 2nd, in answer to the Observations on his pamphlet by the President of the London Lodge.
1. This letter, in which the author of Buddha and Early Buddhism proposed to
Consider briefly some of the notable omissions made in the "Observations,"
begins with two most notable assertions concerning myself, which are entirely false, and which the author had not the slightest right to make. He says:
For fourteen years (1860 to 1874) Madame Blavatsky was an avowed Spiritualist, controlled by a spirit called "John King" . . . she attended many séances.
But this would hardly prove anyone to be a Spiritualist, and, moreover, all these assertions are entirely false. I say the word and underline it, for the facts in them are distorted, and made to fit a preconceived and very erroneous notion, started first by the Spiritualists, whose interest it is to advocate "spirits" pure and simple, and to kill, if they can, which is rather doubtful, belief in the wisdom, if not in the very existence, of our revered Masters.
Though I do not at all feel bound to unbosom my private life to Mr. Arthur Lillie, nor do I recognize in him the right of demanding it, yet out of respect to a few Spiritualists whom I esteem and honour, I would set them right once for all on the subject. As that period of my life (1873-1879) in America, with all its spiritual transactions, will be given very soon in a new book called Madame Blavatsky, published by friends, and one which I trust will settle, once and for ever, the many wild and unfounded stories told of me, I will briefly state only the following.
The unwarranted assumption mentioned above is very loosely based on one single document, namely, Colonel Olcott's People from the Other World. As this book was written partly before, and partly after, my first acquaintance with Colonel Olcott, and as he was a Spiritualist, which he has never denied, I am not responsible for his views of me and my "power" at that time. He wrote what he then thought the whole truth, honestly and sincerely; and as I had a determined object in view, I did not seek to disabuse him too rudely of his dreams. It was only after the formation of the Theosophical Society in 1875, that he learned the whole truth. I defy anyone, after that period, to find one word from his pen that would corroborate his early views on the nature of my supposed "mediumship." But even then, when writing of me in his book, he states distinctly the following:
Her mediumship is totally different from that of any other person I ever met, for instead of being controlled by spirits to do their will, it is she who seems to control them to do her bidding.
Strange "mediumship," one that resembled in no way any that even Colonel Olcott—a Spiritualist of thirty years' standing—had ever met with! But when Colonel Olcott says in his book (p. 453) that instead of being controlled by, it is I who control the so-called spirits, he is yet made to say by Mr. Lillie, who refers the public to Colonel Olcott's book, that is I who was controlled! Is this a misstatement and a misquotation, I ask, or is it not?
Again, it is stated by Mr. Lillie that I conversed with this "spirit" (John King) during fourteen years, "constantly in India and elsewhere." To begin with, I here assert that I had never heard the name of "John King" before 1873. True it is, I had told Colonel Olcott and many others that the form of a man, with a dark pale face, black beard, and white flowing garments and fettah, that some of them had met about the house and my rooms, was that of a "John King." I had given him that name for reasons that will be fully explained very soon, and I laughed heartily at the easy way the astral body of a living man could be mistaken for, and accepted as, a spirit. And I had told them that I had known that "John" since 1860; for it was the form of an Eastern Adept, who has since gone for his final initiation, passing through and visiting us in his living body on his way, at Bombay. Whether Messrs. Lillie and Co. believe the statement or not, I care very little, as Colonel Olcott and other friends know it now to be the true one. I have known and conversed with many a "John King" in my life—a generic name for more than one spook—but, thank heaven, I was never yet "controlled" by one! My mediumship has been crushed out of me a quarter of a century or more; and I defy loudly all the "spirits" of the Kâma Loka to approach—let alone to control me—now. Surely it is Mr. Arthur Lillie who must be "controlled" by some one to make untruthful statements which can be so easily refuted as this one.
2. Mr. Lillie asks for
Information about the seven years' initiation of Madame Blavatsky.
The humble individual of this name has never heard of such an initiation. With that accuracy in the explanation of Esoteric terms that so preëminently characterizes the author of Buddha and Early Buddhism, the word may be intended for "instruction"? If so, then I should be quite justified in first asking Mr. Lillie what right he has to cross-examine me. But since he chooses to take such liberties with my name, I will tell him plainly that he himself knows nothing, not merely of initiations and Tibet, but even of exoteric—let alone Esoteric—Buddhism. What he pretends to know about Lamaism he has picked up from the hazy information of travellers, who, having forced themselves into the borderland of Tibet, pretend on that account to know all that is within the country closed for centuries to the average traveller. Even Csomo de Köros knew very little of the real gyelukpas and Esoteric Lamaïsm, except what he was permitted to know, for he never went beyond Zanskar and the lamasery of Phagdal—erroneously spelt by those who pretend to know all about Tibet, Pugdal, which is incorrect, just because there are no meaningless names in Tibet, as Mr. Lillie has been taught to say. And I will tell him also that I have lived at different periods in Little Tibet as well as in Great Tibet, and that these combined periods form more than seven years.
Yet I have never stated either verbally or over my signature that I had passed seven consecutive years in a convent. What I have said, and repeat now, is that I have stopped in Lamaïstic convents; that I have visited Tzi-gadze, the Teshu Hlumpo territory and its neighbourhood, and that I have been further into, and have visited such places of Tibet as have never been visited by other Europeans, and such as he can never hope to visit.
Mr. Lillie had no right to expect more "ample details" in Mr. Finch's pamphlet. Mr. Finch is an honourable man, who speaks of the private life of a person only so far as that person permits him. My friends and those whom I respect and for whose opinion I care, have ample evidence—from my family for instance—that I have been in Tibet, and this is all I care for. As to—
The names, perhaps, of three or four . . . English [rather Anglo-Indian] officials, who would certify
to having seen me when I passed, I am afraid their vigilance would not be found at the height of their trustworthiness. Only two years back, as I can prove by numerous witnesses, when journeying from Chandernagore to Darjeeling, instead of proceeding to it direct, I left the train half-way, was met by friends with a conveyance, and passed with them into the territory of Sikkhim where I found my Master and Mahâtmâ Kûthûmi. Thence I went five miles across the old borderland of Tibet.
Upon my return, five days later, to Darjeeling, I received a kind note from the Deputy Commissioner. It notified me in the politest of terms that, having heard of my intention of going over to Tibet, the government could not allow me to proceed there before I had received permission to that effect from Simla, nor could it accept the responsibility of my safety,
The Râjah of Sikkhim being very averse to allow travellers on his territory, etc.
This I would call shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen. Nor had the very "trustworthy" official even heard that a month before Mr. Sinnett had kindly procured for me permission, since I went to Sikkhim but for a few days, and no farther than the old Tibetan borderland. The question is not whether the Anglo-Indian Government will or will not grant such permission, but whether the Tibetans will let one cross their territory. Of the latter, I am sure any day. I invite Mr. Lillie to try the same. He may at the same time study with profit geography, and ascertain that there are other routes than those laid down into Tibet, besides viâ "English officials." He tries his best to make me out, in plain words, a liar. He will find it even more difficult than to disprove that he knows nothing of either Tibet or Buddhism or our "Byang Tisubs."
I will surely never lose my time in showing that his accusations against One, Whom no insult of his can reach, are perfectly worthless. There are numbers of men quite as intelligent as he believes himself to be, whose opinion of our Mahâtmâs' letters is the reverse of his. He can "suppose" that the authorities by him cited knew more about Tibet than our Masters; others think they do not; and the thousand and one blunders of his Buddha and Early Buddhism show us what these authorities are worth when trusted literally. As to his trying to insinuate that there is no Mahâtmâ Kûthûmi at all, the idea alone is absurd. He will have to dispose, before he does anything more, of a certain lady in Russia, whose truthfulness and impartiality no one who knows her would ever presume to question, who received a letter from that Master so far back as 1870. Perchance a forgery also? As to my having been in Tibet, at Mahâtmâ Kûthûmi's house, I have better proof in store—when I believe it needed—than Mr. Lillie's rancorous ingenuity will ever be able to make away with.
If the teachings of Mr. Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism are considered atheistic, then I am an atheist too. And yet I would not deny what I wrote in Isis, as quoted by Mr. Finch. If Mr. Lillie knows no difference between an anthropomorphic extra-cosmic God, and the Divine Essence of the Advaitîs and other Esotericists, then, I must only lose a little more of my respect for the R. A. S. in which he claims membership; and it may justify the more our assertions that there is more knowledge in "Bâbu (?) Subba Row's" solitary head than in dozens of the heads of "Orientalists" about London we know of. The same with regard to the Master's name. If Mr. Lillie tells us that "Kûthûmi" is not a Tibetan name, we answer that we never claimed it to be one. Everyone knows that the Master is a Punjabi, whose family was settled for years in Cashmere. But if he tells us that an expert at the British Museum ransacked the Tibetan dictionary for the words "Kut" and "Humi," "and found no such words," then I say: Buy a better dictionary or replace the expert by a more "expert" one. Let Mr. Lillie try the glossaries of the Moravian Brothers and their alphabets. I am afraid he is ruining terribly his reputation as an Orientalist. Indeed, before this controversy is settled he may leave in it the last shreds of his supposed Oriental learning.
Lest Mr. Lillie should take my omitting to answer a single one of his very indiscreet questions as a new pretext for printing some impertinence, I say: I was at Mentana during the battle in October, 1867, and left Italy in November of the same year for India. Whether I was sent there, or found myself there by accident, are questions that pertain to my private life, with which, it appears to me, Mr. Lillie has no concern. But this is on a par with his other ways of dealing with his opponents.
Mr. Lillie's other sarcasms touch me very little, for I know their value. I may let them pass without any further notice. Some persons have an extraordinarily clever way of avoiding an embarrassing position by trying to place their antagonists in the same situation. For instance, Mr. Lillie could not answer the criticisms made on his Buddha and Early Buddhism in The Theosophist, nor has he ever attempted to do so. But he applied himself instead to collect every vile rumour and idle gossip about me, its editor. Why does he not show, to begin with, that his reviewer was wrong? Why does he not, by contradicting our statements, firmly establish his own authority as an Orientalist, showing first of all that he is a genuine scholar, who knows the subject he is talking about, before he allows himself to deny and contradict other people's statements in matters which he knows still less about? He does nothing of the kind, however—not a word, not a mention of the scourging criticism that he is unable to refute. Instead of that, one finds the offended author trying to throw ridicule on his reviewers, probably so as to lessen the value of what they have to say of his own book. This is clever, very clever strategy—whether it is equally honourable remains, withal, an open question.
It might be difficult, after the conclusions reached by qualified scholars in India concerning his first book, to secure much attention in The Theosophist for his second, but if this volume in turn were examined with the care almost undeservedly devoted to the first, and if it were referred to the authority of such real Oriental scholars and Sanskritists as Mr. R. T. H. Griffith, for instance, I think it would be found that the aggregate blundering of the two books put together might excite even as much amusement as the singular complacency with which the author betrays himself to the public.
August, 3rd, 1884.


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