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Fredegond Shove
Fredegond Shove (née Maitland); Philip Edward Morrell
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Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889. Her mother, Florence Maitland (née Fisher and later Darwin), was a first cousin of Virginia Woolf, by way of her aunt Julia Stephen to whom she was closer in age. Fredegond's father was Frederic William ('F.W') Maitland, a legal historian, Cambridge don and friend of Leslie Stephen whose biography he later wrote. It was in the Stephens' Hyde Park Gate drawing room that Fredegond's parents met and as a result of their matchmaking became subsequently engaged. The Maitlands married in 1886 and had two daughters; Ermengard was born within a year, two years before Fredegond.
Florence's love of animals meant the family home was always full of creatures, from cats and dogs to marmosets and monkeys. The family lived primarily in Cambridge and spent their vacations in Gloucestershire; in 1897, when the Stephens' took a house nearby in Gloucester after Stella Duckworth's death, the two families became closer. However, shortly before the turn of the century, the Maitland's began to spend winters in Gran Canarias due to Frederic's ill health. The sisters were informally taught by their parents and were encouraged to pursue the activities they enjoyed and were best at; Ermengard described their early education:
"My sister, with her impossible sums and still more impossible handwriting rushed headlong into writing poems and plays. We both acted and invented and listened...Considering (Maitland's) labours on behalf of degrees for women, it seems to me odd that we were allowed to drift so pleasantly" (Bennett 24).
However, this time away made it difficult for the sisters to integrate back into Cambridge life in the spring each year; in her memoir, Fredegond recalls:
"By April we were in Cambridge again, […] ourselves a little more absorbed, intolerant and devoted, a good deal more hostile to the idea of making friends with young people and governesses - growing up in our own imaginative world, [it became] a cynical, and slightly morbid world whose denizens had the cachet of a nightmare" (Shove 25).
Frederic Maitland died in 1906 shortly after finishing Leslie Stephens' biography which Virginia helped him to write; at this time Fredegond was at a convalescent home in Bex, Switzerland for a second winter. She was sent for a "cure" alongside Frances Darwin (later Cornford). The details of why she was there remain largely unknown, even to her cousin Mary Bennett who simply wrote that: "her parents were much worried about her" (Bennett 24); although she does also suggest that Fredegond was prone to extremes of mood. The family settled in Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire a couple of years after Frederic's death. It seems that Fredegond struggled with everyday life; she briefly attended drama school and at another time was perceived to have a form of anorexia. It was advised that she might benefit from the structure of a formal education and so in 1910 she attended Newnham College, Cambridge. She studied English for three years without sitting examinations, began writing poetry and befriended Alix Sargant Florence (later Strachey) and Hope Mirrlees. The Maitlands continued to spend winters in Cambridge and summers in Gloucestershire, however Fredegond spent much time in London with her uncle and aunt, Ralph and Adeline Vaughan Williams. It was also in 1913 that Florence Maitland got remarried to Sir Francis Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin and the father of Fredegond's friend Frances.
Fredegond first met her future husband Gerald Shove at a tea party at Kings College, Cambridge sometime before the beginning of World War One, however it was after their second meeting in the rooms of Ka (Katherine) Cox during the war that they began their relationship; here the couple:
"sat together all evening talking of war and peace and all things and people in life including Punch and Judy. The evening led to others and to an ever-opening joy for me. The days so full of pain for others were full of such joy that it hurt like flames" (Shove 30-1).
Gerald Shove, born in 1887, was one of The Apostles of King's College, Cambridge. In 1911 he had moved into the Stephens' Brunswick Square house, living alongside Virginia and Adrian as well as Leonard Woolf, Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant. He is often considered as a figure on the fringes of Bloomsbury. When Gerald and Fredegond met, he was introduced to Fredegond as a pacifist, running a journal named War and Peace for Norman Angell.
In the summer of 1915, Gerald temporarily lived with Vanessa Bell, as did Roger Fry, at The Grange in Chichester; Gerald and Fredegond's imminent engagement was a prime topic of conversation. Early in September they finally married and then honeymooned in Yorkshire. As a conscientious objector, Gerald was awaiting his tribunal and they spent time in London before this began, living at his rooms in Gower Street. During this period the Woolfs were at Asham where Virginia was recovering from a mental breakdown and the Shoves were two of the very few visitors. Gerald's tribunal then sent him to work first on a farm near Cheltenham, the work was exhausting and Fredegond recalls that their "life had grown very strenuous and anxious" (Shove 33). However, when the farmer suddenly gave notice to all the conscientious objectors he had employed, the Shoves briefly returned to London, to their "dear old haunts near the British Museum and Tottenham Court Road" (33).
In 1916 after their short break in London, the Shoves went to Garsington, the home of their friends Phillip and Lady Ottoline Morrell; here they lived in a cottage on the grounds and Gerald laboured on their farm. Not only did the Morrells provide easy work for conscientious objectors, but their home was also a social hub. Residents and regulars included Clive Bell, Mark Gertler, Lytton Strachey, Dorothy Brett, Dora Carrington, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and J.T. Sheppard. Woolf notes a visit there in November 1917 in her diary; she was amused by and found the goings-on there bizarre, yet she respected the pacifist support system that the Morrells' had established. In her memoir, Lady Ottoline recalls Fredegond:
"Fredegond was an enchanting creature, very sensitive, delicate and highly strung, with a fantastic imagination […] she always liked me and I was very fond of her and enjoyed her witty, fantastic conversation. She was untidy in appearance, but had a delightful, sensitive, witty mouth and pale grey eyes that looked far into a world of her own. She was a cousin of Virginia Woolf and slightly resembled her" (Newman 27).
The Shoves stayed there for two winters and Fredegond had secured an agreement with Blackwells to publish her first collection of poetry, Dreams and Journeys, before they left; the recurring headaches and sleeping difficulties that she suffered from meant she had struggled to get her poems into a publishable state.
At the beginning of 1918 the Shoves were back in London, staying in a small hotel opposite the British Museum while Gerald looked for more work. Between January and April, Virginia and Fredegond saw each other weekly. Woolf writes in her diary and to Vanessa Bell about suppers with Fredegond and dinners out with her and Gerald; Bloomsbury gossip was usually a topic of conversation between them, particularly during their regular meetings at the 1917 Club. Fredegond was close friends with the group Woolf called the "Bloomsbury bunnies" and "crop-heads" which included Carrington, Alix Sargant-Florence, Barbara Hiles (later Bagenal) and Dorothy Brett. However, Woolf suggests in her diary that her feelings for Fredegond went deeper than those she had for the "bunnies": "Fredegond walked with me to Charing Cross. I feel like her in some fundamental way" (Woolf 104). Hilary Newman has suggested that: "For Woolf, Shove was a link to the past and to Frederic and Florence who had been highly valued by the Stephen parents" (Newman 25). In fact, Woolf herself had "highly valued" Frederic and Florence, particularly for the comfort and support they provided after her own parents had passed away.
Next the Shoves went to Tatsfield in Surrey, to a farm run by a mental specialist. This was unusual in that the patients were employed in the same work as Gerald and his days were spent amongst them. Fredegond recalls a patient that Gerald brought back to tea who was once an esteemed actor:
"to Gerald and me his mental troubles seemed but an intensity of realisation, and so it was with them all. They were saner than sane, if sanity means some chief central truth of feeling" (Shove 35).
While their days were often lonely and morbid, in the evenings they would sit together by the fire and reread their favourite books, from Jane Austen to Leo Tolstoy, as well as contemporary novels – a habit they kept up for the rest of their lives. When the end of the war came, they returned to London and began living in a family hotel before they moved to a house belonging to Fredegond's aunt and uncle. Gerald got a job working on The Economist and Fredegond relished his office tales when he returned at the end of the day. Fredegond was lonely and desperately wanted children; she was told by a specialist there was no reason why she should not conceive, however she never fell pregnant. She filled some of her time by working in the head office of Save The Children. At this time, and continuing throughout 1919 and 1920, Fredegond was regularly published in The Athenaeum. Virginia Woolf's diary entries also confirm that the two resumed their regular meetings when Fredegond returned to London.
In September 1919, Gerald's temporary job on The Economist came to an end; Fredegond suggested that they go to Cambridge as it would be easy for Gerald to get a job at the university, and so they left the next day. Woolf's diary and letters record the continuing presence of the couple in London into 1920, however after Fredegond's mother's death in April there are no more visits; it was at this time that she became involved with Catholicism. On her deathbed her mother gave her a kitten they named Cuckoo which Fredegond writes of in her memoir: "We lavished on her all the love that had grown from our love for each other, and the longing for a home and children in the years of our wandering" (Shove 40). Despite Fredegond's increasingly different values, the Woolfs published Daybreak, her last collection of poetry during her lifetime, at the Hogarth Press in 1922. In February 1923, Woolf describes a trip to Cambridge and lunching with the Shoves a while after Fredegond has been confirmed into the Catholic Church; Woolf writes sceptically of this new-found faith – this visit is apparently the last time that they met. After Fredegond's death, her sister Ermengard wrote that: "viewing the whole of her work, one can trace the putting off of Bloomsbury, the putting on of Catholicism, the growing ardour of her love for animals, her deepening fears." (Maitland "Preface" viii).
Gerald had been lecturing in economics and in 1926 he was made a Fellow of King's College; Fredegond fondly looks back at this as a time of "prosperity" and stability:
"We had many comforts now and when Gerald's Fellowship came our times became broadly, almost in our own view mayorally, prosperous. We had grand trunks for travelling, several suits each and a well beloved daily cook who stayed with us for fourteen years, going with clock-like regularity" (Shove 40).
When their cat, Cuckoo, died, they began to take in strays, apparently at one point having eighteen of them in their home. The couple integrated into Cambridge life, Gerald serving on numerous university boards and committees and Fredegond attending dinners with him when she was not nursing sick cats back to health. She continued writing poetry however she published only once more, a critical study of Christina Rossetti in 1931. Throughout these years Fredegond also recalls travelling and holidays to France. Although it appears that the Woolfs and Shoves were no longer in contact, Fredegond wrote an emotional letter of condolence to Leonard Woolf on hearing of Virginia's death.
Two years after being appointed University Reader in Economics, Gerald's declining health led to his admission to hospital where he was told he had a terminal illness; they went to the Sand Dunes Nursing Home in Hunstanton and he passed away a few months after his original diagnosis. Fredegond returned to Lilac Cottage, Cambridge, where she spent her final two years, claiming to feel Gerald's presence with her always. Her sister Ermengard described sorting through her house after her death in September 1949:
"[Poems] were everywhere. Fairly copied in note-books, scribbled on bits of paper, stuffed into bookcases, cupboards and desks - one would not have been surprised to have found them in the oven - literally hundreds of poems" (Maitland "Preface: the Child and the Poet" ix).
Mary Bennett, a cousin who helped in this process, provides a perspective on Fredegond's poetry:
"Time and again, as we went through the mass of paper, we would come upon lines that made one feel 'but this is the real thing', only for the poem to run out not so much into sand as into mush. If only - but if only, what? If only Fredegond had had an element of the Stephens' steel? As it was, reading what she had left was like looking at an unusual plant that produces innumerable buds but can never quite flower" (Bennett 30).
With what she found along with some memoirs and previously published poems, Ermengard had Gerald and Fredegond Shove privately printed in 1954 for friends and family. Cambridge University Press then went on to publish a selection of Fredegond's poems in 1956. Some of her work continues to be printed in anthologies, however she is now best known for her uncle's, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams', setting of Four Poems by Fredegond Shove for Baritone and Piano (1922).
Bennett, Mary. "Ermengard and Fredegond Maitland." The Charleston Magazine, 21 (2000). 22-30.
Maitland, Ermengard "Preface." Poems by Fredegond Shove, edited by Ermengard Maitland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956.
Maitland, Ermengard. "Preface: the Child and the Poet." Fredegond and Gerald Shove, edited by Ermengard Maitland, Ermengard Maitland (Private Printing), 1952.
Newman, Hilary. "Virginia Woolf and Fredegond Shove: A Fluctuating Relationship." Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 39 (2012), 24-32.
Shove, Fredegond. Gerald and Fredegond Shove (Brookthorpe, Gloucester: Privately printed for Ermengard Maitland, 1952.
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Barbara Nessim Exhibition Highlights Themes of Gender, Identity
An ongoing retrospective at the Bard Graduate Center examines the artist's work in proto-digital and digital domains.
By: Zachary Edelson
Barbara Nessim at the School of Visual Arts, 1986
Courtesy Seiji Kakizaki
In 1982, few artists had access to computer graphic programs or the training to use them. Had her career ended then, Barbara Nessim would still have earned a small place in history. At the time, the illustrator had been made an artist in residence at Time Video Services, working late nights and early mornings to learn graphics software that she used to produce early digital art. But, as an ongoing exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York City argues, that feat is just one of the many facets of Nessim's life and 50+ years of work.
Running until January 11th, Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life was curated by Douglas Dodds, senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the show originated. The expanded exhibition stretches across three floors of the BGC's stately galleries. Nessim's style is instantly recognizable for its playful, colorful, and sometimes surreal forms. If they remind you of the work of that other New York great, Milton Glaser, it may not be a coincidence: Nessim is a longtime friend of Glaser and his wife Shirley. In fact, the works on display exude a sense of New York-ness—figures such as Gloria Steinem and Ali Macgraw make appearances. But above all, they pay tribute to Nessim's unique background and adventurous attitude.
Barbara Nessim. Festival of the Face in Four Cubes, 1967. Pen and ink, watercolor.
Courtesy the artist
A Pratt-educated life-long New Yorker, Nessim's mother was a successful blouse designer in an age when few women had careers, especially as commercial designers. Nessim consciously pursued work that similarly intersected art and commerce, always avoiding the role of "fine artist" as she "didn't want to starve and suffer." As a freelancer, she remained unaware of her rarity as a woman illustrator. She sent samples to every publisher she could find and soon earned commissions—first at "girlie" Playboy-esque magazines in the late 60s, then at Ms. Magazine, whose debut issue bore a Nessum illustration. Ultimately, she would produce iconic illustrations for the likes of Time, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. However familiar these iconic works are—the cover of Time's July 12, 1982 issue is particularly memorable—the exhibition succeeds in casting them in an entirely new light.
Barbara Nessim. Carnival Heat, from the series Chronicles of Beauty, 2010. Digital print on aluminum.
Nessim's digital graphic work is well represented here, as are her forays down diverse avenues of design, from fashion to interactive installations. An Artful Life offers a portrait of an artist through her work, namely, through the sheer density and diversity of it all. Not only do themes such as gender, self-perception, and identity key markers throughout the show, but visitors can see how Nessim's personal work frequently informed her commissioned art. In one hall, the exhibition shows how a series of colorful portraits of lithe nude women called WomanGrils led to an illustration in a 1973 New York Times article on pornography and censorship.
Such insight, while surprisingly direct and stimulating, is a rarity in any exhibition. The shear breadth of Nessim's practice, across countless mediums and decades, makes An Artful Life all the more special.
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Following the Script
25.2.2015 by Lauren Dymke
Last year, I made the decision to take a gap year, save my dollars, and hope for the best. As luck would have it, I got a full time job at a book store. Leaving high school to meet the big wide world by myself was disorientating to say the least, but one thing that made it easier was the books.
There are books you read once and forget. There are the books that you have to read. Then there are the books that stick with you over time, the ones that wrap around you and frame your own experiences with a new perspective.
There was this one really great perk to my job: the long, high, shelf out in the back room, full of unreleased review copies that were free for taking. One day I picked out a memoir from that shelf called My Salinger Year. It was an autobiography about a young intern, Joanna Rakoff, who found herself working for J.D Salinger's literary agency in Brooklyn, New York. The story was a homage to the old world of publishing, as it never will be again. It was also a story about being young and unsure; about cutting free from your old life and wading through the fantastic and unfamiliar.
The review copy came with a letter from the editor at Bloomsbury press:
''You always remember your first job – your first step into the world of publishing and bookselling. Reading this wonderful memoir…I was transported back to 1978.
I was 24, climbing five flights of stairs of a building in Wardour Street, sandwiched between a sex shop and a pinball arcade…The company was Virago Press. My job was Office Slave.
…we know that you are fully fledged in the world of books now, and that's why we wanted to share this with you! "
I nearly wrote back to the editor. I wanted to explain to them how I wasn't quite there yet, how I was really more of a fledgling than fully fledged, and how youth, inexperience and my first proper job were not memories to me yet.
As I read, the protagonist wandered through a New York blanketed in December snow, immersed in sights and sounds. I wanted to tell the editor about my own walks to work through frost and fog; ordering coffee while it was still quiet; watching shopkeepers rush by and slip behind shutters. A suburban shopping centre in Melbourne is decidedly less romantic than Brooklyn, but in the memoir I sensed a certain rhythm which I could relate to working in a public place. That beat is the same one I felt every day when right on nine o'clock I heard the opening clatter of doors. Cue the music, heat, light, and noise. Customers came in and asked the same questions; I returned the same answers, following the script. At lunch I ordered sushi and the man at the counter asked "Soy sauce?"
Soy sauce. Soy sauce. He had been repeating those words for all the time he had been working there, and they were not even words to him, but a movement and a sound that his mouth made. They could have just as soon be part of his pulse, and in an odd way, I felt a part of it.
I read as the protagonist experienced hurt, betrayal, loneliness. Life was difficult, baffling, frustrating, and mundane. The world was wonderful, strange, beautiful and fascinating. She grew up, she got lost, and found her way back again. So did I.
There are some special books where I can't help but to connect with the writer and the characters in a way that seems personal. But the truth is that there's nothing particularly special about new-found adulthood, disillusionment, and acceptance. Ever since Salinger wrote the classic the Catcher in the Rye, "coming of age" has overgrown itself into a glorified literary sub-genre. While it's a ubiquitous experience, I would argue that we make too much of it.
And yet still, I understand how we have this instinct to define our experiences with narrative, and this is why we connect so much to stories. We find consolation in the rhythm of beginning, arc, and resolve. There's a certain solidarity in realising that we're not alone; that we're all just part of a cycle as we wander lost and unsure, until we find the ending for ourselves.
I've finally got myself to Canberra. Everything is different, but everything is the same. The world is still a little strange. I'm in the beginning of some things, and at the end of others, and books still help me along the way. I'm ready for whatever comes next, whenever it comes. After all, I'll just be following the script.
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Fox Sports Detroit and the rapper Big Sean have teamed up for a new promo for the Detroit Pistons' 2013-2014 season. He's just the latest rapper to partner with an NBA team in marketing efforts — most notably, Jay Z helped revamp the Brooklyn Nets, and Drake and the Toronto Raptors announced a partnership.
The Pistons are expected to be much improved this season after adding guard Brandon Jennings and forward Josh Smith.
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Time For A Digital Detox?
No doubt you know what these symbols mean? I mean it is 2017 after all…
Social media has been the latest phenomenon in shaping the way in which people connect.
It allows people to express themselves freely and it's also been incredibly popular for entertainment. Most of the population is now connected by social media in some way, but it would be hard to deny that nobody is more connected than the younger generation.
The Royal Society of Public Health & the Young Health Movement published their report #statusofmind which found that 91% of 16-24 year olds use the internet for social networking.
Should we be concerned?
In 25 years the rates of anxiety and depression in young people has risen by a staggering 70% and social media is thought to be one major contributing factor.
Not to mention the fact that a tap on those apps has been described as being more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol.
Instagram was rated as the most damaging to the health and well-being of young people.
This comes as no surprise to me. With 23 filters to choose from as well as the numerous editing features for the perfect look, it is no wonder Insta is having a negative impact on both girls and boys body image. Not to mention the "like" culture, which can either boost or lower an individual's self-esteem (although Instagram is not the only app guilty of this).
But is social media improving health?
Yet amongst these concerns, the report also described some benefits of connecting on social media.
It found that young people report improved access to other people's experiences of health and expert health information, as well as feeling more emotionally supported by their contacts.
To me, this is a great platform to build on. It can help in reducing the stigma that may come with poor mental health. It can also be used to improve the ways in which young people are educated on social media in schools, encouraging them to use this source as a supportive network. It also highlights the influence social media can have in health promotion and how health information is delivered, in order to help protect the population's health.
The report recognises this and has some recommendations.
These include having safer social media education in PSHE lessons, for social media bosses to highlight when photos of people have been digitally manipulated and to introduce pop-up 'heavy usage' warnings.
My favourite recommendation is for calling social media platforms to identify users who are suffering from mental health concerns by their posts, and discreetly signposting them to support. Thus ensuring more people are offered the support they may need.
It is inevitable that people will continue to "like" social media – I mean who can blame them, it has allowed us to connect with the world like never before.
I just hope that health services, social media bosses and PSHE teachers take on board the recommendations made to help protect those around us and for the general public to make a conscious effort to support one another on their networks.
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Only Half of Patients Get Follow-Up Colonoscopy After Positive Stool Test
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Tuesday, 24 January 2023 02:38 PM EST
Many people undergo a stool test to screen for colon cancer but a new study finds too few follow up with a colonoscopy when that test warns of a possible cancer.
Not following up undermines the point of screening, said study-co-author Jeff Mohl, director of research and analytics for the American Medical Group Association, a trade organization.
In this study of almost 33,000 people at average risk for colon cancer, just 56% who had a positive result from a stool test had followed up with a colonoscopy within a year.
Poorer people and the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with lower follow-up rates.
"Obviously, that's a huge problem," said Mohl. "If you're trying to estimate how many lives are saved, you're assuming that everyone gets follow-ups if they have a positive result, and if half of them don't do that, obviously you'll only save half as many people."
The findings were published Jan. 18 in JAMA Network Openand based on screenings between 2017 and 2020.
"Colorectal cancer is definitely a significant health problem and increasing, particularly in younger patients," said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer with the American Cancer Society. Rates have been increasing by 1% to 2% a year since the mid-1990s in Americans younger than 50, the cancer society says.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that everyone age 45 to 75 undergo colon cancer screening. This can be a stool test, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy or CT colonography.
People with higher risk factors, such as inflammatory bowel disease, family history of colon cancer or polyps, or certain genetic syndromes may need to be screened earlier, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Noninvasive stool-based screening, which is usually done at home, tests your feces for signs of cancer. You can receive either a negative or positive result. A positive finding doesn't guarantee cancer. It might also be that someone has a precancerous colon polyp that should be removed or maybe ate something that triggered the test. False positives are also possible, Mohl said.
"They're not diagnostic. They can't diagnose the condition you have. They just tell you that maybe you're at particularly high risk," Mohl said. In that case, patients should schedule a colonoscopy.
Reasons people might opt for stool screening as a first step over colonoscopy are that a colonoscopy involves sedation and is more time consuming.
Generally, someone getting a colonoscopy needs to take the day off work and arrange transportation home after the procedure.
Sometimes it's hard to get an appointment because there may not be enough providers.
"One of the big factors is just patients being uncomfortable with colonoscopy," Mohl said. "The reasons about why people might do a stool-based test are also reasons why they might not follow up. It's inconvenient. They are weirded out by it or they don't have transportation."
It's also possible some individuals don't understand the significance of a positive stool-based test result.
"If you have a positive stool-based test, you're at roughly 10 times higher risk of having colon cancer, so that it makes it very urgent that you would go in," Mohl said.
At-home tests like this are very important to democratize health care, said Dahut.
"I think it's concerning," Dahut said of the study's results. "Not shocking, sadly, but concerning."
The importance of follow-up colon cancer screening may not be resonating with people in the same way other screenings do, Dahut said, using an abnormal mammogram as an example of screening that might have higher response.
Someone who gets an abnormal mammogram may also have more persistent follow-up from their doctor's office, Dahut said.
"There needs to be an immediate link between a positive test and your colonoscopy," Dahut said. "If you get a positive test, in a perfect world you would then be put into a system where you would be given options for colonoscopy, as opposed to having to just take care of it yourself."
A patient navigator or nurse practitioner might fill that role, Dahut said. "It needs to be done in a way to close that loop up," he added.
One solution may be more provider education, the researchers suggested.
Researchers were also from the cancer detection business Exact Sciences Corporation in Madison, Wis., and the Allegheny Health Network in Pennsylvania.
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Global Insight 2023 Outlook: The United States
U.S. markets could change course more quickly, and in different ways, than investors might assume.
U.S. markets could change course more quickly, and in different ways, than investors might assume. Even if the economy succumbs to recession in 2023, if history is a guide, the equity market would likely begin a new bull market cycle before the recession ends. In fixed income, we think the window to put money to work is now open, but could close sooner than expected. In our view, it's time to bring portfolio asset allocations in line with long-term strategic recommendations.
We're not there yet, but we are getting closer
"Are we there yet?" This classic question that parents and grandparents are often asked on long road trips was posed by our U.S. Investment Committee in June 2022. At that point, we noted there were orange cones along the roadside and there was a need for more economic data for better visibility. Some months later, our answer now is, "We're not there yet, but we are getting closer."
First, it would be rare for the S&P 500 to deliver back-to-back negative return years. They have occurred only twice in the post-WWII era. The market has already absorbed significant blows, including one of the Fed's fastest and biggest tightening cycles in history. On the former, we think the Fed will slow the pace of rate hikes, maybe as soon as the December 2022 meeting; and on the latter, we think the rate hike cycle is poised to end in 2023.
Only two periods of back-to-back negative U.S. equity returns in the post-WWII era
S&P 500 annual returns 1945–2022 (excluding dividends)
The column chart shows annual returns (excluding dividends) of the S&P 500 from 1945 to 2022. The 2022 return is preliminary through November 21. Of the 78 years, 55 had positive returns, 22 had negative returns, and 1 was flat (0.0%). The market posted back-to-back negative annual returns on only two occasions (1973-1974 and 2000-2002).
Source - RBC Wealth Management, Bloomberg; 2022 represents preliminary year-to-date data through 11/21/22
Second, the corporate earnings outlook is "less bad" than in previous periods of economic stress. If 2023 S&P 500 earnings end up flat compared to 2022 at roughly $220 per share—a scenario we think is possible—most institutional investors would likely breathe a sigh of relief. Even if a recession materializes and brings with it deeper cuts to consensus earnings estimates, we think household spending would be relatively more resilient than in recent economic contractions. Household balance sheets appear to be in better shape due to sturdier employment trends and high savings levels when this period began.
Third, equity market sentiment could benefit from declining inflation in 2023. Price trends for commodities and goods are already pointing in this direction.
But don't misunderstand—we're not Pollyannaish about the market's prospects for 2023. There are reasons to remain vigilant. The economy is still at risk of succumbing to a recession. If S&P 500 earnings come in around $220 per share or less, this below-average growth rate would leave little room for price-to-earnings valuation expansion and profit margins could come under pressure. And while we anticipate inflation will decline, there is an open question as to how fast and to what degree. This can impact the market's valuation. Generally, elevated inflation and interest rates over the medium term result in lower equity market valuations, and vice versa.
We think the most important objective for investors is to review portfolios and bring them in line with long-term strategic allocation recommendations. Allocations naturally get out of whack during corrections, and there is industry evidence that large cash positions have piled up in portfolios. We think attempting to time the market is a precarious exercise. There is no bell that rings when a new bull market cycle begins. Missing the biggest rally days can have detrimental long-term performance consequences, and such rallies often occur unpredictably before all of the obstacles are out of the road.
Missing the best days in the market can have detrimental portfolio implications
Dollar value of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 from November 2002 through November 2022 (including dividends)
The bar chart compares hypothetical returns on a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 (including dividends) for the past 20 in four different scenarios. If the funds were fully invested, the return would have been $65,924 (9.9% annualized return). If the 10 best days in the market were missed during the 20 year period, the return would have been $30,283 (5.7% annualized). If the 20 best days in the market were missed, the return would have been $18,202 (3.0% annualized). If the 30 best days in the market were missed, the return would have been $11,966 (0.9% annualized).
Source - RBC Wealth Management, FactSet; data through 11/21/22
Once allocations are brought back into balance, we would keep an eye out for opportunities as the economic, interest rate, and earnings pictures start to become clearer.
Currently, we favor the small-capitalization and midcap segments of the U.S. equity market. Their valuations are relatively inexpensive compared to large caps and their own historical averages. This should provide a cushion as earnings estimates adjust further. When the U.S. economy works through challenging periods, these more economically-sensitive segments often lead the early stages of the next bull market phase.
Within the large-cap S&P 500, we continue to favor the Energy sector. Consensus earnings revisions are holding up better than most sectors. Tight energy commodity supplies are unlikely to be fully resolved in the near or medium term due to many years of capital underinvestment. This should help support commodity prices and Energy company earnings to a greater degree than in typical periods of economic weakness.
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2023 to see the Federal Reserve embark on its third act
A dual mandate. In 2021, the Fed's sole focus was returning U.S. labor markets to "full employment," the first side of its congressionally-given dual mandate, and long-judged by the Fed to be around 4.0%. Unemployment fell to 3.9% in December 2021 and has remained at and even below the target level since. In 2022, the Fed became hyper-focused on returning the economy to "price stability," the second side of its mandate and defined as prices rising 2% annually on average through any given business cycle. While it will take time for the inflation to get there, the aggressive action from the Fed in 2022 has laid the foundation for it to return to target in due course, in our view.
Financial stability in focus. That now sets the stage for the Fed to turn its focus in 2023 to its unofficial third mandate—financial stability. The historically aggressive tightening campaigns by the Fed and many other global central banks will likely necessitate a far more cautious approach from policymakers, and a heightened focus on—and consideration of—domestic and global financial vulnerabilities that may come as a result of higher interest rates, particularly from the strength of the dollar. This could mean the Fed soon places the blunt tool of rate hikes back in the toolbox and employs more surgical, macroprudential measures that help to ensure the soundness of, and liquidity within, the financial system.
Interest rates to peak in early 2023. We anticipate the Fed's likely 50 basis point rate hike at the Dec. 13–14 meeting will bring short-term rates to a 4.25%–4.50% range and will mark the last of the jumbo-sized moves. Any further rate hikes in 2023 should continue at 25 basis point increments, and only if justified by the incoming data, while attaining a level no higher than 5.00% by Q1 2023, in our view. Then, as the generally assumed 12– to 18–month lagged impact of rate hikes that began in March 2022 begin to significantly weigh on economic activity by the middle of 2023, we foresee the Fed delivering a series of modest rate cuts over the course of the back half of the year as it works to engineer some semblance of an economic soft landing.
Yields to fall. Markets, forward looking as they are, may already be in the process of pricing in such a scenario as recent soft consumer and producer price data have driven Treasury yields sharply lower from this year's highs. We believe the sharp rise in yields across the fixed income landscape that played out over the course of 2022 will give way to the opposite in 2023. For example, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield could fall below 3.5% by the end of the year, from levels close to 4.0% currently, based on RBC Capital Markets' forecast.
U.S. bond yields hit 5%, double the recent average
The line chart shows the average yield on investment-grade bonds in the U.S., represented by the Bloomberg US Bond Aggregate Index, monthly from 1992 to October 2022, as well as the rolling 5-year average. Average investment-grade bond yields in the U.S. have hit 5% through October 2022, the highest level since 2008 and more than double the five-year average yield of 2.4%.
Bloomberg US Bond Aggregate Index yield
Rolling 5-year average
Note: The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index comprises investment-grade government and corporate bonds.
Source - RBC Wealth Management, Bloomberg
Lock in high yields. The net result for fixed income investors is that the window to put money to work is open, and it could close sooner than expected. Based on Bloomberg bond indexes, Treasuries yielded 4.2%, investment-grade corporate bonds 5.4%, and tax-exempt municipals 3.7% as of November 22. Should yields on offer fade over the course of 2023, as we broadly expect, that could introduce heightened reinvestment risk for short-maturity securities. We continue to favor a strategy of locking in historically-high yields in intermediate and longer-dated bonds to maintain income, and to benefit from capital appreciation should bond prices move higher, and yields lower, due to recession risks in 2023 and the potential for Fed rate cuts as a result.
To view the full Global Insight 2023 Outlook, please click here.
Global Insight 2023 Outlook Regional Focus: Asia Pacific
As a new strategic agenda begins to take shape in China, macro developments in Japan are relatively positive.
Global Insight 2023 Outlook: The United Kingdom
A turn towards austerity even as the UK economy enters a recession creates challenges for a new government.
Global Insight 2023 Outlook: Europe
Geopolitical conflict and an energy crisis dominate an environment of unusually high uncertainty.
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Helmeted Hornbill Being Driven to Extinction by Ivory Trade
The helmeted hornbill, an exotic bird found mainly in Indonesia, Borneo and Thailand, is being driven to extinction by the ivory trade. The birds are targeted for their distinctive red beaks, which are sold as a "red ivory" on the black market.
The helmeted hornbills' have been hunted for centuries by local communities, who prize their tail feathers. However, since 2011, the birds have fallen victim to the rising demand for carving ivory. Today, a hornbills' beak ivory, known as casques, is selling for several times the price of elephant ivory, making them a prime target for poachers.
In 2012, the bird was listed as "near threatened," a status which has rapidly plunged three danger levels within as many years. Today, the helmeted hornbill has been listed in CITES Appendix I and on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as "critically endangered."
Hunted for its 'red ivory' bill, the helmeted hornbill has gained some well needed protection #wildlifetrade #CITES https://t.co/JTZ6tLCfBs
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In an effort to highlight the bird's plight and ensure drastic measures are taken to save the species from extinction, participating nations at a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference in Johannesburg, have adopted a resolution calling for "urgent and integrated conservation and law enforcement measures."
"This is a great victory for the helmeted hornbill that has been ruthlessly hunted for its red ivory as the elephant has been killed off for its ivory," said Noviar Andayani, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program. "Many have heard about the elephant ivory crisis and now it is time to hear more about the helmeted hornbill ivory crisis and take swift action to save it."
The hornbill was granted CITES highest level of protection back in 1975; however, Indonesia demanded more international action be taken in order to tackle the crime syndicates that smuggle the red ivory. According to some estimates, around 6,000 helmeted hornbills are killed every year.
"The high price reached by the casques motivates hunters to kill all the hornbills they cross, including juvenile birds," said the CITES delegate from Indonesia. "The illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn has been well documented, however, the illegal trade in casques has been little known. If this highly profitable illegal trade is not curbed, the existence of this majestic species is in danger and is likely to lead to extinction."
The bird, which can have a wingspan of 2m, has a mostly blackish plumage. In addition, this incredible bird also has a loud and distinctive call, which can often make it easier to hunt.
"It is in huge trouble," said Elizabeth Bennett, from the Wildlife Conservation Society. "They have this fabulous call, that ends in cackling laughter, which you can hear from a mile away. But they are incredibly easy to hunt because of that call: it must be the most spectacular bird call on the planet."
Like many other endangered species, the helmeted hornbill is particularly vulnerable to poaching, as it is a slow-breeding species. When ready to lay their one to two eggs a year, the male will use mud to seal the female into a hole in a tree. Once in the protective shelter, the male will feed the female and chicks through a small opening. As the female and chicks are dependent on the male, if the male is captured or killed, the whole family will starve.
It is hoped that now the CITES parties have agreed to adopt urgent and integrated conservation and law enforcement measures to tackle the influx of poaching, awareness of the sinister trade will be raised and the species will be saved from extinction.
"Only global cooperation can stop the illegal trade in hornbill ivory before it is too late," said the CITES delegate from the Indonesian Hornbill Conservation Society. "I have witnessed the rampant illegal poaching in the rainforest."
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Aviation regulator draws flak for telling airlines to carry more Hindi publications
The country's aviation regulator has drawn flak for telling airlines to carry more Hindi language newspapers and magazines for passengers, according to a report in The Economic Times.
The decision was taken to help bring at par the number of Hindi and English language newspapers and magazines in flights.
The move sparked criticism for "contributing to the promotion of Hindi" and is being seen by many as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) overstepping its role, the report said.
In a letter written to Indian carriers, the joint director general of the DGCA said that the carriers carrying fewer or not carrying Hindi language newspapers at all "go against the official language policy of the Indian union".
The directive comes amid efforts by airlines to reduce costs and save aviation fuel by carrying less material on-board.
"DGCA is meant to be a safety regulator. This had nothing at all to do with safety," a senior airline executive was quoted as saying. "In flights, few read Hindi papers and it will add cost and weight. Besides, in many parts of the country, Hindi is not read or spoken at all. This is like the EU (European Union) requiring German newspapers on all EU flights,"
DGCA later clarified that the directive was "advisory in nature".
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Board letter to McConnell re Rohingya
Senator Mitch McConnell
S-230 Capitol Building
Re: Amnesty International USA Urges Senate to Pass the Burma Human Rights
and Freedom Act (S. 2060) to halt Myanmar military's ethnic cleansing campaign
against Rohingya
Dear Senator McConnell:
On behalf of Amnesty International USA, part of a global movement of seven million
people across 150 countries and territories, we urge you to bring the Burma Human
Rights and Freedom Act (S. 2060) up for consideration and vote by the full Senate. As
this devastating humanitarian crisis continues to worsen, urgent U.S. action is
needed to help bring an end to these crimes against humanity. We were pleased to
see Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's statement on November 22 in which he
unequivocally described the situation in northern Rakhine state and labeled it ethnic
cleansing and committed to "pursue accountability through U.S. law." We were also
pleased that Senator Merkley and a bi-cameral congressional delegation used the
Thanksgiving recess to travel to Myanmar and Bangladesh where they reiterated the
U.S. commitment to ending these terrible human rights abuses.
Since late August the world has witnessed the mass exodus of over 620,000
Rohingya who have fled into Bangladesh. That is comparable to the entire
population of Washington, D.C. on the run, fleeing for their lives. The Rohingya are
fleeing summary executions, mass burnings and rape by Myanmar security forces in
northern Rakhine State, as Amnesty International documented in our briefing paper
'My World Is Finished': Rohingya Targeted in Crimes against Humanity in Myanmar,
released on October 18, 2017. Those arriving into Bangladesh bear gunshot wounds,
severed limbs, and the scars of rape. And each day more Rohingya continue to flee
into Bangladesh.
The post-August wave of atrocities is only the most recent in a long history of
systematic discrimination against the Rohingya rising to the level of apartheid. In our
just-released report "Caged without a roof" Amnesty International documents how
Myanmar's state policy has been one of institutionalized discrimination and
segregation, with the human rights of Rohingyas and other Muslims communities in
Rakhine State being violated on a daily basis, and every aspect of their lives severely
restricted. They have been denied citizenship despite living in Myanmar for
generations. They have also faced extreme restrictions on their rights to freedom of
movement and access to healthcare, education, and food. These human rights
violations are so severe and pervasive that they amount to a systemic attack on a
population based on their ethnic identity, and thus legally constitute apartheid, a
crime against humanity under international law (p. 13).
The Rohingya, and the international community, need the U.S. to provide global
leadership to address this urgent human rights crisis. Amnesty International calls on
the Senate to pass S. 2060, a bipartisan bill that would pressure Myanmar authorities
to end the violence against the Rohingya. If passed and signed by the President, S.
2060 would:
significantly increase the pressure on the Myanmar military leaders to halt these
terrible atrocities, hold them accountable for ethnic cleansing and other crimes
against humanity, and strongly encourage cooperation with efforts to secure a
"credible cease-fire agreement";
prohibit U.S. military cooperation with Myanmar's military until certain conditions
are met;
hold Myanmar authorities to account by requiring cooperation with the U.N. factfinding
mission;
encourage the full implementation of the Kofi Annan Commission
recommendations;
require support for extending civil and political rights, to include citizenship, to the
Rohingya;
calls on the Government of Bangladesh to ensure refugees have freedom of
movement and that under no circumstances should they be unsafely, and
involuntarily repatriated back to Myanmar;
call on the Government of Myanmar to ensure that those who wish to return to their
home can do so safely, and that those who do not want to return are compensated
or provided restitution;
and, authorize $104 million to be appropriated in U.S. humanitarian assistance
which will be urgently needed in the region for a long time to come.
Amnesty International urges that the Senate swiftly pass S. 2060. For more
information, please contact Amnesty International's national director of advocacy
and government relations, Joanne Lin, at [email protected] or (202) 509-8151.
Mission Moment Ltr Signed Dec 2017


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The priests and priestesses of Thoth, believing that ultimate reality is numerical, that number is the key to the universe, that triangles are the fundamental building blocks of the cosmos and that geometry is the Sacred Science, instructed their initiates in three divine areas of thought: Sacred Geometry, astronomy and philosophy. The numbers 60 and 5 were particularly sacred to their Religion of the Mind.
The 30 line segments of each side of the Phaistos Disk total the sacred number 60. (One of the segments on Side 1, rather than being a line segment, is a long thyrsuses, the tall symbolic wand made from cane or bamboo.) The number 60, in Hermetic literature of a much later period but said to have originated in ancient Egypt, represents the number of subordinate orders of the 3 divisions of the main cosmos, of which "there is an orderly harmonius movement of one to the other." (1) In the microcosm and corresponding to this macrocosmic arrangement are 4 main divisions of soul-stuff with 60 soul-spaces, called zones, firmaments or layers, comprising the 60 types of souls.
The 60 soul types are layered in the Vast Vortex, the Crater or Cup that is the curtain of space-time and energy-matter. When the World Soul glyph that represents this curtain or veil is viewed from above, it appears as concentric circles. Around the edges of the circular vortex, the souls, sinking down, "flutter round the vortex in a circle, not daring to go straight through it." (3) The Mighty Whirlpool, the Mixing Bowl of the Creator, the within-without of the Shamanic tunnel and the mystical Spiral of Creation are all symbolized by the Phaistos Disk. The vortex, a rotating movement of cosmic matter round a center or axis, accounts for the origin or phenomenon of the terrestrial and other systems. The 60 soul spaces and the vortex are visible on the Phaistos Disk, Sides 1 and 2, when the signs have been removed. This spiral may also represent of the spiral movement of the star Sirius through the constellations.
The vortex is also vertex, meaning "to turn or rotate." The vertex is the zenith, the point in the heavens directly overhead, represented by the flax flower on Side 1 and the triangle fruit and the Nile signs on Side 2 of the disk. The Pythagoreans, who got their science from Egypt, understood the vertex to mean the point opposite to and farthest from the base of a triangle, pyramid, or any figure having a base. Geometry thus originated with the study of the vertex-vortex and involved, pre-eminently, the triangle and its uses in describing the properties of a circle and the geometry of the sphere for use in astronomy.
The properties of a circle are described efficiently by pi, 3.1416. The original Egyptian symbols for pi as seen on the Phaistos Disk might be the "Y" sign, repeated 3 times on Side 1. The short line of the symbol is the radius (r) of a circle and the long line is the diameter (d). The ratio of the circumference of a circle (c) to its diameter (d=2r) is a constant number called pi, which equals c divided by 2r+3.1416. 2r with a vertex is a triangle = 3. The 14 pieces of Osiris = 3.14 = pi.
The triangle is the ancient Three Primordial Principles as expressed in geometry. The triangle is "sacred" because it represents the "plain of truth," the "hearth of the universe" and thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Gnosis is beyond reach unless one's feet have crossed the "plain of truth," meaning the study of Sacred Geometry and the triangle, particularly the magic 3-4-5 triangle.
The sacred 60 is also significant because long before 1600 BCE the 60-system of counting was used by the Mesopotamians, who were avid astronomers as were the Egyptians. The application of the sexagesimal (60-system) system in astronomy was continued by Greek and Hindu astronomers until about 500 CE. Since most of the constellation names originated in Crete and Greece, it is safe to say that because of the symbols on the disk and the knowledge of the use of the 60-system by Greek astronomers much later, the 60-system was employed by the Cretans in their astronomical calculations. The three 60's--the 60 soul types of the vertex-vortex, the 60 of the 3-4-5 triangle (3x4=12x5=60), and the 60-system of counting in astronomy--are inseparable syncretisms, in terms of symbolisms found on the disk.
Seen on Side 2 of the disk is the equilateral triangle, thought to symbolize the Three Primordial Principles--Osiris, Isis and Horus (11)--also symbolized by Ibis-headed Thoth.
With 20 dots in its center, the equilateral triangle of the disk symbolizes one of the five Platonic solids, the icosahedron, composed of 20 equilateral triangles.
The Phaistos Disk is one of the oldest artifacts, and certainly the most unique, recording the study of geometry and astronomy. In Euclidean geometry (300 BCE), as taught by Euclid in Alexandria, Egypt, the number one is represented as a point and defined as that which has no part. The number one is represented on the disk by 10 unrepeated signs, five signs on Side 1 and five signs on Side 2. The five unrepeated pictographs on Side 1 are the pig, the starship, Osiris and Shield, the Great Dog and the Nile crab. On Side 2 they are the ram (sacred sheep), Pan, the crescent-shaped coffin, the hatchet of Typhon and the equilateral triangle.
Parallel straight lines are straight lines which, being in the same plane and being produced indefinitely in both directions, do not meet one another in either direction. (15) Two or more straight lines, having no points in common, may be parallel and of the same magnitude (2 E's, Side 1, 2 Thyrsi connected), or parallel and of different magnitude (2 water-vases, 2 hand shields connected) or of the same magnitude but not parallel. (2 skiffs, 2 Niles signs connected).
Two straight lines may produce adjacent angles (2 Isis, 2 Persea fruit connected), (4 sweeps connected) two angles in the same plane which have a common vertex and a common side but have no interior points in common.
Of trilateral figures, an equilateral triangle is that which has its three sides equal, an isosceles triangle (3 Papyrus connected) "that which has two of its sides alone equal, and a scalene triangle " (3 Marsh Grass connected) (3 Papyrus connected) that which has its three sides unequal.
Many of the patterns on the disk probably are constellations of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres as they appeared 3,600 years ago. Seen on Side 2 are Orion and Canis Major in which sails the skiff of Isis. The constellation is formed by connecting the skiffs.
Among the constellations on Side 1 are Octans and Bootes.
The method of exhaustion was "probably borrowed by Euclid from his predecessor Eudoxus," (20) (400-355 BCE), a Greek astronomer and mathematician credited with this inventive method of calculating proportion. The Phaistos Disk seems to show exhaustion in use 1200 years before Eudoxus.
The number philosophy makes of a circle, in the mystical sense, an alchemical vessel, a Mixing Bowl, in which can be seen and analyzed the alchemical stages in the action of the Absolute in differentiating Self into a phenomenal universe through geometry. Each alchemical stage is introduced with 1-13 of the 13 precepts of the Emerald Table of Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary alchemical enigma and text puzzle.
Various cultures claim to have discovered the Emerald Table-"Tabula Smaragdina." In one account of discovery, Alexander the Great found the table in the tomb of Hermes (Thoth). In another account, Sarah the wife of the biblical Abraham, found the entombed Hermes holding in his hands his table. Alternately, the precepts may have been written in Syriac.
Hermes (Thoth) holds the Rod of Hermes (left), a form of the caduceus like the rod of Moses that was changed into a snake. This rod is topped by the world-sphere--the heaven-sphere or Pleroma of the Egyptian ankh.
Precept 1. "I speak not fictitious things, but that which is certain and true. The point within the circle, seen on the Riddle of the Stone, is P1. The point symbolizes the negative space of Daath (portal).
Precept 2. "What is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing. The cross within the circle is P2.
Precept 3. "And as all things are produced by the one word of one Being, so all things were produced from this one thing by adaptation. The triangle within the circle is P3.
Precept 4. "Its father is the Sun, its mother the Moon; the wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. The square within the circle is P4. These first 4 forms comprise the triangular architecture of Cheops and also demonstrate the negative space that Kabalism calls "daath," and there herein we term "portal."
Precept 5. "It is the father of perfection throughout the world. The pentagon and pentagram are P5.
Precept 6. "The power is vigorous if it be changed into earth." The hexagon and hexagram are P6.
Precept 7. "Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgment. The heptagon and heptagrams are P7. The original Hermetic Star Sirius within the heptagram of the 7 planets is today the heptagram above, center.
Precept 8. "Ascend with the greatest sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to the earth, and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world, and obscurity will fly far away from you." The octagon and octagrams are P8.
Precept 9. "This has more fortitude than fortitude itself, because it conquers every subtle thing and can penetrate every solid. The enneagon and the enneagrams are P9.
Precept 10. "Thus was the world formed. The dekagon and the dekagrams are P10.
Precept 11. "Hence proceed wonders, which are here established." The endekagon and the endekagrams are P11.
Precept 12. "Therefore, I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world." The dodekagon and the dodekagrams are P12.
Precept 13. "That which I had to say concerning the operation of the sun is completed." P13 is the fully corporeal universe.
The priests and priestess of Thoth may have been initiated into these celestial mysteries by aliens from the star system Sirius, where is rumored to be an interstellar gathering place. The Phaistos Disk offers good evidence in substantiation of these beliefs.
The Sirians in the starship flew directly over Mali in Africa on a flight plan taken from the disk that reads "Nazca Plain-Cheops."
When the monotony of flying the dead straight lines (below left) on automatic pilot became too much, the creative miners made a variety of gigantic designs in the soil. (below right) Almost all of the dozens of animals on the plain are drawn in continuous lines, so that the outline of each animal can be walked like a maze. The designs may be alien animals of the zodiac (meaning circle of animals) of other, more distant skies.
Some of the Sirians may have arrived here in a space shuttle (above) designed like the Hagia Triada palace (1600 BCE) of Crete (above top), which covered about 5-1/2 acres. The palace sports a tail wing with ailerons (A), a rear end rocket engine (B), a rear photon gun (C), a flight of steps for entering/exiting (D) and a luggage tram. (E) The palace seems to be a record in stone of a disembarkment that took place in Crete thousands of years ago.
1. "The Virgin of the World," in Mead; 2. From the "Sermon of Isis to Horus" in Mead, Vol.1, p.119; 3. Plutarch, "Vision of Aridaeus," in Mead, Vol.3, p.316; 4. Mead, p.218; 5. Plutarch in Mead, Vol.1, p.249; 6. Mead FN p.249; 7. Plutarch in Mead, VOl.1, p.234; 8. Ibid.; 9. Mead FN p.234; 10. Plutarch in Mead, Vol.1, p.234; 11. Ibid.; 12. Ibid., p.249; 13. Euclid, Elements, p.1, Great Books of the Western World; 14. Ibid.; 15. Ibid., p.2; 16. Ibid., "Proposition 15," p.10; 17. Ibid., p.1; 18. David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science, p.88; 19. Ibid., p.89; 20. Ibid.; 21. John Read, F.R.S., From Alchemy to Chemistry; 22. Hippolytus, "Philosophumena," in Mead.