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Jamal Khashoggi Missing: Mike Pompeo Meets Saudi King as Google, Uber, Ford Turn Backs on Regime
By Brendan Cole On 10/16/18 at 6:42 AM EDT
World International Relations Saudi Arabia Riyadh Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will discuss the fate of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi King Salman. Pompeo arrived in the kingdom on Tuesday, where he will try to get answers over what happened to The Washington Post journalist who was a critic of the Saudi government as the international fallout from his disappearance worsens.
Turkish officials speaking on condition of anonymity to numerous publications, including the Post, have claimed that Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where he was last seen on October 2.
It is alleged that a 15-strong team of men arrived in Istanbul from Saudi Arabia on the day of his disappearance, and all are connected to the incident. Khashoggi was allegedly killed after he went into the consulate to process paperwork related to his upcoming marriage to a Turkish woman.
Saudi Arabia has denied the allegations. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Bloomberg News that Khashoggi left the consulate on the same day he entered, but Saudi Arabia has provided no evidence to support that claim.
The Qatari-funded Arabic media outlet Al-Jazeera reported that a source within the Turkish attorney general's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said prosecutors had evidence to support the allegation that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate.
President Donald Trump had suggested that the killing could have been carried out by "rogue killers," although he did not offer any evidence of that. Trump also said that King Salman had told him "in a very firm way that they had no knowledge of it."
Jamal Khashoggi pictured in the Bahraini capital Manama, in 2014. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with the Saudi king to discuss the missing journalist. MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images
CNN reported that its sources said the Saudis might acknowledge Khashoggi's death as the result of an unauthorized interrogation that went wrong, and that the intention was to abduct him. CNN reported that a Turkish forensics team had been granted permission to search for evidence in the consulate on Monday, according to its sources.
The issue has strained diplomatic ties between Riyadh and the West and cast a shadow over the much vaunted reforms that the kingdom was taking under the leadership of the crown prince.
The European Union has called for a transparent investigation, and leading business figures said they would boycott an investment conference in Riyadh this month. Google, Ford, Uber and Virgin are among the companies that have dropped out of the Future Finance Initiative, which is scheduled to start on October 23.
Ayham Kamel, the head of the Eurasia Group's Mideast and North African practice, said the focus of Pompeo's visit would be to avoid a deepening diplomatic crisis.
"Riyadh will have to provide some explanation of the journalist's disappearance, but in a manner that distances the leadership from any claim that a decision was made at senior levels to assassinate the prominent journalist," Kamel told The Associated Press.
Khashoggi was a former adviser to two Saudi princes. Although he became a critic of the regime, he was never a dissident. He has criticized some Saudi policies, such as the war in Yemen, and the lack of free speech, but praised some of the crown prince's social reforms.
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Is this the end of Metal Gear Solid?
The actor who plays the Japanese Solid Snake has apparently tweeted to say that Kojima Productions has been closed down.
The company's been responsible for all of the Metal Gear games and is headed up by the series creator Hideo Kojima.
They've been working on the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain which is released later this year.
If the reports are right it could be the last ever mission for gaming's most iconic soldier.
The first Metal Gear game was released in 1987 and has been a regular fixture on our consoles ever since.
Developed by Hideo Kojima the series has helped define the "stealth em up" genre.
By crawling around air vents, chain smoking and hiding in cardboard boxes the main character Solid Snake has secured his place in gaming folklore.
Many of his fans are looking forward to playing his as his dad in a new open world adventure coming out in September.
Actor Akio Otsuka is renowned in Japan for voicing many of the characters in the series including Solid Snake himself.
He tweeted in his native Japanese to say that Konami Productions had been "disbanded"
The message which has been retweeted over 10,000 times says even if this is the end of the franchise "Metal Gear Solid is immortal!"
Should the studio close it will come as no real surprise.
There have been rumours for months that studio boss Hideo Kojima's relationship with parent company and Metal Gear publisher Konami had soured.
A highly anticipated collaboration between Kojima and film director Guilermo del Torro was cancelled earlier this year. More than 150,000 people have since signed a petition to get the pair to keep working together.
References to MGS:5 being a "Hideo Kojima game" have been removed from some artwork on the Konami website.
Neither Hideo Kojima nor Konami have said anything about these rumours yet.
Konami have published every Metal Gear game since the original was released on the (very old school) MSX2 console nearly 30 years ago.
The closure of Kojima Productions and the subsequent parting of ways with Hideo Kojima himself, should it be confirmed, would be a significant moment in the history of the company and the franchise.
So is this the end for Metal Gear Solid?
Well the tone of Akio Otsuka's tweet suggests that Solid Snake wont be back after the release of MGS: 5.
But until we hear from Hideo Kojima himself then we cant be sure that Fox Hound's most determined member won't sneak back onto our consoles once again.


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Query 2.02: Redacted
Lilith was in the elevator on her way to Xavier's office. It had been a long few weeks and she wasn't looking forward to explaining the tough state of affairs...
She remembered racing to his call the instant footage from the Night of Madness had hit the evening news. At the time, Lilith didn't know much more than anyone else. She'd been shocked to find Xavier sitting at his desk, already reviewing annotated drone footage fresh from the FBI. He must've gotten it almost immediately. No doubt a special favor from a friend in government. His bag of favors wasn't limitless, but he always seemed to know how best to spend his precious political currency.
"Have you seen this?" Xavier had asked at her entrance with a familiar patience she knew quite well. Things occasionally went bad and it wasn't his usual play to overreact. Still, she was surprised to see his typical composure given the largely atypical event.
Xavier had placed the footage on a large screen, so both of them could see it clearly.
"Did you have any idea that Cartwright was so far off balance?"
Lilith had expected a question very much like this and had her answer ready.
"I know he's been at his wits end trying to conceal an endless string of increasingly public crimes. He really took the brunt of things in Old Town. He was frustrated, exhausted. Still, he always had that stupid smile. Maybe that should've been my clue. Nobody's that damn happy."
Xavier hadn't looked away from the screen. He'd just gently shook his head at her words.
"I still can't believe it. He knocked an entire counter terrorism unit to its knees. I've never seen anything like it. Something troubles me though." Xavier pivoted to gaze at Lilith. "They weren't there by chance that night. They clearly came for him. Did he mention anything about being followed?"
"Well," Lilith spoke, turning her head down and to the side, avoiding Xavier's gaze.
"Actually, he did. He wanted to be taken out of Old Town. I thought he was just being paranoid. But paranoid or not, we needed someone on the ground. I didn't have a lot of options."
Xavier had turned his back to her, seeming entranced by the footage. It was a truncated aggregate of different feeds, each little box the bobbing shake of a body camera or the smooth aerial coverage of a drone in flight. All of them displayed pure mayhem.
"Things are bad, Lilith. I hope you have a plan."
"Backup is coming. I'm headed there myself. But that's just for tonight, I don't have anything long term. If I didn't have anyone to replace Cartwright before, I certainly don't have anyone now."
"I thought you had a list?"
"A few guys in the minors looking for a break, but damn."
"Looks like someone's getting a crash course. I don't know, maybe split up the districts and send in a few of them."
"Nothing we do will help if our guest keeps pushing on us. I know I mentioned this before, but now I'm asking; is there anything you can do…?"
"I'll think on it. I worry about the consequences."
They both had stood silent for a moment before Xavier brought them back to the task at hand.
"It's troubling they were able to expose Cartwright. What I don't understand is how they were able to track him so effectively. I haven't viewed all of this footage yet, not by half, but a few things stand out. The FBI, for the most part, seems totally lost. As does most of the DPD, but a small contingent broke off from the whole in the final moments. I think at the direction of Vergeron. I've also heard something about 'the cats' and their release? Does that ring any bells? We should track this down. It might be a new type of drone or something. We could all be exposed. And," Xavier said, pulling forward one of the video feeds featuring Cartwright's capture, "here's a man we need to find."
Lilith remembered the annotation next to the man had said OFFICER REDACTED, DPD, which was monumentally unhelpful. Watching a police cruiser send Cartwright flying had taken some sting out of the thought. Lilith remembered having to keep herself from smiling.
"I've requested unredacted footage, but I don't know if my connections go that deep… yet. In the meantime there's another thread here we can pull. What do you know about Vergeron?"
"We have a dossier, same as any of the big players."
"What does it say?"
At the time Lilith gave the best mental accounting she had, which she'd double checked later to make sure it was right.
"Back in the day Vergeron built a huge fortune running marketing scams. They got smart and diversified before the government really cracked down on the dirty stuff. Now they run a lot of tech, pharmaceuticals, news outlets. They have a lot of subcontractors and subsidiaries they can bail on anytime things get hot. I think they realized quicker than most that a good legal team is the foundation of any modern company."
Xavier had given a nod.
"Sounds about right, but I've never known them to be involved in something like this. Do they ever deal with law enforcement or the military?"
"Not that I know of. If they're doing anything with the military that's probably run under a different name, just to minimize negative press."
"Do me a favor," Xavier had asked, "dig around a little. If the military has a specific interest in Cartwright we need to know why"...
The ding of the elevator brought Lilith back to the present. She stepped purposefully forward and made her way to the back of the penthouse where Xavier kept his office.
Lilith found Xavier at his desk, reviewing once more the footage from the Night of Madness. One particular clip was looping in a corner of the screen, the inflection point, where Cartwright gave his jaunty wave to a drone before all but disappearing. The fallout from that night had been all consuming. Lilith's every waking moment defined by that seemly impossible chaos.
Xavier gave a wave to one of the chairs opposite himself without looking up and Lilith all too gladly melted into the soft leather without a word. She was a mess in a hundred subtle ways. There was nothing overt, nothing someone who didn't know her would pick up on. Just a few stray hairs here, a wrinkled pants leg there, the vaguest whisper of shadows under her eyes that told of sleepless nights trying to juggle innumerable repercussions.
"Good afternoon Lily. How you holding up?"
Lilith had sent Xavier regular reports, or as regular as was possible given the circumstances. He'd glanced up briefly when Lilith had first sat down and then went silently back to his work. Lilith wondered if something in her appearance gave Xavier a moment's pause. Maybe he could sense her exhaustion. Maybe he just wanted to see how she would react. Whatever it was, Lilith didn't want to be pitied and so proceeded with her report without further prompting.
"Sir, I'm sorry to say we're still under our quota. We've done what we can. We've tapped our backups. We're pulling from the hospitals and morgues, but it's sub optimal. By definition that stock is diseased and stale respectively. We've been pulling people in from the outskirts, but that isn't sustainable. The product isn't prime and often contaminated. The hunting and transport is overextending our supply chains and keeping the operations covert is taxing our resources."
"It's hard for me to imagine that in a city as big a Delphi there would ever be a shortage of anything."
The rebuke was a soft one, almost understanding, but it cut to the point. Lilith shouldn't be having these problems in a city this size, especially after years of building connections and fostering influence.
"We're doing what we can, but something seems to be heading us off at every turn."
"I take it the new guy isn't working out?"
"New guys you mean. They're dropping like flies. I had high hopes at first, but the pool's getting shallow and volunteers are harder to come by. I have a few eager faces in the second string, but I don't expect them to buy us more than a couple of weeks."
"Dropping like flies? Arrested you mean? Or just incompetent?"
If only it were just that.
"I send them out and either they come back in bags or don't come back at all."
"You don't think it's the same group that finished off Cartwright."
I know for sure its not.
"I don't know. There haven't been any big stings. No one's seen any feds and the DPD can't take a step out the door without ending up on the evening news. As for Vergeron, we've put a plant in the company, but no information yet."
"No one's bothered you though. I assume you've been out in the field?"
It was true. Lilith had taken on much of the work herself, handling wet work in a way she hadn't since her apprenticeship. It had been unpleasant then, and it wasn't pleasant now, but she'd met no direct interference.
"You're right… Whatever it is seems to be doing it's best to keep away from me. The men think it's afraid. I think it's playing games."
Xavier had clearly been of two minds during their conversation, shifting between her words and the footage, but at the indication there was another unknown causing problems out there, he gave Lilith his full attention.
"What operates this way?"
"Nothing I've ever seen. The standard countermeasures are in place, but they've come up with nothing. I also have one of the sages checking for precedent in scripture."
Xavier lifted one eyebrow and Lilith reflexively lifted her hands in defense.
"I know, I know, but it's far from the weirdest thing that's happened this month."
"I hear that otherwise things have been quiet in Old Town."
"Thank the One True God. It's like our friend just packed up and left. You don't think…"
"Don't think what?"
"You don't think it's really gone?"
Lilith watched as Xavier stood and faced the window, looking out at the setting sun.
"I don't know. I wouldn't assume so. I'd be prepared for the worst."
"I can barely handle things now. If the worst comes we won't be ready."
"We may have to consider a transfer. Maybe we can pull a seasoned agent from another city."
Lilith felt the stab at those words. Having to call in outside help like that was dangerous, and she felt responsible for that. Taking Cartwright out of the game seemed a good move at the time, eliminating not only a personal burden, a vicious insubordinate psychopath, but also a chance to promote her own trusted men up the chain and solidify her position in the organization. Now everything was unraveling and she couldn't even confide in the one man best suited to help her.
"Xavier, has it really come to that^ If we ask for a handout they could come down on us hard."
"It's true, if word makes it to the top things may not turn out so well. They could restructure Delphi and I might be deposed. I can't let the group fall completely apart, though. If I do, I could be excommunicated. I could lose the blessing of god and the support of the brethren. I'd be completely on my own and possibly even a liability... Maybe if we contact one of the previous host cities directly we can find a sympathetic ear."
Lilith pondered this. It was in these moments she wondered about Xavier, about his commitment. He often seemed more interested in his own gain than in the greater mission and the scope of his responsibilities as leader in Delphi. Lilith's position was a rare designation, one of trust and honor. Despite this worry, Lilith had to concede that if Xavier fell she would almost certainly go with him, and while her punishment would assuredly be less severe she was at risk of losing an appointment she had fought tooth and nail to obtain.
"People have been complaining that the God's Gifts are failing." Lilith said, her tone one of genuine concern. "People feel weak. They're scared and I can't say I blame them."
Xavier turned his gaze on her as the last rays of sunlight fell beyond the horizon.
"How about you Lily? Are you strong?"
Lilith couldn't help feeling that Xavier's question was a trap. She was exhausted, weak, internally questioning her own resolve and Xavier's Gift was one that preyed on indecision and self doubt. The longer she took to respond, the longer he had to prob, so, in this case, swift honesty was the best defense.
"To be true, sir, I have good days and bad. I certainly don't feel like myself."
Xavier broke his gaze and sat back at his desk.
"I should speak with the Archdeacon. I've been putting him off, but it sounds like it's time." Xavier's expression soured. "I don't like getting involved with that end of the business. It doesn't really play to my strengths and the Archdeacon's a windbag besides."
Lilith gave him a sympathetic smile.
"It must be bad if the Archdeacon came to you first. He's usually one to take full advantage of your absence to do as he pleases. He waves his influence around like a shinny toy."
"I know, and if could stomach the man he'd be here already, but you're right, if he's asking to see me things must dire."
Xavier went back to glancing at the footage, Lilith imagined to distract himself even from the thought of the Archdeacon. She would admit that the Archdeacon had some… eccentricities that made him difficult to deal with. Even so, Xavier's loathing was a little excessive. At times the feud could be ridiculous, but it was a good show.
"Any luck finding our mystery officer?" Xavier asked, all too willing to change the subject.
"Not yet, but we're close. The records at the DPD are so shuffled right now that even the cops can't make heads or tails of them. Most of the data we need is with internal affairs, which is a tough place for us to reach. Having said that, only a few teams from the DPD were part of the sting and we've been narrowing the list one by one."
Xavier gave her a quick nod.
"I've been reviewing the footage and I think I have another lead. There's a small voice just off stage. By process of elimination it was almost certainly Vergeron. It's the same voice we heard talking about the cats. I think I've managed to put a name to the voice. A private consultant, one 'Mr. Black'. He shows up at the beginning of the op, but otherwise seemed conspicuously absent. I suspect that Vergeron may have tried to have him redacted. Our 'Mr. Black' is almost certainly an alias, but maybe it will mean something to someone."
Lilith knew her face had twisted into an expression of incredulity.
"Xavier, Vergeron must employ at least a dozen 'Mr. Blacks' just in Delphi alone!"
For a moment Xavier's eyes grew hard and Lilith was reminded of the deadly determination felt by the unfortunate few that ended up on the wrong side of Xavier's ambition.
"Do what you can. And remember that time is against us."
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Tomato Seeds and other Supplies Sent to Space Station For Growth – Watch Video
Shakera PinnockNovember 26, 2022
A new shipment of supplies, which includes tomato seeds, will be delivered to the International Space Station by SpaceX this weekend. Making its second attempt to send the cargo after poor weather conditions at the launch site halted the mission on Tuesday, SpaceX departed with the new supplies from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 2:20 p.m. ET on Saturday.
The cargo is filled with numerous supplies, including a pair of new solar arrays for the space station, dwarf tomato seeds, and a variety of science experiments. There is also a Moon Microscope kit on board, which is only one of several medical supplies. The package includes a portable, handheld microscope that astronauts can use to collect and transfer blood samples to the flight doctors on the ground for improved patient diagnosis and care.
After the shipment arrives at its destination, the crew aboard the space station will have the opportunity to enjoy Thanksgiving-themed delicacies, which include ice cream and dishes like spicy green beans, cranberry apple pies, pumpkin pie, and candy corn.
During spacewalks that are slated for November 29 and December 3, the solar arrays will be deployed outside the space station, giving the station a power boost. SpaceX has launched more than twenty resupply flights to the space station over the past ten years as a part of a multibillion-dollar agreement with NASA. SpaceX has had its busiest year to date, finishing more than 50 operations, which include two human flights.
With nutrients being a vital part of preserving health in space, Kirt Costello, chief scientist for NASA's International Space Station Program and deputy manager of the ISS Research Integration Office, explained the importance of sustaining the astronauts' health with not only nutrition but also various nutritious plants. There is hardly any fresh produce on the space station, where the astronauts spend six months in low-Earth orbit eating prepared meals.
Astronauts on the International Space Station have grown and sampled several kinds of lettuce, radishes, and chillies. The dwarf tomatoes, officially called Red Robin tomatoes, will be added to the list of space-grown salads and will be ready for tasting in the spring. On the space station, the Robin tomatoes will be grown in tiny bags called plant pillows under two different light conditions inside the Vegetable Production System (Veggie growth chamber).
Gioia Massa, NASA's space crop production scientist and principal investigator for the tomato study, stated, "Tomatoes will be a new adventure for us on the veggie team, trying to figure out how to keep these thirsty plants well watered without overwatering."
Additionally, the tomatoes will be grown on Earth as a control experiment, which will be compared to the space-grown plant to determine the effects of a zero-gravity environment on tomato growth. Half of the tomato harvest will be frozen and returned to Earth for analysis. Massa also predicted that tomatoes would be suitable to grow on the moon, saying, "Tomatoes are going to be a great crop for the moon. They're very nutritious, very delicious, and we think the astronauts will be really excited to grow them there."
Watch the video of the launch below.


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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Autocephalous Church of Greece
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Keywords: mount athos | greek orthodox church | oecumenical patriarchy of constantinople | eagle: double-headed (black) | autocephalous greek orthodox church | meteora | cross (red) | brotherhood of the sepulcher | cross (whit |
The Patriarchate and the autocephalous Church of Greece
Byzantine Imperial Flag
Use of flags
Meanings of the designation "Greek Orthodox"
Orthodox church flags
From an ecclesiastical point of view Greece is in a peculiar situation:
Areas that formed part of the Kingdom of Greece between 1830 and 1912 belong to the autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church, based in Athens and headed by Archbishop Christodoulos. I believe that the church, or the archbishop, uses a flag which is red with a yellow cross and four golden firesteels (B like symbols) in the four quarters (the ones near the hoist are regular Bs the ones in the fly are inverted). This is an old Paleologue symbol. The Paleologues were the last imperial dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, based at Constantinople (Istanbul) which fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The parts of mainland Greece that were added to it after the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 (i.e. Greek Macedonia and Thrace) are direct subjects of the Patriarch but are administrated, on his behalf, by the Greek Orthodox Church [i.e. the autocephalous Church of Greece]. Churches in the North display the Patriarchate black double-headed eagle (another Byzantine symbol - after all the Patriarch's title is at least as old as the Byzantine Empire and was closely connected to it).
Rhodes (which became part of Greece in 1948) and the rest of the Dodecanese islands belong to the Patriarchate and are directly administrated by it. Again, it is natural for them to display the Patriarchate flag.
The Patriarchate is not an independent state like Vatican. From a legal point of view, it is simply a Turkish corporation (since it is based in Turkey). The Patriarch (currently His Holiness Bartholomew I) is not head of any state. However, the Patriarch is officially the "Spiritual Leader" of the "Autonomous Monastic State of Ayion Oros", (also styled "Athonian Republic"), that is, he is the Head of that Autonomous State.
Yannis Natsinas & Dimitris Kiminas, 14 January 2000
In the Orthodox Church there are 15 independent church units (Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Russia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Poland, USA, Cyprus, Georgia), each with his own Patriarch or Archbishop. There is no subordination between these independent churches. The Church of Constantinople and his Patriarch (the Patriarch of Constantinople or Oecumenical Patriarch) has only a status of "first among equals", nothing more. This status means nothing more that the Patriarch is the president of all Orthodox conferences, but he has no kind of power over other church units. He is the leader of only his own church unit, the Church of Constantinople.
The confusion comes from the fact that the Archbishop of Athens (the leader of the autocephalous Church of Greece) has power only over churches in central and southern Greece. The other parts of Greece are part of the Church of Constantinople. Also, all Greek Orthodox churches outside Greece are part of the Church of Constantinople. The leader of the Church of Greece, because of historical reasons, has no title of Patriarch, he is "only" an Archbishop.
Ivan Marinov, 12 June 2000
The flag most often used by the Greek Orthodox Church is that of the Byzantine Empire (gold with a black double-headed eagle clutching a scepter and orb, with crown above and between the two heads). This flag, and the former domestic flag of Greece (blue, a white cross throughout), are often seen flying over the various monasteries of Mount Athos, and at various parishes of the Greek Orthodox Church (or Archdiocese) in North and South America (including Canada).
So far as I can tell, there's a dispute over who belongs to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of N and S America. It is an archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate. Its archbishop is appointed by Istanbul, not by Athens. Yet many of the Greeks feel more attached to Athens than they do to Istanbul (or Constantinople, or "temporarily occupied Asia Minor"). This golden flag with double headed eagle is NOT an official flag. Since there's no official agency (the last time I looked, the Byzantine Empire is defunct) to determine what the flag really is, the shape of the flag (rectangular or square) is totally dependant on the whim of the flag-maker.
John Udics, 13 February 2006
by António Martins
The flag is yellow with a black crowned double-headed eagle.
The double-headed eagle was the symbol of the Paleologues, the last Greek-speaking "Roman" (i.e. Byzantine) dynasty to rule from Constantinople. Emperor Michael VIII Paliologos recaptured Constantinople from the Crusaders in 1261, from a state based in Asia Minor; the double-headed eagle symbolized the dynasty's interests in both Asia and Europe, and was kept despite the fact that virtually all of the Asian possessions were gobbled up by the Ottomans within a generation of the recapture of the City. Michael's descendants stayed on the Byzantine throne until the City and the Empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453.
The double-headed eagle had in the two centuries of Paleologan rule become identified not just with the dynasty but with the Empire itself and, more generally, with institutions and cultural ideas outside the Byzantine Empire that still remained centered on Constantinople. Most obvious of these is the Greek Orthodox Church, centered in theory in Istanbul to this day, and so it is not surprising that the Church would use the flag.
Josh Fruhlinger, 27 January 1999
Mount Athos, or Hagion Oros, "The Holy Mountain" is composed mainly of monasteries, housing some of the greatest libraries of the Greek world, and has been existing for 1000 years.
It is located on the eastern peninsula of the prefecture of Chalkidike in the Greek province of Macedonia. The peninsula stretches into the Aegean Sea for about 57 kilometres and varies in width between 7 and 10 kilometres. Its area is 389 square kilometres.
The "capital city" is Karyes, it serves as the administrative centre where all public officials have their offices. There are twenty monasteries and several foundations.
The status of Mount Athos is prescribed in article 105 of the Greek Constitution, as follows:
The Athos peninsula from and beyond Megali Viala, constitutes the territory of Mount Athos; according to its antique privileged status, it is a self-governed part of the Hellenic State where the latter's sovereignty is intact. From the spiritual point of vue, Mount Athos depends from the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate [of Constantinople]. All of those who live there as monks are entitled to Hellenic citizenship as soon as they are admitted as novices or monks, without any other administrative formality.
Mount Athos is administered under its own regime by its 20 holy monasteries,between which the land of the Athos peninsula is shared, which is inalienable. Administration is held by representatives of the holy monasteries, which form the Holy Community [Hiera Koenotes]. It is absolutely forbidden to bring any kind of modification to the administrative system, or to the number of monasteries of Mount Athos, neither of their hierarchical order or their relationships with their dependencies; settlement of heterodoxians or schismatics is forbidden.
The detailed determination of Mount Athos' statuses and of their functioning is done by the Statutory Charter of Mount Athos, which is written and voted by the 20 holy monasteries, with the participation of the representative of the State, and ratified by the Oecumenical Patriarchate and the House of Representatives of the Hellens [Greek Parliament].
The strict observance of the regime of Mount Athos, as for spiritual matters, is placed under the high control of the Oecumenical Patriachate, and, as for administrative matters, under the control of the State, to which also belongs exclusively the responsability of public order and public safety.
The State's powers stated above are held by a Governor, whose rights and duties are determined by Law.
Are also determined by law: the judiciary power held by the monastic authorities and by the Holy Community, as well as the fiscal and customs prerogatives of Mount Athos.
Pierre Gay, 14 November 1998
According to Greek official sources, there is no official flag for the Republic, but Byzantine and Ecclesiastic flag are used by the monks. I have seen some photos of a flag that is yellow with a black eagle. The double-headed eagle is crowned. In some photos there is an inscription below.
Jaume Ollé, 16 November 1998
The territory is a conglomeration of several monasteries, belonging to different national Orthodox churches, quite often as it is case, in rather hard discussions one against other. There should be, beside Greek Orthodox Church monasteries, also Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and others monasteries, quite independant from one another.
If I remember correctly, quite recently the young Macedonian Orthodox Church also gained right of maintaining monastery there, with much opposition from the Serbian Church.
In a news article recently I read that there is a small group of monks there who try to introduce Croatian Orthodox Church. Such a church was established during the Second World War, and was even recognized by several other Orthodox churches, but disembodied after the War.
Each of the Churches has its own flag, which is often quite similar to the national flag. The Serbian Orthodox Church would use its own flag. I much doubt that there is a common flag, and if it is it would be the flag of the patriarchate of Constantinople. Double-headed eagle would not surprise me.
Željko Heimer, 16 November 1998
Ships sailing around the coast of mount Athos fly both the Greek flag and the flag of the Greek Orthodox Church [i.e. the Byzantine Imperial Flag].
Ships sailing from Ouranopoulos to the harbour of the Monk's Republic fly only the flag of the Greek Orthodox Church [i.e. the Byzantine Imperial Flag].
Thomas Becker, 20 May 2002
Meteora is an area with huge cliffs. It is located west of Larissa in Central Greece (Thessaly) near the town of Calambaka. There are a number of monasteries of the cliffs and a James Bond movie (For Your Eyes Only, 1981 I believe) was shot there in part.
It is not even an autonomous area (like Mount Athos) but simply a "specially protected area" although most people are not quite sure what this means, since it's a recent invention.
There is no specific flag for the area.
Yannis Natsinas, 13 September 1999


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RTA Refocusing On Low- to Mid-Income Riders, New CEO Says
India Birdsong of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority wants to build partnerships with emerging transporation modes such as scooters. [Justin Glanville / ideastream]
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) will refocus on serving lower-income riders first, while better integrating with other forms of transportation such as electric scooters and car-sharing services, according to India Birdsong, the agency's new CEO.
Birdsong outlined a rough agenda for the agency during a speech Oct. 17 at the city's annual sustainability summit. It was her first public address to Northeast Ohioans since taking office in September.
As the transit agency loses riders, she said, it needs to remember who's still relying on buses and trains now – and rebuild from there.
"Our goal will be to make sure that we give back to the community, we connect communities, and the end goal is to really understand the lower-income to mid-income resident is our bread and butter," Birdsong said.
An analysis conducted over the summer shows 63 percent of RTA bus riders were from low-income households, defined as those with incomes of $27,000 or less. Another 34 percent of riders were from middle income households, with incomes between $24,000 and $63,000. And 3 percent were from high-income households, those with incomes of $63,000 or more. Buses account for 63 percent of the agency's total ridership.
A 2019 analysis showed GCRTA riders were predominantly low- or middle-income. [Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority]
Birdsong also wants the agency to work more closely with other transportation providers. For example, RTA could coordinate with private scooter companies on schedules and drop-off locations, she said. And building closer partnerships with car-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft could help riders determine total fare costs from bus drop-offs to their final locations well ahead of time.
"We have to work to make it part of the unified system," she said. "So maybe that is, you know, getting off of your train or your bus and knowing that a scooter is going to be available for you to take you that last mile."
Another part of her agenda, Birdsong said, will be to oversee a review of the agency's advertising policy. She wants to limit ads on buses and trains that perpetuate what she calls negative stereotypes about who rides transit – for example, ads for bail bondsmen and personal injury lawyers — or at least counterbalance them with more positive messages.
"If you only have [that type of ad], I can't blame someone for having a negative view of RTA," she said.
Cleveland RTA's 2019 ridership stood at 25 million as of October, compared with 35 million for all of 2018.
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Fiber-based materials are prevalent around us. While microscopically these systems resemble a discrete assembly of randomly interconnected fibers, the network architecture varies from one system to another. To identify the role of the network architecture, we study here cellular and fibrous random networks in tension and compression, and in the context of large strain elasticity. We observe that, compared to cellular networks of same global parameter set, fibrous networks exhibit in tension reduced strain stiffening, reduced fiber alignment, and reduced Poisson's contraction in uniaxial tension. These effects are due to the larger number of kinematic constraints in the form of cross-links per fiber in the fibrous case. The dependence of the small strain modulus on network density is cubic in the fibrous case and quadratic in the cellular case. This difference persists when the number of cross-links per fiber in the fibrous case is rendered equal to that of the cellular case, which indicates that the different scaling is due to the higher structural disorder of the fibrous networks. The behavior of the two network types in compression is similar, although softening induced by fiber buckling and strain localization is less pronounced in the fibrous case. The contribution of transient interfiber contacts is weak in tension and important in compression.


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Mike Pompeo's appointment as Secretary of State riles up LGBT groups
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WASHINGTON D.C., March 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – While pro-life and pro-family organizations praise President Donald Trump's appointment of Mike Pompeo as the next U.S. Secretary of State, LGBT advocates are busy registering their displeasure.
The former Kansas Congressman, currently serving as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will replace outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which advocates for an ever-increasing laundry list of gay and transgender rights in Washington, D.C., is upset with President Trump's decision:
Mike Pompeo's longstanding opposition to #LGBTQ equality makes him a reckless choice to lead our nation's diplomatic efforts. https://t.co/SLFeOUzY5F
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) March 13, 2018
"Mike Pompeo's longstanding opposition to LGBTQ equality makes him a reckless choice to lead our nation's diplomatic efforts," HRC president Chad Griffin said in a public statement. "The decision to nominate anti-LGBTQ Mike Pompeo could have serious consequences for the United States and LGBTQ people around the globe. The State Department has a crucial role to play in advancing human rights — a role which was already rapidly declining under Tillerson. This decision has the potential to make a dire situation even worse. Pompeo does not deserve to be confirmed."
"Pompeo's attacks on LGBTQ equality are long and well-documented: he opposes marriage equality, and, as a member of Congress, co-sponsored legislation to allow states to not recognize same-sex marriage and to allow businesses and organizations using taxpayer dollars a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people," the HRC statement continued. "Equally as troubling, his political career has been funded by anti-LGBTQ hate groups, including the Family Research Council."
Gay-oriented media site LGBTQ Nation provides a more detailed list of what its editors consider to be Pompeo's "six most anti-LGBT Moments," suggesting his appointment is "reason for trepidation." According to the site, Pompeo:
Opposed repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT):
Pompeo opposed the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) in 2010, as GLAAD reports, arguing that "when you enter the army you give up a few of your rights." In 2011, while speaking at the Values Voter Summit, shortly after DADT was repealed, "we cannot use military to promote social ideas that do not reflect the values of our nation."
Sustained campaign to destroy marriage equality:
The former CIA director and House of Representative member has been one of the most vocal opponents of marriage equality, fighting it even after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling making it the law of the land. He called that ruling "a shocking abuse of power" that "flies in the face of centuries of shared understanding of our Constitution."
Pompeo co-sponsored the State Marriage Defense Act, an attempt to place the state's anti-marriage equality laws ahead of federal law.
Said same-sex parents aren't "ideal"
"I think as you look back at civilization, look back at history, you find the strength of these families having a father and a mother is the ideal condition for childbearing," Pompeo said during a 2014 interview. "Doesn't mean there aren't great families with single parents, great young men and women raised without either parent. If you're asking for what is ideal, I think it's being raised by a man and a woman."
Introduced legislation to give religious people a "license to discriminate"
Pompeo also co-sponsored the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, to give religious people a "license to discriminate" against the LGBTQ community and others, so long as they could cite their beliefs in so doing. The legislation is similar to the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), recently reintroduced in Congress. The Trump administration has already shown they are in favor of such legislation.
Opposed protections against domestic abuse for LGBTQ people
Pompeo opposed reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act due to language expanding the law to cover LGBTQ people.
The vote was to amend "the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) to add or expand definitions of several terms used in such Act, including … underserved populations" as populations that face barriers in accessing and using victim services because of geographic location, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity."
Canceled a planned speech at the CIA about diversity and LGBTQ rights
As acting CIA director, he cancelled a planned speech about diversity and LGBTQ rights, to be given by Judy and Dennis Shepard, the parents of Matthew Shepard, whose murder drew global attention and for who is the partial namesake of the country's federal hate crime law.
The Shepards are the founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Sources said the cancellation "left employees disheartened — particularly those invested in the diversity reforms that were emphasized during the tenure of John Brennan, the former CIA director."
Another high profile LGBT group, GLAAD — which defines itself as "a dynamic media force," leading to cultural change — similarly criticizes Pompeo for what it sees as anti-LGBT behavior, as part of the organization's "Trump Accountability Project."
While LGBT groups weren't particularly fond of President Trump's first choice for the job, they praised Tillerson for the very things for which pro-family life groups have criticized him. As C-Fam's Austin Ruse points out, "It has never been clear what positions Rex Tillerson has on abortion and same-sex marriage, though he served on the board of directors of the Boy Scouts when the group began to allow out homosexual scout leaders."
Chris Johnson, a reporter for D.C.'s Washington Blade — which serves the local LGBT community — tweeted, "Mike Pompeo opposed same-sex marriage as member of Congress. Will be interesting to see if he continues Tillerson's practices at State of keeping an LGBT envoy, issuing a Pride proclamation."
Mike Pompeo opposed same-sex marriage as member of Congress. Will be interesting to see if he continues Tillerson's practices at State of keeping an LGBT envoy, issuing a Pride proclamation.
— Chris Johnson (@chrisjohnson82) March 13, 2018
The U.S. State Department: in need of change
"President Trump has been an agent of change in Washington. It is hard to identify another federal agency that is in more need of change than the State Department, which has historically and consistently been at cross purposes with American values and principles," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC) in a statement. "Mike Pompeo is a proven leader, and I am very confident that he will be the desperately needed agent of change at State."
"While Pompeo would likely separate the State Department from full LGBT advocacy, it is likely he would continue to mark events like Transgender Remembrance Day, a day dedicated to those who were attacked and killed for their identity," PJ Media's Tyler O'Neil said. "He also would likely defend the lives of LGBT people under assault in various countries. Just because Pompeo disagrees with the LGBT lifestyle and advocates for the freedom to disagree does not mean he supports the absolute repression of LGBT people in foreign countries."
In 2013, Pompeo vowed to continue his fight against abortion, marriage equality, and other important issues "each and every day."
As a Kansan, I hold a deep reverence for the sanctity of life, the solidarity of family, and the solemnity of marriage. I will continue the fight to uphold these fundamental ideals each and every day. I am, and always will be, pro-life and will defend life from conception to natural death. I will continue to oppose any taxpayer funding for abortion. I also fully support the traditional institution of marriage. Strong families are the most important building block of our Republic, and we must preserve them for the sake of our community and our culture.
Mike Pompeo's appointment as Secretary of State riles up LGBT groups Mike Pompeo's appointment as Secretary of State riles up LGBT groups News By Doug Mainwaring


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Double Indemnity and Jung
Posted by memoirandremains in Psychology
Anima, Double Indemnity, Jung, Jungian Psychology, Literature analysis, Movie, shadow
Double Indemnity, a film noir of 1944 directed by Billy Wilder concerns two sets of doubles. There is the "double indemnity" of the insurance policy: in the case of certain rare forms of death, the accident insurance policy will pay double the face value. In the case of this story, a $50,000 policy will pay $100,000 if the death occurs on a train. There is also a second, psychological and moral doubling of the characters.
Briefly, the story concerns a plot by insurance salesman Walter Neff and discontented second-wife, Phyllis Dietrichson to murder Phyllis's husband on a train to collect the double indemnity payment. But the real point of the story is the judgment upon Neff.
The story is framed by the wounded Neff struggling into the insurance headquarters in the middle of the night. Neff comes to his office and there dictates a confession to insurance fraud examiner Barton Keyes.
This creates an interesting doubling in the structure of the story. At the primary level, the story concerns the confession and judgment of Neff's fraud and murder. Keyes suspects fraud and murder, but Keyes has failed to suspect his friend Neff as the criminal. (In fact, Keyes has even invited Neff to join him as a fraud investigator.)
At a secondary level is the play-out of the plot. The story is told from the perspective of Neff. Most of the movie consists of watching the characters play-out Neff's confession.
The doubling begins prior to the opening of the action. "Mr. Dietrichson" was previously married. Phyllis attended the late wife as the wife's nurse. After the wife died, the widower married the nurse.
Our story opens with Neff coming to the Dietrichson house (a "$30,000 house" in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles). Neff is there to obtain a renewal on the Dietrichson car insurance policy.
While there, Phyllis asks if Neff sells accident insurance. This starts the plot moving.
The perplexing thing about this plot is how quickly and easily Neff advances on this plot. Phyllis has had the opportunity to develop bitterness toward her admittedly difficult husband. But Neff instantly sees the plot and moves the scheme along even more quickly than Phyllis. Phyllis presents the opportunity to commit the crime, and also draws out Neff's lust.
The lack of development of Neff's joining into the plot is curious. In the first meeting with Phyllis, he comes onto her with remarkable aggressiveness. The meeting ends with her telling Neff to come by in the evening, but then leaves him a message at work to come by Thursday afternoon.
At this meeting, Neff accuses her of wanting the accident policy so that she can murder her husband and take the money. The exchange reads as follows:
Who'd you think I was, anyway? A guy
that walks into a good-looking dame's
front parlor and says "Good afternoon,
I sell accident insurance on husbands.
You got one that's been around too
long? Somebody you'd like to turn
into a little hard cash? Just give
me a smile and I'll help you collect."
Boy, what a dope I must look to you!
I think you're rotten.
I think you're swell. So long as I'm
not your husband.
Get out of here.
You bet I will. You bet I'll get out
of here, baby. But quick.
Shortly thereafter, Phyllis shows up at Neff's apartment (his address is in the phone book). Just before she arrives, Neff makes the following confession:
"It had begun to rain outside and I watched it get dark and didn't even turn on the light. That didn't help me either. I was all twisted up inside, and I was still holding on to that red-hot poker. And right then it came over me that I hadn't walked out on anything at all, that the hook was too strong, that this wasn't the end between her and me. It was only the beginning."
After she enters, they are overcome with passion. Each says to the other, "I'm crazy about you." And crazy they are.
Neff knows it is wrong. He knows that Keyes will figure it out – and also that he can outsmart Keyes. But what are we to make of this double, Neff and Phyllis?
She seems to be functioning in the story as "The Shadow" of Jungian psychology (one does not need to subscribe to Jungian psychology to see its forms being used in a narrative; many writers deliberately incorporated Jungian forms into their writing; e.g., Star Wars):
The shadow is a moral problems that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance…. Closer examination of the dark characteristics—that is, the inferiorities constituting the shadow—reveals they have an emotional nature, a kind of autonomy, and accordingly an obsessive or, better, possessive quality. Emotion, incidentally, is not an activity of the individual but something that happens to him. (The Portable Jung, Hull, Campbell, Penguin, p. 145)
Neff's discussions with Phyllis proceed in such a manner as if he already knows all that she wants and is leading her out even as he desires her.
Phyllis and Neff will eventually murder Mr. Dietrichson and throw his body from the train.
The dead husband functions as a sort of double to Neff. He is what Neff should have been (Keyes and Neff even discuss why neither has ever gotten married). Neff disposes of domestic structures when he murders a husband along with a wife who murdered a wife.
Another double comes to the fore after the murder. The daughter of Dietrichson's first marriage, Lola (a rival of Phyllis) and Neff take up a sort of relationship. This one is not romantic and certainly not lustful. It is more of a father for a daughter. In Jungian terms she is the "anima". She is a sort of soul, and "possesses all the outstanding characteristics of a feminine being." (151)
Lola is thus a double to Phyllis, a double of innocence in contrast to the seduction and murder of Phyllis, but also a double to Neff. Lola interestingly discloses two important facts to Neff. First, from Lola Neff learns that Phyllis acted to kill the first wife by leaving the windows open during a storm when the first wife was dying from pneumonia in her bedroom. Second, Lola tells Neff that Phyllis was trying on mourning attire prior to the murder.
And thus, one aspect of Neff's double informs on the other aspect of Neff's double.
There is one other double to Neff, Nico. Nico is Lola's boyfriend. From Keyes, Neff learns that Nico has been visiting Phyllis at her house at night ever since the murder: this is also when Neff had stopped seeing Phyllis so as to avoid suspicion.
Nico is sort of a stunted version of Neff, and also a more naïve Neff.
On the final night of the story, Neff confronts Phyllis in her house. Phyllis shoots Neff but does not kill him. Neff approaches and she says she loves him. Neff takes the gun and kills Phyllis. Outside the house, he waits for Nico. He stops Nico, tells him to leave and go back to Lola
"She's in love with you. Always has been. Don't ask me why. I couldn't even guess."
And thus, he rescues Nico. It is now, when a wounded shoulder that he returns to the insurance office and there begins to dictate his confession to Keyes.
In Jungian terms, Neff integrates and then dispatches his Shadow by receiving help from his Anima. He also redeems by the whole by presenting his integration to a sort of Father who judges and in a last act then shows mercy to Neff. (In the final scene, Keyes shows up at the office, having been tipped off by the janitor. It is still night. Neff makes his confession. When Neff collapses due to loss of blood, he takes out a cigarette. Neff has repeatedly provided a match for Keyes whenever he smokes a cigar. This time, Keyes in an act of kindness lights Neff's cigarette.)
Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic 4.3
28 Friday Aug 2020
Posted by memoirandremains in Freud, Uncategorized
Adler, Fee, Freud, Jung, pyschoanalysis, Socialism, Therapy
The last post concerning this book may be found here:
In the last section of the chapter In Defense of the Analytic Attitude, Rieff comes to the questions of Freud's "children," those who followed after him. This question of Freud's descendants will comprise the majority of the remaining book. At this point, Rieff looks generally at psychoanalysts, with some mention of Adler and Jung. Jung will also get an entire chapter of consideration.
Rieff notes some basic elements of a system. There is a canon, or a source of authority: "Every science has its established body of authoritative makers of opinion." (69) There is also a system of conveying that knowledge through education. Rieff notes the poor quality of the education, which rather than delivery intellectually inquisitive analysts who can quarrel with their "father," "Those post-Freudian analysts who remain orthodox never have had that healthy bout of rebelling which sharpens orthodoxy." (84)
He lays a great deal of the trouble to analysis being made a branch of medicine. The discipline thus took on a non-productive empiricism and reductionism which was counterproductive to the process of analysis.
There is also the tendency to fall away from Freud's anti-commitment. In the Freudian there are simply powerful psychic forces which seek for place in the functioning of the human being; there are also countervailing forces which seek to limit the demands of the id. There is then a negotiated peace of the ego.
Freud's work was to merely lay bare the process of these competing forces: one welling up in the individual; the other pressing down from the outside, mediated by an internalization in the individual. To maintain an objective distance, and to prevent the patient from being brought into a more intimate relationship with the therapist, there is the necessity of the fee. The fee acts to "guarantee the essential impersonality behind the ostensibly intensely personal character of the psychoanalytic relationship." (87)
But the pressure will always be present to select a new system of symbolic commitment to make such a competition of forces and the resolution of such forces into a meaningful whole.
Freud's goal was to make men "free": you could do what you wanted with your own forces welling up and forcing tapping down. There was a need for strength to understand these forces and to not succumb to any system which would soften the blow and make the resolutions on its own terms.
But the power of such knowledge proves too much, oftentimes, "For inevitably, at a certain point of societal power, knowledge seeks to transform itself into faith." (83)
Jung did this by means of a "God [] rendered completely interior. The 'Thou' term becomes a function of 'I.'" (83) But since Jung will receive a chapter, he is presented briefly.
Here Rieff directs some attention to Adler's political theory of analysis. Rather than deal with the ambiguity of a multiplicity of forces and turns in the individual life, Adler however sought a single master narrative, an explanation which gathered up all the individual examples into a single force and competition.
Adler's theory of an "inferiority complex." Rieff explains Adler in terms of Adler's socialism and class war. The feeling of "organ inferiority." The North American Soceity of Adlerian Pyschology summarizes it thus:
"In his youth, Adler was a sickly child, which caused him embarrassment and pain. These early experiences with illnesses and accidents probably account for his theory of organ inferiority and were the foundation for his theories on inferiority feelings. According to Adler, each individual has a weak area in his or her body–organ inferiority, which tends to be the area where illness occurs, such as the stomach, head, heart, back, lungs, etc. Adler said that to some degree every emotion finds expression in the body. From his understanding of organ inferiority, Adler began to see each individual as having a feeling of inferiority."
Rieff explains this in terms of Adler's transformation of psychoanalysis into politics.
"Viewed thus, Alder's psychology reveals the quality of his socialism; it was, said Freud, characterized by (1) protest and (2) self-assertion, the aggrandizement of personality. Here is a sudden swoop down into the very bowels of the socialist dynamic, with its inevitable cult of personality wherever it triumphs." (81)
Rieff quotes Freud further on Adler's system, "The view of life which is reflected in the Adlerian system is founded exclusively on the aggressive impulse; there is no room in it for love. It might surprise one that such a cheerless view of life should meet with any attention at all." (82)
Rieff, Triumph of the Therapeutic 4.2
Posted by memoirandremains in Freud, Psychology
Freud, Jung, Psychology, Rieff
(In Defense of the Analytic Attitude)
In the remainder of the chapter, Rieff distinguishes Freud from what came after. The distinction which Rieff draws is between Freudian "freedom" and a "cure." Freud offers no solution, only a "technology" which will allow one to understand the working of their subconscious. The end game, as seemingly proposed by Rieff would be the freedom from the "residues of religious compulsion." (79) This may be achievable with a combination of Freudian analysis and behavioral technique. (Ibid.)
Freudian analysis "is the aim of science – power; in this case a transformative technology of the inner life….This is ultimate technology." (79)
The purpose of "faith" is to mitigate suffering: "all religions have a therapeutic function." (76) Jung sought to scoop up all religions with his theory of archtypes. An interesting observation is how Rieff sees Jung and Freud as inversions of one another. Freud understood "erotic instinctual forces" sublimate themselves into the "highest ethical and religious interests of man." While Jung saw the process going in the other direction. (77)
Freud's aim of "freedom" comes at a cost:
"What men lose when they become as free as gods is precisely that sense of being chosen, which encourages them, in their gratitude, to take their subsequent choices seriously. Put in another way, this means: Freedom does not exist without responsibility." (79)
This freedom is of course something which is at issue. It is taken by everyone that Freud's theories of pscyho-social development and dream analysis and slips of the tongue – however interesting – are unquestionably not "scientific." His technology is simply untrue.
What is strange is that his basic proposition that your sensation of ethical constraint is a trick society has played upon, that restraint is what is holding you back, mixed with Rousseau and Hegel and whatnot and developed by his followers (some who – as we shall see – were criminally insane) has become a default argument over against the "illusion" of religion and God. It is a curious sort of position to occupy.
But on the same ground, by what basis do Hegel's thesis-antithesis, Rousseau's sociology, Marx's economic history still have currency? It seems that people pick bits and pieces of ideas without ever well-understanding either what they believe or why. They could never articulate their axioms much less their conclusions.
We live too easily in cages built of the thought of others. Freud in his effort to bring a technology of freedom foisted insupportable conceits upon the world. When his conceits proved to be nonsense, the conceits remained.
Jung's Proof for the Existence of Archtypes
11 Monday Jan 2016
Posted by memoirandremains in Philosophy, Psychology, Thesis, Uncategorized
Archtypes, Jung, Philosophy, Psychology, Rebirth, Thesis
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. These primordial affirmations are based on what I call archetypes. In view of the fact that all affirmations relating to the sphere of the suprasensual are, in the last analysis, invariably determined by archtypes, it is not spring that a concurrent of affirmations concerning rebirth can be found among the among the most widely differing peoples. There must be psychic events underlying these affirmations which it is the business of psychology to discuss–without ever entering into all the metaphysical and philosophical assumptions regarding their significance.
C.G. Jung, "Concerning Rebirth," in Four Archtypes, trans. R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton Press, 1973), 50. That is, since certain images, concepts exist among divergent people groups, there must be a common source for this psychological structure: that common source is the realm of archtypes.


Joan Miró i Ferrà—better known as Joan Miró—was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist who used simple shapes and symbols to form a complex and novel visual grammar. Miró's inventive style was extremely influential in the development of avantgarde art throughout his lifetime, and he remains one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.
Miró initially attended both business school and the Escola Superior d'Arts Industrials i Belles Arts in Barcelona. However, after his studies and while working as a clerk, he contracted typhoid fever, and after a period of convalescence, decided to focus on art-making. From 1915 to 1919 he painted landscapes, portraits and nudes, largely at his family's home on Majorca. During this period, he experimented with a range of influences including fauvism and cubism, and the works of Vincent van Gogh and Cézanne. In The Waggon Tracks (1918), for example, Miró depicted a verdant desert landscape; the sense of motion in the greenery is reminiscent of movement Van Gogh's landscapes convey, while he also utilises the bright palette common to fauvism. In Portrait of Juanita Obrador (1918), on the other hand, Miró presents the budding angularity of cubism and maintains a visibility of brushstrokes akin to Cézanne. While sampling from various sources, the paintings remain something uniquely Miró's own, though with only a hint of the artist's distinct visual style to come.
In each of his works, Miró is highly selective of which formal features of the landscape to accentuate, and which to discard. A prime example of Miró's poetic rendering of everyday scenes, The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) (1923–4) shows the Catalan landscape reduced into flattened planes. Minimal symbols represent the animals and vegetation; the titular hunter has been pared down to a bare few set of lines against a flat pink that represents the ground and a flat yellow that represents the sky.
In 1928, Miró visited the Netherlands and became interested in the Dutch masters. He brought home a set of postcards from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and began a series of three paintings that combined the Dutch regional style with his own unique visual vocabulary. In Dutch Interior (I), a painting by Hendrick Martensz Sorgh is transitioned from an atmospheric image of a lute player performing for a woman to an energetic gathering of symbols across a flattened picture plane. Some aspects—such as the man's collar—have been accentuated, while others—such as the woman at the table—have been diminished or replaced. In this series, Miró's direct references to other images allow the audience to follow his path of inventive abstraction.
In the late 1920s, Miró became interested in the idea of the 'assassination of painting', within which he sought to escape or even destroy the traditions of bourgeois art and instead pursue more experimental forms. A work exemplary of this period, Painting (1936) was made with a mixture of gravel, sand and oil paint. The artist assured his dealer that rather than the work being ruined if some of the materials came loose when it was sent to an exhibition, the loss would 'make the surface . . . look like an old crumbling wall, which will give great force to the formal expression.' In this period, he also experimented in collage and sculptural assemblage, as well as making costumes for ballet and over 250 artist books.
Throughout his entire career, Miró's Spanish and Catalan nationalism remained a key influence to his work. His 1921 pastoral painting The Farm lovingly depicts a rural scene. Ernest Hemingway, who purchased the piece, spoke highly of its level of accomplishment: 'It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.' At the time of the Spanish Civil War, Miró was living in Paris. Even at a distance the artist was very affected by the tragedy and tumult going on in his home country, and was inspired to employ social criticism in his art. Works of this period also became more representational, such as in T__he Reaper—a mural for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition of 1937 that showed a peasant revolt.
Miró was also known for his Surrealist sculptures. His earliest pieces were formed out of collections of found objects, such as Object (1936), whose media list is lengthy: 'stuffed parrot on wood perch, stuffed silk stocking with velvet garter and doll's paper shoe suspended in hollow wood frame, derby hat, hanging cork ball, celluloid fish and engraved map.' In the mid-1940s he turned towards ceramic work, for which he embraced the full materiality of clay, often making intentionally imperfect pieces. The height of Miró's ceramics success was perhaps his two murals for Paris' UNESCO building, Wall of the Moon and Wall of the Sun (1958), which were given a Guggenheim International Award. These murals are composed of brick-like tiles that together bring shape to a colourful set of symbols, including the titular moon. Indeed, throughout his life Miró produced many large-scale public sculptures throughout the world, and as well as Paris his works can be found in the public spaces of cities such as Chicago, Madrid and Barcelona (where the Fundació Joan Miró is also located).
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So far-into December now that it is nearly over. This is how the winters go by, with me lagging behind every year. And every year, I tell myself I will begin early: make an arsty little Christmas calendar, write cards, and take time to enjoy music and cooking. Around the 20th, I realize it's December.
We put the tree up last night. That is, E. got it up and strung the lights, and I hung the bulbs and decorations while he was at his weekly hockey game. We have no rituals. Not yet.
I will play Pete Seeger's Christmas album on Spotify on my phone, on the train to work this morning. That will help with my mood. I'm ready now.
Already I'm thinking: next year, I will do it right – the whole holiday thing.
I shouldn't lie to myself.
Christmas was always my ex's domain. He would head out early to get birch branches to flavor the steamed lamb. He would cook all day, preparing the traditional Christmas Eve dinner. We would sing, and walk around the Christmas tree. His country, his holiday, his rituals. Of course, our children, but I always felt like a guest this time of year. The Norwegian hymns and carols are still awkward in my mouth.
Every Christmas morning was (is) a dull ache, waking at six with anticipation (is there a word for a feeling of nostalgia for something that never was?) – but my children had already celebrated their Christmas the evening before, too tired and sated to care about the toothbrushes and Pokémon-shaped erasers left in Christmas stockings.
Since the divorce, there has never been a question in anyone's mind: Christmas, they'd spend with their father. To be honest, it eases my feelings of guilt a bit.
That is terrible to admit, isn't it? Seems I'm courting martyrdom to ease my conscience. Though sometimes I convince myself it's just an emotional compromise.
You asked what winter is like here. I'm on the south-west edge of the bowl of Norway's spoon. The gulf stream flows up here and keeps the coastline at a moderate temperature. Most years I see more snow in June, hiking in the mountains, than I do all winter here on Jæren. This is the farming heartland of Norway, the fertile pastures, and the moors. In late October, the hills turn purple and orange: heather and grass tussocks. In the low light, the sky is often a slate color, which makes the autumn-thinned forests where I run appear all the more vibrant. The mosses are brighter, nearly iridescent, against the rich browns of the pine trunks. The fallen leaves from the birches stay bright orange and red on the ground, partially covered with patches of hail or snow. And it is quiet.
I first notice winter when I notice that the pastures are empty. The few songbirds that winter here sing solos in the dark. It's like the parts of the world are outlined with solitude. Only in the summers, are Norwegians friendly. But in the winters, if you're invited in, you'll find an entirely different kind of intimacy.
I'm surprised to discover that I feel at home during the dark winters here: most at home between the brief spells of snow that light up even the pre-dawn runs. The sun turns much sooner than the season, and January often stretches out black and inky, quiet and cold. There is a thickness to the dark. Sometimes the lake will freeze over and in the early morning I can hear the ice churn, as though some invisible hand has thumbed the string of a huge instrument. Cold can catch the wind itself along the shore. There's no way to take a good photo of the ice-encased shining in the dark, but it's a haunting image.
There is also something oddly reassuring about it. Here the temperature fluctuates around 0 Celsius all winter, so the earth freezes, thaws, freezes. All that death, and yet the flowers come every spring: not as delicate little fronds, but as the thick, knife-like leaves of the daffodils, jutting out of the ground.
Still, every morning at 5, when I pull on my gloves and hat, I nearly forget how I love this time of year. Now that I have no course but to forgive myself for what I didn't get done, to surrender any kind of expectation. It takes effort to love sometimes.
Why do we stop doing things we love? Why don't we notice at first?
Isn't it true? All things. Poetry. Walking in nature. Writing letters. And drawing, and dancing, and singing, and loving itself.
We stop. And we wake up one day, and we miss ourselves.
Last year a former student wrote me and told me, "I miss myself". The phrase has stuck with me. What a lucky young man, to learn so early what it is to grow up (grow old) consciously. That is, to be open to change, but also to observing what we can lose if we aren't careful. What needs to be tended, or what needs to be brought back to life when necessary.
I do feel these months as liminal. In the quiet, I notice time passing, and have have to push away the anxiety surrounding the fear that I'm not doing enough. Not accomplishing enough. And then I stop. And breathe. Breath's visibility might be the best thing about winter.
Soon enough the sun will return – from 4 am to 2 am – and with it, a season of manic-like activity. When one has to remember to breathe.
I'm thinking seasons are like the episodes you describe. And I'm thinking about an interview I listened to with a 90 year-old woman who said that when she was sixty, she could see for the first time how the little chapters of her life came together to make her, her.
I am nowhere near the place of seeing anything "come together". Nowhere near your ability to be curious and beautiful – and know it.
I'm okay with that – with working toward that. I'm even okay right now, with this feeling of being riddled with fears. It's not the election, it is the ugliness that's been uncovered. The venomous discourse in the public arena. It makes me long for a hard winter. A freeze. Nothing heals in a freeze, but it can be a time to gather strength. I need a stretch of silence.
I heard this morning that our brains shrink at night while we sleep, because it's easier for the brain then to flush out its toxins. I am in need of "a long winter's nap".
I hope you are able to make time for yourself now. And discover there's no need to want what others (think) they want? What do you really want? I hope your Christmas is glitter-free and wonderful. That you write something that will help teach the rest of us to find our beauty: to own up to it.
This is one of a series of weekly open letters to friends – friends who write back to me on their own blogs. Please click through. Category: Correspondence.
A beautiful, vulnerable, heart felt and wise piece.
This is lovely. I can relate to the feelings of not belonging at Christmas in the past. Thank you for sharing your life.
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I hope you will continue to blog – I am also sugar-free and love tweaks on recipes.
A rare and poetic piece, one worthy of reflection — even if pondering life in the dark. Thank you for sharing your far-away thoughts that also appear so near.
Thank you for a lovely comment, Maura.


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by schocolate | created - 09 Aug 2013 | updated - 09 Aug 2013 | Public
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Based On Novel (10)
Jealousy (10)
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1. Sins of Man (1936)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing ... See full summary »
Directors: Otto Brower, Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Don Ameche, Allen Jenkins, J. Edward Bromberg
2. Ramona (1936)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick
3. Ladies in Love (1936)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett, Simone Simon
4. One in a Million (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks
Votes: 238 | Gross: $2.00M
5. In Old Chicago (1938)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Drama, Musical
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
6. Love Is News (1937)
Financier's daughter spars with newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville
7. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
80 min | Comedy
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell
8. You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds"... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger
9. Love Under Fire (1937)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a detective from Scotland Yard falls in love with a woman he had believed to be a jewel thief.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Borrah Minevitch, Frances Drake
10. Happy Landing (1938)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ethel Merman
11. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Music, Musical
This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
12. Josette (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis
13. Gateway (1938)
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes
14. The Three Musketeers (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
D'Artagnan sings and fronts for slapstick cowardly Ritz brothers posing as musketeers.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Don Ameche, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Al Ritz
15. Midnight (1939)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer
16. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
17. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis
18. Swanee River (1939)
Approved | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart
19. Lillian Russell (1940)
Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold
20. Four Sons (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, History, War
When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes, Alan Curtis
21. Down Argentine Way (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood
22. That Night in Rio (1941)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall
23. Moon Over Miami (1941)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis
24. Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Approved | 85 min | Musical
Broadway director Lloyd Lloyd (Don Ameche) and composer Dick Rayburn (Oscar Levant) search for talent down South and discover singer Cindy Lou Bethany (Mary Martin) who surprises them with her voice and striptease.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant, Virginia Dale
25. The Feminine Touch (1941)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. He leaves college to go to New York to have his manuscript on jealousy ... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis, Van Heflin
26. Confirm or Deny (1941)
74 min | Drama, War
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
27. The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton
28. Girl Trouble (1942)
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Frank Craven
29. Something to Shout About (1943)
90 min | Musical
Following three flops in a row, Broadway stage producer Willard Samson is told by wealthy divorcée Donna Davis that she will finance a show but only if she is the star. The fact she can ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Don Ameche, Janet Blair, Jack Oakie, William Gaxton
30. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
31. Happy Land (1943)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War
In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford
32. Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford
33. Greenwich Village (1944)
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine
34. It's in the Bag! (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix
35. Guest Wife (1945)
A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran, Charles Dingle
36. So Goes My Love (1946)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. After their marriage, his ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Bobby Driscoll
37. That's My Man (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely
38. Sleep, My Love (1948)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Alison Courtland wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson
39. Slightly French (1949)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche, Janis Carter, Willard Parker
40. Phantom Caravan (1954)
International private detective gets mixed up with Indian sect murders in Switzerland.
Director: Roy Rich | Stars: Don Ameche, Genine Graham, Gaby Fehling, Willoughby Gray
41. Fire One (1954 TV Movie)
Director: Dallas Bower | Stars: Don Ameche, Ian Hunter, Fred Baker, Joseph King
42. A Fever in the Blood (1961)
Approved | 117 min | Drama
The murder of a socialite leads to a sensational trial, with a close governor's race hanging on its outcome.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche
43. Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Unrated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
Teenaged Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her glamorous socialite mother. Her father has a new wife, who ... See full summary »
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Susan Gordon, Zsa Zsa Gabor
44. Shadow Over Elveron (1968 TV Movie)
Approved | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and ... See full summary »
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: James Franciscus, Shirley Knight, Leslie Nielsen, Franchot Tone
45. The Boatniks (1970)
G | 99 min | Family, Comedy
Young and awkward, U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Thomas Garland suffers from constant comparison with his late father, a war hero. Thomas falls for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a... See full summary »
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell
Votes: 644 | Gross: $18.61M
46. Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
M/PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama