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Che Guevara in Tanzania
By Azaria C. Mbughuni
The Argentinian revolutionary and hero of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, spent over four months in Tanzania between 1965 and 1966. He entered Tanzanian soil a total of three times, once publicly and twice in secret between February and November of 1965. Che was attracted to Tanzania because it was the headquarters of most liberation movements from southern Africa; it was one of the centers of revolutionary thought in the African continent at the time.
After almost three months of travelling to 6 different African countries pitching a case for a revolution, it was in Tanzania that Che would find a government ready to support his plan and a place to launch his next revolution. Tanzania would eventually become the starting point for a Cuban operation that would see Che together with more than 130 Cubans cross Lake Tanganyika and spend the next seven months fighting in the Congo. Che landed in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, February 11, 1965 from China. He had one mission: to rally support from the liberation movements to create a united army to fight against imperialist an neocolonial forces in the Congo.
Che went to Tanzania with a mission. He wanted a revolution. If there was any place in Africa with a large number of revolutionaries from different countries close to the battlefields in 1965, it was Tanzania.
A war was escalating in the neighboring Mozambique against the Portuguese. Revolutionaries from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, were flocking into the country. Tanzania was the one place in Africa that Che had hopes for his mission to recruit fighters and establish a rear base for a revolutionary war.
Che spent the first day in Dar es Salaam and then flew to Zanzibar to attend the celebrations of the anniversary of the Zanzibar revolution on the weekend of February 13, 1965. The anniversary was postponed from January 12 to February 12, 1965 because of Ramadan. Attending the anniversary celebrations of the Zanzibar revolution was a symbolic start for Che's tour of Tanzania. Cuba had provided military training from numerous Zanzibar comrades who came to play a big role in the eventual victory of that revolution.The security situation in Tanzania was tense in the end of 1964 and the beginning of 1965. A diplomatic crisis between Tanzania and the US erupted in November of 1964 with discovery of documents purporting a plan by the US to help Portugal overthrow the Tanzanian government.
The crisis escalated when on January 11th, 1965, Tanzanian intelligence services snooping on telephone conversation between two American diplomats, Bob Gordon and Frank Carlucci, heard them speaking in codes about what appeared to be a plot against the Zanzibar government. The two US diplomats were expelled from Tanzania in January of 1965. It was a crisis that, according to one American diplomat, Don Patterson, would bring Nyerere to tears during his discussion with William Leonhart, the US Ambassador to Tanzania at the time. Che was in Tanzania during this difficult period for the Tanzanian government officials. The New York Times carried an article on the US and Tanzania diplomatic crisis on February 15, 1965; it noted that the Tanzanian government was hosting Maj. Ernesto Che Guevara amidst the crisis.
Back in Zanzibar, Ali Sultan Issa, the newly appointed Minister of Education, was given the task of hosting Che. Ali was a socialist who had studied in Britain, spent time in Cuba and China. In fact, Ali had first met Che in Cuba in 1962 and again later at a conference in Geneva in 1964. Che stayed at a small house in Buba, Zanzibar. Ali made sure that preparations were made for Che to stay in the house.
Che and Ali would spend two hours discussing Che's Tricontinental vision. Che wanted to build revolutionary armies from three different continents-Africa, South America, and Asia- to struggle against imperialism. The two also discussed the awakening of African revolutionary thought of the rebels in Congo, freedom fighters in Mozambique and southern African.
Che spent time with Salim Ahmed Salim and his family in Zanzibar. Salim was Tanzania's Ambassador to Egypt from 1964 to 1965. Salim invited Che to his house for a meal. Salim's wife, Amne Ahmed, prepared a meal for the renowned revolutionary. Che and Salim spent several hours discussing the Cuban revolution and the strength of the liberation movements in Africa. Che returned to Dar es Salaam after spending several days in Zanzibar. Arrangements were made for a meeting for Che and at least 50 representatives of various liberation groups from 10 countries. The black Cuban Ambassador to Tanzania Pablo Rivalta and Juan Carretero, Head of Latin America Section of the Intelligence Department for Cuba, took part in the talks. The meeting was held at the Cuban Embassy in Upanga, Dar es Salaam. It was at this meeting that Che unveiled his scheme to create an army made up of soldiers from different African countries to be trained in the Congo. Che called his initiative the "common front." This was a difficult proposal for the various liberation groups to accept. The freedom fighters wanted to focus on the campaigns in their own countries. Che faced resistance and realized very quickly that it would be better to meet with individual groups one at a time. Separate meetings were arranged later for some of the groups.
FRELIMO leaders from Mozambique met with Che separately. The list of attendees included, Marcelino dos Santos, Samora Machel, and Eduardo Mondlane. Once again, Che took the time to make a case to FRELIMO to send soldiers to train and fight in the Congo. FRELIMO leaders were not impressed with the plan. What followed was a long debate between Che and FRELIMO leaders.
According to Marcelinos dos Santos, they informed Che about some of the details of the war in Mozambique and Che questioned the veracity of some of the claims. The debate became heated and acrimonious at one point. Mondlane, the President of FRELIMO, was offended. The meeting was adjourned, but not before numerous pictures were taken.
The most productive meeting for Che in Dar es Salaam was with the Congo rebels based in Tanzania, Laurent Kabila and Godefrei Tchamlesso, and later Gaston Soumialot. Che had at least three meetings with the Congo rebels in Dar es Salaam in February of 1965. He was particularly impressed with Kabila. Che wrote in his diary that Kabila "made an excellent impression on me." He presented a clear plan of action and identified US imperialism as the main enemy; this is something that made an impression on Che. The Congo rebels eventually accepted Che's proposal. The initial plan was to send 30 Cubans to train the rebels. Che never told the Congolese rebel leaders nor the Tanzanian officials that he was planning to lead the group of Cubans himself. The Cuban plan for the Congo would not have had a chance of succeeding without the approval and support of the Tanzanian government.
Rivalta set up a meeting between Che and President Nyerere. There was a reception at the State House and Che got an opportunity to speak to Nyerere, the Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, Joseph Lusinde, Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Babu, and the Vice President, Rashidi Kawawa. Rivalta was present at the meeting.The meeting was productive. Che made a case to the Tanzanian officials about Cuban assistance to the Congolese Liberation Movement. Cuba would support the Congo rebels by providing supplies and training. Tanzanian government promised the Cubans that instructors and supplies would be given a safe passage to the Congo. Che stayed in Tanzania from February 11 to 18, 1965. He gave a press conference in Dar es Salaam on February 18th before he left the country. Che told reporters that his African tour had "reaffirmed his conviction of the possibility of a 'common front' against imperialism and colonialism." He told reporters that the "common front" would include Latin-American countries, Socialist African and Asian states.
The Americans were paying close attention to his visit to Dar es Salaam. The New York Times carried article of Che's press conference in Tanzania on February 19th. Che left Tanzania for Egypt and then Algeria. He did not return to Cuba until March 14, 1965. The trip to Tanzania had been a resounding success. He convinced the Congo rebels to accept assistance from Cuba; Che and Rivalta had secured the approval of the Tanzanian government to allow them to transit Cuban trainers and supplies to Congo. Che's dream of an all out war against imperialism launched from the shores of Lake Tanganyika was getting closer to becoming a reality.Preparations were made for Cuban soldiers to go to fight in the Congo in Cuba. The Cuban soldiers had to travel to Tanzania first and then sneak into the Congo secretly.
Che and his men arrived in Dar es Salaam on April 19, 1965 according to most accounts.Ambassador Rivalta received a cable from Cuba to go pick up three Cubans at the Dar es Salaam airport prior to their arrival. He was not told who the three men were; he did know that they were part of the group going to fight in the Congo. Che passed through the Tanzania immigration using the assumed name Ramon Benetiz. The name did not raise any suspicion about the true identity of the man carrying the diplomatic passport. He was clean-shaven, wore glasses, and had prosthetic devices to alter his look. Rivalta who had known Che well did not recognize him. Che eventually leaned over and told his old friend "Stop being a fool, and take it easy." Rivalta then recognized Che, an old comrade from the Cuban war of revolution.He later wrote "I almost peed in my pants." Rivalta took Che, a black Cuban soldier named Victor Dreke and Jose Maria Martinez Tamayo to a hotel in the city. A Cuban diplomat named Rogelio Oliva picked them up the next day and took the trio to a house about five kilometers from the city. The Cuban embassy obtained the house for the operation. The house had a small farm and it would have been in the outskirts of the city back in 1965. Che and his men did not stay at the farm for very long. According to Dreke's account, Rivalta went to the farm one night and took some of the Cubans on a tour of Dar es Salaam. It is not clear if Che was included in that short tour of the city.
He had already seen most of the city in his visit two months before.Che gave his men new names based on Swahili numbers. He gave Dreke the name Moja (one), Tamayo became Mbili (two), and he named himself Tatu (three). The wait in Dar es Salaam was short; but Che was restless nevertheless. He was anxious to go to the Congo. The longer they stayed in Dar es Salaam, the greater the chances they would be detected by enemies. The Tanzanian government was not informed of his presence at the time. Exactly when the Tanzanian government was informed of Che's presence is not clear. Che spent at least one day in Dar es Salaam by most accounts. He left on April 20 with a group of about 14 people. Tchamlesso and a member of the Tanzanian police accompanied the Cubans. The Tanzanian police joined them to make sure that they did not have any problems along the way. The men travelled in a convoy of three cars: one Land Rover, three Mercedes Benzes, and two jeeps. The vehicles carried some of the weapons they would use in the Congo. The Cubans, including Che, took turns driving the more than 1,700 Kilometers from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma. It was a long journey on dirt road that took two days. The group was delayed at one point because they had to wait for a barge to cross a river. Che read a book about the Congo when he was not driving.The group arrived in Kigoma on the night of April 22, 1965. Kigoma was a city of about 70,000 people at the time. Congo was about 50 Kilometers directly across Lake Tanganyika, one of the deepest lakes in the world. Kigoma was a busy city.
Refugees were escaping the Congo and rebel soldiers came in and out of the city in large numbers. The Cubans split up into two groups. Che, Dreke, Tamayo, Zerquera, and a couple of other Cubans went to stay at the residence of Sinfua, the Regional Commissioner of Kigoma.Che and his men spent one night in Kigoma. The Tanzanian Regional Commissioner of Kigoma, Sinfua, warned Che during their discussions that the Congo rebels were undisciplined. Che would admit later that Sinfua had been correct. The Cubans boarded a boat just before midnight on April 23, 1965 for the Congo. Che and his men would spend the next 7 months fighting in the Congo. Tanzania was critical for the Cuban operations in the Congo. Che could not have lasted seven months in the Congo without cooperation of the Tanzanian government. The heart of the Congo operations was at the Cuban Embassy in Dar es Salaam. All supplies came through Tanzania had to be sent to the Congo.Che's whereabouts was unknown to the public. Very few people were aware of Che's presence in Tanzania and in the Congo.
According to most accounts, Westerners did not know Che's whereabouts. Larry Devlin, the CIA chief station in the Congo, claimed that he reported Che's presence in October of 1965, but was ignored. Some recent reports indicate that the Americans had a ship in the Indian Ocean along East Africa monitoring communication between the Cuban Embassy in Dar es Salaam and the Cuban soldiers in the Congo. Interception of the communication does not necessary mean that Americans knew Che was among the soldiers, even if they had their suspicions. There is one report that indicates the possibility that someone may have known where Che was at the time. Rumors emerged in Cairo and Dar es Salaam in October of 1965 that Che and Soumialot were killed in the Congo. The reports forced Soumialot to give a press conference in Dar es Salaam in October 17, 1965. The Times of London reported Soumialot's press conference that same day, October 17, 1965. Soumialot told reporters that he was well and alive. He denied claims that Che had been in the Congo and that he was killed in an ambush. The situation in the Congo was desperate for the Cubans by the end of October 1965. A group of white mercenaries and Congo soldiers led by Mobuto SeseSeko and an Irish mercenary named Mike Hoare, started closing in on the Cubans by October. To make matters worse, the Congo leader Joseph Kasa-Vubu went to the OAU conference in Ghana from October 21 to 15, 1965, and promised to remove foreign mercenaries. He managed to secure OAU resolution calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Congo. Nyerere called Ambassador Rivalta shortly afterwards and asked the Cubans to withdraw their troops.
Che and the Cuban soldiers crossed Lake Tanganyika and entered Kigoma on November 21, 1965. Oliva and another Cuban diplomat named Coloman Ferrer, were in Kigoma to welcome Che and the Cuban soldiers back to Tanzanian soil. The Tanzanian police went to the boat and took all the weapons. Che took a bath, changed clothes, and ate food. He and his men slept on the floor of a waiting room in Kigoma. This was the third and last time Che would enter Tanzania; it was a bittersweet moment for Che. The mission had failed, but his determination to continue the struggle remained strong. Coloman received instructions to take Che and a few men he selected back to Dar es Salaam. The group left on a van for Dar es Salaam. They barely made it on time for the last ferry that crossed the river at 7pm. Coloman was instructed to keep the Cuban embassy informed of their whereabouts. He made a call from Morogoro to inform the embassy of their location.
Coloman and Che went to the house owned by the Tanzania Director of Prisons, near the airport when they reached Dar es Salaam. Che and other comrades spent the first night at the house. Coloman went to see Che the next day and bought some supplies for him. Che would spend another two or three days at the house near the airport, just outside the city. So it was, Che was in Dar es Salaam once again in the end of November 1965. Eventually he moved from the house on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam to a two- bedroom apartment on top of the Cuban Embassy in Upanga, a suburb of Dar es Salaam. He would spend the next four months in the apartment without venturing outside.Che kept himself very busy in Dar es Salaam. He contemplated about the shortcomings of the Congo operation and considered his next move. Che was clear about one thing: he wanted to fight. However, he was not sure where he would launch his next campaign against imperialists. He did not want to return to Cuba.
The failure of the Congo mission weighed heavily on him. The Cubans kept Che's presence in Tanzania top secret. Very few people in the Cuban Embassy knew of his presence. There were only about three people who were allowed to enter Che's apartment: Rivalta, Oscar FernandezMell, Padilla, and Delfin, the telegraph operator. Che spent his time reading, playing chess, and writing diaries of his Congo experiences. Spending four months in an apartment without going outside would be difficult for most people. This was not the case for Che. The few Cubans who interacted with Che during that time did not notice any signs of distress. He welcomed the new year of 1966 in Dar es Salaam with Rivalta, Padillla, and Fernandez Mell. Che spent his time reading, playing chess, and writing. He spent considerable time working on his Congo diaries. He dictated the text to Ferrer and Ferrer would later transcribe it. Che revised and corrected the final manuscript. One of the best moments for Che in Tanzania was when his wife Aleida March came to visit him secretly sometime around February of 1966. Aleida and Che would spend the next month, clammed up in the two-bedroom apartment.
According to Aleida, this was to become one of the best times the couple spent together. They spent day and nights together catching up on lost time. The couple had not spent much time together since they got married in 1959. And so it was in Dar es Salaam that Che would rekindle romance with his wife. Aleida recalled later that "it was the first time we had ever been alone together" and closest thing to a "honeymoon" that the two had enjoyed. She would allude to "making up of all the lost time." The reunion would be the first and last time the two spent considerable time alone. Che slipped out of Dar es Salaam secretly sometime in March of 1966. He went to Prague, Cuba, and eventually, to Bolivia where he was killed with the help of the CIA. Just as his secret entrance to Dar es Salaam, his secret departure was without fanfare. He came to Tanzania seeking a path to fight a revolutionary war; a war against neocolonialism and imperialism. He was full of hope; he wanted to build an army that would defeat the imperialists in the Congo. This dream was never realized. Yet Che left an indelible mark on this part of Africa. His was a story of commitment and dedication; a story of both setbacks and triumphs. It is ultimately a story of sacrifice and willingness to pay the ultimate price for a cause that one believes in. Che wrote in his last letter to his wife and five children before leaving for Bolivia: "Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionar.
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From today I will start presenting you the polishes I bought in Seoul.
The first one is a polish from the brand "Scandal", a Korean brand.
The name of the polish is "Mirage Pink" (#304). It's a coral-based polish with pink, orange and gold in it. Its name is Mirage Pink but to me the overall result is more coral and orange-toned than pink....
So yeah, somtimes, the polish looks really coral on your nails and it leans toward orange while in the shade, it looks more pink (medium pink). And nearly all the time, it flashes gold really strongly! This gold flash is much stronger than what you have in Zoya Happi for example. And Zoya Happi is clearly pink (bubble gum pink) and doesn't have any other color in its base while here, Mirage Pink has a trichrome coral-orange-pink base. I believe that the "orange effect" is due to this strong gold flash.
Application was very nice, a little sheer on the first layer but opaque with 2 or 3 coats. Here I used 3 coats, without top coat.
|Duochrome! See the orange in the lower part of the nails and pink in the upper part.
On this last picture, you can see the orange color on the lower part of the nail and the pink color on the upper part (duochrome).
Finally I'd like to show you a bottle comparison between the Scandal and the Nfu Oh's bottles.
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Final verdict: This is the first time I use any Scandal nail polishes and I must admit I've been quite impressed by its quality and awesomeness. The color is really intriguing and a bit difficult to describe...it's an orange coral that changes to pink according to the light and has a super strong gold flash. This gold flash is present even in the shade...so no need super stong light to catch a glimps of it! Application was easy.
You can see more colors of Scandal nail polishes here. I bought 2 other Scandal polishes which I'll show you soon. They are glitters~ So Scandal has quite a large range of different polishes (different colors and textures). It's a really interesting brand IMO. Have you already heard about it?
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A Sheffield neighbourhood is set to lose its vital community hub unless funding can be found to buy the building.
Woodthorpe Development Trust opened its centre on Richmond Road 18 months ago, but the building, a former shop, is now to be sold by its owner.
Members have branded the loss of such a venture in a deprived area of the city as 'socially dangerous'.
They recently registered the building as an asset of community value under the Community Right To Bid legislation.
However, so far they have failed to find the funding required to buy the premises.
They are now investigating the possibility of launching a public appeal to raise the cash, but time is running out.
Sandra Potesta, trust vice-chairman, said both the property's owner and Sheffield Council had been very supportive – but the group needs money to buy the building.
She said: "Woodthorpe is a very deprived community. Things need to be done urgently here.
"Unless we get some funding, this place is going to be just another shop in another depressed area. It is socially dangerous.
"The community spirit is going to be dead. We feel, if you are looking at public benefit, it is clearly a place of public benefit. This centre is very visible. It is in a place where people can get to. They see it and know what it is, so it is very user friendly."
Scores of people use the trust building each week for a range of activities.
Before news of the sale, there were plans in the pipeline to expand the work carried out there.
Projects include youth clubs, education and training, adult social care, health care, events for older people and access to IT.
It also has learning champions who can offer advice on adult education, training opportunities and help get people back into work.
They provide support such as finding childcare, covering travel or course costs and helping with enrolments.
The trust also works from an office nearby, but it is not suitable to host the majority of the activities presently on offer.
Sandra said: "One of the main issues in this area is loneliness and lack of aspirational activities.
"The children and young people who use our centre may not have access to computers, arts or healthy entertainment - which is what we want to provide for them."
For now, the trust is renting on a monthly basis and needs £380,000 to buy – call 0114 265 4165 to help.


text: I was reading another thread and the thought came to mind about 'popularity' or being popular with the masses. My thoughts on this are these: if someone or something is 'popular'; it probably isn't "Holy". Using Christ's life as an example, He was born essentially alone, He died essentially alone, and in His ministry, the multitudes hung around for the mere expectant of something-and not necessarily waiting for any truths. The multitudes wanted miracles: healing, food, overthrow of the government, etc.. The truth of the matter is, when we get closer the the heart of Truth; the more resistance we encounter from our flesh and the world. Christ was rejected for the most part. 'Popularity' wasn't a contest for Him to win. Thoughts?


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LeagueSharp is a website dedicated to "helping" League of Legends players by charging them anywhere from $15 to $50 a month for access to numerous bot scripts allowing them to perform maneuvers that would otherwise be difficult to pull off on reaction faster than humans normally could. Last year, League of Legends developer Riot Games sued the website, which it alleged provided these scripts to people who were leveling up accounts and selling them for a profit. Last month, they won. This week, LeagueSharp is no more.
As Kotaku reported last year, Riot Games had first attempted to settle the dispute out of court, but was met with a number of malicious counter-moves. The lawsuit claims LeagueSharp or people working with them "disseminated personal and non-public information about a Riot employee, threatened that employee, and posted offensive comments on the employee's social media." Once they new they'd be going to court over, LeagueSharp then began "quickly and carefully destroying or concealing evidence such as their most incriminating online posts and purporting to hide behind a Peruvian shell corporation created solely for the purpose of evading liability."
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This is a backed artifact from the W-European Mousterian. Backed artifacts, either used by "free hand" or as hafted tools, are designed for cutting with the opposite edge, regardless of whether the tool has a bifacial design ("Keilmesser") or is made from flake or a blade blanks, with either a natural (cortical) back, or by blunting the back by steep retouches.
The discovery that an artifact can be used to cut either plants or animal carcasses opened a new niche for hominids during their evolution. Cutting is an behavior, is not known from other free living primates (Ian Davidson). In the Archeological record of Europe, backed knives appeared first during the Acheulean (for example: in the "Atelier Commont" at St. Acheul- very similar to the artifact shown here). During the last glaciation, backed artifacts from flakes and blades play a certain role, in the Quina system and especially during the "Moustérien de tradition acheuléenne" in S/W-France. In central and east Europe, such tools are almost unknown, with some remarkable exceptions (for example in the upper strata of at Buhlen /Hesse, Germany).
D. Peyrony described two organizational classes of Mousterian assemblages: the Typical Mousterian and the Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition (MTA). The former was characterized by the high frequencies of scrapers and the latter by the presence of of cordiform handaxes reminiscent of the earlier Acheulean. F. Bordes in his "Essai de Classification des industries « moustériennes »" (1953) initially identified the Denticulate, Typical, and Charentian (Quina, Ferrassie) groups, but later added the Mousterian of Acheulean (MTA) as a fourth facies.
The MTA was subdivided into two additional groups (MTA sub-type A and sub-type B). MTA Type A has been characterized by the production and use of mainly bifaces, while MTA type B has been defined by a low frequency of handaxes, higher frequency of "Upper Paleolithic tools", and by the production and use of backed pieces and elongated flakes. In S/W-France, the two sub-facies, MTA type A and MTA type B, are two successive episodes. Their relative chronology is based on the Archeological succession at several key sites: Pech-de-l'Azé I and IV, Le Moustier and La Rochette. Note that this definition, contrary to the definition of all other Mousterian industries, highlights qualitative and not quantitative aspects for the definition of the MTA.
Backed pieces /knifes during the MTA have an enormous variability. The blanks (flakes and blades) were either produced by a Levallois (Le Moustier) or non- Levallois technique (Pech de l'Azé I and IV) . In addition, blade cores appeared (La Rochette). Soressi in her thesis, dealing with the MTA at Moustier, La Rochette, Pech de l'Azé and Grotte XVI, showed that the makers of these artifacts tried to selected the more elongated and symmetrical blanks. Nevertheless many backed pieces / knifes were simple flakes with a rather irregular steep retouch on one edge. Judging from publications, only a minority of these tools can be assigned to the Abri Audi category, defined by an asymmetrical appearance and a curved back with more or less continuous steep retouches (Sonneville- Bordes and Perrot 1956). Limited microtraceological observations indeed indicate the use of Middle Paleolithic backed pieces as knifes.
Since Breuil`s times the Mousterian of Acheulian tradition is considered by many to be a forerunner of the Châtelperronian . This suggestion is mainly based on the presence of backed pieces during the MTA-B, some of them (the Abri Audi knifes) resemble Châtelperronian points. However, most of the MTA-B backed pieces do not resemble Upper Paleolithic backed points at all! In publications, postulating the continuity between the MTA-B and the Châtelperronian, the broad category of backed pieces during the MTA is broken down to highly selected "fine" examples of Abri Audi knifes. This biased view should be checked against the reality by quantitative approaches on unbiased samples of the MTA and the Châtelperronian in order to evaluate the effective overlap between backed pieces on one hand and Châtelperronian points on the other.
In addition, many "backed knifes" from the MTA, especially those on elongated blanks show rather semi-abrupt retouches, which would in another context never being qualify these artifact as backed tools. Judging from the publications, such retouching is not really comparable to the backing of Howiesons-Poort, Lupemban, Klissoura Cave 1 / Uluzzian ensembles, arched backed blades at Krakow-Zwierzyniec, Chatelperronian or Gravettian points.
Further Suggestions:
- Evaluation of the grade of similarity / differences between the chaine operatoire of Chatelperronian points and backed MTA implements.
- The detailed re-evaluation of MTA- ensembles, not mentioned in the text.


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March 10th, 2017Crufts, Crufts 2017
Back in 2015, we wrote about Lydia Williams' dog Huzzah, the sole White Miniature Schnauzer in attendance at Crufts that year. He drew a flurry of media attention and even ended the day on the purple sofa with Clare Balding!
Well this year Huzzah (Beanara Njals Saga at Lyzarho) was back again, with four other whites including his companion Madog (Saraswati Bonno Blue) who was handled by Lydia's mother.
Whites are quite rare in the UK at present – there were 152 Minis entered at Crufts in total this year, for comparison – but they are slowly building a fan base. This is largely due to the efforts of Lydia and other exhibitors who are willing to be different; despite the official UK KC acceptance of the coat colour in 2010, some Schnauzer kennels are still prejudiced against white dogs.
Why is white controversial?
Miniature Schnauzers were originally bred in Germany in order to size-down the popular standard and giant Schnauzers (both of which only come in two colours, salt & pepper and pure black). Other breeds like the Affenpinscher and the Poodle were used to achieve this, which lead to puppies being born in two new coat varieties: black & silver and pure white.
The black & silver pups, being very similar to the salt & pepper variety, were widely accepted. The white pups, however, were considered to be not true to type, as neither of their parent breeds (the Standard and the Giant) ever presented with white coats.
Genetics are quirky, however, and white Miniature Schnauzer puppies continued to be born. They could still be registered as purebred dogs but could not be entered in conformation shows. This is still the case in Canada and the USA, but in 2010, following a year of campaigning by pro-white breeders and exhibitors, the UK Kennel Club agreed to change the breed standard to include the fourth colour. (White had already been accepted by the parent German Pinscher-Schnauzer Klub and the FCI for some years.)
Huzzah the celebrity
Unfortunately neither of the boys were placed in their postgraduate class this morning, but they were certainly a hot topic of discussion around the ringside. Many people recognised Huzzah from Facebook or the telly, and any who didn't were quickly informed of their story, and filled in about Madog's more recent successes as well.
The official Kennel Club press were even sniffing around, and whisked Lydia and Huzzah away for interviews as soon as they were finished in the ring. Look our world; not only are the white Minis here to stay, but it seems their celebrity spokes-dog is about to become even more famous!


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Lab 2 MICROBIOLOGY Background Bacterial species can be distinguished from one another by looking at a variety of characteristics: Morphology of individual bacterium of a species: - cocci - rods / bacilli - spirilla Colonial appearance of a bacterial species: - size
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Bacterial species can be distinguished from one another by looking at a variety of
Morphology of individual bacterium of a species: - cocci
- rods / bacilli
- spirilla
Colonial appearance of a bacterial species: - size
- shape
- colour
Staining properties: Gram staining - due to differences in cell wall:
- Gram positive bac purple
- Gram negative bac pink
Bacterial cultures
Culture medium provides nutrients to bac
Can be liquid (test tube cultures) or solid (petri plate cultures)
Colony consists of identical cells. A culture made from a colony = pure culture
Bacterial growth
Most species divide by binary fission: one cell divides into two
Generation time = time it takes for bac population to double
Bacterial growth = determined by counting # cells over time
Sterile techniques: - Inoculating loop
- Spreader
1) Observation of three different bac species: - Colony appearance (size and shape)
- Cell appearance following Gram staining
- Gram +/-
2) Bacterial growth
- Plating technique p.2-9
- Calculate generation time p.2-11
2 # cell generations= # cells at 120 min
# cells at 0 min
Generation time = 120 min = about 40 min for S. marcescens
# cell generations
Lab 4 MACROMOLECULES AND ENZYMES
A reducing substance gives up electrons or Hatom
A substance that gains electrons or H atom is reduced
A substance that loses electrons or H atom is oxidized
What you did:
1) Benedict's test: demonstrates the presence of a reducing sugar
- Add Benedict's solution to sugar. If it is a reducing sugar color change
Glucose = reducing
Sucrose (glucose + fructose) is not reducing because reducing ends are attached
2) Iodine test: demonstrates the presence of starch
- Add iodine to sugar. If it is composed of starch purplish color
Cotton is not made of starch but of cellulose (polymer of glucose)
3) Starch and cellulose (macromolecules)
- Both are polymers of glc but the bonds between the glc units are different:
Starch = -linked Cellulose = -linked
- Observed outcome of 2 chemical treatments on both starch and cellulose:
i) acid (HCl) + high heat
ii) enzyme (amylase) + body temperature
- Both macromolecules are not reducing however their subunits (glc) are
- Both kinds of treatment cut starch
- However only HCl treatment cut cellulose
amylase is specific for cutting -linkages
succinic dehydrogenase
Succinate + coenzyme
fumarate + coenzyme - H2
(natural H2 acceptor)
(found in MT)
1) Artificial H2 acceptor: DCIP
DCIP gets blue when oxidized
becomes decolorized when reduced
succinic dehydrogenase
Succinate + DCIP
fumarate + DCIP-H2
(reduced and colorless)
2) Competitive inhibitor: Malonate
Succinic dehydrogenase will complexe with malonate but cannot dehydrogenate it
it is inhibited
A competitive inhibitor binds to the same site (active site ) as the natural substrate
What you did:
- Mixed MT and DCIP with either succinate or malonate
- Assessed enzyme activity by looking at color change over time using spectrophotometry
Absorbance = direct measure of solute concentration (non-reduced DCIP) and thus
= direct measure of enzyme activity
When added succinate: the more enzyme (MT) added, the faster the initial reaction
(blue color lost rapidly).
Adding tons of enzyme will not speed up the reaction indefinitely as the substrate
concentration becomes the limiting factor.
When added malonate: no change in blue color over time since malonate inhibited the
Meaning: energy conversion
Organic molecules such as carbohydrates are a form of long-term storage for energy
Problem: cells cannot use carbohydrates directly
Solution: convert it to ATP
How? Respiration
Aerobic vs anaerobic respiration - in yeast
hydrolytic enz
glycolytic enz
2 pyruvic acids
fermentation enz
citric acid cycle enz + 6 O2
2 CO2 + 2 ethyl alcohol + E
Anaerobic (fermentation)
Gas exchange in aerobic respiration (peas)
- How do you measure respiration? By measuring gas exchange
- Problem: in aerobic resp, O2 consumption is couterbalanced by CO2 release
won't see difference in gas volume over time
- Solution: use an alkaline solution (NaOH) which will remove CO2
Gas exchange in anaerobic respiration (yeast)
- As long as O2 is present, yeast cells respire aerobically and anaerobically
- To look at fermentation only, O2 was eliminated in the experiment
- Glc and galactose were tested as well as the effect of sodium fluoride (NaF)
Results: - Yeast cells only respire when glc was present but not galactose
This is because they lack an enzyme that converts gal to glc (an isomerase).
Therefore, glycolytic enz are specific for breaking down glc but not gal
- Also, NaF inhibited fermentation because it combined with Mg2+ and removed
it from important enzymes of respiratory pathway
Lab 8 Sex-linked cross - week 1
Genetic problems
Dihybrid cross: a mating in which the parents differ in two traits
As long as the 2 genes are on different chromosomes, the way one pair
of alleles segregates has no effect on how the other pair of alleles
segregates, i.e. the alleles of maternal (or paternal) origin won't
necessarily end up in the same gamete independent assortment
Sex-linked inheritance
- Males are hemizygous for genes on X chr
- One mutant recessive allele is sufficient to produce a mutant phenotype in males
This is because there are no normal copy of this gene present (only one X).
- However in females, 2 mutant copies = needed for expression of the mutant phenotype
Incomplete dominance
- Some genes have alleles that are not dominant or recessive to each other.
Instead, the htz phenotype is intermediate
These genes = governed by incomplete dominance
Test cross
- Way to test whether a given individual showing a dominant trait is hmz or htz
- Cross this individual with a hmz recessive mutant and do progeny testing:
- if all progeny shows a dom pheno parent was hmz dom
- if about half the progeny shows a rec pheno parent was htz
- To be considered a true-breeding, the observed trait must be the only form present
in many generations
- True-breeding lineages are therefore hmz for the trait of interest
Part I Growth cycle of bacteriophage
- Viruses cannot replicate outside of living cells
- If plate a suspension of bacteria (E. coli) in which a couple cells are infected by phage (T4)
and incubate, you will observe a dense lawn of bateria with clear areas (plaques).
- Plaques = areas of dead cells due to phage infection (phage lyse cell after replication
and infect neighbouring cells)
- Counting # plaques tells you about the # of infected bac in the original suspension and
thus about the density of infective phage particles
What you did:
- Prepared T4-infected E.coli suspension
- Every 10 minutes, plated one drop of this infected culture with one drop of uninfected
culture + incubate. Count # plaques
- Calculated: - length of growth cycle (middle of rise period)
- burst size = # progeny / bac = # plaques at 40 min
# plaques at 10 min
Part II Effects of UV radiation on bac
What you did:
- Looked at the effect of varying doses (0, 5, 10, 15 sec) of radiation on survival rate of
S. marcescens
- The longer the exposure, the less colony you get because UV light causes DNA damage
- Recombination = genetic exchange between two homologous chromosomes
- Occurs during prophase of meiosis I, when the homologous chromosomes synapse
- The closer together are two genes on a chromosome, the less chance they have of being
separated by recombination (recombination is a chance event)
- Cis arrangement: all wild-type alleles = on same homologue
all mutants are on the other
Trans arrangement: each homologue has both mutant and normal alleles
- The percentage of recombination between two genes on a chr can be calculated as follows:
# of recombinants X 100 = % recombination
total # progeny
- Remember that 1% = 1 map unit distance
A couple of genetic problems...
1. If you had a fruit fly of phenotype A, what test would you make to determine if it is
AA or Aa?
2. Two black guinea pigs were mated and over several years produced 29 black and
9 white offspring. Explain these results, giving the genotypes of parents and progeny.
3. Can it ever be proven that an animal is not a carrier of a recessive allele
(that is, not a heterozygote for a given gene)? Explain.
4. In dogs, dark coat color is dominant over albino and short hair is dominant over
long hair. Assume te two genes are on different chromosomes and write the
genotypes of the parents in each of the crosses shown below.
Parental Number of progeny
phenotypes D,S D,s d,S d,s
a. D,S x D,S 89 31 29 11
b. D,S x D,s 18 19 0 0
c. D,S x d,S 20 0 21 0
d. d,S x d,S 0 0 28 9
e. D,s x D,s 0 32 0 10
5. Consider the cross: A/a;B/b;C/c;D/d;E/e x a/a;B/b;c/c;D/d;e/e
a. What proportion of progeny will phenotypically resemble (1) the first parent,
(2) the second parent, (3) either parent, and (4) neither parent?
b. What proportion of progeny will genotypically resemble (1) the first parent,
(2) the second parent, (3) either parent, and (4) neither parent?
Assume independent assortment.
6. When a cell of genotype A/a;B/b;C/c having all genes on separate chromosome
pairs divides mitotically, what are the genotypes of the daughter cells?
7. The recessive allele s causes Drosophila to have small wings and the s+allele
causes normal wings. This gene is X-linked.
a. If a small winged male is crossed with a homozygous wild-type female,
what ratio of normal to small-winged flies can be expected in each sex in the F1?
b. If F1 flies are intercrossed, what F2 progeny ratios are expected?
c. What progeny ratios are predicted if F1 females are backcrossed to their father?
8. Human cells have 46 chromosomes. For each of the following stages, state the
number of chromosomes present in a human cell (here, 1 chromatid = 1 chromosome):
a. metaphase of mitosis
b. metaphase I of meiosis
c. telophase of mitosis
d. telophase I of meiosis
e. telophase II of meiosis
9. Four of the following events are part of both meiosis and mitosis, but only one is
only meiotic. Which one?
(a) chromatid formation, (b) spindle formation, (c) chromosome condensation,
(d) chromosome movement to poles, (e) chromosome pairing.
10. In Drosophila, there is a dominant allele for grey body color and a dominant allele
of another gene for normal wings. The recessive alleles of these two genes result in
black body color and vestigial wings respectively. Flies hmz for grey body and
normal wings were crossed with flies that had black bodies and vestigial wings.
The F1 progeny were then test-crossed, with the following results:
Grey body, normal wings 236
Black body, vestigial wings 253
Grey body, vestigial wings 50
Black body, normal wings 61
Would you say that these two genes are linked? If so, how many units apart
are they?
1. Test cross
2. B/b x B/b
3. When you do a test cross, you assume that if the animal tested is homozygous
dominant, all the progeny should have a dominant phenotype. However if
looking at a small sample size, it cannot be excluded that the animal was indeed
heterozygous and that just by chance, its recessive allele was not passed on to
its progeny. Therefore, in order to be able to say that an animal is not a carrier
for a recessive allele, one has to look at a large number of progeny.
4. a. C/c;S/s x C/c;S/s
b. C/C;S/s x C/C;s/s
c. C/cS/S x c/c;S/S
d. c/c;S/s x c/c;S/s
e. C/c;s/s x C/c;s/s
5. a. (1) 9/128 (2) 9/128 (3) 9/64 (4) 55/64
b. (1) 1/32 (2) 1/32 (3) 1/16 (4) 15/16
6. Both will be A/a;B/b;C/c
7. a. All F1 progeny will be normal for wing size
b. For males: half will be be normal, the other half will be small-winged
For females: all will be normal
c. Samething for both males and females: half will be be normal, the other half
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b. 92
c. 46
d. 46
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R.I.L.K.O. A Charitable Educational Trust Number: 266677 Founded in 1969
The Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation arranges an annual series of Public Lectures which are held on the last Friday of the month in September, October, November, January, February, March and April at Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Entrance to Autumn 2017 Lectures: £10.00 Non-members; £8.00 Members.
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Doors open 6.45 pm
Friday 26th September 2014
Harry Oldfield
This lecture will consider the delicate and almost imperceptible human and environmental energy fields that surround us all and outline the history behind the development of the speaker's latest innovative PIP software program, 'New Energy Vision' (NEV), a program which displays live and real-time visual feedback of these subtle energies. Harry will also present the 'Crystal Harmony Light Unit' which combines harmonising frequencies with Crystals, Light, and Colour to assist in rebalancing the energy field of the subject, plus show images taken with the 'Oldfield Filter' which splits light into its different frequency components and which, in experienced and sensitive hands, can yield extraordinary images showing energy field effects and entities otherwise invisible in the environment.
Harry Oldfield is a scientist and an inventor who for many years has been at the cutting edge in developing technology to detect and harmonise human energy fields. www.electrocrystal.com
There is currently no accepted measure for quantifying the subtle energies that dowsers find. The Bovis Unit, as discovered by Anton Bovis, a French physicist who used it in his archaeological work, does however provide a workable scale. Such a uniform measure if adopted internationally by dowsers and those working within the fields of health and the environment, could provide enormous benefits to the community and have a multitude of personal applications.
Michael Haxeltine is an experienced dowser of many years standing who lecturers widely on the subject and is the author of the book Bovis Units in Everyday Life.
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The Western Esoteric Tradition, and the landscape of magic, mysticism and religion within which it lies, is replete with curiosities, and even pathologies, that make its exploration often amusing but sometimes unsettling. Why is so much of esotericism so weird and obscure? John Michell loved the eccentric, and this talk aims to be both entertaining and sobering, at turns elucidating and obfuscatory. Examples of High Weirdness from the audience will be welcome.
Philip Carr-Gomm trained with Ross Nichols, the founder of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and has been leading the Order for over twenty years. He is a writer, psychologist and lecturer.
Friday 27th September 2013
Nigel Pennick
The ancient philosophers asserted that the world consisted of a perfect harmony from the Earth to the starry heavens. In traditional cosmology there are nine spheres above the Earth consisting of the planets, the moon and the sun. Each corresponds to an aspect of existence and is ruled by one of the nine Muses, as well as corresponding to the metals and colours used in Anglo-Norman heraldry and the notes of the musical octave. The numerical proportions between the spheres was discovered by Pythagoras and is the basis of the Western diatonic musical scale, hence his single-stringed musical instrument the Monochord. Robert Fludd wrote in 1617: "The Monochord is the internal principle, which….brings about the harmony of all life in the Cosmos".
Nigel Pennick is a prolific researcher, writer, artist and lecturer. His area of interest centres on sacred and traditional ways and he has over forty publications to his credit including works on geomancy, dragons, sacred geometry and Celtic crosses.
Friday 25th October 2013
Yuri Leitch
Tonight's lecture will give a glimpse into the minefield of the speaker's ongoing research. It will include a detailed and entertaining account of the recently discovered Melkarth Line, as well as shed light upon the discovery of the more famous St. Michael Line and also the landscape mystery of the Somerset Parallelogram. These Earth Mysteries are not coincidental patterns upon the land; they are a deliberate mechanism used by certain initiates and esoteric antiquarians, Freemasons and so on, referred to by Katharine Maltwood as 'The British Secret Tradition'.
Yuri Leitch is a Glastonbury-based artist, writer and Psychic Quester. For many years he has researched the life and intrigues of the mystical sculptor, Katharine Maltwood, famous for her discovery of the Temple of the Stars (Glastonbury Zodiac. He is a major contributor to The Signs and Secrets of the Glastonbury Zodiac, 2013.
Friday 29th November 2013
The Annual John Michell Memorial Lecture.
Alan J. Watts
In The View Over Atlantis John Michell illustrates a pyramidal triangle – one whose proportions are the same as a meridian cross-section of the Great Pyramid. Tonight's lecture describes the speaker's discovery of a great scheme of pyramidal triangles linking the major archaeological sites of Wessex and surrounding areas that was set in place by an unknown but very ancient civilisation. Sites like Stonehenge and Silbury Hill were apparently developed on archaic navels much older than their traditionally ascribed dates. Dowsers sense the influence at the corners of the grid of triangles, which may explain their attraction as gathering places over the millennia.
Alan J. Watts B.Sc. was a teacher of physics and maths for 30 years and has had a long-term interest in UFOs. His landscape discoveries have been published an eBook The Pyramids of Britain (available from Amazon).
Friday 31st January 2014
Bob Brown
There is a puzzle awaiting a solution in the landscape surrounding the medieval Benedictine Priory of Sele in Sussex. The geometric configuration of ancient churches around the Priory to be found on the map of the River Adur valley near Shoreham by Sea is undeniable and its symmetry is quite remarkable. While some would like to attribute its creation to the Knight Templars, it nevertheless continues to defy rational explanation by the experts in the placement and alignment of ancient churches. Our speaker will describe the background to his mysterious discovery and offer some possible explanations.
Bob Brown has been studying the mysterious of the landscape for many years. He is a true antiquarian in that he combines an eye for the curious with an enquiring mind.
Friday 28th February 2014
Steve Wilson
For hundreds of years after the Reformation, Londoners could rely on a whole class of professional magicians to find stolen property, bring back departed lovers or tell their fortunes. Using grimoires of ancient lore they were as well known a profession as doctors, lawyers or accountants. In this talk new sources of data will be used to tell their stories.
Steve Wilson has been chairing his own esoteric lecture series in London since 1990 and is the author of two books, as well as acting as the media officer for the Council of British Druid Orders.
Friday 28th March 2014
Peter Knight
This PowerPoint presentation will describe the findings detailed in Peter Knight's 8th book. It looks at the fertility folklore, earth energies and the landscape setting of the iconic Cerne Giant hill figure in Dorset. The Giant's identity and date of origin will also be discussed in the light of the speaker's discovery of related astronomical alignments. We will also hear about an Egyptian Stargate that aligns with the Giant and alignments to other mythical stellar figures, such as Orion and Hercules. Peter will ask the question can such hill figures be used today for planetary healing?
Peter Knight is an international speaker, dowser, writer and tour leader to sacred sites. His website is: www.stoneseeker.net
Friday 25th April 2014
Doors open at 6.30pm
The R.I.L.K.O. AGM will be held from 6.45 to 7.15 to be followed at 7.30pm by
The Annual Robert Cowley Memorial Lecture
Malcolm Stewart
This talk is about a journey into Sacred Geometry, where logic, imagination and intuitive perception come together as a tool for realising and expressing the spiritual domain in society and in the individual. It has been used in this way from ancient times in all traditions of illumination.
Malcolm Stewart is a teacher practitioner of Sacred Geometry in Stained Glass, Mosaic and print media. His work has been used in Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and New Age environments. Formerly a television producer, he was encouraged by John Michell to publish his researches and this has borne fruit in two significant works Symbols of Eternity and Patterns of Eternity, with a third volume being his aspirational finale.
28th September 2012
Janet Dare
Brought to the public awareness through the channelled writings of Alice Bailey in the 1940's, Esoteric Astrology was based on the idea of a system of Seven Ray energies, said to emanate from the one Divine Source. In Esoteric Astrology, the birthchart, and in particular the Ascendant of the birthchart, represents the potential for the journey and development of the Soul in any given lifetime. Each sign is representative of one or more of the Seven Ray energies as they flow down to earth via the constellations, and into our physical being. Janet's interest in Esoteric Astrology began some 20 years ago, when she met the late Dr. Douglas Baker, a tireless lecturer on all things esoteric, and attended many of his lectures and workshops.
Janet Dare obtained the Diploma of The Faculty of Astrological Studies in London in June 2010. She is currently a tutor for the Faculty on their Distance Learning Course, and runs a private practice from her home on the Richmond/Kingston borders.
Janet Dare Astrology website: www.janetdareastrology.com
26th October 2012
Robert Stephenson
The labyrinth pattern is found on five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb seals, on 1st century BC Cretan coins and in medieval cathedrals throughout Europe. Labyrinths were popular for Romans pavements and nearly every culture around the world has examples. England, with eight surviving examples, has the largest number of ancient turf mazes of any country. What is the secret of its enduring fascination? This lecture will explore the history of the labyrinth, its variations in design and demonstrate how they may be constructed.
Robert Stephenson is a mazemaker who has researched the intricacies of the labyrinth design and its history for many decades. He teaches on London and its folklore and is a qualified City of London guide. Robert has contributed to books on legendary London and the paranormal, and is the current RILKO Chairman.
30th November 2012
The John Michell Memorial Lecture
John Martineau
In this highly illustrated talk, cosmologist John Martineau will examine the puzzle of fine-tuning in the universe, and, closer to home, will discuss the strange abundance of synchronous coincidences in the solar system, particularly around Earth. What kind of solutions best explain the evidence? Are we ready for them?
John Martineau is publisher of the award-winning Wooden Books series, and author of A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System.
Wooden Books website: www.woodenbooks.com
25th January 2013
Geraldine Beskin
Manly Hall was the towering figure of mystical thought in America in the twentieth century. His work was Theosophical in essence but the many books he wrote and published were written with the Average Guy in mind. He popularised European mystical thought in America and was highly respected during his long and rewarding life. He travelled extensively, had a real rags to riches life, he knew everybody, was much loved and deeply respected. And then he hired his own killer. The man was jealous, and very greedy and overstepped the mark one hot Californian day...
Geraldine Beskin is from The Atlantis Bookshop and has an abiding interest in ley lines, sacred spaces and most aspects of the esoteric - particularly the people involved.
The Atlantis Bookshop website: www.theatlantisbookshop.com
22nd February 2013
Sarah Dawkins
Sarah will recount some of her experiences on pilgrimage within the British Isles which connect with the triple zodiac of the British Isles – Britain (England and Wales), Ireland and Scotland and the main chakra system which connects these three lands and their heart centres. She will also consider the myth of Europa and the Bull, the overlighting myth connecting the British Isles with mainland Europe, which provides a key to understanding the role of Europe in the world. Finally, she will look at pilgrimage as a way of healing and gaining knowledge, initiation and a wider understanding of nature.
Sarah Dawkins has been involved with pilgrimages since the inception of the Gatekeeper Trust in 1980. With her husband Peter she has widely travelled within the British Isles and Europe studying myths and the stories that arise out of the energy and patterns of the landscape. Sarah delights in celebrating the solar festivals through song, dance and fire ceremonies. Sarah organises pilgrimages and workshops within the Zoence Academy.(Zoence means 'Pathway of the Soul')
Zoence Academy website: www.zoence.co.uk
29th March 2013
John Billingsley
Is the head the seat of the soul? Or just an emblem representing the individual life-force? The human head and the 'tête coupée', or severed head, has been a key image around which a variety of concepts have constellated in religious and magical thought from the earliest days of human history. John Billingsley traces the recurrence of the motif through history, legend and other lore, and untangles a consistent implication of meaning that may still be active today.
John Billingsley is the author of A Stony Gaze: Investigating Celtic and other stone heads (Capall Bann, 1998) and several books on folklore and related topics in his home county of West Yorkshire. He is also the editor of Northern Earth magazine.
Northern Earth website: www.northernearth.co.uk
26th April 2013
Doors open at 6.30pm
The RILKO AGM will be held from 6.45 to 7.15 to be followed at 7.30pm by
The Annual Robert Cowley Memorial Lecture
The public is warmly welcomed to attend this lecture
Sylvia Franke
Who was 'Kyot,' referred to by both Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach, how did he discover the Grail Story from 'Flegetanis' being thus able to form a bridge between the original Grail Mysteries and the time in which he was living, apparently parallel with the life-span of an actual 'Parzival' individual in the Ninth Century? Sylvia Francke will pick up glimmers of insight which seem to fit into a vast canvas of precisely dated events and exact locations that point to 'Parzival' as real-life Drama, stretching across the breadth of Ninth Century Europe tracing a Rosicrucian thread from Ancient Chaldea to the 20th and 21st centuries.
Sylvia Francke is an Anthroposophist and the author of The Tree of Life and the Holy Grail. She is a member of the RILKO council and of the council of the Francis Bacon Society.
Friday 30th September 2011
Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince
Based on their latest book Lynn and Clive will reveal the true origins of science and how scientists' denial of their discipline's esoteric roots undermines their capacity to understand their own discoveries… All the major players in the Scientific Revolution – from Copernicus to Newton – were directly inspired by the Hermetica, mystical texts traceable to ancient Egypt. But a strange collusion between religion and science resulted in the rewriting of history to eliminate the esoteric. Although rarely mentioned, cutting-edge modern science, particularly quantum physics, has overwhelmingly indicated that the universe was designed. In fact these discoveries gel remarkably with the ancient cosmology of the Hermetica.
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are just celebrating their 22nd year of co-authorship and ground-breaking research. Their joint career began with Turin Shroud: How Leonardo Da Vinci Fooled History and – eight books later - they have just published The Forbidden Universe. They are best known for their 1997 The Templar Revelation, which Dan Brown acknowledged as the primary inspiration for The Da Vinci Code. As an acknowledgement for their contribution they were given cameos in the movie. They have also appeared in many documentaries and DVDs and speak internationally.
Friday 28th October 2011
John Michell Memorial Lecture
John Nicholson
More than forty years ago a shooting star illuminated thousands of minds. John Michell's The View Over Atlantis laid out a systematic explanation not only of the ruins of an alien order in which we live but also related it to imminent changes on a millennial scale. This book was Michell's second book and tonight Nicholson will examine in detail John's first three books as a trilogy. Linking themes from The Flying Saucer Vision to John's later works Nicholson will also explore the transition of John's interest in these psychic disturbances to the emergence of a systematic unification of alignments, patterns and significant remnants of the civilization Michell believed contains lessons we urgently need to understand.
John Nicholson, having been associated with John's unconventional pamphlets since the early 1970s, is uniquely placed to bring personal insights and his own experience to bear on John's work and personality. In 1985 he contributed the key essay to An English Figure, the essential study of Michell's work. Recently he published An Appendix, a view over John Michell, which described the perceptions of John's death and how his reputation is being shaped.
Friday 25th November 2011
Adrian Gilbert
Certain objects possess a magical power and are desired by powerful men, but this desire comes from the object, or unseen forces working through it. Ownership is a matter of destiny and changes in ownership can signify apocalyptic events. Perhaps the oldest and greatest of them all is the Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny. In legend it predates the Ark of the Covenant and was the stone used by the patriarch Jacob as a pillow and an altar. Adrian Gilbert will explore the stone's legends and history and how it was brought from the Near East to Ireland. He will show how its dimensions provide evidence that links it to the Egyptian pyramids and the British Druids. Finally he suggests that its recent removal from Westminster was engineered from higher dimensions, for this stone is truly is a talisman whose fate, like that of the Ark of the Covenant, is emblematic of the unfolding of prophetic history.
Adrian Gilbert is a well-known author of books on ancient mysteries. The hallmarks of his work are scrupulously honest research, coupled with imaginative reappraisal of established opinions in the light of new evidence. To date he has written ten books.
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Friday 27th January 2012
Milena Ivovic
This talk is based on Milena Ivovic's book Memento 13 – Remembering the Self through the Geometry of God's Love (www.memento13.com). It will explore the shapes and numbers related to the unfoldment of Creation; the Pythagoreans' genesis of Numbers, the Platonic solids, the Flower of Life figure, Fractals, shapes behind Sound, the geometry of the "Logos", and this will be done in a playful but sincere manner. "Long paths lead to a beautiful eureka moment when all our spiritual intent and all our scientific inquiry fits together in oneness…a crowning moment". (Memento 13)
Milena Ivovic was professionally educated as an architect and is an award-winning artist. She paints mostly in water based colours: in Chinese colours on silk and rice paper, and watercolour. Her work varies from flowers and architecture to rather abstract themes with spiritual or erotic backgrounds. Milena has exhibited from Scotland to Brighton at numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 1994 she won the Harper-Collins prize for the best flower painting at the National Exhibition in London. Her work can be found in Germany, Mexico, Macao, USA and many private collections worldwide.
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Friday 24th February 2012
Gary Lachman
From antiquity until the beginning of modern times, the name Hermes Trismegistus was one to conjure with, literally. Thought to be the source of all ancient wisdom and knowledge, founder of civilization, master of magic, the arts, and sciences, Hermes Trismegistus was believed to be a contemporary of Moses and the teacher of Plato. Yet in the early 17th century this legendary figure lost all credibility. Who was this remarkable individual, why did his mystic teachings lose their standing, and is there anything we can learn from him? This talk explore the possibilities his teachings may hold for us today.
Gary Lachman is the author of several books on the links between consciousness, culture, and the Western esoteric tradition, including Jung the Mystic; Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work; A Secret History of Consciousness and Politics and the Occult. He has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent on Sunday, Fortean Times and The Guardian. A founding member of the rock group Blondie, in 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since 1996 he has lived in London and is a frequent guest on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
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Friday 30th March 2012
Serena Roney-Dougal
Subtle magnetic forces affect the workings of our pineal gland, which leads to a new understanding of our subtle connections with this planet, dowsing, Earth Mysteries and Sacred Sites. Dowsing is a method of using the body's sensitivity to the earth and to slight changes in the earth's magnetic field to discover whether or not water is flowing in measurable quantities underneath, or whether there are metal ores for mining. It is also possible that the modern technique of dowsing "Earth Energies" at sacred sites, stone circles, crop circles, etc, could perhaps be using this subliminal body sense of ours.
Serena Roney-Dougal did a PhD thesis in Parapsychology at Surrey University. There are only about 50 people in Britain who have this qualification. She has had over 30 years of study and experience in scientific, magical and spiritual explorations of the psyche, has lectured and taught courses, seminars and workshops in America, Britain and Europe; has written numerous articles both technical and popular, and two books; Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith. She is a founder of the Friends of Bride's Mound.
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Friday 27th April 2012
Doors open at 6.30pm
The RILKO AGM will be held from 6.45pm to 7.15pm to be followed at 7.30pm by
The Robert Cowley Memorial Lecture
The public is warmly welcomed to attend this lecture
Michael King
Friday 17th September 2010
Alanna Moore
Geomancy is the esoteric art of working with the living energies of the land. Geomancy today echoes ancient shamanic practices, with extra-sensory skills used to divine Earth spirit and read the twilight language of the soul of the landscape, its Dreamtime dimension. A renewal of interest in such mysteries and concern for Earth's well-being has spawned a new generation of geomancers who are championing the protection of sacred landscapes, in a world enmeshed with electro-magnetic pollution, a potential carcinogen. The 'Spirit of Place' looks at how people can access the Dreamtime dimensions of place, and avoid the impacts of noxious energies in the environment by using their dowsing abilities.
Alanna Moore is an Australian geomancer specialising in surveying the subtle energies of place, and in 1984 she co-founded the New South Wales Dowsing Society. For over 27 years she has advised on the selection of healthy living locations and warns against building on geopathic stress zones or 'fairy pathways'.
Alanna, who has English and Irish heritage, is familiar with the ancient geomantic traditions of the Australian Aboriginals. She finds many parallels with the culture of Ireland where there is traditional respect for the land and its invisible forces. She is also a permaculture farmer and teacher, and currently spends summers in Ireland, where the Round Towers inspired the 'Power Towers' that she creates to enhance plant growth and well-being.
Alanna is also a filmmaker and the author of seven books, including Sensitive Permaculture (2009), Divining Earth Spirit (2004) and Stone Age Farming (2001), which is about esoteric agriculture and Power Towers.
Friday 29th October 2010
Paul Devereux
Sacred geography is the meeting of mind and topography, of land and soul. It is how ancient and traditional peoples invested their territories with meaning. In this highly illustrated presentation Paul will take us on a world tour of sacred lands, from the desert lines and effigies of deserts in the Americas, to Buddhists soundscapes, to ancient acoustic Chinese gardens and musical stones of the Stone Age, to places with faces - and many more examples of sacred geography.
Paul Devereux is a research affiliate with the Royal College of Art, and Managing (and a founding) Editor of Time & Mind – The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Berg, Oxford). He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), Princeton, and the Director of the Dragon Project Trust. He edited the legendary Ley Hunter magazine 1977-1997. Besides much fieldwork in deserts, mountains and jungles, he has written a great many general articles and a string of peer-reviewed papers, plus 26 books dealing with the anthropologies of consciousness, archaeoacoustics and other aspects of ancient sites, landscapes and lifeways. He lectures in Europe, the UK and North America. His latest book is Sacred Geography; a major work published this year by Gaia Books.


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"You Don't Drown By Falling In The Water, You Drown By Staying There" – Edwin Louis Cole
Boy, does it feel good to be back!
I've not blogged in around 10 days, and for some that might not seem a lot but for me it is. I think it's the biggest break I've had from blogging since I started, apart from when I was going through a break up earlier this year.
I couldn't have needed the time off anymore. Christmas and New Year was a weird time for me, I was really unsettled at my family home and decided to up and move to London for a couple of months. I just hit that really awkward claustrophobic feeling of being too old to be at home and desperately needing some space.
My decision to move to London was a fairly quick one, and also tainted the 'most wonderful time of the year'. Whilst I'm excited to move to London and start a new chapter of my life, I was also sad that due to the circumstance I didn't feel like I had a choice other than to move out.
I was pouring so much time into finding somewhere to live, that my blog massively took a back seat.
It didn't feel like a priority.
Not only that, my head just wasn't in the right place to sit down and write to you all.
I didn't feel overly happy and I didn't want to reflect that in my posts. Whilst I know we all have down days and it's perfectly normal to feel sad, it just didn't feel right. I felt like I was failing myself, and you guys by not posting, but I knew it just had to be done. A break was well and truly needed.
I decided to do bare minimum when it came to my social media and emails to keep me ticking over but it was so nice to step away for a while and re-charge my batteries.
I also felt like I'd massively hit a brick wall with my blog. The 'bloggers block' as some like to call it, it's a horrible thing to come up against. I felt like I wasn't good enough, I wasn't being organised and making the most of my time off. My content didn't feel up to scratch.
I became so sick of conforming. Trying to stylise my blog and fit in so people would want to follow me and read. I became tired of trying to make my pictures look beautiful and Pinterest-worthy.
During this time away from blogging it's made me realise that I'm done with confirming. A while back I started to stylise my Instagram and used borders for everything, I'd feel really anxious that my pictures weren't good enough to post.
I've decided that this year I'm done with that.
I want my blog to feel real. To be me. I want to connect with you guys on a whole new level, I want to talk to you like you're my friends. Because you are. I want to hear what you love, and what you don't particularly like. Is there anything I can help you with? Blog wise or personal?
I want my blog to be a platform where I can communicate with you all. I want to stop worrying about if my pictures are 'pretty' enough, or if they'll get enough likes. I want this blog and my channels to portray the real me, even if they don't fit in with my Instagram 'grid'. SOZ BOUT IT.
Tomorrow I'm moving to London and this week I'll have a new design going live on my blog. I'm so incredibly excited for a new chapter, I can't wait to spend lots of time shooting outfits and catching up with friends. I'm also useless when it comes to London, so if you want to grab some cake and play tour guide, I'm open to offers!
It feels so, so good to be back and now my head is clear, I feel ready to come back to work and knuckle down, creating content that you guys love to read. I really want to up my game with imagery, editing and writing this year, so my aim is to better myself, and in return better my blog.
This was a really weird period of my life and at times it really did feel like I was drowning, like everything was a little overwhelming, so retreating and almost shutting it down was easier than facing up to everything. It did me good, to take a step back and come at it again with a fresh outlook. I was so very fortunate to have someone special by my side during this time, holding my hand to guide me and to pick me back up when I was down. But, more on that soon ladies! 😉
I'm hoping you guys stick around for the journey, and I want to thank every single one of you for staying with me thus far, it means the world!