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Developments in the European Communities—Third Report and Fourth Report: Motion. (Resumed)
Thursday, 13 March 1975
Dáil Eireann Debate
Debate resumed on the following motion:
[531] That Dáil Éireann takes note of the reports: Developments in the European Communities—Third Report and Fourth Report.
Mr. O'Connor: When the debate was adjourned I had covered the interests we have in Europe and the advantages we have there. Since then some major factors have come to light which compel me to go back on some of them. The agreement that was reached here over the past few days, whereby Britain has succeeded in getting an extension of the time for the purchase of agricultural products from New Zealand, leaves us in a worrying situation in view of the fact that the British market has meant so much to us in the past and must still be one of our major markets if Britain remains within the Community. It is unfortunate that bigger members of the Community can bring pressure to bear and do what suits their own interests.
We experienced difficulty when Germany and other countries were allowed to purchase meat from countries outside the EEC and this affected our cattle trade. We will have to keep a close watch on our imports from Britain because much of the material comes from countries who have not the same kind of labour conditions as we have here. We must be realistic about the situation. As we are in the EEC we should be able to get all the benefits of membership. We should impress on member states that this kind of back-door entry of materials and goods is not in the best interests of the Community or of our country. We must not forget that we wield a quite considerable influence in the Community and we should not hesitate to bring this matter to the notice of the other member countries.
It is disappointing that the money we will get from the regional fund will not be given directly to the fishing industry and to help turf production. This kind of aid would give maximum help in an area where employment is badly needed. More important, it would [532] give employment to people who are not able to work in industry; in this connection I am referring to middle-aged people who have always been engaged in outdoor work. It is vital that these people be given employment in their own environment and in the kind of work they are used to and any money we get from the EEC should be allotted for this purpose. Earlier this year I attended a meeting of the central development committees in Athlone and I was amazed to hear the agricultural experts from Brussels who attended that meeting. The bulk of the FEOGA funds were channelled into projects for vast milking parlours, for concreting big yards and for huge grain silos. We are getting these funds because of the underdeveloped areas along the west coast but the interests of the people in that area are not being considered. The Government should urgently consider this question.
I understand that out of the entire FEOGA funds only a small amount has been allocated for a pier at Caherciveen, minor improvements have been carried out to a pier in Valentia, a small sum of money was allotted to County Clare and a further amount was given to a fish processing plant in Dublin. That is the extent of the benefit the west got from the fund. We hear a lot of talk about development by various spokesmen; they tell us they are trying to help the western areas but nothing practical is being done. The money is being channelled to other spheres. Perhaps the people of the west are somewhat to blame because they have not applied pressure on the Government. In the last 50 years they have given up hope of being helped to any extent. We should try to ensure that they get a decent livelihood and that those who have emigrated are given the chance to return.
If we had anything to gain from the EEC it was the development of areas such as the west. I am given to understand that a director of the regional development organisation in Brussels was brought to this country recently by the Cork Chamber of Commerce —I think the Tralee Chamber of Commerce were involved in this also. The official came to Dublin and was [533] received by the Ministers for Industry and Commerce and Finance. Afterwards he went to Cork and was taken by the chamber of commerce around Cork harbour and was also taken to the vicinity of Kanturk to see the underdeveloped areas. Nobody would hold that Kanturk is an underdeveloped area. It is quite convenient to Cork and there is full employment there, the bulk of the people being employed in the city of Cork.
A German gentleman flew in. He visited Connemara but apparently nobody told him about the conditions that obtain in most of County Kerry, in Clare and in west Cork. This has been the grievance for a long time. For instance, there was a fishery meeting in Dublin during the week but the people who should have been there were not and we had no support.
Going back to the German's visit to Cork, neither Cork nor Kerry County Councils were informed of his visit and the Cork Regional Development people—I am a director of the board —knew anything about his visit until he was on his way out. The secretary of the development board told me he knew nothing about his advent. I cannot understand how the Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce did not inform us of his visit.
The Tralee Chamber of Commerce have been trying to get money for the development of Fenit pier and Farranfore airport. I cannot see the logic in having the pier and airport developed before we have the means to develop the production that will make them viable. I am glad the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs is here and I hope he will take a particular note of what I have been saying.
Mr. Kelly: I have been listening very carefully to the Deputy and I have taken a note of his point.
Mr. O'Connor: I am particularly interested in business development. I came into this House to try to improve the lot of the people among whom I live, to try to bring about the day when they can get work in their own areas. I spent three years in [534] Europe and I used every minute of my time to get through to chambers of commerce, particularly those in Germany. I managed to get three substantial industries for my own town and I have tried to get development beyond it as well. We have a large number of middle-aged people existing on the dole who are all the time looking for productive work.
On the last occasion I explained that turf production can be a major factor in our balance of payments situation. It is a different proposition now from 1942-50 because of improved machinery. There is a very useful portable machine which has been used in Cahirciveen. It has been hired out in Roscommon. There is a vast area of bogland in Connemara, Mayo, mid-Roscommon and Kerry which, if developed could yield up to 2 million tons of turf, the equivalent of 500,000 tons of coal. Coal is being sold at £40 per ton and the turf we could put on sale at £8 per ton—excellent hard turf—would make turf production an excellent business. Many people in my area who had installed oil burning equipment have now gone over to an excellent new turf and wood burner. There will be an excellent market for our turf in many areas as far east as Mullingar and Athlone. Apart from providing an excellent native fuel it would save us the worry and concern of having to find currency to pay for oil and fuel imports.
The turf production machine I mentioned extracts 18 per cent of the moisture. In former days, in the weather conditions we have, it took three to four days to extract that amount of moisture. Once 18 per cent has been removed the turf dries very quickly.
Mr. Kelly: I am not sure how the Deputy relates this to the facilities the EEC offer.
Mr. O'Connor: The point is that this is where some of the money should be going.
Mr. Kelly: On bog development?
Mr. O'Connor: That is where some of the money should be going. Our [535] bog roads and drains have been left unattended for 20 years. The message I want to get across is that if some of this money were set aside—and I think this is the intention—to develop our natural resources, which would have a large employment content, that would be a very worthwhile exercise.
May I revert again to give an illustration of what I saw and studied in Cahirciveen? A young lad there came home from England six or seven years ago. He bought one of those turf machines to supply the ESB station in Cahirciveen and for the workers there. He had as many as 75 men employed on and off for a period of six months. That was a very useful industry and afforded some workers the opportunity of getting something for their stamp money. They were men who would normally have been on the dole.
We do need money and I raised this matter, in writing, with the Minister for Finance before in an endeavour to get separate induction money into the county councils, if necessary, with which to open up the drains, bog drains and streams and have roads resurfaced. It does not take a large amount of money to resurface a bog road but a certain amount has to be expended each year to keep it passable. That was the experience we had during the war when every year there was expended £50 or £100 to strengthen the weaker parts of the roads. Possibly we are too late to have it implemented this year but there is a great future for employment in the areas most in need of it and for the people who can undertake it. It saves the payment of unemployment benefit, gets such people into the type of healthy employment they need, giving them the feeling they are serving a purpose in the community and that they do not have to go with their hands out to the labour exchanges.
There does not appear to be any overall co-ordination between the different Departments working towards development. Much of the energy and ability being expended is wasted by overlapping of Departments or through gaps between them not being filled. In the past when we were [536] trying to develop our energies in order to get the good things of life perhaps the "stop/go" method was necessary in that step by step development. But today we are a viable country, except for the underdeveloped areas of the west. But there is no co-ordination between the various productive Departments which should obtain in our present position. In order to pinpoint this I might say that four or five years ago a substantial grant was given for the development of the pier and harbour in Cahirciveen. The Board of Works were handling the matter but, for some reason, they were unable to get started within that financial year. By the time they got round to doing it the following year, the costs had increased considerably. We had to go back to the Departments concerned to have the increase santioned, with Kerry County Council contributing, and by the time all that had been done again the Board of Works were not ready to commence work. That had the result of delaying the work a further year. Now, after four years, we are still in that position. If I might use a local Kerry term: there has been no stroke struck in the start of this work in Cahirciveen. In my younger days when somebody referred to a project that went on too long, getting nowhere, they would say: "That is going on as long as Cahirciveen church." It took many years to build and the steeple intended for it was never built. I am afraid we now have a good competitor in Cahirciveen pier. At present it looks as though it will be going on and on because, wherever the fault lies, it is taking so long to make a start, when they are ready, the costs will have gone haywire again.
Mr. Kelly: It is like the Valentia Bridge.
Mr. O'Connor: At least we built that.
Mr. Kelly: These things get done in the end; a by-election would give it great impetus.
Mr. O'Connor: Well, we had the bridge built in a year-and-a-half after a by-election.
[537]Mr. Kelly: People would still be swimming to Valentia were it not for the by-election.
Mr. O'Connor: I am not pin-pointing Cahirciveen, as such. I am trying to make the case that there is no co-ordination between the Departments involved in development here. If some Department is found unable to stand up to its commitments, whatever may be the reasons, it must be within the power of human ingenuity to have it solved. If there is a Department not fitting into modern progress, put it out of the job altogether and get somebody else to do it. By way of illustration I pointed out that four years ago we passed the moneys for Cahirciveen harbour works and still nothing has been done. That will remain the position unless there is a change of approach.
The publication "Ireland Today" is something of which we can be very proud; it has been projected in Europe as well as here. Our country and its people are well known in any part of Europe now.
Mr. Kelly: If the Deputy would open that production in front of him he will see it is a very fair-minded one. He will find that the Opposition point of view on the budget is given a very full airing.
Mr. O'Connor: I am not concerned with the political aspects so much as the facts. I have given my time to the country since my very early days by coming into this House. Indeed, I have met with many frustrations in my time. Had I known what I would be up against perhaps I might never have come in here but I am not sorry for having done so. I think I have succeeded in doing the job I set out to do in my immediate area. I try to do my best for Kerry, and in so doing, I feel I am doing it for the country as a whole. I am following up the question of getting Valentia harbour developed. It is one of the finest fishery harbours in Europe. In years to come we could have employment there for 5,000 people and have exports out of that port valuing £20 million, or anything up to that, per annum of fish products. [538] I hope to see that at least on the road to development before I step out of this climate altogether.
Those are my ambitions and I know them to be possible of achievement. I have followed up the fisheries interest throughout Europe and have seen the way people work. We have the ability, brains and energy to do it here. That is a wealth we should be bringing in. As I said before, we get excited about the millions of pounds worth of oil we are supposed to have off the Cork coast which will be brought in at colossal cost.
We have a continuing inflow of wealth along our west coast. All we need to do is rake it in. This is the sort of thing into which the money we are getting from Europe should be channelled—the development of modern piers for the modern trawlers of 120 and 160 feet. This would enable us to bring in loads of materials from 50 to 100 miles off our coast, thus bringing untold wealth to our people, giving the kind of employment along our entire west coast which would keep our people at home, bring back many of them who are outside, increase our population and give a way of life to all our people.
Mr. E. Collins: I should like to congratulate the Parliamentary Secretary on his first contribution to the House in his capacity as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. It was an appointment that was well merited. The only regret I have is that he is not acting in a permanent capacity, because the Minister for Foreign Affairs is grossly overworked in his office, and, in view of our membership of the EEC, that Department needs a full-time Parliamentary Secretary.
I was rather disappointed with the speech of the Fianna Fáil spokesman, Deputy O'Kennedy, who seemed to be trying to downgrade the Minister, which brings no credit on himself or his party. It is well known abroad that our Minister for Foreign Affairs is a very able man. He has a very high standard not only in Britain but throughout Europe and in America. [539] I do not know why Deputy O'Kennedy decided to attack him; certainly he overplayed his hand. I do not think that matter arises. If our Minister is capable of leading the European Economic Community in certain directions for the benefit not only of Ireland but of the EEC, I think he is entitled to do so, and good luck to him. If we want to become fully involved in European politics and in the development of Europe, I do not think, because we are a small nation, we should play only a small part in such development. On the contrary, I think we have a great deal to offer Europe. If we have a Minister who wants to throw himself into the pool, so to speak, and try to lead Europe into prosperity, I think we should give him our full support, and I would say the criticism levelled at him by the Opposition spokesman was in bad taste.
We have had our Dublin Summit— I do not think we want to call it "Summit" any more, but a meeting of heads of State. We have had the political performance of Mr. Wilson who came over as an actor rather than a politician in order to get certain extra benefits for Britain so that he could go back and tell his Parliament and his people that they may now stay in the EEC. I never believed at any time that Britain's withdrawal was to her advantage. Unfortunately the British Prime Minister was playing politics with the whole question of Europe. Reading Mr. Richard Crossman's diaries in The Sunday Times one gets the distinct impression that Mr. Wilson was in favour of Europe as far back as the mid-sixties. However, I am not interested in the British position, but I am glad that our position was clarified inasmuch as if Britain withdraws we shall not follow suit. I do not believe the British people will withdraw from Europe, because a policy of isolation for Britain at this point would be disastrous for her economy. I do not believe the £ would survive nor do I believe British industry would be able successfully to overcome the trade barriers which would be erected against [540] it. I am sure the British people will give a clear-cut decision in favour of staying in Europe when the referendum takes place, and this is something I would personally welcome.
There is a tendency of drift within the EEC. The slight malaise was brought on by the high level of inflation and by the critical employment situation throughout Europe which developed after the oil crisis. There has been a tendency to doubt the strength of Europe. I believe that the Dublin Summit will have served as a launching pad for another economic takeoff in Europe, a restarting, if you like, of our economic engines. With the anti-inflation policy which has been pursued by Germany and now being pursued by France, I believe that within the next 12 months there will be a return to a satisfactory growth pattern throughout the Community which, of course, will be of great benefit to Ireland.
Everybody admits we are going through a hard period of unemployment here. It is difficult to pinpoint how it happened. A certain amount can be attributed to the oil crisis, but it is not easy to forecast when we shall come out of the valley period. I thought a few months ago that we would have started a solid economic recovery early in the New Year, but I am now inclined to think that we shall see a substantial reduction in unemployment in the next few months.
There should be a great debate concerning a vital matter, that is, the value of the Irish £. We are in an unprecedented state of inflation. Last year the consumer price index increased by 20 per cent and this year it is expected to increase by a similar amount. We have two problems: are we going to preserve the value of the £ as we know it now or are we going to put employment as our first priority, pursue an anti-inflation policy and thus rejuvenate our economy. I have not heard many arguments put forward by economic experts, who should evaluate the alternatives that face us. We are living in very unusual times. There are great social changes coming. This upheaval of the last year [541] will mean a restructuring of our society which may benefit us as a country in the long run.
The question of whether we preserve employment or the value of the £ as we now know it is a very interesting one and I should like to see it aired more in public. The establishment of a regional fund was a step forward, something we sought. We receive £35 million over a period and I hope this will be increased in coming years. It would be interesting to know in what areas this money will be used. Will a particular area be treated as an underdeveloped area or will the fund be used over the whole of Ireland? Will it be used for specialised industries or to improve the infrastructure of the country, such as roads, harbours, piers and so on? These questions are not yet answered but they deserve to be answered and discussed here.
One aspect of the present situation is unfortunate. The Dáil gets a twice yearly report on developments in the European Community, and the one now under discussion is the fourth report. This is quite proper and it is fair to give credit to those who produce the report which is an informative document covering various policy fields within the Community. It gives us an opportunity here of airing our views on any area of the EEC. We hear many voices, the farmers through the farm organisations and the industrialists through the Confederation of Irish Industry, all giving their own pronouncements on EEC developments. But what I miss is a voice from the universities where we have many able people but they seem locked up in their ivory towers. The universities, with their specialised facilities, should have produced a paper discussing the development of the EEC, the institution and the various policies and effects on our society. The universities should be seen as an independent, neutral, expert body and I am disappointed to have heard so little from them on the EEC and its effects here.
In the absence of a university forum —if you like—I suggest that money be provided for the establishment of an Institute of European Studies [542] which should be a non-political, expert body, not a massive institute but capable of employing or commissioning experts to produce papers on various aspects of EEC policy. This would fill a gap in our information on EEC development. Members of both Houses of the Oireachtas receive "cart-loads" of documents weekly from the EEC in large, brown envelopes. I admit I put them aside rather quickly and I do not think I can be blamed for that because they are very technical, specialised documents. There is a gap in our appreciation and criticism of the EEC which since it is not being filled by the universities could be filled by the establishment of the institute I have mentioned. I should like the Parliamentary Secretary's comments on this.
I am interested in the development the EEC are undertaking in association with outside countries and also in the various agreements undertaken with what is, perhaps, described as the Third World, the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, the agreement in Lome. I agree that Ireland has a part to play in providing assistance to Third World countries but there are some countries relatively well off. In the case of any trade agreement which develops between, say, New Zealand, Australia, Canada or the Argentine —especially New Zealand and the Argentine which are strong competitors of ours on the European meat market—we should voice our opinion clearly that the Irish provision should be protected. At the Dublin Summit one of the problems which emerged from the British position was the situation in relation to cheese and butter exports from New Zealand. I am not very interested in developments in New Zealand but I am interested in the protection of the European market, if at all possible, for Irish products and I object vehemently to any importation of meat from the Argentine or any other source, into European countries. The greatest advantage the EEC offered us and which we accepted was the advantage of a high-priced European market for our meat and other products. Every step should be taken by our Ministers to protect [543] our interests and we should fight very strongly against opening the European market to imports of meat products from these other countries.
Before leaving the matter of agreements with countries outside Europe I believe we should not be too interested in developing trade with countries from which we import substantially more than we export to them. We should, where possible—and if we are strong enough, it should be possible—concentrate on bilateral trade agreements ensuring that we export to various countries amounts similar to what we import from them. I am talking particularly about the East European bloc. Our imports from them are substantially greater than our exports to them. Also, although we are members of the EEC we should not neglect the American and Canadian markets which can be very strong markets.
Assuming that a policy of open international trade is pursued, and that a protectionist policy does not emerge in those countries, we should keep our eye on those markets, and make sure that all our eggs are not in one basket. We should be aware of the advantages which lie in America and especially in Canada which is a developing, strong, industrial nation.
Dumping of goods from Far Eastern countries, such as Taiwan and Japan, in the EEC has come to my attention. There is the perennial question of the definition of dumping, but I am satisfied that goods are being sold in Ireland from those countries at uneconomic prices, at prices which are damaging to the development of certain industries, such as the leather industry in Ireland. We should put our foot down. I do not see why we should allow these cheap imports to come in from Taiwan and Japan. We owe nothing to those countries. We owe it to ourselves to protect and develop and foster our own industries where at all possible. I understand that there may be technical reasons within the EEC agreement which make it difficult to stop this dumping. Stronger steps [544] should be taken to protect ourselves from Far Eastern dumping.
The political developments within the EEC are interesting. As a member of the Council of Europe I am familiar with the question of Cyprus. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus was an act of war and of aggression. Unfortunately, it was allowed to happen because the American Government and the British Government stood idly by. This was most unfortunate. The situation now emerging in Cyprus is that the Turks have literally drawn a border across the island and intend to annex the prosperous northern part of the island for use by Turkish Cypriots. This will lead to a long-term war-like situation on the island because I do not believe that the Greek Cypriots who are to be pushed to the south will live in peace under those circumstances.
I voiced my opinions very strongly on the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe when this question was discussed. I did not get very far because the big nations did not want to upset what looked like a short-term settlement. The long-term prob-terms which will emerge from the existence of the border, and which we in Ireland would perhaps be more aware of than many other nations, will be a constant source of aggression and trouble in that area. I do not believe the EEC did enough to avert that situation. I have been watching it quite carefully in Europe. The big powers have done nothing. They just let the situation slide and, in the meantime, the Turkish forces have entrenched themselves even more solidly on the island. Because of the distance from Cyprus to Greece Greek forces are not in existence, nor can the Greek Government bring any influence to bear on the situation.
The guarantor powers did nothing. The British did nothing and they should have done something. The position of the Americans on the whole problem of Cyprus is very much open to question. I was in Greece last December on an official visit from the Council of Europe. The Greek people are satisfied that American involvement was quite strong in the overthrow of the Makarios Government, [545] and they think that perhaps the CIA assisted in the assassination attempt on Makarios. The Americans are in pretty poor standing in Greece. That is not the only place where they are in poor standing, but I saw it there at first hand. The question of Cyprus is a sad one and the EEC did very little about it. They are to be condemned for not trying to avert this situation which has led to the creation of another border.
The political situation in Portugal is giving concern. The overthrow of the dictatorship was welcomed. The forces of the left which are very evident in Portugal now are skating on thin ice. There is no doubt that the existing ruling parties in Portugal, even though they are facing an election in a few weeks' time, intend to hold on to power. This gave rise to the abortive attempt earlier this week at a coup d' état by certain forces within the army. The democratic situation in Portugal is very delicate and I doubt very much that the coming elections will be successful. They are in for a difficult period in Portugal. Again I get this awful feeling that the EEC are not that much interested in getting involved with the situation in Portugal, any more than they were interested in getting involved in the Cyprus situation last year.
On the question of Greece which was also referred to in the report, the association the EEC had with Greece, which was suspended in 1967 when the dictatorship took over, has now been restored. The re-establishment of democracy in Greece has been welcomed. I witnessed this at first hand. I was rapporteur on behalf of the Council of Europe on the readmission of Greece to the Council of Europe and I was over there with a delegation last December. The Greek people have come through a very dark period. The torture centres were very evident. The people who were tortured are very happy that that period is over. The re-establishment under Karamanlis of a conservative Government has been welcomed in a country which is quite active politically and which is quite used to having confrontations between the left and the right.
[546]Mr. Haughey: And which invented democracy.
Mr. E. Collins: Yes. They successfully established a parliamentary system. Their elections were successful. This was a very interesting experience for me. It was a very good example of how a nation can fight a dictatorship, overthrow a dictatorship, and successfully get back to a system of democracy. There will be changes in the Greek democracy. Political patronage was rife under the old pre-1967 Government. Karamanlis is a very brave premier. He is trying to establish a sound parliamentary system and a sound system of democracy in Greece. He deserves our support. The EEC welcomed Greece back as an associate member very soon after the Karamanlis Government took over.
There is not much point in my starting to speak about the EEC-Arab dialogue because I want to deal with it at length. It is very interesting that a number of countries are now very rich in money terms, very wealthy in terms of money, but very poor in terms of natural resources apart from their golden egg, the oil. We should now ensure that whatever business we can do with the Arabs is done quickly, efficiently and effectively. Whether the Department of Foreign Affairs can undertake this mission or not, I do not know but certainly there should be some Government agency there trying to establish bases, trying to establish channels of trade. There is no point in developing it further now as the debate will be adjourned in ten seconds' time.
In regard to the general political situation in Europe, we are now coming out of a dark period of unemployment, of stagnation, if you like. We have regained confidence in ourselves as a community and we have regained confidence in ourselves as a nation. We can look forward to the next few years as a period in which there will be further economic development, further social development within the Community. I move the adjournment of the debate.
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From Speech to Silence
- Christian Bök (Author)
'Pataphysics: The Poetics of Imaginary Science. Northwestern University Press (purchase at Amazon.ca)
- Maurice Blanchot (Author)
Faux Pas. Stanford University Press (purchase at Amazon.ca)
Reviewed by Charles Barbour
Christian Bök's 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of Imaginary Science proposes that Alfred Jarry and Steve McCaffery can be seen as bookends for twentieth-century avant-garde thought, placing Derrida and Serres, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard and Lyotard, as it were, in between them. Pataphysics is a neologism that Jarry, the father of absurdist theatre, invented to describe a science that exceeds both physics and metaphysics, or that is to metaphysics what metaphysics is to physics. It operates by privileging exceptions as opposed to rules—indeed by suggesting that there are only exceptions, and that the postulate of a rule is always arbitrary. Absurdity is revealed through an analysis of the overwhelming detail of all things, especially machines.
Quite deliberately, Jarry's idea oscillates between pseudo-science and a serious insight. For his part, Bök seems interested in how it articulates the relationship between science and poetry or science and language. For the 'pataphysician, Bök suggests, science is not opposed to poetry. Its more clever students (and Bök is nothing if not clever—astonishingly, often exasperat- ingly clever) know full well that science draws poetry closer precisely there where it feigns to push it away. Science plays a game of "fort-da" with poetic metaphors. And just as, for Freud's nephew, the toy represents a father who has been called away to fight at the "fwont," so too does science reveal the identity of its absent progenitor whenever it toys with the poetic. But unlike Freud, Bök does not want to point beyond the pleasure principle or towards the inevitability of death. An heir to Nietzsche, he seems concerned less with death than with life-with sustaining pleasure through continuous supplementation. To this end which is not one (this télé sans telos, this sending of mes- sages void of intended addressee), Bök marshals three "Jarryite" concepts: anomolos,or "the principle of variance"; syzgia,or "the principle of alliance"; and clinamen, or "the principle of deviance." According to Bök, variation, alliance, and deviation are the theoretical coordinates of "pataphysics," while Italian futurism and Canadian language poetry are its praxes.
The range of references in 'Pataphysics is decidedly outrageous—from Epicurus and Copernicus to Paul McCartney and Margaret Atwood. In effect, this assemblage of figures and names performs Bök's argument. It enacts the principles of variance, alliance, and deviance. None of this is intended to establish any substantial claim, of course. Following Nietzsche, Bök points to the theological "belief" at the heart of Enlightenment reason. "Why believe in truth?" he wonders.
"Why not believe in untruth? Why does belief in either case take itself so seriously? Why does belief in effect believe in itself? Why not move from the deceit of truth to the truth of deceit?" The claim is far from original, and variants of it have been formulated in exactly these terms throughout the history of skeptical thought. But Bök makes some use of the skeptical mode, par- ticularly in his critique of science—the seriousness of which, like everything else in Bök's book, is always left up in the air.
While, for Bök, language is a matrix of signs referring to other signs, for Blanchot things get interesting only when we begin to distinguish between different levels of surface and depth, internality and external- ity. First published in 1943, Faux Pas collects a series of essays, or what Blanchot calls "digressions," on everything from myth and linguistics to novels and painting. His tastes are cosmopolitan, but generally rooted in the canon—Goethe, Gide, Rimbaud, Kierkegaard, Balzac, Woolf, Mallarmé, Melville. These short works interrogate the tangled relationship between solitude and writing, or the path, as Blanchot puts it, from anguish to language. What does it mean to write alone, or to write that one is alone? "The writer," Blanchot maintains, "is not free to be alone without expressing that he is . . . . That which destroys language in him also makes him use language."
Blanchot believes profoundly in an internal world of solitary contemplation and emotion—a world which thinkers like Bök represent as the secondary effect of external relations and semiotic exchanges. He locates the source of literature in a privacy no semiotics could analyze. Thus Blanchot is less interested in a writer's publications than in his or her journals and notebooks. There he finds individuals struggling with what it means to write when one, and that one, is alone. For Blanchot, though, the experience of literature is of the false steps and mistakes which, like Kierkegaard's ethical decision taken at a moment of madness, locate us in the world exactly there where we most desire to abandon it.
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Wat Khao Khun Phanom is an important temple of historical and archaeological background. The temple has a cave lined with a brick wall and marked with heart-shaped stones similar to those along the city wall. The wall at the entrance has plaster decorated with Chinese porcelain. In the cave, there are about 30 bronze Buddha images and a bronze Buddha's footprint. Several smaller connecting caves branch out from the main cave are like an elaborate fortress maze. People believe this is where King Taksin the Great (1734-1782) used to stay while many believe it was the rest stop of Princess Kesini, daughter of Chao Nara Suriyawong, the lord of Nakhon Si Thammarat during 1769-1776
On the way up to Khao Khun Phanom is Khao Khun Phanom Scientific Study Center that provides knowledge on science, technology, environment and eco-tourism for public in Khao Khun Phanom cultural community. There is a training camp activity and a group called the Tourism to Study Fruit Orchards by Bicycle Club.
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Underground CERN: it's Half-Life in real-life
It's one of the greatest games of all time. You clamber over pipes and through ducts. Cables of unclear electrical status dangle uncomfortably close to puddles of water. Tunnels lit by rudimentary emergency lighting lead on and on past a hissing steam pipe, then dripping water, then silence, until the darkness slowly reveals a moist and fleshy lump growing out of the ground.
The game is high energy physics, though there are a couple decades of decay between these scenes and active science. A few years back, shortly before the game Half-Life 2 came out, a group of us explored the little-traveled CERN tunnels recorded in the photos below. The resemblance to the original Half-Life–with its steam leaks, ventilation shafts, and dark corners hiding headcrabs–is uncanny (though my observations indicate that CERN's dark corners are not fully populated). It's a testament to Half-Life's genius design and storytelling that the fantasy of Gordon Freeman's life becomes so plausible in this real-life setting. It's also a testament to the awesomeness of science!
High energy physics these days requires all the infrastructure of a large industrial facility with some extra loving attention paid to cryogenics, cables, and computing clusters. It's amazing to think that these abandoned tunnels, pipes, and cables, though extensive, are dwarfed by the facilities still in operation and newly built for the LHC.
It's almost enough to make a scientist wonder, "will this open a dimensional rift?" and as a backup, "where is the nearest crowbar?"
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Renew / Cancel Posts Are Taking A Break, Look For the Next CW Renew / Cancel Post On February 23.
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- Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010; Officially Canceled
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Life Unexpected's adults 18-49 ratings for its first three episodes (1.1, 1.1, 1.0) put it solidly in the middle range of CW shows and if it can hold there it looks good for renewal. Note that Life Unexpected's ratings average includes only new episodes, while the rest of the CW show averages contain many repeat airings.
And, if to do no more than let folks know who haven't been paying attention, Melrose Place will certainly be canceled at the end of the season.
*I have frozen The Beautiful Life's Index at its value the week of cancellation.
This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:
The Renew/Cancel Index is a show's Season To Date adults 18-49 rating divided by its network's Season to Date average 18-49 rating. If a show's season to date 18-49 ratings average equalled its network's 18-49 average, the show would have an Index of 1.00. Without special factors, scripted shows that were more than 10% below their network's average are typically canceled by the end of the broadcast primetime season.
Factors that could cause a show to be renewed with well below average index:
- (F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays have been renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.
- (S) - Syndication: Shows nearing syndication (66-88 episodes), often have economic factors that trump ratings leading to renewal.
- (T) - Third Party: Shows that have a portion of their cost underwritten by a 3rd party can be renewed with substantially lower ratings.
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Ballet pointe shoes will become Cinderella's glass slippers in Southern Ballet Theater's production of the classic fairy tale.
The rags-to-riches story of a young woman who becomes the belle of a prince's ball with the help of a gifted fairy godmother will come to life on the Performing Arts Center stage this weekend. Members of the pre-professional ballet company will dance the timeless roles of Cinderella, her charming prince, the gracious fairy godmother and Cinderella's unkind stepsisters.
Alicia Chitwood, the ballet mistress charged with overseeing rehearsals and assisting with choreography, said audiences can expect a magical experience.
"We have lots of sets and lots of very colorful costumes," she said.
More than 100 dancers will grace the stage during each performance.
"We have dancers from 4 to 25 in the show," Chitwood said.
Brookwood High School senior Shelby Price will dance the fairy tale role of Cinderella.
"She gives her whole heart into her dancing and really portrays the character very well," Chitwood said. "She has a lot of emotion and she really lights up the stage."
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Have you heard about the "War on Men?" Yes, the one that is threatening male dominance by allowing women to *gasp* hold jobs outside the house, and even let girls play sports at school?
If you think that there might be a systematic effort to try and force females back into traditional roles where they are ruled by their male counterparts and kept in their homes to tend the family, you are probably right. But that's for your own good, as one Minnesotan letter writer opines in the Fargo Forum:
It is their strategy to attack ordinary men as the heads of their families and other traditional institutions. They do this by pushing women out of their homes and into the workforce by creating an economy that requires both parents to work. Also, by pushing them into jobs traditionally reserved for men: soldier, police officer, firefighter, physician, truck driver, etc. And by pushing schoolgirls into highly competitive varsity athletics traditionally reserved for boys, just to name a few. God created us male and female. They are saying there is no male and female.
It is all just to blur the distinction between men and women. Having destroyed the role of ordinary men as leaders, they rush in to fill the void. Any wife who is contentious with her husband's leadership, any woman who takes a man's pulpit, or seeks employment that has been traditionally reserved for men, has played into the elitists' hands.
His advice? Fight the evil folk who are trying to take women out of their rightful role of wife, mother, and…cheerleader.
Well, at least he's not kicking girls out of school all together, right?
As for Mr. Ross's "good men lead at home" line, well, it's hard to imagine a strong family leader who turns out a child who thinks it's fun to set turtles on fire and post the video. Then again, Ross explains that away, too, with, "We and the other parents involved love our sons far more than these people love their stupid turtles and we believe they will turn out just fine."
I guess when you believe in Biblical law as the guide to every day life, man has dominion over the animals and the women alike.
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Fascinating. There is nothing like an occasional trek down to the deep dark chasms/lairs of living trolls/Troglodytes and shining a light for all to see their murky underbellies. Some still crawl on all fours and even set fire to defenceless reptiles.
Beneath his reptilian brain lies the deep fundamentalist belief that there is always a top dog, an alpha and the rest of humanity (female) must always accept inferior status. These creatures hang onto the ring, the "My Precious!" belief of obsessive wishing for what was.
Yes, fascinating to see some of these dinosaurs exposed through the mists of time, the mindset going back to Long Ago. For some, change is frightening and never accepted. The rest of us simply have to trek onwards and take stock returning to the light and reality. Sadly, for many women around parts of the world, the troll is still in control.
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Not at all surprising that this right-wing whack job mentality that wants women subservient also DESPISES anyone who walks on four legs. The REAL war is a WAR ON ANIMALS!
Scott, you just gave me hope for humanity. (Not much, mind you.) Thank you for pointing out the ignored. You truly are awesome.
Not at all surprising that this right-wing whack job mentality that wants women subservient also DESPISES anyone who walks on four legs. The REAL war is a WAR ON ANIMALS!
*shaking head in disgust*
The only men who feel threatened by women having jobs, participating in sports, and otherwise being EQUAL to men, are men who are utterly insecure in themselves. Insecure in their intellect, insecure in their employment, insecure in their sexuality.. in other words, absolute pussies. And the guy who wrote that letter may be one of the biggest pussies I've ever seen.. he's a pathetic example of a man. But alas, he is a typical representation of the males of the Fascist Christian-Republican right wing.. this is their mindset, and this is where they wish to send America back to. I have a better idea.. let's send THEM to the final darkness of death...
Where were you Ralph H when I was growing up?
AMEN! to your comment. As a manager, when I hire someone, I try to look for someone who will compliment me, not be my clone. This is one time when 1+1=3! And the same goes for personal relationships. Someone to compliment so that the total is more diverse, stronger and more rounded.
There is such an air of superiority among many successful women that it is repellent. I don't like doctors in general, but I can't stand women doctors.
Somebody better check this idiot's watch, because it's running about 100 years slow! A CAT scan to determine whether or not he even HAS a brain, let alone one that functions, wouldn't hurt much either!
If having equal rights is considered a "war on men," then I have three words for this moron: BRING IT ON!
you go obama, I think he has done more for women than any other politician.
Well talk about putting people into molds and baking them in their easy bake ovens. What about men who LIKE and some LOVE to cook? Should we women bat them out of the kitchen like good little wives?
How stupid. Not ALL women are nurturers. You cannot force someone to be a mother and expect it to turn out well. It ususally does notand guess who suffers? The kids. Then they grow up to carry on the hate and abuse and on and on.
Get a life Mr and mind your own damn buisiness.
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Channeling values: Which new shows are family-friendly?
Every fall television networks roll out their new shows and, Focus on the Family's Steven Isaac said, "every year the pickings get slimmer and slimmer" in the area of family-friendly programming.
"The trends all point toward desperate television executives and producers watching their ratings slip while trying to fight for eyeballs that are currently glued to the Internet and cable," said Isaac, who is the group's "Plugged In Online" editor.
"The prevailing wisdom seems to be that edgy is the only way to stand out — more sex, more foul language, more violence."
As the networks parade their new lineup, groups like Focus on the Family, concerned about family and religious values, are cautious to critical. And some see bright spots.
A recent study of the Parents Television Council watchdog group revealed an increasing volume of sex, violence and profane language during the family hour between 8 and 9 p.m. Eastern time. The council found that instances of violence during that time had increased 52.4 percent since it conducted a similar study in 2001, and sexual content grew 22.1 percent.
Of the new fall shows, Melissa Henson, senior director of programs for the council, said she isn't enthusiastic about any of them as family-friendly. Sadly, she said, "The trend is toward the dissolution of the family hour."
Now, the cleanest offerings seem to be reality shows such as "Dancing With the Stars," "Deal or No Deal," "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," she said..
Harry Forbes, director of the Office for Film and Broadcasting for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that in 2005 he was distressed at the high level of sex and violence in many of the network offerings.
"But last year, possibly because of FCC pressure, network pilots were considerably less objectionable," he said.
After viewing many of this year's fall shows, he said "on the whole they seem to be maintaining last year's somewhat higher standards."
One new show, a sitcom based on the experiences of a Muslim exchange student (Adhir Kalyan as Raja) and his American host family, is especially catching the attention of American Muslims.
The comedy, "Aliens in America," will air at 8:30 p.m. Mondays on The CW beginning next week.
Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, said most religious communities complain about being misrepresented in American media.
"Muslims have it the worst," she said. "Their depictions are full of inaccuracies and negative stereotypes."
But she thinks the depiction of Raja as slightly quirky, thoughtful, friendly and not at all extreme will dispel negative perceptions.
"The show gives the average American a glimpse into Muslim culture, and it is great that an everyday American can get to know a mainstream Muslim," she said.
However, John Mulderig, media reviewer with the Catholic film and broadcasting office, who along with Forbes watched the fall pilots, said, "a lot of the humor is lowbrow."
Of the new shows, Mulderig said the best one he previewed for families to watch together is "Life Is Wild," which will air at 8 p.m. Sundays on The CW beginning Oct. 7. This is about a family that goes to South Africa, where the veterinarian dad cares for wild animals.
For Forbes, the best show he previewed for adults and older adolescents could be "Pushing Daisies," which will air at 8 p.m. Wednesdays on ABC beginning Wednesday.
Forbes also liked "Life," which will air at 10 p.m. Wednesdays on NBC beginning this week.
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There are places with special energies, often anciently used as cult places or for healing. Accupunctural points of our planet. Some of these places have rooms with a very special sound or resonance tones, inviting to celebrate and go in resonance.
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thanks for all your comments on the comment wall of this group. There is another Gasometer in Augsburg ....
Christian Bollmann writes to this video: "Nach seinem Konzert im Zeughaus Augsburg am 13.10.2010 führten Andreas Franz und Phillip Steigenberger Christian Bollmann zum Soundcheck in den Gasometer Augsburg. Vielen Dank für dieses fantastische Klangraumerlebnis."
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Deep inside a complex of secret tunnels in the Highlands stirs a sound which will reverberate through the ages. The world record for the longest echo ever discovered has been shattered by a hidden network of oil storage tanks in Rossshire.
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i was fscinated when i heard the recording first time. the melody was very much inspired by the place.. it is below the old holy church of sepulchre in the middle of jerusalem... i never played this melody before and never did so again since then.. it felt like i was somehow chaneling it...
a recording i made last year in the st. helens cistern below the church of sepulcher in jerusalem... amazing acoustic there, a very old ancient and beautiful spot! a must visit for overtone-singers!
THE TANK is an acoustical marvel, a senses-altering experience found nowhere else on earth. A 60' tall, 30' across rusted steel water tank - never used - was discovered in Colorado by sound artist and sonic thinker Bruce Odland in 1976. A small group of musicians has been recording there ever since.
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By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act October 25, 2013 at 12:58PM
Read the first film profiled in this series (Night of the Living Dead) HERE if you missed it yesterday.
Another film that was ahead of its time when it was released in 1973 - and, quite frankly, still very much is today - Bill Gunn's rarely-screened film that revolutionized the vampire film - Ganja & Hess - was suppressed in the United States because it wasn't the Hollywood genre film that its producers had commissioned writer/director Bill Gunn to make.
This was during the blaxploitation era, and the producers hoped to cash in on the euphoria with Ganja & Hess (what was to essentially be a black version of popular mainstream vampire films, likely inspired by what they saw in Blacula a year earlier), but Bill Gunn had other plans.
Gunn is said to have shared the following with a confidant: "The last thing I want to do is make a black vampire film... If I had to write about blood, I was going to do that, but I could not just make a movie about blood."
And so he instead used vampirism as a proxy for addiction (although the complexity of the plot makes it nearly impossible to reduce the film to any simple metaphor or allegory), which may have been to the film's box office detriment. Made on a $350,000 budget, the film was released in 1973 to critical acclaim (it was a Critics' Week pick at the Cannes Film Festival that year to start), but wasn't exactly the box office draw that the producers had hoped for. It was soon yanked from theaters, sold to another company - Heritage Enterprises - who drastically recut Gunn's original, and re-released it under the title Blood Couple (although you might find it listed under a number of other titles).
And so, for many years, what was essentially a bastardized, gutted version of the film (created without Gunn's involvement) was all that was available. But thankfully, a print of the original Gunn film remained and, almost 30 years later, Kino Classics released the film in the original stunning and complex director's cut, which ignores conventional narrative structure, mastered in HD from a 35mm negative.
Before Ganja & Hess, Gunn directed one film, titled Stop, in 1970, for Warner Bros. That film was also subject to a troubled release, as it was slapped with an X rating, for its handling of homosexual relationships, and shelved by the studio. 40+ years later, the film still has not been formerly released.
Sadly, Gunn entered the business at a time when enterprising black filmmakers were limited in the type of work that was available to them, and that was expected of them. Unfortunately, little has changed in that regard since then.
Among his other notable credits, he penned the script for Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970). He was an actor as well, making appearances in several TV shows from the 1950s until his death in 1989.
Ganja & Hess stars Duane Jones (as Hess - Dr. Hess Green) in an effective performance (the male lead of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead 5 years earlier - the first film profiled in this Halloween series yesterday HERE) and Marlene Clark (as Ganja Meda) who matches Jones' performance with poise.
Gunn also cast himself in the film as the mysterious and dommed George Meda, husband of Ganja.
Kino Classics' re-release of Gunn's original, rarely-screened cut - a film that is now starting to be recognized as a landmark work of African American cinema - is available on Blu-ray & DVD.
Special Features include: "The Blood of the Thing" (25 Min) an interview-based documentary; Audio commentary by producer Chiz Schultz, actress Marlene Clark, cinematographer James Hinton, and composer Sam Waymon; the original screenplay by Bill Gunn; an essay on the making of the film (and subsequent recutting) by David Walker and Tim Lucas; and a photo gallery.
It's not streaming on Netflix unfortunately. But, trust me, this one is worth buying and owning outright!
I can't help but wonder if Spike Lee's upcoming Da Blood Of Jesus, which he's said tells a story of blood addiction, but isn't about vampires, is in any way inspired by Ganja & Hess. Based on his description alone, connections between the two films are inevitable - that is, until we know more.
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Forty-five years is a long time, but, on reflection, those years passed in a flash. One major reason was the interaction I had with you. You kept me young and on my toes. I often got out on a limb in class, particularly in my early years, but you never sawed off that limb, you always let me walk back. Once, getting wound up in a Socratic moment and looking for a precise legal response to a hypothetical controversy, I saw a hand raised out of the corner of my eye and asked the owner of the hand, "What would you do?" The answer, from a child visiting his parent's class, was "I'd say I was sorry." That bit of wisdom has stayed with me.
During my time at SLU, the law school went from a small, local school with a handful of faculty and entry classes of 50-75 to a major regional school with nationally and internationally-ranked programs in health law and international law that brought almost 1000 persons to downtown St. Louis when we moved to Scott Hall last year.
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It has been my privilege and honor to have had each and every one of you as a student. I have enjoyed teaching at Saint Louis University for these past 37 years but that is because you were students in my classes.
If I were to see any of you again in person I would do two things – shake your hand and tell you thank you. Since I may not have that opportunity, I wanted to do the next best thing and send you this note.
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Although it might sound odd to use a Yiddish expression "beshert," to describe how I've ended up spending 40 years at a Jesuit university, it is just the right word. It means, "destined." Before joining the law school faculty 1971, I was working as a lawyer for the consumer unit of the Legal Aid Society of St. Louis on a daily basis with law students across the street from the law school when it was located at 3642 Lindell. The students got credit for assisting me on my cases, before we called it clinical legal education. The building, no longer standing, was owned by SLU and housed the Urban Affairs program. When my two year federally funded fellowship at Legal Aid ended, Professor Sandy Sarasohn, who was also acting director of Legal Aid, encouraged me to talk to then Dean Richard Childress about becoming a law professor. So I crossed the street and have been at the law school ever since. It was the University's social justice mission, exemplified by Dean Childress, who marched with Dr. King in Selma, that drew me to SLU and informed my work ever since.
I hope you know how much we professors and the University gain from our students, and there are many examples from my years at SLU. Two in particular stand out. Back in 1974, thanks to the assistance of then first-year law student Jim Birnbaum (who had worked for the Wisconsin Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), we applied for and received a grant to fund an EEOC clinic for three years, and had a direct impact on the St. Louis legal community who represented clients with employment discrimination claims. In 1985, second-year law student Stuart Kurlander suggested and spearheaded my teaching a Jewish law seminar. We later started a Jewish Law Center and for more than 10 years brought in several Jewish law scholars from Israel, including the Deputy President of the Israel Supreme Court, Menachem Elon, the leading Jewish law jurist in Israel.
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There is a passage in "Conversations with Yogananda" where Swamiji mentioned Master having said that "Women lead a two fold life where they drink man's blood in the night..." and have always wondered since about what Master meant? With all the love and gratitude I feel for him in my heart, I still can't fathom what what he must have meant. Surely with Master, it can't be sexism, or was it just a seemingly harsh analogy used to instill discipline in the monks he was speaking to?
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You are right: Yoganandaji was not sexist. And certainly women do not drink men's blood, nor by any means are all women temptresses. As you surmised, he was using stern language to help his monk disciples remain celibate. (He might have made a corresponding remark about men to his nun disciples, but being a male, Swami Kriyananda would not have been present to record such words.)
Men, especially younger men (as many of the monks were), can be prone to sexual preoccupation, even if they do not pursue sex outwardly. This is both a waste of time and a spiritual impediment, for it directs one's life-force outward to the senses, strengthening their hold on the mind, rather than inward and upward, where it could have aided spiritual growth. The guru's strong admonition was intended to help those monks avoid such preoccupation. He was metaphorically emphasizing something that he said elsewhere: in orgasm men lose a large quantity of life-force, and it can take a good deal of time to replenish that energy.
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Chiefs vs. Broncos: Highs, lows of Denver's Week 2 victory
The Broncos moved to 2-0 on the season after upending the Chiefs 24-17 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Sunday. Here were some notable and not-so-notable moments from the win.
Sharp early. The Broncos went ahead 7-0 on their first possession, traveling 80 yards in seven plays. Tight end Julius Thomas scored on a 4-yard pass for his fourth TD in five quarters — the most by a Bronco to begin a season.
Clockwork orange. Peyton Manning was near perfect in the first half, connecting on 15-of-19 passes for 191 yards and three touchdowns. He did not throw an interception and had a QB rating of 148.1.
Big D once again. Denver snuffed out Kansas City's fourth-down bid in the final seconds, the second week in a row the Broncos survived a late rally.
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