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Activated 26 January 1943 at Davis Monthan AAFd, AZ, and trained there until Febuary 1943. The unit moved to Biggs Field, TX, and on March of 1943, and then to Alamogordo AAB, NM on the 18th of April 1943. The ground unit left for the port of embarkation on the 18th July 1943. The unit sailed out from New York on the 25th July 1943, and arrived in England on the 30th July 1943.Squadrons of the 392nd Bomb Group 576th Bombardment Squadron - Heavy 577th Bombardment Squadron - Heavy 578th Bombardment Squadron -Heavy 579th Bombardment Squadron - Heavy Assigned 8th AAF: July 1943 Wing/Command Assignment VIII BC, 2 BW: Jul 1943 VIII BC, 2 BW, 202 PCBW Sep 2, 1943 VIII BC, 2 BD, 14 CBW 13 Sep 1943 2 BD, 14 CBW 8 Jan 1944 2 AD, 14 CBW 1 Jan 1945 Combat Aircraft: B-24H B-24J B-24L B-24M
Stations WENDLING 1 Aug 1943 to 15 Jun 1945 Group COs Col. Irvine A. Rendle 26 Jan 1943 to 21 Jun 1944 Col Lorin L. Johnson 21 Jun 1944 to 27 May 1945 Lt. Col Lawrence G. Gilbert 27 May 1945 to Jun 1945 First Mission: 9 Sep 1943 Last Mission: 25 Apr 1945 Missions: 285 Total Sorties: 7,060 Total Bomb Tonnage: 17,452 Tons Aircraft MIA: 127 Major Awards Distinguished Unit Citations: 24 Feb 1944: Gotha Claims to Fame Despite heavy losses its bombing efficiency was better than average for @BD groups during 9 months of operations. First B-24H group in the 8th Air Force. Subsequent History Redeployed to the US May/June 1945. First of the aircraft departed the United Kingdom on 29 May 1945. Ground echelon sailed on Queen Mary on the 15th of June 1945, arriving in New York on the 20th of June 1945. Personnel had 30 days R and R with the unit assembling in Charleston AAFd, South Carolina, in late June 1945 for air transport duties but was not fully manned and inactivated on the 13th September 1945.


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European statistics - ESDS
The Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) in co-operation with national statistical institutions set up a network of national centers of European Statistical Data Support - ESDS to support users in retrieval of European statistical information and work with them. The Centre of European Statistical Data Support in the Slovak Republic is created within the Statistical Products and Services Providing Section of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.
Eurostat coordinates the network of national centers with the aim to promote and open up the statistical information offered on its websites. Users have the possibility to access to databases, including external trade detailed data (COMEXT), all electronic versions of the Eurostat´s publications (Publications), as well as methodological support (Methodology).
Eurostat offers on its website statistical data and information structured into the following basic groups:
- General and regional statistics
- Economy and finance
- Population and living conditions
- Industry, trade and services
- Agriculture and fishery
- International trade
- Transport
- Environment and energy
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We knew this was too good to be true.
The OnLive Desktop app allows you to easily and cheaply run Windows and Microsoft Office on your iPad. But Microsoft wasn't about to let that slide.
Microsoft is now suggesting that OnLive violates Microsoft's licensing agreements and is going after the company.
In a blog post today, Microsoft's Joe Matz, corporate vice president of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing wrote, "We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved."
Microsoft's draconian Windows licensing fees have been a barrier to cloud-based desktops-as-a-service for years. The technology is ready. It's not hard to stream Windows and Windows apps to any device you want. But Microsoft charges enterprises more for this type of service, making it cheaper to install Windows and Windows apps directly onto a PC than to stream it from a cloud.
This thing looks like its headed for three possible outcomes.
- Prices for OnLive will become way more expensive. Right now you can get a free plan or you can get the OnLive Desktop Plus plan for $4.99 a month.
- The Windows versions OnLive can offer will not be the latest, greatest versions of Windows. Currently service providers aren't allowed to stream Windows 7 unless the customer has already paid for Windows 7 licenses.
- The lawyers will get busy. It's hard to see how OnLive has the legal resources to beat Microsoft if things get ugly.


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I am interested in making the move to 8x10 and see that there are differences in the cameras just the same as 4x5. The images I would like to be taking are like that of photographer Jim Cooke.
Here is a link for reference.
I do not know the differences in the Field cameras abilities to the View cameras. I know the range of movements are going to be greater in the view camera but is it needed if I want to be taking these kinds of landscape images?
I do tend to find myself taking more pictures in city enviornments than open nature, be it with homes or buildings rounds me, so will I need to have a greater range of movents than a Field camera offers?
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Mary Lambert was 'Last Resort' for 'Same Love'
In just six hours, Mary Lambert's life changed drastically.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis had written and produced a song called "Same Love," but they needed a special hook to finalize the emotional track. Like the rap duo, Lambert is from Seattle, though she had never met them before.
"I was sort of a last resort," said Lambert. "It was a match made in heaven."
Lambert was given "about two or three hours" to write the song's chorus and then record it the same night in front of the breakthrough newcomers, who were instantly impressed by the soft singer.
"They loved it. It was like this beautiful minute of silence after I sung the chorus," she recalled.
Others love it, too - including members of the Recording Academy. "Same Love" is nominated for the coveted song of the year at Sunday's Grammy Awards, pitting the rap song supporting gay love and acceptance against No. 1 smashes from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lorde and Pink.
"Same Love" didn't top the charts - it peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 - but it sold 2 million copies and helped propel Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to even greater heights. The duo is nominated for seven awards, including best new artist and album of the year for "The Heist."
"We'd probably all agree that the nomination for song of the year for 'Same Love' in particular is quite meaningful for us, in what the song has turned out to be and (what it) means to people," said Zach Quillen, manager for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
"We regard it as our highest accomplishment," he said.
The Grammys also will celebrate another song about gay pride Sunday with Sara Bareilles' "Brave," which she wrote to encourage her friend to come out of the closet. It's nominated for best pop solo performance and appears on her third album, "The Blessed Unrest," which is up for album of the year.
Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts, said "Brave" could be getting a boost because of its Grammy nominations.
"It does seem like something happened since the Grammy nominations came out in early December. You can probably tie the two together," he said of "Brave," which reached its peak at No. 26 last week.
Lambert, who is openly gay, said having her first mainstream song be about a topic that's close to home and nominated for a top Grammy at the same time is a blessing.
She said it also has encouraged her to be honest in her own music. She released an EP, "Welcome to the Age of My Body," in December and it features a spinoff of "Same Love" called "She Keeps Me Warm" - a refrain from the original track.
Lambert signed to Capitol Records and will release a full-length album this year. She plans to sing about topics from female empowerment, fat shaming and domestic violence.
"I think people are figuring out there's no formula anymore. The things that used to work for record companies don't necessarily work," she said.
The Grammys will air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.


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I know it's the all the rage for media outlets to try an "get inside the head" of the tea parties these days, but this article is set very much apart from the rest. It has far more to do with organizational structure than politics.
This video provides a brief synopsis:
The ideas in the article seem a lot more Clay Shirky than Glenn Beck:
"Essentially what we're doing is crowd-sourcing," says Meckler, whose vocabulary betrays his background as a lawyer specializing in Internet law. "I use the term open-source politics. This is an open-source movement." Every day, anyone and everyone is modifying the code. "The movement as a whole is smart."
Can it work? In American politics, radical decentralization has never been tried on so large a scale. Tea party activists believe that their hivelike, "organized but not organized" (as one calls it) structure is their signal innovation and secret weapon, the key to outlasting and outmaneuvering traditional political organizations and interest groups. They intend to rewrite the rule book for political organizing, turning decades of established practice upside down. If they succeed, or even half succeed, the tea party's most important legacy may be organizational, not political.
Watching both the Left and the Right wrestle with concepts central to understanding a distributed organization is fascinating, because the nature of the tea parties is just so alien to people who think that top-down hierarchy and bureaucracy are the only forms of organization possible:
From Washington's who's-in-charge-here perspective, the tea party model seem [...] bizarre. Perplexed journalists keep looking for the movement's leaders, which is like asking to meet the boss of the Internet. Baffled politicians and lobbyists can't find anyone to negotiate with.There are lessons in this article that can both serve as a model for truly decentralized political movements, as well as function as a warning to those who would write about the tea parties as if it were just another political interest group (or even more off-target, "astroturf").
While there seems to be a natural connection between the sentiments of the tea parties' feelings towards an overly strong centralized government and a radically decentralized political movement, there's nothing here that make this kind of organization exclusive to the political Right.
Radical decentralization embodies and expresses tea partiers' mistrust of overcentralized authority, which is the very problem they set out to solve. They worry that external co-option, internal corruption, and gradual calcification — the viruses they believe ruined Washington — might in time infect them. Decentralization, they say, is inherently resistant to all three diseases.Whether you agree with their politics or not (or whether the varied tea parties even agree with each other's politics) is beside the point. This is a pretty fundamental leap forward in organizations, and it likely won't be the last of it's kind, on the Left or the Right.


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Designed by Otl Aicher, one of the most prominent graphic designers to emerge out of Germany in the 20th century, the Rotis® Semi Sans Font family is part of the Rotis Font super family.
Having already established a world-renowned reputation in graphic design and, more specifically, corporate branding, Aicher joined the German kitchen company, Bulthaup, as a consultant in 1980. He established a studio in Leutkirch im Allgäu in the south of Germany, naming it Rotis. There, he worked in association with Bulthaup over the next several years on a variety of projects and on freelance projects such as the development of the typeface he would eventually name after the studio.
The Rotis Semi Sans font family was part of Aicher's effort to create "bridge" font families that drew distinct connections between serif and sans serif type families. Aicher did not understand what he viewed as a "traditionalist" line drawn in the sand between serif and sans serifs. He set out to find a practical way to blend the two in the Rotis designs. The Rotis Semi Sans design functioned as a stepping stone between sans and semi serif — it has no serifs, but a marked variation in stroke width compared to the Rotis Sans font family.
The Rotis Semi Sans design is distinct for its heavy contrast between thin and thick strokes. Individual character features that standout in the design are: the horizontal tail of the uppercase Q, the tall x-height of the bowls in the lower case b and d, the contrasting stunted bowl of the lowercase a, and the unusually short tail of the lowercase y. The uppercase and lowercase C's are also distinct for their top-heavy, leaning structure.Aicher passed away just three years after Rotis Semi Sans was released in 1991. In the years since, Monotype Imaging has acquired the rights to the entire Rotis superfamily and reissued it under the Monotype Originals label. Bulthaup has maintained Aicher's studio as a working facility.
Erik Spiekermann: Rotis
Linotype: Rotis Semi Sans
Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006, p. 36
The Rotis Semi Sans design is used with the entire Rotis Superfamily by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as by ERCO, an electronic fixture manufacturer based in Germany. Its most prominent public application is its use by the city of Montreal in Quebec, where they use the Rotis Semi Sans design for its logo, media materials and all of its public signage.


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This is not a donut.
It's a cake! If you haven't seen this cake pan it is from Williams-Sonoma and makes for quite the fun cake. I think this cake is so adorable and it tasted as good as it looked. When I get new baking tools I like to try the recipe it comes with when I first bake with it. I found the cake to be a little dry, but the glaze was phenomenal and made it up for the dry cake. I pretty much followed the recipe, my only diversion was adding a layer of chocolate glaze between the two layers of cake which if you ask me is a must!
Chocolate Glazed Donut Cake
recipe from Williams-Sonoma
For the cake:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/3 cups milk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
16 Tbs. (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
For the chocolate glaze: Colored sprinkles for decorating
5 Tbs. unsalted butter
4 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
2 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 cup hot water
Have all the ingredients (except the hot water) at room temperature.
Position a rack in the lower third of an oven and preheat to 350°F. Grease and flour both halves of a giant donut cake pan.
To make the cake, over a sheet of waxed paper, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, combine the milk and vanilla. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the flat beater, beat the butter on medium speed until creamy and smooth, about 30 seconds. Add the granulated sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes, stopping the mixer occasionally to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in three additions, alternating with the milk mixture and beginning and ending with the flour. Beat each addition until just incorporated, stopping the mixer occasionally to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans and tap the pans on the countertop to eliminate any air bubbles. Spread the batter up the sides of each pan so the sides are higher than the center. Bake until the cakes begin to pull away from the sides of the pans and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Transfer the pans to a wire rack and let the cakes cool in the pans for 15 minutes.
Set the rack over the cakes, invert the pans onto the rack and lift off the pans. Let the cakes cool completely, at least 2 hours, before assembling and decorating.
To assemble, return both halves of the cooled cake to the pans. (This is easily done by placing the pans over the cake halves and inverting the rack onto the pans.) Level the cakes by using a serrated knife to gently saw off the part of each half that rose above the edge of the pan; discard the scraps. Remove the cakes from the pans. Place one cake half, cut side up, on a wire rack set over a baking sheet; place the other half, cut side down, on top.
To make the chocolate glaze, fill the bottom pan of a double boiler with 1 inch of water and bring to a simmer over medium heat. In the top pan of the double boiler, combine the butter and chocolate chips and heat until melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and water until combined. Pour the glaze over the cake all at once in one layer and immediately decorate with colored sprinkles. Let the glaze set for 15 minutes before slicing and serving the cake. Serves 16.


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A forum about Atari 16/32 computers and their clones. This forum is in no way affiliated with Atari Interactive.
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pstriolo wrote:I will definively prefer a X68000 project.
retrorepair wrote:pstriolo wrote:I will definively prefer a X68000 project.
I second that!!
Sorgelig wrote:Did he tell he will go open source?
Sorgelig wrote:Otherwise why everybody are waiting for something? It may end like that SNES guy wanting 400K$
Sorgelig wrote:Kevtris work is also a dead-end.
Sorgelig wrote: It's bound to a single device. Tomorrow they will stop to produce it, Kevtris will disappear. And all his cores will become simply useless set of bits.
Sorgelig wrote:Instead of supporting closed source project, jut buy a real device. eBay still have many of retro devices. Almost any retro device has modern extensions allowing to use flash cards and even load managers. So, basically you get the same as those FPGA boards with single closed source core.
At least you won't have game compatibility problems
Locutus73 wrote:If by "dead-end" you mean that, as any closed source project, it has nothing to do with preservation I'm with you 100%.
Sorgelig wrote:Locutus73 wrote:If by "dead-end" you mean that, as any closed source project, it has nothing to do with preservation I'm with you 100%.
yes, i mean exactly this.
btw, Analogue Nt has big boost in compatibility because of real cart support. Without cart compatibility is goes down even according statement from Kevtris (i've read somewhere on forums). NES/SNES have so many different carts sometimes with own CPU and Graphics - so compatibility always will be so-so on cart-less systems.
Sorgelig wrote:As MiSTer is open source and everything is open unlike most FPGA projects (i mean HW projects), everybody is welcome.
Currently i have no interest to chat about FPGA on discord as it's pretty much useless. I believe most enumerated above people already know about MiSTer. So, anyone can come to github and offer the help. And it will be really useful than chatting and discuss who made a coolest device (but of course closed source).
I don't get income from MiSTer, so i cannot offer benefits to anyone. It's really fun driving project.
Locutus73 wrote:longest member
Sorgelig wrote:Locutus73 wrote:longest member
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Model S and Roadster for all countries
Model S and Roadster for all countries
Tesla already produces the Roadster in a right hand drive version for sale in UK, parts of Asia, and Australia. Roadster sales for outside U.S. markets will finish early in 2012.
The Tesla Model S FAQ states that a right hand drive version is planned half a year after start of general production.
By the way, which range of an electric vehicle would you consider sufficient for Malta? Do you often go with the ferry?
my apologies.
The production date for right-hand drive Model S is announced in a blog post by George Blankenship, Vice President, Worldwide Sales:
"Delivery of the European left-hand drive Model S is scheduled to begin in late 2012. In mid-2013 we plan to begin delivering the right-hand drive Model S for Europe and Asia. Each launch will begin with a limited edition Signature Series."


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I've never been one to wear an outfit composed entirely of the same colors, but for some reason black and red seemed like a perfect combo for a long day of casual meetings and running around the city.
I found that the variety of textures and prints in each piece of this outfit worked well together and ended up not being the matchy-matchy look I was afraid I was creating.
I bought this navajo print sweatshirt a few days ago at the LF sale in Soho and have admittedly not taken it off since. It's incredibly soft, goes with practically everything, and is the perfect size sweatshirt for cozying up on a cold winter's night. Although this look isn't exactly business savvy, the meetings I had that day were relatively relaxed and didn't require "business attire." That being said, I definitely plan on repeating this outfit again (yes, sometimes I repeat outfits), but will most likely wear it on the weekends while having brunch with friends or meandering around my favorite museum, the Museum of Natural History.
{Outfit Details: Karen Walker sunglasses, Zara leather jacket, LF printed sweatshirt, Banana Republic blouse, Centre Ville pants, Tights from Target, Repetto shoes, Chloe Paraty bag}
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Back in November, Samsung unveiled the Android powered Galaxy Premier smartphone for international markets. Today, the South Korean manufacturer launched this smartphone in its home country. However, the device has been renamed from Galaxy Premier to Galaxy Pop. Samsung has also upgraded the dual-core processor to quad-core processor. Apart from that, there are no major changes in the specs of this device.
I'm sure some of you might get confused with the previously launched Android Gingerbread powered Galaxy Pop. However, the new Galaxy Pop (SHV-E220S) looks strikingly similar to the Galaxy S III smartphone and runs on the newer Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Operating System. This device will be available across all three major carriers – SKT, LG U+ and KT in South Korea.
Samsung Galaxy Pop features a 4.65 inch HD display, sporting a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 processor, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS, TouchWiz UI, 8 megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and LED flash, full HD (1080p) video recording and playback, 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and so on.
It also comes with a 3.5 mm headset jack, FM Radio with RDS, GPS with A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, S-Pen, S Note, S Planner, Samsung Hub, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 4G LTE Connectivity, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, MicroSD card slot, 64 GB expandable memory, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, up to 790 hours of stand-by time, up to 11 hours of talk-time and a 2100 mAh battery.
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Infinite's Sunggyu
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VIXX's Leo
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I tried my best to only upload pictures that don't show any of their faces!
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How Do I Know I'm Not Really Gay? An Update.
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
Over the years, I have written quite a number of articles about different forms of OCD. Because the variations are endless, there always seemed to be a great hunger for information on the part of sufferers trying to understand what was happening to them, specifically. Interestingly enough, the article that has always generated the most e-mails and phone calls was one titled, "How Do I Know I'm Not Really Gay?" The OCF published this in their newsletter in 1995. Back when I wrote this article, it was my belief that although no one had ever written about it, this form of the disorder was far more prevalent than most people realized. The twelve years since then have convinced me even further that this is so.
Fortunately for sufferers, the general awareness of this type of OCD has increased over the years, and there is less of a sense of isolation than formerly. There are now several internet chat groups and bulletin boards that can be readily accessed, and a quick web search will turn up articles on the subject, where none existed in the past. Within my own practice, there is rarely a time these days when I am treating fewer than six or more people for this form of the disorder. I think it would be reasonable to say that after all this time an update might be in order.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing severe and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 study published in the Journal of Sex Research found that among a group of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers et al, 1998). In order to have doubts about one's sexual identity, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly, Swedo et al., 1989 found that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden, aggressive, or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one's own sexual identity might seem pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious form is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the sufferer is heterosexual, then the thought may be that they are homosexual. If, on the other hand, they happen to be homosexual, they may obsess about the possibility that they might really be straight. Going a step beyond this, some sufferers have obsessions that tell them that they may have acted, or will act on their thoughts. A variation on doubt about sexual identity would be where the obsessive thought has fastened onto the idea that the person simply will never be able to figure out what their sexual orientation actually is. Patients will sometimes relate their belief that, "I could deal with whatever my sexuality turns out to be, but my mind just won't let me settle on anything." Some people's doubts are further complicated by having such experiences as hearing other people talking or looking in their direction and thinking that these people must be analyzing their behavior or appearance and talking about them – discussing how they must be gay (or straight).
For those with thoughts of being homosexual, part of the distress must surely be social in origin. Let's face it: gay people have always been an oppressed minority within our culture, and to suddenly think of being in this position and to be stigmatized in this way can be frightening. People don't generally obsess about things they find positive or pleasurable. I have sometimes wondered if those who experience the most distress from such thoughts as these do so because they were raised with more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attitudes to begin with, or if it is simply because one's sexuality can be such a basic doubt. I suppose this remains a question for research to answer. The older psychoanalytic therapies often make people with this problem feel much worse by saying that the thoughts represent true inner desires. This has never proven to be so.
Doubting something so basic about yourself can obviously be quite a torturous business. When I first see people for this problem, they are typically engaged in any number of compulsive activities, which may occupy many hours of each day. These can include:
· Looking at attractive men or women, or pictures of them, or reading sexually oriented literature or pornography (hetero- or homosexual) to see if they are sexually exciting
· Imagining themselves in sexual situations and then observing their own reaction to them
· Masturbating or having sex repeatedly just for the purpose of checking their own reaction to it. (This may also include visiting prostitutes in more extreme cases)
· Observing themselves for evidence of "looking", talking, walking, dressing, or gesturing like someone who is either gay or straight.
· Compulsively reviewing and analyzing past interactions with other men or women to see if they have acted like a gay or straight person
· Checking the reactions or conversations of others to determine whether or not they might have noticed them acting inappropriately, or if these people were giving the sufferer strange looks
· Reading articles on the internet about how an individual can tell if they are gay or straight to see which group they might be most similar to
· Reading stories by people who "came-out" to see if they can find any resemblance to their own experiences
· Repeatedly questioning others or seeking reassurance about their sexuality
Compulsive questioning can frequently take place, and usually involves others who may be close to the sufferer. The questions are never-ending and repetitive. Some of the more typical questions sufferers are likely to ask can include those in the following two groupings:
For those who obsess about not knowing what their identity is:
· How do I know whether I prefer women or men?
· Maybe I really don't know what I am.
· Maybe I'll never know what I am.
· How does anyone tell what sex they really are?
· How will I ever be able to tell for certain?
· What will happen if I make the wrong choice and get trapped in a lifestyle that
really isn't for me?
For those who obsess that they are of the opposite sexual orientation:
· "Do you think I could be gay (or straight)?"
· "How can I tell if I'm really gay (or straight)?"
· "At what point in their lives do people know what their orientation is?"
· "Can you suddenly turn into a homosexual (or heterosexual) even if you have never felt or acted that that way?"
· "Did I just act sexually toward you?"
· "Do I look (or act) gay (or straight) to you?"
· "Did I just touch you?"
· "If I get sexual sensations when viewing sexual material of an opposite orientation does it mean I am gay (or straight)?"
In terms of the last question above, one of the most difficult situations for this group of sufferers is when they experience a sexual reaction to something they feel would be inappropriate. A typical example would be a heterosexual man who experiences an erection while looking at gay erotica. It is important to note that it is extremely common for people to resort to all sorts of fantasy material concerning unusual or forbidden sexual behaviors that they would never actually engage in, but that they do find stimulating. Under the right circumstances, many things can cause sexual arousal in a person. The fact of the matter is that people react sexually to sexual things. I am not just talking about people with OCD here, but about people in general. I cannot count the number of times that patients have related to me that they have experienced sexual feelings and feelings of stimulation when encountering things they felt were taboo or forbidden. This, of course, then leads them to think that their thoughts must reflect a true inner desire, and are a sign that they really are of a different sexual orientation. This reaction is strengthened by the incorrect belief that homosexual cues never stimulate heterosexuals. One further complicating factor in all this is that some obsessive thinkers mistake feelings of anxiety for feelings of sexual arousal. The two are actually physiologically similar in some ways.
Things become even more complicated by a number of cognitive (thinking) errors seen in OCD. It is these errors, which lead OC sufferers to react anxiously to their thoughts, and then to have to perform compulsions to relieve that anxiety. Cognitive OCD theorists believe that obsessions have their origin in the normal unwanted intrusive thoughts seen in the general population. What separate these everyday intrusions from obsessions seen in OCD are the meanings or appraisals that the OCD sufferers attach to the thoughts. As I like to explain to my patients, their problem is not the thoughts themselves, but instead it is what they make of the thoughts, as well as their attempts to relieve their anxiety via compulsions and avoidance.
Some typical cognitive errors made by OC sufferers include:
· I must always have certainty and control in life (intolerance of uncertainty)
· I must be in control of all my thoughts and emotions at all times
· If I lose control of my thoughts, I must do something to regain that control
· Thinking the thought means it is important and it is important because I think about it
· It is abnormal to have intrusive thoughts, and if I do have them, it means I'm crazy, weird, etc.
· Having an intrusive thought and doing what it suggests are the same, morally
· Thinking about doing harm, and not preventing it is just as bad as committing harm (also known as Thought-Action Fusion)
· Having intrusive thoughts means I am likely to act on them
· I cannot take the risk that my thoughts will come true
The effect of the questioning behavior on friends and family can be rather negative, drawing a lot of angry responses or ridicule after the thousandth time. One young man I know questioned his girlfriend so often that she eventually broke up with him and this added to his worries since he now wondered if she did so because he wasn't a "real man."
The compulsive activities sufferers perform in response to their ideas, of
course, do nothing to settle the issue. Often, the more checking and questioning that is done, the more doubtful the sufferer becomes. Even if they feel better for a few minutes as a result of a compulsion, the doubt quickly returns. I like to tell my patients that it is as if that information-gathering portion of their brain is coated with Teflon©. The answers just don't stick.
In addition to performing compulsions, one other way in which sufferers cope with the fears caused by the obsessions is through avoidance, and by this I mean directly avoiding everyday situations that get the thoughts going. This can involve:
· Avoiding standing close to, touching, or brushing against members of the same sex (or opposite sex if the sufferer is gay)
· Not reading or looking at videos, news reports, books, or articles having anything to do with gay people or other sexual subjects
· Never saying the words "gay," "homosexual," (or "straight") or any other related term
· Trying to not look or act effeminately (if a man) or in a masculine way (if a woman) (or vice versa if the sufferer is gay)
· Not dressing in ways that would make one look effeminate (if a man) or masculine (if a woman) (again, vice versa if the sufferer is gay)
· Not talking about sexual identity issues or subjects with others
· Avoiding associating with anyone who may be gay or who seems to lean in that direction (if the sufferer is heterosexual)
Needless to say, it is crucial for all OCD sufferers to understand that there is no avoiding what they fear. Facing what you fear is a way of getting closer to the truth.
The purpose of compulsions is, of course, to undo, cancel out, or neutralize the anxiety caused by obsessions. They may actually work in the short run, but their benefits are only temporary. OC sufferers cannot process the information they provide, and it just doesn't stick. It is sort of like having only half of the Velcro. Also, it is important to understand that compulsions are paradoxical – that is, they bring about the opposite of what they are intended to accomplish. That is, to help the sufferer to be free of anxiety and obsessive thoughts.
I like to tell my patients that:
"Compulsions start out as a solution to the problem of having obsessions, but soon become the problem itself."
What compulsions do accomplish is to cause the sufferer to become behaviorally addicted to performing them. Even the little bit of relief they get is enough to get this dependency going. Compulsions only lead to more compulsions, and avoidance only leads to more avoidance. This is really only natural for people to do. It is instinctive to try to escape or avoid that which makes you anxious. Unfortunately, this is of no help in OCD.
Another problem that arises from performing compulsions is that those who keep checking their own reactions to members of the opposite or same sex will inevitably create a paradox for themselves. They become so nervous about what they may see in themselves that they don't feel very excited, and then think that this must mean they have the wrong preference. When they are around members of their own sex, they also become anxious, which leads to further stress and, of course, more doubts about themselves. The flip side of this is when they look at things having to do with sex of an opposite orientation and then feel aroused in some way, which they then conclude to mean that they liked it, which means that they are gay (or straight). This is the mistake I referred to earlier when I stated that people react sexually to sexual things.
People like to ask if there are any new developments in OCD treatments. Aside from a few new medications since the last article, treatment remains essentially the same. The formula of cognitive/behavioral therapy plus medication (in many cases) is still the way to go. The particular form of behavioral therapy shown to be the most effective is known as Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP).
E&RP encourages participants to expose themselves to their obsessions (or to situations that will bring on the obsessions), while they prevent themselves from using compulsions to get rid of the resulting anxiety. The fearful thoughts or situations are approached in gradually increased amounts over a period of from several weeks to several months. This results in an effect upon the individual that we call "habituation." That is, when you remain in the presence of what you fear over long periods of time, you will soon see that no harm of any kind results. As you do so in slowly increasing amounts, you develop a tolerance to the presence of the fear, and its effect is greatly lessened. By continually avoiding feared situations and never really encountering them, you keep yourself sensitized. By facing them, you learn that the avoidance itself is the "real" threat that keeps you trapped. It puts you in the role of a scientist conducting experiments that test your own fearful predictions, to see what really happens when you don't avoid what you fear. The result is that as you slowly build up your tolerance for whatever is fear provoking; it begins to take larger and larger doses of frightening thoughts or situations to bring on the same amount of anxiety. When you have finally managed to tolerate the most difficult parts of your OCD, they can no longer cause you to react with fear. Basically, you can tell yourself, "Okay, so I can think about this, but I don't have to do anything about it." By agreeing to face some short-term anxiety, you can thus achieve long-term relief. It is important to note that the goal of E&RP is not the elimination of obsessive thoughts, but to learn to tolerate and accept all thoughts with little or no distress. This reduced distress may, in turn, as a byproduct, reduce the frequency of the obsessions. Complete elimination of intrusive thoughts may not be a realistic goal, given the commonality of intrusive thoughts in humans in general.
Using this technique, you work with a therapist to expose yourself to gradually increasing levels of anxiety-provoking situations and thoughts. You learn to tolerate the fearful situations without resorting to questioning, checking, or avoiding. By allowing the anxiety to subside on its own, you slowly build up your tolerance to it, and it begins to take more and more to make you anxious. Eventually, as you work your way up the list to facing your worst fears, there will be little about the subject that can set you off. You may still get the thoughts here and there, but you will no longer feel that you must react to them, and you will be able to let them pass.
There are many techniques for confronting sexual and other obsessions that we have developed over the years. Some of these techniques include:
· Listening to 2-3 minute audio recordings about the feared subject
· Leaving cell phone voice-mail messages for yourself about the feared subject
· Writing 2 page compositions about a particular obsession (and then taping them in your own voice)
· Writing feared sentences repetitively
· Hanging signs in your room or house with feared statements
· Wearing T-shirts with feared slogans
· Visiting locations that will stimulate thoughts
· Being around people who will stimulate thoughts
· Agreeing with all feared thoughts, and telling yourself they are true and
represent your real desires
· Reading books on the subject of your thoughts
· Visiting websites that relate to your thoughts
These are some typical exposure therapy homework assignments I have assigned to people over the years:
· Reading books by or about gay persons.
· Watching videos on gay themes or about gay characters.
· Visiting gay meetings, shops, browsing in gay bookstores, or visiting areas of town that are more predominantly gay.
· Wearing a T-shirt at home with the word 'gay' on it.
· Wearing clothes in fit, color, or style that could possibly look effeminate for a man, or masculine for a woman.
· Looking at pictures of good-looking people of your own sex and rating them on attractiveness.
· Reading magazines such as Playboy if you are a woman or Playgirl if you are a man.
· Standing close to members of your own sex.
· Doing a series of writing assignments of a couple of pages each that suggest more and more that you actually are gay or wish to be.
· Making a series of three-minute tapes that, based on the writings, gradually suggest more and more that you are gay, and listening to them several times a day, changing them when they no longer bother you).
Some typical response prevention exercises might include:
· Not checking your reactions to attractive members of your own sex.
· Not imagining yourself in sexual situations with same-sex individuals to check on your own reactions.
· Not behaving sexually with members of the opposite sex just to check your own
· Resist reviewing previous situations where you were with members of the same or opposite sex or where things were ambiguous to see if you did anything questionable.
· Avoid observing yourself to see if you behaved in a way you imagine a homosexual or member of the opposite sex would.
Some typical exposure homework for those with doubts about their own sexual identity might include:
· Reading about people who are sexually confused
· Reading about people who are transgendered
· Looking at pictures of people who are transgendered or are transvestites
· Telling yourself and listening to tapes telling you that you will never really know what you are
Some corresponding response prevention exercises to go along with the above would be:
· Not checking your reactions when viewing members of either sex
· Not acting sexually to simply test your reactions
· Avoiding reviewing thoughts or situations you have uncertainty about
Many of the above therapy tasks can sound scary and intimidating. Obviously, you don't do these things all at once. Behavioral change is gradual change. Recovering from OCD is certainly not an easy task. We rarely use the word 'easy' at our clinic. It takes persistence and determination, but it can be done. People do it all the time, especially with proper help and advice. My own advice to those of you reading this would be to get yourself out of the compulsion trap, and get yourself into treatment with qualified people.
You can contact Dr. Penzel at 631-351-1729, or e-mail him at email@example.com
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
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- The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was (Teen Obsessions About Homosexuality)
- Acceptance and OCD
- Acceptance and OCD
- But I Love My Kids (Parents With Thoughts of Harming Their Children)
- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for an OCD Specialist
- Getting the Right Treatment (Finding proper CBT treatment for OCD and BFRBs)
- Here's Looking At You, Kid: People With OCD Who Notice Things Too Much
- How Clean is Clean? (Compulsive cleaning and ordering)
- How Do I Know I'm Not Gay? (Homosexuality obsessions)
- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
- How Much Is Too Much? (Taking a more humane approach to behavioral therapy)
- How to Manage Your Parents When You Have OCD (a guide for teens)
- In Search of the Elusive Behavior Therapist
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- Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
- Morbid Obsessions
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- Obsessive Love (When People Become "Obsessed" with Other People)
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- Samuel Johnson: A Patron Saint of OCD
- Saving the World (Compulsive Hoarding)
- Teens With Morbid Obsessions
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- Treating Morbid Obsessions
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- What Do You Say After You Say You're Sorry (Coming to terms after you recover from OCD)
- What The Heck Is "Obsessive Slowness?"
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- Advice for Significant Others (Dealing with a TTM sufferer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania
- Coming to Terms With Your Child's Hair Pulling
- Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for Your Treatment
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- What Cognitive Therapy Can Do for TTM
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- Common Questions, Myths and Misconceptions About Psychiatric Medicine
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- How To Defeat OCD By Surrendering
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- Stimulation Substitutes for Trichotillomania
- To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
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The many archeological sites near Inukjuak indicate that the area has long been inhabited by Inuit.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Revillon Freres company set up a fur trading post in Inukjuak. In order to compete with them the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) also established a post in 1920. In the same year Revillon Freres paid for Robert J. Flaherty to film Nanook of the North (released 1922) in the area.
The HBC bought out Revillon Freres in 1936 and continued its trade monopoly here until 1958. In 1927 an Anglican mission was established, followed by a post office and RCMP detachment in 1935, a nursing station in 1947, and a school in 1951. From this time on the Inuit started to give up their traditional nomadic way of life and live permanently in the community. A cooperative store was formed in 1962. Inukjuak was legally established as a municipality in 1980.
In 1953, the Canadian Government forcibly relocated some of the area's inhabitants to Resolute, Nunavut, and Grise Fiord, Nunavut, as part of a plan to establish a "Canadian" presence in the High Arctic and assert its sovereignty. This caused families to be split up and relocated persons faced hardships in the much more severe conditions of the far north.
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The Bacchanalia (or Bacchanal / Carnival) were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They seem to have been popular and well-organised throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC. However, like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites.
Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalised, extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia. Modern scholarship takes a skeptical approach to his allegations of frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes, and the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed.
Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods, under threat of the death penalty. This may have been motivated less by the kind of lurid and dramatic rumours that Livy describes than by the senate's determination to assert its civil and religious authority over Rome and her allies, after the prolonged social, political and military crisis of the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). The reformed Bacchanalia rites may have been merged with the Liberalia festival. Bacchus, Liber and Dionysus became virtually interchangeable from the late Republican era ( 133 BC and onward ), and their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of Roman Imperial era.
Background and development[edit]
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. They were based on the Greek Dionysia and the Dionysian mysteries, and probably arrived in Rome c. 200 BC via the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and from Etruria, Rome's northern neighbour. Tenney Frank suggested that the Dionysian worship may have been introduced to Rome by prisoners taken by the Romans when the former Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy was captured from the Carthaginians in 209 BC.[1] Like all mystery cults, the Bacchanalia were held in strict privacy, and initiates were bound to secrecy; what little is known of the cult and its rites derives from Greek and Roman literature, plays, statuary and paintings.[2]
Livy, the principal Roman literary source on the early Bacchanalia, as he reports a major political incident involving one form of the cult, names Paculla Annia, a Campanian priestess of Bacchus, as the founder of a private, unofficial Bacchanalia cult in Rome, based at the grove of Stimula, where the western slope of the Aventine Hill descends to the Tiber. The Aventine was an ethnically mixed district, strongly identified with Rome's plebeian class and the ingress of new and foreign cults.[3] The wine and fertility god Liber Pater ("The Free Father"), divine patron of plebeian rights, freedoms and augury, had a long-established official cult in the nearby temple he shared with Ceres and Libera.[4] Most Roman sources describe him as Rome's equivalent to Dionysus and Bacchus, both of whom were sometimes titled eleutherios (liberator).[5]
Livy claims the earliest version as open to women only, and held on three days of the year, in daylight; while in nearby Etruria, north of Rome, a "Greek of humble origin, versed in sacrifices and soothsaying" had established a nocturnal version, added wine and feasting to the mix, and thus acquired an enthusiastic following of women and men;[6] Livy says that Paculla Annia corrupted Rome's unofficial but morally acceptable Bacchic cult by introducing the Etruscan version, with five, always nocturnal cult meetings a month, open to all social classes, ages and sexes—starting with her own sons; the new celebrations and initiations featured wine-fueled violence and violent sexual promiscuity, in which the screams of the abused were drowned out by the din of drums and cymbals. Those who resisted or betrayed the cult were disposed of. Under cover of religion, priests and acolytes broke civil, moral and religious laws with impunity. Livy also claims that while the cult held particular appeal to those of uneducated and fickle mind (levitas animi), such as the young, plebeians, women and "men most like women", most of the city's population was involved, and even Rome's highest class was not immune. An ex-initiate and prostitute named Hispala Faecenia, fearing the cult's vengeance for her betrayal but more fearful for her young, upper-class client and protegé, told all to the consul Postumius, who presented it to a shocked Roman senate as a dire national emergency. Once investigations were complete, the senate rewarded and protected informants, and suppressed the cult "throughout Italy"—or rather, forced its reformation, in the course of which seven thousand persons were arrested, most of whom were executed.[7][8]
Legislation of 186 survives in the form of an inscription. Known as the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, it brought the Bacchanalia under control of the senate, and thus of the Roman pontifices. The existing cult chapters and colleges were dismantled. Congregations of mixed gender were permitted, but were limited to no more than two men and three women, and any Bacchanalia gathering must seek prior permission from the Senate. Men were forbidden Bacchus' priesthood.
Despite their official suppression, illicit Bacchanals persisted covertly for many years, particularly in Southern Italy, their likely place of origin.[9][10] The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia. Similar attrition may have been imposed on Liber's cults; his perceived or actual association with the Bacchanalia may be the reason that his Liberalia ludi of 17 March were temporarily moved to Ceres' Cerealia of 12–19 April. They were restored when the ferocity of reaction eased, but in approved, much modified form.[11]
Livy's account of the Bacchanalia has been described as "tendentious to say the least".[12] As a political and social conservative, he had a deep mistrust of mystery religions, and probably understood any form of Bacchanalia as a sign of Roman degeneracy.[13] Though most of his dramatis personae are known historical figures, their speeches are implausibly circumstantial, and his characters, tropes and plot developments draw more from Roman satyr plays than from the Bacchanalia themselves.[14] Paculla Annia is unlikely to have introduced all the changes he attributes to her.[15][16][17]
For Livy, the cult's greatest offences arose from indiscriminate mixing of freeborn Romans of both sexes and all ages at night, a time when passions are easily aroused, especially given wine and unrestricted opportunity. Women at these gatherings, he says, outnumbered men; and his account has the consul Postumius stress the overwhelmingly female nature and organisation of the cult. Yet the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus itself allows women to outnumber men, by three to two, at any permitted gathering; and it expressly forbids Bacchic priesthoods to men.[18] Livy's own narrative names all but one of the offending cult leaders as male, which seems to eliminate any perceived "conspiracy of women".[19] Gender seems to have motivated the Senate's response no more than any other cause.[20]
Livy's insistently negative account of the cult's Greek origins and low moral character—not even Bacchus is exempt from this judgment—may have sought to justify its suppression as a sudden "infiltration of too many Greek elements into Roman worship".[21] The cult had, however, been active in Rome for many years before its supposedly abrupt discovery, and Bacchic and Dionysiac cults had been part of life in Roman and allied, Greek-speaking Italy for many decades. Greek cults and Greek influences had been part of Rome's religious life since the 5th century BC, and Rome's acquisition of foreign cults—Greek or otherwise—through alliance, treaty, capture or conquest was a cornerstone of its foreign policy, and an essential feature of its eventual hegemony. While the pace of such introductions had gathered rapidly during the 3rd century, contemporary evidence of the Bacchanalia reform betrays no anti-Greek or anti-foreign policy or sentiment.[22]
Gruen interprets the Senatus consultum as a piece of realpolitik, a display of the Roman senate's authority to its Italian allies after the Second Punic War, and a reminder to any Roman politician, populist and would-be generalissimo that the Senate's collective authority trumped all personal ambition.[23] Nevertheless, the extent and ferocity of the official response to the Bacchanalia was probably unprecedented, and betrays some form of moral panic on the part of Roman authorities; Burkert finds "nothing comparable in religious history before the persecutions of Christians".[24][25]
Modern usage[edit]
In modern usage, bacchanalia can mean any uninhibited or drunken revelry. The bacchanal in art describes any small group of revellers, often including satyrs and perhaps Bacchus or Silenus, usually in a landscape setting. The subject was popular from the Renaissance onwards, and usually included a large degree of nudity among the figures.
Nicolas Poussin, Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan, 1631 - 1633
Lovis Corinth, Bacchanalia, 1898
A. Meyer, frieze in Seefeld (Zürich), 1900
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- Anthesteria
- Ganachakra
- Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus
- Saturnalia, a Roman festivity
- Thriambus, a hymn sung in processions in honour of Dionysus
- ^ Walsh, P. G. "Making a Drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia." Greece & Rome 43, no. 2 (1996): 188–203. Citation on 191. Accessed February 19, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/643095.
- ^ One of the earliest sources is Greek playwright Euripides's The Bacchae, which won the Athenian Dionysia competition in 405 BC.
- ^ "No other location approaches [its] concentration of foreign cults": see Eric M. Orlin, "Foreign Cults in Republican Rome: Rethinking the Pomerial Rule", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 47 (2002), pp. 4–5.
- ^ Only official introductions, controlled by Rome's ruling elite, conferred legitimacy on foreign cults in Rome; see Sarolta A. Takács, "Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E" in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 100, (2000), p. 302.
- ^ Robert Rouselle, Liber-Dionysus in Early Roman Drama, The Classical Journal, 82, 3 (1987), p. 193.
- ^ Sarolta A. Takács, Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E., Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 100, (2000), p.305: the "Greek of humble origin" (Graecus ignobilis, in Livy, 39.8.3) may be understood as an ethnically Greek, itinerant priest of Dionysus.
- ^ Overview in Erich S. Gruen, "The Bacchanalia affair", in Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, University of California Press, 1996, p. 34 ff.[1]
- ^ For Livy's account, see Livy, The History of Rome, Vol 5, Book 39, IX. Modern scholarly sources offer various estimates on the number executed.
- ^ See Sarolta A. Takács, Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E., Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 100, (2000), p.301. [2]
- ^ Beard, M., Price, S., North, J., Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History, illustrated, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 93–96.
- ^ T.P. Wiseman, Remus: a Roman myth, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.133.
- ^ Eric M. Orlin, "Foreign Cults in Republican Rome: Rethinking the Pomerial Rule", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 47 (2002), p. 2.
- ^ Walsh, P. G., "Making a Drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia", Greece & Rome, Second Series, Vol. 43, No. 2, Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association, 1996, p. 190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/43.2.188
- ^ The plots and stock characters of Greek-based Satyr plays would have been familiar to Roman audiences from around the 3rd century BC, as they certainly were in Livy's day, 200 years on. See Robert Rouselle, Liber-Dionysus in Early Roman Drama, The Classical Journal, 82, 3 (1987), p. 191.[3]
- ^ Eric M. Orlin, "Foreign Cults in Republican Rome: Rethinking the Pomerial Rule", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 47 (2002), University of Michigan Press, p. 2.
- ^ For the changes attributed to Paculla Annia as unlikely, see Erich S. Gruen, Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, University of California Press, 1996, pp 48–54: Hispala Faecina is the standard "golden-hearted prostitute" whose courage and loyalty outweigh her low origin and profession, and her fear of reprisal, see Victoria Emma Pagán, Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, University of Texas Press, 2004, pp. 61–65.
- ^ ..."the Bacchic passages in the Roman drama, taken over from their Greek models, presented a pejorative image of the Bacchic cult which predisposed the Romans towards persecution before the consul denounced the cult in 186." Robert Rouselle, Liber-Dionysus in Early Roman Drama, The Classical Journal, 82, 3 (1987), p. 193.
- ^ cf later descriptions of Liber's "aged priestesses" who offer sacrifice at the Liberalia festival.
- ^ Gruen, E. Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy, University of California Press, 1996, Ch. 2.
- ^ Schultz, C., Women's religious activity in the Roman Republic, UNC Press Books, 2006, p. 93.
- ^ Orlin, Eric (2007). In Rüpke, J (ed.). A Companion to Roman Religion. Blackwell publishing. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-4051-2943-5.
- ^ Eric Orlin, "Urban Religion in the Middle and Late Republic", in Jorge Rüpke (editor), A Companion to Roman Religion, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 59–61.
- ^ Erich S. Gruen, Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy, University of California Press, 1996, Ch. 2.
- ^ Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Religions, Harvard University Press, 1987, p. 52.
- ^ During the Punic crisis, some foreign cults and oracles had been repressed by Rome, but on much smaller scale and not outside Rome itself. See Erich S. Gruen, Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy, BRILL, 1990, pp.34–78: on precedents see p.41 ff.[4]
External links[edit]
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- Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, in Latin at The Latin Library
- Decree of the Senate Concerning the Rites of Bacchus (Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus), in English at forumromanum.org
- Description of the Bacchanalia and the Senate's ruling, from Fordham
- Matthias Riedl, "The Containment of Dionysos: Religion and Politics in the Bacchanalia Affair of 186 BCE", International Political Anthropology 5 (2012) No. 2, pp. 113–133.


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