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New information about the Iranian dissidents taken hostage in Iraq reveals that an American delegation has met and talked three times with the hostages at the prison of "Golden Division" near Baghdad airport. This division is affiliated to the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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Wrinkles in Time is one of the best (and most moderate) routes that Dream Canyon has to offer. Granite reminiscent of Yosemite, thoughtfully placed bolts, and cool exposure combine to make this a true classic. The route tackles the nose of the Dream Dome buttress in 2 pitches. The first, beginning at the low point of the formation, climbs a large flake, a short fingercrack (crux), and a long section of juggy face climbing. After ~100 feet, the leader reaches a comfortable stance with a 2-bolt belay. The second pitch, shorter and easier at ~50 feet and 5.7, climbs straight up from the belay and bypasses a short overhang on the way to another 2 bolt anchor. Those with a 60 meter rope can make 2 rappels to the ground from here. Otherwise, top out and descend the gully.
You'll need a set of small nuts/#1 TCU and a #1 Camalot to protect between bolts on this route. Otherwise, 12 quickdraws will suffice for gear. A 60 meter rope is necessary if you wish to rappel.
That's whats so cool about upper dream, its part trad, part bolted.....its not exclusively sport climbing by any means....the guide book says take some gear and QDs....Ive led Wrinkles with a light rack and really all you need is one nut or small cam for the finger crack and the rest is fine with the bolts.....GREAT climb.
Shad O'Neel - I'd agree w/5.8 on the 1st pitch, 5.6 or 5.7 or the second. Definitely glory, though.
Enough sandbag grades! The bottom is definitely 5.9 and the upper pitch is thin enough to easily warrant 5.8.
The first bolt is by no means "thoughtfully placed," although the rest of the route is very well bolted. I put a small-medium nut in the crack below the first bolt while standing on the large flake at the bottom to protect those moves. They might be a bit sketchy for someone expecting a straight-up 5.9 face climb.
The guidebooks all rate it 5.9.....when I led it I thought it was pretty easy for 5.9 but then most of the Dream canyon climbs seem a little inflated to me also (remember Long Dong Dihedral). Id say 8+ is fair since the 1st pitch is pretty sustained but the second pitch is definately easy 5.7. Theres an awesome one pitch line called Brief History in time on the right side of Dream dome thats also rated 5.9, is more sustained and has a much harder finger crack than Wrinkles crux finger crack.
I don't know if 5.8+ is sandbagged... I remember working a bit with 2 quarts of water and 2 sets of shoes in my backpack... but the moves seemed straightforward. Especially the second pitch, it was a race between the belayer and the climber to see who could move the rope quicker. YMMV...
Ok, I've done this wonderful climb twice in the last 2 weeks and the finger crack is no harder than 5.7 but the crux is at the 3rd or 4th bolt (can't remember exactly), right where you get onto the arete.....This climb definately warrants the "classic" description....very fun, steep, sustained and exposed. The 2nd pitch IS 5.8 if you stay on-route, which is on the very narrow blank face/arete where the bolts are.....However, it is FAR too easy to step right and cruise up the gully to the right and make it 5.6 or easier.....very contrived 2nd pitch but thin, balancy and fun if you stay on route....the first pitch deserves 5 stars and the 2nd deserves 1.
I am not sure where you would need to place a #1 Camalot on this route, or for that matter, any cams at all? This route requires one small nut from the stance atop the flake, that is it. The bolts are in decent clipping positions and the crux between the 3rd and 4th bolt is protected fine. Don't bring all that stuff along for this route, you will end up asking yourself, what was that shit for ? Besides this, not a bad route a little dirty around the 1/2 bolt area, nonetheless fun.. Jeff.
The finger crack at the start is at most 5.7+. If you didn't bring gear down to the Canyon and are a pretty solid 5.9/10 trad climber, then you'll be OK with just QDs. Kudos to the F.A.ist for not putting a bolt in this section.
This route is damn fun! We just rapped in early morning and preclipped first bolt as we pulled ropes...no worries!!! Ha ha ha. I don't think there's any reason to sit around placing gear on such a straightforward and moderate route. The moves on the 1st pitch are cool by themselves! the second pitch is definitely no harder than 5.7, but it'll get ya a wee if you haven't done multipitches before moving between 1st and 2nd bolt...it's just a tad long, but still no worries, the 1st'll hold ya and there's nothing evil to fall on. I mean, this is so well protected and moderate I'd let a 10 year old kid lead it...just kidding, but it is easy cheesy. For a fun time, head up the gully left of wrinkle in time to the farthest left route. It's the most insane slab weirdness, kinda scary, goes at 5.8 in the book, I think. Anyway, have a fun time climbing! Oh yeah, how can you be worried on pitches less than 100 ft?
Sink 1 small nut in the finger crack to protect the first bolt, otherwise leave the gear behind and stick with QD's. 5.9 first pitch 5.7 second pitch. Completely enjoyable moderate climb especially if you (or your second) aren't solid on 5.10 and up. The climbing plus location gets 5 stars for me.
Classic ...... The finger crack protects easily with a small stopper. I found a #1 cam helpful between the 1st and 2nd bolts on the 2nd Pitch.
This really is a good climb. Interesting moves on the first pitch. I felt the crux to be a roof/bulge about 2/3 the way up the first pitch. Slabby, smeary stuff on the second. When you're on the second pitch, you have a great view of the other climbs on Dream Dome. They look pretty sweet... I agree with Jeff and Jay... leave the cams. I took a light rack of cams and didn't place a single one. You can put 2 stoppers in to protect the bottom finger crack if you want. Those were the only pieces that I placed, and the only that I felt like I needed. I definitely didn't think 5.8+ felt sandbagged. I felt the bottom crack to be easier, just like everyone else has said. Definitely a cool climb, and very much worth doing.
A lot of people have said "don't bring any gear except for a small stopper/cam for the crack at the beginning". If you follow this advice, (i.e. not bringing the #1 Camalot for pitch 2) you will take a pretty big fall (below your belayer) if you blow it just before getting to the second bolt on pitch 2. I'd strongly recommend bringing the #1 Camalot for pitch 2 (it doesn't weigh that much) and deciding for yourself once you're up there.
Why is almost every thread on this site directly related to someone stroking their own ego? Who is anyone to say to put gear in or not? Anecdotes are cool and very useful- good example: "if you didn't bring gear down to the Canyon and are a pretty solid 5.9/10 trad climber, then you'll be OK with just QDs."- Joe Collins, kudos to Joe Collins. Bad example: "Don't bring any gear except for the finger crack at the start." A 5.7 leader would probably soil their pants if they did that 2nd pitch with only the nut their partner placed on the first pitch. That's great you can run out 5.7. I don't care if you can run out 5.12, the comment is not very useful or relevant. By the way, a great route- we did it today, postholing up to the start, I manteled up to the block to start and booted up there to avoid wet rock shoes, but otherwise dry (and I 2nd Joe's comment). Lots of mountain lion tracks in the snow- also cool.
Anyone know about the route immediately left of Wrinkles, it doesn't seem to match Rossiter's guide, though the next route left seems to. Really slabby, with a steep start out of the gully. Maybe 11a, 10d. lots of nice bolts. Need a 60m rope to get back to the ground (just right).
Look at the post for "Stained Glass." It was over rated a bit by the poster.
Kind of Scary if you don't place gear before the 1st bolt. But not too bad and adds a little spice to a magnificent Route! The wrinkled pinches are unreal and I wish there were like 5 more pitches of it.
Compareth is to the climbs put up in Boulder Canyon since 2000, and you have to call this route 5.9.
Great route. I took a buddy and his daughter up this a few years back. She had been climbing for some time but had only quickdraws, no trad rack. After we did the route, she returned a few days later to take a friend up it. I guess she felt, like many here, that putting pro in before the first bolt was unnecessary. She fell from the moves getting to the bolt, hit the flake, then fell the rest of the way to the ground and got banged up pretty good. I think her dad told me the SAR had her winched up the dome in under an hour, which is really amazing. That's why that emergency phone is there I guess. Anyway, just wanted to remind folks what can happen if you let your guard down or get in over your head while blowing off opportunities for protection.
Excellent route up wrinkled rock! I'd definitely take a few nuts and cams for before the first bolt and start of p2. You may not use them, but it's nice to have the option. I can't imagine not wanting a stopper before the first bolt. The crux felt near the 4th bolt, just after 2 bolts close together. One problem is you can't see the next bolt and it's not so obvious where to go. I'm voting 5.9, although maybe it was just the wooden fingers and 40 mph gusts that were messing with me! We climbed Dreamscape too and Wrinkles felt a grade harder, but only in this one place.
I also encourage bringing a small cam or nut to protect the climb to the first bolt. This weekend a Dream Canyon regular told me of a fall where the climber missed the bolt and had perhaps a worse experience than bouncing off the flake and decking -- he got his leg caught in the flake on the way down and dangled for an hour and a half from a broken leg before rescuers could extract him. The leader I climbed behind is a 5.12 climber, and he protected the move. I would also recommend this route to those leading a group of climbers with mixed experience. It has an interesting crux even for the better climbers, but is more than doable for those just starting out.
Such a fine route. Fun movement near the top.
I would have liked this climb a lot more if it wasn't so wet!! haha
Date of the FA was June 1996. This was our first route on the Dream Dome and the first new route since Kyle Copeland visited the rock in 1984.
I used two small to medium stoppers in the crack on the first pitch (less than 1/2 inch), and my partner used a 1 inch cam on the second pitch. To me, the reason why this climb feels very soft for its grade is that for the majority of the climb (at least on the first pitch), the difficult climbing is not sustained. There are a few good moves in the beginning, but then there is much easier ground until the arete. Once on the arete, there is a move or two that makes one think, and then it eases up considerably with large holds. The second pitch is a pleasant cruise. For me, this climb was considerably LESS demanding (mentally and physically) than the Northface Center Route (2 pitch, 5.7) on Cobb Rock which falls nearly two grades below the consensus here! Still, it is a wonderful climb; I highly recommend it.
Classic easy route with some moderate runouts. If you're here for harder routes you can climb this out of the valley with your pack by linking both pitches and passing the upper anchor until you reach a tree. You might want a couple cams if you do this, but it's easy to run out up there. Just a little bit 'o simul-ing with a 70m.
Climbed this route (first pitch only) today on my first visit to the upper canyon. I placed a mid-sized stopper (bomber placement) in the finger crack and felt comfortable with just the bolts the rest of the way. One crux move pulling onto the ribs (wrinkles) about halfway up the pitch. The anchors are placed at the perfect height for lowering off the first pitch with a 60m rope. The weird features and beautiful setting make this an absolute must do. Can't wait to go back and finish it.
Great first pitch. Second pitch isn't worth the time unless you just want some multi-pitch and rappel practice.
Easily done without gear. The only place that even needs gear is the finger crack below the first bolt. And if you're comfortable climbing 5.9, then you can lead this without gear. The moves to the first bolt are definitely sketch and airy for sure but solid moves. No gear required IMHO.
Climbed it today. First pitch felt 5.9 somewhere around the 4th or 5th bolt. I used a nut to protrect the finger crack below the 1st bolt, this was not the crux. I'd give the crack 5.7 1 move wonder. Also places a blue TCU in a small horizontal somewhere along the way. The 2nd pitch is 5.8 if you stick to the face for the last 2 bolts. 5.5 if you head up the gully. Prod.
Not much of a trad climber, but I still felt comfortable leading this climb. I put a medium size nut in the crack below the first bolt. 5.8- moves at that point.
I just finished climbing this yesterday. Both my partner and myself think the grade is a little sandbagged. Definitely a couple 5.9 moves on the first pitch. Second pitch was extremely easy, very well-protected. It's easy to run out a few bolts on the second pitch due to the huge holds and elementary moves. As for gear, don't bring more than 12 draws (this includes extras in case you drop one). And a new piece of gear that fits perfectly for the run out first bolt is a 0 Helium Friend. No need for any more gear than that. Also, be ready for the ar�te, the mind space needs to be there, otherwise you will impale yourself on the tree 5ft down from the crux move. All in all, I recommended this route. I will be taking some of my less advanced climbing partners there to teach leading.
Really fun route in a beautiful setting. The crux can be made as difficult as you would like, depending on how you climb it. I totally missed the sequence this last time and made it quite a lot harder than it needed to be. Or maybe it was the vision of the tree impaling me in a certain sensitive area should I fall that made it seem harder....
What is a 'small cam' - a small cam to protect below the 1st bolt is a C3 size. A 0.3 C4 is too big. Maybe red or yellow (which is practically a 0.3) - I'm not sure because I left mine at home. Used a medium nut like many others, which isn't quite desirable for your first piece.
The high first bolt and naturally-protected crux keeps out all the riff raff, IMO. A small (not micro) nut will suffice for this section, and you could place a smallish cam in a sort of runout section in the middle of the second pitch. Super fun climbing. If you bring some long slings and maybe skip a couple bolts, it's easy to link pitches as well (I have a 70m, but I think a 60m would also do).
Fun fun route! Lots of nice features and good exposure. Used a cam to get from the flake to the first bolt because high first bolts freak me out. Rest of pitch 1 was fabulous. Pitch 2 is slightly less thrilling but still nice. Very well-protected for sure. I skipped a bolt without much concern near the top. Nice view from the anchors on a sunny day. So nice it's worth climbing twice!


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Starhawk is as much about strategy as it is action. The Build & Battle system plays a significant role in what you're able to do within the confines of a third-person action game. As you acquire Rift energy, a lucrative but dangerous substance, you can call in orbital drops to change the flow of battle. In some cases, orders even affect level design. You can build walls and mount them with turrets if you're holding out in one area, call in a supply bunker for heavy weaponry, or summon vehicles from space for usage on the ground or in the air.

This is a simple idea, and it's not as mentally demanding as a real-time strategy title might be, but it contributes enough unexpected variables to deepen Starhawk in a major way.

The single-player campaign is, perhaps unsurprisingly, absolutely meant to prepare players for the online multiplayer. This isn't a bad thing in terms of structure; it eases you into a system new to the shooter genre in an effective way. A mission emphasizing tanks, for instance, shows their strengths and weaknesses against various enemy types, while holding out to protect your base forces you to learn the best means of defense.

That said, there really isn't a singular solution for any objective. Starhawk is flexible. This is where multiplayer starts bleeding into the campaign, and Starhawk is a rare example of multiplayer design benefitting single-player direction. Missions are more contained than wide-open multiplayer maps but they're no less open to your experimentation. Yes, you're there to learn, but it's an explosive, entertaining class.

Even Emmett's pistol packs a punch.

The story is Starhawk's deepest flaw. Even though it's not a dealbreaker, it's disappointing to see the debut of this sci-fi western world struggle with such potential.

As someone insecure about his past and presently seen as an inferior being, Emmett Graves is an interesting main character for Starhawk. He's a minority, and not because of any racial classification. Graves is infected by Rift energy, the sentient substance subject to Starhawk's space gold rush. He's resisted its impulses but bears its glowing blue scars. In the eyes of those around him, Graves is as the same as any of the other mindless, violent "Outcasts" under its control. The most prominent of these people is Emmett's brother Logan, a man back from the dead and leading the charge against mankind.

This societal rejection could have created some incredible conflict between the Graves boys. Emmett just doesn't develop, and the storytelling dances around the cool world he's part of. Some questionable writing also knocks down his personality a few pegs. During gameplay, he's a cheesy action hero whose witless one-liners cement how aroused he is by his own violence. Meanwhile, comic book cutscenes portray a Graves unlike the one we play, not that his greed and disinterest in other people here makes him any more likable.

Predictably, Starhawk is at its best online, and this is where it outshines everything else on the PlayStation 3. This is one of the strongest, most enjoyable multiplayer options available, and once again the credit falls on the simple innovations. In the campaign, Emmett is the only man with the power to pull down pieces to help defend, or vehicles to take on the attack. In your typical match, there are 32 builders.

That's 32 individuals who are considering their play constantly and intelligently, and 32 people who feel extremely powerful at all times. There's nothing random about the way you play Starhawk because it's a deliberate process. What's more is that these 32 players are each changing the course of battle with every action, whether they're building an impenetrable fortress or enabling other players to take a machine-gun mounted truck for a joy ride.

Up at Noon Interview: Starhawk's a Big Risk For Dev, Sony

Starhawk disrupts multiplayer standards such as Capture the Flag, which becomes a more intense back-and-forth. No flag point looks the same because each enemy team defends it differently. If you play the role of flag capturer, you have plenty of options to get in and out, not the least of which is the Hawk ship, which makes a powerful escape vehicle in its walking tank mode (because of course you can't fly it with the flag in tow).

This is one of the most chaotic and empowering multiplayer games on any platform. Any number of tanks, gunners, turrets, and Hawks can rip buildings to shreds or take each other down. Somebody might get the jump on you for a vicious knife kill. Maybe you'll conquer a control point in Zones on your own without anyone knowing where you are. Eventually, you'll unlock that new paint job for your Razorback truck, a set of pants for your online avatar, and an equippable XP bonus.

You'll always see something on the move, a trail in the sky, a hail of bullets. There is always fire, and there is always a reason to build something. If you're smart about it, maybe your Shield Generator will hit a Hawk or land on a man as it tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground.

Whatever happens in the moment-to-moment action of Starhawk, you won't soon forget it.

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Top Glock used to sell, 'Fel-Pro' as the original, 'Glock Copper Grease'; but, depending upon what was available at the time of manufacture your, 'gold-colored grease' could be any one of several different copper, 'anti-seize' compounds.
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'Certified Glock Armorers are told that it is permissible to remove the copper lubricant on new Glocks. However, if you do decide to remove the copper lubricant, it is advisable to clean your handgun thoroughly then lubricate it before shooting it (3 drops where indicated) with a quality product intended for firearms.'
I've read that Glock, GmbH/Inc. uses this copper-based anti-seize compound as a deterrent to the slide's reset cam rusting against the tab on top of the connector, as well as to polish out any incipient roughness, or rust that might occur between the flange on the connector, and the, 'bird's head' on the end of the trigger bar. (This, 'gold grease' might, also, be something of an expedient, '25 cent trigger job' too.)
Not bad ideas when you stop to think that Glock pistols can sit in warehouses and on distributors' shelves for a year, or more, before being sold; AND, as everybody should be aware, ANY brand new polymer frame pistol can be, 'cranky', and needs to be broken in (or, 'verified').
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Compared to using a Dremel Tool to do the famous, '25 Cent Polish Job', unless a Glock is going to be stored for an extended period-of-time and under uncertain conditions of temperature and humidity, anti-seize compound simply isn't needed. In my experience, 'ASC' does either very little, or absolutely nothing to improve the performance of the Glock.
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It's very frustrating that if I plot a flight that is 4 hours long I have to stay in my chair for the entire 4 hours in case I miss a radio call and get my flight plan canceled.
FSX claims to be "as real as it gets" but a real pilot would not have to stay in their chair they could get up and walk around or even have a sleep and their co-pilot would handle the plane.
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IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Army Order Relative to the Troops en Route for Utah. Gen. Harney to Assume Command of the Depart-ment of the West—Gen. Johnston to Remain in Utah. Settlement of the St. Domingo Difficulties—Mexican Affairs, &c. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June 29. Through the courtesy of the Assistant Adjutant-General, I am enabled to lay before the readers of the TIMES the following important Army Older, in advance of its publication elsewhere : GENERAL ORDERS NO. 17. HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ARMY, June 29, 1858. On the supposition, which at this distance seems probable, that the Mormons no longer intend to op-pose an armed resistance to the entrance of the Uni-ted States troops into the Valley of Salt Lake, the General-in-Chief, after full consultation with the Sec-retary of War, directs that the following disposition of the troops now in, and on the march to the De-partment of Utah shall be made without delay : First—The troops to remain in the Department of Utah, under the command of Brevet Brigadier-Gene-ral JOHNSTON, will be eight companies of the Second Dragoons, PHELPS' Battery of the Fourth Artillery, REYNOLDS' Company of the Third Artillery, and three regiments of infantry—the Filth, Tenth, and either the Sixth or the Seventh. Second—The ten companies of the Fourth Artillery, and D and K companies of the Second Dragoons, will, for the present, occupy the District of the Platte, as directed in General Orders No. 6 from the Head-quarters of the Army, for the purpose of keeping open the communication between the Missouri and Utah. The troops in the District of the Platte will be sub-ject to the orders of the commanding officer of the Department of Utah. Third—Six companies of the First Cavalry will re-main on the Plains during the Summer, and till as late in the Autumn as the grass and the season will permit, then to return to Fort Riley or Leavenworth, as may hereafter be determined. Whilst out they will make excursions among the Indian tribes whose conduct may been suspected of unfriendliness, for the purpose of impressing upon them the power of the United States, and of confirming them in their pres-ent pacific professions. The commanding office of these companies will keep the commanding officers of the military posts in the Platte District, and of forts Riley and Leavenworth, notified where commu-nications find him. He will make reports by every opportunity to Department and General Head-quarters. The remaining companies of the First Cavalry to return at once to Fort Riley. Fourth—BARRY'S and HUNT'S batteries will be im-mediately sent back to fort Leavenworth. Fifth—After completing the work of cooperating with the battalion of the Sixth Infantry, in opening a road to Camp Scott, via the Cheyenne Pass, the com-pany of Engineer Soldiers will return to West Point, New-York. Sixth—The troops sent from New-Mexico as an escort to Captain MARCY will be sent back to that department. Seventh—Reliable, though not official, accounts of Indian hostilities of some magnitude in Washington and Oregon Territories, making it advisable to strengthen the force now in that quarter, a regiment of infantry, either the Sixth or the Seventh, (probably the former,) as the commander in Utah may deter-mine, will be sent as soon as he can safely spare it, to Fort Walla Walla. The necessary subsistence and other stores and transportation for this movement will be taken from the supplies now in, or on the way to Utah. If he should obtain information to cause him to be-lieve it unsafe tor the regiment to direct its march upon Walla Walla, the Commander in Utah will order it by such other route to the Department of the Pacific as he may judge best. Eighth—The one year's subsistence now on the way in the contractors' trains for the troops already in Utah, as well as for the whole of the reinforce-ments originally destined for the same Department, will not, except in a very extreme case, be broken in upon or diverted from their destination, but will be sent forward, in order to afford, wish care, about two years' supply tor the smaller force designated above to remain in the Department of Utah. The First Cavalry, the troops in the District of the Platte, and those who are to return to Fort Leaven-worth, will be subsisted from the supplies originally ordered to be thrown forward for the consumption of the reinforcements on the route to Utah, and from the year's supply for one thousand five hundred men now going forward from Port Leavenworth. On the thirty-nine hundred beeves on the way to Utah, not to exceed one thousand of those belonging to the United States may, if, necessary, be stopped and applied to the use of the troops in the District of the Platte First Cavalry, etc. As it is believed the troops in Utah will have con-sumed their present supply of subsistence stores be-fore those on the way in the contractors' trains will reach them, Brigadier-General HARNEY will, in the time of the receipt of this order and the then position of the supplies should make it praticable, take all the Government mule-wagons now with the rein-forcements which can possibly be soared, and load them lightly with the principal articles of subsist-ence, such as flour, bacon, coffee, sugar, dessicated vegetables, vinegar, etc., and send them forward with dispatch to General JOHNSTON. Ninth—Of the Quartermasters' supplies also on wheels for Utah, a sufficient quantity for the troops in the District of the Platte, the First Cavalry, etc., will be taken from the trains by the Principal Quarter-master, the remainder to continue forward as origi-nally ordered. The same officer will examine the packages of clothing, and take forward a two years' supply for the troops designated for Utah, and direct such disposi-tion of the supplies to be made as the service may require. Of the 1,000 horses now en route for Utah, some 200 may be retained by Brigadier-General HARNEY tor service elsewhere. Tenth—A distribution of the ordnance supplies, arms and amunition also en route for Utah, will be made, viz.: Those put up for the troops in Utah will, of course, go forward. Of such as were intended for the reinforcements, obtained on requisition by First Lieutenent SHUNK of the Ordnance, enough will be takes to supply the wants of the First Cavalry, the troops in the district of the Platte, and these to return to Fort Leavenworth—the remainder to continue forward to Utah with First Lieutenant SHUNK and the enlisted Ordnance detachment under his com-mand. Eleventh—Lieut. Col. G. H. CROSSMAN, Deputy Quartermaster-General, and Captains P. T. TURNLEY and GEORGE H. PAIGE, Assistant Quartermasters, are assigned to duty in the Department of Utah, and un-der instructions of Brigadier-General HARNEY, will accompany the trains and troops for the Utah De-partment. Captain W. S. HANCOCK, Assistant Quartermaster, will also be placed on duty with these trains, and will be tent with the regiment of Infantry to the De-partment of the Pacific, to be assigned to duty by the officer commanding in Oregon and Washington Ter-ritories. Brevet Major E. B. BABBITT, Assistant Quarter-master, will be stationed at Port Laramie. Captain W. L. CABELL. Assistant Quartermaster, is assigned to duty at Fort Kearney. Twelfth—Captain M. D. L. SIMPSON. Commissary of Subsistence, will, immediately on the receipt hereof, proceed with the Order in the most expeditious man-ner to overtake Brigadier-General HARNEY, and re-port to him for the special duty of superintending, under his orders, the arrangements of the Commis-sary Department, made necessary by the changes herein ordered. After completing this duty, he will rejoin his station at Fort Leavenworth. Thirteenth—Surgeon J. J. B. WRIGHT and the other medical officers now under Brigadier-General HARNEY, will continue on duty with the troops, or, with the exception of Surgeon WRIGHT, go to Utah with the Seventh Infantry recruits, etc., as that Comman-der may direct. The nectary medical supplies for the First Cavalry, etc., will be taken from those now en route for Utah, the remainder to go forward as originally or-dered. Fourteenth—The Paymaster furthest in advance on the march will proceed with his funds to Utah. The other Paymasters will remain on duty in the District of the Platte. Fifteenth—The destination of the officers of the Topographical Engineers, heretofore assigned to duty with the troops fur Utah, will not be changed. They will proceed to Department-Headquarters and report for duty to Brevet Brigadier-General JOHNSTON. Sixteenth—The change in the destination of a portion of the supplies, as hereinbefore ordered, will, if possible, be made at, or this side of Fort Laramie. Seventeenth—General HARNEY will also give such orders as any be necessary to send forward the of-ficers, recruits and remounts belonging to ordestined for the corps already in Utah, and such further instructions to carry into effect the provisions of this order as he may find the state of the service to call for after accomplishing this duty, he will return to St. Louis, Mo, and assume command of the Depart-ment of the West. Eighteenth—Assistant Adjutant-General D. C. BU-ELL will remain attached to the Staff of Brigadier-General HARNEY, and accompany him to St. Louis, there to resume his position at the head-quarters of the Department of the West. Nineteenth-if in his march to the West, Brigadier-General HARNEY should receive satisfactory intelli-gence that the voluntary submission of the Mormons to the Federal authorities, assumed in the preamble to this order, is not to be relied upon, but, on the con-trary, serious resistance to the entrance of our ad-vanced forces into Salt Lake Valley on the part of these people is probable, the General, in the exerci-se of a sound discretion, will continue to advance with the whole of the reinforcements now en route for that Territory, or with such parts thereof, in addition to the 6th and 7th regiments of Infantry and Reynolds' Battery, as to him may seem necessary and person-ally the General will continue with the partial rein-forcements, or return and assume command of the Department of the West, as be may prefer. By command of Brevet Lieutenaut-General SCOTT, IRVIN C. MCDOWELL, Assistant Adjutant General. Lieut. RAXON, of the Ordnance Corps, left this after-noon as an express, to bear the above Order to Capt. SIMPSON at Fort Leavenworth, who proceeds with it to Gen. HARNEY. Capt MCINTOSH reports our difficulties with St Do-mingo as amicably settled. BAEZ has surrendered to SARTANA. As Capt. MCINTOSH left the port the St, Domingo fleet passed in, to be turned over to the suc-cessful party. Gen. ROBLES has dispatches only from the Mexican Consul at New-Orleans—nothing definite from Mexico. Q. [FROM THE REPORTER FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June 29. The Navy Department has confirmatory ac-counts of the proceedings of Commodore MCINTOSH at St. Domingo. The Dominican fleet, with the ex-ception of a bark which returned to her original own-er, had been given over to SANTANA, who, with his troops, would immediately occupy the city. It is true, as has been rumored, that he gave Commodore MCINTOSH the most solemn assurances of the protec-tion of all American citizens, and expresses to our Government his great desire to maintain the most amicable relations with it. By order of the War Department, a military post to be known as Fort Abercrombie, will be established on the most eligible site near the head of navigation of the Red River of the North, in Minnesota. Oper-ations will commence without delay. Two companies from Fort Ripley, and one from Fort Ridgely, are charged with its construction. The post of Fort Ripley will be broken up. The Secretary of the Navy his instructed the Bureau of Construction to prepare a drawing of plans for building, without unnecessary delay, the eight ves-sels-of-war recently authorized by Congress. Two will probably be constructed at the Philadelphia Navy-Yard, and one at each of the other yards, with the exception of that at Washington. It is said that the side-wheel steamer for the China Sea will be built at the California Navy-Yard. The Secretary of the Navy intends leaving Wash-ington shortly, for the purpose of inspecting the Northern Navy Yards. It is said the affairs of Mexico occupy the attention, of the Administration.
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'Wotanism', and his analysis of the phenomenon was titled The Third Walpurgisnacht. In the end, as the brown plague crept nearer, and his energy began to fail, Kraus lapsed into despairing silence. The last number of Die Fackel appeared in 1934, the year that Dollfuss was assassinated in a failed Nazi putsch, and Kraus himself died in 1936 – which was perhaps a mercy, since he did not live to see
Hitler absorb his Austrian homeland in the Anschluss two years later. Not a personal biography so much as a cultural study (Kraus's lifelong relationship with a woman is given short shrift, and his death takes up only half a line), Timms's work is a massive and worthy memorial, not just to a brave and original spirit, but to the way of life that vanished with him.
★By Judith Anne Brown (Eerdmans 288pp £14.99)
T HISISA very sad book: sad because it recounts a life of early brilliance that ended in frustration and disappointment, and sad because it is the poignant endeavour of a daughter to rediscover and, in the process, rehabilitate her father. John Allegro was the first English scholar to study the Dead Sea Scrolls, joining the international team that was reconstructing and deciphering them in 1953. He was the first of the international team working on the scrolls to publicise and popularise their findings, in a best-selling paperback of 1956. But in 1970, his notorious The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross made him a laughing stock and destroyed his academic reputation. He died on his sixtyfifth birthday in 1988, and in that early and unexpected death, as his daughter remarks, 'All the hopes and endeavors of sixty-five years simply stopped … all stopped.' Allegro came up the hard way. Although his father had been commissioned during the First World War, the family's fortunes did not prosper and he had to leave grammar school at sixteen. It was 1939, and the Second World War gave him his chance. Service in the Royal Navy led to a commission and the discovery of a vocation to the Methodist ministry. Training for the ministry after the War revealed an aptitude for biblical languages and led to a degree in oriental languages at Manchester funded by the government's scheme to further the education of ex-servicemen. He was in the middle of a doctorate at Oxford when he was recommended, in 1953, to join the small international team of experts working on the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls. It was the opportunity of a
lifetime. He was only thirty. Scrolls had first been found by a shepherd boy in 1947 in a cave overlooking the north-western shore of the Dead Sea, at a place called Qumran. Eventually eleven caves were excavated there, yielding the remains of over 750 documents in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Further finds were made elsewhere in the Judean desert. They were dated to the period 130 BC to AD 50, being thus by far the oldest substantial manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic. Nearly all the books of the Old Testament are represented among the finds – discoveries of major significance in reconstructing the history of the biblical text. A number of apocryphal and pseudepigraphic books that were already known were also found. Furthermore, texts were discovered that appeared to be unique to the people who had housed their books in these caves, a group who had their own distinctive, apocalyptic brand of Judaism. As the caves were on the hill above the ruins of what appeared to have been a Jewish community that had existed in the same period as the manuscripts, it was quickly concluded that the scrolls were their library. John Allegro arrived in Jerusalem to work on the scrolls just as all these new possibilities about understanding the early text of the Old Testament and the character of Judaism in the era before and during the lifetime of Jesus were opening up. He brought to the task two qualities which made him different from the other members of the team. First, whereas the rest of the team were devout Christians, in most cases Catholic priests, he had lost his faith in Christianity and had begun to be not merely sceptical but aggressively antiChristian. Secondly, whereas the others were content to work very slowly in piecing together what was still being found, he was avid for publicity and was more than willing to put into the public domain conclusions that had not yet been tested by the academic community. Allegro always believed he was fighting clerical obscurantism when he rushed into print ahead of the others; they thought he was a maverick self-publicist unrestrained by due scholarly caution.
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In 1956, he produced the immensely successful The Dead Sea Scrolls, in which he not only summarised what had been found so far but identified the Qumran community as a Jewish sect called the Essenes and elaborated their beliefs and religious practices, going on to spell out the similarities between them and primitive Christianity. This was bold but harmless. What was far more provocative to the scholarly community was his gaining control of the Copper Scroll, two rolls of metal that the team in Jerusalem could not possibly unfold or read. He scored a great coup in having it successfully cut open in Manchester, arousing the envy of more senior colleagues, and then brought down a storm of protest on his head by offering interpretations of the contents of the scroll which claimed that the Qumran community had venerated a leader who in many ways prefigured what had hitherto been regarded as unique to Jesus – including death by crucifixion. He became embroiled in controversies about the reading of the scrolls which became increasingly heated. Allegro had invested his entire career in the scrolls but found himself in the 1960s treated as an eccentric outcast by the academic community. He became bitter, convinced he was the victim of a Catholic plot. It was then that he convinced himself that he had uncovered the hidden meaning of religion, and especially Christianity, as a drug-induced fertility cult. The whole theory was based on an analysis of the building-blocks of religious language. In Sumerian, U means 'god' or 'seed', and IA-U means 'strong water of fecundity'. This, he claimed, was the basis of words as diverse as 'Zeus' and 'Yahweh'. Adding SHU (meaning 'to save') to IA-U, Allegro found
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T HEFIRSTACCOUNT of Kenneth Branagh's life was his autobiography, Beginning, written at the age of twentyeight. The second, marking its subject's arrival at the ripe age of forty-five, is the work of a historian of the Kennedy presidency who has ventured outside his usual field to right what he sees as an injustice to the Shakespearian star. That is one way of labelling Branagh. The fact that I could equally have listed him as a film director, actor manager, fundraiser, playwright, screenwriter, premature autobiographer and lead player in a rock band called the Fishmongers suggests one thing that has fired Mark White to speed to his rescue.
'Joshua' and 'Jesus'. Adding NU, meaning 'seed', he found 'Dionysus'. The U building-block was to be found in biblical words – 'Elohim', 'Hallelujah', 'Elijah' – and also in the Bacchic cry 'Eleleu'. These elaborate patterns of largely fanciful semantic relationships formed the bulk of his The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross in 1970, which immediately won him notoriety as the man who believed that Jesus's last words on the cross were a paean of praise to the god of the mushroom. Allegro never recovered. The scholars lambasted the book. The press ridiculed him. He could never expect to be taken seriously again. Gradually his life fell apart, his marriage collapsed, and his attempt to return to the great questions of the scrolls and the origins of Christianity in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Mythin 1979 went largely unnoticed. It was a tragedy for him and for his family. Why did it all go wrong? First, Allegro showed little interest in subjecting his ideas to the scholarly appraisal of more learned, and more staid, colleagues. His thirst for publicity and for money made him too cocksure and too glib. Secondly, he convinced himself that he alone was impartial and objective while his Christian colleagues were biased, untruthful and in a conspiracy against him. It never crossed his mind that he might have been every bit as biased as anyone with his anti-religious zealotry – more so, as he became so immune to academic scrutiny. His daughter has written a very moving memoir which strives hard to rehabilitate her father's scholarly achievements, but the reader takes away from this biography not so much a renewed respect for Allegro's brilliance as a profound sadness at its tragic waste.
That thing is the English disease: the impulse to slap down ambition and close ranks against any newcomer trying to join the club. It was fine for Branagh, fresh out of Rada, to achieve overnight fame in Julian Mitchell's Another Country in 1982. Less than fine when he failed to show proper gratitude to the RSC for placing his feet on its bottom rung; he not only resigned from the outfit but shafted it in his play Tell Me Honestlybefore going off to found a company of his own. As it turned out, the Renaissance Theatre Company was a success, as was the 1989 film of Henry V in which Branagh starred among a cast of leading classical actors whom he had somehow coaxed into the supporting roles. Nobody could say the work was bad. But
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