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text: KIRKUS REVIEW To convey the truth of the holocaust in its totality...(the writer) must add as well the silence left behind by millions of unknowns...One cannot conceive of the holocaust except as a mystery, begotten by the dead." As in the novel, Beggar in Jerusalem (1969) and other works, Wiesel gropes in the lengthening shadows to understand -- his own kind of death at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the death of millions and all he had known, the meaning of individual and Jewish survival. Again his approach is deliberately scattered -- fantastic dialogues with the dead and his own abstracted awarenesses; mythic appearances, real and apocryphal from camps, liberated Europe, Russia and Israel. And among the threads of Covenants sealed and broken, individual Jews restate a heritage: the prince-beggar riding forth to meet Death; an Israeli "atheist" commander who nonetheless felt "we were on our way to keep an appointment" in Jerusalem; defiant Jews dancing in Moscow streets. To be a Jew today, insists Wiesel, is to "testify. To bear witness to what is and what is no longer." He denounces young Jews (and Germans) who will not take account of the fact of yesterday's evils. ("Without Auschwitz there would have been no Hiroshima.") Wiesel's tales, lectures and commemorative griefs are moving, penetrating, often raspingly excessive -- the result perhaps of attempting an honest stance before the inexplicable. Pub Date: Nov. 16th, 1970ISBN: 0805207139Page count: 212ppPublisher: Random HouseReview Posted Online: Oct. 7th, 2011Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1st, 1970


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Published April 14, 2008
Taking to the Trees by Morgan Heim
After conquering rocks, trails and mountains,weekend warriors head for the canopy
Harv "Ponderosa" Teitelbaum leans back in his harness, testing his weight against the rope dangling from the tree. He swings his legs forward and braces his feet against the tree trunk. Sliding one hand up after the other, he pulls himself up the rope, feet pushing off one at a time in an exaggerated stepping motion. He scales 80 feet in less than a minute in a practiced dance, becoming a silhouette against the mid-morning sun.
A swift foot jab pushes him away from the trunk and swings him sideways. He wraps an arm around the closest branch and in one swift move unclips a folded saw from his harness. A sound like a zipper-scratch drifts to the ground as he begins to methodically cut away dead stubble.
The ponderosa looks like a Christmas tree that grew too fast - all trunk with a cluster of branches near the top. Ropes dangle from the branches like leftover garlands. The trunk is pitted with dozens of light-colored scars, the marks of past pruning. "Headache," Teitelbaum shouts, warning those below that another chopped-off branch is on its way down.
"Ponderosa" Teitelbaum is an avid tree climber. He uses techniques pioneered by rock-climbers, canopy researchers and arborists to climb trees once accessible only to scientists and tree surgeons. Teitelbaum, however, does it just for fun. "It's wonderful to get up there and lose sight of the ground," he says. "In this arboreal world with no sense of the flat ground, everything is vertical, everything is air."
Back on the ground, Teitelbaum, a solid man in his 50s with climbing-honed forearms, stands, feet rooted to the spot, meditating on the personalities of trees. "Douglas firs, they're really nice to get all the way to the top," he says. "You can feel it swaying. And cottonwoods have their own personality, solid, even at the top." He smiles as he describes his namesake. "Ponderosas have a lot of character, great smell." He leans in, scratches the bark and inhales the faint vanilla aroma.
Today, he's climbing "Gus Otis," a ponderosa pine with a base three feet in diameter. The tree is more than 90 feet high, big enough to inspire vertigo, but it's dwarfed by Methuselah, an 1,800-year-old California redwood in San Mateo County. Methuselah is 14 feet in diameter at the base and about as tall as a 20-story building. It's a celebrity in the tree-climbing world: Several YouTube videos have shown folks climbing it.
The sport of tree climbing originated in Georgia three decades ago, but only recently became popular in the West. Now, climbing schools are popping up all over the region.
Still, tree climbing remains under most people's radar. But if the sport grows at even a fraction of the rate of its older cousins - mountain biking and rock-climbing - forests could soon bend under the weight of thousands of eager climbers. It's a prospect that some find alarming, because just one climber's boot can disturb the delicate ecology of an individual tree. If rock-climbing and mountain biking are any indication, conflicts will sooner or later arise between environmental purists and these new outdoor-fun junkies. The National Park Service has already banned tree climbing, and various cities have put their public trees off-limits.
The reaction may seem a bit extreme. After all, national parks and even wilderness areas are, for the most part, open to rock climbers, who swarm the steep faces of Zion, Yosemite and Grand Teton national parks without much restriction. But there's one huge difference between tree climbing and rock climbing: The trees are alive.
Peter Jenkins spent his youth in the 1950s and '60s exploring the wilderness and climbing the peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park outside Estes Park, Colo. He easily transferred his mountain-climbing skills to tree trunks, and in 1978, he established a small tree-care business in Atlanta, Ga. "Treeman," as he became known, liked to take his work home with him. He climbed trees for fun, and soon found himself taking his tree-care clients up into the canopy as well.
In 1983, Jenkins founded Tree Climbers International Inc. He bought a small plot of land near Atlanta, featuring two stately white oaks, which he named "Diana" and "Nimrod," after the virgin goddess of hunting and the builder of the Tower of Babel. Those two trees have since taught thousands of people how to climb, and what began as a trickle of amateurs spreading their love of the sport through word-of-mouth has blossomed into a nationwide community of tree-climbing enthusiasts.
And there are no signs of the sport slowing down. In the last five years, Jenkins has watched his class load jump from one a month to nearly three times that many. Teitelbaum regularly leads classes attended by up to 10 people, as often as once a week during spring and summer. Schools have opened elsewhere, including Dancing With Trees LLC in Alto, Ga., and New Tribe's Tree Climbing Northwest in Grants Pass, Ore. Several Web sites and chat rooms are devoted to the fledgling sport.
Along with classes, New Tribe offers climbing gear, including harnesses ($47), ropes ($100-$500) and tree hammocks ($300), for sleeping in the treetops. Its Web site - one of many devoted to the sport - even gives instructions for building a gadget that couples a fishing reel with a slingshot to get your rope up into the tree.
New Tribe's vice president, Viola Brumbaugh, says she's seen the company's profits grow 20 to 30 percent a year over the last decade, with about 70 percent of its gear going to recreational tree climbers. Business is booming: SherrillTree.com, a general tree-gear supplier based out of North Carolina, fills about 15,000 orders for recreational tree climbing gear a year and receives 50 to 100 requests for recreational tree-climbing catalogues almost every week, according to Tobe Sherrill, the company's founder and CEO.
Brumbaugh and Jenkins attribute much of the sport's growth to recent press coverage. CNN, National Public Radio and National Geographic Adventure have all covered it. Last April, Richard Preston published The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, a book documenting researchers' work in the canopy of California's redwoods. Most estimates place the number of recreational tree climbers at around 50,000 worldwide, but New Tribe co-founder Sophia Sparks says the sport is "mushrooming."
Hundreds of feet above the loamy ground in the Pacific Northwest is another kind of tree climber: the pinky-sized wandering salamander. This rare amphibian uses its long, slim legs and squared-off toes to climb ancient spruces and cedars. It spends most of its life in trees 300 feet high, never touching the ground.
The wandering salamander's world might as well be a different planet. Epiphytes - plants that grow free of the ground - latch onto trunk and branch in the muted light. Ferns, lichens and moss create new soil layers, providing water and regulating microclimates far above the ground.
The moss alone can take hundreds of years to grow. It traps sediment, which in turn traps moisture and then gradually releases it, altering the temperature and humidity.
The ferns also hold soil with their networks of fine, fibrous roots, creating mats among the branches that are sometimes three feet deep. These fern mats collectively act as reservoirs - a single tree can contain enough mats to hold up to 8,000 liters of water. They provide habitat for salamanders and other wildlife. Even the harpacticoid copepod, a common microscopic stream crustacean, can be found living in the treetops.
Lichens function as fertilizers in this airy environment. Cyanolichens convert nitrogen into a form plants can use to absorb nutrients. Stephen Sillett, a professor from Humboldt State University who studies forest canopy ecosystems, has seen entire new trees, such as hemlock and Douglas fir, sprouting from a host tree's fertile branches.
But this strange world is as fragile as it is vital, and even the most carefully placed hand or boot can take its toll, knocking the ecosystem out of balance.
"Even if you're an expert, you can accidentally bump off big clumps of moss," says Sillett, who winces at the damage he inflicts in spite of 20 years' experience climbing for research. He often sees the old scars left by what must have seemed, at the time, like an innocuous tap of the boot. "We're cruising through the trees with big rubber boots," he says. "We're not part of its natural equation."
But some climbers believe that keeping people out of the trees is harmful in other ways. "The othering of human beings from nature is very destructive," says Teitelbaum. Climbing trees and encouraging others to do so builds an appreciation for the forest and the organisms that rely on it, he says. He acknowledges that deliberately climbing in vulnerable trees, such as those containing epiphytes, is akin to "almost intentional destruction." But overall, he says, "I think there's more benefit than harm."
Teitelbaum, a former Colorado Division of Wildlife outreach educator and part-time professor of environmental science with DeVry University, believes that tree climbing is actually beneficial; he says it exercises the tree, making its tissue stronger with each trip. And because climbers pay such close attention, they are more likely to notice if a tree is sick or damaged. Those with enough training can safely trim dead or diseased branches, or notify others, such as park officials, who ought to know.
But Jody Rice, an education outreach coordinator who works with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to develop authorized tree-climbing programs, says that climbers need to exercise caution about things like trimming dead branches. "If you take dead tree limbs, you might make the tree healthier, but not make the ecosystem healthier," says Rice. Woodpeckers, for example, will only build homes in dead trunks and branches. Removing a dead tree branch potentially destroys important habitat.
Determining the impact of a sport still in its infancy is difficult, if not downright impossible. "At this point, I imagine tree climbers are so dispersed, there's not yet a problem," says Matt Dietz, a conservation ecologist with The Wilderness Society. But he predicts that if tree climbing continues to grow in popularity, researchers and land managers will have to deal with its effects on the environment.
Dietz is particularly concerned about birds, especially during the breeding season. Unless nests are conspicuous, like the top-heavy platforms constructed by ospreys and eagles, climbers are unlikely to realize there are nesting birds in a tree until it's too late. A parent bird upset by even a single disturbance to a nest could flee to another tree, leaving its young to starve or become dinner themselves, says Dietz. Simply avoiding trees during breeding season is not a realistic option, because birds in the United States tend to breed during spring and summer - the very times most outdoor recreationists prefer to be outside.
To climb a tree, a person must first get to it, which brings up a host of other concerns. "The trees are one thing, but I envision lots of people wanting to climb the same tree," says Myke Bybee, a public-lands advocate for the Sierra Club. That leads to the formation of informal trails, which destroy the surrounding grasses, ferns and other plants and pack down soil around the tree's roots, limiting its ability to absorb water and nutrients, he says.
Still, Bybee is not opposed to tree climbing per se. "Outdoor recreation in any form from hunting to hiking in general is a great thing," he says. "But we would want to make sure people take measures not to damage the trees and environment."
Even Jenkins admits that climbers can get a little tree-happy. "You can over-climb trees," he says. "Humans tend to kill or destroy what they love through the years."
This is why Jenkins and Teitelbaum are trying to establish standards for environmentally conscious climbing. They recommend starting and finishing at the same place, and using mulch to cushion the ground around trees. Both Tree Climbing International and Tree Climbing Colorado have published guidelines for safe and environmentally conscious climbing. And climbers are developing more tree-friendly gear, such as rubber-soled shoes rather than spiked ones, and protective cambium-savers - hose-like tubes that slide over ropes to protect the trees from rope burn.
Despite these improvements, Sillett advises staying out of old-growth forests altogether. "Our impacts are foreign to that ecosystem," he says, "and there will be impacts."
Just a few decades ago, rock climbing was more of an underground cult than a full-fledged sport, and mountain biking was a handful of hippies converting clunky street bikes into rough-and-ready trail riders. For the most part, the early climbers and bikers saw their sports as a way to connect with nature. Sierra Club director David Brower, for example, was also a rock climber who used his experiences to draw attention to places in need of protection.
But what started as a spattering of independent enthusiasts quickly exploded. The International Mountain Bicycling Association, which now has 32,000 members, says that Americans ride single-track nearly 600 million times a year. Each year an average of 10,000 climbers visit Happy Boulders, a bouldering site just north of Bishop, Calif. The vast majority of recreationists may be conscientious, but there are always those who drill permanent climbing routes into cliffs, smear desert varnish with climbing chalk, batter the backcountry trails with their knobby tires and simply refuse to pick up after themselves. As a result, rock jocks and bikers often find themselves at odds with land managers and environmentalists.
Tree climbing shares the adrenaline rush, expensive gear, and conquest-of-nature mystique of rock climbing and mountain biking. And trees are poised to become the next frontier for the nation's weekend warriors. Public officials who want to avoid previous mistakes are determined to rein in tree climbing almost before the sport gets off the ground.
Denver flat-out refuses to permit tree climbing in city parks, citing liability concerns and the need to protect the trees. With people repeatedly climbing city trees, "we'd have to be replacing trees all the time," says Jill McGranahan, Denver Parks and Recreation spokeswoman.
Teitelbaum blames a bureaucratic "cover my ass" mentality, and Jenkins scoffs at the notion that tree climbing is dangerous. "Up to this point, we have had no injuries in this sport, none, nothing at all," he says. "You can't say that for rock climbers. You can't say that for cavers. You can't say that for hang gliders." (There have been documented climbing accidents - even fatalities - among professional arborists, however. And not long after Jenkins made this statement, a recreational climber fell and broke his back, recounting the accident on Jenkins' school's Web site.)
Even in places where climbers can get permission, the process is often difficult. Typically, a climber has to apply for a permit every time she wants to climb on public land. And because the sport is still so new, many officials are unfamiliar with it and unsure how to handle permit requests.
While some national forests and a few cities, such as Boulder and Evergreen, Colo., allow tree climbing, national parks remain strictly off-limits. Only forest ecologists and a handful of other researchers are permitted to climb trees in parks. This is because it is a ranger's "primary mission" to "protect the park," says Janet Cooper, special park use coordinator for Redwood National and State Park in California.
Researchers, Cooper says, have the training to minimize damage to trees, something that can't be counted on with recreational climbers. And a bunch of people dangling around in the canopy is bound to impact wildlife, particularly species like the endangered marbled murrelet, which nests in old-growth forests. Besides, says park spokesman Rick Nolans, opening national parks to climbing, at least in California, is unnecessary. "There're so many opportunities to climb elsewhere in California, it's not really a big deal for them to do so," he says.
But many climbers want to climb in national parks. Cooper notes that the Redwood office alone receives three to four calls a week from people asking about climbing trees in the park. The park denies all requests, a stance that veteran tree climber Jenkins respects. "Rangers are trying to preserve what's there," he says, "and have a hard enough time chasing tourists who don't behave well."
In the vast bottomlands of Georgia and Florida, 66-year-old "Swampy Joe" Maher often wades through water up to his "belly-button," paddles silently in his canoe, or catches a ride on a jon boat, in search of the perfect old-growth bald cypress tree. He travels light, often with just a backpack carrying little more than water, a few ropes and some mesh for a makeshift harness. When he finds a perfect tree, his "desert island" in the swamp, he glides up in his canoe, docks at the trunk and climbs the tree right from the boat. There is nothing around him for miles, no cars, no people, just tree after tree - and silence. "When I go out on what I call a 'real' tree climb, I go to the swamps," says Maher. "I love swamps."
Maher, like hundreds of other tree climbers, doesn't ask permission first. He just does it. And for that reason, in the lexicon of tree climbing, he's considered a rogue. Rogue climbing has several offshoots - including ninja, or stealth climbing - which involve deliberate trespassing.
The term "rogue" is mostly a joke within the tree-climbing community, because it implies that simply climbing without permission is a renegade pursuit. But stealth and ninja climbing represent a murkier area. And not everyone in the woods shares the wilderness ethics of climbers like Maher, Teitelbaum and Jenkins, who practice "leave no trace" and wear muted colors - doing their best to avoid detection and lessen environmental disturbance.
"People hike out to a tree and one of the first things they do is begin stomping down all the surrounding vegetation," in order to clear the way for throwing a line into the tree, says Maher. Others see a dead tree branch and can't resist the desire to cut it off. "People within the recreational tree-climbing community have an idea that trees need to be 'developed' for climbing," Maher says. "They will take handsaws and cut every dead tree branch or branch that is an impediment to climbing. Some people will go out into forests just to trim a dead limb because it's there. I get very annoyed with these people."
Rice, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, says ninja climbing harms the cause of tree climbers rather than helping it. "I don't support stealth or ninja," says Rice. "We have to look at that seriously. You have a responsibility to give people an idea of where you are," he says. "If they get caught, it just hurts the long-term effect of getting this approved."
But Jenkins sees stealth climbing as part of the sport's natural evolution. "Tree climbing is new," says Jenkins, "and because it's new, probably what's going to get policy to change is people climbing."
Back in Evergreen, Colo., I'm dangling 80 feet off the ground, trying to avoid touching the tree. Three children flank the tree lower down, yelling encouragement as I near the top of the climb. I'm using a technique that, on rock, would be called aid climbing. My legs, arms and abdominal muscles burn as I bring my knees to my chest and pull myself up the rope with all my might in a decidedly ungraceful maneuver. Thonk. My head bounces off the branch above me, but thanks to my helmet, I hardly feel the blow.
I've reached the end of my rope. This trip stops just above the main branches of the tree. Though I won't get to the top, seeing the world from a bird's-eye view is exhilarating. Life is pretty quiet up here, hanging with the branches. It's like a great view from a skyscraper, but instead of city streets jammed with ant-like cars, there's just the breeze and the sunshine. One of the kids asks if I'm going to come back down, but I'm in no hurry.
I flip upside-down to get the squirrel's-eye view and try unsuccessfully to "tree dance," swinging away and spinning a 360.
Teitelbaum stands in miniature on the ground, waiting for my signal indicating that I'm ready to descend. And the kids are anxious to head off for some afternoon swimming. I'm confident that the climb gave the children a greater appreciation for the trees that are all around them. Still, I'm all too aware of the impact we had, how we bumped and scraped our way up the tree trunk.
I take some comfort in the idea that "Gus Otis," like so many other trees, has survived centuries of storms, drought and even forest fires. Generations of animals have dug and scratched away at its bark; birds have come and gone, and who knows what else has happened to it. I suppose it can survive the attentions of a few tree-climbing, fun-loving humans. At least I hope so. Before descending, I take another moment to savor the quiet up among the branches, because even if the trees survive, this solitude may not.
Morgan Heim is a former HCN intern. She is a freelance journalist and photographer, who is currently finishing a master's at the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism in Boulder.
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Curvy Gal as Nun
My life changed this year, and for a while I was distracted and not feeling much like sex. So I stopped contacting my regular lovers. Had emails every now and then from regular clients, asking for bookings. Just ignored them. It felt good and powerful to be not feeling like sex, and just getting on with life.
And then something odd happened.
The longer I went without sex, the more it became some Kinda Big Deal. The closest thing I can liken it to is an alcoholic who is managing the one day at a time thing and whamo, find they are into the whole Recovery-speak. Blurgh.
Somewhere past the six month mark I decided that my new found abstinence meant I could be a "normal" gal and just date, in hopes of meeting someone I could live happily ever after with. Even though I really am okay with being single, well, if I wasn't so sexually frustrated.
But then I thought, maybe I'd pretend the whore experiment had never happened. That then extended into a whole new moral code of not sleeping with anyone who is taken. So...only dating single people with no money involved. Like the rest of the world. A New Me.
But folks, the issue is, I HATE IT. I've tried online dating, I've tried joining groups to meet like minded people, hell, I'm one step away from eHarmony.
The dates I have been on have just totally been wash outs. Mostly I find myself thinking, hey, you're nice enough, if you were a client I'd totally shag you for dollars. But not for free. And they're all awkward and first date like, and I slip into the "make you feel comfortable" sex worker role.
I don't want to boast, but I fucking rock at having a coffee with someone and putting on a great show of being friendly, happy, flirty and asking all the right questions. Which of course means then the dates are keen to get together again. And I'm NOT. I'm so bored I think my eyes are going to roll up into my head and I'll drop dead from the total blahness of it all.
So I have given up the dating. Back to just wanting some sexin' now. I'm gagging for it. If I lived many moons ago doctors would be diagnosing me with hysteria. I'm moody, aggressive, lack patience, fragile and losing my sense of humour.
But now it's been a year and I've got into some odd headspace where I feel like I'm some sort of Virgin 2.0, and I can only give my vajayjay to someone special. But I hate that I feel that way. Cause I want sex. Did I say that enough already?
And now I don't know how to go about getting back on the horse so to speak. I have one regular realworld lover who I've tracked down, but he's still married, so that would break my new rules. I have that handful of regular clients who have spent the year forlornly emailing me, even after I stopped replying. So I could go grab some easy cash by shagging people I already trust. And if I picked the clients I really got off with, then that would cure my hysteria too.
I wonder then if I'll feel like a complete failure in this bizarre "personal growth" thing I've fallen into. Like the alcoholic who wants just one drink, I also think I'd probably fire up the whole whore shebang again. I have missed it.
I'm lashing out in really odd directions. Like email Married Lover (the guy who'd grown a beard and I last had animal sex with a year ago if you can remember that far back in my blog) and we have had some banter going back and forward. And then I stop. And go and stare at his wife's page on Facebook and think, "this is who I'd be hurting if she ever found out". And then he emails sexy little things and I email back again. And then stop.
I've also taken out a new ad in the escort section of the paper. And I did start my usual questions and banter with a few men, and then stopped. And I've rejoined the sex workers union. And I'm going to the annual conference too, out of curiosity.
I've also contacted IT Guy client cause he was the most harmless, plus single. But then I doubled my rates in an attempt to sabotage him actually making a booking. Which worked and has probably driven him off for good I'm guessing, which would suck if I really did want to get back into it all.
What to do, what to do.
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Have you considered semi-casual sex with a couple responsible single partners who don't want the whole relationship thing at the moment? For a while I would put a fantasy scenario or whatnot on craigslist and pick the most promising of the many eager candidates. This led to a couple of people I would see every couple of weeks. I felt like it was mutual benefit, respectful, but without having to be a giant section of my life. I still even went on regular dates even. Also, it is kind of nice to see the guys get to work a little harder on the seduction in the name of competition. You really can just put out there what you want to hear or experience and then pick the one that says/does it best.ReplyDelete
It seems like with dating, there is this weird pressure. On the other hand, my regular dating, while in general pretty tedious, FINALLY ended me up with exactly who I was hoping for and we are now engaged. So basically, dating sucks, but in the end it is a numbers game and if you keep it up, you will get what you want. In the meantime, I don't see what is wrong with keeping yourself happy, along with a few men in your same situation.
I want *exactly* what you describe! But the issue is, I know that the guys I'd be getting it from are just high-fiving each other about getting the sex for free. I pretty sure they aren't seeing it the way I am. As a respectful mutual exchange.ReplyDelete
That was one of the things that made me decide to take cash for sex. I put up/answered fantasy ads on Craigslist in both the normal, and paid escort section and at least fifty percent of the time the same guys responded to both.
I've put up some ads asking for what I want in the last few months to test this again, but then I run the email addresses of the eager men against my saved messages from years past (I never delete) and then I find they responded to the paid ads to. And I don't wanna be a free prostitute.
So it's either take money from the guys, picking the ones I would have done for free anyhow, or hang out for someone I connect with.
That's just my take on the semi-regular casual sex thing - I've admitted before whoring killed casual sex for me which I do regret a little.
I agree with Laura; finding candidates that want exactly what you do will be key here. But you may have to widen your net a bit, outside of CL. I think PinPointX and adultfriendfinder, and maybe even Nerve personals might be good starting points. The cross-checking is a good idea, too, as CL's adult section has become more policed and people are going to other arenas.ReplyDelete
Don't get discouraged; casual sex can be difficult for any/everyone!
Oh, and welcome back!
How about trying a 3 some with a couple? I do alot of looking on Craigslist and belong to a site called Fetlife where I follow a Threesome group and EVERYONE is looking for that bi lady to bring into a threesome...in fact they're so rare that they refer to them as unicorns! But, I guess that would depend on if you're into girls at all :) just thinking that those situations are usually No Strings Attached and it's not like the guy is cheating because his lady is there too!ReplyDelete
Dating is hard, I agree. Hope you're doing okay these days!ReplyDelete
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About Nick Fahy
Nick Fahy has nearly 20 years of experience at senior level in European health policy, the last ten years in the Health and Consumers Directorate-General of the European Commission.
Head of Unit for Health Information
Most recently as head of unit for health information, he has been responsible for providing European information on health enabling benchmarking and supporting diffusion of health innovations, including developing the innovative European health wikipedia 'HEIDI'. This work has included representing the Commission in international forums, including the OECD Health Committee and the Steering Committee of the European Observatory on health systems and policies.
In this post Mr Fahy has also had responsibility for Commission policy on major and chronic conditions, in particular the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and rare diseases, as well as the specific topics of e-health and data protection in public health.
Cross-border patient healthcare
Previously being deputy head of unit for health strategy, he led the processes leading to the Commission proposal for a directive on patient's rights in cross-border healthcare adopted in early 2011, as well as contributing to Treaty revisions leading to the Lisbon Treaty and co-chairing Pharmaceutical Forum working groups on relative effectiveness and information to patients.
UK Department of Health
Before the Commission, Mr Fahy worked on issues such as European affairs and pharmaceutical policy at the UK Department of Health, as well as being private secretary to both John Horam MP, junior minister for the National Health Service, and Tessa Jowell MP, the first Minister of State for Public Health.
Qualifications & publications
Nick Fahy is a member of the international advisory board of Eurohealth, published by the LSE, as well as being a visiting lecturer at Maastricht University and Management Centre Innsbruck, and was co-director of the 2010 summer school on EU integration and health systems of the European Observatory on health systems and policies.
He has published on cross-border healthcare in Europe as well as wider political and ethical considerations in health policy, and is a sought-after speaker on European health issues at events in Europe and beyond.
After a degree in philosophy he is currently finishing a degree in psychology, preparatory to a PhD investigating how to better share innovations between European health systems. Mr Fahy´s native language being English, he is also fluent in French and speaks some German.


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You can get the actual capacity of some RCR123 on my website, but why not make the battery tube slightly larger in diameter and support 18350 cells, you get considerable more energy for 2mm more in diameter.
You can get the actual capacity of some RCR123 on my website, but why not make the battery tube slightly larger in diameter and support 18350 cells, you get considerable more energy for 2mm more in diameter.
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But as a general rule, I would treat all manufacturer's claims as suspect until verified independently. My own flashlight testing shows that most runtime specs are not very accurate. Any battery with the same chemistry should give you equivalent output - it is mainly runtime that will vary, directly with actual capacity. For that, you will need find independent tests - manufacturers claim what ever they want.
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Thanks again!
Thanks! Yeah im being very suspicious on these Nitecore claims. I just want to know a general runtime operation for the common XM-L2 using a rechargeable RCR123A at approximately 220 LUMENS. After hearing HKJ's comment I am looking forward to hearing about the 18350 capabilities!
When working with RCR123 size you also has to be aware of the different voltages. 16340 and 18350 usual has higher voltage than CR123 (A maximum of 4.2 volt), but you can get some that has a maximum of 3.4 volt (Most common in 16340 size).
I have written a bit about it here: http://lygte-info.dk/info/CR123A%20a...utes%20UK.html
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Thanks, th einformation on your page is amazing, I really appreciate your time and effort gone into this! I really like the look of the Ultrafire XSL18350 batteries. I think Trustfire make these, do you know? The Ultrafire XSL18350 seems to be perfect for my light and according to your graphs and data along with the specifications from the CREE XM-L2 we have as follows:
The CREE XM-L2 delivers approximately 220 LUMENS @ 700mA discharge current. Therefore according to your results, if I request drive the LED @ 700mA, we should get approx 220 LUMENS and see the runtime fall somewhere between 90 mins (discharge @ 0.5A) and 45 minutes (discharge @ 1A): hopefully this falls close to the 1 hour mark
I see the battery doesn't perform too well at currents over 2A, but for my flahslight with high setting of 220 Lumens, I think I will be fine.
Do you have any other comments on this battery since doing the test? or do you have another alternative in mind for me that blows this battery out of the water?
Thanks again, you really have saved me a lot of research time with your data!
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Thanks, have you hear of Trustfire? I am looking at these and ordering direct from the Trustfire factory, so they should be legit.
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Hi HK and everyone else.
After a lot of forum reading and questioning, I get the feeling that there is a strong following for AW batreries including the IMR 18350.
From what I can understand is that IMR allow for a higher discharge current but lower capacity that ICR's.
In my application I will only have a drive current of around 700mA to 1A. So am I correct in saying that the bets battery for me to use will be a ICR 18350 rather tan an IMR?
If so, unfortunately AW does not provide the ICR, this may be because Panasonic does not produce the cells... or something along those lines.
Does anybody know of a manufacturer that sources high quality (potentially Japanese) cells and distributes them as ICR 18350, or am I better suited to selecting an IMR?
Thanks for all the help.
This thread is for CR123A Lithium primary cells, or at least it started out that way. To avoid confusion, you may want to start a new thread for your questions relating to different battery chemistry.
Shame lithiums can't be shipped abroad.
Battery junction have the Titaniums at 98c each but won't send to UK
I've settled on 7dayshop's own brand.
4 for £2.59
We'll see how long they last in my Solarforce Skyline I.
Sc32w draws 2 - 2.5 amps from Surefire CR123A in H1 mode. Is it safe?
Got a Solarforce L2P and running a LEDengin 365 UV P-60 drop-in that is rated 4.2v-8.4volts max. What can I expect the runtimes to be using any of these CR123a batteries listed?
I know this thread originated in 2013, has battery technology accelerated past the information posted in this thread or is this still valid information?
Hello McCoy,
Welcome to CPF.
The information is still valid.
Behind every Great man there's always a woman rolling her eyes...
Most batteries don't die - they are tortured to near death, then murdered...
Links to the charts on SB's page and here seem to be broken...did they get archived somewhere I hope?
Lights removed for search accuracy
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Has any on tried or tested the Sanyo 18650 4000mAh or the 4500MaH please let me know if they live up to there specs
4000mAh Sanyo HR4/3AU NiMH Flat Top Cell
There are no 4000+ mah 18650s, yet.
Looks like the Titanium 123's did quite well, and for the price it seems quite good too. After seeing this review I figured it was time to get some for my brandy spankin new Elzetta Bravo B333 (AVS/cren bez/HiLo tail) . Ordered from Battery Junction I got 125 cells of the Titaniums after using a coupon it came out to exactly $0.80 cents per cell shipped to my door. That seems pretty cheap. I guess I'll see how well they perform.
And btw I just joined up here! Pretty cool forum.
Welcome to the Forum!
If anyone has any input about the Titanium 123's that are part of SB shootout please say how you like them, good or bad. In fact if there are any longer usage reports on any of these cr123's I would appreciate it. Any leaking/dead new cells/etc...
I have only used battery station and Surefire cells. Never used Titanium 123's.
I've heard mostly good things about those U.S. made 123's . I do have a little concern about the Titaniums however and it's pretty much just about it's country of origin PRC, and the fact that I'm using them in a 2x series light which brings in one more factor as far as safety is concerned.
They did however seem to do quite well in Selfbuilt's shootout and I was able to get them at a low price (0.80cents) delivered.
True. But the test was done 3 years ago. Keep us informed as to the performance of those cells.
According the specifications posted at Battery Junction, the Titanium Innovations CR123A battery has a maximum continuous discharge current of 1.5 amps. This is the same limit that CR123A batteries made by other manufacturers have. The same spec at Battery Junction says that 3.0 amps is the maximum pulse discharge current for the Titanium Innovations CR123A battery.
Now, I do not have any details about how the pulse discharge current is determined for the Titanium Innovations CR123A battery. I do, however, have a spec sheet for the Sanyo CR123A battery. It defines maximum pulse discharge current to be that current that causes battery voltage to sag to 1.0 volts in only 15 seconds!
Here is the quote:
Obviously a "useful" pulse will usually be significantly shorter than 15 seconds.Current value for obtaining 1.0V cell voltage when pulse is applied for 15 seconds at 50% discharge depth at 23 degrees C.
So why does the spec at Battery Junction say that the PTC High Current Discharge Protection on the Titanium Innovations CR123A battery is set to 5 amps? That is much higher the PTC used by CR123A batteries that are made in the U.S.A. Frankly, it is higher that what I choose to use myself. Having the PTC set to 5 amps allows many flashlights to pull too much current from CR123A batteries.
In the last decade, high-output LED flashlights have surpassed the current that CR123A batteries can safely supply. All the CR123A batteries that I have checked are rated for a 1.5-amp maximum continuous draw. In a 2xCR123A series configuration, that means a top output of around 600-700 lumens.
CR123A still has an important place in the flashlight world. Its small size, long storage life, and good operating characteristics at temperature extremes (both hot and cold) mean that it will continue to be used for the foreseeable future.
Just don't try to pull too many amps.
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But in the Elzetta Bravo it is supposed to be under 1.5A I believe.
But in My 1x123 Olight S10 it seems like too much for the cell in turbo/Hi at least the the RCR16340 cell. Maybe you have some knowledge on some of the very small 1x123 lights.
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Kudos to Elzetta! It keeps current draws within specifications.
I do not know about the Olight S10.
I have read reports, however, that the Olight S1 draws over 2 amps in turbo mode. One CPF member measured 2.2 amps. I am using the protected, button-top Olight RCR123A rechargeable Li-ion battery in mine.
The current limitations I described above apply to non-rechargeable CR123A batteries. I do not know the limitations of the rechargeable Olight battery I am using. Please, let me know if you have a datasheet of some kind.
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I don't have a datasheet. I did see a YOUTUBE review of the Olight S1 "Review the light" I think he goes by Bigmac or something like that here CPF, and the S1 would shut off in the outdoor beam shots because it was drawing too many amps on Hi/turbo with a protected RCR123. He said it should be able to run on high with an unprotected IMR RCR123.


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BJP leaves Varun Gandhi to defend himself in 'honey trap'
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) The BJP on Friday did not officially react to the demand for the resignation of party MP Varun Gandhi over claims that he was "honey trapped and compromised" by defence middleman Abhishek Verma. Party leaders said Gandhi had already cleared his position and it was for him to deal with the issue.
Most of the party leaders contacted by IANS refused to comment, saying Varun Gandhi is capable of defending himself.
"Varun has clarified his position over the controversy. Party doesn't need to comment further. He is capable enough to defend himself," a BJP office-bearer told IANS on the condition of anonymity.
Another party leader, who also refused to comment officially or be identified, said, "The matter pertains to Varun and allegations are personal."
Gandhi, who represents Sultanpur constituency in the Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday termed the allegations as baseless.
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Friday attacked the BJP over the controversy surrounding Gandhi and demanded his resignation.
"Varun Gandhi should resign from Lok Sabha on moral grounds," the party said in a tweet.
The Congress said BJP President Amit Shah should specify what action he was taking over allegations faced by Gandhi. "Will he hold an inquiry to ascertain the truth," Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar asked.
Swaraj Abhiyan leaders on Thursday released a letter written by US-based lawyer C. Edmonds Allen to the Prime Minister's Office alleging that Gandhi was "honey trapped" into leaking defence secrets by defence middleman Abhishek Verma.


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Scots Gap Auction Mart held its annual prize show and sale of mule and other gimmers, warranted ewes and breeding cattle.
Hexham and Northern Marts offered 1,130 head of top quality breeding sheep and cattle. The show was sponsored by John Warren ABP, Cox Agri and Minsups, and was judged by Mr Philip Dickinson, Rugley Walls, Cambo.
From a super entry of top drawer mule gimmers the Joe Arthur Memorial Trophy went to a great pen of bonny coloured sorts with power and tremendous skins to James Herman, Edlingham Newtown.
Another smart pen from the Catcherside consignment took the Reserve Champion rosette for Ian, Betty and Nicholas Scott, and third prize went to Ian and Anne Hamilton, Claywalls.
An alley full of Suffolk crosses tested the judge. The prizes were: 1 J&D Longland, Tone Hall; 2 WA Robson, Middle White Hill; 3 I&A Hamilton, Claywalls.
The sale commenced and while the majority of first pens sold well, bidders for sheep 'further down the cut' were in short supply.
The champion pen topped the sale at £170 per head to the judge, followed by another at £165 from Messrs Potts, Doe Hill and Catcherside's second prize winners at £160.
Breeding cattle from Messrs Foley Bros, Mirlaw House, peaked at £2,350 for a great Limousin cross first calved heifer with a three quarter bred steer calf at foot to Libby Bertram, Coldwell.


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Here's the first test figure for the Italian Conscripts of the Guard using the HaT French Chasseurs sets.
Everything turned out fine, except for the shoulder tabs. I realised too late that the Conscripts of the Guard had the same kit as a regular legere infantryman EXCEPT for the epaulets! I've opted to just paint over them rather than try to trim them, on this figure at least. Getting a knife around his shoulders, in this pose particularly, wasn't very appealing. The other (non-firing) poses might lend themselves to a little judicious knife-work, but this chap has survived with shoulders intact!


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So I'm not the first and certainly not the last parent to hack the IKEA Duktig kitchen, but I still wanted to share our process, as it was a relatively simple one that was still an improvement upon its otherwise (in my opinion) very plain look. The Duktig normally goes for €89, but back in November it was on sale for IKEA Family members for €49. The bear is increasingly interested in what's going on in the kitchen, and I've definitely noticed that when I pick him up from KiTa, he's often playing in the kitchen there. Since Christmas was already figured … Continue reading IKEA Duktig Hack


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For this idea you will need a portable CD player or mp3 player. If you and your partner have a favorite song, get a copy of it and take it with you when you go away for a romantic weekend.
When you are in a romantic spot, ask your partner if she would like to dance. Place one earpiece in her ear and one in your own and enjoy your private dance floor.
This technique is particularly effective if the romantic spot you have chosen is somewhere where people would not normally dance, for example, the top of a building at sunset or on top of a mountain during a camping trip.
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Leftism as a Code Word (Part 1): The White Left
November 6, 2011
By Daniel Sienkiewicz
When our advocates call our enemies the Left, they are making a crucial mistake: obfuscating our two greatest problems and the means of solution at the same time.
In an interview with Dr. Sunic, Professor MacDonald says, "these neocons, their only interest is Israel. [Otherwise] they tend to be on the Left. They still are on the Left when it comes to immigration. All these things are just really leftist."
Dr. Lowell says that "the Left" has shipped industry and with it, jobs, to China.
In his article Women on the Left, Alex Kurtagic discusses some of the same subject matter that I had dealt with in a previous article, and to which I have given some consideration over the years – among that, sorting out different kinds of feminists in relation to White interests. In concluding that these "leftists" have nothing to offer women, he places feminists in the same category: de Beauvoir, who did indeed fashion herself a leftist of sorts (taking women as her advocacy group, and Marxism as her guide), but was not Jewish; and Friedan, who was Jewish, but more liberal than a leftist.
In an interview for Alternative Right, Kurtagic goes on attacking "the leeeft, the leeeft, the leeeeft," and I cringe, not for the reasons that he may think; i.e., he may think that I am lamenting an attack on a centralized economy, or open borders multiculturalism, PC "enrichment". Maybe he would think that I am waxing nostalgic for the Soviet Union where he and Sunic had the misfortune to grow up, or that I want to take away private property? Maybe he thinks I am cringing because I want to jealously limit his horizons, tell him what kind of art and architecture that he can have. Maybe he thinks I want everybody to be equal or treated equal? No, I am cringing because another perfect Jewish trick is being promoted to the detriment of White people.
These counterproductive ambiguities are circulating among our best advocates – hence the need of clarification and definition emerges salient. It is not about competing with them and showing them up; it is about getting the framework of our advocacy correct.
Naming the Jew can be risky business indeed and that assuredly accounts for why White advocates have used code words: e.g., liberals, non-Christians, leftists, etc. I submit that if one is in a situation where it is too dangerous to name the Jew, then liberal – at least in terms of its fundamental meaning, openness to other groups of people – is the better code word as it also encompasses those problems of ours that are truly not of Jewish making but of our own. And that the Left is the worst code word; that is the subject of this thesis, for reasons that I will elaborate shortly. Agreed, the charge of liberalism is too problematic, as I discuss in footnote (1), it has a decided image problem, stodgy and logically entails ground yielding conservatism in response; thus another term should be supplied – but not the Left.
When one does have to confront the Jewish question more directly, but is in danger, not free to speak in just any way, one of the best strategies for defending against charges of antisemitism should be to distinguish between "virulent" and "relatively benign" Jews in accordance with Faussette and Bowery's theory regarding the cycle of Jewish virulence. Jews, long a people without a nation (nearly 2,000 years), developed an uncaring, parasitic relation to their host nations, particularly among the elites of their vested interest. After a period of consolidating the wealth of a nation to themselves, the most 'virulent' ones escape over the border for a new host country to exploit, while the relatively 'benign', situated and accountable ones are subject to the wrath of the host nation's people who realize belatedly, "'the Jews' did this to us!" This perpetuates the cycle as the virulent elite bribe their way into a new country, gain farther sympathy, critical absolution and pseudo-justification for their exploits as they point to what 'they do to us': the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Roman occupation.
With this distinction however, we should be able to mitigate the charge of antisemitism, noting that our large grievance is with the virulent elite (as well as with White traitors, especially those in influential positions) not with those Jews normal, situated and accountable to a local culture. Nevertheless, as anybody who has experience will tell you, the pattern of antagonism and indifference to European interests exists not only among Jewish elitists, but in them as a whole. Thus, we need to discriminate, even if some are worse than others and should be looked upon as more criminally liable.
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As most normal White people, liking my people and myself, I spent most of my life saying that I was neither Left nor Right, if those terms emerged as an issue
For good reason: as with all normal White people, I had been repulsed, had a very strong aversion to identifying as a leftist: I saw rabid Jewish advocates of non-Whites along with anti-White Whites and heard them called "THE Left" all my life. Yet, I looked at what was being called "the Right", and I could not quite do that either – it meant that one would be an ignorant hole by definition. I use this vulgarism deliberately to demonstrate that you can indeed, define terms through the pattern of how people are using a term: Notice that a person will be called a hole when they harm others when they do not have to; or, when they let people harm them when they do not have to. That is characteristic of the Right for a reason – they are not accountable; they wish to believe in their sheer, objective innocence and not accountable to an encompassing, but delimited "we", as such. With the Wall Street protests and our struggle's growing recognition of the military industrial complex, the corporate plutocracy's quest for cheap labor; its transgression of borders; its disregard of our people in more difficult circumstances, middle, working class and more; for our environment; growing recognition that this is not in our interest as Whites – our need to not identify as rightists becomes acute.
At the same time, with the population explosion threatening to overwhelm our demographic and our environment, it is also of acute importance not to identify with the phony "Left", which is really just more catastrophic liberalism, if you look at it. That understood, I have come to the realization that saying one is neither Left nor Right is an inarticulate halfway point to extricating oneself from promulgated Jewish definition of the terms. That once one sorts out Jewish perversion and corruption of the terms, that the Left is the best way for us to identify as White advocates.
When our advocates call our enemies "the Left" they are making a crucial mistake: obfuscating our two greatest problems and the means of solution at the same time.
Our advocates are obfuscating the agency of Jewish machinations – hiding behind a twisted definition of "the Left." The Left has the moral high ground and the label, Left, has the appearance of that moral high ground because it is supposed to be socially accountable, even if it is a misnomer: which it is, in Jewish application of the term – leftist classification indeed, for Jews, non-Whites, and anti-White Whites, but prescribing obsequious, cataclysmic liberalism for Whites. With that, they are obfuscating the motive of Jews to define us as Rightists and their motivation to drive us there.
At the same time, our advocates are obfuscating our other large problem – our wish for the "innocence" of objectivism or the appearance thereof, the pretense of such objectivism in order to avoid accountability – that is Rightism.
While Jews will use this argument too, that they are simply better, meritorious, when it serves their interests, Jewish political planners and academics generally want to maneuver us into a rightist position because it leaves us naive, organizationally weak, amoral, and unaccountable to our own as a relational class of people. White traitors also want us to be rightists so that they can avoid accountability.
Finally, in calling "the Left" our enemy, our advocates also obfuscate the means of solution by creating an aversion to what we need – a social classification of ourselves as a people, a full class of people. The Left is always about social classification if you sort out abuse of the term.
When we refer to ourselves as a people, we are classifying. The Left is a function of systemic classification, designating a group of people the interests of whom are to be looked after as a class – protecting against outsiders, e.g. "scab" union busters and plutocratic exploitation of labor. Sound familiar? We classify ourselves as Whites for highly analogous reasons: to protect ourselves from opportunistic outsiders and from elitist exploitation and indifference.
If our philosophy is correct, as White advocates, we are leftists. Why? Because we are advocating a people, not objective facts, not simply describing facts, independent of interactive involvement and consequences. We are, if we are good White advocates, saying, "if a tree falls in the woods and there are no White people left to hear it, to talk about it, at least, it may make a noise, but may as well not for all it matters." We are taking a people-centric perspective and a White-people-centric position, specifically. We are acknowledging that nothing exists outside of interaction and how facts count must be negotiated between people. And being mammals, caring about closer personal relationships, as we do, preferably by White people.
In fact, the moment we refer to ourselves as Whites, or indigenous Europeans, we are parceling a relative classification of ourselves socially and that is the reality. Whereas the Right, inasmuch as it pursues objectivity independent of interaction, social interaction, and a negotiation of how things count, is always something of an illusion.
If Kevin MacDonald looks at two DNA strands and says, this one is Jewish and this one is White, he must address at least one colleague with this information, in seeking agreement. In some cases, data will be agreed upon by nearly 100% of people and that will generally be called, "objective." A few may disagree, but they will be considered crazy. Nevertheless, the data, the observation and how it counts, occurs in social interaction (or it may as well not occur at all).
Moreover, to identify who we are as a full social class would give us the moral high ground and powerful organizational function at once. The White Class: viz., persons of native European descent, with interests relative to our class as such, would entail two-way accountability to our class straight away, from those on top and from those in developmental, marginalized stages; i.e., our relative, relational interests, irrespective of whether White traitors and non-Whites, those outside The White Class, are more or less "objectively" capable. Non-Whites might be allies, but they are not in the class. White traitors are traitors, their abilities only making them more offensive. The White Class, The Indigenous European Class (with its subcategories, yes), would define who we are and to whom we are largely accountable
On the other hand, when we are made averse to Leftism, we are blocked from classifying ourselves as a people – a classification that takes into account processes, all stages of development (within the lifetime) and evolution (beyond the lifetime); a classification that makes an important difference as it takes into account and respects our paradigmatic difference, a differences that make a difference from other groups, our qualitative form and function, systemic pattern, its ecological disbursement, niche differences, logics of meaning and action that can make us more cooperative among ourselves and less conflicting with non-Whites when practicality is the better part of valor.
Coming back to our first big problem in calling "them" the "Left."
When our advocates attribute Leftism to our enemies, they are not addressing the agentive Jewish machinations against our people, but rather attributing the problem to an ideology or less, a devil word, the "Left." This obfuscates the fact that Jews are classifying themselves and looking after their own interests, hiding their own agency in promoting hyperbolic liberal ideas and antagonism to Whites – promoting those outside or antagonistic to the White Class as "marginals" come to "enrich" us. Jewish agency is hidden behind the attribution of "the Left" – whether the agency behind economic Marxism or the cultural Marxism of PC
Our second big problem obfuscated by calling our enemies, 'the Left.'
Our wish for the "innocence" of objectivism or the appearance thereof, the pretense of such objectivism in order to avoid accountability
Whether of religious speculation which seeks to establish its pure innocence, a clique of scientistic elitists who seek to establish the pure objective warrant of their discoveries, or the pure might-makes-right of the quasi-individual and corporate "individual" of U.S. law, the Right is characterizable as a quest for objectivity which would make quick work of accountability – whether through a naïve whish to be innocent through objectivity or worse, through a cynical wish to avoid accountability through a pretense of objectivity.
While a White Leftist perspective would not begrudge persons who do some things better their due, their difference, so long as they are accountable to the relative interests of the class, people tend to want to believe their success is more a result of their sheer independence than it actually is – the Right is pseudo objectivist, faithfully, slavishly leaving nature to its own devices – we are caused, pseudo detached from the social, anti-social, unaccountable and inhumane as such – "that's just the way it is", according to nature, or seeking account in the elusive and insensible speculation of religion.
Michael O'Meara does make an excellent point that self-destruction is inherent within the Western ways that Jews are already exploiting – I would say viz., objectivism, scientism, liberalism, Christianity, universalism, capitalism – these things which pose as "innocent" are largely naïve or disingenuous by definition in not calling for accountability to relative and subjective interests as a White class; and narcissistically not recognizing the relative/subjective interests of others (e.g., Muslims, Blacks, Asians) as a class; we would thus be taken advantage of, it would lead to our destruction, Jews or not.
While understandable, the wish to transcend relative and relational interests of the class, into the innocence and power gambit of sheer objectivist pursuit creates a narcissistic, hyper-relativistic upshot. In pursuing innocence of pure criteria, void of relative, relational and subjective interests, we limit accountability, reduce comparisons between people to singular, non-qualitative criteria, comparing, blending what are in fact paradigmatic differences, incommensurate logics of meaning and action between various peoples – typically to disastrous effect.
The Right is enamored of enlightenment objectivism, which reached its height in Descartes' quest for a fixed logic transcendent of nature; and its depth in the empiricism of Locke, trying to find fixed foundational laws within nature. Locke was motivated by empiricism as an argument against the English Aristocratic class, which he resented for its superior educational opportunities. He asserted thus, that as each individual has the same perceptions that social classifications are a fiction of the mind and should be prohibited in favor of civil individual rights – that prejudice against classification of peoples was written into the U.S. Constitution, rupturing relations and development processes, leaving us weak to collectively organized enemies, such as Jews.
The means of solution
Kant tried and failed to resolve the problems of Cartesianism and Lockeatine empiricism by integrating it on universal foundational principles. It is rectified indeed, however, with the hermeneutic process, an optimizing, tacking back and forth as need be between verification of smaller units of analysis, such as our DNA and its relation to our environment, to the more protracted and patterned facets of our DNA's expressions, relations encompassed in social classification; the answer in a word, is to re-establish the relative and relational interests of social classification – a people centric perspective: a tree may make a noise when falling in the woods but if there are no (White) people left to hear it, or talk about it, may as well not make a noise for all it matters to us – thus, we re-assert Whites as a Classification in particular, The White Class comprehending those of native European extraction, their sub-nations, regions (and not others) as the means and the solution. At the same time, observing Bateson's correction of Darwinism, that the organism plus environment is the unit of survival – the organism which destroys its environment, it's habitat, destroys itself.
For Kant, who had not rid himself of Cartesianism, good will was to treat every individual as an end in them self; for us, rather, the White Class and its environment ought to be treated as the relational, relative end in itself – it is those who fight on behalf of Whites, who tactfully flee on behalf of Whites or who stealthily infiltrate on behalf of Whites; those who respect the quality of differences that make a cooperative difference among the White class and toward other peoples who are of good will; as opposed to narcissistic comparisons of equality which entail unnecessary competition, reciprocally escalating diatribe and war. Succinctly, a White Class would call for more accountability to and from our individual members; and a more general sort of accountability to environment and non-Whites as a class – that we neither exploit them nor abet their over-population and incursion upon us.
Relative, relational separatism is always possible, is a first step, as well as our ultimate aim. If some of our members are better in some ways, and it helps, great! But we do not need that argument for separatism. In essence, we want to be separate, not to lord ourselves over and exploit others. That is a difference between White elitists and White Leftist Separatists, The White Class.
1) I am indebted to TT Metzger for encouraging a leftist outlook; I had been stuck in the neither left nor right trap until he got me to thinking. He also made the best enhancement to the "ship of praxis" – that its big leading gun ought to be the issue of population as it relates to environment.


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PORT ST. LUCIE — Who needs pulled pork when you can enjoy healed hammy?
The Mets yesterday indulged in a feast that left them drooling for more. Jon Niese — he of the torn hamstring tendon last summer — and formerly hamstrung shortstop Jose Reyes put on a show that elicited smiles from their teammates and coaches during an intrasquad scrimmage at Tradition Field.
Niese returned to facing hitters for the first time since his freak season-ending mishap, striking out the first three batters he faced over two shutout innings. Reyes, batting third in the lineup, smashed the first pitch he saw for a two-run triple.
You can't beat the healed hammy.
"The leg feels good and it feels good to be in one piece," said Niese, who tore his right hamstring tendon while doing a split as he covered fast base at Citi Field against the Cardinals on Aug. 5.
Niese unveiled a new overhand curve and used the pitch to strike out Angel Pagan, Alex Cora and Jason Pridie in succession to begin the game. The left-hander then retired three of four batters in the second inning, allowing only a walk to Mike Jacobs.
It was a first good step for Niese, the front-runner to become the Mets' fifth starter. Fernando Nieve, Pat Misch, Nelson Figueroa and Josh Fogg are the other candidates in camp.
"If healthy and performing as he performed [last summer], and he's our fifth guy, then we're in pretty good shape," manager Jerry Manuel said, referring to Niese. "If he can do that, it creates some versatility we can have in other guys. He's a huge piece for me."
Niese recalled the three weeks he spent in bed after his August surgery and the additional three weeks he spent on crutches. He couldn't have asked for a much better return to the mound.
"It's been awhile," he said. "I'm just glad I'm past the step where the leg is not an issue."
Reyes came to the plate against Tobi Stoner with runners on first and second and drilled the first pitch into the right-field corner. He raced easily to third base, without sliding.
"I felt a little weird when I stepped in the batter's box," said Reyes, who missed most of last season with a bum right hamstring tendon. "It had been a long time, and when I hit the ball, I said, 'Oh my God, I have to run now.' But my leg is good and I didn't have to worry about it."
Manuel, in what might be a preview of the starting lineup he'll employ for Opening Day, used Gary Matthews Jr., Luis Castillo and Reyes as a 1-2-3 combo. Perhaps the triple was the first sign Reyes can succeed as a No. 3 hitter.
"I feel very confident that he can handle that," Manuel said. "It gives us a great balance if we can pull that off.
"As a switch hitter that has the ability to drive in runs and also gets himself into scoring position, it would be huge."
Reyes wore a huge smile after his triple, a sight that reminded the Mets how fun things can be when their starting shortstop is healthy.
"This team is at its best when he's at his best," David Wright said. "In order for us to get to where we want to go, we're going to need a healthy Jose Reyes."


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One of the joys of learning a language is the kick that you get when you encounter a truly expressive word that has no equivalent in any other language you know.
How many times have you looked at Emraan Hashmi, Deve Gowda or Himesh Reshammiya and struggled to sum up what you thought about their faces? The germans have just the right word for it. "Backpfeifengesicht": a face that cries out for a fist in it.
Just last fortnight, on our trip to see Kuranji Pushpa, we stopped at a lake called GaLikere for a while. The lake is perched on the top of a mountain and Everytime a strong wind blows, the water tips over from the side. That's how it got it's name. It used to be one of the most pristine spots I've ever seen, until a super-idiotic belief suddenly sprang up. People started to follow the custom of leaving their underwear behind after they took bath there, b********! Anyway, that's not the point of this post. At the lake, I got the chance to show off my skill at the game I used to call, until recently, "bouncing stones on water". Apparently, in dutch (oh I'm so in love with the language) they have a name for the sport, plimpplampplettere.
Every Saturday morning, my mom drives herself into a frenzy and turns the house inside out in her quest to personally attack every dust particle. In deutschland they call the mania Putzfimmel.
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Bruce Thomas
Bruce Thomas (born 14 August 1948, Stockton-on-Tees, England) is best known as bassist for the Attractions;[1] the band formed in 1977 to back Elvis Costello in concert and on record.
Thomas is also the author of 1994's Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit, a biography of the renowned martial artist and movie star, and 1991's The Body of Time (and the Energies of Being), ISBN 0-14-019301-4, a short book about metaphysics.
Early life
Thomas attended Grangefield Grammar School in Stockton on Tees, and after leaving, worked as a trainee commercial-artist at the local Evening Gazette newspaper. He was playing bass in local bands at night, around his home town, and eventually joined the Roadrunners (with Paul Rodgers & Micky Moody). After Rodgers switched from playing bass to being their up-front singer, the band changed their name to The Wildflowers, and in late 1966 decided to quit their respective day-jobs and move to London. After achieving little success, the band eventually split.
Thomas remained in London, hooking up with Bitter Sweet and Bodast in the late 1960s and recording with Quiver, The Sutherland Brothers, Moonrider and Al Stewart in the early 1970s.
His inventive and highly melodic bass work with Costello brought Thomas his greatest fame. Between 1977 and 1987, Elvis Costello & The Attractions released nine record albums, including This Year's Model (1978), Punch the Clock (1983), and Blood & Chocolate (1986), and toured extensively.
During his tenure with the Attractions, Thomas used a wide variety of bass guitars. He at various times owned a good selection of Fender Precisions, a Danelectro Longhorn and a Wal bass.
After Costello's initial split with the Attractions in 1987, Thomas recorded with such other artists as Billy Bragg, John Wesley Harding, and Suzanne Vega. In 1990 he released his first book The Big Wheel, a memoir in which the key characters are recognizable without ever being identified by name. Costello, for instance, is called "the singer." Apparently annoyed by his depiction in the book, Costello responded with the song "How To Be Dumb" on his album Mighty Like a Rose (1991). Costello has described his relationship with Thomas during this period as "pretty non-existent".
Despite this estrangement, Costello was persuaded by co-producer Mitchell Froom to invite Thomas to play on the album Brutal Youth (1994). Thomas was featured on 5 tracks of the album.[2] The reunited Elvis Costello & the Attractions followed the album with a tour and another album All This Useless Beauty (1996). Toward the end of a second tour, Costello announced that he would be splitting with the group as soon as the tour was over. Elvis Costello & the Attractions played their final concert on 15 September 1996, in Nagoya, Japan.
Costello has said in interviews with a variety of publications, including the Rocky Mountain News, that the old animosity between himself and Thomas returned. Costello claimed that Thomas deliberately sabotaged some songs onstage, which was the breaking point. The other two Attractions, Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas (no relation to Bruce), have continued to tour and record with Costello as The Imposters, with Davey Faragher, formerly of Cracker, on bass. Bruce Thomas has said that he simply lost interest in playing with Costello. In an interview Thomas stated "no reformation is ever going to come about under my initiative – or under any other circumstances I can foresee."[3]
In 2003 Thomas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.[4] Thomas appeared onstage with Costello to accept the honour, but they did not perform together. Thomas's book On the Road... Again, the sequel to The Big Wheel, was published that same year.
- ↑ Palmer, Robert (2 February 1981). "Elvis Costello Shows Range and Consistency". New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/brutal-youth-mw0000107917
- ↑ http://therebelmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/q-with-bruce-thomas.html
- ↑ "Inductees by Year (2003)". Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 22 January 2011.


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After months of baited breath, I am proud to announce that there has been news on Chris Morris' latest project; Four Lions.
The satirist responsible for projects such as The Day Today and Brass Eye has been in relative hiding in recent years, doing painstaking research into Muslim culture and the nature of suicide bombing, in one of his bravest moves yet; a 'jihadi comedy'.
There is no doubt that Four Lions is going to cause huge waves, but the question remains, where? Morris has reportedly been speaking to everyone from armed police to security experts to Muslim community workers. That and getting into a fight with Martin Amis. The expectation is that, like Brass Eye, this will cause a large amount of offence, especially due to the volatility of the subject matter, something on a par with the Danish cartoons which set a large group of extremist Muslims at war with the Danes.
But I don't believe that Morris took this project on simply to start a tornado of Islami-political hell. There is no doubt that this will be the most challenging project he's ever done, and my gut tells me that he would not use the opportunity to simply offend as many Muslims as possible.
The project has some great names attached to it, the named so far include Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, as well as staple Morris comics such as Kevin Eldon.
We seem to be barely months from the first genuine 'jihadi comedy' feature film. There is no doubt that this will severely shake up the Western stance towards Islam in one way or another. However, I think if there's one person who can handle this gig, it's Morris.
The production company has reportedly said that the film's 'tornado of industry is now trapped and humming in a box'. It's certainly worth being there when that box is opened.
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