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Two weeks ago, Larry King welcomed Anna Paquin on his Hulu series to talk about everything from the sadness that comes from wrapping up a TV series to her bisexuality, and while the latter was certainly more interesting to most people, she revealed very little about what we can expect from the final four hours of True Blood. Obviously, we shouldn't expect Sookie Stackhouse to spill her faery beans on any shocking revelations that may be coming, but let's be serious. I'm laying down the gauntlet once and for all to make the most obvious statement I can possibly make – nothing shocking will happen before the final credits roll for "Thank You" on August 24.
"So why do we bother, Burnsy?" Why? Because we are so damn close, and for all of the people who have chimed in to say, "I can't believe you people still watch this sh*t," we deserve to see this thing through, even if the final scene will probably make The Sopranos cutting to black look like Sam Malone locking up Cheers. For poops and laughs, though, I'm going to make my final predictions for how these next four episodes will play out, starting with this week's episode, "May Be the Last Time." (Remember, I write this intro before I watch the episode, as if to say, "Hey, let's all go into this with fresh eyeballs and the lowest expectations imaginable.")
– Violet will meet her end at Jessica's hands, and then our favorite eternal virgin will end up with Jason, after whatever weird crap goes down with Hoyt, who had no reason to come back.
– Eric will end up being cured with Sarah's blood after he kills her. That will be awesome. Then, Eric and Pam will go off on a global adventure together, because they love each other or something dumb like that.
– Bill will die, though, so he can spend the after-afterlife with his wife and the little girl from the eHarmony commercials.
– Lettie Mae will figure out what is causing Tara to look like a character in an Aphex Twin music video and finally end that terrible story, but seven episodes too late.
– Sam will end up with Sookie, because he's the dude who still loves the girl who dated all the cool guys until they all realized they weren't ever cool.
Again, those are just predictions, but I feel very confident about each of them. Until then, let's get on with "May Be the Last Time," the seventh episode of the final season of True Blood.
True or False: Well, that was a big, dumb way to start the episode, Eric.
Okay, first thing's first – I never thought that Sarah Newlin could be a worse character, in terms of a combination of pure evil and bad writing, but NewMe? I wish I had made a Vine of my groan when Amber Mills called her that before Eric did us all a solid and turned her into a pool of poorly-made red Jello. Anyway, how the hell are we going to find Sarah now with the last person (or vampire, rather) that she loved is now corn syrup staining an ugly floor? I don't know, but I'll bet we'll find out in the final 20 seconds of this episode as usual.
True or False: Andy just needs to suck it up and let Adilyn have sex with her future stepbrother already.
Bon Temps is already one of the most perverted places on the face of this fictional version of Earth, so if Adilyn wants to have sex with Wade because she loves him, then just let them. The fact that they're going to be stepsiblings soon only makes them the 3,258,758th most perverted people in the town.
True or False: Nothing about the progression of Hep-V makes a lick of sense.
The vampire horde from the beginning of this season featured a bunch of guys and gals who looked like they were two seconds away from barfing up their organs, and yet they were devouring entire towns. Meanwhile, when Pam finally caught up with Eric and realized that he was sick, he looked like he had the flu, and he's only just now acting like he's dying. And Bill doubled down on the sickness by getting the virus with Sookie's faery blood, which according to that hilarious doctor is probably the worst thing imaginable. So how is Bill still alive? None of this makes sense.
True or False: Violet's collection of sex toys is almost as impressive as your mom's.
But seriously, these two should just be killed off, because they're too stupid for their own good.
True or False: Let's forget about the dying vampires that are the show's main characters so we can watch Arlene have a dream about having her pocket filled on a pool table.
There's something really sweet about the fact that Arlene might be in love with Keith, the rocker vampire who played that dude on 24 one time, but she's scared to be with him, not because he's a ruthless killing machine, but because she'll give him Hep-V. There's something even sweeter about the fact that he doesn't want to have Earth-rattling sex with her on a pool table, and he just wants to dance with her. But you know what? They didn't need to devote all that time to it, because it's meaningless to the conclusion of the series.
True or False: Look at that, True Blood proved me wrong.
We actually got to check back in with Eric, Pam and Mr. Gus Jr. before the 20-minute mark this week. Sure, they just rehashed the deal they already made by throwing a few billion dollars into it, but now we at least know that they'll find NewMe by using all of Japan's intelligence. Because if there's one thing that Japan's spy network is good at, it's finding Texas girls who have recently dyed their hair and taken up Buddhism.
True or False: Grandpa Niall is a dick.
That's pretty cold that Rutger Hauer let Sookie infect Bill because he doesn't like her taste in vampires. I guess I don't blame the guy too much, but I love that in what might be the laziest final season of any TV series ever written, the hindsight solution to Bill being infected was as simple as, "Yeah, I could have stopped it, but I didn't, because your boyfriend sucks."
True or False: Menacing, imaginary Jason Stackhouse is the worst Jason Stackhouse yet.
This was a huge episode for Ryan Kwanten, because Jason was all over the place. First, he was getting the hots for Hoyt Fortenberry's inexplicably attractive marine biologist girlfriend while the guy was examining his mom's rotted, weeks-old corpse, and then he was haunting NewMe's return to her old Christian camp. At least the hallucination form of Jason contributed to the plot. The other one was just a dickhead.
True or False: 53-f*cking-minutes before Violet did anything interesting.
And that lasted 10 whole seconds. Adilyn and Wade spent more time fretting over Violet's sex toys than Violet did threatening either of them. Wow, what suspense. I can't wait to see what's next on the career ladder for this show's writers. Maybe a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book that's two pages long.
True or False: Oh cool, NewMe thinks she's the messiah.
When faced with having your head and limbs pulled from your body with extreme prejudice by a very ill vampire and/or the Yakuza, it's great to let your delusions of grandeur hit their peak like NewMe did. At least we got Steve Newlin in a hallucination so we could remember how awful he was one last time. Oh, and a battle of spiritualism for her soul? You really do spoil us with meaningless crap, True Blood.
In all seriousness, how awesome could a complete mental breakdown scene have been with Sarah's five former lovers returning in hallucination form? Even Governor Burrell could have had a few lines as a severed head. They should have argued with each other while berating her and driving her more toward complete madness, but do you know what that would have been? A meaningful plot device that brings a character's delusions and ironic sexual history full circle. CAN'T HAVE THAT NOW, CAN WE???
True or False: Hey, if you're already dying at an accelerated pace, might as well f*ck and make it go faster.
For being the smartest vampire in Bon Temps, Bill sure is an idiot. Then again, we've already come to the realization that Hep-V has no boundaries, because nobody is actually dead from it, so maybe by having sex with Sookie, Bill will somehow reverse course. It's worth a try! Also, if my prediction about Sookie and Sam is right, then Sam is just about the most pathetic man in, around and outside of Bon Temps. Enjoy stocking up on Purell, Mr. Mayor.
True or False: Pam remains the best thing about this sinking ship.
Another Quote of the Week winner from our favorite girl.
On Next Week's Episode of True Blood…
Looks like we have two raids going down at one time, with Eric and Gus Jr. going after NewMe and everyone else going after Violet. But with three episodes left, that's plenty of time to resolve the plot points that matter, so I hope we get at least 45 minutes of Arlene dancing.


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Each year the highly prestigious Festival de Cannes or Cannes Film Festival is held in France. The festival has become world renown for being a hot spot for high quality mainstream and independent cinematic content. I am always excited to see the lineup of interesting and artistic films from some of the world's leading directors and artists. I have always dreamed of attending the festival myself, however since that's not possible, watching the films will have to do.
In the ever expanding age of accessible filmmaking, the movie market is experiencing a larger influx than ever. For the first time low budget indie feature films can break through and become just as successful as their Hollywood counterparts. Not only is this an exciting era for budding filmmakers, but it also means that the quality of storytelling is constantly on the rise.

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Ten's Week From Hell Continues, As Tom Arnold Set To Sue Over "I'm A Celeb" Contract
Just when Network Ten's woes couldn't get any worse, the broadcaster can now throw in a massive lawsuit with its voluntary administration in what can best be described as a week from hell.
As reported on B&T back in early March, US comedian Tom Arnold has officially filed a lawsuit against the Network Ten over a contractual dispute surrounding his appearance on Ten's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here earlier this year.
According to Arnold he agreed to appear on the program – he was the first contestant evicted – for an appearance fee of $US425,000 ($A560,000). The sum of money was not only was for appearing on the show, which is filmed in South Africa, but also included a follow-up stand-up tour of Australia.
Arnold claims breach of contract because he is still reportedly owed $US140,000 and the tour never went ahead as planned. He's now suing the Network Ten and celebrity agency A-List Entertainment for fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation and breach of oral contract.
B&T approached Ten for comment who offered the official line: "All amounts owed to Tom Arnold by Network Ten have been paid. We have fully discharged all our obligations to Tom Arnold. And we have received no notice of any legal proceedings."
How Arnold's claims will go now that Ten is in receivership is unclear.
Arnold is also reportedly upset that he was portrayed as miserable in the couple of weeks he was on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here blaming in on the producer's editing. Arnold believed the portrayal would have seriously affected his mooted comedy tour.
His lawyer, Marty Singer, has said: "Network Ten ensured Arnold that its depiction of Arnold on the program would not endanger the Australian comedy tour," his comments reported on News.com.au.


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This is the first of two parts, originally published in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Aug 1880. Vol. 71, Iss. 2, p. 72-76. The author, Samuel Leavitt, was an associate of Joshua King Ingalls and George Jacob Holyoake. His work appeared in various of the Onieda colony publications, and in The Arena. In his Reminiscences, Joshua King Ingalls wrote:
I should apologize perhaps to Mr. Samuel Leavitt, for not mentioning his name before. But he has been met on so many different platforms, I scarce know where to place him, particularly. We were in accord on the land and interest problems: but differed politically on the tariff and the greenback questions, although I acted as treasurer for the Liberty Bell, which he published in the Peter Cooper Presidential campaign. He advocated rational divorce for mismated couples. He has been a newspaper man ever since I knew him. He was the author of "Caliban and Shylock," "Peace Maker Grange," a social romance, and "Our Money War," a most elaborate and exact statement of the history of our money metallic or paper, since the existence of our nation, with a bias in favor of fiat money.
Notice, near the end of this essay, Leavitt's prediction that "a Central Council or a 'Pantarch' will probably guide the movements and actions of the earth's twenty or thirty billion inhabitants." The use of Stephen Pearl Andrews' term is probably not accidental, and the vision here is perhaps not so far off from Andrews' Pantarchy.
This essay is not, as might be supposed, a studied effort to refute the special doctrines of Malthus. It is simply an effort toward the rebuttal of one of his main propositions, namely, that great and immediate effort is necessary toward curtailing the natural increase of the human family, Two simple questions will be discussed in this writing.
1. Is there in the aggregate, or in any large portion of the earth, a real overpopulation? 2 What means shall be used to fill the earth with good and wise people?
As to the first point, the facts concerning the actual population of the various countries will be at once considered.
The area of dry land upon the globe is in round numbers about 51,590,000 square miles, equaling 33,000,000,000 square acres.
The human family is now reckoned to number 1,400,000,000 or about one billion and a half. China, which is so often referred to as over-populated, has 3,742,000 square miles, much of it waste, and 446,000,000 inhabitants, according to a recent report of Prof. Schem. This gives the Chinese five acres apiece. Japan has about 150,000 square miles or 96,000,000 acres, say two and five-sevenths acres for each person.
Saxony, in the German Empire, has 3,698,500 acres and 2,556,244 people; or about an acre and a half apiece. Belgium is said to have one person for each acre.
So then, this globe, filled as to its dry land, with people, would contain about thirty-three billions if populated at the Belgic rate; twenty-two billions at the Saxon rate; twelve billions at the Japanese rate, and six and a half billions at the Chinese rate, yet people go snuffling around, bewailing the swift coming of "the crack of doom," when we have as yet less than a billion and a half of fellow-creatures around us here; and have no evidence that the number was ever greater than that,
The greatest evil accruing from this idea is, that it gives hard-hearted people an excuse for still further hardening their hearts against their poorer fellows, and—as in the case of the attitude of some European nations toward their foreign dependencies calmly and stolidly watching the slow starvation of millions of famine-stricken wretches.
As to Malthus, he was not a bad man, and he was a hard-working, careful, patient student and collector of facts. But he would see nothing except from an aristocratic standpoint: was quite firmly convinced that the many were born ready saddled and bridled that the few might ride." As to England, for instance, it never occurred to him that millions of poor workers could comfortably subsist upon the ground wasted by the nobility and gentry in parks; and that millions more could have a comfortable living in the cities, if the factory owners would be content with a fair share of the profit upon the labor of their "hands," and by greatly diminishing the hours of labor give employment to these other millions.
A favorite statement of Malthus is, "Population always increases where the means of subsistence increases." This might have been a saying of important significance at his time, when the subsistence of a community was usually gathered from its immediate neighborhood. Now, however, when the telegraph informs the ends of the earth instantly, when any species of food becomes scarce at any point, and steamers and rail cars can speedily supply the need from any region enjoying a surplus, such a statement becomes quite meaningless.
The main natural checks to population, according to Malthus, are, moral restraints, vice, and misery. He seemed to put much more reliance upon the latter than upon the former, His chief critic, the celebrated Godwin, justly remarked that he should have added "bad human laws and institutions" to his list of existing checks. A specimen of the faulty reasoning of Malthus is found in his statement concerning the population of Australia. He gets his facts from Capt. Cooke, with regard to the scarcity of population on that huge island; and sagely says:
"By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such numbers as it can subsist, is not perhaps very easy to guess." He thus takes it for granted (forming the conclusion from the supposed love that he evolved from his inner consciousness) that the straggling savages who peopled Australia, in his day, numbered exactly so many human creatures as the island was capable of feeding.
The philosopher is certainly right in the abstract, where he maintains that if human propagation were maintained at its now usual rate, after the "millennium" had arrived, and vice, disease, and misery had ceased to check it, there would be danger of a genuine worldwide overpopulation. We know that in "the good time coming" there will be some new checks. But we also know that they will be natural, and will in no sense militate against the welfare of individuals or communities. We already get an inkling of what these checks will be, in the fact that families of the highest culture and refinement are not as prolific, though they make no attempt to check propagation, as those in the same nation that are subjected to all manner of hardship and privation, short of that extreme distress that always effectually checks population.
We may be sure of one thing—at let those of us who believe in Divine Providence—that as fast as there is any actual necessity for checks (a necessity never yet really reached), the good and wise will be shown what checks to use, and will faithfully adopt them. All the talk of Malthus about the food supply of barbarians and nomads goes for nothing. Following his absurd "law" that population always increases where the means of subsistence increases," he doubtless gravely decided that the few wandering tribes of Indians on this continent represented fully the population that it was capable of sustaining. Nomads never really try to obtain the principal part of the subsistence that even they know to be contained in the earth beneath their feet.
O that I could send a glad cry of surprise and discovery throughout the nations: "Increase, multiply, replenish the wide earth! Fill it with wise and good people! It is not yet one-tenth full. It will never be thoroughly healthy and habitable until it is thoroughly filled by intelligent and virtuous human creatures, who will remove all nuisances by a wise culture and drainage of every arable acre."
Here is an idea that is reliable, and is quite opposite to the whole tenor of Malthusianism: namely, that we should hasten to populate the globe densely, in order to make it truly habitable. "How horrible! what madness!" exclaim the disciples of this prophet of despair; "the very day the earth gets full, the people will begin to starve, if not before, in spite of your millennium."
Our cheerful answer is: "Trust in the Lord (or in Nature, if you prefer), and do good. Commit thy way unto Him!"
There is now and then a streak of light in the writings of Malthus that relieves the murkiness of his pictures. The following from his Chapter II. really goes quite against his main arguments. He says: "It has been observed that many countries at the period of their greatest degree of populousness have lived in the greatest plenty and have been able to export grain; . . . . and that, as Lord Kaimes observes, 'A country can not easily become too populous; because agriculture has the signal property of producing food in proportion to the number of consumers.'"
This is a practically opposite statement to that previously given, viz.: "Population always increases where the means of subsistence increases."
Malthus pays a merited tribute to the monasteries of Europe, where, he says, the agricultural monks have done wonders in fertilizing waste and barren places. Truly here is a genuine work of use for religious devotees The Romanist monks called Trappists have a grand enthusiasm in this direction, similar to that of the old Benedictines. Already have they made many sterile regions blossom like the rose. What a noble work to fertilize the earth for coming happy generations! If people will insist upon being martyrs, they can not select a better form of self-sacrifice. But there is really little need for such work while the greater part of the fertile land is still untilled. Beautiful, smiling wildernesses, the world over, are fairly crying out for human culture and appreciation, and proffering unbounded sustenance from their teeming bosoms.
Careful estimates show that the Valley of Orinoco alone, where an acre of bananas will feed a village, would supply nourishment for the whole population of the world. What nonsense, then, to raise the alarm about over-population. Rather let those who feel an interest in the general welfare busy themselves very specially in scattering the multitudes now gathered in a few regions throughout the unoccupied fertile places.
As the most striking novelty in this writing is the demand that the earth be really filled with good and wise people as soon as possible, in order that it may be made perfectly healthy, the substantiation of that theory must be my main object. It seems a strange statement that: Wise human creatures are Nature's great disinfectant! and this can be proved; and a very important part of the proof is obtainable from the recently developed facts concerning what is called the "Dry earth system of treating sewage."
There is nothing more wonderful in modern discovery—or rather re-discovery, for Moses tried to teach these things to humanity thousands of years ago—than the disintegrating and disinfecting effect of applying dry earth to animal and vegetable refuse. The man of philosophic and philanthropic mind, who has used the same earth from six to ten times in an earth closet, and found the disinfective and disintegrative effect as complete the last time as the first, has visions rise before him of the future blessedness of our race and the redemption of the earth under our feet that are quite joyous. Such a man stands aghast as he beholds the waste going on around him, in the destruction of soils and the materials that would recuperate them.
I believe that by the help of this system every living creature can be made to give back to the earth an amount of fertilization, that, added to that derivable from air sunshine and water will fully equal what it takes from the earth. In this fact, if a fact, we have a solution of economical and agricultural questions, worth all the libraries that have been written about the preservation of soils. It explodes also some of the theories of Malthus.
Now as to the methods of distributing the population of the earth, some say that the poor and foolish can not be organized into successful colonies. Such point to the failure of Robert Owen. But a colony is not necessarily a socialistic community. Ancient and modern history are full of accounts of colonies that were successful. Every migration of portions of tribes has been of that nature. Even socialistic colonies, such as those of Shakers, etc., have been very successful in our country.
Those who establish harmonious colonies do a work like that of Sisters of Mercy on a battle-field; the latter move over the field, soothing the wounded, without considering the nationality of the combatants or the cause of their quarrel. So the founder of a colony need not consider the politics of the people he removes to an improved situation, nor the politics of those among whom he puts them. We should remember when we wander through the miserable slums of a city, that while the inhabitants of these places are half starved, the humming insects and the singing birds are the sole occupants of millions of fertile acres, which would afford these suffering humans happy homes and abundant sustenance. Many will reply that thousands of these people are so shiftless that they would do no better on the soil than they do in the slum. Here comes in the reorganization of society again, and the time will come when men who are able financiers and industrial managers will feel themselves as much bound to exercise their peculiar gifts for human advancement, as a few clergymen, and also some artists, literary men, etc., now do to exercise their peculiar gifts to that end.
As the steam-engine, telegraphy, and discoveries and inventions are rapidly making "all the world akin," the fact of being our brother's keeper is more and more forced upon the conscience of Christendom. The time will be when men and women who are not wise or energetic enough to put themselves in fitting surroundings will be persuaded to suffer themselves to be organized into some sort of association by the wise and good, who will lead them to the green pastures and beside the still waters of the less populous parts of the country. Then we shall have such grand work done all over the land as glorious William Penn did, when he drew a multitude after him to the sylvan land of Pennsylvania and the city of Brotherly Love, and made it the model city of the world, though that is not saying much. The possible majesty of an organized colonization movement is seen in the fact that in 1878, when very few European emigrants came to the United States, 800,000 of our people went west of the Mississippi. Through lack of just those elements that colony migration would have given them, these isolated settlers endured fearful privations. Thousands, having lost the savings of a life-time in the universal destruction brought upon us by our rulers, between 1873 and 1878, had gathered up the wrecks of their fortunes, and some in wagons, some on foot, pushed for the wilderness—an incoherent multitude. Thousands who had money enough and brains enough to make very valuable and successful members of skillfully-organized colonies soon found themselves out of money, health, and hope, living in holes in the ground. They had staked their last dollar on this great risk, and were now forced (when past middle age in many cases) to return East and begin life again as "hands" in factory, shop, and Store. The money they wasted would have taken them, under a true cooperative system, in palace cars to palace homes on the prairies. What a grand work to organize such, and save them from such destruction! What a blessedness! Let each rich philanthropic man say: I will be an Industrial Moses! I will stand right here in my lot and organize my employés in co-operative workshops like Godin's, or lead a multitude, in shape of a thoroughly-equipped colony, into the new country.
And now to return to the means of getting the whole earth ready for an immense population. Whoever even admits the truth of the "dry earth" doctrine will see that we have small occasion as yet to fear over-population. When such means are in thorough use, there need be no waste, no malaria. All available food material will be used. But the world's population must be held under very strict control if there is to be at no place either famine or over-production. Many new expedients will be adopted. The earth will be gathered by great machines from the vast alluvial deposits, where it is wasted (for instance, from the deltas of the Amazon, Nile, Ganges), and deposited on the barren plains. This very work was done on a large scale by the "mound builders," who once peopled this country.
Great discoveries will be made in agricultural chemistry. Many materials now wasted will be replaced by others that are cheaper and more available. We used to say, "The fire wood will be used up"—then came the coal; we said, "The whales will all be destroyed"— then came coal-oil; now we have been saying, "The coal and coal-oil will run out"—and here comes electricity to take their place.
In the future the world's work will be done, more and more, by machinery; therefore, human creatures will need much less food than now, as their energies will not be so exhausted by hard work. All the wildernesses, deserts, and mountains, up to the snow line, will be turned to use in some way for human sustenance. The waters of the ocean w ill be ransacked for edible fish, and its inedible monsters will be exterminated (as will be all those of the land). All inland seas, lakes, ponds, and streams will be stocked with fish, and vast water spaces will be covered with human habitations, as in China.
A thousand or ten thousand years from now, a Central Council or a 'Pantarch' will probably guide the movements and actions of the earth's twenty or thirty billion inhabitants, just as the wonderful train-controller, perched high at the north end of the Union depot in New York, controls, by manipulating rows of buttons connected with the telegraphic instruments, all the trains of the three great railroads centering there. Whereas now able men control the distribution of money, produce, goods, etc., over the world, in a way that suits their selfish aims, so then will the same thing be done by men actuated by pure benevolence. That Central Council or Bureau will be in electric communication with every corner of the earth, and will be continually sending forth messages of information, warning and exhortation.
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"A stranger was found yesterday wandering near Behring's Straits, American side, after ten in the morning, without his breakfast—no one having offered him any." This is just one of the shocking future events in the "Millenual Bulletins" contained in Samuel Leavitt's second "Anti-Malthus" essay. Actually, a number of Leavitt's predictions are shocking, and reflect some fairly unpleasant ideas about human beings, progress and the like. I want to do some more with these essays in another post, but, for now, it might be worth comparing them to another vision of the future from J. William Lloyd.
ANTI-MALTHUS—No. 2 MILLENNIAL BULLETINS "The Vision is for many days."
IN the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL for last August there was an article entitled, "Anti-Malthus: Colonize the Whole Earth with Good and Wise People; and thus Fulfill its Normal Destiny." The points maintained were these:
1: There are thirty-three billion acres of dry land upon our globe, and a billion and a half of people. Filled with people at the Belgic rate it would contain nearly thirty billions; at the Saxon rate, twenty-two billions; at the Japanese rate, twelve billions; at the Chinese rate, six and a half billions.
2. It was shown that Malthus was unreasonable and inconsistent in maintaining that there is any present danger of over-population of the earth,
3. It was averred that wise and good human creatures are Nature's great disinfectant; and that the earth will not be thoroughly healthy, and therefore habitable, until it is completely filled with such people, who will drain its swamps, and by the highest culture prevent all malaria.
4. After showing how the earth would be prepared for such an immense population, through the growth of science and art, the following statement w as made in conclusion: "A thousand or ten thousand years from now a Central Council or a 'Pantarch' will probably guide the movements and actions of the earth's twenty or thirty billions of inhabitants; just as the wonderful train-controller, perched high at the north end of the Union depot in New York, controls, by manipulating rows of buttons connected with the telegraphic instruments, all the trains of the three great railroads centering there. Whereas now able men control the distribution of money, produce, goods, etc., over the world, in a way that suits their selfish aims: so then will the same thing be done by men actuated by pure benevolence. That Central Council or bureau will be in electric communication with every corner of the earth, and will be continually sending forth messages of information, warning, and exhortation." The object of the present article is to furnish illustrations of the probable nature of the bulletins that will be issued from that central office when the population shall have reached twenty billions. These illustrations will be given as quotations from the daily official newspaper organ of the Central Council, and some discussion of each will be added.
"BULLETIN 1.—Population too thick in Van Diemen's Land. Make room for them in Patagonia."
Of course, such an exigency and such an event as are here supposed must seem very remote, when we consider the sparse population of those countries, and the seeming undesirableness of Patagonia as a place of residence. But population is already pushing in there from Buenos Ayres.
"BULLETIN 2.—Too many oranges raised in the world. The Valley of the Amazon must— for five years raise them only for home consumption."
Here we begin to catch a glimpse of the fact that the long prophesied "Millennium," or blissful condition of the race, could not possibly be realized until the uses of steam, electricity, etc., had been discovered. Granted the fact that the earth could not be healthy until filled with good and wise people; we come next upon the fact that the immense population proposed could not be kept in harmonious working order without the swift means of intercommunication furnished by those agencies. Furthermore, that a much higher plane of morality than any single race has yet displayed would have to be reached by the whole race before any imaginable external machinery would avail to preserve the peace and prosperity of such a vast aggregation of nations, which must all yield implicit obedience to the wise laws and instructions issuing from the sages gathered at the grand center: for otherwise, no matter how well-intentioned most communities might be, a single inharmonic member in the family of nations would cause a break in the orchestration—dire confusion, famine, pestilence, and starvation through a large section of the earth.
Higher morality—loftier manhood and womanhood—is, therefore, the one remaining need, before "the good time coming" can be ushered in. As the writer stood in the gallery of Machinery Hall, in the Worlds Fair at Philadelphia, he said: Before me here is the physical basis for the Millennium. But all these fruits of science and art are now monopolized by the few shrewd and forceful. It remains, therefore, for the masses to be so morally and intellectually elevated that they will be strong and good and wise enough to enter upon their rightful inheritance in the elements of production and the means of distribution, including those results of human genius. The farmers in India, Ireland, Persia, and the "seven years of (practical) famine in a land of plenty" in this country—1873-80—show how useless it would be to fill the earth with people until a general high morality makes decent self-government and national government possible.
But this necessary dissertation leaves no room to discuss the orange crop, and this subject must be passed with a bare allusion to the fact that either the Orinoco or Amazon basin could feed the present population of the earth.
"BULLETIN 3.—A bad case of coast fever at the mouth of the Congo River Africa. The authorities must account for this oversight."
[The mouth of the Congo will then be as healthy as our White Mountains are now.]
This, again, seems extravagant to the superficial observer, as it is well known that a white person can now scarcely live at all in that malaria-soaked region. But what is malaria? It is simply a noxious gas liberated from abnormally rotting animal or vegetable substances— when no longer serviceable in their organic shapes. Covering these substances lightly with dry earth quickly and wonderfully dissolves them into their original elements, and makes useful fructifying manure of them, without letting any atom escape to poison living organisms. Think you that there will be malarious fever in any part of beautiful, fertile Africa when twenty billions of the wise and good inhabit the earth? No, indeed! Why, even now, in densely-peopled portions of China, the well-instructed peasant carries a basket to gather from the high way anything of a manurial nature he may observe in passing.
"BULLETIN 4.—The people of France must elevate their spiritual and esthetic tone so as to bring them to a lower breeding ratio, or prepare to begin, four years from now, to send annually to Kamschatka their surplus population, to the amount of a million a year. Their normal limit, at present, is two hundred millions which is now considerably exceeded."
In just such a manner would population need to be regulated and transferred: and the absolute necessity of a central guidance becomes more apparent as we proceed. France, for various well-known reasons, is now stationary as to population. Under improved conditions the country would naturally fill up; and that mercurial race, so hard to control, might then need the prospect of a large forced emigration from "La Belle France" to the less genial region mentioned, to induce them to curtail their increase. But, of course, in the universally bettered conditions of those times, life in Kamschatka would be more enjoyable than it now is in the most favored regions.
"BULLETIN 5.—Too many foreign airships and air-palaces gather in summer over the lake regions of Italy, Scotland, and Ireland, over the Yellowstone and other American parks and resorts around the higher peaks of the Andes in South America, the Himalayas in Asia, and the Mountains of the Moon in Africa. They obscure the view and are otherwise a nuisance."
Of course, we all know that the occurrence of such events is only a question of time. The first steam-lifting balloon was a sure prophecy of the swift-moving, heavy-freighted airpalace.
The clustering of such vehicles about the most attractive places in summer is a natural event.
"BULLETIN 6.—The State of Virginia, U. S., will be under censure for sparse population and inferior cultivation of the region once known as The Dismal Swamp,' if another case of chills and fever occurs there."
O, ye shiverers! beside all malaria-breeding places, does it seem impossible for you to realize the possibility of such immunity from this poison fiend—this evil "Prince of the Power of the Air?" Behold how many old-settled regions, once redolent of miasma, are now even under imperfect care and cultivation, apparently quite free from it. The English literature of Shakespeare's time abounds with allusions to the ague-smitten people of districts of Britain now quite exempt from such evils. But what a new departure it would be to have the officials of States and counties instructed by the higher authorities to bring more population into them in order to increase their healthfulness! This would present a refreshing contrast to the methods adopted by soil monopolists in Scotland and Ireland, who drive the population from whole counties, to turn the land into sheep and cattle ranges and game preserves. How utterly depressing to the people driven out is the idea that they are cumberers of the ground." How encouraging, on the other hand, to the people invited, would be a call for population, when those invited were assured that they could not only prosper in the new home, but also promote the prosperity of their new neighbors—and even the health of those neighbors.
How encouraging, by the way, is this call for a twenty-fold peopling of the earth, to the wretched multitudes of the city tenement-houses; who have, indeed, reason to think that they are cumberers of the ground. But, alas! how few are "good and wise!"—or have a chance to be!
"BULLETIN 7.—The Khan of Tartary is notified that if we can't prevent portions of reclaimed desert from being again denuded of trees and other vegetation, and relaxing into barrenness steps will be taken to put a better man in his place."
[It will be observed that the perfect Millennium " has not yet arrived.]
In the first article considerable space was devoted to the methods by which wastes and wildernesses and deserts would be reclaimed and made fertile. That process is in progress in portions of our own country. The so called desert lands, this side of the Rocky Mountains, are being rapidly reclaimed, and the rain belt is widening as the soil is broken up and tree-planting progresses. Unfortunately thousands are ruined " in mind, body, and estate," who, trusting to the lying reports of land and railroad agents, rely too soon upon these recuperative agencies. But we can not yet begin to see the limits of the improvements that will accrue in this regard from agricultural chemistry, irrigation, artesian wells, etc. As to chemistry, for instance, some one has discovered, lately, that vast spaces on Long Island need only the addition of a certain cheap chemical element to make them yield bountiful .harvests.
"BULLETIN 8.—A case of miscarriage in the Island of Sumatra is another warning to women not to spend all night dancing during their last month. Twenty billions of people is little enough to keep the earth healthy and happy. The nice balances of population can not be maintained if such mishaps become frequent again."
That seems extravagant, even as a fancy, concerning the good time coming. But who shall say what is impossible in such directions? We know that there are Indian races existing, among whom miscarriages are of very rare occurrence, and whose women are occupied only for a few hours in parturition. The time prophesied will surely come, when "a man shall be more precious than fine gold"—yea, even an infant. It appears strange, again, that this preciousness of humanity, this dignity of human nature, should occur when the earth is full of people, rather than when population is scant. But this seems ordained, and careful study of all the facts shows that it is natural. Yet how stupendous, how overwhelmingly glorious the idea, that instead of nations slaughtering each other with all the enginery of war that diabolical ingenuity can invent; instead of rulers of such "civilized" nations as England tacitly encouraging famine and starvation in its dependent Indias and Irelands, as "a means of bringing population down to the proper number;" instead of infanticide and foeticide being encouraged not only in heathen India and China, but also in Christian Europe and America; instead of the strong everywhere ruthlessly destroying and shortening the lives of the weak by forcing them to overwork and hurtful work: a time should come when human creatures would be so precious that a foeticide occurring in an island of the Asiatic Seas would be bulletined throughout the twenty billions of the earth s inhabitants as a rare and shocking event!
"BULLETIN 9.—A stranger was found yesterday wandering near Behring's Straits, American side, after ten in the morning, without his breakfast—no one having offered him any. He had missed the morning air-ferry-ship, and had been overlooked. Such occurrences take the bloom from our boasted New Civilization."
That certainly opens a vista of felicity in the high-noon of our glorious planet, that is delightful to contemplate. There is nothing impossible about this. Given a world full of wise and good people, producing abundant food for all—guarding carefully against accidents to any—and the necessary conditions are obtained. Even now abundance of nourishment for all living people always exists on the earth. If "man to man would brother be," it would be properly distributed. Listen to this description of the waste of natural products in South America, which contains vast unoccupied acres of the most fertile lands in the world. Col. George Earl Church, of London, in a report to the Governments of Brazil and Bolivia, says:
"Only the ocean fringe of South America had been, to a limited extent, developed by modern methods of transit; the Pacific coast represented simply the sharp slope of an uninterrupted mountain wall from Panama to Patagonia, and neither man nor beast could travel across the snow-swept barrier, abreast of the head waters of the Amazon in Peru and Bolivia, without scaling the passes at an elevation in no place lower, and in most of the passes as high, as the loftiest peak of the Alps; Peru, with a Babel-like ambition, was then working heavenward with its gigantic railway system, ignoring the fact that its richest and most extensive lands are on the Atlantic slope. Alone of all the South American States, the Argentine Republic appeared to appreciate the problem of opening the interior, and, with the force of its credit and energy, pushed its railways toward the heart of the continent. . . . I found millions of sheep, llamas, and alpacas, browsing upon the mountain sides, and not a cargo of wool was exported; vast herds of cattle roamed the plains, and yet an ox-hide was worth scarcely more than a pound of leather in the European market; hundreds of tons of the richest coffee in the world were rotting on the bushes, and only about ten tons per annum were sent abroad as a rare delicacy; abundant crops of sugar in the river districts were considered a misfortune by the planter, because there was no market; the valleys of Cochabamba were rich in cereal wealth, unsalable when the crop was too great for home consumption; not a valley or mountain-side but gave agricultural, medicinal, and other products, such as commanded ready sale in any foreign market; sixty-five kinds of rare and beautiful cabinet woods stood untouched by man in the great virgin forests of the north and east. The mountains were weighed down with silver, copper, tin, and other metals, and the people gazing upon a wealth sufficient to pay the national debts of the world, and yet unavailable for lack of means of communication."
"BULLETIN 10.—The Central Office is happy to announce that the Caucasian is now the only race on the earth. The last specimen of an inferior breed—a mixture of Malay, Creole, and Esquimaux —died last week in New Zealand."
It is all very fine"—humane, brotherly to extol the other races, but the fact remains that the Caucasian is by far the highest. It seems scarcely possible that the perfect life hoped for can be realized on this globe until the other races have gradually passed away, as the North American Indian is now doing. We must be just and generous to these races, and give them every chance of improvement while they remain; but if it is their fate to pass away we can not prevent it. It seems apparent, for instance, from the history of South America, that their intermingling by marriage with us only produces an inferior mongrel, and hinders the advent of the perfect human being. They must "go."
"BULLETIN 11.—The North Pole Summer Sanitariums and Ice Cures being inconveniently crowded of late years, large establishments of the sort are rapidly springing up at the South Pole, on the Asiatic side, with daily air-ship lines to all principal points south of the Equator."
There is nothing extraordinary about this, when already we find the wealthy yachtsmen of England taking their summer trips around the North Cape of Sweden, the most northerly point of Western Europe.
"BULLETIN 12.—The wool crop is getting short. Sheep-raising is not pushed properly on some of the higher slopes of the Andes, Rocky Mountains, Himalayas, and Balkans."
Thus will the watchful eyes of the Central Sages continually take in the situation on every rood of terra firma; every rood will be to them a holy rood" —to be guarded with religious care. The resources of our planet—its capacities for making twenty or thirty billion people comfortable and happy—are immeasurable, when once wisdom and goodness are permanently assured for the whole race. The Infinite One now, when at length it seems safe to do so, has opened the eyes of our keenest men to secrets of art and nature, the possession . of which gives them powers such as our forefathers would have considered Divine," or miraculous. These powers will not long be monopolized by Rothschilds, Goulds, Vanderbilts, and Bonanza kings.
"BULLETIN 13.—A large part of the people of New Orleans, U. S., turned out on Wednesday to bid farewell to a woman who had been banished to Nova Zembla, for wasting a bucket of slops, by emptying it from a steamer into the Mississippi, instead of consigning it to the proper manurial receptacle."
Well, it must be acknowledged that this is rather straining a point, as to the mass of the population attending this farewell. But the idea about such a waste being considered reprehensible in that "Beautiful Hereafter" is "solid." A storm of indignation will soon arise against the system of agriculture that has sent the virgin soil of so many of our States to Europe, in the shape of tobacco, cotton, wheat, etc., and so much more of our fertility to the sea through the sewers of our cities.
"BULLETIN 14.—The Central Council takes pleasure in announcing that apparently as a result of the solar convulsions of recent years, and the consequent violent, but harmless perturbations of our planet, several new, warm streams have been for some time pouring from the Equator to both poles. Those of the Pacific converging at Behring's Straits pour through into the Arctic region a current so hot that it is hardly endurable as a hot bath The American Gulf Stream and the Japanese Curo Siwo are much hotter than before. As a consequence, the climate is so changing in those northern regions that upper British America, Siberia, and some of the Antarctic lands are becoming quite pleasant and fruitful regions. If this process continues a few years, we may be able to announce the possibility of raising the earth's population to twenty-five billions. Other causes, as yet unexplainable, have produced an increase of direct sun-heat in those regions. P. S. Another fact noticeable is a diminished heat in the Torrid Zone."
"BULLETIN 15.—The electric light towers of the world generally will have to be more carefully treated. Complaints come in from various quarters that travelers along very prominent highways are frequently unable to read their newspapers at night."
"BULLETIN 16.—The people of a village on the banks of the Niger River, Africa, were horror-struck lately, at observing an odor of decaying, malaria-breeding vegetation, issuing from the garden of a citizen. Investigation showed a rank undergrowth of rotting weeds. The man excused himself on the plea that being a poet he had been for a fortnight in a fine frenzy of imaginative creation, and had neglected his weeds. Excuse not received. He was sent to the Antarctic Fisheries, where high cultivation of the soil is not called for, and there is no chance to waste the food-producing gases."
"BULLETIN 17.—A melancholy circumstance is reported from the Bernese Alps. A lovely maiden of eighteen years told her first, and therefore true, love three years ago that she believed in long engagements, and did not wish to marry him for at least five years. Not willing of course, to think of marrying any but his 'own and only one,' fearing that his admiration for the other sex might overcome his resolution in that unprecedented long interval, he built himself a stone hut high up in the Alps, and subsists as a goat-herdsman, and occasionally visits his whimsical betrothed. Girls should be careful how they trifle with these sacred matters."
The above, soberly considered, must be counted as a legitimate illustration of the fact that on a paradisaical planet, there will be an absolute lack of tragedies; and incidents that seem laughably trivial to us, as matters of national consideration, will be the only variations from the uniform felicity. In that blissful time the first love will be usually the only love. For all young people will be then thoroughly instructed in physiology, phrenology, psychometry, hygiene, etc., so that they will guard their hearts until a true mate appears. Moreover, all then living in associated homes, will have an abundance of young folks to choose from, and will thus avoid the haphazard marriages that inevitably result from the isolation of our present modes of life.
"BULLETIN 18.—It has chanced, 'in the whirligig of time,' that Boston, once so proud of its superiority, is now the most barbarous place on the earth. A middle-aged citizen so far forgot himself in the heat of argument yesterday, as to call another citizen 'a liar.'"
"BULLETIN 19.—In the present active state of human sympathy, people need to be careful about making demands upon it. Several air-ships arriving lately at Tobolsk from the North, containing people who said that they had tasted no strawberries and cream this year—the people of that place immediately stripped their vines of the delicious berries to present them to the strangers, and so had none for themselves for a week afterward."
"BULLETIN 20.—On and after the 10th prox. the Society of Sky Painters will present a series of paintings by the new process upon the zenith on each clear day; passing around the earth from east to west. They will begin at Siam; and knowing by telegraph how far each picture is seen, will make them continuous by beginning the next at the farthest point at which the picture of the previous ray was plainly visible. The panorama will illustrate the battles of Armageddon—the last great battles between right and wrong, truth and error, reason and madness, vice and virtue, selfishness and benevolence, religion and atheism order and disorder. These were fought upon the soil of North America, and their representation will form very striking pictures."
Now all this will seem very fanciful to some, very absurd to others. But every one of these bulletins" is somewhat founded upon existing facts. Even if all the fancywork be set aside, the truth remains, that the doctrine concerning the filling of the earth with good and wise people is incontrovertible.
- Samuel Leavitt, "Anti-Malthus," The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health 71, no. 2 (August 1880): 72-76.
- Samuel Leavitt, "Anti-Malthus—No. 2," The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health 72, no. 1 (January 1881): 32-38.


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The History of Ens Lumens
First time I saw those dogs when watching the movie "Revange". I liked a yellow dog that belonged to the main hero – strong, friendly and playful dog. I felt very sad when the dog got killed in the middle of the movie... One day I was taking a walk in a park and saw a dog that looked very much like that dog from the movie. We stoped to talk with the owner of the dog and I found out that the dog was a labrador. Labradors are very cute and cheerful dogs, they can work really hard and they are good hunters. People who owned labradors in the USSR (now former USSR) – either had a successful career, or were very famous. Those days labradors were rare to meet in the street. Mostly there were black and yellow labradors.
That lady told me a lot about her Chanel and let me pet her favourite dog. And suddenly I realized I wanted the same dog. I wanted a dog with a soft hair and affectionate look and wonderful temper. I called a chief of a kennel club in Moscow and shared with her my wish to own a yellow labrador. But they showed me some new chocolate puppies brought from Novosibirsk . When one of the puppies buried his nose in my hands and then licked my lips and he smelled like coffee and buckwheat I knew I found my treasure.
When this puppy appeared in our apartment we had a feeling she's been there with us all the time. Walks and feeding and playing with our puppy were so natural for everyone in our family, nobody felt bored.
We did not find a single spoiled shoe or damaged peace of furniture. Our puppy always had a keen appetite and during walks many people could not pass by without stopping and expressing their admiration.
Very soon we discovered that our dog was a true lady. She was intelligent, smart, clean and very beautiful dog.
Mellany's ancestors were great dogs: Champions of GB and Belgium, Luxemburg, USA, India and Russia. In her pedigree there are blood lines of very famous dogs such as Baron, grandson of the Champion of England, Othamcourt Shane of Saddie, brought to the USSR in 1984; Raj (Hedlyday Grant Marnif – Inde) brought from India in 1989, Eva Kinley Star (Brandy Snap from England – Zenta) owned by N.V.Teslenko; Silver Cloud's Borg brought from India in 1993; Sweettrees Mac from Belgium born from the US Champion Sweettrees Dark Sensation and Sweettrees Justso. All those dogs had a big influence on formation of the breed in Russia.
The history of our kennel can be defined as a further evolution of black and chocolate labradors in Russia. In dog shows Mellany took prize places but her truly loved and favourite hobbie has always been hunting.She had a real hunter's passion, she had no equal in duck, black grouse, hazel grouse and hare retrieval. Mellany appeared to be a great breeder and her puppies inherited best breeding qualities and a real labrador's temper.
Our first puppies were born in 1997 from Mellany and chocolate Lorts Harvey - Interchampion, Champion of Russia, Belorus, Lithuania, Estonia.
Zagrace Nord was the best chocolate puppy – he became a Chamnpion of Russia.
First puppies with Ens Lumens prefix in their names were born in 1998 from black Belgian male Quatro of Lucifers Delight (Ch. Narjana's Lamborghini – Blondella Button's –n- Bows, owned V.Verrees), one of the most titled breeder in Europe – Interchampion, Champion of Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Holland, Russia. The litter became one of the best in the history of Russian Retriever Club. Five dogs became Champions of Russia:
Ens Lumens Fred Aster – Champion of Russia, Work Certificate (Rus)
Ens Lumens Fiji Best Boy – Champion of Russia (N. Bradley Lynn, USA)
Ens Lumens Flash Gordon – Champion of Russia (Rus)
Ens Lumens Forman Black Prince - Champion of Russia (Rus)
Ens Lumens Frida Lady Dark - Champion of Russia, 4 CAC, CW, BOB, BIG-1, Work Certificate
In 2000 and 2001 (double litter) Mellany had puppies from black Stenways American Express (Quatro of Lucefers Delight – Urfamycine of Lucifer's Delight). And the new Champions and prize winners became:
Ens Lumens Zwis Ora – Champion of Russia (Rus)
Ens Lumens Zageri Floks – Best Junior (Rus)
Ens Lumens Zefar Sonya – Champion of Russia (Rus)
Ens Lumens Zelfa Blackberry – Champion of Russia and Moldova, Work Certificate on duck retrieval and blood trace
Two wonderful dogs – yellow Zesta Sweet and chocolate Zaria San-Lassy were bought by Noginsk kennel owned by Ministry of Extraordinary Situations for breeding. Since 2003 their puppies successfully took part in search and rescue operations in most severe parts of the world.
In 2002 we had pupies from Russia Champion black Strong Style Brony (Timantti Solid Brainy to Strong Style + Kamrat's Coffee to Strong Style). The prize winners became:
Ens Lumens Blas Roksy and Ens Lumens Berry Holly (Rus)
In 2003 there were puppies from chocolate Russia Champion, RFC Champion, Grandchampion, Belarus Champion Stenways Red October (Mallorn's Chocolate Czar + Stenways Angel's Melody) and the best became:
Ens Lumens Big Space Travel – GrandCh, National ClubCh, Ch Russia, Best puppy (Kennel "Ens Lumens" Rus)
Ens Lumens Breeze My Love – Best Junior (Rus)
In 2004 we had puppies from black Russia Champion Stenways Pepper Brandy (Follies Rule of Thumb + Halfmillion Kisses for Stenways).
Ens Lumens Zord Woods Spirit – Prize Winner (Rus)
Ens Lumens Frida Lady Dark
The puppy was massive, cheerful and very energetic. Frida evidently felt our special attention to her. From her first days it has been clear that Frida was a born leader. FRIDA became an excellent breeder as it had been expected! A temperament, distinguishing qualities of the breed, excellent hunting qualities, a wonderful character are being inherited by all her offsprings! FRIDA became one of the best breed females of a Russian Retriever Club!
The first FRIDA's puppies were born in August 2000 from chocolate INT CH, MULTI CH, CH RKF,4 х CACIB, 2 х Res. CACIB, 2 x BIG, 8 x BOB, BIS -3, 15 x CAC, Prize-Winner of Europe Championship-2000 and Prize-Winner of World Championship-2001, Richard Magnifico (Lortz Harvy+ Mardji Haizel) Own. Polevaya L. Our puppies became real success on some dog shows in Russia, CIS countries, Baltic States and Prize-Winner of Europe Championship!
Ens Lumens Zhenny Shine - INT, RUS CH, BLR CH, LIT CH, 3 Х CACIB, CH RFSS, Candidate at National Club CH, СANDIDATE CHAMPION OF SLOVAKIA, 8 САС, 3 Х CACIB, R.CACIB, the Best Female of the Breed, BOB, Trials: Duck retrivering - II grade, Blood - II grade (kennel "Magnificos").
Ens Lumens Zhenevieva Monte Rose - GRAND RUS CH, LIT CH, BLR CH, UKR CH, CLUB CH R.CACIB, 4 САС in Russia, 2 САС in Lithuania, САС in Belorussia, 2 Х Candidate At Club CH 2 Х BOB и 2 Х BIG! Trials: Duck retrievering, Blood. HD- A-A (kennel "Magnificos").
Ens Lumens Zheoze Bosheron - RUS CH, TRIAL RUS CH, 12 working tests 3 х d - I, d - II. duck; 2 х d - I., 2 х d - II retrieve; d - III., 3 х d - II blood Moscow championship winner (20 - 21.07.02), 2 X САСТ for duck & retrieve Russian championship for retrievers winner (24 - 25.08.02) (Rus).
Ens Lumens Zhofrey De Peirak - Best Juniors (Rus)
Ens Lumens Givanchy Amaridg Caprise - Best Juniors, (Rus)
A twin-litter FRIDA & RICHARD MAGNIFICO was born in 2001. The following puppies became prize-winners:
Ens Lumens Unika Estel - САС, CH ROLS, BOB (Rus)
Ens Lumens Utah Silima - Junior RUS CH, RUS CH (Rus)
Ens Lumens Udjin Beor - BEST JUNIOR, 2 СAС (Rus)
Ens Lumens Uton Walinor - CW, UKCIB - UCI (Rus)
A litter from a chocolate STENVEYS TOCHKA RU (Bubbling Picasso + Stenveyz Dessert Chocolate), Champion of RKF, Champion of Russia, Belorussia was born in 2003, became one of the best dogs.
Ens Lumens Yukki Shain - a Prize-Winner
A black Labrador Tjotte's New Years King At Magnifico from Sweden kennel Tjotte's (Own. Polevaya L) was imported to Moscow in March 2003. There are Labradors of black and chocolate colors in his pedigree, Championship - as a result of professionally selected bloods. Nowadays Tjotte's New Years King At Magnifico GrandCH RUS, UKR, BLR, NationalClub Champion, R.CACIB. FRIDA and Tjotte's New Years King At Magnifico gave birth to puppies in September 2004 and there was success again:
Ens Lumens Arna Brown Sugar - The PRIZE-WINNER of the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - 2006 and 2008, the VICE-CHAMPION of the Europe- 2006, Qualification on Crafts, CH RUSSIA, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Finland. INTER CH, MULTI Champion, Grandee the Champion of Russia, the Champion of National Club. 2 х Ch RCF, 2 х the Winner of club "Beau monde", 2 х Winner of Russian Retriever Club on Special Show "Retriever" 2006, 2007.
Ens Lumens Affa Enigma Flower - Winner of juniors class, Prize-winner
Ens Lumens Angel Sky Garden - The Best Junior Male Dog, 2 JСАС, BOB, 2 in BEST in GROUP, 5CAC,
Black puppies from very attractive chocolate STENVEYZ GET POPULAR (Palabras Keep On Movin' (FIN) + Stenveyz Part of Million), Champion of Belorus 10CAC, RCACIB, grandson Int, Grand, Rus, LT, UKR, BLG, RKF Ch, Club Winner 2001, 2003 Evellans Halfmillion Kisses for Stenveyz were born on September the 29 th, 2005.
Ens Lumens Fantasy Of Music
Frida's daughter, chocolate Ens Lumens Zhenny Shine, which is kept in a kennel "Magnificos" went to Sweden for coupling with a chocolate Champion of Sweden TJOTTE' S NOW OR NEVER in winter 2003. A
There were 6 newly born beautiful chocolate puppies in February the 23th, 2004. When I was invited to have a look at the grandchildren I could hardly resist a temptation to own a retriever of such an interesting pedigree! As a result in summer 2004 there was a new Labrador in our family and kennel - chocolate
Crazy Love Lumens
For the first time we went on a ring of Dog Show "Retriever 2004-automn" of RR С in juniors' group, where we got a high approval of respected cinologists and experts. Crazy Love Lumens - CH RUSSIA, JCH RUSSIA.
We are very proud not only for the children of our dogs but for their grandchildren too.
Ens Lumens Magic Stone (from Zlata Luna) - Champion of Russia, the Champion of Club, Grand the Champion, 2 х CACIB
Ens Lumens Melody Of Summer (from Zlata Luna) - CHAMPION OF RUSSIA, CHAMPION OF MOLDOVA
Coca-Cola From Magnificos Kingdom (from Ens Lumens Zhenny Shine) - GRAND RUS CH, Junior RUS CH, CLUB CH
Gren'e Filipp From Magnificos Kingdom (from Ens Lumens Zhenevieva Monte Rose) - Junior RUS CH, RUS CH,
Gril'yazh Le Bon Bon From Magnificos Kingdom (from Ens Lumens Zhenevieva Monte Rose) - Junior RUS CH,
Zhomil Klermon From Magnificos Kingdom (from Ens Lumens Zhenevieva Monte Rose) - Junior Club CH, Junior RUS CH, RUS CH, BLR CH, CLUB CH
Chief Family (from Ens Lumens Usty Fea) - Grandee the Champion, the Champion of Russia, Champion NCB,
Evlampia Best (from Ens Lumens Usty Fea) - the Young CHAMPION of Russia, the Champion of Russia, Champion RCF.
Vladyka Moskovii Danyil (from Ens Lumens Zelfa Blackberry) - the Best puppy of breed, Young Champion of Russia,
Veter Peremen Deny (from Ens Lumens Zelfa Blackberry) - Champion of Russia
Ens Lumens Zappa Lunar Wanderer - J Ch Belorussia, 2JCAC, BIS – III, BEST BABY
Ens Lumens Ziggy Sunshines Reggae - The Candidate for Young Champions of National Club, the Candidate in Young Champions of Russia
Ens Lumens Urfin Juice (The Candidate for Young Champions of National Club, the Candidate in Young Champions of Russia
At the spring Dog-Show "Retriever-2006" I met the owners of a very nice male BRIDGECORNER'S EXCALIBUR brought from Finland. And thanks to Katerina and Vyacheslav Tuchnin I met Tarja Gossling, the owner of the kennel BRIDGECORNER'S.
On September 2006 we welcomed Miina - a wonderful black female puppy that was born in Bridgecorner's. In Miina's pedigree there are some dogs of famous ancestry.
Bridgecorner's Luminous Lumens
And the most important - Tarjia Gossling took with her to Finland two our puppies - Love Story at Bridgecorner's from Ens Lumens Frida Lady Dark and Shalyapin of Crazy Love Lumens from Magnificos Kingdom.
In 2000 and 2006 we were awarded by an honorary title of "Best Breeder of Russian Retriever Club"
This is what 11 years of my life and work with amazing retrievers were!
There are Europe Vice - Champion, CHAMPIONS of RUSSIA, an INTERCHAMPION, CHAMPIONS OF CIS and Baltic States, PRIZE-WINNERS OF WORLD AND EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIPS, JUNIOR CHAMPIONS OF RUSSIA, BEST PUPPIES and many just beloved and perfect companions for their owners among our puppies.
I want to express great appreciation to everyone who has helped us in breeding! It is a real tribute to the development of the breed in Russia!
In particular I would like to mention:
Natalia Teslenko - the President of
Tatiana Dmitriu - owner of a kennel "Stenways" for amazing Mellany for professional and beneficial contribution to our breeding.
Larissa Polevaya – an owner of a kennel "Magnificos" for friendship and selflessness in the development of the breed and for Crazy Love Lumens from MAGNIFICOS KINGDOM!
Tarja Gossling - an owner of
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Alpine success for Kevin. 18th July 2017
Forcan magic. 10th January 2016
Had great fun introducing my good mate Innes to the joys of winter climbing yesterday and the weather gods treated us to a classic. The forecast had been for heavy rain/snow for most of the day but nothing came of it at all.
Now Innes built a lot of the Black Cuillin footpaths and has explored many of the peaks and ridges in that time. Instead he fancied Glen Shiel, having driven through it so often but never left the road.
A big part of the joy of the day was listening to the commentary- Innes was being blown away by every aspect of our environment. "It's so 3-dimensional" was a comment really early on as the clever stalkers path weaved upward eventually revealing the hidden maze of glens beyond.
We left plans open but I reasoned that, if we were going to carry the crampons, rope etc we should aim for a route where they might actually be needed so the Forcan Ridge it was. I've done it many times but it never disappoints with progress often complex and time-consuming.
Top pupil donned the harness although I sensed an element of doubt about any need for it as I coiled the rope in preparation. Heading to the foot of the first slab Innes was hard on my heels and the beast was momentarily unleashed only to watch me fail miserably getting up the opening groove. A rising zig-zag left us no choice but to balance across the groove 40ft above the ground and the need for rope became obvious. The lad grew very fond of that wee bit of string over the following couple of hours!
The aesthetics were great but the pics don't show the brutal hard work. Every inch was hard fought for but, as Innes pointed out, it kept the mind off the drop.
After an hour or so in the mist, things began to get distinctly brighter until we were suddenly in bright sunlight and the mists dropped off the ridge running away in front of us towards the Saddle.
Top of Sgurr a Forcan with The Saddle appearing out to the north.
It was already close to 2pm when we reached the summit of Sgurr a' Forcan so an easy decision to head down immediately beyond. Now the bumslide descent from the Saddle is such fun it justifies the effort almost every time in winter but I hadn't told Innes because I hadn't been sure about the short-cut we were about to take. A foot of powder is a great cushion though and the run-out was clear so I armed the lad with an ice -axe, gave him a brief lesson then set him free while I packed the rope.
He was off like a shot and I was greeted by a cheshire cat-like grin 400 feet lower as Innes admitted the descent had been particularly troubling him whenever he made the mistake of thinking about it! With the tension released the eulogising really began in earnest; pretty sure I've another good keen climbing partner well broken in.
Looking back at where we'd been.
The Five Sisters of Kintail beautifully highlighted in the evening light
Thanks for inspiration for a great day out Innes!
St Kilda; Climbing on the edge of the world
Alan called me exactly a year ago with an outrageous request to be guided up Stac Lee on St Kilda in October or November 2015 "if there's a settled period of weather"; ha, bloody ha. But no, he was serious as it was his last remaining Marilyn; a list of 1556 peaks over 500 feet high.
The full tale is long and full of plot & intrigue but, basically, the phone rang last Wednesday and I had to drop everything for the weekend ahead including all the rugby matches which was no small sacrifice!
We sailed to Harris Friday lunchtime and camped in an idylic spot just 10 minutes from Leverburgh where we would sail from at 6-30 next morning.
Beautiful skies at
Seamus and the crew of the Enchanted Isle had us all loaded and heading off 40 miles westward before the sun rose and I was soon catching up on Z's but was woken by a shout of land ahoy. Not far ahead stood some impressive stacks, immediately recognisable from what little I'd managed to read. Distance was deceptive however andd it took more than another hour to finally reach St Kilda. Stunning light, dolphins and even a Minke whale kept us occupied along with a palpable tension of excitement & fear rising.
Stac Lee was the aim for the day and Alan and I were given the first ride ashore. The plan was for us to head up with Bob Kerr and his guide Tim following behind and rigging a static to help the less confident leaders behind and everything went pretty much exactly to plan. Conditions were better than the previous year's assailants had encountered with bone dry rock and, more importantly, far drier and less deep guano from the gannets.
The route was effectively 3 pitches, never harder than V Diff in the conditions we had, and then a long easy scramble zig-zagging to the summit. The rock is gabbro; another super volcano that errupted at a similar time to the Cuillin volcanoes on Skye & Rum. The result is similar to what the Skye Cuillin would look like if sea-level rose to the level of Coire lagan or higher.
We made it to the top just before half 12 where Alan had to remind me it was his final Marylin top and a good celbration was in order. Michael Earnshaw also compleated and the others were alldelighted to get the highest & hardest "out of the way" 🙂
Scorching sun & no wind added to the difficulties, not, as everyone gradually made it down for one big abseil descent and a safe return to the Enchanted Isle for tea & cake by about 4pm.
Speed was of an essence as we realised there was time to recce the next day's objective, Stac an Armin. The swell was against us using last year's landing so Tim & I rigged ropes on the East side. 35m of greasy slime covered rocks made us grateful for spikes & crampons but everything was set for a rapid ascent next day and return in time for the Scottish match on the ferry ride back from Tarbet……. if all went to plan. The swell nearly saw me in the drink as I abseiled onto the boat but, instead it was time to lap up the stunning light & scenery on the 20 minute ride to the old village on Hirta.
Boreray (right), Stac Lee (left) and Stac an Armin (centre)
The MOD base on Hirta is horribly out of keeping with the haunting beauty of the abandoned village but this didn't detract from this, the largest island in the world heritage site, or the bouyant atmosphere as everyone settled down with good food, drink & banter & finally relaxing on what had been a high-octane day.
That's all for now but I'll complete with Sunday's pictures asap.
Monte Viso wonderland
I first read about Monte Viso in 1999; Will McLewin's classic book describing how every one of the Alps 4000m peaks could be seen from its summit. 3 days later and there it was, standing like an isolated church tower nearly 100km south of us. It stands 500m clear of any other mountains nearby and is one of the few "must do" peaks I've ever had.
A chance opportunity to climb with my old mate Icky saw us heading off over high passes on Tuesday and down into Italy. Our first close sight of it got the adrenalin rising nicely but quite a worry about how Red the dawg was going to get on!
Gulp! Monte Viso out to the right.
We got there, Red opted to stay in the Andretti bivvy hut @ 3200m (top of the heavy red line marked below) and sadly the haze limited views somewhat. The whole experience was outrageously good though with possibly the most beautiful alpine approach & descent I've ever done, quality climbing, a tiny handful of friendly other climbers and superb company throughout. Enjoy the pics which I'll label in time.-
Recovery meal.
Sugar & Spice & all things nice. March 2015
March has been a hectic period as admin for the summer starts to dominate; very hard after such a fun winter. The wild conditions have continued pretty much identically to the past 3 months with plenty of good climbing conditions formed by bonkers winds, loads of snow, the odd thaw and repeat….. There's snow settling at sea-level tonight and that's not an April fool. Still basking in the glory of the In Pinn spoof in 2013; had folk who believed it well over a year later-
In fact I've bottled out of trying to catch you out this year so relax & enjoy a few pics from the past month or so.
Storr, 1st March. Driving there was scary enough! These guys had the harshest 3 days of the winter but still got out each day.
Sheltering under the Old Man of Storr
Neist. Friday 13th, not unlucky at all. First day of hot rock with Iain and Ally
Bruton party, 14th. A great day with miles of perfect snow to practice crampon & axe work.
Broad Gully, grade I, seen on descent
Perfect snow all day; here heading to Bruach na Frithe
Bla Bheinn with Lucy, Sunday 15th. Another immaculate day
Alpine conditions on approach.
Not a cloud to ruin the view.
Can't beat that view out to Rum
Serious graft for the Skye MRT taking the radio relay down for fixing, all 200kg of it!
Lucy on the crux of South Buttress Gully, III.
South Buttress Gully- A mix of sugary snow, plenty of spice & god it was nice!
Eilidh & Matt. A magical day with the mists burning off and rock drying front of our eyes on Sgurr an Fheadian, 21st
The Spur of Sgurr an Fheadain
Smiles of delight?
Nah, pure relief eh Eilidh!
Action Man
And that's why she's allowed to be happy!
Orion Face Direct, Wednesday 25th. Winter looked to be washed out very soon so Icky & I made a dash for the last route of the season. Spoilt for choice we chose Orion which I'd been on but never done in it entirity. Definitely didn't disappoint and the legs really knew about it. Luckily the descent on a cushion of powder right to the door of the hut was as good as it gets; "If Carling made descents".
Icky heading towards the exit chimneys that gave a superb steep finish to the 8 pitch day.
Mega Ice
Dodgy belay on the exit slopes.
31st March. Video work on Human Geography with Phillip from Canada was quite some challenge in the mega-gusts we had but the stinging showers mostly left us alone until the very end of the day. I'm not sure quite how it works but the project is based on Munro Bagging and he's off to interview Chris Townsend next. Looking forward to seeing the results.
The Eastern Black Cuillin looking wintery. We went to the right hand of the 2 obvious cols
Clac Glas from the shelter of a welcome overhang.
Definitely winter.
Main Cuillin Ridge laid out in front of us
Clac Glas, the Matterhorn of Skye and a fiercesome barrier to reaching Bla Bheinn
Mega Ice on the Ben; too good to resist. 12thFeb
There has been so much stonking ice in evidence on photos from Ben Nevis that I couldn't resist a quick hit on Thursday. Icky, Lucy, Cat & I arrived late in the CIC and didn't rise early but still had a clear Curtain to start with.
A gentle angled pitch full of footsteps and hooks gave a good warm up-
…..before the steep upper half-
We were heading over to Italian Climb when Mega Route X came into sight just above us. Now I watched Cubby climbing this on video over 20 years ago and even bought one of (a large collection??) the red Cassin axes that he'd used on the ascent; apparently quite a lot of people have also bought the same axes with the same background tale 🙂 I digress, I knew it had been climbed a fair bit recently and it looked like it had plenty of bobbles for footholds. The team gave me the nod of approval and so off we went.
I've reverted to using wrist leashes on steep ice and loved them instantly; my arms really do appreciate not having to keep hold of the shafts at all. The ice was of stunning consistency (better than the steep part of Curtain) and the bobbles for feet allowed plenty of stability while placing screws.
Icky romped up behind and, although her arms wouldn't quite do it, Cat has the pose of the day-
Icky & Lucy joined me on the belay and we all admired the icicle fringes all around us. The top pitch started steeply but soon relented with a groove on the left and just one short cheeky section of snowy ice before the final steepening.
A 50m abseil back to the ground was followed by pizza, tea & beer in the hut before the most dangerous part of the day- the drive home. Thank you Big Bad Ben for a glorious day 🙂
Please help Lynsey & Rabbie finish on a high
Lynsey & Rabbie the Dog are raising money for Help for Heros by climbing all of the Scottish Munros. In little over the 2 year mark they now have only 8 left to complete. A phenomenal effort from both but Rabbie does have 4 legs! This was painfully obvious as we descended steeply from the 5 Sisters of Kintail; while our knees screamed pure murder Rabbie chased his stick up and down the slope repeatedly.
Stick throwing gave us both a welcome excuse for a break on the 1068m descent.
If you want to follow their adventures, including one of the scariest headcam videos of the In Pinn, check out their facebook page- Lynsey & Rabbie H4H Munro Challenge or donate directly here
One final word of warning to anyone descending towardss Sheil Bridge- the old suspension bridge at the east end of Loch Shiel is very unhealthy; I had to use special spiderman powers of praying to get across safely and avoid the 3km alternative detour!
Old suspension bridge east of Loch Shiel
Classic Scottish Sandstone tour- 22-28th June 2014
The Kings Martin & Deidrie took me off for a great road tour around the north of Scotland last week and the weather treated us handsomely. The Old Men of Hoy & Stoer were major highlights supplemented by Vlad the Impaler on Stac Pollaidh and Sword of Gideon near Applecross. Fantastic trip thanks guys; superbly climbed and great company too.
Dry rock at Duncraig, 16th May
Francis inspired Lou and me to join him and explore what the guidebook calls "terrain adventure, steep & exciting" on the upper cliff at Duncraig, just across the water near Plockton. The book took a bit of deciphering but we were rewarded with 3 pitches of really good climbing. Our "combo" had Francis warm us up rapidly on Brigadier Braggart's Little Secret, E3 5c. The obvious line above was eventually identified as Easy Rider, HVS 5a. This gave Lou a great curving crack pitch and then a very adventurous finish for me with route finding and vegetation adding extra spice to the high quality climbing.
Brigadier Braggart's Little Secret, E3 5c
Francis eyeing up the crux
Lou high on the first pitch of Easy Rider, HVS 5a
Set above Plockton bay with the Torridonian sandstone mountains behind the crag really is in a phenomenal position. Our adventure ended with yet more exploration as we took faith in the guidebook and abseiled back over the edge from the trees. The heavy rain had arrived but we really didn't mind one bit.
Descending through the blueballs and bracken back to the car
Set above Plockton bay with the Torridonian sandstone mountains behind the crag really is in a phenomenal position.
Creag an Dubh Loch; a climb at last! 28th Feb.
The Dubh Loch with the crag and avalanche debris visible behind.
Desperate times make for desperate measures; with no serious climbing having been done since new year's day a photo of fat ice at the Dubh Loch was enough to entice me into the huge drive to Ballater, 5am start, cycle and deep soft snow approach. It is a very beautiful part of the Highlands and the rewards soon started as the sun rose.
Sadly the lower half of the crag had lost a lot of ice in the past week but Robin came up with a plan.
A scary snowy approach over steep vegetation took us to the foot of The Last Oasis.
I took the first pitch with instructions to break right to block belays below the thinly iced rib.
Looking up from the foot of the pitched climbing after the scary approach.
Robin then took the helm, had a few words with himself on the initial thin steep slabs and finally sounded happier once the 3rd screw was placed without going down to rock. Classically I found the climbing far steeper than it had looked from below!
Thin starting moves on the new pitch; Sword of Damocles icicle behind!
A drippy ice grotto after 35m gave a good screw belay but an intimidating step round the corner to reach the start of the Sword of Damocles final pitch.
Panorama experiment to show the drop below!
The excitement continued with a cornice to finish-
and then a huge great avalanche down the face 100m to the right of where we'd been climbing; gulp. This was the final straw in deciding not to stash our kit for a return battle next day but, in a winter where any climbing has been hard to come by the day was a great result. A waist deep battle through soggy drifts confirmed we'd made the right decision & we were both completely ****ered by the time we reached the bikes.
If anyone is particularly taken by the colour and design of Robin's climbing sack he would love to hear from you; I've certainly never seen such a magnificent hue of blue……. 😉


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