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Early Quarters (1796-1838)
Draped Bust, Small Eagle (1796)
On September 17, 1796, George Washington delivered his now famous Farewell Address in which he cautioned that "it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." This policy of "no entangling alliances," as it became better known, was to be the dominant theme of American foreign policy for the next one hundred and fifty years, right up to the start of World War II.
At the same time, the fledgling Philadelphia Mint was preparing to manufacture a new denomination, the quarter dollar, authorized by the Mint Act of 1792. It would eventually be recognized and accepted throughout the world.
It is difficult to imagine today how seriously coinage was regarded two hundred years ago. Officials understood that once coins left the mint, they would become metallic emissaries of the new nation. This is why so much attention was given to gold and silver coins weighing exactly what they were supposed to weigh, no more and no less. Most educated people of the day understood that a poorly designed coin would reflect badly on their country, just as a handsomely designed coin of proper weight and fineness would be respected worldwide.
The design of the 1796 quarter dollar had its genesis in the almost universal dislike for the previous coin designs. Earlier copper coinage, such as the Chain cent and Wreath cent, had not been well received by the public, and the Flowing Hair design of the silver coins was widely criticized. To avoid such public embarrassment with the new design, Mint Director Henry DeSaussure engaged renowned portraitist Gilbert Stuart, who supposedly used as his model the prominent Philadelphia socialite Mrs. William Bingham (nee Ann Willing). The likeness of the buxom Mrs. Bingham was first applied to the Draped Bust dollar issued late in 1795.
But all did not go well in transferring Mrs. Bingham's likeness into coined form. The rather bland portrait that ended up on the quarters of 1796 did not resemble the beautiful model that Stuart sketched. In fact, Stuart was so disappointed with the results that his connection to these coins was forgotten for almost a hundred years. It was not until 1887, when an article in the American Journal of Numismatics was published, that collectors became acquainted with this fact.
The failure in transferring Stuart's sketch into coinage can be laid at the feet of one Robert Scot. Scot was a banknote plate artist who the Mint hired as an engraver. It was later found out he could neither sink a die nor make a device punch. Given Scot's incompetence as well as that of his assistant, John Eckstein, it is a wonder the coins turned out as well as they did.
The obverse of the Draped bust quarter features Stuart's portrait, encircled by 15 stars, with the inscription LIBERTY above the head and the date below. The reverse depicts a small eagle on cushion-like clouds, within a wreath of olive and palm branches. The inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA encircles the wreath.
Only 6,146 of the new quarters were struck in 1796. There are just two varieties known, one with a low 6 in the date and the other with a high 6, the Low 6 variety being much the rarer of the two. Collectors generally want only one coin for a type set, and herein lies the enduring popularity of the 1796 quarter. While it is not a particularly rare coin for the era, anyone who attempts to complete a type set of United States coins must have a 1796 quarter, as this design was made in only this one year. The next design type (not coined until 1804) retained the draped bust design on the obverse but replaced the small eagle of 1796 with the heraldic eagle then current on the other silver coins of the day.
No proofs were struck from the 1796 quarter dies, but several presentation strikings are known, coins that evidence an inordinate amount of care in their manufacture and exhibit much stronger striking details than usually seen. The subject of proofs, however, is one that surfaced in the early 1940s when Colonel E.H.R. Green's estate was liquidated. Colonel Green was a very colorful character who collected among other things, coins, stamps, railroad cars and pornography. Among his immense numismatic holdings were some 100 high grade 1796 quarters. Half of these coins were alleged to be "proofs," the other half regular business strikes. Philadelphia dealer James G. Macallister offered these for sale around the New York area in the 1940s at $90 each for the "Frosty Uncs." and $125 each for the "proofs."
The 1796 quarter dollar is one of the few United States coins whose value is greater than its population would indicate. Decades of publicity and the need for the '96 quarter for type sets has kept its price high relative to other series and individual rarities. Its reputation and value has even inspired counterfeiting. Very convincing counterfeits surfaced at the 1982 A.N.A. convention in Boston. These are cast copies of the rare Low 6 variety. They are copied from a low grade genuine coin, but all show the same field marks in front of the face—a nick just left of the 12th star, a nick above ER in AMERICA and another on the final A in AMERICA.
When grading a 1796 quarter, look for wear on the obverse on the highest points of the hair above the forehead, followed by the shoulder and bust line. On the reverse, friction is first seen on the breast of the eagle and next at the top edges of the wings.
Even on the finest specimens, head detail is likely to be flat on the eagle. This is not due to die wear, but rather design opposition caused by the eagle's head being directly opposite the shoulder of Liberty on the obverse. Adjustment marks are also common on these early silver coins. These were created by filing the planchets prior to striking to reduce the weight of the coined product. In this rather crude way, the Mint made sure that each gold or silver coin had exactly the amount of precious metal stipulated by law.
The 1796 quarter dollar was created with great care and considerable effort, and while the coins that were produced fell short of some people's expectations, this one-year type coin has attained popularity with a broad base of collectors that few other United States coins can equal.
Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle (1804-07)
In modern times, the quarter dollar has established itself as a workhorse in the United States coinage system. It plays a vital role in turning the wheels of commerce, and its annual production routinely tops one billion. By contrast, the quarter was all but invisible during the early years of federal coinage. The United States Mint delayed its introduction until 1796, making it one of the last U. S. coins to debut. Then, after striking just 6,146 examples of that date, the Mint suspended production of 25-cent pieces for nearly a decade.
As numismatic researcher R.W. Julian has observed, quarter dollars were "orphans" in the new nation's monetary system. "Few were struck and even fewer were seen in the marketplace actually being used by merchant or citizen."
In large measure the early public indifference to this now-essential coin was attributable to the fact that Americans didn't need it at that time. The Spanish two-reales piece, which circulated widely in the infant United States, had exactly the same purchasing power—25 cents. Then as now, people tended to favor things (including coins) with which they were more familiar. Under the circumstances, there was no particular urgency to strike quarter dollars at all, as evidenced by the fact that from 1796 to 1814, a period of nearly 20 years, the Mint produced quarters for only five dates and in quantities totaling barely half a million pieces. Indeed, the paltry output in 1796 seems to have been intended primarily to establish the denomination's existence—just to show the flag, so to speak.
U.S. coin designs underwent frequent changes during the nation's formative years and, because of its late introduction, the quarter dollar missed the very first cycle in this process: Unlike the dollar, half dollar and half dime, the 25-cent piece never appeared with the Flowing Hair portrait of Miss Liberty. By 1796, the Mint had already replaced that design with a new Draped Bust likeness of Liberty. A small, naturalistic eagle, much like the one on the Flowing Hair coinage, continued to grace the reverses of the first Draped Bust issues. This included the quarter dollar of 1796, which turned out to be a one-year type coin.
After completing the minuscule mintage of the first U.S. quarter, Mint officials seemingly forgot about the 25-cent denomination. It didn't reappear in the nation's coinage lineup until 1804, and by then the "small eagle" of the first silver coins had given way to a larger, heraldic eagle based on the Great Seal of the United States.
The Draped Bust image of Liberty is essentially the same in both series and was fashioned by noted portraitist Gilbert Stuart, possibly at the urging of President George Washington himself. It's said that Stuart's model was Ann Willing Bingham of Philadelphia, a socialite regarded as one of the most beautiful women of her day. His sketch was converted to plaster by artist John Eckstein of Providence, Rhode Island, and coinage dies then were executed by Mint Chief Engraver Robert Scot. Stuart reportedly felt that the execution was more akin to the type performed by a hangman, killing off the artistry of his portrait. For that reason, he disavowed his connection with the design.
In his highly regarded book Numismatic Art in America, Boston museum curator Cornelius Vermeule likened the Draped Bust figure to "a buxom Roman matron." Her long, elegant tresses are tied back with a ribbon, and ample cleavage is visible above a fold of drapery in her gown. This right-facing portrait is encircled by LIBERTY above, the date below and stars along the left and right borders. On the Small Eagle quarter of 1796, the obverse displays fifteen stars, one for each state in the union at that time. By 1804, the Mint had settled on 13 stars representing the original states; the notion of adding a star every time a state joined the union had been scrapped as an impractical indulgence.
13 stars appear on the reverse of the Heraldic Eagle quarter, as well, tucked into the space above the eagle's head. There are clouds above the eagle, while UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and 25 C. are inscribed around the periphery. A shield is superimposed upon the eagle's breast, a banner in its beak proclaims E PLURIBUS UNUM, and it grasps symbolic items: a sheaf of arrows and an olive branch. In designing the coin, Chief Engraver Scot chose to place the warlike arrows in the right (or "dexter") claw and the olive branch of peace in the left (or "sinister") claw. This reverses the traditional American priorities, since the right claw is dominant in heraldry and thus more properly suited for a symbol of peace, not war.
The Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle quarter remained in production for only four years, and during that time its annual mintage never reached a quarter of a million. Only 6,738 examples were struck in 1804, making that the key date of the series. Thereafter, the output topped 100,000 every year, reaching a high of 220,643 in 1807. Combined production for all four years totaled only 554,899. Mint records make no mention of proofs.
Heraldic Eagle quarters are exceedingly scarce in mint condition and all but unheard of in grade levels above Mint State-65. Areas on this design to first show wear are Liberty's bust and shoulder and her hair above the forehead. On the reverse, check the eagle's head and the tops of the wings.
A complete date-and-mint set actually includes five coins, since 1806 quarters come with both a normal date and a 6-over-5 overdate. Although it wouldn't be an impossible task to assemble a set of all five issues, many prefer to treat this as a type coin and acquire just one high-grade example to represent the series as a whole. For those quarter devotees who prefer complexity to simplicity, Ard W. Browning published the first variety study of these coins in 1925. His pioneering book has been superseded by a much better researched and illustrated 2008 volume by Steve Tompkins, though the Browning numbering system is still employed today.
After completing production of quarters for 1807, the Mint put this underused denomination back on the shelf for another long hiatus. People still preferred the Spanish and Mexican two-reales coins. As a further disincentive to production, the few quarters already issued were being widely hoarded, rather than spent, because they contained more silver than the two-reales pieces. Despite being lighter in weight, the Spanish coins were still legal tender at par, so it made more sense to spend those and save the quarters. The Mint wouldn't issue quarters again until 1815, and when it did, they would come in a new version: John Reich's Capped Bust design.
Capped Bust, Large Diameter (1815-28)
The American political experiment spawned many liberation movements throughout Europe, as people naturally embraced the idea of the right to self-determination. It began with France—first with the Revolution in 1789 and again, after the fall of Napoleon, spreading to Naples, Greece, Belgium and Poland. As the old Spanish Empire crumbled, the Latin American Republics were also created in this spirit.
The chaos in Europe attracted many immigrants to the dynamic, energetic and relatively peaceful United States. One of these was John Reich, a German engraver caught up in the Napoleonic Wars. He paid his way to America through indentured servitude and pursued his calling as an engraver by applying for a job at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. He was hired in 1807 and was immediately given the task of creating new coinage designs.
Reich brought Europe to America. His obverse design shows Liberty facing left, surrounded by thirteen stars, with the date below the bust. Liberty is quite buxom and, though characterized in the press as looking like "the artist's fat mistress," she is probably representative in appearance of the typical woman that Reich would have seen in Europe. Contrary to the opinions of some students of United States coinage, she is not wearing a Phrygian liberty cap but simply a mob cap, with a band inscribed LIBERTY. Many took issue with the idea that Liberty would be adorned with a cap given to freed slaves, but even President Thomas Jefferson saw this headdress, with its high cap bearing frills and ribbons, as familiar wearing apparel of women during this time. The bucolic Miss Liberty was quite different than the stern, no-nonsense look of Robert Scot's preceding Draped Bust design. The reverse shows an eagle with outstretched wings perched on a branch and holding three arrows, the Union Shield on its breast and the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM ("One made up of many") on a scroll above the eagle. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and value 25 C appear around the border. The eagle is more domesticated and peaceful looking than the aggressive Heraldic Eagle of the 1804-1807 design and more robust than the puny eagle on the 1796 quarter.
The Reich design would follow the policy established by the first director of the Mint, David Rittenhouse, that one design would be used on all coins of the same metal. It was first rendered on the half dollar of 1807, the dime of 1809 and finally the quarter dollar in 1815.
There were no quarters minted from 1808 to 1814, primarily because there was little demand for them. Early quarters were victims of Gresham's Law. This economic axiom dictates that if two competing currencies exist side by side, the least valuable will be spent and the other will be kept. In other words, "bad" money drives out "good." The competing Spanish two-reales coins were legal tender at par with the heavier quarter, so the quarter coin was either hoarded or melted for its silver content. The Spanish coins satisfied the needs of commerce, so there was not much need or motivation to make large mintages of United States coins.
Quarters were only minted in 1815 because the banks had ordered them. In fact, the majority of the mintage of 1815 went to the Planters' Bank of New Orleans. Just over 89,000 pieces were made, including approximately 20,000 pieces delivered on January 10th of 1816. A fire at the mint the next day destroyed much of the equipment, shutting down production of quarters until 1818, but nobody missed the coin.
Though the design was criticized, it represented a technological improvement over the Scot Heraldic design. There were far fewer design elements that had to be worked in by hand, reducing the time necessary to make a working die and increasing its useful life. The dies and therefore the coins were more consistent, making it easier to detect counterfeits.
Relatively low mintages were the rule for this series, with production for the eleven years totaling only 1,290,584 pieces. While VG to VF pieces are easily obtainable, uncirculated pieces are scarce or rare. Assembling a complete date set is precluded by the two major rarities, 1823/2 and the proof-only 1827, but strong demand comes from type collectors.
Proofs, really presentation pieces, exist for some dates but are very rare. The 1827 proof issues have a special significance in that they are associated with the name Joseph J. Mickley, who is considered to be the "Father of American Coin Collecting." On a visit to the Mint in 1827, Mickley obtained four proof quarters, which turned out to be at least a third of the entire mintage for the date. Although Mint records show 4,000 quarters were produced in 1827, undoubtedly they were struck with another date, as no 1827-dated business strikes are known. After coin collecting became popular in the United States in the 1850s, about a dozen surreptitious restrikes were made of the coveted rarity. The restrikes were made from the original 1827 obverse die, but the reverse used an 1819 die with a flat base 2 in 25 C. instead of the curled base 2 of the original 1827.
There is also a mystery surrounding the Capped Bust quarter. There are pieces, mostly dated 1815 and 1825, that have a large "E" or "L" counterstamp above Liberty's head. They were first noticed by collectors in the 1870s and were thought to have official origins, possibly as some experiment, but official records show no such counterstamped pieces. The puzzle remains unsolved, though Walter Breen conjectured in 1982 that they could have been made for use as school medals, using the "E" for English and "L" for Latin.
Uncirculated pieces must be free of any trace of wear at the hair above the forehead and over the ear. In addition, check the drapery on Liberty's bust and shoulder. On the reverse, the eagle's head and the tail feathers below the shield are the high spots. Some examples come weak or unevenly struck, and this should not be mistaken for wear.
The ending of the large size Capped Bust quarter series in 1828 nearly coincides with the end of the first Philadelphia Mint. The cornerstone of the new mint building was laid on July 4, 1829 at Juniper and Chestnut Streets. The anticipation of the new mint was an opportunity to refresh the designs of the coinage. In 1831, a smaller size Capped Bust quarter was introduced, which kept the basic Reich design but eliminated the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM. The diameter was reduced to 24.3 millimeters, the size the quarter would remain up through the present day.
Capped Bust, Small Diameter (1831-38)
After a generation of warfare ended in Europe in 1815, it can be said that the Western world truly entered the 19th century, a century that stands in retrospect as the most remarkable period of material progress in the history of the human race. From the beginning of history until about 1800, the work of the world was largely done by hand tools. Since then, it has been done by machines of increasing sophistication.
In the 1820s and '30s, several important scientific advances were made that were the foundations of later, important technological achievements. Beginning in 1831, Charles Darwin boarded H.M.S. Beagle and began gathering the information he would later use in his theory of evolution. Charles Babbage attempted to build a calculating machine in 1833 that was too advanced for the technology of the time, but his theories formed a basis for later work in this field. In 1830, Joseph Whitworth developed the standard screw gauge and a machine that could measure to one millionth of an inch, which made possible the production of more precise machine tools for planing, gear cutting and milling.
In the first three decades of production at the Philadelphia Mint, there was very little change in the methods used to strike coins. While steam presses had been discussed by Mint officials since the 1790s, coins continued to be produced by the old screw presses that were powered by either human or animal muscle. Then, in 1829, several mechanical improvements were made in the striking of half dimes, but it would not be until 1831 that these same procedures could be incorporated into the production of quarter dollars. At that time, a device known as a "close collar," or more precisely a "collar die" was used, which confined the planchets at the time of striking and at the same instant reeded the edge of the coin. This "close collar" imparted what Mint Director Samuel Moore called "a mathematical equality" to the quarters so produced. A higher, beaded border was also incorporated around the rims which served to protect the interior surfaces of the coin.
Director Moore used these mechanical improvements to also make several changes in the previous Capped Bust design. The first change Moore ordered Mint Engraver William Kneass to make was to eliminate the scroll above the eagle with the traditional motto E PLURIBUS UNUM. It was Moore's belief that the motto, which translates from Latin as "One made up from many," was redundant; the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was already on the coin, and this signified the same concept. The elimination of the motto was somewhat controversial in government circles, and Treasury officials sought to restore it, but Moore traveled to Washington to press his case for its elimination. Moore prevailed and the motto was not restored to quarters until 1892, with Charles Barber's redesign of that year.
Kneass reworked the entire coin. He retained the "sandwich board" eagle of John Reich's previous design, with its union shield displayed on the bird's breast. The obverse kept the same figure of Liberty facing left and wearing a mob cap, but Kneass tightened the design, giving the coin a more cameo-like appearance. He also deepened the devices, resulting in better striking qualities.
Small size Capped Bust quarters were struck in only eight years, with a total of 4,202,400 pieces produced. All were struck in the Philadelphia Mint between 1831 and 1838. There are no major rarities in the series, but the 1832 and 1836 issues are considerably scarcer than other dates in mint condition, while 1831 and 1834 are the dates most often seen. The 1831 issue comes in Small and Large Letters varieties, but each is of approximately equal rarity.
Because these quarters were made for such a short time, the series is one of the few of the 19th century that can be completed by the average collector. However, relatively few complete date sets have been assembled over the years, perhaps because Bust quarters in general are largely overlooked and underappreciated by collectors.
The series can also be collected by die variety. While there have been several references published over the past fifty years that list the die varieties on quarters from 1831 through 1838, collecting the series in this manner has not caught on as it has with other denominations such as half dollars, dimes and cents. In general, small size Capped Bust quarters are sought out as type coins. In problem-free AU and mint condition, they are surprisingly scarce, with most survivors grading XF or less.
Proofs are known from each of the eight years in this series, but they are great rarities. These coins were struck decades before proof coinage was made available to the general collecting public, and proofs were minted either on demand for favored collectors or for presentation purposes. Only two or three proofs are known in certain years, and all are significant numismatic items.
Small size Capped Bust quarters wore evenly as a result of Kneass' redesign, and the raised rim assured minimal loss from circulation. On the obverse, friction first begins to show on the highest points of the hair above the eye, at the top of the cap and on the stars. On the reverse, the eagle's talons and the arrowheads will show wear first.
The Kneass-designed quarter dollars of 1831-38 can be viewed as a great success from the viewpoint of the mechanical advances they incorporated, and they are certainly one of the best examples of the U.S. Mint's entrance into the "modern" era. While the design was a reworking of John Reich's previous edition, its revised elements gave the coin a slickness that is certainly an artistic improvement over the original concept from 1815. The technical merits of the coin are especially noteworthy, with the innovative close collar giving the quarters a precise, uniform appearance that would (with the advent of the steam press) be later imparted to all U.S. coins struck after 1836. Although almost "state of the art," the series would end abruptly in mid-1838 to begin preparation of dies for Christian Gobrecht's new Seated Liberty design, which would go on to be issued for the next half century.
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Opportunistic Dodgers make Braves pay for mistakes
ATLANTA -- Had you known the Dodgers, with Clayton Kershaw on the mound, would be victorious in Game 1 of this National League Division Series, it wouldn't exactly have registered as a total shock.
For the Braves -- and for any Major League team -- there really is no shame in losing to Kershaw, especially not the way he's mastered this 2013 season.
But the nature by which the Dodgers soundly beat up on the Braves in a 6-1 win on Thursday night at Turner Field -- outhitting, out-fielding and out-finessing them, relentlessly scoring runs even with Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp out and Hanley Ramirez battling a bum back, backing Kershaw on a night in which his command wasn't always up to his absurdly high standard -- was a little surprising and quite convincing.
This was, after all, a series most agreed was up for grabs. The Dodgers, for one night at least, were the ones who grabbed it by the throat, and Kershaw was only one part of the problem -- albeit a big one -- for Atlanta.
"I think it took us about two or three innings," said Fredi Gonzalez, "to kind of settle down."
By then, it was too late.
It's one thing to get beaten by arguably the best rotation in the game. What the Braves can't afford in this best-of-5 is to beat themselves. And on this night, some early defensive miscues loomed large against a Dodgers team that was assertive, aggressive and impressive.
For the Braves, the trouble began in the second inning, with a seeing-eye single from Yasiel Puig. When Juan Uribe followed with a sharp single to left-center, Puig boldly bolted all the way to third, reaching it safely with a structurally sound but altogether unnecessary headfirst slide.
"I'm thinking I've got to get to third base," Puig said through an interpreter. "I did my job, and I think he didn't want to commit an error, especially with a runner behind me."
That willingness on Puig's part to test Jason Heyward was both daring and telling. And it would be Heyward's poor throw home on a subsequent sac fly from Skip Schumaker that would not only allow Puig to score easily, but allow Uribe to advance to second.
This gaffe would indirectly lead to another. An A.J. Ellis fly ball to left became a two-run double, thanks to Evan Gattis making an overly aggressive sliding stab at the ball -- something Gattis likely wouldn't have attempted had Uribe been at first. The ball bounced away from Gattis, and Uribe scooted home to make it 2-0.
In that moment, you saw the real extent of what B.J. Upton's offensive struggles this season have wrought. The Braves entered the year expecting to have a dynamic defensive outfield cast, but Upton has proven unplayable, and so Fredi Gonzalez takes the defensive downside that comes with the offensive upside of Gattis' power bat. In this game, it wasn't a fair trade, and it only looked worse when Gattis, after singling to open the bottom of the second, ran himself into a 9-3 putout when he drifted too far from the bag on Chris Johnson's shallow fly ball to Puig in right.
This was what Gonzalez meant when he talked about his club looking over-amped.
"Little things like that," Gonzalez said. "Guys were excited, and rightfully so."
Of course, October is alarmingly unforgiving when you make such mental mistakes. The Dodgers would add another pair of runs in the third, when Medlen, who had been more a victim of bad luck than poor performance up to that point, left a changeup hanging to Adrian Gonzalez. The pitch was pummeled over the center-field wall to make it 4-0.
That lead looked colossal. Kershaw went 11-0 in the regular season when getting four or more runs of support, and the Dodgers, as a team, went 14-1 when scoring four or more on nights Kershaw was on the mound.
The Braves, however, did briefly look capable of terminating that trend. Because while Kershaw was still collecting his usual assortment of outs, his ordinary efficiency was evading him.
In the fourth, when he gave up a Freddie Freeman one-out single and walked Gattis in succession, opportunity knocked. Brian McCann pounded a fly ball to left that, for a moment, looked bound for the seats, only to fall short of the wall for out No. 2. And though Johnson was able to sneak an RBI single past a diving Ramirez, Kershaw confounded Andrelton Simmons with a devastating slider on a 3-2 pitch to end the inning.
Kershaw's pitch count was all the way up to 77 by that point, but the Braves had little to show for it.
"When you look up and you see 77 pitches in the fourth inning, you feel like you have a chance," Gonzalez said. "But he is what he is."
And from that point, he shut the door. He struck out nine of the last 11 he faced, essentially sealing his first career postseason win.
"We've seen him do this a few times," Mattingly said. "As the game goes, he seems to get stronger and stronger."
Again, absolutely no shame in the Braves losing to the man who carries such clout on the mound. It's been known to happen.
But a Braves club known to be boom or bust offensively (witness the 15 strikeouts on this night) does need to leave no stone unturned if it is going to recover against the rest of this ample Dodgers rotation. That means offering a clean and opportunistic effort.
That simply didn't happen in Game 1. Kershaw wasn't the entire story here.

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Monday, March 13, 2017
How Satellites Document Our Changing World
The satellite constellation of Earth-imaging company Planet Labs is able to provide a regular complete view of Earth at 3-5 m optical resolution. You can now explore these satellite images on their new Planet Explorer map.
Planet Explorer allows you to observe how the world has changed over the last year. Using the map's timeline you can zoom-in on any location on Earth and view the satellite imagery for any month, going back to January 2016. If you register with Planet Labs you can even view the daily updates to the satellite imagery in California.
Currently Planet Explorer has global satellite imagery at a resolution of 30 to 40 meters. The United States however is available at 3 to 5 meter resolution.
The Landsat program has been capturing satellite imagery of the Earth since the early 1970's. This means they now have access to over 40 years of satellite imagery, which is a wonderful resource for documenting changes to our planet.
Landsat Lens allows you to explore how the Earth has changed by comparing Lansat satellite imagery from six different years. The map allows you to search for any location on Earth and then overlay satellite imagery of your selected location from 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010 & 2015.
For example the screenshot above shows a map of the Aral Sea with four different satellite images from four different decades. Being able to directly compare the satellite images from different decades really helps to highlight the scale of how quickly the Aral Sea is disappearing.
You can also explore our ever changing world on Google's Timelapse map. Timelapse allows you to create a timelapse sequence from satellite images (from 1984 to 2012) for anywhere on Earth.The application comes with a number of default views that allow you to view timelapse animations of satellite images showing the sprawling growth of Las Vegas, the building of Dubai, the shrinking of the Mendenhall Glacier and the drying-up of Lake Urmia.
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City considers cheese brine to clear roads of ice
The city of Milwaukee is exploring a unique way of melting ice on city streets.
The city previously used rock salt, however it has looked for alternatives in the past. It has tried molasses and beet juice previously, but now plan to use a byproduct of cheese -- brine water.
The city is eyeing the product as a way to minimize its salt use and take a waste product off the hands of cheese makers.
"I think it's an excellent idea," said Widmer's Cheese owner Joe Widmer. "(It's) another place for it to be utilized where it wouldn't be going back into the system."
Widmer said the cheese brine would have to be filtered somewhat to remove any solids or fats before it could be sprayed on the roads. The city would use equipment similar to the sprayers already in use for the water-salt mix, which is a common preventative measure ahead of snowstorms.
Widmer said his process already reuses most of his brine, so he couldn't provide much to help clear roads. However, he suspects bigger manufacturers would be happy to unload some.
"We use a higher salt content, so we're able to pasteurize it and reuse it, just remove the solids," he said.
Milwaukee's pilot program in the winter of 2013 will study the cheese brine's effectiveness on a small scale.
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BETHESDA, MD -- Children and adolescents who are overweight are more likely than their normal weight counterparts to suffer bone fractures and have joint and muscle pains, according to a study conducted in the June 2006 Pediatrics by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Researchers also found that the overweight youth in the study were more likely than non-overweight youth to develop changes in the knee joint that make movement more difficult.
"Bone, muscle, and joint problems are particularly troubling in this age group," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH director. "If overweight youth fail to attain normal weight, they will likely experience an even greater incidence of these problems when they reach later life."
A total of 355 black and white Washington, D.C. area children and adolescents took part in the study, explained the study's senior author, Jack A. Yanovski, head of the Unit on Growth and Obesity at NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Of these, 227 were classified as overweight and 128 as non-overweight. Upon entering the study, the children underwent a detailed physical examination and were questioned about whether they had experienced any joint, bone or muscle-related problems. Study participants were classified as overweight if they had a body mass index above the 95th percentile for their height and weight. Youth were classified as non-overweight if they had a body mass index above the 5th percentile and below the 95th percentile.
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In the article, Yanovski and his coworkers noted that while overweight children and adults have a greater bone density than their non-overweight counterparts, this greater density did not protect the youth in the study from bone fractures. The researchers cited other studies which concluded that being overweight means that an overweight boy is likely to fall with greater force than a non-overweight boy, and so is more likely to suffer a fracture. Moreover, they wrote, other studies have suggested that overweight boys have poorer balance than non-overweight boys, and so are more likely to fall.
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City sanitation workers pick up debris from Superstorm Sandy outside the Breezy Point community polling place at St. Genevieve Church on Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Breezy Point, N.Y.
NEW YORK – The city is embarking on an unprecedented reconstruction program to swiftly repair homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday. The program will be mostly paid for by the federal government and aims to get some people home early next week, he said.
The program, called New York City Rapid Repair, will deploy general contractors who will oversee the work in the hard-hit areas. Those contractors will manage electricians, plumbers, carpenters and others to complete the repairs, Bloomberg said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supporting the project and will pay for most if not all of it, he added.
"For a homeowner to go off on their own and find somebody who was available and willing to show up is a daunting task," he said at a news conference. "We're changing the game. Today, we're launching a program that will start returning people to their homes as early as next week. … Its goal is to get as many New Yorkers as possible back in their homes by the end of the year."
Some 90,000 households in New York City and Long Island remained without power Friday. Some homes need simple repairs to get up and running, while others will need major work.
The program will begin with the easiest houses to fix, with those that have received a green card -- indicating they are sound -- from the buildings department, Bloomberg said. The buildings department has already examined some 80,000 homes.
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Signup begins Tuesday. Work will start soon afterward.
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The program "will go a long ways in our recovery, but I will say it won't fix everything," Bloomberg said. "In the hardest hit places like Breezy Point, homes were completely destroyed and some of the buildings that are standing will need major structural work before they can be lived in again. For those families, we're working on housing options that we'll have more to say about next week."
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Hello from Portugal!
My name is JG, known in several places as Chocapeek and i'm an alcoholic. Oh wait, I meant Arch user. Really.
Like many of you guys i've been trying out Linux in the several distros out there, switching into M$ occasionally due to software (mostly gaming and CAD) restrictions.
I'm a mech engineering student and an anarchist at heart, so Linux and the whole open source ideal fits me like a glove.
I am also willing to help and will try to find out how when I can, being my degree, wife, Judo and jobseeking my higher priorities, not necessarily in that order.
Best regards and thank you all for maintaining this great community and distro!
Hi all,
New Arch user here from Texas. Tried to install Arch about four years ago, didn't go very well, but tried out Manjaro last week and liked it enough to try out Arch again for real this time.
I'm actually surprised at how much easier it was than I thought it was going to be. Granted, I went through a pretty big Slackware phase last year, but got the base system installed, no problem, only had a couple of minor mishaps along the way, nothing that wasn't fixable.
Grub didn't work right, but didn't work right with Manjaro, either, just installed LILO and it works fine. Got xorg and MATE installed, touchpad wouldn't work, didn't have the xf86-input-synaptics package installed. Easily enough fixed. /etc/fstab had both / and /home pointing to the same partition, even though they're supposed to be on separate ones -- didn't discover it until I'd already created my non-root user.
Have Compiz/Emerald installed, all is working well and it's fast as hell ;-)
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@michael.conner: Try Syslinux as bootloader.
Hi all!
I'm a longtime Linux user, started in late 1996 on Slackware 3.0. Later moved to SuSE (so I no longer had to compile Qt and KDE myself), then FreeBSD when I became fed up with YaST and RPMs in about 2002. Mostly a FreeBSD user until this year when the latest FreeBSD version turned out _not_ to support my ancient Nvidia graphics card anymore. Tried out Arch, as it was recommended to me, first on the old PC, than got a cheapo new PC which now dual-boots Windows 7 (yuck!) and Arch x64 (yay!).
So far I'm really impressed with Arch; it's a nice cross between the FreeBSD/Slackware simplicity, while at the same time having binary packages that actually work (as opposed to SuSE).
Kudos to the devs for creating this distro! It has actually managed to rekindle my long-lost love for Linux.
Hi there,
I am not exactly new to archlinux, but as I have just done a fresh re-install on my netbook yesterday, I think it's time to sign up again.
Why fresh installing a rolling-release distro? I've read about a better way to set it up encrypted -- using lvm, so I only have to type in one password for both root and swap -- and also arch has changed a lot in the past 6? months (I used my main computer in the mean time with windows 7). I mean you guys got rid of all the menus on the live CD, now it has zsh as default and the package signing now works properly
Also I prefer to do a fresh install, because over the time I tend to install packages I don't really need/use and I was using gnome3 previously. Liked the idea and the interface as such, but all the further design decisions I've read about in the news made me install xfce this time
And why did I create a new account this time? Well, I've had an account for a few years now, but since I've saved all the passwords in a keepass db, which I can't access anymore, I can't prove it anyway so I won't even mention the username. It also didn't have too many posts, so who cares
Oh and I couldn't use Arch without being involved in the community at all. Whenever I find out something arch related after searching/trying for a long time, I feel the need to share it in the wiki and at least give something back that way to my favorite linux distribution.
tl;dr: hello archbbs
Hi everyone! Been using Arch, pretty much hassle free, for about half a year now. Haven't had any issue that hasn't been solvable using DuckDuckGo with the search prefixes site:wiki.archlinux.org or site:bbs.archlinux.org, so there's been no need for me to post anything here.
Just wanted to sound my appreciation for this excellent community, and let you all know you have been of great help. Keep up the great work!
Best. Distro. Ever.
Hello. After using Ubuntu for a couple of months as my first Linux OS, I thought I would try something new. I was originally a bit fearful of Arch, after hearing about how it was hard to setup and learn. However, the excellent documentation on the wiki and the great people on the forums proved that otherwise. I thank the Arch community for making this project easy to use, and if anyone reading this is on the fence about trying Arch, I highly recommend it. If I could do it, so could you!
It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.
--Dave Barry
Hi. I've been using ubuntu for 4 years in my PC. Now I've got a wetab tablet since December, and I tweaked ubuntu 11.10 to adapt unity to it (http://ubuntutablet.blogspot.com). However updating to 12.04 was a complete dissaster, I had to move to Lubuntu, but lot's of things in my touchscreen were broken (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147264). A week ago I installed Arch in my tablket, now almost all the problems are gone, my tablet is faster than ever and I have all the control about what is or what is not installed. I've asked a question in the forum and 1 minute later I had the answer (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148319). Well, I think I've landed in the right place, thanks to all.
I'm a new GNU/Linux user. After playing around on my school's server through PuTTY for a couple of summers and enjoying how easy doing things was with the command line, I finally decided to get Linux working at home too.
Thanks for making everything so simple!
I'm a new GNU/Linux user. After playing around on my school's server through PuTTY for a couple of summers and enjoying how easy doing things was with the command line, I finally decided to get Linux working at home too.
Thanks for making everything so simple!
What a great way to start with Linux!
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Hello everybody,
I've used different Linux distributions for a few years and finally found my way to Arch
Greetings from Germany,
Hi everyone. I'm new on the forum but not with Arch.
As we say in Italy, i know that like my pocket.
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Hi everyone!
Long time linux user here. Coming back to Arch is like coming home! (At work I have to use Ubuntu...)
Great distro, great docs, great community!
Hello, I'm Sam from Finland. Even though I'm not
complete noob with Linux which I've used since 2001,
I am noob with Arch.
My Linux history:
Simply MEPIS versions+ProMEPIS->Ubuntu almost all versions
from 7.04->Crunchbang 8.04 to 11.
I have great difficulties with Arch, I hope you gurus would help
me even to the start.
Hi everyone,
i'm Levi, "professional" programer at work, amature at home, gamer.
My Linux history: Linux Mint 11, 12, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Linux Mint 12, Chakra, now Arch with KDE.
Installed Arch live yesterday, StarCraft 2 working, no source engine based game yet, compiz not yet, neet to read more docs, couldn't figure out automounting yet ... beside this as a complete newbie, i managed to configure everything I wanted (nvidia driver, daemons, KDE, removed pulsaudio, GTK Oxygen themes, autologin, styles&themes - I love the Quartz window theme, which is removed now from almost all the distros or i could not find it anywhere, lib32 stuff, etc).
Arch is the best documented distro i ever seen, and FREEDOME on how to configure your system (what i don't like some distros, i just installed a Mageia 2 for someone, noaveau hardwired in the system, which is no problem, unless you want the Nvidia driver and you can't blacklist noaveau for some reason so both are loaded).
I'm truly sorry i waited till now to install Arch, the basic text mod installer was removed in this time but even so, i find it as a newbie easy to install (everything very well documented), but it takes more time.
Greetings Arch community.
Hi everybody,
it's time to say hello officially. I've been using Arch Linux for some months in a virtual machine to test out if I could handle it, and about 10 days ago I finally installed it on hd. I began using Linux roughly 10 years ago with a Slackware variant that could be installed inside Windows 98, then quickly went on to the real thing with Debian Woody.
After some time I began to wish for applications being less... stable and went on to Debian Unstable (Sid), but often was too afraid to upgrade, so I looked for alternatives. About that time Ubuntu came along and sounded like just what I wanted, a Debian-based system with newer software and faster release cycles. I stayed with some kind of Ubuntu until recently, but I tended to not doing dist upgrades because of fear of breakage and often ended up *again* with ancient installations and still too old software.
Well. I looked again for alternatives, found Arch, loved what I read, was amazed by the excellent documentation and nice community, loved the philosophy, and went ahead and tried it out. So here I am, so far it's wonderful.
Hello to you all.
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If our currency were not money but appreciation and acknowledgement for what we do for others, for the community, for the benefit of all, we would have paradise on earth.
Hi everyone
I'm coming from the *BSD corner, FreeBSD to be exact.
I still love FreeBSD, but I really wanted to try out Linux, and among every distribution I found Arch to be the one that suits me best.
I'm switching mostly because I wanted more current applications, and better support for the OS by app-devs.
So far I'm positively surprised, installation was super easy, and pacman is apparently a gift from God
Looking forward to be an active and helpful member of the Arch community
PS: Sorry for my English, it's not my native tongue.
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Hi everyone ... pacman is apparently a gift from God
Nah, just Allan.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature -- Michael Faraday
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
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Hello everyone.
I'm new to Linux in general, despite the fact that I've tried to switch from Windows to Linux several times over the past 10 years or so. I really am going to give it the old college try this time, so I decided I should find somewhere for some technical support on my journey. My previous transition failures have come due to lack of knowledge and mounting frustration. Naturally I installed Ubuntu first, but it quickly began annoying me... So I plan on installing Arch tomorrow and giving that a try. From what I have read it's completely customizable (granted knowledge is required for that) and that is ultimately what I want.
So... That's my introduction!
Hello everyone.
I'm newish to Arch. Have to say though, I have learnt an awful lot in a short period of time, and I have settled on using Xmonad as my window manager. Having used Ubuntu in the past, as good as it was, it doesn't have the fine grained control you have with Arch, and that's what I need.
I'm looking forward to contributing what I can and learning as much as I can from you guys.
Xmonad rocks!
Hi all, greetings from Guatemala.
I have been using ubuntu for the last few years,but now than i met Arch Linux i feel that i'm rediscovering the whole world of linux. And learning than the best way to do the things it's the Arch Way...
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Hello everyone.
I came from the world of Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago, so I'm still an Arch noob.
I find that with Arch's lightweight simplicity and documentation, I'll probably stick with it as my main distro.
Hi to everyone in the forum! I'm Luis, from México. I came to ArchLinux about a week ago... i come from Fedora and i want to "jump" the new user barrier and become a developer.
I know my english sucks...
Sorry for my poor english.
Registered Linux User #559855
Hello everyone. Just successfully installed Arch today.
Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian Squeeze, Mint Maya and Fedora are the distros i have tried before. Mainly interested in Linux from an embedded view point, device drivers and system programming.
Wanted more control over Linux so switched from Ubuntu Unity Garbage to Arch. Looking forward to contributing to Arch and being a part of this community.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Hey all. Arch has been my distro of choice since around 04 or 05. I've been using linux off and on though. Thought I would finally make an account here.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Scary troll and me. You decide which is which ;) Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Scary troll and me. You decide which is which ;)" Morbid GuymemberMember #Joined: 19 Oct 2000Posts: 277Location: England Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2000 11:18 pm Hi, heres some stuff I sketched out in photoshop including a self potrait, which was inspired by the great ones I saw here. Also a couple of pages of a 16 page strip I penciled out based on a idea I had to do around an alchemist being brought back from the dead. Currently Frost is going to be painting them with his awesome style (Frost I can't wait to see what you do with them mate) Anyway, comments, crits, rippings, whatever are welcome. Back to top EviLToYLeTmemberMember #Joined: 09 Aug 2000Posts: 1216Location: CA, USA Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2000 11:21 pm HEhe. Really like the troll. Can't see the other two pictures though. (top two) Anyway.. the comic strips look promising but try to change the shape of each box.... spend more time into the composition. Don't be afraid to use slants and diagonals. Also, you can make some parts of a box overlap into another box(the picture in a box) For example, a guy running in one box may have his arm go over the line to the other box. Hope you get what I'm saying. And I guess your a .....friend of frost? Well.....kick ass, hope to see more artwork from you. Back to top IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2000 11:30 pm Holy Crap! Somebody who's GOOD! Man this stuff rocks, we've needed someone like you for a while now. I'm really looking forward to seeing more do you have a web site where I can look at more stuff? Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2000 11:33 pm dig them. ------------------ sky high with a heartache of stone you never see me 'cos i'm always alone email@example.com icq#35983387 http://faustgfx.0wns.org (soon) Back to top RinaldomemberMember #Joined: 09 Jun 2000Posts: 1367Location: Adelaide, Australia Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 12:03 am top stuff. me want's more please, Back to top Painted MelodymemberMember #Joined: 25 Dec 2000Posts: 138Location: NJ, USA Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 12:06 am Excellent work. :) Back to top SporQmemberMember #Joined: 22 Sep 2000Posts: 639Location: Columbus, Ohio Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 12:33 am great paintings. i dig the troll portrait. the comic layouts are excellent as well. that angular style reminds me of eric canete's comics. anyway, welcome to the forum, hope to see more SporQ Back to top Wildkatjunior memberMember #Joined: 29 Nov 2001Posts: 8Location: us of a Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 12:49 am Fantastic portrait, I can feel your eyes watching me. Great paintings Kyri... love the details, lighting and the story they tell. Looking forward to seeing more of the comic too. Thanks for sharing these... very inspirational Back to top anticzmemberMember #Joined: 08 May 2000Posts: 285Location: San Diego, CA, USA Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 1:03 am Bump 2 da top ------------------ ======================= Mike B. - Supervising Janitor anticz.com ======================= Back to top arniemgmemberMember #Joined: 25 Dec 2000Posts: 107Location: Pensacola, FL, USA Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 1:03 am Great portrait. I like how you don't try to hide your brushwork. I like it so much I decided to use caps for this special occassion. Is it really only your second post? Back to top Morbid GuymemberMember #Joined: 19 Oct 2000Posts: 277Location: England Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 3:30 pm Hi.Thanks, I think this must be the most positive response I can remember getting. I'm actually not a newbie, I've been posted using my real name in the past but I think this one suits me more. My posts have been very sporadic, as I can't be on the net as much as I want too. If you want to check out my webpage it's http://www.3dpalette.org/~darkpath/ [This message has been edited by Morbid Guy (edited December 29, 2000).] Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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I know now that wires
poke out through my skin
and stand at attention.
I hang letters and signs
from their silver, pin-prick
heads: autism, ADHD.
And my monkey still lives.
Ask your monkey sometime
for his name, and see
what he tells you.
– Excerpt from my poem "Two Monkeys, A Raven, and A Lizard King"
It is quite serendipitous that the poem from which I just quoted lines was published today in Red Wolf Journal. And today, of course, is World Autism Acceptance Day.
Notice I did NOT say World Autism Awareness Day. I am troubled by the kind of awareness promoted by groups such as Autism Speaks. I think The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism says it best when they said this in the opening paragraph of their post today:
"…to the autistic people we love, work with, fight alongside, parent, and (some of us) are ourselves, it's instead a day to bust myths, speak out, and try to change the world to be a more autistic-friendly place."
So on that note, I will meditate a little about another possibly neurodivergent soul: Jim Morrison.
A Few Words on So-Called "Obsessive" Interests
On many levels, writing about him today makes sense to me. For one thing, I try to understand myself, and the world, through acts of echolocation. My intense interest in things, people, and subjects happens to be one way in which I do this. As I said in another (unpublished) poem, "Elephant":
Break off, and devour it
in chunks. I might take fifteen years to
process one picture, twelve years to
walk through the autobiography of one man's
sorrow. Is the world made out of
In this poem, I compare what has been termed by others as "narrow, obsessive interests" to the parable of the blind men and the elephant — not to compare autism with blindness but to illustrate the idea that no one ever has a complete picture of the world and that we might use our thoughts, our senses, and perhaps in the case of autistic people these interests to better understand the world.
Of course, with this discussion comes the question: who decided that there was something unusual about our interests as autistic people? I've been made fun of a little for my keen interest in The Doors, and in Jim specifically. When I was in college, those around me thought that my keen interest in R.E.M. was a little strange. My mother once joked that in my late teens, I had Nirvana on the brain.
With these particular groups of musicians, I studied not just the music, but them as musicians — their personalities, their personal lives, even the way they might think of and process the world around them. For example, I have found similarities between my childhood and that of both Jim Morrison and Michael Stipe (the lead vocalist of R.E.M.): our families moved around frequently as children, all of our fathers were in the military, all of us showed intense interest in literature and poetry as teenager, and that's just to name a few. I have found that it is a human trait, not just a neurodivergent trait, to look at the lives of others similar to own and compare/contrast experiences to try to understand our particular experiences. And that's exactly what I did, and have been doing.
Is my so-called obsessive interest in these musical groups — or some of my other interests such as the Enneagram, or social/cultural/racial issues — any more or less unusual, than, say, that of an obsessive Lady Gaga fan? Or is the keen interest of an autistic in, say, batteries or Greek mythology any more or less unusual than that of someone who's really into One Direction? I submit that the answer to both of these questions is "no".
I believe, however, that the term "obsessive, narrow interests" may seem to have a negative connotation depending on who's observing, and who's doing the judging — perhaps that judgement occurs because these interests are not things that we share with the majority of people around us. As a teenager in today's Western cultures, it might be easier to find someone to gab on with for hours about One Direction than to find someone to gab on with for hours about a more seemingly obscure subject, such as Telugu-language poetry. (Of course, if you're a teenager in Hyderabad, you might easily find someone to geek on about Telugu poetry — which proves that some of this depends on the culture in which one lives and is from. But I digress.)
Now, About Jim
Sometime in 2008, Jim Morrison captured my imagination. I don't know whether to thank or blame Oliver Stone for this. One spring afternoon, my fiance and I watched his 1991 movie The Doors — and it left me with way more questions than answers. So, I went off into reading, listening, and fact-finding. What I found was absolutely startling, amazing, and heartbreaking.
First of all, the real Jim Morrison was not very much like Val Kilmer's portrayal in the Oliver Stone film. Stone may have been correct on some biographical details, but many of the events in both the Doors' career and Morrison's life were either rearranged, exaggerated, or flat-out fictionalized in the film. I won't go into the exact details here, but I will say that instead of being a mystical, illogical junkie as was portrayed in the movie, Jim was way more complicated than that. He was a collection of contradictions: both a incredibly nice guy and an insensitive, misogynistic creep; both a brilliant and amazingly talented artist and an arrogant, self-important asshole; and a man who at his finest inhabited the concept of an alchemistic shaman but who was also an intensely pain-ridden, broken soul in need of healing himself.
And, my friends, I also suspect that Jim was neurodiverse.
Some might say that I am "diagnosing the dead" in the case of Jim. But consider, my friends, that we must move away from the paradigm of pathology and illness. Diagnosing suggests that there is a problem to be fixed — which is not what this is about. This is about identification.
In all the reading, viewing, and fact-collecting I have done over the last six years, a few things have lead me to believe that Jim was some form of neurodivergent. For example, bandmate Ray Manzarek documented in his book "Light My Fire" that Jim had a photographic memory to the point of being able to identify the exact book and page number of any passage read to him from a book in his collection — with his back turned so that he could not see the book from which the person read. I'm autistic with ADHD, and I have near photographic memory, but I'm not that good – my memory is much better with pictures and sound. I would compare Jim's ability with that of Dr. Temple Grandin, who has documented that she was able to recite entire printed pages from memory as a teenager, and I have met other ADHD and autistic folks who also have this type of exceptional memory.
Of course, photographic memory alone does not a neurodivergent make. One of Jim's own quotes may give away his own possible neurodivergence:
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
It is not in dispute that we must read into this quote to determine its meaning. Jim is dead, and is not here to explain to us exactly what he meant. And even if he could, would he? This is a man with a million mysteries behind his life — and appears to have liked it that way. But it's not hard to use this quote as a jump-off point, to make small mental leaps and imagine his difficulties with impulse control and executive functioning. After all, this was a man who often did not "look before he leaped" — whether it was shouting racial slurs at passersby for no apparent reason, sometimes sleeping with every woman (or man) he could get his hands on, or drunken, ill-planned onstage ranting.
The above quote suggests a struggle with forethought and considering the consequences of one's actions beforehand…and the guilt, embarrassment, and endless face-palming after one has done the thing. I think of this quote and I'm reminded of an incident in third grade when, bored with the classroom lecture, I suddenly had the urge to stand up, interrupt the teacher, and shout at the top of my eight year-old lungs, "APER – RAPER – PAPER!" without even considering that two of these were not real words in the dictionary, or that I was interrupting a lecture. I, of course, found myself red-faced as I made the trek down to the principal's office.
And speaking of school, this brings to mind an interesting quote from one of his poems, "As I Look Back":
I was given a
desk in the corner
I was a fool
The smartest kid
in class
I can't help but think of a wise-ass with an electric mind wired in such a way that he was way beyond his peers. And since neurodiversity, after all, promotes the idea that those of us who are autistic, ADHD, bipolar, and other variations are simply the products of different kinds of brain wiring naturally present in the human genome, wouldn't this quote coming from a neurodivergent person make sense? The same kid who gives the teachers a headache and wisecracks so much in class ends up reading material way beyond his grade level — in Jim's case, it was books on Arab sexuality and sixteenth-century demonology, as well as his well-documented reading of Nietzsche which began as a teenager.
Ah, Nicole, but what about his drinking and drug use? you might ask. Doesn't that complicate things and make it harder to judge his possible neurodivergence? To be fair, yes, it does. But I also point to that as another possible sign that he was neurodiverse. Consider that many of us neurodivergents have self-medicated in an effort to help ourselves cope with life — especially life in a world not built for us. I have personally known autistic, ADHD, and bipolar folks who have done some form of this: in my case, it was alcohol. For the non-neurodiverse in my reading audience, consider this: if a substance provided you with even temporary relief from excessive mental stimulation, emotional and/or energy rollercoasters, or paralyzing sensory overload, might you not at least consider taking that substance? Many do. It may not be the best coping mechanism — and it may become destructive in our lives, as it clearly did in Jim's case — but that is a very real reality for some of us.
So, What's Your Point, Nicole?
I started thinking about this a few weeks back when I struggled with my own sense of inhibition, which had been born out of teenage fear. My family bullied me into trying to be "normal", so I created a LOT of facades, subroutines, and a few inhibitive ideas which would ensure that I didn't, as I once put it to my fiance, "fuck up my own life". I was SO afraid that I would, because I believed that at heart I was an undisciplined, feral creature that would just go "crazy" and do off-the-rails shit that would ruin mine — and now, our — lives. I began comparing what I saw as an inner impulsiveness to trying to restrain a wild monkey.
Then, it occurred to me that Jim probably had a monkey, too. He was an intensely creative mind who was also impulsive, a risk-taker, and prone to both moments of brilliance and what appeared to others to be madness (believe me, because of my new realization of how neurodivergence is often pathologized, I do not use that word lightly). That quote about "blowing it at the most crucial moments" started to echo in my own mind. From this thought process was born both my poem "Two Monkeys" and a new realization: we who are neurodivergent can only be who and what we are.
I am certainly not suggesting that being neurodivergent is without its challenges, but I believe in many cases those challenges are not because of who and what we are — they are what we encounter while existing in a world system not created by us, and at the same time we still try to cope, try to get along, and even try to conform. Many of us are very familiar with the feeling of ramming our souls against invisible walls created by others when we engage in our usual behaviour. And this happens on many levels. Consider an ADHD child who struggles with sitting still in a Western-style classroom environment, or an autistic who cannot make eye contact, or a bipolar whose emotional passion and unique life rhythms are judged to be a pathology.
Whatever Jim was, he was probably nursing wounds as a result of slamming himself against invisible walls created by those around him, and in the end, partially unfortunately due to bad choices on his own part, he paid a heavy price. And I'm sure some of us neurodivergents are still nursing our own wounds. So I will say this: I am tired of trying to conform, my friends. My monkey is slowly learning how he and I can work together, and not against each other.
While I know we are far from having "overcome", I am thankful that we live in such an era of knowledge and advocacy with such a potential towards understanding and acceptance of neurological differences. I wish Jim had discovered these same opportunities in his lifetime. So, I leave you with another of Jim's quotes — what I call an invocation to open, and keep opening, doors to a brighter, better future — one in which we will simply be neurodiverse, free of any paradigms of pathology:
O Great Creator of Being
grant us one more hour
to perform our art
and perfect our lives


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Thanks Michael! Good questions Fantasy questions later
Michael maybe the person who voted last week for the BQ's to be eliminated will accidently vote for them to win thinking its a vote to see who's eliminated.
He'll probably run off and marry Carmen and we'll never hear from him again
since when do under aged kids teen agers not drink...besides...I'm not that far off...I'm 17, 10 months and I can drink in Montreal and Quebec!
The boot list has held up for 12 eps, why not for ep 13?
Quote from: gingerman28 on May 05, 2007, 09:27:00 PMThe boot list has held up for 12 eps, why not for ep 13?Because I'm a wizard and I changed it with my powers! You'll see tomorrow Also a popular last ditch attempt to discredit the boot-list has been that the list could be a "fake spoiler" put out by CBS (which I seriously doubt)
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May Northrend bring you everything that one could wish from this festive season, including peace on Azeroth.
Quick shoutout out to those of you in Singapore and India. When you saw that Qantas jet fly overhead, that was Gnomeaggedon on his new engineering mount in search of flying carpets.
If you see me in the street (yeah right) the bright white red head with the pretty Indian wife and caramel colored boy (and four foot nothing mother-in-law while in India), give me a "For the Horde" or "For Gnomergan".
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