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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Charlie Veitch and The Shill Police - Everything Isn't Okay
Three weeks ago Charlie made a speech at the 2011 Truth Juice festival in which he stated that Osama Bin Laden was just a boogie man and 911 was a ritual sacrifice carried out by adherents of ancient mystery religions (starting at 37:00). Two weeks ago Charlie helped organize an event that brought Richard Gage of AE911Truth.org to Cambridge University and stated on video, quote, "I fully believe 9/11 was a false flag." Now this week, after "letting it slip" that he is going to appear in a BBC 10th anniversary of 9/11 TV documentary, he unequivocally stated "there isn't any evidence for 9/11 being an inside job, there just isn't!"
The BBC documentary is called "9/11 Conspiracy Roadtrip" and the premise is that they take Charlie Veitch and 5 other "conspiracy theorists" to New York, the WTC complex, the Pentagon, and Shankesville, tape interviews with various "experts" toting the official 9/11 story, and throughout the course of the documentary, convince Charlie and the other "former conspiracy theorists" that 9/11 actually happened exactly as the government described. Now low and behold, just as the BBC planned, 3 days into his paid vacation, Charlie has completely flip-flopped and is now calling conspiracy theorists "paranoid cultists."
First on the spot to interview Charlie about all this was long-time truther/activist Max Igan of Surviving the Matrix radio. Watch part 1 below and click here for parts 2 and 3. Still unsure what to think, and giving the benefit of the doubt, Max allows Charlie the chance to fully explain himself. Notice how all of a sudden Charlie is perfectly satisfied with the typical government answers to Max's critical questions regarding 9/11. World Trade Center 7, the Pentagon, Shankesville, suddenly Charlie is vehemently defending the government positions on all these issues and acting like Max is being a stick in the mud, constantly saying "come on Max... but dude, you see... man, that's how I used to think, but now..."
Charlie says: "I'm an open-minded, logical person and we went around ground zero, the Pentagon, we met experts and family members, and suddenly after about day 3, it just popped in my head and I went 'hold on a second, what if we in the conspiracy theory world are paranoid and we're kind of in a cult, and what if not everything is a conspiracy? What if 19 hijackers, part of an Islamist revolutionary hatred of the west, did manage to pull it off. And it's the simplest explanation."
Doesn't it seem quite disingenuous for someone to go from an "independent" figure-head defending the conspiracist position, to a BBC figure-head defending the government position, literally overnight? Doesn't it seem disingenuous that he's now calling conspiracy theorists "paranoid cult members?" and that this was obviously the BBC's intention in creating this hit-piece to begin with?
The next person to interview Charlie was Mr. Brit on Resistance Radio who, just like Max, is a bit dumb-founded and unwavering in his position on 9/11. He asks a lot of critical, relevant questions, to which Charlie gives more hollow, brush-off answers. Part 1 is below, and here are parts 2 and 3.
Charlie's third interview since his overnight change of heart was with Max Igan again, and this is one of the best and most interesting conversations I've heard in a long time. Max Igan really takes the gloves off this time and let's Charlie have it. He asks a barrage of discerning, pertinent questions about various 9/11 anomalies and Charlie acts absolutely aloof and complacent with stock government/mainstream media answers. Part 1 is below and I highly recommend watching parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 here.
Charlie's father is a rich, nomadic oil tycoon (whom he called "insane" at Truth Juice) and until 2008 Charlie was also a rich high-level financial advisor/investment banker, a job he allegedly quit to start doing his megaphoning street antics. He very quickly raised from obscurity to being on SkyNews, Russia Today, BBC, and other mainstream news channels. And this latest "Charlie-Gate" isn't the first suspicious thing to come from Mr. Veitch either. Have a look at this thread I started on his Love Police forum back last September when I called his integrity into question. Please leave your comments below as I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts/feelings on this matter. I'll leave you with an assortment of various YouTuber reactions to Charlie's 180:
41 comments:
- Eric Dubay said...
- July 4, 2011 at 12:24 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
- July 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Listened to him on Max Egans show this morning and couldn't believe how stupid he was being..When 9-11 happened..that morning we heard it on the radio and looked at each other and said, in unison, "They did it!" then, watching on a friends TV we heard/saw the owner of the building say, "Pull it!" It would have cost him a ton of $$ to retrofit the buildings. He made a fortune on the insurance. Also, the owner was a good friend of Bush the Younger. Go figure!!
- July 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM
BTW: The owner of the WTB did not know he was being filmed when he said, "Pull it"..Now, this morning, Max Egan on his show said he's going to post footage of a group of men 'counting down' when the building fell into 'its own footprint'..I lived in Las Vegas on one point in life and I've been present when they took down a casino with controlled demolition. Then the fact that it occurred on 9/11 shows the bizarre sense of humor of those involved..I have only heard one person talk about 911 the emergency #.
- July 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM
This is actually fascinating, the way he describes his "conversion" or "long night of the soul" is that he was sleepless and vomiting. It sounds like he's a mind-control puppet. It's interesting to consider whether he was a plant and puppet all along, or if they got to him after his first work with the Love Police.
The other alternative is that he was a plant simply given a script at the start, and that he's actually just a bit dim in himself.
By the way, this stuff about forgiveness and love and both correct and very wrong at the same time. It's wrong because these are very personal things - the process is to forgive yourself first and then everyone else is forgiven too. If you go around preaching it it's equivalent to shouting about how much you give to charity and how everybody else should... the interesting thing here is that by extension you don't then you're a bad person, of course we won't say that, but only because we can't! You see! It's a clever form of censorship that just protects all the miscreants.
These guys need to be taken out, and it has to happen by "force". And that force is simply the truth, and the end of ignorance.
Because we're not going to beat them at their own game, ie through marketing and manipulation and psy-ops and misleading and lies and just the whole web, of which secret societies have been such an important part. These guys are the absolute masters at it. We've simply got to go in there and drag them out, and punish them. Perhaps even kill them. THAT is the highest form of love for live, because those that destroy life, many of them are simply beyond "help", and they are just completely compromised, or completely mentally ill, or possessed, or just trapped in that box, that fiction. Or infected with that mind virus. And in many cases it's sad, because loved ones will be affected, and those that at one time were golden and full of great promise before they were infected.
Nobody knows they are compromised, because they are already acting "as if", like Greg Hallett says. That is the hallmark of deconstruction of the subconscious. Like in Russia where everybody is deconstructed to think like the state. And actually this has spread to the UK now, very much so.
And it's done through subliminals, and symbols, and suggestion. The cross has been the most potent one for centuries, but with TV etc they are absolutely in their element.the - July 4, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Just occurred to me, by the way - his first work was called "Everything is OK", right? Which no doubt is ostensibly sarcastic. But if you take a catchphrase like that, repeat it over and over, and then claim that the official 9/11 story is correct, then that IS the message you're pushing into people's minds - that everything is OK. The sarcasm subtext is lost, and the subliminal message triumphs. That's how they do these things, we simply need to wise up to it. Because everything, as you say, is most definitely not OK. And more '60s-style fake peace and love is absolutely the worst way to approach this.
- July 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- Duncan said...
Charlie Veitch was first brought to my eyes by a fellow We Are Change chapter in Europe, that same member aligns with RUdkowski who we exposed as having masonic connections and using fraudulent behaviour with donations, 32 degree mason still controls WAC nyc. we had reports of MI6/MOD in WAC London England, the so called truth movement is totally controlled as far as prominent voices go and i stay with wac with others purely to expose these infils. I am a freeman on the land and fight for the truth, supporting the British COnstitution group and Lawful rebellion, Veitch was a wrong'un from the start, transparent, but the 'truthers' need leaders, these leaders are placed AND THEY ARE MANY.when myself and two others exposed the mason and asked rudkowski for answers, our 'chapters' were deleted, the founder of wac is Dan Wallace R.I.P, NOT Rudkowski, who is good friends with Veitch and align with AE911, infowars and the other gatekeeping useful idiots. I was at Cambridge on June 18th and witnessed more than one accidental handshake similar to veitch's in one of his latest videos, i intended to approach Rudkowski but overheard something which caused be to back off, other info i've recieved also confirms he is just a silly boy with a big ego being played, just like veitch.
- July 4, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- muzuzuzus said...
I am getting that I cannot stand the sound of turncoat Charlies voice. it sounds as sincere as Tony Blair!
When I first heard about this, I found a video by a guy who claims that this so-called U turn is a sham too, and that he knew Charlie was against 9/11 truthers before. I commented about seeing it and a member asked me to link him, but I cannot find it now!
I dont know where to begin with this dude/ I have listened to all the interview, and even transripted the bit he tries to explain away the esoteric clues all over 9/11, 7/7. he patronizingly asks Max and Adam if they know the saying from the Bible 'Seek and Ye shall find' and then uses that saying to fit his suggestion--using his intitals (giving digits 322) as example--that the more we look the more we will discover clues that are really irrational and is the "Bitch Goddess fuckin with our mind". In another part he suggests that maybe 'God' ordained 9/11 to which Max hillariously responded 'If he did he's a fuck head!' LOL, that has made me love Max haha
But Charlie claims it was the estoreics that got him interested in Conspiracy theory in the first place, yet now he is trying to nullify this inquiry which meakes me VERy suspicious!
IF a detective is hunting a serial killer, many of whom leave signatures/symbolism/numerology as clues meant to play games with the police, the detective LOOKING doesn't CREATE the fukin clues. The clues are already there!
why DO Freemasons use numbers IF they dont mean anything? he just talks crap is all I can say. - July 4, 2011 at 3:19 PM
I wondered about this from the perspective of someone who knows him very closely: his partner, the woman who was with him at his recent arrest prior to the royal wedding. Her name is Silkie Carlo, 21, a student at Cambridge. Very attractive, very outspoken in media from a relatively early age, with access to prominent truth (disinfo?) people like Julian Assange.
Perhaps this is quick to suggest, but she in many ways resembles the profile of a MK (beta?) slave. Does anyone know more about her?
As recently as July 3, she was calling for more 911 truth stuff, but advocating a "balanced, reasonable approach." I wonder how long before that shifts... - July 4, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Eric Dubay said...
Great points everyone.
For Sundaemon, my intuition tells me that he was a plant to begin with, but regardless of whether he sold out then or sold out now to BBC's hit-piece, he's sold out. His website has rising sun symbolism, his whole Blue Fire Corp. idea was occultish, and his obsession with Lucifer and alter-ego Damien Rockefeller were all red flags.
For Duncan, I've had my concerns about WAC as well. They're too popular and closely connected to the controlled opposition Infowars operation not to be infiltrated. Their general methodology of Alex Jonesian screaming at criminals didn't appeal to me either. Glad to hear you're exposing the infiltrators in WAC.
For Muz, his voice is really annoying me now too. His whole "correlation does not imply causation" and "seek and ye shall find" lines are indeed patronizing and irrelevant. As you said, just the sheer number of Masonic symbols, numerology, and Hollywood movies foreshadowing 9/11 are enough to exceed coincidence and Charlie is well aware of these facts, but now all of a sudden maintains that "there isn't any evidence for 9/11 being an inside job, there just isn't" but says if you seek out evidence you'll magically create evidence to prove your assertions.
Super lame Charlie. You just went from famous to infamous overnight. - July 5, 2011 at 2:32 AM
Silke Carlo, Charlie's angel, was in the cast of UK TV's Chanel Four's Shippedwrecked in 2009, just before trotting off to Cambridge University. Way to rock the New World Order.
link: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shipwrecked/articles/silkie-carlo- - July 5, 2011 at 5:36 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
Turncoat-charlie and the BBC numerologically mirror each other. As Charlie pointed out, attempting to dismiss the esoteric symbolism of 9/11, 7/7 etc, that his initials C.V. give the number sequence 322, well look at thisy here: BBC = 223
So we got 322:223
lol - July 5, 2011 at 6:13 AM
Here's Charlie and Silkie being promoted by the London Evening Standard, an important newspaper in the capital
LINK http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23936504-former-bank-worker-who-helped-to-bring-chaos-to-streets-of-london.do
Headline: Former bank worker who helped to bring chaos to streets of London
Subhead: A demonstrator who joined anarchists causing chaos in the capital is a privately educated former finance worker whose girlfriend was a reality TV star.
Extracts from the text: "Charlie Veitch, 30, is the founder of a group called The Love Police Academy and attended Saturday's protest with 500 followers."
"His girlfriend, also an activist, is Cambridge student Silkie Carlo, 18, who has appeared on Channel 4 reality show Shipwrecked."
"Mr Veitch was educated at The Edinburgh Academy and is the son of a wealthy oil worker. He claims to have been employed for HBOS in wealth management after attending Edinburgh University. He has also said he served in the Army. He says he was made redundant during the financial crisis and then decided to become a full-time protester and film-maker."
"He wrote: "The Love Police Academy, my personal feudal army...."
Notes: To give you an idea of Charlie's background, Edinburgh Academy's current yearly day fee is £10,080 ($16,235) per year.
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"High Net Worth Individuals: In the private banking business, these individuals typically are defined as having investable assets (financial assets not including primary residence) in excess of US$1 million"
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/ - July 5, 2011 at 6:16 AM
The Veitch (Veatch) Family
The Masters Family Link to English & European Nobility
Link: http://www.jackmasters.net/masttvf.html
"The Veitch Historical Society, one of the country's (USA) foremost family history/genealogical organizations.
"Burke's Peerage, Ltd. lists Sheriff James Veitch, the immigrant, as a son of Malcolm Veitch, son of John "Vaitche," Laird (Lord) of Dawyck, Peebleshire,[Scotland} by his wife Janet Stewart, "an aunt of the first Earl of Traquair."
"The name of James Veitch appears also on a short list of American colonists of proven royal descent appearing in an article by Walter Lee Shepard, "Descendants of the illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain," in The National Genealogical Society Quarterly (vol. 62, pp. 182-91), and his royal lineage also was confirmed in 1981 by the President of the Society of Descendants from the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain."
"The linages of Sheriff James Veitch's grandmother Janet (Stewart) Veitch and great-grandmother Marriot (Fleming) Veitch trace back to most of the early royal houses of Europe and Great Britain and would fill a thick book alone."
"Marriot Fleming Veitch is traced from the Emperor Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Hugh Capet, and Alfred the Great, to name a few, while her daughter-in-law Janet Stewart Veitch descended from all these in addition to the royal house of Stewart."
"Some of the other interesting ancestors include Eleanor of Acquitaine, Sir James Stewart (the "Black Knight") of Lorn, Lady Godiva of Coventry and Mercia, William Longespee, and Willkiam Marshall, as well as most of the recorded kings of England, Scotland, France, Hungary, etc." - July 5, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
Interesting find Anonymous... it seems Silkie isn't new to TV either. I had thought of that CV/BBC 322 coincidence as well Muz, good thinking.
- July 5, 2011 at 6:41 AM
If you are aware of Thomas Sheridan's work you'll notice Chaz is a textbook psychopath: the way he can switch opinions overnight for whatever agenda, and be like "what? no big deal, guys."
- July 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM
They got to him. I don't know how, but they got to him... Probably when they threw him in jail in preparation for the wedding - he's now a pawn, controlled by the PTB.
- July 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM
All you guys are awesome. Please keep feeding my(our) mind(s).. Maybe someday myself and others will join all of you in the sharing and gathering of information! Please keep up the work, I truly belive more and more people will catch on to what is going on if you guys keep pushin'!!
- Derek - July 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM
- Unknown said...
Charlie Veitch - C.V. = 3.22, BBC - 223...
Interesting to know that Veitch is also related to royal blood...and hence his suppopsed detainmment by the authorities was nothing more than some more brainwashing and making of a new MKULTRA pawn for the elites of the world.
The name, "Charlie" also invokes "Charlie Sheen" - the other celebrity who went berserk during the whole Alex Jones-on-the-View fiasco...and Charlemagne...the emperor that ties in all this lunacy....and many more to come. - July 5, 2011 at 7:53 PM
The name Veitch suggests VEITK - T-VIKE...cross and the sixth kings...the Vikings?
- July 5, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Eric Dubay said...
This is hilarious:
Hitler Finds Out Charlie Veitch Betrayed 9/11 Truth - July 6, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
Yeah I saw it yesterday and it is ffikkin funny LOL
I JUST found this which seems very interesting but VERY irritating at the same time
The page is here: http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/forums/topic/charlie-veitch-conspiracy-road-trip-bbc-documentary
and a posters posted this info:
OK in the video @ 1minute 1 second he states the following:
"this between you and I the producers have asked me to keep it quiet, but you know the BBC obviously, they commissioned a show called 911 conspiracy road trip, which is going to be for the ten year anniversary of 911, and I got asked to go on it as someone who doesnt believe in the official story"
Interestingly i decided to search information out about it and look at this:
Not only did he not get asked to go on it, but he actually had to apply to be considered to go on it, so it was not like the BBC called him up and said Charlie wanna be on TV. He had to know the show was being casted for and then apply and then do a screen test and be checked out by them first."
So I of course tried to open the 2nd link and got an ERROR. So I then tried to register so I could try and find out why the page dont work, and got a 'due to the high rate of people trying to rgester please contact' bla bla, so I tried and cant find any email. But is this ANOTHER part of a likely psy op---Charlie claiming to have been written to--which he siad on an interview--but secretly hunting them down? I cannot say this is so because at the moment nothings workin - July 6, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
Oh sorry, I forgot that urls dont naturally hyperlink when you type them on blogger comments. you will have to paste
- July 6, 2011 at 6:34 AM
This guy is a shill. Period. He is about to undermine the whole truth movement with the anniversary BBC documentary. 9-11 is pivotal to the subsequent beginning of our wars against non compliant nations, and our loss of personal freedoms.But of course the truth is a vibration and he is not going to make us do a 180 by his floored reasoning.
Ex private school,army and banker. Classic material for recruitment for the power brokers. Also if anybody of the truth, watches that Love Police crap, they would smell a rat. It's a big joke.
Good news is tat Max Igan made him squirm with his questioning. Goodbye.You will disappear to internet users, doubtless to land another clandestine assignment. - July 7, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
This guy proves he predicted that Charlies would do this in 2009, and tried to tell Alex Jones people and wearchange, and they called him crazy, and now they are VERy quiet about Charliegate
Charlie Veitch. 9/11 truth betrayal predicted 2 YEARS AGO!!
Charlie Veitch. 9/11 truth betrayal predicted 2 YEARS AGO!! - July 7, 2011 at 8:20 AM
Im abit late in the game over this, but i'll give it this.
When i first heard/saw Charlie a couple of years back i was intrigued, as to who he is and his background.
Now, all Beings can obtain enlightenment & alot of what he was doin was provoking but to me, the bell rang a little hollow. Still,it rang & it woke a few up, but in the grand scheme...the u-turn is of no surprise. Its text book.
He has the background and the cult of personality to be perfect for the job.
The 'Truth Movement' has to suffer a blow, time is near, so to discredit it is a major coup.
Well done BBC+your controllers,
ya got us on this one, but we're all still here.... - July 8, 2011 at 5:51 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
- July 11, 2011 at 6:00 PM
- muzuzuzus said...
Thanks for the link Eric. it is a great inspiring vlog!!
- July 12, 2011 at 1:52 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
You bet. Here's another really good one:
Charlie Veitch - Just What is he Actually Saying? - July 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Charlie Veitch has promoted anarchism and anarchism was invented by the freemasonry for political idiots, according to researcher Jüri Lina ("Architects of Deception")
Infact, french Grand Orient lodge in Paris uses same satanic black and red colours as anarchism.
rofessor of literature and Deputy Grand
Master of the freemasons (Felsinea, Bologna) Giosue Carducci (1835-
1907, received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1906) wrote "Hymn to
Satan", which contains the lines: "We greet you, Oh Satan! Oh rebellion! ("Salute, o Satana! O Ribellione!)
Oh the victorious power of reason! (0, forza vindice della Ragione!)" - July 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM
- Eric Dubay said...
Sorry, but Anarchism was invented by nature, and all forms of government were invented by man.
However, if you're simply referring to the modern day "Anarchist" movement with the "black block" and the black/red A symbol etc., then yes, you're right. - July 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- 2manyfaces said...
I have been searching for info on the yawning silence of TV wannabe Silkie Carlo with regard to the Charlie Veitch fiasco. An act of self-preservation perhaps? I have to say, this is one of the most thoughtful, well argued discussions I have found on the net...KUDOS guys.
I subscribe to the sociopath/psychopath shill theory. We may never know if he was always a weak, shallow opportunist who used the Truth movement to promote his media ambitions, or indeed, was a plant from the beginning - maybe they're not mutually exclusive? As my contribution to the debate, you may want to check out 2 videos:
Charlie Veitch - The Many Faces of Me parts 1 and 2
You can view and download the statirical images at
As the amazing book called 'political ponerology' says, to destroy sociopaths and psychopaths you use the power of satire, laughter and ridicule to remove their mask of normalcy. They just cant handle it and dont know how to react to the exposure.
If we are laughing with discernment, then we are not fearing... - July 13, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
As the amazing book called 'political ponerology' says, to destroy sociopaths and psychopaths you use the power of satire, laughter and ridicule to remove their mask of normalcy. They just cant handle it and dont know how to react to the exposure. If we are laughing with discernment, then we are not fearing...
Beautifully worded. Great advice. - July 13, 2011 at 6:36 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
hmm this is interesting, one of the comments drew my attention to this. Chekout this video Charlie Veitch EXPOSED (2 of 3)
@6:05 you will see him hold up his Brazillian passport and his first name is spelt Chales. OK? Now put em all together and whaddya get: Chales Torres Veitch. counting the letters of each name = 666
so now we have that + his own laughing admission his initials CV give 322 (Skull and Bones number) which 'coincidentally' mirror the BBC number of 223. 322:223
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! - July 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- creandounnuevomundo2013 said...
I don´t speak English but but I will try to bring something ...
I Have Admired Charlie Veitch. In Fact, I was the first person (along with a group of friends) to carry out an event of the Love Police in Spain, in honor of Charlie Veitch.
His presentation in the congress of science and spirit (Spain) I felt wonderful but I'm beginning to feel that something does not smell quite right around Charlie.
I thought he might have started a real movement but has recently been a victim of mind control, and hence the change of mind with the 9 / 11
But keep looking and find that your father is oil, just like Alex Jones reptilian bear ... his name as recurring and linked to elites .... made me look even more:
his mother's name is Diana Torres Valadares, Brazil ..... Is there anything about your name?
I'm looking for the name Valadares and is closely linked to military and political as well as poets of high rank them. But I think it is possible that the real name is Valladares, who is of Jewish origin. Valadares is linked although with Jewish I do not know if I can be an ramification of the former.
Valadares, albañil Brasileño:
The mother was born in Pernambuco:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revoluci% C3% B3n_Pernambucana
"The ideas of liberalism and the Enlightenment had already entered Brazil shortly after the French Revolution, with its notions of self-government and republicanism, encouraging the questioning of local elites against the absolutism of the Portuguese government despite the severe censorship imposed by it. these same elites, such as Pernambuco, cultivating these ideas in secret Masonic societies from the late eighteenth century, so the discourse of autonomy in the name of liberty was a consolidation of ideas and doctrines were secretly diffused in Brazil since the last eighteenth century. "
while I look on the mother, by chance I met the Veitch surname in canada lodges:
More information here about charlie
any assumptions here, but draws attention to the number of relationships between Veitch and soldiers / Marines:
marine and aviation operations:
Dale Veitch Received An Honorable Discharge From The United States Air Force:
.... there are many more results this is just a tremendous example of the relationship of this surname air forces
write about your Veitch:
according to the video the father is peebles, scotland. Here a monument to John Veitch Peebles ... Coincidence?
maybe grandfather?:
http://celloman1685.weebly.com/ - July 18, 2011 at 12:13 AM
- creandounnuevomundo2013 said...
now give a personal opinion. Something strange about this whole thing ... I mean, it is curious that all this time Charlie has defended an idea, why even launched an event next 9 / 11 to meet all ... and now, that idea of change so abruptly. Coincidentally this happens to work with the BBC. It is rare not only because of the obvious, but because if an agent does not believe that following the pattern of denying the obvious by now. They claim that they follow, they create and then hitting the lie ... but would not risk a lie they know that NO ONE GOING TO BELIEVE. Therefore it would be throwing away all the work ... and so for what? who would have reason behind all this? There are many agents and no one tries to make us believe the unbelievable because they expose themselves .... why still blocks away from everything that Charlie lie from the beginning. You may have been brainwashed? to conceal something in his involvement with the BBC? Your boyfriend is with him to control you? I do not know, there are many things that do not fit ....
ahora daré una opinion personal. Algo raro hay en todo este asunto... quiero decir, es curioso que todo este tiempo Charlie haya defendido una idea, por la cual incluso lanzó un evento el próximo 9/11 para reunirnos todos... y ahora, esa idea cambie de una forma tan brusca. Casualmente esto sucede al colaborar con la BBC. Es raro no solo por lo evidente, si no porque si fuese un agente no creo que siguiese el patron de negar lo evidente a estas alturas. Ellos pretenden que les sigamos, que les creamos para luego meternos la mentira... pero no se arriesgarian con una mentira que saben que NADIE VAMOS A CREER. Por lo tanto seria tirar por la borda todo el trabajo... y tanto para que? que razon habria detras de todo esto? Hay muchos agentes y ninguno intenta hacernos creer lo increible porque se expondrian a ellos mismos.... por eso sigue sin cuadrarme del todo que Charlie mienta desde el principio. Es posible que le hayan lavado el cerebro? que se ocultase algo en su participacion con la BBC? Es posible que su novia este con él para controlarle? No lo sé, hay muchas cosas que no cuadran.... - July 18, 2011 at 12:30 AM
- muzuzuzus said...
Hi creandounnuevomundo2013
Thankyou for your research, and I will look at it closer later when I have more time. I was never a real follower of Charlie though his antics did amuse me--I saw them as this art thang surrealism, and I had subsribed. But I cannot pretend I wasn't shocked with everyone else by his sudden announced U-turn.
In order to try and dig what this mean mean it could be interesting to look at other 'leaders' who also may be very untrustworthy. Take David Shayler---One minute is talking quite rationally about the doings of the lite, and next all dressed in white and talkin weird shit.
If we look at the psychedelic movement, TWO of its leaders, Timothy Leary and Terrence McKnenna are both psychedelic Transhumanists (H+), as you may know H+ is the designs OF the elite to enslave us even more with their technology. Leary was also a disciple of Aleister Crowley, and Crowley according to plausible sources
is deeply connected with 9/11 - checkout Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order you can hear the author's interview here
William Ramsey comes from a Christian perspective, and I am copming from the Goddess, but I still respect his research about the Crowley connection with 9/11, 7/7 etc.
So my point is this: we very DO hear that these elitists infiltrate movements, yet obviously this infiltration is going to be very ...sneaky, cunning. - July 18, 2011 at 2:01 AM
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muzuzuzus, I have always had one thing clear, brother ... and that the last word is always within us. Most people who excel in this world are the infiltrators but even they are actual data, until they tell us truths ... nothing bad happens to listen as long as we choose to believe, we see that we agree with that. It is not believe to anyone, a lot of good data you have provided, whoever, even us to trust him fully .... even our best friend, we must always decide for ourselves what to do with the information they just heard. Charlie made a funny way of communicating and inspiring and we have to thank for it, beyond their hidden agendas.
On his change of mind, I still think it's weird that that has been exposed so free. I do not think that an agent did that knowing that nobody will believer out ... I sounds more like mind control last minute.
yo siempre he tenido una cosa clara, hermano... y es que, la última palabra la tiene siempre nuestro interior. La mayor parte de las personas que sobresalen en este mundo son agentes infiltrados pero hasta ellos dan datos reales, hasta ellos nos cuentan verdades... no pasa nada malo por escucharles siempre y cuando nosotros decidamos que creer, nosotros veamos con que estamos de acuerdo y con que no. No se trata de creer a cualquiera, por muchos buenos datos que haya aportado, sea quien sea, aunque nos fiemos plenamente de él.... aunque sea nuestro mejor amigo, debemos siempre decidir por nosotros mismos que hacer con la información que acabamos de escuchar. Charlie aportó una forma de comunicación divertida e inspiradora y nosotros hemos de agradecerle por ello, más allá de sus intenciones ocultas.
Sobre su cambio de mente, sigo pensando que es raro que se haya expuesto de esa forma tan gratuita. No creo que un agente hiciese eso sabiendo que nadie le va a creeer... me suena más a control mental de última hora. - July 18, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- creandounnuevomundo2013 said...
Google Translate is a real shit .... with forgiveness! but translates as he wants and change all the words = / so it may be better that you caught the Spanish version and take it to a translator.
- July 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM
I found something interesting.
I did search for Diana Torres Veitch (Charlies mother)
and found out that she lives possibly in Edinburgh
And looks like this:
Similar jaw line and does she look a bit jewish, lol? Looks like she's connected with the media. - March 28, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Charlie's father being an oil tycoon explains his son's complete turnaround. The technology that destroyed the World Trade Centre can be used to provide free energy to the world. It's a technology based on the work of Nikola Tesla, the scientific genius who discovered how to provide energy free of charge. His concern being that the technology would fall into the wrong hands and used for destructive purposes. Unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. Tesla's desire to provide free energy never came to pass thanks to the efforts of J.P. Morgan who snatched Tesla's funding from him once he realised there was no way to profit from Tesla's invention. The key to the cover up of 9/11 is the free energy connection. The powers that be will do whatever it takes to keep this information in the bag.
Dr. Judy Wood has painstakingly pieced together the evidence of what happened on 9/11. Her book 'Where Did The Towers Go? - The Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11' is an essential purchase for anyone wanting to know what really happened to the WTC.
Here's a good starting point.
http://debamboozled.com/tag/dr-judy-wood/ - February 8, 2014 at 4:52 AM


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President Obama has officially won the election, with 332 electoral votes tallied in his column.
Of course this is old news. But the formal count mandated by the Constitution took place Friday in a joint session of Congress, heavy on ceremony and light on attendance.
Young Senate pages led the way into the chamber carrying two mahogany boxes holding the "certificates of vote" mailed in from around the country. Others carried three bronze baskets holding narrow blue boxes. It turns out these were the ceremonial letter openers — one for each state. The pages were followed in by Vice President Joe Biden and a group of senators.
Even with senators padding the numbers, the chamber was largely empty — only slightly more populated than your typical afternoon of made-for-C-SPAN speechifying.
The room was quiet, the scene totally low key as the Senate parliamentarian opened each envelope. There were big envelopes and smaller ones, priority mail envelopes and manila envelopes, each one opened using one of the commemorative letter openers, whether it was really needed or not.
Then the Senate parliamentarian handed the certificate of votes to the secretary of the Senate, who handed it to the House parliamentarian who handed it to Biden, who then handed it to one of the senators serving as teller.
With each state and the District of Columbia, the senator/teller came to the mic and repeated a nearly identical script.
"The certificate from the electoral vote of the state of California seems to be regular in form and authentic," read New York Democrat Chuck Schumer. "And it appears there from that Barack Obama of the state of Illinois received 55 votes for president."
A couple of House members from California cheered, breaking the quiet. When Minnesota's tally was read, a lone congressman clapped. And so it went, state after state.
When the final tally was announced, there were no surprises. President Obama won with 332 votes to Mitt Romney's 206. At the moment it became official, California Democrat Karen Bass snapped a photo on her cellphone.
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Dear Hobie & Monk,
Our son is a freshman in college, and for his first spring break, we allowed him to bring his new girlfriend to stay at our house for the week. We told him that they would be staying in separate bedrooms and that we were excited to meet her. One morning I came downstairs early to make breakfast for everyone, and my son was coming out of the guestroom, where his girlfriend was staying. It was not only awkward but deeply disappointing — how should I have handled the situation?
– Shocked and Awed
Hobie: Parents always laugh a little less freely when this scene plays out on the big screen; they're already privately wondering, "Oh man, what would I do, what would I do?" Or perhaps you can't imagine your sweet little toddler ever morphing into someone who would so flagrantly flout your rules and then bam! He's back from Cornell with girlfriend in tow, and all bets are off.
Well, here's the deal: There is the conversation you have with him before he comes home on vacation (the prevention phase), and there is the conversation you have with him after the awkward "meet in the hall and someone's coming out of the wrong room" moment (the intervention phase).
Every parent or parental unit gets to lay down the law about who stays where in the home when college kids (and other guests) visit. And, of course, different families have different ideas about what is appropriate at different ages and stages of relationships. Be clear with your son about where he and anyone else is allowed to stay while under your roof, along with any other rules that may exist — using the car, setting a curfew, etc. — ahead of any visits home. When it comes to a visiting girlfriend, especially, remind your son that you are thrilled to meet her and don't want her embarrassed by any tense interactions during her stay.
Shockingly, this pre-visit talk doesn't always work, and some of you out there might be tempted to claim a little college amnesia of your own. As a parent, though, you'll need to smooth things in the moment but then pull your son aside and tell him flat out that disobeying your rule was unacceptable (so was his girlfriend's, but let's give her the benefit of the doubt for this first infraction). Tell him in no uncertain terms that it's not to happen again, or you'll need to send his girlfriend home.
Use your judgment about whether you need to mention anything directly to her, but if she's a class act, she'll be mortified and apologize to you first. And just think, what a great story for the rehearsal dinner …
Monk: … Assuming she is the bride. Which is unlikely.
As a college freshman, your son will probably meet and get to know (though not necessarily in the biblical sense) many young ladies in the years ahead. Girlfriends will come and go as he figures out how to be a partner in an adult relationship, and maybe, someday, one of those girlfriends will become your daughter-in-law.
In the meantime, you are, as you always have been and will remain until the day you die, his mom. And this very important relationship, one that you share with your adult son, will be strongest when it is built on mutual respect and appreciation. That's why I suggest that, in addition to the prevention and intervention phases, you consider the somewhat awkward debrief phase (no pun here, really).
The debrief phase happens at a neutral time after the unfortunate event and is an opportunity for each of you to reflect upon what went wrong, how it felt and how you will handle the situation in the future when the (next) girlfriend comes to town.
Your son may or may not be willing to have this conversation, but by encouraging it, you are showing him how two adults who care deeply for one another move on after a conflict.


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With all of the decadent snacks that I have been testing out lately I know that some of you are wondering: "Are there any lighter options?", and these cucumber feta rolls definitely fit the bill! When I first came across the recipe for these cucumber feta rolls on Good Life Eats I knew that I would have to make them and I have just been itching for the chance! A lot of my favourite Greek flavours are used in the cucumber rolls and they even kind of remind me of deconstructed and reconstructed tzatziki with the cucumbers, lemony Greek yogurt and plenty of fresh herbs.
The recipe for these cucumber rolls is super easy and if you have a mandoline to cut the cucmbers thinly then it takes almost no time at all to make them. Really this recipe is more of an idea and once you have base of the cucumber, yogurt, feta and lemon you can finish them off with almost any flavours that you can dream up! I went with three different flavours; sun-dried kalamata olives with parsley, sun-dried tomato with dill, and roasted red pepper with oregano. Some other flavour combinations I was thinking of include spinach and dill for a spanakopita inspired version and a marinated roasted red pepper version where I would use white balsamic vinegar instead of the dark balsamic. I was also thinking that a smoked salmon and dill version would be truly amazing!
Cucumber and Feta Rolls
Cucumber rolls filled with creamy Greek yogurt, salty feta, sundried tomatoes, kalamata olives and roasted red peppers.
- 4 ounces crumbled feta, crumbled
- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons sundried tomatoes, chopped
- 2 tablespoons kalamata olives, chopped
- 2 tablespoons roasted red peppers, chopped
- 1 tablespoon oregano or dill, chopped
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- pepper to taste
- 2 cucumbers, sliced thinly lengthwise
- Mash the feta into the yogurt and then mix in the sundried tomatoes, kalamata olives, sun dried tomatoes, oregano, lemon juice and pepper.
- Place 1 tablespoon of the mixture onto a slice of cucumber, roll it up and secure it with a toothpick.


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As its stock tumbled today following word that New York State regulators have labeled it a "rogue institution" that allegedly hid about 60,000 secret transactions involving $250 billion in Iranian funds, Britain's Standard Chartered Bank strongly denied the accusations.
It "rejects the position or portrayal of facts as set out in the order," the bank said.
As NPR's Jim Zarroli said on Morning Edition, New York State's Department of Financial Services on Monday said that Standard Chartered had "for almost 10 years ... schemed with the government of Iran and hid from regulators roughly 60,000 secret transactions, involving at least $250 billion." The actions, from January 2001 through 2007, happened at a time when Iranian financial institutions were "subject to U.S. economic sanctions," the regulators noted.
The bank, however, "said the order issued by the US regulator did not present 'a full and accurate picture of the facts,' " the BBC reports. According to the BBC:
"It said that it had conducted a review of its transactions, primarily those relating to Iran for the period between 2001 to 2007, and had given regular updates to the US authorities on the results of the investigation.
" 'As we have disclosed to the authorities, well over 99.9% of the transactions relating to Iran complied with U-turn regulations,' the bank said.
" 'The total value of transactions which did not follow the U-turn was under $14m.'
"The so-called U-turn transactions are those started outside the US by non-Iranian foreign banks that pass through the U.S. financial system on the way to other non-Iranian foreign banks."
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
v.2.5 PHB
As I said, my knowledge of the 2e revisions is non-existent. I knew of their existence, as I was still gaming in 1995, but I'd pretty much dropped out of D&D entirely. I'd grown disgusted with the rules bloat, the proliferation of settings, and the general lack of focus the game line had at that point. I was a huge fan of Planescape, but, even at the time, I didn't think it worked well within the context of Dungeons & Dragons and the setting's development was too metaplot driven for my tastes. So I can't really comment on the whys and wherefores of v.2.5, though I'd assume it was a last ditch effort to remake D&D into something "modern," which is to say, able to compete with the latest fads in RPG design. Even before the revisions, 2e was clearly struggling to remake itself into a game that bore no resemblance, thematically and stylistically, if not mechanically, from the little game Gygax and Arneson birthed in 1974.
If that was the intention, the cover of the 2e revision didn't really do a good job of selling it either as something new and "relevant" or something connected to the history of the hobby.
I don't know if the image I've included with this entry really does justice to how awful this piece is, even on a technical level. Jeff Easley is once again the cover artist of the Players Handbook, providing us with what is very likely the worst of all PHB cover illustrations. About the only positive thing I can say about it is is that the barbarian's companions -- one with a bow drawn and one in a hooded cloak -- certainly don't look like members of Larry Elmore's Central Casting; they look scruffy and even sinister. The focal barbarian himself barely looks human, with his left arms twisted in a way that I'm not sure is even possible.
We do at least get a dungeon, so perhaps that's another positive thing I can say about the illustration. The barbarian obviously did really well on his Open Doors roll. The piece has a very "cinematic" air to it, "cinematic" being the latest jargon term for "horribly unrealistic." The planks of the door are all falling over in a nice fan around the barbarian, with just enough splinters flying about to show how strong he must have been to have broken down a metal-reinforced door. We see this door-breaking mid-action, as the pieces haven't yet hit the floor. There's also a strange implication of "light" emanating either from the barbarian's powerful blow comic book-style or perhaps from the corridor outside the chamber into which the barbarian is breaking. The problem with the latter interpretation is that the illumination of the corridor doesn't make this likely. Indeed, light in general is rather strangely used; I can't quite figure out where the light sources are in the picture, as there seem to be several conflicting ones, whose interplay should have produced a very different effect than the one we see. But it's my experience that "cinematic" artwork is all about looking good and not being plausible, so why worry about frivolous details like light sources?
The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons logo (as well as the TSR corporate one) is given a revamp, this time being about as bland as possible. Interestingly, the logo is placed beneath the title of the book rather than above it. That strikes me as peculiar, but then I know little of "branding" and other corproate marketing practices. The cover art is bounded by a frame, which is set on a solid black background. All the revised 2e books, as well as the Option books, were solid black in color. Placed side by side, there was a uniformity of appearance that I absolutely hated, but then 2e itself followed a similar practice for its hardcover volumes. One of the things that I still to this day love about the original AD&D books is how they look when sitting on my shelf. Each one is different and has its own unique look. Mind you, I'm of the opinion that art direction is a dirty word, at least in the way it's developed over the last few years. Modern RPGs are too slick and too uniform, with an emphasis on the look of "the line" that I abhor. The commoditization of esthetics in the name of marketing has no place in the hobby.
I find it very hard to say much more about this cover, because it's just awful. That it was released during a time when D&D, my first RPG, lost its appeal for me only makes it worse. The mid to late 90s was clearly a dark time for the game and the company that produced it. The game lacked direction and had no sense of its own history and origins. Had things turned out differently, there was a very good chance that Dungeons & Dragons would have died as an RPG entirely. As it turns out, that wasn't far from the truth but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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I owned that book, and its DMG equivalent, as well as the first 1989 set. There is basically no difference in context, but the books actually contain some beautiful illustrations on the inside. (Though they are hit-and-miss.) I agree that this cover ain't much to write home about, though.
I was (and still am) a huge Planescape fan too, and agree that the meta-plot thing was a huge mistake. I never accepted it and completely ignored it in the games I ran, but still, why spoil one of the best ever role playing campaign settings like that?That was a horrid cover, only matched by the interior art. This was the time when TSR couldn't pay for expensive Elmore/Caldwell kitsch any more, so instead they brought in some on the cheap, including a few really uninspired 1e art knock-offs.
Coincidentally, "2.5"'s art direction is pretty close to 4e's - less action-heavy and over the top, but it has the same sort of blanditude and lack of inspiration.
MelanThese reviews are an insightful look into both your taste in art and your views in what a good RPG should be, James. While I may not agree with you on most points (excepting the opinion that the 2.5e PHB cover was absolutely horrible, which I agree with), it's very interesting to hear your thoughts.
I personally enjoy the artwork of 4th edition (more so than any previous edition) and consider the books themselves to be works of art. I delight in the art direction that you so despise. An interesting difference of opinion, I'd say. I look forward to your review of the 4E PHB.Hi Ben,
That's really the point of these posts. I stated at the beginning that my tastes are, well, my tastes, nothing more. I have a hard time articulating in few words just what I like and don't like art-wise, so I figured the best approach was to do a retrospective on the changing face of D&D and use it as the means to explain my point of view on the subject.I had an equally bad reaction to the revised cover art. It always seemed to me to be a very poor imitation of Frank Frazetta's style.
That said, I was quite happy with the 'black' uniformity of the books.
On the subject of interior art, I noticed that one of my favourite pieces in the 1989 2e PHB has been 'redone' in the new 4e DMG (pp. 16-17), a sort of homage I suppose. That reminds me of how many of the internal 1995 2e pieces were reworkings of those found in the 1e core books.On the subject of interior art, I noticed that one of my favourite pieces in the 1989 2e PHB has been 'redone' in the new 4e DMG (pp. 16-17), a sort of homage I suppose.
Interesting that you should mention this, because the piece you mention (showing a woman sleeping on a bier with a sword atop her) was in fact a bit if reused art from the 1e Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth module. The 4e piece is likewise a piece of re-used art, this time from a "sequel" to Tsojcanth published in the electronic version of Dragon.
I am actually quite astounded at how often 4e recycled art from before its release.The 4e piece is likewise a piece of re-used art, this time from a "sequel" to Tsojcanth published in the electronic version of Dragon.
Now that is interesting. I knew the 2e PHB image had been taken from the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, but not that the 4e DMG image had paralleled that reuse. That surely must have been intentional.That surely must have been intentional.
Hard to say, although if the art director of 4e thought re-using art from a v.3.5 sequel to a 1e module whose art had already been re-used in the 2e rulebook counts as an "homage," that's several layers of self-reference too much for my tastes. Me, I just think they were lazy and cheap: "We already have this piece of art almost no one has seen, why not re-use it in the DMG?"Could be.
It strikes me as being something of an "Easter Egg", which I think is something that people have a taste for (partially because it is a kind of puzzle and solving it makes you feel at once both clever and part of something).
It reminds me of the references in the Baldur's Gate series to other AD&D CRPGs and the D&D cartoon.It strikes me as being something of an "Easter Egg"
I'm certainly very cynical, so this explanation may in fact be the most likely. The thing about Easter Eggs, though, is that you expect people to get them. I'd be amazed if the vast majority of the people who bought the 4e books had been playing D&D long enough to have owned the original 2e books, let alone to remember Tsojcanth.Not having played AD&D since 1e, my biggest question about this cover is did armour go out of fashion? I was always struck by the contradiction between fantasy art (post-Conan) and the fighting style of D&D: in 1e a fighter absolutely depended on his plate mail: the first 400 gp (or whatever it was) he collected made more difference to his life expectancy than the first 3 level increases. This kind of thong-wearing barbarian, then, always seemed to me a basically non-D&D archetype, and therefore never a representation of an actual PC. I believe that was still true in 2e (though the wildly unbalanced, and unpopular, Barbarian character class was introduced in Unearthed Arcana).
Did 3e do away with armour in favour of Frazettism?The thing about Easter Eggs, though, is that you expect people to get them. I'd be amazed if the vast majority of the people who bought the 4e books had been playing D&D long enough to have owned the original 2e books, let alone to remember Tsojcanth.
I cannot say I know definitively what the 4e demographic will look like, but that various polls that appear from time to time suggest to me that a reasonable chunk of 4e gamers will have been familiar with 2e, if not 1e. Hard to guess at actual numbers, but maybe this is aimed at 'returning' or 'lapsed' players rather than transitional players?Hard to guess at actual numbers, but maybe this is aimed at 'returning' or 'lapsed' players rather than transitional players?
Certainly possible. Seems an odd choice, though, given that Drelzna, daughter of Iggwilv, is hardly a well-known or "iconic" D&D character. Seems to me WotC would have been wiser keeping, say, the look of trolls or elementals more consistent with earlier editions if their goal was to welcome back returning players of previous editions.Seems to me WotC would have been wiser keeping, say, the look of trolls or elementals more consistent with earlier editions if their goal was to welcome back returning players of previous editions.
I don't know, "easter eggs" are supposed to be somewhat cryptic. Still, I think there are probably conflicting design mandates at work; reinventing the intellectual property whilst simultaneously trying to attract lapsed players back into the fold are aims that are largely opposed to one another, but that won't stop them trying.
Certainly, the d20 rendition of Drelzna takes many references from the AD&D rendition, and the only reason to do that (to my mind) is to directly reference the original piece. It may be a happy accident that it then appears in the 4e DMG, paralleling the reuse of the original piece in the 2e PHB, but it is also the kind of thing I can imagine myself suggesting or doing in their position.
I wonder how much of the current WotC D&D crew were introduced to D&D via 2e?I wonder how much of the current WotC D&D crew were introduced to D&D via 2e?
Rob Heinsoo, I know, has made much hay about OD&D being his first edition, not that he seems to have learned much from it. On the other hand, I think all the other 4e designers are younger than I am and I am just barely old enough to have started with Holmes rather than Moldvay. I suspect they probably began with post-Dragonlance 1e myself, but I have no evidence one way or the other beyond gut feeling.If anyone's really curious, it's not like these people are inaccessible...
True enough, but it hardly seemed worth the effort to hunt down Steve Winter or Jon Pickens for a short entry like this. That said, I have some little projects relating to the history of the game I intend to get going at some point, so if anyone has any idea how to contact guys like that, I'm all ears.I'd start by calling up Exile Games if I were looking for Winter. I have no idea where Pickens is...
ReplyDeleteDid anyone like the 2.5 PHB cover? I certainly didn't. I'm lukewarm on Easley's 80s work (one of my favorite Dragon Magazine covers is his), but somewhere in the early 90s his work just took on this patina of eye-scorching suckiness from which there is no return.
As for unarmored fighters being depicted in D&D art, I absolutely second that observation. And yes, it was still pretty darn difficult to do an effective "Conan-esque" fighter in 2e. But then, I think D&D has long been guilty of depicting things through its art or NPCs that aren't possible to duplicate with the rules as written.In recent years, it's been fashionable to refer to these as v.2.5, mimicking the computerese v.3.5 revision title used in 2003.
I don't know about that, but I know we were calling it 2.5 back before we ever heard of 3.0. And we switched over to 3.0 as soon as it was released.
2nd edition wasn't a whole lot different from 1st, but 2.5 was. So we had a different name for it.
(I never owned these books either, but my DM did; caused me no end of grief.)I've been really enjoying this exploration of the art of D&D in general - it's brought home to me how much of the game was always in its visuals, rather than its text. This business of the barbarian, though, has set me thinking: how much effort has been put into trying to get this particular archetype into D&D, over the years,* and are there other, more purely visual motifs that have demanded a place at the table?
What is the source of the Soulknife character class in 4e, which seems (from the very brief page on dandwiki.com) to be based entirely around a kind of special effect?
*It strikes me that Bracers of Defense were probably written originally for the purpose of allowing an effective, unarmoured warrior to function.What is the source of the Soulknife character class in 4e, which seems (from the very brief page on dandwiki.com) to be based entirely around a kind of special effect?
So far as I know, there's not yet a 4e soulknife. The soulknife is a 3.5 psionic character class, sort of a psionic rogue/assassin.
*It strikes me that Bracers of Defense were probably written originally for the purpose of allowing an effective, unarmoured warrior to function.
That's possible, but I think it probably had more to do with the perceived need for MUs to have higher ACs. They were very limited in their options, since there was little or no magic cloth armor.Me and my group still play 2e exclusively. Many of my players have this one, as the original 2e handbooks were out of print and harder to find when they decided to break down and purchase their own handbooks.
Content-wise, the equipment is listed a bit better, however they moved everything around. They said that it was to make it more intuitive, but if you consider the original to be intuitive then you get lost easily. This also makes game play a bit more difficult because a DM couldn't just say, "turn to page 86."
I have also ran into problems where a player lies and says that that isn't the way that a rule is described in my handbook. Well, maybe lies is too strong of a word, how about the dude's just wrong.
All of the mechanics are exactly the same, just the font and art has changed, and the chapters have been reorganized. That's it! I also feel that the art is horrible and ugly as sin, but that is just me.- AnonymousJuly 3, 2008 at 2:46 AM
Hi, James
This time I totally agree. I remember when 2,5e came out and it was another step back in awful, artifical covers and using more and more ridiculous fonts inside. Logo was incredible souless and meaningless - like 3e, not in convention of any-kind-fantasy at all.
PHB illustration is worth of laugh and DMG... Geez, it's grotesque. Look at freaky bodies proportions. In theory: dynamic, but in practice: very static. Nothing to ignite fires of imaginations.
In main-stream avantgarde paintings it could be ok, but not in mimetic pictures of pop-art! J. Easley is/was master of the dragons - he should avoid rest of stuff. "2.5" isn't computerese. It's silly-marketing-executive-ese. (^_^) If it was computerese it would've been "2.0.1". (With the POs and other supplements, being "2.1.0".)
I still blame whoever at Apple insisted on "System 7.5" for promoting this kind of silliness. (Though there were certainly other examples before that.)
Yeah, this cover is just awful. I tend to avoid criticizing art directly, but even with the best art possible, the logos and layout have already done too much damage.


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Romney Repeats No-New-Tax-Releases Stance, Defends Offshore Accounts
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continued Tuesday to push back on calls to release more years of tax returns and defended keeping investments in offshore accounts — both issues that have been dogging his run for the White House.
In an interview with Robert Costa of the conservative National Review, Romney said he won't release pre-2010 tax returns, despite urging from those within his own party, because he says he believes the Obama campaign would use them to "distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy."
And, then, this:
"And I'm simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort and lie about."
When Costa pressed Romney about why, "from a political perspective," he hasn't closed his offshore accounts, which his opponents have also targeted, Romney tried to distance himself from the nature of his financial holdings by noting they are "managed in a blind trust." More Romney:
"The decisions made by the trustee are the decisions that determine where the investments are."
As has been reported in recent months, and also during his 2008 presidential run, Romney referred to Sen. Edward Kennedy's use of a blind trust to manage his money as "an age-old ruse" during the 1994 Massachusetts Senate race.
Here's what Romney told The Boston Globe in 1994:
"You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to get an advantage from me."
In his interview Tuesday, Romney also defended his offshore accounts as a vehicle through which foreign investment can flow to companies in the U.S.
This is how Romney explained it:
"The so-called offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, for instance, is an account established by a U.S. firm to allow foreign investors to invest in U.S. enterprises and not be subject to taxes outside of their own jurisdiction. So in many instances, the investments in something of that nature are brought back into the United States. The world of finance is not as simple as some would have you believe. Sometimes a foreign entity is formed to allow foreign investors to invest in the United States, which may well be the case with the entities that Democrats are describing as foreign accounts."
Romney revealed little else during his interview with Costa, saying that what he's looking for in those he's considering for vice president are people with the "capacity to lead, who share my philosophy, and, in some cases, people who provide perspectives and skills that I may not share."
He said his experience at Bain prepared him for the presidency by giving him "an understanding of how business decisions are made, as well as an understanding about the actions that are destructive to job creation and the actions that encourage job creation."
Asked by Costa why he's going to Europe next week, Romney said, "Foreign affairs and associations with foreign leaders are an important part of the presidency, a position I hope to achieve."
Update at 5:45 p.m. EDT. 'National Review' Editorial Urges Romney To Release Returns, 'Move On'
Later Tuesday, the editors of the National Review called on Romney to release his tax returns, respond to attacks "and move on."
"We doubt that there is anything truly surprising in Romney's additional personal tax returns," they wrote in an online editorial. "We already know that he has made vast amounts of money, that he gives generously to his church and to charities, that he has set up trusts for his family, that he maintains bank accounts and investments overseas, and that he takes advantages of such benefits as are available to him under our ridiculously complex tax code.
"But there is no scandal in that. Romney is a wealthy man — and he has complicated personal finances, something that is typical of wealthy men."
Releasing pre-2010 returns, they said, would allow him to focus on "where he wants to take the country."
"By drawing out the argument over the returns," the editors wrote, "Romney is playing into the president's hands."
They also dismissed Romney's defense that he has released as many returns as Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry did in 2004 and that Kerry's wealthy wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, released none.
"Neither is an apt comparison," the editors said. They noted that when Kerry was running for president, he released returns from 1999 through 2003, and had already released tax returns during his Senate runs.
"As for Teresa Heinz," the editors said, "Romney isn't the wealthy spouse of a candidate, but the candidate himself."


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In 2011 Kunsthalle Mannheim celebrated Bruce Nauman's 70th birthday with a retrospective examining the artist's fascinating body of work. Now, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris presents Nauman's first major solo show in France in over 15 years. To coincide with this new exhibition, we delve into the Aesthetica archive and reflect on an article from Issue 41.
Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) has, since the beginning of his career, stretched the limits of what can be considered "art". Materials have always been inconsequential, with his own body and the architectural edifices of his studio being the two main sources of creative impetus and inspiration in his work. Nauman, who originally studied mathematics at the University of Wisconsin and received a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California in 1966, turned away from painting and conventional media in the mid-1960s. From that point on he began to work with and investigate art as an activity: specifically, he was interested in the way in which his own body could be an active element within his artistic oeuvre. His work was both seminal and groundbreaking during this period, especially with regard to the evolution of sculpture, and as an artist he has thus been the focus of numerous exhibitions. The Kunsthalle Mannheim, which holds an extensive sculpture collection, is one such institution that wants to expand the way in which their collection is connected to and interacts with conceptual art of the late 20th century, specifically that of Nauman. The Mannheim will host Bruce Nauman – Der wahre Künstler | The True Artist, a retrospective of Nauman's work from 28 May – 21 August, to coincide with his 70th birthday this year, exhibiting works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection.
Nauman's career has always been determined by his queries into the boundaries of art and materials; his body within the studio was the focal point of much of his early work. In simple photographs such as that of an almost empty coffee cup with spilt coffee splaying out from the side, Coffee Thrown Away Because it Was Too Cold (1966-1970), Nauman depicts the basic life of an artist trying to understand what it is an artist does, what defines them beyond the basic structure of being in a studio expected to create. He stated in an interview in 1980: "After I got out of school … I drank a lot of coffee, so those photographs [are] of coffee thrown away … [and] of hot coffee spilled." The images show the trace of the artist yet do not go so far as to explain the circumstances of the situation: the how and why of the spilled coffee cup – was it out of frustration, anger, or was it a pure accident that he captured on film?
A lack of funds at the beginning of his career meant that Nauman was forced to use the physical structure of the studio and his bodily presence as the primary media in his work, with film as a tool to record and preserve the works. Ulrike Lorenz, of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, states that Nauman "wanted to preserve his lonely acted out performances [but that] later on, he begins to use video in a more explicit way – as a technical device." Tension became an integral element to these works, such as Green Light Corridor (1970–1971) in which Nauman dictates the audience's movements by forcing them to squeeze through two walls. There is a beginning and end, always a way out, but the tension induced, the feeling of claustrophobia, is intense and often distressing. The audience must trust Nauman and he thereby manipulates the viewer both physically and emotionally into participating. Lorenz says: "He simultaneously uses recording and replay (screening) in order to put the viewer in between the paradox and antagonism of playing the role of the observer and, at the same time, being observed [the viewer] undergoes an adventure of disorientation." The immediacy, affordability, and spontaneity of video art (as opposed to film) allowed Nauman, along with contemporaries Nam June Paik, Dan Graham, and John Baldessari, to break down the boundary between the artist and the audience and the art object and the observable act of creation. Whereas film emphasised the temporal quality of the medium, video emphasised the dynamic, chaotic possibilities afforded by the medium. The manipulation of context and time served to disorientate the viewer and question their own role as a participant in his work.
Nauman did not just explicitly target the audience, but his own body in his filmed works. With Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (1968), his physical presence dominates the studio and the screen; the audience is unable to turn away from the sight of the repetitive, programmed event though they know it is slightly voyeuristic.
There is a Sisyphean element to this and much of Nauman's early work in that the act of movement produces no true, definable result: he produced roughly 25 video works during the 1960s that consisted of filmed sequences of mundane movements enacted within the studio. These movements, whether bending or squatting, are dance-like in their simple choreography and repetition, though ultimately leading to nothing. This emphasis on both movement and failure is articulated visually in the works of contemporary artists such as Francis Alÿs, an artist who creates movements based on a specific narrative or framework. Ultimately each movement/performance ends in failure, as with in When Faith Moves Mountains (Cuando la fe Mueve Montanas) (11 April 2002) in which Alÿs collaborated with Rafael Ortega, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and over 500 volunteers, to move a sixteen hundred foot long sand dune four inches through physical exertion. Though the act was viewed as a success, the performance was bound to fail as the sand dune is not static – eventually, whether through natural processes or human intervention, the sand dune will revert to its original position.
The term "process" is integral when examining Nauman's work. The art historian and critic Kristine Stiles defines process as both a method and style in that it "functioned as a point of intersection and transit between traditional painting and sculpture and the profusion of experimental practices that occurred in the late 1960s, which collapsed form and content into a continuous state." Art no longer existed as an autonomous entity and structure, but was dependent on the context within which it was produced as well as by art historical predecessors and aesthetics. It became increasingly difficult to categorise artists, especially an artist like Nauman, who works with several different media, styles and forms. Lorenz argues that to categorise Nauman as "a performance or body artist, or sculpture or installation artist, would mean to have to exclude his poetic visual and verbal art, his interventions with the audience, and his theatrical video works."
Nauman's contemporaries, such as Vito Acconci (b. 1940), were interested in art-making rather than art, and in completely avoiding the traditions of painting and sculpture, they were left with performance and installation art. Acconci viewed the camera or film frame as a symbolic studio; he termed it an "isolation chamber" in which his body became the focal point. This emphasis on bodily awareness is paramount to both Nauman and Acconci's work, whether it is an immediate awareness as with Acconci's work, or in retrospect as with Nauman's.
Mapping the Studio (2001), a seven-channel video projection of his studio at Las Madres Ranch, signals a resurging awareness by Nauman on the prescribed notions of the "studio" that has been such a formative influence on his work throughout his career. Lorenz states that with a work such as Mapping the Studio: "Nauman symbolically returns to his point of origin. He is not visible on the screen, but at the same time still present – in the form of an elusive creator of his enigmatic work." This work calls into mind his spilled coffee cups, where the trace of his presence takes on more significance than the act of his own hand in the event.
Nauman's text-based works ultimately derive from his own self-examination of what it is to be an artist: "I needed to work out of a broader social context, and I needed to get more of what I thought and what I knew about it in the work … I was reading, I think a lot of word / visual puns and … Nabokov." Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations became incredibly influential; specifically Wittgenstein's examination of language and its context-based significance. Language can be vague and often meaningless and relies on non-linguistic circumstances (e.g. human nature) to lend it meaning. Thus language games, or situations involving words, became a primary focus for Wittgenstein and a source of interest for many artists.
René Magritte, who places the text "Ceci n'est pas un pipe", below an image of a pipe is one such example of the often incongruous nature of text versus image. Lorenz calls Nauman a "master of dialectics" and that "his interest in language begins where the functional borders of communication are already transgressed." Nauman is interested in language as an activity, and in his 1992 collaborative works with Rinde Eckert, he takes language games as the focal point for performative video installations. Anthro / Socio (Rinde Facing Camera) (1991) and Anthro / Socio (Rinde Spinning) (1992) consist of screens displaying the face of Eckert, who he filmed in close-up whilst reciting specific phrases based in Wittgenstenian language games.
Wittgenstein believed that language was self-contained, that humans inhabited it, and it is these language games that allow humans to step outside momentarily the confines of its structural linguistic framework. In many ways Nauman views art in the same way – it is a historical structure that dictates what an artist should create and what it is an artist is defined as – the language games thereby allowed Nauman to step outside the language of art and transgress art historical boundaries. Lorenz argues: "The core irony of Nauman's complex practice is, however, that by putting up the issue of myths for reconsideration, he strengthens the artistic myth even more."
It is a double-edged sword for, as much as Nauman avoids traditional aesthetics and methods, and questions the role of the artist; his work embodies the magic of art. His avoidance of traditional forms has led to his categorisation as being a non-traditional sculptor. Lorenz cites Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore as major 20th century influences in the movement away from traditional, perfect works and as specific inspirations for Nauman. Rodin and Moore both moved away from the idea that sculpture could only be considered art if it was a complete, literal rendition of the subject; perception and spatial awareness were of more interest.
His studio has always been more of a second home, than just an artist's studio. He remembers each vividly, the most famous being a former grocery store in San Francisco that had an old neon beer sign in the window that inspired his first neon works; another being a short-lived residence within the Southampton studio of Roy Lichtenstein and Paul Waldman which initiated his "corridor" pieces. Las Madres Ranch, his current home and studio that he shares with his wife, the painter Susan Rothenberg, serves as an inspiration, refuge, and outdoor exhibition space for them both. The 600-acre site in New Mexico's Galisteo basin provides Nauman with the physical space that his smaller, urban studios could never provide: he has spent so much of his career mapping the studio, mapping his body, that perhaps an immense space was needed for him to progress as an artist?
Nauman is not only a commercially successful artist, but also well-revered conceptually and critically. His work encapsulates philosophical, spatial, and temporal queries that continue to plague artists and audiences. Lorenz suggests: "After the frenzy in painting and the drought of the concept in art, we again see the search for the actual meaning and the interest in the fundamental questions of the human being." Nauman endeavours to investigate and probe these questions through his work and this is, as she goes on to state, the secret of his success: "Nauman goes far beyond the conventional systems and discovers new horizons."
Niamh Coghlan
Bruce Nauman – Der wahre Künstler | The True Artist ran from 28 May until 21 August 2011 at Kunsthalle Mannheim. For more information, visit www.kunsthalle-mannheim.de.
Bruce Nauman until 21 June, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 261 Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris. Additional details are available at www.fondation.cartier.com.
Transgressing Conventional Boundaries featured in Aesthetica Issue 41. Pick up a copy of the magazine at www.aestheticamagazine.com.
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1. Bruce Nauman, Double Poke in the Eye II (1985). Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Hamburg Bahnhof. Photo by Stefan Altenburger, Zurich. Copyright VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.


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North Korea conducted its third test of a nuclear device Tuesday, raising fears of instability in Northeast Asia and new questions about whether the isolated authoritarian regime can be stopped in its decades-long effort to develop nuclear weapons. The explosion was first suspected after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake was detected shortly before noon local time about 235 miles (380 km) northeast of the capital, Pyongyang, near the site of the country's previous nuclear tests. The Japanese Prime Minister's office held an emergency session, saying, "There is a possibility that a nuclear test was conducted by North Korea based on the previous cases." About two hours later, North Korea's state-run news service confirmed the test, which it said was conducted with a smaller and lighter device than previous detonations, "yet with great explosive power."
The test follows North Korea's successful December satellite launch, which demonstrated improved long-range missile technology. Last month North Korea's National Defense Commission warned it would carry out a "higher level" nuclear test, which was targeted at the U.S. It comes two weeks ahead of the swearing-in of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, a sign of the sharp security tests that her new administration will face. It also coincides with heightened regional animosity in East Asia, with China and Japan at odds over East China Sea islets claimed by both nations. But North Korea's test is a reminder that it remains the greatest regional security threat, with its leadership unbowed by international condemnation and its weapons capability apparently growing. The White House condemned the test as a "highly provocative act that, following its Dec. 12 ballistic-missile launch, undermines regional stability."
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North Korea previously tested nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009, which resulted in widespread international condemnation and heightened sanctions. But efforts to slow North Korea's pursuit of deadly nuclear capability have had limited effect. A South Korean Defense Ministry official said North Korea is believed to have detonated a nuclear device with a strength of six to seven kilotons, Yonhap News Agency reported. That would be near the high end of the 2009 test, though more precise analyses will take time. Likewise, experts are waiting to see whether there is any indication that this device used plutonium fuel, as North Korea has said was used in its previous tests, or highly enriched uranium, which would indicate new capabilities that give it a huge supply of fissile material and make controlling its nuclear program even harder.
Like the missile launch in December, Tuesday's test will invariably result in a new round of U.N. Security Council sanctions. But there is no guarantee they will have any more impact than past efforts at thwarting the country's nuclear ambitions. "Any test, whether plutonium or uranium, will probably lead to additional international sanctions," says Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Kookmin University. "However, I'm very skeptical about the efficacy of sanctions. I don't think they're going to work. They've been under sanctions since 2006, and during this time the North Korea government has twice and now three times tested nuclear devices, missile launches and finally a successful satellite launch."
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The U.N. Security Council was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting early Tuesday. The response of China, a permanent member of the council and North Korea's only significant ally, will be a key indication of whether new condemnation of the regime will have any significant consequences. China has traditionally been unwilling to endorse any moves that might destabilize its neighbor, particularly in the year since longtime leader Kim Jong Il died in December 2011 and power was transferred to his young and untested son Kim Jong Un. But last month China joined the rest of the Security Council in voting to tighten a number of existing U.N. sanctions, including barring some North Korean space-program and banking officials from foreign travel.
The Global Times, a nationalist Beijing-based newspaper, wrote last week that China should cut aid to North Korea if it goes ahead with a third nuclear test. "China has many misgivings when handling relations with Pyongyang, but there is a general principle: China is never afraid of Pyongyang," the newspaper said in an editorial. "Pyongyang's diplomacy is characterized with toughness. But if Pyongyang gets tough with China, China should strike back hard, even at the cost of deteriorating bilateral relations." While the Global Times is run by China's ruling Communist Party, its editorials aren't considered official policy thinking and can often reflect a more strident line.
The test coincided with the Chinese New Year holiday, when most of China is on vacation. The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement saying it "resolutely" condemned North Korea's act and urged it to "no longer carry out actions that could worsen the situation." The test will put pressure on the new administration of incoming leader Xi Jinping to rein in the Kim regime. And there were signals that the Chinese public's patience with North Korea was wearing thin. "If someone who claims to be an 'intimate neighbor' and good friend sets off a nuclear device at your doorstep, would you still treat him as a friend?" Zhang Xingsheng, northeast Asia director of the Nature Conservancy, wrote on his Sina Weibo microblog. "What should China do with such a neighbor? Permit it to continue being reckless?" While many Chinese writing online agreed with the sentiment, China might only go so far to constrain its neighbor. "My view is that Beijing recognizes the growing threat from the North Korean issue to comprehensive regional security," Zhu Feng, an international-studies professor at Peking University, told TIME. "It will force Beijing to move forward, but the problem is, to what extent? At least I see Beijing growing in willingness to build coordination with the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Russia."
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The Alexandria Board of Zoning Appeals ruled against two appeals to a plan to erect 60-foot lights at Francis Hammond Middle School's athletic field Thursday, though the case may end up in court.
In a unanimous vote, the BZA upheld a split decision by the Planning Commission granting Alexandria City Public Schools a permit for the project in June, having confirmed Planning Director Farol Hamer correctly interpreted local ordinances relating to additional height and density.
Neighbors and members of the Seminary Hill Association had hoped the board would scuttle the planned improvements, which they say will create a nuisance and bring down the value of nearby homes.
When — and if — finished, the roughly $1.6 million project will leave the Seminary Road school with a new track, artificial field and lights. Supporters say the newly renovated field will expand the city's recreational capacity for students and residents alike.
"The school board is in a difficult position," said former chairwoman Yvonne Folkerts at a community meeting addressing the issue in April. "Enrollment is going up by leaps and bounds and has new demands that must be met to provide proper facilities for Alexandria's youth."
Nancy Jennings, SHA president, believes project opponents have been unfairly tarred as taking a stance against children's recreational programs or student athletics. They're not against building a new artificial field and illuminating athletic fields in general, she said, they're against lights at the middle school.
"If it was six football games a year, I don't think that's unbearable, but you're talking about lights on a field for every day until 10 p.m. at night," Jennings said. "The groups that come, they bring cars, they bring vendors with food and PA systems to do the play-by-play and I think its bizarre a neighborhood would put up with that."
Neighbors had asked the BZA to rule on a third issue regarding a city law regulating light pollution and the board effectively said neither they nor Hamer had any authority over the ordinance, Jennings said. They believe the proposed lights will be powerful enough to exceed the maximum limit of measure allowed on side or rear yards of adjacent properties.
Some light testing has been done, said Deputy Planning Director Barbara Ross, but only in the front yards of abutters where light is not limited, but rather encouraged. Early computer models show illumination from the proposed lights will range from .18 to .44 footcandles — a measurement that tracks light intensity. The limit allowed in front and side yards is .25 footcandles, according to the city's code.
And if future testing in neighbors' rear and side yards — required before construction can begin — shows the light levels going above the .25 limit, ACPS will have to return to the drawing board.
That's the law, Ross said.
"In our position we acknowledge this is a law and it applies in this case," she said. "Before you get them up there and turn them on … we would require final photometrics. It's required on every development. At the final site stage, and before they can build, they have to show us that all the information they have then [indicates] the lighting will be adequate."
While the BZA sided with the city, the project may not be out of the woods yet. Once the board formalizes the findings at its November 10 meeting, the middle school's neighbors have 30 days to appeal to circuit court.
Jennings won't speak for the association as a whole, but said she would prefer finding a solution outside of court.
"I'd rather meet with the school system and talk about it — what is it they really want and what can we work out as a compromise," she said. "Maybe they reconsider and if they reconsider we don't have to go to court. We could reconsider with them."