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Nostradamus and the Bible
Many today wonder what the future holds. Will I be happy and prosperous? What will happen to the economy? Where is our country going? Will I have a long life? What will happen to me when I die? We want to know how things will turn out, and we secretly hope they will turn out well for us.
We humans usually do a rather poor job predicting, but that doesn't stop a lot of us from trying. Each year we see a new crop of psychics telling us what is going to happen. Some predictions turn out to be right, some wrong. Whom can you trust?
Let us look at two of the most famous collections of prophecies in history -- those of Nostradamus and the Bible. Nostradamus was a French astrologer, a Roman Catholic of Jewish ancestry, who lived from 1503 to 1566. Though educated in philosophy and medicine, he began to make predictions about 1547. He claimed to receive spirit guidance for these predictions. They were written up in poetic form, in four-line quatrains, and these were grouped by hundreds, called centuries. They were published in 1555 as The Centuries, and a second expanded edition was issued in 1558.
The Bible was written over a much longer period by dozens of writers between perhaps 1500 BC and 100 AD. All these biblical prophets claimed to be receiving their information from the Creator of the universe, who also knows the end from the beginning. We will look at a sample of four striking prophecies from each of these two sources.
Nostradamus: the Fire of London (2.51)
In quatrain 51 of century 2, Nostradamus predicts:
The blood of the just will make complaint to London,
Burnt by fireballs in twenty-three the sixes;
The antique dame will fall from the high place,
Of the same sect many will be destroyed.
Like nearly all Nostradamus' predictions, the poem contains several riddles the interpreter must try to solve. But here is one of his most striking predictions. Clearly London will be burnt. And the most famous London fire in history occurred in 1666, which could appropriately be called "the sixes." But what does "23" mean? The fire started on September 2 and ended September 5. If we add the numbers 9 (9th month), and 2, 3, 4, and 5, the total is 23! Commentators see the line about the "antique dame" as the destruction of St. Paul's cathedral, which was traditionally built on the site of a pagan temple to Diana. The last line then refers to the destruction of other Anglican churches, seen from Nostradamus' Catholic perspective.
The Bible: Israel's Future (Hosea 3:4-5)
The prophet Hosea, whose marriage was an acted parable of God's dealings with the nation Israel, interprets one of the incidents in that marriage as follows:
For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the LORD and his goodness in the last days.
Here are listed six things Israel will lack for a long period of time. The three pairs seem to contrast things God provided for Israel vs. their own wayward choices: between a king of God's choice or their own rulers; between the sacrifices God commanded or the pillar-worship of the Canaanites; between God's priests who wore the ephod-vest and idol worship. The striking feature of the prediction is that for a long time Israel will have neither -- corresponding to Hosea's buying back his wife Gomer from slavery but not restoring her to full marital relations. And the amazing thing is that these six features have characterized Israel for centuries, from about 70 AD until recently! The Israelites have had no kings of their own all this time, and have even been a stateless people until 1948. They have had no temple with sacrifices or priests (though their Bible commands them to) to this day, though they have also avoided the idol worship that was such a problem when Hosea wrote.
Nostradamus: Napoleon? (8.1)
Pau.Nay.Loron will be more fire than blood,
To swim in praise, the great one to flee on the confluence of waters,
He will refuse the Agassas entry,
Great bridge Durance he will hold them imprisoned.
Some commentators suggest that Pau.Nay.Loron is an anagram for Roy [king] Na.Pau.Lon. They suggest that the rest of line one indicates he is more a soldier than a nobleman. That the reference to fleeing is to his escape from captivity on the island of Elba. That "agassa" is Provencal for magpie, "pie" in French, which also means "Pius," and so refers to Napoleon's imprisoning both popes Pius 6 and 7. He kept them captive in SE France, where the River Durance runs.
The Bible: Time of the Messiah (Daniel 9:25-26)
As the prophet Daniel prays for the end of the 70-year Babylonian captivity of Israel, he receives a message about another prophetic period of 70 weeks, usually understood to be weeks of years:
Know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing...
The context of Daniel's prophecy suggests that the "weeks" are probably to be understood as the seven-year land-use cycle in which Israel was commanded to let all their farmland lie fallow the last year in each seven, the so-called sabbatical year. The decree which allowed the city of Jerusalem to be rebuilt after the Babylonian captivity was that of the Persian king Artaxerxes 1, given in his 20th year (Nehemiah 2:1-6), or 445 BC. Taking the sabbatical cycle which was then running as the first one, the first seven cycles would be occupied with the rebuilding of the city, and the next sixty-two would lead up to the Messiah being cut off. This 62nd (or 69th) cycle turns out to be 28-35 AD, spanning the ministry and death of Jesus, the only Jewish person claiming to be the Messiah who has also started a world religion of Gentiles (in fulfillment of Isaiah 49:6)!
Nostradamus: Hitler? (5.29)
Speaking from the perspective of a Frenchman living in the 16th century, Nostradamus says:
Liberty will not be recovered,
A bold, black, base-born, iniquitous man will occupy it;
When the material of the bridge is completed,
The republic of Venice will be annoyed by Hister.
"Hister" is an old name for the River Danube. Some commentators think it is an (imperfect) anagram for Hitler. Hitler conquered France and made it a puppet state. The second line could certainly fit Hitler, taking "black" as a reference to a Caucasian with dark hair or dark complexion rather than an African. Perhaps the "republic of Venice" is Italy, and the bridge is a pontoon bridge over the Danube built by the Nazis in February, 1941.
The Bible: Messiah's Burial and Resurrection (Isaiah 53:8-10)
The culminating passage in Isaiah's prophetic section on "the Servant" is found in 52:13-53:12. We quote here just verses 8-10:
By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, yet he was with a rich man in his death, because he had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in his mouth. But the LORD was pleased to crush him, putting him to grief; if he would render himself as a guilt offering, he will see his offspring, he will prolong his days...
The whole context is an impressive picture of the Servant-Messiah: he will be rejected by his own people, put to death by judicial oppression, but his death will be a sacrificial substitution. Though planned to be put in a common grave with criminals, he will be given an honorable burial in a rich man's tomb. He will be raised from the dead. This is just what Christians claim Jesus did, and it explains why Jews who reject Jesus do not read this passage publicly.
Nostradamus: Depopulation of the World
(preface § 26)
In his preface to The Centuries -- a letter to his son -- Nostradamus makes one of his few predictions that is crystal clear. It is also clearly mistaken.
From the time I am writing this [1 March 1555], before 177 years, 3 months and 11 days, by pestilence, long famine, and wars, and more still by inundations, the world between this day and that, before and after, shall be diminished, and its population so reduced that there will hardly be hands enough to attend to agriculture, and the lands will be left as long without culture as they have been under tillage.
The deadline for this prediction is easily calculated:
Day Month Year
Start 1 3 1555
Add 11 3 177
Total 12 6 1732
i.e., 12 June 1732
The drastic conditions predicted are quite specific and very long-lasting, yet nothing of this sort has occurred and the deadline is long past.
The Bible: Regathering of Israel (Isaiah 11:11)
The prophet Isaiah predicts that one day God will gather his people Israel back to their own land:
Then it will happen on that day that the LORD will again recover the second time with his hand the remnant of his people who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
The reference to a second regathering is presumably to distinguish this from the return from Babylonian captivity, which in any case did not bring people back from all these locations. Seven specific places are named, plus one rather general location. These convert into modern locations as follows:
Assyria = Iraq & Syria
Egypt = Egypt
Pathros = Egypt
Cush = Sudan
Elam = Iran
Shinar = Iraq
Hamath = Syria
Islands/coastlands = Europe and North Africa
In this century, Israel has returned to its ancient homeland, an event unprecedented in two thousand years. And statistics show that it is just the areas mentioned above which have seen significant departures.
We have looked at four prophecies each from the Bible and Nostradamus. Both give impressive examples of successful prediction, much more than one would expect from merely lucky guesses. The Bible's examples are more impressive than those of Nostradamus. Besides the cases we have looked at, both predict events that are still in the future. Only time will tell whether these will be fulfilled or not.
Obscure as he usually is, Nostradamus has clearly missed on one of his major prophecies. Though some have alleged that the Bible has also missed on prophecies, I am satisfied that it has not. You will have to study and judge that for yourself.
The biblical predictions are generally quite straight-forward; those of Nostradamus are almost invariably riddles. It is therefore difficult to guess in advance what fulfillment will look like for Nostradamus' predictions, but relatively easy for those of the Bible. If one reason for seeking someone who really knows the future is to get advice on what we should do, whose advice should you follow? One who is always speaking in riddles, or one who is generally quite clear?
The biblical predictions are intended to validate the Bible's message. While this message is unpopular with many, it certainly makes important claims: God holds us responsible for what we do with our lives. The bad news is that we will one day have to answer for every thought and action that we have ever had, and that these will be judged by God's standards: have we loved God with all our heart? have we loved our neighbor as ourselves? The good news is that God offers to forgive us for all the evil that we have ever done, if we will seek his forgiveness and turn back to him. He can do this and still be just because Jesus has paid for the sins and provided the righteousness of all who will trust in him.
Do you really want to have a life that will have been worth living when all is said and done? Do you really want to have a future in which all things work together for good, even the disasters? You can, if you will seek the God who really exists, and who has given evidence of it by predicting the future.
Robert C. Newman, PhD
Professor of New Testament
Biblical Theological Seminary
Philadelphia, USA


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Dating Advice From Famous PoetsPosted: February 14, 2015 Filed under: Culture, Dating, Humor, Satire | Tags: advice, comedy, culture, dating, Dr. Seuss, Edgar Allen Poe, humor, Lord Byron, love, Maya Angelou, poetry, poets, romance, satire 2 Comments
Maya AngelouDear Ms. Angelou,
I'm writing to you because I'm quite vexed over my father's intractable position vis-à-vis the proposal of my commencing a relationship with a boy. I am fully capable of making my own decisions, having already attained twelve full years of age, and while I have not yet reached menarche, I am still as much a woman grown as any of the other girls in my class, many of whom have already gone on one or more dates. I think he is being completely unreasonable. What say you?
A Caged Bird, Too
Dear Fledgling,
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and risks unknown
are hers to embrace
without a care
to cast aside the chains
of a life left behind.
But a bird that stalks
down her narrow cage
held back by father's
blindness and fear
her wings are clipped and
she knows not why
so she opens her throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and her tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
The free bird gets cruel education
on the price of casual flirtation
and the handsome boys not as good as their word
and her eyes with tears are blurred.
But a caged bird knows more than a father could
He'd lighten up if he understood
But he still says "no" and locks the doors
so she opens her throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and her tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
Edgar Allen Poe
Dear Mr. Poe,
I'm planning to propose to the love of my life, my beautiful girlfriend of many years, and I want to do it somewhere special, someplace so magical she'll never forget it. Can you offer any suggestions?
Searching for the Moment
Dear Lost in the Moment,
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
I proposed to a girl you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;–
Let's just say things didn't exactly work out
The way that I thought they would be.
If I had it all to do over
In that kingdom by the sea,
We would have just gone out to a nice dinner–
I and my Annabel Lee.
My advice? Bundle up, stay inside, stay warm —
Dr. Seuss
Dear Dr. Seuss,
I'm not sure who to ask about this, but here goes. I've started noticing the boys in my class, and I think I like them, you know, in that way. Which would be great, except I'm a boy too. Which I guess means I'm gay? And some people say being gay is bad, and other people say it's not, and I just don't know what to think. What do you think?
Confused and Lost
Dear Lost and Found,
There once was a girl named Julie Madevin,
A charming young thing the age of eleven.
She had a crush on a boy in her class,
The boy known as Billy Sassafrass.
Julie thought that he was quite alright;
His eyes were blue, his pants were tight.
But there was something the other kids would say:
They all insisted that Billy was gay.
Julie didn't know what to do,
So she ran home and asked her mommies two.
They told her this was quite alright,
And Julie slept quite well that night.
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I want to do something really special for my wife for Valentine's Day this year. It's been a rough year, and I really want to show her I love her more than anything in the world. You're renowned as one of the greatest romantics of all time; can you please give me something to show her just how much I love her?
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The Misery ContestPosted: January 14, 2014 Filed under: Musings | Tags: advice, etiquette, society 2 Comments
Have you ever noticed how misery has become a contest? It seems like no matter where you go, every time you try to tell a tale of woe, someone else has their own tale to tell, and of course it tops yours. Have a rash? They have a burn. Have a cut? They lost a limb. Got dumped? They got divorced and lost the house in the bargain. There's always something.
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be commiseration or one-upmanship, but either way I'd like to say "you're doing it wrong." Commiseration should be something simple, serious, and heartfelt. An acknowledgement of our common humanity, perhaps coupled with words of comfort. "Dude, that sucks. I'm really sorry to hear that."
While I would prefer not to encourage one-upmanship (I consider it a distasteful habit, like picking your nose in public or voting), if one is going to engage in it should be done properly as well. Save it for when people are discussing something of value, like a house, a car, or a job. The only proper application of such one-upmanship is when someone is being a particular douchebag, for example talking about their new house, car, and job all at once. In such cases a limited amount of one-upmanship can actually be a public service if applied immediately and without mercy.
In order to curb this outbreak of "misery contestants", I would like to share an idea my wife and I came up with some years ago. It's a simple little thing that can be done by anyone but, I think, might just help. Just carry around a roll of nickels with you wherever you go. Whenever someone starts in with the misery contest, hear them out. Let them get it all out there. If you're feeling particularly pernicious, you can even egg them on a little. When they're done, simply hand them a nickel and say, "Wow, you're right. Your life is way worse than mine. Here, have a nickel." Then walk away.
This simple gesture of faux sincerity and honest scorn will hopefully be the antidote to their sincere display of faux commiseration and honest self-aggrandizement.
The Glengarry EvolutionPosted: January 8, 2014 Filed under: Musings | Tags: advice, life, work Leave a comment
Recently I was reminded of a great article by David Wong on (of all places) Cracked about "6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person" (h/t to Patrick Hoolahan). If you haven't seen it yet you should check it out; great advice and possibly life changing. The part that really got to me the most was "#5. The Hippies Were Wrong". Wong makes a lengthy point about the well-known and oft-reviled speech delivered by Alec Baldwin in Glegarry Glenross. For the three of you who haven't seen it, I'll include it here (also for the rest of you, because it is awesome):
Wong makes the point that "half of the people who watch it think that the point of the scene is 'Wow, what must it be like to have such an asshole boss?' and the other half think, 'Fuck yes, let's go out and sell some goddamned real estate!'" I have to admit, I used to be in the former camp. I've heard just about every version of this: "What have you done for me lately?" "Have you earned your seat on the bus today?" "What have you done to add value recently?" And on and on, ad nauseum. I used to hate it, because it all seemed like they were picking on me and not valuing me for what I was bringing to the table. I was a hard worker, with experience and loyalty to the company, and I had big ideas about how to make things better if they would just listen. Sure, sometimes things weren't perfect, but everybody makes mistakes.
Then I started managing employees of my own.
At first I was the exact opposite of "that boss". I was the boss I always wanted to have: I was a good guy, friendly, warm, open and nice. If there was something that didn't get done, didn't get done right, or didn't get done on time, as long as there was a reason, I was willing to hear it and give the benefit of the doubt, even if it was insufficient on the face of it or, worse, was completely irrelevant. I finally started to understand that when I thought I was being a good guy, when I was being "nice" to my employees, what was actually happening was they were seeing Uncle Sympathy, The Clown Who Gives a Damn. I wasn't doing them any favors, because what I was teaching them was the wrong lesson: as long as they had an excuse, they would be excused. I had to cowboy up and start teaching the lesson nobody wants to hear:
Fuck you, close.
You want the promotion, the raise, the bigger office and the better title? Guess what, so does the guy standing behind you. The difference between the two of you is that one of you is going to be the guy who talks to me about what he did for me last month, and the other one is going to be the guy who tells me about the five accounts he brought in this morning and his action plan to bring in five more tomorrow.
Fuck you, close.
I'm not saying experience and loyalty don't count, I'm saying that they aren't magic talismans you get to just wave around and expect they matter for no reason other than existing. Understand why and how they're important, and be able to elucidate that in a clear and concise manner.
Fuck you, close.
If you have personal problems, I empathize, but the truth is I don't care, because I can't afford to care. After work, when we have accomplished everything we need to do to get the job done I'll buy you a beer and we can talk it out if you want, but for right now we have a job to do, and neither of us is getting paid to not get it done.
That's my new mantra. It's not pretty, but it works. And the first guy I say it to every morning is me.
Lessons from Night ClassPosted: September 2, 2013 Filed under: Musings | Tags: advice, college, office Leave a comment
As I may have mentioned before, I'm still pursuing my college degree, mostly out of masochism, but also due to a deeply rooted sense of self-hatred. Due to the fact that I have an actual job (unlike most college students and, apparently, most college graduates from the last few years) this means I have to take night classes. (Online courses? Never heard of them. I go to a school whose motto is "Where crushing innovation is tradition.") What with the commute from work, parking, and the scheduling of such things, my classes don't start until after 7PM and run until 10PM. This has given me the opportunity to learn some lessons that I believe would translate well into the business environment, lessons that are more implicit in nature. They won't show up on any tests, but believe me; they'll be more valuable than knowing who was the first Roman Emperor.
First, respect my time. This covers a lot of ground, but the first example I'll give is the guy in class who asks a question (usually at the end of class when everyone wants to go home) that is completely irrelevant to everyone but him. For every minute you are speaking, you are wasting a minute of every single other person's time in the class. Do that in a meeting in a business environment and you'll be lucky if you're politely told to "take it offline", which is a nice way to say STFU and discuss it later. If you're unlucky you'll just be told STFU.
The flip side of this is the professor who keeps the class past the scheduled time. Look, I realize you think your bloviating is the most important thing in the universe, and we're all paying just for the privilege of hearing it. Let me correct that misperception: we're paying for the degree. Listening to you drone on is part of the price, not a benefit. In a business environment the guy who drones on like this doesn't get invited to meetings, which is a great strategy right up until you discover you're out of the loop, not involved in projects, and oh yeah, no longer necessary at this company and there's the door.
Second, respect my opinions. I'm not suggesting you have to agree with everything I have to say (lord knows I think 90% of people are idiots), but at least hear me out. And don't just sit there spending the time planning what you're going to say when my lips stop moving, actually listen to what I'm saying. Process the information, and form a cogent response. Even more importantly, be aware of whether you are actually adding value to the conversation or if you are only speaking because you feel the need to "get your two cents in". The guy who has to be heard on every issue is the guy who nobody wants to work with, and believe me when I say that there is nobody who is so highly skilled that they are irreplaceable if they are intolerable.
Third, respect the space. I don't know what it is about night courses, but people come in with food and drinks all the time (too rushed to grab dinner on the way in, I guess) and then leave their trash lying there when they finish. This kind of disrespect for public space says as much about you as your appearance. Whether or not there's janitorial staff is irrelevant; that's the moral equivalent of saying "Mom will pick it up." Act like an adult and clean up after yourself. There are plenty of public spaces in an office, such as meeting rooms, kitchens, and break rooms, and if you treat them the same way as you treat those classrooms, you're going to find yourself out on the trash heap next to your trash.
It doesn't take much, but it makes a big difference. Pay attention to these little details, show a little respect, and you'll be a better student and a better coworker.
The Dance of ShamePosted: August 2, 2013 Filed under: Humor, MNSHW | Tags: advice, Dance of Shame, humor, life, marriage 3 Comments
Ladies and gentlemen, despite my vigorous protests to the contrary, My Not So Humble Wife insists on informing you about our most time-honored tradition.
On our first date, I quite matter-of-factly told My Not So Humble Husband that he would fall in love with me and that we would end up getting married. This was really meant more as a warning than an aspiration. I just knew. However, I made this lofty proclamation BEFORE we actually moved in together.
Anyone who has moved in with a boyfriend or girlfriend will know that the honeymoon period soon comes to an end in the face of annoying habits, money problems, chore quarrels, and the long disputed toilet seat position. For a while, I wasn't sure we going to make it. I thought I might end up suffocating him in his sleep with the dirty socks he habitually left on the carpet; or perhaps that I would die an agonizing death of a thousand dull cuts after shaving my legs with his razor… again.
What helped us finally reach a livable equilibrium was the Dance of Shame. After one particularly bad argument, over something I don't remember, we had both reached that point where neither one of use wanted to apologize but we didn't really want to be angry at each other anymore either. Sullenly, My Not So Humble Husband approached me in the kitchen and started rocking back on forth from foot to foot with his hands going up and down in the air in time with his steps. I was so surprised I had to break the after argument silence to ask what in the world he was doing. He replied that he was doing the Dance of Shame. I laughed so hard I cried and nearly peed myself. Thus a new marriage coping mechanism was born.
The thing is, it's really hard to be angry with someone when they are doing the Dance of Shame. It's just so ridiculous that you pretty much have to laugh. Also, having been the Dancer of Shame on more than one occasion, I can tell you that it is sometimes easier to submit yourself to the Dance than it might actually be to say the words "I'm sorry".
Once in my classroom of 8th grade students we were talking about conflict resolution and I made the horrible mistake of telling the students about our Dance of Shame. "Do the Dance of Shame! Do the Dance of Shame!" the adolescent monsters chanted. After making the logical argument that I hadn't done anything shameful enough to deserve the Dance of Shame, they finally quieted down. Two full weeks later, I made a math error on the board. These same students, who can't even remember to bring a PENCIL to class on a regular basis, somehow remembered about the Dance of Shame. Eventually I had to perform it for them before we could return to polynomials in peace.
So keep the Dance of Shame in mind the next time you need to break the awkward silence of an argument gone on to long, but also BEWARE ITS POWER.
Reservation for "Pity", Party of OnePosted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Culture, Musings | Tags: advice, culture, entertainment, internet, pop culture, web comics 5 Comments
I used to read a lot of web comics a while ago, back before I had more important and useful things to do with my free time (like writing this fantastic blog for your pleasure and amusement), and inevitably the same scenario would evolve. Whether it took a few months or a few years (and it was usually closer to a few months), the web comic writer would manage to drop a post, miss a deadline, forget to put something up, or just be unable to come up with something, and they would usually substitute some variation on the "sorry, my bad" post.
This post would occasionally be in the form of a quick sketch, although surprisingly often it would take the form of a lengthy written tirade. Sometimes there wouldn't even be a gesture at an explanation, just an absence where entertainment used to be, and if you were lucky it would appear again the next time there was a scheduled update, with nobody the wiser as to what had happened. The times when an explanation was forthcoming would occasionally be accompanied with promises of making the next deadline (which might or might not happen), and other times there would be the dreaded "indefinite hiatus".
Almost universally in these instances the artist attempt some sort of justification. The two most common flavors depended on whether the artist in question considered themselves an amateur or a professional, and to be honest I don't know which one bothered me more. In the case of the amateur, they would usually invoke "real life". This one goes like this: "Hi everybody, I'm really sorry to do this to you, but the truth is I'm not a professional cartoonist. This isn't my day job, and I don't get paid to do this. I do this for fun, as a hobby and as a way to relax, and I just haven't found it very relaxing lately."
My special issue with these guys is that in most cases these "amateurs" have a tip jar right there on the front screen of their comic, usually with one of their characters being all cute and begging for money. Now I may not have to pay for content, but the fact is you are asking to get paid for this gig, so to turn around and say you aren't getting paid is at least a little disingenuous. A lack of success in achieving your goals is not the same thing as not having tried (otherwise "attempted murder" wouldn't be a crime). Assuming anybody actually did hit the tip jar means now you're a liar as well.
Which brings me to the "professionals". This is their day job (or they at least are trying to make it one), and their approach is something like this: "Hey everybody, sorry, I feel really bad about this but I got nothing today. I', really trying to make a living at this, and I feel really bad about this, and I know I'm really letting my fans down, and I should be doing better, etc." They then go on to beat themselves up for another few paragraphs. Here's the hard truth they don't want to hear: I don't care. All those lovely "fans" who write nice things like "hey, take the time you need, we just want a good story", and those lovely things? They are enabling your first world problems.
The next issue I have in both of these cases is the implication that somehow "real life" suddenly "caught up" to them. Sorry, not buying it. Short of jail, hospital, or morgue, there are very few events that you couldn't have seen coming and planned ahead for. More likely you ran out of inspiration or got lazy, and the sad fact that you spent time writing out a letter justifying that rather than making at least some attempt to put something up speaks volumes about how you feel about your art. Having spent more than a year churning out over 500 words three times a week, I've learned something: creating content, even crap content, is hard. Creating QUALITY content? That's damn near impossible. But it's the gig we chose, and nobody forced it on us.
Whether you're doing is as a hobby and you hope other people enjoy it, or you're trying to make a living at it, it's your choice. You decided this is what you're going to do, this is what you're going to invest your time and your effort in, and that's what you should do. If you decide to abandon it, at least have the courtesy to leave a note on the door on your way out in case you did have a fan who drops by now and then, but please, no more self-indulgent whining about how you're just not able to come up with anything today.
If you're sick or you just don't have it in you, hey, that's fine. It happens. Get somebody to fill in for you. Make sure you have a buffer. If nothing else, sometimes you just have to make it up as you go along and hope something comes to you.
Like I just did.
The Five Essential Things to Do Every Day, In My Not So Humble OpinionPosted: July 5, 2013 Filed under: Musings | Tags: advice, life 1 Comment
1. Laugh. No matter how bad your day is, no matter what you are facing, you can always laugh. Even gallows humor is still humor, and laughter can make the best day better or the worst day that slightest bit less awful. If nothing else it might throw people off long enough for you to figure out what to do next.
2. Read. It really doesn't matter what you read, as long as you read something. While I prefer a good book, a magazine can be an acceptable alternative, and there are some excellent blogs out there that are full of sage wisdom (mine, for example). Even if you only read the ingredients on the back of the package your dinner came in, you'll learn something. Most likely you'll learn never to read the ingredients on the back of the package your dinner came in, as well as the number of the nearest Chinese takeout.
3. Think. I know this sounds obvious, and people think they do it every day, but the truth is they don't. Most people, after reaching a certain age, go through their lives on auto-pilot. It is only in the rare moment of panic and confusion that they wake up for a brief second and actually react to what is going on around them, usually long enough to mutter "I do," put a ring on someone else's finger, and go back to sleep for another twenty years. Pause for at least a few minutes every day and actually think about something, anything. Consider what it means, the ramifications of it, and the implications of the ramifications. Chase it as far down the rabbit hole as you can. Then get back to work, the boss is looking.
4. Play. While I generally regard people who use phrases like "the wisdom of a child" as having the intelligence of a child, this is one of the few things I would suggest people should emulate children in, at least to some small degree. When children play, they are fearless; they throw themselves into it with the entirety of their being, no reservations, and no concerns. There is no part of them wondering about the big test tomorrow, they aren't concerned about the mortgage, they simply give themselves over to the moment and play. Finding that same sense of release is good for the soul. I promise those burdens will still be there waiting for you when you are done.
5. Love. This is the tough one, because I am going to say something completely contrary to everything you have ever heard: do not love unconditionally. Love with conditions. Love with requirements. Put essential demands on your love. I do not mean that you should barter your love for trinkets, but rather that you should only give love where you get love back. Unrequited love is not poetic, it is pathetic. Find someone who loves you, and love them in return. Show your love, share your love, and every single day make sure to let them know you love.


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Discussion in 'NDS - Flashcarts and Accessories' started by HDW, Jun 24, 2007.
I can't actually find them with the search engine. Could someone please give me the link?
There's something called BROWSE that works better than searching.
They are also sold at Target now, not sure if anyone has mentioned that yet.
they also sell them in FRYs if you live in the states or through amazon


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The fifth and last progress meeting was hosted by FMI in Helsinki, the where status of the final tasks were reviewed. The partners had requested more time to complete the remaining deliverables: D1.1: updated user requirement document, D4.1 Product validation and Inter-comparison Report, D4.2 Climate Data Record Package and D5.1 Climate Assessment Report. ESA agreed to extend the end date of the project to 31 July 2018.
The 4th progress meeting was hosted by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center. The meeting had presentations of the progress of work in the last six months. 22 persons from all 11 partners attended. The deliverables linked to milestone 4, which was end of July 2017, were delayed until end of September.
This workshop is jointly organized by the Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC), University of Hamburg, and the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg, and co-sponsored by CliC, CliSAP, and ESA-CCI, aiming at both experts for sea-ice remote sensing and sea-ice modelling. New sensors and new algorithms have over the past few years allowed for sometimes significant progress in our ability to estimate sea-ice concentration and sea-ice thickness from space. Read more »
The Sea Ice CCI team is pleased to announce the release of a full reprocessing of the Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) v2.0 ECV. The release provides Climate Data Record (CDR) of SIC over the polar regions, derived from medium resolution passive microwave satellite data of AMSR-E (2002-2011) and AMSR2 (2012-2015). Read more »
The topic of the workshop is "Retrieval of Total Sea Ice Concentration from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Data using Optimal Estimation Techniques" with specific focus on (1) Next generation sea ice retrieval algorithms including optimal estimation of sea ice and other related geophysical parameters from microwave radiometer data, and (2) Linking between modeling and observational sea ice communities, especially for the development of next generation sea ice models, a natural ground for data assimilation. Read more »
The third progress meeting is hosted by University of Bremen. The main topics of the meeting are to discuss the new version of the SIC and SIT date sets, the validation work and dissemination to users during the remaining part of the project. The progress of the sea ice drift algorithms and the ice age option project are also presented.
The second progress meeting of SICCI Phase 2 was hosted by University of Hamburg and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The focus of the meeting was to review the progress of the new SIC and SIT data sets and status of deliverables by month 18. The agenda for the meeting is attached.
The SICCI project team had a meeting to kick-off its sea ice drift activities. Hosted at IFREMER (Brest, France), the two-days workshop was aiming at reviewing and consolidating the plans and objectives for the investigations. The methodology to perform algorithm intercomparison was discussed, as well as the design of the Round Robin Data Package (RRDP). These will be further documented in a Product Validation Plan (due end of April 2016). The first results of the algorithm intercomparison are expected by Fall 2016... stay tuned! Read more »
The workshop "Extension and Improvement of the Mean Sea Level estimation in the Arctic regions using space altimetry data" was organised by International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern 15-18 June. The workshop brought together experts working with altimeter data in the Arctic in order to exchange information between the sea ice and sea level research communities. The workshop aimed to develop co-operation between the two expert groups by working together on common problems - namely sea ice and lead detection, retracking and local sea level anomaly determination. Read more »
The ice concentration team had a working meeting at DMI, Copenhagen 10-11 June 2015 to finalise the definition of the RRDP in the phase-2 and discuss relevant tasks, including update of the open water and consolidated ice datasets, thin ice and melt ponds datasets, adding data from new sensors, ERA interim data, buoy data. Technical specifications were also discussed.


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Most college freshman despise the idea of redshirting. They've just come from high school where most were the star player and now they're faced with the prospect of sitting out an entire season.
But the benefits of redshirting are there for everyone to see. Just look at Notre Dame's Jerian Grant, who went from redshirt to the Big East's All-Rookie team last season.
Syracuse fans should remember the likes of Lazarus Sims, Mike Hopkins and Kueth Duany who took redshirt years and wound up benefiting from the extra year at the end of their careers. Sims started on SU's 1996 Final Four as a fifth-year senior, while Duany was the captain of SU's 2003 NCAA championship team in his fifth year.
So here's a look at five freshmen who will have the most impact after sitting out last season (note: some players on this list sat out as true redshirts, while some sat out due to injury or illness. Whatever the reason, the list only considered freshmen who sat out the 2011-12 season):
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5. Jordan Omogbehin, South Florida: Omogbehin is a 7-foot-3, 334-pound center from Lagos, Nigeria. He prepped at Atlantic Shores (Va.) Christian School. He was academically ineligible last year and then last October, he needed surgery to repair torn cartilege in his right knee. The Bulls could use Omogbehin to shore up a frontline that loses center Gus Gilchrist and power forward Ron Anderson off last year's team. Omogbehin averaged 15 points and 11 rebounds as a senior at Atlanic Shores.
4. Montray Clemons, DePaul: Clemons ruptured the patellar tendon in his left knee last year when he slipped during warmups prior to DePaul's Midnight Madness. The result was the 6-foot-7 forward was lost for the season. Clemons, a Baltimore native like DePaul's Cleveland Melvin and Brandon Young, is the type of athletic forward that DePaul needs. He averaged 20 points and 15 rebounds at Baltimore's Polytechnic Institute.
3. Durand Johnson, Pittsburgh: Johnson, a 6-foot-6, 190-pound forward, sat out last season because his playing time would have been limited behind veterans J.J. Moore and Lamar Patterson. This year, Johnson will challenge for playing time. Two years ago, Johnson helped Brewster (N.H.) Academy to a 31-3 record. In 2009-10, he played at Baltimore's Lake Clifton High School where he averaged 15 points per game for former Syracuse player Herman Harried.
2. Shaquille Thomas, Cincinnati: Thomas had to sit out last season when the NCAA refused to certify his prep school, NIA Prep in Newark, N.J. The 6-foot-7 Thomas will give Cincinnati more size on the wing. He's the nephew of former Villanova and NBA player Tim Thomas and the younger brother of former Rutgers women's star and current WNBA player Essence Carson. As a senior, he averaged 28 points, eight rebounds and four assists at NIA Prep.
1. Trevor Cooney, Syracuse: Cooney sat out last season as a true redshirt. Syracuse's backcourt was loaded with returners Scoop Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters plus freshman point guard Michael Carter-Williams. With Jardine and Waiters gone, Cooney will become a vital part of SU coach Jim Boeheim's 3-man rotation of guards. The 6-foot-4, 188-pound Cooney is known as a shooter, but he brings much more than an accurate outside shot. He's gained a lot of strength and he's athletic enough to throw down 2-handed slams. He'll be very important to the Orange's success this season.
Got a suggestion for a Top 5 list? Send them to Post-Standard sports writer Mike Waters at email@example.com.


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"WWII history series following
a four-man team as they explore the war
zones of the Eastern Front in an effort to excavate
and preserve the forgotten battle relics, at the same time
discovering the stories of fallen soldiers from their remains."
a four-man team as they explore the war
zones of the Eastern Front in an effort to excavate
and preserve the forgotten battle relics, at the same time
discovering the stories of fallen soldiers from their remains."
|Jennifer: "You Done Well Boyz"
The whole thing was a total mess from the beginning. I really do not want to go into the first part of the episode set in Poznan, it was the same puerile-half-brains-running-around-being-a-prat type stuff which has characterised the previous two episodes. But one element of this segment needs commenting from the local angle. As Andy Brockman points out, the fact that part of this segment is filmed among the artefacts preserved in a Polish museum suggests that the programme's stated aim of this team of "experts" being needed to "excavate and preserve the forgotten battle relics" is in the case of Poland more than a little wide of the mark. In truth, Polish museums (military, historical and commemorative) and Polish collections in general have more than enough material of this kind well-and-truly preserved. The trauma of the Second World War is an obvious part of the history of the nation and one which is by no means neglected in historiography or collecting activities. That remains of WW2 military hardware lie scattered across the landscape of Poland and concentrated in some regions is not at all due to it - or the human drama and conflict it represents - being "forgotten" in Poland. The wounds are still very, very deep. Nobody has "forgotten" what happened here, and nobody here needs Craig, Kris, Adrian and Steve to come here and help us "remember" it. The very arrogance of the idea of these four coming here thinking they can show us how to "preserve" our past is staggering. What were they thinking? Especially as this band of (apparently pretty uninformed) foreign amateurs has at their disposal only the most primitive of tools and methodology for "discovering the stories of fallen soldiers from their remains". As we saw in the previous episode (femur versus humerus), they cannot even recognize these remains, let alone interpret their state with any subtlety. In fact the activities they were filmed engaging in in the Latvian escapade was such that it could only obliterate parts of those "stories". That is the first of a number of things which makes this exploitive jaunt so annoying. What kind of ethics would allow anyone to get involved in a task so complicated without being adequately prepared or qualified? This is not just a game, these were real human lives, the lives of people related (I am talking about central Europe) to those around us still alive today. People who do remember. What on earth are these artefact hunters thinking? Who entitled them to come here and behave as they did?
After running around a Prussian fort like a group of kids on a school excursion, the four then pretend they are going to follow the 1945 route of the evacuating Germans, leaving Posen towards the Noteć. Here they display their total lack of historical preparation. By the time the city was abandoned, the route to the northwest was cut off by the rapid advance of Bogdanov's Second Guards Tank Army who were encircling army units withdrawn from Warsaw - and who are much more likely candidates for the identity of the remains found in a grave in the little village of Sarbka (in the administrative district of Gmina Czarnków, within Czarnków-Trzcianka County in west-central Poland) which is where our relic hunters end up digging for their relics of the Nazi War.
This was just a silly narrative excuse for the fact that the whole rationale for the programme is that the production company had negotiated a deal with the Polish "Pomost" foundation of the type explained by Andy Brockman (Revealed: Battlefield Recovery Accused of Sidelining Polish team who did the real work in Sarbka', The Pipeline January 24, 2016), whereby the Clearstory lads would pose in the trenches dug by the Polish team. As Brockman points out there is a huge difference between the activities of the two groups and what they are there for. To make things more complicated, it seems there was some friction between the two parties by the time the programme was ready to be broadcast, and as reported elsewhere, this episode was pulled from the schedule of the Polish TV airing of this series. This is the reason why this is the first showing of episode three. If these allegations are true, this would be another expression of the utterly exploitive and colonialist attitudes of these collectors towards eastern Europeans and their heritage. They imagine they can just walk in, do what they want (take what they want) here and 'never mind the natives'. Whatever Clearstory and its diggers think, Poland (slap-bang in the centre of Europe) is not Wonga-Wonga Land.
For some reason the programme-makers decided they wanted to make up some fiction about how "their team of experts" found this site. Instead of admitting that it was already known and Pomost had an exhumation scheduled here, Dealer Craig is set up for a fake conversation with a local who tells him they'd buried some Nazi soldiers in some trees. Ah, Nazis! There will be Lots of Nazi Relics there then for British viewers to gawp at. Swaasstikkaaasss. So off they go to search for the mass grave among the trees. In reality, this is one of thousands of places all over Poland where living oral tradition and documented history localise the graves of the tens of thousands of fallen of all nationalities and religions. Why four foreigners should take it upon themselves to dig up these dead bodies and not (for example) the three officers in the forest just up the road from where I write this is not explained. Especially as these artefact hunters had apparently come totally unprepared for what they were about to do.
First they set about finding where there could be a mass grave in those trees. They are shown roughly thrusting a metal spike into the site to find soft spots (!) Really. This is the team of British "experts" Clearstory brought in. Now it just so happens that when this sorry apology for a TV show was pulled from Polish TV it was replaced by a programme of work done by another British team in Poland - at Treblinka. There the Polish TV viewers learnt that even in backward England, they have heard of geophysics. (Poland has several well-equipped teams, including one run by a very good friend of mine, which do some exceptionally spectacular work - why did Clearstory and its "experts" not call them in?) Why instead did a bunch of cowboys come with their retarded tombarolo methods? That it is not normal practice in the English speaking world is indicated by Sam Hardy's post today ('I have never before seen anyone jam a metal pole into a suspected mass grave'). As conflict archaeologist Sam Wilson judged: 'Probing a possible burial pit with an auger. ***ing clowns.' Sam quotes other people saying more or less the same thing: 'Intrusion by both probes and augers can… damage human remains if undertaken by inexperienced personnel'. Why is it that a team of British excavators think they can walk into a country like Poland and apply the most rough-and-ready primitive techniques they can think of? Why is it that Britain does not send a team of properly qualified people with cutting-edge (also "boys toys") equipment? Why this total disrespect for themselves and the archaeological (not to mention human ) remains exhibited by the use of such cavalier techniques? Appalling.
Then the British clowns start digging. This they cannot do without having an unseemly argument on camera, which rather belies the claim that this "investigation" was carried out with decorum and respect. The editors did not have the nous to delete this footage (probably thinking it made the digging look more like a 'reality show'). Obviously their notions of recovering human remains with decorum and respect differ from those over here on the Continent.
The argument was about soil slipping into the raggedy hole they dug - basically because they were dumping the spoil right on its edge. Here they are digging for Nazi War dead, a hoik-hole straight down:
[ClearStory Ltd for Channel 5: Fair use for reporting and review]
[ClearStory Ltd for Channel 5: Fair use for reporting and review]
Here is a problem. As Estuary English mumbles "We're on village land wiv village regulations. We can't just dig where we want to". Too right you can't. But in Poland, excavation permits are not issued by the village headman (soltys), but by the provincial conservator. Other documentation is needed for exhumation work, arranged at provincial level too. So where are the permits for the hole we see being dug by these diggers before Pomost comes in? Can we now see them? Without them, these screenshots (and I have more) would be evidence of an offence being committed on camera. Can we see the permits now? I am even more worried about the failure to show them now I have seen the final subtitle that came up as the credits begin to roll. Look at this:
[ClearStory Ltd for Channel 5: Fair use for reporting and review]
To come back to what really happened, is this hole, a regular excavation with secondary spoil heaps (sifted earth?), the same hole as we saw the lads enthusiastically grubbing out among the trees earlier before they "got help"?
[Fair use for reporting and review]
More comforting, in this episode, unlike the others, our four heroes changed their clothes between shoots. They walked around Latvia in sweaty and dirtied clothes while the film crew and continuity people tried (for reasons best known to themselves) to make it look like the digging was crammed into a much shorter time than we are assured each project took. This was obviously part of the fiction. But it meant our heroes had to turn up day after day in the same grubby wardrobe. Yuk. What led to the change of policy? Was there a quarrel about working conditions, working in close proximity to a sweat-stinking metal detectorist cannot be much fun. Or maybe one of the crew got a rash from wearing soiled clothing? Who knows? But at least when they are working with a Polish team going about things in a far more methodical way, the metal detectorists changed their clothes. Good archaeology is clean archaeology.
In the hole they first find a skeleton or skeletons of German soldiers (Nazis!!) thrown in. There's bits of uniform etc. I do not recall whether it was discussed how they'd got there. No mention was made of any pathological examination to determine cause of death. Were they prisoners killed at the pit edge, were they corpses picked up on the road outside the village where they'd been caught in crossfire? Were they corpses cleared out of the fields where they'd been lying several weeks? Attention was then shifted to the bodies underneath, they were not in uniform.
The diggers seem surprised that there are not only soldiers in the hole. I cannot imagine what world they come from where it would come as a surprise to anyone that women and children die in a war zone. Perhaps they do not watch the news from Gaza, Yemen, Syria, or as Andy Brockman suggests old film reels of the Second World War. This is pathetic. We are talking about Occupied Poland here, and the period when the Red Army advanced brutally across the region on its way to Berlin, sweeping all before it - and leaving not very much behind. Is it perhaps the case that these artefact collerctors had before they came, not the slightest idea of what happened here in this whole period? Unbelievable. It is not so much unbelievable that British metal detectorists and collectors seem to be ignorant (as we can see from their forums, a lot of them appear to be ignorant in general). What is unbelievable is that a responsible production company would hire such people as "experts" to head a programme like this, dealing with a subject as sensitive as this in such a totally insensitive way.
On finding the bodies of a woman and a child, one of the presenters (the one that collects all the military bits) is depicted as saying: "I feel more angry than sad". Well, of course it is good to feel angry that we have wars where real people do, indeed, die. But then, if one feels angry about wars, you don't go on camera glorifying it, running around like nine-year olds with rusting guns shouting "bang-bang-bang-bang", or cackling as you blast off a series of bursts from an MP40. That is just hypocrisy.
But this merges into stupidity when they lapse into pathos-for-the-camera. They find a baby, or rather where a baby's bones had dissolved in the acid soil and all that is left are the clothes, a plastic nappy cover in particular. These relic hunters had earlier been seen happily tipping skulls out of helmets and ignorantly waving femurs around and mistaking them for humeri. Suddenly it occurs to them that they are dealing with the remains of real people. One guy tearfully realises "I can relate this to my daughter. Because she wears clothes". Hmm. Was he expecting "Nazi" babies to have crawled around naked? If this numpty finds it so traumatic, why on earth did he sign a contract which involved digging up people's bodies for Saturday night entertainment?
Bearing in mind that this was made as a programme to be called "Nazi War Diggers", it is no surprise that there is a lot of focus on a Deutsches Frauenwerk badge(lots for sale here) with a runic logo and a Swaasssticcaa which was found in the soil near some of the bones. Immediately the remains are identified by the metal detectorists as a German and what is more a "Nazi". I did not see where the badge was lying in relation to the rest of the skeleton, to judge from the contemporary photos showing them worn, it should have been over the left breast, was it? Or was this a loose badge that was in the soil filling the grave? There was no discussion of the osteological evidence for the bones being those of a woman. Real osteologists do not assign biological sex based solely on one artefact.
In the programme, the remains found in the lower level of the grave are presented as those of Germans (why?), but more to the point are being positioned by the programme's metal detectorist presenters as victims, killed by the Polish villagers as the war ended. I think this is one of the dangers of entering on such a project without adequate preparation. The four men have already been dumped by the production company in the Kurland-Kessel (their Latvian escapades), the last stand of the Reich - sacred ground for the Neo-Nazis. Now we see them getting embroiled in another ideological trap. If they'd take a look at some White Supremacist material (actually I do not really recommend it -its worse than metal detecting forums), they would soon find the motif of the 'persecution' of the good Germans by the Bolshevik and Semitic 'liberators' at the end of the War. These ideologues stress how the teutonic population was exposed to rape, arbitrary killings, theft, and other abuses at the hands of the inferior people which had somehow temporarily gained the upper hand (I'll leave the rest of what they say about that to the reader's imagination). An egregious example of this genre is Thomas Goodrich's 'Hellstorm—The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947'. Horrific reading it is, to be sure, but it plays to a certain mindset. And this is exactly where Kris, Craig, Adrian and Steve are going.
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The metal detectorists incline to this hole being the result of a pistol held to the forehead and the person executed by someone "looking them in the eyes ['shudder, shock-horror]", what is said to be an exit wound (no radial fractures here either?) is briefly shown on the left of the occipital. Now, I am no expert on summary executions, but there are forensic traces on the bodies exhumed after the War and a lot of photographic evidence which you will forgive me for not linking to here, which show that a preferred method was having the condemned walk to and kneel on the side of the burial pit, and shoot them in the occipital from a position standing above and behind them, which meant not only that the bullet exited into the hole rather than among anybody standing around watching, but more importantly that the victim fell forwards, into the hole. That way the executioner did not have to stoop down and push or drag the body in. I am not saying that this is not an execution victim, but there is no proper presentation of the evidence for making that, and not another, interpretation. There was fighting between the German soldiers trying to reach the border and the Second Guards Tank Army chasing them. Why were the women and children found in this pit not victims of the crossfire but interpreted by the programme makers as victims of retribution? What evidence was there in the hole dug for such an interpretation? Was that conclusion reached simply to make "good television"? If so, that is a hugely irresponsible choice to make and thing to do. Where, in that light, were these people's remains reinterred and with what rite?
Several commentators made the point on the basis of the programme-makers' preferred interpretation that what had been discovered here was a "war crime" site. Perhaps it is, but if that is the case then it needed far better and more forensic work done than four foreign metal detectorists were equipped to do. That bullet hole for example, the bullet will be somewhere in the pit if the victim was executed on the spot, did they find it with their metal detectors? Was it fired by a Polish civilian (a villager angered by the ill-treatment during the previous five-and a half years of occupation) or a Soviet soldier executing a civilian prisoner? Actually, that is not an unimportant question, given that Pomost is all about reconciliation between Poland and Germany - a question which gains additional importance in Poland today under its new nationalist, retrospective, xenophobic and myopic PiS government.
If we look at the website of Pomost, there is total silence about any kind of collaboration with Clearstory who used material filmed on one of their projects to make a programme called "Nazi War Diggers". To be frank, I am not surprised, and I would be astonished to learn that they entered into any kind of agreement with the TV production company knowing that. There is just a brief note here:
Listopad Sarbka, gmina Czarnków, woj. wielkopolskieThe remains of 36 people were found by the end of (that phase of?) the project. Clearstory make their conclusions on the basis of the first few skeletons and then scarpered off back to England. There is no presentation by Pomost at the end of the film of their final results, and their own conclusions about what the site held, but then they find out that the four volunteers filmed working on the sitye with them have made a programme presenting the work as their own and disseminating their own interpretation of the results. If that happened to a project of mine, I would be more than a little annoyed. It is the same attitudes of entitlement and exploitation we see throughout this sorry spectacle. I would be even more annoyed if the foreigners who were working as volunteers on my project were disseminating not only the results of my team's work, but disseminating a picture which totally contradicts what I had found out as a result of further work. Is that what happened here? What is being reported is that Pomost apparently say they will never work with Clearstory again.
Lokalizacja i ekshumacja grobu żołnierzy niemieckich. Wydobyto szczątki 36 żołnierzy i cywilów.
Historiography and archaeology always have a complex social and political context. Nowhere is this more true than here in central Europe, and Poland in particular. This is why four foreign amateurs waltzing in here with metal detectors, spades, cameras and a lot of ignorance mixed with stupid ideas to make an exploitive "history" programme is not only a completely hare-brained notion, compromising all involved. It also involves repercussions of which none of those involved have even the foggiest idea.What were they thinking?


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