#Anthony Auger

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Février MMXXIV

Films

Maigret voit rouge (1963) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Michel Constantin, Vittorio Sanipoli, Paul Frankeur, Guy Decomble, Françoise Fabian, Paulette Dubost, Laurence Badie, Roland Armontel et Jacques Dynam

L’Étau (Topaz) (1969) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret et John Forsythe

Flic Story (1975) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, Maurice Biraud, André Pousse, Mario David et Paul Crauchet

Poupoupidou (2011) de Gérald Hustache-Mathieu avec Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Joséphine de Meaux, Arsinée Khanjian, Clara Ponsot et Éric Ruf

Air Force One (1997) de Wolfgang Petersen avec Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy et Dean Stockwell

Bob Marley: One Love (2024) de Reinaldo Marcus Green avec Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Henry Douthwaite, Sevana, Hector Lewis et Tosin Cole

Sister Act (1992) d'Emile Ardolino avec Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn et Robert Miranda

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) d'Alexandre Astier et Louis Clichy avec Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Guillaume Briat, Alexandre Astier, Alain Chabat, Élie Semoun, Géraldine Nakache, Artus de Penguern, Lionnel Astier et François Morel

Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024) de Stefano Mordini avec Riccardo Scamarcio, Daniel Brühl, Volker Bruch, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Esther Garrel, Gianmaria Martini : Hannu Mikkola et Haley Bennett

Buster (1988) de David Green avec Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown et Anthony Quayle

Laura (1944) d'Otto Preminger avec Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams et Lane Chandler

Séries

Affaires sensibles

Présidentielle de 1995 : un scandale d'Etat - Michèle Mouton, le Groupe B et les Finlandais volants - Les Ecoutes de la République - La secte du temple solaire, le drame d’une société secrète - Munich 1972 : destin tragique d'un rêve olympique - Les révoltés des Jeux olympiques - Le crash de la Germanwings - Alexandre Litvinenko, victime d’un permis de tuer - Martin Luther King : la naissance d’une icône - Martin Luther King : du rêve au cauchemar - Dans l'ombre de Gérard Lebovici - Macron 2017, le traitre méthodique - Kurt Cobain, portrait d’une génération - Crash au mont Saint Odile

Maguy Saison 1

Rose et Marguerite, c'est le bouquet - Babar et Bécassine se mènent en bateau - Docteur j'abuse - L'union fait le divorce - L'annonce faite à Maguy - Le coupe-Georges - Amoral, morale et demie - Cinquante bougies, ça vous éteint ! - A visage redécouvert'' - Le serment d'hypocrite - Tu me trompes ou je me trompe ? - Comment boire sans déboires - Un veuf brouillé - Le père Noël dans ses petits souliers - L'emprunt ruse - Tous les couples sont permis - L'amant de la famille - Travail, famille, pas triste - Blague de fiançailles - Macho, boulot, dodo - Mi-flic, mi-raisin - Trop polyvalent pour être honnête - La traîtresse de maison - Les trois font la paire - Un grain peut en cacher un autre - La quittance déloyale - Belle-mère, tel fils - Manège à quatre - Comme un neveu sur la soupe - Toutou, mais pas ça ! - A corde et à cri - Jamais deux sans quatre - L'amant comme il respire - Le chômage, ça vous travaille ? - La faillite nous voilà ! - Le divin divan - Toubib or not toubib - L'écolo est fini - Loto, route du bonheur

La croisière s'amuse Saison 2

Un contrat en or - Le Magicien - Copie confuse - Un travail d'équipe - Accrochez-vous au bastingage - Le Célèbre Triangle - Joyeux Anniversaire : première partie - Il y a si longtemps déjà - Passion - Un coup de roulis - Docteur, vous êtes fou - La Petite Illusion - Donne moi ma chance - Qui vivra verra - Réunion de travail : deuxième partie - Méfiez vous de votre meilleure amie - Vague à l'âme - L'amour est aveugle - Chassé croisé

Downton Abbey Saison 6

À l'aube d'un nouveau monde - Le Piège des émotions - En pleine effervescence - Une histoire moderne - Plus de peur que de mal - En toute franchise - Aller de l'avant - Les Sœurs ennemies - Le Plus Beau des cadeaux

Kaamelott Livre IV

Le Jeu de la guerre - Le Rêve d’Ygerne - Les Chaperons - L’Habitué - Le Camp romain - L’Usurpateur - Loth et le Graal - Le Paladin - Perceval fait ritournelle - La Dame et le Lac - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien - L’Ultimatum - Le Oud II - La Répétition - Le Discours - Le Choix de Gauvain - Fluctuat nec mergitur - Le Face-à-face : première partie - Le Face-à-face : deuxième partie - L’Entente cordiale - L’Approbation - Alone in the Dark II - La Blessure d’Yvain - Corpore sano II - L’Enchanteur - Les Bien Nommés - La Prisonnière - Les Paris III - Les Plaques de dissimulation - Le Vice de forme - Le Renoncement première partie - Le Renoncement deuxième partie - L’Inspiration - Les Endettés - Double Dragon - Le Sauvetage - Le Désordre et la Nuit

Coffre à Catch

#153 : Finlay, le retour ! - #154 : Gloire aux Heels ! - #155 : Les débuts historiques de Sheamus ! - #156 : Les Bella Twins arrivent à la ECW ! - #18 ; CM Punk continue d'impressionner & quelqu'un fait du vélo ! - #12 : Le Push de CM Punk + Bsahtek le Bikini !

Castle Saison 4

Sexpionnage - Jeux de pouvoir - Une vie de chien - Le Papillon Blue - Pandore, première partie - Pandore, deuxième partie - Il était une fois un crime - Danse avec la mort - 47 secondes - Au service de sa majesté - Chasseurs de têtes - Mort vivant - Jusqu'à la mort s'il le faut

Les Brigades du Tigre Saison 1

Ce siècle avait sept ans… - Nez de chien - Les Vautours - Visite incognito - La Confrérie des loups - La Main noire

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 2, 6

Incident de parcours - Pièce de musée - Reconnaissance

The Grand Tour Saison 5

Trop de sable

La ville Noire

Première partie - Deuxième partie

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Mortel Karma

Spectacles

Monsieur chasse (1978) de Alain Feydeau avec Michel Roux, William Sabatier, Françoise Fleury, Yvonne Gaudeau, Pierre Mirat, Xavier Vanderberghe, Michel Mayou, Bernard Durand et Roland Oberlin

La Bagatelle (1977) de Jean Meyer avec Amarande, Patrick Préjean, Jacques Balutin, Brigitte Chamarande Bel, René Lefevre, Pierre Aufrey et Didier Roussel

Femmes en colère (2023) de Stéphane Hillel avec Lisa Martino, Gilles Kneusé, Hugo Lebreton, Nathalie Boutefeu, Fabrice de la Villehervé, Sophie Artur, Clément Koch, Magali Lange, Aude Thirion et Béatrice Michel

La Pélerine écossaise (1972) de Sacha Guitry avec Jean Piat, Geneviève Casile, Philippe Etesse, Robert Manuel, Raymond Baillet, Françoise Petit, Alain Souchères, Janine Roux et Ly Sary

Livres

Piège de chaleur de Richard Castle

Spirou et Fantasio, tome 15 : Z comme Zorglub de André Franquin, Jidéhem et Greg

Kaamelott, tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant d'Alexandre Astier, Benoît Bekaert et Steven Dupré

OSS 117 : Tactique Arctique de Jean Bruce

Astérix, tome 17 : Le Domaine des dieux de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

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The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Dr. Richard Walker: Harrison Ford Michelle: Emmanuelle Seigner Sondra Walker: Betty Buckley Wino: Dominique Pinon Le Grand Hotel Manager: Jacques Ciron Williams: John Mahoney Shaap: Jimmie Ray Weeks Peter: David Huddleston Edie: Alexandra Stewart Kidnapper: Yorgo Voyagis Taxi Driver: Djiby Soumare Bellboy 2: Roch Leibovici Desk Clerk: Dominique Virton Gaillard: Gérard Klein Bellboy: Stéphane D’Audeville Hall Porter: Laurent Spielvogel Hall Porter: Alain Doutey Tourist: Louise Vincent Hotel Detective Le Grand Hotel: Patrice Melennec Restroom Attendant: Ella Jaroszewicz Florist: Joëlle Lagneau Florist: Jean-Pierre Delage Cafe Owner: Marc Dudicourt Waiter: Artus de Penguern Desk Cop: Richard Dieux Inspector: Yves Rénier U.S. Security Officer: Robert Ground Marine Guard: Bruce Lester-Johnson U.S. Embassy Clerk: Michael Morris U.S. Embassy Clerk: Claude Doineau Blue Parrot Barman: André Quiqui Rastafarian: Thomas M. Pollard Dede Martin: Böll Boyer TWA Clerk: Tina Sportolaro Extra (uncredited): Angela Featherstone Taxi Driver Who Hands Over the Matches to Dr. Walker (uncred: Roman Polanski Bellboy 3: Alan Ladd Film Crew: Casting: Bonnie Timmermann Original Music Composer: Ennio Morricone Assistant Art Director: Gérard Viard Writer: Gérard Brach Writer: Roman Polanski Producer: Thom Mount Director of Photography: Witold Sobociński Costume Design: Anthony Powell Casting: Margot Capelier Editor: Sam O’Steen Additional Writing: Robert Towne Stunt Double: Vic Armstrong Production Design: Pierre Guffroy Production Sound Mixer: Jean-Pierre Ruh Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jean-François Auger Sound Editor: Jean Goudier Hairstylist: Jean-Max Guérin Makeup Artist: Didier Lavergne Supervising Sound Editor: Laurent Quaglio Producer: Tim Hampton Additional Writing: Jeff Gross Sound Effects: Jean-Pierre Lelong Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dean Humphreys Assistant Art Director: Albert Rajau Choreographer: Derf La Chapelle Stunt Double: Wendy Leech Movie Reviews: JPV852: Movie starts off well enough with the mystery element but afterward tonally felt a bit off (veered into moderate comedy at points). Ford is fine as was Emmanuelle Seigner, though I wonder if this could’ve used the eye of Brian De Palma rather than Polanski. **3.25/5** kevin2019: “Frantic” is an engrossing and well made film that easily builds up a genuine sense of mystery and intrigue from the very beginning. It is incredibly well crafted throughout with an immediately interesting opening gambit and Roman Polanski is a seasoned director and he knows precisely how to create a natural and rhythmic momentum to the proceedings and to then successfully maintain it at a certain level without any evidence of indecision on his part in terms of how the film ought to proceed in order to achieve its maximum potential and effectiveness. This results in a splendid film that effortlessly retains a compelling quality until the very end and it provides the perfect showcase for the romantic city of Paris even though it also makes you pause for thought about visiting there on Valentine’s Day.

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40 Octaves Below Drops the 18-Track ‘MetaVersUs Remixed’ Release

For Immediate Release: September 5, 2023 – Canada’s premier industrial act, 40 Octaves Below has just dropped the ambitious and diverse remix release, MetaVersUs Remixed. The album contains tracks from the 40 Octaves Below release, MetaVersUs. 18 tracks remixed by the likes of DI Auger, Moris Blak, MXMS, Anthony (H), Angelspit, Live Evil Productions, Aesthetic Perfection, Blue Ant, The…

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Young Yoyo (Philippe Dionnet) retrieves the cigarette packet his mother has sent from the trailer to his father in the car.

Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)

Cast: Pierre Étaix, Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet, Luce Klein, Martine de Breteuil, Philippe Castelli, Luc Delhumeau, Gabrielle Doulcet. Screenplay: Pierre Étaix, Jean-Claude Carrièrre. Cinematography: Jean Boffety. Production design: Raymond Gabutti, Raymond Tournon. Film editing: Henri Lanoë. Music: Jean Paillaud.

Even though at one point in Yoyo the character Pierre Étaix is playing resists a photographer's attempt to have him pose in Buster Keaton's porkpie hat, it's clear that Étaix worships Keaton. The film is replete with sight gags that Keaton would have loved, such as the sequence in which, while traveling down a road in a trailer pulled by a car, the characters cook up an ingenious way to pass a packet of cigarettes from the rear of the trailer to the driver's seat of the car. The story, devised by Étaix and Jean-Claude Carrière, is a slight one: In 1925, a millionaire (Étaix) lives alone in great luxury in his chateau, attended by a battalion of servants who wait on him hand and foot: When he wants to walk his dog, for example, a chauffeur drives him around the courtyard of the estate while the dog trots alongside the car on a leash. But the millionaire is silently pining for a lost love, whose image he keeps in a desk drawer. One day, a circus arrives at the estate, bringing with it the woman (Luce Klein), who is an equestrian/acrobat in the show. It also brings a small boy (Philippe Dionnet) dressed as a clown, who turns out to be the millionaire's son with the woman. When the stock market crashes in 1929, the millionaire goes bust, so he finds the woman and the boy, who is known as Yoyo, and sets out on the road with them as traveling performers. Years pass, and the boy grows up and makes his own fortune in the new medium of television, which enables him to restore the dilapidated chateau to its former glory. (The son is also played by Étaix.) What makes the film a charmer is its continuous barrage of sight gags -- as well as sound gags: The great gilded doors in the chateau squeak loudly every time they're opened, mocking their grandiosity. There are in-jokes, too: The little traveling troupe arrives in one town to find that another troupe has beat them there -- the poster for the rival troupe announces the appearance of Zampanò and Gelsomina, the characters played by Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina in La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954). At a running time of 92 minutes, Yoyo seems to me slightly overextended, but it's a delight, very much in the vein of Jacques Tati's movies -- on which Étaix worked as an assistant director. Although his film Happy Anniversary won the Oscar for best short subject in 1963, Étaix is not as well known in the States as Tati because a legal snafu kept his films out of distribution for many years.

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Captain Pearse's list of pirates intending to take the King's Pardon (sorted)

Abraham Adam Adams Addy Adonijah Alexander Allen Andrew Andrews Anthony Archibald Arrowsmith Arterile Arthur Ashworth Auger Austin B Barker Barnes Barton Bass Beach Bead Benjamin Berry Birdsale Bishop Bradley Bridges Brown Bryan Bryce Burgess Calvorley Campbell Carman Carroll Carye Champeon Chandler Charles Charlton Charnock Cheek Chissom Chow Christopher Clapp Clarke Clies Clois Coates Cockram Codd Connelly Connor Cornelius Creigh Crew Cullomore Dalrymple Daniel Darby Davey David Davis Daws Dennis Derickson Divelly Dominic Dryker Dunkin Dwoouby Ealling Earle Edmundson Edward Edwards Emly Farrow Fasset Fennet Feversham Forbes Francis Fryers Gador Garrison Garrt Gee Geo George German Glinn Goodson Goudet Grahame Gratrick Griffith Harris Hasselton Hawkins Hawks Hays Henry Hill Holmes Hornigold Houghton Hudson Hunt Hunter Jackson Jacob Jacobs James John Johnson Jones Joseph Josiah Kaine Kemp Kerr Kipperson Lamb Legatt Leigh Leslie Lewis Lyell Magness Mahon Mallet Mann Mark Marmaduke Marshall Martin Matthew Mccarthy Merredith Michelbro Michl Miller Mitchele Moggridge Moodey Morgan Morvat Mounsey Murry Mutlow Nabel Nathaniel Nearne Nevill Nicholas Nichols Noland Nowland Othenius Owell Parker Parmyter Paulsgrave Pearse Pelt Perrin Peter Peters Peterson Phillip Pinfold Poley R Raddon Rawlings Reveire Reynolds Richard Richards Richardson Robert Roberts Roger Rogers Roper Ross Rounsivell Rouse Rowld Rt Samuel Savory Scrimshaw Shear Shipton Sinclair Sipkins Smith South Spencer Stacey Stanbury Stillwell Stoneham Stout Sutton Swoord Taylor Terrell Thomas Thompson Titso Townsend Tristram Trouton Turner Valentine Van Vane Ward Waters Wells Wheeler White Whitehead William Williams Williamson Willis Wilson Wishort Woodall Wright

[williowdrake]

March 5 2018

Curse of Oak Island

“There is an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada where Marty and Rick Lagina and the rest of the Oak Island team (attempt to an undertake a three hundred year old mystery). Oak Island is said to be the hiding place of a mysterious buried treasure. An ominous legend says that seven people must die in pursuit of the treasure before Oak Island will reveal her secrets. So far, (the official) the body count stands at six. (History Channel, 2018)” Among these deaths is a lasting mystery that brings families closer together, that shares theories and information in unlikely forms, which creates a tight knit community of believers and adventurers that spreads worldwide pulling at our heartstrings every step of the way.

To begin, one must understand the backstory of this little wooded island starting back from 1795. In 1795, a teenage boy was wandering around on Oak Island when he suddenly stood in front of an oak tree. Below the tree was a natural depression, to which he believed was made to be a pulley system. His name was Daniel McGinnis. Several days later Daniel, John Smith, and Anthony Vaughan, -all friends at the time-, began to dig. At ten, twenty, thirty, and every ten foot intervals all they found were logs. Knowing that they could not continue digging they returned home, pledging to return to the site. They did return after several years, back in 1803 with the help of the Onslow Company (who were made of three people whose main reason was to find the mystery). The party began to dig, at forty feet charcoal was discovered, at fifty feet a layer of putty, and at sixty feet a layer of coconut fiber was found. At ninety feet, a stone slab was found which had strange markings engraved on it. They continued digging at which time water began to fill the pit, by the next day the pit had filled with water up to the thirty-three foot line. Trying to remove the water did not help fore the water keep coming into the pit. The next year another hole was dug adjacent to the Money Pit, which went down to one hundred feet until it too began to fill with water.

The mystery was abandoned for forty-five years, until another company began the search. That company was the Truro. The Company dug until eighty-six feet at which time they began to be flooded. They decided to try another approach; that approach was to use drilling core samples. At ninety- eight feet, the Company went through a spruce platform, then four inches of oak and twenty- two inches of “metal in pieces”. They later went through eight inches of oak, another twenty-two inches of metal, four layers of oak, a layer of spruce, and what looked like to be coconut husk. There was one account that claimed that there were three gold chain links but have since disappeared. In 1850, the Truro Company discovered that the beach was man-made because they had dug a hole and tried to prevent it from flooding, to which lead to the discovery that the water was coming from the beach.

In 1861, another attempt of uncovering this mystery began with the Oak Island Association where they cleared the money pit to eighty-eight feet where they made a new hole to about one hundred twenty feet where it was later abandoned. A second shaft was made down to one hundred and eighteen feet but this was also overflowed with water. There were people in the shaft that were trying to figure out why the shafts were filling with water, they managed to get out before the shaft collapsed. The money pit dropped fifteen feet and anything that was in the money pit has become more difficult to get it. When the floor of the money pit collapsed the men were able to find the “bottom of a yellow dish, a piece of Juniper worked at either end of the wood, an oak timber, and a spruce slab scarred by the hole left by a drilling auger.” In Fall of that year, while trying to drain the tunnel a boiler exploded killing one person and harming several others.

In 1893, Frederick Blair and S.C. Frasier incorporated the Oak Island Treasure Company in the State of Maine, under a thirty thousand dollar lease that allowed them to dig on Oak Island for three years. In March 26 1897, tragedy once again struck on Oak Island when the Oak Island Treasure Company was pulling up a man named Maynard Kaiser from the money pit shaft when the rope from slipped and he fell to his death. In 1897, a parchment was found with scrawled letters either being “VI” or “WI”.

On July 16 1965, Robert Restall begins a new shaft but on August 17 of that year he dies when he falls into the shaft from looking above. His son, Bobby Restall tries to aid him but he too dies. Karl Graeser and Cyril Hiltz others workers also tries to aid in the help but loses consciousness and falls. Leonard Kaizer falls in as well but is saved by a visiting firefighter Captain Edward White. The reason why they lost consciousness is either because of the vile odor from the water or carbon monoxide from the gas pump. On October 16 1965, the causeway is made allowing people to move freely to and from the island. The causeway also allows heavier and bigger equipment to get on the island. In 1971, Borehole 10X was widened to twenty-seven inch in diameter casing recovering pieces of chain, metal fragments, cement chucks, and pieces of wire.

In 1981, Fred Nolan finds boulders that make a latin cross and “[a]t the intersection of the lines of the cross is an unusual stone resembling a human head.” In August 1995, “...a memorial service is held in honor of the men who died on the island. A monument and bronze plaque are unveiled.” Several items have been brought to life, some found and others shared from families. Several coins have been found, two different types of human bone, ship spikes, a hinge from a chest, metal, and a skeleton key. They were show a cross from the Mcginnis sisters who were related to Daniel Mcginnis, chest and a key from a relative from a pirate, and several maps of contradictory information.

There have been several people who have died trying to solve the mystery. Most of them are heartbreaking. The producer died under unusual circumstances, on November 19 2014 and he was thirty-one. Fred Nolan died on June 4 2016, due to a short illness and he was eighty-eight. Drake Tester died at the age of sixteen on March 26 2017 from a seizure disorder. One of the Mcginnis sisters, Joyce Mcginnis dies of cancer. Each death reminds us that at the end of the day it is not what they find but that whatever they find (or what they do not find) that they find it together,- as a family.

Works Cited

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/topics/oakisland/story.html

https://www.oakislandmoneypit.com/#story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

https://www.oakislandcompendium.ca/blockhouse-blog/gold-legends-and-old-maps-the-story-of-an-oak-island-familys-treasure

https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/nova-scotia/the-curse-of-oak-island-season-4-finale-blood-is-thicker/

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/OI_chapter3.shtml

http://worldtimeline.info/oakisland/

http://www.eternallifestyle.com/living/two-brothers-cracked-220-year-old-oak-island-mystery/

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Agli ordini del Führer e al servizio di Sua Maestà aka Triple Cross

Data di uscita: 1966

Regista: Terence Young

Musica composta da: Georges Garvarentz

Scritto da: Eddie Chapman, Frank Owen

Parte del film è stato girato al Fort de Cormeilles, nei pressi di Parigi, in cui l'anno successivo è stata girata anche una sequenza del film La notte dei generali.

Vagamente basato sulla vera vita di Eddie Chapman, creduto dai nazisti come la loro miglior spia infiltrata in Gran Bretagna, in realtà un agente doppiogiochista dell'MI5 col nome di Zigzag; il film trae ispirazione dal libro The Eddie Chapman Story di Frank Owen.

Cast

Christopher Plummer: Eddie Chapman

YUL BRYNNER: barone Von Grunen

Romy Schneider: contessa Helga Lindstrom

Gert Fröbe: colonnello Steinhager

Harry Meyen: Keller

Trevor Howard: Freddie Young

Claudine Auger: Paulette

Anthony Dawson: maggiore Stillman

[fromthe-point]

AHL Transactions - Dec. 10

Signed to PTO:

Justin Auger | Belleville Senators

Released from PTO:

Desmond Bergin | Providence Bruins

Charles Williams | Ontario Reign

Recalled from Loan by NHL:

Jordan Binnington | San Antonio Rampage → St. Louis Blues

Paul Carey | Belleville Senators → Ottawa Senators

Stefan Elliot | Belleville Senators → Ottawa Senators

Anthony Greco | Springfield Thunderbirds → Florida Panthers

Ryan Lomberg | Stockton Heat → Calgary Flames

Sean Walker | Ontario Reign → Los Angeles Kings

Returned on Loan from NHL:

Samuel Blais | St. Louis Blues → San Antonio Rampage

Anthony Peluso | Calgary Flames → Stockton Heat

Rinat Valiev | Calgary Flames → Stockton Heat

Reassigned by NHL from ECHL:

Josh Dickinson | Utah Grizzlies → Colorado Eagles

Evan Fitzpatrick | Tulsa Oilers → San Antonio Rampage

Cole Kehler | Manchester Monarchs → Ontario Reign

Aaron Luchuk | Brampton Beast → Belleville Senators

Otto Somppi | Orlando Solar Bears → Syracuse Crunch

Recalled from Loan to ECHL:

Morgan Adams-Moisan | Maine Mariners → Laval Rocket

Darik Angeli | Norfolk Admirals → Tucson Roadrunners

Mike Huntebrinker | Reading Royals → Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Phelix Marineau | Fort Wayne Komets → Laval Rocket

Tanner Pond | Atlanta Gladiators → Providence Bruins

Reassigned by NHL to ECHL:

Michal Moravcik | Laval Rocket → Brampton Beast

Julien Nantel | Colorado Eagles → Utah Grizzlies

Loaned to ECHL:

Ryan Culkin | Laval Rocket → Maine Mariners

Adam Plant | Laval Rocket → Maine Mariners

Returned on Loan to ECHL:

Stefan Lablanc | Toronto Marlies → Newfoundland Growlers

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1990년대 중반을 지나며 현대미술과 현대디자인의 접경에서 흥미로운 상호침투가 일어났다. ‘디자인에서 미술로의 침투’를 대표하는 인물은 앤서니 던(Anthony Dunne, 1964-)이었다. 1999년 발간한 <헤르츠 이야기(Hertzian Tales)>에서 그는, ‘기생-기능(para-function)’이라는 용어를 내세워 제품 인터페이스의 상징 기능에 주목하고, 비평적 소격 효과를 추구하는 디자인 실천이 가능하다고 주장했다. 이후, 실용성의 세계에서 살짝 비껴선 채 메타 기능을 구현하는 “비평적 디자인(critical design)”을 실천하는 일군의 3D 디자이너들이 등장했다. 그들은 현대미술관과 비엔날레의 양적 팽창이 제공하는 다양한 전시 기회를 십분 활용하는 동시에, 정체 상태에 빠진 디자인 교육 기관을 순회하며 강연과 워크숍을 수행했다.

건축 쪽에선 딜러 & 스코피디오(Diller & Scofidio), MVRDV, 아틀리에바우와우(Atelier Bow-Wow, アトリエ・ワン) 등을, 산업디자인 쪽에선 개념적 디자인 회사인 드로흐(Droog), 메이와덴키(Maywa Denki, 明和電機), 위르겐 베이(Jurgen Bey, 1965-), 마르티노 감퍼(Martino Gamper, 1971-), 노엄 토란(Noam Toran, 1975-), 제임스 오거(James Auger, 1970-)와 지미 로이조(Jimmy Loizeau, 1968-) 듀오, 잭슨홍(Jackson Hong, 1971-) 등을 대표로 꼽을 수 있다.

그래픽 디자인에서도 상황은 크게 다르지 않았다. 앤서니 던처럼 혼성적 실천을 도드라지게 만든 인물은 없었지만, 디자이너 얀 반 토른(Jan van Toorn, 1932-)과 이론가 릭 포이너(Rick Poynor, 1957-) 등이 유사한 역할을 맡았다. 1997년 얀반아이크아카데미에서 열린 <디자인을 넘어선 디자인(Design Beyond Design)>이란 제목의 심포지엄을 기점으로 변화가 일었다. 이후, 작업의 특성을 이해하는 소수의 클라이언트와 협업하며, 백색의 갤러리 공간에서 실험작을 제시하고, 디자인 교육 기관 등에서 강연과 워크숍을 진행하는, 소규모 디자인 스튜디오의 시대가 열렸다.

M/M 파리(M/M Paris), 메비스 & 반 되르선(Mevis & Van Deursen), 덱스터 시니스터(Dexter Sinister), 다니엘 반 데르 벨던(Daniel Van Der Velden, 1971-), 엑스페리멘털 제트셋(Experimental Jetset), 율리아 보른(Julia Born 1975-), 슬기와 민(Sulki & Min) 등이 대표적이다.

하지만, 큰 상업적 성공을 거둔 이들은 따로 있었다. 소위 ‘디자인 아트’로 불리는 영역에 속하는 디자이너-작가 혹은 작가-디자이너들이 그 주인공이다. 디자이너-작가, 즉 디자이너지만 미술가연하는 이로는, 론 아라드(Ron Arad, 1951-)와 자하 하디드(Zaha Hadid, 1950-) 그리고 마크 뉴슨(Marc Newson, 1963-)이 유명하다. 의자나 테이블이라고 만든 게 대리석이나 주물로 된 조각품이니, 에디션 수도 적고 미술 시장의 가격에 맞춰 가격도 높은 것이 당연하다는 식이다. 거래도 주로 이름난 상업갤러리를 통해 이뤄진다.

작가-디자이너, 즉 미술가지만 작업 외의 디자인을 수행한 경우로는, 미술가로서 빼어난 미니멀 가구를 제작했던 도널드 저드(Donald Judd, 1928-1994)를 언급하는 것이 옳겠다. 그러나, 정작 ‘디자인 아트’의 영역에서 유통되는 작가-디자이너는 드물다. 명목상 ‘디자인 아트’라고 지목되는 현대미술은, 대개 디자인의 문법이나 형식을 차용한 작품이다. 카르스텐 횔러(Carsten Höller, 1961-), 슈퍼플렉스(Superflex), 호르헤 파르도(Jorge Pardo, 1963-), 래이철 화이트리드(Rachel Whiteread, 1963-), 필립 파레노(Philippe Parreno, 1964-), 안젤라 블로흐(Angela Bulloch, 1966-), 토비아스 레베르거(Tobias Rehberger, 1966-) 등이 곧잘 언급되지만, 그들 가운데 양질의 디자인을 목표로 삼은 이는 없었을 ���다.

이러한 ‘미술에서 디자인으로의 침투(아닌 침투)’를 가장 먼저 포착한 인물은 큐레이터 니콜라 부리오(Nicolas Bourriaud, 1965-)였다. 1998년 출간한 <관계성의 미학(Esthétique relationnelle)>에서 그는, “이제 미술 작품의 역할은, 유토피아적인 상상의 리얼리티를 추구하는 데 있지 않고, 작가의 선택에 의해 어떤 스케일로건, 실재하는 삶의 방식이나 행위의 모델을 구성하는 데 있다”고 단언했다. 그리고, (종종 디자인 마케팅의 문법과 형식을 전유하는) ‘관계적 미술(Relational Art)’이 유행하기 시작했다.

지난 10년간 현대미술과 디자인의 중첩을 다룬 크고 작은 전시가 열렸다. 2007년 제네바 컨템퍼러리아트센터에서 개막해 2009년 런던 소머셋하우스에서 폐막한 순회전 <그럼 좋지 않았을까... ...미술과 디자인에서의 소망적 사고(Wouldn't It Be Nice... ...Wishful Thinking in Art and Design)>는, 디자이너와 미술가의 혼성적 실천을 비교하는 흥미로운 자리였다. 또한 부대 행사로 마련된 심포지엄 <AC|DC — 컨템퍼러리 아트, 컨템퍼러리 디자인>(2007년 10월 26-27일, 제네바대학교)은, 디자인과 미술의 상호 중첩을 이론적으로 규명하는 기회가 됐다. (비슷한 이슈를 조사 방법론의 차원에서 다룬 출판 기획이, 베라 뷜만[Vera Bühlmann]과 마르틴 비드머[Martin Wiedmer]가 편집·발간한 <사전-세부사항: 디자인과 미술의 리서치에 대한 비교언어학적 제 연구(Pre-Specifics: Some comparatistic investigations on research in design and art)>(2008)다.)

허나 이러한 결산 작업은, 디자인과 미술의 상호 침투를 진작하기보다는, ‘여러 실험적 도전에도 불구하고 디자인과 미술의 제도적 구분은 엄연하다’는 현실을 강조했다. 디자인을 전유한 미술가들은 제도화된 형식만을 빌렸을 뿐 디자인계 내부로 발을 들여놓지는 않았고, 미술제도 안에서 활동의 자유를 얻은 디자이너들이 제 직업적 정체성을 위협하는 수준까지 실험을 지속하는 경우는 드물었다.

(<AC|DC — 컨템퍼러리 아트, 컨템퍼러리 디자인>에서 릭 포이너가 지적한 바 있듯,) 2005년 ‘디자인 아트’라는 모호한 개념을 동명의 저서에서 제시한 미술평론가 알렉스 콜스(Alex Coles, 1971-)는, 2007년 편집·발간한 앤솔로지 <디자인과 미술(Design and Art)>에서 ‘디자인을 전유한 미술’과 ‘미술이길 희망하는 디자인’ 사이를 오락가락했다. 미술시장의 거품이 무너지기 전엔, ‘디자인 아트’, ‘컨템퍼러리 오브제’ 따위의 이름을 단 중소 아트페어가 등장, 디자인과 미술을 포괄하는 새로운 시장이 연출되기도 했다. 하지만 그런 망상의 시기는 무척 짧았고, ‘디자인 아트’는 이제 몇몇 미적 사기꾼들, 즉 작가연하는 디자이너들의 빛바랜 장르로 전락했다. ///

추신) 디자이너-작가건 작가-디자이너건, 디자인과 미술 양쪽 모두의 맥락에서 미적으로 유효한 작업을 남긴 이들은 살아남을 터. 역사적 평가와 기록의 문제는, 학계의 오랜 숙제로 남을 전망이다.

추신2) 디자인과 미술의 혼성이라는 시대적 현상과 광범위한 착각을 이용해, 현대 디자인도 아니고, 사실 컨템퍼러리 아트도 아닌 것을 만들어 한 세월을 풍미하는 '디자인-아티스트 연기자'도 있다. 대표적 인물이 리엄 길릭(Liam Gillick, 1964-)과 토비아스 레베르거(Tobias Rehberger, 1966-)다. 2009년 베니스비엔날레에서 리엄 길릭이 독일관에 그저 그런 가구와 박제 고양이를 전시해놓고 프랑크푸르트 키친 운운하며 '디자인 공간의 경험'을 강조했던 것이나, 같은 해 베니스비엔날레의 본전시인 <세상을 만들기(Fare Mondi, Making Worlds)>에서 이탈리아 포스트모더니즘을 브리콜라주해놓은 듯한 카페테리아를 만들어 황금사자상을 거머쥐었던 일은, 훗날 모두 (별로 웃기지 않은) 희극으로나 간주될 테다.

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Identifying Some First Steps Of Alchemical Initiation by Anthony M. House

Out Of Unity You Arise, To Return To Unity Is Your Destiny, The Mind Discovers The Path Of Return While The Heart Provides The Key To Progress Each Step Along The Way

Inner Contact

We must know that we are needing to find our own path in the initiatory work. In addition to the 7 "Fama" commandments proposed for the servants of the Invisible Order, (see lesson 11 of general esoterics) there are no rigid restrictions for the student to comply to, yet, LPN France has generously shown us an outer work indispensable for inner contact to occur. Experience has shown them that this contact is with the Genius within us all. The Angel that is your higher self. Your lunar astral vehicle that becomes known to you by the eventual passage into the astral realms. We again individually verify the paths of return to unite with our origin. Identifying some preparatory steps to research allows us to recover just where we have to look for direction in the initiatory respect of the eclectic paths of alchemy. This effusive foregoing study will increasingly allow us ample access to the program of the outer work. Gaining a higher access allows for a more complete synthesis to emerge. When significant contact is made you will know it. I can certify the profound effects that the correctly prepared stone of horsetail (Saturn) holds. A Saturn stone made by Michel Auger of LPN France, put me in contact with Divine Love (the FIRE of Unity). I personally experienced a profound sorrow and joy simultaneously. I lost control of my emotions as tears filled my eyes, and I sobbed aloud for more than an hour. This happened to me last September 1993, at the LPN seminar. Later, I consulted Patrice Maleze, Michel Auger, and Yves Arbez about my reaction. Patrice told me to try to laugh, as it has a countering effect on the tears. Note: I have often observed Jean Dubuis attempting to hold back his emotion and tears while giving the seminars. Also, when Jean Dubuis is on the jazz (communing with the Grandfather (universe) he will often spontaneously grab hold of you, should you be near him at the moment, and press his lips to your forehead, just below the hairline. One becomes a conduit and through which the great love flows out of Jean Dubuis, into you. It's a rush! This is the Divine Love kiss of the Magister. Patrice told me that because Michel A. had prepared it, I should tell him. Michel Auger smiled knowingly and sat with me for a moment to console me. He didn't seem surprised, but pleased at the stones power, and as they had related in the lecture before giving the stone to those present, they asserted "It gives a Divine Love experience." Yves, observing my reaction, took me aside and said "You are reborn today, on the inner plane," (fortunately Brigitte Donvez was there to translate for us), as he hugged me with genuine brotherly affection and respect. This emotional reaction was powerful and fulfilling in many ways. Even today I well-up whenever I recall the experience. New vistas of inner symbolic reality have risen in turn in my conscious life, and today the inner walls blocking my growth, are dissolving away. I might briefly mention too, that the caraway stone given in Oct. 1992 was a turning inward point for me. I had an instantaneous reaction that deleted all the mental data away and shifted attention to my heart perception. I later told Marc-Gerald Cibard that my brain had turned to mush! I have always been self reflective and I've experienced deep meditation while completing experiments in seclusion before, but the apparent power that this initiatic stone held, relocated my perception. It shifted my awareness inwardly. I can also say that I've endured dreams that continue to show me everyday (night) my psyche (this can be a very eye-opening event!), my station in life now, and some means to achieve a balance between everyday experience and inner life challenges. This pleased me greatly, causing some new details to form from within. There will arise both voluntary and involuntary dreams that develop in the alchemists psyche and the images and symbols are not easy to read in the beginning, yet, they are as real as our waking reality. See Horary Chart for dream analysis Fig. 1. This chart is useful for sorting out the confusing sequences awakened out of the time-space duality of dreams, while also systematizing from horary or natal information, an astrological approach. Humanity automatically transmits thought by steps, to unity (the Fountain Source). We are as little kings (queens), on account of our inheritance, and we exchange data with the great king that IS the inner guide. We are contacting the program of the unconscious realms in our heightened dreams and the resonant powers we contact allow us to temporarily merge with a new level of harmonic energy. For posterity, and for self study, keeping a notebook of dream activities is a good way to remember a pattern that's unfolding. The symbols in the unconscious are doorways to transcendent meaning.

CARAWAY STONE Let's begin with a stone of Caraway, which is asserted to be THE vegetable stone to make for initial, albeit temporary, inner lunar astral plane contact with Hod (Mercury) through dream states at first and later - waking visions. The level called Hod has another name called Thoth Hermes. So it will give you information on Thoth qabala, and on Hermes alchemy. But these will be personal explanations to start your own way. This stone opens this path. This path is the path of Shin the letter of the fire, but you must understand that this name fire is just like love.  And there (path 31) will come the Divine Love path that will let you start alchemy. When you do your own stone the experience will be strictly personal. A permanent contact in the interior worlds of the sephiroth can be achieved by use of the White and Red Stones of the metallic kingdom. A later article can cover the Flamel Path and initiation steps. Now, some steps to take in the vegetable kingdom. METHOD: 98-99% alcohol is poured over approximately 12 lbs of seeds of caraway for 24 hours to mark the alcohol with the seeds. Then the alcohol is distilled off and set aside to be used later.

SULFUR

Fresh seeds (recommended up to 40 lbs.) are steam distilled with distilled rain water (or distilled water) for the essential oil. The thoroughly depleted seeds are then calcined and leached. Note that by allowing the seeds to rest and cool for 12 to 24 hours you can often get the same amount of oil from the same seeds. Just leave the seeds in the same flask and variate between work (distilling) and rest (cooling).

SALT

What you have to know first is that in nature 2 states occur. The crystalline one that's the state of order, and the amorphous state, the chaos one. The alchemical experiments are supported by the order state. So we will speak about certain types of crystals and some rules concerning these crystals. But just what's necessary for alchemy. The crystals come from the fact that the atoms have a spiritual volume. And you can only put these spirits within 2 types. With spheres like a cubic pattern or like the rhombohedric pattern. In reality the spheres don't touch, they are far from one another, but they always respect these 2 rules of network. See Fig. 2. And these 2 rules of network are based, and give 7 types of crystals in nature. In qabalistic and alchemistic tradition there are crystal attributions that are types of crystals. Plants are chosen according to the crystallization of the salt of the sulfur corresponding to:

Saturn/Cubic,

Jupiter/Quadratic,

Mars/Orthorhombic,

Sun/Monoclinic,

Venus/Triclinic,

Mercury/Rhombohedric,

Moon/Hexagonal,

Earth - has no particular crystallization, but may be set on any of the sephirotic levels of crystallization. Here Drosera is known to carry all 7 planetary flows, like its counterpart antimony.   So every sephirotic level is a resonance level in your inner world. We have not checked every level but I think for 2 of these levels we have to pick experiments that show that the tradition is right. The first type of crystal is the cubic crystal. This crystal is on the sephirotic level (of) Binah (3). There are 2 types of crystals that are perfect. Cubic and Rhombohedrical. The cubic one is the most perfect, because all its sides are equal and all its angles are right. And along the path down to the density of matter, crystals lose their perfection. If you want to work in alchemy,  if you want to make stones and bring them to a sephirotic level, you must have the corresponding crystal to the self. N.B. Let's examine briefly this important Self aspect. An example given by LPN France is this: Given that you would produce a stone of whatsoever level, in this case let's continue with the Hod (Mercury) stone of caraway. The personal initiation can guide you to undertake further improvements (thus more power) in your technique and manipulation of the three essentials and FIRE from the atmosphere. So an initiatic stone at the level of Hod (Mercury) produced by a person of a lower, or perhaps higher level than the stone obtained, may or may not react appreciatively to that level upon using the stones. It should be noted that the inner level of the person (during its making) is imprinted upon the matrix of the stone and cannot rise above the stage of your own level. Determining your personal inner level is a sure way to get started rightly in the initiatory personal path. The example supplied here draws a distinction to be recognized that alchemically, initiatic stones can be above, or below the inner level of your inner self. You see that in alchemy, every step from higher to lower and vice versa requires starting at the onset. Graduating to the fix the volatile and volatilize the fixed formula of this alchemical program, demands a really precise understanding (gained by experience) of the raising of the FIRE (Angel or secret fire). Some help in this regard has been presented by LPN France. Raising the secret fire in the amalgam (of the Flamel Work) for instance, to produce animated (raised initiatic energy) mercury, and the examples of transfer of life and energy in the kingdoms has back up statements covered in the Mendeleyev table of elements presentation, this allows some means of testing the power of stones, elixirs, elements etc. that have initiatic strength (force). I can see several different research levels that would involve obtaining (principally) initiatic plant stones that are quickly produced (please see article in issue #1 of Ora et Labora), verses stones that are of the white stages and require a more rigorous and lengthy preparation. To deliberately answer whether the same initiatic strength is present in both. Presently, we have from LPN France long experience about making truly, initiatic preparations. As well as their collective investigations of effects from their use. For months, and even years at a time. After significant initial contact, using the plant stones is no longer necessary. Again, the time for making inner world contact varies with each person. We may find too, that our older stones produced from the beginning of our work, may not have as much strength as more recently improved stones do. Time and experience will show us.

PHILOSOPHICAL SEPARATION

If, (as the argument goes), whether or not a plant stone can - separate the three essentials from an immersion into a macerating media - is possible (some recent disclosure from Russ and Sue House says that these stones can cause a simple separation), it's proper to note, as well, that stones further produced by them, from the real philosophic separation of these essentials; by a correctly prepared plant stone, obtain and allow a higher (meaning - more harmonious) effect on the inner levels. Still, in all, the inner self has a level and this level needs to be explored out for personal contact on the paths of return.

SALT continued..

Crystals (salt of the sulfur) can be obtained through the cloudy water obtained from the distillation in an oil separation device, (See Fig. 3, also refer to article in Ora et Labora, issue #2) and must be passed through solve coagula to obtain the crystals very large and transparent. We'll see later, how to obtain the salt of the sulfur needed for sephirotic comparison, in the white stages section of the article. Note: In  Guelph, Canada, Jean Dubuis showed those present a jar filled with caraway crystals that were very clear (transparent) and large. Crystals will grow like tiny branches in the saturated cloudy water when we slowly evaporate (don't boil) the water, thus reducing the amount of extraneous water by vaporizing it and carefully scooping out the crystals as they form on the surface of the liquid. Dry them, and set these newly formed crystals aside. The first crystals to appear can be separated from the later solve coagulae (crystallizations). These former crystals can be used as seeds to push coagulation along when saturation is weakened and the salt crystals begin to stop forming. Adding a few of these first crystals to the water will allow the formation to begin again. Finally, we obtain a point where the salt crystals refuse to form, this is the highest degree of purification. Note: A high percentage of alcohol can be produced by macerating rectified wine - about 94-95% - in a warm place with potassium carbonate, then it's distilled with boiling stones, alembic, and/or kjeldahl flask, and a potassium trap at the vacuum tap - see excerpt from Lesson 29 Spagyrics below:

MERCURY

The first thing to obtain is a perfect Mercury. If it isn't absolute, it contains water; so 99 % alcohol still contains 10 ml of water per liter. This water dissolves a little bit of mineral salt and the Mercury/Salt separation can't be perfect. We suppose that thanks to our preceding lessons you have easily obtained a Mercury of at least 90 %. To understand the means we chose in the process we are going to describe, we should know what we call "the wear and tear" of things, from the alchemical point of view. For example, if we throw a small amount of salt in water; at first the water is at rest; the salt dissolves very rapidly. Add some more salt: the dissolution is slower. Add more salt and there is refusal: the water is saturated and doesn't want to dissolve any more salt. You can heat the water to give it some more strength: eventually the dissolution of the salt will stop once more when a new saturation occurs. Potassium carbonate absorbs the water of the alcohol, but the more it absorbs of this water the less dynamic it becomes. This same phenomenon renders the preparation of absolute alcohol difficult. The less water in it, the more avidity for water; the more the carbonate absorbed water, the less avidity it has for it. In addition, potassium carbonate attacks glass; the flask or bottle you use should only serve for this particular operation because frosted glass can never be completely cleaned. Experience shows that in this operation potassium carbonate agglomerates into a lump and the attempts to remove it from the round bottom flask often results in the flask or the bottle breaking. Following the same alchemical principles, it is better to reuse the potassium carbonate because it becomes more refined and opens correspondingly to the number of times it is used. For the following operations we used canning jars made of glass, which have several advantages, in addition to being cheap. They can take water-baths, resist vacuum, and have air-tight caps. The only disadvantage is their cover: for distillation, you must either buy a reactor-cover which fits the type of jar you chose, or bore a hole 8 mm in diameter through the glass cover and adapt a standard tube of 8 mm. The boring is easy and requires only a few minutes. We should then obtain a carbide drill (bit) well sharpened. During the operation, lubricate with turpentine ; as soon as the bit comes through the other side, reverse the piece to complete the hole. When our material is ready, the sequence of the operations proceeds as follows: calcine the potassium carbonate at 350 C  (662 F) for at least an hour. Fill the jar half-way with the carbonate and pour 90 % alcohol within 2 cm ( one inch) of the top. Close with an air-tight cover and let the mix act for 24 hrs. Shake two or three times during that period. The jar is then placed in a water-bath regulated by a thermostat or placed on an electric plate with a thermostat. The temperature of the water in the water-bath is maintained at 85 C (185 F). Of course, during this operation, the jar is capped by an 8 mm tube equipped cover. The distillation train is equipped with a check-valve, a condenser and a round bottom flask; the whole forming an air-tight unit which prevents the alcohol from absorbing atmospheric moisture. Again, if you do not have a good mastery of distillation, and you are not certain of the capacity for removing heat of the condenser, the air-tightness of the system can cause an explosion. You can avoid this inconvenience and at the same time prevent atmospheric moisture from entering by adding a moisture trap: an air outlet tube can be mounted on the receiving flask and this tube emerges in the atmosphere by means of a tube of 8 mm diameter and 20 to 25 cm long. This tube is filled with calcined potassium carbonate which is maintained in place at both extremities with stoppers made with cotton padding. Distillation with this equipment yields an alcohol that reads between  96 % and 98 %. With this alcohol we repeat the same process again but with only 1/6 of the volume of carbonate in the flask. The distillation will then yield an alcohol that reads more than 99 %. A third distillation with 25 g of carbonate per liter will yield an alcohol reading a minimum of 99.8 %. This alcohol must be used immediately because it cannot be easily kept at that percentage. You need a perfectly air-tight ground glass flask which must be full to insure the preservation of this alcohol for some time. After use, dissolve the carbonate in distilled water and filter the liquor. The liquor spontaneously separates into two parts: one is light and the other heavy. This is due to the fact that the carbonate also fixes a certain quantity of alcohol. The distillation of this liquor recollects the alcohol. One can also take advantage of  this distillation to concentrate the liquor. Pour the liquor into a pyrex dish and slowly evaporate. Keep the carbonate you collect kept in an air-tight flask, it can be used again. If after coagulation the carbonate is not perfectly white, do not calcine it. It must be dissolved, filtered and coagulated again. This process demonstrates furthermore how many impurities can be extracted from the alcohol.

WHITE STAGES of Vegetable Kingdom

With this very pure Mercury, we are going to undertake the making of the white stage of the elixirs, thus called because the three principles which compose it are white or transparent when they are ready for the final coagulation. With this perfect Mercury, we need a plant as perfect as possible. The dry plant will be rid of its dust and damaged parts, etc. If it contains a residue of water, it will weaken the Mercury and so you should carefully dry the plant. This can take place, for example, in a desiccating jar. After you place the plant in a jar, add vacuum-tubes on one side of the water pump and on the other side toward the round bottom flask which contains the calcined potassium carbonate. As the vacuum is made, you must close the circuit on the side of the water pump in order to avoid moisture from entering. The jar is maintained in a water-bath regulated at 60 C (140 F) for two to three hours. Under vacuum, at this temperature, the plant releases its residual water in the form of vapor absorbed by the carbonate. Place the plant in the thimble of a Soxhlet which is filled with absolute alcohol. The upper part of the condenser of the extractor is closed with a silicon stopper so as to prevent moisture from entering. The round bottom flask of the extractor is heated to 85 C (185 F) in a water-bath so the Sulfur doesn't overheat. Several days of extraction are required to make sure the Sulfur has been extracted. Complete extraction of the Sulfur is essential. The residue in the thimble is calcined and leached until the Salt becomes whiter than snow. You can recognize complete extraction of the Sulfur by the fact that the Salt is not sticky. Often this salt sparkles because it forms small crystals. Distil the tincture. If the alcohol collected in this manner is no longer absolute, it can be treated with calcined carbonate as before. When the tincture reaches the thickness of honey pour it into a crucible and calcine it. A black residue is obtained that is ground as fine as possible. Place it then in a quartz or porcelain dish, but not glass. Pour on the residue a distilled water solution containing 5% alcohol of the alcohol just collected. Pour this solution on the residue until it covers it to a depth of 1/2 to 1 cm. After a night of maceration, the solution is slowly evaporated. The residue is calcined, reduced to powder and the cycle starts again. In a very few days the residue becomes sparkling white, whiter than snow: it is the Salt of the Sulfur. The crystals which appear in the Salt indicate the planetary attribution of the plant by their structure. This Salt of Sulfur is mixed in equal parts with the Salt obtained during the calcination of the plant. If there is a correct imbibition performed with the Mercury just collected, and it is put into the incubator, we are beginning to form the Vegetable Stone. If you poured on a large quantity of Mercury, the volatile quality will prevail. However, the alcohol only becomes charged with Salt and Sulfur through repeated distillations. The volatile must progressively make the fixed volatile.

PURIFICATION OF SULFUR

Purification of the essential oils of oil producing plants and seeds is simple and only requires adding the steamed oil that floats on the distilled water, back into the lower flask from which the plants or seeds are being boiled. The oil must become more clear and pure. Caraway essential oil looks cloudy the first few times it's separated. It gradually becomes more clear and pristine as the oil is re-steamed.  You may note too, that for the planetary herbs chosen by LPN we have the following:

Saturn/Horsetail,

Jupiter/Melissa,

Mars/Madder,

Sun/Eyebright Euphrasia,

Venus/Alchemilla or Yarrow,

Mercury/Caraway or Lavender flowers,

Moon/Veronica,

Earth/Drosera i.e., Sundew.

I'm sure you'll note that many of these herbs lack adequate quantities of essential oil and this has proved to be a problem for LPN France, although they are now researching intensively to simplify, for everybody, extraction of the sulfur of these essential oil deficient plants. Further research regarding plants or seeds etc. that exhibit a matrix that gives salt of sulfur crystals matching the sephirotic levels, deserves some pioneering attention. If plants or seeds don't yield a sufficient amount of essential oils, or none at all, you need not dispense with their use, but check the salt crystals that arise from its honey-like resins (refer to the white stages of preparation). LPN is extracting with hexane in the case of horsetail or with acetone, in a soxhlet, and slow evaporation is necessary to allow sufficient removal for the above mentioned plants.. The oil is then a honey-like consistency.

THE INCUBATOR

The incubator is very important because an even temperature must be maintained for the Angel (secret fire) of the angel water to be gradually raised in strength and power. You must be sure you have a good deliquescence, and carefully distill the resultant oil from the potassium carbonate that dissolved in the atmospheric dew. The fire (heater) outside the vessel (containing your developing stone) is the fire against nature and the inner fire (inside the 'egg') is to be coaxed out of its secret abode by this external constant temperature. This is the Vulcan aspect of the work and definitely demands certain standards to be maintained. As to the construction of the incubator, with some steel wool and some wire we can construct an inner cubic structure where the hot plate can be fitted into place. The size is up to you. The heat source can be a deciding factor in the dimensions of your inner cubic chamber. You'll want to gain access to your confecting stone, so you should install a door that allows full or partial viewing of the 'egg' inside. It's possible to use a rather thick heat resistant glass for the door. Surrounding this inner chamber (but not the access door) is vermiculite (silica) enclosed with an outer shell also equipped with a sufficiently sealable door, again shaped like a cube. Sheet metal can easily be shaped and soldered to complete the incubator. Use a heater that can be trusted to keep an even temperature for very long periods of time. If you use light bulb heat make sure the bulb is painted black and the paint is heat resistant. No electrical light can be shined on the developing stone. Beware of light from the bulb leaking through cracks.

THE EGG

The essential oil, once it's purified, is imbibed (added to) the crystals, but only in a carefully sealed 'egg' so that no parasitic odors or sulfurs can contaminate or determine the prepared salts by exposure. LPN uses a small glass vessel or 'egg' with a wide mouth and cork that has a stirring mechanism made of bent glass tubing going through the cork and an opening for a syringe filled with the essential oil to be inserted for imbibation (cohobation). Keep in mind that when a syringe filled with essential oil is added by drops into the egg, the opening for the syringe must be closed off and sealed when imbibition is done, a good solution is a tube with a stop cock that can be closed and opened. The oil is imbibed every week one hour after sunrise on Wednesday (for this stone of caraway is ruled by this planetary genius at this hour) it is stirred, incorporating the oil with salt, and incubated at 40 C until reaching a saturation point. Then the same imbibation is done with the marked alcohol mentioned above to saturation, and again incubated. Lastly, deliquesced potassium carbonate (exposed to the night air) is distilled obtaining angel water, which is this distilled water charged by the atmospheric moisture with gur (prana), is added to its saturation point and again incubated, always at 40 C. This is to charge the stone with initiatic fire energy. The initial stone is beige in color, but with up to 2 years of incubation it ripens to red-brown. Then it's completed. It will be ground into small crystals. The crystals of all stones including caraway stone are taken with wine.

METHOD FOR TAKING CRYSTAL STONES OF PLANTS:

1. Coat finger with saliva 2. Touch finger on the desired dosage of crystals to be taken at the 1st hour on the day of the ruling intelligence 3. Touch finger with crystals adhering to tongue top 4. Red wine chaser Apparently the idea is to swallow the crystals right away, they are dissolved with the wine in the stomach and release their fire and energy in the solar plexus. A distinction must be seen regarding the differences between medicinal and initiatory medicines here. SOURCES: Spagyric Lesson 29; Transcript of LPN videos: Inner Consciousness through Dreams Oct. 1992; Horary Chart from The Hermetic Dream, 1978 - A highly recommended book.

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Behind the Name: Gaius Augustine

So, I’m a bit of a history buff and have delayed this post long enough. I thought it was super interesting that Bloodbound gave us this name for Adrian’s creator. This is just a bit of fun to pick apart Gaius Augustine, and see where we might place his birth or creation. Let’s dive in!

Gaius was a hugely popular praenomen (given name) during Ancient Roman times, it also appears in Biblical texts but not much is known about that. We do know Gaius is derived and roughly translated from the word gaudere which in Latin, means to rejoice. Two of the most famous historical figures with this name are probably Gaius Julius Ceasar aka one of the greatest leaders of the Roman Republic. With the other being, his adopted son Gaius Octavius Thurinus later known as Augustus - the first Emperor of Imperial Rome. While the name was wildly popular, there is also another figure that is infamous and could fit the characteristics of Gaius Augustine.

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus aka Caligula. (12 AD - 41 AD) One of the most tyrannical emperors of Rome, he’s described as being bloodthirsty, sadistic, cruel and extravagant. His reign was that of three years, before being assassinated by Roman senators. He was stabbed over thirty times and his body was thrown in a grave. Hypothetically, this could be Bb Gaius - as they are both sadists and power hungry. Although Gaius in Bb seems to be more sane and calculating than old Caligula. 

Gaius Octavius Thurinus aka Augustus. (63 BC - 14 AD) Augustus was Julius Caesar’s adopted heir, the first Emperor of Rome and establisher of Pax Romana: a time period in Rome of peace. After defeating Cleopatra and Mark Anthony it is said that he took on the name Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus, which roughly translates to Commander Caesar Son of the God and the Increaser. He died of supposed natural causes, although the rumor is that his wife Livia fed him poisoned figs. His body was bound in a coffin and set alight upon a pyre. During the sack of Rome, the Goth’s ravaged through the mausoleum that held his ashes. 

Now, onto the name Augustine. Augustine is a name derived from the word augere, meaning “to increase”. The name itself in Latin is Augustinus, which develops from Augustus, meaning “majestic”, “the increaser” or “venerable”.  

For the Anglo-Saxons though, Augustine was used as a surname - again, carrying over from the Roman Empire.

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A New Era Begins--Podcast #1 “Moth Guts”

Every other week: the UNTG podcast! This month’s guest hosts Steve Auger, Andy Hicks, and Caitlin Mason (from “Human Contact: Short Sci-Fi Plays”) read from Carl’s sci-fi dreamscape “Individuality.” Also, Steve uncovers a conspiracy by following the money, Andy ponders regional attitudes toward lobstahs, Caitlin shares a family recipe for guacamole, and Carl mispronounces Anthony Bourdain’s name but everyone is too polite to correct him. Send your remarks on topics mentioned on the show here. Today, here and now!

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