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weil-weil-lautre · 1 year ago

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By Ralph Blumenthal

Dec. 18, 2017

Our readers are plenty interested in unidentified flying objects. We know that from the huge response to our front-page Sunday article (published online just after noon on Saturday) revealing a secret Pentagon program to investigate U.F.O.s. The piece, by the Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper, the author Leslie Kean and myself — a contributor to The Times after a 45-year staff career — has dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since.

So how does a story on U.F.O.s get into The New York Times? Not easily, and only after a great deal of vetting, I assure you.

The journey began two and a half months ago with a tip to Leslie, who has long reported on U.F.O.s and published a 2010 New York Times best seller, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record.” At a confidential meeting Oct. 4 in a Pentagon City hotel with several present and former intelligence officials and a defense contractor, she met Luis Elizondo, the director of a Pentagon program she had never heard of: the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

She learned it was a secret effort, funded at the initiative of the then Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, starting in 2007, to investigate aerial threats including what the military preferred to call “unidentified aerial phenomena” or just “objects.” This was big news because the United States military had announced as far back as 1969 that U.F.O.s were not worth studying. Leslie also learned that Mr. Elizondo had just resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition — the reason for the meeting.

She spent hours with him reviewing unclassified documents, for the $22 million program operated largely “in the white” (that is, not under special restricted access), but hidden in the huge defense budget, with only parts of it classified. A few days later Mr. Elizondo and others there — including Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor on the program, and Christopher K. Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence — announced they were joining a new commercial venture, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, to raise money for research into U.F.O.s. Leslie wrote it up for the Huffington Post with scant details of the program.

I had known Leslie for years, and she told me this looked like a story for The Times. I agreed. Leslie and I met with Mr. Elizondo in Philadelphia on Oct. 31. Three days later, I emailed the executive editor, Dean Baquet, about “a sensational and highly confidential time-sensitive story” that I said “involves a senior U.S. intelligence official who abruptly quit last month” exposing “a deeply secret program, long mythologized but now confirmed.”

He alerted Mark Mazzetti, the investigations editor in the Washington bureau. Leslie and I briefed him in New York on Nov. 7. We assured him there were no anonymous sources; everyone was on the record. After discussions in Washington and New York, Helene joined our team. The Washington bureau chief, Elisabeth Bumiller, would be our editor. On Nov. 17, we three met Mr. Elizondo in a nondescript Washington hotel where he sat with his back to the wall, keeping an eye on the door.

Carl Hulse, The Times’s chief Washington correspondent, was well acquainted with Mr. Reid and helped arrange an interview for Helene. She flew to Las Vegas on Dec. 5 and met with the former senator, who confirmed the program with details, saying, “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this going.”

Leslie interviewed the aerospace magnate Robert Bigelow, who also confirmed his participation, saying Americans were being held back from serious research into U.F.O.’s by “a juvenile taboo.” And I interviewed a prominent skeptic for perspective.

It was important that we not take anything on faith. This field attracts zealots as well as debunkers, and many Americans remain deeply skeptical that the phenomenon exists as popularly portrayed. In draft after draft, we took pains to let the investigation speak for itself, without bias.

Helene met with a Pentagon spokesperson on Dec. 8 for a response to the information we had gathered. The answer came swiftly. There had been a program to investigate U.F.O.s, but it ended in 2012 after five years, the Defense Department insisted.

Our reporting suggested it continues, largely unfunded, to the present. And that’s what we wrote.

#ufo #quote #archivist #nyt #ufos

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dominustempori · 3 years ago

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Lo and behold, more screencaps as I delve into the acting filmography of Harold Ramis =)

Again, very small part in one scene, but he puts his all into this role as Warren Beatty's accountant, Sheldon "Shelly" Blumenthal, in the 1994 remake of "Love Affair." Bit of a sleepy movie but great old jazz soundtrack.

What is it about HR and 3-piece suits that I'm very much liking?

#harold ramis #love affair movie #1994 #starting to go gray but on him it works so well

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foodcruiseblog · 2 years ago

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The Flavour Approach ………………. Why granny’s cooking leaves you craving? There is some truth in the myth that you simply cannot match the brilliance and magic of your grandma’s culinary skills. The standard excuse is, she was a sly creature who never revealed the cryptic key to her secret recipes. Maybe, but not entirely. I bet, even if you coaxed her into divulging with her clandestine witchcraft, you would never be able to meet such exacting standards. Why? …………… Because she applied the scientific principles to her art through time-tested trial and error, although possibly not knowing the science behind it.

In this write-up, I shall try to explain the flavour approach through a few recipes to make you understand how by applying the basic principles of chemistry and techniques you can flourish by ending up with a product of consistent superlative quality. And I assure you, you will stand out from the rest of the crowd.

But before going into the recipes (click here to try my other recipes), we must understand our shortfalls. Let’s accept the undeniable. The real difference is the technique. And “technique” is the application of science. You cannot suddenly learn in a week what your grandma picked up after years in the kitchen. No, not even if you passed out with top grades from a renowned culinary college. Nor can you match the skills of a great chef like Imtiaz Qureshi or Ghulam Qureshi. Those blokes who hail from the family lineage of royal chefs of Lucknow picked up the techniques even before they could say “Mama”.

But there is a hack. Though they do not think it that way, the great traditional cooks always encrypt in the kitchen what can be decrypted by science. Understand the science and you can definitely be a better cook than what you had been.

The current trend of using fancy but deceitful words like “molecular gastronomy” or “molecular mixology” are nothing but devious marketing gimmickry by the charlatans and the dubious paid media. They confuse the public and enhance the optics to increase sales volumes without ever explaining how the molecules of different chemicals present in food and drinks interact under different circumstances to produce different colours, textures, flavours, aromas, etc.

The renowned food writer Harold McGee pioneered the science behind cooking techniques which was later popularised by the Michelin three-star chef Heston Blumenthal. And now, Nik Sharma of Indian descent has done a wonderful job. Nik’s work, thankfully, is not meant for the science geeks, but for the home cooks. Unlike McGee, Nik, instead of making the science too technical and impenetrable for the layman, has made it interesting and enjoyable. He says, “Flavour = Emotion + Sight + Sound + Mouthfeel + Aroma + Taste”. And I quite agree. The recipes I am sharing here have been tried and tested by me over many days. I can vouch that after I understood the science, and applying the same in practice I am a much better cook now than I was ten years back.

The Flavour ApproachIf you follow the right steps, you can make this rice dish extremely aromatic and flavourful. Always use aged Basmati; rice that is labelled at least one year old. Rinsing the rice gently removes the impurities and the fine dust of starch that is usually present. This starch, if present during cooking will produce a sticky texture which is not at all desirable. Frying the rice in oil and resisting the urge to stir the rice too much during cooking will give you fluffy fully cooked rice grains that are separate and delicately tender.Chop the herbs and grind the spices just before you cook. This will help produce a more intense fragrance and flavour from the herbs and spices. Frying the spices in hot oil aids release the aromatic chemicals.Add fresh lime juice towards the end of the preparation of this dish. If added early the acid will lose its citric aroma.Halloumi is a good substitute for paneer, as it is firm and will not disintegrate on heating. But, keep in mind, it is a bit salty. So, you may need to adjust your seasoning accordingly.

The Flavour ApproachHoney and pineapple provide a sweet counterpart to the warmer flavours in this dish.Keep pineapple and chicken separated until they are threaded onto the skewers. Raw pineapple contains the enzyme bromelain that breaks down the protein molecules into smaller peptides. If the chicken and pineapple are kept together in the marinade, the enzyme will break down the proteins in the chicken which will eventually affect the texture of the chicken once cooked. It will appear crumbly on the surface. But, once heated on the skewers the bromelain loses its capacity to break down the proteins.

Prepare the marinade in a small bowl by combining the lime juice, olive oil, honey, black pepper, coriander, chilli powder, turmeric and salt.

To prepare the kebabs, pat the chicken breasts dry with paper towels and then cut them into 1.5-inch cubes.

Pour the marinade into a resealable bag, add the chicken cubes to it, seal the bag and then shake well to coat the chicken evenly with the marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or overnight.

When ready to grill, remove the bag from the refrigerator and let the chicken come to room temperature.

Cut the pineapple, onion, and bell peppers into 2-inch dices and place them in a large bowl.

Add olive oil and black pepper, season with salt and toss to coat evenly.

Thread a skewer with onion, bell peppers and pineapple, alternating with the marinated pieces of chicken. Brush some marinade over the kebabs.

Heat a grill over medium heat and grease the grates with a little bit of oil.

Cook the kebabs in batches, turning and basting with any remaining marinade and oil.

When the kebabs get browned and charred in spots, transfer the kebabs with the skewers to a plate.

Cover the plate with aluminium foil and let it rest for two minutes for all the flavours to come through.

Discard the foil and garnish the kebabs with cilantro and serve hot with lime wedges on the side.

The above recipes are just a few examples of how the flavour approach works. The art of cooking lies in its science. For us, who have so much exposure to online information, the task is much simpler than that of our grandmas. Yet, our grandmas scored more. I do not buy the argument that they had so much time to spare. If you have the passion, you would manage your time.

The difference between good cooking and great cooking is not about recipes but lies in the hands of the chef. Or, in our case that of our grandmas.

#molecular gastronomy #granny’s cooking #Flavour Approach #cooking leaves you craving

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corkybugger · 7 years ago

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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

- by HELENE COOPER, RALPH BLUMENTHAL and LESLIE KEANDEC

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- A video shows an encounter between a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unknown object. It was released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.

Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.

The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.

Working with Mr. Bigelow’s Las Vegas-based company, the program produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift.

Officials with the program have also studied videos of encounters between unknown objects and American military aircraft — including one released in August of a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program. “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a recent interview in Nevada. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Two other former senators and top members of a defense spending subcommittee — Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, and Daniel K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat — also supported the program. Mr. Stevens died in 2010, and Mr. Inouye in 2012.

While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said. But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful. “There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories,” Mr. Oberg said. “Lots of people are active in the air and don’t want others to know about it. They are happy to lurk unrecognized in the noise, or even to stir it up as camouflage.”

Still, Mr. Oberg said he welcomed research. “There could well be a pearl there,” he said.

In response to questions from The Times, Pentagon officials this month acknowledged the existence of the program, which began as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.

“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email, referring to the Department of Defense.

But Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition.

“Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue?” Mr. Elizondo wrote in a resignation letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

Mr. Elizondo said that the effort continued and that he had a successor, whom he declined to name.

U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. The project, which included a study code-named Project Blue Book, started in 1952, concluded that most sightings involved stars, clouds, conventional aircraft or spy planes, although 701 remained unexplained.

Robert C. Seamans Jr., the secretary of the Air Force at the time, said in a memorandum announcing the end of Project Blue Book that it “no longer can be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.”

Mr. Reid said his interest in U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In 2007, Mr. Reid said in the interview, Mr. Bigelow told him that an official with the Defense Intelligence Agency had approached him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelow’s ranch in Utah, where he conducted research.

Mr. Reid said he met with agency officials shortly after his meeting with Mr. Bigelow and learned that they wanted to start a research program on U.F.O.s. Mr. Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in the Capitol.

“I had talked to John Glenn a number of years before,” Mr. Reid said, referring to the astronaut and former senator from Ohio, who died in 2016. Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid said, had told him he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into U.F.O.s, and should be talking to military service members, particularly pilots, who had reported seeing aircraft they could not identify or explain.

The sightings were not often reported up the military’s chain of command, Mr. Reid said, because service members were afraid they would be laughed at or stigmatized.

The meeting with Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid said, “was one of the easiest meetings I ever had.”

He added, “Ted Stevens said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force.’” (The Alaska senator had been a pilot in the Army’s air force, flying transport missions over China during World War II.)

During the meeting, Mr. Reid said, Mr. Stevens recounted being tailed by a strange aircraft with no known origin, which he said had followed his plane for miles.

None of the three senators wanted a public debate on the Senate floor about the funding for the program, Mr. Reid said. “This was so-called black money,” he said. “Stevens knows about it, Inouye knows about it. But that was it, and that’s how we wanted it.” Mr. Reid was referring to the Pentagon budget for classified programs.

Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of just under $22 million beginning in late 2008 through 2011. The money was used for management of the program, research and assessments of the threat posed by the objects.

The funding went to Mr. Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.

Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.

“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”

The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.

“Internationally, we are the most backward country in the world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow said in an interview. “Our scientists are scared of being ostracized, and our media is scared of the stigma. China and Russia are much more open and work on this with huge organizations within their countries. Smaller countries like Belgium, France, England and South American countries like Chile are more open, too. They are proactive and willing to discuss this topic, rather than being held back by a juvenile taboo.”

By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security to protect it. “Much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings,” Mr. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time, requesting that it be designated a “restricted special access program” limited to a few listed officials.

A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered. Mr. Reid’s request for the special designation was denied.

Mr. Elizondo, in his resignation letter of Oct. 4, said there was a need for more serious attention to “the many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He expressed his frustration with the limitations placed on the program, telling Mr. Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”

Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, in a new commercial venture called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. They are speaking publicly about their efforts as their venture aims to raise money for research into U.F.O.s.

In the interview, Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said.

For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.”

#ufo #pentagon #extraterrestial phenomenon #the x-files #for real #i believe #always known

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eretzyisrael · 7 years ago

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POLL: 1 IN 3 BRITISH JEWS HAS CONSIDERED EMIGRATING DUE TO ANTISEMITISM

BY JTA AUGUST 20, 2017 10:26

80 percent of respondents said they believe that the Labour Party is harboring antisemites in its ranks.

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In interviews with thousands of British Jews, almost a third of them said they have considered leaving the United Kingdom over the past two years due to antisemitism. The findings are part of a report published Sunday by the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog group, which conducted since 2015 interviews with more than 10,000 British Jews together with the YouGov market research company.

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In interviews conducted in 2016 and 2017 with a combined sample population of 7,156 respondents, 37 percent of them said they have been concealing in public signs that would indicate that they are Jewish.

Only 59 percent of the respondents since 2015 said they feel welcome in the United Kingdom and 17 percent said they feel unwelcome.

Only 39 percent of respondents from 2015 onward said they trust justice authorities to prosecute perpetrators of antisemitic hate crimes.

Three-quarters of the people interviewed said they feel that recent political events have resulted in increased hostility towards Jews. Since 2015, 80 percent of respondents said they believe that the Labour Party is harboring antisemites in its ranks.

In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn, a far-left politician who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends,” was elected to lead Labour. Corbyn said last year that he regrets calling the terrorists his friends but Jewish groups in the United Kingdom and beyond have accused him of whitewashing antisemitism and allowing it to grow among the many thousands of supporters who joined Labour in support of his policies.

Corbyn has denied this claim, vowing to punish anyone who is found initiating or participating in hate speech. Dozens of members were expelled from Labour under Corbyn as part of this policy. However, several Labour members who were accused of antisemitic hate speech were readmitted or let off with suspensions or reprimands, including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone who repeatedly said last year that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist.

On August 15, Campaign Against Antisemitism protested the selection of Luke Cresswell, a local politician who wrote online that “Moses must be proud” of supposed “genocide” by Israel, as a Labour candidate.

The survey’s respondents said they considered Islamist antisemitism “to be the threat that concerned them the most, and that rapidly rising hate crime targeting Jews was not being tackled by the authorities,” Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote.

The Jewish community of the United Kingdom recorded 767 antisemitic attacks in the first half of 2017 — the highest figure recorded within six months since monitoring began in 1984. In February, the Community Security Trust watchdog reported a record 1,309 incidents in 2016, constituting a 36 percent increase over the 2015 tally.

Among the people who told Campaign Against Antisemitism that they were considering leaving Britain was a daughter of the late mayor of Birmingham, Harold Blumenthal. The daughter, Mandy, “is now making preparations to leave Britain due to mounting antisemitism in politics and antisemitic crime, and the failure to tackle it,” the Campaign Against Antisemitism report said in a statement about their report.

Campaign Against Antisemitism called on the government to urgently implement the group’s own past recommendations, including specific training and guidance on antisemitic hate crime for officers and prosecutors.

The 2016 National Antisemitic Crime Audit registered a total of 1,078 antisemitic crimes, including 105 that were violent. Only one of the violent crimes was prosecuted, according to the audit. In total, only 15 cases were prosecuted, leading to the conviction of 17 suspects.

Political parties were encouraged by Campaign Against Antisemitism in its report to adopt the government’s definition of antisemitism, which cites vitriolic hate speech against Israel as an expression of antisemitism

#Israel #UK #Antisemitism #Aliyah

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thatsnotcanonpodcasts · 5 years ago

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Mandalorian, Wormholes & Two Shitties

Welcome back to another fun filled episode from those irascible Nerds we all look forward to each week. Oh, and what a show we have for you all, let me tell you. What, hurry up you say, well then. First up we have DJ giving us an update on the Marvel movies failing to impress and the arguments have continued. This week we have some delusional moron, believe me you will agree that they are a moron when you hear what they have done. Oh right, well this delusional moron says what has got to be the dumbest thing and the biggest lie in history. It sets Buck off like all the fireworks for New Year’s Eve in one go. My goodness, he really tears into this one like nothing before. If you listen in just to hear him rant about some misguided fool then you will love this one, plus you might learn a few new insults.

Next up, after he catches his breathe Buck tells us about how some scientists believe they have figured out how to identify the existence of Wormholes. That’s right we said Wormholes. Those supposed mythical sci-fi tunnels through time and space purportedly linking us to the farthest reaches of the universe? Multiverse? Dimensional gateways? Well who knows, the gravity is more then we can fathom at this time. But it is something to do with that….Ahh, almost had me there. You will have to listen in to hear what and how the physicists think they can determine whether or not a wormhole exists.

Then we move to a legendary tale for inspiration in what we have crappily dubbed “A Tale of Two Shitties!” Sorry, couldn’t resist the sloppy pun, messy though it is, haha, that just plopped out. Anyway, we look at two epically bad mistakes from two different games studios and have a laugh and cry at the stupidity and hubris involved. These tales of woe and calamity are similar but different, and for one we will cheer and hope. The other we will jeer and poke, fun of naturally. Now, since we have you so excited to know this tale of misfortune we invite ye to listen further to the tale in yonder episode.

Finishing off as always with the regular shout outs, remembrances, birthdays, and special events of interest. We also wish to invite you all to come join us at Supanova in Brisbane on Saturday 9th November. We do not have the faintest idea of which table we will be at, other than it is the TNC productions booth. So come along and say hi, join us in our game and meet the goofballs that are the Nerds. As always take care of yourselves, look out for each other and stay hydrated.

EPISODE NOTES:

Scorsese update and The Mandalorian details - https://collider.com/martin-scorsese-marvel-movies-theyre-a-new-art-form/

- https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/10/24/jon-favreau-on-star-wars-and-the-mandalorian-through-stories-we-express-our-values-to-the-next-generation/

How to find a wormhole

- https://www.technology.org/2019/10/28/how-to-spot-a-wormhole-if-they-exist/

- https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083513

A Tale of Two Shitties

- https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-01-28-the-fall-of-swedish-game-wonder-starbreeze

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/10/24/fallout-76s-premium-private-servers-are-not-private-its-scrap-box-is-deleting-scrap/#4999a5257386

Games currently playing

Professor

– Call of Duty: WWII - https://store.steampowered.com/app/476600/Call_of_Duty_WWII/

Rating – 7/10

Buck

– Call of Duty: WWII - https://store.steampowered.com/app/476600/Call_of_Duty_WWII/

Rating – 8/10

- Warframe - https://www.warframe.com/landing

Rating - 3.5/5

Other topics discussed

Disney CEO Bob Iger responds to Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola’s comments

- https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/10/disney-ceo-bob-iger-response-scorsese-coppola-marvel-comments

Disney buys Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion

- https://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/news/companies/disney_marvel/

Pirate of the Caribbean (Disneyland tourist attraction)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(attraction)

Game of Thrones directing duo David Benioff and Dan Weiss leave Star Wars for a $250 million Netflix deal

- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-star-wars-didnt-work-game-thrones-duo-1250798

Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990 TV series)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet_and_the_Planeteers

Radio signals from Jupiter could aid in the search for extraterrestrial life

- https://scitechdaily.com/radio-signals-jupiter-aid-search-extraterrestrial-life-moon/

Speed of radio waves traveling through space

- http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Communications/2-why-does-it-take-so-long.html

Distance from Earth to Jupiter through Light or Radio

- https://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/astr121/Notes/Jupiter/jupiterradio.html

Wormholes in relation to Time Travel

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Time_travel

Facts about Black Holes

- https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/bh_whatare.htm

Bobby Vinton – Mr Lonely

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djU4Lq_5EaM

Starbreeze Studios (Swedish video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbreeze_Studios

The Walking Dead (episodic, graphic adventure video game series developed and published by Telltale Games and Skybound Games, based on The Walking Dead comic book series.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(video_game_series)

Death & Revival of Telltale Games

- https://au.ign.com/articles/2019/08/28/telltale-games-shut-down-and-revival-explained

The Saboteur (Playstation Game)

- https://www.playstation.com/en-au/games/the-saboteur-ps3/

WARSAW (PC Game)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1026420/WARSAW/

Heston Blumenthal’s rocket explosion

- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/05/heston-blumenthal-chef-cooks-astronaut-tim-peake

Shoutouts

27 Oct 1962 - Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved the world, the Russian naval officer who, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier, thus averting the probability of a third world war and thermo-nuclear destruction across the planet. The confrontation was part of the Cuban missile crisis that had the world holding its breath for nearly two weeks. - https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-man-who-saved-the-world

27 Oct 2019 – League of legends turn 10 years old. Its launch on Oct 27, 2009 was just one memorable moment in Riot Game’s 10-year journey down a road punctuated by terror, wild leaps of faith, and powered by an army of interns and a lot of luck. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/10/27/league-legends-is-now-years-old-this-is-story-its-birth/

28 Oct 1726 - The novel Gulliver's Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire was published. It satirises both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels

28 Oct 1965 - Gateway Arch construction completed, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere, and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States, and officially dedicated to "the American people," the Arch, commonly referred to as "The Gateway to the West" is the centerpiece of Gateway Arch National Park and has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination. It is located at the site of St. Louis's founding on the west bank of the Mississippi River. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gateway-arch-completed

29 Oct 2019 – Shigeru Miyamoto is being awarded the Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government on November 3, which is recognized nationally as Culture Day in Japan. The award is the highest honour a person in a creative field can receive in Japan, and Miyamoto is the first person in the video game industry to receive the honour. - https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/tech/shigeru-miyamoto-nintendo-trnd/index.html

Remembrances

21 Oct 2019 - Josip Elic, American character actor. He was best known for his role as Bancini in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Despite having few lines in the film, his major scene came in the form of an improvisation by Jack Nicholson for the patient's basketball game. He later became more nationally recognized after two appearances on The Twilight Zone, including in "The Obsolete Man" with Burgess Meredith. He died from complications off a fall at the age of 98 in River Edge, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Elic

28 Oct 1703 - John Wallis, English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. He is credited with introducing the symbol∞ to represent the concept of infinity. He similarly used 1/∞ for an infinitesimal. John Wallis was a contemporary of Newton and one of the greatest intellectuals of the early renaissance of mathematics. He died at the age of 86 in Oxford, Oxfordshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallis

28 Oct 2005 - Richard Smalley, the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications. He is credited as the “Father of Nanotechnology”. He died from leukemia at the age of 62 in University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smalley

Famous Birthdays

28 Oct 1982 - Matt Smith, English actor. He is best known for his roles as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who and Prince Philip in the Netflix series The Crown, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter. Smith's first television role came in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, while his first major role in television came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals. Smith, who was announced as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in January 2009, is the youngest person ever to play the character. He left the series at the end of the 2013 Christmas Day special, ‘The Time of the Doctor’. In film, he starred in Womb (2010) and portrayed the physical embodiment of Skynet in Terminator Genisys (2015). He was born in Northhampton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Smith_(actor)

28 Oct 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer. She established herself as a leading lady in Hollywood after headlining the romantic comedy film Pretty Woman, which grossed $464 million worldwide. She has won three Golden Globe Awards, from eight nominations, and has been nominated for four Academy Awards for her film acting, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich. Roberts was the highest-paid actress in the world throughout most of the 1990s and in the first half of the 2000s. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was US$300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2017, Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $170 million. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts

28 Oct 1955 - William Henry Gates III also known as Bill Gates, American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, and the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman,CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. Later in his career and since leaving Microsoft, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors. He donated large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest private charity. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio. He was born in Seattle,Washington - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Events of Interest

28 Oct 1971 – Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments to study the effects of space environment on communications satellites and remained operational until 1973, after which it was contacted annually for over 25 years. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(satellite)

28 Oct 1994 - Stargate was first aired, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise. The plot centers on the premise of a "Stargate", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The film's central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization. - https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate_(film)

28 Oct 2014 – A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. This flight, which would have been its fourth to the International Space Station and the fifth of an Antares launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_CRS_Orb-3

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Kate Chopin A Re-Awakening - Additional Resources

Bibliography makers

An Overview of the Life and Works of Kate Chopin An article in Empire:Zine, a monthly Internet magazine on writing.

The Fifth Kate Chopin Conference Information on the Fifth Kate Chopin Conference, held earlier this year at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

A Guide to Internet Resources for Kate Chopin's The Awakening A collection of extratextual resources available on the internet that might enrich the understanding and enjoyment of The Awakening. Compiled by Sharon Masturzo, School of Library Information and Science, University of South Florida.

Domestic Goddesses: AKA Scribbling Women A moderated E-journal devoted to women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote "domestic fiction."

Kate Chopin Web Page A web site created by students at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Recent Publications of Chopin's Works:

The Awakening, New York: Avon Books, 1972.

The Awakening and Selected Stories, edited with an introduction by Nina Baym, New York: The Modern Library, 1993.

A Matter of Prejudice and Other Stories, New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

A Vocation and A Voice, Penguin Books, 1991.

Complete Works of Kate Chopin, edited and with an introduction by Per Seyersted; Foreword by Edmund Wilson, Volumes I and II, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

Per Seyersted and Emily Toth, eds., A Kate Chopin Miscellany, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget and Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1979.

Forkner, Ben, ed., Louisiana Stories, Gretna, La: Pelican Publishing Co, 1990.

Bonner, Thomas, Jr. "Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography," Bulletin of Bibliography, 32 (July-September, 1975) pp101-105.

Toth, Emily, "Bibliography of Writings on Kate Chopin." In A Kate Chopin Miscellany, ed. by Per Seyersted and Emily Toth., pp212-61.

"Kate Chopin, A Woman of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," A project of the Watson Library, Northwestern State University, Rapides Parish Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Arnavon, Cyrille, "Les Debuts du Roman Realiste Americain et L'Influence Francaise." in Cahiers des Langues Modernes, I Paris, Didier (1946).

Bender, Bert, "The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man," in American Literature, Vol. 63, No. 3, Sept., 1991, pp. 459-473.

Berry, Wendell, "Writer and Region," in What are People For? Essays. San Francisco: Northpoint Press, 1990, pp. 71-87.

Bloom, Harold, Ed., Kate Chopin, Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

Blumenthal, "Literature" Chapt. VI in American and French Culture, 1800-1900, pp. 174-232.

Bonner, Jr., Thomas. "Bayou Folk: An Evaluation": a paper contributed to the Kate Chopin Seminar at the 1974 MLA Conference.

__________, "Kate Chopin's At Fault and the Awakening: A Study in Structure." Markham Review, 7 (Fall, 1977), pp.10-15.

__________, "Kate Chopin's European Consciousness." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, Vol. 8, 1975, pp. 281-84.

__________, The Kate Chopin Companion, with Chopin's translations from French fiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Boren, Lynda S. and Sara de Saussure Davis, Eds., Kate Chopin Reconsidered, Beyond the Bayou. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Bush, Robert, Louisiana Prose Fiction, 1870-1900 (Dissertation). State University of Iowa, 1957.

Cott, Nancy F., The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.

Eble, Kenneth, "A Forgotten Novel: Kate Chopin's The Awakening," in Western Humanities Review, X (Summer, 1956), pp. 261-269.

Dyer, Joyce, "Gouvernail, Kate Chopin's Sensitive Bachelor," in Southern Literary Journal, 14 (Fall, 1981), pp. 46-55.

__________, "Symbolic Setting in Kate Chopin's 'A Shameful Affair'." in Southern Studies, Vol. XX, No. 4, 1981, pp. 447-452.

Ewell, Barbara, Kate Chopin. New York: The Ungar Publishing Company, 1986.

__________, "Making Places: Kate Chopin and the Art of Fiction." (Unpublished Paper).

Judith Fetterley, "Introduction" in Provisions, A Reader from 19th Century Women, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. pp. 1-40.

Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse, "Kate Chopin," in American Women Regionalists, 1850-1910 (Norton, 1992) pp. 408-412.

Fletcher, Marie, "The Southern Woman in the Fiction of Kate Chopin," Louisiana History, 7 (1966): pp. 117-132.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, "Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender," in American Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1 (March, 1990), pp. 7-29.

__________, "The Fettered Mind: Time, Place, and the Literary Imagination of the Old South" in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXXIV, No. https://synthesis-essay.com , Winter, 1990, pp. 622-650. (Review Essay of Louis Rubin's The Edge of the Swamp.)

__________, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Gardiner, Elaine. "Ripe Figs: Kate Chopin in Miniature." Modern Fiction Studies, 28, Autumn, 1982, pp. 379-82.

Garietta, Anthony Paul, The Critical Reputation of Kate Chopin., Greensboro: University of North Carolina, 1978.

Gebhard, Caroline, "The Spinster in the House of American Criticism" in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 79-91.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, Eds., Norton's Anthology of Literature by Women. New York, 1985.

Howell, Elmo, "Kate Chopin and the Creole Country," in Louisiana History, 20 (Spring, 1979), pp. 202-219.

__________, "Kate Chopin and the Pull of Faith: A Note on Lilacs," in Southern Studies, 18, (Spring, 1979), pp. 103-109.

Jasenas, Elaine, "The French Influence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening" in Nineteenth Century French Studies, 4(1976): pp. 312-22.

Jones, Anne Goodwyn, Tomorrow is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1981.

Jones, Howard Mumford, "America and French Culture, 1750-1848" in Milestones in American Literary History, edited by Robert E. Spiller.

Kate Chopin Newsletters

Vol. 1, No. 12, Spring, 1875.

Vol. I, No. 3, Winter, 1975-1976.

Vol. II, No. 2, Fall, 1976.

Vol. II, No. 3, Winter 1976-1977.

Kazin, Alfred. A Writer's America, Landscape in Literature, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

__________, On Native Grounds, Cornwall. NY: Cornwall Press, 1942.

Kearns, Katherine, "The Nullification of Edna Pontellier" in American Literature, Vol. 63, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 62-88.

Koloski, Bernard, Ed., Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening. New York: MLA, 1988.

__________, "The Structure of At Fault"

Kraditor, Aileen S., The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.

Lally, Joan Marie. "Kate Chopin: Four Studies" (PhD Dissertation, University of Utah), MLA. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1973.

Lewis, R.W.B., The American Adam, 1955.

__________, Trials of the Word.

__________, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, eds., American Literature: The Makers and the Making. 1973.

Lohafer, Susan, "The Classics" in Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Chapt. 6, pp.103-133.

__________, "Preclosure and Story Processing," in Short Story Theory at a Crossroads by Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey, pp. 249-273.

Martin, Wendy, Ed., New Essays on The Awakening,part of The American Novel Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Chauvin Dit Charleville: Mississippi State University Press, 1976.

Oates, Joyce Carol, ed., The Oxford Book of American Short Stories: Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.

O'Brien, Sharon, "The Lineaments of Antebellum Southern Romanticism," in Rethinking the South, Essays in Intellectual History, pp. 38-56.

__________, "Sentiment, Local Color, and the New Woman Writer: Kate Chopin and Willa Cather," in Kate Chopin Newsletter, 2, (Winter, 1976-1977), pp.16-24.

O' Connor, Flannery, "The Regional Writer," in Mystery and Manners, pp. 51-59.

Papke, Mary E., Verging on the Abyss, The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton. New York: Greenwood Press.

Pattee, Frederick Lewis, A History of American Literature Since 1870.

__________ "The Feminine Novel," in The New American Literature, 1890-1930.

Perspectives on Kate Chopin: Proceedings of the Kate Chopin International Conference. Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, April 6-8, 1989.

Portales, Marco, "The Characterization of Edna Pontellier and the Conclusion of Kate Chopin's The Awakening," in Southern Studies, Vol. XX, No. 4, 1981, pp. 427-436.

Potter, Richard, "Negroes in the Fiction of Kate Chopin," in Louisiana History, 12 (Winter, 1971), pp. 41-58.

Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman, "Southern Ladies and the Southern Literary Renaissance," in The Female Tradition in Southern Literature, ed. Carol Manning, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Rogers, Nancy, "Echoes of George Sand in Kate Chopin, Litterature Comparee," No. 1, 1983, pp. 225-228.

Rosowski, Susan J., "The Awakening as a Prototype of the Novel of Awakening, in Women's Experience," pp. 26-33.

Rowe, Anne E., "Kate Chopin" in Fifty Southern Writers before 1900, pp.133-143.

Scott, Anne Firor, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

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Leaving aside the validity of what has become known as the “Steele dossier,” it’s important to look at how Christopher Steele was able to guarantee that the information in it would play a significant and ongoing role in American politics.

Steele, who is British, did far more than simply provide opposition research to the Democratic National Committee. He was able to make sure it reached the most influential people possible in politics, media and government to shape and influence the growing narrative of the 2016 presidential election. In other words, as a skilled professional intelligence officer, Steele ran a full-spectrum information operation against the United States. One could even call it information warfare.

This is what separates his work creating the dossier (which a decent journalist with friends in Russia could have done) from his work insinuating the dossier into the highest reaches of American government and political society. For that, you need a real pro, an intelligence officer with decades of experience running just that kind of operation. Looking for foreign interference in the 2016 election? Let’s take a closer look at Christopher Steele.

Steele’s skill is revealed by the now familiar Nunes and Grassley memos, which show he used the same set of information in the dossier to create a collaboration loop, every intelligence officer’s dream, which is his own planted information used to surreptitiously confirm itself, right up to the point where the target country’s own intelligence service re-purposed it as evidence in the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court.

Steele admits he briefed journalists off-the-record starting in summer and autumn 2016. His most significant hit came when in September 2016, journalist Michael Isikoff broke the story of Trump associate Carter Page’s alleged connections to Russia. Isikoff did not cite the dossier or Steele as sources, and in fact denied they were when questioned.

Isikoff’s story didn’t just push negative information about Trump into the public consciousness. It claimed U.S. intel officials were probing ties between a Trump adviser and the Kremlin, adding credibility, suggesting the feds themselves felt the info was worthwhile. Better yet for Steele, Isikoff claimed the information came from a “well-placed Western intelligence source,” suggesting it originated from a third-party and was picked up by Western spies instead of being written by one. Steele, either as a source himself or via colleagues passing around his information, saw to it the dossier information reached journalists at Mother Jones, the BBC, Guardian and others. An article by Harold Blum in Vanity Fair laid it out in April of last year:

It wasn’t long before, as The New York Times would write, the memos by the former spy “became one of Washington’s worst-kept secrets, as reporters . . . scrambled to confirm or disprove them.”

At the same time, Steele’s info reached influential people like Sen. John McCain, who could then pick up a newspaper and believe he was seeing the “secret” info from Steele confirmed independently by an experienced journalist. And how did McCain first learn about Steele’s work? At a conference in Canada, via Andrew Wood, former British Ambassador in Moscow. Where was Wood working at the time? Orbis, Christopher Steele’s research firm.

A copy of the dossier even found its way to the State Department, an organization which normally should have been far removed from U.S. election politics. A contact within State passed information from Clinton associates Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer (both men also played active roles behind in the scenes feeding Clinton dubious information on Libya) to and from Steele. The Grassley memo suggests there is was a second Steele document, in addition to the dossier, already shared with State and the FBI but not made public.

While seeding his dossier in the media and around Washington, Steele was also meeting in secret with the FBI (he claims he did not inform Fusion GPS, his employer), via an FBI counterintelligence handler in Rome. Steele began feeding the FBI in July 2016 with updates into the fall, apparently in the odd guise of simply a deeply concerned, loyal British subject. “This is something of huge significance, way above party politics,” Steele commented as to his motives.

The FBI, in the process of working Steele, would have likely characterized him as a “source,” technically an “extra-territorial confidential human source.” That meant the dossier’s claims appeared to come from the ex-MI6 officer with the good reputation, not second-hand from who-knows-who in Russia (the FBI emphasized Steele’s reputation when presenting the dossier to the FISA court). Think of it as a kind of money laundering which, like that process, helped muddy the real source of the goods.

The FBI used the Steele dossier to apply for a FISA court surveillance warrant against Carter Page. The FBI also submitted Isikoff’s story as collaborating evidence, without explaining the article and the dossier were effectively one in the same. In intelligence work, this is known as cross-contamination, an amateur error. The FBI however, according to the Nunes memo, did not tell the FISA court the Steele dossier was funded by the Democratic National Committee as commissioned opposition research, nor did they tell the court the Isikoff article presented as collaborating evidence was in fact based on the same dossier.

Steele reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him $50,000 to continue his “research,” though the deal is believed to have fallen through after the dossier became public (an intelligence community source tells The American Conservative Steele did in fact operate as a fully paid FBI asset.) Along the way, the FBI also informed Steele of their separate investigation into Trump staffer George Papadopoulos, a violation of security and a possible tainting of Steele’s research going forward.

The Nunes memo also showed then-associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr back-channeled additional material from Steele into the DOJ while working with Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and her replacement, Rod Rosenstein. Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the dossier, on Steele’s project. Ohr’s wife would be especially valuable in that she would be able to clandestinely supply info to collaborate what Steele told the FBI and, via her husband, know to tailor what she passed to the questions DOJ had. The FBI did not disclose the role of Ohr’s wife, who speaks Russian and has previously done contract work for the CIA, to the FISA court.

Ohr’s wife only began work for Fusion GPS in September/October 2016, as the FBI sought the warrant against Page based on the Steele dossier. Ohr’s wife taking a new job with Fusion GPS at that critical juncture screams of the efforts of an experienced intelligence officer looking to create yet another inside pipeline inside, essentially his own asset.

For the operation’s audacity, it was impressive: Steele took a dossier paid for by one party, and drove it deep into the Washington political machinery. His work formed in part the justification for a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump associate, the end game of which has not yet been written.

In that time, he maneuvered himself from paid opposition researcher to clandestine source for the FBI. Steele then may have planted the spouse of a senior DOJ employee as a second clandestine source to move more information into DOJ. In the intelligence world, that is as good as it gets; via two seemingly independent channels you are controlling the opponent’s information cycle.

Steele further manipulated the American media to have his information amplified and given credibility. By working simultaneously as both an anonymous and a cited source, he got his same info out as if it was coming from multiple places.

The Washington Post characterized Steele as “struggling to navigate dual obligations — to his private clients, who were paying him to help Clinton win, and to a sense of public duty born of his previous life.” But The Washington Post has no idea how intelligence officers work. Their job is to befriend and engage the target to carry out the goals of their employer. When they do it right, the public summation is a line like the Post offered: you never even knew you were being used.

Meanwhile, there is informed speculation Steele was more than a source for the FBI, and actually may have been tasked and paid to search for specific information, essentially working as a double agent for the FBI and the DNC. Others have raised questions about Steele’s status as “retired” from British intelligence, as the lines among working for MI6, working at MI6, and working with MI6 are often times largely a matter of semantics (for the record, Steele’s old boss at MI6 calls the dossier credible; an intelligence community source tells The American Conservative Steele shared all of his information with MI6.)

As for the performance of the DOJ/FBI, we do not have enough information to judge whether they were incompetent, or simply willing partners to what Steele was up to, using him as a handy pretext to open legal surveillance on someone inside the Trump circle.

So, putting talk of Russian meddling aside for a moment, is it not fair to ask if what Christopher Steele was doing could be construed as foreign influence in an American election?

Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan. He Tweets @WeMeantWell

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Trong nhiều thập niên, người dân Mỹ thường xuyên nghe một bài ca rằng “Vùng 51” – khu quân sự nổi tiếng nằm giữa sa mạc Nevada gắn liền với các hiện tượng bí ẩn – thật ra không tồn tại, và chính phủ không quan tâm đến mấy gã lùn xanh lá hay “cái đĩa biết bay”.

Cứ mỗi khi có ai đó báo nhìn thấy chuyện lạ, người ta chế giễu đó là trí tưởng tượng của những gã khờ đội mũ thiếc (tại Mỹ, có một niềm tin dân gian cho rằng người nào đội mũ này sẽ thoát khỏi sự theo dõi của chính phủ và không bị người ngoài hành tinh tẩy não).

Tuy nhiên, trong sự ngỡ ngàng của mọi người, báo New York Times vừa qua phanh phui một dự án bí mật trị giá 22 triệu USD của Bộ Quốc phòng Mỹ gọi là “Chương trình nhận diện các nguy cơ từ không gian” (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program) – thuật ngữ tương đương vật thể bay không xác định (UFO)!

Đây hẳn không phải là toàn bộ bí mật, nhưng có thể thấy có những thứ người ta nghĩ dân thường tốt nhất không nên biết.

Đoàn tuần hành trước trụ sở Cơ quan thẩm định trách nhiệm của Chính phủ (GAO), trực thuộc Hạ viện Mỹ, vào ngày 29-3-2017 về vụ việc xảy ra ở Roswell, hồi năm 1947. Những người tuần hành cho rằng vụ nổ ở đó là UFO – Ảnh: AFP

Bí ẩn lớn nhất lịch sử

Nói đến UFO không thể không nhắc đến “Vùng 51” (Area 51) – bí ẩn lớn nhất trong lịch sử nước Mỹ.

“Vùng 51” là tên thường gọi của một cơ sở trực thuộc căn cứ không quân Edwards nằm giữa sa mạc bang Nevada, chỉ cách Las Vegas 83 dặm đường. Theo Cục Tình báo trung ương Mỹ (CIA), tên chính thức của cơ sở này là “Phi trường Homey” (mã ICAO là KXTA) và “Groom Lake“, mặc dù tên gọi “Vùng 51” cũng được dùng trong tài liệu của CIA từ thời kỳ Chiến tranh Việt Nam.

Hai trong số nhiều biệt danh khác của “Vùng 51” là Dreamland (Vùng đất mơ mộng) và Paradise Ranch (Nông trại thiên đường). Riêng không phận đặc biệt xung quanh cơ sở này có tên gọi Vùng giới hạn 4808 phía Bắc (R-4808N).

Mặc dù “Vùng 51” chưa bao giờ được gọi là bí mật, tất cả các nghiên cứu và hoạt động trong cơ sở này được xếp vào dạng thông tin tuyệt mật và nhạy cảm (IS/SCI). Mãi đến ngày 25-6-2013, CIA lần đầu tiên mới thừa nhận sự tồn tại của “Vùng 51” theo một yêu cầu cung cấp thông tin đệ trình năm 2005 dựa trên Đạo luật tự do thông tin (FOIA).

Theo tài liệu giải mật, năm 1955 Tổng thống Dwight D. Eisenhower thông qua việc sáp nhập dải đất hoang vu ký hiệu “Vùng 51” trên bản đồ vào khu thử nghiệm vũ khí Nevada. Đây là nơi quân đội Mỹ tiến hành thử nghiệm các khí tài quân sự tối tân như máy bay do thám tầm cao U-2, máy bay do thám siêu thanh A-12, chiến đấu cơ tàng hình F-117…

Nhưng người ta tin “Vùng 51” không chỉ có thế. Thuyết âm mưu lớn nhất còn tồn tại cho rằng đây là nơi Chính phủ Mỹ cất giữ thi thể người ngoài hành tinh và các mảnh vụn đĩa bay rơi xuống Trái đất, đặc biệt là các mảnh vỡ kỳ lạ phát hiện bởi William “Mac” Brazel năm 1947.

Một bài báo cũ đưa tin về sự kiện Roswell năm 1947 – Ảnh chụp màn hình

Nhắc lại một chút về sự kiện Roswell nổi tiếng. Năm 1947, người nông dân Brazel tình cờ phát hiện nhiều thanh kim loại và mảnh vụn không xác định ở thành phố Roswell, tiểu bang New Mexico. Ông quan sát thấy chúng làm bằng một vật liệu kỳ lạ giống như bạc, không thể đốt cháy và khi vò nát sẽ ngay lập tức trở lại hình dạng cũ.

Lấy làm ngạc nhiên, ông Brazel gọi báo cho viên cảnh sát trưởng Roswell, người sau đó thông báo cho quân đội. Các binh sĩ nhanh chóng xuất hiện dọn sạch số mảnh vụn và chở đi trên xe bọc thép, nhưng tin tức đã kịp lan ra ngoài.

Ban đầu, cảnh sát địa phương khẳng định với báo chí quân đội tìm thấy xác đĩa bay, nhưng chỉ vài giờ sau cấp trên của họ lập tức bác bỏ, đính chính đó chỉ là một khí cầu thời tiết bị rơi.

Câu chuyện sau đó chìm vào quên lãng trong suốt gần 50 năm. Đến năm 1995, dưới áp lực của quốc hội, không quân Mỹ công bố bản báo cáo 231 trang tiết lộ về dự án “Mogul” (Ông Trùm). Theo đó, thiết bị rơi ở Roswell là khinh khí cầu tầm cao dùng để phát hiện các vụ thử hạt nhân của Liên Xô – lại một phiên bản khác so với năm 1947.

Cuộc điều tra của quốc hội Mỹ cũng dừng tại đó, họ không truy thêm dù biết đó chưa phải là toàn bộ sự thật.

Bức không ảnh chụp “Vùng 51” tháng 7-2016 – Ảnh: MECHANICS

Trở lại với “Vùng 51”, trong hàng thập kỷ, vô số lần các nhân chứng thông báo cho chính quyền họ nhìn thấy hiện tượng bất thường trên sa mạc xung quanh cơ sở bí mật này, bao gồm ánh sáng lạ hoặc các cỗ máy không xác định.

Đến thập niên 1990, dư luận được một phen dậy sóng khi một nhóm công nhân làm việc trong cơ sở này đệ đơn kiện chính phủ liên bang do nhiều người mắc phải những căn bệnh lạ. Họ mô tả các triệu chứng gồm da nứt nẻ, mọc vẩy cứng, chảy máu không ngừng, khó thở và một cái chết đau đớn.

Trong một trường hợp cụ thể, báo Washington Post ngày 20-7-1997 đăng tải một phóng sự dài nói về cái chết bí ẩn của Walter S. Kasza. Ông là Kasza là công nhân làm việc cho một nhà thầu quốc phòng Mỹ. Trong suốt 7 năm, công việc của ông là xây dựng và lắp đặt hệ thống làm mát cho căn cứ quân sự nằm giữa sa mạc Nevada.

Cuộc sống yên ổn cho đến một ngày ông Kasza bị ho dữ dội, da nứt nẻ và máu chảy thấm ướt chiếc giường ông nằm mỗi đêm. Các bác sĩ không tài nào tìm ra bệnh. Họ kê đủ loại toa từ thuốc giảm đau, kháng sinh, điều chỉnh huyết áp… Ruột gan ông Kasza cũng đau quằn quại, và cho đến ngày người ta phát hiện ông bị ung thư thận thì thậm chí chất morphine cũng không giúp ông qua được cơn đau.

Ông Kasza qua đời tháng 4-1995 ở tuổi 73. Quá đau thương, bà quá phụ Stella Kasza đệ đơn kiện Chính phủ Mỹ. Và trong một động thái hết sức khó hiểu, Tổng thống Bill Clinton khi đó đã ký sắc lệnh cấm công bố mọi bằng chứng liên quan đến cái chết của ông Walter S. Kasza với lý do đây là “thông tin tuyệt mật ảnh hưởng an ninh quốc gia”.

Phản ứng của chính phủ trước những câu chuyện rùng rợn này là gì? Họ không nói gì hết. Quan điểm là không có gì bất hợp pháp diễn ra ở ‘Vùng 51’, bởi vì, một cách chính thức, ‘Vùng 51’ không có gì hết”

Báo Washington mô tả vào năm 1997

Khu quân sự nằm giữa sa mạc Nevada là nơi không được phép tiếp cận – Ảnh: WASHINGTON POST

Mặc dù cho đến nay không ai có thể khẳng định “Vùng 51” có liên quan gì đến UFO hay người ngoài hành tinh không, nhưng ai cũng ngầm hiểu cơ sở này có những bí mật cần phải bị chôn vùi. Những căn bệnh lạ xuất hiện trước đây được giải thích là do các công nhân tiếp xúc với hóa chất độc hại trong khu căn cứ, nhưng đó là hóa chất gì, dùng vào việc gì thì không ai được phép biết.

Về mặt nào đó, “Vùng 51” có điểm tương đồng với vụ Roswell năm 1947.

Một nghị sĩ Mỹ tham gia điều tra vụ Roswell đã nhận xét: “Chúng tôi tin điều gì đó đã xảy ra ở Roswell – điều gì đó khá lớn. Chúng tôi không biết đó là một chiếc máy bay chở thiết bị hạt nhân hay một thí nghiệm bí mật nào, nhưng với những gì chúng tôi chứng kiến, quân đội rõ ràng muốn hướng sự chú ý của mọi người sang chỗ khác”.

Roswell cũng chính là nơi đóng quân của Nhóm hỗn hợp 509 – đơn vị hạt nhân chịu trách nhiệm thả hai quả bom xuống thành phố Hiroshima và Nagasaki của Nhật năm 1945.

Một phụ nữ Mỹ ở TP Los Angeles dạo chơi với hình nộm người ngoài hành tinh. Không ít người dân Mỹ tin rằng thông tin liên quan đĩa bay, người ngoài hành tinh… đang bị chính phủ che giấu – Ảnh: AFP

Cuộc truy lùng của 3 nhà báo

Đằng sau quả bom điều tra của báo New York Times (NYT) dẫn đến phát hiện chương trình UFO của Chính phủ Mỹ là một câu chuyện ly kỳ. Tòa soạn NYT cho biết hòm thư của họ muốn “phát nổ” sau khi bài báo được đăng tải trưa 16-12 bởi lượng bạn đọc phản hồi quá đông.

Các tác giả của bài điều tra bao gồm nhà báo Ralph Blumenthal, Helene Cooper và Leslie Kean. Hành trình của họ bắt đầu cách đây 2 tháng rưỡi với việc nhà báo Leslie – một chuyên gia về UFO – nhận được tin mật báo.

Trong cuộc gặp bí mật ngày 4-10 tại một khách sạn ở khu Pentagon City (bang Virginia) với sự có mặt của vài cựu quan chức tình báo và nhà thầu quốc phòng, cô Leslie gặp được Luis Elizondo – giám đốc của một chương trình quốc phòng lạ hoắc cô chưa nghe bao giờ: “Chương trình nhận diện các nguy cơ từ không gian”.

Leslie cuối cùng biết được đó là một nỗ lực bí mật khởi xướng năm 2007 bởi lãnh đạo phe đa số Thượng viện Mỹ Harry Reid nhằm điều tra các nguy cơ từ không gian, bao gồm “các hiện tượng không gian không xác định” hay đơn giản là “vật thể” theo cách gọi của quân đội.

Đây là một tin động trời vì quân đội Mỹ đã tuyên bố từ năm 1969 rằng UFO “không đáng để nghiên cứu”. Cô biết được ông Elizondo cũng vừa từ chức để phản đối tình trạng bảo mật thái quá và chống đối trong nội bộ chương trình.

Leslie dành ra nhiều giờ đọc lại các tài liệu giải mật và phát hiện ra chương trình nghiên cứu UFO hoạt động gần như công khai, tuy nhiên 22 triệu USD đó được che giấu giữa một rừng ngân sách quốc phòng.

Đến ngày 8-12, khi nhóm nhà báo đi đến gặp người phát ngôn Lầu Năm Góc với những thông tin đã thu thập và kiểm chứng và cơ quan này nhanh chóng thừa nhận chương trình tìm hiểu về UFO có thật nhưng nó đã kết thúc vào năm 2012 sau 5 năm hoạt động.

Tuy nhiên, các nhà báo Mỹ tìm hiểu được rằng chương trình này vẫn còn hoạt động cho đến ngày nay, dù không còn được cấp ngân sách.

Những người trong cuộc

Ông Luis Elizondo – giám đốc Chương trình nhận diện các nguy cơ từ không gian của Bộ Quốc phòng Mỹ – Ảnh: NYT

Theo sau cuộc điều tra của báo chí, có bốn nhân vật thuộc “Chương trình nhận diện các nguy cơ từ không gian” lộ diện: ông Luis Elizondo – giám đốc, Harold E. Puthoff – chuyên gia nghiên cứu hiện tượng siêu nhiên từng làm việc cho CIA, Christopher K. Mellon – cựu trợ lý bộ trưởng quốc phòng Mỹ về tình báo và Robert Bigelow – một tỉ phú ngành không gian, đối tác của NASA.

Tỉ phú Bigelow là một người không xa lạ với công chúng. Hồi tháng 5, xuất hiện trong chương trình 60 phút của Đài CBS, ông tuyên bố sinh vật ngoài hành tinh đang bí mật sống trên Trái đất và Chính phủ Mỹ biết rõ chuyện đó.

Có lẽ tôi là cá nhân chi nhiều tiền nhất ở Mỹ để nghiên cứu UFO”

Robert Bigelow – một tỉ phú ngành không gian, đối tác của NASA

Sau phát hiện vừa qua, ông Bigelow tiết lộ thêm rằng chương trình của Bộ Quốc phòng đã trả tiền cho ông để xây nhà kho chứa một số vật liệu “khoa học không biết tới” ở thành phố Las Vegas. Không có chi tiết hay hình ảnh nào được công bố thêm.

“Chính phủ liên bang đã quan tâm đến UFO từ lâu, có thể truy từ các vụ đình đám cuối thập niên 1940 – Roswell, ai còn nhớ? Phần nhiều họ lo không biết đó có phải một thiết bị ghê gớm nào đó của Liên Xô – hoặc ngày nay là Nga và Trung Quốc” – chuyên gia Seth Shostak thuộc Viện SETI (ĐH Berkeley) nhận xét.

Theo một thăm dò dư luận năm 1997 của Đài CNN và tạp chí Time, 80% dân Mỹ tin rằng chính phủ che giấu thông tin về sự tồn tại của người ngoài hành tinh.

Đoạn video ghi cảnh chiến đấu cơ Mỹ chạm trán UFO tháng 11-2004 do Bộ Quốc phòng Mỹ vừa công bố – Nguồn: YOUTUBE

Trả lời phỏng vấn trang Politico, ông Christopher Melon – cựu trợ lý bộ trưởng Quốc phòng Mỹ – về tình báo, cho biết các điều tra viên đã phỏng nhiều nhân chứng trông thấy UFO, phần lớn họ là phi công. Một chiếc F/A-18 thậm chí ghi hình lại được cảnh chạm trán với đĩa bay.

“Đó là một vật thể màu trắng, hình dáng thuôn, dài khoảng 12m và dày khoảng 3,6m. Các phi công vô cùng kinh ngạc khi thấy nó chuyển hướng bay về phía chiếc F/A-18. Sau một loạt chuyển động phản lại các nguyên tắc vật lý, vật thể đó đã ở phía sau chiếc chiến đấu cơ. Đó là một công nghệ chúng tôi chưa từng thấy trong đời” – ông Melon mô tả lại.

Trong thời gian hoạt động, “Chương trình nhận diện các nguy cơ từ không gian” công bố ít nhất một tài liệu, đó là một báo cáo dài 490 trang mô tả lại những lần phát hiện UFO ở Mỹ và các quốc gia khác trong nhiều thập niên.

“Cá nhân tôi tin rằng có bằng chứng rất thuyết phục chứng minh chúng ta có thể không cô độc” -cựu giám đốc chương trình Luis Elizondo kết luận sau tất cả những ồn ào.

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Oct. 13, 2017: Obituaries

Catherine Absher, 80

Mrs. Catherine Lorene Watkins Absher, age 80 of Millers Creek passed away Saturday, December 9, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.

Funeral services were December 12, at Cane Creek Baptist Church with Rev. Kenny Absher and Rev. David Wellborn officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Absher was born on March 2, 1937 in Wilkes County to Doc and Agnes Swaim Watkins. She was a member of Cane Creek Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; Olen Deford Absher, Sr., two sons; Ricky Allen Absher, Vernon Romly Absher and two sisters; Selma Love and Thelma Shephard.

She is survived by four daughters; Janet Garrison and husband Randy of North Wilkesboro, Patricia Campbell and husband Charlie of Grassy Creek, Rebecca Fletcher and husband Dale of Moravian Falls and Teresa Lane of North Wilkesboro, two sons; Thomas Ray Absher and wife Teresa of North Wilkesboro and Olen Deford Absher, Jr. and wife Shirley of Statesville and one sister; Faye Royal of North Wilkesboro and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Flowers will be accepted.

Luther Chambers, 89

Rev. Luther Lee Chambers, age 89, of North Wilkesboro, was promoted to his eternal reward, Saturday, December 9, 2017 at Caldwell Hospice Home. He was born November 26, 1928 in Caldwell County to Spencer LeLand and Grace Louise Bullard Chambers. Rev. Chambers was a US Army Veteran, serving during the Korean Conflict. He served in Pastor Ministry for over 50 years. Rev. Chambers was a member of Hinshaw Street Church of God; was assistant Chaplain of the VFW Post 1142 and associate Chaplain at Wilkes Regional Medical Center of 14 years. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Gwyn Wesley Chambers.

Surviving are his wife, Martha Lucille Elledge Chambers; daughters, Margaret Kirk and husband Sam of Columbus, Ohio, Karen Adams and husband Terry of Morganton; grandchildren, Samuel Kirk III and wife Jo, Sara Davis and husband Will, Gabriel Kirk, Katie Adams, Abigail Adams; brothers, Herman Chambers and wife Hazel of North Wilkesboro, Paul Chambers and wife Marie of Wilkesboro; and six great grandchildren.

Funeral service will be held 12:00 noon Saturday, December 16, 2017 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Sara Davis, Rev. Aaron Powers, and Rev. Howard Daley officiating. Burial with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 will follow in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 10:00 until 12:00 on Saturday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Caldwell County Hospice and Palliative Care, 902 Kirkwood Street, Lenoir, NC 28645. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Gollie Royal, Jr., 73

Gollie "Pete" Royal, Jr., age 73, of North Wilkesboro, died Friday, December 8, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. He was born September 26, 1944 in Wilkes County to Gollie Worth Royal, Sr. and Josie Royal. Mr. Royal was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Mary Lou Hall; and brothers, Jim Royal, Glen Royal.

Surviving are his daughters, Tonya Renee Bell and husband Gary of North Wilkesboro, Sarah Royal Patrick and husband Charles of North Wilkesboro; son, Allen Royal and wife Debora of Thurmond; sister, Carol Higgins of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Jonathon Patrick, Ashley Patrick, Shanna Parsons and husband Seth, Nathan Bell and wife Summer, Logan Bell, Seth Bell all of North Wilkesboro, Robert Royal of Thurmond; and four great grandchildren.

Funeral service was held December 11, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ronnie Ellis officiating. Burial will follow in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the family. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Donald Rhodes, Sr., 92

Mr. Donald DuBosq Rhodes, Sr., age 92 of Wilkesboro, passed away Saturday, December 9th, 2017.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at Wilkesboro Baptist Church with Dr. Chris Hefner officiating. A private family graveside service with Military Honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1142 will be held. The family will receive friends from 12:45 until 1:45 prior to the service at the church.

Mr. Rhodes was born March 12, 1925 in Burlington, NC to the Honorable Hughes Jennings and Ethel Hotchkiss Rhodes. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Martha Burch Rhodes, of 66 years, his son, Donald DuBosq Jr., two brothers and four sisters.

After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy and served from 1943-1946. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service before attending Wake Forest College where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1954. He worked for Nationwide Insurance Company as an insurance adjuster for eleven years. Mr. Rhodes worked for Insurance Service and Credit Corporation as Vice President where he retired after thirty one years. Mr. Rhodes was a member of Wilkesboro Baptist Church for over 60 years. His passion was in golf. He started caddying and playing at the age of nine. He loved all aspects of the sport. He had a workshop in his basement where he enjoyed repairing family and friends' golf clubs.

Mr. Rhodes is survived by his children, Carol (Bill) Warden, Bill (Teresa) Rhodes and Martha (Steve) Rizoti; seven grandchildren, Emily (Daniel) Crane, Lee (Ale) Warden, Hugh (Laura) Warden, Adam (Selah) Rhodes, Ben (Heather) Rhodes, Merritt Rizoti and Rachel Rizoti; four great grandchildren, Avery and Bennett Crane, Joanna Warden and Will Warden.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Wilkesboro Baptist Church, P.O. Box 61, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Robert Ross, 82

Mr. Robert Duff Ross, age 82, of Millers Creek passed away Saturday, December 9, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Health Wilkes Medical Center.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Mr. Ross was born September 15, 1935 in Butler, PA to Carl and Anna Morrow Ross. He retired from Servi-Star Hardware in Butler, PA and was a member of Millers Creek United Methodist Church. Mr. Ross served in the United States Army. He enjoyed painting and woodworking.

He is survived by: his wife, Barbara Ann Holben Ross of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law: Cynthia and Danny Church, Sharon and Duane Morrow all of Wilkesboro; two sons and daughters-in-law: Robert, Jr. and Deann Ross of New Kensington, PA, Douglas and Peggy Palmer of Goldendale, WA; three grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Jerry Jennings, 55

Jerry Dwayne Jennings, age 55, of Hays, died Friday, December 8, 2017 at his home. He was born April 30, 1962 in Wilkes County to Donald and Velma Carroll Jennings. Mr. Jennings was preceded in death by his parents.

Surviving are his daughter, Jessica Jennings of Hays; his son, Andrew Jennings of Hays; grandchildren, Renee Lewis of Hays, Dalton Jennings of Statesville; sisters, Vanessa Tharpe, Sharon Jennings, Jeanette Jennings, Julie Jennings, Lynn Jennings; brothers, Terry Jennings, Darrell Jennings, Michael Jennings; his fiancé, Patricia Osborne of Hays; nephew, Donnie Limon; great nephew, Gabriel Limon; and great niece, Arabella Limon.

Memorial service will be held 3:00 p.m. Friday, December 15, 2017 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Roger Jennings officiating. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, PO Box 9, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Betty Walker, 75

Ms Betty S. Walker, age 75 of Greensboro, formally of Wilkes County passed away Friday, December 08, 2017 at Blumenthal Jewish Nursing Home in Greensboro.

Graveside services will be held 1:00 PM Thursday, December 14th, 2017 at Pleasant Home Baptist Church in Millers Creek.

Ms Walker was born October 24, 1942 in Wilkes County to Fred W. and Vallie H. Adams Walker. She was a retired Teacher, having worked at Northwest Guilford High School in Greensboro. Although she had lived in Greensboro, since the fall of 1965, her roots were and families were in Wilkes County.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Ms Walker is survived by a brother; Samuel Ira Walker and wife, Norie of TN, a niece; Elisa Walker Bentley and husband, Danny of TN, great nieces; Katherine and Anna Grace Bentley, a nephew; Kirk Walker, great nephews; Stephen Walker and Joe Walker and a great niece, Rachel Walker all of North Carolina.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pleasant Home Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 735 Pleasant Home Church Road, Millers Creek, NC 28651.

The family wishes to Thank most special friends, Jane Stubbs, Linda Case-Reynolds, Kay Fulp and Connie Carter for their constant support and helpfulness; also, Dora Miller, Harold Crutchfield, Tara Hodges, Caregivers from Right At Home, and Hospice of Greensboro.

Lovella Laverne Lankford Lovette, 87

Lovella Laverne Lankford Lovette, age 87, of Millers Creek, died Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at her home, with her three daughters by her side. She was born June 20, 1930 in Wilkes County to Samuel and Molly Blackburn Lankford. Lovella was a homemaker and professional seamstress, who loved her grandchildren and watching her great grandchildren grow. Mrs. Lovette also loved baking, particularly her famous cinnamon rolls. She was a member of Arbor Grove United Methodist Church. Mrs. Lovette was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John Dennis Lovette; brothers, Sammy and John Lankford.

Surviving are her daughters, Schelia Lovette Church and husband Jimmie of Ferguson, Rhonda Lovette Parsons and husband Buddy of Purlear, Joan Lovette Bullings of Winston Salem; grandchildren, Shannon Church Watkins, Brian Church, Eric Church, and Luke Walsh, step grandchild, Amanda Pruitt; brothers, Bill Lankford and wife Margie of Lincolnton, George Lankford and wife Jackie of Millers Creek; sister, Doris Hunter of Bear, Delaware; great grandchildren, Emily, Grant, Jake, Molly, Wyatt and Ryder; step great grandchildren, Corban and Caydence.

Graveside service was December 9, at Arbor Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery with Chaplain Paul Hugger officiating. The family will receive friends at the home on Saturday following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Arbor Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Esther Eller, 480 Shepherd River Road, Millers Creek, NC 28651 or to Wake Forest Baptist Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

A special thank you to Shirley Byers and Patti Walsh for the love and care that was provided.

Garland Whittington, 75

Mr. Garland Whittington, age 75 husband of Teresa Whittington, passed away Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Funeral services were held December 10, at Pilgrim Baptist Church with Rev. Derek Kilby and Rev. Brady Hayworth officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Whittington was born September 1, 1942 in Wilkes County to Sheridan Andrew and Winnie Goldie Walsh Whittington. He was retired from Lance Inc.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Garland is survived by his wife; Teresa of the home, a son; Brian and wife Julie of Wilkesboro, two grandchildren; Weston and Ava of Wilkesboro, two brother in laws; Ricky Whittington and wife, Cathy and Kevin Whittington and wife, Anna all of Wilkesboro and three nephews; Matthew Whittington and wife, Amanda and children, Brooke and Lucus, David Whittington and wife Heather, and children, Cullen and Hudson and Patrick Whittington and wife, Katherine.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Glioblastoma Foundation PO Box 62066 Durham, NC 27715.

Agnes Brock, 100

Agnes Craven Brock, at the blessed age of 100, went home to her Lord and Savior on December 6, 2017, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Rosalind and Bob Reilly, in Powhatan, Virginia. She is survived by Rosalind, her sister, Edith Earp Mathis, her grandchildren, James, Ariana, and David, and three great grandchildren, Sam, Miles, and Jeff.

The daughter of Sam and Myrtle Craven, Agnes grew up with 12 brothers and sisters by the Reddies River Pump Station run by her father. She was married to Mack Brock in 1942 and enjoyed 72 years of marriage with him until his death in 2015. They met during wartime at the Wilkes Hosiery Mill, and as newlyweds lived near various naval bases, from Newport, RI, to Gulfport, MI, where Mack was stationed and where Agnes put her typing and clerical skills to work in government offices.

Later in their rock home on the Brocktown Rd., Agnes became a homemaker and the devoted mother of two daughters, Maxine and Rosalind. She enjoyed sewing dresses, cooking, gardening, and volunteering for the Red Cross Bloodmobile. She took satisfaction in her basement larder of canned goods, from half-gallons of tomato juice made from volunteer "tommy-toes," to pints of blackberry jam and pickles, and quarts of canned green beans from the garden. As the work-at-home secretarial assistant for Brock and Triplett Machine Shop, she once again put her typing skills to good use.

An active member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church, Agnes taught the adult ladies' Sunday School class for almost 40 years. She sang in the choir, taught Vacation Bible School, and faithfully cooked unleavened bread for decades of communion services.

Agnes will be remembered by her grandchildren as a never-ending source of original stories and games. Always singing in the car, rocking chair, and while doing chores, she taught the family hundreds of songs as well as poems she had memorized and stories she had heard while a girl.

As her horizons narrowed in her last years, Agnes took great pleasure in looking out the window to enjoy "yet another beautiful day" from inside. A flowering shrub, one gracefully shaped oak leaf, a hummingbird at the nectar feeder-these simple delights never failed to draw her astonished praise of a Creator who loves us enough to fill the world with beauty for us to enjoy. In sorrow and joy, we celebrate her beautiful life, another gift from His hand.

Diane Greear, 82

Mrs. Diane Iris Greear, 82, of Wilkesboro, passed away on December 6, 2017.

Diane was born on July 25, 1935 to Melvin Parks and Iris Oler Parks in Lassen California.

Diane is preceded in death by her parents; husband, James Blevins and Estell "Bill" Greear and an infant sister.

No services are planned.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Greear Family.

Kay Hinton, 50

Ms. Kay Nell Hinton, 50, of North Wilkesboro, passed away on Tuesday December 5, 2017.

Kay was born on October 4, 1967 in Harford, Maryland to Thomas Edward Hinton and Deborah Jean Radcliffe Spicer.

Kay is preceded in death by her daughter, Amber Jean Billings.

Those left to cherish her memory are her mother, Deborah Jean Spicer; sons, Ervin Andrew Billings, Daniel Alexander Billings both of North Wilkesboro; sister, Deborah Doran Billings (Robert) of Roaring River; brother, Robert Lee Doran (Heather) of North Wilkesboro; uncle, Earl J Radcliffe of Millers Creek and many nieces and nephews.

Family will hold a private memorial service at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to the American Heart Association, 128 S Tryon St. #1588, Charlotte, NC 28202.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Hinton Family.

Billy Johnson, 68

Billy James Johnson, age 68, of Union Grove, died Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at his home. He was born April 24, 1949 in Wilkes County to Gilbert and Minnie Lunsford Johnson.

Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Linda Randolph Johnson.

Surviving are his sons, Lynn Johnson , Jamie Johnson and wife Rosa all of Union Grove; two brothers; two sisters; six grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.

No service will be held. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

John R. Davis, 81

John R. Davis, age 81, of North Wilkesboro, died Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at his home. He was born August 22, 1936 in Wilkes County to Harley Otto and Ollie Carrie Belle Prevette Davis. Mr. Davis attended Cornerstone Church and was a US Army Veteran. He was employed with Buster Brown for over 40 years. He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Ruth Anderson.

Surviving are his loving wife of 57 years, Margaret Dawson Davis; son, John R. Davis, Jr. and wife Gina of Statesville; daughter, Tammy Goodrich and husband Barry of Old Hickory, Tennessee; sisters, Grace Osborne and husband Bob of North Wilkesboro, Wanda Simms of Largo, Maryland, Helen Faw and husband Rex of Dunkirk, Maryland; grandchildren, Summer Taylor and husband Derek of Lexington, Clint Davis of Tampa, Florida, Josh Tittle of Whitehouse, Tennessee, Loren Davis of Brentwood, Tennessee, Traci Goodrich; great grandchildren, Leah and Lillie Taylor; and many loving nieces and nephews.

Graveside service with military honors was held December 7, at Mountain Park Cemetery with Pastor Matthew Sherman officiating. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements

Pallbearers were Clint Davis, Josh Tittle, Derek Taylor, Bob Haas, Lee Osborne and Steve Weaver. Honorary pallbearers will be Bob Osborne, Sam Weaver and David Anderson.

Mary Osborne Church, age 86

Mary Osborne Church, age 86, of North Wilkesboro, died Monday, December 4, 2017 at her home. She was born April 6, 1931 in Ashe County to Beldon C. and Lucretia Woodie Osborne. She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Athalee Walker and husband Bill, Marjorie Elledge and husband Walter, Betty Sue Owens and husband C.P., Meurial Bare, Helen Davis; and brothers, Quinton Osborne and wife Louise, Garmel Osborne and wife Reba, Kenneth Osborne and wife Mary Belle, Jack Osborne and wife Billie Jean, and Willie Osborne.

Surviving are her husband, Rex Church; daughter, Patty Tedder and husband Jasper; grandson, Chris Tedder and wife Holly; great granddaughter, Hannah Tedder; brother, Gar Osborne and wife Omie; sister-in-law, Bonnie Osborne; brother-in-law, Dallas Bare; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service was held December 6, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Leon Church officiating. Burial followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family has requested no food. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Pruitt Hospice, 924 Main Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Pallbearers were Chris Tedder, Allen Bare, Kent Berrier, Donnie Church, Garry Spears and Dennis Haynes.

Carl Gales, 76

Carl O. Gales, age 76, of North Wilkesboro, died Thursday, November 30, 2017 at his home. He was born April 10, 1941 in Wilkes County to Fred and Minnie Wyatt Gales. Mr. Gales was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Dorothy Anderson Gales; and two sisters, Trib and Doshie.

Surviving are his son, Johnny Gales of North Wilkesboro; granddaughter, Carlene Gales of North Wilkesboro; and sister, Patsy Ann Johnson of North Wilkesboro.

Private burial will be held at Fishing Creek Arbor Baptist Church Cemetery. The family has requested no flowers. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

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