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We are actively seeking a motivated Registered Nurse who is looking for the opportunity to see new places! We have a Advanced Care/Trauma Travel Nurse role currently open in  Franklin, OH! In this  travel assignment as a Advanced Care/Trauma  Registered Nurse,  you will be responsible for providing patient care within a hospital setting.

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Scientology! Auteurs! Handjobs and fingerblasting! A naked sand nymph! We here at Trop can’t think of a recent movie that’s inspired such an even mix of exaltation and exasperation as P.T. Anderson’s The Master. It’s plenty critically acclaimed, sure, but it also has been met with some (occasionally valid) trolling by moviegoers (check out those Metacritic scores!). Either way, no matter how you feel about it, auteurist masterpiece or masturbatory mess, The Master is the kind of movie that lingers in your head, the kind of movie that demands some kind of drawn-out conversation. So, if you haven’t found anyone to have that conversation with, then you’ve come to the right place… because the four of us had that conversation for you.

[Caveat emptor: the following discussion is freckled with spoilers.]

EVAN ALLGOOD: Time to kick off this Master discussion. The opening question, courtesy of one A.C. DeLashmutt, is…

Why are Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) so drawn to each other?

Freddie is an ex-soldier fresh from the staggering violence of World War II, adrift and basically unemployable until, through a series of misadventures, he stumbles upon Lancaster Dodd, the portly and enigmatic leader of the cult-like (i.e., pseudo-Scientology) Cause. (This is pretty much the entire plot of the movie.) Initially, Freddie is drawn to Dodd for practical reasons: Dodd offers him work (and later, a place to stay), and Dodd is surrounded by women, whom Freddie pursues hungrily and without discrimination. But after their first processing session, Freddie feels like this could be more than a job or even a friendship—maybe Dodd and The Cause could actually heal him. Processing is a warped form of therapy, and Freddie has probably needed counseling since he was a kid. Now he has not only a job and a home but a potential cure for his myriad ailments. And as Dodd mentions when they’re cell-by-cell in jail, he’s the only one who likes Freddie. No one likes Freddie Quell, because Freddie Quell isn’t a likable person. He’s a drunken caveman and he knows it, so he clings to the one person who gives a shit about him—Dodd—and is quickly, fiercely, frighteningly loyal to him. Dodd is his only friend, his boss, his doctor, the father he never had.

Dodd’s attraction to Freddie is more complex. In one way, Freddie is a young, undiluted version of Dodd: the same violent streak that causes Dodd to call Freddie an “animal” and a “naughty boy” exists within Dodd, but Dodd tries to control it, stow it away, only to lash out sporadically when people question him (the skeptical man at the party, Laura Dern at the book release). Dodd sees himself in Freddie, views him as the son he wishes he’d had, since his own son (played by Jesse Plemons) is so indifferent he seems more like one of The Cause’s props, a piece of family scenery, and thinks his father is “making it all up as he goes along.”

But, here’s where it gets weird: Dodd is also sexually attracted to Freddie, maybe even in love with him. The “naughty boy” and “potion” lines come off as flirtatious, as do Dodd and Freddie wrestling in the grass and Dodd’s sweet song to Freddie near the end of the film. But the real reveal is the crazy-aggressive handjob Dodd’s wife Peggy (Amy Adams) gives him in the bathroom after their parlor party, during which she tells Dodd that he’s allowed to sleep around discreetly, but not to do what he’s thinking of doing (pursuing Freddie). The handjob is so rough not only because Peggy is asserting her dominance over Dodd (he is the origin of The Cause, but she is his Master) but because she imagines this is how a handjob from the primitive beast Freddie Quell might feel. It works, of course: Dodd obeys her wishes and comes hard into the sink, in sixty seconds flat.

A.C. DELASHMUTT: Freddie Quell and Lancaster Dodd are physically shaped like two halves of a whole: the despised Quell is curled like a skeletal question mark, hunched around the emptiness at his center; he has a gargoyle face and an ape-like hang of his shoulders. The florid Dodd is preceded by a fat, prosperous belly, his face bloated with adulation; he is upright, his pants suspenders utterly decorative. You can imagine them fitting together like those salt and pepper shakers that hug. They are each other’s natural complement, Quell the howling black void and Dodd the white-haired creator-fabricator.

Beyond this natural attraction, the mathematics of the plot pretty much add up (if you carry the one and round off some remainders): Quell is preoccupied with dreams of family (during his psychiatric evaluation at the VA, he said he had a dream about himself and his parents, just sitting around the table, laughing) and goes berserk with envy after photographing a series of glowing children and happily married men in the department store. Dodd has a picture-perfect and still growing family, and as a “first-class mystic” he is able to drink Freddie’s poison—both of spirit and of flask—and survive. The trickier question is why Dodd adopts Quell, who can deliver none of the funds or luxury yachts Dodd surely prizes. Of course, any cult leader values his sycophants, and maniacal loyalty is one thing Quell can provide plenty of. But Dodd also gets to be his best self, “the Commander” with Freddie—teacher, father, master—and not merely a charlatan, not an embezzler, not a father whose own son thinks him a phony, not an author who knows his best work is behind him, or a grunting animal, helpless in the hands of his masterful madonna, Peggy. And maybe, just maybe, Freddie is Lancaster Dodd’s shot at a real miracle—the healing of the sick. And thereby, perhaps, their mutual redemption.

Their sea voyage between San Francisco and New York is the best part of their relationship, the coming together, and Dodd sings mournfully of wanting to have Freddie on “a slow boat to China” in the final scene. Homoerotic, paternal, fraternal, naval, pre-natal, postal, “recalled” or “imaginary”—call it what you like. The ferocious performances by Hoffman and Phoenix are endlessly compelling. But ultimately Dodd and Quell’s relationship—for both the film’s other characters and it’s audience—is like the churning blue sea they sail on. Unfathomable.

ALLGOOD: A.C., you referred to Dodd as a “creator-fabricator” and “a charlatan… an embezzler,” and I’m wondering what makes you so sure that he’s intentionally hustling people. Obviously many of The Cause’s rituals and beliefs (cousin if not twin to Scientology’s) seem to be Grade A Baloney, but that doesn’t mean Dodd doesn’t believe in them. One of the things that’s always bothered me about people ripping Scientology (that’s right) is that, as an atheist, their beliefs don’t seem any more ridiculous to me than Christianity’s or most other religions’. (I think what makes Scientology an easier target is that it demands a financial commitment in order to achieve enlightenment. Then again, most churches ask for donations.) I don’t buy into the Bible, but I also don’t believe most pastors and priests are con artists. Dodd appears genuinely upset when people question or refute his beliefs; I suppose you would attribute that to pride and/or a short temper, but I think one could just as easily argue that he gets so mad because he really believes in what he’s selling. (While we’re here: does The Cause make its members pay, or are they just encouraged to buy Dodd’s book?)

As for the unfathomable churning sea, I think P.T. Anderson (how have we not mentioned him yet?!) returned repeatedly to that beautiful blue shot because it represented freedom for Freddie. In my eyes Freddie never appears happier or more at ease than when he is on that beach, with no Master pulling his strings, no need to obey social norms or act like a human.

I think this movie is about Freddie and Dodd and possibly Peggy, not religion. (I’m with Mark Lisanti on this one: “The Master is about Scientology the way There Will Be Blood was about the oil industry or Punch-Drunk Love was about coupon fraud. A Scientology-like religion… is the setting. The backdrop? The context? It’s not about fucking Scientology, that’s what we’re saying.”) It’s more a character study than a commentary on religion, though some of the themes may apply to both people as individuals and people as cults. Which raises the question: What do you guys think this movie is about, ultimately?

So much of this movie comes down to that imperative. I think you’re right, A.C., in that Freddie and Dodd are complementary opposites; they fit together, both cons—cave and vex. A veritable Odd Couple, those two! One likes to read; the other enjoys fingerblasting. But it seems we’re sort of missing the forest, here, because to me, their attraction to each other isn’t unfathomable. At the risk of being reductive, Lancaster, a cult leader, is pretty clearly a repressed gay narcissist. This repression is the entire cause behind The Cause. The object of Dodd’s desire is Freddie. In Freddie, the uninhibited lustful caveman, Dodd sees the “animal” part of himself that he works so hard to suppress, and so he sees in Freddie also the very kernel of The Cause. Dodd is clearly in love with Freddie; and partly probably because Dodd is in love with himself.

Several times, Dodd and other members of The Cause speak of suppressing the animal within, of transcending the boundaries of our bodies and time, tapping into some spiritual existence, an existence in everyplace and no place, that traces back three trillion years or something. It’s a load of crap, an elaborate lie and a total scam. But to Dodd, and probably to many, many people like him, it’s a lie that they need; Evan, I’m thinking of your Christianity parallel here. The Cause is a scam because Dodd is scamming himself. He’s created an expansive and intricate fantasy, an alternate reality to distract him from himself, an alternate reality that must be big enough and complete enough to overwhelm his ferocious, lusty animal within—hence the hyper-historical trillion-year scope of his philosophy. We are not simply animals, says The Cause, we are above that; we are infinite beings. We aren’t just flesh: flesh is low, base; we are spirit. The movie is Hobbesian in this duality: spirit vs. animal; society vs. our natural state; sex vs. violence. Dodd is corpulent, fleshy, nearly bursting with the pressure of all the desire he suppresses. Freddie is nearly ephemerally hollow, full of booze—full of, as it were, spirit. We see Dodd’s containment rupture a few times, as Evan pointed out, and I’d like to add a third time: I seem to remember that the song he sings to Freddie at the end is at at times quite angry. Dodd’s trying to seduce Freddie, but his face shakes, his voice is insistent.

As evident in the angry singing of that sweet song, Dodd wants at once to indulge in Freddie, but also has the instinct to control and repress him (Freddie being sent from window to wall in that huge house, working himself into a mad state while Dodd dines with his followers on the pleasant deck outside). In Freddie, Dodd sees his own self in its purest, most potent form. In some of their first moments together, Dodd drinks Freddie’s hooch (literally drinking Freddie’s spirits), indulging his desires and linking the two of them. But in Dodd, Freddie sees something else entirely: not romantic love, but hope. Desperate, alienated, angry, sinful Freddie is the perfect candidate for a cult. In the first “processing” therapy session, Dodd breaks Freddie down, and promises Freddie will one day return to his first true love. This is what wins Freddie over, and the promise of reunion—with his Doris, and possibly with society at large (witness all the parties, all the people around him when he’s with The Cause)—pulls Freddie to Dodd. But in the desert, when Freddie finally makes a break for it, he does it on his own volition. Freddie knows Dodd has led him astray. When Freddie attacks a committed Cause member in Phoenix who had called Dodd on his bullshit, he doesn’t go through with the brutality, but sits on a bench after a few seconds, resigned to the fact that Dodd is in fact deluded, and has been deluding Freddie. Right after this, Freddie leaves The Cause. He returns to Dodd only when all other options are exhausted, and he is exhausted himself. Dodd has a pull over Freddie, but it isn’t the delusion of love, and it isn’t the delusion of The Cause—it’s the delusion of hope.

In the end, The Cause is a gift for Freddie. Freddie finally—finally!!!!—gets laid. (He’s sex-obsessed, but we aren’t aware of him having any actual intercourse until the end of the movie.) He uses Dodd’s processing techniques, but unlike Dodd he deploys them tenderly, drawing laughter out of the girl he’s with. Freddie finally connects in this beautiful and touching moment, but we know Freddie, and we know that it’s ephemeral, that ultimately Freddie is utterly human and utterly hopeless; this fleshy woman sleeping with him will disappear just as certainly as the sand woman he’s sleeping with in the final scene.

SAM FREILICH: Despite some strong resistance and hesitation, I couldn’t help responding to this movie interpretively. I think partly it comes from the movie’s (at times, heavy-handed) insistence of its own mastery (pun intended?): every shot of the movie is seemingly intent on reminding you that you’re watching “great” acting and “beautiful” cinematography, and everything feels so meticulous and intentional that it starts to seem obvious that there must be some deeper, complex meaning lurking down there below all the pretty surfaces. The movie feels Important & Big & Meaningful, in capital letters. In a lot of ways, the experience of watching (and thinking and writing about) this movie mirrors the experience of being a follower in The Cause. You walk into the theater expecting some sort of profound explanation of either human psyche—or Scientology or America following WWII or the next Big step in the career of an Important director, et al. And then, inevitably, you’re disappointed. Most people I’ve met who don’t like the movie (which has been about fifty/fifty; The Master, whatever it is, demands an opinion) have complained about its failure to meet those expectations, whether those expectations were for the movie to be about Scientology in the way Boogie Nights was about the porn industry, or to fully reveal and explain its secrets. Those people complain that the movie was only beautiful or just great acting, as if that somehow renders the movie shallow and pretentious, as if those attributes are a bad thing.

Two emails ago, Evan asked, what is The Master about? I found myself asking that question as soon as the movie ended. I overheard others muttering it, too, as we walked out of the theater. The title card unfurled like a sly smile. I remember one old guy repeating the question twice, loudly, like he was asking the whole theater: What was that about? It sounded rhetorical. The way the old man asked the question, it sounded like a joke. It was a question that made me feel like Freddie pacing from window to wall, straining to see something deeper and more meaningful beyond the room’s implacable, obdurate surfaces. And for me at least, trying to decipher the meaning of the movie has been just as torturous and Sisyphean, an exercise in futility. The answer feels constantly just out of reach, like some insolvable riddle. And this thread has only exacerbated that feeling, as I try to get some articulable grip on my confusion. My frustration festered and grew until I’d deluded myself into believing I had an answer to not just my immediate problem of what the movie was about, but everything. I explicated, I extrapolated, I made connections that weren’t even there. I saw a proverbial flower in the proverbial wall and/or window. (Is that even a connection Freddie makes in that scene? I don’t remember.) Freddie ends up finding a plethora of imagery and symbolism in the room’s surfaces, a breakthrough almost sexual in its copiousness, titillation, and satisfaction (I don’t think it’s a coincidence that one of the next scenes is the one where Freddie has his Eyes Wide Shut fantasy about all the naked women flouncing around). A breakthrough that feels not so much meaningful or permanent as like a beautiful and elaborate prank.

Not to say that I think The Master is just a prank. But I do think that it is more concerned with making us laugh than making us undergo the kind of epiphany I was looking for. Hence, all the fart jokes and physical humor. You get the sense that P.T. Anderson, like Lancaster Dodd, has built this fervent following—predicated on a web of symbols and gorgeous imagery, some vague allusions to pretty rudimentary psychology (Jung and Freud deployed less like torpedoes and more like table setting)—but what he’s really interested is the laughter. Which, all things considered, is a pretty nihilistic view of the world, isn’t it? And that doesn’t just disappoint Laura Dern, it disappoints us, too. We go into a dark, cathedral-like theater, reverent and devout, yearning for something appropriately meaningful, something that could contain a meaning that isn’t just profound but also lucid and understandable, and doesn’t just present humanity as some kind of perverse joke. What The Master ends up offering is blatantly bereft of the usual heavy-handed somberness of a movie this quote-unquote Big & Important (and dark). It’s what I think makes the movie great.

DELASHMUTT: I don’t know that this movie is ultimately offering an answer for a specific question, but equivocations are boring, so I’ll go out on a limb. I think The Master is about the need for mastery over one’s self and others, and—more interestingly and specifically—about men’s need for mastery over themselves and others. Evan, you’re right that I see a lot of significance in the contrasting roles of men and women in this movie. It’s one of the dualities that Roger appreciates.

The male characters of The Master spend most of their time either under attack themselves or attacking each other. Most of the men we see are literally soldiers. After the beach, Freddie is unable to communicate with almost any man other than Dodd without resorting to violence: he attacks his customer in the department store; he poisons the farm laborer who looks like his father; he violently invades the home of the New York skeptic and beats him; he roughs up Dodd’s unbelieving son, and so forth. The men in this movie adhere to a military hierarchy—you either command or you obey. You fight, or you run away.

By contrast, the roles the women of the film occupy are diverse and powerful. Peggy Dodd may be both The Cause and the film’s true Master. Dodd’s daughter Elizabeth, sly and manipulative, fondles Freddie practically under her husband’s nose and then claims to her father that Freddie’s attentions make her uncomfortable. Doris, Freddie’s dream girl, is a frighteningly self-possessed sixteen when she first becomes the object of Freddie’s seven-year obsession. The owner of the ship that Lancaster Dodd claims to command is a wealthy New York doyenne who later has him arrested for embezzlement. Laura Dern is also the owner of the house that Dodd holds court in, a kind of high priestess of The Cause, whose true belief and honest questioning of Dodd utterly unman him.

Interestingly, we only see Dodd hypnotizing women. When Dodd hypnotizes a woman in New York into either recalling or imagining her past life, she says, “I think I was a man.” This film is concerned with matters of evolution of spirit, of rebirth: has she evolved into a higher, freer state by achieving womanhood? If so, is the source of Dodd’s power his ability to gain the trust and patronage of these women?

Aside from Freddie’s own obsession with the female body, there is the constant imagery of female nudity and of breasts throughout the movie. There are boobs everywhere, in many critical camera shots. Amy Adams’s significant pregnancy combined with her sexual power and these breasts to me intertwine issues of female sexuality with those of maternity: birth, rebirth, nourishment, growth—these are the powers of women, that religions like The Cause claim to offer. The women in this movie have mastery over themselves, others, the course of events, and life itself. The men are merely searching for the same. Perhaps, as Freddie’s quest suggests, the closest they can come to that is by both mastering and surrendering to a woman. Peace at last.

ALLGOOD: I demand the last word! Not because I’m a repressed narcissist in the mold of Lancaster Dodd, Rog. Just so this thread comes full-circle. (Honest.)

I thought Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview with Paul Thomas Anderson was pretty fascinating, though it was light on “answers.” (The most revealing moment answers-wise was Anderson starting to say, “Yeah, I think—” [that Dodd believes in what he’s selling], before catching himself and saying, “I have a lot of faith in this character.”) One of the things that really struck me was the fact that Anderson’s father had been in the Navy during World War II, used to drink the ethanol from the torpedoes, and once blacked out and woke up on top of the mast in such a way that, had he rolled a couple inches in either direction in his sleep, he would have died. Remind you of anyone? I doubt Freddie Quell is anything like Anderson’s dad, but I do wonder if imbuing Quell with a couple of his father’s more dangerous anecdotes subtly or even subconsciously influenced Anderson to make this sort of a warped father-son story.

Because to me, that’s what The Master is about: Freddie and Dodd and their bizarre dynamic, which contains so many facets, but if you put a gun to my head and made me choose one, I would say incestuous father-son. There Will Be Blood is a brilliant character study, but I’d argue that just below that, it is also a grim father-son story, or a story about what happens when a man remains (corrosively) greedy, angry, and alone his whole life. (Had Plainview been capable of forging a true connection with his son or “brother,” I doubt he would have taken a bowling pin to Eli’s head in the end.) Last night I watched Anderson’s first film, Hard Eight, for the first time, and that, too, feels like a twisted father-son story—Philip Baker Hall practically adopts John C. Reilly. (Sidenote: Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a brief but priceless appearance in the film as Young Craps Player. It’s easy to see why Anderson felt like he had to work with this actor again, and again and again, in a greater capacity.)

Finally, I was wowed by a couple things Sam touched on: Anderson’s sense of humor and attention to detail. After listening to the interview, it’s clear to me that Anderson knows how beautiful and funny The Master is. He shot it on sixty-five-mm film (most films are shot on thirty-five-mm) and wouldn’t let his son have a cameo in the department store photography because his face wasn’t fifties enough. This might sound like bullshit, but I actually noticed that Anderson had cast people with genuine fifties faces in that scene (something I rarely notice or think during Mad Men). I only didn’t say anything, Roger, because it seemed so ridiculous; but, as Anderson says, “They don’t make faces like they used to.” Based solely on the way this film looks and sounds (not to mention There Will Be Blood or the rest of his work), P.T. Anderson’s precision is basically a superpower. If this film is a prank, Sam, I agree: it’s a great one.

Freddie Quell is master of no one, not even himself. Lancaster Dodd is (for a time, anyway) Freddie’s master, among others’. Peggy is clearly Lancaster’s. But, ultimately, when I see or hear the film’s title, all I think is: Paul Thomas Anderson.

Sam Freilich lives in L.A.

Evan Allgood's work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Millions, LA Review of Books, The Toast, and The Billfold. He lives in Brooklyn and contributes regularly to Paste. Follow and maybe later unfollow him on Twitter @evoooooooooooo.

A.C. DeLashmutt is a Virginian living in New York. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Washington Post, theNewerYork, Flash magazine, and elsewhere. She also writes plays. Follow her on Twitter @acdelashmutt.

Roger is a composition teacher at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. He's working on his first novel, and would like to tell you all about it.


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38th ADAC Zurich 24h Rennen - aka Nürburgring 24 hours

An excellent weekend at the Nürburgring for the 24 hours. Drove over in my S4 Avant (did I mention my S4 Avant already? What a nice car!) via the Channel Tunnel with Graham Goodwin for company and had a troublefree journey in each direction.

Radio Le Mans (dotcom) operating out of the Aston Martin Hospitality Lounge, and a very pleasant place it is too. A limited view of the track (from the corner of the lounge where we are squashed), but access to the catering facilities, which are really, really good. It’s above the press room too, so access to information is good, although we probably didn’t make as much use of it as we should have done.

And – a first for the Nürburgring 24 hours – Radio Le Mans covered the whole race without a break. And why not, for the race was truly enthralling. There are doubtless better places than this if you want to find out what happened, but as Manthey Racing had provided the winning car for the last three years, and had a strong entry this year, it looked like a safe bet to me. But when it fell out as a result of a collision with a VW Golf that bounced off the barrier and into its path, the race looked to be turning to Audi. The R8s had looked somewhat on the edge throughout, but Marco Werner must have hoped to stay in the lead for somewhat more than the ten corners that he negotiated between passing the Golf / Porsche contretemps, and arriving at the Pflanzgarten and having a collision of his own.

As the other Audis also fell foul of traffic and breakdown, so the Manthey Hybrid Porsche established a lead that looked unstoppable. Until it stopped, victim of a broken gearbox. Which left us with a battle between the Hankook Ferrari and the Schnitzer BMW M3. The Italian car had previously been overhauled by the German one, as a result of some particularly slow laps during darkness, and but for that, a thrilling chase for the flag might have ensued. Maybe the Ferrari could have won. But a Nürburgring 24 hours with the first Porsche in only fifth place is certainly a sign of an unusual race.

With the 24 hours at Le Mans not many weeks away, a spot of reflection. First, I like the fact that the Nürburgring race is certainly not a sprint. Driving safely, and to a strategy, is the secret to success. On only a couple of occasions did it seem to me that an R8 would reach the chequered flag first, and on those my vision was of a smouldering, shuddering wreck of a car that wouldn’t complete another lap. The BMW looked nearly immaculate at the finish.

Second, it is very, very easy to crash at the Ring. With 197 starters, and back-markers being encountered on the leaders’ very first lap, traffic is inevitably a problem. More of a problem is the width of the Nordschleife and the fact that the barriers are not very far away. Thankfully, although there were incidents aplenty, none was serious and the race was a safe one.

Third, I am not sure about this business of being allowed to get a tow back to the pits if you stop on the circuit. It’s a good way of ensuring that the rate of attrition is not too high, but it has all the potential to change the strategy altogether. Why not take a risk here or there if you can get someone to bring you home and resume your race? With so many classes, many of which have few entrants, it is possible to get a good class result despite being stranded. The Aston Martin Vantage ‘Kermit’ still finished 3rd in class despite needing a tow back from somewhere out in the woods on the back of the Chairman’s Rapide. More significantly, it thus finished ahead of five other classified finishers in the class. It just doesn’t seem right to me.

My only other gripe is the way that the time-keeping system works. For some reason the no. 76 BMW Z4 was credited with 3 minutes (I think) which made following its progress very difficult, especially when you compared it to what was happening on the track. There might be no better way of doing it (just as towing cars back to the pits might be the best way of keeping as many as possible in the race), but it doesn’t seem quite right either.

Apart from these last two things though, I am really, really glad I went (thanks John, for having me! – and Eve). In some ways I would have preferred to go to Spa and miss Nürburgring, but I am very glad I didn’t miss that one. And I am looking forward to seeing another cracking good race again next year… maybe a proper race between Audi and Porsche?

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Monday, December 31, 2012

My Happy New Year Present To All

The Fiscal Cliff farce will be "fixed" one way or another.  All you have to do is look at where the carrots are hanging in front of the Asses and Elephants.  In fact, Obama just gave the children in Congress a nice pay raise, but they won't get any pay if the "Cliff" kicks in and the debt ceiling limit isn't raised/eliminated.
In the meantime,  most serious students of value/fundamental investing like to focus on long term trends.  The long term trend for gold has been 12 years in a row of gains.  And we all know the fundamentals become stronger by the day to support several more years of gains.

With that in mind, I recently went to the Van Gogh exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.  It is probably one of the best art exhibitions I've ever seen (after spending time in museums in NYC, Chicago, Paris, Italy, etc).  The exhibit uniquely spans Van Gogh's entire artistic career and I learned aspects of his artwork and its development about which I had no prior knowledge (like a heavy influence of Japanese art underlying his color scheme and strokes).  The exhibition truly blew me away in depth, scope AND the fact that it was assembled in Denver (not exactly an art mecca).

In honor of one of the greatest master artists of all time, I have to say that I don't think even Van Gogh could reproduce this 12-year, weekly visual of a raging bull market in process:

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Not much to say about that chart - it's pretty much self-explanatory.

Have a safe and happy New Year celebration.  I suspect that the 2013 will be a very happy year for precious metals and mining stock investors.

  1. Thank You Dave for posting the longer term chart. I know when looking at Gold from a longer fundemental view point it seems like we should go much higher. Let hope that the market is able to price Gold to it's true value vs. the dollar in 2013. Happy & Healthy New Year to you & yours.

  2. My stocks for 2013: ANV,, AUQ, HL, NGD,, I decided to go with producers in safe geographic areas with growth and cash flow potential and no developers.

    Happy New Year to all and thanks to Dave for a GREAT BLOG!

  3. A very Happy New Year Dave,,,

  4. At its most basic, the rule of law requires universal applicability. There can be no immunity, and no indulgences handed out by bureaucrats. No person should ever stand above the law.

    NYU Press released my new book, Lawless Capitalism, last week. See The book argues that capitalism needs a more robust economic rule of law to assure a level playing field and rationalized law and regulation. I offer mechanisms for achieving this and demonstrate how the failure of law to curb economic power and channel it productively caused the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Basically, corporate and financial elites subverted law and regulation for profit, at the expense of virtually everyone else. This constituted a type of lawlessness–bending law to their will for profit at the great expense of society.

    But, the government’s position today, if the NY Times front page and editorial page, are correct is something more sinister than mere corrupted law. Our governing elites now arrogate the power to place some above the law, no matter how specious the reason. Simply stated, this unprecedented and ill-founded.

    The rule of law is dying in America and the people need to know ASAP. I would very much like to appear on your show to discuss this grave development.

    So, the government has yet to even proffer a colorable claim why it does not pursue criminal charges against criminal bankers.

    But, aside from the patent nonsense that DOJ now peddles to justify its abuse of prosecutorial discretion, is MF Global. MF Global was the largest bankruptcy since Lehman. Yet, the failure of MF Global had minimal impact on the stability of the financial system. It failed, and MF Global declared bankruptcy on October 31, 2011, but still the DOJ brought no criminal prosecutions against the firm or any individual.

    Basically, the DOJ jumps from excuse to excuse for why criminal charges are not pursued in the financial sector. Sometimes they argue no crimes were committed--even when criminality is manifest. Other times they try to use the prospect of systemic risk to justify non-prosecution--even though going after individuals actually reduces systemic risk by bolstering confidence. The only thesis that makes sense is this: rich and powerful senior bankers now hold immunity for white collar crime. There is no policy at work, just pure political power.

    Whether future jobs, lobbyists, campaign contributions or board seats are used, Wall Street elites simply hold too much sway in Washington to go to jail. Jon Corzine epitomizes this. He was one of the Obama campaign's top fundraisers. He raised over $500,000, although the campaign did return Corzine's direct contributions of $70,000. According to Bloomberg and the Government Accountability Institute, Attorney General Eric Holder's former law firm, Covington & Burling, represented MF Global (as well as virtually all of the megabanks). As of the date of bankruptcy, MF Global owed Covington over $114,000. (p. 26, para. 23).

    This must qualify as the most under reported story of 2012. A new lawlessness grips the apex of the American economy and its scope remains highly obscure. The new lawlessness can only be discerned through leaks to the NY Times, like this and this. Between MF Global and HSBC there is is no longer any doubt that rich and powerful financiers enjoy criminal immunity from white collar crimes.
    Compare this American reality with the Icelandic legal system's response to the financial crisis. Iceland just jailed a bank CEO and CFO for their role in the meltdown. As I highlight in Lawless Capitalism the rule of law in the US is collapsing.

    In recent weeks the situation has gone from bad to worse.

    Maybe we'll have a "universal" rule of law in 2013?

    1. Accurately stated.
      But what can we do about it?
      These people 'own' our legislators AND the courts.
      They seem to be able to dictate the outcome of any of our elections too.

      I can see only two outcomes for those of us who are not in the ranks of the very wealthy:
      1) violent revolution
      2) a painful death from either starvation, disease or execution by the elites

      What will each of you choose to allow and when will you do something about it?

  5. Happy New Year you too, first time i celebrated new year with so much fun. Whole day was good specially at night i attend a party held in our town, It was held outdoor in open sided marquee and was fully decorated with lighting and also burnt firecracker, sparklers and fireworks. It was the best ending of 2012.
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  6. I've been trying to understand this "economy" for a while. Gold bugs, especially you (only gold blog I read anymore), have definitely made the most sense. But there's always been a few gaps for me. These guys in power are corrupt but they're not stupid. As much as we'd like to believe Bernanke has no clue at all, I have a feeling he's smarter than he's given credit for but no one is in a position to save the status quo (which is what the public demand). In the absence of a larger picture I feel like they would have begun to rescue at least part of the economy in order to save the inevitable riots that will ensue if it dips a lot further.

    That larger picture for me has come to be fossil fuel inputs. Hovering at decade highs and only relenting as the economy worsens and demand slackens off, it would seem to me to tie the knot as the cause of this depression and it's continuation. Oil just isn't going to be as cheap again. If we could get cheap energy inputs from the magic hat we could build this economy again tomorrow. Absolutely any idiot in government could pull it off (and has done in the past).

    I wondered what you're thoughts were, it seems to be something you don't look into on this blog. It is a gold blog in fairness, but I think oil plays an important part in every sector of the economy.

    1. No gold bugs here, only gold bulls.

  7. Buon Anno Dave!

    Godiamoci il 2013 perchè sarà senz'altro migliore del 2014!

    Il Folletto

  8. Buon Anno a te, IF.

    Sono d'accordo con la tua previsione.

  9. Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering

    Communities set up local currencies and exchange networks in attempt to beat the economic crisis

    It's been a busy day at the market in downtown Volos. Angeliki Ioanitou has sold a decent quantity of olive oil and soap, while her friend Maria has done good business with her fresh pies.

    But not a single euro has changed hands – none of the customers on this drizzly Saturday morning has bothered carrying money at all. For many, browsing through the racks of second-hand clothes, electrical appliances and homemade jams, the need to survive means money has been usurped.

    "It's all about exchange and solidarity, helping one another out in these very hard times," enthused Ioanitou, her hair tucked under a floppy felt cap. "You could say a lot of us have dreams of a utopia without the euro."

    In this bustling port city at the foot of Mount Pelion, in the heart of Greece's most fertile plain, locals have come up with a novel way of dealing with austerity – adopting their own alternative currency, known as the Tem. As the country struggles with its worst crisis in modern times, with Greeks losing up to 40% of their disposable income as a result of policies imposed in exchange for international aid, the system has been a huge success. Organisers say some 1,300 people have signed up to the informal bartering network.

    Greece's deepening economic crisis has brought new users. With ever more families plunging into poverty and despair, shops, cafes, factories and businesses have also resorted to the system under which goods and services – everything from yoga sessions to healthcare, babysitting to computer support – are traded in lieu of credits.


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Chinese workers wave national flags as the Amphibious aircraft AG600 is rolled off a production line in Zhuhai in south China’s Guangdong Province

China launches world’s largest seaplane

China has unveiled the world’s largest amphibious aircraft following seven years of construction. Aircraft will be used for Marine Rescue Operations

China has completed production of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) unveiled the first of the new planes, dubbed the AG600, Saturday in the southern port city of Zhuhai.

The amphibious aircraft – AG600 – has a maximum take-off weight of 53.5 tonnes, a maximum flight range of 4,500 km, and it can collect 12 tones of water in 20 seconds.

The Chinese plane, which is targeted at the domestic market, will be “very useful in developing and exploiting marine resources,” the article said, adding that it could be used for “environmental monitoring, resource detection and transportation”.

Chief designer Huang Lingcai said, ‘The AG600 is like a ship that can fly, with advanced gas-water dynamic engineering and underwater corrosion resistance technology.’

The aircraft, which is equivalent to the Boeing 737 in size, will be used to contain forest fires and conduct major marine rescue operations.

Its wingspan is considerably smaller than that of the H-4 Hercules, known as the Spruce Goose, which was designed in the 1940s to carry Allied troops into battle. It is regarded as by far the largest seaplane ever built although it only ever made one flight, in 1947.

The Amphibious aircraft AG600 measures 37 meters (121 feet) in length with a wingspan of 39 meters (128 feet)

The Amphibious aircraft AG600 measures 37 meters (121 feet) in length with a wingspan of 39 meters (128 feet)

Aviation Corporation of China engineer Huang Lingcai said, ‘When people fall into water, the prime time for rescuing them should be within two to seven hours, after receiving the call, we can quickly take off, land on the water surface directly, and help the victims on to the plane even under inclement weather conditions such as encountering two-meter high waves.’

The seaplane, which can rescue up to 50 people in a single trip, has the capacity to store 12 tons of water. It will also be used for exploiting marine resources and transportation.

The AG600 could potentially extend the Asian giant’s ability to conduct a variety of operations in the South China Sea, where it has built a series of artificial islands featuring air strips, among other infrastructure with the potential for either civilian or military use.

China is seeking to develop its own aviation sector to reduce dependence on and even challenge foreign giants, such as European consortium Airbus and Boeing of the United States, though analysts say it could take years. AVIC has received 17 orders for the plane so far.

In June, the Chinese-made ARJ21 – which stands for Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st century – made its first commercial flight, when Chengdu Airlines flew one from its home base to Shanghai, and the country’s military began using its homegrown Y-20 heavy transport plane earlier this month.

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If anything shows the value of a goalkeeper, it’s the improvement of Manchester City’s defence, to title-winning standards, after bringing in Ederson in the summer. But the Brazilian, outstanding though he was, wasn’t even the best keeper in his city.

That’s because David de Gea plays in Manchester. For all Manchester United‘s improvement this season, they wouldn’t be in second place if not for the superlative displays of their No 1. It’s an indictment of the squad that arguably their only world-class player, is their goalkeeper, but United are just happy he’s there.

The Spaniard deservedly sits atop our rankings for the best goalkeepers across Europe’s top five leagues – here’s the full top ten.

1.  David de Gea, Manchester United

Every time you think de Gea can’t get better, he defies you. He’d cemented his status as the Premier League‘s best already, and he’s finally won his first Golden Glove.

De Gea reached new heights this season – never more so than this 14-save display against Arsenal.

2.  Ederson, Manchester City

Remember how Manchester City had goalkeeping issues last season? In his first season in England, Ederson solved that problem with aplomb.

Ederson was one of the biggest upgrades City made to win the title.

3. Gianluigi Buffon, Juventus

At this point, everything that can be said about Buffon has already been said. If this truly is his last season, winning Serie A‘s Player of the Year award is a fitting way to sign off.

Buffon’s powers haven’t waned – he’s retiring on a high.

4. Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Barcelona

It says it all that behind Lionel Messi, Ter Stegen is arguably Barcelona‘s best player at the moment. Germany won’t miss Manuel Neuer if Ter Stegen carries this form to the World Cup.

Ter Stegen could be Germany’s starter at the World Cup on current form.

5. Jan Oblak, Atlético Madrid

Oblak’s already burgeoning reputation grew even bigger this season, with some stunning displays in the Atlético Madrid goal.

Oblak is now one of the hottest goalkeeping properties around.

6. Alisson, Roma

The Roma man has been the find of the season among goalkeepers. It’s no surprise that he’s being linked with a move to some of Europe’s biggest names.

Alisson had a superlative season, with the night he frustrated Lionel Messi and co the peak.

7. Keylor Navas, Real Madrid

Navas hurts himself sometimes with high-profile gaffes, but there’s no telling how bad Madrid’s disappointing season could have been without his presence.

Navas is capable of high-profile gaffes – and solid, sometimes spectacular goalkeeping.

8. Samir Handanovic, Inter Milan

As always, Handanovic pulled off some stunning saves, and he’s a big part of why Inter Milan have one of the best defences in Italy this season.

Handanovic delivered another season of consistent brilliance in goal.

9. Nick Pope, Burnley

Nick Pope himself will probably be surprised to find himself among the top 10 keepers in Europe. That’s how good he’s been since being thrust into the starting keeper role at Burnley by Tom Heaton’s injury.

Pope was thrust into a starring role for Burnley.

10. Neto, Valencia

All that time serving as Buffon’s understudy has served the Brazilian in good stead. Valencia haven’t missed Diego Alves, which is high praise.

Neto replaced a legend in Diego Alves – and slotted right in.

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Stephen Stills, one-third of Crosby, Stills and Nash, has suggested that the legendary folk-rock trio are finished as a recording entity. The trio are currently on a massive tour together.

They had been working for several years on a covers record with producer Rubin, who brought them to Columbia Records. However, in January 2011, the band split with Rubin due to his busy schedule with other artists.

In a new interview, Stills says he does not believe those tracks by the perpetually tumultuous band will ever see the light of day due to internal conflicts. “We won’t make another album. We won’t finish one,” he told Music Radar. “You should ask David (Crosby) what happened. I’m not inferring anything, but I was getting along fine. I had an idea for 20 years of making the album we wished we’d written. We started picking songs and stuff. Some of the choices Rick made were pretty off the wall, but we tried them.”

Despite currently touring, the group has not released an album of new material since 1999's 'Looking Forward,' which was made with occasional partner Neil Young.


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Dead Horse Bay by Adel Souto

I read about Dead Horse Bay while researching odd spots in NYC for my blog, This Hidden City. I had to see it for myself, and visited on Halloween, a little after low tide ended. It was a mild, but windy day. I parked too far, and it took forever for me to find an entrance to the bay. While I did take a few photos, I could hardly believe what I had seen. I returned with my girlfriend the following week, at the most extreme low tide. It was a colder, though less ominous day. I knew my way around this time, and did a bit more exploring. These photos are from both visits.

Adel Souto is a Cuban-born artist, writer, and musician, currently living in Brooklyn. He has released several books, including a “best of” chapbook on the subject of a 30-day vow of silence, and has also translated the works of Spanish poets. His work has been shown in galleries in NYC, Philadelphia, and Miami, as well as in Europe and South America. His music videos have been screened at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives, and he has lectured on the subject of occult influences in photography at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Department of Art and Art Professions. He currently produces the public access TV show, Brooklyn’s Alright If You Like Saxophones.


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A Brief History of Coney Island Creek

In the 17th century, Coney Island Creek was a small waterway that ended near what is now Cropsey Avenue. It was then dug into a straight that connected Sheepshead Bay to Gravesend Bay, making Coney Island an actual island. Because it was unnavigable, there was talk of widening it into a canal for shipping, but that never happened—once the five boroughs consolidated in 1898, this area lost its economic importance so there was no reason to turn it into a major shipping area. The creek was broken up by landfills over the years, then, in the 1950s, filled in and closed off for the construction of Shore Parkway—today, it is the two remaining inlets at either end.

It seems fitting that Coney Island Creek, home to an improbable collection of ghost ships, a stranded submarine and other haunting nautical detritus, was once known as Gravesend Creek. Over the years, not only ships have wound up in this watery grave, but many souls as well. In 1900, two women, ejected from a trolley for refusing to pay their fare, were run over on the trestle above the Creek, and fell in, dead. Accident-prone excursionists, strangulation victims, capsized picnickers and the downtrodden elite alike met their ends here. In 1895, a bereft Calvert Vaux, designer of Central Park, went for a walk along the water and was later found floating. Was it accident or suicide? We’ll never know.

Coney Island Creek has been the site of not only ghostly, but earthly sordid activity, as well. During Prohibition, Rum Row was a flotilla of schooners sitting off shore from Atlantic City up to Martha’s Vineyard, full of liquor from Canada, the Caribbean and Europe. It was brought into the city by big time mafia bootleggers like Frank Castello, head of Luciano crime family, and Big Bill Dwyer, who owned, among other sports teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and controlled all rum-running in New York. Frankie Yale—the Undertaker—who owned a Coney Island dive at the waters’ edge where Al Capone had his first job, assisted the rum runners and was later gunned down by a rival on Crospey Ave. Many small time operators made rum-runs, too, with the same boats they used for fishing expeditions, helping liquor disperse into Long Island before it ever made it to the rest of the city. In the 1920s, we could have stood on this shore and watched rum-runners speed by being chased by the Coast Guard or hijackers.

From the 1890s to the 1950s, Brooklyn Borough Gas produced gas beside Coney Island Creek leeching pollution into it. People would bring their boats here to clean them with the corrosive sludge from the bottom of the creek. When the Verrazano Bridge was being built in the early sixties, excavated debris from the construction was dumped in the Creek. Area locals also remember that time as when the ghost ships started to turn up there. It was an anonymous dumping ground for these ships—some of them are said to be whaling ships—whose owners wanted to be rid of their bones. They’d either leave them to rot or burn them down to the waterline. Although the Army Corps of Engineers has studied ships abandoned in other parts of the city, it hasn’t been profitable to do it here, so these ships remain unidentified. These days, the creek is so polluted that the city is wary of moving the wrecks for fear of unleashing dormant toxins in the sludge around them.

And what of the Creek’s most famous denizen, the yellow submarine? It is one shipwreck begotten by another. In 1956, the ocean liner Andrea Doria collided with a second ship and never made it to the Port of New York, sinking in the Atlantic along with its valuable cargo. A decade later, Brooklyn dreamer and shipyard worker Jerry Bianco set out to claim some of that treasure for himself. Using repurposed material, bargain yellow paint and his maritime know-how, Bianco built a submarine on the banks of Coney Island Creek. Sadly, without enough ballast to keep it level, the submarine tipped and became stuck. After several further attempts, a storm quashed Bianco’s ambitions, tearing the submarine from the shore and lodging it in the mud, where it still sits, forty years later.

Today, gulls nest in the ribs of whalers, blue crabs scuttle in and out of the submarine and, atop of a submerged barge, enough debris has accumulated to form a brand new island. As so often happens in New York City, life perseveres in Coney Island Creek alongside all of the ghosts.

Underwater New York led an exploration of The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek for Obscura Day 2011. Documentation of that trip is forthcoming. In the meantime, check outphotographs by UNY’s own Adrian Kinloch, who has long been inspired by the Creek. This recent one of the island growing from a submerged barge at night is particularly stunning. Several historical, and hilarious, articles about Coney Island Creek appear on this site–to hear even more, visit Underwater New York under the Featured tab on Broadcastr.

“Coney Island Creek Park.” Web 27 March 2011
Lamb, Jonah Owen. “The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek.” New York Times. 6 August 2006. Web 27 March 2011.
Moynihan, Colin. “In Coney Island Creek, Hulk of Yellow Submarine Sticks Out.” New York Times. 9 November 2007. Web 27 March 2011.
“Two Women Killed by Car.” New York Times. 22 June 1900. Web 27 March 2011.
“The Yellow Submarine of Coney Island Creek.” Web 27 March 2011.


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Another genocide suspect transferred to Arusha

Mr. Juvenal Kajelijeli, a former Bourgmestre (Mayor) of Mukingo, was today transferred to the Tribunal's Detention Facility in Arusha from West Africa, where he has been held in connection with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

Mr. Kajelijeli was arrested and detained in the Republic of Benin on 5 June 1998 pursuant to a request by the Prosecutor of the Tribunal under Rule 40 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the ICTR. [Rule 40 of the Tribunal's Rules provide that the prosecutor may request any State to arrest a suspect provisionally].

The transfer of Mr. Kajelijeli brings to 31 the number of people presently detained in Arusha in connection with the mass atrocities in Rwanda four years ago.

Akayesu Pre-sentencing Hearing set for 28 September 1998

Trial Chamber 1 will hold the pre-sentencing hearing in the Akayesu case on 28 September 1998. Akayesu was found guilty of nine counts of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by the Chamber on 2 September. He was not found guilty of six counts of Violations of the Geneva Convention. It is expected that Akayesu will be sentenced as soon as possible after the pre-sentencing hearing.

Kayishema Concludes Testimony in his Defence

Clement Kayishema concluded his testimony in his own defence in his trial before Trial Chamber lI on 9 September. The Prosecution has started cross examining the accused.

In his testimony, Mr. Kayishema, a medical doctor, said he was not involved in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and he was incapable of stopping the massacres that took place in Kibuye prefecture where he was the Prefect (Governor) at the time. He is jointly charged with Obed Ruzindana, a former businessman in Kibuye with Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and Violations of Article 3 Common to the Geneva Convention and of Additional Protocol 2 thereto.

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